John B. Preston

{{Short description|American surveyor}}

{{other people||John Preston (disambiguation){{!}}John Preston}}

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John B. Preston was the first Surveyor General of the Oregon Territory in the Western United States.Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 138.

Preston was appointed by President Millard Fillmore to create a system for surveying land in the territory;{{cite book |last= Atwood |first= Kay |title= Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855 |publisher= McDonald & Woodward |year= 2008 |isbn=978-0-939923-20-5 |page=11}} Preston lost his position in 1853, and "drifted into obscurity."{{cite book

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| first = Ralph

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| title = In Search of Western Oregon

| publisher = Caxton Press

| year = 1990

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| pages = [https://archive.org/details/insearchofwester00frie/page/279 279]–80

| url = https://archive.org/details/insearchofwester00frie

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| isbn = 978-0-87004-332-1}}