Les Schwab

Leslie Bishop Schwab was born in Bend, Oregon, on October 3, 1917. His family moved to Minnesota two years later with the young Les in tow. Then in 1929 the family moved back to Central Oregon where Schwab was schooled in a railroad boxcar. This boxcar schoolhouse was at a logging camp in Central Oregon. At age 15 Schwab became an orphan and began delivering the Oregon Journal newspaper. At the paper he would eventually cover all the routes in Bend, nine in all. He then completed his high school education, graduating from Bend High School. After high school he married his high school sweetheart Dorothy Harlan before becoming circulation manager for the Bend newspaper, The Bulletin. Schwab then served in the Army Air Corps during World War I

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