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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
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 WILLAMETTE VALLEY 
 
 OREGON 
 
 Containing Original Sketches of many well known Citizens 
 
 of the Past and Present 
 
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 1903 
 
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 " Let the record be made of the men and 
 things of to-day, lest they pass out of memory 
 to-morrow and are lost. Then perpetuate them 
 not upon wood or stone that crumble to dust, 
 but upon paper, chronicled in picture and in 
 zvords that endure forever." — Kirkland. 
 
 " A true delineation of the smallest man and 
 his scene of pilgrimage through life is capable of 
 interesting the greatest man. All men are to an 
 unmistakable degree brothers, each man's life 
 a strange -emblem of every man's; and human 
 portraits, faithfidly drazim, are, of all pictures, 
 the welcomest on human walls." — Thomas Car- 
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PREFACE 
 
 A cursory review of the local history of the Willamette valley can but arouse enthusiastic 
 pride in the work of the heroic men and women who have succeeded in bringing this portion 
 of Oregon up to the position of grandeur and future promise it occupies among the grand 
 galaxy of progressive western states. The publishers are especially gratified with the charac- 
 ter of the book they are able to herewith present. The citizenship of the Willamette valley 
 is of a high standard, and the histories presented in this volume are such that can but be looked 
 upon with great admiration and satisfaction, not only by those immediately interested, but by 
 the citizens of older states who must feel gratification in knowing that our Union is able con- 
 stantly to produce citizens of courage and ability to strengthen and broaden our sisterhood of 
 states. The commonwealth of Oregon has been very largely founded and fostered by the sons 
 of the eastern and middle western states, and the entire country is proud of the achievement. 
 
 The last fifty years have witnessed a marvelous, almost miraculous, growth in material 
 prosperity, which has been only in keeping with the progress made in art, literature and edu- 
 cational lines, and the whole, in turn, but augurs the great possibilities of the advancing cen- 
 tury. And in every particular Willamette valley is keeping well abreast of the other portions 
 of Oregon in the progress of material and educational improvement. 
 
 In the following pages mention is made of many of the men who have contributed to the 
 development and progress of this region — not only capable business men of the present day, 
 but also honored pioneers of years gone by. In the compilation of this work, and in the securing 
 of necessary data, a number of writers have been engaged for many months. They have vis- 
 ited leading citizens, and have used every endeavor to produce a work accurate and trustworthy 
 in even the smallest details. Owing to the great care exercised in the preparation of biographies, 
 the publishers believe they are giving their readers a work containing few errors of consequence. 
 The biographies of some representative citizens will be missed from this work ; this, in some in- 
 stances, was caused by their absence from home when our writers called, and in other instances 
 was caused by a failure on the part of the men themselves to understand the scope of the work. 
 The publishers, however, have done everything within their power to make the volume a repre- 
 sentative work. 
 
 The value of the data herein presented will grow with the passing years. Many facts secured 
 from men concerning their early experiences in the state are now recorded for the first time, 
 and their preservation for future generations is thus rendered possible. Posterity will preserve 
 this volume with care, from the fact that it perpetuates biographical history which otherwise 
 would be wholly lost. In those now far-distant days will be realized, to a greater degree than at 
 the present time, the truth of Macaulay's statement that " The history of a country is best told in 
 the record of the lives of its people." 
 
 CHAPMAN PUBLISHING CO., 
 
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HON. HENRY W. CORBETT. 
 
 HON. HENRY W. CORBETT. The First 
 National Bank of Portland, of which Air. Cor- 
 bett officiated as president from 1898 until his 
 death, March 31, 1903, dates its existence from 
 about 1866 and has the distinction of being the 
 first national bank to be organized on the coast. 
 From an original capital stock of $100,000 it was 
 gradually increased until now the capitalization 
 is rive times as great as at first, while there is a 
 surplus of $700,000 and deposits aggregating 
 about $7,000,000. "Without any exception it is 
 the largest bank of the northwest, and at the same 
 time none has a wider reputation for solidity, 
 strength and conservative spirit in investments. 
 
 The maintenance of a general oversight of this 
 institution by no means represented the limit of 
 Mr. Corbett's activities. Scarcely an enterprise 
 of importance has been inaugurated in Portland 
 since the city's pioneer days in which he was 
 more or less interested and to which his support 
 was not given, when once convinced of its value 
 to the municipality. As president of the Port- 
 land Hotel Company, he was closely associated 
 with the building of the Portland, one of the 
 finest hotels on the coast, and the fame of which, 
 spreading throughout the country, has been of 
 incalculable value in bringing the city into promi- 
 nence. For years he was largely interested in 
 the city and suburban railway system, his po- 
 sition as a member of the board of directors 
 having made it possible for him to contribute to 
 the development of a satisfactory system of 
 transportation. Connected with the organiza- 
 tion of the Security Savings and Trust Com- 
 pany of Portland, he was its president and a 
 member of its directorate. Another enterprise 
 which received the benefit of his co-operation and 
 influence was the Title Guarantee and Trust 
 Company of Portland, while he was further con- 
 nected with important local business industries 
 through his position as president of the Willam- 
 ette Steel and Iron Works. 
 
 Special interest centers in the life history of 
 one who was so closely identified with the prog- 
 ress of Portland along every line of commercial 
 development. The genealogy of the Corbett fam- 
 ily is traced to Roger Corbett, a military chief- 
 tain who won distinction under William the Con- 
 queror. The eldest son of Roger was William, 
 
 owner of a country seat at Wattesborough. The 
 second son. Sir Roger Corbett, had for his in- 
 heritance the castle and estate of Caus. The 
 latter's son, Robert, went to the siege of Acre 
 under Richard I, bearing for his arms in this 
 campaign two ravens, which have since been 
 used by the family for a crest. Early in the sev- 
 enteenth century the family was established in 
 New England, being among the first settlers of 
 Milford, Mass. Elijah, son of Elijah Corbett, 
 Sr., was born in Massachusetts and became a 
 manufacturer of edged tools, first in the Bay 
 state, and later at White Creek, Washington 
 county, N. Y., where he died. His wife was 
 Melinda Forbush, a native of Massachusetts and 
 descended from a pioneer family of that state, 
 whose history is traced back to England. Her 
 death occurred in New York. Born of her 
 marriage were eight children, of whom three 
 sons and two daughters attained maturity. One 
 of the sons, Elijah, came to Portland in 1864 
 and remained here until his death. Another son, 
 Hamilton, died in New York during early man- 
 hood. The daughters were Mrs. Thomas Rob- 
 ertson, who came to Portland in 1856, and Mrs. 
 Henry Failing, who settled in this city in 1858 ; 
 both are now deceased. 
 
 The youngest member of the family circle, as 
 well as its last representative, was Henry W. 
 Corbett, who was born in Westboro, Mass., Feb- 
 ruary 18, 1827. When four years of age he 
 was taken by his parents to WTiite Creek, N. Y., 
 and later settled in Cambridge, that state, where 
 he completed the course in the Cambridge Acad- 
 emy at thirteen years of age. For three years 
 he clerked in a village store. At the age of sev- 
 enteen he went to New York City, having with 
 him $22 in money and only a very limited supply 
 of clothing. He obtained a position in a dry- 
 goods store on Catherine and East Broadway. 
 A year later he entered the wholesale drv-goods 
 house of Bradford & Birdsell on Cedar street, 
 where he remained for three years as a clerk. 
 A later position was with Williams. Bradford & 
 Co., wholesale dry-goods merchants. In the fall 
 of 1850 he resolved to come west to Portland. 
 At that time thousands were seeking the gold 
 fields of California, but comparatively few were 
 identifying themselves with the limitless possi- 
 
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 bilities of Oregon. The motive that impelled 
 him in his decision was the fact that Oregon 
 was an agricultural country and California then 
 almost wholly devoted to mining, and he reasoned 
 that the produce raised in Oregon would be 
 taken to California, payments being made with 
 gold dust ; thus Portland would be an excellent 
 trading point. 
 
 On the steamer Empire City, January 20, 1851, 
 Mr. Corbett set sail from New York to Panama. 
 Crossing the isthmus on muleback he then took the 
 Columbia, which had been built by Howland As- 
 pinwall of New York to ply between San Francis- 
 co and Portland. After a few days spent in San 
 Francisco he proceeded to Oregon, arriving at 
 Astoria on the 4th of March. The next day he 
 reached Portland. There were only a few busi- 
 ness houses on Front street. The houses were 
 small and poorly furnished. Improvements were 
 limited. What is now a beautiful city was then 
 covered with large forest trees of pine and 
 spruce. The territory of Oregon embraced 
 Washington, Idaho and a part of Montana. 
 
 Some months before starting west Mr. Corbett 
 shipped a stock of goods on the barque Francis 
 and Louisa via Cape Horn. On the arrival of 
 the vessel in May, 1851, he transferred the goods 
 to a building on Front and Oak streets and em- 
 barked in a general mercantile business. Leav- 
 ing the store in charge of a manager, in June 
 of 1852, he returned east via Panama, and spent 
 almost a year in New York, meantime shipping 
 goods to the Portland store. In 1853 he returned 
 to Portland, where he continued the business. 
 On the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad 
 it was no longer necessary to bring goods around 
 the Horn, but they were sent by rail to San 
 Francisco, thence by boat to Portland. In 1868 
 he made the first trip by rail from the east to 
 San Francisco. Previous to this he had made 
 thirteen trips across the isthmus. 
 
 Through his election as United States senator 
 from Oregon in 1866 Mr. Corbett gained promi- 
 nence among the statesmen from the west, and was 
 enabled to do much toward advancing the in- 
 terests of his home state. However, he was not 
 a politician at any stage of his career, and his 
 service in public capacities was only as a result 
 of the constant solicitation of his friends, his 
 personal tastes being in the direction of finan- 
 cial and commercial affairs rather than politics. 
 As a business man he contributed to the develop- 
 ment of Portland in a degree surpassed by none. 
 As early as 1851 he began to be a leader among 
 merchants. He was the first business man to 
 close his store on Sunday, this being regarded 
 at the time as a startling innovation. From 
 that day forward he was strict in his adherence 
 to measures he believed to be just and right. The 
 business which he established shortly after his 
 
 arrival in Portland was conducted under the 
 name of H. W. Corbett, then as H. W. Corbett 
 & Co., later as Corbett, Failing & Co., and lastly 
 as Corbett, Failing & Robertson. Since 1867 
 their store has been the largest wholesale hard- 
 ware establishment in the northwest, as well as 
 one of the largest on the coast. In 1868 H. W. 
 Corbett bought a controlling interest in the First 
 National Bank, of which Mr. Failing was made 
 president and continued as such until his death 
 in 1898, at which time Mr. Corbett became the 
 executive head of the institution. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Corbett took the contract for the 
 transportation of mails to California. Four 
 years later he bought out the California Stage 
 Company and enlarged the line to carry out the 
 contract for running the four-horse stage coach 
 with the mail between Portland and California. 
 On his election to the United States senate he 
 relinquished the contract. From the early days 
 of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company he 
 was one of its directors and up to the time of 
 his death was a director of its successor, the 
 Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. At 
 different times he has had important manufac- 
 turing interests. The building interests of Port- 
 land were greatly promoted by his co-operation. 
 Among the buildings which he was interested in 
 erecting are the following : First National Bank 
 building; Worcester block, six stories, on Third 
 and Oak streets ; Cambridge block, on Third and 
 Morrison ; Neustadter building, on Stark and 
 Fifth ; Corbett, Hamilton and M^rquam build- 
 ings, etc. An earnest advocate oi the Northern 
 Pacific Railroad, while in the senate he gave 
 himself to the work of promoting the measure. 
 After the failure of Jay Cooke to carry the plan 
 to a successful issue and when Henry Villard 
 undertook the completion of the road, Mr. Cor- 
 bett took a pecuniary interest and in many ways 
 promoted the work. 
 
 While living in New York, Mr. Corbett was 
 married at Albany, that state, to Miss Caroline E. 
 Jagger, who was born in that city and died there 
 in 1865. Two sons were born of that union, 
 namely : Henry J., and Hamilton F., both of 
 whom died in Portland in young manhood. The 
 second marriage of Mr. Corbett was solemnized 
 in Worcester, Mass., and united him with Miss 
 Emma L. Ruggles, a native of that state. Move- 
 ments of a humanitarian nature always received 
 the encouragement and assistance of Mr. Corbett. 
 One of the worthy movements to which he lent 
 his aid was the Boys and Girls Aid Society, 
 which endeavored to arrange affairs so that chil- 
 dren, guilty of a first crime, were not thrown 
 among hardened criminals. A home was built 
 especially for such first offenders and its influ- 
 ence has been lasting and far-reaching. 
 
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 The election oi Mr. Corbett to the United 
 States senate, over Governor Gibbs and John II. 
 Mitchell, occurred in l866 and he took his seat 
 March 4. 1S07. His record as senator was a 
 most excellent one. lie secured the appropria- 
 tion for the Portland postoffice. also the custom 
 house at Astoria, and succeeded in having Port- 
 land made the port of entry for the Willamette 
 custom district. One of the bills he introduced 
 provided for the return of the government to 
 specie payment, which, though not passed at the 
 time, was eventually adopted. In the senate he 
 was especially effective in securing much needed 
 financial legislation. On the expiration of his 
 term. March 4, 1873, he visited Europe, spending 
 seven months in a tour that was of deep interest 
 to him as well as a source of recreation. In 
 1896, when the St. Louis platform declared for 
 the gold standard, the Republican party in Ore- 
 gon became somewhat disorganized on account 
 of the advocacy by many of free silver. How- 
 ever, the influence of men as conservative and 
 successful as himself did much to secure a Re- 
 publican victory, and McKinley was given a ma- 
 jority of two thousand. In 1900 Mr. Corbett was 
 the Republican candidate for the United States 
 senate and had the majority of Republican legis- 
 lators, but was defeated by John H. Mitchell 
 through a combination of Democrats and some of 
 the Republicans. In 1898, when the legislature 
 failed to elect a United States senator, Governor 
 Geer appointed him to the office, but he was not 
 seated on account of the ruling 01 the United 
 States senate, they declaring that an appointed 
 senator was not entitled to a seat caused by the 
 failure of a state legislature to elect when they 
 had the opportunity. On several occasions he 
 was a delegate to national Republican conven- 
 tions, where he was recognized as one of the 
 leading men from Oregon. Considerable of his 
 time and thought had been devoted to his duties 
 as president of the board of directors of the Lewis 
 and Clark Exposition, in the success of which 
 he was deeply interested, as affording an oppor- 
 tunity to show to the east and to visitors from 
 other countries the remarkable advancement 
 made by the northwest during the eventful one 
 hundred years since, at the instance of President 
 Jefferson, Captain Lewis and Captain Clark, at 
 the head of a small expedition, sailed to the head- 
 waters of the Missouri and thence crossed the 
 country to the coast, where they arrived Novem- 
 ber 14, 1805. The conditon of the present, con- 
 trasted with the wildness of that period, affords 
 an opportunity for the student of history to note 
 the changes that have rendered possible the pres- 
 ent high state of civilization, for which no class 
 of people deserve greater praise than the indom- 
 itable, energetic and resourceful pioneers. On 
 the day prior to his death, realizing that his 
 
 strength was failing. Mr. Corbett resigned the 
 office of president. 
 
 PROF. [RVING W. PRATT. The citj of 
 
 Portland is one of the greatest strongholds of 
 Masonry in the United States. During the days 
 of the greatest ascendency of this ancient and 
 mystic order on the Pacific coast, no man has 
 been more ardently devoted to the promotion 
 of its highest interests than Prof. Irving W. 
 Pratt ; and it is safe to assume that the great 
 personal esteem in which he is held is accepted 
 by him as ample reward for his unselfish and 
 high-minded services in behalf of the order, ex- 
 tending over a period of more than forty years. 
 He has been honored by elevation to the highest 
 post a Mason may hope to attain in the state, 
 and every possible mark of distinction has been 
 conferred upon him by the fraternity in this 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 During the early colonial period in American 
 history the founder of the Pratt family in Amer- 
 ica came from the vicinity of London, England, 
 and settled in Connecticut, from which state 
 Benjamin Russell Pratt, one of seven brothers, 
 went forth to fight in behalf of the cause of 
 the colonies in the Revolution. Soon after the 
 close of the struggle he removed from Con- 
 necticut to the banks of Cayuga Lake, in New 
 York state, where he spent the remainder of his 
 days. Franklin Pratt, a son of this Revolution- 
 ary soldier, was born in Norwich, Conn., and 
 grew to manhood in New York state, whence he 
 removed to Ohio, settling in Huron county about 
 1842. By occupation a contractor, he secured 
 the contract to construct a section of the San- 
 dusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad, now a 
 part of the Baltimore & Ohio system, the second 
 road to be built in Ohio. Earlier in life he had 
 been for some time a superintendent on the 
 Erie canal. In 1858 he removed to Lenawee 
 county, Mich., where he bought a farm, on which 
 he resided until his death at the age of seventy- 
 five years. While living in New York state He 
 married Hannah Holaway, who was born in 
 Delaware county, N. Y. Her father, Benjamin 
 Holaway, a native of Pennsylvania, and of 
 English descent, became a pioneer of Huron 
 county, Ohio, where he died at the age of ninety- 
 nine years. To an unusual degree he retained 
 his physical and mental faculties to the last, and 
 on the day he was ninety-eight years of age he 
 walked five miles, feeling little the worse for 
 this exertion. 
 
 In the family of Franklin Pratt there were six 
 sons and three daughters. The eldest son, Ben- 
 jamin Russell, served in the Mexican war. hold- 
 ing a commission as captain of the Third Ohio 
 Regiment. His death occurred at Dayton, Ohio, 
 
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 The second son, Martin, was killed by the fall 
 of a tree while hunting, in his young man- 
 hood. Henry, the third son, occupies the old 
 homestead in Michigan. Irving W. was the 
 fourth in order of birth. Nathaniel Lee, the 
 fifth, is a merchant at Blissfield, Mich. The 
 youngest, Martin L., who served as a Michigan 
 volunteer during the Civil war, is now engaged 
 in teaching in Albina. 
 
 Irving \Y. Pratt was born at Waterloo, N. Y., 
 .March 17, 1838, and was about five years of age 
 when the family settled in Ohio. At the age of 
 sixteen he entered Norwalk Academy, from 
 which he was graduated, in the meantime teach- 
 ing schools in adjoining districts. He consid- 
 ered himself fortunate to secure a position as 
 teacher at $8 per month and "board 'round," 
 in which manner he paid the expenses of his 
 academic course. On leaving Ohio he taught 
 district schools in Michigan, and with the means 
 thus secured paid his way through the Ypsilanti 
 State Normal School, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1 86 1. He then resumed teaching. 
 
 At the first call for volunteers for service in 
 the Rebellion Professor Pratt offered his ser- 
 vices to his country, but was rejected on account 
 of disabilities. Disappointed at his failure to get 
 into the service, he soon turned his thoughts to 
 the far west and decided to seek a home on the 
 Pacific coast. By way of New York and the 
 Isthmus, in 1862 he went to San Francisco, 
 thence to Placerville, Cal., where he was em- 
 ployed as principal of the Placerville school. Re- 
 signing in 1867, he returned to San Francisco 
 with the intention of going to Los Angeles, but 
 was dissuaded from his intention by a Mr. Mar- 
 tin, who induced him to change his course toward 
 Portland. After his arrival in Oregon he re- 
 covered from the ague, from which he had been 
 a constant sufferer for some time. He was not 
 long in securing a position as teacher, as in- 
 structors possessed of more than ordinary quali- 
 fications were not easy to obtain in Oregon in 
 those days, and for two years he had charge of 
 schools in East Portland. He then came to 
 Portland as principal of the Harrison Street 
 school, located in the second school building 
 erected in the city. For twenty-two years con- 
 tinuously he served as principal, resigning in 
 1 89 1 in order to accept the position of superin- 
 tendent of the city schools. When he began 
 teaching in Portland in 1869 but thirteen teach- 
 ers were employed by the city. During the five 
 years he occupied the post of superintendent he 
 bad the supervision of the work of two hundred 
 and eighty teachers, distributed among twentv- 
 eight buildings, and his efficient conduct of the 
 educational system of the city is on record as 
 successful to an eminent degree. Upon retiring 
 from this office in 1896 he accepted the principal- 
 
 ship of the Failing school, which he now holds, 
 superintending the work of twenty teachers. In- 
 cidental to his professional labors, for sixteen 
 years he served as a member of the state board 
 of education. 
 
 Professor Pratt maintains an interest in re- 
 ligious work and contributes to the support of 
 the Congregational Church, of which his wife 
 is a member, though he is not identified with any 
 denomination. He is connected with the Com- 
 mercial Club, and in a general way has given 
 abundant evidence of his public spirit. He is 
 devoted to the principles of the Republican 
 party, and actively supports its candidates and 
 measures. 
 
 The Masonic record of Professor Pratt, to 
 which brief reference already has been made, 
 dates from 1865, when he was initiated into the 
 order in Pilot Hill Lodge No. 160, at Pilot Hill, 
 Eldorado county, Cal. Soon after his removal 
 to Portland, in 1867, he organized Washington 
 Lodge No. 46, and became its first master. Since 
 1874 he has been a member of Portland Lodge 
 No. 55, in which he is past master. In Port- 
 land Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., he is past high 
 priest, and in Oregon Commandery No. 1, K. T., 
 he is past eminent commander. He is also a 
 member of Washington Council No. 3, R. & 
 S. M. In 1871 he received the Scottish Rite 
 degrees, from the fourth to the thirty-second, 
 and for eleven years served as presiding officer 
 in these important bodies. He is past grand 
 secretary of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, and 
 since 1892 has been active inspector-general of 
 the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdic- 
 tion in the state of Oregon, the highest post of 
 honor possible of attainment in the state. In 
 this capacity he organized Oregon Consistory 
 No. 1, A. & A. Scottish Rite, the first consistory 
 in the state. Upon the organization of Al Kader 
 Temple, N. M. S., in 1888, he was made illus- 
 trious potentate, and occupied this post for fif- 
 teen years continuously, or until December 26, 
 1902. At the session of the Temple on the 
 evening of January 17, 1903, Professor Pratt 
 was treated to one of the greatest surprises of 
 his life in being made the recipient of a mag- 
 nificent loving cup, a tribute of affectionate re- 
 gard from the nobles of Al Kader Temple. The 
 inscription on the cup is as follows: "From 
 Al Kader Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles 
 of the Mystic Shrine. Portland, Oregon, Janu- 
 ary 17, 1903. To Irving W. Pratt, for fifteen 
 years Illustrious Potentate of Al Kader Temple, 
 from its organization, February 15, 1888, to 
 December 26, 1902. A tribute of affection 'and 
 esteem. Es Selamu Aleikum." Professor Pratt 
 is also the possessor of one of the most beauti- 
 ful Masonic jewels in the United States, which 
 was presented to him in March, 1885, by Port- 
 

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 land Lodge XV 55, and the Scottish Rite Ma- 
 sons of Portland. 
 
 Hie marriage of Professor Pratt was solem- 
 nized in Portland July 14, 1874. and united him 
 with Sophia C. Taylor, who was horn in Ohio. 
 She came to Portland in 1853, joining her father, 
 Peter Taylor, a native of Scotland and a pioneer 
 inhabitant of this city. Her education was re- 
 ceived in the schools of this city, and early in 
 life she engaged in teaching. Professor and 
 Mrs. Pratt have their home at No. 611 First 
 street, and are the parents of six children, name- 
 ly : Douglas L., Irving H., Martin T., all of 
 whom are engaged in business in Portland ; Jo 
 S., who is a clerk on a transport in the Pacific 
 squadron of the United States navy ; Allyne 
 Francis and Gertrude S. The three eldest sons 
 enlisted in Company H, Second Oregon Volun- 
 teer Infantry, for service in the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican war, and were soon sent (1898) to Manila, 
 where they rendered efficient service as soldiers, 
 being fortunate in retaining their health in spite 
 of the trying tropical climate. On their return 
 they all engaged in business in Portland, where 
 they now reside. 
 
 It will be observed by a perusal of this brief 
 sketch of important events in the busy life of 
 Professor Pratt that his career has been one of 
 great utility. His long period of service in Port- 
 land as an educator has been characterized by 
 marked success, a consensus of the opinion of 
 those who have closely watched his record be- 
 ing that no incumbent of the office of superin- 
 tendent of the city schools has done more than 
 he to elevate the standard of the schools. As a 
 citizen he has proven himself progressive and 
 public-spirited, giving freely of his time and in- 
 fluence to the work of promoting those move- 
 ments intended to enhance the intellectual, social 
 and industrial prestige of the community in 
 which he has spent the most active years of his 
 life. Personally he possesses an abundance of 
 those qualities of mind and character which tend 
 to endear a man to those with whom he comes 
 in daily contact, and the people of Portland who 
 have learned to know him best are steadfast in 
 their allegiance to and devoted in their friend- 
 ship for him. 
 
 ASAHEL BUSH. The career of Asahel 
 Bush, pioneer journalist and banker, of Salem, 
 illustrates in a striking degree the possibilities 
 of the Northwest during the first half-century 
 of its development. The citizenship of Oregon 
 probably affords to-day no more conspicuous ex- 
 ample of the self-made man of affairs, no bet- 
 ter or more worthy type of American citizenship, 
 than is to be found in the subject of this neces- 
 sarily rather brief memoir. A record of the 
 
 salient points in his career, illustrating the vari- 
 ous steps he has taken onward and upward to 
 the attainment of the unquestionable and un- 
 questioned position as the foremost citizen of 
 the Willamette valley should, and undoubtedly 
 will, prove a source of inspiration to the ambi- 
 tious young men of the present generation whose 
 aspirations lie along lines of a nature more or 
 less similar to those pursued by Mr. Bush dur- 
 ing the days preceding the period since which 
 his position in the commercial world has been 
 assured. 
 
 The ancestral history of Mr. Bush, both lineal 
 and collateral, is distinctly American. The 
 founders of the family in the New World emi- 
 grated from England in 1630, and from that 
 time to the present men bearing that name have 
 lent their best efforts toward the promotion of 
 the welfare of the country, placing America first 
 in their affections and interests. In 1650 rep- 
 resentatives of the family moved from the state 
 of Connecticut, where they had resided for more 
 than twenty years, to Westfield, Mass. Aaron 
 Bush, grandfather of Asahel Bush, was a farmer 
 of New England, where his entire life was spent. 
 Asahel Bush, his son, father of the pioneer of 
 whom we are writing, was born 'in Westfield, 
 Mass., also carried on agricultural pursuits in 
 that state. In public affairs he was prominent 
 and influential, and served as selectman of his 
 town and as a representative in the Massachu- 
 setts State Legislature. He was a believer in 
 the Universalist faith, and a man of broad mind 
 and liberal views. In early manhood he wedded 
 Sally Noble, a native of Westfield, Mass., whose 
 ancestry may also be traced back to England. 
 Asahel and Sally (Noble) Bush became the pa- 
 rents of six children, but two of whom are now 
 living. 
 
 Asahel Bush, whose name introduces this me- 
 moir, was the fifth child in order of birth, and 
 the only one who located on the Pacific coast. 
 He was born in Westfield, Mass., June 4, 1824, 
 was reared in that town, and completed his lit- 
 erary education in the Westfield Academy. At 
 the age of seventeen years he moved to Sara- 
 toga Springs, N. Y., where he was apprenticed 
 to the printer's trade in the office of the Sara- 
 toga Sentinel. Here he was employed for about 
 four years, during which time he learned the 
 details of the trade, it having been his original 
 intention to make newspaper work his vocation. 
 As he grew to maturity his views of life broad- 
 ened, and he determined to make his life more 
 useful by mastering the law, thereby equipping 
 himself more fully for the struggle which he 
 realized lay ahead of him. With this ambi- 
 tion dominant in his mind, he returned to his 
 native state and began the study of the law in 
 Westfield under the direction of William Blair 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and Patrick Boise, being admitted to the bar of 
 Massachusetts in 1850. Judge R. P. Boise of 
 Salem, a nephew of Patrick Boise, who had pre- 
 viously been a student in his uncle's law office, 
 was a friend of Mr. Bush, and the aspirations 
 of the two young men about this time tended 
 in the same direction, both arriving at the con- 
 clusion that the well-nigh boundless resources 
 of the then new and undeveloped Northwest of- 
 fered to them broader opportunities than the 
 East. Accordingly they decided to put their 
 fortunes to the test in the territory of Oregon, 
 whither a tide of immigration was then flowing. 
 Soon after having been admitted to the practice 
 of his chosen profession, Mr. Bush started for 
 ( )regon by way of the Panama route, leaving 
 New York City as a passenger on the steamer 
 Empire City, bound for Aspinwall. He made 
 the journey across the Isthmus on a boat poled 
 up the Chagres river and on the back of a mule 
 over the mountains, and re-embarked on the 
 steamer Panama, which, after stopping for a 
 short time in the harbor of San Francisco, pro- 
 ceeded northward to Astoria. At that point Mr. 
 Bush took a small boat up the Columbia and 
 Willamette rivers to Portland. A short time 
 afterward he located at Oregon City, where he 
 established a newspaper, which he named the 
 Oregon Statesman, for the publication of which 
 he had had a printing press shipped from the East 
 around the Horn. The first issue of the States- 
 man appeared in March, 185 1. Mr. Bush con- 
 tinued to be editor, proprietor and publisher of 
 this pioneer newspaper until 1853, when he re- 
 moved his office to Salem, there continuing in 
 journalism until 1861. The business evidently 
 appealed to him as more fascinating and satis- 
 factory than the practice of the law, for by 
 this time he had abandoned the idea of engag- 
 ing in the practice of his profession. 
 
 In 1 861 Mr. Bush sold his newspaper, which 
 thereafter was known as the Union. In 1867 he 
 engaged in the banking business in Salem as a 
 member of the firm of Ladd & Bush, his part- 
 ner in this enterprise being the late W. S. Ladd 
 of Portland. This relation was sustained until 
 1877, when Mr. Bush purchased the interest of 
 his partner. For the past twenty-six years he 
 has retained control of the institution and has 
 been actively engaged in the conduct of its 
 affairs, and through his individual efforts he 
 has made it one of the strongest banking houses 
 in the Pacific Northwest. In 1867 he erected 
 the commodious brick structure now devoted to 
 the purposes of his business. 
 
 Mr. Bush has further contributed to the im- 
 provement of the city through the erection of a 
 number of stores and other buildings. He is a 
 stockholder in and president of the Salem Flour- 
 ing Mills, in which he has been interested for 
 
 main years. In company with Mr. Ladd and 
 others he purchased this enterprise several years 
 ago and equipped the plant with roller process 
 machinery. When the mill was destroyed by 
 fire it was immediately rebuilt, and there is now 
 a modern mill having a daily capacity of four 
 hundred barrels. He is also financially inter- 
 ested in the Salem Woolen Mills, is the owner 
 of the Salem Foundry, and for some time was 
 a stockholder in the old Oregon Steam Naviga- 
 tion Company, the predecessor of the present 
 system known as the Oregon Railroad and Navi- 
 gation Company. In addition to these enter- 
 prises, in which much of his capital has been 
 profitably invested and to which he has devoted 
 no inconsiderable portion of his time and energy, 
 he has, at various times, been identified with 
 other local enterprises which have helped to es- 
 tablish the city of Salem on a sound manu- 
 facturing, commercial and financial basis. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Bush is a Demo- 
 crat who has always remained firm in his be- 
 lief in the principle of free trade. He has taken 
 an active part in the promotion of the welfare 
 •of his party in Oregon, and probably no other 
 man has accomplished more for the general well- 
 being of "the Democracy of this state than he. 
 For several years he was a member of the Dem- 
 ocratic State Central Committee, of which he 
 served for a time as chairman. In 1892 he was 
 sent as a delegate to the Democratic National 
 Convention at Chicago, on which occasion Grover 
 Cleveland was nominated for the presidency for 
 the third time. For eight years he served as 
 Territorial Printer for Oregon, the first and 
 only man to hold that office. He was appointed 
 one of the board of visitors to the United States 
 Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., filling 
 that post in 1861, when two classes were gradu- 
 ated for the purpose of providing officers for 
 the army in the Civil war. For many years he 
 was a regent of the Oregon State University, 
 but resigned the office; and at the time of its 
 incorporation was a trustee of Willamette Uni- 
 versity. He is a member of the Oregon His- 
 torical Society, and in religious faith is a Uni- 
 tarian. In 1902 he was made a member of the 
 Board of Directors of the Lewis and Clark Cen- 
 tennial Exposition to be held in Portland in 
 1905. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Bush made a trip to his old home 
 in Massachusetts by way of the Panama route, 
 returning to Salem the same year. In 1861 he 
 made a second trip by the same route, and in 
 1865 he crossed the plains to the East by stage, 
 returning home by way of the Isthmus'. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bush occurred in Salem 
 in October, 1854, and united him with Eugenia 
 Zieber, who was born in 1833 in Princess Anne, 
 Princess Anne county, on the Eastern shore of 
 
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 Maryland Her father was a native of Phila- 
 delphia, and her mother of Maryland. Her 
 family crossed the plains in 185 1, settling in 
 ( Oregon City, but afterward removing to Salem. 
 John S. Zieber, her father, became surveyor- 
 
 neral of Oregon in 1853, filling the office for 
 one term. Mrs. Hush was a graduate of the 
 Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., and was 
 a lady of superior culture and refinement, pos- 
 
 sed of many graces of character. She died 
 in Salem in 1863, leaving four children : Estelle, 
 who is a graduate of the school in which her 
 mother received her education; Asahel N., a 
 graduate of Amherst College, class of 1882, now 
 a partner of his father in the banking business ; 
 Sally, a graduate of Smith College at North- 
 ampton. Mass. ; and Eugenia, who is a graduate 
 of Wellesley College. 
 
 It is difficult to place a proper estimate upon 
 the services of Asahel Bush to the state of Ore- 
 gon, and particularly to the community in which 
 he has been for so long a period a most potent 
 factor. Thoughtful men who have watched the 
 progress of the state for the past four or five 
 decades are generally agreed that there is liv- 
 ing to-day no other individual whose personal- 
 ity, sound judgment in affairs of finance, trade 
 and commerce, broad-mindedness, thoughtfulness 
 for the welfare of the community at large, and 
 unselfish and disinterested desire to witness the 
 most economical utilization of the partially de- 
 veloped resources so abundant throughout the 
 country in which he was a pioneer, has made, 
 and is yet making, so marked an impress upon 
 the trend of events in the state. For many 
 years his strong guiding hand has been felt in 
 nearly all important undertakings throughout a 
 large expanse of territory within the borders of 
 the state, and his judgment has been sought and 
 deferred to by hundreds of men in all walks of 
 life. A common expression in local commercial 
 and manufacturing circles has been: "Ask Mr. 
 Bush what he thinks about it." His integrity 
 has always been above reproach, and his motives 
 in all his operations have never been questioned. 
 Honored and respected by all who have learned 
 to know him, and well-beloved by those who 
 have been favored by an intimate acquaintance 
 with him, he is now — in his eightieth year — 
 recognized as the foremost citizen of the Willa- 
 mette valley, if not, indeed, of the entire state 
 of Oregon. 
 
 Such, in brief, is the life history of Asahel 
 Bush. Those whose discernment enables them 
 to read "between the lines" and who are famil- 
 iar with the history of the state, will readily 
 realize the nature of the environments which 
 surrounded him in the early years of his resi- 
 dence here, and what courage and fortitude, as 
 well as enterprise and energy, it required to 
 
 face the pioneer conditions of the Northwest 
 and establish large business interests here upon 
 a profitable basis. In his undertakings, however, 
 he has been greeted with such a measure of suc- 
 cess that his methods naturally prove of pro- 
 found interest to the commercial and financial 
 world. Yet there is no secret in connection with 
 his advancement, for his success has been at- 
 tained through earnest and conscientious effort, 
 guided by sound judgment and keen foresight, 
 supplemented by principles of honorable man- 
 hood. 
 
 HON. JOHN B. CLELAND. About 1650 
 the Cleland family, who were strict Presbyteri- 
 ans, removed from Scotland to Ireland, and 
 there, in County Down, Samuel Cleland was 
 born and reared. Before leaving that county 
 he was made a Mason and subsequently rose to 
 the rank of Knight Templar. About 181 2 he 
 settled in Orange county, N. Y., where he im- 
 proved a farm near Little Britain. In his old age 
 he joined his son's family in Wisconsin and 
 there spent his last days. His son, James, a 
 native of Orange county, became a pioneer of 
 1846 in Wisconsin, where he settled near Janes- 
 ville, in Center township, Rock county, on the 
 West Rock prairie. Like his father he took a 
 warm interest in Masonry and in his life has 
 exemplified the lofty principles of the order. 
 During his active life he maintained a deep in- 
 terest in politics and was a local leader of the 
 Democratic party. For some years past he has 
 been retired from agricultural pursuits and now, 
 at eighty-two years of age, is making his home 
 in Janesville. His wife, Isabella, was born in 
 county Down, Ireland, and died in Rock county, 
 Wis., in 1879. I n early childhood she was 
 brought to this country by her father, John Bry- 
 son, who settled on a farm in Orange county. 
 Of her marriage there were five children, and 
 three sons and one daughter are now living, the 
 eldest of these being Judge John B. Cleland, of 
 Portland. The others are : Mrs. Mary Fisher, 
 of Janesville, Wis. ; Samuel J., a farmer near 
 Emporia, Kans. ; and William A., of Portland, a 
 well-known attorney. 
 
 On the home farm in Rock county, Wis., 
 where he was born July 15, 1848, Judge Cleland 
 passed the years of early boyhood. He attended 
 the country district schools, the grammar and 
 high schools of Janesville, and later Carroll Col- 
 lege in Waukesha. At the expiration of the 
 junior year in college he entered the University 
 of Michigan in 1869 and was graduated from the 
 law department March 29, 1871, receiving the 
 degree of LL. B. Admitted to the bar of Michi- 
 gan, then to that of Wisconsin, and soon after- 
 ward to that of Towa. in July of 1871 he settled 
 
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 at Osage, Mitchell county, Iowa, where he was 
 a practicing lawyer and justice of the peace. In 
 
 1876 he was elected district attorney of the 
 twelfth judicial district of Iowa, comprising 
 eight counties, and this position he held from 
 
 1877 to 1885. In the fall of 1884 he was elected 
 circuit judge of the twelfth district by a large 
 majority. A constitutional amendment two years 
 later abolished the circuit courts, and he was 
 then elected district judge, which position he 
 resigned in 1888 on removing to Fargo, N. D. 
 After two years as a practitioner in Fargo he 
 came to Oregon in 1890, since which time he 
 has been a resident of Portland. The appoint- 
 ment as circuit judge came to him in January, 
 1898, from Governor Lord, to succeed Hon. L. 
 B. Stearns, resigned, as judge of one of the de- 
 partments. The nomination for this office was 
 tendered him in June, 1898, and at the following 
 election he received a flattering majority, im- 
 mediately thereafter entering upon his duties 
 for a term of six years. 
 
 In Center township, Rock county, Wis., Judge 
 Cleland married Ellen J. Cory, who was born 
 in that county, her parents having been pioneers 
 from Orange county, N. Y. They are the par- 
 ents of four children, namely : Laura Josephine, 
 Bessie Isabella, Earl James and Mattie Ellen. 
 Mrs. Cleland is identified with the Congregation- 
 al Church and a contributor to religious and 
 philanthropic movements. 
 
 The eminent position held by Judge Cleland 
 among the attorneys and jurists of Oregon is 
 indicated by the high honor they conferred upon 
 him in electing him to the presidency of the State 
 Bar Association. No jurist in the entire state is 
 more highly esteemed than he, and none enjoys 
 to a fuller degree the confidence of the people in 
 his impartiality, intelligence and sagacious judg- 
 ment. By his previous experience on the bench 
 in Iowa he had gained a thorough knowledge of 
 the duties of a jurist and was therefore qualified 
 to assume the responsibilities devolving upon 
 him. With him partisanship sinks into the back- 
 ground, yet he is a loyal Republican and since 
 boyhood has never swerved in his allegiance to 
 the party. Socially he is associated with the 
 University Club and Multnomah Athletic Club. 
 Like his father and grandfather, he maintains a 
 constant interest in Masonry. While in Iowa 
 he was made a Mason in Osage Lodge No. 102, 
 where he served as master for two terms. In 
 Osage Chapter No. 36 he served as high priest, 
 while his connection with the commandery dates 
 from his admission to Cceur de Leon Command- 
 ery, K. T., of which he was eminent commander 
 for seven years. At this writing he is a member 
 of Portland Lodge No. 55, A. F. & A. M. ; Port- 
 land Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., and Oregon Com- 
 mandery No. 1, K. T., of which he was emi- 
 
 nent commander for two terms. During his res- 
 idence in Iowa he was senior grand warden of 
 the Grand Commandery, and since coming to 
 Oregon he has enjoyed similar honors, having 
 been grand master of the Grand Lodge in 1898- 
 99 and grand commander of the Grand Com- 
 mandery of Oregon during the same year. The 
 Shrine degree he received in El Zagel Temple, 
 N. M. S., Fargo, N. D., and he is now affiliated 
 with Al Kader Temple, N. M. S., of Portland. 
 His Consistory degree has been given him since 
 coming to Portland, and he has also attained the 
 thirty-third degree here. 
 
 Aside from his connections with bench and 
 bar, fraternal and social organizations, Judge 
 Cleland has a host of warm personal friends in 
 every walk of life. His commanding presence 
 makes him a conspicuous figure in even the larg- 
 est concourse of people. In physique he is stal- 
 wart and well-proportioned, about six feet and 
 four inches tall, and possessing a dignified and 
 judicial bearing, yet with a kindly and genial 
 courtesy that wins and retains deep and lasting 
 friendships. 
 
 WILLIAM A. CLELAND. During the 
 years of his residence in Portland Mr. Cleland 
 has established a reputation for accuracy of 
 knowledge and breadth of information in matters 
 relating to his profession, that of the law. For 
 this he was well qualified through the advantages 
 derived from an excellent education. While 
 his early advantages were limited to the district 
 school near the home farm, in Rock county, Wis., 
 where he was born June 22, 1855, yet his teach- 
 ers were thorough and, finding him to be ambi- 
 tious, delighted to aid him in securing a satis- 
 factory start. When thirteen years of age he 
 became a student at Milton and two years later 
 went to Beloit, where he completed the prepara- 
 tory department and in 1872 entered Beloit Col- 
 lege. In 1874 he matriculated as a junior in 
 Princeton University, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1876, with the degree of A. B. His 
 alma mater in 1902 conferred upon him the de- 
 gree of A. M. 
 
 Immediately after graduating Mr. Cleland en- 
 tered the law office of his brother, Judge John B. 
 Cleland, at Osage, Iowa, where he combined the 
 duties of clerk with the study of law. Two years 
 later he returned to Wisconsin, where he re- 
 mained until after his mother's death. In 1879 
 he went to Fargo, N. D., where he continued his 
 law readings and acted as clerk. Admitted to 
 the bar in 1881, he opened an office in Grafton 
 and a year later formed the firm of Cleland & 
 Sauter. While continuing the office at Grafton, 
 in January of 1889 he became a member of the 
 firm of Miller, Cleland & Cleland, of Fargo. In 
 
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PORTRAIT \\n BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 8 .•> he came to Portland and with his brother, 
 
 John \'., formed the firm of Clelancl & Cleland. 
 Since the accession of his brother to the circuit 
 bench in 1898 he has continued alone. 
 
 Always a believer in Republican principles, 
 Mr. Cleland served as chairman of the county 
 and district central committees while living in 
 Dakota. Socially he is a popular man, number- 
 ing a host oi friends and well-wishers, an active 
 participant in the affairs of the Commerical 
 Club and a welcomed guest in the most select 
 circles of the city. 
 
 Belonging to a family conspicuously promi- 
 nent in Masonry, he has shared the general in- 
 terest in that order. While living at Grafton, N. 
 1)., he was made a Mason in Crescent Lodge No. 
 1 1 . in which he served as master from December 
 of 1887 to December of 1888. February 6, 1884, 
 he was initiated in Corinthian Chapter No. 3, 
 R. A. M., at Grand Forks, N. D. February 18, 
 1885. he was made a member of Grand Forks 
 Commandery Xo. 8, K. T., from which he was 
 demitted March 5, 1890, to Oregon Comman- 
 dery Xo. 1. K. T., of which he is past eminent 
 commander. In 1889 he became a Shriner in El 
 Zagel Temple, X. M. S., at Fargo, and since 
 May 26. 1891. has affiliated with Al Kader Tem- 
 ple, of Portland. He is also associated with 
 Portland Lodge Xo. 55. A. F. & A. M., and 
 Portland Chapter X"o. 3, of which he is past high 
 priest. In June of 1902 he w-as elected grand 
 priest of the Grand Chapter of Oregon, which 
 responsible position he has since filled with char- 
 acteristic enthusiasm and success. 
 
 HEXRY FAILIXG. At the time of the death 
 of Henry Failing of Portland, C. A. Dolph, as 
 chairman of the sub-committee appointed to draft 
 a suitable memorial, submitted the following 
 sketch of his life, which was adopted by unani- 
 mous vote of the water committee at its regular 
 meeting, December 20, 1898. and ordered spread 
 upon the records of the proceedings of the com- 
 mittee : Henry Failing was born in the city of 
 Xew York January 17, 1834. He was the second 
 son of Josiah and Henrietta (Ellison) Failing, 
 the first son having died in infancy. His father 
 was a native of Montgomery county, in the Mo- 
 hawk valley, in the state of Xew York, and was 
 descended on the male side from the German 
 Palatines, who settled that part of the province 
 in the early part of the eighteenth century. His 
 mother was an English woman, with a strain of 
 Welsh blood in her veins, and came to the United 
 States with a brother and sister about the begin- 
 ning of the nineteenth century. Josiah Failing 
 was reared on the farm of his parents and re- 
 mained at home until a young man, going to 
 Xew York about 1824. There he was married, 
 
 June 15, 1828, to Miss Henrietta Ellison, daugh- 
 ter of Henry Fllison, of York, England, and 
 Mary (Beek) Ellison, a native of Xew York. 
 She was born in Charleston, S. ( '.. whither her 
 parents had gone shortly after their marriage. 
 Mr. Ellison died suddenly when his daughter was 
 hardly a month old, and the widow, with her 
 fatherless infant, returned to the home of her 
 parents in Xew York, where her daughter grew 
 to womanhood. The Beeks were descended from 
 the early Dutch settlers of the province, coming 
 over from Holland before the transfer of the 
 colony from the Dutch to the English more than 
 two hundred years ago. Xathaniel Beek, father 
 of Mrs. Ellison and grandfather of Mr. Failing, 
 did service in the cause of independence during 
 the Revolutionary war, in the Ulster county regi- 
 ment of Xew York militia. 
 
 The early boyhood of Henry Failing was 
 passed in his native city. He attended a public 
 school in the ninth ward, then and now known 
 as Xo. 3. The school was at that time under 
 the control of the Xew York Public School So- 
 ciety, an organization which has long since ceased 
 to exist, the management of the schools being 
 now merged into the general system of the board 
 of education. The work of the schools in those 
 days was confined to the more simple branches, 
 but what was taught was thoroughly done; so 
 that when, in April, 1846, young Failing at the 
 age of twelve bade farewell to school and sports, 
 he was well grounded in the English branches. He 
 entered the counting house of L. F. de Figanere 
 & Co., in Piatt street, as an office boy. M. de 
 Figanere was a Portuguese, a brother of the Por- 
 tuguese minister to the United States, and his 
 partner, Mr. Rosat, was a French merchant from 
 Bordeaux. The business of this firm was largely 
 with French dealers in the city and it was there 
 that Henry Failing acquired such a knowledge of 
 the French language that he was enabled to both 
 write and speak it with facility and correctness. 
 Three years later, having meanwhile become an 
 expert accountant, he became junior bookkeeper 
 in the large dry-goods jobbing house of Eno, 
 Mahoney & Co., of which concern Amos R. 
 Eno (the lately deceased Xew York millionaire) 
 was the head. His knowledge of the importing 
 business and custom-house firms and dealers was 
 such that neither of these two concerns had oc- 
 casion for the services of a broker during bis 
 stay with them. Mr. Eno, with whom Mr. Fail- 
 ing maintained a correspondence until the for- 
 mer's death, told an intimate friend that it was 
 one of the mistakes of his life that he did not 
 make it more of an inducement for Henrv Fail- 
 ing to remain with him. As it was, they parted 
 with mutual regret. 
 
 The almost meagre opportunities for the ac- 
 quirement of knowledge which Mr. Failing 
 
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 possessed were so diligently and wisely used 
 that when, in 1851, a little more than seventeen 
 years old, he made the great move of his life, 
 he was better equipped for his future business 
 career than many of far greater opportunities 
 and educational facilities. April 15, 1851, in 
 company with his father and a younger brother 
 (the late John W. Failing), he left New York 
 to establish a new business in Oregon. The 
 journey was by sea to Chagres on the Isthmus of 
 Panama, thence by boat up Chagres river, and 
 tlunce to Panama by mule train. From Panama 
 they came to San Francisco by the steamer Ten- 
 nessee, afterwards lost on the coast. They 
 reached Portland June 9, 185 1, coming on the 
 old steamer Columbia, which that year had been 
 put on the route of the Pacific Steamship Com- 
 pany, C. H. Lewis, late treasurer of the water 
 committee, being a passenger on the same 
 steamer. For many years Mr. Failing and Mr. 
 Lewis were accustomed to observe the anniver- 
 sary together. 
 
 After a few months of preparation, building, 
 etc., the new firm opened business on Front 
 street, one door south of Oak. The original sign 
 of J. Failing & Co. can be seen yet on the four- 
 story building that occupies the ground. On 
 this spot Mr. Failing continued to do business 
 many years, retaining his interest until January, 
 1893. Josiah Failing from the first was promi- 
 nent in municipal and educational affairs, being 
 a member of the first city council in 1852 and 
 mayor of the city in 1853. In 1854 the elder 
 Failing retired from business and Henry Failing 
 continued in his own name. He was married, 
 October 21, 1858, to Miss Emily Phelps Corbett, 
 youngest sister of Hon. H. W. Corbett, formerly 
 of this city. Mrs. Failing died in Portland July 
 8, 1870, since which time he has been a widower. 
 He had four daughters, one of whom died in in- 
 fancy. Three are now living, namely : Miss 
 Henrietta E. Failing, Mary F. Failing and Mrs. 
 Henry C. Cabell, wife of Capt. Henry C. Cabell, 
 U. S. A. 
 
 In the year 1869 Mr. Failing, in connection 
 with his father, Josiah Failing, and Hon. H. W. 
 Corbett, bought a controlling interest in the First 
 National Bank of Portland from Messrs. A. M. 
 and L. M. Starr, who had, with some others, 
 established the bank in 1866. Mr. Failing was 
 immediately made president of the institution, 
 which he continued to manage until his death. 
 Immediately after the change of ownership the 
 capital of the bank was increased from $100,000 
 to $250,000, and in 1880 it was doubled to its 
 present amount, $500,000, while the legal sur- 
 plus and the undivided profits amount to more 
 than the capital. In addition to this, dividends 
 far exceeding the original investment have been 
 made to the stockholders. Tn January of 1871 
 
 Mr. Failing and Mr. Corbett consolidated their 
 mercantile enterprises, forming the firm of Cor- 
 bett, Failing & Co., the co-partnership continu- 
 ing twenty-two years, when Mr. Failing's inter- 
 est terminated by the dissolution of the firm. The 
 name of the concern is perpetuated in the present 
 corporation of Corbett, Failing & Robertson, 
 their successors. 
 
 In the political campaign of 1862 Mr. Failing 
 was chairman of the state central committee of 
 the Union party, a combination of Republicans 
 and War Democrats, who carried Oregon for 
 the Union in those exciting times. In 1864, at 
 the age of thirty years, he was by popular vote 
 elected mayor of the city of Portland, and during 
 his first term in that office a new charter for 
 the city was obtained, a system of street improve- 
 ment adopted and much good work done. At the 
 expiration of his term of office he was re-elected 
 with but five dissenting votes. In 1873 he was 
 again chosen mayor of the city and served for a 
 full term of two years. His administration of 
 the affairs of the city was able, progressive and 
 economical. In the legislative act of 1885 he was 
 named as a member of the water committee and 
 upon its organization was unanimously chosen 
 chairman of the committee, which position he 
 held until his death. Upon all political ques- 
 tions he had decided convictions, in accordance 
 with which he invariably acted ; but he never en- 
 gaged in political controversy nor indulged in 
 personalities. His marvelous judgment and 
 powers of exact calculation are well illustrated by 
 his service as chairman of the water committee. 
 For many years he, substantially unaided, an- 
 nually made the estimates required by law of 
 the receipts and expenditures of the committee 
 for the year next ensuing. These estimates are, 
 under the varied circumstances necessarily con- 
 sidered in making them, characteristic of him, 
 and some of them are marvels of exactness. His 
 estimate of the cost of operation, maintenance, 
 repairs and interest for the year 1893 was $100,- 
 000, and the actual outlay was $100,211.91. His 
 estimate of receipts for the year 1892 was $240- 
 000, and the receipts actually collected were 
 $237,300.85. His estimate of the receipts for 
 the year 1897 was $232,000. The amount actu- 
 ally collected was $231,860.95. The magnitude 
 of the task of making these estimates is empha- 
 sized when the fact is considered that not only 
 the fluctuations in the population of a large city 
 must be considered, but climatic conditions an- 
 ticipated, and the amount of water consumed in 
 irrigation based thereon; the amount of build- 
 ing and the volume of trade considered, and an 
 estimate made of the amount of water consumed 
 in building and in the use of elevators. These 
 various sources of revenue were all carefully con- 
 sidered and estimates made which were in ex- 
 
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 is of the actual income in but trifling amounts. 
 The career oi Mr. Failing affords encourage- 
 lt to young men seeking place and power in 
 business affairs. It demonstrates what can be 
 accomplished b) patient industry and honest ef- 
 fort, unaided by the scholastic training afforded 
 by colleges and universities. The counting house 
 was his schoolroom; but he studied not only 
 men and their affairs, but also the best authors, 
 becoming well informed in literature, science and 
 the arts. IK- appreciated the advantages of a 
 classical education and contributed liberally to 
 the support and endowment of the educational 
 institutions of this state. At the time of his 
 death, which occurred November 8, 1898, he was 
 a regent and president of the board of regents 
 of the University of ( Oregon and was a trustee 
 and treasurer of the Pacific University, the 
 oldest educational institution of the state. 
 He was a stanch friend and supporter of the re- 
 ligious and charitable institutions of the city and 
 state. The First Baptist- Church of Portland, 
 and the Baptist Society of which he was many 
 years the president, also the Children's Home, 
 of which he was treasurer, were special objects 
 of his solicitude, and he contributed largelv to 
 the support of all. In connection with the late 
 William S. Ladd and H. W. Corbett he was 
 active in the project for purchasing and laying 
 out the grounds of Riverside cemetery. For 
 many years he was desirous of seeing a suitable 
 piece of ground laid out and properly improved 
 for cemetery purposes, and this beautiful spot, 
 where his remains now rest, is in no small de- 
 gree the result of his effort. To the Portland 
 Library Association, of which he was president, 
 he made large donations in money and gave much 
 time and thought to the work. The library build- 
 ing, now one of the fairest ornaments of our 
 city, is largely the result of his benevolence and 
 enterprise. He was especially generous and kind 
 to the pioneers of the state, who. like him, aided 
 in laying the foundation of a civilization which 
 is now our common heritage, and his name will 
 be remembered and honored by them and their 
 posterity as long as the history of our state is 
 written or read. In appreciation of his character 
 and of his services to the city and state, his as- 
 sociates of the water committee of the city of 
 Portland direct this tribute to his memory be 
 entered upon their records. 
 
 HON. GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN. Be- 
 lievers in the influence of heredity will find much 
 to support their claims in the ancestral record 
 of the governor of Oregon. Hon. George Earle 
 Chamberlain. The qualities that have given him 
 an eminent position in the public life of the 
 northwest are "his bv inheritance from a long 
 
 line of capable, scholarly and influential ances- 
 tors. The family of which he is a member 
 came from England at an early period in Am- 
 erican history and settled among the pioneers of 
 Massachusetts. I lis grandfather, Ur. Joseph 
 Chamberlain, a native of Delaware, was one of 
 the distinguished physicians of Newark, that 
 state. The lad)' whom he married also came of 
 a prominent pioneer family. Her uncle, Charles 
 Thomson, who served as secretary of the con- 
 tinental congress from 1774 to 1789, was born 
 in Ireland, of Scotch lineage, November 29. 1729. 
 Accompanied by three sisters he settled at New- 
 castle, Del., in 1741, and there became a teacher 
 in the Friends' Academy. In 1758 he was one 
 of the agents appointed to treat with the Indians 
 at Oswego, and while there was adopted by the 
 Dela wares, who conferred upon him an Indian 
 name meaning "One who speaks the truth." The 
 possessor of literary ability, he left his imprint 
 upon the literature of his age through his "Har- 
 mony of the Five Gospels," a translation of the 
 Old and New Testament, and an inquiry into 
 the cause of the alienation of the Delaware and 
 Shawnee Indians. His private file of letters, con- 
 taining communications written to him while sec- 
 retary of the continental congress and before that 
 time, is among the most valued possessions of 
 Governor Chamberlain, and contains letters from 
 all the leading men of that day. 
 
 In the family of Dr. Joseph Chamberlain was 
 a son, Charles Thomson Chamberlain, a native 
 of Newark, Del., and a graduate of Jefferson 
 Medical College at Philadelphia. After receiv- 
 ing the degree of M. D., he settled in Natchez, 
 Miss., in 1837, as offering a favorable opening 
 for a professional man. During the years that 
 followed he built up a large practice and estab- 
 lished an enviable reputation for skill in the 
 diagnosis and treatment of disease. An evidence 
 of his kindly spirit of devotion to duty and self- 
 sacrificing labors for others is shown by his rec- 
 ord during the yellow fever epidemic of 1871. 
 At that time, when many physicians felt justified 
 in considering their own health, he attended pa- 
 tients night and day, without thought of self, 
 until at last he was stricken with the disease and 
 soon died. 
 
 The wife of Dr. Charles T. Chamberlain was 
 Pamelia H. Archer, a native of Harford count v, 
 Md., and now a resident of Natchez, Miss. Her 
 father, Hon. Stevenson Archer, was born in 
 Harford county, and graduated from Princeton 
 College, 1805, after which he became an attor- 
 ney. He served in congress from 181 1 to 1817 
 from Maryland, and in the latter year accepted 
 an appointment from President Madison as 
 judge of Mississippi Territory with guberna- 
 torial powers, and resigned later. From [819 to 
 1 82 1 he again represented his district in congress, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 where he was a member of the committee on for- 
 eign affairs. In [825 he was elected one of the jus- 
 tices of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, 
 which office he held until his death in 1848, at 
 which time he was chief justice. His father, 
 John Archer, M. D., was a native of Harford 
 county, Aid., born in 1741. After graduating at 
 Princeton in 1760, he studied for the ministry, 
 but throat trouble rendering pulpit work inad- 
 visable, he turned his attention to medicine. The 
 first medical diploma ever issued in the new 
 world was given to him by the Philadelphia Med- 
 ical College. In 1776 he was elected a member 
 of the convention which framed the Constitution 
 and Pill of Rights of Maryland. At the com- 
 mencement of the Revolutionary war he had 
 command of a military company, the first enrolled 
 in Harford county, and was a member of the 
 state legislature. After the war he practiced his 
 profession and several important discoveries in 
 therapeutics are credited to him. In 1797 he was 
 a presidential elector and from 1801 to 1807 was 
 a member of congress from Maryland. His 
 death occurred in 1810. The Archer family is 
 of Scotch-Irish descent and was represented 
 among the earliest settlers of Harford county, 
 where for generations they wielded wide influ- 
 ence. It is worthy of record that the portrait of 
 Hon. Stevenson Archer appears among those of 
 distinguished men of Maryland placed in the 
 new courthouse in Baltimore, that state, and also 
 adorns the courthouse in his native county. 
 
 In a family of five children, one of whom, 
 Charles T. Chamberlain, is a merchant in 
 Natchez, Miss., Hon. George Earle Chamberlain 
 was third in order of birth. His name comes to 
 him from an uncle, George Earle, who was one 
 of the noted men of Maryland, and assistant 
 postmaster general of the United States during 
 General Grant's term as president. In his native 
 city of Natchez, Miss.,- where he was born Janu- 
 ary 1, 1854, he received such advantages as the 
 public schools afforded. On leaving school in 
 1870 he clerked in a mercantile store. Two vears 
 later, entering college at Lexington, Va., he took 
 the regular course of study in the Washington 
 and Lee University, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in July of 1876, with the degrees of A. B. 
 and B. L. Shortly after his graduation he re- 
 turned to Natchez, where he remained until after 
 the presidential election. However, prospects for 
 success in the south were not encouraging at the 
 time, and he determined to seek a more favorable 
 opening. With this purpose in view he came to 
 ( )regon, which has been his home since his arrival 
 December 6, 1876. Early in 1877 he taught 
 a country school and in the latter part of the 
 year was appointed deputy clerk of Linn county, 
 which position he held until the summer of 1879. 
 During 1880 he was elected to the lower house 
 
 of the legislature and in 1884 became district at- 
 torney for the third judicial district of Oregon. 
 In the discharge of the duties of these various 
 offices he gave satisfaction to all concerned, 
 evincing wide professional knowledge and re- 
 sourcefulness. His talents being recognized by 
 the governor, he was given the appointment of 
 attorney-general of Oregon on the creation of 
 that office by act of legislature in 1891, his ap- 
 pointment bearing date of May 21, 1891. For 
 a short time before this he had been interested 
 in the banking business at Albany, being con- 
 nected first with the First National Bank, and 
 later with the Linn County National Bank. 
 
 At the general election following his appoint- 
 ment he was elected attorney-general on the Dem- 
 ocratic ticket, receiving a majority of about five 
 hundred, notwithstanding the fact that the Re- 
 publican majority in Oregon at that time was 
 about ten thousand. In 1900 he was electechdis-' 
 trict attorney of Multnomah county by a major- 
 ity of eleven hundred and sixty-two, the county 
 being then about four thousand Republican. The 
 highest honor of his life came to him, unsolicited, 
 in 1902, when the Democrats nominated him for 
 governor by acclamation. In the election that 
 followed he received a majority of two hundred 
 and fifty-six over the Republican candidate, al- 
 though on the congressional vote the state at the 
 time was nearly fifteen thousand Republican. 
 These figures are indicative of his popularity, 
 not only with his own party, but with the gen- 
 eral public. Among his large circle of friends 
 and admirers are many who, though of different 
 political faith, have yet such a warm regard for 
 the man himself and such a firm faith in his 
 ability to guide aright the ship of state, that many 
 thousand votes were given him by people accus- 
 tomed to vote another ticket than his own. It is 
 doubtful if any public man possesses greater 
 strength among the people of the state. Through 
 the long period of his residence here he has won 
 and maintained the confidence of the people, and 
 his upright life, combined with unusual mental 
 gifts, has given him his present prominence and 
 prestige. 
 
 In Natchez, Miss., Mr. Chamberlain mar- 
 ried Miss Sally N. Welch, who was born near 
 that city, a descendant of an old Revolutionary 
 family from New Engand. Her father, A. T. 
 Welch, a native of New Hampshire, was a large 
 planter near Natchez, the possessor of abundant 
 means that rendered possible the giving of valu- 
 able educational advantages to his children. 
 Mrs. Chamberlain was graduated from the 
 Natchez Institute and is a lady of culture and re- 
 finement, an active member of the Calvary Pres- 
 byterian Church and also a member of the East- 
 ern Star. Born of this marriage are the follow- 
 ing children: Charles Thomson, a graduate of 
 
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 41 
 
 Portland High School and Academy, and a mem- 
 ber of the class of [903, Cooper Medical College, 
 San Francisco; Lucie Archer. Marguerite, 
 Carrie-Lee, George Earle, Jr., and Fannie W. 
 
 The Commercial Club of Portland. .Multnomah 
 Amateur Athletic Club, University Club and 
 1 Oregon State Historical Society, number Gov- 
 ernor Chamberlain among their members. A life 
 member of the Benevolent and Protective ( >rder 
 of Klks in Portland, he is past exalted ruler of 
 the local lodge. While at Albany he'joined the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which 
 he is past noble grand and a demitted member 
 of lodge and encampment. Interested in the 
 Knights oi Pythias, he is past chancellor of Lau- 
 rel Lodge No. 7 at Albany. His record in 
 Masonry is interesting and proves him to have 
 been devoted to the lofty principles of that order. 
 His initial experience with Masonry began in 
 St. Johns Lodge No. 62, A. F. & A. M., at Al- 
 bany, of which he is past master. At this writ- 
 ing his membership is in Willamette Lodge No. 
 1 . at Portland, and he is past grand orator of the 
 Grand Lodge of Oregon. The Royal Arch de- 
 gree was conferred upon him in Bailey Chapter 
 No. 8, at Albany, in which he is past high priest, 
 and he is also past grand high priest of the 
 Grand Chapter of Oregon. He was raised to 
 the Knight Templar degree in Temple Comman- 
 dery No. 3, K. T., at Albany, in which he is past 
 eminent commander. The thirty-second degree 
 was conferred upon him in Oregon Consistory 
 No. 1, at Portland, and he is also identified with 
 Al Kader Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 JAMES D. FENTON. The genealogy of 
 the Fenton family is traced to England, whence 
 three brothers came to America, one settling in 
 Virginia, another in New York and the third in 
 New England. Descended from the Virginian 
 branch was James E. Fenton, a native of the 
 Old Dominion, born in 1798, and in early life 
 a resident of Kentucky, but after 1820 a pioneer 
 farmer of Boone county, Mo., where he died. 
 His son, James D., was born and reared in 
 Boone county and became a farmer in Scotland 
 county, that state. From there, in May of 
 1865, he started across the plains with ox-teams, 
 accompanied by his wife and seven children. 
 Joining an expedition of over one hundred 
 wagons, he was able to make his way safely 
 through a region inhabited by hostile Indians. 
 During the winter of 1865-66 he taught school 
 near what is now Woodburn. in Marion county, 
 Ore., but in the spring of 1866 be removed to 
 a farm near McMinnville. Yamhill county. In 
 addition to improving this property, he cleared 
 a tract near Lafayette, and on the latter farm 
 his death occurred in February of 1886, when 
 
 he was fifty-four years of age. Through all of 
 his active life he adhered to Baptist doctrines 
 and favored Democratic principles. At one 
 time he held the office of county commissioner. 
 The marriage of James D. Fenton united him 
 with Margaret A. Pinkerton, who was born 
 near Barboursville, Ky., and is now living in 
 Portland, at seventy-two years of age (1902). 
 Her father, David, was born near Asheville, 
 N. C, of Scotch descent, and settled in Ken- 
 tucky when a young man. After his marriage 
 he established his home on a plantation near 
 Barboursville. In 1846 he removed to Clark 
 county, Mo., and from there in 1865, accom- 
 panied Mr. and Mrs. Fenton to Oregon. His 
 grandfather, David Pinkerton, was a cartridge 
 box maker and rendered valued service during 
 the Revolutionary war. The Pinkerton an- 
 cestors became identified with the Carolinas as 
 early as 1745. In the family of James D. and 
 Margaret A. Fenton there were ten children, 
 namely : William D., attorney-at-law, of Port- 
 land ; Mrs. Amanda Landess, of Yamhill county ; 
 lames Edward, an attorney at Nome, Alaska ; 
 Frank W., an attorney at McMinnville, Ore. ; 
 J. D., a practicing physician in Portland; H. L., 
 a merchant at Dallas, Ore. ; Charles R., an at- 
 torney, who died at Spokane, Wash., in 1893; 
 Matthew F., who is engaged in dental practice 
 at Portland; Hicks C, a physician of Portland; 
 and Mrs. Margaret Spencer, also of Portland. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM D. FENTON. Within re- 
 cent years, and particularly during the opening- 
 years of the twentieth century, William D Fenton 
 has gradually grown to be recognized, within the 
 ranks of his profession and among the laity, as 
 a man exerting a strong influence upon the cur- 
 rent of public events in the city of Portland, and 
 to no meager extent in the state of Oregon at 
 large. His unquestioned ability as a legal prac- 
 titioner and the hearty interest he has taken in 
 affairs calculated to develop and foster the im- 
 portant material interests of the home of his 
 adoption have brought him prominently before 
 the public, in whom rests an abiding confidence 
 in his manifest capabilities, his public spirit and 
 his integrity of character. Educated in western 
 schools, fortified by an accurate knowledge of 
 the west and its resources, and well-grounded in 
 the principles of the law, he began the practice 
 of his profession with a good foundation of hope 
 for future success. Since 1891 he has been en- 
 gaged in practice in Portland, where, in addition 
 to his general practice (with a specialty of cor- 
 poration law), he now acts as counsel for the 
 Southern Pacific Tompany in Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Fenton was born at Etna, Scotland county, 
 Mo., June 29, 1853. a son of James D. and Mar- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND l'-K )( iKAI'J 1 ICAL RECORD. 
 
 garet A. (Pinkerton) Fenton. (Sec sketch of 
 James D. Fenton, preceding). When the family 
 crossed the plains in 1865 he was old enough to 
 be of considerable help to his father, and during 
 much of the journey assisted by driving an ox- 
 team. After settling in Oregon he took a pre- 
 paratory course in McMinnville College, and in 
 [869 entered Christian College at Monmouth, 
 Ore. (now the State Normal School), from 
 which he graduated in 1872 with the degree of 
 A. B. For a time thereafter he taught school 
 in his home county. In 1874 he began the study 
 of the law in Salem, and in December of the 
 following year was admitted to the bar before 
 the supreme court of the state. From 1877 to 
 1885 he practiced in Lafayette as a member of 
 the 'firm of McCain & Fenton. During his resi- 
 dence in Yamhill county he served one term as 
 a member of the state legislature representing 
 that county. He first located in Portland in 1885, 
 but six months later the death of his father 
 caused him to return to Yamhill county, where he 
 continued to reside four years. In April, 1889, 
 he removed to Seattle, where he was engaged as 
 assistant district attorney for a while. In June, 
 1890, he returned to Oregon, and the following 
 year re-located in Portland, where he has since 
 been continuously engaged in the practice of his 
 profession. For some time he was a member of 
 the firm of Bronaugh, McArthur. Fenton & Bro- 
 naughj one of the strongest law firms of the 
 northwest ; but upon the death of Judge Mc- 
 Arthur and the retirement of the senior Bro- 
 naugh the partnership was dissolved. Besides 
 his interests in Portland he owns a portion of 
 the old homestead. 
 
 Since the inception of the movement for hold- 
 ing the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland 
 in 1905, Mr. Fenton has taken a leading part in 
 the formulation of plans for that gigantic enter- 
 prise. As a member of the sub-committee on 
 legislation of the Lewis and Clark board (con- 
 sisting of Mr. Fenton, P. L. Willis and Rufus 
 Mallory), he drafted the bill presented to the 
 Oregon legislature at its session of 1903 and 
 passed by that body. The bill provides that the 
 governor shall appoint a commission of eleven 
 members, who shall work in touch with the 
 Lewis and Clark board; that if the commission 
 and the board cannot agree upon any subject the 
 differences shall be adjusted by the governor, sec- 
 retary of state and state treasurer, whose decision 
 shall be binding on the commission ; that $50,- 
 000 of the $500,000 appropriated shall be used to 
 pay the expenses of making an Oregon exhibit 
 at St. Louis in 1904, and that as much of this 
 exhibit as possible shall be returned to Oregon 
 for the Lewis and Clark Exposition ; that the 
 commission shall erect a memorial building in 
 Portland on ground to be donated for the pur- 
 
 pose, provided that not more than $50,000 of the 
 state's money shall go for this building, and pro- 
 vided that the Lewis and Clark board shall 
 contribute $50,000 toward the cost of the same 
 structure. The measure further provides that 
 one-half of the total amount of the appropriation 
 shall be available in 1904 and the remainder in 
 1905, but the commission is authorized to enter 
 upon contracts before this money comes in, on 
 warrants drawn by the secretary of state. It was 
 Mr. Fenton's idea in framing the bill to give the 
 commission as much discretion in the use of the 
 public funds as would safely conserve the inter- 
 ests of the state. 
 
 In Monmouth, Ore., October 16, 1879, Mn 
 Fenton married Katherine Lucas, a native of 
 Polk county, this state. Her father, Albert W. 
 Lucas, a Kentuckian by birth, came to the north- 
 west as early as 1853 and identified himself with 
 the agricultural interests of Polk county. The 
 four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton are named 
 as follows : Ralph Albert, member of the class 
 of 1903, University of Oregon; Horace B., class 
 of 1902, Portland Academy; Kenneth L., class of 
 1904, Portland Academy; and William D., Jr. 
 The family attend the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, in which Mr. Fenton formerly served as 
 trustee. He is a member of the State Bar Asso- 
 ciation, and socially is connected with the Arling- 
 ton and University Clubs, being a charter mem- 
 ber of the latter. His identification with Ma- 
 sonry dates from 1880, when he was initiated 
 into Lafayette Lodge No. 3, A. F & A. M. At 
 this writing he is connected with Portland Lodge 
 No. 55, A. F. & A. M., Oregon Consistory No. 
 1, and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. He is also a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 
 men. 
 
 MILTON SUNDERLAND. Back to patri- 
 otic sires on both sides of his family, Milton Sun- 
 derland traces his descent, and unquestionably 
 derived from these same admirable sources the 
 reliable traits of character developed at a later 
 period among the trying pioneer conditions of 
 Oregon. Mr. Sunderland, who is rounding out 
 his well directed retirement in Portland, was 
 born in Mercer county, Mo., June 8, 1842, and 
 was reared in Iowa until his tenth year. His 
 paternal and maternal grandsires followed the 
 martial fortunes of Washington for four years, 
 one of them being a celebrated and most astute 
 spy, who, afterward being captured, was one of 
 two to successfully run the gauntlet and escape. 
 The parents of Mr. Sunderland, mentioned at 
 length in another part of this book, were Benja- 
 min and Elizabeth (Schaffer) Sunderland, na- 
 tives respectively of Tippecanoe county, Ind., and 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
'i iK I K \IT A.\n BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 4:; 
 
 The little log school house in Wapello county, 
 Knva. where Milton Sunderland gained his first 
 glimpse into book lore, was situated one mile 
 from the paternal farm, and was only pat- 
 ronized by the Sunderland children for a few- 
 months during the winter time. A flood appear- 
 ing in 1S51 his father decided to run no more 
 risks in the Keokuk district, and an emigration 
 of the family to the west was planned. The 
 ten-year-old lad made himself useful driving 
 loose cattle on the way, and he walked a great 
 many miles of the long distance. The remark- 
 able personality in this part of the great caravan 
 that wound its way over river and plain was the 
 mother of the six Sunderland children, who 
 drove the family carriage drawn by two Cana- 
 dian ponies, each weighing a thousand pounds, 
 missing only one day of such service when once 
 on the way. Also she was a ministering angel 
 to the sick and weary and discouraged, and by 
 her great strength of character and sublime faith 
 in their ultimate good fortune, stimulated them 
 to renewed effort. 
 
 After the family located on their permanent 
 section of land, one mile east of Woodlawn, Mil- 
 ton, though barely eleven years of age, made 
 himself generally useful, and materially assisted 
 in grubbing and clearing the timbered land, and 
 preparing the way for crops. About this time 
 the family lived in a rude cabin with a dirt floor, 
 and the inconvenience and loneliness can be ap- 
 preciated only by those similarly placed. Hav- 
 ing reached his majority Mr. Sunderland started 
 for Florence, on the Salmon river, Idaho, his 
 brother accompanying him on the four hundred 
 mile walk. They had three pack horses, and 
 were reasonably successful as miners, and also 
 increased their revenue during the three years 
 later devoted to logging on the Columbia Slough 
 Road. In Portland Mr. Sunderland was inter- 
 ested in the wood business for eleven months, 
 and then returned to the Columbia river district 
 and engaged in the dairy business. Since then 
 he has been dealing in stock on a large scale and 
 has lived on farms in different parts of Mult- 
 nomah county. His last rural residence was on 
 the old Payne place of one hundred and ninety 
 acres, where he engaged in farming until mov- 
 ing to Portland in 1886. This ranch, finely im- 
 proved, and equipped with all modern labor sav- 
 ing devices, passed from the possession of Mr. 
 Sunderland in March of 190 1. and with it went 
 the stock, which had the reputation of being 
 among the finest in Multnomah county. At one 
 time he owned as many as nine hundred acres, a 
 considerable portion of which was in the city 
 limits, and was therefore more suitable for resi- 
 dence and business blocks than stock raising. 
 Mr. Sunderland is interested in a coal mine 
 twenty-eight miles south of Portland, in Wash- 
 
 ington county, the company having already be- 
 gun to operate the same. In the spring of 1902 
 .Mr. Sunderland built a summer home at Hood 
 River, three-fourths of a mile from the depot, 
 and here the family spend much of their time 
 during the summer. 
 
 Various social and other organizations benefit 
 by the membership of Mr. Sunderland, whose 
 genial manner and unfailing tact not only win 
 lint retain friends. He is essentially social in his 
 tastes, and is devoted to out-of-door sports, es- 
 pecially hunting and fishing. Politically he' has 
 always been a firm supporter of the principles of 
 the Democracy, and for several years served as 
 school director, being an earnest advocate of good 
 schools. For thirty-five years he has been identi- 
 fied with the Orient Lodge No. 17, I. O. O. F., 
 and for many years a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, Fidelity Lodge No. 
 4, in which he has passed all the chairs and is a 
 charter member of the Degree of Honor, an aux- 
 iliary of the Workmen. With his wife he is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 contributes generously of time and means to- 
 wards its maintenance and charities. 
 
 His wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth 
 Stansbery. (A complete sketch of her family will 
 be found in the biography which follows.) To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Sunderland have been born the follow- 
 ing children : Mary A., a graduate of the Port- 
 land Business College, and now Mrs. Beckwith 
 of Portland ; Charles, a graduate of the Portland 
 high school, and now engaged in dairying on 
 the Columbia Slough Road ; Ivy M., Mrs. Rowe 
 of Portland; and Bertha, at home with her par- 
 ents. 
 
 All his life Mr. Sunderland has been a very 
 busy man, and now that he has retired from 
 active business he well deserves the rest which a 
 long, busy and useful life rewards. At all times 
 he has been ready and walling to give time and 
 means in support of any measure that had for its 
 basis the betterment of the conditions with which 
 the people of Oregon are surrounded. He has 
 never been a man that cared for publicity, pre- 
 ferring to do his part in a quiet unostentatious 
 way. A man with strong domestic tastes, he has 
 found his great happiness within the bosom of 
 his family and all his life he has been a devoted 
 husband and loving father. To such men too 
 much credit cannot be given, for it is to them 
 the great debt of gratitude is due, as they are 
 the ones who have redeemed Oregon from a 
 wilderness and they are the ones that have stood 
 for all that was good and pure. 
 
 JOHN E. STANSBERY. While not one of 
 the early pioneers of Oregon. Mr. Stansberv was 
 one of the many that crossed the plains with ox 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 teams, encountering all of the hardships and 
 privations incident to the long, tedious trip. A 
 native' of Indiana and a son of John Stansbery, 
 John E. was thoroughly familiar with the life 
 of the pioneer. His father was born in New 
 Jersey and settled in the Hoosier state at a very 
 early day. Later in life he removed to Jefferson 
 county, Iowa, where he lived until death ended 
 his career in this world. Reared on the plains 
 of the great middle west, John E. Stansbery had 
 few advantages, as in those days the services of 
 the boy were too valuable to be wasted in school, 
 and as soon as old enough he was obliged to per- 
 form his part of the farm labors. When a young 
 man he learned the cooper's trade, which he fol- 
 lowed for some years. Later he engaged in 
 farming in the state of his nativity, and in 1852 
 he started for Oregon, but for some reason, 
 when Jefferson county, Iowa, was reached, the 
 little party tarried. Here he engaged in farm- 
 ing and stock raising until. May 3, 1862. Then, 
 in company with his wife and six children, he 
 rcsnmed the trip that had been begun ten years 
 previous. Six months were spent in covering the 
 weary distance and it w^as on October 15, 1862, 
 that the little band reached Portland. For the 
 first two years they lived on a farm near Hills- 
 boro, while the third year was spent on what 
 was known as the old Quimby place. The next 
 five years were spent on the Whittaker farm, and 
 then a dairy farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres was purchased in what is now Woodlawn. 
 On this farm he conducted a dairy and carried 
 on general farming up to the time of his death 
 in September, 1881. 
 
 His wife, who in maiden life was Miss A. M. 
 Hughes, was born in Charleston, Clark county, 
 Ind., a daughter of William Hughes, a native of 
 Kentucky. The original name of the Hughes 
 family is veiled in obscurity, having been lost 
 track of when the paternal great-great-grand- 
 father was kidnapped from his seaport town in 
 England, and brought to America when a very 
 small lad. In this country he was adopted by a 
 family by the name of Hughes, from whom he 
 took his name. He accompanied them on their 
 removal from Kentucky and remained with them 
 after they took up their residence in Indiana. 
 The paternal grandfather Hughes, also William 
 by name, was a cooper bv trade, and after he en- 
 gaged in farming in Indiana he had a small shop 
 on his farm, where he did the work of the neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 John E. Stansbery. the father of Mrs. Sunder- 
 land, married Miss A. M. Hughes, who is still 
 living and resides in Portland. She became the 
 mother of thirteen children, ten of whom grew to 
 maturity, and nine of whom are now living, 
 Nancy Elizabeth being the oldest ; Mary Mar- 
 garet is now Mrs. A. J. Dufur of Wasco county, 
 
 Ore.; Susan E. is now Mrs. Windle of Portland; 
 Rosa Bell married W. D. Zeller of Portland, but 
 now in Dawson ; Lucetta became the wife of 
 John Foster, wdio died January 3, 1901 ; Frances 
 is now Mrs. M. A. Zeller of Portland; J. E. and 
 S. E. are twins and live in Woodlawn ; and Will- 
 iam Grant is living in Dawson. Mrs. Sunderland 
 was reared in Iowa until her fourteenth year, 
 when she accompanied her parents on their re- 
 moval to Oregon. She has a very vivid remem- 
 brance of the long trip across the plains, which 
 to her was a long joyous holiday. 
 
 In politics Mr. Stansbery was a firm supporter 
 of the men and measures of the Republican party, 
 but he never had the time nor inclination to take 
 any active part in the political struggles, prefer- 
 ing rather to devote his whole time to his busi- 
 ness interests. Fraternally he was identified with 
 the Masonic order, while religiously he was an 
 active member of the, Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 I. N. FLEISCHNER. The rapid development 
 of manufacturing on the Pacific coast in recent 
 years has brought to the front young men of 
 executive ability and firm grasp of detail. A 
 man of this progressive type is I. N. Fleischner, 
 of the firm of Fleischner, Mayer & Co., Port- 
 land, the largest manufacturers of and dealers in 
 dry goods in the Pacific northwest. Mr. Fleisch- 
 ner is a native Oregonian, having been born at 
 Albany, July 16, 1859. His father, Jacob 
 Fleischner, had settled in Oregon in the early 
 '50s. Coming from Austria when quite a young 
 man, he engaged for a time in merchandising 
 in Iowa, but soon joined in the westward march 
 and crossed the plains to Oregon in an ox-team, 
 which was the only method of conveyance half 
 a century ago. At Albany he began business 
 again and widened his field of operations by mov- 
 ing to Portland in i860. At present his family 
 consists of himself and wife. Six children were 
 born to this union, of whom two sons and three 
 daughters are living. 
 
 I. N. Fleischner was educated in the public 
 schools of Portland, supplementing the high 
 school course by a term at St. Augustine Military 
 College, Benicia, Cal, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1878. After leaving school, he entered 
 the firm of which he is now a partner. Upon 
 the death of his uncle, Louis Fleischner. he suc- 
 ceeded with his brother to the Fleischner end 
 of the business. At that time the firm was com- 
 posed of I. N. and Max Fleischner, Solomon 
 Hirseh, Samuel Simon, and Mark A. Mayer. 
 Mr. Hirseh has since died. 
 
 From the time that he first engaged in busi- 
 ness, Mr. Fleischner has been actively identified 
 with every movement for the good of the state 
 
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 of Oregon. He lias served the Manufacturers' 
 Association as vice-president and for two years 
 was secretary of the Portland Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the most influential commercial body on 
 the northwest coast. The Commercial Club and 
 other business and social organizations include 
 him among their members. In June, 1903, the 
 city oi Heppner, Ore., was partially destroyed 
 by a Rood and nearly two hundred and fifty peo- 
 ple were drowned. A great amount of relief 
 was sent from Portland to the stricken people, 
 and Mr. Fleischner was honored by the mayor 
 with appointment as chairman of the relief com- 
 mittee, a position which lie filled with signal abil- 
 ity. Mr. Fleischner's firm was one of the largest 
 subscribers to the stock of the Lewis and Clark 
 Fair corporation, which has been formed to hold 
 an international exposition at Portland in 1905 
 in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of 
 the exploration of the Oregon country by the 
 explorers Lewis and Clark. Mr. Fleischner is 
 a member of the board of directors of this cor- 
 poration and chairman of the committee on press 
 and publicity. 
 
 Mr. Fleischner is an extensive traveler and 
 has made several trips abroad, taking in Europe, 
 Asia and northern Africa. He is a close ob- 
 server, and his letters and lectures on places he 
 has visited have been greatly appreciated in 
 Portland. Mr. Fleischner was married in 1887 
 to Miss Tessie Goslinsky, of San Francisco. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Fleischner have one child. 
 
 HOX. JOSIAH FAILING. In the dawn ot- 
 her awakening prosperity Portland had her com- 
 manding personalities who manipulated her re- 
 sources with dexterous hand, and developed 
 whatsoever of lasting good was suggested by her 
 advantages of climate, situation and soil. Such 
 an one was Hon. Josiah Failing, founder of a 
 family of splendid commercial and moral import- 
 ance, and transmitter of traits everywhere recog- 
 nized as the fundamentals of admirable citizen- 
 ship. So fine a mental revelation of Portland's 
 needs, so harmonious a blending of opportunities 
 and accomplishments, suggest to the student of 
 nationalities the country from which he drew his 
 inspiration, especially when he is universally re- 
 called as one of the founders of the public school 
 system of his adopted city. That empire which 
 produced a John Jacob Astor. produced also the 
 house of Failing, and from the Palatinate on the 
 Rhine came the paternal grandfather of Josiah, 
 who settled in the Mohawk Valley west of Al- 
 bany, X. Y., in 1 710. This emigrant ancestor 
 had the thrift that is begotten by industry, the 
 positive purpose born of moral motive and the 
 vigorous mentality that is nurtured and strength- 
 ened by upright living, all of which are character- 
 
 istics par excellence of the children of the Father- 
 land. Descendants of the establisher of the fam- 
 ily in America continued to live in Xew York 
 state, and at Canajoharie, .Montgomery county, 
 Josiah Failing was born on his father's farm, 
 July 9, 1806. 
 
 Shut in by the horizon of the paternal acres, 
 Mr. Failing realized his limitations and was con- 
 vinced that destiny intended him for larger 
 things than were possible in the then circum- 
 scribed life of the agriculturist, and when six- 
 teen years of age he went to Albany, to learn the 
 trade of paper stainer, and in 1824, accompanied 
 his employer to Xew York. He served his ap- 
 prenticeship and continued to follow his trade 
 until he was forced to abandon it on account of 
 ill health. His next venture was in the trucking- 
 business, which he followed for some years. Dur- 
 ing this time he served for several terms as super- 
 intendent of public vehicles of the city. Becom- 
 ing convinced that the west with its undeveloped 
 resources offered better inducements, he deter- 
 mined to seek a home on the Pacific coast, and 
 in 1 85 1, accompanied by his two oldest sons, 
 Henry and John AV., he came to Oregon, which 
 was then a territory, and settled in Portland. 
 Two years later he was followed by the re- 
 mainder of the family. At that time the city 
 was in its infancy, but Mr. Failing seemed to 
 have faith in its future and soon after his arrival 
 he organized the firm of J. Failing & Co. The 
 following twelve years were devoted to the active 
 management of this business, at the end of which 
 time he retired. 
 
 The pronounced ability of Mr. Failing was 
 bound to receive ready recognition in his new 
 home in the west, and especially were his broad 
 and liberal political tendencies required in shap- 
 ing the future municipal policy of the town. In 
 1853 be was elected mayor of the city, and during 
 his term of service he wisely directed its affairs 
 from chaos to a semblance of order and stability. 
 He was a delegate to the national convention 
 which nominated President Lincoln for a second 
 term, and to the convention which nominated 
 General Grant. More than any other of the great 
 forerunners of northwestern development he 
 foresaw the advantages of educating the rising 
 generation, and to this end devoted his most 
 strenuous efforts, eventually accomplishing the 
 establishment and management of that system 
 whose present high excellence is attributed to 
 his timely guidance. It is perhaps in this con- 
 nection that Mr. Failing will be longest remem- 
 bered, and no higher tribute could emanate from 
 the hearts of a grateful posterity, who realize 
 that this large-hearted and clear-minded pioneer 
 saw them in his waking dreams, traversing the 
 byways and lanes accessible to the assimilated 
 intelligence of the world, and willingly gave of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his time, his money and his counsel for the fur- 
 therance of his immeasurable desire. 
 
 In his religious inclinations Mr. Failing was 
 a Baptist, and he was one of the founders of the 
 first church of that denomination in the city of 
 Portland, which occurred in August, i860. Al- 
 ways interested in its advancement and well- 
 being he actively promoted its interests, and con- 
 tributed generously to its charities. To live far 
 beyond the biblical allotment was the privilege 
 of Mr. Failing, and to no wayfarer among the 
 stress of a growing city could that "Old age 
 serene and bright and lovely as a Lapland night'' 
 descend with greater beneficence. Throughout 
 his days he was distinguished for honesty, in- 
 dustry, and that fine consideration for others 
 which more than any other trait in human nature 
 is responsible for the worth-while accomplish- 
 ments and friendships of the world. He was 
 both a philanthropist and a humanitarian, and 
 his efforts to alleviate the misery around him 
 were continuous rather than intermittent. His 
 death, August 14, 1877, deprived the city of one 
 of her noblest men. He not only left behind 
 him the heritage of a good name, of substantial 
 public services and unquestioned integrity, but 
 has contributed to the future growth of Portland 
 three sons, Henry, Edward and James F., men 
 of high character and more than ordinary busi- 
 ness ability. 
 
 JAMES F. FAILING, for many years a 
 merchant of Portland, and now president of 
 the wholesale hardware firm of Corbett, Failing 
 & Robertson, bears a name forever enshrined 
 among the pioneers of Oregon, and associated 
 with the most substantial development of Port- 
 land. He was born in New York City, March 
 24, 1842. and of the six children born to 
 Josiah and Henrietta (Ellison) Failing who 
 reached maturity, he is the youngest. His par- 
 ents were natives respectively of Montgomery 
 county, N. Y., and Charleston, S. C. Josiah 
 Failing died in Portland, August 14, 1877, and 
 was survived by his wife until January 20, 1885. 
 Of the children in the family Mary F. is now 
 Mrs. Merrill of Portland ; Elizabeth became the, 
 wife of John Conner of Albany, Ore., but is now 
 deceased ; Henry is mentioned at length in an- 
 other part of this work ; John W. studied medi- 
 cine after retiring from business in 1865, and 
 thereafter practiced near Knoxville, Tenn., np to 
 the time of his death, in January, 1895 ; Edward 
 is also written of in this work ; and James F. 
 completes the number. 
 
 When eleven years old James F. Failing came 
 with his brother and mother around the Horn in 
 the ship Hurricane, the journey to San Fran- 
 cisco taking four months. They came at once 
 
 to Portland, the trip being made by steamer. 
 The youth was educated at the Portland Acad- 
 emy and Female Seminary, which was the lead- 
 ing school of the state, and in i860, after com- 
 pleting his studies, began clerking for his brother 
 Henry. January 1, 1871, was organized the firm 
 of Corbett, Failing & Co., Henry Failing and 
 Mr. Corbett being the two principal partners, 
 the other members of the firm being Marshall B. 
 Millard, Edward Failing, James F. Failing as 
 the Portland partners, and John A. Hatt as the 
 eastern partner. With some changes the firm 
 continued in business in Portland until January 
 1, 1895, at which time the corporation of Corbett. 
 Failing & Robertson was formed, consisting 
 largely of the two firms of Corbett, Failing & 
 Co., and Foster & Robertson. The firm carry one 
 of the largest hardware stocks in the northwest, 
 and the business is still located on the east side 
 of Front ^street, between Oak and Stark streets. 
 Although still president of the company James 
 F. Failing retired from business about two years 
 ago, and is now enjoying a rest from a very active' 
 career. 
 
 In Albany, Ore., in 1880, Mr. Failing was 
 united in marriage with Jane J. Conner, Mrs. 
 Failing being a native of Albany, and daughter 
 of John and Martha (Whittlesey) Conner. Mr. 
 Conner was a pioneer merchant and banker of 
 Albany, who died in Portland February 12, 1902. 
 Mrs. Failing is a graduate of the Albany Colle- 
 giate Institute, and is the mother of five children : 
 Edward J., a graduate of Yale University, class 
 of 1903 ; Kate Whittlesey, attending school at 
 Waterbury, Conn. ; John Conner ; Frederick El- 
 lison ; and Henrietta Chase. Mr. Failing is a 
 member of the First Baptist Church of Port- 
 land. He is a Republican in politics, and is a 
 member of the Oregon Historical Society, and 
 the Oregon Pioneers. 
 
 EDWARD FAILING. In writing the his- 
 tory of a city or county one must devote con- 
 siderable space to the men who have built up and 
 developed the commercial industry. The pres- 
 ent generation of Oregon owes much to those 
 men, who, by their business ability and perse- 
 verance, have made this one of the greatest 
 states in the Union. Although not a native of 
 Oregon, practically the entire life of Mr. Fail- 
 ing was spent in the city of Portland. It was 
 here he received his educational training and it 
 was here that he first entered the mercantile 
 field. _ His efforts were well rewarded, and when 
 he died he was able to leave his family a com- 
 fortable competence. 
 
 A native of New York City, Mr. Failing was 
 born December 18, 1840, a "son of losiah and 
 Henrietta (Ellison) Failing. (A" complete 
 
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 41) 
 
 sketch of Josiah Failing will be found on an- 
 other page of this work.) At the ago of thir- 
 teen our subject was brought to Portland by his 
 parents. Soon afterward he entered the Port- 
 land Academy and Female Seminary, where he 
 received his educational training. It was nat- 
 ural that he should take to the husiness in which 
 hi- father was engaged, and when a young man 
 he entered the store of H. \Y. Corbett, accepting 
 an humble position. By close application and 
 industry he steadily advanced from a clerkship, 
 until, in [868, he was admitted to the firm of 
 11. \Y. Corbett & Company. On the formation 
 of the firm of Corbett, Failing & Company, he 
 became one of the members, and when this firm 
 was succeeded by Corbett, Failing & Robertson, 
 he remained with the latter organization. While 
 the greater part of his time was devoted to his 
 store duties, he nevertheless found time to take 
 an active interest in other business affairs, and 
 was for a' time a director of the First National 
 Bank of Portland. Two years prior to his death, 
 which occurred January 29, 1900, he retired 
 from active business and devoted his time to the 
 settlement of his brother Henry's estate. 
 
 In Trinity Church, Portland, August 2, 1866, 
 Mr. Failing was united in marriage with Miss 
 Olivia B. Henderson, daughter of Robert Hen- 
 derson, a native of Tennessee. Mr. Henderson 
 crossed the plains to Oregon in 1846, and set- 
 tled in Yamhill county, where he later pur- 
 chased a farm upon wdiich he lived for the re- 
 mainder of his life. His well-directed life was 
 interspersed with some outside activity, among 
 which may be mentioned a season of mining in 
 California in 1849. His thrift and industry were 
 rewarded with a competence, and his home seven 
 miles south of McMinnville, and five miles from 
 his first settlement in Oregon, was one of the 
 most desirable in that section of the county. 
 His death occurred November 1, 1890, in his 
 eighty-second year. He was survived by his 
 wife, who was formerly YTiss Rhoda C. Hol- 
 man. until 1901, when she, too. was called to 
 her final reward. Mrs. Henderson was born in 
 Kentucky. Besides Mrs. Failing there were the 
 following children: Lucy A., the wife of Judge 
 Deady, Portland; Mary Elizabeth. Mrs. George 
 Murch. Coburg; John J., Coburs: ; Frances A., 
 Mrs. John Catlin, Portland; J. Harvey, Salem; 
 Alice M., Mrs. C. C. Strong, Portland : and Wil- 
 liam A., Salem. The three sons of Robert Hen- 
 derson spent a large portion of their lives on 
 the old homestead in Yamhill county. Mrs. 
 Failing was born in the northern part of Cali- 
 fornia. She was educated principally in Port- 
 land and during her married life was her hus- 
 band's greatest comfort and consolation. Since 
 his death she has lived at the family home in 
 Portland. The order of birth of her nine chil- 
 
 dren is as follows: Henrietta Henderson; Lucy 
 Deady; Elsie C, the wife of E. II. Shepard ; 
 Emma Corbett; [Catherine Fredericka; Rhoda 
 Duval; Ernestine; Henry Robertson; and Olivia 
 11. Mrs. Failing is an active member of the 
 Trinity Episcopal Church. 
 
 The death of Mr. Failing was a blow to the 
 city of Portland that was felt by all. A man of 
 splendid business ability, his most earnest ef- 
 forts were directed towards maintaining the 
 integrity of the enterprises with which he was 
 connected, and in placing them on a par with 
 the best of their kind in the world. Quiet in 
 manner, he never had the desire for public life 
 found in many. Not that he was not public 
 spirited, for there was no man in Portland that 
 took a more active interest in the welfare of 
 the city than he. No movement calculated to be 
 of benefit to the city of his adoption went by 
 without his endorsement and he was at all times 
 willing to give of his time and means. Although 
 he did not unite with any church, he was an 
 ardent Baptist and strong supporter of that de- 
 nomination. Of his goodness and thoughtfulness 
 in the midst of his dearly beloved family, the 
 various members alone are capable of testifying. 
 It can truly be said, the world is better for hav- 
 ing known him. In his life there was much that 
 was worthy of emulation. He was a noble man 
 and his record is one of which Portland is proud. 
 
 HON. JULIUS C. MORELAND. During 
 the stirring days in England when Oliver Crom- 
 well held the reins of power one of his stanch 
 supporters was a member of the Moreland fam- 
 ily, but after the death of the Protector it 
 seemed advisable for this ancestor to seek an- 
 other home; hence about 1660 he crossed the 
 ocean to Virginia, settling on the James river. 
 From him descended a long line of planters, who 
 were strict adherents of the Quaker faith. John 
 Moreland, a Virginian by birth, settled in North 
 Carolina in young manhood, but in 1807 moved 
 to Kentucky and five years later settled in Ten- 
 nessee, where he died about 1853. Though 
 reared in the Quaker religion, he became con- 
 nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 and his son. Rev. Jesse Moreland, who was born 
 near Asheville, N. C, January 1, 1802, for more 
 than seventy years held a license as a local 
 preacher in that denomination. All of this min- 
 isterial work was done gratuitously, for love of 
 humanity and a desire to uplift men and women 
 through the benign influence of Christianity. 
 Meantime, in order to earn a livelihood, he con- 
 ducted farm pursuits. Discerning the evil in- 
 fluence of slavery, he determined to seek a home 
 far removed from its shadow, and therefore 
 settled in Carlinville. Macoupin county, 111., in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AXL) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1848. Four years later, accompanied by his wife 
 and seven children, he crossed the plains with 
 ox-teams, crossing the Missouri at St. Joseph, 
 thence proceeding up the Platte, and finally ar- 
 riving in Oregon October 6, after a journey of 
 six months. The home of the family for some 
 time was on a farm in Clackamas county. After 
 the death of his wife in 1859 he took up mer- 
 chandising, which he followed for twelve years. 
 In 1882 he settled in Salem, thence went to Port- 
 land, where be died March 3, 1890, at the age of 
 eighty-eight years, three months and two days. 
 While living in Carlinville he was made a Mason 
 in Mount Nebo Lodge, of which Gen. John M. 
 Palmer was then master. 
 
 The wife of Rev. Jesse Moreland was Susan 
 Robertson, a native of Cumberland county, 
 Tenn., and a daughter of George and Elizabeth 
 (Nelson^ Robertson. The founder of the fami- 
 ly in America was Gen. William Robertson, an 
 officer under Cromwell and a member of the jury 
 in the trial of Charles I, and as such a partici- 
 pant in the order demanding the death of Charles 
 II. On the death of Cromwell he sought safety 
 by flight, and in 1658 settled in Virginia. Major 
 Charles Robertson, who was born in the Old Do- 
 minion, about 1750 went to North Carolina. In 
 1768 he and a brother James crossed over the then 
 wilderness to what is now Watauga Springs, 
 Tenn., where tney settled in the midst of the 
 wildest surroundings imaginable, being, in fact, 
 the first white settlers in the entire state. Soon 
 the_\- were joined by John Sevier. Both James 
 and Charles were soldiers of the Revolution. 
 The name of James Robertson is preserved in 
 history as that of one of the four most cele- 
 brated men of Tennessee. Though less promi- 
 nent, Charles was no less active and worthy. In 
 the war with England he fought at Eutaw 
 Springs, Cowpens, Musgrove Mills, and other 
 engagements, holding the rank of major. His son, 
 George, though only fifteen years of age, insisted 
 upon entering the colonial army but was refused 
 permission. With a spirit worthy of his ances- 
 tors he determined to go even without permis- 
 sion, and the following morning Major Robert- 
 son was surprised to find that his best horse and 
 rifle as well as the boy were missing. A desire to 
 fight the British was strong among those Ten- 
 nessee pioneers, and it finally became necessary 
 to draft men into the home guard, in order that 
 there might be men enough left to protect the 
 women and children against the Indians. 
 
 During the war of 1812 five of the Robertsons 
 fought under Jackson in New Orleans and later 
 Julius C. N. Robertson was a brigadier-general 
 in the Creek war under the same general. Major 
 Charles Robertson died in 1707. but his brother 
 James survived until 1820. George, the fifteen- 
 vcar-old soldier, became a farmer and died 
 
 about 1830. In the family of Rev. Jesse More- 
 land there were nine children. Wesley, who was 
 captain of Company C, Seventh Iowa Infantry, 
 was in the Civil war witn Wallace at Shiloh, 
 with Grant at Donelson and Henry, and with 
 Lyon at Booneville and Wilson Creek ; he passed 
 away June 23, 1862, and rests at Corinth. The 
 other members of the family were as fol- 
 lows : Mrs. Sarah J. Owen, of Mount Tabor, 
 Portland ; Martha, who died in Illinois at twenty 
 years of age ; Mrs. Mary Robinson, of Port- 
 land ; William, of Clackamas county, Ore. ; 
 Samuel A., who was attorney, police judge and 
 a writer on the staff of the Orcgonian, and who 
 died in Portland in 1886; Eliza and Josephine, 
 who died in Oregon respectively in 1857 ar >d 
 i860; and Julius C, who was born in Smith 
 county, Tenn., June 10, 1844, and is now an 
 attorney of Portland. 
 
 When eight years of age Julius C. Moreland 
 accompanied his parents to Oregon, where he 
 aided in clearing a farm, having the privilege of 
 attending school three months during the year. 
 In April of i860 he came to Portland and se- 
 cured employment in the composing room of the 
 Oregon Farmer, .where he remained for three 
 and one-half years. Afterwards he attended the 
 old Portland Academy, from which he was 
 graduated in 1865. For six weeks during 1864 
 he had charge of the state printing office at 
 Salem. After graduating he began the study of 
 the law, Avorking at intervals at his trade in 
 order to pay expenses. In 1867 he was admitted 
 to the bar, after which he practiced in Boise 
 City, Idaho, and also followed his trade on the 
 Idaho Statesman for a year. On his return to 
 Portland he acted as foreman for the Daily 
 Orcgonian for a short time. In December, 186S. 
 he formed a partnership with John F. Caples 
 under the firm name of Caples & Moreland, the 
 two continuing together for six years. In 1885 
 and 1886 Governor Moody appointed Mr. More- 
 land county judge of Multnomah county, and 
 in 1890 he was elected to the office, which he 
 filled efficiently for a term of four years. Since 
 then he has devoted his attention to professional 
 practice. A man of conspicuous legal talent, he 
 ranks among the leading attorneys of the state, 
 while his genial personality wins many friends 
 outside_ the ranks of strictly professional circles. 
 In politics a Republican, he was at one time 
 secretary of the state central committee, from 
 1872 to 1875 was a member of the city 
 council, and from 1877 to 1882 held office as 
 city attorney. 
 
 In Boise City, July 3. 1867, Tudge Moreland 
 married Abbie B. Kline, who was born in Fort 
 Scott. Kans., and in 1853 accompanied her par- 
 ents to Corvallis, Ore. They have five chil- 
 dren, viz. : Harvey L., who is in the insurance 
 
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 business; Susie A., wife of M. W. Gill, of Port- 
 land; Eldon W\. who is in the employ of the 
 < )regon Railroad and Navigation Company ; 
 Julius Irving and Lueen. The position of presi- 
 dent which Judge Mpreland holds in the Oregon 
 Pioneers' Association has brought him into close 
 contact with many of the leading pioneers of the 
 state, by all of whom he is held in high regard. 
 He is connected with the Portland Chapter, Sons 
 of the American Revolution, is a member of 
 the Commercial Club, the State Bar Association 
 ami the Portland Board of Trade. Though not 
 identified with any denomination, he is a contrib- 
 utor to religious movements, especially to 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his 
 wife is a member. His initiation into Masonry 
 occurred October 22, 1866. in Harmony Lodge 
 No. 12. In 1872 he became a charter member 
 of Portland Lodge No. 55. A. F. & A. M., of 
 which he served as master in 1878-79. In 1872 
 he became affiliated with Portland Chapter No. 
 3, R. A. M., of which he officiated as high priest 
 in 1884-85. In 1879 he became associated with 
 the Knights Templar through his initiation into 
 Oregon Commandery No. 1. In 1893-94 he was 
 grand master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, 
 and previous to this he had served as grand 
 orator of the Grand Lodge, grand senior dea- 
 con and deputy grand master. Since 1888 he 
 has been identified with Al Kader Temple, N. M. 
 S., of Portland. No follower of Masonry has 
 been a more devoted disciple of its high prin- 
 ciples than has he, and in his life, whether occu- 
 pying public office or discharging the duties of 
 a private citizen, it has been his ambition to ex- 
 emplify the teachings of the order. 
 
 HON. MELVIN C. GEORGE. From the 
 colonial period of American history the George 
 family has borne its part in epoch-making events. 
 While each generation contributed to the devel- 
 opment of tlie country's material resources, they 
 also gave men of valor to assist in our nation's 
 wars. Jesse George, grandfather of M. C, was, 
 a soldier in the Revolutionary struggle, serving 
 in Captain Radican's company of volunteers from 
 Virginia, and later in Capt. William George's 
 company in a regiment commanded by Col. 
 Thomas Merriweather. His enlistment dated 
 from September 1, 1778, and he continued at the 
 front until peace was established. Afterward, 
 with Virginia troops, he was sent on a journey of 
 exploration to the northwest, and during the 
 trip he was so pleased with the prospects that he 
 decided to migrate further west. Accordingly 
 he at once took his family to Ohio, where he was 
 one of the very earliest settlers. In recognition 
 of his services in the army he was granted a 
 pension by Lewis Cass, secretary of war, his 
 
 hardships, sacrifices and perils of several yea] 
 being recognized by the munificent pension of 
 $13.50 per annum, a little more than a dollar a 
 month. There is now in the possession of M. C. 
 George a copy of an application made by this 
 Revolutionary ancestor in which he asked for an 
 increase in the pension. 
 
 In the family of Jesse George was a son, Pres- 
 ley George, who was born in Loudoun count} , 
 Va., and grew to manhood in Ohio. There he 
 married Mahala Nickerson, who was born at 
 Cape Cod, Mass., and grew to womanhood in 
 Ohio. Her father, Col. Hugh Nickerson, who 
 was born in Massachusetts in 1782, commanded 
 a regiment of Massachusetts volunteers in the 
 war of 1812, and later settled in Ohio. His wife, 
 Rebecca Blanchard, was also of eastern birth. 
 Tracing his ancestry we find that his father, 
 Hugh Nickerson, Sr., was a soldier in the Revo- 
 lutionary war in Capt. Benjamin Godfrey's com- 
 pany, under Colonel Winslow. This Revolution- 
 ary soldier was a son of Thomas and Dorcas 
 (Sparrow) Nickerson, and a grandson of Thomas 
 Nickerson, Sr., whose father, William, was a son 
 of William Nickerson, Sr., a passenger on the 
 ship John and Dorothy, which crossed the ocean 
 from Norwich, England, and landed in Boston 
 June 20, 1637. On the Sparrow side the ances- 
 try is traced back to Elder William Brewster, 
 one of the chief founders of Plymouth colony, 
 and a ruling elder of the church at Leyden, and 
 at New Plymouth, also keeper of the postoffice 
 at Scrooby, at that day an office of considerable 
 importance. Another ancestor of the Sparrow 
 family was Governor Thomas Prince, who in 
 1 62 1 crossed to Plymouth from England in the 
 ship Fortune, and afterward held office as gov- 
 ernor of Massachusetts. 
 
 The family of Presley George consisted of 
 eight children, but five of these died of diphtheria 
 or scarlet fever in Ohio. The father and mother, 
 with the three surviving children, left their 
 eastern home and proceeded by boat from Mari- 
 etta to St. Joe, Mo. There they outfitted with 
 ox-teams and crossed the plains, arriving in 
 Linn county, Ore., at the expiration of six 
 months. Previous to this they camped for several 
 weeks in what is now East Portland, where there 
 were only two houses at that time. Entering a 
 donation claim near Lebanon, the father took up 
 the work of a farmer in the new locality. Coming 
 from a timber country, he preferred a location 
 where there was a forest growth and accord- 
 ingly settled in the midst of a heavy timber. 
 However, an experience of eight years proved 
 unsatisfactory, and he moved to another farm 
 three miles from Lebanon, where he remained 
 until his retirement from agricultural pursuits. 
 At the time of his death, which occurred at the 
 home of his son, M. C, in Portland, he was 
 
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 eighty-three years of age. It is worthy of note 
 that he was the youngest of fifteen children, all 
 of whom lived to be more than seventy years of 
 age, and the men of the family were without 
 exception large, stalwart and sturdy, weighing- 
 two hundred pounds or more. His wife also 
 attained the age of eighty-three and died at the 
 home of her son in Portland. In religion they 
 were members of the Old School Baptist Church. 
 On the disintegration of the Whig party, he iden- 
 tified himself with the Republicans. Of his three 
 sons, Hugh N., who was a teacher, journalist 
 and attorney at Albany, and a presidential elector 
 in 1864, died in his home city in 1882. The 
 second son, J. W.. who was United States marshal 
 of Washington in 1884, died in 1892 in his home 
 city, Seattle. The only surviving member of the 
 family is Hon. M. C. George, of Portland, who 
 was born near Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, 
 May 13, 1849. T° the advantages of an academic 
 education he added a course of study in Willam- 
 ette University, after which he had charge of the 
 academy at Jefferson and also for a year acted 
 as principal of the Albany public school. 
 
 In order to fit himself for the profession of 
 law, toward which his tastes directed him, Mr. 
 George took up a course of study in 1873 under 
 Judge Powell of Albany, later reading with 
 Colonel Effinger of Portland. On his admission 
 to the bar he began to practice in Portland. At 
 once he entered upon public life as a leader in 
 the Republican party. From 1876 to 1880 he 
 represented his district in the state senate. During 
 the latter year he was nominated for congress- 
 man-at-large against Governor Whitaker, the in- 
 cumbent, and was elected by a majority of almost 
 thirteen hundred'. In March of 1881 he took 
 his seat in congress. The following year he was 
 re-elected, serving in the forty-seventh and forty- 
 eighth sessions of congress. While in that body 
 he was a member of the committees on commerce 
 and revision of laws. Much of his legislation was 
 in connection with the opening of Indian reserva- 
 tions and concerning the establishment of a ter- 
 ritorial government in Alaska. Large appropri- 
 ations were secured for Oregon, including the 
 payment of the Modoc Indian bill of $130,000. 
 On the expiration of his term in 1884 he declined 
 to be a candidate for re-election, and resumed 
 the practice of law. However, his fellow-citizens 
 recognized that his qualities admirably adapted 
 him for public service and frequently solicited 
 him to accept offices of trust. In 1897 Governor 
 Lord appointed him judge, and in June of the 
 following year he was elected to the office to 
 fill an unexpired term of two years. At the 
 expiration of that time he was elected for a full 
 term of six years, and has since filled the office, 
 discharging its many and responsible duties in a 
 
 manner calculated to place him in a rank with 
 the most able jurists of the state. 
 
 The marriage of Judge George occurred at 
 Lebanon in 1872 and united him with Miss Mary 
 Eckler, who was born in Danville, 111. Her 
 parents removed from Kentucky to Illinois, 
 where her mother died. Later the family start- 
 ed across the plains. During the journey the 
 father died and was buried on the present site 
 of Council Bluffs. From there the sons brought 
 the balance of the family to Oregon, arriving 
 here in 1853. Three daughters, Florence, Edna 
 and Jessie, comprise the family of Judge and 
 Mrs. George. The oldest daughter is a graduate 
 of Fabiola Hospital training school in San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 Fraternally Judge George has numerous con- 
 nections. In the Odd Fellows' Order he has 
 been past grand and a member of the encamp- 
 ment. He was made a Mason in Lebanon Lodge 
 and now belongs to Washington Lodge at Port- 
 land, of which he was past master for three 
 years. His initiation into the Royal Arch chap- 
 ter took place at Corvallis, and he is now iden- 
 tified with Washington Chapter in Portland, be- 
 sides which he belongs to Portland Comman- 
 dery, K. T., and Portland Consistory, thirty- 
 second degree. For five years Judge George 
 was a director of the city schools of Portland 
 and during two years of that time he was hon- 
 ored with the presidency of the board. As a 
 member and (for a time) chairman of the board 
 of bridge commissioners, he was directly in- 
 strumental in the erection of the Burnside bridge 
 in Portland. The State Bar Association num- 
 bers him among its members, as do also the 
 Oregon Pioneers' Society, State Historical So- 
 ciety, Chapter of Sons of the American Revolu- 
 tion and Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pio- 
 neers, of which last-named he has officiated as 
 president from the date of its organization. 
 
 JACOB MAYER. The lights and shadows, 
 failures and successes which are the inevitable 
 heritage of the strong and reliant and resource- 
 ful have not been omitted from the life of Jacob 
 Mayer, whose name in Portland stands for all 
 that is commercially substantial, personally up- 
 right and practically helpful. As long ago as 
 1857 Mr. Mayer came to Oregon, bringing with 
 him a wide knowledge of men and affairs, and 
 here he opened a retail dry goods store. In 1865, 
 just at the close of the Civil war, he started, 
 in Portland, the first exclusive wholesale dry 
 goods business in the northwest. In the years 
 that have intervened his strenuous vitality and 
 profound appreciation of the opportunities by 
 which he has been surrounded have penetrated 
 with telling effect the industrial, social, humani- 
 
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 tarian ami political atmosphere o\ his adopted 
 city, and rendered worth while an ambition 
 
 which else had been characterized by spectacular 
 money getting and keeping. 
 
 The most remote memory of Mr. Mayer goes 
 hack to the town ot" l'echtheim, near Worms and 
 
 Mentz, in the province ol" Rhein-1 lessen, Ger- 
 many, where he was horn May 7, 1826. He is 
 the youngest of the children in the family of 
 
 \aron Mayer, a merchant of the Fatherland 
 who immigrated to America in 1847, lived for a 
 time in New Orleans, hut eventually removed 
 to St. Lonis, Mo., where the remainder of his 
 life was passed. His son Jacob had preceded 
 him to America in 1842, and the youth secured 
 a position with his brother as clerk, in 1849 
 starting an independent dry goods business of 
 his own in Xew Orleans. This proved to be 
 a very satisfactory departure, hut the business 
 was disposed of the following year, owing to 
 the gold excitement in California, and prepara- 
 tions were made for a similar business on the 
 western coast. During 1850 Mr. Mayer started 
 for the Isthmus, carrying with him a cargo of 
 merchandise, and accompanied by his wife and 
 children. Arriving at Panama he boarded the 
 Sarah and Eliza, upon which slow-going craft 
 the passengers experienced such misery, dep- 
 rivation and adventure as falls to the lot of but 
 few whose pioneer longings lay toward the west- 
 ern sea. One hundred days out from Panama 
 the supply of water and provisions was practi- 
 cally exhausted, and but a half pint of water a 
 day was the meager allowance available for slak- 
 ing thirst. Sharks and pelicans served as food 
 for the wayfarers upon the trackless waste of 
 waters, and served to render less hideous the 
 haunting fear of starvation which intercepted 
 their fast diminishing dreams. When hope be- 
 came an elusive phantom there loomed upon the 
 horizon a Boston ship with a less depleted larder, 
 and to strained eyes and failing faculties it 
 seemed like a mirage above the desert sands. 
 For a barrel of sea biscuit Mr. Mayer gave the 
 extent of his money possessions, which amounted 
 to $800, and thus terminated indescribable suf- 
 fering of mind and bod}-, the memory of which 
 had haunted the consciousness of the voyageurs 
 as naught save such experiences can. One hun- 
 dred and twenty days after leaving Panama the 
 Sarah and Eliza wandered into the port of San 
 Francisco, discharged its commercial and human 
 cargo, having added a sorry chapter to its life 
 upon the deep. 
 
 In March. 1850. Mr. Mayer started the second 
 dry goods store in the city of San Francisco, 
 the first, that of Sac & Kenney, having been 
 started by a Frenchman. Mr. Mayer conducted 
 his business until 1857, and that year he came 
 to Oregon, where he engaged in the retail dry 
 
 goods business until starting a wholesale dry 
 goods business in 1865. For ten years, or until 
 1875, he continued alone, hut in that year he 
 formed a partnership with L. Fleischner, A. 
 Schlussel and Sol llirsch, under the title of 
 Fleischner, Mayer & Co., which has stood to the 
 present day, although Mr. Mayer is the only 
 member of the old firm now living, and he has 
 turned the business over to his son Mark. Having 
 come to the front in all matters pertaining to 
 the development of the city of his adoption, Mr. 
 Mayer has lent his fine business and executive 
 ability, tempered with extreme benevolence, to 
 the inaugurating and promoting of the best 
 known enterprises here represented. For the 
 past ten years he has been president of the 
 Masonic Building Association ; is a member of 
 the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade, 
 and is one of the pioneers and charter members 
 of the Oregon Historical Society. All charitable 
 organizations, irrespective of denominational in- 
 fluence, have profited by his substantial and prac- 
 tical support, and it is to his credit that he was 
 the founder of the first Hebrew Benevolent So- 
 ciety of San Francisco, and he was also the 
 founder of a similar organization in this city. 
 As a member of the Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation he has exerted an influence for high 
 living and large accomplishment, and his efforts 
 have been as praiseworthy in connection with 
 the organization of the first B'nai B'rith Society 
 on the coast, which was none other than that of 
 District No. 4 of California, and today he is 
 the only charter member living. In 1855 he 
 obtained the charter for Ophir No. 21, and from 
 this and District No. 4 were formed various 
 branches in the state. He organized Oregon 
 Lodge No. 65, of which he was first president 
 and is still a member. Mr. Mayer was also the 
 organizer and one of the charter members of the 
 Congregation Beth Israel, in which he has been 
 prominent from the beginning, and has held the 
 various offices of the organization. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Mayer has been connected 
 with the Masons since 1852, when he became a 
 member of Perfect Union Lodge No. 17 of 
 San Francisco, and was afterward a member 
 and for two years master of Lebanon Lodge No. 
 49, also of San Francisco. In Portland he is 
 identified with Willamette Lodge No. 2 ; is a 
 member of Portland Chapter No. 3, R. A. M. ; 
 Washington Council No. 3, R. & S. M. ; Oregon 
 Lodge of Perfection No. 1 ; Ainsworth Chapter 
 Rose Croix No. 1 ; Multnomah Council of Ka- 
 dosh No. 1 ; Oregon Consistory No. 1 ; Supreme 
 Council of Jurisdiction, thirty-third degree, and 
 Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. For many years 
 he was grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge of 
 Oregon, and during 1888 and t88q was grand 
 master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon. He 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 is, and has been, for many years, grand repre- 
 sentative of the Grand Lodge of England and 
 Spain, near the Grand Lodge of Oregon, to 
 which position he was appointed in 1895 by 
 J 'rince Edward of Wales, now King of England. 
 Another office held by Mr. Mayer is that of 
 treasurer and chairman of the education fund 
 of the Grand Lodge of Oregon. 
 
 In New Orleans Mr. Mayer was united in 
 marriage to Mary Auerbach, who was born in 
 Germany, and who is the mother of six children, 
 the order of their birth as follows : Josephine, 
 now Mrs. Solomon Hirsch of Portland, and 
 whose husband was minister to Turkey ; Clem- 
 entine, now Mrs. Oscar Meyer of New York 
 City ; Bertha, the wife of H. Zadig of San Fran- 
 cisco; Rosa, now Mrs. M. Blum of San Fran- 
 cisco; Mark A., representative of his father's 
 dry goods business in New York City ; and Ben- 
 jamin, who died in San Francisco at the age of 
 twenty-three years. Mr. Mayer is a broad and 
 liberal politician, and his exertions in behalf of 
 his party have been characterized by the same 
 good sense and appreciation of the needs of the 
 community which have been discernible in his 
 business and social undertakings. Among the 
 political services rendered by him may be men- 
 tioned that of United States commissioner for 
 the New Orleans World's Fair, to which re- 
 sponsibility he was appointed by President Ar- 
 thur. 
 
 E. E. SHARON. To the members of the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows Mr. Sharon is 
 known as one of the leading workers in the 
 organization in Portland, and, indeed, in Oregon 
 itself. His connection with the fraternity began 
 at Pendleton, this state, where he was initiated 
 in Eureka Lodge No. 32, February 17, 1883. 
 For some time he was its secretary, also held 
 rank as past grand, and still retains membership 
 in the same lodge. Formerly connected with 
 Umatilla Encampment No. 17, he was past chief 
 patriarch and scribe, and is now scribe of El- 
 lison Encampment No. 1, of Portland. When the 
 Grand Lodge was in session at Pendleton in 1894 
 he was honored by election as grand secretary of 
 the order, and removed to Portland, where he 
 has since made his home. At each succeeding 
 meeting he has been re-elected grand secretary 
 of the Grand Lodge. At the same time and 
 place (Pendleton, in 1894) he was elected grand 
 scribe of the Grand Encampment of Oregon, and 
 each year since then he has been regularly chosen 
 to succeed himself in this office. Under his over- 
 sight there are one hundred and forty-nine 
 lodges, forty-five encampments and more than 
 one hundred Rebekah lodges. 
 
 The Sharon family is of English extraction. 
 
 John Sharon, a pioneer farmer of Mount Pleas- 
 ant, Jefferson county, Ohio, had a son, James 
 H., who was born at the old homestead there, 
 and married Amanda L. Van Dorn, a native of 
 Ohio, of German and Welsh descent. They be- 
 gan housekeeping at his old home and there a 
 son, E. E., was born January 22, i860, he being 
 the oldest of six children, five now living. Of 
 the others J. L. lives in Pendleton, Ore., Mary 
 is in San Francisco* and Jessie and Lura reside 
 in Wheeling, W. Va. In 1861 the father took 
 .his family to Monona county, Iowa, and a year 
 later crossed the plains by horse-train, arriving 
 at the Rocky Bar Mines in Idaho at the close of 
 a tedious trip of six months. In 1865 he came 
 to Oregon and settled in Umatilla county, where 
 he engaged in farming, surveying and teaching. 
 In 1875 he was appointed clerk of Umatilla 
 county and elected for a full term of two years 
 in 1876. This election was a personal tribute to 
 his popularity, for the county usually gave a 
 large Democratic majority. His death occurred 
 in 1889 in Pendleton, where his widow still re- 
 sides. 
 
 On completing the studies of the Pendleton 
 high school, E. E. Sharon began to assist his 
 father in the office of county clerk, and later was 
 with the next incumbent of the office. On re- 
 signing he became editor of the Pendleton 
 Tribune, a leading Republican paper of the 
 county. In 1881 he sold his interest in the paper 
 and went to San Francisco, where he was gradu- 
 ated from Heald's Business College in 1882. 
 For three months afterward he was engaged as 
 a bookkeeper in Oakland, thence proceeded to 
 Boise City, but soon returned to Pendleton, 
 where he was bookkeeper for Alexander & 
 Frazier a period of three years. Later he acted 
 as deputy sheriff, and finally resumed the editor- 
 ship of the newspaper with which he had pre- 
 viously been connected. A later venture was in 
 the insurance business and as express agent. 
 From Pendleton he came to Portland in 1894 and 
 has since made this city his home. 
 
 At Pendleton, December 12, 1886, Mr. Sharon 
 married Miss Frankie B. Purcell, who was born 
 in Muscatine, Iowa. Her father, Thomas Pur- 
 cell, a native of Indiana, born May 25, 1829, set- 
 tled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he followed con- 
 tracting. During the Civil war he was captain 
 of Company C, Sixteenth Iowa Infantry, and 
 while leading his men in action received a severe 
 wound, afterward falling into the hands of the 
 enemy, by whom he was confined in Libby and 
 Andersonville, and finally exchanged. After the 
 war he continued in Iowa until 1879, when, with 
 his wife and child, he crossed the plains and 
 settled in Weston, Ore., and there engaged in 
 contracting and also sold furniture. Fraternally 
 he was a Master Mason and a Grand Army ad- 
 
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 herent. His death occurred in Weston May II, 
 899. His first wife, Hester Ann Myers, was 
 horn in Louisville, K\ .. and died in Iowa, leav- 
 ing three children, namely : William., a farmer 
 Pendleton; Josephine, in Iowa; and Frankie 
 1'... Mrs. Sharon. After the death of his first 
 wife he married Sadie O. Arlie. of Iowa. Mrs. 
 Sharon is a member oi the Rebekahs, in which 
 she formerly served as noble grand, and is also 
 a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security, 
 (hi the organization of the Muscovites Mr. 
 Sharon became a charter member and was elected 
 the first recorder, which position he still holds. 
 In Pendleton Lodge No. 52. A. F. & A. M., he 
 was made a Mason, and is now past master of 
 Hawthorn Lodge Xo. Ill, of Portland; and also 
 a member of Washington Chapter Xo. 18, R. A. 
 M.. of Portland, in which he is past high priest 
 and secretary : and a member of Washington 
 Council No. 3, R. & S. M. He became a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias at Pendleton in 1880, 
 and is now past chancellor of Ivanhoe Lodge No. 
 10, also past grand chancellor of the Grand 
 Lodge of Oregon, 1892-93, and for four years 
 supreme representative from Oregon. Besides 
 belonging to the Order of Rebekahs he is con- 
 nected with Webfoot Camp. Woodmen of the 
 World. Always a stanch Republican, his inter- 
 est in the success of his party led him to once 
 accept the position as chairman of the Umatilla 
 county central committee and at another time 
 he served as its secretary. Both he and his wife 
 are identified with the Episcopal Church, in 
 which faith they are rearing their three children, 
 ssie, Leila and Allen. 
 
 HOX. HENRY SPOOR ROWE. Descend- 
 ed from an old colonial family of Xew England, 
 Henry S. Rowe was born in Bolivar. Allegany 
 county. X. Y., October 11. 1851, his parents 
 being John S. and Hulda (Peck) Rowe, also 
 natives of X'ew York. His father, who was 
 master of seven different trades and a man of 
 great mechanical genius, devoted much of his 
 'life to the building of grist and saw mills, first 
 in Xew York and later in the south and in Wis- 
 consin. In mechanical work with wood and iron 
 he had few superiors. His ability in invention 
 made it possible for him to construct anything 
 from a violin to a large mill, and in his labors 
 as master mason he won praise from people 
 most competent to judge. 
 
 The wife of John S. Rowe was a daughter of 
 Joel Peck, a New Yorker who became one of 
 the pioneer farmers of Palmyra, Wis., where he 
 died. One of her brothers. George R. Peck, is 
 a prominent attorney of Chicago, and another, 
 Charles B. Peck, is a leading citizen of Houston. 
 Tex. In her family there were four sons and 
 two daughters, of whom two sons and one daugh- 
 
 ter are now living. One of the sons, Herbert 
 M.. at the age of fourteen years enlisted in the 
 First Wisconsin Cavalry and later was trans- 
 ferred to the Thirteenth Light Artillery, serv- 
 ing in Missouri until his capture by the Con- 
 federates and subsequent confinement in Libby 
 prison. On being exchanged he returned to the 
 artillery service, but his splendid war record was 
 abruptly terminated by his death, which occurred 
 Tune 8, 1863, in Baton Rouge. Another son. 
 John S.. who was connected with the Oregon 
 Railroad & Xavigation Company, died in Port- 
 land. Oscar D. is a large tobacco dealer and 
 at this writing county recorder of Rock county, 
 Wis., where he has made his home many vears. 
 
 The public schools of Palmyra afforded Henrv 
 S. Rowe fair advantages. While a mere boy 
 he learned telegraphy in Janesville and at the 
 age of thirteen was given work in that city with 
 what is now the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul 
 Railroad. Going to Lawrence, Kans., in 1870, 
 he was engaged as clerk in the freight house of 
 what is now the Santa Fe (then the Leaven- 
 worth, Lawrence & Galveston) road. After a 
 year he was made terminal agent, his duties in- 
 cluding the opening of all the offices in the fron- 
 tier districts and the starting of the little ham- 
 lets that sprung up along the line of the road. 
 From that position he was promoted to be gen- 
 eral agent for the Fort Scott & Gulf, and the 
 Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston roads at 
 Kansas City, remaining there until 1880. On the 
 purchase by Henry Yillard of the uncompleted 
 road extending into Oregon, Mr. Rowe came to 
 Portland in 1880 and was at once retained by 
 the Oregon Railroad & Xavigation Company. 
 For a time he acted as the company's agent for 
 steamers. On the starting of the train service 
 on the railroad in 1882 he was made general 
 superintendent, which' position he held until the 
 road was leased in 1887 by the Cnion Pacific, 
 at which time he retired from railroading. 
 
 An enterprise which had already engaged a 
 portion of Mr. Rowe's time was the W r eed & 
 Rowe Hardware Company, which had stores at 
 Elmsburg and Yakima, Wash. On selling out 
 the store in the latter town in 1889 he became 
 president of the Yakima Xational Bank, the in- 
 ception of which was due to his recognition of 
 the needs of the village for such an institution. 
 In 1892 he organized the Albina Savings Bank, 
 becoming president of the concern, but the fol- 
 lowing year he sold his interest in order to de- 
 vote himself to real-estate enterprises. July 1. 
 1902, he accepted a position as general agent 
 for the Xorthwestern Pacific coast for the Chi- 
 cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, the du- 
 ties of which position he has undertaken with the 
 same enthusiasm and discretion characteristic of 
 him in every post of responsibility. 
 
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 The Republican party, of which Mr. Rowe is 
 a supporter, has honored him at various times 
 by election to positions of trust. He has at- 
 tended state conventions as delegate and has 
 served on the county central committee. His 
 first election as mayor of Portland occurred in 
 i goo, when he received a plurality of about one 
 thousand over his two opponents. It is said of 
 him that one of the most noteworthy features of 
 his administration as executive was his econom- 
 ical oversight of the city's expenses, and there 
 have been many tributes paid to him for his 
 success along this important line. At the ex- 
 piration of his term he took up his duties as 
 general agent for the St. Paul road. For sev- 
 eral years he was president of the board of fire 
 commissioners of Portland, and was a member 
 of the water committee during the building up 
 of the works, thus deserving a share of the credit 
 for securing for Portland the best water in the 
 entire country. He is a member of the Chamber 
 of Commerce and the Commercial Club. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Rowe, in Independence, 
 Kans., united him with Agnes H. Hefly, who was 
 born in Bellevue, Iowa, and by whom he had 
 two sons, namely : Henry S., Jr., clerk for the 
 city auditor of Portland ; and Donald H. While 
 in Independence, Kans., Mr. Rowe was made a 
 Mason, and is now connected with Portland 
 Lodge No. 55, A. F. & A. M. In the same 
 Kansas town he was raised to the chapter, while 
 his connection with the Knights Templar began 
 in the commandery at Lawrence, Kans. At this 
 writing he is connected with the chapter and com- 
 mandery in Portland, also Oregon Consistory, 
 thirty-second degree. Other fraternal organiza- 
 tions which have his membership are the Benevo- 
 lent Protective Order of Elks, Woodmen of the 
 World and Modern Woodmen of America. 
 While not identified with any denomination, he 
 attends the Episcopal Church and is always in- 
 terested in and a contributor to measures having 
 for their object the uplifting of humanity, as he 
 is also an enthusiastic advocate of movements 
 for the material development and progress of 
 Portland, his home city. 
 
 HON. ALEXANDER SWEEK. The fam- 
 ily of which State Senator Sweek is a distin- 
 guished representative has been connected with 
 American history since a very early period in 
 the settlement of the country, the first of the 
 name establishing themselves in Virginia. Later 
 generations removed to West Virginia, whence 
 Martin Sweek, after his marriage to a lady of 
 English family, removed to the then far west, 
 settling in the primeval forests of Missouri. His 
 son, John, was born at St. Genevieve, that state, 
 and from there started across the plains for Cali- 
 
 fornia at the time of the discovery of gold, but 
 the illness of the father and mother caused him 
 to return to the old home, and not long after- 
 ward he married there. In 1852 he again started 
 for the Pacific coast, and this time brought the 
 trip to a successful consummation, arriving in 
 Oregon on the 1st of September. At once he 
 took up a donation claim at Tualatin, where he 
 improved three hundred and twenty acres. On 
 this homestead he conducted general farm pur- 
 suits until his death, in February of 1889, at 
 which time he was sixty-eight years of age. 
 Many important movements of his locality owed 
 their inception to his energy. Especially was his 
 interest in educational matters keen and per- 
 manent. A portion of his farm was laid out 
 for a town site, the sale of lots bringing him 
 a neat return for his outlay of labor in years 
 gone by. His wife, formerly Maria Beard, was 
 born in St. Genevieve, Mo., and is now living 
 on the old homestead at Tualatin. Her father 
 was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal de- 
 nomination and a pioneer preacher in Missouri. 
 The family of John and Maria Sweek con- 
 sisted of the following-named children : C. A., 
 an attorney at Burns, Ore. ; Alice, wife of M. W. 
 Smith, of Portland ; Lawrence, a stockman in 
 Grant county ; Alexander ; Mrs. Lillie Harding, 
 living on the old homestead ; and Thaddeus, who 
 is connected with the Oregon Railroad and Nav- 
 igation Company, of Portland. Alexander 
 Sweek was born in Tualatin, Washington county, 
 Ore., August 6, 1861, and in boyhood attended 
 district school, afterward taking a course in 
 the Pacific University until the senior year, when 
 illness obliged him to relinquish his studies. In 
 1883 he took up the study of law under Milton 
 W. Smith, and five years later was admitted to 
 the bar, after which he took up the practice of 
 his profession. In 1896 he was elected munici- 
 pal judge, which office he filled for two years. 
 The highest honor of his life thus far came to 
 him in 1900, when he was nominated to repre- 
 sent Multnomah, Washington and Columbia 
 • counties in the state senate. As the candidate 
 of the Citizens' ticket he was elected over the 
 Republican candidate by a majority of about 
 eight hundred. During the session of 1901 he 
 drew up the bill on assessment and taxation, 
 which passed successfully and is now in active 
 operation. Other measures received the benefit 
 of his wise judgment and shrewd discernment. 
 Among the Democratic members of the senate 
 he is a leader, his recognized superior qualities 
 fitting him for wielding a wide influence among 
 his fellowmen. As a member of the state com- 
 mittee and as chairman of the . county central 
 committee, he has done much to promote the 
 welfare of his party. However, in matters re- 
 lating to the general welfare, party lines are al- 
 
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 ways sunk beneath his patriotic spirit, and, as 
 a public-spirited citizen, he favors movements 
 for the progress of his city and state aside from 
 any bearing they may have upon strictly party 
 affairs. 
 
 In the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 
 Mr. Sweek serves as past exalted ruler. His 
 connection with Masonry began in the Forest 
 Grove Lodge, ami he is now a member of Har- 
 mony Lodge X". i-'. of Portland, of which he 
 is past master. In addition he is identified with 
 Portland Chapter. R. A. 3VL, and the Oregon 
 Consistory No. i, thirty-second degree, besides 
 which he is an active member of the Knights 
 oi Pythias and past chancellor in the same. 
 
 HON. JOHN W. WHALLEY. Among the 
 men of the west who, through their own efforts, 
 have risen to positions of honor and prominence, 
 is to he named the Hon. John W. Whalley, who 
 laid down alike the responsibilities and successes 
 of his life November 10, 1900, and passed to a 
 Higher judgment. Beyond the advantages of 
 fine parentage and a long line of ancestry which 
 has transmitted those qualities and character- 
 istics essential to greatness, Mr. Whalley relied 
 solely on his own strength to perfect the talents 
 which he felt to be his, and through which he 
 rose to an eminent position as a lawyer of the 
 state of Oregon, having held for many years 
 the. profound respect and esteem of his fellow 
 laborers and of those wdio profited by his excep- 
 tional ability. A brief resume of his life is here- 
 with given, representative of the type of men 
 who made the west, and an example of perse- 
 verance and indefatigable energy, combined with 
 an unflinching honesty and integrity which have 
 left no measurement as to the moral influence in 
 the community in which he made his home for 
 so many years. 
 
 John William Whalley was born at Annapolis, 
 Nova Scotia, April 28, 1833, a son of the Rev. 
 Francis Whalley, a clergyman in the Church of 
 England, who was, at that time, under an ap- 
 pointment from the Society for the Propagation 
 of the Gospel in Foreign Lands. In 1835 the 
 family returned to England, where the father be- 
 came rector of Rivington Parish, in Cheshire, 
 but was subsequently appointed chaplain of Lan- 
 cashire Castle, followed by service as rector of 
 parishes at Churchtown, Lancashire, New Hut- 
 ton, Old Hutton, Kendal and Westmoreland. 
 The ancestors of the paternal line for a long 
 period were yeomen, owning and cultivating the 
 estate of Coventree near Dent, in the West Rid- 
 ing of Yorkshire, to which they had become emi- 
 grants from Norfolk, where they belonged to the 
 same family as that of which Edmund Whalley, 
 of the army of Cromwell, was a member. Many 
 
 of the family held honorable positions in church, 
 army and the bar, the elder sons managing the 
 estates while the younger followed professions. 
 
 On the maternal side the ancestors were numbered 
 among the first families of Wales, and for over 
 two hundred years occupied, under lease for that 
 term, Overton Hall, of Lord Kenyon's estate. 
 The lease terminated during the lifetime of 
 William Jones, the grandfather of J. W., of 
 this review, who, with his family, removed to 
 Canada, thence to New York City, where he 
 died and was buried in St. Paul's churchyard on 
 Broadway. 
 
 Of the three sons and one daughter born to 
 his parents the only one living is Richard Whal- 
 ley, a clergyman in the Church of England, now- 
 residing in that country. John W. Whalley 
 was the third oldest of the children and was 
 very industrious and apt in his studies, while 
 pursuing his grammar studies at the age of nine 
 being able to read Caesar, and following this up 
 with Ovid at ten years. The reduced circum- 
 stances of his parents precluded the possibility 
 of a collegiate course and held out the necessity 
 for a trade, and at the age of thirteen years he 
 took service aboard the merchantman Speed, 
 which sailed from Liverpool for New York City 
 in 1847. Not caring for a seafaring life he left 
 the ship upon his arrival in New York City and 
 visited some of his mother's people in New Jer- 
 sey, there meeting an uncle, Thomas Jones, who 
 was the author of a treatise on bookkeeping and 
 a teacher of that science. Mr. Whalley entered 
 his office and remained there for about a year, 
 and March, 1848, he returned to England, with 
 the understanding that a position was awaiting 
 him there in the Bank of England. Failing to 
 secure the expected place, through lack of 
 wealthy or influential friends to work for him, 
 and recognizing as self evident that bis country 
 afforded but little opportunity of advancement 
 for an ambitious young man, be bound himself 
 to an apprenticeship on the Antelope, which 
 sailed in February, 1849, f° r California. His ar- 
 rival in that state was in July, when the gold ex- 
 citement was at its height, and with a number of 
 others he sought the mines, eager and hopeful of 
 making a fortune. During the winter of '49 
 he mined on the south fork of the American river, 
 a little below Columbia, and in 1850 he moved 
 to the Middle Yuba. He perseveringly endured 
 the hardships and privations of a miner's life in 
 Sacramento, Redwood and Yreka until 1858, and 
 not having yet found his fortune he came to the 
 conclusion that he preferred another kind of life. 
 Desiring to study law, and not having the means, 
 he engaged as a school teacher at Little Shasta, 
 near Yreka. Fie continued in this employment 
 until 1864, being one of the pioneer teachers of 
 the Pacific coast. During 1861-62 he served 
 
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 with great efficiency as superintendent of schools, 
 and while so engaged became a frequent con- 
 tributor to the local press, and to the Hesperian 
 Magazine, published at San Francisco. With 
 a mind full of beautiful imageries and an easy, 
 graceful style, he became a poet of more than 
 local renown, his poems being copied extensively 
 throughout the United States and evoking favor- 
 able comment from the press. During his earlier 
 days of teaching he read law with Judge Rose- 
 borough, of Yreka, and was admitted to practice 
 before Judge Dangerfiekl in 1861, in Siskiyou 
 county, Cal. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Whaliey withdrew from his peda- 
 gogical work, and going to Grant county, Ore., 
 he began the practice of his profession. He was 
 married July 21, 1861, to Lavinia T. Kimzey, 
 who was born in Missouri in 1842,, and with her 
 parents in 1847 crossed the plains to California, 
 where she grew into a cultured and refined 
 womanhood. They became parents of seven 
 children, of whom one son and one daughter 
 died in infancy. Of the remaining five Mary 
 was born in California and became the wife of 
 J. Frank Watson, president of the Merchants 
 National Bank, of Portland, and they now have 
 two children, namely : Frank Whaliey and Clif- 
 ton Howe. Susan was born in California and 
 became the wife of Maj. James N. Allison, U. S. 
 A., who is now stationed in the Philippine Isl- 
 ands. They are the parents of the following 
 children: Marion, Philip Whaliey, Malcolm G. 
 and Stanton W. Lavinia was born in Portland 
 and is now the wife of H. S. Huson, who is vice 
 president and general manager of the Pacific 
 Coast Construction Company. They make their 
 home in Portland and have four children: John 
 Whaliey, Jane, Herbert R. and Richard S. 
 Jane is the wife of W. T. Muir, a prominent at- 
 torney of Portland, and their two children are 
 Mary and William Whaliey. Charlotte is un- 
 married and resides with her mother at No. 
 393 West Park street. All are graduates of St. 
 Helen's Hall, of Portland. 
 
 In Canyon City, Grant count}', Mr. Whaliey 
 formed a partnership with L. O. Stern which 
 was soon dissolved. While there be had a stu- 
 dent in the person of M. W. Fechheimer, who 
 had lived in Portland for a time and after he was 
 admitted to practice he returned there and opened 
 an office. His accounts of the advantages of the 
 city led Mr. Whaliey to make this place his 
 home, coming in 1868, where he formed a part- 
 nership with Mr. Fechheimer, under the title 
 of Whaliey & Fechheimer, and this well known 
 firm flourished for a number of years, being one 
 of the strongest of the northwest. They made 
 the bankrupt law of 1867 a specialty and the 
 greater part of the business of this department 
 passed through their hands for several years. 
 
 Their surplus earnings were invested in real es- 
 tate, which, with the rapid increase in value, 
 made each a fortune. In 1883, desiring to make 
 an extended trip to Europe, he dissolved his legal 
 partnership and with his daughter Susan visited 
 Scotland, England, France, Spain, Germany, 
 Italy and Switzerland, remaining abroad eighteen 
 months. Upon his return to Portland in 1884 
 he resumed the practice of law in connection 
 with H. H. Northup and Paul R. Deady, under 
 the firm name of Whaliey, Northup & Deady, 
 and the work quickly grew to lucrative size, gain- 
 ing a prominence in railway litigation. In 1885 
 Judge E. C. Bronaugh was admitted as a mem- 
 ber of the firm, which was then known as Whal- 
 iey, Bronaugh, Northup & Deady. The latter 
 shortly retired and his name was dropped from 
 the firm. In March, 1889, Mr. Whaliey retired 
 from active practice, having acquired a large 
 property which required his personal attention, 
 but five years later he became a partner of Judges 
 Strahn and Pipes and practiced again for two 
 years. At that time Mr. Whaliey withdrew from 
 the firm and formed a partnership with his son- 
 in-law, W. T. Muir, which lasted until the death 
 of the former. For a number of years he had 
 held a chair in the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon as instructor in pleadings. 
 
 As a Republican in politics Mr. Whaliey rep- 
 resented Multnomah county in 1870 as a member 
 of the state legislature, but retired altogether from 
 political movements and enterprises at the close 
 of his first term. He was a prominent man in 
 the fraternity of the Odd Fellows, in 1870 repre- 
 senting the Grand Lodge of Oregon in the Sov- 
 ereign Grand Lodge at Baltimore. Always ac- 
 tively interested in the welfare of the city, he 
 was a member of the Columbia Fire Engine 
 Company No. 3, Volunteer Department, and so 
 continued until the paid department was installed. 
 
 Mr. Whaliey long held a place in the front rank 
 of the profession to which he gave so much of 
 his life. He had a well ordered mind and in his 
 forensic encounters always had his legal forces 
 under control. He had a love of "fine point" 
 which became a subject of trite remark among 
 his legal brethren throughout the state. He be- 
 came famed for his logical and strategic qualities, 
 availing himself of every means to guard against 
 legal surprises and to overlook no legal defense. 
 The care which he bestowed upon the "critical 
 niceities" of the law was due to his mental activity 
 and habit of thoroughness in whatever he under- 
 took, and not to any neglect of the broad prin- 
 ciples which make the study and practice of law 
 one of the most useful and elevating pursuits of 
 mankind. He had a keen appreciation of the 
 humorous, and this, with his imitative faculties, 
 made him the most entertaining and enjoyable 
 companion at the bar. He was an indefatigable 
 
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 .-port smaii and was a master of the science of 
 casting a fly or making one; every foot of that 
 sportsman's paradise from "Mock's bottom" to 
 Charley Saline's was to him familiar ground. 
 With a few chosen friends he controlled the 
 shooting privileges of twelve hundred acres of 
 lake marsh ground on Sauvie's Island, always 
 taking a great interest in the preservation and 
 protection' of game birds in the state, urging the 
 enactment by the legislature of beneficial game 
 laws. The statutes of the state to-day contain 
 many game laws of his own construction which 
 are susceptible of no misinterpretation. He was 
 the first president of the Multnomah Rod and 
 Gun Club of Portland, an organization which 
 under his personal influence and endeavor ac- 
 complished much good along these lines, and be- 
 came especially vigilant in the detection and pros- 
 ecution of violators. He was chosen the first 
 president of the Sportsman's Association of the 
 Xorthwest, and re-elected a second term. He 
 had a fondness for dogs and was always their 
 protector and friend. 
 
 As a member of St. Stephen's Chapel he con- 
 tributed generously to the maintenance of the 
 church work, acting as vestryman for some years 
 and as superintendent of the Sunday school for 
 three years before his death. A tribute paid to 
 his memory by a friend was: "A man of alert 
 mind, of great legal and literary erudition; of 
 ready command of language, speaking and writ- 
 ing with admirable force ; at all times accessible, 
 steadfast in his friendships, and intellectual pow- 
 ers that would have brought him to distinction 
 in anv situation." 
 
 HON. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS. A record 
 of the life of Judge Williams, former United 
 States senator and attorney general of the United 
 States, is in some respects a history of the rise 
 and progress of Oregon. It is now (1903) just 
 half a century since he first cast his lot with the 
 inhabitants of the then territory of Oregon ; and 
 by reason of his identification with the develop- 
 ment of its resources during the pioneer period 
 of the territory and the constructive era of the 
 state, and likewise through his intimate associa- 
 tion with its most vital public interests during 
 practically the entire history of its statehood, he 
 has for many years been regarded as one of its 
 foremost citizens, whose rich experience in the 
 affairs of the nation, on the bench, and before the 
 bar, entitle his opinions on questions of general 
 public interest to the highest consideration. 
 
 Judge Williams was born in Xew Lebanon, 
 Columbia county, X. Y., March 26, 1823, and re- 
 ceived an academic education at Pompcy, X*. Y., 
 whither his parents removed when he was a 
 child. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted 
 
 to the bar of Xew York. Immediately thereafter 
 he removed to Iowa, then a territory, and opened 
 an office at Fort Madison. At the first election 
 after the organization of the state government, 
 in 1847, he was elected judge of the first judicial 
 district of that state, serving five years. The im- 
 mediate cause of his identification with Oregon 
 was his appointment, in 1853, as chief justice of 
 this territory, an office to which he was reap- 
 pointed in 1857 by President Buchanan. lie be- 
 came a member of the constitutional convention 
 which drafted the first constitution for the state 
 of Oregon, and acted as chairman of the judiciary 
 committee of that body. In this capacity he 
 vigorously opposed the introduction of slavery 
 into this state, and before the instrument was pre- 
 sented to the voters made an active canvass in 
 behalf of the anti-slavery clause therein. In i860 
 he became one of the founders of the Union party, 
 and subsequently canvassed the country for Lin- 
 coln and aided with all the strength at his com- 
 mand in awakening sympathy for the Union 
 cause. His election as United States senator in 
 1864 took him to Washington at the most critical 
 period in the country's history, and it is a matter 
 of record that his services during that vital epoch 
 were in line with the policy which, in its consum- 
 mation, was productive of such splendid results. 
 In the senate he was a member of the committees 
 on finance and public lands, and also of the re- 
 construction committee. 
 
 Among the measures which he was instrumental 
 in bringing before the senate, and which became 
 laws, are the following: The Military Recon- 
 struction Act, under which the insurrectionary 
 states were reorganized and their representation 
 admitted to congress ; an act creating a new land 
 district in Oregon, with a land office at La 
 Grande ; an amendment to the act granting lands 
 to the state of Oregon for the construction of a 
 military road from Eugene to the eastern bound- 
 ary of the state, granting odd sections to supply 
 any deficiency in the original grant ; various acts 
 establishing post roads ; a general law to secure 
 the election of United States senators ; the "ten- 
 ure of office act," vetoed by President Johnson, 
 but passed over his veto ; numerous appropria- 
 tions for Oregon; an amendment to the act of 
 1861 relative to property lost in suppressing 
 Indian hostilities in Oregon ; an amendment 
 to the judiciary act of 1789; an amend- 
 ment to the act granting lands to aid in 
 the construction of a railroad from the Central 
 Pacific in California to Portland. Ore. ; an act 
 to pay two companies of ( )regon Volunteers com- 
 manded by Captains Walker and Olney ; an act 
 to strengthen the public credit ; an amendment 
 to the act granting lands to aid in the construction 
 of a railroad from the Central Pacific to Port- 
 land, by which the grant was prevented from re- 
 
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 ve'fting to the government; an act granting lands 
 to aid in the construction of a railroad and tele- 
 graph line from Portland to Astoria and Mc- 
 Minnville; a resolution to facilitate the building 
 of a light-house at Yaquina Ray, and other light- 
 houses on the Oregon coast ; an act granting cer- 
 tain lands to Blessington Rutledge, a citizen of 
 1 ,ane county ; a resolution to increase the pay of 
 assistant marshals in taking the census of 1870; 
 an act extending the benefits of the donation iaw 
 of 1850 to certain persons; and an act creating 
 ;i new land district in Washington, with a land 
 office at Walla Walla. 
 
 In 1871 Judge Williams was appointed one of 
 the joint high commissioners to frame a treaty 
 for the settlement of the Alabama claims and the 
 northwestern boundary, and other questions in 
 dispute between the United States and Great 
 Rritain. There is no question but his ability, 
 wisdom and tact secured a settlement of the 
 boundary question favorable to the contention of 
 the United States. It had been claimed that the 
 only solution of the difficulty was to refer the 
 matter to the Emperor of Germany ; but Judge 
 Williams refused to agree to this proposition 
 unless it were stipidated that the Emperor's de- 
 cision should be strictly in accord with the treaty 
 of 1846; that he should not decide dc novo, but 
 simply explicate the meaning of the convention 
 which had already decided the question. The 
 commission finally yielded to his views and thus 
 rendered possible the decision that gave to the 
 United States San Juan and other islands. It is 
 not generally known throughout the United 
 States that the part Judge Williams bore in the 
 solution of this question was such an important 
 one, but all who are familiar with the case accord 
 him the honor for his wise stand in the adjust- 
 ment of the problem. 
 
 In 1872, upon the invitation of President 
 Grant, Judge Williams became attorney general 
 of the United States ; and in this important cab- 
 inet post he proved himself a keen, resourceful 
 and logical adviser, and demonstrated the pos- 
 session of high qualities of statesmanship. His 
 record in the cabinet was an honor to the state 
 of Oregon as well as to himself. The people of 
 the northwest exhibited the keenest pride in his 
 capable service during an administration when it 
 was necessary to solve numerous perplexing 
 problems, and the generation which witnessed 
 the events of those days are wont to refer to it 
 with great satisfaction. Many important ques- 
 tions were brought before him, to all of which he 
 brought the same thoughtful attention so char- 
 acteristic of him in earlier years and in his own 
 private affairs. The sting left by the Civil war 
 in the south had not yet begun to heal, and a 
 great degree of tact was required daily of the 
 attorney general, to whom were brought for solu- 
 
 tion intricate questions arising from the conflict. 
 Subsequent events in the history of the republic 
 have demonstrated the fact that the policy he 
 pursued in these various matters was eminently 
 fair and sagacious, and in numerous instances he 
 was happy in being able, through his prudent 
 counsels, to restore peace to distracted communi- 
 ties. In 1874 Judge Williams' name was present- 
 ed to the senate by the president as successor to 
 Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase ; but so great an 
 opposition to his confirmation developed in the 
 east, among those who wished an eastern jurist 
 to succeed to the office, that, in the interests of 
 harmony, he withdrew his name, much to the re- 
 gret of President Grant, who was one of his 
 warm personal friends and admirers. 
 
 History has accorded to this distinguished 
 citizen the honor of having been the first to out- 
 line, through the medium of the Washington 
 Star, the policy ultimately adopted by congress 
 for the adjustment of the historic presidential 
 contest of 1876. The essential features of the 
 famous Electoral Commission Act under which 
 Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes was made president 
 were embodied in an article which he contributed 
 to the Star, and the credit for the plan outlined 
 and soon after adopted is conceded to belong to 
 him. 
 
 Since his retirement from public life Judge 
 Williams has made his home in Portland, among 
 whose citizens he holds an assured position of 
 eminence and influence. For many years de- 
 mands have been made upon him by his personal 
 friends and his party for his services in political 
 campaigns, and by the citizens of Portland, on 
 their numerous social gatherings. Not onlv is he 
 a strong speaker on public questions, clear, 
 powerful and convincing in his arguments, but to 
 a rare degree felicitous as a post-prandial orator. 
 In brief, he is a giant in intellect, totally devoid 
 of the arts of the politician, in the common ac- 
 ceptance of the term. His utterance on the sub- 
 ject of Christianity from the standpoint of the 
 historian, freed from the romance which attaches 
 to the life of the Saviour, commanded the atten- 
 tion and interest of thoughtful persons through- 
 out the country; and a valued contribution to 
 the best thought of the period on this subject is 
 found in his lecture on "The Divinity of Christ." 
 
 Judge Williams is now spending the twilight 
 of his life in the administration of the official af- 
 fairs of the municipality of Portland, having been 
 elected to the mayoralty in 1902. In the labor 
 which he has thus assumed in his advanced years 
 he is bringing to bear the same conscientious ef- 
 fort, the same honesty of purpose and highminded 
 views of the duties of a public servant, which 
 characterized his record while filling some of the 
 most responsible and onerous offices in national 
 affairs. He is giving to the city, through his ap- 
 
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 pointment of men of acknowledged integrity and 
 
 public spirit, a corps of executive and advisory 
 officials whose efforts in the direction of honest 
 ami unselfish labor in behalf of the public are be- 
 ing generally appreciated, and all indications now 
 point to an administration unequalled in the his- 
 tory oi the city for moral courage, political econ- 
 omy and breadth of view — a sight too rare in the 
 conduct of municipal affairs in these days when 
 corruption and vice are rampant throughout the 
 larger cities vi the land generally. 
 
 HENRY EVERDING. During the many 
 years of his residence in Portland Henry Ever- 
 ding has advanced with the people of his adopted 
 locality, and has entered with zest into the busi- 
 ness and social life by which he was surrounded. 
 
 ssessing the adaptiveness characteristic of his 
 Teutonic nationality, he has also applied the 
 thrift and conservatism so necessary to the suc- 
 cessful development of pioneer or growing con- 
 ditions. A citizen of this part of the west since 
 1864, he first started a grain, feed and produce 
 business in partnership with Edwin Beebe, under 
 the firm name of Everding & Beebe, his partner 
 having been similarly employed since 1862. This 
 modest beginning was located on the corner of 
 Front and Taylor streets, and after various 
 changes from one part of the city to the other 
 settled down to where Mr. Everding has been 
 conducting his affairs alone, ever since the death 
 of Mr. Beebe, twenty years ago. It is the oldest 
 commission house in Portland, and in the early 
 days had a much more extensive and far reach- 
 ing trade than at present, at that time shipping 
 grain and produce to California and the adjacent 
 states. 
 
 A native of Hanover, Germany, Mr. Everding 
 was born April 14, 1833, and comes of a family 
 distinguished in war and peace, and vitally con- 
 nected with commercial, agricultural and indus- 
 trial affairs. The father of Mr. Everding died 
 at a comparatively early age. and thereafter the 
 widow and children carried on the work of the 
 farm which he left to their care. Of the eight 
 children all came to the Pacific coast. John, 
 who came in 1853, is now a resident of San 
 Francisco ; Charles, Fred and Richard came over 
 in 1854 ; the two first mentioned died in Califor- 
 nia, while Richard is living in Portland ; Henry 
 and his mother came in 1855. There were three 
 daughters in the family, one of whom is deceased, 
 while the others reside in California and Portland 
 respectively. Henry was six weeks out from 
 Bremen on a sailer, and after landing in New 
 Orleans took a three weeks' trip up the Missis- 
 sippi and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati, where he 
 worked in a starch factory for six months. For 
 a few months following he clerked in different 
 
 stores, and while learning the language and 
 familiarizing himself with the customs of the 
 country, managed, by thrift and economy, to save 
 a little money. 
 
 In April, 1855, Mr. Everding went to New 
 York and embarked for Aspinwall, and from 
 Panama sailed on the John L. Stevens for San 
 Francisco, which craft contained fourteen hun- 
 dred passengers. When thirty-six hours out 
 the boat came upon the wreck of the ill-fated 
 Golden Age, a large number of whose passengers 
 were taken aboard the Stevens and returned to 
 Panama. No interruption marred the progress 
 of the second sailing, and the hopeful little band 
 arrived in San Francisco in May, 1855. Here 
 Mr. Everding was fortunate in finding work in 
 the starch factory of his brother, John, who had 
 started the first enterprise of the kind in the 
 city. Later Mr. Everding and his brother Fred- 
 erick stocked and ran a ranch in Contra Costa 
 county, the management of which fell to Fred- 
 erick, while Henry turned his attention to the 
 starch factory. As before stated, he came to 
 Portland in 1864, and inaugurated the large 
 grain, feed and produce business with which his 
 name has since been connected. 
 
 Since coming to Portland Mr. Everding has 
 been united in marriage with Theresa Harding, 
 a native of Prussia, Germany. Mr. Everding is 
 essentially social, as are the most of his country- 
 men, and is identified with Willamette Lodge No. 
 2, A. F. & A. M. ; Oregon Commandery No. 1, 
 of which he is a charter member, having been 
 transferred from the Knights Templar Comman- 
 dery No. 1, of San Francisco. He is also con- 
 nected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows of Portland. Mr. Everding is one of the 
 substantial and highly honored pioneers and cit- 
 izens and has been among the most helpful and 
 representative of the countrymen who have set- 
 tled in this city. 
 
 COL. JAMES JACKSON, U. S. A. A mil- 
 itary career of more than ordinary distinction is 
 that of Col. James Jackson, a lieutenant-colonel 
 of the United States Army, retired, and colonel 
 and inspector-general of the state of Oregon, on 
 the Governor's staff. His services during the 
 civil and Indian wars entitle him to a conspicu- 
 ous place in the military history of the United 
 States. 
 
 Colonel Jackson was born in Sussex county, 
 N. J., November 21, 1833. His father, Timothy 
 Jackson, was an ordained minister of the Bap- 
 tist Church, and filled pulpits in different parts 
 of New Jersey and Ohio. His mother, Mary A. 
 Jackson, was the daughter of Rev. Morgan Ap 
 John Rhees (Welsh Rhys) and Ann Loxlev. 
 Dr. Rhees was a Baptist minister and brought 
 
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 a colony of Welsh dissenters to America, estab- 
 lishing them at Beulah, Pa. This colony not 
 proving a financial success, he removed to Phila- 
 delphia, where lie married Ann Loxley, a daugh- 
 ter of Benjamin Loxley, who at the breaking out 
 of the Revolution was keeper of the King's 
 stores in Philadelphia, but resigned this office 
 to join the colonial forces, in which he held com- 
 missions from lieutenant to major, and was a 
 volunteer aid, with rank of colonel, on Wash- 
 ington's staff at Valley Forge. Colonel Jack- 
 son's father died in 1843, and his mother soon 
 after returned with her children to Philadelphia, 
 where Colonel Jackson received his education in 
 the public schools, graduating from the high 
 school in 1850. He then studied architecture, 
 located in Charles City, Iowa, in 1855, and was 
 living there when the Civil war came on. He 
 determined to volunteer for the suppression of 
 the Rebellion, and after closing up his business 
 joined the Twelfth United States Infantry, was 
 on recruiting duty for some months, and then 
 went into the field in Virginia, in August, 1862, 
 as a sergeant of Company C, Twelfth United 
 States Infantry. In April, 1863, he was pro- 
 moted a second lieutenant in this regiment and 
 participated in the battles of Second Bull Run, 
 Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Get- 
 tysburg, Spottsylvania, the various battles in the 
 Wilderness, and the siege of Petersburg, until 
 November, 1864, when the regular brigade, be- 
 ing badly depleted, was withdrawn from the field 
 and sent north to recruit its strength. 
 
 In the reorganization of the army, after the 
 war, he was assigned to the Thirtieth Infantry 
 and accompanied the regiment to the plains in 
 January, 1867, where he was engaged in guard- 
 ing the construction of the transcontinental rail- 
 road and scouting in the Indian country. He 
 was promoted a captain in 1868, and January 1, 
 1870, was transferred to the cavalry arm of the 
 service as captain of Troop B, First Cavalry. As 
 commander of this troop he took part in the 
 Modoc war, the Nez Perce war and the Bannock- 
 war. He was, at different times, stationed at 
 Camp Warner and Fort Klamath in Oregon ; 
 Fort Walla Walla, Fort Colville and Fort Coeur 
 d'Alene in Washington; and Forts Keogh and 
 Custer in Montana. In 1886 he was placed on 
 recruiting service in New York City, and after 
 the termination of this tour of duty was detailed 
 as inspector-general of the Division of the At- 
 lantic. In 1889 he was promoted major of the 
 Second Cavalry, joining the headquarters of this 
 regiment at Fort Walla Walla and going with 
 it to Fort Lowell, Ariz., in 1890. This post being- 
 abandoned, he took station at Fort Wingate, N. 
 Mex., and while serving there was detailed for 
 duty with the Oregon National Guard, reporting 
 
 to the governor of the state in June, 1892, and 
 taking up his residence in Portland. At the 
 solicitation of the state military officers he was 
 continued on this duty until his retirement from 
 active service November 7, 1897, a few months 
 previous to which he was promoted a lieutenant 
 colonel and assigned to the First Cavalry. 
 
 For special gallantry in action at the battles 
 of Weldon Railroad and North Anna, during the 
 Civil war, Colonel Jackson was brevetted a cap- 
 tain and major, and for gallant services in the 
 Modoc and Nez Perce wars he was brevetted a 
 lieutenant colonel. For " most distinguished gal- 
 lantry in action against hostile Indians " he was 
 awarded a medal of honor by congress. 
 
 Soon after the beginning of the Spanish -Amer- 
 ican war, in April, 1898, Colonel Jackson was 
 appointed, by Governor Lord, inspector-general 
 of the state of Oregon with the rank of colonel, 
 and assisted in organizing the Second Oregon 
 Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which, shortly after 
 its organization, reported for duty in San Fran- 
 cisco, and was one of the first regiments sent to the 
 Philippines. He has held the office of inspector- 
 general ever since, having been reappointed by 
 Governor Geer, and annually inspects each or- 
 ganization of the National Guard in the state. 
 
 Colonel Jackson, by virtue of his descent from 
 Colonel Benjamin Loxley, is a member of the 
 Sons of the American Revolution, and, through 
 his services in the Civil war, a member of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
 States — has been commander of the Oregon 
 Commandery of this order — and the Grand Army 
 of the Republic (Lincoln-Garfield Post), in 
 which he has held the offices of department in- 
 spector and of aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen- 
 erals Warner and Lawler, Commanders-in-Chief 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a 
 member of the New York Club, the Army and 
 Navy Club of New York City, and the Commer- 
 cial Club of Portland, being at present vice-presi- 
 dent of the latter club. 
 
 Colonel Jackson has two children by his mar- 
 riage with Miss Ida Beach of Oakland, Cal. : a 
 son, Rliees Jackson, and a daughter, Marion 
 Beach Jackson. Rhees Jackson served in the 
 Second Oregon Volunteers in the Philippines as 
 first-lieutenant and battalion adjutant, and was 
 recommended by its commander, Gen. Owen 
 Summers, on account of gallant and efficient ser- 
 vice, for a commission in the regular army ; he 
 was appointed by the President second-lieutenant 
 in the Twelfth United States Infantry August 1, 
 1899, an< -l is now a first-lieutenant in that regi- 
 ment. Colonel Jackson's daughter is living with 
 her father at his home on Willamette Heights 
 in Portland. The present Mrs. Jackson was 
 Miss Ella Greene, of Davisville, Cal. 
 
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 HAR\ EY W. SCOTT, president of the Lewis 
 and Clark Exposition Company, is. of the type 
 of men that have transformed the Pacific north- 
 west from a wilderness. With his own hands 
 he lias cleared away the forest trees to make 
 room for the simple home of the pioneers, with 
 its mica windows and puncheon floors; he has 
 split the rails for the fence built around the family 
 homestead ; in going to and returning from school 
 he has followed the only paths through the 
 woods- die trails beaten down by wild animals 
 and Indians: he has shouldered rifle and 
 gone forth in defense of the white man's right 
 to occupy the country; he has seen the ox-team 
 oi the plainsmen pass away and the steamboat 
 and the railroad take its place as the means of 
 transport : he has seen the activities of the peo- 
 ple rise from a small and uncertain traffic with 
 the Hawaiian Islands to a world-wide commerce. 
 I'he remotest corner in Africa is better known 
 to Americans today than Oregon was to them 
 when Mr. Scott made it his home. In Mr. Scott 
 the past and the present are indissolubly linked. 
 In him the hardy spirits that followed the foot- 
 steps of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific ocean 
 join hands with those who have taken up the 
 wand of civilization and progress where the pio- 
 neer laid it down. The trails of half a century 
 ago have become the railroad of today ; the bat- 
 eau of the trader has gone and in its place has 
 come the ocean carrier ; warships anchor where 
 Indian dugouts lolled in the '50s; the old settler 
 is passing and the new order is here. Mr. Scott 
 is in even- way the most eminent representative 
 of the old and the new and it was fitting that he 
 should be chosen to head the undertaking for the 
 celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of 
 the exploration of the Oregon countrv by Lewis 
 and Clark. 
 
 Mr. Scott was born in Tazewell county, 111., 
 near Peoria. February 1, 1838. His father, John 
 Tucker Scott, was a farmer, and his son, Harvey 
 W., was reared to the same calling. In the 
 winter he attended district school, but his early 
 educational facilities were limited. In those 
 days. Illinois was in the wild west, and claimed 
 a population of about one-tenth of what it num- 
 bers today and its facilities for education were 
 crude indeed. In 1852 John T. Scott crossed the 
 plains to Oregon, first settling in Yamhill countv. 
 where after one year's residence the family lo- 
 cated in Mason county. Wash., on Puget sound. 
 Here Harvey W. Scott did his share of the ar- 
 duous work of clearing up a farm. When the 
 great Indian wars, which had for their purpose 
 the extermination of the white settlements, broke 
 out. he enlisted as a private in the volunteer armv 
 organized by the settlers and served one vear. 
 In 1857 he walked from the farm to Forest 
 Grove, Ore., a distance of over one hundred and 
 fifty miles, and entered school, continuing: at his 
 
 studies four months. A little later his father re- 
 moved from Washington to Oregon, locating in 
 Clackamas county, twenty miles south of ( Iregon 
 City. To this farm the young man went at the 
 close of his short term in school. 
 
 He who can buy land cleared and ready for 
 the plow in these modern days cannot realize 
 what homemaking was in ( )regon fifty years ago. 
 There were giant trees to fell, rails to be split, 
 and cattle to be cared for. Pioneers in those days 
 did not while away much of their time as some 
 farmers are wont to do now. Fvery moment 
 was precious. Mr. Scott remained on' the farm 
 until he was twenty-one years old. doing his full 
 share of the work. In the summer of 1859 ' :c 
 branched out for himself and taught school." His 
 father now removed to a farm three miles west 
 of Forest Grove and the son again took up farm 
 work, devoting part of his time to a saw mill 
 which his father operated. 
 
 Mr. Scott was now resolved to obtain an edu- 
 cation and applied himself to the studies which 
 he had begun in 1857. No young man in this 
 generation or any other generation in Oregon 
 has persevered so hard for the essential equip- 
 ment of life or achieved so signal a triumph as 
 has Mr. Scott. In 1859-60-61-62-63 he worked 
 on neighboring farms and saw mills, earning 
 money to pay his way through school. He would 
 shoulder an axe and work at clearing for a while 
 and with the money thus earned would go to 
 school. When this slender fund was exhausted 
 by tuition fees he would find new work to en- 
 able him to resume his studies. This he kept 
 up until 1863, when he received his diploma as 
 the first graduate from Pacific University. 
 
 After leaving his school Mr. Scott went to 
 the placer mines in Boise Basin, Idaho, where he 
 spent a year. In 1864 he returned to Portland 
 and for a year studied law in the office of E. D. 
 Shattuck, who had been a member of the consti- 
 tutional convention, and in the Rebellion period 
 a leader in Oregon among the Union forces in 
 politics. Mr. Scott was reading law and serving 
 as librarian of the Portland Library when, in 
 1865. he was offered the position as editorial 
 writer on the Oregonian. He accepted, continu- 
 ing as an employe until 1877, when he purchased 
 an interest in the paper which he still owns. 
 
 In the editorial management of the Orcgnnian 
 Mr. Scott has alwavs fought for the right, know- 
 ing that time would justify his course. In the 
 Civil war period, when there was a strong 
 Southern sentiment in ( )regon. he was a stead- 
 fast friend of the I_ nion, and gave his loval sup- 
 port to all administration policies aimed to es- 
 tablish the nation upon a firm and enduring basis. 
 Fie neither favored nor countenanced half way 
 measures or compromises that left open the vital 
 point to trouble a future ircneration. He has 
 always been for meeting the main issue fairlv and 
 
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 TORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFXORD. 
 
 squarely ami settling it once and for all. Time 
 and again he has taken a firm stand for the en- 
 forcement of law, the preservation of order, and 
 the observance of the nation's treaties with other 
 countries. Perhaps the greatest achievement of 
 his life was the signal victory for sound money 
 in the national campaign of 1896. Sound money 
 with Mr. Scott meant the gold standard, without 
 equivocation, not sixteen to one, nor thirty-two 
 to one, nor international bimetallism, nor coinage 
 of the seignorage, nor "do something for silver." 
 He knew the evil that lurked in a base currency 
 and fought it with all his power and resource. 
 For two years before McKinley and Bryan had 
 been nominated, nearly every daily newspaper 
 west of the Mississippi river, Republican as well 
 as Democratic, was trimming with the silverites, 
 if not openly espousing sixteen to one. On the 
 Pacific coast, the Oregonian, among the leading 
 dailies, stood alone in its advocacy of gold. The 
 Oregonian lost both business and subscribers for 
 the stand it had taken on the money question, 
 but Mr. Scott never turned back, never wavered 
 in his purpose. The issue was not new to him, 
 for he had made the same fight for the sound 
 dollar vears before, in the days of the Hayes ad- 
 ministration. The result was in the nature of a 
 personal victory for Mr. Scott, for Oregon was 
 the only state west of the Rockv mountains that 
 gave its full electoral vote to McKinley. 
 
 In journalism, Mr. Scott belongs to the school 
 of the elder Bennett, Charles A. Dana, Medill 
 and Watterson — editors who took the right stand 
 on great questions regardless of the public clamor 
 or the consequence to their own interests. The 
 esteem in which he is held by the newspaper men 
 of the United States is evidenced by the fact that 
 he is a director of the Associated Press, the 
 world's foremost collector of news. In 1900 he 
 presided over the meeting for reorganization of 
 the association in New York. 
 
 The Lewis and Clark Exposition received its 
 impetus from a resolution adopted by the Oregon 
 Historical Society in December, 1900, favoring a 
 celebration and fair in honor of the one hun- 
 dredth anniversary of the exploration of the 
 Oregon country by Captains Lewis and Clark. 
 Mr. Scott was then president of the society. He 
 gave the enterprise his cordial support after he 
 had cautioned the people of Portland to weigh 
 carefully the responsibility they were about to 
 assume, and they had given heed to his advice 
 in the preliminary steps. The Oregonian Pub- 
 lishing Company at once became one of the 
 largest stockholders of the Exposition corpora- 
 tion. Mr. Scott was elected on the board of 
 directors and was chosen first vice president. 
 Upon the death of H. W. Corbett, in March, 
 1903, Mr. Scott assumed the duties of president 
 and was elected to that office by the board of 
 directors on July 24, 1903. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Scott was married to Miss Eliza- 
 beth Nicklin, who died in 1875, leaving two 
 children. In 1877 he was married to Miss Mar- 
 garet McChesney, of Pennsylvania. Three 
 children have been born of this union. 
 
 Politically Mr. Scott is a stanch Republican. 
 He has fought all the battles of his party in 
 Oregon for nearly forty years, and was actively 
 identified with its fortunes in the few years fol- 
 lowing his arrival at the voting age and pre- 
 ceding his service with the Oregonian. Indeed, 
 Mr. Scott is entitled to the full measure of credit 
 for making Oregon a Republican state. For 
 nearly twenty years following the admission of 
 the state, the Democrats had a strong footing in 
 Oregon. Their last great victories were in 1876 
 and 1878, when they won all the important 
 offices, including both the United States senators. 
 Since 1880 the Republicans have been successful, 
 with the exception of the loss of the governor in 
 1886, 1890 and 1902, and the state treasurer in 
 1886. For several years past there has been a 
 strong desire on the part of the rank and file of 
 the Republican party to honor Mr. Scott with 
 a seat in the United States senate as a suitable 
 recognition of his distinguished services to his 
 party and his state. Mr. Scott is disinclined to 
 accept political office, preferring to continue at 
 the post of editor of the Oregonian which he has 
 filled for so many years. However, at the urgent 
 solicitation of friends, he permitted his name to 
 be presented to the legislative assembly of 1903 
 for United States senator. The legislature had 
 been deadlocked all session on the senatorship 
 and Mr. Scott was placed in nomination an hour 
 before final adjournment as a compromise candi- 
 date who might be acceptable to the several fac- 
 tions into which the Republican majority of the 
 legislature was divided. He received the votes 
 of twenty-nine members, but C. W. Fulton, who 
 had led throughout the session, was chosen. 
 
 The Corvallis Times, a Democratic newspaper, 
 paid Mr. Scott the following tribute in its issue 
 of March 9, 1903. following the adjournment of 
 the legislature : "For forty years his great ability 
 has been spent in the promotion of Republican- 
 ism, and in converting disciples to its faith. He 
 has not only given the best years of his life to 
 his party, but he has, in addition, laid at its feet 
 a great newspaper with which its battles have 
 been fought and its victories won. It is a fact 
 so patent as to be beyond cavil, that to the work 
 of Mr. Scott and his Oregonian is due the fact 
 that within twenty-five years, Oregon has been 
 transformed from a Democratic into a sure Re- 
 publican state. The character that he has 
 stamped on that newspaper has been such that 
 it has exerted a commanding influence that has 
 been effective in drawing recruits to the Re- 
 publican partv. Tt is unquestionably true that if. 
 through all these vears, Mr. Scott ' had been 
 
P( )R fRAIT AND BI( (GRAPHICAL REC( >RD. 
 
 elected to conduct his newspaper in the interest 
 of Democracy, die Republicans in the state would 
 be in the minority, and that in the places of many 
 of those Republican members who repudiated 
 him for senator, there would have been Demo- 
 crats, It is wholly and practically probable that 
 but for the implements of war that Mr. Scott 
 has constantly kept in the hands of the Republi- 
 cans ot" Oregon, the senator elected by the late 
 ioim assembly would 'nave been, not a Republi- 
 can, hut a 1 Jemocrat. 
 
 "Indeed, whatever of prestige the Republican 
 party has in the state, whatever of preferment its 
 partisans enjoy. Mr. Scott and his paper gave 
 them. Whatever loaves they have divided, his 
 toil and talents supplied. It ever there was a 
 condition in which a party organization from 
 sheer gratitude was indebted to an individual, 
 it is manifestly, signally and unquestionably true 
 in the case of Mr. Scott. His brain, his capital, 
 the influence of his paper, his life-work until he 
 has reached that period in his career where re- 
 ward is already long overdue — all these have 
 been uncomplainingly and constantly laid at the 
 feet of Republicanism in Oregon. A reasonable 
 regard for the service he has rendered his party 
 in the state should, when his name was presented 
 as a candidate at Salem, have dictated his elec- 
 tion bv an enthusiastic and unanimous vote." 
 
 WILLIAM SARGENT LADD. In tracing 
 the genealogy of the Ladd family it is found that 
 their earliest recorded history is connected with 
 the counties of Kent and Sussex in England. 
 P.efore the days of Henry VI they owned and 
 occupied as their manor house the estate of 
 Bowyck in the parish of Eleham. Thomas Ladd, 
 the then owner of Bowyck manor, died in 151 5, 
 and his grandson Vincent, a later owner of the 
 estate, died in 1563. In 1601 the manor passed 
 through marriage into the Nethersole family. 
 In 1730 John Ladd. a direct descendant of 
 \ incent Ladd. was created a baronet by 
 George II, but the baronetcy became extinct 
 a generation later. The first representa- 
 tives of the family in America were Daniel 
 and John Ladd. The former, however, was 
 the first to land here, arriving in New Eng- 
 land in 1623. The latter established his home 
 in New Jersey in 1678. with a company of mem- 
 bers of the Society of Friends. It is said that he 
 was employed in laying out the city of Philadel- 
 phia ; beyond doubt he was a surveyor of abil- 
 ity and employed in many important enterprises 
 connected with his occupation. During 1688 he 
 took up six thousand acres in Gloucester county, 
 where at the time of his death he was an influen- 
 tial citizen and large land owner. 
 
 Representative of a family so intimately iden- 
 
 tified with early American history was Dr. Na- 
 thaniel Gould Ladd, who was born July 13, 1798, 
 and, notwithstanding hardships, obstacles and re- 
 verses, rose from a humble position to promi- 
 nence as a physician. His wife was Abigail Kel- 
 Icy Mead, who was born in New Hampshire 
 August 7, 1806. In 1830 the family moved to 
 Meredith, N. II., and three years later settled 
 in a village now known as Tilton (then Sanborn- 
 ton Bridge). During the previous residence of 
 the family in Holland, Vt., a son was born Oc- 
 tober 10, 1826, to whom the name of William 
 Sargent was given. Being one of ten children, 
 whose parents had only limited means, he had 
 few advantages in boyhood ; indeed, it may be 
 said that he had no opportunities for advance- 
 ment except such as he made for himself. Al- 
 ways ambitious, with the love of study charac- 
 teristic of the true scholar, diligent in his appli- 
 cation to text books, and quick to acquire knowl- 
 edge, he soon gained a valuable fund of knowl- 
 edge. Though the schools of those days were 
 crude in comparison with the educational insti- 
 tutions of the present day, his determination and 
 energy surmounted obstacles. Whether in the 
 schoolroom, on the farm or in his home, he was 
 a constant student, and, indeed, throughout all 
 of his life he continued to be fond of reading 
 and study, as eager to grasp new thoughts when 
 advanced in years as when a boy at home. Early 
 experiences in breaking and tilling a New Eng- 
 land farm, followed by acquiring the mastery of 
 rebellious pupils in a rough district school, de- 
 veloped in him traits of self-reliance and firm- 
 ness of purpose that had no little to do with 
 his subsequent success. 
 
 Following his experience as a teacher Mr. 
 Ladd engaged in railroading, securing employ- 
 ment in a freight house on the line of the Boston, 
 Concord & Montreal Railroad, and later holding- 
 other positions in the same occupation. While 
 thus engaged he met Daniel Webster, who re- 
 marked to him, in the course of their conversa- 
 tion, "There is always room at the top." Tin- 
 young man, feeling that the top might be reached 
 with- less difficulty in a newer country than his 
 home state, began to plan for the future. The 
 gold fever of 1849 did not fascinate him nor did 
 he fall a victim to its alluring prospects, but he 
 did begin to contemplate the opportunities offered 
 bv Oregon's vast farm lands. Deciding to seek 
 a home in the far west he set sail on the Prome- 
 theus from New York, February 27, 1851. and 
 crossed the isthmus, thence sailed north to San 
 Francisco and from there to Portland. With him 
 lie brought a few articles of merchandise and 
 these he began to sell, business being conducted 
 on an extremely small scale. Hard work, how- 
 ever, will win when the environment is favorable, 
 and so it proved with him. Four o'clock in the 
 
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 morning found him ready for business, and 
 throughout all the day he was busy, energetic, 
 hopeful and sanguine. 
 
 A change came in his affairs during 1852, when 
 the firm of Ladd & Tilton formed a partnership, 
 continuing the same until the spring of 1855. 
 Meantime, in 1854, Wesley Ladd came to Port- 
 land, bringing with him Caroline Ames Elliott, 
 the fiancee of William S. Ladd. They were mar- 
 ried in San Francisco, October 17, 1854, and their 
 union proved one of mutual helpfulness and hap- 
 piness. Indeed, in later years Mr. Ladd ascribed 
 much of his success to the optimistic spirit, patient 
 devotion and cheerful comradeship of his wife. 
 They became the parents of seven children, five 
 of whom attained mature years, namely : Wil- 
 liam M., who was born September 16, 1855. 
 received a classical education in Amherst College, 
 and is now a member of the banking house of 
 Ladd & Tilton, of Portland ; Charles Elliott, who 
 was born August 5, 1857, and is also connected 
 with the bank founded by his father ; Helen 
 Kendall, who was born on the 4th of July, 1859; 
 Caroline Ames, born September 3, 1861, now the 
 wife of Frederic Bailey Pratt, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 
 and John Wesley, born January 3, 1870, now con- 
 nected with Ladd & Tilton. 
 
 No step in the business experience of Mr. Ladd 
 was more important than his identification with 
 the founding of the banking business which is 
 still conducted under the original title of Ladd & 
 Tilton. Opened for business in April of 1859 
 with a very small capital, the institution enjoyed 
 a steady growth from the first. Two years after 
 its organization the capital was increased to 
 $150,000, and not long afterward was further in- 
 creased to $1,000,000. When the partnership 
 was dissolved in 1880 the bills receivable 
 amounted to almost $2,500,000, but so conserva- 
 tive had been the management of the bank and 
 so sagacious its officers that, in 1888, less than 
 $1,300 of this large sum was outstanding. While 
 the building up of this important banking busi- 
 ness occupied much of Mr. Ladd's time and 
 thought for years, his activity was by no means 
 limited thereto. Instead, we find him partici- 
 pating in many enterprises of public value or 
 private utility. As a financier he stood foremost. 
 Throughout the entire northwest his opinion was 
 regarded as final in matters pertaining to local 
 banking and financial interests. The utmost con- 
 fidence was reposed in his judgment, not only 
 by the great middle class, but also by those men 
 who like himself were captains of industry and 
 leaders in finance and commerce. 
 
 From an early period of his residence in Ore- 
 gon he was interested in farm lands, a frequent 
 purchaser of unimproved property and instru- 
 mental in the development of the agricultural 
 resources of the state. Besides owning three 
 
 farms of his own, he was, with S. G. Reed, the 
 owner of five others. Among his possessions was 
 an estate of four hundred acres near Portland, 
 which was a model farm in every respect. The 
 raising of thoroughbred stock also engaged his 
 attention, and he devoted considerable attention 
 to Clydesdale and Cleveland bay horses, Short- 
 horn cattle, Berkshire hogs and Cotswold and 
 Leicester sheep. Another enterprise in which he 
 was once interested and which has become an 
 establishment of great magnitude was the Oregon 
 Furniture Manufacturing Company, which he 
 organized in April of 1874. During 1883 he be- 
 came interested in milling, which was then a 
 comparative!}' new industry in the northwest. 
 Through his wise oversight the occupation was 
 put on a firm basis. At the time of his death 
 he owned three-fourths of the entire flouring-mill 
 interests of this part of the country. In 1888 
 he organized the Portland Cordage Company, 
 which is still one of the leading concerns of its 
 kind in this city. In the organization of what 
 is now the Oregon Iron & Steel Company at 
 Oswego he was a prime mover and he also acted 
 as a director of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation 
 Company. His interests in Portland realty were 
 large and of a value constantly increasing. The 
 first brick building in the city was erected by him, 
 and in later years he was one of the principal 
 factors in the improvement of vacant property. 
 The movement which had its climax in the erec- 
 tion of a magnificent hotel, one of the finest in the 
 west, had in him a stanch supporter. He was 
 also interested in the Portland Water Company 
 and in numerous other concerns organized to aid 
 in the development and progress of the city. 
 
 In early life Mr. Ladd supported Democratic 
 principles and during 1861-65 allied himself with 
 the "War" Democrats. Subsequently he refused 
 to ally himself with any political organization, 
 although during his last years he uniformly 
 voted for the presidential candidates of the Re- 
 publican party. At one time, through the soli- 
 citation of friends, he consented to act as mayor 
 of Portland, but other official honors he firmly 
 declined, preferring to concentrate his attention 
 upon matters of finance and commerce rather 
 than enter the arena of public life. In his various 
 enterprises he gave employment to many men, 
 and it was always noticeable that by all he was 
 not only respected but deeply loved. In him the 
 workingman always had a stanch friend, and, 
 while he was easily the master of his employes, yet 
 his consideration for them was so great that they 
 always regarded him as a personal friend. 
 
 As indicative of the religious spirit which im- 
 pelled Mr. Ladd in all his actions, it may be 
 stated that from early life it was his custom to 
 set aside one-tenth of his income for charitable 
 and philanthropic purposes, and no destitute fam- 
 
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 ily, it worthy, ever sought help from him in vain. 
 Quick to detect and denounce deception and 
 hypocrisy, he was equally alert in aiding the 
 honest and unfortunate. It is probable tbat no 
 movement for the city's benefit was ever inaug- 
 urated where his name did not appear among 
 those oi contributors. When the people began 
 to agitate the Founding of a library, his contri- 
 bution was the first made and was sufficiently 
 large to place the fund on a safe basis. In 
 making the gift, the only stipulation made was 
 that the library be kept out of politics. This, 
 however, by no means represented the limit of 
 his assistance to the library. For twenty-four 
 years the banking house of Ladd & Tilton gave 
 the Library Association, rent free, the second 
 floor of their bank building, on the corner of 
 First and Stark streets, which represented a gift 
 of many thousand dollars. Indeed, the library 
 remained in these quarters until the handsome 
 new building was ready for occupancy. 
 
 Tlie chair of practical theology in the Pres- 
 byterian Theological Seminary of San Francisco 
 was in 1 886 the recipient of $50,000 from Mr. 
 Ladd, and he also gave several scholarships to 
 Willamette University. Though reared in the 
 Methodist faith, in 1873 he became a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, to which he afterward 
 gave his support and allegiance, although remain- 
 ing to the end a generous contributor to religious 
 movements of the various creeds. With the co- 
 operation of Messrs. Corbett and Failing, he 
 donated to the city what is now known as the 
 Riverview cemetery, several miles south of Port- 
 land on the Willamette river. At one time, during 
 his travels, he saw at Bangor, Me., a homestead 
 that he admired, and a counterpart of this was 
 built by him in Portland, and in 1878 enlarged 
 and improved. In this home his earth life ended 
 January 6, 1893. when he was sixty-six years of 
 age. The demise of a man so intimately associ- 
 ated with the city's development called forth tri- 
 butes of affection and esteem from people of all 
 classes ; the bankers recognized in his death a loss 
 to their fraternity ; business men united in 
 deploring the loss ; the poor, so often, the recipi- 
 ents of his kindness, the pioneers, side by side 
 with whom he had lived and labored so'manv 
 years, and the organizations to which he had 
 given generous assistance, recognized that with 
 his passing away one of Portland's greatest men 
 was gone. In the years that have since elapsed 
 his influence has been apparent in matters con- 
 nected with the city's growth. His commanding 
 personality, as pioneer, banker and Christian 
 philanthropist still wields an influence among the 
 citizens of today, and in the annals of the city 
 of Portland and the state of Oregon his name is 
 forever enshrined. 
 
 SENATOR JOHN II. MITCHELL. For 
 
 forty-three years the subject of this review has 
 been one of the most prominent figures in Un- 
 political history of the Pacific northwest. Be- 
 coming a citizen of the state soon after it was 
 invested with the sovereign dignity of statehood. 
 he at once became an active man in the political 
 arena, and so rapid was the growth of his in- 
 fluence that within six years from the time of 
 his arrival he had served a term in the state 
 senate, establishing a record that was the ad- 
 miration of all Oregon. So popular did he be- 
 come that he was the choice of a large part of 
 his party for the highest office the state had to 
 give. This honor that his party friends thus 
 early in his career wished to bestow upon him, 
 was deferred but a few years when, September 
 28, 1872, he was elected" to the United States 
 senate, a position which, with two vacations, one 
 of six, another of four years, he has held up to the 
 present time. His career in this, the highest leg- 
 islative body in the United States, is too well 
 known to comment upon. Suffice to sav he has 
 been no disappointment to his party and among 
 his brother senators he is highly respected and 
 honored as a man of more than ordinary ability. 
 The Pacific northwest owe to him a debt of grati- 
 tude that will never be paid, as through him this 
 country has been ably represented and it is a fact 
 that there is no man in the state so capable of 
 carrying on the business and looking after the 
 interests of Oregon as he. A hard worker, he 
 is at all times working for Oregon. During the 
 winter of 1902-03 this hard work showed its re- 
 sult, as for a time he was a sick man, and the 
 people of Oregon showed the interest they had 
 in him by the numerous inquiries that were 
 made. For a couple of weeks it was the main 
 subject of conversation, but owing to a rugged 
 constitution he was able to ward off the disease 
 and take up the work of the office before the 
 close of the session. When the word was flashed 
 over the wires that he was once more at his 
 desk a sigh of relief went up from all Oregon. 
 
 The following biographical sketch of the 
 career of Senator Mitchell we copy from the 
 History of Portland edited by H. W. Scott : 
 
 " He was born in Washington county, Pa., on 
 the 22d day of June, 1835. During his infancy 
 his parents moved to Butler county, the same 
 state, where he was reared on a farm and where 
 he acquired the rudiments of an English educa- 
 tion at the district school. At the age of seven- 
 teen he began teaching in a country school and 
 after spending several winters in this way real- 
 ized sufficient money to pay his tuition at Butler 
 Academy, in Butler county, and subsequentlv at 
 Witherspoon Institute. After completing the 
 full course at both of these institutions he com- 
 menced the study of law in the office of Hon. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Samuel A. Purviance, formerly member of con- 
 gress from that district, and later attorney-gen- 
 eral (if the state under Governor Curtin. After 
 two years of study he was admitted to the bar 
 in 1 Sutler county by Hon. Daniel Agnew, lately 
 chief justice of' the supreme court of the state 
 of Pennsylvania, and then presiding judge of 
 that district in the spring of 1857. He then 
 began the practice of his profession at Butler, 
 in partnership with Hon. John M. Thompson, 
 since a member of the National House of Rep- 
 resentatives from that district, and was thus en- 
 gaged until he came to California in April, i860. 
 For a short time thereafter he practiced law at 
 San Luis Obispo, and later for a brief time in 
 San Francisco. The fame of Oregon as a young 
 and growing commonwealth had in the mean- 
 time attracted his attention, and he determined 
 to link his fortunes with the new state. With 
 this end in view he arrived in Portland, July 4, 
 i860, where he has since resided. 
 
 " With that same energy which has been so 
 conspicuous in his career, he not only at once 
 mined his attention to building up a legal prac- 
 tice, but took an active part in local politics. So 
 quickly did he make his influence felt that in 
 186 1 lie was elected corporation counsel of Port- 
 land. The succeeding year he was nominated 
 and elected by the Republican party to the Ore- 
 gon state senate, in which body he served for 
 four years. During the first two years of his 
 term he was chairman of the judiciary commit- 
 tee, and the last two years he held the position 
 of president of the senate. At the close of 
 his senatorial term every mark of approval from 
 his immediate constituents was accorded him, 
 and in 1866 strenuous efforts were made by his 
 political friends to secure him a seat in the 
 United States senate. They only failed to elevate 
 him to this exalted position through the lack of 
 one vote in the caucus, his competitor for the 
 die nomination being Governor Gibbs, who re- 
 ceived twenty-one votes and Mr. Mitchell 
 twenty. In 1865 he was commissioned lieuten- 
 ant colonel of the state militia by Governor 
 Gibbs, and two years later was chosen professor 
 of medical jurisprudence in Willamette Univer- 
 sity at Salem, Ore., and served in that position 
 for nearly four years. During all this time he 
 was engaged in the active practice of his profes- 
 sion in Portland. In October, 1862, he formed 
 a law partnership with Hon. J. N. Dolph, later 
 his colleague in the United States senate, which 
 continued until January, 1873, when he resigned 
 all other engagements to enter upon his duties 
 as United States senator. During this period 
 he had acquired a reputation as a lawyer second 
 to none in the state of Oregon and was constant- 
 ly employed in important litigation. For several 
 years he was the attorney of the Oregon & Cali- 
 
 fornia Railroad Company and the North Pacific 
 Steamship Transportation Company, while his 
 practice extended to all the courts, federal, state 
 and territorial, of Oregon, Washington and 
 Idaho. 
 
 " In September, 1872, Mr. Mitchell was nom- 
 inated, in caucus, by the Republican members of 
 the state legislature for United States senator, 
 receiving the votes of over two-thirds of all the 
 Republicans in the legislature on the first ballot. 
 On September 28, 1872, he was elected by the 
 legislature in joint session as United States sen- 
 ator for the term of six years, commencing 
 March 4, 1873. In this body he soon took a 
 prominent position. He was assigned to duty 
 on the following committees : Privileges and 
 Election, Commerce, Claims, Transportation 
 Routes to the Seaboard, and Railroads. At the 
 end of two years he was made chairman of the 
 committee on Railroads, and served as such until 
 the end of his term. When the electoral com- 
 mission was organized, Senator Oliver P. Mor- 
 ton was chairman of the Senate Committee on 
 Privileges and Election, but having been chosen 
 a member of the Electoral Commission, Senator 
 Mitchell was made acting chairman of the com- 
 mittee on Privileges and Election, which com- 
 mittee, for the purpose of taking charge of the 
 great controversy involved in the presidential 
 contest in 1876, in the states of Oregon, Louis- 
 iana, South Carolina and Florida, was then in- 
 creased from nine, the ordinary number, to fif- 
 teen senators. As acting chairman, Senator 
 Mitchell presided over the committee during all 
 the investigations which followed and which at 
 the time attracted so much interest all over the 
 country. He was also selected by the unani- 
 mous vote of the Republicans in the senate as 
 the senator to appear before the Electoral Com- 
 mittee and argue the Oregon case. This duty 
 he performed and in a long speech ably pre- 
 sented the legal questions involved and to the 
 perfect satisfaction of his party friends defended 
 the position taken by the Republicans of Ore- 
 gon. During his first term he was on several 
 occasions selected by the Republican majority as 
 chairman of said committee to visit South Caro- 
 lina, Louisiana and Florida for the purpose of 
 investigating contested elections. 
 
 " In April, 1873, Senator Mitchell and Sen- 
 ator Casserly, of California, were appointed a 
 sub-committee of the committee on Transporta- 
 tion Routes to the Seaboard, to visit the Pacific 
 coast and investigate and report upon the best 
 means of opening the Columbia river to free 
 navigation. It was in this position that he had 
 opportunity to do a great service for Oregon. 
 Soon after his appointment on the committee, 
 Senator Casserly resigned his seat in senate and 
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 alone. He thereupon during the summer of 1873 
 made a most careful examination as to improve- 
 ments necessan to increase the navigation facil- 
 ities of the Columbia river, and at the next ses- 
 sion of congress submitted an elaborate report 
 to the committee on transportation news, Senator 
 Windom of Minnesota being chairman, in which 
 lie recommended, among other things, large ap- 
 propriations for the mouth of the Columbia 
 river, and also an appropriation for a survey at 
 the Cascade, with the view of ascertaining the 
 cost and advisability of constructing a canal and 
 locks. This report, as written by Senator 
 Mitchell, was incorporated into the report of the 
 committee without alteration, and submitted to 
 the senate, and based on this report, congress at 
 its next session made an appropriation for a sur- 
 vev for canal and locks at the Cascades, which 
 paved the way for their subsequent construction. 
 
 " At the expiration of his senatorial term, 
 March 4, 1879, the legislature of Oregon was 
 Democratic, and Honorable James H. Slater, a 
 Democrat, was elected as his successor, where- 
 upon Mr. Mitchell resumed the practice of his 
 profession in Portland. In the fall of 1882, he 
 was urged by party friends to again submit his 
 name as a candidate for United States senator, 
 the legislature at that time being Republican. 
 After much hesitation he consented to do so and 
 in the legislative caucus received on the first 
 ballot the vote of two-thirds of all the Republi- 
 cans in the legislature, and thus became the 
 nominee of the party for United States senator. 
 A bolt, however, was organized, and he was 
 not elected. The contest, however, was con- 
 tinued from day to day until the last day and 
 the last hour of the forty days' session. During 
 the most of this time he was within a few votes 
 of an election. It required forty-six votes to 
 elect and during the session he received the votes 
 of fortv-five different members. Finding- an 
 election impossible, although urged by his sup- 
 porters to continue in the fight to the end, and 
 if not elected himself, thus prevent the election 
 of any one else, he withdrew from the contest 
 during the last hour of the session and all of his 
 supporters, except one, who had so earnestly 
 stood by him during the forty days, gave their 
 votes for Hon. J. N. Dolph, who was elected. 
 Throughout this long contest, without parallel 
 in the political history of the state, for the bitter 
 personal character of the fight, Senator Mitchell 
 apparently lost none of his personal popularity, 
 and after the adjournment of the legislature and 
 upon his return from Salem to Portland he was 
 tendered a reception which in warmth and cor- 
 diality partook more of an ovation to a success- 
 ful than to a defeated candidate. 
 
 " After his defeat Mr. Mitchell resumed the 
 
 practice of his profession, and although earnest- 
 ly urged by party friends to again permit the 
 use of his name as a candidate for United States 
 senate, at the regular session of the legislature, 
 in January, 1885, he peremptorily declined to 
 do so. The legislature, however, after balloting 
 through the whole session, adjourned without 
 making an election. The governor of the state 
 thereupon called a special session of the legis- 
 lature to meet in November, 1885. Senator 
 Mitchell at that time was in Portland, and al- 
 though not personally desirous to be a candidate, 
 and steadily refusing to permit the use of his 
 name until within three or four days before the 
 election, he was again, November 19, 1885, 
 elected to the United States senate for a full 
 term, receiving on the second ballot in joint con- 
 vention the vote of three-fourths of all the Re- 
 publicans, and one-half of all the Democrats of 
 the legislature, having on this ballot a majority 
 of twenty-one votes. He was at this time elected 
 to succeed Hon. James H. Slater, and took his 
 seat December 17, 1885, when he was assigned 
 to duty on the following committees : Privileges 
 and Election, Railroads, Transportation Routes 
 to the Seaboard, Claims, Mines and Mining, 
 Postoffices and Post-roads, and special commit- 
 tee to superintend the construction of a National 
 library. After a year's service he was made 
 chairman of the committee on Transportation 
 Routes to the Seaboard, and in March, 1889, 
 was made chairman of the committee on Rail- 
 roads." 
 
 On January 19, 1891, Mr. Mitchell was again 
 re-elected as his own successor, for a full term 
 of six years ; in this election there was no con- 
 test, the Republicans being largely in the major- 
 ity in the legislature, and every one of them 
 voted for • Mr. Mitchell as his own successor ; 
 this term expired March 4, 1897. 
 
 At the meeting of the legislature in January, 
 1897, it being the duty of that legislature to elect 
 Mr. Mitchell's successor, on January 10, 1897., 
 in a caucus of the Republican members of the 
 legislature, there being forty-eight members 
 present, two more than a majority of the whole 
 legislature, the whole number constituting the 
 two houses being ninety, on an open roll call he 
 received every one of the forty-eight votes, and 
 was declared the unanimous nominee of the Re- 
 publican party for United States senator to suc- 
 ceed himself ; twenty-eight members of the 
 house refused to take the oath of office during 
 the entire session, thus destroying a quorum, and 
 preventing a vote for senator, and also prevent- 
 ing the passage of any appropriation or other 
 acts during the entire session, which resulted in 
 his defeat. Mr. Mitchell was again, February 
 23, 1901, elected to succeed Hon. George W. 
 
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 McBride, and took his scat March 9, 1901 ; his 
 present term of service will expire March 3, 
 
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 Mr. Mitchell enjoys the distinction it is be- 
 lieved no other man in the United States ever 
 attained in connection with service in the United 
 States senate ; lie is the only man who has ever 
 been elected from the same state to the senate 
 after two vacations. He served from March 
 4, 1873, to March 4, 1879; was out from March 
 4, 1879, to March 4, 1885 ; served from March 
 4, 1885. to March 4, 1897 (twelve years) ; was 
 out from March 4. 1897 until March 4, 1901, 
 and is now serving his fourth full term. 
 
 The people of Oregon have reason to feel a 
 justifiable pride in his career. A man of remark- 
 able energy and untiring industry, Senator 
 Mitchell has throughout his career as a public 
 man shown a keen discrimination and a wonder- 
 ful ability for grasping the great and intricate 
 questions that are every day to be met with by 
 United States senators. It is not our intention 
 to make comparisons, but we do say that Oregon 
 has never had a man who has filled this exalted 
 position in a more satisfactory or painstaking 
 manner than has Senator Mitchell. No request 
 of his constituents is received, whether from 
 the rich or poor, but it is given his personal at- 
 tention. As a speaker he is forcible, tactful and 
 with his sound judgment and eminently practical 
 views he is well equipped to defend the interests 
 of his adopted state. His long term of service 
 has made him one of the most popular men in 
 the United States senate and among his col- 
 leagues he is recognized as a power. Here in 
 Oregon, where for over forty-three years he has 
 made his home, the senator is known by all and 
 there is no man in the state who has a larger 
 personal following than he. Generous to a fault, 
 whole-souled and sympathetic, to know him is to 
 admire him. 
 
 Personally Senator Mitchell is a man of strik- 
 ing appearance ; he is an interesting conversa- 
 tionalist, has a direct, forceful way of talking, 
 while his wonderful memory makes him a most 
 congenial companion. 
 
 GEORGE JENNINGS AINSWORTH. A 
 comparatively brief life was that of George Jen- 
 nings Ainsworth, a native of Oregon, and the son 
 of a substantial pioneer, but he left behind him 
 the evidence of well-directed effort, both as a 
 citizen and the maker, of a home. He was born 
 in Oregon City, April 13. 1852, the son of John 
 C. and Jane (White) Ainsworth, who died when 
 he was seven years of age. He received his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of the state and the 
 old Portland Academv. after which he entered 
 
 and took a four-years' course in the State Uni- 
 versity of California, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1873, the year following taking a post- 
 graduate course. He was elected on the Univer- 
 sity Board of Regents for a term of eighteen 
 years. His school days over and the preparation 
 for his life work complete he returned to Port- 
 land and engaged upon the river boats, with the 
 self-reliance which had even thus early distin- 
 guished him, declining all aid and starting at the 
 foot of the ladder and familiarizing himself with 
 every detail of the different departments. Pro- 
 motion was not long in coming to him, nor an 
 infrequent occurrence, for he steadily rose to 
 positions of importance in his new relations. 
 
 During his experience on the river he was com- 
 mander of the steamers Otter, Welcome, Dixie 
 Thompson, Emma Hayward, Oneonta and others. 
 In January, 1877, ne was made a director of the 
 Oregon Steam Navigation Company, and in 1878 
 was made assistant general superintendent, later 
 assuming charge as general superintendent. He 
 was vice-president of the Oregon Steam Naviga- 
 tion Company when its affairs were closed after 
 the Villard coup, and when the Oregon Railroad 
 & Navigation Company succeeded it he was ap- 
 pointed superintendent of the river and sound di- 
 visions, and operated the portage roads at the 
 Cascades and the Dalles, resigning in 1882 to 
 assist his father, who had become interested in a 
 number of enterprises at Oakland, Cal. After six 
 years there Captain Ainsworth went to Redondo 
 Beach, and under the direction of his father and 
 R. R. Thompson, the owners, succeeded in trans- 
 forming a barren waste of land into one of the 
 finest commercial ports of southern California. 
 The Redondo Beach Company, Redondo Railway 
 Company, and Redondo Hotel Company were ad- 
 juncts in the development which brought into ex- 
 istence a magnificent hotel, narrow gauge rail- 
 way, a wharf suitable for the largest ships afloat 
 and many other improvements. Captain George 
 remained in charge of this vast property six years, 
 when his father's death occurred, which com- 
 pelled his return to Oregon as administrator of 
 his father's estate. Returning to Portland he at 
 once assumed control of the business affairs with 
 the details of which he was perfectly familiar, as 
 he had been associated intimately with his father 
 from early boyhood, in his more mature years be- 
 coming a co-worker and a companion of the elder 
 man. His own death occurred but a little later, 
 as he died October 20, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Ainsworth was a man of many admirable 
 personal characteristics, being public-spirited and 
 earnest for the welfare of whatever community 
 he had made his by a residence. Though not a 
 politician in the common acceptance of the term 
 he was strongly identified with the Democratic 
 party and spared no efforts to advance the pnn- 
 
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 ciples which he endorsed. His ability being rec- 
 ognized by the local leaders in California he was 
 induced to accept the nomination of United States 
 senator, but was defeated in the election, while 
 the canvass was in progress, himself being absent 
 in the pursuit of his business in eastern states. 
 In the accumulation oi property he was uniformly 
 successful, for his shrewd business judgment 
 went hand in hand with an ambitious, enterpris- 
 ing spirit and wide profits were the result. He 
 was a lover of sports, being fond of hunting and 
 fishing, appreciated a good joke and could tell 
 many. At his death he had large holdings in 
 California as well as landed property in Portland 
 and vicinity, and left his family, for whom he had 
 always cared with an exceptional kindness and 
 thought, well provided for in the matter of this 
 world's goods. Personally he was a man of be- 
 nevolent and kindly disposition, in religious faith 
 a Presbyterian, in which church he officiated as 
 elder. Fraternally he was a Mason, and was 
 identified with the Blue Lodge, Chapter. Com- 
 mandery. Consistory and Scottish Rite, and was 
 always active in lodge work. 
 
 June 16, 1875, Mr. Ainsworth was united in 
 marriage with Margaret Sutton, a native of San 
 Francisco, and the descendant of a long-lived 
 Boston family of English ancestry. The parents, 
 John and Anna B. (Doland) Sutton, came to 
 Portland in 1870, and in January, three years 
 later, the father was lost at sea. aboard the 
 George S. Wright, and the mother now makes 
 her home, at the age of seventy-three years, with 
 her daughter, Mrs. Ainsworth. The other chil- 
 dren of her father's family were Julia, who mar- 
 ried G. B. Wright, of British Columbia ; Mave, 
 who married Otis Sprague, of Tacoma ; James, 
 who is in the employ of the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road, and located in Portland ; John, a native of 
 Portland, who is now located in California and 
 engaged in scientific research ; Albert, an archi- 
 tect, of San Francisco; Herbert, born in Portland, 
 in the employ of a lumber company, of San Fran- 
 cisco : Jennie K., who was married in Tacoma to 
 A. D. Wheeler, a mining expert, of British Co- 
 lumbia ; and Ada \\, a resident of Boston, and 
 the widow of A. E. Bull. The four last named 
 of the children were graduates of the Portland 
 high school. Two children blessed the union of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth : Lawrence Sutton, 
 born in Portland, April. 1877, an d now purser on 
 the steamer Regulator, makes his home with his 
 mother; and Mabel, born in Portland, became 
 the wife of Edwin Mays, and they have two chil- 
 dren. George Ainsworth and Eunice. This fam- 
 ily is also included in that of Mrs. Ainsworth, 
 who in May, 1899, removed from her home, 
 "Pagoda Villa," at Berkeley. Cal., and became a 
 resident of Portland. 
 
 CAPT. JACOB KAMM, about whom centers 
 the development of river and other trans- 
 portation facilities in Oregon, and who for many 
 years has been a most important factor in the 
 upbuilding of numerous gigantic enterprises in 
 Portland, is one of the most striking types of 
 mankind residing in the region known as the 
 Pacific northwest. Perhaps no other man living 
 to-day in Portland has been more intimately as- 
 sociated with all that has tended to give this city 
 the great commerciar prestige it now boasts, and 
 surely no man has entered into the spirit of in- 
 dustrial and commercial development more hear- 
 tily and unselfishly than he. A brief resume of 
 the principal events in the life of this pioneer 
 builder, illustrating the various steps in his up- 
 ward career, will prove a stimulus to the young 
 men of the present generation who start out in 
 life no more fully equipped than he to attain 
 success. 
 
 Jacob Kamm was born in Canton Glarus, 
 Switzerland, December 12, 1823. His father re- 
 signed his commission in the Swiss army to 
 make a home for himself and his family among 
 the broader opportunities offered in America, 
 bringing with him his son Jacob, then eight 
 years of age. Four years after their arrival his 
 father died of yellow fever in New Orleans, 
 leaving his twelve-year-old son to solve for him- 
 self the problems of life in a strange land. Some 
 foreshadowing of the ambitious dream of the 
 elder Kamm must have come to him at the 
 period when his capabilities and the possibilities 
 of success in this country of wonderful resources 
 first began to dawn upon the son, and has, per- 
 chance, followed unremittingly into the strenu- 
 ous activity which has characterized all his ma- 
 turer years. 
 
 Soon after the father took up his residence in 
 New Orleans, the younger Kamm secured a po- 
 sition in the office of the New Orleans Picayune, 
 in which office he remained until the death of 
 the foreman, who was a personal friend. After 
 the death of this friend, a new foreman was se- 
 cured and Mr. Kamm was forced to look else- 
 where for a position. For a time he remained 
 in the city, working at whatever came his way, 
 until November, 1837, when he went to St. 
 Louis. Here he secured a position as cabin boy 
 on the Ark, a small steamer plying the Illinois 
 river. While en route from the southern city 
 he made the acquaintance of a smooth-talking 
 stranger, who robbed him of all his money with 
 the exception of ten cents, the whole amount of 
 his capital on arrival in St. Louis. In his new 
 position as cabin boy he felt his limitations, and 
 having a mechanical turn of mind he improved 
 all his spare time mastering the details of marine 
 engineering. Expert workmanship brought him 
 into contact with concerns who offered him pay- 
 
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 ing positions, and he soon managed to save 
 enough money to purchase an interest in the Belle 
 of Hatchie, a steamboat which he ran until his 
 health gave way under the unbroken strain to 
 which he was subjected. After disposing of 
 his interest in this boat he put in a number of 
 years as engineer on packet boats plying between 
 St. Louis, Keokuk and New Orleans. At that 
 time the requirements demanded of engineers 
 before they were licensed to ply their vocations 
 were very high. Mr. Kamm received his diplo- 
 ma from the Engineers' Association of the state 
 of Missouri. Owing to impaired health, Mr. 
 Kamm sought relaxation and change, and with 
 a party of friends he crossed the plains in 1849, 
 locating in the mines around Sacramento, Cal. 
 Soon after his arrival he secured a position as 
 engineer on a steamboat running on the Sacra- 
 mento and Feather rivers in California. A well- 
 remembered incident connected with these pi- 
 oneer days of California was the meeting of 
 Mr. Kamm and Lot Whitcomb in Sacramento 
 in 1850. As the result of this meeting Mr. 
 Kamm decided to come to Milwaukee, then a 
 flourishing hamlet above Portland, in order to 
 install the machinery ordered for the steamer 
 Lot Whitcomb. This proved a herculean task, 
 owing to the lack of proper implements with 
 which to work, the sole equipment being a bel- 
 lows and anvil. Mr. Kamm's assistant, a black- 
 smith by the name of Blakesley, happened, for- 
 tunately, to be ingenious and painstaking, and 
 the combined application of the two men re- 
 sulted in the manufacture of crude tools which 
 filled the demand. Considerable trouble grew 
 out of the construction of the boilers, which ar- 
 rived from New York in . twenty-two separate 
 sections, and as there were no boiler makers in 
 the west at the time Mr. Kamm was compelled 
 to figure out a way to overcome this difficulty. 
 That he was equal to the emergency was dem- 
 onstrated to the satisfaction of all concerned 
 when the Lot Whitcomb proudly steamed out of 
 the harbor, a substantial and thoroughly reliable 
 craft, the first of the kind ever equipped in this 
 port. On this historic occasion the man behind 
 the engines was Mr. Kamm, and he continued to 
 operate her machinery until she was sold and 
 taken to California. 
 
 With Messrs. Abernethy, Clark and Ains- 
 worth associated with him in the ownership, 
 Mr. Kamm constructed the first stern-wheel 
 steamer built in Oregon, the Jennie Clark. This 
 also proved an undertaking of considerable pro- 
 portions, for the machinery had to be brought 
 in a sailing vessel around the Horn, entailing a 
 great expense and risk, but Mr. Kamm had great 
 faith in the enterprise and when his first partner, 
 a Mr. Hall, stepped out he got the above 
 gentlemen to take a quarter interest each, while 
 
 he put up the money for the balance. The Car- 
 rie Ladd, another pioneer water craft of Ore- 
 gun, was the nucleus of what afterward became 
 know as the Oregon Steam Navigation Com- 
 pany. This vessel was constructed under the 
 direction of Mr. Kamm, and was owned by him 
 in partnership with others. He was a large 
 stockholder in the Oregon Steam Navigation 
 Company, which was organized in i860, with 
 Mr. Kamm as chief engineer, which position he 
 filled until 1865. He afterward sold his interest, 
 which was the second largest, to a syndicate, 
 which in turn transferred its stock to that gigan- 
 tic enterprise known as the Oregon Railroad and 
 Navigation Company. Another company which 
 in its days of independent prosperity operated 
 extensively on the Willamette, and which even- 
 tually was merged into the Oregon Railroad and 
 Navigation Company, was the Willamette Trans- 
 portation Company, of which Mr. Kamm was 
 one of the organizers and principal stockholders. 
 At one time he also owned that well-known 
 ocean coasting steamer, the George S. Wright, 
 which, after passing into the hands of Ben Hol- 
 liday, was wrecked in Alaskan waters. Although 
 at one time Mr. Kamm thought of going out 
 of the steamboat business entirely, his plans 
 were changed through no fault of his own, but 
 chiefly through having loaned money to a friend, 
 with steamboat property as security. 
 
 With his years as invaluable experience in 
 this direction, it is not surprising that Mr. Kamm 
 has been identified with the organization of 
 most of the large steamboat transportation com- 
 panies of the northwest, or that to some extent 
 he has been interested in railroads. In 1872, 
 through a business transaction, Mr. Kamm came 
 into possession of the Carrie, a small steamer, 
 which proved to be the nucleus of the Van- 
 couver Transportation Company. In February, 
 1874, the company was incorporated with Mr. 
 Kamm as president, a position which he has 
 held up to the present time. His next venture 
 was his connection with the Ilwaco Railway and 
 Navigation Company, but his interests in this 
 concern were disposed of some years ago. As- 
 sociated with others, Mr. Kamm built the 
 Norma, which is the only boat that has passed 
 through the famous Box Canyon on the Snake 
 river without being wrecked. 
 
 While practically his whole life has been de- 
 voted to navigation Mr. Kamm has, nevertheless, 
 found the time to take up other business mat- 
 ters, and was at one time vice-president of the 
 United States National Bank of Portland, and 
 he is also a prominent stockholder in several 
 other banks in the city. His interests have ex- 
 tended to Astoria, 'where he has been an im- 
 portant factor in the upbuilding of the present 
 enterprising community. He is president of the 
 
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 Fir>t National Bank of thai city, and one oi 
 
 the heaviest taxpayers of Astoria. He also has 
 valuable property in San Francisco; and in 
 Portland owns, among' other property, the large 
 business block hearing his name. 
 
 The beautiful home occupied by Mr. Kamm 
 and his wife in Portland, consisting of fourteen 
 acres almost in the heart of the city, was, at the 
 time of its purchase in the early '60s, outside 
 the city limits. At the present time it is hedged 
 in by the stress of commercialism and handsome 
 residences, and is one of the most conspicuous 
 landmarks which bind the past to the present. 
 This home, with its countless memories of early 
 davs, is presided over by one of the most charm- 
 ing women of Portland, to whose co-operation 
 and unceasing sympathy this honored pioneer at- 
 tributes a large share of his success in life. 
 Mrs. Kamm, whose marriage to the subject of 
 this brief memoir occurred September 13, 1859, 
 was formerly Caroline A. Gray, daughter of the 
 late William' H. and Mary A. (Dix) Gray. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Kamm are the parents of one son, 
 Charles T. Kamm, who, like his father, has won 
 a captaincy. 
 
 Mr. Kamm became identified with the Masonic 
 fraternity in St. Louis, July 27, 1847, and was 
 one of the earlv members of Multnomah Lodge 
 No. 1, A. F. & A. M., of Oregon City. At the 
 present time he is the third oldest Mason in the 
 state of Oregon ; is a member of Clackamas 
 Chapter R. A. M. ; Portland Commandery No. 1, 
 K. T. : Oregon Consistory No. 1, Scottish Rite; 
 and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. He is a member 
 and president of the board of trustees of the 
 First Presbyterian Church of Portland, and for 
 many years has been a generous contributor to- 
 ward its maintenance. 
 
 Success has come to Mr. Kamm, the result 
 of his own efforts, and that too in the face of 
 one of the greatest of handicaps — ill health, as 
 from young manhood to the present time he has 
 been a sufferer and there have been many times 
 when it was only by superhuman efforts that 
 he kept himself from giving up the struggle. 
 Jacob Kamm is a typical representative of the 
 stalwart founders of the civilization of the Pa- 
 cific slope, and in his integrity, his broad-mind- 
 edness and his resourcefulness, has met the de- 
 mands of our splendid western citizenship. Per- 
 sonally he is a man possessed of numerous strik- 
 ing and delightful characteristics. Those who 
 know him best, the representatives of the 
 younger generation as well as those who. like 
 him, have spent many years in useful operations 
 in Oregon, cheerfully accord him a rank among 
 the most enlightened, useful, public-spirited, 
 kind-hearted and generous citizens of the state ; 
 and in him they find a man whose support of 
 all worthv movements calculated to enhance the 
 
 commercial, industrial and. social standing of the 
 metropolis of Oregon comes from entirely unsel- 
 fish motives. That he has come to be recog- 
 nized as one of the foremost citizens of the 
 northwest i> a tribute to his personal worth, his 
 indefatigable industry and perseverance in the 
 face of obstacles that would have seemed insur- 
 mountable by many others, and his determina- 
 tion, inherited from his study father, to accom- 
 plish what he could toward success by honesty 
 and industry alone. These characteristics have 
 made his life what it has been — reflecting great 
 credit upon himself, and a source of the greatest 
 inspiration to those young men of the present 
 generation whose only hope of reward may be 
 found in doing what lies before them in the line 
 of duty with a firm determination to adhere to 
 a policy of integrity, watchfulness and perse- 
 verance. 
 
 MRS. CAROLINE AUGUSTA KAMM. 
 The history of Oregon were indeed incomplete 
 without due mention of the family to which Mrs. 
 Caroline Augusta Kamm, wife of one of Ore- 
 gon's noblest and most resourceful pioneers, be- 
 longs, or of the place which she herself has oc- 
 cupied these many years in the hearts of her 
 many friends. Mrs. Kamm was born at Lapwai, 
 Oregon territory, now Idaho, October 16, 1840, 
 and is the oldest daughter born to William H. 
 and Marv A. (Dix) Grav, pioneers respectivelv 
 of 1836 and 1838. 
 
 The Gray family is one of the very earliest 
 to settle in Oregon, and their impress upon the 
 institutions which served as a nucleus for later 
 large achievements was marked in the extreme. 
 William Henry Gray was born in Fairfield, N. 
 Y., September 8, 1810, and in 1836 was selected 
 by the American Board of Missions as secular 
 agent in Oregon. On the trip across the plains 
 he joined Whitman and Spaulding and their 
 wives at Liberty Landing, Mo., and the subse- 
 quent trials of this courageous little band have 
 been already often recorded. Thev succeeded in 
 reaching Walla Walla. Wash., September 2, 
 1836, and, having partially accomplished his mis- 
 sion in the west, Mr. Gray undertook again the 
 perilous trip over the plains, that he might marry 
 Mary A. Dix, w r ho was born in Champlain 
 county. N. Y., January 2, 1810. The marriage 
 ceremony took place February 25, 1838, Mrs. 
 Gray being the daughter of a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier, who had decided to devote her life to mis- 
 sionary work. In 1838 this courageous couple 
 set forth upon their life mission in the west, 
 taking with them three other missionaries and 
 their wives, and locating at Fort Lapwai, Idaho. 
 The zeal of the missionaries is understood when 
 it is known that two weeks after their arrival 
 
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 Mrs. Gray had started a school for Indians under 
 a pine tree in the wilderness, and had a member- 
 ship of from fifty to one hundred. Nor were 
 her efforts confined to teaching the children, for 
 during leisure hours she instructed the mothers 
 in keeping their homes clean, in the art of mak- 
 ing- bread, and also taught them to cut and make 
 the clothes for their families. The following 
 March her pine tree school was exchanged for 
 more satisfactory quarters in a little log build- 
 ing without any floor and with puncheon seats, 
 and this advance in accommodations was the 
 signal for renewed effort to give the Indians in 
 Idaho the benefits of an uplifting civilization. 
 In 1838 both Dr. Gray and his wife received 
 certificates from Rev. Dr. Greene of New York 
 as missionaries of the American Board of For- 
 eign Missions, both of which now hang in the 
 historical rooms together with their passports. 
 
 In July, 1842, Mr. Gray resigned from the 
 Hoard of Foreign Missions, and during the sum- 
 mer of the same year made a trip to the Will- 
 amette Valley where he became trustee and con- 
 tractor, and built the old Oregon Institute, since 
 known as the Willamette University. In 1843 
 he was the leading spirit in the formation of 
 the provincial government, and in 1845 ne was 
 elected a member of the legislature from Clacka- 
 mas county. From 1842 until 1844 he lived with 
 him family in Salem, and from then until 1846 
 made his home in Oregon City. He then re- 
 moved to the Clatsop Plains, where, aided by 
 his wife and three others, he organized the first 
 Presbyterian Church in Oregon. During the lat- 
 ter vears of their lives Mr. and Mrs. Gray lived 
 principally in Astoria, and her death occurred 
 in Clatsop county in 1881, while that of her 
 husband occurred at the home of Mr. Kamra in 
 Portland November 14, 1889. 
 
 Mr. Gray was a man of diversified gifts, and 
 besides being a practicing physician for many 
 years, was a writer of no mean merit. Of his 
 History of Oregon, written in 1870, Rev. Geary, 
 D. D., when asked for his opinion, said emphat- 
 ically : "True, every word of it, but you told 
 too much." To Dr. Gray is due the distinction 
 of performing the first operation of trephining 
 of the skull on the Pacific coast, and the Indian 
 boy who was thus benefited by his skill spread 
 his good fortune up and down through the for- 
 ests. In the order of their birth the children 
 born to this noble pioneer couple are as follows : 
 Capt. J. H. D. Gray, who died in Astoria Octo- 
 ber 26, 1902, and was ex-state senator and ex- 
 county judge of Clatsop county; Caroline A., 
 Mrs. Karam; Mary S., the deceased wife of Mr. 
 Tarbell of Tacoma. Wash. ; Sarah F.. now Mrs. 
 Abernethy of Coos county, Ore. ; Capt. William 
 Polk; Capt. A. W., of Portland; and Capt. 
 James T.. also of Portland. 
 
 Mrs. Kamm is a very popular and well in- 
 formed woman, and is full of generous impulses 
 and unbounded sympathy. Her name is at the 
 head of many charities, although unostenta- 
 tiously she gives much towards the alleviation 
 of human suffering. In her travels through the 
 country with her husband she has accumulated 
 a horde of interesting information, and is par- 
 ticularly enlightening about the early times in 
 which her parents took so prominent a part. 
 
 CHARLES E. LADD. Of Charles E. Ladd 
 it may be said that he has succeeded in spite 
 of wealth. The incentive which is supposed to 
 animate the average actions of men being want- 
 ing, he has yet developed a business capacity 
 beyond the average, and which has placed him 
 in the front ranks of captains of industry on 
 the coast. It is usual to praise those who suc- 
 ceed in spite of poverty ; they have an enormous 
 advantage", in that if ambitious they must work. 
 The man of inherited wealth possesses already 
 all that the average successful man craves as a 
 result of labor. Mr. Ladd has ignored every 
 incentive save that of desiring to maintain a 
 family prestige splendidly established by his 
 father, W. S. Ladd, one of the best remembered 
 of the early pioneers whose unceasing toil won 
 him a handsome competency. 
 
 A native son of Portland, Charles E. Ladd 
 was born in 1857 and was educated at Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, Mass., and at Amherst Col- 
 lege, from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1881, with the degree of A. B. Returning 
 to Portland, he became president of the Port- 
 land Planing Mills, and upon the death of his 
 father became identified as manager with the 
 banking firm of Ladd iz Tilton. Besides the 
 numerous corporations with which he is con- 
 nected, Mr. Ladd is a director in the Portland 
 Library Association ; a member of the board and 
 on the executive committee of the Lewis & 
 Clark Exposition; a member of the University, 
 Commercial, Arlington and Multnomah Clubs; 
 and a member and director of the Chamber of 
 Commerce. In Somerville, Mass., Mr. Ladd 
 was united in marriage with Sarah L. Hall, a 
 native of Somerville. The family are members 
 of the Calvary Presbyterian Church. 
 
 William S. Ladd, whose worth-while career 
 is extensively written of in another part of this 
 work, died in Portland, January 6, 1893, leav- 
 ing a widow and the following children : Wil- 
 liam M., head of the banking house of Ladd & 
 Tilton; Charles E., ; Mrs. H. J. Corbett of Port- 
 land; Mrs. F. B. Pratt of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 
 and J. Wesley, also associated with the banking 
 house of Ladd & Tilton. The latter institution, 
 founded by the elder Ladd and Mr. Tilton, and 
 
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 sy 
 
 iu>\\ owned entirely by the Portland family of 
 Ladd, is one of the most solid financial institu- 
 tions this side o\ the Kooky mountains, and one 
 of the most substantial in the country. 
 
 HON. GEORGE C. BROWNELL. Among 
 the distinguished lawyers and lawmakers of Ore- 
 gon George C. Brownell is numbered, and for 
 the third term he is serving in the state senate, 
 leaving the impress of his individuality upon the 
 legislation which has been enacted during the 
 period of his connection with the general assem- 
 bly. A native of the Empire state, he was. born 
 in Willsboro, X. Y.. August 10, 1858, the second 
 in the family of seven children born unto Am- 
 brose and Annie (Smith) Brownell. Of Eng- 
 lish ancestry, the Brownell family was founded 
 in New England at an early period in the. devel- 
 opment of this country. The father of our sub- 
 ject was a native of New York, born in Essex 
 county, whence he removed to Columbia county, 
 where his last days were passed. He was a me- 
 chanic, but at the time of the Civil war he put 
 aside all business and personal considerations in 
 order to aid in the preservation of the Union as 
 a member of Company F, One Hundred and 
 Eighteenth New York Infantry, which was as- 
 signed to duty with the Army of the Potomac. 
 He took part in a number of engagements and 
 on one occasion was severely wounded. His wife 
 was a native of Addison count}'. Vt. 
 
 After acquiring his literary education in the 
 public schools and an academy. George C. 
 Brownell took up the study of law under the 
 direction of Charles L. Beale. member of con- 
 gress living in Hudson. N. Y., and in Albany, in 
 1882. he was admitted to the bar. He entered 
 upon his professional career in Frankfort, Kans., 
 where he engaged in practice with marked suc- 
 cess, winning prestige at that bar. and in public 
 affairs he was also prominent, serving as mavor 
 of Frankfort in 1884-85. On th« 6th of January, 
 1886. he removed to Ness City. Kans.. and the 
 same year was appointed attorney for the Den- 
 ver, Memphis & Atlantic Railroad, extending 
 from Chetopa. Kans., to Pueblo. Colo. A large 
 private practice was also accorded him in recog- 
 nition of his skill and ability in the line of his 
 chosen profession, and for two years he served as 
 county attorney of Ness county, Kans. 
 
 Since June. 1891, he has been a resident of 
 ( Iregon City and a practitioner at its bar. and to- 
 day a distinctively representative clientage is ac- 
 corded him in recognition of his capabilitv. He 
 has broad and comprehensive understanding of 
 the principles of jurisprudence, possesses a keenlv 
 analytical mind, prepares his cases with great 
 care and precision and therefore seldom fails to 
 gain the verdict desired. But Mr. Brownell has 
 
 not confined his attention solely to the practice of 
 law. having been a factor in the lawmaking body 
 of the state. In 1892 he was made the nominee 
 of the Republican party for state senator, but 
 declined to accept the nomination because he had 
 been a resident of the state for less than a year. 
 He was, however, in the county convention, made 
 chairman of the degelation to the state conven- 
 tion and was chairman of the Republican central 
 committee of Clackamas county and had charge 
 of the convention that year. In 1894 he was 
 nominated for the position of state senator by 
 acclamation and defeated Hon. W. A. Stark- 
 weather, who had been a member of the first 
 constitutional convention of Oregon and was an 
 ex-representative and a former register of the 
 land office, Mr. Brownell being elected bv 
 a plurality of three hundred and twenty- 
 seven. In 1898, after the most bitter contest 
 that had occurred in the county in vears, 
 he was renominated by acclamation, cover- 
 ing, every one of the thirty-six precincts 
 of the county, and in the June election he 
 defeated Hon. W. S. Wren by two hundred 
 and thirty-eight votes. In the special ses- 
 sion of 1898, he was chosen by the Republican 
 caucus to present the caucus man. the Hon. 
 Joseph Simon, to the joint assembly as the can- 
 didate for United States senator. In 1900 Mr. 
 Brownell received the unanimous endorsement of 
 the Republicans of Clackamas county for mem- 
 ber of congress. In 1902 he was a third time 
 nominated for state senator by acclamation and 
 after a hard contest before the people defeated 
 the Hon. George W. Grace, by a plurality of 
 six hundred and ninety-five. During the session 
 of 1901 Mr. Brownell took an active part in the 
 election of a United States senator, and it was 
 he who on the fortieth ballot, when hope of elect- 
 ing a senator was about gone, presented the name 
 of John H. Mitchell, who was later elected. 
 Again during the session of 1903-04. when Mr. 
 Brownell was serving as president of the senate, 
 he was successful in having his candidate for 
 United States senator. Hon. C. W. Fulton, 
 elected, and in the speech made bv Senator Ful- 
 ton directly after the deciding ballot had been 
 cast, he gave Senator Brownell the full credit for 
 what he had accomplished. 
 
 Mr. Brownell has been a very active and val- 
 uable member of the upper house of the state 
 legislature and his labors have been a potent 
 factor in framing legislation enacted during bis 
 terms of service. He was the author of and in- 
 troduced into the senate the initiative and refer- 
 endum resolution to amend the state constitu- 
 tion : was the author of the law which provided 
 that supervisors should be elected instead of ap- 
 pointed : and at each session he introduced a 
 bill to authorize the calling of a constitutional 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RFXORD. 
 
 convention to revise the organic law of the state 
 and finally secured the passage of the bill 
 through trie senate in 190 1, but it was defeated 
 in the house by two votes. He was also the 
 author of the bill to elect precinct assessors, in- 
 stead of county assessors, and this also passed 
 the senate, but was defeated in the house by a 
 vote of two. He introduced the bill, and secured 
 its passage through the senate, exempting to 
 i' very laboring man that was the head of a fam- 
 ily thirty days' wages from attachment and 
 execution for debt, and this passed the house 
 and became a law. In the senate Mr. Brownell 
 offered resolutions for the appointment of a com- 
 mittee to investigate the handling of school funds 
 of Oregon and was made the chairman of the 
 committee, whose report gave a shortage of 
 $31,000 in the school funds, and thus prevented 
 other fraudulent use of money appropriated for 
 educational work in the state. On May 20, 1903, 
 Mr. Brownell delivered the address of welcome 
 at the state capital as chairman of the committee 
 on behalf of the senate and house of representa- 
 tives of Oregon. 
 
 In Rockland. Mass., Mr. Brownell was mar- 
 ried to Miss Alma C. Lane, a native of the Bay 
 state. They have two adopted sons, Howard 
 and Ambrose, the former a law student. Mrs. 
 Brownell is a member of the Presbyterian Church 
 and Mr. Brownell belongs to various fraternal 
 organizations, holding membership relations with 
 the Knights of the Maccabees, the Woodmen of 
 the World, the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and the Improved Order of Red Men. 
 
 While not engrossed with his labors as a leg- 
 islator, Mr. Brownell finds that his time is fully 
 occupied with a large and growing law practice 
 of a distinctively representative character. He 
 is especially strong as a trial lawyer, being a 
 forceful, eloquent speaker, whose deductions fol- 
 low in logical sequence and whose . analyzation 
 of a cause and the application of the points of 
 law which apply thereto is correct and compre- 
 hensive. 
 
 HON. CHARLES W. FULTON. The ju- 
 nior United States senator from Oregon is Hon. 
 Charles W. Fulton, a statesman of eminent abil- 
 ity, one of the foremost attorneys of Clatsop 
 county, and a man of exceptional talent and high 
 character. A resident of Astoria, he is prominent 
 in legal, political, fraternal and social circles, and 
 is deservedly popular and esteemed as a citizen. 
 A son of Jacob Fulton, he was born August 24, 
 1853, in Lima, Allen county, Ohio, the same 
 county in which his paternal grandfather, Loami 
 Fulton, was born. 
 
 A native of Allen county, Ohio, Jacob Fulton 
 was reared on a farm, and when young, learned 
 
 the trade of a carpenter and builder. He subse- 
 quently removed with his family to Harrison 
 county, Iowa, locating on a farm in Magnolia. 
 During the Civil war, he served as "second lieu- 
 tenant of Company A, Twenty-ninth Iowa Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, being in the Department of the 
 Tennessee until forced to resign on account of ill 
 health, in 1864. Removing to Pawnee City, 
 Neb., in 1870, he was successfully engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits until his death. He married 
 Eliza McAllister, who was born in Pennsylvania, 
 of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was left an orphan 
 in early childhood. She survived her husband, 
 and still resides in Pawnee City, Neb. Of the 
 eight children that blessed their union, one daugh- 
 ter and five sons grew to years of maturity. 
 Four of the sons became residents of Astoria, 
 namely : Charles W., the special subject of this 
 brief biographical review; George C, an attor- 
 ney, in partnership with his brother Charles ; Dr. 
 J. A., a well-known physician ; and Dr. A. L., a 
 prominent physician, who died at his home in 
 Astoria in 1900. 
 
 Obtaining his elementary education in the dis- 
 trict schools of Magnolia, Iowa, whither his par- 
 ents removed when he was a child of two years, 
 Charles W. Fulton afterwards completed the full 
 course in the Pawnee City Academy. Ambitious 
 to enter the legal profession, he accomplished his 
 desire by virtue of hard work, studying law 
 under Judge A. H. Babcock, now of Beatrice, 
 Neb., in the meantime teaching school winters 
 in order to assist in defraying his expenses. 
 Being admitted to the bar in April, 1875, Mr. 
 Fulton immediately came to Oregon, and the fol- 
 lowing three months taught school in Waterloo, 
 Linn county. Going in July of that year to As- 
 toria, he found that the entire population of Clat- 
 sop county was but seventeen hundred souls, and 
 that Judge Bowlby, Judge Elliott, Gen. O. F. 
 Bell, J. Taylor and W. L. McEwan were the only 
 attorneys in the city of Astoria, and of these 
 Judge Bowlby and Mr. Taylor are the sole sur- 
 vivors. Opening a law office. Mr. Fulton at once 
 began the practice of his profession, which he has 
 continued until the present time. He has met 
 with most excellent success, having so much busi- 
 ness to attend to that in 1884 he admitted his 
 brother, George C. Fulton, to an equal partner- 
 ship, and both are kept busily employed in look- 
 ing after the interests of their large clientele. 
 
 One of the leading Republicans of the state, 
 Mr. Fulton has ever been influential and active in 
 local and national affairs, and since 1884 has done 
 much campaign work at every state election. As 
 state elector in 1888. he was selected to carrv the 
 vote for President Plarrison to Washington in 
 February, 1889, having previously served as 
 chairman of the Oregon delegation to the con- 
 vention which nominated him to the presidency, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL REG IRD. 
 
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 and in 1892 he was .1 delegate to the national con- 
 vention held in Minneapolis, Minn. For two 
 terms he served as cit) attorney tor Astoria. In 
 [878 he was elected state senator, and served two 
 years. Again elected to the state senate in 1890, 
 he served from 189] until 1893, in the meantime 
 helping to re-elect Senator Mitchell as United 
 States senator, and serving in 1893 as president 
 of the senate. In 1898 Mr. Fulton was elected 
 state senator, and served in the special session of 
 that year, and in the sessions from 1899 ""til 
 1901, in the latter year being again president of 
 the senate. In 1902 he was re-elected state sen- 
 ator, and in the biennial session of 1903 was 
 elected United States senator, and took the oath 
 of office March 5. 1903, at a special session of 
 the United States senate. 
 
 Mr. Fulton married, in Astoria. Miss Ada 
 Hobson, who was born at Clatsop Plains, a 
 daughter of John Hobson, who came to Clatsop 
 county with the first wagon train of emigrants to 
 cross the plains, arriving in 1843. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Fulton have one child. Frederick C. Fulton. 
 Fraternally Mr. Fulton is a member and past 
 exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective 
 ( )rder of Elks, and of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 IRA F. POWERS, SR. The long and promi- 
 nent association of Mr. Powers with the com- 
 mercial affairs of Portland, together with his high 
 character as a man. his kindness as a friend and 
 his liberal, philanthropic spirit, gave him a place 
 of influence and honor among his fellow-towns- 
 men and caused the news of his death, which oc- 
 curred September 8, 1902, to be even-here re- 
 ceived with regret. The family of which Mr. 
 Powers was a member was established at Little- 
 ton. Mass.. very early in the history of America, 
 and the lineage is traced back in England as far 
 as the twelfth century. In 1683 tne ^ttev "s" 
 was added to the original name of Power, thus 
 giving it its present form. Many generations 
 continued to reside in New Englaiid,"but finally 
 Levi Powders migrated from Vermont to Balls- 
 ton. X. Y., where he married Mary Frost. 
 Among their children was Ira F. Powers. Sr., 
 who was born at Au Sable. Clinton county, N. 
 Y.. in 1831. From the age of twelve he was 
 -elf-supporting. However, though he had little 
 opportunity to acquire an education in schools. 
 he gained a broad fund of knowledge in the 
 great school of experience, and few men of his 
 day had a more thorough business education than 
 he, though it was wholly self-acquired. When 
 news came of the discovery of gold in Cali- 
 fornia, he came to the coast via Cape Horn, and 
 
 though his faith in mining was not great, he fol- 
 lowed the general trend of emigrants, and ex- 
 perimented as a miner, the result being suffi- 
 ciently satisfactory to induce him to remain in 
 the occupation for about thirteen years. Mean 
 while he prospected in various parts of Cali 
 fornia and Idaho. 
 
 The spring of 1865 found Mr. Powers in 
 Portland, where, in partnership with A. Uur- 
 chard, he engaged in the second-hand furniture 
 business, continuing the same profitably until 
 all was lost in the fire of 1875. Meantime, in 
 1872, he had embarked in the manufacture of 
 furniture under the firm title of Donly, Beard 
 & Powers, their plant being located at Wills- 
 burg. During 1875 ne started a factory on 
 Water street near the foot of Montgomerv, but 
 later removed the plant to South Portland, 
 where he had a tract of three acres. In 1893 the 
 business was incorporated under the title of the 
 Ira F. Powers Manufacturing Company, with 
 himself as president, and this position he held 
 until his death. In the meantime he had other 
 interests of an important nature, chief among 
 these being his connection with the banking bus- 
 iness, his membership in the Chamber of Com- 
 merce and the Manufacturers' Association, his 
 work as a builder of the Morrison street bridge 
 and also as a stockholder in the Madison street 
 bridge. Fraternallv he was a charter member of 
 Pilot Peak Lodge, I. O. O. F., but allowed his 
 membership in this bodv to lapse in later years. 
 He was also connected with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. In Masonry he was first 
 a member of Gold Run Lodge, F. & A. M., in 
 California, and later of Harmonv Lodge No. 12. 
 of Portland, in which he officiated as treasurer 
 for twelve years. After coming to Portland 
 he also became associated with Portland Chap- 
 ter No. 3, R. A. M. ; Oregon Commanderv No. 
 1, K. T., and Al Kader Temple. N. M. S. In 
 politics he was a pronounced Republican. 
 
 In disposition he was large-hearted and gen- 
 erous, and was one of Portland's most philan- 
 thropic citizens, a friend to the needy and es- 
 pecially kind to homeless boys. It is said that 
 at times he had as many as five such boys in his 
 own home, doing all he could to train them for 
 positions of usefulness and honor in the busi- 
 ness world. Largely through his efforts the 
 Boys' and Girls' Aid Society was organized in 
 Portland, and in many other ways he was en- 
 abled to help those who were homeless and 
 friendless. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Powers occurred in 
 t86o and united him with Minnie Wilson, who 
 died four years later, leaving a son. Frederick, 
 now living in Maine. In 1870 he was again 
 married, his wife being Mary Sullivan, who was 
 horn in New York City and came with her par- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cuts, D. and Jessie Sullivan, to the west in an 
 early daw later accompanying her mother from 
 California to Oregon. She died in 1875, leaving 
 an only son, Ira F., Jr. The last named was 
 horn in Portland, in 1872, and at seventeen years 
 of age entered his father's store, where for three 
 years he studied business methods and the de- 
 tails of that special enterprise. For a year he 
 engaged in the furniture business at Lagrande, 
 ( he., after which he traveled as salesman for 
 I ley wood Bros. & Wakefield Co., his route com- 
 prising Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washing- 
 ton. While as a commercial traveler he was 
 successful, yet it was his father's wish and his 
 own desire to enter into business for himself, 
 and, accordingly, in August, 1902, he resigned 
 from the road and became secretary of the Ira 
 F. Powers' Manufacturing Company. Upon 
 the death of his father he succeeded to the pres- 
 idency of the concern. His furniture establish- 
 ment is situated at No. 190 First street, where 
 both a wholesale and retail business is con- 
 ducted, and where four floors, 50x100 feet, fur- 
 nish ample space for storage and exhibit pur- 
 poses. The sales are not limited to Portland, but 
 extend throughout the entire northwest. To 
 supply the constant demand for extension and 
 center tables, the manufacture of which is the 
 firm's specialty, modern machinery has been in- 
 troduced, until now the plant, operated ten hours 
 a day, has a capacity of about fifteen hundred 
 tables per month. 
 
 In many of his business and fraternal connec- 
 tions Mr. Powers has followed the example of his 
 father. He is identified with the Manufactur- 
 ers' Association, the Portland Board of Trade, 
 Harmony Lodge No. 12, A. F. & A. M., and is 
 likewise a member of the Commercial Club and 
 the Multnomah Athletic Club. In politics he is 
 a stanch adherent of the Republican party. It 
 is his ambition to maintain the high standard of 
 business honor and intelligence established by 
 his father and to increase the volume of business 
 transacted by the concern of which he is the 
 head. In succeeding to the business, he has be- 
 fore him the example of his father to stimulate 
 him to an increased ambition, knowing that he 
 cannot better honor his predecessor in business 
 than by keeping all of his transactions above crit- 
 icism and sustaining the high reputation already 
 gained by the company. 
 
 HON. JOSEPH S. HUTCHINSON. On 
 the arrival of Joseph Hutchinson from York- 
 shire, England, he took his family to Iowa and 
 settled near Dubuque, but soon removed to 
 Shullsburg, Lafayette county, Wis., and there 
 
 supplemented the tilling of a farm by work as a 
 lead ore smelter. His life was protracted to the 
 advanced age of eighty-seven. His wife had 
 died of cholera during their residence in Iowa 
 when forty-six years old. At the time of cross- 
 ing the ocean their son, Christopher, was a small 
 boy, and hence his early recollections were prin- 
 cipally of frontier scenes in Iowa and Wisconsin, 
 hollowing in the footsteps of his father, he took 
 up work in lead ore smelting, and continued in 
 the same, in various towns, until about 1881. 
 While living in Grant County, Wis., he served two 
 terms in the state legislature. From Wisconsin 
 he went to Oregon, and in 1897 began prospect- 
 ing in Dawson, Alaska, later going to Nome, 
 where he staked a rich claim, but through a fraud- 
 ulent entry in the land office he was defrauded 
 of what was justly his. Thereupon he returned 
 to Portland. 
 
 While living in Wisconsin Christopher Hutch- 
 inson married Susan Oatey, who was born near 
 Land's End, Cornwall, England, and came to 
 America with her father, Samuel Oatey, settling 
 in Shullsburg. After a time as a salaried 
 employe in lead mines, he was promoted 
 to the position of mine superintendent in 
 Cuba, later returning to Wisconsin. In the 
 family of Christopher Hutchinson there were 
 four sons and two daughters, all of whom 
 are in Oregon,. Joseph S. being the third 
 son and fourth child. He was born in Shulls- 
 burg, Wis., July 7, 1868, and attended the gram- 
 mar and high school of his native town. After 
 completing his schooling he learned the barber's 
 trade. In 1891 he came to Portland, where he 
 took up work at his trade. On the organization 
 of the Barbers' Union, in October, 1899, he was 
 chosen its first president. It was through his 
 instrumentality that the union was organized and 
 placed upon a solid basis ; it has proved a wise 
 step, and many have profited by the sick benefits 
 offered. Death benefits also are gfiven. 
 
 In Portland, December r, 1895, Mr. Hutchin- 
 son married Lelah Hendershott, who was born 
 in Marion county, Ore., and by whom he has 
 two children, Howard and Corrine. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Maccabees and the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, and is also 
 counselor of the Order of Pendo. Politically he 
 is a stanch Republican, loyal to his party and a 
 worker for its success. In 1902 he was nomin- 
 ated on the Republican ticket as a member of the 
 legislature representing Multnomah county and 
 was duly elected, since which time he has served 
 in that capacity to the satisfaction of all con- 
 cerned. March 6, 1903, he was appointed license 
 inspector in the office of the city auditor, which, 
 under the new charter, comes within the civil 
 service regulations. 
 

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 95 
 
 HON. NEWTON CLARK. A varied, event- 
 ful and interesting career preceded the coming 
 
 of Hon. Newton (.'lark to Portland in 1889, his 
 chief incentive in thus selecting this city for his 
 home being the better to fulfill his important re- 
 sponsibility as grand recorder of the Grand 
 Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men of the state oi ( )regon, a position which he 
 has maintained with special distinction, and for 
 a longer time, than any other man in the state. 
 
 \ native of McHenry county. 111., Mr. Clark 
 was born May 27. 1837. and is a son of Thomas 
 L. and Delilah (Saddoris) Clark, and grandson 
 of Richard Clark. The latter was born in Ohio, 
 and served in the war of 1812 under General 
 Harrison. At a later date he settled in Indiana, 
 still later taking up his residence in McHenry 
 county. [11., whence he removed to the farm near 
 Baraboo, Wis., and there the remainder of his 
 life was spent. Thomas Clark was born in In- 
 diana, and in time followed the family fortunes 
 to Illinois and Wisconsin. In 1863 he removed 
 with his own family to Golden City, Colo., where 
 he farmed at the foot of Table mountain until 
 coming to Oregon in 1877. The journey hence 
 was via the overland trail, and was accomplished 
 with horse teams and wagons, the travelers 
 halting at a farm on Hood river, in Wasco county, 
 where Mr. Clark died, at the age of eighty-one 
 years. His wife, who was born in Ohio, was a 
 daughter of Henry Saddoris, an early resident 
 McHenry county. 111. Mrs. Clark, who lives 
 with her son Newton, her only child, still retains 
 her bright faculties, and takes a great interest 
 in the career of her son. 
 
 After completing his training in the public 
 schools of Baraboo, Wis., Newton Clark gradu- 
 ated from Bronson Institute at Point Bluff, and 
 1 hereafter taught school for a couple of years. 
 This peaceful occupation was interrupted by the 
 demand for his services in the Civil Avar, and he 
 was mustered into Company K, Fourteenth Wis- 
 consin Volunteer Infantry, at Fond du Lac, in 
 September, 1861. This well-known regiment 
 participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, 
 luka. Holly Springs. Champion Hill, the siege 
 of Vicksburg (at which place Mr. Clark veteran- 
 ized), the Red River expedition under General 
 Banks, Sabine Cross Roads. Yellow Bayou, the 
 siege and battle of Mobile, and the battle at Fort 
 Blakely and Spanish Fort. Having charge of 
 the headquarter's train of Maj.-Gen. J. B. Mc- 
 pherson, who commanded the Seventeenth Army 
 Corps at the siege of Vicksburg, he had the 
 pleasure of furnishing the United States flag 
 which was floated from the cupola of the court- 
 house in the capitulated citadel on the morning 
 of its surrender upon that memorable Fourth of 
 July. After the capture of Mobile Mr. Clark 
 was placed on guard duty at Montgomery, Ala., 
 
 and was thus employed until his mustering out at 
 Mobile, in the fall of [865. At Corinth he was 
 promoted and commissioned second lieutenani 
 of his company, and was afterward promoted to 
 the position of quartermaster and first lieutenant 
 of the regiment, serving thus until the close of 
 hostilities. 
 
 Following his military services Mr. Clark en- 
 gaged in farming on the paternal farm near 
 Baraboo, Wis., and in 1869 removed to Dakota 
 as a government surveyor, where for seven years 
 he was engaged in running township and sec- 
 tion lines over the greater part of the territory, 
 now called North and South Dakota. He had 
 his own corps of assistants, and while surveying 
 also managed to engage in farming with consid- 
 erable profit. He was identified with many of the 
 pioneer undertakings in the great Dakotas, and 
 among other things to his credit built the first 
 frame house in Minnehaha county, now in South 
 Dakota, and which was located two and a half 
 miles from Sioux Falls, but now adjoins the 
 city limits. Mr. Clark served for one term in 
 the territorial legislature which met at Yankton 
 in 1875, and he was chairman of the county com- 
 missioners of Minnehaha county for three years. 
 Clark countv, S. D., was named in honor of Mr. 
 Clark. 
 
 In 1877 ^ r - Clark joined his father at Fort 
 Laramie and with him came overland to Oregon, 
 the journey taking from the middle of June until 
 the 1st of September, from the Fort to Hood 
 River, Oregon. Here Mr. Clark bought one 
 hundred and sixty acres of school land, combin- 
 ing farming with surveying, and eventually was 
 employed by the government to survey section 
 and township lines in Oregon and Washington. 
 This occupation proved a hazardous one, and dur- 
 ing the seven years spent mostly in the Cascade 
 mountains, he was often obliged to carry his food 
 on horseback, and when the exceeding roughness 
 of the roads made this impossible he had to carry 
 it on his back. This life gave him an intimate 
 knowledge of the Cascade mountains and he 
 was a member of the first party of white men to 
 visit the interesting Lost Lake lying northwest 
 of Mt. Hood. The great glacier, lying on the 
 eastern slope of Mt. Hood, known as the Newton 
 Clark Glacier, bears his name. 
 
 In April, 1889, Mr. Clark was appointed to his 
 present high office of grand recorder of the 
 Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen of the state of Oregon, and soon after- 
 ward took up his permanent residence in Port- 
 land. He still owns the Hood River farm, 
 which, however, is rented to other parties. 
 
 In Baraboo, Wis., Mr. Clark married Mary 
 Ann Hill, a native of Edinburg, Scotland, and 
 who was reared in Wisconsin, a daughter of 
 William Hill, who served in a Wisconsin regi- 
 
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 merit during the Civil war. Three children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Clark, of whom Lewis 
 is a civil engineer in Portland ; Grace, Mrs. 
 Dwinncll, resides in Baraboo, Wis. ; and Jeanette 
 is assistant recorder to her father. Mr. Clark 
 became identified with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen in 1881, in which year he be- 
 came a member of Riverside Lodge No. 68 at 
 Hood River, and still retains said membership. 
 Pie served as master workman, and was an active 
 member of the Grand Lodge previous to his 
 present appointment. He served as representative 
 to Supreme Lodge at Sioux Falls with the degree 
 of honor. In Masonic circles he is also well 
 known, and is still a member of the Minnehaha 
 Lodge No. 5, of Sioux Falls. As a member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic he is identified with 
 Canby Post No. 67, of Hood River, of which he 
 is past commander, and ex-aide on the depart- 
 ment staff. A stanch Republican, he has never 
 interested himself in political undertakings fur- 
 ther than to cast his vote. Mr. Clark is a mem- 
 ber of the Commercial Club, and his wife is a 
 member of the Presbvterian Church. 
 
 licans. He is a member of the Native Sons of 
 Oregon and of Multnomah Amateur Athletic 
 Club. Actively identified with the Taylor Street 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, he has promoted 
 its welfare tlirough his intelligent and faithful 
 service as a member of its board of trustees. 
 
 ADOLPH A. DEKUM. With the inspira- 
 tion and encouragement afforded by the success- 
 ful career of his father, the late Frank Dekum, 
 and with an enthusiastic faith in the future of 
 Portland, his native city, Adolph A. Dekum has 
 conducted expanding and important business in- 
 terests. In Portland, where he was born Febru- 
 ary 28, 1865, he received the advantages of 
 study in the grammar and high schools, and 
 then gained his initial experience in the hard- 
 ware business through a clerkship with the 
 Honeyman Hardware Company. During 1888 
 he embarked in business with his brother, Otto 
 C, under the firm name of Dekum Bros., the 
 two conducting a wholesale and retail hardware 
 trade at No. 245 Washington street. In 1895 
 he bought his brother's interest and has since 
 conducted the business alone, his present loca- 
 tion being Nos. 131-33 First street, where he 
 has a double store, fitted with all the heavy 
 ware, tins, shelf goods and hardware needed by 
 the retail trade. 
 
 In addition to the management of his ex- 
 tensive business, Mr. Dekum acts as trustee of 
 bis father's estate, having entire charge of the 
 same. Both the Chamber of Commerce and the 
 Board of Trade have the benefit of his member- 
 ship and keen business and progressive spirit. 
 His marriage, in Warren, Ohio, united him with 
 Linda E. Andrews, who was born in that state 
 and graduated from the school of her native 
 town of Warren. Her father, Francis Andrews, 
 was a large stock and wool buyer of that place. 
 In politics Mr. Dekum votes with the Repub- 
 
 JUDGE ARTHUR L. FRAZER, one of the 
 eminent jurists of Portland, was born in Polk 
 county, Ore., November 22, i860, a son of John 
 A. and Sarah (Nicklin; Frazer, natives respec- 
 tively of Kentucky and West Virginia. John A. 
 Frazer was an educator during the greater part 
 of his life, having cmalified therefor at Hanover 
 College in Indiana. He engaged in teaching in 
 Kentucky, and in 1854 crossed the plains with 
 ox teams, settling in Polk county, where he im- 
 proved a place, and combined the occupations of 
 small farming and teaching almost up to the 
 time of his death in Salem, in July, 1866. Al- 
 though born in a Democratic community, his 
 father was a strong anti-slavery man, and the 
 son profited by his enlightened example. As a 
 Republican he was well known in Polk county, 
 and represented it in the state legislature in 
 1864. On the maternal side Judge Frazer comes 
 of colonial ancestry, the Nicklin family being 
 closely allied with that of General Washington. 
 John H. Nicklin, the father of Mrs. Frazer, was 
 an early settler of Iowa, and an immigrant to 
 Oregon in 1852. He settled on Salt Creek, Polk 
 county, where he built the pioneer sawmill of the 
 county, conducting the same with considerable 
 success. Afterward he built a mill in Salem, 
 where is now located the old Kinney mill, and 
 his death occurred while carrying on this latter 
 industry. Mrs. Frazer, who died in March, 
 1866, four months before her husband, was a 
 relative of Mrs. Lamberton, of Hillsboro, and 
 was the mother of four children, two of whom 
 are living. Of these, Hough N. is clerk of Gil- 
 liam county. 
 
 Left an orphan at the age of five years, the 
 youth of Judge Frazer was characterized by a 
 hard struggle for existence, especially after 
 leaving the home of his uncle in Salem, at the 
 age of eleven. For some time he lived among 
 strangers, worked hard on farms, and was 
 brought face to face with the serious and respon- 
 sible phase of life. As happens sometimes in 
 most unexpected manner, this lonely youth be- 
 came known to a Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Buffum, 
 very early settlers in the state, having come here 
 in 1845. These people of resource and large 
 heart proved benefactors indeed, and through 
 their instrumentality the possibilities of life were 
 opened up to a receptive and keen intelligence, 
 and what is better a grateful one. Through the 
 influence of Mr. Buffum the lad was sent to the 
 
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 state university at Eugene, where he displayed 
 studious traits, and from which he graduated 
 with the degree of A. B., in 1882. Thus started 
 on tlu' highway of worth-while tilings, the way 
 
 was opened tor the study of law, for which he 
 had long entertained a preference, and at the 
 same time he acted in the capacity 01 principal of 
 the Amity school. In 1883 Mr. Frazer entered 
 the law office of ex-United States Senator 
 James K. Kelly, at Portland, and was admitted 
 to the bar in October, 1884. For a few years 
 following he practiced law in the office of Mr. 
 Kelly, and after the removal of the latter to 
 Washington, conducted an independent practice. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Frazer was elected circuit judge 
 of the fourth judicial district of Oregon, and as- 
 sumed control of the office in July of the same 
 year, succeeding Judge Shattuck, of department 
 1. Judge Frazer is noted for his equitable rul- 
 ings, his large grasp of general law, and his in- 
 variable fairness in all matters that come under 
 his jurisdiction. He is a member of the State 
 Bar Association, the Oregon Historical Society, 
 and the Native Sons, Abernethy Cabin No. 1. 
 In Portland he became identified with the Will- 
 amette Lodge A. F. & A. M., and is a member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ar- 
 tisans, and the Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 In Portland Jndge Frazer married Dora 
 Francis, a native of Clackamas county, and 
 daughter of Stephen D. Francis, who was 
 born in the state of Massachusetts. Mr. 
 Francis removed from Massachusetts to Ver- 
 mont, from there to Illinois, and to Clackamas 
 county, via the plains, in 1854, locating eventually 
 in Mt. Tabor. Mrs. Frazer, who was educated in 
 Portland, is the mother of four children, the 
 order of their birth being as follows : Kenneth 
 Francis, born in 1890; Genevieve, born in 1892; 
 Dorothy, born in 1895 ; and John Hough, born 
 in 1900. 
 
 HON. RUFUS MALLORY. Ever since the 
 early days of American settlement the Mallory 
 family has been identified with the history of our 
 country, the original immigrant, Peter Mallory, 
 having crossed the ocean in 1643 ancI settled in 
 New Haven. Conn. From him descended David 
 Mallory, a native of Connecticut and a lifelong 
 resident of that state, from which he went forth 
 to do service in the colonial army at the time of 
 the Revolution. In recognition of his services 
 therein the government donated to him a land 
 warrant in Missouri, which was a f terw? irjJ_ _io- 
 c'ated by his grandson . His son, Samuel, was 
 boTn in" Uxtord. Conn., August 9, 1782, and in 
 early life settled at Coventry, N. Y., later going 
 to Allegany county, that state, and finally to 
 Steuben count}-. With the exception of a short 
 
 period devoted to seafaring he made agricul- 
 ture his occupation. In religion Ik was a de- 
 voted member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Mis death occurred August [9, 1854, at 
 ( ireenwood. 
 
 The wife of Samuel Mallory was Lucretia 
 Davis, who was born in Oxford, Conn., and died 
 in Greenwood, N. Y. Her father, Col. John 
 Davis, a native of that state, of Welsh extrac- 
 tion, served with such valor in the Revolution- 
 ary struggle that he was promoted to the rank of 
 colonel. In times of peace, as in times of war, 
 he was a leader among men, and he left the im- 
 press of his personality upon his locality in such 
 imperishable memory that the anniversary of 
 his birth is still celebrated at High Rock Grove, 
 where he lived. Nine children comprised the 
 family of Samuel and Lucretia Mallorv, of 
 whom the following survive : Augustus, of Hepp- 
 ner, Ore., now more than eighty-three years of 
 age; Mrs. Maria Slocum, of Fleppner, who is 
 eighty-two years of age ; Mrs. Hallock, who is 
 seventy-nine, and Mrs. Abigail Wallace, seventy- 
 five, both of Heppner; Homer H., of New York ; 
 and Rufus of Portland. The last named was 
 born at Coventry, Chenango county, N. Y., 
 June 10, 1 83 1. and as a boy attended district 
 schools in Allegany and Steuben counties, af- 
 terward studying in Alfred University. From 
 the age of sixteen he alternated teaching with 
 attending school, and in this way paid for what 
 schooling he received, in the meantime taking up 
 the study of law. 
 
 Going to Iowa in 1855, Mr. Mallory became a 
 pioneer teacher at New London, Henry county, 
 where he remained for three years. Meantime a 
 study of the resources of the west had decided 
 him as to his future course, and in 1858 he 
 started via Panama for Oregon, making the trip 
 by ship to San Francisco and thence overland 
 via Red Bluff and Shasta, riding muleback over 
 the mountains. On his arrival at Roseburg he 
 found a teacher was needed, so stopped there, 
 accepted the school, and remained for fifteen 
 months as teacher. During i860 he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and the same year he was 
 elected district attorney of Jackson, Josephine 
 and Douglas counties. The people of Douglas 
 county in 1862 elected him to represent them in 
 the legislature, and in the fall of that year he re- 
 moved to Salem. Later he served for two years 
 as district attorney for the third district, includ- 
 ing Linn. Polk, Marion and Yamhill counties. 
 Snortlv after his retirement from that office in 
 1866 he was nominated for congress by the Re- 
 publicans and received a fair majority over J. D. 
 Fay. While a member of congress he was pres- 
 ent at the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 
 which stands out in his memory as one of the 
 most eventful incidents of his life. In the body 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of which he was a member were some of the 
 greatest statesmen our country has ever had. 
 
 For a short time after his retirement from 
 congress Mr. Mallory was engaged in profes- 
 sional practice. In 1872 he was elected to repre- 
 sent Marion county in the state legislature, and 
 during his term of service had the honor of be- 
 ing chosen speaker of the house. President 
 Grant in 1874 tendered him the appointment of 
 United States District Attorney, to which position 
 he was reappointed under the Hayes administra- 
 tion, his service continuing until 1882. On the 
 expiration of his term the government chose him 
 to act as special agent in relation to some mat- 
 ters at Singapore,. Asia, and he accordingly 
 visited that city, afterward continuing around 
 the world, his trip being completed in seventy- 
 eight days. On his return to Oregon in Novem- 
 ber, 1883, he, with C. B. Bellinger, entered the 
 law firm of Dolph & Simon under the firm name 
 of Dolph, Bellinger, Mallory & Simon. The con- 
 nection continued until Judge Bellinger was ap- 
 pointed by President Cleveland as United States 
 District Judge for Oregon, when Judge Strahn 
 was admitted, the firm becoming Dolph, Mallory, 
 Simon & Strahn. On the death of Judge 
 Strahn the title became Dolph, Mallory & Si- 
 mon, and on the election of Mr. Simon to the 
 United States senate another change was made 
 to Dolph, Mallory, Simon & Gearin. 
 
 The record of Mr. Mallory in professional cir- 
 cles brings his name into mention in con- 
 nection with many of the most noted 
 cases in Portland. One of his specialties 
 has been to act as attorney for defen- 
 dants in damage suits. For some time he was 
 attorney for various railroads, but on the segre- 
 gation of the roads he withdrew. On the organ- 
 ization of the State Bar Association he became 
 a charter member and later was honored by elec- 
 tion as its president. In the organization of the 
 Columbia River & Northern Railroad Company 
 he was an active factor, and has since aided in 
 pushing the work of construction from the Col- 
 umbia River northeast to Goldendale. He is a 
 director of the City & Suburban Railroad Com- 
 pany and the United States National Bank, and 
 acts as attorney for both corporations. While 
 living in Roseburg he married Lucy Rose, who 
 was born in Michigan and by whom he has a 
 son, Elmer E., attorney-at-law, of Portland. 
 Mrs. Mallory is a daughter of Aaron Rose, a 
 native of New York and pioneer of Michigan, 
 who came overland to Oregon in 185 1 and 
 founded the town of Roseburg, where he settled 
 upon a tract of six hundred and forty acres. 
 Until his death in 1901 he was closely connected 
 with the building up of the town. 
 
 During the existence or the Whig party Mr. 
 Mallory was one of its adherents. In 1852 he 
 
 voted for Winrield Scott. On the organization 
 of the Republican party he identified himself 
 with the same and nas since been loyal to its 
 principles and candidates. In 1868 he was sent 
 as a delegate to the national convention held in 
 Chicago, at which time General Grant was nomi- 
 nated for president. Again, twenty years later, 
 he was appointed a delegate to the national con- 
 vention held in Chicago, on which occasion he 
 gave his support to Benjamin Harrison, candi- 
 date for the presidency for the first time. On 
 two occasions the Republicans of the state, in 
 convention assembled, have honored him by 
 electing him president of the meeting. 
 
 LAWRENCE A. McNARY. In tracing the 
 genealogy of the McNary family, it is found 
 that Hugh McNary, a Virginian by birth and a 
 member of a Colonial family of the Old Domin- 
 ion, identified himself with the pioneers of Ken- 
 tucky, where the subsequent years of his life 
 were passed in the task of clearing a home from 
 the wilderness. During the Revolution he and 
 a brother served with the patriot forces, and the 
 gun that he carried was kept by the family and 
 afterwards brought to Oregon. 
 
 Alexander, son of Hugh McNary, was born in 
 Kentucky, whence he moved to Morgan county, 
 111. In 1845, accompanied by his wife, two 
 daughters and three sons, he crossed the plains 
 by ox team, after having spent the winter of 
 1844 and 1845 m Missouri. The trip was a mem- 
 orable one, and rendered especially dangerous by 
 the participation of a portion of the immigrants 
 of that year in the Meek-Cut-Off expedition, 
 when a man named Meek attempted to find a 
 shorter road for intending settlers in the Oregon 
 territory, but became lost in the mountains. The 
 family of Mr. McNary, with many others, were 
 subjected for many days to suffering from ab- 
 sence of water, proximity to hostile bands of In- 
 dians and the ever present anxiety of winter 
 overtaking them before civilization could be 
 reached ; but they finally made their way to the 
 old trail and on to Oregon, arriving at The 
 Dalles after a journey of six months. Thence 
 they proceeded by raft to Portland, where they 
 camped in December, 1845. The city at that 
 time had only one store and about one dozen 
 houses. 
 
 From Portland Alexander McNary proceeded 
 to Polk county, where he located a donation land 
 claim, and ultimately acquired an improved es- 
 tate of six hundred and fortv acres, remaining 
 on that homestead until his death, about the vear 
 i860, at the age of sixty-two years. In his 
 family there were the following named sons and 
 daughters: Sarah E., who married A. C. R. 
 Shaw, and died in Fresno county, Cal., in 1901, 
 
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 at the age of seventy-four years; Hugh M., who 
 was horn in Morgan county, 111., and was a 
 youth of eighteen when the family came west, 
 and who died at Salem, Ore., in 1891 ; Alex- 
 ander \\\. a fanner, who died in Polk county in 
 [898; Catherine, who married John C. Allen, 
 and died in Polk county about i860; and Davis, 
 who died in Polk county about the year 1862. 
 
 When twenty-one years of age, Hugh McNary 
 took a claim in Polk county, and thereafter fol- 
 lowed farming until 1859, when he removed to 
 Wasco county and settled on Eight Mile Creek, 
 eight miles from The Dalles. His attention was 
 given largely to freighting from The Dalles to 
 the mines of eastern Oregon and Idaho, and later 
 devoting himself to the cattle business. He after- 
 wards removed to Klickitat county, Wash., where 
 he continued in the cattle business until the year 
 1876, when he removed to Salem, still continu- 
 ing to be a large land owner, having about one 
 thousand acres in Linn and Polk counties. At 
 the time of his death, which occurred at Salem in 
 1 89 1, he had reached the age of sixty-four years. 
 
 1 lis wife, Catherine Frizzed, who was born in 
 Green county, Mo., and now resides in Portland, 
 was one of the six children of Rees and Lilly 
 Frizzed, who brought their family to Oregon in 
 1852. The father died in the eastern part of the 
 state before the completion of the journey, and 
 the mother died in the year 1887, at her home- 
 stead in Polk county. 
 
 Hugh and Catherine McNary had seven chil- 
 dren, namely : Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, of Vale, 
 Ore. ; Anna L. and Lillian M., who reside at 
 Salem ; Angelo P., a stock raiser in Wheeler 
 county; Lawrence A., an attorney of Portland; 
 Hugh P., engaged in the hardware business at 
 Salem ; and Wilson D., a physician in the State 
 Insane Asylum. 
 
 The education of Lawrence A. McNary, who 
 was born in Wasco county, in the year 1866, was 
 obtained in the public schools of Salem, and later 
 at the Willamette University, where he took a 
 three years' course. In 1888 he took up the study 
 of law with Richard and E. B. Williams, of Port- 
 land. In June, 1890. he was admitted to the bar 
 and at once began the practice of his profession 
 with ex-Governor W r . W. Thayer, who at that 
 time had just retired from the bench of the su- 
 preme court of the state, which continued until 
 a short time before the death of Judge Thayer, 
 In 1902 the Republicans of Portland nominated 
 him for the office of city attorney. He was 
 elected and entered upon his duties in Julv of 
 that year for a term of three years. While the 
 duties of that office naturally require close at- 
 tention, and while in addition to these responsi- 
 bilities he retains the oversight of his general 
 practice, he still keeps in touch with all move- 
 ments looking toward the welfare of the city. 
 
 lie is a member of the Oregon State Bar, the 
 Multnomah Club, the Commercial Club and Port 
 land Lodge of Knights of Pythias. I lis capable, 
 though brief, record as an office bearer has added 
 prestige to the name of one of Oregon's oldest 
 and most honored families. 
 
 CAPT. JOSEPH KELLOGG. Especial inter- 
 est attaches to the records of those pioneers, who, 
 during the earlier half of the nineteenth century, 
 braved the dangers of the unknown west, the 
 perils from wild animals and even more savage 
 Indians, devoting their lives to the redemption 
 of the Pacific coast region and counting no sac- 
 rifice too great that was made for the benefit of 
 their home locality. Such an one was Capt. 
 Joseph Kellogg of Portland, one of the founders 
 of the Peopled Transportation Company of the 
 Willamette, and a man widely known and uni- 
 versally honored. 
 
 The genealogy of the Kellogg family shows 
 that they came from England to Massachusetts 
 during the colonial period and numerous of their 
 representatives were prominent in the old Bay 
 state. The captain's grandfather, Joseph Kel- 
 logg, Sr., was born in Vermont and became 
 owner of a large tract of land at St. Albans. 
 During the Revolutionary war .he served under 
 General Putnam, and some years afterward re- 
 moved to Longdale, Canada, where he was ap- 
 pointed a magistrate and, it is said, married the 
 first couple in the town. Next in line of descent 
 was his son, Orrin, who was born at St. Albans, 
 Vt., in 1790, and who married Margaret Miller 
 in Canada in 181 1, taking her back with him to 
 Vermont. The following year they visited Can- 
 ada and, owing to the outbreak of the war, were 
 compelled to remain there until hostilities ceased. 
 Thus it happened that their son, Joseph, who 
 was born June 24, 1812, first opened his eyes to 
 the light upon foreign soil, but, by act of con- 
 gress, all children born under such circumstances 
 were regarded as native-born sons of our repub- 
 lic. After the war was ended the family crossed 
 into the States and settled near the present site 
 of Lockport, N. Y., but soon moved to a farm on 
 the Maumee river in Ohio. There the son grew 
 to manhood and, in 1844, married Estella Bush- 
 nell, who was born in Litchfield, N. Y., February 
 22, 1818, and was taken by her parents to Ohio 
 at the age of two years. 
 
 The family started for Oregon in 1847, an(1 
 here the parents remained until death, the father 
 dying at eighty-five and the mother when sev- 
 enty. Of their twelve children nine attained 
 mature years and seven settled in Oregon, 
 namely : Joseph ; George, who built and ran 
 a boat on the Columbia river and was also a 
 graduate physician and active practitioner ; 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Elisha and Jason, chief engineers on boats owned 
 by Joseph ; Edward, a farmer in southern Ore- 
 gon ; Phoebe and Charlotte, who died in Ore- 
 gon. While still a boy Joseph Kellogg learned 
 the millwright's trade and at seventeen years of 
 age built a frame bridge across the Ottawa river 
 which at the time was pronounced the best bridge 
 on the river. In Ohio his uncle had let a sub- 
 contract to a millwright who built the mill, but 
 the work was unsatisfactory, and the uncle asked 
 his nephew to rebuild, which was done promptly 
 and well. Inspired by this success, he took con- 
 tracts to build mills in different parts of Ohio, 
 but the country was low and swampy, causing 
 him to suffer with fever and ague. Believing 
 the west afforded better climatic and financial 
 openings, he determined to seek a home there. 
 November 24, 1847, he and his family started on 
 the long journey. The following winter they 
 spent at St. Joe, where they outfitted with an 
 ox-train. As soon as the grass was long enough 
 to provide feed for the oxen, they resumed their 
 journey. When but a short distance out they 
 met Joe Meek, who was hastening east with the 
 news of the Whitman massacre and the Cayuse 
 war. Undaunted, although saddened by this 
 news, the party proceeded on their way. 
 
 Among the members of the company was P. B. 
 Cornwall, who afterward became a wealthy citi- 
 zen of California. Some time before this a few 
 Masons in Oregon had sent to Missouri for a 
 charter, which was granted by the grand lodge 
 of that state October 19, 1846, authorizing the 
 formation of "Phoenix Lodge No. 123. It was 
 entrusted to Mr. Cornwall to be delivered to his 
 Masonic brethren in Oregon, but, while crossing 
 the plains, he learned of the discovery of gold in 
 California and decided to go there. Having 
 found that the Kelloggs, father and son, were 
 good Masons, he placed the charter in their care, 
 to be delivered to Joseph Hull in Oregon. Jo- 
 seph Kellogg accepted the responsibility and 
 placed the charter in a small rawhide trunk, 
 which he himself had made in Canada in 1834, 
 and which was cylindrical, with a flat bottom, 
 two feet long and one foot deep. This trunk he 
 locked and put in the bottom of his wagon, and 
 in due time the charter was delivered to Mr. 
 Hull. Besides, he had the honor of assisting to 
 establish Multnomah Lodge No. 1, the first Ma- 
 sonic lodge in Oregon, and of this he was the 
 first secretary and treasurer. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival in Oregon a donation 
 claim was secured by Orrin Kellogg between 
 Milwaukee and Oregon City, and this in time he 
 converted into one of the most profitable estates 
 in the whole region. Though somewhat ad- 
 vanced in years, his energy and determination 
 enabled him to cope with all the hardships of 
 frontier life. One of the first tanneries there 
 
 was put up by him and he was also a pioneer in 
 raising fruit. The subject of navigation on the 
 lower Willamette and Columbia early engaged 
 his attention, and he was the first of the family 
 of river captains bearing the name of Kellogg. 
 His interest in progressive movements was shown 
 when he accompanied the expedition of his son, 
 Dr. George Kellogg, in the opening of Yaquina 
 bay to commerce. A man of superior ability and 
 broad mind, he was qualified for the difficult task 
 of opening a new region to settlement and add- 
 ing a great commonwealth to our nation's gal- 
 axy of states. 
 
 While the father was thus engaged, his son, 
 Joseph, was no less active and progressive. Lo- 
 cating a claim at Milwaukee, he laid out the 
 town and built a sawmill, having with him as 
 partners in the venture Lot Whitcomb and Will- 
 iam Torrence. In the fall of 1848 he began 
 building a schooner which was completed that 
 winter and sent to San Francisco with a load of 
 produce for the mines. On its arrival the vessel 
 and cargo were sold,- and a larger schooner pur- 
 chased, which was used in carrying lumber from 
 Portland to Sacramento. In a short time suffi- 
 cient money had been made to enable the owners 
 to secure the barque Lausanne and a pair of 
 engines and boilers, also a complete outfit for a 
 steamer. In the spring of 1850 they began to 
 build the Lot Whitcomb, the first steamboat of 
 any size built in Oregon. The launching of this 
 steamer on Christmas day of the same year was 
 the occasion of general rejoicing, but the day 
 had a sad ending in the explosion of a cannon 
 and the death of a ship captain. 
 
 The business of the firm increased with grati- 
 fying rapidity. A flour mill was erected in Mil- 
 waukee and later Captain Kellogg built the Mer- 
 chant mill in Portland. Two vessels made regular 
 trips to Sacramento, laden with lumber, the selling 
 of which brought large' profits to the firm. When 
 the original partnership was dissolved, the firm 
 of Bradbury, Eddy & Kellogg was established, 
 and the standard flour mills were erected, which 
 for years were the most extensive in the state. 
 In 1863 he built the steamer Senator, which was 
 later sold to the People's Transportation Com- 
 pany, an organization formed in 1861 by a num- 
 ber of influential men whose object was to navi- 
 gate both the Willamette and Columbia rivers. 
 However, by reason of an agreement made with 
 the Oregon Steam Navigation Companv, thev 
 confined their work to the Willamette river. 
 About 1867 the company built the basin above 
 the falls to facilitate the portage. This work, 
 which was superintended by Captain Kellogg, 
 stands today a monument of his engineerin°- 
 skill. With the steamer Onward he began the 
 navigation of the Tualatin, and built a canal be- 
 tween that river and Sucker lake, thereby mak- 
 
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 in-; it possible to bring Freight to Oswego and 
 thence to Willamette. About the same lime he 
 laid out the village of Oswego. 
 
 Shortly after the People's Transportation Com- 
 pany disposed of its interests in 1870, the Wil- 
 lamette Transportation Company was organized, 
 with Captain Kellogg as vice-president and a di- 
 rector, and as superintendent of the building of 
 the steamers. Governor Grover and Beaver. 
 However, these interests were soon sold, and he 
 Formed a new company with his brother Jason 
 anil his two sons, placing his boats on the Co- 
 lumbia, on the line to Washougal and the Cowlitz. 
 The two steamers, Joseph Kellogg and Toledo, 
 were erected under his supervision, and his two 
 sons were placed in command of them. They 
 are still on the Cowlitz route and navigate that 
 river into the heart of Washington. This cor- 
 poration, known as the Joseph Kellogg Trans- 
 portation Company, is one of the most popular 
 in Oregon, and has proved a source of profit to 
 its enterprising officers. In order to sail as far 
 up the Cowlitz as possible, the company built the 
 Chester, the lightest draught steamboat in the 
 country, drawing only seven inches, and being 
 used principally between Castle Rock and Toledo. 
 Another boat owned by the company is the 
 Xorthwest. 
 
 Possessing the characteristics of a public- 
 spirited citizen, Captain Kellogg has done much 
 to promote the welfare of the state and advance 
 its interests. About 1857 ne was actively con- 
 nected with the telegraph line to be constructed 
 between San Francisco and Portland and the 
 first in the state of Oregon. At his mill 
 were sawed the cedar posts for the section 
 between Portland and Oregon City. An- 
 other public-spirited enterprise which he fostered 
 by a generous contribution was the building of 
 the old macadam road between Portland and the 
 White House, the first road of its kind in the 
 northwest and still the best drive out of Portland. 
 In early days it was his hope that Milwaukee 
 might prove the metropolis of the state, but he 
 lias since discerned that the growth of Portland 
 is advantageous for the entire state, as thereby 
 the commercial interests of the lower river are 
 massed at one point, rather than divided between 
 some point higher up on the same river and an- 
 other place on the Columbia river. Old river 
 men declare that Captain Kellogg is the most 
 efficient pilot who ever guided boats on the 
 lower Willamette, and he performed success- 
 fully the feat of taking vessels past Ross Island 
 to her dock, which it seems impossible to do 
 now. He was one of the first to receive a license 
 and is now the oldest river pilot. Though now 
 advanced in years he is still a first-class nav- 
 igator, with a clear eye, a steady hand and a vig- 
 orous muscle, and were the necessity to arise he 
 
 could hold his own with the river men of the 
 present generation. 
 
 In politics Captain Kellogg is a stanch Re- 
 publican. One of the recollections of his ( )bio 
 experiences is connected with a rally in 1840, 
 attended by thirty thousand people and addressed 
 by General Harrison. It was the captain's priv- 
 ilege to meet the hero of Tippecanoe and be 
 entertains a pleasant memory of the kindly pres- 
 sure of his hand and cordial expression of inter- 
 est. As might be expected of so influential a 
 pioneer, he holds membership in the Oregon 
 Historical and Pioneer Association, among 
 whose membership none is more highly regarded 
 than he. In Masonry he ranks high. June 27, 
 1872, he became a member of Portland Lodge 
 No. 55, and in 1858 identified himself with Clack- 
 amas Chapter, R. A. M., but is now connected 
 with Portland Chapter No. 3, R. A. M. He is 
 also a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second 
 degree. September 11, 1891, on the occasion of 
 the forty-third anniversary of the organization 
 of the first lodge in Oregon, he was made an 
 honorary member of the Masonic Veteran Asso- 
 ciation of the Pacific coast, in recognition of his 
 services in bringing the charter safely through 
 in the perilous journey over the plains. At Den- 
 ver, Colo., August 11, 1890, he was elected a 
 member of the Masonic Veteran Association of 
 the United States and vice-president for Oregon. 
 The lofty principles of Masonry have been incul- 
 cated into his life. It has been his aim to ex- 
 emplify the teachings of the order, carrying out 
 its precepts of kindness and brotherly love, 
 which, indeed, may be said to be his religion. 
 
 Three sons were born to the union of Captain 
 and Mrs. Kellogg, of whom the youngest, Har- 
 vey, died in infancy. The oldest, Orrin, is also 
 represented in this volume, as is the second son, 
 Charles H., whose death August 7, 1889, was 
 recognized as a heavy loss to the river interests 
 and the steamboat business. , 
 
 CAPT. ORRIN KELLOGG, JR. The name 
 of Kellogg has been indelibly impressed upon 
 the navigation history of the northwest, any rec- 
 ord of which would be incomplete without con- 
 siderable mention of Capt. Joseph Kellogg, and 
 his capable sons, Capt. Orrin and Capt. Charles 
 H. Kellogg. The former of these sons, who is 
 also the older, was born in Wood county, Ohio, 
 October 16, 1845, an( l was tw0 y ears of age 
 when the family started for the far west. His 
 earliest recollections, therefore, are associated 
 with the Pacific coast regions, particularly with 
 the village of Milwaukee, where he attended the 
 common schools. Habits of industry and perse- 
 verance were early impressed upon him, and at 
 an early age, when most boys are care-free, he 
 
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 began to assist in the cultivation of the farm and 
 the management of the sawmill. Upon removing 
 to Portland he attended the Central school and 
 still further enlarged his education by a course 
 in the Portland Business College, of which he 
 was among the first graduates. 
 
 Leaving school, he took up the occupation of 
 steamboating on the Tualatin river, first as en- 
 gineer and later as captain of the steamer On- 
 ward. Since then he has given his attention 
 mainly to navigation interests, although for a 
 time he owned and conducted a dry goods store 
 in Hillsboro. Returning to Portland in 1874 he 
 resumed steamboating, and has since operated 
 on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. In 
 1878 he was placed in command of the steamer 
 Toledo, owned by the Joseph Kellogg Trans- 
 portation Company, of which corporation he is 
 president. In the running of his steamer he has 
 sought to accommodate ranchers all along the 
 line of the boat, giving each a landing, taking 
 their produce on his boat, selling it at market, 
 and bringing back the money, or purchasing for 
 the ranchers any farm machinery, household 
 goods, etc., that they might need. His accom- 
 modating spirit has made him very popular, and 
 he has a host of warm friends among the people 
 of the Cowlitz country. In addition to accom- 
 modating farmers he has done much other im- 
 portant work. Through his influence govern- 
 ment aid was secured for the Cowlitz river im- 
 provement, and the resources of the company 
 were drawn upon to further the same. As a 
 result of his broad and progressive policy his 
 company gained control of the trade of the Cow- 
 litz country, opened up a valuable region for 
 settlement, developed thriving villages from pas- 
 ture lands and gave the ranchers a market for 
 their produce at reasonable freight rates, thus 
 preventing railroad monopoly. Due credit must 
 be given him for these satisfactory results. 
 
 While living at Hillsboro, Ore., Captain Kel- 
 logg married Margaret Ellen Westfall June 5, 
 1870. They have three children, Stella May, 
 Ruby Ethel and Chester Orrin. Mrs. Kellogg 
 was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, May 30, 
 1850, and came to Oregon with her father, Na- 
 than Westfall, settling first at West Chehalem 
 and later going to Hillsboro, where she remained 
 until after her marriage. 
 
 CAPT. CHARLES H. KELLOGG. Through 
 a close identification with the river interests of 
 Oregon, dating from his early childhood until 
 his lamented death, Captain Kellogg acquired a 
 thorough knowledge of his chosen occupation 
 and was recognized as the most efficient steam- 
 boat man in the northwest. Old and experienced 
 navigators, such as Captain Couch, gave him un- 
 
 stinted praise, and even those unfamiliar with 
 steamboating recognize him as an expert in the 
 business. The native talents he possessed, 
 coupled with his long experience, made him one 
 of the most efficient and successful pilots that 
 ever guided their crafts through the lower Wil- 
 lamette and the Columbia. 
 
 The second son of Capt. Joseph Kellogg, in 
 whose sketch appears the family history, Capt. 
 Charles H. Kellogg was born in Wood county, 
 Ohio, October 1, 1846. His earliest recollections 
 are of Oregon, to which state he was brought 
 by his parents in infancy. As a boy he attended 
 the district school at Milwaukee, Ore., and later 
 was a student in the Central school and academy 
 at Portland, completing his education in the Port- 
 land Business College, of which he was among 
 the first graduates. His initial knowledge of the 
 river business was gained under Captain Baugh- 
 man. As soon as qualified to assume command 
 of a vessel he was put in charge of the Senator, 
 a steamer owned by the People's Transportation 
 Company and plying between Portland and Ore- 
 gon City. When the company's interests were 
 sold to Ben Holladay, he relinquished his posi- 
 tion and identified himself with other interests. 
 On the completion of the locks at Oregon City, 
 he had the honor of piloting the first steamer 
 through the locks. For a time he was captain 
 of the Governor Grover on the Willamette river, 
 and later commanded various boats for the Ore- 
 gon Steam Navigation Company. On the or- 
 ganization of the Joseph Kellogg Transportation 
 Company he became a stockholder, and was first 
 its vice-president and then its treasurer, and had 
 command of the steamer Joseph Kellogg until 
 his death. 
 
 The first marriage of Capt. C. H. Kellogg oc- 
 curred February 2, 1870, and united him with 
 Miss Emma E. Goode of Oregon City. His sec- 
 ond marriage took place in January, 1882, his 
 wife being Miss Mary Ellen Copeland, of Scap- 
 poose. Ore., by whom he had two children, Pearl 
 and Earl Joseph. While he was still in the prime 
 of life, with a hope of enjoying many years of 
 usefulness and honor, death came to Captain 
 Kellogg August 7, 1889, removing one whose 
 death was a source of sincere mourning among 
 all of his associates and whose memory is still 
 cherished in the hearts of those to whom he was 
 endeared. 
 
 ^ CAPT. W. H. SMITH. A veteran of the 
 Civil war and a representative of one of the 
 oldest families of Clackamas county. Captain 
 Smith is now spending his last years in ease and 
 retirement at his beautiful home in Parkplace. 
 Retiring in nature, he has never cared for the 
 emoluments of public office, preferring rather to 
 
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 give his whole time and attention to his own 
 business interests. A native of Ohio, his birth 
 occurred in Washington county, December 14, 
 1S40. a .-en of John A. Smith, who was born 
 in Parkersburg, W. \ a., where for a time he 
 lived after reaching mature years, but later re- 
 moved to Ohio. In 1855 he settled in the north- 
 ern part of Missouri, and ten years later found 
 him bound for Oregon with a large party who 
 were also seeking a home in the undeveloped 
 northwest. The journey across the plains was 
 made with ox teams. The encounters with the 
 Indians were many and thrilling. Indeed they 
 were compelled to organize the band into a mili- 
 tary train, of which Captain Knight was made 
 the commander and F. M. Dodson orderly ser- 
 geant. Soon after reaching Oregon, Mr. Smith 
 settled in Clackamas county, taking up a home- 
 stead from the government. Here he resided 
 until 1878, when he sold out and removed to 
 Pomeroy, Wash., where he purchased a tract of 
 land and here he lived the balance of his life, 
 passing away at the age of eighty-four years. 
 His wife, Eliza B. Brewer, whose birth occurred 
 in Ohio, was a daughter of Peter Brewer, a 
 native of Xew York. His death took place in 
 Lewis county, Mo., when he was about eighty 
 years of age. He was a farmer and partici- 
 pated in the war of 1812. 
 
 In Washington county, Ohio, where his birth 
 occurred, Captain Smith spent the first fifteen 
 years of his life, attending the public schools 
 and thus gaining a good foundation for the 
 many busy and useful years before him. The 
 five years previous to the breaking out of the 
 Civil war were spent in Missouri on a farm. 
 When the call for troops was made, Captain 
 Smith was not slow to respond, and in May, 
 1 861, he enlisted in the Home Guards of Colonel 
 Moore. Later, however, he enlisted in the Elev- 
 enth Missouri Cavalry, the latter company be- 
 ing consolidated with the Second Missouri Cav- 
 alry, and was afterwards known as Company L. 
 From private he advanced to orderly sergeant, 
 and later was made first lieutenant, and finally 
 was brevetted captain, commanding company L, 
 Second Missouri Cavalry. During his service 
 he was engaged in encounters at Cape Girardeau 
 and Pilot Knob ; was in Price's raid in Inde- 
 pendence, Mo., in 1864, also in the battle of 
 Mine Run. His experience with the James Boys 
 and Quantrell's men was one that will always 
 be remembered. After four years of noble serv- 
 ice spent in defense of his country, he was mus- 
 tered out, April 7, 1865. 
 
 Soon after the close of the war Captain Smith 
 made the trip to Oregon via the plains. His 
 first employment was found in a saw mill on 
 the Clackamas river, near Oregon City. Here 
 he remained for about twenty years, during 
 
 which time he assisted in changing the mill to 
 a paper manufactory. Feeling convinced that 
 the growing west offered a good field for in- 
 vestment, he purchased the Buck donation claim, 
 which consisted of one hundred and seventy 
 acres. At one time he owned fifteen acres in 
 what is now Parkplace and laid out an addition 
 which was called Smith's addition to Parkplace. 
 On May 7, 1871, occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Smith with Miss Louise Rivers, a native of 
 Canada. Pier father, Israel Rivers, was born 
 in New York, of French descent, his parents 
 going to Canada when he was a young man, 
 and there he engaged in the lumber business. 
 After rearing his family the father took his wife 
 and children and started for the west, locating 
 for a time in Illinois and Kansas, but finally 
 settled in Clackamas county in 1866, and here 
 they still reside. Captain and Mrs. Smith have 
 three living children, as follows : Charles E., 
 a resident of Parkplace; Fred W., graduated 
 from the Parkplace high school, the Corvallis col- 
 lege and the Portland business college, and is 
 now employed as a railway mail clerk ; Katie, 
 the wife of Paul Freytag, who is engaged in 
 the grocery business in Oregon City. 
 
 In political belief Captain Smith is a Repub- 
 lican and for thirty years has served his district 
 as school director. Fraternally he is a member 
 of the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M., the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and the Union Veterans' 
 Union- 
 While Captain Smith has led a life of retire- 
 ment, he has nevertheless neglected none of the 
 duties of good citizenship and at all times he has 
 been found ready and willing to do his share. 
 No movement calculated to be of benefit to his 
 adopted state or county has went by without his 
 firm and active support. He is a type of citi- 
 zenship which stands for all that is good and 
 pure. His record is an honorable one and with 
 those who know him his word is as good as his 
 bond. 
 
 CAPT. JAMES H. McMILLEN. The first 
 member of the McMillen family of whom we have 
 any record is the great-grandfather, James Mc- 
 Millan, a native of Scotland, who upon immigrat- 
 ing to America settled in Rhode Island. His 
 eldest son, also named James McMillan, served 
 valiantly in the Revolutionary war. The latter's 
 eldest son, Joseph McMillen, it will be noted, 
 changed the spelling of the family name, and this 
 has been the style used by subsequent members 
 of the family. The father was a native of Oneida 
 county, N. Y., but in early life removed to Attica. 
 where he learned the millwright's trade. At 
 Pompey, N. Y., he erected a mill, and in 1826 he 
 removed to Buffalo, where he erected the First 
 
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 Presbyterian Church, besides many other struct- 
 ures, and also followed millwrighting to quite 
 an extent. Going to Lodi, that state, in 1829, 
 he continued at his trade there, building mills 
 along Cattaraugus creek, and in the year 1836 
 he removed to Illinois, and on the banks of the 
 Desplaines river also engaged in erecting mills. 
 Working his way further west we next hear of 
 his crossing the plains in 1852. In Oregon City- 
 he at once began to work at his trade, also as- 
 sisting in the building of steamboats and similar 
 work. In 1856 he went back to his home in the 
 cast, going by way of Panama, and upon return- 
 ing to the west brought his wife with him. Set- 
 tling in Forest Grove, he there spent the re- 
 mainder of his life, dying in 1890. His wife, 
 formerly Ruth Gannett, was a native of Spring- 
 field, Mass., and the daughter of Joseph Gannett, 
 who participated in the Revolutionary war, tak- 
 ing part in the battle of Bunker Hill as a minute 
 man. He was of English descent and came of 
 good old Puritan stock. Mrs. Ruth McMillen 
 (lied at her home in Forest Grove, when more 
 than ninety years of age. 
 
 In the family of Joseph McMillen there were 
 seven children, five of whom came to Oregon 
 and three of whom are living at this writing, two 
 sons and one daughter. In Attica, N. Y., where 
 he was born May 10, 1823, James H. McMillen 
 spent his childhood years, and in the schools of 
 Ohio received his early knowledge of books. 
 Going to Illinois with the family in 1836, he 
 continued his studies there for a time, but, finally, 
 wishing to begin his business career, at the age 
 of fifteen years commenced to learn his father's 
 trade, and this he found of inestimable value, as 
 future years proved. March 14, 1845, he- took up 
 the weary march across the plains by ox-teams 
 and did not arrive at Oregon City until October 
 25 of that year. Work at his trade, however, 
 was waiting for him, and almost immediately he 
 found employment in Governor Abernethy's 
 mill. The massacre of the Whitman party in 
 December, 1847, incensed the settlers and inau- 
 gurated what is known as the Cayuse Indian war. 
 Mr. McMillen was one of the first to volunteer 
 and was made first duty sergeant in the first com- 
 pany of Oregon riflemen, doing service in the vi- 
 cinity of The Dalles. Here he found work at his 
 trade and for a time was employed in building 
 fortifications for. the defense of the soldiers. After 
 a service of sixty-eight days he was discharged, 
 as his services were needed in repairing Gover- 
 nor Abernethy's mill, which furnished flour for 
 the soldiers. After performing this task satisfac- 
 torily he was again ready to shoulder his gun, and 
 wherever be could be of use in subduing the In- 
 dians, there he was found ever ready to perform 
 his duty toward the settlers. In the spring of 
 1849 he was one of the argonauts that sought 
 
 the gold fields of California, but unlike the great 
 majority of them his efforts were crowned with 
 more than a modicum of success. From the 
 American river and its tributaries, along which 
 his labors lay principally, he took a large cman- 
 tity of the yellow dust, and in the Oregon can- 
 yon, ten miles east of Coloma, he took out as 
 much as $700 in a single day. 
 
 Although he spent but a few months in the gold 
 fields he returned in December of 1849 $8,000 
 richer than when he started out in the spring. 
 On the Tualatin plains in Washington county 
 he bought a large farm, and to this he added 
 until he had nine hundred acres in the tract. In 
 the meantime he had been employed at his trade, 
 and many mills all over the states of Oregon and 
 Washington stand as monuments to his handi- 
 work. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. McMillen sold his farm on the 
 Tualatin plains and on the banks of the Willam- 
 ette purchased a forty acre tract not far from 
 the steel bridge. A few years later he laid out 
 McMillen's addition to East Portland, but this has 
 been almost entirely disposed of, although he 
 still retains three blocks on the river front, where 
 he has built up a fine residence property. Since 
 taking up his residence in Portland he has built 
 several mills, one of which was for Mr. Weidler, 
 in whose employ he remained as millwright for 
 twelve years. 
 
 A sketch of Mr. McMillen's life would be in- 
 complete were no mention made of his identifi- 
 cation with the North Pacific History Company, 
 which published the History of the Pacific 
 Northwest, known everywhere, and especially in 
 the west, as the best work of the kind extant. 
 He helped organize, was one of the incorpo- 
 rators of the company and was its president. To 
 him should be given the credit for a large part 
 of the historical matter contained in the work, 
 especially the early history of Oregon, which 
 his associations here in pioneer days made 
 it possible for him to produce. 
 
 In Polk county, Ore., in December, 1845, Mr. 
 McMillen was married to Miss Margaret Wise, 
 a native of New York state. She died eleven 
 months later, leaving a son, Frank, who died 
 when he was twelve years old. In Portland oc- 
 curred his second marriage, which united him 
 with Miss Tirzah Barton, a native of Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio. She was the daughter of Capt. Ed- 
 ward Barton, who in 1851 came to Oregon with 
 his family, and who still conducts a carriage 
 manufactory in Portland. Of the second mar- 
 riage the following children were born : Ernest, 
 who died in 1891 ; Justus and Union, who died 
 at the age of ten and six respectively; Mvrtle, 
 who died in her twelfth year and whose ability 
 as a natural artist was very apparent ; Constant, 
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 his twenty-second year; Right H., of Washing- 
 ton; Juno, the wife of Julius Ortlway. engaged 
 in the lumber business in Portland; and Ivy M. 
 wife oi William I. Glover, shipping clerk for 
 Bell & Co., of Portland. 
 
 Aside from his private interests Mr. McMil- 
 len has served his fellow citizens in numerous 
 capacities. For four years he was councilman in 
 East Portland, and for twelve years was director 
 and clerk of the school board. Educational mat- 
 ters have always claimed a goodly share of his 
 attention and he materially assisted in building 
 the schoolhouses in this vicinity. Fraternally he 
 is a Mason, holding membership in Washington 
 Lodge at East Portland. For a number of years 
 he held the office of president in the First Spirit- 
 ual Society of Portland, with which he still holds 
 membership. He is also interested in the Monu- 
 ment Association and is now its efficient treas- 
 urer. This association erected, in 1903, in Lone 
 Fir cemetery, a monument to the soldiers who 
 participated in the Mexican. Cayuse Indian, 
 Civil and Philippine wars. Mr. McMillen is a 
 member of the Pioneer Society and the Historical 
 Society, in both of which he takes an interested 
 part. For seven years he held the office of cap- 
 tain of Multnomah Camp No. 2, Indian War 
 Veterans, which comprises the soldiers who par- 
 ticipated in the Cayuse Indian war, and is now 
 serving as treasurer. Politically he is a Republi- 
 can, upholding its principles upon every occa- 
 sion. 
 
 PROF. REUBEN F. ROBINSON. Early 
 representatives of the Robinson family in Amer- 
 ica identified themselves with the colonists of 
 Virginia, and from that commonwealth sent forth 
 of their bravest and best to fight for the patriot 
 cause during the Revolution. Reuben Robinson, 
 who was a nephew of Col. William Robinson of 
 the Revolutionary army, left Virginia and set- 
 tled in east Tennessee, and from there went 
 to Missouri. He possessed the hardihood and 
 dauntless courage of the frontiersman and it 
 was but natural, when the tide of emigration 
 turned toward the Pacific coast, that he should 
 decide to seek a home beyond the Rocky moun- 
 tains. With ox teams in 1852 he started across 
 the plains. The long and eventful journey came 
 to an end near Junction City, Lane county, Ore., 
 where he took up a donation claim and made 
 it his home the remainder of his life. He not 
 only managed his farm but taught school for 
 several terms during the early period of Oregon 
 settlement. 
 
 Prior to the removal of Reuben Robinson to 
 the west, his three sons, George D.. Washington 
 and William, in 1849 nac l crossed the plains 
 toward the setting sun. Washington died in 
 
 California and afterward William settled at 
 Jacksonville, Ore. The other son, George D., 
 who was born in the Cumberland mountain re- 
 gion of east Tennessee, engaged in mining for 
 a year in California, but in 1850 came on horse- 
 back to Oregon, swimming his horse across 
 rivers and camping out at night wherever he 
 happened to be. After arriving in Lane county 
 he seized the opportunity of attending school 
 for several short terms, but Oregon's school 
 facilities in the early '50s were not such as to 
 hold ambitious young men long. He afterwards 
 engaged in farming and in hauling produce to 
 the miners of Southern Oregon. About 1865 
 he, with his family, moved to Polk county and 
 improved a farm near Dallas. In the spring 
 and summer of '68 he drove a large band of 
 cattle to Bitter Root Valley, Mont. Returning 
 the same year, he bought land and continued his 
 farming interests near Dallas, sending his older 
 children to the Dallas school. Believing that a 
 change of climate would prove beneficial to his 
 wife, who was in ill health, in 1880 he removed 
 to Washington and settled near Spokane, where 
 he bought and brought under cultivation a de- 
 sirable tract of land, on which he lived for a 
 number of years. Being physically unable to 
 continue the hard work of the farm, he sold it 
 and returned to his home in Dallas. His wife 
 died in the spring of 1900 and was buried in 
 the Odd Fellows cemetery at Dallas. Since 
 1900 he has made his home with his children in 
 Portland and Dallas, where he takes a lively 
 interest in municipal affairs, favors educational 
 improvements and reforms, believes thoroughly 
 in the public school, the free library and other 
 agencies for uplifting humanity, and casts a Re- 
 publican vote at every general election. 
 
 The marriage of George D. Robinson in Lane 
 county in 1854 united him with Sarah Richard- 
 son, a native of Iowa and the granddaughter of 
 a Revolutionary soldier from Pennsylvania. Her 
 father, William Richardson, was born in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., of Scotch descent, and settled in 
 Iowa during the early days. He served in the 
 Black Hawk war. Accompanied by his family, 
 he crossed the plains in 1852 and settled in 
 Lane county, Ore., but later removed to Polk 
 county, where he died in 1885. 
 
 In the family of George D. and Sarah Robin- 
 son there were the following-named children : 
 John W., who is now a farmer in Polk county ; 
 George Washington, who died in infancy ; Reu- 
 ben P., county superintendent of schools of 
 Multnomah county ; S. Elvira, Mrs. C. M. Cahill, 
 of Spokane, Wash. ; Abraham L., who is en- 
 gaged in the grain business at Waverly, Wash. ; 
 S. Grant, who is connected with the Union 
 Market Company in Portland; Mary A., wife 
 of J. Card, of Dallas ; Georgia, who died in 
 
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 infancy; and J. Curtis, who is with the Great 
 Northern Railroad Company in Spokane. 
 
 While the family were living near Junction 
 City, Ore., R. F. Robinson was born December 
 9, 1861. As a boy he attended district schools 
 in Polk county and for four years (1880-84) 
 was a student in La Creole Academy, the inter- 
 vening vacations being devoted to teaching in 
 Polk county. During the last two years of his 
 academic course he not only kept up with his 
 classes, but also acted as instructor in mathe- 
 matics. After his graduation he was chosen 
 first assistant teacher in the academy and in 1885 
 became principal. This position he resigned in 
 1886 in order to accept the office of county 
 superintendent of schools of Polk county, to 
 which he was elected on the Republican ticket. 
 On the expiration of his term, in 1888, he was 
 elected principal of Central school and the East 
 Portland high school. On the consolidation of 
 the city, the latter school was merged into the 
 Portland high school, and he continued as prin- 
 cipal of Central school until 1900, when he was 
 elected superintendent of schools, on the Repub- 
 lican ticket, by a majority of about three thou- 
 sand. The duties of the office he assumed, in 
 August of 1900, for a term of four years. 
 
 During the first year of Mr. Robinson's serv- 
 ice as superintendent of schools of Polk county 
 he continued to act as academy principal as 
 well, but finding his new office required con- 
 slant attention, he resigned his principalship, 
 and then gave much attention to the organiza- 
 tion of the school system there, re-writing the 
 records of the school districts. Since then no 
 county superintendent in Polk county has ever 
 divided his time, but has devoted his attention 
 exclusively to official duties. As a teacher his 
 experience has been varied. He has taught in 
 country schools, has been principal 'of an acad- 
 emy and principal of a high school, besides 
 acting as superintendent of schools. In the lat- 
 ter capacity he made a special study of methods 
 of instruction for institute work, and since 1900 
 he has acted as an instructor in a large number 
 of institutes in Oregon and Washington. He 
 has closely organized the schools of the county 
 and carefully guards the educational interests 
 wherever industry and close attention will avail. 
 He is a member of the executive committee of 
 the State Teachers' Association and is the regu- 
 lar instructor of the Multnomah Teachers' Prog- 
 ress Club, an organization of teachers formed 
 for the study of methods and practical school 
 problems. 
 
 Aside from his educational work, Professor 
 Robinson has taken a course in law at the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1898, with the degree of LL. B., and 
 during the same year was admitted to the bar. 
 
 He has not practiced law, but studied it for the 
 benefit that would accrue to his regular work. 
 This knowledge of law he finds of importance 
 to him in his chosen profession. Politically he 
 is a Republican and always takes an active part 
 in the county affairs. While at Dallas he was 
 made a Mason in Jennings Lodge No. 9, but is 
 now connected with Washington Lodge No. 46, 
 of Portland; also Washington Chapter, R. A. 
 M. In the Ancient Order of United Workmen 
 he is connected with Fidelity Lodge No. 4, of 
 which he has been a leading officer. For five 
 years he was a member of the finance committee 
 of the Grand Lodge of Oregon and is now 
 connected with the board of arbitration. The 
 Woodmen of the World also number him among 
 their members. His marriage occurred at Dal- 
 las in 1885 and united him with Ella E. Hal- 
 lock, who was born and educated in this state. 
 Her father, Ezra Y. Hallock, a native of Long 
 Island, came via the Horn to Oregon in 1852 
 and settled in Polk county, where he engaged 
 in milling. The family of Professor and Mrs. 
 Robinson consists of six children, namely : Carl 
 H., Earl N., Frank L., Reubey Faye, Warde 
 and Claude. 
 
 CAPT. RICHARD HOYT. Yet another of 
 the pioneers of this state w T hose active life began 
 upon the high seas, and who eventually sailed 
 into Portland harbor . to identify his activities 
 with the upbuilding of the city, was Capt. Rich- 
 ard Hoyt, from whose life many useful and in- 
 teresting lessons may be drawn. Although he 
 died February 2, 1862, there are many still living 
 who recall his genial and hospitable nature, his 
 capacity for entertainment and his shrewd busi- 
 ness ability. In fact the proverbial inability of 
 mariners to either make or retain money never 
 applied to him, for he possessed none of the ten- 
 dencies which tempt seamen to extravagant ex- 
 penditure, and left his family unusually well pro- 
 vided for. 
 
 Captain Hoyt came of a family represented 
 among the very early settlers of New England. 
 He was born in Albany, N. Y., August 
 7, 1 8 16, his father, Richard, being an edu- 
 cator and farmer during his active life. As 
 is usually the case, the seafaring life appealed to 
 Richard Hoyt while he was still a lad, and when 
 rebelling at a supposed want of opportunity in 
 his immediate family circle. At the age of 
 twelve he ran away from home and shipped 
 before the mast on a sailing vessel, which seemed 
 a calling for which he was best fitted. He 
 liked the work, and under the inspiration of 
 sea breezes advanced rapidly in nautical mat- 
 ters. Arriving at the age of twenty-one, he 
 was given command of a vessel for Captain 
 
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 Prince, and was delegated to sail from Portland, 
 
 Mo., to European ports. I lis adventures upon 
 the deep were many and exciting, the present 
 order and system upon the high seas not being 
 in use at that time. 
 
 While in port in Albany, X. Y.. in 1S42. Mr. 
 Hoyt married Mary Ann Middleton, who was 
 horn in Lincolnshire. England, August 9, 1818. 
 and reared and educated in Albany, N. Y. 
 Shortly after the marriage he set out on a 
 whaling voyage in the north, and though in- 
 tending to be absent but a few months was gone 
 three years. He came to Oregon as master of 
 a vessel in 1847. bringing missionaries for the 
 Methodist Church, the voyage taking eight 
 months. Among them were "Father" Wilbur, 
 the founder of the "Old Portland Academy," 
 and Rev. Mr. Roberts, equally well known, both 
 accompanied by their families. Again in 1849 
 he brought another load of missionaries to carry 
 on the work of the church, and this time he 
 left his ship in Portland, secured his discharge 
 papers, and went to the mines in California. 
 His first practical experience on land proved 
 disappointing and unprofitable, and the seasoned 
 sailor naturally turned his thought to the water 
 which he loved so well. Therefore, he began 
 boating on the Sacramento river, but in this 
 venture he failed to realize his expectations. In 
 the meantime, in 1851. he sent east for his wife 
 and son ; his brother, George W. Hoyt, was dele- 
 gated to bring them safely, via the Isthmus of 
 Panama, to the coast. 
 
 Arriving in Portland in the fall of 185 1, Cap- 
 tain Hoyt located his family in a house owned 
 by Captain Irving on Second street, and five 
 years later he purchased a quarter of a block on 
 the corner of Sixth and Morrison streets, where 
 his death occurred in 1862. As soon as be 
 came here he interested himself in boating, and 
 for his purpose bought a vessel, fitted it with 
 new machinery, and christened it the Multno- 
 mah. The Multnomah certainly had a success- 
 ful career, and while plying between Portland 
 and Astoria, towed, freighted, and also carried 
 the mails. About this time he bought an interest 
 in the Eliza C. Anderson, a well known river 
 boat of its day, but the Multnomah claimed his 
 attention to the last, rewarding him handsomely 
 for the investment. The mail contract which 
 he had signed with the government did not ex- 
 pire until a year after his death, and his wife 
 was obliged to fulfill the contract, which her 
 experience with her husband amply fitted her to 
 do. She continued to live in the home on the 
 corner of Sixth and Morrison streets until 1878, 
 and then went to make her home with her daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Phillips, until her death, September 
 1. 1893. Mrs. Hoyt was a woman of large 
 heart and practical ideas. She was well edu- 
 
 cated and well read, and kepi pace with her fam- 
 ily in their studies and interests. She had a 
 brother, John Middleton, who was a wagon 
 maker by trade, and who came to Portland at 
 an early day, plying his trade when there was 
 great need of mechanics and master workmen. 
 Richard Hoyt, the oldest son of the captain, was 
 born in Albany, N. Y., in 1847, and was edu- 
 cated in the Willamette University and the old 
 Portland Academy. He was fourteen years old 
 at the time of his father's death, but young as 
 he was, he was thoroughly familiar with" the 
 river, and was able to take the Multnomah from 
 Portland to Astoria. He married and had three 
 children, Herbert H., Christina, who died aged 
 eighteen years, and Lindley. Sarah M. was born 
 in Portland in 1853, and was educated in the 
 public schools and St. Helen's Hall. Her mar- 
 riage with P. F. Phillips occurred in 1875, her 
 husband being a native of St. Johns, New Bruns- 
 wick. Seven children were born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Phillips, but John Richard, the oldest son, 
 died at the age of six years, and Ralph died 
 March 3, 1903, at the age of seventeen. The 
 other children are : Minnie S. ; Aimee W. ; 
 Maude M. ; and Hazel and Harry, twins. Mary- 
 Frances Hoyt was born in 1856 and for her 
 first husband married T. S. Carr, by whom she 
 bad two children, a son who died at the age of 
 three years, and a daughter, Ethel, now the 
 wife of Marcus Eddy Spaulding, of Tacoma, 
 Wash. For her second husband Mrs. Carr mar- 
 ried Loyal B. Stearns, and at present makes 
 her home in Portland. Mrs. Hoyt was a de- 
 voted member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, towards the support of which her hus- 
 band liberally contributed, although he was not 
 a member. 
 
 JOHN H. JONES. One of the most kindly 
 and gracious, as well as substantial and forceful 
 representatives of past and present commercial 
 activity in Oregon, is John H. Jones, president 
 of the Jones Lumber Company, and the oldest 
 active lumber merchant in the state, if not in 
 the northwest. This venerable, liberal and thor- 
 oughly successful manipulator of western oppor- 
 tunities was born on a farm near Carthage, N. 
 Y., October 3, 1832, a son of Justus and a grand- 
 son of Elihu Jones, the former of whom lost his 
 father when but fourteen years of age and was 
 thus thrown upon his own resources at an early 
 age. His mother afterward married a Mr. Hal- 
 sey. and he himself was apprenticed to a black- 
 smith in Xew Jersey, from which condition, akin 
 to servitude, he escaped and ran away to Canada. 
 While in the Dominion he married and settled 
 on a farm, an 1 later removed to Carthage. X. 
 Y., where he farmed and plied his trade for 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 main- years. He died in 1847, at the advanced 
 age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 fustus Jones was horn in Ogdensburg, N. Y., 
 March 14, 1807. In 1845 he removed to the 
 vicinity of Keoknk, Iowa, where he engaged in 
 farming until the fall of 1848. He then re- 
 moved his family to Lakeview, Dane county, 
 Wis., traveling with ox teams, where they made 
 their home until the spring of 1852. Not con- 
 tent with the prospects in Wisconsin, he once 
 more hitched up his ox teams, loaded his wag- 
 ons and started on the long journey for Port- 
 land; and notwithstanding the many dangers 
 and deprivations incident to such a trip in those 
 days, arrived safely at Fort Laramie, July 4, 
 1852, after having traveled three months and 
 three days. November 27 following the fam- 
 ily reached Portland, and in the month of Feb- 
 ruary, 1853, he and his two sons made the first 
 settlement at Clatskanie, Columbia county. The 
 pioneer family at once engaged in logging and 
 lumbering with fair success, but at the end of 
 three years the father returned to Portland, 
 where the remainder of his life was spent. He 
 died at the Jones sawmill in 1893, at the age of 
 about eighty-five years. His wife, Lois Hast- 
 ings, was a daughter of John Hastings, who 
 went from Massachusetts, about 1800, and set- 
 tled in Jefferson county, N. Y., where Mrs. 
 Jones was born. The family came of Puritan 
 stock and were related to the famous Bacon fam- 
 ily. Mrs. Jones died in Oregon in 1879, leav- 
 ing two children, of whom Elihu King, her 
 youngest son, resides in Portland. 
 
 Upon removing with his family to Iowa in 
 1845, John H. Jones attended the district schools 
 at intermittent intervals, and experienced the 
 same unsatisfactory advantages after settling in 
 Dane county, Wis., in 1848. When the family 
 set out over the plains in 1852 he drove an 
 ox team to Fort Boise, and was there attacked 
 with bilious fever, from the ravages of which he 
 was relieved by the incessant care of his mother. 
 Arriving in Portland in the fall of 1852 he spent 
 the winter in the city, and in the spring located 
 on a farm in Clatskanie, in what is now Colum- 
 bia county, which remained his home for three 
 years. In 1855 he located at Cedar Mills, Wash- 
 ington county, Ore., seven miles from Portland, 
 and there erected and operated the small water- 
 wheel mill which marked the beginning of his 
 career as a lumber merchant. This mill was en- 
 tirely of his own construction, and in it he en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of lumber until 1870, 
 when he located in Portland. In the meantime, 
 however, he had returned to the east in 1862, 
 via Panama, and in 1864 married Jane Catherine 
 Osborne, a native of New York, with whom he 
 returned to his mill in Oregon, by way of the 
 Panama route. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Jones erected a steam mill on the 
 Macadam road. This was burned in 1873, re- 
 built at once, and again destroyed in a similar 
 manner in July, 1889, through sparks from the 
 railroad locomotives. Just prior to the last dis- 
 aster he had dissolved partnership in the milling 
 firm, but his brother rebuilt the property and 
 he again took an interest and incorporated the 
 firm of E. K. Jones & Co. in 1891. The Jones 
 Lumber Company, incorporated in 1901, grew 
 out of the latter-named concern, and Mr. Jones 
 became its president, as he had been of its prede- 
 cessor. The mill has a maximum capacity of 
 fifty thousand feet per day, and its output is 
 shipped to California and many eastern points. 
 
 During all these years Mr. Jones has extended 
 his abilities into various lines of development. 
 Several business and other structures in the city- 
 are due to his faith in the continued prosperity 
 of his adopted state, and he owns besides sev- 
 eral residences and some country property. Mr. 
 Jones is at the present time the oldest active 
 lumberman in this section, and though seventy 
 years of age still retains the business ability and 
 fine personal traits which have brought about 
 his remarkable success in the west. He has 
 given abundant evidence of his appreciation of 
 the opportunities by which he was surrounded 
 by investing heavily in town and country prop- 
 erty, and has in many ways taken an active part 
 in those affairs intended to contribute to the 
 general development of his adopted home. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Jones died in 1875, leaving 
 four children : Elizabeth Lois, wife of William 
 Towne of Holyoke, Mass. ; Lovina Dell, wife of 
 W. H. Grindstaff of Portland; Birdie Lucy, 
 wife of George D. Schalk of Portland; and Her- 
 man Halsey, manager of the Jones Lumber 
 Company. 
 
 HERMAN HALSEY JONES. Among the 
 younger business men of Portland, Herman Hal- 
 sey Jones, secretary, treasurer and manager of 
 the Jones Lumber Company, is securely fortified 
 in a position whose responsibilities he has so suc- 
 cessfully shouldered as to entitle him to a con- 
 spicuous place in the ranks of the most enter- 
 prising and sagacious representatives of the 
 commercial world of the Pacific northwest. 
 While it is true that opportunities of Ho mean 
 nature were placed within his grasp when he 
 stood upon the threshold of his business career, 
 his record proves that, unlike many a young man 
 similarly situated, he was possessed of powers of 
 discernment and judgment sufficient to enable 
 him to make the most of these opportunities from 
 his first effort to the present time. 
 
 The family to which Mr. Jones belongs has a 
 
PORTRAIT AND P.IOCRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 record for enterprise, energy and initiative work 
 extending through several generations. The 
 history of the identification of the fam- 
 ily with the industrial interests o\ Oregon 
 began more than a half a century ago when, in 
 [852, Justus Jones, the paternal grandfather of 
 the subject of this sketch, came from his pioneer 
 home in Wisconsin and established one of the 
 earliest lumber industries of this state in the 
 vicinity of Portland. His son, John H. Jones, 
 took up this business where the pioneer left off, 
 and the representative of the third generation is 
 now energetically engaged in prosecuting the 
 business developed by his father, whose advanced 
 age renders him willing to allow the brunt of 
 the great responsibilities attached to the conduct 
 of the enterprise to fall upon the younger and 
 more active man. 
 
 Herman Halsey Jones was born in Portland, 
 March 17, 1870, and received his education in 
 the public schools of that city. From his earliest 
 youth he was more or less familiar with the busi- 
 ness conducted by his father, and after entering 
 the employ of the mill in 1890, beginning at the 
 bottom of the ladder, he learned all the details of 
 the business in its various departments. When 
 the firm of E. K. Jones & Co. was incorporated in 
 1891 he was elected to the directorate, and filled 
 the position of vice-president until assuming the 
 positions of secretary and manager in 1898. 
 Upon the organization of its successor, the Jones 
 Lumber Co., in 1901, he became its secretary, 
 treasurer and manager. The mill, located at No. 
 1280 Macadam street, has a capacity of fifty thou- 
 sand feet per day of te.11 hours, and the yard, 
 located at Fourth and Columbia streets, is the 
 largest retail yard in Portland. The mill is op- 
 crated by steam power, has double circular saws, 
 lath mill, box shook plant and moulding plant, 
 and its products are shipped to California and 
 many eastern points. 
 
 In Portland Mr. Jones was united in mar- 
 riage with Mamie C. Morris, a native of England, 
 and a daughter of David A. Morris, foreman 
 of the Willamette Steel & Iron Works. She 
 came to the United States with her parents in 
 1876, and has resided in Portland since 1879. 
 They are the parents of a son, named Morris 
 Giesy. Air. Jones is a member of the Native 
 Sons of Oregon, and in political affiliation is a 
 Republican, though not a seeker for public 
 honors. He was one of the incorporators of 
 the Portland City Retail Lumber Company, a 
 clearing house association for the lumber mer- 
 chants of this city. He is one of the energetic 
 and typically western business men. possessing 
 personal attributes which cannot fail to keep him 
 among the foremost in business and social af- 
 fairs. 
 
 ROCKEY PRESTON EARHART. During 
 
 his public service, which lasted over a period of 
 twenty-five years, Rockey Preston Earhart be- 
 came a prominent and influential figure in the 
 legislative life of the state of Oregon, serving 
 almost constantly in some capacity during this 
 time, and unlike many other public men every 
 succeeding position lifted him higher in the esti- 
 mation of the people whom he served. Always 
 a careful, thorough business man, punctual in 
 the discharge of duties, and always implicitly 
 trusted, Mr. Earhart took a firm stand on every 
 question which affected the people morally, so- 
 cially or financially and they well knew that their 
 interests were upheld by a representative in 
 every way worthy of their trust and confidence. 
 Personally he was a man who influenced all 
 with whom he came in contact, through the 
 possession of a courteous, kindly disposition and 
 a forceful, speaking magnetism, winning many 
 friends, for whom he entertained a frank, warm 
 and loyal attachment, which could not but be 
 reciprocated. His splendid optimism, from 
 which fine quality the greatness of the world 
 has grown, caused him to be sought for at 
 every gathering, political or otherwise, for he 
 was an eloquent and engaging conversationalist, 
 describing with striking force whatever had 
 come within his line of vision. Such a char- 
 acter as that of Mr. Earhart must stand for 
 all time as one of the pillars in the magnificent 
 statehood which has been erected in the north- 
 west, and though gone from mortal sight, as all 
 must go, he still lives in the hearts of those who 
 knew him in the pioneer days of the country. 
 
 Air. Earhart was born in Franklin county, 
 Ohio, June 23, 1836, and received his education 
 in the private schools of his native state, where 
 he gained a practical business training. He 
 left his home in 1855 and came to Oregon by 
 way of the Isthmus of Panama, seeking a 
 broader, scope for his abilities. Upon his arrival 
 in this section he came in contact with some of 
 the public men of the day, and they, recognizing 
 the ability which was needed in all departments 
 of the growing west, secured for him an ap- 
 pointment as clerk in the quartermaster's depart- 
 ment at Ft. Yamhill, then under the command 
 of Capt. Robert A'IcFeely, who later became a 
 general in the United States Army, and quar- 
 termaster P. H. Sheridan, then an almost un- 
 known soldier. Air. Earhart remained in this 
 department until 1861, this date being the signal 
 for the departure of Sheridan, who went toward 
 the states to offer his services in putting down 
 the rebellion, during which time he served val- 
 iantly in the Yakima Indian war, rendering val- 
 uable assistance to the officials under whom he 
 served. Tn 186] he embarked in a merchandis- 
 ing enterprise in Yamhill and Polk counties, con- 
 
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 tiriuing so engaged for three years, during which 
 time he was married, July 2, 1863, to Miss N. A. 
 
 Burden, who was herself a young pioneer to 
 the coast. 
 
 Judge Job Burden, the father of Mrs. Earhart, 
 was one of the first judges appointed in that 
 county, and was a pioneer of Oregon. His home 
 was in Sangamon county, 111., and from that 
 state a party of emigrants, of whom the judge 
 and his family were members, came in 1845, 
 equipped with supplies, wagons and ox teams. 
 
 The journey occupied six months, the close of 
 which found them safely located in the western 
 state. Judge Burden followed farming in Polk 
 county and endured all the hardships and priva- 
 tions of the early settler, and by his earnest and 
 persevering work proved his substantial qualities 
 as a citizen of the county in which he made 
 his home. He and his wife died there at ad- 
 vanced ages. Of their six children three daugh- 
 ters survive, Mrs. Earhart having been born in 
 Illinois in 1844 a "d thus crossed the plains at 
 the ag-e of one vear. Of the children which 
 blessed her union with Mr. Earhart, Alice A. 
 is the wife of H. F. Gibson, of Seattle, Wash. ; 
 Eva T. is the widow of F. H. Alliston, of Port- 
 land ; Clara E. is the wife of Dr. George F. 
 Koehler, of Portland; and Agnes L. is the wife 
 of W. A. Holt, also of this city. They were all 
 born in Oregon and were educated in the public 
 and best private schools which the country af- 
 forded. 
 
 Mr. Earhart engaged in merchandising until 
 he received an appointment as United States 
 Indian Agent at the Warm Springs Agency, to 
 succeed Colonel Logan, remaining for about a 
 year, when he was followed by Capt. John Smith. 
 For some time after this he served as chief clerk 
 and special Indian agent under Superintendent 
 Huntington, and was secretary of the board of 
 commissioners appointed by the general govern- 
 ment to treat with the Klamath and Modoc In- 
 dians. In 1868 he again engaged in the mercan- 
 tile business at Salem, Ore., and continued there 
 until 1872. In conjunction with other citizens 
 Mr. Earhart was active in maintaining peace at 
 the capital during the troublesome times when 
 the Civil war was in progress and when an out- 
 break might have occurred but for the courage 
 and coolness of a few citizens who were pre- 
 pared for active service at .any moment. In 
 1870 Mr. Earhart was called upon to represent 
 Marion county in the legislature, as a Repub- 
 lican, and was there instrumental in securing the 
 first appropriation for the erection of public 
 buildings in the state. He moved to Portland at 
 the close of the term and was engaged for some 
 time in the business department of the Daily 
 Bulletin. He was appointed chief clerk of the 
 surveyor general's office in 1874 and success- 
 
 fully maintained this position until 1878, when 
 he resigned to accept the office of secretary of 
 state, to which he had been elected. He en- 
 tered upon his duties and reorganized and sys- 
 tematized the business of the office, and so ac- 
 ceptably did he discharge his duties that he re- 
 ceived the unanimous vote of the Republican 
 state convention for renomination and secured 
 a majority of twenty-five hundred votes in the 
 June election, 1882. Plis second term was as 
 eminently satisfactory as the first, and upon his 
 retirement his administration was heartily en- 
 dorsed by both parties. From 1885 to 1887 he 
 served as adjutant general of the state, and in 
 1888 was elected member of the legislature from 
 Multnomah county, and re-elected for a second 
 term, which was never completed. In 1890 he 
 was appointed collector of customs, a position 
 which was also interrupted by the summons of 
 death. During his last residence in Portland 
 Mr. Earhart was instrumental in the organiza- 
 tion and incorporation of the Northwest Insur- 
 ance Company, taken up by the prominent men 
 of the city of Portland, and in this company Mr. 
 Earhart was appointed manager, which position 
 he held for a number of years. His death oc- 
 curred at his home in Portland, No. 365 Twelfth 
 street, south, May 11, 1892. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Earhart was very 
 prominent, having been made a Mason in 1863 
 and had held every office in the gift of the 
 fraternity. In 1872 he was elected grand secre- 
 tary of the Grand Lodge, serving until 1878, 
 when, in recognition of past services in that 
 body, he was elected to the high and honorable 
 position of grand master and re-elected in 1879. 
 He was also sovereign grand inspector and at- 
 tained the thirty-third degree in the Scottish Rite 
 in Oregon. He assisted in the organization of 
 the first commandery of Knights Templar estab- 
 lished on the north Pacific coast, and served for 
 four years as eminent commander, and upon his 
 retirement he was presented with a handsome 
 Masonic jewel. At the time of his death he was 
 grand commander of Knights Templar of the 
 state. Religiously he was a member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. 
 
 CAPT. GEORGE H. FLANDERS. A little 
 more than a decade ago the city of Portland was 
 called upon to give up one of the men whose 
 character has truly left an ineradicable impres- 
 sion upon the moral, social and commercial life 
 of that city ; whose purity of thought, word and 
 action has placed him as one apart from the 
 large number of those who gave their strength 
 and manhood to the upbuilding of the west ; who, 
 though long passed away, is still remembered by 
 the many friends who loved him and the manv 
 
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 who knevt his worth through the kindness which 
 he had shown them in the day oi their need. 
 Captain Flanders lived a life of such usefulness, 
 intelligent, practical and Christian, giving freely 
 
 of all wherewith he was blessed, in every busi- 
 ness enterprise earnest for the advancement of 
 the growth of the city but ever guarding his own 
 honor ami that of the community, the word be- 
 in £ the key note to the blamelessness of his en- 
 tire life. A brief sketch of his life is herewith 
 given, his participation in the early history of the 
 city numbering him as one of the representative 
 citizens. 
 
 George 11. Flanders was horn in Newbury- 
 port, Mass.. December 25. 1821, the representa- 
 tive of an old New England family, the English 
 ancestor having come to that state in 1040. There 
 the father. John, was also born. From his earli- 
 est boyhood Captain Flanders followed the sea, 
 engaging in manhood in foreign trade, and 
 finally he turned his eyes toward the western 
 states, a splendid faith in their future justifying 
 the removal here. In the year 1848 he came 
 with his brother-in-law, Captain Couch, in a ves- 
 sel of his own named "Palos." around the Horn 
 to San Francisco and a little later became a resi- 
 dent of our city, where he remained throughout 
 the remaining: years of a long and useful life, 
 closely identified with the business interests of 
 the city and the development of her resources. 
 It is a fact worthy of note that Captain Flanders 
 never revisited his home in the eastern states, so 
 entirely content did he become in the life and 
 interests which were his as a citizen of this 
 section. He was first connected with Captain 
 Couch in the building of the wharf which 
 extended from Ankeny to Davis street and 
 was known by the names of the two men, 
 and Captain Flanders also built the Greenwich 
 wharf. For several years he was engaged in the 
 mercantile business here and in transportation 
 between Portland and San Francisco, and also 
 owned one-fourth of the Couch donation land 
 claim, now known as Couch addition to the city. 
 In connection with Captain Couch he built the 
 first Masonic temple in the city, located at the 
 corner of Front and Burnside streets, this being 
 one of the first brick buildings here erected. One 
 of the most important positions which the cap- 
 tain filled was that of United States hull inspec- 
 tor, succeeding to this upon the death of Captain 
 Couch, and maintaining honorably and creditably 
 the same for the period of ten years, at the ex- 
 piration of that time resigning. 
 
 In fraternal relations Captain Flanders was a 
 member of the Masonic order, belonging to Wil- 
 lamette Lodge, and in religion he was a consci- 
 entious member of Trinity Episcopal Church, in 
 which he officiated as vestryman until his death, 
 which occurred November 22. 1892. He married 
 
 Maria L. Foster, horn in Winthrop, Me., also 
 Messed with the ancestry of a sturdy Puritan 
 
 family, and she now makes her home in the old 
 home in this city. 
 
 HON. JOHN W. MELDRL'M. From an 
 early period in the history of America the Mel- 
 drum family has been identified with its growth, 
 and it is a noticeable fact that its members have 
 been associated with the pioneer element. Will- 
 iam Meldrum. who was of Scotch-Irish descent, 
 settled in Kentucky as early as 1804. while that 
 state was yet in its infancy and unredeemed from 
 the wilderness. At a later date he became a 
 pioneer of Illinois, settling near Carrollton. 
 where he passed the remaining years of his busy 
 life. John, a son of this pioneer, was born in 
 Shelby county, Ky., in March. 1808. and became 
 a stonemason and builder, following that occupa- 
 tion both in Illinois and Iowa. 
 
 As 'early as 1845 the Meldrum family started 
 on the long and difficult journey across the 
 plains. The family consisted of John Meldrum. 
 his wife. Susanna Depew (Cox) Meldrum, and 
 their four children. Starting from Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa, in April, they followed the Platte 
 and Green river route, and landed at Oregon 
 City in October, 1845. The third in order of 
 birth among the children was John W . who was 
 born near Burlington. Iow^a. December 17. 1839. 
 From the age of six years he has been a resident 
 of Oregon. Almost his earliest recollections are 
 therefore of the far west, with its pioneer en- 
 vironment and sparsely-settled communities. 
 The hardships and privations incident to opening 
 up a home in the wilderness he experienced while 
 yet a boy. and in his later years he has looked 
 back upon the past with a keen appreciation of 
 the changes which time has wrought in our pop- 
 ulation, improvements and well-being. His edu- 
 cation was such as the early schools of the state 
 afforded, but has been supplemented by self- 
 culture and habits of reading and close observa- 
 tion. His father had a claim near Ilwaco. Wash., 
 and for a time he remained there, assisting in 
 clearing the land, but about 1856 he returned to 
 Oregon City. The next few years witnessed a 
 number of changes in his life. For a time he 
 taught school, for two years read law. and for 
 four vears worked in the Florence and other 
 mines. 
 
 About T865 Mr. Meldrum's attention for the 
 first time began to be turned to surveying. For 
 a period of twenty consecutive years, excepting 
 onlv one vear. he was employed as United States 
 deputv surveyor, and meantime worked in every 
 part of Oregon, as well as in Idaho. In 1888 
 he was elected county surveyor of Clackamas 
 county, and two years later was honored with 
 
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 the office of county judge, which officer was at 
 that time ex-officio chairman of the board of 
 county commissioners. In this position his 
 knowledge of engineering was brought into prac- 
 tical use in the betterment of the county roads, 
 then everywhere in a deplorable condition during 
 all except the summer months of the year. 
 Realizing that no permanent improvement could 
 ever come under the labor tax system of working 
 the roads, then employed, he devoted his ener- 
 gies to the abolishment of that system, and the 
 substitution of the money-tax system in his 
 county. But it was not until the middle of his 
 term, in 1892, when a new commissioner, R. 
 Scott, of Milwaukee, whose ideas on road build- 
 ing coincided with those of the judge, came into 
 the board, that it was possible to make the 
 change. As soon as practicable thereafter the 
 change of systems was made, and although con- 
 siderable opposition was encountered at first, 
 especially in the country districts, it soon became 
 evident from the amount of actually permanent 
 improvement already accomplished on the county 
 roads that the new system of working the pub- 
 lic highways was much better and it has been 
 employed in the county since that time. The 
 result has been greatly improved roads, the bene- 
 fits of which the people, from actual experience, 
 have learned to appreciate, and many who at 
 first opposed the change now bless the judge 
 who was instrumental in bringing it about. 
 
 The judge has a comfortable country home on 
 the banks of the Willamette river, one-half mile 
 below the mouth of the Clackamas river. On 
 September 25, 1872, in Oregon City, the mar- 
 riage of the judge and Miss Georgiana Pope was 
 solemnized. Mrs. Meldrum is a native of Ore- 
 gon City, and a niece of Governor Abernethy. 
 They are the parents of three children, namely : 
 Charles E., of Oregon City ; Eva S., a teacher in 
 the high school of the same place ; and David 
 T., a student at Cornell University. 
 
 During 1898 Mr. Meldrum was appointed 
 special agent for the general land office, exam- 
 ining surveys in Nevada and Wyoming, where 
 he remained for ten months, filling the duties of 
 his office. In 1902 he was elected county sur- 
 veyor of Clackamas county, which office he is 
 now filling. The experience of his past surveying 
 expeditions adapts him admirably for his present 
 position, and he is filling it to the satisfaction of 
 the people of the county. Since 1869 ne has 
 been associated with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and is also a member of the En- 
 campment, besides having filled the chairs in the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, of which he 
 is still a member. For ten years he has been a 
 member of the board of trustees of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church at Oregon City, in the work of 
 which he is warmly interested, as well as being 
 
 a generous contributor to its maintenance. From 
 the time of casting his first vote he has been a 
 stanch Republican, and was one of the four dele- 
 gates-at-large from Oregon to the St. Louis 
 convention which nominated McKinley and 
 Hobart. He is a member of the Pioneer Society 
 and the Oregon Historical Society, and is at all 
 times interested in anything pertaining to pioneer 
 days in Oregon. 
 
 ROBERT C. KINNEY was a son of Samuel 
 Kinney and a nephew of Gov. William Kinney 
 of Illinois. He was born in Belleville, St. Clair 
 county. 111, in 1813, of Kentucky parentage. He 
 pre-empted a tract of land on the banks of the 
 .Mississippi river which he thought eligible as a 
 site for a future city. Here he built a hotel 
 and wharf and laid out a town, and ran a boat 
 between this point and St. Louis. Thus he be- 
 came the founder of Muscatine, and a pioneer of 
 Iowa. For a time he engaged in the flouring 
 and sawmilling business, and also read law with 
 Judge Hastings, a prominent member of the early 
 bar of San Francisco. In 1847, accompanied by 
 his family he crossed the plains via the Platte 
 route and Oregon trail, making the journey with 
 ox teams. Near Lafayette he took up a donation 
 claim under the territorial laws of Oregon. 
 
 Attracted by the news of wonderful gold mines 
 in California he joined the throng of adventur- 
 ous spirits, who have since rendered that state 
 and epoch brilliant by their achievements in many 
 fields, and during a part of 1848-49 shared their 
 hardships and their fortunes. Returning to his 
 farm in the latter year he devoted himself to 
 its improvement for a time, but re-entered the 
 milling business in 1859 by the purchase of the 
 McMinnville mills, and finding the business 
 profitable and to his taste, added the purchase 
 of the flour mills at Salem in 1875 and removed 
 thither with his family. This enlargement of his 
 business called for branch offices in Portland. 
 San Francisco and Liverpool, England. To this 
 Salem milling company belongs the credit of 
 chartering the first vessel for the shipment of 
 flour from Portland to Liverpool, China, Hin- 
 doostan and elsewhere in the Orient, and to 
 Montevideo in South America. In the manage- 
 ment of this growing and profitable business 
 Mr. Kinney found his sons to be capable and 
 successful lieutenants, and hence the business 
 which they pioneered has grown to its present 
 importance. But these growing interests did rtot 
 withdraw Mr. Kinney's attention from his duties 
 as a citizen, and his sterling sense and sound 
 judgment were called for by his fellow citizens 
 to aid in the convention which framed the first 
 constitution for Oregon. 
 
 Through his marriage to Eliza Bigelow, R. C. 
 
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 Kinne) became connected with the founder o\ 
 
 the cit\ oi Milwaukee. Wis. Mrs. Kinney was 
 bom in Nova Scotia, and at an early age ac- 
 companied her father. Daniel Bigelow, to Illi- 
 nois, thence to Wisconsin, where Mr. Bigelow 
 engaged in sawmilling. The little mill which he 
 operated became the nucleus of a village, which 
 lie called Mil-waukee. 
 
 In the family oi R. C. Kinney there were eight 
 children who attained mature \ears. and of these 
 three sons and three daughters are now living. 
 Mrs. Mary Jane Smith is a resident of Astoria, 
 and her sons. Senator J. H. Smith and A. M. 
 Smith, are prominent attorneys of the same 
 place. Albert W. Kinney, who was in the mill- 
 ing business with his father, died in Salem in 
 1882. This son. together with William S. and 
 M. J. Kinney, continued in the business pro- 
 jected by their father, and William S. Kinney 
 was the president and manager of the Clatsop 
 Sawmill Company until the time of his death in 
 1899. Augustus C. Kinney, the Astoria physi- 
 cian so well known as a specialist in tuberculosis, 
 was among the first advocates of the germ the- 
 ory of the origin of this disease, and had come 
 to be recognized in this country as an authority 
 in this field before the demonstrations of Koch 
 of Germany removed all doubt by the discovery 
 of the tubercular bacillus. His well consid- 
 ered articles in medical journals and before 
 medical societies had before that attracted 
 much attention from medical men and now a 
 large practice in his special field is a part of his 
 reward. Alfred Kinney, a younger brother and 
 a physician and surgeon in general practice lives 
 in Astoria, where he stands high in his profes- 
 sion. Mrs. Josephine Walker lives in San Fran- 
 cisco, and Mrs. Eliza Peyton, wife of Dr. J. E. 
 Pevton. lives in Redlands. Cal. 
 
 ^MARSHALL J. KINNEY, the fourth son 
 of R. C. Kinney, was an infant when the family 
 came to Oregon in 1847. He was educated in 
 the public schools of the state and in the ?Jc- 
 Minnville Academy. After the completion of 
 his education he entered into the employ of his 
 father, where he soon mastered the details of 
 the business. Tn 1868 he went to San Fran- 
 cisco to take charge of a branch office there. 
 Though barely twenty-one years of age the busi- 
 ness, running into many hundreds of thousands 
 of dollars per annum, and extending across both 
 the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was conducted 
 with such good judgment as to command the con- 
 fidence of his business associates of all classes 
 in San Francisco, as well as the entire approval 
 of his father in Oregon. 
 
 The death of his father, in 1875. and of his 
 
 older brother soon after, and the consequent sale 
 of the Salem mills, recalled him to Oregon, where, 
 in 1876, he became interested in the salmon pack- 
 ing business in Astoria. Through his enterprise 
 there was built up what was at the time the 
 largest salmon cannery in the world. Not satis- 
 fied with the methods of canning then in vogue, 
 he introduced improved machinery and methods, 
 and in this way brought the business up to a 
 high plane of activity and success. About 
 seventy-five thousand cases were packed an- 
 nually, and the Kinney brand of salmon be- 
 came known in every part of the world. In ad- 
 dition to his Astoria business, he established 
 canneries at Chilcoot and Cape Fox. in Alaska, 
 and started the cannery at Fairhaven. Wash., 
 of which he is still president. 
 
 In addition to his canning interests, which con- 
 tinue to be large and valuable, for twenty vears 
 or more Mr. Kinney has engaged in the lumber 
 manufacturing business with his brother. Will- 
 iam, president of the Clatsop Mills Company. 
 The mills have a large capacity, manufacturing 
 lumber from the timber fields of Oregon. The 
 company owns valuable tracts on the Columbia 
 river and in the coast counties, which are es- 
 pecially adapted to the purpose of the concern. 
 In 1899 Mr. Kinney removed his office to Port- 
 land, where he has since made his home and his 
 business headquarters. 
 
 Mr. Kinney is a life member of the Occidental 
 Lodge of Masons in San Francisco. .Among the 
 other organizations with which he is connected 
 are the Oregon Pioneer Association, the Oregon 
 Historical Society, and others of a similar na- 
 ture. In San Francisco he married Margaret 
 Morgan, who was born in that city and died there, 
 leaving a daughter, Harriet M. His second mar- 
 riage united him with Narcissa White of Penn- 
 sylvania, wdio gained a national reputation 
 through her distinguished services in the cause 
 of temperance. (An account of the life of Mrs. 
 Kinnev will be found in the following sketch.) 
 
 NARCISSA WHITE KINNEY. If we were 
 asked to characterize Narcissa White Kinney we 
 would write : The grand law of her being was 
 to conclude whatsoever she undertook. No mat- 
 ter what its difficulties nor how small its worth, 
 she held to it until she had mastered everv de- 
 tail, finished it, and made the result of it her 
 own. Carefully she studied the matter in hand 
 and with indomitable energy, perseverance and 
 skill carried forward to completion the ideas she 
 evolved and finally crystallized into living prac- 
 tical issues. Hence, whatever she did bore the 
 ineffaceable impress of her personality. 
 
 Mrs. Kinnev came of good stock. She was 
 Scotch-Trish bv inheritance, and for irrit and 
 
 
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 grace there seems to be no better combination. 
 Her ancestors on both sides hail from "bonnie 
 Scotland," but stopped on their way to America, 
 for several generations, in the North of Ireland. 
 Her mother's maiden name was Wallace, and 
 family records show that she was a direct de- 
 scendant of Adam Wallace, who was burned at 
 the stake in Scotland for his religion. The 
 thrilling account of his steadfast faith and tri- 
 umphant death has been handed down to us 
 through the sombre records of "Fox's Book of 
 Martyrs."' At his death his two sons, David 
 and Moses Wallace, fled to the North of Ire- 
 land, whence Narcissa's grandfather, Hugh Wal- 
 lace, emigrated to America in 1796 and located 
 in the western part of Pennsylvania. Her 
 father's ancestor, Walter White, suffered mar- 
 tyrdom for his religion during the reign of 
 Queen Mary, and four of her far-away grand- 
 fathers — two on each side of the house — fought 
 side by side at the battle of the Boyne. 
 
 Mrs. Kinney's father, George W. White, was 
 a Christian gentleman of high moral character 
 much respected by all who knew him. He was 
 an intelligent man. a deep thinker, well posted 
 in the literature of the day. in history, and es- 
 pecially in the sacred scriptures. He realized 
 the advantages to be derived from a liberal edu- 
 cation and labored hard to give his children the 
 very best attainable in that early day. He spent 
 the greater part of his life on a part of the old 
 homestead taken up by his father. At seventy 
 years of age he was suddenly killed in a railroad 
 accident which occurred near his home in 1883. 
 
 The mother, Susanna Kerr Wallace, was born 
 in Ireland and came to America with the family 
 when eighteen years of age. She was a woman 
 of strong personality, very energetic and full of 
 resources, deeply pious, and carried her religion 
 into her every-day life in such a way as early 
 to impress her children with their need of spirit- 
 ual guidance. She was the mother of eight 
 children, one boy and seven girls, all of whom 
 honored their father and their mother in their 
 lives. The youngest daughter, Maria, from 
 early girlhood longed to become a missionary 
 to the foreign field, and finally gained the con- 
 sent of her parents to study medicine and so 
 prepare herself for the work of a medical mis- 
 sionary. After graduating from a medical 
 school in New York City, she took up work in 
 the slums of the city for one year as a prepara- 
 tion for the foreign field. In 1886 she sailed 
 for India under the board of the United Presby- 
 terian Church, and on reaching her destination 
 began work in Sialkote. In a few years she 
 formulated plans, raised funds, and founded a 
 medical hospital there, which has proven an 
 inestimable blessing to the afflicted and diseased 
 women and children in that benighted land, and 
 
 is considered by the church as a powerful factor 
 in civilizing and christianizing those depraved 
 and ignorant heathen. After eight years of 
 arduous labor, Dr. White returned to America 
 broken in health, with but little hope of ever 
 being able to return ; but after several years her 
 health was restored, and in 1902 she again sailed 
 for India to devote the remaining years of her 
 life to her chosen work. 
 
 Xarcissa White, the subject of this sketch, 
 was horn in (irove City, Pa., in 1854. She was 
 the sixth daughter, the youngest of the family 
 but one. She received her primary education in 
 the Grove City public schools, and was later 
 graduated from the State Normal School of 
 Pennsylvania, with high honors, distinguishing 
 herself as a writer and speaker and showing 
 such marked ability as a teacher that she was 
 immediately elected principal of the training 
 school in Edinboro, Pa. She labored here for 
 some time and was sent out through the state 
 to organize county institutes, where she gave 
 instruction in chart work and elocution. So en- 
 ergetically did she prosecute her work that her 
 health gave way and she was laid aside for two 
 years. 
 
 During these years the great temperance cru- 
 sade was in progress, and its outgrowth, the 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Union — which 
 has now become such a powerful organization — 
 was in its incipiency, but was claiming public 
 attention. Miss White, among others, became in- 
 terested in the movement, and after studying 
 carefully its aims and methods, became pro- 
 foundly impressed with the need and importance 
 of its work and felt it her duty to work under 
 the auspices of that organization. With her, a 
 duty known was a duty performed. She at once 
 joined the white ribbon ranks, was elected presi- 
 dent of the Grove City Union, and in a short 
 time county president, then state superintendent 
 of scientific temperance instruction, and in that 
 position did an immense amount of work. She 
 visited county institutes and gave instruction in 
 the scientific teaching of the effects of alcoholics 
 and narcotics upon the human system, in such 
 a logical way as to elicit warm commendations 
 from educators generally. All this work was - 
 gradually preparing her for the larger field she 
 was soon to occupy. In 1880 she was called to 
 the platform exclusively. She was made a 
 national lecturer and organizer, and in that 
 capacity visited every state and territory in the 
 Union, also Canada and British Columbia. 
 
 During these years Narcissa White had de- 
 veloped wonderfully. Naturally she possessed 
 a keen, logical mind, a most persuasive manner, 
 a quick, sparkling wit and a charming person- 
 ality. Her face was handsome and expressive, 
 one that would attract attention among the 
 
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 crowds. She had a lofty, graceful bearing and 
 a fine physique. Her address was dignified, 
 without a suggestion of haughtiness. She was 
 gracious to everyone, yet without a trace of 
 superiority. Her success as a platform orator 
 was remarkable. She had developed into one 
 of the most brilliant speakers in the entire coterie 
 engaged in reform and educational work 
 and was sought far and nt^ar and everywhere 
 hailed with delight. Her presence was mag- 
 netic : her voice, which she had carefully culti- 
 vated, was clear and penetrating, so flexible and 
 sympathetic that she swayed her audience at her 
 will. She brought to the platform such intense 
 enthusiasm that it was contagious, and impelled 
 her hearers to give assent to her earnest plead- 
 ings. 
 
 As a champion of truth and righteousness and 
 in shaping and carrying forward the great re- 
 forms of her day, she had no mean part. Her 
 great heart was stirred to its very depths by 
 the wrongs inflicted upon defenseless women 
 and children by the liquor traffic, and her deep 
 sense of right and justice was outraged by the 
 protection the traffic received from our national 
 and civic government, so she threw her whole 
 soul into the battle for prohibition and her strong 
 personality and burning eloquence left their im- 
 press upon every community she visited in our 
 great commonwealth. 
 
 Miss White twice visited the Pacific coast in 
 the interest of temperance and did most effective 
 work in Oregon and Washington, particularly in 
 securing temperance legislation. During these 
 tours she met and formed the acquaintance of 
 Marshall J. Kinney, at that time the proprietor 
 of several of the largest fish canneries on the 
 Columbia river. Mr. Kinney's family was 
 among the pioneers of Oregon, known all over 
 the coast. The father and five stalwart sons 
 have been identified with many of the large in- 
 which have attracted immigration to 
 
 the northwe-t. In 1888 Miss White left the 
 lecture field to become the wife of Mr. Kinney, 
 and came to Astoria, "the city bv the sea." to 
 make her home. Here she soon found many 
 avenues for work, and her fertile brain, ever 
 active, among other things developed plans for 
 elevating and christianizing the hundreds of fish- 
 ermen in the employ of her husband. Mr. Kin- 
 ney, being in full sympathy with all her work, 
 gave her free rein, and she opened a mission 
 and taught those ignorant men and women — 
 many of them Russian Finns — new ideas of life. 
 She opened to them the Scriptures and led many 
 of them to the feet of the Master. 
 
 Mrs. Kinney was a devoted Christian, reared 
 in the United Presbyterian Church, and after 
 her removal to Oregon a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church. She was identified with all the 
 
 activities of the church, and was especially in- 
 terested in the foreign mission work in India, 
 where her sister labored. In her will she left 
 her wedding ring, a valuable diamond, to the 
 India mission. It was to be sold and the money 
 used for furthering the work there. 
 
 Mrs. Kinney was also a philanthropist. She 
 planned largely to promote education in Oregon 
 by assisting in establishing libraries, organizing 
 Chautauquas and summer schools, and repeat- 
 edly lectured before such assemblies and before 
 the state universities and colleges. She was also 
 the center of a large social circle of cultured 
 and refined people. Her sparkling wit, quick 
 repartee and winning manner made her a gen- 
 eral favorite at all social gatherings. 
 
 In 1894 she was elected president of the Ore- 
 gon W. C. T. U., which position she held until 
 about one year before her death, when her fail- 
 ing health compelled her to resign. She was a 
 most efficient president, a model presiding officer, 
 and possessed great executive ability. She was 
 a careful financier, and had the faculty of im- 
 parting to her followers a measure of her own 
 earnestness and enthusiasm. By her unselfish 
 devotion to the cause she represented she in- 
 spired all with whom she labored to do their very 
 best. She knew no such word as failure, so her 
 administration was one of progression and wide 
 influence. 
 
 In the autumn of 1899 Mr. and Mrs. Kinney 
 left Astoria and went to Portland to reside. She 
 was not robust, but was not an invalid by any 
 means, and in her new home was entering into 
 such work as presented itself. She was appa- 
 rently as well as usual when, without warning, 
 she was stricken and yielded up her life forty- 
 eight hours after she was taken ill. It seemed 
 a strange dispensation of Providence that had 
 called her away in the midst of her usefulness 
 and at the very zenith of her mental power. 
 These things we cannot fathom and may not 
 question. 
 
 We will not say, "God's ordinance 
 Of death is blown in every wind ; " 
 
 For that is not a common chance 
 That takes away a noble mind. 
 
 We know only that God called her, and she 
 obeyed. We know, too, that her consecrated 
 life — single-hearted, generous, pure and noble- 
 has left an influence which will rest like a bene- 
 diction upon her adopted state and upon all who 
 came in touch with her, and that it will go on 
 and on, spreading and growing and blessing even 
 generations yet to come. 
 
 HON. SAMUEL BRUCE HUSTON. The 
 ancestral history of Samuel Bruce Huston has 
 been one of close connection with America and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 her development from the early colonial epoch 
 of the nation. James Huston, the great-great- 
 grandfather of our subject, was born in the little 
 rock-ribbed country of Wales, whence he 
 c'rossed the Atlantic to the new world, braving 
 the dangers incident to an ocean voyage at that 
 time. He lived first in Delaware and afterward 
 in Mifflin county, Pa., and his spirit of loyalty 
 and bravery was manifest in the early times 
 when the French and Indian war was in prog- 
 ress, for during that contest he served as an 
 officer. When the yoke of British oppression 
 became so intolerable that the colonists resolved 
 to sever all allegiance to the British crown he 
 joined the Continental army and fought for the 
 independence of the nation. Hon. Alexander 
 Huston, the great-grandfather of our subject, 
 was born in Mifflin county, Pa., and immigrating 
 to pioneer districts took up his abode in Nelson, 
 county, Ky., whence in 1809 he removed to In- 
 diana, and in both states he visited Indian 
 camps. He was a member of the first constitu- 
 tional convention of Indiana, and he aided in 
 laying broad and deep the foundation upon 
 which was reared the superstructure of the com- 
 monwealth. His son, Samuel M. Huston, the 
 grandfather, was born in Nelson county, Ky., 
 ere the removal of the family to Indiana. In 
 the latter state he engaged in farming, and in 
 Salem. Ind., Oliver Huston, the father of our 
 subject, was born and reared. He, too, followed 
 farming in the vicinity of Salem and of New 
 Philadelphia, and when the Civil war broke out 
 he responded to his country's call for troops, en- 
 listing in Company G, Eighteenth Indiana In- 
 fantry, with which he went to the front, and in 
 the battle of Stone River, in 1862, he was killed, 
 thus laying down his life upon the altar of his 
 country. His wife, who bore the maiden name 
 of Lucretia Naugle, was born in Washington 
 county, Ind., a daughter of Jacob Naugle, who 
 was born near Washington, Pa., and became a 
 pioneer farmer of Indiana, whence in 1842 he 
 removed to Texas, where he was engaged in 
 raising cattle. His son, Benjamin Naugle, 
 served in the war for the independence of Tex- 
 as, and during the Civil war fought with the 
 Texas Rangers. He died in the Lone Star state. 
 Tradition says that the great-grandfather Nau- 
 gle was a soldier of the Revolution. The 
 mother of our subject died in Illinois and of 
 her three children but one is now living. 
 
 Samuel Bruce Huston of this review was born 
 in Salem, Ind., March 16, 1858, and spent the 
 first eight years of his life in that state, but 
 after his father's death he became a resident of 
 Crawford county. 111., where he was reared upon 
 a farm, while in the district schools he acquired 
 his education until he had prepared for entrance 
 into the Northern Indiana Normal School, where 
 
 he spent three years. He was enabled to ac- 
 quire his more advanced mental training be- 
 cause of the money which he had previously 
 earned in teaching, and his determination to se- 
 cure an education, even in the face of difficulties, 
 showed forth the elemental strength of his char- 
 acter, which has been developed with the pass- 
 ing years, making him a strong man in those 
 qualities and characteristics which are essential 
 to a successful career. 
 
 Entering upon the study of law Mr. Huston 
 spent one year as a student in Robinson, 111., 
 his reading directed by George N. Parker, after 
 which he entered the law office of the firm of 
 Heffron & Zaring, in Salem, Ind., being ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1879. For four years there- 
 after he occupied a clerical position in the em- 
 ploy of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, be- 
 tween Trinidad and Santa Fe, and in 1883 ne 
 came to Oregon, settling in Forest Grove, where 
 he remained for a year. In February, 1884. 
 he located in Hillsboro for the practice of law 
 and soon gained a distinctively representative 
 clientage, his practice being not confined within 
 the limits of this county but extending through- 
 out the state and embracing much important lit- 
 igation. The zeal with which he has devoted 
 his energies to the profession, the careful re- 
 gard evinced for the interests of his clients, and 
 an assiduous and unrelaxing attention to all the 
 details of his cases have brought him a large 
 business and made him successful in its conduct. 
 As his financial resources have increased he has 
 made judicious investments in real estate and 
 is now the owner of farm property in Wash- 
 ington county and business property in Port- 
 land. 
 
 In Forest Grove occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Huston and Miss Ella Geiger, a daughter of 
 Dr. William Geiger, who came to Oregon across 
 the plains in 1839, an d for many years was a 
 successful and prominent physician of this part 
 of the country, his death occurring in 1901, 
 when he was eighty-five years of age. Three 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hus- 
 ton : Blanche, Oliver and Carl. 
 
 The qualities of leadership are dominant in 
 Mr. Huston, and his fellow citizens, recogniz- 
 ing his worth and ability, have frequently called 
 him to office. He has served and at the present 
 time is filling the position of councilman, has 
 been city attorney and mayor of the city and 
 for nine years he was a school director, acting 
 as president of the board for a part of that 
 time. Still higher political honors awaited him, 
 for in 1892, on the Democratic ticket, he was 
 elected to the state senate, serving in the ses- 
 sions of 1893 and 1895, during which time he 
 secured the passage of a number of important 
 bills, including the one to stop the sale of school 
 
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 lands or indemnity lands and providing for the 
 appointment, bj the governor, of a commis- 
 sioner to select and list all of the lands the state 
 had lost 1>\ reason of donation claims, home- 
 stead claims and forest reserves, where the same 
 covered school sections. This became a law and 
 has proved of great value to the state and ma- 
 terially increased the school fund. It was also 
 due to Mr. Huston that there was a bill passed 
 making it a criminal offense to point firearms, 
 either loaded or unloaded, at any human being. 
 In 1896 Mr. Huston became a gold-standard 
 Democrat and is now a Republican. The step 
 which he thus took is indicative of his faithful- 
 ness to his honest convictions. He is ever fear- 
 less in what he believes to be right and never 
 weighs his actions in this regard in the scale of 
 policy. He is a member of the State Bar Asso- 
 ciation, of which he is now (1903) president, 
 and holds a position of prestige at the bar as 
 well as in political circles, for his comprehensive 
 knowledge of jurisprudence and his forceful 
 presentation of a case before court or jury have 
 secured him high honors and gratifying suc- 
 cesses at the Oregon bar. 
 
 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WORTH. En- 
 shrined in the hearts of all true Oregonians are 
 the pioneers who blazed the way for progress and 
 enlightenment on the coast, and though many of 
 them have long since passed beyond the ken of 
 those comprising the teeming present, their 
 names, if not their faces and voices, are familiar 
 to the student of state history. Such an one was 
 John Quincy Adams "Worth, an early merchant 
 of California and Oregon, a pioneer of 1855, and 
 a member of the state legislature on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket for two terms. At the time of his 
 birth, February 2, 1824, Mr. Worth's parents, 
 Joseph and Charlotte (Ellison) Worth, were liv- 
 ing in Starksborough, Vt., where the father was 
 conducting quite a millwright business. From 
 Vermont the family removed to New York, and 
 from there to Ohio, later locating in Wrights- 
 town, Wis., where the elder Worth died at the 
 age of eighty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Worth, 
 Sr., lived together in harmony, rearing their large 
 family of ten children in comparative comfort, 
 and training all in ways of industry and strict 
 morality. Two children died in infancy, and 
 the majority of the others lived to an advanced 
 age. Lionel died in Illinois; Guy C. died in 
 Alton, Iowa ; William E. died in San Francisco, 
 of which town he was a pioneer, and where he 
 was superintendent of the Union Iron Works for 
 many years; Richard K. died on the way to the 
 g-old mines of California in 1849; Eliza Ann, Mrs. 
 Turnbull, died in Ohio; George W. died in in- 
 fancy: Samuel M. died in May. 1901, in San- 
 
 dusky, ( Ihio, where he was engaged in a mer- 
 cantile business; Arthur \V. came from Califor- 
 nia to Oregon in 1855, was an architect and 
 builder, and died a bachelor, November 13, 1866; 
 Martha J. married Philip DeWalt, lived in Ohio 
 for many years and died in Florida; 1 larriet A., 
 Mrs. Morrison, died in Wisconsin; John Q. A. 
 died in Oregon, February 26, 1867; and Vincent 
 died at the age of five years. 
 
 The Worth family was established in America 
 by very early emigrants who settled in Nan- 
 tucket off the Massachusetts coast, and whose 
 children subsequently dispersed and founded fam- 
 ilies of their own in various eastern states. The 
 solid and reliable English traits of character were 
 shared by all of the brothers and sisters of John 
 Quincy Adams Worth, and were trained into use- 
 fulness by a common school education, and prac- 
 tical lessons taught at home. After completing 
 his education at Newark, Ohio, John applied him- 
 self to learning the tailor's trade, and then re- 
 turned to Sandusky, and entered into a dry goods 
 business with his brothers, later being taken in as 
 a partner. They were successful, accumulating 
 considerable money, and with this the brothers 
 came to California via Cape Horn in 1852, mak- 
 ing their way to Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras 
 county, where they started a general store, and 
 operated a pack train, teaming to Sacramento. 
 At the same time Mr. Worth had interests in sev- 
 eral mines thereabouts, but his combinations 
 proved trying for his health and he was obliged 
 to abandon them at the end of three years. After 
 selling out the brothers went to Albany, Ore., 
 and spent the winter, going later to Orleans, 
 where they engaged in business for one year. Mr. 
 Worth founded the little town of Peoria, and with 
 his brother operated a store in connection with 
 the growing of its industries. He was successful 
 and prominent in his locality, was regarded as a 
 benefactor, and very progressive man, and his 
 death in 1867 left a void difficult to fill. He was 
 a Democrat from his first voting days, and aside 
 from two terms in the legislature, filled various 
 positions of trust in his respective communities. 
 He was fraternally connected with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a sociable, 
 genial man, interested in churches and schools 
 and all that had to do with the fundamental well 
 being of his district. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Worth was united in marriage in 
 Brownsville, Ore., with Miss Geary, who was 
 born in Ohio in 1842, and who, since his death, 
 has reared her children on the farm in Linn 
 county, although she permanently located in Port- 
 land in 1889. Three children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Worth, Edward Geary, the oldest, hav- 
 ing been born April 13, 1863. Mr. Worth is a 
 man of education and ability, and was trained at 
 the University of Eugene, eventually succeeding 
 
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 to the position of superintendent of lighthouse 
 construction for the government, located in Port- 
 land. He is a member of the Independent Order 
 of ( )dd Fellows. Joseph E., the second son in the 
 family, was born October 14, 1864, and in 1901 
 married Leona Henderson. He was a civil en- 
 gineer during the first years of his business life, 
 taking up that profession after leaving the Uni- 
 versity of Eugene. November 5, 1890. he en- 
 gaged' in the drug business with Dr. J. H. Irvine, 
 after three years assuming his present position 
 as sole manager of the drug enterprise. Mr. 
 Worth is a public spirited and popular mantis 
 fraternally widely known, and is identified with 
 the Knights of Pythias, of which he has passed 
 all of the chairs ; the Anchor Lodge No. 45, A. O. 
 U. \Y. ; the Artisans, Golden Rod Assembly No. 
 108; and the Multnomah Camp, W. O. W. Ada 
 Lillian, the only daughter of the family, was born 
 April 6, 1867, and married Alva O. Condit, in 
 March, 1891. Mrs. Condit is a graduate of the 
 Monmouth Normal School, and her husband is a 
 practicing attorney of Salem. 
 
 EDWARD RACHFORD GEARY. A brave, 
 patient and richly endowed nature was called 
 from various fields of activity through the death 
 of Edward Rachford Geary, September 3, 1886, 
 but though so long a time has elapsed, months, 
 years nor great changes will place a limit on the 
 extent and usefulness of his ministerial, educa- 
 tional and general accomplishments. While giv- 
 ing all praise to this pioneer of 1851 for his suc- 
 cessful manipulation of resources, it is but fair 
 to say that certain advantages aided in his rise to 
 prominence, not the least being a more than or- 
 dinarily strong constitution, a stature developed 
 to six feet, and inherited traits which have al- 
 ways been associated with the best and most 
 virile blood of England. These same ancestors 
 were peculiar in one particular, in that all were 
 devoted to a seafaring life, only one son being 
 left to perpetuate the Geary name of nine genera- 
 tions, the others were killed in the British navy. 
 
 Born in Hagerstown, Washington county. Md\, 
 April 30, 181 1, Mr. Geary was one of four sons 
 (two reaching maturity), born to his parents, 
 Richard and Margaret (White) Geary, the for- 
 mer of whom was an educator, and removed with 
 his family to Pennsylvania in 1823. Edward was 
 six years older than his brother, John, the latter 
 of whom was equally impressed with the im- 
 portance of life, and moulded his tendencies into 
 broad and liberal channels. John Geary won the 
 rank of captain in the Mexican war, and that of 
 general in the Civil war. and he became the first 
 mayor of San Francisco, having removed to Cali- 
 fornia at an earlv day. He carried scars from 
 
 wounds in both wars, and aside from this distinc- 
 tion, won more than local prominence as a poli- 
 tician. At the time of his death in Harrisburg, 
 Pa., at the age of sixty, he had just completed his 
 second term as governor of Pennsylvania. Ed- 
 ward Geary early turned his thoughts to the min- 
 istry, and after graduating from the Jefferson 
 College, Pa., entered the Allegheny Theological 
 Seminary. Afterward he went to Alabama, or- 
 ganized and conducted an academy for three 
 years, and soon after his return to Pennsylvania, 
 in 1838, married Harriet Rebecca Reed, whom he 
 had known as a child. Miss Reed was born in 
 New Berlin, Pa., May 24, 1814, and received an 
 excellent education in her native state. Soon after 
 the marriage the young people removed to Wayne 
 county, Ohio, where Mr. Geary had charge of a 
 Presbyterian church at Fredericksburg for twelve 
 years, during this time having other church re- 
 sponsibilities in the state. His first wife died 
 February 17, 1844, leaving two children, Mrs. 
 Martha L. Perham, of Butte. Mont., and Mrs. 
 Worth. For a second wife Mr Geary married 
 Nancy Merrick Woodbridge, a native of New 
 York, who was born near Owego, Tioga county, 
 January 17, 1818. Mrs. Geary died in Oregon in 
 1889, having borne eight children, two of whom 
 died in infancy. Of the other children, John 
 White Geary is a physician of Burns, Ore. ; 
 Elizabeth W. died in Eugene in 1885 ; Ellen E. 
 lives in Astoria ; Woodbridge, a graduate of 
 W T est Point, was stationed first in Texas, and 
 then at Fort Parker, N. Y., later at Mackinac, 
 Mich., and Sault Ste. Marie ; becoming an in- 
 structor in tactics in the Agricultural College in 
 Corvallis, Ore., and from there enlisting in the 
 Spanish-American war, his death occurring as 
 major and acting captain at the battle of Malla- 
 bon, Philippine Islands ; Dr. Edward P. Geary, 
 of Portland, Ore. ; and May L., who died in early 
 childhood. 
 
 Mr. Geary came to Oregon in the year 185 1 
 as representative of the Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions, to look after the church and school work. 
 By way of the Isthmus of Panama he reached San 
 Francisco, and from there embarked on a sail- 
 ing vessel for Astoria, coming from there up the 
 river to Oregon City, and thence on the upper 
 river aboard the first boat to make the trip, known 
 as the Little Hoosier. Upon arriving in Oregon 
 he found work much less advanced than he antici- 
 pated, and instead of a ready means of livelihood 
 in his chosen occupation he was obliged to turn 
 his attention to secular work. He organized a 
 school and in connection preached as opportunity 
 offered, and about this time was appointed secre- 
 tary to General Palmer, superintendent of Indian 
 affairs. Later he succeeded General Palmer in 
 this important responsibility, in April, 1859. In 
 1856 he had removed to Linn county from his 
 
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PORTRAIT AND I'.li >GR M'llUAl. REC< >RI>. 
 
 i::i 
 
 former home near Lafayette, settling upon a 
 claim which continued to be his home for some 
 years, For a time he was interested in a general 
 merchandise business, and on one occasion was 
 sent cast to purchase machinery for the woolen 
 mills at Brownsville 3 the second enterprise of the 
 kind in the state of Oregon. Hie burning of this 
 mill entailed great loss to its promoters, Mr. 
 c icarv sustaining a portion of it himself. He 
 afterward became interested in another general 
 -tore, but sold out the same upon becoming one 
 of the organizers of the Albany college, of which 
 he served as president. For some time he served 
 as county judge, although he never aspired to 
 political recognition; in the meantime he had 
 purchased a farm near Albany, making this his 
 headquarters while associated with the college and 
 judiciary. In 1873 he removed to Eugene, where 
 he built a home and was instrumental in locating 
 the university at that place. This college enlisted 
 bis sympathy and co-operation, and up to the 
 time of his death he was a member of the board of 
 regents, and a substantial contributor to its finan- 
 cial welfare. 
 
 In the meantime Air. Geary had preached in 
 many churches, most of which he himself or- 
 ganized and started upon their self-supporting 
 careers. The gospel was to him a living force 
 in the every day affairs of men, and after its ap- 
 plication, came all else that made living desirable. 
 \*o call was too remote, or entailed too arduous 
 toil for his ready response, and at one time he 
 rode one hundred and thirty miles on horse- 
 back to Portland to converse with a mem- 
 ber of the board of missions for a couple 
 of hours. He possessed a magnetic and 
 forceful personality, impressing all with his 
 sincerity and truth, facts observable es- 
 pecially in his intercourse with the Indians in the 
 very early times, when he used to secure treaties, 
 thus averting disaster on many occasions. Many 
 experiences of a startling nature came his way 
 while intent upon his errands of mercv, and on 
 one occasion while going through the almost im- 
 penetrable woods he was attacked by bears and 
 succeeded in killing one with the butt of his gun. 
 He had the faculty of adapting himself to all 
 conditions and circumstances, and was equally at 
 home in the tents and huts of the early settlers, 
 as in the ministerial halls of the assemblv. He 
 was a member of the general assembly in 1884, 
 having served in a similar capacity on a prior 
 occasion. Thus was the life of Mr. Geary cast 
 in useful and distinguished mould, and whether 
 as a preacher, merchant, educator or agriculturist, 
 he maintained a settled faith in goodness and suc- 
 cess, as understood by the larger minds of the 
 world, never losing track of the gospel of hu- 
 manity, which smoothed his way in times of dis- 
 
 tress and seeming failure, and encouraged his 
 progress in the waj to which nature and inclina- 
 tion had called him. 
 
 CHARLES N. WAIT, attorney at law 
 and agriculturist of Clackamas county, was 
 born in Oregon City, this county, Febru- 
 ary 10, 1856, and bears a name prominently 
 identified with the jurisprudence of the state of 
 Oregon. His American ancestors were connect- 
 ed with the early history of the extreme eastern 
 states, his paternal great-grcat-great grandfather, 
 Benjamin, having been born in Connecticut, 
 from which state he emigrated to Hatfield, Mass. 
 This remote forefather was never wanting in 
 physical or moral prowess, and because of his 
 bold frontier experiences was known as an In- 
 dian annihilator. His fighting ability seems to 
 have been inherited by his son, John, who was a 
 soldier in the Whately Company, under Capt. 
 Henry Stiles, and afterward a sergeant in Capt. 
 Russell Kellogg's company, on the Bennington 
 alarm. Joel, the son of John, followed the mar- 
 tial fortunes of Washington during the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and was in both the Hatfield Com- 
 pany, commanded by Captain Graves, and the 
 company of Captain Murry. 
 
 Judge Aaron E. Wait, father of Charles N., 
 and first chief justice of the state of Oregon, 
 was born in Whately, Franklin county, Mass., 
 December 26, 1813, a son of Aaron Wait, also a 
 native of Massachusetts, and a soldier during the 
 war of 1812. Aaron Wait married Sarah Mor- 
 ton, a native of Whately, and daughter of Solo- 
 mon Morton, representative of a prominent 
 Massachusetts family. Four children were born 
 of this union, Eunice, Clementine, Charles G., 
 and Aaron E., the latter the youngest of the fam- 
 ily. Aaron Wait died when his namesake son 
 was an infant, and his wife afterward married 
 again, in consequence of which the lad lived with 
 his grandfather until his fourth year, and then 
 with his uncle until he was eight years old. His 
 education was difficult of attainment owing to 
 the lack of necessary funds, and was chiefly ac- 
 quired while serving an apprenticeship of four 
 years at the broom maker's trade in Hatfield, 
 Mass., his spare money defraying the expenses 
 attached to his schooling. For some time he 
 subsequently engaged in teaching in New York, 
 and in 1837 removed to the state of Michigan, 
 where he studied law in Centerville, St. Joseph 
 county, and was admitted to the bar of Michi- 
 gan in 1842. Before leaving the state he was 
 the military secretary to Governor John S. Barrv. 
 
 Accompanied by Judge Lancaster, Mr. Wait 
 made preparations to cross the plains in 1847, 
 there being forty wagons in the train and a large 
 number of stock. The journey was not attended 
 
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 by any disastrous occurrences, although terrific 
 
 storms made progress difficult at times. ft is 
 recorded that Judge Wait made a deep impres- 
 sion upon the Indians with his glasses, which he 
 wore for near-sightedness, and which the red 
 men believed to endow him with almost super- 
 natural powers, permitting him to see enormous 
 distances and through practically everything. 
 The judge persisted in watching the cattle and 
 horses at night, and came near dealing out the 
 death penalty to a would-be horse thief, who, 
 however, dropped into the tall grass when he 
 found he was discovered, and managed to sneak 
 away to safety. Arriving in Oregon, Mr. Wait 
 settled in Oregon City, and here he entered upon 
 the practice of law with ex-Senator James 
 K. Kelley, with whom he remained for a 
 number of years. In 1849 ne varied his 
 practice by going down into California on a 
 little seventeen ton vessel, intent upon claim- 
 ing a share of the gold for which thousands 
 were striving. He was fairly successful as 
 a miner, his largest find in one place during 
 the course of a day being $60, and his largest 
 all around find in a day was $100. 
 
 Upon returning to Oregon Judge Wait became 
 connected with the Cayuse War Commission, 
 which up to that time had accomplished practi- 
 cally nothing. His service was marked by ex- 
 treme fairness to all concerned, and he audited 
 nearly all of the war claims, and every claim 
 he allowed was met precisely as he had made it. 
 The judge practiced under the provisional and 
 territorial laws of Oregon, and was elected to 
 the circuit bench in the fourth judicial district 
 and later served as the first chief justice of Ore- 
 gon, immediately after the admission of Oregon 
 as a state in 1859. He held many important 
 offices within the gift of his fellow townsmen, 
 practically his only defeat taking place after his 
 nomination to the senate in 1862. From a large 
 legal practice Judge Wait gradually drifted into 
 real estate speculations, and, as seems natural 
 with so many active men, chose to spend his later 
 life amid the peace and quiet of farming enter- 
 prises. In 1876 he removed onto his six hun- 
 dred acre farm near Canby, remained there for 
 eight years, and then went back to Portland, 
 where he lived until 1897. The same year he re- 
 turned to the Canby farm, where his death oc- 
 curred December 13, 1898. He was a very large 
 land owner, had two thousand acres in Jackson 
 county, Ore., his Canby farm of six hundred 
 acres, and enough other Oregon land to make 
 up five thousand acres. In Washington he 
 owned one thousand acres. No finer type of the 
 gifted and substantial citizen has invaded the 
 ranks of law and agriculture in Oregon, and to 
 none has been accorded more universal esteem, 
 or generous appreciation of splendid personal 
 
 characteristics. Judge Wait married Mary Ann 
 Sprenger, who was born in McConnelsville, 
 Ohio, a daughter of a merchant who was born in 
 Germany and came to the United States as a 
 voting man, settling in Pennsylvania. From the 
 latter state Mr. Sprenger removed to McConnels- 
 ville, Ohio, from where he emigrated to Linn 
 county, Ore., his death eventually occurring on 
 his donation claim at an advanced age. Of the 
 first marriage of Judge Wait three children were 
 born, of whom Charles N. is the only one living. 
 Of the second marriage contracted by the judge 
 three children were born, but only one matured, 
 Anna Evelyn, the deceased wife of Frank Han- 
 ford, of Seattle, Wash. 
 
 The education of Charles N. Wait was ac- 
 quired in the public schools of Portland, which 
 training was supplemented by a course at the 
 Bishop Scott grammar school. His first busi- 
 ness experience was as general timekeeper on 
 construction with the Oregon Railroad & Navi- 
 gation Company, whose employ he entered in 
 1880, and with whom he remained for eight 
 years. In 1888 he became chief clerk of the 
 money order department of the Portland post- 
 office, and, owing to close confinement and con- 
 sequent effect upon his health, resigned at the 
 end of two years. For the following two years 
 he acted in the capacity of deputy United States 
 marshal under John Myers, after which he en- 
 tered the law department of the Oregon State 
 University, from which he was duly graduated 
 with honors. In June, 1891, Mr. Wait began to 
 practice in Portland, and in 1897 removed to the 
 old homestead in Canby, since which time he has 
 combined the management of the large estate 
 with the general practice of law. He is a Demo- 
 crat in political affiliation, and has taken a prom- 
 inent part in the affairs of his party in Oregon. 
 For one term he was deputy city attorney of 
 Portland, and he was secretary of the state cen- 
 tral committee when Cleveland was last elected. 
 Also Mr. Wait has been mayor of Canby for one 
 term. He is fraternally associated with the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, of which he 
 is past master; the Warner Grange, of which 
 he is past master ; the Elks ; the Red Men ; and 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Wait was contracted 
 in Clackamas county with Laurena J. Marks, 
 who died July 20, 1891, leaving one son and two 
 daughters. October 2, 1895, Mr. Wait married, 
 in Washington, Wilhelmina Woicka, who was 
 born in Portland, and whose father, William, a 
 jeweler by trade, was born in Germany. Mr. 
 Woicka came to America as a young man, and 
 died in San Francisco, Cal. Of this union there 
 have been born two sons, Aaron E. and 
 George N. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 138 
 
 JOHN COLGATE BELL. With nearlj 
 
 ninety years behind him the minion of John 
 Colgate Bell goes back over the better part of 
 
 the nineteenth century and recalls the changes 
 which the years have brought to the nation and 
 to the individual. As a mere lad his hand was 
 shaken by La Fa) ette on his tour of the country 
 in 1824. and he has listened to the retailing of 
 happenings oi the two wars with Great Britain, 
 by his grandfather. William Bell, who served as 
 
 - tidier under Washington at Brandywine and 
 other battles of note, fighting valiantly for his 
 adopted country, for he was a Scotchman by 
 birth, and by his father, also William Bell, who 
 served as major of cavalry in the war of 1812. 
 The fadu-r was a pioneer of the state of Ken- 
 tucky and he himself has put the greater part of 
 the continent between him and the scene of his 
 birth, enduring the hardships and dangers of 
 the early days and now r enjoying the affluence 
 and prosperity which a wise use of opportunities 
 entail. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Bell occurred in Mount 
 Stirling. Montgomery county, Ky., February 24, 
 1814. The father was a native of Philadelphia, 
 and early removed to Kentucky, where he en- 
 gaged as a wholesale hat merchant. In 1834 he 
 went to Missouri, where his death occurred at 
 the age of eighty-eight years. His wife, for- 
 merly Yirlinda Grimes, was born in Bourbon 
 county. Ky.. and died in Missouri at the age 
 of fifty years. Of their four children the only 
 one now living is J. C. Bell, of this review. He 
 received his education at the academy of his na- 
 tive town, his first employment being as a clerk 
 in a store there. When his parents removed 
 to the state of Missouri, Mr. Bell, then twenty 
 years old. accompanied them, and there bought 
 a farm and engaged in raising tobacco, in which 
 employment he remained for two vears, in 1837 
 entering the mercantile world as a wholesale and 
 retail grocer of Clarksville, Pike county, Mo. 
 This business was successfully conducted for 
 about three years, when he went to New Or- 
 leans for eighteen months and then to Platte 
 county. Mo., where he passed the ensuing ten 
 years. While in that location he was married 
 in Weston, in 1845, to Sarah E. Ward, who 
 was born in Greenup county, Ky., in 1829, after- 
 ward becoming a resident of Fleming countv. 
 where she was reared and educated. She was 
 the daughter of Gen. Thompson Ward, a com- 
 mander in the war of 181 2, and an attorney and 
 politician, representing his district in the Ken- 
 tucky legislature for sixteen years. He moved 
 to Weston. Mo., and in 1854 came to Oregon, 
 crossing the plains with ox teams in a journev 
 of five months. He settled in Salem, where he 
 followed farming and stock raising until his 
 death, which occurred at the age of eighty-five 
 
 years. 1 1 i -- wife, who before her marriage was 
 Sarali Kountz. died in Salem, at the age of 
 sixty-seven years, liesides Mrs. Bell the other 
 
 daughter of this family now living is Mrs. Nancy 
 Belt, the wife of Dr. Belt, of Salem. 
 
 In 1850 Dr. Belt brought his family to Oregon 
 and Mr. Bell accompanied them, leaving his own 
 wife in their Missouri home until he had first 
 tried the western life. They set out primarily 
 for the gold fields of California, leaving May 1 
 of that year, but through delays they changed 
 their intentions and came instead to Oregon. On 
 the way they fell in with Major Davis and came 
 to Portland, but left Mr. Davis here while they 
 journeyed on to Salem, which city was the 
 scene of about twenty yeai-s of the practical busi- 
 ness life of Mr. Bell. In the same year he was 
 appointed manager of a store at The Dalles, 
 where he was employed in hauling supplies to 
 the soldiers as well as carrying on a large trade 
 with the Indians. Major Tucker was the com- 
 manding officer and Mr. Bell had been appointed 
 by Colonel Loring. He built the first house and 
 occupied it at The Dalles before the officers 
 were in their own quarters. Until 1851 Mr. Bell 
 remained there, then sold out, and purchasing 
 thirty-two pack mules, conducted a pack train 
 from Salem to Yreka. Cal., a distance of two 
 hundred and fifty miles, which occupation was 
 continued for a year. The year following he 
 returned to Missouri and in 1854 came back 
 across the plains with his family. During this 
 trip they experienced the horror, while camping 
 on the banks of the Oyhee river, of witnessing a 
 massacre of a party of emigrants by Indians, 
 which would probably have been their own fate 
 had not Mr. Bell performed a strategic move- 
 ment which averted the danger. In Salem Mr. 
 Bell opened a general merchandise establishment 
 and continued the same for many years, also 
 buying a farm near that city, where he engaged 
 in stock raising and cultivation of wheat, this 
 latter, however, occupying his attention for only 
 three years. After selling his business in Salem 
 in 1870 and also his farming interests he re- 
 tired from active duties until his appointment 
 by Cleveland as postmaster of Astoria, at which 
 time he moved his family there and served in 
 that capacity for four and a half years. In 1890 
 he removed to Portland, which has since re- 
 mained his home, conducting until his retirement 
 a real estate business here, in which he met 
 with the uniform success which had character- 
 ized the efforts of his life. 
 
 Throughout his entire residence in this state 
 Mr. Bell has been associated with the enterprises 
 calculated to advance the interests of the com- 
 munity, taking an active part in all affairs that 
 have come within his range of influence, which 
 has, fortunately, been wide and far-reaching 
 
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 •ORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 through his business contact with the people of 
 the state. In 1861 lie was one of the stock- 
 holders of The Arena, in Salem, the first Demo- 
 cratic paper of the city, and the same year as- 
 sisted very materially in the election of Colonel 
 Baker to Congress, his tragic death at Ball's 
 Bluff, in 1861, being especially felt by those who 
 had sent him as their representative. In 1864, 
 while Mr. Bell was in San Francisco, the Demo- 
 cratic party nominated him for state treasurer, 
 but he was defeated at the election. He has 
 been very active in the Democratic conventions, 
 acting as delegate to the state, county and local 
 meetings. While living in Weston, Mo., he 
 gave much aid in the time of the Mexican war, 
 assisting in recruiting the regiments of Colonel 
 Donovan and General Price, both being organ- 
 ized at Fort Leavenworth. Mr. Bell then ranked 
 as lieutenant-colonel. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Bell were born ten children, 
 of whom two died in infancy in Missouri and 
 one at the age of two years in Salem; Nancy 
 Garnett, born in Missouri, married Walter Jack- 
 son and died in Portland, leaving two children, 
 Alice Bell and Harold, who now make their 
 home in that city ; Laura W., born in Missouri, 
 married J. H. D. Gray, formerly county judge 
 of Astoria, Ore., but who is now deceased ; they 
 became the parents of eight children ; William T. 
 is engaged in the mercantile business in Enter- 
 prise, Ore., and has three children, two sons and 
 one daughter, namely : Memory, Burnett and 
 Helen ; Alice is the wife of S. Z. Mitchell, of 
 Tacoma, Wash., the manager of the General 
 Electric and Improvement Company, and they 
 have one son, Sidney A. ; Sarah Blanche is the 
 wife of Capt. R. E. Davis, who is connected 
 with the Willamette Iron Works, and they have 
 one son, Robert Bell ; Genevieve is the wife of 
 C. M. Maxwell, an electrician of Seattle, Wash., 
 and they have two sons, Allyne and John C. ; 
 Robert Edward is married and engaged as an 
 electrician in Tacoma, Wash. The sons were all 
 educated in Salem University, and the daughters 
 in the parochial school, Sisters of the Sacred 
 Heart, all making their home with their parents 
 until marriage, trained to domesticitv by the 
 father, who has always cared more for his home 
 than anything else in the world. Mr. Bell is a 
 member of the Pioneer Association of Oregon, 
 and fraternally is a member of the Masonic or- 
 der, having been made a Mason in Clarksville, 
 Mo., in 1837. He is a charter member of Mult- 
 nomah Chapter, R. A. M., at Salem. 
 
 FRANK S. FIELDS, County Clerk of Mult- 
 nomah county, has been prominently identi- 
 fied with Portland and its vicinitv for a 
 period of more than a quarter of a century. 
 
 During that time his career has caused him to 
 become recognized as a man of most estimable 
 personal qualities, who is unselfishly devoted to 
 the promotion of those movements calculated to 
 enhance the numerous advantages of the city 
 and the state as a desirable place of residence, 
 as well as to educate the rest of the world in the 
 many material advantages offered by the com- 
 monwealth to men of energy and enterprise. 
 
 His father, Samuel H. Fields, was born near 
 Lexington, Ky., in 182 1, and at an early age 
 was made an orphan. In his youth he went to 
 Missouri with the intention of assisting in the 
 pioneer development of that state. There he 
 learned his trade, that of mason, and about 1854 
 removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where he estab- 
 lished himself in business as a contractor and 
 builder. Subsequently he carried on operations 
 in the same calling in Kilbourn City and New 
 Lisbon, in that state. In 1875 he came to Ore- 
 gon and purchased a tract of twelve and one- 
 fourth acres in Mount Tabor, which he con- 
 verted into a fine fruit farm. The remainder 
 of his life was spent at Mount Tabor, where his 
 death occurred in 1896. During the Civil war 
 he served as a member of the Eighth Wisconsin 
 Infantry. His widow, who before her marriage 
 was Luconda Hamilton, now makes her home in 
 Mount Tabor. In their family are four, chil- 
 dren, namely ; Eliza J., wife of E. J. Brubaker, 
 postmaster of and merchant in Mount Tabor ; 
 Louis R., superintendent of the Oregon division 
 of the Southern Pacific Railroad ; Charles E., 
 who is engaged in the real estate business in 
 Portland ; and Frank S., the youngest child in 
 the family. 
 
 Frank S. Fields was born April 13, 1862, in 
 New Lisbon, Juneau county, Wis., where the 
 first thirteen years of his life were spent. With 
 his parents he came to Oregon in 1875, attending 
 school at Mount Tabor until he reached the age 
 of sixteen. In young manhood he began his 
 business career by becoming a telegraph opera- 
 tor in Oregon. For eight years he was sta- 
 tioned at Halsey, Ore., as telegraph operator 
 and agent for the Oregon & California Railroad 
 Company. His entry into public life occurred 
 in 1887, when he began a two years' term as city 
 recorder of Halsey. He also served one term 
 as mayor. In 1890 he engaged with his brother, 
 Charles E., in the real estate business in Port- 
 land, the firm name being C. E. & F. S. Fields. 
 They laid out an addition of eight acres north- 
 west of Mount Tabor, Summit Addition to 
 Mount Tabor (comprising sixteen acres), Sum- 
 mit Annex to the same place (ten acres), and 
 Mount Tabor Central Tract Addition (eight 
 acres). They also laid out Mount Tabor Com- 
 mercial Block, a tract of one acre where t 1 " 
 postoffice now stands, and a five-acre addition 
 
WILLIAM BARLOW. 
 
PORTRAIT AND UIOGUAl'lllCAL RECORD. 
 
 137 
 
 known as East Paradise Springs, besides other 
 plots. Frank S. Fields is now retired from the 
 firm, which is known as Fields & Co., with 
 
 offices in the Alisky building. 
 
 In 189S Mr. Fields was appointed deputy 
 clerk of the county court, under II. C. Smith, 
 ami this post he tilled for two and one-half 
 years, or until the expiration of bis term. In 
 1902 the Republicans of Multnomah county 
 nominated him for the office of county clerk, 
 and he was elected, assuming the duties of that 
 office July 7 of that year. At the time he entered 
 the office, the law passed in 1901 consolidating 
 the offices of clerk of the county court, recorder 
 oi conveyances and clerk of the circuit court 
 into one office, to be known as county clerk, took 
 effect. The enactment of this law resulted in 
 the saving to Multnomah county of thousands 
 of dollars annually, as under the old regime 
 from twenty to twenty-five deputies were em- 
 ployed in the three departments, whereas the 
 work is now done by a reduced force under the 
 direct supervision of Mr. Fields. He has always 
 exhibited a keen interest in educational matters, 
 and for some time served on the Mount Tabor 
 school board in the capacity of clerk, holding 
 this position until his election to the office of 
 county clerk. Although not identified by mem- 
 bership with any religious body, he does all in 
 his power for the promotion of good along all 
 avenues, and aids all worthy measures by ma- 
 terial support. His wife is an active member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with Mount Tabor Lodge 
 Xo. 42, A. F. & A. M., Mount Tabor Camp, 
 Woodmen of the World, holding the office of 
 council commander in the lodge at Mount 
 Tabor, with the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, the Artisans and the United Brotherhood 
 of Railroad Employes. He is also a member of 
 the Board of Trade. 
 
 In Salem, Ore., April 24. 1883. Mr. Fields 
 was married to Bessie E. Lindsay. She was born 
 in Bucyrus, Ohio, but reared in Salem, where 
 she removed with her parents in girlhood. Her 
 training in the public schools of that city was 
 supplemented by the full course in Willamette 
 University, from which she was graduated. 
 They are the parents of three children, Vera M., 
 a graduate of the Portland high school : Frank 
 IT. and Grace G. 
 
 WILLIAM BARLOW. In this great north- 
 western country, with its boundless possibili- 
 ties, and but imperfectly developed resources. 
 its remoteness from the cradle influences of New 
 England, and its diversified interests beckoning 
 the traveler from afar, the large hearted, cour- 
 ageous and far-sighted pioneer is revered for 
 
 what he has accomplished, and for the strength 
 
 and hope which his sterling characteristics have 
 infused into all departments of activity. At tin- 
 present time there is in process "f 'writing a 
 history of the Barlow family, different members 
 of which have made perceptible inroads into 
 the opening of Oregon, and who, in their attain- 
 ments and characters, are representative of the 
 most far-reaching and helpful pioneership. 
 Pending the completion of this interesting nar- 
 rative, it is a pleasure to enumerate the salient 
 points in the careers of the best known members 
 of the family, with reference especially to their 
 association with the state of Oregon. 
 
 Very early records credit the Barlows with 
 emigration from Scotland, and with settlement 
 near Plymouth Rock, Mass. Virginia became 
 the home of the later members of the family, 
 in which state the paternal great-grandfather, 
 John, was born, and where he enlisted for ser- 
 vice in the Revolutionary war, in time attaining 
 to the rank of captain. His son, W'illiam, the 
 paternal grandfather, was also born in Virginia, 
 and after going into Kentucky with Daniel 
 Boone to fight the Indians, liked the state so 
 well that he forthwith settled therein. In 
 Nicholas county he owned a large farm, and 
 reared a large family, his death occurring at 
 the age of sixty-five years. 
 
 Samuel K. Barlow, the father of William, and 
 son of William, was born in Nicholas county, 
 Ky., and in his youth learned the tailor's trade. 
 When twenty-eight years old he removed to In- 
 diana, but later took up his residence near Peoria. 
 Fulton county, III. just at the close of the Black 
 Hawk war. Subsequently he pioneered where 
 Chicago now stands, but because there was no 
 prophet to advise him. refused to pay $400 for 
 the property upon which now towers one of the 
 greatest centers of activity in the world. At 
 that time the prairie around and bordering on 
 Lake Michigan was unbroken by farm houses 
 or barns, and in the woods there roamed game 
 of various kinds, as yet unfrightened by the gun 
 or wily scheme of the pale faced hunter. Ignor- 
 ing the chance to buy up the future site of Chi- 
 cago, Mr. Barlow started from Fulton county 
 to cross the plains, March 30, 1845. his means 
 of transportation consisting of four teams of 
 three yoke of oxen each. With his family he 
 traveled alone to Independence, Mo., wdiere the 
 band was increased to one thousand wagons, and 
 divided up into different companies. Mr. liar- 
 low was captain of the company hearing his 
 name, and faithfully guarded the interests of 
 his charges through all the dreary months on 
 the trail. The way was via the Platte and the 
 Sweet Water rivers, the journey being rather 
 a pleasant one, and singularly free from annoy- 
 ances of Indians or the ravages of disease. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Slowly the cavalcade moved into the Willamette 
 valley' travel stained but hopeful, and ready to 
 do and dare to an extent unappreciated by peo- 
 ple under any other circumstances. 
 
 William Barlow helped very materially to 
 build the first wagon road over the Cascade 
 mountains. Previous to 1845, a11 immigrants 
 coming to western Oregon came to The Dalles 
 and were conveyed by bateaux down the Colum- 
 bia to the Willamette valley. Mr. Barlow's 
 father determined to make the route one con- 
 tinuous journev by land. He and William Rec- 
 tor blazed the route and S. K. Barlow's 
 family and a few helpers followed. Upon Will- 
 iam Barlow, the oldest son, devolved much of 
 the responsibility and work of the undertaking. 
 He and John M. Bacon were the first men to 
 test the road. Following the blazed trees made 
 by the pathfinders, they made the trip on foot 
 to the Foster settlement, where provisions were 
 procured to take back to the hungry women 
 and children who were struggling with the diffi- 
 culties of the new mountain road. The road was 
 eightv miles long; sixty-five miles of it were 
 cut through the primeval forests and canyons 
 of the mountain slopes. The late Judge Mat- 
 thew P. Deady, of the United State supreme 
 court, said of it : "The construction of the Bar- 
 low road contributed more toward the prosperity 
 of the Willamette Valley and the future state 
 of Oregon than an}- other achievement prior to 
 the building of the railways in 1870." 
 
 Christmas eve, 1845, Mr. Barlow arrived with 
 his family in Oregon City. He had been suc- 
 cessful in Illinois, and had money with which 
 to start life in the west. He bought a hotel 
 for which he paid $2,000, later sold to his son, 
 William, and also took up a claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres near the city, which he 
 eventually sold for $5,000. Later he bought six 
 hundred and forty acres, upon a portion of which 
 the town of Barlow has since been built and 
 named in his honor, and this land he sold for 
 $6,000. In the meantime he had purchased land 
 in Canemah, and thither he repaired to spend 
 his last years, his death occurring there at the 
 age of seventy-two years. Mr. Barlow was one 
 of the splendid personalities which illuminated 
 the pioneer days of Oregon, and who, by his 
 fine grasp of existing opportunities, furnished 
 a worthy example to all would-be promoters of 
 western interests. He was fashioned somewhat 
 on the Cromwellian order, was of Scotch an- 
 cestry, and fearless almost to audacity. He de- 
 spised lies and soft people, and never stooped 
 to a small meanness during the course of his 
 long and well ordered life. 
 
 While living among the crude conditions of 
 Indiana S. K. Barlow married Susanna Lee, 
 who was born in South Carolina, and whose 
 
 father, William Lee, was born in Ireland. Mr. 
 Lee's father was a colonel in the British army, 
 and fought for the crown for seven years. In time 
 he changed his tactics and fought against rather 
 than for England, for which evidence of in- 
 subordination he was captured and imprisoned in 
 a dungeon for a year. After his release he sent 
 his two boys, William and Frank, to America. 
 and William settled in Charleston, S. C, where 
 he enlisted for service in the Revolutionary war. 
 He was a lieutenant of artillery and during the 
 first engagement at Charleston a shell burst, 
 causing him to be crippled for life, and cutting 
 short his military service. Nevertheless, he 
 lived to a good age, for he was sixty at the time 
 of his death in South Carolina. His widow and 
 her children removed to Kentucky, and later to 
 Indiana, settling near Vincennes. but the mother 
 finally removed to the vicinity of Indianapolis, 
 and died there. 
 
 William Barlow, son of the pioneer, was born 
 ten miles west of Indianapolis, Inch. October 
 26, 1822, and was reared in Indiana and Illi- 
 nois. He was the second oldest of the five sons 
 and two daughters born to his parents, and like 
 the rest of the family availed himself of such 
 education as was procurable at the little log 
 subscription school-house. He came across the 
 plains with his father, and bought six hundred 
 and forty acres of land near the Clackamas 
 river, and within six miles of Oregon City. 
 After disposing of this land at a profit he went 
 on the Molalla river and bought a section of land 
 upon which he planted fifty acres in wheat. In 
 1848 he sold his property to Matthias Sweagle. 
 a friend of the old days in Indiana and Illinois, 
 who paid him $2,000 in gold. What this amount 
 of money meant may be best judged when it is 
 known that it was very scarce at that time, and 
 that what little currency was to be had included 
 English, Canadian, Mexican and various other 
 kinds. Later Mr. Barlow brought up in Ore- 
 gon City, where he bought wheat, made it into 
 flour, and after getting in a supply of one thou- 
 sand barrels of the latter commodity talked it 
 over with his partner and decided that one ought 
 to buy the other out. As no Barlow ever thought 
 of backing down, the flour was soon under the 
 exclusive ownership of the Barlow side of the 
 house, and a rise in the price of flour enabled 
 him to sell at an enormous profit. This happy 
 chance proved the beginning of the success of 
 Mr. Barlow, and placed to his credit what was 
 then a comfortable competence. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Barlow left his flouring business 
 and went down to the mines of California on 
 horseback, and during his absence from home 
 collected a varied assortment of experience, al- 
 beit his success as a miner did not reach large 
 proportions. The Indians showed him a great 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 139 
 
 deal of unsolicited attention, and while endeav- 
 oring to turn them from the error of their ways 
 
 he was compelled to acknowledge their superior- 
 ly of numbers and fighting prowess, and re- 
 treat to a safe haven. His object par excellence 
 S to regain possession of a fine riding horse 
 of which the red men had relieved him, hut it 
 is feared the horse had henceforth a much be- 
 decked and savage master. After his flour sale 
 Mr. Barlow bought the Love joy donation claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres on the hills 
 hack of where Canemah now stands, and after- 
 ward he went into partnership with A. F. Hedges 
 in laving out the town of Canemah. The part- 
 ner went to New Orleans in 1850. hought an 
 engine for a steamboat and saw mill, and a fine 
 stock of general merchandise, and when he re- 
 turned Mr. Barlow took the stock of goods and 
 saw mill, and the partner took the boat, and all 
 went merrily and successfully to the advantage 
 of all concerned. The land back of Canemah 
 increased in value and sold at a large profit, and 
 the way of the pioneers was brightened by more 
 than anticipated success. 
 
 Upon purchasing his father's place at Barlow 
 Prairie in 1852, Mr. Barlow was practically free 
 from other business obligations, and in a position 
 to devote all of his time to the cultivation of 
 his fine property. A modern residence was un- 
 fortunately burned in 1884, but Mr. Barlow at 
 once arranged for a larger and more commo- 
 dious residence. No more beautiful rural resi- 
 dence contributes by its harmony and appropri- 
 ateness to the agricultural well being of Clacka- 
 mas county, nor is any farm more admirably 
 managed or finely cultivated. Located on the 
 Southern Pacific railroad, it has its own way 
 station and warehouse, and while essentially a 
 country home, is in close proximity to town in- 
 terests. At one time Mr. Barlow was asked to 
 put up $2,500 and thus become half owner of 
 the land upon which Portland has since been 
 built, the other man in the case, Dan Lonsdale, 
 having paid $5,000 for it in leather. He after- 
 wards traded a portion of the same land for the 
 leather with which he had bought it to a tannery 
 located on the property. Mr. Barlow was de- 
 terred from entering into this transaction through 
 the advice of his father, to whom he went for 
 counsel, and whose opinion he valued more 
 than that of anyone else in the world. Mr. Bar- 
 low has been foremost in all public enterprises 
 in his locality, his force of character, akin to that 
 of his father, forcing him unwittingly into all 
 that has called for strength and concerted action. 
 
 He early saw that the climatic conditions of 
 his adopted state were suitable for orchard cul- 
 ture and next to Mr. Llewellan of Milwaukee, 
 was the first to establish an apple nursery. In 
 1852 he imported from Illinois, by way of the 
 
 Horn, a bushel of black walnuts, and a fine grove 
 oi bearing trees attest the success of this experi- 
 ment. In public enterprises, Mr. Barlow's name 
 was among the originators of the < )regon State 
 Fajr, the first woolen mill in Oregon, the build- 
 ing of the first telegraph line, and in [860 he 
 gave up his residence and part of his farm for 
 the establishment of barracks for the First Ore- 
 gon Volunteers. In 1861 he moved to Oregon 
 City and was enthusiastic in sanitary organiza- 
 tions for the Union boys. Mr. Barlow was en- 
 gaged in mercantile pursuits in the county seat 
 for ten years, when he returned to the Barlow 
 farm, where he has resided continuouslv for 
 thirty-two years. 
 
 He is a Republican in political affiliation, and 
 has served as county commissioner and assessor, 
 and was nominated representative from Clacka- 
 mas, but resigned on account of sickness. His 
 political enthusiasm led him to give an inaugural 
 ball and dinner in honor of Lincoln's first inau- 
 guration. When Col. E. D. Baker arrived in 
 Oregon, Mr. Barlow drove him to Salem in his 
 family carriage. This carriage is now a histori- 
 cal relic, having been shipped to Governor Aber- 
 netby via the Horn in 1859. Mr. Barlow pur- 
 chased it on its transit and has owned and used 
 it ever since. 
 
 Mr. Barlow often expresses his sentiments in 
 regard to two great political movements of the 
 last decade in these words: "There is iust as 
 good material in a woman to make an honest and 
 intelligent voter as there is in a man. and there 
 is just as good material in silver to make an 
 honest dollar as there is in gold." He is 
 fraternally associated with the Masons, and 
 bears the distinction of being the oldest liv- 
 ing member in Multnomah Lodge No. 1. the first 
 lodge organized on the coast. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Barlow married Mrs. Martha 
 Ann Partlow Allen, of which union there have 
 been born three children, of whom Mary is one 
 of the well known educators of the state, and is 
 possessed of great natural talent for her chosen 
 occupation. Jennie, the second daughter, is de- 
 ceased; and Cassius U. is managing his father's 
 farm, and is an exceedingly capable and popular 
 member of the younger generation of f Oregon 
 promoters. Mr. Barlow is now eighty-one years 
 old, but possesses a keen memory of all his 
 pioneer exploits. A habit of reading formed in 
 youth is a great solace to him in his old aq-e. 
 His wife died in 1901, and his two children are 
 now administering to the comfort of his declin- 
 ing years. 
 
 ROBERT ARMINGTON IRVINE. A fam- 
 ily of exceptionally substantial standing in the 
 annals of this state is that of which Dr. E. I.. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Irvine, a well known medical practitioner of Port- 
 land, represents the third generation. His father, 
 Robert Armington Irvine, and his grandfather, 
 Jesse Irvine, were born in Kentucky, the former 
 in 1824, and the youth of both was characterized 
 by a hard struggle for existence. Both of these 
 men had strong and leading traits of character, 
 and came of a long lived and vigorous family, 
 longevity being particularly marked on the ma- 
 ternal side, which was English, the paternal side 
 furnishing the Scotch perseverance and conser- 
 vatism so much needed and appreciated in 
 pioneer localities. 
 
 In his young manhood Robert Irvine married 
 Miss Berry, presumably of Kentucky, and in 
 1852, accompanied by his wife and two children, 
 his mother, and several brothers and sisters, 
 crossed the plains to Oregon, accomplishing the 
 long distance between his old and adopted home 
 with ox and horse-teams in six months. The 
 hope of his emigration was dimmed ere he had 
 tested its wisdom or value, for his daughter died 
 en route and was buried in the bottoms on the 
 Platte river, his wife later succumbing to the 
 rigors of the overland trail at the Cascades. John, 
 the son of the family, alone remains of his first 
 marriage, and at the age of fifty-four is engaged 
 in farming in Linn county. Mr. Irvine started 
 out with more than the usual equipment for 
 travel, having one hundred head of cattle and 
 fifty horses. Even this number proved insuffi- 
 cient, owing to disease and the depredations of 
 the Indians, and in order to complete his journey 
 in comfort he was obliged to purchase a horse on 
 the way. His mother located in the little town of 
 Salem, and her own was the first grave to be dug 
 in the desolate Lee Mission cemetery, since so 
 thickly populated. Her son, Samuel, died on the 
 farm near Salem; James died on a farm adjoining 
 his brother Robert's in Linn county; Benjamin 
 is living retired in Lebanon ; Jesse is a resident 
 of Corvallis and his son is editor of the Times; 
 Marv E. and her husband, Charles Claggett, lived 
 in Salem, but both are now deceased ; Margaret 
 J., deceased, was the wife of Robert Miller, and 
 died in Lebanon in 1902; and Elizabeth, deceased, 
 became the wife of James Claggett. brother of 
 her sister's husband. Of this large family which 
 started out so bravely and formulated their plans 
 over brightly burning camp fires, tramping cease- 
 lessly from morning till night over rough roads, 
 and in many ways enduring great hardships, 
 Rlizabeth and her husband stopped in Portland; 
 Mary and her husband left the train at Salem ; 
 and the others went on to Linn county, taking up 
 such claims as their means permitted or their re- 
 quirements demanded. Thus was established in 
 the western wilds, and in touch with the enor- 
 mous fertility and resource of a great state, as 
 
 large a family as reached Oregon in the aggre- 
 gate, in 1852. 
 
 Recovering somewhat from the disaster which 
 visited him on the plains, Robert Irvine married, 
 in 1853, Sarah Jane Smith, who was born in 
 (bio in 1834, and with her parents, who were 
 natives of Kentucky, and had previously lived 
 in Ohio, came to Oregon in 1852. Her father, 
 Elijah Smith, was a man of means, and after ar- 
 riving in the far west was able to avert much of 
 the discomfort which rendered hard and discour- 
 aging the lives of the early settlers. He located 
 first in Linn and afterward in Marion county, his 
 death occurring at the home of his daughter, 
 Amanda Bossier, in the Waldo Hills, at the age 
 of ninety three years. He was a doctor by pro- 
 fession, and a man of leading traits of character, 
 taking a prominent part in the political and other 
 advancements, by which he was surrounded in 
 Oregon, and wielding an influence in financial and 
 general circles. Besides his youngest child, Mrs. 
 Irvine, he had ten other children, the order of 
 their birth being as follows : John, the postmaster 
 of Lebanon ; Hiram, a retired farmer living in 
 Salem ; William, a graduate of the medical de- 
 partment of the Willamette University, who died 
 at Turner, Ore. ; Elijah, a capitalist of Medical 
 Lake, Wash. ; Abner, living in Marion county ; 
 Taylor, a resident of Salem, Ore. ; Susan, the 
 deceased wife of William Peebler, of Lebanon ; 
 Mary, the wife of George Matleer, of Heppner ; 
 and Amanda, the wife of John Bossier, of Mac- 
 leay, Marion county. 
 
 Robert Irvine settled on a farm near Scio, Linn 
 county, and through the exercise of business judg- 
 ment accumulated six hundred and twenty acres 
 of land before his death. He lived on his farm 
 until 1868, in which year he was elected sheriff of 
 Linn county, and removed to Albany to better 
 attend to his duties, and because of the superior 
 educational facilities. He was re-elected sheriff 
 in 7870. and after completing his term, in 1872 
 purchased a farm on the prairie near Albany, 
 which continued to be his home for several years. 
 After retiring from active business life in Albany, 
 he continued to take an interest in politics, and in 
 1886 was elected state senator, finishing the term, 
 and also the second term to which he was re- 
 elected. His political sendee was characterized 
 by wise and conservative methods, and with due 
 regard for the best interests of those who placed 
 him in power. His name was a household one 
 throughout the county and state, and carried with 
 it both influence and power. Attending all state 
 and county conventions, his acquaintance with the 
 prominent men of the state was naturally large, 
 and his large estates, both in the county and city 
 of Albany, gave him an unquestioned financial 
 standing. He was a promoter of education, mor- 
 ality, and good government, and whenever called 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1 i:; 
 
 upon in an) popular cause, fulfilled the expecta- 
 tion for a large and generous contribution. Many 
 years ago he became a member of the Masonic 
 iodge of Albany, in which his genial personality 
 and good fellowship were greatly appreciated. 
 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church profited by 
 his membership and support, and it is said of him 
 that he was consistent in his attendance, harmon- 
 izing his Sunday and everyday life, and applying 
 the beneficent Golden Rule in all of his depart- 
 ments of activity. The widow who survives him 
 lives at the old home in Albany. His oldest 
 (laughter. Margaret Ellen, is the wife of Lark 
 Bilyeu, an attorney of Eugene; E. L. is a resi- 
 dent ri Portland; Mary is the wife of A. B. Slau- 
 -•on. assistant lihrarian of Washington, D. C. ; 
 and Amanda is the wife of E. L. Thompson of 
 Portland. 
 
 1". I.. Irvine, one of the well known medical 
 practitioners of Portland, was born on his 
 father's farm near Albany, April 12, 1858, and 
 was educated primarily in the public schools, 
 afterward attending the Albany College and the 
 Willamette University, completing the English 
 course in the latter institution. After spend- 
 ing two more years on his father's farm 
 he began the study of medicine under Dr. 
 J. L. Mill, of Albany, at the same time tak- 
 ing a course of lectures in the medical de- 
 partment of the Willamette University, from 
 which he was duly graduated in 1883. After a 
 medical practice of three years in Portland he 
 was appointed assistant superintendent of the 
 ( 'regon State Insane Asylum under Harry Lane, 
 maintaining the position four years. Dr. Irvine 
 possesses the broad and liberal tendencies of his 
 father, and his participation in public affairs is a 
 foregone conclusion. Maintaining the best ten- 
 ets of his profession of infinite possibilities, he 
 leaves no stone unturned to keep abreast of the 
 times, and in his diagnosis and treatment dis- 
 closes individual theories based on profound re- 
 search and of demonstrated merit. Dr. Irvine is 
 a member of the Oregon State Medical Society, 
 a member and medical examiner of the Knights 
 of Pythias, the Degree of Honor and the United 
 Artisans. Politically he supports the man best 
 qualified to serve the public interests. In Albany, 
 in 1882. Dr. Irvine married Laura Robertson, a 
 native of The Dalles, Ore., and daughter of W. 
 H. Roberston. deceased. After the death of Mr. 
 Robertson, his widow married Christopher Houk 
 and made her home in Albany. E. Lloyd, the 
 only child of Dr. Irvine, who was born in Albany, 
 August 7. 1883. was educated in the high school 
 of Portland, and is now in the second year of his 
 medical studies. After severing his association 
 with the Oregon State Insane Asylum, Dr. Irvine 
 located in Albany, in 1891, and in 1900 came to a 
 large field of activity in Portland. Already his 
 
 former success is being duplicated, and it is the 
 wish of all who have watched his meritorious 
 career that substantial appreciation and encour- 
 agement may reward his scholarly attainments 
 and unquestioned allegiance to science. 
 
 WESLEY JACKSON. To the pioneers of 
 Oregon the present generation owes a debt of 
 gratitude that will never be paid. They were 
 men who were truly cast in heroic mold. Few 
 had money, and it certainly required a sturdy 
 nature and a perseverance that today is rarely 
 found in men. Men in 1850 were known for 
 their true worth. All w'ere animated by a com- 
 mon hope. The confidence in the future of 
 Oregon was great. They were noble men and 
 too much cannot be said or done in their honor. 
 To this class of men belonged the gentleman 
 whose name forms the caption of this review. A 
 native of New York, his birth occurred in the 
 village of Medina, and here the days of his 
 boyhood and youth were passed. A few weeks 
 of the year were spent in the school-room, but 
 in those days the services of the youth were of 
 too much value to be wasted in school. He 
 was needed to assist in the work of the farm. 
 Attracted by the discovery of gold in California, 
 Mr. Jackson left his home in 1849 and joined 
 the thousands who were emigrating westward. 
 San Francisco was reached after a long and 
 tedious voyage around the Horn, and the fol- 
 lowing year was spent in mining on McCamel 
 Hill. At the end of this time, with the capital 
 he had accumulated, Mr. Jackson came to Port- 
 land on the vessel Ajax, and soon after his ar- 
 rival he opened a crockery store. From a very 
 small beginning he gradually built up a business 
 that was not only the largest in the city of Port- 
 land, but was one of the most important of 
 its kind in the Pacific northwest. Each year 
 for a considerable period he would go east and 
 purchase his supply of goods and at the same 
 time he would also buy in large quantities for 
 other firms in different lines of business. Mr. 
 Jackson continued in this line of business until 
 1883 and during that time he became one of 
 the best known business men in the west. His 
 reputation was an enviable one and the success 
 that crowned his efforts was but the natural 
 results of diligence, enterprise and honesty. On 
 disposing of his crockery business in 1883, he 
 organized and established the North Pacific 
 Manufacturing Company, which under his ju- 
 dicious and efficient oversight became one of 
 the most important industries in the city of Port- 
 land. The plant was constructed under his per- 
 sonal supervision and the company engaged in 
 the manufacture of buggies, carriages and 
 wagons, transacting a business that aggregated 
 
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 PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 $100,000 per annum. From the plant the Jack- 
 son vehicles were shipped to all parts of the 
 country, particularly through Oregon, Idaho and 
 Washington. It is worthy of note that here 
 were manufactured the first street cars used on 
 the Pacific coast which were run on the streets 
 of Portland. To assist them in the production 
 of their high-grade vehicles, hardwood lumber 
 was ordered from the east and reached here via 
 the Horn. However, the establishment and 
 oversight of so large a business overtaxed the 
 physical powers of the founder and owner, and 
 his sudden death, May 10, 1891, was a direct 
 result of overwork. 
 
 While Mr. Jackson was at all times a man 
 who had many business matters to occupy his 
 attention, he nevertheless was one of the most 
 public spirited citizens of Portland. No move- 
 ment that was calculated to be of material bene- 
 fit to the city went by without his support. His 
 time and means were always at the disposal of 
 any interest deserving the support of good citi- 
 zens. Among the many enterprises with which 
 he was connected was the Portland Telephone 
 Exchange which he aided in starting. He was 
 also actively identified with the Transcontinental 
 Line. Fraternally he was a Mason and politically 
 he supported the men and measures of the Re- 
 ■publican party, but he never had the time nor 
 the inclination to take an active part in the polit- 
 ical struggles of his party. He was ever on the 
 side of right and when called upon he always 
 responded. 
 
 While still a resident of Medina, N. Y., Mr. 
 Jackson was united in marriage with Fran- 
 ces Moore, a native of that city and now a resi- 
 dent of Portland. Three children were born of 
 this union, as follows : Wesley James, who died 
 in 1876, while attending school at Andover, 
 Mass. ; Annie G., now Mrs. Shofner of Port- 
 land ; and Carl H., a sketch of whom follows. 
 
 CARL H. JACKSON. A native son of Ore- 
 gon, Mr. Jackson has established an enviable 
 reputation among the business men of Portland. 
 A son of Wesley Jackson, he was born in 
 the city of Portland on January 26, 1870. 
 When old enough he entered the public schools, 
 which he continued to attend until his gradua- 
 tion in 1886. Soon after he entered the office 
 of his father, who was then engaged in the manu- 
 facture of buggies, carriages, etc., and here he 
 acquired a thorough knowledge of the manufac- 
 turing business. In 1892, one year after the 
 death of his father, he succeeded to the manage- 
 ment of the business and immediately closed out 
 the same. The plant was remodeled as a planing- 
 mill and handed back its charter. The Northern 
 
 Pacific Planing Mill Company was formed with 
 Mr. Jackson as president and manager. The 
 dimensions of the mill are sixty-five by one hun- 
 dred and fifty feet, being three stories in height, 
 with large warehouses and sheds. Two blocks 
 bounded by Twenty-second and Thurman streets 
 are utilized for the mill, which in addition to its 
 planing business is engaged in the manufacture 
 of sash, doors and budding materials. As time 
 has passed the output of the concern has been 
 enlarged until at the present time it is one of 
 the most important industries of the city. 
 
 Much credit is due Mr. Jackson for what he 
 has accomplished. In all of his transactions he 
 has shown a conservative spirit which is usually 
 the accompaniment of old age, but when found 
 in youth or middle age, with qualities of energy, 
 enthusiasm and determination, produce almost 
 invariably gratifying results. 
 
 Though not active in politics, Mr. Jackson is 
 a firm believer in the principles of the Repub- 
 lican party. He has never had the time nor the 
 inclination to seek public office, preferring rather 
 to devote his whole time and attention to the 
 management of his business. Fraternally he is 
 identified with the Hoo Hoos ; the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen; the Woodmen of 
 the World ; Modern Woodmen of America ; and 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 Aside from his connection with the planing 
 mill company he took an active part in the or- 
 ganizing of the Oregon Sash and Door Com- 
 pany, and for a time served as its vice-president 
 and secretary. 
 
 RICHARD B. KNAPP. who for thirty- 
 five years has been identified with the business 
 of Knapp, Burrell & Company, agricultural im- 
 plement dealers, and also president of the Bag- 
 gage and Omnibus Transfer Company, the larg- 
 est concern of its kind north of San Francisco, 
 is one of the very early settlers in Portland, his 
 residence in this city dating from July, 1859. He 
 has lived to witness the growth of the metropolis 
 of Oregon from a city of a little less than three 
 thousand inhabitants to one of the largest and 
 most prosperous in the territory west of "the Mis- 
 sissippi. And in this wonderful development Mr. 
 Knapp has been a factor of more than ordinary 
 strength, his influence always having been cheer- 
 fully extended in behalf of all those movements 
 having for an end the establishment of a firm 
 foundation for a future city which might proper- 
 ly be accorded a rank among the most progres- 
 sive municipalities of the country, and a commer- 
 cial and industrial community known as worthy 
 of more than passing consideration on the part 
 of foreign countries. Though he has not yet 
 reached the age when his life work may "be 
 
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 said to be complete, he is able to see. in the status 
 of Portland at the beginning of the twentieth 
 century, a most optimistic outlook for her future 
 nong the newer cities of the world. 
 
 Mr. Knapp was born in Geneva, Ashtabula 
 county, Ohio, fuly 28, [839. His father, Auren 
 Knapp. and his grandfather, Caleb Knapp, the 
 latter the founder of the family in Ohio, were 
 natives of Sheffield. Conn. Auren Knapp was 
 engaged in farming near Geneva for many years, 
 but his death occurred in Clatsop county, Ore., 
 in 1884, in which county he spent the latter years 
 of his life in retirement. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Sarah M. Burrell, was born in Mas- 
 sachusetts, and of her four sons and three daugh- 
 ter- all but one daughter attained maturity. Of 
 the children two of the daughters never came 
 west, and one of them, Mrs. Mary R. Higley, 
 is still living in Ohio. Jabez B. Knapp, another 
 who was born in Ohio, became a teacher in 
 the south, crossed the plains in 1852. and engaged 
 in general merchandise business in Portland in 
 1855. In 1S70 he disposed of his mercantile 
 interests here, and engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness at Knappton, at the mouth of the Columbia 
 river. He finally retired to his dairy farm on 
 the banks of that' river, where his death occurred 
 April 17. 1900. at the age of seventy-eight years 
 and eight months. Fraternally he was a Mason. 
 Kirk Knapp. the second oldest son, died in Ohio 
 at the age of twenty years; while Auren. Jr.. 
 came to Oregon, via Panama, about 1868, and 
 died while engaged in logging on the Columbia 
 river. 
 
 After completing the course at the academy at 
 Kingsville, Ohio. Richard B. Knapp removed to 
 Grand Rapids, Wis., in 1858, and spent the 
 winter of that year in the pineries of that state. 
 In the spring of 1859 ne started for Oregon. 
 going by way of Xew York City, Panama and 
 San Francisco. In July, 1859, soon after his ar- 
 rival in Portland, he secured employment with 
 the firm of Knapp & Hull, dealers in agricultural 
 implements. In i860 Mr. Hull retired from the 
 business, and the firm became Knapp. Burrell & 
 Co. In 1862 R. B. Knapp secured an in- 
 terest. In those days they were obliged to brim: 
 their goods around the Horn, and one of the 
 members of the firm went east each year to secure 
 the needed supply. So successful did they be- 
 come that they were enabled to establish branch 
 stores in Oregon and Washington, and the house 
 soon became well known throughout the western 
 states.- In the spring of 1870 J. B. Knapp re- 
 tired from the business, which was continued bv 
 M. S. Burrell and R. B. Knapp until Mr. Bur- 
 rell's death in 1885. R. B. Knapp then incorpor- 
 ated the concern afterward known as Knapp, 
 Burrell & Company, which' experienced an era 
 of uninterrupted prosperity extending over a 
 
 period of several years, establishing a reputation 
 for enterprise and business integrity unexcelled 
 throughout the entire west. Mr. Knapp is now 
 retired from active business cares, although he 
 still retains the presidency of the Baggage and 
 Omnibus Transfer Company, of which he was 
 the principal organizer and largest stockholder. 
 From time to time he has been interested in 
 various enterprises for the betterment of the 
 community interests, and his sound business 
 judgment, his keen insight into commercial af- 
 fairs, and his resourcefulness are generally rec- 
 ognized. 
 
 In political faith Mr. Knapp is a Republican. 
 He was a charter member of the Chamber of 
 Commerce, the Commercial Club and the Arling- 
 ton Club, from all of which he has since resigned. 
 Fraternally he is associated with Willamette 
 Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., Portland Chapter 
 Xo. 3, R. A. M.. Oregon Consistory Xo. 1, A. 
 & A., Scottish Rite, and Al Kader Temple, X. 
 M. S. 
 
 HOX. ROBERT D. IX MAX. The typical 
 western man is popularly conceived as a man of 
 liberal ideas, of generous and hospitable instincts, 
 imbued with a spirit of adventurous enterprise, 
 and withal hardy and courageous. He is not 
 punctilious in minor questions of etiquette or in- 
 clined to make much of mere forms and cere- 
 monies. He is a friend to his friends, a man 
 of sterling integrity and of firmness of charac- 
 ter developed by habits of self-reliance. Such 
 men are the state builders wdiose names and deeds 
 are a part of the history of the newer states of 
 the American commonwealth. To this class be- 
 longs Hon. Robert D. Inman. who in spite of the 
 disadvantages of youth and without the assist- 
 ance of influential friends has risen to a position 
 of affluence. A native of Ohio. Mr. Inman was 
 born in Miami county, near Piqua, August 11, 
 1853. and is the oldest of the two sons and two 
 daughters born to Asa and Lucinda (Kendall) 
 Inman, natives of the Buckeye state, where the 
 latter is still living. The family was established 
 in America during the seventeenth century, the 
 first emigrant from England presumably settling 
 in Vermont, as the paternal grandfather was born 
 in that state, and became a pioneer of Miami 
 county. Ohio, and later engaged in farming near 
 Marshalltown. Iowa. The paternal great-grand- 
 father. Ahab Inman, served his country in the 
 Revolutionary war. Asa Inman was a natural 
 mechanic and when a youth engaged in contract- 
 ing and building, which occupation he followed 
 ali his life. During the Civil war he manifested 
 his patriotism for his country by enlisting in the 
 service and at the battle of Shiloh he fell while 
 valiantly defending the stars and stripes. His 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 wife reared the children in ways of usefulness 
 and honor, and proved a veritable helpmate to 
 her husband. 
 
 When but two years of age the parents of 
 lion. Robert D. Inman removed from Ohio to 
 Iowa and settled near Marshalltown, where the 
 family lived until the father enlisted in the Civil 
 war. They then returned to Ohio, where young 
 Inman attended the public schools as opportunity 
 afforded, but in those days the youths were 
 obliged to spend most of their time assisting the 
 family in the struggle for a living, and at the 
 age of eight Mr. Inman began his career as a 
 tow-boy on the old Ohio canal. Various occupa- 
 tions engaged his attention until 1865, when he 
 joined a large train of emigrants bound for the 
 Pacific coast, under the leadership of William 
 Davidson. The trip consumed seven months and 
 its members were forced to endure many hard- 
 ships. At Rock creek they were attacked by a 
 party of Indians and six of the party were killed. 
 Arriving in Oregon, Mr. Inman worked for a 
 time on the farm of Mr. Davidson in Washington 
 county, and in June, 1869, he located in Portland, 
 where for a time he was employed by the west 
 side road cutting ties. He next secured a posi- 
 tion with the Oregon & California Railroad, 
 serving his time from brakeman to fireman. 
 After severing his connection with the railroad 
 he became identified with the John Wilson circus, 
 remaining with the exhibition for the following 
 two years. A year was thereafter spent in the 
 employ of G. W. Shaver, and in 1875 he entered 
 the employ of the Willamette steam mills, and 
 after being in the yards for a short time was 
 promoted to a position in the machinist depart- 
 ment, where he remained for the next seven 
 years. During this time he developed a remark- 
 able mechanical ability, which was probably in- 
 herited from his father, and later, when he be- 
 came associated with the Northern Pacific Lum- 
 ber Company as one-quarter owner and director, 
 he was well qualified for the superintendency of 
 the construction of the new mill and the placing 
 of the machinery. In 1889 he resigned his direc- 
 torship and sold his interests in this company, 
 having been identified with the concern for seven 
 years. 
 
 His next venture in the lumber industry, of 
 which he was a thorough master, occurred in 
 1890, when, in partnership with Johan Poulsen, 
 the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company was in- 
 corporated with Mr. Inman as president and Mr. 
 Poulsen as secretary and treasurer. The mills 
 were constructed in 1889 and in 1890 was inaug- 
 urated a lumber business which has since devel- 
 oped into the largest in the state of Oregon, in 
 fact the business transacted by this company is 
 one of the largest on the Pacific coast, while the 
 mill is considered to be the swiftest in the west. 
 
 Beginning with a capacity of thirty-five thousand 
 feet of sawed lumber per day, the output has 
 been increased to four hundred thousand per 
 twenty-four hours, or one hundred million per 
 year. The mills are equipped with large circular 
 saws, planing apparatus, and sixteen hundred 
 horsepower engine. The goods are shipped to 
 all parts of the world, a large share going to the 
 Orient. Three hundred and fifty hands are em- 
 ployed, and the enterprise is thus of great value 
 as a commercial center, and a promoter of all 
 around activity. To Mr. Inman is due the credit 
 for a number of important patents, among them 
 being a power set works for setting out the log 
 on the carriage. 
 
 Aside from his connection with milling mat- 
 ters Mr. Inman is variously associated with busi- 
 ness and social affairs in Portland. While al- 
 ways a very busy man, he has nevertheless found 
 time to perform the duties falling to the lot of 
 good citizenship and there is no man in Oregon 
 more interested in the ship of state than Mr. In- 
 man. At all times a stanch Democrat, he has 
 been very active in promoting and supporting 
 the interests of his party, and as a public servant 
 has rendered altogether satisfactory service. In 
 1892 he was elected to the state legislature, serv- 
 ing in the session of 1893, and so well did he 
 serve his constituents that in 1900 he was elected 
 to the state senate on the Citizens' ticket, and 
 during the session of 1901 was interested in sev- 
 eral bills, including the street car vestibule bill, 
 the bill regarding fees in county offices, and the 
 Barber's Sunday closing bill. Recognizing his 
 worth and ability his party called upon him to 
 accept the nomination for the office of mayor of 
 Portland, and unlike many, he resigned his posi- 
 tion in the senate and in the election that followed 
 was defeated by George Williams, probably the 
 strongest man in the opposition party. 
 
 In addition to his other interests Mr. Inman is 
 a director in the Merchants' National Bank, is 
 also a member of the Board of Trade and the 
 Chamber of Commerce, while for six years he 
 has served as water commissioner. Fraternally 
 he is a member of the Masons, holding member- 
 ship with Harmony Lodge No. 12, the Consist- 
 ory, and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. He is a 
 member of the Hoo Hoo's, of which he served as 
 state snark for two terms, and one term was on 
 the supreme nine. He is also identified with the 
 Portland Rowing Club, and the Commercial Club, 
 and is a life member of the Multnomah Amateur 
 Athletic Club. A few years ago he built the Al 
 Kader, a small steamer which he uses as a pleas- 
 ure boat, and which has the reputation of being 
 the fastest boat of its kind in the northwest. In 
 1875 he was united in marriage with Miss Fran- 
 ces L. Guild, a native of Oregon, and a daughter 
 of Peter Guild, who crossed the plains in 1847 
 
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 and became the owner of a large tract of land, 
 now within the city limits oi the city of Portland. 
 
 \s a result oi this union two daughters have been 
 horn to Mr. and Mrs. lninan, the oldest being 
 
 Minnie Myrtle, while the younger is Ivy Frances. 
 Thus in brief outline we give to onr readers 
 and to history a sketch of a man, who in face of 
 many obstacles, which at first seemed almost 
 insurmountable, has climbed the ladder of success 
 step by step, until today there is no man in Port- 
 land or in the state of Oregon, who is more uni- 
 versally respected. His life is a living illustra- 
 tion oi what can be accomplished if one but has 
 the perseverance. His motto has been " honesty 
 and fairness to all," and with the natural busi- 
 ness sagacity with which he seemed to be en- 
 dowed, Mr. Inman has stopped at nothing. It is 
 true that he owes much of his success to his 
 wonderful mechanical talents and in that particu- 
 lar line he has few if any equals in the Pacific 
 northwest, for to him is accorded the honor of 
 being the greatest lumber-mill man the west has 
 ever known. While Mr. Inman has spent many 
 years before the public he is happiest when in the 
 bosom of his family, where he is known as a lov- 
 insr husband and an induleent father. 
 
 GEX. OWEX SUMMERS. About the early 
 boyhood years of Genera! Summers there was 
 little to stimulate hope for the future or to indi- 
 cate his possession of superior ability in military 
 affairs. He was born in Brockville, Canada, 
 June 13, 1850, and in infancy was taken to 
 Chicago by his parents, John and Elizabeth Ann 
 Summers, the former of whom engaged in the 
 shoe business there. During the cholera epi- 
 demic of 1856 the father, mother and one daugh- 
 ter died of the disease, leaving four small . chil- 
 dren. Of these three are living: James, Mrs. J. 
 C. Olds and Owen, all of Portland. The six- 
 year-old boy, thus early orphaned, soon saw the 
 dark side of life. His was no easy path to for- 
 tune. He was taken on a farm near Frankfort, 
 Will county, 111., where he worked early and 
 late for his board and clothes. During a small 
 part of the year he was permitted to attend a 
 school held in a log building in the township 
 where he lived. 
 
 In the spring of 1864 he went to La Center, 
 Lee county, 111., and while attending school there 
 he and three schoolmates (of whom lie was the 
 youngest) left school to enlist for service in the 
 Civil war. Going to Dixon he offered his ser- 
 vices, but as he was only fourteen years of age, 
 weighed only one hundred pounds, and in height 
 stood only five feet and one inch, the enrolling 
 officers were loath to accept him. The examin- 
 ing physician, too, refused to pass him, but the 
 energetic, youthful volunteer was more than a 
 
 match for them all. He secured the aid of a 
 Pennsylvania Dutchman, who consented to be- 
 come his guardian, and with the permission of 
 this man the physician was prevailed upon to 
 grant him a certificate. February 1, [865, at 
 Dixon, he was mustered into Company H, Third 
 Illinois Cavalry, and joined his regiment imme- 
 diately afterward in the eastern part of Missis- 
 sippi, later serving in Alabama, Tennessee, Ken- 
 tucky r and the Carolinas. After a number of 
 skirmishes and cavalry dashes he was ordered to 
 St. Louis, and, the war being now closed, was 
 fitted out for an expedition against the Sioux in 
 Minnesota and Dakota. At the close of that 
 service he was mustered out December 11, 1865, 
 and returned to Lee county, 111., where he re- 
 sumed farming. 
 
 In 1871 he went to Chicago. His recollections 
 are most vivid of the exciting scenes connected 
 with the great fire in that city. At the peril of 
 his life, he not only saved his own family, but 
 that of two others. The rebuilding of the city 
 gave him considerable business as a contractor. 
 In January, 1875, he came to Oregon, but after 
 ten days in Portland, proceeded to San Francisco 
 and from there returned to Chicago, where he 
 spent six weeks. On his second return to San 
 Francisco, he remained for two years and then 
 spent six months in San Diego as a government 
 contractor, after which he returned to San Fran- 
 cisco. Coming to Portland in January, 1879, he 
 started a crockery store at No. 183 First street. 
 Six months later the firm of Olds & Summers 
 was formed, his partner being J. C. Olds, a 
 brother-in-law-. The firm dealt in crockery, 
 both wholesale and retail, and became one of the 
 largest concerns of the kind in the northwest. 
 On losing their building by fire in 1886, they 
 moved into a new building on Yamhill street, 
 between First and Second. Later they returned 
 to No. 183 First street and No. 23 Yamhill, 
 where a three-story building had been erected, 
 they r occupying the ground floor and basement of 
 the arcade. In 1890 they moved into and occu- 
 pied the four-story building at Nos. 183-85 First 
 street. In 1895 the partnership was dissolved, 
 Mr. Olds entering a department store, and Mr. 
 Summers continuing the business at the old 
 place. A year later he moved- to No. 157 Wash- 
 ington street and No. in Third street, where be 
 continued in business. Meantime he received the 
 appointment as United States appraiser of the 
 port of Portland by the unanimous decision of 
 the delegation from Oregon, and has since filled 
 the position with characteristic intelligence and 
 sagacity. Tn 1900 the crockery business was dis- 
 posed of. 
 
 Though but a boy when serving in the Civil 
 war, Mr. Summers had gained a thorough and 
 practical knowledge of military affairs and this 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 lias been of aid to him in subsequent events. 
 .Through bis energetic efforts a bill was formu- 
 lated and passed by the legislature during the 
 session of 1 886, of which he was a member, by 
 which the militia was organized into the National 
 Guard of Oregon, consisting of three regiments. 
 May 21, 1883, be organized a company of Vet- 
 eran Guards, which was composed of ex-mem- 
 bers of Civil war regiments, and of this he was 
 chosen first lieutenant. After the reorganization 
 of the military department of the state, in 1887, 
 he was elected lieutenant-colonel of the First 
 Regiment, Oregon National Guard. Seven years 
 later he was promoted to be colonel of the regi- 
 ment. At the opening of the war with Spain all 
 the National Guard troops of Oregon were or- 
 dered to Portland and consolidated, and with 
 additional recruits formulated and constituted 
 the Second Oregon, U. S. V., of which company 
 Summers was given the command by Governor 
 Lord. May 4, 1898, the regiment went into 
 camp. On the 7th, organization of the field staff 
 was made, constituting the date of the organiza- 
 tion of the regiment. On the 24th of the same 
 month the men set sail for the Philippines, this 
 being the first expedition to leave the United 
 States for war in a foreign country. June 1st 
 they arrived at Honolulu ; June 20th, entered the 
 port of San Luis de Apra, island of Guam ; June 
 2 1st, Companies A and D disembarked to effect 
 the surrender of the islands ; June 28th, sighted 
 Luzon ; June 30th, anchored in Manila bay off 
 Cavite; July 1st and 2d, troops landed; August 
 12th, ordered to Manila; August 13th, received 
 the surrender of fifteen thousand Spanish troops, 
 inside the walled city; August 14th, removed to 
 barracks Cuartel de Espana, Calle Victoria, Ma- 
 nila, Company F remaining as palace guard; 
 January ir, 1899, regiment began to leave 
 Cuartel ; February 5th, battle of Manila, and in- 
 surgents driven from their trenches; February 
 6th, fighting all day along the line, and capture 
 of the water works ; February 10th, battle of 
 Caloocan; February 15th, more than one hun- 
 dred prisoners captured by Company A; Feb- 
 ruary 24th, third battalion engaged at San Juan 
 del Monte; March 3d, fighting at Santa Ana; 
 March 5th, Company C engaged on Mariquina 
 road; same day, Company K engaged near -San 
 Juan del Monte; March 6th, Company G and 
 Hotchkiss battery engaged insurgents on Mari- 
 quina road ; March 7th, G and K engaged enemy 
 near Mariquina ; March 10th, entire regiment or- 
 dered to prepare for the front; March 13th, ad- 
 vanced upon Guadalupe; March 14th. E and I 
 crossed river and engaged enemv opposite Pasig, 
 while B. D, L and M engaged "from bluff over- 
 looking Pasig; March 15th, E and I crossed river 
 and engaged enemy one mile in advance of for- 
 
 mer position ; March 18th, Company D sent to re- 
 lief of Tagui ; March 19th, B, D, E, I and L en- 
 gaged in battle of Laguna de Bey ; March 20th, 
 regiment returned to Manila ; March 22d, Com- 
 pany F and third battalion joined regiment ; 
 March 24th. marched to Caloocan; March 25th, 
 battle of Malabon, captured seven lines of en- 
 trenchment ; March 26th, entered village of Ti- 
 nageros; April nth, enemy attacked Marilac and 
 Bocave camps; April 16th, attack on outposts 
 east of Melinto ; April 23d, cavalry engaged en- 
 emy north of Santa Maria; April 24th,Narzogara 
 captured ; April 25th, capture of Angot ; May 
 1st, capture of San Rafael; May 3d, captured 
 Baliuag; May 4th, captured Maasin ; May 13th, 
 captured San Miguel; May 17th, captured San 
 Isidro; May 22d, telegram received ordering 
 Oregon to Manila ; May 23d, homeward bound ; 
 June 13th, first battalion embarked on Newport 
 and third battalion on the Ohio; July 13th, 
 reached San Francisco ; August 7, 1899, mus- 
 tered out. During its term of service the regi- 
 ment had participated in forty-two engagements. 
 Among the many communications received by 
 General Summers bearing testimony to his ex- 
 cellent service in the Philippines, he especially 
 treasures the following: 
 
 "Manila, P. I., August 30, 1898. 
 "Col. O. Summers, Commanding 2d Oregon, 
 U.S. V.: 
 
 "Sir — I desire to express to you in very strong 
 terms my appreciation of the manner in which 
 you and your regiment performed the very diffi- 
 cult and delicate duties of acting provost marshal 
 and provost guard during the time immediately 
 following the capitulation of Manila. It gives 
 me much pride and pleasure on the eve of my 
 departure to recall the way in which I have been 
 supported by all of my troops, and the cheerful 
 fortitude with which they have endured the hard- 
 ships of the campaign. 
 
 "Very respectfully, 
 
 "Wesley Merritt, 
 "Major-General, U. S. A. 
 
 "June 12, 1899. 
 
 "Sir : 
 
 "Your regiment, having been relieved from 
 my command for the purpose of proceeding to 
 the United States for muster-out, gives me an 
 opportunity of which I am glad to avail myself 
 of expressing to you and to the officers and men 
 of your regiment, my high appreciation of their 
 gallant and faithful service while they have been 
 under my command. 
 
 ''While I am glad the regiment is to return to 
 their homes, I regret to lose so manv good sol- 
 diers. When your regiment came to my com- 
 mand their reputation as brave and gallant sol- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 diers had preceded them. Since you have been 
 
 with me our work has been constant, arduous and 
 dangerous. I learned very soon to place implicit 
 confidence in your energy, judgment and cour- 
 . and the gallantry and bravery of your men 
 and officers. You have nobly earned the reputa- 
 tion oi being among the best soldiers of the 
 American army. In saying farewell to the regi- 
 ment, 1 wish you Godspeed and all the good for- 
 tune and prosperity that may and should come 
 to you. 
 
 (Signed) "H. W. Lawton, 
 
 " Major-General Volunteers. 
 
 "Candaba, May 23, 1899. 
 ■■Adjutant-General: 
 
 In view of the remarkable successful engage- 
 ments of Maasin, Balac Bridge and San Isidro, 
 participated in by the troops under Colonel Sum- 
 mers' immediate command, I recommend Colonel 
 Summers for promotion to the grade of briga- 
 dier-general of volunteers. At least. I believe him 
 entitled to the corresponding brevet. I make 
 this recommendation in advance instead of in my 
 final report on account of his relief from this 
 command and the probability of immediate re- 
 turn to the United States. My report will con- 
 tain recommendations of other officers. 
 
 '"Lawton, 
 " Major-General Volunteers. 
 
 "Manila, P. I., May 27, 1899. 
 "Col. Owen Summers. 2d Oregon Vol. Inf. : 
 
 "Sir — Your regiment is about to leave for 
 home to be mustered out of the service of the 
 I nited States, and I now desire to conveys to you 
 my high appreciation of the distinguished serv- 
 ices of yourself and of the Second Volunteer In- 
 fantry. The skill, ability and courage with which 
 you have fought your regiment is deserving the 
 thanks of our countrymen ; the bravery, deter- 
 mined courage, and gallant conduct of the officers 
 and men of the Second Oregon Volunteer In- 
 fantry prove them worthy successors of the men 
 who fought at Shiloh, at Gettysburg and in the 
 Wilderness. Their gallant conduct during the 
 recent campaign in Luzon has reflected credit 
 upon the state from which they came. 
 " Very respectfully. 
 
 "Lloyd Wheaton, 
 " Brigadier-General U. S. V. 
 
 SENATE TOTXT RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 "Whereas. The people of the state of Oregon, 
 regardless of party affiliations, are desirous of 
 expressing their deep feelings of gratitude and 
 their admiration for the courage of the Oregon 
 soldiers who have so noblv offered their lives in 
 defense of helpless humanity in avenging the loss 
 of the Maine, in hehalf of civilization. 
 
 "Whereas, The hearts of some of our people 
 are bleeding as the result of the loss by sicklier 
 or in battle of loved ones to them most dear; 
 therefore, be it 
 
 "Resolved by the senate, the house concur- 
 ring, That the congratulations, admiration and 
 confidence of the people of the state of Oregon 
 be and the same are hereby extended to the Ore- 
 gon soldiers in the Philippines, and that the sym- 
 pathy of the people be and is hereby extended to 
 the mourning friends of the heroic dead ; 
 
 "That the secretary of state be and he is 
 hereby requested to transmit a copy of these 
 resolutions to the commanding officer of the Ore- 
 gon regiment at Manila, and that said officer be 
 and he is hereby requested, upon receipt of such 
 copy, to cause the same to be read to each com- 
 pany of his said regiment." 
 
 Adopted by the senate, February 6, 1899. 
 
 T. C. Taylor, 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Concurred in by the house, February 6, 1899. 
 
 E. V. Carter, 
 Speaker of the House. 
 
 The quality of the men who composed the 
 Second Oregon was indicated by a brief order of 
 General Wheaton at Melinto : "Orderly, over- 
 take those Oregon grayhounds on the road to 
 Polo and order them to Melinto. Go mounted or 
 you will never catch them."' When, after the 
 victory at Malabon, General Wheaton was asked, 
 "Where are your regulars?" he pointed to the 
 Second Oregon, saying, "There are my regu- 
 lars." They were more than once placed in po- 
 sitions where supreme courage was absolutely 
 imperative, and never once did the}' falter or fall 
 back. Their record is one of unstained honor. 
 
 On his return to Oregon General Summers 
 was tendered the re-appointment as United 
 States appraiser by the president, taking effect 
 September 1, 1899. In addition he reorganized 
 his business and incorporated the Summers & 
 Prail Crockery Company, but in February, 1900, 
 sold his interest and has since given his entire 
 attention to his government position. 
 
 In Portland, July 23, 1880, he married Miss 
 Clara T. Olds, who was born in Oregon, her 
 parents having been pioneers of 1847. They arc 
 the parents of one son, Owen George Summers. 
 Mrs. Summers is identified with the First Uni- 
 tarian Church of Portland, the Native Daughters 
 of Oregon and the Women's Relief Corps. 
 
 In politics General Summers has always been 
 a Republican. He is a member of the Commer- 
 cial Club, at one time was connected with the 
 Knights of Pythias, and is now associated with 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being 
 past noble grand of the Portland Lodge, fn 1 87 r 
 
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 he was made a Mason in Apollo Lodge, No. 642, 
 in Chicago, and afterwards became a charter 
 member of Columbia Lodge, No. 114, A. F. & 
 \. M.. of Portland. At one time he was honored 
 with the position of commander of the George 
 Wright Post, (i. A. R.. of Portland, and in 1886 
 he was elected department commander, serving 
 one term. An indication of the esteem in which 
 he is held is afforded by the fact that on his re- 
 turn from Manila, the citizens of Oregon pre- 
 sented him with a beautiful jeweled sword, in 
 recognition of his meritorious service at the head 
 of the Oregon boys. 
 
 GEN. CHARLES F. BEEBE. While the 
 associations of General Beebe have been largely 
 along the line of military affairs and particularly 
 with the Oregon National Guard, he has had, 
 nevertheless, an interesting career as a business 
 man and is now identified with various move- 
 ments of an important nature bearing upon the 
 commercial progress of Portland. The family 
 of which he is a member settled in New England 
 during the colonial era. His grandfather, Silas 
 Beebe, a native of Connecticut, was for years a 
 sailing master and built and owned a number of 
 vessels running out of the harbor of Mystic. 
 It was in this seacoast town that Charles E., 
 father of Charles F. Beebe, was born and reared, 
 and from there he went to New York City in 
 youth to enter upon a business life. From 1840 
 until his death, in 1892, he was extensively en- 
 gaged as a tea merchant and importer, the firm 
 of Beebe & Bro. being one of the oldest houses 
 of its kind in the city. His wife was Jane B. 
 Wade, born in Springfield, N. J., and deceased 
 in 1 89 1. Her father, Elias Wade, Jr., was a 
 native of New Jersey and a wholesale grocer 
 for some years. From 1865 until his death in 
 1878 he acted as managing partner for the large 
 importing and shipping house of Grinnell, Min- 
 turn & Co., of No. 32 South street, New York. 
 
 In a family of four children all but one 
 attained mature years. Of these William W., 
 a graduate of Yale in 1873, became an attorney 
 in New York City and later made his home in 
 Colorado. Springs, Colo., where he died. An- 
 other son, Alfred L., a graduate of the Columbia 
 School of Mines in New York Citv, was for 
 years assistant chemist of the New York Board 
 of Health, but in 1898 came to Portland, where 
 he has since resided. The third son, Charles F., 
 was born and reared in New York City and in 
 1865 was graduated from Flushing Institute. 
 Afterward he entered his father's office at No. 
 149 Front street, New York City, and later be- 
 came a partner in the house of Beebe & Bro. 
 On his withdrawal in 1879 he became interested 
 
 with Henry M. Evans in the cotton brokerage 
 business, under the firm name of Evans & Beebe. 
 This partnership was dissolved in 1883, and 
 during that year Mr. Beebe, with his brother- 
 in-law, A. M. Sutton, came to the west to take 
 the agency for Sutton & Co., of New York. 
 On his arrival in Portland, in January, 1884, he 
 opened a branch house, starting the business on 
 the 1st of February, at No. 16 North Front 
 street. In July of the same year Mr. Sutton 
 established an agency in San Francisco, the two 
 acting as western agents for the Dispatch line 
 of clipper ships around the Horn from New 
 York and Philadelphia. In connection with the 
 Portland agency, a general ship chandlery busi- 
 ness was conducted. During 1896 Sutton & Co. 
 discontinued business in Portland, but Mr. 
 Beebe, having become interested in the city and 
 bound to its people by intimate ties of friend- 
 ship, decided to remain. January 1, 1897, the 
 Charles F. Beebe Company was incorporated 
 with him as president, and the firm has since 
 dealt in general supplies, imported pig iron and 
 coke, and conducted a general shipping and com- 
 mission business. The two-story building of 
 the firm is on the northwest corner of First and 
 Ankeny streets. 
 
 Besides being at the head of this important 
 enterprise, Mr. Beebe is secretary of the Ore- 
 gon Lime and Plaster Company, engaged in the 
 manufacture of lime and plaster, with plant four 
 miles from Huntington. On the organization of 
 the Adamant Company he became a charter 
 member and is now its secretary, the concern 
 owning and operating a mill at the foot of Four- 
 teenth street. Though not active in politics, 
 he is a stanch Republican. In the Chamber 
 of Commerce he was president one term, 
 vice-president two terms, and has also served 
 as a member of the board of trustees. The Ar- 
 lington Club has honored him by election to 
 official positions, while in the Commercial Club 
 he has twice been elected to the presidency. In 
 1903 he was appointed by Mayor Williams a 
 member of the Executive Board, under the new 
 charter. Owing to his thorough military train- 
 ing he is serving on the committee having super- 
 vision of the police department. Of Presby- 
 terian faith, he still has his membership in the 
 Madison Square Church in New York. 
 
 In New York City occurred the marriage of 
 General Beebe to Miss Emma Bowne, who was 
 born at Flushing, Long Island, and received her 
 education in Miss Porter's School at Farming- 
 ton, N. Y. Her father, Simon R. Bowne, was a 
 member of a very prominent Quaker family of 
 Flushing. Born of her marriage are three sons, 
 namely : Walter Bowne, secretary of the Charles 
 F. Beebe Co. ; Gerald E., a member of the class 
 

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 of 1004. Yale College; and Kenneth, a graduate 
 of Portland Academy. 
 
 \ttcr seven and one halt years of service in 
 the Seventh New York Regiment, Company H, 
 beginning February 14. 1871, Mr. Beebe was 
 honorably discharged in November of 1878. 
 Immediately he was appointed aide-de-camp, 
 with rank of first lieutenant, on the staff of 
 Brig.-Gen. J. M. Varian, commander of 
 the Second Brigade, New York National Guard. 
 From time to time he was promoted until he was 
 brigade-quartermaster j with the rank of captain, 
 t )n the death of General Yarian, die command 
 of the regiment passed into the hands of Brig.- 
 Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, and Captain Beebe 
 was retained with a very few others. To 
 him came the appointment as inspector of rifle 
 practice, with the rank of major, which position 
 he resigned in the fall of 1882. Soon afterward 
 he was appointed assistant in the department of 
 rifle practice, with his former rank of major, 
 under Gen. Charles F. Robbins, inspector-gen- 
 eral of rifle practice in New York, on the gov- 
 ernor's staff. This office he held until coming to 
 ( 'regon, when he resigned. 
 
 At the time of the reorganization of the 
 National Guard of Oregon, in the spring of 
 1886. when Company K was organized in Port- 
 land, General Beebe was appointed second lieu- 
 tenant, then first lieutenant, and three months 
 later, when the company was permanently organ- 
 ized, was elected its captain, serving as such for 
 a year. In July of 1887 he was elected colonel of 
 the First Regiment, Oregon National Guard, on 
 the organization of the full regiment. When in 
 camp at Milton, Ore., in 1891, he was re-elected 
 colonel. February 22, 1895, he was appointed 
 and commissioned brigadier-general in command 
 of the Oregon troops by Governor William P. 
 Lord. At the expiration of his term of four 
 years he was again chosen for this responsible 
 position, under appointment from Governor T. 
 T. Geer, and as such continues to the present 
 writing. The Oregon troops comprise the fol- 
 lowing regiments : Third Infantry, O. N. G., in 
 Portland ; Fourth Infantry, O. N. G., comprising 
 companies in the Willamette valley ; First Sep- 
 arate Battalion, in Eastern Oregon; Light Bat- 
 tery Artillery, in Portland ; troop of cavalry at 
 Lebanon, and a signal corps at Corvallis. It is 
 needless to state that General Beebe has accom- 
 plished much in behalf of the National Guard of 
 Oregon, for this fact is known to all in the least 
 familiar with the development of military 
 affairs in this state, and due credit is given him 
 for his thorough work in the development of the 
 same. His connection with the militia in New 
 York is held in remembrance through his life 
 membership in the Seventh New York Regi- 
 
 ment Veteran Association. It was in New York 
 that he gained his accurate training in military- 
 tactics and the knowledge thus acquired has been 
 invaluable to him since coming to the coast and 
 has been instrumental in enabling him to bring 
 the Oregon National Guard into a position 
 among the foremost among similar organizations 
 of the west. 
 
 I 1 RED BICKEL. The word pioneer is dis- 
 tinctly applicable to that venerable citizen, Fred 
 Bickel, who came to Oregon in 1853, and locat- 
 ing in Portland, materially assisted' in the gen- 
 eral upbuilding of the town. Fie started the 
 first confectionery store and soda water manufac- 
 tory here and has of late years been successfully- 
 engaged in the storage business. It is also to 
 his credit to be enrolled among the soldiers who 
 were destined to discipline the murderous and 
 treacherous bands of Indians who infested the 
 plains and were especially troublesome during 
 the wars of 1854, 1855 and 1856. During that 
 momentous period he volunteered in Company 
 A, Oregon Volunteers, served in eastern Oregon, 
 and was mustered out and honorably discharged 
 during the summer of 1856. He participated in 
 several skirmishes with the Indians in Walla 
 Walla Valley, one of which lasted for four days. 
 
 In his general makeup Mr. Bickel embodies the 
 most desirable of Teutonic traits, all of which 
 have been fostered and developed by a careful 
 early training and the subsequent necessity for 
 looking out for himself. He was born in the 
 town of Rodenburg, Germany, on the river 
 Fulda, May 21, 1832, and is a son of George and 
 Elizabeth Bickel, natives respectively of Roden- 
 burg and Solz. George Bickel was a blacksmith 
 up to the time of his retirement, and he brought 
 his family to America about 1846, locating in St. 
 Louis. Of the three children who attained ma- 
 turity in his family, Fred is the second child and 
 oldest son and the only one living. Like the 
 majority of the German reared youths, Fred 
 Bickel started out on his own responsibility at 
 the age of fourteen, and upon landing in St. 
 Louis, after an ocean voyage of fifty-three days, 
 apprenticed himself to a confectioner for four 
 years. At the expiration of two and a half 
 years his employer died of cholera, and the youth 
 thereafter worked for his employer's wife and 
 her brother, Frank Dekum, assisted by another 
 apprentice. Eventually he came to California 
 with Mr. Dekum, the journey towards the coast 
 being replete with many adventures. From New 
 Orleans they sailed to Chagres, Panama, where 
 they took a small boat up the river of that name 
 to Corcona, the head of navigation. Thereafter 
 they walked twenty-eight miles to Panama, 
 
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 where they were compelled to wait two weeks 
 because all transportation opportunities were en- 
 gaged in advance for about tbree months. The 
 travelers managed to secure passage on the ves- 
 sel Anna Smith, bound for Acapulco, which, 
 however, was obliged to put into port because of 
 shortage of water. Finally they got aboard the 
 Golden Gate, bound for San Francisco, which 
 city they reached after two months, about May 
 21, 1852. 
 
 In Shasta City, Cal., Mr. Bickel engaged in 
 business with Mr. Dekum, but the latter removed 
 from Shasta City to Portland in 1853. For some 
 time Mr. Bickel assumed control of the confection- 
 ery shop left in his charge, but in May, 1853, it 
 was burned to the ground, entailing considerable 
 loss. Shortly afterward he came to San Fran- 
 cisco, whence he embarked on the Columbia for 
 Portland, which he reached in June of that year. 
 Here he entered into partnership with Mr. De- 
 kum, under the firm name of Dekum & Bickel, 
 confectioners, which was the first enterprise of 
 the kind in the town, and was located for the 
 time being between Stark and Washington 
 streets. In 1856 he started the first soda manu- 
 factory in Portland, which he and Mr. Dekum 
 ran for ten years, but which is now carried on 
 by other parties. At the expiration of their re- 
 lationship Mr. Dekum and Mr. Bickel had been 
 connected for more than twenty years. 
 
 After going out of business with his old time 
 partner Mr. Bickel was out of work for a time, 
 but in 1883 built the large storage house which 
 he has since managed, and which is 80x100 feet 
 ground dimensions. The building is four stories 
 in height, and the front contains two double 
 stores. Mr. Bickel has also put up other stores 
 and public buildings in Portland, and at the 
 present time is a large holder of town real estate. 
 He erected a block on Second street, between 
 Ash and Ankeny, which is 150x112 feet ground 
 dimensions, is two stories in height, and has 
 eleven stores in front. 
 
 Through the marriage of Mr. Bickel and 
 Catherine Karlskind, who was born in St. Clair 
 county, 111., near Belleville, five children have 
 been born : Caroline Fredericka, and Louise, 
 both of whom are living at home ; George L., a 
 strawberry rancher on Hood river, Ore. ; Albert, 
 a clerk in Portland; and Frederick, a collector in 
 Portland. Mr. Bickel is a Republican in politics, 
 but has never been induced to accept official 
 recognition. He has been prominent before the 
 public in various capacities, and to him is due 
 the organization of several societies in which his 
 countrymen feel particularly at home, among 
 them being the Turn Verein and the German Aid 
 Society. He is also a member of the Historical 
 Society and the Oregon Pioneers' Association. 
 
 (APT. J. C. AINSWORTH. The history 
 of Oregon would be incomplete did it fail to 
 give the life record of Capt. J. C. Ainsworth, 
 who was for many years a well known factor 
 in navigation and railway matters as well as a 
 promoter of banking interests in the northwestern 
 country. He was a son of John Commiger Ains- 
 worth, who died when his son J. C. was seven or 
 eight years of age. Captain Ainsworth was born 
 in Springborough, Warren county, Ohio, June 
 6, 1822, and on the Mississippi river received his 
 first lessons in the profession which afterward 
 made him famous. On arriving at man's estate 
 he was quickly promoted to the position of pilot 
 and subsequently to that of master on a passen- 
 gen steamer plying between St. Louis and up- 
 river points. While in this service he first heard 
 of the discovery of gold in California and the 
 wonderful possibilities for labor and capital in 
 that state. He accordingly journeyed to San 
 Francisco in 1850, accompanied by the noted 
 banker, William C. Ralston, and soon after his 
 arrival on the Pacific coast he went to Oregon to 
 take command of the Lot Whitcomb. His life in 
 the northwest from this time until he retired, 
 nearly thirty years afterward, was inseparably as- 
 sociated with marine pursuits, and to his thor- 
 ough and practical knowledge of the business in 
 all its details was due the marvelous success 
 achieved by the great transportation company in 
 which he was a leading spirit from the time of its 
 inception until it was merged from the Oregon 
 Steamship & Navigation Company into the Ore- 
 gon Railroad & Navigation Company. He was 
 president of the latter company until it was sold 
 to the Villard syndicate in 1881, for $5,000,000. 
 He built the Missouri Pacific Railroad through 
 from California to -the Sound, getting the engine 
 into Puget Sound twenty-four hours before the 
 expiration of a valuable land subsidy. This, too, 
 he completed, furnishing the means from his own 
 pocket. He started the Ainsworth National Bank 
 in 1883, built the Ainsworth Block in 1881, at the 
 corner of Third and Oak streets, and started the 
 Central Bank of Oakland, Cal., acting as its presi- 
 dent until his death. While Captain Ainsworth 
 made for himself a reputation as a remarkable 
 financier among the money kings on both sides of 
 the continent, yet he always remained a firm 
 friend of the laboring classes. Retrenchment 
 with him did not commence with a reduction of 
 salaries. "Give the boys good salaries," was a 
 sentiment he always expressed, and "the bovs," 
 since grown gray, many of them in the service of 
 less appreciative masters, will never forget the 
 kind-hearted employer who appreciated good 
 services and acknowledged the same in a substan- 
 tia^ manner. As an indication of the regard in 
 which Captain Ainsworth was held by the people 
 of the upper country, from whom much of the 
 
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 139 
 
 revenue of the Oregon Steam Navigation Com- 
 pany was derived, an extract from an article pub- 
 lished in The Dalles Inland Umpire after the re- 
 tirement of Captain Ainsworth, is herewith 
 
 en: "He has been at all times a gentlemanly 
 public servant, a faithful custodian of the inter- 
 
 - oi his fellow stockholders and the most equit- 
 able and merciful of employers. In fine, he has 
 been a good friend to friends and a semi-foe to 
 
 mies. His broad sense of justice has made 
 him the object of an almost filial degree of affec- 
 tion from his employes, and to his sagacity in 
 making three voluntary reductions of freight 
 rates without compulsion in five years' time, the 
 growth and expansion of the Eastern Empire are 
 largely attributable." 
 
 Captain Ainsworth's friendship for his early 
 companion and friend. \Y. C. Ralston, lasted until 
 the tragic death of Mr. Ralston, and in this con- 
 nection the folowing story was told in the San 
 Francisco Examiner: "When Captain Ainsworth 
 and W. C. Ralston arrived in California they sep- 
 arated. Mr. Ralston remained in San Francisco, 
 and engaged in the banking business with Eugene 
 Kelly, while Captain Ainsworth went to Oregon 
 and began steamboating on the Willamette river. 
 Each was successful, and one day Ainsworth saw 
 a chance to increase his fortune if he could be- 
 come possessed of $100,000. As he desired this 
 amount very much he went to San Francisco and 
 called on his old friend. W. C. Ralston, for assist- 
 ance. The details of the plan were outlined and 
 the required amount was promptly advanced on 
 a sixty-day note. When Mr. Kelly returned from 
 an eastern trip he looked over the affairs of tne 
 institution and noted the transaction. He was 
 much displeased with the loan and insisted upon 
 its immediate recall. Ralston defended his action 
 warmly, but unsuccessfully, and some words 
 passed between the partners. In the meantime 
 Ainsworth had gone to Oregon, and the custom- 
 ary notice was delayed until the sailing of the 
 next steamer. Ainsworth concluded the deal, 
 cleared up something like $250,000, and started 
 the borrowed money homeward within a few 
 days, and the vessel which carried the recall 
 passed the money on the way to the bank. This 
 transaction so angered Ralston that he withdrew 
 from the partnership and opened the Bank of 
 California. Before retiring from the Oregon 
 Steam Navigation Company Captain Ainsworth 
 invested largely in real estate in Tacoma, and was 
 prominently identified with the construction of 
 the Northern Pacific Railway Company between 
 the Columbia river and Puget Sound. In 1880 
 he removed to Oakland, Cal., where he became 
 interested in local banking and subsequently ex- 
 ploited the famous watering place, Redondo 
 Beach, expending nearly $3,000,000 in trans- 
 forming it into one of the finest seaside resorts on 
 
 the Pacific coast. Captain Ainsworth died at his 
 home near Oakland, December 30. [893, and few 
 if any of the pioneers in the transportation busi- 
 ness of the northwest have left a record which 
 will prove more lasting or more creditable. 
 
 The second marriage of Captain Ainsworth 
 occurred in San Francisco, the lady of his choice 
 being Fannie Bobbitt, daughter of Gen. Edwin 
 Burr Bobbitt, a graduate of' West Point and chief 
 of the Quartermaster Department, U. S. A. 1 li- 
 son, Lawrence S. Bobbitt, is second in rank for 
 chief of ordnance, stationed at Dover, N. J., and 
 his son, Edwin B. Bobbitt, is a graduate of West 
 Point and now a captain of ordnance stationed at 
 Washington, D. C. L'nto Capt. J. C. Ainsworth 
 and his wife were born six children, five of whom 
 are still living, two sons and three daughters. H. 
 B. Ainsworth is manager of the Los Angeles & 
 Redondo Railroad Company, of Los Angeles, Cal. 
 J. C. Ainsworth, Jr.. is represented in the follow- 
 ing biographical sketch. The mother of this fam- 
 ily survives her husband and resides in Portland. 
 Captain Ainsworth was for years a very promi- 
 nent Mason, and Ainsworth Lodge and Ains- 
 worth Chapter, in Oregon, are named in his 
 honor. He attained the thirty-third degree and 
 was first Grand Master of Oregon and was for 
 years active inspector-general of the supreme 
 council of the Southern Jurisdiction in the state 
 of Oregon, the highest post of honor possible of 
 attainment in the state. 
 
 Captain Ainsworth was a man fitted by his 
 excellent business qualities to take a leading part 
 in the upbuilding and growth of a new country 
 such as the northwest at the time he took up his 
 abode here, and that he faithfully fulfilled everv 
 duty devolving upon him and carried forward to a 
 successful completion whatever he undertook was 
 a well known fact. Strict integrity and upright- 
 ness were salient features in his characteristics, 
 and all who knew him regarded him with the 
 highest honor and respect. 
 
 (For many of the facts contained in the pre- 
 ceding biography credit is due to Lewis & Dry- 
 den's History of the Pacific Northwest). 
 
 J. C. AINSWORTH. One of the leading and 
 prominent business men of Portland is J. C. 
 Ainsworth. who is active and energetic and takes 
 a deep interest in everything pertaining to the 
 commercial progress and general upbuilding of 
 the state in which he lives. He is one of Port- 
 land's native sons, having been born in this city 
 January 4, 1870, and is a son of Capt. J. C. and 
 Fannie (Bobbitt) Ainsworth. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of California in 
 1 89 1. with the degree of Bachelor of Sciences. 
 He then took a special course in electrical engin- 
 
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 eering in the same institution, graduating in 1892 
 and receiving the degree of Master of Science 
 from his alma mater. Subsequent to this he 
 spent one year in the Central Bank of Oakland, 
 Cal. In 1894 he came to Portland, Ore., and 
 engaged in the banking business for himself, with 
 the Ainsworth National Bank and acting as presi- 
 dent of the same, which had a capital stock of 
 $100,000. In 1902 he consolidated the Ainsworth 
 National Bank with the United States National, 
 under the name of the United States National 
 Bank, the same having a capital stock of $250,000 
 and later increased it to $300,000. This is one 
 of the strongest institutions on the coast. He 
 was one of the incorporators of the Fidelity 
 Tin st Company Bank, of Tacoma, having a cap- 
 ital stock of $300,000, and in 1902 he succeeded 
 Col. C. W. Griggs as president of the company. 
 He is president of the Oregon Telephone & Tele- 
 graph Company, having a capitalization of $500,- 
 000, and is assistant secretary and treasurer of 
 the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Com- 
 pany, which institution has a capital of $15,000,- 
 000, and has lines extending from Mexico to 
 Alaska with 150,000 subscribers. He is treasurer 
 of the Portland Railway Company ; director of 
 the Portland Hotel Company, the Portland Gen- 
 eral Electric Company, the Portland Street Rail- 
 way Company, the Pacific States Telephone & 
 Telegraph Company, the Los Angeles & Redondo 
 Railway Company, Oregon Railroad & Naviga- 
 tion Company, and numerous others, including 
 the Lewis and Clark Fair. 
 
 In Portland, June 26, 1901, J. C. Ainsworth 
 was united in marriage with Miss Alice Heitshu, 
 who was born in California. Mr. Ainsworth 
 is a stanch Republican in his political views and 
 is ex-president of the Arlington Club. His relig- 
 ious faith is indicated by his membership in the 
 Presbyterian Church. Through his good busi- 
 ness judgment he has not only gained for himself 
 success in life, but his efforts have been of bene- 
 fit in promoting the advancement and prosperity 
 of the communities in which he has been finan- 
 cially interested. He is a wide-awake, capable 
 man, quick to take advantage of a good business 
 opportunity. A gentleman of fine presence, genial 
 manner and handsome appearance, his good qual- 
 ities win the regard of all with whom he comes 
 in contact. 
 
 CAPT. JOSEPH A. SLADEN. Since his 
 retirement from the active list of the army, in 
 T889, Captain Sladen has been a resident of 
 Portland, where he was engaged for five vears 
 as special agent and adjuster for the German- 
 American Insurance Company of New York. 
 January 1, 1894, he was appointed clerk of the 
 United States circuit court by Judge W. B. 
 
 Gilbert, circuit judge, which position he still oc- 
 cupies. He is also United States commissioner, 
 to which position he was appointed by Judge C. 
 B. Bellinger, United States district judge. 
 
 Captain Sladen was born in Rochdale, Lanca- 
 shire, England, April 9, 1841, the youngest of 
 four children, three boys and one girl. His 
 father dying while he was very young, his fam- 
 ily came to this country when he was about five 
 years of age. They settled at Lowell, Mass., 
 where he attended the public schools, and left the 
 high school to enter the army at the outbreak 
 of the Civil war. He enlisted in the Thirty- 
 third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and par- 
 ticipated in the campaigns of the Army of the 
 Potomac, including the famous battles of Chan- 
 cellorsville and Gettysburg. With the Eleventh 
 and Twelfth corps he went west to the relief of 
 Rosecrans at Chattanooga, and took part in the 
 campaigns under General Sherman which re- 
 sulted in the capture of Atlanta, and in the bat- 
 tles incident thereto. He was also in the March 
 to the Sea, and the campaigns through the Caro- 
 linas, which ended in the battle of Bentonville, 
 N. C. For distinguished gallantry at the battle 
 of Resaca, Ga., he was awarded a congressional 
 medal of honor, and in 1866 was brevetted a 
 first lieutenant and captain in the regular army 
 for distinguished gallantry at the battle of Jones- 
 boro, which resulted in the downfall of Atlanta. 
 In November, 1864, he was commissioned a sec- 
 ond lieutenant in the Fourteenth United States 
 Colored Infantry, and thereafter served till the 
 close of the war as an aide upon the staff of 
 Gen. O. O. Howard. He was appointed a sec- 
 ond lieutenant in the Seventeenth United States 
 Infantry March 27, 1866, and continued on duty 
 as an aide to General Howard, remaining on duty 
 in Washington, D. C, until 1874, when he ac- 
 companied that general to the department of the 
 Columbia, with headquarters at Portland. He 
 participated in the Indian wars in that depart- 
 ment, that of the Nez Perces in 1877, and that 
 of the Bannocks and Piutes in 1878. With the 
 appointment of General Howard as superintend- 
 ent of the United States Military Academy he 
 accompanied that officer as adjutant general of 
 that institution, and also accompanied him to the 
 department of the Platte, at Omaha, when that 
 general was ordered there in 1882. 
 
 In October, 1885, Captain Sladen was ordered 
 on duty with his regiment, the Fourteenth United 
 States Infantry, to which he had been trans- 
 ferred, at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and 
 served there as regimental quartermaster until 
 promoted to the command of his company in 
 1888. April 8, 1889, he was retired from active 
 service on account of the loss of his right leg, 
 which had occurred in the line of duty. In 1891 
 he was elected commander of the Grand Army 
 
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 of the Republic for the department of Oregon, 
 and served on several occasions as aide on the 
 
 • of the commander-in-chief of that organi- 
 
 He is a member, and past commander of 
 
 Lincoln-Garfield Post, G. A. R., and also a past 
 
 •inander of the Oregon Commandery of the 
 military order of the Loyal Legion. 
 
 In Massachusetts Captain Sladen was united 
 in marriage, in [866, with Martha Frances Win- 
 native of Lowell, and of this union 
 there have been born four children. Fred Win- 
 chester, who graduated from West Point in 
 June, 1890. is now a captain in the army, and an 
 instructor at the United States Military Acad- 
 emy, having been detailed at that institution after 
 serving through the Philippine campaigns as an 
 aide to Major-General Otis; Harry Stinson, a 
 graduate of the Leland Stanford University, is 
 now with the Portland General Electric Corn- 
 pan v : Frank Joseph, a graduate of Yale, class 
 of 1002. is a student at the Johns Hopkins Medi- 
 cal College : and Caroline L. is the wife of Capt. 
 John J. Bradley, of the Fourteenth United States 
 Infantry. 
 
 Captain Sladen is prominent in Masonic cir- 
 cles. He was made a Mason in B. B. French 
 Lodge, of Washington. D. C, in 1866, and was 
 afterwards master of Mount Hood Lodge at 
 Vancouver. Wash. He is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason, and is identified with the Oregon Con- 
 sistory, and El Kader Temple, N. M. S. He is 
 a member of the First Baptist Church of Port- 
 land ; a Republican in politics, and is socially a 
 member of the Arlington Club. Although so 
 long connected with affairs military, and every 
 inch a soldier in bearing and general deportment, 
 Captain Sladen possesses a geniality and good 
 fellowship which have won him many and lasting 
 friends, and he has evinced in his latter day un- 
 dertakings shrewd business and executive ability. 
 
 WILLIAM FRAZIER. In the record of the 
 life of a successful man there is always much of 
 interest, and particularly is this true in the case 
 of a man who is forced to begin the battle of life 
 in extreme youth, unaided and penniless. Xo 
 greater source of inspiration can be offered a 
 young man of ambition than the example afforded 
 by such a life in the maturity of its success. 
 
 The death of his parents when he was a mere 
 child forced William Frazier to undertake the 
 solution of the problem of self-support at a very 
 early age, but the self-reliance thereby developed 
 proved of incalculable benefit to him. Though 
 the years of his youth were less free from care 
 than those of most boys, the activities of his 
 manhood doubtless have been more successful 
 by reason of these very deprivations and hard- 
 ships of boyhood. He was born in Shelik, near 
 
 Ross Shire, Scotland. September 15, 1851, and 
 was the second of three sons. The oldest, I [ector, 
 died in Washington; the youngest, Collin, is en- 
 gaged in farming in Grande Ronde Valley, Union 
 
 county, Ore. His father, George Frazier, a ship 
 carpenter by trade, was lost in a shipwreck off 
 the coast of England, and subsequently the wid- 
 owed mother brought the three sons to the United 
 States, settling near Kawanee, 111., where she 
 died two years later. 
 
 When the family crossed the ocean William 
 Frazier was a child of six years. For a time 
 after their arrival in Illinois all went well, and 
 he had the privilege of attending the country 
 schools of Henry county, 111., three winter terms. 
 But with the death of his mother he was thrown 
 upon his own resources. In 1863, at the age of 
 twelve years, under the escort of his uncle, John 
 McDonald, he crossed the plains to Oregon as 
 a member of a party accompanying a train of 
 one hundred wagons. At that time the Indians 
 were particularly troublesome, and his party never 
 would have reached the coast had it not been for 
 a government escort of thirty-six mule teams and 
 one hundred and fifty men under the command 
 of Captain Crawford. The great cavalcade of 
 emigrants and soldiers proved too formidable 
 for the wandering bands of Indians to attack, 
 and they were permitted to pursue their course 
 unmolested. One of the wagon teams was driven 
 by the twelve-year-old boy, who in many ways 
 proved himself a useful companion for the older 
 men. Soon after their arrival at the coast, his 
 uncle settled upon a claim in Grande Ronde \ "al- 
 ley where, at the age of eighty years, he still 
 makes his home. 
 
 After three months with his uncle, Mr. Frazier 
 went to Umatilla Landing, where he worked in 
 a dry goods store for Mr. Case during the win- 
 ter. In the spring he secured employment on a 
 pack train from Umatilla to Boise City, Bannock, 
 Albanv and Placerville, Idaho, which occupation 
 he followed for two years, riding the bell horse 
 and acting as cook for the train. During the 
 fall of 1865 he arrived in Portland, where he 
 has since made his home. At first he followed 
 any occupation that presented itself, and availed 
 himself of such leisure as he could command in 
 order that he might attend to his neglected 
 schooling. For one winter he attended Portland 
 Academy. In the spring of 1869 he bought an 
 interest in a butcher shop in Portland, but after 
 a vear or more began to take contracts for the 
 piles on the lower docks of the Willamette. This 
 work consumed two years, during which time 
 he cleared the neat sum of S 10,000. A portion 
 of his earnings he invested in a livery stable, 
 which he conducted for three years and then 
 sold. His next enterprise was with L. A. God- 
 dard, under the firm name of Goddard & Frazier, 
 
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 the two conducting a large stable on Morrison 
 and Second streets. In 1883 a three-story barn 
 was built, 100x100, on Fifth and Taylor streets, 
 and here he bas since engaged in business, being 
 with Mr. Goddard until 1897, and since then a 
 member of tbe firm of Frazier & McLean. In 
 addition to tbe renting of horses and vehicles, he 
 has done a large business in buying and selling- 
 stock. At times he has brought in three car- 
 loads of horses from Chicago at once, these being- 
 sold principally to loggers and lumbermen. For 
 twenty years he has supplied the government 
 with horses, furnishing five thousand for the 
 Manila campaign, and in all of his contracts with 
 the government his work was conducted with 
 sagacity and dispatch. 
 
 In Portland, in 1873, occurred the marriage of 
 William Frazier and Margaret E. Long, who was 
 born near this city, her father, Edward Long, 
 having come from Ohio in 1847 an< ^ settled two 
 miles from the city of Portland. The only child 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Frazier is Charles R. Frazier, 
 who graduated from a business college and at- 
 tended Leland Stanford University for two years. 
 afterward acting as deputy county sheriff under 
 his father. The Commercial Club and Riverside 
 Driving Association number Mr. Frazier among 
 their members. While he is not connected with 
 any denomination, he is a contributor to the 
 Baptist Church, with which his wife is identified. 
 His fraternal connections include membership in 
 the Woodmen of the World, Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks ; Portland Lodge No. 55, 
 A. F. & A. M.; Oregon Consistory No. 1, thirty- 
 second degree; and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. 
 The leading position he held in the Republican 
 party, as well as among the citizens of his home 
 town, led to his selection in 1896 for the office 
 of county sheriff, and not only was he elected at 
 that time, but in 1898 and 1900 he was honored 
 by re-election, serving from July, 1896, to July, 
 1902, when he retired and did not enter the lists 
 as a candidate. The qualities which he possesses 
 qualified him for tbe duties of sheriff. With a 
 robust mental and physical sturdiness, he was 
 a terror to evil doers and law-breakers, and his 
 several administrations won the commendation 
 of the law-abiding element of the county. As a 
 private citizen, as well as in his official capacity, 
 he has won a large circle of friends and well- 
 wishers, and bas gained a deserved prominence 
 in the city to which he came, unknown, many 
 vears ago. 
 
 HON. SOLOMON HIRSCH. The Pacific 
 slope has furnished to the country many men of 
 high intellectual attainments, who have distin- 
 guished themselves in the various fields of endeav- 
 or for which the American commonwealth has 
 
 become noted during the past few decades. In 
 the commercial world by far the great majority 
 of these have been men who began life with no 
 resources excepting their own industry and in- 
 domitable spirit. While the pioneers of the 
 great west have been, as a rule, men born and 
 reared in America, there also have been found, 
 especially in tbe years following immediately after 
 the first great rush to this country of wonderful 
 opportunity, numerous conspicuous instances 
 where rare successes have been the reward of 
 diligent application on the part of those who have 
 come from foreign shores to cast their lot with 
 the ambitious sons of. the east who have sought 
 fame and fortune in this opulent region. The 
 history of the operations of the early settlers on 
 the coast has shown, however, that it has been 
 men of force of character and determination only 
 (with rare exceptions has this been true) to whom 
 the greatest measure of success has come. The 
 life record of the late Hon. Solomon Hirsch of 
 Portland, ex-United States minister to Turkey, 
 forms one of the most splendid illustrations of 
 this obvious truth — that personal character and 
 genuine worth count for more in the contest for 
 supremacy in the liberal atmosphere of the west 
 than in any other section of this free country, 
 or in any other country in the world. Even so 
 brief a resume of the life services of Mr. Hirsch 
 as it is possible to give in a volume of this char- 
 acter will be a source of inspiration to the young 
 men of the future generations who start out 
 on their careers no more amply equipped to fight 
 the battle of life than he. The story, in the tell- 
 ing, sounds like a romance. 
 
 Born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 25, 
 1839, he was a son of Samson Hirsch, a member 
 of an old and respected family of that kingdom. 
 There were five sons in the family who came to 
 the Pacific coast. Leopold, who settled in Oregon 
 as early as 1851, engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness in Salem, and died in 1892. J. B. and Mayer 
 were pioneers of 1853 in this state, and also fol- 
 lowed mercantile pursuits in Salem, where the 
 former died ; the latter died in New York in 
 1875. Edward, who settled in Oregon in 1858, 
 became a merchant in Salem, where he has also 
 been prominently identified with public affairs. 
 In 1878 he was elected state treasurer of Oregon, 
 and upon the expiration of four years was re- 
 elected to the office. Further honored by the 
 people of his city, in 1890 he was chosen to repre- 
 sent them in the state senate. In 1898 he was 
 appointed postmaster of Salem, an office which he 
 fills at the present time. 
 
 The youngest of the five sons in the family, 
 Solomon was fifteen years of age when, in 1854, 
 he set sail from Havre for New York. After a 
 voyage of forty-two days he arrived at his desti- 
 nation. Without any delay he secured work 
 
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 a clerk in New York, and later was similarly 
 employed in Now Haven, Conn., and Rochester, 
 
 \ IL Meantime, from his brothers, who had 
 preceded him to Oregon, he received glowing 
 
 reports oi the prospects in the west, and deter- 
 mined to join them in this state. March 
 iS;S. he took passage on the vessel Star of 
 the West for Aspinwall, and after crossing the 
 Isthmus, proceeded on the Golden Gate to San 
 Francisco, where he made a short stop. From 
 there he came to Portland, landing here in April, 
 
 858, His objective point was Salem, but he soon 
 I to Dallas, where he opened a retail store, 
 tinuing there until 1861. A later location was 
 Silverton. Marion county, where he conducted a 
 mercantile business until the fall of 1864. Upon 
 returning to Portland he became a partner of L. 
 Fleischner and A. Schlussel, under the firm title of 
 L. Fleischner & Co., wholesale merchants occupy- 
 ing a store on Front street, between Stark and Oak 
 streets. In 1875 the concern was consolidated 
 with that owned by Jacob Mayer, and the name 
 thereupon became Fleischner, Mayer & Co., under 
 which style it operates at the present time. The 
 members of the firm at the time of the death of 
 Mr. Hirsch were : Solomon Hirsch, Isaac N. 
 Fleischner, Marcus G. Fleischner, M. A. Mayer 
 and Samuel Simon. The trade built up by this 
 firm, as manufacturers and importers of dry goods 
 and men's furnishings has extended into Wash- 
 ington, Idaho and Montana, besides reaching 
 into every part of Oregon. 
 
 In fraternal relations Mr. Hirsch was a Mason, 
 and the manner of his initiation into the order 
 may testify to the great esteem in which he was 
 held. Amongst the oldest prerogatives of a grand 
 master of Masons, very rarely conferred or ex- 
 ercised, is the right of conferring the degree of 
 Masonry without the usual scrutiny of the can- 
 didate by secret ballot. In the history of the 
 order in the state of Oregon that prerogative has 
 been exercised but once — in the case of Mr. 
 Hirsch and Cyrus A. Dolph, who together, in 
 1902, were so distinguished, in the language of 
 the craft being made Masons "at sight." The 
 honor may be somewhat inexplicable to those not 
 identified with the order. But Masons will un- 
 derstand that this compliment was a recognition 
 of the honor, the probity, the character, the 
 noble life, the high principles of the man thus 
 welcomed into the greatest secret order the world 
 has ever known. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hirsch took place in 
 Portland, February I, 1870. and united him with 
 Josephine, daughter of Jacob Mayer, a native of 
 Xew Orleans. There are four children in the 
 family, namely: Ella, Sanfonl, Mai and Clemen- 
 tine. 
 
 The public service of Mr. Hirsch was as note- 
 worthy as his private business career. As a 
 
 member of the state legislature during the session 
 ot 1872 he assisted in electing United State.. 
 Senator Mitchell. In 1874 he was chosen to 
 represent his district in the state senate, and 
 four years later was again elected to that office. 
 Upon the expiration of his second term, in 1882, 
 he was re-elected, and served up to and includ- 
 ing the session of 1885. During his latter period 
 of service he again gave his support to Mr. 
 -Mitchell; but failing to bring his candidate suc- 
 cess, turned his support to J. N. Dolph, who was 
 elected. During the session of 1880 he was hon- 
 ored by the election to the presidency of the 
 senate. Upon the expiration of his third term he 
 declined further renomination and returned to 
 private life. Nevertheless a very large proportion 
 of his fellow-citizens, and particularly the mem- 
 bers of the Republican party, were not content 
 to allow him to remain aloof from public affairs. 
 In 1885 they brought his name before the people 
 as a candidate for the United States senate. A 
 few of the minority Republicans had their own 
 candidate, but Mr. Hirsch was the choice .of the 
 majority of his party. When the matter was 
 taken up by the legislative body of which he was 
 at the time a member, he lacked but one vote of 
 being elected. Had he cast that vote for himself, 
 he would have gained a seat in the United States 
 senate, but he was unwilling to do so and there- 
 fore lost the office. An occurrence so unusual was 
 widely commented upon at the time and has never 
 been forgotten. During his service as state sen- 
 ator he supported scores of important bills. 
 Among these was an assignment law for the bene- 
 fit of the poor (1878), to which he introduced 
 an amendment giving it many features in common 
 with the more recently adopted national bank- 
 ruptcy law. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Hirsch went abroad for the pur- 
 pose of visiting Mr. Fleischner in Vienna. While 
 there he was taken sick and went to Carlsbad 
 for the benefit of the waters. While still taking 
 a course of treatment, in 1889, he received a 
 cablegram from the state department notifying 
 him of his appointment as United States minister 
 to Turkey. The appointment came without solic- 
 itation on his part, and naturally was an entire 
 surprise. At first Mr. Hirsch felt constrained to 
 decline on account of the condition of his health, 
 but finally decided to accept upon receiving per- 
 mission from the department to continue his 
 treatment as long as necessary, and also permis- 
 sion to return home after the formal presentation 
 of his letters of credence. In June. 1889, he 
 went to Constantinople, where the Sultan granted 
 him an audience for the presentation of his letters. 
 Immediately afterward he returned to the United 
 States, arrange! his business affairs preparatorv 
 to an extended absence, and then, accompanied 
 by his family, returned to Europe in October 
 
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 of the same year. He remained at his post until 
 the summer of 1*891, when he was granted leave 
 of absence in order that he might return to the 
 United States and tender his resignation. Arriv- 
 ing in Washington, he called upon President Har- 
 rison, but found the latter unwilling to accept 
 his resignation. At the urgent request of the 
 chief executive Mr. Hirsch withdrew his request 
 to be relieved of the responsibilities of the office 
 and returned to Turkey in December, 1891, with 
 the understanding, however, that the next year 
 his resignation would be accepted, as the death 
 of his business partner in 1890 rendered his 
 return to Portland desirable. Again, in October, 
 1892, he returned to Washington, and this time 
 he was allowed to resign the post, as agreed upon, 
 the president tendering him the most flattering 
 acknowledgment of the valuable character of his 
 services as minister plenipotentiary at a post of 
 more than ordinary difficulty during a most criti- 
 cal period in the relations between the two 
 countries. Not only was his work highly accept- 
 able to- the department of state, but the mission- 
 aries located in the various parts of the Ottoman 
 Empire also tendered him the most cordial resolu- 
 tions in recognition of his unselfish devotion to 
 their welfare and interests. In 1897 President 
 McKinley offered him the same post, or that 
 of United States minister to Belgium, as 
 preferred, but his business demanded his presence 
 at home and he felt obliged to decline the honor. 
 
 While not himself seeking the honor, many of 
 the most influential citizens of Oregon had looked 
 forward to the nomination and election of Mr. 
 Hirsch to the United States senate in 1903. 
 Many of his warmest adherents predicted that 
 nothing could have prevented his election ; and 
 this is now the generally accepted belief. It is 
 but an echo of the best public opinion to record 
 in this brief memoir of one of the most dis- 
 tinguished men of the Pacific slope, that the 
 state of Oregon could have furnished no more 
 capable, sincere or highly qualified man for the 
 office ; and that if he might have been spared to 
 round out his useful life in this position, the state 
 would have been represented at Washington by 
 a gentleman possessed of such a broad knowledge 
 of public affairs and the needs of the region he 
 represented, as to make him the peer of the most 
 distinguished members of that great body. 
 
 In the midst of private affairs of great magni- 
 tude and importance, and public services of an 
 invaluable nature, Mr. Hirsch was not unmindful 
 of the best interests of his home city. Through 
 his unselfish labors as a member of the Chamber 
 of Commerce, as president of Beth Israel Con- 
 gregation, and as a life member of the Portland 
 Library Association, he promoted local interests 
 in the social, educational and religious world. 
 The Republican party at all times had the benefit 
 
 of his counsel and advice; and his services as 
 chairman of the Republican Central Committee 
 in 1882, and again in 1896, will be remembered as 
 instrumental in perfecting the organization of 
 the part)- on a basis which has made its operations 
 in great political campaigns vastly more easy and 
 successful. Chiefly as the result of his labors, 
 the Republicans of Oregon elected a governor in 
 1882 for the first time in many years ; and in 
 the memorable campaign of 1896, when every 
 possible obstacle in the way of Republican suc- 
 cess was raised by the adherents of the free silver 
 party, his management of the campaign was such 
 as to save the state to his party. It has since 
 been said by thoughtful party leaders that the 
 same result probably would have been attained 
 through no other management. 
 
 The career of this useful man of affairs and 
 distinguished citizen of Portland was terminated 
 by his death December 15, 1902. Among the 
 many eulogistic editorial utterances following this 
 sad event, we give place to the following from the 
 Portland Labor Press, which is particularly felic- 
 itous as coming from the leaders of the great 
 masses of laboring men of Portland, by whom Mr. 
 Hirsch was regarded as a friend in all that the 
 term implies : 
 
 "Mr. Hirsch, while a man of large affairs and 
 one whose impress was felt in many ways and 
 walks of life, has left behind him the universal 
 respect and regard of our entire people. He was 
 a large employer of labor, and his uniform justice 
 and fairness in his relations as an employer won 
 the confidence and guaranteed to his house the 
 faithfulness of those dependent upon him for 
 employment. The great factory of the Fleischner- 
 Mayer Co., employing over three hundred people 
 in the manufacture of men's garments, will live 
 long after him as a monument to his enterprise 
 and far-sightedness. While in the congested 
 cities of the eastern states it is found necessary 
 to enact the most stringent laws compelling 
 rigid inspection of factories of this character, the 
 Fleischner-Mayer plant is a recognized model for 
 health, cleanliness and up-to-date hygienic and 
 sanitary appointments. Could it be said that the 
 future manufacturers would all be like Solomon 
 Hirsch, Oregon would not need to burden her 
 statutes with laws governing sweat-shop methods 
 in the making of men's wear. The working people 
 can rightly feel that in the death of this good man 
 they have lost a true, tried and just friend, and 
 their sympathies will go out to those closer and 
 dearer, who mourn his loss." 
 
 At the services held in his memory at Temple 
 Beth Israel on Sunday, January 4, 1903, a large 
 concourse of his personal friends, including prac- 
 tically all the most prominent men in Portland 
 and many people from the lowlier walks in life 
 who esteemed it a high privilege to be able thus 
 
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 to honor the memorj oi one dearly beloved bj all, 
 wire in attendance. Eulogistic addresses were 
 delivered by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and ex- 
 Attorney-General George 11. Williams, the 
 present mayor of Portland. Dr. Wise's estimate 
 of the character ami services of Mr. Hirsch may 
 lie summed up briefly in the following excerpts 
 from his address : 
 
 "Solomon Hirsch was a man of ideals. Man 
 of affairs though he was. he did not permit him- 
 self to become the servant of his business, or the 
 i his possessions. He remained master 
 oi himself and all that he possessed. Virtue he 
 pursued, and knowledge high ; with him the two 
 were closely allied, for in his life to know was to 
 <.\o. Virtue he pursued from the beginning unto 
 the end oi his days, and knowledge high through 
 all his busy, crowded life, with the ardor of a 
 youthful lover. 
 
 "In the highest sense of the term he might be 
 styled a self-made man, for he rose from very 
 humble beginnings unto high place, with no aid 
 from without, unaided save by Him of whose 
 help and guidance his life was a grateful and 
 pious acknowledgment. Self-made though he 
 was. no one could have been further removed 
 from the arrogance and boastfulness of the merely 
 successful man who believes only in himself and 
 in his own prowess ; though self-made, he was 
 God-fearing and God-revering. 
 
 "Solomon Hirsch proved his Americanism not 
 only by the probity of his conduct in public life, 
 which but served to make his personal character 
 conspicuous, so that adapting the words of Theo- 
 dore Parker "his private character became a pub- 
 lic force,' but especially in his resentment of the 
 inhuman attitude of some European powers to 
 his fellow-Jews. * * * The cry of the hounded 
 Roumanian Jewish expatriate wrung that noble 
 heart which bled for the sorrows and sufferings 
 of his people. 
 
 "I would say that his love of the race and relig- 
 ious fellowship whence he was sprung rivaled 
 his devotion to his adopted country. If rivalry 
 there was between his attachment to his mother- 
 faith and his loyalty to his fatherland, it was a 
 rivalry that tended to deepen his attachment and 
 strengthen his loyalty at one and the same time. 
 So faithfully did he cherish the religion of his 
 fathers that I have long thought that, if he was 
 ambitious, it was because he hoped to serve his 
 people by representing them honorably and worth- 
 ily in public life. Eagerly he welcomed every 
 opportunity to win and merit the world's respect 
 fi r the Jew. * ::: * The religion he professed 
 impelled him to nobility of action. Full as was 
 his life of deeds and achievements, it was fullest 
 of the little kindnesses and tendernesses and cour- 
 tesies, the little and great benevolences which 
 endeared him to his fellow-men. Disciple of the 
 
 House of Israel unswervingly faithful, citizen of 
 his adoptive country gratefull) patriotic, settler 
 oi the northwest Sternly honorable, if none of 
 US can take his place, each of us can take pattern 
 and inspiration from his life." 
 
 JOHN MILTON HODSOX. The Hodson 
 family are quite numerous, being represented in 
 England, Canada and all the states and territories 
 of the United States, particularly in the middle 
 states. There are three forms of spelling the 
 family patronymic: Hodgson (the old English 
 form), Hodgin, and Hodson, the latter being used 
 by probably ninety per cent of the members of the 
 family. The genealogy of the particular branch 
 to which the subject of this article belongs is 
 traced to Robert Hodgson, an officer in the Eng- 
 lish army, who served in Ireland from about 1645 
 to 1650. After the death of Robert, his children, 
 two sons and a daughter, came to America, in 
 1660. the daughter and one of the sons locating 
 in Xew York. The other son. George Hodgson, 
 settled on Sassafras creek, in Susquehanna 
 county, Pa., in which vicinity many of his de- 
 scendants now reside. His son John lived and 
 died upon the old homestead. 
 
 Robert Hodgson, the son of John, removed to 
 Xorth Carolina about 1750, settling near Guil- 
 ford Courthouse, where he reared a large family, 
 eight sons and two daughters. Nearly, if not 
 quite, all of the latter about 1800 found homes 
 in the then new territories of Ohio and Indiana. 
 Jonathan Hodgson removed to Clinton county, 
 Ohio, with his family in 181 1, and there cleared 
 out a large farm and reared a family of four 
 sons and two daughters, all of whom were born 
 in X T orth Carolina, prior to the removal of the 
 family to Ohio. Matthew Hodgson was born in 
 X'orth Carolina in 1795, and came with the family 
 to Ohio, where in 1820 he was married to Hannah 
 Hunt. About this date, by almost unanimous 
 consent, at least ninety per cent of the Hodgson 
 family dropped the letter "g" from the name, as 
 in the pronunciation of the same it had always 
 been considered a silent letter. Matthew Hod- 
 son, who was a farmer and wheelwright, con- 
 tinued to reside in Ohio until 1852, when he- 
 removed to Hancock county, Ind., his death oc- 
 curring there in 1875. The Robert Hodgson who 
 removed from Pennsylvania to Xorth Carolina 
 was a minister in the Society of Friends 
 (Quakers) and nearly all of his descendants have 
 adhered to the faith of that church. The family 
 of Matthew Hodson consisted of two sons and 
 three daughters. Asa FI. Hodson removed from 
 Indiana to Oregon in 1879, settling in McMinn- 
 ville, where he engaged in the hardware business. 
 His death occurred in 1889. His son, Orlando O. 
 Hodson, continues the business established by his 
 
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 father and is meeting with success in his under- 
 takings. 
 
 John Milton Hodson was born near New 
 Vienna, Ohio, August 24, 1839, and re- 
 moved with his parents to Hancock county, 
 ind., in 1852. The education which he 
 received in the public schools of Ohio and 
 Indiana was supplemented by a course in 
 the National Normal University at Lebanon, 
 ( )hio, and for several years he was engaged as 
 teacher and superintendent in the schools of In- 
 diana. In 1872 he engaged in the newspaper 
 business as editor and joint proprietor of the 
 Winchester (Ind.) Journal, but in 1880 he sold 
 out and engaged in the orange business in Flori- 
 da, following this for some time. Not being 
 pleased with the conditions prevailing in that 
 country, he returned to Indiana in 1881, and two 
 years later removed to Oregon, locating in Lane 
 county. He founded what was known as the 
 Eugene Register, publishing the same until 1888. 
 In 1890 he came to Portland as deputy collector 
 of customs for the port of Portland, which posi- 
 tion he held for three years, or until Cleveland's 
 administration was inaugurated, when he re- 
 signed. For four years, dating from the fall of 
 1894, he was interested in the firm of Irwin- 
 Hodson Co., printers and blank book manufac- 
 turers, as secretary and accountant. All through 
 his busy life he has been engaged in buying, im- 
 proving and selling real estate, which is his prin- 
 cipal business at the present time. 
 
 October 17, 1861, Mr. Hodson was united in 
 marriage with Martha A. Rawls, who passed to 
 the spirit life in 1881, leaving a daughter, Ger- 
 trude. In 1883 he married Winona Coffin, a 
 great-niece of the famous abolitionist, Addison 
 Coffin. In 1865 Mr. Hodson was made a Mason 
 in Golden Rule Lodge No. 16, of Knightstown, 
 Ind., and was exalted a Royal Arch Mason and 
 knighted in the bodies of Knightstown in 1870. 
 Since coming to Oregon he has attained the 
 thirty-third degree, Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
 tish Rite, being crowned an honorary inspector 
 general of the Supreme Council of the south- 
 ern jurisdiction, by Illustrious I. W. Pratt, in 
 January, 1902. At this writing he is preceptor 
 of Oregon Consistory No. 1. His official rela- 
 tions with the craft have been almost continuous 
 since he was made a Mason, having served in 
 nearly every station within the gift of his breth- 
 ren. He is a past M. W. grand master, past 
 M. E. grand high priest, past M. E. president 
 of high priesthood, past M. Illustrious grand 
 master of the Cryptic Rite, and past grand com- 
 mander of Knights Templar of Oregon. He en- 
 joys the distinction of being the only Mason who 
 has passed the presiding chairs of all the grand 
 bodies in the state. For a number of years he 
 has been the writer of the reports on correspond- 
 
 ence for the grand lodge, grand chapter and 
 grand commandery. He is an earnest supporter 
 of the principles and philosophies of the world's 
 greatest fraternity, believing them the most pro- 
 found and valuable of any human organization, 
 and that their most perfect demonstration should 
 be found in the daily life and conduct of its mem- 
 bers. 
 
 HON. GEORGE W. BATES. To follow the 
 career of Ceorge W. Bates from the time when, 
 as a sturdy youth on his father's farm back in 
 Lee county, Iowa, he worked and played beside 
 the stream that sang its refreshing way through 
 the meadows, and in which he ofttimes plunged 
 to dissipate the noon-day heat, were to travel 
 faster and with more accomplishable vigor than 
 is either consistent or profitable to average mor- 
 tals. Yet so seemingly exhaustless is the pres- 
 ent vitality and resourcefulness of this intrepid 
 promoter of western enterprises, so varied are 
 his interests, and so splendid his grasp of the 
 opportunities by which he is surrounded, that 
 one is constrained to look forward rather than 
 back, and to expect as well as appreciate. 
 
 Of Teutonic ancestry, Mr. Bates was born in 
 Lee county, Iowa, November 21, 185 1, and lived 
 among the home surroundings until his seven- 
 teenth year. His father, Nicholas, was born in 
 Germany, and came to America with the grand- 
 father Bates, locating in Iowa when that part 
 of the country was yet a territory. Nicholas 
 farmed for many years in Iowa, but spent the 
 last fifteen years of his life with his son, Hon. 
 George W. He married Matilda Harris, a native 
 of Illinois, and member of an old southern fam- 
 ily. Mrs. Bates died in Iowa in 1868. Of her 
 six children a daughter and three sons are liv- 
 ing. Of these, one son, J. W., is a bridge- 
 builder, at present operating near Honolulu, 
 Sandwich Islands, and William is a resident of 
 San Francisco. 
 
 At the age of seventeen George W. Bates 
 started out upon an independent career, and 
 from the bottom learned all about railroading 
 and railroad building, finally completing his 
 instruction with laying track and bridge build- 
 ing. In 1874 he identified himself with the San 
 Francisco Pacific Bridge Company, and engaged 
 in building bridges and docks, and was sent by 
 the same company to Portland in 1880, intending 
 to remain for three months. The business 
 chances represented in this town appealed to his 
 largeness of perception with considerable force, 
 and in due time he found himself a part of the 
 moving forces around him. He constructed the 
 dock for William Reed in 1880, and while asso- 
 ciated with A. S. Miller & Son contracted for 
 building the bridges between Roseburg and Ash- 
 
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 laml. on the California & ( >regon Railroad. He 
 was associated with Lee HoPman for eight 
 years, or until 1890, and (luring that time put in 
 piers and steel bridges all through Oregon. The 
 bridge across the Columbia river at Pasco, most 
 of the snow sheds and the bridge on the Cascade 
 division, and mam kindred constructions in dif- 
 ferent parts oi the state, are due to his prac- 
 tical grasp of an enormously interesting and 
 responsible occupation. However, building 
 bridges required frequent absences from home, 
 and often called for deprivations and exposures 
 to extremely trying and inclement weather, so 
 after contributing to an unusual degree to the 
 promotion of bridge building in the state Mr. 
 Bates decided to engage in some occupation 
 more concentrated and less wearing. 
 
 With others similarly interested, Mr. Bates 
 purchased the little water plant in Albina and 
 organized the Albina Light and Water Com- 
 pany. From a very small beginning the plant 
 was enlarged and modernized, and made to con- 
 form to the most pressing needs of this part of 
 the city. An electric lighting system was intro- 
 duced all over Albina and East Portland, for 
 which valuable franchises were secured. In 
 December, 1891. was begun a deal with the 
 Portland General Electric Company, which was 
 carried through in January, 1892, and by the 
 terms of which the company disposed of their 
 electric lighting business for $200,000. Tanuarv 
 1. 1902, the water business was also sold for a 
 like amount. When Mr. Bates first bought the 
 water plant it was realizing $350 a month. 
 
 At the present time Mr. Bates is engaged in 
 hanking in Portland, and has under his super- 
 vision the Bank of Albina, incorporated in the 
 spring of 1893: the Multnomah County Bank, 
 and the Albina Savings Bank. During the panic 
 of 1893, having plenty of money on hand from 
 the sale of the water works, he used it to enable 
 the Savings Bank to maintain its credit, and he 
 also bought the other two banks. The banking 
 business is incorporated under the firm name 
 of George YV. Bates & Co. He built his pres- 
 ent bank building in 1896. Mr. Bates is also 
 interested in the laundry business, and in 1894 
 incorporated the Union Laundry Company, of 
 which he is president, and which is one of the 
 largest laundry enterprises in the Northwest. 
 The present building was erected in 1902 on 
 the corner of Second and Columbia streets, has 
 three floors, and is 60 x 100 feet ground dimen- 
 sions. The Diamond Vitrified Brick Company, 
 near \ ancouver. is another enterprise in which 
 Mr. Bates is interested, and of which he is presi- 
 dent and a director. This is a very large plant, 
 and its brick are shipped over all the country. 
 For some years he owned the Parker Mill, and 
 
 during that time organized the Albina Saw Mill 
 Company, of which he became president, and 
 
 managed to work up the affairs of the mill to 
 a high standard. This plant was disposed of in 
 [8 19, in response to the more pressing demands 
 upon the time of Mr. Bates. 
 
 As a Republican Mr. Bates has rendered the 
 same kind of service to his party which has char- 
 acterized his many business enterprises. He 
 represented Multnomah county in the state sen- 
 ate during the sessions of 1897-99, a "d wa s ap- 
 pointed police commissioner by Mayor Frank, 
 but resigned from the same. Mayor Mason also 
 appointed him police commissioner, and he was 
 appointed to the same office by Governor Geer 
 upon the passage of the new charter. He is a 
 member of the Commercial Club, and attends 
 the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is a 
 member. Mrs. Bates was formerly Miss L. M. 
 Menzies. who was born in Oregon, and whose 
 father. Capt. James Menzies. owned a home near 
 Sandy. and was a pioneer of that district. Three 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bates, 
 Lloyd, George W.. Jr.. and Bruce Adler. 
 
 MILTON W. SMITH. The success which 
 has encouraged the efforts of Mr. Smith in the 
 practice of law is another indication of the abil- 
 ity possessed by the native sons of Oregon. Born 
 at Aurora, this state, July 15, 1855, he owes his 
 education to our schools, where his keen natural 
 gifts were broadened by contact with teachers of 
 intelligence and superior ability as educators. In 
 1878 he received the degree of A. B. from Pacific 
 University, one of the oldest institutions of the 
 west, and three years later the degree of A. M. 
 was conferred upon him by his alma mater. Im- 
 mediately after graduating he took up the study 
 of law in the office of Judge Deady. of the United 
 States district court, at Portland, and continued 
 his readings until he was admitted to the bar in 
 March of 1881. During August of the same 
 year he established himself in practice and has 
 since won his way to an eminent rank among the 
 attorneys of his home city. 
 
 In addition to professional practice. Mr. Smith 
 has officiated as treasurer and a director of the 
 Portland Library Association since 1890, and at 
 this writing is chairman of the book committee 
 managing the library. Since 1894 he has acted 
 as a director of the Multnomah Law Librarv and 
 during all but three years of this time has been 
 its president. Ever since his graduation he has 
 maintained his interest in his alma mater and is 
 keenly alive to the advantages offered to the 
 young by this pioneer college. In his desire to 
 promote its welfare, he accepted the position of 
 secretary of its finance committee and a director 
 of the university, which offices he now fills. At 
 
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 PORTRAIT AX I) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 one time he held office as president of the Alumni 
 Association. However, it is not higher educa- 
 tion alone that commands his interest and en- 
 thusiastic allegiance. In the education of the 
 little children, in seeing that their feet are plant- 
 ed in the right direction when they ascend the 
 hill of learning, his interest is keen and con- 
 stant. Indicative of this fact is his efficient ser- 
 vice as vice-president of the Portland Free Kin- 
 dergarten. 
 
 As a director Mr. Smith is connected with the 
 Columbia & Northwestern Railroad, running 
 from Lyle, Wash., to Klickitat, same state. The 
 Arlington and University Clubs number him 
 among their members, and he is also actively as- 
 sociated with the State Bar Association. His 
 marriage, which was solemnized in Portland, 
 united him with Alice Sweek, who was born in 
 Oregon, her parents, John and Maria Sweek, 
 having come from Missouri in 1852 and settled 
 in the vicinity of Portland. Since the death of 
 Mr. Sweek his widow has continued to make 
 her home in the same locality. The children of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith are Ruth, Josephine and 
 Marion. As yet Mr. Smith has not identified 
 himself closely with politics, though he is a firm 
 believer in Republican principles. His inclina- 
 tions are toward his profession rather than pub- 
 lic life or political service. Keenly alive to the 
 opportunities offered by the law, it has been his 
 ambition to keep in touch with its progress and 
 important decisions rendered bearing upon the 
 people or the lands of Oregon. One of his lead- 
 ing characteristics has been conservatism, as op- 
 posed to the recklessness sometimes evinced by 
 the enthusiastic and daring. This conservative 
 spirit, however, is not a bar to progress, but leads 
 him to the exercise of great caution in pro- 
 nouncing opinions, so that a decision, when once 
 given, is seldom changed, thus lending added 
 weight to his counsel and advice on subjects per- 
 taining to the law. 
 
 FRANK RIGLER. During a very early 
 period in the settlement of Pennsylvania mem- 
 bers of the Rigler family crossed the Atlantic 
 from Germany and identified themselves with 
 the pioneer families of William Penn's colony. 
 When the Revolutionary war came on John Rig- 
 ler enlisted in the colonial army and held rank 
 as captain under "Mad" Anthony Wayne. In- 
 spired by the example of his brother, the captain, 
 Andrew Rigler, then a mere boy in years, offered 
 himself to his country and went to the front 
 to fight for independence. Little is known con- 
 cerning Andrew Rigler, but it may be judged, 
 from his faithful service in the army, that he 
 was a man of courage and high patriotism. His 
 son, Jacob, a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania, 
 
 was by occupation a farmer, stock dealer and 
 nurseryman, and died at eighty-four years of 
 age. 
 
 Next in line of descent was Hon. Henry Rig- 
 ler, who was born and reared in a suburb of 
 Philadelphia, became a large stock dealer, and 
 for a time served in the Pennsylvania legislature. 
 Originally a Whig, on the disintegration of that 
 party he allied himself with the Republicans. 
 In religion he was a Presbyterian. At the time 
 of his death, which occurred in Philadelphia 
 in 1894, he was seventy-nine years of age. His 
 wife, formerly Mary Castor, was born in Phila- 
 delphia and died there in 1901, when seventy- 
 nine years of age. She was a member of an old 
 Quaker family that settled in Pennsylvania with 
 William Penn and was a daughter of a Mexican 
 war soldier, who lost his life while taking part 
 in the battle of Monterey. 
 
 In the family of Hon. Henry Rigler there 
 were ten children, all of whom attained ma- 
 turity, and five sons and three daughters are 
 now living, Frank being the sixth in order of 
 birth and the only member of the family on the 
 Pacific coast. He was born in Philadelphia Jan- 
 uary 9, 1855, an d as a boy lived in the parental 
 home near Frankford arsenal, attending the Cen- 
 tral high school, from which he was graduated 
 in 1872. His first employment was in the city 
 engineering department, after which he engaged 
 in railroad engineering in Kansas for six months. 
 On his return to the east, in 1875, he began to 
 teach in Bucks county, four miles from Doyles- 
 town, where he continued for two and one-half 
 years. His next position was that of vice-prin- 
 cipal of the Boys' Grammar school in Philadel- 
 phia. After a year in that position he relin- 
 quished his work on account of throat trouble. 
 Hoping that a change of climate might prove 
 beneficial, in January, 1879, ne came to the 
 coast, settling in Polk county, Ore., where lie 
 taught at Buena Vista a short time and then 
 became principal of the Independence school. 
 In 1882 he was elected superintendent of schools 
 of Polk county and for a term filled that posi- 
 tion with marked ability. On retiring from 
 office he became superintendent of the Walla 
 Walla schools, where he remained for eighteen 
 months. From there, in December, 1885, he 
 came to Portland as principal of the Park school, 
 where he remained until the expiration of the 
 school year of 1887-88. Leaving Portland, he 
 accepted a position as superintendent of the Ore- 
 gon City schools, where he remained until 1891. 
 On his return to Portland he accepted the prin- 
 cipalship of the Harrison street school, and con- 
 tinued in that capacity until June of 1894, when 
 he was chosen principal of the high school. 
 
 An acceptable service of two years in the high 
 school was followed by Professor Rigler 's elec- 
 
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 don as city superintendent of schools in June, 
 i Sou. and he has since devoted his time and 
 thought to the discharge of his duties. Under 
 his supervision there are thirty school buildings, 
 
 with tliree hundred and twenty teachers and an 
 enrollment of thirteen thousand ami three hun- 
 dred pupils. The oversight of so many teachers 
 and pupils is no slight responsibility, yet it is 
 one that he has ably maintained, and through 
 his acceptable service he has won the confidence 
 oi those best adapted to estimate judicious and 
 
 itematic educational work. He is interested in 
 the National Educational Association, has been 
 a member of its National Council, and was for- 
 merly a director for Oregon in the organization. 
 Almost continuously since 1882 he has been a 
 member of the state board of examiners of 
 teachers. The State Teachers' Association num- 
 bers him among its leading workers, and in the 
 office of president, which at one time he held, 
 he was enabled to materially promote the wel- 
 fare and success of this body. His interest in 
 educational matters extends into institute work, 
 and as an instructor in county institutes he is 
 favorably known throughout the state, into all 
 parts of which he has gone to aid in bringing 
 before the teachers plans of vital importance for 
 the prosperity of our public schools. For a 
 number of years he served as president of the 
 Schoolmasters' Club, in which he was a charter 
 member. Owing to the nature of his profession 
 and its constant tax upon his mental and phys- 
 ical powers, he has not identified himself with 
 political affairs, in which indeed he has taken 
 no part whatever aside from casting a Repub- 
 lican vote at local and general elections. 
 
 During his residence in Walla Walla, in 1884, 
 Professor Rigler married Lena Koehler, who 
 was born in Iowa, and is a graduate of the Cedar 
 Falls Normal School in that state. Born of their 
 marriage are two children, named Evelyn S. 
 and Howard. 
 
 JOHN MARION LEWIS. In John M. 
 Lewis, treasurer of Multnomah county, we find 
 a native of the state who has given abundant 
 evidence of the possession of the qualities essen- 
 tial to a trustworthy, capable and thoroughly 
 safe servant of the public. He traces his lineage 
 back to old families of Virginia and Tennes- 
 see. His paternal great-grandfather. Fielding, 
 was born in the Old Dominion in 1767, but at 
 an early age removed to North Carolina and 
 from thence to East Tennessee, where the grand- 
 father, also named Fielding, was born in 181 1. 
 Some time prior to the year 1830 the latter re- 
 moved to Wabash county, 111., and thence to 
 Missouri, and finally came to Oregon in 1852. 
 The family, which included his son, James P. 
 
 Lewis, lather of John ML, started across the 
 plains with an ox-team in the early summer of 
 1852, and were six months in reaching their 
 destination, a point near Brownsville, Linn 
 county, Ore. They crossed the Snake river at a 
 point near the site of Huntington, followed the 
 general course of that river down to its junction 
 with the Columbia, thence down the Columbia 
 valley to the mouth of the Willamette, and thence 
 up the Willamette to Linn county. The voyage, 
 at the best fraught with peril, was in this case 
 characterized by peculiarly sad features. Moun- 
 tain fever and cholera broke out in the party, 
 and the bodies of four of the family were left 
 in graves along the route, victims of the ravages 
 of these maladies. Lucinda (Moore) Lewis, 
 wife of Fielding Lew-is, died on the banks of 
 Snake river near Birch creek ; Charles Wesley, a 
 son, died on Burnt river; Marion died at the 
 Upper Cascades, and Mary Ellen died on the 
 Oregon side of the river opposite Vancouver 
 barracks. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Oregon James P. Lewis 
 entered land in the forest, which he at once 
 began to clear and improve for a home for his 
 family. Subsequently he removed to Althouse, 
 Josephine county, where he purchased a farm 
 upon which he still resides and where for two 
 terms he served as county assessor. November 
 29, 1853, he was united in marriage to Tennessee 
 T. Tycer, the ceremony being performed by the 
 Rev. H. H. Spalding, who came to Oregon with 
 Dr. Marcus Whitman in 1836. Tennessee T. 
 Tycer was born in Linn county. Mo., a daughter 
 of Lewis Tycer, a native of Nashville, Tenn.. 
 and an early settler of Linn county. Mo. The 
 family of the latter came either from Virginia or 
 North Carolina, and was of French descent. 
 Lewis Tycer settled in Oregon in 1853, crossing 
 the plains with his family. The house which he 
 erected near Browmsville after abandoning his 
 original cabin home, and in which he died at 
 the age of seventy-seven years, is still standing. 
 
 Of the nine children born to James P. and 
 Tennessee (Tycer) Lewis, three sons and three 
 daughters are now living. George W. is sheriff 
 of Josephine county, and James E. is a farmer in 
 that county. John M. Lewis, the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Linn county, Ore., September 
 20, 1855. Until 1872 that county was his home, 
 but in that year he accompanied the family to 
 Josephine county, attending the common schools 
 and aiding in the duties of the farm during the 
 summer, and later on engaging to some extent 
 in mining during the winter. In 1881 he arrived 
 in Portland, and at once set about to improve his 
 education. In 1882. after taking a course in the 
 Portland Business College, he secured a position 
 in the government employ, having charge of the 
 mailing division in the Portland postoffice under 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Postmaster George A. Steel for about three years. 
 When a Democratic official, C. W. Roby, assumed 
 charge of the office, Mr. Lewis continued to fill 
 his post for eighteen months, or until he found 
 it necessary to retire on account of the inroads 
 upon his health caused by the confining nature 
 of his work. For three years after relinquishing 
 his position in the postal service he was in the 
 employ of the H. R. Duniway Lumber Company 
 in East Portland as lumber inspector. From 
 1888 to 1890 he was a member of the city council 
 of East Portland. In the latter year President 
 Harrison appointed him postmaster of East Port- 
 land a post he filled until the consolidation of 
 the cities of Portland and East Portland, when 
 the office was discontinued. Later he was made 
 superintendent of Station A, which was estab- 
 lished in place of the old office in East Portland, 
 and filled the place under Postmaster Steel until 
 the close of the latter's second term. In 1894 he 
 entered the county treasurer's office as deputy 
 treasurer under A. W. Lambert, holding the 
 position two years ; and was then reappointed to 
 the same office by Ralph W. Hoyt, serving for 
 four years more. This was followed by his nomi- 
 nation and election to the office of county treas- 
 urer, the duties of which he assumed July 7, 
 1902, for a term of two years. 
 
 In Portland. May 1, 1883, occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Lewis and Ella M. McPherson, a 
 native of Linn county, Ore., and a daughter of 
 W. A. McPherson. ' The latter settled in this 
 state about 1850, and at one time filled the office 
 of state printer. His death occurred in 1891. 
 Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, 
 one of whom, Herbert Wayne, died at the age 
 of two years. Those living are Edith, lone and 
 Wade V'ernon. In the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church Mr. Lewis is a ruling elder, and is also a 
 teacher in the Sunday school connected with that 
 society. In his political views he is a stanch 
 Republican. Fraternally he is identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, the Modern Wood- 
 men of America, and the Woodmen of the World. 
 He was also a charter member of Abernethy's 
 Cabin No. I, Native Sons of Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Lewis belongs to the class of men who 
 have shown by their unselfish interest in public 
 affairs that they are warmly devoted to the pro- 
 motion of those movements whose tendency is 
 to help to give Oregon rank among the most pro- 
 gressive, prosperous and inviting commonwealths 
 of the Union. His public spirit has been abund- 
 antly manifested on many occasions, and the 
 fact that Oregon is the state of his nativity un- 
 doubtedly explains, in a measure, the extreme 
 heartiness of his desire to co-operate with others, 
 
 on all possible occasions, in advancing the mater- 
 ial interests ot the state and the community in 
 which he makes his home. 
 
 CYRUS A. DOLPH. The genealogy of the 
 Dolph family in America is traced to Balthazar 
 De Wolf, who was born about 1620, resided for 
 some years in Wethersfield, .Conn., but removed 
 to Lyme, that state, in 1664. By his wife, Alice, 
 whom he married in 1645, he had six children. 
 The oldest of the family, Edward, was born in 
 1646 and died in 1712, after having been a life- 
 long resident of Lyme. By his wife, Rebecca, 
 Edward De Wolf had four sons, viz. : Simon, 
 born in 1671 ; Charles, 1673; Benjamin, 1675; 
 and Edward, Jr. The line of descent is traced 
 through the second son, Charles, who spent the 
 active years of his life in Middletown, Conn., and 
 died there in 173 1. His wife, Prudence, died 
 ten years after his demise. Their son, 
 Joseph De Wolf, born in 1717, lost his life in 
 the battle of Louisburg, 1757, while fighting in 
 the colonial army during the French and Indian 
 wars. By the marriage of Joseph De Wolf and 
 Tabitha Johnson there was born a son, Abda, 
 through whom the line of descent is traced. In- 
 heriting the patriotic spirit of his father, Abda 
 enlisted in the French and Indian wars and later, 
 when war was declared with England, showed 
 his zeal for liberty and independence by serving 
 in Colonel Whiting's Albany county regiment, 
 New York troops. At the time of the conflict 
 with the French his sympathies being with the 
 English, he and a number of his cousins de- 
 cided to Anglicize their family name by changing 
 it to Dolph. This was the origin of the present 
 mode of spelling. 
 
 The marriage of Abda Dolph united him with 
 Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth Coleman, 
 of New Haven, Conn. Their son, Joseph, was 
 born in Fairfield, Conn., June 6, 1767, engaged 
 during his active life as a teacher and surveyor, 
 and died December 21, 1827. The lady whom 
 he married, Elizabeth Norton (born 1772. died 
 1839), was a daughter of Joseph and Martha 
 Norton, the latter in turn a daughter of Jabez and 
 Elizabeth (Allen) Norton. Both Joseph and 
 Martha Norton were descended from Nicholas 
 Norton, of Weymouth, Mass. (1636-60). Dur- 
 ing much of his life he made his home at Ed- 
 gartown, on Martha's Vineyard. It is said that 
 of the thirteen hundred and fifty-six inhabitants 
 of Edgartown in 1790, one hundred and seventy- 
 four of these were Nortons. Probably as many 
 others were descendants of Nicholas in the 
 female line, making three hundred and forty- 
 eight descendants in the one hundred and thirty 
 years. The progenitor of the family, Nicholas 
 Norton, by his wife, Elizabeth, had a son, Ben- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 jamin, whose son, Nicholas, married .Martha 
 Daggett, and their son, Jabez Norton, was the 
 lather of Mrs. Elizabeth (Norton) Dolph. Little 
 is known concerning the first Nicholas, except 
 that he was horn in [6lO, and (.lied in 1090, after 
 having for years made his home at Weymouth 
 and then at Edgartown. Mention has heen made 
 one of the Norton descendants, who married 
 a member of the Daggett family. This family 
 traced its lineage to John Daggett, of Weymouth, 
 who died in 104 2. By the marriage of John Dag- 
 gett to Bathsheba Pratt, there was a son, Thomas, 
 who married Hannah Mayhew, and their son, 
 Joshua, married Hannah Norton, daughter of 
 Isaac and Ruth Norton. Joshua and Hannah 
 Norton had a daughter. Martha, previously 
 mentioned as the wife of Nicholas Norton. 
 
 Through the wife of Thomas Daggett the 
 family is brought into relationship with the May- 
 hew family, of colonial fame. The founder of 
 this family in America, Thomas Mayhew. was 
 born in England in March of 1592. In 1641 he 
 ohtained a grant of Martha's Vineyard and the 
 neighboring islands, and the next year settled at 
 Edgartown. whose inhabitants were then Indians. 
 With him came a few Englishmen and they in 
 turn were joined by others from their native 
 land. However, the population still consisted 
 almost wholly of Indians. During King Phil- 
 lip's war. when the savages became hostile and 
 killed the white settlers all over New England, 
 such was the influence of Thomas Mayhew over 
 the red men of his islands that they remained 
 quiet and peaceful, though they might easily have 
 killed the few white men, had they so desired. 
 After a long and honorable service as governor of 
 the island, Thomas Mayhew died in March of 
 1682. His son, Thomas, was a missionary to the 
 Indians, and so greatly beloved by them that even 
 many years after he perished at sea in a ship- 
 wreck he was seldom named by them without 
 tears. Other members of the family also became 
 prominent, especially Experience (born 1673, 
 died 1758), Zachariah (1717-1806) and Jonathan 
 (1720-1766), the last-named distinguished as a 
 theologian and patriot. 
 
 The genealogy is traced from Joseph and Eliza- 
 beth (Norton) Dolph to their son, Chester V. 
 Dolph. who was born at Whitehall. N. Y.. on 
 Lake Champlain, February 14, 1812. and died 
 November 3, 1869. His wife was Elizabeth V. 
 Steele (born 1813. died 1884). whose parents 
 were William Steele (1785-1868) and Rachel 
 Vanderbilt (1795-1883). William Steele was a 
 son of John B. and Grace Seville (Brown) 
 Steele. Rachel Vanderbilt was a daughter of 
 Cornelius and Elizabeth (Rodman) Vanderbilt, 
 her father being a member of one of the most 
 noted pioneer families of Staten Island, in New 
 York. 
 
 In the family of Chester \ . Dolph were four 
 sons, namely: Joseph Norton, deceased, late 
 
 United States senator from Oregon; Cyrus Abda, 
 the suhject of this narrative; and William V., 
 who is living at the old home in New York, and 
 John Mathew, an educator of note now living at 
 Port Jervis, N. V. Cyrus Abda Dolph was born 
 on his father's farm near Havana, Chemung 
 (now Schuyler) county, N. Y., September 27, 
 1840. The name of Abda was given him in 
 honor of his forefather, Abda Dolph, who was 
 born in Bolton, Mass., in 1740, and served with 
 distinction during the Revolution, as did also 
 a brother, Charles, to whom congress voted the 
 thanks of the country for military services. As 
 a boy Cyrus A. Dolph assisted in the work of 
 the farm during the summer and attended 
 the village school during the winter. At 
 the age of eighteen he began to teach school, 
 which occupation he followed from 1859 to ^62. 
 During the progress of the Civil war the 
 Indians on the western plains took advantage 
 of the disturbed condition of the country to 
 harass emigrants seeking to settle in the west. 
 So serious did the condition become that con- 
 gress, during its session of 1861-62, made an 
 appropriation to provide military escort for emi- 
 grants crossing the plains to Oregon. In the 
 spring of 1862 the two brothers, Joseph Norton 
 and Cyrus Abda Dolph, enlisted in a company 
 known as the Oregon Escort and assisted in 
 bringing a train of immigrants across the country 
 to Oregon and Washington, after which they 
 received an honorable discharge at Walla Walia. 
 and thence came to Portland. In 1866 he was 
 admitted to the bar and took up active practice 
 of the law. Ever since then he has ranked 
 among the leading professional men of Port- 
 land. In June, 1869, without solicitation on his 
 part, the Republicans nominated him as city 
 attorney, and he was elected by a large majority, 
 serving the full term of tw : o years. During a 
 temporary absence from the city, in 1874, he 
 was nominated by the Republicans for the state 
 legislature, but declined the honor, as he did two 
 vears later, when the nomination for the state 
 senate was tendered him. In 1891 he was urged 
 to accept the appointment of circuit judge of the 
 northern judicial district and was unanimously 
 endorsed by the best citizens of the northwest. 
 However, feeling that an acceptance of the high 
 honor would mean a life work and thus inter- 
 fere with other plans, he declined the position. 
 Notwithstanding his refusal to accept official posi- 
 tions, he is a stanch Republican and always gives 
 his support to the men and measures of the 
 partv. For many years he was a member of the 
 water works committee, and at this writing he 
 is regent of the University of Oregon and presi- 
 dent of the board of trustees of the Portland 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Library Association. Associated with a num- 
 ber of other citizens, he organized the Security 
 Savings and Trust Company, of which Hon. H. 
 W. Corbett was president up to the time of his 
 death. 
 
 Nor do the movements and organizations 
 hitherto mentioned represent the limit of Mr. 
 Dolph's activities. He was one of the founders 
 of the Portland Savings Bank and the Commer- 
 cial National Bank of Portland. For some years 
 he has held the office of president of the North- 
 ern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon, and 
 has also been financially interested in the Ore- 
 gon Improvement Company. Besides acting 
 for years as a director of the Oregon & Califor- 
 nia Railroad Company, in 1883-84 he was re- 
 tained as general attorney for the corporation. 
 From 1883 to 1889 he was a member of the di- 
 rectorate of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation 
 Company. In 1883 Henry Villard, then presi- 
 dent of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com- 
 pany and the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany, selected Mr. Dolph as general attorney 
 of the first-named corporation and consulting 
 attorney in Oregon for the latter company. 
 These positions he has filled with efficiency and 
 in a manner indicative of his high legal talent. 
 The man}- important and intricate questions that 
 have arisen in relation to these two great con- 
 cerns he has handled with dispatch and decision, 
 disposing of their to the entire satisfaction of 
 the officers and stockholders of the companies. 
 
 June 24, 1874, Mr. Dolph married Eliza Car- 
 dinell, a native of Canada, and daughter of 
 Charles Cardinell, of French-Huguenot ancestry. 
 They became the parents of four children, 
 namely : Joseph N., Hazel Mills, William Van- 
 derbilt and John Mathew Dolph. 
 
 Beginning in law practice in Portland, Mr. 
 Dolph has since continued professional practice 
 in this city, where, at different times, he has been 
 associated as partner with a number of the 
 brightest minds connected with the bar of this 
 city and state. In 1883 he became the senior 
 member of the firm of Dolph, Bellinger, Mal- 
 lory & Simon. Ten years later the title was 
 changed to Dolph, Mallory, Simon & Guerin, the 
 other members of the firm being Rufus Mallory, 
 Hon. Joseph Simon and John M. Guerin, all 
 men of note, distinguished in the annals of the 
 law in their home city and state, and forming, 
 in their association, a partnership of legal talent 
 of exceptional strength, character and ability. 
 
 HON. JOSEPH NORTON DOLPH. The 
 life which this narrative sketches began near 
 Watkins, N. Y.. at a village then known as 
 Dolphsburg, October 19, 1839, and came to a 
 close in Portland, Ore., March 10, 1896. (See 
 
 preceding sketch for the genealogy of the Dolph 
 family). The intervening years represent a 
 period of great activity and high honors. Into 
 the life of the boy at an early age there came 
 high aspirations for the future, and these ambi- 
 tions were associated with the west, in which he 
 had become interested through reading in the 
 New York Tribune Fremont's "Military Expedi- 
 tion to the Pacific Coast," Washington Irving's 
 "Astoria," and Dr. Elijah White's account of mis- 
 sionary life in Oregon. The way did not at 
 once open for him to seek a home in the north- 
 west, and meantime, at the age of eighteen, he 
 began to teach school, which occupation he fol- 
 lowed for eight years. His leisure hours were 
 devoted to the study of law with Hon. Jeremiah 
 McGuire at Havana, N. Y., and in 1861 he re- 
 ceived admission to the bar. 
 
 The hoped-for opportunity to locate in the west 
 came in the spring of 1862, when he and his 
 brother enlisted in Captain Crawford's Company, 
 known as the Oregon Escort, raised under an 
 act of congress (1861-62) for the purpose of 
 protecting the immigration of that year against 
 hostile Indians. As orderly sergeant of this 
 company he crossed the plains, receiving an hon- 
 orable discharge at Walla Walla, Wash. His 
 service during the expedition was so satisfactory 
 that the following year, when the same captain 
 was again detailed to accompany an expedition 
 of similar character, he endeavored to secure the 
 services of his former orderly, but the latter had 
 other plans in view, and so declined. 
 
 In the spring of 1863 Mr. Dolph formed a 
 partnership with John H. Mitchell, which con- 
 tinued until the latter was elected to the United 
 States senate. Meantime, in October of 1864, 
 Mr. Dolph was elected city attorney. He pre- 
 pared and proposed important amendments to the 
 city charter, which were afterward adopted, and 
 he also revised for publication the ordinances of 
 the city. In January of 1865 President Lincoln 
 appointed him United States district attorney for 
 the district of Oregon, and this position he held 
 until 1866, when he resigned it to take his seat 
 in the state senate. During the session of 1866 
 he served in that body, again taking the 
 seat in the session of 1868, but a contest 
 arising he was deposed by a strict party vote. 
 However, the confidence maintained in his 
 ability by the people was exhibited in 1872, 
 when he was returned to the senate by an in- 
 creased majority, after which he rendered effi- 
 cient service in the two succeeding sessions. A 
 still higher, though strictly party, "honor came to 
 him in 1866, when he was chosen chairman of 
 the state Republican central committee, and his 
 service of two years in that capacity proved be- 
 yond a doubt that he was one of the greatest lead- 
 ers of his party in the northwest. Not only was he 
 
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 an eloquent advocate of parts principles, but was 
 also a man of remarkable executive ability, tlms 
 admirably qualified to direct the functions of an 
 important committee. Perhaps no service ren- 
 dered bis part} was greater than that in connec- 
 tion with the meeting oi the electoral college at 
 Salem in 1S70. After Governor Grover had 
 given the certificates of election to Cronin, Mr. 
 I )olph advised the course adopted by the Repub- 
 lican electors, and on the spot drafted the papers 
 which were by the electoral commission adjudged 
 sufficient to establish the election of Messrs. Odell, 
 Cartwright and Watts. Thus the papers drafted 
 by him secured the return of Dr. Watts as Re- 
 publican elector and thereby decided the vote of 
 ( Iregon in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes for 
 president. 
 
 During the early days of Mr. Dolph's experi- 
 ence as an attorney he acted as counsel for the 
 < )regon & Central and the Oregon & California 
 Railroad Companies, and also as counsel for Ben 
 Halliday, who was then running his steamships 
 from Portland to San Francisco, and was also 
 constructing the Oregon & California Railroad. 
 When Mr. Mitchell was elected to the United 
 States senate in 1872 he retired from the firm, 
 and thereupon Mr. Dolph took into the firm as 
 partners Judge E. C. Bronaugh, C. A. Dolph and 
 Joseph Simon. For some years he was retained 
 as attorney for the Oregon Steamship Company, 
 the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, the 
 ( )regon Improvement Company, the Oregon 
 Transcontinental Company, and other corpo- 
 rations organized by Henry Villard, whose 
 name is so indissolubly associated with the de- 
 velopment of the northwest coast. He was also 
 the adviser of the officers of the Northern Pacific 
 Railroad Company at Portland, attorney for 
 various minor corporations, also president of the 
 Oregon Improvement Company, and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com- 
 pany and the Oregon Transcontinental Company. 
 The highest honor of Mr. Dolph's life came to 
 him in 1883, when he was chosen to succeed Hon. 
 Lafayette Grover, Democrat, in the United States 
 senate. Assuming the duties of his position, he 
 was at once placed on the committee on public 
 lands and claims. In 1886 he was chosen chair- 
 man of the committee on coast defenses. The 
 committee on commerce also received the benefit 
 of his wide experience. Measures presented by 
 him in the interests of navigation have become 
 laws and have proved invaluable in the develop- 
 ment of our country's maritime interests. As a 
 member of the committee on foreign relations, 
 he also proved himself an astute statesman. In 
 1889. at the expiration of his first term, he was 
 elected to succeed himself, without opposition, by 
 the two legislative houses, and during his second 
 term held practically the same committee rela- 
 
 tions as during the first. In every respect lie 
 proved himself a patriot and an able statesman, 
 and his retirement from the senate in 1895 was a 
 source of regret to his colleagues in that body, 
 as well as to the people of his home state. Dur- 
 ing the twelve years of his official service he 
 made his home in Washington, where he and 
 his wife (formerly Augusta E. Mulkey) enter- 
 tained on a liberal scale and with the greatest 
 hospitality, extending a hearty welcome not only 
 to people of that city, but to visiting friends from 
 the Pacific coast. Since his death, Mrs. Dolph 
 has continued to make her home in Washington. 
 In closing this resume of Senator Dolph's 
 career, mention should be made of his fraternal 
 relations. In 1876 he was elected Most Worthy 
 Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F^, 
 State of Oregon, which position he filled for one 
 year. Nor was his identification with Masonry 
 less conspicuous, for in that body he was, in 1882, 
 elected Most Worshipful Grand Master of the 
 Grand Lodge of Oregon, and in this office he 
 showed the same tact, executive ability and wise 
 judgment characteristic of him in other positions. 
 In physique Senator Dolph was stalwart, of im- 
 posing appearance, grave in demeanor and earn- 
 est in expression, which physical attributes were 
 but the outward expression of high mental quali- 
 fications and unsullied honor. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON SHAVER. One 
 of those to whom the finding of gold on the coast 
 opened up vistas of vast possibility was George 
 Washington Shaver, erstwhile farmer, who 
 crossed the plains in a party with ox teams and 
 wagons in 1849, intent upon wresting from the 
 earth sufficient riches to enable him to carry out 
 many ambitious projects. He was born in Camp- 
 bell county, Ky., March 2, 1832, and in the south- 
 ern state received as fair an education as his 
 father's many responsibilities permitted. While 
 still a young man he removed to Missouri, and 
 while here became enthusiastic on the subject of 
 the coast. 
 
 That Mr. Shaver was successful in life was 
 due partially to his failure as a miner, else he 
 had remained longer than a year in California, 
 and this state might never have benefited by his 
 noble and capable citizenship. Arriving in Ore- 
 gon in 1850, he settled in the Waldo Hills, Mar- 
 ion county, from which place he removed to 
 southern Oregon, where he again tried his luck 
 at mining. February 2, 1854, found him in Port- 
 land, where he married Sarah Dixon, daughter 
 of a pioneer of that section, and with whom he 
 returned to his farm in Marion county. Here 
 four children were born to them, and six more 
 were born after their removal to Portland in 
 i860, settling in what is now known as the Eliza- 
 
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 beth [rving addition. During his early residence 
 
 in Portland Mr. Shaver found an outlet for his 
 energies in the wood business, whose possibili- 
 ties he seemed to appreciate more than any other 
 at that time, and upon which he embarked with 
 a great deal of enthusiasm and expectation of 
 success. For many years he furnished the steam- 
 ers plying between Portland and San Francisco 
 with all the wood used in their business, and he 
 further branched out and furnished the wood 
 for river boats and barges. Large portions of 
 the forests that reared tl/eir densely crowded 
 trees in the primeval days disappeared under 
 the necessity for providing timber to these boats, 
 and Mr. Shaver probably denuded more acres 
 of land during his busy career than did any other 
 man of his time. 
 
 In time Mr. Shaver became president of the 
 Shaver Transportation Company of which his 
 son, Capt. James W., was treasurer and manager, 
 and thus was greatly enlarged his field of ac- 
 tivity. His death, which occurred October 26, 
 1900, removed from accustomed haunts one of 
 the most useful of the founders of the commer- 
 cial greatness of Oregon. He was not only a 
 man of sound business judgment and capacity 
 for observation and action, but in his character 
 he embodied all that is excellent and of good 
 report. No worthy cause but profited by his 
 generosity and large heartedness ; no friend but 
 was benefited by his counsel and assistance. To 
 the end he retained in increasing measure the 
 confidence of all with whom he was ever associat- 
 ed, and to his family and friends left the heritage 
 of a good name, and the dignity of a small for- 
 tune. 
 
 CAPT. JAMES W. SHAVER. The Shaver 
 Transportation Company occupies an altogether 
 unique position among the large developing forces 
 of the great northwest, and has had much to 
 do with shifting from one place to another the 
 products of the dense forests for which Oregon 
 is famous, and for placing the output of the 
 great mills in their respective localities of use- 
 fulness. No more familiar sights greet the ob- 
 server on the Columbia and Willamette rivers 
 than the heavily loaded barges, puffing tow boats, 
 in advance of stealthily gliding rafts of logs, 
 and other craft calculated to promote the clear- 
 ance of the enormous water business of the state. 
 
 Capt. James W. Shaver, the present head of 
 the Shaver Transportation Company, was born 
 in Waldo Hills, within five miles of Silver- 
 ton, Ore., October 2, i860. To his father, Capt. 
 George W. Shaver, is due the organization of 
 the transportation company. At the time of 
 his death in October, 1900, he was survived 
 by his wife, formerlv Sarah Dixon, who was 
 
 born in the east, and who still lives at the 
 old home in Portland. Of the ten children who 
 grew to maturity in this household, four sons 
 and four daughters are living : John R., sheriff 
 of Clackamas county, and living in Oregon City ; 
 Alice, Mrs. Wittenberg of Portland ; James W. : 
 Lincoln, captain and chief engineer in Multnomah 
 county; George M., interested in the transporta- 
 tion company, and who spends his summers in 
 Alaska ; Delmar, a captain in the employ of the 
 company ; Pearl, Mrs. George Hoyt of Portland ; 
 and Susie, Mrs. A. S. Heintz, of Portland. 
 
 Locating in Portland with his parents when 
 six years of age, Capt. James W. Shaver nat- 
 urally received his education here, and at an early 
 age became interested in his father's enterprises, 
 which then consisted of a livery business in East 
 Portland, as well as a large cord wood concern. 
 They had a wood yard in East Portland and at 
 the Shaver dock, and at this early stage of pro- 
 ceedings were of immense importance in the 
 wood business of the day. In 1880 Mr. Shaver 
 embarked in the boating business, and with Henry 
 Corbett and A. S. Foster bought out Mr. Bureau, 
 continuing business under the name of the Peo- 
 ple's Freighting Company. The firm inaugurat- 
 ed its activities by running the steamer Manzan- 
 illa, and Mr. Shaver became captain of the boat 
 and manager of the company, which operated be- 
 tween Portland and Clatskanie. Soon afterward 
 the father joined the company and Mr. Corbett 
 stepped out, having" previously purchased the in- 
 terest of Mr. Foster. At this time, June 10, 1893, 
 a re-organization was effected, under the name of 
 the Shaver Transportation Company, the father 
 being president, and the son secretary and treas- 
 urer. In 1889 the G. W. Shaver was built and 
 called after the father ; this useful little craft 
 was one hundred and forty feet long. The Sarah 
 Dixon, named after the mother, took its place 
 among other boats on the rivers in 1892, and 
 after that the Manzanilla was sold, the Shaver 
 and Dixon doing all the work of the company. 
 About 1900 the Shaver was sold, and the same 
 year a tow boat called No Wonder was purchased 
 for towing logs. The next year, in 1901, the firm 
 built the Henderson, also used for towing pur- 
 poses, and these boats are in constant use, among 
 other undertakings towing for three of the larg- 
 est mills here. For many years Mr. Shaver 
 acted in the capacity of captain for the company, 
 but of late years has devoted his time to manag- 
 ing the business, and is still secretary and treas- 
 urer. He of course has a captain's license, and is 
 remarkably familiar with all phases of river life 
 in this state. The offices of the firm are located 
 at the foot of Washington street. 
 
 In Portland Mr. Shaver was united in mar- 
 riage with Annie Schloth, who was born in Port- 
 land, and whose parents were very early settlers 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 the state. Mr. Shaver is variously identified 
 with social and fraternal organizations in the 
 county, among them being the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is a man oi strict integrity, and the 
 public at large place the greatest confidence in 
 his character and business ability. 
 
 LOT P. W. QUIMBY. In many and varied 
 avenues Lot P. W. Ouimby has been identified 
 with the business interests of Portland and has 
 n no small assistance in the material growth 
 of the city. He has just retired from the posi- 
 tion of game and forestry warden for the state 
 of Oregon, having received the appointment 
 in iSi>8. his life having previously been associ- 
 ated as hotel keeper and liveryman, of the former 
 being one of the oldest now living in the city. 
 \t one time in the past he served his state as a 
 member of the legislature from Multnomah 
 county, where he upheld the interests of his 
 constituents and did all in his power to promote 
 general movements for the welfare of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 Mr. Ouimby comes of a family of Scottish an- 
 cestry, his father being Daniel Ouimby, a native 
 of Vermont, who lived to be seventy-two years 
 old. Besides engaging as a blacksmith the elder 
 man also followed farming in the latter part of 
 his life, and through steady application and hard 
 labor he maintained a comfortable and even plen- 
 tiful home for his family, and though of a limited 
 education himself was vitally interested in giv- 
 ing the best of advantages to his children. He 
 married Polly Woodruff, also a native of Ver- 
 mont, and she died the year after the death of 
 her husband when she was sixty-nine years of 
 age. Of their nine children two died in infancy, 
 and one daughter at the age of fifteen ; six grew 
 to maturity, namely: Mary E., who married 
 James Mathewson and reared a family (she died 
 in Massachusetts in 1890) ; H. A., who is a 
 wholesale crockery merchant in Springfield, 
 Mass. ; Cordelia M., the widow of Hiram Nich- 
 ols, of Lyndon. Vt. ; D. J., a resident of Port- 
 land, where he is proprietor of the International 
 Hotel ; L. P. W., of this review, and Laura, wife 
 of Edwin P. Swetland, of Portland. The chil- 
 dren were all reared on the paternal farm, and 
 though advantages were necessarily limited, two 
 daughters became teachers in the eastern states. 
 The birth of Mr. Ouimby occurred in Cale- 
 donia county, Vt., July 6. 1839. and like the 
 other members of his family, he was under the 
 necessity of contributing his strength to the as- 
 sistance of the farm work, for about three months 
 of the year receiving instruction in the district 
 school in the vicinity of his home. When seven- 
 teen years old his education was considered com- 
 plete, so far as further attendance was concerned, 
 
 and at eighteen years he went to work on a ped 
 dler's wagon, working tor his brother-in-law, 
 Mr. Nichols, traveling through the eastern states 
 and Canada, though his principal time was spent 
 in Vermont and New Hampshire. This occu- 
 pation was continued for quite a number of 
 years in the life of Mr. Quimby, but in 1859 he 
 decided to try to better his condition by crossing 
 the continent to the less crowded states of the 
 Pacific coast. He accordingly left New York 
 City, coming to California via steamer, by the 
 isthmus, and upon his arrival there he at once 
 began placer mining in Columbia. While there 
 he became acquainted with D. O. Mills by selling 
 his gold dust. Mr. Mills was one of the wealthy 
 men of this country at this time. On leaving the 
 mines Mr. Quimby went to San Francisco county 
 and worked for three months on a farm in Susan 
 valley, when he went into the city and engaged 
 in the water business, peddling this necessity of 
 life, and also assisting in hauling it to many of 
 the important buildings of the city. He found 
 this a lucrative occupation for quite a time, but 
 finally engaged in the livery business, only a 
 short time passing before he had there sold his 
 interests and opened a restaurant on Market 
 street. This also was disposed of, and February 
 22. 1862, he came to Portland. 
 
 On his arrival in this city Mr. Ouimby formed 
 a partnership with W. H. Bennetts and engaged 
 in the livery and transfer business and forward- 
 ing, bringing to the city the first platform scale 
 and the first express wagon. In 1864 he sold out 
 to John White, and later purchased the livery 
 business of Sherlock & Bacon, located on Third 
 street, remaining there for one year, when he 
 again sold out and purchased an interest in the 
 Weston Hotel, now known as the Occidental Ho- 
 tel, and in partnership with Samuel D. Smith re- 
 mained one year in that connection. Disposing 
 of his interest to Mr. Smith he purchased the 
 American Exchange, formerly the Lincoln 
 House, and continued for three years, when he 
 took a partner in the person of Charles Perkins 
 and the two continued together until 1876, when 
 Mr. Ouimby again became sole owner and re- 
 mained such until the loss of the property by fire 
 in the year 1878. This meant a heavy financial 
 loss to Mr. Ouimby and he did not immediately 
 re-open the hotel. He was appointed receiver 
 for a grocery house about this time and he pro- 
 ceeded to devote his time to the closing up of 
 those affairs, and not until 1880 did he again 
 engage in the hotel business, at this date opening 
 up the Hotel Ouimby. continuing successfully 
 until 1897, for the first six months having a part- 
 ner in the person of Mr. Hersey. Lpon sale of 
 the property in 1897 Mr. Ouimby retired from 
 his long accepted position as mine host, in which 
 he had certainly met with success, for the repu- 
 
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 tation of the two hotels which he conducted had 
 extended for a great distance on the Pacific 
 coast, the service and accommodation being such 
 as to delight the heart of the traveler. Follow- 
 ing closely his withdrawal from his former in- 
 terests came the appointment of Game and For- 
 estry warden. 
 
 In Portland, in 1866, occurred the marriage 
 of Mr. Quimby, uniting him with Miss Amelia 
 M. West, the daughter of Col. W. G. West, a 
 pioneer of the west. He established the Wells- 
 Fargo route between Portland and California, 
 and died while in the employ of this company, 
 passing away at the home of Mr. Quimby in 
 Portland. Mrs. Quimby was born in New York 
 state, receiving her education in New York and 
 California, and is now fifty-seven years old. 
 Since 1882 their home has been at Fourteenth 
 and Johnson streets, where Mr. Quimby put up 
 a house when it was a heavily timbered tract of 
 land and no streets in the vicinity. Their chil- 
 dren are six in number, one of whom died in in- 
 fancy, the others being as follows : Elmer W., a 
 scenic artist and traveling salesman, his home 
 with his parents, as he is still unmarried; Daisy, 
 the wife of L. O. Swetland, of Portland, their 
 one daughter being Florence E. ; Lottie, the wife 
 of Harry Taylor, of White Horse, Alaska ; and 
 Polly and Daniel, both of whom are unmarried. 
 All were born in Portland and received their ed- 
 ucation in the public schools of this city. As a 
 Republican in politics Mr. Quimby has had many 
 offices tendered him but he has not cared to ac- 
 cept, as his business interests have engrossed all 
 his time, though he takes an active interest in 
 all public matters, and is a liberal supporter of 
 every worthy movement, and especially has he 
 warmly advocated the improvement of public 
 thoroughfares. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Hope Lodge, A. O. U. W. In religion he was 
 reared in the faith of the Baptist Church. 
 
 HON. JOHN McCRAKEN. There are few 
 men now living whose arrival on the Pacific 
 coast antedates that of Mr. McCraken, who first 
 landed on western soil September 17, 1849, an d 
 has been identified with the development of Ore- 
 gon ever since 1850. The family of which he 
 is a member came of Scotch ancestry, but his 
 father, John, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, 
 and in early life associated himself with mercan- 
 tile pursuits in London, where his son and name- 
 sake was born July 11, 1826. From that city the 
 family crossed the ocean to America, settling in 
 New York City, where the father was establish- 
 ing himself upon a substantial basis as a mer- 
 chant at the time of his death. His wife, Sarah 
 Pigeon, was born in England, of an old English 
 family, and died in Connecticut. Of their six 
 
 children John and his sister are the sole sur- 
 vivors. He was six years of age when the fam- 
 ily crossed the ocean in 1832, and hence almost 
 his earliest recollections are of this country. 
 When he was eleven years of age his father 
 died and afterwards his opportunities for an ed- 
 ucation were very meager, for the necessity of 
 self-support soon presented itself to him. It had 
 been his mother's hope that he might enter the 
 ministry, but his tastes were distinctly commer- 
 cial and the need of earning a livelihood deterred 
 him from taking up any profession. 
 
 For about four years Mr. McCraken was em- 
 ployed as clerk in a retail store at Fiskville, R. I. 
 In 1846 he went to New York, where he took 
 charge of the books and collections in a large 
 plumbing establishment. Probably he would 
 have remained in the east permanently had not 
 the discovery of gold stirred his ambition and 
 led him to seek his fortune on the Pacific coast. 
 In March of 1849 ne joined the Greenwich & 
 California Mining & Trading Company, of 
 which he became vice-president and a trustee. 
 The company bought a vessel, Palmetto, of two 
 hundred and eighty tons, and this was stocked 
 with supplies and other freight. Thus equipped 
 for the voyage the forty-two members of the 
 company started from New York via Cape 
 Horn, putting in at Rio Janeiro eleven days and 
 at Valparaiso seven days, and after a voyage of 
 six months and nine days landing on the beach 
 in the bay at San Francisco, September 17, 1849. 
 The mechanics in the company went on shore, 
 where, being offered $48 a day wages, they con- 
 cluded it advisable to accept this offer rather 
 than work for themselves, so the company dis- 
 banded. Mr. McCraken, together with the pres- 
 ident and secretary, remained to settle up the 
 company's accounts. A house they had brought 
 with them was sold for $350 per thousand feet 
 for the lumber. The pork and beef were sold at 
 high prices. The profits were divided and sent 
 to the members of the company. 
 
 After a brief experience in freighting to the 
 mines, in the spring of 1850 Mr. McCraken em- 
 barked in the mercantile business at Stockton. In 
 the fall he sold out and went to San Francisco. 
 On the day that California was admitted as a 
 state he took passage on a sailing vessel for As- 
 toria, where he landed in October, thence pro- 
 ceeding to Portland. At that time there was only 
 a hamlet of a few buildings. A dense forest ex- 
 tended as far as Second street, and the rest of 
 the town was dotted with trees. The wharf was 
 small, but was sufficient to accommodate the few 
 vessels that anchored here. Soon he bought an 
 interest in the Island mills at Oregon City, 
 where he engaged in the manufacture of lum- 
 ber and flour. The water power was improved 
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 bought b\ Lane «!v. Thompson, subsequent to 
 which Mr. McCraken bought Mr. Thompson's 
 one-fourth interest. The high water of 1852 
 ruined the mills and left the buildings a wreck. 
 The work of rebuilding was at once begun, but 
 the second venture did not prove successful on 
 >unt of the fact that wheat, bought at $5 a 
 bushel, was to be used in making flour to be sold 
 at $50 a barrel, but a drop in the price of flour 
 >r> or $8 a barrel proved ruinous to the mill, 
 which was sold at a great sacrifice. 
 
 Elected by the territorial legislature as chief 
 clerk oi the house of representatives, Mr. Mc- 
 Craken served in the sessions of 1852 and 1853. 
 In 1854 he was appointed United States marshal 
 of Oregon and Washington by President Bu- 
 chanan, serving almost two years. In the fall of 
 1855 he returned to Portland, where he started 
 in the produce business, shipping to California 
 via steamers and sailers. The firm was Richards 
 & McCracken, the senior member, James Rich- 
 ards, being in San Francisco. A large and suc- 
 sful business was established and conducted 
 until Mr. Richards was lost on the vessel 
 Brother Jonathan, which was wrecked off Cres- 
 cent City while en route to Portland. A subse- 
 quent partnership was that of McCraken, Mer- 
 rill & Co., of Portland and San Francisco, and 
 later Aldricb, Merrill & Co. conducted the busi- 
 ness in San Francisco for five years, since which 
 time Mr. McCraken has been mostly alone. The 
 J. McCraken Company was organized in 1892, 
 and is now located at the corner of Second and 
 Pine streets, where a wholesale business is con- 
 ducted in building materials. Among the ma- 
 terials carried in stock are Roche Harbor lime, 
 Portland cement, building, casting and land plas- 
 ter. King's Windsor cement plaster, Monterey 
 sand, marble dust, mortar colors, fire brick and 
 fire clay. Under the supervision of Mr. Mc- 
 Craken were built the large warehouses on 
 Ninth and Irving streets, covering three-fourths 
 of a block, also the warehouses on Davis and 
 Pront streets, but these were later sold. 
 
 The interests held by Mr. McCraken are not 
 limited to his identification with the J. Mc- 
 Craken Company. For some years he was a di- 
 rector of the Commercial National Bank, and 
 was the first president of the smelter at Linton, 
 which position he still holds. For some years he 
 occupied for his homestead the block between D 
 and E, and Seventh and East Park streets, but 
 this he has sold to the government for the new 
 custom house site. His marriage took place in 
 Oregon City and united him with Ada Pamb- 
 run, whose father was an officer of the Hudson 
 Bay Company. They are the parents of four 
 children, of whom the daughter is the wife of 
 Charles B. Hurley, of Tacoma. The sons, 
 Henry, James and Robert, are connected with 
 
 the business which their father established in 
 1856. 
 
 A careful study of political questions long ago 
 led Mr. McCraken to ally himself with the Re 
 publican party. During early days he served as 
 president of the city council, in which he re- 
 mained a member for several terms. In 1891, 
 1893 and 1 90 1 he was elected to the state legis- 
 lature from Portland, serving three terms. 
 In 1891 he was interested in a consolida- 
 tion bill for the city. During his ser- 
 vice in the legislature he was instrumen- 
 tal in promoting bills of an important nature 
 and gave his support to measures of undoubted 
 value. In religion he is connected with Trinity 
 Episcopal Church, of which he is senior warden. 
 In Masonry his interest and connection have 
 continued for many years. Initiated into the or- 
 der in Portland, he served as master of the lodge 
 and during the '60s was for two terms grand 
 master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon. For 
 two terms he officiated as grand high priest of 
 the Grand Chapter of Oregon. In the Portland 
 Commandery he has been eminent commander, 
 while he has also reached the Consistory and 
 thirty- third degrees, being inspector-general in 
 the latter. Among his brethren in the Masonic 
 order his standing is the highest, as it is also 
 among men of commercial and executive ability, 
 all of whom recognize in him the qualities of up- 
 rightness, tact, keen discernment and loyaltv to 
 his home city that have characterized his long 
 association with the historv of Oregon. 
 
 AMEDEE M. SMITH. Very early in the 
 settlement of Nova Scotia the Smith family re- 
 moved there from England, but subsequently ex- 
 changed the bleak and icebound shores of their 
 peninsular home for the more prosperous region 
 of Massachusetts, and from there proceeded to 
 Xew Jersey. Freeman Smith, a native of New 
 Jersey, became a resident of Fayette county, Pa., 
 and in 1842 established his home on a tract of 
 raw land near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of which 
 he was one "of the founders. A man of rare 
 insight into causes and their effects, fortified by 
 a determined will, and possessing the hardihood 
 of a pioneer, he was fitted for the task of creat- 
 ing a new town on the edge of the then wilder- 
 ness. His ability was inherited from his father, 
 Dr. Isaac Smith, a successful physician and tal- 
 ented man. who during the Revolutionary war 
 served as colonel of the First Regiment from 
 Hunterdon county, X. J., but resigned his com- 
 mission in 1777 in order to accept an appoint- 
 ment as justice of the supreme court of his state. 
 
 Tn the family of Freeman Smith there were 
 eleven children. The youngest of these, Amedee 
 M. Smith, Sr., was born in Fayette county. Pa., 
 
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 in 1839. Al the outbreak of the Civil war he 
 enlisted in Company F, Twenty-fourth Iowa In- 
 fantry, and served for three years as a non- 
 commissioned officer. On being honorably dis- 
 charged from the service he learned the pottery 
 business in a pottery owned by his brother, Free- 
 man Smith, in Iowa. Meantime. he had married, 
 and in 1865, accompanied by his wife and their 
 child, he came via Panama and San Francisco 
 to Portland. On this trip he was accompanied 
 by his father and mother, who settled at Albany, 
 Ore., but in 1866 removed to Buena Vista, this 
 state, where his father died in 1881, at the age 
 of eighty-nine years. During the same year they 
 had come by the isthmus to Oregon, his brother, 
 Freeman, had crossed the plains, and previous 
 to this, during the '50s, three other brothers had 
 come. Henry, who settled near Eugene, James, 
 who died immediately on his arrival, and W. H., 
 who took up land in Clatsop county. 
 
 For the first year of his residence in Oregon 
 Amedee M. Smith made Albany his home, but in 
 1866 removed to Buena Vista, Polk county, 
 where, having found suitable clay land, he and 
 his brother, Freeman, and their father, started 
 a pottery, which was the first enterprise of its 
 kind on the Pacific coast. In 1870 A. M. Smith 
 bought the interests of his father and brother 
 and continued alone until 1883. Meantime, in 
 1881, he had brought his family to Portland and 
 established his headquarters in this city. From 
 a very small beginning he built up a plant occu- 
 pying several acres of ground at this time. In 
 1883, on the river front and Sherlock avenue, he 
 erected a building 200x250, three stories in 
 height, on a lot 200x600, and put in six large 
 kilns, at the same time incorporating the Oregon 
 Pottery Company, of which he was president and 
 James Steel secretary. Everything in the line of 
 vitrified pipes was manufactured there, while the 
 plant at Buena Vista meantime turned out the 
 pottery. On the destruction of the Portland 
 property by fire in 1890 he erected brick build- 
 ings on the same site and a tract of land adjoin- 
 ing. The buildings occupy about 300x300 feet, 
 three and four stories in height, and are equipped 
 with steam boilers and engines of two hundred 
 horse power, with the latest improved machinery 
 for the manufacture of sewer pipe, chimney pipe, 
 flue lining and fire proofing. 
 
 In the early days of the pottery business in 
 ( Oregon it was the custom of the manufacturers 
 to start out from the kilns with a load of pot- 
 tery and travel throughout the Willamette valley 
 until all they carried was sold. Money being 
 scarce, often they accepted produce in exchange 
 for their wares. However, as the population in- 
 creased and railroads came in, the capacity of 
 their plant was also increased and they made their 
 sales in large quantities, shipping by railroad. 
 
 On the death of A. M. Smith, Sr., his son and 
 namesake was chosen president and manager of 
 the Oregon Pottery Company. Two years later, 
 in 1896, James Steel retired from the concern, 
 which was then reorganized as the Western Clay 
 Manufacturing Company, with A. M. Smith, Jr., 
 as president and manager ; W. H. Britts, vice- 
 president ; and Blaine R. Smith, secretary and 
 treasurer. The company is still doing business 
 under the same name and with the same officers 
 as at first, the three being also the sole owners 
 of the plant. In 1890 the manufacture of pot- 
 tery was discontinued and the plant devoted en- 
 tirely to the manufacture of their other products. 
 Frequent enlargements have been made and to- 
 day the plant is the most complete one of its kind 
 on the Pacific coast. The products of the kilns 
 are shipped to all points on the Pacific coast and 
 their trade extends as far north as British Colum- 
 bia and Alaska. They also have an extensive 
 trade in the Hawaiian Islands. The office of the 
 company is at No. 55 Fourth street, Portland. 
 
 While still in the east, Mr. Smith was united 
 in marriage with Miss Mary E. Speelman, who 
 was born in Pittsburg, Pa., a daughter of A. E. 
 Speelman, a native of the Keystone state and a 
 glass blower by trade. On account of the fail- 
 ure of his eyesight Mr. Speelman gave up his 
 trade and removed to Iowa during the early '50s. 
 settling on a farm near Marion, Linn county. 
 Later he went to Minnesota and his death oc- 
 curred at Verndale, that state. In religion he 
 was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 The family of which he was a member came 
 from Germany, while his wife was a member 
 of the Isherwood family, of English extraction. 
 Seven children blessed the union of Mr. Smith 
 and Mary Speelman, namely : Albert G., who 
 died at the age of nine years ; an infant that died 
 in Iowa; Elizabeth, now Mrs. W. H. Britts; 
 Amedee M. ; Blaine R. ; Mary E., wife of Dr. 
 F. C. Sellwood, and Leta R., all residing in 
 Portland. The mother of these children passed 
 away in 1883, and for his second wife Mr. Smith 
 married Mrs. Emma J. Coulter, of Connellsville, 
 Pa., and by this union two children were born, 
 Harold S. and Mildred. 
 
 In the death of Mr. Smith, which occurred 
 September 29, 1894. Oregon lost one of its hon- 
 ored pioneers and Portland was called upon to 
 mourn one of its most prominent and highly es- 
 teemed citizens. His death was not only a severe 
 blow to the industrial world, in which he had 
 taken such an active part and in which he was 
 so well known, but by his demise Portland lost 
 a citizen who at all times was in favor of any 
 movement calculated to be of benefit to his 
 adopted state or county. 
 
 The Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 of which he was an active member, had in him 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOCRAPHKAL RECORD. 
 
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 oik- oi its most sincere supporters and at his 
 
 h he was a member oi its board of trustees. 
 Ili> influence was always for the good, ami his 
 sympathy, his benevolence ami his kindly greet- 
 ing will long he remembered by all with whom 
 he had come in contact. His duties were per- 
 formed with the greatest care and throughout 
 life his personal honor and integrity were with- 
 out blemish. His character, as it was manifested 
 to liis associates, was remarkable for its simplic- 
 u\ ; he had great earnestness and concentration 
 oi purpose; in planning he was deliberate but 
 forcible. His wisdom had been largely gained 
 by observation^ as the advantages of his youth 
 were limited. In his business dealings he was 
 ever prompt, reliable and entirely trustworthy 
 and he gained a greater degree of success than 
 many who at the start were blessed with better 
 advantages. 
 
 the official life of the church and at present is a 
 member of the board of trustees. The Young 
 Men's Christian Association also receives the 
 encouragement of his influence and financial aid, 
 and through his services as a member of the 
 board of directors he has been enabled to pro- 
 mote its welfare in Portland. 
 
 AMEDEE M. SMITH, JR. At Buena Vista, 
 Polk county. Ore., Amedee M. Smith, Jr., was 
 horn December 16, 1868. At the age of twelve 
 years he accompanied his father and mother on 
 their removal to Portland. Here he attended the 
 grammar and high school, remaining in the latter 
 until the senior year, when he was obliged to 
 give up study on account of ill health. Six 
 months were spent in southern Oregon, and then, 
 having regained his health, he returned to his 
 home and entered the business of his father, 
 with which he has since been actively associated. 
 At the first he w-as connected with the Buena 
 Vista factory, but in 1888 came to Portland as 
 superintendent of the plant here. In 1890 he en- 
 tered the office of the company as bookkeeper, 
 and three years later was elected vice-president 
 and manager of the Oregon Pottery Company. 
 ( )n the death of his father, in 1894, he succeeded 
 to the office of president, which he held both in 
 that company and in the reorganized plant. 
 
 In Portland Mr. Smith was united in marriage 
 to Miss Alice M. Johnson, who was born at 
 Point Reyes, Cal.. her parents having removed 
 there from Massachusetts. She is a ladv of ex- 
 cellent education, having attended the Univer- 
 sity of the Pacific. In fraternal relations Mr. 
 Smith is a Mason, connected with Mount Tabor 
 Lodge No. 42, A. F. & A. M. ; Oregon Consis- 
 tory No. 1, thirty-second degree; and Al Kader 
 Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Politically he votes 
 with the Republican party. He is a member of 
 the Manufacturers' Association and an active 
 worker in the Oregon Historical Society, es- 
 pecially interested in movements connected with 
 the perpetuation of the annals of the pioneers. 
 At one time he was Sunday-school superintend- 
 ent of the Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, in the work of which he is deeply inter- 
 ested. Since 1894 he has been connected with 
 
 REV. JOHN W. SELLWOOD. This well 
 known and widely loved pioneer minister of Ore- 
 gon was born near Mendon, 111., July 22, 1839, 
 and was the son of Rev. James R. W. Scllwood, 
 an Englishman by birth and for years an Episco- 
 pal rector, holding pastorates in Mendon, 111., 
 and Grahamville, S. C, thence coming to Oregon 
 as early as 1856 and becoming the first rector 
 of St. Paul's Church in Salem. During the last 
 years of his life, owing to failing eyesight, he 
 was forced to relinquish ministerial work, and 
 thereupon retired to a farm near Milwaukee, later 
 settling in Portland, where he died. 
 
 Few opportunities came to the boyhood of 
 John W. Sellwood other than those obtained by 
 his own determination and industry. The eldest 
 of five children, he early proved himself the 
 mainstay of his parents and their comfort and 
 assistant. Nor was this merely the case in mat- 
 ters material, but especially so in spiritual affairs. 
 From an early age his mind turned to thoughts 
 of God, and he cherished an ambition to follow 
 in his father's steps as a missionary and minister 
 of the Gospel. When he was yet young his 
 father removed to Grahamville, S. C., and in 
 1856, with a brother, John, decided to respond to 
 the urgent appeal of the then bishop of Oregon, 
 Thomas F. Scott, who needed missionaries to 
 labor in this then frontier field. The two started 
 together and en route were the victims of a 
 bloody riot at Panama, from which they barely 
 escaped with their lives. The children, too, were 
 with them and endured all the horrors of those 
 hours of danger. When the groans of the 
 wounded and the dying were to be heard on all 
 sides, the eldest son, John W., solemnly conse- 
 crated himself to the work of the ministry, and 
 the decision then made was never regretted. On 
 the other hand, in the midst of hardships, toil, 
 privations and vicissitudes, he yet called it his 
 greatest glory that he might preach the glorious 
 Gospel of the Christ. 
 
 In clue time the family arrived in Oregon, but 
 the uncle had been so seriously wounded in the 
 massacre that for months he was unable to enter 
 upon his work, but on regaining his health he 
 took charge of Trinity Church, Portland. Rev. 
 fames R. W. Sellwood meanwhile went to Salem, 
 where he became rector of St. Paul's Church. His 
 son, John W.. pursuant upon his resolve to enter 
 the ministry, gave himself to preparation for the 
 work, and in 1862 was ordained deacon in St. 
 
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 Paul's Church, Oregon City, three years later 
 1 icing advanced to the priesthood in St. Stephen's 
 Chapel, Portland. At the same time (July, 
 1865) he was united in marriage with Belle J., 
 daughter of Rev. James L. and Frances (Brown) 
 Daly, natives respectively of Dublin and county 
 Sligo, Ireland, and of Scotch extraction. For 
 the purpose of engaging in educational work 
 James L. Daly went to Australia, and for some 
 time remained in Sydney. On account of ill 
 health he came to California, but, not finding the 
 social environment desirable, went to Honolulu, 
 where he opened a school. Ill health again 
 forced him to relinquish his work and in 1853 
 he came to Portland under Bishop Scott, taking 
 up missionary work, in which he proved an ef- 
 ficient and consecrated laborer. His life was 
 prolonged to the age of almost eighty years, 
 when he died in Portland in 1895, five years after 
 the death of his wife. Of their ten children four 
 are living. Mrs. Sellwood was born in Aus- 
 tralia and received her education in Punahou 
 College, Honolulu. Born of her marriage is one 
 son, John J., who is a graduate physician of the 
 University of Oregon Medical College and now 
 practicing in the village of Sellwood, founded 
 by his great uncle. 
 
 Immediately after his marriage Mr. Sellwood 
 became rector of St. Paul's Church in Oregon 
 City, in addition to which he extended his work 
 to Butteville, Salem, Mount Pleasant schoolhouse, 
 Clackamas Station and Canemah, a little town 
 one mile from Oregon City. As a result of his 
 work a large Sunday school was built in Oregon 
 City and a chapel erected in Canemah at a cost 
 of $800. For two years he was superintendent 
 of schools of Clackamas county, and during that 
 time visited even the most remote schools and 
 sought to elevate the standard of education here. 
 it has been said that no missionary seemed to 
 throw greater enthusiasm into his work than did 
 he and certainly none enjoyed the work to a 
 greater degree. His ministry was a source of 
 constant joy to him. He was never happier than 
 when preaching to his parishioners and trying 
 to aid them in their spiritual life. No toil was 
 too great that would promote the cause of Christ 
 and the church in the particular field which he 
 had chosen as his scene of labor. His love for 
 Christ led him to love every created being. None 
 was too lowly to be excluded from his sympathy, 
 and none too high to be aloof from his affection. 
 Each one of his congregation had a special place 
 in his heart. His work was so full of delight to 
 him that other occupations seemed uninteresting" 
 in comparison. Many hardships and privations 
 he had to face and more than once Sorrow was 
 his companion, yet never, through all of his life, 
 did he lose faith in his Creator and never did 
 he lose faith in the ultimate success of the work 
 
 in which he engaged. The humble successes that 
 came to him were received with a grateful heart. 
 
 Though stanch in his allegiance to the Protes- 
 tant Episcopal Church, Mr. Sellwood was not a 
 bigoted churchman. On the other hand, he pos- 
 sessed a broad and catholic spirit and saw the 
 good in all, ever praying for the reunion of a 
 divided Christendom. As a preacher he was 
 earnest and forcible, never led aside into sensa- 
 tional subjects, but clinging closely to "Christ 
 and Him crucified." A text was chosen only 
 after careful and prayerful deliberation, and the 
 subject matter of the sermon was presented after 
 much prayer. When before his people he lost 
 himself so wholly in his subject that no trace of 
 self-consciousness could be discerned. Indeed, 
 he forgot himself in the message he was to de- 
 liver. 
 
 After fifteen years of labor in Oregon City Mr. 
 Sellwood accepted the pastorate of St. David's 
 Church in East Portland, where the last ten years 
 of his busy life were passed. From a small con- 
 gregation, St. David's has grown into a large 
 and well organized parish, and this happy result 
 is largely due to his efforts in those days of 
 small beginnings. While he was pastor of that 
 flock, on Christmas eve of 1899, after a day of 
 severe illness, he insisted upon speaking to the 
 children at their Christmas exercises, saying, 
 when his family protested, "I feel I must look 
 into their dear, bright faces once more." The 
 next day he again went to the church, hoping to 
 administer the holy communion to his loved con- 
 gregation, but he was taken with a chill and was 
 carried from the church, never more to enter it 
 in life. Weeks of pain and illness were met with 
 his accustomed cheery and bright patience, and 
 finally, March 12, 1890, with the parting words 
 upon his lips, "All is peace," he entered into the 
 unknown. A large concourse of those who loved 
 him attended the funeral services, where Bishop 
 Morris, in the memorial sermon, paid a deserved 
 tribute to his years of patient and self-sacrific- 
 ing toil. The organizations with which he had 
 been connected passed resolutions of respect. 
 The bishop and clergy of the diocese of Oregon 
 adopted resolutions bearing testimony to his 
 goodness of heart and gentleness of spirit. 
 Other organizations who took similar action 
 were St. David's Vestry, Women's Guild of St. 
 David's parish, Daughters of St. David's, Young- 
 Men's Guild of St. David's Church, St. Paul's 
 parish in Oregon City and the convention of the 
 diocese. Since his death his wife, who had been 
 his constant and successful co-laborer in the min- 
 istry, has devoted herself largely to missionary 
 work in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
 Oregon, and is now registrar of the diocese of 
 Oregon, and is also the diocesan secretary of the 
 Women's Auxiliary. 
 
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PORTRAIT AND iWi K.KAl'l IK AL RECORD. 
 
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 Ilo.X. THOMAS G. HENDRICKS. The 
 name of Hon. Thomas G. Hendricks has boon 
 associated for many years with all that is sub- 
 stantial and progressive in connection with the 
 best interests of the city of Eugene and the 
 Willamette valley. The power to act intelli- 
 gently, as well as to think, to marshal his forces 
 at the right time and place, to concentrate, to 
 lead and to infuse others with his own indom- 
 itable courage and determination, are attributes 
 which have contributed to the successful career 
 of Eugene's most representative citizen. 
 
 While Mr. Hendricks' financial stability rests 
 upon his achievements as a merchant and banker, 
 his greatest claim upon the consideration of 
 posterity is his association with the building, or- 
 ganization and subsequent management of Ore- 
 gon's greatest institution of learning — the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon at Eugene. It is doubtful if 
 any other undertaking of his life has been the 
 source of so great a measure of personal satis- 
 faction, so earnest and absorbing an interest, as 
 the development of this ambitious project, the 
 realization of which will be the proud heritage 
 of the coming generations. Mr. Hendricks is 
 one of those far-sighted men who saw the neces- 
 sity for just such an institution, and in the be- 
 ginning of the seventies he accepted the responsi- 
 bility of raising funds for its erection, the state 
 not yet having arrived at an appreciation of its 
 duty in the matter. The few who helped him t»> 
 raise the required fifty thousand dollars, and who 
 as members of the building committee, overcame 
 gigantic obstacles, ignored discouraging influ- 
 ences and conditions and with singleness of pur- 
 pose made straight for their goal, are entitled 
 to rank with the state's greatest benefactors. 
 That Mr. Hendricks \vas the life and soul of this 
 little band, the far-sighted adviser and friend, 
 redounds to his lasting honor and invests his 
 career with additional dignity and nobility. After 
 the state had accepted the institution he became a 
 member of the board of regents, being appointed 
 consecutively for twenty-four years, or until the 
 stable condition of the university justified him in 
 withdrawing his active support. During all of 
 these years he w r as chairman of the executive 
 committee, and it was largely due to his judgment 
 that the university took on the methods and the 
 prestige of institutions of historical renown and 
 established usefulness. Thus has the greatest 
 ambition of this pioneer Oregonian been realized ; 
 vet broad and comprehensive as is its scope, it 
 has been but one of the numerous avenues in- 
 vaded by his business sagacity and genius for or- 
 ganization and development. 
 
 Mr. Hendricks comes of a family of which 
 much might reasonably be expected. Born in 
 Henderson county. 111.. June 17. 1838, he is a 
 son of James M. and grandson of Abraham 
 
 Hendricks, the latter of whom established his 
 family in Kentucky at an early day, and died 
 in Illinois. James Hendricks was born in Ken- 
 tucky and married Elizabeth BristOW, of Vir- 
 ginia, daughter of Elijah Bristow, the first set- 
 tler of Lane county, Ore. With his wife he set- 
 tled on a farm in Henderson county, 111., and 
 while there served with distinction in the Black 
 Hawk war. Five children were born to him and 
 his wife in Illinois. In 1848 he outfitted for the 
 journey across the plains, having three wagons, 
 eight yoke of oxen and a number of loose cat- 
 tle. Leaving the familiar scenes behind them in 
 March, and pushing forward to the uncertainties 
 of the west, they crossed the Missouri river at 
 St. Joseph, and were soon after obliged to stop 
 for a couple of weeks, in order that the grass 
 might grow and supplement the scant supply of 
 feed for the stock. Fortunately the members of 
 the train escaped many of the discomforts and 
 dangers which surrounded the early emigrants, 
 their chief drawback being the stampeding of 
 their cattle by the Indians and Mormons. Cross • 
 ing the Cascade range by the Barlow route, they 
 arrived at Pleasant Hill, Lane county, in October. 
 Here they found Elijah Bristow joyfully awaiting 
 them, he having preceded them to Oregon in 
 1845. Mr. Hendricks settled on a section of land 
 twelve miles southeast of the site of Eugene, 
 his only neighbors being Eugene Skinner, Jacob 
 Spores, Messrs. Isaac Briggs, P. F. Blair and 
 their families, and William Dodson, a bachelor. 
 Mr. Hendricks at once set about the task of clear- 
 ing a farm out of the wilderness tract, and en- 
 gaged in farming and stock-raising on an ex- 
 tensive scale. In 185 1 he crossed the mountains 
 and for a time was engaged in gold-mining in 
 California. He took an active part in the affairs 
 of government, and in religious and educational 
 movements, and became a member of the first 
 church to be organized in Lane county, a church 
 of the Christian denomination, which erected its 
 house of worship near his home. The first school 
 in Lane county was built within sight of his 
 farm, and was established by his father-in-law, 
 Elijah Bristow. It became known as School 
 District Xo. I. Mr. Hendricks died in 1876. 
 His wife's death occurred the year previous. 
 They were the parents of eleven children. Of 
 these Benjamin F. is maintaining the gunshop 
 at Fort Bragg, Cal. : Susan J. married John A. 
 Winter and died in California : Sarah A. married 
 J. W. Skaggs and resides in Santa Cruz, Cal.; 
 Elijah B. is engaged in the drug business in 
 Cheney, Wash. ; James M., who died in Lane 
 county, was for many years engaged in the hard- 
 ware and implement business in Eugene : Colum- 
 bus C. is a capitalist residing in Pendleton, Ore. : 
 LaFayette is a farmer of Lane county : Albert 
 M. is engaged in painting in Eugene ; and Olive 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 E. is the wife of F. P. Close, a farmer of Lane 
 county. 
 
 Hon. Thomas G. Hendricks, the second child 
 in the family, received his rudimentary educa- 
 tion in the district school established by his grand- 
 father, Bristow, conducted in a small log struc- 
 ture which, for many years, was the seat of learn- 
 ing in Lane county. At a later period Cascade 
 Academy was established at Cloverdale, and he 
 entered this school in 1853, remaining for three 
 years. In the meantime the general mercandise 
 business of Mr. Bristow became firmly estab- 
 lished, and Mr. Hendricks began his business 
 career in 1857 as a clerk in this pioneer store. 
 By i860 he had advanced to an interest in the 
 firm, thereafter conducted under the name of 
 E. L. Bristow & Co. The firm contributed to the 
 commercial stability of the town of Eugene by 
 building the first brick store there in 1866. This 
 was likewise the first brick structure in Lane 
 county. In 1874 Mr. Bristow sold his interest 
 in the store to his brother. W. W. Bristow, and 
 after the death of the latter in the same year, Mr. 
 Hendricks became sole owner and proprietor. In 
 1884 he disposed of his stock, but retained pos- 
 session of the building, and the same year organ- 
 ized a banking business under the firm name of 
 Hendricks & Eakin, his partner being S. B. 
 Eakin. With true western enterprise the bankers 
 erected a two-story building on West Willamette 
 street, between Eighth and Ninth streets, with the 
 first plate glass front in Lane county. The bank 
 started business in January, 1884, with a capital 
 stock of $50,000. In February, 1886, the con- 
 cern was reorganized as the First National Bank 
 of Eugene, with a paid-up capital of $50,000. 
 The splendid business standing of the bank sug- 
 gested numerous innovations, and the delibera- 
 tions of the owners resulted in the erection of 
 a handsome edifice in 1898 — a two-story building 
 with a stone front. 
 
 As a practical demonstration of his faith in 
 the future of this section of the Willamette valley, 
 Mr. Hendricks has invested heavily in town and 
 country property, including Hendrick's Addi- 
 tion in College Hill Park and other valuable 
 residence and business sites. His public spirit 
 has found vent in the promotion of many local 
 enterprises, among them being the city water 
 works, of which he was one of the builders, and 
 a director until disposing of his interest therein. 
 He was elected one of the first councilmen of 
 Eugene, and has since served many times in that 
 capacity. He has also been mayor of the city for 
 two terms. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member 
 of the Oregon state senate, having been elected 
 as the nominee of the Democratic party. During 
 that time he served on the committee on educa- 
 tion. He was not at home when elected by a 
 good majority in a Republican county. During 
 
 the two terms of his service in the senate he ad- 
 vocated many measures demanded by the most 
 thoughful of his constituents, and secured the 
 passage of considerable judicious legislation. In 
 1872 Mr. Hendricks received from the county 
 court the appointment to the office of county 
 superintendent of public instruction to fill a 
 vacancy. He was twice re-elected to this office, 
 serving in all six years, and was the first in- 
 cumbent of the office to take an active interest in 
 the welfare of the schools and to visit them in 
 official capacity. The experience thus gained 
 formed the foundation of his interest in the cause 
 of education, and particularly in the cause of 
 higher education. 
 
 Mr. Hendricks is a member of the State His- 
 torical Society, and of the Lane County Pioneer 
 Association, of which he has served as secretary. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and is past noble grand 
 of the lodge at Eugene. In 1865 he became a 
 member of the Christian Church, and for many 
 years has been a member of its board of trustees. 
 
 October 20, 1861, Mr. Hendricks was united 
 in marriage with Mary J. Hazelton, daughter of 
 Harvey Hazelton, who settled in Lane county in 
 1852 or 1853. She died in Eugene in 1866. They 
 were the parents of two children : Harry A., 
 who died in infancy; and Ida B., wife of Frank 
 L. Chambers, of Eugene. The second marriage 
 of Mr. Hendricks was solemnized January 3, 
 1869, and united him with Martha A. Stewart, 
 a native of Missouri, and a pioneer of 1852. (See 
 sketch of Elias Stewart, which appears elsewhere 
 in t his volume.) They are the parents of two 
 children : Ada A., a graduate of the University 
 of Oregon, class of 1896; and Ruby V., a grad- 
 uate of the same institution, class of 1903. 
 
 In closing this necessarily brief outline of the 
 life and services of Thomas G. Hendricks, it is 
 but just to make a permanent record of the es- 
 teem in which he is held by the people of Oregon. 
 At no time during his long, honorable and use- 
 ful career has his position as an influential factor 
 and high-minded man of affairs been brought into 
 question ; and with the progress of years and the 
 development of the spirit of public utility which 
 he has always exhibited, those who have been 
 able to keep most closely in touch with his daily 
 life accord him a post of eminence among the 
 men of the Pacific northwest. Many men of in- 
 telligent discriminating powers have expressed 
 the conviction that in naming two living men who 
 properly may be regarded as the first citizens of 
 the Willamette valley, the name of Thomas G. 
 Hendricks should thus be perpetuated. In the 
 history of the city of Eugene, no man has done 
 more toward the advancement of its highest com- 
 munity interests — social, moral, intellectual and 
 commercial. Every act on his part whose 
 

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 tendency has been to add to the prestige of the 
 city in am way lias demonstrated his unselfish 
 
 and gracious public spirit. The record of his 
 entire life exhibits no taint or blemish ; its purity 
 and integrity, in both its public and private 
 phases, has been beyond question. Assuredly the 
 career of this useful and high-minded man of 
 affairs should prove a never-diminishing source 
 of inspiration to the youth of the present and 
 future generations, as well as of great pride to 
 those bound to him bv ties of blood. 
 
 THEODORE THURSTON GEER. The 
 history of a state as well as that of a nation is 
 chiefly the chronicle of the lives and deeds of 
 those who have conferred honor and dignity 
 upon society. The world judges the character 
 of a community by that of its representative citi- 
 zens, and yields its tribute of admiration and 
 respect for the genius, learning or virtues of 
 those whose works and actions constitute the 
 record of a state ; and it is their character, as 
 exemplified in probity and progress, in kindly 
 virtues and in integrity in the affairs of life, 
 which is ever affording worthy examples for 
 emulation. Perhaps there is today no man bet- 
 ter known in Oregon than Theodore Thurston 
 Geer, recently governor of the state, a man who 
 is leaving the impress of his individuality upon 
 the commonwealth, who has aided in framing 
 important legislation and who in 'his recent ser- 
 vice as chief executive promoted the welfare 
 of the people of the state through an admini- 
 stration that was progressive, yet practical, and 
 upheld the best interests of the majority. 
 
 Governor Geer is a native son of Oregon, 
 his birth having occurred in Marion county, 
 seven miles from Salens March 12, 185 1. His 
 father. Heman J. Geer, was born in Madison 
 county, Ohio, while the grandfather, Joseph 
 Cary Geer, was born in Windham county, Conn., 
 February 5, 1795. When seventeen years of age 
 the latter enlisted for service in the war of 1812, 
 and in 1818 he became a resident of Madison 
 county. Ohio, casting his lot among the pioneer 
 farmers. In 1840 he removed to Galesburg. 
 Knox county. Hi. The ancestry, however, can 
 be traced tarther back than this, for it is defi- 
 nitely known that two brothers, James and 
 George Geer, came from England about 1630 
 and settled in Windham county. Conn. Joseph 
 C. Geer was united in marriage to Miss Mary 
 Johnson, who was born in Rhode Island and 
 was of English descent. When he came to Ohio 
 in (818 he was accompanied by his wife and 
 two children, the journey being made in a wagon. 
 They went to Illinois in the fall of 1840. making 
 the trip down the Ohio and up the Mississippi 
 rivers, and after seven years spent in Knox 
 
 county they again started westward in a tram 
 commanded 1>\ Capt. Joel Palmer. All of the 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Geer also 
 became residents of Oregon. The second son, 
 Fred, had crossed the plains in 1846, and the 
 third son, Joseph Cary, Jr., had come overland 
 in 1845 an( l llmv hves in Modesto, Cal. Three 
 others, Isaiah, Ralph C, and Heman J., came 
 in 1847. The grandfather settled in Clackamas 
 county, directly across the river from Butteville, 
 Marion county, where he secured a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, which he 
 improved, continuing to carry on farming there 
 until his death, which occurred in August, 1881, 
 when he had reached the age of eighty-six years 
 and six months. During the last twenty years 
 of his life he was blind. He was always a 
 Republican, but never cared for or sought of- 
 fice. 
 
 Heman J. Geer was born September 23, 1828, 
 in Madison county, Ohio, and was educated in 
 the schools of that state and Illinois. In 1847 
 he crossed the plains with an ox-train, driving 
 from Illinois, and reached Marion county after 
 six months of travel. In October, 1848, he was 
 married here to Cynthia Ann Eoff, who was 
 born in Illinois, November 4. 1833. a daughter 
 of John Leonard Eoff, who was born in Pulas- 
 ki county, Ky., July 2, 1812. He removed to 
 Indiana, then to Illinois, went to Iowa in 1841, 
 and in 1847 brought his family over the long 
 trail to Oreg'on, the train being commanded by 
 Capt. L. N. English. He settled on Howell 
 Prairie, in Marion county, securing a donation 
 claim of one section, of which he was the owner 
 until his death. His father, John Eoff, was a 
 native of Virginia, became a pioneer of Ken 
 tucky and there died. Our subject visited his 
 grave in 1887. Mr. Eoff was of German de- 
 scent and took part in the Indian wars with 
 Daniel Boone. At the time of their marriage 
 Mr. and Mrs. Heman J. Geer located on a claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres in the Waldo 
 hills, Marion county, and there Mr. Eoff fol- 
 lowed farming for four or five years, after 
 which he sold that property and located in Sil- 
 verton. where he established a nursery business. 
 His oldest brother, Ralph, established the first 
 nursery in the state, from seeds he had brought 
 with him. In May, 1861, Heman J. Geer re- 
 moved to Salem, and in 1862 went up the 
 Fraser river at the time of the gold excitement. 
 In 1866, however, he went to Union county and 
 located on the place where he now resides. He 
 was joined bv his son, Theodore, and together 
 they converted the wild land into an excellent 
 farm. Heman J. Geer has since been suco 
 fully engaged in the nursery and horticultural 
 business and is well known as a fruit grower. 
 He has demonstrated the possibilities of the 
 
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 state in this direction, and through his well di- 
 rected efforts has met with gratifying prosperity. 
 In political views he is a Republican. An hon- 
 ored pioneer, he is familiar with the history of 
 the state from an early epoch, and experienced 
 many of the hardships of life here before rail- 
 roads connected this section with the older east. 
 He served in the Cayuse Indian war and watched 
 with interest the advance of civilization as the 
 Indian wigwam was replaced by the tasteful 
 residence of the white man. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
 Geer were born five children, of whom two are 
 living, Theodore T. and Mrs. Theodosia Janes, 
 of Salem. 
 
 Theodore T. Geer was reared in Oregon. 
 After attending the district school, on the 5th 
 of September, 1863, he entered Willamette Uni- 
 versity, where he remained until April, 1865. 
 He afterward worked with his uncle, Ralph 
 Geer, on a farm in the Waldo hills, making his 
 own way from the time he left college, and he 
 has never been too proud to remember the man- 
 ual labor he performed in reclaiming portions 
 of Oregon's wild land for civilization. In De- 
 cember, 1866, he joined his father at Cove, in 
 Union county, and assisted him in developing a 
 farm from the wilderness. 
 
 On the 1 6th of June, 1870, Mr. Geer was 
 united in marriage to Mrs. Nancy (Duncan) 
 Batte, and the following year he secured a home- 
 stead at Cove by buying a right. This land he 
 farmed until he had perfected his title, and in 
 May, 1877, he sold the property and located near 
 Salem on a place adjoining that upon which he 
 was born, eight miles east of the city. Here 
 he had three hundred and twenty acres of land, 
 some of which had been broken by his father 
 with ox-teams in 1848. Mr. Geer there began 
 general farming and stock-raising, and his pro- 
 gressive, systematic methods of agriculture have 
 made the property valuable and productive. 
 Mrs. Geer was born in Calloway county, Mo., 
 October 22, 1841, a daughter of F. W. Duncan, 
 who was born in Prince Edward county, Va., 
 February 26, 1816. When two years old he was 
 taken to Kentucky, and in 1829, at the age of 
 eleven, went to Calloway county, Mo., with his 
 parents. There he followed farming until 1864, 
 when, on account of his Union sentiments, he 
 was forced to leave his home, and with his fam- 
 ily he then crossed the plains to Oregon. Here 
 he followed farming for some time in Union 
 county. His death occurred at the home of Mr. 
 Geer in Marion county, in 1881. Three children 
 were born to Theodore T. Geer and wife : 
 Maud A., Theodosia A. and Frederick He- 
 man, the latter an express messenger on the 
 Southern Pacific railroad for Wells-Fargo Ex- 
 press Company, making his home at Portland. 
 Jn 1898 Mrs. Geer started to visit her old home 
 
 in the east and stopped to see the Omaha Expo- 
 sition. The same night she was taken ill and 
 died in Omaha on October 13, and her remains 
 were brought back to Oregon for interment. 
 
 Mr. Geer has always been an active Repub- 
 lican, fearless in defense of his honest convic- 
 tions, not bitterly aggressive, but unequivocal 
 in his statements, so that no one need question 
 his position. He has always been a close and 
 earnest student of the issues which have divided 
 the people into great national parties and his 
 views have many times been expressed through 
 the papers. When seventeen years of age he 
 began writing for the press upon political and 
 other subjects, during the Grant campaign in 
 1868, and there is probably no man in the state, 
 who is not a journalist by profession, who has 
 been a more frequent contributor to the press. 
 In 1880 he was elected to the legislature from 
 Marion county, serving in the session of that 
 year, when Governor Moody was speaker of the 
 house. Mr. Geer was instrumental in passing 
 the bill locating the insane asylum at Salem and 
 providing a building for it. In 1888 and again 
 in 1890 and 1892 he was re-elected, and in the 
 session of 1891 he was chosen speaker of the 
 house, acting in that capacity when the Aus- 
 tralian ballot law was passed. An excellent par- 
 liamentarian, his rulings were strictly fair and 
 impartial, and his legislative service throughout 
 proved of benefit to the entire state as well as 
 to his local constituency. In 1896 he was nom- 
 inated presidential elector on the Republican 
 ticket and received the highest popular vote 
 given any elector in the state. He took a most 
 active part in the campaign, being on the stump 
 for seven weeks, working untiringly for the suc- 
 cess of his party. By the state electors he was 
 chosen to carry the vote to Washington, in 
 January, 1897, and visited President McKinley 
 in Canton. After his return he was nominated 
 by acclamation in the state convention, in April, 
 1898, as the candidate for governor, although 
 he was not present on that occasion. During the 
 campaign he visited every county in the state 
 but one, addressing the people on the issues of 
 the day, and as his legislative service had been 
 such as to warrant public confidence, he was 
 elected by a plurality of ten thousand five hun- 
 dred. On January 10, 1899, he took the oath 
 of office, thus becoming the chief executive of 
 his native state for a term of four years. His 
 administration was free from misrule in state 
 affairs, and no matter what his enemies might 
 say against him — and no man in public life is 
 without enemies — they have never urged against 
 him that he has been the tool of others, but on 
 the other hand every one 'acknowledges his loy- 
 alty to his honest convictions, and the state at 
 large endorses his administration as that of a 
 
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 i rnor who has had the interests of the com- 
 monwealth at heart, has placed the state before 
 party and general good before personal aggran- 
 dizement. 
 
 Under the Mays referendum law of 1901, 
 Governor Geer was nominated as the Republican 
 candidate for United States senator by the peti- 
 tion oi three thousand electors in various parts 
 of the state. But political combinations resulted 
 in the choice oi another. His vote for senator, 
 under the law mentioned, was. with two or three 
 exceptions, the greatest popular vote ever re- 
 corded in Oregon — forty-five thousand — exceed- 
 ing the vote he received for governor of the 
 state. During the Ohio state campaign in 1901 
 he was sent for by the Republican National Com- 
 mittee and canvassed the state for the Repub- 
 lican nominees. He had been invited to that 
 state for the same purpose in 1900, and was again 
 invited there in 1902. During the presidential 
 campaign of 1900 he was called upon to make 
 a number of speeches in Idaho and Washington, 
 where he addressed large crowds in the principal 
 cities of those states. 
 
 On the 14th of June, 1900, in Astoria, Gov- 
 ernor Geer married Isabelle Trullinger, a native 
 of Washington county, Ore., and a daughter of 
 J. C. Trullinger, who came from Iowa in 1848, 
 crossing the plains to Oregon with his parents. 
 His father, Rev. Daniel Trullinger, also came 
 in 1848 and settled in Marion county, the re- 
 mainder of his life being spent principally in 
 Washington and Clackamas counties, his death 
 occurring near Molalla, in the latter county. The 
 father of Mrs. Geer was a prominent mill man 
 and lumber manufacturer. He built the electric 
 light plant in Astoria and was the owner of that 
 and the gas plant at the time of his death. In 
 1893 he served as a member of the state legisla- 
 ture. Mrs. Geer is a talented artist, well known 
 in artistic and social circles in Oregon. 
 
 In social circles the governor is popular. 
 Twenty-seven years ago, in Union county, he 
 was made an Odd Fellow and now is a member 
 of Olive Lodge, in Salem. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen 
 and of Abernethy Cabin (at Portland), of the 
 Xative Sons of Oregon. His life history stands 
 in contradistinction to the old adage that "a 
 prophet is not without honor save in his own 
 country," for Mr. Geer has gained recognition 
 as one of the most distinguished citizens of his 
 native state, and his lifework has had an im- 
 portant bearing upon the stable progress and 
 prosperity of the commonwealth. 
 
 HOX. JASON WHEELER. As a repre- 
 sentative citizen of the days when men's souls 
 were tried and lives impoverished in the mighty 
 
 effort to establish a stronghold for the American 
 nation in the northwest, the Hon. Jason Wheeler 
 recalls vividly the trend of events from pioneer 
 days to the present prosperity and affluence. He 
 is properly called a landmark of those early times, 
 for from his entrance into the territory he has 
 been connected with almost every movement, 
 every enterprise upon which statehood has been 
 reared. As a sturdy, steady patriot of the new 
 land he exposed his life to the dangers of Indian 
 warfare ; as a public official, chosen to serve 
 through the indisputable evidence of his personal 
 worth, he faithfully performed the duties which 
 fell to his lot ; as a citizen he has accepted the 
 bounty of the government and given it back ten- 
 fold, in the cultivated fields of the lands which 
 have made the agricultural life of the state of 
 Oregon. Personally he is rich in characteristics 
 which have won him many friends, and call forth 
 the esteem and confidence of all who have ever 
 known him. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was born in Ohio, August 4, 
 1823, the son of Deland Wheeler, a native of 
 Vermont, who served in the war of 1812. He 
 removed to New York state, and after his mar- 
 riage with Margaret Court, a native of that state, 
 and the daughter of John Court, a native of Eng- 
 land, who was engaged in farming there, he 
 made a trip to Ohio. He returned to Cayuga 
 county, N. Y., and continued his farming inter- 
 ests there, until his death at the age of sixty 
 years. Of the eight sons which blessed his mar- 
 riage all attained maturity. John came to Ore- 
 gon in 1848 and died near Grant's Pass; Truman 
 started across the plains in 1849 an d died en 
 route, near Salt Lake ; George came to Oregon 
 in 1872. and now makes his home at Everett, 
 Wash. ; and Leonard came in the same train in 
 which his brother Jason traveled, and his death 
 occurred in Lebanon, Linn county. 
 
 Jason Wheeler was the second oldest of this 
 family of children, and on his father's farm in 
 New* York state he grew into the ways of a use- 
 ful and practical life. He received a rather 
 limited education in the district school in the 
 vicinity of his home, after which, at the tender 
 age of thirteen years, he ventured out into the 
 world with the responsibility of his own liveli- 
 hood before him. For six years he worked on 
 neighboring farms, and when nineteen he de- 
 cided to try his fortunes in the west, of which 
 he had heard so much, and accordingly jour- 
 neyed as far as Centreville, Mich., where he 
 found employment in a hotel. Five vears later, 
 in 1847. he still further followed the sun in his 
 course, outfitting at St. Joseph. Mo., with ox- 
 teams and wagons, and May 1 starting over the 
 old Oregon trail along the Platte river. The 
 journey was a long and tedious one. and the 
 party were saved from dangerous encounters 
 
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 with Indians only by the constant guard main- 
 tained day and night. September 7, 1847, found 
 them at the end of their trip, at Oregon City. 
 Mr. Wheeler came down the Columbia river 
 from The Dalles with Governor Abernethy, and 
 at Peterson's butte in Linn county took up a 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres. Building 
 a little log cabin there, he prepared to make this 
 his home. With the breaking out of the Cayuse 
 war, he volunteered under Captain Maxon and 
 at once went to the scene of action. In the battle 
 of Wells Springs, February 28, 1848, he was 
 wounded in the right knee, and it was under 
 these conditions that the greatest suffering was 
 experienced. The soldiers had constructed a 
 place for their wounded comrades at Whitman 
 station, and there he was carried in a wagon, 
 a distance of fifty miles from the scene of his 
 injury. After many weeks of suffering he re- 
 turned in May of the same year to the valley. 
 In the spring of 1849 ne went overland to Cali- 
 fornia and engaged in mining on the American 
 river. He continued there until the fall, and 
 then, with the fruits of a well-spent summer he 
 invested in various mercantile articles, and em- 
 barked on the sailing vessel Hagstaff for Port- 
 land, which he was not destined to reach until 
 he had passed through many hardships and dan- 
 gers. After a voyage of eighteen days the boat 
 was wrecked at the mouth of the Rogue river, 
 and the passengers were left scattered among the 
 mountains. 
 
 When he, with the passengers and crew 
 of the wrecked vessel, started up the river, 
 depending for means of sustenance on spike- 
 nard and other roots and sugar pine, for ten or 
 twelve days, and the suffering of the party for 
 water was intense, as they had left the river and 
 for several days went up a "divide," where there 
 was no water. So great was the suffering for 
 food and water that some of the party, notably 
 Shively, became temporarily insane. Mr. Wheel- 
 er one day went out with his gun to try to find 
 something to appease the cravings of their hun- 
 ger, and he fortunately shot a squirrel and a 
 pigeon, and returned to camp, and found Shive- 
 ly roasting a snake, and Mr. Wheeler said, 
 "Shively, what are you going to do with that 
 snake?" "I am going to eat it," said he. "I 
 am so hungry I would eat anything." Wheeler 
 said, "If you will not eat the snake I will give 
 you half the squirrel." He agreed to that and 
 Mr. Wheeler gave him half the squirrel — for 
 the mess of eight persons. About nine or ten 
 days after the party left the wrecked vessel, as 
 they were struggling along toward the mountain 
 top, they saw a large herd of elk, and follow- 
 ing the directions of Mr. Wheeler, the party 
 divided, each party passing around the moun- 
 tain in such a wav as to surround the elk with- 
 
 out alarming them. When the maneuver was 
 accomplished, at a prearranged signal, the party 
 pressed toward the game, which did not appear 
 to be disturbed by the presence of men, and 
 the first one to approach the line of half 
 famished men was a large bull, which was shot 
 by Mr. Wheeler at a distance of about forty 
 yards, and in an incredibly short time twenty 
 elk had been shot, and one of the party cut out 
 a quarter, weighing perhaps one hundred 
 pounds, and said he could carry it a distance 
 of about two miles to camp. It is needless to 
 say he had overestimated his strength and un- 
 derestimated the weight of his game, and before 
 proceeding one hundred yards he stopped and 
 cut out the bone, and with a stick over his shoul- 
 der to support it he managed to struggle into 
 camp. The party, who was so hungry and 
 weak, had so overloaded themselves that they 
 were constantly stopping and lightening their 
 load, until they finally reached camp with a small 
 piece each. The next morning an elk was seen 
 soon after leaving camp and was shot by the 
 party, and such was its position that, though 
 repeatedly shot, it did not fall, and on nearer 
 approach it was discovered that it was prevent- 
 ed from falling by a tree, against which it was 
 leaning and a slight push sent the game to the 
 ground. From that time little game was found, 
 and was so scarce the supply of food was ex- 
 hausted, and only an occasional deer was killed, 
 which kept the famished men up till they reached 
 Cow creek, at a point not far from what is now 
 Riddle Station ; while there Mr. Wheeler met 
 an Indian who evinced hostile designs, had a 
 large knife which he brandished menacingly, 
 whooping, as Mr. Wheeler thought, to give 
 notice to other Indians who were in the vicinity, 
 and whooped in answer, and the Indian gave 
 directions as to the road the party should travel 
 but indicated that they — the white men — 
 should walk in advance, thus affording the In- 
 dians the advantage, if his designs were hostile ; 
 but Mr. Wheeler was too wary to walk in a nar- 
 row trail with an armed hostile Indian behind. 
 His experience had been a good school, and he 
 had been an apt scholar and learned that an In- 
 dian could only be trusted while under the vigi- 
 lant eye of an armed white man. Hence he said 
 to the red, "No, you walk in front and I will 
 follow," and thus they traveled, the red in front 
 and the white man, with a trusty rifle, following, 
 until they reached Canyonville and Mr. Wheeler 
 told the Indian he could dispense with his fur- 
 ther services and he might return if he desired, 
 and the Indian then left the party, and, to use 
 the language of Mr. Wheeler : "We came on 
 toward the Umpqua valley and we made camp 
 on the Umpqua and stopped all night, and the 
 bovs scolded because I did not shoot a wolf for 
 
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 d, and I said he was too poor and gaunt, but, 
 
 they, 'We would have eaten him, anyway,' 
 
 but we had nothing to eat, and the next morn- 
 
 g we started following the trail we had traveled 
 
 in the spring as wo came south. 1 know the 
 road thence, as we had boon over the road the 
 Spring before. This was about forty miles from 
 the Welch place, the only place where there was 
 any one living — where any one dared to stay — 
 on account of the Indians. We reached Welch's 
 the second day and remained and recuperated 
 our strength, for we were badly worn and our 
 feet woro blistered and sore with much walk- 
 ing. After leaving Welch's we came to the 
 valley and continued on to Portland." 
 
 The way bad been hard and wearisome, but 
 the trip was full of rich experiences which, in 
 a measure, compensated for the hardships and 
 deprivations endured. 
 
 In Portland he bought a pair of blankets, and 
 made his way in a canoe down the Columbia 
 river to Astoria, where he helped in the build- 
 ing of a sawmill, in which he worked for some 
 time. Eventually he made his way back to his 
 claim in Linn county. Subsequently he took up 
 a section of land three miles north of Lebanon, 
 where he successfully engaged in stock-raising. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Wheeler occurred in 
 Linn county. Ore., June 2, 1850, his wife being 
 Eliza D. Claypool. who was born on the Platte 
 purchase, a daughter of David Claypool, and 
 came to Oregon in 1846, crossing the plains 
 with her parents. Her death occurred in Albany 
 in 1897. She was the mother of the following 
 children : Melissa, now the wife of Dr. J. M. 
 Kitchen, of Stayton. Ore. ; Delia, deceased ; El- 
 len, wife of John Morgan, of Albany ; Mary. 
 wife of C. H. Walker, of Albany: and Frank, 
 located in California. Mr. Wheeler was mar- 
 ried a second time in Linn county. September 
 29. 1898, to Miss Diana Elizabeth Hanchett, a 
 native of Fulton county. 111. In his political 
 convictions a Democrat. Mr. Wheeler was first 
 elected sheriff of Linn county while lying sick 
 and wounded after the Cayuse war. He has 
 since been quite active, serving three terms as 
 county commissioner, and one term in the ter- 
 ritorial legislature, and he has also served one 
 or two terms as councilman of Albany, and one 
 term as mayor, and once as a member of the 
 state legislature. As a popular and prominent 
 man in the state he was a member of the com- 
 mittee which was sent to Congress to obtain the 
 passage of the Indian War Pension bill. Among 
 the most important enterprises in which Mr. 
 Wheeler gave very material assistance was 
 the building of the Albany canal, the construction 
 of which he superintended, and also performed 
 the same duties in connection with the military 
 road over the Cascade mountains. This road is 
 
 four hundred and forty-eight and a half miles 
 in length, and as manager he later sold out to 
 Colonel Hogg for the sum of $130,000, which 
 he divided pro rata among the stockholders, the 
 sale and division being successfully carried to a 
 close. During the administration of l'rosidont 
 Cleveland he was appointed Indian agent at the 
 \\ arm Springs Indian reservation, occupying 
 the post three years. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was made a Mason in Corinthian 
 Lodge of Albany. He also belongs to several 
 state organizations, among them being the Indian 
 War Veteran Association and the Pioneer So- 
 ciety. A devoted member of the Baptist Church, 
 he is active in all the work pertaining to the 
 same, and has acted as trustee. Constantly con- 
 tributing to the cause of the church he also 
 donated funds amply sufficient to cover the ex- 
 pense of a parsonage, and in many such ways 
 he evidences his character as one belonging to 
 an upright, honest, and honorable citizen. The 
 first claim taken up by Mr. Wheeler in Oregon 
 has been traded for one hundred and forty acres 
 of land adjoining Albany, the cultivation of which 
 he himself superintends, though now in his 
 eightv-first vear. 
 
 CHARLES H. LEE. M. D. "Earn thy 
 reward ; the Gods give naught to sloth," said 
 the sage Epicharmus and the truth of this admon- 
 ition has been verified in all the years which have 
 run their course since his day. It is especially 
 manifested in the learned professions where 
 advancement depends entirely upon individual 
 merit. Xot by wealth, purchase or influence 
 can one gain prestige in any of the professions,. 
 but steady progress therein is the legitimate out- 
 come of earnest purpose, careful preparation and 
 unfaltering devotion to the calling. It has been 
 in this way that Dr. Charles H. Lee has won dis- 
 tinction and success as a representative of the 
 medical fraternity. In recent years ill health 
 has compelled him to abandon in large degree the 
 practice of medicine, but after a rest he has fully 
 recuperated and is again an active practitioner 
 of Corvallis. 
 
 The doctor was born in Hillsboro. Highland 
 county. Ohio. His father, Edward Lee, was a 
 native of the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, 
 born in 1800, and the grandfather, Barnard Lee, 
 died in the Old Dominion. He had married 
 Miss Elkins, a representative of an old Virgin- 
 ian family of that name. About 1830 the doc- 
 tor's father removed to Ohio and engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising in Highland county, 
 where he died in 1854. His wife bore the maiden 
 name of Sarah Fisher and was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, a daughter of Frederick Fisher, whose 
 birth occurred in Germany. Crossing the Atlan- 
 
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 tic to the new world he settled in the Keystone 
 state, but spent his last days in Highland county, 
 Ohio. Mrs. Lee passed away in 1896 at the age 
 of eighty-six years. Both she and her husband 
 were members of the Lutheran Church and in 
 their family were eleven children, all of whom 
 reached years of maturity, while three are still 
 living. One of the sons, Dr. J. B. Lee, was 
 graduated from the Starling Medical College of 
 Ohio, and he also graduated from the medical 
 department of the University of Oregon. In 
 1862 he joined Foster's independent cavalry 
 and went to Fort Leavenworth. He came to 
 Oregon in 1863, located in Corvallis, where he 
 practiced medicine up to the time of his death in 
 1892. He not only won distinction as a repre- 
 sentative of the profession, but was- also very 
 prominent in public life and served as mayor of 
 Corvallis, while for several terms he represented 
 his district in the state senate. Another brother, 
 Dr. James P. Lee, was a hospital steward in the 
 army during the Civil war and died while serving 
 his country. 
 
 Dr. C. H. Lee, who is the youngest of the 
 family, was born June 2, 1850, and was reared 
 in Highland county, Ohio, upon the home farm. 
 When sixteen years of age he began teaching 
 directly after his course in the high school. At 
 the age of twenty he took up his study of medi- 
 cine under Dr. Noble and later continued his 
 reading under the direction of Dr. R. C. Russ. 
 In 1874 he entered the Miami Medical College 
 of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he was graduated 
 in 1877 with the degree of M. D. He then 
 began practice in New Petersburg, Ohio, where 
 he remained until 1884, which year witnessed 
 his arrival in Corvallis, Ore. After eighteen 
 months spent in this city he returned to Hills- 
 boro, Ohio, where he spent about nine months, 
 and in July, 1866, he again came to the north- 
 west, locating in Newport, Ore., where he suc- 
 cessfully engaged in practice for two years. Once 
 more he took up his abode in Corvallis in 1888 
 and entered into partnership with his brother, 
 this relation being maintained until the latter's 
 death in 1892. Dr. Lee of this review has since 
 practiced alone and is very successful in his ad- 
 ministration of remedial agencies for the alle- 
 viation of human ills. He is also very efficient 
 in his sitrgical work and for a long perod he 
 enjoyed an extended patronage, but of recent 
 years has partially retired, confining his atten- 
 tion to his office and city practice. 
 
 The doctor was united in marriage in Corval- 
 lis to Miss Henrietta Foster, a native of Benton 
 county and a daughter of John Foster, who was 
 born in Ohio and came to Oregon in its pioneer 
 days. Mrs. Lee was educated in Mills Seminary 
 in Oakland, Cal., and is a most estimable lady 
 who has made her hospitable home the center of 
 
 a cultured society circle. The doctor was ini- 
 tiated into the mysteries of the Masonic craft 
 in Buford, Ohio, and now belongs to Corvallis 
 Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M. He took the 
 Royal Arch degree at Greenfield, Ohio, and he 
 has since been a worthy exemplar of the craft. 
 In politics he has always been an active Demo- 
 crat and in the line of his profession he is con- 
 nected with the State Medical Society. Dr. Lee 
 has become very widely known during his resi- 
 dence in this section of the state and his promi- 
 nence is not less the result of social worth than 
 of professional skill. He is a man of broad in- 
 telligence, highly educated and is a representative 
 of a distinguished and honored old southern 
 family. 
 
 JAMES MARTIN. To James Martin is due 
 the distinction of raising and shipping the first 
 wheat in Benton county, and when the first con- 
 signment was well under way the captain in 
 whose care it was placed honored the nationality 
 of the pioneer grower by calling a certain portion 
 of the river Irish Bend. In the estimation of all 
 who knew him, Mr. Martin carries with him the 
 finest traits to which his countrymen are heir, 
 including invariable good nature and adaptabil- 
 ity. He was born in County Down, Ireland, in 
 June, 1822, and was one in a family of ten chil- 
 dren born to farmer parents. He had no partic- 
 ular chance for advancement in his native land, 
 and, being well aware of this fact, came to Amer- 
 ica in 1847, when he was at the ambitious and 
 resourceful age of twenty-five. For about three 
 years he was variously employed in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., and in 1850 came to Ohio, settling in Mahon- 
 ing county, near Canfield. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Martin thought to try his chances 
 in the west, but. his manner of reaching it dif- 
 fered somewhat from the conventional route 
 mapped out by the average fortune seeker. Going 
 to New Orleans down the Mississippi river, he 
 made his way to Vera Cruz and the City of Mex- 
 ico, where he bought a pony and packed his 
 goods, and himself walked to Acapulco and from 
 there to San Francisco. After following mining 
 a few months with indifferent success he came 
 to Corvallis, and, after spending the first winter 
 in the town took up a donation claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres five miles northeast 
 of Monroe. Here was conducted a lonely bach- 
 elor enterprise for some time, but which under- 
 went a change in 1869, when the owner returned 
 to Ohio and married Mary Wilson, a native of 
 the Buckeye state. Returning immediately to 
 Oregon, he settled on his claim, and from time 
 to time success has induced him to add to his 
 original purchase. In all he owns eight hundred 
 and three acres of land, five hundred of which 
 
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 arc under cultivation, and he is engaged in gener- 
 al farming and stock-raising. From the first he 
 has given much attention to grain, and was one 
 of the first in his neighborhood to appreciate its 
 possibilities in this direction. Upon his meadows 
 graze large numbers of Durham cattle, and a 
 variety of other kinds of stock, the sale of which 
 brings to their owner a considerable yearly rev- 
 enue. Mr. Martin is a Democrat in politics, but 
 has never been an office-seeker, although he has 
 creditably sustained many minor offices of a local 
 nature. With his wife he is a member of the 
 Episcopal Church, and contributes generously 
 towards its support. Two children have been 
 born into the family, Ida and John, both of whom 
 are living at home. 
 
 HON. REUBEN PATRICK BOISE, con- 
 nected for more years than any other man in the 
 state with the jurisprudence of Oregon, and an 
 important factor in the shaping of her splendid 
 destiny, was born in Blandford, Hampden county, 
 Mass., June 9, 1819. His ancestors on both 
 sides of the family followed the martial fortunes 
 of Washington during the Revolutionary war, 
 and on the paternal side he is descended from 
 those French Huguenots whose devotion to prin- 
 ciple made them welcome refugees in any for- 
 eign land. From scarcely more tolerant Scotland 
 members of the Boise family emigrated to the 
 north of Ireland, whence the paternal great-great- 
 grandfather emigrated to Massachusetts, settling 
 on the farm in Blandford. This same farm was 
 the birthplace of the paternal great-grandfather, 
 Samuel. Like his forefathers, Reuben Boise, 
 grandfather of the Hon. Reuben Patrick, was a 
 farmer, and served in the state legislature. He 
 married a Miss Patrick, who lived to be ninety- 
 four years of age. 
 
 The father of Judge Boise lived and died on 
 the old Hampden county farm, in the meantime 
 exerting a broad influence in politics and the gen- 
 eral affairs of his district. From Jefferson's time 
 he was a Democrat, and then a Whig, finally 
 subscribing to the principles of the Republican 
 party. He held several offices in Massachusetts, 
 among them being that of county commissioner, 
 and he also served in the state senate and legis- 
 lature. He married Sallie Putnam, who was 
 born in Xew Salem. Mass., a daughter of Jacob 
 Putnam, soldier at the battle of Bennington dur- 
 ing the Revolutionary war, and relative of Gen. 
 Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. Mrs. 
 Boise, who lived to be ninety-four years of age, 
 was the mother of eight children, four sons and 
 four daughters, of whom Judge Boise is the third 
 child and only one living. Two of the sons, 
 Jarvis and Fisher Ames, died at the age of 
 twenty-six years, just as they were to be ad- 
 
 mitted to the bar; and the other son, Stillman, 
 died at the age of fifty. 
 
 Judge Boise was educated in the public schools 
 of Blandford. and after preparatory study under 
 Dr. Cooley entered Williams College at the age 
 of twenty-one years, graduating therefrom in 
 1843, w hh the degree of A. B. After a year of 
 school teaching in Missouri, he returned to his 
 native state and studied law under his uncle, 
 Patrick Boise, a distinguished lawyer of West- 
 field, being admitting to the bar three years later, 
 in 1847. F° r the following two years he engaged 
 in practice at Chicopee Falls, Mass., and during 
 that time served as one of the town commission- 
 ers in charge of the schools. In the meantime 
 he had accumulated a great deal of information 
 concerning the west, to which he came in 1850, 
 via Panama, locating in Portland, which was 
 then but a small town. However, shipping and 
 other interests were beginning to create a demand 
 for legal talent, and the promising young lawyer 
 found that he had plenty to do. By the fall 
 of 1852 he was launched upon a fair practice, and 
 his faith in the agricultural possibilities by which 
 he was surrounded led him to invest in six hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land west of Dallas, 
 which he still owns, and upon which he lived 
 about four years. In 185 1 the territorial legis- 
 lature elected him prosecuting attorney of the 
 first and second districts, his field of effort lying 
 between Eugene and Washington territory.' In 
 1853 he was elected one of the code commission- 
 ers for Oregon, selected to compile the first code 
 of laws for the territory, the others being the 
 Hon. James K. Kelly and Hon. D. R. Biglow. 
 In 1854 he was re-elected prosecuting attorney, 
 and the same year represented Polk county in the 
 territorial legislature, being re-elected for two 
 years in the latter position. In 1857 he represent- 
 ed Polk county in the constitutional convention, 
 was chairman of the committee on legislation, 
 and in this capacity was instrumental in furnish- 
 ing to Oregon her fundamental laws of govern- 
 ment. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Boise was appointed by President 
 Buchanan one of the supreme court judges of the 
 territory with Judges Williams and Deady, and 
 after the admission of Oregon to statehood he 
 was elected supreme judge of Oregon, with 
 Judges Waite, Stratton and Prim. In 1878, by 
 the constitution of the state, the judges first 
 elected to the supreme court were to draw lots 
 for their terms, one term two years, one four 
 years and two six years. Judge Waite having 
 drawn the shortest term, was by the constitution 
 made chief justice of the supreme court; Judge 
 Stratton at the end of two years became chief 
 justice, and Judge Boise, at the end of four 
 years, became chief justice. For twelve vears 
 Judge Boise continued to hold this honorable po- 
 
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 sition, the duties thereof being particularly trying 
 as the supreme judges were also obliged to be 
 circuit judges of their districts. From 1862 to 
 1864, inclusive, he served as chief justice of Ore- 
 gon, and upon the expiration of his term was re- 
 elected for six years. After being again chosen 
 in 1870 his seat was vigorously contested by 
 Hon. B. F. Bonham, and rather than engage in 
 long and expensive litigation. Judge Boise re- 
 signed his office and returned to the general prac- 
 tice of law. In 1874 he was elected by the legis- 
 lature one of the capitol building commissioners, 
 an office which he filled with distinct credit until 
 1876. The same year he was elected to his old 
 position on the supreme bench. When the legis- 
 lature, as authorized by the state constitution, 
 provided for a separate supreme court and cir- 
 cuit courts, the new supreme court consisted of 
 three judges. Judge Boise was appointed by 
 the governor one of the three judges of the su- 
 preme court under the new system, with Judge 
 James K. Kelly and Judge Prim. Judge Kelly 
 being the oldest in years, became chief justice, 
 and Judges Boise and Prim associates, and cir- 
 cuit judges were appointed from the judicial dis- 
 tricts. These judges, both supreme and circuit, 
 held their offices under the court and the new 
 law creating them, until the next general election, 
 when Judge Boise preferred the nomination for 
 judge of the third judicial district, the same dis- 
 trict from which he had formerly been elected 
 to the supreme bench. He was elected and has 
 held the office ever since, with the exception of 
 six years, from 1892 to 1898. At present he 
 has charge of Department No. 2, and in spite of 
 his advancing years, and the fact that he has been 
 a circuit judge of Oregon for all but eleven years 
 since 1857, ne st iU performs the duties of his 
 office with old-time vigor and enthusiasm. 
 
 Judge Boise has been a resident of Salem ever 
 since 1857. Until 1865 he lived on property in 
 the town upon which is now built the convent of 
 the Sacred Heart, and in 1880 purchased the farm 
 which is still his home, and of which he retains 
 sixty acres. During the years much property has 
 passed through his hands, and the old farm 
 taken by him upon his arrival in the territory 
 has been enlarged to twenty-six hundred acres. 
 The first house in Salem was built upon his pres- 
 ent home, and he owns the old mission mill 
 house and grounds, a portion of the house having 
 been built in the early '40s. A part of his farm 
 at Salem has been laid out in city lots, and the 
 North Salem addition is included in this prop- 
 erty. His farm is finely improved and profitable, 
 and has greatly increased in value with the build- 
 ing up of the town. For some years Judge Boise 
 was interested in a woolen factory near Dallas. 
 Especially has he been interested in the develop- 
 ment of the agricultural resources of his county, 
 and as a member, and five times master of the 
 
 Grange, has had the opportunity to further the 
 interests of the farmers, whom he regards as the 
 backbone of communities wherever found. 
 
 Oregon has had no more stanch supporter of 
 her educational institutions than Judge Boise. 
 Twice has he been a member of the board of 
 trustees of Pacific University at Forest Grove, 
 and has held the same position in La Creole Acad- 
 emy, at Dallas, and Willamette University at 
 Salem, serving also as regent of the Agricultural 
 College at Corvallis. Pacific University conferred 
 upon the judge the degree of doctor of laws. 
 Judge Boise is a member of the Oregon Historical 
 Association and the Pioneer Association, and in 
 this connection treasures his old-time friendships 
 for other founders of the legal structure of the 
 golden west, among whom may be mentioned 
 Judge Kelly, who came to Oregon in 1851, and 
 is now living in Washington; Governor Grover, 
 who came to Portland in 185 1 ; and George H. 
 Williams, who arrived in the state in 1853. 
 
 The first marriage of Judge Boise was con- 
 tracted in San Francisco in 1851, and was with 
 Ellen F. Lyon, a native of Boston, Mass., and 
 daughter of Capt. Lemuel Lyon, a pioneer of 
 the Pacific coast. Mrs. Boise, who was a cousin 
 of General Lyon, who was killed at the battle 
 of Wilson Creek, Mo., died in Oregon, leaving 
 two children, of whom Reuben P., Jr., is engaged 
 in the real-estate business in Salem ; and Whitney 
 L. is an attorney in Portland. In 1867 Judge 
 Boise married Emily A. Pratt, a native of Worces- 
 ter, Mass., a daughter of Ephraim Pratt, a manu- 
 facturer of Massachusetts, and sister of Captain 
 Pratt, who started the woolen mill of this town. 
 Of this' last union were born two children, of 
 whom Ellen, a graduate of Willamette Univer- 
 sity, was drowned in the undertow at Long Beach, 
 Wash., at the age of twenty-two ; and Maria, also 
 a graduate of Willamette University, is living 
 with her father. During his first voting days 
 the judge was a Douglas Democrat, but after the 
 war subscribed to the principles of the Repub- 
 lican party. It is unquestionably true that it 
 was largely owing to the efforts of this early 
 pioneer judge that his state was saved to the 
 Union, for he unceasingly worked to that end, 
 and by sound logic, well delivered, did much to 
 direct public opinion into channels of humanity 
 and broad-mindedness. The career of Judge 
 Boise needs no eulogy. He has been noted for his 
 equitable rulings and lucid exposition of the 
 law ; for his rugged integrity under any and all 
 circumstances ; and for his devotion to friends 
 and the interests intrusted to his care. 
 
 AUGUSTUS H. BUCKINGHAM. Among 
 the more recent acquisitions to the business com- 
 munity of Bellfountain due mention should be 
 given to A. H. Buckingham, who since March 1, 
 
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 1903, has been engaged in mercantile interests 
 here. Heman G Buckingham, the father of A. 
 H. was horn March 15, 1812, in New York state, 
 and until his first marriage, which united him 
 with Miss Laura Kinney, he remained at home 
 with his parents. Mrs. Buckingham died when 
 quite young, leaving one child, who is also de- 
 ceased. After his marriage to his second wife, 
 who was Miss Betsie Trumhle, the family moved 
 to Illinois, which was their home until the year 
 1845. which witnessed their outfitting for the trip 
 across the plains. Instead of making the contin- 
 uous journey, however, they varied the monotony 
 bv spending the winter months in St. Joseph, 
 Mo., but with the dawn of spring again resumed 
 the journey. Oregon City was their destination, 
 and there the father engaged in a mercantile busi- 
 ness until 1850, when he came to Benton county, 
 taking up a donation claim south of Bellfountain. 
 His second wife did not long survive the arduous 
 journey to the west, and at her death left two 
 children, one of whom, Lovina Greeg, resides in 
 the vicinity of Bellfountain. 
 
 The third marriage of Heman C. Buckingham 
 was with Matilda J. Starr, a native of Ohio, who 
 came to Oregon in 1848. Of the nine children 
 who blessed this marriage seven are living, and 
 are named as follows : Precious, Mrs. Pruett, 
 of Oakland, Cal : Augustus H. ; Deette, Mrs. 
 Barrows, of Coos county ; Victor, a resident of 
 Roseburg, Douglas county ; John, also a resident 
 of Coos county ; Edith, Mrs. Rayburn, of Port- 
 land ; and Mrs. Winnifred Woodcock, of Bell- 
 fountain. The parents continued to live on the 
 old donation claim until their death, the father 
 passing away when sixty-eight and the mother 
 when sixty-three years of age. Both were prom- 
 inent and active members of the United Brethren 
 Church. Mr. Buckingham was a very popular 
 man in his community, and served one term in 
 the state legislature. 
 
 Augustus H. Buckingham received his edu- 
 cation in the district schools and in Philomath 
 College, and remained at home until his mar- 
 riage with Miss Lillian Frink. a native of Benton 
 county. Their early married life was spent in 
 the vicinity of the old home place, and two years 
 later they removed to Philomath. During the 
 three years in which they resided there the wife 
 died, and thereafter Mr. Buckingham went to 
 Pendleton, Umatilla county, where for about 
 three years he was engaged in the grocery busi- 
 ness. His second marriage occurred in 1886 and 
 united him with Miss Henrietta Pendergrass, 
 a native of Coos county, and the following year 
 the family removed to the latter county, remaining 
 there until 1900. In the meantime having pur- 
 chased two hundred and seventy-two acres of 
 the old family homestead. Mr. Buckingham re- 
 moved hither in the year last mentioned, engag- 
 
 ing in general farming upon the tract until March 
 1. 1903, when, as previously stated, he purchased 
 his general mercantile store in Bellfountain. Dur- 
 ing Mr. Buckingham's residence upon the farm 
 many improvements were made which have 
 enhanced it both in appearance and in value, and 
 one hundred and fifty acres are now under active 
 cultivation. Three children were horn to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Buckingham, George, Lelah and Velma, and 
 all are at home with their parents. Among the 
 fraternal organizations Mr. Buckingham's name 
 is to be found enrolled as a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Degree of 
 Honor, and he is also identified with the Grange. 
 Politically he supports the principles of the Re- 
 publican party. 
 
 GUSTAYUS ADOLPHUS COXE. The 
 third generation of the Cone family in Oregon 
 is worthily represented by Gustavus Adolphus 
 Cone, who was born upon the farm near Hub- 
 bard upon which he now lives, September 19, 
 1873. His father, also Gustavus Adolphus, one 
 of several brothers to emigrate to the west in the 
 early days, was born in Rush county, Ind., Nov- 
 ember 21, 1823, and when nine years of age 
 removed with his parents to LaPorte county, 
 also in Indiana. There he learned the cooper's 
 trade, which he followed in Indiana. The other 
 members of the family removed to Illinois and 
 thence, in 1841, to Iowa. His two brothers, 
 Anson and Aaron, having come to Oregon in 
 1846, Gustavus A. followed their example the 
 following year, leaving behind him a paying 
 cooperage business in Michigan City, Ind. Seven 
 months were required to accomplish the journev 
 from Indiana to Oregon. Having arrived at 
 his destination, he located in Oregon City and 
 worked at his trade. During the historic year 
 1849 he contracted the gold fever, which was 
 rendering half the inhabitants dissatisfied with 
 existing conditions, and went to California, where 
 he mined with moderate success on the middle, 
 north and south forks of the American river. 
 Afterward he engaged in the hotel business in 
 Sacramento. In the fall of 1849 he returned to 
 Oregon by vessel, spending twenty-seven davs 
 on the water. Soon after reaching Portland he 
 purchased the title to six hundred and fortv 
 acres of land on the French prairie. Having 
 thus established himself permanently and satis- 
 factorily, he was united in marriage December 
 15, 1850. to Rebecca Emma Her. a native of the 
 state of Ohio, and a daughter of James Her. 
 Of the seven children horn and reared of this 
 union, Benjamin F. lives on a ranch near Mos- 
 cow. Idaho: Louise is the wife of John Murrav 
 of Butteville, Ore. : Lewis died at the age of 
 twentv-one: Laura is the wife of Fred Ernst 
 
 
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 of Jefferson, Ore.; Heman is a resident of 
 Portland, Ore.; Anna is the wife of A. L. Rice 
 of Silverton; and Gustavus Adolphus is living 
 on a portion of the old donation claim. 
 
 Too much cannot be said of the admirable and 
 useful life of Gustavus A. Cone, who possessed 
 all of the strong and reliable attributes with 
 which we are wont to invest the typical western 
 pioneer. In the twilight of a venerable age he 
 had the satisfaction of knowing that he had 
 eighteen grandchildren and four great-grand- 
 children, nearly all of whom were possessed of 
 rugged constitutions, and who, without excep- 
 tion, regarded their grandparent as the embodi- 
 ment of all that was honorable and genial. Many 
 years before his death he was the undisputed 
 owner of the entire six hundred and forty acres 
 of land, and upon this he successfully raised 
 grain and general produce, devoting much tim'e 
 to the breeding of Short-horns and other high- 
 grade stock. His business ability found vent in a 
 general mercantile enterprise conducted in Butte- 
 ville for several years in partnership with his 
 eldest son, Benjamin F., and he was instru- 
 mental in bringing about the organization of the 
 Farmer's Warehouse Association. A Republi- 
 can in his political affiliations, he filled many posi- 
 tions of trust in the community, and he took a 
 deep interest in the maintenance of a high stand- 
 ard of education, serving for many years on the 
 school board. He was one of the oldest Masons 
 in the state of Oregon, was connected with Mult- 
 nomah Lodge of Oregon City, and passed all 
 the chairs in the Blue Lodge. His death 
 occurred December 26, 1898. 
 
 The present Gustavus Adolphus Cone was 
 reared on the home farm in Marion county, and 
 was educated in the public schools, the Oregon 
 State Agricultural College at Corvallis, New- 
 burg College, and the Portland Business Col- 
 lege. With the exception of one summer spent 
 among the mines of Idaho, he has continued to 
 reside upon the old donation claim, of which he 
 now owns three hundred and twenty acres. He 
 is engaged successfully in general farming and 
 stock-raising, and has thirteen acres under hops. 
 May 9, 1896, he was married to Alice Ackerson, 
 who was born in Johnson county, Neb., a 
 daughter of Truman and Mary Ann (Linford) 
 Ackerson, who came to Oregon in 1876. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cone are the parents of three children: 
 Earl T., Hazel M., and Letha Beryl. 
 
 Mr. Cone is a stanch Republican, as was his 
 father, and fraternally is associated with the 
 Maccabees. He has prospered in his chosen 
 calling, and has a justifiable ambition to make 
 his property one of the finest and most productive 
 in the entire northwest. He takes an active 
 interest in public affairs, though not identified 
 prominently with the political undertakings of 
 
 his neighborhood, and is ever ready to assist in 
 these enterprises which are calculated to improve 
 general conditions. He enjoys the confidence 
 and esteem of all who know him, who regard 
 him as a man of probity, conscientious and fair- 
 minded in all that he does, and with a fine regard 
 for the rights and privileges of others. 
 
 MAGNUS EK. To those interested in the 
 derivation of names, and in their relation to 
 things in the material world, and more espec- 
 ially to those unfamiliar with the Swedish tongue, 
 the name of Magnus Ek, ice manufacturer and 
 expert millwright of Corvallis, seems singularly 
 appropriate. Surely in his general make-up Mr. 
 Ek has something of the sturdiness and strength 
 of the "ek" or oak, as it is translated in English, 
 and one is inclined to attribute a great deal of his 
 success in life to the possession of this same 
 strength and ruggedness. As indicated, Mr. Ek 
 is a native of Sweden, and was born at Skaane 
 Christianstad, a fortified town, located on the 
 Helge-a, near the Baltic sea, and two hundred 
 and sixty-five miles from Stockholm. The date 
 of his nativity is September 27, i860, and he was 
 educated in the public schools of his native city. 
 His father, Mons Ellis Ek, was a native of the 
 same place, and by trade was a cabinetmaker. 
 His mother, Bengte (Swenson) Ek, was born 
 in the same northern clime, and both parents 
 spent their entire lives in the immediate vicinity 
 of their birth. Of the six children born into the 
 family all are living, Magnus, the second child, 
 and his sister, a resident of Ohio, being the two 
 members who emigrated to America. 
 
 When about fifteen years of age Magnus ap- 
 prenticed to a cabinetmaker for four years, and 
 after completing his services traveled as a jour- 
 neyman through Sweden, Denmark and Norway. 
 In the spring of 1882 he came to the United 
 States, and from Chicago made his way to Casey, 
 111., and engaged in railroad work. Returning 
 to Chicago he became interested in milling with 
 the North Chicago Planing Mill Company, but 
 soon worked up a desire to go west, thereafter 
 hunting around for ways to accomplish his 
 desire. The most hopeful method seemed to asso- 
 ciate himself with different railroad companies 
 as cabinetmaker and general carpenter, so he 
 became an employe of the Northwestern Railroad 
 Company on the western Iowa division. At the 
 expiration of three years he branched off into 
 working as a millwright for the Alton Croix 
 Company of Iowa, and then for a time traveled 
 in the interest of milling. As millwright he 
 became identified with the Novelty Iron Works, 
 and after that traveled around to different Cities 
 in Iowa, constructing mills. Many of the fore- 
 most mills now operating in Iowa were placed 
 
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 in operation by this excellent and very skillful 
 millw right. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Ek came to California, and after 
 working lor the Pioneer Mill Compan) of Sacra- 
 mento for three months became associated with 
 the Sperry Mills, and from there went to San 
 Francisco. Here he received the contract to put 
 in the big mills at Salem. Ore., having completed 
 which he placed mills at Rickreall and Turner. 
 For several years he was with the Oregon Milling 
 Company, and he then entered into the sawmill- 
 ing business six miles southeast of Silverton. 
 This was a steam sawmill, and in partnership 
 with Mr. Johnson, under the firm name of John- 
 son & Ek. he manufactured large quantities of 
 lumber and general building supplies. After dis- 
 posing of the mills he lived for a year in Portland 
 as an employe of the Johnson Shipyard, and then 
 went to California on a dredge building expedi- 
 tion for the Risden Iron Works Company, on 
 Feather river. This contract lasted eight months, 
 and upon returning to Portland Mr. Ek worked 
 in the shipyard for another year, and then located 
 in Silverton, where he had in the meantime built 
 a fine residence. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Ek came to Corvallis to overhaul 
 the Fisher Flouring Mills, and later acted in a 
 similar capacity for the Fisher mills at Silverton. 
 In August, 1 90 1, he bought of John Zeis the ice- 
 works of this place, and immediately remodeled 
 and enlarged the plant, so that at present it is 
 one of the best equipped ice manufacturing 
 plants in the state. During the season the plant 
 is kept going night and day, and the capacity is 
 three tons per day. Two engines, one of twenty 
 and one of eight horse power supply the motive 
 power, and in connection with the manufacture 
 of ice is maintained a storage business of large 
 capacity. To his plant Mr. Ek has added a 
 cabinet-shop, and turns out all kinds of work in 
 the carpenter line. He delivers ice all over the 
 town, and attends to a great deal of the carpenter 
 work and building. 
 
 In Silverton, Ore., Mr. Ek married Emma 
 Johnson, a native of Kansas, and daughter of 
 Matthew Johnson, at present a resident of Port- 
 land. Four children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ek, Ray. Vivien, Ellis and Walter. Mr. 
 Ek is a Republican in politics, and was a member 
 of the council in Silverton for one term. He is 
 fraternally connected with the Masons of Turner, 
 and the Woodmen of the World. His religious 
 home is with the Lutheran church. As will be 
 seen by this account, Mr. Ek is a man of more 
 than ordinary ability and versatility, and he has 
 fortunately succeeded in all of his avenues of 
 activity. Alert, progressive, observing, and adap- 
 tive, he has already^ accomplished, and in suc- 
 cessful manner, more than the average man suc- 
 ceeds in crowding into an entire lifetime. 
 
 FRANCOIS XAVIER MATTHIEU. A life 
 replete with interest through intimate association 
 
 with the events of pioneer days, is that of Fran- 
 cois Xavier Matthieu, who is one of the last sur- 
 viving members of the first emigrant train to 
 cross the plains and give to the upbuilding of the 
 west the hardy and fearless men and women who 
 dared to venture into the dangers and privations 
 of such a journey for the sake of the homes they 
 hoped to make in the rich lands of the great 
 northwest. Probably there is no man living in 
 the Willamette valley to-day who is more conver- 
 sant with the conditions and history of that in- 
 teresting period and the events that led up to the 
 statehood of Oregon, than Mr. Matthieu. A late 
 reminder of his first experiences in Oregon oc- 
 curred May 2, 1901, at the unveiling of the monu- 
 ment at Champoeg, where Governor Geer, in be- 
 half of the Oregon Historical Society, presented 
 to him a badge, as a mark of distinction to the 
 last survivor of the fifty-two people who voted 
 for the first provisional government west of the 
 Rocky mountains, May 2, 1843. This badge is 
 of silk, the colors being red, white and blue ; a 
 rosette with the seal of Oregon occupies the 
 center, while a pendant medallion represents Ore- 
 gon as a member of the Union. The inscription 
 reads as follows : "Only survivor of the fifty- 
 two persons who voted to organize the first civil 
 government west of the Rocky mountains, at 
 Champoeg, May 2, 1843, known in history as the 
 Provisional Government of Oregon." At that 
 early historical meeting in Champoeg, May 2, 
 1843, there were present one hundred and two 
 people, many of whom were French Canadians. 
 Mr. Matthieu had used every effort to induce 
 these people to cast their vote in favor of the 
 Americans, and when Joseph L. Meeks asked the 
 party to divide, he was the first to step to the 
 American side. 
 
 The birth of Francois X. Matthieu occurred at 
 Terre Bonne, near Montreal, Canada, April 2, 
 1818. He is a descendant of French ancestry, 
 his parents being Francois Xavier and Louise 
 (Daufin) Matthieu, both, however, being natives 
 of the district of Montreal. Being one of seven 
 children, three sons and four daughters, and his 
 parents in rather straitened circumstances, he 
 lacked many of the advantages which might 
 otherwise have been his, the farm life to which he- 
 was reared being the only occupation of his boy- 
 hood years. But few schools existed in the coun- 
 try, and all his education was acquired through 
 association with a neighbor, who had come from 
 the United States and settled there. During the 
 Canadian rebellion, in 1835-38, Mr. Matthieu 
 took an active part by supplying arms to the reb- 
 els. At twenty years of age, Mr. Matthieu left 
 his home and located in the United States ; he 
 was then unable to speak a word of the English 
 
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 language. Going to Albany, N. Y., he engaged 
 in carpenter work for seven months, after which 
 he came as far west as Milwaukee, Wis., making 
 the journey by way of Erie canal and the lakes. 
 One month was passed in the last-named city, 
 and he then went to St. Louis, by way of Chi- 
 cago, traveling by wagon and water. Failing to 
 secure work in that city, he engaged, after a like 
 length of time, with the American Fur Company. 
 While in this employ he was sent to what is now 
 North Dakota, in the Black Foot Indian country, 
 there to trade liquor to the Indians for furs. 
 There were thirty men in the company, twenty 
 wagons with two mules to each, and two barrels 
 of liquor in each wagon, the journey being made 
 by water and land, as was the custom in those 
 days. The liquor was so welcome to the Indians 
 that Mr. Matthieu was able to trade one gallon 
 of it for as many as fifteen buffalo skins, such 
 bartering meaning great profit to the company 
 for which he was working. While there, he 
 learned the Indian language. After one season 
 he returned with his furs to St. Louis, where he 
 engaged with Joe Rubedow, a fur trader, at that 
 time located above Fort Benton, in the Black Hill 
 country, where he remained until the spring of 
 1842. In that year, at Fort Laramie, he joined 
 the first emigrant train bound for the great west. 
 This train consisted of fifty or sixty wagons, and 
 one hundred and fifty people, sixty-one of whom 
 were men, under the command of Hastings and 
 Lovejoy. At Fort Hall the emigrants were com- 
 pelled to abandon their wagons and walk the bal- 
 ance of the way, driving their oxen. There Mr. 
 Matthieu and six others left the train and joined 
 the Hudson Bay Company, going on to Wal- 
 lula, Wash., from which settlement they fol- 
 lowed the Indian trail to Mount Hood and The 
 Dalles, and on pack animals from there to Oregon 
 City. 
 
 The morning after his arrival in this part of 
 Oregon Mr. Matthieu started for the Willamette 
 valley, where the Hudson Bay Company had 
 trappers. At that time there were about two hun- 
 dred and fifty families scattered throughout the 
 country, principally French Canadians, employed 
 by the Hudson Bay Company, having come there 
 at different times between the years 1824 and 
 1842. On reaching the valley Mr. Matthieu took 
 up his abode with Etien Lucien, a Canadian 
 by birth, who had settled here in 181 1. One of 
 the most striking conditions of the times when 
 Mr. Matthieu took up his residence in this sec- 
 tion of the country was the absence of gold or 
 silver for currency, a necessity being given in ex- 
 change for provisions, labor or land. In 1843, 
 Mr. Matthieu took up a claim of three hundred 
 acres near Fairfield, but he never made his home 
 in the location. In 1844 he bought a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, paying $600 
 
 therefor, and upon which he now makes his 
 home, having removed here in 1846. The farm is 
 located one and one-half miles southwest of Au- 
 rora, Marion county. He at once erected a hewed 
 log house, in the same year building a house at 
 Butteville, where he followed the carpenter's 
 trade. Later he purchased some property in Au- 
 rora and improved it, though he still made his 
 home on the claim. In 1851 he started a general 
 merchandise store in Butteville, in company with 
 George La Rock and Mr. Du Puis, the three con- 
 tinuing in partnership for twelve years, when 
 Mr. Matthieu became sole owner and conducted 
 the business until 1866. At that date he sold his 
 stock and returned to his farm. 
 
 At variance with his steady business interests, 
 Mr. Matthieu has branched out in other direc- 
 tions, among his ventures being a trip to Califor- 
 nia, in 1849, during the gold excitement. In 
 partnership with another, he loaded fourteen pack 
 horses with flour and other provisions, intending 
 to dispose of their stock to the miners. The ven- 
 ture was not a success, financially, as Mr. Mat- 
 thieu lost $2,000, and after three months, much 
 of which time he suffered from illness, he re- 
 turned by water to Portland, Ore. A more pleas- 
 ant diversion in his pioneer life was a trip back 
 to Canada in 1858, where he enjoyed visiting the 
 scenes of his childhood. 
 
 By the marriage of Mr. Matthieu, April 15, 
 1844, to Rosalie Aussant, who died February 12, 
 1901, aged seventy-four years, he has had fifteen 
 children, named in order of birth as follows : 
 Philomene, born April 20, 1845, now Mrs. 
 Dwight Geer, of Wilbur, Wash. ; Charles, born 
 July 7, 1847, an d living on the home farm ; Clara, 
 Mrs. Ouimette, born August 16, 1849, an ^ now 
 a widow; Rose, born November 10, 1851, now 
 the wife of Charles Bergevein, of Portland; Pris- 
 cilla Clotilda, born November 10, 1851, and died 
 November 7, 1874; Arcino Laodice, born Janu- 
 ary 4, 1857, and now the wife of A. Burton; 
 Francis Xavier Edward born October 17, 1858, 
 and died November 3, 1891 ; Henry Clovis, born 
 November 9, i860, and died February 19, 1862; 
 Alfred Stephen, born November 14, 1862, a drug- 
 gist in Portland ; John Joseph Fabian, born Octo- 
 ber 30, 1864, and living on the home farm; 
 Ernest Theodore, born August 2, 1866, located 
 in Salem ; Francis L., born February 25, 1868 ; 
 Robert Wilfred, born August 5, 1869, and was 
 accidentally shot April 20, 1895, dying within an 
 hour and ten minutes ; Mary Louise, born July 
 25, 1871, now the wife of Samuel Howard, of 
 Portland ; and Violet Adelaide, born April 21, 
 1873, an d died September 12, 1896. 
 
 While making for himself a competencv in the 
 country of his adoption, Mr. Matthieu has not 
 neglected to give his energies, mental, moral and 
 physical, toward the upbuilding of the opportu- 
 
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 nities of the territorj into a great and noble com- 
 monwealth. His most earnest efforts have been 
 devoted toward this end, since he first cast his 
 vote for the provisional government, soon after 
 which he was elected justice of the peace, being 
 the first to hold that office in this community, an 
 office which at that time included the duties of a 
 •nt or probate judge. He discharged the 
 duties oi that position for four years. The only 
 court on the coast, there was no appeal from his 
 decision. He and Dr. Wilson served together. 
 After the organized law Mr. Matthieu was one 
 of the first county commissioners of Marion 
 county. In politics a stanch follower of Demo- 
 cratic principles, Mr. Matthieu was very active 
 in the organization of the Democratic party in 
 Oregon, and served in 1874, and again in 1878, 
 in the state legislature, ably representing the 
 people who had honored him with their votes. 
 He had previously given his time and attention 
 to the laying out of roads, and the organization 
 of schools, and many other public services too 
 numerous to mention. During the Cayuse Indian 
 war he was assistant quartermaster on French 
 Prairie, and helped to raise a company, giving 
 liberally of horses and provisions for the troops, 
 thus proving his loyalty and courage. Among 
 other noteworthy incidents in his life was the 
 organization of the Pioneer Association, to which 
 he contributed his efforts in company with Judge 
 Grim, Eli Cooley and W. H. Reese, Mr. Matthieu 
 being the only one of the four men now living. 
 He was the first president of the society, serving 
 for two years. A late honor in the life of Mr. 
 Matthieu occurred when President Roosevelt vis- 
 ited Salem, the place of honor beside the presi- 
 dent on the platform being given to this ven- 
 erable pioneer. Fraternally, Mr. Matthieu has 
 been a Mason since 1856, being a member of 
 Multnomah Lodge, of Oregon City. In June, 
 1 901, the grand master's degree was conferred 
 upon him by the state Grand Lodge, then in ses- 
 sion at Portland. An evidence of the exceptional 
 morality of Mr. Matthieu lies in the fact that 
 though eighty-five years of age he can boast that 
 never in his life has he used tobacco in any form, 
 all other acts of his life corresponding to the high 
 sense of honor that has placed him among the 
 first citizens of Marion countv. 
 
 R. WILLIAM FRY. Among the native sons 
 of Linn county who are proving worthy their 
 early training, and the opportunities which sur- 
 round them, R. William Fry occupies a promi- 
 nent place. He is not only industrious and prac- 
 tical in the management of his two farms, but is 
 of a progressive turn of mind, alert to every ad- 
 vantage which invention and latter-day ingenuity 
 has placed at the disposal of the tiller of the soil. 
 Of the farm near Albanv where he was born 
 
 September 15, 185O, .Mr. Fry owns one hundred 
 and sixty acres, and his home place near New- 
 port consists of one hundred acres. His father 
 was one of the early settlers of this state, and 
 the son grew to maturity under the mosl kindly 
 and auspicious circumstances, being instilled with 
 a thorough appreciation of the dignity and use 
 fulness of agricultural life. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Fry left 
 the old homestead and took up his residence on 
 the farm of his uncle, which he rented for two 
 years, and then removed to a farm near his old 
 home. Four years later found him located amid 
 the scenes of his youth, and which bore innumer- 
 able tokens of the industry and good management 
 of his sire. Eventually he came to his present 
 farm, in connection with which he runs his share 
 of the old place, devoting both farms to general 
 farming and stock-raising. He is successful and 
 popular, living far behind his yearly income, 
 and thus laying up for a stormy day, or per- 
 chance for the more complete enjoyment of a 
 bright one. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Fry and Irene Swank 
 took place in 1895. One child, Roberta, was 
 born December 15, 1899. Mr. Fry is a Democrat 
 in politics, and his sociability and loyalty find 
 appreciation and outlet in the lodge of the Mod- 
 ern Woodmen of Albany. He is one of the 
 strongest members of a successful community 
 of agricultural interests, and his wide-awake ef- 
 forts reflect credit upon all who surround him 
 as friends or associates. 
 
 THOMAS H. SIMS. One need not look to 
 the past to find examples worthy of emulation, 
 for in the life history of those about us we can 
 find qualities that may well be an example to 
 those who would gain the respect and win the 
 confidence and regard of their fellow-men. The 
 life history of Thomas H. Sims illustrates forci- 
 bly the power of activity and integrity in the 
 every-day affairs of life. He has gained suc- 
 cess as a lumber manufacturer of the north- 
 west and now lives retired in Salem, where he 
 stands high in the community. 
 
 A native of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Mr. 
 Sims was born April 3, 1853. His father, Will- 
 iam Sims, was a native of Greenwich, England. 
 The latter was a carpenter and builder, and when 
 a young man crossed the ocean to Woodstock, 
 Ontario, and in that place and the surrounding 
 district he followed the builders' trade until 
 his life's labors were ended in death. He held 
 membership with the Church of England and 
 was a man whose personal worth was above 
 question. He wedded Jane Martin, who was 
 born in Sussex, England. Her father, who was 
 a stair builder, brought the family to the new 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 world, settling in Woodstock, and Mrs. Sims 
 is still living in Oxford county, Ontario. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Sims became the parents of ten chil- 
 dren, seven of whom yet survive, and of this 
 number three are in Oregon, Thomas H. and two 
 sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Shaw, of Salem, and 
 Mrs. James Milne, of Howell Prairie. 
 
 Thomas H. Sims was the ninth in order of 
 birth in his father's family. His youth was 
 spent in Oxford county in the province of On- 
 tario. When the son was only three years old 
 his father died at Woodstock and the mother 
 afterward removed to the township of East Nis- 
 souri, where Thomas H. Sims attended the Na- 
 tional School. In his boyhood he lived upon the 
 farm and early became familiar with the work 
 of the farm and also learned the carpenter's 
 trade under the direction of his brothers, who 
 were contractors. He was fourteen years of age 
 when he undertook to master the builder's art 
 and he found no difficulty in this, for he pos- 
 sessed much natural mechanical ability and skill 
 in the use of tools. The brothers continued to- 
 gether in their farming operations and as con- 
 tractors and builders until 1877, when, attracted 
 by the opportunities of the west, Thomas H. 
 Sims came to Oregon, settling at Stayton, Mar- 
 ion county, where he spent the first summer. 
 He was engaged in farming until the fall of 
 1877, when, in connection with his brother-in- 
 law, John A. Shaw, he purchased a saw-mil] 
 operated by water power, at that place, and was 
 for several years successfully engaged in the 
 manufacture of lumber. On disposing of his 
 interest in that enterprise he became a merchant 
 of Stayton, and while thus engaged he joined 
 Mr. Shaw, W. H. Hobson and Lee Brown in the 
 incorporation of the Santiam Lumber Company, 
 of Mill City. Mr. Sims became general manager 
 and superintendent and erected a new mill on 
 Santiam river, at Mill City, operating the same 
 by water power. This mill has a capacity of 
 ninety thousand feet of lumber in ten hours, and 
 the company owns its own lumber tracts situated 
 on the river above the mill, thus affording op- 
 portunity to engage in logging by river as well 
 as by rail. Retail lumber yards were established 
 in Salem and in Albany, and extensive shipments 
 were made to the east. In 1891 Mr. Sims came 
 to Salem as manager of the business here, and 
 the splendid success of the lumber enterprise 
 was due in large measure to his thorough under- 
 standing of the business, his practical knowledge 
 and sound judgment. He also engaged in mer- 
 cbandising at Stayton as a member of the firm 
 of W. H. Hobson & Co., and the Santiam Lum- 
 ber Company was the owner of a mercan- 
 tile store at Mill City. In 1893 Mn Sims closed 
 out the yard in Salem, but continued as man- 
 ager of the mill until it was sold to the Curtis 
 Lumber Company in 1899. He has become 
 
 largely interested in timber and farm lands, but 
 is now practically retired from business cares, 
 enjoying a well earned rest. In 1893 he erected 
 his present home on State and Fifteenth streets. 
 
 At Shaw Station, June 23, 1879, ^ r - Sims 
 was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. 
 Shaw, who was born in Oxford county, On- 
 tario, a daughter of Angus and Mary J. (Keley) 
 Shaw. Her father, also a native of Ontario, 
 followed farming in that locality until 1876, 
 when he, too, became a resident of the north- 
 west, purchasing a farm in Marion county, upon 
 which Shaw Station has since been established. 
 He had a large tract of land and became a pros- 
 perous agriculturist. He was of Scotch descent, 
 his mother having been a Miss Cameron prior to 
 her marriage. Mrs. Angus Shaw was born in 
 the north of Ireland, and was brought to the new 
 world by her parents, who located in Ontario. 
 She is now a resident of Reidville, Washington 
 county, Ore. In the Shaw family are nine living 
 children, seven of whom reside in this state, 
 while two are residents of Washington. Those 
 residing in this state are : John A., of Albany ; 
 Mrs. J. J. Graham, also of Albany ; W. A., of 
 Portland ; S. A., also of Portland ; Mrs. Rachel 
 Stish, of Mill City; Mrs. Thomas H. Sims, of 
 Salem ; and Daniel, of Reidville. Mrs. Mary 
 Mcintosh and J. F. Shaw reside in Washington. 
 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Sims has been blessed 
 with three children : Austin, Mercedes and 
 Bernice. 
 
 From the time age gave to Mr. Sims the 
 right of franchise he has been a stalwart advo- 
 cate of the Republican party, and in December, 
 1900, was elected on that ticket as alderman from 
 the Third ward, the only member of his party 
 elected at that time. He became chairman of 
 the fire and water committee and took an active 
 interest in the work of the city council, doing 
 everything in his power to advance progress, re- 
 form and improvement in Salem. That he dis- 
 charged his duties in a manner satisfactory to 
 his constituents and to the public at large is 
 shown by the fact that in 1902 he was re-elected 
 without opposition. While in Canada Mr. Sims 
 was made a Mason and afterward transferred 
 his membership to the lodge at Stayton, but is 
 now demitted. His wife became a member of 
 the Eastern Star, and she is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sims has shown 
 himself a resourceful business man, quick to 
 plan and perform, yet his business activity has 
 been based upon sound judgment and a recog- 
 nition of existing conditions and possibilities. 
 In establishing, controlling and enlarging im- 
 portant mercantile and industrial enterprises of 
 the northwest he has gained for himself wealth 
 and at the same time has promoted the com- 
 mercial prosperity of the community in which 
 his lot has been cast. 
 

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 Willi \M LAUGHUN. One of the large 
 
 1 owners of Yamhill county is William Laugh- 
 
 lin, the possessor of nine hundred acres of land 
 
 devoted principally to stock-raising interests. 
 
 Mr. Laughlin, who feels a just pride in his Rev- 
 
 olutionarv ancestry, and in forefathers who ac- 
 
 mplished largely and substantially, was born 
 
 in Lincoln county, Mo.. October 13, 1830. His 
 
 ind father was James, and his father, Samuel, 
 
 the latter being especially worthy of mention as 
 
 comprising one of the largest band that crossed 
 
 the plains in 1847. 
 
 William Laughlin was educated in Missouri 
 ami Yamhill county, Ore., and when eighteen 
 \ears old left the farm upon which his father 
 had settled and tried his luck in the mines near 
 ckton, Cal. From the fact that he spe it over 
 two years in the mines argues that he must 
 have been reasonably successful, and that from 
 .May, 1849, unt 'l August, 1851, he succeeded in 
 appropriating to his own use a fair share of the 
 hidden treasure of the earth. From the mines 
 he went to San Francisco and thence embarked 
 for Portland, arriving at length on the old home- 
 stead in Yamhill county. In 1853 ne t0 °k U P a 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 east of North Yamhill, where he farmed and 
 raised stock for four years, and then traded for 
 a farm of two hundred acres upon which he lived 
 and prospered until October 8, 1892. He then 
 settled on his present farm of one hundred and 
 ninety-four acres, which, however, he had pur- 
 chased in 1886. To this has been added by more 
 recent purchase, so that at present Mr. Laughlin 
 owns about nine hundred acres, being one of the 
 very large operators of this county. 
 
 April 3, 1857, M f - Laughlin was united in mar- 
 riage with Phcebe Roberts, born in Tippecanoe 
 county, Ind., October 8, 1839, an d of this union 
 there were born sixteen children, twelve of whom 
 are living : Bedford H. is a resident of Forest 
 Grove ; Charles lives in Alaska ; George also is in 
 Alaska; Abram is a farmer in Yamhill county; 
 Mrs. Mary Tate lives in Seattle, Wash.; William 
 lives near Yamhill ; Samuel is cashier of the 
 Xorth Yamhill Bank; Benjamin lives in the state 
 of Washington ; Alice is living at home ; Leona 
 lives in Washington ; Mrs. Delia Richardson 
 lives in Goldendale, Wash., and Crystal lives with 
 her parents. Like all the members of his widely 
 diffused family Mr. Laughlin is a stanch ad- 
 herent of the Republican party, and among the 
 offices maintained by him with credit may be 
 mentioned that of road supervisor and school di- 
 rector. He is a liberal minded, progressive mem- 
 ber of the community, and as an agriculturist is 
 both practical and successful. 
 
 BEDFORD H. LAUGHLIN of Forest Grove, 
 is a native son of Oregon, and was born on his 
 father's farm in Yamhill county, February 4, 
 1858. His parents, William and Phcebe (Rob 
 erts) Laughlin, are natives respectively of Mis- 
 souri and Indiana, and his grandfather, Samuel, 
 was born in the state of North Carolina. The 
 latter removed from North Carolina to Missouri 
 in the '20s and in 1847 crossed the plains with 
 ox teams, locating on the claim in Yamhill 
 county where the remainder of his life was spent. 
 His son, William, was reared principally in 
 Missouri, and was seventeen years of age when 
 the memorable trip was undertaken, and he in 
 time took up three hundred and twenty acres 
 in North Yamhill, Yamhill county, to which he 
 has since added another large farm. He served 
 with distinction in the Yakima Indian war of 
 I 8S5"56, and has in many other ways shown his 
 deep interest in the affairs of his native state. At 
 present he is living on his well improved property 
 two miles west of North Yamhill, managing both 
 of his farms with an abundant degree of success. 
 His wife is a daughter of Henry Roberts, who 
 removed at an early day from Pennsylvania to 
 Indiana, and who crossed the plains in 1848, his 
 daughter being at that time seven years of age. 
 Sixteen children were born to William and 
 Phcebe Laughlin, and of these twelve are still 
 living, Bedford H. being the oldest of the family. 
 After completing his education at the district 
 schools and Tualatin Academy, Mr. Laughlin 
 engaged in business for a year in Forest Grove, 
 and then turned his attention to mining for several 
 years. At present he is one of the best informed 
 men in the county on mining affairs in general, 
 he having experienced all the ups and downs 
 which harass the soul and delight the heart of 
 searchers after golden fortunes. 1883 found him 
 in the Cceur dAlene district during the excite- 
 ment, after which he went up into British Col- 
 umbia, and in all worked in the mines and at pros- 
 pecting for five years. During that time he spent a 
 couple of winters in Forest Grove, and after 
 finishing in the mines engaged in railroading with 
 the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Railroad & 
 Navigation Company, principally in the freight 
 department. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Laughlin renewed his association 
 with mining, going to the extreme north to 
 Cook's Inlet, Alaska. After spending the winter 
 in Juneau he availed himself of the promising 
 conditions in the Klondike and started over the 
 Chilkoot Pass in March, 1897. Going down the 
 Yukon, he took up a claim on American gulch, 
 tributary to Bonanza creek, and in this enterprise 
 was seconded by two comrades who also took up 
 claims in the same neighborhood. The men 
 worked faithfully for three years, and realized 
 
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 considerable success, although not sufficient to 
 wish to devote the remainder of their lives to 
 mining. Mr. Laughlin spent the winter of 1900- 
 01 in North Yamhill, and in the spring of 1901 
 tried his luck in the Copper River country. Re- 
 turning to this town that fall he bought a livery 
 business which he built up and enlarged, and 
 conducted a general livery and transfer business 
 until he disposed of the same in March, 1903. 
 Mr. Laughlin was united in marriage in Forest 
 Grove June 18, 1902, with Nora E. Johnson, a 
 native of Yamhill county, Ore., and a daughter 
 of Thomas and Rebecca Gallee. Mr. Laughlin 
 was made a Mason in Washington, and was iden- 
 tified with Palouse Lodge No. 46, until his trans- 
 fer to Holbrook Lodge No. 30, of Forest Grove. 
 He is a member of the Republican party, but 
 has never taken an active interest in local affairs, 
 or been willing to serve his party officially. He 
 is a progressive, particularly well informed, and 
 adaptive citizen, and his life has been prolific of 
 great good will and esteem on the part of his 
 fellow townsmen. 
 
 JEPTHA THOMAS HUNT. No more in- 
 teresting family has invaded the Pacific north- 
 west than that of which Jeptha T. Hunt is a 
 representative, and which was established in 
 Oregon in 1847. The progenitor of the Hunt 
 family was an officer in the army of William 
 the Conqueror. After the battle of Hastings 
 and the conquest of England, for his services in 
 behalf of this mighty warrior he received a grant 
 of lands in the north of England, where he set- 
 tled down to peaceful pursuits, married a British 
 maiden, and founded the present Hunt family. 
 The latter has furnished many men who have 
 won distinction in the various walks of life — gov- 
 ernors of states, generals in the army, distin- 
 guished members 1 of the bench and bar, illus- 
 trious physicians and profound scientists. 
 
 About the year 1600 three brothers of this 
 family left the north of England and landed 
 in New York, and in that state founded the 
 Hunt family of America. Wilson Price Hunt 
 of Trenton, N. J., was John Jacob Astor's most 
 trusted man in the company which founded As- 
 toria, Ore., April 12, 181 1. He was also the 
 first white man buried at the mouth of the Col- 
 umbia river. The bank of the Skipanon river, 
 where he was buried, having caved off, revealed 
 his burial place, and his skull was placed in 
 Wood's Museum in Portland, Ore. 
 
 Two of these brothers who came to America 
 in the early days of the seventeenth century 
 founded families in North Carolina. About the 
 year 1800 some of the members of the family 
 left Rowen county, N. C, and moved to Clair- 
 mont county, Ohio, and Wayne county, Ind., 
 
 and from them the Oregon branch of the fam- 
 ily sprang. One of these, Charles by name, 
 Jeptha T. Hunt's great-great-grandfather, moved 
 to Indiana, where Jonathan Hunt, his great- 
 grandfather, was born. The latter married a 
 Miss Shotwell. He located on a farm near 
 Smithfield, Ind., where John S. Hunt, the grand- 
 father, was born, and where his father, George 
 W., was born February 8, 183 1. 
 
 George W. Hunt's father learned the gun- 
 smith's trade in his youth, and in 1835 emigrated 
 with several of his neighbors to LaPorte county, 
 Ind., and built the first house at Byron. He af- 
 terward built the first gun shop in the town of 
 LaPorte, and became prominent in the general 
 undertakings of that section, which he was forced 
 to leave because of the chills and fever, a com- 
 mon affliction in those days. In eastern Indiana 
 he settled near Liberty, the county seat of Union 
 county, and while operating his saw and grist 
 mill there lost large sums of money by reason 
 of the general financial depression of the times. 
 From personal friends in Oregon he received 
 most favorable reports of this state, and forth- 
 with made preparations to cross the plains. In 
 the history of the family written by George W. 
 Hunt appear details of the plans entered into 
 for the long journey. It is recorded that the 
 father and his sons partially made their own 
 wagons, and ran a sugar orchard long enough 
 to make sugar to carry them. On the way they 
 encountered many Indians and had many other 
 novel and exciting experiences ; but having a 
 fair outfit, they managed to reach their destina- 
 tion in safety, and in fairly good health and 
 spirits. From one cause or another they lost 
 many of their cattle, especially during the lat- 
 ter part of the trip, when hundreds of miles of 
 travel had reduced them almost to skeletons, 
 and made it difficult for them to withstand the 
 chill of winter. The party were obliged to pur- 
 chase new oxen, and these outstripping the weary 
 ones, the latter were left behind, with few ex- 
 ceptions. 
 
 Arriving in the Waldo Hills, John S. Hunt 
 took up a claim now called the Warren ranch. 
 At the time of his arrival here his sole cash capi- 
 tal consisted of but fifty cents. One of his 
 brothers, Harrison H. Hunt, had established a 
 milling business at the upper end of Cathlamet 
 bay on the Columbia, having brought his mill 
 irons across the plains in 1843. He was already 
 transacting an extensive business with the Sand- 
 wich Islands, and gave of his abundance to the 
 pilgrims but recently arrived from the east. 
 There, was a large family to make a start, for 
 the grandfather had six sons and three daughters, 
 and but one child, Noah W., was older than 
 George W. Harrison H. Hunt had had the 
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 west, the first and for a long time the only ocean 
 steamer plying regularly the waters of the Pacific 
 between Portland and San Francisco. 
 
 From the first the new -corners had trouble with 
 the Indians, who began levying tribute upon the 
 white settlers, and enforcing their demands by 
 stealing ammunition and intimidating the women 
 and children left alone. The subjugation of the 
 reil men interfered for a time with the erection 
 of suitable homes and the cultivation of the land, 
 but, the trouble once lessened, the elder Hunt at 
 once built his house and afterward erected the 
 first school house in the neighborhood. This 
 building served as a church for several years, 
 and for a long time was the only house of wor- 
 ship in the vicinity. 
 
 Having attained his eighteenth year in 1848, 
 George W. Hunt bought his freedom from his 
 father, whom he left with twelve acres of cleared 
 land, all of which was fenced and planted. His 
 destination being his uncle's mills, he embarked 
 on the boat at Oregon City, and in passing the 
 site of the city of Portland, saw nothing but a 
 dense forest. In 1849 ne went to the mines of 
 California, and there had divers experiences of 
 a startling and sometimes dangerous nature, mak- 
 ing money at times, and as often losing. August 
 3, 185 1, he married Elizabeth N. Smith. The 
 newly wedded couple were very young to start 
 out in life together, the husband being twenty 
 and the wife but seventeen. A few days after 
 the ceremony they moved to the homestead 
 located where the postoffice of Whiteaker is sit- 
 uated, where their six children were born, and 
 where they spent the greater part of their lives. 
 During the Cayuse Indian war George W. Hunt 
 assisted in organizing a company for service 
 against the Indians, and with a large number of 
 his neighbors participated in the battle of Abiqua. 
 This conflict was of such a decisive character 
 that it practically ended the troubles with the, 
 Indians, which the early settlers had been experi- 
 encing for a long period. In 1876 Mr. Hunt 
 opened a general merchandise store and black- 
 smith shop on his farm, and these he operated 
 with success in connection with farming until 
 his retirement and removal to Salem in 1886. 
 His wife died October 10, 1891, and his death 
 occurred October 9, 1902. 
 
 George W. Hunt was a man of wide general 
 knowledge, of great resource and sound busi- 
 ness judgment. Conservative and reliable, the 
 country had need of his services, and correctly 
 appreciated him as a citizen who adhered closely 
 to his convictions, and worked for the good of 
 all by whom he was surrounded. When thirteen 
 years of age he espoused the cause of Christian- 
 ity, his wife's conversion following shortly after 
 their marriage. Their home was always a center 
 of religious activity, as it was also a place from 
 
 which radiated a splendid spirit of good will 
 and helpfulness. Early settlers less fortunate 
 than themselves found rest, consolation and prac- 
 tical assistance under this hospitable and chari- 
 table roof, and the children of more 1 than one 
 generation bless their name and revere their 
 memory. 
 
 Jeptha T. Hunt was born on the farm which 
 he now occupies February 12, 1862, and was 
 educated in the public schools and in Willamette 
 University. In 1886, upon his father's retire- 
 ment and removal to Salem, he assumed charge 
 of the farm and the store, and conducted the lat- 
 ter until 1892. At the present time he is the 
 owner of seven hundred and ten acres of land, 
 four hundred and eighty acres of which are 
 a part of his father's old claim, and two hundred 
 lying east of the homestead. He also has a third 
 interest in a farm of one hundred acres in Marion 
 county, near Salem. His father was the first 
 man to import Shropshire sheep to the Pacific 
 coast, and found the Waldo hills to be especially 
 adapted to grazing purposes, and the son con- 
 tinues to value these profitable animals, raising 
 numbers of them each year. He also makes a 
 specialty of registered Durham cattle. A hop 
 yard of ten acres has proven a fruitful source 
 of income, and general farming and grain raising 
 are carried on extensively with good results. 
 
 June 18, 1886, Mr. Hunt was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Myrtle E. White, a native of the 
 Waldo hills, and a daughter of Thomas J. and 
 Rachael Arnott (Merrifield) White. To this 
 union four children have been born : Clarence 
 J., Marion S., Norris E., and Helen R. 
 
 Like his father, Mr. Hunt is a staunch Repub- 
 lican, but he has never taken any active part in 
 the local contests of his party. In his fraternal 
 relations he is connected with Stayton Lodge 
 No. 51, A. F. & A. M., and the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is a member of the Christian Church. 
 Mr. Hunt is a practical business man, as well 
 as a successful farmer, his experience in mercan- 
 tile pursuits having covered a period of several 
 years. He is the possessor of one of the finest 
 estates in Marion county, and in increasing his 
 worldly possessions he has consistently refrained 
 from wilfully doing anything which would re- 
 flect dishonor upon the ancient name which he 
 bears. To him and to his highly esteemed father 
 and grandfather, those responsible for the com- 
 pilation of this publication are glad of an op- 
 portunity of making a permanent record of the 
 facts set forth in this sketch. 
 
 N. M. NEWPORT. To a man of such 
 depths of character and mental attainments as 
 distinguish the life and services of N. M. New- 
 port among his associates of Albany, Linn 
 
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 county, the hampering of a career at the be- 
 ginning with hardship and trial meant only the 
 pathway of opportunity leading to a far more 
 desirable goal, since opposition invariably 
 brings out that which is strongest in a man'.-? 
 nature. It is against many obstacles that Mr. 
 Newport contended in his efforts to reach an 
 honorable position in the work of the west, 
 and the success to which he has attained is 
 compatible with the strength of purpose and 
 will which encouraged him to effort. Through 
 his own efforts he has become a finely edu- 
 cated, cultured man, following this up with 
 the degree which admitted him to practice 
 law in the courts of the United States, and 
 while so engaged in this city he also holds a 
 place of prominence on the editorial staff of 
 the Herald, his productions being marked by 
 soundness of reason, and deep thought and 
 research. 
 
 The Newport family is of English extrac- 
 tion, the grandfather, Calvin, having been 
 born in Pennsylvania of this ancestry, and 
 died in Tennessee, where he had engaged for 
 many years as a farmer. As a patriot he 
 served in the war of 1812. His wife was Miss 
 Margaret Able, the representative of an old 
 Pennsylvania family. The father, John D. 
 Newport, was born in Tennessee, and when a 
 young man removed to Missouri. While 
 a resident of that state he fought for the Union 
 through the entire Civil war as a soldier in a 
 Missouri regiment of volunteer cavalry. He 
 married Harriet Bennett, also a native of 
 Tennessee, having been born there in the east- 
 ern part of the state. She was the daughter 
 ot M. G. Bennett, who was an early settler 
 and farmer of Missouri. The grandfather of 
 the family was a member of an old and hon- 
 ored Virginia family, and as a patriot he 
 served in the Revolutionary war. The mother 
 died in Missouri, and of her ten children, five 
 are now living, the third oldest and the only 
 one now on the Pacific coast being N. M. New- 
 port, who was born in Buffalo, Mo., March 12, 
 1864. 
 
 N. M. Newport was reared on his father's 
 farm in his native state, where a rather lim- 
 ited education was received through the 
 medium of the district school in the vicinity 
 of his home. When he was sixteen years old 
 he accompanied his brother M. Calvin to Ore- 
 gon, the latter locating on a dairy farm near 
 Astoria, where he remained two years. At 
 the close of that period he returned to Mis- 
 souri, but alone, as N. M. Newport had de- 
 cided that opportunities here only waited for 
 the man to recognize their worth and he 
 thereupon concluded to make this his home. 
 While on the farm with his brother Mr. New- 
 
 port had begun attending school during the 
 winter and working in the summer, and in 
 1883 he had accumulated sufficient funds to 
 justify his entry into Willamette University, 
 Salem, however difficult must be the comple- 
 tion of the course. During the summers he 
 was employed in a cheese factory at Astoria 
 and one year he remained out of college to 
 make enough to allow him to finish. During 
 his last year at the University he founded the 
 Willamette Collegian, of which he remained 
 the manager until his graduation, and was 
 also class president his senior year. He was 
 graduated in 1890 with the degree of A. B., 
 and in 1893, by invitation of President Whit- 
 taker of Willamette University he delivered 
 his master's oration on commencement day 
 and received the degree of A. M. Upon leav- 
 ing his work of preparation in 1890 Mr. New- 
 port had begun attending school during the 
 Salem Journal, remaining so employed for 
 one year, during which time he was also en- 
 gaged in the study of law. In 1891 he came 
 to Albany and continued his study in the of- 
 fice of General Blackburn, being also a student 
 in the law department of Willamette Univer- 
 sity. He was admitted to practice in 1893 and 
 the same year graduated and received the de- 
 gree of LL. B. from the school wherein he 
 had so patiently worked his way for so many 
 years. He then entered upon a practice here 
 in partnership with J. J. AVhitney, remaining 
 in this connection until 1899, when the part- 
 nership was dissolved and he has since been 
 alone in a constantly increasing and neces- 
 sarily remunerative demand for his services. 
 
 In connection with the absorbing interests 
 of law Mr. Newport has also devoted much 
 time and thought to the editorials which he 
 contributes to the Albany Daily Herald, the 
 increasing strength and thought showing the 
 broadening of the capabilities which have de- 
 veloped from study and earnest effort along 
 these lines. He spares no effort to keep him- 
 self well informed and in touch With the cur- 
 rent topics of the day and his able and force- 
 ful manner of portrayal has made him many 
 admirers. He has also been much interested 
 in horticulture, setting out and improving 
 several orchards of apples and prunes in Ben- 
 ton county. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Newport occurred in 
 Albany, and united him with Miss Emma R. 
 Cougill, a native of Kansas, who came to Ore- 
 gon with her parents when only one year old. 
 Her father is J. B. Cougill, of Albany. Two 
 daughters have been born to them, Beatrice 
 and Louise. In politics Mr. Newport is a 
 stanch and earnest Republican, for the past 
 eight years having been a member of the Linn 
 
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 county central committee, of which he is now 
 acting as chairman, having advanced from the 
 tion of secretary for four years and a 
 member of the executive committee for two 
 years. Fraternally he is financial secretary 
 Ol the Independent ( >rder of Odd Fellows; 
 and belongs to the Encampment : Ancient 
 ( >rder of United Workmen and Knights of the 
 Maccabees. He is also an active member of 
 the Alumni Association of Willamette valley 
 and belongs socially to the Alco Club. As a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 he officiates as one of the board of trustees, 
 and by the life which he lives in all sincerity 
 and honor, upright, stanch and in every sense 
 of the word, manly, he adds no little to the 
 moral character of the city wherein he makes 
 a worthy and valued citizen. 
 
 WILLIAM MILLER. The dominant charac- 
 teristics which have made the Scotchman a 
 valued addition to the citizenship of any com- 
 munity or land in which he casts his lot are 
 manifest in the career of William Miller, who 
 from early pioneer times has been a resident 
 of Oregon. He was born two and a half miles 
 from the city of Glasgow, Scotland, July 26, 
 181 5. a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Spence) 
 Miller, both natives of the land of hills and 
 heather. The father was a mine operator and 
 was killed by fire damp in the mines when his 
 son William was but nine years of age. In 
 religious faith he was a Presbyterian. His 
 wife, who belonged to an old family of her na- 
 tive country, died in Scotland at the advanced 
 age of eighty-five years, having long survived 
 her husband. They were the parents of seven 
 children, of whom William was the fourth in 
 order of birth and the only one now living. 
 The eldest brother, Malcolm, came to America 
 and made his way to Oregon in 1850. He 
 followed farming in Linn county and there 
 died, leaving a large family. 
 
 William Miller was reared in the suburbs 
 of Glasgow and attended a private school until 
 his father's death, when he was forced to earn 
 his own livelihood. He went to the mines, 
 where he was first employed at pushing a car, 
 and eventually became a miner. He also 
 learned the method of taking iron ore from the 
 earth and as time passed his efficiency and 
 fidelity won him promotion until he became 
 foreman, and later superintendent of the mines. 
 
 The favorable reports which he had heard 
 concerning America led him to come to the 
 United States in 1842, in the hope that he 
 might better his financial condition in a coun- 
 try where higher wages were paid. He left 
 Glasgow on the sailing vessel Elizabeth and 
 
 after a voyage of two months arrived at New 
 York on the 28th day of May, accompanied 
 In a brother-in-law. They journeyed on foot 
 across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi- 
 ana, and Illinois, to Schuyler county, of the 
 last named state, settling near Rushville, where 
 Mr. Miller opened the first coal mines of the 
 county for Colonel Rose. He had read in the 
 newspapers that Dave Xewsom of Springfield, 
 111., offered two miners from the old world $5 
 per day for their services, and thus it was that 
 he was attracted to the new world. In the 
 spring of 1843 ne opened a coal bank of his 
 own and operated it until 1846, when he was 
 taken ill with chills and fever and had to seek 
 a different climate. His physician recom- 
 mending his removal, he determined to come 
 to the new country of Oregon, and with ox- 
 teams drawing a wagon, he came with three 
 young men, Messrs. Chambers, Agnew and 
 West. They started March 28, 1846, crossing 
 the Mississippi at Glasgow and the Missouri at 
 St. Joseph. They joined a wagon train at 
 Independence, Mo., and proceeded by way of 
 the old Oregon trail and down the Snake river, 
 crossing then from the John Day river to the 
 Shules river by the Barlow route to the head- 
 waters of the Clackamas river, arriving in Ore- 
 gon City, November 15, 1846. Here Mr. Miller 
 was first employed at the construction of some 
 tan vats and later entered the employ of James 
 Jervey and John Martin, for whom he dug a 
 ditch on French prairie. He was afterward in 
 the Cayuse Indian war under Captain Pugh 
 and later engaged in gathering the harvest on 
 French prairie. In 1848 he started on horse- 
 back over the mountains for the mines of Cali- 
 fornia and was very successful in his mining 
 ventures on the Macalamy bar, realizing hand- 
 somely from his labors there, covering three 
 months. 
 
 Mr. Miller then returned to Illinois by way 
 of San Francisco, Panama, New Orleans and 
 up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to 
 Beardstown, 111., where he arrived in 1849. re ~ 
 maining there until the spring of 1850. He 
 then outfitted with his own money, nine 
 wagons, drawn by horses, mules and oxen, and 
 again started for the west. This time he was 
 accompanied by his mother-in-law and brother-in- 
 law, his brother, with his wife and nine children, 
 and his brother-in-law, David McDonald, with his 
 wife and six children, but Mrs. McDonald died 
 while on the plains. Mr. Miller also employed 
 seven men to assist him and he came over the 
 same trail which he had previously traveled, 
 although the journey this time was accom- 
 plished in a much shorter time than the first 
 trip, reaching The Dallas July 4. People said 
 he could not cross the mountains because there 
 
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 was too much fallen timber, but he replied that 
 he would go through to Barlow's gate. From 
 there he sent six men ahead with axes and 
 ordered them when they came to a big tree 
 fallen across the road to cut small timber and 
 bridge it. Thus they got along well, crossing 
 the mountains in three days, and at length they 
 reached Oregon City. Mr. Miller located in 
 Yamhill county, while Mr. McDonald took a 
 claim in Polk 'county and Mr. Miller's brother 
 in Linn county. 
 
 Securing a right, Mr. Miller located a dona- 
 tion claim of six hundred and forty acres in 
 Yamhill county, near Wheatland, on the banks 
 of the Willamette. This was partly open tim- 
 ber and there he improved a farm and engaged 
 in the raising of grain and stock-horses, cattle, 
 sheep and hogs. He had fullblooded Durham 
 cattle and also bred and raised standard-bred 
 horses, selling one three-year-old for $1,700. 
 He also bought land adjoining his original 
 claim, having nine hundred and sixty acres in 
 one body, nearly all of which is tillable, and this 
 he still' owns. At Wheatland, in partnership 
 with M. B. Hendricks, he built the first flour 
 mill and conducted it for many years, or until 
 it was destroyed by fire. He continued farm- 
 ing until 1858, when great misfortune overtook 
 the family, four of the children dying within 
 four weeks. No longer could they content 
 themselves on the farm where such great sor- 
 row had come to them and they then moved to 
 Salem. Mr. Miller purchased Griswold's is- 
 land in the Willamette river and kept it for a 
 year, during which time he cut the tim- 
 ber from it, but the citizens of Salem and 
 vicinity wanted a man to superintend the 
 streets and highways, and offering him the 
 position he accepted it and thus served for four 
 years, when he resigned and returned to his 
 farm. He then made many improvements upon 
 it, restocked it and for three years carried on 
 agricultural pursuits, after which he returned 
 to Salem, establishing his home at the corner of 
 Court and College streets, where he is now living 
 retired, satisfied with a competency which sup- 
 plies him with the necessities and comforts of 
 life, not desiring great wealth. 
 
 Mr. Miller was first married in Scotland March 
 28, 1837, the lady of his choice being Miss Jane 
 McDonald, who was born in that country August 
 8, 1817, a member of the McDonald family of 
 Inverness. When her husband first came to the 
 northwest she remained in Illinois — from 1846 
 until 1850 — and in the latter year accompanied 
 him across the plains. She died November 21, 
 1895, in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, 
 of which she had long been a consistent member, 
 and her loss was deeply felt by many friends as 
 well as her immediate family. She was the 
 
 mother of nine children : John and Elizabeth, 
 who died in Scotland ; William, who died in Illi- 
 nois ; Andrew, who died in Oregon, at the age 
 of thirteen years ; Mrs. Jane Kellogg, who lives 
 on the old home farm ; Caroline, Isabelle, Andrew 
 and William, all of whom died in this state. The 
 last three were born in Oregon and Caroline on 
 the plains, when they were making the journey to 
 the northwest. Mr. Miller was again married, 
 in Portland, his second union being with Mrs. 
 Jane Barndrake, who was born in Germany, came 
 to Oregon at an early day and died in Salem. 
 For his third wife he chose Mrs. Mary Martin 
 Pearson, who was born in Davis county, Iowa, 
 a daughter of John Martin, who was born in 
 Kentucky, where his father died. John Martin, 
 who served in the war of 1812, removed to Illi- 
 nois and afterward to Iowa, and in 1845 ne 
 came across the plains with his wife and four 
 children, their wagon drawn by the slow-moving 
 ox team, which was the factor in most travel 
 westward at that time. They proceeded by way 
 of St. Joseph and the Oregon trail and Meeks 
 cutoff, intending to go to California, but Meeks 
 was lost in the fog and eventually they reached 
 Oregon. They were almost starved to death, 
 being for five days without food, and they put 
 salt on grass and ate that. At length they 
 reached The Dallas and proceeded down the Co- 
 lumbia on a raft made of logs. Mr. Martin set- 
 tled on French prairie, where he farmed, and in 
 1849 he removed to Polk county, where he took 
 a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 two and a half miles west of Salem, improving 
 that and opening up a good farm. In 1855 he 
 removed to the vicinity of Roseburg, where he 
 engaged in raising stock until fall, when he 
 started to Yreka, Cal., to drive a band of hogs, 
 but the Rogue river Indian trouble broke out 
 and he had to turn back, losing most of his hogs. 
 He was then appointed government commissary, 
 serving for nine months during the Rogue River 
 war, after which he located on Deer creek, ten 
 miles from Roseburg, where he farmed for six 
 years. He next went to Jacksonville, Ore., where 
 he remained for a short time, and after a year 
 spent at Crescent City he returned to Jackson- 
 ville, where his two eldest sons died of small- 
 pox. Afterward he located in Salem, where he 
 died at the age of eighty-four years. Mr. Mar- 
 tin married Malinda Smith, who was born in 
 Virginia, a daughter of Ezekiel Smith, who 
 came to Oregon from Iowa in 1846, in the same 
 train with Mr. Miller, and settled in Yamhill 
 county, four miles north of Wheatland. In 1848 
 he went overland to California with his youngest 
 son and mined on Feather river until both were 
 murdered there, in 1849, their tent being shot 
 full of arrows. Mrs. Martin, the mother of Mrs. 
 Miller, died in Salem. Her children were Mrs. 
 
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 Eliza fane Chambers, of Portland; Mrs. Mary 
 Miller"; Mrs. Emily Howell, of Crescent City, 
 Cal.; John and Joseph, who died in Jacksonville, 
 this stau-; Chauncey, who died near Salem; Mrs. 
 Luc\ Foss, of Portland; and Andrew J., who 
 resides in California. 
 
 Mrs. Miller was born in Iowa, but was edu- 
 cated in Folk county. ( )re. She was first mar- 
 ried in that county to Joseph Allrcd, who was 
 born in Indiana and crossed the plains in 1845 
 with his grandfather, in the same train with Mrs. 
 Miller. He was reared in Washington county 
 until twenty-one years of age and died in Cali- 
 tia. By his marriage to Alary Martin he had 
 five children, of whom four are living : Mrs. 
 Katie Worden, of San Francisco ; Mrs. Emma 
 Carp, of Siskiyou county, Cal. ; William, who is 
 living in Santa Cruz county, Cal. ; and Walter, 
 of Klamath county, Ore. After the death of her 
 first husband, Mrs. Allred married John Pear- 
 son, who was born in Tennessee and came to this 
 state in 1862. He was a farmer of Klamath 
 county and died on the old homestead there. Of 
 the three children of this marriage, but one 
 reached mature years : Harry, who is a farmer 
 of Klamath Falls. August 22, 1900, Mrs. Pear- 
 son gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Miller, and 
 thev have a pleasant and comfortable home and 
 many friends in Salem. 
 
 Mr. Miller was made a Mason in Beardstown, 
 111., and is now a member of Salem Lodge, No. 4, 
 F. & A. M. He took the Royal Arch degree in 
 the chapter at Salem. He is also a member of 
 DeMolay Commandery No. 5, K. T., and El 
 Kader Temple, N. M. S., of Portland. He is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church, while his 
 wife belongs to the Methodist Church, and in 
 politics he is an unswerving Democrat. Both 
 he and his wife hold membership with the Ore- 
 gon Pioneer Society. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Miller went to Scotland, visiting 
 his old home and his relatives there, and to some 
 extent he traveled in Europe, spending three 
 months abroad. Mr. Miller is now almost ninety 
 years of age, but Nature has been kind to him 
 because he has not abused her laws. He has 
 remarkable memory concerning pioneer times in 
 this state and he deserves to be classed with the 
 van guard, who opened up this splendid region 
 to civilization. 
 
 HON. IRVIN L. SMITH. Upon the mili- 
 tary history of his country and the legislative 
 annals of his adopted state the name of Hon. 
 Irvin Lucien Smith is deeply engraved. He 
 was born in Franklin county, Ohio, six miles 
 east of Columbus, his natal day being May 16, 
 1827. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Smith. 
 
 removed from New York to Ohio, becoming 
 
 One of the pioneer fanners of the latter state. 
 Among his children was Thaddeus Smith, the 
 lather of our subject, who was born in the Em- 
 pire state and with his parents went to Ohio, 
 where he too devoted his energies to farming 
 and there engaged in the tilling of the soil until 
 1834, when he became a resident of Tazewell 
 county, 111., not far from Peoria. At that point 
 he carried on farming for many years and at 
 length died in that locality. His wife, who bore 
 the name of Mary Ross, was born in Ohio, of 
 Scotch ancestry. Her death occurred in Illinois 
 soon after the removal of the family to that state 
 and the father later married again. By the first 
 marriage he had four children, two of whom 
 reached manhood : Irvin L. of this review and 
 Levi E.,who came to Oregon in 1870 and now re- 
 sides in Portland. Of the eleven children born 
 of the second union all reached adult age and two 
 of the sons were soldiers in the Civil war. Eli, 
 who served throughout the entire struggle in the 
 Fourth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, enlisting in 
 1 86 1, now resides on a farm in Washington 
 county, Ore. William, who became a member of 
 the Sixth Illinois Infantry, was killed in battle 
 at Altoona, Ga. One brother, Leonard, died in 
 Medford, Ore. ; and a sister, Mrs. Stephenson, 
 lives in Forest Grove. 
 
 In 1834, when Irvin L. Smith was about seven 
 years of age, his parents removed from Ohio to 
 Illinois, making the journey overland by wagon, 
 a distance of four hundred miles, across cor- 
 duroy roads. He was reared on the old family 
 homestead, attending the public schools and in his 
 youth he was a schoolmate of the Hon. Shelby 
 M. Cullom. The "little temple of learning" was 
 built of logs and was furnished in the primitive 
 style of the period, the methods of instruction 
 being little better than the building and its equip- 
 ment. Quill pens were used and it was a very 
 common thing to hear the remark from a scholar, 
 "Master, please mend my pen." When nineteen 
 years of age Mr. Smith began work at the car- 
 penter's trade, afterward mastered cabinet making 
 and then engaged in the furniture business in 
 Mackinaw, 111. Subsequently he resided at Pleas- 
 ant Hill, in McLean county, that state, and in 
 1856 he took up his abode upon a farm in the 
 same county, carrying on agricultural pursuits 
 until after the outbreak of the Civil war. In 
 August, 1862, he responded to his country's call 
 for volunteers and joined Company H, Ninety- 
 fourth Illinois Infantry, under Colonel McNulty, 
 being mustered in at Bloomington. The regiment 
 was sent to Springfield, Mo., where Mr. Smith. 
 because of his ability as a carpenter, was detailed 
 to build a hospital, remaining there until after 
 the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. While there 
 the Confederate troops under Marmaduke ad- 
 
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 vanced upon Springfield and he was engaged in 
 repelling them. Later he participated in the 
 siege of Vicksburg, his regiment being one of the 
 first to enter the city after its capitulation. He 
 participated in the battle of Yazoo City and Port 
 Hutchinson, going thence to New Orleans, where 
 for a time he was ill in the hospital. Following 
 this he crossed the Gulf of Mexico to Browns- 
 ville, Tex., and the Ninety-fourth Illinois was 
 one of the two regiments which crossed the Rio 
 Grande into Mexico to protect the American 
 consul, bringing him back into the United States. 
 This trip consumed ten months. Later Mr. Smith 
 participated in the capture of Fort Morgan, Span- 
 ish Fort and Fort Blakely, then crossed the gulf 
 again to Galveston, Tex., and a month later re- 
 turned to New Orleans, where he was mustered 
 out in the fall of 1865 with the rank of sergeant 
 and received an honorable discharge upon his 
 return to Illinois. When he went to the war he 
 left a family consisting of his wife and five chil- 
 dren. He had a farm that was in an excellent 
 state of improvement and well stocked and which 
 was free from all indebtedness. It was of course 
 a sacrifice for him to join the army and fight for 
 the flag, but he did this willingly and was most 
 loyal in his attachment to the United States. His 
 wife, in order to meet the living expenses of 
 the household and to pay the high assessments 
 which the war made it necessary to institute, 
 had to sell off the stock and also to incur in- 
 debtedness, and thus upon his return Mr. Smith 
 found it necessary to again resume work at the 
 carpenter's trade in order to pay off this indebt- 
 edness and gain a new start. 
 
 Upon his Illinois farm the subject of this re- 
 view remained until 1870, when he came to 
 Oregon, locating near Forest Grove, where he 
 purchased a farm, conducting it for a year. He 
 then established the Western Hotel in Forest 
 Grove, which he conducted for four years, at 
 the end of which time he built a shop and em- 
 barked in the furniture business. Subsequently 
 he and his sons, James and George, erected a 
 sash and door factory and furniture plant and 
 continued its conduct until the second Democratic 
 disaster, when they retired from business. At 
 that time Mr. Smith took up his abode upon his 
 place of seven acres in Forest Grove and there 
 he lived in honorable retirement until April, 1903, 
 when he moved to Sheridan, Yamhill county. He 
 has passed the Psalmist's span of three score 
 years and ten and well does he merit the rest 
 which is vouchsafed to him. 
 
 Mr. Smith was first married in Illinois, the lady 
 of his choice being Miss Margaret Mathews, who 
 was born in Ohio and died in Oregon. They 
 became the parents of twelve children, ten of 
 whom reached years of maturity, namely : Mary, 
 who died in this state; James, a farmer of Uma- 
 
 tilla county, Ore. ; Mrs. Flora Hinman, of Balti- 
 more, Md. ; George, who is engaged in the furni- 
 ture business in Sheridan, Wyo. ; Elmer, of Forest 
 Grove ; Mrs. Esther Kane, who is a teacher of 
 Portland ; William, a carpenter of Portland ; 
 Fred, who is engaged in the furniture business in 
 Sheridan, Wyo. ; Mrs. Carrie Merchant of Yam- 
 hill and Lillie D., the wife of Rev. W. E. Stew- 
 art, of Reno, Nev. After the death of his first 
 wife Mr. Smith was again married, in Salem, 
 Ore., his second union being with Mrs. Margaret 
 J. McMeekin, who was born in Sangamon 
 county, 111., a daughter of James H. Brown, Sr., 
 who was born in Virginia, and a grand-daughter 
 of James Brown, who removed from the Old 
 Dominion, settling in Columbus, Ohio, while 
 later he became a resident of Tazewell county, 
 111., where his death occurred. 
 
 James H. Brown, the father of Mrs. Smith, 
 took up his abode in Sangamon county, 111., where 
 he followed farming and was married. In 1850, 
 with his wife and seven children, he crossed the 
 plains to Oregon, driving an ox-team, and in Sep- 
 tember he reached his destination. Portland at 
 that time contained but one store. He settled 
 three miles from Sheridan, in Yamhill county, 
 where he purchased a tract of land and engaged 
 in the raising of grain and stock, succeeding so 
 well in his undertakings that in course of time he 
 became the owner of sixteen hundred acres. His 
 death occurred upon his farm in 1875, when he 
 was seventy-two years of age, and the old home- 
 stead is now owned by his three sons. His wife, 
 who bore the maiden name of Sophia W. Hussey, 
 was born in Sangamon county, 111., a daughter of 
 Nathan Hussey, who was born in Ohio and took 
 up his abode upon a farm in the Prairie state. In 
 1846 he, too, made the long and perilous journey 
 across the plains with an ox-team and settled on 
 the Yamhill river near Fort Yamhill, where he 
 resided until his death in 1895. In the family 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Brown were four daughters 
 and three sons, all of whom are living. Their 
 daughter, Margaret J., was reared in Oregon and 
 in Yamhill she gave her hand in marriage to 
 Archibald McMeekin, who was born in Scotland. 
 His parents removed to the north of Ireland, 
 settling in Antrim, whence they came to America, 
 their home being first established in Canada. In 
 1852 Mr. McMeekin crossed the plains to Oregon. 
 He was a blacksmith and farmer and after reach- 
 ing this state carried on agricultural pursuits on 
 Mill creek, in Polk county. Later, however, he 
 sold that property and located in Salem. The 
 year following his marriage he was stricken with 
 paralysis and for twenty-four years could not 
 walk a step, during which time with wonderful 
 devotion Mrs. Smith cared for him as she would 
 a child and also managed their farming interests. 
 She owned five hundred acres of land in Mill 
 

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 creek which she h;is since sold. Her husband 
 died in Salem in 1885 and later shewas united 
 in marriage with Mr. Smith. She is a lady of 
 
 marked force of character, of splendid ability, and 
 is deserving- of the greatest credit for what she 
 has accomplished. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Smith has been prominent 
 and influential. An earnest advocate of Repub- 
 lican principles, he served on the first board of 
 trustees of Forest Grove and for three or four 
 terms was a member of the city council. For 
 two terms he was mayor of Forest Grove and in 
 1S7S he was elected county commissioner. In 
 1880 he was honored with the election to the office 
 of state legislator and in 1886 he was again chosen 
 to represent his district in the general assembly 
 and served during the special session of 1887. 
 A prominent and patriotic member of the house, 
 he did everything in his power to promote the 
 welfare of the state and advance the interests 
 of its institutions. He belongs to James B. 
 Mathews Post Xo. 6, G. A. R., of which he was 
 the first conductor, and his wife is a member of 
 the Women's Relief Corps, in which she has 
 served as senior vice-commander. This worthy 
 and highly esteemed couple belong to the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Smith for- 
 merely served as trustee. His has been an event- 
 ful career. He lived in Illinois during an early 
 period in the development of that state and has 
 served upon juries there when Abraham Lincoln 
 was one of the attorneys at the bar. Going to 
 Oregon he has borne an active and important 
 part in the progress and substantial upbuilding 
 of his section of the state and has been particu- 
 larly helpful along educational lines, serving 
 upon the school board when the schoolhouse of 
 Forest Grove was built. Character and ability 
 will come to the front anywhere, and the genuine 
 worth of Mr. Smith has been widely recognized, 
 making him a distinguished citizen of the Will- 
 amette vallev. 
 
 DR. PLATT A. DAVIS. On the 7th day of 
 April, 1902, the citizenship of Marion county 
 was deprived, by the hand of death, of the ser- 
 vices of one of the most widely known, highly 
 honored and beloved pioneer physicians of Ore- 
 gon, Dr. Piatt A. Davis. For half a century he 
 had gone up and down the valley of the Willam- 
 ette, crossing the prairie and climbing the hills 
 in his daily rounds, and probably no other phy- 
 sician in the valley was personally and intimately 
 known by so large a number of the earlier in- 
 habitants. Dr. Davis was born near Randolph, 
 Ohio, September 11, 1825. He was educated for 
 his professional career in Philadelphia, Pa. In 
 1852, at the age of twenty-seven years, he crossed 
 
 the plains lor Oregon. Locating at Silverton, 
 Marion county, he at once opined an office for 
 practice, and the remainder of his life was de- 
 voted to his professional labors in and about 
 Silverton. For many years the number of prac- 
 titioners in the Willamette valley was small, and 
 Dr. Davis was frequently compelled to make long 
 and wearisome journeys over the mountainous 
 country to the eastward of Silverton, as well as 
 through all other sections of Marion county. 
 Frequently his services were demanded in ad- 
 joining counties, for within a few years after 
 his location in Silverton his skill in medicine 
 brought to him a fame that was not confined to 
 his local field of practice. His work frequently 
 was so laborious that a man possessed of lesser 
 powers of endurance would have broken down 
 under the strain. 
 
 In recognition of his eminent success as a 
 practitioner Willamette University accorded him 
 an honorary degree in 1871. At the time of his 
 death he was probably the oldest physician in 
 Oregon, and undoubtedly one of the most pro- 
 foundly respected and beloved men who ever 
 lived in the valley. 
 
 Dr. Davis was worthy of more than passing 
 mention in the memoirs of the representative citi- 
 zens of Oregon. He was possessed of charac- 
 teristics which commanded attention wherever 
 he was known. He had an unusually alert mind, 
 was a great student, and extremely well-informed 
 on all subjects which appeal to an analytical 
 and inquiring intelligence. There was nothing 
 small or narrow in his intellectual make-up. He 
 was an entertaining and edifying conversation- 
 alist, was broad and liberal in his views of affairs 
 in general, and in his practice availed himself 
 of many opportunities such as are sought by the 
 humanitarian and public benefactor. His benefi- 
 cences were numerous, though in doing good 
 he was always absolutely free from ostentation. 
 Throughout his entire career he exhibited a keen 
 interest in the welfare of the community in which 
 he made his home, and no taint or blemish ever 
 marred the beauty and splendor of his life. Men 
 like him are rare, and the life he led. at all times 
 will cause his name to be perpetuated as that 
 of one of the noblest and most high-minded citi- 
 zens of the Willamette valley. 
 
 Before coming to Oregon, Dr. Davis was en- 
 gaged in practice for a few years in Iowa. He 
 was married in Millersburg, 111., in 1849. to 
 Sopha Wolf, whose death occurred in 1864. 
 Their children were: Dr. La Fayette L. Davis. 
 of Lamborn, Kans. : Charles C. Davis, of Spo- 
 kane, Wash. : Winfield S. Davis, deceased ; Dr. 
 Edward V. Davis, deceased; Dr. William Henry 
 Davis, of Albany, Ore. : Mrs. Viola Davis Brown, 
 of Walla Walla. Wash.; and Dr. S. T. Davis, 
 Chicago, 111. June 29, 1865, Dr. Davis was 
 
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 united in marriage with Susan Moore, who sur- 
 vives him, and resides in Silverton. They be- 
 came the parents of two daughters, Nellie, de- 
 ceased ; and Dr. Jessie (Davis) Brooks. 
 
 JOSEPH G. VAN ORSDEL, who is now 
 engaged in the real estate business in Dallas 
 anu has to his credit two terms of capable service 
 in the office of county sheriff, was born near New 
 Castle, Lawrence county, Pa., July 18, 1853, 
 being one of a family of eleven children, ten 
 sons and one daughter, born unto Ralph and 
 Margaret (Randolph) Van Orsdel. His paternal 
 grandfather, Col. Job Van Orsdel, was a native 
 of Holland and when a young man came to Amer- 
 ica. He then went south and married the 
 daughter of a planter. He won his title by valiant 
 service in the war of 1812 and in recognition of 
 the aid which he gave to the government he was 
 given a grant of land of six hundred and forty 
 acres in Crawford county, Pa., but never realized 
 anything from the property. For many years he 
 remained in the government service and main- 
 tained his residence at Gettysburg, Pa. Ralph 
 Van Orsdel, the father of our subject, was born 
 in Adams county, Pa., on his father's farm ad- 
 joining what later became the battlefield of 
 Gettysburg, which was stained by the blood of 
 hundreds of brave men from both the north and 
 south. In early life Ralph Van Orsdel learned 
 the miller's trade and followed milling in New 
 Castle, Pa., for a time, but subsequently turned 
 his attention to agricultural pursuits in that 
 locality and was very successful in his farm 
 work. In his political views he was a stanch 
 Abolitionist and rejoiced greatly in the outcome 
 of the Civil war. He died near New Castle, Pa., 
 at the advanced age of eighty-two years. The 
 mother of our subject was born in Butler county. 
 Pa., a daughter of John Randolph, who was a 
 native of Virginia and a lineal descendant of 
 Senator John Randolph, one of the most dis- 
 tinguished sons of the Old Dominion. Her 
 father removed from his native state to Butler 
 county, Pa., and there Mrs. Van Orsdel was 
 reared. She died in Lawrence county, Pa., at the 
 age of seventy-five years. Like her husband she 
 was a devoted member of the United Presbyter- 
 ian Church. Of her family seven sons and one 
 daughter reached the age of maturity. Job Van 
 Orsdel, the eldest, was a train master in the 
 Civil war and is now a prominent business man 
 of Youngstown, Ohio. The other are : Mrs. Belle 
 Donaldson, of Lawrence county, Pa. ; William, 
 killed in Sherman's march to the sea, while in 
 front of Atlanta ; John C, of Pittsburg. Pa., who 
 is national organizer of the Knights of the Mac- 
 cabees ; James Fremont, a stockman of Stock- 
 dale, Kans. ; Hon. Josiah Alexander, attorney- 
 
 general of Wyoming; and J. G. of this review. 
 
 Upon the home farm in Lawrence county, Pa., 
 amid the lights and sounds that came from the 
 furnaces and rolling mills of that industrial 
 center, J. G. Van Orsdel was reared, and edu- 
 cated. He remained at home until twenty-three 
 years of age. In 1876 he went to California, 
 proceeding to San Francisco and thence to the 
 mining regions. He engaged in clerking in 
 Amador City, Cal., for a time and in 1879 ne 
 returned to Pennsylvania, where he was married, 
 and engaged in farming, cultivating a tract of 
 land near New Castle. In 1889 he arrived in 
 Oregon, and purchased one hundred and twelve 
 acres of land adjoining the town of Independence. 
 Stocking his farm with a large number of cows 
 he engaged in the dairy business, and was the 
 first man to run a milk wagon in his section of 
 the state. That enterprise occupied his time 
 and attention until 1898, when he received the 
 nomination on the Democratic ticket for sheriff 
 of Polk county. He was elected, and in July, 
 1898, he took the oath of office and removed to 
 Dallas. He still owns a part of his farm, although 
 seventy acres of it has been divided into lots, 
 constituting an addition to the town of Inde- 
 pendence. In the discharge of his official duties 
 Mr. Van Orsdel manifested a fidelity and prompt- 
 ness which caused his re-election in 1900 by a 
 majority of sixty-two. During his first term he 
 was called upon to carry out the mandate of the 
 court by executing one William Magers, who 
 murdered A. R. Sink. He retired from his 
 duties with the confidence and good will of the 
 public He at once embarked in the real estate 
 business and became agent for securing the right 
 of way for the Salem, Fall City & Western Rail- 
 road. He secured the right of way for nine and 
 a half miles, obtaining forty-five different deeds 
 through the transaction. As a member of the 
 firm of Van Orsdel, Hayes & Company he is 
 now doing an extensive business handling timber 
 lands, farm and city property, besides loans and 
 insurance. 
 
 In New Castle, Pa., on December 22, 1880, 
 occurred the marriage of Mr. Van Orsdel and 
 Miss Elizabeth Pomeroy, who was born there a 
 daughter of Col. John and Eliza (McGaryj Pom- 
 eroy, natives of Westmoreland county, Pa. John 
 Pomeroy represented an old family of the Key- 
 stone state, of Scotch-Irish descent, and was a 
 farmer by occupation and held the rank of col- 
 onel in the National Guards of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Van Orsdel have been born 
 seven children : John Pomeroy, a civil engineer 
 in Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Ralph Alexander, a student 
 in Dallas College ; Ruth E. ; Robert Randolph ; 
 Pauline E. ; and Thomas Clark. One daughter. 
 Patience, died in infancy. 
 
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 237 
 
 Presbyterian Church, and he is the president of 
 its board of trustees. He was made an (Hid Fel- 
 low in Friendship Lodge No. 6, of which he is 
 
 DOW noble grand master. Both he and his wife 
 are connected with the Rebekah degree. He is 
 also identified with the Knights of the Mac- 
 cabees, and is a director of the board of trade 
 oi Dallas. In his political views he was a Repub- 
 lican until 1892, when, on account of his opinion 
 on the tariff question, he endorsed the Demo- 
 cratic party, with which he is now affiliated. 
 
 WORTH HUSTON. More than any other 
 man of whom we have immediate knowledge, 
 Worth Huston fulfills the popular conception of 
 an incumbent of the sheriff's office, to which he was 
 recently elected. Six feet three and a half inches 
 tall, broad-shouldered and strong-limbed, with 
 force and determination written in every line of 
 his expressive face, his physical fitness has a 
 counterpart in his mental and educational quali- 
 fications, and in his extensive knowledge of the 
 motives which animate the average individual 
 as he travels the divers byways of life. A native 
 son of Linn county, Ore., he has also the ad- 
 vantage of knowing his surroundings as well as 
 anyone living here, and of being on speaking terms 
 with the greater part of the well-known men who 
 have contributed to its agricultural, commercial 
 and general development. 
 
 Born on the old donation claim near Albany, 
 November 2, 1854, he is the youngest in a family 
 of nine sons and one daughter, and the only one 
 born in Oregon. His paternal grandfather, 
 George Huston, was born in Virginia, and as a 
 young man removed to eastern Tennessee, where 
 his son, Joel B., the father of Worth, was born 
 in 1810. He served as a private in the war of 
 1812, and as a farmer and stock-raiser was fairlv 
 successful Joel B. settled in Henderson county, 
 111., at an early day, and there married Catherine 
 Huston, a native of Iowa, whose father was a 
 very early pioneer of Iowa. Nine children were 
 born in Illinois, and these, with his wife, Mr. 
 Huston brought across the plains with ox teams 
 in 1853, locating on a claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres near Plainview, twelve miles 
 south of Albany. This he improved and operated 
 up to the time of his death at the age of sixtv- 
 nine years, his wife surviving him until 1898, 
 when she died, at the age of eighty-three. 
 Their oldest son, William, is living in Rochester, 
 Wash.; Walter lives near Harrisburg; Joel B. 
 is at Halsey : John is a resident of Heppner. Ore. ; 
 Marion lives in Wasco county, Ore. ; and Luther, 
 of Heppner. 
 
 As a boy Worth Huston laid the foundation 
 for his present fine constitution while exercising 
 plentifully on the home farm, and tramping to the 
 
 somewhat distant country school-house. Later 
 on he attended the Harrisburg College, and at the 
 age <>! twenty began fanning on Ins own respon- 
 sibility on the home place. At all times appreci- 
 ative of the horse, he has devoted twenty years 
 to studying and raising the finest specimens in 
 the county, and he is credited with introducing 
 in 1890 the first French bred coach horses into 
 the state of Oregon, and was one of the first 
 to import registered Tercherons, and now has 
 on his farm a large number. He has greatly im- 
 proved the breed since first bringing them across 
 the water. No better judge of the fine points 
 of a horse is to be found anywhere in Linn 
 county, nor has any a finer sympathy for the 
 creatures who fail to find humane and consider- 
 ate owners. Mr. Huston is a member of the Na- 
 tional Percheron Horse Breeders' Association. He 
 is a member of Camp Albany Modern Woodmen 
 of America and Albany Lodge Knights of 
 Pythias. For many years he has been an active 
 member of the Christian Church, and is a deacon 
 therein, contributing liberally of his means to- 
 wards his chosen denomination. 
 
 On the old homestead Mr. Huston was united 
 in marriage with Lucy Dannals, who was born in 
 Linn county, Ore. Nine children have been born 
 of this union : Maud ; Carl ; Fannie ; Walter, on 
 the home farm ; Delwin ; Ollie ; Eva ; Ray ; and 
 Clark. Mr. Huston has at all times a whole- 
 souled regard for the general well-being of his 
 neighborhood. 
 
 AUGUST STARK, M. O., M. D. As a gen- 
 eral practitioner and an eye, ear, nose and throat 
 specialist, Dr. August Stark bears a reputation 
 second to none in the state of Oregon. In quali- 
 fying for his chosen line of work he has spared 
 neither personal effort nor expense, and has 
 availed himself of the best training to be had in 
 this country. Upon the theory that congenial 
 work means successful, he has penetrated the 
 practically inexhaustible avenues of research with 
 ever-increasing interest, finding in each discovery 
 an impetus to further advance the interests of 
 science. Of Teutonic parentage, he is a de- 
 scendant of a race who have achieved wonderful 
 success in medical and surgical circles, and whose 
 dominant characteristic is the ability to concen- 
 trate upon the hard and trying problems of life 
 until some result shall have, been accomplished. 
 This national trait was unquestionably possessed 
 by Joshua Stark, the father of the doctor, who 
 was a stone-mason by trade, performing his tasks 
 with conscientious exactitude. He was born in 
 Wurtcmbcrg, Germany, and in i860, when about 
 forty years of age, came with Iris wife, Christine, 
 to America, locating in Bethel. Shelby county, 
 Mo. Here his son August was born March 17, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1864, and here he engaged in contracting for 
 many years. In Bethel the parents both died, 
 leaving three sons and four daughters, two sons 
 and two daughters still living. 
 
 Having completed his education in the public 
 schools August Stark entered a drug store at the 
 age of eighteen years, where he remained for 
 some time, also in connection with his gaining 
 some knowledge of the jeweler's trade, combin- 
 ing the two occupations until coming to Oregon 
 in 1889. 
 
 With F. G. Will he bought out the jewelry 
 store of W. F. Carter, conducted the same with 
 fair success, and at the same time began the 
 study of the eye, in time entering the Ophthalmic 
 College of Chicago, from which he was duly 
 graduated in 1894, with the degree of master 
 of optics. Returning to Albany he assisted with 
 the management of the jewelry store, and in con- 
 nection therewith began the study of medicine, 
 completing his course at the University of Ore- 
 gon, from which he was graduated in 1901. Soon 
 after he disposed of his mercantile interests that 
 he might devote all of his time to medicine and 
 surgery. In 1902 he took a post-graduate course 
 at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Col- 
 lege. His practice extends through the entire 
 valley, patients coming from afar to profit by his 
 skill in dealing with the physical disorders above 
 mentioned. Dr. Stark is popular both in social 
 and professional circles, and is identified with the 
 Knights of Pythias and the Alco Club. Politi- 
 cally he is a Republican. Genial in manner, sin- 
 cere and enthusiastic along the lines to which his 
 life is devoted, he commands not only the esteem 
 but the appreciation and gratitude of the intelli- 
 gent citizens of the community. 
 
 CHARLES W. BLACK is the proprietor of 
 the city livery stables of Dallas. He was born 
 on Mill creek in Polk county, Ore., January 
 28, 1874, and belongs to one of the old and promi- 
 nent pioneer families of this state. His paternal 
 great-grandfather was a native of Illinois and 
 founded the family in America by establishing 
 his home in Pennsylvania. The grandfather, 
 Thomas Black, was born in the Keystone state 
 and about 1835 removed to Ohio, settling five 
 miles north of Columbus. In 1837 he again 
 started westward, establishing his home near 
 Jacksonville, 111., and in 1841 he resumed his 
 journey toward the setting sun and became a 
 resident of the New Purchase in Iowa, his home 
 being near tne present city of Oskaloosa. The 
 pioneer spirit was strong within him, and in 
 t868 with his family he crossed the plains to 
 Walla Walla, Wash., in a wagon train in which 
 horses, mules and oxen served as means of trans- 
 portation. There were altogether twenty-six 
 
 wagons in the company and Mr. Black served 
 as captain. In 1864 he removed from Washing- 
 ton to Oregon, making his way to the Willamette 
 valley and locating in Polk county. Subsequently 
 he removed to Yamhill county, where he died in 
 February, 1868. In various communities he took 
 an active and helpful part in the work of im- 
 provement and general progress. He was a pio- 
 neer of Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Washington and 
 Oregon, and in all these places he left the impress 
 of his individuality for good upon the localities 
 in which he lived. While in Polk county, Iowa, 
 he served as county commissioner for two terms, 
 but his best public service was done as a private 
 citizen. He did not seek the honors or rewards 
 of office, but was content to do what he could 
 at all times for the benefit of his community. 
 He married Sarah C. Beck, who survived him 
 but a few months, passing away in July, 1868. 
 
 Joseph Black, the father of our subject, was 
 born in Washington county, Pa., in 1834, and 
 accompanied his parents on their various remov- 
 als, being largely reared in Decatur and Polk 
 counties, Iowa. In 1861 he came to the north- 
 west with his parents, two sisters and two 
 brothers, making the long overland journey 
 across the hot sandy plains and over the mount- 
 ains, until they reached the fertile valleys of the 
 northwest. He has been engaged in farming in 
 Oregon since 1864 and is now the owner of a 
 rich and well improved tract of land on Mill 
 creek in Polk county. His home, since 1882, has 
 been in Dallas, where he is widely and favorably 
 known, being a man of jovial and genial disposi- 
 tion, good hearted, liberal and having many ex- 
 cellent qualities which have gained for him 
 many friends. His political support is given to 
 Democracy. He married Eliza Ridgeway, who 
 was born in Polk county, Ore., in 1850. Her 
 father, John Ridgeway, crossed the plains in 
 1845 an d established his home in Polk county. 
 Mrs. Black is an earnest Christian woman, hold- 
 ing membership in the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. In the family were five children, only 
 two of whom are now living, the elder Emma, 
 wife of Charles F. Belt of Dallas, and Charles W. 
 
 Charles Walter Black, whose name introduces 
 this record, was reared and educated in Dallas. 
 Having attended the public schools, he continued 
 his studies in La Creole Academy. He afterward 
 engaged in the teaming business which he fol- 
 lowed until he became a liveryman, in 1901, 
 when he entered into partnership with William 
 Tatom as a member of the firm of Tatom & Black, 
 and they purchased of Samuel Ray the city livery, 
 which they conducted together until the 1st of 
 September, 1902, when Mr. Black purchased his 
 partner's interest and has since been alone. The 
 city liverv is one of the oldest stables in Dallas 
 and to Mr. Black is accorded a liberal and con- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 stantly growing patronage. He owns many fine 
 carriages and good horses and he is always 
 obliging and courteous to his patrons, and has 
 secured a creditable standing and merited sue- 
 - in his business career. 
 .Mr. Black was united in marriage in 1902, 
 to Miss Nettie Greenwood, a native of Illinois. 
 He votes with the Democracy but has never 
 had time nor inclination for seeking public office. 
 He is well known in his native county and his 
 pleasant kindly spirit' makes him a general 
 favorite. 
 
 HON. BENJAMIN F. BONHAM, an Ore- 
 gon pioneer of 1853, a practitioner grown old 
 in the service of legal science, and the recip- 
 ient of many unsolicited political honors, is 
 a man of broad and liberal mind, whose life 
 has been one of labor and untiring devotion to 
 the best interests of his adopted state. He is 
 recognized as a profound student of the law 
 and as a jurist his decisions have been impar- 
 tial, showing a careful consideration of the 
 legal points at issue, and yet never losing sight 
 of the merits of the case, with a view to pro- 
 moting substantial justice between man and 
 man. Having passed the age of three score 
 and ten years, we present to our readers a 
 chronological record of the life work of a 
 man who has conferred honor and dignity 
 upon society. 
 
 Judge Bonham was born October 8, 1828, 
 near Knoxville, Tenn., and was reared prin- 
 cipally in Indiana, to which state his people 
 removed when he was twelve years of age. 
 At a very early day an English forefather 
 settled in Virginia, where was also born his 
 paternal grandfather and namesake, Benjamin, 
 a planter who settled in East Tennessee. Vir- 
 ginia was also the birthplace of his son, John 
 P. Bonham, the father of Judge Benjamin F., 
 who in time combined farming and merchan- 
 dising near Knoxville. In 1840 he removed to 
 Middletown, Henry county, Ind., where he 
 continued his former 1 occupation up to the time 
 of his death in 1864. He was a Democrat in 
 politics and held membership with the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church. His wife, Sarah (Jones) 
 Bonham, was born in East Tennessee and died 
 in Indiana. Her father, John Jones, was also 
 born in Virginia. 
 
 Of the seven children in his father's family. 
 Judge Bonham is one of two survivors, and 
 the only one to come to the Pacific coast. Like 
 many other men who have attained promi- 
 nence in the west and elsewhere he undertook 
 self support in the humble capacity of a school 
 teacher, having qualified therefor in the pub- 
 
 lic schools and in Delaware- County Seminary, 
 at Muncie, Ind. 
 
 In 1853 he came across the plains, arriving 
 in Oregon in September, and for the first two 
 years was engaged in teaching school, one year 
 on French Prairie and one in Salem. In the 
 meantime he had been reading law, with a 
 view to entering the legal profession. In 1856 
 he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme 
 Court of Oregon. The unsettled condition of 
 the country at that time had need of just such 
 latent resources as were embodied in this 
 promising young attorney, and he at once 
 stepped into positions requiring tact and 
 ability. In the early '50s he held the offices 
 of territorial auditor, librarian and superin- 
 tendent of schools in Marion county, and while 
 thus diversely engaged served as a member of the 
 last territorial and the first state legislature. 
 In 1S60, upon retiring from public office, he 
 began to devote all his attention to the prac- 
 tice of law, and in 1870 was elected a member 
 of the Supreme Court, at the same time serv- 
 ing ex-officio as judge of the Circuit Court for 
 six years. Between the years 1874 and 1876. 
 inclusive, he was Chief Justice of the state of 
 Oregon. Upon retiring from office he resumed 
 practice in partnership with Judge W. M. 
 Ramsey, continuing until 1885. 
 
 Judge Bonham's substantial service in be- 
 half of the Democratic party has brought him 
 more than local renown, and in 1885 he was 
 appointed by President Cleveland Consul- 
 General to British India. In the fall of that' 
 year he embarked from the port of San Fran- 
 cisco, and for over four years represented the 
 United States at Calcutta, with credit to him- 
 self and entire satisfaction to both govern- 
 ments. His experience in the foreign service 
 of the United States at one of its important 
 posts, enabled him to gain a comprehensive 
 knowdedge of international law, and his equip- 
 ment in this respect was, upon his retirement 
 from the position, of a much more practical 
 nature than could have been gained in any of 
 the technical institutions of learning. After 
 his resignation from this post he set sail for the 
 United States, coming by way of Suez canal, 
 Marseilles, Paris and London, arriving home 
 August. 1890. He again resumed the practice 
 of law in Salem and vicinity in partnership 
 with Hon. W. H. Holmes. In 1894 he was 
 appointed postmaster of Salem, holding thai 
 office for four years, since which time he has 
 devoted all his energies to the practice of law. 
 and in 1809 entered into partnership with 
 Carev F. Martin, a graduate f the state uni- 
 versity and a very energetic and promising 
 young attorney. 
 
 In 1858, at Salem, Judge Bonham was united 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in marriage with Miss Mildred A. Baker, who 
 was born in Illinois in 1840, and is a daughter 
 of John Baker, a well-known and highly re- 
 spected Oregon pioneer of 1847, wno * s now 
 residing on his donation claim near Salem at 
 the age of eighty-seven years. Of the seven 
 children born to Judge and Mrs. Bonham, two 
 only are living — Raphael P. and Winona M., 
 both of Salem. Three of the children — Frank 
 E., Burton M. and Wayne L. — died of diph- 
 theria in 1879, and two sons — Clinton O. and 
 John Clifford — died of fever in 1881. 
 
 Judge Bonham is a member of the Marion 
 County Bar Association of which he has been 
 president for the past eight years. He is 
 possessed of superior legal attainments, and 
 his unceasing devotion to the best tenets of 
 a great profession have brought him enviable 
 standing, the friendship of kindred minds, and 
 the highest regard of all with whom he has 
 come in contact, in social, civil and judicial 
 life. 
 
 Hayter is a stanch Democrat and at the present 
 time is secretary and ex-chairman of the County 
 Democratic Committee. Mr. Hayter is a genial 
 practitioner of the law, and his career has been an 
 active one from the day of entering practice. 
 
 OSCAR HAYTER, one of the most promising 
 of the younger generation of Oregon lawyers, 
 and representative of an old pioneer family of 
 1 85 1, was born near Dallas, Polk county, Decem- 
 ber 3, 1873. His father, Thomas Jefferson Hay- 
 ter, a native of Franklin county, Mo., and a 
 retired citizen of Dallas who has twice crossed 
 the plains, is mentioned at length in another part 
 of this work. His mother, Mary I. (Embree) 
 Hayter, was born in Howard county, Mo., a 
 daughter of C. D. Embree, who crossed the plains 
 in 1844, lived on a donation claim in Polk county 
 from 1845 until 1889, and died in Dallas in 1900, 
 at the age of ninety-four years. 
 
 Until his tenth year Mr. Hayter was reared 
 on the farm, and then located with his parents 
 in Dallas. He was educated in the public schools, 
 subsequently graduating from La Creole Acad- 
 emy. After studying law for a short time in 
 Dallas he became interested in the Clackamas 
 Abstract & Trust Company as compiler of ab- 
 stracts, and at the same time continued the study 
 of law, being admitted to the bar October 9, 1895. 
 Almost immediately he entered upon a prac- 
 tice of law in partnership with Judge J. J. 
 Daly, of Dallas, an association amicably and 
 satisfactorily continued until 1900, since which 
 time Mr. Hayter has practiced alone. He is a 
 member and ex-vice president of the State Bar 
 Association, and is variously connected with the 
 social organizations in which his town and county 
 abound. Fraternally he is a member of Jennings 
 Lodge No. 9, A. F. and A. M., of which he is 
 past master; Ainsworth Chapter No. 17, R. A. 
 M. and Oregon Consistory No. 1, in Portland 
 and Al Kader Temple N. M. S. In politics Mr. 
 
 HON. THOMAS J. HAYTER. Prominent 
 among the pioneers now living retired in Dallas 
 is Hon. Thomas J. Hayter, owner of a twenty- 
 acre tract of land in the town, and of an eighty- 
 acre farm three miles southwest. Mr. Hayter, 
 who is an ex-member of the Oregon state legisla- 
 ture, an intrepid Indian fighter, and a former 
 extensive stock-raiser, was born in Franklin 
 county, Mo., February 8, 1830, and comes of 
 English forefathers long identified with the south. 
 The establisher of the family in America was his 
 paternal great-grandfather, who came from Eng- 
 land and settled first in Maryland, removing in 
 later life to Virginia, where his death occurred. 
 The paternal grandfather, Abraham, was born 
 in Maryland, and became a planter in Washing- 
 ton county, Va., whence he removed to his last 
 home in Campbell county, east Tennessee. James 
 H. Hayter, the father of Thomas J., was born in 
 Washington county, Va., in 1793, and removed 
 to Franklin county, Mo., about 1816. Here he 
 started a saw and flour-mill in the wilderness, 
 which was the pioneer industry of its kind in 
 that section, and at which he worked up to the 
 time of his death in 1856, from cholera, at the 
 age of sixty-three years. Ten days after his 
 death, his faithful wife, who was formerly Sarah 
 Fulkerson, cf Lee county, Va., succumbed to 
 the scourge. Of their ten children, seven grew 
 to maturity, and two are living. W. L. Hayter 
 being now a resident of Coos county, Ore., an 
 Oregon pioneer of 1854, and Thomas J. 
 
 The seventh child in his father's family, 
 Thomas J. Hayter spent an uneventful youth 
 on the Missouri farm, the first interesting period 
 in his life being the preparation to cross the 
 plains. About nineteen years old, he was just the 
 age to appreciate all the proposed change meant, 
 and he entered with zest into equipping for the 
 departure, which took place April 15, 1849. Via 
 the old California trail, past Fort Hall, Humboldt, 
 and Truckee the train made its way, and upon 
 arriving in Sacramento he found employment 
 as a teamster until going to the mines, August 
 28, 1849. He must scarcely have realized his 
 mining expectations, for in the fall of 1850 he 
 came to Oregon on the schooner Creole, twenty- 
 three days being consumed on the trip between 
 San Francisco and the mouth of the Columbia. 
 The Little Columbia, the first steamer on the 
 river, brought him to Portland, whence he came 
 immediatelv to Polk countv, and took up a claim. 
 This he disposed of in 1852, and the following 
 
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 243 
 
 jrear returned to Missouri, via San Francisco, 
 Panama, Ihe steamer Philadelphia to New 
 
 Orleans, thence up the Mississippi and Missouri 
 to his old home, having been on the route from 
 San Francisco twenty-two and a half days. 
 
 In the spring of 1854 Mr. Hayter again 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, taking the 
 same route to Raft river, and from there branch- 
 ing off onto the old Oregon trail. On this trip 
 he took more time, in order to safely get through 
 with a large herd of cattle. He arrived at the 
 first house in Oregon September 4, 1854, and 
 soon after was located on a claim three miles 
 west of Dallas, where he engaged in the stock 
 business until 1856. In the fall of 1855 he vol- 
 unteered in Company G, First Oregon Regiment, 
 and served in the Yakima Indian war until an 
 annoying bronchial trouble forced him to retire 
 from the service. Having been honorably dis- 
 charged he returned to his stock farm, and after 
 selling it in 1856 located on a farm east of Dallas 
 upon which he farmed until 1884. Since then he 
 has lived retired on his farm of twenty acres in 
 the city, although he still owns and derives a 
 substantial income from a farm of eighty acres. 
 
 In May, 1856, in Polk county, Ore., Mr. Hay- 
 ter married Mary I. Embree, who was born in 
 Howard county. Mo., in February, 1838, and who 
 is still living. Mrs. Hayter is the mother of six 
 children, four of whom are living: Eugene 
 is deputy sheriff of Polk county ; Mark is a den- 
 tal surgeon of Dallas ; James Carey is editor and 
 proprietor of the Polk County Observer; and 
 Oscar is an attorney-at-law. Mr. Hayter has 
 been a Democrat for many years, and served in 
 the state legislature of 1876. He is a member 
 of the State Pioneer Association. 
 
 GEORGE M. GOOCH. There is no citi- 
 zen in Dallas who takes a deeper or more 
 sincere interest in the welfare and progress 
 of the city and county than does George M. 
 Gooch, and while conducting a successful 
 business enterprise he always finds time and 
 opportunity to aid in the promotion of any 
 movement for the general good. A native of 
 Daviess county, Mo., he was born April 24, 
 1849, an d since 1879 nas been a resident of 
 Oregon. His father, William Gooch, was 
 born in eastern Tennessee and the grand- 
 father was of German lineage and belonged 
 to an old Tennessee family. He died in that 
 state. His son, William Gooch, removed from 
 Tennessee to Daviess county, Mo., becoming 
 one of the early settlers there. Entering land 
 from the government he improved a farm 
 which subsequently he sold and then took up 
 his abode in Fannen county, Tex., where for 
 five years he carried on agricultural pursuits; 
 
 but being a Union man, believing firmly in 
 the right of the nation to preserve the Union, 
 he found that he was not welcome in the 
 south and with his family started in 1861 to 
 return to Missouri. At the outbreak of the 
 Civil war, while on his way northward, he- 
 was robbed by a band of guerrillas, who took 
 his horses, leaving him only one wagon, lie 
 had, however, hid some money and with this 
 he was enabled to purchase some oxen and 
 continued on his way to Johnson county, Mo. 
 He then began merchandising in Fayetteville 
 and was also appointed postmaster of that 
 place, but before the end of the war his store 
 was raided by bushwhackers, who supposed 
 he had money hidden. At night they took 
 him from his home, tied a bed cord around 
 his neck and wrapped one end around a sad- 
 dle horn, with which they dragged him for 
 a long distance. He managed to save his 
 life by catching hold of the rope and keeping 
 the noose from tightening around his neck. 
 He ran for a time, but finally fell and was 
 dragged on the ground. He had given the 
 robbers all the money he had, but, supposing 
 he had hidden some, they took this method 
 to make him reveal its hiding place. After 
 dragging him for some distance they returned 
 him to his own gate and were preparing to 
 repeat the operation when they were fright- 
 ened away by what they supposed to be the 
 approach of federal troops. In time Mr. 
 Gooch regained his health and continued his 
 duties as postmaster and merchant in Fay- 
 etteville until he sold his interests and re- 
 moved to Grundy county, Mo., where for 
 twenty years he was engaged in farming. On 
 the expiration of that period he retired to pri- 
 vate life and resided in Trenton, Mo., until 
 his death at the age of seventy-seven years. 
 His wife bore the maiden name of Vina Man- 
 nering. She was born in eastern Tennessee 
 and died in early womanhood in Missouri. 
 There were five children of this marriage: 
 John J., who is living in Seattle, Wash. ; 
 George M. ; J. H., a millwright of Springfield, 
 Ore.; A. K., of Trenton, Mo.: and O. J., of 
 Kentucky. 
 
 George M. Gooch spent the greater part of 
 his youth and young manhood in Missouri, 
 but on account of the war he received limited 
 educational advantages. In his youth he as- 
 sisted his father in the store and in the post- 
 office and when nineteen years of age re- 
 moved to Trenton, Mo., where he was ap- 
 prenticed to a miller and followed the trade at 
 that place for five years. He afterward spent 
 two years in a mill in Linn county, Mo., and 
 later was employed for one year in the 
 Princeton mill in Mercer county, Mo., following 
 
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 which on account of his health, he went to 
 Grundy county, Mo., where he engaged in farm- 
 ing. He found the outdoor life of field and 
 meadow beneficial, and after two years fully re- 
 gained his health. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Gooch was married in Grin- 
 nell, Mo., to Miss Amelia Hein, who was 
 born on a vessel while her parents were sail- 
 ing around Cape Horn. Her father, Andrew 
 Hein, was a native of Germany and went to 
 South America, but afterward made his way 
 to New York and subsequently to Missouri, 
 where he was engaged in blacksmithing and 
 wagon-making. His last days were spent in 
 Aumsville, Ore., and his wife died in Salem, 
 this state. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gooch were born five 
 children: Bertha, preparing for teaching; 
 Bessie, Freddie, Cordie, and one who died in 
 infancy. About the time of his marriage Mr. 
 Gooch removed to Burt county, Neb., and was 
 employed in the Lyons flour mill for one year, 
 and in 1879 he arrived in Salem, Ore., and 
 obtained the position of second miller in the 
 Salem Flouring Mill, where he remained for 
 two years. On the expiration of that period 
 he went to AVhitman county, Wash., where 
 he purchased a farm which he broke and im- 
 proved, successfully engaging in the cultiva- 
 tion of wheat. He had two hundred and 
 thirty-three acres of land, all of which was 
 tillable and for twenty-two years he was a 
 successful farmer. He still owns that prop- 
 erty, which is now rented. In 1899 he took 
 up his abode in Salem and in October, 1900, 
 he came to Dallas. Here he purchased the 
 old Felix Noel mill in partnership with his 
 brother, J. H., under the firm name of Gooch 
 Brothers. In 1902 the brother sold his interest to 
 C. F. Hein and the firm of Hein & Company 
 was organized with Mr. Gooch as manager 
 of the business. The mill is supplied with a 
 full roller process and its motive power is 
 water and one forty horse-power engine. The 
 plant is located at the head of Mill street and 
 has a capacity of fifty barrels daily. The 
 leading brand of flour is called "Snow White" 
 and on account of the excellence of the prod- 
 uct the firm enjoys a large trade in the valley. 
 In addition to the mill they have a warehouse 
 adjoining. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Gooch is connected with 
 the Artisans. In politics he is independent, 
 but in early manhood he cast his first vote for 
 Abraham Lincoln in support of his war 
 policy. Both he and his wife are devoted and 
 loyal members of the Baptist Church, in 
 which he is serving as a trustee. 
 
 FRANK E. MEYER, assessor of Polk county, 
 and one of the most popular and promising of the 
 younger generation of politicians in the state, was 
 born on a farm in this county, November 9, 1865, 
 the youngest of the ten children born to Hon. 
 John Henry and Elizabeth (Shanklin) Meyer, the 
 latter of whom was born in Kentucky, January 
 5, 1826, and at an early day removed to the 
 state of Illinois. 
 
 Plon. John Henry Meyer, one of the pioneers 
 of Oregon, was born between the towns of Oster- 
 coplin and Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany, No- 
 vember 30, 1818, a son of Gerhart H. and Eliza- 
 beth (Piete) Meyer, also natives of Hanover. 
 Gerhard H. Meyer brought his wife, four daugh- 
 ters and three sons, to America, and on the 
 way one of the sons died in the sailing vessel and 
 was buried at sea. Mr. Meyer settled nearQuincy, 
 111., in 1833, but was n,ot permitted to long enjo> 
 the advantages of his adopted country, for his 
 own death and that of his wife occurred the year 
 after their arrival in the country. At the time 
 of this catastrophy John Henry and his older sis- 
 ter were the main props upon which the other 
 children depended, and they managed to cling 
 together, and make the best of a disconsolate sit- 
 uation. In time John Henry made his way to 
 Missouri, where he married, and two children 
 were born, and whence he started across the 
 plains with his family and brother William. The 
 train in that early day experienced many hard- 
 ships and had considerable trouble with the Indi- 
 ans, and in addition the two children, both of 
 whom were boys, succumbed and died. Mr. 
 Meyer took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres six miles north of Dallas, which 
 he improved and turned into a paying investment, 
 and to which he added until he owned about 
 fifteen hundred acres. With the exception of 
 three hundred and sixty acres retained for his 
 own use he divided his property among his chil- 
 dren, all of whom were thus enabled to start in 
 life under promising conditions. His death July 
 14, 1900, removed a man highly honored in the 
 community, and who possessed more than ordin- 
 ary ability and public spiritedness. A life-long 
 Democrat, he served his party in various capaci- 
 ties, but in none which reflected greater credit 
 upon himself and district than as a legislator for 
 two terms. His wife is an active member of the 
 Presbyterian Church and Mr. Meyer contributes 
 generously towards the maintenance of that de- 
 nomination. His wife died January 23, 1899, at 
 the age of seventy-three. The next oldest of the 
 children after those who died on the plains was 
 John, who was drowned in the Umatilla river, 
 November 21, 1877, and who was ex-county 
 judge and ex-school superintendent; George, liv- 
 ing on a part of the old homestead, served as 
 representative for two terms ; Sarah is the wife 
 

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 S I Riggs, of Salem; Amanda J. is now 
 Mrs Hastings, oi Polk county; Mary is the wife 
 
 Mr. White, of Polk county; James lives on 
 .1 part of the old farm ; and Anan is a farmer near 
 Fall City. 
 
 At the age of fifteen years Frank E. Meyer 
 came into possession oi one hundred and thirteen 
 acres oi land, which was a part of the old home- 
 
 .1. ami which he fanned and cultivated until 
 removing into Dallas in the fall of 1900. In 
 lime. [900, he was nominated on the Democratic 
 ticket for county assessor, overcoming a Repub- 
 lican majority of one hundred and fifty. So cred- 
 itable and altogether satisfactory was his admin- 
 istration of the affairs of the assessor's office that 
 he was re-elected in .May. 1902, his term of 
 service to continue until January, 1905. In 
 Dallas. Ore., Mr. .Meyer was united in marriage 
 with Mary Fsta Holman, who was born in 
 Polk county, Ore., a daughter of Hardy 
 Holman. extended mention of whose life 
 may he found in another part of this 
 work. Two children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Meyer. Floyd Clair and Roy Merle. Mr. 
 Meyer is fraternally identified with the Woodmen 
 of the World. His wife is a member of the Wo- 
 men of Woodcraft. Mr. Meyer is progressive, 
 public-spirited, genial, and thoroughly in accord 
 with western ideas and enterprises. In the dis- 
 charge of his duties as assessor he is ably assisted 
 by his gifted wife. 
 
 JOHX MIXTO has every claim for represen- 
 tation in the history of the Willamette valley, 
 both from his noble birth and long residence on 
 the Pacific slope, and also for his long public 
 and semi-public service, which of itself has made 
 him a prominent character in the history of the 
 state. His life has been crowded with events of 
 importance, which have followed one another 
 in close succession, and his intimate connection 
 with all the leading agricultural issues of our 
 country has won for him merited distinction. 
 He is now living a retired life at his home in 
 Salem, Ore., and still enjoys life at the ad- 
 vanced age of eighty-one years. 
 
 Mr. Minto is a descendant of a prominent 
 Scotch family. His great-grandfather on the 
 paternal side was born in Scotland and went to 
 England as steward of a large estate. His 
 grandfather's name was John Minto and this 
 name has since been handed down from 
 father to son. The grandfather spent the 
 early years of his life in gathering the money 
 that would carry him and his family to 
 America, of which he had read so much. 
 lie started with all the family except his son 
 John, the father of the subject of this review, 
 who remained for a time in England, and a sis- 
 ter who bad emigrated to America in 1818. But 
 
 he never reached his destination nor realized his 
 
 hopes, as he went down in the wreck oi the 
 brig Enterprise off Newcastle in [820, all oi die 
 
 family being rescued except himself and an in- 
 fant nephew whom he had in his arms. 
 
 John Minto, the father of our subject, was 
 born at W'vlani, England, on the Tyne, about 
 nine miles from the city of Newcastle. ' The same 
 house in which he was born was also the bulb 
 place of his eldest son, who is the subject of 
 this review. The father was a coal miner b\ 
 occupation and by trade a gunsmith. His mar- 
 riage with .Mary Hutchinson, who was of Eng- 
 lish ancestry, took place in England, and in 
 1840 they, with their family, came to America, 
 stopping first at Pottsville and later at Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., where for several years the father 
 followed coal mining. Earl}- in 1848 the fam- 
 ily removed to Iowa, where the mother's death 
 took place. The father lived to be fifty-five years 
 old and died in 1855 of tropical fever on the 
 Caribbean Sea, within a day's sail of Aspinwall, 
 while on his way to join his son in Oregon. 
 
 Nine children were born into the parental fam- 
 ily, namely: Margaret, John (of this review), 
 Man-, William H, Jane, Annie, Robert H, Isa- 
 bell and Sarah. Margaret was twice married, 
 her first husband being Mr. Haig, by whom she 
 had one son, John Haig, who was a soldier in 
 the Civil war ; her second union was with 
 Thomas Craig, a veteran of the Civil war, and 
 her death took place in Iowa. Mary died in 
 Pennsylvania in 1880; her husband. Henry 
 Ramsey, was also a soldier in the Civil war. 
 William H. was drowned in the river Tyne, 
 England, when a youth of thirteen years. Jane 
 is the widow of Fred Richards and resides at 
 Tipton, Iowa ; Annie is the widow of William 
 Arnott and formerly lived at Springfield. Ohio, 
 but is now r a resident of Kansas. Robert H. re- 
 sponded nobly to our country's first call for troops 
 at the outbreak of the Civil war, and was a vol- 
 unteer in the First Ohio Cavalry, serving three 
 months; after receiving an honorable discharge 
 he at once re-enlisted in another cavalry troop 
 and served until the termination of the war ; be 
 died in Indian Territory. Isabell, the first child 
 of this family who was born in America, 
 married Alonzo T. Wain. Sr., and resides at 
 Hawkeye, Iowa. Sarah became the wife of 
 Lucien P. Fullerton ; at the time of her death 
 in Oregon she owned the donation claim four 
 miles south of Salem, Ore., originally taken up 
 bv her brother John, and the same is now owned 
 by her sister's son. Alonzo T. Wain. Jr. 
 
 Tohn Minto. whose name heads this article, 
 was born October 10. 1822, in England. He ac- 
 companied 'he family to America and his early 
 education was irregular and defective, owing 
 chieflv to the moderate circumstances of the fam- 
 
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 ily as well as to the inferior schools of those 
 early times. From his eighth to his twenty- 
 second year, he found, almost steady employment 
 in the mines, digging coal after he had passed 
 his eighteenth year. He finally left Pittsburg, in- 
 tending to go to Iowa, but when he reached St. 
 Louis he conceived the idea of going to Oregon. 
 He bad read so much about frontier life that the 
 very name of Oregon had a peculiar fascination 
 for him, and finally influenced his decision. 
 Changing boats at St. Louis, where he also 
 bought supplies to cross the great plains, he 
 proceeded to St. Joseph, Mo., where he fell in 
 with the Gilliam Company, which rendezvoused 
 at that place. He contracted with R. W. Mor- 
 rison and drove the leading teams of the Gilliam 
 Company across the plains and Rocky mountains, 
 arriving one month ahead of the balance of the 
 train, and returning, assisted the others on their 
 way. That was in 1844, and he arrived in Ore- 
 gon City October 18, though the balance of 
 the party did not arrive at Linton, their destina- 
 tion, until much later. Early in 1845 ne re ~ 
 turned to The Dalles and drove Capt. R. W. 
 Morrison's cattle to the valley, arriving in March 
 of the same year. 
 
 July 8, 1847, M r - Minto was joined in mar- 
 riage with Martha Ann Morrison, who was born 
 in Montgomery county, Mo., December 17, 1831, 
 a daughter of Capt. R. W. and Nancy (Irwin) 
 Morrison, both of whom died on the 
 Clatsop. They were noble pioneers of 
 that section and both died at the old 
 home farm, which was the original Morri- 
 son donation claim. They both lived to attain the 
 advanced age of eighty-four years, and at their 
 death left a large family, as follows : Martha 
 Ann, who became Mrs. Minto ; Mary E., widow 
 of Hiram Carnahan, residing at Carnahan Sta- 
 tion ; Thomas H. Benton, president of the His- 
 torical Society at Astoria ; John H. and James 
 F., deceased ; Hannah M., wife of Captain Ham- 
 lin; William M. and Jefferson. The three last 
 mentioned reside on a part of the home farm. 
 Soon after his arrival in Oregon Mr. Minto 
 worked for Peter Burnett, making cedar rails, 
 and next assisted in logging for Hunt's saw- 
 mill, near the present site of Clifton. During 
 the vear 1845 he purchased the original Metho- 
 dist Mission claim, and turned his attention to 
 agricultural pursuits. He subsequently sold this 
 farm and took up a donation claim four miles 
 south of Salem, and began immediately to im- 
 prove it, setting out orchards, etc. About this 
 time he began raising sheep, and soon became a 
 leader in that industry. Fine wool sheep were 
 first introduced into Oregon about i860, and 
 being already a prominent sheep-raiser, Mr. 
 Minto paid $512 for an interest in ten head of 
 choice Merinos. From the first he was success- 
 
 ful in this business, and was soon considered 
 an authority on all questions pertaining to sheep. 
 He also contributed many articles on sheep-rais- 
 ing to the leading agricultural papers of the 
 country, and for two years was secretary of the 
 State Agricultural Society. During the second 
 year he was elected by the managers of the so- 
 ciety to edit The Willamette Farmer, devoted 
 wholly to agricultural interests. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Minto was appointed by the 
 county court to go to the mountains and ascer- 
 tain if there was a natural pass into eastern 
 Oregon, as had been reported by some hunters. 
 The report was confirmed, and the pass was 
 named Minto's Pass, in honor of our subject, 
 who personally superintended the work of con- 
 structing a trail. In 1882 he learned from Hon. 
 John B. Waldo that a lower pass existed seven 
 miles south of Minto's pass, and, upon the lat- 
 ter's suggestion, Mr. Minto was furnished with 
 the funds to make a survey, and finally a rail- 
 road was built through this pass over the Cas- 
 cade mountains. 
 
 In politics Mr. Minto is a Republican, though 
 he was originally a Douglas Democrat. He 
 served several terms in the lower house of the 
 state legislature, being elected in 1862, 1868, 
 1880 and 1890. In 1892 he received a commis- 
 sion from the secretary of agriculture to report 
 on the sheep-husbandry in the northwest, em- 
 bracing California, Oregon and Washington. 
 In 1895 he was appointed by Governor Lord as 
 a member of the State Board of Horticulture of 
 Oregon, and shortly afterward was elected Sec- 
 retary of the board and served as such for three 
 and one-half years. He has been a copious 
 writer on every subject connected with farm life, 
 and the management of the Pioneer Association 
 of Oregon selected him to make the presentation 
 speech February 5, 1889, when the life-size por- 
 trait of Dr. John McLoughlin, which now 
 adorns the state house, was presented to the 
 state. It is needless to add that he did not dis- 
 appoint his friends on that occasion, as he is a 
 fluent speaker. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Minto purchased the Island prop- 
 erty, which was then covered with driftwood 
 and undergrowth. Under his management it 
 soon put on an air of thrift, and since 1870 he 
 has made it his home. He owns two hundred 
 and forty-seven acres of land, seven acres being 
 on the east side of the river. 
 
 Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Minto, as follows : John Wilson, Mary E., Rob- 
 ert B., William Jasper, Irwin, Douglas C, Harry 
 Percy, and May. The last-named died in in- 
 fancy, and Irwin and Robert B. died of typhoid 
 fever when eighteen years of age. Mary E. is 
 the wife of Robert C. Halley and they reside on 
 part of Mrs. Minto's donation claim four miles 
 
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 south of Salem. Jasper resides in the latter city. 
 Douglas C. operates the home place and Harry 
 Perc) is prospecting for gold in Alaska. 
 
 Though Mr. MintO is now in his eighty-first 
 year, he has not ceased to think and care for 
 the best interests of Oregon, and his views have 
 often been sought in matters of moment. 
 
 JOHN PORTER. Among the courageous 
 pioneers of Marion county, who put forth their 
 highest efforts toward the upbuilding of the com- 
 munity in which they had located, were Edward 
 Porter and his son John, the subject of this 
 sketch. Coming to Oregon when the country 
 was practically virgin wilderness, they were par- 
 ticipants in and interested witnesses of the rapid 
 transformation of the heavily timbered land into 
 a rich and productive agricultural region, and 
 by every means within their power aided in its 
 growth and advancement. 
 
 Edward Porter was born in 1803. Early in life 
 he engaged in farming in Ohio, where he mar- 
 ried. In 1835 he removed with his family from 
 Ohio to Illinois, settling in Fulton county, wdiere 
 for nearly a score of years he continued farm- 
 ing. In his youth he had learned the trade of 
 steel-smith, and made tools of all kinds, an occu- 
 pation which demanded no small measure of 
 skill. In 1853 he started on the long journey 
 overland, bound for Oregon. He and his family 
 crossed the intervening country with teams and 
 wagons, which were then the only means of land 
 transportation in the west. With his wife and 
 children he came direct to Marion county, and 
 located about five miles southeast of Silverton, 
 on what is known as the Porter donation claim. 
 In common with other pioneers he labored with 
 untiring energy to improve his land, and as the 
 vears rolled by found himself possessed of a 
 comfortable home. Here he resided until after 
 the death of his wife, Anna (Anderson) Porter, 
 who was born in 1805. His remaining years he 
 spent at the home of his youngest son. He lived 
 to be over seventy years of age. 
 
 A native of Vermilion towmship, Richland 
 county, Ohio, John Porter was born October 6, 
 1830, and in that state spent the first five years 
 of his life. Going then with his parents to In- 
 diana, and thence to Fulton county, 111., he was 
 there reared and educated. When his parents 
 started westward in 1853 he accompanied them 
 on their trip across the plains. They were nearly 
 six months journeying with the plodding ox- 
 teams, but had no serious adventures en route. 
 Being young and unmarried he remained at 
 home, assisting in the clearing of the land taken 
 ur> by his father until he reached the age of 
 about twenty-five years, when he took unto him- 
 self a wife and established himself as a house- 
 
 holder on the old Porter donation claim. There 
 he resided until 185*;. In that year he located 
 near Fairfield, on the French Prairie, where he 
 remained until 1864. From that time until the 
 death of his wife in 1897 he resided on the White 
 donation claim. Since 1897 he has made his 
 home with his children. 
 
 Mr. Porter's wife, whose maiden name was 
 Annis White, was born in Indiana, and came 
 with her parents from Missouri to Marion 
 county in 1852. They settled about five miles 
 southeast of Silverton. on the White donation 
 claim. Of the ten children born of their union, 
 one died in infancy. The others are as follows: 
 Allen, residing in Grant county, Ore.; Rene, wife 
 of F. M. Remington, a resident of Idaho ; Ed- 
 ward S., a farmer of Marion county ; Charlotte, 
 wife of E. W. Ross, also a farmer of Marion 
 county ; Anna, wife of R. N. Harrison, of Wash- 
 ington; John H., living not far from the old 
 homestead ; Josie, wife of L. D. Leonard, of 
 Idaho ; Ai, who lives on the home farm ; and 
 Lena, wife of B. H. Davis of Silverton. 
 
 A man of unusual energy and ability, John 
 Porter has met with almost unprecedented suc- 
 cess in his life occupation. Since the beginning 
 of his career he has accumulated a large amount 
 of land, aggregating about sixteen hundred 
 acres, a large part of which is in a good state of 
 cidtivation and yielding him a handsome annual 
 income. Straightforward and honest in all his 
 dealings, he enjoys in a marked degree the con- 
 fidence and good-wdll of all who know him. He 
 is liberal and public spirited, and has taken an 
 active part in the political undertakings of his 
 neighborhood. The record of his entire life has 
 been above reproach, and his name will go down 
 in history as that of one of the earnest, consci- 
 entious, fair-minded and upright men of Marion 
 county. 
 
 O. P. DANNALS. Continuously since 1896 
 O. P. Dannals has served as councilman of the 
 First ward in Albany, and during that time has 
 proved himself a conscientious and painstaking 
 public servant. His reputation as a broad-minded 
 and incorruptible politician goes hand in hand 
 with his standing as one of the substantial busi- 
 ness men of the town, and one who has for years 
 contributed to its material and moral upbuilding. 
 An expert blacksmith and machinist, he stands 
 at the head of his line in this community, and his 
 shop, with its horse-power machinery and mod- 
 ern facilities for doing a large and varied busi- 
 ness, is one of the busiest places in the town. 
 
 Tames Dannals. the father of O. I'., was born 
 in Rochester, X. Y., and by trade is a cabinet- 
 maker and carpenter. As a young man he sa- ■ 
 an opportunity to make a fortune in the mini - 
 
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 of California, but after crossing the plains with 
 ox teams in 1851, and spending a year in mining 
 and prospecting, he gave up the idea of making 
 money rapidly and came to Oregon. Taking up 
 a claim near Eugene in the spring of 1853, he 
 soon after moved into the town and engaged in 
 the furniture business, continuing the same until 
 1862. For a short time following he farmed 
 in the vicinity of Salem, and in 1868 bought a 
 farm, twelve miles south of Albany, in Linn 
 county, where he lived and prospered until 1876. 
 He is now living retired in Albany, where he is 
 well known, and where he has served in the 
 city council. He married Louise Clover, a native 
 of Indiana, and daughter of Paul Clover, who 
 crossed the plains with his family in 1852, settling 
 on a farm in Linn county. Oscar Paul is the 
 oldest of the four sons and four daughters born 
 into this family ; Lucy, the oldest daughter, is the 
 wife of Worth Huston, the present sheriff of 
 Linn county ; Rosa is deceased ; Frank is a painter 
 and decorator in Albany ; James is deceased ; 
 Daisy is now Mrs. Allen, of Washington ; Charles 
 is engaged in painting in Albany ; and Laura is 
 living at home. 
 
 Born on the old donation claim near Eugene 
 February 5, 1854, Oscar Paul was educated in 
 the public schools, and while still a boy, learned 
 the cabinet-maker's trade from his father. Later 
 he was apprenticed to a blacksmith and machinist, 
 and at the expiration of his service was amply 
 qualified to look out for himself in any emer- 
 gency. In 1876 he began to farm in Linn county, 
 and in 1878 located in Albany, where his father 
 was running a furniture factory, and where he 
 himself worked as a cabinet-maker and uphol- 
 sterer. In 1882 he removed to east Oregon and 
 worked at blacksmithing at Dufur, Wasco coun- 
 ty, returning to Albany in 1882, and establishing 
 his present shop in one of the most desirable loca- 
 tions in the town. He makes a specialty of horse- 
 shoeing, but besides has a most complete ma- 
 chinist's outfit, both for repairing and manufactur- 
 ing. 
 
 In Linn county Mr. Dannals was united in mar- 
 riage with Alice McCulley, a native daughter of 
 Linn county, and whose father, J. M., is a farmer 
 in Idaho. Five children have been born to Mr, 
 and Mrs. Dannals, the order of their birth being 
 as follows : Elmer J., a conductor with the Cor- 
 vallis & Eastern Railroad ; Clyde, a blacksmith 
 in business with his father ; Nellie, employed with 
 the telephone company ; Floe ; and James. A Re- 
 publican in politics, Mr. Dannals has taken a 
 keen interest in his party's local undertakings, 
 and was elected councilman first in 1896, being 
 re-elected continuously since, the last time in 
 1902. He is fraternally popular, and is identified 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Like 
 
 the majority of men who are thrown much with 
 horses, Mr. Dannals has a keen appreciation of 
 the good points of a horse, and owns some valu- 
 able specimens of this noble animal. In the esti- 
 mation of competent judges the driving horse 
 with which he usually appears is one of the finest 
 to be found in Oregon. A beautiful thorough- 
 bred Arabian, of the kind the Bedouin chiefs 
 rank as deserving a place with their owners in 
 the great hereafter, with a splendidly arched neck 
 and shining sides, it is not surprising that the 
 hand which guides the reins is a kindly and gen- 
 tle one, and that it is numbered among his most 
 valued possessions. 
 
 STIRLING PRICE MUNKERS. Promi- 
 nently identified with the management of the pub- 
 lic affairs of Linn county, S. P. Munkers of Al- 
 bany, occupies the responsible position of county 
 recorder. A native son, he is a worthy repre- 
 sentative of one of the earliest and most hon- 
 ored pioneer families of the Willamette valley, 
 the name of Munkers being conspicuously asso- 
 ciated with its industrial development, and the 
 promotion of its prosperity. He is a son of the 
 late Hon. Thomas McLean Munkers, and was 
 born in Linn county," September 16, 1864. 
 
 Descendant of a distinguished Virginian an- 
 cestry, Mr. Munker's paternal grandfather, Ben- 
 jamin Franklin Munkers, was born and reared 
 in the Old Dominion state, but began his. life 
 work as a farmer in Missouri. Crossing the 
 plains with his family in 1845, he took up a do- 
 nation claim in Marion county, Ore., near Salem, 
 and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until well advanced in years. Removing then to 
 Linn county, he resided in Scio until his death. 
 
 As a boy of fifteen years, Thomas McLean 
 Munkers came with his parents to Oregon from 
 Jackson county, Mo., the place of his birth, mak- 
 ing the journey with ox-teams in 1845. 1° l ^>4^> 
 accompanied by two of his brothers, he rode 
 across the mountains to California, but not being 
 impressed with the country, soon returned to 
 Salem, Ore. During the excitement that fol- 
 lowed the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mills, he 
 again visited California, and while there took 
 part in the Indian war, and was an active par- 
 ticipant in various skirmishes with the savages, 
 both in California and Oregon. After his mar- 
 riage he settled in Linn county, purchasing a 
 farm of four hundred and eighty acres in the 
 forks of the Santiam river. Improving the land, 
 he devoted his attention to the raising of grain 
 and stock until his retirement from active pur- 
 suits, when he settled in Scio, where his death 
 occurred in 1898, at the age of sixty-six years. 
 Active and influential in public matters, he repre- 
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 terms, and served one term as state senator. He 
 was a Democrat in politics, and a member of Un- 
 christian Church. 
 
 Hon. Thomas McLean Munkers was twice 
 
 married. His first wife, whose maiden name 
 was Phoebe Ann Crabtree, was born in Kentucky, 
 a daughter of Washington Crabtree. Her father 
 was an early pioneer of Linn county, taking up a 
 donation claim near Red Hills, at the forks of 
 the Santiam river, where he improved a farm, 
 and also worked at his trade of hlacksmithing 
 and carriage and wagonmaking, as well as manu- 
 facturing plows. He died at the venerable age 
 of ninety-three years, a respected and honored 
 citizen. Mrs. Phoebe Ann (Crabtree) Munkers 
 died at the age of twenty-six years, leaving three 
 children, namely: George \\\. who died in 
 Marion county. Ore., in June, 1902; Sarah I., 
 wife of John Smallman. of Stayton, Ore.; and 
 Stirling i Vice, the subject of this review. For 
 his second wife Mr. Munkers married Mary Jane 
 Chrisman, by whom he had three children, two 
 of whom are now living: Ida, wife of Ed. King, 
 of Salem, Ore.; and I. C. Munkers, of Mohawk, 
 Ore. 
 
 Reared on the home farm, Stirling Price Munk- 
 ers received a practical education in the district 
 schools, remaining beneath the parental roof until 
 attaining his majority. Accepting then' a position 
 as superintendent of the warehouse at Munkers 
 Station, he was associated with G. F. Simpson as 
 a dealer in grain for nine years, and after a time 
 became a partner in the business. Returning 
 to the old homestead. Mr. Munkers had charge 
 of the farm for five years, being successfully em- 
 ployed in grain and stock-raising. Purchasing 
 a farm of his own, he engaged in general farm- 
 ing for three years, when he sold out and re- 
 moved to Scio, and for a time worked at various 
 occupations. Accepting the nomination for coun- 
 ty recorder on the Democratic ticket in June. 
 10.02. Mr. Munkers was elected by a majority of 
 one hundred and fifteen votes, for a term of two 
 years, and took the oath of office on July 7, 
 1902. 
 
 On June 29. 1892, in Albany, Ore., Mr. Munk- 
 ers married Miss Maggie McKnight, who was 
 born in Linn county, of pioneer parents. Two 
 children have blessed their union : Zelpha Ann 
 and Royal Bruce. Mr. Munkers is a member and 
 past chancellor of Scio Lodge No. 36, K. of P. ; 
 and Scio Camp. W. O. W., of which he is past 
 councilor. Politically he is a sound Democrat. 
 Mrs. Munkers is a member of the Cumberland 
 Presbvterian Church. 
 
 MATTHEW SMALL. With southern blood 
 his birthright and southern skies the first he 
 ever looked upon, the father of Matthew Small 
 
 was still a stanch Abolitionist, going even to the 
 length of giving up his home and the pleasant 
 associations of his young manhood to remove 
 from the conditions that were so foreign to his 
 inborn principles. Thomas Henderson Small 
 was born in Wayne county, Ky., October 
 6, 1810, and was reared to the life of a farmer. 
 In that state, December 22, 1831, he married 
 Miss Elizabeth Burnett, who was born in Mer- 
 cer county, Ky., July 14, 1806, and there they 
 continued to make their home for some time. 
 In 1832 they removed to Tennessee. Finding 
 the social conditions there such as he could not 
 endorse, Mr. Small gathered up his worldly goods 
 and with the proverbial ox-team started in 
 September, 1852, on the journey over an un- 
 settled continent. Whatever the remainder of 
 their life was, one year of it was spent as was 
 that of the Israelites of old, in wandering toward 
 a land which they fondly hoped would prove the 
 realization of their dreams. On the trip they 
 had stopped in Gentry county, Mo., where they 
 had remained through the winter, taking up the 
 journey again with the breaking of the cold. 
 They were providentially spared the depreda- 
 tions of the Indians while on the way, reaching 
 Oregon safely September 7, 1853, ana< coming 
 direct to Marion county, where they settled in the 
 Waldo Hills, about four and one-half miles 
 south of Silverton and twelve miles east of Salem. 
 
 Having purchased the squatter's right to 
 property in this locality, Mr. Small at once proved 
 up on the claim, putting upon it all the im- 
 provements that brought it from the wilderness 
 to rank with the farms of this fertile county. 
 His first wife having died on the old donation 
 claim six miles south of Silverton, October 21, 
 1882. after a few years he married Mrs. Fannie E. 
 Green, a native of Missouri, who was born Janu- 
 ary 28, 1839. and died June 30, 1893. By his first 
 marriage he had nine children, three of whom are 
 living as follows : Henry, of California : Matthew, 
 of this review ; and Rhea, living fin the old home- 
 place. Thomas H. Small died May 3, i<)Oi, 
 when over eighty-nine years of age, after a 
 well-spent life, not the least of whose labors 
 was his ministry in the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, he having given about a third of his 
 time to religious work. He was ordained to the 
 ministry in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 
 in eastern Tennessee, about 1832. During the 
 years of his residence in Oregon he performed 
 onerous pastoral duties in various sections of the 
 Willamette valley, and never sought pecuniary 
 reward for his services. He was one of the best 
 known men in the vicinity, and the general es- 
 teem in which he was held has made his name One 
 to be remembered. 
 
 Matthew Small was born October 25, 1836, in 
 Sweetwater. Monroe countv, Tcnn., receiving: 
 
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 his education through the medium of the dis- 
 trict schools, principally in his native state. 
 He journeyed to the west with his parents and 
 remained with them until his marriage, which 
 occurred in Oregon April 2, 1857, uniting him 
 with Miss Mary J. McAlpin, a native of Indiana. 
 Their first home was one mile north of the old 
 home place, but in 1870 they removed to the 
 location where they now live, about a half-mile 
 south of Silverton, on the old mountain road. 
 The house in which the family live was built 
 in 1853. In his farming Mr. Small has always 
 been progressive, endeavoring to bring this in- 
 dustry to a higher standard of excellence and 
 to make it pleasant as well as profitable. In 
 addition to city property Mr. Small and his wife 
 own nine hundred and fifty acres, upon which 
 he is at present engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. He is also interested in fine sheep 
 and goats, being the first man to introduce 
 Angora goats into the Willamette valley. His 
 first wife having died March 9, 1891, at the age 
 of forty-nine years six months and four days, 
 he married Margaret M. Moore, April 5, 1892. 
 She is a native of Ottawa, LaSalle county, 111., 
 and a daughter of William Craig and Margaret 
 Jane (Wauchope) Moore, born respectively in 
 Pennsylvania and Ireland. They died in LaSalle 
 county, 111. By his first union Mr. Small had five 
 children, only three of whom are living: Olivia, 
 wife of Capt. David Craig, of Macleay, Ore. ; 
 Isham B., of Oswego, Ore. ; and Narvesta, wife of 
 James G. Smith, of Silverton. The children by his 
 second marriage are Hugh Talmage and John 
 Quincy. Politically Mr. Small is a supporter of 
 the Prohibition party, and finds his religious 
 home in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 In closing this brief sketch of the life of Mr. 
 Small, it is but just to add that, throughout his 
 entire career, he has been highly esteemed by his 
 fellowmen. The admirable traits in his charac- 
 ter — his probity, his generosity toward others, 
 his fine religious qualities, his public spirit, and 
 the broad view he takes of affairs in general — 
 all contribute to render him one of the most 
 worthy citizens of the Willamette valley. Not 
 only his family, but his many friends and ac- 
 quaintances, view his record with feelings of 
 justifiable pride; and when the time comes that 
 he shall be called from the scene of his earthly 
 labors, his good works will stand perpetually 
 as a monument to the graciousness, honor and 
 unselfishness which have characterized his entire 
 career. 
 
 WILLIAM RALSTON. This honored and 
 worthy pioneer citizen of Linn county. Ore., is 
 passing his sunset days in ease and comfort, en- 
 joying the reward of his early industry and per- 
 
 severance. He has been identified with the in- 
 terests of Linn county for over half a century 
 and has long been recognized as one of its best 
 citizens, aiding and maintaining it in reaching 
 its present position among the first-class com- 
 munities of the state. Pie is a son of Jeremiah 
 and Margaret (Mc Knight) Ralston and was 
 born in Rockville, Parke county, Ind., March 24, 
 1824. 
 
 Jeremiah Ralston was born in Greene county, 
 Ohio, where he stayed until he reached man- 
 hood's years, then moved to Washington county, 
 Ind., where he was joined in wedlock with Mar- 
 garet McKnight. Of the large family of chil- 
 dren afterward reared by them, only three are 
 now living. After residing in Indiana for a 
 number of years they moved to Iowa and located 
 in the city of Burlington, where he engaged in 
 mercantile life until 1847. That year he left 
 Iowa and traveled by ox-teams to Oregon to 
 seek his fortune anew. The train of which he 
 was a member had many difficulties and hard- 
 ships to pass through before reaching his des- 
 tination, for the Indians at The Dalles were 
 troublesome. Upon their safe arrival, however, 
 they located at Lebanon in Linn county and 
 through the years of prosperity that followed 
 he was always numbered among that city's in- 
 habitants until his demise twelve years ago, at 
 an advanced age. He entered the business life 
 of the city and worked his way to the top of 
 the ladder, owning the leading merchandise store 
 of the city at the time of his death. Politically, 
 he was an aggressive supporter of the Demo- 
 cratic party all his life, and in religious affairs 
 belonged to the Methodist Church. His wife, 
 who died in Iowa in 1840, was a member of the 
 Secular Church, now the United Presbyterian. 
 
 William Ralston was the eldest child of his 
 parents. His education was derived from schools 
 in Indiana, where he remained until ten years 
 of age, and from those in Iowa, where the fam- 
 ily later located. After his father moved to Ore- 
 gon, he assisted all he could in managing the 
 store and home place until 1848, at which time 
 he went to the mines of California, and labored 
 there three years. Finding this not as suitable as 
 he had believed, he returned to Oregon 
 and engaged with his father as a partner in the 
 first store ever started in Lebanon. The busi- 
 ness continued five or six years, until William 
 severed his connection to engage in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising near Lebanon. This farm 
 consisted of a donation land claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, which was improved as 
 fully as possible by Mr. Ralston, and became his 
 home place until 1878, the year of his retirement 
 from active life. 
 
 In 1854 he was joined in marriage with Laura 
 Denney, a daughter of Christian and Eliza ( Nick- 
 
POR H< \l r VND BI( >GR \IMIU Al. REC( >RD. 
 
 ■jr. 7 
 
 m) Denney and a native of Muskingum coun- 
 ty, Ohio. Her father was born in Virginia and 
 went to Ohio at an early age, moving in [853 to 
 he settled in Linn county near 
 the <.-ii\ of Lebanon, but lived only a short time 
 after his arrival. 
 
 Mr. Ralston and his wife had five children, of 
 whom onl) two are now living. The deceased 
 
 Franklin, who lived three years; Christian, 
 
 who had attained the age of twenty years, and 
 
 William, who died in infancy. The others are 
 
 a stockman oi Portland, Ore., and 
 
 |oseph 11.. residing in Albany, Ore., where he 
 
 >ws the business of an electrician. The 
 mother died in 1886 at her home in Albany. Mr. 
 Ralston was afterward joined in marriage with 
 Plantena Biddle, the widow of Dr. William Bid- 
 die, who died in May. 1903. Both of these ladies 
 were devoted and active members of the Metho- 
 dist Church which Mr. Ralston also joined some 
 vears ago and has served many years as a trus- 
 tee. 
 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic 
 Order, being a Knight Templar. He has always 
 been a Democrat in his political views, and for 
 three terms served as a councilman of the city 
 of Albany. He is admired bv his fellow-citizens 
 for his integrity and uprightness. 
 
 FRANK EUGEXE ALLEN. The business 
 contingent of Albany is materially augmented by 
 the successful business career of Frank Eugene 
 Allen, engaged in an extensive grocery and hard- 
 ware business since 1888, and a resident of this 
 town since 1886. He was born in Adrian, Lena- 
 wee county. Mich., September 18, 1852, to which 
 part of the country his father, Asa, a native of 
 western New York state, removed at a very early 
 day. The family afterward removed to Rich- 
 mond, Macomb county, wdiere the father cleared 
 a place in the beech and maple wilderness, and 
 built the first house and church in the vicinity. 
 He was one of the very first settlers of that 
 region, and up to the time of his death was an 
 important factor in its development. His wife, 
 Ellen (Sanford) Allen, was born in Wyoming 
 county, X. Y., and died fifteen years after the 
 birth of Frank Eugene, her oldest son. She had 
 four children in all, and of these two sons and 
 one daughter are living 
 
 Equipped with a public school education, 
 Frank Eugene Allen became independent at the 
 age of eighteen, and for a few years worked on 
 farms in different parts of Macomb county. In 
 1876 he came west to Oregon, and at once inaug- 
 urated a successful stock business on a farm near 
 La Grande, Union county, and was thus em- 
 ployed for ten years. With the gains from his 
 stock dealing he located in Albanv in 1886, and 
 
 organized the Pacific Mattress Company, of 
 which he was manager for a couple of years. 
 In 1888 he bought out X. Blodgett, one 
 block west of his present store, and engaged in a 
 grocery business, conducting the same until enter- 
 ing into partnership with I*:. Washburn in 
 1896, when he moved here and added to his orig- 
 inal stock a complete line of hardware. He is 
 successful and thoroughly understands catering 
 to the public and is possessed of the tact and 
 consideration which retains the good will of the 
 public. 
 
 Mr. Allen has been twice married and is the 
 father of five children. His present wife was 
 formerly Rachel Dumond, a native of Sault Ste. 
 Marie, Mich. The children are : Berthe, who 
 is Mrs. Whitlark of La Grande; George, who 
 died in Stockton, Cal., in 1902.; Elmer, who is 
 clerking in Spokane, Wash. ; Ruth and Donald. 
 Fraternally Mr. Allen is one of the best known 
 men in the Willamette valley, and few have ex- 
 ceeded him in the extent of honors conferred. 
 In 1884 he became a member of the La Grange 
 Lodge No. 41, A. F. & A. M., and is now a 
 member and past master of St. John's Lodge No. 
 62. In 1896 he became high priest of Bavlev 
 Chapter Xo. 8, Royal Arch Masons, and in 1898 
 became eminent commander of Temple Com- 
 mandery Xo. 3, K. T. In 1896 be was elected 
 grand junior warden of the Grand Commandery 
 of Oregon and September 25, 1902, was elected 
 grand commander of the Grand Commandery of 
 Oregon. He is also a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias, of which he is past chancellor ; and 
 the Woodmen of the World. For many years 
 Mr. Allen has been connected with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, of which he is steward. lie 
 is a member of the Alco Club, and politically is 
 identified with the. Republican partv. Mr. Allen 
 is the sole architect of his fortune, and his quiet 
 and unostentatious rise to prominence is both 
 to be commended and emulated. 
 
 CHARLES SCOTT. The name of Scott 
 has been indelibly associated with the rise and 
 progress of Marion county, and the development 
 of one of the most important industries in the 
 entire valley of the Willamette. Robert II. Scott, 
 father of Charles Scott, a detailed outline of 
 whose career appears on other pages in this 
 volume, was for many years one of the most 
 prominent and highly esteemed citizens of the 
 county, and accomplished as much, if not more. 
 than any other individual toward the promotion 
 of the industrial interests of the community. The 
 example he set, and his firm principles of strict 
 integrity, determination, unflagging industry, and 
 public-spirited efforts toward the advancement 
 of the general welfare of Scott's Mills and Wood- 
 
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 burn, where the most active years of his life 
 were spent, doubtless proved a source of great 
 inspiration to his sons, who have striven to emu- 
 late their worthy sire in all those characteristics 
 which combined to render him a conspicuous 
 figure in the valley for so many years. 
 
 Charles Scott received from his father an herit- 
 age which has enabled him to compete success- 
 fully with other captains of industry in the great 
 northwest. He became one of the most expert 
 millers in Oregon while still a young man, and 
 although at the present time various worthy 
 interests have resulted in his abandoning the full 
 control of the mills his father established in 
 Woodburn, he has always been associated with 
 the trade. He is the fifth of the ten children 
 born to Robert H. and Ann (West) Scott, and 
 was born at Westport, Ore., November 5, 1864. 
 He was favored with excellent educational ad- 
 vantages. After completing his rudimentary 
 training in the public schools, he entered the 
 Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, 
 to which he was appointed as a student by T. W. 
 Davenport, of Silverton, Ore. After three years 
 spent in this institution, he entered the Portland 
 Business College, from which he was graduated 
 March 10, 1886. While a youth he had assisted 
 his father with his books, and in other work about 
 the mill, and gradually became interested in 
 saw-milling. For two years he acted in the 
 capacity of manager of the plant at Scott's 
 Mills. He then removed to Woodburn and 
 engaged in the milling business with his father, 
 and for several years managed his interests in 
 that town. 
 
 In later years Mr. Scott has become identified 
 with various other important interests. Mining 
 has demanded a great deal of his time and atten- 
 tion. He owns the controlling interest in the 
 Esmeralda gold and quartz mine in the state of 
 Sonora, Mexico, which contains a ledge vary- 
 ing in width from two to six feet, and has been 
 worked to a depth of sixty feet. He is also inter- 
 ested in mines in Montana, seven miles north of 
 the National Park, in Sweet Grass county. These 
 are both quartz and placer, one of the former 
 being the Hidden Treasure, which has been incor- 
 porated for $10,000,000. Another line of activity 
 has occupied no little of his time and energy. 
 At Scott's Mills he owns forty acres of land 
 upon which he is raising large quantities of 
 prunes, pears, apples and other fruits. He also 
 owns two hundred acres of farming land near 
 Scott's Mills which he devotes to general farming 
 and stock raising. 
 
 At Glad Tidings, Ore., June 21, 1893, Mr. 
 Scott was united in marriage with Lulu Shaver, 
 a native of that town, and a daughter of Alfred 
 H. and Margaret (Ridings) Shaver. Her father, 
 who was born in Kentuckv. came to Oregon in 
 
 1 85 1, crossing the plains with ox-teams, and 
 locating in the Waldo Hills. Subsequently he 
 moved to Glad Tidings, where he and his wife 
 passed the remainder of their days. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Scott are the parents of one son — Alfred 
 Merle. 
 
 Mr. Scott was reared in the faith of the Demo- 
 cracy, but with the characteristic breadth of mind 
 by which he levels all things, he has developed an 
 independence of thought in political matters. 
 Fraternally he is a member of Woodburn Lodge 
 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 Mr. Scott is a man of pronounced business 
 ability and of unquestioned integrity, and he 
 wields an important influence upon all public 
 undertakings in his adopted city. Numerous 
 occasions have arisen during the years of his 
 maturity when the opportunity of exhibiting a 
 fine public spirit has presented itself to him, and 
 he has never failed to assist in the promotion of 
 such causes as have been inspired by a desire to 
 advance the welfare of the people. Though a 
 very busy man, he does not show an inclination 
 to neglect the finer ideas of humanity, but, by his 
 advice and example, encourages the best which 
 an ambitious communitv demands. 
 
 JOHN BALDWIN TEAL. Since coming to 
 his present farm in 1880 John Baldwin Teal has 
 advanced steadily to the fore in county affairs, 
 and as a politician and lumberman has gained an 
 enviable reputation, being the first lumberman to 
 invade this section of Polk county. His property 
 is fortunately well adapted to lumbering, being 
 heavily wooded, and he has added to his original 
 purchase of one hundred and sixty acres, until 
 he is the owner of six hundred and forty acres of 
 valuable timber land. For the first ten years of his 
 residence here he made rails and shakes, and be- 
 ing successful he branched out into the saw and 
 planing-mill business, building the first mills 
 of this part of Polk county in 1891. Since then 
 the hum of machinery has broken the former still- 
 ness of the surrounding country. Shipments are 
 made at the rate of the mill's capacity, which is 
 ten thousand feet per day. A modern residence, 
 fine barns and outbuildings, and a complete gen- 
 eral farming outfit, facilitate one of the most 
 ambitious and far-reaching projects in this part 
 of Polk county. 
 
 This genial and popular miller and farmer is a 
 native of New York state, and was born at Utica, 
 May 5, 1849. As ^ aT back as authentic records 
 show, his ancestors pursued their various voca- 
 tions in Yorkshire, England, where Charles Teal, 
 the paternal grandfather, was born, and where 
 his son, Thomas Teal, the father of John, was 
 also born. The father emigrated with his wife, 
 Elizabeth (Baldwin) Teal, to America, in the 
 
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 261 
 
 .spring of 1840. He was possessed of considerable 
 skill as a stationary engineer, although he had 
 little money, and no influence to assist him on this 
 side of the water. Locating in Utica, he worked 
 
 at his trade for souk- months, and in 1851 re- 
 moved to Illinois, locating in Scott county, where 
 he also followed his trade until the outbreak of 
 the Civil war. Enlisting at the age of thirty- 
 nine in Company K. Fourteenth Illinois Volun- 
 teer Infantry, as a private, he was destined to be 
 enrolled among the fallen heroes of that memor- 
 able strife, and fell at the battle of Pittsburg 
 Landing. April 6, [862. lie was survived by 
 his wife, who died in Florida in the fall of 1886, 
 at the age ^\ eighty-four years. She was the 
 mother of four children, three sons and one 
 daughter, of whom Charles is a potter by trade, 
 and a resident of Macomb. 111.; Susan, deceased 
 wife of (i. ]'>. Campbell, of Upshire county, Fla. ; 
 and W. IL. deceased. 
 
 When the father went to the war John Bald- 
 win was bound out for his board and four dollars 
 a month, and while thus serving, supplemented 
 his rather meager common school education by 
 attending night school. At the age of seventeen 
 he apprenticed to a carriage-maker, serving four 
 years, and in 1870 he came over the Union Pa- 
 cific Railroad to Oregon, locating at Dallas, where 
 he followed his trade for ten years. In 1880, as 
 heretofore stated, he came to his present farm, 
 bringing with him his wife and children, the for- 
 mer of whom. L'rsula A. (Huffman) Teal, was 
 born in Virginia. June 5, 1852, a daughter of 
 John A. Huffman, who died in Kansas City in 
 1891, at the age of seventy-four years. Ursula 
 A. Huffman came to Oregon in 1870 with Nathan 
 P>aker and his wife, and her marriage with Mr 
 Teal occurred in 1871. She is the mother of 
 eleven children, nine of whom are living: Charles 
 D., at home; Annie B., the wife of Abie Brown, 
 of the vicinity of Falls City ; William A. ; James 
 E. : Chester O. : John B.. Jr. ; Xova A. ; Ira L. ; 
 and Orva P. 
 
 Besides saw-milling and general farming, Mr. 
 Teal is interested in the raising of Angora goats, 
 and has about two hundred and fortv head at the 
 present time. He has taken a prominent part 
 in Republican politics, has been school director 
 and road supervisor many terms, and since 1901 
 has served as county commissioner. Fraternally 
 he is well known and popular, and is identified 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 the Knights of the Maccabees of Fall Citv. He 
 is a capable and far-sighted business man. a 
 scientific agriculturist, and successful stock- 
 raiser, and he may be counted on to further with 
 counsel or practical assistance any project which 
 has for its object the maintenance of the well- 
 being of the community. 
 
 HON. JOHN W. O )WLS. The name of 
 
 Hon. John \V. Cowls is inseparably associated 
 with the earl) educational, judicial, mercantile 
 and financial development of Yamhill county, 
 
 and his death, November 24, [896, removed from 
 accustomed haunts and innumerable friends a 
 noble, versatile and well-adjusted personality. 
 During very early colonial days his emigrating 
 ancestors settled in Massachusetts, where was 
 born his paternal grandfather. Adonijah. on. 
 the stanch supporters of colonial independence 
 during the Revolutionary war. This patriotic 
 sire removed in later life to New York state, 
 where his son, Cyrus, the father of John \\\. was 
 born. The latter married Rachel White, a native 
 of New York, and whose people were also early 
 settlers in Massachusetts, and devoted members 
 of the Methodist Church. As far back as au- 
 thentic records go, die male members of the 
 Cowls family have been fraternally associated 
 with the Masons. 
 
 A native of Onondaga county, N. Y., Hon. 
 John W. Cowls was born November 3, 1823, and 
 was educated at the De Renter Institute and the 
 Pompey Hill Academy. The knowledge thus 
 gained was applied to educational work, in which 
 he engaged in his native state, and in connection 
 with farming, after his removal to Ohio, in 1840. 
 From Wisconsin, which was his home for five 
 years, Mr. Cowls crossed the plains to California 
 in 1852, and though he was moderately success- 
 ful in prospecting and mining in the vicinity of 
 Placerville, failing health interfered with his 
 cherished plans, and compelled his removal to 
 the more bracing climate of Oregon. At no time 
 of large proportions, his available assets were 
 soon diminished to $2.50. and in order to replen- 
 ish his depleted finances he earnestly sought em- 
 ployment as a teacher. In passing, one day. he 
 encountered Zebedee Sheldon in his yard, who, 
 reckoning before consulting his wife, arranged 
 very favorable terms with the disconsolate 
 scholar for the education of his six children. 
 The bottom falling out of this arrangement. Mr. 
 Cowds offered to teach the children a few days 
 for his room and board, and so favorably im- 
 pressed the parents with his worth, that his serv- 
 ices were retained for some time. Two of the 
 boys thus instructed developed into physicians, 
 one locating in Salem and the other in Eugene 
 City. After three months in the Sheldon home. 
 Mr. Cowls secured a school two and a half miles 
 from the present site of McMinnville. and at that 
 time but few and widely separated settlers inhab- 
 ited the region, the children for the most pari 
 arriving- for their tuition on horseback, and in 
 their general lives experiencing deprivations un- 
 thought of by the searchers after knowledge of 
 to-day. 
 
 This particular school was recalled by Mr. 
 
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 Cowls as the center from which radiated his later 
 success, for he was thus thrown into intercourse 
 with the older members of the community, who 
 quickly arrived at an appreciation of his abilities. 
 Though still continuing to teach, he was able 
 also to fulfill his duties as county auditor, an 
 office to which he was elected after the first meet- 
 ing of the Republicans in Oregon in 1857. When 
 the state constitution was adopted, he was elected 
 county clerk, and afterward served for eight 
 years as county judge, during the latter office 
 engaging also in farming three miles northwest 
 of McMinnville. His special fitness for official 
 responsibility being fully demonstrated, Mr. 
 Cowls was nominated and elected to the state 
 senate, and during the session admirably main- 
 tained the best interests of those who had worked 
 in his behalf. Beginning with 1864, Mr. Cowls 
 operated a mercantile establishment in McMinn- 
 ville, in partnership with James R. Bean, but 
 after a year and a half, returned to his farm, 
 ostensibly to remain for the rest of his life. How- 
 ever, his ambition to accomplish largely had by 
 no means diminished, for in 1888 he established 
 the McMinnville National Bank, of which insti- 
 tution he was the honored and capable president 
 for the balance of his life. The impress of his 
 sterling integrity pervaded this developing enter- 
 prise, and invested it with a substantiality not 
 exceeded by any of its kind in the county. Be- 
 sides owning the building in which the bank is 
 housed, Mr. Cowls otherwise contributed to the 
 structural development of McMinnville, and 
 after erecting the first residence, in 1865, when 
 few people had as yet identified their lot with the 
 embryo town, built -several residences and public 
 buildings. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Cowls was formerly Mrs. 
 Lucretia Martin, and of this union there was 
 born a daughter, Mary, who died at the age of 
 two and a half years. The present Mrs. Cowls 
 was formerly the wife of James F. Bewley, men- 
 tioned at length in another part of this work, and 
 she was, before her first marriage, Lucy E. 
 Graves. 
 
 COL. JAMES B. GRAVES. Among the 
 Oregon pioneers of 1847 the name of Col. James 
 B. Graves is worthy of prominent mention. His 
 ability for public service was soon recognized, 
 and his valuable assistance as a member of the 
 territorial legislature gained him great promi- 
 nence. He was born in Virginia in 1796, and 
 came of English ancestry. The family was es- 
 tablished in America by Thomas Graves, the 
 father of James B., who came to the land of the 
 oppressed in time to assist in making it the land 
 of the free. He settled in Virginia, and in time 
 owned large landed estates, his enlistment in the 
 
 Revolutionary war covering many of the impor- 
 tant battles of that memorable time. From Vir- 
 ginia he removed to Kentucky, and from there to 
 Warren county, Mo. 
 
 Before the removal of the family to Missouri 
 James B. Graves married Diana Newton, a na- 
 tive of Kentucky, and she became the mother of 
 nine children. In Missouri Mr. Graves was a 
 member of the state militia, for meritorious serv- 
 ice in which he gained the rank of colonel. Dis- 
 content in the middle west led to plans for re- 
 moval to the far northwest, and in 1846 the old- 
 est son and daughter joined a train across the 
 plains, the father, mother and five children fol- 
 lowing the next year. After spending two 
 months in the vicinity of what is now McMinn- 
 ville, the father took up a donation claim, which 
 has since been in the possession of the family, 
 and which is located one mile west of Sheridan. 
 As may be imagined, no country possessed fewer 
 signs of civilization than did this very region 
 around Sheridan, for in the territory there was 
 scarcely an aggregation of houses and interests 
 worthy the name of town. Portland was in its 
 infancy, and Oregon City owed its signs of life 
 solely to the fact that it was the principal dis- 
 tributing point for the arriving emigrants. On 
 his square mile of beautiful and fertile land Col- 
 onel Graves built the log cabin which was the 
 home of the family for several years, and here 
 the first wife died in March, 1848. His second 
 marriage also occurred here, and united him with 
 Mrs. Catherine Bewley, who died in 1867. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Graves purchased a home in 
 Salem, but from 1867 until his death, in 1882, 
 at the age of eighty-five, he lived with his chil- 
 dren. He was a man whom all delighted to 
 honor, and his sterling integrity and interesting 
 personality pervaded whatever he started out to 
 accomplish. At one time he took much interest 
 in politics, and his services in the early territorial 
 legislature were characterized by marked ability 
 and disinterested devotion to the best welfare of 
 his district. 
 
 HENRY A. CLEEK. The successful career 
 of Henry A. Cleek should furnish encouragement 
 to all who contemplate engaging in stock-raising 
 operations in Linn county. When he arrived in 
 Oreg"on in 1861 his worldly possessions con- 
 sisted of the clothes he wore, an old wagon, and 
 four horses much the worse for their trip across 
 the plains. For the first eighteen months he was 
 glad of common wages as a farm hand, and 
 with his earnings he was able to pay for a farm 
 of one hundred and sixtv acres in Benton county, 
 near Corvallis. This he stocked to a limited 
 extent, and as success came his way he added 
 to his land, in time settling on three hundred and 
 
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 twent) acres nine miles south of Corvallis, wliere 
 he engaged in farming for about fourteen years. 
 At the end of that time he was able to sell his 
 laud at a profit, and he changed his base of opera- 
 tions to Willow creek, Crook county, Ore., where 
 he conducted a very large stock-raising business 
 for the period of twenty-eight years. He 
 had three thousand acres of land in Crook county, 
 and became one of the best known stockmen in 
 that section of the state. The experience gained 
 was invaluable, besides enabling him to retire 
 with an ample competence in 1900. Two years 
 later he disposed of his Crook county farm and 
 its herds of cattle, but he still owns twelve hun- 
 dred acres of farm land near Plainview, which he 
 rents, and he also posseses the farm formerly oc- 
 cupied by him in Denton county, and consisting of 
 three hundred and twenty acres. 
 
 This ambitious and successful stock-raiser and 
 at present retired citizen of Albany, was born in 
 Sullivan county, Tenn., October 28, 1833, and 
 was reared on a farm. His father, Henry Cleek, 
 was a farmer during his entire active life, and 
 from Sullivan county moved to Ray county, his 
 death occurring in Monroe county, also in Tennes- 
 see. His mother, Linda (Titsworth) Cleek, also 
 was born in Tennessee, and died in Monroe county 
 after raising to maturity a family of twelve 
 children. Of these children, Henry A. is the 
 oldest, and the only one in Oregon. He lived on 
 the home farm until his twenty-fourth year, and 
 in 1857 joined a party of home-seekers bound for 
 the coast, his outfit consisting of ox and horse 
 teams. Leaving Arkansas in March, they pro- 
 ceeded over the Platte route to California, arriv- 
 ing in Yolo county, Cal., in October. Here Mr. 
 Cleek engaged in farming and stock-raising until 
 1859, and that year returned to Tennessee via 
 Panama, remaining there until the spring of i860. 
 Going then to Independence, Mo., he wintered 
 there, and in 1861 again outfitted for the long 
 journey across the plains. This time he came 
 with horse teams, starting in March and arriving 
 in Oregon in September, via Red Bluffs and 
 Honey Lake. 
 
 In Albany, Mr. Cleek married Sarah Isom, 
 who was born June 27, 1849, m Cole county, Mo., 
 a daughter of John Isom, who, with his wife, 
 was born in Virginia and brought his family to 
 Oregon at an early day. Mr. Isom took a promi- 
 nent part in agricultural and business affairs in 
 Linn county. Among his undertakings was the 
 erection of the Red Crown Mills, which he suc- 
 cessfully managed for several years. His death 
 occurred in February, 1903, aged seventy-five 
 years, after a particularly active life. His widow, 
 Elizabeth (Mercer) Smith Isom, now makes her 
 home with her children. 
 
 Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Cleek, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 
 Isom. living in Prineville, Ore.; Varian, wife oi 
 Samuel Smith, sheriff of Crook county; Hugh, 
 a farmer near Plainview ; and Charles and Lillie, 
 twins, living with I heir parents. 
 
 Mr. Cleek is a Democrat in politics, hut has 
 been too busy with his stock to think about hold- 
 ing office, lie is one of the most successful 
 stockmen that this county has produced, and 
 in addition, he is a very enterprising and liberal 
 gentleman, contributing generously when called 
 upon in a public or private capacity. In manner 
 Mr. Cleek has about him the breeziness and 
 whole-souled honesty which we are wont to 
 associate with men of his calling, and his jour- 
 ney through life has been brightened by the devo- 
 tion of many friends, and the good 'will of all 
 his associates. 
 
 JOHN WALLING. As the son of a promi- 
 nent business man of Lincoln, Polk county, John 
 Walling has been interested in various enter- 
 prises in this community, working for his father 
 in both his mercantile establishment and the Peo- 
 ple's Transportation Company, the oldest business 
 of its kind on the Willamette river, and in which 
 the elder Mr. Walling owned an interest. John 
 Walling is now engaged in farming on property 
 which he purchased in 1880, consisting of sev- 
 enty-two acres of land, forty of which is devotee' 
 to the cultivation of hops, the income so acquired 
 amounting to no small percentage of the money 
 invested. 
 
 The origin of the Walling family is English, 
 the grandfather having been an Englishman who 
 fought in the Revolutionary war. He was at that 
 time a farmer in the state of Virginia, when. 
 his son, J. D., the father of John Walling, was 
 born April 1, 1818. Being reared to the life of 
 a farmer J. D. Walling continued in that occupa 
 tion in early manhood, locating first in Iowa, 
 where he remained until the spring of 1847, when, 
 with the usual outfit for such a journey, he joined 
 an emigrant train of ox-teams and set out for the 
 west. The train was unusually large, and, with 
 the usual experiences of such a journey, they 
 reached Oregon safely after six months. The 
 first winter of the Walling family in ( )regon was 
 spent in Oregon City, the next spring, however, 
 finding them located near Zena, Spring valley, 
 Polk county, on a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres, upon which property Mr. Wall- 
 ing made his home until his death in 1870, being 
 killed by being thrown from a vehicle while driv- 
 ing. In addition to his farming interests .Mr 
 Walling was engaged in general merchandising 
 in Lincoln, and a warehouse in the same location. 
 In politics a Republican, he served as road su- 
 pervisor. While giving his attention to the duties 
 of this office he met his death. Fraternally lie 
 
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 was a member of the Masonic order, belonging 
 to the lodge at Amity. The wife of Mr. Walling 
 was in maidenhood "Eliza A. Wise, a native of 
 New York state, and the descendant of a Dutch 
 familv. She survived her husband twenty-two 
 years, dying in 1892, at the age of sixty-two years. 
 Of the 'children born to Mr. and Mrs. Walling 
 thirteen are now living, four sons and nine 
 daughters. 
 
 John Walling is the fourth child of the family, 
 and was born in Iowa, September 14, 1846, being 
 but one year old at the time of the removal to the 
 west. He received his early education in the com- 
 mon school located in the vicinity of his home, 
 and when his school days were over he went to 
 work for his father in his store in Lincoln, where 
 he remained until after his father's death. He 
 then rented a farm for a few years and engaged 
 in the cultivation of the soil, until 1880, when he 
 purchased his present property, which has since 
 yielded him a good income. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Walling occurred in Polk 
 county, in 1870, and united him with Celia Har- 
 ris, who was born in Missouri, January 16, 1850, 
 her father, James R. Harris, crossing the plains 
 in the same year. Of this union nine children 
 have been born. Six died in infancy, while those 
 living are : Tracy, Lorin and Alvin, all of whom 
 are still at home with their parents. Politically 
 Mr. Walling is a Republican, and has served in 
 several offices, among them being that of road 
 supervisor and school director, holding the latter 
 position for twelve years. In his fraternal rela- 
 tions, he affiliates with the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, holding membership with the 
 lodge at McCoy, and with the Maccabees at 
 Lincoln. 
 
 VERY REV. LOUIS METAYER. Thomas 
 Carlyle says, "Blessed is he who has found his 
 work ; let him ask no other blessedness. He has 
 a work, a life purpose. Labor is life." Admit- 
 ting the full truth of this saying, Very Rev. 
 Louis Metayer, Rector of St. Mary's Church at 
 Albany, and Dean of Southern Oregon, is surely 
 worthy of receiving divine favor. Imbued with 
 the true missionary spirit, and with scarce a 
 thought of self, he has labored untiringly in his 
 appointed vineyard, and in the upbuilding of the 
 parish with which he is connected is reaping a 
 rich reward for his many years of toil and sacri- 
 fice. A native of France, he was born June 24, 
 1855, in the diocese of Laval. His father, Louis 
 Metayer, was born, lived and died in France. His 
 mother, whose maiden name was Louise Marie 
 Marcus Du Plessis, survives her husband, and 
 still resides in her native country. 
 
 Reared in France, the Very Rev. Louis Me- 
 tayer prepared for college when quite young, and 
 
 afterwards obtained a fine knowledge of philos- 
 ophy and the classics at the Archbishop's Col- 
 lege, at Chezal-Benoit, in the arch-diocese of 
 Bourges. Coming to American in 1875, he 
 studied theology in the Montreal Seminary, and 
 on December 20, 1879, was ordained for the Dio- 
 cese of Oregon by Bishop Morro. Desirous of 
 entering the missionary field, he came to Port- 
 land, Ore., as secretary to Archbishop Blanchet, 
 who resigned from the see of Oregon in 1883. 
 He was subsequently Secretary for Archbishop 
 Segher, who was murdered in Alaska. In Sep- 
 tember, 1885, Father Metayer was appointed by 
 Archbishop Gross as Rector at Albany. Coming 
 to this city, he courageously took up the work 
 before him, and has labored diligently. There 
 vvas neither church nor congregation here at that 
 time, nor had there ever been a resident priest 
 in this locality. Purchasing a small school-house 
 in Albany, he had it moved to the site that Arch- 
 bishop Blanchet had bought thirty years before, 
 remodeled it, and it did duty for a church until 
 the new one was completed, in 1898. This new 
 edifice was blessed by Archbishop Gross, August 
 17, 1898, it being the last church that he blessed, 
 his death occurring the following November. It 
 is a noteworthy coincidence to relate in this con- 
 nection that the first church building that the 
 late archbishop blessed was the old school-house 
 of which Father Metayer first had charge as a 
 church. 
 
 Father Metayer labored hard to secure the 
 money to erect his church, which cost $18,000, 
 and which is built according to European archi- 
 tecture, resembling the old abbeys of the conti- 
 nent. In connection with the church is a vestry, 
 toward the erection of which he contributed 
 largely from his private fortune, his small con- 
 gregation being unable at present to assist very 
 much. He also purchased land about one-half 
 block from the church and on it has erected a 
 fine, large rectory, which is surrounded by beau- 
 tiful grounds. 
 
 Rev. Father Metayer has also in his parish the 
 Academy of Perpetual Health, which was estab- 
 lished and built in Albany in 1887, and in Novem- 
 ber of that year was dedicated by Archbishop 
 Gross, and is controlled by the Benedictine Sis- 
 ters. In 1893 ne was appointed, by Archbishop 
 Gross, Dean of South Oregon, and he is now a 
 member of the Council of Archbishops of Ore- 
 gon. 
 
 WILLIAM R. HAND. In the business cir- 
 cles of Albany Mr. Hand is accorded a high 
 place. Eminently successful in a financial sense, 
 he has throughout his entire career exhibited 
 clearness of perception and soundness of judg- 
 ment, and moreover enjoys an enviable reputation 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 tor moral worth and integrity of purpose. He 
 possesses true public spirit, and uses his influence 
 to enhance the best interests of the city and 
 county, and all worthy enterprises for their en- 
 velopment meet with his hearty support. 
 
 William R. Hand was the only child horn to 
 his parents. Crandal anil Delilah (Mussleman) 
 Hand, both of whom were horn in Iowa, the 
 father in the vicinit) ^i Keokuk. As a partici- 
 pant in the Civil war he served valiantly as a pri- 
 vate in an Iowa regiment, and was wounded in 
 the service. Upon retiring to private life he 
 settled on a homestead claim in Lincoln county, 
 Neb., which was the scene of the family life 
 until the father removed to Albany, Ore., in 1882. 
 Here his death occurred at the age of fifty-four 
 years. His army associations were kept fresh 
 in his memory by meeting with old comrades of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he 
 was a member. The mother is still living and 
 makes her home in Albany with her son. 
 
 Born February 1. 1872, on his father's farm 
 in Nebraska. William R. Hand was a lad ten 
 vears of age when the trip was made to Oregon, 
 and he distinctly remembers the incidents con- 
 nected with the journey, which to a boy of that 
 age were romantic indeed. In the public schools 
 of this western state he received his education. 
 and when sixteen years of age was apprenticed to 
 learn the trade of architect and builder, under 
 Mr. Shell, in Albany. Having become proficient 
 at his trade he put it to practice in his home 
 citv. but in 1895 went to San Francisco, where, 
 in addition to following his trade, for two years 
 he took a night course in an architectural school. 
 Determined that there should be no part of the 
 profession with which he would not be perfectlv 
 familiar, he took a course of instruction with the 
 International Correspondence School, from the 
 drawing department of which he received a di- 
 ploma. A self-made man, Mr. Hand began life 
 for himself without fortune but made the most 
 of his privileges and advantages and steadilv 
 worked his way up until today he is numbered 
 among the substantial business men of his com- 
 munity. He is now devoting his entire attention 
 to architectural work, and has drafted plans for 
 many of the prominent buildings in Albanv and 
 elsewhere in Linn county, and is meeting with 
 well-merited success. 
 
 In Albany December 28. '1897. was celebrated 
 the marriage of William R. Hand and Miss Clara 
 Bentlev. a native of Albanv and the daughter of 
 one of Oregon's pioneer citizens. Two children 
 were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hand. Fula. and an 
 infant which died unnamed. Business affairs 
 have not absorbed Mr. Hand's attention to the 
 exclusion of all else, and every movement looking 
 to the material advancement of the citv meets 
 his encouragement and active support. In poli- 
 
 tics a Republican, he advocates with enthusiasm 
 ami fidelity the platform of his chosen party and 
 supports its candidates with his ballot, fn the 
 fraternal organization Woodmen of the World 
 
 he is holding the office of council commander. 
 Mrs. Hand is a member of the Methodist Epi 
 p-d Church of Albany, to the support of which 
 Mr. Hand liberally contributes. 
 
 JAMES F. BEWLEY. Worthy of ranking 
 
 among the chief developers of the state of Ore- 
 gon was James I 7 . Bewley, a pioneer of '47. and 
 for many years an agriculturist of Yamhill 
 county. A native of Tennessee, Mr. Bewley was 
 born April 9, 1828, the third oldest of the twelve 
 children of John W. and Catherine (Fllis) Bew- 
 ley, natives also of Tennessee. From their an- 
 cestral home in Tennessee, the Bewley family 
 removed to Indiana, and from there to Missouri, 
 in which latter state they developed an ambition 
 to go west, and, accordingly, outfitted for the 
 dangerous and adventurous journey. Two of the 
 children, Crocket A. and Lorinda, bavin- quali- 
 fied as teachers, stopped at Whitman Mission to 
 help educate the Indians, a most unwise decision, 
 for Crocket A. was killed by the people for whose 
 interests he was willing to sacrifice his time and 
 ability, and Lorinda was kidnaped and held 
 until ransomed. The rest of the family pro- 
 ceeded upon their journey, unconscious of the 
 fate of their loved ones, but the father died soon 
 after reaching Oregon, and his wife and children 
 lived in Oregon City until removing to Yamhill 
 county, in 1849. Here the mother married Col. 
 J. B. Craves, whose interesting career is spoken 
 of elsewhere in this work, and in Salem, where 
 the remainder of her life was spent, her death 
 occurred in 1867. 
 
 James F. Bewley became an independent land 
 owner in Oregon in the spring of 1852. when he 
 took a half section of land near Sheridan. Sep- 
 tember 12, 1852. he married Lucy E. Graves, a 
 native of Missouri, and daughter of his step- 
 father, Colonel Graves. For some time after- 
 ward he lived in a rudely constructed frame 
 house, and in [860 disposed of his property, and 
 purchased the three hundred and twenty-acre 
 farm of his father-in-law. This property was his 
 special pride for many years, and his most intel- 
 ligent and broad-minded efforts were expended 
 in making of it a model agricultural enterprise. 
 Somewhat weary of arduous labor, Mr. Bewley 
 took up his residence in Forest Grove, after ten 
 months removing to McMinnville. The five 
 acres of land purchased for his home is now 
 within the corporate limits, and the home erected 
 thereon reflected his ideas of eomfort and refine- 
 ment. At the same time he managed his finely- 
 improved farm, up to the tragic event which 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 occasioned his death in 1888. Owing to a small- 
 pox epidemic, McMinnville was quarantined, but 
 notwithstanding this fact, Mr. Bewley went to 
 his farm and stopped to see a man at Sheridan. 
 Being met by an officer, a colloquy followed re- 
 garding his attitude in the matter, and such pro- 
 portions did the argument assume that Mr. Bew- 
 ley was ordered to throw up his hands, and was 
 instantly shot. His son, who was present, was 
 also shot at, and in turn shot at the murderer, 
 but the ball fell short of the mark. This sad 
 event threw disorder and sadness into the hap- 
 penings of McMinnville and vicinity, for Mr. 
 Bewley was a man most highly honored by all 
 who knew him, and his sixty years of worthy 
 living deserved a less ignominious termination. 
 
 In memory of the brother so ruthlessly killed by 
 the Indians in 1847, Mr - ancl Mrs - Bewley named 
 their first son Crocket A., and his birth occurred 
 July 31, 1853. He died while yet a bright-eyed 
 boy, but his brother, Roswell L., born December 
 24, 1864, still lives and owns the old homestead. 
 In October, 1888, he was united in marriage with 
 Anna R. Young, a native of New York state. 
 Mrs. Bewley, who afterward married J. W. 
 Cowls, also deceased, is one of the highly-hon- 
 ored and popular women of McMinnville, and in 
 her interests displays broad-mindedness and ca- 
 pability. She is foremost in all efforts of the 
 women of her locality to improve their social and 
 intellectual surroundings, and is especially promi- 
 nent in the Christian Church, the Ladies' Aid 
 Society and the Woman's Relief Corps of Custer 
 Post No. 5, G. A. R., of which latter organization 
 she was for one term junior vice-president. 
 
 fiuential stockmen in Oregon, and one of the 
 largest land owners. Mr. Bewley is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and is fraternally connected with 
 Sheridan Lodge No. 64, F. & A. M., of which he 
 is past master. 
 
 ROSWELL L. BEWLEY. While his mother 
 was on a visit to Salem, Marion county, Ore., 
 Roswell L. Bewley was born, December 24, 1864, 
 and he was afterward reared on his father's farm, 
 one and a half miles from Sheridan. Judging 
 by his present success, he must have had an ex- 
 cellent agricultural training, his educational 
 chances being also far above those of the average 
 farm-reared youth, for he was permitted the ad- 
 vantages of the public schools, the Forest Grove 
 College, and the McMinnville College. 
 
 Mr. Bewley assumed charge of one of the 
 finest ranches in this county in 1888, and on Oc- 
 tober 7, 1888, married Anna R. Young, who was 
 born in New York state, and who has borne him 
 twin boys, William H. and James Garfield. At 
 the present time Mr. Bewley owns five thousand 
 acres of land, nearly all in one body, of which 
 one thousand acres are devoted to farming enter- 
 prises, and all under cultivation. Also, he owns 
 a stock ranch of eight hundred acres in Polk 
 county, and has some of the finest stock in the 
 state. He is one of the most experienced and in- 
 
 GEORGE F. SIMPSON. In estimating the 
 extent to which individual effort has influenced 
 the development of the northwest, it is hardly fair 
 to regard as typical the career of George F. 
 Simpson, whose more than ordinary ability and 
 resource have enabled him to accomplish more 
 than his fellow pioneers of less fortunate mould. 
 The most careless surveyor of present conditions 
 must needs feel an interest in the lifework of 
 so worthy and honored a man, and perchance 
 may find for his own encouragement that suc- 
 cess is rarely denied the capable and earnest 
 striver. 
 
 The virtue of perseverance, a characteristic 
 of Scottish folk, is inherited in marked degree 
 by Mr. Simpson, whose paternal great-grand- 
 father, both in Scotland and America, was de- 
 termined, practical and persevering. This was 
 true also of Francis Simpson, the father of 
 George F., who was born on a farm near Win- 
 chester, Clark county, Ky., and during his active 
 life combined farming and carpentering. About 
 1840 he settled in Cooper county, Mo., twelve 
 miles from Booneville, and from there moved to 
 Cass county, Mo. His wife died in Cooper 
 county, Mo., leaving to his care two children, 
 G. F. and J. W., the latter of whom is now liv- 
 ing on Snake river, Wash. 
 
 Through a second marriage, contracted in Mis- 
 souri, four sons and two daughters were born, 
 all of whom are living. In 1850, with his sec- 
 ond wife and seven children, Mr. Simpson 
 crossed the plains with ox teams, and after living 
 on a farm in Washington county, Ore., for a 
 couple of years, operated a saw-mill on Dairy 
 creek. In April, 1852, he located on a section 
 of land four miles south of Albany, but later 
 sold it, and bought a farm twelve miles south of 
 the town. This continued to be his home until 
 1870, when he went to Big Valley, Cal., where 
 he died in 1871. 
 
 Born on the old homestead near Winchester, 
 Clark county, Ky., June 29, 1835, George F. 
 Simpson was five years old when the family 
 moved to Missouri, and soon after that he lost 
 his mother. The children were naturally enthu- 
 siastic over the plan to cross the plains, and 
 George, then fifteen vears of age, made himself 
 very useful on the long and tiresome journey. 
 Thev came up the Platte through the Indian 
 country, and arrived in Oregon the latter part 
 of October. He was a footsore and tired youth, 
 for he had driven an ox team all the way from 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL REG >RD. 
 
 2(51) 
 
 Missouri, and walked the entire way. They had 
 a considerable number oi louse stock, and were 
 
 fortunate in being able to retain nearly one-third 
 of it until the end oi their trip. George lived 
 on the donation claim with his lather for a con- 
 pie of years, and during that time attended the 
 earl) subscription school in his neighborhood, 
 his teachers being Hugh George and Rev. Ir- 
 vine. 
 
 A.s early as 1853 Mr. Simpson began trading in 
 cattle, and at different times took herds over 
 the mountains to California. In the latter state, 
 on I lumbug creek he engaged in mining during 
 1 S54-5. and upon returning to Oregon, married, 
 in December, [859, in Linn county. Mary Nan- 
 nev, who was born in Kentucky, and came to 
 Oregon in 1852. Abner Nanney, the father of 
 Mrs. Simpson, was horn in Kentucky, and 
 moved to Missouri previous to crossing the 
 plains. He located in Oregon on a claim which 
 comprised the present site of Shedds Station, al- 
 though he subsequently retired to Albany, where 
 his last days were spent. His wife, formerly Isa- 
 belle Morgan, was also born in Kentucky and 
 died in Oregon. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Simpson settled on a 
 farm four miles south of Albany and engaged 
 in stock-raising, and in 1863 bought a quarter 
 section, and later ninety acres of land, making 
 three hundred and thirty acres in all. Before 
 locating on this farm, in 1862, he had a rough 
 experience in trying to reach the Florence Mines 
 in Idaho, and he will never forget crossing the 
 White mountains on foot through the snow and 
 storm, with a burden of one hundred pounds on 
 his back. Nevertheless, notwithstanding this 
 handicap, he made thirty miles a day. Eventu- 
 ally he sold his farm and at the present time 
 manages one of the finest farms in this count v. 
 and unquestionably one of the most valuable. It 
 is one hundred and fortv acres in extent, located 
 two and a half miles south of Albany, and is 
 equipped with a fine new house and barns, mod- 
 ern fences, the latest of agricultural implements, 
 and all known aids to scientific and practical 
 farming. Mr. Simpson raises stock principally, 
 making a specialty of high-grade sheep and An- 
 gora goats. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Simpson -moved into Albany, and 
 has since been substantiallv identified with its 
 business growth. The same vear he became 
 superintendent of the Farmers' Grain Storage 
 Company, an enterprise destined to promote the 
 agricultural prestige of the vicinity more than 
 any other agency as vet established. He was 
 the first superintendent of the company, and 
 directly controlled its affairs for many years. To 
 facilitate the object for which it was started, he 
 bought the warehouse at Tangent, and during 
 the first year taxed its capacity with ninety- 
 
 thousand bushels of wheat. There was no divi- 
 dend the firs! year, but the second realized a 
 dividend of forty per cent. This increase of busi- 
 ness inspired him to enlarge his capacity, and 
 he built a larger and better elevator, of 'which 
 he had charge for seven years. The dispi 
 of die first storage required some time, but he 
 finally found a buyer who paid a dollar a bushel, 
 whereas the ruling price was eights- cents. After 
 disposing of his elevator. Mr. Simpson engaged 
 in wheal buying for about twelve years, and was 
 compelled to retire from business because of a 
 stroke of paralysis. At the time he had sixty 
 thousand bushels of wheat on hand, and not being 
 able to personalis- superintend its disposal at the 
 proper time, suffered a financial loss of $20,000. 
 In the hope of securing the boon of health he 
 traveled for several months in California, and. 
 having accomplished his desire, he returned to 
 Oregon, where he has lived uninterruptedly since. 
 For a couple of years he ran the Magnolia Mill 
 in partnership with his son. and in the mean- 
 time he has been improving his farm, winch has 
 ever been a source of pride and satisfaction to 
 him. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Simpson repre- 
 sents the most liberal and broad-minded of the 
 local adherents, and at times has activelv par- 
 ticipated in town and county affairs. Frater- 
 nally, no man in the county is better known or 
 more gladly welcomed to the prominent lodges, 
 among them being the Corinthian Lodge of Al- 
 bany, of which he has been past master two 
 terms ; the Royal Arch Masons of Albany ; the 
 Commandery No. 3 ; and the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. With his wife he is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the six 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, George 
 W. is living in Portland, and is interested in 
 mining; Abner was killed in a mill by the fall- 
 ing of a scaffold ; Frank is a bookkeeper in 
 .Athena: Ada is now Mrs. Robson of Albany; 
 Eva is a graduate of the Albany College, and 
 is at present a teacher of English and elocution 
 in the Tacoma (Wash.) College; and Ora will 
 graduate from the Albany College in the class 
 of 1903. Xo man in Albanv bears a more hon- 
 ored name than does Mr. Simpson, nor is any 
 more emphatically typical of that broad and tol- 
 erant citizenship which commands universal ap- 
 probation. 
 
 DAVID NACHTIGALL. A native of Rus- 
 sia, David Nachtigall .was born in the southern 
 part of that country, April 16. 1853, the son of 
 Peter and Xeta fSchultz) Nachtigall, natives re- 
 spectively of Holland and Russia. The death of 
 Peter Nachtigall having occurred in 1870, at the 
 age of thirty-seven years, his widow afterward 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 became the wife of John Boese, and now makes 
 her home in South Dakota, being in her seven- 
 tieth year. Of the thirteen children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Nachtigall only three are now living. 
 They are: David, of this review ; Toby, a shoe- 
 maker in the state of Missouri; and Mrs. Anna 
 Smith, of Smithheld, Ore. 
 
 The early education of David Nachtigall was 
 received in the common schools of Russia, his 
 school days being soon over, however, and an 
 apprenticeship in a linen factory beginning. He 
 was seventeen years old when his father died 
 and he then went to make his home with an 
 uncle with whom he worked for six years, half 
 of the time being spent in the old country and 
 the remainder in the United States, whither he 
 had come with his uncle in 1873. His relative 
 sought a home in York county, Neb., where later 
 David found employment among the farmers, 
 which work meant to' him, with his rigid economy 
 and patient industry, the beginning of a com- 
 petency. In 1878 he married a native of his 
 home "country, Mary Abrahams, and the two 
 went to housekeeping on a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres which he was then able to pur- 
 chase There thev remained until 1892, at which 
 time thev came to Oregon. Mr. Nachtigall first 
 rented land in Polk county, near Crowley, and 
 after being satisfied that the country was all one 
 could wish in which to make a permanent home, 
 he bought his present farm of two hundred and 
 eighteen acres, located near Salt Creek in the 
 same county. His purchase was made in 1900, 
 and since that time he has been engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and the raising of cattle, sheep, 
 horses, etc. Thirty-three acres of his farm are 
 devoted to the cultivation of hops. 
 
 Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Nachtigall, of whom there are five daughters and 
 three sons. In addition to the success which 
 Mr. Nachtigall has made in his chosen life-work 
 he has, since being numbered among the citizens 
 of Oregon, so won" his way into the confidence 
 of the people of the community by his honorable 
 life and intelligent interest in the affairs of the 
 day that they have used their influence to secure 
 his appointment as postmaster of the Salt Creek 
 postoffice, his term extending from 1900 to 1904. 
 He is independent in his political views, reserv- 
 ing the right to cast his ballot for the man whose 
 services he thinks will be productive of the most 
 good for the country. Religiously he is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church. 
 
 WILLIAM W. ROWELL. As the pro- 
 prietor of the Russ House, Albany, Linn county, 
 W. W. Rowell is winning a wide popularity in 
 the community, which is not bounded by the limits 
 of the city or county, but his reputation as a 
 successful landlord is carried beyond this bv 
 
 those who know him in his business capacity. 
 He is a man of splendid personality, as well as a 
 successful business man. and since his purchase 
 of the hotel in 1892 he has built up a good patron- 
 age and has emphatically met with rich returns 
 from his efforts. 
 
 Mr. Rowell was born in Albany, Orleans coun- 
 ty, Vt., May 14, 1852, the descendant of an Eng- 
 lish family who truly loved their adopted land. 
 Three brothers of this family had come to the 
 colonies just previous to the breaking out of 
 the Revolutionary war, and so deeply were they 
 impressed with the righteousness of the cause of 
 the colonists that they generously gave their aid 
 in the struggle. The first American born was 
 William, the grandfather of W. W. Rowell, of 
 this review, and his birth occurred in Vermont, 
 where he represented both a New Hanpshire and 
 a Massachusetts family. The father, Guy E., 
 also owes his nativity to that state, in which he 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising as a means 
 of livelihood. Being a prominent man in the 
 affairs of the community in which he lived he 
 acted often in an official capacity, serving as 
 selectman at various times. His wife was in 
 maidenhood Betsey G. Page, also a native of Ver- 
 mont, and the descendant of an old New England 
 family. At her death, which occurred in Ver- 
 mont, she was the mother of nine children, all of 
 whom are living, and all located in the New Eng- 
 land states, with the exception of W. W. and his 
 brother, Z. E., who is a farmer in California. 
 
 William W. Rowell was the second oldest of 
 his father's children, and was reared on the pa- 
 ternal farm, and educated in the public schools 
 and Albany Academy. When nineteen years of 
 age he began working at the carpenter's trade, 
 and continued in the work until he came to Cali- 
 fornia with his brother in 1875. After engag- 
 ing for two years at his trade in San Francisco, 
 he spent one year in Southern California, and 
 then located in Mendocino county, where he be- 
 came interested in a stock ranch, which he left 
 in 1888 to settle in Linn county. Ore. Here he 
 bought a farm located three miles from Albany, 
 and engaged in its cultivation until 1892, when he 
 sold it and invested the proceeds in his present 
 lucrative business, which has become very suc- 
 cessful under his ablemanagemeent. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Rowell occurred in 
 Ukiah, Mendocino county, Cal., and united him 
 with Miss Mary Harter, a native of Iowa, and of 
 the union two children have been born, of whom 
 Edith is the wife of T. A. Riggs, of Dallas ; and 
 Oliver is a clerk in the establishment of A. M. 
 Reeves. Politically, Mr. Rowell is a stanch Re- 
 publican, true to the party and to the principles 
 which it advocates. Fraternally, he is a member 
 of the Foresters, the Fraternal Union and the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. 
 

IV >R I KAI r AND BIOGRAPHICAL REC( >KD. 
 
 273 
 
 Hi IN. PHIL METSCHAN. Truth is always 
 stranger than fiction, and in the lives of even the 
 
 si dignified of men is an element of romance 
 This is noticeable in the record of Phil Metschan, 
 the presidenl <>t" the Imperial Hotel Company 
 Portland, and ex-state treasurer of Oregon. Lit- 
 tle did the bo) of fourteen foresee the future 
 that awaited him as he crossed the ocean, in a 
 three-masted clipper, and during the tedium of 
 forty days on shipboard amused himself by pon- 
 dering upon what he would do in America. But 
 the dreams of the boy never tinned to the far- 
 distant shores of the Pacific, nor did they reveal 
 to him the honors which the future held for him 
 as Destiny awaited his coming- to the sunset sea. 
 In Hesse-Cassel. Germany. Phil Metschan was 
 born March 24. 1840. a son of Frederick I", and 
 Caroline C. ( Schiricke ) Metschan, natives of 
 the same province. His father was a graduate 
 of Heidelberg College, which was founded in 
 1386, and is the oldest university in Germany. 
 He was a lawyer by profession and an attache 
 of the Duke of Hesse. Like all of his family, he 
 adhered to the Lutheran religion. His death 
 occurred in February. 1875, and three years later 
 his widow came to America with three of her 
 daughters. Her death occurred in Canyon City, 
 Ore., in 1884. Of her eight children three daugh- 
 ters and two sons survive, one son. Max. being a 
 deputy in the office of the internal revenue col- 
 lector at Tacoma. 
 
 When Phil Metschan arrived in Cincinnati he 
 had only $4.75 with which to begin in the new 
 world. However, he had two uncles there, and 
 one of them took him into the meat market to 
 learn the butcher's trade. In the spring of 1858 
 he went to Leavenworth, Kans., and began in 
 business in Shawnee market, but was taken ill 
 and forced to change his occupation. Those 
 were the days of the Pike's Peak excitement, and 
 he joined the throng of gold-seekers w-estward 
 bound. In the spring of 1859 he crossed the 
 plains to Denver and thence to California Gulch 
 (now Leadville). wd:ere he opened a meat mar- 
 ket. Returning to Leavenworth in the fall of 
 1860. he enjoyed the privilege of voting for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. In the spring of 1861 he went 
 back to California Gulch, but soon joined an 
 expedition for the far west, traversing the pony 
 express route and landing in Sacramento just 
 before the floods of 1861. During the winter he 
 was employed on General Hutchinson's ranch. 
 In the spring of 1862 he started for the Caribou 
 mines in British Columbia, but a short stay 
 in Victoria convinced him of the futility of the 
 enterprise and he returned to the States, arriv- 
 ing in Portland in June. T862. Soon afterward 
 he went to Canyon City, Grant county, Ore., 
 where he followed mining and prospecting at 
 
 first, and then opened a meal market, conducting 
 the same and a general mercantile business until 
 1890. 
 
 After settling in Canyon Cit) Mr. Metschan 
 married Miss Mary Sehaum. who was born in 
 Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and died in Salem, 
 Ore., in 1895. His second marriage took place 
 in San Rafael, Cal., and united him with Mrs. 
 F. D. Sweetser, who was born in Canada and 
 accompanied her parents to California. His 
 children, all born of his first marriage, are named 
 as follows: Frank, a stockman at Silvies. Har- 
 ney county, ( )re. : Anna, whose husband, George 
 H. Cattanach, is an attorney of Canyon City and 
 ex-representative; Mrs. Amelia Meredith, of 
 Salem; Julia, Mrs. Griffith, whose husband is a 
 physician in the state insane asylum at Salem ; 
 Phil, formerly cashier of the Grant County Rank 
 and now proprietor of the Paris hotel at Hepp- 
 ner, Ore. ; Otto, who is engaged in the stock 
 business in eastern Oregon ; Anton H., a clerk 
 in the Wells-Fargo Bank; Lillian: and Edward 
 who is attending the Pennsylvania Dental Col- 
 lege at Philadelphia. 
 
 During his residence in Grant county Air. 
 Metschan was a prominent factor in Republican 
 politics. For four years he held the office 01 
 county treasurer, for two years served as county 
 clerk, and for four years officiated as county 
 judge, after which (1888-1890) he again served 
 as county clerk. In 1890 the Republicans placed 
 him on their ticket for state treasurer and he was 
 elected by a majority of sixty-seven hundred, 
 while at the same time a Democratic governor 
 w*as elected by five thousand majority. He as- 
 sumed the duties of office in January, 1891, and 
 about the same time established his home in 
 Salem. At the expiration of his term he was 
 re-elected by a plurality of twenty-three thousand 
 over his Democratic opponent, his victory prov- 
 ing not only his popularity as a man but also his 
 successful administration in the high office with 
 which he had been honored. In January, (899, 
 his second term being ended and a constitutional 
 limit of office reached, he retired from the posi- 
 tion in which he had served with distinguished 
 fidelity and efficiency. In May of the same year he 
 purchased the Imperial hotel and incorporated 
 the Imperial Hotel Company, of which he is 
 president and which has enlarged the hotel and 
 increased its capacity. 
 
 Any reference to the life of Mr. Metschan 
 would be incomplete without mention of his fra- 
 ternal relations. He was made a Mason in Can- 
 yon City Lodge Xo. 34, A. F. & A. M.. of which 
 he is past master. During 1896-97 he was hon- 
 ored with the office of grand master of the grand 
 lodge of Oregon. He was raised to the Royal 
 Arch degree in Blue Mountain Chapter No. 7. 
 of Canyon City, in which he is past high priest. 
 
274 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 For a time connected with Oregon Comman- 
 dery No. i, K. T.. he later became a charter 
 member of DeMolay Commandery No. 5, K. T., 
 of Salem, and is also identified with Oregon Con- 
 sistory No. 1, and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S., 
 of Portland. While in Canyon City he was in- 
 itiated into the Odd Fellows as a member of Ho- 
 bah Lodge No. 22, in which he is past noble 
 grand. During 1881-82 he officiated as grand 
 master of the grand lodge, I. O. O. F., of Ore- 
 gon. In the Grand Encampment he is past grand 
 patriarch, and also acted as supreme representa- 
 tive to the Sovereign Grand Lodge in session at 
 Los Angeles and later at Denver. Other organi- 
 zations to which he belongs are Hope Lodge 
 No. 1, A. O. U. W., and Lodge No. 142, B. P. 
 O. E., both of Portland. Upon the organization 
 of the Illehee Club of Salem, in which he bore 
 a prominent part, he was chosen its president, 
 and since leaving Salem has still retained his 
 connection with the society. 
 
 JOHN W. YORK, now deceased, was a pio- 
 neer of Oregon of 1852. settling in this state in 
 the fall of that year. He was born in Jackson 
 county, Ga., near Raleigh, in 1800. and was an 
 only child of James and Aletha Wright York. 
 He came of English and Scotch ancestry. His 
 grandfather was killed by the Tories. His 
 father, at the age of sixteen, together with two 
 brothers, fought in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 When but a year old John Wright York was 
 taken by his parents to St. Louis. Mo., and there 
 his father died, after which the mother was mar- 
 ried again and removed with her family to Ken- 
 tucky, where the subject of this review lived for 
 a few years. He then returned to Missouri and 
 later went to Illinois. He acquired his education 
 by the fireside, for there were no schools of any 
 importance in the localities in which he lived. 
 He, however, became a well read man. possess- 
 ing a natural aptitude for intellectual work. He 
 continually broadened his knowledge by reading, 
 observation and investigation and during the 
 greater part of his life he devoted his time and 
 energies to the work of the ministry. When a 
 young man he was licensed to exhort in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1826 was 
 licensed to preach. He was then given charge of 
 a circuit ; it required eight weeks to visit the 
 different congregations therein. His speech was 
 always correct, his arguments forceful, his logic 
 convincing, and he exerted strong influence in 
 behalf of Christianity and the development of 
 upright manhood among his fellow men. 
 
 Mr. York was united in marriage to Miss 
 Mary P. Collier, who was born in Jefferson 
 county, Ky., in 181 2. They became the parents 
 of eight children, but five of the number died in 
 
 infancy or early childhood. Martha C, the eld- 
 est, was born in Carrolton, Green county, 111 , 
 February 5, 183 1 ; Ann Aletha was born at Car- 
 rolton, Green county, 111., January 3, 1833; and 
 Emily Y. was born at Waterloo. Monroe county, 
 111., January 24, 1835. They came with the 
 family to Oregon in 1852. Martha Cordelia was 
 married to William Masters at Dayton, Ore., 
 May 13, 1860, and her family history is given in 
 the sketch of his life given elsewhere. Ann Ale- 
 tha became the wife of Rev. C. G. Belknap in 
 Oregon. They reared four children, of whom 
 three are yet living : Charles, Mary and Rosa. 
 Mrs. Belknap died in May, 1880, in California, 
 where she had lived since 1869. Her husband, 
 however, still survives. Emily Y., the other 
 member of the family of Mr. York, is a graduate 
 of Willamette University of Oregon, being the 
 first to pursue a full course in that institution. 
 She afterward engaged in teaching in the public 
 schools for one winter and for several years was 
 a teacher in the "Old Portland Academy." She 
 became the wife of A. W. Moore, of Olympia, 
 Wash., who died within a few years, and she is 
 now living with her daughter, Mrs. Mary E. 
 Houck, in Roseburg, Ore. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. York, of this review, was called 
 upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died in 
 St. Clair county, 111. He was at that time 
 preaching in central Illinois, being connected with 
 the Illinois Conference. He afterward wedded 
 Nancy S. Barrett, a daughter of Judge Barrett, 
 of Farmington, Mo. ; she died of cholera in 1844, 
 only ten months after their marriage. For his 
 third wife he chose Mrs. Parmelia Ann Quinton, 
 nee Bush. On account of the ill health of his 
 wife he started for the northwest in 1852, hoping 
 that she would be benefited by change of climate. 
 This hope was realized, for her health soon im- 
 proved and she lived until December 17, 1880, 
 when she passed away in Corvallis at the age of 
 sixty-nine years. 
 
 Mr. York was the owner of three farms in Illi- 
 nois, which he had purchased at different places 
 where he was engaged in his ministerial labors. 
 He started overland with ox teams and he also 
 had a fine stock of horses and cattle. On the 
 15th of April, 1852, he left Carlisle, 111., and 
 arrived in ( )regon in October of that year. 
 While on the trip the Indians stole his stock, 
 and cholera broke out among the members of the 
 party, one of the number dying of that disease. 
 There were eighteen voting ladies and seventeen 
 young men in the train of twenty wagons and 
 the party was therefore a lively one and the trip 
 enjoyable. When the family arrived in Oregon 
 Air. York had only ox teams to haul his car- 
 riage and wagons. Making his way to Cor- 
 vallis he there located a claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres, upon which he established his 
 
Pi IRTRAIT AND lib >GR M'llU Al. RE< i iRD. 
 
 27:. 
 
 home, giving his attention to its cultivation and 
 improvement. He never discontinued his labors 
 in the ministry, however, but preached For one 
 year at Corvallis, for two years at Albany, for 
 
 one war in the Mohawk valley and for one year 
 a- presiding elder of the Umpqua <listrict. 
 Throughout his entire life he preached the gos- 
 pel and was stationed for a time at Dayton, Ore., 
 and later at Rock Creek, near Oregon City. 
 Throughout his residence in this state he re- 
 mained in the Willamette valley, save for the 
 period of two years spent in the (Jmpqua valley. 
 1 le covered his circuit on horseback, being' one of 
 the pioneer preachers of the northwest. lie was 
 on that circuit when the first church was built 
 at Corvallis and up to the time of his death he 
 never faltered in his efforts to establish Chris- 
 tianity upon a firm basis in this state. 
 
 In early life Mr. York was a strong- Whig, and 
 afterward became a stalwart Democrat, while at 
 the time of the Civil war he gave a stanch sup- 
 port to the Union cause. He was a man of large 
 form, strong and rugged, and proved a very use- 
 ful citizen of the Sunset state from pioneer times 
 down to his death. Selling bis farm he removed 
 to Corvallis. where be lived for about twenty- 
 five years, spending his last few years in retire- 
 ment. There is no measurement by which we 
 can determine the strength, extent and scope of 
 his labors, but it is well known that his influence 
 was a powerful factor for good in the early days 
 of Oregon. 
 
 WILLIAM MASTERS. They who planted 
 civilization in the northwest, who braved the dan- 
 gers and trials of pioneer life, are fast passing 
 away. ( >n the roll of the honored dead appears 
 the name of William Masters, who was a pioneer 
 of Oregon of 1852. He was born in Lancaster, 
 Pa.. May 17. 1819. a son of Christopher Masters, 
 who was born in Chester county. Pa.. March 17, 
 7778. and died in Fairfield, Ind.. November 6, 
 1859, and Mary (Kerling) Masters, who was 
 horn November 14. 1781. and died August 10. 
 1838. In the family were fourteen children, of 
 whom William was twelfth in order of birth. On 
 the home farm he was reared and in the district 
 schools he obtained his early education, which was 
 supplemented by a course of study in a college in 
 Indianapolis, where he was a schoolmate of Gen- 
 eral Burnside. He went to Indiana when nine- 
 teen years of age. In early life he served an ap- 
 prenticeship as cabinetmaker there, later he re- 
 moved to Fairfield. Franklin county. Ind., where 
 he followed his trade. 
 
 It was during his residence in that place that 
 William Masters was united in marriage *"o Miss 
 Mary Garrison. They became the parents of four 
 children during their residence in the easf. Tn 
 
 1852 they started with their family on the long 
 journey across the plains to < Iregon. It was with 
 the hope of more rapidly acquiring a fortune and 
 of establishing a good home for his family that 
 Mr. Masters came to the Sunset state. After 
 traveling for long weary months, just as the train 
 crossed the Sandy river. Mrs. Masters and two 
 children died and arc now buried in Lone Fir 
 cemetery. The party arrived at their destination 
 in September, 1852, having made the journey with 
 ox teams. Mr. Masters located in Portland, 
 where be opened a wagon shop in partnership 
 with Mr. Jacobs, continuing in that business at 
 the corner of Second and Morrison streets until 
 1859, when he sold out. He then became a part- 
 ner in an enterprise for the packing and shipping 
 of apples to California and in this was very suc- 
 cessful for a number of years. He then opened a 
 general mercantile establishment, forming a co- 
 partnership with F. Harbaugh and W. W. Baker, 
 being thus engaged until 1863, when he went to 
 the Caribou mines, driving a band of cattle. 
 When the Indians became hostile and waged war 
 against the settlers in 1855-56, he volunteered for 
 service when recruits were called for, going to 
 the Cascades, where the Indians were committing 
 depredations, with a company of volunteers from 
 Portland. 
 
 On the 13th of May, i860, Mr. Masters was 
 married in Dayton. Ore., to Martha Cordelia 
 York, and with his wife he came to Portland to 
 live. By his first marriage be had four children : 
 Lewis L. and Mary, who died at the same time 
 the mother passed away ; S. LaFayette, who was 
 born in 1848 and is now a resident of Tenino. 
 Wash.; and J. Wilbur, who was born in the year 
 1850 and died in January, 1891. He was a mer- 
 chant of North Yakima and at his death left four 
 sons and a daughter. LaFayette is a farmer and 
 is married and has nine living children. By his 
 second marriage Mr. Masters became the father 
 of three children, of whom one died in infancy. 
 William York, born April I, 1862, is mentioned 
 later in this connection. Francis K., the other 
 child, was born March 20, 1872. Both were horn 
 in Portland. Francis, after graduating from the 
 public schools in Portland, attended the State 
 University at Eugene for one year, was a student 
 in the law school at Portland and was admitted 
 to the bar and is now engaged in the abstract 
 business. 
 
 William Masters was ever a stanch advocate 
 of Republican principles and an active worker in 
 this party, doing everything in his power to pro- 
 mote its growth and insure its success. Tie was 
 honored with several public offices and positions 
 of trust : from 1872 until 1^74 he served as treas- 
 urer of Multnomah county. No one was ever in 
 doubt as to the position he occupied in regard to 
 public affairs, for he was fearless and outspoken 
 
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 in defense of his honest eonvictions. In his busi- 
 ness affairs he prospered. He lived in Yakima 
 for eight years, where he was interested in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, and in Portland he engaged 
 in speculating in land, buying, improving and 
 then selling property. He became well-to-do, and 
 was widely known as a successful business man 
 During the last thirteen years of his life he lived 
 retired from active business cares. He started 
 out in life, however, empty-handed and the suc- 
 cess which he achieved was due to his own well 
 directed efforts. He made a great deal of money, 
 but seven times suffered loss by fire. After com- 
 ing to Portland he purchased a home, his place 
 covering a quarter of a block at the corner of 
 Fourth and Morrison streets. He also lived on 
 Jefferson street at the corner of Fourth street for 
 three years and for fourteen years at the corner 
 of Jackson and Sixth streets, there spending his 
 last days, his death occurring in that home on the 
 5th of October, 1897. In the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church he was a very active and helpful member. 
 He belonged to the Taylor Street Methodist 
 Church, was a leader in its work and was liberal 
 in his contributions to its support. He also gave 
 generously to other worthy causes. At the time 
 of his death he held the oldest membership in the 
 First Methodist Church here. He gave an unfal- 
 tering allegiance to the temperance cause and was 
 found as a champion of all measures pertaining 
 to the moral progress of the community. 
 
 William York Masters, to whom we are in- 
 debted for the history of his honored father, pur- 
 sued his early education in the "Old Portland . 
 Academy," and afterward in the Agricultural 
 College at Corvallis. where he pursued a full 
 course and was graduated with the degree of 
 A. M. in the class of 1882. He then read law 
 with the firm of Killin & Moreland, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1884. He then formed a co- 
 partnership with Judge J. C. Moreland, which 
 was maintained for some time, and since the dis- 
 solution of the partnership Mr. Masters has been 
 alone in practice. He was a stockholder and vice- 
 president of the Pacific Coast Abstract Company, 
 which in 1901 was re-organized under the name 
 of the Pacific Coast Abstract Guaranty & Trust 
 Company, with Mr. Masters as its vice-president 
 and attorney. The office of the company is now 
 located in the Failing building. He also enjoys 
 a lucrative general law practice, is a capable at- 
 torney, having broad and comprehensive knowl- 
 edge of the science of jurisprudence, which he 
 applies with accuracy and correctness to the points 
 in litigation. 
 
 William Y. Masters was married in Corvallis 
 March 31, 1886, to Miss Elizabeth M. Bell, who 
 was born in Corvallis and is a daughter of H. M. 
 Bell. Thev have three sons and two daughters, 
 William H.. Bertha B., Edward W., Alfred R. 
 
 and Margaret E. The family home is at No. 605 
 Sixth street in Portland. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Masters are members of the First 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. He served as a 
 member of the city council in 1901-02, is a mem- 
 ber of Samaritan Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he 
 is past grand, also a member of the Encamp- 
 ment. He likewise belongs to Industry Lodge, 
 A. O. U. W., and was a member of the Alpha 
 Tau Omega college fraternity when in college. 
 He is now an active factor in professional circles 
 of the city and is not only a worthy representative 
 of an honored pioneer family, but also deserves 
 mention in this volume by reason of his own per- 
 sonal worth and prominence. 
 
 WILLIAM W. PLIMPTON. Few of the na- 
 tive sons of Oregon have attained a more en- 
 viable position in the business circles of Portland 
 than the gentleman whose name appears at the 
 head of this brief review. The greater percent- 
 age of the men who have become actively iden- 
 tified with the upbuilding of Portland, and in 
 fact the entire Pacific northwest, are men who 
 have emigrated from the more developed east, 
 where they received the full benefits of fine schools 
 and the experience of men who for years had 
 been successful in the carrying on of various en- 
 terprises. Thus to the young men of the north- 
 west especial credit is due when in the face of 
 the keen competition of thorough going business 
 men with much older heads, they have reached 
 a position of affluence. 
 
 William W. Plimpton is a descendant of an 
 old English family, a member of which, John 
 Plimpton, emigrated to this country in 1636 and 
 settled at Medfield, Mass. Here the descendants 
 of the family lived for many years, and here in 
 1826 the father of our subject, S. B. Plimpton, 
 was born. He followed the shoemaker's trade 
 for a few years, but at the age of twenty-five, 
 the family ties being broken by the death of his 
 parents, and attracted by the discover)' of gold 
 in California, he came to the Pacific coast, via 
 the Horn. The first year was spent in the mines, 
 at the end of which time he came to Oregon, and 
 at Rainier, in Columbia county, he took up a 
 donation claim and engaged in farming. In i860 
 he removed to Westport. Here he met with 
 success and continued farming, and later re- 
 moved to Oak Point, and still later returned to 
 Westport, whence he removed to Willsburg. 
 where he is now living. In 1853 he was united 
 in marriage with Miss Lydia P. Wright, who 
 was born at South Reading, now Wakefield, 
 Mass. Of the children born of this marriage, 
 three attained maturity, William W. being the 
 oldest; Sarah is now the wife of FT. L Winter- 
 

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 botham, of California; and Ortley is an dec 
 
 trician, now residing in ( >regon. 
 
 William W. Plimpton is indebted to the public 
 schools of i )regon for his preliminary education, 
 which was supplemented by study in the gram- 
 mar schools in the city of San Francisco. At the 
 age of seventeen years, in 1S71, Mr. Plimpton 
 made his first start in life by obtaining a position 
 with Knapp, lWirrell & Co., implement dealers in 
 Portland. Beginning at the bottom he steadily 
 worked his way upward, step by step, and from 
 the office he was promoted to the shipping de- 
 partment, later had charge of the order depart- 
 ment, in fact learning thoroughly every phase of 
 the business. That his services were greatly ap- 
 preciated is shown by the term of years he was 
 with the firm, with which he severed his con- 
 nection at the end of nearly twenty-five years, 
 resigning in January, 1896. Profiting by the ex- 
 perience he had here gained he at once took the 
 necessary steps to organize the Western Storage 
 & Transfer Company. The following six years 
 he devoted his whole time and attention to the 
 management and development of the business. 
 From the first the enterprise proved to be a suc- 
 cess and with Air. Plimpton at the helm it rapidly 
 came to the front, and in 1902, when he turned 
 the management over to his son, it was consid- 
 ered one of the most substantial concerns in the 
 city. The warehouses, erected under the per- 
 sonal supervision of Mr. Plimpton, are modern 
 in construction and ample in size, covering one 
 hundred and fifty by two hundred feet, ground 
 dimensions. As stated, in 1902, Mr. Plimpton 
 severed his connection with the business, doing 
 so for the purpose of accepting a position with 
 the Acme Harvester Company of Peoria, 111.. 
 as assistant manager of their Portland office. 
 
 In 1888, Air. Plimpton was united in marriage 
 with Alice J. Miller, also a native of Oregon, 
 being the second daughter of Adolph and Betsy 
 Miller, who were early pioneers and located at 
 Portland in 1853. Of the children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Plimpton, William M. was educated in 
 the public schools and Scott Academy and is now 
 occupying his father's former position with the 
 Western Storage & Transfer Company; their 
 other child, Ethel W.. is now the wife of James 
 D. M. Abbott, of Portland. 
 
 In politics Mr. Plimpton is an unswerving Re- 
 publican, but he has never had the time or in- 
 clination to take an active part in the campaigns 
 of his party. Although his time and attention 
 have been devoted to his business interests, Mr. 
 Plimpton is a firm supporter of all measures cal- 
 culated to be of benefit to the city and state. 
 V\ "hile there are many men who have risen from 
 the ranks there are none that deserve more credit 
 for what they have accomplished than does Mr. 
 Plimpton. 
 
 CAPT. JOHN T. APPERSON. It is seldom 
 throughout the incipient stages of growth, down 
 to a period covering many years in the develop- 
 ment of a progressive commonwealth, that to any 
 one man is accorded a foremost place bj general 
 consent. New countries in these latter days of 
 steam and electricity develop often with rapidity ; 
 new issues are met by new leaders, while those 
 who laid the foundation of society rarely retain 
 their hold on affairs for any extended period of 
 time. In this, however, Oregon has been an ex- 
 ception to the rule, and the career of Capt. John 
 T. Apperson is a conspicuous example of the ex- 
 ception. Coming to Oregon when the country 
 was an undeveloped wilderness, no settled social, 
 political or business order, he has exerted a con- 
 tinually increasing influence in the various line* 
 of development which have added to the wealth 
 and greatness of the state. Apart from his busi- 
 ness life, he has been one of the foremost build- 
 ers of our state. The results of his high integrity 
 and of his efforts to elevate the tone of society 
 and keep pure the moral sentiment of the com- 
 munity, make a double claim upon our respect 
 and recognition. Fortunate, indeed, has it been 
 for the state, that its political leaders, like our 
 subject, have been men whose social, religious 
 and domestic relations have stimulated and hon- 
 ored the highest of her people. The lessons of 
 such lives are the best inheritance of a state or 
 people. 
 
 John T. Apperson was born in Christian 
 county, Ky., December 24, 1834, a son of Bev- 
 erly Apperson, who was born in the vicinity of 
 Jamestown on the banks of the James river, and 
 was united in marriage with Jane Gilbert Tubbs. 
 a native of Tennessee. Ten children were born 
 of this union, as follow-s : Beverly, who died 
 when young ; Sarah ; Matilda Jane ; John T. ; 
 Harriett Rebecca ; Albert A. ; Dona Elvira ; 
 Jacob R. ; Susan H. ; and Milton M., who died 
 in childhood. Beverly Apperson was a planter 
 and farmer, and after his marriage removed to 
 Kentucky. In 1835 he took up his residence in 
 Missouri, living for a time near Springfield, and 
 later locating near Neosha, New-ton county. 
 This father was ambitious for his family and in 
 order to better their conditions joined an expe- 
 dition bound for the coast, in which there were 
 one hundred wagons and much live stock. The 
 journey was a tedious one and much trouble was 
 experienced with the Indians, especially so with 
 those at Umatilla, who were afterward connected 
 with the Whitman massacre. Little did the hope- 
 ful band think that ere their journey's end was 
 reached, death would take from their midst one 
 of its most stalwart and hardy members, but the 
 grim messenger strikes where least expected and 
 at Ham Fork, Beverly Apperson died of an attack 
 of fever and was buried in a lonely grave, remote 
 
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 from home and kindred. Heartbroken, the 
 mother and nine children continued on their 
 way to the new Eldorado, which to them was 
 Oregon City, where a cousin and son-in-law re- 
 sided. The first winter in Oregon, however, was 
 spent near Portland, at the mouth of the Sandy, 
 where the cattle were wintered and where the 
 mother took up a claim afterward ahandoned. In 
 the spring of 1848 the family removed to Lawns- 
 dale, where the mother found employment in a 
 tannery owned by the cousin. Here this brave 
 woman labored for her flock and gave to them 
 the few advantages then obtainable. 
 
 John T. Apperson, of whom we are writing, 
 iemembers well the long journey across the 
 plains, and although but thirteen years of age, 
 he did his share of the labors incident to the 
 life of the pioneers. He remained at home and 
 worked to assist in the maintenance of the fam- 
 ily. With the breaking out of the gold excitement 
 in California in 1849, the family came to Port- 
 land, and John T. departed for the Golden state. 
 For a time he mined on the Yuba river and Deer 
 creek, meeting with considerable success, but ow- 
 ing to the state of his health he was obliged to 
 seek other employment, and two years were spent 
 in ranching and cattle raising. At the expiration 
 of this time, Mr. Apperson returned to Oregon 
 and for three years was in the employment of the 
 Milling and Transportation Company, and there- 
 after engaged in steamboating, his first boat be- 
 ing the Rival, its course being between Oregon 
 City and Portland. Being possessed of an eco- 
 nomic nature he saved from his earnings and in 
 time was able to purchase an interest in the boats 
 Clinton and Union, freight and passenger car- 
 riers plying between Oregon City and Dayton. 
 He continued in this line of business until 1861, 
 when the breaking out of the Civil war offered 
 an opportunity for every citizen to display his 
 patriotism. Mr. Apperson was among the first 
 to lay down the business duties of life, and as a 
 private he enlisted in the First Oregon Cavalry 
 from which position he was later promoted to 
 first lieutenant. Instead of following out the 
 original intention to join the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, the government sent them into eastern Ore- 
 gon, Washington territory and Idaho, where they 
 were engaged in fighting Indians and bushwhack- 
 ing. Mr. Apperson continued in the service until 
 1865, in which year he obtained his honorable 
 discharge. He at once took up his old occupa- 
 tion, that of steamboating, which he followed for 
 the next five years. 
 
 During these years spent on the river and in 
 the army Mr. Apperson had gained an acquaint- 
 ance which extended over a large territory. In 
 those days it was hard to find men who were 
 capable to handle the reins of government. Those 
 were the davs when the state was being: made 
 
 and it needed men of unquestioned ability, of 
 honesty and integrity. A Republican in politics, 
 Mr. Apperson had always been found thoroughly 
 abreast of the times and a firm supporter of the 
 principles of his party. Recognizing his worth 
 and ability his party made their first call upon 
 him in 1870, in which year he was elected to the 
 state legislature. He served his constituents 
 well and in 1874 he was selected to fill the office 
 of sheriff, to which position he was later elected. 
 His administration was so satisfactory that his 
 party determined to keep him in public office, 
 and in 1878 he was elected to the state senate, 
 where he served from 1878 to 1882. No mem- 
 ber was more active than he. Bills that were 
 calculated to be of benefit to the state always had 
 his active and hearty support. Other political 
 honors came to Mr. Apperson in 1884, wdien he 
 was sent as a delegate to the National Conven- 
 tion held in Chicago, at which time he labored 
 earnestly for the nomination of James G. Blaine. 
 Four years later, in 1888, he was again called 
 upon to serve in the legislature, and in 1889 he 
 was appointed registrar of the United States 
 land office at Oregon City, which position he 
 held for the succeeding four years. Since re- 
 tiring from the latter position he has lived in 
 retirement from public office. Twenty-four years 
 of his life have been given to his state. His 
 record is an honorable one over which there falls 
 no shadow of shame or dishonor. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Apperson is one of the most 
 prominent Masons in the state and is the oldest 
 on the Pacific coast, having joined Multnomah 
 Lodge in 1858, of which he is past master. He is 
 also identified with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, has passed the chairs in both 
 branches of the order, and has been grand repre- 
 sentative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the 
 United States and attended the convention held 
 in the city of Cincinnati in 1882. In 1872 he 
 served as grand master of the state of Oregon. 
 
 All his life Captain Apperson has been a stanch 
 supporter of educational matters and has done all 
 in his power to better the conditions of the schools 
 in the state. In 1885 a law was enacted creating 
 a Board of Regents of the State Agricultural 
 College at Corvallis. In the same year Captain 
 Apperson was appointed a member of the Board 
 by Governor Moody, and at this time he is still 
 serving. For seven years he was president of 
 the board and during that time he won the ap- 
 preciation of all. On his retirement from the 
 office of president the board passed resolutions of 
 thanks and praise for the manner in which he 
 had conducted the affairs of the office. In ad- 
 dition to other matters Mr. Apperson has been 
 greatly interested in the agricultural conditions 
 of Oregon and for many years was a member 
 
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 of the state hoard, while for ten years he served 
 as president of the same. 
 
 In Walla Walla, Wash.. Mr. Apperson was 
 united in marriage with Mi>-~ Mary A. Elliott, 
 
 a native of Missouri and a daughter of William 
 Elliott, who was horn in \ ineennes. Ind.. and a 
 tanner during his active life. Mr. Elliott crossed 
 the plains to Oregon in 1S40, and has lived for 
 many \ears with his daughter. Mrs. Apperson. 
 To his eredit is courageous service in the Indian 
 wars and a life oi devotion to his family. 
 
 If space permitted the writer could say much 
 more oi the life and deeds of Captain Apperson. 
 There is no man in the Willamette Valley more 
 deserving of the esteem and confidence of his fel- 
 low-men than he. His life is like an open book — 
 open to all. He has lived a life of high purpose. 
 His interest in the growth and development of 
 his adopted state has been sincere, and by ex- 
 ample he has endeavored to elevate the standard 
 of morality and progress in all of the avenues 
 of his activity. It is to such men the present gen- 
 eration owes a debt of gratitude that will never 
 be paid. Too much cannot be said or done in 
 their honor. They are the men that have made 
 Oregon one of the greatest of states and their 
 lives are well worthy of emulation. 
 
 CAPT. GEORGE ANSON PEASE. Not a 
 few of the fortunes which have been made in the 
 great northwest have come from the waters of its 
 many rivers, for steamboating has not been the 
 least of the remunerative employments of this 
 section. Capt. George Anson Pease is one of the 
 pioneers who realized the possible profit of such 
 work, his early observation having taught him as 
 much, for his mother had six brothers engaged 
 in boating on the Hudson river, and almost im- 
 mediately after his arrival here in 1850 he became 
 so employed and continued so throughout his 
 entire business career. It is a self-evident fact 
 that he has been successful in a financial way, 
 and the general esteem and respect of his fellow- 
 men bespeak that greater one which can only be 
 won by years of trustworthiness. In 1861 Cap- 
 tain Pease rescued forty people from a flood, 
 proving those qualities which have always dis- 
 tinguished his life. 
 
 The father of Captain Pease, Norman Pease, 
 was an architect and builder of New York state 
 and said to be the best in his trade throughout 
 the state. He was born in Ohio and after his re- 
 moval to New York he married Harriet McAllis- 
 ter, a representative of a Scotch family, and he 
 died January 4, 1847, at tne a g e °f forty-three 
 years, while she came to Oregon in 1862 and 
 made her home in Oregon City until her death 
 in 1890, in her eighty-fourth year. She was the 
 mother of seven children, one of whom died in 
 
 infancy, the others being as follows: ' ieorge 
 
 Anson, of this review, the oldest child, and the 
 only son, horn in Stuvvesant Landing, Columbia 
 county. X. Y., September 30, [830; Maria V. 
 now the wife of Alexander Warner, of Mt. 
 Tabor; Martha E., the widow of John Howser, 
 at the time of her mother's death being in Cort- 
 land, hut now living in New York City; Jane, 
 who became the wife of A. M. Cannon and died in 
 Spokane Falls, W r ash., in 1893; Harriet [•'.., the 
 widow of Capt. C. W. I 'ope ; and Pamela, who 
 became the wife of Alfred Herring and died in 
 Portland, in 1887. Captain Pease and his sisters 
 were all educated in the subscription schools of 
 his native state, but at the age of fifteen years he 
 became connected with his father to learn the 
 carpenter and joiner's trade, and at the death of 
 his father he finished his apprenticeship with an- 
 other man. He remained at home until 1849, 
 when he set out for the west, his trip being made 
 by way of the Horn, his arrival safely accom- 
 plished September 30, 1849. He remained in Sac- 
 ramento for a time and spent the winter in the 
 mines, where he met with success, which was 
 turned into failure through his trust of the man 
 with whom he was working. Having lost all that 
 he had gained he decided to go north and try his 
 fortune in Oregon, arriving here in July, 1850, 
 where he has ever since remained. He purchased 
 a couple of boats and ran them from Milwaukee 
 to Oregon City and later from Portland. In 185 1 
 the first steamboat was brought to the Willamette 
 river and Captain Pease secured a position as 
 clerk and deck-hand, remaining for six months, 
 the first boats being the Hoosier, Oregon, Can- 
 ema and Franklin. With others Captain Pease 
 bought The Elk in 1858 and Onward in i860, and 
 became pilot and captain of the steamer Hoosier 
 in 1 85 1. In 1863 he built a boat which he called 
 the Enterprise and ran on the upper river, which 
 proved a profitable undertaking and later it was 
 put into The People's Transportation Company. 
 For some years the captain was a member of the 
 board of directors, but later they sold the Benja- 
 min Holliday and he remained in his employ as 
 superintendent of the river lines. Mr. Holliday 
 afterward sold out to the Oregon Steamer and 
 Navigation Company and Captain Pease still re- 
 mained as master in the employ of that company 
 until he resigned and became a pilot in 1879, after 
 some years going to work for the Oregon Rail- 
 road & Navigation Company. Tn 1896 he was 
 appointed captain of the United States govern- 
 ment dredge, W. S. Ladd, and remained success- 
 fully until May. 1903. when he resigned and quit 
 active work. 
 
 In Linn City, in 1857, Captain Pease was united 
 in marriage with Miss Mildred A. Moore, who 
 was born in Illinois and came to Oregon when she 
 was five years old. She died in Portland, whither 
 
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 the family had removed in [868, in October, 1889, 
 when thirty-seven years old, the mother of four 
 children, of whom two, Francis A., aged six, and 
 George E., aged two, are deceased, while the liv- 
 ing are Archibald L., who is married and has two 
 sons, George Norman, a student of Cornell Uni- 
 versity, and A. Leroy, a student of Hill Military 
 Academy; and Harriet M., residing in San Fran- 
 cisco, the wife of T. J. Colbert, manager of the 
 carpet department of the Emporium, and they 
 have two children : Mildred Grace, now Mrs. 
 Peters, and George Pease Colbert. The children 
 of Captain PeaseNvere all educated in the public 
 schools of Oregon City and Portland. Frater- 
 nally the captain is a prominent man, having been 
 made a Mason in 1855, in Oregon City, and hav- 
 ing acted as master of Multnomah Lodge, which 
 is the oldest on the Pacific coast. He is a charter 
 member of Portland Lodge No. 55, and belongs 
 to the Chapter, R. A. M.. charter member of 
 Scottish Rite and member of Al Kader Temple. 
 He belongs socially to the Pioneers' Association 
 of Oregon and Historical Society, and in the line 
 of his business belongs to the Masters and Pilots' 
 Association of Untied States Steam Vessels. 
 Captain Pease is a self-made man and the success 
 which he has achieved may be traced to that de- 
 cision of character which impelled him to grasp 
 a difficulty as soon as presented and use every 
 strength and purpose of his intellect to overcome 
 it and lift himself to a higher position among his 
 fellow men. 
 
 KENNETH A. J. MACKENZIE, M. D. The 
 founder of the Mackenzie family in America was 
 Roderick Mackenzie, a member of an old family 
 of Scotland and himself a native of Ross Shire. 
 The ancient families of Langwell and Aldy, 
 Earls of Cromartie and Brahan, are members of 
 the same family. When a young man he settled 
 in Canada wdiere he soon became identified with 
 the operations of the famous Hudson Bay Com- 
 pany, first in the capacity of clerk, and subse- 
 quently rising to be chief factor in the service. 
 Through his keen intelligence and rare executive 
 ability he rose rapidly to a position of influence 
 among the company's officers, and his work- at the 
 various posts where he was stationed reflected 
 the highest credit upon his capabilities and his 
 devotion to the company's interests. Upon re- 
 tiring from active business he purchased a home- 
 stead at Melbourne, Quebec, on the St. Francis 
 river, where he continued to reside until his 
 death in 1896. Throughout his life he adhered 
 to the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church, in 
 which faith he had been reared. His wife, who 
 also died in 1896, was Jane Mackenzie, a native 
 of Fort William, in the Lake Superior district. 
 Fler father, also named Roderick Mackenzie, a 
 
 native of Ross Shire, Scotland, likewise became a 
 chief factor in the service of the Hudson Bay 
 Company, and for years was stationed in the 
 northwest, eventually dying in the Red River 
 settlement, where he owned a large farm. 
 
 In the family of which Dr. Mackenzie was 
 the eldest son there were four sons and two 
 daughters. Of these, Peter is a well-known ad- 
 vocate in Quebec, and rendered able service as 
 a representative of his district in the Provincial 
 Legislature. Thomas is a farmer in Australia. 
 Francis A. is engaged in business in Montreal. 
 One of the daughters, Isabella, is married to R. 
 Lea Barnes, manager of the Wells-Fargo Bank ; 
 and resides in Portland, while the other, Jane 
 Mackenzie, continues to occupy the old home- 
 stead. 
 
 Kenneth A. J. Mackenzie was born in Cum- 
 berland House, Manitoba, January 13, 1859. As 
 a boy he was afforded excellent educational ad- 
 vantages, attending the Nest Academy in Scot- 
 land, later the high school of Montreal, Canada, 
 and subsequently being graduated from Upper 
 Canada College in Toronto. Having decided to 
 enter the medical profession, in 1877 he matricu- 
 lated in McGill University, where he took a com- 
 plete course of lectures, being graduated in 1881 
 with the degree of M. D. C. M. With a desire 
 to broaden his professional knowledge before 
 undertaking active practice, he went to Edin- 
 burg, Scotland, where he took a post-graduate 
 course in the Royal College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, which conferred upon him the degree 
 of L. R. C. P. and S. E. In the hospitals and 
 clinics of Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London he 
 had further advantages of the highest importance 
 to one whose ambition was to acquire a thorough 
 knowledge of medicine and surgery. 
 
 Upon returning to America, Dr. Mackenzie, 
 in 1882, located in Portland, Ore., where he has 
 since established an enviable reputation for skill 
 in surgery and accuracy in diagnosis and treat- 
 ment in general practice. By his professional 
 brethren he is at this time freely accorded the 
 position of pre-eminence among the practitioners 
 of ( )regon, and ranks as the peer of the most suc- 
 cessful and distinguished medical scientists of 
 the Pacific slope. Aside from his large private 
 practice, he has been variously identified with im- 
 portant interests properly associated with his pro- 
 fessional work. For twenty years he has served 
 as a member of the medical faculty of the Oregon 
 State University. In 1883 he was appointed to 
 the staff of St. Vincent's Hospital, where his 
 broad knowledge and observation, extending into 
 the hospitals of the medical centers of Europe, 
 as well as of this country, made his services es- 
 pecially valuable. He has also held the post of 
 chief surgeon for the Oregon Railroad & Naviga- 
 tion Company. His high standing' among the 
 
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 members of the profession is indicated l>\ the 
 fact that he was honored by election t>> 1 1 1 «. - presi- 
 dency of the ( )regon State Medical Association 
 and oi the Portland Medical Society, in both 
 of which organization he has been an active 
 laborer. Me i- also a member of the American 
 Medical Association and of the International As- 
 sociation oi Railway Surgeons. Fraternally and 
 socially he is identified with the University Club 
 and the Arlington Club, and is a life member of 
 the Portland Library Association. In religious 
 connections he is a member of Trinity Kpiscopal 
 Church of Portland, and is a contributor to the 
 success of other movements of a religious and 
 benevolent nature. 
 
 Chi 1885 Dr. Mackenzie married Cora Hardy 
 Scott, a native of Louisiana, and a daughter of 
 Pliny and Cora Hardy of St. Landry's parish, 
 La. She died in 1901. Their children are 
 named as follows: Ronald Seaforth. Jean Stuart, 
 Barbara and Kenneth A. L, fr. 
 
 COL. HENRY E. DOSCH. In noting the 
 history of the Dosch family we find they were 
 prominent in military affairs in Germany, where 
 Col. John B. Dosch and his father, Col. Ernest 
 Dosch. were officers in the army ; and the former 
 had two brothers who also held high rank in the 
 service of their country. At the close of an hon- 
 orable career in the army he entered the diplo- 
 matic service, and subsequently, with a record of 
 which he might well be proud, he retired to his 
 large estate adjoining Kastel-Mainz, and there 
 his last years were passed. His wife, Anna, was a 
 daughter of Ulrich Busch, a large and wealthy- 
 lumber merchant of Kastel-Mainz ; her brother, 
 Adolphus Busch, has since become one of the 
 most prominent residents of St. Louis, Mo. In 
 her family of seven children one son and one 
 daughter survive, the former being Col. Henry 
 E. Dosch, of Portland, proposed director-general 
 of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and commis- 
 sioner of the board of horticultural commission- 
 ers of Oregon. 
 
 In his native town of Kastel-Mainz, where 
 he was born June 17. 1841. Col. Henry E. Dosch 
 received excellent educational advantages. On 
 the completion of the regular course in the School 
 of Commerce and Industry in Kastel-Mainz. he 
 was apprenticed to a large importing oil house, 
 where he served for three years. In March of 
 i860 he came to America and secured employ- 
 ment as bookkeeper in St. Louis. At the open- 
 ing of the Civil war he enlisted as member of 
 General Fremont's body guard, serving as such 
 until November, 1861, when the one hundred and 
 fiftv-one men composing the guard were honor- 
 ably discharged. At the battle of Springfield, 
 Mo., these valiant guardsmen met and routed 
 
 three thousand Confederates in a desperate con- 
 lliet that lasted from three in the afternoon until 
 dark. During this engagement Mr. Dosch was 
 wounded in the right leg. It might have been 
 supposed that this baptism of fire would dis 
 courage Mr. Dosch from further efforts to cnlisi ; 
 but not so. On the expiration of his time he 
 endeavored to secure admission into the volun 
 teer service, and in March of 1862 was accepted 
 as a member of Company C, Fifth Missouri 
 Cavalry. Later, on account of losses in the Fourth 
 and Fifth, these regiments were consolidated 
 and he then resigned. A later office was that of 
 sergeant of Company C, after which he was pro- 
 moted to be sergeant-major of the regiment and 
 then adjutant, and for the last three months he 
 was acting colonel. On the consolidation of the 
 two regiments, in 1863, he resigned his position 
 and retired from the service. 
 
 The first experience of Colonel Dosch with 
 western life and environment was gained in 1863, 
 when he crossed the plains with ox-teams and 
 after two weeks in Salt Lake City continued his 
 journey to Virginia City, Nev. For a time he 
 was connected with the Wells-Fargo pony ex- 
 press, and at one time he walked from Omaha 
 to Sacramento and thence to San Francisco. In 
 April of 1864 he became bookkeeper and cashier 
 for a firm dealing in miner's supplies at The 
 Dalles. The next year he embarked in the mer- 
 cantile business at Canon City, Ore., and contin- 
 ued until the loss of his stock and store by fire 
 led him to come to Portland in 1871. In this 
 city he conducted a wholesale business in the 
 boot and shoe line for nineteen years, having 
 his establishment on Front street. The mental 
 and nervous strain incident to the building up of 
 a large wholesale business proved very trying 
 and he was finally obliged to retire, in order that 
 his health might not be permanently injured. 
 Being of too active a temperament to enjoy com- 
 plete rest, he turned his attention to horticulture. 
 a science which has always possessed the keenest 
 fascination for him. In 1889 the governor of 
 Oregon appointed him a member of the board of 
 horticultural commissioners and each succeeding 
 governor has re-appointed him to the office. 
 During his term of service five volumes of bien- 
 nial reports have been issued. Those published 
 in 1899 and 1901 have been adopted as text 
 books at Cornell University, University of Mich- 
 igan, University of Wisconsin, Stuttgart Uni- 
 versity in Germany, and various colleges in 
 England. 
 
 Perhaps in no way has Colonel Dosch more 
 materially aided in the progress of Oregon and 
 in bringing before the world a knowledge of its 
 resources, than through his connection with ex- 
 hibits of the products of the state. During the 
 World's Fair in Chicago an exhibit was inaugu- 
 
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 rated that attracted much attention from people 
 who previously had been wholly unacquainted 
 with the state's possibilities. Through his efforts 
 the legislature was interested in the exhibit and 
 an appropriation was made, thereby enhancing 
 the success of the enterprise. A later project 
 which he superintended was the exhibit of the 
 products of Oregon at the Trans-Mississippi Ex- 
 position at Omaha. So successful was he in this 
 work that he was appointed to the same position 
 in connection with the Pan-American Exposition 
 at Buffalo, N. Y., and the Inter-State and West 
 Indies Exposition at Charleston, S. C. One of 
 the highest honors of his life came to him with 
 his appointment as director-general of the Lewis 
 and Clark Exposition, to which he is now giving 
 much time and thought. During 1903 he will 
 have charge of an exhibit at Ozaka, Japan, and 
 while visiting this International Exposition it 
 is his hope to arouse an interest on the part of 
 the Japanese and induce them to make an exhibit 
 at Portland during the Lewis and Clark Ex- 
 position. 
 
 There is probably no citizen of Portland whose 
 knowledge of horticulture is broader and more 
 thorough than that possessed by Colonel Dosch. 
 In his office as commissioner of the state board 
 of horticultural commissioners, he has directed 
 its operations and headed its work in the direction 
 of bringing to the people of the state, as well as 
 elsewhere, an accurate knowledge of Oregon soil, 
 its possibilities as a horticultural center, and the 
 special fruits suited to various localities. Often 
 he has accepted invitations to contribute to hor- 
 ticultural journals, and the articles appearing 
 therein over his signature always command a 
 wide reading. His association with the board of 
 horticultural commissioners has been productive 
 of the greatest good to the fruit-growing inter- 
 ests of the state, and to those having a knowledge 
 of his contribution to the success of the board's 
 reports the accepted value of the reports is a 
 tribute to his accuracy and judgment. It may 
 be doubted if any measure has contributed more 
 to the development of Oregon's horticultural re- 
 sources than the act of legislature, approved 
 February 25, 1889, for the creation of a state 
 board of horticulture ; and it may also be doubted 
 if any one member of the board has contributed 
 in so great a degree to its success as has Colonel 
 Dosch. As originally created, the board of hor- 
 ticulture consists of six members, appointed by 
 the governor, secretary of state and state treas- 
 urer. One member represents the state at large, 
 while the others represent five districts, namely : 
 first district, Multnomah, Clackamas, Yamhill, 
 Washington, Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook 
 counties ; second district, Marion, Polk, Benton, 
 Lincoln, Linn and Lane counties ; third district, 
 Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, Josephine, Coos, 
 
 Curry and Lake counties ; fourth district, Wasco, 
 Sherman, Morrow, (hlliam and Crook counties; 
 and fifth district, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, 
 Baker, Malheur, Harney and Grant counties. 
 The members reside in the districts for which 
 they are appointed and are selected with refer- 
 ence to their practical experience in or knowl- 
 edge of horticulture. Appointment is for a term 
 of four years. The present officers of the board 
 are E. L. Smith, president ; L. T. Reynolds, treas- 
 urer, and Henry E. Dosch, secretary, while the 
 representatives of districts are as follows : 
 W. K. Newell, first district; L. T. Reynolds, 
 second district ; A. H. Carson, third district ; 
 Emile Schanno, fourth district ; Judd Geer, fifth 
 district ; and E. L. Smith, state-at-large. 
 
 The marriage of Colonel Dosch was solemnized 
 at Canon City, Ore., in 1866, and united with 
 him Marie Louise Fleurot, who was born in 
 France and received her education in Portland. 
 They are the parents of six children now living, 
 namely : Ernst, who is a merchant at Skagway, 
 Alaska ; Lillie, Camelia, Arno, Roswell and Mar- 
 guerite. The family attend the First Presbyter- 
 ian Church of Portland, in which Colonel Dosch 
 for a time officiated as treasurer. 
 
 For several terms he was commander of Lin- 
 coln-Garfield Post No. 3, G. A. R. During his 
 residence in Canon City in 1867 he was made a 
 member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows and is now identified with Minerva Lodge 
 in Portland. During 1887-88 he was grand 
 master of the grand lodge of Oregon. In politics 
 he has always been allied with the Democratic 
 party, but during the campaigns of 1896 and 
 1900 connected himself with the gold wing oi 
 that party, not being in favor of a sixteen-to-one 
 standard. During the long period of his resi- 
 dence in the west he has kept in touch with the 
 progress in the world of thought and action, and 
 while especially devoted to the great northwest, 
 yet has no narrow spirit of prejudice, but is 
 loyal to the welfare of our country, and interested 
 in worldwide progress. Frequent trips to the 
 east, as well as several voyages across the ocean 
 to the old home land, have brought to him an 
 intimate knowledge of the development of our 
 nation and the influence of modern thought in 
 the old world; but, while loyal to the land of 
 his birth, he believes the history of the future 
 ages is to be written by the United States and 
 especially by that portion thereof lying beyond 
 the Rockies. 
 
 EARL C. BRONAUGH, JR. From his earli- 
 est recollections identified with the history of 
 Portland, Mr. Bronaugh is keenly alive to the 
 opportunities offered by his home city, and is 
 
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 out' oi the enthusiastic advocates of its possi- 
 bilities. He was Norn in Cross counts. Ark., 
 Februarj _'<>. [866, and when two years of age 
 was broughl to i )regon by his father, E. C. 
 Bronaugh. lli> education was begun in the pub- 
 lic schools of Portland, and was completed at the 
 University of the Pacific, at San Jose. Cal., from 
 which he was graduated in 1888, with the de- 
 cree of \. B. Three years later the degree 
 of A. M. was conferred upon him by his alma 
 mater. He began the study of law while a clerk 
 in the office of Whalley, Bronaugh & Northup, 
 and afterward entered die law department of 
 the University of Oregon, from which he was 
 graduated in 1890. with the degree of LL. B. 
 During June of the same year he was admitted 
 to the bar. In taking- up the active practice 
 oi his profession he became a member of the 
 firm of Bronaugh, McArthur, Fenton & Bro- 
 naugh. which, by the death of Judge McArthur, 
 in 1897, and the retirement of the senior Bro- 
 naugh. was changed to Fenton, Bronaugh & 
 Muir. The latter partnership was dissolved in 
 February, 1900, and later the firm of Bronaugh 
 & Bronaugh was organized by Mr. Bronaugh 
 and his cousin. Jerry Bronaugh, the two now 
 conducting a general practice and acting as at- 
 torneys for a number of corporations. Air. Bro- 
 naugh has made a specialty of the law of real 
 property, and has been, since 1900, attorney for 
 several foreign loan companies. 
 
 Mr. Bronaugh was married in San Jose, Cal., 
 to Miss Grace Huggins, a native of Iowa. They 
 now have four children : Elizabeth, Lewis, 
 Earl C, Jr., and Polly. The family is connected 
 with the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Port- 
 land, in which Mr. Bronaugh is a member of the 
 board of trustees, and for eight years has been 
 Sunday school superintendent. He is a member 
 of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. 
 The Arlington Club. University Club, State 
 Bar Association and Alumni Association of the 
 Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Phi are among 
 the organizations to which he belongs. During 
 his university work he was one of the founders 
 of Chase Chapter of Legal Fraternity, Phi Delta 
 Phi, University of Oregon. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the A. O. U. W. and the Royal 
 Arcanum. In 1900 he was elected to represent 
 the Seventh ward in the city council, and served 
 two years, meantime being chairman of the 
 committee on streets, health and police, and was 
 also a member of the judiciary committee. Under 
 appointment by the legislature in 1901 he be- 
 came a member of the charter board and served 
 as chairman of the committee on executive de- 
 partment and a member of the committee on the 
 legislative department. 
 
 EARL C. BRONAUGH. In the last half 
 century the lawyer has been a pre-eminent factor 
 in all affairs of private concern and national im- 
 portance, lie lias been depended upon to con- 
 serve the best and permanent interests of the 
 whole people, and is a recognized power in all 
 the avenues of life. He stands as the pro- 
 tector of the rights and liberties of his fellow men. 
 and is a representative of a profession whose 
 followers, if they would gain honor, fame and 
 success, must be men of merit and ability. Such 
 a one was Earl C. Bronaugh, who passed away 
 March 6, 1899, a f tcr a connection of thirty- 
 one years with the bar of Oregon, and it is safe 
 to say that there never was an attorney in the 
 state who was held in higher respect by his asso- 
 ciates. Coming to the state at a time when 
 the work of development had just begun, he be- 
 came identified with the substantial growth and 
 upbuilding of the same. Unostentatious in man- 
 ner, he never allowed himself to become a pub- 
 lic man, preferring to give his whole time to 
 the practice of his profession. 
 
 At the time of the revocation of the Edict of 
 Nantes, members of the Bronaugh family, who 
 were French Huguenots, fled to Scotland for 
 refuge, and from there came to America. The 
 emigration must have taken place some time be- 
 fore the Revolution, as members of the family 
 took part in the struggle for independence. 
 Jeremiah Bronaugh. the father of the personal 
 subject of this review, was born in Virginia, 
 where the family had settled at a very early 
 day. In about 1846, Mr. Bronaugh became a 
 pioneer of western Tennessee, and still later 
 removed to Arkansas, where he lived the balance 
 of his life. In earl}' manhood he was engaged 
 in the mercantile business, but the most of his 
 life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. By 
 marriage he was united with Miss Elizabeth 
 Clapp, a daughter of Dr. Earl B. Clapp, of Ab- 
 ingdon, Va. Dr. Clapp was a native of Massa- 
 chusetts, and served as surgeon during the war 
 of 1812 with the Virginia troops. He married 
 Elizabeth Craig, of Abingdon, a daughter of 
 Capt. Robert Craig. Captain Craig was a native 
 of Pennsylvania, and in 1787 he removed to the 
 Old Dominion. During the struggle for inde- 
 pendence he served under Washington during 
 two campaigns. He was also very active in pro- 
 moting patriotic societies, organizing many in 
 different portions of the country. He died in 
 Abingdon in 1834, aged ninety years. For 
 seventy years he was a very active member of 
 the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Earl B. Clapp 
 was a descendant of Thomas Clapp, a native of 
 Dorchester. England, who came to this country 
 in 1633, and settled in Massachusetts, where 
 the descendants of the family resided until some 
 time prior to the war of 1812, when Dr. Clapp 
 
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 migrated to Virginia, being the first member 
 of the family to leave the New England states. 
 His marriage with Elizabeth Craig resulted in 
 the birth of four children, one of whom was 
 Elizabeth, who became the wife of Jeremiah 
 Bronaugh. Of this latter union there were 
 seven children, three of whom lived to reach ma- 
 ture years, as follows: Earl C, our subject; 
 Anna Louisa, now Mrs. Poindexter, of Bard- 
 well, Ky., and William J., who died in Arkansas. 
 His son, Jerry, is now an attorney of the city of 
 Portland. 
 
 Earl C. Bronaugh was born in Abingdon, 
 Va., March 4, 183 1. There he spent the first 
 twelve years of his life, at the end of which time 
 he accompanied his parents on their removal to 
 Shelby county, Tenn. There a new home was 
 founded in the wilderness, and for six years Mr. 
 Bronaugh assisted his father in the work of the 
 farm and wood. While a resident of Abingdon 
 he had attended the public schools and laid the 
 foundation for an education, and while working 
 with his father he devoted his spare time to 
 study. Early in life he had become imbued 
 with a desire to make law his life occupation. 
 Accordingly, in 1847, he entered the law office 
 of his uncle, J. W. Clapp, of Holly Springs, 
 Miss., and after two years of study he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. 
 
 Being without means to take up the practice 
 of his profession at once, the following two 
 vears were spent in teaching in Tennessee and 
 Arkansas. He then located at Jacksonport, 
 Ark., where he engaged in practice for a short 
 time. Soon after he removed to Little Rock, 
 the same state, where for a time he served as 
 clerk of the chancery court. Later, two years 
 were spent at Brownsville, Ark., from which 
 place he removed to Helena, in the same state. 
 Here he became prominently identified with 
 affairs and was elected judge of the circuit court 
 in i860. This office he continued to hold until 
 the breaking out of the Civil war. 
 
 While not a man in sympathy with slavery, his 
 education and environments had been such as to 
 imbue him with the principles of the south. He 
 was a firm believer in state sovereignty and when 
 his adopted state seceded from the Union he 
 gave his support to the Confederate cause. He 
 enlisted in the army of the south and for one 
 year continued in the service. At the expira- 
 tion of this time his health failed and he soon 
 after received his discharge from the service and 
 returned home, where he remained until the close 
 of the war. For a time after the close of the 
 great struggle he remained in the south, but he 
 soon realized that it was a poor country in 
 which to strive for a fortune and position and 
 after a few years he determined to seek newer 
 fields in the far west where there were fairer 
 
 chances for reward. In the year 1868 he came 
 to the city of Portland. On reaching here he 
 was without a dollar in the world, but he was 
 not of the sort that give up and become dis- 
 heartened. He was determined to succeed and 
 at once opened a law office. From the first he 
 received his share of the public's patronage and 
 as time passed and people learned of his ability 
 his practice grew until at the time of his death 
 there were none that commanded a more ex- 
 tensive clientage, and his legal attainments 
 placed him in the very front rank of the Oregon 
 bar. 
 
 For three years he was associated with Hon. 
 John Catlin as a partner and for ten years was 
 a member of the firm of Dolph, Bronaugh, 
 Dolph & Simon. In 1882, owing to failing 
 health, he removed with his family to St. Clair 
 county, Cal., where he remained for two years. 
 On his return to Portland he became a partner 
 in the law firm of Whalley, Bronaugh & 
 Northup. The senior member of this firm re- 
 tired in 1889, and from that time until the 
 death of Mr. Bronaugh, the style of the firm 
 was Bronaugh & Northup. 
 
 At a meeting of the members of the Portland 
 bar soon after the death of Mr. Bronaugh there 
 was a large attendance and many of the leading 
 attorneys of the city delivered a number of 
 scholarly and eloquent orations. It was said at 
 the time there was never before a like meeting 
 where so many sincere and able addresses were 
 given. The committee on resolutions, in addition 
 to a sketch of his life, presented the following 
 eulogy, which was adopted by the meeting : 
 
 "As a lawyer, Judge Bronaugh had few if 
 any superiors at the Oregon bar. Some might 
 excel him in eloquence, others in powers for 
 skillful cross examination, but no one in the 
 knowledge of the law or accuracy of statement. 
 No case intrusted to him was lost through his 
 want of care, research or ability. It has been 
 said of him that no man could make a better 
 record in a cause for appeal to the supreme 
 court, and no lawyer saw the controlling ques- 
 tions in a case with more clearness than he. 
 Before a jury he was an exceedingly dangerous 
 antagonist. Always in earnest himself in what 
 he did, he never failed to impress those whom 
 he addressed with the sincerity of his views. 
 Persuasive in speech, logical and forceful in ar- 
 gument, with a play often of quiet and grace- 
 ful humor and gentle wit, of which he - used to 
 please and not to wound, it was not surprising 
 that he should have been a great verdict winner. 
 Those whom he vanquished in forensic contest 
 never felt the sting of their defeat intensified by 
 any boasting on his part or the detraction of 
 the abilities or conduct of his adversary. In 
 defeat he was always calm, courteous and 
 
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 brave; fertile in resources but fair in action. 
 It is not tlic language of mortuarj panegyric, 
 but the plain simple truth, which everyone in 
 the community in which for thirty years he has 
 lived and labored, will attest, to say of him that 
 his name was the synonym of uprightness and 
 honor, and that he was in the estimation of 
 everyone, whether client or adversary, esteemed 
 and respected as an honest man. 
 
 " Priceless indeed is that legacy of a good 
 and honored name that he bequeathed to his 
 family which he loved so well, and for whom he 
 so cheerfully labored. He was a devoted hus- 
 1 and father; a kind and generous neighbor; 
 a plain and simple gentleman of the old school ; 
 unaffected in manner, speech and dress; sin- 
 cerely devoted to his profession and unmindful 
 of the strife and contentions of public life. He 
 did not mingle much in public, was retiring and 
 modest, and preferred the quiet home, the grave 
 decorum of the court room, and the desk and 
 library of his office. He was a man of strong 
 religious convictions, and deeply sensible of the 
 sufferings of the human race. The loss of seven 
 children in their childhood and youth gave a 
 touch of sorrow to his face, and the gravity of 
 life and its issues made a profound impression 
 upon his whole career. And yet he was a most 
 hopeful man in the promises of the faith he pro- 
 fessed. The hope of a simple, sincere Christi- 
 anity animated his life and efforts. To him this 
 life was but a preparation for that to come. It 
 was therefore doubly earnest to him. for as Long- 
 fellow wrote, he felt — 
 
 ' Life is real, life is earnest. 
 And the grave is not its goal : 
 Dust thou art, to dust returneth 
 Was not spoken of the soul." 
 
 " Although his star of life is no longer seen, 
 yet it has set as sets the morning star in beauty. 
 which goes not down behind the darkened clouds 
 of the west, but melts away in the pure radiance 
 of Heaven. Let us emulate his virtues and fol- 
 low his example." 
 
 Mr. Bronaugh had a deep and abiding faith 
 in the cardinal principles of the Christian re- 
 ligion. Though reared in the Presbyterian 
 faith, later in life he identified himself with the 
 Christian Adventist denomination, and became 
 an earnest worker in the cause. He was a man 
 of unsullied reputation, pure minded, generous 
 hearted, and always adhering strictly to the prin- 
 ciples which he laid down for his self-govern- 
 ment, when, as a thoughtful and reasoning 
 creature, he first decided to champion the cause 
 of the Master of the hearts and lives of men. 
 He contributed liberally of his means for the 
 furtherance of the Gospel, and his benevolence 
 
 aside Ironi church work was numerous, though 
 \er\ quietly conducted. The ethical system as 
 sociated with the church was carried by him into 
 his daily life, and in Masonry, in which he look 
 an earnest and active interest, he found the 
 fellow of the church. The time he had to spare 
 from the practice of his profession was devoted 
 to the study of the Bible; it was his recreation, 
 and many of the Biblical articles from his pen 
 have been published in different sections of the 
 country. 
 
 HON. JOHN F. CAPLES. The descendant 
 of a family identified for many years with the 
 jurisprudence of ( )hio, with the founding of at 
 least one of the towns of that state, and with the 
 maintenance of its agricultural prestige, the 
 career of Hon. John F. Caples has naturally been 
 founded on broad and libera! lines, and with a 
 view to large accomplishment, lie was born at 
 what is now Ashland county. Ohio, January 12, 
 1832, and is the youngest of the eight sons and 
 two daughters born to Judge Robert Francis and 
 Charlotte (Laffer) Caples, natives respectively 
 of Westmoreland and Allegheny counties, Pa. 
 The paternal grandfather Caples was of Eng- 
 lish descent, and was an early settler in Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 Judge Robert Francis Caples became identified 
 with Wayne county at a very early day, where he 
 engaged in farming and was associate judge of 
 the county courts. In time he removed to within 
 fourteen miles of Tiffin. Seneca county, Ohio, 
 where he entered, cleared and improved the land 
 upon which the town of Risdon was built, and of 
 which he was one of the proprietors. The near- 
 by town of Rome, of which Mr. Foster was pro- 
 prietor, was eventually incorporated with Risdon. 
 under the name of Fostoria. Judge Caples 
 studied law in his youth and was admitted to the 
 bar, in after life becoming known for his equit- 
 able rulings and wise disposition of legal com- 
 plications. His death occurred in 1835 of chol- 
 era. His wife was of German descent, and a 
 daughter of John Laffer, a pioneer of Allegheny 
 county. Pa., who followed the martial fortunes 
 of Washington during the Revolutionary war, 
 under command of General Wayne. Mrs. Caples 
 died in Ohio in 1852, having survived her hus- 
 band seventeen years. Three of her large family 
 are living, and of these Henry I.., a resident of 
 Vancouver, an attorney, and ex-member of the 
 Washington legislature, came to the coast i:t [852. 
 
 The education of lion. John F. Caples was ac- 
 quired in Risdon. now Fostoria, Ohio, and at the 
 Ohio Weslevan University at Delaware, which 
 latter institution he attended for four years. Hi- 
 legal training was inaugurated with the firm of 
 Stanton & Allison, of Bellefontaine, Logan 
 
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 county, Ohio, and he was subsequently admitted 
 to the bar of Logan county in 1853. In 1855 ne 
 transferred his law practice to Findlay, Ohio, and 
 later to Warsaw, Ind., and after returning to 
 Ohio entered the government recruiting service 
 in northwest Ohio and northern Indiana. In 
 1865 he brought his family to the coast via the 
 Isthmus, San Francisco and to Vancouver, Wash., 
 in which latter city he engaged in practice and 
 served as city attorney. A year later, in 1866, 
 he located in Portland, and in 1872 was elected 
 to the legislature from Multnomah county, was 
 chairman of the judiciary committee, and assisted 
 in the election of Mr. Mitchell to his first term 
 in the United States senate. In 1878 he was 
 elected district attorney, his territory compris- 
 ing Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Colum- 
 bia and Clatsop counties, a responsibility main- 
 tained by Mr. Caples for six years in succession, 
 an honor hitherto accorded to no district attorney 
 in the state. In 1897 Mr. Caples was appointed 
 United States consul to Valparaiso, Chili, by 
 President McKinley, and while holding this im- 
 portant post had opportunity to exercise the dip- 
 lomacy and tact which have been important 
 factors in the formation of his success, and which 
 were especially required because of the compli- 
 cations resulting from the Spanish-American 
 war. Mr. Caples resigned the consulship in 1901, 
 and thereafter returned to Portland, where he 
 has since engaged in a general practice of law. 
 In Champaign county, Ohio, Mr. Caples mar- 
 ried Sarah J. Morrison, in 1854, Mrs. Caples hav- 
 ing been born in Ohio, and her death occurred 
 in California in 1877. Six children were born of 
 this union : Carrie, wife of Dr. W. H. Saylor, of 
 Portland; Mrs. Matthieu, of Portland; Mrs. 
 Paget, of Portland; Mrs. Anthony, of Califor- 
 nia ; Robert A., a newspaper man of Vinita, I. T. ; 
 and Jennie, living at home. Mr. Caples is a 
 member of the State Bar Association and of the 
 Board of Trade. Fraternally he is associated 
 with Portland Lodge No. 55, A. F. & A. M., the 
 Consistory and the thirty-second degree of Scot- 
 tish Rite ; and the Ancient Order of United 
 W T orkmen. As a stanch upholder of Republican- 
 ism he has enrolled himself among the western 
 politicians in the broadest sense of that much 
 abused term, and aside from the honors before 
 mentioned, served as presidential elector of Ore- 
 gon in 1892, and was the messenger who conveyed 
 the vote to Washington. In 1896 he served in a 
 similar capacity for President McKinley. Back 
 in Ohio Mr. Caples was a delegate to the Ohio 
 state convention at Columbus in 1856, and he was 
 present at the Chicago nomination of Abraham 
 Lincoln. As an orator, eloquent and effective 
 platform speaker, and general trial lawyer, Mr. 
 Caples is excelled by few, if any, on the Pacific 
 coast, and within the state of Oregon no one is 
 
 personally known to more people than he. He is 
 a member of the Taylor Street Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, a member of the board of trustees, 
 and chairman of the same for many years. 
 
 HON. JAMES WILLIS NESMITH, The 
 name which heads this review is one written 
 high in the annals of Oregon's history, and 
 stands for the life of a man whose influence still 
 makes itself felt throughout various circles in 
 the life of the west. Beyond the borders of the 
 state which Colonel Nesmith made his by the life 
 and work of a pioneer, has also gone that broad- 
 ening influence, for he became one of the prom- 
 inent men of the national government during 
 the trying times of '61, and gave the strength of 
 his intellect and manhood toward the support 
 of those principles, upon which the foundation 
 of the Union rests. True, always, to his princi- 
 ples of honor, loyal to that which claimed his 
 allegiance, and earnest in the prosecution of 
 whatever duty came into his hands, Colonel Nes- 
 mith won the esteem and confidence of all with 
 whom he came in contact, friend and foe alike 
 trusting him, for in his social, business and polit- 
 ical relations, in public and private life, his 
 career was free from the stain of dishonesty. 
 Oregon is justly proud to claim him as a repre- 
 sentative son. 
 
 The life of Hon. James Willis Nesmith began 
 in New Brunswick, in 1820, while his parents, 
 AVilliam Morrison and Harriet (Willis) Nesmith, 
 were visiting in the north. Both the father and 
 mother of Colonel Nesmith were representatives 
 of old and distinguished families, on the pater- 
 nal side inheriting the sturdy qualities of Scotch- 
 Irish ancestry. After their marriage in 1814 the 
 young people took up their abode in Maine, 
 where they remained until the death of the 
 mother, which occurred while the colonel was 
 still an infant. When this son was five years 
 old, the father lost his entire fortune by fire, 
 and was thus prevented from giving to his 
 children those advantages which would otherwise 
 have been theirs. Though deprived of the reg- 
 ular training of school, Colonel Nesmith did 
 much studying, as he had a natural inclination 
 for books, and had also a keen observation, which 
 enabled him to pick up a great deal of valuable 
 knowledge as he grew older and found more 
 association with the outside world. Like many 
 another eastern-bred youth, he felt a strong de- 
 sire to test his ability in a pioneer life, and he 
 was not old when he came as far west as Ohio, 
 and in company with his cousin, Joseph G. Wil- 
 son, late member of Congress from Oregon, 
 attended the district school near Cincinnati. A 
 little later he came to Missouri, and was joined 
 by his father, who died and was buried there. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 t the death of the elder man the younger 
 
 had left no tics to bind him to the cast, and he 
 at once sought to join a company bound for the 
 trip across the plains. He failed to join the 
 part) he sought, but became, instead, a member 
 of the Applegate party, who crossed in 1843. 
 Locating in Oregon City, he followed out the 
 gestion of Peter Burnett, who was also one 
 of the party that crossed the plains in 1843, anu - 
 in the study of law. With that application 
 which ever distinguished his efforts, the colonel 
 became familiar with the common sense 
 idea of jurisprudence contained in the few books 
 which came into his possession, and two years 
 later qualified to fill the office of judge under the 
 provisional government. 
 
 Always a stanch Democrat, it required no 
 small degree of courage for Colonel Nesmith to 
 ally himself on the side of another party and plat- 
 form, as he was compelled to do, at the time of 
 the breaking out of the Civil war. Many of 
 those who had always been his friends, Demo- 
 crats in politics, gave their support to the south- 
 ern cause, while his ideas of honor and his deep- 
 rooted convictions made the colonel a stanch 
 Unionist. He was not an abolitionist, nor in 
 sympathy with die anti-slavery agitation, and it 
 was because of this that his friends expected 
 him to join them in their espousal of the south- 
 ern cause. He did not, however ; he stood apart 
 from the regular party ranks, and in i860 
 accepted a position as elector on the Douglas 
 ticket. He was elected through the votes of the 
 Douglas Democrats and the Republicans, the 
 latter having entire confidence in the integrity 
 and the worth of the man selected to fill the 
 position. He therefore became senator to fill the 
 place left vacant by General Lane, for many 
 vears a warm personal friend of the colonel's, 
 and who accepted the place of vice president on 
 the old Democratic ticket with Breckinridge. 
 Whatever trials and difficulties arose during the 
 time in which Colonel Nesmith served as senator 
 were met with that same courage, that frank, 
 fearless honor, but masterly will and intellect, 
 which contributed so largely to the personal suc- 
 cess of the man. It was not an easy position to fill, 
 and a man less worthy in any way would have 
 failed in the discharge of duties. Until the close 
 •lie war he upheld national authority and be- 
 came a trusted adviser of President Lincoln. After 
 its close, however, he vigorously opposed the re- 
 construction measures of the Republican party. and 
 was ever afterward identified with the Demo- 
 cratic party. Upon his return to Oregon he be- 
 came a leader in that party, and in 1873 was 
 elected to fill the vacancy in Congress caused 
 by the death of his cousin. Joseph G. Wilson. 
 
 Colonel Nesmith was never too busy in the pur- 
 stiit of his profession, or his own aggrandizement 
 
 in any way, to neglect his dut) as a citizen and a 
 pioneer in the western state. He was one of 
 the number who fought in the Cayuse war in 
 1S4S to avenge the death of Whitman, and again 
 in 1855 ne served with distinction in the Rogue 
 river and Yakima wars, earning there the title 
 by which lie has ever been known, that of 
 COIOnel. In [857 be was appointed superin- 
 tendent of Indian affairs, and served for two 
 years, in a position of great responsibility, cov- 
 ering a held which included ( >regon, Washing- 
 ton and Idaho. He also served at one time as 
 United States marshal at Salem, and became a 
 member of the state legislature, meeting every 
 duty promptly, and as promptly fulfilling it. This 
 most admirable trait was that which won the 
 commendation of those who had the interests 
 of Oregon at heart, and meant to intrust them 
 only to men who possessed the courage, honesty 
 and earnestness of purpose to carry forward the 
 great plan which was to make her one of the first 
 of the states. 
 
 In 1846 Colonel Nesmith was united in mar- 
 riage with Pauline Goff. whose father was a 
 pioneer of 1844, and she bore him the following 
 children : Joseph Lane, Mary J.. Harriet. Va- 
 leria, James and William. The death of the 
 colonel occurred in 1885. Thus passed away 
 from mortal sight one of the men to whom Ore- 
 gon owes her greatness ; but memory survives 
 the lapse of time, and his name loses none of the 
 luster which attaches to it as that of a pioneer, 
 a courageous, loyal, worthy man and gentleman. 
 
 BLUFORD D. SIGLER. In the business ca- 
 reer of Bluforct D. Sigler. the young man of the 
 present generation may find a source of inspira- 
 tion and encouragement. Coming to Portland 
 when that city was at the zenith of its era of 
 early commercial development, he was still a 
 very young man when he decided to establish 
 himself independently in business. But the 
 northwest, with its boundless resources, is a 
 country of young men, and here Mr. Sigler 
 found abundant opportunity to build the founda- 
 tions of a business which is amply rewarding his 
 laborious and well-considered efforts. 
 
 Mr. Sigler was born in Georgetown. Vermil- 
 ion county. 111.. November 27. 1X66. His fam- 
 ily was founded in Illinois by his paternal grand- 
 father. John Sigler. a native of Pennsylvania, 
 who became one of the earliest pioneer farmers 
 of Vermilion county. His son. Samuel W. Sig- 
 ler. father of B. D.. was born in Illinois, and 
 was reared and educated in that state. Upon 
 the outbreak of the Civil war he left his farm to 
 take up arms in the defense of the Union, and 
 served as a private in Company C, Seventy- 
 
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 third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. His active 
 service continued until the close of hostilities. 
 He married Deborah Smith, a native of Ver- 
 milion county and a daughter of Jefferson 
 Smith, an extensive farmer and an early settler 
 of Illinois. In 1870 Air. Sigler moved with his 
 family to Medoc, Jasper county. Mo., and en- 
 gaged in a general merchandise business, which 
 he disposed of five years later in order to take 
 up his residence in Dayton, Ore., where he es- 
 tablished a similar business. In 1883 he re- 
 moved to Portland and conducted a feed business 
 until 1898, but in that year returned to Dayton, 
 where he now resides. 
 
 The only child in his father's family, B. D. 
 Sigler received his education in the public 
 schools of Illinois and Missouri, concluding his 
 studies in the high school of Portland, to which 
 city he removed with his parents in 1883. In 
 his boyhood he had become familiar with the 
 mercantile business, having been educated along 
 these lines by his father, and in 1886 became a 
 clerk in a store in Mount Tabor. At the expir- 
 ation of two years he became identified with the 
 sawmill business of Smith Brothers & Company, 
 whose works were located at the foot of Harri- 
 son street. In 1897, in company with Samuel 
 E. Wrenn and W. V. Smith, he organized the 
 Multnomah Box Manutacturing Company, which 
 succeeded to the business of the Multnomah Box 
 Company. This enterprise proved highly suc- 
 cessful, and at the end of three years was dis- 
 posed of at advantageous terms. The whole- 
 sale feed business next engaged the attention of 
 Mr. Sigler, who organized the Sigler Milling 
 Company in 1901, with himself as secretary and 
 manager. The concern conducts an extensive 
 and constantly increasing trade in flour, feed, 
 lime, land, plaster, and shingles, besides doing 
 a general commission business. A. T. Smith is 
 president, and A. J. McDaniel vice-president. 
 The business is located on the corner of Front 
 and Madison streets, occupying a building 30X 
 75 feet, and containing four floors. 
 
 Aside from the enterprises with which he is 
 identified in Portland, Mr. Sigler has taken a 
 wholesome interest in politics, the Republican 
 party receiving his stanch and unqualified sup- 
 port. In 1902 he was nominated for council- 
 man for the sixth ward, and elected by a major- 
 ity of one hundred and twenty-five. In the 
 council he is a member of the committees on ac- 
 counts and current expenses, sewers and drain- 
 age, and parks and public property ; and is 
 chairman of the committees on liquor license, 
 and on health and police. He is a life member 
 of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of 
 which he served as secretary for one year; and 
 is now vice-president of the same and a member 
 
 of the Commercial Club. His marriage, which 
 occurred in Portland united him with Veina E. 
 Adair, a graduate of the University of Oregon, 
 whose parents came to this state in the early '50s. 
 
 REUBEN DANNALS, one of the pioneers of 
 Clackamas county, was born in Greene county, 
 Ohio, October 23, 1829, and is the second oldest 
 son of the four sons and five daughters born to 
 Reuben and Hannah (Wyckel) Dannals, natives 
 respectively of Pennsylvania and the east. 
 
 From his native county of Bedford, Pa., the 
 elder Reuben Dannals removed with his parents 
 to Ohio, and later to Illinois and Iowa, coming 
 to Oregon in 1865. Settling in Linn county, he 
 farmed for several years, but at the time of his 
 death, in 1883, at the age of eighty-two years, 
 was living a retired life. All of the children of 
 the family were obliged to work hard from early 
 morning until late at night, and Reuben per- 
 formed his share with willing heart and capable 
 hand. As might be expected, he had little time 
 for either leisure or study, and his education has 
 been a matter of his own acquiring during later 
 years. He was one of the most enthusiastic of 
 the little band who crossed the plains in search 
 of larger opportunities. Although there were 
 eighteen wagons from their own neighborhood 
 in Iowa, the Indians were so very troublesome 
 that they were obliged to fall in with a freight 
 train for protection during the most dangerous 
 part of the journey. Three ponies were stolen 
 during the dawn of one morning, and they had 
 many other experiences which added zest and 
 interest to the journey. 
 
 When the family arrived in Clackamas county 
 Mr. Dannals bought, on his own responsibility, 
 one hundred and forty-two and one-half acres 
 of land, a part of which he soon after sold, and 
 at present his possessions consist of eighty of the 
 original acres, besides one hundred and sixty 
 acres at Highland, this state. He is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, and has met 
 with great success in his chosen occupation. 
 With him across the plains came the wife of Mr. 
 Dannals, formerly Hannah Colson, who was 
 born in Ohio, and whom he married in Iowa. 
 Three children have been born into the family of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Dannals, of whom Charlotta is the 
 oldest ; Hiram is the second child and only son ; 
 and Minnie is the youngest. Mr. Dannals is a 
 Democrat in politics and is fraternally associated 
 with the Grangers. He enjoys the respect and 
 good will of all who know him, and his integrity 
 and public spiritedness have never been ques- 
 tioned. 
 
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POR IK \l r WD Bl< >GRAPH1CAL RECi >RD. 
 
 
 
 WILLIAM II. BYRD, M. D, The family 
 of which William II. Byrd, M. D.. of Salem, 
 
 a distinguished representative is one of ilu 
 oldest and most favorably known throughout the 
 Willamette valley. His father, Lorenzo A. 
 Byrd, who is still living in Salem at the advanced 
 ace of eighty-one years, is a striking type of the 
 best class of sturdy pioneers who braved the dan- 
 gers and hardships of the plains more than half 
 a century ago in order to assist in the founda- 
 tion of a new commonwealth in a region whose 
 natural wealth w r as, in those early days, little 
 more than conjectural. The family was founded 
 by him in the northwest in 1847. an d since that 
 year the unusual versatility and adaptability of 
 its members to environment have been demon- 
 strated in various ways. With descendants who 
 have taken a high position in professional, edu- 
 cational, mercantile and agricultural circles, this 
 honored pioneer must view with a great degree 
 of satisfaction the happy augury which led his 
 ambitious young steps toward the greater pos- 
 sibilities of the northwest, and inspired him to 
 earnest and upright endeavor. (See sketch of 
 Lorenzo A. Byrd, which appears elsewhere in 
 this volume.) 
 
 William H. Byrd. the eldest son in the family 
 of Lorenzo A. and Martha (Savage) Byrd, was 
 born near Fairfield, Marion county, Ore., October 
 31, 1854, w r as reared on his father's farm, and 
 received his classical education in the public 
 schools of Fairfield and Salem. Upon reaching 
 young manhood he engaged in teaching school, 
 at the same time beginning the study of medi- 
 cine under the direction of Dr. J. C. Shelton of 
 Salem. In 1880 he matriculated in Cooper Med- 
 ical College, in San Francisco, but the follow- 
 ing year entered the medical department of Will- 
 amette University, from which he was gradu- 
 ated with the class of 1881. Opening an office 
 in that year, he has since been engaged in the 
 practice of his profession uninterruptedly, with 
 the exception of the winter of 1890-91, when he 
 took a course in surgery in the New York Post- 
 Graduate Medical College. His practice has as- 
 sumed large proportions and has been attended 
 by exceptional success. 
 
 For several years Dr. Byrd has been local 
 surgeon for the Southern Pacific Company. 
 When Willamette University established its 
 medical department in Salem, in 1896, he was 
 chosen professor of surgery, and one year later 
 was made dean of the faculty, a post which he 
 has continued to fill to the present time. Since 
 1896 he has also served on the staff of the Salem 
 Hospital, which was established in that year. In 
 the line of his profession he is identified with 
 the Marion County Medical Society, the Ore- 
 gon State Medical' Society, the American Med- 
 
 ical Association, and the International Associa 
 tion of Railway Surgeons. 
 
 In Salem, in [882, Dr. Byrd was united in mar- 
 riage with Teresa 1 lolderness, a native of Oregon. 
 She died in Salem in 1886, leaving a daughter, 
 Winifred M., now a student in the Boston Con 
 servatory of Music. In 1890 he married Mar- 
 garet J. Macrum, a native of Pennsylvania, and 
 a daughter of I. A. Macrum, deceased, of Forest 
 Grove. Mrs. Byrd is a graduate of the Pacific 
 University, and a lady of many graces of mind 
 and character. Dr. and Mrs. Byrd are the par- 
 ents of two children, Clarence M. and Donald 
 W. 
 
 In politics Dr. Byrd is a Democrat. For sev- 
 eral terms he has been a member of the Salem 
 Board of Education, and has also served in the 
 city council. Fraternally he is identified with 
 the Masons, being a member of Pacific Lodge 
 No. 50, A. F. & A. M.. Multnomah Chapter 
 Xo. 1. R. A. M., DeMolay Commandery, Al 
 Kader Temple, N. M. S., of Portland ; and has 
 taken all the Scottish Rite degrees up to and in- 
 cluding the thirty-second. Pie is also connected 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellow-s, in 
 which he is past noble grand : and the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, of Salem, in which 
 he has been exalted ruler. 
 
 Genial in disposition, optimistic in tempera- 
 ment, and an erudite scholar, Dr. Byrd com- 
 mands the attention and good will of the com- 
 munity in which he dwells. By his contem- 
 poraries he is regarded as the peer of the most 
 noted physicians and surgeons of Oregon. A 
 well-trained and inquiring mind has resulted in 
 the accumulation of a vast store of the knowdedge 
 disseminated by the greatest masters of medical 
 and surgical science ; and to this he has added 
 through his own personal investigations, direct- 
 ed along special lines wdiich have appealed to 
 him as worthy of profound study. By the laity 
 he is highly regarded for the many splendid 
 traits in his character which have become so con- 
 spicuous during his professional career in Salem. 
 
 JOB CONNER. For many years a highly 
 esteemed resident of Ballston, the late Job C 
 ner was well known throughout this section of 
 Polk county as an industrious and enterprising 
 farmer, a good citizen, a kind neighbor, a loving 
 husband and father: and his death, which oc- 
 curred November 10, 1888. on the home farm, 
 was a cause of general regret. 
 
 A native of Ohio, Job Conner removed in boy- 
 hood to Iowa with his parents, and resided in 
 that state until 1847. Following the tide of civ- 
 ilization westward in that year, he. with three 
 of his brothers. William, Nathan and Robert, 
 came to Oregon to take up land in this newer 
 
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 country, hoping thereby to speedily improve their 
 financial condition. All settled in the Willamette 
 valley, where they engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits. In 1871 Job Conner purchased the farm 
 now owned and occupied by Mrs. Conner and 
 her family. Laboring earnestly and industrious- 
 ly, he placed a large part of it in a good state of 
 cultivation, and added substantial improvements, 
 making his estate one of the most valuable and 
 attractive of any in the vicinity, residing on it 
 until his death. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Conner was married to Polly Ann 
 Riggs, who died April 13, 1871, leaving several 
 children. Those living are : Robert S., of Col- 
 orado ; Thomas Edgar ; Jane Baxter, Roswell, 
 Yamhill county ; Louisa Morrison, of California ; 
 Nancy Ann Berdau, of Idaho; and one who died 
 in infancy. 
 
 On May 16, 1872, Mr. Conner married Martha 
 Hicklin, who was born in Jennings county, Ind., 
 September 27, 1842. Her father, John L. Hick- 
 lin, removed from Kentucky, his native state, to 
 Indiana, from there coming to Oregon in 1849. 
 Locating first on the Columbia river, he remained 
 there a year, then went to Washington county 
 in search of a more favorable site for establish- 
 ing himself permanently. Being pleased with the 
 land in that part of the state, he took up a dona- 
 tion claim near what is now called Tigardville, 
 Ore., and having made some improvements, sent 
 for his family. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Martha Thorn, went with her family from 
 Indiana to St. Joseph, Mo., where she joined 
 a train composed of twenty-eight wagons starting 
 across the plains. Four of the wagons came to 
 Oregon, Mrs. Hicklin and her family reaching 
 the home farm at Tigardville on September 13, 
 185 1. Mr. Hicklin continued adding to the im- 
 provements already made, by energetic efforts 
 clearing a good homestead, on which he carried on 
 general farming until his death, October 14, 
 1877. His widow survived him, dying in June, 
 1882, at the home of her sister, Jane Conner, 
 near Ballston. 
 
 Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Conner five 
 children were born, namely : Mrs. Sarah Olm- 
 stead, who resides on a farm adjoining the pa- 
 rental homestead ; Lowman, living at home ; El- 
 bert, who is in Idaho; Belle, living at home; 
 and Mrs. Ella Hastings, of Smithfield, Ore. Mr. 
 Conner actively supported the principles of the 
 Republican party, and served his district several 
 terms as school director. He was a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Hill 
 while Mrs. Conner belongs to the Baptist Church 
 at Ballston. 
 
 PETER WILLIAM MESS, city recorder of 
 Mount Angel, and an educator of extended ex- 
 perience, was born in Luxemburg, November 9, 
 
 1842, but received practically his entire training 
 and education in the United States. The fam- 
 ily had long been identified with Luxemburg, 
 his father, Michael, having been born there Sep- 
 tember 12, 1799. The father removed with his 
 family to the United States in 1847, Peter Will- 
 iam Mess being then three years old. After a 
 year near Tiffin, Ohio, Michael Mess removed 
 to a farm in Henry county, where his death oc- 
 curred in 1855. He did meritorious service 
 under King William of Holland, and he not only 
 served the Dutch Republic for five years for 
 himself, but undertook an additional five years 
 for a stranger. His wife, Susan, was born on 
 disputed territory bordering on the Moselle river, 
 September 12, 1803, and her death occurred in 
 Henry county, Ohio, July 10, 1871. 
 
 The fourth of the five children in his father's 
 family, two of whom were daughters, Peter 
 William Mess was educated in the public schools 
 of Ohio, at the Wesleyan University at Dela- 
 ware, and at the Heidelburg College at Tiffin, 
 Ohio, leaving that institution to enlist for the 
 Civil war. ' As a soldier in Company D, One 
 Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer In- 
 fantry, Mr. Mess participated in many of the 
 important contests of the war, including the bat- 
 tles of Thompson's Station, Chickamauga, Mis- 
 sionary Ridge, Tunnell Hill, Resaca, Cassville, 
 and Pickett's Mill. In the latter he was wound- 
 ed so severely as to necessitate the amputation of 
 his right hand. He was discharged at Nashville, 
 Tenn., November 8, 1864, cast his first vote for 
 Abraham Lincoln, and returned to his class work 
 at Tiffin College. At the expiration of the session 
 he engaged in teaching a district school in Henry 
 county for a term, and then studied for a term at 
 the State University at Bloomington, Ind. Re- 
 turning to Ohio, he passed through the fresh- 
 man, sophomore, and junior years at Delaware 
 College, and though within a year of graduation, 
 discontinued his study to engage in teaching in 
 Henry county, Ohio, in the fall of 1869. After 
 five terms in Henry county he removed to Kan- 
 sas in April, 1874, locating at St. Paul, where 
 he engaged in educational work for ten years at 
 St. Francis College, and for six years in the dis- 
 trict schools of the neighborhood, making sixteen 
 years in all. For one year he served as superin- 
 tendent of Kaw Indian schools of Kansas, and 
 was appointed census enumerator of Neosho 
 county in 1890. The same year he located in 
 Mount Angel, Ore., and continued his former 
 occupation of teaching, occupying the chair of 
 mathematics at Mount Angel College. 
 
 In September, 189 1, Mr. Mess bought a small 
 place in Roseburg, Ore. The following June he 
 returned to Mount Angel, and was appointed 
 postmaster of the city. In 1894 he removed to 
 Grand Ronde, teaching in the male department of 
 
POK IKA I 1 AND IMt >GR \I'MK \1. RE< :i IRD. 
 
 •J'.''.' 
 
 the Indian school. Since then he has been re- 
 jigel, and has also held a no- 
 
 D since [893. Mr. Mess has had 
 
 ule certificates, and now holds a cer- 
 
 which entitles him to teach for six years. 
 
 While living in Ohio in 1S71. he was united 
 
 m marriage with Mary Clemmens, who was born 
 
 in Ohio in 1S40. and died in Kansas in January, 
 
 cond marriage was contracted by Mr. 
 
 Mess in Neosho county. Kans., bis wife being 
 
 1 M. Reischman, a native of Louisville. Ky., 
 i> born in 1855. a daughter of Nicholas 
 
 schman, a native of Bavaria. Germany. Mr. 
 Reischman came to the United States in 1851. 
 locating at New Albany. Ind., where he engaged 
 in farming until removing to Kansas in 1868. 
 He came to Oregon in 1895, and died in the 
 hospital in Portland, June 13, 1902, at the age 
 
 seventy-four years. 
 
 n children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Mess, the order of their birth being as 
 follow-: Norbert X.; Lenora M. ; M. Cyrilla ; 
 Michael J.; Peter W., Jr.; Theresa Rose, and 
 Benedict Rupert, all of whom are living at home. 
 Mr. Mess is a Republican in politics. He is con- 
 nected with the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 K. Warren Post No. 114, Department of 
 Kansas, and finds a religious home in the Roman 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER A. VANDRAN. When 
 but fourteen years of age Christopher A. Van- 
 dran made the journey with his parents from 
 his home near Wurtzburg, Bavaria, to Amer- 
 ica, and each year has witnessed a forward 
 step in the march of progress for this emi- 
 grant family. The father, Christopher, Sr., 
 was born in Bavaria, and was there engaged 
 as a carriage manufacturer, but hoping to bet- 
 ter the condition of his family he came to 
 America in 1881, settling first in Kansas, re- 
 maining, however, but two months before 
 changing his location to Oregon. In this 
 state he located near Coburg, Lane county, 
 where he died after engaging for several years 
 as a farmer in this vicinity. The wife of 
 Christopher, Sr., also a native of Bavaria, died 
 in Albany, being the mother of five children. 
 all of whom are living. 
 
 Christopher A. Vandran was the second of 
 his parents' family, having been born near 
 Wurtzburg, Bavaria, September 2, 1867. He 
 received his education in the public schools 
 of bis native country, and on settling in Ore- 
 gon be engaged with his father in farm work. 
 Later he spent two and a half years in St. 
 Paul. Marion county, and in 1884-5 ne occu- 
 pied his time as a gardener. Tiring of a farm 
 life, he came to Albany in 1890 and entered 
 
 the employ of Mr. Gross, who was then man 
 ager of the Southern Pacific Motel. In 
 
 4 Mr. dross sold out in Albany, and Mr. 
 Vandran was made manager for the comp; 
 of the Depot Hotel, a transient house and 
 railroad eating station, and has sin* 
 tinned to hold the position. Mr. Vandran is 
 now much interested in the breeding of Chi- 
 nese pheasants, raising for stock birds, and 
 shipping them as far east as New York, in 
 fact, to every section of the United State:-;. 
 Me began his raising of pheasants from wild 
 birds. Me also owns a few fine bird-dogs. 
 Through the kindness of Mr. Vandran the 
 rose garden and pheasant farm are thrown 
 open to the public, and during the twenty 
 minutes' stop of all the overland trains at 
 Albany the passengers enjoy the interesting 
 sight. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Vandran is a member of 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and 
 religiously belongs to the Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 PRESTON BRUCE MARSHALL. The 
 Albany Farmers' Company, of which Pres- 
 ton Bruce Marshall is secretary and manager, 
 was organized April 25, 1873, and has since 
 held its own among the developing and sub- 
 stantial concerns of Linn county. From a 
 comparatively small beginning it has in- 
 creased its sphere of usefulness until the com- 
 pany now have an elevator at Albany with a 
 capacity of two hundred thousand bushels, 
 one at Tangent of one hundred thousand 
 bushels, and one at Tallman of the same ca- 
 pacity as the latter, the combined capacities 
 being four hundred thousand bushels. The 
 company act as agents for the farmers, tak- 
 ing their grain and general produce, storing 
 it until making the desired sale, and charging 
 them a reasonable per cent for the transac- 
 tion. Needless to say they have facilities for 
 disposing of commodities not at the command 
 of the individual farmer, and to the hard- 
 worker the item of getting this business taken 
 off his hands is by no means an indifferent 
 one. The enterprise has stimulated trade and 
 encouraged the farmers to do their best, for 
 thev are assured that a superior grade of pro- 
 duce brings a better price than an inferior 
 one, and besides establishes bis reputation as 
 painstaking and progressive. 
 
 Mr. Marshall, who has held bis present po- 
 sition since 1889. is a member of an old pio- 
 neer family of this state, and was born on a 
 farm near Albany, November 11. t86l. His 
 grandfather. Tobn. was a large farmer ncpr 
 Springfield. 111., where was born bis fathi 
 
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 Arthur G., in 1831. When the latter was 
 twenty-one years of age, in 1852, he started 
 across the plains with his sire, and on the 
 way grandfather John succumbed to the 
 deprivations of the journey, and the young 
 man was left to complete the distance alone. 
 He located on a claim seven miles from Al- 
 bany, and some time after coming here mar- 
 ried Josephine Morris, who was born in Il- 
 linois, and crossed the plains with her father, 
 Preston Morris, in 1851, settling on a farm in 
 Linn county, where the father died. The 
 young people went to housekeeping on the 
 donation claim settled upon by Mr. Marshall, 
 who proved a good manager, and amassed a 
 competence for his wife and children. His 
 wife, who is still living on the old claim, bore 
 him eleven children, seven of whom are liv- 
 ing, Preston Bruce being the second child. 
 
 Like his brothers and sisters, Preston went 
 to the public schools, and he afterward at- 
 tended the State Normal at Monmouth. 
 After teaching school for a year he engaged 
 in farming on the old place, and in 1889 
 located in Albany, where he was elected to 
 his present position by the board of directors 
 of the Albany Farmers' Company. In this 
 county he was united in marriage with Win- 
 nifred Wilds,, a native daughter of Linn 
 county, and daughter of one of the early pio- 
 neers. One child, Arthur, has been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall. Mr. Marshall is a 
 Republican in politics, and is an ex-member 
 and secretary of the county committee. At 
 present he is serving his second term in 
 the city council from the Third ward, and 
 is chairman of the license committee. He 
 is fraternally prominent and widely known, 
 and is identified with the Masons, the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the En- 
 campment, the Rebeccas, and the Uniformed 
 Rank Knights of Pythias. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Native Sons. Mr. Marshall is es- 
 teemed for his many admirable personal char- 
 acteristics, for his unquestioned integrity, and 
 for his appreciation of the duties and de- 
 mands of the highest citizenship. 
 
 ARTHUR H. WATKINS. Worthy of special 
 mention among the younger generation of busi- 
 ness men in Polk county is Arthur H. Watkins, 
 general manager and secretary of the Coast 
 Range Lumbering Company, the largest milling 
 concern on the west side of the Willamette river 
 south of Portland. His father, E. H. Watkins, 
 now living at Cathlamet, Wahkiakum county, 
 Wash., is extensively identified with the business 
 interests in Polk county, and has proved himself 
 a veritable master of western opportunities. 
 
 In Herefordshire, England., where E. H. Wat- 
 kins was born and reared, he married for his first 
 wife Emma Gaut, with whom he came to the 
 United States in 1867, locating at Plymouth, 
 Lucerne county, Pa., on the banks of the Sus- 
 quehanna. Here he engaged in a general mer- 
 chandise business with considerable success, and 
 here was born his son, Arthur H., May 3, 1873. 
 In 1878 the elder Watkins desired to go west, 
 and his wife and son therefore went to England, 
 where they visited relatives and friends for five 
 years, and where the lad went to school. In the 
 meantime the father reached Leadville, Colo., 
 where he engaged in mining, and in 1881 went 
 to New Mexico, making his headquarters at Las 
 Vegas. In 1884 he came to Oregon and located 
 at Portland, where he became interested in a 
 grocery business on the east side, and after giving 
 that up in 1891 removed to a farm of two hundred 
 and fifty acres near North Yamhill, Yamhill 
 county. About 1893 he became interested in a 
 lumbering, farming, and general merchandise 
 business in Wahkiakum, Wash., which is still 
 operated under his name, as is also a large busi- 
 ness at Seattle, Wash. It will be seen that he 
 has a genius for organization, as well as many- 
 sided business ability. He owns a large town site 
 adjoining Cathlamet, and is prominent and influ- 
 ential in commercial and business circles. A 
 Democrat in politics, he has served as county 
 commissioner, and has been a member of the 
 state central committee of Wahkiakum county. 
 His first wife died in Portland in 1887, and 
 of the three children born of this union Arthur 
 H. only is living. Mr. Watkins married in 
 1890, Cora P. Church, of Portland, and of the 
 three sons born of this marriage two are living, 
 Ray and Ralph. 
 
 Educated in the public schools of England 
 and America, Arthur H. Watkins studied also at 
 the Bishop Scott Academy for one term, and 
 eventually graduated from the Holmes Business 
 College in Portland. From early youth he has 
 been identified with his father's various interests, 
 and at present is connected with both the farming 
 and lumbering enterprises of the elder man. In 
 1894 he became a member of the general mer- 
 chandise firm of E. H. Watkins & Son, of Wash- 
 ington, and in 1896 engaged in logging in the 
 same state. In the summer of 1901 he came to 
 Falls City and engaged in the general merchan- 
 dise and lumbering business, and now has charge 
 of the Coast Range Lumbering Company's inter- 
 ests, a responsibility which he is proving 
 thoroughly capable of assuming. The mills have 
 a capacity of one hundred and twenty thousand 
 feet per day, and the company have two miles 
 of flume, connecting the mills with the planing 
 mills at Falls City. They are equipped with 
 modern machinery and dry kilns, and for the 
 
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 transportation of their output have a switch of 
 the S W> & F. Railroad. I'hc company was 
 I with a capital stock of $25,000, and 
 :i the beginning of its business life Mr. Wat- 
 kins has been its general manager and secretary. 
 
 S - ssful a business man must needs see 
 the advantage of lending his influence to all 
 rts to improve the general conditions among 
 which he is living and working, and Mr. Watkins 
 is keenly alive to all public-spirited undertakings. 
 Though not particularly active as a Democrat, 
 he is now serving his first term on the city council 
 and his sound judgment and advanced ideas 
 will undoubtedly be called into requisition in 
 other official capacities. He married in Cath- 
 lamet, Wash.. Rosa A. llaniagan. of which union 
 there have been born three children, one of 
 whom. Lester, is deceased, and Harold and 
 Arlyn are living at home. Mrs. Watkins is a 
 daughter oi C. R. llaniagan. a farmer of Iowa 
 who came to I Iregon in 1881, and after living 
 for a time in Portland removed to Washington 
 in 1883. He is still living on his farm in 
 Wahkiakum county, and is devoting his ener- 
 
 - principally to stock-raising. 
 
 Mr. Watkins is fraternally connected with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Astoria. 
 He is popular and well known in Polk county. 
 and has a comprehensive knowledge of both lum- 
 bering and merchandising, occupations which go 
 together in the west, as in Michigan and other 
 lumbering centers, and which in Oregon have 
 been among the prime developing factors of the 
 state. 
 
 JESSE EDWARDS. Many enterprises of 
 Newberg owe their establishment and successful 
 conduct to Jesse Edwards, who is now the presi- 
 dent of the Newberg Terra Cotta and Pressed 
 Brick Company. I [e is classed among the public- 
 spirited citizens, and was largely instrumental in 
 the establishment of the settlement made by the 
 Friends church. He came to Oregon Septem- 
 ber 8, 1880. when a young man, his birth oc- 
 curring in Hendricks county. Ind., February 8, 
 1849. He represents one of the old families of 
 the south. His paternal grandfather, Anuel Ed- 
 wards, was born in North Carolina and success- 
 fully followed farming throughout his business 
 career, his death occurring in Hendricks county, 
 Ind., when he had reached the advanced age 
 of about ninety years. His son, John Edwards, 
 ihe father of our subject, was born in Guilford 
 county, N. C, September 4, 1806, and in the 
 year 1830 he removed to Indiana, making a set- 
 tlement in Hendricks county upon the farm on 
 which the birth of his son Jesse occurred. There 
 he continued to engage in agricultural pursuits 
 until 1882, when he disposed of his interests in 
 
 the Eioosier state and came to Oregon, settling 
 in Newberg, where he lived retired until his 
 death, which occurred when he was eighty-eight 
 years of age. He was a stock-raiser and also 
 speculated in land in addition to carrying on gen- 
 eral farming pursuits, and in all his business 
 undertakings he prospered and at the same time 
 his integrity and honor were above reproach or 
 question. He married Abigail Stanley, a native 
 of North Carolina, as was her father, Jesse Stan- 
 ley. The latter likewise devoted his energies to 
 farming and prospered in his chosen work. He 
 died in North Carolina at the advanced age of 
 eighty years. 
 
 Jesse Edwards was the only child born unto 
 his parents, but both his father and mother had 
 been married before. He supplemented his early 
 educational privileges, afforded by the common 
 schools, by study in the high school at Westfield, 
 Hamilton county, Ind., and then, in order to 
 further fit himself for life's practical duties, he 
 entered Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, 
 at Indianapolis, Ind., and when he was graduated 
 therefrom he pursued a course in the University 
 of Michigan as a pharmacist. Later he estab- 
 lished a drug store at Mooresville, Ind., and 
 conducted the enterprise in a profitable manner 
 for a year, but at the end of that time he returned 
 to his father's farm and assumed control of the 
 business as manager, devoting his attention to 
 the cultivation of grain and to the raising and 
 shipping of stock. In 1874 he removed to Ham- 
 ilton county, that state, and purchased a farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres, which he also 
 stocked with good grades of cattle, horses and 
 hogs, living thereon for three years or until 1877, 
 when he once more returned' to the old family 
 homestead, which he purchased. When three 
 years had passed he came to Oregon and settled 
 on the present site of the town of Newberg, pur- 
 chasing the land on which the place has since 
 been built. His first purchase made him the 
 owner of one hundred and eighty-five acres ; his 
 second purchase brought to him fifty acres; and 
 later he bought one hundred and' twentv-four 
 acres. He now owns one hundred and seventy 
 acres, which is highly cultivated and improved. 
 Here he built the Newberg House, which was 
 first his private residence, and in T885 ne erected 
 his present beautiful home. In 1882 he estab- 
 lished a general mercantile store and in 1883 
 he became the owner of the first steam sawmill 
 in this portion of the country. Mr. Edwards is 
 very quick to recognize and utilize business op- 
 portunities and certainlv no man has done more 
 for the upbuilding of Newberg than he. In 1886 
 he established a tile factory, which was conducted 
 for some time, and in i8<;o he assisted in the or- 
 ganization of the Bank of Newberg, becoming 
 its president in the second year of its existence, 
 
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 and continuing to serve in that capacity until 
 1899. ^ n *892 he organized the Newberg Pressed 
 Brick and Terra Cotta Company, of which he is 
 still the head. This is the only pressed brick 
 manufactory in the entire state, and from the be- 
 ginning Mr. Edwards has been its chief executive 
 officer and to his capable management and keen 
 business discernment the success of the enter- 
 prise is largely due. The other stockholders of 
 the company are members of his immediate fam- 
 ily, his son, O. K. Edwards, being manager, sec- 
 retary and treasurer, while C. J. Edwards is vice- 
 president. The business is capitalized for $50,- 
 000, with $30,000 paid up, and the trade is con- 
 stantly growing in volume and importance, so 
 that the industry is now an important one. The 
 capacity is two million bricks per annum. In 
 1898 Mr. Edwards also established a private 
 dairy, which he is continually improving. 
 
 Mr. Edwards was married in Hendricks coun- 
 ty, Ind., to Miss Mary E. Kemp, whose birth 
 occurred in Park county, that state. Her father, 
 Jeremiah Kemp, was a native of North Carolina 
 and a tinner by trade. Removing westward he 
 took up his abode in the Hoosier state and there 
 he died in early manhood. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
 Edwards have been born four children, three 
 sons and a daughter : Clarence J., who is pro- 
 prietor of the Newberg Electric Light Plant and 
 an excellent business man ; Walter F., who deals 
 in wood and builders' supplies, both wholesale 
 and retail, in Portland as a member of the firm of 
 Timms & Edwards, agents and manufacturers ; 
 O. K., who is manager of the pressed brick and 
 terra cotta business of this place ; and Mabel, who 
 is at home. She has attained considerable pro- 
 ficiency in painting and music. The sons have 
 all completed a college course and the family is 
 identified with the Friends church, in which the 
 different members are active and faithful mem- 
 bers. In 1879, in Indiana, Mr. Edwards served 
 as a recording minister of the church and he 
 took a very active and helpful part in the organ- 
 ization of the denomination in Newberg. For 
 ten years he was president of the board of man- 
 agers of Pacific College, an institution under the 
 auspices of the Society of Friends, serving in 
 that capacity until 1901, while at the present time 
 he is one of its members. He has given gener- 
 ously to the support of this institution and has 
 also labored effectively for its upbuilding and 
 promotion. Three times has he made trips to the 
 east in the interest of the college. In politics 
 an earnest Republican, he served for two or three 
 years as a member of the city council at New- 
 berg, and was also a school clerk and trustee 
 in his younger years. For almost a quarter of a 
 century Oregon has numbered him among its 
 prominent and progressive citizens. He may 
 well be termed one of the founders of Newberg, 
 
 for he not only owned the site of the town, but 
 has been the promoter of many of its leading 
 business enterprises. His connection with any 
 undertaking insures the prosperous outcome of 
 the same, for it is his nature to carry forward to 
 successful completion whatever he undertakes. 
 He has earned for himself an enviable reputation 
 as a careful man of business, and in his dealings 
 is known for his prompt and honorable methods, 
 which have won him the deserved and unbounded 
 confidence of his fellow men. 
 
 MERRITT L. THOMPSON. The drug 
 store of Merritt L. Thompson is one of the 
 active business centers of Falls City, and in 
 its appointments would do credit to a much 
 larger and older community. Since coming 
 into the possession of the present owner in 
 1893, a marked change has taken place in the 
 enterprise, the trade has steadily increased, 
 and the stock has been correspondingly en- 
 larged to meet more exacting and discriminat- 
 ing patronage. Since September, 1897, Mr. 
 Thompson has been the postmaster of Falls 
 City, and as a stanch upholder of Republican 
 principles other honors have been conferred 
 upon him. He was mayor for one term, and 
 for the past four years has been city treas- 
 urer. It will thus be seen that he is possessed 
 of characteristics which inspire confidence and 
 suggest authority, and which place him in the 
 front rank of promoters of the general well- 
 being. 
 
 The representative of an old New York 
 family, Mr. Thompson was born in Cayuga 
 county, N. Y., August 18, 1864, his father, 
 Charles H., and his grandfather, Lovell, being 
 natives of the same state. Charles H. mar- 
 ried Jerusha Merritt, who was born in New 
 York state, and with her he removed to a 
 farm of eighty acres one and a half miles from 
 Greenville, Mich., where he is now living, and 
 is about sixty years of age. Of the two sons 
 in the family, both were educated in the pub- 
 lic schools, and both started at a practically 
 early age to earn their own living. 
 
 Merritt L. began to work in a drug store at 
 Genoa, N. Y., when fourteen years old, and 
 the following year accompanied his parents 
 to Michigan. After going to school for a 
 year he entered a drug store in Greenville 
 for a year and a half, and then filled a similar 
 position in a store in Howard City, Mich., 
 for about the same length of time. Returning 
 to Greenville he engaged in the drug business 
 for about four years, and then made up his 
 mind to try his luck in the far west. In Aber- 
 deen, Wash., he found employment in a drug 
 store, and during his two years' association 
 
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 witli this concern visited his home in Michi 
 on tw>> occasions. Desiring to go further 
 it, he came to Portland in 1890, but after 
 :\ looking tor a position for a COUple of 
 months went to independence, Ore, where 
 lie remained for five months. In the meantime 
 he had been looking around for a desirable 
 permanent location, ami hearing of a drug 
 re for sale in Falls City came here in 1893 
 purchased the business of Otto Messman. 
 Reaching the west with comparatively few 
 Mr. Thompson has made the 
 51 of his opportunities, and for his industry 
 point to his drug store building, several 
 •i lots, and the thirty acres of land ad- 
 joining the city on the west, which is laid 
 in lots, and is known as Thompson's First 
 Addition. 
 
 In Falls City, in 1895, Mr. Thompson mar- 
 ried Maggie Travis, who was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, as was also her father, Calvin M. 
 Travis. Mr. Travis removed from his native 
 e to Kansas, and from there came to Ore- 
 in 1890, locating at Falls City. A car- 
 penter by trade, he has spent many years in 
 working at bis trade, but is now engaged in 
 farming near the city, although well nigh 
 eighty years of age. Two children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Hallett E. 
 and Mildred. Mr. Thompson, as an official, 
 has proven himself worthy of the confidence 
 of the people. He is equally well known in 
 fraternal circles, being identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Knights of the Maccabees of F"alls City. He 
 enterprising, progressive and public-spir- 
 ited, a shrewd business man. and a very genial 
 companion. 
 
 F. S. REMINGTON. One of the much es- 
 teemed farmers of Yamhill county is E. S. Rem- 
 ington, a native of Ohio, born May 13, 1833, a 
 sojourner in Illinois, and a westerner by long 
 adoption. For many years his father was a res- 
 ident of Trumbull county, Ohio, where he fol- 
 lowed the trades of carpenter and millwright. In 
 1837 the family removed to Illinois, and twelve 
 years later, in famous '49, the father prepared to 
 west in the hope of bettering the condition 
 of those dependent on him for support. He trav- 
 eled by ox team as far as Salt Lake City, where 
 he sold his team, going the remainder of the 
 journey by pack-mules. In common with the 
 thousands of others who thronged to the west at 
 that time, he tried prospecting and mining for 
 several years in California on the American river. 
 
 While awaiting the father's return, or financial 
 success, the principal support of the mother was 
 her son, E. S., a lad of sixteen, who in the four 
 
 years' absence ^i his father grew to sturdj man 
 hood, generously taking up the burden of car- 
 ing for the family, even venturing in 1853 to 
 set OUt with the family to join the wanderer in 
 the west. When we think of what the JOUrneymUSt 
 have been to him, with its dreariness and danger, 
 the long days and lonesome nights when he 
 could not help but think of his responsibility 
 should they never see again the loved one they 
 were going so far to join, we gain a truer esti- 
 mate of the courage of this young pioneer. 
 
 However, after six months, the emigrant train, 
 consisting of fifteen yoke of oxen and one mule 
 team, reached Bear valley safely, August 20, 
 1853, an d the reunited family went at once to 
 settle on a pre-emption claim, the one selected 
 being eighteen miles from Sacramento, where 
 they remained until 1859. The last year but one 
 of their residence there was marked by the death 
 of the father, thus once more throwing the entire 
 responsibility upon the shoulders of the son. In 
 1859 the family made another move, into the 
 state where they have ever since lived, settling 
 three miles south of Hillsboro, in Washington 
 county, Ore., where they remained for three 
 years. They then removed to Marion county, 
 making this their home until 1893. Flere Mr. 
 Remington met and married Miss Hannah 
 Rauch. She was also a sturdy product of the 
 middle west, who crossed the plains from Illinois 
 with her parents in 1853. Until 1893 the young 
 people made their home in Marion county, but 
 in the last-named year they went into Yamhill 
 county, where Mr. Remington bought the Joseph 
 H. Garrison donation claim just south of White- 
 son. Two years later, in 1895, he was bereaved 
 by the death of his wife. In 1874 he had also 
 lost his mother, for whom he had continued to 
 provide even after his marriage, making her an 
 bonored member of his home up to the time of 
 her death. She became the mother of nine 
 children, three of whom are living. 
 
 Mr. Remington is the owner of considerable 
 property, consisting of one hundred and ninety- 
 nine acres in the, home farm, seventy-five acres 
 adjoining and one hundred and twenty in hill 
 land, besides land in Marion county, making 
 nearly four hundred acres in all. well improved 
 and under cultivation. He made all the im- 
 provements on the farm now occupied by bis 
 son, the original land bought in Yamhill county, 
 and also built a house where he now lives. He 
 has four children living and settled near him: 
 Henry, who runs a portion of the home farm, 
 married Susie Thurman and has two children, 
 Leta and Melvin ; Elizabeth is the wife of Will- 
 iam A. Forrest and the mother of one child. Ver- 
 nal : and Mina and Vina are twins. Mina being 
 the wife of C. Patterson, and Vina making bright 
 the home that would otherwise be lonelv without 
 
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 the presence of the wife and mother. Though 
 now retired from active duties, Mr. Remington 
 has not lost the zest of living, having always 
 taken an active part in politics, being a stanch 
 Republican, and holding at various times public 
 offices at the request of his fellow-townsmen. He 
 has lived a good, clean, useful life, giving from 
 his earliest boyhood to those who claimed his 
 help, bringing into his character the fruits of 
 this self-sacrifice that have made him a most 
 respected member of every locality of the west 
 in which he has lived. 
 
 J. H. GRIMES. An important farming en- 
 terprise of Yamhill county is that managed by 
 J. H. Grimes, who is successfully raising grain 
 and general crops, and is making a specialty of 
 Jersey cattle and O. I. C. hogs. This farm 
 is located five miles south of Dayton, between 
 Salem and Wheatland, and about one hundred 
 and thirty acres are under cultivation, Mr. 
 Grimes having recently purchased sixty acres 
 of the adjoining farm. 
 
 A native of Indiana, Mr. Grimes was born 
 near Millersburg, Elkhart county, September 
 25, 1862. His father, who was a farmer in the 
 vicinity of his birthplace, died when his son 
 was only two years of age. There were three 
 other children in the family, and in spite of 
 their limited resources the mother and children 
 managed to keep together and share their com- 
 mon sorrows and pleasures. The son, J. H., 
 managed to acquire a good education in the 
 common schools, and he eventually assumed 
 charge of the. paternal farm, remaining with the 
 rest of the family until his twenty-first year. In 
 1884 he came to Oregon, settling in Yamhill 
 county near his present location, and from then 
 until 1895 found employment on various farms 
 in the vicinity. In the year last mentioned he 
 was employed by the C. K. Spaulding Logging 
 Company in Newberg, remaining in their em- 
 ploy for two years, after which he located upon 
 the farm which has since been his home. 
 
 March 15, 1885, Mr. Grimes was united in 
 marriage with Minnie Seese, a native of Indiana, 
 and the daughter of Eli Seese, a farmer by occu- 
 pation. Mr. Grimes is a stanch Democrat in 
 his political views, and has taken an active part 
 in the undertakings of his party both here and 
 in his 'native state of Indiana. Fraternally he 
 is associated with the Knights and Ladies of 
 Security. With his wife and two children, Ray 
 and Venelli, he is a member of the Evangelical 
 Church, in which he is an active worker. Mr. 
 Grimes has won the respect of all who know him 
 in his adopted state and all accord him the credit 
 due so conscientious and painstaking a farmer. 
 
 THOMAS W. RICHES, who for ten years 
 has filled the position of postmaster in Silver- 
 ton and is one of the well and widely known 
 citizens of that locality, is numbered among Ore- 
 gon's native sons, his birth having occurred on 
 the 17th of November, 1853, in the Geer settle- 
 ment amid the Waldo Hills about six miles from 
 his present home. The Riches family is of Eng- 
 lish lineage. The grandfather, Thomas Riches, 
 was born in England. Crossing the Atlantic to 
 the new world he settled at Hamilton, Canada, 
 where he spent his remaining days. His son, 
 George P. S. Riches, the father of our subject, 
 was born near London, England, and accompan- 
 ied his parents on their emigration to the new 
 world in 1830. Desiring to make his home in 
 the United States instead of in the Dominion, 
 he removed to Illinois, where he was engaged in 
 the logging and lumber business until 1847. 
 
 In that year he crossed the plains to Oregon, 
 among many other emigrants and brave pioneers 
 who made their way into the northwest to sub- 
 due the wilderness and claim from the red man 
 the dominion of this rich section of the country. 
 He located in Oregon City, where he was en- 
 gaged in business as a ship builder ; and later 
 he removed to Oakpoint, Wash. In 1851 he 
 took up his abode in the Waldo Hills, where he 
 secured a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres, and there he remained up to the 
 time of his death, which occurred in April, 1892, 
 when he was seventy-two years of age. His 
 wife bore the maiden name of Mary Jane Wat- 
 kins, who was born in Anderson, Ind. She 
 started across the plains with her parents, but 
 both died during the journey, one surviving the 
 other only a day ; and they were buried in the 
 same place. Mrs. Riches is still living and 
 makes her home on the old donation claim. By 
 her marriage she became the mother of eight 
 children, four sons and four daughters, and 
 of these three sons and three daughters are yet 
 living. 
 
 Thomas W. Riches, the eldest of the family, 
 having obtained a public school education, en- 
 gaged in farming for himself on attaining his 
 majority. He was married, and in order to have 
 a home of his own he purchased one hundred and 
 fifty-one acres of the old donation claim from 
 his father. This he continued to improve and 
 cultivate until 1883, when he sold that property 
 and removed to Silverton, where he purchased a 
 grocery store, which he conducted for six years. 
 He was then made assistant postmaster, and 
 under President Harrison's administration was 
 appointed postmaster. He was also appointed to 
 the position of turnkey in the State Penitentiary, 
 but remained there only six months. Return- 
 ing to Silverton, he later engaged in clerking 
 
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 m a general mercantile establishment until he 
 was re-appointed postmaster by President Mc- 
 Kinley, and again by President Roosevelt, so 
 that his incumbency in the position covers an 
 entire decade. 
 
 Mr. Riches has been twice married. In 1873 
 he wedded Rosa Hibbard, who was horn in Ore- 
 and died in Silverton on the 17th of Sep- 
 tember, 1883, leaving two children: George H., 
 who IS now assistant postmaster; and Amy, who 
 i^ an educator at Jefferson, Ore. For his sec- 
 ond wife Mr. Riches chose Mary L. Hall, who 
 was born in Vancouver, Wash. They have five 
 children : Lloyd, Lelia. Harold, Gladys and Mar- 
 jory. 
 
 In his fraternal relations Mr. Riches is an Odd 
 Fellow, and is very prominent in the order, 
 lie has served as grand patriarch, and was Ore- 
 gon's representative to the Sovereign Grand 
 Lodge in Detroit in 1889, and also in Richmond, 
 Ya., in 1890. He is likewise connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World, and has rilled all of the 
 offices in the local order. His life is in harmony 
 with the teachings of the Odd Fellows' frater- 
 nity, which is based upon brotherly kindness and 
 helpfulness. For one term Mr. Riches has served 
 as school director, and for tw r o terms has been a 
 member of the city council of Silverton. In pub- 
 lic office he is always prompt and faithful in the 
 execution of his duties, and his administration 
 has been business-like, systematic and progres- 
 sive, giving general satisfaction to the many 
 patrons of the office. 
 
 HORACE E. BICKERS. The superintendent 
 of the state reform school in Marion county is 
 well qualified for his responsible position, years 
 of practical business experience and close asso- 
 ciation with men in many walks of life having 
 mellowed his judgment and turned his thoughts 
 into humanitarian and common sense lines. Hor- 
 ace E. Bickers was born on his father's dona- 
 tion claim within six miles of the reform school, 
 September 26, 1856. a son of Henry C. Bickers, 
 who was born in the state of Virginia in 1820. 
 
 Henry C. Bickers was reared in Virginia and 
 Kentucky, and as a young man removed to Xew 
 Orleans, where he learned and followed the trade 
 of ship carpenter. In the southern city he mar- 
 ried Mary Carter, who died four years later, 
 leaving three children, all of whom died voung. 
 In order to reach the western coast Mr. Bickers 
 joined the government service and came across 
 the plains with a caravan, stopping for a short 
 time in the mines of California. His trip was 
 not altogether satisfactory, for he encountered 
 much difficulty with the Indians, and was wound- 
 ed while attempting to defend himself during an 
 attack. In 185 1 he came to Marion county, Ore., 
 
 and worked at the carpenter's trade, and in 1853 
 
 took up a claim of four hundred acres about two 
 miles east of Marion. The same year he was 
 married to Mrs. Malinda Brown, widow of 
 Thomas J. Brown, who crossed the plains with 
 her former husband in 1852. Mr. Drowns death 
 on the plains was one of the sad occurrences 
 which marked the early emigration to the west, 
 and his wife proved one of the heroic pionei r 
 women upon whose shoulders fell so much of 
 the responsibility in the early days. Alone she 
 resumed her journey with her four children, and 
 coming to Marion county, she started a boarding 
 house in Jefferson, of which she was the amiable 
 hostess at the time of her second marriage. After 
 his marriage Mr. Bickers continued to live on 
 his claim, and there he and Jacob Conser built 
 the first three reapers in this part of the state, 
 and the first ones on the coast. 
 
 The elder Mr. Bickers was variously connect- 
 ed with the affairs in the county, and for many 
 years derived a substantial income from cutting 
 and sawing logs. He also engaged in carpen- 
 tering and building, getting the material from 
 the timber and making lumber by hand. In 1861 
 he took about $30,000 worth of cattle and horses 
 into eastern Oregon, intending to engage in an 
 extensive stock-raising business. The severe 
 winters of ? 6i-'2 annihilated his hope in this di- 
 rection, for out of his herd he had but one team 
 of horses left. With this team he drove his 
 family to Boise City, Idaho, and there engaged 
 in mining and prospecting and also followed 
 that occupation in different parts of that 
 and the adjoining country. In 1869 he 
 went into San Diego county, Cal., and 
 discovered what is now known as the Wash- 
 ington Ledge in the Julian district, and the same 
 year, with his son, spent some time in Seattle, 
 Wash. The year 1873 found him in Alaska dur- 
 ing the excitement of that year, and on this trip 
 he was accompanied by his son, Horace E. Sev- 
 eral months were spent in the mines and in the 
 fall of '73 they returned to California, where he 
 made his home until his death in 1893. His wife 
 died in August, 1900, at the age of eighty-one 
 years. She w 7 as the mother of four children by 
 this marriage, of whom Horace E. is the sec- 
 ond oldest. William H. died in 1882 ; Mary died 
 in 1862; and Andrew J. is a resident of Waldo, 
 Wash. 
 
 From so energetic and ambitious a father Hor- 
 ace E. Bickers inherits the traits that have 
 brought about his own success. He was educated 
 in the public schools and learned carpentering 
 from his father, an occupation which he followed 
 from the age of twelve to that of twenty years. 
 He was seventeen years of age when he went to 
 Alaska, and the experience among the miners 
 gave him an insight which be might otherwise 
 
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 never have received. In 1879 he went to Pendle- 
 ton, Ore., where he acceptably filled the office of 
 clerk in the postoffice until 1886. For the fol- 
 lowing two years he engaged as an accountant, 
 and the next occupation to which he turned his 
 attention was merchandising in Alba. His little 
 store was also the postoffice of the town during 
 Ihe three years of his residence there, after which 
 he sold out his interests and returned to Pen- 
 dleton. In 1896 he was elected recorder of Uma- 
 tilla county, serving for two years, and thus 
 launched upon the sea of politics stepped natur- 
 ally into his present position as superintendent 
 of the Oregon State Reform School, to which 
 he was appointed in 1899, his appointment being 
 duly confirmed by the secretary of state. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Bickers married Miss Ida Bean, 
 of Vancouver, Wash., and of this union there 
 were born three children, of whom Horace E., 
 Jr., died in infancy; Hazel, who after graduating 
 from the public schools of Pendleton, took a 
 special course of music at Eugene, Ore., and is 
 now attending the conservatory of music at Port- 
 land ; and Mabel, also a student, is living with 
 her parents. Mr. Bickers has always been a very 
 active man in the Republican party, and frater- 
 nally is associated with various orders, namely : 
 The Masons, belonging to Pendleton Lodge No. 
 52, A. F. & A. M. ; and Pendleton chapter, 
 R. A. M. ; is a member of Pendleton Camp, W. 
 O. W. ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks, of Pendleton ; and Damon Lodge No. 4, 
 K. P. Both himself and wife are identified with 
 the Eastern Star. 
 
 MARTIN R. SETTLEMIER, who is engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits in Marion county, was 
 born in Montgomery county, 111., March 24, 1846. 
 His educational privileges were those afforded 
 by the common schools of the frontier and were 
 somewhat limited because his services were 
 needed upon the farm. At the age of eighteen 
 years his father allowed the sons to begin farm- 
 ing on their own account. The family had come 
 to Oregon in 1850 and when Martin R. reached 
 the age mentioned his father gave him two hun- 
 dred acres of the original donation claim ad- 
 joining Mount Angel on the west. He also 
 secured fifty acres more, and now has a valuable 
 farm of two hundred and fifty acres, the greater 
 part of which is under a high state of cultiva- 
 tion. There are altogether one hundred and 
 fifty acres planted to cereals and other crops, 
 while the remainder is devoted to pasture land. 
 He has twenty-three acres planted to hops, which 
 is becoming a very valuable product of the north- 
 west. He makes a specialty of raising cattle 
 and draft ftorses, and has some very fine speci- 
 mens of Belgian horses and Durham cattle. In 
 
 the various branches of his business he is meet- 
 ing with creditable success. The greater part 
 of his land was unimproved when he took pos- 
 session, being covered with brush, but this he 
 cleared away and transformed the tract into pro- 
 ductive fields. He also built his residence, two 
 barns and the other necessary outbuildings for the 
 shelter of grain and stock, and today the farm 
 is one of the best improved in this section of 
 the county. Mr. Settlemier's possessions are 
 not limited to this property, however, for he 
 is the owner of two lots and residences in Port- 
 land and a house on east Davis street in East 
 Portland. He also owns some lots in Astoria, 
 Ore. 
 
 About two miles from his present home, in 
 1872, Mr. Settlemier was united in marriage to 
 Miss Elizabeth Simmons, who was born in Octo- 
 ber, 1855, on Howell Prairie in Oregon. Her 
 father, John H. Simmons, was a native of In- 
 diana, and in 1845 made the long and wearisome 
 journey overland to the northwest with his par- 
 ents. His father secured a donation claim on 
 Howell Prairie in Marion county, thus becom- 
 ing the owner of six hundred and forty acres of 
 valuable land. The father of Mrs. Settlemier 
 resides about two miles northeast of our subject's 
 home. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Settlemier have 
 been born nine children : Etta, now the wife of J 
 B. Palmer, who has two sons and one daughter, 
 Hazel, George and Jesse, and is living in the Ya- 
 kima district of Washington ; Flora, who is as- 
 sistant postmistress in Mount Angel ; Elmer, who 
 carries on farming on the old homestead, is mar- 
 ried and has one daughter, Minnie ; Mamie, de- 
 ceased ; Eva, the wife of C. Janz, a farmer on 
 Howell Prairie ; and Mary, Sadie, Perry and 
 Adelphia Eldorene, all at home. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Settlemier is an 
 earnest Republican who has studied closely the 
 issues and questions of the day, and gives a 
 stalwart support to the principles in which he 
 believes. For one term he served as clerk and 
 for many terms as school director, the cause of 
 education finding in him a warm friend. In 
 his farm work he is prospering through methods 
 which always bring success, and his well im- 
 proved property with its splendid buildings and 
 highly cultivated fields forms one of the most at- 
 tractive features of the landscape. 
 
 _ PETER A. FINSETH. The largest and 
 finest mercantile establishment in Polk county is 
 universally conceded to be the Bee Hive, op- 
 erated and owned bv the firm of Nordby & Fin- 
 seth, the latter of whom is the general manager 
 and largest stockholder. This store, which has 
 been an upbuilding factor of Dallas since 1899, 
 
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 been located in Ihe Odd Fellows Building 
 ■i.l has quarters 32x80 feet in ground 
 The firm has a comprehensive un- 
 s of .1 cosmopolitan com- 
 munity, rries a complete and up-to-date 
 | mc os, shoes and clothing, 
 and in its attitude toward a large and apprecia- 
 te courtesy, tact and con- 
 nvariablj ited with permanent 
 ind uninterrupted retention of patronage. 
 ilv speaking. P. A. Finseth began at 
 round of the ladder four years ago, 
 and lias since worked his way up to a substantial 
 mercantile position. He is one of the many 
 ndinavians who have found a practical field 
 ffort in the northwest, and who is appreciated 
 because of his many fine national characteristics. 
 •1 in Trondhjen, Norway, July 19, 1867, he 
 reared in his native town until his fifteenth 
 year, and attended the public schools, his emi- 
 gration to America taking place in 1882. He lo- 
 cated in Sioux City, Iowa, and inaugurated his 
 mercantile career as a clerk in a dry goods store, 
 remaining in that capacity for five years. In 1887 
 he shifted his residence to Portland, Ore., and 
 a clerk for the proprietors of the 
 Farmers' and Mechanics' store, two years later 
 ted to the management of the linen, 
 drapery and blanket departments. In 1894 he be- 
 came a salesman in the linen department of the 
 Olds. W'ortman & King, and in August, 
 8, resigned his position to start up in business 
 for himself in Portland. On Morrison street 
 between First and Second streets, Portland, he 
 ihlished the Crescent, a well-equipped and 
 modern dry-goods store, of which he was sole 
 intil January, 1899. He then started 
 up business in Dallas on Main street, but has 
 since removed his stock to the Odd Fellows 
 building. 
 
 In Sioux City, Iowa. Mr. Finseth married 
 Anna Paulson, a native of the vicinitv of Chris- 
 tiania. Norway, and who is the mother of two 
 interesting children, Leif and Roy. Mr. Finseth 
 i^ a member of the Board of Trade, and in his 
 political affiliation is a Democrat, and fraternally 
 is identified with the Woodmen of the World. 
 He is possessed of a broad knowledge of the mer- 
 cantile business, and his friends and associates 
 predict a continuation of his present success. 
 
 THOMAS IIOWF. No more genial person- 
 ality is included among the citizens of Mount 
 Angel than Thomas Howe, and it is doubtful if 
 any furnish more frequent glimpses of the bright 
 and happy side of life. Mr. Howe is posses 
 of fine business ability, has substantially launched 
 himself in the commercial life of the town, has 
 invested in real estate, and has established the 
 
 reputation of being one of the best dog lam 
 and trainers in the United States. 
 
 In Mr. Howe is found a refutation of the 
 generally accepted belief that the English are 
 devoid of humor, and lack effervescence and 
 buoyancy of spirit. He was horn in Dorset- 
 shire, England, June 22, 1S42, his father. 
 Thomas, and his mother, Phillows (Garrett ) 
 1 lowe, being natives of the same shire. The 
 elder Thomas was a farmer during the greater 
 part of his active life, and he was also a con- 
 tractor for large excavations and kindred work. 
 He lived to the advanced age of eighty-eight, 
 his wife having died at the age of eighty-two. 
 Eighteen children came into this home, four- 
 teen sons and four daughters, of whom Thomas. 
 Jr., is the fifteenth in the order of birth. 
 
 As soon as he had completed his education in 
 the public and parish school in Dorsetshire, 
 Thomas Howe entered upon an independent ex- 
 istence as game-keeper for John Tatchell Bull- 
 ing, in the parish of Marshwood, Dorset. He 
 was also game-keeper for Lady Rool, whose 
 employ he left to enter that of Hon. Captain 
 William Hood Waldron, of Dunchideock, Dev- 
 onshire, England. He lived for a time in South 
 Wales, and at the age of thirty-two began to 
 work as porter and ticket collector for the Great 
 Western Taffail Railroad. In 1875 Mr. Howe 
 came to Canada, and after a residence of five 
 years in Orillia, returned to England for nine 
 months. Again locating in Canada, he soon after 
 came to the United States, and at Salem. Ore., 
 started the dog kennels which have since made 
 him famous. He raises pointers, setters, and 
 brake dogs in large numbers, always has them 
 on hand, and ships them to all parts of the 
 United States, some of them being sent beyond 
 the borders of the country. In connection with 
 his kennels Mr. Howe owns and manages a fur- 
 niture store in Mount Angel, and also handles 
 buggies, hacks, and agricultural implements. 
 He also carries guns and ammunition, all manner 
 of sporting goods, as well as pianos and organs 
 He has demonstrated his faith in the future of 
 this section by investing heavily in red estate, 
 and besides the two acres in connection with his 
 home, owns the store building called the Howe 
 Block. Pie is a Democrat in political preference, 
 and is a member of the Episcopal church. 
 
 In Dorsetshire, England. April 3. 1863, Mr. 
 Howe married Emma Rawlins, a native of tin 
 same shire, and whose father. Robert Rawlins, 
 died on his farm in Dorsetshire at the age of 
 forty-four. His wife died in 1883 at the age of 
 seventy-three ye 
 
 Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Howe, of whom Charlotte, the eldest child, is 
 the wife of George Applin, living in Dorsetshire, 
 England: they have two children, Flossie and 
 
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 Alice. Frank is a resident of Portland, and is 
 representative agent for the Union Metallic Car- 
 tridge Company, and the Remington Arms Com- 
 pany ; Frank won the cup and gold medal from 
 the mayor in 1902 ; he married Clara Rustin 
 and they have four children: Florence, Wesley, 
 Fred and Harry. Alice is the wife of T. R. Ryan 
 of Mount Angel; has five children, Mary, 
 Edward, Agnes, Leon, Frank; and Emma, the 
 youngest daughter, is living at home. Two of 
 the sons, Fred and Walter, are deceased. Mr. 
 Howe has many friends in Salem, in Mount 
 Angel, and in different parts of the state, and 
 it is needless to say that he occupies an alto- 
 gether enviable place in the social and business 
 life of his home town. 
 
 JOHN JAMES COLWELL. When Scotland 
 denied religious liberty to thousands of her loyal 
 citizens, near-by Ireland offered an asylum to 
 such as desired to avail themselves of her more 
 rational but less prosperous conditions. Among 
 those who, smarting under their years of perse- 
 cution, took themselves and children to the 
 sheltering country, were the paternal grand- 
 parents of John James Colwell, a retired farmer 
 and business man of Falls City. The grand- 
 parents settled in County Cavan, Ulster, Ire- 
 land, and here John James Colwell, Sr., was 
 born, reared, and eventually married a bonnie 
 Scotch-Irish lassie by the name of Mary Ann 
 Glenn. Miss Glenn was born in Ireland, of 
 Presbyterian stock, and her father, William, born 
 in Scotland, came to Canada at an early day, 
 settling near Hamilton, where he died at an 
 advanced age. From Ireland John James Colwell, 
 Sr., came on a sailing vessel to Canada about 
 1834, locating on a farm near Toronto, where he 
 farmed with moderate success until removing to 
 St. Paul, Minn., in 1864. He and his good wife 
 reared a family of eleven children, six sons and 
 five daughters, and besides giving them as good 
 an education as his circumstances permitted, he 
 left a nice little estate at the time of his death 
 in 1899, at the age of about seventy years. 
 
 Born twenty miles north of Toronto, Canada, 
 July 12, 1849, John James Colwell was fifteen 
 years of age when he went with the family to 
 Minnesota, and in 1870 he entered the University 
 of Minnesota, where he .remained five years. In 
 1875 he started out to make his own living in the 
 world, and as a mail carrier in Minneapolis, 
 delivered the missives of Uncle Sam for about a 
 year. In 1876 he went to Texas and engaged in 
 school teaching twenty-two miles south of San 
 Antonio, some time later turning his attention to 
 stock-raising near that city. He remained in 
 Texas seven years, and in 1884 returned to Min- 
 nesota and worked on his father's farm until 
 
 1886. He had long desired to see the far west, 
 so he came to Portland, and as a means of live- 
 lihood engaged with the street car company as 
 carpenter for about a year, when he returned 
 east, and 1887 found him filling the position 
 of foreman and check clerk of the floating gang 
 at the steel mills at Carbondale, Pa., and two 
 years later he again made the trip across the 
 country to Oregon, locating on a farm adjoining 
 Falls City. In 1891 he abandoned farming and 
 in Falls City, worked at teaming for two years, 
 and in 1893 engaged in a general merchandise 
 business. He was fairly successful as a merchant, 
 and in 1902 closed out his business, and prepared 
 to take the rest of his life easy. That he is suc- 
 ceeding in his expectations is evident from his 
 disposal of his time, for he has just returned from 
 a delightful trip of three months to California 
 and Texas, in which latter state he still has 
 interests. 
 
 While living in Carbondale, Pa., Mr. Colwell 
 married, September 27, 1890, Cora M. Baker, 
 who was born in Fell township, Lackawanna 
 county, Pa., July 17, 1870. Mrs. Colwell is a 
 daughter of Jackson Baker, also born in Penn- 
 sylvania, and who, after many years of farming 
 in his native state, came to Oregon in 1891. Mr. 
 Baker located on property one mile east of Falls 
 City, where he is now living with his wife, 
 formerly Sarah Ann Montgomery, who is now 
 seventy-eight years of age. 
 
 Mr. Colwell is a Republican in politics, but 
 has never sought official honors. He has always 
 been an earnest promoter of education, and in 
 this capacity served for a term on the school 
 board. He is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, and has contributed generously 
 towards its support. 
 
 ^ LOUIS H. PFANDHOEFER, M. D. Falls 
 City is fortunate in the possession of so erudite 
 and successful a practitioner as Dr. Louis H. 
 Pfandhoefer, who came here in 1898 after many 
 years of practical experience in Buffalo, N. Y. 
 Although devoting his energies to all branches of 
 medicinal science he has made a specialty of 
 obstetrics, and has already demonstrated his 
 skill in this direction. That he is favorably 
 impressed with his adopted town and county 
 is evidenced by the fact that he has invested 
 in considerable property and besides a timber 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres, owns resi- 
 dence property consisting of five acres, on the 
 banks of the creek. He is identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in 
 political affiliation is independent. 
 
 As his name indicates, Dr. Pfandhoefer is of 
 Teutonic ancestry. He was born in the Rhine 
 province of Germany, January 7, 1853. His 
 


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 family had long been known in the locality, his 
 father, Louis, being a native of the Rhine 
 country, as were also several of his tore fat hers. 
 His mother, formerly Margaret Wusthoff, was 
 
 horn near there, so that his paternal and 
 maternal associations are connected with one 
 of the most historic and fertile parts of the 
 empire. Louis Pfandhoefer, St., was a black- 
 smith by trade, and was also an excellent business 
 man. so that his combined abilities resulted in a 
 substantial little property, lie was able to give 
 his three sons and six daughters more than an 
 average education. 
 
 Louis H. is the seventh child of this family, 
 and he passed from the public schools to the his- 
 toric Bonn University, from the portals of which 
 have stepped forth some of the most brilliant 
 men. However, his university career was des- 
 tined to be short-lived, for, owing to the death 
 of his father, he was obliged to return home 
 at the end of the first term. In 1873 ne entered 
 the normal school, and thereafter engaged in 
 educational work in Germany until coming to the 
 United States in 1879. 
 
 In America Dr. Pfandhoefer located in Bay- 
 onne City, Hudson county, N. J., where he taught 
 school for two years, and in the winter of 1881 
 changed his field of endeavor to Buffalo, N. Y. 
 While teaching in the latter city he became inter- 
 ested in medicine, and in 1883, entered the Buf- 
 falo Medical College, from which he was duly 
 graduated in the class of 1886. Thereafter he 
 engaged in practice in Buffalo, but by 1898 found 
 that his health was failing, and that a change of 
 climate was imperative. He therefore came to 
 Oregon, and for seven months rested and enjoyed 
 life in Portland, coming then to his present home 
 in Falls City. 
 
 In 1 88 1 the doctor was united in marriage in 
 Bufifalo, N. Y.. with Annie H. Winkelman, who 
 was born in Bufifalo, although her father, Charles, 
 was a native of Germany. A tanner by trade, 
 Mr. Winkelman was successful in both Germany 
 and America, in the latter country plying his trade 
 in the New England states and in Bufifalo, where 
 his death occurred at the age of fifty-eight. Five 
 children have been horn to Dr. and Mrs. Pfand- 
 hoefer, of whom Louis, Jr., Charles and Johannas 
 are deceased, while Henry and Violet are living 
 at home. 
 
 HON. LEE LAUGHLIN, who, as a youth of 
 fourteen, crossed the olains in 1847 w ' tn the 
 largest caravan which had as yet raised the ap- 
 prehension of the Indians, and paved the way for 
 succeeding home and fortune seekers, has been 
 substantially identified with the growth of Yam- 
 hill county, and has contributed to its agricul- 
 tural, political and general well-being. The 
 
 Laughlins, and there are main belonging to this 
 special family, have proved themselves pioneers 
 in the highest sense of that important term, and 
 one and all have left the impress of strong and 
 rugged personalities on whatsoever they have 
 found to do in the great northwest 
 
 James Laughlin, the paternal grandfather of 
 Lee, was horn in South Carolina, and partici 
 pated in the Revolutionary war at the battle of 
 Cowpens. He was a farmer by occupation, and 
 when a man of middle age, with his family, re- 
 moved to Hopkins county, Ky., where his death 
 occurred. He married Rachel Dalrymple, who 
 died in Missouri at the age of seventy-five years. 
 Of the large family of children horn into the 
 family of James Laughlin, Samuel, the father of 
 Lee, was the oldest, and was born in the Pendle- 
 ton district, South Carolina, December 2, 1791. 
 He was ten years of age when the family for- 
 tunes were shifted to Kentucky, and he remained 
 on the paternal farm in Hopkins county until 
 his twenty-second year. About 18 14 he began 
 to have pioneering inclinations, and, saddling his 
 horse, started forth on a journey to what is now 
 the great city of St. Louis. Arriving at the then 
 small town, then a French settlement, he was 
 offered five acres of land in the heart of the now 
 busiest section of the city for his horse, but re- 
 fused the ofifer as inadequate. In Franklin 
 county he purchased a farm, but a high-water 
 washout induced him to move north into Lincoln 
 county. Reports from the journal of Patrick 
 Gass, who accompanied Lewis and Clark, filled 
 him with the fever of unrest, and he disposed of 
 his Missouri farm, and joined the largest train 
 that, up to that time, had ever braved the dan- 
 gers of the plains. There were twenty-nine 
 wagons under Capt. Joseph Magone, and besides 
 Samuel and his brother, James, there were eleven 
 Laughlins in the party. No braver or more de- 
 termined band ever carried the flag of civilization 
 before them, nor did any have more typical and 
 varied pioneering experiences. Starting on their 
 way April 19, 1847. they arrived at Wapato lake 
 November 1, of the same year. In January. 1848, 
 Mr. Laughlin took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres, three miles north ot 
 Yamhill, and there engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising until his death, June 22, 1869. 
 A former Democrat, he left his party on account 
 of its slavery attitude, and died firm in the faith 
 of Republicanism. He was a member of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 While his father was living on a farm in Lin- 
 coln county, Mo.. Lee Laughlin was horn Janu- 
 ary 17, 1833. His expedition across the plains, 
 at the age of fourteen, was both interesting and 
 developing, and so imbued had he become with 
 western ideas and chances, that at the age of six- 
 teen, during the gold fever of '49, he went down 
 
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 into California, on the Trinity river, and engaged 
 in mining for about three months. He was fairly 
 successful on the Sacramento and Trinity rivers, 
 making sometimes as high as $150 per day. With 
 his little hoard he returned to Oregon in Janu- 
 ary, 1850, and the next year made another trip 
 overland to the mines of the New Eldorado. As 
 soon as age permitted, he took up a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, three miles north of 
 Yamhill, and engaged in farming thereon until 
 1864. In the meantime, Mr. Laughlin had real- 
 ized the importance of education, and as oppor- 
 tunity offered, had applied himself at the public 
 schools, also attending the Pacific University for 
 a couple of years. For two terms he applied this 
 knowledge as an educator in Yamhill county. 
 After disposing of his Yamhill county farm he 
 removed to Horseshoe Bend, near Boise City, 
 Idaho, and engaged in the hotel business for a 
 couple of years, and in 1866, returned to Yamhill 
 county, and opened up a general merchandise 
 business in North Yamhill. As the largest mer- 
 chant in that section, he catered to an increasing 
 trade for nine years, his affability and business 
 ability enlarging both his capital and his 
 list of friends. After retiring from business, in 
 1876, Mr. Laughlin paid a visit to the east for 
 a few months, but finding the need for active 
 occupation, returned to the store the same year, 
 remaining there until 1886, when he permanently 
 retired from business activity. 
 
 The business aptitude and progressive spirit 
 of Mr. Laughlin has created a demand for his 
 services in connection with many undertakings 
 in this county. He is credited with being one of 
 the principal organizers of the Republican party 
 in Oregon, and since then has closely and actively 
 watched the trend of Republican affairs. His 
 first definite service was in i860, when he was 
 elected county assessor, and ten years later, in 
 1870, he was nominated to the state legislature. 
 However, the Democrats being in the ascend- 
 ancy, his seat, with that of others, was severely 
 contested, and the political plums passed into 
 the keeping of the opposition. In 1874, Mr. 
 Laughlin was duly elected to the state legislature 
 from Yamhill county, and so satisfactory were 
 his services for the best interests of the people, 
 that his re-election followed in 1880. During the 
 last session he was chairman of the committee on 
 public lands, and was also instrumental in secur- 
 ing the erection of the State Insane Asylum. 
 Other offices were duly maintained with credit 
 by this broad and liberal minded citizen, includ- 
 ing that of school director and clerk for many 
 vears, and mayor of North Yamhill for a couple 
 of terms. As a politician, he has won additional 
 respect and confidence from those who placed 
 him in office, and his services have invariably 
 been accompanied by substantial and popular re- 
 
 sults. Mention of the creditable war record is 
 due so valiant an Indian fighter, he having served 
 in the Yakima Indian war of 1855. In 1887, 
 Mr. Laughlin was one of the organizers of the 
 McMinnville National Bank, and was a member 
 of the first board of directors, and first vice- 
 president, which position he held until the death 
 of Judge Cowls, in 1897, when he succeeded him 
 as president, holding the position at the present 
 time. 
 
 October 8, 1856, Mr. Laughlin was united in 
 marriage with Emma Stewart, who was born in 
 Putnam county, Ohio, and whose father, Ben- 
 jamin E., crossed the plains in 1847, locating in 
 North Yamhill. Mrs. Laughlin, who died Feb- 
 ruary 11, 1901, left no children, but homeless 
 children have at times found shelter and care 
 under the hospitable Laughlin roof, and have 
 grown to maturity under the most kindly and 
 parental influences. Mr. Laughlin is a man of 
 broad information and most liberal ideas, and his 
 services to his adopted state are of an enduring 
 and highly appreciated nature. 
 
 FREDERICK SCHWAB. The warehouse 
 business of Frederick Schwab is contributing to 
 the financial stability of Mount Angel, the owner 
 being one of its most enterprising citizens. He 
 embarked upon his present occupation in 1893, 
 and has since dealt in grain, hay and potatoes, 
 making a specialty of the latter. Other inter- 
 ests also claim the time and attention of Mr. 
 Schwab, and he owns a farm of sixty acres two 
 and a half miles east of the town, ten acres of 
 which are within the corporation limits, although 
 not yet laid out in lots. He has built a fine 
 residence, and he also owns the warehouse and 
 lot. Mr. Schwab takes a keen interest in the 
 general affairs of this town, and may be counted 
 on to meet any just demand upon his resources. 
 Although independent in politics, he has held im- 
 portant city offices, including membership in the 
 city council, and three terms as recorder. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Schwab was spent in 
 Johnson county, Iowa, where he was born No- 
 vember 1, 1863, and whence he removed with 
 his parents to Harrison county in 1866. His 
 father, Louis, was born at Frankfort, Germany, 
 and, immigrating to the United States in the 
 first flush of manhood, located in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., and engaged in the meat-market business. 
 At the expiration of five years he removed to 
 Iowa, settling on a farm near Blairstown, Benton 
 county, where he remained until 1866. He then 
 located in Harrison county, purchased a farm 
 of one hundred and sixtv acres, and ten years 
 later, in 1876, removed to Crawford county. In 
 t88i he became a resident of Oregon, and near 
 Mount Angel bought one hundred and fifty acres, 
 
POKTR Ml AND BI< (GRAPHICAL RE< I >RD. 
 
 UI7 
 
 ..in- and a half miles east of the town, and where 
 he died in 1882. His wife, Josephine (Winters) 
 Schwab, was born in Baden, Germany, and died 
 m Oregon in 1893, at the age of seventy-one 
 She was the mother of five sons and 
 t\mr daughters, of whom Frederick is sixth in 
 order of birth. 
 
 \~ .1 l)o\ Mr. Schwab accompanied his parents 
 m their migratory agricultural life, and his educa- 
 
 n suffered somewhat from the uncertain condi- 
 tions. Nevertheless, he was apt and quick, and 
 
 - all his life been one of those who learn more 
 from observation and direct contact with men 
 and affair.-, than from books. The business in 
 which he is now engaged was his first attempt to 
 earn an independent livelihood, and his success 
 iroof of the wisdom of his selection. Since 
 coming to Mount Angel he has married Mary 
 Mayer, who was horn in Wurtemberg, Germany, 
 December 2, [869, and whose father, Joseph, is 
 .it present living on the family homestead in the 
 German principality. Mrs. Schwab came to Am- 
 erica to visit her brother Joseph in 1890, and 
 while here met and married her husband. Six 
 children have been born of this union: Mary, 
 1 lertrude, Joseph, Bertha, Agnes and Paul. The 
 family are members of the Catholic Church. 
 
 THOMAS G. HOPKINS. A valuable ad- 
 dition to the society of the western state has 
 been Thomas G. Hopkins, with the many ad- 
 mirable characteristics that bespeak his na- 
 tionality, and who, for a number of years has 
 been an estimable citizen of Oregon, through 
 his substantial business enterprises and 
 shrewd judgment becoming a leader in the 
 financial circles of the city of Albany. He is 
 now at the head of the Albany Hardware 
 Company, a business which was begun about 
 1885, and has since grown to remunerative 
 and satisfactory proportions, becoming an in- 
 corporated concern in 1901, and through its 
 successful operations adding much to the 
 prestige of the city. 
 
 Thomas has been a family name for many 
 generations in the Hopkins household, the 
 grandfather and father both bearing the 
 name, Both were born in Dartford, County 
 Kent. England, the elder man emigrating to 
 America, settling near Fond du Lac, Wis., 
 where he was followed by his son in 1857. 
 The grandfather followed chair manufactur- 
 ing, while the father engaged in the hardware 
 business in the city of Fond du Lac, continu- 
 ing profitably in the same until 1891, and now 
 living retired in that city at the age of sev- 
 enty-nine years. He married Mary Wikes, 
 also a native of Countv Kent, England, where 
 she was born in 1812, the daughter of William 
 
 Wikes, who later settled in Wisconsin. At 
 her deatli she was the mother of six 'iuidren. 
 Four daughters and two sons, all ol whom, ex- 
 cept one son, are stil! living. 
 
 The birth of Thomas Hopkins of this re- 
 view occurred November, [852, and he was 
 the second of his father's children. He was 
 reared in the state of his father's adoption and 
 educated in the public schools of bond du 
 Lac. At the age of nineteen years be was ap- 
 prenticed to a tinner, remaining with him 
 until 1872. when he went to Green Bay, Wis. 
 After three years he returned to Fond <\u Lac, 
 and passed the ensuing two years. In 1877 he 
 severed his connection with Wisconsin, coming 
 to California. For a short time he worked at his 
 trade in San Francisco. In July, of the same 
 year, he came to Portland, Oregon, and after a 
 year's successful prosecution of his trade in that 
 city he was made second foreman of the firm of 
 Hexter May & Co., with whom he remained 
 for three years. In 1881 he came to Albany and 
 entered the employ of W. C. Tweedale, remain- 
 ing for two years as an employe, when he pur- 
 chased an interest in the business, the firm being 
 then Tweedale & Co. This co-partnership was 
 continued for eighteen months, when Mr. Hop- 
 kins sold out and began business for himself 
 in the hardware line. From 1890 be had a part- 
 ner in the person of his brother, H. J. Hopkins, 
 who died in 1901. He has now one of the largest 
 hardware stores in Albany, carrying a complete 
 line of all articles to be found in an establish- 
 ment of this nature. He conducts also a plumb- 
 ing and tinning shop. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hopkins occurred in 
 Salem, in May, 1883, and united him with Cora 
 Reily, a native of that city. She is a member 
 of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and of the Alco Club. 
 
 EDWARD ANGUS McPHERSON. The 
 position of first warden of the state penitentiary 
 is now (1903) being acceptably filled by F. A. 
 McPherson, a native of Salem, Ore., born Octo- 
 ber 13, 1866, the son of W. A. McPherson, one 
 of the progressive and able pioneers of 1852, 
 who left the imprint of bis strong personality 
 upon the course of events in the early history. 
 The father was born in North Carolina and in 
 his native state became associated with news- 
 paper work : but, feeling his ability to help in 
 the up-building of a new country, he accepted 
 the hard lot of a pioneer, and in 1852 crossed the 
 plains and located near Scio, Linn comity, ( )r< . 
 He first engaged in farming, persevering ailiid 
 the discouragements and trying conditions of 
 those primitive days and succeeding in his work. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Some time after he located in Albany and was 
 later elected state printer, his death occurring 
 about 1892, in Portland. Besides E. A. Mc- 
 Pherson of this sketch, there were the following 
 children: Cassius, who died in Salem; Ella, the 
 wife of John M. Lewis, treasurer of Multnomah 
 county ; Leon, of Portland ; Kate, the wife of 
 W. S. Weeks, who has charge of the supply 
 department of the Northern Pacific Terminal 
 Company, of Portland ; Guy, of Portland ; ana 
 Pearl, also of that city. 
 
 The early education of E. A. McPherson was 
 received in the common schools of the state, after 
 which he entered Willamette University. Upon 
 the completion of his school course he entered 
 the State Prison and for three years acted as 
 guard, winning the confidence of the officials of 
 that institution. He then located in Portland and 
 became a clerk in the employ of the Moyer 
 Clothing Company, with whom he remained for 
 six years, working under Ben Selling. April I, 
 1903, he received the appointment to his present 
 position. While a resident of Portland Mr. Mc- 
 Pherson was president of the Retail Clerks' 
 Association and secretary of the Trades Council, 
 in which discharge of duty he manifested the 
 same thoroughness which has distinguished his 
 entire career. 
 
 February 28, 1893, Mr. McPherson was united 
 in marriage with Miss Carrie B. Hart, who was 
 born in Wisconsin, in 1876, and two sons have 
 been born to them, Oscar and Donald. In his 
 fraternal relations Mr. McPherson is a member 
 of the Masonic order, Mt. Tabor Lodge, A. F. 
 & A. M., and also belongs to Portland Lodge 
 No. 142, B. P. O. E. Politically, he casts his 
 ballot with the Democratic party. 
 
 JAMES DANNALS. Formerly engaged 
 in the furniture business in Albany, James 
 Dannals had a reputation for fair dealing and 
 honest worth not exceeded by any of the 
 other pioneers of 1851. He is one of those 
 who came to the west with a stanch belief in 
 its future, and his success in the various oc- 
 cupations in which he was engaged strength- 
 ened his conviction that Oregon is a place 
 par excellence for homes and substantial for- 
 tunes. Of an old and honored New York 
 family, Mr. Dannals was born on a farm near 
 Rochester, Monroe county, N. Y. His father, 
 Richard, a tanner by trade, was a native of 
 the same state, as was also his mother, Lucy 
 (Clough) Dannals, who was born in Onon- 
 daga county, and died in Rochester. 
 
 As one of the three children to attain ma- 
 turity in his father's family of five, James 
 Dannals remained at home until his twenty- 
 first year, in the meantime performing his 
 
 share towards the general support. He 
 learned the cabinet-makers' trade in Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., and thus equipped for a livelihood 
 removed to near Freeport, 111., in 1849. While 
 plying his trade he heard a great deal about 
 gold mining on the coast, and contracting the 
 gold fever himself he crossed the plains in 
 1850 with horse teams, starting out in March, 
 and arriving at his destination on the Ameri- 
 can river in California after about six months 
 on the plains. That he had a very exalted 
 idea of mining is hard to believe, for in the 
 spring of 1851 he crossed the mountains to 
 Oregon with pack mules, arriving in Cor- 
 vallis in June, 1851. Here he worked at his 
 trade of building in partnership with Bushrod 
 Wilson, and in 1853 took up a donation claim 
 east of Coburg, in Lane county, which he im- 
 proved to some extent, engaging also in 
 building and contracting^ Four years later 
 he started a furniture business in Eugene, 
 both manufacturing and dealing, but five 
 years later disposed of his store and again 
 turned his attention to farming. This farm 
 was subsequently traded for a farm near Al- 
 bany, Linn county, which he lived on until 
 starting his furniture business in 1876. He 
 is now living retired in Albany. 
 
 In Linn county Mr. Dannals married Louise 
 Clover, daughter of Paul Clover, and who was 
 born in Indiana, settling in Linn county after 
 crossing the plains with her parents in 1852. 
 Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Dannals, of whom Oscar Paul is a blacksmith 
 in Albany ; Lucy is now Mrs. Worth Huston, 
 the sheriff of Linn county; Rosa died in Al- 
 bany ; Frank is a painter in Albany ; Daisy is 
 now Mrs. Allen of Washington ; Charles is 
 engaged in painting in Albany ; and Laura is 
 living at home. Mr. Dannals is a very de- 
 termined Republican, and has always stanchly 
 upheld the principles and issues of his chosen 
 party. He served as councilman for one term 
 and has held other offices of trust in the com- 
 munity. His religious relations are with the 
 Presbyterian Church, of which he is an ex- 
 elder. 
 
 JOHN H. LINES. Among the pioneers of 
 !853 who have long since passed beyond the 
 ken of those who knew and valued them in 
 life, is John H. Lines, recalled as one of the 
 men of southern birth who reflected great 
 credit upon the agricultural and political de- 
 velopment of Linn county. Born April 21, 
 1803, in South Carolina and removing with 
 his parents to near Louisville, Ky., he was 
 reared on a farm, and with a common school 
 education and plenty of inherited ability and 
 

PAUL DARST. 
 
POR llv \l r \\l> r.li (GRAPHICAL REC( )RD. 
 
 321 
 
 determination, settled in Louisville as a 
 
 _^ man and engaged in the drug business. 
 
 At an early day he removed to Lee county, 
 
 Iowa, where he owned a largo farm devoted 
 
 general fanning- and took a prominent part 
 in local politics. For seven ami a half years 
 he was clerk oi Lee county. Disposing of 
 his Lee county farm in 1853, he brought his 
 wife and four children to ( iregon by way of 
 Isthmus of Panama and San Francisco, 
 and in Finn county. Ore., three miles south 
 
 Albany, located a claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres. This he improved to some 
 and after selling it at a profit invested 
 in five hundred and forty acres east of Knox 
 Butte. As in Iowa, his reliable and substan- 
 tial traits of character, and oft-evinced inter- 
 in the public welfare received practical 
 gnition from his fellow-townsmen, and 
 he served as county clerk seven and a half 
 
 ITS. From his first voting days he was a 
 stanch Republican, but in local affairs con- 
 fined himself rather to the personal character 
 and principles of the respective candidates 
 than to the issues of the party which they 
 represented. 
 
 ( >n November 17, 1842, in Lee county, 
 Iowa, Mr. Lines married Martha M. Sample, 
 who was born in Huntington county, Pa., 
 February 11, 1824, and died in Oregon, Sep- 
 tember 8, 1902. having survived her husband 
 thirty-four years. Mr. Lines died on his 
 claim, October 21, 1868, leaving behind him 
 a legacy of good will, success, and honor, and 
 the esteem of all with whom he had ever been 
 
 ciated. Eight children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Lines, of whom Margaret, the old- 
 est child, died in early youth; Mont D., a 
 farmer, lives in eastern Oregon; Perry C. 
 died in Linn county, September 2, 1887; Vir- 
 ginia is the wife of L. C. Marshall of Albany; 
 Fillie is the wife of Dr. L. Foley, of Lebanon, 
 Ore.; Frank is a farmer in Linn county; 
 Cyrus died in early childhood; and Fred E. 
 is engaged in farming in Linn county. 
 
 FALL DARST. For the history of Paul 
 Darst, one of the most interesting and worthy 
 of the early Oregon pioneers, we herewith 
 acknowledge indebtedness to the able article 
 prepared by his brother, 'William, at the request 
 of members of the Oregon Pioneer Association. 
 As the sole survivor of a little party of three 
 who traversed the plains comparatively alone in 
 1847, and as the later associate of his brother 
 in many of his worthy undertakings. Mr. Darst 
 is qualified to speak disinterestedly and to the 
 point, and he is probably the only one of whom 
 
 absolutely reliable information could he obtained 
 at the present time. 
 
 Paul Darst was born in (labia county, Ohio. 
 September _>S. [819, and when eighl years of 
 age removed with his father, David, to Hocking 
 county, of the same state, going in the fall of 
 1838 to Vermilion county. 111. In the fall of [840 
 they took up their residence in Henry countv, 
 Iowa, and when Paul was twenty-one years of 
 age he started out to make his own living at 
 farm work, continuing thus until the spring of 
 1847. During a portion of this time he worked 
 on farms in Dade county, Mo., returning then 
 to Iowa, where, in the spring of 1847, nc pre- 
 pared to cross the plains, accompanied by his 
 brother William and John Morley. This small 
 party, with their one wagon and team of oxen, 
 started away from home and kindred April 7, 
 1847, an< L continuing their way westward to with- 
 in a few miles of St. Joseph. Mo., there camped 
 on a river called One Hundred and Two. The 7th 
 of May they crossed the Missouri river into 
 the Indian country, and after traveling for a 
 few days joined what was known as the David- 
 son party, of whom Albert Davidson was the 
 capable guide, he having been to Oregon on 
 a previous occasion. In the company were 
 about forty-seven wagons, and Paul Darst and 
 his friends joined them, traveling as far as 
 Ash Hollow. There the company divided into 
 three parts, Mr. Darst and his two companions 
 and wagon becoming a part of the Louisa com- 
 pany, consisting of seventeen wagons. Arriv- 
 ing at the Powder river, the Louisa party also 
 divided, and the Darst party became members 
 of a small company of four wagons. Crossing 
 over the Cascade mountains, they came to the 
 new Barlow road, which had but recently been 
 opened to the public, the toll on this thorough- 
 fare being $5 for a wagon and team, and ten 
 cents a head for stock. This little party arrived 
 on the Clackamas river, a short distance below 
 Oregon City, September 7, 1847, just four 
 months from the time of leaving St. Joseph, on 
 the Missouri river, and five months from the 
 time of leaving Mount Pleasant, Henry county, 
 Iowa. 
 
 After resting on the Clackamas river for two 
 or three days, the four wagons proceeded up the 
 Willamette valley on the east side, and along 
 what might be called the mountain road. They 
 passed the present site of Silverton, in the east- 
 ern part of Marion county, and on to the Waldo 
 Hills country near the town of Sublimity. Here 
 the party broke up, and as there was plenty of 
 vacant land all around in this sect inn nearly 
 every man availed himself of the opportunity 
 and became an independent landowner. Mr. 
 Darst located on the claim which he afterward 
 sold to George W . Hunt for $100, and the same 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 became famous for its fine stock, and was later 
 the site of the Whiteaker postoffice. This early 
 settler took part in the Abaqua river war, which 
 contest has often been questioned, but which, ac- 
 cording to an eye witness, William Darst, was 
 quite a momentous struggle. In February or 
 March, 1848, in the eastern part of Marion 
 countv, and on the Abaqua river, the Indians 
 became very troublesome, and Paul Darst and 
 some of his companions went forth to meet them 
 in mortal combat. William Darst and his friends 
 arrived at the home of John Warnock too late 
 to engage in the conflict, and were unable to fol- 
 low because the deep snow covered up their 
 tracks. When the party returned they reported 
 that the Indians had been routed, some being 
 killed, while the Indian wives and children were 
 taken prisoners, as were also the horses and cat- 
 tle. However, this wholesale capture was merely 
 a ruse, and was used to induce the Indians to 
 permanently abandon the county, whereupon 
 their wives^ children and cattle were turned over 
 to them. To this day, in the estimation of Will- 
 iam Darst, they have never since interfered with 
 the peace of mind of any of the residents of 
 Marion count)-. The whole party followed the 
 red men to the Santiam river and saw them cross 
 over, never to return. 
 
 Until 1849 P aul Darst worked on his original 
 Oregon claim, and then went to the gold mines 
 of California, making the journey on a sailing 
 vessel, for passage upon which he paid $60 in 
 the steerage from Portland to San Francisco. 
 On the Yuba river he worked in the mines until 
 about October 1st, and then, owing to impaired 
 health, he returned to Oregon with about $1,500. 
 Thereafter he worked on his claim until the pas- 
 sage of the donation law by congress, and he 
 then sold his land, and in the vicinity purchased 
 three hundred and twenty acres of deeded land. 
 This was the eastern half of the claim of David 
 Simpson and wife, about two and one-half miles 
 north of Sublimity, in Marion county. Here he 
 started in a second time to make his agricultural 
 fortune, a task appreciated only by those who 
 have cleared land in Oregon and assiduously 
 worked for its cultivation. He was also a car- 
 penter of much ability, and in connection with 
 the management of his farm accomplished con- 
 siderable building in his neighborhood and in Cal- 
 ifornia. For some years he was also engaged in 
 teaching school in the neighborhood where he re- 
 sided. In 1852 he was elected assessor of Marion 
 county, and according to his brother Will- 
 iam, assessed the whole of the county with- 
 out any help whatsoever. This was an 
 enormous task even in those early days, in order 
 to make the return in the time required by law. 
 In 1856 he volunteered in the Yakima Indian 
 
 war, and of his service Col. George K. Shiel 
 says: "Paul Darst enlisted about the 1st of Jan- 
 uary, 1856, in the second company raised by 
 Marion county, E. J. Harding captain, for the 
 recruited battalion of the First Regiment of 
 Oregon Mounted Volunteers, in the Indian war 
 of 1855-56. Col. Thomas Cornelius command- 
 ing." Mr. Darst remained with the command 
 until it was mustered out of service some time 
 in May, 1856, and, according to the colonel, had 
 a very hard time of it. Their extremity may be 
 imagined when it is known that for two or three 
 weeks they were obliged, to subsist solely upon 
 horse meat and wild onions. 
 
 After the war Mr. Darst returned to his farm 
 and combined farming and carpentering, and 
 in 1857 was again elected assessor of Marion 
 county. In the meantime the country had grown 
 to such an extent and was so much more thickly 
 settled that it was impossible for him to cover 
 the whole county in the time required by. law. 
 Up. to this time he had been a stanch Democrat 
 but with the beginning of the Civil war he es- 
 poused the cause of the north. October 24, 
 1861, he married Cindarella Phillips, a young 
 woman of about twenty, and together they com- 
 menced housekeeping on the donation claim. 
 Mrs. Darst was' not blessed with good health 
 and in the fall of 1866 she went with her husi- 
 band to California, remaining for about a year. 
 Returning to the Oregon farm all went well 
 until the 1st of April, 1874, when Mr. Darst 
 was stricken with apoplexy. Following the cus- 
 tom of his time for all complaints the physician 
 bled his patient in the arm and brought on par- 
 alysis of the right side. Gradually Mr. Darst 
 grew worse, continually lost strength and at last 
 failed to respond to remedies administered. April 
 23d his spirit left its earthly house, and he was 
 buried not far distant from where he had come 
 and gone and labored for so many years in the 
 Downing settlement, about fourteen miles from 
 Salem. A short time after his death a son was 
 born to his wife, and thus three children were 
 left fatherless, and a wife was left without her 
 chief consoler and greatest strength. The son 
 was called Charles Paul, and at present he is 
 managing the home farm of five hundred and 
 twenty acres for his mother. Of the daughters, 
 Fidelia, is the postmistress of Whiteaker, and 
 Parthenia is living at home. Mr. Darst was a 
 man of force of character, of untiring industry 
 and good business judgment, as evidenced by 
 his possession of eight hundred acres of land. 
 As reminders of a sterling pioneer, and as the 
 possessors of abilities and admirable character- 
 istics of their own, the household enjoys an envi- 
 able place in the community. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 823 
 
 \\. \\ . HALL, who has ever been found true 
 lo the trusts reposed in him in official life and 
 who made for himself a most creditable record as 
 
 inty clerk oi Marion county, is numbered 
 gon's native sons, his birth having oc- 
 curred near the present site of Woodburn, July 
 ;. His father. Benjamin F. Hall, one of 
 honored pioneers of this state, was horn in 
 
 . county, Mo., in 1820, while the grand- 
 father, James Hall, was a native of Kentucky, 
 whence lie removed to Missouri. In 1845 he 
 -lit his family to Oregon, traveling with an 
 
 ■rain across the long stretches of sand and 
 
 r the mountains. When the party were on 
 the Mecks cut-off they became lost. At length 
 they made their way to the Snake river and in 
 November arrived in Oregon City. The grand- 
 father secured a donation claim in Marion count) 
 near Champoeg. and improved a farm, upon 
 which lie spent his remaining days. 
 
 Benjamin F. Hall was a young man of nine- 
 \ears at the time of the emigration of the 
 family to the northwest. When he had attained 
 his majority he, too, secured a donation claim, 
 comprising three hundred and twenty acres near 
 the present site of W'oodburn, and this property 
 
 -ill in his possession. His financial resources 
 increased and gradually he extended the bound- 
 aries of his original tract and now has large 
 farming interests. At one time he was the owner 
 
 Ei mrteen hundred acres of valuable land, but 
 this he divided with his children. He maintains 
 his residence on the old home place and is an 
 honored pioneer citizen seventy-six years of age, 
 who receives the respect and high regard of all 
 with whom he has been brought in contact. He 
 has not only been helpful in the reclamation of 
 the wild land for purposes of cultivation, but 
 has also aided largely in the promotion .of in- 
 tellectual and moral interests of the community. 
 He has taken an active part in educational work 
 and in the upbuilding of the schools, and has 
 been a liberal contributor and helpful member of 
 the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In politics 
 he is a stanch Republican. He was married March 
 24, 1854. to Miss Mary A. Johnson, who was 
 born in Tazewell county. 111., July 2. 1829, a 
 daughter of the Rev. Xcil Johnson, whose birth 
 occurred in Xorth Carolina, whence he removed 
 to Kentucky and in pioneer times took up his 
 abode in Illinois. In 1 85 1 he brought his family 
 
 ' Iregon, making the overland journey, and 
 
 tied near what is now the town of Woodburn 
 I [ere be secured a donation claim and his energies 
 
 itted in transforming the wild tract into a 
 finely developed farm. Tn the establishment of 
 tlie Cumberland Presbyterian Church in this part 
 of the state he took a most active interest and 
 was instrumental in founding a church in Salem 
 and other places. While he depended upon his 
 
 farm to bring to him and his family a living he 
 engaged in preaching the gospel without financial 
 remuneration, and bis influence in behalf of Chris- 
 tianity was widely felt. He died in McMinn- 
 ville at the ripe old age of eighty-eight years, 
 but the influence of his life and labors is yet a 
 potent factor in the lives of many in this part 
 of the state His daughter, Mrs. Hall, is also 
 a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church and is now seventy-three years of age 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Hall were born eleven children, 
 nine of whom reached nature years: A. {)., who 
 is a farmer at Waldo Hills, Marion county; 
 Sophronia J., the wife of G. W. McLaughlin, 
 who resides in Buena Vista, Polk county, Ore. ; 
 E. N., also a resident farmer of Buena Vista; 
 E. T., who follows farming near Salem ; O. L., 
 who died at the age of twenty-eight years ; Will- 
 iam W., of this review ; Mrs. Edith Haller, of 
 Woodburn; C. C. and J. J., who follow agricul- 
 tural pursuits near Woodburn. 
 
 William W. Hall remained upon the home farm 
 until seventeen years of age. Having acquired 
 a good preliminary education in the public schools 
 in 1883 he entered the Oregon Agricultural Col- 
 lege at Corvallis, in which institution he was 
 graduated in 1888, completing the regular five 
 years' course with the degree of B. S. Mr. Hall 
 then engaged in teaching, first becoming principal 
 of the Brownsville schools. Later he was prin- 
 cipal of the schools of Hubbard, Ore., and after- 
 ward occupied a similar position in Woodburn. 
 He put aside his educational labors when elected 
 county clerk in June, 1898, as a candidate of the 
 Republican party. He received a majority of 
 two hundred and twenty-eight and in 1900, when 
 re-elected, his majority was increased to eight 
 hundred and forty-nine. This fact stands in in- 
 controvertible evidence of his promptness, sys- 
 tem and accuracy in the discharge of his duties. 
 Xo more capable official has ever served as county 
 clerk and when he retired from the position in 
 July, 1902, he carried' with him the confidence 
 and good will that he had taken with him to the 
 office. He owns a farm at Woodburn and is en- 
 gaged in horticultural pursuits and to some ex- 
 tent in stock-raising, but continues to make his 
 home in Salem. 
 
 Mr. Hall was married in Corvallis, Ore., to 
 Miss Clara Lilly, who was born in Benton coun- 
 ty, this state, in 1868, a daughter of S. N. Lilly, 
 one of the pioneer settlers who became identified 
 with farming interests of P.cnton county at an 
 early day. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hall is 
 blessed with one daughter, Eva. Socially Mr. 
 Hall is connected with the Masonic fraternity of 
 Woodburn and likewise belongs to Woodburn 
 Lodge No. 102, I. O. O. F., of which he is a 
 past noble grand, while both he and his wife arc 
 connected with the Rebekah degree. He is also 
 
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 a member of Salem Lodge No. 336, B. P. O. E. ; 
 French Prairie Camp No. 47, W. O. W. ; Salem 
 Assembly No. 87, Union Artisans; and Daniel 
 Waldo Cabin No. 3, Native Sons of Oregon. He 
 has always been a Republican in politics and in- 
 terested in the welfare of his party. His entire 
 life having been passed in the northwest he is 
 imbued with the progressive spirit which has 
 led to the wonderful development of this section 
 of the county and is a popular and enterprising 
 young man widely known in Salem. 
 
 EUGENIO E. GOFF. In no department of 
 science has more searching inquiry been made 
 during the past few years than in that relating 
 to electricity, and although great progress and 
 many important developments have been estab- 
 lished, scientists are aware that but little is as yet 
 really known of this potent force, which is des- 
 tined one day to revolutionize labor, and settle 
 complicated questions connected with our indus- 
 trial conditions. One of the pioneer and most 
 competent electricians of Oregon, E. E. Goff, 
 of Albany, built, at Astoria, in 1887, the second 
 electric light plant installed in the state, and has 
 since carried on a successful business in that line. 
 The respresentative of one of the early New 
 England families, Mr. Goff was born November 
 6, 1858, in Bentonsport, Van Buren county, Iowa, 
 a son of J. H. F. Goff. 
 
 A native of New York state, J. H. F. Goff was 
 employed as a bridge builder in his younger days, 
 constructing railroad bridges, for which he hewed 
 the heavy timbers from the forest. He also built 
 many saw and flouring mills. Removing to Iowa 
 he continued his operations in that state until 
 1 86 1, then removed to Nevada, and, near Lake 
 Tahoe, he erected seven saw and shingle mills. 
 Coming to the Pacific coast in 1870, he located 
 in California, four miles south of San Jose, here 
 he embarked in horticultural and agricultural 
 pursuits, also built a four-mile flume for the Los 
 Gatos flouring mills. Two years later he settled 
 in San Benito county as a miller and ranchman, 
 but subsequently returned to San Jose, and lived 
 there until his death, in 1896, at the age of sev- 
 enty-seven years. He married Hannah M. Gelatt, 
 who was born in New York, a daughter of Rich- 
 ard Gelatt, a civil engineer and surveyor, who re- 
 moved from New York state to Iowa. Four 
 sons and two daughters were born of their 
 union and of these three sons and one 
 daughter survive, all excepting Eugenio E., the 
 subject of this sketch, residing in San Jose, where 
 their widowed mother still lives. 
 
 In 1861 J. H. F. Goff made his initial trip to 
 Nevada, going by ox-teams across the plains, 
 and returning to his Iowa home the same year 
 
 by the way of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1862, 
 taking his family with him, he again went to Ne- 
 vada, being three months in accomplishing the 
 journey to Carson City. There E. E. Goff ob- 
 tained the rudiments of his education, attending 
 tne public schools until twelve years old. In 
 1870 he accompanied his parents to San Jose, 
 Cal., where he continued his studies in the high 
 school. He subsequently worked with his father 
 on the ranch, and in the grist-mill, then learned 
 the painter's trade, which he followed four years, 
 being employed in Oakland and in San Jose. En- 
 tering the employ of the Pacific Coast Electrical 
 Construction Company in 1882, he was stationed 
 at the Union Iron Works, in San Francisco, under 
 the instruction of Prof. N. S. Keith for a year. 
 Mr. Goff was then sent by the company to Port- 
 land, Ore., to take charge of the newly patented 
 electrical machinery at the Mechanic's Fair; here 
 he made a most satisfactory and successful ex- 
 hibit of electrical goods. Continuing with the 
 same company, Mr. Goff remained in Oregon after 
 the close of the fair as their Construction Elec- 
 trical Engineer. In 1887 he installed, for J. C. 
 Trullinger, the Astoria Electric Light Plant, of 
 which he subsequently had charge for eighteen 
 months. 
 
 Accepting the agency for the Heisler Electric 
 Company, of St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Goff had head- 
 quarters in Portland, and in the next two years 
 he sold and superintended the installation of five 
 Central Station Plants, namely : At Pendleton, 
 Eugene, Salem, East Portland and Albany. Pur- 
 chasing a half interest in the Albany Electric 
 Light Plant, in 1889, he has since resided here 
 as its superintendent. In company with the late 
 N. H. Allen, he incorporated the Albany Electric 
 Light, Power and Telephone Company. Since 
 taking charge of this plant, in 1889, he has made 
 great improvements in the service, increasing its 
 power from a fifty-two horse-power to a one 
 hundred and sixty horse-power, which is de- 
 veloped by water and steam. On January 15, 
 1903, this plant was sold to the Albany Canal 
 and Water Company, of which Mr. Goff is stock- 
 holder, and general superintendent and elec- 
 trician. More water power and more room being 
 needed, the plant was removed one block farther 
 south, where a new building has been erected, and 
 furnished with ample machinery of the most ap- 
 proved modern patents, including a new boiler 
 and engine, two hundred horse-power, and hori- 
 zontal twin turbine water-wheel of two hundred 
 and sixty horse-power, also electrical machinery 
 for both light and power. 
 
 Mr. Goff married, in Berkeley, Cal., in 1886. 
 Clara Etta Kelsey, who was born in Oak- 
 land, Cal., October, 1858, and they have two chil- 
 dren: Laura Adele and Alice Irene. Fraternallv 
 Mr. Goff is a member of St. John Lodge, A. F. & 
 
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PORTR \1T \\l> BI( >GR \Plllc.\i. REC< >RD. 
 
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 \ M ., and of the A. O. U. W. He belongs to the 
 First Presbyterian Church, in which he is a dea- 
 con, and is also secretary of the Sunday school 
 connected with it. He is one of the trustees 
 \lbanv College, in the management of which 
 he is warmly interested. Socially he is a mem- 
 ber oi the Alco Club, ami is a supporter of the 
 Republican party. 
 
 CAPT. PETER 1". CLARK. Twice has 
 Peter F. Clark crossed the plains to the west, 
 once with oxen and once with horses, on the 
 wa\ experiencing the deprivations and adven- 
 tures which befell the early seekers after homes 
 and fortunes. His life in the northwest has 
 been successful and after a creditable war record 
 during- the Rebellion, and many years of farm- 
 - :k-raising, he may well survey with 
 satisfaction his well directed career. A native 
 rreene county. 111., he was born January 27, 
 iS2u. a son of Christopher H. and grandson of 
 Peter H. Clark, the latter of whom was born 
 in Virginia, on a plantation near Xorfolk, De- 
 cember 1 8, 1779. The paternal great-grand- 
 father, presumably the founder of the family in 
 America, was a supposed second cousin of Cap- 
 tain William Clark, famed in Revolutionary an- 
 nals, and he spent many years of his life in Vir- 
 ginia, and probably died there at an advanced 
 a^ r e. His son, Peter H., was a minister in the 
 Baptist Church, and reared a family of eleven 
 children, of whom Christopher H. was the third 
 oldest. He removed to Greene county, 111., 
 about 1824. and there died in 1833, at the age of 
 fifty-four years. 
 
 Christopher H. Clark was born in Pittsylvania 
 county, \'a.. August 10. 1806. and was reared on 
 a farm, profiting by the religious atmosphere 
 created by his father's calling. Although en- 
 listing in the Black Hawk war he was never 
 called upon to serve, and in 1822 he preceded 
 the family to Greene county, 111., his parents 
 ling n<:ir him when they followed him there 
 in 1824. He became an extensive farmer and 
 k-raiser, and in 1848 disposed of his lands 
 and removed with teams to Lawrence county, 
 Mo. There he lived until the spring of 1865, 
 when he moved to Bourbon county. Kans., and 
 it was there that his death occurred March 23, 
 1887. His marriage united him with Margaret 
 Bell, who was born in Jefferson county, Tenn., 
 January 23. 1809, and who came from a family 
 
 tinguished in the early history of the country.' 
 Her errand father, Francis M. Bell, was born in 
 North Carolina. November 23. 1782, and his 
 half brother. John Bell, was the presidential can- 
 didate on the Union ticket in i860. 
 
 Until his twenty-first year, Peter F. Clark 
 remained on the home farm in Missouri, and in 
 
 [850 crossed the plains with ox teams, mining 
 tor two years on the American river in Cali- 
 fornia. In 1852 he returned to the east \ i;i 
 Panama, and farmed and raised stock in Mis- 
 souri with considerable success. The beginning 
 of the Civil war found him living on a farm de- 
 veloped by his industry into a paying property, 
 yet he left his interests and enlisted, May 19, 
 1 Sot, in the home guards of Lawrence county, 
 which guards had been raised principally through 
 his instrumentality. The services of the guards 
 were recognized by the governor of the state 
 and were paid accordingly, Air. Clark serving 
 as captain about four months. For the follow- 
 ing two months he was a member of the state 
 militia, after which he raised Company A, 
 Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, of which he was 
 made first lieutenant, serving thus until the end 
 of the war. Two companies, A and H, were 
 detached from the regiment and sent to carry 
 supplies to Kit Carson's regiment, and to act 
 as escort to the governors of Arizona and New 
 Mexico. 
 
 After the close of hostilities, Mr. Clark re- 
 turned to Missouri and engaged in farming until 
 1874, when he again crossed the plains, this time 
 with horse teams. Four months and thirteen 
 days were consumed in the journey, whereas 
 five months were lost in the former trip. Locat- 
 ing at Zena, Polk county, he remained there 
 until 1876. He then purchased his present farm 
 of one hundred and fourteen acres, all of which 
 is under cultivation. The property is now 
 rented and Mr. Clark is enjoying a well earned 
 rest from the arduous toil which marked his 
 earlier years. September 23, 1852, he was 
 united in marriage with Margaret J. Marsh, in 
 Lawrence county, Mo. Airs. Clark was born in 
 Tennessee, November 10, 1830, and died in Polk 
 county January 28, 1900, leaving three children 
 living and one deceased, as follows: Margaret 
 E.. who became the wife of A. W. Cochran, but 
 is now deceased: Henrietta C, the wife of J. X. 
 Gibson, of Pullman. Wash. ; John F., an attor- 
 nev-at-law of Oregon City, and Addie E., who 
 graduated from the McMinnville College in 
 1889, and for three years was engaged in teach- 
 ing in Polk and Yamhill counties. In i8</>. 
 Miss Clark went to Oregon City and became a 
 grade teacher in the West Side school, later ac- 
 cepting a similar position in the Barclav school. 
 After two years she became principal of the 
 school, in which position she remained until June. 
 1903. when she was elected to the important 
 position of superintendent of the Oregon City 
 schools. 
 
 In politics a Republican. Mr. Clark has kiken 
 a keen interest in all matters of general interest, 
 and his influence has often been hit in the coun- 
 cils of his party. Among other positions of trust 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and responsibility which he has filled, may be 
 mentioned that of justice of the peace for twelve 
 years, postmaster at Zena for six years, and 
 clerk and director of the school board for many 
 years. He is a niember of Salem Post, No. 10, 
 G. A. R., a member of and a deacon in the Bap- 
 tist Church. A man of high moral courage and 
 unquestioned integrity, Mr. Clark commands the 
 highest respect of all who know him, and well 
 deserves the financial and general success which 
 has crowned his honest efforts in the northwest. 
 
 ABRAHAM McKILLOP. A lunch counter 
 enterprise in Albany which is deserving of the 
 large patronage accorded it, is that owned and 
 operated by Abraham McKillop, who, though a 
 voung man, has both the experience and special 
 ability for his chosen calling. The Albany 
 Lunch Counter has many attractions for the hun- 
 gry wayfarer, not the least of which is absolute 
 cleanliness and agreeable surroundings. The 
 viands are the best procurable, and where prep- 
 aration is required, the utmost skill is evinced, 
 an excellent chef being in attendance in the cul- 
 inary department. The genial and tactful propri- 
 etor has a good word for everyone, a fact which 
 goes far towards retaining his constantly in- 
 creasing patronage. 
 
 The adaptability of the brightest of the sons 
 of Erin is the inheritance of Mr. McKillop, who 
 has also Scotch blood in his veins, his grand- 
 father. James, having established the family in 
 the north of Ireland after leaving his native Scot- 
 land. Abraham was born in Belfast, Ireland 
 April 10, 1872, and is the youngest of the ten chil- 
 dren born to his parents, James and Martha (Mc- 
 Meekin) McKillop. James McKillop was born 
 in County Antrim, Ireland, and by trade was 
 a linen weaver. He died when Abraham was 
 two years of age, and his wife died when the 
 boy was nine years old. The other children 
 are James, who came to Oregon in 1870, lived 
 en a farm in Marion county, and was killed 
 while hauling lumber in the mountains ; Robert 
 lives on a farm at Scio, Ore. ; Hannah, deceased, 
 was the wife of Mr. McCauley, of Salem ; 
 Archie was accidentally killed in a logging camp ; 
 David is living on the farm of his brother Abra- 
 ham near Salem ; William is a farmer near Sil- 
 verton ; and Alexander is a rancher in Califor- 
 nia. Archie McKillop, brother of James, and 
 uncle of Abraham, was a pioneer of the Pacific 
 coast, having crossed the plains in 1849, an ^ 
 located in Marion county, where his death oc- 
 curred. 
 
 After the death of his mother, Abraham Mc- 
 Killop went to live with a cousin until he was 
 fourteen years old, and in 1886 he came to Am- 
 erica, traveling overland to Salem, Ore. His 
 
 first business experience was in a restaurant in 
 Salem, where he began at the bottom and worked 
 his way up to be cook, learning also to be a 
 practical and economical buyer. In 1896 he came 
 to Albany and bought and conducted a restau- 
 rant for two years, disposing of the same in 1898 
 in order to pursue a similar occupation in San- 
 dow, B. C. He was very successful in the north- 
 ern country, and at the end of eighteen months 
 returned to Albany and again bought the res- 
 taurant he had owned before. Two years later 
 he sold it and bought the White House Res- 
 taurant in Salem, a year later disposing of his 
 purchase to buy, for the third time, the old Al- 
 bany eating house. Since 1900 he has conducted 
 this time-honored restaurant known as the Al- 
 bany Lunch Counter, with gratifying success. 
 
 In Albany Mr. McKillop was united in mar- 
 riage with Estella Critchlow, who was born in 
 Salem, and who is the mother of one son, Archie. 
 Mr. McKillop is a stanch defender of Republican 
 principles, but he has hardly been long enough 
 in one place to actively participate in the local 
 undertakings of his party. He is popular fra- 
 ternally, and is identified with the Knights of 
 Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. The old McKillop farm, settled by his 
 uncle near Salem, is the property of Mr. McKil- 
 lop, and its one hundred and eighty-one acres are 
 devoted to grain and stock farming, and managed 
 at present by his brother. 
 
 FRANK SKIPTON. On the corner of Sec- 
 ond and Ellsworth streets, Albany, is located 
 the livery and feed stable owned and managed 
 by an enterprising and up-to-date business man, 
 one who appreciates the value of first-class car- 
 riages and well-bred horses. Frank Skipton has 
 a thorough understanding of his business, and 
 is known as one of the popular and successful 
 liverymen in the Willamette valley. He has tact 
 and is obliging, never out of humor, and able 
 to count his friends and patrons by the score. 
 He was born on a farm near Des Moines, Iowa, 
 October 20, 1865, his father, Elijah, having set- 
 tled there at a very early day, removing from his 
 native state of Illinois. The paternal grand- 
 father, James, lived for many years in Illinois, 
 and lived in contentment to the end of his days. 
 Elijah Skipton brought his wife and three chil- 
 dren across the plains with horse teams in 185 1, 
 spending six months on the way, with a train 
 of one hundred wagons. He settled on a farm 
 of two hundred and thirty acres in Benton coun- 
 ty, Ore., seven miles from Corvallis, where he 
 is still living, and successfully engaged in farm- 
 ing, stock and prune-raising. He is a promi- 
 nent Democrat, and served continuously as 
 county assessor for twelve years, refusing to 
 
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 longer till that important office. He lias also 
 been county commissioner, and is a man of lead- 
 ing characteristics, thoroughly in touch with gen- 
 ii affairs. His wife, formerly Mary Marion, 
 a native of Illinois, i> also living, as arc four 
 s ven children, Frank being the fourth 
 in : birth. 
 
 While on the paternal farm Frank Skipton at- 
 tended the public schools, and in time entered the 
 burg, later attending the Philo- 
 math College. His school days ended, he re- 
 turned to the farm, and after his marriage in 
 unty, in 1891, with Miss Alvia Im- 
 bler, bought two hundred and sixty-six acres of 
 land near the old home, which he improved and 
 ■ted to grain raising for four years, when he 
 I it. He still owns seventy-one acres of the 
 old farm. In 1895 he located with his family 
 in Albany, and in 1890 bought the livery busi- 
 John Smear, which he has since main- 
 tained most successfully. To such an extent has 
 the business grown that he opened another barn 
 to accommodate his large and constantly increas- 
 ing trade. The main barn is 110x96 feet, ground 
 dimensions, and has ample accommodations for 
 horses which are for sale, a department in which 
 Mr. Skipton realizes large yearly returns. 
 
 He is identified with Laurel Lodge No. 17, 
 Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and Knights of the Maccabees. All 
 who know him entertain respect for the admirable 
 personal characteristics of Mr. Skipton, and rec- 
 ze in him a man of strict business integrity. 
 In public matters he has always been a liberal 
 contributor. 
 
 FLKRIS A. LUCAS. The Bryan-Lucas 
 Lumber Company, formerly the Luckiamute 
 Milling Company, is one of the substantial 
 commercial enterprises of Polk county, and 
 in the community around Falls City enjoys 
 a reputatii n in keeping with its large output 
 and the high character of the men directing 
 its affairs. The prime factor in the develop- 
 ment of this industry is F"cfris A. Lucas, a 
 lumberman of many years' experience, and 
 one who. although, comparatively speaking, 
 one of the younger business men of the 
 county, has already evinced marked financial 
 ability. Born in the heart of the lumbering 
 district of Michigan, in Steuben county. Sep- 
 tember 14, 1865, and reared at Stanton, the 
 heart of the lumber section, he was accus- 
 tomed from earliest boyhood to the hum of 
 the sawmill, and to the free and easy life 
 around farm and mill. His father, Tsrael J. 
 Lucas, born in Ohio, moved from Indiana to 
 Montcalm county. Mich., about 1865, and 
 there became interested in milling and farm- 
 ing. He is a very successful, prominent and 
 
 ambitious man, ami has amassed quite u for- 
 tune from his combined interests. At pic-, 
 ent he is living at Stanton, Mich., where he 
 owns four farms, at the age of sixty live 
 years. lie is of Scotch-English descent' and 
 his father, Israel, was also a native of Ohio, 
 and died in Indiana. Israel, Jr., married Marv 
 Ann 1 lodges, who died in Stanton, Mich., a'l 
 the age of twenty-nine years, leasing four 
 children, three sons and ' one daughter, of 
 whom Ferris A. is the second child. 
 
 When within three months of graduation 
 at the high school of Stanton, Mich., Ferris 
 A. started in to farm for himself, being at that 
 time twenty-one years of age. In 1889 he 
 began to work at the carpenter trade, and 
 in 1891 came to Oregon, locating in Falls 
 City. He was not slow to realize that he 
 had found a very desirable lumbering local- 
 ity-, and in 1896 became interested in a shingle 
 mill, and the following year bought a lumber 
 or sawmill with a capacity of fifteen thousand 
 feet per day. In 1898 he put up a mill with 
 a capacity of one hundred thousand feet per 
 day, located four miles southwest of Falls 
 City, and having a flume which carries the 
 lumber to the town. At present seventy-five 
 men are employed around the mill. The new 
 mill, now being erected, will have the very 
 latest in milling machinery, and will be an- 
 other addition to a large and flourishing lum- 
 ber community. A dryer is also being built 
 at present, with a capacity of eighty thousand 
 feet. A market is found in all of the states 
 west of the Mississippi river, and the mill 
 products are known all along the coast. As 
 in Michigan and other lumbering centers, the 
 company maintains a large general merchan- 
 dise store for the accommodation of its em- 
 ployes and their families, the store building 
 being one of the finest of the kind in the 
 county. It is three stories high, and has 
 ground dimensions 40x80 feet. In the build- 
 ing is a hall 40x80 feet, and the store contains 
 everything in demand in the general merchan- 
 dise line. 
 
 First known as the Luckiamute Milling Com- 
 pany, Mr. Lucas changed his associations in 
 1897 and took as his partner John J. Mont- 
 gomery, and in 1898 sold a third interest to 
 A. H. Dodd. In 1899 he bought out Mr. 
 Montgomery, and in the same year sold a 
 half interest in the business to R. E. Bryan, 
 since which time the business has been con- 
 ducted under the firm name of the Bryan- 
 Lucas Lumber Company. Mr. Lucas is pro- 
 gressive in his ideas, and has all modern im- 
 provements in his business, including a tele- 
 phone connection with Falls City. 
 
 In Michigan Mr. Lucas was united in mar- 
 
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 riage with Carrie E. Calkins, a native of Hills- 
 dale county, Mich., and daughter of H. S. 
 Calkins, a native of New York. Mr. Calkins 
 •was an early settler in Michigan, and at the 
 present time is employed by his son-in-law 
 in his mill. The twins born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lucas died at birth. Mr. Lucas is a Demo- 
 crat in political affiliation, and fraternally is 
 connected with the Modern Woodmen of 
 America. A man of sterling integrity and 
 sound business judgment, he not only has the 
 confidence of the business community, but the 
 friendship and good will of all who are asso- 
 ciated with him in whatsoever capacity. 
 
 OLIVER EMMETT LEET. Among the real 
 estate men who are helping to spread abroad the 
 many advantages of Polk county, and by their 
 advocacy of its climate, soil, and resources induc- 
 ing homeseekers to settle within its boundaries, 
 may be mentioned Oliver Emmett Leet, an enter- 
 prising citizen of Falls City, and a large land- 
 owner in different parts of the state. Mr. Leet 
 is a native of Massachusetts, and was born at 
 the old homestead at Williamstown, May 9, 1850. 
 On this same farm his father, Alonzo Leet was 
 born, reared, married, and eventually died at 
 the age of sixty-five years. He was a farmer 
 during his entire active life, and because of 
 good management and shrewd business ability 
 acquired a competence. The old Leet homestead 
 was the scene also of the birth of the paternal 
 grandfather, William. The paternal great-grand- 
 father, Gerard, was born on Leet Island, Conn., 
 which was named in honor of the family. Alonzo 
 Leet married his wife Laura in Vermont, the 
 daughter of Oliver Hill, a farmer of the Green 
 Mountain state. 
 
 The youngest son and fourth child in his 
 father's family, Oliver Emmett Leet was educated 
 in the public school near the home farm, and at 
 the age of seventeen learned the stone mason's 
 trade in North Adams, Mass. In 1875 he came 
 to the coast, and after a short time spent in Cali- 
 fornia returned to Massachusetts. During the 
 latter part of 1876 he came to Nebraska, but the 
 same year returned to Massachusetts. A third 
 time he came west in 1878, this time reaching 
 California, but in December he again visited his 
 native state. The various trips to the coast had 
 been utilized by Mr. Leet for making observations 
 of the country, and in hope of finding a desirable 
 permanent location. October 15, 1879, he came 
 to Oregon, and in October, 1880, settled in what 
 is now Sherman county but at that time it formed 
 but one precinct of Wasco county, containing 
 only thirteen voters, and there he cast his first 
 vote in Oregon for James A. Garfield, for presi- 
 dent. He engaged in stock-raising, principally 
 
 horses and cattle. In addition to the land he had 
 taken up he bought a large tract and placed it 
 partially under cultivation, and in 1888 desiring 
 to try his fortunes in another part of the state, 
 he settled in Newport, where he remained .four 
 years. Returning to his farm in eastern Oregon 
 in 1892, he continued to farm and raise stock 
 for two years. In December, 1894, he came to 
 Falls City, where he bought ninety acres adjoin- 
 ing the town, and engaged in farming and fruit- 
 raising. In 1896 he removed to Dallas, return- 
 ing to the farm in October, 1898, and there 
 remaining until November, 1901. 
 
 Locating in Falls City, Mr. Leet engaged in 
 the real estate business, and although a compara- 
 tively recent addition to the business life of the 
 city, he is recognized as one of the substantial 
 business factors in the community. He deals 
 principally in farm and timber land, concerning 
 which his life of activity in various parts of the 
 state has given him a wide knowledge. Person- 
 ally he owns a great deal of property in Oregon, 
 at Dallas, Hillsboro, and in Portland, as well 
 as valuable town property in Falls City. 
 
 Mr. Leet married, June 30, 1872, in New York 
 state, Mary Jane Parker, a native of Stanford, 
 Vt., and daughter of Harry Parker, a native and 
 farmer of Vermont. Mr. Leet is prominent in 
 social affairs of his adopted town, and is identi- 
 fied with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 Politically a Republican, he held the office of 
 councilman in Newport, Ore., for two terms. 
 He is a resourceful and enterprising man, con- 
 scientious and painstaking, and with a parti- 
 cularly fine regard for the courtesies and ameni- 
 ties of life. 
 
 SILAS LIVINGSTON. Occupying a promi- 
 nent position in the industrial circles of Albany, 
 Linn county, Ore., Silas Livingston is a member 
 of the firm which controls the interests of the 
 Albany Planing Mills, a large and lucrative busi- 
 ness which adds much to the financial prestige of 
 the city. Though in business but a comparative- 
 ly short time, as far as regards independent in- 
 terests, Mr. Livingston has forcibly demonstrated 
 his ability along these lines, and has made a 
 gratifying success of his work. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Livingston occurred in York- 
 ville township, Racine county, Wis., March 13, 
 1844, his parents being David and Julia Ann 
 (Nichols) Livingston. The founder of this fam- 
 ily in America was John Livingston, an emi- 
 grant from Scotland. After a short residence in 
 Canada he came to the state of New York and 
 there became a farmer, later making his home in 
 Wisconsin, where he died. His son, David, the 
 father of Silas Livingston, was born in New 
 York state, and was also a farmer. He became 
 
P0RTRA1 r AND l'.U >GRAPHICAL REG IRD. 
 
 
 a pioneer of Racine comity. Wis., ami later re- 
 moved to Minnesota, where he lived in both Hen- 
 nepin ami Carver counties. \\ itli his wife, the 
 daughter of George Nichols. Mr. Livingston 
 made the journey to Portland, Ore., where he 
 (liid. His wile survived him until 1899. her 
 death occurring in Albany. I ler father was first a 
 resident oi New York state, where Mrs. Liv- 
 ston was born. Subsequently he resided in 
 \\ isconsin. Of the nine children horn to them. 
 ht sons and one daughter, all attained ma- 
 turity, though only three are now living. Of the 
 son> four served in the Civil war. heing as fol- 
 lows: John, in BUrdan's First Sharpshooters; 
 Alexander, likewise in Burdan's First Sharp- 
 shooters, being wounded at Antietam ; Jasper, 
 in the Ninth Minnesota; and S. Livingston, 
 fourth of the children. The three first named 
 are now dead. John and Jasper both dying while 
 
 ents of Minnesota. 
 Silas Livingston was about seven years of 
 age when his father removed to the state of 
 Minnesota. There he was reared to manhood 
 on the paternal farm, receiving a limited educa- 
 tion in the district schools. Though but eighteen 
 vears of age Mr. Livingston enlisted in 1862 
 in Company D, Sixth Minnesota Infantry, and 
 was sent to the scene of the Sioux Indian upris- 
 ing, where he served until the Indians were sub- 
 dued. He was then sent south, passing through 
 Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, and serv- 
 
 through the siege of Mobile. Before he left 
 the service he was made a corporal. After a 
 
 ice of three years and three months he was 
 mustered out at Ft. Snelling, in September, 1865. 
 In his native state he afterward engaged in 
 farming for two years. In 1867 he went to Kan- 
 sas and took up a homestead of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, near Columbia, Cherokee county,, 
 where he remained for twelve years engaged in 
 farming and threshing. At the close of that 
 period he came west, settling first in Los An- 
 
 s county, Cal., near Wilmington, and in 1879 
 coming to Oregon. On his arrival in this state 
 he first engaged with the bridge department of 
 the Oregon Limited, and remained with them 
 for seven months. After spending the winter in 
 southern Oregon he came to Linn county, and 
 in Albany engaged in the shops of the Althouse 
 & Pierce Planing Mill Company. After one 
 year here he returned to Portland, and was em- 
 ployed for the ensuing twelve years in planing 
 mills of that city, and others in Albany, being 
 principally engaged with the Sugar Pine Mill and 
 Fixture Company with the exception of three 
 years spent in the employ of the Curtis Lum 
 her Company in Mill City. Ore. On entering the 
 business for himself he engaged with Mr. Sears, 
 and they now occupy three floors of a building. 
 the dimensions of which are 60x90 feet, all fix- 
 
 tures and machiner} being thorough lj up to & 
 The business has increased in volume through the 
 enterprise and conscientious effort of Mr. Liv- 
 ingston and his partner to turn out exceptional 
 
 work. 
 
 Mr. Livingston was married in Hennepin 
 county. Minn., to Miss Amy Could, a native of 
 Wisconsin. They have four children, as fol- 
 lows: Alexander, an engineer on the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad, who makes his home al Ash 
 land. Ore.; Grace, wife of Sanford La Salle, of 
 Albany; Pearl and Robert. Mr. Livingston is 
 a Republican in his political affiliations, and in 
 military circles he is known through his mem- 
 bership of McPherson Post, G. A. R. 
 
 JOHN HUGHES. The name of John 
 Hughes, who for many years was one of the 
 substantial business men and influential citi- 
 zens of Salem, is closely interwoven with the 
 history of the Willamette valley since the pio- 
 neer days of the community. He was born 
 in Blountville, Tenn., June 21, 1831, a son of 
 John Hughes, who was also a native of thai 
 state. His grandfather, David Hughes, was 
 born in Ireland, but prior to the Revolution 
 crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. When the 
 colonists attempted to throw off the yoke of 
 British oppression he joined the American army 
 and fought for independence. He became a 
 pioneer of eastern Tennessee, and there died 
 at the age of ninety-two years. In religious 
 faith he was a Presbyterian. Mr. Hughes' 
 father, who carried on farming in eastern 
 Tennessee, died at an early age. He had mar- 
 ried Ann Himes, who was born in Lancaster, 
 Pa., a daughter of Abraham Himes, who was 
 also a native of the Keystone state and of 
 German descent. He removed from Pennsyl- 
 vania to eastern Tennessee, and there Mrs. 
 Hughes was reared. She was a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and died in 
 Knoxville, Tenn., at the age of ninety years. 
 
 John Hughes was the eldest of a family of 
 four children and the last surviving member. 
 He was reared in his native locality, pursuing 
 his education in the district and subscription 
 schools. In 1852 he went by stage to the 
 Mississippi, and took a boat for Council Bluffs. 
 Towa. On the 20th of May of that year In- 
 left the latter place and started for the gold 
 mines of California. lie and four comrades 
 outfitted with a three-yoke team of oxen and 
 one wagon, proceeding westward until they 
 reached the forks of the Green river, where 
 the party divided, three of the number going 
 to Oregon and two to California. Cutting 
 their wagon in two and dividing the o\<n, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 they continued on to their respective desti- 
 nations. 
 
 On the 7th of October, 1852, John Hughes 
 arrived in the city of Portland, and came 
 thence to Marion county, where for seven 
 years he was engaged in farm work. He then 
 engaged in painting in Salem for a number of 
 years. In 1863 he began business as a mer- 
 chant in that city, establishing a store for the 
 sale of groceries, paints, oils and other com- 
 modities. For forty years thereafter, with the 
 exception of the time when he was temporarily 
 out of the city, he devoted his time to building 
 up a trade which ultimately became one of 
 the most important in the Willamette valley. 
 At the time of his death he was the oldest mer- 
 chant in the city of Salem. He erected the 
 Hughes block, built a portion of the bank 
 block, and at one time was interested in the 
 Salem Flouring Mill. It will thus be seen 
 that his efforts were not confined to one line 
 of enterprise. He carried forward to success- 
 ful completion whatever he undertook, and his 
 identification with commercial pursuits result- 
 ed in making him one of the wealthiest men 
 of the city. 
 
 Mr. Hughes was married in Salem July 29, 
 1857, to Miss Emma Pringle, who was born in 
 Warren county, Mo., in 1838, a daughter of 
 Virgil K. Pringle, whose birth occurred in 
 Hartford, Conn., July 29, 1804. Her grand- 
 father, Norman Pringle, was also born in Hart- 
 ford, and about 1820 removed to Missouri. 
 Her father, settling in Warren county, that 
 state, followed the shoe-making trade until 
 1846, when he came to the northwest, accom- 
 panied by his wife and six children. They 
 started April 15, 1846, with two ox-teams, com- 
 ing over the old trail by way of Fort Hall 
 and the Applegate cutoff. The travelers en- 
 dured many hardships and much suffering. 
 They made a road of their own from Hum- 
 boldt to Oregon, reaching the Willamette val- 
 ley on Christmas day, after a tedious journey 
 of nine months. They brought their teams 
 only as far as Eugene, and their cattle gave 
 out on the journey. Mr. Pringle engaged in 
 shoe-making in Salem until 1851, when he 
 settled upon a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres four and a half miles southeast 
 of the city. There he carried on farming for 
 a time, but later he returned to Salem and 
 was identified with business interests there 
 until, having acquired a handsome competence, 
 he retired to private life. He was a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a 
 man of unassailable integrity and genuine 
 worth. He married Pherne Brown, who was 
 born in Montpelier, Vt., March 22, 1805, a 
 daughter of the Rev. Clark Brown, who was 
 
 an Episcopal clergyman in the Green Moun- 
 tain state. His entire life was devoted to the 
 ministry in Vermont. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pringle were born eight 
 children, of whom seven reached years of ma- 
 turity — Virgilia, who became the wife of F. 
 R. Smith, and died in Salem ; Clark, who served 
 m the Cayuse Indian war and is now living 
 in Spokane, Wash. ; Octavius, who was four- 
 teen years of age when he crossed the plains, 
 and is now living in Prineville, Ore. ; Sarelia, 
 who became the wife of Charles H. Northrup, 
 and died in California ; AJbro, who died in 
 Seattle ; Emma, Mrs. Hughes, and Ella, widow 
 of C. D. Young, a resident of Salem, and the 
 only child who was born in Oregon. 
 
 The father of this family passed away in 
 Salem, March 24, 1887, when eighty-three 
 years of age. The mother's death occurred in 
 the same city May 23, 1891. She was a great- 
 granddaughter of Dr. Joseph Moffet, of Brim- 
 field, Mass. His daughter, who became the 
 grandmother of Mrs. Pringle, was liberally edu- 
 cated, and afterward engaged in teaching. 
 She married Rev. Clark Brown, who died in 
 Maryland. She afterward took her family to 
 Missouri, whence, in 1846, she came to the 
 northwest. In a log cabin at Forest Grove 
 she established a private school which after- 
 ward developed into a widely patronized and 
 celebrated institution. Her original capital in 
 this enterprise is said to have been but six 
 cents. Little by little the attendance increased 
 until she had forty pupils. This pioneer educa- 
 tional institution, for years known simply as 
 "Mrs. Brown's School," afterwards became the 
 Tualatin Academy, and is now widely known 
 as Pacific University. Mrs. Brown was thus 
 actively and prominently connected with the 
 educational development of the northwest, 
 and her name should be enrolled among those 
 of the prominent pioneers who contributed to 
 the upbuilding and general welfare of Oregon. 
 
 Unto John and Emma (Pringle) Hughes 
 were born five children — George P., who is 
 manager of his father's store ; Lulu, wife of 
 A. N. Bush, of Salem ; Francis, who is also 
 connected with the store ; Genevieve, wife of 
 David B. Mackie, of Portland, and Ethel, wife 
 of W. A. Carter, of Gold Hill, Ore. 
 
 The military experience of John Hughes 
 was confined to the Indian troubles occurring 
 in the pioneer days of Oregon. In October, 
 T855, he enlisted in the First Oregon Regiment 
 for service in the Yakima Indian war, and 
 was engaged in the Walla Walla country until 
 1856, taking part in many fights with the red 
 men. Fraternally he was connected with the 
 Odd Fellows, having served as Noble Grand 
 of Salem Lodge, No. 1 ; and Mrs. Hughes is 
 
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 331 
 
 identified with the Order of Rebekah. With 
 his wife he was a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church for many years, taking an 
 active and zealous pan in its work. He was 
 >f Willamette University, and the 
 • t education always found in him a 
 warm friend, lie served as a member of the 
 in City Council several terms, ami exer- 
 1 his prerogatives in support of all meas- 
 ures for the general good, tie was also asso- 
 
 ted with the State Pioneers' Association and 
 the Oregon Historical Society, of which Mrs. 
 Hughes is also a number. 
 
 Few residents of the Willamette valley re- 
 sided in this section of the state longer than 
 Mr. Hughes and his estimable wife. They 
 have witnessed its remarkable transformation 
 
 Mature has yielded up her rich treasures for 
 the use of man, as business interests and in- 
 dustries have been established, and as the 
 
 eral work of improvement has been carried 
 "ii. Their influence has invariably been on the 
 side of substantial advancement. Mr. Hughes 
 personally accomplished much toward promot- 
 ing the commercial activity of Salem, where 
 he was for so long a period numbered among 
 the highly honored and prominent merchants. 
 I lis death, which occurred April 25, 1903, was 
 a distinct loss to the community; for few of 
 the inhabitants of Salem have so closely en- 
 deared themselves to their fellow men of two 
 mature generations as did this noble, upright 
 and useful citizen of Oregon. The record of 
 his life, a few of the more important features 
 
 which we have endeavored to preserve for 
 the future, certainly contains much that should 
 prove a source of inspiration to the rising gen- 
 eration and of pride to his descendants. No 
 finer tribute to his memory can be offered — 
 no more lofty monument to his fame can be 
 erected — than the preservation in literature of the 
 simple facts as they are known to all who 
 knew him during his long and useful life. 
 
 GARDNER BROTHERS. No donation claim 
 in Polk county is surrounded with more inter- 
 ■ig reminisences of the old pioneer days 
 than that which was taken up by Samuel J. 
 Gardner, one of the pioneers of 1843, an( l which 
 is now occupied by his sons Cyrus L. and Chester 
 C. Gardner, two of the most promising and suc- 
 cessful of the younger generation of agricultur- 
 and stock-raisers of his neighborhood. 
 Especial interest surrounds the life of Samuel 
 J. Gardner, who represented in his character 
 and attainments the most hardy and resourceful 
 of the emigrants who dared the dangers of the 
 plain-; before the innumerable later caravans had 
 rendered them more habitable and less hazardous. 
 
 Born in Boston, Mass., September 10, 1821, he 
 dud in California, December 20, [866, having 
 gone to the southern state for impaired health. 
 
 As a young man in the east Mr. Gardner 
 engaged in school teaching lor some years, and 
 m 1843 came to Oregon accompanied by Nesmith, 
 Applegate and Abernethy, spending a few /ears 
 on the French Prairie, in Marion county. When 
 he came to Polk county he had a pack on his 
 hack containing his worldly possessions, and 
 finally with his earnings made arrangements to 
 take up three hundred and twenty acres of land. 
 March 3, 1853, he married Eliza Ann Smith. 
 horn in Missouri, July 1, 1835, an( l daughter of 
 James Smith, who crossed the plains in 1846, 
 locating on a claim near Lewisville, consisting 
 of a section of land. After this marriage the 
 young people came to the claim now owned by 
 the sons, and built the house which is still stand- 
 ing, a silent reminder of the many years of 
 struggle and deprivations in the early days. 
 This house was built in 1850, and in it the six 
 children were born, four of whom are living : 
 George W., of Falls City ; Thomas J., of Salem ; 
 and C. L. and C C. on the home farm. For a 
 second husband the wife of Mr. Gardner mar- 
 ried, November 27, 1867, John A. Williams, who 
 was born in 181 2, and died April 30, 1884, on 
 the home place. Of this union there were two. 
 children, Alvin A. and John D., the former of 
 whom is deceased, and the latter of whom lives 
 at Falls City. For a third husband Mrs. Williams 
 married, January 3, 1886, W. A. Frost, and her 
 fourth husband, married September 26, 1891, 
 was Jacob Rhodaberger. Mrs. Rhodaberger died 
 in Falls City December 26, 1901, at the age of 
 sixty-six. 
 
 The Gardner brothers were given a common 
 school education, and under their father's dis- 
 cipline developed into thrifty and conscientious 
 farmers and stock-raisers. Cyrus L., was born 
 on the donation claim February 1, 1861, and 
 Chester C. was born on the same farm 
 February 8, 1864. Chester C. married, February 
 11, 1 89 1, Hattie Elliott, who was born in Polk 
 county, December 11, 1871, and whose father. 
 James W., crossed the plains in 1862, locating 
 in Polk county, and from there removing to his 
 present home near Bellevue, Yamhill county. 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Gardner: Cyrus Orville; Wiley M.: Edith L. ; 
 and Lester W. Like their father, the sons are 
 Democrats in political affiliation, but have never 
 desired or been willing to accept anything hut 
 minor local offices. C. C. Gardner is a member 
 and trustee of the Evangelical Church at P.ridgc- 
 port. The brothers own the original donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres jointly 
 Chester C. purchased three hundred and eighteen 
 acres adjoining on the south and Cyrus L. owns 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 one hundred and sixty adjoining that on the 
 southwest, making a farm of eight hundred acres 
 in one body. The Gardner farm is one of the 
 most valuable in Polk county, and has all of the 
 modern improvements which are calculated to 
 facilitate a high-class general farming enterprise. 
 l>oth men are of advanced and practical ideas, 
 and have enviable reputations for substantiality 
 and all-around general worth to the community. 
 
 JOHN B. SMITH. Certain distinguishing 
 features mark the establishment of the Smith 
 family in Oregon, both as regards the father, 
 Isaac, and his son John B., the latter of whom 
 now owns and operates the original donation 
 claim taken up by his sire in 1853, and where 
 he was born November 18, 1856. The elder 
 Smith was born in Warren county, Ky., Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1816, a son of Godfrey Smith, who 
 died at a comparatively early age, and who 
 claimed Dutch ancestry. Isaac Smith went to 
 Warren county, 111., as a young man, and there 
 married Margaret Butler, who was born in 
 Kentucky or Illinois in 1822, and who bore him 
 nine children, six of whom were sons, John B. 
 being the seventh, all of whom are now living : 
 Rufus M. ; Silas W., of Waitsburg, Wash.; 
 Berryman M., who was police judge of Portland 
 for two years ; Flora A. Campbell ; R. Matilda 
 Humphrey ; John B. ; Ira S., who was sheriff of 
 Polk county one term and member of legislature 
 one term; Isaac L., United States lighthouse 
 keeper at Canby, Ore. Mr. Smith owned a large 
 farm in Warren county, 111., which, however, 
 he disposed of in the early '50s, and in 1853 
 outfitted with horse and mule teams and crossed 
 the plains to Oregon. His family had in the 
 meantime grown to large proportions, and all 
 accompanied him on the search for better and 
 larger opportunities in the far west. The train 
 was under command of Captain Butler, father of 
 Mrs. Smith, and the journey covered a period of 
 six months, being comparatively immune from 
 distressing accidents or setbacks. The first 
 winter was spent in Polk county, and the next 
 spring Mr. Smith took up the claim now owned 
 by his son, which consisted of three hundred and 
 twenty acres. He engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising until his death, April 29, 1897, 
 bis wife having preceded him in December, 1871.. 
 He was a prominent man in his neighborhood, 
 and his influence for growth and progress was 
 of more than local extent. Since the Civil war 
 a stanch Republican, he served many years as 
 justice of the peace, and was elected to the state 
 legislature for one term, serving as county judge 
 until declining health necessitated his resignation 
 from office. Broad and tolerant in his views, 
 
 he was public-spirited in the extreme, and will- 
 ingly shouldered the large responsibility which 
 fell upon him in the early days. 
 
 Educated in the public schools of Bridgeport, 
 and La Creole Academy at Dallas, John B. 
 Smith began farming with his father, and at 
 the age of twenty-one became independent, taking 
 his share of the farm profits in return for labor 
 expended. In 1886 he was united in marriage 
 with Maggie Hill, who was born in Tennessee, 
 December 2.^, 1867, an( l came to Oregon in 1884 
 with her father, Licurgus, locating in Polk 
 county. Mr. Hill now lives in Bridgeport, four 
 miles from Falls City, and is engaged in general 
 farming and hop-raising. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Smith continued to 
 live on the home place, and in December, 1900, 
 bought out the other heirs, and now owns the 
 entire property. His farm is one of the finest 
 and most valuable in this section, and is devoted 
 chiefly to the raising of stock, including sheep, 
 goats and cattle. The most modern improvements 
 have been introduced, for the present owner is 
 progressive in the extreme, and keeps abreast of 
 the times in congenial and successful occupation. 
 That he has been more expansive than the 
 average farmer is evidenced by his town as well 
 as city interests, for he owns considerable town 
 real estate, including four lots in Newport. The 
 stanch friend and promoter of education, he has 
 materially advanced the educational opportunities 
 of the children in his neighborhood, and has 
 rendered valuable service as a trustee of Dallas 
 College. He is an upholder of Republican prin- 
 ciples, has been a trustee and school clerk for 
 many terms, and held other positions of trust and 
 responsibilicy in the county. With his family he 
 is a member of the Evangelical Church, and for 
 many years has been the popular and helpful 
 Sunday school superintendent. His four chil- 
 dren are being given every advantage within the 
 power of their parents to bestow. Oscar P. is 
 in Dallas, while Cecil, Hallie and a baby are 
 living- at home. 
 
 JOHN MORRIS. A paying farming and 
 fruit-raising property of Polk county is that 
 owned by John Morris, which, though not one 
 of the largest in the neighborhood, is one of 
 the best improved and most fertile. In 1890 
 be purchased the sixty acres comprising his 
 farm, forty-five of which are under cultivation, 
 and seven acres of which are devoted to straw- 
 berries. He has given horticulture considerable 
 study, and finds a ready market for his finely 
 flavored fruit. Mr. Morris was born in Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, June 1, T840, his father, Asa, being 
 a native of Pennsylvania, and died in Frank- 
 lin county, Ohio, at the age of fiftv-five vears. 
 
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 ["he mother and family moved to Mahaska 
 
 inty, Iowa, in 1853, and the son, John, stayed 
 on the home farm until i860 
 
 ssing the plains in the spring of [860, John 
 
 rris was a member of the D'Lashmutl party, 
 which included his widowed mother, who after- 
 ward married Jonathan Dyer. She died in Polk 
 county in 1889, aged seventy-eight years. After 
 arriving in Polk county, he lived with Mr. 
 D'Lashmutt on Salt crook. In 1862 he wont to 
 gon, and in Baker county engaged in 
 mining for a year, going in 1863 to Placerville, 
 Idaho. As a minor he was not successful, and 
 short hut disastrous experience convinced 
 him that the life of the farmer was after all one 
 desired. So in [865 he went to Walla 
 Walla. Wash., and after a year of farming 
 came to Polk county, locating on Salt creek. He 
 
 - moderately successful as a farmer and stock- 
 raiser, and in 1872 had saved enough money to 
 justify him in marrying and wedded Mary E. 
 Farley, a native of Yamhill county, daughter 
 of Robert and Lydia (Cosper) Farley, of which 
 union there have been horn five children: Will- 
 iam A., a graduate of the Stanford University, 
 now teaching the Latin class in the East Port- 
 land school; Robert F., attending the Willamette 
 I nivcrsity : Carl G.. graduate from the law 
 department of Willamette University and died 
 at home September, 1901, aged twenty-four; and 
 lied in infancy. 
 
 • a number of years after his marriage Mr. 
 Morris lived near Perrydale, and in 1891 came 
 to his present farm near Salem. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics casting his first vote for Lincoln 
 in 1864, and has held the school offices for many 
 years. He is a member of the Baptist Church 
 
 Rickreall, while his wife attends the church 
 of the same denomination at Salem. Liberal 
 minded and enterprising, Mr. Morris is also noted 
 1 business ability, and for his un- 
 swerving integrity. For further reference re- 
 garding the Morris family, see sketch of E. L. 
 D'Lashmutt elsewhere in this volume. 
 
 CHARLES OSCAR BOYNTON. Follow- 
 ing a career of credit to himself as a farmer and 
 business man. Charles Oscar Boynton came to 
 Woodburn in 1891. and erected his present com- 
 fortable and hospitable home on seven acres of 
 land purchased for the purpose. With the excep- 
 tion of a year in the grocery business, as the part- 
 ner of W. F. Finzer, he has since lived a retired 
 life. Mr. Boynton is enrolled among that noble 
 band of pioneers which arrived in ( )regon Octo- 
 ber 3. 1850, and has since given their strong and 
 reliable characters to the development of western 
 resources. Of Revolutionary ancestry on both 
 sides of his family, he was born in Troy, N. Y., 
 
 June 10, 1822. his father, Ebenezer I... having 
 boon horn on the old paternal farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixt) acres near Brattleborough, Vt., 
 August S, 1 ji)(). The paternal grandfather, Joel, 
 ■ a native of \ ermont, succeeded in making a 
 fair living for his farnil) out of the Vermont 
 farm, whoso well tilled and somewhat worn acres 
 are still in the possession of the Boyntons. Mo 
 loft his plow and difficult duties to participate in 
 the war for independence, serving with distinc- 
 tion in the Colonial army, lie lived to bo ninety- 
 nine years old. Ebenezer L. Boynton moved 
 from Vermont to New York about 1812, settling 
 in Catskill, where he married Elizabeth Fancher, 
 who was born near Now London, Conn., January 
 21, 170.5, and whose father, Andrew Fancher, 
 was also a native of Connecticut, a farmer by 
 occupation, and a valiant soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. In New York, he settled in the 
 timber near Syracuse, cleared his land, engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising, and died at an ad- 
 vanced age. 
 
 In 1821, Mr. Boynton removed from Catskill 
 to Troy, N. Y., where he was appointed inspector 
 of provisions by the legislature, which position 
 he creditably maintained for many years. In 
 1836 he took up his residence in Fulton county, 
 111., where he bought a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, and also eighty acres of timber land. 
 Here he died at the age of ninety, after a very 
 active life, during which he took an important 
 part in the politics of his locality. At first a Jef- 
 fersonian Democrat, his political convictions had 
 broadened, and he died a stanch Republican, and 
 a warm admirer of the character and political 
 policy of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 The third oldest in the paternal family, Charles 
 Oscar Boynton, was educated in the public 
 schools, and at the age of twenty-one left the 
 farm and apprenticed himself to the cooper's 
 trade, at Cuba, Fulton county, 111. In 1843, he 
 located on a farm near Cuba, married Mary A. 
 Bonney, July 26th of the same year, Mrs. IBovn- 
 ton being a native of Sandusky, Ohio, and born 
 December 29, 1823. Her father, Truman Bon- 
 ney, was horn in the state of Vermont, where he 
 was a tanner, stave maker, and later a cooper, 
 and from whore he emigrated to ( >hio, settling 
 near Sandusky, and, in 1834, removed to Fulton 
 county. 111. Fie crossed the plains to Oregon in 
 1845. and settled on the donation claim upon 
 which his death occurred. After his marria 
 Mr. Boynton continued to live on the Illinois 
 farm, and in the meantime a great deal of local 
 interest had boon aroused regarding the superior 
 opportunities in the west, and it is not surprising 
 that quite a little colony in the neighborhood dis- 
 posed of their farms and needless possessions, 
 and prepared for the long journey over the 
 plains. Nine families made up the little train 
 
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 that courageously set forth into the practically 
 unknown west, and accomplished their desire 
 without any particular incident. They came by 
 way of the north side of the Platte river, and the 
 first winter in Oregon Mr. Boynton spent two 
 miles northeast of Woodburn. Near Needy, 
 Clackamas county, he then took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, which he 
 proved up, and which continued to be his home 
 for thirty-nine years. The town of Needy sprang 
 into existence upon a portion of the Boynton 
 farm, and the owner was deeply interested in the 
 various enterprises which gradually helped to 
 establish a community of fair proportions. Nor 
 was he an outside spectator, for he gave gen- 
 erously towards the promotion of various enter- 
 prises there represented, notably the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, for which he contributed five 
 acres as a building site, and also gave money to- 
 wards the erection of the edifice. In this connec- 
 tion, it is pleasant to mention the great good 
 accomplished by Mr. Boynton in connection with 
 the church, of which he has been a member for 
 a great many years. He has always felt the help 
 emanating from this denomination, and during 
 the early missionary days, such well remembered 
 disciples as Waller, Hines, Garrison and Parrish 
 were welcome guests at the Boynton home. The 
 first camp meeting grounds were held on this old 
 farm, and many social and religious undertak- 
 ings received their first inspiration from the vig- 
 orous personalities and helpful enthusiasm of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Boynton. Their home was the center 
 of a genial good fellowship appreciated by all 
 the early settlers, and their hearts responded to 
 all calls for sympathy and practical help, 
 
 Of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Boynton, Ebenezer Larned, a horse dealer in 
 Woodburn, married Lucinda Morgan and has 
 three sons : Charles O., Jr. ; Alva T., who is mar- 
 ried and has one daughter, Eddie ; and Edward, 
 deceased ; Bradford A. is deceased ; Helen A., 
 deceased, married Clark McCown and had three 
 children : Mary A., married, and has one daugh- 
 ter; Charles W. and Lida; Thurston A., de- 
 ceased, married Josie Moor and had one daugh- 
 ter, Thursa, the wife of Mr. Goodman, of Mal- 
 heur county, Ore. ; Jennie Alice, deceased, mar- 
 ried Cuthbert Stump, and had three children : 
 Paulina, Mary and Charles C, the latter deceased ; 
 Albert, twin brother to Jennie A., died in early 
 childhood; C. Truman, living in Malheur county, 
 Ore., married Susan Zumwalt, and they have two 
 daughters, Bertha and Mary A., each of whom 
 is married and has one son ; Bessie is the wife 
 of John Pope joy, and has two daughters : Mary 
 A. and Charlotte O., the latter having three chil- 
 dren, Marietta, Harley and an infant, and is liv- 
 ing in Stockton, Cal. ; Ida, deceased, married J. 
 Robert Sconce, and they had one son, J. Robert 
 
 Sconce, Jr., now in the United States navy ; Lida, 
 a twin sister of Ida, is living at home with her 
 parents. Mr. Boynton has always been a Repub- 
 lican, and his fitness for office has received con- 
 stant recognition. He served four years as 
 county assessor, and was county commissioner 
 for the same number of years. For twenty-two 
 years he was justice of the peace, and his rulings 
 were always equitable and in accord with the 
 principles of truth and justice. Since living in 
 Woodburn, Mr. Boynton has been solicited to 
 fill numerous political offices, but has always re- 
 fused. He served as delegate to the county con- 
 vention, and was delegate from Clackamas 
 county to the first Republican state convention in 
 Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton are the only 
 survivors of the first Methodist Episcopal class 
 between Salem and Oregon City, organized by 
 Alvin Waller. They are both members of the 
 Pioneer Association, and Oregon Historical So- 
 ciety, and Mr. Boynton is a charter member of 
 Woodburn Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M., and 
 with his daughter, Lida, belongs to the Eastern 
 Star. 
 
 SIDNEY TOMLINSON, who served as chief 
 executive of Woodburn during the years 1901-02, 
 was admirably adapted to the requirements of 
 his responsibility, was the seventh to hold office 
 in the city and presented a clean, wide-awake, 
 and progressive administration. His foresight 
 and recognition of its necessities resulted in the 
 organization of a fire company for the protection 
 of life and property, and he otherwise evinced 
 a desire to place his charge among the influen- 
 tial, modern, and thrifty municipalities of the 
 Willamette valley. 
 
 A native of the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, Mr. 
 Tomlinson was born March 17, 1855. His fam- 
 ily was represented in the Revolutionary war, 
 the war of 1812, and the Mexican war. The 
 soldier of whom there' is most authentic account 
 is the paternal grandfather, Solomon Z., who was 
 born in Virginia, reared in Pennsylvania, and 
 participated in the war of 1812 and the Mexican 
 war. The prime of his life was passed in Ohio, 
 where he married, and whence he removed in 
 i860 to Nemaha county, Kans. In 1878 he took 
 up his residence on land in the state of Iowa. 
 He died at the age of ninety-three in Boone 
 county, Iowa, where he was stricken with paraly- 
 sis while at the home of his son, James F., the 
 father of Sidney. 
 
 James F. Tomlinson was born in Columbus, 
 Ohio, May 22, 1824, and in early life was a shoe- 
 maker by trade. After removing to Iowa in 1856 
 he settled in Boone county, where he bought 
 land on the banks of the Des Moines river, forty- 
 five miles from the citv of that name. He became 
 
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 341 
 
 minent as a farmer and politician, gathered a 
 
 isiderable fortune into the family exchequer, 
 
 and held, among other political offices, thai ol 
 
 :it\ commissioner for sixteen years. Mis wife, 
 
 tabeth (Simmons i Tomlinson, was born in 
 
 diocton county, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph 
 
 mons Her death occurred in Iowa August 17. 
 
 hen her son Sidne) was seventeen months 
 
 Of the two children in die family, Clarinda 
 
 ■ >u the wife of 11. A. Whitted, the latter a 
 
 farmer mar Steele, Idaho. 
 
 For twenty-seven years of his life Mr. Tom- 
 linson lived on his father's farm, and the many 
 responsibilities which fell to his lot prevented 
 more than irregular attendance at the public 
 ols. As a relaxation from agricultural life 
 he engaged in a general merchandise business 
 Pilot Mound, Boone county. Iowa, for four 
 irs, and then removed to Harlan county, Xeb., 
 where he lived on a farm of one hundred and 
 -. acres for about a year. Upon removing to 
 Oregon in 1888 he settled in Medford, Jackson 
 county, and worked as a carpenter and builder 
 for about three years. Since coming to Wood- 
 burn he has engaged in contracting and building 
 on a large scale. Among his most worthy at- 
 tempts in this direction may be mentioned the 
 brick block opposite the depot ; the building of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which 
 be afterward sold : and Hotel Woodburn, the 
 finest and best appointed hostelry in the city, and 
 which is being conducted under his personal 
 supervision. Before being elected mayor in 190 1 
 he was a member of the city council for two 
 terms, and he has also served six years on the 
 school board, and in 1903 was re-elected for 
 the ensuing three years, doing his utmost during 
 that time to advance the cause of education, as 
 exemplified in the Woodburn school. He was 
 of the chief organizers of the Woodburn 
 Hoard of Trade, an organization which has mate- 
 rially promoted the mercantile and commercial 
 interests of the city and county. He is the presi- 
 dent of the board, and one of its most helpful 
 and enthusiastic members. He is identified with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Knights ot the Maccabees, and has passed the 
 chairs of each. Mr. Tomlinson is cxtensivclv 
 interested in real estate business, handling city 
 and farm property in Willamette valley. 
 
 The family of Mr. Tomlinson consists of his 
 wife, formerly Miss Lottie White, whom he mar- 
 ried in Boone county, Iowa, April 1, 1882; and his 
 only son. Vernon Wayne, who was born in Boone 
 count v, Iowa. January 18, 1883, and is now a stu- 
 dent in the State I diversity at Eugene, a leader 
 of the University debating, societv, and will grad- 
 uate in [905. Airs. Tomlinson is a daughter of 
 Mathias White, who was born in Kcntuckv. and 
 has owned and managed farms in Indiana, Illi- 
 
 nois, and Iowa, and died in the latter state. The 
 mother still resides in Boone county, towa, and 
 IS over eighty years of age. Mrs. Tomlinson 
 conies from a family noted for their abilities 
 as musicians, and she herself possesses marked 
 talent. She has given private instruction to many 
 and is a vocalist of ability. From [896 to 1900 
 -he was assistant principal in the Woodburn 
 school, and was principal of the Hubbard school 
 from 1900 to [901 inclusive. With her husband 
 she ably manages the hotel in which they are 
 both interested. 
 
 DEDR1CK H. BOMHOFF. One of the suc- 
 cessful and representative mercantile establish- 
 ments in Woodburn is the grocery business of 
 Dedrick H. Bomhoff, but recently' located in a 
 new building, fitted with all modern improve- 
 ments. Mr. Bomhoff is one of the many sons 
 of Germany who are utilizing their commendable 
 national traits for the upbuilding of the north- 
 west, to which be came in 1891, and in regard 
 to the advantages of which lie is most enthu- 
 siastic. He was born in Hanover, Germany, 
 February 10, 1868, his father, Henry, and his 
 mother. Anna, being natives of the same part of 
 the kingdom. Henry Bomhoff is a carpenter, 
 builder and contractor, and is at present living 
 with his wife in Homfeldt, where he has been 
 in business for many years. 
 
 The oldest of the three sons and two daugh- 
 ters in' his father's family, Dedrick was not des- 
 tined to reach maturity in his native land, for at 
 the age of twelve he had a chance to come to 
 come to America with a kinsman, locating in 
 Greenleaf, Washington county, Kans., where he 
 attended the public schools. Since that early 
 age he has made his own living, and has no one 
 to thank but himself for the large measure of 
 success which has come bis way. Having heard 
 a great deal about the west during his life in 
 Kansas he came hither in 1890, locating at Olym- 
 pia, Wash., where he remained for a year. For 
 a couple of years be worked on farms near I'.ulte- 
 villc and Hubbard, Ore., and became identified 
 with Woodburn in 1894, his various efforts hav- 
 ing resulted in his saving quite a little money. 
 In 1898 he stepped boldly into the mercantile 
 life of the town, and boughl out O. A. Nandall's 
 grocery store, which lie has since conducted in 
 larger form, and with increasing patronage. The 
 new store just completed is worthy of both the 
 town and man. is well slocked with the commodi- 
 ties most in demand in growing and progressive 
 communities, and has at its head a very genial, 
 broad-minded and tactful manager, whose pleas- 
 ing personality makes his place of business popu- 
 lar and profitable. 
 
 Through his marriage in July, 1896, with Mrs. 
 
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 Lizzie M. Scheurer, Mr. Bomhoff became allied 
 with one of the pioneer families of Oregon. 
 Mrs. Bomhoff is a daughter of Peter Fellow, 
 who was born in the disputed territory of Alsace- 
 Lorraine, between France and Germany, and who 
 came to America at a very early day. Mr. Fellow 
 located first in Illinois, and in i860 came around 
 the Horn to San Francisco, from there embark- 
 ing for Portland. Pie took up a donation claim 
 near Butteville, Marion county, Ore., consisting 
 of six hundred and forty acres, improved the 
 same to a fine farm, and lived there for the re- 
 mainder of his life. Through her first marriage 
 Mrs. Bomhoff had one child, Mabel, and of her 
 second marriage there have been born three chil- 
 dren, Annie, Grace and Harry. 
 
 Mr. Bomhoff is interested in all that has to 
 do with the upbuilding of his adopted city, and 
 has been before the public in various capacities. 
 As a Republican he has served in the city coun- 
 cil for one term. He' is fraternally connected 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 a charter member of the encampment. With his 
 wife and children Mr. Bomhoff is a member of 
 the German Lutheran Church. Is also member 
 of the Mercantile and Tradesmen Protective As- 
 sociation. In 1899 he purchased and remodeled 
 a dwelling which is now one of the finest in 
 Woodburn, all the modern improvements to be 
 found therein, and has a drilled well, one hun- 
 dred and seventy-seven feet deep, the deepest in 
 the citv. 
 
 HENRY J. OS FIELD is a leading and 
 prosperous representative of mercantile in- 
 terests in Dallas, where he is engaged in deal- 
 ing in groceries and queensware. A native of 
 Illinois, he was born in Urbana, October 22, 
 1856, and is the second in order of birth in a 
 family of seven children, five of whom are 
 living. The parents were John J. and Rachel 
 (Servis) Osfield. The paternal grandfather 
 was a resident of New York and belonged to 
 one of the old eastern families. John J. Os- 
 field was born in the Empire state and came 
 to Lockport, N. Y., where he pursued his edu- 
 cation and learned the blacksmith's trade. 
 Removing westward as civilization made its 
 way into the Mississippi valley, he took up 
 his abode in Urbana, 111., where he became 
 interested in the conduct of a wagon and car- 
 riage factory as a member of the firm of Boy- 
 den & Osfield. He was associated in that en- 
 terprise for many years and in 1876 he re- 
 moved to Iowa, establishing his home in Vil- 
 lisca, but after two years he came to the Sun- 
 set state, locating in Portland, Ore., where 
 be was engaged in carriage manufacturing 
 throughout the remainder of his business ca- 
 
 reer. His wife was born in Ohio and was a 
 daughter of Asher Servis, who was a native 
 of New Jersey and who married a Miss Sco- 
 field, a native of Connecticut. Removing 
 westward, Mr. Servis • followed farming in 
 Warren county, Ohio, afterward in Illinois 
 and subsequently in Harrison county, Iowa, 
 where his death occurred. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
 Osfield were born seven children, five of 
 whom are yet living and with the exception 
 of our subject all are residents of Portland. 
 The father died in September, 1901, at the 
 age of seventy-six years, but the mother is 
 yet living in Portland. 
 
 H. J. Osfield spent the days of his boyhood 
 and youth in Urbana, 111., acquiring his edu- 
 cation in the public schools there, and in 1876 
 when twenty years of age went to Iowa, 
 where he carried on farming on his father's 
 land. He remained a resident of that state 
 until 1880, in which year he arrived in Port- 
 land, Ore., where for two years he was em- 
 ployed at blacksmithing and carriage making. 
 He then accepted a position as shipping clerk 
 with the firm of Frank Brothers, dealers in 
 implements, acting in that capacity for eight 
 years or until 1890, when, with the capital he 
 had acquired through his own labors, he es- 
 tablished a store in West Portland. He was 
 also instrumental in securing a postofHce 
 there and was appointed its first postmaster. 
 He continued to engage in general merchan- 
 dising and to discharge his official duties until 
 October, 1895, when he sold his store and re- 
 moved to Dallas, thinking to find a broader 
 field of labor at this place. Here he opened 
 a grocery, queensware and notions store and 
 later he purchased the store building which 
 he now occupies. It is a two-story brick 
 building, 30x70 feet, and he also has a large 
 warehouse. His grocery and queensware 
 store is the most extensive in the county, and 
 he is also the leading dealer in produce. He 
 has been very successful in his business here, 
 working up a large trade. He carries a fine 
 line of goods. His store is neat and attract- 
 ive in appearance and his business methods 
 commend him to the confidence and support 
 of the public. 
 
 In Logan, Iowa, Mr. Osfield was united in 
 marriage to Miss Mary Ellison, who was 
 born in that state, and they have two chil- 
 dren, Ada F. and Carroll Henry. They hold 
 membership with the Presbyterian Church of 
 Dallas, and Mr. Osfield is serving on the 
 board of trustees. Socially he is identified 
 with the Woodmen of the World and was 
 made a Mason in Jennings Lodge, No. 9, A. 
 F. & A. M. He is also a stanch and unswerv- 
 ing Republican, an active member of the 
 

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 r.l of trade an.l takes a deep and helpful 
 • m eyerything pertaining to progi 
 
 ami improvement in Ids locality. He i> 
 
 and favorably known, and throughout 
 
 er lie lias labored for the improvement 
 
 ry line of business or public inter 
 
 b which he has been associated, and at all 
 
 tin een actuated by a fidelity to his 
 
 country and her welfare. 
 
 JUDGE \Y. C. Hl'BBARD. The qualities 
 
 which endear man to man are dominant traits 
 the character oi W. C. Hubbard, and so wide- 
 
 ind favorably is he known in Salem and 
 the surrounding: country that it is with pleas- 
 that we present to our readers the record 
 - ,-areer. His residence in the state dates 
 847 and therefore the pioneer history 
 ^on is as familiar to him as is the latter- 
 progress and development. He was born 
 in Pike county, 111., twelve miles from Pitts- 
 . November 8, 1836, and is the eldest liv- 
 
 of the four surviving children in a family 
 that once numbered eleven born unto Charles 
 and Margaret (Cannon) Hubbard. The 
 father was born in Kentucky February 14, 
 1800, and at an early day removed to Missouri, 
 settling near St. Louis, while later he became 
 a resident of Pike county, 111., and there car- 
 
 I on farming. The explorations that had 
 been made in the northwest and the reports 
 that he had heard awakened in him a desire to 
 become a resident of the section of the country 
 whose resources were so glowingly described. 
 Accordingly, in 1847. ne started for Oregon ac- 
 companied by his wife and six children. They 
 had two wagons drawn by oxen, thus traveling 
 in the primitive manner of the times — the van- 
 guard of civilization which was soon to trans- 
 form this district from a wild region inhabited 
 by Indians to one of the most important sec- 
 tions of our great land. They traveled bv way 
 of St. Joseph. Mo., crossing the river there. 
 thence proceeding up the Platte and over the 
 old Oregon trail. On the way the baby of 
 the family died while they were in the Cascade 
 mountains. They had no trouble with the In- 
 dians until they arrived at the Columbia river 
 and even then they managed to make the red 
 men keep their distance. They had left the 
 main road at the foot of Blue mountain and 
 proceeded to Whitman station, intending to 
 
 •id the winter there. Dr. Whitman, at the 
 time, was down in the valley and Mrs. Whit- 
 man urged them to proceed on their way be- 
 cause she believed that there would be many 
 emigrants behind them whom thev would have 
 to assist later in the season. They arrived, 
 therefore, in the valley October 20, and the 
 
 father secured a donation claim on Clear creek, 
 Seven miles northeast of Oregon City, but re- 
 mained there for only a year, when lie gave up 
 the property. He then located on the French 
 claim, purchasing a tract of a former owner 
 and also securing a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres. With characteristic 
 energy he began to clear, improve and culti- 
 vate his land and in course of time a splendid 
 farm was seen as the result of his labors. 1 [e 
 continued to engage in agricultural work until 
 his retirement from business life. He died at 
 the home of his son in Mission Bottom in 1884, 
 when eighty-four years of age. A worthy 
 Christian man, he held membership in the 
 Baptist Church and into the minds of his chil- 
 dren he instilled lessons of industry and in- 
 tegrity wdiich have borne good fruit in their 
 later lives. His wife, who was born in Mis- 
 souri, April 19. 181 1, was a daughter of James 
 Cannon, who died in that state. Mrs. Hub- 
 bard passed away at the old homestead in 1880. 
 Judge Hubbard spent the first ten years of 
 his life in the state of his nativity and then 
 came with his parents as they journeyed across 
 the country to the northwest. He assisted in 
 driving the loose cattle and walked six hundred 
 dred miles of the way at one time, but at in- 
 als he had the privilege of riding for a 
 short distance. After reaching Oregon he re- 
 mained at home with his parents until twenty- 
 two years of age with the exception of a period 
 of two years. In his youth, he attended school 
 near his home and in Oregon City and at the 
 age of nineteen years worked in the mines of 
 California for a time. He passed through the 
 Rogue river Indian war country, making the 
 journey on pack horses, and at lengfth arrived 
 at Yreka. Cal. He was then engaged in mining 
 at Deadwood until 1857 when he returned to 
 his home, remaining with his parents until 
 1859. He then came into possession of one 
 hundred and sixty acres of new land covered 
 with brush, and there he began farming, but 
 after two years he rented an improved farm, 
 upon wmich he lived for three years. By that 
 time his labors had brought to him a good 
 financial return and with the money he had 
 thus earned he purchase''. indred and 
 
 sixty acres of land in the Mission P.ottom and 
 located at his new home. As the years have 
 passed and his financial resources have enabled 
 him to make additional purchases he has 
 added to his property until he now owns a 
 farm of six hundred acres in one body which 
 is under a very high state of cultivation. This 
 is pleasantly located twelve miles nortri 
 Salem. There grain is raised on an extensive 
 scale, and to the cultivation of a portion of tin- 
 property- Judge Hubbard gives his personal 
 
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 supervision. He is, however, living practically 
 retired at his home in Salem. 
 
 The judge was married in Parkerville, Ore., 
 in 1859 to Miss Helen M. Cooley, who was 
 born in Clay county, Mo., and was brought 
 across the plains to Oregon in 1844, her father, 
 Christopher C. Cooley, bringing his family to 
 the northwest in that year. Reaching his des- 
 tination, he settled on French Prairie, where he 
 engaged in farming until his death. Mrs. Hub- 
 bard was but four years of age at the time of 
 the overland trip. Unto the judge and his wife 
 have been born seven children: Walter S., 
 who is a member of the fire department of 
 Seattle ; Orville B., who is engaged in mining 
 in Alaska ; Oscar, who died on the home farm 
 at the age of twenty-five years; Ira W. and 
 Wylie W., who are stock men, living in Salem ; 
 Rodena, who died when but three weeks old; 
 and Dollie, of Salem. 
 
 In his political views the judge has ever 
 been an earnest Republican and has studied 
 closely the issues and questions of the day and 
 puts forth everv effort in his power to promote 
 the growth and extend the influence of his 
 party. While residing upon his farm he was 
 elected and served for two terms as county 
 commissioner, entering upon the duties of the 
 office in 1882. From early manhood he has 
 also served as a school officer and the cause of 
 education has found in him a warm and help- 
 ful friend. In 1892 he was elected county 
 judge of Marion county on the Republican 
 ticket for a term of four years, assuming the 
 duties of the office in July of that year, serving 
 continuously until July, 1896. In December, 
 1902, he was nominated on the Republican ticket 
 for the position of city councilman from the 
 fourth ward and in January, 1903, he took his 
 position as a member of the board of aldermen 
 for a two years' term. Fraternally the judge is 
 connected with Chemeketa Lodge, No. 1, I. O. 
 O. F., of Salem, and Salem Encampment. 
 Judge Hubbard is kind-hearted, liberal, sym- 
 pathetic and honorable, and in all life's rela- 
 tions he has been found true to the trusts re- 
 posed in him and worthy of the regard ac- 
 corded him. 
 
 BENJAMIN B. COLBATH, who is now 
 serving as sheriff of Marion county, was born 
 in Salem, April 22, 1866. His father, Elijah J. 
 Colbath, was a native of Bangor, Me., and be- 
 came one of the pioneer settlers of Oregon in 
 1852. When a boy he went to sea and for many 
 years followed a life on the ocean wave, ris- 
 ing successively from one position to another un- 
 til" he had become captain of a vessel. As such 
 he sailed around Cape Horn to Portland and then 
 
 resigned his captaincy in order to establish a 
 home in Oregon. Jn 1853 ne located in Salem 
 and built a sawmill on the Willamette river, for 
 the manufacture of lumber. For twelve years he 
 conducted that enterprise in a profitable manner 
 and then floods washed away the mill. He after- 
 ward engaged in contracting and building in 
 Salem, where he likewise followed the occupation 
 of a millwright until he went to the shore of Puget 
 sound in 1889. He erected several large mills 
 there but afterward returned to Salem, where he 
 was actively identified with the improvements of 
 the city as a contractor and builder. Many of 
 the fine structures which he erected still stand 
 as monuments to his enterprise and his skill. He 
 was a Democrat in his political views and he died 
 in Salem May 14, 1898. His widow, still sur- 
 viving him, was born in Pike county, 111., and 
 bore the maiden name of Gabriella Hayden. In 
 1852 she came to Oregon with her father, Will- 
 iam Hayden, who brought his family to this state, 
 making the long and arduous journey across the 
 plains, and upon its completion settling in Salem. 
 In this state he followed farming until his death, 
 which occurred in Polk county in 1868. Mrs. 
 Colbath is still a resident of Salem, and of her 
 six children five are still living, namely : James 
 H., of Salem; Benjamin B. ; Nathaniel, who is 
 employed as a clerk in Salem ; Alfred B., a con- 
 tractor and builder here ; and Camilla, of Salem. 
 
 Mr. Colbath was reared in Salem and his early 
 educational privileges were those of the common 
 schools. Later he entered Willamette University 
 and completed a course in the Portland Business 
 College in 1886. From early boyhood days he 
 had been familiar with the building trade, having 
 assisted his father, and followed carpentering in 
 Salem until he went to Tacoma, where he en- 
 gaged in the operation of a planing mill. For 
 four years he was identified with industrial inter- 
 ests there, but in 1890 returned to Salem, where 
 he carried on contracting and building on his 
 own account until 1898, when he was appointed 
 deputy sheriff under F. W. Durbin, serving for 
 four years as his chief deputy. At the end of that 
 time, in 1902, he was nominated on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket for the office of sheriff and was the 
 only candidate on that ticket ejected, the others 
 all being defeated by a large Republican ma- 
 jority. Certainly no greater evidence of his per- 
 sonal popularity and the confidence reposed in 
 him by his fellow citizens could be given than 
 the fact that he was thus chosen for office. On July 
 7, 1902, he took the oath for a two years' term 
 and is discharging his duties with the same re- 
 liability and promptness that characterized his 
 service as deputy. He has always been active in 
 support of the Democracy and his labors have not 
 been without result in securing successes. 
 
 Mr. Colbath was married in Seattle, Wash., in 
 
I\ »K l In' \i I AND \ib liRAl'IIU'AL RE( ( IRD. 
 
 8 1 7 
 
 1890, t" Mi>^ Amanda Harrington, daughter of 
 S. Harrington, and a native of Salt Lake City, 
 rod the} have one son, Cyril B. Fratern- 
 ally Mr. Colbath is connected with the Woodmen 
 rid and also with the Daniel Waldo 
 bin, Native Sons of Oregon, and is also a 
 mber of Salem Lodge 336, B. P. O. E. He is 
 a man well liked as is indicated by his election to 
 the office of sheriff and his fidelity to duty is a 
 matter above question. 
 
 CHARLES F. BELT. There is a satisfac- 
 tion in having before one's eyes the example ot 
 
 successful life, especially if the person who 
 lived that life be in any way connected with 
 one's own. It is an invisible, yet invincible, 
 shield ; it is the passport to a successful career, 
 and even an abuse of the confidence inspired 
 by such an association does not always have 
 the effect of a withdrawal of the latter, since 
 the potency of successful living continues long 
 after the life is done. But better still than the 
 example of such a life is the inherited tenden- 
 cies that give fulfillment to so fair a promise. 
 
 In the years of Charles F. Belt, a native Ore- 
 gonian, this fact is exemplified, for with the life 
 <<i his father before him he could hardly fail to 
 touch the first rounds of the ladder of success, 
 but lacking inherent worth he could never have 
 climbed to the height he now- occupies. His 
 father. Dr. Alfred Metcalf Belt, was born in 
 Kentucky. July 23, 1804. and reared in Platte 
 county. Mo. After completing his study of 
 medicine he practiced there for many years. 
 In 1850. with his wife and six children, he 
 joined an emigrant train bound for Oregon, 
 and on his arrival, continued the practice of 
 medicine, making his home in the city of 
 Salem. Those were the early days of Oregon, 
 and the physician often had to travel many 
 miles to reach his patients. Mounted on a 
 horse with his saddle bags behind him, Dr. 
 Belt rode up and flown the Willamette valley, 
 often remaining from home a week at a time 
 in his ministrations to the remote settlers. It 
 is doubtful if there was another pioneer who 
 had more knowledge of this section of the coun- 
 try, on both sides of the Willamette river. 
 With his long practice and thorough knowl- 
 
 *e he filled with admirable success the posi- 
 tion of professor in the medical department of 
 the Willamette University, enjoying an envia- 
 ble reputation that had been honorably earned 
 by years of application in the profession to 
 which he had given his life. In Masonic cir- 
 cles Dr. Belt was also prominent, having been 
 made a Mason in Missouri. In Oregon he 
 gave his hearty support to the upbuilding of 
 the lodges of the craft, and he became a mem- 
 
 ber of Salem Lodge No. 4, V F. & A. M., and 
 
 in the Grand Lodge of < >regon it was his honor 
 to serve as its first -rand master, an additional 
 honor being the perpetuation of his name in 
 the licit Lodge of Kerby, Josephine county. 
 In the midst of his busy life he found time to 
 go to the defense of his country against the 
 uprising of the Indians, serving as colonel of 
 volunteers and as surgeon general. In his re- 
 ligious views Dr. Belt was a member of the 
 Kpiscopal Church and Democratic as to his 
 political affiliations. 
 
 On August 21, 1881, he passed away, after 
 over fifty years in the successful practice of his 
 profession. He married, June 17, 1835, Nancy, 
 daughter of Gen. Thomas Ward, who won re- 
 nown in the war of 1812. Mrs. Belt survives 
 him, being now in her eighty-fifth year. She 
 still makes her home in Salem, the scene of her 
 husband's labors. Her father, Gen. Thomas 
 Ward, died in Benton county, at the age of 
 forty-nine years. 
 
 Of this union were born ten children, their 
 names being as follows: Thomas; Sarah Eliz- 
 abeth, now Mrs. Huelat ; Joseph, who was 
 graduated from the Cooper Medical School, 
 dying in Salem; Emily, now Mrs. J. W. Jor- 
 dan, of San Francisco ; Alfred M. in the employ 
 of the government at the Mare Island Navy 
 yards of San Francisco; John D., a druggist of 
 Sheridan ; Benjamin F., pharmacist in Read- 
 ing, Cal. ; George W., an attorney and circuit 
 judge at Spokane, Wash. ; Marian, now the 
 wife of Judge Burnett, of Salem, and Charles 
 F., who was born February 14, i860, in Salem, 
 Ore. 
 
 With a fine education secured in the excel- 
 lent public schools of Salem and the Willam- 
 ette University, Charles F. Belt felt able to 
 cope with the world in his efforts to live up 
 to the splendid example set by his father, and 
 in 1890 he left Salem, going to Dallas to stink 
 pharmacy with his brother, John D., where he 
 remained for six years. Being strong in his 
 political convictions, which were Democratic, 
 he had early taken an active part in public 
 affairs, and his efforts were appreciated by his 
 fellow-townsmen, securing for him the ap- 
 pointment of postmaster of Dallas, under 
 Cleveland's last administration. For five years 
 he served in this capacity, at the cm\ of which 
 time he purchased a drug store in partnership 
 with G. X. Cherrington, continuing in the 
 business with marked success, and now owning 
 one of the handsomest stores in the city, ele- 
 gantly finished in white pine, with fixtures to 
 match the surroundings. Their stock is up-to- 
 date in every way. and their practiced handling 
 of trade has won them many commendations. 
 Their business is further increased by the plac- 
 
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 ing in their hands of the agency of the Pacific 
 States Telephone and Telegraph Company. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Belt married Miss Emma Black, 
 also a native of Oregon, the daughter of Jo- 
 seph Black, a very prominent man of Dallas. 
 Mr. Belt was elected a member of the city 
 council in 1902, and he became a Mason in 
 Jennings Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M., in March, 
 1891, and has since taken the Scottish Rite de- 
 grees in Oregon Consistory No. 1 of Portland, 
 besides being a member of Al Kader Temple, 
 Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs 
 to Salem Lodge No. 18, Knights of Pythias, 
 Woodmen of the World, and the Native Sons 
 of Oregon. 
 
 JOHN M. KITCHEN, M. D., who for thirty- 
 eight years has been a resident of Oregon, and 
 for more than a quarter of a century has been 
 engaged in the practice of medicine in Stayton, 
 is a representative of one of the well-known fam- 
 ilies of Missouri. His father, Thomas Kitchen, 
 was born in North Carolina, but at the age ^ of 
 twelve years left that state with his parents and 
 emigrated to Missouri, where he grew to man- 
 hood. In 1847, having heard much of the won- 
 derful opportunities afforded by the northwest, 
 he set out for the Oregon country, the customary 
 ox-teams being employed to convey him across 
 the plains. After a journey .consuming six 
 months he arrived in Marion county. For some 
 time he remained at the home of a Frenchman 
 named Laroque, who had a claim on what is 
 known as French Prairie, but as soon as he had 
 become familiar with the relative value of lands 
 in that locality he took up a donation claim on 
 Muddy creek, near the site of the town of Hal- 
 sey. In 1849, when the gold excitement was at 
 its height in California, he left his newly estab- 
 lished home and started on horseback over the 
 mountains for the new Eldorado. His journey 
 was rendered a very dangerous one by the pres- 
 ence of numerous bands of hostile Indians, who 
 persistently attacked him ; but he passed through 
 in safety, reaching the gold fields on the Sacra- 
 mento river, where he at once engaged in mining. 
 Some time later he found it more profitable to 
 run a pack train from San Francisco to the min- 
 ing camps. In this occupation he remained until 
 1 85 1, when, having acquired a handsome little 
 sum of money, he returned to his home in Mis- 
 souri, going by water to New Orleans. At the 
 same time he also made a visit to his birthplace 
 in North Carolina. 
 
 Mr. Kitchen's next location was near Little 
 Rock, Ark., where he purchased a ranch ; but 
 not finding agricultural life in that region as 
 satisfactory as he had anticipated he soon re- 
 turned to Missouri and re-engaged in farming 
 
 until 1864, when he went to Texas to remain 
 until the close of the Civil war. The remaining 
 years of his life were spent in that state, where 
 his death occurred in 1900, at the age of eighty- 
 five years. Sixteen years prior to his death 
 he was stricken with paralysis, but it did not 
 seriously affect his general health. He was twice 
 married, his first wife being Mary McHard, a 
 native of Kentucky. The only child of this 
 union is Dr. John M. Kitchen. His second wife 
 was Mary Best, a native of Missouri. To them 
 were born eight children, four of whom are liv- 
 ing : Jefferson, Moses, Samuel Tilden, all of 
 Missouri, and Lottie, wife of Henry Teeters, of 
 Randolph county, that state. 
 
 Dr. John M. Kitchen was born near Keytes- 
 ville, Chariton county, Mo., February 12, 1842. 
 The death of his mother occurring when he was 
 but eighteen months old he was taken into the 
 family of his mother's parents, with whom he 
 remained for ten years. On account of the bet 
 ter educational advantages to be derived by the 
 change he was then given into the care of his 
 paternal grandparents. He attended the public 
 schools until he was sixteen years of age, when 
 he entered McGee College, a Presbyterian school 
 now located at College Mound, Mo., where he 
 remained for two years. Upon the outbreak of 
 the Civil war he espoused the cause of the Con- 
 federacy, enlisting July 5, 1861, in the First 
 Regiment of the Third Division of Infantry, 
 under the command of General Sterling Price. 
 He remained in this service from that time until 
 June, 1863, in the meantime participating in 
 the battle of Carthage, and numerous other en- 
 gagements. At one time he remained in camp 
 for four weeks drilling for a campaign, during 
 which period the Federals were met at Fort 
 Scott, Kans. In 1863 he was taken prisoner in 
 company with a few other Confederate soldiers 
 near Osceola, Mo., and for some time was im- 
 prisoned in a large store building in Clinton, 
 that state. During his incarceration his slum- 
 bering convictions were awakened into life by 
 maturer thought and judgment, and he realized 
 that the south would eventually be vanquished. 
 He took the oath of allegiance to the United 
 States and entered the enrolled militia of Mis- 
 souri in the fall of 1863. In 1864 he was hon- 
 orably discharged, and entering the drug store 
 of a personal friend, Dr. T. B. Jackson, a son 
 of ex-Gov. Claiborne Jackson, who was also 
 a physician, he began the study of medicine. 
 In April, 1865, he started on his journey across 
 the plains, reaching Brownsville, Linn county, 
 Ore., October 5, his trip having been rendered 
 more than ordinarily interesting by several ex- 
 citing skirmishes with the Sioux Indians in the 
 Medicine Bull Mountains. 
 
 Upon his arrival in Linn county Dr. Kitchen 
 
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 351 
 
 iching in the public schools, a 
 n he followed until 1S74. In the mean- 
 time he continued his medical researches in 
 Willamette University. In June 1875. he re- 
 moved to Stayton and engaged in practice 
 in partnership with Dr. McCauley. The fol- 
 year he resumed his studios in the med- 
 ical department of Willamette University, from 
 which he was graduated with the degree of 
 M. D., in June. 1S77. Since that time he has 
 been continuously engaged in the conduct of a 
 laborious practice in Stayton, with the excep- 
 tion of a few months spent in East Portland 
 and about four years, during which he took a 
 much-needed rest on account of the state of his 
 health. In 1803 he visited the Columbian Expo- 
 sition at Chicago, and from there went to New 
 rk City, where he took a post-graduate course 
 in the New York Post-Graduate Medical Col- 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Kitchen, which occurred 
 •her 20. 1872. united him with Melissa J. 
 Wheeler, a daughter of Jason and Eliza 
 1 Claypool 1 Wheeler. They have an adopted 
 daughter, Deane. now the wife of Dr. F. R. 
 Bov of Glendale, Ore. Fraternally Dr. 
 
 Kitchen is a Mason, affiliating with Santiam 
 Lodge No. 25. In his political preferences he 
 is a Democrat of the Jacksonian school, and has 
 never wavered in his faith in the righteousness 
 • >f the principles underlying the fabric of that 
 party. He is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 Dr. Kitchen's career as a practitioner has been 
 gr ted with success. He has not rested con- 
 tent with the foundation of knowledge with which 
 he was equipped at the beginning of his career, 
 as is altogether too frequently the case, but he 
 has been and is to-day a constant student, keep- 
 ing fully abreast of the most advanced thought 
 in medical science. He is esteemed alike by his 
 fellow-practitioners in the Willamette valley and 
 by the laity, who keenly appreciate his talent 
 and ability, the great care which he bestows upon 
 all cases intrusted to him, whether his patients 
 be rich or poor, and the kindly disposition so 
 frequently manifested by him in the midst of 
 his arduous professional labors. He is accorded 
 a personal character above reproach, and belongs 
 to that class of men who are always ready and 
 anxious to contribute to the well-being of their 
 fellow-men. 
 
 GEN. W. H. ODELL, who is now living re- 
 tired in Salem, but who for many years was an 
 active factor in business circles and in the devel- 
 opment and progress of the state, was born near 
 Delphi, Ind., December 25. 1830. He comes of 
 an old family of Welsh lineage. On leaving the 
 little rock-ribbed country of Wales, his first 
 American ancestors settled in Canada, whence 
 
 representatives of the name later wini to New 
 York. James Odell, the grandfather of our sub- 
 ject, was born in northern New York, whence 
 
 he removed to South Carolina. Later he became 
 a pioneer fanner of Ohio and Indiana. He died 
 near Delphi, lnd., where he had settled in [825. 
 John Odell, the father, was born near the divid- 
 ing line between North and South Carolina, in 
 [799, and in 1803 was taken by his parents to 
 Wayne county, Ohio, and in 1808 to Wayne 
 county, Ind. He stood guard at a block-house in 
 which the farmers had taken refuge during the 
 battle of Tippecanoe. In 1825 he took up his 
 abode near Delphi, Ind., being the first settler of 
 the township, following an old trail to his home, 
 as there was no wagonroad. Having built a log 
 house he began hewing out a farm in the midst 
 of the forest of oak and black walnut trees, and 
 continued his farming operations in the Hoosier 
 state until 1851, when he came with his family 
 to Oregon, traveling across the country until he 
 reached Yamhill county. He settled near Day- 
 ton, securing a donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres, which he broke and improved, 
 making his home thereon until his death, in 
 March, 1869. In politics he was first a Whig 
 and afterward a Republican ; and religiously he 
 was a devoted member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. While in Indiana he married Sarah 
 Holman, who was born near Louisville, Kv., a 
 cousin of Congressman Holman, of Indiana, and 
 a daughter of George Holman, who, in 1781, at 
 the age of sixteen years, was taken prisoner by 
 the Indians while acting as an escort to a govern- 
 ment team on the road from Virginia to Ken- 
 tucky. For three years he was held captive by 
 the Indians, and then securing his freedom, he 
 settled near Centerville, Wayne county. Ind.. 
 where he followed farming until his death, at 
 the age of one hundred and two years. He was 
 a representative of an old Virginia family, of 
 English descent. His daughter. Mrs. Odell. died 
 in Yamhill county, in 1888, at the age of eighty- 
 three years. 
 
 In the family of John and Sarah Odell were 
 eleven children, ten of whom reached years of 
 maturity: Mrs. Martha Coovert, deceased; Rus- 
 sell B., a farmer of Josephine county. ( )re. ; Jo- 
 seph, who died in Yamhill county: Mrs. Sarah 
 McTeer. who resides near McMinnville; W. H., 
 of this review ; James A., who died in Eugene. 
 Ore., in 1872; Mrs. Mary Farnsworth, who died 
 in Yamhill county: George W., a phvsician. re- 
 siding near McMinnville: Charlotte, now Mr-. 
 A. L. Alderman, of Dayton, this state, and Tohn 
 Albert, who is engaged in the insurance business 
 in McMinnville. 
 
 Upon the home farm in Indiana General Odell 
 was reared and pursued his education in the sub- 
 scription schools. When twenty years of age he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 came with his parents to Oregon, starting from 
 Indiana on the ioth of March with ox teams, in 
 a train of sixteen wagons, with four yoke of oxen 
 to each wagon. At Peoria they crossed the Illi- 
 nois river, and at Fort Madison, the Mississippi. 
 They purchased one hundred and fifty head of 
 cattle in Iowa, and then proceeded onward, cross- 
 ing the Missouri river at Council Bluffs. At that 
 time there was not a single house on the site of 
 Omaha, and beyond that a waste. They followed 
 the old Oregon trail, and did not see any Indians 
 between Elkhorn and Green river, except at a 
 ferry, and there they were leaving because of a 
 small-pox scare. The family arrived in the Wil- 
 lamette valley September 26, 1851, and in Yam- 
 hill county October 3. 
 
 Mr. Odell remained with his father until Feb- 
 ruary, 1853, and assisted in breaking the fields, 
 planting the crops and also in planting an or- 
 chard. He then entered the Oregon Institute, 
 now Willamette University, where, for two years, 
 he pursued a course in the classics and civil en- 
 gineering, going into the field in the summer of 
 1854, with a corps of surveyors. He began as 
 chainman with a company engaged in govern- 
 ment work in Yamhill county, after which he re- 
 turned to school, and the next spring he again 
 spent two months in surveying. In 1855, he set- 
 tled on a farm near Dayton, and continued to im- 
 prove the place until i860, when he rented his 
 land, and he and his wife took charge of the 
 Santiam, better known as Lebanon, Academy, 
 with which they were connected for three years. 
 Removing then to Eugene, General Odell entered 
 the service of the surveyor-general of Oregon as 
 deputy United States surveyor, and was thus 
 engaged until 1871. During two summers, 1864 
 and 1865, he was employed by the Oregon Cen- 
 tral Military Wagon Road Company, in locating 
 and making the survey of the route, and in the 
 summer of 1869-70, was superintendent of con- 
 struction of the military road. In 1871 he was 
 appointed by President Grant surveyor-general 
 of Oregon, and made his headquarters at Eugene. 
 He served in this office until 1874. The follow- 
 ing year he was nominated a presidential elector 
 on the Republican ticket, and being elected, he 
 was selected by the Electoral College to carry 
 the votes to Washington, and he became a promi- 
 nent factor in what was known as the Oregon 
 Case. The votes which he carried for Oregon 
 made the election of the Republican nominees, 
 Hayes and Wheeler, possible. 
 
 General Odell continued to act as deputy 
 United States surveyor until the spring of 1877, 
 when he purchased the Statesman, of which he 
 was the editor and proprietor until 1884, and 
 during that time he was for two years the state 
 printer, having been elected in 1880. After sell- 
 ing his paper he was appointed postmaster of 
 
 Salem by President Arthur, and filled the position 
 for four years and one month, or until April, 
 1889. In 1 89 1, he was appointed by the surveyor- 
 general of Oregon as inspector of public surveys. 
 For fifteen months he was engaged by the Indian 
 department in surveying and allotting lands to 
 the Indians on the Selitz reservation. With Judge 
 Boise and Major Harding he was appointed a 
 commissioner to negotiate with the Indians for 
 such of their lands as were in excess of the 
 amount of the allotments. In this work General 
 Odell was made disbursing agent. In 1895, fol- 
 lowing the election of Governor Lord, he was 
 appointed clerk of the state land board of Salem, 
 and upon the expiration of his four years' term 
 he retired to private life, and is now living in 
 Salem. 
 
 In 1855, General Odell married Mrs. Elizabeth 
 (McLench) Thurston, who was born near Ban- 
 gor, Me., and was a graduate of the Bangor Fe- 
 male Seminary. In 1853, she became preceptress 
 of the Oregon Institute, which position she held 
 for two years, and in i860, of the Santiam Acad- 
 emy for a term of four years. She was the 
 widow of the Hon. Samuel R. Thurston, who 
 crossed the plains in 1847, an d settled in Oregon 
 City. He was an atttorney, and served as a dele- 
 gate to congress from the territory of Oregon. 
 He died while on the way home from the second 
 session on the steamer off the coast of Acapulco, 
 Mexico. Mrs. Odell, who died in Portland, in 
 March, 1890, was the mother of two children by 
 her first marriage, George H., and Mrs. A. W. 
 Stowell, of Portland. In 1894, in Indiana, the 
 general married Mrs. Carrie (Bright) Taylor, a 
 native of Ohio. 
 
 Geijeral Odell is a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, the Oregon His- 
 torical Society and the Pioneer Society. Since 
 1878 he has been a member of the board of trus- 
 tees of Willamette University, and its president 
 since 1891, and his efforts in its behalf have been 
 instrumental in promoting its welfare and extend- 
 ing its influence. Always a Republican in poli- 
 tics, his opinions have carried weight in the coun- 
 cils of his party, and for many years he was a 
 member of the state central committee. An ac- 
 tive member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 he is now serving as chairman of the board of 
 trustees of his home church, and in 1890 he was 
 a delegate to the general conference of the church 
 held in Chicago. If one examines his life to find 
 the secret of his influence in so many lines, it will 
 be seen that it rests upon his deep interest and 
 zeal in every movement which he endorses, — a 
 zeal which inspires others. He has much of that 
 quality which, for want of a better name, is called 
 personal magnetism, and which arises from a sin- 
 cere regard for his fellow men and a hopeful view 
 of the world and its progress. 
 
P< >RTRA1 r A.ND I'.li >GRAPHICAL RE< ( n<\). 
 
 353 
 
 i HARLES P. BISHOP. Anion- Salem's 
 bus I professional men none is more 
 
 identified with the growth ami best in- 
 terests oi the city than C. P. Bishop, who has 
 
 made his home here for twelve years, a period 
 inn which the city has attained her present 
 proud position, vying with other metropolitan 
 centers for leadership in the world of commerce. 
 many years Mr. Bishop has been known for 
 his sterling qualities, his tearless loyalty to his 
 hon fictions, his sturdy opposition to mis- 
 
 rule in municipal affairs and his clear-headed- 
 
 — . discretion and tact as manager and leader. 
 He is now serving as mayor of the city and is a 
 ilar and progressive officer, his administra- 
 ting at all times practical and beneficial. 
 
 Mr. Bishop was born in Contra Costa county. 
 Cal.. September 23. 1854, and traces his ancestry 
 back to an early epoch in American history. His 
 grandfather was killed in the war of 181 2. 
 His grandfather, William Bishop, was born in 
 the south and was married in Tennessee, after 
 which he removed to Alabama. He was a me- 
 chanic and went to that state in order to build 
 cotton gins. Subsequently he became a pioneer 
 farmer of Indiana, and in 1836 removed to Illi- 
 nois, settling in McLean county, ten miles from 
 l'.loomingtou. There he secured government 
 land, which is still in possession of his descend- 
 ants and upon that farm he passed his remaining 
 days. 
 
 Hon. \V. R. Bishop, the father of Salem's 
 mayor, was born in Carroll county. Ind., and 
 obtained his education in the public schools of 
 Illinois and in Cherry drove Seminary. In 
 
 50 he started across the plains to California, 
 traveling with mules and horses. He made his 
 way to the mines and for a year was engaged in 
 a >earch for the precious metal, after which he 
 turned his attention to farming, which he fol- 
 lowed in California until 1856. when he went by 
 way of Portland to Linn county, Ore. There 
 he secured a donation claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres and devoted his energies to its culti- 
 vation and improvement until 1879, when he re- 
 moved to Portland, where he is living retired. 
 In 1893 he represented Multnomah county in the 
 state legislature. He served as secretary to Gov- 
 ernor I). \Y. Ballard of Idaho, and was appointed 
 by him superintendent of public instruction for 
 that territory. He acted in the latter capacity 
 from 1866 to 1868, when he resigned in order to 
 return to ( )regon. He has been an advocate of 
 Republican principles since the Dred Scott de- 
 cision, and upon the organization of the party 
 he became a stalwart advocate of its principles 
 and has never wavered in his allegiance to the 
 party. Socially he is connected with the Masonic 
 fraternity ; and he is an ordained minister of the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In earlv man- 
 
 hood he married Elizabeth J. Adams, a nativi 
 Indiana. Her father .started across the plains to 
 California in 1840, accompanied by his wife and 
 three children; but he died during the trip. His 
 widow continued the journey and with her little 
 family located in California, where Mrs. I'.ishop 
 was living at the time of her marriage. She be- 
 came the mother of three sons and four daugh- 
 ters. With the exception of one daughter all 
 reached mature years, namely: C. I'., of this 
 review j Mary 1)., the wife of W. ( ). Stannard, 
 of Portland; Jay A., of Salem; Mrs. Clara I .. 
 Starr, of Brownsville, Ore.; Mrs. Effie Muir. 
 who died in Portland in 1901 ; and Fred E. and 
 Estella, both of Portland. 
 
 C. P. Bishop, of this review, was reared upon 
 the home farm in Linn county, ( )re., and ob- 
 tained his education in the public schools of 
 Crawfordsville. In 1874 he started out in life 
 for himself as a clerk in Brownsville, and in 
 1878 began business on his own account as a 
 general merchant of Crawfordsville, where he 
 remained until 1884. In that year he established 
 a clothing store in McMinnville. which he con- 
 ducted with success until 1889, when he joined 
 Thomas Kay in the incorporation of the Thomas 
 Kay Woolen Mills Company. Mr. Kay becoming 
 president and manager, while Mr. Bishop was a 
 director in the business until 1900, at which time 
 he resigned. He assisted Mr. Kay in building 
 up the mills at Salem, and in 1889 he went to 
 Portland as a representative of the milling in- 
 terests there. In 1891 he established his home 
 in Salem and became proprietor of the Salem 
 W'oolen Mills store. In 1897 he established the 
 Salem Woolen Mills store in Portland, located 
 in the Sherlock building. This store is large and 
 well arranged and in each place he carries on a 
 general merchant tailoring business with excel- 
 lent success. He is a man of marked enterprise, 
 keen discernment and unfaltering perseverance, 
 and he forms his plans readily and is determined 
 in their execution. 
 
 While residing in Brownsville, Ore., Mr. 
 Bishop was married to Miss Fannie Kay, who 
 was born in Yorkshire. England, in November. 
 1857, a daughter of Thomas Kay. who was also 
 a native of the same country and became a practi- 
 cal woolen manufacturer, as were his ancestors 
 for several generations. Crossing the Atlantic 
 to New England he there engaged in woolen 
 manufacturing. About 1862 or 1863 he came 
 to Oregon, having been persuaded by the people 
 of Brownsville to remove to this state and build 
 and Operate a woolen mill there. Two or three 
 years afterward, however, the mill was burned, 
 and while he had periods of prosperity he also 
 suffered a number of hardships in his business 
 career. In 1872. in company with two others 
 he leased the old Brownsville Mill for a period 
 
354 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of three years, and later they purchased the 
 property, conducting it for sixteen years, when 
 they sold out. In 1889 Mr. Kay built the Salem 
 Woolen Mill, of which he was manager up to 
 the time of his death in 1900. This proved a 
 large and important enterprise and was success- 
 fully conducted by Mr. Kay from its establish- 
 ment. In 1896 his plant was destroyed by fire, 
 but the following year he rebuilt and carried on 
 the work with unflagging energy. Prominent 
 in the Masonic fraternity, he attained the Knight 
 Templar degree, and his life was in harmony 
 with the beneficent teaching of his craft. His 
 widow, Mrs. Ann Kay, still resides in Salem. 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have been born three 
 children : Clarence M., who spent five years in 
 the University of Oregon; Thomas Royal, who 
 was for two years a student in the Willamette 
 University; and Robert Chauncey, who is now 
 preparing for a commercial career at the Bond 
 Institute of Mercantile Training in New York 
 City, and will probably follow in the foosteps of 
 his father. The two eldest sons are graduates 
 of the Philadelphia Textile School, and of the 
 Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial 
 Art at Philadelphia, and will devote their lives 
 to the woolen manufacturing industry on the 
 Pacific coast. 
 
 Mr. Bishop is a member of the Greater Salem 
 Commercial Club and is a man of marked influ- 
 ence and popularity in the city because of his 
 genuine worth of character and his devotion to 
 the public good, his loyalty to Salem and its in- 
 terests being above question. In December, 
 1898, he was nominated on an independent citi- 
 zen's ticket for mayor of the city and was elected 
 by a large majority. He filled the office so ac- 
 ceptably that in December, 1900, he was re- 
 elected. His administration has been one of 
 great benefit to Salem and its people. He has 
 been progressive and practical ; and while he has 
 introduced many improvements he has at the 
 same time saved a large amount of money to the 
 people. His administration refunded eighty-five 
 thousand dollars of the floating indebtedness by 
 reducing it twenty thousand dollars, and then 
 refunded sixty-five thousand dollars by popular 
 loan at four per cent, payable on or before ten 
 years. Formerly the interest had been from six 
 to eight per cent. It had always been claimed 
 by financiers that bonds must be sold to bond- 
 holders, and that there must be a stipulated time 
 of maturity ; but the course which Mr. Bishop 
 introduced soon proved practical and the issue 
 was subscribed for three times over in Salem. 
 In this he established a precedent hitherto un- 
 known in Oregon. During the first year of his 
 administration the electric light contract expired 
 and was reduced from fifty-four hundred to 
 twentv-five hundred dollars. 
 
 His business ability and his business-like ad- 
 ministration of the city's affairs have been mani- 
 fest in many other ways proving equally valu- 
 able to Salem. He has demonstrated that the 
 affairs of the city could be run upon a tax levy 
 of ten mills on the dollar, which his predecessors 
 could not do, for in controlling the city's affairs 
 they had run behind in expenses. Under the 
 leadership of Mr. Bishop the city has certainly 
 had an economical administration and is not only 
 out of debt, but has a good surplus in its treas- 
 ury. The soldier on the field of battle has dis- 
 played no greater loyalty than has Mr. Bishop 
 in the support of American institutions and his 
 condemnation of political intrigue. There is no 
 doubt that had he entered into the methods of 
 many politicians he could have obtained almost 
 any office he might desire, but with him principle 
 is above party, purity and economy in municipal 
 affairs above personal interest. 
 
 Along other lines of progress and advance- 
 ment Mr. Bishop is also prominent. He is a 
 member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
 of McMinnville ; and in 1897 he was elected a 
 trustee of the Willamette University and is now 
 vice-president of its board. He also is a member 
 of the Oregon Historical Society. In conse- 
 quence of his prominence in political, commercial 
 and social life he has a wide acquaintance and 
 has gained a host of warm friends, whose high 
 and sincere regard he possesses. 
 
 THOMAS A. JONES. Soon after the birth 
 of Thomas A. Jones, which occurred in John- 
 son county, Ind., August 20, 1844, his parents, 
 Lewis W. and Mary A. (McCalpin) Jones, re- 
 moved to Andrew county, Mo., where they 
 resided for six years. The agitation regarding 
 the rich lands and mining opportunities in the 
 far west even at this early day had penetrated 
 the quiet agricultural regions of Missouri, and 
 Lewis Jones was one of the first men living in 
 his neighborhood to place credence in the re- 
 ports heralded throughout the country. After 
 carefully considering the matter he decided to 
 cast his lot among those who were seeking their 
 fortunes in the country west of the Rocky 
 mountains. Disposing of his farming land at 
 a profit he outfitted for the long journey across 
 the plains with four wagons and four yoke of 
 oxen each, and started overland. Arriving in 
 Oregon in the fall of 1852, after a journey 
 which consumed six months, he bought three 
 hundred and twenty acres of land in the Waldo 
 Hills, then, as now, considered one of the garden 
 spots of the entire Pacific slope. This property 
 was located near what was known as the Union 
 Hill school house, and contained a log cabin 
 
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P0RTRA1 1' WD BIOGR VPHICAL RE( I >RD. 
 
 367 
 
 in which his family found shelter from the in- 
 clement weather of the approaching rains season. 
 A iYu acres were fenced in, and with this 
 improvement to encourage lhs pioneer spirits 
 lie set about the task of housing his stock and 
 performing such other duties as were required 
 to make his household comfortable among the 
 strange surroundings. 
 
 For six years this sturdy pioneer continued 
 to occupy this farm, and undoubtedly would 
 have made it his permanent home had not the 
 title to the land been disputed. In order to avoid 
 legal complications he bought three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Jefferson, upon which there 
 were a few improvements. There he resided 
 until removing to Oakland, Ore., where he died 
 in 1884. at the age of seventy-two years. The 
 death of his wife occurred at the same age. 
 
 Lewis Jones was an energetic man, enterpris- 
 ing, capable and resourceful, and appeared to 
 appreciate fully what was demanded of pioneer 
 settlers of the most reliable kind. He took an 
 active interest in the cause of education, promot- 
 ing good schools, and was in a large measure 
 responsible for the excellent condition of the 
 roads of the county, even as they exist at the 
 present day. 
 
 The little log school house located a mile from 
 the Jones farm numbered among its pupils in 
 this early day Thomas A. Jones, who was ac- 
 counted one of the most eager and capable of 
 the young searchers after knowledge. At the 
 age of twenty-one years he began to work on the 
 surrounding farms. October 30. 1878, he was 
 united in marriage with Ellen Short, who became 
 the mother of nine children. Of these Walter, 
 the oldest son. has been in Alaska for the past 
 five vears : Etta is the wife of Norman Williams 
 and they reside in Eairhaven. Wash. ; William 
 lives on a farm near his father ; the remainder 
 are Edith. John. Clifford. Bessie, Susan and 
 Bertha, the two last named being now deceased. 
 Bertha had become the wife of L. W. Ross, a 
 jeweler of Albany, and they were the parents of 
 two sons. Elfin and Carlton. The mother of this 
 family passed away in January, 1886. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Jones rented land for 
 six years, and then bought the farm in the Waldo 
 Hills, which is now his home. It contains one 
 hundred and sixty acres of fine land, ninety acres 
 of which is under a hi^h state of cultivation. 
 Upon the settlement of the estate of Mrs. Jones' 
 father, John W. Short, another farm of one hun- 
 dred and nine acres was added to this first one, 
 hoth farms at present being devoted to general 
 farming and stock-raising. Mr. Jones is recog- 
 nized as one of the progressive farmers of Marion 
 county, and his efforts have contributed materi- 
 ally to the agricultural prestige of the community. 
 He exhibits a commendable public spirit when 
 
 the occasion demands, and is known as a man 
 
 of strict integrity and excellent business 
 judgment. 
 
 FRANK .MAIM' IX BROOKS, M. D. Every- 
 thing in connection with the life and work of Dr. 
 Frank M. Brooks, of Silverton, indicates pros- 
 perity, culture, knowledge of the world, and ex- 
 ceptionally high professional Standing. He en- 
 joys one of the most desirable and lucrative prac- 
 tices in the Willamette valley, and from his home 
 radiate helpfulness and strength into hundreds "i 
 homes throughout Marion county. 
 
 Dr. Brooks was born in Salem, Ore., April 10, 
 1868, a son of John and Martha R. ( Harper) 
 Brooks. His father, who was born in Kentucky 
 March 7, 1824, crossed the plains in 1864, and 
 settled upon a farm near Salem. There he en- 
 gaged in general farming until 1897, when he re- 
 tired from active life to spend his remaining 
 years with his children. He still owns a home in 
 the suburbs of Salem, consisting of twenty-five 
 acres, the remainder of his property having been 
 laid out in lots and named the Brooks subdivision. 
 His marriage to Martha R. Harper, who was 
 born in Hart county, Ky., August 2, 1834, oc- 
 curred in Kentucky, April 9, 1848. To this union 
 ten children were born, named in the order of 
 their birth as follows : Mary W., deceased ; 
 Irene, wife of E. P. Hodnett, of Portland; Will- 
 iam W., deceased ; John H., of Silverton ; Lydia 
 A., wife of R. H. Leabo, of Salem; Frank M. ; 
 Clyde C, of Los Angeles, Cal. ; Edward A., head 
 keeper of the United States light station at Dun- 
 geness, Wash. ; Lenora, of Portland, and Dr. 
 Benjamin F., of Sedro Woolley, Wash. 
 
 After being graduated from the Salem public 
 schools, in 1882, Dr. Brooks, then fourteen years 
 of age, entered the employ of Murphy, Grant & 
 Co., wholesale dry-goods merchants, in their 
 branch house in Portland, with whom he re- 
 mained for two years. In the meantime he had 
 decided to devote his life to the science of medi- 
 cine, and therefore resigned his clerkship for the 
 purpose of applying himself wholly to the mas- 
 tery of his chosen profession. After a course of 
 study with Dr. Horace Carpenter, covering a 
 period of two years, he entered Cooper Medical 
 College in San Francisco, where he studied one 
 year. He then entered the medical department of 
 the University of Oregon, from which he was 
 graduated with the class of [890. The first two 
 vears of his career as a practitioner were spent 
 in La Camas. Wash., hut since 1S02 he has been 
 engaged in his professional labors in Silverton. 
 with the exception of the time devoted to further 
 research in the east and in foreign capitals. In 
 [894, he entered Jefferson Medical College, at 
 Philadelphia, from which h.e was graduated May 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 15, 1895. Again resuming practice in Silverton, 
 he was very successful, in 1902 he temporarily 
 abandoned a large and lucrative practice in order 
 that he might spend three months in Europe. 
 This period he devoted to post-graduate work in 
 the leading hospitals of London, Paris, Vienna, 
 Prague and Edinburgh, where he was enabled to 
 avail himself of instruction at the hands of some 
 of the most illustrious exponents of medical and 
 surgical science in the world. With this rare 
 equipment for his future career he returned to 
 Silverton, and is now practicing with a degree of 
 success which has at once given him rank with 
 the foremost physicians and surgeons of Oregon. 
 
 January 21, 1891, Dr. Brooks was united in 
 marriage with Agnes Gordon, a native of Chi- 
 cago, 111., and a daughter of the Rev. John Gor- 
 don, D.D. Her father, who is a clergyman in the 
 Baptist Church, is a native of Scotland. He was 
 formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church of 
 Portland. He is now a resident of Philadelphia, 
 where he is pastor of the Second Baptist Church 
 and dean of Temple College. Two children were 
 born of this marriage, Irwin and Agnes, both of 
 whom are living at home. Agnes Gordon Brooks 
 died in Silverton, April 11, 1898. On September 
 11, 1900, Dr. Brooks married Jessie Fremont 
 Davis, who is also a practicing physician. She 
 was born in Silverton February 8, 1870, a daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Piatt A. Davis, a pioneer physician of 
 Silverton. She was educated in the Silverton 
 public schools and in the Academy of the Sacred 
 Heart of Salem, being graduated from the latter 
 institution in 1887. In 1892 she entered the med- 
 ical department of the University of Oregon, 
 from which she was graduated with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine, in 1896. Until her marriage, 
 she was engaged in practice in Silverton, though 
 independently from the practice of her father. 
 
 Contrary to family tradition and family train- 
 ing, Dr. Brooks is a stanch adherent of Repub- 
 lican principles. For one term, from May, 1899, 
 to May, 1900, he filled the office of mayor of Sil- 
 verton. Fraternally, he is associated with the 
 Masons, being a member of Silverton Lodge No. 
 43, A. F. &. A. M., and other orders. 
 
 In closing this brief review of the career of 
 Dr. Brooks, it does not seem out of place to make 
 a permanent record of the high esteem in which 
 he is held by reason of the many substantial and 
 gracious traits of his character. The foundation 
 of his learning had been laid broad and deep, and 
 he has exhibited a determination to make the best 
 of the opportunities afforded by the time and 
 location with which he has been favored, by 
 adopting every possible means of keeping in 
 touch with the most advanced thought in the 
 world of medical science. Personally, he is ex- 
 tremely liberal in his views of affairs in general, 
 the result of extended travel and close contact 
 
 with some of the best and brightest minds in 
 Europe and America. Possessed of an optimistic 
 temperament, his presence in the sick-room brings 
 a cheer and encouragement which, in themselves, 
 do much toward bringing a forgetfulness of 
 woes to the patient. Aside from his professional 
 labors — though they are of a most arduous na- 
 ture — he has taken the time to give such aid as 
 lies within his power to the advancement of other 
 local interests. No worthy enterprise calculated 
 to promote the best interests of the community is 
 slighted by him; but on the contrary, he lends 
 his influence, as well as more material aid when 
 the occasion demands it, to the advancement of 
 all measures which, in his opinion, will elevate 
 the social, industrial, moral and intellectual status 
 of the community. All in all, his record is one 
 worthy of emulation by young men who are actu- 
 ated by ambitions similar to those which prompted 
 him to undertake preparation for a career in med- 
 icine. It is with genuine pleasure that those re- 
 sponsible for the compilation of this volume give 
 this review of his life and work a prominent place 
 in the annals of the men of the Willamette valley. 
 
 MAURICE KLINGER. One of the most im- 
 portant elements in our American citizenship is 
 that furnished by the fatherland. The represen- 
 tatives of the Teutonic race have ever been pro- 
 gressive and have carried the civilization of their 
 own country westward, taking an active part in 
 reclaiming new districts and bringing them up 
 to a high standard of improvement and progress. 
 Mr. Klinger has been one of the most important 
 factors in the upbuilding of Salem, his labors 
 being felt along many lines of advancement and 
 certainly he deserves prominent mention in this 
 volume. He was born in Alsace, Germany, April 
 10, 1844. His father, Maurice Klinger, was a 
 farmer and distiller there and spent his entire 
 life in that province. The grandfather of our 
 subject was also a native of that locality. The 
 mother, whose maiden name was Mary Eckerlen, 
 was born in Alsace and was a daughter of August 
 Eckerlen, a farmer of that community. Unto 
 the parents of our subject were born six chil- 
 dren, of whom Maurice is the eldest. The others 
 are August, of Mt. Angel, Marion county; Emil, 
 who resides at the old home in Germany ; Ed- 
 ward, who is also living at the old home place 
 in the fatherland ; Mrs. Adele Ackerlen, of Ger- 
 many ; and Ernest, who makes his home at New 
 Whatcom, Wash. 
 
 In the land of his nativity Maurice Klinger 
 spent the days of his boyhood and youth, attend- 
 ing; the national schools in accordance with the 
 rules of the country. He learned the distiller's 
 trade in his early youth. When sixteen years of 
 age he became his father's assistant at farming 
 
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 and distilling and was thus engaged until 1869, 
 when he began learning the brewer's trade in the 
 n ... scrsburg. He afterward completed his 
 Imer and in 1873, thinking to enjoy 
 the better business opportunities of the new 
 I the Atlantic from 1 [avre to New 
 ity, and thence proceeded inland to Mi- 
 He was employed by John Stenger, a 
 wcr of Naperville, 111., and afterward spent a 
 months in Chicago, going thence to 
 where he was in the service of the 
 up and Anheuser-Busch Companies and also 
 
 ie Winklemeyer Company. 
 The year 1877 witnessed the arrival of Mr. 
 Klinger in Salem, and here with the capital he 
 had acquired through his own diligence and 
 norm he established the Capitol Brewery lo- 
 n Commercial street. He afterward pur- 
 chased the present site and in 1885 erected a new 
 brick brewing plant, the main building being sev- 
 enty-five by eighty feet. There is also a boiler 
 house and ice machine and the plant is thoroughly 
 equipped with all modern accessories for carrying 
 die work. There are two ice machines, one 
 - and the other of twenty tons, and two 
 3 are used in the operation of the plant, 
 lie manufactures malt, beer and ice and the 
 city >n the brewery is thirty-five hundred 
 barrel- per annum. In the early days of his resi- 
 e here Mr. Klinger had to haul his product 
 lifferent cities in Polk, Yamhill and Marion 
 nties before the era of railroad shipment. As 
 years have passed he has built up a very 
 e trade, developing a splendid brewery 
 and the patronage which is accorded him has 
 made him one of the wealthy citizens of his 
 imunitv. His business methods have ever 
 n straightforward and honorable and the busi- 
 - which he has developed has become one of 
 the leading industries of Salem. Mr. Klinger 
 has also extended his efforts into other lines of 
 activity and his building interests have done much 
 to improve the city. He erected store buildings, 
 including a double store and a single store, and 
 he is also the owner of other propertv. His 
 attention is now largely given to the supervision 
 is investments. In 1900 he sold the brewery 
 s, for he found that his attention was 
 largely taken up by his other interests. 
 
 Mr. Klinger was married in Sublimity. Ore., 
 Miss Virginia Eckerlen, who was born in 
 ace, a daughter of John Eckerlen. who was 
 a native of that locality and a farmer by 
 occupation. In 187 r he brought his family, con- 
 ng of his wife and five children, to America. 
 locating in Dupage county, III., and in 1875 
 he became a resident of Sublimity, Ore. He fol- 
 lowed farming in that locality "for a time, but 
 rward died in Mount Angel. His wife bore 
 the maiden name of Mary Klinger, who was born 
 
 •11 Usace, while her death occurred in Sublimity, 
 
 In the familj of Mr. and Mrs. Eckerlen were 
 
 five children, of whom four are living, Mrs. 
 Klinger, wife of the subject of this review, be- 
 ing the third in order of birth. She has two 
 children, Ernest and Bertha. 
 
 Mr. Klinger belongs to the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and has held office in the Salem 
 lodge. He votes with the Republican party and 
 in matters of citizenship he is public-spirited 
 and progressive, giving hearty aid and co-opera- 
 tion to every movement for the substantial up- 
 building and material improvement of his city. 
 He certainly shows in his life history what may 
 be accomplished by determination and energj 
 guided by sound business judgment, for to these 
 qualities he owes his splendid success in life. 
 
 WILLIAM Y. RICHARDSON, who is 
 serving as county treasurer of Marion county, 
 represents one of the old and honored pioneer 
 families of Oregon, his grandfather, John Rich- 
 ardson, having arrived in this state in 185 1. 
 Andrew J. Richardson, the father of our subject, 
 was born near Quincy, 111., and was about 
 eighteen years of age when the family crossed 
 the long, hot stretches of sand and made their 
 way through the mountain passes into the fertile 
 valleys of Oregon. They settled in Linn county, 
 and on attaining his majority A. J. Richardson 
 secured a donation claim near Scio in that 
 county. With characteristic energy he began 
 its cultivation and improvement and resided 
 thereon until 1872, when he took up his abode 
 in Stayton, where he conducted a hotel known 
 as the Farmer's Hotel. He is one of the oldest 
 representatives of this line of business in Oregon 
 and has a wide acquaintance among the traveling 
 public. He married Emeline Crabtree, a native 
 of Missouri and a daughter of Washington Crab- 
 tree, who was born in Tennessee, whence he 
 removed to Missouri. About 1852, with ox- 
 teams, he crossed the plains and settled near 
 Scio in Linn county, where he remained until 
 his retirement to private life, when he took up 
 his abode in Stayton, dying there in October, 
 1901, in his ninety-third year. Unto Mr. and 
 Mrs. Richardson were born seven children: 
 Susan C, wife of J. H. \\ ' y lie. a business man 
 of Seattle, Wash.; William Y.. of this review; 
 Warren, of Stayton. Ore. : and four who have 
 passed away. 
 
 William Y. Richardson was bom on the home 
 farm near Stayton. Linn county. June 2, 1804. 
 and upon the home farm remained until eight 
 vears of age. when his father removed to Stayton 
 just as the place was being established. There 
 the son attended the public schools and later he 
 was engaged with his father in the livery busi- 
 
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 ness under the firm name of Richardson & Son. 
 When nineteen years of age he purchased the 
 business from his father and continued as pro- 
 prietor of the barns with success. Later he con- 
 solidated his business with that of Thomas 
 Brothers, under the firm name of Thomas 
 Brothers & Company. They had two barns in 
 Stayton, conducting these until 1894, when the 
 firm sold out to Thomas & Trask. Mr. Richard- 
 son then moved to Salem to become proprietor 
 of the Club stables as a member of the firm of 
 Downing, Thomas & Co. This firm conducted 
 a general livery business for three years; at the 
 end of that time our subject sold out and re- 
 turned to Stayton, where he engaged in dealing 
 in stock including cattle, sheep and horses. He 
 was recognized as a prominent dealer in sheep, 
 buying and selling. When elected to public 
 office in July, 1902, however, he returned to 
 Salem. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was married in this city to 
 Miss Maude Kress, a native of Wisconsin, and 
 they have two children, Paul K. and Homer J. 
 Mr. Richardson belongs to the Woodmen of the 
 World and he has taken an active interest in 
 local politics, serving for seven years as a mem- 
 ber of the city council of Stayton, and for one 
 year as its president. In 1902 he was nomi- 
 nated on the Republican ticket for the office of 
 county treasurer and was elected by a majority 
 of about sixteen hundred. On the 7th of July, 
 of that year, he entered upon his duties which 
 he is now acceptably discharging, managing 
 the affairs of the office in a prompt and business- 
 like manner. 
 
 JAMES A. HOWARD. A liberal and enter- 
 prising citizen of Albany, Linn county, is to be 
 found in the person of James Austin Howard, 
 who has recently become connected with the 
 commercial life of the city, engaging in 1902 in 
 the real estate business. The energy and applica- 
 tion which he has put forth clearly stamps him 
 as one of the rising young men of the com- 
 munitv. 
 
 J. L. Howard, the father of J. A. of this 
 review, was a native of Kentucky, and the son of 
 Charles Howard, a representative of an old Vir- 
 ginia family. The grandfather made his home 
 in Kentucky at an early date, later removing to 
 Iowa, where J. L. Howard spent much of his 
 life up to the year 1864. At this period he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, six months 
 of the year being consumed in the passage, 
 during which they had many exciting encount- 
 ers with the Indians, and upon the arrival in 
 Oregon he settled near Sheridan, Yamhill county, 
 where his mother died. A short time after he 
 continued the journey by team into California, 
 
 and from that location returned east via San 
 Francisco and Panama. On making his home 
 in Iowa once more he located four miles south 
 of Marshalltown, and engaged in farming. Fond 
 of the excitement and adventures of traveling 
 Mr. Howard made many trips to Oregon, his 
 last one being the ninth and leaving him a resi- 
 dent of the state in which he had been so long 
 interested. The last journey was made in June, 
 1887, and the changing years had brought a 
 wonderful difference in the mode of traveling, 
 his thoughts in the Pullman sleeper going back 
 to the days and nights on the open plains, sur- 
 rounded by a loneliness which held many unseen 
 dangers, and through which the pioneers of those 
 early days fought their slow, patient way. 
 
 The first settlement which Mr. Howard made 
 was one mile east of Amity, where he now owns 
 a farm of two hundred and seventy-two acres, 
 and from which he later removed to a location 
 one-half mile southwest of Albany. This con- 
 sists of a comparatively small place, but from 
 the cultivation of which he gains substantial 
 returns, as ten acres embodied in the property 
 are devoted to the raising of fruit. The wife 
 who shares his home was formerly Rachel A. 
 Gillespie, a native of Indiana, and the daughter 
 of Norilla Gillespie, a prominent farmer in Mar- 
 shalltown, Iowa. Of the seven children born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Franklin is an extensive 
 farmer in Washington ; Charles Norilla is a mer- 
 chant in Chico, Cal.; James Austin is the sub- 
 ject of this review; Robert Pleasant is farming 
 on a part of the old home in Yamhill county ; 
 Stephen Edward is also engaged in farming on 
 the home place ; Ernest E. and Ella Penelope 
 are both at home with their parents. 
 
 The natal day of James Austin Howard was 
 February 13, 1871, and his birth occurred in 
 Marshalltown, Iowa. His childhood was spent 
 in a far different manner from many, enjoying 
 with a child's keen delight the various trips 
 across the country, and which gave to him a resi- 
 dence in Iowa, California, Texas and Oregon, 
 in all of which he attended the public schools, 
 his education being in no wise neglected on 
 account of the many movings. He crossed the 
 plains eight or nine times and in 1887 he became 
 with his parents a permanent resident of Yamhill 
 county. There he attended and graduated in 
 the Amity schools, thereafter taking a course in 
 both the McMinnville College and Willamette 
 University. Interested more or less in his 
 father's pursuit he followed farming in Amitv 
 for a short time, but in 1896 he went to Cor- 
 vallis and engaged in the commission and pro- 
 duce business, in which business he remained 
 for about a year. Returning at the expiration 
 of that time to the farm he conducted the occu- 
 pation for five years, when he again changed his 
 
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 s ttlinc in Albany, and entering upon 
 sent business career. In addition to his 
 tte business, he is also engaged in the 
 •f sheep and cattle. 
 
 \mit\ Mr. Howard was married to Miss 
 l. u ; ,\lio was born in Yamhill count) 
 
 tucated in McMinnville College, and of 
 s union one child has been born. Francyl. 
 In his fraternal relation- Mr. Howard affiliates 
 with tin Knights oi the Maccabees, the fnde- 
 • Order of the Lions, and the Twenty-five 
 Hundredths oi Albany, and religiously is a 
 - of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 inded and earnest in his efforts for the 
 era! welfare, he is interested in all political 
 irements, his convictions lying with the Demo- 
 cratic party. In the business affairs of the city 
 he is a member of the Albany Real Estate Ex- 
 change, in which he acts as treasurer. 
 
 L. T. DAVIS. A fine old pioneer home, an 
 exclusive agricultural and stock-raising enter- 
 prise, and a forceful, progressive personality is 
 embodied in the farm and character of L. T. 
 Davis, than whom there is no more prominent 
 and influential man in Yamhill county. Mr. 
 Davis is a native of Andrew county, Mo., where 
 he was born March 26, 1838, a son of Samuel 
 and Mary (Brock) Davis from whom he in- 
 herited the sterling traits which have brought 
 about his success. 
 
 Samuel Davis was one of the best known of the 
 pioneers of this county, and though his death 
 iccurred as long ago as February 27, 1875, his 
 aptitude in grasping and using the opportunities 
 by which he was surrounded in the west may well 
 -erve as an example to all aspirants to homes and 
 a competency. Mr. Davis was born in New Jer- 
 . December 13, 1804. and when a young man 
 moved to Ohio, where he married the wife who 
 proved a helpmate indeed, and who died January, 
 72, three years before her husband, at the age 
 sixty-six. The couple moved to Missouri in 
 ,'), and ten years later, in 1846, started across 
 the plains with nine yoke of oxen and three 
 wagons, on the way experiencing little difficulty 
 with the Indians, nor was their health impaired 
 by the deprivations to which they were subjected 
 for six months. Mr. Davis settled near Dilley. 
 Washington county for about a year, and then 
 lived for a year near Olympia, Wash., returning 
 to the farm near Dilley, for about six months. 
 In 1848 he became identified with Yamhill county 
 where he took up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres, upon which he erected a 
 log house for the temporary residence of his 
 family. The following year, the well remem- 
 bered '49, he went to California with his son 
 Albertus, and for a year engaged in mining and 
 
 prospecting with considerable success. Rcturn- 
 ing with his little hoard lo bis family in Yam 
 hill count) In- engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising, bis material success and personal popu- 
 larity increasing with the passing uf the years. 
 At one time he owned one thousand acres all in 
 one body, and he made many improvements on 
 his land, keeping at all time in touch with the 
 progress of farming as understood in the most 
 advanced centers of activity. 
 
 In his -capacity as an all around useful citizen, 
 Samuel Davis exerted a highly moral inlluence 
 in the community, and he was one of the pillars 
 and the chief supporters, financially, of the old- 
 school Baptist Church. At no time was he es- 
 pecially connected with politics, and never worked 
 for or accepted responsible official recognition. 
 He was a stanch advocate of education, and as 
 far as lay in his power gave his children every 
 available advantage. Of the nine children born 
 to himself and wife J. B. is deceased; William B. 
 is a farmer of Whitman county, Wash. ; Martha 
 A. is deceased ; Albertus C. is deceased ; and 
 L. T., Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel A. and May M. 
 complete the number. All the daughters are de- 
 ceased. 
 
 After leaving the parental home, at the age of 
 twenty-one, L. T. Davis went to Boise City and 
 became interested in mining and prospecting. He 
 was educated in the public schools and at Mc- 
 Minnville College, and in his youth devoted much 
 more time to securing an education than is per- 
 mitted to the busy life of the average farm-reared 
 lad. He also experienced many pleasures among 
 the half wild scenes of the country, among which 
 was that of hunting. He has had many exciting 
 adventures while enjoying this pastime, his ex- 
 periences being principally with bears and Span- 
 ish cattle. Many a time he has been driven to 
 take refuge in a tree where he has remained a 
 half day, one time especially recalled while haul- 
 ing rails with an ox-team. One night he heard 
 some sort of an animal prowling about the house 
 and he went out with the intention of chasing 
 it away, when he was met by a huge black bear 
 which caused himself and dog to beat a hasty 
 retreat. June 17, 1873, he married Margaret A. 
 Hunsaker, a native of Oregon, and niece of Rev. 
 A. J. Hunsaker, of McMinnville. Her parents 
 crossed the plains in 1847. settling in Polk county. 
 Tn the house where he now lives Mr. Davis and 
 his wife started in to make a home on the old 
 donation claim three and a half miles southwest 
 of McMinnville. and here Mrs. Davis died in 
 1892. Four children were born to them. Mary 
 E. and Ernest W.. both of whom are deceased, 
 and Lois V. and Naomi £., at home. In 1895 
 Mr. Davis married Clara J. Skinner, a native of 
 Indiana, and daughter of O. B. and Lettitia Skin- 
 ner, who came to ( >regon in 1877. O. B. Skinner 
 
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 died in Yamhill county in 1897. Of the seven 
 children born to himself and wife four are living, 
 namely : Charles J. ; Clara J. ; Ida A., who spent 
 four and a half years in India as missionary for 
 the Baptist Church ; and Orrin C. 
 
 With the exception of three years spent in 
 eastern Oregon and McMinnville Mr. Davis has 
 lived continuously on his present farm, which is 
 one of the finest in the county from the stand- 
 point of productiveness and location. The home, 
 on a hill commanding a view of the surrounding 
 country, has all the charm of a life dating to the 
 remote past, and although crude methods were 
 employed in its construction, it is still stanch 
 and whole, and capable of weathering many a 
 storm, and resisting many a wintry blast. From 
 farming Mr. Davis has branched out into other 
 paths of activity, and some little credit is due 
 him as an inventor. In 1866 his fertile brain in- 
 vented a combined header and thresher, to which 
 he sold the right in 1883, but which is still manu- 
 factured and in use on the coast, and highly ap- 
 preciated for its many merits. In 1865 Mr. Davis 
 and his father incorporated the Blue Mountain 
 Road, still run as a toll road, and one of the 
 oldest public thoroughfares in this part of the 
 state. The Davis farm is the scene of extensive 
 stock-raising, Red Poland-China and Berkshire 
 hogs bringing a considerable revenue. One of 
 the chief departments of interest on the farm is 
 an orchard of thirty-five acres, containing about 
 four thousand fruit trees, chiefly prunes, many 
 of them bearing a fine grade of fruit. 
 
 A Prohibitionist in political preferment, Mr. 
 Davis has refused all responsible and time-taking 
 offices in the county, but has served as school 
 clerk and supervisor for many years. He is one 
 of the stanch supporters of the Baptist Church, 
 is a deacon and clerk in the same and contributes 
 generously of his means for its charities and 
 general maintenance. 
 
 MRS. JOSEPHINE BOYLE is the owner 
 of one of the most highly-cultivated farms of 
 Polk county, owing to her capable manage- 
 ment. She w r as born in Howard county, Mo., 
 December 5, 1830. Her father, Col. Nathaniel 
 Ford, was born in Buckingham county, Va., 
 January 22, 1795, and her mother, Lucinda 
 Embree, was a native of Clarke county, Ky., 
 born November 18, 1799. Colonel Ford re- 
 moved from Virginia to Kentucky, and thence 
 to Missouri, locating in Howard county. For 
 twenty years he was a member of the Missouri 
 legislature, and also held the offices of sheriff 
 and county clerk. In 1844 he left Howard 
 county, and with ox teams made the journey to 
 Oregon. In the company which made this trip 
 were seventy-five men, of whom he was cap- 
 
 tain. They started April 15, and arrived De- 
 cember 13, 1844. On reaching Oregon City 
 Colonel Ford decided to spend the winter there 
 with his family, and the next spring came to 
 Rickreall, where he established the town, and 
 was the first man to locate on the Rickreall 
 stream, which was named by the Indians. He 
 took a donation claim where the town of Rick- 
 reall now stands, and resided there until his 
 death, which occurred January 21, 1870. In 
 politics he was a Democrat, and was a member 
 of the Oregon legislature for several years. 
 His wife died in January, 1874. In the early 
 development of Polk county Colonel Ford took 
 an active and prominent part. He was a 
 natural leader among men and received the 
 highest respect and esteem from all his friends 
 and neighbors. Unto the colonel and his wife 
 were born ten children, of whom four died in 
 infancy and six accompanied their parents to 
 Oregon. Mrs. Boyle is now the only surviving 
 member. Her husband, Dr. J. W. Boyle, was 
 born in Tazewell county, Va., April 15, 181 5. 
 His father, Abraham Boyle, was also a native 
 of that county, and died in the Old Dominion 
 about 1828. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Boyle removed from Virginia to 
 Indiana, where he remained for a short time, 
 thence removing to Fairfield, Iowa. Taking 
 up the study of medicine he graduated from 
 the medical school of St. Louis, Mo., in the 
 winter of 1843-4, after which he returned to 
 Iowa, continuing there until 1845. He then 
 came to Oregon, where he was the pioneer and 
 only physician in Polk county. He followed 
 his calling through many difficulties, often 
 traveling one hundred miles to minister to a 
 patient, and thus he became a welcome friend 
 in the frontier homes of the pioneers, having 
 a very extensive practice throughout Polk, 
 Yamhill, Marion, Linn, Benton and Lane coun- 
 ties. He possessed but limited means when he 
 made his way to Oregon, and made his home 
 with Colonel Ford, at Rickreall until 1846, 
 when he married the colonel's daughter, Jo- 
 sephine. He had taken a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, and on his marriage 
 took three hundred and twenty acres more, and 
 the young couple took up their abode on the 
 farm now owned by Ben Whiteaker. Dr. Boyle 
 continued in the practice of medicine, and in 
 1859 removed with his family to Salem, where 
 he engaged in practice until his death, which 
 occurred July 6, 1864, when he was thrown 
 from his carriage and killed. His loss was 
 deeply mourned by his many friends and ac- 
 quaintances, as he was known throughout the 
 Willamette valley as an able physician and a 
 kind and sympathizing friend. Unto Dr. Boyle 
 and his wife were born seven children : Han- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 nah Tatum, ;it home; Mrs. Rena Childcrs, of 
 Portland; fames M.. of Dawson City, Alaska; 
 William, al home, and Charles, at home, ami 
 ■ «■ I. The farm where Mrs. Boyle re- 
 sides consists of two hundred acres of rich and 
 ble land, which is at present operated b> 
 her - • - She is a member of the Christian 
 I i- well known m the community 
 s hi li s, her friends regarding her with 
 and affection because of her many ex- 
 cellent traits of character. 
 
 HARRISON BUTERICK. It was not with- 
 I the possibilites oi his own land that 
 Harrison Buterick ventured across the great 
 an and continent that he between his present 
 e ami the land of his birth, nor yet blind 
 net that led him to the fertile fields of Ore- 
 . ready intelligence and shrewd judgment 
 making him quick to act upon the suggestion 
 contained in the glowing reports of the west 
 that came to him in his first residence in the 
 United States The birth of this representative 
 farmer of 1'olk county. Ore., occurred in York- 
 shire, England, November 12. 1839, being the 
 of William Buterick, of Lincolnshire, Eng- 
 land, who passed the years of his life in the 
 country oi his birth, dying there in 1875, at 
 sixty years of age. lie married Cenia Harrison 
 a native of England, who died in 1845. G)f the 
 five children horn to these English parents Har- 
 n Buterick was next to the youngest, and was 
 only six years old when he lost his mother. The 
 education of his boyhood years was exceedingly 
 limited, on account of the burden of self-support 
 that fell upon his shoulders at fourteen, engaging 
 then among the farmers of the neighborhood, 
 where he worked until he was twenty-one years 
 At that age he shipped as fireman of a 
 steamboat plying on the North sea, in which 
 occupation he remained for eleven years, having 
 risen to the position of second engineer two years 
 orevious to his resignation. 
 
 Acting upon the sober judgment of his mature 
 manhood, Mr. Buterick started for the United 
 es. and after a vovage of fourteen days he- 
 landed in New York City, going thence to Grant 
 county. Wis. For eighteen months he found 
 occupation among the farmers of that section, 
 but could not be satisfied to remain there with 
 the more brilliant opportunities of the west por- 
 trayed in every report that reached him through 
 the vari -us channels connecting all farming 
 sections of the country. His first venture into 
 Oregon was into Yamhill county, where he 
 settled near North Yamhill in the fall of 1872, 
 and engaged in his chosen work of farming. 
 Until 1889 he made Yamhill county his home, 
 when he removed to Polk county, settling upon 
 
 his present farm of four hundred acres leased 
 from Ci. Glandon. lie is now actively interested 
 
 in general farming, and has also a threshing 
 machine, with which he gains no little profits. 
 Mr. Buterick married, in [862, Jane llutch- 
 croft, also a native of Yorkshire, England, born 
 in June, [838, and of the union five children have 
 been born, of whom William is a resident of 
 McCoy; Sarah A. is the wife of S. A. Cane, 
 of Sheridan; Elizabeth is the wife of R. L. 
 White, of McCoy; James lives in McCoy; Han- 
 nah is the wife of Melvin Bailey, of Bethel 
 hills. Having gained an education through the 
 constant application of the years of his manhood, 
 Mr. Ruterick sees the advantages accruing from 
 the early training in the school room, and is 
 actively interested in all educational movements 
 of hi s vicinity. He is now director of the school 
 in his district, and was road supervisor in Yam- 
 hill county, serving in the interests of the Repub- 
 lican party which he supports with his vote. 
 Religiously he is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, in which he officiates as 
 trustee. 
 
 B. D. WELLS. A fact which elicits no sur- 
 prise among his acquaintances and friends is 
 that B. D. Wells is an enthusiastic admirer of the 
 Willamette valley, and a firm believer in the pos- 
 sibilities which the future may grant to the earn- 
 est, patient laborer among the scenes of this re- 
 sourceful country, for it was in this clime that 
 he experienced an almost wonderful recovery to 
 health and strength when he had journeyed here 
 but to die, as he thought. He made the trip 
 from California in the fall of 1899, driving 
 through, having left the southern state with noth- 
 ing but the outfit necessary for travel, and en- 
 gaged on the route at haying ^nd harvesting to 
 make enough to sustain his family, though he 
 was ill from the time of starting until they ar- 
 rived three months later, lacking six days, in 
 Stayton, Ore. There he located, broken in 
 health and weary with the journey, expecting to 
 hear his summons to "join the innumerable 
 caravan," but instead he soon felt the change of 
 returning health and the vigor and courage 
 "4iirh it imparts, and into his once empty hands 
 have e-o.ne a lucrative and engrossing custom 
 in his business of a veterinary surgeon, especial- 
 ly noticeable since March 16, 1902, when he- 
 located in Albany, Linn county, and from which 
 city his practice extends throughout Linn. Ben- 
 ton and Marion counties, and also into Lane 
 and Polk counties. 
 
 Dr. \\'e!U was born in Boston. Erie county, 
 N. Y.. June 8. 1852, the son of Major Wells, 
 also a native of that state, and who died there 
 after a successful career in the furniture busi- 
 
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 ness. The mother was Sarah Olin in maiden- 
 hood, also a native of New York state, and she 
 now makes her home in Holland, Erie county, 
 of the same state. She was the mother of five 
 children, four of whom are now living, the third 
 oldest being 1 Jr. Wells, of this review. He was 
 reared principally in Erie county, his education 
 received through the medium of the public 
 schools. In early youth he learned the carpen- 
 ter trade, but met with an accident which pre- 
 vented the continuance of the work. He then 
 entered, in 1876, a branch school of Toronto 
 Veterinary College, located in Buffalo, N. Y., 
 and which was known as Buffalo Branch of 
 Toronto Veterinary College, where he remained 
 over two years. About this time he was inca- 
 pacitated by illness and compelled to return 
 home, and 'when able physically he began the 
 practice of his profession in Holland, a city 
 of his native county, from which he later re- 
 moved to Wellington, Ohio, and from there lo- 
 cated in Barton county, Kans., where he con- 
 tinued his work as a veterinary surgeon. Two 
 years later, in 1888, he removed to Riverside, 
 Cal.. and there combined horticultural pursuits 
 with his profession, and after eleven years' resi- 
 dence in Corona and Long Beach, he decided 
 to leave for the northwest, and it was then the 
 memorable trip was made to Oregon. In his first 
 location of Stayton Dr. Wells remained two 
 vears, after which he sought a home in Albany, 
 "which residence, though of short duration, has 
 made him many friends and a successful busi- 
 ness. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Wells occurred in Well- 
 ington, Ohio, Miss Martha Dyer, a native of that 
 city, becoming his wife, and of the union one 
 child, Garnett, has been born. In his fraternal 
 relations Dr. Wells affiliates with the Masons, 
 having been made a member of this order in 
 Wellington, Ohio, where he still belongs, and 
 politically he casts his ballot with the Republican 
 party. Along the lines of his profession he is 
 deeply interested, as a member of the State Vet- 
 erinary Association utilizing every opportunity 
 to excel in his chosen work. Dr. Wells has had 
 many obstacles to contend with in his efforts to 
 earn a livelihood, but he has allowed nothing 
 to discourage him or make him lose faith in his 
 own ultimate victory, and he owes his success 
 to indefatigable energy and effort, the qualities 
 which, in bringing personal success, also make 
 the most worthv citizens. 
 
 EDWARD A. PIERCE, M. D. Though a 
 comparatively brief period has passed since the 
 establishment of Dr. E. A. Pierce in Orcgonian 
 fields, the time has been sufficient for him to 
 demonstrate the splendid talent which is his in 
 
 the practice of the most noble of professions, 
 and to number him among the successful physi- 
 cians of the state. Through a tour which he made 
 of the west in 1894 the doctor was enabled to 
 arrive at a correct estimate of the advantages held 
 out to the man of energy and talent, and after a 
 year's location in Portland he came to Salem, 
 Marion county, in 1896, and has since made this 
 his home and the scene of his activities. 
 
 The Pierce family is one of those whose lin- 
 eage dates to the foundations of this country, 
 on the paternal side being allied with the house 
 which produced a president, and on the maternal 
 side having ancestors among the passengers of 
 the Mayflower. The paternal grandfather, 
 Judah Pierce, was a native of Massachusetts and 
 in the militia of that state acted as colonel, and 
 after his removal to Truxton, Cortland county, 
 N. Y., was appointed to the position of colonel. 
 His son, Ethan A., the father of Dr. Pierce, was 
 born in New York state, and spent his entire 
 life there as a farmer, with the exception of 
 two years in California, as a gold hunter of 1849, 
 going by way of the Isthmus and bringing back 
 with him the substantial fruits of his efforts. 
 He married Harriet A. Geer, a native of Con- 
 necticut, and the representative of a prominent 
 family of that state, her father, Moses T. Geer, 
 and her mother, Hannah Phelps Dennison, both 
 owing their nativity to that section and tracing 
 their ancestry to a proud English birth. Both 
 father and mother have since passed to their 
 reward, the death of the latter occurring in i860. 
 Of the eight children born into this family four 
 daughters and two sons are now living, the 
 voungest being Dr. E. A. Pierce, born in Trux- 
 ton, Cortland county, N. Y., April 3, 1855. 
 
 Dr. Pierce was reared upon his father's farm 
 and trained to a thorough agricultural life, which 
 though he has since departed from it, has been 
 of no little benefit in the establishment of habits 
 of energy, industry and the practical application 
 of every rule which has brought about the suc- 
 cess of his own career. Until seventeen years 
 old he attended the district school in the pur- 
 suit of an education, entering then the Cortland 
 Normal School, where he took a business course 
 of two years. He also attended Homer Acad- 
 emy at different times from the age of eighteen 
 until he had attained his majority, and engaged 
 in the stud) r of medicine even while teaching 
 In 1876 he became employed in his brother's 
 store at Center Lisle. Broome countv, N. Y., 
 where he had charge of the drug department 
 ;md was later appointed hospital steward of the 
 Broome county almshouse, which position he also 
 held in the insane asvlum. This latter position 
 was maintained from 1880 until 1885, during 
 which time he studied medicine under the tutelage 
 of Dr. C. B. Richards, who was in charge of the 
 
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 insane want, and entered and graduated March 
 i»>. 1885, from the medical department of the 
 University of New York City. Hie class num- 
 undred students, and the one selected 
 •.ml marshal was Dr. Pierce, the com- 
 mencement exercises being held in the Academy 
 
 Music, with Gilmore's hand discoursing music 
 the six thousand people present. 
 
 graduation Dr. Pierce located in 
 mton, Broome county, and opened an of- 
 fice wherein he continued successfully for ten 
 identifying himself with many public 
 movements of the city and making Ids voice 
 heard in all matters of progression. The sec- 
 ond year oi his residence there he became jail 
 physician and the third year was elected coroner, 
 which latter position he maintained for six years, 
 and during the last year acted as health commis- 
 
 cr anil was also on the staff of the city hos- 
 pital. While a resident of Binghamton, in com- 
 pany with Dr. C. \\ . Ingraham, he purchased 
 Mt. Prospect medical institute for treatment of 
 tuberculosis. Having married an Oregonian the 
 doctor came west in i8< )4 to visit the country and 
 while here became impressed with the oppor- 
 tunities and decided to locate permanently. 
 In September. 1805. he settled in Portland after 
 a resignation of his eastern positions, and in the 
 spring of the following year came to Salem, 
 where he has since engaged in the general prac- 
 tice of medicine and given the power and pur- 
 of his life to the advancement of worthy 
 and progressive movements in his adopted com- 
 munity. In exchange for various positions in his 
 rtern home, among them being that of the 
 presidency of the Broome Countv Medical So- 
 ciety, presidency of Ringhamton Medical Acad- 
 emy, member of the New York Medical Society, 
 of which he is now an honorary member, he has 
 
 pted those of equal importance in the Will- 
 amette valley, as member of the Oregon State 
 Medical Society, Marion County Medical So- 
 ciety, occupying the chair of physical diagnosis 
 and diseases of the chest, and that of lecturer 
 on hygiene of the Nurses" Training School and 
 the Sanitarium, and is also on the staff of the 
 city hospital of Salem. Another position which 
 he resigned to come to Oregon was that of as- 
 
 int surgeon of the Sixth Battery, New York 
 National Guard-, to which he was commissioned 
 bv Gov. D. B. Hill, holding the rank of first 
 lieutenant until 1895. In February, 1903. he was 
 appointed physician to the Indian Training School 
 at Chcwawa, and one of the commissioners of 
 the State Board of Health April 4. [893. 
 
 The marriage of I)r. Pierce occurred in Bing- 
 hamton and united him with Miss Grace Par- 
 rish, a native daughter of Oregon, having been 
 born in Salem in 1872, but was then in the east 
 studying music, under Professor Scharwenka. 
 
 Previous to this she had received the best in- 
 struction that the west afforded both in classical 
 111. 1 musical courses, having been educated in 
 Willamette University, Mills College, of ( lakland, 
 Cal., and Anna Wright Seminary, of Tacoma, 
 Wash., in the latter institution graduating in 
 music. The father of Mrs. Pierce was the Rev. 
 Josiah L. Parrish, one of Oregon's oldest and 
 most noted pioneers, and one whose labors in 
 behalf of the advancement of the western cause 
 lifted him to a prominence among his fellow 
 men. A sketch of the life of this venerable 
 pioneer is given on another page of this work. 
 .\ot alone prominent in the pursuit of his pro- 
 fession, Dr. Pierce has allied himself with various 
 ,'raternal orders and social clubs, having been 
 made a Mason in Otseningo Lodge, Binghamp- 
 ton, N. Y., and there rising to the degree of Royal 
 Arch Mason and Knight Templar, and is now 
 allied with Demolay Commanderv of Salem, the 
 Consistory of Portland, and Al Kader Temple, 
 N. M. S. He is also identified with the Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of Elks and Woodmen 
 of the World. He is a member of the Salem 
 Commercial Club, in which he acts as vice-presi- 
 dent, and is a member of the Illihee Club. Po- 
 litically he is a Republican. 
 
 SAMUEL W. WEAVER, M. D. With an 
 extended reputation in the practice of his pro- 
 fession. Dr. Weaver's earnest study and wide 
 experience have given him a knowledge and 
 skill that have gained for him the confidence 
 and esteem of his many patrons, and won for 
 him a fine position among the leading prac- 
 titioners of Marion county. He is a Pennsyl- 
 vanian by birth, having been born in Canons- 
 burg January 9, 1853, a son of Thomas 
 Weaver. His paternal grandfather, John 
 Weaver, was born, lived and died in Canons- 
 burg, Pa., being a well-known contractor and 
 builder, and a prosperous farmer. He married 
 Mis- Mary McMillen. a daughter of Rev. John 
 and Catherine (Brown) McMillen, the former 
 a noted Presbyterian divine, and the founder of 
 the first Latin school established west of the 
 Allegheny mountains. This school, opened 
 near Canonsburg in 1775. was afterwards 
 called Jefferson College, later being merged in- 
 to the Washington and Jefferson College. 
 
 Thomas Weaver spent his long life of four 
 Score years in Canonsburg. where he was 
 busily employed in agricultural pursuits. He 
 married Elizabeth Lesnett, who was born near 
 Bridgeville, Pa., a daughter of Frederick Les- 
 nett. a well-known farmer of that section of 
 the country. Of the ten children born of their 
 union, one son and one daughter died in in- 
 fancy. Seven sons and one daughter grew to 
 
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 years of maturity, and the doctor, a brother, 
 Frank Ritchie, and his sister are the only ones 
 now living. 
 
 Receiving the rudiments of his education in 
 the common schools of his native town, Sam- 
 uel W. Weaver subsequently attended the Can- 
 onsburg Academy, later entering the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, 
 Md., from which he received the degree of M. 
 D. in 1882. Beginning the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Pennsylvania, he remained in Wash- 
 ington count}- two years, then settled at Para- 
 dise Valley, Nev., continuing there an active 
 practitioner for two years. Coming to Oregon 
 in the spring of 1886, Dr. Weaver located in 
 Hubbard, where he has a large and constantly 
 increasing practice, being known as one of the 
 leading physicians of this locality. In addi- 
 tion to his practice, the doctor has also another 
 source of revenue, having a half interest in the 
 drug store of Weaver & Scholl, a well-known 
 and well-patronized establishment. Since com- 
 ing here he has identified himself with the 
 best interests of the city, and has built a most 
 attractive residence for himself and family in 
 a desirable location. 
 
 Dr. Weaver was married November 1, 1888, 
 in Hubbard to Alice Grim, who was born Sep- 
 tember 28, 1867, and educated in that citv, and 
 of their union two children have been born, 
 namely: Francis E. and Guy G. Mrs. 
 Weaver is a daughter of Judge John W. and 
 Frances E. (Geer) Grim, pioneers of 1847, ar >d 
 both now deceased. Judge Grim was the first 
 county judge of Marion county. His family 
 comprises the following children: Byron; 
 Martha, wife of M. Schmer of Yamhill county; 
 Thurston, of Marion county; William, of 
 Marion county; Isaiah, of Portland; Edwin 
 and Edgar, twins, the former mining in Philip- 
 pine Islands and the latter an attorney at 
 Nome, Alaska; Mary, wife of George H. 
 Beebe, of Woodburn ; Ralph, of Clackamas 
 county; and Alice, wife of Dr. Weaver. Polit- 
 ically the doctor is a Democrat, and has ren- 
 dered the city excellent service one term as a 
 member of the city council. Fraternally he is 
 a member of Hubbard Lodge, I. O. O. F. He 
 is an accomplished musician, belonging to the 
 Hubbard Symphony Orchestra, in which he 
 plays the first violin. Among his valued pos- 
 sessions he counts the first violin ever played 
 in this valley, it having been brought here prior 
 to 1847. 
 
 LEVIN NELSON ENGLISH. To be suc- 
 cessful in business, one must have, as a rule, 
 an occupation that is congenial. The truth of 
 this proposition finds an illustration in the agri- 
 
 cultural undertakings of Levin Nelson English, 
 who owns and occupies a finely cultivated farm 
 near Sublimity. He is not only one of the most 
 prosperous farmers in Marion county, but also 
 one of the most ambitious and advanced in his 
 ideas. He thoroughly enjoys his vocation, takes 
 advantage of all innovations which, in his opin- 
 ion, will prove beneficial, and is constantly look- 
 ing for ways and means to render more con- 
 tented and happy those intrusted to his care. 
 His farm consists of four hundred acres, the 
 greater part of which is under cultivation, and 
 its improvements include three fine cattle barns, 
 recently constructed. A general air of neatness 
 and thrift in evidence everywhere bespeaks the 
 careful and painstaking farmer. 
 
 A native of Macoupin county, 111., Mr. English 
 was born September 17, 1832, a son of Levin 
 N. and Mary (Tucker) English, respectively of 
 Kentucky and Maryland. When his son and 
 namesake was three years of age the father 
 moved to a farm near Burlington, Iowa. From 
 there he went to Davis county, that state, his 
 family in the meantime being increased to four 
 sons and three daughters. In 1845 ne made 
 arrangements to cross the plains, and laid in 
 a large supply of provisions, besides loose cat- 
 tle and the requisite number of oxen. The 
 long journey was accomplished in six months' 
 time. Upon their arrival at the Cascade Moun- 
 tains they crossed the range on pack animals, 
 driving their cattle before them. Their wagons 
 were left at The Dalles, in order to facilitate 
 the journey westward from that point. At 
 that time all the members were in fairly good 
 health, and felt they had reason to congratu- 
 late themselves on their escape from Indian 
 depredations and other disasters. But the famil> 
 were saddened at this point by the death of 
 one of the children, William, and a lonely grave 
 was left to mark the last resting place of one 
 who had counted much on making his way in 
 this country of wonderful resources. 
 
 The family spent the first winter in Oregon 
 City. In the spring of 1846 the father bought 
 a right to six hundred and forty acres of land 
 located seven miles east of Salem, in Marion 
 county, upon which a small log cabin had al- 
 ready been erected. Into this the family moved 
 and resided until prosperity permitted the erec- 
 tion of a more commodious residence. He then 
 returned to Marion county, located on a farm, 
 and operated it for two years, at the expiration 
 of that time removing to Salem, where he died 
 in 1880 at the age of eighty-five years. 
 
 Mr. English was a man of strong personality 
 and marked characteristics. He always exhib- 
 ited a keen interest in current events, and had 
 strong convictions as to the righteousness of 
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 administration of the affairs of the government. 
 In politics a stanch Democrat, he was honored 
 by election t<> the Oregon State Legislature and 
 in turn honored his county by the faithful per- 
 formance of the duties intrusted to him. For 
 mam years he also served as a justice ol the 
 peace. Fraternally he was identified with the 
 Masons. 
 
 Of the children horn of his first marriage, Be- 
 linda married Joseph Foss, of Howell 1'rairic; 
 William died while crossing the plains, as noted; 
 Hiram is deceased; Man A., deceased, was twice 
 married, her first husband being Jeremiah Mor- 
 al'ter whose death she became the wife of 
 Coleman Burnett; Rebecca was the wife of Pres- 
 ton Smith: Delilah is the widow of William 
 Hendricks, and resides at Chehalis, Wash.; 
 Levin N. is the subject of this sketch; and Rob- 
 ert is deceased. For a second wife Mr. English 
 chose Mrs. Mary Daley, a native of Missouri. 
 i )f this union the following children were horn: 
 Francis, deceased; Thomas: Mahalla: LaPay- 
 . Elizabeth : Nancy, and Lewis. 
 
 When the memorable journey across the plains 
 was undertaken Levin Nelson English. Jr., was 
 thirteen years of age. At the age of fifteen he 
 enlisted with the Oregon troops for service in 
 the Cayuse Indian war with his father and 
 brother Hiram, and during the thre^ months' 
 campaign in which they were actively engaged 
 they had some very trying and exciting experi- 
 ences. For twenty-seven days they were with- 
 out bread of any kind, and besides being exposed 
 stantly to the menaces of the Indians, they 
 suffered at times from most inclement weather. 
 After the massacre at Whitman's Station they 
 fought their way through their savage enemies, 
 following them through to the Snake river. 
 where a fiercely contested battle took place. 
 The- elder English raised his own company. 
 drilled it. and throughout the entire campaign 
 served as its captain. After the thrilling ex- 
 periences of the three members of this family 
 they were glad to return to their home. 
 
 Until his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Riggs, 
 which took place in February, 1853, the subject 
 of this memoir remained at home assisting his 
 father in the operation <^' the farm. His wife, 
 who i> a native of Scotland county. Mo., is a 
 daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Burton) 
 Riggs. and crossed the plains from Iowa in 1852. 
 I hey settled on a donation claim four miles 
 south of Eugene, and later removed to Umatilla 
 county, where Mr. Riggs died, at the age of 
 eighty-five years. His wife passed away in that 
 county at the age of eighty-three. After his 
 marriage Mr. English resided for a time on 
 Howell's Prairie. In 1853 he took up a claim 
 of five hundred acres in the foothills, where lu- 
 ted a log cabin and remained for four years. 
 
 He then purchased a farm of one hundred and 
 
 seventy acres on Howell Prairie, which he Opel 
 .Hed SUCCessfull) tor ten years. This property 
 he sold at the end of that period and went to 
 California, spending two wars a1 Los Vngeles 
 and San Diego. Upon his return In- rented a 
 farm for a year. In 1870 he purchased his pres- 
 ent farm of four hundred acres, which is un<|iu !S- 
 tionably one of the finest and most productive in 
 the Willamette vallev. 
 
 Unto Mr. English and his estimable wife four 
 children have been horn. Robert X. is deceased; 
 William H. now has charge of the home place; 
 Alice is the wife of Byron Denney, of Marion 
 county, and has one daughter, Florence; John 
 A. is engaged in farming near Sublimity, and 
 has a family of two children, Clarence and Mil- 
 dred. 
 
 It will be seen from a reference to this brief 
 outline of the career of Mr. English that he is 
 doubly entitled to a permanent place in the 
 annals of the representative families of the 
 Willamette valley. He is not only a descendant 
 of one of the earliest pioneers of the state and 
 a pioneer himself, but during the long years of 
 his residence in Oregon has been closely as- 
 sociated with the best interests of the home of 
 his adoption in various ways. He is highly es- 
 teemed by his fellow-citizens as a man of probity, 
 (. ver willing to assist in every way in his power 
 in fostering and developing the resources of the 
 state, in securing the best possible educational 
 facilities for the rising generation, in inculcat- 
 ing in the minds of the young a healthy moral 
 tone, and in aiding materially all projects of a 
 worthy character. His spirit is an unselfish one, 
 broad and liberal. That he has attained more 
 than the ordinary measure of success in his 
 chosen field of endeavor is a fact that can be 
 attributed solely to his own energy, perseverance 
 and praiseworthy ambition. The record of bis 
 career, which is here preserved for the inspira- 
 tion of future generations, will do much to pro- 
 mote in the minds and hearts of those to come, 
 a worthy ambition to emulate the principles 
 which have guided his life and crowned it with 
 the success which is his just due. 
 
 JOHN M. WATSON. One of the best 
 known representative- of the dairv interests of 
 Marion county, Ore., is John M. Watson, who 
 resides on a farm of seventy-five acres near 
 Turner, where he devotes his time principally 
 to the product of a fine herd of Jersey cows. 
 Mr. Watson was horn in Beaver county, Pa., near 
 Beaver Falls, April 8, 1848, the son of Nicholas 
 and Hannah (Creighton) Watson. With his 
 parents he removed to Mansfield. Ohio, in 1853. 
 and thence, in [860, to Findlay, Ohio, whers 
 
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 he completed his education and grew to ma- 
 turity. In 1864 he enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany K, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio In- 
 fantry, which formed a part of the Twenty-third 
 Army Corps. His active service was principally 
 in North Carolina, and the principal engagement 
 in which he participated was the battle of Kings- 
 ton, that state. At the close of the conflict he 
 was mustered out of the Federal service and at 
 once returned to his home, where he remained 
 until his twenty-fourth birthday. At that time 
 he moved to Auburn, Ind., where he was en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of hubs and spokes for 
 three years. In the Centennial year he sought 
 better financial returns for his energies and abil- 
 ities by a prospecting tour of the Black Hills. 
 Soon after abandoning this venture he went to 
 Iowa, where he remained for a short time. The 
 opportunities which he was earnestly seeking not 
 appearing to him up to this time, he finally de- 
 cided to try his fortunes in the far west, Oregon 
 appealing to him as a fertile field for young 
 men of brain and brawn. Removing to this 
 state in 1876 he located in Marion county, where 
 he remained until 1879. In that year he went to 
 Idaho, where he took up government land under 
 the pre-emption act, and operated a farm for 
 two years. Returning to Oregon in 1881 he en- 
 gaged in the management of a hotel at Turner, 
 in which his efforts were attended by success. 
 Upon the expiration of two years he became 
 associated with the Oregon Milling Company, 
 an occupation which he found both congenial 
 and profitable, and to which he devoted his 
 time for seven years. At the end of that time 
 he purchased the farm upon which he now re- 
 sides. Here he makes a specialty of dairying, 
 though general farming is engaged in to some 
 extent. 
 
 Mr. Watson has been twice married. In 1872 
 he was united with Miss Clara Beach, who be- 
 came the mother of one daughter, Clara, now 
 deceased. In 1879 ne married Miss Jane Steele. 
 They are the parents of five children, named as 
 follows : Clara E., wife of E. L. Martin, of 
 Turner ; William Byrd ; Ruth ; Sophia R. and 
 John M., Jr. 
 
 Mr. Watson has become one of the thoroughly 
 representative men of Marion county. An earn- 
 est Republican, he has been prominently identi- 
 fied with the party, and has been called to posi- 
 tions of official trust. In 1890 he was elected 
 county commissioner of Marion county, serving 
 continuously in the office for eight years. He 
 has also exhibited a profound interest in educa- 
 tional matters, and has been a member of the 
 local school board for several years. Frater- 
 nally he is a member of Pearl Lodge No. 66, A. 
 F. & A. M., of Turner, in which he has filled 
 the various chairs. On every occasion when 
 
 Mr. Watson has found the opportunity to dem- 
 onstrate his public spirit he has done so, not for 
 the sake of any personal aggrandizement, but 
 with motives of an entirely unselfish character. 
 He has accomplished all in ' his power for the 
 improvement of the social, moral and intellectual 
 status of the community, and in all ways has 
 shown himself to be a useful citizen. 
 
 WILLIAM E. BAKER. That Mr. Baker has 
 been an important factor in the growth and up- 
 building of Albany is disputed by no one, but on 
 the contrary he is conceded by all to be one of 
 the city's most enterprising citizens. As a con- 
 tractor and builder he stands second to none 
 in the profession in Albany, where upon every 
 hand are to be seen evidences of his superior 
 handiwork. When he came here in 1888 the city 
 could boast only two brick buildings, but in the 
 years that have intervened scarcely a brick struc- 
 ture has been erected for which he has not had the 
 contract. As a partial list of the structures he has 
 erected mention may be made of the Masonic 
 Temple, Baltimore building, Vance building and 
 the woolen mill, all in Albany, and the bank 
 building in Lebanon. In addition to contracting 
 and building, he also fills contracts for doing 
 cement work of all kinds, this department alone 
 furnishing a splendid income. 
 
 A native of England, Mr. Baker was born near 
 Wells, Somersetshire, where his father, William, 
 who was descended from an old established fam- 
 ily, followed the peaceful life of the agriculturist. 
 Charles Baker, the grandfather, was a wagon 
 and carriage-maker by trade. William Baker 
 chose as his life companion Charity Foxwell, also 
 a native of England, and the daughter of William 
 and Mary (Stone) Foxwell, the former of whom 
 was a stone and brick contractor. The parental 
 family comprised eight children, six sons and 
 two daughters, all of whom reside in England 
 with the exception of William E. and his brother 
 Walter G., who is superintendent for a large 
 contracting firm in Seattle, Wash. 
 
 William E. was the oldest child born to his 
 parents, the date of his birth being January 13, 
 1850. His early boyhood days were spent in 
 steady application to his books in the national 
 schools in the vicinity of his home, and at the 
 age of twelve years he was apprenticed to his 
 maternal grandfather for a term of seven years 
 to learn the mason's trade. His grandfather dy- 
 ing four years later, however, he completed his 
 apprenticeship under the direction of John Par- 
 rot. When twenty years old he began to apply 
 the knowledge gained during' his apprenticeship, 
 and for one year worked at his trade at Bristol. 
 In 1 87 1, when he had reached his majority, he 
 set sail for the United States, his destination be- 
 
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 ing Skaneateles, Onondaga county, \. Y., where 
 he remained until 1876, working at Ins trade. 
 From the latter state he went to Sibley, [owa, 
 engaging in contracting and building there for 
 twelve years, or until coming to Oregon in 1888. 
 \\ . E. Baker and Miss Mar) Lukens, a native 
 of Somersetshire, were united in marriage in 
 England, and. of the six children born to them 
 all are deceased. His identification with the Ma- 
 sonic order dates from the time of his residence 
 in Sibley, Iowa, and he is now a member of St. 
 John's Lodge in Albany. Later he was made a 
 Royal Arch Mason, being identified with Bailey 
 Chapter, and subsequently was raised to the com- 
 mandery, affiliating with Temple No. 3. While 
 in England he was made an Odd Fellow, and is 
 now a past officer in the lodge of the order at Al- 
 bany, besides being identified with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. Business and fra- 
 ternal matters have not absorbed his time and 
 attention to the exclusion of religion and politics, 
 however, and in the Episcopal Church of Albany, 
 of which he is a member, he is accounted one of 
 the stanch supporters. Politically his sympathies 
 and support are in favor of the Republican party. 
 In his business dealings Mr. Baker has been very 
 successful, his good management and fair deal- 
 ing winning him a handsome competence, and he 
 is numbered among the substantial citizens of the 
 communitv. 
 
 JAMES HELMICK. There is an indisput- 
 able honor attached to the fact that one has come 
 to ownership of the many attributes which go to 
 make up the necessities of life, the strongest of 
 them being the inalienable rights of citizenship, 
 through an inheritance which has followed the 
 name, proving the loyalty and the courage of an 
 immediate ancestor. To James Helmick, a farmer 
 of Polk county, has been given such an inher- 
 itance, left to him by his father, Henry Helmick, 
 a pioneer of 1845, ar, d a man who won his way 
 against heavy odds in the clays of Oregon's early 
 history. 
 
 Henry Helmick was born in Germany, Sep- 
 tember 14, 1822, and came with his father, Ste- 
 phen Helmick, to America in 1825. The first 
 settlement was made in Pennsylvania, from which 
 state the elder man removed later to Indiana, and 
 followed this up with a movement into Iowa, set- 
 tling near Burlington, where he and his wife 
 passed the remainder of their lives. Henry Hel- 
 mick grew to manhood principally in Iowa, and 
 in 1845, he left the familiar surroundings of his 
 youth and started across the plains for the pro- 
 ductive lands of the northwestern territory. Two 
 yoke of oxen and a wagon embodied all his 
 worldly wealth, but courage was a dominant trait 
 in the character of the pioneer of the times and 
 
 he made the six months' journey, buoyed up by 
 the hope of finding a home in the western land 
 The greatest misfortune of the trip befell Mr. 
 Helmick alter the journey was ended, or nearly 
 so, the strong current in the river at ["he Dalles 
 sweeping away the raft upon which the wagons 
 were standing, preparatory to being taken ashore. 
 Thus deprived of all that would have made tann- 
 ing a possibility, Mr. Helmick was compelled to 
 take any kind of work offered, the firsl being to 
 help in building a barn, the pay for which enabled 
 them to subsist for a short time. The first winter 
 was spent on Tualatin plains and in Salem, and 
 in the spring of 1846, Mr. Helmick took up a do- 
 nation claim upon the present site of Salem. 
 He remained there but a short time, however, 
 before giving it up and coming to Polk county. 
 The claim which he took up here was located four 
 miles south of Monmouth, and consisted of six 
 hundred and forty acres, upon which he engaged 
 in stock-raising and farming until his death, in 
 1876. Through perseverance and unending in- 
 dustry he had succeeded in building up a fortune, 
 owning at the time of his death thirteen hundred 
 acres. But once in the intervening years had he 
 departed from the industries of his farm, that 
 being in the spring of 1849, when he was at- 
 tracted to the gold mines of California. Not 
 meeting with the success he had expected and de- 
 sired, he returned in the fall of 1850, and found 
 a greater wealth in the wide lands of his adopted 
 state. 
 
 The wife who shared the trials and burdens 
 of the early life of Mr. Helmick was, in maiden- 
 hood, Sarah Steeprow, who was born in Indiana, 
 July 4, 1823, of German parentage. The mar- 
 riage was celebrated April 14, 1845, an d the next 
 day witnessed their departure for the west. Of 
 the four sons and one daughter which blessed 
 their union, two died in infancy, the remaining 
 three attaining maturity. They are as follows : 
 James, of this review ; Lewis, now deceased ; and 
 Mary C, who became Mrs. James Tedrow, of 
 Corvallis, ( )rc. 
 
 James Helmick was born in Polk county, ( )re., 
 February 2\, 1851, upon his father's donation 
 claim, and the old house in which the family lived 
 is still standing. His early education was re- 
 ceived in the district schools of his native county, 
 which he attended until he was nineteen years 
 old. At that age he left school and entered upon 
 the work of the farm, remaining at home until 
 his father's death, when the propcrtv was divided 
 among the children. He now owns five hundred 
 and eighty acres of land, to the cultivation of 
 which he is devoting his intelligent effort, being 
 now one of the most extensive and successful 
 farmers in this neighborhood. He is principally 
 interested in general farming, though sixteen 
 acres are set apart for the raising of hops. In 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 addition to his farming interests Mr. Helmick is 
 engaged in a warehouse at Parker Station, having 
 built the same in partnership with his brother, 
 Lewis, in 1882. He handles grain in immense 
 quantities, shipping from forty thousand to fifty 
 thousand bushels annually, as well as produce of 
 all kinds. He has met with the same success in 
 this work, which has characterized his every 
 effort, and stamped him as one of the leading 
 farmers of Polk county. 
 
 In 1880, Mr. Helmick married Miss Amanda 
 Mayes, who was born in Marion county, Ore., 
 April 25, i860. She was the daughter of Stephen 
 Mayes, who crossed the plains in 1852 and lo- 
 cated in the northern part of Marion county. The 
 five children born to them are as follows : Fran- 
 cis, Sarah, Nellie, Mary and William, all of 
 whom are still at home with their parents. Po- 
 litically, Mr. Helmick is a stanch Republican, and 
 through the influence of this party he served as 
 county commissioner in 1890-94, and has also 
 held the position of road supervisor, and that of 
 various school offices. In his fraternal relations 
 he affiliates with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. 
 
 ZENAS FERRY MOODY. No man in Ore- 
 gon is more highly respected than Hon. Zenas 
 F. Moody, and no man ever more fully enjoyed 
 the confidence of the people or more richly de- 
 served the esteem in which he is held. His life 
 has been one of labor — labor in the business 
 world and in the field of public service — and the 
 result of his efforts is to be found in the benefits 
 which have accrued to the entire commonwealth. 
 He is a man remarkable in the breadth of his 
 wisdom, in his indomitable perseverance and his 
 strong intellectuality. His entire life has no hid- 
 den phase, being an open scroll inviting the 
 closest scrutiny. 
 
 Born in Granby, Mass., May 2,7, 1832, his an- 
 cestry, both lineal and collateral, is distinctively 
 American through many generations. The line 
 may be traced back to George Moody of Moul- 
 ton, Stiffolk county, England, whose son, Deacon 
 John Moody, crossed the Atlantic to the New 
 World in 1633, settling in Boston, Mass. Later 
 he resided in Roxbury, in that state, and in Bos- 
 ton he was made a freeman. His son, Samuel 
 Moody, married Sarah Deming. At the time of 
 his death, Samuel Moody was serving as a select- 
 man in his town. His son, who also bore the 
 name of Samuel, was born November 28, 1670, 
 and died November 10, 1774. His wife, Sarah, 
 was a daughter of Samuel Lane of Suffolk, 
 Conn., and the son born of this marriage, another 
 Samuel Moody, was born in Granby, Mass., Sep- 
 tember 10, 1702, and wedded Mary Hovey. The 
 son of this union was Thomas Hovey Moody, 
 
 the great-grandfather of the subject of this re- 
 view. He was born in South Hadley, Mass., 
 August 31, 1736, and married Eunice Chapin, a 
 native of Massachusetts. Their son, Gideon 
 Moody, grandfather of Z. F. Moody, was born 
 in Massachusetts March 15, 1765, and served 
 in the Revolutionary war in a company com- 
 manded by Captain Oliver Consey. To one of his 
 sons, the father of Z. F. Moody, he gave the 
 name of his own father, Thomas Hovey Moody. 
 The birth of this son occurred August 19, 1795, 
 and he became a farmer in New England. Even- 
 tually he removed to Illinois, settling at Con- 
 cord, Morgan county, where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his days. He served as Major in 
 the old Massachusetts State Militia, and in poli- 
 tics he was originally a Whig and afterward a 
 Republican. He married Hannah Ferry, who 
 was born in Massachusetts, a daughter of Noah 
 and Hannah (Montague) Ferry. Her birth oc- 
 curred March 17, 1794, and she gave her hand 
 in marriage to Thomas H. Moody in May, 181 7. 
 Her father was a son of Noah Ferry, Sr., and a 
 grandson of Charles Ferry of Springfield, Mass. 
 Senator T. W. Ferry of Michigan is a cousin 
 of Governor Moody, his father, the Rev. William 
 Ferry of Grand Haven, having been a brother 
 of the Governor's mother. Hannah Montague 
 was a daughter of Joseph Montague. The an- 
 cestry in that line may be traced back to Richard 
 Montague of Hadley, Mass., who was the first 
 of the name to come to America. He was of 
 English birth, and in England the family history 
 may be traced back to Normandy, the French 
 name being Montacute. 
 
 Unto Thomas H. and Hannah (Ferry) Moody 
 were born six children, five of whom reached 
 mature years : Thomas Hovey, who followed 
 farming in Illinois and afterward in Nebraska, 
 in which state he died; Mary, who became the 
 wife of Lemuel Stoughton and died in Connecti- 
 cut ; William Ferry, who was a merchant in 
 Philadelphia, where his death occurred; Z. F. 
 of this review ; and Gideon Webster, who re- 
 sides in Morgan county, Illinois. The parents 
 were members of the Congregational Church. 
 The mother died in Bedford, Mass. 
 
 Ex-Governor Moody spent the days of his 
 youth in New England. He acquired his rudi- 
 mentary education in the district schools, and 
 afterward became a student in the Union School 
 in Chicopee, Mass. He began his business career 
 as a clerk. In 1851, possessed of a strong desire 
 to see more of the country, he came to Oregon, 
 sailing from New York March 13 as a passenger 
 on the steamer Empire City. He landed at As- 
 pinwall, and thence proceeded by way of the 
 Chagres river and on the back of a mule to 
 Panama. Here he boarded the steamer St. Louis, 
 which carried him to San Francisco. There he 
 

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 une a passenger on the Columbia, bound for 
 
 it carried two hundred and fifty-three 
 
 gers and five hundred and fifty 
 
 inn passengers. Ex-governor Moods 
 
 traveled in the steerage; for his money had be- 
 
 xhausted and, having nothing left, he 
 
 borrowed twent) dollars to take him to Portland. 
 
 lor fourteen miles of this journey he traveled 
 
 on foot. 
 
 \~ it was necessary that he secure employment 
 
 - .tin- kind at once, he began doing chores for 
 his board. Six weeks later he secured a posi- 
 tion with the first surveying party in Oregon 
 engaged in the survey of the meridian line. He 
 started in as chainnian. but steadily worked his 
 way upward until he became an expert surveyor. 
 He followed this profession for some time, act- 
 ing as Deputy United States Surveyor the greater 
 part of the time until 1856, his labors being in 
 the valley ami among the mountains of this sec- 
 tion of Oregon. In 1854 he embarked in gen- 
 eral merchandising in Brownsville, Linn county. 
 The following year he went to California, where 
 Surveyor-General Hayes appointed him to ex- 
 amine surveys at the headwaters of the Salinas. 
 After devoting six months to this labor he re- 
 turned to ban Francisco and made his report. 
 In the fall of 1856 he left the Pacific Coast for 
 Illinois, traveling by way of the Panama and 
 New York route. Until 1862 he remained in 
 
 rgan county, 111., residing in the city of 
 Jacksonville, where for one term be served as 
 county surveyor. But the fascinating influences 
 of the great west were strong upon him, and, 
 pining for life on the coast, he returned by way 
 of the route he had taken to Oregon a few years 
 before. Upon his arrival in this state he located 
 at The Dalles. There he engaged in general 
 merchandising for some time, and also performed 
 considerable labor as surveyor. As deputy 
 United States surveyor he located the boundaries 
 
 'he Umatilla Indian Reservation. Subse- 
 quently he again engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 at The Dalles, where he served for a time as 
 member of the city council. 
 
 Varied and important have been the interests 
 which, from time to time, have claimed his at- 
 tention. His work, while contributing to his 
 -. has also been an important fac- 
 tor in the development of the state in many ways. 
 In 1805 he organized the Oregon & Montana 
 Transportation Company, which built steamboats 
 to navigate Lake Pend d'Oreille and Clark's Fork 
 of the Columbia river, now on the line of the 
 Northern Pacific Railroad. The aim of this 
 company was to secure the transportation busi- 
 ness from Montana to the Pacific coast. For 
 one season the company continued in business, 
 but the Missouri river route proved cheaper on 
 account of the expenses incurred by the transfer 
 
 In wagons, which was necessary from White 
 Bluffs to the lake, a distance of one hundred and 
 fift) miles. On account of this feature the 
 company could not well compete with the Mis- 
 souri river route. In an early day, from [870 to 
 1S74, Mr. Moody also had a contract for carry- 
 ing the mails on the steamers on the Columbia 
 river. With his sons, he has long been associated 
 in business at The Dalles as a grain merchant 
 and the owner of extensive warehouse interests, 
 and the enterprises there have reached large and 
 1 >r< ifitable proportions. 
 
 The active part which Mr. Moody has taken 
 in public affairs, his splendid record as a business 
 man. his ability, energy and devotion to the pub- 
 lic welfare, led to his selection for high political 
 office. In 1872 he was nominated by the Repub- 
 licans of Wasco county as their candidate for the 
 state senate, and received a majority of the 
 votes cast. The election was contested, but as 
 the senate was composed of eleven Democrats 
 and eleven Republicans, Mr. Moody's opponent, 
 who had been granted a certificate of election, 
 was allowed to keep his seat. In 1880 he was 
 nominated on the Republican ticket for the state 
 legislature, was elected, and was serving as speak- 
 er of the house when he received the nomina- 
 tion for the governorship. In t888 he was a 
 delegate to the national convention in Chicago 
 which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the 
 presidency. He was the only Harrison man from 
 the Pacific coast, and throughout the convention 
 he gave the Indiana statesman his support, cast- 
 ing his ballot for him from the start. In 1882 he 
 was the Republican nominee for the office of gov- 
 ernor against the Rev. J. L. Smith, and was 
 elected bv a majority of nearly two thousand, be- 
 ing the first Republican nominee elected in six- 
 teen years. 
 
 Governor Moody took the oath of office in 
 September, 1882, and as the legislature had voted 
 to make the time of inauguration in the January 
 following the election, he was thus retained in 
 office until January. 1887. Pie was not a candi- 
 date for re-election, and retired to private life at 
 the close of his term. Tn the meantime he had 
 accomplished much for the state. There has 
 been no administration of more practical benefit 
 to Oregon than that of Governor Moody. He 
 made a close study of the social, economic and 
 political problems which confronted Oregon, and 
 brought to bis administration the keen discrimi- 
 nation and sound judgment of a practical busi- 
 ness man, in addition to the loyalty of a public- 
 spirited and patriotic citizen. 
 
 We would intrench upon the province of his- 
 torv if we were to enter into a detailed account 
 of his administration; but in the record of his 
 life there should be given at least an indication 
 of the work which he accomplished while oc- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cupying the gubernatorial chair. The biennial 
 message which he transmitted to the legislature 
 showed that he possessed a thorough understand- 
 ing of the conditions in the state. During his 
 term in office the tax rate was reduced from five 
 and one-half mills on the dollar to one and nine- 
 teen-twentieths mills, and within this time, with- 
 out special tax or appropriation by the legisla- 
 ture, much building was done. This included 
 the erection of the brick stockade about the peni- 
 tentiary grounds, and four additional workshops 
 and a large wing to the main building of the 
 penitentiary. Large tracts of land for the use of 
 the asylum and the' penitentiary were also pur- 
 chased, all this being accomplished through the 
 economy of the administration. The legislative 
 hall and all the halls and corridors of the west- 
 ern approach and a portion of the eastern ap- 
 proach to the state capitol were completed, to- 
 gether with various minor improvements in the 
 public buildings of the state, involving the ex- 
 penditure of more than a quarter of a million of 
 dollars. 
 
 In his biennial message of 1887, after a thor- 
 ough review of conditions in the insane asylum, 
 Governor Moody spoke of the fact that when a 
 person appeared before the county court for ex- 
 amination as to his sanity, it was also customary 
 to make inquiry as to his financial ability with a 
 view to holding him responsible for his main- 
 tenance during the period of his confinement in 
 the asylum. He urged that this practice should 
 be abandoned, as the law frequently worked posi- 
 tive hardships in many instances, " particularly 
 where the head of a household is bereft of rea- 
 son, leaving the management of a small property 
 in the hands of a dependent and inexperienced 
 family." He also recommended that in case the 
 patient who had been assigned for commitment 
 was in extremely poor health, an experienced at- 
 tendant should convey him to the institution in 
 order that he might have the proper care while 
 upon the way. In taking up the subject of the 
 state penitentiary, he called attention to the fact 
 that no provision existed for the separation of 
 hardened criminals from youths and persons con- 
 victed of less heinous crimes, and serving the 
 shortest sentences, and recommended that a 
 course of moral training should be instituted, that 
 the youthful criminals might be reformed and 
 made law-abiding citizens. The State Agricul- 
 tural College, the State University, the School 
 for Deaf Mutes, the Blind School and the Or- 
 phans' Home also received due consideration 
 and recommendations for means of further work. 
 He showed that he had also made a thorough 
 study of agricultural conditions, dairying and 
 contagious diseases as affecting the prosperity of 
 the state. He had also given earnest thought to 
 questions of pilotage and navigation, as well as 
 
 to highways, and he recommended a fish com- 
 mission for the further care and development of 
 what is one of the most important industries of 
 the northwest. He recommended the establish- 
 ment of a radroad commission, and that state aid 
 should be given to the state militia. Another sub- 
 ject which came up for his consideration, and 
 which he recommended to congress, was the re- 
 apportionment of the state, calling attention to the 
 inconsistency in representation caused by the un- 
 equal population in different parts of the com- 
 monwealth. In closing this message he said : 
 
 "The volume and importance of your duties 
 increase with each biennial session, and the neces- 
 sary additional labor involved in the consideration 
 of matters brought before you will call for the 
 most patient industry and faithful application. 
 In determining your responsibility in this work, 
 it is well to consider that there is greater danger 
 of too much than too little, legislation. Certainty 
 and stability in our statutes are of the utmost im- 
 portance. Hasty work and frequent changes are 
 to be deplored. A well-established law should 
 remain untouched, unless the demand for amend- 
 ment or repeal is urgent and of vital importance 
 In the introduction of new legislation every point 
 should be well considered and acted upon with 
 deliberation. Grave matters of legislation should 
 not be delayed until the closing days of the ses- 
 sion, and then forced through with such haste 
 as to preclude the possibility of proper consid- 
 eration. 
 
 "Upon taking the oath and assuming the duties 
 of the office of chief executive of the state, I 
 promised faithfully to endeavor to promote the 
 prosperity of the state and the happiness of her 
 people. The record has been made, and it will 
 determine whether the obligation thus taken has 
 been fulfilled. Called from the scenes of a purely 
 business life, and without experience in the ad- 
 ministration of the affairs of state, the varied and 
 complex nature of the numerous duties incident 
 to this office have brought many embarrassments 
 not experienced by my predecessors, who had 
 the advantage of antecedent training and ac- 
 quaintance with public affairs. Whatever suc- 
 cess may have attended my efforts is largely due 
 to the co-operation of the legislative assembly 
 and my official associates, and the generous for- 
 bearance of the people. For the confidence which 
 has been reposed in me, and for the assistance 
 and forbearance extended, I desire to express 
 my grateful acknowledgments ; and I bespeak 
 for him who has been chosen as my successor 
 the same generous co-operation and support. 
 Trusting that the work of the session upon which 
 you are about to enter may be such as to redound 
 to your credit and to the prosperity of the state, 
 and invoking for you in your labors the blessing 
 and guidance of the Divine Ruler, I take my 
 
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 TA^esis. 
 
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 the duties and responsibilities of the i k 
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 ernor Moody was married in Browns- 
 ville, ( hre., November [9, 1853. to Mary Stephen- 
 , who was born in Boone county, fnd., a 
 iiai . William Stephenson. At an early 
 
 is left an orphan, and with friends 
 ■ 1 Linn county, Ore., crossing the plains 
 in 185a. They arc the parents of five children: 
 Malcolm A., who is now serving his second term 
 tative in congress from the Second 
 district of Oregon; Zenas A., a mechanical en- 
 rolling in Ashland, Ore. ; William 
 1 lo\ e) , wh( [jed in business with his father 
 
 : lie Dalles ; Ralph E., who is a graduate of 
 the law department of Union College at Albany, 
 V Y.. now an attorney in Portland and a for- 
 mer representative in the Oregon state legisla- 
 ture: and Edna, wife of Eugene P. McCornack, 
 lem. 
 K\-Governor and Mrs. Moody are members 
 the Presbyterian Church. In 1856 he was 
 made an Odd Fellow in Concord. 111. He is now 
 a member of Columbia Lodge No. 5, of The 
 Dalles, in which he has filled all the chairs. He 
 1 member of the State Pioneer Association 
 and the State Historical Society. Honored and 
 respected by every class of society, for many 
 years he has been a leader in thought and action 
 in the public life of the state, his honorable career 
 adding lustre to the history of the commonwealth. 
 
 GEORGE H. GREER, whose residence in 
 j. was born in Philadel- 
 phia. Pa., December 7, 1836. His father, James 
 er, was a native of County Antrim, Ireland, 
 born May 10. 1806, and in the year 1831 he came 
 America, locating in Philadelphia, where be 
 was engaged in weaving in the woolen mills, 
 
 ng a hand weaver, for the steam process of 
 weaving had not then come into use. In 1837 
 lie went by way of Xew Orleans to Indiana. 
 for the river route was practically the only mode 
 of travel at that time, else one would have had 
 
 Irive in private conveyance across the coun- 
 try. In 184] he went to Missouri, where he pre- 
 empted one hundred and sixty acres of land, and 
 in 1852 he came to ' making the journey 
 
 with ox teams aero-- the country to King's Val- 
 ley. He arrived at The Dalles in August, having 
 
 nt several months upon the way, for it was on 
 the 1st of May that he crossed the Missouri river 
 enroute for the northwest. On the 25th of Oc- 
 r, lie arrived in King's Valley and secured a 
 donation land claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, which he improved and continued to hold 
 until 1871, when he sold that property and re- 
 moved- to Corvallis. In 1889 he took up his resi- 
 
 dence at Dallas, where he died when almost 
 
 ninety-two years of age. 
 
 After coming to the northwest Mr. Greet fol- 
 lowed farming and was also freight receiver and 
 
 packer to ( aniden, Mo. In his political affiliations 
 in early life he was a Whig and he strongly en- 
 dorsed the Abolition principles when the ques- 
 tion of slaver) became the paramount issue be- 
 fore the people. When the Republican part \ was 
 formed to prevent the further extension of slav- 
 er} he joined its ranks and remained one of its 
 stalwart advocates until his demise. He was a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, de- 
 voted to its work and laboring earnestly for the 
 upbuilding of the cause of Christianity. I It- 
 traced his ancestry back to the early Wesleyan 
 denomination and he was most loyal to the teach- 
 ings of Methodism. A memorial window has 
 been placed in the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 at Dallas in memory of Mr. Greer and his wife. 
 In early manhood he had wedded Margaret Ham- 
 ilton, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, 
 January 13 ;8o8, and died at Dallas in 1885. 
 Unto this worthy couple were born nine children, 
 three sons and six daughters, of whom one son 
 and three daughters came to Oregon. 
 
 George H. Greer was the third of the family 
 and after acquiring his education in the common 
 schools he entered upon his business career as a 
 salesman in a store in Missouri. In this way 
 he aided in the support of the family while his 
 father was working in the mines of California. 
 At the age of twenty years he began teaching 
 school in Benton county, Ore., and in the winter 
 of 1857 went to California. He taught in Sono- 
 ma county in 1858 and in Yolo in 1859, and in 
 the summer of the latter year he returned to Ore- 
 gon, where he continued his educational work 
 until the fall of i860. He then joined the Oregon 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 and in 1862 was made a deacon by Bishop Mat- 
 thew' Simpson and was ordained elder by Bishop 
 Clark at Salem. He was then stationed at Dallas 
 and afterward continued his labors as a minister 
 of the gospel at Lafayette, McMinnville, and in 
 the Puget Sound country. He was minister of a 
 church in Olympia, afterward in Seattle and did 
 his last pastoral labor in Port Townsend. In 
 1873, however, he left the Oregon conference 
 because of the change in his religious views and 
 for two years labored in the interest of (he Amer- 
 ican Bible Society in western Washington. Bur- 
 dened with doubt as to many of the teachings of 
 the church, however, he then gave up religious 
 work and went upon a farm, lint his deep interest 
 in the human race and its ultimate destiny con- 
 tinued to engage his attention and he eventually 
 arrived at a belief in the Unitarian doctrine. In 
 [883 he became a student in the Unitarian Theo- 
 logical College at Meadville, Pa., and in 1884 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the charge of Washington was assigned to him 
 as a field of labor. He established societies in 
 Tacoma and Seattle and again did work in Olym- 
 pia and in Victoria, B. C. He was instrumental 
 in building the house of worship at Tacoma now 
 used by the Free Church, but on account of his 
 wife's health he left that city and state and in 
 1891 went to Mayfield, Cal., where he remained 
 until after the financial panic of 1893. Return- 
 ing to Oregon, he then settled upon his farm, 
 which is the old Spencer donation land claim 
 which belonged to his wife's father. It comprises 
 three hundred and twenty acres and since that 
 time he has been devoting his energies to agri- 
 cultural pursuits. He has twenty-five acres 
 planted to prunes and the remainder of his land 
 is devoted to general farming. In his work he 
 is progressive and has developed a splendid 
 property which annually returns to him a good 
 income. 
 
 Mr. Greer was married in Oregon in 1864 to 
 Miss Cornelia Jane Spencer, who was born in 
 Wellsville, Ohio, and who pursued her education 
 in the common schools and under the instruction 
 of her father, John Spencer. He was born in 
 Huntington county, Pa., April 17, 1802, and 
 though he had no educational advantages in his 
 youth, he became a man of scholarly attainments 
 and broad intellectuality. While pursuing his 
 ministerial .work he mastered Greek and Latin 
 without the aid of a teacher and he also read 
 broadly in scientific literature and theological 
 works. He continued upon the farm until 1828, 
 when he was admitted to the Pittsburg Confer- 
 ence, which embraced western Pennsylvania, 
 southeastern Ohio and the state of West Virginia. 
 He thus .continued his labors in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church until 1852, when he came' to 
 Oregon with an ox train, making the long and 
 arduous journey overland. He located in what is 
 still known as the Spencer farm, which is the 
 home of Mr. and Mrs. Greer, in January, 1853,. 
 having spent the first winter in Portland. For a 
 number of years he carried on agricultural pur- 
 suits here and in 1871 he removed to McMinn- 
 ville, where his death occurred June 30, 1884. 
 He was one of a family of nine children. His 
 wife, Julia Ann Spencer, was born February 3, 
 1 810, in Westmoreland county, Pa., and died 
 upon the old Spencer homestead in October, 1889. 
 The ancestry of the Spencer family can be traced 
 back through many generations. The great- 
 great-grandfather was Zachariah Spencer, who 
 it is believed was born in England and for many 
 years followed farming in Harford county, Md. 
 The great-grandfather, James Spencer, lived for 
 many years in western Pennsylvania and also 
 became a successful farmer in Harford county, 
 Md. He died in the former state and was buried 
 in the cemetery at Johnstown, Pa. William 
 
 Spencer, the father of John, was born in western 
 Pennsylvania in 1773 and is buried in the Johns- 
 town cemetery. At the time of the Civil war 
 John Spencer, the father of Mrs. Greer, was an 
 active Union man and had previously been a 
 strong champion of the cause of abolition. He 
 was very prominent and influential and his entire 
 life was devoted to the cause of humanity. Thor- 
 oughly unselfish, he gave of his time, his energy 
 and his means for the welfare of his fellow-men. 
 In politics he was an active Republican and for 
 two terms he served as county superintendent 
 of schools in Yamhill county. His daughter, 
 Mrs. Greer, is a lady of exceptional culture and 
 intelligence and she, too, has left the impress of 
 her intellectuality upon the educational develop- 
 ment of the state. For six years she engaged in 
 teaching in the city schools of Tacoma and dur- 
 ing that time she was elected county superin- 
 tendent of the schools of Pierce county, Wash. 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Greer have been born two 
 sons. Elwin Spencer, who pursued a course in 
 divinity in the Meadville Theological School, a 
 Unitarian school at Meadville, Pa., is now at 
 home. Medorem William, of Chicago, 111., is a 
 graduate in the electrical engineering department 
 of the School of Technology in Boston, where 
 he completed the course in June, 1891, and in 
 1892 he was graduated in literature in Stanford 
 University. 
 
 Mr. Greer is a man of strong socialistic tend- 
 encies and is now a believer in Unitarian faith. 
 Fearless and upright in defense of his honest 
 convictions, he stands to-day one of the highly 
 respected citizens of the county because of his 
 fidelity to what he believes to be right and be- 
 cause of his honorable record. 
 
 DORY BUSSARD. Since becoming a resi- 
 dent of Albany, Linn county, Ore., Dory Bussard 
 has established and built up, as proprietor of a 
 feed stable, one of the largest industries of its 
 kind in the Willamette valley. He has been in 
 this business since 1897, having come to this city 
 at that date, and conducted for four years a feed 
 stable at the corner of Baker and Second streets, 
 in 1 90 1 purchasing the quarter block of the 
 Pioneer Hotel property. Upon this land he 
 erected a building which covers nearly the en- 
 tire spot, the dimensions of the part under cover, 
 which is galvanized iron and surrounded by a 
 brick wall, being 133x102 feet and has a capac- 
 ity of one hundred and seventy head of stock. 
 
 Mr. Bussard was born. in Streator, 111., Sep- 
 tember 25, 1863, the son and grandson of two 
 William Bussards, the elder, a farmer, having 
 removed from Pennsvlvania to Circleville, Ohio, 
 where the younger William was born. On at- 
 taining maturity the father of Dory Bussard be- 
 
i ok ru \i r \\D BiOGR apiiu \i. re< < )ki). 
 
 
 a pioneer farmer near Streator, 111., and 
 
 in 1871 he made Ins home in Clinton, Mo., alter 
 
 tin returning u> Illinois, now living upon 
 
 near Breeds, Fulton county, lie mar- 
 
 iroline Defenbaugh, a native of Pickaway 
 
 my, Ohio, the daughter of Dan Defenbaugh, 
 
 who was the first white male child horn in llock- 
 
 inty, Ohio. He was a farmer by occupa- 
 
 n. Mrs. Bussard died in 1 S75, in Canton, 111., 
 
 • g nine children, of whom Alary is the wife 
 
 William Brown, oi Canton, 111.; Martin is 
 
 I in the sale oi agricultural implements in 
 
 .; Marquis is located near Eugene, 
 
 g; Margaret is .Mrs. Duncan of Albany; 
 
 5 the subject oi this review; Susan is Mrs. 
 
 . of Bloomington, 111.; Elizabeth is Mrs. 
 
 :key, of Chicago; Arizona is Mrs. Campbell, 
 
 of Peoria; and William is in the northern part 
 
 shington. 
 
 Bussard, the fifth child, was reared on 
 the paternal farm, and interspersed his home du- 
 - with an attendance of the public schools. 
 When twenty-one years old he began farming for 
 himself, engaging in the work near his birthplace, 
 and after a tew years he went to North Dakota, 
 in t888 purchasing near Devil's Lake new farm 
 lands for wheat raising. Two years later he 
 sold and again made his home in Illinois, then 
 conducting a feed stable in Streator, where he 
 remained lucratively employed for eight vears. 
 In 1896 he came to Oregon, locating first in 
 ialem, where he built a feed yard, which, at 
 that time, was the largest in the Willamette 
 valley, hut since his sale of that property in 1897, 
 has taken second place in comparison with the 
 which he now conducts.. In addition to his 
 l-yard Mr. Bussard is interested in a black- 
 smith shop and a hotel, the latter known as the 
 Riverview House, and is also the agent in Linn 
 county for the Corvallis Gate-opening Device, 
 selling the farm right for this patent gate. 
 
 Through his marriage with Miss Carrie A. 
 Mackey, a native of Streator. 111., where the 
 ceremony was performed, he has two children, 
 namely: Edith and Ethel. Fraternally Mr. Bus- 
 sard i> a member of the Modern Woodmen of 
 America, the Order of Pendo and Royal Neigh- 
 bor>. Religiously he is a member of the Congre- 
 gational Church, and politically is a stanch Re- 
 publican. 
 
 REV. JOSIAH L. PARRISH. No other 
 in the Union has been more liberally en- 
 dowed with men whose personal sacrifices have 
 nade the life of the community in which they 
 lived than has Oregon, a half century ago a wil- 
 derness, to-day the garden spot of the great 
 northwest. It was firm faith in the future re- 
 tirees of this section which led to the wide emi- 
 
 gration in the earlj days, when men of erudition, 
 
 talent and ambition gave up fair prospects in their 
 native localities, crossed the plains with their 
 myriad dangers, endured hardships and priva- 
 tions, and undaunted by discouragements of all 
 kinds brought their adopted state to a position 
 of prominence and enrolled their names among 
 the beginners of a nation. The pride in a fair 
 state is laudable and the efforts of these men to 
 make a cause for loyalty have been thoroughly 
 appreciated b\ posterity, hut while many engaged 
 in the advancement of industrial, commercial 
 and political conditions there were others who 
 accomplished no less fine results in the line of 
 moral betterment, which is the true test of a conn- 
 try's greatness. What this devotion to a prac- 
 tical and earnest religion meant in the life of 
 the state is beyond computation at the present 
 day, though its undoubted power is visible in the 
 prevailing conditions, and speaks eloquently of 
 the noble, self-denying lives of the early mis- 
 sionary settlers. 
 
 " For God and humanity," was the watchword 
 of one of those earnest men, Josiah L. Parrish 
 by name, a missionary of the Methodist Church, 
 and a consistent upholder of the faith which he 
 professed. At the time of his death, May 30, 
 1895, be was the oldest living pioneer, and the 
 changing scenes which marked each epoch in 
 his life have become state history, in which his 
 own name is indissolubly linked as that of a man 
 who gave his best efforts toward the moral and 
 material uplifting of those about him, Indian as 
 well as white inhabitant honoring his memory. 
 The life of Mr. Parrish began in Onondaga coun- 
 ty. X. Y., January 14, 1806, where he was born 
 the son of Benjamin and Sally (Lamberson) 
 Parrish, natives respectively of Connecticut and 
 New Jersey. The father was born in 1777, the 
 representative of a Puritan family of English an- 
 cestry, while the mother inherited the trustworthy 
 blood of Dutch forefathers. Of their ten chil- 
 dren Josiah L. was the oldest son, and beyond 
 the advantage of a brief attendance of the public 
 schools, was unable to secure in boyhood any- 
 thing but a very common education. His father 
 being a blacksmith, he early learned that trade, 
 working at it when he was so small that he had 
 to stand on a stool to blow and strike. His home 
 remained in his native town until he had attained 
 his seventeenth year, when he removed with his 
 parents to Monroe county and later to Allegheny 
 county. While still located in his native state 
 he found employment at Brockway, on the Erie 
 canal, remaining for many years satisfied with 
 the opportunities which the east offered. When 
 thirty-three years old he left his home and going 
 to Xew York City sailed on the ship Lausanne, 
 October <>. 1839, bound for the then wilderness 
 of Oregon, by way of the I lorn and Sandwich 
 
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 islands. He was then an ordained minister in 
 the Methodist faith and it was in company with 
 the missionaries which made up the party of 
 the Rev. Jason Lee that he made the voyage and 
 prepared to give of his strength and purpose of 
 life to western growth and civilization. 
 
 In May, 1840, the party landed in Oregon, 
 each of the several members preparing to go 
 his own way in the fulfillment of the intentions 
 with which the trip was undertaken. Though a 
 minister and missionary Mr. Parrish was also a 
 blacksmith, carrying with him a trade which is a 
 most necessary adjunct to a successful teaching 
 of religion, material benefit being imperative in 
 an undeveloped country. He also engaged in 
 harness, wagon and tool making. Mr. Parrish 
 first stopped at the " old mission " located ten 
 miles below Salem upon the banks of the Willam- 
 ette river, where he was employed for three years 
 in the prosecution of his trade, after which 
 be was sent as a missionary to the mouth of the 
 Columbia river. The Rev. Daniel Lee helped him 
 to start a mission where he had found one white 
 man, James Burney by name, this man having 
 an Indian wife. Having always been accustomed 
 to Indians, Mr. Parrish united with a clear com- 
 mon sense a fearless friendliness and a hearty 
 good will, which met with a quick return in the 
 manner in which he was able to handle the men 
 with whom he came in contact. He first made 
 his home on Clatsop plains, seven miles south of 
 the Columbia river, in company with his wife 
 and three children, and after becoming thorough- 
 ly familiar with the Indian language taught the 
 religion which he had come to far to tell, and 
 by his gentle, kindly personality so won the 
 friendship of the red men that he became one of 
 the most useful men of Oregon in his subjection 
 and moral training. Several times during his 
 life among them, being appointed Indian agent 
 in 1849, llis territory extending from California 
 to British Columbia, and afterward being de- 
 tailed to accomplish some dangerous missions in 
 which members of their tribe were to be given 
 into the custody of the whites. Two circum- 
 stances in particular are worthy of note, as they 
 denoted the great confidence which Mr. Parrish 
 had won among them and the power which his 
 personality had over them. During the gold 
 excitement a party of white men were sent from 
 Fort Auford to find a trail that would connect 
 with the trail for California, and while out they 
 encountered two hundred hostile Indians, when 
 several of their party were killed. Mr. Parrish 
 was asked to take forty well armed men and go 
 to the Indians and ask them for a conference 
 with Dr. Dart, superintendent of Indian affairs, 
 but he requested only that he have an Indian in- 
 terpreter (the language of these Indians being 
 Coquille) and various articles which he knew the 
 
 natives particularly desired. This was granted 
 and Mr. Parrish sought the Indians and alone 
 won from them a treaty of peace. In 1854 Mr 
 Parrish was Indian agent of the district extend- 
 ing from California to Coos bay, during which 
 service several treaties were made with the In- 
 dians, resulting in much good to the country. 
 At one time there was a serious trouble, in which 
 Mr. Parrish was sent to arrest an Indian who had 
 killed a white man, and though the entire coun- 
 try was stirred up over the affair, both whites 
 and Indians, he went fearlessly among them and 
 after some delay, but without violence, he suc- 
 ceeded in taking back with him the offender, 
 who showed the power of the missionary's per- 
 sonality when he followed the party to Fort Au- 
 ford without the exercise of force. Mr. Parrish 
 then returned to Salem, where he found his wife 
 very ill, her health having been failing for some 
 time. For this reason he resigned his post, 
 remaining near his wife in the tender ministra- 
 tions which he never failed to give to those in 
 trouble or distress. He continued his minister- 
 ial duties, being stationed 'regularly in Portland 
 in 1849, an d also preaching at many other loca- 
 tions in the state. 
 
 The wife who shared his strenuous life was 
 formerly Elizabeth Winn, a native of New York 
 state, having been born March 17, 181 1, and 
 there united in marriage with Mr. Parrish in 
 1833. Her death occurred August 30, 1869, 
 leaving three sons, the oldest, Lamberson W., 
 having died in September, 1840, during the first 
 year of their residence in the west. Norman O. 
 died November 26, 1900 ; Sarmtel B., who served 
 as chief of police ©f Portland, and died in that 
 city, 1898, and Charles W., born in September, 
 1844, was one of the first white children in Ore- 
 gon. He is now a lawyer at Burns, Ore. The 
 second marriage of Mr. Parrish united him with 
 Jennie L. Lichenthaler, by whom he had two 
 daughters, Grace G., the wife of Dr. E. A. Pierce, 
 whose biography appears elsewhere in this 
 volume, and Josie, Mrs. Slater, of Salem. After 
 the death of Mrs. Parrish in 1887 Mr. Parrish 
 married the following year Mrs. M. A. Pierce, a 
 native of Indiana, and the widow of J. O. Pierce, 
 a pioneer of Washington county, Ore. 
 
 Beyond his abiding interest in the cause of 
 Indian humanity Mr. Parrish became one of the 
 most prominent men in the commercial and in- 
 dustrial life of Oregon, as active in all movements 
 as in that of religion. He was a stanch supporter 
 of all educational movements and served as one 
 of the first trustees of the Willamette University, 
 and later was elected a life-honorary member of 
 the board of trustees, a position which he held 
 for nearly thirty years. He became the owner 
 of much valuable property in the Willamette 
 valley and in the city of Portland, at one time 
 

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 losing much of the latter through the kindliness 
 which prompted him to sign the notes of those 
 who were never able to return the money, but this 
 still left him with sufficient to pass through <>U1 
 comfortably. Through his position as one 
 of the early pioneers of the stale Mr. Parrish was 
 invited to drive the first spike in the Oregon & 
 California Railroad, when in Portland, and with 
 others he made a speech commemorative of tlu 
 event and the changes which the years had 
 brought to the west. h\ 1889 he drove the first 
 >pikc in the street railway of Salem, the broadax 
 which he used having been brought to Oregon in 
 1840. and after a long and singularly useful career 
 in hewing timbers for many of the missions, it 
 then lay rusting beneath the waters of the 'Willam- 
 ette river, where it was lost in 1840. and afterward 
 found and utilized once more in the mission of 
 Clatsop. It now adorns the museum of the Wil- 
 lamette University, to which it was present' 1 
 in 1892 by Mr. Parrish. Among the most notice- 
 able of his unselfish and noble acts was the minis- 
 trations for seventeen years in behalf of the con- 
 victs of the state penitentiary, where he preached 
 the religion which had meant the fullness of his 
 own life, the appreciation shown by the men 
 being evidenced by the gift of a gold-headed cane 
 hv officers and convicts on one of his birthdays 
 This cane was afterward lost by fire but the 
 memory of his deeds outlasts time and destruc- 
 tion, the worth of such actions ending not with 
 the passing of life, but going on down through 
 the coming years with a never-ending influence 
 adding regard and veneration to a name already 
 lustrous with the lisrht of work well done. 
 
 AI COOLIDGE. No history of Silverton 
 or this section of Oregon would be complete 
 without mention of Ai Coolidge, so active a 
 part has he taken in the business development 
 and substantial upbuilding of his community. 
 More than a half century has passed since he 
 arrived in Oregon, and there has been no 
 movement for the good of the state and the 
 advancement of its material interests that has 
 not elicited his attention and insofar as pos- 
 sible his active co-operation. Successful in his 
 undertakings, he is at the same time a man 
 free from ostentation and display, but the in- 
 trinsic worth of his character is recognized by 
 all with whom he comes in contact and has 
 gained for him the highest regard. He stands 
 to-day one of the honored pioneer citizens of 
 Oregon, being among the few who can relate 
 from memory as an active participant in the 
 affairs, the incidents which form the early- 
 annals of the state. 
 
 Mr. Coolidge was born in Union county, 
 Ohio, February 15, 1823. His father, James 
 
 1". Coolidge, was a native of Massachusetts, 
 
 and when a young man he removed to Union 
 county, Ohio, locating on the Big Derby river, 
 where he engaged in blacksmithing and farm- 
 ing. He first purchased eighty acres of land, 
 but afterward added to that until the trad 
 comprised a quarter section, lie married Fan- 
 nie Rice, a native of Vermont, and a daughter 
 oi Squire Rice, who was also horn in the Green 
 Mountain state, whence he removed to Ohio. 
 He became a trader and conducted a little store 
 in Columbus at an early day. In the latter part 
 of his life he was crippled by falling from a 
 bridge, but he lived to reach the advanced age 
 of about eighty years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
 Coolidge were born seven children, two daugh- 
 ters and five sons, of whom only two are liv- 
 ing — Annette, widow of George Wilbur, of 
 Marysville, Ohio, and the subject of this 
 review. The father was a Whig in his political 
 views and was a member of the Univers'alist 
 Church. Liberal and kind-hearted, his gener- 
 ous spirit and genial nature won for him many 
 friends, and his death, which occurred in 
 March, 1846, when he was fifty-six years of 
 age, was deeply regretted by all who knew 
 him. 
 
 Ai Coolidge was the third in order of birth 
 in his father's family. To a limited extent he 
 attended the common schools and in his youth 
 he worked in the fields almost from the time 
 he could reach the plow handles. In 1844 he 
 started out in life for himself and devoted his 
 energies to the manufacture of brick in Union 
 county, Ohio. The following year he removed 
 to Wisconsin, where he spent one year en- 
 gaged in trapping and hunting. In 1846, how- 
 ever, he returned to Ohio. He had left his 
 native state with $35 and he returned with $40, 
 thus realizing a profit of $5 for his year's labor. 
 Mr. Coolidge continued to make his home in 
 the state of his nativity until 1851, when the 
 opportunities of the northwest became known 
 to him and he resolved to seek a home in this 
 promising portion of the country. 
 
 A journey at that time was fraught with 
 many r hardships and considerable danger. The 
 great system of railroads which now spans the 
 country had not then been dreamed of, and the 
 long journey over the hot and sandy plains and 
 across mountains was usually made with ox- 
 teams in covered wagons. It was in this way 
 that Mr. Coolidge traveled, the party proceed- 
 ing by way of the Tlatte river route. They 
 were fortunate in escaping trouble with the 
 Indians, and the journey over the now country 
 really proved a pleasant one. On reaching 
 Oregon Mr. Coolidge camped about a quarter 
 of a mile from the present city of Silverton, and 
 there was engaged in cutting logs for Pd u ford 
 
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 Smith through that winter. He took up a do- 
 nation claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 about four miles southeast of the present site 
 of Silverton, and then devoted his energies 
 to the work which was before him. Beginning 
 the development of his farm he split about 
 seven thousand rails in order to fence a portion 
 of his tract, built a house and the first year 
 sowed six acres in wheat. In 1852 he embarked 
 in general mercbandising in what was then 
 called Milford, but in 1855 was superseded by 
 the present town of Silverton, and Mr. Coolidge 
 transferred his business from the former to the 
 latter. He occupied the Central hotel building, 
 which is now standing there, and moved it 
 from Milford to Silverton. Never for a day did 
 he suspend his business, but continued it while 
 the moving was going on, selling to customers 
 all along the road. It required four months to 
 get the building from Milford to Silverton. 
 He brought his goods from San Francisco and 
 continued to engage in merchandising at this 
 place with good success for ten years. Subse- 
 quently he engaged in farming and raising cat- 
 tle, having in the meantime purchased land to 
 the extent of five or six thousand acres. He 
 still retains possession of the first tract of 
 land which he owned. Three miles south on 
 Drift creek he bought four hundred and sev- 
 enty-one acres and the soil is still in its virgin 
 condition, there never having been a plow 
 upon it. In the last year and a half he has 
 sold about twelve hundred acres of his land, 
 but he now has remaining more than two thou- 
 sand acres. He has owned land all around the 
 town, and is now the owner of the Coolidge 
 or Postoffice block and the bank building. The 
 enterprising spirit, practical labors and wise 
 counsel of Mr. Coolidge have been most effective 
 in the developing of Silverton. He was one 
 of the promoters of the Silverton Electric 
 Light Company and rebuilt the gristmill here, 
 but later sold it. He is now the president of 
 the Coolidge & McClaine Bank of Silverton, 
 which was established in 1880 by Alfred Cool- 
 idge and A. F. McClaine, under the firm name of 
 Coolidge & McClaine. It was incorporated under 
 the same name in 1890. The bank has become 
 one of the solid and trustworthy financial insti- 
 tutions of this part of the state. The bank build- 
 ing was erected in 1893. 
 
 About two miles above his present home 
 Mr. Coolidge was united in marriage to Miss 
 Sarah F. Allen, a native of Illinois and a 
 daughter of Abner Allen, who was born in 
 Tennessee, whence he removed to Illinois. In 
 1852 he crossed the plains to Oregon, locating 
 about three miles south of Silverton. He pur- 
 chased a farm of three hundred and twenty 
 acres and continued its cultivation for some 
 
 years. His death occurred at tbe borne of Mr. 
 Coolidge. Unto our subject and his wife were 
 born six children, but only two are now living, 
 Dollie, Ai, May and Lena all having passed 
 away. The surviving members of the family 
 are Eva, who is at home, and Alfred, who is 
 the owner and president of the Second Na- 
 tional Bank of Colfax, Wash., and president 
 of the Traders' National Bank of Spokane, 
 Wash. 
 
 Mr. Coolidge is a stalwart Republican in 
 politics and for two terms he served as coun- 
 ty commissioner. He has also been council- 
 man for several terms, and for a long period 
 has been a school director. His fellow towns- 
 men, recognizing his worth and ability, have 
 called him to public office, and no trust reposed 
 in him has ever been betrayed in the slightest 
 degree. He is alike honorable in business and 
 social relations, and wherever he is known he 
 is esteemed for his fidelity to principles which 
 make up an honorable manly character. His 
 life has indeed been a busy and useful one, and 
 he has accomplished much. Though he is now 
 eighty years of age and though the snows of 
 many winters have whitened his hair, in spirit 
 and interest he seems in his prime, giving to 
 his business affairs careful supervision and at 
 the same time taking an active interest in 
 whatever pertains to the welfare of his locality. 
 
 JOHN J. SCOTT. Though young both in 
 years and in his residence in Oregon, John J. 
 Scott has made the most of natural ability and 
 opportunity and holds now a position of promi- 
 nence in the business affairs of the city of Al- 
 bany, Linn county, where he has made his home 
 since 1899. In the brief time of his residence 
 he has shown exceptional ability along the lines 
 of his business, and is a man of fine personality, 
 winning a large circle of friends, who recognize 
 his worth as a citizen. He is in the real estate 
 business there and has every promise of a success- 
 ful career, based upon the principles which have 
 given him his first forward step in life. 
 
 The birth of John J. Scott occurred in Alpena, 
 Mich., May 1, 1875, his parents being James, a 
 native of New York, and Mary (McCallum) 
 Scott, the latter of whom was born in Ontario 
 and died in Michigan. The father early settled 
 in Alpena, Mich., building and conducting a saw- 
 mill for many years. He later removed to Choate, 
 in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and there 
 built a sawmill, and conducted it successfully for 
 some time, investing the proceeds of the sale of 
 the same in a hardware business in Ewen, in the 
 same county. In 1899 he changed his location to 
 Oregon, now living upon a farm in Benton coun- 
 ty, which is owned by himself and son, John, the 
 
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 AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 389 
 
 other son, Walter, completing his Father's family, 
 
 „ u homo in Polk county, Ore. John J. 
 
 the older of the two sons, and was 
 
 red ni Mpena, where he attended the public 
 
 schools until he was fifteen years old, when he 
 
 - apprenticed to loarn the tinner's trade, tak- 
 
 instruction in his father's store. Alter five 
 
 rs with his father he opened a tin shop in 
 
 Ewen on his own responsibility, and conducted it 
 
 until he changed his residence to Oregon in 
 
 899. He first engaged in Albany with T. G. 
 
 Hopkins in the prosecution of his trade, in which 
 
 employment he remained for about a year, at the 
 
 f that period entering the produce busi- 
 
 [n 1901 he began business as a real estate 
 
 man of Albany, being- one of the principals in the 
 
 mi oi Curran & Scott, which has since dissolved 
 
 partnership, II. F. Hulburt taking the place of 
 
 Mr. Curran. The firm name is now Scott & 
 
 Hulburt. In partnership with bis father he 
 
 bought eighty acres of land two miles west of 
 
 Albany, and in Benton county, where his father 
 
 now lives, engaged in general farming. 
 
 Mr. Scott was married in Albany to Miss Nellie 
 Rilev. a native of that city, and the daughter of 
 Peter Riley, a farmer and stock-dealer, who 
 makes his home here. Mrs. Scott was educated 
 in St. Mary's School. Interested always in the 
 advancement of his business, Mr. Scott is a mem- 
 ber of the Albany Real Estate Exchange, and 
 politically he is a Republican. 
 
 PARIS R. WINSLOW. Left an orphan at 
 a very early age. Paris R. Winslow has made his 
 own way in the world without money or influence, 
 and by so doing has won an honored place for 
 himself among the successful and enterprising 
 farmers of Polk county. Born in Lincoln county, 
 Maine. April 21, 1846. he is a son of Josiah and 
 Nancy (Rowell) Winslow, natives of Massa- 
 chusetts, and whose death occurred in Maine re- 
 spectively in 185 1 and 1854. The elder Winslow 
 was a blacksmith bv trade, and followed it nearly 
 all of his active life, combining therewith the 
 management of a small farm. 
 
 Eight years old when left destitute of the care 
 r "ather or mother, Paris R. went to live with 
 an aunt in Hopkinton, Mass., where he continued 
 the education begun in the public schools of 
 Maine. Nothing of particular interest occurred 
 in his life until the breaking out of the Civil war. 
 when his desire to become a soldier and fight 
 for the Cnion more than ofifset any business 
 chances that might come his way. February 2, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Fifteenth 
 Maine Volunteer Infantry under Gen. B. F. But- 
 ler, and went to Mississippi, becoming a part 
 of the Army of the Gulf. In this capacity he 
 participated in the battles of Baton Rouge, Fort 
 
 Hudson, Sabine Cross Roads ami Pleasant Hill. 
 Under General Sheridan he was a soldier in Shen- 
 andoah valley, and under General Banks was at 
 Winchester and Cedar Creek, serving under the 
 same able leadership until the close of the war. 
 After being discharged and mustered out at Au- 
 gusta, Me., July 14, 1866, he started the same 
 year for California, making the journey by way 
 of the Isthmus, and going direct to Olympia, 
 Puget Sound. There he engaged in farming until 
 1870, and then removed to Klickitat countv, 
 Wash., and engaged in stock-raising until 1874. 
 
 Arriving in Polk county. Ore., in 1874, Mr. 
 Winslow lived first on a farm in the Eola Hills, 
 and in 1890 rented his present farm, which he 
 greatly improved and in time purchased. It 
 consists of one hundred and two acres, twenty- 
 five of which are under cultivation, the whole 
 being devoted to general farming, stock-raising 
 and dairying. In 1875 Mr. Winslow was united 
 in marriage with Addie Vandevort, who was 
 born in Lane county, Ore., in 1857, a "d whose 
 father, W. H. Vandevort, crossed the plains in 
 1852. Six children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Winslow, of whom Helen K. is living in 
 Salem ; Herbert is in California ; Elvie and Wal- 
 ter are attending the Willamette University ; and 
 Frank and George are at home. With his wife 
 Mr. Winslow is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church of Lincoln, of which he is class- 
 leader and trustee. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, but has never been identified with local or 
 other office. He is esteemed for his personal 
 characteristics and success in life, and has many 
 friends who wish him well and appreciate his 
 public spiritedness and thrift. 
 
 ERASTUS SPAULDING is one of the retired 
 residents of Newberg who has stored up a great 
 deal of interesting and instructive information 
 regarding the early days of California and Ore- 
 gon. Descended from a fine and reliable New 
 England ancestry, Mr. Spaulding was born in 
 Milford, N. H., August 14, 1832, his father, 
 Abel, being a native of Massachusetts, as was 
 also his paternal grandfather, another Abel. The 
 latter served in the war of 1812, and died in hi? 
 native town of Peperal at the advanced age of 
 ninety-four years. He was a farmer during his 
 entire active life, and handed down to his name- 
 sake son a keen appreciation of the many ad- 
 vantages of an agricultural life. However, the 
 second Abel branched out somewhat from the 
 example set bv his sire, and on his two hundred 
 acre farm on the state line between New Hamp- 
 shire and Massachusetts, in Milford township, 
 engaged in sawmilling with a water-wheel mill 
 for manv years. His latter days were rendered 
 precarious by a defective heart, and this distress- 
 
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 ing disorder was die cause of his death at the age 
 of seventy-six years. His wife, Anna Shaddock, 
 was also born in the east, the daughter of a farmer 
 in Massachusetts, and her death occurred on the 
 old homestead in Milford township. 
 
 The second youngest in his father's family of 
 seven sons and two daughters, Erastus Spauld- 
 ing attended the early subscription schools at 
 irregular intervals, and was early inured to long 
 hours and hard work. Between the ages of ten 
 and sixteen he knew little leisure on the home 
 farm, and after that applied himself for seven 
 years to learning and applying his trade of 
 blacksmithing. During this time he lived in 
 Westborough, Mass., and in 1858 he located in 
 Leavenworth, Kans., where he lived and pros- 
 pered for six years. Various activities engaged 
 his attention in the Kansas city, including black- 
 smithing, masonry and teaming, and he also came 
 to own and manage a saw-mill. He was a strict 
 Abolitionist, and fearlessly made known his 
 views on this then all-important question. Those 
 were interesting times in Kansas, and the ener- 
 getic blacksmith had some peculiar experiences. 
 The Quantrells were traveling their liveliest gait, 
 and the country was being scoured for their cap- 
 ture, dead or alive. Mr. Spaulding luckily es- 
 caped close association with this murderous 
 band of robbers, and his services were never in 
 demand to hunt them to their lairs. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Spaulding unsettled himself from 
 Kansas and located in California, where he found 
 employment in the shop of the Excelsior Manu- 
 facturing Company, managed by his brother. 
 Thereafter he developed a talent for invention, 
 and with a man named William Plumber invented 
 what became known as the Plumber Fruit Dryer. 
 They built the second fruit dryer in the state of 
 California, and placed it in Sonoma, Sonoma 
 county. They were fairly successful in manufac- 
 turing their dryer, but a drought appearing the 
 second year they removed to Oregon in 1874, 
 locating' their plant at East Portland. Here 
 they manufactured and sold their dryer for three 
 years, made a large amount of money, but owing 
 to a failure in the fruit crop the fourth year de- 
 termined to dispose of their company rights. The 
 severing of the partnership was accompanied by 
 considerable friction, owing to the unreliability 
 of the partner of Mr. Spaulding. 
 
 After retiring from manufacturing dryers Mr. 
 Spaulding bought a farm of one hundred and 
 thirty acres near Pleasantdale, Yamhill county, 
 a part of which was improved, and upon which 
 he lived and farmed until 1896. He then took 
 up his residence in Newberg, and though he still 
 owns his farm, is practically retired from busi- 
 ness activity. Four years ago he had a stroke 
 of apoplexy, but at the present time has nearly 
 recovered his normal health. In Massachusetts, 
 
 May 8, 1861, Mr. Spaulding was united in mar- 
 riage with Elizabeth Kent, who was born in Can- 
 ada, and whose father, a printer by trade, lived 
 and died in the northern country. Of the three 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding one died 
 in infancy ; Frank, who had just completed an 
 apprenticeship as a machinist, was drowned 
 while moving some lumber into its proper place 
 for his employers in Portland, and, stepping back- 
 ward, fell into the Willamette river, striking the 
 lower deck of a steamer moored to the shore. Flis 
 neck was broken, and for two days the effort to 
 find his body was futile. However, a longshore- 
 man saw in hisi^leep the place where the boy 
 might be found, **fcnd strange as it may seem, a 
 search of the place revealed the body of the un- 
 fortunate lad. He was twenty years and fifteen 
 days old at the time of his death, and his taking 
 away was sadly deplored by his family and many 
 friends. C. K. . Spaulding, the youngest son, is 
 mentioned at length in another part of this work. 
 Mr. Spaulding is a Republican in politics, and in 
 religion professes no particular creed. He is fra- 
 ternally associated with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 J. J. COLLINS. Bringing with him into the 
 west a fund of enthusiasm and a firm belief in 
 the inexhaustible resources of the states of the 
 Pacific slope, it is not a matter of wonder th?t 
 J. J. Collins has grandly succeeded in his under- 
 taking, building up for himself an interest in a 
 substantial and remunerative business, as well as 
 developing the latent possibilities of the country. 
 After many years of experience in the timber 
 lands of Michigan, where he gained a keen, true 
 insight into, every detail of the work, he desired 
 a new and broader field for utilizing the ability 
 and energy which he felt had become the moving 
 power of his ambitions, and he therefore sought 
 the fields of Oregon, and as a member of the 
 firm of E. Dorgan & Co., of Albany, Linn coun- 
 ty, he has added to the business possibilities of 
 the city. 
 
 J. J. Collins was born in Carsonville, Sanilac 
 county, Mich., December 5, 1865, the son of 
 Jeremiah Collins, a farmer in that vicinity, and 
 who died there. He was the second oldest of 
 the eight children, six of whom are living, two 
 sisters and a brother, F. H. Collins, having also 
 located in Albany. He was reared to manhood 
 on the farm of his father, receiving his education 
 in the district school, and when eighteen years 
 of age he went to Alpena, Mich., and entered the 
 employ of F. W. Gilchrist. Beginning at the 
 foot of the ladder he made his way gradually to 
 one of the best positions in the business, becom- 
 ing, before the close of the fifteen years' service, 
 the buyer and scaler of logs. In 1899 he resigned 
 
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 393 
 
 ln> position and coming to Albany, Ore., he be- 
 • the firm of E. Dorgan & Co., which 
 was then formed by himself. !•'.. Dorgan and F. 
 Devine, the three being experienced lumber 
 and timber men. Mr. Collins assumed charge 
 of the office and the other two attended to the 
 
 ating and buying of lands, beginning at once 
 
 upon tlie work, and in their sale of the same meet- 
 
 witli extremely gratifying success. In 1902 
 
 tliev located about seventy thousand acres, most 
 
 the locaters being Linn county people, alto- 
 
 ther in this short time having bought and sold 
 over thirty thousand acres of land. The best 
 efforts of this firm have been put forth in the 
 endeavor to induce capital to build a good saw- 
 mill in the city of Albany, and thus advance the 
 timber interests of the county and vicinity, the 
 value of which operations would extend through- 
 nut the Willamette valley, and induce emigration 
 from the eastern states. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Collins united him with 
 Miss Katherine G. Marinan, a native of Mis- 
 
 -i. In addition to the absorbing interests of 
 his timber business, Mr. Collins is connected with 
 fire insurance circles, representing the Phoenix 
 & Milwaukee Mechanics. In his fraternal rela- 
 tions he is a member of the Benevolent Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks, Modern Woodmen of Amer- 
 ica and Foresters of America, in the first named 
 serving as treasurer. 
 
 AX SOX STERLING COXE. A family nu- 
 merously and worthily represented in Oregon is 
 that of which Anson S. Cone is a member. He 
 i> widely known as one of the extensive farmers 
 and stock-raisers of the Willamette valley, and 
 since 1846 has been actively identified with the 
 
 •; citizenship of this state of unbounded re- 
 sources and possibilities, and with its wonderful 
 latter-day development. He was born near Shel- 
 byville, Ind., November 6, 1827, a son of Gus- 
 tavus Adolphus and Mary (Garrison) Cone. 
 \\ hen he was four years of age he was taken by 
 his parents to Laporte county, Ind., and at the 
 age of thirteen accompanied them to Lee county, 
 Iowa, where his father purchased a farm. As 
 early as 1846 rumors of the superior advantages 
 offered by the west began to reach the quiet agri- 
 cultural region of Lee county, and the sons in 
 the Cone family discussed the subject with as 
 much enthusiasm as did any of their neighbors — 
 and perhaps with more practical results. At any 
 rate Anson and Aaron Cone, two of the most 
 enterprising and ambitious young men of that 
 neighborhood, joined a caravan bound for Oregon 
 in the spring of that year, having outfitted with 
 ox-teams, with the unalterable determination of 
 putting their fortunes to the hazard in the won- 
 derful new country. A halo of romance invested 
 
 everything connected with the great region for 
 which they were headed, and. once started, noth- 
 ing persuaded them to turn back. 
 
 Upon their arrival at Whitman's Station the 
 brothers, accompanied by Asbury l'ugh, pur- 
 chased pack horses and proceeded on horseback 
 the rest of the way to Oregon City, where they 
 arrived about seven months after starting out. 
 The following year Oscar H. and Gustavus A., 
 their brothers, crossed the plains in the same man- 
 ner, the former from the Iowa farm and the 
 latter from Laporte county, Ind., and settled 
 near Butteville. In 1852 'the father of these 
 young men, desiring to share in the advantages 
 surrounding his sons, sold his Iowa propertv 
 and followed them to Oregon. In 1853 Francis 
 AL, Oliver and Philander J. brought their mother 
 to join the family, and thus were assembled in 
 one state, and in practically the same neighbor- 
 hood, the dear ones to whom separation and its 
 attendant anxieties had been so severe a trial. 
 
 Anson S. Cone's first location in Oregon was 
 in Washington county, where he was employed 
 for a time at work upon farms which were being 
 developed out of the wilderness in the vicinity 
 of Hillsboro. Subsequently he removed to the 
 vicinity of Oregon City, and in 1848 started for 
 California with ox-teams. The pioneer spirit 
 of adventure had taken possession of him, and 
 he was determined to secure some of the gold, 
 the discovery of which about this time had created 
 such a sensation the world over. The party with 
 which he traveled was the first to open a road 
 over the mountains into the far-famed valley 
 of the. Sacramento. The expedition consisted of 
 forty wagons and one hundred and twenty men, 
 only one of whom was accompanied by his wife 
 and children. Anson S. Cone first went to Sut- 
 ter's Mill and prospected until the spring of 
 1849, at which time he visited the north, middle 
 and south forks of the American river, experi- 
 encing fair success in his mining operations. In 
 the fall of the same year his brother Aaron, 
 wdio had been his companion in so many travels 
 and adventures, and who had gone to California 
 in the spring of 1849. died in Sacramento; and 
 in August Mr. Cone himself became ill and was 
 obliged to abandon his work and return to Ore- 
 gon. He came by steamer from San Francisco 
 to Astoria, and in the spring of 1850 went to 
 Butteville, where he took up a donation claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres. This is the 
 propertv now occupied by J. B. Kenyon and his 
 sons. In the summer of the same year he took 
 up his present farm of three hundred and twenty 
 *acres. and upon this his father moved in 1852. 
 In the latter year he built himself a log house 
 on his original claim, and in the midst of crude 
 and unattractive surroundings began the work 
 of converting the wilderness into a productive 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 farm. For four years he maintained bachelor 
 quarters on this property, and endured many 
 hardships without complaint, assured of ultimate 
 improvement in his condition. 
 
 In 1850, when the Indians who participated 
 in the Whitman Massacre were tried, Mr. Cone 
 served on the jury, in charge of Joseph L. Meeks, 
 then United States marshal. 
 
 In 1 86 1 Mr. Cone went to Florence, Idaho, 
 and for two years earned considerable money 
 in the mines. For a time thereafter, he turned 
 his attention to a pack train with which he con- 
 veyed provisions from Lewiston to the mining 
 camps of Elk City and Clearwater Station, a 
 distance of one hundred and thirty miles. Dur- 
 ing the heat of two summers he made this trip 
 frequently, and finally, with his brother, Philan- 
 der J., he took the train to Marion county. In 
 1866 he was united in marriage with Sarah A. 
 Cone, widow of his brother Oliver, who had five 
 children by her former marriage. Of these, Jane 
 married Joseph Graham, of Clackamas county ; 
 Alvina is deceased ; Orville O. resides near Sandy, 
 Ore. ; Everett A. M. lives on the farm ; and Mary 
 F. is the wife of Mr. Tower, in the mail service 
 in Portland. By her first marriage with William 
 Long she had a son, John Wesley Long, now on 
 the home farm. 
 
 Soon after his marriage Mr. Cone settled on 
 the farm upon which his father formerly lived, 
 and which now consists of four hundred acres. 
 He is engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising, has seventeen acres under hops, and 
 is breeding hogs and Angora goats in large 
 numbers. In politics he is a Republican, but 
 has never evinced a desire to hold public office. 
 Thorough, practical and substantial in appear- 
 ance and fortune, he is a typical, large-hearted 
 and resourceful northwestern pioneer. Possessed 
 of a genial disposition and a kindly public spirit 
 which actuates him to many deeds which will al- 
 ways reflect credit upon his name, he strives to 
 do his part in the world toward making it better 
 and happier. At his home he and his family 
 dispense a gracious and generous hospitality. The 
 publishers of this volume have taken great pride 
 in preserving for the future a record of the life 
 of Mr. Cone, with this brief estimate of the es- 
 teem in which he is held by those who have 
 learned to know him best, feeling assured that 
 such a review will prove the fountain-head of in- 
 spiration for many an ambitious youth of the 
 present day, as well as of generations yet to 
 come. 
 
 Z. H. RUDD. No history of the Willamette 
 valley would be complete were no mention made 
 of Z. H. Rudd, who. as manager of the Linn 
 County Abstract Company, occupies an impor- 
 
 tant place in the business affairs of the county. 
 A native son of the state, he was born August 
 27, 1862, a son of Harry L. and Lydia A. (Mor- 
 rison) Rudd, natives of Rutland county, Vt., and 
 New Hampshire, respectively, tbe latter a daugh- 
 ter of Major Morrison, also a native of New 
 Hampshire, but who finally settled "in Michigan. 
 
 Harry L. Rudd was proud to claim descent 
 from an old New England family. He was a 
 farmer's son and was early initiated into the 
 duties that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. 
 From Rutland county, Vt., he removed to Cass 
 county, Mich., there also engaging in farming. 
 In 1849, however, he was seized with the fever 
 of unrest, as were so many others upon the an- 
 nouncement that gold had been discovered in 
 California, and forthwith started across the plains 
 with gold and California as his goal. In the 
 fall of the year 1851 he returned to the east, and 
 in Michigan, in the early part of 1852, was 
 united in marriage with Miss Lydia A. Morrison. 
 The young people at once started across the 
 plains, ox teams furnishing the motive power. 
 He became associated with John N. Donalds in 
 the management of a merchandise business in 
 Burlington. Adjoining what is now known as 
 Peoria, Linn county, Mr. Rudd took up a dona- 
 tion claim of six hundred and forty acres, and 
 at once began to transform it into a habitable 
 tract. 
 
 The long and useful life of Harry L. Rudd 
 was brought to a close in 1892, his death occur- 
 ring in Albany, his wife preceding him by one 
 year. To this worthy couple three children were 
 born, only two of whom are living. Lura, Mrs. 
 Haight, of Albany, and Z. H. 
 
 As his father was a farmer, it was but natural 
 that Z. H. Rudd should become acquainted with 
 the duties that pertain to the farm, and at an 
 early age he gave a helping hand. When the 
 district schools were in session he improved every 
 opportunity which they afforded, and subsequent- 
 ly he attended Armstrong's Business College in 
 Portland, from which he graduated in February, 
 1882. From then until 1891 he remained on the 
 old home farm, taking an active part in its care 
 and cultivation. In 1891 he was appointed 
 deputy to the county recorder, E. E. Davis, hold- 
 ing the position two terms, and in the meantime 
 gaining a practical insight into the details per- 
 taining to the office. In 1892 Z. H. Rudd, E. E. 
 Davis and W. A. Kimsey formed what has since 
 been known as the Linn County Abstract Com- 
 pany, although the individual owners have 
 changed somewhat since its organization. Mr. 
 Kimsey's interest was later purchased by the two 
 other partners, and subsequently B. M. Payne 
 and Z. H. Rudd bought Mr. Davis' interest 
 Substantially all the abstracts written in the coun- 
 ty pass through the company's hands, and it goes 
 
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 without saying that the compan) enjoy the com- 
 plete confidence of the people wanting work in 
 that lme. A number of assistants are required 
 in the office to do the detail work. Mr. Rudd is 
 manager of the company, for which position he 
 tughly qualified. 
 
 In Lebanon, I. inn county. Mr. Rudd was united 
 in marriage with Miss Mary Rieland, whose birth 
 occurred in Ohio. Fraternally Mr. Rudd is a 
 Mason, being identified with St. John's Lodge 
 and is also enrolled among the Royal 
 Arch Masons and the Woodmen of the World. 
 Socially he holds membership with the Alco Club, 
 
 I in political matters invariably casts bis vote 
 in favor of Democratic candidates. Mr. Rudd 
 and his sister still own the old donation claim 
 which his father took up in 1852, but rent it to 
 tenants. In his business dealings he has been 
 vt tv successful, his good management, enterprise 
 and fair dealing winning him a handsome com- 
 petence, which numbers him among the substan- 
 tial citizens of the community. 
 
 WILLIAM GOLTRA. Since coming to Ore- 
 gon in 1853 William Goltra has been closely 
 connected with the business as well as the ag- 
 ricultural interests of the communities of which 
 he has been a resident, through the exercise of 
 his practical, clear-cut methods, dictated by an 
 unusually keen judgment. Not empty-handed 
 when he came west — for no man can be called 
 who has mastered a trade, and with earnest 
 energy and industry prepares for the work which 
 is to win his livelihood — he also had for his cap- 
 ital the personal traits which have since charac- 
 terized his success, and also called forth the ad- 
 miration and esteem of those who have witnessed 
 his efforts. 
 
 The Goltra family came originally from Ger- 
 many, the first representative in America being 
 the great-grandfather of William Goltra. He set- 
 tled in New York state, where Oliver Goltra 
 was born, the latter serving his country in the 
 war of 18 1 2. He was a farmer by occupation 
 and made his home in young manhood in New 
 Jersey, and later in life removed to Jacksonville, 
 111., where his death occurred. The second 
 ttiver, the father of William Goltra, was born 
 near Xew Brunswick, N. J., and in that state he 
 engaged at his trade of a hatter, carrying on his 
 work in both Middlesex and Somerset counties 
 until 1861, at which time he removed to Jack- 
 die, 111., and became a farmer in Morgan 
 county, later removing to Lincoln, where he died. 
 In his religious views he was a Presbyterian. 
 He married Anna Harris, a native of New Jer- 
 sey, and a descendant of Welsh and English an- 
 cestors. Her father, William H. Harris, died 
 in Xew Jersey, where Mrs. Goltra also died, his 
 
 loyalty having been tested in the war of iS 1 2 dur- 
 ing which he faithfully served. Of the eleven 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Goltra, ten at- 
 tained maturity and nine are now living, only two 
 of whom came to the Pacific coast, another son, 
 Nelson, coming at the same time that William 
 Goltra emigrated. He settled in Linn county, 
 Ore., where he engaged in the manufacture of 
 lumber, and was killed in Corvallis in 1858, by 
 the explosion of one of the boilers of the saw- 
 mill. 
 
 The oldest child living of this large family 
 is William Goltra, who was born May 24, 1834, 
 near New Brunswick, N. J., and there reared to 
 manhood, receiving his education in the public 
 schools. He early learned the trade of a carpen- 
 ter, working at the same for some little time in 
 his native state, but when only nineteen years old 
 he started with his brother for the west. The 
 outfit, consisting of ox teams and necessary sup- 
 plies, was obtained in the spring of 1853 and 
 they set out over the " Barlow route " for Ore- 
 gon, May 12 witnessing their departure from 
 the site of Kansas City, and five months later, 
 to the day, they arrived at their destination. Mr. 
 Goltra walked the entire distance between Mis- 
 souri and the western territory, driving a team, 
 his pluck manifest in the way he endured hard- 
 ships and privations in this first struggle of life. 
 The brothers first located in Clackamas county. 
 Ore., and there spent the winter following the 
 journey. William Goltra engaged in the prose- 
 cution of his trade. In 1854 he came to the 
 citv of Albany, Linn county, and for the ensuing 
 eleven years continued here, contracting and 
 building. In 1855 he bought the right to a do- 
 nation claim seven miles southeast of xAlbany, 
 known originally as the Keller claim, and near 
 which the Southern Pacific railroad now runs, 
 and improved and operated it in connection with 
 his interests in Albany. In 1865 he removed to 
 the farm and devoted his energies entirely to the 
 cultivation of the same, and has added to the 
 original number of acres purchased until he has 
 four hundred and thirty acres. In 1873 he rented 
 the farm and again located in Albany, engaging 
 then in the grain business. He has since con- 
 tinued in this work, meeting with a gratifying 
 success which can scarcely fail to accompany 
 earnest, persevering effort, such as Mr. Goltra 
 has put forth in everything that be has attempted 
 in life. He buys grain from Linn, Marion and 
 Lane counties principally, and ships to Portland 
 and San Francisco, dealing almost entirely in 
 wheat and oats. In t8o6 he bought out the 
 branch house of the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver 
 Hardware Company, of Portland, and moved the 
 stock into his own building at the corner of Ells- 
 worth and First streets, where he carries a com- 
 plete line of all farming implements, carriages, 
 
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 wagons and harness. The business is conducted 
 under the firm name of Goltra & Rumbaugh. 
 Mr. Goltra is well known through his extensive 
 grain dealing, especially in the eastern part of 
 the Willamette valley, where he bought and 
 shipped grain over the " East Side Railway " be- 
 tween Silverton and Coburg, and the main line 
 between Harrisburg and Turner, for many vears. 
 Mr. Goltra also owns other farms in the vicinity 
 of Albany, and for some years was interested in 
 the Farmer's Elevator Company, of which he was 
 one of the organizers. 
 
 The marriage of William Goltra with Sarah 
 E. Denney, occurred in Lebanon, Linn county. 
 She was born in Ohio, the daughter of Christian 
 Denney, who crossed the plains in 1852 and set- 
 tled in Linn county. Of the four children which 
 blessed this union, Eva died in Albany ; Addie 
 became the wife of D. W. Rumbaugh, of Al- 
 bany; Laura was married to J. B. Starr, now of 
 New York City ; and John O., a graduate of 
 Willamette University, is the secretary of the 
 Portland Trust Company, and makes his home 
 in Portland. Mr. Goltra is a Methodist in his 
 religious views and a Republican in politics, 
 and though never desiring official recognition, he 
 takes an active interest in political affairs and 
 gives every effort toward the betterment of mu- 
 nicipal government and hearty encouragement 
 toward movements calculated to advance the 
 general welfare of the city. He is one of the 
 representative citizens of the west, and it is 
 through the efforts of such men of ability and 
 integrity that the commonwealth of Oregon has 
 so quickly risen to a place of importance in the 
 affairs of the country. 
 
 E. J. SEELY. An important factor in the 
 industrial interests of Linn county, and a lead- 
 ing member of the Democratic party, E. J. Seely 
 holds a commanding position among the active 
 and enterprising men of the thriving city of 
 Albany. He takes a prominent part in public 
 matters as chairman of the Democratic Central 
 Committee, and is widely and favorably known 
 as a most successful creamery operator, being the 
 secretary and manager of the Albany Butter and 
 Produce Company. A son of the late William 
 Seely, he was born July 3, 1866, in Whitehall, 
 Greene county, 111. He is of French-Canadian 
 /descent, his paternal great-grandfather, Anthony 
 Seelye, as the name was formerly spelled, having 
 been born of French ancestors, in Canada. He 
 subsequently removed to Missouri, settling in 
 St. Louis, when that now important city was but 
 a hamlet. His son, Stewart Seely, who curtailed 
 the family surname by cutting off the final " e," 
 was the grandfather of E. J. Seely. He was 
 born and bred in St. Louis, but as a young man 
 
 settled in Greene county, 111., where he became 
 a farmer of some prominence. 
 
 Born in Whitehall, III, William Seely was 
 reared to farming pursuits, and continued a resi- 
 dent of his native town until 1888. Emigrating 
 then to Benton county, Ore., he purchased land 
 in Alsea, and was there engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits until his death, in 1892. He married 
 Jennie Jones, who was born in Greene county, 
 111., and died, in 1896, in Alsea, Ore. Her father, 
 Josiah Jones, a native of North Carolina, was a 
 pioneer settler of Greene county, 111. Of the 
 thirteen children born of their union, eight sur- 
 vive, namely: E. J., the special subject of this 
 sketch ; Charles, a resident of Astoria ; Curtis, 
 who is engaged in the creamery business at Wald- 
 port, Ore. ; Mrs. Lana Neal, of Heppner, Ore. ; 
 Mrs. Lucy Warfield, Harry, Gusta and Inez. 
 The last four named children live in Alsea valley. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm in Greene coun- 
 ty, 111., E. J. Seely obtained his education in the 
 district schools and the Whitehall high school. 
 Leaving home at the age of nineteen years, he 
 went to Bartelsville, I. T., where he was em- 
 ployed in farming and stock-raising until the 
 spring of 1889. Coming then to Oregon, he lo- 
 cated at Springfield, Lane county, where he re- 
 mained for five years in the creamery business, 
 being associated with Douglas & Co., as manager 
 of their creamery, and while there became pro- 
 ficient in the trade of a butter maker. Remov- 
 ing, in 1895, to Albany, Mr. Seely became sec- 
 retary and manager of the Albany Creamery As- 
 sociation, with which he was connected five 
 years. In 1900 he organized the Albany Butter 
 and Produce Company, of which he has since 
 been the secretary and manager. Buying a cor- 
 ner lot he built the creamery, and has been in- 
 strumental in the establishment of an extensive 
 and profitable dairy business, making a specialty 
 of manufacturing a choice grade of butter, in the 
 season of 1902 making 155,000 pounds. Remod- 
 eling the building in 1902, Mr. Seely erected a 
 cold storage plant, and is in every way success- 
 ful. He both stores and manufactures ice, in 
 which he carries on a substantial retail trade, 
 having a lucrative patronage in Albany. 
 
 Mr. Seely married, in Albany, Miss Stena 
 Freerksen, who was born in Illinois, of German 
 ancestry, and they have one child, Claribel Seely. 
 For several years Mr. Seely has been a member 
 of the Democratic Central Committee, of which 
 he is now the chairman, and for one term rep- 
 resented the third ward in the City Council. Fra- 
 ternally he was made a Mason at Eugene, Ore., 
 joining Eugene Lodge, No. 11, A. F. & A. M., 
 and is a member of Eugene Chapter, R. A. M., 
 and of Temple Commandery, No. 3, K. T., of 
 Albany, being Past E. C. He united with the 
 Odd Fellows at Springfield, Ore., and now be- 
 
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 longs to Albany Lodge, No. 4, I. O. O. F., in 
 
 which he lias passed all the chairs, and to the 
 Albany Encampment, of which he is Past C. I'. 
 Mr. Seel) likewise belongs to the Benevolent and 
 Protective ( 'rder of Elks, to the Alco Club, and 
 to the State Dairymen's Association. 
 
 CAPT. DAVID CRAIG. The fine farming 
 property owned by Capt. David Craig, located 
 
 glit ami a half miles from Salem, has witnessed 
 ny large undertakings in the line of stock- 
 raising and general farm operations, and without 
 
 mbt has been one of the most productive and 
 profitable farms in Marion county. The owner 
 has advanced ideas relating to his preferred oc- 
 cupation, and through the medium of his own 
 practical experiments, agricultural journals and 
 conferences with others as thoughtful and inquir- 
 ing as himself, has probably brought his farm to 
 as high a state of perfection as it is possible at 
 the present time and under present conditions 
 in the northwest. Of the three hundred and forty 
 acres in the property, three hundred are under 
 cultivation. The work of improvement has been 
 greatly facilitated by reason of the many natural 
 advantages existing, chief among which is the 
 presence of numerous living springs. A beau- 
 tiful rural home, surroundings of shrubbery, 
 trees and flowers, with fine barns, hop houses 
 and the most modern of agricultural implements, 
 convey an idea of the enterprise and progressive 
 spirit of one of the representative land-owners 
 of Marion county. 
 
 When Captain Craig took possession of his 
 farm in 1877, he had to deal with and solve the 
 problem of disposing of vast areas of scrub oak 
 and underbrush. Having accomplished this 
 work, he began, on a small scale, the raising of 
 wheat and oats, gradually increasing his annual 
 production until he became one of the extensive 
 grain-producers of his community. At the same 
 time he embarked in stock-raising, a business 
 which soon developed to large proportions. In 
 vears gone by, some very valuable stock has been 
 bred on his farm. During the stock-raising pe- 
 riod of his career, which terminated in 1895. he 
 was awarded many prizes at the State Fair. He 
 has made a specialty of Angora goats, Cotswold 
 sheep and Poland-China swine. In 1894, Cap- 
 tain Craig put sixty acres of his land under hops. 
 Two vears later he reduced this to thirty acres, 
 which has since been devoted- uninterruptedly to 
 the culture of this product. In 1902 the yield 
 was over eighteen tons. 
 
 A native of Toronto, Canada, Captain Craig 
 was born February 8, 1852. When eight years 
 of age he was taken by his parents to London, 
 Canada, where his rudimentary education was 
 received. After the completion of his studies in 
 tlie public schools he entered Day's Business Col- 
 
 lege in Toronto, from which he was graduated. 
 He was variously employed during the earlier 
 years of his young manhood, until he came to 
 Oregon with his father in 1875. His father 
 located on a farm in the Waldo Hills in Marion 
 county in that year, where David Craig remained 
 for two years. In 1877 ' le settled upon the farm 
 which he now occupies, and which he has since 
 made his home. April 20, 1881, he was married 
 to Olivia Small, a native of Silverton. Ore., and 
 of this union five children have been born : 
 Ernest E., the eldest son, while a student in 
 Mount Angel College, ran away to participate in 
 the Spanish-American war, and died in the Phil- 
 ippine Islands; Harvey S. graduated from the 
 classical department of Mount Angel College, in 
 June, 1903 ; Alma M., Willard D. and Vernon 
 W. reside with their parents. 
 
 Recognizing his qualifications for public office, 
 the people of Marion county elected Captain 
 Craig to the Oregon state legislature in 1895, and 
 again in 1897. During both sessions he sup- 
 ported all measures inspired by a desire to pro- 
 mote the highest interests of the state and the 
 community in which he resides, and those who 
 watched his record accord to him the highest 
 credit for the capable and efficient manner in 
 which he safeguarded the causes of his constitu- 
 ents. His first presidential vote was cast for a 
 Republican candidate, and he has since stanchly 
 adhered to the principles of that great party. 
 Fraternally, he is identified with the Masonic 
 order, affiliating with Pacific Lodge No. 50, A. 
 F. & A. M., of Salem, and Multnomah Chapter 
 No. 1, R. A. M., also of Salem. For many vears 
 he was connected with the Oregon National 
 Guard. Upon the organization of Company I, 
 Second Regiment, Oregon National Guard, in 
 September, 1887, he was elected first lieutenant. 
 May 17, 1890, he was elected to the captaincy of 
 the company, and filled this office until his resig- 
 nation, in 1892, after a continuous service of 
 nearly five years. 
 
 Captain Craig is a man possessed of a high 
 public spirit and a keen sense of personal honor. 
 In all his associations with his fellow-men he has 
 exhibited those characteristics which cause a man 
 to be respected and honored, and his influence 
 and his means have always been at the command 
 of the public when the opportunity of assisting 
 in any cause for the advancement of the general 
 welfare presented itself to him. He has been a 
 frequent contributor to the press, and his opinion 
 on public affairs, thus disseminated, has been of 
 immediate interest to the people. In every sense 
 he has shown himself to be a thoroughly repre- 
 sentative citizen, and his name will go down in 
 history as that of one of the thoughtful, unselfish, 
 generous-hearted and conscientious citizens of 
 the countv. 
 
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 MANFORD McCROSKY. Though a resi- 
 dent of Oregon but three years, Manford Mc- 
 Crosky has become a man of no small importance 
 in the industrial life of the community in which 
 he has chosen to make his home. Having met 
 with a gratifying success in his line of work in 
 the middle west he has ventured to extend his 
 operations into the less tried opportunities of the 
 Pacific slope, confident as to his ability to win 
 the approval and business confidence of the people 
 with whom he should deal, and his effort has 
 met with speedy and entirely satisfactory results. 
 
 Mr. McCrosky is a representative of a Scotch- 
 Irish family, his grandfather, Samuel McCrosky, 
 having been a near descendant of an emigrant 
 from the country across the water. His home 
 was originally in Pennsylvania, and from that 
 state he removed to Ohio, where he continued to 
 follow his occupation of farming. Near St. 
 Paris of the latter state the father of Manford 
 McCrosky, John, was born and reared to man- 
 hood, likewise following the occupation of an 
 agriculturist, later making his home near Argos. 
 Ind., where he was well known through the sub- 
 stantial results of his work. He married Cynthia 
 Hunt, a native of Ohio, and daughter of Isaac 
 Hunt, a farmer in that state, and she was the 
 mother of two children, a son and a daughter. 
 She died when the son, Manford McCrosky, was 
 an infant. 
 
 The birth of Manford McCrosky occurred near 
 Argos, Ind., September 24, 1864, and he there 
 grew to manhood, receiving his education in the 
 public schools of that state. Until 1888 he re- 
 mained at home, and at that date he removed 
 to Rosewood, Champaign county, Ohio, and there 
 engaged in the employment which had occupied 
 the attention of his forefathers. After a few 
 years he became interested in the creamery busi- 
 ness in the city of Rosewood, being one of the 
 organizers of the Rosewood Elgin Butter Com- . 
 pany, of which he became director, secretary and 
 manager. The business venture was entirely suc- 
 cessful and he continued in this employment until 
 1899, when he decided to carry his interests into 
 the west. Unlike the pioneers .of old, but no less 
 interested in all that pertained to the welfare of 
 the land in which he was seeking a home, he 
 traveled to Oregon, and at once entered the em- 
 ploy of the Albany Creamery Association, re- 
 maining, however, but six weeks at their skim- 
 ming station at Tangent, before he accepted a po- 
 sition as butter-maker with the T. S. Townsend 
 Creamery Company, of Salem. For seven months 
 he was satisfied with this position, but January 
 1, 1901, he returned to Albany at the request of 
 the Albany Creamery Association, and though 
 they gave him the position of manager and sec- 
 retary he also took charge of a department where 
 he could make the butter. Though receiving help 
 
 at times in his department the work which he 
 has chosen is done entirely by himself, and he 
 derives much satisfaction in so doing when 
 viewed in the light of results. He has competed 
 in several butter-making contests, his first being 
 at the Oregon State Fair, where he took first 
 premium. At the Hillsboro meeting of the Ore- 
 gon Dairymen's Association, December 16-18, 
 1902, he took the gold medal, his butter scoring 
 963^, and through his successive triumphs a proper 
 valuation has been placed upon his work. He 
 is also interested as a stockholder in the Albany 
 Creamery Association, of which he is secretary 
 and manager. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. McCrosky occurred in 
 Urbana, Ohio, and united him with Victoria E. 
 Newcomb, a native of that city, and they are 
 now the parents of two children : Carl R. and 
 Cecil B. Religiously Mr. McCrosky is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically 
 he is a Democrat, while in his home in Rosewood 
 serving for six years as justice of the peace, a 
 postion which he resigned on coming to Oregon. 
 Always interested in his business affairs, Mr. 
 McCrosky is an active member of the State 
 Dairymen's Association, and during the Oregon 
 state fair at Salem, in 1900, he was a judge of the 
 creamery display. 
 
 JUDGE H. H. HEWITT. For many years 
 associated with the jurisprudence of Oregon, 
 Judge H. H. Hewitt occupies a position in the 
 community of Linn county in keeping with his 
 profound legal attainments, his political integ- 
 rity and sagacity, and his advantages as a native 
 son and a member of one of the earliest pioneer 
 families of the northwest. Born near Wheaton. 
 Yamhill county, December 7, 1846, he laid the 
 foundation for his present rugged constitution 
 on the home farm, and gained his rudimentary 
 education while irregularly attending the public 
 school of his neighborhood. A son of Henry and 
 Elizabeth (Matheney) Hewitt, he is a grandson 
 of another Henry. 
 
 The father of Judge Hewitt was born near 
 Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, Pa., November 
 19, 1822, and was sixteen years old when his 
 father moved overland to Platte county, Mo. A 
 mountaineer chancing to pass the lonely and iso- 
 lated farm of the Hewitts discoursed glowingly 
 upon the advantages in the far northwest, and 
 young Henry lent a ready ear to his account, 
 and eventually inspired others with faith in the 
 remote western country. At a public meeting 
 he secured the signatures of a number of the 
 prominent seitlers of the locality, the majority 
 of whom withdrew after promising to make ready 
 for the proposed journey. At best the project 
 was a hazardous one, for no wagon train had as 
 
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 penetrated the limitless tracts of the plains, 
 the chances were against their reaching the 
 Nothing daunted, the young' man 
 ' in agitating the plan which accentu- 
 ated his limitations and made his days and nights 
 with uncertainty. He finally succeeded 
 in getting together a party which included 
 Messrs. Applegate, Burnett, Martyn, Lennox, 
 Waldo, and many others, as well as Captain Ma- 
 ihencv, one of the central figures in this first great 
 nigration towards the western sea. Captain Ma- 
 thene} was one of the settlers of Platte county 
 with whom the Hewitts became acquainted soon 
 •itur removing there, and his daughter, 
 Elizabeth, finally became the wife of young 
 Henry Hewitt. She was born in Indiana, while 
 her father was born in Virginia, and reared in 
 Kentucky. From Indiana he took his family 
 to Illinois, and in Hancock county won the rank 
 which clung to him through life, that of captain 
 of a company organized to drive the Mormons 
 out of Nauvoo. In Missouri the fearlessness 
 which characterized his entire life made him an 
 important factor in the then wilderness country, 
 and he naturally fell into a foremost position in 
 the opening expedition of 1843. 
 
 History furnishes various accounts of the brave 
 and fearless men who sold their middle west 
 farms and risked all on the chance of reaching the 
 western slope of the Rocky mountains. That the 
 ipany was a large one is certain, for it is 
 practically agreed that their original intention 
 was to travel in four columns, of thirty wagons 
 h, and sufficiently far apart to facilitate the 
 rmation of a square into which the loose cattle 
 could he driven at night for protection from the 
 Indians. Owing to the necessity of forming so 
 many new paths this plan proved impracticable, 
 and it is assumed, after reading many accounts, 
 that the train finally resolved into a single line, the 
 different wagons of which took their turn in lead- 
 ing the way. However, three companies were 
 formed, each having a captain, and thus organiza- 
 tion was effected, and complications minimized. 
 jreat difficulty was experienced with the loose 
 ;tock, and greater difficulty in crossing the North 
 tnd South Platte rivers. Here also one can 
 hardly get a correct version of the methods em- 
 ployed, for each company accomplished the feat 
 according to their best judgment, and the result, 
 ood or bad, of those who had preceded them. 
 tee authority speaks of chaining all of the teams 
 Bgether and passing over the South Platte in a 
 d column, while another recounts the placing 
 of buffalo robes under the wagons, thus trans- 
 forming them into boats. Ferries were made by 
 lashing two Indian canoes together, and placing 
 the wheels on each side of the wagons in the 
 canoes. The mountains offered many obstacles 
 for the intrepid travelers, and it is recorded of 
 
 Mr. I [ewitt that he was the first to drive a wagon 
 over the range since Whitman's time-honored 
 vehicle passed that way in 1838. From The 
 Dalles the most of the party went by water, the 
 cattle being driven along the south shore, and 
 made to swim the Columbia river at Sauvie's 
 island, going thence to Vancouver. 
 
 Locating in Washington county, Mr. Hewitt 
 the next year moved to a claim three miles north 
 of Wheatland, Yamhill count}-, the same being 
 the Joseph McLaughlin farm, first settled upon 
 in 1832, and constituting the oldest farm on the 
 west side of the Willamette. Here he improved 
 his land, reared his children, and ennobled his 
 life by as true, sincere and helpful a career as 
 any that contributed to the upbuilding of Oregon. 
 His old-time friend, Captain Matheney, true to 
 his former record, continued to exert an influence 
 among his new surroundings, and after taking up 
 his residence in Wheatland established the Ma- 
 theney Ferry, destined for a long era of useful- 
 ness in propelling people across the river. The 
 captain was a large, strong man, with wonderful 
 powers of endurance, and an expert axman. A 
 remarkable shot, he hunted with his friend in the 
 timberlands, and up to the time of his death at 
 the Hewitt homestead, at the age of eighty, de- 
 lighted to recall the trials and adventures with 
 which he had to contend in crossing the plains, 
 and during the subsequent settlement of Yamhill 
 county. His daughter, Mrs. Hewitt, who died 
 in October, 1899, was the mother of ten children, 
 the order of their birth being as follows : Ann 
 Eliza, deceased wife of Mr. John L. Thornton, of 
 Yamhill countv ; D. M., a farmer in Polk county ; 
 Judge H. H., of Albany; A. W.. of Salem, Ore.; 
 A. J., living on a part of the old home in Yamhill 
 county; J. C, of Salem; M. C, a builder of 
 Sacramento, Cal. ; J. L., a doctor of dental surg- 
 ery of Portland ; H. W., a jeweler in La Grande, 
 Ore ; and L. L., living on the old homestead in 
 Yamhill county. 
 
 Mr. Hewitt, whose death occurred January 15, 
 1899, at the age of seventy-six years, was a 
 stanch Republican, and took an active part in 
 the establishment of his party in Oregon. He 
 was a regular attendant at county and state con- 
 ventions, and served two terms as commissioner 
 of Yamhill county. He was successful as a 
 farmer, and at one time owned Scott Mount, in 
 Portland, which he sold to H. W. Scott many 
 years before his death. He participated in all of 
 the measures adopted for the development of his 
 county, and contributed both time and money for 
 many worthy causes. His varied experiences in- 
 cluded some time spent in the mines of California 
 in 1848. His family was distinguished during 
 the Civil war by the meritorious service of two of 
 his brothers, one of whom, Andrew J., lost his 
 life in battle as colonel of his regiment, and the 
 
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 other, Adam, entered the service after returning 
 from Oregon, whither he had gone with a pack- 
 train in 1842. 
 
 Judge H. H. Hewitt secured his higher educa- 
 tion at the Willamette University, from_which he 
 was graduated in the class of 1870, with the de- 
 gree of A. B. For the following nine years he 
 engaged in educational work, his time being dis- 
 posed of for a year as principal of the Baptist 
 College at McMinnville, as principal of the pub- 
 lic schools of Amity for two years, principal of 
 the Scio schools for two years, principal of the 
 LaFayette Academy for a year; as professor of 
 Greek, Latin and mathematics in the Albany 
 Collegiate Institute for two years, and as principal 
 of the latter institution for one year. In 1872 he 
 was elected superintendent of schools of Yam- 
 hill county. In the meantime Mr. Hewitt had 
 devoted his leisure to the study of law, and, hav- 
 ing been admitted to the bar in December, 1877, 
 he opened a law office in Albany in July, 1879. 
 For ten years he engaged in practice in partner- 
 ship with H. Bryant, and later was connected for 
 three years with O. H. Irvine. In 1888 he was 
 elected attorney of the Third judicial district on 
 the Republican ticket, and in 1894 was nominated 
 judge of the same district, and elected by a large 
 majority. Upon the completion of his political 
 service he retired to private practice, and has 
 since been senior member of the firm of Hewitt 
 & Sox. Fie is an ex-member of the State Central 
 Committee, and was chairman of the Congres- 
 sional Committee at the convention held in Rose- 
 burg, Ore., in 1902. For two years he has served 
 as city attorney. 
 
 In Yamhill county in 1872 Judge Hewitt was 
 united in marriage with Maggie J. Rowland, a 
 native daughter of the county, and daughter of 
 Jeremiah Rowland, and sister of Dr. L. L. Row- 
 land, of Salem. Jeremiah Rowland was one of 
 the early settlers of Yamhill county, having 
 crossed the plains in 1844. Mrs. Hewitt died in 
 1899, leaving a daughter, Olga L., who shares 
 her father's appreciation of mental culture, hav- 
 ing graduated from the Albany College. Fra- 
 ternally Judge Hewitt is prominent as a member 
 and ex-senior warden of Albany Lodge No. 64, 
 A. F. & A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter, the 
 Knights of Pythias, and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. He is a member, and ex-vice 
 president of the State Bar Association. No name, 
 in the legal annals of this county carries with it 
 greater influence than does that of Judge Hewitt. 
 He has the personal characteristics which rivet 
 popular attention, and command universal re- 
 spect. Industrious, fearless, profound and prac- 
 tical, he has made himself distinguished for erudi- 
 tion in the legal profession, for painstaking and 
 exhaustive examination of every subject engag- 
 
 ing his attention or committed to his care, and 
 for guarding well the interests of clients, the 
 public and the integrity of law. 
 
 JASON N. BRANDEBERRY. The firm of 
 Brandeberry & Wheeler represent the largest re- 
 tail lumber enterprise in Linn county. Started 
 in Albany in 1899, an era of prosperity has al- 
 ready dawned for the promoters, both of whom 
 are men of extended experience in their chosen 
 occupation, and command the confidence of the 
 business world. J. N. Brandeberry, the senior 
 member of the firm, was born in Troy township, 
 Ashland county, Ohio, November 18, 1848, and 
 lived on a farm for the first twenty-two years 
 of his life. The most remote ancestor of whom 
 authentic record has been kept is his paternal 
 great-grandfather, who came from Germany and 
 settled in Pennsylvania, where his son, Abraham, 
 the grandfather, was born. The latter removed 
 to Medina county, Ohio, as a young man, and 
 there Conrad Brandeberry, the father of J. N., 
 was born, and upon the same farm the grand- 
 father passed several years of his life, his death 
 occurring after his removal to Ashland county, 
 the same state. He was a soldier in the war of 
 1812. Conrad Brandeberry farmed for many 
 years in Ashland county, but in 1854 took up his 
 residence in Williams county, Ohio, and died 
 there in October, 1902, at the age of eighty-four 
 years. He was a Republican in politics, and a 
 member of the United Brethren Church. His 
 wife, Jane (Malcolm) Brandeberry, was born in 
 Aberdeen, Scotland, a daughter of Alexander 
 Malcolm, who brought his family from Scotland 
 and settled in Ashland county, where the balance 
 of his life was spent in farming. Mrs. Brande- 
 berry, who survives her husband, is the mother 
 of eight children. One of her four daughters is 
 deceased. 
 
 From the public schools J. N. Brandeberry 
 went to Oberlin College, Ohio, which he left at 
 the end of a year to engage as a clerk in a drug 
 store in Bryan, Ohio. During his four years' as- 
 sociation with this concern he acquired a com- 
 plete knowledge of the business, and thereafter 
 traveled for a year before his marriage in Pio- 
 neer, to Mary L. Himes. a native of Williams 
 countv, Ohio. After farming for a year Mr. 
 Brandeberry engaged in the drug and grocery 
 business in Montpelier, and after four successfid 
 years his store was consumed by fire and he lost 
 about all that he had accumulated. He then 
 turned his attention to railroading, beginning as 
 fireman on the Wabash Railroad, and the fifth 
 year was promoted to engineer, acting in that 
 capacity for two years. In 1886 he came to 
 Corvallis. Ore., and worked at the carpenter's 
 trade for a short time, and then became manager 
 
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 oi the warehouse business of Wells & Cauthom 
 tor about ten seasons. 
 
 Mr. Brandeberry's tirst lumbering experience 
 was acquired in partnership with Nels 11. 
 Wheeler, with whom he has since been associated 
 in business. The firm rented a mill in Corvallis 
 for two years, and were so successful that they 
 started a branch concern in Albany in June, 1899, 
 thereafter managing both mills until disposing of 
 the Corvallis mill in October, 1899. The com- 
 pany now have two yards, one on Jackson and 
 Water, the other on Water and Washington 
 streets, the main yard covering half a block. The 
 company have complete arrangements for con- 
 ducting a large retail and wholesale business, 
 the former the most extensive in the county, the 
 business being facilitated by switch connections 
 with both the Southern Pacific and Corvallis & 
 Eastern Railroads. The lumber for manufactur- 
 ing is brought from Mill City, Ore., and the firm 
 turn out all kinds of lumber and builders' mate- 
 rials. They are the exclusive agents, outside of 
 Salem, for the Curtis Lumber Company, shipping 
 their output to the east, west, north and south in 
 the Willamette valley. 
 
 This prosperous part of Oregon has no more 
 enthusiastic advocate of its many advantages than 
 Mr. Brandeberry, wdio has evidenced his faith in 
 its future by investing in real estate, and in a 
 general participation in the upbuilding of its 
 material, social, and moral structure. His pro- 
 gressive spirit is shared by his sons, Earl C. and 
 Marvin D., the former a bookkeeper and the 
 latter a salesman for the mills, both of whom are 
 enterprising, ambitious, and promising members 
 of the younger generation of business men of 
 Albany. Mr. Brandeberry cast his first presiden- 
 tial vote for a Republican candidate, and he has 
 never strayed from his allegiance to his party. 
 Fraternally he is connected with Albany Lodge 
 Xo. 4. Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 Albany Tent Xo. 5, Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 BENJAMIN AUSTIN LEONARD. A his- 
 tory of Marion county were indeed incomplete 
 without due mention of two of its most venerable 
 and honored pioneers, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Leon- 
 ard. Though the husband is now past eighty- 
 three years of age. and his wife but five months 
 younger, each continues to perform the duties 
 which from long experience have become second 
 nature, the husband still caring for his farm, and 
 the wife performing her household work. The 
 Leonard farm consists of two hundred and eighty 
 acres, and general farming and stock-raising are 
 engaged in, particular attention being given to 
 fine Durham cattle. 
 
 A native of Bradford county, Pa., Mr. Leon- 
 ard was born November 15, 1819, and is one of 
 
 ten children horn to Abel and Abi (Leonard) 
 Leonard. I lis father, Austin Leonard, who was 
 born in Massachusetts, was of Scotch or English 
 descent. I 'reserved Leonard, who was probably 
 a brother of Austin Leonard, served with the 
 Continental army in the Revolutionary war. 
 Abel Leonard, a tanner by trade, removed, in 
 1804, to Bradford county, Pa., and, with the 
 family of which his wife was a member, founded 
 Leonard's FIollow, now known is Leona. He 
 was engaged in business there until 1829, when 
 he removed to Ashtabula county, Ohio. In 1852 
 they started across the plains, intending to join 
 their son, B. A., who had gone the year before ; 
 but the deprivations of the journey were more 
 than they could stand. Arriving at the Missouri 
 river they gave up the trip, as too exacting, and 
 retraced their steps to Ohio, where they passed 
 the remainder of their lives with their son, Hor- 
 ace. Their children, named in the order of their 
 birth, were as follows : Junietta, wife of Asaph 
 Blanchard ; Leicester Upham ; Harriet, wife of 
 Philemon Guthrie ; Horace F. ; Laura, wife of 
 William Glenn ; Rosamond, wife of Hiram Bel- 
 den ; Benjamin Austin; Sallie, Mariah, and Abi- 
 gail. All are deceased, excepting the subject of 
 this review. 
 
 Naturally Benjamin Austin Leonard took to 
 the shoemaker's trade as a boy, working with his 
 father, and eventually serving a regular appren- 
 ticeship. He attended the public schools as op- 
 portunity offered, and worked at his trade for 
 many years in Ohio. November 9, 1840, 
 in Caldwell county, Mo., he married Jane Soaps, 
 who was born in Campbell county, Term., Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1820. Thereafter the young couple 
 went to housekeeping in Caldwell county, Mo., 
 where they lived until 185 1, and then outfitted 
 to cross the plains. They were six months on 
 the way, and at the end of their journey, Septem- 
 ber 6, 1851, found themselves in the Waldo Hills, 
 where Mr. Leonard took up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and thirty acres, upon which he 
 lived until 1867. This was all wild land, but he 
 succeeded in improving much of it, and in ac- 
 quiring fair success in general farming. He then 
 bought the place where he now lives, four miles 
 southwest of Silverton, and has since made all 
 of the improvements. 
 
 While conducting his farming enterprises, Mr. 
 Leonard has taken an active interest in Repub- 
 lican politics, although he has never desired 
 official recognition. Eight children were born to 
 himself and wife, the order of their birth being 
 as follows : Abel Brower, operating the home 
 farm ; Horace, deceased ; Thomas Benton, living 
 at Ritzvillc, Wash.; Mary A., widow of Hiram 
 Smith Reed, of Salem ; Flora, wife of Alexander 
 Clark, of Salem, and Lucinda, deceased (twins) ; 
 Ellen S., wife of Jefferson Scriber, a banker at 
 
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 La Grande, Ore., and Jennette, wife of Jefferson 
 Pooler, of Salem. Mr. Leonard has many friends 
 in the vicinity of his home, and his long associa- 
 tion with the county has been prolific of the best 
 possible good feeling among all with whom he 
 has been associated. 
 
 CHARLES OLVIS. Not all men find the 
 niche in life which Nature intended they should 
 fill, but that Mr. Olvis, who is foreman of the 
 Albany tannery, is the right man in the right 
 place is conceded by all. His paternal great- 
 grandfather fought in the English army. The 
 latter's son, Charles Olvis, was born in Belfast, 
 Ireland, and in 1816 brought his family to Amer- 
 ica, settling in Baltimore, Md. He died at the 
 advanced age of ninety-eight years. Among the 
 children who came to this country with the grand- 
 father in 1816 was John, the father of Charles, 
 the subject of this article. He followed the 
 weaver's trade in Baltimore until his death, at 
 the age of forty-five years, his death resulting 
 from injuries inflicted by a horse. He had mar- 
 ried Miss Margaret McCartin, a native of Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, whose father, Edward McCartin, 
 was born in County Down, Ireland. By trade he 
 was a weaver, following the same in Scotland, 
 and after his emigration to America carried on 
 the same business in Baltimore. Mrs. Margaret 
 Olvis also died in the latter city at the age of 
 sixty-three years. 
 
 Of the seven children who formerly comprised 
 the parental family only two are living. Charles 
 Olvis was the youngest of the family and was 
 born August 9, 1841, in Baltimore, Md., where he 
 attended the public schools. When sixteen years 
 old he was apprenticed to learn the tanner's trade 
 under Spear & Cole, and after completing his 
 apprenticeship went to Philadelphia to take a po- 
 sition at his trade. It was in 1864 that he came 
 to the Pacific coast, making the trip by way of 
 Panama, and ere long he found work at his trade 
 in Salem, Ore. In March, 1865, he went to 
 South America, and in the course of his travels 
 visited Chile, Bolivia and Peru. The following 
 year he returned to Oregon, and for the next 
 two years was foreman of a tannery in Milwau- 
 kee, Ore. In 1868 he became interested in the 
 mines at Boise Basin, but soon returned, content 
 to resume work at his trade, first taking a posi- 
 tion at Portland, later at Astoria, and finally at 
 Salem, where he was foreman of a tannery. He 
 was subsequently employed in San Francisco for 
 two years and four months, but finally, in 1872, 
 returned to Oregon, and for two years was fore- 
 man of the Lineweber tannery. Going from 
 there to Victoria, British Columbia, he had full 
 charge of a tannery there for five and one-half 
 years, and at the expiration of that time again 
 
 returned to Astoria and for eight years filled 
 his former position of foreman in the Lineweber 
 tannery. Upon the death of the proprietor Mr. 
 Olvis leased the plant and for ten years was suc- 
 cessfully engaged in the manufacture of leather. 
 From Astoria he went to Vancouver, where he 
 had charge of a tannery for over two years, and 
 then, in July, 1902, returned to Oregon his iden- 
 tification with the Albany tannery dating from 
 that time. Three months later he was made fore- 
 man of the beam house, and in February, 1903, 
 became superintendent of the entire plant. 
 
 In Portland was celebrated the marriage of 
 Charles Olvis and Miss Mary Johns, the latter 
 a native of Germany. Two children were born 
 of this marriage, a son and a daughter. The 
 former, John, learned the tanner's trade and is 
 now his father's able assistant. The daughter, 
 Mag'gie, is Mrs. Marovich and resides in Port- 
 land. Mr. Olvis is identified with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and in political mat- 
 ters is a stanch defender of the Republican party. 
 
 JOHN B. HOLMAN. As vice-president of 
 the Albany Iron Works, John B. Holman occu- 
 pies a position which has been won through the 
 display of intelligent and practical ability, per- 
 fected by long experience in the line of a ma- 
 chinist in various shops throughout different 
 parts of the United States. His talent for the 
 work which he has chosen to do amounts to 
 veritable genius, an inheritance which has been 
 added to through many years of effort and cul- 
 tivation, and, as all earnest and persevering labor 
 meets with wide returns, so Mr. Holman has risen 
 to a place of importance in the industrial life of 
 the Willamette valley, in which he has been 
 largely instrumental in establishing and perfect- 
 ing the details of his business. 
 
 The lineage of the Holman family is that of 
 English nobility, their ancestry being traced back 
 to Sir William Boes Bennett Holman. The 
 father of John B. Holman, Lewis, was born in 
 Exeter, Devonshire, England, the son of a man- 
 ufacturer of threshing machines, and the one who 
 gave to his descendants their taste and talent 
 for such work. The father also became a manu- 
 facturer, and later in life he settled in Ontario, 
 Canada, where he followed the business of con- 
 tracting and bridge building. With the invar- 
 iable success of this family he rose to prom- 
 inence in the community in which he made his 
 home, remaining there until his retirement, soon 
 after which his death took place. In his religious 
 views he was a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 In politics he was always greatly interested, giv- 
 ing his hearty support to William Lyon Mac- 
 kenzie, who led the Ontario opposition against the 
 Conservatives. His wife was formerly Jane 
 
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 40; 
 
 Bailey, also a native of England, and the daugh- 
 tichard Bailey. He was a representative 
 minent English family. Upon his emigra- 
 tion td America he settled in Ontario, where he 
 .iine a large landowner, interesting himself 
 in the cultivation of Ins many hroad acres. Airs. 
 lloltnan. whose death occurred in Canada, was 
 the mother of thirteen children, seven sons and 
 laughters, of whom only one son is deceased. 
 [ohn L'». llolman the living sons are R. 
 a millwright in Salem ; \Y. L., proprietor of 
 the llolman Car Shops, of San Francisco, Cai. ; 
 Janus, a >tairbnilder of Chicago, 111.; Samuel, 
 actor of Chicago, 111. ; Ceorge, a teacher 
 111 the schools of Ontario; and Joseph, a wealthy 
 manufacturer, who died in London. 
 
 The birth of John B. Holman occurred 
 ember 1 9, 1839, m London, Ontario, and was 
 there reared to manhood, receiving a rather lim- 
 ited education in die national school of the prov- 
 ince. Karly seeking the life which gave him an 
 opportunity for the display of unquestioned 
 talent, he had served his apprenticeship to the 
 machinist's trade, and received his papers at 
 twenty-one, having begun it when only sixteen 
 and a half years old. With the documents evi- 
 dencing his capability he set out for the broader 
 opportunities of the United States, finding em- 
 ployment in various cities, among them being 
 Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and Roches- 
 ter. In the best machine shops in the United 
 States he remained for two years, wdiere the 
 training and experience proved invaluable to 
 him. At the expiration of that period he returned 
 to the old foundry and there worked for the Hon. 
 Elijah Leonard, of London, for a short time. 
 In 1865 he again left the community and settled 
 in the western part of the United States. The 
 trip, which was made by way of the Isthmus of 
 Panama, was an eventful one in many ways, 
 the steamer. Ocean Queen, on which he sailed 
 from Xew York City, being wrecked off Cape 
 Hatteras, thus obliging him to go to Cuba, and 
 from there to Aspinwall, thence across the Isth- 
 mus. He took passage on the Golden City to 
 San Francisco, and completed the voyage from 
 that city to Portland on the Brother Jonathan. 
 
 On arriving in Oregon Air. Holman settled 
 in Salem, where he soon found employment in 
 the shops of Drake & Moore, and remained with 
 them to their entire satisfaction until the firm 
 dissolved partnership. In 1867 he assumed en- 
 tire charge of the shop of B. F. Drake of Salem, 
 which provided very limited means for workman- 
 ship. Under difficulties he gradually established 
 a more secure footing for the business and a more 
 extended line of operations, making a gratifying 
 success of his work, and as superintendent and 
 manager he conducted the business until 1890, 
 leaving it at this date one of the largest and 
 
 most substantial machine shops in the Willam- 
 ette valley. Able at this time to take a more 
 active part in a business proposition he came 
 to Albany, and with others bought out the busi- 
 ness of Sox & Stewart, and changed the firm 
 to the Albany Iron Works Company, of which 
 he became vice-president and manager, proceed- 
 ing to give his energies and talents to the up- 
 building of this work. With the exercise of 
 judgment, skill and management the business has 
 come to be one of the most substantial and firmly 
 established of any in the Willamette valley, the 
 amount of work being done showing large re- 
 turns for the money invested. The line of oper- 
 ations now extends over the entire valley, along 
 the coast, and also in the state of Washington. 
 In London, Ontario, in 1861, Air. Holman was 
 married to Jane Weeks, a native of London, 
 England, and four children have been born to 
 them, of whom Walter John is chief electrical 
 engineer in charge of the government plant at 
 Presidio, Cal. ; Alinnie S. is the wife of Thomas 
 Holman, of SaleVn ; Carrie is the wife of H. G. 
 Meyer, of Salem ; and Victoria E. is the wife of 
 J. H. Linn, of Santa Rosa, Cal. In his fraternal 
 relations Air. Holman affiliates with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, holding mem- 
 bership with Olive Lodge, No. 18, at Salem, and 
 also belongs to the Encampment of Salem, in both 
 of which he is a past officer ; the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks; and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. He is also identified with 
 the State Historical Society. His wife is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Though 
 public-spirited and earnest in his endeavor for 
 the general welfare, Air. Holman is independent 
 in his political views, believing that to be the 
 surest means toward good government, and he 
 carefully considers both men and question before 
 casting his ballot. 
 
 EDWARD BIDDLE belongs to the little 
 group of distinctively representative business 
 men who have been the pioneers in inaugu- 
 rating and building up the chief industries of 
 this section of the Willamette valley. He 
 early had the sagacity and prescience to dis- 
 cern the prominence which the future had in 
 store for this great and growing country, and, 
 acting in accordance with the dictates of his 
 faith and judgment, he has garnered, in the 
 fullness of time, the generous harvest which 
 is the just recompense of indomitable indus- 
 try, spotless integrity and marvelous enter- 
 prise. He is now connected with many ex- 
 tensive and important business interests in 
 Polk county, being proprietor of the Dallas 
 Iron W'orks, which constitute the leading in- 
 
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 dustry of this character in the Willamette 
 valley. 
 
 Mr. Biddle is a native of Greece, Monroe 
 county, N. Y., his birth having occurred there on 
 December 9, 1844. He is the eldest in a 
 family of six children born unto Edward and 
 Adelaide (Beeby) Biddle, both natives of 
 Canada, the former born in Quebec and the 
 latter in Montreal. The maternal grand- 
 father was of English descent and became a 
 farmer in New York. Edward Biddle also 
 removed from Canada to the Empire State 
 and, establishing his home in Greece, Monroe 
 county, carried on agricultural pursuits in 
 that locality until his death. His widow died 
 in Rochester, N. Y., in April, 1903, at the age 
 of eighty-nine years. 
 
 Upon the home farm Edward Biddle was 
 reared and the work of plowing, planting and 
 harvesting early became familiar to him. He 
 attended the public schools in his youth and 
 then, not desiring to follow the plow as a 
 lifework, he turned his attention in other di- 
 rections and in i860 was apprenticed to the 
 machinist's trade in the shop of M. S. Otis 
 in Rochester, N. Y., where he remained for 
 three years. On the expiration of that period 
 he went to Chicago, where he entered the 
 employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Com- 
 pany in their shops, and later was sent by the 
 company to Centralia, 111., where he remained 
 for several months. Subsequently he was em- 
 ployed in a machine shop in connection with 
 steamboat building at Cincinnati, but after a 
 brief period he went to Hannibal, Mo., and 
 for a year was employed as a machinist in 
 the shops of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail- 
 way Company. During that time he joined 
 a military company which drilled and was in 
 the state service for three months in pursuit 
 nf the notorious Bill Anderson of Missouri. 
 After his return from military duty he con- 
 tinued as a machinist in the railroad shops 
 for three months and then went to Louis- 
 ville, Ky., where he was employed in a simi- 
 lar capacity. His next move took him to 
 Keokuk, la., where he was employed in the 
 Des Moines Valley shops until the spring of 
 1865, when he went from Keokuk to New 
 Orleans, where he again secured work at his 
 trade. He afterward went to Whistler, Ala., 
 and for three years was there employed in 
 the Mobile & Ohio Railroad shops, when he 
 returned to Rochester, where he continued 
 for three months. At the end of that interval 
 he started for New York, intending to go to 
 California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, 
 but ere he embarked he was led to change his 
 plans and for three months was employed 
 in the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phila- 
 delphia. At the end of that time he carried 
 
 out his intention of coming to the Pacific 
 coast. He took passage at New York on the 
 steamer Aspinwall bound for the isthmus, and 
 from Panama he sailed on the steamer Golden 
 Age for San Francisco. 
 
 In that city Mr. Biddle was employed as 
 a machinist in the Union Iron Works for two 
 months, and then, going to Sacramento, he 
 obtained a position in the machine shops of 
 the Central Pacific Railroad Company, re- 
 maining there for three years. He next was 
 employed in the shops of the same company 
 at Rockland, Cal., and later spent a year in 
 the shops of the Vallejo Railroad Company. 
 He was afterward made repair engineer at 
 Marysville for the same company and later 
 returned to the Central Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany, working in their shops at Sacramento 
 as a machinist for one year. At Carlin, Nev., 
 he was employed as foreman in the machine 
 shops of the Central Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany for three years, and later secured a posi- 
 tion at Carson City, Nev., in the shops of the 
 Virginia & Truckee Railroad Company, act- 
 ing in that capacity for eighteen months. On 
 the expiration of that period Mr. Biddle left 
 the railroad service and became machinist in 
 the Belcher mine at Virginia City, Nev., 
 where he remained for more than two years, 
 when he became machinist in the Overman 
 mine, later setting up pumping engines and 
 machinery in the Lady Bryan mine of Vir- 
 ginia City. His next position was that of 
 chief engineer of the Sutro Tunnel Company 
 and in that capacity he acceptably served for 
 six years, during which time the tunnel was 
 completed. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Biddle arrived in Oregon and 
 for seven years was employed as a machinist 
 and engineer by the Narrow Gauge Railroad 
 Company, with headquarters in Dallas. 
 Then, having through his industry, economy 
 and careful management, acquired some capi- 
 tal, he established his own machine shop and 
 foundry in 1888. He has since conducted it 
 and has practically rebuilt the plant, supply- 
 ing it with new machinery, with water power 
 and all modern equipments for facilitating 
 and turning out work of the highest grade. 
 The foundry has two cupolas and has made- 
 castings weighing as high as thirty-seven 
 hundred pounds. In the foundry both brass 
 and iron castings are manufactured and all 
 kinds of repair work in machinery, boilers 
 and engines is done. Mr. Biddle also manu- 
 factures the best hop presses in Oregon, 
 known as the Morrison Improved Hop Press. 
 He likewise manufactures hop stoves and 
 feed mills. The Dallas Iron Works are the 
 oldest in the valley and the west outside of 
 the citv of Portland. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 411 
 
 In 1879 in Virginia City, Nev., Mr. Biddle 
 was united in marriage to Miss Josephine 
 Davis, who was born in Boston, Mass., a 
 
 lighter of Luther Davis, who followed the 
 
 baking business in Boston and afterward in 
 
 Virginia City. Mrs. Biddle is a most estima- 
 
 hulv and holds membership with the 
 
 ethodisl Episcopal Church. Mr. Biddle was 
 made a Mason in Jennings Lodge, No. 9. A. 
 F. & A. M.. and for two terms was its mas- 
 ter, while for eight terms he was high priest 
 \mesworth Chapter, No. 17, R. A. M. He 
 stands today as one of the leading representa- 
 tives of the craft in Oregon, and is past grand 
 ;>e and at present grand king of the Grand 
 Chapter of Oregon. In politics an earnest 
 advocate of Republican principles, he is serv- 
 ing as president of the Republican Club of 
 Dallas, and for six years he has been a school 
 director and two terms was a member of the 
 city council. For forty-two years he has been 
 connected with the machinist's trade and has 
 gradually advanced, enlarging his efficiencv 
 and adding to his skill until today he is suc- 
 cessfully controlling an industry of volume 
 and importance which adds to the commer- 
 cial prosperity of his city, and returns to him 
 a gratifying and creditable income. His life 
 has been one of continuous activity, and he is 
 numbered among the substantial citizens of 
 Dallas. In business he has achieved success 
 through honorable effort, untiring industry 
 and capable management, and in private life 
 he has gained that warm personal regard 
 which arises from true nobility of character, 
 deference to the opinion of others, kindliness 
 and geniality. 
 
 ADOLF WOLF, who is now residing in Sil- 
 irerton, is widely known throughout the "Willam- 
 ette valley, with whose welfare he has been closely 
 identified for thirty-seven years. He is one of the 
 most extensive and successful hop-raisers in the 
 vicinity of Silverton, and formerly was intimately 
 associated with the upbuilding of Independence, 
 I 'oik county. 
 
 Mr. Wolf was born in Frauenkirchen, Austro- 
 iungary, nine miles southeast of Neusiedl, in 
 February, 1837, his father, Jacob, and his mother. 
 
 •sther (Gerstel) Wolf, being natives of the 
 same town, His father spent his entire life in 
 the picturesque little Hungarian town, where he 
 was known as a successful wine merchant. He 
 
 ved to be seventy-five rears of age, his death 
 occurring in 1864. His wife, who "died in 1862 
 at the age of seventy, bore him thirteen children, 
 two sons and eleven daughters, of whom Adolf 
 Wolf is the youngest son and the twelfth child 
 in the family. 
 
 At an early age Mr. Wolf evinced habits of 
 thrift and industry, and he studied diligently in 
 the school of his native town. That he was am- 
 bitious to make his life a success was demon- 
 strated in [863, when he left his home and family 
 and came to the United States. He had read 
 much of the broader opportunities offered by this 
 country, and was determined to lake advantage 
 of them, in the most favored location which he 
 could find. After working for two years as a 
 clerk in a tobacco store in Fremont, Ohio, he 
 came to Portland, Ore., in 1866, where he ac- 
 quired all the information possible as to the re- 
 sources of the various sections of the northwest. 
 
 Firm in the belief that Polk county at that 
 time offered better opportunities to him than 
 any other locality, he settled in the new town of 
 Independence, and for some time his was the 
 only store in the town. At that time but few 
 families had assembled there, and few in- 
 terests were represented. Mr. Wolf, with 
 keen foresight, at once entered into the 
 spirit of development and upbuilding, contrib- 
 uting freely of his time and means for advancing 
 the interests of the community. It was chiefly 
 through his influence that the Oregon and Cali- 
 fornia Railroad Company, now the Southern Pa- 
 cific, was induced to run its line through Inde- 
 pendence, an advantage to that town which was 
 almost instantly apparent in the general increase 
 in trade. In building the Southern Pacific 
 through Independence gravel in large quantities 
 was needed. Mr. Henry Hill, one of the town 
 proprietors, owned a large gravel bank which 
 was easy to work from, if it could be acquired; 
 the company tried to get it by purchase or lease, 
 but all means failed. Mr. Wolf was appealed to, 
 and through his influence it was secured with no 
 expense to the railroad company, and this was 
 the means of making Independence what it is 
 to-day, a fact appreciated by the citizens and the 
 officials of the railroad. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Wolf disposed of his business and 
 property in Independence and moved to Silver- 
 ton, where he purchased the general merchandise 
 business of George Aiken, deceased. This he 
 conducted successfully for several years. In 
 1890 he took his son, Julius C, into partnership, 
 and in 1891 he erected the Wolf Block, in which 
 he opened new headquarters for his trade. In 
 1899 ne an d his son disposed of the business to 
 James Craig, who is still in possession. 
 
 At the present time Mr. Wolf is chiefly inter- 
 ested in the hop and the cattle industries. He 
 has sixty acres under hops, and buys, sells and 
 exports large quantities of this product every 
 year. During 1903 he expects to ship at least 
 four thousand hales out of the country. On his 
 farm he raises a high grade of cattle and sheep. 
 In his business operations he has been very sue- 
 
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 cessful, and ranks as one of the substantial men 
 of Marion county. 
 
 Mr. Wolf was married in Portland, in 1 868, to 
 Fannie Kracmer, who is a native of Germany. 
 They are the parents of three children, namely : 
 Julius C, his father's partner in the hop busi- 
 ness ; Louis Jacob, who was graduated from 
 Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, in 1903 ; 
 and Sophia, who lives with her parents. 
 
 Mr. Wolf is identified with Silver Lodge, I. O. 
 O. F. ; the Rebekahs, and Silverton Lodge No. 
 45, A. F. & A. M. He is a firm advocate of Re- 
 publican principles, and while a resident of In- 
 dependence was actively interested in public 
 affairs, serving for several terms in the city coun- 
 cil and as school director. In Silverton he has 
 served as mayor two terms, and has been a mem- 
 ber of the city council for four years. He has 
 an enviable reputation for business integrity, for 
 enterprise, and for public-spirit, and is accounted 
 one of the most liberal-minded and progressive 
 citizens of Silverton. When he undertakes to 
 carry out an object which he has deemed worthy 
 of his support, he enters into the spirit of the 
 enterprise with his whole heart. He has never 
 failed to respond to the solicitations for aid in 
 any worthy project. Throughout his entire life 
 in the Willamette valley he has exhibited an un- 
 selfish interest in the general welfare of the 
 people, and has done all in his power for the im- 
 provement of social, intellectual, moral and com- 
 mercial conditions. He has earned his title to 
 the rank of representative citizen, and is deserv- 
 ing of praise for the honorable success which has 
 greeted his efforts. 
 
 JOSEPH P. GALBRAITH. Formerly 
 
 actively associated with the manufacturing and 
 mercantile industries of Linn county, as book- 
 keeper of the Albany Woolen Mills, Mr. Gal- 
 braith is recognized as a citizen of worth, and 
 an efficient business man. He served with dis- 
 tinction in the Union army during the Civil war, 
 and has since been equally loyal in the support 
 of the government. A man of talent and cul- 
 ture, he evinces a warm interest in the advance- 
 ment of beneficial projects, and is a zealous 
 worker in various secret societies. In the Ma- 
 sonic order he is one of the foremost members, 
 and has done much to promote the good of the 
 fraternity. A native of Rogersville, Tenn., he 
 was born April 6, 1840, a son of William Gal- 
 braith. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Gal- 
 braith, a native of Virginia, removed to Haw- 
 kins county, Tenn., when a young man, and was 
 there successfully engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits, owning a large plantation. He was of 
 Scotch-Irish ancestry, and a lineal descendant of 
 Arthur Galbraith, who was born in the North of 
 
 Ireland, but emigrated to this country, settling in 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 William Galbraith was born ten miles west of 
 Rogersville, Hawkins county, Tenn., and re- 
 moved to Jefferson county and there spent the 
 greater part of his life. He first engaged in busi- 
 ness as a merchant, then a railway agent, and 
 subsequently a clerk and master in chancery. 
 He served in the Seminole Indian war as lieuten- 
 ant of a company of volunteers, and for one term 
 was a representative to the state legislature. He, 
 too, was prominent in the Masonic order, in 
 which he attained the degree of R. A. M., and 
 belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 He married Eliza Cobb, who was born in Haw- 
 kins county, Tenn., the daughter of a planter, 
 Jesse Cobb, who removed to Tennessee from his 
 native state, North Carolina, in early manhood. 
 Ten children were born of their union, and of 
 these nine survive, and five are living in this 
 section of the country, two of the sons residing in 
 Oregon, and two sons and one daughter living in 
 Washington. 
 
 At the age of six years Joseph P. Galbraith 
 removed with his parents to Jefferson county, 
 Tenn., where he received his early education, at- 
 tending Holston College. In August, 1861, im- 
 bued with the true patriotic spirit of his ances- 
 tors, he made his way across the mountains to 
 Camp Dick Robinson, in Kentucky, and, in Sep- 
 tember, 1861, enlisted in Company C, Second 
 Tennessee Infantry. He subsequently took an 
 active part in many engagements, being in the 
 Battle of Mill Spring, Ky., at Murfreesboro, and 
 at Cumberland Gap. For bravery in action he 
 was promoted first to the rank of sergeant major, 
 and was afterwards made adjutant of the Second 
 Tennessee Regiment, U. S. V., with the rank of 
 first lieutenant. He subsequently participated in 
 several skirmishes in Tennessee, and while in 
 the eastern part of the state assisted in driving 
 the rebels into Virginia. While home on a fur- 
 lough, his regiment was captured at Rogersville, 
 Tenn., and sent to Richmond, Va. In February, 
 1864, Lieutenant Galbraith resigned his commis- 
 sion, and was afterwards engaged in business 
 in Knox and Jefferson counties, Tenn., until the 
 close of the war. 
 
 Returning then to Jefferson county, Mr. Gal- 
 braith was assistant clerk in the state legislature 
 of 1864 and 1865, and afterwards served as a 
 clerk under the United States Tax Commission. 
 Having in the meantime studied law at Dand- 
 ridge, Tenn., he was admitted to the bar in 1866, 
 and practiced his profession in that city until 
 1875. Removing in that year to Washington 
 county, Ore., he taught school there two terms, 
 then came to Linn county, and for three terms 
 was principal of the schools in Brownsville. Ac- 
 cepting a position as secretary and bookkeeper 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 413 
 
 with the Brownsville Woolen Mills Company, 
 under Thomas Kay, in 1877, he was associated 
 
 th this company until [886. Being then 
 
 cted county clerk of Lfnn county, Mr. Gal- 
 braith served two years, but declined a re-elec- 
 Retuming to Brownsville, he assisted in 
 a manufacturing company, which pur- 
 ■he old woolen mill, with which he was 
 
 tnected about a year. Being offered a bonus, 
 
 in 1889. to build a mill in Albany, the company 
 
 I its property in Brownsville and located in 
 
 any under the same name and with the same 
 
 5, erecting a plant in Albany. The company 
 
 - afterwards re-incorporated as the Albany 
 olen Mills Company. In December. 1893, 
 Mr. Galbraith disposed of his stock in that firm, 
 resigned his position and resumed the practice 
 of law, continuing his professional labors for 
 eighteen months. The Albany Woolen Mills 
 
 mpany then passing into the hands of a re- 
 ceiver. Mr. (ialbraith was appointed clerk and 
 bookkeeper, and served in those capacities until 
 the affairs of the company were adjusted. When 
 the new company was organized in 1898, he be- 
 came financially interested in it, and continued 
 as bookkeeper until the plant was sold. 
 
 Mr. Galbraith was married in Tennessee, in 
 
 3, to Miss Nancy J. McFarland, who was 
 horn at Millspring, Tenn., daughter of Dr. Ben- 
 jamin F. McFarland. an old and prominent phy- 
 sician, who was for a number of years president 
 
 the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Co. 
 She died March 9, 1902. Ten children were 
 torn of their union, namely : Lena, wife of C. 
 H. Younger, of Albany ; Louis, who died in 
 
 7 : William, of Lewiston, Idaho ; Hattie, 
 at home ; Eliza, wife of George B. Hart, who 
 is United States Inspector of Customs in the 
 Philippine Islands; Nina, wife of W. L. Lyons, 
 of Pullman, Wash.; Jennie, wife of S. M. Gar- 
 rison, living in Roseburg, Ore., and Frank, Jo- 
 seph and Victor, all of Whatcom county, Wash. 
 Politically, Mr. Galbraith is a gold Democrat. 
 and at the last election cast his vote for President 
 McKinley. After serving one term as council- 
 man he resigned his position, and in 1902 was 
 elected justice of the peace. Fraternally, he was 
 made a Mason in Dandridge, Tenn., in 1866, 
 and while living there was raised to the degree 
 
 R. A. M. He is now a member, and past 
 master of St. John's Lodge Xo. 62, A. F. & A. 
 M.. of Albany; a member and past officer of 
 Bayley Chapter. Xo. 17. R. A. M. ; a member 
 and Past Eminent Commander of Temple 
 Commandery, No. 3. K. T. ; is a member of 
 A doniram Council, R. & S. M., of Albany, in 
 which he is recorder; and has served as Grand 
 Generalissimo of the Grand Commanderv of Ore- 
 gon, as Grand Senior Deacon of the Grand 
 Lodge, and as Grand Captain of the Host of the 
 
 Grand Chapter of Oregon. He is also a member 
 of the Alco Club, and of McPherson Post, G. A. 
 R. He is a prominent member of the Presby- 
 terian Church, in which he is an elder, and is 
 also a trustee, and the secretary and treasurer, 
 of the board of trustees of, Albany College. 
 
 THOMAS V. B. EMBREE, M. D. When 
 Dr. Thomas V. B. Embree arrived in Oregon 
 City December 24, 1844, he found the largest 
 aggregation of houses and people anywhere as- 
 sembled on the coast. At the time he was eight 
 years of age, having been born five miles from 
 La Fayette, Howard county, Mo., August 14, 
 1836. As one of the early pioneers of Oregon 
 he has contributed his share to its upbuilding, 
 and has practiced medicine within its borders for 
 more than forty-two years. The establisher of 
 the Embree family in America was the paternal 
 great-grandfather of the doctor, who was born 
 in England, and left his plantation in Virginia 
 to participate in the war of independence. This 
 southern plantation was the birthplace of his 
 son, Thomas, the paternal grandfather, who in 
 early life removed to Kentucky, but died on the 
 farm in Howard county. Mo., to the pioneer de- 
 velopment of which he devoted the last years of 
 his life. 
 
 Carey Duncan Embree, the father of Thomas 
 V. B., was born in Clark county, Ky., January 
 11, 1806, and was the sixth-born in a family of 
 fifteen children. Owing to both the want of 
 facilities and time, his early education was ex- 
 tremely limited, not exceeding a year and a half 
 in all. At the age of twenty-eight he married Lu- 
 anda Fowler, a native of his own town, who was 
 two years younger than himself, and with whom 
 and their children, Thomas V. B., Mary Isadore, 
 Marcellus A., and Benton, he started on the long 
 journey across the plains. The family was 
 equipped with wagons, six oxen, tw r o cows and 
 one horse. They had many experiences of a 
 trying nature, and the weather was exceedingly 
 inclement, the rain setting in soon after they 
 left Boonville, and continuing at frequent inter- 
 vals until the first of July. Arriving at Fort 
 Hall, the sole remaining ox team was traded for 
 one strong, reliable animal, and thus reinforced 
 they proceeded on their way, meeting with dif- 
 ficulties from steep inclines, and inconvenience 
 because of a depleted larder. However, the lat- 
 ter trouble was overcome through sending to 
 Dr. Whitman for supplies. Upon arriving at 
 The Dalles Mr. Embree was the possessor of but 
 $1, and with this money he purchased a bushel of 
 potatoes, some sugar and tea for his sick wife, 
 after which they resumed the journey, meeting 
 with many more obstacles than it is possible to 
 enumerate in this work. Just above Dixie Mr. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Embree took a claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres, and here he settled with his wife and five 
 children, one of whom had been born near the 
 end of their journey. The family lived in their 
 wagons while the father hewed wood for the 
 little cabin, his heart heavy, because of the almost 
 entire absence of money, and the necessities of 
 life, but the industry of the head of the family 
 soon brought a change, and in time the property 
 developed into one of great value. The year 
 1881 was a sad one for this patient and resource- 
 ful pioneer, for the wife who had so faithfully 
 aided him in accomplishing his object in life 
 was killed by falling from a wagon, being at the 
 time seventy-five years of age. Mr. Embree 
 went to California during the gold excitement 
 of 1849, returning by boat, being forty-nine days 
 upon the way. A few years before his death, at 
 the age of ninety-four years and five months, he 
 removed to Dallas, where he owned a twelve- 
 acre lot, and where he worked as inclination dic- 
 tated. He was an old time Democrat with pro- 
 nounced southern tendencies, and as a politician 
 was quite prominent in the early clays of his 
 arrival in Oregon. He was the first sheriff of 
 Polk county, but resigned when asked to attach 
 the property of a poor man, for his humanity 
 and extreme kindness of heart rebelled at that 
 seeming injustice of the law. 
 
 On his father's farm Dr. Embree was reared 
 to hard work, and his early education was ac- 
 quired under difficulties. At the age of twenty- 
 two, in 1858, he began the study of medicine 
 under J. W. Boyle, and in i860 entered the med- 
 ical department of the University of the Pacific 
 in San Francisco, now the Cooper Medical Col- 
 lege. After the first course he began to practice 
 medicine in. La Fayette, and later practiced in 
 Amity and Lewisville, locating in Dallas in 1874. 
 He graduated from the medical department of 
 Willamette University in 1881, and the same year 
 entered upon a three and a half years' practice in 
 Corvallis. After eight years in Burns, Harney 
 county, he returned to Dallas, where he devoted 
 his best endeavors to the practice of his chosen 
 profession, being one of the oldest physicians in 
 active practice who acquired their professional 
 training in the state. In 1903 he moved to Port- 
 land. 
 
 In October, 1855, Dr. Embree participated in 
 the Yakima Indian war as a member of Company 
 G, First Oregon Infantry, under command of 
 Capt. Benjamin Hayden. Later he was a member 
 of Company B, commanded by Capt. B. F. Burch. 
 Until 1892 he was a stanch Democrat, but 
 since then he has allied himself with the 
 Populist party. He was a candidate for 
 the state legislature in 1900, but was de- 
 feated. He is a member of the National 
 Committee of the Allied People's Party, and a 
 
 member of the state committee and ex-chairman 
 of the county committee. For one term be was 
 coroner of Polk county, and of Benton county 
 for the same length of time. He is a member of 
 the State Historical and State Pioneer Associa- 
 tions. 
 
 In Corvallis, Benton county, Ore., Dr. Embree 
 married, in 1868, Annie E. Finley, who was bom 
 in Missouri and reared in Santa Clara, Cal. 
 Seven children have been born of this union, four 
 of whom are living, the order of their birth being 
 as follows : Clyde, a printer by occupation ; Alice 
 J., now Mrs. Sellers, of Dallas ; Van Buren, 
 a photographer of Dallas ; and Lillie, who became 
 the wife of Harmon Guthrie and resides near 
 Dallas. Dr. Embree has an enviable reputation 
 of more than local renown, and hundreds of 
 families have come to regard him as an essential 
 part of their household. A practitioner for many 
 years he keeps himself well advised as to the 
 latest discoveries in medical science, and is in ac- 
 cord with modern thought as exemplified in the 
 leading medical institutions. The doctor is 
 genial and kindly, attributes so useful to the 
 successful practitioner. 
 
 GREEN B. CORNELIUS, manager and pro- 
 prietor of a livery business in Turner, was born 
 in Henry county, Iowa, January 11, 1837, a son 
 of Absalom and Elizabeth (Cotton) Cornelius, 
 the former a pioneer settler of Oregon, and 
 a man well known in his locality. Absalom 
 Cornelius was born in North Carolina, and 
 reared in Virginia, where he married and 
 engaged in both farming and lumbering. 
 About 1832 he became a resident of Iowa, and in 
 1845 crossed the plains with three wagons and 
 reveral yoke of oxen, the train in which he trav- 
 eled being composed of fifty wagons. They came 
 via the Platte river route, setting out from St. 
 Joseph, Mo., in May, and arriving at The Dalles 
 in October. From The Dalles Mr. Cornelius 
 reached Oregon City by flatboat, and on this trip 
 got out of provisions, a deficiency remedied by 
 Dr. David McLaughlin, who sent out a party 
 with relief, the chief cause for gratitude being 
 the wheat flour, which they had not tasted since 
 leaving The Dalles. Across the plains Mr. Cor- 
 nelius brought fifty head of fine Durham cattle, 
 which he wintered at The Dalles, together with 
 his household possessions. He himself spent the 
 winter on a claim east of Oregon City, where he 
 took up six hundred and forty acres of land, 
 upon which he built a saw-mill. In the spring 
 he returned to The Dalles and got his cattle, 
 brought them to the ranch, and made his home 
 there until the spring of 1850. He then removed 
 to Marion county, taking up a donation claim 
 the same size as his other tract, located three 
 
PORTRAJ I WD Bl< IGRAPH1CAL RECORD. 
 
 417 
 
 piilcs southwest of Turner. Here also he built 
 
 ,.iu mill, large enough for his own and the 
 of his neighbors. He fanned and raised 
 
 ck for the remainder of Ins life, his death oc- 
 
 rini^ in 1SS0. at the advanced age of eighty- 
 ars. ( >f the fifteen children horn to him- 
 
 • and wife. Mary A. is the widow of John 
 Salt Lake City, Utah; Sophia is the 
 
 low oi X. O. Parker, of W'ardner. Idaho; 
 
 ■>t. Aaron M. lives in Oakland, Cal. ; Green P>. 
 
 the subject of this review: and Ahsalom H., 
 
 county commissioner and ex-county assessor, 
 
 l Jefferson. Marion county. The deceased 
 
 children are : Ehsha, Catherine Chamness, Cata- 
 
 lina Morris. Allie Woodcock. Rebecca Rinearson. 
 
 rge and Samuel, the latter participating in 
 
 the Cayuse and Rogue river wars. 
 
 Mr. Cornelius was eight years of age when he 
 came to Oregon, and thirteen when he came to 
 Marion county. He remained with his father 
 until eighteen years of age, and then went to 
 Clackamas county and bought a piece of land 
 which he used for horse-raising for some years. 
 In Linn county he bought a farm of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, and upon this property 
 
 k charge of his father's cattle for a couple of 
 
 years, at the end of that time returning and 
 
 suming charge of the home farm. March 6, 
 
 », he married Amanda L. Parker, daughter 
 of Hon. Samuel and Elizabeth (Sutton) Parker, 
 who died at The Dalles en route to Marion 
 
 inty. They crossed the plains to Oregon in 
 I&45- Mr. Parker became a very prominent man 
 in this state. He was a man of varied gifts, 
 much of his time being spent in public service, 
 acting as speaker of the house during the first 
 territorial legislature of Oregon. He took up a 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres' of land. 
 where the state penitentiary is now located. One 
 daughter, Priscilla, married Perrin Whitman, 
 nephew of Dr. Marcus Whitman ; Sarah, wife 
 
 John P>. Jackson (deceased), of Washington 
 county; Susan, wife of Capt. George W. Ferrel. 
 of Mexican fame; Gideon J., of Idaho; George 
 L. Parker, of Portland, and Xewton O. (de- 
 ceased) are the pioneer children of this noted 
 nan. The ( )regon born children are : Dollie, 
 Parker Bonham, Lizzie Parker Bonham, Will R., 
 Samuel and Pierce Y. 
 
 In the fall of i860 Mr. Cornelius traded his 
 
 n on the prairie for one of one hundred and 
 
 f acres two and one-half miles south of 
 
 Turner, and this was his home until 1862. He 
 
 then bought a farm of three hundred and twenty 
 
 res, two and a half miles northeast of Turner. 
 
 Hi!-, he cultivated and improved until engaging 
 
 in the livery business in Turner in September, 
 
 \q02. I- our children have been born into the 
 
 ■melius family: Ada Estella. who died in 
 
 [879, at the age of seventeen years, while a stu- 
 
 dent in Willamette University; Sophia Lizzie, an 
 elocutionist of marked ability, and a prominent 
 educator in Oregon, having been principal oi 
 several different schools in the smaller towns, and 
 a teacher in Portland; Ariadne, wife of C. J. 
 Simeral, of Salem; and they have one son, 
 Claire Cornelius; and Cassius P., in business 
 with his father, who is also interested in the tim- 
 ber and mining industries of Oregon and Idaho. 
 William Cornelius Parker, a nephew of Mrs. 
 Cornelius, is a member of the' family; he is a 
 descendant of the Howell family, for whom How- 
 ells Prairie was named. Mr. Cornelius is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and has served as school 
 director for thirty years, resigning when he moved 
 into Turner. He held the office of industrial 
 teacher on the Indian farm at Chewawa for a year 
 and a half. Mr. Cornelius is also identified with 
 the Grange, and with various enterprises in which 
 his district abounds. 
 
 LEWIS CLINTON POOLER. One hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of the old Rice-Dunbar and 
 Charles Scribner donation claims, one and a half 
 miles east of Pratum, was occupied for many- 
 years by Lewis Clinton Pooler, a pioneer of 1852, 
 and one of the honored farmers of this section. 
 Mr. Pooler came from an old New York family, 
 and was born in Oswego, in 1832, the son of 
 parents who devoted their active lives to farming. 
 As a boy he removed with the rest of the family 
 to Fort Wayne, Inch, where he received the 
 greater part of his early education, and where 
 his parents spent their last days. 
 
 The ancestral records of the Pooler family, for- 
 merly spelled Poolleer, prove them of English 
 extraction. George Poolleer, the first of the name 
 to settle in the Lmited States, was born in Eng- 
 land, in 1733, and died in 1837, in Oswego, N. Y. 
 He came to the United States in 1774, and served 
 as a captain in the Revolutionary war. His wife 
 was also English by birth, and of their union six 
 children were born, of whom Joshua, the father 
 of Lewis Clinton, was born in 1792, and died in 
 1842. in Indiana. He married Mary Stafford, an 
 Italian, her birth having occurred in 1793. and 
 her death in 1857. Of their nine children only 
 two are now living, Mrs. Mary Peck, of Gypsum 
 City, Kans., and Emory Pooler, of Topeka, same 
 state. At the age of twenty years Mr. Pooler 
 started out to make an independent living, having 
 secured a position as driver with a party crossing 
 the plains. This was in 1852, and though the 
 year brought much disaster to many who were 
 westward bound, this especial train escaped all 
 but slight inconveniences. The Indians were not 
 particularly troublesome, nor did disease devas- 
 tate the ranks of the home-seekers. Mr. Pooler 
 lived for a time in Oregon City, and afterward 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 went to the Sound country, remaining for a 
 couple of years, then returning to Oregon City, 
 where he found employment in the near-by coun- 
 try as a teamster. In 1855, he married Adaline 
 Stormer, daughter of Isaac and Reasoner 
 Stormer. The mother died' when Adaline was a 
 child. The father married a second time, this 
 union being with Mary A. Cooley, and with his 
 family crossed the plains in 1852, in the same 
 train with Mr. Pooler. The second wife died on 
 the plains in 1852, and Mr. Stormer married a 
 third time to Marv Lamb. Nine children were 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Pooler, the order of their 
 birth being as follows : Jefferson A., who mar- 
 ried Miss Annette Leonard, and by her had two 
 children, Virginia, who died in infancy, and 
 Clora, who became the wife of C. H. Lenge ; 
 Mary Alice, the wife of William Bowen, located 
 near Willard, in the Waldo Hills, and they have 
 four sons : Archie, Ernest, Clifford and Adolph ; 
 Marian Annette, the wife of William McAllister, 
 of Pratum, and the children born to them were 
 Guy, Mark, Russell and Lenna, the latter of 
 whom is deceased ; Effie Belle, the wife of George 
 Bock, of Salem, by a former marriage, with Reu- 
 ben Stedman, having two children, Stella and Jay, 
 both of whom are deceased ; Ida G., the widow of 
 Eugene McAllister, of Kansas City, Kans., her 
 one daughter, Eugenia, now living with her 
 grandmother; Emory S., who died at the age of 
 seventeen years ; Amy Catherine, a school teacher, 
 who lives in eastern Oregon ; Earl L., who mar- 
 ried Maude Desart, by whom he had two chil- 
 dren, E. Lorene and Owen Lewis, this son being 
 located near his father's farm ; and W. Ivan, liv- 
 ing at home. 
 
 After marriage Mr. Pooler and wife went to 
 housekeeping on Drift creek, near Sublimity, 
 where they lived for three years, at the end of 
 which time they settled upon the farm now occu- 
 pied by his widow. This was a discouraging un- 
 dertaking at first, heavily timbered, with no mod- 
 ern improvements whatever. By sheer force of 
 will-power and determination it was transformed 
 into a paying investment, and equipped with mod- 
 ern buildings. Here Mr. Pooler passed many 
 happy and successful years, his death occurring 
 September 8, 1901, at the age of sixty-nine years, 
 the esteem and confidence of his neighbors having 
 been given him for his many fine personal quali- 
 ties, for his public-spiritedness, thrift and enter- 
 prise. Since his death his widow has ably stepped 
 into his place, and assisted by her sons, continues 
 the policy of advancement inaugurated by this 
 honored and high-minded pioneer. Mrs. Pooler 
 has eleven grandchildren living. 
 
 During the Indian wars in 1854-55, Mr. Pooler 
 gave himself freely to the service which lay be- 
 fore him as a citizen of the Sound country, be- 
 
 coming a volunteer in a service which left him a 
 cripple throughout the remainder of his life, from 
 the effects of a wound received at that time. 
 
 REV. CHARLES C. POLING, Ph. D. It is 
 a widely acknowledged fact that the most im- 
 portant work to which man can direct his en- 
 ergies is that of teaching, whether it be from the 
 pulpit, from the lecture platform or in the school- 
 room. Its primary object is ever the same — the 
 development of one's latent powers that the 
 duties of life may be bravely met and well per- 
 formed. The intellectual and moral natures are so 
 closely allied that it is difficult to instruct one 
 without in a measure influencing the other, and 
 certainly the best results are accomplished when 
 the work goes hand in hand. Christian instruc- 
 tion is having an influence over the world that 
 few can estimate, for it is in youth that the life 
 of the individual is marked out, the future course 
 decided, and the choice as to the good or evil 
 made. It is to this work of thus instructing the 
 young that Dr. Charles C. Poling devotes his 
 time, energies and thought, being now president 
 of the Dallas College. 
 
 Dr. Poling was born near Martinsburg, W. 
 Va., Februarv 2, 1859. His paternal great- 
 grandfather was born in Scotland and, coming to 
 America, reared a large family in Virginia. He 
 was of Scotch-Irish lineage. His son, Capt. 
 John Poling, the grandfather of our subject, 
 gained his title through his connection with the 
 boating interests, being master of the "Potomac" 
 on the Chesapeake and Ohio canals from Cum- 
 berland to Martinsburg. He was also engaged in 
 ranching in Hampshire county, Va., and, raising 
 stock, he drove his cattle to the markets of Balti- 
 more, Philadelphia and Boston. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Rev. Daniel S. Poling, the father of Dr. 
 Poling, was born in Romney, Hampshire county, 
 Va., in 1830, and when twenty-one years of 
 age was ordained a minister of the Evangelical 
 Association. He began work in behalf of the 
 church in the Shenandoah valley and afterward 
 removed to Ohio. During this period he was 
 also a stanch advocate of the abolition cause and 
 did much to raise a feeling of indignation to- 
 ward slavery. Removing to Pennsylvania, he 
 has since continued his work in the ministry, 
 never faltering in his labors in behalf of Christi- 
 anity. Although now well advanced on life's 
 journey he is still active in his church near Johns- 
 town, Pa. His wife, who bore the maiden name 
 of Susan Pownall, was born in Virginia, a 
 daughter of Jonathan Pownall, who owned a 
 large plantation near Romney, Va. Unto Mr. 
 and Mrs. Poling were born eight children, of 
 whom our subject is the third. His brother, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 41 y 
 
 Rev. D. V. Poling, is a graduate of Central Penu- 
 r, and is now pastor of the Con- 
 nal Church of The Dalles, ( )re. 
 
 began his education in the 
 public schools of \ irginia, continued his studies 
 in Ohio, ami afterward entered Greensburg Sem- 
 at Greensburg, Ohio. Later he was a 
 student in Clarion County Institute of Pennsyl- 
 vania and subsequently completed his sophomore 
 .r in Mount Union College of Mount Union, 
 Ohio. Having determined to devote his life to 
 the active work of the ministry, he was licensed 
 preach in 1S80 at Johnstown, Pa., and for 
 irs was pastor of the church at Brook- 
 ville, Pa. He was ordained a deacon in Venango 
 raty, Pa., in [882, and for two years was pas- 
 of Trinity Church at Johnstown After enter- 
 ic ministry he continued his educational 
 rork as opportunity afforded, until he completed 
 his philosophical course, graduating and receiv- 
 ing the degree of Ph. B. from LaFayette 
 linary. Since then he has taken a four years' 
 course in metaphysics and philosophy at Rich- 
 mond College, of Richmond, Ohio, receiving 
 therefrom the degree of Ph. D. In the spring of 
 xv; 4 he and his wife were appointed to active 
 1 ice on the board of missions and assigned 
 luty in the Willamette valley. Ore., and April 
 i of that year arrived in Portland. Dr. 
 Poling established the first English mission of 
 the Evangelical Association in the city of Port- 
 '. where he continued his labors for three 
 years. In 1888 he was elected presiding elder 
 •regon Conference of the Willamette dis- 
 trict and after serving for seven years in that 
 mportant office he resigned to accept the presi- 
 dency of LaFayette Seminary in 1895. 
 
 In 1888 Dr. Poling had taken the initia- 
 tory step toward founding the seminary, and 
 hen the county seat was removed to McMinn- 
 e he secured the old county building which 
 ! removed to its present site and therein La- 
 Fayette Seminary was established with Dr. 
 'oling as president of the board of trustees. He 
 was first elected to the presidency of the institu- 
 ion. hut refusing the honor, Dr. W. C. Kantner, 
 of Millersburg, Pa., was appointed president, 
 li Dr. Bowman as one of the professors. Dr. 
 Cantner successfully continued at the head of 
 union until 1892. when he resigned and 
 r Bowman was elected to the presidency 
 the seminary, in which capacity he remained 
 U 1895. Dr. Poling was then elected 
 sident, conducting the institution for three 
 year-, and at the same time officiating as pastor 
 the First Union Evangelical Church. In 
 1891 President Poling was sent as a delegate to 
 the general conference held in Philadelphia. In 
 894 the general conference at Naperville, 111., 
 organized the United Evangelical Church, with 
 
 which he cast his lot. In 1899 he was again 
 elected presiding elder of the Oregon Conference 
 and has since been superintendent of the work 
 of the denomination in the state. Between the 
 years 1895 an d 1900 Dr. Poling sought a 
 new location for the seminary, and eventually 
 secured one at Dallas, uniting LaFayette Semi- 
 nary with LaCreole Academy and incorporating 
 the same under the name of Dallas College, with 
 himself as president. They retained the old 
 charter of the academy, and since the amalgama- 
 tion the college has made marked advancement. 
 There is, however, a separate board of trustees 
 for both the college and academy, with Dr. 
 Poling as president of each. The academy fur- 
 nishes the preparatory course for entrance into 
 the college. Marked improvements have been 
 made, including the erection of new buildings 
 and there is now a well equipped college build- 
 ing, new dormitory and gymnasium. The aca- 
 demic work includes a three years' course above 
 the eighth grade school work, while the college 
 embraces a full college course. Perhaps no bet- 
 ter idea of the institution can be given than is 
 presented in its catalogue. "LaCreole Academy, 
 whose aim, as formerly, shall be 'to prepare stu- 
 dents for college and for the active affairs of 
 life' ; and Dallas College, successor to LaFavette 
 Seminary, will henceforth be conducted under 
 the auspices of the Oregon Conference of the 
 United Evangelical Church. While the control 
 of the school is denominational, its instruction 
 shall in no sense be sectarian. The purpose of 
 the institution is to furnish to young men and 
 women a liberal Christian education, to lay a 
 deep and broad foundation in the study of the 
 Sciences, Arts and Philosophies, and to build up 
 a strong intellectual and moral character. The 
 school, therefore, is open to persons of good 
 moral character, who are willing to obey the 
 rules and regulations adopted for its govern- 
 ment." 
 
 Dr. Poling was married in Greensburg, 
 Ohio, in 1882. to Miss Sevilla A. Kring. who 
 was born in that state, a daughter of the Rev. 
 S. B. Kring, a minister of the Evangelical Asso- 
 ciation, who died in Kendallville, Ind., in 1893. 
 Mrs. Poling is a graduate of the high school of 
 Van Wert, Ohio, and prior to her marriage was 
 an evangelist for four years, laboring in Penn- 
 sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, and has ever been a 
 most able assistant to her husband in promoting 
 the cause of Christianity and religious education. 
 Their marriage has been blessed with seven chil- 
 dren : Daniel A., who is now in the junior vear 
 in Dallas College: Ethel V., who is pursuing a 
 course in the academy ; Laura A. ; Charles S. ; 
 Mabel: Rudolph; and Paul Newton. At this 
 point it would be superfluous to enter into any 
 series of statements as showing Dr. Poluv 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to be a man of broad intelligence and genuine 
 public spirit, for these qualities have been set 
 forth between the lines of this review. Strong 
 in his individuality, he never lacks the courage 
 of his convictions ; but there are dominating ele- 
 ments in this individuality — a lively human sym- 
 pathy and an abiding charity, which, combined 
 with his sterling integrity, have naturally gained 
 for him the respect and confidence of men. 
 
 JULIUS NEWTON HART. The district 
 attorney for the territory comprising Linn, Ma- 
 rion, Polk, Yamhill and Tillamook counties, Ore., 
 is one of the well known legal practitioners of the 
 state, and is discharging his duties with courage, 
 fidelity, and with absolute fearlessness. 
 
 Back to Colonial times Mr. Hart traces his 
 lineage, and justly cherishes an enviable ances- 
 tral record. He was born near Fairfield, Wayne 
 county, 111., May 13, 1869, a son of John S. and 
 Minerva J. (Neal) Hart, natives respectively of 
 Carroll county, Ohio, and Wayne county, 111. 
 As far back as 1632 Stephen Hart came from 
 Braintree, Essex county, England, settling in 
 Massachusetts, and removing in 1635 to Hart- 
 ford, Conn., which town he helped to found. He 
 became prominent in early governmental affairs 
 in Connecticut, and was a member of the general 
 court for fifteen terms. From Stephen the line 
 of descent is through John, John, John, Silas, 
 Julius C, John S., and J. N. The first John, 
 with his wife and daughter, became victims of 
 the Indians, who burned their house at night, 
 and all within. His son, Capt. John Hart, of the 
 Connecticut militia, avenged the deaths in his 
 family by relentlessly pursuing the red men. The 
 first to establish the family outside of Connecticut 
 was the great-grandfather, Silas Hart, a farmer 
 by occupation, who removed to Wayne county, 
 N. Y., where his son, Julius C, the grandfather 
 of our subject, was born. Julius C. Hart devoted 
 his life to farming and school teaching, which 
 he followed for many years in Carroll county, 
 Ohio, and afterward in Wayne county, 111., where 
 he removed in 1850. His wife was Catherine 
 Carl, a native of Pennsylvania, whose father was 
 a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 
 John S. Hart was a boy when his parents re- 
 moved to Illinois, and he was reared to farming 
 on the pioneer property cleared by his father. 
 During the Civil war he enlisted in the Fifth 
 Illinois Cavalry, and served for more than three 
 years. After the war he continued farming and 
 filled various political offices. After removing 
 to Oregon in 1885 he located on a farm near 
 Dallas, Polk county, which has since been his 
 home. His wife is a daughter of Isaac Newton 
 Neal., who was born in Kentucky. Her ancestors 
 
 emigrated from the north of Ireland to Virginia 
 before the Revolutionary war. 
 
 The oldest of the eight children born to his 
 parents, Julius Newton Hart was reared on a 
 farm, and attended the public schools during the 
 winter. After coming to Oregon from Wayne 
 county, 111., in 1885, he continued to work on 
 the farm for a year, and at the age of seventeen 
 began teaching school in Polk county. Realizing 
 the necessity of a superior education he increased 
 his knowledge while teaching, attending both the 
 State Normal School and La Creole Academy, 
 graduating from the latter institution in 1889. 
 Having decided at an early age to become a law- 
 yer he attended the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon at Portland, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1895. In the meantime he had 
 acquired an enviable reputation as an educator, 
 and in 1896 was elected superintendent of schools 
 of Polk county on the Republican ticket, and was 
 re-elected in 1898, his term of service extending 
 from July, 1896, to July, 1900. While superin- 
 tendent of schools he engaged in a limited prac- 
 tice of law, and in 1900 was nominated for dis- 
 trict attorney. He was elected in June and took 
 the oath of office in July, 1900. 
 
 In December, 1890, Mr. Hart married Irene 
 Dempsey, a native of Polk county, and daughter 
 of James A. Dempsey, a native of Knox county, 
 111. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Hart, 
 Judge Isaac I. Dempsey, came to Oregon in 1862, 
 bringing- with him his family, and settling at 
 Rickreall, Polk county, where he filled the office 
 of county judge. James A. Dempsey farmed for 
 many years in Polk county, and died in Mon- 
 mouth in 1893. His wife, Alice (Embree) 
 Dempsey, a daughter of C. D. Embree and sister 
 of Dr. Embree, represented elsewhere in this 
 work, came to Oregon in 1844. Nine children 
 were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey, . eight 
 daughters and one son, Mrs. Hart being the third 
 oldest. Two children have been born unto Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hart, Julius Harold and Hallie Ruth. 
 Mr. Hart is fraternally connected with Jennings 
 Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M., of which he is past 
 master; with Ainsworth Chapter No. 17, R. A. 
 M. ; and Salem Lodge No. 336, B. P. O. E. He 
 is also a member of the State Bar Association. 
 Mr. Hart is entitled to much credit for the stanch 
 support of the cause of education and for the 
 standard of excellence which he was largely in- 
 strumental in inaugurating and maintaining. He 
 has been uniformly successful as a lawyer, and 
 is a broad-minded, cultured, liberal and enterpris- 
 
 FRANK M. SMITH. Many years ago a lit- 
 tle town of Jackson county, Mo., was the scene 
 of what would now be called strange happen- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 423 
 
 gs, tin.' congregating of white-topped wagons 
 I meek, slow-plodding oxen, with men and 
 mien in the picturesque costumes of the early 
 neer, with somber determination showing 
 through the eagerness oi their faces. These men 
 and women were the products out of which the 
 uu west hu> grown. This little city was Inde- 
 pendence, the starting point lor the great emi- 
 grant trains that took their way into the west. 
 In the midst oi these stirring scenes, Frank M. 
 iiith was horn July jo. 1831. near Indepen- 
 dence, the son of Doctor and Nancy (Scott; 
 Smith, natives oi North Carolina and Ken- 
 tucky, respectively, and here the family 
 remained until Frank M. was sixteen years 
 Id. Living among these scenes it fol- 
 lowed as a natural consequence that they, 
 . should he imbued with the spirit of the 
 times, and in 1847 they started from Holt 
 inty with two ox-teams to put the width of 
 ntinent between them and their old home. 
 The journey occupied three days less than five 
 lonths, during which time Doctor Smith was 
 ieized with his last illness. By the time they 
 :hed Green river they left a mound of up- 
 turned earth to mark their pathway, and the 
 bereaved family went the remainder of the jour- 
 alone. By a strange decree of Providence 
 were unmolested by the Indians, reaching 
 n City safely, going from there to North 
 nhill, where they remained until the spring 
 ^48. In the last named year they went to 
 the Waldo Hills. Marion county, making this 
 their permanent home by taking up a donation 
 im of three hundred and twenty acres, putting 
 nto the improvement of the claim the strength 
 f the seven young people who blessed the lonely 
 nother with their presence. In 1876 occurred 
 the death of this devoted mother. 
 
 The chiidren born to Doctor Smith and his 
 
 •ife are as follows : Mandana, who was married 
 
 1 Mi-souri to Duff Kimsey, and died in Oregon; 
 
 M"ses I., died in Salem, aged about seventy 
 
 years: Frank M., subject of this sketch; Eliza'- 
 
 heth. who became the wife of George Hunt, and 
 
 lied in Salem. Sarah A., widow of Daniel Dur- 
 
 1. now a resident of Salem; Harriett E., died 
 
 unmarried. Doctor, Jr., died on the farm now 
 
 owned by Frank M. 
 
 rank M. Smith remained on the home farm 
 tor seven years. At the age of twenty-three he 
 went to Salem, where he was soon engaged suc- 
 essfully in the livery business. For ten of the 
 twenty years which he devoted to this enterprise 
 the Durbin brothers were his partners. In 1881 
 he purchased a farm of two hundred and sixty 
 acres located three and a quarter miles south- 
 east of Salem, where he has sifice resided. He has 
 made many improvements to the place and has 
 the greater part under cultivation, devoting the 
 
 estate to the raising of stock and to general farm- 
 ing. In 1855-56 he enlisted in Capt. Charles Ben- 
 nett's Company F, First Regiment, (Jregon 
 Mounted Volunteers, for the Yakima expedition, 
 Col. J. W. Xesmith commanding. 
 
 In his political affiliations Mr. Smith is a Dem- 
 ocrat, hut he has never been ambitious for public 
 office, preferring to give his time to his own per- 
 sonal affairs. He is one of the representative 
 men of his section of the county, and is always 
 ready to lend his assistance to the furtherance 
 of those enterprises intended to benefit the com- 
 munity 
 
 ALBION J. RICHARDSON. Numbered 
 among the prominent and successful business 
 men of Polk county is A. J. Richardson, who is 
 living retired from active pursuits at his pleas- 
 ant home in Buena Vista. A man of courageous 
 industry, sound judgment, and keen New England 
 foresight, he came to Oregon when the country 
 was new, and by persistent effort and steadfast- 
 ness of purpose succeeded in the various under- 
 takings with which he has since been identified, 
 and is now one of the most extensive landholders 
 of the county, and a person of affluence and in- 
 fluence. A native of Maine, he was born at 
 Mount Desert, Hancock county, May 11, 1835. 
 He is of Scotch descent, and his father, Abraham 
 Richardson, Jr., and his grandfather, Abraham 
 Richardson, Sr., were both born and reared on 
 that picturesque Maine island that is now a fa- 
 mous summer resort. 
 
 Abraham Richardson, Jr., followed the sea dur- 
 ing his early life, shipping before the mast when 
 a boy, subsequently sailing as master of a vessel. 
 He was afterwards employed for many years in 
 shipbuilding, being successful, and accumulating 
 considerable property for those days. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Deborah Burnham, was 
 also born on Mount Desert Island, and like her 
 husband, spent her entire life in Maine. Seven 
 boys and three girls were born of their union, and 
 of these Albion J., the second child in order of 
 birth, is the only survivor. 
 
 Receiving excellent educational advantages. A. 
 J. Richardson attended first the public schools 
 of Tremont, Me., afterwards continuing his 
 studies at the Bucksport Academy. Working 
 with his father as a shipbuilder, he became fa- 
 miliar with the trade, and followed it for two 
 years in Rockland, Me. Leaving Boston in lune, 
 1855, be came to San Francisco by way of Cape 
 Horn, landing in that city in December, after 
 a voyage of one hundred and thirty-two days. 
 Going to Amador county, he was there engaged 
 in mining two years, being quite successful^ in 
 his operations. Starting then for the Eraser 
 river, at the time of the gold excitement there, 
 he changed his mind before arriving at his point 
 
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 of destination, and located in Portland, Ore., 
 where he followed his trade. Coming from there 
 to Polk county in the summer of 1859, Mr. Rich- 
 ardson worked at his trade until 1862, when he 
 went to Florence, Idaho, where he was engaged 
 in mining about six months. After spending 
 the winter of 1862-63 in Oregon, he again went 
 to the mining region of Idaho, making the jour- 
 ney with a pack train laden with merchandise for 
 the mines, and remaining two years. Returning 
 to Polk county, he was actively engaged in deal- 
 ing in land for several years. From 1892 until 
 1898 he was a resident of Portland, Ore., but 
 has since made his home in Buena Vista. One of 
 the largest real estate owners in this section of 
 the state, Mr. Richardson has about twelve hun- 
 dred acres of land in the Willamette valley, two 
 farms lying in Marion county, east of Buena 
 Vista, two farms west of Buena Vista, and is 
 the owner of considerable city property of value. 
 His land is all rented, about twenty-five acres of 
 it being devoted to hops. Since 1875 he has 
 carried on a profitable business as a grain dealer, 
 having a warehouse in Buena Vista, for eighteen 
 years has been the leading grain merchant of this 
 locality. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Richardson married Hannah J. 
 Linnville, who was born in Missouri, in October, 
 1845. Her father, the late Harrison Linnville, 
 came from Missouri to Oregon in 1846, and took 
 up a donation claim at what is now Parker's Sta- 
 tion. He subsequently spent his last years in 
 Corvallis. Of the four children born of the union 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, but one is now 
 living, Lillian, wife of C. A. Gray, of Salem, Ore. 
 Politically, Mr. Richardson is a stanch Repub- 
 lican, and fraternally he is a member of Lyons 
 Lodge No. 29, A. F. & A. M., of Independence ; 
 Oregon Consistory No. 1, of Portland, and Al 
 Kader Temple, N. M. S., of Portland. 
 
 TRENTON R. HIBBARD. The soldier on 
 the field of battle is called upon for no greater 
 heroism than is the pioneer who makes his way 
 into the wilderness, far from other men and the 
 comforts of an older civilization in order to es- 
 tablish homes and to reclaim the wild district for 
 the uses of himself and his race. The conditions 
 which he meets are very hard and oftentimes 
 discouraging. Nature may be bountiful in her 
 gifts to man, but she also realizes the value of 
 work in the development of character. She has 
 therefore simply bestowed upon him the mate- 
 rials from which he is to gain through labor 
 that which brings him comforts and wealth. One 
 always looks with interest upon the pioneer 
 people who were brave enough to face the dan- 
 gers and difficulties that awaited them on the 
 Pacific coast. So far were they from the old 
 
 homes of the Mississippi valley or the east that 
 communication was almost entirely cut off, and 
 yet with unflinching courage they undertook the 
 work of reclamation here. Mr. Hibbard is 
 among the number whose labors have been of 
 great benefit to Oregon, and few indeed are the 
 settlers of the state at the present time who can 
 claim residence here from 1847. While he is 
 now living a retired life, he is to some extent 
 engaged in making loans and in renting prop- 
 erty. He resides in Silverton, where he is an 
 honored and respected citizen. 
 
 Mr. Hibbard was born near Pekin, Tazewell 
 county, 111., April 2, 1836. His father, King 
 Hibbard, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., January 
 31, 1806, a son of Samuel P. Hibbard, whose 
 birth occurred in Vermont, whence he removed 
 to Buffalo. He was a teamster in the army of 
 the war of 181 2, and his family heard the firing 
 of the guns of Perry during the famous naval bat- 
 tle on Lake Erie, which occurred only about six 
 miles from their home. The grandfather of our 
 subject became a resident of Oregon in 1848, 
 locating near North Yamhill, Yamhill county, 
 where he lived with his son until his death. In 
 the year 1827 King Hibbard removed from Ohio 
 to Illinois, stopping first where the city of Chi- 
 cago now stands. One of his sisters gave birth 
 to a boy there, the first born in Chicago. His 
 name is Levi Reed, and he is now living a re- 
 tired life in Portland, Ore. 
 
 On the 7th of April, 1847, King Hibbard 
 left his home in Pekin, 111., and started for the 
 northwest, crossing the Missouri river at St. 
 Joseph on the 3rd of May. He then proceeded 
 by way of the Platte river and the Oregon route 
 to the northwest. He saw thousands of buffalo 
 upon the plains, and Indians were almost as 
 numerous. There were no bridges across the 
 streams, and neither had the ferry boats been 
 put in operation. On one occasion the Indians 
 stole the horses of the party, but they managed 
 to recover them. They crossed the Cascades, 
 and on the 17th of September arrived at the 
 Foster place in Clackamas county. The Hibbard 
 family located amid the Waldo Hills, and the 
 father of our subject took a donation land claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres, which he entered 
 on the 25th of September. He was a typical 
 pioneer settler, brave, self-reliant and deter- 
 mined, willing to cope with the hardships and 
 difficulties incident to life on the frontier in order 
 to establish a home for his family. With char- 
 acteristic energy he began the development of 
 his place and continued to work there until his 
 death, which occurred on the 30th of June, i860. 
 He left everything in the hands of his son, Tren- 
 ton R., administrator of the estate. His wife, 
 who bore the maiden name of Nancy C. Brisbin, 
 was born in Center county, Pa. Her death oc- 
 
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 CUITed in the Waldo Hills in January. 18O4. 
 Her father, John Brisbin, was a native of Penn- 
 1. whence he removed to Kentucky, be- 
 naing an influential and prominent citizen 
 there. He served as judge, and took an active 
 -; in public affairs, contributing largeh to 
 the improvement and progress of his community. 
 lie was a very successful educator, and was also 
 fine penman. In the early '20s he removed to 
 Illinois, locating near Jacksonville, and subse- 
 quently he took up his abode near Pekin, that 
 ite. In [846 he made the trip to Oregon 
 - the plains with an ox team, and died in 
 the Cow Creek canyon. They had lost all of 
 their stock and were coming on foot when Mr. 
 Brisbin sickened and died. He was at that time 
 ne with his son, who buried him, digging a 
 ive with his hands. It had been necessary for 
 them to wade through the water, and in this way 
 Mr. Brisbin had become ill. The remainder of 
 the train proceeded on their way, while the 
 father and son stopped for what they believed 
 would be but a brief period, thinking that the 
 father would be better soon. After burying his 
 father, the son hastened on and joined the rest 
 of the party, hut in the meantime nearly starved, 
 the supply of food giving out. On reaching their 
 destination a settlement was made by the Bris- 
 bin family in Marion county. 
 
 In the Hibbard family were eight children, 
 four sons and four daughters, of whom Trenton 
 R. Hibbard was the eldest. He obtained a com- 
 lon school education and in early life engaged 
 in farming with his father. Upon the latter 's 
 death he remained upon the old homestead, and 
 educated and cared for the family until the 
 younger children of the household were able to 
 care for themselves. When all had grown to 
 mature years he sold the property, in March, 
 1. S74, and divided the proceeds among the heirs, 
 administering the estate satisfactorily to all. In 
 the fall of 1874 he removed to Silverton and 
 established a general mercantile store, which he 
 conducted with success for several y^ears, or 
 until 1892. when he retired. Since that time he 
 has been engaged in loaning money and in rent- 
 ing farms and other property, but to a large ex- 
 tent is resting from arduous labor. He also 
 owns a stock ranch of one hundred and sixty 
 cres in the mountains, on which he pastures 
 cattle for others. He also has two hundred acres 
 the original donation claim, and he purchased 
 fifty acres adjoining, so that that farm comprises 
 two hundred and fifty acres, a portion of which 
 s in orchard. Mr. Hibbard also owns town prop- 
 erty, and has improved residence property in Sil- 
 verton. He likewise has a store and house in 
 Silverton and several lots in East Portland, Al- 
 bina and Piedmont, which are unimproved. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Hibbard was appointed postmas- 
 
 ter, ami filled that office for six years. He was 
 also the first mayor of Silverton, and acted in 
 that capacity for three terms. Politically he is 
 a Republican. He takes a very active interest in 
 the welfare of the party and does all in his power 
 for its growth. He has served as constable of 
 the precinct, and in that position, as in other 
 offices which he has filled, he has ever been found 
 faithful and reliable in the discharge of his du- 
 ties. A prominent Odd Fellow, he belongs to 
 the lodge, encampment and the Rebekah degree. 
 He is also a member of the Masonic Lodge. Mr. 
 Hibbard is a man of striking appearance, stand- 
 ing six feet and four inches in height and weigh- 
 ing two hundred pounds. He is said to resemble 
 Abraham Lincoln, and he possesses many of the 
 sterling traits of character of that great states- 
 man. 
 
 WILLIAM M. POWERS and his wife are 
 one of the most interesting couples in Linn 
 county, who have grown old in the service of 
 Oregon, and their many experiences in the 
 early days would fill an interesting volume. 
 Having the advantages of admirable ances- 
 tors, of parents who cherished high ideals for 
 their children, and of Christian training in 
 their youth, they have carried their zeal and 
 nobility of character through the unsettled 
 and of times trying conditions in the north- 
 west, stamping their business and social con- 
 nections with the seal of sincerity and success. 
 William Powers is a descendant of a New 
 England family which traces its American 
 lineage back two hundred years, its members 
 located for the greater part in the state of Ver- 
 mont, where was born the paternal grand- 
 father, George Powers. Ezekiel Powers, the 
 father of AVilliam, was also born in Vermont, 
 and subsequently became a contractor and 
 builder in Batavia, N. Y. He died when Will- 
 iam was four years old, and about the same 
 time his wife, Esther (Van Ness) Powers, 
 followed him to the silent bourne. The Van 
 Ness family have been distinguished for many 
 years in New York, and claim to be of old 
 Hudson river Knickerbocker stock. William 
 M. is the only child living of this union, Cor- 
 nelius, the oldest son, a shipbuilder, having 
 died in Osage, Iowa ; Joseph, an engineer, 
 died in the south, and Daniel W. died after 
 amassing a fortune in Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 Until his tenth year, William Powers lived 
 in his native town of Batavia, N. Y., where he 
 was born August 12, 1827. He was then sent 
 to a farm in Mount Vernon township, Knox 
 county, Ohio, and while working hard for his 
 board and clothes, had absolutely no oppor- 
 tunity to attend school. In 1842' he went to 
 
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 Iowa with his uncle, Colonel Hall, settling on 
 a farm in Mount Pleasant township, Henry 
 county, where he was busily engaged in farm- 
 ing when the Mexican war broke out. This 
 seemed an opportunity indeed to be of service 
 to his country, and regretfully he returned to 
 the monotony of farm life after having his ap- 
 plication rejected on account of age and dis- 
 ability. The following year, 1847, a chance 
 came his way in the guise of the famous Dan 
 Rice circus, an enterprise which opened up 
 wonderful vistas for boys with large ambi- 
 tions and little money. The "great and only 
 show on earth" was then being transported 
 from place to place along the Ohio and Mis- 
 sissippi rivers by a steamer owned by the 
 Company, and William began as cabin boy on 
 this steamer in 1847, an d gradually worked 
 his way through the aggregation of mysteries 
 which have dazzled audiences these many 
 years. His circus experiences were varied, 
 and comprised the gamut run by the most re- 
 sourceful in those days, and he became a per- 
 former who won thunders of applause from 
 admiring onlookers. He could do the most 
 daring tricks known to tumblers of that time, 
 and in time he became a horseback performer, 
 excelling particularly in ring work. The fine 
 mare "Fashion" and he were for months asso- 
 ciated together in the minds of an anxious 
 public, and were coupled together in glaring 
 letters on the ingenious posters. Hundreds of 
 times he made his entrance into the sawdust 
 ring, performed his daring and skillful act, 
 and, with the graceful Fashion, acknowledged 
 the plaudits of the audience. These days are 
 recalled by Mr. Powers with much satisfac- 
 tion, and possibly a little regret, for who does 
 not miss vociferous appreciation when once it 
 has rewarded our efforts, of whatever nature? 
 In 1849 Mr. Powers became imbued with 
 the gold fever, and with a pack train started 
 across the plains in a company of fifty-two 
 men. At Fort Laramie differences of opinion 
 arose, and with three of his companions he 
 left the tran and proceeded alone the rest of 
 the way. The small party were strangely at 
 the mercy of whatever danger lurked on the 
 plains, and each night two of the party were 
 obliged to mount guard during the entire 
 night. The trip from Omaha to Hangtown, 
 now Placerville, Cal., was made in sixty days, 
 a remarkably short time, considering the 
 means of travel. Here the men sold their 
 horses and engaged in mining, and in the fall 
 of that year went to Oregon canyon near 
 Georgetown, going later to the Yankee Jim 
 Diggings, and still later to the Humbug can- 
 yon on the north fork of the American river. 
 Mr. Powers was successful as a miner, but, 
 
 owing to failing health while on the American 
 river, he was obliged to think about returning 
 home. Arriving at San Francisco, he found 
 that there would be no steamer for fifteen 
 days, so he concluded to return to mining, 
 which he did on the Salmon river. Here he 
 lost eight thousand dollars in the stream, and 
 though he tried to dam it and regain his 
 money, succeeded in getting back just 
 eight dollars. Determined to hold on to the 
 rest of his money, he took a small train of 
 mules to Eureka and engaged in freighting to 
 Reddings Springs, now Shasta, and then con- 
 cluded to buy up a herd of cattle in Oregon 
 and take them clown to California. Making 
 his purchases at Oregon City in December, 
 1851, he went to Eugene, and then drove the 
 cattle over the mountains, having on the way 
 a great deal of trouble with the Indians. 
 However, with comparatively small loss, he 
 reached his destination in Scott's valley, Cal., 
 disposed of his stock, and returned to the 
 Willamette valley, with which he had been 
 much impressed while passing through it with 
 his herd. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Powers took up a donation 
 claim at what is now Shedds Station, but this 
 proved to be ( school land, and he was obliged 
 to pay five dollars an acre for it. He after- 
 ward bought one hundred and twenty acres 
 nearby, and at present has two hundred and 
 eighty acres, which has been improved from 
 raw and unprofitable land, into good cattle- 
 raising and wheat property. In 1853, he en- 
 gaged in blacksmithing and merchandising at 
 Burlington, Linn county. Naturally Mr. Pow- 
 ers suffered greatly from the depredations of 
 the Indians, and like the other settlers, did his 
 duty in subduing them. In 1855-56 he served 
 as packmaster in the Rogue River war, pre- 
 vious to which he had left his farm in other 
 hands and had engaged in freighting flour, 
 coffee, groceries and general provisions over 
 the mountains to California. His permanent 
 location on the farm, in 1854, was temporarily 
 interrupted by the Indian wars, but after the 
 service he devoted himself exclusively to im- 
 proving his land and raising high-grade cattle. 
 In i860 he located three miles from The Dalles 
 on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 where he engaged in stock-raising, making a 
 specialty of trading horses and cattle until 
 1862. He then went to Baker City and with a 
 partner built and operated a ferry across the 
 Snake river below the mouth of Powder river, 
 and at the same time was interested in the 
 mining business in the Bannock mines near 
 Idaho City. Here he made considerable 
 money in mining, but unfortunately fell ill 
 with mountain fever. His illness was taken 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 advantage of bj his partner, for during his ab- 
 ce he sold the ferry and disappeared, leav- 
 ing Mr. Powers rich in experience, but poorer in 
 money to the extent of $7,000. The loss 
 through the ferry was much more than made 
 up by the gain in mining', and he settled down 
 Oil his farm contentedly, charging np the mis- 
 fortune to the inevitable profit and loss in life. 
 In October, [900, Mr. Powers rented his farm 
 ami located in Albany, where he has since 
 lived retired, his home the center of large- 
 hearted hospitality and invariable goodfellow- 
 ship. 
 
 In Linn county, Ore., July 19, 1854, Mr. 
 Powers married Mary A. Rogue, who was 
 born in Monmouth, 111., a daughter of James 
 P., born near Knoxville, Tenn., and Sarah M. 
 ( Finney) Hogue, born near Louisville, Ky., 
 and daughter ot James Finney. Mr. Hogue 
 was a carpenter and builder in Monmouth, 
 11!., and afterward settled on a farm in Mc- 
 Donough county, where he lived until 1853. 
 He then crossed the plains with his family, 
 being rive months on the way, and located on 
 a claim in Linn county, Ore. His wife, who 
 died in Albany in 1899, bore him eight chil- 
 dren, of whom Harvey A., a lumberman of 
 Portland, died in Boston, Mass., August 15, 
 1902; Frances J., the wife of Silas B. Story, 
 died in Umatilla county ; Mrs. Powers, Emily 
 M.. deceased, the wife of David Layton, the 
 latter a major and veteran of the Indian wars; 
 Kliza died in Linn county in 1857; Charles P. 
 is a saw-mill man of Sellwood, Ore. ; Inez, 
 widow of John M. Irving, lives at 545 Rodney 
 avenue, Portland ; and George M. died at the 
 age of seventeen years. 
 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Powers: Izzie M., the wife of H. B. 
 Springer, of Linn county ; Stiles Burr, a farmer 
 of Linn county; Guy M., engaged in horticul- 
 ture near Missoula, Mont., and Frank H, a 
 salesman for Woodard & Clarke, of Portland. 
 In 1852 Mr. Powers was made a Mason in 
 Salem Lodge Xo. 4. He was a charter mem- 
 ber of Shedds Lodge Xo. 79, A. F. & A. M., 
 and charter member and served as master sev- 
 eral times of Shedds Grange. In 1873 ^ r - and 
 Mrs. Powers assisted in the organization of 
 the State Grange. Mrs. Powers is also a mem- 
 ber of the Eastern Star. Formerly a stanch 
 Republican, the silver question materially 
 changed the attitude of Mr. Powers regarding 
 his party, and he is now independent of any 
 party. With his wife, he is a member of the 
 ( )regon Pioneer Association, and of the State 
 Historical Society. He is also a member of 
 the Indian War Veterans' Association. 
 
 Kindly in manner, courteous and consider- 
 ate towards all with whom he comes in con- 
 
 tact, Mr. Powers is honored for the unswerv- 
 ing integrity which has characterized all of 
 his transactions in the west, and for that pub- 
 lic-Spiritedness which has dictated an interest 
 in all that pertains to the upbuilding of his 
 adopted state. 
 
 REV. AEfELHELM ODERMATT, ( ). S. 
 B., the founder of Mount Angel, by far the 
 strongest moral influence in this part of the 
 state, and the instigator of every good work 
 which has for its object the upbuilding of his 
 people, was born in Stanz, the capital city of 
 Canton Unterwalden, Switzerland, December 
 10, 1844. His ecclesiastical training was re- 
 ceived at the Benedictine Abbey of Mount 
 Angel, Switzerland, which he entered in 1865, 
 and from which he was sent as a missionary 
 to the United States in 1873. Until 1881 he 
 was located at Maryville, Mo., and August 2 of 
 that year he arrived in Portland to found a 
 Benedictine priory. In search of a desirable 
 location he traveled extensively over the north- 
 west for six months, and subsequently as- 
 sumed charge of the parishes of Gervais, Fill- 
 more, and Sublimity. May 9, 1882, Father 
 Odermatt left for Switzerland, and after hav- 
 ing been appointed prior by the Right Rev. 
 Abbot Anselm, O. S. B., of the mother house 
 of Mount Angel, he returned to America October 
 29 of the same year, to found the Benedictine 
 priory at Gervais. 
 
 The priory of Gervais consisted of five 
 fathers, one lay brother, and five candidates 
 for the monastery, in connection with which 
 was maintained the St. Scholastica Convent, 
 with ten sisters, of which Rev. Mother Ber- 
 nardine, O. S. B., was the head. July 14, 1884, 
 Father Odermatt moved the monastery to 
 what was then called Fillmore, where he 
 erected a new building and church and called 
 the place and railway station Mount Angel, 
 after the mother house in Switzerland. In 
 1886 the Benedictine sisters also removed their 
 mother house to Mount Angel. In 1888 the 
 Benedictine fathers built a new college, and 
 the following year a seminary was erected for 
 ecclesiastical students. So well founded was 
 this enterprise, and so prosperous did it be- 
 come, that in 1889 the fathers were obliged to 
 build a new college, 150x50 feet, ground dimen- 
 sions, and four stories high. The new build- 
 ing was modern in construction, and admir- 
 ably filled the needs for which it was intended, 
 and no more promising religious center existed 
 in the state. However, a great disappointment 
 was in store for those who had so zealously 
 labored in the cause of humanity, for May 3, 
 1892, between the hours of two and four in the 
 
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 afternoon, the entire monastery, church, old 
 college and seminary, as well as carpenter shop, 
 flour mill, and engine house, were reduced to 
 ashes, but one building remaining of the splen- 
 did work of years. Nevertheless, neither the 
 founder nor his co-laborers were utterly cast 
 down, but continued their school in the only 
 building available to them. 
 
 Characteristic of the energy and resource 
 which have dominated his career was the 
 course of Father Odermatt in the face of this 
 crushing calamity. He at once left for the east 
 to engage in missionary work, and collect 
 funds for the re-building of the institution, 
 which was to represent in its completion and 
 great opportunity for usefulness, the most am- 
 bitious project of a well directed life. Father 
 Odermatt preached throughout the entire east, 
 visiting all the large cities, and availing him- 
 self of any pulpit at his disposal. In spite of 
 the general depression of the times, and the 
 remoteness of the enterprise to which the 
 easterners were asked to contribute, he suc- 
 ceeded beyond his expectations, the result of 
 his six years' tour being eminently satisfac- 
 tory. June 21, 1899, the cornerstone of the 
 new monastery was laid by Archbishop Alex- 
 ander Christie, D. D., of Portland, Ore., and 
 by New Year's day, 1902, the monastery proper 
 was roofed. At the present time there are 
 seventeen fathers, three scholastics and thirty- 
 four professed lay brothers in the monastery, 
 and the good accomplished by them as a body 
 is beyond calculation. The premises contain 
 about one thousand acres of land, much of 
 which is excellent farming land, while timber 
 abounds, and pasturage permits the raising of 
 large quantities of stock. The institution in- 
 cludes a dairy farm of extensive acreage in the 
 foothills of the Cascade mountains, where the 
 cattle are pastured in summer. Innumerable 
 departments of industry are represented in this 
 religious community, and the visitor who is 
 permitted to observe them is impressed with 
 the neatness, thrift and industry everywhere 
 apparent, as well as by the Old World courtesy 
 which he receives at the hands of those in 
 authority. It is not strange that Father Oder- 
 matt ranks with the great material and relig- 
 ious upbuilders of the northwest, nor that his 
 life work is typical, in its extent, of what may 
 be accomplished in the face of great obstacles, 
 and by the light of a supreme and unalterable 
 guidance. 
 
 • CONRAD MEYER. Among the many 
 earnest and reliable citizens which Germany 
 has contributed to the upbuilding of the Amer- 
 ican statehood is to be named Conrad Meyer, 
 
 who is now a successful grocer of the city of 
 Albany, Linn county, Ore., his residence in 
 this country having dated from 1866, and in 
 this city from September, 1872. Like the 
 many other emigrants to the great northwest, 
 Mr. Meyer came with only his determination 
 to win in the battle of life to encourage him 
 to put forth his best efforts, but it has proven 
 amply sufficient when viewed in the light of re- 
 sults. 
 
 Both the grandfather, Mathias, and father, 
 Andreas Meyer, were born in Alberschweiler, 
 Bavaria, and there engaged in farming, though 
 the father combined the work of a carpenter 
 with that along agricultural lines, and there 
 his death occurred. The military life held for 
 the family more or less interest, as Mathias 
 Meyer served in the German army. The 
 mother of our Mr. Meyer, formerly Katherine 
 Sinner, died when he was still in infancy, and 
 of the four children born to her only two are 
 now living, Conrad Meyer being the only one in 
 America. He was born in the same location 
 as his forefathers, the date of his birth being 
 December 4, 1845, and he was reared to the 
 age of thirteen years on his father's farm. 
 Until that age the privileges of the common 
 school were his, and through his attendance 
 of them he gained the foundation for the struc- 
 ture which he has reared in the later years, 
 For three years following the close of his 
 school days he served an apprenticeship at the 
 baker and confectioner's trade, and thereafter, 
 for about five years, he traveled throughout 
 Germany as a journeyman. In full confidence 
 that his prospects would be brighter on this 
 side of the Atlantic he sailed in 1866 for the 
 United States, and on his arrival spent some 
 time in Williamsburg and Brooklyn, and from 
 that location journeyed to New England. 
 
 After five months in Providence, R. I., he re- 
 moved to Boston, and remained there until 
 1867, when he came to Oregon, led to do so 
 by the fact of having an uncle in Corvallis, 
 Benton county. He sailed from New York 
 City to Panama, and thence to San Francisco 
 and Portland by water. Upon his arrival in 
 the latter city he entered the employ of Alisky 
 & Heggle. bakers and confectioners, and re- 
 mained there for three years, holding the re- 
 sponsible position of foreman. In 1870 he 
 had acquired sufficient means to justify an in- 
 dependent venture in the commercial world, 
 and he bought out Fisher, located on Front 
 street, near Morrison's bakery and restaurant, 
 and conducted a business under the firm name 
 of Stolte & Meyer, which was later changed to 
 Smeer & Meyer. For two years he continued 
 there with lucrative returns, but at that time 
 he met with the misfortune of losing all he 
 
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 hud in the business through a iirc, and through 
 having no insurance he was somewhat dis- 
 llc came to Corvallis at that pe- 
 . nil the intention of making this visit 
 his last one, as he intended then to return east 
 : locate once more in Providence, ilis 
 incle, George Gerhard, used his influence to 
 induce another decision, as he plainly foresaw 
 or Mr. .Meyer in the west if he per- 
 . in his efforts. Yielding to Mr. Ger- 
 hard's persuasions he decided to remain yet 
 :ttle longer here, and in September, 1872, 
 he became bookkeeper for the firm of Meyei 
 & tiauck, in Albany, and in 1876 he was again 
 financially able to conduct a business for him- 
 In that year he purchased the business 
 A illiam Strong, who was then in the pres- 
 ent location of Mr. Meyer, and began again a 
 forward march toward independence, combin- 
 ing the grocery business with that of a baker. 
 In the twenty-seven years which have elapsed 
 since the date of his purchase Mr. Meyer has 
 risen to a place of prominence in the commer- 
 cial life of the city, through the returns of a 
 lucrative custom, which has been built up by 
 hi;- undivided efforts along such lines, making 
 many material changes in the appearance of 
 the place. In his first location, at the corner 
 of First and Broadalbin streets, he owns sixty- 
 seven hundred square feet, and upon it has 
 erected a handsome building of three stores, 
 of which he occupies the corner store, and in 
 addition to this he has several residence prop- 
 erties in the city. His bakery is large and 
 well furnished, the oven having a capacity of 
 about a thousand loaves, and in this business, 
 the most extensive of its kind in the city, he 
 always keeps from two to three helpers. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Meyer occurred in Al- 
 bany, Ore., and united him with Miss Katie 
 Rademacher, a native of Prussia and the 
 daughter of Mrs. Philip Phile, of Corvallis, 
 by her first husband, John Rademacher, an 
 early settler in Corvallis. Three sons have 
 been born of the union, Charles, Lorenz and 
 Conrad, all of whom find employment with 
 their father. 
 
 In his fraternal relations Mr. Meyer is asso- 
 ciated with various orders, having been made 
 a member of the Odd Fellows in Portland, 
 and is now a member of the lodge at Albany, 
 in which he is serving as past officer; of the 
 Kncampment he is also past officer. He be- 
 longs also to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Order of Pendo. Relig- 
 iously, Mr. Meyer is a member of St. Mary'? 
 Roman Catholic Church, and politically is a 
 Republican. Through his long residence in 
 Albany, Mr. Meyer has come to be a highly 
 appreciated citizen, his worth and integrity 
 
 fully proved in his business and social life, 
 and he now enjoys the esteem of a large circle 
 of friends. 
 
 EL1AS B. PENLAND. Among the real es- 
 tate men of Albany, E. B. Penland occupies a 
 prominent place, and his successful career re- 
 flects undisputed credit upon his native state of 
 Oregon. Born in Philomath, Benton county, 
 September 9, 1855, he represents the third gen- 
 eration of his family to contribute to the upbuild- 
 ing of the northwest, the first and second gen- 
 erations being represented respectively by his 
 grandfather, Levi Elsa, and his father, Henry. 
 For many years Levi Penland was a large land- 
 owner and extensive stock-raiser in his native 
 state of Kentucky, where his son Henry was 
 born in 1833, at Lexington, and whence he re- 
 moved when the latter was twelve years old to 
 Missouri. Eight years later, in 1852, the family 
 crossed the plains with ox teams, the grandfather 
 bringing with him a fine stallion called Rifle 
 Stock, one of the first blooded horses to be in- 
 troduced in the state, and from whom was sired 
 many valuable thoroughbreds. Levi Penland set- 
 tled on a claim six miles south of Philomath, and 
 there passed the balance of his life, raising stock 
 and farming. Henry Penland located on a claim 
 of half a section one-half mile east of the town 
 site of Philomath, and in 1858 sold his farm and 
 located on another near Halsey. He was very 
 successful as a stock dealer and raiser, and at the 
 time of his death in 1889, at trie a g e of fifty- 
 seven, owned six hundred and forty acres of 
 land, a large part of which was under cultiva- 
 tion. He was a Republican in politics, was fra- 
 ternally allied with the Masons, and found a 
 religious home in the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 His wife, formerly Martha J. Brown, was 
 born in Indiana in 1840, a daughter of Elias 
 Brown, a farmer of that state, who started to 
 cross the plains in 1847, an d died on the way. 
 His wife continued the journey with her child 
 and took up a claim on Mary's river, where she 
 married a Mr. Allen, and after his death be- 
 came the wife of Mr. Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Spencer finally took up their residence in Cor- 
 vallis, where both died. Mrs. Penland, who 
 became the wife of Mr. Quick of Halsey, had 
 four children by her first marriage, the oldest 
 of whom is Elias B. Levi Elsa, named after his 
 grandfather, is living at Pendleton. Ore. ; Clara 
 is the wife of H. C. Davis of Eugene ; and Fan- 
 nie is the wife of Dr. P. T. Starr of Eugene. 
 
 While on the home farm near Halsey, Elias 
 B. Penland attended the district schools, and for 
 one winter studied at the Willamette University. 
 At the age of eighteen he began farming inde- 
 
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 pendently on a part of the old farm, and in 1883 
 settled near Moro, Sherman county, and engaged 
 in the cattle business for three years. He soon 
 found that his land was particularly adapted to 
 wheat raising, and discarded cattle for wheat. 
 He became one of the successful growers in his 
 vicinity. He pre-empted a large claim, later 
 bought jone hundred and sixty acres of railroad 
 land, and the same amount of school land, as 
 well as three-fourths of a section from his neigh- 
 bors. His entire ranch consisted of eleven hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, nine hundred of which 
 was devoted to raising wheat. He was unusually 
 successful, and still owns the property which 
 gave him such a forceful start in life. Locating 
 in Halsey in 1893, he added to his land holdings 
 by purchasing two farms of four hundred acres 
 each, and in 1901 he permanently located in Al- 
 bany. Although a comparative newcomer in the 
 real estate business, much valuable property has 
 already passed through his hands, and he is 
 among the most successful of those in the coun- 
 ty similarly engaged. He is sole representative 
 of the Page Fence Company of Adrian, Mich. 
 
 A Prohibitionist in political affiliation, Mir. 
 Penland has exerted an influence for temperance 
 as generally understood, but the term may be 
 taken as an index of his character, and is ap- 
 plicable to all of his relations in life. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 one of the board of deacons He married in Hal- 
 sey, Ore., Lizzie Hopkins, who was born near 
 Cleveland, Ohio, in 1856, and who is the mother 
 of two children, one of whom, Dr. Hugh E., a 
 graduate of the Oregon Agricultural School and 
 a medical school of Kirksville, Mo., is practicing 
 medicine in Eugene, while Mabel is living at 
 home. 
 
 NELSON H. ALLEN. Since there must 
 come a time to all men to put aside the instru- 
 ments of material advancement and go to face a 
 great Unknown it is well to labor in the passing 
 years to leave behind a record of success, not 
 alone as far as worldly wealth and social honors 
 are concerned, though these also have their place, 
 but rather a memory of integrity. Such was the 
 apparent aim of Nelson H. Allen, one of the suc- 
 cessful citizens of Albany, Linn county, whose 
 death occurred September 3, 1897, in the six- 
 tieth year of his life. 
 
 Nelson H. Allen, born September 9, 1837, in 
 New York state, was the representative of an 
 eastern family, rich in native virtues of frank 
 integrity and trust in their fellow citizens, which 
 trust proved their ruin financially, for the grand- 
 sire gave his money into the hands of a man 
 whom he had called a friend, and who, proving 
 false to the trust, left them with but little of 
 
 their once substantial fortune. The father, 
 Stephen, also a native of New York state, was 
 early a settler of Wisconsin, engaging in farming 
 near Madison. In 1849 ne started for the gold 
 fields of California, his death occurring upon the 
 plains, while en route for the west. His wife, 
 formerly Rhoda Jenung, a native of New Jersey, 
 where she was born of French descent, died in 
 Wisconsin, leaving two sons, one of whom is 
 still living in Wisconsin. During the Civil war 
 he served in the cause of his country, and was one 
 of the many prisoners who suffered the horrors of 
 Andersonville. The other, Nelson H., of this re- 
 view, came west from his birthplace near Lake 
 Ontario, and grew to manhood in Wisconsin, 
 receiving his education principally in the Spencer 
 Business College, William Spencer of that insti- 
 tution being the originator of the Spencerian 
 system of penmanship. After the completion of 
 his school course Mr. Allen engaged in the hotel 
 business at Racine, Wis., and later conducted the 
 Jeneau House, in Chicago. He engaged in 
 various lines of business afterward, at one time 
 being a railroad employe, and later entering the 
 mercantile business in Agency, Iowa, where he 
 remained until 1875, when he changed his resi- 
 dence to Oregon. He came in July of that year, 
 the journey being made via San Francisco and 
 Portland. On his arrival in the northwest he 
 settled in Albany, where he engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of lumber in partnersip with a Mr. 
 Robinson, and later with a Mr. Mortin. He 
 owned several tracts of land along the Calapooia 
 creek, which he later sold, after which he en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business, the firm being 
 known first as Allen & Mortin and later as N. H. 
 Allen & Co. Until 1886 he was connected with 
 this business, and at that date he again disposed 
 of his interests and organized the electric light 
 plant, this being the third plant in the state. 
 This was one of his most successful ventures 
 and reflected much honor upon Mr. Allen, for his 
 executive skill and management had much to 
 do with the ultimate incorporation of the busi- 
 ness, under the title of Albany Electric & Tele- 
 phone Co. Mr. Allen was president of the com- 
 pany previous to his death. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Allen occurred at 
 Agency, Iowa, his wife being formerly Miss 
 Mary Hanawalt, who was born near Agency. 
 Iowa. She died September 23, 1898, when forty- 
 four years of age. She was a member of the 
 Baptist Church. Her father was Samuel Hana- 
 walt, a native of Pennsylvania, who was one of 
 the first settlers of Iowa. He there engaged ex- 
 tensively in agricultural pursuits, and became one 
 of the most prominent men of that section of the 
 state. Public spirited and in every way desirous 
 of the general welfare he gave liberally of his 
 time and means toward progressive movements, 
 
ALBERT WHITFIELD LUCAS. 
 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 436 
 
 quite a portion of his land having been given for 
 school purposes. His wife was in maidenhood 
 therine Courtney, a descendant of an old Vir- 
 ginia familv. which was originally founded by 
 t' three brothers who came from Germany 
 Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hanawall is still living. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Allen have boon born four 
 children, namely : Edna V. ; Mamie L.; Francis 
 Kelson, located in Seattle. Wash.; and Alma. 
 I'lie daughters are prominent in the social circles 
 of VIbany, and as members of the Baptist Church 
 tlu\ are lending their best efforts to advance 
 its inter* 
 
 In his fraternal relations Air. Allen was a 
 Knight Templar in Masonry and also a member 
 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 Knights oi Pythias. He was buried with Ma- 
 sonic honors. Politically he was a strong Repub- 
 lican. In connection with his convictions and 
 patriotism a curious incident in the life of Mr. 
 Allen occurred at the opening of the Civil war, 
 when he was in the state of Mississippi for the 
 benefit of his health. He was conscripted by 
 southern law and would have been forced into 
 the ranks but for a timely escape, made after pass- 
 ing through many and hazardous experiences. 
 He finally reached the north, where he would 
 have entered the ranks of the army but for the 
 condition of his health. 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH F. LUCAS. In a com- 
 fortable little home on College avenue in Mon- 
 mouth lives Mrs. Elizabeth F. Lucas, widow of 
 Albert Whitfield Lucas, and one of the pioneer 
 w. mien of Oregon around whom still clings traces 
 of the heroism which, more than the physical toil 
 of men, had to do with the creating of homes and 
 the upbuilding of industries in the very early days. 
 Before her marriage Mrs. Lucas was a Miss E. 
 F. Murphey, daughter of Rev. J. F. Murphey, 
 granddaughter of William Murphey, and great- 
 granddaughter of a soldier of the war of 1812. 
 William Murphey was born in Tennessee, and as 
 a boy removed with his parents to Kentucky, 
 eventually removing to his last earthly home in 
 Illinois, of which state he was a very early set- 
 tler. He married in Kentucky, and in that state 
 was born, in 1807, his son, Rev. J. E., who mar- 
 ried Frances W. Doughty, a native of Kentucky, 
 and daughter of Preston Doughty, a native farmer 
 and large slave owner of Kentucky. Rev. J. E. 
 Murphey removed to Illinois about 1830, locating 
 with his father on an unimproved farm in the 
 wilderness, in time contributing his share towards 
 its development, and at the same time accpiiring 
 what was considered in those days an excellent 
 education. He became a minister in the Chris- 
 tian Church, and after removing to Oregon in 
 1852 was prominently connected with the Chris- 
 
 tian College at Monmouth, of which he was the 
 financial agent and a trustee. As time went on 
 he became a profound student, and took a great 
 interest in educational matters, exerting a broad 
 influence lor good in the community in which he 
 lived. His death, June 7, iSjo, removed one of 
 the most worthy members of the ministry of 
 pioneer distinction. Although in moderate cir- 
 cumstances, he reared to ways of usefulness and 
 honor twelve children, five sons and seven daugh- 
 ters, nine of whom are living. Mrs. Lucas being 
 the third oldest. 
 
 The foundation laid at the district schools has 
 been utilized by Mrs. Lucas as a basis for further 
 study, and during her entire life she has been a 
 voluminous reader, keeping well posted on cur- 
 rent events, and in touch with the literature of 
 the day. In 1851 she was united in marriage with 
 Albert Whitfield Lucas, who was born in Hardin 
 county, Ky., in 1827, and who was of German- 
 French ancestry. His forefathers were very early 
 settlers in Kentucky, in which state his father, 
 Marsham Lucas, was born September 5, 1801. 
 In 1823 he married Cynthia Ann Whitman, 
 daughter of Thomas Whitman, and in 1830 re- 
 moved to Illinois, where, two years later, he par- 
 ticipated in the Black Hawk war. Those were 
 very trying times, for his family were obliged 
 to make their escape from their home in order 
 to save their lives, returning at the expiration 
 of hostilities. His faithful wife died in 1837, 
 and he eventually gave up farming and settled 
 in Abingdon, 111., where he died June 24, 1898, 
 when nearly ninety-seven years of age. In early 
 life he was a Baptist, but afterward became a 
 member of the Christian Church. 
 
 Albert Whitfield Lucas was reared in Illinois, 
 to which state he went with his parents when 
 three years of age. After completing his educa- 
 tion at Galesburg, he started to earn his living 
 on a small tract of land near that town, and 
 March 13, 185 1, was united in marriage. The 
 following year, April 13, 1852, he started from 
 Monmouth, 111., across the plains, being accom- 
 panied by his wife, her father and his family and 
 a company composed of thirty wagons and nearly 
 as many families, under the capable leadership 
 of a Mr. Mason. At Grand Island the company 
 divided, one of the trains being known as the 
 Murphey train, of which Rev. J. E. Murphey was 
 the gallant captain. Ox teams, horses and mules 
 carried the emigrants and their possessions, and 
 the journey was a pleasant one, the travelers 
 experiencing but little of the annoyance or in- 
 convenience which fretted the westward course 
 of many of the homeseekers of the early days. 
 More fortunate than many, Mr. Lucas had a few 
 hundred dollars in his possession, and with this 
 he purchased land which formed the nucleus of 
 the whole section owned by him in later years, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and of a still later possession of eight hundred 
 and thirty-three acres. For housekeeping pur- 
 poses they had the barest necessities in the way 
 of furnishings, but the little house was a pleasant 
 place to live in. In connection with the tilling of 
 his land he engaged in school teaching to some 
 extent, and was at one time engaged in mer- 
 cantile pursuits. 
 
 In all his undertakings Mr. Lucas was suc- 
 cessful, possessing sound business judgment and 
 capacity for hard work. He was one of the stock- 
 holders in the Polk County Bank, and was_ a 
 warm friend and financial supporter of the Chris- 
 tian College, serving in the capacities of trustee 
 and clerk of the board for twenty years. Previous 
 to 1887 he was allied with the Republican party, 
 but at that time joined his forces with the Pro- 
 hibitionists. This latter move proved to his dis- 
 advantage from an official standpoint, for the 
 whisky element frustrated his election as senator 
 and representative. For twenty years he was an 
 elder in the Christian Church, having joined that 
 organization in early life. His influence and 
 money were at the disposal of all practical efforts 
 at improving the general conditions among which 
 he lived, and after locating in Monmouth in 1874, 
 he took a keen interest in the welfare of the town. 
 In the center of beautiful and well kept grounds, 
 and surrounded by trees, shrubs and flowers, he 
 built the little home now occupied by his faithful 
 widow, and there enjoyed a life comparatively 
 free from care up to the time of his death, April 
 6, 1893. Of the ten children born into his family, 
 Ella Ann, deceased, was born November 16, 185 1 ; 
 Ada L., a resident of Portland, was born Septem- 
 ber 2, 1853; Jay Prentice, for four years a regis- 
 trar of the land office at The Dalles, was born 
 June 3, 1856; Mary Alice, deceased, was born 
 May 26, 1858; Katie L., the wife of W. D. Fen- 
 ton, of Portland, was born July 6, 1859; Susie > 
 deceased, was born November 4, 1861 ; Al- 
 bert Lincoln, an engineer on the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad at Portland, was born Feb- 
 ruary 13, 1865 ; Nellie, deceased, was born 
 June 12, 1867 ; Frank, for five years postmaster 
 of Monmouth, was born September 25, 1868; 
 and Fred, deceased, was born April 14, 187 1. 
 Frank Lucas, one of the well known citizens of 
 this town, who lives near his mother, is a grad- 
 uate of the State Normal, and before locating in 
 town farmed for a number of years. In 1896 
 he started up a general drug business in- Mon- 
 mouth, but was unfortunately burned out the 
 next year. He married Lorena Mulkey, a native 
 of this county, and daughter of William Mulkey. 
 One child has been born of this union, Bernice. 
 Mrs. Lucas is known as a philanthropist and 
 most charitable woman, and her visits to the sick 
 and needy have brightened many a household in 
 
 the town and county. She is active in the Chris- 
 tian Church, and takes an interest in all social 
 and literary matters. 
 
 JOHN ROBERT HINKLE. It is a pleasant 
 thing to be able to trace one's family record 
 through long years of change and struggle. One 
 of the oldest families of Oregon, whose history 
 is closely interwoven with that section of the 
 country, is the Hinkle family, and among its 
 more prominent members is the subject of this 
 sketch, John Robert Hinkle, who has a handsome 
 residence in Hubbard, and who is one of the most 
 esteemed retired citizens of Marion county. 
 
 Mr. Hinkle has been a resident of Oregon since 
 1852. He was born in Perry county, Mo., June 
 30, 1843, a son °f Alexander and Fanny (Hinkle) 
 Hinkle. Alexander Hinkle, the father, was born 
 in Pennsylvania, and when grown to manhood, 
 he drifted to Indiana and later to Missouri, and 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits in Perry county, 
 of the latter state, until 1852. Like many of his 
 friends and neighbors he desired to take advant- 
 age of the new laws made to stimulate immigra- 
 tion into Oregon, and conceiving the idea of 
 going to the Far West, in 1852 he began the 
 perilous journey. He crossed the plains by the 
 Platte River route, and the journey consumed 
 nine months. He located on the Elliott Prairie 
 in Clackamas county, where he took up a donation 
 land claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 Later his claim was approved and he obtained a 
 clear title to the land upon which the closing 
 years of his life were spent. He died in 1882 
 in his eighty-second year. He was joined in 
 marriage with Fannie Hinkle, who was however, 
 no blood relation, as the name might indicate. 
 This worthy lady also passed away on the home 
 place in Clackamas county, when about fifty-seven 
 years of age. Nine children were born to these 
 pioneer settlers, five being sons and four 
 daughters. 
 
 John Robert Hinkle was the youngest of the 
 family, and he obtained but a limited education 
 in the common schools. When eighteen years old, 
 he took charge of the home place, which he con- 
 ducted for many years. This farm has been in- 
 creased to three hundred and fifty acres and our 
 subject is the proud owner of the entire farm, 
 which he leases out, but still oversees its man- 
 agement. In 1888, he purchased a livery stable 
 in Hiibbard, in connection with a partner whose 
 interest he afterward purchased. He conducted 
 a successful business until 1900, when he sold 
 out and retired from active business pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Hinkle's marriage was celebrated at Salem, 
 Ore., in 1866, when he was joined in wedlock 
 with Mary Elmira Thomas, who was born near 
 Silverton, Ore., August 12, 1850. Her father, 
 
PORTRAIT AND lilt HiRAl'I IKAL RKCokl). 
 
 437 
 
 Lorau Thomas, located near Silverton in 1842, 
 having come from the east. He died in Clacka- 
 unty, at the home of our subject aged 
 ! \ years. Mr. and Mrs. llinklc have two 
 children, Eliza, wife of O. L. Darling, of Salem. 
 and they have one son Lloyd; and Harvey A., 
 successful commission merchant of Hubbard, 
 whose biography is found elsewhere in this vol- 
 who has one daughter. Lona. 
 In social circles our subject is a worthy mem- 
 ber of the Odd Fellow-' Lodge. In politics he is 
 independent, and at one time served as supervisor 
 Clackamas county. He is also largely inter- 
 d in the cause of education, as his twenty 
 rs' service on the school board in Clackamas 
 nty will testify. 
 
 CHARLES KIEFER. The German element, 
 which is both substantial and progressive, and is 
 at the bottom of many of the strongest and most 
 influential business organizations in nearly all of 
 the cities and towns of the country, is represented 
 in Albany by Charles Kiefer, at present retired, 
 but formerly connected for fifteen years as owner 
 and manager of the Albany brewery of this city. 
 Mr. Kiefer comes of a family indefinitely associ- 
 ated with the city of Pirmasens, a walled town on 
 the Vosges, in Rhenish Bavaria, Germanv, where 
 he was born April 17, 1837. His father, Adam, 
 and his mother, Magdalene (Arnold) Kiefer, 
 were born in the same locality, and the former 
 was for many years engaged in the meat market 
 business. 
 
 The only one of his father's nine children to 
 come to the Pacific coast, Mr. Kiefer was four- 
 teen years of age when he boarded a sailing ves- 
 sel at Havre, France, bound for Pittsburg, Pa., 
 where his uncle was already well established in 
 business. He was thirty days on the ocean, and 
 arrived at his destination in Pittsburg just before 
 Christmas, 185 1. Under his relative he gained a 
 mastery of the tanner's trade, and after four years 
 in the tannery he went to Philadelphia, and from 
 there to Wilmington, Del., where he engaged for 
 five and a half years in dressing morocco. In 
 i860 he came to the Pacific coast by way of the 
 Isthmus of Panama, and from San Francisco 
 went to the placer mining region around Big 
 Oak. Cal. Not as successful as he had hoped to 
 be, he started out on a tour of the state, investi- 
 gating the prospects for permanent location, and 
 mally arriving at the "John Dav" countrv, on 
 ne Powder river, in 1862. Still intent 'upon 
 making money in mining, he went horseback over 
 the mountains from Walla Walla to the Columbia 
 district, and later on arrived at Jacksonville, Ore., 
 where he combined mining and brewing until 
 1865. He then removed to Corvallis and engaged 
 
 in the butchering business for a year; in 1866 
 located in Albany, starting the first brewing con- 
 cern there, and operated it most successfully for 
 fifteen years. During that time he gained the 
 reputation for fair dealing and business sagacity 
 which has since clung to him, and also for the 
 public-spirited interest which he has manifested 
 in the social, musical, theatrical and general af- 
 fairs by which he is surrounded. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Kiefer was formerly 
 Margaret Smith, who died a year after her mar- 
 riage, in Wilmington, Del. In 1863 he married, 
 in Jacksonville, a Miss Louisa Sage, who was 
 born in Baden, Germany, and who died December 
 30, 1894. Of the children of this second union, 
 Clara M. is the wife of Harry Noel, of Morenci, 
 Ariz. ; Bertha G. married William Warner, of 
 Albany; Rosa M. died in Albany; Caroline L. is 
 the wife of Stephen Riley, of Pendleton; and 
 Carl is deceased. In Wilmington, Del, Mr. 
 Kiefer became identified with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and is now a member of 
 the Albany Lodge, and with the Encampment, of 
 which he is past chief patriarch. He is also a 
 member of the Ancient Order United Workmen. 
 Politically he is identified with the Democratic 
 party, but aside from the formality of casting his 
 vote has never been heard of in local or state un- 
 dertakings of his party. The expression regard- 
 ing the similarity between a man's word and his 
 bond is applicable to Mr. Kiefer, whose business 
 transactions have always been above reproach, 
 and whose private life is worthy of emulation. 
 He was one of the organizers of No. 1 Albany 
 Fire Company, and is now No. 5 of the exempts. 
 
 ROBERT GLENN. Among the well-de- 
 veloped farms in the vicinity of Salem none pre- 
 sents a neater or more painstaking appearance 
 than does that of Robert Glenn. One hundred and 
 ten acres in extent, eighty acres are available 
 for general farming, and their clearing is due 
 entirely to the energy and perseverance of the 
 present owner. Many fine improvements have 
 followed in the wake of years of industry, in- 
 cluding a pleasant residence, convenient barns and 
 outhouses, and those agricultural implements 
 which denote the modern and progressive tiller of 
 the soil, the man who keeps abreast of the times. 
 
 Of Scotch descent, on the maternal side. Mr. 
 Glenn is the second oldest of the three sons and 
 three daughters born to his parents, Caswell and 
 Jane (Smith) Glenn, and his birth occurred in 
 Cole county, Mo., April 13, 1853. The other 
 living children are: Missouri, wife of John Mc- 
 Kee Roberts: Annie, wife of John Stephenson; 
 and Emma, widow of Asa Forman. The father 
 and mother were born in Cumberland county, 
 Tenn., the former January 28, 1826, and the lat- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ter June I, 1828. With their respective parents 
 they moved to Missouri as children, and there 
 met, and married, in 1850, and spent many years 
 of their lives. Robert was reared on the farm in 
 Cole county, and during the winter months at- 
 tended the district schools, eventually remaining 
 at home to be of great practical assistance to his 
 father. He was nineteen years of age when the 
 family outfitted with ox, teams and crossed the 
 plains in 1872, leaving the old farm behind in 
 April, and arriving at their destination in Salem 
 November 28, 1872. They located on the farm 
 now owned and operated by Robert Glenn. Here 
 the elder Glenn took a great deal of comfort, and 
 experienced the greatest satisfaction in his adopt- 
 ed state, making money -rapidly, and was firmly 
 launched in the" good will of his equally enter- 
 prising neighbors. His death occurred on the 
 old homestead January 8, 1899, after twenty-six 
 years in his northwestern home, and he was sur- 
 vived by his wife who still makes her home with 
 her son. Mr. Glenn is a Democrat in politics, 
 and has been a road supervisor for some years. 
 He is a genial and obliging man to meet, success- 
 ful in his farming and stock-raising, and alert to 
 the many opportunities which come his way to be 
 of general use in a constantly growing com- 
 munity. 
 
 FRANCIS MARION COOK. Of the sixty- 
 four years of Mr. Cook's life all but six have been 
 spent in Oregon, to which state his father immi- 
 grated in the earliest pioneer days. He was born 
 near Springfield, Mo., March 8, 1839, a son of 
 Isaac and Sarah (Robertson) Cook. In 1845 
 his parents, having decided to found a new home 
 in the then comparatively unknown Oregon coun- 
 try, started from their Missouri home with two 
 wagons, forty-fcur oxen and ninety-seven head 
 of cattle. After a journey of six months they 
 arrived at their destination without the loss of 
 any of their stock, an experience very rare in 
 those days as many of the immigrant trains suf- 
 fered heavy losses through the depredations of 
 the Indians. Locating in Marion county Isaac 
 Cook took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres three miles south of the present site 
 of Turner, upon which he immediately erected 
 a small log cabin containing but one room. Upon 
 this claim, the development of which was begun 
 as soon as the family had become established in 
 their new home, he resided until 1872. In that 
 vear they removed to eastern Oregon, locating 
 at Camp' Watson, where the father died in 1876 
 at the age of eighty-four years. His wife's death 
 had occurred some time before. The children born 
 to this couple were as follows : George, William 
 and Thomas, all deceased ; Delilah, wife of Will- 
 
 iam Frazier, of San JoSe, Cal. ; Francis Marion, 
 of this review; and one who died in infancy. 
 
 Isaac Cook's life was a useful and most hon- 
 orable one. He was a man who was alwa) s 
 ready to assist in all movements for the better- 
 ment of the community's interests. He assisted 
 materially in the construction of the early roads 
 of Marion county, and was specially active in the 
 promotion of the educational interests of the 
 community, helping to build the first school house 
 in his district. He was an earnest member of the 
 Baptist Church, became one of the organizers of 
 the first church of this denomination in the neigh- 
 borhood, and devoted considerable of his time 
 and means toward the construction of the house 
 of worship. He was a large-hearted, public- 
 spirited, liberal man, whose integrity was never 
 brought into question. His name deserves a con- 
 spicuous place among the pioneers of the Willam- 
 ette valley. 
 
 Francis Marion Cook was six years of age 
 when the long journey from Missouri to the Pa- 
 cific coast was made. Upon his father's farm in 
 Marion county he spent all the years of his youth 
 and young manhood, assuming the management 
 of the farm a short time prior to 1872. In that 
 year he accompanied his father to Camp Watson, 
 where he engaged extensively in the business of 
 raising cattle, sheep and horses. The period 
 of his residence at that place covered seven years. 
 Soon after the death of his father he returned 
 to the homestead and engaged in stock-raising 
 and general farming. Success has attended his 
 efforts. He is now the owner of the original 
 donation ciaim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 four hundred acres of which is fine bottom land, 
 which he has brought to the high state of cultiva- 
 tion, and which is exceedingly productive. This 
 farm is one of the best in Marion county. 
 
 On September 26, 1857, Mr. Cook was united 
 in marriage with Mary J. Edgar, a native of 
 P>oone county, Ind.. and a daughter of Moses and 
 Susan (Markey) Edgar. She died March 26, 
 1903, leaving six children : Martha E., wife of 
 Motier Howe, of Roseburg, Ore. ; Isaac N., re- 
 siding near Marion ; Francis M., of Grant's 
 Pass, Ore.; Nellie D., wife of A. J. Miller, of 
 Turner ; Susan, wife of F. J. Neal, who resides 
 with Mr. Cook ; and Thomas M., who is located 
 at Kent, Sherman county, Ore. 
 
 Though Mr. Cook has never sought political 
 office he has followed closely in the steps of his 
 father in his interest in good roads and good 
 schools. He has served as road supervisor, and 
 at various times has filled offices connected with 
 educational work in his district. He takes an 
 active interest in all those projects which appear 
 to him to have been inspired by a desire to im- 
 prove the moral, educational or commercial inter- 
 ests of his section, and never hesitates to take 
 
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 the initiative whin he becomes convinced that 
 
 - put -nt.) effect, will result in the better- 
 
 • i the condition oi affairs generally, lie is 
 
 - a man dominated by high public 
 . of liberal and progressive views and a gen- 
 heart. On many occasions during the long 
 I his residence in Oregon he has had op- 
 portunities to demonstrate the better qualities of 
 heart and mind which have given him the high 
 place lie occupies in the esteem of his fellow men 
 who have learned to respect and honor him as 
 ful man. His integrity is unquestioned, and 
 his unselfish devotion to the best interests of the 
 community at large entitle him to a permanent 
 place in the historical literature of the Willam- 
 ette valley. 
 
 REUBEN LEE, of Aumsville, occupies an 
 Enviable place among the pioneers of Marion 
 
 inty. His successful encounter with early dif- 
 ficulties, his correct appreciation of the many ad- 
 vantages bv which he has been surrounded, and 
 his untiring perseverance and unflagging in- 
 dustry, entitle him to more than casual notice on 
 the part of all who seek inspiration and support. 
 As far back as any existing records show, the 
 ancestors of Mr. Lee found their greatest field 
 of usefulness among the tillers of the soil, an 
 ipation followed by his paternal grandfather, 
 John Lee, one of the earliest settlers of Macou- 
 pin county, 111., and courageous soldier during 
 . the Revolutionary war. His son, also named 
 John, the father of Reuben, was born on a farm 
 in Ohio, and married Rebecca Beschers, with 
 whom he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he 
 lived for two years. His last home was on the 
 Indian reserve in Franklin county, that state, 
 where his death occurred in 1841. His wife 
 died the year before. 
 
 Reuben Lee is one of a family of six sons, 
 and was born in Macoupin county, 111., November 
 25. 1827. As death deprived him of his father's 
 guidance and support when he was fourteen years 
 of age, he was compelled to solve the problem of 
 -elf-support from that time forward. His first 
 occupation was with Senator Hirsch, from whom 
 he received S80 for his first year's labor and $85 
 each for the second and third years. FFe then 
 went to Franklin county, Mo., and contracted to 
 work a farm for one-fourth of the proceeds. In 
 connection with this undertaking he conducted 
 a small store with fair success. 
 
 In the spring of 1850 he crossed the plains 
 with one wagon and four yoke of oxen. Upon 
 reaching the Grand Ronde valley he sold his 
 cattle and proceeded on horseback to The Dalles. 
 Arriving in Portland be camped beside the river: 
 and worthy of mention in this connection 
 is the fact that at that time the city 
 
 could hardly be dignified 1>\ the Dame 
 of hamlet, its real estate being valued at 
 From $8 to $12 per lot. Alter spending a short 
 time in the embryo town he settled upon a farm 
 near Silverton, Marion county. While on the 
 plains he suffered a severe attack of measles, 
 which left him nearly blind for about two years. 
 This depleted his finances very materially, for 
 when he arrived in 1850 he had $1,500, and this 
 had dwindled to almost nothing three years later. 
 
 In the fall of 1852 Mr. Lee entered three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of land near Silverton, 
 and in a little log cabin kept bachelor quarters 
 for three years. March 6. 1855, ne married 
 Frances Drinkwater, who helped to add cheer to 
 the crude home, and materially aided him with 
 her sympathy and thrifty ways. ' This helpful 
 pioneer wife died January 17, 1872, leaving eight 
 children, named as follows : Lawrence C, in the 
 livery business near Pomeroy, Idaho ; Ellinora. 
 the wife of James Witzel, and residing near Tur- 
 ner, Ore. ; William Henry, living in Linn county ; 
 Warner L., living on a farm, a part of the old 
 Craft donation claim, one and one-half miles 
 west of Shaw; Isaac Howard, on a farm in Linn 
 county, near Waterloo ; Bertha, who died un- 
 married in October, 1882, when twenty-seven 
 vears of age ; Clara Belle, wife of Lewis Camp- 
 bell, of Portland, Ore.; and N. Evaline, wife of 
 Elmer Brody. of Rampart, Alaska, where he is 
 an attorney at law. 
 
 In September, 1876, Mr. Lee married for a 
 second wife Elizabeth Hyett, who died in 1894, 
 and in January, 1897, he was again married, this 
 time to Mrs. Martha Ennis, who was born in 
 Warren county, Ky., and has been a resident of 
 Oregon since 1893. Mr. Ennis died in this 
 state. 
 
 About i860 Mr. Lee moved upon a farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres located seven miles 
 below Salem, and in 1861 traded his farm prop- 
 erty near Silverton for three hundred and sev- 
 entv-five acres adjoining his one hundred and 
 sixty acres. Here misfortune befell him be- 
 cause of the heavy rains which occurred during 
 1861-62, and not only his house and farm im- 
 plements were destroyed, but his clothing and 
 that of all his family. Nothing daunted, he built 
 another home and remained on the premises 
 until 1864. when he traded part of the land for a 
 farm on the hill adjoining, upon which he lived 
 until 1872. The next farm owned and improved 
 and occupied by Mr. Lee was located near 
 Brooks, and consisted of two hundred and thirty- 
 seven acres, bearing no improvements. This he 
 sold in 1875, and immediately purchased four 
 hundred and eighty acres one and one-half miles 
 west of Shaw, where he resided until the fall of 
 1902. On all of these farms Mr. Lee carried 
 on general farming, and also dealt in cattle on 
 
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 an extensive scale, making a specialty of sheep 
 and hogs. 
 
 Although now living retired in Aumsville, Mr. 
 Lee still owns his large farm near the town, 
 besides two hundred and eighty-seven acres in 
 Linn county. He has always taken an active in- 
 terest in the cause of education, has been a mem- 
 ber of the school board for twenty years, clerk of 
 the board for a part of that time, and has served 
 as road supervisor for several terms. Although 
 voting the Republican ticket, he has broad and 
 liberal views as to politics. He is a member of 
 the Oregon Pioneers' Association, and has an 
 extensive acquaintance among the older residents 
 of the Willamette valley now living. 
 
 Mr. Lee is one of the most striking examples 
 o'f the selfmade man in Marion county. During 
 his career many obstacles, seemingly insurmount- 
 able, have arisen in his pathway, but his indomi- 
 table perseverance, his energy and his industry 
 have enabled him to reach the goal of every 
 man's ambition — a competency in temporal goods, 
 and the good-will and esteem of his fellow-men. 
 It is to such men as he that posterity owes a debt 
 of gratitude, not alone for the pioneer work of 
 development they have accomplished, but for 
 the excellent example they have set for the youth 
 of the rising generation by reason of the traits 
 of character which stand out so conspicuously 
 in the personality of Reuben Lee. 
 
 JAMES SHELTON. Notable among the 
 pioneer settlers of Linn county is James Shelton, 
 who is now living retired from the activities of 
 life in Albauv. Coming here when the country 
 was in its original wildness, he met with priva- 
 tions and obstacles hitherto undreamed of. Set- 
 tlers were few in number and far between, and 
 the Indians were a constant source of terror to 
 the brave pioneers. None of the luxuries of life 
 were to be had at any price, and many things 
 deemed necessities east of the Rockies had to be 
 dispensed with here. The forests, however, were 
 filled with an abundance of game of all kinds, 
 which furnished the chief subsistence of the in- 
 habitants, grouse being their only summer meat. 
 Pork was an unknown quantity for many years, 
 and their nearest approach to coffee was a drink 
 made from browned peas. Clothes were made from 
 deer skins, which the men themselves dressed, and 
 hats were manufactured at home from wheat 
 straw. Little can the people of this day and gen- 
 eration realize the trials and tribulations that beset 
 the courageous men and women who, by persist- 
 ent toil and wondrous self-sacrifice, made the 
 homes and lives of their immediate descendants 
 so pleasant and joyful. 
 
 A Virginian by birth, James Shelton was born 
 March 2, 1828, in Patrick county, which was also 
 
 the birthplace of his father, Hainan Shelton. His 
 grandfather, Clayborn Shelton, a farmer by oc- 
 cupation, served in the war of 181 2, and after- 
 wards moved to Jackson county, Mo., where he 
 spent the remainder of his life. 
 
 Hainan Shelton removed with his family to 
 Oregon at an early period, crossing the plains 
 with his wife and twelve children in 1847. Lo- 
 cating in Linn county, he took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres, and was there 
 engaged in farming until his death. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Priscilla Fitzgerald, was 
 born in Virginia, a daughter of Harvey Lee Fitz- 
 gerald. She died on the home farm, in Linn 
 county. Of the twelve children born of their 
 union, all came to Oregon, but only eight are now 
 living. 
 
 Moving with his parents to Missouri when 
 about five years old, James Shelton acquired his 
 early education in the typical log school-house of 
 his day, with its dirt floor, and rude benches. 
 Coming with his parents to Linn county in 1847, 
 in a train composed of three wagons, each one 
 drawn by three yoke of oxen, he had charge of 
 one of the teams during the journey of five 
 months, starting in April and arriving September 
 15, the trip being made along Barlow route. Re- 
 maining at home a few years he assisted his 
 father in clearing a farm. At the age of twenty- 
 one years he began life for himself by taking up 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres at the forks of the Santiam. With char- 
 acteristic zeal he at once began its improvement, 
 breaking up the sod with a rude plow of his own 
 manufacture, drawn by five yoke of oxen. He 
 subsequently bought adjoining land, and on his 
 fine ranch of four hundred acres was engaged in 
 general farming, including stock-raising, until 
 1894. He raised grain of all kinds, but made a 
 specialty of wheat, and was very successful, his 
 farm being one of the most fertile and productive 
 in the neighborhood. 
 
 Mr. Shelton was also engaged to some extent 
 in the mining operations of earlier days, going to 
 California during the excitement of 1849, and re- 
 maining on the north bank of the American river 
 a few months as a prospector and miner. Being 
 taken ill, he returned to Oregon, .resuming his 
 agricultural labors. In 1862 he spent a few 
 months at the Florence mines, and in 1863 mined 
 in the Boise Basin, on each trip to Idaho going 
 by pack train. Since 1894, Mr. Shelton has 
 rented his farm, and made his home in Albany. 
 
 Mr. Shelton married, in Linn county. Ore., Miss 
 Theresa J. Melholland, who was born in Illinois, 
 and came across the plains with her brothers in 
 1852, with ox-teams. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton have 
 two children, namely : Haman, who is successfully 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits on the farm ad- 
 joining his father s ; and Mrs. Rufina Follis, of 
 
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 ■l i:: 
 
 Linn county. Politically Mr. Shelton is inde- 
 , -it, voting for such men and measures as in 
 pinion will best advance the interests of the 
 
 community. Mr. Shelton is a member of the Bap- 
 
 v liurch. 
 
 SIDNEY SMITH. One of the distinguished 
 Beers of 1839, whose residence in Oregon ex- 
 
 through a period of over forty years, 
 
 ney Smith was a man whose life was filled 
 with kindly deeds, whose highest ambition was 
 to help bis fellow man and to assist in the estab- 
 lishment of a commonwealth, to which he gave 
 the best years of his life. He was a descendant 
 
 ■Id Revolutionary stock, his great-grandfather 
 being a powder manufacturer in Vermont near 
 the New York line during" that memorable strug- 
 
 t'or independence. The grandfather was a 
 commissioned officer in the Continental army. 
 The father of Sidney, Capt. John Smith, was 
 a native of Vermont and served as captain 
 
 a company engaged in quelling the whis- 
 key insurrection in Pennsylvania in 1/99- 
 Sidney Smith was born at Amsterdam, in 
 the Mohawk valley of Xew York, on Oc- 
 tober 2. 1809. He was reared at Johnstown, N. 
 Y., and when a young man went to Ohio, where 
 for three years he studied medicine, but never en- 
 Ejed in practice. In 1839, ms interest in Ore- 
 was awakened by the reports of the Lewis 
 and Clark expedition ; accordingly he resolved to 
 journey to the northwest, and with that object in 
 view joined a company of sixteen young men 
 who were similarly minded, among them being 
 P. K. Fletcher, Amos Cook, Mr. Shortless and 
 Mr. Farnham. They left Peoria, 111., in the spring 
 of 1839. and were the first to cross the plains with 
 the intention of making permanent settlement. 
 They intended to supply their larder with wild 
 game and fish, so started with very little provis- 
 ions, but not finding the food supply they had 
 expected along the way, they reached the verge 
 of starvation, living for sixteen days upon a bis- 
 cuit apiece each day and upon dog meat, which 
 they purchased from the Indians. Dissensions 
 also arose in the party and they quarreled among 
 themselves almost to the point of separating into 
 two companies, but eventually they continued on 
 their way together. Mr. Smith was less fortun- 
 ate in one respect, for he accidentally shot him- 
 self. which deprived him of three of his ribs. He 
 was carried on a stretcher resting on the backs 
 of two mules, but after three weeks of suffering 
 he finally recovered. At one time the Indians 
 Mole their horses and Mr. Smith, with another 
 man, went to their camps and demanded of the 
 
 chief that the horses be returned. At first the 
 Indians refused, but with drawn guns the demand 
 was repeated, and at length the chief promised 
 to return the stolen animals by sundown of the 
 following day, which he did. 
 
 At Fort Boise the company divided and Mr. 
 Smith with a few companions started for Ore- 
 gon. Others dropped out one by one until there 
 were but two who completed the journey and ar- 
 rived safely in Oregon. On October 2d Mr. 
 Smith assisted in building a house at The 
 Dalles. He was deeply interested in the new 
 country to which he had come to establish his 
 home and in his diary he speaks of the effect 
 produced upon him when he first viewed Mt. 
 Hood. He also mentions his first meeting with a 
 white woman in this far-off land. 
 
 He was employed by the Hudson Bay company, 
 working barefooted in the rain for seventy cents 
 a day. He was afterwards employed by the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal mission at Salem, rafting up and 
 down the Willamette river, and during this time 
 he boarded with Gustavus Hines, one of the first 
 pioneers of the northwest. 
 
 He next, found employment with Ewing Young, 
 of Yamhill county, who had brought a large band 
 of Mexican cattle from California, settling in the 
 Chehalem valley, to which he supposed that he 
 could lay claim. Mr. Young had the reputation 
 of being a hard man to serve, but he found his 
 equal in Sidney Smith, who stood up for his own 
 rights and usually got them. When Mr. Young 
 died, our subject was his only companion. He 
 left a large herd of cattle, and having no known 
 heirs this led to the organization of the provincial 
 government for the purpose of disposing of his 
 estate. Mr. Young had often said that when he 
 died he w 7 anted Sidney Smith to have his prop- 
 erty : this the latter refused to accept, but when 
 the auction was held he purchased the brand and 
 the right to the stock that had not been rounded 
 up, also the right to the land, and continued on 
 the claim in the cattle business for several years. 
 
 When the donation claim act went into effect 
 Mr. Smith found he was entitled to but six hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land, and there he lived 
 with but few comforts and many hardships, hav- 
 ing considerable trouble with the Indians from 
 time to time, and no white neighbors. The ex- 
 periences and episodes of that period of his ca- 
 reer would make an interesting volume if written 
 in detail. With some of the Indians he formed 
 warm and lasting friendships. 
 
 There was no man who figured in the earlv his- 
 tory of the state who did more for the emigrants 
 than did he. A large-hearted man, of kindly na- 
 ture, no one ever sought his aid and did not re- 
 ceive it. He frequently would kill a beef to fur- 
 nish food for the travelers, and his house was the 
 shelter for many an emigrant party. He was in- 
 
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 deed liberal, helping the needy, feeding the poor 
 and assisting the widows and orphans in many 
 ways. 
 
 In 1845" Daniel Bayley, who was en route with 
 his family to Oregon, obtained permission from 
 Mr. Smith to remain upon his place for the win- 
 ter. This was an eventful day for Mr. Smith. 
 During the long dreary winter days Cupid was 
 acting his silent part, and Mr. Smith married 
 Mr. Bayley's daughter, Mianda, in the fall of 
 '46. During their courtship they planted an 
 acorn upon the grave of Ewing Young, which 
 has grown to a large tree and still stands. 
 
 It was about this time that the Hudson Bay 
 Company tried to persuade Mr. Smith to declare 
 himself a British subject, as he was an actual 
 settler, and the British wished to lay claim to this 
 section of the country. Though they offered 
 him much land he refused, saying that the com- 
 pany had not land enough to buy him. 
 
 In 1849 he went to California, and returned 
 with considerable gold. Wheat and oats were 
 selling very high in those days, and in his busi- 
 ness undertakings Mr. Smith was very prosper- 
 ous. In 1856 he located in LaFayette, Yamhill 
 county, Ore., and the following year engaged in 
 merchandising, which he followed for about ten 
 years, when he retired to his farm. As the years 
 passed he accumulated land until he was the 
 owner of one thousand two hundred and eighty 
 acres. 
 
 Mrs. Smith was born in Ohio, May 6, 1829, and 
 was the daughter of Daniel Bayley, who was 
 born in 1802, and died when about ninety-two 
 years of age. He married Elizabeth Munson, 
 who was a lineal descendant in the seventh gener- 
 ation from Thomas Munson, of England, who 
 afterward lived in Hartford and New Haven, 
 Conn., and served as a sergeant in the war against 
 the Pequod Indians. The ancestry of the Mun- 
 son family dates from Thomas Munson, who 
 came to America in about 1634, and settled in 
 Hartford, Conn., where he became prominently 
 identified with the early history of that city. 
 Timothy Bayley, father of Daniel Bayley, was a 
 captain in the Revolutionary war, and like many 
 other barefooted patriots at Valley Forge, suf- 
 fered all the hardships of that memorable winter. 
 Jared Munson, the father of Mrs. Bayley, was a 
 physician. Mrs. Bayley was a woman of wonder- 
 ful resources and ability, and after coming to 
 Oregon acted as physician to the entire country- 
 side for miles around. Mrs. Smith is still living, 
 a fine Shakespearian scholar and a lady of marked 
 refinement and culture. She resides in LaFayette, 
 and is the mother of five children : Irene, now 
 the wife of Dr. J. F. Calbreath, of Salem ; Mrs. 
 Almira Hurley, of Independence, Ore. ; Mrs. Mi- 
 nnda Kimberlin, of LaFayette; Gustavus Hines, 
 who is a graduate of the medical department of 
 
 the Willamette University, and was practicing 
 medicine at Enterprise, Ore., at the time of his 
 death ; and John U., an attorney at Hilo. 
 Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 Mr. Smith was a Democrat in politics, but cast 
 his vote for Lincoln and took an active part in 
 the establishment of the first school in Oregon. 
 He was a friend of every enterprise tending to 
 improve social and political conditions in the 
 state. He lived to see Oregon become possessed 
 of all the comforts and evidences of civilization 
 known to the older east, and to see it enter state- 
 hood of the Union. He looked with pride upon 
 what was accomplished, assuming no credit for 
 the part he bore in the attainment of this end ; 
 but history acknowledges its indebtedness to him, 
 and many of the pioneers remember with grati- 
 tude the great and unselfish interest he exhibited 
 in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the 
 community in the territorial days. Since his 
 death, which occurred September 18, 1880, his 
 memory has been enshrined in their hearts. 
 
 He was among the one hundred and two men 
 who met at Champoeg to decide whether Oregon 
 should become British or American territory, and 
 when Joe Meek, who was in favor of British 
 sovereignty, drew an imaginary line upon the 
 ground, one side representing the United States 
 and the other Great Britain, Mr. Smith was the 
 first man to step upon the side representing the 
 United States, and thus declare himself in favor 
 of American sovereignty. 
 
 RICHARD CLAXTON. As illustrating the 
 adaptability of the land in Marion county to 
 horticultural purposes, it is interesting to know 
 that the farm of Richard Claxton yielded, in 1901, 
 three thousand, four hundred and fifty bushels of 
 prunes from fifteen acres. Other kinds of fruit 
 are grown in correspondingly large quantities, 
 proving that this successful fruit grower has a 
 thorough understanding of his interesting occu- 
 pation, and also that he realizes its possibilities 
 in this particular part of the state. 
 
 In November, 1890, Mr. Claxton came to the 
 Waldo Hills, Marion county, and purchased fifty 
 acres of land two miles from Shaw. This land 
 was entirely unimproved, and therefore available 
 only after much painstaking application. The 
 first year he set out three acres of Italian prunes 
 and other fruit, and to this he has since added, 
 year by year, until at the present time he has 
 thirty acres of orchard, all bearing, twenty-nine 
 acres being under prunes. Of this fruit he pro- 
 duces two varieties, the Petite and the Italian. 
 To accommodate his large and increasing indus- 
 try he erected a drier in 1896, the first of its 
 kind in the neighborhood or district. The drier 
 is 52x64 feet in ground dimensions, and he has 
 
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 made a trout addition of [6x20 feet. This appli- 
 ance enables him to handle not only his own 
 
 production. !>nt that oi his neighbors as well. In 
 190a Mr. Claxton, desiring to increase the pro- 
 duction of fruit, in which he had become very 
 successful, purchased forty acres adjoining his 
 ginal property, twenty-four of which arc de- 
 ed to prune culture. It will thus be seen that 
 he is one of the most extensive producers of this 
 Staple in the Willamette valley. 
 
 The Claxton farm presents, in its entirety, a 
 typical instance oi the possibilities of agricultural 
 and horticultural development in the state of 
 i )regon. No improvement calculated to facili- 
 tate work or add permanently to the value of the 
 property is allowed to remain unpurchased by the 
 thrifty and far-sighted owner. The house is a 
 modern and comfortable structure, and the barns 
 and out-houses are in keeping with the progress- 
 ive spirit of the owner. 
 
 Mr. Claxton's wife, to whose help and sym- 
 pathy be owes a great deal of his success in life, 
 was formerly Ida C. Towle, a daughter of George 
 Towle, a sketch of whose career appears else- 
 where in this volume. Their marriage was sol- 
 emnized in 1886. They have two interesting and 
 promising boys, George and Robert. 
 
 A Republican in political affiliation, Mr. Clax- 
 ton has always been deeply interested in the x wel- 
 fare of his party, though be has never aspired to 
 public office. He has evinced a deep interest in 
 educational matters in his community, and for 
 nine years has served as a member of the local 
 school board. He believes in providing for the 
 public schools the best equipment, both as to 
 apparatus and in the personnel of the instructors, 
 which money can procure ; and his enlightened, 
 modern ideas in this direction have accomplished 
 much toward elevating the standard of the school 
 in his district. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Grange. Although not a member of the 
 church, he is a liberal contributor to the support 
 of religious institutions, and is always ready, 
 with practical assistance, in any movement tend- 
 ing to benefit general, social, moral or intellectual 
 conditions. Thoroughly honorable in all his 
 dealings, he is highly esteemed for those desirable 
 traits which underlie the western citizenship. 
 
 JOHN HENRY HAWLEY. The president 
 of the Polk County Bank at Monmouth is num- 
 bered among the early pathfinders and home 
 builders, who, in the stern, heroic days that tried 
 the fiber of the manhood of men, amid almost 
 incredible hardships and dangers, blazed the first 
 narrow winding trails of progress through green 
 wilds, and laid a sure foundation for the state 
 whose heraldic ensign is now numbered among 
 the sisterhood of states. Collectively the knights 
 
 of the plains, upon whom a strong duty was im- 
 posed, constitute one of the most imposing 
 pageants in the history of the world, beside which 
 the Crusaders of old, with their perfumed clothes 
 and high sounding titles, their charges and re- 
 tainers, pale into insignificance because of the 
 futility and subsequent uselessness of their mis- 
 sion. Not so the Oregon pioneer, in whose path 
 has grown up the civilization of this part of the 
 northwest, and many of whom possess to-day a 
 memory which runs the gamut from primeval 
 simplicity to cosmopolitan and strenuous activity. 
 To an exceptional degree, John Henry Hawley 
 represents the class of men of whom we speak, 
 and he came a long way with his father in the 
 early days. He was born in London, Canada, 
 March 10, 1835, and was but ten years of age at 
 the time of the overland trip. 
 
 Cyrus B. Hawley, the instigator of the family 
 emigration in 1844, was born in the state of New 
 York, and about 1820 removed with his people 
 to the vicinity of London, Canada. Here the 
 parents lived on a farm, while the young man 
 worked at whatever he could find to do, eventually- 
 engaging in building and contracting in London, 
 many of his constructions still standing in the 
 quaint old town. In 1836 he removed to Detroit, 
 Mich., and worked at his trade, and two years 
 later located oil a little farm near Farmington, 
 Iowa, where he combined contracting and agri- 
 cultural pursuits for about two years. He then 
 moved to Andrew county, Mo., locating near the 
 town of Sparta. While working at building and 
 gathering his harvests, be heard glowing accounts 
 of the far west. Not being satisfied with the 
 prospects of Andrew county, he determined to 
 join an emigrant train in the hazardous journey 
 over the prairies. Disposing of his farm, he 
 equipped with ox teams and wagons, his faithful 
 wife, Elizabeth (Smith) Hawley, whom he mar- 
 ried in the east, assisting him in every possible 
 way. On the journey many pleasant incidents 
 enlivened the company, and although the train 
 was among the first to penetrate the wilds, they 
 encountered very little opposition from the In- 
 dians, and suffered comparatively little from chol- 
 era, small-pox or mountain fever. Gen. Cornelius 
 Gilliam was captain of the train, and he proved 
 a very genial and competent guide, but after 
 awhile the party divided into several sections, each 
 going its separate way. Mr. Hawley located on 
 a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 three miles east of McMinnville, and here he 
 erected a log house for the accommodation of his 
 family, cleared his land of brush and timber, and 
 was soon living in comparative comfort. At best 
 his farm yielded not more than was required for 
 the maintenance of his four sons and three daugh- 
 ters, and the mining chances in the surrounding 
 states appealed to him as worthv of attention. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 Accordingly he left his farm in charge of his 
 oldest sons, and in the spring of 1862 went to 
 the Boise Basin, Idaho, intending to add to his 
 fortune from the gold mines. His dreams were 
 not destined for fulfillment, for the following 
 year, in 1863, he was stricken with mountain 
 fever, and died in November at the age of fifty- 
 four years. He was a man of resource and am- 
 bition, and cherished a just pride of birth, his 
 ancestors having been among the early emigrants 
 from England to settle in the United States, and 
 their descendants have filled many positions of 
 trust and responsibility. 
 
 John Henry Hawley built up a strong consti- 
 tution while working on the donation claim near 
 McMinnville, and his want of educational chances 
 in the early days was realized as he approached 
 maturity. At the age of twenty-one he took a 
 two years' course at the Bethel Academy, and, 
 having qualified as a teacher, he taught school in 
 both Polk and Yamhill counties. With the money 
 thus earned he bought a little farm of ten acres 
 in 1858, and in 1861 went to the gold mines of 
 Idaho. Although moderately successful, he spent 
 only one year in the mines, and then returned 
 home. The next year he engaged with his 
 brother-in-law, Jonathan Atterbury, in packing 
 provisions to the Idaho camps. In 1864 he em- 
 barked in the mercantile business in Bethel, Polk 
 county, and in the meantime purchased four hun- 
 dred acres of land upon which he began to engage 
 in farming in 1875. Beginning with 1892 he 
 spent a year in Salem, Ore., and then came to 
 Monmouth, where he invested heavily in the 
 stock of the Polk County Bank, of which institu- 
 tion he has since been president. Much of the 
 success of the bank is due to the financial acumen 
 of this tried and trusted official, whose name rep- 
 resents strength, integrity and absolute control 
 of his business affairs. At the same time he con- 
 tinues to be interested in his farm, where he 
 raises grain to a considerable extent, and makes 
 a specialty of registered Lincoln sheep, and other 
 high grade stock. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Hawley was united in marriage 
 with Eliza Mulkey, who was born in Missouri, a 
 daughter of Luke Mulkey, a native of Kentucky. 
 As a young man Mr. Mulkey removed from 
 Kentucky to Missouri, and after crossing the 
 plains in 1847, located near Corvallis, in Benton 
 county, where his death occurred in 1895. Seven 
 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hawley, of 
 whom Horace G. and May I. are deceased; 
 William H. is a merchant of Pendleton, Ore.; 
 Curtis L. is living on the old farm ; Constance is 
 the wife of B. F. Mulkey, of Ashland, Ore.; 
 Luke M. is in the mercantile business with his 
 brother in Pendleton, Ore. ; and Maude E. is 
 living at home. Since attaining his majority Mr. 
 Hawley has taken a keen interest in local and gen- 
 
 eral politics and lias allied himself with the Re- 
 publican party. He has filled many positions of 
 trust and responsibility in the community, and is 
 at present the chief executive of the city of Mon- 
 mouth. During the session of 1882 he was a 
 member of the state legislature from Polk county, 
 serving on the committee for the enrollment of 
 bills. At one time he was justice of the peace 
 of Bethel, Ore. An elder and trustee of the 
 Christian Church, Mr. Hawley is a teacher of 
 the bible class in the Sunday school, and con- 
 tributes generously towards the maintenance of 
 the church. His two story frame home on Col- 
 lege avenue is one of the hospitable and delight- 
 ful centers in the town, and here one of the stal- 
 wart founders of the present prosperity of Polk 
 county spends the hours between his arduous po- 
 litical and business responsibilities. 
 
 THOMAS COCKRELL. Since January 1, 
 1896, Thomas Cockrell has been connected with 
 the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, and on Febru- 
 ary 1, 1903, he accepted the position as agent at 
 Albany, Linn county, and in his work has met 
 with the commendation of employers and the 
 good feeling of fellow employes and passengers, 
 thus proving his capability for work where he is 
 constantly thrown into association with the pub- 
 lic. Mr. Cockrell is truly spoken of as one of 
 the rising young men of the community, and it is 
 through the avenue which has led many a man 
 to fortune that he will seek the zenith of his 
 ambitions — an evidence of the estimation in 
 which he is held being in the fact that he was 
 promoted to the Albany office, which is one of 
 the responsible positions on the road. 
 
 The Cockrell family came originally from Vir- 
 ginia, where Mortimer J. Cockrell, the grand- 
 father of Thomas Cockrell was born, and from 
 which state he removed to Ohio, where he 
 followed farming and conducted a cooper 
 shop. His death occurred in Medina county. His 
 son, Robert J., was born near Burbank, 
 Wayne county, Ohio, and for many years was a 
 grain dealer in that state. In 1890 he removed 
 to Corvallis, Ore., where he now makes his 
 home. He married Sarah J. Shoup, a native of 
 Center county, Pa., and a daughter of George 
 Washington Shoup, also of that state, who later 
 became a millwright in Ohio. Mrs. Cockrell is 
 the mother of four children, all of whom are liv- 
 ing, the second oldest of them being Thomas 
 Cockrell, who was born near Burbank, Wayne 
 county, Ohio, December 23. 1875. In 1890 he 
 accompanied his parents to Oregon, being at the 
 time but fifteen years of age. He completed his 
 education in the public schools of Lebanon, con- 
 tinuing at his studies until he was eighteen years 
 of age, when he began the study of telegraphy. 
 
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 He commenced Januan 1. 1S90, at Yaquina Bay, 
 
 and lul\ i. of the same year, he took a position 
 
 ir at Morrison, Ore., and soon after 
 
 came to Albany as assistant agent, remaining 
 
 one month at the latter place, alter which he 
 I as agent to Mill City. Three months 
 
 • he was again in Albany, where he remained 
 for one year. After eight months spent in Gates, 
 and nearh five years in Mill City as agent he ac- 
 cepted the position which he now holds, and 
 which his excellent service in the past fully -war- 
 ranted. 
 
 In fraternal orders Mr. Cockrell is prominent, 
 holding membership in Laurel Lodge No. 7, 
 Knights oi Pythias, of Albany; past grand of 
 the "independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Mill 
 City : and is a member of the Benevolent Protec- 
 tive ( >rder oi Elks Xo. 359, also of Albany. Po- 
 litically he casts his ballot with the Republican 
 party. 
 
 GEORGE W. BURKHART. The owner and 
 proprietor of the flourishing blacksmith business 
 at 418 West Second street, Albany, is deserving 
 more than passing mention among the suc- 
 - ful politicians and public-spirited men of the 
 town. He was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, 
 October 18, 1845, tne youngest of the eleven 
 children born to his parents, John and Rebecca 
 (Baltzell) Burkhart, natives respectively of Tenn- 
 nessee and Pennsylvania. While still living in 
 his native state the father enlisted for the war 
 of 181 2, and he afterward removed to a farm 
 in Iowa, where he lived 'for many years. His 
 children were all ambitious and on the lookout 
 for better things, and it is not surprising that at 
 least one of them should venture across the plains 
 while yet the undertaking was a hazardous ex- 
 periment. This one happened to be C. D., one of 
 the older sons, who crossed the country as early 
 as 1845, ar, d sent back favorable report* of con- 
 ditions as he found them in Oregon. Yielding to 
 the entreaties of the other children, the father 
 sold his farm in Iowa in 1847, an d, outfitting 
 with oxen and prairie wagons, brought the rest 
 of his family to the northwest. He took up a 
 claim two miles southeast of Albany, where his 
 death occurred in 1855, at the age of seventy 
 years, his wife surviving him until she was 
 eighty-two years of age. 
 
 Two years of age when he came with his pa- 
 rents to Oregon, George W. passed his boyhood 
 days among surroundings which would have 
 seemed strange indeed to his little playfellows 
 back in Iowa. Aside from his brothers and sisters, 
 all of whom were older than himself, he had no 
 one to play with but Indian boys, and he readilv 
 adapted himself to the strange looking chaps. As 
 he grew older he learned the Chinook language. 
 
 and came to think well of the much-painted red 
 boys, who nevertheless showed great kindness of 
 heart, and often pronounced generosity and grat- 
 itude. At the little log school of the district he 
 received his educational start, and when old 
 enough to iook out for himself went to Albany 
 and learned the blacksmith trade. In those days 
 many-sided work was required of the mechanic, 
 for industrial conditions had not as yet limited a 
 man to the exercise of but one talent as a means 
 of livelihood. He therefore applied himself to 
 carpentering and building, afterward engaging in 
 a large truck and dray business in Albany. He 
 was successful from the start, and ran three teams 
 to accommodate his many customers. In 1897 
 he engaged in his present blacksmithing and 
 horseshoeing business on Second street, and has 
 since had a trade in keeping with his position 
 among the master workmen of his line. 
 
 The first presidential vote of Mr. Burkhart was 
 cast for a Republican candidate, and he has since 
 given that party his stanchest support. That he 
 possesses claims for leadership is recognized by 
 his fellow politicians, and by the community at 
 large, for he has served for nine years as deputy 
 United States marshal, under both Kearney and 
 Kelly, and has also been city marshal two terms, 
 and constable two terms. With his wife, who. 
 was formerly Nancy Cooper, a native of Mis- 
 souri, he attends the United Presbyterian Church. 
 Hettie, the only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Burk- 
 hart, is living with her parents. Mr. Burkhart 
 has been prominently before the public in other 
 than political capacities, for he is public-spirited, 
 generous, and capable, and uses his resources 
 often in promoting some worthy effort in behalf 
 of the community interests. He is one of the 
 brave and gallant members of the fire depart- 
 ment, having associated himself with the same 
 as long ago as October, 1875. For several years 
 he was foreman of the department, and many 
 times risked life and limb for the safety of 
 imperiled households. He is highly respected in 
 the community of Albany, and his industrv and 
 success are worthy of emulation and all-around 
 approval. 
 
 PETER RUETTNER. Prominently identified 
 with the building interests of Linn county Peter 
 Ruettner, of Albany, is carrying on a prosperous 
 business as a contractor, builder, and house- 
 mover. A man of sterling worth and honesty 
 of purpose, possessing great physical and mental 
 vigor, he holds a fine position among the fore- 
 most residents of the city, and by his upright 
 conduct in the varied relations of life has gained 
 the respect and esteem of all with whom he has 
 come in contact, either in a business or social 
 way. A native of Switzerland, he was born 
 
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 April 4, 1852, in Ragatz, Canton of Saint Gallen, 
 which was also the birthplace of his father, Frank 
 Rnettner. His grandfather, who was born in 
 Switzerland, of French ancestry, was a carpenter 
 and builder by occupation, and a man of some in- 
 fluence in his community. 
 
 Frank Ruettner married Amantia Buehler, who 
 was born, reared and married in Saint Gallen 
 canton, and they became the parents of nine 
 children, seven of whom grew to years of ma- 
 turity, and five, three boys and two girls, are 
 now living. In 1871 he migrated to America, 
 starting from Ragatz with his wife and seven 
 children. In Germany, at Frankfort-on-the- 
 Main, his wife was taken sick, and died at the 
 Holy Ghost Hospital, where he left her in the 
 care of their youngest son, Peter, the special 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Having completed his early education in the 
 common schools of his native land, Peter Ruett- 
 ner at the age of twelve years began herding cat- 
 tle and goats in the Alps, and during the three 
 years that he was thus employed grew strong 
 and large. He subsequently worked with his 
 father at the carpenter's trade until 1871, when 
 he started for the United States with the fam- 
 ily. Remaining, however, in Frankfort-on-the 
 Main until after the death and burial of his 
 mother, he worked at his trade in that city dur- 
 ing the five weeks of his stay. Coming then via 
 Bremen to New York, he landed in that city 
 with but a single gold dollar in his pocket. Join- 
 ing the remainder of the family in Chicago, 111., 
 as soon as possible, he witnessed the burning of 
 that noble city, and with his hammer and saw 
 added his little mite toward its rebuilding. In 
 1874, during the hard times that nearly paralyzed 
 business, he secured a position as driver on the 
 street cars, and continued thus occupied two and 
 one-half years. Times becoming better, Mr. 
 Ruettner followed the carpenter's trade for a 
 few years, and then worked as a millwright about 
 six years. 
 
 In 1887, finding that he had an uncle, Sebas- 
 tian Ruettner, who had come to Oregon as a pio- 
 neer in 1845, living in Kings valley, he made 
 up his mind to visit his kinsman. Coming here, 
 accordingly, in 1888, Mr. Ruettner was so pleased 
 with the country that he decided to make Oregon 
 his permanent residence. Locating with his fam- 
 ily in Albany, he embarked in business as a con- 
 tractor and builder, and has met with eminent 
 success. Since 1892 he has made house-moving 
 a specialty, paying attention to that line of in- 
 dustry in conjunction with his other work. En- 
 terprising, energetic and a sagacious manager, he 
 has accumulated considerable wealth. In addi- 
 tion to his own residence, at the corner of Third 
 and Main streets, he owns two most desirable 
 houses, and other property of value. 
 
 While living in Chicago, 111., Mr. Ruettner 
 married Miss Minna Brandt, who was born in 
 Des Plaines, Cook county, 111. Her father, Will- 
 iam Brandt, emigrated from Hanover, Germany, 
 his native place, to Illinois, and was for many 
 years engaged in farming in Des Plaines. He 
 subsequently removed to Fillmore county, Minn., 
 and there spent his last years, and died" in 1880 
 at the age of sixty-five years, seven months and 
 seven days. Mrs. Ruettner 's mother died in Chi- 
 cago, August 13, 1902, at the age of eighty years, 
 five months and five days. Mr. and Mrs. Ruett- 
 ner are both members of the Lutheran Church, 
 and contribute generously toward its support. In 
 politics, Mr. Ruettner is a stanch Republican. 
 
 HON. N. B. HUMPHREYS. Among the 
 influential and respected citizens of Albany no 
 man stood higher in the estimation of the people 
 than Hon. N. B. Humphreys, who during the 
 Civil war fought most gallantly for the preserva- 
 tion of the nation, and who has since faithfully 
 performed the duties devolving upon him in his 
 home, his town, his county, and his state. In 
 all respects a worthy representative of the enter- 
 prise, industry and intelligence of Linn county, 
 he has been prominently identified with the ad- 
 vancement of its highest interests. A son of the 
 late George Humphreys, Jr., he was born in 
 Louisa county, Iowa, December 30, 1840. He 
 comes of substantial Scotch-Irish ancestry, his 
 great-grandfather, David Humphreys, having 
 been a life-long resident of the North of Ireland, 
 and the descendant of one of the old Covenanters 
 who emigrated to that country from Scotland. 
 
 George Humphreys, Sr., the grandfather of 
 Hon. N. B. Humphreys, was born and reared 
 near Belfast, Ireland. Emigrating to the United 
 States when a young man, he settled in Ohio as 
 a pioneer, and there cleared and improved a 
 homestead, on which he spent the remainder of 
 his life. 
 
 Born in Jefferson county, Ohio, on the 
 parental homestead, George Humphreys, Jr., re- 
 sided in his native state until 1836, when he set- 
 tled on a farm in Louisa county, Iowa. Fol- 
 lowing the march of civilization westward, he 
 crossed the plains to Oregon in 1865, and took 
 up his residence in Albany, where he lived re- 
 tired until his death. He married Elizabeth Mc- 
 Cleary, who was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, 
 and died in Oregon. Her father, Robert Mc- 
 Cleary, was born in New England, of substantial 
 Scotch ancestry, and died in Jefferson county, 
 Ohio. Of the twelve children born to George 
 and Elizabeth Humphreys six are now living, of 
 whom George is an attornev in Portland, and 
 Ross is a lumberman in Washington. 
 
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 birth, obtained his early education in the pioneer 
 schoolhouse of his native state, and remained 
 the home farm until eighteen years of age. 
 Beginning the study oi law in the office of T. 
 B. Perry, in Albia, Iowa, he was admitted to the 
 bar in the spring oi 1861. The following year, 
 relinquishing the practice of his profession, Mr. 
 Humphreys enlisted as a private, July 26, 1862, 
 in Company D, Twenty-second Iowa Infantry, 
 and was mustered into service at Iowa City. He 
 subsequently participated in many of the more 
 important engagements of the conflict, and for 
 bravery in action was frequently rewarded by 
 promotion. At Port Gibson, on May 1, 1863, 
 he was wounded in the left knee by a piece of a 
 shell, being then sergeant of his company. He 
 was afterwards in the Battle of Champion Hills, 
 on May 16, 1863. and the following day, during 
 the engagement at Big Black River, received a 
 bullet wound in the left shoulder. On May 21, 
 ;, he was promoted to the rank of first lieu- 
 tenant, and on May 22. while assisting in the 
 Ije of Yicksburg, he received a bayonet wound 
 in the left arm. On June 21, 1863, Lieutenant 
 Humphreys was commissioned captain of Com- 
 pany D, and with his regiment was subsequently 
 transferred to the Department of the Gulf, 
 thence sent by transports to Bermuda Hundred. 
 As a part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, under 
 ( ieneral Sheridan, he was actively engaged in 
 the battles at "Winchester. Fisher's Hill, and 
 Cedar Creek. At the close of the Shenandoah 
 campaign. Captain Humphreys was located for 
 awhile in Savannah. Ga., then in Raleigh. N. C, 
 remaining on duty in that state and in Georgia 
 until the close of the war. The regiment, which 
 was mustered out of service July 22, 1865, dis- 
 banded, at Davenport, Iowa, August 3, 1865. 
 
 Resuming the practice of his profession, Cap- 
 tain Humphreys was elected county judge of 
 Monroe county, Iowa, in 1865, and served until 
 the spring of 1866, when he came to Oregon. 
 The train in which he crossed the plains con- 
 d of fifty-four men, with wagons and mule 
 teams to accommodate the entire party, which 
 was four months on the journey. Locating in Al- 
 bany, Lmn county, he built up an extensive and 
 lucrative practice, becoming one of the leading 
 attorneys of this part of Oregon. In 1872 he 
 was elected district attorney of the Third Judicial 
 District, which contains five counties, and served 
 for one term. From 1880 until 1882 he was 
 state senator, serving as chairman of the com- 
 mittees on enrolled bills and on military affairs, 
 and as a member of the judiciary committee. He 
 introduced into the legislature the bill that has 
 since become a law making the wife equal to 
 the husband in regard to the custody of children ; 
 also introduced the bill regarding the building 
 of a state insane asylum ; and was instrumental 
 
 in the passage of many other bills of minor im- 
 portance, lie later tilled the mayor's chair in 
 Albany one term, and in June, njo2, was elected 
 justice of the peace, serving in that capacitv at 
 the time of his death, April 17, 1903. 
 
 In Polk county. Ore., Mr. Humphreys mar- 
 ried Miss R. M. Smith, who was born in Polk 
 county, of pioneer parents. Their only child, 
 Saxon Humphreys, a graduate of the Monmouth 
 state normal school, is a resident of Monmouth, 
 and a teacher. Politically Mr. Humphreys was 
 a stanch Republican. Fraternally he was made 
 a Mason at Albia Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 76, 
 in Iowa, and was a member of St. John's Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., No. 62, of which he was past mas- 
 ter, and also belonged to Bayley Chapter, R. A. 
 M., No. 8. He was also a charter member of 
 McPherson Post, G. A. R. In his religious 
 views he was a Presbvterian. 
 
 JUSTINIAN WILLIAMS KIRKLAND. A 
 resident of Independence, Ore., for the past 
 twenty years, Justinian Williams Kirkland has 
 played no unimportant part in the affairs of the 
 city. By his judgment and excellent management 
 of his business affairs he has made himself a 
 worthy factor in the progressive movements of the 
 community. His life has been full of the varied 
 experiences that befall the man who has visited 
 the different sections of country at a time when 
 some unusual happening has drawn the attention 
 of the world to that location, and of the past 
 years he recalls many pleasant memories of oc- 
 currences which have marked his wanderings in 
 the seventy-five years which he has lived. 
 
 The father of Mr. Kirkland was Abraham 
 Kirkland, who was born in Mercer county, Ky., 
 and after his marriage with Miss Elizabeth 
 McGee, also a native of that state, he removed 
 in 1812 to Boonville. Cooper county, and later 
 to Monroe county, Mo. In 1843, while assist- 
 ing at a house-raising, he was killed by a large 
 log falling upon him. The mother also died in 
 her Missouri home in 1883. Of the five sons 
 and two daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. Kirk- 
 land, Justinian Williams Kirkland was next to 
 the youngest, his birth occurring at Boonville, 
 Mo., February 15, 1828. With a rather limited 
 education received in the common schools of Mis- 
 souri, he began life for himself, the first occupa- 
 tion being that of farming, and later he engaged 
 in buying stock and disposing of the same in 
 the St. Louis market. In this he met with good 
 financial returns. In 1850 he joined a party 
 bound for the new El Dorado, the trip being 
 made with the customary ox-teams, and was of 
 brief duration compared with the length of time 
 considered necessary for a Californian journey 
 They started March 15 and reached their des- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tination October i, their stock of supplies having 
 fallen so low that they had been on half rations 
 for some time. Mr. Kirkland's first experience 
 in California was a two months' illness, and 
 upon his recovery he at once entered the mines 
 near Rough and Ready. A two years' residence 
 among these scenes netted him moderate returns, 
 and in 1852 he went to San Francisco and 
 shipped for New Orleans, via Panama and 
 Havana, Cuba. His trip across the Isthmus of 
 Panama was one of interest, being made on foot, 
 a skiff used to convey him down the Chagres 
 river a distance of sixty miles to Aspinwall. 
 Upon his arrival at New Orleans he ascended 
 the Mississippi river to St. Louis, where he was 
 once more welcomed back to his home. With a 
 desire to try his fortunes in the business world 
 he engaged in the grocery business, in which he 
 met with success until he had the misfortune to 
 lose his property by fire, upon which he returned 
 to the cultivation of the soil. In 1862 he re- 
 sponded to the call of the South in which he 
 had been born and reared, and became a captain 
 in the Confederate army, serving for three years 
 in the Fourth Missouri Cavalry. Upon Lee's sur- 
 render he returned to private life, and with the 
 changed conditions of Missouri he chose again 
 to emigrate to newer fields of endeavor. In the 
 spring of 1865 he crossed the plains to Montana 
 by ox-team and located at Helena, where he en- 
 gaged in mining and freighting, and in 1869 he 
 continued his journey westward and arrived in 
 Polk county, Ore. He engaged in farming for 
 four years near Independence, and at the close 
 of that period purchased three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Rickreall, making his home 
 in that vicinity for fifteen years, engaged in gen- 
 eral farming. In 1885 he removed to Indepen- 
 dence, where he engaged in the real-estate busi- 
 ness. Upon the corner of Second and B streets 
 he built a handsome little cottage where he now 
 makes his home. Among the other town prop- 
 erty which he owns is a forty foot lot on First 
 street. 
 
 Mr. Kirkland's first wife was Miss Katherine 
 M. Johnson, a native of Kentucky, whose death 
 occurred in Independence in 1891, at the age of 
 sixty-two years. His second union was with 
 Mrs. Sarah Douty, who was born in the state 
 of New York. Four sons were born unto J. 
 W. and Katherine M. (Johnson) Kirkland : A. 
 P., of Wallowa county; W. J., of Arlington; 
 P. M., a druggist in this city, and John E., of 
 Independence. During his residence in this city 
 Mr. Kirkland has taken a prominent place in its 
 affairs, having served two terms as mayor, as 
 councilman many terms, also as county commis- 
 sioner of Polk county for one term. His offices 
 have been held through Democratic influence, of 
 which party he is a consistent supporter. He 
 
 has also been president of the board of trade of 
 Independence. Fraternally Mr. Kirkland is as- 
 sociated with the Masons, in which he has taken 
 the chapter -degree ; Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows ; and Knights of Pythias. 
 
 MADISON SCOTT. As the descendant of a 
 family successful for many generations, Madison 
 Scott is upholding the standard of excellence set 
 in the eastern states many years ago, through 
 the display of evident business ability and quick, 
 unerring judgment making his citizenship of 
 great value to the community in which he makes 
 his home. He has met with a much merited suc- 
 cess in both his business and political relations, 
 in the former devoting himself entirely to the 
 raising of stock, and in the latter being often 
 called upon to serve in some public capacity, al- 
 ways proving his worth and ability when so 
 doing. 
 
 Mr. Scott is a member of a prominent New 
 York family, the grandfather, Solomon, and 
 father, Edward L., both owing their birth to that 
 community of the east, where they both followed 
 the occupations of farmer and stockman. In 
 1845 the latter removed to Lee county, Iowa, 
 and, locating near Keokuk, he continued in the 
 same business, becoming one of the noticeably 
 successful men of the middle west. Attracted by 
 the glowing accounts from the Pacific coast he 
 decided to try his fortunes beyond the Rockies, 
 and accordingly crossed the plains in 1850, 
 traveling alone with his ox teams until he reached 
 California. There he engaged in mining for 
 the ensuing three years, enjoying each year a 
 more complete success, which compensated for 
 the long absence from his home and family, 
 since his return would mean greater comforts for 
 the coming years. At the close of this period he 
 prepared for the return trip via the Isthmus of 
 Panama, and the loved ones at home were wait- 
 ing and watching since they knew when he would 
 sail from San Francisco. The news that he ex- 
 pected to sail on a certain date was the last that 
 was ever received from him, for he disappeared 
 from human knowledge as completely as though 
 the earth had opened and swallowed him. It 
 was known that he carried $50,000, the result of 
 his self-denying years of toil, and it is supposed 
 that this was the incentive for some cowardly 
 work that robbed a home of the father and the 
 children of the competence which had certainly 
 been hardly gained. He had married Charity 
 Sorter, who was born in New York state, the 
 descendant of Dutch ancestry. Her father, 
 Zebulon Sorter, was a native of New Jersey, but 
 had spent much of his life in New York, Iowa, 
 and later in Clark county, Mo., where he died. 
 Some time after the failure of her husband to 
 
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 return to then home Mrs- Scott removed to Sul- 
 
 ■i county, Mo., where she reared her family 
 
 and where she now makes her home at the age 
 
 ju years. She makes her religious 
 
 home in the Methodist Episcopal Church. She 
 
 - the mother of six children, five sons and one 
 .• whom there are four sons living 
 . n, Zebulon, was a lieutenant in the 
 
 ghteenth Missouri Regiment, and at the battle 
 •h was taken prisoner and sent to Libby 
 l, where he died in 1863. 
 
 1 Ik- oldest of the children now living, and the 
 
 e on the Pacific coast, Madison Scott 
 
 •1 October _>S, 1842, in Allegany county, 
 
 V Y.. and was live years old when the family 
 
 tunes were shifted to the state of Iowa. He 
 was there reared to manhood, attending the dis- 
 trict schools for his education, and when his 
 mother removed to Sullivan county, Mo., he went 
 with her. During the Civil war he served in the 
 Twelfth Missouri Militia, and later in the Six- 
 tieth, his period of service lasting about a year, 
 when he was called out several times. After 
 the war he engaged in farming, and in 1869 he 
 removed to McKinney. Tex., and there com- 
 menced the breeding of horses. In 1871 he re- 
 turned to Missouri and spent the ensuing two 
 years there, after which he came west and pur- 
 chased a farm in Linn county, Ore., located 
 twelve miles southeast of Albany. He engaged 
 extensively in the stock business, upon his own 
 and rented lands nearby, raising full-blooded 
 Shropshire sheep, Shorthorn cattle and other 
 stock. He ships cattle and hogs principally to 
 the Puget Sound country and through good judg- 
 ment and executive ability is making good 
 profits. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Scott occurred in Mis- 
 
 ri, in 1866. and united him with Miss Jane 
 Terrell, a native of Monroe county, Iowa, the 
 daughter of Horace Jefferson Terrell. The lat- 
 ter was born in Connecticut. After a brief resi- 
 dence in Lorain county, Ohio, he became an early 
 settler in Monroe county, Iowa, from which place 
 he removed to Sullivan county, Mo. He married 
 Minerva McXeal, also a native of Connecticut, 
 and a daughter of Alexander McNeal, who 
 died in Ohio, to which state he had removed. 
 Mrs. Terrell, who passed away in her Iowa 
 home, was the mother of thirteen children, of 
 whom two sons, Lemuel and Burt, died while 
 serving in Iowa regiments during the Civil war. 
 Three of her children are residents of the state 
 of Oregon, of whom Mrs. Scott is one. She was 
 reared in Iowa, where she began teaching school 
 at the a.fje of seventeen years, and continued in 
 the work for about three years. She is the 
 mother of the following children : Charles E., 
 located in Benton county ; A. I., who is at pres- 
 ent engaged with his father in the stock busi- 
 
 ness; Eva, the wife of Elmer Conn, of Albany; 
 Leva, wife of J. II. Coe, of Shaniko, Ore. ; Wal- 
 ter O., Nellie, Grace and Roxy Erances. Mrs. 
 Scott is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 A stanch Democrat in politics, Mr. Scott has 
 often heen called upon to fill some position at the 
 disposal of this party. In 1890 ht was nomi- 
 nated on that ticket for the office of sheriff, to 
 which he was elected by a majority of seven hun- 
 dred votes. He took the oath of office July, 1890, 
 and held the position until 1892, having removed 
 in the first named year to the city of Albany, 
 wdiere he now makes his home. On retiring from 
 office Mr. Scott again engaged in the stock busi- 
 ness, and still finds lucrative returns from his 
 work. Fraternally Mr. Scott affiliates with Leba- 
 non Lodge No. 47, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, being a member of the Encampment, 
 and also with Safety Lodge Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 A. MONROE MILLER is a retired farmer 
 living in Dallas, but still owns the old dona- 
 tion claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 which he secured from the government not 
 long after his arrival in the northwest in 
 1847. Few are the residents of the state who 
 arrived at that early date, but with the pio- 
 neer history Mr. Miller has long been identi- 
 fied. He has watched the progress of the 
 coast country from the time it was inhabited 
 largely by those who sought to make for- 
 tunes, but did not care to make homes in 
 this district. He has watched with interest 
 the upbuilding and substantial development 
 of the state, and in as far as possible he has 
 contributed to its improvement. 
 
 Mr. Miller was born in Cole county, Mo., 
 about ten miles west of Jefferson City, No- 
 vember 9, 1827. His father, Richard Miller, 
 was a native of Virginia and the grandfather, 
 James Miller, removed from the Old Dominion 
 to Kentucky and in 1820 became identified 
 with farming interests of Cole county, Mo. 
 He was of Scotch descent and many of the 
 sterling traits of his Scotch ancestry were 
 manifested in his life. The father of our sub- 
 ject followed farming in Missouri until 1847, 
 when he crossed the plains with an ox-train, 
 accompanied by his wife and six children. 
 One child of the family had died in Missouri. 
 They started with three wagons, fifteen yoke 
 of oxen and seventy-five head of cattle, leav- 
 ing their old home on the 12th of April. They 
 crossed the Missouri river about twelve miles 
 above St. Joseph and forded both South and 
 North Platte in their wagon-beds, swimming 
 the cattle. At times the Sioux Indians threat- 
 ened, but caused no serious disturbance. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 However, when they reached the Columbia 
 river, Indians attempted to rob them and 
 they had to keep men continually on guard 
 so as not to allow the red men in their camp, 
 and in due course of time the journey was 
 completed in safety, arriving in the Willam- 
 ette valley on the ist of October. The 
 father secured a donation claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres four miles west of Mc- 
 Minnville, Yamhill county. He entered an 
 entire section of land, but because he went to 
 California for his wife's health and voted in 
 that state he had to lose three hundred and 
 twenty acres of his claim. In 1849 he took 
 his family by water to California, this being 
 a year later than our subject and his brother 
 made an overland trip. Mr. Miller engaged 
 in gardening near Martinez for eighteen 
 months and then returned by the water route 
 to his farm, where he lived until he retired 
 from business life. His wife died in 1863 and 
 in 1865 he went to live with his children, his 
 death occurring at Turner, Ore., when he was 
 eighty-two years of age. For many years he 
 was connected with the Baptist Church as. a 
 minister and did everything in his power to 
 promote the cause of the gospel. His wife 
 bore the maiden name of Nancy L. Fulker- 
 son, of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born 
 in Virginia, a daughter of James Fulkerson, 
 who at an early day went to Tennessee and 
 afterward to Missouri, where he carried on 
 farming until his death. He served in the 
 Indian wars and passed away at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Miller be- 
 came the parents of six sons and one daughter 
 and with the exception of one son all came 
 to Oregon. Alexis N. died in Lane county, 
 Ore., in November, 1902. The others of the 
 family are Andrew Monroe, William T., a 
 farmer of Turner, Ore.; Mrs. Elizabeth J. 
 Husicker, of North Yamhill, Ore.; John W., 
 who died in California in 1900; and R. Jack- 
 son, who died in eastern Oregon. 
 
 A. M. Miller was reared on the old family 
 homestead in Missouri until nineteen years of 
 age, and during the winter months he pur- 
 sued his studies in a subscription school which 
 was held in one of the old-time pioneer log 
 school houses, furnished with slab seats, 
 while a desk was made by placing a board 
 upon pins driven into the wall. The chil- 
 dren used quill pens and the text-books were 
 of a primitive nature. At the age of nineteen 
 Mr. Miller accompanied the family on their 
 emigration to Oregon, driving a five-yoked 
 ox-team across the plains. From actual ex- 
 perience he is familiar with the events of 
 such a trip, its hardships and its trials. On 
 the nth of September, 1848, he and his 
 
 brother Alexis started over the mountains to 
 California with ox-teams, they being of the 
 first party to travel in this way. There were 
 eight men in their party and they arrived in 
 California on the 4th of November, making 
 their way to the gold fields. Mr. Miller was 
 then engaged in mining on Feather river until 
 1849, when on account of the scourge which 
 broke out there he went to Contra Costa 
 county. There he and his brother and two 
 other men engaged in sawing lumber with a 
 whip-saw, receiving a big price for their prod- 
 uct. They spent two years there, during 
 which time Mr. Miller built a hotel of sixteen 
 rooms at Martinez. The nails, paint and car- 
 penters' work for this building cost $2,200. 
 The town, however, did not grow to be a 
 San Francisco, as was anticipated, and three 
 years later Mr. Miller sold the property for 
 eight hundred dollars. 
 
 In the meantime he had returned to Ore- 
 gon by way ot the water route on the steamer 
 California. This was in 1850 and he spent 
 about a year in Yamhill county. In 1851 he 
 located in Polk county, four miles north of 
 Dixie, securing a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres. He built a frame house, 
 cleared and improved his. farm and engaged 
 in the raising of grain and stock. In 1861-2 
 he made trips to the Florence mines with 
 pack horses. During the greater part of the 
 time since securing his claim he has carried 
 on farming and still owns the original dona- 
 tion claim of six hundred and forty acres, be- 
 sides having added to it an adjoining tract of 
 seventy-five acres. His farm is now a valua- 
 ble property and returns to him a good in- 
 come from rental. In 1884 he took up his 
 abode in Dallas where he has since lived. 
 
 Mr. Miller was married in Polk county, 
 Ore., to Margaret A. Crowley, who was born 
 in Holt county, Mo., a daughter of Thomas 
 Crowley, who in 1846 made the journey 
 across the plains with an ox-train by way of 
 the southern route and the Rogue river pass. 
 He died in Umpqua, as did one son and two 
 of his daughters. His wife and seven chil- 
 dren came on to the Willamette valley and 
 another son died the following year. Mrs. 
 Crowley reared her remaining children in the 
 valley, Mrs. Miller being fourteen vears of 
 age at the time of the emigration to the 
 northwest. Her married life, however, was 
 of short duration, for she died seven months 
 after becoming a bride. 
 
 In Yamhill county Mr. Miller was again 
 married, bis second union being with Mrs. 
 Lucinda V. (Fulkerson) Logan, who was 
 born in Virginia, but was reared in Cooper 
 county, Mo. There she married Mr. Logan 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 45!> 
 
 and with him crossed the plains in 1852, but 
 
 he died soon after their arrival in the valley. 
 
 lu-r tirst marriage she had two children: 
 
 Mary C., who became the wife of Judge Mey- 
 
 both oi whom are now deceased; and 
 
 S F., who died in Polk county. I'nto 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Miller wore born three chil- 
 
 i, two of whom are living: Jasper R., of 
 
 rtland; and Nellie E., the wife of Q. S. ('.rant 
 Dallas. Mrs. Miller died January 5, 1887. at 
 tlu age of sixty-one years. Mr. Miller is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church and served on the 
 hoard oi trustees for several years. 
 
 In politics Mr. Miller is a Democrat. He 
 belongs to the Polk County Pioneers' Asso- 
 ciation. The days of chivalry can furnish no 
 more interesting tales than are told by the 
 pioneers of the northwest, and Mr. Miller is 
 one whose life has been closely connected 
 with its development and progress. There is 
 therefore particular satisfaction in reverting 
 to the life history of the honored and vener- 
 able gentleman whose name initiates this arti- 
 cle, since his mind bears the impress of the 
 historical annals of the state of Oregon from 
 the early pioneer clays and from the fact that 
 he has been a loyal son of the Republic and 
 has attained to a position of distinctive prom- 
 inence in the thriving little city where he has 
 retained his residence for so many years. 
 
 JOHN NATHANIEL DAVIS. One of the 
 many worthy citizens and capable and thrifty 
 agriculturists of Marion county is John N. Davis, 
 who has resided on his present farm in the 
 Waldo Hills for upwards of thirty years. Dur- 
 ing this long period of time he has gained for 
 himself an enviable reputation as an honest man 
 and a good citizen, and as one who has per- 
 formed his full share in the advancement and de- 
 velopment of one of the finest counties of the 
 state. He came of New England ancestry, and 
 of patriotic Revolutionary stock, his grand- 
 father, John Davis, a resident of Rhode Island, 
 having served his country as a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, and the steel which he then 
 carried and used to make a fire with instead of 
 matches is now in the possession of his grandson, 
 John N. Davis. 
 
 A native of Gainesville, Wyoming county, New 
 York, John N. Davis was born June 27, 1824. a 
 son of John XV. Davis. His father w-as born in 
 Rhode Island in 1783, and was there educated. 
 Running away from home when a boy, he en- 
 gaged in seafaring pursuits for many years. He 
 sailed along the northwest Pacific coast three 
 years, and in 181 1 visited the mouth of the Co- 
 lumbia river. He had the distinction of being cap- 
 tain of the first steamboat run on Lake Erie. He 
 
 subsequent!) took an active part in the war of 
 1812, participating in the battle of Black Rock, 
 Erie county, N. Y., later in life locating perma- 
 nently on a farm in Wyoming county. In 1839 
 he removed to Illinois, trading his New York 
 farm for one in Sangamon county, and there he 
 spent his remaining days, dying at the venerable 
 age of eighty-seven years. John W. Davis was 
 married three times. His first wife was Saman- 
 tha Flower, who was born in New York state 
 May 3, 1803, and died in 1828. They had two 
 daughters and three sons, of whom" John N. 
 Davis is the third child and the sole survivor. 
 For a second wife he chose Abigail Flint, who 
 became the mother of two sons," both deceased. 
 His third wife was Martha Taylor, who had six 
 daughters and one son by a former marriage, all 
 of whom are deceased. 
 
 Until twenty-three years of age John N. Davis 
 remained at home, attending the district school 
 as a boy, and assisting in the care of his father's 
 farm. Thinking then to improve his chances of 
 making a fortune, he went to Illinois, where he 
 worked until 1851. The money thus earned he 
 invested in oxen and wagons, and entered the 
 employ of Joseph Williams, a widower with six 
 children, who was about to start for the Pacific 
 coast. His team being one-third of the outfit, 
 he was hired as a driver on the expedition, re- 
 ceiving $15 per month for his services and the 
 use of his team. Crossing the plains, Messrs. 
 Williams and Davis came direct to Marion 
 county, Ore., but after stopping here a short time 
 Mr. Davis proceeded to California, where he 
 was engaged in mining for a few months. Re- 
 turning then to this state, Mr. Williams 
 went to southern Oregon, where he was 
 killed by the Indians in 1853. After taking the 
 orphaned children of his former companion and 
 employer back to their Illinois friends, Mr. Davis 
 returned to Marion county in 1854, and for sev- 
 eral years thereafter worked as a farm laborer, 
 accumulating some money. After his marriage 
 he went to housekeeping near Scott's Mills, and 
 four years later, about 1870, purchased one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of his present homestead. 
 He has since made improvements of an excellent 
 character, added forty more acres of land by 
 purchase, having now one of the best and most 
 desirable farming estates in the neighborhood. 
 
 Mr. Davis was married September 22, 1866, 
 to Martha Whitlock, a native of Marion county, 
 and the daughter of Mitchell and Malvina 
 (Engle) Whitlock, her parents having made the 
 tedious journey across the plains in 1845. Four 
 children were born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Davis, as follows : John F., who lives on the 
 home farm; George William, deceased; Brayton 
 H., living near Silverton ; and James, deceased. 
 
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 Mrs. Davis was born May I, 1847, an d ner death 
 occurred December 18, 1894. Mr. Davis has 
 always taken an active part in political matters, 
 and has rendered valuable service to his fellow- 
 citizens as county commissioner for four years, 
 as road supervisor for seventeen terms, and as a 
 member of the school board. Fraternally he has 
 been a Mason since 1850, and has assisted in 
 organizing three different lodges, besides which 
 he had the pleasure of helping to initiate Gen- 
 erals Sheridan and McClellan into the order in 
 Portland, Ore., in 1853. 
 
 EDWARD S. PORTER. In the annals of 
 Marion county no name stands higher for indus- 
 try and integrity than that of Porter, and no 
 family in the Willamette valley is held in higher 
 respect and esteem. Among the courageous pio- 
 neers of Silverton and vicinity, who put forth 
 their highest efforts toward the upbuilding of 
 the place in which they had located, were Ed- 
 ward Porter, the grandfather of E. S. Porter, 
 born in 1803, and his son John, the father of the 
 subject of this sketch. Coming here when the 
 country round about was in its virgin wildness, 
 they were interested witnesses of the rapid trans- 
 formation of the heavily timbered land into a 
 rich and productive agricultural region, and by 
 every means within their power aided its growth 
 and advancement. 
 
 Removing from Ohio to Illinois with his fam- 
 ily in 1835, Edward Porter settled in Fulton 
 county, where he engaged in farming for nearly 
 a score of years. Starting for the far-off west 
 in 1853, he crossed the intervening country with 
 teams, which were then the only means of land 
 transportation, and with his wife and children 
 came direct to Marion county, and located about 
 five miles southeast of Silverton, on what is 
 known as the Porter donation claim. In com- 
 mon with other pioneers, he labored with untir- 
 ing energy to improve his land, and as the years 
 rolled by found himself possessed of a comfort- 
 able home, wherein he lived until after the death 
 of his wife, Anna (Anderson) Porter, who was 
 born in 1805. His remaining years he spent at 
 the home of his youngest son, living to be over 
 seventy years of age. 
 
 A native of Vermilion township, Richland 
 county, Ohio, John Porter was born October 6, 
 1830, and in that state spent the first five years 
 of his life. Going then with his parents to In- 
 diana, and thence to Fulton county, 111., he was 
 there reared and educated, remaining in that 
 location until 1853, when, with his parents, he 
 made another journey westward, coming to Ore- 
 gon across the plains. They were nearly six 
 months journeying with the plodding ox teams, 
 but had no serious adventures en route. Being 
 young and unmarried, he remained at home, as- 
 
 sisting in the clearing of the land taken up by 
 his father until about twenty-five years old, when 
 he took unto himself a wife, and established him- 
 self as a householder on the old Porter donation 
 claim, living there until 1859. Locating then 
 near Fairfield, on the French Prairie, he re- 
 mained there until 1864, when he removed to 
 the White donation claim, residing there until 
 the death of his wife, in 1897. Since then he has 
 made his home with his children. 
 
 A man of unusual energy and ability, John 
 Porter has met with almost . unprecedented suc- 
 cess in his life occupation. Since beginning life 
 for himself he has accumulated a large amount 
 of land, aggregating about sixteen hundred acres, 
 a large part of which is in a good state of culti- 
 vation, and yielding him a handsome annual 
 income. Straightforward and honest in all his 
 dealings, he enjoys in a marked degree the con- 
 fidence and good will of all who know him. He 
 is liberal and public-spirited, and takes an active 
 part in political matters. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Annis White, was born in Indiana, 
 and came with her parents from Missouri to Sil- 
 verton, in 1852, settling about five miles south- 
 east of Silverton, on the White donation claim. 
 Of the ten children born of their union, one died 
 in infancy, the others being as follows : Allen, 
 of Grant county, Ore. ; Rene, wife of F. M. 
 Remington, of Idaho; E. S., the subject of this 
 sketch ; Charlotte, wife of E. W. Ross, living 
 near Silverton; Anna, wife of R. N. Harrison, 
 of Washington ; John H., lndng not far from the 
 old homestead ; Josie, wife of L. D. Leonard, of 
 Idaho ; Ai, living on the home farm ; and Lena, 
 wife of B. H. Davis, of Silverton. 
 
 Edward S. Porter "was born June 3, i860, near 
 Parkersville, Ore., and acquired his early educa- 
 tion in the district schools and the Silverton High 
 School. Having obtained a practical knowledge 
 of the many branches of agriculture under the 
 wise instruction of his father, he chose farming 
 as his life work, and after his marriage settled 
 on the Charles Miller donation claim, five miles 
 from Silverton. Thorough and systematic in 
 his methods, and wise and judicious in the ex- 
 penditure of his money, he has made an unques- 
 tioned success in his agricultural labors, and is 
 now the owner of fourteen hundred acres of val- 
 uable land, all but one hundred and sixty acres 
 being in one piece. On this he carries on general 
 farming on a large scale, and is extensively en- 
 gaged in stock-raising, dealing principally in 
 Short-horn cattle. Mr. Porter is also identified 
 with other interests, being junior member of the 
 firm of Kinney & Porter, general merchants at 
 Silverton, where he owns several pieces of town 
 property ; and is also largely interested in the 
 breeding of Belgian horses in the Willamette 
 valley. Taking a lively interest in all that con- 
 cerns the public affairs of town and county, Mr. 
 
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 Porter has exerted a decided influence in ad- 
 vancing the various enterprises inaugurated to 
 develop their resources and promote their pros- 
 He has served in various town offices, 
 and for twenty years lias been clerk of the school 
 In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and 
 vrnallv is an Odd Fellow, active in the lodge 
 ing passed all the chairs in the order. 
 Porter was married, December 24, [883, 
 Miss Lou Hubbard, a native of Oregon. She 
 April [6, [893, leaving four children, 
 namely: Grover S., Lora, Glenn E. and Lena L. 
 Mr. Porter married for his second wife Mrs. 
 Mice Sherfy Loron, of Johnson City, Tenn. At 
 her death. December 14.' 1902, she left one child 
 bv her first marriage, Ira P., who makes his home 
 with his foster father. 
 
 WILLIAM L. VANCE. The life-history of 
 William L. Vance, a well known resident of 
 Albany, may well be likened to a romance of 
 olden "times, being filled with tales of poverty and 
 riches, with thrilling experiences of pioneer life 
 in an uncivilized country, telling of narrow es- 
 capes from the dusky savages, and eventually 
 settling him in a comfortable home, with a sub- 
 stantial fortune, accumulated through his own 
 minus efforts, at his command. A son of 
 Bradlev Vance, he was born near Jacksonville, in 
 Morgan county, 111., in 1831. He is of sturdy 
 :ch ancestry, his paternal grandfather having 
 emigrated from Scotland, his native country, to 
 Kentucky, where he fought in the Indian wars 
 with Daniel Boone. 
 
 A native of Kentucky, Bradley Vance was born 
 and bred near the city of Louisville. He was a 
 farmer by occupation, and became an early settler 
 Morgan county, 111., wdiere he died, in 1833, of 
 the cholera. He married Nancy, daughter of 
 John Jewett, a farmer in Kentucky. She died 
 of the cholera within nine hours of the time of 
 her husband's death. Three children were born 
 of their union, one of whom died when young, 
 the two survivors being John, who came to the 
 Pacific coast in 1852, and is now a prominent 
 stockman, of Malheur county, Ore., and William 
 L., the subject of this brief sketch. 
 
 Left an orphan in his second year, William 
 L. Vance was brought up on a farm, living with 
 his grandfather and uncles, and receiving very 
 meagre educational advantages, his school life 
 averaging less than a month a year. Beginning 
 the battle of life for himself at the age of six- 
 teen years, he worked in a saw-mill run by horse 
 power, and being industrious, thrifty and prudent 
 in his expenditures, he had accumulated the snug 
 little some of $400 by the time he reached his 
 majority. In 1853, ambitious to seek gold in its 
 native soil, he started for California. Leaving 
 
 Jacksonville, 111., he crossed the plains with the 
 ox-train commanded by Batchelder and Carter. 
 At Sail Lake City, finding the company de- 
 termined to winter there, Mr. Vance and a com- 
 rade purchased mules and came to the coast with 
 a small pack-train, being six months and sixteen 
 days on the way to Placerville, Cal. At once en- 
 gaging in mining, he was very successful, making 
 $7,000 the first three months, doing to other 
 mines he lost and made money, sometimes being 
 without funds, and sometimes rolling in wealth. 
 At the end of seven years, however, he left the 
 mining region with a capital of over $8,000 in 
 cash. During the time he suffered all the priva- 
 tions and hardships of the early miners, and 
 came in contact with people of all kinds and con- 
 ditions, including some of the most noble men he 
 ever knew, and some of the most daring desper- 
 adoes. 
 
 The ensuing two years Mr. Vance was engaged 
 in the cattle business at Yreka, Cal., going from 
 there, in 1862, to the Salmon river valley, where 
 he cleared $5,000 in packing from there to east- 
 ern points in one season ; thence to Walla Walla, 
 Wash., where he completed a successful wood 
 contract. In 1863 he ran a pack train from the 
 Humboldt river to Rogue River, Ore., and Chico, 
 Cal., and at the same time also successfully 
 engaged in mining, remaining in that locality 
 over two years. In 1866 he attended school at 
 Jefferson, Ore. Locating then in Umatilla, he 
 drove a pack train from that city to Boise, Idaho, 
 for three years, carrying on a very large and 
 successful business in freighting. In his labors 
 he employed seventy-five mules, finding them 
 best adapted for travel, and although the life was 
 hard, he enjoyed it. He oftentimes found the 
 roads almost impassable, sometimes nearly per- 
 ishing in the severe snowstorms of the plains and 
 mountains, at one time becoming snow blind. 
 Hostile Indians were frequently seen, his life be- 
 ing seriously endangered on more than one occa- 
 sion. Disposing of his outfit in 1869, he made 
 a trip east, going by way of the Isthmus of Pan- 
 ama, spending eight months in Illinois recuperat- 
 ing. 
 
 Returning to the Willamette valley by way of 
 Panama in 1869, Mr. Vance purchased two farms 
 in Tangent, Linn county, and was there actively 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits for thirteen 
 years, when he took up his residence in Albany. 
 He has achieved distinguished success in his 
 labors, and is now the owner of eight farms, 
 containing from one hundred and sixty to three 
 hundred and fifty acres each, aggregating in all 
 nearlv two thousand acres of good improved 
 farming land. These farms he rents, receiving 
 a good annual income from each. He likewise 
 owns valuable business and residence property 
 in other counties and towns, and is everywhere 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 recognized as a man of great executive and finan- 
 cial ability. His farms are finely located, some 
 being quite near railway stations, the most dis- 
 tant one being but two miles from a station. 
 He has built two business blocks 44x100 and 
 40x100 feet, respectively. He was one of the 
 directors of the Albany Woolen Mills, in which 
 he was a large stockholder until he sold his inter- 
 est in 1903. 
 
 Mr. Vance married, in Marion county, Ore., 
 Martha Duncan, a daughter of James Duncan. 
 She was born near Fayetteville, Ark., and died 
 in Albany, Ore., January 30, 1903. Her father, 
 James Duncan, the son of a farmer, was born 
 in West Virginia. In 1841 he settled as a farmer 
 in Arkansas, and lived there twenty years. 
 Crossing the plains with ox-teams, in 1861, he 
 came to Jefferson, Marion county, with his wife 
 and five children. Purchasing a farm near 
 Turner, he resided there until his death, January 
 30, 1899. He was a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Sarah Ann Brickey, was born in West Vir- 
 ginia, and died at Turner, Ore., December 30, 
 1898. She bore her husband eight children, 
 seven of whom grew to years of maturity, as 
 follows: Mrs. C. M. Morgan, of Albany; M. J. 
 Duncan, of Idaho; J. N. Duncan, an attorney in 
 Albany; W. C. Duncan, who lives on the old 
 homestead in Turner; Mrs. Brown, who died 
 in Washington in 1873; Mrs. Vance; and Rob- 
 ert Duncan, whose death occurred, in 1865, in 
 East Oregon. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Vance became the parents of 
 two children, namely : Lora, living with her 
 father; and Mrs. Nancy Pearl Peacock, of 
 Portland, Ore. Mr. Vance affiliates with the 
 Republican party, and is one of its stanchest sup- 
 porters, but has never sought political preferment. 
 
 LEWELLYN CLAY MARSHALL. The 
 steady rise to prominence in the business and 
 social world of Lewellyn Clay Marshall, in 
 charge of the grocery department in the store 
 of S. E. Young, at Albany, has been entirely 
 the result of 'perseverance and determination, 
 augmented by a correct estimate of his own 
 abilities. Mr. Marshall is a pioneer, a Mason 
 of high degree, and his many interesting ex- 
 periences in the early days would fill a volume 
 of interesting reading matter. Born on a 
 farm near Springfield, 111., October 12, 1843, 
 be removed at an early age with his father, 
 James Marshall, to Washington county, Iowa, 
 locating on a farm in the then unsettled coun- 
 try. His five brothers and sisters were born 
 in Illinois and Iowa, and in January, 1852, the 
 entire family started on the long journey 
 across the plains. They outfitted with ox- 
 teams and ^prairie-schooners, and Lewellyn, 
 
 then nine years of age, was an active boy and, 
 though the youngest in the family, made him- 
 self useful driving stock and bringing water 
 from near-by springs and rivers. The days 
 and weeks and months passed uneventfully 
 until reaching Round valley, the oxen plod- 
 ding patiently, and the Indians keeping to 
 themselves. In the valley the father injured 
 his hand, and, blood poisoning resulting, oc- 
 casioned his death at the Umatilla Agency in 
 October, 1852, at the age of forty-five. The 
 mother was prostrated with grief, two chil- 
 dren, Samantha J. and Anson, were ill with 
 fever, and it was a desolate and heart-sick 
 little party that continued its way, leaving its 
 strong and resourceful leader in a lonely way- 
 side grave. The mother took up a claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres on Sand Ridge, 
 and later traded for one of the same size on 
 the Santiam, where she lived until her death 
 in 1867. Like her husband, she was a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church, and reared her 
 children to a fearless reliance upon goodness 
 and industry. Alfred, the oldest, died in 
 Idaho ; Arthur G., a veteran of the Indian 
 wars, died in Linn county November 25, 1901 ; 
 and Samantha J. became the wife of J. M. 
 Archibald, and finally died in Linn county. 
 
 Realizing the dependence of the family 
 caused by the death of his father, Lewellyn 
 started out to work as a farmhand in Linn 
 county at a very early age, and in 1862 went 
 to the mines on the Powder river. After 
 thoroughly investigating the possibilities of 
 success in this region he turned his attention 
 to freighting rather than mining, and from 
 1863 until 1869 carried provisions and miners' 
 supplies from The Dalles to the Idaho mines 
 with ox-teams. Returning to the valley in 
 the latter part of 1869 he purchased a farm 
 of one hundred and thirty-four acres six miles 
 east of Albany, which property he improved 
 to some extent, and lived thereon for seven 
 years. Locating in Albany in 1876, he was 
 employed by the Albany Farmers' Company 
 for ten years, and while thus receiving and 
 selling grain, owned a controlling interest 
 with Simpson & Mansfield. In 1886 he re- 
 signed from the Farmers' Company and began 
 clerking for Mr. Simpson, dry-goods mer- 
 chant, in 1892 associating himself with his 
 present employer, S. E. Young. At present 
 other responsibilities are being assumed by 
 him, he being president of the Albany Butter 
 & Produce Company, and the Creamery & 
 Cold Storage Plant. Mr. Marshall owns the 
 old farm upon which his mother moved in 
 1853 in her lonely widowhood, and at times 
 visits it for relaxation from business cares. 
 
 Mr. Marshall is one of the popular and in- 
 
ROBERT ADDISON. 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 405 
 
 Ruential men of the state He is past master 
 51 John's Lodge N T o. 62, A. I". & A. M., 
 .; high priest of Bayley Chapter Xo. 8 
 
 .il Arch Mason.-; past master of Adoni- 
 ram Council No. 4. R- and S. M.: past erai- 
 ■ mmainler of the Temple Commander}' 
 K. T.. and was elected grand com- 
 inder of the Grand Commandery of Oregon 
 898 He is also connected with the Order 
 the High Priesthood j the Eastern S. tar ; 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. 
 • a member of the board of trustees and 
 as president ot the Masonic Building 
 sociation. The Pioneer Association of 
 Ore| well as the Alco Club, profit by 
 
 his helpful and genial membership. Politi- 
 cally he is allied with the gold standard Dem- 
 ocrats. 
 
 December 31. 1868. Mr. Marshall was 
 united in marriage with Virginia Lines, who 
 was born February 4, 1851, near Fort Madi- 
 . Lee county, Iowa, and is a daughter of 
 John II. Lines, of whom extended mention 
 may be found in another part of this work. 
 Like her husband. Mrs. Marshall is prominent 
 in the social circles of Albany, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Eastern Star. 
 
 ROBERT ADDISOX. Among the pioneers 
 of Yamhill county whose departure from ac- 
 customed haunts left a void in the hearts of his 
 friends, and a place not easily filled in the com- 
 munity, was Robert Addison, a popular, influ- 
 ential and honored farmer, and a veteran of the 
 Rogue River war. In his character Mr. Addison 
 embodied the best of English traits, fostered by 
 ancestors living for many years near Xewcastle- 
 on-Tyne, England, where he was born on a farm 
 April 2, 1831. His parents came to America 
 when he was seven years of age, or in 1838, bring- 
 ing with them their nine children. This was 
 destined to be a sorrowful family, for on the 
 way to Wisconsin, up the Mississippi river, the 
 mother fell overboard and was drowned, and 
 the father was left alone with almost an over- 
 whelming responsibility. 
 
 Locating in Lancaster. Wis., the Addison chil- 
 dren were reared on a farm, and each and all were 
 obliged to perform their share towards the family 
 maintenance. Robert Addison remained at home 
 with his father until about eighteen years old, 
 and then started out to earn his own living Xo 
 better opportunity presenting itself, he accepted 
 a position as driver across the plains with a 
 small party, and reached his destination without 
 any serious mishap or trouble with the Indians. 
 From Portland he made his way to Idaho and 
 followed mining and prospecting for three years, 
 and after his return to Portland in 1852 worked 
 
 at whatever he could find to do. In tSM> he 
 bought a farm of three hundred ami twenty 
 acres three miles south of Dayton, on the Dayton 
 & Salem road, there being at the time but few 
 acres under cultivation. His industry and good 
 management accomplished wonders, however, 
 and at the time of his death, March 1^, 1898, he 
 left to his widow and children a farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, two hundred and 
 forty being available for crops. 
 
 Xovember 7, 1870. Mr. Addison married Mar- 
 tha Scott, a native of Indiana and daughter of 
 William and Sarah A. Scott, who crossed the 
 plains in an early day. settling in Spring valley, 
 Polk county. Ore. The Scott family lived in 
 Polk county for about four years, and afterward 
 experimented in different parts of Polk county up 
 to the time of their death. After his marriage 
 Mr. Addison took his wife to the farm where 
 she now lives, but on account of impaired health 
 located in Dayton in 1897. After a year he went 
 to live on the farm with his son, and after his 
 death his widow again went to Dayton, remain- 
 ing there until October 1, 1901. when she and her 
 sons returned to the farm as a permanent home. 
 Mrs. Addison has proved an excellent manager, 
 and with the assistance of her sons is maintain- 
 ing the admirable farming standard established 
 by her husband, which caused him to be regarded 
 as one of the best managers and most resourceful 
 agriculturists in A'amhill county. He was one 
 of the pillars of the Christian Church of Dayton, 
 and generously contributed towards the support 
 of the same, at all times being active in church 
 and Sunday school work. He was a man of high 
 moral standards, and was thorough and cautious 
 in the extreme, believing that if anything was 
 worth doing at all, it was worth doing well. Four 
 children were born to himself and wife, of whom 
 Anna L. is the wife of George Foster, of Yam- 
 hill county ; Charles W. is a resident of Day- 
 ton ; Otheniel is at home, as is also Tohn R. 
 
 M. LOREXCE. In all but birth, M. Lorence 
 is an American, for he was but five years of age 
 when he left his native land of Germany, where 
 he was born February 14. 1863. He was one of 
 two children born to his parents. After the 
 death of his father, the mother courageously took 
 up the burden of self-support and brought her 
 children to America. They came by sailing ves- 
 sel and were a loner time on the water, and after 
 reaching X'ew York removed immediately to 
 Wisconsin, where they lived for nine years. In 
 1877. the family located in Oregon, where they 
 settled in Sublimity, but eventually purchased a 
 farm six miles north of the town, where the 
 mother died at the age of fifty-two years. She 
 married a second time and had seven children. 
 
 After completing his education in the district 
 
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 schools, M. Lorence lived on the home farm until 
 about nineteen years of age, and then started out 
 to make his own way in the world. He was a 
 good farmer, and conscientious, industrious man, 
 and found no difficulty in getting desirable work 
 in the country around his home. He married 
 into one of the well-known families of this sec- 
 tion, his wife, Ethel Schindler, daughter of L. 
 Schindler, having been born on the farm upon 
 which the young couple went to housekeeping, 
 and where they are still living. 
 
 The old Schindler place is one of the land- 
 marks of this part of the county, and is located 
 four and a half miles south of' Silverton. The 
 part of the old claim owned by Mr. Lorence con- 
 sists of two hundred acres, of which about thirty- 
 five acres have been placed under cultivation by 
 the present occupant. Mr. Lorence is a prac- 
 tical, thrifty farmer, and his farm has been fitted 
 with many desirable modern improvements. He 
 is engaged in general farming and stock-raising 
 and devotes considerable of his land to gram. 
 Four interesting and promising children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lorence: Andrew, 
 Elmer, May and Maggie Pearl. In politics a 
 Republican, Mr. Lorence has served on the 
 school board, and he is fraternally associated 
 with the Woodmen of the World. He is one of 
 the reliable and progressive farmers of Marion 
 county, and enjoys the confidence of all who 
 have had dealings with him. 
 
 STRAUDER FROMAN. A typical repre- 
 sentative of the pioneer farmers of Oregon, 
 Strauder Froman has long been identified 
 with the agricultural interests of Linn county 
 as proprietor of a well kept and finely im- 
 proved ranch in Albany township. Possess- 
 ing an unlimited amount of energy and push 
 asa young man, be labored intelligently and 
 diligently, by thrift and good management 
 acquiring a competency, and is now living re- 
 tired from active pursuits, enjoying the re- 
 ward of his early toil and self-sacrifice. He 
 was born in Danville, 111., May 2, 1832. His 
 grandfather, Jacob Froman, was for many 
 years a farmer in Kentucky, but subsequently 
 removed to Indiana, where he remained until 
 his death. 
 
 AVhen a boy of twelve years Thomas Fro- 
 man, the father of Strauder, left his Kentucky 
 home, going with his parents to Indiana, 
 where he grew to man's estate. Ambitious 
 and enterprising, he subsequently engaged in 
 business in Danville, 111., and in partnership 
 with his brother Isaac made money in river 
 trading. One of his earliest ventures in this 
 line was the taking of one hundred head of 
 beef steers, and two hundred and fifty hogs. 
 
 with sufficient hay and corn to feed the same, 
 to New Orleans, going on a flat-boat down 
 the Vermilion river to the Wabash, thence 
 down the Ohio river to the Mississippi, which 
 he followed to his point of destination. Being 
 successful in this venture, he afterward did 
 considerable trading in cattle, hay and grain, 
 shipping to the gulf ports. Disposing of his 
 Illinois farm in 1854, he removed to Ne- 
 braska, going with horse teams to Richard- 
 son county. Two years later, Thomas Fro- 
 man, whose son Isaac and daughter America, 
 now Mrs. Price, had settled near Albany, 
 Ore., in 1851, conceived the idea of joining 
 them. Starting with his wife and seven chil- 
 dren in an ox-train, he followed the old Ore- 
 gon trail for a time, but on account of the In- 
 dian troubles in Oregon and Washington he 
 pursued the California trail from Soda 
 Springs, the thirty men of the train with their 
 families proceeding to Chico, Cal, arriving 
 there in August, 1856. The journey had con- 
 sumed four months. Leaving his son Strauder, 
 the special subject of this sketch, in charge 
 of the loose cattle, one hundred head of them, 
 Thomas Froman went with the remainder of 
 his family to San Francisco, thence by boat 
 to Oregon City, and from there came to Al- 
 bany by team. Immediately purchasing land 
 in this locality he engaged in farming, his 
 ranch containing three hundred and twenty 
 acres, on which he resided until his death, in 
 1880, at the age of eighty-two years. At the 
 same time he bought an adjoining farm 
 equally large for his son Strauder, purchasing 
 both pieces of land from Judd Ness Robin- 
 son. He was a member of the Baptist Church 
 and in his early life was a Whig, but after- 
 wards became identified with the Republican 
 party. He served in the Black Hawk war 
 while a resident of Illinois. 
 
 Thomas Froman married Elizabeth Rand, 
 who was born in Ohio. Her father, James 
 Rand, a native of Ireland, emigrated to this 
 country when a boy of seventeen years, and 
 subsequently served as a soldier throughout 
 the Revolutionary war. Settling then in Vir- 
 ginia, he married Miss Carder, and after- 
 wards removed to Ohio, where he lived for 
 a few years. Going from there to Indiana, he 
 continued his agricultural pursuits until his 
 death. Of the union of Thomas and Eliza- 
 beth (Rand) Froman twelve children were 
 born, eleven of whom grew to years of ma- 
 turity, namely : Frances died in Oregon ; 
 America, now Mrs. Price, of Albany, came 
 here in 1851, settling on a donation claim; 
 Louisa, who died in Illinois in 1853 ; Isaac, 
 who came to Albany in 1851, resides on the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 nation claim which he then purchased; 
 Strauder, the subject oi this sketch"; Minerva 
 died in Nebraska; Mrs. Hannah Foster, who 
 ilied in Oregon; Mrs. Elizabeth Pate, of Al- 
 bany; Mrs. Mary Logsdon, of Albany; 
 I nomas, who resides on the old homestead; 
 and Mrs. Martha W'yatt, of San hrancisco, 
 The mother died on the home farm, in 
 I Oregon, at the advanced age of eighty-four 
 ...rs. 
 
 Brought up on an Illinois farm, Strauder 
 Froman obtained his education at a subscrip- 
 tion school in a rude log school-house, the 
 teacher hoarding around among the families 
 during the annual term of three months. 
 Going with his parents to Nebraska in 1854, 
 he remained there two years, then, as pre- 
 viously stated, started in April, 1856, for Cali- 
 fornia, arriving in August at Chico. Being 
 left in charge of the cattle at that place, he 
 stayed there until 1857, when he sold the stock 
 and came to Oregon, locating on the ranch 
 which his father had purchased for him in 
 July of that year. Taking a drove of cattle 
 across the mountains to California in 1859, he 
 disposed of them at an advantage, and re- 
 mained in the Sacramento valley until 1861. 
 Returning to Oregon, he subsequently en- 
 gaged in mining for three or more years, first 
 at the Oraphino mines, then at the Powder 
 river mines, near the present site of Baker 
 City, thence to the Idaho City mines. Com- 
 ing back to the Willamette valley in 1864, 
 Mr. Froman resumed charge of his farm of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, which is 
 finely located about three and one-half miles 
 southeast of Albany, and for more than a 
 score of years was prosperously engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising. Since 
 1885 he has rented his ranch and resided in 
 Albany. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Albany Creamery Association, of which he 
 has been president from the time of its incep- 
 tion, managing its affairs most successfully 
 and satisfactorily. 
 
 On November 11, 1868, Mr. Froman mar- 
 ried, in Albany. Ophelia C. Moore, who was 
 born near Middletown, N. Y., a daughter of 
 Henry Moore. Her grandfather, Jacob 
 Moore, was born of Scotch ancestors, in the 
 North of Ireland, -and emigrated to this coun- 
 try from there, locating as a farmer in Orange 
 county. X. Y. Henry Moore, a native of 
 Orange county, N. Y., was a farmer by oc- 
 cupation, and removed from his native town 
 to Illinois, purchasing a farm at Whig Hill, 
 near Rockford, where he engaged in farming 
 until his death. He married Frances Slaugh- 
 ter, who was born in Orange county, N. Y., 
 of German ancestry, being the daughter of 
 
 Isaac Slaughter, a farmer. She survived her 
 husband, and, in 1864, started across the 
 plains with her six children, three boys and 
 three girls, in the train commanded by Cap- 
 tain Medorum Crawford, the train consisting 
 of three wagons, each drawn by four horses. 
 At Fort Laramie she was taken sick and died. 
 The children continued with the company, 
 and after spending a year at Walla Walla, 
 Wash., came, in 1865, to Linn county. Three 
 of the children are still living, Mrs. Froman 
 being the eldest. Politically Mr. Froman is 
 an uncompromising Republican, ever loyal to 
 the interests of his party and his community. 
 Fraternally he was made a Mason in Chico, 
 Cal., and is now a member of Corinthian 
 Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He likewise belongs to 
 the Albany Grange, which he has served as 
 master. Mrs. Froman is a member of the 
 Eastern Star Lodse. 
 
 ARTHUR L. SIMPSON. The importance 
 of model laundry facilities in a thriving and 
 growing community can hardly be over-esti- 
 mated, and in Albany this want is fully met 
 by the Magnolia Steam Laundry, which, 
 through successive stages of growth, has ad- 
 vanced to a place among the substantial busi- 
 ness enterprises of the town. The rise of this 
 concern is synonymous with that of its owner 
 and manager, A. L. Simpson, who is one of 
 the most capable and promising of the 
 younger generation of business men of this 
 community, and who is deserving of great 
 credit for his successful handling of a large 
 opportunity. Born in New York City in 
 1875, M f - Simpson is of Scotch-Irish descent, 
 his paternal grandfather, Robert, having been 
 born in the North of Ireland, whither had set- 
 tled his forefathers in the days of Scotch re- 
 ligious persecution. Robert Simpson came to 
 New York City at an early day, and there 
 engaged for many years in the grocery busi- . 
 ness. Flis son, Robert G., born in New York 
 City, and the father of A. L., learned the gro- 
 cery business in his youth, but in after years 
 served an apprenticeship to a ship carpenter, 
 which trade he worked at for several years. 
 About i860 he removed to Blackhawk county, 
 Iowa, where he farmed for a time, and then 
 returned to New York City, remaining there 
 until removing to Sibley, Iowa, in 1877. In 
 the latter town he engaged in the laundry 
 business, and in 1889 located in Albany, Ore., 
 where his death occurred in 1900. He is sur- 
 vived by his wife, formerly Calista Ashby, a 
 native of Ohio, and who was reared in Il- 
 linois, and who bore him nine children, five 
 
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 of whom are living, A. L. being the youngest 
 in the family. 
 
 After coming to Albany, Ore., in 1889, A. 
 L. Simpson attended the public schools and 
 the Albany College, and thereafter learned 
 telegraphy in the Corvallis & Eastern Rail- 
 road office at Summit. For a time he was with 
 the old Oregon & Pacific Railroad, but gave up 
 this position in 1894 to engage in the laundry 
 business. The enterprise had been started by his 
 mother in 1890, and was run as a hand laundry 
 until 1899, when the business was greatly en- 
 larged and fitted with steam, having the most 
 modern and time-saving machinery. At the same 
 time a large outside trade was undertaken, 
 which at the present time has no equal in 
 the county, and few in the valley. From 
 twenty-five to thirty hands are required to 
 carry on the business, work coming in from 
 all along the line of the Corvallis & Eastern 
 Railroad, from north and south on the South- 
 ern Pacific, and all over Linn county. Mr. 
 Simpson became sole owner of the laundry in 
 1900, and the capacity of the laundry will be 
 materially increased in the future as needed. 
 The building is 30x60 feet ground dimensions 
 and two stories high and, as heretofore stated, 
 is most complete in all of its appointments. 
 
 In Polk county, Ore., Mr. Simpson was 
 united in marriage with Altha Pillar, who 
 was born in Canada, and of which union there 
 have been born two children, Lowell and 
 Muriel. Mrs. Simpson is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. Mr. Simpson has an 
 eminently social nature, and is a welcome vis- 
 itor at various organizations in which the 
 town abounds. He is a member of the Alco 
 Club, and is fraternally connected with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the 
 Woodmen of the World. In political prefer- 
 ment he is a Republican. To a gratifying ex- 
 tent he enjoys the confidence of the business 
 men of the town, and his sagacity and sound 
 judgment have placed him on a par with the 
 most ambitious and resourceful of its citizens. 
 
 VICTOR FINK, M. D. After years of suc- 
 cessful medical and surgical practice in Illinois 
 and Wisconsin, Dr. V. Fink came to Oregon 
 in 1889, and in 1890 located on his present farm 
 of one hundred and seventy-eight acres near 
 Dallas. A more interesting and delightful 
 home it were hard to find in Polk county, for 
 diversified farming and extensive fruit growing 
 affords to the cultured mind infinite possibili- 
 ties for research, more especially when the 
 work is carried on scientifically, with no 
 thought save that of improvement over former 
 methods. On this model farm twenty acres 
 
 are in hops, eight acres in prunes. There are 
 also olive and English walnut, chestnut and 
 bearing fig trees, as well as acres of almost 
 every known variety of grapes. One can im- 
 agine he has traveled across the mountains to 
 California, especially when the sun is shining 
 and the fruit is ripening under the glow of an 
 ideal Oregon day. An appreciative and warm- 
 hearted interest in the beautiful things of life 
 dictates the establishment in this sometimes 
 cold and desolate region, of a redeeming and 
 enchanting occupation, near to the heart of 
 nature. 
 
 Of scholarly and martial ancestry, Dr. FinK 
 was born in the southern part of Prussia, Ger- 
 many, October 23, 1838, his father, William, 
 having been born in the same place April 15, 
 1797. The elder Fink was above all else mili- 
 tary in his tendencies, and as a captain in the 
 regular army was one of that hurrying band of 
 men under Blucher, who saved the day for the 
 English at the battle of Waterloo. For meri- 
 torious service in this history-making battle 
 he was promoted, and thereafter served his 
 country for a number of years, eventually re- 
 turning to his father's farm in southern Prus- 
 sia. He was forty-one years of age when he 
 united his fortunes with another military fam- 
 ily of Prussia, his wife, formerly Louiza von 
 Bohlen, having been born in his neighborhood 
 April 18, 1800, a granddaughter of Ferdinand 
 von Bohlen, a personal friend of Frederick the 
 Great, and a soldier under that great general 
 in all of his important battles. His wife dying 
 eight years after their marriage, leaving but 
 one child, Victor Fink, William Fink moved 
 to west Prussia, where he bought an enormous 
 farm, of some twenty-four hundred acres, and 
 also engaged in manuiacturing pursuits. His 
 forte, however, was in a military rather than 
 civilian line, for he lost money continually, his 
 manufacturing and farming enterprises netting 
 him only bitter experience in return for large 
 sums invested. A certain pathos surrounded 
 his last years, during which he was dependent 
 upon his pension for a livelihood, and his death 
 in 1870, was clouded by dismal memories of 
 financial defeat. As a soldier, however, he was 
 unexcelled for bravery and courage, and it was 
 as a follower of the Fatherland flag, on tented 
 field and in the heat of battle, that those who 
 loved him best like to recall him. 
 
 That keen desire for knowledge which is a 
 characteristic of the well-born Teuton, was 
 most vehemently felt by Dr. Fink, who, as an 
 only child, had every opportunity which his 
 father could place in his way. Having decided 
 to "devote his life to medicine he took a course 
 of lectures at Leipzig, and thereafter practiced 
 medicine for a, short time, eventually entering 
 
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t>ORTR UT AND BIOGRAPHICAL REC( »RD. 
 
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 the Homeopathic College Hospital at Cothen, 
 i which he was graduated in due time, 
 led with this excellent training he came to 
 lerica in 1865, locating at Belleville, 111., 
 where he practiced medicine four years. In 
 \pnl. 1869, he went to Watertown, Wis., and 
 for seventeen years made that city his home, 
 enjoying an extensive and paying practice 
 throughout [efferson county. In 1886 he went 
 California, and in Los Angeles county 
 ighl a ranch, to which he devoted himself 
 three years, laying aside the profession 
 which his abilities had adorned, and to the 
 ancement oi which he had so largely con- 
 tributed. As before stated, he came to Oregon 
 1889, purchased his present farm, and has 
 since made this his home. Ninety acres of his 
 property are under cultivation, and are now 
 managed by his sons, the doctor having long 
 since retired from active life. 
 
 In Belleville, 111., in 1867, Dr. Fink married 
 Catherine Beck, who, like himself, was born in 
 the southern part of Germany, October 30. 
 1847. Of the children born to the doctor and 
 his wife, Mrs. Clara Gede lives in Portland; 
 Arthur, who. for two years was deputy county 
 assessor, and the only Democrat in the family, 
 and Victor are both managing the home farm ; 
 and Mrs. Katie Hanson lives on an adjoining 
 farm. The doctor is a Republican in politics, 
 and in religion a Lutheran. During the years 
 of his professional activity Dr. Fink contrib- 
 uted profound and painstaking articles to va- 
 rious medical periodicals, and is the author of 
 the Homeopathic Selbstarzt, a work of large 
 dimensions and widely read by German stu- 
 dents of this particular school. 
 
 WILLIAM GELDARD. In looking upon 
 the lives of great men — great in the achievement 
 of wealth, position, or some far-reaching deed 
 that leaves its impress upon the progress of civ- 
 ilization, the three visible forms of greatness in 
 the eyes of the world, — we cannot but admire the 
 personality of the man who has molded this per- 
 sonality through years of indefatigable toil, self- 
 denial, and self-renunciation, with poverty and 
 loneliness to fight, and no incentive toward it 
 save the inherent greatness of the character, hold- 
 ing with dogged determination to the shadow of 
 success until the substance could be his. It is 
 true, the motive is selfish from one point of view; 
 it is also true that a good man could have no 
 higher ambition than to become an influential 
 citizen, wealthy, since the dollar is the key to the 
 actions of the majority of men ; educated, since 
 to learning a less number give precedence ; up- 
 right, since the whole world unconsciously listens 
 when the motive of a man is beyond question. 
 
 Such a character, in all seeming, is that of 
 William Geldard, born in Yorkshire, England, 
 November 2, 1832, of parents who also owed their 
 birth to this locality. The father, Leonard, a 
 stone-mason by trade, spent his entire life in 
 Yorkshire, until his death, in his seventy-fourth 
 year. Three children were born to Mr. Geldard 
 and Elizabeth, his first wife, and after her death 
 in 1834, he married again, rearing a family of 
 eight children. After the death of his mother, 
 William remained at home for six years, and at 
 the age of eight years, the time when a child 
 most needs the tender sympathy and care of a 
 mother, he went out to seek work among the 
 farmers of their immediate neighborhood. Per- 
 haps his peculiarly friendless condition, at so 
 youthful an age, won him kindly sympathy from 
 those with whom he worked, thus unconsciously 
 keeping his life bright, while it was certainly 
 hard. With his living to make, there was no time 
 to attend school, and all the education he received 
 was through the Sunday-school of the Church of 
 England. 
 
 In 1854, William, then a young man of twenty- 
 two, bade adieu to the scenes of his childhood, 
 and set sail for the western world, landing in 
 New York City, after a stormy voyage of five 
 weeks' duration, when at times it was a matter 
 of doubt whether the ship would weather the 
 gales and carry her fearful passengers into port. 
 After a week spent in New York City, he took 
 his way westward, wisely decided that he could 
 expect the greater results from his work on the • 
 soil, since his early training had been entirely 
 along these lines. When he reached Wisconsin 
 he had $15 left of the little sum he had put by for 
 this emigrating trip, and, friendless and alone, he 
 stood in a strange land with only this small 
 amount between him and possible trouble and ill- 
 ness, when he might be forced to depend on some 
 kindly hand for help. Friendless and alone was 
 true of him for many years, but never helpless, 
 and he went to work at once in Grant county, 
 Wis., being employed as a farm hand, in which 
 capacity he proved invaluable to his employer. 
 However, the latter soon lost him, for, imbued 
 with the spirit of independence, he managed to 
 get enough land on which to begin farming for 
 himself. From this time on his progress was 
 steadily and perceptibly upward, and when, 
 twenty years after, he came to Oregon, his rough- 
 est battles had been fought and won, and he could 
 not claim his rise here from a $15 valuation. 
 
 After looking about him, he decided to locate 
 permanently in the Sunset state, so he purchased 
 a farm near Carlton, Yamhill county, where he 
 now makes his home. Originally, there were 
 four hundred and eighty-two acres in the place, 
 but he has now increased his landed propertv to 
 eight hundred and forty-eight acres, seven huh- 
 
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 dred being in active cultivation, about nine acres 
 used in the cultivation of hops, the remainder 
 being devoted to stock-raising and general farm- 
 ing. Among his many up-to-date farming im- 
 plements he numbers a complete threshing outfit. 
 Mr. Geldard's farm is one of the finest in Yam- 
 hill county, and all the improvements in the line 
 of buildings, etc., are evidence of his good taste 
 and judgment, the surroundings, in addition to 
 their natural beauty, receiving much from the 
 care and attention lavished upon them. It is his 
 intention, however, to retire from the active du- 
 ties of life, and make his future home in Mc- 
 Minnville, where he has purchased a house and 
 four lots. 
 
 Mr. Geldard has made himself an honored 
 member of the community, and a prominent citi- 
 zen, and though not desirous of political honors, 
 he still does not refuse the duties offered him 
 through Republican influence, that being the 
 party whose principles he upholds. He has 
 served as road supervisor and school director 
 for a number of years, taking much interest in 
 educational matters, as he realizes the advantages 
 accruing from that foundation for a life's work. 
 Through his wide reading and close application, 
 he has gained the education and information he 
 lacked the opportunity of securing in his youth. 
 In 1862, Mr. Geldard and Mrs. Mary Hutchcroft 
 were united in marriage, twelve children bless- 
 ing this union, of whom the following are living : 
 John, of Sumpter, Ore. ; Alice, Mrs. E. G. Free- 
 man, of Santa Monica, Cal. ; and Esther and 
 Emma, who make their home with their father 
 and mother. James Hutchcroft, a son by Mrs. 
 Geldard's former marriage, also resides at home. 
 As if in gracious memory of the land of his birth, 
 Mr. Geldard still clings to the tenets of the 
 Church of England, having also another link to 
 his early life in the presence of his sister, Mrs. 
 James Fletcher, who lives in McMinnville,; Ore. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM WALDO, who is now su- 
 perintending his property interests, including 
 both city and farm real estate, and makes his 
 home in Salem, is one of the honored pioneers 
 of this portion of the country. He has also 
 been active in moulding the affairs of the state 
 and the impress of his individuality is to be 
 seen upon its legislative records. He was born 
 in Gasconade county, Mo., on April 22, 1832, 
 a son of Daniel Waldo and a grandson of Jede- 
 diah Waldo, both of whom were natives of 
 Virginia and descendants from the old and dis- 
 tinguished Waldo family, of Connecticut. The 
 grandfather was a Virginia planter, and spent 
 his entire life in the Old Dominion. Daniel 
 Waldo removed from Virginia to Gasconade 
 county, Mo., where he was engaged in the op- 
 
 eration of a saw-mill and the manufacture of 
 lumber. Later he went to St. Clair county, 
 Mo., where he carried on farming. In 1843 ne 
 crossed the plains to the Pacific coast. The 
 Applegate family, neighbors in Missouri, ac- 
 companied the Waldo family to the west, and 
 they journeyed with the first wagon train that 
 made the overland trip to The Dalles and the 
 Willamette valley. 
 
 On reaching his destination Daniel Waldo 
 secured a donation claim, ten miles east of 
 Salem, comprising six hundred and forty acres. 
 Here he carried on general farming, and to his 
 first purchase he added until the place com- 
 prised one thousand acres. It is now the prop- 
 erty of one of his sons. After a time the father 
 left the farm and took up his abode in Salem, 
 where he became a stockholder and officer in 
 the company that established the first woolen 
 mills ever built on the Pacific coast. He was 
 interested in that enterprise until the business 
 was discontinued. In matters pertaining to 
 general progress and to the substantial up- 
 building of this portion of the country he was 
 always found alert and enterprising, doing 
 much for the general good in this way. He 
 gave his political support first to the Whig 
 party, and afterward to the Republican party. 
 He died in 1880, when eighty-one years of age. 
 His wife, who bore the maiden name of Me- 
 linda Lunsford, was born in Kentucky and died 
 in Salem in 1885, when about eighty-two years 
 of age. 
 
 The family of this worthy couple numbered 
 seven children : David, who died in Califor- 
 nia ; Mrs. Narcissa Brown, who died in Salem ; 
 AVilliam ; Averilla, who became Mrs. Bass and 
 died in Salem ; Mrs. Mary Logan ; John B., 
 who resides on the old home farm, and Ann J., 
 who passed away a number of years ago. 
 
 Hon. William Waldo spent his early youth in 
 St. Clair county, Mo., and was only eleven years 
 of age when the family came to the northwest. 
 Though but a boy he rode a horse and assisted 
 in driving the stock. The party left Missouri 
 in the latter part of April, 1843, proceeded up 
 the Platte river, continuing on by way of Fort 
 Hall and Sweetwater, crossing the divide and 
 afterward fording Greene river. In October, 
 after long and weary months of travel, they 
 arrived at The Dalles. The elder Waldo and 
 his sons took the stock through to Vancouver, 
 where they crossed the Columbia river. To 
 get the stock across the river it was necessary 
 to transport them in bateaux, owned by the 
 Hudson Bay Company, an operation requiring 
 nine days. From there they continued on to 
 Marion county, arriving here in the latter part 
 of November, 1843. The first home of the 
 family was a little log cabin, and that winter 
 
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 the father and sons put in a crop of wheat. 
 IThere wore no schools here for some years, 
 and a teacher was employed in the Waldo 
 home in order to instruct the children, until at 
 igth a public school was opened in one of 
 e pioneer log- buildings of this locality. Our 
 subject was also a student in the old Salem 
 Institute for one winter. Through a varied 
 terience, reading, observation and contact 
 with the world, he has become a well-informed 
 nan of broad and practical knowledge. He 
 remained at home until sixteen years of age, 
 and then, in 1848, joined a company under 
 Captain Pugh and Colonel Waters for service 
 ■ nst the Cayuse Indians. When the red 
 men had been subdued and the company re- 
 turned home Mr. Waldo at once started for 
 the gold mines of California, journeying over- 
 land with pack animals. He engaged in min- 
 ing upon the Feather river for a time, and 
 afterward around the Moquelumne river, and 
 in 1849 ne returned by way of the sea to Ore- 
 gon. He was then actively engaged in work 
 upon the home farm until 1850, when he made 
 a second journey across the country to Califor- 
 nia, where, for some time, he engaged in busi- 
 ness, being located at Yreka until 1852. In 
 that year he once more came to Oregon, and 
 then returned to his old home in Missouri, by 
 way of the Nicaragua route and New Orleans. 
 He remained through the winter in Missouri, 
 during which time he collected a herd of cattle 
 of over three hundred head, including some 
 cows and heifers, and these he drove across 
 the plains in the spring of 1853, making up a 
 train which made the journey in four months. 
 At length, reaching the Willamette valley, Mr. 
 Waldo was engaged in the cattle business and 
 in farming. 
 
 Many times has our subject crossed and re- 
 crossed the plains, first in the primitive man- 
 ner of early travel, and later in the enjoyment 
 of all the comforts afforded by the palace cars 
 of the present day. In 1855 he took the Pa- 
 nama route to ^Iissouri, where he remained 
 until 1856, and in that year continued his edu- 
 cation as a student in the University of Mis- 
 souri at Columbia. In the latter year he re- 
 traced his steps to Oregon, coming by way of 
 the Panama route, and in the same way he 
 again went to Missouri in 1859, spending the 
 winter at- Kansas City. In i860 he made an- 
 other trip across the plains by way of Salt 
 Lake, driving a pair of mules and an ambu- 
 lance to California. It was impossible to come 
 over the Oregon trail that year on account of 
 the hostility of the northern Indians. He 
 started on that trip in early April, and on July 
 4 reached the Sacramento valley, having been 
 less than three months upon the way. He 
 
 drove on an average of over twenty miles a 
 day, and most of the way he was alone. Upon 
 reaching Salt Lake City, he stopped for three 
 days for rest and for the repair of his outfit. 
 While there he was treated with great consid- 
 eration and courtesy by the Mormon settlers, 
 and has never forgotten the kindness they 
 showed him. From Sacramento he continued 
 northward until he arrived at home. Here fit 
 once more devoted his energies to the cattle 
 industry until 1869, when he once more started 
 out upon his travels, this time going by way of 
 the Panama route to Independence, Mo., in 
 order to superintend his uncle's affairs. In 
 1870 he returned to Oregon by way of the Isth- 
 mus. His next trip was made in the interest of 
 the old Woolen Mills Company, for which he 
 went to Australia, that company owning a 
 flouring mill and wishing him to investigate 
 as to whether Australia afforded a market that 
 would make the business of shipping flour to 
 that country profitable. He sailed from Port- 
 land late in the year 1870, and after eighty 
 days, arrived in Sidney, where he spent a 
 month. On the same vessel he then returned 
 to Honolulu, and from there made his way bv 
 steamer to San Francisco, at length arriving 
 at Salem, where he reported unfavorably upon 
 the market of Australia, for he found that thai 
 was a fine wheat country and that there was 
 no need of shipping flour to that locality. For 
 some time Mr. Waldo continued his connec- 
 tion with the milling interests of Salem. More 
 recently he has been interested in farming and 
 in the supervision of his other property inter- 
 ests. He owns two blocks in the city of Salem 
 and his farm property is likewise valuable. 
 His investments were judiciously placed in an 
 early day, and with the rapid growth of the 
 country his land has become very valuable. 
 About every four or five years Mr. Waldo re- 
 turns to the east, and keeps in constant touch 
 with the different portions of the country; but 
 he feels that there is no better place for resi- 
 dence, nor no district offering better business 
 opportunities than are to be found in the north- 
 west. 
 
 Upon questions of national policy Mr. Waldo 
 is a stalwart Republican, and his fitness for 
 leadership, his loyalty in citizenship and his 
 marked ability have led to his selection for 
 various official honors. In 1882 he was chosen 
 to represent his district in the state senate, and 
 was re-elected in 1884. In 1885 he was chosen 
 president of the senate, and while a member of 
 the upper house of the Oregon legislature he 
 aided in electing J. N. Dolph to the United 
 States senate. He has since served one term 
 as a member of the legislature, during which 
 he was instrumental in securing the establish- 
 
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 ment of the state insane asylum at Salem. He 
 has been a close and earnest student of the 
 conditions of the northwest, of its possibilities 
 and its interests, and whether in or out of 
 office he has labored eftectively for the material 
 development of this section of the country and 
 for the interests of the state. Socially he is 
 connected with Salem Lodge and the encamp- 
 ment of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows ; in the former is a past noble grand, and 
 in the latter a past chief patriarch. A man of 
 great natural ability, his success in business 
 has been uniform and rapid. His lifework has 
 brought him into close connection with the 
 west and with its history. There are few men 
 now living in Salem who can claim residence 
 here for a period of sixty years, and Mr. Waldo 
 well deserves to be numbered among the hon- 
 ored pioneers whose efforts have laid the foun- 
 dation for the present prosperity and progress 
 of Oregon. In whatever relations of life we 
 find him, in the public service, in political cir- 
 cles, in business or in social relations, he is 
 always the same honorable and honored gen- 
 tleman, and his worth well merits the high re- 
 gard which is uniformly given him. 
 
 A. G. PERKINS. From a Revolutionary 
 ancestry A. G. Perkins inherits the stable traits 
 of character which are so well appreciated by 
 his fellow townsmen in Marion county. He 
 was born in Bangor, Me., June 16, 1831, and is 
 a son of Nathaniel and Olive (Patton) Perkins, 
 both natives of Maine, the former born in Old- 
 town in 1804. They lived on a farm in Maine, 
 and there reared their nine children, the father 
 dying at the age of seventy-eight, and the 
 mother at the age of seventy-five. The ances- 
 tors on both sides of the family were Univer- 
 salists. 
 
 Ordinary educational facilities were at the 
 disposal of A. G. Perkins, and at a compara- 
 tively early age he proved that he possessed 
 both studious and industrious characteristics. 
 At the age of twenty-two he removed from his 
 home in Maine to Minnesota, where he en- 
 gaged in the lumber business, and lived until 
 i860. Having outfitted for crossing the plains 
 he tarried in Colorado for a couple of years, 
 and there mined and prospected, but, not real- 
 izing his expectations, he again started west 
 with ox teams, eventually arriving in Baker 
 City, Ore., where he mined with varying suc- 
 cess until the spring of 1863. Upon the discov- 
 ery of gold at Boise City, Mr. Perkins endeav- 
 ored to make a fortune in Idaho, and after 
 nearly two years of experiment located in 
 Salem, Marion county, Ore., in 1864. Shortly 
 after his arrival he purchased the old Lewis 
 
 Pettijohn claim, twelve miles south of Salem, 
 and hither brought his wife, formerly Hannah 
 Barcaw, whom he had married in February, 
 1863. The young people located on a farm 
 south of Salem, and in 187 1 bought a farm o[ 
 five hundred acres six miles north of Salem, 
 where they lived until purchasing a farm ad- 
 joining their present home, six miles north of 
 Salem, on the old Salem and Oregon City road. 
 The present Perkins home was purchased 
 in 1892, and consists of four hundred acres, 
 all in one body. Mr. Perkins is a prac- 
 tical and enterprising farmer, and all manner 
 of modern improvements are to be found on 
 his property. He is engaged in farming, prin- 
 cipally making a specialty of Jersey cattle and 
 Cotswold sheep. Mr. Perkins is a Republican 
 in politics, but he has never cared to work for 
 or hold public office. In his family have been 
 born thirteen children, of whom the first six, 
 Thomas, Ada, Ella, Willard W., Julia, and 
 Vina, as well as the eighth, Clyde, are de- 
 ceased, while Edna is the wife of Elton Shaw, 
 of Salem ; Iva is the wife of Elam Shaw, of 
 Salem, and Ray and Rex, twins, and Floyd 
 and Alonzo, are living at home. For several 
 years the family has lived in the town of 
 Salem, the object being to give the children 
 better educational advantages. Mr. Perkins is 
 one of the most substantial and honored farm- 
 ers of Marion County, his approachable and 
 genial nature, and thoroughly reliable business 
 methods, commanding the lasting regard of all 
 who know him. 
 
 JOHN ELLIS. The sojourner in Polk 
 county, and more especially around Dallas, 
 hears innumerable kindly expressions of opin- 
 ion in regard to Uncle John Ellis, who was 
 one of the most highly honored residents of 
 Dallas. The capacity to permanently ingrati- 
 ate himself in the hearts of many friends and 
 well-wishers denoted personal characteristics 
 of an enviable nature. 
 
 This interesting pioneer of 1865 was born 
 in Vermilion county, 111., March 7, 1829, and 
 is the fourth of the ten children born to 
 Wright and Sarah (Williams) Ellis. Wright 
 Ellis was born in east Tennessee, and came to 
 Illinois with his father, Shubal, also a native 
 of Tennessee, who settled first in Ohio. The 
 Ellis farm, ten miles south of Danville, Ver- 
 milion county, 111., continued to be the home 
 of Wright Ellis up to the time of his death, 
 and here the ten children were reared and 
 educated in the little pioneer subscription 
 school near the old homestead. Illinois at 
 that time was in a very primitive state of de- 
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 their opportunities, and continued to live on 
 
 the homestead for several years after the death 
 he father. John Ellis was sixteen years old 
 when he removed with his mother and the rest 
 of the children to Iowa in 1845, settling in Dal- 
 las county, where they lived on a farm for 
 twenty years. Here the mother died, and here 
 John married in October, 1850, Julia Ann 
 Stump, who was horn in Indiana, and who 
 bore him live children in Iowa. 
 
 With his little family Mr. Ellis started across 
 the plains in May, 1865, there being one hun- 
 dred wagons in the train. He outfitted with 
 horse teams, and arrived in Oregon October 1, 
 ;. without any untoward incident marring a 
 ssful and uneventful journey. The first 
 winter was spent in Sheridan, where they re- 
 mained one year, when Mr. Ellis engaged in 
 farming in Polk county for two years. He then 
 went to Lake county, southeast Oregon, re- 
 turning the following year to Polk county. 
 Here he engaged in farming on eighty-two 
 acres of land adjacent to the town of Dallas, 
 until his death, July 5, 1903. He left a well- 
 improved and profitable property, and his 
 home, in which he spent his declining years, 
 was renowned for its hospitality and good-fel j 
 lowship. Mr. Ellis was engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, and experienced 
 success in the greater part of his undertakings. 
 Xo more familiar figure was seen on the high- 
 ways, at political gatherings, or in the meeting 
 places of Dallas than that of Uncle John, for 
 whom everyone had a kindly smile in recogni- 
 tion of his pleasing nature, and goodness of 
 heart. Seven children were born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ellis, of whom Sarah J. died near Dallas; 
 Mary Ann is the wife of William Bogue, of 
 •vallis; Martha E. is now Mrs. H. Plummer ; 
 William is a farmer near Falls City ; Marquis 
 lives in Dallas and owns the electric light plant; 
 Philander died in Xew Mexico, and Leander, of 
 R< 'sehurg, is an engineer for the Southern Pacific 
 Company. 
 
 JAMES OSCAR BEARDSLEY. .No name 
 in Marion county is more indicative of the best 
 that can be accomplished in general farming, 
 stock-raising and fruit and hop culture, than that 
 of J. O. Beardsley, who owns and operates a 
 farm of four hundred and eighty-eight acres. 
 Mr. Beardsley is a descendant of forefathers who 
 were successful farmers in Ohio. He was born 
 in Gallia county, Ohio, January 14, 1852, and was 
 one of a large family of children. His mother, 
 Harriett Evaline Cassel, died at the age of thirty- 
 five years, when James O. was but five weeks 
 old. His father, Henry Judson Beardsley, com- 
 bined farming with steamboating on the Ohio 
 
 river, and was captain 011 a merchandise craft, 
 and also owned interests in other boats, lie lived 
 on the old home place in Ohio, enjoying a well- 
 earned rest until his death, at the age of eighty- 
 two years, March 30, 1903. Notwithstanding his 
 advanced age, he was in full possession of all his 
 faculties up to time of his death. 
 
 Until his twenty-second year J. O. .Beardsley 
 worked on the home farm in Ohio. In the mean- 
 time he acquired his education in the public 
 schools and at the Gallipolis Academy. Follow- 
 ing a prearranged plan, he came to Oregon in 
 1875, arriving June 6. Having but little money, 
 he began work as a farm hand in Marion county, 
 but soon after was enabled to rent a place on 
 shares, and was so successful that after three 
 years he was able to buy a small farm in the 
 Missions Bottoms, where he lived and prospered 
 until 1886. 
 
 In the meantime, in 1878, he married Miss 
 Emma Gorsline, who was born August 8, 1853, 
 a native of New York state ; she has borne him 
 six children, the order of their birth being as 
 follows : Effie A., Walter W., Mary A., Arthur 
 F., Elmer O., and Harry J. Of these, Walter, 
 who married Miss Alice Potter, of Malvern, 
 Iowa, is engaged independently in farming in 
 Marion county. The others reside at home. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Beardsley came to his present 
 farm, which was partially improved, though 
 merely incidental to the more extensive arrange- 
 ments of the present owner. He has a well- 
 appointed home, up-to-date outbuildings, and two 
 Allen fruit-driers, each having a capacity of two 
 hundred bushels for each drying of twenty-four 
 hours. Twenty-five acres of this land is devoted 
 to prune culture, and sixteen acres to hops. Dur- 
 ing the year 1902 he raised twenty-one hundred 
 pounds of hops. Of this farm, four hundred acres 
 are under cultivation, the balance being devoted 
 to stock-raising, making a specialty of Durham 
 cattle and Poland-China hogs. 
 
 In politics Mr. Beardsley is a Republican, and 
 has taken an active interest in local affairs. He 
 has always warmly advocated advanced ideas in 
 the education of the youth of the land, and has 
 served for many years on the local school board. 
 He has also devoted considerable of his time to 
 the duties of the office of road supervisor. Aside 
 from these, he has never been an aspirant for 
 political office, though frequently besought by his 
 friends to allow his name to be presented before 
 the conventions of his party. He is a member 
 of and liberal contributor to the support of the 
 Methodist Episcopll Church. 
 
 Mr. Beardsley is highly esteemed by his numer- 
 ous friends for his devotion to the highest in- 
 terests of the community, for he has exhibited an 
 unselfish and broad-minded spirit in his participa- 
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 public welfare. He is recognized as a man pos- 
 sessing fine business qualifications, and his in- 
 tegrity has never been brought into question, even 
 by those who have had occasion to differ radically 
 from him as to the ways and means to be adopted 
 toward the common end sought. 
 
 DANIEL P. STOUFFER, city auditor and 
 police judge of Dallas since 1892, and also 
 engaged in the insurance and real estate busi- 
 ness, is a native son of Oregon and was born 
 near Ballston, Polk county, January 20, 1856. 
 His father, Hon. Jonathan Stouffer, was born 
 in Chambersburg, Pa., and in his youth learned 
 the blacksmith trade. As a young man, he 
 removed to Indiana, and the next year, in 1851, 
 came to Oregon as driver of an ox team for 
 James McCain. Arriving in LaFayette he 
 worked at his trade for a year, and then mar- 
 ried Agnes McCain, a native of Indiana, a 
 daughter of James McCain and sister of James 
 McCain, ex-district attorney, whose sketch ap- 
 pears in another part of this volume. After his 
 marriage Mr. Stouffer settled on a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres near Ballston, which 
 he improved, and upon which he built his 
 home. His wife died in 1861, when her son, 
 Daniel, was five years of age. Mr. Stouffer 
 entered the government employ as head agri- 
 culturist for the Indian reservation at Grande 
 Ronde Agency, and after many years thus 
 spent, retired to his farm near Ballston. His 
 death occurred November 30, 1902, at the age 
 of seventy-seven years and six months. He 
 was a man of leading charactertistics, and as a 
 stanch upholder of Republicanism served as 
 county judge from 1888 until 1892, and a mem- 
 ber of the legislature in 1866. Fraternally he 
 was identified with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and in religion was a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 The only one living of the three children 
 born to his parents, Daniel P. Stouffer was 
 reared in Polk and Yamhill counties, living for 
 the greater part with his uncle and grand- 
 father. After completing the course at the dis- 
 trict schools he entered Willamette University 
 in 1874, and was graduated therefrom in 1878, 
 with the degree of A. B. His preliminary pro- 
 fessional training was acquired under the law 
 firm of Boise & Stratton, during the university 
 course, but just before his admission to the bar 
 he was taken ill, and was obliged to repair to 
 the country in order to regain his health. In 
 order to derive the benefits of outdoor exercise 
 he purchased a farm of two hundred and forty- 
 three acres, adjoining that of his father, and for 
 fifteen years engaged with fair success in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. During all these years 
 
 he was justice of the peace, and on many occa- 
 sions acted as mediator in the disputes that 
 arose between his agricultural neighbors. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Stouffer moved into Dallas and 
 engaged in insurance and real estate, and in 
 1892 was elected city auditor and police judge, 
 to which combined offices he has since been 
 continuously re-elected every two years. He 
 is also ex-officio city clerk, and at the same 
 time continues to deal in insurance and real 
 estate. As a relaxation from political and busi- 
 ness problems Mr. Stouffer still retains an in- 
 terest in his farm, which he has increased to 
 five hundred and seventy-four acres, four hun- 
 dred of which consists of tillable land. This 
 farm is admirably situated and well watered 
 from springs, and fifteen acres are devoted to 
 the culture of prunes. 
 
 In Polk county Mr. Stouffer was united in 
 marriage with Ella Richter, who was born in 
 Indiana, and came to Oregon with her parents 
 in 1871, her father being Christian Richter, of 
 whom mention is made in the sketch of John- 
 son E. Richter. Lina Stouffer, the only child 
 in the family, is a graduate of the Dallas Col- 
 lege. With his wife Mr. Stouffer is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is presi- 
 dent of the board of trustees, and ex-superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday school. He is one of 
 the Native Sons of Oregon, and in political 
 affiliation is identified with the Republican 
 party. 
 
 HON. JOHN JAY DALY. The passing of 
 Hon. John Jay Daly, at the age of fifty-six 
 years, closed the career of a brilliant lawyer 
 and capable man of affairs. Judge Daly occu- 
 pied an altogether unique position among the 
 men who have been identified with the juris- 
 prudence of Polk county, not only because of 
 special natural gifts, but because it was his 
 good fortune to start out in life under particu- 
 larly auspicious circumstances. Of Irish de- 
 scent, he was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 
 March, 1846, a son of Michael and Jane Daly, 
 and brother of Charles H. Jay Daly, a promi- 
 nent physician of New York City. As a youth, 
 Judge Daly was reared in an atmosphere of cul- 
 ture and refinement, his family being one of 
 the most prominent in the state of New York. 
 His early environment was reflected in his ma- 
 ture years, and found expression in an elegance 
 of manner altogether charming, and a courtesy, 
 tact, and consideration which made him the 
 most delightful of friends and companions. 
 
 After graduating from the classical course of 
 St. John's Catholic College, Fordham, a suburb 
 of New York City, Jndge Daly read law, and 
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 \\ uli the clear sighted intuition which was one 
 oi his strongest points, he decided on settling 
 in the west, and arrived in Polk county, Ore., 
 in 1870. After engaging in school teaching for 
 ,i couple oi years in Buena Vista, he came to 
 Pallas and opened a law office, and so intelli- 
 
 itly ami persistently applied himself to his 
 ssion that his early and subsequent suc- 
 
 3 was .! logical resultant. He soon became 
 interested in politics, and as a stanch defender 
 
 Democracy represented Polk county in the 
 
 lower house of the Oregon legislature in 1885, 
 
 in [892 was a delegate to the national 
 
 Democratic convention held in Chicago. In 
 
 14 he was nominated for circuit judge of the 
 Third Judicial district, but was defeated by his 
 opponent on the Republican ticket, Hon. H. H. 
 Hewitt, of Albany. 
 
 In the practice of his profession Judge Daly 
 found his broad general knowledge, his capac- 
 ity for reading character, and his marvelous 
 faculties of enormous benefit. He was recog- 
 nized as a strong advocate and strenuous 
 fighter, guarding well the interests of his client 
 at every point, and quick to seize and persist- 
 ent in holding the point of vantage. A line of 
 attack or defense, as the case required, once 
 laid down, the correctness of his position be- 
 came a conviction, and naught swerved him 
 from his position. Nevertheless, generosity 
 often characterized his attitude towards his 
 opponent, and he was ever ready to grant such 
 concessions as proved non-injurious to his cli- 
 ent. For years he was attorney for the South-, 
 crn Pacific Railroad Company, and also for 
 many years attended to the legal complications 
 of the old Scotch Company. 
 
 The plan of fraternal life insurance received 
 substantial support from Judge Daly, and at 
 the time of his death he held membership in 
 three different organizations. As one of the 
 chief upbuilders of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen in the northwest, he served as grand 
 naster workman for the jurisdiction of Ore- 
 gon, Washington and British Columbia from 
 )8qx> until 1891, inclusive, and during the latter 
 year delivered before the lodge at Victoria, 
 B. C, one of the most scholarly and brilliant 
 addresses on the work of fraternal insurance 
 ever heard in the west. For many years he 
 was a member of the judiciary committee of 
 the Oregon Grand Lodge, and in 1892 was a 
 • lelegate to the Supreme Lodge of Helena, 
 
 nt., and in '93 to Toronto, Ontario. 
 Judge Daly possessed an optimistic and de- 
 lightful personality. The doing of a favor, or 
 the lending of a helping hand to friend or 
 Granger was spontaneous, and seemed never 
 to be recalled by him. A competence rewarded 
 his well applied energy, but money he regarded 
 
 as the means to an end, and that end the better- 
 ing of the conditions by which he was sur- 
 rounded. Like many strong and highly pol- 
 ished natures, Judge Daly was eccentric, but 
 the study ot these peculiarities rendered him 
 the more interesting, and never interfered with 
 the balance and splendid equipoise of the man. 
 This learned judge is enrolled among the students 
 of legal science who have reflected dignity and 
 brilliancy upon the professional history of Ore- 
 gon, and his death is regretted by hundreds who 
 knew, loved and admired him. 
 
 In Salem, Ore., in 1878, Judge Daly mar- 
 ried Phya Burns, who was born near Dallas, 
 Polk county, and was educated at the Notre 
 Dame Convent in Salem and at San Jose, Cal. 
 The family claims kinship with Robert Burns, 
 the poet, after whom the paternal grandfather 
 was named. The grandfather was the emigrat- 
 ing ancestor, coming from Scotland with his 
 wife and children, settling presumably in Lex- 
 ington, Ky. Here was born William Burns, 
 the father of Mrs. Daly, who removed to Taze- 
 well county, 111., at an early day, and, crossing 
 the plains in 1848, took up a donation claim 
 near Bridgeport, Polk county, Ore. In 1849 
 he took advantage of the gold excitement and 
 crossed the mountains into California, after 
 which he returned to Illinois, settled up his 
 business affairs and returned to Oregon again 
 in 1853. The donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres is still in the family, and is 
 owned by his three children. He was exten- 
 sively engaged in stock-raising, both in Polk 
 county and in eastern Oregon, and at the time 
 of his death, while on a trip to California, in 
 1877, was the possessor of a large and valuable 
 estate. He was a Republican in politics, and 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church. His 
 wife, Rachel (Ford) Burns, who was born in 
 Illinois, and died in Oregon at the age of sixty, 
 was the mother of eleven children, six of whom 
 attained maturity, Mrs. Daly being the young- 
 est. The oldest son, Robert, died in the mines 
 of California ; John died on his farm in Polk 
 county ; William is a farmer in Polk county ; 
 James is a farmer near Dallas, and Rachel is 
 the wife of Mr. B. F. Smith, of Lewisville, Polk 
 county. 
 
 Mrs. Daly is one of the popular and well 
 known women of Dallas, and has one of the 
 most attractive homes in the little city, sur- 
 rounded by beautiful grounds in which flowers, 
 trees and shrubs abound. Her share of the old 
 donation claim is three hundred acres, which 
 is under a fine state of cultivation, about sev- 
 enty acres being devoted to hops. This farm 
 is watered by the Little Luckiamute river, and 
 is equipped with all modern improvements. 
 Mrs. Daly is a member of the Shakespeare 
 
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 Club, and in political preference Is a Repub- 
 lican. Her son, L. F., is a graduate of Mount 
 Angel College, class of 1901. 
 
 HENRY C. PORTER. Closely allied with 
 the pioneer touch that has shaped the current of 
 events in Oregon is Henry C. Porter, whose 
 father gave no little of a worthy life to the de- 
 velopment of the natural resources of this great 
 state, linking with these the influences of a citi- 
 zenship of intelligence and high integrity. The 
 family traces its lineage back to the state of 
 Virginia, the grandfather, David Porter, having 
 been born in that state March 8, 1780, and emi- 
 grating from there to Tennessee. He was mar- 
 ried at the time of his emigration from his native 
 state, and was accompanied upon the trip by his 
 wife' and three children, Mary Rebecca, Alex- 
 ander and Robert. In 181 2 he took his family 
 into Missouri, locating at Licking, having passed 
 the preceding three years in Kennedy Fort, to 
 which he had been driven by the depredations of 
 the Indians. 
 
 William Porter, the father of Henry C, was 
 born in Missouri, December 14, 1812, one of a 
 family of ten children. He passed the years of 
 childhood on the paternal farm. Feeling that 
 he could not be satisfied with the education 
 obtainable in the district schools of his' native 
 state he left home at the age of eighteen years, 
 and going to Jacksonville, 111., entered the college 
 at that place, where he remained four years. 
 His first intention had been to study medicine, 
 but abandoning the idea he entered upon the 
 more congenial life of teaching, the scene of his 
 early labors being Pike county, 111., where he 
 remained until 1846, a decade of his life being 
 passed among these surroundings. In 1840 he 
 married Miss Sarah Coffey, a native of like 
 county, and with a wife no less courageous than 
 himself, he ventured in the spring of 1848 to set 
 out on the journev with the great northwest for 
 its termination. After six months of travel with 
 ox-teams Oregon was reached by the emigrants. 
 In the spring of 1849 they left Aumsville, Marion 
 county where thev had passed the preceding 
 winder and Mr. Porter took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres located two and 
 one-half miles southeast of Aumsville. Upon 
 this farm a little log cabin was erected to shelter 
 the pioneer familv, and nothing daunted by the 
 vears of toil and hardships which he knew must 
 He between this humble beginning and the suc- 
 cess which he hoped to win, he gave the strength 
 of his manhood to the task of cultivating the 
 broad acres. And not only in his personal plans 
 has Mr. Porter met with succes, but in the pub- 
 lic affairs of his adopted state he was ever found 
 
 ready to lend his best efforts toward any move- 
 ment that had for its end the upbuilding of the 
 common welfare, being actively interested in the 
 early days of his community in the laying out of 
 roads and the organization of schools, serving 
 as teacher in the latter for many years. In the 
 first legislative body of Oregon, the date of 
 assembling being July, 1849, it was the distinc- 
 tion of Mr. Porter to serve as chief clerk, later 
 being elected to the state legislature, where he 
 remained one term. For four years he served 
 as assessor of Marion county, and as county com- 
 missioner for one term. His political offices 
 were held through the influences of the Republican 
 party, of which he was a stanch adherent. Re- 
 ligiously, Mr. Porter was a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church. His death, which occurred March 
 30, 1899, was a source of regret to the entire 
 community. 
 
 Mr. Porter had been twice married, his first 
 wife having died of mountain fever soon after 
 their arrival in Oregon. In 1849 ne married her 
 sister, Martha Coffey. The children of the first 
 marriage are as follows : William G., who 
 served three years in Company B, of the First 
 Oregon Cavalry, the first stationed on the fron- 
 tier, and whose death occurred in January, 1880, 
 on his farm, one and one-half miles east or 
 Turner; Nancy E., the wife of C. K. Reed, 
 now located on the old homestead ; John H., a 
 farmer at the state penitentiary ; and Sydney 
 R., of Kent, Sherman county. Three children 
 were born of the second union, of whom Henry 
 C. is the subject of this sketch; Sarah L 
 died in 1892; and Mary J. is the wife of Henry 
 C. Von Behren, living near Aumsville. Mrs. 
 Martha C. Porter died May 17, 1903, in her nine- 
 tieth year. 
 
 Upon the donation claim linked to the Porter 
 name through long years of association Henry 
 C. Porter was born November 24, 1850, and 
 there he grew to manhood, receiving his 
 early education in the district school in the 
 vicinity of his home. Upon attaining manhood 
 he married Miss Minnie F. Welch, a native of 
 Ontario, Canada, born in 1858, who came to 
 Oregon with her grandfather, J. T. Welch, in 
 1869. I n : 88o Mr. Porter built the house which 
 he now occupies, part of his farm being formerly 
 owned by T. C. Coffey, who took up a donation 
 claim in 1852. The father of the Coffey family 
 was born in North Carolina, in 1790, and with 
 his family of eight children came to Oregon at 
 the same time that Mr. Porter's father made the 
 trip, and took np land in this vicinity. Mr. 
 Porter now owns three hundred and twentv acres, 
 upon which he is engaged in general farming 
 nnd stock-raising, being principally interested in 
 Hereford cattle. The location is two miles from 
 Aumsville. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one child, 
 
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 183 
 
 Minnie Maude, who is the wife of Otto G. 
 \\ eaver, of Berlin, Linn county. 
 
 In various ways Mr. Porter has served the 
 public, having been justice of the peace for 
 ? and also notary public for some time, 
 'raternally he is associated with the Ancient 
 ler <>t" United Workmen, being a member of 
 Aumsville Lodge No. 90. lie is a devoted 
 member of the Christian Church, in the Sunday 
 school of which lie has served for twenty years 
 superintendent, a striking example of faith- 
 fulness to duty. He is supported in his religious 
 affiliation by his wife and daughter, both of 
 whom are members of the same church. 
 
 PETER FELLER. In 1847 there came 
 from the province of Lorraine, where he was 
 born March 6, 1822, a pioneer of Oregon who 
 was destined materially to promote the agri- 
 cultural prestige of the state, and to maintain 
 a type of citizenship as useful as it is influ- 
 ential and worthy. This ocean voy-age from 
 Europe was accomplished in a sailing vessel 
 which was delayed by storms and calms, and 
 which put into the port of New Orleans sixty- 
 two days after embarking from the other side. 
 With his few worldly possessions Peter Feller, 
 then twenty-five years of age, took another 
 boat up the Mississippi river, eventually' arriv- 
 ing at Galena, 111., where he found employ- 
 ment on farms in the neighborhood of the 
 town. Among the fellow pasengers on the in- 
 coming vessel was a bright and attractive Ger- 
 man girl by T the name of Anna Notum, also 
 a native of Lorraine, and from subsequent 
 events it would seem that they- became very 
 warm friends before the vessel arrived in port, 
 for they were married the following year. Aug- 
 ust 1, 1848, and thus an orphan girl found a 
 home, and a stranger in a strange land a help- 
 mate. Three children were born to the couple 
 in Illinois : John ; Barbara, deceased ; and Peter. 
 As time passed fortune favored them moder- 
 ately, leaving them at least contented minds 
 and bright hopes for the future. 
 
 In 1853 ^ r - Feller, alert for greater oppor- 
 tunities than he found in Illinois, embraced 
 the opportunity to drive some ox-teams across 
 the plains in return for board and accommoda- 
 tions. After five months of experience more 
 or less interesting, he arrived in Oregon City, 
 where he looked around for a suitable perma- 
 nent location, and where, in the meantime, he 
 drove dray wagons as a means of support. 
 Later he came to Butteville, and worked at 
 various occupations, in 1857 returning to Illi- 
 nois, to the wife and children who awaited him 
 with so much anxiety. In May, 1857, he re- 
 
 turned to Oregon with his family by way of 
 Panama, and settled for a time near I'.utteville, 
 soon after purchasing fifty acres of land upon 
 which the present home now stands, and of 
 which fifteen acres had been cleared. Other 
 improvements consisted of a log stable and 
 frame house, and in the latter the family lived 
 for many years, although there was but one 
 room for all purposes. 
 
 At the time of his death, October 2, 1896, Mr. 
 Feller had transformed his crude possessions 
 into a splendidly improved farm, with modern 
 buildings and all manner of agricultural im- 
 plements. At the last he owned four hundred 
 acres, having added to his original purchase 
 on several occasions. Advantageously lo- 
 cated on the renowned French Prairie, he en- 
 gaged for years in general farming and stock- 
 raising, and in the meantime took a keen in- 
 terest in developing the conditions by which 
 he was surrounded. He was a member of the 
 Catholic Church, as is all his family, and he 
 held various local offices, among them that 
 of school director. Of the eight children born 
 to himself and wife two, Barbara and Francis, 
 died in infancy ; John is a carpenter of Wood- 
 burn ; Peter, Jr., farmed with his father until 
 his death, and then assumed complete control 
 of the property ; he was married February 6, 
 1898, to Christina Haag, and four children have 
 been born into his family: Mabel E. ; Lillian 
 M. ; Lucille J., deceased; and Harley Laverne. 
 Of the other children, Mary is the wife of J. 
 J. Ryan of Butteville; Annie is the wife of 
 John Whitney, residing near Woodburn ; 
 Clara is the wife of George W. Case, residing 
 near Champoeg; Lizzie is the wife of D. H. 
 Bomhofr", a merchant of Woodburn ; she had 
 a daughter, Mabel Edith, by her first husband, 
 Charles Scheurer ; and Annie, Grace and 
 Harry by her second marriage. Peter Feller, 
 Jr., owns eighty-two acres of land near Hub- 
 bard, and in addition to general farming has ten 
 acres under hops. 
 
 JOHN McCHESNEY. Many of the finest 
 residences and public buildings in Albany owe 
 their construction to the skill of John McChes- 
 ney, who, previous to locating here in 1888 had 
 acquired extensive experience along general 
 building lines. This prominent and successful 
 member of a thriving community was born in 
 ( hitario, Canada, where had settled his father, 
 Hugh, and his mother, Hannah (Dole) McChes- 
 nev, upon their arrival from their native Scot- 
 land. From Canada the father moved to Moore- 
 head. Minn., and later to Taconia, Wash., where 
 he died at the age of eighty-six. Pic was stir- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 vived by his wife, who came to Oregon and 
 spent the remainder of her life with her son, 
 John. 
 
 The sixth oldest of the nine children in his 
 father's family, and the only one in Oregon, 
 John McChesney was born November 17, 1853, 
 and was primarily educated in the Canadian pub- 
 lic schools. He was twenty years of age when 
 he learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1873 re- 
 moved to Detroit, Mich., where he worked for a 
 time at carriage making. At Fargo, N. Dak., he 
 engaged in a blacksmith and carriage making 
 business with his brother, but afterward sold 
 out and removed to Grand Forks, Dak., where 
 he manufactured and contracted for brick. As 
 before stated, he came to Albany in 1888, and 
 has since made himself a necessary adjunct to 
 the prosperity of the town. In all of its depart- 
 ments Mr. McChesney has a comprehensive 
 understanding of his chosen occupation, and that 
 it is the work for which he is particularly fitted, 
 and which he finds most congenial, is undoubt- 
 edly the secret of his success. He has a correct 
 appreciation of the substantial and lasting, as 
 well as artistic and pleasing, and with almost no 
 exceptions his work has been satisfactory in all 
 of its details. 
 
 In Albany Mr. McChesney married Nancy 
 Candis Conn, a native of Indiana, and sister of 
 Perry Conn. Two children have been born of this 
 union, Arthur Carmine and Esther May. As a 
 Republican Mr. McChesney has been promi- 
 nently before the public on various occasions. 
 In religion he is a member and steward of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. The most desirable 
 traits of the typical northwestern business man 
 are embodied in Mr. McChesney, among which 
 are enthusiasm for and active participation in all 
 undertakings which have for their object the up- 
 lifting and development of his adopted com- 
 munity. 
 
 JUDGE HIRAM M. PALMER. Entering 
 upon his responsible duties as county judge of 
 Linn county with a sincere desire to perform the 
 obligations of his office to the satisfaction of his 
 supporters and the general public, Judge Palmer 
 of Albany has proved himself eminently worthy 
 of the trust reposed in him, and has served the 
 people with ability and fidelity. Practical, pro- 
 gressive and whole-hearted, he is an esteemed 
 and popular citizen, and since becoming a resi- 
 dent of this section of the state has contributed 
 his full share towards advancing its educational, 
 political and agricultural interests. A son of 
 A. F. Palmer, he was born near Batavia, Genesee 
 county, N. Y., in 1849. He is a descendant of 
 one of the early families of western New York, 
 where his paternal grandfather, James Palmer, 
 
 was a well-to-do lumber manufacturer and 
 dealer. 
 
 Educated for the bar, A. F. Palmer practiced 
 law as a young man, but was afterwards en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits in Genesee county, 
 N. Y., until 1853, when he removed to Iowa. 
 Locating near the present site of the town of 
 Malcom, he purchased land, and was there suc- 
 cessfully engaged in general farming until his 
 retirement in 1895, and is now seventy-eight 
 years of age. He married Sarah J. Milliman. 
 She was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., which 
 was also the birthplace of her husband, being 
 the daughter of Hiram Milliman, who removed 
 from the Empire state to Ohio, and there spent 
 his last years. Of the nine children born of 
 their union, four sons and four daughters are 
 living". 
 
 The oldest child of the parental household, 
 H. M. Palmer obtained his elementary education 
 in the district schools, afterwards completing a 
 course of study at Grinnell College, in Iowa. 
 Choosing for himself the independent occupation 
 to which he had been reared, he took up a home- 
 stead and a tree claim, near Hastings, Adams 
 county, Neb., in 1873, and subsequently added 
 to his acreage by the purchase of railroad land 
 until he became the owner of four hundred and 
 eighty acres, which he devoted to general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. Disposing of his Ne 
 braska property in 1891, Mr. Palmer came with 
 his family to Oregon, locating near Albany. 
 Linn county. Purchasing two hundred acres of 
 land about four and one-half miles southwest of 
 Albany, he has since carried on a successful busi- 
 ness as a stock-raiser and dairyman, and has 
 met with satisfactory results as a fruit-grower, 
 having about twenty-five acres of his ranch de- 
 voted to the culture of prunes. 
 
 Taking a warm interest in the affairs of his 
 adopted state and county, Mr. Palmer represented 
 his district in the state legislature during the spe- 
 cial session of 1898 and the regular session of 
 1899, rendering excellent service. As one of the 
 committee of five appointed by the legislature of 
 1898 to revise the new school laws, he did much 
 to advance the cause of education in this state. 
 He was also active in trying to pass better and 
 more stringent game laws, and although not suc- 
 cessful at that time, the more important parts of 
 the bill which he championed are incorporated in 
 the present game laws of Oregon. Declining a 
 re-election, he was nominated by the Fusionists 
 for county judge, in 1900, and was elected by a 
 majority of six hundred votes, running far ahead 
 of his ticket, his term of office being for four 
 years. Judge Palmer has since resided in Al- 
 bany, among its residents attaining to a place of 
 prominence.' 
 
 Judge Palmer married, in Iowa, Miss Electa 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 485 
 
 native of Illinois, and they arc the 
 
 tg of six children, namely: Leslie M.: Mrs. 
 
 Small, of Albanj : Mrs. Lola K. Junkin, 
 
 llbam : Mrs. Nevada Alice Medin, also of 
 
 Vrthur L. ; and Jay B. In politics 
 
 Palmer was a Republican until after the 
 
 I Garfield in 1880, luit has since been 
 
 led with the Democratic party. He is an 
 
 •itial member of the local (.range, and is 
 
 s ut of the district council. Belonging 
 
 to the Presbyterian Church, the judge is ruling 
 
 elder, and was for eight years superintendent of 
 
 the Sunday school in Riverside district. 
 
 PETER C. ANDERSEN. Engaged in the 
 lucrative business of blacksniithing and horse- 
 eing, of the latter making a specialty, Peter 
 \ndersen is a prominent and successful citi- 
 zen of Albany, Linn county. He is not a native 
 the west, nor yet of the national government 
 of which he has chosen to become a citizen, for 
 he was born in Denmark, in the town of Ham- 
 nielev. October 17, 1857, a son of Andrus, a 
 farmer in that vicinity, and Elizabeth (Petersen) 
 Andersen, the latter of whom is still living. Un- 
 til he was sixteen years old he remained with 
 parents, engaging in the duties which such 
 a life affords, and also attending the national 
 school, and at that age he was apprenticed to a 
 blacksmith, with whom he remained for five 
 years. After one year in journeyman work he 
 came, in 1879, to America, confident as to his 
 ability to cope with the difficulties which he 
 might encounter. 
 
 On landing, Mr. Andersen started at once for 
 1? west, stopping in the city of Chicago, 111., 
 where he worked successfully at his trade for 
 two years. Changing his location to Manistee, 
 Mich., he spent sixteen months working at his 
 trade there, before deciding to make his home on 
 the Pacific slope. In 1884 he settled at The 
 Dalles, Ore., and in 1885 went back to Portland, 
 the next year finding him located in Linn county, 
 engaged in a successful prosecution of his trade 
 at Halsey. He remained there but one year, 
 however, residing for a time in both Corvallis 
 and Lebanon before taking up a permanent lo- 
 cation in Albany, where he now makes his home, 
 the date of his removal here being 1887. F° r 
 three months following his settlement in Albany 
 he worked at his trade alone, after which he went 
 into partnership with a Mr. Huston. After buy- 
 ing out the interest of his partner he erected in 
 1893 his present commodious shop at the corner 
 of Second and Montgomery streets, where he 
 now engages in the manufacture of wagons, car- 
 riages, etc.. and carries on all kinds of work per- 
 taining to the duties of a blacksmith. He has 
 
 built up a splendid trade among the farmers of 
 the vicinity, and even numbers among his cus- 
 tomers those at a distance of forty miles. In 
 addition to bis industrial interests he has also an 
 interest in the Poorman's .Mining Company, the 
 mine being located at Blue River. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Andersen occurred in 
 Albany, and united him with Miss Laura Ches- 
 well, a native of England, and four children have 
 been born to them, who are as follows : William 
 H. ; Lloyd C. ; Edmond (1 ; and Wallace C. 
 Politically Mr. Andersen is a Republican, and 
 religiously is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. Fraternally he is prominent, being 
 a member of Corinthian Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; 
 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he is 
 past noble grand and ex-representative; he is 
 also a member of the Encampment, in which 
 he is past chief patriarch and ex-representative ; 
 and has membership with the Rebekahs, Knights 
 of the Maccabees; and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 WILLIAM THOMAS COLEMAN. On his 
 father's donation claim near Bellevue, Yamhill 
 county, Ore., William Thomas Coleman was born 
 February 4, 1855, and was reared to the useful 
 and fundamental occupation in which he is at 
 present engaged. His father, James Coleman, 
 mentioned at length in another part of this work, 
 was one of the pioneers of Oregon, and during 
 the many years of his active life in the west con- 
 tributed his share towards its best development. 
 The son accompanied his parents to Marion 
 county in 1861, locating near St. Paul, where 
 he was educated in the public schools, and where 
 he attained twenty-three years of age. 
 
 In the meantime Mr. Coleman had purchased 
 one hundred and fifty-four acres of land near 
 Champoeg, and hither took his young wife, for- 
 merly Callie Orton, with whom he was united 
 in marriage November 5, 1876. She is a daugh- 
 ter of Ira and Martha (Burton) Orton, both de- 
 ceased, who came from Gentry county, Mo., in 
 1853, locating in the Chehalem valley, in Yamhill 
 county. After living on this farm for a year he 
 sold it and bought the one hundred and sixty 
 acres which comprise his present home, and 
 which had at the time sixty-five acres cleared. 
 His industry has accomplished the clearing of 
 one hundred and thirty acres in all, and lie is 
 engaged in genera! farming and stock-raising, 
 devoting fifteen acres of his land to hop culture. 
 In 1891 he moved his family into one of the 
 finest rural homes in this section, and his barns 
 and outbuildings are in keeping with the ideas 
 of a practical and very progressive agriculturist. 
 
 Air. Coleman is a Democrat in politics, but 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 has never taken an interest in the political agi- 
 tations of his neighborhood further than to cast 
 his vote. He is wide-awake to all the general 
 affairs by which he is surrounded, and may be 
 counted on to aid financially and otherwise all 
 wise efforts at improving the general welfare of 
 the community. By his marriage Mr. Coleman 
 became the father of one son, Raleigh, who was 
 born February 4, 1881. The latter was united in 
 marriage November 26, 1900, with Annie Haas, 
 daughter of Joseph and Mary (Prager) Haas. 
 She is a native of Melrose, Minn., and came to 
 Oregon with her parents in 1893. Mr. Coleman 
 bears an enviable reputation in Marion county, 
 his many excellent traits of character having 
 made him many friends, and surrounded him 
 with well wishers. 
 
 JOHN W. ROLAND. Marion county fig- 
 ures as one of the most attractive, progressive 
 and prosperous divisions of the state of Oregon, 
 justly claiming a high order of citizenship and 
 a spirit of enterprise which is certain to conserve 
 consecutive development and marked advance- 
 ment in the material upbuilding of the section. 
 The county has been and is singularly favored 
 in the class of men who have controlled its af- 
 fairs in official capacity, and in this connection 
 the subject of this review demands representa- 
 tion as one who has served the county faithfully 
 and well in positions of trust and responsibility! 
 He is now serving as county clerk, to which posi- 
 tion he was elected upon the Republican ticket 
 in 1902. 
 
 Mr. Roland was born in Danville, Vermilion 
 county, 111., September 1, 1848, and comes of a 
 family of Germa.n lineage that was established 
 in Virginia many generations ago. The paternal 
 grandfather was a farmer by occupation and 
 died in Kentucky. David Roland, the father 
 of our subject, was born in Cynthiana, Harrison 
 county, Ky., and in early life became familiar 
 with commercial methods in merchandising. At 
 a very early date he removed to Vermilion coun- 
 ty, 111., and served in the Black Hawk war of 
 1832. He followed merchant tailoring in Dan- 
 ville until 1852. when he brought his family, con- 
 sisting of his wife and eight children, to Oregon, 
 having outfitted with an ox team and other 
 necessaries for the overland trip across the 
 plains. They were six months upon the way, 
 and while in the Cascades their stock was driven 
 off and stolen, so that on their arrival in Port- 
 land Mr. Roland had nothing with which to 
 begin life in the northwest. Through the suc- 
 ceeding winter he worked at his trade for A. 
 B. Roberts, of Portland, and in 1853 he came 
 to Marion county, Ore., securing a donation 
 claim of three hundred and .twenty acres of wild 
 
 timber land. After building a log cabin for 
 the shelter of his family he turned his attention 
 to the stock business and also to some extent fol- 
 lowed his trade, making clothing for the early 
 settlers. He had a good range and his attention 
 was chiefly devoted to his cattle interests. In 
 1871 he removed to Jefferson where he lived re- 
 tired until his death, which occurred in March 
 of that year, when he was seventy-one years of 
 age. He was an old line Democrat, a well-in- 
 formed man and a true Christian, and his upright 
 life gained for him the respect and genuine re- 
 gard of all with whom he was associated. He 
 married Eliza Barnes, a native of Harrison 
 county, Ky., and of Scotch-Irish descent. Her 
 death occurred in 1889, at seventy-nine years of 
 age. In their family were eight children : C. B., 
 who served in the Rogue River Indian war of 
 1856, and was a lieutenant in the First Oregon Vol- 
 unteer Infantry in the Civil war. He carried 
 on merchandising in Jefferson, Ore., was a mem- 
 ber of the state legislature for one term and 
 died in Marion county in 1894. Jacob resides in 
 Multnomah county. Mrs. Pauline Phillips, the 
 third of the family, is living in Lincoln. Wash. 
 David S. died in Portland. George follows 
 mining in Jackson county, Ore. Mrs. Melvina 
 Worick is living in Portland. Esther is a resi- 
 dent of Jefferson, and John W. completes the 
 family. 
 
 When three years of age, John W. Roland 
 accompanied his parents on their removal to the 
 northwest. He lived with the family upon the 
 home farm, one mile from Jefferson, and pur- 
 sued his education in the district school. When 
 eighteen years of age he was apprenticed to 
 learn the harness and saddler's trade in Salem, 
 and when he had served for a term of three 
 years he began business on his own account in 
 Jefferson, continuing alone for a few years. In 
 1878 he was joined by his brother, Charles B. 
 Roland, under the firm name of C. B. Roland & 
 Co., and abandoning the harness trade they es- 
 tablished a general store in Jefferson. There 
 our subject also served as deputy postmaster 
 under his brother for twelve years, and when his 
 brother died he became postmaster and continued 
 in that capacity until 1895, when he resigned, 
 preparatory to his removal to Salem. August 
 1 of that year he was appointed chief accountant 
 in the Oregon State Asylum by its board and 
 under Governor Lord he held that position 
 acceptably until January, 1900. He then be- 
 came a fire insurance agent, representing the 
 United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company of 
 Baltimore, Md. In 1902 he was nominated on 
 the Republican ticket for the office of county 
 clerk and was elected by a majority of fifteen 
 hundred, taking the oath of office on the 7th of 
 July, of the same year. He is also clerk of de- 
 
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POR I'KAI T AND I'.U IGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 irtments numbers one and two of the circuit 
 
 lit, and clerk oi the probate conn, in the dis- 
 
 cha his official duties being systematic, 
 
 ' c .' and accurate, so that his course has 
 won high commendation. 
 
 Mr. Roland was married in Jefferson to Miss 
 ma Reeves, who was born in California and 
 1 in |efferson, Ore. They had two children: 
 Iwilda, who is attending Willamette L ni- 
 and Tracy. Mr. Roland was again mar- 
 1 in Jefferson, his second union being with 
 Miss Carrie S. Shumaker. who was born in 
 Schoharie county, X. V.. a daughter of Jacob 
 and Margaret (Burnett) Shumaker. who were 
 also natives of the Empire state. Her parents 
 moved to La Crosse county, Wis., where her 
 father was engaged in building until 1888, when 
 he brought his family to Oregon, settling in Jef- 
 ferson. Mrs. Roland is a graduate of the high 
 school and a most estimable lady, who shares 
 with her husband the regard of many friends. 
 She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Since 1870 Mr. Roland has been a 
 member of the Odd Fellows society, having been 
 initiated in Jefferson Lodge, of which he is a 
 past noble grand. He is connected with the En- 
 campment of Salem, of which he is past chief 
 patriarch, and with the Rebekah degree, to which 
 Mrs. Roland also belongs. His fraternal rela- 
 tions also connect him with both the lodge and 
 uniformed rank of the Knights of Pythias, and 
 of the latter he has served as treasurer. He is 
 a charter member of the Illihee Club, of which 
 he served as secretary for three years. In poli- 
 tics he has always been an active Republican. 
 In his private life he is distinguished by all that 
 marks a true gentleman and an upright character, 
 one that subordinates personal ambition to pub- 
 lic good and seeks rather to benefit his fellow- 
 men than the aggrandizement of self. 
 
 WILLIAM J. JERMAN. A very pleasant 
 home just outside of Silverton is occupied by 
 William J. Jerman, who has been a resident of 
 Oregon since 1867, and who was formerly an 
 extensive farmer and stock-raiser of Marion 
 county. Mr. Jerman was born in Boone county, 
 Mo., August 6, 1830. his father, Edward 
 Jerman, having settled in Boone county on a 
 farm formerly owned by his father-in-law, 
 Thomas Turner. Edward Jerman was born in 
 Madison county, Ky. Later in life he emigrated 
 uri, and in 1838 returned to his native 
 state, remaining there for three years. The 
 western fever again overtaking him, he returned 
 to Missouri, locating on a farm in Audrain 
 county, where he died in 1843. at the age of 
 thirty-five. He was very successful as a farmer 
 an 1 stock-raiser, and though young at the time 
 
 of his death, had accumulated six hundred acres 
 of land. His wife, Lurane Turner, was also 
 a native of Kentucky, and was born at Crab 
 Orchard, Madison county. She became the 
 mother of six children , three sons and three 
 daughters, and died in Boone county, Mo., at the 
 age of eighty years. 
 
 The oldest of the children in his father's 
 family, William J. Jerman was educated in the 
 public schools of Missouri, and in time became 
 an independent landowner in that state, pur- 
 chasing a farm in 1850. He was extensively en- 
 gaged in buying and selling stock, and in the 
 early days used to drive cattle down to the market 
 in St. Louis. Lured by the tales of gold which 
 came from the coast he became interested in 
 mining, and in 1863, went to California, locat- 
 ing in Nevada county. After two years of fitful 
 success as a miner he came to Oregon, in 1865, 
 taking up land in Jackson county, where he en- 
 gaged in teaming, farming, and mining. In 
 1867 he removed to Lane county, Ore., and 
 the following spring came to Silverton, soon 
 afterward buying a farm on Howell's Prairie, con- 
 sisting of one hundred acres. To this he added 
 from time to time, until he had one hundred and 
 fifty-eight acres, which he finally sold, buying 
 another farm. This was also disposed of in due 
 time, and Mr. Jerman again came to Silverton 
 in 1892, with the intention of making this his 
 permanent home. He bought his present home 
 in Brown's addition, in 1902, and is most pleas- 
 antly and conveniently located. 
 
 In Howard county, Mo., in 1850, Mr. Jer- 
 man married Martha Hilton , who was born 
 August 22, 1832, in Huntsville, Randolph 
 county, Mo., and daughter of Jonathan Hilton 
 who was born in Madison county, Ky., and went 
 to Missouri at a very early day. He was a carpen- 
 ter by trade, and died in Howard county at a com- 
 paratively early age. Eleven children were born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Jerman, the order of their birth 
 being as follows : George Thomas, of Union 
 county, Ore. ; Allen G., a farmer on Howell's 
 Prairie; Margaret Lurane, the wife of Edward 
 Adcock, of La Grande, Union county. Ore. ; 
 Mary E., the wife of W. Gervis of Silverton, 
 Ore. : James E., in California ; Ida and Madi- 
 son B., both deceased; David Franklin and Will- 
 iam LaFayette, both of Salem, Ore. : Isaac 
 Newton and Samuel Wellington of Silverton. 
 Mr. Jerman has also reared a grandchild, Edna, 
 who is the wife of Burt Brown of Portland. 
 Mr. Jerman is a man of high principle, and en- 
 viable standing in the community, and has iden- 
 tified himself with all forward measures requir- 
 ing his support. For more than fifty years he 
 has been a member and active worker in the 
 Christian Church, and in political affiliation he 
 belongs to the Prohibition party. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 ISAAC STEVENS. The Stevens family is 
 numerously represented in Oregon, and especial- 
 ly in Marion county, where they own fine large 
 farms, and represent the progress and enlighten- 
 ment of western life. Every year a family re- 
 union is held, thus binding more closely the ties 
 of good will and uninterrupted friendship which 
 are distinguishing features of the brothers and 
 sisters. 
 
 Isaac Stevens, one of the best known repre- 
 sentatives of his family in Yamhill county, was 
 born in Indiana March 12, 1840, a son of Hanson 
 and Lavina (Wickard) Stevens, natives of In- 
 diana, the former born in 1818. The family re- 
 moved from the Hoosier state to Iowa in 1846, 
 and in 1852, made arrangements to cross the 
 plains with ox teams and wagons. Starting out 
 with three wagons and twelve yoke of oxen they 
 crossed the plains without any particular mis- 
 hap, the Indians even causing them very little 
 trouble. After six months they landed at Howell 
 Prairie, in the fall of 1852, and here Mr. Stevens 
 took up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 eight acres about a mile and a half southwest of 
 Mount Angel. After a short time, however, the 
 family located for a time in Washington, from 
 which state the father eventually returned to 
 Marion county, where he died in 1880. His wife 
 died when forty years of age, Of the nine chil- 
 dren born to himself and wife all are living but 
 one. 
 
 In an effort to earn an independent livelihood 
 Isaac Stevens left home when of age, working as 
 a farm hand by the month. For two years also 
 he followed mining and prospecting in Idaho. 
 Upon again settling in Marion county, he was 
 married November 9, 1865, to Catherine Ann 
 McAlfresh, a native of Ohio, who came to 
 Oregon with her parents in 1852. Soon after the 
 couple went to live on a rented farm on Howell 
 Prairie, and after three years, in 1868, bought a 
 portion of his father's old donation claim, con- 
 sisting of one hundred and fifty-four acres. At 
 present he owns all of the claim with the ex- 
 ception of the fifty acres presented to his son, 
 and is engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising. Many modern improvements attest the 
 enterprise and thrift of this well-to-do agricul- 
 turist, and his home is one of the pleasantest and 
 most convenient in the county. 
 
 Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Stevens, the order of their birth being as fol- 
 lows : Ellis, a farmer of this county ; Vina, de 1 - 
 ceased ; Ermie, the wife of Edward Bateson of 
 Crook county ; Willard, a creameryman of the vi- 
 cinity of Lyons ; and Millie, who is living at 
 home. Although independent in politics, Mr. 
 Stevens has promoted all good political conditions 
 in his neighborhood, and has acceptably served as 
 school director and clerk, the latter for eleven 
 years. He has also been road supervisor, and 
 
 has held other local offices within the gift of his 
 fellow townsmen. As a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church Mr. Stevens has been an 
 active worker for about thirty years, and is trus- 
 tee of the church, also one of its most generous 
 financial supporters. His farm, his character, 
 and his general standing in the community, are 
 consistent with reliability and substantial west- 
 ern citizenship. 
 
 HON. C. D. HARTMAN. Among the many 
 men who are successfully following the vocation 
 of farming in Marion county, the name of C. D. 
 Hartman is entitled to especial mention. Mr. 
 Hartman is known as one of the most public- 
 spirited citizens of Marion county. He served 
 for one term as representative in the Oregon 
 state legislature, and for twelve years has been a 
 member of the school board of Scott's Mills, his 
 place of residence. Besides carrying on general 
 farming and stock-raising, he owned and oper- 
 ated a threshing machine for a number of years, 
 and also at one time conducted a saw-mill. 
 
 Mr. Hartman is a native of Marion county, 
 having been born November 23, 1863, on the 
 farm which is still his home, and which is a part 
 of the donation claim located by his parents. He 
 is a son of John and Mary (Moser) Hartman, 
 the former a North Carolinian by birth, and the 
 latter a native of Indiana. 
 
 John Hartman was one of the most prominent 
 men of his day in the Willamette valley. While 
 still a young man he married and settled in Mis- 
 souri, where he followed the plasterer's trade 
 for some time at St. Joseph. In 1852 he decided 
 to locate in Oregon, and accordingly crossed the 
 plains in an emigrant wagon, drawn by an ox 
 team, being six months on the way. On this 
 trip the party of which he was a member experi- 
 enced some trouble with the Indians, who at 
 one time stole their cattle, which, however, they 
 eventually succeeded in recovering. 
 
 Arriving in Oregon they proceeded at once to 
 Marion county, where Mr. Hartman took up a 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, about six and a half miles northeast of 
 the present site of Silverton, on the Silverton and 
 Scott's Mills road. Upon this farm, which was 
 entirely undeveloped, Mr. Hartman built a log 
 hut for the use of his family. This was replaced 
 later on by a more modern and substantial house, 
 which he also built. For a number of years he 
 engaged principally in stock-raising. Gradually, 
 however, he cultivated a little more land, and 
 finally carried on general farming, to which he 
 devoted the later years of his life. 
 
 John Hartman was well-known throughout 
 the valley, and to know him was to be his friend. 
 His popularity was attested by the fact that he 
 was elected to each and every office to which he 
 
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 491 
 
 red, and at different times held all the minor 
 
 within the gift of the people. He was one 
 
 rganizers of the Grange, and for many 
 
 ed much of his time to furthering its 
 
 sts. He was extremely charitable, and took 
 
 iart in the work of the church, never 
 
 shirking his religious unties. 
 
 [ohn Hartman and his wife became the par- 
 ents of ten children. Of these, three died in in- 
 fancy. Those living are the following: E. M., 
 • ent of Wapinitia, Ore.; Barbara E., wife 
 ph .Moore: I. V., wife of John Scott; 
 lenitie: Addie, of Portland; C. D., the subject of 
 'this biograph) : and H. C. The latter w^as born 
 in iS< «>. and continued to reside on the home 
 place until his marriage to Erne Prather. He 
 then settled on the east half of the donation 
 m. His farm consists of one hundred ami 
 enty-four acres, and he has over one hundred 
 acres under cultivation. A tract of fifteen acres 
 - levoted to the production of hops, the yield 
 of which in 1902 was about seventeen thousand 
 pounds. Three children have been born to him 
 and his wife : Floy. Rowland, deceased ; and 
 Bernice. Their farm contains many fine im- 
 provements, including a comfortable dwelling, 
 and the family have many friends in the com- 
 munity. 
 
 G. D. Hartman received but a limited educa- 
 tion, obtained by attendance at the district 
 ols. He was united in marriage with Josie 
 bb, a native of Illinois, who came to Oregon 
 in [892. Soon after their marriage the young 
 people went to housekeeping on the home place, 
 where they still reside, the beloved and aged 
 mother of our subject residing with them. Mr. 
 Hartman has added to the home place until he 
 now owns three hundred and fifty acres, one 
 hundred and thirty acres of which are under 
 cultivation. He carries on general farming and 
 :k-raising, making a specialty of Short-horn 
 cattle. A tract of about thirty acres is devoted 
 to hop culture, the yield in this line alone in 1902 
 being thirty-eight thousand pounds. Many mod- 
 ern improvements have been added to his farm, 
 which contains a convenient modern dwelling, 
 with complete farm buildings. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hartman affiliates with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having 
 se 1 all the chairs in his lodge, and is also 
 identified with the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. He has one son, 
 Earl < ;. 
 
 Mr. Hartman has always been a Republican, 
 and from the time he cast his first vote he has 
 taken a more than ordinarily active interest in the 
 workings of the party in Oregon. As a nominee 
 of that party he was elected as representative to 
 the ( )regon state legislature, and served in the 
 office for one term, with distinct credit to him- 
 self and his constituents. He has alwavs exhib- 
 
 ited a keen interest in those movements which 
 have been intended to promote the general wel- 
 fare of the community, giving freelj of his time 
 and money toward their success. Though a com- 
 paratively young man. he has become widely 
 known throughout the Willamette valley, chiefly 
 by reason of the success which has attended his 
 farming operations and the public-spirit which 
 has characterized him in all his undertakings 
 which were not of a private nature. He is re- 
 garded as one of the most substantial and worthy 
 citizens of Marion county, and his selection for 
 further high public office probably will be deter- 
 mined entirely by his own desires in the matter. 
 
 NEELY J. JUDAH, who is now serving for 
 the third term as city recorder of Salem, was born 
 in San Francisco, December 24, 1856. The an- 
 cestry of the family can be traced back through 
 many generations to France, whence representa- 
 tives of the name came to America. The paternal 
 great-grandfather of the judge was a Jewish 
 rabbi. His grandfather, Rev. Henry Judah, a 
 man of broad learning and strong men- 
 tality, embraced the Christian faith and be- 
 came an Episcopal minister. For many years 
 he resided in New York City, and there 
 died. Charles D. Judah, the father of the judge, 
 was born in Bridgeport, Conn., and after com- 
 pleting a college course was admitted to the bar 
 in New York. In that state he married Miss 
 Elmira Elizabeth Smith, a native of New York 
 City and a daughter of Floyd Smith, who for 
 many years was vice-president of the Man- 
 hattan Gas Light Company. He was a member 
 of a prominent old New York family, and mar- 
 ried Katherine Ritter, of Knickerbocker stock. 
 
 In 1849, Charles D. Judah came, with his little 
 family, to the Pacific coast, making the journey 
 by way of Panama to San Francisco, where he 
 entered upon the practice of law in partnership 
 with John K. Hackett. They constituted one of 
 the old and distinguished law firms of that city, 
 and for many years Mr. Judah continued in suc- 
 cessful practice there, but ultimately retired from 
 his profession and returned to Delaware, where 
 his last days were passed. He was a musician of 
 exceptional ability, and was instrumental in hav- 
 ing shipped around Cape Horn the first grand 
 organ ever brought to the coast. This was 
 erected under his supervision in Trinity Episco- 
 pal Church, and for many years he served as its 
 organist. Later he became organist in St. Mary's 
 Catholic Cathedral, having been converted to the 
 Catholic faith. 
 
 In the family of Charles D. and Elmira E. 
 (Smith) Judah were nine children, of whom 
 three are living, namely: Henry R., who is 
 assistant general passenger agent of the South- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ern Pacific Railroad Company, at San Francisco ; 
 Neely J., of this review, and Mrs. Florence Til- 
 ton, of Victoria, British Columbia. 
 
 Judge Judah, of this review, spent the days of 
 his youth in San Francisco, and there completed 
 the high school course. In boyhood he had great 
 love of the sea, and in his youth he made many 
 trips upon the ocean. In 1873 he entered the 
 United States navy as a member of the crew of 
 the Saranac, doing duty in the waters of the 
 north and south Pacific. After two years' service 
 he was honorably discharged, and then going 
 east he again joined the navy for special duty, 
 responding to a call for volunteers to aid in the 
 care of yellow fever sufferers at Pensacola, Fla., 
 in 1875. He was located there for over one year, 
 and rose through the ranks to an official position. 
 In 1876 he was again honorably discharged, and 
 in that year he visited the Centennial Exposition 
 in Philadelphia.' Subsequently he made his way 
 southward, and at Charlotte's Harbor, Fla., he 
 entered the merchant service as master of the 
 schooner Richard Morgan, plying between Char- 
 lotte's Harbor and Havana. This vessel was 
 wrecked in the gulf, during a severe storm, the 
 accident resulting largely from the faulty rigging 
 of the schooner, and not from bad seamanship. 
 His crew of seven men entered the life-boat with 
 him and rowed sixty-eight miles to Charlotte's 
 Harbor. 
 
 Mr. Judah then passed into western Texas 
 for a time, and was married, while at Sweet- 
 water, to Miss Ella H. Sloper. In 1884 Mr. Ju- 
 dah was elected county clerk of Nolan county, 
 Tex., and after serving for two years, was re- 
 elected in 1886, acting in that capacity until July, 
 1887, when he resigned and removed to Los An- 
 geles, Cal. While there he acted as notary public 
 and searcher of records for four years. In Sep- 
 tember, 1891, he arrived in Salem, acting as 
 searcher of records, under Col. Harry Waters, 
 for the Salem Land & Abstract Company. Later 
 he resigned and became a clerk in the insurance 
 office of the firm of Mitchell & Lunn, and after- 
 ward became connected with the Statesman,, as its 
 advertising agent ; subsequently he was a member 
 of the reportorial staff, his connection with the 
 journal covering six years in all. He then re- 
 signed to enter upon the duties of the office of 
 city recorder, to which he had been elected in 
 December, 1898, on the Citizens' ticket. He was 
 given an excellent majority, and that he mani- 
 fested marked fidelity and capability in the dis- 
 charge of the duties of the office is indicated by 
 the fact that in 1900, and again in 1902, he was 
 re-elected, entering upon his third term January 
 6, 1903. He is also ex-officio justice of the peace 
 and police judge for Salem city. 
 
 In politics Mr. Judah is independent, with 
 
 socialistic tendencies. He is a man fearless in 
 defense of his honest convictions, unequivocal in 
 his position, and no one has occasion to question 
 upon which side he is to be found. While re- 
 siding in Sweetwater, Tex., he was made a 
 Mason in Sweetwater Lodge No. 571, A. F. & 
 A. M., and by affiliation is now connected with 
 Pacific Lodge No. 50, of Salem. He also holds 
 relations with the Woodmen of the World, with 
 the Knights of the Maccabees and the Salem 
 Press Club, the Order of Lions, and formerly 
 belonged to Ramona Parlor, Native Sons of the 
 Golden West, of Los Angeles. He is also the 
 secretary of the Greater Salem Commercial Club. 
 Under the auspices of the latter club the Greater 
 Salem Mid- Summer Carnival was conducted, 
 lasting from June 29 to July 4, 1903. It was pro- 
 nounced a thorough success, no little credit being 
 due to the general manager, Mr. Judah. An en- 
 terprising citizen, liberal and progressive, Mr. 
 Judah is well known in his adopted city, and the 
 circle of his friends is extensive. His has been 
 an eventful and interesting career, and the rem- 
 iniscences of his travels and experiences make 
 him an entertaining conversationalist. 
 
 NANCY W. HARRIS. The daughter and 
 granddaughter of pioneers, it was natural that 
 Mrs. Nancy W. Harris should have the same 
 courage that made her ancestors leave their 
 homes in the land of their birth, and start away 
 into the wilderness to aid in the upbuilding of 
 a new territory and grapple with the greater 
 opportunities of a new country. Her grand- 
 father, Francis Hodge, of English blood, made 
 his home in North Carolina, where he married 
 Miss Nancy Walker, who was of Scotch-Irish 
 descent. Their son, William H. Hodge, the 
 father of Mrs. Harris of this review, was born 
 in Wentworth, Rockingham county, N. C, 
 January 14, 1794. In 1820, he settled in San- 
 gamon county, 111., having previously spent 
 some time in Tennessee and Kentucky. In 
 Kentucky he married Miss Rachel Wall, a na- 
 tive of that state, born in Warren county, 
 March 9, 1799. Their marriage occurred in 
 1814, the couple being very youthful. Mr. 
 Hodge spent his years engaged in tilling the 
 soil, though for four years, from 1827 to 1831, 
 he served as sheriff of Tazewell county, 111. 
 Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hodge, of whom Margaret Robinson is de- 
 ceased; Nancy W. Harris is the subject of 
 this review, and was born in Sangamon 
 county, 111., November 26, 1821 ; Andrew met 
 his death in the Mexican war; Newton lives 
 in McLean county, 111. ; Mary J. Hill makes 
 her home in California ; William lives in Mc- 
 
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 I can county, 111.: James resides in the same 
 •i : and Harriot Woodworth lives in 
 ington, III. The father and mother both 
 ed in McLean county, to which they had 
 at an early day, mention being made of 
 them as among the first settlors of that county. 
 cy VV. Hodge married Hugh C. Harris, 
 \vh>> was horn in Athens county, Ohio, December 
 1S1S. the son of Francis Harris. The Har- 
 - family settled early in Delaware county, 
 Ind., and there Hugh C. grew to manhood and 
 1 in farming. When twenty-one years 
 he left home, and coming to Illinois, 
 he settled in McLean county in the neighbor- 
 hood oi the Hodge farm, where he engaged in 
 farming for himself. April 7, 1840, occurred 
 the marriage of Nancy W. Hodge and Hugh 
 Harris, the two making their home in Illi- 
 nois until 1853. when they decided to try their 
 unes on the western slope of the Lnited 
 both having the pioneer principles firm- 
 ly implanted in their lives. They commenced 
 the journey March 18, 1853, from the home 
 place in McLean county, bound for Oregon. 
 They started with twenty-two head of cattle, . 
 but on their arrival at Eola September 18 of 
 the same year they had but eleven. The same 
 winter they bought a farm near Rickreall, 
 Polk county, where they continued to live 
 for five years, at the end of which time they 
 traded for their present place, a farm of one 
 hundred and ninety acres located at Oak 
 e. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Harris are as follows: William H.. deceased; 
 dariam Allen, of Salem ; Emmeline Hannah, 
 of Salem ; Charles, deceased ; Elizabeth Heise, 
 on an adjoining farm ; Scott, of Spokane, 
 Wash.: Belle Putnam, of Gilliam county; 
 Mary Chitwood, deceased; Emerson, at home; 
 )llie Goodnough, of Portland ; and Andrew, of 
 ifornia. Five of the children were born in 
 their Illinois home. 
 
 The death of Mr. Harris. April 27, 1888, was 
 a much regretted occurrence, he being acciden- 
 tally killed while on the road to Rickreall with 
 a load of produce. He had always been a 
 prominent man in the community, taking an 
 intelligent interest in the affairs of the day, 
 serving as road supervisor and in various school 
 offices for several years. He was a Republi- 
 can in politics. Religiously he belonged to the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of Oak Grove, 
 where Mrs. Harris still holds membership. 
 
 EDWARD HIRSCH. one of the representa- 
 tive citizens of Oregon, has held manv offices of 
 public trust and has been found loyal and efficient 
 because he is an honorable business man and be- 
 
 cause of a social, genial nature which is quick 
 to recognize true worth in others. Everywhere 
 these qualities have won for him warm regard, 
 ami it is safe to say that lew nun in I Iregon have 
 111. >re friends than has Edward Flirsch, who is 
 now postmaster at Salem. He has been a resi- 
 dent of this state since 1858. His father was 
 Sampson Flirsch and in the family were ten 
 children, who came to the new world, while six 
 of the number became residents of Oregon. In 
 the year 1854 Leopold -Hirsch arrived in this 
 state and after engaging in merchandising in 
 Portland for a time, followed a similar pursuit 
 in Salem, where his death occurred. In 1856 
 J. B. Hirsch arrived in Salem, where he carried 
 on merchandising until his death. In 1856 Mayer 
 Hirsch likewise arrived in this city and was an 
 enterprising merchant here until his life's labors 
 were ended. In 1858 Solomon and Edward 
 Hirsch came to this state, the former settling 
 in Portland. In 1864, Mrs. Herman, a sister, 
 also arrived in Portland. 
 
 Edward Hirsch was born May 3, 1836, in 
 Hohebach, Wurtemberg, Germany, and when 
 only nine years of age was left an orphan. He 
 then left his native village and went to Esslingen, 
 where he resided for five years, during that time 
 acquiring a good common-school education. At 
 the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a mer- 
 chant in Giebelstadt, Bavaria, where he remained 
 for four years, and in 1855 he sailed for America, 
 attracted by the business possibilities and oppor- 
 tunities of the new world. Manassa and Bern- 
 hard Hirsch, his brothers, had previouslv located 
 in New York, where they were engaged in mer- 
 chandising. As a passenger on the sailing- ves- 
 sel Splendid, Edward Hirsch left Havre, France, 
 in 1855 and after a vovage of fortv-two davs 
 reached Xew York City. Soon afterward, how- 
 ever, he went to Sheakleyville. Mercer county. 
 Pa., where he was engaged in clerking, receiving 
 about $75 per year in remuneration for his serv- 
 ices. He then went to Griffin, Ga., where he ob- 
 tained a salary of $200 per vear. and later at 
 Macon, Ga., he was paid $300 per vear. In 1858 
 he accompanied his brother Solomon to Oregon 
 by way of the Xew York route and the Isthmus 
 of Panama, the fare being $200. They left Xew 
 York in March as passengers in the Star of the 
 West, which took them to Aspinwall. and from 
 there they sailed on the Golden Age to San Fran- 
 cisco, where, upon the steamer Pacific, they came 
 to Portland and in April, 1858, Mr. Flirsch, of 
 this review, arrived in Salem. * He had practically 
 no capital, but he had good credit, and under 
 the firm name and style of E. & S. Hirsch he and 
 his brother Solomon opened a general mercantile 
 store at Dallas. Polk county, the place then con- 
 taining a population of about one hundred. 
 After two years spent at that place the brothers 
 
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 returned to Silverton, Marion county, where they 
 opened a general mercantile store and remained 
 there four years, at the end of which time they 
 disposed of their enterprise and dissolved the 
 partnership. Solomon Hirsch then went to Port- 
 land, while Edward Hirsch came to Salem. In 
 1863 he formed a business connection whereby 
 he acted as a salesman for his brothers until 
 1866. In the meantime he had become interested 
 in the Eagle Woolen Mills Company at Browns- 
 ville, and in that year removed to Brownsville 
 in order to become manager of the mills, which 
 he conducted until 1868. 
 
 In that year Mr. Hirsch was married in Salem 
 and returned to this city to make his home. Here 
 he engaged in general merchandising as a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Herman & Hirsch, a connec- 
 tion that was maintained continuously and suc- 
 cessfully for ten years, or until his election to the 
 office of state treasurer in 1878. He was nom- 
 inated upon the Republican ticket and elected by 
 a majority of eleven hundred, the highest major- 
 ity given to any candidate on the ticket ; in fact, 
 the candidate for governor was defeated, but Mr. 
 Hirsch's election was the beginning of Repub- 
 lican successes in the state and many a victory 
 has his party since enjoyed. He took the oath 
 of office in September, 1878, and filled the posi- 
 tion so acceptably and honorably that in 1882 
 he was re-nominated and re-elected, receiving a 
 greatly increased majority, numbering about five 
 thousand. He then served until January, 1887, 
 a law having been passed to end the term of office 
 in that month. He left the position not only 
 with the confidence and respect which was given 
 him when he entered it, but also with the com- 
 mendation of the public. When he took the oath 
 of office the state was $1,000,000 in debt and the 
 taxes were seven mills on the dollar. At the 
 close of his second term, owing to his capable 
 control of the finances, the state was not only 
 free from all indebtedness, but had met all cur- 
 rent expenses, had erected a number of public 
 buildings, including the state capitol and the 
 insane asylum, the taxes had been reduced to less 
 than two mills on the dollar and he turned over 
 to his successor one-half million dollars in gold 
 coin. This is the best record in the financial his- 
 tory of Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Hirsch subsequently retired to private life, 
 but his fellow citizens were not content that he 
 should remain out of office and in 1890 he was 
 chosen state senator, serving in the sessions of 
 1 89 1 and 1893. During that time he was in- 
 strumental in securing the passage of the bill 
 for the completion of the state capitol and for in- 
 stituting its heating and plumbing systems. His 
 efforts resulted in the passage of other measures 
 which proved of great public benefit, and in 1893 
 he was chairman of the important ways and 
 
 means committee. In August, 1898, Edward 
 Hirsch was appointed by President McKinley to 
 the position of postmaster of Salem, taking the 
 office August 15 of that year. In July, 1902, he 
 was reappointed by President Roosevelt, so that 
 he is now serving his second term. In March. 
 1903, the postal department of Salem was es- 
 tablished in new offices. Under the adminis- 
 tration of Mr. Hirsch, which has been practical 
 and progressive, the postoffice receipts have been 
 greatly increased, the business of the office has 
 been systematized and extended and there are 
 now nine different rural routes delivered from 
 this office and five city delivery routes. In other 
 local affairs Mr. Hirsch has been prominent and 
 for three terms he has served as a member of the 
 city council of Salem. In 1876 he was chairman 
 of the Republican County Central Committee and 
 throughout the years of his residence here he has 
 been untiring in his efforts to promote the growth 
 and insure the success of Republican principles. 
 In 1868 Mr. Hirsch was married to Miss Nettie 
 Davis, who was born in Prussia, and in 18C7, 
 with her parents, became a resident of Browns- 
 ville, Linn county, Ore. To Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch 
 were born seven children : Ella E. ; Lulu, now 
 Mrs. Byron Loomis ; Guy; Maude, Mrs. Edwin 
 McMahill, of Dayton, Ohio; Gertrude; Meyer, 
 and Leona, all residents of Salem. Mr. Hirsch 
 belongs to Chemeketa Lodge, No. 1, I. O. O. F., 
 of which he is past noble grand, and to Willam- 
 ette Encampment, of which he is the past chief 
 patriarch. He is also a member of Illihee Club. 
 His record is indeed an honorable one and re- 
 flects credit upon his native land and his adopted 
 country. The pursuit of wealth has not been 
 his sole object in life and, though he has pros- 
 pered, he has yet found time and opportunity 
 to aid his state to faithfully discharge the duties 
 of high official positions and to throw around 
 him much of the sunshine of life which comes 
 from a genial nature, a kindly disposition, from 
 deference for the opinion of others and from a 
 recognition of the worth of those with whom he 
 has been brought in contact. 
 
 WILLIAM M. HILLEARY, one of the influ- 
 ential and public-spirited farmers of the vicinity 
 of Turner, Marion county, was born in Des 
 Moines county, Iowa, February 21, 1840, and 
 was reared on a typical middle west farm. His 
 father, James Hilleary, was born near Winches- 
 ter, Va., in 1814, and was reared principally in 
 Kentucky, to which state his father, Francis, 
 removed from his native state of Maryland at a 
 very early day. When eighteen years of age, 
 James Hilleary removed with his parents to San- 
 gamon county, 111., settling on a farm, from 
 which they removed the next year, in 1833, locat- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 4!»; 
 
 near Burlington, Iowa. There the grand- 
 er look up government land, and spent the 
 ler of his life, dying in 1844. In [837, 
 
 Hilleary married Nanc) .Morris, who was 
 - North Carolina January 1. 1819. and 
 s >till living on the old farm near Burling- 
 Twelve children were horn to this couple, 
 order of their birth being as follows: James 
 - Moines county, Iowa; William M., of 
 •1; Mary J., wife of VV. P. Perry, residing 
 11 the vicinity of Burlington, Iowa; George, liv- 
 1:1 Des Moines county. Iowa: Thomas, de- 
 Sarah, who died when young; Lydia, 
 . ceased : Irene, the wife of James O. Beebe, 
 1 Des Moines county, Iowa; Margaret E.. liv- 
 :h her mother; Roger W., living on a farm 
 - London. Iowa; Etta, the deceased wife of 
 tarles Moffit, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Henry 
 M.. who carries on farming near the old home 
 in Iowa. Mr. Hilleary was seventy-five years 
 old at the time of his death, and for many years 
 he had been a member of the Baptist Church, 
 contributing liberally towards its support. 
 
 In his youth William M. Hilleary worked hard 
 on the paternal farm, yet managed to acquire a 
 fair common school education. That he started 
 out in life practically without means was evident 
 from the fact that he worked his way across the 
 plain> in 1861, driving ox teams and making 
 mself generally useful. Arriving in Nevada, 
 he went from there to California, reaching Ore- 
 in the fall of 1861. In the meantime his 
 uncle, William Morris, had located on a farm 
 near Turner, Marion county, and hither the 
 youth repaired and remained for the winter, 
 -ting his relative with the work around the 
 farm. In the spring of 1862 he went to the 
 nines around Florence. Idaho, returning to 
 Marion county in August, 1862. The following 
 r he rented his uncle's ranch near Turner, 
 and n 1863 helped to build a flouring mill at 
 ille. Realizing his lack of educational op- 
 portunity in the earlier days, he began to study 
 and improve himself generally, and after taking 
 a course at the Santiam Academy at Lebanon, 
 1 in school teaching in Linn county in the 
 summer of 1864. 
 
 In December. 1864. Mr. Hilleary enlisted in 
 lpany 1". First Oregon Infantry, for frontier 
 service, and after six months spent at Camp Hos- 
 kins. was ordered to Vancouver, Wash., and 
 was afterward stationed in the barracks at Walla 
 Walla. Wash., and Boise City, Idaho. In May, 
 i8f>f>. he returned to Walla Walla, and was dis- 
 charged at Vancouver, July 21. 1866, having 
 been in the service nineteen months, and having 
 attained to the rank of corporal. Returning to 
 Linn county. Ore., he taught school until the 
 spring of 1868, and that year bought the farm 
 upon which he has since lived. In August, 1867, 
 
 he was united in marriage with Irene L. Cor- 
 nelius, who was horn November 13, 1847, a 
 daughter of (ieorge Cornelius, one of the early 
 pioneers of Oregon. The father of the latter, 
 Absalom Cornelius, had a good common school 
 education, was of a progressive mind, and was 
 noted for his honesty and uprightness of charac- 
 ter. He was chosen by the Indians as arbitrator 
 in their difficulties in Oregon, and his decision 
 was always abided by. He never had an enemy, 
 and was temperate in his habits. Owning a good 
 farm, and meeting with success in his undertak- 
 ings, he was enabled to give all his children a 
 start in life. Three children have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hilleary, of whom Clara A., born 
 August 24, 1868, became the wife of H. L. Earl, 
 a hardware merchant of Turner. Mrs. Earl, 
 who died May 14, 1903, was an influential mem- 
 ber of the local Grange and of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and was an artist of no mean merit. She 
 was universally beloved and her death was deeply- 
 mourned. Homer E., born July 14, 1870, is a 
 locomotive engineer of the Southern Pacific 
 Railway, and a resident of Ashland, Ore. ; and 
 Lloyd E., born April 12, 1885, is living at home. 
 For four years Mrs. Hilleary was editor of the 
 Oregon department of the Pacific Rural Press, 
 the official organ of the Grange, and was the 
 first to memorize the master's work and lectures 
 of the local Grange. For several years she served 
 as an officer in the State Grange, as well as in 
 the local organization. Her religious affiliation 
 is with the Christian Scientists. 
 
 The Hilleary farm consists of two hundred 
 acres of bottom land, splendidly improved, and 
 adapted to various purposes. An extensive gen- 
 eral farming, stock-raising and dairy business is 
 carried on, all of which departments net their 
 enterprising owner a good yearly income. As a 
 promoter of Republican politics in Marion count\ 
 Mr. Hilleary has had few more active contempo- 
 raries. He has been on the school board for 
 many vears, has served as justice of the peace 
 for twelve years, and has been judge of elections. 
 The present prosperity of the Turner Grange is 
 largely due to his interest in its welfare in the 
 earlv davs, and to his continued effort to enlarge 
 its sphere of usefulness since he became a char- 
 ter member in 1873. At present he is identified 
 with Surprise Grange No. 233, and was master 
 of the State Grange from 1896 until 1900. having 
 previously served as assistant steward of the 
 same, as steward, master and secretary. He was 
 also a member of the state legislative committee 
 of the State Grange. In his official capacity with 
 the State Grange, he and his wife have visited 
 all parts of the country, as delegates to the na- 
 tional body. He served as regent of Oregon 
 Agricultural College of Corvallis four years. He 
 
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 is also a member of Sedgwick Post No. 10, G. A. 
 R., of Salem. 
 
 The entire career of Mr. Hilleary has been 
 characterized by strict attention to the many du- 
 ties which have entered into his daily life, and 
 his success is due to his unflagging energy, enter- 
 prise and integrity. Those who know him best 
 acknowledge him to possess a character above re- 
 proach. On numerous occasions he has exhib- 
 ited a high public spirit and an earnest desire to 
 do all in his power for the promotion of those 
 movements calculated to advance the best inter- 
 ests of Marion county. He takes broad views of 
 affairs in general, and has become firmly estab- 
 lished as a useful and progressive man of affairs. 
 The record of his life should prove a source of 
 inspiration to the youth of the present generation 
 who start upon their careers no better equipped 
 than he, as well as a source of great pride to the 
 members of his family. 
 
 JOHN SAPPINGFIELD. In the death of 
 John Sappingfield, which occurred on his farm 
 eight miles east of Salem, March 8, 1903, Mar- 
 ion county lost one of its oldest and most 
 highly esteemed pioneer inhabitants. Mr. 
 Sappingfield was born in Davis county, N. C , 
 November 25, 1809, when even the eastern 
 states were in their infancy, and at a period 
 when the great " Oregon country " was a wil- 
 derness practically unknown to the civilized 
 world. When he was a year old his parents, 
 George and Catherine (Myers) Sappingfield, 
 moved to southern Indiana, then regarded as 
 far " out west," settling in Harrison county, 
 where they lived upon a farm most of the 
 time. In the course of time they removed to 
 Parke county, that state, and about 1833 moved 
 still further westward into Iowa. In the latter 
 state they devoted their energies to farming in 
 Des Moines and Monroe counties until 1847, 
 when they removed to Davis county and took 
 up a tract of land under the homestead laws of 
 the country. 
 
 John Sappingfield had remained with the 
 family in their various locations until they 
 decided to settle in Davis county, Iowa, when 
 he determined to seek his own fortune inde- 
 pendently. May 27, 1838, he married Mary 
 Hagey, a native of the same county in North 
 Carolina which witnessed his own birth, and 
 who had been brought by her parents to Des 
 Moines county, Iowa. The young people felt 
 the spirit of their fathers strongly exercised 
 within themselves, and when the parents of 
 Mr. Sappingfield finally decided to make Davis 
 county their home, he and his bride concluded 
 to seek an improvement in their fortunes in 
 the great northwest, of whose wonderful re- 
 
 sources they had heard so many tales from the 
 lips of travelers who had visited Oregon Ter- 
 ritory. 
 
 With their hearts fired by a most laudable 
 ambition, they therefore set forth, in 1847, 
 leaving the associations of their childhood and 
 youth behind them, but with their minds fully 
 made up to brave any and all dangers which 
 might confront them, and to remain true to 
 their purpose of assisting in laying the founda- 
 tion of a great commonwealth in the land be- 
 yond the mountains. They started across the 
 plains with two wagons, three yoke of oxen 
 to each, accompanied by their family of three 
 children, following the trail known in those 
 days as the " middle route." After a long and 
 wearisome journey of six months they arrived 
 in Oregon, coming at once to Marion county, 
 the destination of many of the far-seeing farm- 
 ers who had emigrated from the east. Here 
 Mr. Sappingfield almost immediately rented 
 some land on the old Edmundson claim. This 
 was in the fall of 1847. Subsequently he pur- 
 chased the right to a donation claim located 
 about eight miles east of Salem, which he re- 
 garded as the most fertile of the available land 
 in the county. In the spring of 1848, he erect- 
 ed on this property a log house of one room, 
 its site being the same plot of ground where 
 he afterward built one of the most commodious 
 homes of the day. Without any unnecessary 
 delay he began the improvement of the land, 
 and in the fall of that year brought his family 
 to their new home, where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his life. 
 
 From time to time Mr. Sappingfield was able, 
 with the accumulation of years, to increase his 
 landed possessions. His first step in this di- 
 rection consisted of taking up six hundred and 
 forty acres, about eighty acres of which was 
 in prairie and the remainder in timber and 
 small brush. To clear this land and prepare it 
 for the fruits of the harvest time presented a 
 herculean task, but it was not gigantic enough 
 to daunt the sturdy and determined owner, 
 who at once applied himself to the work with 
 energy. During the years he devoted himself 
 to the undertaking, he succeeded in making it 
 one of the finest and most productive pieces 
 of property in Marion county, and, indeed, in 
 the entire Willamette valley. At the time of 
 his death Mr. Sappingfield was the possessor 
 of three hundred and twenty acres of the orig- 
 inal donation claim, upon which they settled in 
 1848, and on which he erected three substan- 
 tial houses. To his honor it is to be said that 
 he assisted materially in the construction of 
 nearly all the roads in the neighborhood of 
 his home. 
 
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 his equally faithful wife, now in her eighty- 
 fourth year, the couple forming, during the lat- 
 ter years of their lives together, almost the last 
 link with a historic and romantic past. Their 
 k>ng ami useful life together was peculiarly 
 I'hev accumulated an abundance of 
 worldly goods and innumerable friends, and 
 their recollections of more than a half century 
 <>f life in the northwest enriched every passing 
 Their union has been blessed with the 
 g children: William, a prominent resi- 
 
 I of the state of Washington ; Louisa, de- 
 George, deeeased; Amanda, wife of J. 
 r. King, a resident of Marion county; John W., 
 deeeased : Henry A., a farmer of Marion county; 
 and 1'harles. The last-named son married 
 Mary E. Given, in September, 1892, and the 
 young couple make their home on the farm oc- 
 cupied for so many years by their parents, the 
 same having been given over to their manage- 
 ment. 
 
 Thus is told, though necessarily in brief outline, 
 the story of the career of one of the worthy found- 
 
 >f tlie empire of the northwest. His business 
 
 .city, his integrity of character, and his splen- 
 did personality, supplemented by his appreciation 
 of the early possibilities of this region of the 
 country, render his record one that will endure 
 
 1 monument to the important part he bore 
 in the development of one of the most favored 
 agricultural localities in the whole world. 
 
 URIAH WHITNEY. Various enterprises 
 in Marion county have enlisted the interest of 
 Uriah Whitney, a pioneer of 1858, and at pres- 
 ent living on a finely cultivated and profitable 
 farm near Stayton. Mr. Whitney was born on 
 a farm near Lewiston, Androscoggin county, 
 Me., March 23, 1834, a son of Thomas and 
 Naomi (Eaton) Whitney. When six years of 
 age he was taken by his parents to St. Clair 
 county. 111., where his father combined his 
 trade of brick mason with general farming. 
 After the death of his mother in 1842, he was 
 taken to the home of Robert Higgins, a pros- 
 perous and prominent farmer residing in St. 
 Clair county, with whom he found a pleasant 
 home and excellent guardianship. Upon at- 
 taining the age of twenty-one years he received 
 from Mr. Higgins the sum of $150. Thereafter 
 he remained with his friend, who was almost 
 a tather to him, for two years, receiving in re- 
 turn for services rendered Si 10 per year. This 
 seemed a large amount to the farmer youth of 
 that day, and young Whitney was no exception 
 to the rule in this respect. After leaving the 
 employ of Mr. Higgins he worked for various 
 other farmers in the neighborhood, and by 1858 
 
 had quite a sum of money saved up. In the 
 meantime he had determined to better lus con- 
 dition, if possible, by taking an early advantage 
 of the wellnigh boundless opportunities of- 
 fered by the great west and its almost fabulous 
 resources. Therefore, in 1858, he started upon 
 his journey for Oregon, going by way of 
 New York City, where he embarked aboard the 
 ship Washington, bound for Graytown, and 
 thence to Aspinwall. Crossing the Isthmus 
 of Panama, he re-embarked on another steamer 
 bound for San Francisco. But in order to do 
 so, he was obliged to borrow $50 to pay for 
 his ticket, the preceding stages of the voyage 
 having used up about all his money. 
 
 December 24, 1858, he arrived in Marion 
 county, with practically no capital excepting 
 his health, energy and ambition to succeed in 
 life. The first year he worked in a sawmill 
 and gristmill, for which he received the sum 
 of $330. After working on a farm for W. M. 
 McKinney for a year he was employed by 
 other farmers. In 1861 he drove a herd of cat- 
 tle across the mountains to Umatilla, for stock- 
 dealers, and in 1862 embarked in a mining ven- 
 ture near Florence, Idaho, to which region he 
 traveled with two pack-horses. The extent of 
 his success in this venture may be judged 
 when it is stated that instead of driving that 
 team home he was compelled to make his way 
 back afoot, a sadder and wiser man. 
 
 Upon returning to Marion county Mr. 
 Whitney sought to recoup his losses by work- 
 ing upon farms. After saving some money in 
 this way, he embarked in a general merchandis- 
 ing business in Aumsville with W. H. Darby, 
 continuing thus for five years, and making a 
 success of the business. After disposing of his 
 interest to E. E. McKinney in the spring of 
 1871, he bought his present farm of four hun- 
 dred and twenty acres for $10 per acre. Hav- 
 ing thus assured himself of a home, he re- 
 turned the same year to Maine, where he was 
 married to Martha T. Whitney. Returning 
 with his young wife to the farm just pur- 
 chased, he resided there for two years, and 
 then engaged in the mercantile business with 
 the Hon. W. H. Hobson at Stayton. Upon 
 selling his interest in this business he estab- 
 lished a store at Aumsville with the same part- 
 ner. After disposing of that he removed to 
 Stayton and erected the property now known 
 as the Gardner Flouring Mills. At the same 
 time he started another general merchandise 
 store at Stayton, and ,while managing both 
 these enterprises became prominently identi- 
 fied in other ways with the best interests of 
 the community. Misfortune overtook him in 
 1878, when the store wes destroyed by fire. 
 Soon afterward he traded the flouring mills for 
 
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 six hundred and forty acres of land situated in 
 the Waldo Hills. After living on the new 
 property for a year, he took his family on a 
 visit of four months to Maine, spending a 
 most delightful time among the scenes of his 
 childhood. Returning to his farm in the Waldo 
 Hills, he lived there for another year, and 
 then returned to his original farm of four hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, purchased at the time 
 of his marriage in 1871, and upon which he is 
 now making his home. Since locating there 
 he has spent about eight years in Stay ton, 
 where he owned and operated a general store 
 with W. W. Elder; but in 1899 he took up his 
 permanent abode where he now resides, and 
 here he is conducting general farming and 
 stock-raising. 
 
 Five children have been born into the family 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney. Lillie is the wife 
 of Thomas E. Worley of Albany, Ore., and is 
 the mother of four children : Byron Uriah, 
 Sherman, Augusta and Frederick ; Lena C. is 
 the wife of Frank Sylhaven of Stayton, and 
 has a daughter, Pearl Naomi Shafer ; Martha 
 N., Laura and Henrietta are deceased. 
 
 Mr. Whitney cast his first presidential vote 
 for James Buchanan, and ever since has been 
 a staunch supporter of the Democratic party. 
 He has never sought for public office though 
 he served fox two years as mayor of Stayton, 
 for one year was councilman, and for one year 
 was treasurer. Fraternally he was originally 
 associated with Pearl Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 
 of Turner, of which he was a charter member, 
 and is now a member of Santiam Lodge No. 
 25, at Stayton. To him is due the distinction 
 of having been treasurer of the Masonic lodge 
 for twenty-five consecutive years. 
 
 No man in Marion county has a more en- 
 viable reputation for personal worth, probity 
 and sound business judgment than Mr. Whit- 
 ney. At all times he has striven to make his 
 daily life an exemplification of the Golden 
 Rule, which has been the cardinal principle of 
 his religion. He has found many opportunities 
 to benefit his fellowmen by sound advice and 
 offers .of assistance of a more practical and 
 substantial nature, and he has never been 
 known to oppose the progress of any project 
 intended to develop the resources of the Wil- 
 lamette valley or to enhance its standing as 
 one of the most desirable places of residence 
 in the world. His long years of residence in 
 the state and the success which has attended 
 his efforts in many lines of endeavor consti- 
 tute a career worthy of appreciation and emu- 
 lation. The young men of the present gener- 
 ation may well regard the brief record of his 
 life here presented as a model for their guid- 
 ance ; for honesty of purpose, integrity of 
 
 character, perseverance, industry and a single- 
 ness of determination toward the goal of hon- 
 orable success have been the principles which 
 have formed the foundation of his entire 
 career. 
 
 CHARLES H. BURCH. No history' of 
 Yamhill county would be complete without 
 mention of Charles H. Burch, who is a vener- 
 able and honored citizen and has resided in 
 this state since 1844. Great have been the 
 changes which have occurred in this period and 
 wonderful the development, and Mr. Burch has 
 ever manifested a deep and active interest in 
 public progress and improvement. He was 
 born in Sheridan county, Mo., and was but two 
 years of age at the time of his mother's death. 
 His father was a physician and in the family 
 were five children. Our subject remained at 
 home until ten years of age, when his father 
 died, and from that time until his sixteenth 
 year he resided with his father's parents, ac- 
 quiring his early education in the district school 
 and afterward pursuing a course of study in 
 the high school at Keytesville, Mo. At the 
 age of sixteen he made a long and difficult 
 journey across the plains, joining an emigrant 
 train. He rode a mule and continued with the 
 train until he reached Fort Bridger, Wyo., 
 when he left the party with which he had trav- 
 eled and came on into Oregon, being the first 
 white emigrant to land in Oregon City. Set- 
 tling first at Salem, he remained until 1846, 
 when he went to California, and while there 
 he enlisted in Company A, of the California 
 Mounted Riflemen, under command of Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel John C. Fremont, later General, 
 for service upon the frontier. While in Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Fremont's Company, at San 
 Miguel, Cal., he was detailed with another 
 man, named Ryan, to arrest a spy, and Mr. 
 Burch made the arrest alone at Mission San 
 Miguel. The spy was tried by court martial, 
 found guilty and shot by Colonel Fremont's 
 order. Mr. Burch was mustered in at Sacra- 
 mento and with his regiment went to Old 
 Monterey and afterward to Los Angeles, where 
 he was mustered out, having served for sev- 
 eral months. He then returned to Sacramento, 
 where he followed mining and prospecting and 
 for some time in connection with another man 
 he made all of the saddles used by General 
 Kearney. About 1840 he purchased a farm in 
 the vicinity of Marysville, Cal., on which he 
 lived for about two years and then sold that 
 property, returning to Yamhill county, Ore., 
 where he took up a donation claim of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres. He still owns a part of 
 
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 this and tlio property is conveniently and pleas- 
 ated about two miles east of Amity. 
 In 1S51 Mr. Burch was united in marriage 
 ss Phebe Buffum, a native of Illinois, 
 ne with her parents to the northwest in 
 Mr. and Mrs. Burch began their domes- 
 life upon the donation claim and here they 
 sided continuously since. They had thir- 
 n children: Hiram, who is living in Crook 
 it\ . ( 're. ; Jane, at home : Clay, who makes his 
 me in McMinnville ; Charles H., who resides 
 in Amity; Ann. who is living- in Newburg; 
 >rgia, a resident of Dayton, Ore.; Idress, 
 Louisa and Victoria, all at home; and four 
 who died in infancy. 
 
 At the present time Mr. Burch owns and 
 operates two hundred and eighty-five acres of 
 rich and arable land and is carrying on general 
 farming and stock-raising, making a specialty 
 of Durham cattle. He has made all of the 
 improvements upon his place and now has a 
 well developed farm equipped with good build- 
 ings and all modern accessories, and for sev- 
 eral years in connection with his farm work 
 he followed the carpenter's trade. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Burch has been 
 a stalwart Democrat since casting his first 
 presidential vote. He is regarded as one of 
 the prominent and influential residents of this 
 portion of Oregon and at one time he was one 
 of the most extensive farmers of Yamhill 
 county. His capability and his fitness for lead- 
 ership led to his selection for legislative hon- 
 and in 1878 he was chosen to represent his 
 district in the state senate. In 1884 he was 
 elected for a second term, at both times over- 
 coming a large Republican majority, a fact 
 which indicates his personal popularity and 
 the confidence and trust reposed in him by 
 those with whom he has long been associated. 
 Few men can claim the distinction of having 
 arrived in Oregon in 1844. but this honor is 
 due Mr. Burch, and since that time he has 
 spent the greater part of his life in this state, 
 -ting in the work which has brought Yam- 
 hill county forth from its pioneer environment 
 to its present state of progress and importance. 
 He is a man whose intrinsic worth of character 
 is widely recognized, and with pleasure we 
 present to our readers this record of his career. 
 
 COL. A. B. GILLIS. M. D.. surgeon-general 
 of the Oregon National Guard, and one of the 
 most distinguished specialists in the treatment 
 iseases of the eye. ear. nose and throat in 
 the state, now makes his home in Salem, where 
 he has been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession since 1893. He was born in Strathal- 
 byn, May 15, 1854. a son of Malcolm and Hat- 
 
 tie (Mathison) (iillis. His father was bom in 
 Rothsay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a son of 
 Col. Malcolm (iillis, who was an officer in the 
 British army ami saw service in India and on 
 the continent. I pon leaving his native coun- 
 try Malcolm Gillis, Jr., became a resident of 
 Prince Edward Island, where he followed the oc- 
 cupation of farming. In his religion he was a 
 devoted member of the Presbyterian faith, fol- 
 lowing the inclination of his forefathers for 
 many preceding generations. His wife was 
 born on the island of Arran, off the coast of 
 Scotland. Her father occupied official posts 
 under the government for several years, and 
 spent his entire life in Scotland, where his 
 death occurred. Malcolm Gillis, father of Col. 
 A. B. Gillis, died in Charlottetown in 1884, and 
 his widow is still living there. They were the 
 parents of six sons and two daughters. 
 
 The subject of this review, the second 
 youngest child in the family, is the only one 
 residing in the United States. After being 
 graduated from the Charlottetown normal 
 school his inclination led him to ship aboard a 
 merchant vessel, and for two years he was en- 
 gaged in the East Indian trade. He signed in 
 the capacity of supercargo, sailing under Cap- 
 tain Steward. During his voyages he visited 
 Calcutta, Madras and the most important ports 
 of China and Japan. Upon the expiration of 
 his two years' service upon the sea he engaged 
 in educational Avork in Ontario, continuing to 
 follow the profession of teaching for several 
 years. In the meantime he began the study 
 of medicine under the direction of Dr. Hark- 
 ness of Dundas, Ontario, and afterward entered 
 the literary department of Victoria University 
 at Coburg. Subsequently he matriculated in 
 the Royal Medical College, from which he re- 
 ceived the degrees of M. D. and C. M. in 1888. 
 
 In the meantime, in 1885, his studies had 
 been interrupted by the outbreak of the dis- 
 turbances in the Canadian northwest known 
 in history as the Louis Riel Rebellion, in 
 which he served as second lieutenant in com- 
 pany D, P. W. R.. until the close of the insur- 
 rection. After having received an honorable 
 discharge he resumed his preparation for a 
 medical career. From 1885 to l &&7 he occu- 
 pied the position of demonstrator of anatomy 
 in the Royal Medical College and graduated 
 with the highest honors a surgeon in the 
 Kingston General Hospital in 1888. In the 
 winter of 1891 he occupied the post of house 
 surgeon in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hos- 
 pital. In 1892 he pursued a soccial course of 
 study in the Xew York Post Graduate School, 
 devoting his researches there to diseases of 
 the eye, ear, nose and throat. In 1898 he pur- 
 sued studies along the same lines in the Chi- 
 
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 cago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, lie 
 also studied in Vienna under Professors Polit- 
 zer and Schnitzler. 
 
 Dr. Gillis maintained an office in Truro, 
 Nova Scotia, until 1890. After his return, in 
 1893, from his studies in the principal medical 
 centers of Europe, he located in Salem, where 
 he has been continuously engaged in practice 
 for ten years, devoting especial attention to 
 those diseases for which he has thoroughly 
 prepared himself. He is located in the Bush 
 building, and has an extensive and lucrative 
 practice, which is constantly growing in im- 
 portance. 
 
 In 1890 Dr. Gillis .married Anna Marie 
 Krebs, cousin of the famous concert pianiste, 
 Marie Krebs. Like her cousin, Mrs. Gillis has de- 
 voted her entire life to music, her musical edu- 
 cation being completed abroad. While in Ber- 
 lin she studied under Karl Klindworth. In 
 Vienna she had the distinguished honor of 
 being accepted by Theodore Leschetizky. 
 
 At their home Dr. and Mrs. Gillis dispense a 
 lavish hospitality, both having a large and ap- 
 preciative circle of friends in Salem. Dr. Gillis 
 is popular in the Masonic fraternity. He was 
 made a member of the craft in Arcadia Lodge 
 No. 4, and is now identified with Salem Lodge 
 No. 4, A. F. & A. M.; Royal Arch Chapter 
 No. 7, of Salem; De Molay Commandery No. 5, 
 of which he is Past Eminent Commander ; Al 
 Kader Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of 
 Portland, and has taken all the Scottish Rite 
 degrees up to and including the thirty-second. 
 He was made an Odd Fellow in Ontario, and 
 is a charter member of the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective. Order of Elks. He is also connected 
 with the Illihee Club and the Greater Salem 
 Commercial Club. 
 
 In 1897 Dr. Gillis was appointed by the pen- 
 sion department to the position of expert pen- 
 sion examiner. He is also a member of the 
 State Board of Medical Examiners, having 
 been appointed by Governor Lord and reap- 
 pointed by Governors Geer and Chamberlain. 
 He holds membership in the Marion County 
 Medical Society, and for some time has occu- 
 pied the chair of ophthalmology and laryngology 
 in the medical department of Willamette Uni- 
 versity. On the nth of July, 1898, he received 
 from Governor Lord the appointment as sur- 
 geon-general of the Oregon National Guard 
 with the rank of Colonel, and was reappointed 
 by Governor Geer, and still holds the office. 
 
 During the years of his practice in Salem 
 Dr. Gillis has come -to be recognized by his 
 professional contemporaries as one of the most 
 highly qualified practitioners in his specialty 
 in the state. His scientific labors have been 
 rewarded with a great measure of success, 
 
 which has come to him as the logical result of 
 close application, a strong intellect and marked 
 devotion to his chosen calling. He is still as 
 great a student as ever, and keeps constantly 
 abreast of the most advanced thought in medi- 
 cal science. Dr. Gillis is a man of fine phy- 
 sique, pleasing presence and an engaging per- 
 sonality, and is honored and respected by all 
 who know him. 
 
 JAMES K. CHARLTON. Occupying a 
 place of distinction among the most respected 
 residents of Albany is James K. Charlton, a 
 retired agriculturist, and an ex-sheriff of Linn 
 county. He is a typical representative of the 
 self-made men of our state, beginning life with 
 no other equipments than the energetic ambi- 
 tion and force of character natural to him. 
 Without a query as to whether or no life was 
 worth living, he has done his best from youth 
 up to make it so, and by sheer force of an 
 active spirit and an indomitable will, guided 
 by sound sense and high principles, he has 
 met with grand success in his business career. 
 A Virginian by birth, he was born in Monroe, 
 W. Va., May 30, 1824, a son of John Charlton. 
 His Grandfather Charlton, a life-long farmer 
 of Monroe, W. Va., was a direct descendant of 
 one of the early Scotch settlers of the Old 
 Dominion and inherited in a marked degree the 
 thrift and industrious habits of his ancestors. 
 
 Born on a farm in Monroe, W. Va., John 
 Charlton lived in his native town until 1826, 
 when he removed with his family to Greenbrier 
 county, W. Va., locating on a farm where he 
 remained until 1848. He then removed to Jef- 
 ferson county, Iowa, and later moved to Davis 
 county, same state, where he died. He mar- 
 ried Charlotte Kyle, who was born in West 
 Virginia, and died in Oregon. Her father, John 
 Kyle, who was born in Ireland, emigrated to 
 this country when sixteen years of age, and 
 settled in West Virginia, where he was for 
 many years a noted school teacher. Of the 
 union of Mr. and Mrs. John Charlton ten chil- 
 dren were born, five of whom came from Iowa 
 to Oregon, namely: Charles, now residing in 
 Ellensburg, AVash. ; James K., the special sub- 
 ject of this sketch ; Madison, who died in 
 Sprague, Wash. ; Allen, who lives near Ellens- 
 burg, Wash. ; and Mrs. William Cyrus, of 
 Salem, Ore. 
 
 Obtaining a limited education in the sub- 
 scription schools of his native town, James K. 
 Charlton struck out for himself in 1846. Walk- 
 ing to Charleston, W. Va., a distance of one 
 hundred and ten miles, he then proceeded by 
 boat down the Big Kanawha river to the Ohio 
 river, then down that stream, and up the Mis- 
 
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 507 
 
 ppi river to Keokuk. Iowa. Continuing his 
 irnej on fool he walked sixty miles before 
 iching liis point oi destination, Fairfield, Jef- 
 5011 county. Although the rich prairie land 
 through which he passed could be bought Eor 
 $1.25 per acre, lie had not money enough to 
 obtain title to a little bit o\ it. Going to work 
 on a farm for $10.00 a month, he remained in 
 that locality until the fall of the year, when he 
 went to the Wisconsin pineries, where he re- 
 mained during the winter season. Returning 
 to ['airfield, Iowa, in the spring of 1847, he 
 married and settled on a farm, which he con- 
 ducted with fair success a number of years. 
 Being stricken with the gold fever in 1850, he 
 with two of his brothers crossed the Missouri 
 river at Council Bluffs and started for Cali- 
 fornia with ox-teams, taking the old California 
 trail. On account of the prevalence of cholera 
 along that route Mr. Charlton decided while 
 at Fort Bridger, Wyo., to change his plans and 
 come to Oregon. Arriving in the Willamette 
 valley on September 8, 1850, he and his broth- 
 ers spent the winter in a logging camp, then 
 went to California, where they were engaged 
 in prospecting a short time. 
 
 Soon afterward Mr. Charlton sailed from 
 San Francisco for Panama and, having crossed 
 the Isthmus on foot, took the ship Cherokee 
 hound for Xew York City, from there returning 
 to Fairfield, Iowa, by way of Chicago. Re- 
 suming his farming operations he resided there 
 until 1853, when he moved with his family to 
 Putnam county. Mo., where he was engaged in 
 tilling the soil until 1866. Rigging up two 
 wagons, one drawn by horses and the other by 
 mules, he started. May 2, of that year, for 
 ( >regon, and arrived in Harrisburg, Linn 
 county, July 28, 1866. Buying two hundred 
 acres of land on the forks of the Santiam river, 
 about eight miles east of Lebanon, he was 
 there successfully engaged in farming and 
 -tock-raising until 1893, when he disposed of 
 his property and moved to the village of 
 Lebanon. Since the death of his wife, which 
 occurred at Lebanon in 1893, Mr. Charlton has 
 resided in Albany, where he is retired from 
 the active cares of business. 
 
 In Iowa, in 1847, ^I r - Charlton married Mar- 
 tha Keltner, a native of Illinois, and they be- 
 came the parents of five children, namely An- 
 drew, a farmer in Nevada ; Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Martin, who died in Albany ; Henry, who is en- 
 gaged in the stock and lumber business near 
 Pendleton ; Charles, who is guard in the state 
 penitentiary at Salem, Ore. ; and James. James 
 Charlton, a finely educated young man, was 
 first graduated from Albany College, afterward' 
 receiving his diploma from Princeton Uni- 
 versity, N. J., and then entered Columbia Law 
 
 School, in New York City, where he was grad- 
 uated. Returning from .Yew York to Oregon 
 he opened a law office in Albany. Three 
 months later a severe attack of lung fever so 
 prostrated him that he was forced to leave the 
 country for the benefit of his health. Going to 
 Denver, Colo., he was there successfully en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession until 
 his death, January 31, 1903. Mr. Charlton is 
 actively identified with the Democratic party 
 and has served with fidelity and ability in pub- 
 lic office. In 1884 he was elected sheriff of 
 Linn county and held the position two years. 
 He was also county commissioner for two 
 years, performing the duties devolving upon 
 him in that capacity with the utmost satisfac- 
 tion to all concerned. Pie is a practical Chris- 
 tian and a valued member of the Baptist 
 church. 
 
 JOHN A. HUNT. The Hunt family is de- 
 serving of especial prominence in a record of 
 the lives of the men who have shed lustre upon 
 the history of Oregon for many reasons, not 
 the least of which are the facts that it is one 
 of the oldest English families to be founded in 
 America, as well as one of the earliest pioneer 
 families of the state of Oregon. Its representa- 
 tives have won fame on the field of battle, in 
 the legal arena, in statecraft, in literature and in 
 various other honorable fields of endeavor. Prob- 
 ably no other family has furnished to the country 
 a greater number of men and women of distinc- 
 tion. 
 
 John A. Hunt inherits from his Quaker an- 
 cestors sterling traits of character and the thrift 
 and industry which have enabled him to win a 
 place among the most successful and honored 
 citizens of the Willamette valley. He was born 
 near Liberty, Ind., November 28, 1836, and is 
 a son of John S. Hunt, a native of Smithfield, 
 Ind. The latter emigrated to La Porte county, 
 Ind., in 1835, erected the first house in the 
 town of Byron, and became prominent and influ- 
 ential in the early undertakings of that com- 
 munity. After a few years' residence in that state 
 he commenced to make preparations to cross the 
 plains, and in March, 1847, started for Oregon, 
 arriving at his destination with his family in 
 the fall of that year. In the Waldo Hills, Marion 
 county, he took up a claim, built a -home, and 
 soon afterward erected the first school-house in 
 the vicinitv. He also erected a building which 
 he made the headquarters for his blacksmithing 
 and gun shop, the first in the Waldo Hills. 
 There was no lack of demand for his handiwork, 
 and he prospered until selling out his interests 
 in 1854. For many years thereafter he con- 
 
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 ducted a hotel in Salem, his little hostelry becom- 
 ing" a popular meeting ground for all who desired 
 to learn of important local happenings. Here 
 he died at the age of fifty-seven years, leaving 
 behind him the legacy of a good name and a 
 considerable property. His first wife, Temper- 
 ance Estep, to whom he was married May 8, 
 1823, dying in 1851, he married for a second wife 
 Mrs. Nancy Smith, widow of Dr. Smith, who 
 died July I, 1847, on his way to Oregon. (For 
 further family history, the reader is referred to 
 the sketch of Jeptha T. Hunt, which appears 
 elswhere in this volume.) 
 
 Although but eleven years of age when he 
 arrived in Oregon, John A. Hunt retains a vivid 
 recollection of his experiences on the plains, and 
 of the part he bore in assisting in the establish- 
 ment of the family in their new quarters. Nat- 
 urally he spent a good deal of time about his 
 father's shop, and he inherited the latter's me- 
 chanical ability to a great extent. At the age of 
 twenty he began to work at the wagon-maker's 
 trade in Salem. In 1858 he moved upon a part 
 of his father's donation claim, which he pro- 
 ceeded to improve, and upon which he resided 
 until 1877. His next place of residence was 
 southern Oregon, where, in the vicinity of Oak- 
 land, he purchased four hundred and fifty acres 
 of land, and lived there until 1882. Being better 
 satisfied with Marion county, he then located on 
 the farm where he now lives, and which consists 
 of two hundred and twenty acres. He also owns 
 three hundred and twenty acres of his father's 
 old place, making his total holdings five hundred 
 and forty acres. He carries on general farming 
 and stock-raising, making a specialty of Short- 
 horn cattle and Cotswold sheep. Located twelve 
 miles from Salem, on the state road, this prop- 
 erty is valuable and finely developed, and Mr. 
 Hunt is to be congratulated upon the happy 
 chance which directed the footsteps of his father 
 in this direction ; also upon the wise manage- 
 ment and business ability which has enabled him 
 to accomplish so much toward the improvement 
 of the agricultural interests of Marion county. 
 
 Through his marriage with Mary E. Amon, 
 which occurred on July 9, 1858, five children 
 were born into the family of Mr. Hunt. Of 
 these Mary Caroline is deceased ; Elizabeth G. 
 is the wife of Franklin G. Albaugh of Ashland, 
 Ore.; Matilda A. lives at home; and the others 
 are Howard B. and Nancy C, deceased, and an 
 infant, deceased. 
 
 In politics independent, Mr. Hunt has exhib- 
 ited a keen interest in public affairs of his neigh- 
 borhood. While a resident of southern Oregon he 
 served as a representative in the state legislature, 
 and held numerous local offices. He was school 
 director for many years, and school clerk during 
 a portion of that period. He is a member of 
 
 the Baptist Church, and has done much to further 
 the interests of that denomination wherever he 
 has resided. Mr. Hunt's life has been charac- 
 terized by strict integrity and a devotion to the 
 best interests of the public. Whenever the op- 
 portunity to assist in the furtherance of any 
 worthy enterprises has presented itself to him, 
 he has been found a liberal contributor toward 
 that end. In all respects he is acknowledged to 
 be a man of public spirit, with broad and lib- 
 eral ideas regarding questions of public policy. 
 With the history and traditions of his ancient 
 and honored family behind him, it is hardly to 
 be wondered at that he has always been actuated 
 by an ambition to do nothing to bring the name 
 into disrepute, but, on the contrary, to add to its 
 prestige by his own good works. 
 
 REV. SAMUEL GLASGOW IRVINE, 
 D. D. Phillips Brooks once said " Great is he 
 who in some special location does 'good and 
 helpful work for his fellowmen. Greater still 
 is he who, doing good work in his special oc- 
 cupation, carries within his devotion to it a 
 human nature so rich and true that it breaks 
 through his profession and claims the love and 
 honor of his fellow-men simply and truly as 
 a man." These words emphasize the position 
 which the late Rev. Samuel G. Irvine, D. D., 
 occupied during his long and useful pastorate 
 in the United Presbyterian Church of Albany, 
 Ore. A man of deep religious convictions, the 
 dominant forces of his character were sin- 
 cerity of purpose and absolute fidelity to the 
 higher interests of his parish and people. A 
 certain inspiration or fervor marked his spir- 
 itual labors, and his wonderful personality at- 
 tracted to him persons of all kinds and condi- 
 tions, rendering his ministrations beneficial 
 not only to those under his immediate charge 
 but to the entire community. A descendant on 
 both sides of the house of Scotch divines, he 
 was born August 14, 1826, in Wooster, Ohio, 
 and died October 31, 1895, in Albany, Ore. His 
 father, Rev. Samuel Irvine, D. D., was born in 
 County Tyrone, Ireland, of pure Scotch an- 
 cestry. Coming to America with his parents 
 when young, he was brought up in Hunting- 
 don county, Pa., where he received his ele- 
 mentary education. After his graduation from 
 Jefferson College he assumed charge of the 
 Associate Presbyterian Church at Wooster, 
 Ohio, and subsequently preached in different 
 localities in that state, remaining there until 
 his death, in 1861. He married Maria Glas- 
 gow, who was born in Pennsylvania, being a 
 descendant of an honored Scotch family that 
 produced several ministers of note. 
 
 Receiving his early education in the public 
 
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 schools of Wooster and Fredericksburg, Ohio, 
 mel G. Irvine subsequentlj worked Eor 
 te time as a dork in a general store, there 
 uiring such business knowledge and habits 
 were ever afterward oi great value to him. 
 Desirous, however, of continuing his studies, 
 he entered Franklin College, at New Athens, 
 where lie was graduated with the degrees of 
 A. B. and A. M. in 1845. Afterward he studied 
 theology ;it Canonsburg, Pa., for two years, 
 college before graduation to accept the 
 presidency of Muskingum College at Xew 
 icord, Ohio, and while there completed his 
 studies under private tutors. On July 9, 1850, 
 h< was licensed to preach by the Muskingum 
 Presbytery, by which he was ordained as a 
 ninister March 12, 1851. Subsequently preach- 
 ing as opportunity afforded he had charge of 
 mission church in Xew York City from May, 
 1851, until the following August, when the As- 
 ate Synod appointed him as missionary in 
 the wilds of Oregon. 
 
 Leaving Xew York City in August, 1851, Dr. 
 Irvine and his wife came by way of Panama to 
 San Francisco and after spending a few weeks 
 in that city arrived at Willamette, Ore., in 
 ( >ctober of that year. Preaching his first ser- 
 mon in Oregon City on November 9, 1851, he 
 came up the valley the next week to Albany, 
 where he soon after laid the foundation for his 
 future work. Taking up a donation claim ten 
 miles south of Albany and about a half mile 
 of the Willamette, he there established his 
 home and began his ministerial labors. In 
 common with his few neighbors he endured 
 all the privations and hardships of pioneer life 
 ourageously, by his cheerful bravery, manli- 
 ness and hearty sympathy, helping others to 
 wisely bear their heavy burdens. His salary 
 being meagre and educators few, he taught in 
 a district school for a time, and for a year was 
 an instructor in Albany College. In 1856 he 
 was largely instrumental in merging the Asso- 
 ciate Presbyterian Church and the Associate 
 Reformed Church with the United Presby- 
 terian Church, and for a number of years there- 
 after had charge of the Willamette and Albany 
 churches. His influence in both organizations 
 proved rich and salutary, his services being 
 highly appreciated by the intelligent people 
 that made up his congregations. As the 
 churches grew in size and power, his time was 
 wholly taken up by one society, so that, in 
 1874, he resigned his Willamette charge, from 
 that time until the fall of 1893 devoting his 
 work to the Albany church, his labors in the 
 Master's vineyard, with the exception of two 
 years spent in the east, being almost contin- 
 uous for more than four decades. In i860 he 
 journeyed east with his family, going by way 
 
 of the isthmus, and returning in [86l, In 1869 
 
 he made another visit to bis eastern home and 
 in 1878 he spent a short time in Ohio, while 
 there being honored by his alma mater with 
 the degree of D. 1). lie likewise had' the dis- 
 tinction of serving as moderator of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly which met that year in Cam- 
 bridge, Ohio. For a number of years Dr. Irv- 
 ine served most faithfully as one of the trus- 
 tees of Albany College, and for two terms was 
 identified with the educational progress of the 
 state as superintendent of the Linn county 
 schools. Fie was a staunch Republican in poli- 
 tics, and took a keen interest in local affairs. 
 
 The doctor's last illness was long and pain- 
 ful, but he bore all of his afflictions without 
 murmur, cheerfully submitting to God's will, 
 trusting that, as the poet says, "somehow, 
 good will be the final goal of ill." Troubled 
 with rheumatism for many years, even to the 
 extent of losing the sight of one eye and being 
 threatened with total blindness, he neverthe- 
 less retained the full mental vigor for which 
 his youth was distinguished, and continued in 
 active service until compelled to take to his 
 bed in August, 1892. In January, 1893, his 
 life was brought very near to its close by an 
 aggravated attack of pneumonia. He rallied, 
 however, and for awhile there were bright 
 hopes of his complete recovery. A relapse oc- 
 curred in the summer, and in October, 1893, he 
 sent in his resignation as pastor of the Albany 
 church. The congregation, while feeling sorry 
 to be obliged to accept the resignation of their 
 faithful pastor and beloved friend, requested 
 that the doctor might remain with them as pas- 
 tor emeritus, which was conceded, with the 
 provision that it should go into effect the fol- 
 lowing June. This delay gave Dr. Irvine an 
 opportunity to act as host to the General As- 
 sembly, which was to convene in Albany at its 
 next annual meeting. Though filled with 
 physical suffering, his last days were filled 
 with joy and brightness, and he passed away 
 peacefully and quietly, as one who lies down 
 to pleasant slumber. 
 
 "His youth was innocent; his riper age 
 Marked with some acts of goodness every day; 
 And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and 
 
 sage, 
 Faded his late declining years away; 
 Cheerful he gave his being up and went 
 To share the holy rest that waits a life well 
 
 spent." 
 
 Dr. Irvine married first, March 27, 1851, in 
 Cambridge, Ohio, Mary Rainey, who was born 
 in Ireland, and came to America with her 
 father, William Rainey, for many years a 
 prominent merchant of Cambridge. She was 
 
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 a woman of culture and a graduate of Steuben- 
 ville Seminary, Ohio. She died in the spring 
 of 1869, leaving four children, namely: Maria, 
 a graduate of Albany College, married W. H. 
 Gaston, and died in Tacoma, Wash., in 1896; 
 Mrs. Cora J. Stewart, of Albany, who was 
 also graduated from Albany College ; Eliza- 
 beth, of Albany, was graduated from Musk- 
 ingum College, New Concord, Ohio ; and O. H., 
 formerly an attorney at McMinnville, Ore., 
 died in 1901. The doctor married for his sec- 
 ond Avife, December 6, 1871, Mrs. Margaret M. 
 Osburn, of Peoria, Ore. Mrs. Irvine was born 
 in Warren county, 111., near Little York. Her 
 father, James Martin, a native of Cambridge, 
 Ohio, and of thrifty Scotch-Irish ancestry, was 
 an early settler of Illinois, and one of its pio- 
 neer farmers. Starting for Oregon in 1852 he 
 left Missouri in April, crossing the plains with 
 mule and horse teams, and arrived in Peoria, 
 Linn county, Ore., in September, 1852, bring- 
 ing with him his wife and child. Purchasing 
 land, he cleared a good farm, and was here en- 
 gaged in his chosen occupation during his re- 
 maining years. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Nancy Smith, was born in Pennsylvania 
 and died in Linn county, Ore., in 1894. Both 
 were members of the United Presbyterian 
 Church. Margaret M. Martin, their only child, 
 married first Alfred H. Osburn, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, and for many years a teacher in 
 Linn county schools. He died in manhood's 
 prime, leaving one child, Nancy Temperance, 
 wife of J. W. Blain, of Oakland, Cal. Dr. and 
 Mrs. Irvine became the parents of two chil- 
 dren, namely : Samuel E. and J. Clement. 
 Samuel E. Irvine, who was graduated from 
 both the Albany and the Monmouth colleges, 
 studied theology at Allegheny Seminary, and 
 is now pastor of the United Presbyterian 
 Church at Etna, Pa. J. Clement Irvine, a 
 graduate of Albany College, is now assistant 
 cashier of the First National Bank of Albany. 
 
 PETER RILEY. Representing the agri- 
 cultural interests of Linn county as one of its 
 best and most favorably known farmers and 
 stock-raisers is Peter Riley, of Albany, who 
 has won an extended reputation as a breeder 
 of fine horses, in that special branch of indus- 
 try being one of the most prominent men of 
 the Willamette valley. Beginning the battle 
 of life for himself when but a boy, he has stead- 
 ily trod the pathway of success, advancing step 
 by step, and now occupies a firm position 
 among the most prosperous citizens of the 
 town or county, being highly esteemed for his 
 many fine traits of character. A son of Ed- 
 ward Riley he was born April 15, 1846, in 
 
 County Kildare, Ireland, the home of his an- 
 cestors for many generations. His paternal 
 grandfather, John Riley, emigrated from the 
 Emerald Isle to the United States and settled 
 in St. Louis, Mo., where he followed his trade 
 of a merchant tailor until his death. 
 
 Born and brought up in Ireland, Edward 
 Riley first came to the United States when 
 about twenty-three years of age. A merchant 
 tailor by trade, he followed it first in Chicago, 
 111., then in St. Louis, Mo., where he was made 
 a citizen of the United States. Subsequently 
 returning to the scenes of his childhood, he 
 married a fair Irish maiden, Catherine Swords, 
 and settled in County Kildare, where he re- 
 mained until after the death of his wife. Com- 
 ing again to America with his motherless chil- 
 dren he settled in Jamaica, 'Long Island, where 
 he followed his former trade with good suc- 
 cess. Of his nine children seven survive, Peter, 
 the special subject of this sketch, being the 
 fourth child in succession of birth. 
 
 Being but twelve years of age when he 
 crossed the ocean with his father in 1858, Peter 
 Riley completed his early education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Jamaica, Long Island, studying 
 three years. Beginning life as a wage-earner 
 in 1861, he was tow boy on the Lehigh canal 
 for a short time. Anxious to see more of his 
 adopted country, he started for California in 
 1865, taking the Panama route from New York 
 City to San Francisco. Arriving on the coast 
 he worked on a farm a short time, afterward 
 being brakeman on the Central Pacific Rail- 
 road for a year. Subsequently locating in 
 Wheatland, Cal., he worked on a farm, and 
 then resumed railroad work, being first em- 
 ployed on the San Joaquin Railway, afterward 
 being on the Sacramento and Vallejo Railroad, 
 and on the branch road extending to Marys- 
 ville. Crossing the mountains with a mule 
 train in 1869 Mr. Rilev came to Oregon as an 
 employe of the construction company that had 
 charge of the building of that part of what is 
 now the Southern Pacific Railroad, extending 
 from Salem, Ore., to Roseburg. Continuing 
 with the same company he subsequently as- 
 sisted in building the branch of the Northern 
 Pacific Railway that extends from Kalama, 
 Wash., to Tacoma, Wash., being foreman and 
 having charge of the teams. 
 
 On the completion of the road, Mr. Riley 
 located in Linn county, Ore., where he pur- 
 chased two hundred acres of land lying two 
 miles north of Albany along the river. Em- 
 barking in the wool business he has met with 
 signal success, keeping a fine grade of Angora 
 goats, which have proved profitable in this 
 locality. In addition he is extensively inter- 
 ested in breeding draft horses, making a spe- 
 
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 cialt) oi the Clydesdale and Percheron, also 
 
 g a choice stock oi French and Belgian 
 
 -. He formerly owned a noted Percheron 
 
 stallion. Desires, imported by Dunham, and 
 
 uus a fine stallion. Don, imported from 
 
 ini. and the registered Clydesdale stal- 
 
 [unius. Among the younger stallions that 
 
 raising are Percherons, Clydesdales and 
 
 ans, all of superior stock and breed. Mr. 
 
 Riley is an extensive landholder, owning the 
 
 entire block bounded by Jackson, Railroad, 
 
 Third and Fourth streets, and here has his fine 
 
 residence, his large barns and woodyard. He 
 
 carries on general farming on a large scale. 
 
 In Marion county. Ore.. Mr. Riley marrieu 
 Mary Hunt, who was born in that county, a 
 daughter oi Thomas Hunt, a pioneer settler. 
 located there in 1847. Five children have 
 been born to their union, namely: Thomas Ed- 
 ward, with the Corvallis & Eastern Railway 
 Company ; James Valentine, a horseman, en- 
 I in business with his father: Katie, who 
 died at the age of twelve years ; Nellie M., wife 
 of John Scott, of Albany ; and William. Po- 
 litically Mr. Riley supports the principles of 
 the Democratic party by voice and vote, and 
 ormerly a member of the County Central 
 Committee. Fraternally he is a member of 
 the Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 CHARLES CARROLL STRATTOX. A. M., 
 D. D.. was born in Tioga county, Pa., of Xew 
 England ancestry, his mother, Lavinia Fitch, 
 being from Vermont, and his father, Curtis P. 
 Stratton. from Hartford county, Conn. Through 
 his paternal grandmother, whose maiden name 
 was Hannah Adams, he was related to the Con- 
 necticut branch of the Adams family. His father's 
 anc run back in Xew England to the first 
 
 half of the seventeenth century, and thence to 
 London, where the family emerges into recorded 
 recognition as early as 1520. 
 
 In 1837 Curtis P. and Lavinia Stratton, with 
 their young children, removed from Pennsyl- 
 vania to Jefferson county, Ind., and settled 
 a short distance back of Madison, on the Ohio 
 river. About the same time also Myron Strat- 
 a younger brother, came west from Pennsyl- 
 vania and settled in Jeffersonville. Ind. This 
 was the father of Winfield Scott Stratton, well 
 noun as the owner of the Independence mine, 
 Jut to be known hereafter much better and longer 
 he munificent founder of the Myron Stratton 
 Home in Colorado Springs, for the aged and 
 infirm. In 1852 the father and oldest brother. 
 Riley E. Stratton, afterwards of the Oregon bar 
 and bench, came to the Pacific coast around 
 C ape Florn. After stopping for a time in Cali- 
 da they came on to Oregon, for which they 
 
 had originally started, and after looking over the 
 country for a time wrote for the remaining mem- 
 bers of the family to sell their belongings in 
 Indiana and meet them in Oregon. This was 
 effected and the journey across the plains with 
 ox teams was accomplished with the usual priva- 
 tions, hardships and dangers, but without anv 
 serious disaster. The family at this time con- 
 sisted of the father and mother, then fiftv-four 
 and fifty-one years of age, respectively, and ten 
 children — five sons and five daughters. The 
 parents were truthful, honest, plain people of 
 good antecedents and blood, who desired to give 
 their children the best education in their power, 
 and train them to habits of truthfulness, industry 
 and thrift. 
 
 The eldest son. Riley Evans Stratton, was 
 then thirty-two years of age, a classical graduate 
 of Farmers' College (Ohio), a junior member 
 of the Madison (Indiana) bar, and married to 
 Sarah M. Dearborn, of an old family in that city, 
 a woman of many attractions of mind and per- 
 son. After the death of Judge Stratton she mar- 
 ried Smith Kearney, a well known Portland 
 capitalist. 
 
 Soon after settling in southern Oregon Mr. 
 Stratton was elected prosecuting attorney and 
 on the admission of Oregon into the Union as a 
 state he was elected to the bench of his circuit 
 and became ex officio a justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the state. He was an easy, graceful 
 and lucid public speaker and upright judge, and 
 his early death at the age of forty-four years 
 cut short a promising career. The next sur- 
 viving member of the family was Delia C, then 
 the wife of James I. Patton, who, with their 
 young family, were among the early settlers of 
 the Umpqua valley. Following her was Sarah 
 Victoria, afterwards wife and widow of Harvey 
 Gordon, editor and proprietor of the Oregon 
 Statesman, after A. Bush, and his successor as 
 state printer, a man of brilliant gifts and great 
 promise, whose career was terminated by a 
 premature death when but little over thirty 
 years of age. The next of the family in 
 order of age was Charles Carroll, the subject of 
 this sketch, the leading incidents of whose life 
 will follow later. After him came Horace Fitch, 
 at one time a member of the lower house of the 
 Oregon legislature and later a member and pres- 
 ident of the council in the Washington legis- 
 lature. Milton Adams, the first of the family 
 born in Indiana, was well known in business 
 circles in Salem, Oregon City and Portland. He 
 served a term as mayor in Oregon City and was 
 president of the First X'ational Bank of East 
 Portland at the time of his death, in 1895. All of 
 the remaining members of the family were born 
 in Indiana. Lura Melvina married Archibald 
 Simmons and lived and died in Springfield, near 
 
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 Eugene, where her children and grandchildren 
 still reside. Augusta Josephine married Dr. 
 Samuel Whittemore, at the time assistant sur- 
 geon in the navy, and later in the United States 
 army. He died in 1898 and his family reside in 
 Washington. Judge Julius Augustin has chosen 
 Seattle for his home. He began life as a printer 
 in Salem, Ore. This enabled him to make his 
 way through the classical course of Willamette 
 University. By the same means he studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar in Salem. After 
 several years of successful practice there, during 
 which time he was reporter for the Supreme 
 Court, he removed to Seattle, where he ■ ac- 
 quired a large and lucrative practice, was for a 
 term on the bench 'of the Superior Court, and 
 now lives in comfortable retirement. Irene Has- 
 seltine is the youngest daughter and child. She 
 married Parrish L. Willis, a well known and 
 wealthy attorney of Portland, Ore. He has rep- 
 resented his district as a member of the state 
 senate and been an efficient promoter of many 
 local enterprises by which the welfare of the 
 city has been advanced. 
 
 Of this large family of twelve children — -for 
 two sleep in Indiana — Charles Carroll was the 
 sixth. Stimulated by the example of his older 
 brother, reinforced by his own tastes, he resolved 
 early in life to become a scholar, as that term 
 was then understood, and moved by his moral 
 convictions to become a minister. His plans 
 were postponed and somewhat marred by the 
 unwillingness of his mother to go to the Pacific 
 coast without him, as money which he had begun 
 to lay aside was spent in the journey to the Pa- 
 cific and he had to make the best of the imperfect 
 educational advantages of the young state. His 
 first season was spent with his brothers Horace 
 and Milton in aiding his father on the 
 new farm in the Umpqua valley where the family 
 first settled. Then he joined a surveying party 
 in the mountains for several months. The net 
 proceeds of this service were less than $200, but 
 with this he started for Salem, the seat of the 
 newly chartered Willamette University, at that 
 time the most promising of the two or three in- 
 stitutions, of large name and hope but slender 
 facilities, within reach. Being an expert penman 
 he was able to supplement his inadequate means 
 by writing one-half of each day in the adjutant- 
 general's office and by this means remained in 
 school. This continued until the sophomore 
 year, in 1858. His classmates at this time were 
 J. A. Odell, T. L. Davidson, Roswell L. Lamson 
 and James Carey. For different reasons these 
 young men had to leave the institution and he, 
 being left alone, was advised by President F. S. 
 Hoyt to leave the school for the present, enter 
 the Oregon conference for which he was pre- 
 paring, bring up his studies g.s he best could, 
 
 and graduate later. This advice he pursued, and 
 took his final examinations and received the de- 
 gree of A. B. from the university in 1869, at 
 thirty-six years of age. Meantime he had been 
 pastor in Dallas, Roseburg, Jacksonville, Oregon 
 City, Olympia and Portland and was at that 
 time pastor in Salem. 
 
 In i860, while pastor in Roseburg, he had 
 married Julia Elenor Waller, daughter of Rev. 
 A. F. Waller, one of the early missionaries sent 
 out to evangelize the Indians of Oregon. Those 
 who knew the sterling qualities of Father Waller 
 during his lifetime, and the equally sterling qual- 
 ities of Elepha Waller, his wife, will not need 
 to be assured that Dr. Stratton found in his wife 
 a worthy helpmate. To them have been born 
 two children, Mary Elepha and Harvey Gordon, 
 who are still with them. 
 
 The year following his graduation Dr. Strat- 
 ton was elected to the chair of natural science in 
 his alma mater, but was dissuaded by Bishop 
 Ames from accepting, and received the appoint- 
 ment of presiding elder of the Portland district. 
 Up to this time he had been for six years secre- 
 tary of the conference, but this appointment for- 
 bade his re-election. In the fall of 1871 he was 
 selected by his conference to represent them in 
 the general conference, which met in Brooklyn 
 in 1872. This was the first general conference 
 wherein lay delegates were admitted, and as the 
 episcopate was to be strengthened and it was 
 finally decided to elect eight additional bishops, 
 the session was. of more than ordinary interest. 
 He has been a member of two general confer- 
 ences since, in 1880 and 1892, but thinks this one 
 altogether the most interesting in his experience. 
 
 On the way to and from the general confer- 
 ence Dr. Stratton stopped off at Salt Lake City, 
 and soon after returning to Salem, where he now 
 lived, a telegram was received from Bishop Fos- 
 ter appointing him to the First Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church in that place. The three years which 
 followed were years of great activity and de- 
 voted especially to completing the building of 
 the First Church there and setting forward its 
 religious interests. This was the third promi- 
 nent church enterprise with which he had been 
 identified, viz., the First Church of Portland, 
 still the hive of Methodism there; the First 
 Church, Salem, toward which he had secured 
 over $20,000 on subscription, laid the corner- 
 stone and begun the superstructure, and now the 
 Salt Lake City Church. At the end of his pas- 
 torate there he transferred to the California con- 
 ference and was appointed to the pastorate of 
 the First Church in San Jose. Here were spent 
 two quiet and useful years. Before the end of 
 the second year he was elected president of the 
 University of the Pacific, many of the students 
 and most of the faculty of which had been his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 15 
 
 parishioners during the two years of his pas- 
 there. The nexl ten years wore full of 
 sibilit) and services, with some degree of 
 - as well. The year following his election 
 presidency of the university he was reo- 
 rganize and load the Chautauqua 
 n the Pacific coast. On the death- 
 Bishop E. O. Haven he designated Dr. 
 n as his literary executor, to edit and com- 
 • autobiography, at that time about half 
 and to publish, if the demand should justify, 
 ns from his sermons and university lec- 
 tures. The autobiography was completed and 
 blished at once: the sermons and lectures await 
 encouraging market. Meantime the uni- 
 and the Chautauqua associations made 
 idy progress; and the university buildings, 
 gues and financial statements of that period 
 hear testimony to its substantial improvement. 
 At this time Dr. Stratton's excessive overwork 
 gan to tell upon his health and symptoms of 
 paralysis led him to listen to the advice of his 
 physician. Dr. Wythe, to resign both as presi- 
 dent of the university and as leader of the Chau- 
 tauqua movement. Every reasonable induce- 
 ment was held out for him to remain, especially 
 in the university, and these inducements were 
 renewed after the retirement of Dr. Hirst, his 
 • >r there, and after his own return to 
 n, but considerations on the other side 
 rbalanced them and he persisted in his 
 ".ution. During this period of educational 
 work Dr. Stratton was especially remembered 
 by fellow educators, the degree of D. D. hav- 
 ing been conferred by the Willamette, Ohio 
 Wesleyan and Northwestern Universities. He is 
 o a life director of the National Educational 
 - iciation. Soon after this overtures began 
 coming from his friends in Oregon, and espe- 
 cially from President Van Scoy of Willamette 
 University, looking to his return to his early 
 field as chancellor of that institution. All of 
 these letters contained .information that a plan 
 was on foot which had taken definite shape at 
 the last session of the Oregon conference, by the 
 appointment of a large committee of influential. 
 members to confer with a similar committee to 
 be designated by the trustees of the university 
 ; to the selection of a more suitable point and 
 r the institution. In this correspondence 
 Portland was the point generally favored, espe- 
 cially by Dr. Van Scoy. All of this preceded 
 Dr. Stratton's return to Oregon and was in- 
 tended to pave the w^ay therefor. His selection 
 as head of Willamette University ; his return to 
 Oregon : the action of the joint committee above 
 referred to in selecting Portland as the point for 
 the building of what was intended to be a great 
 university: the ratification of this action by an 
 overwhelming majority of the Oregon confer- 
 
 ence and (he refusal of the trustees of Wil- 
 lamette to accept the report of their own com- 
 mittee are matters of history. 
 
 It was not in contemplation that Willamette 
 University should cease to be an educational 
 center or that its property should be interfered 
 with, but that its grade should be changed, that 
 it should be affiliated with the larger and better 
 located central institutions, in common with 
 other institutions to be located in different parts 
 of the state and northwest was proposed. 
 
 The organization of Portland University, the 
 selection of trustees to represent the business lay 
 element of the northwest, the alumni of the in- 
 stitution, and the Oregon, Puget Sound, Colum- 
 bia river and Idaho conferences, the election of 
 H. W. Scott as president of the board, and, not- 
 withstanding his many engagements, his accept- 
 ance of the trust with "his accustomed public 
 spirit, the election of Dr. Stratton as president 
 of the institution, the selection of the site at 
 University Park, the purchase of the land, the 
 organization of the Portland Guarantee Com- 
 pany to endorse the bonds by which the lands 
 were to be paid for, the early promise 
 of the school, the failure of its finances undei 
 the collapse of 1894-5 and 6 are known to 
 all. But it is not so well known that the sales 
 of University Park property during the years 
 1892-3 and 4 were sufficient to provide for the 
 interest on the total indebtedness, the redemption 
 of the bonds at maturity and leave a large sur- 
 plus in land for permanent endowment. The 
 lands were sold on contracts and were to be paid 
 for in one, two and three years. On account of 
 the pressure of the times and the decline of 
 prices, payments on these purchases defaulted 
 in shoals. After a time this general defaulting 
 of purchasers of property resulted in the stop- 
 page of interest payments on bonds. Then fol- 
 lowed legal complications and the property finally 
 passed into the hands of one of the religious 
 orders of the Catholic Church. The influences 
 which operated against the payments for the 
 lands sold at University Park tended to stop 
 the collection of subscriptions toward the Uni- 
 versity building fund. Many thousands of dollars 
 in pledges which had been depended on 
 to meet payments on contracts with build- 
 ers defaulted. In order to protect the credit 
 of the University, President Stratton drew 
 on private funds while they lasted and then used 
 his credit until it became necessary for him to 
 retire from the University and look after the wel- 
 fare of his family. All of these matters have 
 been dwelt upon with so much detail because 
 they were so intimately related to the life of our 
 subject. The fate of Portland University lie 
 sometimes speaks of as his crucifixion. It has in 
 
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 a measure turned him aside from his chosen call- 
 ing and shadowed the closing years of his life. 
 
 Dr. Stratton's family still reside at University 
 Park, while most of his time is spent in Chicago, 
 until he can complete his plans and retire to 
 the rest befitting his years and to the home 
 circle for which he longs. 
 
 EUGENE LINCOLN REMINGTON. One 
 of the most expert machinists as well as large 
 property owners of Woodburn is Eugene Lin- 
 coln Remington, owner and proprietor of Rem- 
 ington's bicycle and gun store, recognized as, one 
 of the reliable and necessary adjuncts of the 
 city. This oldest resident of the first town of 
 Woodburn is a native son of the golden west, and 
 was born east of Silvertpn, Ore., March 24, 1867. 
 His father, Marquis de LaFayette Remington, 
 and his grandfather, Col. Virgillius E., a phy- 
 sician who was born June 6, 1805, in Greenville, 
 Hampden county, Mass., were identified with 
 the old Mormon town of Nauvoo, Hancock 
 county, 111., where the former was born February 
 2, 1847, on Laharp Prairie, and where the latter 
 participated in the Mormon troubles which will 
 ever be a blot upon the fair name of the little 
 Mississippi river city. Nauvoo, founded by the 
 Mormons in 1840, became an eyesore to the rep- 
 utable citizens of the state, and the sect was 
 driven out through the capture, and subsequent 
 shooting at Carthage, of the chief Mormon agi- 
 tator, Joe Smith. Col. Virgillius E. Remington 
 had the honor of capturing this noted disciple of 
 the church, but he was averse to shooting him, 
 although he ever after got the credit for securing 
 his ignominious end. Somewhat fearful of his 
 fate at the hands of the accusing Mormons, and 
 also because of a progressive nature which rec- 
 ognized superior advantages in the west, the 
 grandfather crossed the plains with his family 
 in '49 with ox teams, locating at Roseville 
 Junction, Cal. He was very successful in min- 
 ing, and became a well known figure there, and 
 he now sleeps under an old oak tree on the out- 
 skirts of the town. Colonel Remington was a 
 Master Mason. The marriage of Colonel Rem- 
 ington united him with Esther E. Doud, who 
 was born May 3, 1808, in Canton, Hartford 
 county, Conn., and died in Silverton, Ore., Sep- 
 tember 14, 1884. Of this union were born the 
 following children: Virgillius D.. born Novem- 
 ber 26, 1826, in Fowler, Trumbull county, Ohio, 
 died August 29. 1898, at Whiteson, Yamhill 
 county, Ore. ; Esther M., born September 4, 
 1829, and died October 26, 1829, in Fowler, 
 Trumbull county, Ohio; Lucius C, born May 
 31, 1 83 1, in Fowler, Trumbull county, Ohio, and 
 died September 28, 1858, in Placer county, Cal. ; 
 Elmore S.> born May 13, 1833, in Mecca, Trum- 
 
 bull county, Ohio, and is living in Whiteson. 
 Yamhill county, Ore. ; Juliett L., born July 7, 
 1836, in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, and 
 died October 13, 1889. She married Peter 
 Ranch, who is living in Silverton. Evaline E., 
 born September 5, 1839, in Macomb, 111., and 
 married J. H. Hadley, now deceased ; she is liv- 
 ing in Silverton, Ore. ; John J. B., born August 
 3, 1841, in Mills, McDonough county, 111., died 
 September 8, 1858, in Placer county, Cal. ; Jose- 
 phine M., born March 4, 1844, ni Mills, 111., and 
 died September 3, 1846; Marquis de LaFayette, 
 the father of Eugene Lincoln Remington ; Fran- 
 cis M., born August 16, 1849, on Macomb Prai- 
 rie, 111., and is now a hardware merchant in Cul- 
 desac, Idaho. 
 
 Marquis de LaFayette Remington was seven 
 years of age when he crossed the plains with his 
 father. He was reared at Roseville Junction, 
 Cal., until after the death of his father, January 
 14, 1858, in Placer county. With his mother 
 and two brothers he came to Beaverton, Ore., in 
 1854, and on rented land engaged in farming 
 until about 1863. He then moved near Silver- 
 ton. There he bought one hundred and twenty- 
 five acres of land, working this until 1870, when 
 he located in Woodburn and engaged in black- 
 smithing. About 1882 he started a foundry and 
 general machine shop, the successful operation 
 of which netted him a fair income up to the time 
 of his death at the age of fifty-one years. Mr. 
 Remington was a mechanical genius, and was 
 at the head of that business in his city, contrib- 
 uting a remarkable inventive talent towards the 
 advancement of mechanical ideas. He invented 
 and patented the Remington traction engine, the 
 patent of which was sold to the Best Manufac- 
 turing Company, of San Leandro, Cal., and is 
 still being manufactured by them. Other pat- 
 ents of labor-saving machinery and appliances 
 are also attributable to his ingenuity. His plant 
 sustained a severe loss in the fire of 1886, when 
 he lost about $10,000 in building and machinery. 
 Mr. Remington married Helen Elmyra Welch, 
 who was born January 14, 1850, in St. Marys, 
 Hancock county, 111., and died in Woodburn, 
 Ore., November 25, 1893. May 5, 1855, the 
 Welch family started for California, going by 
 rail to New York and then by steamer to the 
 Isthmus of Panama, crossing by rail. The 
 steamer Golden Gate landed them in San Fran- 
 cisco May 31, 1855. In 1859 they started 
 for Oregon with teams. The Welch fam- 
 ily lived near the Remingtons in California, 
 and they were not divided in Oregon, for 
 Thomas Welch settled on a farm northeast of 
 Silverton, where he died September 1, 1899, at 
 the age of sixty-five years. He was a native of 
 Kentucky, while his wife, Lucinda C. (Tyrrell) 
 Welch, was born in Tyrrell Hill, Trumbull 
 
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 ntj Ohio, December, j. 1826, and died in 
 
 . , n . \ P nl jo. 1901, at the age of 
 
 four vears. Mrs. Remington, who died 
 
 , n i n ,893. at the ago ot torty-one, was 
 the mother of four children, two sons and two 
 s i whom three are living, Eugene 
 n being the oldest. The oldest daughter 
 familv, Ella Atlanta, horn .September 8, 
 was the wife oi Timothy M. Hicks, and 
 . veinber 7, 1887; Zella Esther, born Aug- 
 x- . is the wife of F. M. Hardcastle, ot 
 odburn; and Laverne Thomas, born June 14, 
 ; . is living with his brother, Eugene Lincoln. 
 The necessity for assisting with the family 
 maintenance at a very early age interfered with 
 • education of Eugene Lincoln Remington, 
 his knowledge has therefore been self ac- 
 quired. As a lad of thirteen he was busily en- 
 d in his father's machine shop, and after 
 learning the business he continued with his sire, 
 becoming a partner in the firm in 1888, at the age 
 of twenty-one. After the fire he engaged in the 
 sporting goods business, carrying a complete 
 k of bicycles, guns, and general parapherna- 
 lia, in [900 moving into the new store building 
 which has supplanted the original machine shop, 
 lie has been very successful in disposing of his 
 lerior brand of wheels, and is well versed as 
 the respective merits of the wheels that come 
 - his observation. No one in the county 
 lit more satisfactory repair work, and the 
 line of guns, ammunition, and general sporting 
 accessories is complete and up-to-date in every 
 respect. 
 
 In [89] Mr. Remington was united in mar- 
 iage with Ida May Bancroft, a native of Lodi, 
 Wis., who came to' Oregon in 1889, locating at 
 Woodburn. Her father. Henry L. Bancroft, is 
 in retirement in Woodburn, and has to his 
 credit a meritorious record as a soldier during 
 the Civil war. Three children have blessed the 
 union of Mr. and Mrs. Remington, two sons and 
 one daughter, namely: Charles Adrian, born 
 March 10. 1894; Ferris Herbert, born August 
 4. 1895; and Mildred Myrtle, born September 
 |D, 1902. Since casting his first presidential 
 vote Mr. Remington has been allied with the 
 Republican party, and has taken an active part 
 in local politics' of his city. He is fraternally 
 connected with Woodburn Lodge No. 102, I. O. 
 O. F., and is very active in that organization, 
 being past grand, and has been twice representa- 
 tive to the Grand Lodge. With his wife he is 
 also a member of Home Lodge No. 58, of the 
 Rebekahs, Mrs. Remington having passed all 
 the chairs of same. With his brother Mr. Rem- 
 ington owns the Remington Hall, and with their 
 »ter two residences; he built the one in which 
 he lives. He is progressive, is anxious to in- 
 
 crease his business knowledge, and has a keen 
 interest in all that pertains to the general wel- 
 fare of bis community. 
 
 DAVID McCULLY. At his home in Salem, 
 David McCully is now spending the evening of 
 his life in retirement, having given the strength 
 of his manhood for nearly a quarter of a century 
 to the upbuilding of this commonwealth before 
 he laid clown the burdens and responsibilities of 
 active life. He came to Oregon in 1852, a man 
 of middle age, with the better part of his future 
 still before him, and has since become one of 
 the most prominent men in the Willamette val- 
 ley, having been for many years identified with 
 the commercial activity of the state. 
 
 David' McCully was born in Sussexvale, New 
 Brunswick, Canada, September 15, 1814, and 
 comes of sturdy Scotch ancestry. His father, 
 John McCully, was born in Nova Scotia in 1785. 
 He was married in. Maine to Mary Kopp, a native 
 of that state, born in Eastport in 1788. They 
 located in New Brunswick, where he engaged in 
 business as a farmer, an occupation to which he 
 devoted his entire life. In 1822 he removed with 
 his familv to Jefferson county, Ohio, where his 
 death occurred in 1830. Six years after the 
 death of Mr. McCully, his widow married John 
 McPherson. In 1844 they removed to Iowa, 
 settling in Henry county. Thence they emigrated 
 to Oregon and there, in the home which she had 
 helped to establish, in Linn county, Mrs. Mary 
 (Kopp) McPherson died in 1872, at the advanced 
 age of eighty-four years. Of the five sons and 
 one daughter born to John and Mary McCully, 
 by the latter 's first marriage, the subject of this 
 brief memoir was the second in the order of 
 birth. Fie has one brother living — William H., 
 the youngest of the familv, now a resident of 
 Brownsville. Ore. 
 
 In 1849 David McCully and his brother Asa 
 had crossed the plains to California, where they 
 were successfully engaged in mining until No- 
 vember 20 of that year. They then returned to 
 their home by the water route. Less than three 
 years later they again made the journey across 
 the plains in company with the familv, arriving 
 in Salem August 17, 1852. From this city they 
 continued on to Harrisburg, Linn county, and 
 spent their first winter there, erecting the first 
 house in that town and establishing the first gen- 
 eral merchandise business there. Until March, 
 1858, they remained in that place, when Mr. 
 McCully and his brother took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres adjacent to Har- 
 risburg. Later in that year they located in Salem. 
 In T859 Mr. McCully and J. L. Starkey bought 
 the business of Cohn & Fish, a dry goods and 
 grocery firm of Salem. In i860 Mr. Starkey 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 disposed of his interest to Wall Smith, and the 
 firm of Smith & McCully continued the business 
 until 1864. Mr. McCully then sold a third of 
 his interest in the store and engaged in river 
 transportation. The company formed was known 
 as the People's Transportation Company, and op- 
 erated on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. 
 Mr. McCully succeeded Stephen Coffin as presi- 
 dent of this corporation. In the meantime finan- 
 cial troubles had overtaken the company, which 
 of necessity was reorganized, paid its indebted- 
 ness and elected Mr. McCully to the presidency. 
 One year later he resigned the post, and his 
 brother Asa was elected as his successor. 
 
 The interests of the two McCully brothers 
 continued to be centered in this important under- 
 taking for eight years ; and with ten steam- 
 boats on the Willamette and the Columbia rivers, 
 the returns were remunerative enough amply to 
 satisfy their desires. Through their direct ef- 
 forts a business which had been a losing venture 
 for some time was almost at once place on a 
 paying basis, and the great concern with which 
 their name will always be indelibly associated 
 accomplished as much, if not more, toward the 
 development of the resources of the Willamette 
 vallev, the most important section of the state, 
 than "any other influence of the early days. 
 
 After relinquishing his interest in the transpor- 
 tation business, Mr. McCully engaged once more 
 in general merchandising in Salem. In 1875 he 
 disposed permanently of his share of the business 
 and retired to private life. Though not now 
 actively identified with any of the undertakings 
 of Salem, he holds an interest in the bank and 
 water-works system of Joseph, Wallowa county. 
 
 May 7, 1840, Mr. McCully was united in mar- 
 riage with Mary N. Scott, who. was born in Jef- 
 ferson couYity, Ohio, October 16, 1821, and died 
 in Salem November 21, 1895. They became the 
 parents of seven children, of whom five are liv- 
 ing, as follows : Mary J., widow of John 
 Creighton of Salem; John W., a resident of 
 Union county, Ore. ; Alfred, an engineer on the 
 steamer Gray Eagle, and a resident of Clacka- 
 mas county, Ore. ; Estella Ann, wife of A. N. 
 Gilbert of Salem ; and Frank D., a resident of 
 Joseph, Wallowa county. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. McCully has ex- 
 hibited a keen interest in municipal affairs, and 
 has never tried to evade his duty in any public 
 service. In 1874-75 ne served as a member 
 of the Salem city council, where his in- 
 fluence was exerted toward the advancement of 
 the general welfare. In closing this brief out- 
 line of the career of one of the most worthy citi- 
 zens of Oregon, it is but just to make a perma- 
 nent record of the high esteem in which Mr. 
 McCully is held by those who, during the half 
 century of his residence in the state, have learned 
 
 to appreciate the many traits of character which 
 have caused him to be loved and honored. Per- 
 haps the first and highest of these characteristics 
 has been his unselfish devotion to those manly 
 principles which actuate men to do everything 
 in their power toward elevating the moral and 
 social standing of their own communities. His 
 splendid personality in itself has been a potent 
 factor in giving him an influential position among 
 men, and the fine principles which have guided 
 him through life have served as a silent precept 
 and example for others. The history of his life 
 should be a source of inspiration to the young 
 men of the present generation, as well as of justi- 
 fiable pride to his family and his friends. 
 
 It is with genuine pleasure that those respon- 
 sible for this publication give to him a permanent 
 and prominent place among the honored, influ- 
 ential, generous-hearted and public-spirited men 
 of the Willamette valley. The engraving which 
 appears in this volume was made from a photo- 
 graph taken especially for the purpose, in July. 
 1903, and preserves his likeness as he will be 
 best remembered by his numerous friends in 
 Salem and elsewhere. 
 
 SAMUEL CO AD. Typical of the safe, solid, 
 and substantial element which has contributed 
 to the upbuilding of Oregon is Samuel Coad, 
 a pioneer of 1853, and at times interested in 
 many of the enterprises represented on the coast. 
 For some years he has been a resident of Dallas, 
 where he is engaged principally in the real es- 
 tate business, and where he owns considerable 
 valuable property. Mr. Coad was born in 
 Westmoreland county, Pa., February 19, 1833, 
 a son of John and Jane (Jeffrey) Coad, natives 
 of England, the latter dying in Minnesota. John 
 Coad entered the English army at the age of 
 nineteen, and in the war with France was taken 
 prisoner and retained until exchanged. Some of 
 his children were born in England, and accom- 
 panied him to America, settling in Westmore- 
 land, Pa., where he engaged in farming and 
 canal boating. In 1842 he removed to near 
 Burlinoton, Iowa, where he lived on a farm for 
 some years. His death occurred in Allegheny, 
 Pa., at the age of eighty years. The original 
 spelling of the name was Coade, but for con- 
 venience the terminating letter has been abol- 
 ished. 
 
 The second of the eleven children born to his 
 parents, Samuel Coad is the only one of his fam- 
 ily to come to Oregon. He was nine years old 
 when he went to live near Burlington. Iowa, and 
 he there attended the public schools and served 
 an apprenticeship to a carpenter. In 1853 he 
 joined the overland train which had as fellow- 
 travelers John Wolverton and Mr. Nealy, and 
 
PORTRA] r AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 521 
 
 •'u w.i\ drove an ox team, five months elaps- 
 
 ween the start and. the arrival at Foster's, 
 riving in due time at Salem he worked at his 
 le, but the same fall located in Spring Valley, 
 
 unty, where he built and contracted for 
 iuple of years. Afterward he continued his 
 
 upation on the Luckiamute, and also tried his 
 
 tune at prospecting for gold in the Rogue 
 
 , v r district. Not being very successful, he re- 
 
 urned to carpentering as a surer means of liveli- 
 
 and about this time the government was 
 
 ■ erect blockhouses for protection in 
 
 ith the Indians. Mr. Coad helped to 
 
 build these primitive defenses, and in 1855 be- 
 
 ■e an active participator in the great Indian 
 \> a soldier in Company B, First Ore- 
 lunteer Infantry under command of Cap- 
 tain Burch he served for about four months, 
 and during that time participated in the engage- 
 ment on Snake river, and was also disabled by 
 an accident. Later he built more defenses for 
 the government, among them being the fort in 
 King's Valley. 
 
 ( hi the Luckiamute Mr. Coad worked at car- 
 pentering after the war, and in 1853 married 
 Henrietta (iilliam, youngest daughter of General 
 Gilliam, recalled as one of the intrepid pioneers 
 and Indian fighters of Oregon, and mentioned at 
 length in another part of this work. After mar- 
 riage he settled on a farm on the Peetlee for about 
 
 n years, and then, having sold his property, 
 bought another farm three and one-half miles 
 east of Dallas. However, he rented out his farm 
 and engaged in building in Dallas, and also built 
 the woolen mills at Ellendale, returning after a 
 couple of years to the farm. Three years later 
 he sold his farm and came to Dallas, the better 
 to educate his children, and that he might start 
 a drug business on Main street, in partnership 
 with his brother-in-law. B. F. Nichols. His 
 health failing at the end of a year, he sold his 
 interest in the store and clerked for a year in the 
 dry goods store of W. C. Brown, thereafter pur- 
 chasing four hundred acres of sheep land west 
 of Dallas, which he traded at the end of three 
 months for a farm containing the same amount 
 of land. At the end of a year this also was sold, 
 and Mr. Coad returned to clerking in the town, 
 where his life was saddened by the death of his 
 wife in April. 1875. The following year he mar- 
 1 Anna McXeal. who was born in Dodge 
 county, Neb., a daughter of Abram McNeal, who 
 removed from his native state of New York 
 to Michigan, and from there to Dodge county, 
 Neb., of which he was an early settler. His 
 farm was located on the military road, and here 
 Mrs. Coad and her twin sister were born, the 
 first white children of the county. In i860 Mr. 
 McXeal crossed the plains with a four horse team 
 to San Francisco, and the following year came 
 
 to Salem, where he built and contracted until 
 removing to Tacoma, Wash., where he died at 
 the age of sixty. His wife was Annie Heche, 
 who was born in Michigan, a daughter of Wal- 
 ter Beebe, who was accidentally killed on the 
 way to the coast, his wife surviving him until 
 ninety-two years of age. Mrs. McNeal died in 
 Nebraska in 1858, and her daughter, Mrs. Coad, 
 was reared by Mrs. E. G. Emmens from her 
 fifth year, or from 1862. Mrs. Emmens proved 
 a mother indeed to the young girl, and the asso- 
 ciation begun thus early has" gained in intimacy 
 and affection to the present time. Mrs. Coad 
 was educated in the public schools and at La 
 Creole Academy, and when very young evinced 
 that decided talent for oil painting which has 
 placed her among the foremost artists of this 
 class in the county. She is the mother of two 
 sons, of whom J. E. is a resident of Portland, 
 and George R. is in Dallas. 
 
 After his second marriage Mr. Coad settled on 
 a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, and 
 after a year he purchased a drug store in the 
 town, of which he was manager and proprietor 
 for two years. For the following seven years he 
 lived on the old Grant place, since disposing of 
 which he has lived in Dallas, and has in the 
 meantime managed a great deal of town and city 
 property. He is the owner of large real estate 
 interests, including both business and residence 
 property, and is the owner of the Odd Fellows 
 Building. He is a member of the Masonic fra- 
 ternity, and for more than thirty years has been 
 a welcome member of various lodges. Political- 
 ly he has ever espoused the Republican cause, 
 and was one of the organizers of the party in 
 this county. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and of the Oregon Pioneers' Association. 
 Mrs. Coad is a member of the home chapter of 
 the Eastern Star. Five children were born of 
 the first marriage of Mr. Coad, and of these, 
 Frank J. is engaged in the sash and door manu- 
 facturing business ; C. G. is postmaster of this 
 town ; Maggie is the deceased wife of T. B. 
 Rowell ; Mary is the wife of J. B. Stamp of 
 Monmouth ; and Henrietta died at the age of 
 seventeen. 
 
 WILLIAM GRANT. Four years ago Wil- 
 liam Grant retired from active business in Dallas, 
 after contributing towards the development of 
 the city to the extent of erecting the majority of 
 her residences and public buildings. This hon- 
 ored citizen is entitled to a place par excellence 
 among the pioneers of this locality, as he was 
 only three years of age when he came to Oregon 
 in 1 8_i j. locating on a claim immediately adjoin- 
 ing the present city of Dallas. No one now 
 living within the borders of the flourishing little 
 
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 municipality can more authoritatively speak of 
 the early days, nor have any at their command 
 more interesting" anecdotes of the struggles and 
 successes of those who were responsible for the 
 first impetus forward. 
 
 To go to the beginning of authentic knowledge 
 concerning the family of Mr. Grant, one learns 
 that his ancestors lived in Scotland, and were 
 first represented in America by the paternal great- 
 great-grandfather, who left the seat of religious 
 and political, persecution in his native land and 
 settled presumably in Virginia. At any rate, 
 some of his descendants found their way to the 
 old Dominion state, for here was born the pater- 
 nal grandfather, Richard Grant, who removed to 
 Tennessee, and finally died in Platte county, Mo. 
 His son, David, the father of William, was born 
 in Cocke county, -Tenn., in 1810, and in his 
 youth was a farmer in both Tennessee and Mis- 
 souri. In the latter state he married America, 
 daughter of Gen. Cornelius Gilliam, a record of 
 whose life may be found elsewhere in this work. 
 Two children were born of this union in Mis- 
 souri, one of whom, William, was born in Jack- 
 son county, July 10, 1841. The father crossed 
 the plains with his little family in 1844, and took 
 up a claim of six hundred and forty acres ad- 
 joining Dallas on the east, which he found to be 
 exceedingly wild, and upon whicii he erected a 
 little log cabin for the temporary accommodation 
 of his family. His home in the wilderness soon 
 took on a semblance of order, and the passing 
 years found him a successful and well contented 
 man, than whom no more honest or public-spirited 
 lived hereabouts. He was highly esteemed, and 
 invariably affectionately called Uncle Dave 
 Grant. Everyone had a pleasant word for him, 
 and everyone in the neighborhood revered him 
 for his sincerity and extreme temperance 
 in all directions. He lived on the pioneer farm 
 until 1879, and that year built himself a home in 
 Dallas, where he lived in retirement until his 
 death in 1880 at the age of seventy years. Wil- 
 liam is the only one of the four children in his 
 father's family now living, Mary A., the other 
 one who crossed the plains in '44, having died 
 soon after coming to Oregon, at the age of three. 
 Margaret, who was born in Oregon, and who 
 became Mrs. Elkins, died in Redlands, Cal. ; and 
 Martha Ellen, also born in Oregon, married 
 Monroe Burford and died in Clatskanie, Colum- 
 bia county, Ore. 
 
 William Grant distinctly recalls the first log 
 schoolhouse erected in the neighborhood of Dal- 
 las, and in fact the first in Polk county, which 
 was just inside of what constitutes the present 
 corporation of Dallas City. It had a dirt floor, 
 with puncheon seats, and was located among 
 the stately and beautiful oaks. That the diminu- 
 tive William might not be lost on the way to and 
 
 from school the father plowed a furrow from his 
 home westerly to the schoolhouse and in this 
 furrow the little fellow walked to receive his 
 first instruction at the hands of the pioneer school- 
 master, William Snyder. Having imbibed all of 
 the knowledge possible at the primitive school 
 he attended the opening of La Creole Academy, 
 of which his father was one of the organizers, 
 trustees and upbuilders, and where he continued 
 to be a student for several years. During 1861- 
 2 he tried his fortunes in the mines at Florence, 
 Idaho, and in the latter part of '62 married Beat- 
 rice Aurelia Robertson, born in Missouri, and 
 who came to Oregon, via Panama with her 
 father, William Robertson, in 1852. William 
 Robertson was a miller by trade and settled near 
 Bollston, finally removing to Springfield, Lane 
 county, where he conducted a mill, until his 
 death in 1874. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Grant enlisted as a soldier in 
 Company A, First Oregon Infantry, U. S. V., 
 and served on the frontier against the invading 
 red men. So commendable were his services, 
 that he was made a lieutenant in February, 1865, 
 and thereafter continued to serve until June 19, 
 1866, when he resigned and was mustered out 
 in Salem. The following year he engaged in the 
 hotel business in Dallas. He then removed to 
 Springfield, Linn county, where he engaged in 
 building and contracting for seven years, fol- 
 lowing which, he continued the same occupation 
 in Lebanon, Linn county, for four years. He be- 
 came permanently identified with building inter- 
 ests in Dallas in 1879, and during the following 
 years put up about all of the important buildings 
 in the city. At present he owns one hundred 
 acres of the old donation claim settled by his 
 father in 1844, and here he has a fine orchard of 
 ten acres, devoted mostly to prune culture. 
 
 Mr. Grant has identified himself with the 
 most progressive enterprises in Dallas and vicin- 
 ity, and has been especially active in Repub- 
 lican politics. Although rocked in the cradle of 
 Democracy, he has always applauded Republican 
 principles, and he has been called upon to fill 
 many offices of trust and responsibility in his 
 neighborhood. He served as deputy county 
 sheriff and clerk, and was elected county treas- 
 urer in June, 1864. The following June he took 
 the oath of office, but in November resigned to 
 enter the Civil war. He is a member of the Polk 
 County Pioneer Association, and the Dallas 
 Post G. A. R., of which he is past commander. 
 Fraternally Mr. Grant is identified with the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and in religion 
 is a member of the Christian Church. Five chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Grant: 
 U. S., engaged in raising fine goats, and in- 
 spector of the American Angora Association ; 
 Glen Oscar, who is following in his father's foot- 
 

P( iR IK \i I \\D BIOGRAPHICAL RED >RD. 
 
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 steps, .is builder and contractor in Dallas; Mc- 
 Coy, who is living on the old farm; Belden 11., 
 a merchant at The Dalles; and Viola 
 at home, who has become well known 
 . writer of temperance stories for the " Search 
 : " and other magazipes. 
 Thus is told all too briefly the story of a man 
 tinnh launched in the good will of all with whom 
 ever had to do, and whose well directed 
 lite has redounded to the advantage of his fam- 
 ily, friends, and adopted state. 
 
 DAVID SMITH. An early settler of Linn 
 
 inty and a veteran agriculturist, David 
 
 Smith, of Tallman, has been intimately asso- 
 
 ed with the industrial interests of this part 
 
 the state for fully half a century, and by his 
 own exertions has acquired a handsome com- 
 petency. In common with his pioneer neigh- 
 bors he labored with unremitting zeal through- 
 out his earlier years, toiling early and late to 
 
 iblish in an uncivilized region a home for 
 himself and family, and in course of time met 
 with a happy reward, becoming the owner of 
 a large, well stocked farm, which, with its sub- 
 stantial improvements, indicates the general 
 prosperity of its worthy proprietor. Now, in 
 the declining years of a long and useful life, he 
 is living in peace and plenty, happy in the love 
 and affectionate care of his numerous descend- 
 ants, having seven daughters, five sons, forty 
 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 
 
 A native of east Tennessee, Mr. Smith was 
 born March 18, 1828. When six years of age 
 he accompanied his parents to Missouri, where 
 he grew to manhood on a farm. Subsequently 
 engaging in agricultural pursuits for himself, 
 he lived in that state a number of years, ac- 
 quiring some property. In hopes of bettering 
 his financial condition he made up his mind to 
 try life on the frontier. Accordingly, in 1852, 
 he started across the plains with one wagon, 
 four yoke of oxen, and three cows. He lost all 
 of the cows on the way, and a part of the oxen. 
 After arriving in Oregon, he bought two yoke 
 of oxen, and that fall located with his family 
 near Scio, in Linn county. Taking up a dona- 
 tion claim of one hundred and sixty acres, sit- 
 uated about four miles east of Scio, he lived 
 there twelve years. Purchasing then the Chris- 
 tian Clymer claim of one hundred and seventy- 
 one acres, he carried on farming and stock- 
 raising for seven years successfully. Adding 
 then to his property by the purchase of a farm 
 of three hundred and six acres, lying nearer 
 Lebanon, he continued his chosen occupation 
 there for seven years. Returning at the ex- 
 piration of that period to the old Clymer plac«% 
 he resided on it until 1892. In addition to gen- 
 eral farming he was employed to some extent 
 
 in the lumber business and stock-raising. In 
 1SS7 he built a warehouse at Tallman Station, 
 and operated it until 1900, when he sold out, 
 but still owns considerable interest in the farm- 
 ers' warehouses. Removing to his present fine 
 farm, in 1892, Mr. Smith has since been num- 
 bered with the extensive and prosperous agri- 
 culturists of this section of the county, and is 
 held in high regard as a citizen of worth and 
 stability. Having recently sold much real es- 
 tate, he now owns but five hundred and eighty- 
 five acres of land. 
 
 While living in Missouri, Mr. Smith married 
 for his first wife Sarah Ripertoe. She died 
 September 18, 1852, leaving two children, 
 namely : Percy, a resident of Umatilla county , 
 Ore., and Thomas, who assists in the manage- 
 ment of the home farm. 
 
 In September, 1854, Mr. Smith married 
 Sarah J. Montgomery, who was born and 
 reared in Hickman county, Ky., a daughter of 
 Samuel and Julia (Grimes) Montgomery. In 
 1847 M r - Montgomery, accompanied by his 
 wife, five sons and only daughter, started for 
 Oregon, with three' wagons, four yoke of oxen 
 and four cows. After journeying eight months 
 he arrived in Linn county in October, 1847, 
 and at once took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres on the North Santiam 
 river. In the spring of 1848, he took his family 
 to California, and was there employed in pros- 
 pecting and mining for two years. Returning 
 east in 1850, by way of the Isthmus, he stayed 
 at his old home in Kentucky a short time. Fit- 
 ting himself out with ox teams and a drove of 
 cows, he came back to Oregon in 1851, and 
 lived in Linn county the ensuing eight years. 
 Disposing then of his property in this section, 
 he was engaged in stock business in southern 
 Oregon for a time, and then removed to Cali- 
 fornia, where he remained until his death, in 
 1876, at the age of sixty-six years. His wife 
 survived him, dying eighteen months later. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith became the parents of 
 eleven children, all of whom grew to years of 
 maturity, there being eight daughters and 
 three sons, as follows : Julia Ann, wife of 
 George Peebler, of Umatilla county, Ore.; 
 Sarah, deceased wife of Frank Burkhart ; An- 
 drew J., of Lebanon ; George S., of Gilliam 
 county, Ore. ; Mary Frances, wife of James 
 Brannon ; Jessie D., of Lebanon ; Eliza Jane, 
 wife of William Long; Celia Bell, wife of 
 Charles Scott; Martha Ellen, wife of William 
 Yank ; Susan C, wife of Charles Ensley, and 
 Ida M., wife of George Yank. 
 
 E. L. D'LASHMUTT, now deceased, was for 
 many years an enterprising agriculturist of Polk 
 county and afterward a respected and valued 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 citizen of Dallas, and his loss in the community 
 was deeply mourned. He was born in Franklin 
 county, Ohio, a son of Elias D'Lashmutt, who 
 was a merchant of the Buckeye state and there 
 died. As the name indicates the family is of 
 French lineage. The subject of this review was 
 reared in the county of his nativity and after 
 attaining his majority carried on farming until 
 1853, when he removed to Iowa, settling near 
 Oskaloosa. He became one of the extensive 
 farmers and successful stock-raisers of that lo- 
 cality, where he continued to make his home until 
 the 1 8th of April, i860, when he started for the 
 northwest, believing that this district offered bet- 
 ter opportunities for business advancement. He 
 traveled with an ox and horse train, being cap- 
 tain of the company which included thirty-five 
 wagons. They made the journey by way of Coun- 
 cil Bluffs, Fort Hall and the old Oregon trail. Mr. 
 D'Lashmutt was accompanied by his wife and 
 five children and after long and weary weeks of 
 travel they were cheered and gladdened by the 
 sight of the beautiful Willamette valley, where 
 they arrived on the 13th of September. Mr. 
 D'Lashmutt settled first on Salt Creek. After- 
 ward he became the owner of the old Frederick 
 place in Polk county, a large farm of three hun- 
 dred and ninety acres, which he continued to cul- 
 tivate and improve in a successful manner until 
 1880, when he located in Dallas, spending his re- 
 maining days in this city. 
 
 On the 5th of February, 1849, Mr. D'Lashmutt 
 was married in Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Lydia 
 Morris, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, 
 a daughter of Asa Morris, a native of that state 
 and a grand-daughter of Solomon Morris, who 
 was born in Virginia and served his country in 
 the Revolutionary war. Asa Morris carried on 
 agricultural pursuits in Ohio until his death. He 
 had married Phoebe Ward, who was born in 
 Ohio, and in i860 she came to Oregon with Mr. 
 and Mrs. D'Lashmutt and was afterward mar- 
 ried to Jonathan Dyer of Polk county, where 
 she died in 1886. Mrs. D'Lashmutt was one of 
 five children, four of whom are still living : 
 William, deceased ; Mrs. Eliza Ruffner, of San- 
 oma, California ; Mrs. D'Lashmutt ; Mrs. E. A. 
 Graham, of Salem ; and John Morris of Salem, 
 whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. 
 Mrs. D'Lashmutt was reared in Columbus, Ohio. 
 Her husband was twice married and by his first 
 union had one daughter, Ann E., the wife of E. 
 A. Stevens, of Washington county. Ore. By the 
 second marriage there are four children : Mrs. 
 Emma Campbell, of Dallas ; Ella, the wife of 
 M. M. Ellis, of Dallas, Mary Violet, the wife of 
 Dr. H. F. Smith, of Seattle ; and Ida, the wife 
 of W. H. Percival of Independence. 
 
 Mr. D'Lashmutt was a Republican in his po- 
 litical views. He lived a quiet, unassuming life, 
 
 yet there was in his career those qualities of man- 
 hood which awaken respect and confidence among 
 his fellowmen. He was a loyal citizen, honor- 
 able in business and wherever known he won 
 the high esteem of those with whom he was as- 
 sociated. He died in 1888 at the age of seventy- 
 four years and thus was called hence one of 
 the worthy pioneers whose names are deeply 
 engraved on the pages of Oregon's history. 
 Since her husband's death Mrs. D'Lashmutt has 
 resided in Dallas, where she is much esteemed 
 for her many 'good qualities. She is a member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, belongs to the 
 Ladies' Aid Society and takes a deep interest in 
 the spread of Christianity. 
 
 GEN. CORNELIUS GILLIAM, maternal 
 grandfather of William Grant, and whose grand- 
 children are among the most honored citizens of 
 Oregon, was born in North Carolina, and at 
 an early day settled in Missouri. While re- 
 siding there he became prominent in military 
 affairs, attained to the rank of captain in the 
 Black Hawk war, and was present at the sur- 
 render of Osceola. He also assisted in ex- 
 pelling the Mormons from Missouri, and he was 
 colonel of the Missouri State Militia, a position 
 resigned that he might take up his residence in 
 the west. In 1844 he crossed the plains with 
 his own and the Grant families, and they took the 
 old Oregon trail, on the way encountering every 
 known obstacle which impeded the progress of 
 the early tourists of the plains. Arriving at the 
 Tualatin Plains December 25, 1844, the little 
 band started for The Dalles, and found that their 
 troubles had really just begun. But one party 
 had preceded them, and that was in 1843, an d 
 there were practically no roads, and for hundreds 
 of miles they were obliged to break their own 
 roads. It was a weary and footsore little band 
 that finally arrived at their destination, yet all 
 were hopeful, and willing to do all in their power 
 to improve their forlorn condition. 
 
 Gen. Gilliam took up a donation claim upon a 
 portion of which Dallas has since been built, but 
 this was soon after sold, and he bought a claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres on a branch of 
 the Luckiamute. His rank of general was ac- 
 quired as general in command of the Oregon 
 troops during the Cayuse war, and he fearlessly 
 led the soldiers in the dreaded and dangerous 
 Cayuse country on both sides of the Columbia, 
 until the war was over and peace declared. This 
 last noble service was destined to be his undoing, 
 for on the way home he happened to go to the 
 end of a wagon to get a piece of rope, and a 
 soldier stepping up, offered to get it for him. 
 By mistake a loaded gun, with the ramrod left 
 in had been left in .the wagon, and it was accident- 
 
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 ally discharged, the ramrod hitting the colonel 
 in die forehead, and killing him instantly. This 
 
 - in [848, and he was tenderly brought to 
 Dallas ami given a soldier's burial, and no man 
 of In* time and place was more deeply mourned 
 
 his fellow-soldiers in the field. At the time 
 if his death he hold an honored military posi- 
 tst, and no name in Oregon was 
 truly typical of courage and fidelity, 
 lien. Gilliam had other claims to distinction 
 than that vested in his military service. He was 
 quite a politician in his day. and in Jackson 
 county, Mo., served for several terms as sheriff, 
 and was also a member of the Missouri legisla- 
 ture, was a Mason of high standing and his grave 
 
 lecorated by the fraternity up to this time. 
 He was also an ordained minister in the Baptist 
 Church, and an earnest expounder of the doc- 
 trines oi that denomination. Through his mar- 
 riage with Mary Crawford, a native of Missouri, 
 and who died in Oregon, the following children 
 were born to them : America, who became Mrs. 
 David Grant; Hon. W. S. Gilliam of Walla 
 Walla. Wash. : Mrs. Louise Gage, who died in 
 Oregon; Mrs. Rebecca Gage, who also died in 
 ( 're^. m ; Mrs. Sarah Nichols, who died in Wash- 
 ington ; Marcus D.. who was a farmer and died 
 on the old donation claim of his father; Eliza- 
 beth, who is the wife of Frank M. Collins of 
 Dallas ; and Henrietta, who was Mrs. Samuel 
 
 I, of Dallas, but is now deceased. 
 
 JOHN DAVID SMITH. Both John David 
 Smith and his wife are members of families in- 
 timately connected with the early pioneer days 
 of Oregon, and both are justified in regarding 
 the uncivilized red man in anything but a favor- 
 able light. Mr. Smith is one of the many sons 
 of Missouri who have transferred their citizen- 
 ship to Marion county, and in the fertile vallev 
 of their adoption have impressed their worth as 
 agriculturists and men. He was born in Ray 
 county. Mo., November 23, 1843, an d came of a 
 family of decidedly southern characteristics. 
 
 Daniel Smith, the father of J. D., was born 
 in Lincoln county. Term.. September 2, 1809, and 
 when a small boy removed with his parents to 
 Missouri, remaining there until 1851. In Mis- 
 
 iri he married Emily Ringo, who was born in 
 Kentucky, October 5, 1819, and whose parents 
 came to Missouri at a very early day. In the 
 spring of 1851 Mr. Smith outfitted and crossed 
 the plains, arriving at their destination in Ore- 
 at the expiration of six months. The first 
 winter was spent near Parkersville, Marion 
 county. The following spring he took up a dona- 
 tion claim ten miles north of Salem, which was 
 all in timber and extremely wild. Here he was 
 living at the outbreak of the Indian war in 1855, 
 
 known as the kin.se war. and lu- was one of the 
 first to enlist in Company K, under command of 
 
 Captain Goff. Very near the beginning of hos- 
 tilities he was killed while performing picket 
 duty. After his death his widow continued to 
 live on the old place, and three years later mar- 
 ried Samuel Simpson, removing to his home in 
 Garfield, Wash., where her death occurred at the 
 age of seventy-nine years in 1898. She was the 
 mother of four children, of whom Mary J. is the 
 witlow of Francis Manning, of Marion county ; 
 Madison C. lives in Boise City, Idaho; Sarah 
 A. is the wife of Peter J. Pe'fly, of Lewiston. 
 Idaho, and J. D., the subject of this review. 
 
 At the age of sixteen Mr. Smith started out 
 to make his own living, equipped with an edu- 
 cation received in the public schools and at 
 the University at Salem. With his brother he 
 took a drove of cattle to Boise City, Idaho, in- 
 tending to reap a considerable sum from their 
 sale, but was doomed to disappointment, for the 
 cattle all died, and the boys were forced to hustle 
 for a living. Until 1870 he worked as a general 
 laborer, and then took charge of the home place 
 until his marriage, February 4, 1874, to Iphigenia 
 Masterson, a native of Springfield, Ore., and 
 daughter of J. A. and Valinda (Campbell) Mas- 
 terson, pioneers of '53, who settled in Linn coun- 
 ty. Mr. Smith took his bride to the old Smith 
 donation claim, and there lived and farmed until 
 January 1, 1891, when they removed to their 
 present farm of two hundred and forty-two acres, 
 one mile south of Gervais. Mr. Smith has one 
 hundred and fifty acres of his property under cul- 
 tivation, and in addition to general farming, de- 
 rives a substantial income from raising Cotswold 
 sheep. In addition to this farm he still owns 
 half of his father's old donation claim of two 
 hundred and forty-two acres. 
 
 In political affiliation Mr. Smith is independ- 
 ent, and believes in voting for the best man. He 
 takes a great interest in education, and his in- 
 fluence on the school board has been a progres- 
 sive and helpful one. For many years he has 
 been identified with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, Fraternity Lodge No. 9, and the 
 United Artisans, Gervais Lodge No. 79, in both 
 of which organizations he has passed all the 
 chairs. He is esteemed by all who know him, 
 and his position in the community is that of a 
 broad-minded, progressive, and exceedingly well 
 informed man. Five children have been born to 
 this family : Roy, Nellie, Kittie, Maud M., and 
 Madison Clarence. 
 
 The parents of Airs. Smith are worthy of 
 mention among the early settlers of Oregon. 
 J. A. Masterson was born in Kentucky, and when 
 a boy removed with his parents to Missouri. 
 There he married Valinda Campbell, a native of 
 Missouri. They lived in the state until 1853. 
 
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 The Mastersons then outfitted with ox teams and 
 crossed the plains in a large train, comprising 
 the sisters of Mr. Masterson and their families, 
 one of which was named Ward. All went well, 
 and the members of the train were congratu- 
 lating themselves upon their immunity from ill- 
 ness and disaster, when, arriving at Fort Boise 
 on the Snake river, the party were attacked by 
 Indians, and all murdered but four. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Masterson happened to have gone on ahead 
 to look for a camping ground, and so missed 
 the terrible fate meted out to their friends and 
 relatives ; and the two Ward boys, at first sup- 
 posed to be dead, were revived and were able 
 to resume their journey. It can be imagined 
 with what heavy hearts the survivors buried their 
 loved ones on the desolate plains, this being one 
 of the worst massacres in the early days, and 
 afterward known as the Ward massacre. Mr. 
 Masterson took up a donation claim in Marion 
 county, where his wife died at the age of thirty- 
 three. Mr. Masterson is making his home with 
 a son in Malheur county. He is a blacksmith 
 by trade as well as a farmer, and during his active 
 life has combined these two occupations advan- 
 tageously. Eight children were born to himself 
 and wife : Gilky is deceased ; Mrs. J. D. Smith ; 
 Mary W., the widow of W. F. Cauthorn of 
 Marion county; Henry, deceased; Givens, a 
 resident of Washington ; Clayborn, deceased ; 
 Alfred, a resident of Malheur county, Ore. ; and 
 Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Mann, of Coeur 
 d'Alene, Idaho. 
 
 W. R. BROWN is a well known blacksmith 
 of Amity and by earnest, persevering labor 
 has acquired a handsome competence. He was 
 born July 4, 1837, in New Brunswick on the 
 Richibucto river. His father was a farmer by 
 occupation and in the family were twelve chil- 
 dren, who were educated in the district schools. 
 It was thus that our subject obtained his men- 
 tal discipline and upon the home farm he re- 
 mained until fifteen years of age, when he en- 
 tered upon an apprenticeship at the black- 
 smith's trade, remaining in Richibucto until 
 twenty-one years of age, when he left his home 
 locality and took up his abode in St. Johns^ 
 New Brunswick. There he followed black- 
 smithing for about three months, after which 
 he went to Boston, Mass., and worked at his 
 trade for about a year. On the expiration of 
 that period he removed to Taunton, Mass., 
 where he spent two years, after which he re- 
 turned to his native country. He next went 
 to Sackville, New Brunswick, where he spent 
 one year in the Academy, after which he re- 
 turned to Taunton, Mass., where he again fol- 
 lowed blacksmithing for a year. At the end 
 
 of that time Mr. Brown started for the Pacific 
 coast, going by way of the Fall River Line 
 to New York, where he took passage on a 
 steamer bound for Aspinwall, and after cross- 
 ing the isthmus of Panama he boarded another 
 steamer whose destination was San Francisco. 
 There he arrived in 1863 and for a short time 
 he followed his trade in that city. Later he 
 went to Sacramento, where for some time he 
 was engaged by a railroad construction com- 
 pany, after which he returned to San Francis- 
 co and later went to Victoria. Subsequently 
 he proceeded up the Frazier river to Caribou, 
 B. C., and in 1864 he arrived in Portland, Ore., 
 where he resided for about two years. In 1866 
 he established his home in Amity, where he 
 purchased a shop and has since engaged in 
 the blacksmith's trade. His thorough under- 
 standing of the trade and his expert work- 
 manship have enabled him to secure a good 
 patronage. He owns several pieces of prop- 
 erty in the village, besides his home place, and 
 his possessions are the visible evidence of his 
 life of thrift and industry. 
 
 Mr. Brown was united in marriage July 19, 
 1887, to Miss Martha E. Stephens, a native of 
 Missouri, and their union has been blessed 
 with five sons : William J., Paul, Robert, Ivan 
 and Elden, all of whom are at home. 
 
 Mr. Brown is recognized as one of the lead- 
 ing and influential citizens of Amity and was 
 one of the first members of the town council 
 and for two years he served as its chairman. 
 He is an exemplary member of the Masonic 
 fraternity and has held all of the chairs in the 
 local lodge, including that of worshipful mas- 
 ter. In politics he has always been a stalwart 
 Republican, believing firmly in the principles 
 of the party, and his progressive and- public 
 spirit are manifest in the co-operation which 
 he gives in all measures which are intended 
 for the public welfare and improvement. 
 
 REBECCA CALHOON. That efficient 
 farmer managers are by no means confined to 
 the male persuasion has been repeatedly dem- 
 onstrated in various parts of the country, but 
 more especially in the extreme west, where 
 women enter intelligently and enthusiastically 
 ill departments of agricultural undertakings 
 being as much at home at the business end of 
 the line as they are in the manipulation of 
 household affairs. To this class belongs Mrs. 
 Rebecca Calhoon, whose pleasant home and 
 well tilled farm constitute one of the fine prop- 
 erties and hospitable centers in Yamhill 
 county. 
 
 Before her first marriage Rebecca Lemas- 
 ters, Mrs. Calhoon was born in Morgan 
 
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 county, Ky., January 14. [836, and when four 
 ,»t' age was taken by her family to Mis- 
 souri, locating in Andrew county. Her father, 
 Lemasters, was horn in Ohio, February 
 11, 1S04. and died December 5, [888. Her 
 mother, Nancy I Elam) Lemasters, was horn 
 in Virginia and died at \>h Hollow, wesl of 
 th< Rocky mountains, in 1852, on the way 
 across the plains, at the age of forty-one years. 
 In 1850 Mr. Lemasters moved from Andrew 
 county, Mo., to Gentry county, and remained 
 there until starting across the plains in March 
 i^i 1852. The train left Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 and at the expiration of six months of varied 
 and interesting experience landed in Lafay- 
 ette. Vainhill county, in November, 1852. 
 
 Miss Lemasters had the usual bringing up 
 of the pioneer daughters, and in her youth was 
 instructed in household work, attending at ir- 
 regular intervals the district schools. Her first 
 marriage. May 18. 1853, was with Charles 
 Berry, who was born in far-off Maine, March 
 15. 1820. and died August 1, 1865. Mr. Berry 
 came around the Horn to California in the 
 year of gold, '49. and after a year's experiment 
 in the mines of that state removed to Oregon 
 in 1850. He took up three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land in Yamhill county upon which 
 his wife now lives, and there engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and carpentering, a trade learned 
 in his native state of Maine. To this dav are 
 standing many of the old residences and barns 
 which he built during his residence in the state, 
 for so good a workman was he that his ser- 
 vices found ready recognition among patrons 
 of substantial building. As a result of the 
 union of Mr. and Mrs. Berry four children were 
 horn, three sons and one daughter: Charles 
 A. Berry lives on an adjoining farm ; John 
 also lives on an adjoining farm ; Mrs. Ann 
 Willis lives near by her mother; and Maine 
 Berry lives on an adjoining farm. 
 
 For a second husband Mrs. Berry married, 
 September 27, 1866, J. J. Calhoon. who was 
 born in Holmes county. Ohio, and who came 
 to California via the plains in 1854. Mr. Cal- 
 hoon became a resident of Oregon in 1858, and 
 after a three years' residence in Tillamook 
 county located in Yamhill county, where he 
 engaged in farming until his death, September 
 29. 1902. He was a man of enterprise and 
 public spirit, and achieved considerable suc- 
 cess after removing to the west. He was a 
 member of the Christian Church, in which he 
 served as elder, and during his active life pro- 
 moted the financial and other interests of the 
 church, and is a member of the Pioneers' As- 
 sociation of Yamhill county. Mrs. Calhoon 
 has been a member of the Christian Church 
 since 1853. 
 
 JAMES W. MARTIN. Ever since his 
 twenty-third year, James \Y. Martin has earned 
 an independent livelihood as an agriculturist in 
 
 Yamhill county, and at present he is the owner 
 of three hundred acres of land, seventy of which 
 are under cultivation. Large numbers of fine 
 stock graze upon his fertile meadows, and he- 
 sides general crops he is devoting considerable 
 time and attention to hop cultivation, twenty- 
 three and a half acres being at present under the 
 latter named commodity. A survey of the va- 
 rious departments represented on the well-devel- 
 oped Martin farm convinces the beholder that a 
 master hand is at the helm, and well understands 
 the science which is at the bottom of all-around 
 supremacy in this or any country. Modern labor- 
 saving appliances, finely constructed barns and 
 outhouses, and an all-pervading air of neatness 
 and thrift indicate a superiority of management 
 consistent with the best interests of the county. 
 
 A native son of Yamhill county, Mr. Martin 
 was born August 20, 1853, on the paternal farm, 
 located one mile southeast of Lafayette, near 
 where the locks are now constructed. His father, 
 Franklin Martin, was born in Howard county, 
 Mo.. April 15, 1824, and his mother, Anna M. 
 (Burnett) Martin, was born in Clay county, Mo., 
 August 28, 1835. He is the third oldest in a 
 family of thirteen children, five sons and eight 
 daughters, three of whom died in infancy. The 
 paternal grandfather was born in North Caro- 
 lina, and died on a large farm near Liberty, Mo., 
 of which locality he was a very early pioneer. 
 Franklin Martin crossed the plains in a train of 
 one hundred and fifty wagons in the spring of 
 1846, and, after a six-months trip, landed in 
 Yamhill county, Ore., in the fall, after an ex- 
 tremely precarious and danger-infested journey. 
 During the entire route the travelers were obliged 
 to hew their way through bands of savages, and 
 other inconveniences arose in the shape of 
 swollen streams and illness among those com- 
 prising the train. In 1848, the father bought six 
 hundred acres of a Frenchman by the name of 
 Sharlotte, and having settled his little family 
 thereon, betook himself to the mines of California 
 the following year. After a moderately success- 
 ful year in Humboldt county, he returned to his 
 new and heavily-timbered farm in Yamhill 
 county, where his death occurred January 24. 
 1882. He was exceedingly industrious, and 
 made the most of his western opportunities, and 
 out of the four hundred and twenty-five and a 
 half acres owned during the latter part of his 
 life, about three hundred had been placed under 
 cultivation. This represented an enormous 
 amount of muscle and energy, yet from his sub- 
 sequent large harvests, and fine aggregation of 
 high-bred cattle, Mr. Martin reaped ample com- 
 pensation for his pains. 
 
532 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 At the age of twenty-three, James W. Martin, 
 who had been educated in the public schools, and 
 thoroughly drilled in things agricultural, bought 
 of his mother one hundred and two acres of the 
 original donation claim taken up by his father. 
 Although still holding on to his land, he has 
 branched out considerably into other occupations, 
 and from 1890 until 1900 conducted a livery 
 business in Lafayette anil Independence, Ore. 
 Gradually he has added to his original purchase 
 until he now owns three hundred acres. In 1876 
 he married Alice L. Palmer, daughter of Gen. 
 Joel Palmer, the latter of whom died at Dayton, 
 Ore., in 1881. General Palmer was an early set- 
 tler in Oregon, having arrived in the state as 
 early as 1845. The following year he returned 
 to the east, and after again settling in Oregon, 
 in 1847, identified himself largely with Indian 
 affairs. He was superintendent of Indian affairs 
 for the state of Oregon, and was Indian agent at 
 the Slitz Agency. Two children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Martin, Roy P. and Lilith A., 
 both of whom are living with their parents. A 
 Democrat in politics, Mr. Martin has actively 
 promoted the interests of his party in this county, 
 and was nominated for sheriff of Yamhill in 
 1890. He is a welcome member of various fra- 
 ternal organizations in the state, notably the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen 
 of the World, and the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, the latter of Lafayette. With the Odd 
 Fellows he has passed through all the chairs, is 
 noble grand, and has represented the lodge at the 
 Grand Lodge for eight years. 
 
 MRS. ELIZA G. EMMENS was born Oc- 
 tober 14, 1817. in Logan county, Ohio, and is a 
 descendant of an old English family that had 
 early made America their home. Her grand- 
 father, John Garwood, had originally settled in 
 Virginia, but in 1805 had removed to Logan coun- 
 ty, Ohio, where he reared his family, his trade be- 
 ing that of a miller, building his own mill in which 
 to work. His son, Lott, the father of Mrs. Em- 
 riiens of this review, was born in Virginia, in 
 1792, taking up farming for his life occupation, 
 remaining at it until his death at the age of 
 seventy-five years in 1857, in Logan county, 
 Ohio, whither his father had removed. He mar- 
 ried Ruth Branson, who died in Ohio, the daugh- 
 ter of William Branson, both natives of Virginia, 
 and of this union three children were born, Mrs, 
 Emmens being the second child and only one 
 living. 
 
 Having already attained a ripe old age and 
 yet with the promise of many years before her, 
 Mrs. Emmens recalls vividly the great changes 
 which have come within her range of vision. 
 Her earliest recollections go back to a little log 
 
 schoolhouse in the Ohio wilds, where to-day 
 the land blossoms with the easily cultivated har- 
 vest yields, when she sat upon the puncheon 
 benches with the light upon her book falling 
 through greased paper windows, her quill pen 
 carefully laid away until the hour for writing 
 came. When the bitter days of winter came in 
 good earnest the room was heated by a roaring 
 fire in the big, open fire-place. In 1835, at the 
 age of eighteen, she married John H. Robb, a 
 native of Pennsylvania, born near Burgettstown, 
 and at this time a farmer in her native count}-. 
 Becoming interested in the tales of the golden 
 lands of the west — for the farmer as well as the 
 miner — Mr. Robb, with the hearty co-operation 
 of his ambitious wife, prepared to take the long 
 journey necessary in order to reach the desired 
 location. Having secured their outfit at St. Joe, 
 they set out May 5, 1852, members of an ox train 
 on the old Oregon trail, reaching their destina- 
 tion September 20. Coming at once to Polk 
 county, they located on a donation claim near 
 Bethel, but later returned to Dallas, where they 
 had stopped previous to the settlement on the 
 claim. After another effort at farming, this time 
 a short distance south of Dallas, Mr. Robb took 
 a trip to California. In the fall of 1861 he passed 
 away at his home in Dallas, at the age of forty- 
 seven years. 
 
 On June 18, 1862, Mrs. Robb was again 
 united in marriage to Johannes Emmens, the son 
 of Jacobus Emmens, the New York representa- 
 tive of an old Holland family. In. Gravesend, N. 
 Y. Johannes Emmens was born and reared, tak- 
 ing up his residence later in Illinois, where he 
 carried on farming. In 1852 he crossed the plains, 
 reaching Willamette valley in August of the 
 same year. After his settlement of a donation 
 claim in Polk county, he removed to Dallas, 
 where as a Republican, he held several political 
 offices, among them being that of deputy county 
 clerk and county treasurer, while under the ad- 
 ministration of Lincoln he served as postmaster 
 of Dallas. He was also at one time engaged in 
 the dry goods business in Dallas, but soon after 
 returned to his farm two miles east of Dallas. 
 He lived to be nearly eighty-two years old, dy- 
 ing June 16, 1902. 
 
 Though nearly eighty-six years old, Mrs. Em- 
 mens' mind is still unimpaired. The past is still 
 as vivid in her memory as though it had hap- 
 pened but yesterday, and she enjoys talking of 
 the time when she and her husband were among 
 the first pioneers in Polk county. She recalls 
 distinctly the meteoric shower of November 13, 
 1833, being then a girl of sixteen in her Ohio 
 home. Of the children born to her father and 
 mother she is the only one living, her splendid 
 constitution and. health carrying her far beyond 
 three score years and ten, and leaving her practi- 
 
PORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 533 
 
 . alone, but with her courage and good cheer 
 
 - bright even hour of the evening of 
 
 She is a member of the Methodist 
 
 .il Church, and perhaps the secret of her 
 
 . life is the every-day use of her religion. 
 
 LEVI BENNETT is a native of Illinois, 
 m in Tazewell county, in March. 1834, and 
 
 ;.nv living in Yamhill county. Ore., near 
 Whiteson. He was one oi a family of four 
 children whose parents were farming people. 
 His father died when the son was thirteen 
 
 irs of age and for two years thereafter he 
 lived with a neighbor. The educational privi- 
 leges which he enjoyed were received prior to 
 that time in the district schools near his home. 
 When a youth of fifteen he joined a company 
 of people who started across the plains to the 
 northwest in 1848. He went as one of the 
 drivers of an ox team and for six months trav- 
 
 I with the party, walking the entire dis- 
 tance. Progress was slow and hardships were 
 many, for not only did they have to endure 
 the trials incident to the journey across the 
 hot, sandy plains and through the mountain 
 passes, but there was also danger of attacks 
 from the Indians, the latter stealing some of 
 their horses near the Platte river. They 
 crossed the Cascade mountains about fifteen 
 miles from The Dalles and Mr. Bennett spent 
 his first winter in Oregon upon a farm near 
 Salem, which is now the site of the state peni- 
 tentiary. In the spring of 1849 be went to 
 French Prairie in Marion county, where he 
 was employed as a farm hand until his re- 
 moval to Yamhill county. Here he followed 
 
 ging in Moore's valley for about three years 
 and for about two years he made his home 
 upon a farm at Whiteson. In 1854 he went to 
 south Oregon, where he was engaged in min- 
 ing and prospecting, but in the following year 
 he returned to Yamhill county. 
 
 Mr. Bennett was then married to Miss Mary 
 M. Stephens, who had traveled overland to 
 the northwest in 1845 with her parents, who 
 
 led in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett 
 after their marriage located upon the farm 
 where he now lives. He had purchased one 
 hundred acres of land, most of which was 
 prairie, and here he has resided continuously 
 since, with the exception of a period of four 
 years, which was spent upon a farm within 
 four miles of the old homestead. All of the 
 improvements upon his place are his work, and 
 these include a good set of farm buildings and 
 machinery and all modern equipments for fa- 
 cilitating the work of field and meadow. At 
 the present time he owns one hundred acres 
 of good land and in connection with the cul- 
 
 tivation of cereals best adapted to the soil and 
 climate, he is also extensively engaged in rais- 
 ing hops, having in 1902 a crop of about five 
 thousand pounds, the sale of which has been 
 profitable: 
 
 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett has been 
 blessed with five children: Cyrus M., who is 
 with his parents ; John II.. in Whiteson; Lil- 
 lian R., the wife of E. G. Murphy, of Whiteson; 
 Rosamond J., at home; and Maryetta, de- 
 ceased. Mr. Bennett is independent in his po- 
 litical views. He has served as a member of 
 the school board for about twenty years and 
 the cause of education finds in him a warm 
 friend. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Masonic Lodge of Amity, in which he has 
 filled all of the chairs. 
 
 JAMES REID. Too much cannot be said 
 of the enterprise and thrift, the business sagac- 
 ity and honorable personal characteristics 
 which have placed James Reid among the most 
 influential and successful farmers of the vicin- 
 ity of McMinnville. Descended from rugged 
 and profoundly religious Scottish ancestors, 
 he was born in the county of Halton, On- 
 tario, Canada, May 31, 1843, his parents being 
 natives of that deeply indented, ocean-swept 
 portion of western Scotland known as Argyl- 
 shire, where are raised some of the finest stock 
 in the world. Of the thirteen children born to 
 the parents in Scotland and Canada, but one 
 is deceased, and the living members are so 
 widely separated as to suggest from the start 
 ambitious and resourceful tendencies. Two of 
 the brothers are in Africa, one is in Australia, 
 one in Manitoba, one in Oregon, and the re- 
 mainder in Canada. 
 
 Principally in Canada Mr. Reid received his 
 education, and his youth gained considerable 
 assurance from having to learn the rule of 
 three and the principles of parsing while oc- 
 cupying a backless and very hard wooden seat 
 in a primitive log school house. At his father's 
 death he was a strong young fellow of twenty, 
 morally, mentally and physically able to cope 
 with whatever the future might have in store 
 for him. With the skill born of experience he 
 managed the old homestead until 1873. and 
 then came to Oregon, where he was variously 
 employed for about a year. In 1874 he located 
 on his present farm of two hundred and thirty- 
 six acres, four miles east of McMinnville. and 
 August 25, 1875, married Mary A. Fletcher, 
 born near LaFayette, Yamhill county, October 
 4. 1850. The Fletcher parents came to Oregon 
 as early as 1840, and a complete record of these 
 early and remarkably successful pioneers is 
 to be found in another part of this work. 
 
534: 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Since his marriage Mr. Reid has labored to in- 
 vest his property with all the improvements 
 known to modern agricultural science, and few 
 properties in the county evince greater re- 
 gard for advanced methods in all departments 
 of farming. At the present time he owns three 
 hundred and four acres of land, the greater 
 part of which is devoted to stock-raising, in- 
 cluding Berkshire and Poland-China hogs, 
 Cotswold sheep, Jerseys and Short-horns. 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Reid have been born four 
 children : Ytol Viola ; Lottie Lorene, who 
 died February 19, 1902 ; Clifford Fletcher, and 
 Clair James. 
 
 In political affiliations a Republican, Mr. 
 Reid has never identified himself to any ex- 
 tent with political undertakings, but has never- 
 theless served his county as supervisor for a 
 couple of years, and he has rendered efficient 
 service for a number of years as a member of 
 the school board. He is a welcome member of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
 with his wife is an active member of the Cum- 
 berland "Presbyterian Church, contributing 
 generously towards its maintenance and chari- 
 ties. 
 
 HON. JOHN F. CALBREATH, one of the 
 distinguished physicians of the state of Ore- 
 gon, now serving as superintendent of the 
 Oregon State Insane Asylum at Salem, was 
 born in Weston, W. Va., June I, 1854. His 
 father, John Calbreath, was a native of Augusta 
 county, Va., born near Stanton, and his pa- 
 ternal grandfather was a planter of the Shen- 
 andoah valley. He was of Scotch descent, his 
 ancestors having been members of one of the 
 ancient Highland clans. John Calbreath fol- 
 lowed farming near Weston, W. Va., until the 
 time of the Civil war, when his property was 
 practically destroyed by the contending ar- 
 mies. He removed to Iowa in 1864 and for a 
 year resided at Cincinnati in that state. In 
 1865 he brought his family across the plains, 
 traveling with a party of two hundred through 
 the Indian country, the trip consuming six 
 months. He located at Philomath, Benton 
 county, Ore., where he leased land and began 
 farming. Later he moved to eastern Oregon 
 to engage in the cattle business, but died soon 
 afterward, in 'the fall of 1872. In his religious 
 faith he was a Presbyterian. ■ His wife, who 
 bore the maiden name of Nancy Christ, was 
 also a native of Augusta county, Va., a daugh- 
 ter of Daniel Christ, who was born in that 
 state and was the owner of an extensive plant- 
 ation. He died in the early '70s, having at- 
 tained the age of over one hundred years. His 
 
 daughter, Mrs. Calbreath, the mother of our 
 subject, died in 1872. Pier children were: 
 Thomas W., a farmer of Wasco county, Ore. ; 
 Daniel M., of Polk county, Ore. ; Mrs. Janet 
 Brown, who died in Harney county, Ore. ; 
 and J. F. 
 
 When but ten years of age Dr. Calbreath ac- 
 companied his parents to Iowa, and the fol- 
 lowing year came with them to Oregon. On 
 account of the war, which interfered with the 
 conduct of the schools of the south, his educa- 
 tion in youth was limited, but after arriving in 
 Oregon he attended school, including a course 
 in Philomath College. He did not go to eastern 
 Oregon with the family, but remained in Philo- 
 math College for a time, and since leaving that 
 institution has made his own way in the world. 
 At the age of sixteen he rented a farm, which 
 he operated for two years, having one hundred 
 and ten acres planted to wheat. He then 
 began studying medicine, having determined to 
 make the medical profession his field of labor. 
 At the age of seventeen he had begun' teach- 
 ing, and that profession, combined with farm- 
 ing, enabled him to gain sufficient means to 
 pay the expenses of a course in medicine. In 
 1872 he began study under the direction of Dr. 
 J. R. Bayley, of Corvallis, and the following 
 year entered the medical department of Wil- 
 lamette University, where he remained for one 
 term. He next became a student in Toland Medi- 
 cal College, San Francisco, from which he was 
 graduated in 1875 with the degree of M. D. 
 
 Locating in La Fayette, Yamhill county, 
 Ore., Dr. Calbreath then engaged in the prac- 
 tice of medicine with Dr. Littlefield, an asso- 
 ciation which was maintained until 1886, when 
 Dr. Calbreath moved to McMinnville. There 
 he became a partner of Dr. E. E. Goucher, 
 under the firm name of Calbreath & Goucher, 
 and in his chosen field of labor he met with 
 gratifying success, working his way upward to 
 a position of prominence. In 1896 he went to 
 New York City and took a course in the New 
 York Post-Graduate College, after which he 
 returned to Oregon and continued the active 
 practice of his profession until appointed su- 
 perintendent of the Oregon State Insane 
 Asylum, in January, 1900. He then moved to 
 Salem. 
 
 Dr. Calbreath's administration of the affairs 
 of the asylum has been one of lasting benefit 
 to the institution and has won for him the 
 highest approval of his contemporaries. He 
 has gradually made a number of much-needed 
 improvements in connection with the estab- 
 lishment, having added five new wards, be- 
 sides two more in the course of construction. 
 There are one thousand acres in the asylum 
 
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 539 
 
 (arm which is located five miles from Salem, 
 
 while the main buildings of the institution are 
 
 ted on a tract of two hundred acres, [Tiere 
 
 an orchard of thirty acres at the asylum 
 
 ,r pr "calbreath has made a close study of the 
 needs of the institution and its inmates, and 
 t only carefullv performed his duties as 
 physician, but has also given special attention 
 to sanitary conditions, to outdoor and indoor 
 exercise and to the minutest details hearing 
 upon the health and general condition of the 
 thirteen hundred unfortunate persons under 
 his charge. His administration has demon- 
 strated the fact that he is highly qualified for 
 the work which he is now so ably performing. 
 In a profession where advancement depends 
 upon merit and skill he has steadily progressed 
 until he stands to-day among the most able 
 phvsicians of the state. 
 
 In Corvallis. in 1874, Dr. Calbreath was mar- 
 ried to Miss Irene Smith, a native of Yamhill 
 county, and a daughter of Sidney Smith, who 
 came 'from Ohio to Oregon in 1839. Mrs. Lai- 
 breath is a ladv of superior culture and refine- 
 ment She is a graduate of St. Mary's Acad- 
 emy of Portland, and prior to her marriage 
 she was a member of'the faculty of the Oregon 
 Agricultural College at Corvallis. To Dr. and 
 Mrs. Calbreath have been born two daughters, 
 Helen and Evelene. 
 
 \ pronounced Republican and prominent in 
 political circles. Dr. Calbreath was elected m 
 1894, as his partv's nominee from Yamhill 
 county to the state senate, receiving a large 
 majority. He served in the sessions of 1895 
 and 1897, and was a member of the Ways and 
 Means Committee and chairman of the Com- 
 mittee on Medicine during both sessions. He 
 was not a candidate for the second term, and 
 returning home he resumed the practice of his 
 profession. In 1896 he was a delegate to the 
 Republican national convention at St. Louis, 
 and was made vice-president of the Oregon 
 delegation. 
 
 Socially Dr. Calbreath is past master ot 
 La Fayette Lodge No. 3, A. F. & A. M. ; past 
 high priest of McMinnville Chapter, R. A. M. ; 
 has taken all the degrees in the Scottish Rite 
 tip to and including the Consistory, and is 
 a member of Al Kader Temple, N. M. S , of 
 Portland. He is also a member of the Uni- 
 formed Rank, K. P., and is now serving his 
 second term as a member of the board of re- 
 gents of the State Normal School at Mon- 
 mouth. 
 
 Besides has other interests, he is the owner 
 of a fine prune orchard and farming properties 
 in Yamhill county. His life record is com- 
 
 mendable and honorable, and Ins professional 
 career shows the result of close application and 
 a strong mentality. 
 
 ABSALOM H. CORNELIUS. Coming in 
 childhood to the state of Oregon, the son of 
 a pioneer, Absalom H. Cornelius scarcely re- 
 members any other home than the one he has 
 known here for so many years. He was born 
 in Henry county, Iowa, near the city of Bur- 
 lington, January 2, 1839, and crossed the 
 plains with his parents in 1845. He remained 
 on the homestead taken up by his father in 
 Marion county, Ore., until he was twenty-one 
 years of age." Then going to southern Ore- 
 gon, he followed mining in Josephine county 
 for about one year and then followed the same 
 calling in Florence, Idaho. Somewhat dissatis- 
 fied with the miner's life, he returned to 
 Marion county after a trial of six months, 
 and located on a part of his father's farm, 
 about two and a half miles southwest of Tur- 
 ner, where he continued to live for ten years, 
 actively engaged in the cultivation of the soil. 
 By his marriage, September 20, 1868, Mr. 
 Cornelius allied himself with a pioneer fam- 
 ily of Oregon, his wife being Lavina Powell, 
 the daughter of Elder Noah Powell, who was 
 well known throughout the Willamette val- 
 ley as a minister in the Christian Church. He 
 was born in Greene county, Ohio. From Il- 
 linois, in 1851, he crossed the plains with his 
 family by means of two wagons drawn by ox- 
 teams, being on the journey about six months. 
 He first located in Marion county, near Sil- 
 yerton, where he took up a donation claim of 
 six hundred and forty acres, but not being en- 
 tirely satisfied he removed to Howell Prairie. 
 \fter a residence of a few years there he lo- 
 cated near Amity, Yamhill county, and later 
 made his home in Linn county for six years. 
 From that location he removed to a farm in 
 Marion county, where he died at the age ot 
 sixty-six year's. His wife also died there at 
 the 'age of eighty years. The five children 
 who blessed their union are in order ot birth 
 as follows: William; Josiah and John p., 
 who are both deceased; Theresa A., who died 
 in 1901, the wife of John Shafer; and La- 
 vina, Mrs. Cornelius. 
 
 Mr Cornelius formerly owned two hun- 
 dred and twenty-five acres of land, located 
 one mile from Marion village, the same being 
 the property which Elder Powell owned in 
 Marion county. In March. 1903, he sold his 
 farm and retired to Jefferson, where he in- 
 vested in real estate and remodeled a com- 
 fortable home, and with his wife is living in 
 comfort after years of hard work. For thirty 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 years he was engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising, making a specialty of jersey 
 cattle. A Republican in politics, Mr. Cor- 
 nelius has served as county commissioner for 
 two years and as assessor for four, in addition 
 to his services as a member of the school 
 board for ten years. Fraternally he has been 
 a member of the Masonic order for twenty- 
 two years. Of the children born to himself 
 and wife, Flora is the wife of F. L. George, 
 of Salem, and they have three children ; Emily 
 is the wife of C. O. Green, of Oakland, Ore., 
 and they have six children ; Annie, the wife 
 of J. W. Cardwell, is the mother of three chil- 
 dren and the family live on a farm three miles 
 north of Salem ; Nettie is the wife of George 
 Van Buren, station agent at Comstock for the 
 Southern Pacific Radroad, and they have 
 three children ; Maude is the wife of J. S. 
 Roberts and they have three children and live 
 in Portland ; Rodney, the only son, is a tele- 
 graph operator at Drain, Ore., in the employ 
 of the Southern Pacific Railway Company; 
 and Nora is deceased. Mrs. Cornelius is a 
 member of the Christian Church. 
 
 EDWARD F. SOX. Though a prominent 
 and enterprising business man of Albany, Linn 
 county, Ore., Edward F. Sox has not confined 
 his mental grasp to opportunities leading to 
 this avenue, but with a praiseworthy ambition 
 encouraged by exceptional executive ability he 
 has widened his line of advancement, adding 
 both mental and moral culture to his manhood, 
 making in his community a place and name for 
 himself as scholar, Christian and business man. 
 During a residence of more than thirty years 
 Mr Sox has clearly demonstrated his ability 
 to lead where judgment and enterprise are es- 
 sential to success, and as a man of this caliber 
 he has stamped his personality in his adopted 
 state. 
 
 Born in Palmyra, Lee county, 111., January 
 25, 1846, Edward F. Sox is the son of Herman 
 and Margaret (Owens) Sox, both of whom were 
 born November 14, 1814, the father in Ger- 
 many, the mother in Wilkesbarre, Pa. As a 
 young man Herman Sox emigrated to the 
 United States, a land where talent and oppor- 
 tunity were parallel. For some years he was a 
 railroad builder in Pennsylvania, and there he 
 met and married Margaret Owens, December 
 27, 1838, and the next year they went to St. 
 Louis, Mo., where they made their home for 
 some time. In 1840, becoming interested in 
 the farming capabilities of the prairie lands of 
 Illinois, though at that date wild and unculti- 
 vated, he purchased a number of acres in 
 Whiteside county which he proceeded to im- 
 
 prove. His death occurred in that state near 
 Sterling, March 24, 1888, his wife surviving 
 him until June, 1902, when she also died at the 
 home of her son, L. N. Sox, in Sterling. Fra- 
 ternally he was associated with the Masons. 
 
 Of the nine children born to his parents, all 
 of whom are living except a sister, Mary, who 
 married Ira Compton, of Dixon, 111., Mr. Sox 
 is the fourth in order of birth and the only one 
 who lives in Oregon. He received his pre- 
 liminary education in the public schools and 
 prepared for college in the Prairieville Union 
 schools, being deterred, however, from enter- 
 ing by enlisting May 30, 1864, in Company D, 
 One Hundred and Fortieth Illinois Volunteer In- 
 fantry. He was mustered in at Dixon and sent 
 south, his service being principally in Tennes- 
 see and Missouri. He was mustered out Octo- 
 ber 29, 1864, being then not yet nineteen years 
 old, and in 1865 he entered Wheaton College, 
 where he remained for two years, at the close 
 of that time entering the University of Michi- 
 gan. Though at the time of entering he had 
 expected to graduate in the class of 1870, he 
 attended but one year, after which he became 
 a teacher in the public schools of Whiteside 
 county, 111., continuing in his position for two 
 years. In 1871 he changed his residence to 
 Portland, Ore., and taught in the public schools 
 until the fall of the same year, when he was 
 elected to the chair of mathematics in Albany 
 College, a position which he maintained for 
 three years, resigning at that date to return to 
 Illinois, and with his brother assisted in the 
 management of his father's affairs. In 1877 he 
 again made his home in Albany, Ore., and was 
 made principal of the city schools for one year. 
 From this date is reckoned his business career, 
 for he then entered the hardware business in 
 partnership with W. S. Peters, the firm being 
 known for two years as Peters & Sox. In 
 1882 Mr. Sox changed his location to Seattle, 
 Wash., where he was one of the organizers of 
 the firm known as Ballard & Sox, hardware 
 dealers, which two years later was enlarged 
 and incorporated under the title of the Seattle 
 Hardware Company, which to-day is one of 
 the largest of its kind in the city of Seattle. 
 Mr. Sox served for some time as treasurer of 
 the company, but in 1886 he sold his interest 
 and returned to Albany and engaged in the 
 same business with C. H. Stewart. The year 
 1896 witnessed the organization and incorpora- 
 tion of a stock company, under the title of the 
 Stewart & Sox Hardware Company, of which 
 Mr. Sox was elected president, continuing to 
 hold that office to the present time. In the 
 spring of 1903 Mr. Sox purchased Mr. Stew- 
 art's interest. This is now one of the best- 
 equipped and most extensive hardware busi- 
 
PORTRAJ r AM) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 .Ml 
 
 m interests of Albany, in connection with 
 
 which carrying a full line of Studebaker 
 
 - and buggies; Parlin and Orendorff 
 
 nton clippers and Moline plows and culti- 
 
 >rs. Piano harvesters and cutting machin- 
 
 Russell threshers, etc. In 1893 Mr. Sox 
 
 irected the building, which is 50x100 feet and 
 
 stories in height, a creditable addition to 
 
 the business blocks of Albany. In addition to 
 
 his interests in the city, Air. Sox also has farra- 
 
 nterests in Linn county. 
 
 The marriage ceremony which, united Mr. 
 
 }ox with Miss Weltha M. Young was per- 
 forraed ir Albany, January 27, 1874. She was 
 horn in Benton county, Ore., January 16, 1855, 
 the daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Young and 
 er of S. E. Young, whose sketch appears 
 elsewhere in this volume. She was a member 
 of the first class that graduated from Albany 
 College. Of this union two children have been 
 born : Carleton E. and Emma Rebecca. The 
 son graduated from Albany College in 1891 and 
 from Leland Stanford University, California, 
 in 1S94. and is now a practicing attorney of 
 the firm of Hewitt & Sox. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the board of trustees of Albany Col- 
 lege and stockholder and director of the Stew- 
 art & Sox Hardware Company. The daughter 
 graduated from Albany College in the class of 
 1902. While in Seattle Mr. Sox interested him- 
 self in municipal affairs, serving in the inter- 
 1" the Republican party as alderman for 
 one term, and was also president of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association for two years. He 
 was superintendent of the Sunday School of 
 Plymouth Congregational Church, though 
 he is now a member of the United Presby- 
 terian Church, in which he officiates as ruling 
 elder, and occupied the position of superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday School for ten years, a 
 position he maintained with credit in every 
 particular. He has always been interested in 
 
 II educational movements. In the social life 
 of the city he has been prominent, being a 
 member of the Alco Club and a charter mem- 
 ber of McPherson Post No. 5, G. A. R., of which 
 he is past commander. 
 
 HON. STEWART McKINDRA PENING- 
 f 'N. Hardship, privation and toil were the 
 daily diet of the pioneers of the early days, but 
 it was one which made true, earnest men, upon 
 whose worth and conscientious effort depended 
 the future of the west. That was a time, in 
 both middle and extreme west, when the fight- 
 ing spirit of the Spartans was once more called 
 into life and utilized in the following of peace- 
 ful pursuits under warlike conditions, for such 
 was certainly the case among the tangled paths 
 
 familiar only to the feet of the Indian, who used 
 his knowledge as a lure lor the men in the 
 van of western civilization. To lion. S. M. 
 Penington, of Albany, Linn county, the mem- 
 ory ol the time when he made the journey into 
 the west, alone and on his own responsibility, 
 recurs with vivid force, since it is illustrated 
 by the innumerable changes which have char- 
 acterized the growth of Oregon, and which 
 he has helped to bring about through his asso- 
 ciation as a pioneer with the development of 
 the resources of the state. For more than a 
 half century he has been connected with the 
 progress of the west, liberally contributing to 
 every enterprise which he considered worthy of 
 his support and he is now a worthy member of 
 the generation which pauses to look with deep 
 interest upon the work of the years, before 
 surrendering the heritage to the guardianship 
 of the ones who are to follow. 
 
 The entire life of Stewart McKindra Pening- 
 ton has been one of stirring activity and changing 
 scene. He was born in Monroe county, Ky., 
 August 5, 1824, the eighth in order of birth of 
 thirteen children that blessed the home of his 
 parents, John Stewart and Jemima (Houser) 
 Penington, natives respectively of Virginia and 
 Pennsylvania. They were both early settlers 
 of Kentucky, the father being a farmer there, 
 and ihe mother having emigrated with her 
 parents. In 1831 they removed to Illinois, set- 
 tling at Pennington Point, McDonough county, 
 where Mr. Penington improved a farm. He 
 died there at the age of seventy-six years, and 
 his wife also died in the same state when she 
 was sixty-five years old. They were both 
 members of the Christian Church, and it was 
 the privilege of Mr. Penington to enlist in 
 1815 for service in the war of 1812. Of the 
 twelve children who attained maturity the old- 
 est, Thomas J., served in the Black Hawk war, 
 and the youngest, William T., was a soldier 
 during the Civil war, and S. M. Penington was 
 the only one who sought a home on the Pacific 
 coast. When seven years old Mr. Penington 
 removed with his parents to Illinois, where he 
 was reared to manhood upon his father's farm, 
 receiving a practical agricultural training. Fol- 
 lowing the custom of the early settlers he at- 
 tended the common school in the vicinity of 
 his home, a very primitive affair, a little log 
 building built in the midst of field or forest, 
 in the very early times having for windows 
 nothing but oiled paper and for heating pur- 
 poses a great fireplace. The materials with 
 which the young students sought to advance 
 their stock of knowledge were also primitive, 
 the quill pen being one of the treasured articles 
 of the pupil. When eighteen Mr. Penington 
 started out in the world to seek his own liveli- 
 
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 hood, engaging in farming, and a short time 
 after he bought a farm, which consisted of un- 
 improved prairie land, the first plowing of which 
 requiring six yoke of oxen. For some years he 
 remained in that location, industriously occu- 
 pied with his farming interests, but having 
 read and heard much of the brilliant oppor- 
 tunities to be found in the Oregon territory 
 he decided in 1847 to emigrate to the west. 
 In company with a few friends he hired out 
 to drive an ox-team across the plains, deter- 
 mining at least to see Oregon whether he 
 chose afterward to make it his home or not. 
 His trip to the west was one of the most ex- 
 citing periods in Mr. Penington's life, for ad- 
 venture followed them from the beginning to 
 the end of the journey. It was soon very evi- 
 dent that he was more than an ordinary driver, 
 as he never met with an accident of any kind, 
 while the others experienced various troubles ; 
 thus he was selected to lead. At Fort Hall 
 the train ran short of provisions and several 
 of the young men decided to complete the 
 journey by pack horses and riding ponies, the 
 price for the pony which Mr. Penington pur- 
 chased from the Indians being two hickory 
 shirts, though it afterward transpired that they 
 had hoped to follow up the party and steal 
 back their former property. For one hundred 
 and fifty miles the Indians followed the six 
 boys, three of whom stood guard every night 
 and kept the enemy off by shooting at them 
 as they were creeping up. 
 
 After leaving Fort Hall the journey was 
 completed quite rapidly, September 15 finding 
 them in the desired location. Mr. Penington 
 at once engaged in boating as a means of liveli- 
 hood, remaining at this work on the Columbia 
 river for a short time, when he entered the 
 Oregon City saw mill owned by Governor 
 Abernathy. In the summer of 1848 he engaged 
 to conduct a farm on Tualatin plains for R. D. 
 Torney, and that same summer he located a 
 donation claim four miles north of Lebanon, 
 Linn county, in the Santiam bottoms. In 1849 
 he journeyed by water to California; after 
 landing at San Francisco he at once went to 
 the Spanish Bar of the American river, where 
 he engaged for nearly two years in mining. 
 He was successful the first year, but not meet- 
 ing with like returns the second he returned 
 to Oregon in the fall of 1850 by pack train, and 
 settling upon his claim he began to make im- 
 provements. Until 1871 he remained there en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising; at 
 the expiration of this period he rented the land 
 and going to eastern Oregon he became ex- 
 tensively interested in the stock business, rais- 
 ing principally cattle and horses and meeting 
 with gratifying success in this venture. He 
 
 was located six miles from the mouth of Butter 
 creek, Umatilla county, his residence being for 
 the last ten years in Pendleton. In 1885 he 
 sold out his interests in that part of the state, 
 returned to Linn county and purchased and 
 remodeled a comfortable residence in the city 
 of Albany, where he has since made his home. 
 He still owns his claim, which has developed 
 into a prosperous, well appointed farm. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Penington occurred in 
 Linn county, February 28, 1850, Miss Abigail 
 Cooper, a native of Ohio, becoming his wife. 
 She had crossed the plains in the same train 
 with Mr. Penington, her father, Samuel 
 Cooper, having at that time brought his family 
 to Oregon, where he located upon a donation 
 claim in the Santiam valley. The children born 
 to them are as follows : Mary, who became 
 the wife of Dr. J. L. Hill and died in 1898 in 
 Albany ; Jemima, who married John H. Clay- 
 pool and died in Linn county; Idella, who died 
 in Umatilla county unmarried ; Charles Clyde, 
 a resident of Union county, Ore., where as 
 sheriff and farmer he performs the duties of 
 a citizen ; Anna, who died in Umatilla county ; 
 Alice P., the widow of Freeland Richards, of 
 Albany; and Celia B., who died in Albany, 
 February 23, 1903, unmarried. While inter- 
 ested in making a success of his business af- 
 fairs Mr. Penington has never forgotten to 
 lend his aid in the upbuilding of the country, 
 as a Democrat ably representing Umatilla 
 county in the state senate in 1878, where he 
 helped elect James H. Slater to the United 
 States senate, and again in 1882 he was called 
 upon to serve in the same office. Altogether 
 he served in four regular and one special ses- 
 sion, being actively interested in all that per- 
 tained to the welfare of the community which 
 had honored him with its support. In local pol- 
 itics he is guided by the character of the candi- 
 date for a position, but in national affairs sup- 
 ports the Democratic party. He was made a 
 Mason in Corinthian Lodge No. 17, A. F. & A. 
 M., of Albany, in which he served as master. 
 Both himself and wife are members of the Bap- 
 tist Church, he having officiated as trustee of the 
 same. He has always been active in advancing 
 the work of the church, both here and in Pen- 
 dleton, where he made his home for nearly 
 fifteen years, being liberal with both time and 
 money and sparing no effort toward the moral 
 elevation of the new country. 
 
 ALEXANDER ESSON, an extensive 
 farmer near Gervais, may be said to have no 
 native land, for he was born at sea, off the 
 east coast of Scotland, July 10, 1829. His 
 father, an officer in the British army, died 
 
PORTRAIT AND P.h u IRAPIIICAL RFCoUh. 
 
 5 1 5 
 
 when his son was thirteen and a half years of 
 
 e, his mother having died when he was but 
 
 ven months old. Left thus comparatively 
 
 e in the world, he found a home with an 
 
 aunt until a short time after the death oi his 
 
 father, after which he was thrown upon his 
 
 ii resources, working on the farms in the 
 
 surrounding locality. 
 
 ge of sixteen Mr. Esson enlisted for 
 military service in the Seventy-ninth Regi- 
 . ( Jueen's ( )wn Cameron Highlanders, and 
 - ransferred to Quebec, Canada. He served 
 \ ears in the army. In 1852 lie removed 
 ivingston county. N. Y., where he Eol- 
 : earning- and farming until 1857. After 
 trying his fortunes in Wisconsin for a year he 
 went to west Canada and in the fall of 1858 
 rted for California by way of the Isthmus 
 Panama. Not realizing his mining expecta- 
 tions in California he came to Oregon in June, 
 1851). and after a year spent in Silverton lo- 
 u a farm on Howell Prairie which he 
 ued and worked for about four years. De- 
 cember 24, 1862, he married Christina Stevens, 
 who was born in Indiana, December 28, 1844, 
 her family having crossed the plains in 1852. 
 They began housekeeping on the farm on 
 I Unveil Prairie. In 1863 he bought a farm of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, to which he 
 removed the following year and has since made 
 this his home. Of this farm twenty-seven 
 acres was cleared. This property is located 
 two miles west of Mount Angel and under the 
 management of the present owner has greatly 
 increased its tillable surface, about one hun- 
 dred acres being now under cultivation. Air. 
 sson is engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising, making a specialty of the latter, which 
 includes Shorthorn and Holstein cattle, Cotswold 
 sheep and Poland-China hogs. 
 
 In political affiliations Mr. Esson is a Pro- 
 hibitionist, and with his family is identified 
 giously with the Christian Church. He has 
 served for several terms as road supervisor, and 
 for years has been a member of the school 
 board. To himself and wife have been born 
 twelve children : Inez, deceased, formerly the 
 wife of G. Simmons, became the mother of 
 three sons and one daughter; Albyn is a min- 
 ister of the Christian Church, residing in Port- 
 land with his family; Alfred M. is an attorney, 
 located in Seattle. Wash.; Ida died at the age 
 wenty-one years ; Florence is the widow of 
 P. I). Smith, and with her son, L. D., makes 
 her home with her father: A. S. is a dentist by 
 profession and is located with his family at 
 The Dalles; Hugh B. is principal of the Clat- 
 skanic high school; Ronald is attending the 
 Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis ; 
 Leroy A. is living at home; C. Elizabeth is a 
 
 student at the University of Oregon, at 
 Eugene; Mary Mabel and Isabella are also liv- 
 ing with their parents. 
 
 GEORGE THOMSON, a successful and 
 worthy representative of the farming interests 
 of Yamhill county, was born in Lanark county, 
 Ontario, Canada, January 17, 1833. His father, 
 Henry Thomson, was a native of Edinburgh, 
 Scotland, and in that country was emploved in 
 cotton and woolen factories, becoming a carder 
 and spinner. Emigrating to the new world he 
 took up his abode in Ontario, Canada, where he 
 again became employed in woolen factories, but 
 the last fifteen years of his life were devoted 
 to agricultural pursuits. He died in the province 
 of Ontario when about sixty-five years of age, 
 in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which 
 he was a devoted and consistent member. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Agnes Mac- 
 Connal, was born near Edinburgh and died at 
 the birth of her son George, of this review. After 
 four years the father married again, his second 
 union being with Jennie Twiddle, who was born 
 near Edinburgh and survived her husband for 
 a number of years, passing away when about 
 ninety years of age. By the first marriage there 
 were three children : James and Douglas, both of 
 whom died in Ontario; and George. The chil- 
 dren of the second marriage are: Archie, Mrs. 
 Agnes Murray, Mrs. Jane Calvert and Mrs. 
 Mary Calvert, all deceased: Margaret and 
 Henry. By another marriage Mr. Thomson also 
 had the following children : Mamie, Robert, 
 Elizabeth, Archie and Thomas, all of whom have 
 passed away ; and three who died in infancy. 
 Plis children altogether numbered seventeen. 
 
 George Thomson received very limited educa- 
 tional advantages, having little or no opportunity 
 of attending school, and his knowledge has been 
 acquired mostly in the school of experience, read- 
 ing and observation, having made him a well-in- 
 formed man. He began to earn his own living 
 in a woolen factor}- in Canada when but seven 
 years of age and afterward he went upon the 
 home farm with his father, there remaining until 
 twenty-two years of age. At that time he re- 
 moved to Port Sarnia, in the western part of the 
 province of Ontario, and soon afterward he re- 
 moved to Michigan, being employed in the log- 
 ging camps near Port Huron. For five vears he 
 following that business and then returned to On- 
 tario, Canada, where with the proceeds of his 
 labors he purchased a farm and engaged in gen- 
 eral agricultural pursuits until 1883, when he sold 
 his property and made his way westward to Pon- 
 homme county, S. Dak. There he purchased a 
 farm and devoted his energies to its cultivation 
 until 1890, making a specialty of the raising of 
 
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 corn, also raising of hogs. Following his sale 
 of his South Dakota property he came to Oregon, 
 establishing his home near McMinnville. He pur- 
 chased eighty-eight acres of land two and a half 
 miles northeast of the town and of this thirty- 
 five acres are under a high state of cultivation. 
 He has twenty acres planted to hops, which is a 
 very productive and profitable crop in Oregon, 
 ?nd he likewise follows general farming, his 
 efforts being attended with a fair degree of suc- 
 cess. 
 
 In 1859 occurred the marriage of Mr. Thom- 
 son and Miss Jean McMillan, and unto them 
 were born two sons and two daughters : J. J., 
 a resident of Lincoln county, Ore. ; Archibald 
 S., of the same county; Mrs. Agnes McFee, who 
 is deceased, and Elizabeth, who has also passed 
 away. For his second wife, Mr. Thomson chose 
 Lydia B. Rogers, who was born near Danville, 
 Iowa, a daughter of Rev. D. B. Nichols, a min- 
 ister of the Congregational Church, who was 
 living at Mission Hill, S. Dak., and while resi- 
 dents of that state Mr. and Mrs. Thomson be- 
 came acquainted and were married. He belongs 
 to the Grange of McMinnville, of which he is 
 now serving as chaplain, and his religious faith 
 is indicated by his membership in the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church of that town. 
 
 SAMUEL S. TRAIN. As postmaster of 
 Albany and proprietor and editor of the Albany 
 Daily Herald, Samuel S. Train holds a posi- 
 tion of prominence in the life of this thriving, 
 wide-awake city. Becoming well known and 
 popular through the columns of his well-con- 
 ducted and enterprising paper, he is enabled 
 not only to spread to a large territory the news 
 of city, county, state and nation, but to arouse 
 in the minds of the many readers of his pages 
 a spirit of local pride and patriotism and a 
 strong desire for the improvement of educa- 
 tional, moral and social conditions. A son of 
 Thomas Train, he was born August 6, 1841, at 
 Port Henry, Essex county, N. Y., near the 
 shores of Lake Champlain. He comes of sub- 
 stantial colonial stock, being a direct descend- 
 ant of one of three brothers who emigrated 
 from Wales to New England in the early part 
 of the seventeenth century. Two of these 
 brothers married and reared families, their de- 
 scendants becoming scattered throughout the 
 Union Asel Train, the grandfather of Samuel 
 S., was' born and reared in Vermont, but re- 
 moved to New York state when a young man, 
 and there engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until his death. 
 
 A native of Essex county, N. Y., Thomas 
 Train learned the trade of carpenter and 
 
 builder, and also worked as a millwright, erect- 
 ing mills on different streams in New York 
 state. Crossing the state to Buffalo with his 
 family in 1852 he there took passage on a 
 steamer for Detroit, thence proceeding by rail 
 to Chicago. Continuing his journey to 
 Stephenson county, 111., he located near Lena, 
 on a farm which he had purchased the previous 
 year, when he had visited Freeport and the ad- 
 joining towns with a view of settling perma- 
 nently in the Prairie state. Clearing and im- 
 proving a homestead he was there employed in 
 general farming until his death in 1871, at the 
 age of seventy-one years. He was an uncom- 
 promising^ Republican in politics and an active 
 member of the Congregational Church. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Betsey Barber, 
 was born in Essex county, N. Y., of Holland 
 Dutch descent, her ancestors having been 
 among the pioneers of the Mohawk valley. She 
 died in Stephenson county, 111., in 1877, aged 
 seventy years. She bore her husband eight 
 children, four of whom grew to years of ma- 
 turity, namely: Leonard R., who served in 
 the Civil war as a member of the Forty-sixth 
 Illinois Infantry, and as a retired publisher re- 
 sides in Cowlitz county, Wash. ; Joseph B., 
 living in Ventura, Cal., served in the Civil 
 war as a corporal in the Ninety-second Illinois 
 Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of 
 Shiloh ; Samuel S., the special subject of this 
 sketch ; and Malenda B., who married Alonzo 
 Fowler, died in 1899, in Illinois. 
 
 Coming with his parents to Illinois in 1852 
 Samuel S. Train was reared on the home farm, 
 obtaining his elementary education in the dis- 
 trict schools, this being supplemented by a 
 course of study at the Presbyterian Collegiate 
 Institute at Mendota, 111. He subsequently 
 learned the carpenter's trade with his father, 
 but gave it up to begin his journalistic career 
 on the Illinois Sons of Temperance, a paper 
 published at Lebanon, 111. Enlisting in 1862 
 in Company G, Ninety-second Illinois Infan- 
 try, at Rockford, under Col. Smith Datkins, he 
 served until honorably discharged on account 
 of physical disability. Going then to Boscobel, 
 Wis., Mr. Train secured employment in the 
 office of one of the leading papers of that place, 
 the Boscobel Broadaxe, of which he was sub- 
 sequently the proprietor and editor. Selling 
 that paper he returned to Illinois, locating on 
 the parental homestead, where he worked at 
 general farming for a number of years at the 
 same time teaching school during' the winter 
 terms. Going to Nebraska in 1872 he taught 
 school at Mission Creek, Pawnee county, and 
 also bought one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, on which he made many excellent im- 
 provements, and while making his home on 
 
PORTRAIT AND Uh 'GRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 i.inn taught school in Marshall county. Kans., 
 
 in.- term. 
 In 1876 Mr. Train came to Oregon, locating 
 
 Astoria, where he worked as a car- 
 penter for awhile, afterward being employed 
 the printing office of the Astorian for three 
 Dths. At the close of that period he came 
 Linn county to help start the Nucleus at 
 Harrisburg, and was connected with it during 
 jcistence of two years, at the same time 
 - principal of the Harrisburg schools, 
 a position which he retained six years. In 
 (78 Mr. Train bought the plant of the defunct 
 irnal and established the Harrisburg Dis- 
 inatot, a weekly, seven-column folio, which 
 • afterward, in company with .Mr. Whitney, 
 changed to a six-column quarto. In 1884 Mr. 
 Train purchased the Albany Herald, a weekly, 
 -column quarto, which he successfully 
 ited and published. In 1885, with charac- 
 teristic enterprise, he established the Albany 
 Daily Herald, an undertaking that proved stre- 
 ssful beyond his expectations, the circulation 
 having greatly increased from year to year, it 
 being now the leading daily of the county. In 
 connection with the publishing of his paper, 
 Mr. Train had a job printing office which he 
 managed most profitably, carrying on a good 
 business in that line of industry. 
 
 In December, 1898, Mr. Train was ap- 
 pointed by President McKinley postmaster of 
 Albany, and was reappointed to the same office 
 March 18, 1903, by President Roosevelt. Since 
 lining charge of the postoffice. February 
 15, 1899, he has devoted his entire time and at- 
 tention to the interests of its patrons. Changes 
 of importance to all concerned have been in- 
 augurated ; the receipts of the office have 
 largely incrased ; free delivery service was es- 
 tablished June 1, 1903; and the office was 
 changed from a third-class to a second-class 
 office. 
 
 At Prairie dti Chien, Wis.. Mr. Train mar- 
 ried Mary J. Ricks, who was born in Alle- 
 gheny county. N. Y., of English parentage, but 
 was brought up and educated in Wisconsin, 
 where her parents settled in 1853. Three of 
 her brothers served in a Wisconsin regiment 
 in the Civil war. Mrs. Train is a woman of 
 much culture and refinement and at the age of 
 fourteen years began teaching school in Wis- 
 consin. She subsequently taught in Illinois 
 and Nebraska, and after coming to Oregon 
 was a teacher for seven years. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Train have had two children, namely: Minnie, 
 who died in Harrisburg. Ore., at the age of 
 seventeen years: and Arlene. who is attending 
 Albany College. Politically Mr. Train has al- 
 ways been a staunch Republican, and since the 
 great debate at Freeport, 111., between Lincoln 
 
 and Douglas, he has been an active worker in 
 party ranks, from [886 until [888 serving as 
 chairman of the Linn County Republican Com- 
 mittee. Fraternally he was made a Mason at 
 Lena, TIL, afterward joining Thurston Lodge 
 No 28, A. F. & A. M..'of Harrisburg, of which 
 he is past master. He is a member and past 
 commander of McPherson Tost, G. A. R., is 
 also a member of Grand Prairie Grange, P. 
 of H., and of the Alco Club. 
 
 PERRY W. SPINK. After many years of 
 hazardous and uncertain fortune Mr. Spink is 
 now enjoying a well-earned rest among the 
 peaceful arid prosperous conditions which are 
 typical of the changes which the years have 
 brought to the western states. In the beauti- 
 ful home recently erected on plans suggested 
 by his talented wife, he looks out into the 
 wealth and worth of the commonwealth built 
 by the strokes of the axe and the upturning 
 plow, to both of which he gave the strength 
 of his young manhood. The qualities which 
 made him successful among the Indians of 
 Rogue river and afterward insured the protec- 
 tion of his life when men and women were 
 suffering the depredations of the savages have 
 followed him into the later years of his life, and 
 the esteem of a community in which he has 
 lived so many years is freely accorded him. 
 
 Benjamin Spink, the father of Perry W. 
 Spink, was born in Washington county, N. Y., 
 near the town of Hampton, his Scotch-Irish 
 ancestry discernible in his patient, sturdy farm- 
 ing, which he continued until his death in the 
 same state. He married Lucy Wood, a native 
 of Rutland, Vt., and she also died in New 
 York state. She was the mother of two sons 
 and three daughters, of whom the third oldest 
 was P. W. Spink. He was born in the same 
 location as his father, September 24, 1829, and 
 there remained until he was twenty-one years 
 old, engaged in the practical duties of a farmer. 
 His education consisted of an attendance of 
 three months each year of the public schools, 
 the remainder of the year being devoted to the 
 arduous duties of his home life. Shortly after 
 attaining his majority, the date being October 
 2, 1850, he came as far west as Kane county, 
 111., where his brother Alonzo had previously 
 settled, and there he engaged for a year and 
 a half in farming. At this time he also became 
 a victim to the spirit of unrest which pervaded 
 the middle west, caused by the glowing tales 
 of the riches to be attained beyond the Rockies, 
 and March 23, 1852, joined the tide of emigra- 
 tion setting toward the Pacific slope. He left 
 Kane county at this date, and with horse teams 
 set out for the long and dangerous journcv 
 
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 across the plains. He was in company with a 
 train, and after crossing the Missouri river at 
 St. Joseph, April 23, they traveled up the 
 Platte, remaining on the west side until they 
 came to the fork of the trail, one road leading 
 to California and the other to Oregon. There 
 they paused and a vote was taken as to 
 whether they should take the trail to California 
 or to Oregon, for to many it was simply a 
 change and one locality was as desirable as 
 another. The majority decided in favor of 
 Oregon and at once came over this trail to 
 The Dalles. There the party were compelled 
 to ship the wagons down the river. Mr. Spink 
 and another young man brought the horses to 
 Cascades, and from there to the mouth of the 
 Sandy river, finally ending the trip at Oregon 
 City in September, 1852. 
 
 Upon his arrival at Oregon City Mr. Spink 
 began to earn his livelihood by cutting cord- 
 wood at the mouth of the Clackamas river, 
 where he remained for only a month, when he 
 drove on to Jacksonville, intending to go into 
 the mines of southern Oregon. After prospect- 
 ing for a short time he became employed in 
 conducting a pack train between the valley and 
 the mines. In this work he remained until the 
 Rogue River war, from 1853 to 1856, during 
 which he was a volunteer in a small company 
 that rescued several people. He had had vari- 
 ous dealings with the Indians during his years 
 among the mountains, and through many little 
 favors he had won their friendship, and thus he 
 was a peculiarly favored personage in those 
 trying times, coming and going at will among 
 the people that were raiding the entire coun- 
 try. In the winter of 1856 he discontinued his 
 pack train, and coming to Albany has since 
 made that city his home, with the exception of 
 the spring of 1857, when he took a herd of 
 cattle to Sacramento valley, Cal. In this city 
 he first engaged in. teaming, hauling merchan- 
 dise from Portland, and continued this until 
 the fall of 1857, when he rented a farm near 
 Albany and successfully -conducted the same 
 for three years. A like period was spent on 
 another farm in the same neighborhood, after 
 which he again located in Albany, in 1863 en- 
 gaging once more in teaming and trucking. 
 He soon conducted three teams in the work 
 and shortly had all the business of this nature 
 in the city, successfully holding it for about 
 twenty years. But the work was exceedingly 
 heavy and Mr. Spink was advised by physi- 
 cians to. give it up, therefore in 1882 he sold 
 out and endeavored to interest himself along 
 other lines. He took up the wood business, 
 furnishing wood to the citizens of Albany until 
 1887, when he engaged in the lumber business, 
 establishing a yard at the corner of Ferry and 
 
 Water streets, dealing extensively in all build- 
 ing materials. In this work he remained until 
 1902, so successfully that, though he sold out 
 in that year, he took it up once more in 1903, 
 the immense business which he had built up 
 demanding his return. That Mr. Spink has 
 been very successful is a self-evident fact, for 
 with nothing but courage and energy he has 
 made for himself a strong position financially 
 in the community, his lumber yards being one 
 of the sound industries of the city, while he 
 now owns a finely improved farm of three hun- 
 dred and sixty-eight acres, located two and a 
 half miles southeast of Harrisburg. 
 
 The wife whom Mr. Spink chose in 1857 to 
 share his fortunes was formerly Miss Rebecca 
 J. Rankin, another of the faithful pioneer 
 women of the early days, having come from 
 her birthplace in Illinois to Oregon in 1853. 
 Her father, John Rankin, brought his wife and 
 children west in that year and settled upon a 
 donation claim. Of the children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Spink, Ira died at the age of eight 
 years ; Ernest died at the age of thirty-one 
 years ; Lucy died at the age of eight years ; 
 and Ida is the wife of A. C. Stellmacher, who 
 is located upon the farm owned by Mr. Spink. 
 January 8, 1871, Mrs. Spink died and Mr. Spink 
 was again married, December 10, 1872, to Mary 
 E. Armstrong, who was born in Wabash 
 county, Ind., and came to Oregon in 1872. In 
 his politics Mr. Spink has been a stanch and 
 earnest Republican since the war, though he 
 has never sought official recognition in any 
 form. 
 
 JOHN J. GRAHAM. A man of great in- 
 telligence, enterprise, and rare business and 
 executive ability, J. J. Graham, of Albany, oc- 
 cupies a place of prominence among the 
 active and progressive agriculturists of Linn 
 county. A farmer by birth and breeding, he 
 has profited by his early knowledge and ex- 
 perience, and possessing those inherent quali- 
 ties that are sure to command success at all 
 times and in all places, he has been unusually 
 prosperous in the work to which he has de- 
 voted his time and attention since the days of 
 his youth. He was born April 23, 1843, in 
 County Tyrone, Ireland, on the same farm that 
 Ids father. William Graham, was born, lived, 
 and died. His paternal grandfather, John Gra- 
 ham, was born in Scotland, but removed to 
 County Tyrone, Ireland, when a young man, 
 and there spent the remainder of his life as a 
 farmer. 
 
 William Graham inherited the habits of in- 
 dustry and thrift of his Scotch ancestors, and 
 succeeded to the occupation in which he was 
 
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P< >R IT \1T AND BIOGRAPHICAL RF.t'i >rd. 
 
 reared, being engaged as a tiller of the soil 
 
 during his entire life, lie married Frances 
 
 .1 daughter oi John Given. She was 
 
 n in County Tyrone, and after the death of 
 
 husband emigrated to America, and died 
 in Ontario. Of the nine children born of their 
 union, seven survive, five girls and two boys. 
 The sons both reside in the northwest, J. J., 
 
 special subject of this sketch, living in 
 . and Samuel being a resident of Fernie, 
 British Columbia. 
 
 The oldest member of the parental house- 
 hold, J. J. Graham, spent his childhood on the 
 ral homestead, acquiring- his education 
 n the national schools. Emigrating to Canada 
 when twenty years of age, he worked for wages 
 
 i farmer and dairyman in Oxford county, 
 
 ario. for awhile, and then embarked in 
 
 cultural pursuits on his own account. In- 
 strious, thrifty and economical, he accumu- 
 lated some money, and desiring to invest it 
 where he could secure the best returns he came 
 
 )regon in 1876 as an investor. Locating at 
 Waldo Hills, Marion county, he purchased one 
 hundred and forty acres of land, which he de- 
 vote .1 to general farming and stock-raising 
 until 1884, meeting with satisfactory results. 
 
 ling then to Linn county Mr. Graham as- 
 sumed charge of the nine hundred acres of land 
 owned by the East of Scotland Investment 
 tnpany, and had the superintendency of this 
 large tract for sixteen consecutive years. Clos- 
 ing out the company's business in 1902 he pur- 
 chased two hundred and eighty acres of the 
 land himself, selling the remainder to different 
 
 ■pie. and has since been prosperously en- 
 | gcd in raising grain and stock, carrying on 
 an extensive business. He also owns the ad- 
 joining farm of two hundred and twelve acres, 
 lying six miles north of Albany, where he owns 
 considerable property, and has resided since 
 1894. In addition to managing his own prop- 
 erty. Mr. Graham is superintendent of the four 
 farms in Linn countA^ belonging to the Old 
 Scotch Company, performing the duties thus 
 devolving upon him with characteristic fidelitv 
 and ability. 
 
 While a resident of Ontario, Mr. Graham 
 married Margaret Shaw, who was born in 
 1 mtario, a daughter of Angus Shaw and sister 
 
 John A. Shaw, in whose sketch, which ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this work, further ancestral 
 history may be found. Mr. and Mrs. Graham 
 are the parents of six children, namely : Angus, 
 a graduate of Albany College, is bookkeeper at 
 Merrell's, in Portland: Mrs. Rachel Bronson 
 resides in Portland; Frances was graduated 
 from Albany College in the class of 1903 ; 
 Mary. John, and Donald complete the family. 
 Cordially endorsing the principles of the Re- 
 
 publican party, Mr. Graham has never shirked 
 the responsibilities of public office, but has 
 served as county commissioner, and for one 
 term was a member of the city council, repre- 
 senting the Third ward, lie is a member of 
 St. John's Lodge, F. & A. .M., of Albany, and 
 is a member and past officer of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. Both he and his 
 wife belong to the First Presbyterian Church. 
 
 HENRY ALLEN. No state can boast of 
 a more heroic band of pioneers than Oregon. 
 They were not adventurers and mere fortune 
 seekers who came to the northwest, but men 
 and women who desired to establish homes 
 here and to provide for their families by tak- 
 ing advantage of the natural conditions of the 
 country, and while promoting their individual 
 success also do the best they could for the 
 communities in which they resided and for 
 the commonwealth. Mr. Allen became one 
 of the early settlers of Oregon and is now 
 living retired in Silverton amid a host of 
 warm friends gained through a genial man- 
 ner and social disposition. His residence in 
 the state covers more than a half century, 
 for he arrived m Oregon in 1852. 
 
 A native of Tennessee, Mr. Allen was born 
 June 1, 182S. His father, Abner Allen, was 
 born in North Carolina and when quite young 
 removed to Tennessee, and in 1830 became a 
 resident of Illinois, locating at Perry, Pike 
 county, where he purchased two hundred and 
 forty acres of land from the government. 
 There he carried on general farming until 
 1852, when he made his way across the plains 
 with ox-teams to California, spending four 
 months on the long journey. He located 
 three miles south of what is now Silverton, 
 Ore., securing a donation claim of eighty- 
 acres, and engaged in the stock business. He 
 also had money which he loaned and thus he 
 added to his income. During the latter part 
 of his life he engaged in travel to a large ex- 
 tent, spending about half of his time in Cali- 
 fornia, as he believed the climate of that state 
 was more beneficial to his health. Pie died, 
 however, at his home in Silverton in 1891, at 
 the advanced age of eighty-nine years. Well 
 and worthily did he win the proud American 
 title of a self-made man. Throughout his en- 
 tire life he was energetic and untiring in his 
 labors and thus won success. Without any 
 extraordinary family or pecuniary advantages 
 to aid him at the outset of his career, he 
 started out to make his own way in the world 
 and his capable control of his business oppor- 
 tunities enabled him to gradually advance 
 until he was the possessor of a handsome 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 competence. In early manhood he wedded 
 Susan Aiken, who was born in North Caro- 
 lina and died of mountain fever on the Sweet- 
 water river while they were crossing the 
 « plains in 1852. 
 
 Henry Allen is the eldest of the six chil- 
 dren, two sons and four daughters, of this 
 worthy couple. His educational privileges 
 were extremely limited. He attended school 
 for only about three months in his life, for, 
 as he lived in pioneer districts, school privi- 
 leges were not easily obtained. He was 
 twenty-one years of age when, in 1849, ne 
 left the Mississippi valley and with an ox- 
 team started for the Pacific coast. By that 
 slow method of travel he proceeded by way 
 of the Platte river and the Oregon route, 
 crossing long stretches of land where nothing 
 but sage brush grew and at other times forc- 
 ing his way over the mountains where there 
 was almost no trail. At length, however, he 
 reached the mining districts of California, and 
 for two years was engaged in searching for 
 the precious metal, being moderately success- 
 ful in his work. He then invested his money 
 in a pack train, which he purchased for $4,000, 
 and started from Trinity county to Shasta 
 county, Cal., carrying with him all kinds of 
 provisions and tools. On the Trinity river, 
 however, Indians came upon the camp at 
 supper time and took from him nearly every- 
 thing that he possessed, and then killed his 
 mules. After he had recovered somewhat 
 from his losses he returned to Illinois in 1851. 
 The following year, accompanied by his 
 father and his family, he once more made the 
 long and difficult journey overland to the Pa- 
 cific coast. While in Illinois he had married 
 and was accompanied by his bride on the 
 second journey, which was terminated on the 
 2d of September. They located near Silver- 
 ton, where Mr. Allen purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land ; and as the years have 
 passed he has added to this until he now 
 owns a valuable farm of five hundred acres all 
 under cultivation. This property is now 
 rented and he is living retired in Silverton, 
 where he has purchased a cottage on Water 
 street. For three years, from 1895 to 1898, he 
 was engaged in the cattle business in the Des 
 Chutes valley, in Crook county, where he 
 owned one hundred and sixty acres. 
 
 In Pike county, 111., February 14, 1852, Mr. 
 Allen was married to Miss Frances Rock- 
 wood, who was born in that state, a daughter 
 of Roderick Rockwood, who was born in 
 Paris, France, and was brought to New York 
 state by his parents at the age of three years. 
 At an early day Mr. Rockwood went to 
 Illinois, settling first in Brown county and 
 
 afterward in Pike county. Throughout his 
 entire life he followed blacksmithing. In 
 1866 he removed to Kansas, where he died 
 when about eighty years of age. Unto Mr. 
 and Mrs. Allen have been born three sons 
 and two daughters, namely: Timothy 1)., 
 who is engaged in the operation of his father's 
 farm ; Roderick D., who is a clerk in the in- 
 sane asylum at Salem, Ore. ; Harvey L., who 
 is now an undertaker at Lewiston, Idaho; Al- 
 wilda Josephine, the wife of L.'F. Mascher, a 
 farmer and hop producer of Marion county ; 
 and Adell Gertrude, at home. 
 
 Mr. Allen votes with the Republican party, 
 and has served as road supervisor for four 
 terms, while for ten years he has been a 
 school director. That he has lived peaceably 
 with all men is shown by the fact that he has 
 never been engaged in a law-suit. He has 
 never had a fight ,nor a fire, has paid his 
 debts promptly, has fulfilled other obligations 
 and has been true to every trust reposed in 
 him. Such a life record is well worthy of 
 emulation, and with pleasure we present his 
 history to the readers of this volume. 
 
 ABSALOM BYERLEY. A pioneer entitled 
 to great credit for his part in the development 
 of Oregon, who is enumerated among the pioneers 
 of 185 1, and among those courageous Indian 
 fighters who brought about the pacification of the 
 northwest, is Absalom Byerley, formerly an ex ; 
 tensive farmer and miller, but since 1901 a retired 
 citizen of Dallas. As his name indicates, Mr. 
 Byerley is of German extraction, and is a native 
 of Polk county, Inch, where he was born Febru- 
 ary 27, 1833, a son of Martin and Elizabeth 
 (Sears) Byerley; the latter, a daughter of Henry 
 Sears, of Indiana, died in 1852. The family were 
 numerously represented in the southern states, 
 especially in North Carolina, where the paternal 
 grandfather died, and where he owned consider- 
 able land. 
 
 Martin Byerley settled in Indiana and in 1835 
 removed to Knox county, 111., where he engaged 
 in farming, and also ran a distillery. About 
 1840 he took up his residence in the vicinity of 
 Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa, where he 
 farmed on land for which he paid but $1.25 an 
 acre. In common with other agriculturists in 
 that thinly settled region, he planned to better 
 his condition by removing to the west, and after 
 selling his farm at a reasonable profit, crossed 
 the plains with his wife and six children. The 
 journey was not without its adventures or sor- 
 rows, for one of the children died just before 
 reaching - Portland. The father settled on a farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres on Salt creek, 
 improved his property to the best of his ability. 
 
PORTRAIT \.\D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 55 .'5 
 
 entualh he lived for twelve wars in Dallas. 
 leatti occurred at Kewport, at the age of 
 three years, iii the children horn to this 
 tipie Henry is a fanner at Perrydale; 
 i, tiu subj< el of this sketch : Jane, the 
 fohn \'ernon, of Polk county; Michael, 
 ed in 1852; Jefferson, who lives at Xew- 
 ;; and Adelaide, who is the wife of Mr. Pow- 
 • I rant's pass. Ore. 
 The \outh oi Absalom Byerley contained much 
 hard work and responsibility, especially in 
 owa, where he helped to break prairie and to es- 
 tablish a paying farming industry. In both 
 • and Iowa the acquiring of an education 
 it-; disadvantages, for the early subscription 
 s were far apart, and the roads almost im- 
 le during certain seasons of the year. The 
 really interesting happening in his life was 
 when the family got together their possessions 
 pared to emigrate to the west. They had 
 a two-horse carriage, twelve yoke of cattle and 
 three wagons, and May 10 left their home, arriv- 
 at Council Bluffs on May 27th. They came 
 by the old Oregon trail, arriving in Dallas Sep- 
 tember 15th. and on the way had light loads and 
 made good time. Mr. Byerley remained at home 
 with his family until his twenty-sixth year, but 
 m to work on surrounding farms when quite 
 •mil boy. He bought a farm of one hundred 
 ■ I sixty acres on Salt creek, which he improved 
 and fanned, and in 1853 went down into Siskiyou 
 inty, Cal., where he planned to mine. How- 
 ever, the Indians soon cleared him out, and he 
 returned overland to Oregon. As an Indian 
 fighter he is known to possess unusual courage, 
 1 to have participated in about all of the bouts 
 of his time in this section. He was in the Ya- 
 kima war of 1855-56, as a soldier in Company B, 
 Oregon National Guard, under Captain 
 Hurt, and after the end of the war returned to his 
 home, a little later purchasing two hundred acres 
 land at Eola. This land proving unsatisfactory 
 he sold it and bought a farm of four hundred 
 acres on the Luckiamute, where he engaged ex- 
 tensively in stock-raising. To his original land 
 he added and in time had four hundred and 
 hty acres, a portion of which was heavily 
 ed. This condition suggested an additional 
 source of revenue, and he built a steam saw-mill, 
 d engaged in the manufacture of lumber for 
 about nine years. Having used up all the tim- 
 ber around him, he sold his property in the spring 
 [901, and, locating in Dallas, bought his pres- 
 ent pleasant and comfortable home. 
 
 In Polk county, Ore.. Mr. Byerley married 
 Mary Florence Allen, who was born in Iowa, 
 and died in Oregon, leaving ten children, nine of 
 whom attained maturity. Of the children. Henry 
 is in Perry ville: Lerov is in Arlie ; Arabella is 
 now Mrs. Blake, of Dallas : Frank, Otto and Eu- 
 
 geiu arc in Dallas; Edward and William are de- 
 ceased; Maude is a resident of Salem; and Mary 
 died in Oregon. For a second wife Mr. Byerley 
 married, in Polk county, Mrs. Dolly Crow, widow 
 of Mack ('row, who came to Oregon in 1872. 
 Politically, Mr. Byerley is a Democrat, but 
 Further than the formality of casting his vote 
 has never identified himself with local political 
 affairs, lie is a member of the War Veterans 
 Association, and in his religious life is a member 
 of the Christian Church, his wife being identified 
 with the Evangelical Association. 
 
 T. L. BONNEY. Those who are interested 
 in the growth and progress of Oregon, and who 
 have studied the causes which have led up there- 
 to, will readily recognize the fact that the men 
 who have come here and laid the foundation for 
 her success and development have been men of 
 versatility, men of enterprise and men who can 
 not only till the soil, thus inducing nature to bring 
 forth her richest gifts, but who can also turn their 
 hands to many industries, taking part in manu- 
 facturing the different articles of commercial use 
 which are very necessary in a new country and 
 which when brought from a distance become very 
 expensive. 
 
 Numbered among the men who have aided 
 substantially in the upbuilding of Marion countv 
 is T. L. Bonney, who has followed the coopering 
 business practically all his life, and who is now 
 living somewhat retired, following his trade dur- 
 ing the winter season and leaving the supervis- 
 ion of a large farm, which he owns, to his sons. 
 Mr. Bonney was born February 14, 1835, in Ash- 
 tabula county, Ohio, and is a son of Jarius Bon- 
 ney, a native of Canada, who removed to Ohio 
 with his people when a young man and learned 
 the cooper's trade in the latter state. In that 
 state also Mr. Bonney became acquainted with 
 Miss Larned and made her his wife. Four 
 children were born unto them, all of whom are 
 now deceased. After the death of his first wife 
 Mr. Bonney married Jane Elkins, a native of 
 New York. They made their home in Ohio until 
 1836, when they removed to Illinois, settling in 
 Fulton county, where they continued to live until 
 1845. Mr Bonney then decided to bring his fam- 
 ily to the northwest. They therefore started 
 across the plains, joining a company under the 
 conduct of Captain Welch, of Oregon City. At 
 that time the country was very wild and Indians 
 were numerous, and very often hostile, but the 
 company were unmolested during this journey, 
 which occupied six months. Arriving on the 
 Pacific coast the Bonney family first took up their 
 abode in California, where they remained through 
 the following winter and spring. Tn 1846 they 
 came by pack train to Oregon, taking up a do- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 nation claim on French Prairie, two miles east 
 of Hubbard. This tract consisted of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, mostly of wild and unim- 
 proved land. Mr. Bonney, senior, made many 
 improvements upon this farm, building a large 
 and substantial log house, in which he lived until 
 his death, in 1856." In addition to his agricultural 
 pursuits he followed the cooper's trade for about 
 thirty years, and was the first cooper on French 
 Prairie, making the first barrels and kegs ever 
 made in this vicinity. After the father's death 
 the mother took up her residence with Mr. Bon- 
 ney, of this review, with whom she lived for 
 several years, removing thence to the home _ of 
 her daughter in eastern Oregon, where she died 
 at the age of seventy-eight years. 
 
 T. L. Bonney received his education in the dis- 
 trict schools and in the early years of his man- 
 hood took up the cooper's trade, assisting his 
 father and remaining upon the farm until his mar- 
 riage in i860, the lady of his choice being Ten- 
 nessee Baker. She was born in Missouri and with 
 her parents came to Oregon in 1852, settling in 
 Clackamas county. Her brothers are now living 
 in Albany. Mr! Bonney and his bride began 
 their housekeeping on the old home farm, she 
 proving a faithful helpmate to her husband,_ and 
 as the years have gone by has aided in acquiring 
 a competency through her industry and economy. 
 Mr. Bonnev,' too, has spent his life in an energetic 
 and painstaking way, making varied improve- 
 ments and adding all" modern equipments and ac- 
 cessories to his farm until it is now one of the 
 most attractive and highly cultivated in the vicin- 
 ity. It comprises seventy-five acres, forty acres 
 of which is under cultivation and used in raising 
 grain, while fourteen acres are devoted to the 
 growing of hops. 
 
 Mr. Bonnev has left the care and management 
 of his farm to his sons, who, having been reared 
 upon the home farm have become fitted for its 
 conduct and supervision. On the home place are 
 found good frame dwellings, comfortably and 
 commodiously built, as well as other out-build- 
 ings necessary for the protection of grain and 
 stock, and the home of Mr. Bonney and his family 
 has every appearance of comfort and happiness. 
 He has been blessed with the following children : 
 Preston L. and Edward L., now deceased ; Mary 
 E., wife of M. H. Lee, of Canby ; William H., 
 of'Redland: Jane O., the wife , of M. Pulley, a 
 resident of Marion county, in the vicinity _ of 
 Hubbard ; Lawrence, now residing in Oak Point, 
 Wash. ; Ira A. and Albert E., of Hubbard ; and 
 Charles, at home. 
 
 Although Mr. Bonney has ever been a busy 
 man, he has yet found time to be of public service 
 to the community in which he resides. As a mem- 
 ber of the school board for many years, his in- 
 fluence has always been extended in behalf of ed- 
 
 ucation, while his religious views are shown by 
 his membership since i860 with the United 
 Brethren Church, in which he is trustee. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. A man of integrity and 
 honor, the life record of T. L. Bonney forms an 
 interesting chapter in the annals of Marion 
 county, and the methods by which he has achieved 
 success are well worthy of emulation. 
 
 EMMANUEL NORTHUP, A. B., B. D., 
 who is dean of McMinnville College and 
 also occupies the chair of mathematics and 
 Greek, has been a representative of edu- 
 cational interests of the northwest since 
 1882. He was born in West Oneonta, Ot- 
 sego county, N. Y., July 3, 1851, the eldest liv- 
 ing of the seven children of Isaac G. and Phoebe 
 Elizabeth (Saunders) Northup. The family is 
 of English descent and was established at an 
 early epoch in American history in the colony 
 of Rhode Island, and later was planted on Con- 
 necticut soil. The grandfather, Josiah Northup 
 was born in Connecticut and removing to Ot- 
 sego county, N. Y., there carried on farming 
 and also served as a justice of the peace for 
 many years. His father was the Rev. Emman- 
 uel Northup, a Baptist minister, who was born 
 in New England and removed from Connecticut 
 to New York, where he did missionary work, 
 preaching without financial remuneration, while 
 in order to support his family he carried on agri- 
 cultural pursuits. 
 
 Isaac G. Northup, the father of Professor 
 Northup of McMinnville, was born in Otsego 
 county, N. Y., and throughout his life followed 
 farming. He wedded Phoebe Elizabeth Saun- 
 ders, who was born in Unadilla, Otsego county, 
 N. Y., in 1819, a daughter of Ziba Saunders, 
 who was a mason and builder, and died in Owe- 
 go, Tioga county, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Northup 
 became the parents of seven children, five of 
 whom reached adult age and three are yet liv- 
 ing. The parents held membership in the Bap- 
 tist Church. The father died at the age of sixty- 
 seven years, but the mother is still living at 
 the old homestead in New York. 
 
 On the home farm Professor Northup re- 
 mained through the period of his minority, at- 
 tending the district schools in his youth. In 
 1872 he entered Colgate Academy, at Hamilton, 
 N. Y., and after three years there became a 
 student in Colgate University, in which he was 
 graduated in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. The same year he was ordained to the 
 ministry of the Baptist church and accepted the 
 pastorate of the church at Lake Mills, Wis., 
 where he remained for a year. In 1880 he went 
 to Chicago, 111., where he entered the Baptist 
 Union Theological Seminary, and was therein 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 graduated in 1883, with the degree of Bachelor 
 oi Divinit) IK' then returned to the old home 
 in [slew York and was pastor of the Bap- 
 hurch in West Oneonta until July, 1888. 
 n lie came to Oregon, having been elected to 
 chair ot" mathematics in McMinnville Col- 
 and on arriving here he was also assigned 
 the chair of Greek. He has since been La- 
 in both of these departments and for 
 si five years has been dean of the faculty, 
 while VNX he has been librarian of the 
 
 institution. Throughout the years of his resi- 
 a lure he has continued his pastoral labors 
 g extent, preaching in many different 
 churches in Yamhill county and vicinity and also 
 rupving different pastorates here. 
 Professor Xorthup was married in West 
 .a. X. Y.. in 1S86, to Miss Maud Galer, 
 ttive of that place and a daughter of James 
 1 laler. a builder there. They had seven chil- 
 dren, but Frederick, the third, died at the age 
 of nine months. The others are : Truman, 
 Charlotte E., Fleeta, Lucy Maud, Emmanuel 
 am! I 
 
 About 1897 Professor Northup became a 
 
 member of the Oregon Fire Relief Association, 
 
 • 1 was made one of its directors, and upon 
 
 the death of President O. H. Irvine, he was 
 
 ■lected president and has since been an active 
 
 in the successful control of the enterprise 
 
 which is now, a most important business concern 
 
 of the state. Although Professor Xorthup has 
 
 a resident of McMinnville for little more 
 
 than twelve years, he has been so closely and 
 
 minently connected with the educational and 
 
 "al interests of the city and state that it is 
 
 imperative that he be represented in this history. 
 
 Christian instruction is having an influence over 
 
 rid that few can estimate, for it is in youth 
 
 that the life of the man is marked out, his future 
 
 course decided and his choice as to the good 
 
 vil made. It is to the work of instructing 
 
 mng that Professor Xorthup devotes his 
 
 time, energies and thought and the result of his 
 
 'labors is far-reaching. 
 
 AUGUSTUS YERGEX. It was a merry 
 golden wedding celebration that took place 
 
 •he farm of Augustus Yergen, three miles 
 from Aurora. March 28. 1902. for he and his 
 companionable wife were held in high esteem 
 in the neighborhood, and many came with 
 
 - and heartfelt wishes to speed them 
 upon the second half century of wedded hap- 
 piness. May 24. 1902, the scene took on a dif- 
 ferent aspect, for the fine old pioneer, whose 
 industry had laid low the surrounding tim- 
 ber, and caused the land to produce in abund- 
 
 ance, was stricken with death at the age of 
 three score and ten years. 
 
 Horn in Meilheim, Germany, November 28, 
 1831, Mr. Yergen was ten years of age when 
 his father secured passage on an outgoing 
 sailing vessel, thereafter spending many 
 weeks on the waste of waters with his little 
 family. Arriving in Xew Y'ork, he came at 
 once to St. Clair county, 111., where the son 
 grew to manhood, and was reared on a farm 
 of moderate size. As opportunity permitted 
 he attended the public schools and, in St. 
 Louis, March 28, 1852, was united in mar- 
 riage with Elizabeth Griffin, a native of St. 
 Clair county, and daughter of an Illinois pio- 
 neer, George A. Griffin. After two weeks the 
 young couple carried out their long-planned 
 trip across the plains, the details of which 
 they had talked over during the winter 
 months by the fire glow, and for which they 
 had prepared on an elaborate scale. They 
 had two yoke of oxen and one yoke of cows 
 to one wagon, and were about six months in 
 making the trip, having on the way a fairly 
 pleasant time. The first winter was spent 
 near Washougal. Wash., and this was a try- 
 ing time, indeed, for feed of all kinds was 
 scarce, and in consequence they lost all of 
 their stock. The next spring Mr. Yergen took 
 up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres on the line between Marion and 
 Clackamas counties, and here the new owner 
 erected a little log house containing but one 
 room, and in this started up housekeeping on 
 a small scale, enduring many hardships ere 
 their land was rendered productive. With 
 slight exception the property was covered 
 with a heavy growth of timber, and much ef- 
 fort was required to clear even a small space. 
 X'evertheless, this early pioneer prospered ex- 
 ceedingly, and left to his heirs a valuable and 
 productive farm. Of the six children born to 
 himself and wife, Adelbert is a resident of 
 Butteville ; George W. is a hop-grower of 
 Marion county; Mary E. is the wife of John 
 A". Swan of Portland ; Frank E. lives on a 
 farm near Aurora, Marion county; Frederick 
 also lives near Aurora ; and Henry F. is oper- 
 ating the old homestead. Mr. Yergen was an 
 extensive hop-grower and general farmer, and 
 his methods of work were progressive and 
 practical. He was also interested especially 
 in horticulture, and during the early years of 
 his career in Oregon accumulated considera- 
 ble money as the result of his prosecution of 
 this branch of agriculture. In politics a Dem- 
 ocrat, he never took an active interest in the 
 political agitations of his neighborhood, but 
 rather chose the quiet and retired life of the 
 unostentatious agriculturist. He was a mem- 
 
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 ber of the Lutheran Church, and contributed 
 generously of his means towards the support 
 of that organization. No more honored man 
 tilled the soil of this well-favored locality, 
 and his death was deeply deplored. 
 
 HON. MARION B. HENDRICK. Among 
 the pioneers of '52 who have worked their way 
 up from comparative obscurity to prominence 
 in the business and political affairs of Yamhill 
 county, may be mentioned Hon. Marion B. Hen- 
 drick, extensive grain merchant and member of 
 the furniture and undertaking firm of Hendrick 
 & Briedwell of McMinnville. The Hendrick 
 family was established in Virginia long before 
 the Revolutionary war, and members bearing the 
 name participated in the memorable struggle for 
 independence. In Virginia was born the pater- 
 nal grandfather, Benjamin, who removed with 
 his family to Barren county, Ky., where William 
 A. Hendrick, the father of Marion B., was born. 
 The family is of German descent, and the most 
 desirable traits of that industrious and frugal 
 nation have not been lost through transmittance. 
 
 William A. Hendrick was a farmer for the 
 greater part of his active life, and about 1832 
 removed from his native state of Kentucky to 
 Marshall county, 111., of which he was one of 
 the pioneer settlers. The region was wild and 
 frontier at the time, and as a means of safety 
 he lived in the fort until purchasing his farm in 
 the wilderness. Eventually he removed to Iowa, 
 and his death occurred on his farm in the vicin- 
 ity of Osceola. In his young manhood he mar- 
 ried Maria Bird, who was born in Kentucky, a 
 daughter of Robert Bird, a native of Virginia, 
 and pioneer of both Kentucky and Illinois. In 
 the latter state Mr. Bird settled in Marshall 
 county, from where he removed in 1847 to Ore- 
 gon, coming by way of the plains with his own 
 family and the families of his three sons. 
 Settling within a few miles of Oregon City, he 
 improved a farm of large dimensions, where his 
 death occurred, and also that of his wife, who 
 was a Miss Mary Haley of Kentucky. Four 
 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hendrick, 
 of whom Marion B. is the oldest. Rachel. 
 Sarah and Martha died in Illinois. 
 
 Born near Glasgow, Barren county, Ky., Au- 
 gust 14, 1828, Mr. Hendrick was educated in 
 the public schools of Marshall, and at the acad- 
 emy of Eureka. Having accumulated a keen 
 interest in the far west, he was glad of the oppor- 
 tunity to hire out as driver in crossing the 
 plains in 1852, but this arrangement seems not 
 to have been entirely satisfactory, for upon arriv- 
 ing at Salmon Falls on the Snake river, himself 
 and a companion left the emigrant train and 
 started out afoot, accomplishing the rest of their 
 
 journey per shank's express. Notwithstanding 
 this slow means of locomotion, he made good 
 time, for, having started out April 15th, he 
 arrived at the Dalles August 20, being six weeks 
 ahead of the train. For some time Mr. Hen- 
 drick worked at odd jobs around Oregon City, 
 and even tried his luck in the mines in the 
 southern part of the state. Convinced that he 
 was not among the elect in the latter calling, he 
 returned to Yamhill county and engaged in rais- 
 ing wheat, which proved a profitable venture, 
 for the land produced about forty bushels to 
 the acre and sold at ninety-five cents per bushel. 
 As he had twelve hundred bushels to sell the 
 profit was considerable to a youth with depleted 
 finances, and permitted him to carry out the long- 
 considered project of becoming a land owner. 
 Going to Marion county, Ore., he took up a 
 quarter section of land in the Mission Bottom, 
 and after cultivating it for three years, disposed 
 of it at a profit. Returning to Yamhill county, 
 he bought a store in Wheatland and engaged in 
 a general merchandise business, and also began 
 to deal in wheat, which proved so successful that 
 in 1862 he put up the first warehouse at Wheat- 
 land. In the vicinity also he. built a flouring mill, 
 which, after many years of prosperity, burned 
 to the ground, entailing heavy loss. 
 
 About this time Mr ; Hendrick increased his 
 responsibilities by purchasing land and engag- 
 ing in hop culture. He also leased a warehouse 
 at Independence, and in 1888, with his son, 
 Miles, he started a general store at Amity. The 
 great flood of 1890 destroyed the Wheatland 
 warehouse, containing- twenty-five thousand 
 bushels of wheat, but, nothing daunted, he re- 
 built, and proceeded with as great courage as 
 before. For thirty-one years he engaged in the 
 general merchandise business, and at the same 
 time was continually increasing his wheat busi- 
 ness, which finally assumed very large propor- 
 tions. After locating in Amity in 1893, he con- 
 tinued the warehouse business, and at the same 
 time had warehouses along different points of 
 the railroad. His store at Amity, of which his 
 son had charge, was run under the firm name 
 of M. E. Hendrick & Company until 1897, when 
 they sold out, and in 1899 opened a store in 
 McMinnville under the same firm name, and that 
 as well as the furniture and undertaking busi- 
 ness of Hendrick & Briedwell are sources of 
 gratifying profit, and reflect the sagacity and far- 
 sighted business judgment of their founder. 
 
 Ever since he was old enough to appreciate 
 the distinctions in politics, Mr. Hendrick has 
 nllied his forces with the Democratic partv. He 
 has served for one term as county assessor, and 
 in 1878 was elected to the state legislature, serv- 
 ing in session of 1878-79. He was active in 
 workins: for the election of United States Sen- 
 
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 ater. Mr. Hendrick has been a member 
 the county committee, and was chairman of 
 v in 1900. He is a member of the County 
 - ite Pioneer Associations. In Wheatland, 
 die laying out of which town was duo to his 
 rprise, Mr. Hendrick was united in mar- 
 Vpril to,, 1855, with Ellis Sawyer, who 
 rn in Marshall county. 111., a daughter of 
 i Sawyer, a native oi North Carolina. Mr. 
 \er removed to Marshall county, 111., with 
 tather, Jesse, and in 1847 crossed the plains 
 - settling after a six months' jaunt 
 on a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 ne-half mile north of Wheatland. Here 
 he lived for many years, but finally retired to 
 McMinnville, where his death occurred. He 
 married Susan James, a native of Tennessee, who 
 I to Illinois with her parents in the early 
 >f the twelve children in the family ten 
 attained maturity, and nine are living, Mrs. 
 Hendrick being the oldest in the family, and 
 nine years of age when she crossed the plains. 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hendrick— Miles E.. of the firm of M. E. Hen- 
 drick & Co.: Ella, living with her parents; 
 mora, now Mrs. Briedwell of McMinnville; 
 and Lovie, now Mrs. Arlington Watt of Amity. 
 Mr. Hendrick is a member of the United Evan- 
 :il Association, while his wife is identified 
 with the I nited Brethren Church. He is pos- 
 >ed of unquestioned integrity, oft-evinced 
 blic spiritedness, and the faculty to grasp op- 
 tunitv by the forelock. Mr. Hendrick enjoys 
 the fullest confidence of the communities which 
 have benefited by his upbuilding ability, and he 
 an unusual extent, one of those large souled, 
 s pioneers whom it is always a pleasure 
 to meet. 
 
 A. F. ARTHUR, who is a well-known 
 and successful contractor and builder of 
 McMinnville. is one of the native sons of the 
 len West, his birth having occurred in this 
 city May 23. 1865. That seemed an early epoch 
 in the history of this section of the country, and 
 yet. twenty-two years before that time, his 
 father. William Arthur, had come to the Sunset 
 state. He was born in Missouri and is a brother 
 
 Mrs. Mahala Cozine of this place. It was in 
 the year 1843 that William Arthur crossed the 
 plains, accompanying his parents. In earlv life 
 he learned the carpenter's trade and for many 
 years ^ followed the building business. In the 
 early '60s he was a farmer in Clackamas county, 
 .. and then came to McMinnville. where lie 
 began contracting and building, and many of the 
 substantia] structures of the city are the visible 
 evidence of his life of thrift and industry. He 
 is now living retired in McMinnville, enjoving 
 
 a rot which he has truly earned. His wife bore 
 the maiden name of Margaret Easton and died 
 when A. F. Arthur was but a year old, leaving 
 two children, the elder being Milton, who is a 
 carpenter of [one, Ore. The father is a member 
 of the Baptist Church and his Christian faith 
 has been manifest throughout his upright career. 
 As an honored pioneer he certainly deserves 
 mention in this volume for he belongs to that 
 class of heroic early settlers who laid broad and 
 deep the foundation for the present prosperity 
 and development of this section of the country. 
 In the public schools, A. F. Arthur actjuired 
 his early education and afterward spent a short 
 time as a student in McMinnville College. From 
 early youth he worked at the carpenter's trade, 
 which he learned under the direction of his 
 father, and he has always followed this pur- 
 suit, with the exception of a few years spent 
 in farming. He owned a place of four hundred 
 and eight}' acres four miles west of McMinnville 
 and thereon engaged in the raising of stock, 
 making a specialty of sheep and cattle. In 1894 
 he returned to McMinnville and rented his farm, 
 which in 1899 he sold. Upon again locating in 
 his native city he began contracting and building 
 and has erected many fine residences here. He 
 is now in partnership with J. W. Cook, under 
 the firm style of Cook & Arthur, and they rank 
 among the leading builders of this part of the 
 state, having a liberal patronage, which is in- 
 dicative of their excellent workmanship and 
 their enterprise. They live faithfully up to the 
 spirit as well as to the letter of the contract and 
 in the execution of the work entrusted to them 
 they show that thev are masters of the building: 
 art. 
 
 Mr. Arthur is a man of resourceful business 
 ability, who has not confined his attention alone 
 to one line, for in the summer seasons he is en- 
 gaged in threshing, being a partner of C. J. Skin- 
 ner in that enterprise. They operate the Russell 
 thresher, which is run by steam, Mr. Arthur 
 having been in this business for fifteen years. 
 In all branches of his work he is progressive, 
 keeping abreast with the latest improvements. 
 
 In this county Mr. Arthur was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Emma Huguelett. a native of Vir- 
 ginia City. Xev., and unto them have been born 
 five children — Austin, Roy. Clara. Walter and 
 Ernest. Fraternally Mr. Arthur is connected 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 with the Woodmen of the World, and he be- 
 longs to the Baptist Church. His political sup- 
 port is given to the Democracy and be has served 
 as a member of the Democratic county central 
 committee, doing everything in his power to 
 advance the growth and success of the principles 
 in which he believes. In business he has 
 achieved success through honorable effort, un- 
 
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 tiring energy and capable management, while in 
 social life he has gained friendship and favor 
 because of qualities which everywhere command 
 respect — a genial disposition, and deference for 
 the opinions of others. 
 
 
 FREDERICK J. J. HURST. More than 
 forty years have passed since Mr. Hurst came 
 to Oregon, and within this time he has risen to 
 success in the business world, at the same time 
 gaining an untarnished reputation. He was 
 born in Pommern, Prussia, Germany, March 29, 
 1842, a son of Christian and Caroline (Kingriin) 
 Hurst. The father was also a native of Prus- 
 sia and belonged to one of the old families of 
 that kingdom. By trade he was a wagon-maker 
 and followed that pursuit throughout his entire 
 life, which was passed in Germany. His wife 
 was a daughter of Jacob Kingriin, a native of 
 Sweden, who removed to Prussia and there fol- 
 lowed farming. Mrs. Hurst, however, was 
 born in Germany, and after the death of her first 
 husband she married again and spent her last 
 days in the United States. Mr. Hurst of this 
 review was one of a family of four sons and 
 two daughters. His brother, John D. Hurst, 
 made his way across the plains with him and 
 followed the miller's trade in Oregon. How- 
 ever, he did not confine his attention alone to 
 milling, for he became recognized as the best 
 stone dresser in Oregon and his activity along 
 that line contributed to his success. He died 
 in Aurora, this state, in 1900. 
 
 Frederick J. J. Hurst spent his boyhood days 
 in his native country, and in accordance with 
 the laws of that land attended school between 
 the ages of six and fourteen years. He after- 
 ward obtained practical training in business life 
 by working upon a farm and in a mill. He was 
 a youth of fifteen when he crossed the briny deep 
 to America, sailing in 1857 on the vessel Ocean 
 Home, which left Hamburg bound for New 
 York. After a voyage of one hundred and two 
 days, anchor was dropped in the American port 
 and Mr. Hurst made his way from the eastern 
 metropolis to Bureau county, 111. In that local- 
 ity he secured employment on a farm and later 
 he worked in the old Tiskilwa mill for his brother 
 in order to learn the trade. Subsequently he be- 
 came a resident of Blue Grass, Iowa, where he 
 followed the miller's trade and later was em- 
 ployed in the same capacity in Davenport. He 
 next removed to Lyons, Iowa, where he rented 
 and operated a mill until 1862, but in that year, 
 attracted by the growing west with its varied 
 opportunities and business openings, he came to 
 Oregon, making the journey with a horse team 
 and wagon. In the month of April he left his 
 old home, crossed the Missouri river at Council 
 
 Bluffs, followed the Oregon trail and came by 
 way of the Landis cutoff. The Indians at that 
 time were a constant menace to the emigrants, 
 causing much trouble and annoyance. Subse- 
 quently the party with which Mr. Hurst traveled 
 served as a target for the guns of the red men, 
 but the party returned the fire and kept the sav- 
 ages at a distance. Eventually they were glad- 
 dened by the sight of the fertile fields of Oregon, 
 reaching their destination in October. Mr. 
 Hurst went to the mines on the Powder river 
 and afterward to the Boise basin, which was 
 then a part of Utah. Subsequently he was 
 engaged in mining in Montana, and in this way 
 he gained a start. In 1869 he located in the 
 Willamette valley and in partnership with his 
 brother purchased the Corvallis Mill and turned 
 his attention to the manufacture of flour. They 
 had sold the mill, but before turning it over it 
 was burned down and they rebuilt the plant. 
 The new mill was then operated by the brothers 
 until they sold to the firm of Gray & Kouthauer. 
 At that time they purchased the Champoeg Mill, 
 and this was conducted by Mr. Hurst until he 
 disposed of it and purchased the North Salem 
 Mill. Later he became a member of the Capital 
 Milling Company, in which he was associated 
 with William Reed and others. His brother was 
 manager while Mr. Hurst of this review was 
 head miller. Finally he sold his interest in this 
 concern and removed to Lincoln, where he con- 
 ducted a saw and grist mill for five years. Hav- 
 ing opportunity to sell to an advantage he then 
 returned to Salem where he began speculating, 
 and since 1893 he has been engaged in real estate 
 operations in this city. He both buys and sells 
 real estate, and has a comprehensive knowledge 
 of realty values and of good business opportun- 
 ities in this direction. He laid out the Hurst 
 Addition to North Salem, comprising three 
 acres, and upon this he has built a number of 
 good residences. He also owns the North Salem 
 brick store and other buildings, including the one 
 in which the steam laundry is conducted. 
 
 Mr. Hurst was married in Clackamas county 
 to Miss Emma Daue, who was born in Wiscon- 
 sin, and they now have four children— Albert, 
 of Salem, and Carrie, Stella and Fred, who are 
 yet under the parental roof. Since becoming an 
 American citizen Mr. Hurst has given his polit- 
 ical support to the Republican party, and socially 
 he is identified with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, while his wife is a member of the 
 Unitarian Church. In 1873 ne made a trip to 
 his old home in Germany, visiting the scenes of 
 his boyhood and renewing the acquaintances of 
 his youth. He was content to return to America, 
 however, for he has much love and admiration 
 for the land of his adoption. Fie has never been 
 disappointed in this country, nor had occasion 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 jret his determination to cast in his lot with 
 
 s, for here he lias found good business 
 
 opportunities and through the improvement of 
 
 he has become a successful man of good 
 
 finan cial standing in Salem. He has justly won 
 
 the proud American title of a self-made man, 
 
 for his advancement is the direct outcome of 
 
 it labor. 
 
 THOMAS J. GRAVES. To be a native 
 . of one of the most productive counties in 
 t Oregon presupposes a more than ordinary in- 
 iu its affairs, and when the expecta- 
 kms are justified and maintained for many 
 ITS with indefatigable industry, upright liv- 
 ind practical progressiveness, the com- 
 munity's well being may be said to rest in 
 d hands. This is the case with Thomas J. 
 :s, around whom is centered a thrifty 
 icultural enterprise, and from whom 
 manates a world of good-fellowship and 
 practical participation in the general advance- 
 lent of the county. Born upon the farm upon 
 which he now lives while his parents were on 
 a visit to his maternal grandfather, Glenn O. 
 Burnett, October 24, 1855, Mr. Graves is a 
 son of Charles B. and Mary H. (Burnett) 
 ves, natives of Kentucky, and the former 
 born January 28, 1824. Mr. Burnett was of 
 inch descent, and was born in the state of 
 Virginia, whence he started across the plains 
 early as 1845. He was a minister of the 
 'istian Church, and after locating on the 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres spent his 
 lays in farming and preaching, in time be- 
 oming noted for his good works throughout 
 the entire Willamette valley. He engaged in 
 ck-raising, as the care of the same required 
 time than general farming, and his la- 
 borious and well-directed career resulted in 
 l health becoming impaired in 1861. In the 
 iope of benefiting by the genial climate and 
 nspiring surroundings of California he moved 
 there, intending, however, to remain for a 
 me only, but was so charmed with life 
 mong the sunshine and roses that he re- 
 mained there until his death in 1888. 
 
 Grandfather James B. Graves was born in 
 Kentucky and crossed the plains with his 
 lily in 1847. taking up a large claim near 
 Sheridan. Yamhill county, Ore. He became 
 wominent in Republican politics, and among 
 ther honors conferred upon him by his fel- 
 low-townsmen was that of legislator, which 
 ! maintained with great credit to himself 
 and benefit to those who had placed him in 
 unver. He died on his claim near Sheridan 
 i 1 1 88 1, at the age of seventy-eight vears. 
 His son, Charles B., the father of Thomas J., 
 23 
 
 was a young man when he moved with his 
 family to Woodruff county, -Mo., and he was 
 one of the most enthusiastic of the party that 
 crossed the plains in 1846. Like his father 
 he took up a donation claim of a section near 
 Sheridan, settled thereon, and proceeded to 
 make it profitable and home-like. In 1849 ne 
 went over the mountains to the California 
 mines, an expedition which had its happy 
 side, for he returned about $2,000 richer than 
 when he departed. In 185 1 he wedded Mary 
 H. Burnett, and in 1864 he bought the old 
 Burnett homestead, and lived thereon until a 
 short time before his death in Monmouth, 
 January 23, 1892, in the sixty-ninth year of 
 his age. 
 
 The oldest of the three sons and ten daugh- 
 ters born to his parents, Thomas J. Graves, 
 was educated in the public schools, at Bethel 
 Academy, and at the Christan College at 
 Monmouth, from which latter institution he 
 was graduated in 1874 with the degree of 
 B. S. His student life over, he returned to 
 the old place, and has since devoted his ener- 
 gies to improving it. Two hundred and 
 eighty acres of the original property belongs 
 to his brother in Portland, but he operates 
 the whole farm, besides renting forty acres 
 for hop culture, which he runs independent 
 of his brother. He is engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, and his property io 
 equipped with the modern aids which facili- 
 tate not only scientific but extensive opera- 
 tions. In 1878 Mr. Graves married Martha 
 E. Shelton, who was born in Yamhill county 
 in 1854. She was the daughter of John W. 
 Shelton, who crossed the plains in 1846, lo- 
 cating on a claim near Carlton, Yamhill 
 county, but who is now living in Sherman 
 county, Ore. Mrs. Graves died on the farm 
 near Bethel, July 7, 1881, the mother of one 
 son, Herbert Garfield, who was a soldier in 
 the Spanish-American war, serving through- 
 out as a private in Company A, Second Ore- 
 gon Volunteer Infantry, from McMinnville, 
 and he now resides in California. In 1885 Mr. 
 Graves married Mrs. Mary E. AVilcox, born 
 in Polk county, June 21, 1861, and daughter 
 of Jesse Newbill, who crossed the plains in 
 the early days and located at Ballston. By 
 her first marriage Mrs. Graves became the 
 mother of two children, of whom Belle is the 
 wife of E. E. Shields, of Perrydale, and Mat- 
 tie is a teacher in the public schools of Balls- 
 ton. Three children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Graves, Edith, Cecil and Glenn. 
 
 Like his forefathers, Mr. Graves is a stanch 
 supporter of Republicanism, and has held 
 many positions of trust and responsibility in 
 his neighborhood. From 1880 until 1882 he 
 
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 served as assessor of Polk county and besides 
 has officiated as justice of the peace, as school 
 clerk for ten years, and as school director for 
 nine years. Fraternally he is one of the most 
 widely known men in the county, being asso- 
 ciated with the Blue Lodge of Masons at 
 Amity; Ainsworth Chapter No. 17, R. A. M., 
 at Dallas; the Woodmen of the World of the 
 same place ; the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows; and the Rebekahs of McCoy, of 
 which he has been secretary of the subordi- 
 nates for twelve years. He is a broad-minded, 
 well-informed and more than ordinarily pro- 
 gressive man, in touch with general happen- 
 ings beyond his immediate borders. All ef- 
 forts at improvement of his locality receive 
 his substantial support, and his opinion is 
 sought on all important questions which arise 
 from time to time. 
 
 NELS C. CHRISTENSON. No more ca- 
 pable official ever occupied the position of mayor 
 of Newberg than its present incumbent, Nels C. 
 Christenson. Not only has he labored for the 
 material progress of the city, but also for its 
 moral advancement, and the impress of his in- 
 dividuality upon the town has been one for good. 
 He has established and controlled many im- 
 portant and extensive successful business enter- 
 prises in this locality and his labors have ever 
 been effective, not only in securing his own pros- 
 perity, but also in promoting commercial activity 
 whereon rests the growth and upbuilding of 
 every community. 
 
 Mr. Christenson has been a resident of Oregon 
 since 1874. His birth occurred August 19, i860, 
 in Waushara county, Wis. His father, Hans 
 Christenson, was a native of Denmark, and in the 
 '50s crossed the broad Atlantic to the United 
 States, settling in Waushara county, Wis., where 
 he purchased two hundred acres of land, con- 
 tinuing its cultivation until 1867, when he sold 
 that property and removed to Iowa, settling in 
 Grundy county. There he purchased eighty acres 
 of land, and in 1874 he resumed his westward 
 journey, traveling until he had reached the Sun- 
 set state. Here he took up his abode near Carl- 
 ton, Yamhill county, where he remained for two 
 years, and then located at Lafayette. About that 
 time he purchased land four miles northwest of 
 Newberg, although the town had not been estab- 
 lished at that time. He became the owner of 
 three hundred and twenty acres of improved 
 land and for a number of years he was actively 
 engaged in farming pursuits, his richly cultivated 
 fields winning for him prosperity. At the present 
 time he is living a retired life in Newberg and 
 his rest is well merited. He married Stena An- 
 derson, a native of Denmark, and with her hus- 
 
 band she came to the United States. Seven chil- 
 dren were born of this union, of whom rive are 
 living, the subject of this review being the young- 
 est son. 
 
 Nels C. Christenson is indebted to the public 
 school system of Iowa and Oregon for the earl}' 
 educational privileges which he enjoyed, and for 
 a short period he was a student in McMinnville 
 College, after which he entered the Portland Busi- 
 ness College, from which he was graduated May 
 3, 1887. Thus well equipped for the duties of a 
 business career, he secured the position of a 
 bookkeeper in the grain warehouse in Carlton, 
 Ore., there remaining for two seasons. In 1889, 
 in company with his brother, George Christen- 
 son, he purchased the grain elevator in Newberg 
 and later he became sole proprietor. With the 
 exception of a period of two years he has been 
 continuously connected with the warehouse in- 
 terests of this place since he left school. He also 
 owns a third interest in the Chehalem Valley 
 Mills, which were erected in 1901, and are the 
 best equipped mills in this portion of the county, 
 being supplied with all modern accessories, in- 
 cluding the latest improved machinery. The mills 
 have a capacity of one hundred barrels of flour 
 per day and the product is of such an excellent 
 quality that it finds a ready sale upon the market. 
 
 In Newberg Mr. Christenson was united in 
 marriage to Miss Josephine Larkin, a native of 
 Minnesota. Her father, John S. Larkin, was born 
 in Maine, and removing westward took up his 
 abode in Wisconsin, whence he afterward went 
 to Minnesota. Throughout his entire business 
 career he carried on agricultural pursuits, but at 
 the present time he is living retired at his pleas- 
 ant ' home in Newberg. He owns an orchard a 
 quarter of a mile northwest of this town and is 
 the possessor of a comfortable competence, which 
 was gained through his labors in former years. 
 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Christenson has 
 been blessed with two daughters and a son : 
 Alice, Harold and Mildred. Mr. Christenson 
 holds membership with the Woodmen of the 
 World, the United Artisans and the Knights of 
 the Maccabees, and he belongs to the regular 
 Missionary Baptist Church, to the support of 
 which he contributes liberally, and in its work- 
 he is active and influential. He is now serving 
 as one of the deacons of the church and does 
 everything in his power to promote its growth 
 and insure its welfare. His political support is 
 given to the Prohibition party and he has been 
 honored with several local offices, having served 
 as school clerk, trustee and as city treasurer for 
 one term. In January, 1902, he was elected mayor 
 of Newberg and no more capable officer could 
 have been chosen for this office. There are no 
 saloons in the town, and he has exercised his 
 official prerogatives to suppress gambling, law- 
 
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 . ind vice of every character; in fact, his 
 nistration has been so practical and beneficial 
 g ina\ well be regarded as an ideal 
 In the field of political life and commer- 
 md industrial activity, Mr. Christenson has 
 si nction and to-day is numbered among 
 eading, influential and honored citizens of 
 ■ill county. A young man, he possesses the 
 enterprising spirit oi the west, which lias been 
 linant factor in producing the wonderful 
 •pment oi this section of the country. 
 cing no obstacles that honest effort could 
 •me, he has steadily worked his way up- 
 ward, and having long since left the ranks of the 
 many he to-day stands among the successful few. 
 
 GIDEON STOLZ. The manufacturing inter- 
 - oi Salem are well represented by Gideon 
 - .7., who has risen to the enviable position of 
 president of the Gideon Stolz Company of Salem. 
 He was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, De- 
 cember i), 1844, being one of the ten children of 
 Jacob and Mary Stolz. Both parents were na- 
 tives of Germany, the father born in Wurtem- 
 near Stuttgart, in 1832. He came to Amer- 
 ica and followed farming in Columbiana county, 
 Ohio. He afterward secured government land 
 in Scioto valley, residing thereon for a few years 
 and subsequently he took up his abode in Mont- 
 xry county, Ohio, near Dayton, where his re- 
 maining days were passed. He died at the 
 of eighty-six years and his wife died in Day- 
 ton at the age of seventy-eight years. Both were 
 members of the Lutheran Church. Of their 
 family five sons and one daughter reached mature 
 years. Dr. John Stolz, the eldest, was a surgeon 
 of die Ninety-second Ohio Regiment during the 
 Civil war and is now a practicing physician of 
 Reading, Pa. Jacob, who was a member of the 
 Ninety-third Ohio Infantry, was killed at the 
 battle of Murfreesboro. David, who joined the 
 Fifteenth United States Infantry for three years' 
 service, was captured at the time of Rosecrans' 
 retreat at Chickamauga and after eleven months' 
 imprisonment in Andersonville died and was 
 buried there. Gideon is the next of the family. 
 William G. is now a retired dairyman of Day- 
 ton. Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Kuhn is residing at 
 Gallion, Ohio. 
 
 Reared in Dayton, Gideon Stolz pursued a 
 common-school education and in May, 1864. 
 when nineteen vears of age, he volunteered for 
 service in the Union army, becoming a member 
 of Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-first 
 Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in 
 at Columbus. Ohio, stationed at Baltimore, and 
 was honorably discharged in the following Sep- 
 tember. In October of the same year he re- 
 enlisted in the quartermaster's department and 
 
 did duty principally in the viciniu of Memphis, 
 Tenn., until alter the cessation of hostilities, when 
 he was mustered out in 1865 and returned to 
 his home. 
 
 For a few years following bis military ser- 
 vice Mr. Stolz was engaged in the dairy busi- 
 ness at Dayton and in 1873 he disposed of bis 
 business interests in Ohio in order to come to the 
 northwest, establishing his home in Salem. His 
 capital was limited to $100 at that time, and, 
 looking about for a business opportunity that 
 would yield him a good living, he turned his 
 attention to gardening, conducting the old Dick- 
 enson Seed Garden under contract for six vears. 
 In 1879 h e began dealing in cider and vinegar at 
 the corner of Trade and Cottage streets and 
 within a short period he built up a good business 
 there. In 1886 he incorporated the business 
 under the name of the Pacific Vinegar & Pickle 
 Company and became the president. The enter- 
 prise was conducted in Salem until 1891, when, 
 on account of the majority of the stockholders 
 being residents of Portland, the plant was re- 
 moved to East Portland. Mr. Stolz, however, 
 continued to reside in Salem and in 1894 sold his 
 interest in the Portland business and lived re- 
 tired here until after the inauguration of Presi- 
 dent McKinley, when he recognized the change 
 in times, believing that a period of prosperity was 
 dawning upon the country. Accordingly, in the 
 spring of 1897, he began the business of manu- 
 facturing cider and cider vinegar and extended 
 the enterprise until it reached a very important 
 industry in the city. 
 
 In February, 1903, Mr. Stolz perfected a plan 
 whereby his business was incorporated under the 
 laws of Oregon, as The Gideon Stolz Company. 
 Realizing that the most successful business enter- 
 prises of to-day are managed by young men, with 
 possibly a few older men, having had years of 
 experience, at the helm, Mr. Stolz gathered 
 around him, in perfecting the corporation, a corps 
 of young men who had long served him in vari- 
 ous capacities, such as John B. Hileman, who 
 is vice-president and general manager of the fac- 
 tory ; W. T. Stolz, his son, who is secretary ; 
 C. D. and E. W. Purvine. both of whom are 
 young men of excellent qualities, constituting the 
 balance of the stockholders. 
 
 The new company starts with a well-equipped 
 factory, modern machinery appliances, and a ca- 
 pacity of double their former output, and we feel 
 safe in predicting that, as the years roll on, this 
 company will rank among the foremost of its 
 kind in the northwest. The firm does a large bot- 
 tling business, bottling mineral water, root beer 
 and all kinds of soda, and also manufacture and 
 prepare for the market cider, cider vinegar, fruit 
 butter, jellies and pickles of all kinds. The busi- 
 ness is profitable in all the departments and the 
 
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 trade is gradually growing. They now manufac- 
 ture over $50,000 worth of cider vinegar each 
 year, and in 1902 utilized more than five hundred 
 tons of apples. They also used the product of 
 fifteen acres of land for pickles and seventy-five 
 tons of cabbage were manufactured into kraut. 
 The enterprise is the second in point of import- 
 ance in the manufacture of raw materials in Sa- 
 lem. The company contracts for all its raw 
 material locally and this furnishes an excellent 
 market to the producer in this section. For the 
 soda he has a local trade, but for other outputs 
 of the plant there is a large foreign demand, his 
 goods being shipped all over the coast and to 
 Alaska. They employ a number of men and 
 women throughout the year at the Salem plant, 
 which is located at the corner of Mill and Sum- 
 mer streets, the factory and warehouse covering 
 a quarter of a block. ' The building is supplied 
 with steam power and modern machinery of im- 
 proved workmanship, while system, neatness and 
 cleanliness are marked characteristics of the en- 
 tire establishment. 
 
 Mr. Stolz was married in Dayton, Ohio, in 
 1868, to Miss Margaret Whittinger, who was 
 born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and they have two 
 children : Walter T., a wholesale and retail con- 
 fectioner of Salem; and Lenta D., the widow of 
 W. G. Westacott. Mrs. Westacott conducts a res- 
 taurant in Salem. Mr. Stolz is a valued and pop- 
 ular member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, in which he has held office ; the Wood- 
 men of the World ; and the Knights of the Mac- 
 cabees. In his political views, especially on state 
 and national questions, he gives an earnest and 
 unfaltering support to the Republican party. In 
 December, 1901, be was the nominee on both the 
 Republican and Citizens' tickets for the office of 
 councilman from the Third ward and was elected 
 by a very larg-e and flattering majority. He is 
 now serving as a member and chairman of the 
 committee on health and police and is a mem- 
 ber of the accounts and current expense com- 
 mittee and the fire and water committee. He 
 belongs to the Greater Salem Commercial Club 
 and is one of the leaders of the Civic Improve- 
 ment Society, having for its object the improve- 
 ment of Salem in its municipal affairs and its 
 substantial upbuilding. Mr. Stolz is a very 
 pleasant man, always approachable and willing 
 to accord to any the courtesy of an interview. 
 In manner he is kindly and genial and in all 
 life's relations he commands the respect and re- 
 gard of those with whom he has been associated. 
 In his treatment of bis employes he has always 
 been fair and just and in trade circles the house 
 of which he is the head sustains an unimpeach- 
 able reputation. 
 
 HERMAN POHLE, one of the influential 
 and representative citizens of Salem now serving 
 as a member of the city council, was born in 
 Germany near Bende, October 29, 1849. His 
 father, Henry Pohle, was a farmer of that coun- 
 try and married a Miss Kemper, by whom he had 
 five children, the subject of this review being the 
 second in order of birth. Four of the number 
 are still living, and three are residents of Amer- 
 ica, while the other is living at tbe old borne 
 in Germany. 
 
 Herman Pohle was reared in the Fatherland 
 and continued his education there until twelve 
 years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn 
 the blacksmith's trade near the old home, serv- 
 ing for a term of two years. He then came to 
 America in company with his cousin, Kemper 
 Pohle, who had previously been to the new world 
 and had returned to Germany on a visit. Mr. 
 Pohle arrived in the United States in 1865 and 
 took up bis abode in Aurora, Ind., where he was 
 employed at blacksmithing. Subsequently be 
 engaged in conducting a blacksmith and carriage 
 shop on his own account near that place, and 
 later, thinking that the rapidly growing west 
 would furnish him a better field of labor, he 
 came to Oregon in 1879 and has since been a 
 resident of Salem. He worked at his trade until 
 1882 and then established a carriage business of 
 his own on Commerce street. Subsequently he 
 removed to the corner of State and Front streets, 
 and in 1901 he purchased a lot at the corner of 
 Liberty and Ferry streets and built for himself 
 a fine shop 48x82 feet, and three stories in height 
 together with a basement. This entire build- 
 ing is utilized by Mr. Pohle in his business. Tbe 
 basement and the first floor are used for the 
 manufacture of carriages and for the black- 
 smithing business and the upper floors consti- 
 tute the painting departments. He carries the 
 Moline and Bain wagons and carriages, and 
 has built up a growing business, which has long 
 since reached profitable proportions. 
 
 In Indiana occurred the marriage of Mr. Pohle 
 and Miss Mary E. Tekeneier, a native of that 
 state, and their union has been blessed with six 
 children, namely : Ella, wife of William Mc- 
 Gowan, of Portland, who is assistant cashier in 
 the Wells-Fargo Bank; Mrs. Grace Atwood, of 
 Salem ; Warren, who is in the railway mail 
 service ; and Alma, Edna and Frances, who 
 are at home. The parents hold membership with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Pohle 
 is a member of the board of trustees. His po- 
 litical support is given to the Republican party 
 and he is unfaltering in his adherence to its 
 principles, for he believes that in their adoption 
 lies the safety and perpetuation of the American 
 government. In 1901 he was nominated on the 
 Citizens' ticket for councilman of the second 
 
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 5UU 
 
 and was elected to the position. He is now 
 
 ■! the committee on streets and public 
 
 .'ii ways anil means and is chairman 
 
 - committee. Socially ho is identi- 
 
 Vncient Order of the United Work- 
 
 ind the Knights oi the Maccabees. -Mr. 
 
 ■ man of much influence and prominence 
 
 and in matters relating to the city's welfare 
 
 1 himself practical and helpful. 
 
 the years of his residence in America he 
 
 had occasion to regret his determina- 
 
 e to the new world, for he has found 
 
 the business opportunities he sought and 
 
 blished a good home and gained 
 
 arm friends. 
 
 ,.\ McCROW. To the inheritance of 
 qualities, coupled with patient deter- 
 mination and energy, John McCrow owes the 
 - which has crowned his efforts since 
 ming to Oregon, December 17, 1873. His 
 parents were both natives of Scotland, the 
 lather, Hugh, and the mother, Margaret 
 (Richardson) .McCrow, being born near 
 inburgh. The father was a man of energy 
 and ability and chose to leave his native land 
 for the sake of the broad opportunities of the 
 -tern world. He emigrated to America 
 when about thirty years old, settling in Can- 
 la, where he engaged in farming until his 
 death in 1881. His wife died in the Canadian 
 me in 1884. Of the children born of this 
 union, William is located in Canada ; John is 
 the subject of this review; Eliza, the wife of 
 James Richardson, and Mary are residents of 
 rd county, Canada. 
 John McCrow was born in Oxford county, 
 ada, August 2, 1842, remaining on his 
 father's farm until twenty-three years of age. 
 He received a limited education in the old log 
 olhouse in the vicinity of his home until 
 he was fourteen years of age, at which time 
 he began work on his father's farm. On 
 reaching his majority he began farming for 
 himself on rented land. In 1866 he was united 
 in marriage with Catherine Ferguson, a native 
 rd county. Canada, and they continued 
 -eside on their farm until 1873, when they 
 removed to the United States, settling in the 
 Waldo Hills, in Marion county, Ore. Here 
 he purchased a farm of three hundred and 
 forty-five acres and entered upon its cultiva- 
 tion, where he remained until 1898. In the 
 meantime, in 1887. he entered into the butcher- 
 business in Salem, conducting this en- 
 terprise in conjunction with his farm until 
 1898, when he traded his farm in the Waldo 
 Hills for stock in the Capital Xational Bank 
 of Salem. Tn that year also he disposed of 
 
 the butcher business in Salem and moved to 
 his farm one and a half miles southwest of 
 McCoy, which he had previously purchased 
 in 1890. Here he owns a farm of three hun- 
 dred and forty acres all in cultivation and is 
 engaged extensively in general farming and 
 stock-raising. 
 
 -Mr. McCrow has erected one of the finest 
 residences in this section of the county, situ- 
 ated on a hill near the center of his farm, com- 
 manding an excellent view of his entire pos- 
 sessions and the country for miles around. 
 
 Airs. Catherine McCrow died in Marion 
 county in 1878, leaving four children: Hugh. 
 who died one month later at the age of twelve 
 years; Christina; Robert, a butcher in Gold- 
 endale, Wash., who married Delia B. Hasey, 
 by whom he has one child, Hughretta X. ; and 
 Margaret, the wife of Joseph Fischer of Stay- 
 ton, and they have one son, John Norval. 
 In 1880 Mr. McCrow married for his sec- 
 ond wife, Mrs. Jane (Law) Anderson, daugh- 
 ter of James Law, of Scotland. Mrs. Mc- 
 Crow has one daughter by r her first marriage, 
 Violet A. A. by name, and of the second three 
 children were born, Hughretta I., Garnet E., 
 and Clarence A. 
 
 Mr. McCrow is a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church of McCoy and politically he 
 votes with the Republican party. He has always 
 been a stanch advocate of those measures calcu- 
 lated to advance the material interests of the 
 community in which he has long been a resident, 
 and is known by his fellow-men as a broad- 
 gauged, liberal man of affairs and his life has 
 been an exemplification of the Golden Rule. 
 
 JOHN F. COOK, M. D., a botanical special- 
 ist who has been most successful in the work 
 of alleviating human suffering, is now practicing 
 in Salem, where he has resided for six years. 
 He was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger- 
 many, December 5, 1843, a son °f John Koch, 
 who was also a native of that locality. In 1854 
 he brought his family to America, settling at 
 Williamsburg, since included within the cor- 
 porate limits of New York City. He was a fresco 
 painter and gardener. In 1865 he removed to 
 Minnesota, settling in Dakota county, where he 
 carried on agricultural pursuits until his death. 
 He held membership in the Baptist Church and 
 was a man of marked strength of character. He 
 married Catherine Bonschier. who was born in 
 Frankfort. Germany, but was of French descent, 
 and they became the parents of five children, of 
 whom two are now living. The doctor, who is 
 the youngest of the family, was eleven vears of 
 age when his parents crossed the Atlantic to the 
 Xew World, sailing on the Robert Caley from 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Havre and reaching New York after a voyage of 
 thirty-six clays. He attended the public schools 
 of Williamsburg until twenty-one years of age, 
 and while in that city he also learned the business 
 of manufacturing musical instruments. In 1865 
 he went with the family to Dakota county, Minn., 
 where he further continued his education in an 
 academy. Several members of the Cook family 
 had been physicians, and the doctor became inter- 
 ested in the subject of medical science and deter- 
 mined to prepare for the practice of the profes- 
 sion. He accordingly began studying under a 
 physician of Dakota county, and later continued 
 his reading in St. Croix county, Wis., under the 
 direction of Dr. Gilliman. 
 
 Dr. Cook began the practice of medicine in 
 Pierce county, Wis., as early as 1875, and, in 
 1896, was graduated in the Chicago Independent 
 Medical College and Health University with the 
 degree of M. D. He practiced in Wisconsin until 
 1887, when he removed to Omaha, Neb., where 
 he continued in practice for ten years, meeting 
 with splendid success. In fact his practice be- 
 came so extensive that it made too heavy demands 
 upon his strength, and he came to Salem, hoping 
 that a change of climate would enable him rapidly 
 to recuperate. Here he opened his office, and 
 during the six years of his residence here he has 
 gained a very extensive patronage. The doctor 
 has a broad knowledge of medical principles, 
 but has always made a specialty of botanical 
 practice and does not believe in the use of the 
 knife. As a specialist in the treatment of chronic 
 diseases he has been remarkably successful and 
 particularly so in the treatment of cancer. His 
 office is located at No. 301 Liberty street and 
 many come to him there not only from Salem, 
 but from other parts of the country, demanding 
 his services in the cure of long standing diseases. 
 That the doctor has accomplished many remark- 
 able cures is indicated by the large number of tes- 
 timonials which have come to him unsolicited 
 from grateful patients who feel that they owe 
 to him health and life. 
 
 In Dakota county, Minn., the doctor was united 
 in marriage to Miss Henrietta Sittkus, who was 
 born in Germany and was brought to America 
 when nine year's of age. She has deep sympathy 
 with the doctor in his work and has been of much 
 assistance to him. • They attend the Baptist 
 Church, in which they hold membership, and the 
 doctor is now serving as chairman of its board of 
 trustees. He is a man of fine physique, with an 
 intellectual forehead, a firm mouth and honest 
 eyes, and moreover a kindly expression which in- 
 dicates his broad humanitarian spirit. 
 
 of the northwest. Mr. Bible comes from Ten- 
 nessee, his birth having occurred near Warrens- 
 burg, in Greene county, that state, March 16, 
 1834. There he was reared upon a farm and the 
 common schools of his home neighborhood pro- 
 vided him with his educational privileges. When 
 twenty-one years of age he started out in life 
 on his own account and whatever success he has 
 achieved is the direct result of his enterprising 
 efforts. He followed farming in his native state 
 until the fall of 1862, when he enlisted as a 
 private in the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry and par- 
 ticipated in the campaign from Knoxville to 
 Cumberland Gap. For a year longer he con- 
 tinued in the service and was then taken ill with 
 typhoid fever, which unfitted him for further 
 military duty during the remainder of the war. 
 
 Soon after the close of hostilities Mr. Bible 
 began merchandising in Warrensburg, Tenn., 
 carrying on business in that vicinity until 1879, 
 when, believing that the opportunities of the 
 northwest exceeded those of his native state, he 
 came to Oregon, settling in Sheridan. Here he 
 again established a store and continued in mer- 
 chandising until 1898, when he sold out. For one 
 year he also conducted a store in Willamina. 
 Soon after his arrival in the northwest he began 
 dealing in cattle and now owns a ranch of four 
 hundred and forty acres together with other 
 land. Aside from the supervision of his invested 
 interests, Mr. Bible is now retired from active 
 business cares. 
 
 On the 10th of April, 1865, occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Bible and Miss Mary J. Mendenhall, 
 of Jefferson county, Tenn. They have no chil- 
 dren. Mr. Bible votes with the Democracy and 
 believes in the gold standard. He has firm faith 
 in the northwest and its future possibilities and 
 has allied his interests with this section of the 
 state, becoming a valued factor in the work of 
 progress and improvement here. 
 
 A. S. BIBLE. Almost every state of the Union 
 has furnished a quota of citizens to Oregon who 
 have aided in the settlement and improvement 
 
 RILEY Y. FEND ALL. A native son of Ore- 
 gon, Riley Y. Fendall has improved the oppor- 
 tunities which were his from the earliest years 
 of his boyhood, making a success for himself 
 through the cultivation of the soil, being the life 
 to which he was reared. He was born on the old 
 donation land claim taken up by his father in the 
 pioneer days of Oregon, September 17, 1852, and 
 was there reared to a practical and useful life, 
 interspersing his home duties with an attendance 
 at the common schools. Later he attended the 
 public schools at Willamina, a considerable dis- 
 tance from his home, sometimes riding, but 
 oftener walking to and fro in his efforts to add 
 to his knowledge of the life of a farmer the edu- 
 cation that enables a farmer to be an exception 
 to the general average. 
 
 When twenty-two years of age he and his 
 
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 bought a pan of the land adjoining that 
 
 Mr. Fendall now lives, and two .wars 
 
 nber 6, 1876, he married Miss Susie 
 
 II, the daughter of Peter and Sophronia 
 
 For two years after his marriage he 
 
 n the home place, at the close of that 
 
 ,ving upon a part of his present prop- 
 
 - ater he removed to his present 
 
 ■u. this having been his home since. Mr. 
 
 all ha- put upon his property nearly all of 
 
 mprovements oi which it boasts, and has 
 
 ;,> the cultivation careful thought and an 
 
 effort to excel in that to which he has 
 
 his time and attention. He now owns 
 
 three hundred and twenty-seven acres, principally 
 
 .jed in the valley, and is at present engaged 
 
 irning on general farming ami stock-raising. 
 
 and for twelve years was interested in hop cul- 
 
 < (f the children which blessed the union of Mr. 
 
 Mrs. Fendall, Roxie M. is now the wife of 
 
 ". Mendenhall; and Cn\y H., Claude S., Car- 
 
 *.. Lucia E. and Cullie make their home with 
 
 r parents. Politically Mr. Fendall adheres to 
 
 the principles advocated in the platform of the 
 
 cratic party. 
 
 MERRITT McKINLEY is a native son and 
 jsful farmer of Yamhill county. He was 
 Ix.rn near Wheatland. September 18, 1853, and is 
 1" James McKinley, whose birdi occurred 
 on the 2d of March, 1827, in Indiana. When a 
 he father accompanied his parents to Mis- 
 ri and in 1S45 he crossed the plains to the 
 St, driving an ox team. The succeeding year 
 he returned b\ water route to his home in the 
 st, but in 1847. accompanied by his father. 
 Alexander McKinley, he again made the trip. 
 There were six sons and four daughters in the 
 ■id father's family and all of the boys and one 
 the 'laughters came at that time. The grand- 
 father secured a donation claim in Yamhill coun- 
 near where our subject was born. He then 
 became the owner of two hundred and forty acres 
 ieh he developed into a good farm and thereon 
 n't his remaining days, passing away at an ad- 
 vanced age. 
 
 James McKinley was married in Yamhill 
 ounty in 1845 to Charlotte Johnson, who was 
 "rn in Germany, and the same year he secured 
 a donation claim near McMinnville, while in 1847 
 he became the owner of another donation claim 
 me hundred and twenty acres near Wheat- 
 land. It was upon the latter farm that the birth 
 ot In- son Merritt occurred. James McKinley 
 remained upon that farm until 1874. when he re- 
 lieved to Perrydale and in 1877 he came to the 
 place upon which our subject is now living in 
 the Gopher valley. In 1892, however, he" re- 
 
 moved to Sheridan, where he died in June. [893. 
 1 le was a member of the United Brethren Church 
 
 and was a man of strong character, .sterling pur- 
 poses ami of honorable life. His wife passed 
 away upon the farm upon which her son Merritt 
 is now living, her death occurring in the year 
 1885. They were the parents of five children: 
 Angeline, the deceased wife of Calvin Miller; 
 Merritt: Mark, who died in childhood: Mary, 
 the wife of A. J. Sawyer; and Henry, who died 
 at the age of eighteen months. 
 
 _ Mr. McKinley of this review was reared in 
 Yamhill county and after attending the common 
 schools near his home he further continued his 
 studies in the public schools of Salem. In his 
 youth he assisted his father in the work of the 
 home farm and when his education was completed 
 he became his father's associate in agricultural 
 pursuits, the business relation between them be- 
 ing maintained until the death of James McKin- 
 ley. In 1895 .Air. McKinley returned to the 
 farm upon which he is now living. He owns 
 here six hundred and seventy-four acres of val- 
 uable land, pleasantly located on Deer creek, 
 about two miles northeast of Sheridan. Here he 
 carries on general farming and stock-raising, 
 keeping on hand large herds of cattle, sheep and 
 goats. He has a fine ranch well equipped for 
 the purposes used and his thorough and prac- 
 tical understanding of his business has made him 
 one of the prosperous citizens of his community. 
 On the 28th of October, 1886. Mr. McKinley 
 was united in marriage to Miss Emma Cox, who 
 was born in Giehalis county. AYash., a daughter 
 of William A. Cox. one of the pioneer settlers of 
 that state. They had four children ; Hilda, An- 
 drew. Laurin and one that died in infancv. In 
 his political views Mr. McKinley is a Democrat, 
 but has never been a politician' in the sense of 
 office seeking, preferring to devote his energies 
 to his business affairs, which, having been capably- 
 conducted, have brought to him" a gratifying 
 financial return. 
 
 ARIEL H. LEIGHTON. One of the most 
 handsomely improved and best cultivated farms 
 in Yamhill county, Ore., is the one known as 
 Highland Lodge, consisting of four hundred and 
 eighty-five acres, and located four miles from 
 Willamina on the Willamina creek. The place 
 is supplied with a handsome residence and 
 good barns and outbuildings of all de- 
 scriptions, all furnished with running water, 
 supplied by pipes which connect with 
 springs. The ranch was originallv owned and 
 improved by Lord Oswald Grosser, a German 
 nobleman, who disposed of his interests here in 
 [899 to Mr. Leighton. Much of the land is de- 
 voted to an apple and prune orchard, three thou- 
 
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 sand prune trees yielding a large harvest each 
 year, the cost of preparing for market being 
 greatly lessened by his owning a prune dryer. 
 He is also largely engaged in stock-raising, be- 
 ing principally interested in cattle, sheep and 
 hogs. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Leighton occurred in Hyde- 
 park, Vt., September 29, 1834, and in that state 
 he was reared to manhood, with the exception of 
 a few years spent in Massachusetts, receiving 
 his education in the public schools and academies 
 of these two states. At the age of fifteen years 
 he began working at the trade of tinning, in which 
 he continued until 1861, when he enlisted as a 
 private in Company I, First Vermont Cavalry, 
 for a term of three years in the service of the 
 Union army. After serving a little over one 
 year, while with General Banks in the Shenan- 
 doah Valley, he was wounded while on horse 
 guard by the accidental discharge of his own 
 pistol, which entailed his discharge on account 
 of disability. Returning to Vermont he re- 
 mained there until 1866, when he removed to 
 Iowa, and settled upon a farm near Fort Dodge, 
 making a purchase of the land, and for two years 
 engaged in tilling the soil. At the close of that 
 period he changed his location to the town of 
 Fort Dodge, where for three years he followed 
 his trade, making such a success of the business 
 that he was enabled to open a hardware store, 
 in connection with which he carried on plumbing. 
 For twenty years he carried on this business, 
 receiving sufficient remuneration to warrant his 
 continuing in the work. At the close of that 
 time he again moved to a farm near Fort Dodge, 
 but six years later, in 1899, he came to Oregon, 
 in search of more pleasant surroundings, being 
 more than ordinarily successful in his selection 
 of Highland Lodge. 
 
 Mr. Leighton has been married three times, 
 and has had twelve children, seven of whom 
 are living: Dora, the wife of J. W. Leighton; 
 Carrie B., the wife of Thomas Adams ; Lee, re- 
 siding in Ogden, Iowa ; Bessie, a teacher in North 
 Dakota ; and Robert, Almyra and Dixie, the three 
 latter at home. Mr. Leighton is a Republican, 
 and fraternally has been a member of the Ma- 
 sonic order for thirty years. 
 
 JAMES McCAIN, who has attained distinc- 
 tion in both the civil and criminal departments of 
 law practice, and is now a member of the well- 
 known law firm of McCain & Vinton, was born 
 March 30, 1844, in Delphi, Carroll county, Ind. 
 His father, James McCain, Sr., was born in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 The paternal grandfather was a soldier of the 
 war of 181 2 and a prominent land owner and 
 farmer of the vicinitv of Cincinnati, and his old 
 
 homestead has been divided into town lots, and 
 is now incorporated within the limits of the city. 
 His death occurred in the Buckeye state. 
 
 In 1851, after residing in Delphi, Ind., for a 
 number of years, James McCain brought his 
 family to Oregon, his eldest son, Paris, having 
 preceded him to the northwest in 1847. With 
 oxen and horse teams the family made the jour- 
 new overland, and in Iowa the father purchased 
 some fine stock, which he drove to Oregon. He 
 traveled with a large and well-equipped train, 
 all the men being armed, and having left Indiana 
 in early April, they arrived in the Willamette 
 valley early in November. Mr. McCain secured 
 a donation land claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres on the boundary line of Polk and 
 Yamhill counties, three miles east of Sheridan, 
 and this he cultivated and improved, making it a 
 valuable tract, upon which he lived until his 
 death, which occurred in 1874. His political 
 allegiance was given the Republican party, and 
 he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 In early manhood he had wedded Miss Sarah 
 Earnest, who was born and married near Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, and was of Scotch descent. Her 
 death occurred when she was seventy years of 
 age. In the family were ten children, of whom 
 nine came to Oregon : Paris, who died in Seat- 
 tle, Wash. ; William, who died in Linn county, 
 Ore. ; Mrs. Maria Martin, of McMinnville ; Mrs. 
 Clarissa Foster, who died in California ; Mrs. 
 Agnes Stauffer, who died in Polk county, this 
 state; Mrs. Ellen Graves, of Yamhill county; 
 John, a resident of southern Oregon ; Mrs. Sarah 
 A. Osborne, who died in Polk county, and James. 
 
 Judge McCain was but seven years of age 
 when the family came to the northwest, and upon 
 the home farm he was reared, while in the dis- 
 trict schools he pursued his education, which was 
 supplemented by a short period of study in Mc- 
 Minnville College, and Willamette University, 
 but though he resumed his studies several times, 
 each time illness or accident forced him to put 
 aside his books. Later he went to Dallas, and 
 spent over two years in La Creole Academy, and 
 subsequently he began the study of law under 
 the direction of P. C. Sullivan, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1868. He then began practice at 
 Dallas, and later entered into partnership with 
 Mr. Sullivan, continuing the relation with him 
 until June, 1871, when he located in La Fayette, 
 Yamhill county, where he remained until 1889, 
 when the county seat was removed to McMinn- 
 ville, and here he has since made his home. In 
 1892 he was elected district attorney for the third 
 judicial district, embracing Marion, Linn, Yam- 
 hill, Polk and Tillamook counties, and in 1894 
 he was re-elected, each time on the Republican 
 ticket. From the beginning of his professional 
 career he enjoyed considerable distinction as an 
 
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 able criminal lawyer, and since 1SS5 he has won 
 equal tame as a practitioner of civil law. He has 
 only practiced successfully in various coun- 
 i m i >regon, but has also been entrusted with 
 mi litigation in Idaho and other states. 
 He is strong in argument, forceful in his prcsen- 
 :i of a cause, and his deductions follow in 
 sequence. 1 le is now the senior member 
 [ the firm of McCain & Vinton, which is re- 
 garded as one of the strong legal combinations at 
 the Yamhill county bar. In May, 1898, he be 
 u postmaster of McMinnville, to which posi- 
 tion he had been appointed by President McKin- 
 and for four years lie acceptably filled the 
 
 office. 
 
 In Dallas, Ore., Mr. McCain married Miss 
 Electa C. Sullivan, a native of Michigan, and a 
 daughter of P. C. Sullivan, who came to this 
 
 t< in 1862, and here successfully practiced law. 
 They now have three children : Mrs. Mabel 
 Parker, Mrs. Ivaline Wells and Mrs. Ethel Grin- 
 nold, all of McMinnville. Mr. McCain belongs 
 to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, to the Elks 
 Lulge of Salem and to the State Bar Associa- 
 tion. Since attaining his majority he has given 
 his support to the Republican party, and since 
 locating in McMinnville has served as a mem- 
 ber of the state central committee, and was chair- 
 man of the county central committee of his party- 
 In his law practice he has been very successful, 
 and enjoys a high reputation as a representative 
 of the legal fraternity of the county. 
 
 JOHN GEISENDORFER. Through his 
 own efforts, entirely, has John Geisendorfer 
 made himself a position of prominence among 
 the prosperous farmers of Linn county, Ore., 
 coming empty handed from his native land, 
 1 iermany, into a strange country, where a 
 -trange language was spoken and entirely dif- 
 ferent customs prevailed, with no promise of 
 his future success save in his own sturdy char- 
 acteristics, inherited from his German fore- 
 fathers. With the prosperity of the country 
 before him, as evidenced in the thriving cities 
 and well tilled farms, Mr. Geisendorfer recalls 
 the days of privation and inconveniences of 
 Oregon, his first impressions of the now busy 
 and populous city of Portland being of three 
 cabins on the banks of the river, in one of 
 which he secured board and lodging, paying 
 for the former at the rate of $1 a meal, and in 
 the latter furnishing his own blankets. 
 
 John Geisendorfer was born in Bavaria, Ger- 
 many, November 19, 1826, and started for 
 America in 1845, the sailing vessel on which he 
 took passage being forty-five days in making 
 the trip. Landing at Baltimore, Md., he later 
 settled at Pittsfield, 111., engaging as a farm 
 
 hand in that locality, with a remuneration of 
 $90 per year, his pay, however, not being in 
 money, receiving instead, articles from the 
 store, and live stock as well, consisting of 
 cows. He remained at this employment for 
 four years, and in the spring of 1849 ne started 
 with ox-teams for California, going by way of 
 Oregon. After five months he arrived in Ore- 
 gon City, where he was ill for some time with 
 Oregon fever. Upon his recovery he went to 
 work in a saw-mill at Milwaukee, this being 
 his first employment in the west. In the fall 
 of 1849 ' ie continued the interrupted journey, 
 finishing the trip to California by water. On 
 his arrival he went to the mines at Hangtown, 
 now called Placerville, and in partnership with 
 another man, he mined there for five weeks. 
 Having had an opportunity to see both the 
 southern and northwestern portions of the Pa- 
 cific slope, Mr. Geisendorfer chose the latter in 
 which to make his permanent residence, and, 
 returning to Oregon, he spent the first winter 
 there at Milton, Columbia county. In the 
 spring of 1851 he took up a claim near Oak- 
 point, Wash., which consisted of three hundred 
 and twenty acres of timber land, and there en- 
 gaged in the timber business for twelve years. 
 In 1862 he returned to Oregon, and the follow- 
 ing year he bought his present farm of one 
 hundred and eighty acres, located near Albany, 
 Linn county, and upon which he has since re- 
 mained. He has since added to his property, 
 until he now owns three hundred acres, the 
 well cultivated fields, upon which he carries on 
 general farming and stock-raising, and the 
 many handsome improvements which he has 
 made, being indisputable evidence of the suc- 
 cess which has crowned his unceasing efforts. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Geisendorfer occurred 
 May 1, 1854, and united him with Mary Crook 
 Creecy, who was born near Pulaski, Gales 
 county, Tenn., daughter of Bennett and Mar- 
 tha (Brown) Creecy, January 9, 1827, and died 
 at her home near Albany, Ore., June 22, 1903, 
 aged seventy-six years. She crossed the plains 
 with her parents (who had resided in Illinois 
 since 1830), in 1853, coming by way of the 
 South Pass, Fort Boise and the Columbia river 
 route. Mrs. Geisendorfer was a lifelong mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Church. Her family his- 
 tory contains some things of unusual interest. 
 Her parents were natives of Buckingham 
 county, Va. Her maternal great-great-grand- 
 father was Peter Brown, who came over in the 
 Mayflower, and her maternal grandfather, 
 Isham Brown, was a Revolutionary soldier of 
 the American army. Pier paternal great-great- 
 grandmother, Tabitha Pledge, daughter of a 
 Scottish chieftain, was sentenced, according to 
 the custom of the time, to transportation to the 
 
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 colonies for taking a windfallen apple. On her 
 arrival in America a Mr. McKinney paid her 
 passage fare with four hundred pounds of to- 
 bacco, secured her release from the ship master 
 and married her. 
 
 Mrs. Geisendorfer was highly respected and 
 greatly beloved. She became the mother of 
 seven children : George, who is located at 
 Cascadia ; Anna, who is the wife of Prof. W. C. 
 Hawley, of Salem ; Emily, wife of H. D. Burk- 
 hart, living near Albany, and to whom have 
 been born Leander K., John G. and Verna K. ; 
 Margaret, living at home; Elizabeth, wedded 
 to Frank Lyons, and residing near Albany, 
 Ore., who are the parents of five children, Don- 
 ald J., Mary J., Ruth J., George L. and Rachel 
 B., all born in Oregon ; John, who is practic- 
 ing medicine at The Dalles, and Daisy, who ifc 
 the wife of John M. Davis, Kansas City, Mo., 
 to whom have been born two children, Morton 
 O, who died when eight months of age, and 
 Nelson H. 
 
 Mr. Geisendorfer has in his possession a 
 number of chairs which were the first made in 
 Oregon, and also a table which was made of 
 native wild cherry very early in the history of 
 the territory. In his early pioneer days Mr. 
 Geisendorfer was associated in a business way 
 with Governor Abernethy and the latter's 
 brother, Alexander ; and also with John Mc- 
 Loughlin and Senator Mitchell. 
 
 JOSEPH F. SCOTT, one of the very success- 
 ful farmer of Yamhill county, has been a resident 
 of the state since one year old. He was born 
 in Tennessee, February 10, 1869, and comes of 
 farming ancestry identified with the south for 
 many years. His father, James Hervey Scott, 
 born in Sullivan county, Tenn., was reared in 
 his native state, and conducted farming there 
 during his early manhood. He married Eliza- 
 beth J. McCauley, and there were born to them 
 but two children, of whom Walter F., the 
 younger, is a resident of Sheridan, and a me- 
 chanic by trade. 
 
 The Scott family removed from Tennessee to 
 Oregon in 1870, settling near Salem, where they 
 farmed for three years. The father then bought 
 land near Grand Ronde and in 1883 moved to 
 Gopher Valley, where he lived for two years. 
 His next home was on the farm now occupied 
 by his son, Joseph F., and a portion of which is 
 owned by the other son and wife. Here Mr. 
 Scott died January 23, 1897, a ^ the age of seventy 
 years. He was successful as a farmer and stock- 
 raiser, and left to his family a well improved and 
 valuable farm. 
 
 Until the death of the older man Joseph F. 
 Scott remained with his father, profiting by the 
 
 experience of his sire, and attending the public 
 schools as opportunity offered. In 1899 he was 
 united in marriage with Mary Jane Ivy and of 
 this union there has been born one son, Robert 
 E. On his two hundred and twenty-five acres 
 of rented land Mr. Scott carries on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, in which he is very success- 
 ful, and at the same time his efforts give promise 
 of future prominent participation in the general 
 affairs of his neighborhood. He also owns two 
 hundred and seventy acres in Yamhill count}-, 
 near the Highlands. He is a Democrat in poli- 
 tics, and is fraternally connected with the Wood- 
 men of the World. Like his father, Mr. Scott 
 bears an honored name in the community, and 
 his tact and agreeable nature have won him many 
 friends. 
 
 WILLIAM PAUL BABCOCK, who is agent 
 for the Salem Flouring Mills Company, was born 
 in Salem, January 17, 1876. His father, Free- 
 land Jesse Babcock, was a native of Burlington, 
 Vt., and was of an old New England family of 
 Puritan ancestry. He was reared in Burlington, 
 but in 1861, when a mere lad, he ran away from 
 home in order to enter the army, joining a Ver- 
 mont regiment of infantry, with which he val- 
 iantly served for four years. Three times he 
 was wounded, but each time he returned to active 
 duty as soon as his injuries permitted, and he 
 rose from the ranks to a captaincy, being com- 
 mander of his company at the time the war closed, 
 and receiving an honorable discharge. Although 
 but a boy when he entered the army the hardships 
 of war soon developed in him the spirit of a man 
 and no veteran of twice his years excelled him in 
 patriotism and bravery. 
 
 After visiting his old home in the Green Moun- 
 tain state Captain Babcock came to Oregon, by 
 way of the Panama route to Salem. He was a 
 cabinetmaker by trade, and soon he engaged in 
 the manufacture of furniture and the undertak- 
 ing business here. In 1888 he was elected county 
 clerk of Marion county, entering upon the duties 
 of his office in July of that year, and in 1890 he 
 was re-elected, serving in that capacity until his 
 death, which occurred November 2, 1891. Prom- 
 inent and honored in public and private life, he 
 was also a distinguished member of the Masonic 
 fraternity of Oregon, holding membership in 
 Pacific Lodge No. 50, A. F. & A. M., in which 
 he was past master. He was also the grand sec- 
 retary of the Grand Lodge of Oregon from 1880 
 until 1888. when he resigned in order to enter 
 upon the duties of the political office to which he 
 had been chosen. He likewise held membership 
 in Salem Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., and DeMolay 
 Commandery No. 5, K. T., while in the Scottish 
 Rite he took all of the degrees up to and includ- 
 
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 the thirty-second in the consistory at Port- 
 | In the Grand Army of the Republic he was 
 nt and honored, and he also belonged to 
 egion. In politics he was an unfal- 
 Republican, standing by the party which 
 support oi the Union during the dark 
 : the Civil war. His religious faith was 
 .1 by his membership in the Congrega- 
 Church. 
 In Salem. Ore.. Captain Babcock married Ida 
 If. Pratt, who was born in Rhode Island, a 
 r of Lucian E. Pratt, a member of an old 
 RhtHle Island family, who came to Oregon in 
 the pioneer days of the state. He was captain 
 i riwr steamer on the Willamette and under 
 tain Babcock he served as deputy county 
 clerk. Fraternally he was connected with the 
 Independent ( >rder of Odd Fellows. His daugh- 
 ter. Mrs. Babcock. is still living and resides in 
 m. She had four children: Pratt, who died 
 at the age of five years ; William Paul, of this 
 review : and Grace N. and Mary, at home. 
 
 William P. Babcock was reared in Salem and 
 after attending the public schools here continued 
 his education in Willamette University for three 
 years. He is a graduate of the Capital Business 
 illege, of Salem, in the class of 1895, and after 
 his education was completed he acted as book- 
 eeper for different firms of this city. In 1899 
 became bookkeeper for the Salem Flouring 
 Mills Company, and September 1, 1902, was made 
 n of the mills, having charge of the Salem 
 nills, for which his business capacity and enter- 
 prise well qualify him. 
 
 In Salem. October 20, 1897. Mr. Babcock was 
 married to Miss Rose Woodruff, who was born 
 and educated in Indiana. They have one child, 
 .melia. They are members of the Christian 
 Church. Mr. Babcock was made a Mason in 
 Pacific Lodge Xo. 50, A. F. & A. M. In politics 
 he is an earnest Republican and he served as 
 deputy sheriff under F. T. Wrightman for two 
 years and as deputy county clerk under William 
 V\ . Hall. A wide awake and enterprising young 
 man. and a representative of prominent families 
 of the northwest, he is destined for a successful 
 career, if the signs of the times speak truly. 
 
 MRS. MARY TERESA SCHOETTLE, D. 
 O. One of the most important discoveries of 
 the scientific world in recent years is the value 
 • pathy, and its practice is steadily and 
 rapidly increasing as its value is recognized by 
 the public. The lady whose name introduces this 
 review is a graduated osteopatbist and is now 
 enjoying a good practice in Salem where she has 
 a large circle of friends. She was born in De- 
 Witt. Clinton county, Iowa, a daughter of J. G. 
 Barr, whose birth occurred in Baden. Germanv, 
 
 in which country he learned the trade of a watch 
 and clock-maker and was engaged in the manu- 
 facture of the large time-piece, known as the 
 " grandfathers' " clocks. Crossing the Atlantic 
 to America when seventeen years of age, lie took 
 Up his abode in West Virginia and afterward re- 
 moved to ( )hio, where he followed his trade. 
 Subsequently he became a resident of DeWitt, 
 Iowa, where he was engaged in business for 
 nearly thirty years as a jeweler and watch- 
 maker. In 1885 he came to Oregon, locating in 
 Salem, where he again established a jewelry 
 store, which he conducted with success until his 
 death, which occurred September 13, 1899. He 
 was a man of excellent business and executive 
 ability and in the control of his interests he man- 
 ifested perseverance, diligence and laudable am- 
 bition. He married Miss Margaret L. Stenger, 
 who was born in Bavaria, Germany, a daughter 
 of Sebastian Stenger, who was also a native of 
 that locality and on emigrating to America took 
 up his abode in Ohio. He was a miller by trade 
 and followed that pursuit in the Buckeye state 
 until his death. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barr were 
 born thirteen children. Further record of the 
 family is given in connection with the sketch of 
 Herman W. Barr on another page of this work. 
 The parents were both communicants of the 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 Mrs. Schoettle, the eldest of the family, was 
 educated in a convent at DeWitt, Iowa, and in 
 1885 came to Oregon with her parents. She as- 
 sisted her father in the store until she was mar- 
 ried in Salem, July 19, 1887, to Emil Schoettle, 
 a native of Baden. He was a merchant tailor who 
 located in Salem in 1885 and began business here 
 in the line of his chosen trade. Soon he gained 
 a liberal patronage which was accorded him up to 
 the time of his death. He died in Texas while 
 on a business trip in 1894, and his loss was deep- 
 ly mourned not only by his immediate family, 
 but also by many friends, for he was a man pos- 
 sessing many excellent traits of character that 
 had gained for him the warm regard of those 
 with whom he had been associated. 
 
 Mrs. Schoettle has continued to reside in 
 Salem. In 1899 she became interested in os- 
 teopathy. In February, 1900, she went to Kirks- 
 ville. Mo., where she entered the American School 
 of Osteopathy and was graduated therefrom in 
 January, 1902, with the degree of D. O. Return- 
 ing at once to Salem she began practice here and 
 has now a good patronage. Osteopathv has 
 made rapid strides into favor with the public. 
 Judged by its results it has certainly accomplished 
 much toward alleviating human suffering and 
 Mrs. Schoettle is well qualified for the practice 
 of the science. She had two children, Mary T. 
 and M. Josephine, the latter of whom died 
 May 22. 1903. Mrs. Schoettle attends the 
 
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 St. Joseph Catholic Church, of which she is a 
 member. She is also identified with the Altar 
 Society. A lady of superior culture and intelli- 
 gence, of refinement and genuine worth, she occu- 
 pies a leading position socially and is rapidly 
 winning her way to a foremost place in profes- 
 sional ranks. 
 
 JAMES H. BROWN. No more enterprising 
 farmer is maintaining the excellent standard es- 
 tablished by a piorfeer father than James H. 
 Brown, one of the three sons occupying the 
 original donation claim of their father, the elder 
 James H. Brown. The latter was born in Vir- 
 ginia November 10, 1796, his remote ancestors 
 having pursued their various occupations in the 
 German empire. From Virginia Mr. Brown re- 
 moved to Illinois, where he engaged in farming, 
 and where he married Sophia Hussey, a native 
 of that state. Pie was an ambitious man and 
 readily absorbed the glowing accounts of su- 
 perior chance in the west, and finally sold his 
 Illinois farm and outfitted for the transportation 
 of his wife and children to the coast. The jour- 
 ney was accomplished with three wagons and six 
 yoke of oxen, a team of horses and a spring 
 wagon for the family, and the train moved along 
 leisurely and without incident until after the 
 Missouri river was crossed. About that time 
 cholera broke out in the hopeful little party, and 
 Mr. Brown was sorely afflicted, barely coming- 
 through the ordeal alive. Their misfortunes 
 were further added to by one of their children, 
 James PL, having both legs broken, but as far as 
 the Indians were concerned there was no par- 
 ticular trouble from them. 
 
 For a short time Mr. Brown lived in Gopher 
 valley, but the first winter in the state was spent 
 with Nathan Hussey, one of the very early set- 
 tlers' in the west. In the spring Mr. Brown 
 bought the donation claim upon which he spent 
 the remainder of his life, and which consists 
 of six hundred and forty acres along the Yam- 
 hill river. So successful was he that in time his 
 interests demanded more property, and by fre- 
 quent purchases he increased his possessions to 
 seventeen hundred acres. His death, May 30, 
 1875, removed a useful and capable citizen, one 
 devoted to the Methodist Church and to the 
 Republican party. Originally a Whig, he natur- 
 ally stepped into Republican ranks and among 
 the offices held by him with distinct credit was 
 that of county commissioner, which he held for 
 two years. He is buried in the little cemetery 
 in Willamina, as is also his wife, who died No- 
 vember 8, 1894. 
 
 Coming to Yamhill at the age of eight, James 
 H. Brown remembers but little of his father's 
 farm in Illinois, where he was born, near Spring- 
 
 field, Sangamon county, June 14, 1842. He early 
 evinced habits of industry and thrift, and as op- 
 portunity offered he attended the district schools. 
 November 30, 1865, he was united in marriage 
 with Evelyn Yocom, daughter of Franklin 
 Yocom, and soon after came into his share of the 
 family claim, which has since been his home. 
 In addition to the one hundred and forty-five 
 acres of the home place he has seventy-five acres 
 adjoining, besides eight hundred acres in another 
 place, and enough more land to make up fifteen 
 hundred acres. The entire donation claim is 
 owned by the three brothers, all of whom are en- 
 terprising and prosperous members of the com- 
 munity. Mr. Brown has extensive interests both 
 as to general farming and stock-raising, and in 
 the latter capacity has Cotswold sheep, Hereford 
 cattle and horses. The farm is located three miles 
 west of Sheridan, and the improvements thereon 
 are of the most modern kind, both as to build- 
 ings and implements. For many years the owner 
 has derived a substantial income from the pur- 
 chase and sale of all kinds of stock, and is one 
 of the best judges and experienced men in the 
 business in Yamhill county. 
 
 A chief avenue of interest to Mr. Brown has 
 been the promoting of the educational oppor- 
 tunities of his district, and in this capacity he has 
 been a member of the school board for twenty 
 years. Like his father and brothers he is a Re- 
 publican. His family consists of his wife and 
 the following children : Wilbur N., Minnie, 
 Plenry H., Franklin Y., Dudley (deceased), Al- 
 thea, Bertha, Lloyd L., and Pearl. Lloyd L. and 
 Pearl were twins, but the latter died in infancy. 
 
 WILLIAM R. ELLIS. That popular and 
 successful merchant, William R. Ellis, has been 
 a resident of Oregon since his thirteenth year, 
 and in the meantime has assisted in the upbuild- 
 ing of more than one part of the state. From 
 ancestors represented among the trades and 
 tillers of the soil, Mr. Ellis inherits thrift and 
 industry, traits fostered in an orderly home at- 
 mosphere, where there were also seven other chil- 
 dren. His father, Henry Ellis, was born in Ohio, 
 and in his youth married Henrietta Rowell, the 
 latter at present a resident of Salem, and seventy- 
 five years of age. Henry Ellis was a tailor and 
 farmer by occupation, and whatever he acquired 
 of success in life was due to his untiring devo- 
 tion and ability to overcome the obstacles of his 
 youth. At the age of nine years he was appren- 
 ticed to a tailor, and, having completed his trade, 
 worked thereat for many years in Ohio and con- 
 tinuing in the same after taking up his residence 
 in Iowa. From the latter state he brought his 
 family to Oregon in 1865, settling at first near 
 McMinnville, Yamhill county, but finally locat- 
 
 
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 a farm near Perrydale. where Ins death 
 
 i, at tin- age of seventy-six years. 
 - .1 Democrat in political preference, 
 ternallv connected with the Masons. 
 Like most of the npbnilders of this stale. Wil- 
 llis gained his first impressions of life 
 rk on a farm, hi time he became of prac- 
 sistance to his father, and remained under 
 roof until his twenty-first year. For a 
 \ears he rented land in Polk county, 
 which he went down into California 
 n iged in manipulating a threshing ma- 
 it the same time profiting somewhat by the 
 a possibilities of that great state. At the ex- 
 n ,^i a year he returned to Oregon and 
 at Grand Ronde, where he ran a sawmill 
 tour years, and then engaged in the stock 
 - near the town for eight years. Thus 
 established in two lines of activity. Mr. 
 ranched out into the mercantile business, 
 ictivity for which he was especially 
 and in which he achieved marked success. 
 After twelve years of catering to a general mer- 
 cantile trade, he sold out his interests in May, 
 ml purchased the store of J. R. Menden- 
 hall. "i Sheridan, which business he is now build- 
 ing np and improving, and which is being con- 
 noted under the firm name of Ellis Brothers. 
 
 i politics a Republican, Mr. Ellis has taken 
 i keen interest in promoting the welfare of his 
 rtv, and has held many minor offices in the com- 
 nities in which he has lived. Like his father 
 well known among the Masons, and a 
 member of the Lodge at Sheridan. Through his 
 larriage. March 26, 1890, with Ella J. Elgin. 
 rhildren have been born into the Ellis fam- 
 ily, Henrietta T. and Mildred J. Though a com- 
 parativelv recent acquisition to the mercantile 
 ranks of Sheridan. Air. Ellis has already im- 
 his worth upon the community, and his 
 former extended success is bound to be dupli- 
 cated in his adopted town. 
 
 L( >RENZO ROOT. With the thrifty blood 
 of Xew England coursing through his veins and 
 the broad training of the middle west to incite 
 him to wider thought and action, there can be no 
 surprise expressed at the success achieved in the 
 life of I>orenzo Root. His parents and grand- 
 parents, both paternal and maternal, owe their 
 nativity to that part of the United States noted 
 for the habits of thrift and industry inculcated 
 in the lives of its sons and daughters. The Root 
 family came originally from England, and lo- 
 cating in Xew England, cast in their lot with this 
 struggling country, several of the name serving 
 in the Revolutionary war. John Root, the father 
 of Lorenzo, was born August 3, 1796, being 
 
 raised to the life of a farmer, and in young man- 
 hood went to ( )hio where he met a pioneer family 
 with whom he became united by the ties of 
 marriage, Sylvia Wilbur, daughter of Reed Wil- 
 bur, horn in Vermont, September 11, 1798, be- 
 coming the wife of John Root. Of this union 
 eight children were horn, three of whom arc 
 now living : Sidney, a farmer of West Chehalcm ; 
 Lucinda, of Dysart, Iowa; and Lorenzo, who 
 was horn in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 19, 
 1825. 
 
 John Root, in his desire to find a more suitable 
 home, left Ohio in 1837, locating in Iowa, and 
 later in Whiteside county. 111., remaining in the 
 latter place the rest of his life, and thus giving 
 the educational advantages of three states to 
 young Lorenzo. At twenty years of age he left 
 home, finding work among the farmers of the 
 neighborhood, and by economy and thrift he was 
 able to purchase a little land two years later, 
 upon which he farmed for himself. In 1850 he 
 married Miss Martha Bedder, who was born in 
 St. Lawrence county, N. Y., November 15, 1829, 
 the second oldest of thirteen children born to 
 Ven Ylack and Maria (Heaton) Bedder. The 
 father was born in Mohawk county, N. Y., in 
 April, 1800; and the mother was a native of 
 Yermont. After two years of quiet and profitable 
 farming, the young people decided to emigrate, 
 not to the land where gold was the inducement, 
 but where the land itself held out hopes of speedy 
 riches. With four yoke of oxen drawing a 
 wagon containing their worldly store, they set 
 out on the long journey, reaching Portland, Ore., 
 safely October 1, 1852. From Portland they 
 went to Astoria, where Mr. Root secured work in 
 a sawmill, and there remained for a year and a 
 half, spending the next four and a half years in 
 keeping a boarding house, in which business he 
 was very successful. But with his early train- 
 ing strong upon him, he wished to possess him- 
 self of some of the broad lands of Oregon, and 
 he now left the town, going to West Chehalem, 
 where he invested in four hundred acres of 
 land, remaining upon this property from 1858 
 to 1879. 
 
 In the last named year Mr. Root removed to 
 McMinnville, Yamhill county, and in 1882 again 
 tested his ability in the business world, entering 
 the list as a grocer, and meeting with the same 
 success that has rewarded his efforts in other 
 fields. After five years he retired from this busi- 
 ness on account of ill health, continuing since 
 in this retirement in a pleasant home, located on 
 First and C streets, of this city, where he takes 
 the part of an intelligent and interested citizen, 
 being the possessor of four dwellings, and consid- 
 erable other city property. He casts his ballot 
 with the Republican party, and finds in the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church his religious home. 
 
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 SYLVESTER POTTER. The present stand- 
 ing of Sheridan among the foremost and most 
 promising towns in Yamhill county is due as 
 much to the pioneer and later efforts of Sylvester 
 Potter, as to that of any other of its honored citi- 
 zens. Mr. Potter was born in Cortland county, 
 N. Y., April 3, 1836, a son of Erastus Potter, also 
 born in New York state, and grandson of Hardin 
 Potter, a native of Rhode Island, and of English 
 descent. 
 
 Erastus Potter lived in his native state until 
 1844, and then took his family to the vicinity of 
 Waukesha, Wis., where he took up government 
 land, and where he lived for three years. He 
 then removed to near Oshkosh, the same state, 
 and upon one hundred and sixty acres of very 
 wild land erected a little log cabin, and proceeded 
 to make a home and competence. He was one 
 of the very early pioneers of Wisconsin, and he 
 became one of the upbuilding factors in his neigh- 
 borhood, where he lived continuously until 1892. 
 He then made his home in Sheridan, Ore., for 
 three years, returning eventually to Oshkosh 
 county, Wis., where his death occurred at the 
 age of eighty-three. Through his marriage with 
 Martha Durkee, a native of Vermont, the fol- 
 lowing children were born : Sylvester ; Lester, 
 living at Gopher, Ore. ; Lavina, the wife of Henry 
 Dolton, who was killed in the war; and Jane, 
 the wife of Andrew Ripple, of Oshkosh. His 
 wife survives him and is at present ninety years 
 of age. 
 
 Although early inured to hard work on his 
 father's farm in Wisconsin, Sylvester Potter 
 realized the necessity of a good education, and 
 such leisure as came his way was utilized for the 
 acquiring of the same. Having gone as far as 
 the district schools permitted he attended the 
 academy at Oshkosh, and, having qualified for 
 educational work was thus engaged at the be- 
 ginning of his nineteenth year. In 1859 ne took 
 advantage of the Pike's Peak excitement and 
 journeyed thither with ox-teams, but not realiz- 
 ing his expectations, tarried but a short time and 
 then continued his jaunt across the plains to 
 Oregon, arriving in Portland October 1, 1859. 
 At once he became associated with the means of 
 livelihood which has started many a pioneer upon 
 the road to wealth and which has had more to do 
 in the upbuilding of the state than any other re- 
 source here represented. He began to saw logs 
 during the winter season, and then turned his at- 
 tention to hauling wood for the steamers, for this 
 purpose having his own teams. That the industry 
 was a paying one is evidenced by the fact that 
 Mr. Potter continued thereat for seven years, 
 and at the expiration of that time was able to 
 buy a farm in Gopher valley, where he and his 
 brother owned eleven hundred acres. For ten 
 years the brothers conducted extensive stock- 
 
 raising operations, and their combined energy 
 and business ability resulted in large financial 
 returns. 
 
 Following on his stock-raising experience 
 Mr. Potter engaged in the warehouse business 
 in Sheridan with which he is still connected, and 
 some years later he also became interested in a 
 mercantile business in the same town. In the 
 meantime he has been foremost in promoting all 
 worthy attempts at general improvement, and has 
 given liberally of his stock of good advice and 
 financial support to the charities and other in- 
 stitutions here represented. A stanch Republi- 
 can, and a devoted admirer of Abraham Lincoln, 
 Mr. Potter cast his first presidential vote for the 
 great emancipator, and has since taken a keen 
 interest in local and other undertakings of his 
 party. In his home district he has been mayor 
 of Sheridan for four years, has several times 
 served as a member of the city council, and for 
 many years has promoted the cause of education 
 as a member of the school board. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Congregational Church, which he has 
 attended regularly for many years, and to which 
 he contributes generously of his honestly gotten 
 means. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, and has 
 been financier of his lodge for many years. 
 
 Through his marriage, June 26, 1862, with 
 Mrs. Ailcy Southmayd, widow of D. S. South- 
 mayd, and daughter of Dr. William Caples, Mr. 
 Potter became identified with a prominent pio- 
 neer family of Oregon, and one intimately con- 
 nected with its fundamental growth. Dr. Caples 
 was born in Baltimore, Md., March 5, 1806, and 
 when six years of age was taken by his parents to 
 Tuscarawas county, Ohio. >His paternal grand- 
 father was a large slave owner in the early days, 
 but evidently a humane one, for at his death he 
 gave all under him their freedom, and provided 
 them with separate homes. Dr. Caples was 
 reared on the Ohio farm, and in his youth received 
 a common school education. He married Har- 
 riet Tracey, and seven children were born to 
 them, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 Nancy is the deceased wife of John Ward ; Mrs. 
 Potter is next ; Hiantha married Seldon Mur- 
 ray, now deceased ; Harriet is the deceased wife 
 of Jacob French ; La Fayette lives in St. John ; 
 and Susan is the wife of M. Roberts, of St. John. 
 Mrs. Caples dying in 1845, the doctor married 
 for a second wife Nancy Nowel, of which union 
 there were born eleven children, of whom men- 
 tion is made of Jane, the wife of Marion Dodge ; 
 Elizabeth, who lives in Vancouver, Wash. ; 
 Robert, who is a farmer of Marion county ; and 
 Ollie, who is the wife of Harry Hemlow, of Brit- 
 ish Columbia. 
 
 Dr. Caples was a merchant and farmer in Ohio, 
 and in 1838 moved to Savannah, Mo., where he 
 
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 583 
 
 .•in a long intended project of studying 
 ik. Under the instruction of a brother 
 remained in Savannah uiuil [849, 
 came west with his family. The outfit 
 sted of two wagons and ox-teams, and it 
 e intention to go to California in search of 
 However, the doctor changed his mind en 
 as did so many others who heard adverse 
 gold while on the plains. The doctor 
 tunateh succumbed to mountain fever, and 
 me his life was despaired of. Had it not 
 n for his plucky daughter the party might 
 •ne to grief. Miss Caples was a very 
 tractive woman, and one of the young men of 
 rtj became much enamored of her. He 
 I a rascal of deepest dye, for, knowing they 
 ..pendent upon him as guide and driver 
 the doctor was taken down with fever., he 
 lized bis advantage by attempting to make the 
 daughter promise to marry him when they should 
 ch Portland. For his answer he received the 
 iint of a heavy whip across his face, and thus 
 vinced of the futility of tiis effort left the 
 travelers to their own devices. The responsibil- 
 ■ proved not too great for the courageous 
 daughter, for she bravely set to the task of driv- 
 n over the mountains, a difficult task 
 n for a strong man in those days. From 
 'ortland the party went to Columbia City, and in 
 the spring of 1850 Dr. Caples began practicing 
 medicine in Portland. He was one of the best 
 sown of the early practitioners, and in his efforts 
 1) relieve the physical woes of his patients trav- 
 led many hundreds of miles on horseback, his 
 territory extending into the remote mountains, 
 d over vast areas of country. In 1854 he took 
 ip a donation claim where St. John's is now situ- 
 ed, and. moving his family there, continued his 
 hard and but slightly remunerative practice in 
 district. This popular and efficient pioneer 
 practitioner died in 1893, at the age of eighty- 
 n. leaving behind him a record of hundreds 
 of worthy deeds, and innumerable unrewarded 
 services. In early life he was a rabid Democrat, 
 but in after years became more tolerant in his 
 views, both as to religion and politics. In fact he 
 an active church worker, and his moral in- 
 fluence was unquestioned. Mrs. Potter inherits 
 many of the sterling characteristics of her well- 
 remembered father, as evidenced particularly in 
 her children, who were trained in household and 
 ther arts, and taught to be useful and moral men 
 and women. Marvin, the oldest of the sons, lives 
 in Sheridan : Walter died in 1894; Ida is the wife 
 Edward Church, of Astoria: and Ada is the 
 wife of Alfred Street, of San Francisco. 
 
 STEPHEN L. SCROGGIX. Though young 
 in years, Stephen L. Scroggin has attained no 
 small degree of success in the business affairs of 
 
 Sheridan, Yamhill county, Ore., as manager of 
 the Scroggin & Wormian hanking firm, which 
 has recently been changed to Scroggin Broth- 
 ers, Mr. Wortman having disposed of his inter- 
 ests to Charles C. Scroggin. Since his entrance 
 into the business world Stephen L. Scroggin has 
 devoted his time and attention to the upbuilding 
 of the interest with which he immediately became 
 attached, proving an exceptional ability and rare 
 judgment in his methods. 
 
 The father of Stephen L. Scroggin, P. M., was 
 born in Logan county, 111., in 1830, and was there 
 reared on a farm and educated in the common 
 schools. When a young man he removed to 
 Iowa, where he engaged in farming, there marry- 
 ing Sarah E. Howard, a native of that state, and 
 until 1870 they made their home there, leaving at 
 that date for ( )regon. ( )n arriving in the west 
 Mr. Scroggin settled near McMinnville, Yam- 
 hill county, and after five months he purchased a 
 farm of three hundred and twenty acres ad- 
 joining the town of Sheridan, where he passed 
 the remainder of his life, dying here April 18, 
 1894. As a Democrat he served for two terms as 
 county commissioner of Yamhill county. Frater- 
 nally he was a member of the Masonic order, 
 having affiliated with them for many years. His 
 wife survived him until 1895, dying then at the 
 age of sixty-four years. Of the nine children 
 born to them, seven are now living. Charles C. 
 lives near Willamina ; Mary died at the age of 
 fourteen years; Stephen L., the subject of this 
 review, makes his home in Sheridan ; Ella is the 
 wife of Clarence Jones, of Portland ; Alice is the 
 wife of G. A. Epperly, of Portland; Ida died at 
 the age of twenty years ; P. M., Jr., lives in Le- 
 banon, Ore. ; T. J. makes his home in Sheridan ; 
 and May is the wife of Clarence Irvin, of Port- 
 land. 
 
 Stephen L. Scroggin was born near Marshall- 
 town, Iowa, August 21, 1865, and was but five 
 years old at the time of the removal to Oregon 
 and seven when his home was near enough to 
 Sheridan to profit by the public schools of that 
 city. As he grew to manhood he engaged with 
 his father in farming, Until 1893, when he went 
 to McMinnville and worked in the First National 
 Bank of that city, the next year returning to 
 Sheridan to become a part of a banking firm 
 here, which was established in the spring of 1894, 
 under the firm name of Scroggin & Wortman, 
 and of which he became manager. The banking 
 interests are now controlled by Mr. Scroggin and 
 his brother, Charles C. Mr. Scroggin is also 
 interested in farming and stock-raising. He was 
 married January 29, 1902, to Lena M. Keyt, a 
 native of Polk county, Ore. Though interested 
 in the welfare of his city, state and country, Mr. 
 Scroggin is not a party man, nor does he as- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 pire to political honors, satisfied, to lead a suc- 
 cessful business life and cast his ballot independ- 
 ent of party restrictions. 
 
 HON. W. A. CUSICK, M. D., who has rep- 
 resented his district in the state legislature, and 
 has gained prestige in the practice of medicine 
 and surgery in Oregon, now makes his home in 
 Salem, while for half a century he has resided in 
 the state. His life history began in Illinois, his 
 birth having occurred near Ouincy, in that state, 
 March 21, 1839. His parents were Solomon and 
 Maria (Hollembeak) Cusick, the former of Irish 
 and the latter of German descent. Representa- 
 tives of the Cusick family came from the Em- 
 erald Isle to America during the colonial period, 
 settling in New York, and Dr. Cusick's grand- 
 father removed from the Empire state to eastern 
 Illinois, where his death occurred. His wife was 
 a Miss Conkling, of New York, a member of the 
 family which produced Roscoe Conkling, for 
 many years United States senator from New 
 York. 
 
 Solomon Cusick was born in New York, and 
 was a farmer by occupation. After engaging in 
 the tilling of the soil near Quincy, 111., he crossed 
 the plains with an ox train, being exactly six 
 months on the way. Soon after reaching Oregon 
 he purchased a farm in Linn county, near Scio, 
 and seven years later he sold it and purchased 
 land in Marion county, where he resided until 
 his retirement from business cares. In religious 
 faith he was a Baptist. His wife died on the old 
 homestead. She was born in Kentucky, a daugh- 
 ter of Harry and Hannah Hollembeak, who re- 
 moved from that state to Illinois, where he en- 
 gaged in farming. He served as a soldier in the 
 war of 1 81 2. Unto Solomon and Maria Cusick 
 were born four daughters and five sons. One of 
 these, Harry, enlisted in the Fiftieth Illinois In- 
 fantry, served throughout the Civil war, and 
 rose from the rank of lieutenant to that of cap- 
 tain. He died in Missouri. Seven of the chil- 
 dren came to Oregon, and three sons and a 
 daughter are yet living : J. W., a banker, of 
 Albany, Ore. ; W. A. ; J. H., a stockman, of 
 Washington, and Mrs. M. L. Trask, of Linn 
 county, Ore. Another brother, G. W., who died 
 in Washington county, Ore., was a graduate of 
 the medical department of the University of Ore- 
 gon. 
 
 Reared on the home farm in Illinois, during 
 that period Dr. Cusick spent the winter months 
 in the 'district schools, resuming farm work with 
 the return of spring. In 1853 he came with the 
 family to the northwest, he and his brothers driv- 
 ing the loose stock. They crossed the Missouri 
 river at St. Joseph, proceeding up the Platte and 
 over the Oregon trail. After reaching this state 
 
 he remained with his father for two years, and 
 then started out in life for himself. He attended 
 the district schools and worked upon the farms 
 of the locality; and in 1859, being desirous of ob- 
 taining a better education, he entered Dallas 
 Academy. In i860 he matriculated in Bethel 
 College, in Bethel, Polk county, Ore. Later he 
 engaged in teaching for eighteen months, after 
 which he spent a similar period in the mines of 
 Baker county, Ore. In 1864, having determined 
 to make the practice of medicine his life work, 
 he began studying under the direction of Dr. Mc- 
 Afee, of Salem, with whom he remained for two 
 years, and then entered the Toland Medical Col- 
 lege at San Francisco, the course in which he 
 completed in 1867. He then became a member 
 of the first class in the medical department of 
 Willamette University, being graduated in the 
 fall of 1867, with the degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine. There were but three members in the class 
 of that year, and the name of Dr. Cusick appears 
 first in the book of graduates in medicine in Ore- 
 gon. Soon after the completion of his studies, 
 he received an appointment as acting assistant 
 surgeon and post-surgeon at Camp Lyon. Idaho, 
 where he remained two years, after which he 
 located at Gervais, or Waconda, where he was 
 engaged continuously in the practice of his pro- 
 fession until 1882. In the latter year he located 
 in Salem, where he has since maintained an office, 
 enjoying a large and constantly increasing prac- 
 tice, which now makes heavy demands upon his 
 time. He has had other business interests, to 
 some extent. He was identified with the Capital 
 National Bank for about ten years, and was its 
 president for some time, but eventually disposed 
 of his interest in that institution. 
 
 Dr. Cusick was married in Marion county to 
 Miss Marcia L. Williams, a native of Illinois, 
 who, in 1864, came to Oregon with her father, 
 J. J. Williams, who followed farming. He and 
 his wife have a daughter, Ethel E., who is now 
 the wife of Dr. Willis B. Morse, a promising 
 physician of Salem. His father, W. B. Morse, 
 was born in Massachusetts, became a sea-faring 
 man, and when twenty-one years of age was mas- 
 ter of a vessel. In 1844 he made his first trip to 
 the Columbia river, and settled permanently on 
 the Pacific coast in 1849. His death occurred at 
 St. Helens. On the maternal side Dr. Morse is 
 a grandson of Dr. James McBride, who brought 
 his family across the plains to Oregon in 1840, 
 and became one of the most distinguished of the 
 early physicians of the state. Dr. Morse is a 
 graduate of the medical department of Willam- 
 ette University, class of 1891, and of the Post- 
 Graduate College of New York, class of 1893. 
 
 Dr. Cusick has long been recognized as an 
 earnest and active Republican. In 1884 he was 
 elected to the state legislature, in which he served 
 
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 587 
 
 sjular session of that year, and the 
 of 1885. During the regular ses- 
 ihe first attempt was made to enact a law 
 t; the practice of medicine in the state, 
 s several who were interested in the mcas- 
 called home about the time it was 
 kote, it did not become a law. Dr. 
 - instrumental in defeating certain 
 -.res which would have worked great detri- 
 ; 10 the state, and he labored earnestly and 
 for the general good of the common- 
 dth. For four years he served on the United 
 - Pension Hoard, for two years was visiting 
 .111 to the state asylum, and for four years 
 the attending physician to the state 
 He is a member of the Marion County 
 Society, and for several years he was a 
 r oi the board of directors of the public 
 Is :' Salem. For a time he served as presi- 
 t the board, and was acting in that capacity 
 when the East Salem school was erected. He 
 nade a Mason in Fidelity Lodge No. 54. 
 A. F. & A. M., at Gervais, with which he is still 
 identified, and he took the Royal Arch degree m 
 Salem. His wife is a member of the Order of 
 rn Star. 
 The contemporaries of Dr. Cusick freely ac- 
 cord him a place among the most distinguished 
 nents of the science of medicine in the Pa- 
 cific northwest. His splendid equipment for the 
 n and the long years of his active prac- 
 ce. with its attendant success, naturally entitle 
 o a position of eminence. He has not rested 
 it with the foundation of his early prepara- 
 m, but has been a constant student in his chosen 
 ^nce. and has kept fully abreast of the best 
 Jit in the world of medicine and surgery. 
 Among the laity he is recognized as a gentleman 
 ■ling character, possessed of many of those 
 al attributes which endear a man most 
 ely to thoughtful and discriminating judges 
 if human nature. His position in the community 
 nan. as well as a physician, is unassailable, 
 and from any viewpoint he is entitled to a per- 
 nent and prominent place in the historical lit- 
 erature of the Willamette vallev. 
 
 HON. THOMAS B. KAY. The most im- 
 
 rtant of the manufacturing institutions of 
 Salem, Ore., is the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, 
 
 hich stands as an industrial monument to 
 the business ability, zeal and energy which 
 laracterized the elder man of that name in 
 its organization and management, and the 
 younger man in the executive talent and abil- 
 ity which have placed him in the position so 
 long occupied by his father. 
 
 Thomas Kay. father of Hon. Thomas B. 
 Kay, was born in Shipley, near Leeds, York- 
 
 shire, England, in 1837. Having been kit 
 fatherless at the age of nine years, he was early 
 forced into the industrial life which charac- 
 terizes that country. Entering the woolen 
 
 mills in the vicinity of his home, he thor- 
 oughly learned the business. When nineteen 
 years of age he came to the United States, 
 locating in Trenton, N. J., where he became 
 boss weaver in a mill. In 1863 he came to 
 Oregon and occupied a similar position in 
 the Brownsville mill, remaining in that ca- 
 pacity until the loss of the mill by fire. He 
 then went to Salem for a short time, after 
 which he returned to Brownsville and worked 
 in the woolen mills until they were closed 
 down. He then took charge of the Ashland 
 Woolen Mills, conducting them successfully 
 for three years, when he returned again to 
 Salem for about eight months. He then 
 leased the Brownsville mills in connection 
 with Darbish & Croft, and after conducting 
 it for two years they organized a company 
 known as the Brownsville Woolen Mill Com- 
 pany and purchased the property and as superin- 
 tendent conducted the concern successfully for 
 sixteen years. 
 
 Disposing of his interest in that institu- 
 tion, he came to Salem in 1889 and founded 
 the mill which is known by his name, the 
 building then erected being about half the 
 size of the present property, containing four- 
 teen rooms. The business was incorporated 
 under the name of The Thomas Kay Woolen 
 Mills Company, and Mr. Kay was made pres- 
 ident and manager, serving in that capacity 
 until the mill was destroyed by fire in 1895. 
 Xothing daunted by what to many men would 
 have meant an irremediable misfortune, Mr. 
 Kay at once set about the reconstruction of 
 the plant. Within a year a modern brick 
 building had arisen to replace the old one. 
 It had an initial capacity of twenty looms, 
 this number being shortly increased to its 
 present capacity of thirty-two looms in con- 
 stant operation. The present output is being 
 constantly increased by the addition of new 
 machinery each year. The entire mill was 
 equipped with the most approved modern 
 machinery, and a sprinkler system was in- 
 stalled- as a means of protection against fire. 
 The motive power of the mill is water. A 
 new forty-eight-inch Left'el wheel was recently 
 placed within the works, which has increased 
 the capacity to the extent of about twenty- 
 five-horse power. The product includes cas- 
 simeres, tweeds, blankets, flannels and robes. 
 all the cloths manufactured being of the finest 
 quality, and a considerable percentage of the 
 output finding its way to the leading foreign 
 markets of the world. The concern is capi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 talized at $100,000. The present president 
 and manager is Thomas B. Kay, the vice- 
 president is Squire Farrar, and the secretary 
 and treasurer is Robert H. Coshow. The 
 board of directors consists of Thomas B. Kay, 
 Squire Farrar and T. L. Davidson of Salem ; 
 J. K. Weatherford of Albany, and O. P. Cos- 
 how of Roseburg. 
 
 Thomas Kay was also interested in what 
 was known as the the Waterloo Develop- 
 ment Company, of which he was president 
 and manager. In 1892 this company built a 
 woolen mill at Waterloo, Linn county, Ore., 
 which Mr. Kay operated until it was burned 
 in 1898. For four years previous to this time 
 it had been in the possession of the Thomas 
 Kay Woolen Mill Company. 
 
 The death of Mr. Kay, which occurred 
 April 28, 1899, while he was in his sixty-third 
 year, removed from the best citizenship of 
 Salem a staunch and public-spirited man, who 
 had always devoted his best efforts toward 
 the promotion of all worthy enterprises, 
 whether of a private or public nature. He 
 was a member of the Baptist Church of Sa- 
 lem, to the maintenance of which he contrib- 
 uted liberally. His beneficences were nu- 
 merous, but in the giving of money or aid of 
 any nature he was invariably unostentatious. 
 Many a needy man of Salem can look back to 
 the happy day when the kindly hand of this 
 noble man was freely extended to him with 
 the relief which was vital to the beneficiary, 
 in politics a Republican, he served in the city 
 council, in which body he employed his best 
 efforts toward the conservation of the high- 
 best interests of the municipality. In Ma- 
 sonry he was a member of the chapter and 
 the commandery. He also affiliated with the 
 Odd Fellows. 
 
 He was united in marriage in 1856 to Ann 
 Slingsby, a native of Shipley, England, who 
 survives him, making her home in Salem. Of 
 the ten children born unto this estimable 
 couple, five only are now living, namely: 
 Fannie, wife of Charles P. Bishop, of Salem ; 
 Thomas B., of this review; Libbie, wife of 
 O. P. Coshow, of Roseburg, Ore. ; Leonora, 
 wife of C. T. Roberts, of Portland ; and Ber- 
 tha, who resides with her mother. 
 
 Thomas B. Kay was born in Trenton, N. J., 
 February 28, 1864. During the first year of 
 his life he was brought to Oregon by his 
 mother, who, with the other children in the 
 family, joined his father in Brownsville. 
 They made the journey hither by way of the 
 Isthmus of Panama. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Brownsville, though the 
 years of his schooling were few. At the age 
 of nine years he entered the Brownsville 
 
 Woolen Mills as a spooler, literally grew up 
 in the business, and, like his father, learned 
 the art of weaving in all its intricacies. When 
 fourteen years of age he was taken from the 
 mills and sent to the Baptist College at Mc- 
 Minnville, where he remained for three years, 
 devoting his vacations to work in the mills. 
 When nineteen years old he entered the 
 Brownsville Woolen Mills store of Portland, 
 where he remained for one year. In 1884 he 
 went to McMinnville and engaged in the 
 clothing business as a member of the firm of 
 Bishop & Kay. Four years later Mr. Bishop 
 disposed of his interest, and the firm became 
 known as Kay & Todd. In 1898 Mr. Kay 
 sold his interest in the concern. In the mean- 
 time he had become connected with the 
 Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, for which he became 
 salesman in 1895, a short time before the 
 burning of the mill. In 1897, after it had 
 been rebuilt, he went to New York as the 
 eastern representative of the company, where 
 he remained for one season. L T pon his return 
 to the west he located in Salem and became 
 salesman and assistant manager of the mill. 
 Upon the death of his father two years later 
 he assumed his present important place as 
 manager of the concern. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Kay occurred in Mc- 
 Minnville January 15, 1888, 'and united him 
 with Cora AVallace, who was born near the 
 latter city, a daughter of C. A. Wallace, an 
 extended reference to whose identification 
 with Oregon appears elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume. They are the parents of three children, 
 Ercel W. and Marjory and an infant who died 
 at the age of three months. 
 
 While a resident of McMinnville Mr. Kay 
 served as a member of the city council for 
 one term and as a member of the school board 
 for a similar period. He is a stanch adher- 
 ent of the principles of the Republican party. 
 In 1902 he was the nominee of that party for 
 representative in the Twenty-second biennial 
 session of the Oregon state legislature, and 
 was elected by a large majority. In the per- 
 formance of the labors devolving upon him 
 in connection with this office, he upheld the 
 prime interests of his constituents, and dem- 
 onstrated his fitness for such a post, where 
 integrity means so much to the welfare of 
 the state and the community. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church, in which he of- 
 ficiates as deacon. In his fraternal relations 
 he is a member of Pacific Lodge No. 50, A. F. 
 & A. M., of Salem; Chapter, R. A. M., of 
 Salem, and of DeMolay Commandery K. T., 
 of Salem. He is also a member of the Illihee 
 Club, of which he is one of the board of man- 
 agers, and of the Salem Commercial Club. 
 
PORTRAIT AM) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 5N9 
 
 Ik- is likewise identified with the Portland 
 . s Association, and is now on its 
 rate, 
 ough Mr. Kay is a comparatively young 
 i conspicuous success which has at- 
 his business career has caused him to 
 ; by the discriminating citizens of 
 »ne of the most capable factors in 
 the "commercial world of the northwest. His 
 client business judgment undoubtedly has 
 l o inherited to a degree from his father, 
 Ji it has been developed in a great meas- 
 son of his varied experience in the 
 liberal atmosphere of the west and among the 
 more conservative influences of the east. He 
 - taken a deep interest in the welfare of the 
 cities in which he has spent most of his 
 both important commercial centers of 
 the Willamette valley, and has shown him- 
 to be a firm friend of such public move- 
 ments or private enterprises as are calculated 
 promote the prosperity of the community 
 or to elevate its moral or social status. It 
 A-ith pleasure that the compilers of this 
 work give a prominent place in the annals of 
 humanity's best endeavor in the Willamette 
 valley to this sapient son of an honored sire, 
 the name of Kay will always stand as the 
 builder of one of the greatest monuments to 
 industrv in the northwest. 
 
 HON. JACOB WORTMAN. As chief ex- 
 ecutive of McMinnville, founder and president 
 of the First National Bank of this city, and a 
 
 neer of 1852, Hon. Jacob Wortman is one of 
 the most virile and resourceful personalities who 
 have contributed to the upbuilding of this sec- 
 
 . of Yamhill county. As the name implies, 
 the- Wortman forefathers pursued their vocations 
 among the more conservative and history re- 
 
 ndent conditions of the Fatherland, and in 
 < icrmany was born the paternal grandfather. 
 Jacob, the establisher of the family in Xew 
 Brunswick. From Xew Brunswick the elder 
 Jacob removed to Ohio, and was numbered among 
 the very early pioneers of the then wild and 
 uninhabited region of Harrison county, which 
 he reached with his family in 1828. There he 
 farmed and raised stock, clearing his land from 
 almost primeval uselessness, and rearing in com- 
 parative comfort his several children. 
 
 John Wortman, the father of Hon. Jacob, was 
 born in St. Johns. Xew Brunswick, and event- 
 ually succeeded to independent farming in Ohio. 
 In 1838 he removed to Iowa, via the Ohio and 
 Mississippi rivers, conveying his familv and pos- 
 
 jions in wagons and locating about a hundred 
 miles west of Keokuk, in Van Buren county, of 
 which he was one of the very first settlers. 
 
 With his neighbors remote, and surrounded with 
 deprivations incident to all pioneer life, he made 
 many improvements upon his wild land, but lived 
 only live years to profit by his new acquisitions, 
 his death occurring in [843. The wife, who died 
 in Iowa in 1838, just after their arrival in that 
 state, was a native of England, and before her 
 marriage was Martha Cain. Of the five chil- 
 dren born to her, the subject of this sketch is 
 the only one living. Another son, Charles, died 
 on his farm in Ohio. Through a second mar- 
 riage of the father were born three sons, of 
 whom Martin, a twin brother of John, is still 
 living in Ohio. All three sons served in Ohio 
 regiments during the Civil war. Henry died in 
 Ohio in 1895, from wounds received at the bat- 
 tle of Antietam ; and John still lives in Law r rence 
 county, Mo. 
 
 Born near Cadiz, Harrison county. Ohio, 
 March 19, 1826, Hon. Jacob Wortman received 
 his principal training after the family removal 
 to Iowa in 1838. In this wild Indian country 
 he attended the pioneer school as opportunity 
 offered, and after his father's death found him- 
 self entirely dependent on his own efforts. As a 
 farm hand he received $8 a month, or Si 00 a 
 year, yet with this small allowance he managed 
 to save sufficient money to enable him to embark 
 in housekeeping in 1850, his marriage occurring 
 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and uniting him with Eliza 
 Ann Stumbo. In the spring of 1852, with his 
 wife and infant son, John, he started out to con- 
 quer fate in the west, outfitting at Oskaloosa 
 with ox teams and wagons. April 20, 1852. they 
 crossed the Missouri river at Council Bluffs, 
 where they had trouble with the Indians. As a 
 matter of safety they formed themselves into a 
 military company, Henry Evans being elected 
 to the responsible position of captain. Thus 
 equipped the company of fort}" wagons pushed 
 on over the old Oregon trail via Fort Hall. Much 
 danger was warded off owing to the constant 
 guard maintained throughout the night, but the 
 ravages of cholera desolated the little band, and 
 many newly-made graves along the trail filled 
 with grief those left to pursue their weary jour- 
 ney alone. Arriving at The Dalles the last of Sep- 
 tember, Mr. Wortman went in a flatboat down 
 the river to the Cascades, and then arrived at 
 Portland. In what is now one of the finest cities 
 in the country, were illy defined streets filled 
 with trees and stumps, and with very few evi- 
 dences of present or future prosperity. During 
 the first winter Mr. Wortman found employment 
 in a livery stable at very fair wag-es, a most 
 fortunate occurrence, for the expensive trip over 
 the plains had made serious inroads in the family 
 assets. In the spring of 1853 he took up a do- 
 nation claim seven miles above Oregon Citv in 
 what is now Clackanias county, and on the west 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 banks of the Willamette, a place still known as 
 Wortman's Landing. He improved his three 
 hundred and twenty acres of land, and in the 
 meantime started out the first fall in the steam- 
 boating business on the Willamette, first as deck- 
 hand and then as foreman, and finally as master 
 of the Franklin. At a later period he became 
 one of the owners of the Clinton, running be- 
 tween Oregon City and Dayton, yet all the time 
 his home continued to be on the claim, where 
 his leisure from steamboating was actively em- 
 ployed. In that early day the boats were run 
 only during the winter season, for their crude 
 and heavy construction rendered them unavail- 
 able for the more shallow waters in the summer. 
 Thus it happened that the pleasantest part of 
 the year found the crew busily employed in 
 hewing timber on the donation claim, and two 
 occupations were harmoniously and profitably 
 blended. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Wormian sold his farm and boat 
 interests and bought a small grocery and mer- 
 chandise store in Oregon City, conducting the 
 same successfully for ten years. This interest 
 also was disposed of in 1875, and during that 
 year Mr. Wortman, his wife and four sons es- 
 tablished a partnership in a general merchandise 
 business at Junction City, Lane county. The 
 same year they started a similar business at 
 Monroe, Benton county, conducting the two 
 stores, ten miles apart, under the firm name of 
 Jacob Wortman & Sons. With years of practical 
 experience behind him, and an intuitive knowl- 
 edge of the demands of all growing localities, 
 he came to McMinnville in 1883, and established 
 the Bank of McMinnville, incorporated in 1885 
 as the First National Bank, the first bank in 
 Yamhill county. Ever since Mr. Wortman has 
 been the honored president of this financially 
 strong and reliable institution, which has proved 
 one of the greatest upbuilding factors in this 
 county. All of his sons are interested in the 
 bank, and this aggregation of business ability 
 and integrity has resulted in really formidable 
 influence. In the meantime he has accumulated 
 large bank, real estate and country holdings, 
 and was one of the chief stockholders in the 
 Union Block, one of the first, substantial build- 
 ings erected in McMinnville. 
 
 Ever since its organization Mr. Wortman has 
 identified his political fortunes with the Repub- 
 lican party, and during the Civil war his sym- 
 pathies were pronouncedly on the side of 
 northern tolerance and humanity. Though never 
 working for or desiring official recognition, his 
 particular fitness for organization and municipal 
 management resulted in the election of Mr. 
 Wortman to the position of mayor of McMinn- 
 ville, filling his first term in that office in 1887- 
 88, and in November, 1901, he was again elected, 
 
 creditably maintaining the position up to the 
 present time, for five terms. He cast his first 
 presidential vote for Zachary Taylor in 1848. 
 A welcome member to the ranks of Masonry, he 
 inaugurated his active service in this organiza- 
 tion in 1856, as a member of Multnomah Lodge 
 No. 1. While at Junction City he was identified 
 with the lodge of that town and its treasurer, 
 and is now a member of McMinnville Lodge No. 
 42, of which he has been treasurer for nineteen 
 years. Also he was a member of the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1900 Mr. and 
 Mrs. Wortman celebrated the golden anniver- 
 sary of their wedding, and from near and far 
 friends assembled to bid them God-speed upon 
 the remainder of their life journey. No higher 
 tribute to admirable personal characteristics, 
 noble citizenship, or popular and helpful social 
 attributes were required than the all-around good 
 will evidenced on this memorable occasion. 
 
 Of the four sons born into this family of typi- 
 cal western enterprise, John is cashier of the 
 First National Bank ; Frank died in 1883, having 
 qualified as a physician and surgeon at the Jef- 
 ferson Medical College (Philadelphia), later en- 
 gaging in post-graduate work for one year in 
 London and one in Vienna ; Jacob L. is a gradu- 
 ate of the University of Oregon, is a well known 
 scientist, and fills the chair of Paleontology at 
 Yale University, and H. C. is secretary and 
 treasurer of the firm of Olds, Wortman & King, 
 of Portland, Ore. The success of their sons has 
 invested the life of these honored pioneers with 
 a great deal of satisfaction and joy, and reflects 
 vast credit upon the splendid home training in 
 the early days, which inspired the best possible 
 in their respective undertakings, and laid the 
 foundation for strong and capable manhood. In 
 1893 Mr. and Mrs. Wortman made their first 
 trip back to the old home in the east, and also 
 visited the World's Fair, their journey being 
 of a vastly different order because of latter day 
 enterprise and accomplishment. Serenely they 
 gazed at the splendidly developed farms and 
 prosperous cities from the windows of a Pullman 
 palace car, and it is surmised that many con- 
 trasts were drawn, and many references made 
 to the ox trains of the very long ago. In 1895 
 also another trip was undertaken back to the old 
 haunts so familiar in his experience of forty- 
 five years before. Mr. Wortman represents the 
 integrity and substantial growth of the west, and 
 his is a kind of citizenship as ennobling as it is 
 inspiring and helpful. 
 
 E. E. GOUCHER, M. D., is the pioneer physi- 
 cian" and surgeon of McMinnville, having located 
 here in 1883. No professional name in Yamhill 
 county carries with it greater weight, or suggests 
 
 
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 more conscientious application oi the highest ten- 
 
 <i medical and surgical science. A son of the 
 countr) bordering on the western sea. Dr. Gou- 
 cher was born near Healdsburg, Sonoma county, 
 Cal., March 12, 1858, and from a vcr\ successful 
 physician sire received his first inspiration to- 
 wards his life calling. 
 
 Of fine OKI Dominion stock, G. \Y., the father 
 loucher, was horn in Virginia, and 
 practiced medicine for many years in the south. 
 Reports of golden fortunes on the coast led him 
 to temporarily abandon his profession in 1849 
 in favor oi prospecting and mining in California, 
 to which state he journeyed via Panama, and 
 where he experienced the success of the average 
 rather than the exceptional miner. Fortified with 
 a calling for which there is invariable demand, he 
 lived at times in Alameda, Santa Clara, and 
 Sonoma comities, and in 1864 identified his for- 
 tunes with Yamhill county, ( )re., where he com- 
 bined practice and ministerial labors in the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church south for some years. 
 Eventually he located in Amity, where a success- 
 ful practice was interrupted by his death in 1893. 
 He was a stanch member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church south, as was also his wife, Delilah 
 Ann ( Morrison) Goucher, who was born in In- 
 diana, and came to California with her brothers 
 at an early day. Of the five children born to these 
 parents but two are living, the pioneer physician 
 of McMinnville being the second oldest child in 
 the family, and Mrs. Norah Springer. 
 
 At a very early age Dr. Goucher became in- 
 terested in his father's profession, and from this 
 reliable source received his first practical instruc- 
 tion. Primarily his education was received in 
 the public schools of California and Yamhill 
 county, and he eventually entered Willamette 
 University, from which he was duly graduated 
 from the medical department in 1882. After a 
 year's practice in Yamhill county he located in 
 McMinnville, as heretofore stated, and aside from 
 a general practice of medicine has identified him- 
 self with horticulture, owning one of the very 
 fine and productive fruit farms of the county. 
 Since its establishment he has been a member of 
 the pension board of Yamhill county. Frater- 
 nally the doctor is associated with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past 
 noble grand ; the Encampment of McMinnville ; 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of 
 Salem ; and the Odd Fellows lodge of McMinn- 
 ville. The family of Dr. Goucher consists of his 
 wife, Hattie M. (Sherman) Goucher, a native of 
 Minnesota, and two children, Rua and Norma. 
 
 REV. ROBERT ROBE. To the mission- 
 ary of the early days Oregon owes a debt of 
 gratitude which can never be repaid. Diamet- 
 rically opposed to the hundreds who staked all 
 
 on the possibility of acquiring a fortune, his 
 object in life has been the saving of souls and 
 the building up of moral character in the rising 
 generations. Like a benediction, his face and 
 voice have recalled the miner, the tiller of the 
 soil and the merchant to the teachings of his 
 youth, and caused him to pause in the midst 
 of his mad struggle for the smile of mammon. 
 Thus a few honored names are associated with 
 peace and tranquility, rather than the strife of 
 pioneer days, and among these that of Rev. 
 Robert Robe is one of the best known and 
 most worthy. 
 
 That Mr. Robe should associate his minis- 
 terial labors with the Presbyterian Church was 
 a foregone conclusion, for on both sides of his 
 family there were stanch adherents to the ec- 
 clesiastical rule of presbyters. His grand- 
 father, William, was a strict churchman of 
 Scotch ancestry, and became a very early set- 
 tler at Morgantown, Ya. His father, Josiah, 
 was born in Virginia, and established his fam- 
 ily in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1809. He be- 
 came a large land owner, and took an active 
 part in the church, was an elder therein, and 
 reared his children to follow his worthy ex- 
 ample. At the time of his death, on his farm 
 in 1845, he was seventy-five years old, and left 
 behind him a record as a business man and up- 
 right, influential citizen. In his youth he mar- 
 ried Jane Frame, who was born in Pennsylva- 
 nia and died in Ohio, and who was a daughter 
 of David Frame, one of the early settlers of 
 Ohio. Mr. Frame was an elder in the Presby- 
 terian Church. Robert was the youngest of 
 the three sons and five daughters born to his 
 parents, and he was educated primarily in the 
 public. schools. In 1845, shortly after the death 
 of his father, he entered Muskingum College at 
 Xew Concord. He had previously received 
 some training at a college in Antrim, Ohio, 
 and in 1846 entered Washington College, at 
 Washington, Pa., from which he was duly 
 graduated in 1847. Returning to his home he 
 commenced studying for the ministry, and, in 
 the fall of 1848, entered the Western Theolog- 
 ical Seminary at Pittsburg, the following two 
 years being devoted to ministerial labors in the 
 state of Ohio. 
 
 As a missionary Mr. Robe came to Oregon 
 in 1851, crossing the plains in an ox-train, and 
 being on the road from the first of April until 
 the latter part of August. For three months he 
 taught a pioneer school in the wilderness, and 
 then, finding that Lane county had no spiritual 
 advisor, he removed to Eugene, making that 
 his headquarters for the whole county. He 
 organized the first Presbyterian Church in Eu- 
 gene, and was one of three to organize the 
 Presbytery of the Willamette in 1851. This 
 
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 was the first presbytery north of California 
 and west of the Rocky Mountains, and its im- 
 portance in the history of the church in the 
 state cannot be over-estimated. Rev. Robe 
 assisted in the organization of the first synod 
 in San Francisco, out of which grew the pres- 
 bytery in the north. He has been a member 
 ever since. During his ten years of residence 
 in Lane county Mr. Robe accomplished a 
 world of good, stimulating right living and 
 gentle judging, and in a strong, forceful man- 
 ner promoting the cause of education. For 
 some time he was county superintendent of 
 schools, and assisted in laying out the school 
 districts of that county. 
 
 After his recall to Brownsville Mr. Robe had 
 charge of the Brownsville Church until he was 
 superannuated in 1895. He has since lived a 
 practically retired life, although his interest in 
 moral and educational promotion continues 
 unabated. Since coming to Brownsville he has 
 organized the church at Crawfordsville, and 
 his voice has been heard in exhortation in 
 many pulpits throughout the county. He is a 
 stanch Prohibitionist, and his own life best 
 illustrates his uncompromising belief in tem- 
 perate living. At present he is a resident of 
 Brownsville, but during certain portions of his 
 life he has lived on a farm, and engaged in 
 stock and grain-raising. At times his remu- 
 neration for services rendered has been small, 
 and would have seemed entirely inadequate to 
 one less devoted to the cause of humanity. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war, especially, his salary was cut 
 very low, and the prevailing high prices aug- 
 mented the financial discomfort of this worker 
 for the betterment of the world. His cour- 
 ageous spirit has been the wonder of all who 
 have labored with him, and his life of self- 
 sacrifice undoubtedly has inspired many a 
 weary toiler in other fields. 
 
 July 18, 1854, Mr. Robe was united in mar- 
 riage with Eliza A. Walker, who was born in 
 Murray county, Ga., February 4, 1835, a daugh- 
 ter of William Walker, a carpenter by trade. 
 Mr. Walker removed to Tennessee in 1841, 
 and, in 1843, located on a farm in Missouri, his 
 emigration to Oregon taking place by way of 
 the plains, in 1853. After locating in Eugene 
 he worked at his trade for many years, his 
 death occurring in Springfield, Ore., at the age 
 of eighty years. Eleven children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Robe, the order of their 
 birth being as follows: William W., residing 
 in Brownsville ; Maria J., the wife of Mr. Mar- 
 sters, of this place ; Mary Bell ; Emma Annella, 
 Ida Augusta and Robert, deceased ; Herman 
 L. ; Charles, deceased ; Stella, who died in in- 
 fancy, and Elbert S., a bookkeeper in the mill 
 at Albany. 
 
 JAMES H. OLDS. October 18, 1902, there 
 was celebrated in Lafayette the golden wedding 
 of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Olds, who are among 
 the most honored and well known of the pioneers 
 of '52. An element of more than usual romance 
 is connected with this couple, whose association 
 has been characterized by that fine sympathy and 
 helpfulness engendered by necessary concessions 
 and companionship in the very hard days of pio- 
 neer Oregon. As cousins Mr. and Mrs. Olds 
 were married while crossing the plains near Fort 
 Boise, Idaho, the ceremony being performed by 
 Rev. Mr. Reasoner, a Methodist Episcopal 
 clergyman, the principal witnesses being Wilson 
 Cook and Mrs. N. A. Jacobs. At the golden 
 wedding were present ninety relatives, a showing 
 rarely found on occasions of this kind. The many 
 beautiful gifts, the enthusiastic good wishes of 
 many friends, and the general air of rejoicing, 
 but slightly indicated the esteem in which are 
 held these high minded and very prosperous 
 early settlers. 
 
 The career of Mr. Olds should furnish en- 
 couragement to all desirous of rearing a structure 
 solely upon their own merit. He was born near 
 Sandusky, Seneca county, Ohio, May 29, 1830, 
 and on both sides of his family cherishes a just 
 pride of ancestry. His father, Martin, was born 
 in Boston, Mass., in 1799, and lived until 1877; 
 while his paternal grandfather, Timothy, was 
 born and partially reared in England, and came 
 to the colonies in America when a youth. At 
 the age of nineteen the grandfather enlisted in 
 the Revolutionary war as a private, and after 
 participating in many of the best known battles 
 was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. 
 After the war he was ordained a Baptist minis- 
 ter, and during his ministry took part in the 
 stirring events which have made his time mem- 
 orable for its hideous religious intolerance. In 
 accordance with the Massachusetts decree : 
 " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," he was 
 present at the hanging of a number of supposed 
 witches, but just what attitude he assumed in 
 regard to this travesty of justice is not clearly 
 defined. From Massachusetts he removed to 
 New York state, and later to Seneca county, 
 Ohio, where he died. 
 
 Martin Olds followed farming during his 
 entire active life, and wherever he lived took an 
 active interest in politics. In his youth he had 
 limited educational chances, but he learned much 
 from observation and life-long investigation and 
 was always accounted a well informed and pro- 
 gressive man. He was one of the very early 
 settlers of Branch county, Mich., where he at- 
 tained to great prominence, not only serving as 
 the first county judge, but being elected to the 
 state legislature of 1843-44. Mr. Olds crossed the 
 
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 [851, and located on a donation claim of 
 hundred and twent) acres at the head of the 
 Chehaleni waters, where lie lived until [860. He 
 k up a claim three miles west of Middle- 
 in Washington county, where his last days 
 n -pent. As in Michigan, his special fitness 
 tor office was soon recognized, and after tilling 
 offices with extreme credit he was made 
 ntv judge of Yamhill county. From 1854 
 - he was a member of the constitutional 
 invention of ( >regon, and he was postmaster 
 t Lafayette for many years. In his youth he 
 •ried Temperance Parker, whose grandfather, 
 1 Parker, was a Free Will Baptist preacher, 
 1 who settled on a farm in New York state 
 r where his granddaughter was born in 1809. 
 5he died in North Yamhill, Yamhill county, in 
 ( )f the children born of this union we make 
 the following mention: Green is a farmer in 
 Idendale, Ore.; George died in Washington 
 mtv in i8<>2; Martin is in Michigan; James 
 II. is next in order; Xancy H. Jacobs lives in 
 McMinnville: and Mrs. Sarah Cook also lives 
 in McMinnville. 
 
 antes H. Olds engaged in independent farm- 
 ing in Washington county in 1853, but after- 
 ward disposed of this property to his father, and 
 settled on the old homestead on the Chehalem. 
 In 1868 he removed to Lafayette to educate his 
 ldren, and in 1872 engaged in the warehouse 
 business in St. Joseph. He also became inter- 
 ed in managing a hotel, and for seven years 
 experienced considerable success in this venture. 
 [880 Mr. Olds built his present residence in 
 Lafayette, and has since made this his headquar- 
 The year 1882 found him in the hotel 
 business, from which he retired October 1, 1902. 
 Mr. ( )lds lived in Clackamas county between 
 - 5. Like his father, he has been active in 
 promoting the interests of the Republican party, 
 and has almost continuously served as a mem- 
 bcr of the school board, a part of the time as 
 clerk. From 1866 until 1870 he served as 
 deputy sheriff, and was justice of the peace for 
 fourteen years, and bailiff of the circuit court for 
 twelve years. As road supervisor he has ma- 
 terially impressed upon the community the ne- 
 »ity for good thoroughfares. 
 In 1852 Mr. Olds married Nancy A. Parker, 
 om which union there were born three sons 
 and three daughters, the order of their birth be- 
 follows : Mrs. Elberta E. Gates, deceased ; 
 • V., a resident of Lafayette ; E. M., also liv- 
 ing in Lafayette: Mrs. Delia Klosterman, of the 
 vicinity of Lafayette ; Mrs. Kate Ferguson, of 
 Lafayette, and P. P., who also resides here. Mr. 
 ( )lds possesses personal characteristics in keeping 
 with the opportunities of this great common- 
 wealth, and has left his sterling worth impressed 
 upon many departments of its activity. Tn re- 
 
 ligion he is a Materialist, but never antagonizes 
 
 his neighbor with his belief. A man of limited 
 
 education, he is nevertheless exceptionally well 
 read. 
 
 JOHN NEWELL, who is engaged in the liv- 
 ery business in McMinnville, has been a resident 
 of Oregon for a quarter of a century. He was 
 born September 12, 1847, m Meigs county, Ohio, 
 a son of Alonzo and Fannie (Dyke) Newell. 
 The grandfather, John Newell, was a native of 
 Massachusetts and a representative of an old 
 New England family, whose loyal sons served in 
 the Revolutionary war. He settled in Meigs 
 county, Ohio, at a very early day, and there 
 Alonzo Newell was born and reared, becoming 
 a farmer by occupation. Removing to Wayne 
 county, 111., he there engaged in milling, and in 
 1876 he came to Oregon, carrying on business 
 as a farmer and stock-raiser in Yamhill county 
 until his death, which occurred in 1892, when he 
 was sixty-five years of age. His wife, a native 
 of Ohio, was a daughter of John Dyke, also born 
 in that state. She died in Oregon. Her four 
 children reached years of maturity and three 
 came to Oregon. John ; Mrs. Denica Felner, now 
 of California ; and Samuel, of Polk county, this 
 state. 
 
 When ten years of age John Newell became 
 a resident of Illinois, where be pursued his educa- 
 tion in the district schools, and on attaining his 
 majority he began farming and stock-raising in 
 Wayne county. In 1876, however, he sold his in- 
 terests there and with the family came to Oregon, 
 devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits in 
 Marion county until 1878, when he came to Yam- 
 hill county, purchasing a farm near Sheridan. 
 The purchase comprised two hundred and forty 
 acres of wild land, from which some of the tim- 
 ber had been cut, but the stumps still remained. 
 This he improved and in addition to the cultiva- 
 tion of the fields he raised stock there until June, 
 1896, when he sold that property and came to 
 McMinnville, where in connection with Mr. De 
 Haven he purchased the livery business of Mr. 
 Yocum, and under the firm name of DeHaven 
 & Newell the barn was conducted for two years. 
 The senior partner then sold his interest to James 
 Henry and the firm of Henry & Newell was or- 
 ganized. They have a large livery, feed and sale 
 stable, 100 x 100 feet, containing all kinds of car- 
 riages and vehicles, and in addition to the rental 
 of these they buy and sell horses, shipping them 
 to the Sound country. They keep very fine horses 
 and have the largest livery business in the county. 
 
 Tn Wayne county, 111., Mr. Newell was mar- 
 ried to Miss Elizabeth Ake, a native of that 
 county, and they have five children : Frank, 
 Grace, William, Add and Fannie, all of McMinn- 
 
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 ville. Mr. Newell belongs to the Knights of 
 Pythias fraternity and is a Republican in poli- 
 tics. He has served as a member of the city 
 board of aldermen and was a member of the new 
 charter committee. In matters of citizenship he 
 is liberal and progressive, and in business affairs 
 has met with gratifying success. 
 
 SMITH STEPHENS. The owner of one of 
 the attractive homes and fine farms of Yamhill 
 county is Smith Stephens, who, throughout his 
 entire life, has devoted his energies to agricul- 
 tural pursuits, with the result that excellent suc- 
 cess has attended his efforts. He was born No- 
 vember 15, 1851, in Appanoose county, Iowa, a 
 son of Aaron Stephens, whose birth occurred in 
 Pennsylvania in 1828. During his boyhood the 
 father accompanied his parents to Virginia, and 
 at an early date in the history of Iowa they be- 
 came residents of the latter state, arriving there 
 about 1850. Aaron Stephens afterward married 
 Miss Mary McGarvey, a native of Virginia, and 
 they resided in Iowa until 1862, when they, too, 
 joined the emigrants who were in those years 
 continually crossing the plains in order to reclaim 
 the wild district of the far west for the purposes 
 of civilization. In addition to the difficulties in- 
 cident to a long journey across the stretches of 
 hot sand and over the mountains, almost impas- 
 sable, they had trouble with the Indians, and were 
 continually on their guard for fear of being mo- 
 lested by the savages. When six months had 
 passed, however, they arrived at Portland, and 
 Mr. and Mrs. Stephens came on at once to the 
 Willamette valley, settling upon a tract of land 
 adjoining Hopewell. Mr. Stephens purchased 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land, and upon 
 the place made all of the improvements, including 
 the erection of substantial buildings and the 
 transformation of the wild land into productive 
 fields. Both he and his wife continued to live 
 upon that farm until called to the home beyond, 
 he passing away at the age of seventy years, 
 while his wife lived to be sixty-nine years of age. 
 They were life-long members of the Baptist 
 Church, and their upright characters won for 
 them the warm regard of those with whom they 
 came in contact. They became the parents of 
 five children : Malissa, the wife of Enoch Cooper, 
 who resides upon a part of the old home place ; 
 Smith, of this review; Frank S., a resident of 
 Hopewell; Leila, the wife of Isaac Lynch, of 
 Hopewell, and one that died at the age of two 
 years. 
 
 Smith Stephens spent the first ten years of his 
 life in the state of his nativity, and then accom- 
 panied his parents on their removal to Oregon, 
 remaining upon the old homestead farm until the 
 time of his marriage. During the period of his 
 
 boyhood he had obtained a good education in the 
 district schools and in the Salem Academy. He 
 wedded Miss Emily Allison, a native of Canada, 
 and they took up their abode upon a part of the 
 old homestead, living there for about ten years, 
 when Mr. Stephens purchased what is known as 
 the Richardson donation claim. Upon the tract 
 which thus came into his possession he made all 
 of the improvements, and he now has splendid 
 modern buildings and a fine farm. At the present 
 time he is in possession of eight hundred acres 
 of land, and he carries on general farming and 
 stock-raising, both branches of his business prov- 
 ing profitable. During the year 1892 he raised 
 fourteen thousand pounds of hops — a crop which 
 has become an important one in the northwest, 
 and brings a good financial return. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Stephens were born five 
 children, but they lost their first child, Myrtle. 
 The others, Mabel, Charles, Howard and Ina. 
 are all at home. Mr. Stephens belongs to the 
 United Brethren Church, of which he is serving 
 as a director. As every true American citizen 
 should do, he keeps well informed on the political 
 questions and issues of the day, and his support 
 is given to the Republican party. He is now 
 serving as school clerk, and has been road super- 
 visor, and for many years has been judge of elec- 
 tions. His success is well merited, because it has 
 come to him through legitimate channels of busi- 
 ness. He realized that there is no royal road to 
 wealth, and that the surest foundation upon 
 which to build prosperity is industry and integ- 
 rity. Upon this, therefore, he has placed his de- 
 pendence, and as the years have passed his care- 
 ful management and energy have been the means 
 of winning for him a leading position among the 
 substantial citizens of his community. 
 
 RICHARD W. PHILLIPS. Among the pio- 
 neer settlers of Yamhill county Richard W. Phil- 
 lips occupies an altogether unique place, his char- 
 acter, his farm and his career being as familiar 
 to the old-time residents as are his genial face 
 and kindly manner. Mr. Phillips was born in 
 Limestone county, Ala., January 1, 1832, and as 
 far back as is known his forefathers were farm- 
 ers and large land owners in the south. His pa- 
 ternal grandfather, William E. Phillips, followed 
 the martial forces of Washington during the 
 Revolutionary war, gaining distinction because 
 of his courageous and meritorious services. 
 
 The parental family comprised thirteen chil- 
 dren, who were given a fair education in the dis- 
 trict schools. When their son, Richard W., was 
 seven years old the family removed to Louisiana, 
 and from that age until he was twenty he re- 
 mained at home with his parents. At the latter 
 as;e, however, he started out on his own responsi- 
 

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 bilils. and in 1853 crossed the plains with ox 
 He was accompanied on the journey by 
 ther, Ceorge \\ .. and they both sustained 
 ss, owing to the depredations of the ln- 
 thereby losing sonic of their horses. After 
 -oiiio journey of over seven months they 
 reached Amity, Yamhill county, where 
 mained for some time. At the end of the 
 Richard \V. was possessed of just $5 in 
 rrency, with which to begin life in the west, 
 may well be imagined, it did not carry 
 1 vcr\ tar. Soon after his arrival, however, 
 as fortunate enough to secure employment 
 farm work, and in 1855 went to The Dalles, 
 where for nine months he was employed by a 
 pack train, under the supervision of the govern- 
 ment. In the meantime his brother had enlisted 
 1 the Indian war of 1855-56, being under the 
 imand of Captain Emery, and acquitting him- 
 creditably as a preserver of the peace in the 
 
 From The Dalles Mr. Phillips removed to 
 Yamhill county in 1857, and the same year started 
 for California with a bunch of cattle. As this 
 proved a paying venture he made similar expe- 
 ditions for several years thereafter. For a time 
 I he was employed at farm work, but the 
 e year returned to Wasco county, Ore., where 
 alt quite extensively in cattle, and remained 
 there until 1873. While a resident of the latter 
 inty, in January, 1862, he married Mary Haw- 
 icy, who was born on the Boise river, Idaho, in 
 After his marriage he removed to the 
 farm which has since been his home, and which 
 • had purchased in 1861, it being located one- 
 f mile south of Whiteson. That Mr. Phillips 
 s utilized the chances by which he has been 
 nrrounded in the northwest is proved by the 
 t that he now owns eleven hundred and eight- 
 1 acres of land, a truly wonderful increase over 
 original $5. About five hundred acres are 
 under cultivation, and no farm in this county is 
 .•tter equipped or more extensive in its. various 
 nues of activity. The past season witnessed 
 ■ gathering of sixteen thousand pounds of 
 an item of commerce which is accounted 
 of the specialties of the Phillips farm, which 
 known as Peach Hill Farm. The five hundred 
 head of stock include Shorthorn cattle, Cots- 
 wold sheep. Berkshire and Poland-China hogs, 
 Angora goats. An air of substantiality and 
 - hni ss, also of extreme neatness and thrift, 
 pervades this splendid old farm, as reliable and 
 ubstantial as is the honored owner, everywhere 
 known as Uncle Dick. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Phillips died in 1875, 
 leaving three children : Richard W., Jr., of Cou- 
 lee City, Wash. ; Anna E., the wife of F. Fergu- 
 son, of Amity; and Carrie C, wife of George 
 Hancock, of Cornelius. Some time after the 
 
 death of his wife Air. Phillips married Elizabeth 
 Frazer, who was born in Woodford county, Ky., 
 and this union resulted in the birth of four chil- 
 dren : George E., at home; Homer C, a resident 
 of eastern Oregon; one child, who died in in- 
 fancy, and Curry S., who died at the age of six 
 years, liver since his voting days Mr. Phillips 
 has taken a keen interest in politics, and has al- 
 ways espoused the cause of the Democratic party. 
 He is a welcome member and visitor at various 
 fraternal lodges in the county, notably the Ma- 
 sonic, of which he has been a member for over 
 forty years ; the Eastern Star, and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, of which he is a 
 charter member of twenty-six years' standing. 
 Mr. Phillips has been- to the fore in all move- 
 ments of a social or public nature in his neighbor- 
 hood, and though extremely careful and con- 
 servative, has wielded a great influence in all 
 matters of importance. His farm is the head- 
 quarters for several large industries, and friends 
 come from far and near to partake of his hospi- 
 tality. He is not only one of the largest hop and 
 stock raisers, but is known as by far the most 
 extensive mule raiser in Yamhill county. 
 
 JAMES SHEPARD HUGHES. The town 
 of Lebanon, favored because of the high char- 
 acter of its citizens, the extent and multiplicity 
 of its interests, and its clean municipal admin- 
 istrations, has additional cause for congratula- 
 tion in possessing what is conceded, by those in 
 a position to judge, the best electric lighting 
 system on the Pacific coast. This distinction 
 is directly traceable to the earnest and capable 
 efforts of James Shepard Hughes, owner and 
 operator of the electric light and waterworks 
 of this city, and a man of extended and practical 
 experience in his chosen calling. Additional 
 interest centers around Mr. Hughes because his 
 electrical knowledge is almost entirely self- 
 gained, and because he has enlisted the ser- 
 vices of his exceedingly capable and studious 
 wife, herself an electrician of more than ordinary 
 merit. 
 
 On both sides of his family Mr. Hughes 
 claims an ancestry connected with the education- 
 al and war history of the country, his paternal 
 forefathers living for many years in the state of 
 Pennsylvania, his grandfather, Joseph, being a 
 distant relative of William Penn. His father, 
 James, also born in Pennsylvania, became 
 a very early settler in Monroe county, Ohio, 
 reaching there about 181 8. In many ways this 
 pioneer was a unique and unusual character, and 
 he represented a class of men fast receding into 
 the shadows of history, in fact scarcely repre- 
 sented at all at the present time. He was a min- 
 ister of the Protestant Methodist Church, and 
 for many vears was a circuit rider in Ohio, lead- 
 
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 ing one of those strenuous and self-sacrificing 
 lives to which the clergy of today are strangers. 
 A school teacher also, he spent his entire life in 
 the realms of religion and knowledge, was a 
 close student and practical teacher, more es- 
 pecially during the latter part of his life. A 
 farmer and preacher when he first moved to 
 Ohio, an accident turned his attention to teach- 
 ing, for while crossing the Ohio river he was 
 thrown overboard, chilled to the bone, and took 
 a cold which settled in his lower limbs, incapaci- 
 tating him for severe physical labor. He lived 
 a comparatively short time, his death occurring 
 in 1854, at the age of forty-five years. His wife, 
 Sarah (Lucas) Hughes, was born in Ohio, mar- 
 ried there, and spent her last days in the Buck- 
 eye state. Mrs. Hughes was a daughter of 
 Samuel Lucas, born in Ohio, and member of a 
 family noted for its longevity. His grandfather, 
 Samuel, served with distinction in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and his great-grandmother lived to 
 be one hundred and twelve years old, and she 
 nursed James Shepard Hughes when he was an 
 infant in arms. 
 
 His position as the oldest child and son 
 in his father's family of six children necessi- 
 tated an early assumption of responsibility on the 
 part of James Shepard Hughes. He was born 
 in Monroe county, Ohio, November 25, 1838, 
 and was therefore eight years of age when his 
 good father went to the silent bourne. The 
 many duties to be performed at home interfered 
 sadly with his early education, and as soon as 
 possible he began to earn money that his broth- 
 ers and sisters might fare better than it had been 
 possible for him to do. From the age of sev- 
 enteen he assumed the management of a large 
 Ohio farm, and when he had accomplished all 
 possible for his home people he married in his 
 native state, Louise W. Gatten, born on section 
 16, Monroe county, June 26, 1842. Like her 
 husband, Mrs. Hughes claims a learned and mar- 
 tial ancestry, from the ranks of which have come 
 educators of merit and influence. James R. Gat- 
 ten, the father of Mrs. Hughes, was born in 
 Maryland, and for more than a quarter of a cen- 
 tury was a teacher of more than local repute in 
 Ohio, to which state he was brought a baby in 
 arms, and where he died at an advanced age 
 His father, Thomas, and his grandfather, Rich- 
 ard Ellis, were born in the North of Ireland, 
 and the latter was indeed a patriot. That he 
 might espouse the cause of the down-trodden 
 colonies he placed his ample fortune in the bank 
 of England, and with his family emigrated to 
 America, where he enlisted in the Colonial 
 army, serving under the banner of Washington 
 for several years. His son, Thomas, a youth 
 when he came to America, learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade, an occupation followed during his 
 
 entire active life in Ohio. He married Frances 
 Vaughn, born either in Virginia or Ohio, and ' 
 whose grandfather, Vincent, established his 
 family in the United States in time to serve in 
 the war of 1812. At an early day the grand- 
 father removed to Ohio, and died in Guernsey 
 county after accumulating a competence. 
 
 Mr. Hughes' association with the west began 
 in 1876, when he settled with his family at 
 Redwood, Cal., and entered upon his duties as 
 superintendent of the waterworks. That he 
 maintained this position for the long period of 
 twenty years is the best guarantee of his fitness, 
 and that he in many ways identified himself 
 with the general affairs of the town shows a 
 capacity for public service in any community. 
 In keeping with his natural stability and faith- 
 fulness was his occupancy of the office of street 
 superintendent for seventeen years, notwithstand- 
 ing that he was elected on the Republican ticket, 
 and that there were many intervening Demo- 
 cratic administrations. For one term also he was 
 deputy tax collector. Desiring a change, Mr. 
 Hughes came to Lebanon and purchased the elec- 
 tric light plant, and also the water power and a 
 half interest in the old Foly and O'Neal ditch, 
 and has since managed the same with the as- 
 sistance of his wife, who has trodden with him 
 the intricate and fascinating regions of electricity, 
 and is quite capable of taking her husband's 
 place in an emergency. 
 
 It is not surprising that all of the children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have developed in- 
 tellectual superiority, and at least two are rep- 
 resentative of the best class of educators on the 
 coast. James B., a graduate of the Yale Uni- 
 versity with the degrees of M. A. and B. A., and 
 also a graduate of the Indiana State Univer- 
 sity and the Hopkins Academy of Oakland, Ind., 
 is principal of the high school at Merced, Cal. ; 
 Ada, the widow of D. R. Caldwell, is a teacher 
 of drawing in the public schools of Alameda, 
 Cal., and is a painter of merit, having supple- 
 mented her art training in this country by a year 
 of study in Europe ; Charles C, who served two 
 terms as superintendent of the public schools of 
 Alameda, Cal., having graduated in the pioneer 
 class of Stanford University ; Frances H. is the 
 wife of A. B. Milsap, a traveling salesman of 
 Centralia, Wash. ; Thomas Dewey was acciden- 
 tal!}' killed by falling from a building in 1880; 
 and E. M. F. Hughes is foreman of a shipyard 
 at Manila, Philippine Islands. Mr. Hughes is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church, and is fra- 
 ternally connected with the Blue Lodge of 
 Masons. The career of Mr. Hughes speaks for 
 itself, and superfluous would be praise of a man 
 whose life efforts have been so unchangeably on 
 the side of stability, thoroughness, and absolute 
 devotion to principle and conscience. 
 
 
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 601 
 
 5EPH B. PERKINS. Among those cour- 
 ageous pioneers who slowly moved over the 
 tig before the emissaries of gold rendered 
 us the vastness of the western coun- 
 . as they carried civilization with 
 them, were obliged to fight nature at every step, 
 invent untold dangers, and over their 
 fires indulged in ghastly prophecies of de- 
 n at the hands of murderous savages, 
 - messengers of peace and prosperity 
 idi I in Oregon in 1844. Already the 
 
 A hitman had paved the way for others 
 ambitious, and the embryo town called in 
 r was suggestive of a semblance of awak- 
 ictivity. Thither came John Perkins, the 
 father of Joseph B., the latter a farmer of Yam- 
 hill county, and born in Tippecanoe county, Ind., 
 January 5. 1841. 
 
 fohn Perkins was born in Genesee county, 
 N. V., August 21, 181 1, and married Sarah Felix, 
 who was born in Union county, Pa., December 6, 
 181 5. Mrs. Perkins, who is now living with her 
 daughter, Mrs. H. F. Bedwell, was reared in 
 ( Hmo, and removed to Indiana when nineteen 
 years of age. Here she met her .husband, who 
 - a carpenter, millwright and blacksmith by 
 trade, and with whom she crossed the plains in 
 4. The first winter in the northwest Mr. Per- 
 kin- passed at Whitman station, and there ran a 
 -t-mill for the man for whom the station was 
 named. In March, 1845, ne t0 °k U P a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, adjoining 
 and constituting a part of that now owned by his 
 -eph B., and there remained for the bal- 
 ance of his life. He was unusually prosperous, 
 and admirably succeeded in controlling and utiliz- 
 the opportunities by which he was sur- 
 inded. At the last he owned two thousand and 
 nine hundred acres of land, all of which w r as 
 divided among his nine children and wife, the 
 latter holding a dower right on three hundred 
 ami twenty acres. He was a Democrat in politics, 
 and was a consistent and active member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Reared among strictly agricultural surround- 
 ings. Joseph B. Perkins left home at the age of 
 < en, but soon returned and worked on the 
 paternal farm until about twenty-five. After his 
 marriage he went into the saw-mill business in 
 \\ ashington for a year, and then began to farm 
 me hundred and forty-seven acres of land six 
 miles north of McMinnville. This propertv was 
 afterward disposed of to Clem Scott, and Mr. 
 Perkins made his home in Gaston for six vears. 
 After living j n McMinnville for a year he made 
 his home on a farm in Klickitat county. Wash., 
 for nine years, and on the latter property en- 
 gaged principally in the sheep business. He 
 also ran a steam ferry across the Colum- 
 bia river for two years. Upon returning to 
 
 ( >regon he ran a saw-mill for a year, and then 
 had charge of an electric light plant in McMinn- 
 ville for six months. He then settled on his pres- 
 ent farm, which adjoins his father's estate, and 
 of which he has disposed of all but twenty-three 
 acres. Eleven acres of this are under hops, of 
 which the present owner has made a great suc- 
 cess, and the present year he had to show for his 
 pains sixty-six bales of this marketable article. 
 Mr. Perkins is a notable addition to the agricul- 
 tural captains of industry of Yamhill county, and 
 is well known socially and otherwise. He has 
 been a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen for over twenty-four years, and has 
 passed through all of the chairs. In politics he 
 is independent, but has often taken an active in- 
 terest in supporting worthy friends. In religion 
 he is a member and deacon of the Christian Ad- 
 vent Church. 
 
 The family of Mr. Perkins consists of his wife, 
 Ellen E. (Gaunt) Perkins, who was born near 
 St. Louis, Mo., August 31, 1850, and whose 
 father, G. D. Gaunt, crossed the plains in 1853. 
 Of this union there have been born the following 
 children : Mrs. Eleanor Force, wife of T. D. 
 Force, living three and a half miles south of her 
 father's farm ; John S. ; Fred F., living five miles 
 east of the home farm ; Mrs. Rose Helmer, of 
 Portland ; Claude C, living with his parents ; and 
 Floyd F., also living at home. 
 
 HOX. CHARLES V. GALLOWAY has the 
 distinction of being the youngest member of the 
 state legislature of Oregon. He is one of the 
 native sons of the golden west, and his record is 
 a credit to the locality in which he has always 
 made his home, for his life has been upright, hon- 
 orable and worthy of the respect which is uni- 
 formly accorded him. He was born January 6, 
 1878, in Bellevue, Yamhill county, and is a son 
 of William Galloway, a native of Juneau, Dodge 
 county. Wis. The paternal grandparents of our 
 subject both lived to an advanced age. the grand- 
 father dying at the home of his son, William, 
 while the grandmother passed away at the home 
 of her daughter in St. Paul, Marion county. Ore. 
 William Galloway became a resident of Yamhill 
 county in 1852, at which time he accompanied his 
 parents on their emigration to the far west. No 
 railroad then spanned the country, and the long 
 and difficult journey was made with ox teams, 
 crossing the plains and through the mountain 
 passes. That was the year of the great cholera 
 scourge, when many emigrants died of the dread 
 disease. The party with which the Galloways 
 traveled was upon the road for seven months, 
 but at length they were gladdened by the sight 
 of the green hills and fertile fields of ( >regon. 
 The grandparents took up their abode on Salt 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 creek, in Yamhill county, near the present site of 
 Amity, securing a donation claim, whereon they 
 lived for several years. 
 
 William Galloway remained under the parental 
 roof until he had attained early manhood, ex- 
 periencing the hardships and trials of pioneer life 
 and also enjoying its pleasures and privileges. 
 After leaving home he and his brother conducted 
 pack trains in eastern Oregon and Idaho, thus 
 gaining a start in the business world. As a com- 
 pan ion and helpmate for life's journey he chose 
 Miss Emma Baker, a native of Wisconsin, and 
 they began housekeeping in Bellevue upon a 
 farm. 
 
 William Galloway had obtained his more ad- 
 vanced education in Willamette University and 
 was graduated in that institution. For some time 
 he engaged in teaching school, and left the im- 
 press of his individuality upon the intellectual 
 development of his community. For ten years 
 after his marriage he and his wife resided at 
 Bellevue and then removed to McMinnville, 
 where he was engaged in the warehouse business 
 for three years. On the expiration of that period 
 he was elected to the position of county judge in 
 1890, and served upon the bench in a most 
 capable manner for four years, retiring from the 
 office as he had entered it — with the confidence 
 and good will of the public. 
 
 After his term of office had expired he con- 
 tinued to reside in McMinnville until 1896, when 
 he removed to Oregon City and was appointed 
 receiver of the United States land office, holding 
 that position until 1902. At the present time he 
 is practicing law there and is a capable member 
 of the bar, having broad and comprehensive 
 knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence, 
 while in the preparation of his cases he is careful 
 and precise, and in their presentation forceful 
 and strong. That he is one of the distinguished 
 residents of the state is widely acknowledged, 
 and as a leader in political circles he is well 
 known. Three times he represented Yamhill 
 county in the state legislature, and in 1894 he was 
 the candidate of his party for governor of Ore- 
 gon, but was defeated. His influence, however, 
 is widely felt, and his patriotism and loyalty to 
 the public good are beyond question. In his fam- 
 ily are three children: Zilpha, Charles V., of 
 this review, and Francis V., the eldest and young- 
 est being at home. 
 
 C. V. Galloway having acquired his prelimi- 
 nary education in the public schools, continued 
 his studies in McMinnville College and in the 
 University of Oregon. He remained at home 
 until 1899, when he took charge of a farm of 
 three hundred acres, of which he owns one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres. Flere he carries on general 
 farming and fruit-raising, and upon his farm he 
 has seven thousand prune and apple trees. This 
 
 is one of the best fruit farms in his portion of the 
 state, and Mr. Galloway is regarded as a leading 
 agriculturist, whose practical and progressive 
 methods are bringing to him good returns. The 
 place is pleasantly located about four miles north- 
 west of McMinnville, and is supplied with all 
 modern equipments found upon a model farm of 
 the twentieth century. 
 
 Socially Mr. Galloway is connected with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the 
 United Artisans, and he exercises his right of 
 franchise in support of the men and measures of 
 the Democracy. In June, 1902, he was elected 
 upon the Democratic ticket to represent his dis- 
 trict in the state legislature, and is now the 
 youngest member of that body, but his ability is 
 not limited by his years, and his interest in the 
 welfare of his state is deep and sincere. Such, in 
 brief, is his life history. In whatever relation of 
 life we find him, in the government service, in 
 political circles, in business or in social relations 
 he is always the same honorable and honored 
 gentleman, whose worth well merits the high re- 
 gard which is uniformly extended him. 
 
 FRANK WILSON SETTLEMIER. Among 
 the representative young men of Woodburn, F. 
 W. Settlemier stands among the leaders, both in 
 business and social affairs. He is the son of a 
 much respected pioneer, J. H. Settlemier, the 
 founder of Woodburn, and grandson of George 
 Settlemier, a pioneer of 1847, wno started the first 
 nursery in Marion county. Though young in 
 years the subject of this review has established a 
 reputation for his ability to carry on the business 
 established by his father, and since his early 
 youth has grown into the business, working with 
 his father until January 1, 1892, at which time 
 he succeeded to the entire business. Since as- 
 suming control he has established a department 
 of landscape gardening, excelled by few in the 
 state. A native son, Mr. Settlemier was born 
 August 18, 1873, and educated in the common 
 schools of Marion county, after which he entered 
 and was graduated from the Portland Business 
 College, in 1890. As a boy, he impressed his 
 father and others with his natural thrift and busi- 
 ness methods ; that he has more than merited 
 this confidence is apparent to all who are familiar 
 with the steady growth of the business, and who 
 appreciate the value of the stock sent out from 
 the nurseries conducted by him. This, the oldest 
 nursery in the state of Oregon, does a large 
 wholesale business with all points west of the 
 Mississippi river, and as far south as Texas. 
 Mr. Settlemier takes orders for landscape gar- 
 dening in all parts of the northwest. Some of 
 his work is shown in his native county, a notice- 
 able example being the grounds of the capitol at 
 
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P< >R IK AIT AND BI< (GRAPHICAL REG >UD. 
 
 005 
 
 which were laid out by him. He lias also 
 ^reat demand for his work in the city of 
 !. Aside from hi> occupation and busi- 
 res, he takes an active interest in the up- 
 Iding of liis native city, and is accounted one 
 ~ niblic-spirited citizens. In politics a Re- 
 n, he lias held several local offices. He lias 
 ,r been an aspirant for official recognition, 
 dtions he has filled have been tendered 
 Ins wortn as a citizen. He is a stock- 
 der and director of the Bank of YVoodburn, 
 cted cashier, serving for two years, 
 During the Spanish-American war he 
 as recruiting officer, and took an active 
 •est in (he advancement of the canse. March 
 8 B he became second lieutenant of 
 npany 11. Second Regiment, Oregon Xa- 
 jonal Guard, and upon the organization of 
 npany D, Fourth Regiment. Oregon Xa- 
 il Guard, was elected second lieuten- 
 ant, and December 13. 1902, was elected first 
 lieutenant of same. He was a charter member of 
 both Company H and Company D : is a member 
 dbum Lodge Xo. 106, A. F. & A. M., of 
 which he i- secretary ; high priest of \V00dburn 
 Chapter Xo. 29. R. A. M. ; De Molay Command- 
 Salem Xo. 5 ; Oregon Consistory, A. A. 
 R., of Portland': Al Kader Temple, Mystic 
 Shrine. A. A. O. X. M. S.. and member of B. P. 
 ' >. F.. Salem Lodge Xo. 336. 
 
 May 11, 1896. in Salem. Ore., he was united 
 
 in marriage with Miss Mabel Janes, who was 
 
 born in Humboldt. Cal.. and a daughter of Jo- 
 
 h T. and Caroline (Geer) Janes, the latter a 
 
 ative of Oregon and a sister of ex-Gov. T. T. 
 
 r. Mr. Janes came to Oregon at an earlv 
 
 day. and is now serving as warden at the state 
 
 penitentiary at Salem. 
 
 WILLIAM PORTER ELMORE. Xo one 
 nan wields a greater financial, social and moral 
 influence in the city of Brownsville, Linn 
 county, than William Porter Elmore, now in- 
 dependent -through many years of successful 
 application in the stock business, now the pres- 
 ident of the Bank of Brownsville, a minister 
 i the Baptist Church, and a prominent and 
 successful man in the Prohibition party. The 
 advance of Mr. Elmore along the lines that 
 have made him one of the first men of his city 
 lue solely to his own efforts, and he has 
 won the esteem and confidence of all with 
 whom he has come in contact. William Porter 
 Elmore was born in Jefferson countv. Term., 
 February 4, 1850. the "youngest child 'and on!v 
 s-.n of the two children which blessed the 
 union of his parents. Calvin, a native of the 
 same locality in which AYilliam P. was born, 
 and Sarah, also of Tennessee. The mother 
 
 was a daughter of Andrew (lalbraith, a native 
 01' the south, who engaged in farming in Ten- 
 nessee. IK' was a member ai the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and was very active in the 
 work, being a class leader and local preacher. 
 I le died in Tennessee in [86l, over eighty years 
 old. 
 
 His father being a farmer, William Forter 
 Elmore was reared to that life, engaging at ten 
 years of age in heavy work, on account of the 
 death of his father in 1854, at thirty-four years 
 of age. I Lis education was received in the 
 common schools of his native state, and Maurv 
 Academy at Dandridge, Tenn., at the age of 
 eighteen years giving his youth and strength 
 to the support of his mother and sister, on his 
 mother's farm. In 1873 be became a fireman 
 on what is now known as the Southern Rail- 
 way, but not caring for the roving life of a 
 trainman he returned to Dandridge after three 
 years and entered upon a clerkship in a general 
 merchandise establishment in that city. In the 
 spring of 1878 this employment was given up 
 and he came west, settling three miles west of 
 Brownsville, Linn county, Ore., where he 
 worked on a farm. dAvo years later he rented 
 a farm two miles east of the city, and there re- 
 mained until 1882, when he changed his loca- 
 tion to eastern Oregon, there engaging in 
 sheep-raising, which proved a profitable em- 
 ployment for his energy and industry. In 1888 
 he returned to Brownsville and engaged in 
 farming for two years, when he located in the 
 city, purchasing the controlling interest in the 
 Bank of Brownsville. He became very influ- 
 ential in the affairs of the communitv. In 1894 
 he was elected a director of the bank, which 
 was followed by his election as president in 
 1900. In addition to this interest he is also 
 manager of the lands entrusted to the Security- 
 Savings & Trust Company. 
 
 Mr. Elmore was married in Brownsville to 
 Vis. Louisa (Brown") Carolin, who was born 
 near here, the daughter of Hugh Leper Brown. 
 The latter was a native of Tennessee, wdio 
 crossed the plains in 1846 and located near the 
 present location of Brownsville, in which he 
 was the first merchant, and from which the 
 town has taken its name. In addition to being 
 a successful man in business affairs, Mr. Brown 
 was a prominent man in politics. As a Demo- 
 crat he served two terms in the state legisla- 
 ture, where he ably represented the people 
 who had honored him with their support. A 
 great misfortune marred the enjoyment of his 
 later days, he having been afflicted with blind- 
 ness for ten years before his death, though his 
 sight had been failing for twenty years. He 
 died in January, 1888. lacking but a few days 
 of being seventy-eight years old. Mr. Elmore 
 
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 was appointed administrator of the estate of 
 Mr. Brown. To Mr. and Mrs. Elmore have 
 been born two children, William Calvin, who 
 is still at home with his parents ; Libby Mover, 
 who is now deceased. A stepson, Matthew C. 
 Carolin, is a farmer near Brownsville. Frater- 
 nally, Mr. Elmore is a member of the Society 
 of United Artisans. Politically he is a stanch 
 adherent of Prohibition principles, and has 
 served his party in many ways. He has served 
 two terms as mayor of the city, during the sec- 
 ond, in 1896, making the town non-license, his 
 greatest effort having been given to the ad- 
 ministration of public affairs without the reve- 
 nue derived from saloons. He was successful, 
 and at the end of his term had $400 in the city 
 treasury, and the town was in excellent condi- 
 tion. He has also been a member of the city 
 council several years, lending his intelligence 
 and earnestness of purpose to the carrying out 
 of all worthy movements in the best interest of 
 the public. In 1892 he was elected to the state 
 legislature, where he served one term, during 
 which session he served on the engrossing 
 committee, manufacturing committee, and the 
 committee to visit and report on the public 
 works of the state. He is a member of the 
 national committee of the Prohibition party, 
 having been a delegate to the national conven- 
 tion. At the regular election of 1900 and at 
 the special election in June, 1903, he was his 
 party's candidate for member of congress, and 
 in 1902 he was a joint candidate for senator. 
 In religion Mr. Elmore is a Baptist, and in 
 1897 was ordained a minister in the Missionary 
 Baptist Church, and is now pastor of the 
 churches located at Holley and Providence. 
 He is moderator of the Central Baptist Asso- 
 ciation, also vice-president of the Baptist State 
 Convention, and a member of the board of 
 managers of the state convention. Much of 
 Mr. Elmore's wealth finds its way into the 
 channels of the church, giving constantly to 
 the demands and needs of the religious organ- 
 ization of which he is a member, and he has 
 also given much toward the upbuilding and 
 growth of the various colleges of the Willa- 
 mette valley, making his name one to be re- 
 membered as that of a great factor in the 
 march of progress in the west. 
 
 FRANK SULLY. Though his ancestry is 
 traced back to a little island country where great 
 farms are not the possessions of the many, Frank 
 Sully has shown by his success in the farming 
 line that nature would have been disappointed 
 had he not turned his attention to agricultural 
 lines. Born in Nottingham, England, January 
 II, 1806, James Sully, the father, spent thirty- 
 
 four years of his life among English sights and 
 sounds, engaged for some time in the hosiery 
 business, to which he had been apprenticed in his 
 youth. Some years after his marriage with Miss 
 Ann Moss, who was born in Derbyshire, Eng- 
 land; December 31, 1814, he gave up the old life 
 that was necessarily very dear to him, and for the 
 sake of his family he emigrated to the United 
 States, landing in New York city, where he made 
 his home for some time, his first move in the new 
 country being to Elizabethtown, N. J. Here he 
 secured employment as a bookkeeper, caring for 
 his little family in the generous way to which 
 they were accustomed. In 1846 the family re- 
 moved to Canton, 111., and here Frank Sully was 
 born August 12 of the same year. In that city 
 his father remained for nine years, entering suc- 
 cessfully the mercantile life, but in 1855 going to 
 the city of Minneapolis, Minn., engaging again 
 as a bookkeeper, in which work he was more than 
 ordinarily successful. In that city he passed the 
 remainder of his life, gaining a prominent place 
 among the citizens of the city, through his in- 
 terest and activity in public affairs. For eight 
 years he had charge of the Board of County Com- 
 missioners as chairman, discharging his duties 
 intelligently and ably, and when he at last retired 
 from active life he was missed in the circles 
 where his associates had been wont to call upon 
 him, sure of his support. He died in 1877, his 
 wife outliving him by seventeen years. Eight 
 children were born to them : James, deceased ; 
 Ellen M., wife of Lucius Babcock ; Annie, Mrs. 
 Fillmore ; Sophia, deceased ; Frank ; Mary, de- 
 ceased ; Elizabeth, who died in infancy ; and Hat- 
 tie, Mrs. Crafts. 
 
 Though his earliest recollections of his father 
 are those connected with his mercantile life, and 
 every year of his youth being spent in a city, all 
 combined could not take from Frank his intense 
 love of broad fields and deep, green forests, and 
 when he started out in the world for himself he 
 instinctively turned his footsteps toward the 
 country lands. His early education had been re- 
 ceived in the common schools of Minnesota, and 
 with his quick, bright intellect he could soon have 
 earned a high place in the city where he was 
 reared, but preferred, instead, to win it through 
 the medium of the farming ways. At fifteen 
 years he was almost entirely self-supporting, 
 working at lumbering along the Mississippi and 
 St. Croix rivers. In 1869 he was able to pur- 
 chase land, with a view to farming for himself, 
 and he settled upon a farm near Glencoe, McLeod 
 county, Minn., where he remained for twelve 
 years. At the close of this period he was at- 
 tracted by the glowing tales of the west to go to 
 Oregon, settling in Yamhill county,, where he 
 engaged in teaming in McMinnville. After one 
 year of this business he went back to the country, 
 
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 .i farm two nub cast of McMinnville, 
 c for two years, and going from there 
 Ik county, where lie spent another two 
 - n rented property near tin town of McCoy. 
 to Vamhill county lie located four 
 of McMinnville. having seen enough 
 know the wisdom of his choice of a 
 •r a permanent home. 
 Sull\ now owns two hundred and fifteen 
 : finely improved property just out of 
 McMinnville, in which town he has built a beau- 
 - dence, where lie makes his home, super- 
 ing the farm, enjoying thereby the joys of 
 ntry life and tlie conveniences of the city. 
 ember 19, 1867, occurred his marriage with 
 a Peck, who was horn near Jackson, .Mich., 
 March [3, 1849, and of this union four children 
 rn, two son- and two daughters, three of 
 whom are living: Marian, wife of H. C. Patty; 
 fames, deceased; Guy L.. and Hope. A Repub- 
 n in politics, Mr. Sully does not aspire to po- 
 ,il honors, though he does his duty as a citi- 
 having served as road supervisor and in va- 
 school offices, and with his wide thought 
 the deep spirit of patriotism that controls his 
 in, he is a much-valued member of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 W. S. HOUCK, who is controlling an exten- 
 sive and profitable warehouse business, and is 
 ged in shipping grain and potatoes, 
 e to the northwest from the Mississippi val- 
 ley, his birth having occurred in Buckley, Iro- 
 tinty. 111., June 19. 1873. His father, 
 y Houck, is a native of Ohio, and the 
 grandfather, John Houck. was born in that state, 
 whence he removed to Illinois, where he spent 
 -: days. The father engaged in farming in 
 lis county until 1875, when he came to ( )re- 
 on, settling in McMinnville. He now has a 
 farm one mile east of the city, where he is suc- 
 illy engaged in carrying on agricultural pur- 
 suits. He is a member of the board of trustees 
 the < 'regon Fire Relief Association. His wife. 
 \vh<, bore the maiden name of Ella Snapp. was 
 iiorn in Iroquois county. 111., and at a very early- 
 age was left an orphan. By her marriage she 
 ecame the mother of five children, and the fam- 
 y circle still remains unbroken by the hand of 
 death. 
 
 W. S. Iloijck, the second in order of birth and 
 the only son. was but two years of age when the 
 family came to Oregon, and here he was reared, 
 beginning his education at the usual age of six 
 and completing it by a high school course, 
 being graduated in the class of 1890. His school 
 days ended, he then entered business life as an 
 employe in the warehouse of M. B. Hendricks. 
 He worked at the humble duty of sewing sacks, 
 
 but gradually he was advanced until he became 
 the bookkeeper. lie remained with that house 
 Until June. [899, when he started in the ware- 
 house business for himself, becoming a member 
 of the linn of Christenson & Houck. They pur- 
 chased the old Grange warehouse and engaged in 
 the grain and commission business, dealing in 
 grain and also in hay, potatoes and wool. The 
 partnership was maintained until ujoo. when Mr. 
 Houck purchased Mr. Christenson's interest and 
 continued alone until the following year, when he 
 admitted A. J. Houck to a partnership under the 
 firm style of Houck & Houck. They have one 
 large building, 100x80 feet, on the line of the 
 Southern Pacific railroad, and a river warehouse, 
 40x60 feet. They also rent the old Hendricks 
 warehouse, which is 60x80 feet, and is completely 
 filled with hay. They likewise utilize the old 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, which has been con- 
 verted into a warehouse, and is 20x40 feet. The 
 firm buys and ships wheat, oats, ha)' and pota- 
 toes on an extensive scale, the last-named product 
 being largely sent to the south. In 1901 their 
 shipment to El Paso, Tex., amounted to thirty- 
 seven carloads, while seventeen carloads were 
 sent to Phoenix, Ariz., and large shipments to 
 other places. They buy all over their state, and 
 their business furnishes an excellent market to 
 the producers. They also do a large and profit- 
 able business in the shipment of hay and straw, 
 and annually make extensive purchases of wool, 
 which they ship to Portland. Thus the business 
 has constantly grown until it has taken a place in 
 the front rank of similar enterprises in this por- 
 tion of the country. 
 
 In McMinnville, in 1893, Mr. Houck was 
 united in marriage to Miss Sophia Okerson, a 
 native of Michigan, and they now have one child, 
 Elvin. Mrs. Houck is a most estimable lady, 
 and holds membership with the Baptist Church. 
 Fraternally, Mr. Houck is a representative of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, has held all 
 of the offices of the local lodge, and has been sent 
 as a delegate to the Grand Lodge. His political 
 support is given to the Republican party, and as 
 every true American citizen should do, he keeps 
 Well informed on the issues of the day, but has 
 never sought office as a reward for party fealty, 
 his attention being given to his commercial in- 
 terests. Although yet a young man, he has at- 
 tained success that many an older man might well 
 envy, and in the control of his affairs has mani- 
 fested keen discrimination, sound judgment and 
 unfaltering diligence. 
 
 SAMUEL ROBERTS. Five hundred and 
 eighty acres of the most desirable farming land 
 in Yamhill count}- is owned and managed by 
 Samuel Roberts, upon whose meadows graze in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 contentment all manner of fine stock. Six acres 
 are devoted to hops, and besides many marketable 
 commodities are raised in large amounts. Two 
 hundred acres are under cultivation, and the gen- 
 eral aspect of things around the farm indicates a 
 continuous effort for the best in agricultural ad- 
 vancement. Mr. Roberts was born in Tippecanoe 
 county, Ind., February 16, 1837, and is a son of 
 Henry and' Diana (De Hart) Roberts, who had 
 also the following children : Vincent, a miner in 
 the state of Washington ; Jacob, a farmer of The 
 Dalles ; Phoebe, the wife of William Laughlin, of 
 North Yamhill ; Christopher, a farmer of Idaho ; 
 Erastus, deceased, and Albert. Through a for- 
 mer marriage with a Miss Harrison, Henry Rob- 
 erts had two children, of whom Abraham is de- 
 ceased, and William lives near North Yamhill. 
 Mr. Roberts came to Oregon in the train of Capt. 
 Joe Watts in 1848, and the following year went 
 down into California to work in the mines. After 
 a year's rather unsuccessful effort he determined 
 to go back to farming, and thereupon took up the 
 donation claim upon which his son is now con- 
 ducting large operations. Here the balance of his 
 life was spent, and he had the satisfaction of real- 
 izing that his adopted state had yielded him fair 
 returns for industry and sober business judg- 
 ment. 
 
 A year after starting out on his own respon- 
 sibility, at the age of eighteen, Samuel Roberts 
 enlisted in the Cayuse war as a private, and 
 served with credit and courage during this mo- 
 mentous conflict. After the war he worked for 
 three months as a teamster, and thereafter was 
 variously employed until settling, at the age of 
 twenty-four, on the claim formerly owned by his 
 father. The farm was not a gift, but was bought 
 from his sire, and to the improvement of it he has 
 devoted all the intervening years. In 1858 Mr. 
 Roberts married Sarah Griffin, and of this union 
 there have been born three children : Cyrenus, 
 living near his father ; Pierce, living at home ; 
 and H. W., also at home. Mr. Roberts is a Dem- 
 ocrat in politics, and has served as road super- 
 visor for one term, and as school director for a 
 number of years. He is one of the intelligently 
 progressive and substantial farmers of Yamhill 
 county, and his personal characteristics have won 
 the respect and confidence of all who know him. 
 
 GEORGE R. JOHNSON. The family of 
 which George R. Johnson is a worthy representa- 
 tive is enrolled among the pioneer arrivals of 
 1852, that terrible year made memorable by the 
 cholera scourge which devastated the plains, and 
 laid low the hopes and ambitions of many a hardy 
 traveler. In the success with which he is con- 
 ducting his agricultural and stock-raising enter- 
 prise in Yamhill county, Mr. Johnson emulates 
 
 the example of his emigrating father, William K. 
 Johnson, familiarly known as Black Hawk John- 
 son. 
 
 William R. Johnson was born in Ohio, April 2, 
 1824, his father, Richard Johnson, of Irish par- 
 entage, having been born on the ocean while his 
 parents were emigrating to America. Richard 
 Johnson was reared in Ohio, and through his 
 marriage with Milbrey Graves, a native of North 
 Carolina, reared seven children, five of whom arc 
 living, and of whom William R. was the third 
 oldest. This son was reared in the wilds of In- 
 diana, to which his parents removed at an early 
 day, and after his removal to Arkansas married 
 Delphine D. Steward, daughter of John Steward, 
 an old-time resident of the Hoosier state. They 
 had ten children, five of whom are now living : 
 Mrs. Alice G. Stallcop, Mrs. L. H. Messinger, 
 Agnes, George R., and Katherine. March 24, 
 1852, Mr. Johnson, with his family and mother, 
 started across the plains with the usual equip- 
 ment of ox teams and wagons, and though trav- 
 eling most of the way alone with his family, 
 escaped much of the deprivation and disaster 
 which overtook many searchers after western 
 advantages. Arriving in Yamhill county after a 
 comparatively pleasant journey, in which hunt- 
 ing and fishing furnished the principal diversions, 
 Mr. Johnson settled on a claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres near Carlton, a portion of which 
 is now owned by his son, George R. There was 
 no village of McMinnville at that time, but there 
 were a few ambitious settlers, among them Dr. 
 McBride, W. L. Adams, James McGinnis, Dr. 
 Sitton, and Zebediah Shelton. Having no money 
 with which to start in the west, he borrowed 
 money at three per cent, and by industry and 
 close application to business was soon able to 
 clear any indebtedness encountered in the early 
 days. At first the family kept house in a small 
 log cabin, but this was eventually replaced by 
 one of the best houses in the county. In time Mr. 
 Johnson became one of the very large land own- 
 ers in Yamhill county, his home farm compris- 
 ing seven hundred acres of the best land any- 
 where around, besides several large tracts in dif- 
 ferent parts of the state. 
 
 On a portion of the claim of Mr. Johnson was 
 erected the first school-house in this section, 
 around which clustered many memories of the 
 old days, and which at present presents a patri- 
 archal and solemn appearance. Where now the 
 nocturnal owl rears his young and mournfully 
 salutes the night, some of the most prominent up- 
 builders of the county met daily after long jour- 
 neys from their respective homes, to devour such 
 knowledge as was dispensed in the rudely con- 
 structed school. Mr. Johnson and his neighbors 
 met in the early part of 1861 and hewed and split 
 the logs for the school-house, and the first teacher 
 
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 aws n, afterward a practicing law- 
 
 i. Among the pupil.-- about this time 
 
 ami Franklin Stout, John Bunn, the 
 
 loghs, former United States Senator Mc- 
 
 Judge Thomas McBride, Jason Peters, 
 
 • ns, the Sittons, the three oldest daugh- 
 
 O. II. Adams, and enough more to make 
 
 ag< of sixty-five pupils. In the 
 
 - >f time the old building became inadequate 
 
 its needs and a new school was constructed 
 
 t a mile to the north. Xo longer an eduea- 
 
 1 institution, the log house became a shelter 
 
 families, among them Nathaniel Win- 
 
 . who lived there with his wife ami four 
 
 children. The wife falling ill unto death, the 
 
 i became discouraged and lost his mind, 
 
 ami. imagining that all sorts of danger hung over 
 
 mitted suicide by hanging himself in 
 
 ik grove nearby. Investigation proved that 
 
 « ran in his family, his brother and mother 
 
 having been committed for mental derangement. 
 
 Thus the peaceful old school-house was the scene 
 
 of a tragedy, with which its history will ever be 
 
 nnected. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Johnson died in 1869, 
 in 1882 he was united in marriage with 
 Mary Shumway. a native of Wasco county, Ore., 
 and daughter of Aurora Shumway, a highly re- 
 nted Oregon pioneer. By this union two 
 ers. Lulu and Willie, were born. Mr. 
 1 was a Republican in politics, but aside 
 11 the formality of casting his vote, took no 
 particular interest in politics. He took a keen 
 terest in die Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 f which he was a member in good stand- 
 r many years. He died on the old home- 
 S ptember 10. 1901. 
 I 1 irge R. Johnson is a native son of Yamhill 
 ountv. and was born on the paternal claim May 
 1865, the second youngest of the children of 
 s father's first marriage. At the age of twenty- 
 be started out to farm on his own responsi- 
 bility, and in 1893 went to Jackson county, Ore., 
 Iiere he became interested in mining and pros- 
 pecting. At the expiration of four years, during 
 which time he became the possessor of large min- 
 ing interests, he returned to Yamhill county, and 
 n 1898 availed himself of the mining chances in 
 -ka. near White Horse Rapids. He took a 
 ? claims in this region, but soon after sold 
 them, and while in the far north worked as a 
 driver on a tramway, and also broke in horses for 
 the tramway company. Returning to Yamhill 
 county in 1898. somewhat disenchanted with the 
 north . he located on the home place, and has since 
 made this his home. He owns fifty acres of the 
 final donation claim, and makes his home in 
 the old house. Twenty-five acres are under cul- 
 tivation, and general farming and stock-raising 
 are engaged in. Mr. Johnson is variously inter- 
 
 ested in affairs in the county, and like his father, 
 is a Republican in politics, although he is inter- 
 ested only SO far as securing the election of good 
 men is concerned. Formerly he was associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but 
 has been demitted. He is one of the substantial 
 and reliable Oregonians who may be depended on 
 to further the best interests of their community, 
 and a continuation of his present success is be- 
 yond the question of doubt. 
 
 JAMES McKAY. Though the old pioneers 
 are surely passing away from the scenes of their 
 earl}- labors in Oregon, their memory is one 
 that will outlast the passage of time. Deeds, 
 not words, was the heritage which they left to 
 the present generation, the evidence of their 
 earnest, self-sacrificing lives scattered through- 
 out the length and breadth of the state and in- 
 suring them a place in the hearts of those who 
 live and profit by the success of their efforts. 
 James McKay, a man to be named among the 
 first pioneers of the state, is remembered as one 
 who came to the west with earnest purpose and 
 realized his object of making a personal success 
 and as well gave his best efforts toward the up- 
 building of a commonwealth. Morally strong, 
 honest, energetic and persevering, his was an 
 influence which made a deep impression in all 
 communities where he made his home, and to 
 him and others of like calibre is owed a debt 
 incalculable, since it affects the moral worth as 
 well as financial and commercial interest of the 
 country. 
 
 James McKay was of Irish extraction, having 
 been born near Belfast, April 15, 1818, the 
 youngest of three children born to his parents, 
 John Niel and Catherine (McKusker) McKay, 
 both of whom were also natives of Ireland. The 
 death of each occurred in the old home there. 
 Of the children, John, Elizabeth and James, the 
 last named was the only one who sought a home 
 in America. He was educated in the national 
 schools of Glasgow, Scotland, whence his parents 
 removed shortly after his birth, and on attaining 
 sufficient age he learned the trades of carpenter 
 and miller. While in Dundee, working at his 
 trade of ship carpenter, he was married in 1840 
 to Cecelia Lawson, a native of that place, born 
 November 9, 1822. She was a daughter of 
 William Lawson, a prominent manufacturer of 
 Dundee, and the representative of one of the old 
 families of the country. Shortly after their mar- 
 riage Mr. McKay brought his wife to America, 
 locating first in Albany, N. Y., where he con- 
 tinued to work at his trade of ship carpenter. 
 Becoming interested in the pioneer possibilities 
 of the middle west he -became a resident of Illi- 
 nois, and locating in Joliet was soon employed 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 on the canal. While in their Illinois home two 
 sons, William and James, were horn to Mr. and 
 Mrs. McKay. Early in 1847 Mr - McKay de- 
 cided to cast in his lot with the vanguard of 
 civilization in the northwest, and accordingly 
 outfitted with ox-teams and various necessities 
 for the long journey across the plains. While 
 coming down the Columbia river from The 
 Dalles the two children were taken ill with 
 measles and died. 
 
 On reaching Portland Mr. McKay and his 
 wife remained a few days, when he went up the 
 valley to St. Paul and purchased mill property 
 known as the Old Mission Mill, agreeing to 
 pay $8,000, a sum of money he had yet to make 
 in his new home. He also became the owner of 
 a section of land, a timbered tract, which fur- 
 nished him with material for his saw-mill, which 
 he conducted in conjunction with a flour-mill. 
 The same year he went to California at the 
 height of the gold excitement, and conducted a 
 tavern at Sacramento until December, when he 
 returned to the northwest and paid for his Ore- 
 gon property with the result of his successful 
 summer's work. He then entered upon an in- 
 dustrious prosecution of his milling interests, 
 in which occupation he remained for many years. 
 While so occupied he also became interested in 
 other lines, investing his surplus means prin- 
 cipally in real estate, in Portland erecting the 
 McKay Building, one of the modern structures 
 of the city. He also owned residence properties, 
 and at one time had in his possession the south- 
 west corner of Yamhill and Fourth streets. 
 That Mr. McKay was successful in the accom- 
 plishment of his personal object is shown in 
 the quantity and quality of the property which 
 he accumulated. He owned at the time of his 
 death three farms, business and residence prop- 
 erty in Portland, and business property at The 
 Dalles, the whole being the result of his own 
 earnest application and persevering efforts. 
 
 After becoming residents of Oregon eight 
 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McKay, 
 of whom two, twins in birth, died in early in- 
 fancy, unnamed. Those remaining are as fol- 
 lows : William R., now living near St. Paul ; 
 Mary, who resides in Portland; John N., who 
 owns the old home at St. Paul ; Kate, wife of 
 John McCormick, living near Woodburn ; James, 
 who died in early childhood ; and Cecelia, wife 
 of John Kirk, of St. Paul, Ore. The wife of 
 Mr. McKay died upon the old home place, June 
 13, 1870. As a Christian mother, wife and friend 
 she possessed in a remarkable degree those at- 
 tributes which endeared her to all who knew 
 her and made her an honor and an ornament 
 to society. Mr. McKay . remained there until 
 1886, when he gave up his lifework in St. Paul 
 
 and removed to Portland, where his death oc- 
 curred August 29, 1898. 
 
 With the passing away of Mr. McKay was 
 lost to Oregon a man of unusual worth. Though 
 of a retiring disposition and always inclined to 
 spend his leisure at home, he was still a broad- 
 minded citizen, interested in the welfare of citv 
 and state. He gave his vote and support to the 
 Democratic party, though he was never active 
 in political affairs. In religion he was a mem- 
 ber of the Roman Catholic Church, and was al- 
 ways a liberal contributor to church and all 
 charitable enterprises, as well as giving a hearty 
 support to the schools of the country. Upright 
 and honorable, with a clean record, it is just that 
 his memory should live to those for whom he 
 helped to form the commonwealth of Oregon. 
 
 LEWIS S. HUTT, living on a farm one and 
 a half miles east of North Yamhill, is a native son 
 of this county, was was born November 2, 1865. 
 His father, Thomas B. Hutt, was born in Pike 
 county, Mo., September 12, 1821, his mother, 
 Rachel (Laughlin) Hutt, being also a native of 
 Pike county, and born December 26, 1826. The 
 parents were married in Missouri, and soon after, 
 in 1847, started over the plains with ox teams, 
 and by a mere providential chance escaped being 
 members of the ill-fated Whitman party. With- 
 out particular incident they accomplished the 
 long and tedious journey, and in 1848 the father 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres of land, where he farmed and raised 
 stock for the remainder of his life, his death 
 occurring on the home place, July 13, 1876. His 
 wife, who died in Walla Walla, Wash., July 12, 
 1 90 1, having in the meantime married H. Bar- 
 ney, was the mother of ten children, three of 
 whom are living. Of these, Jane is the wife of 
 Frank M. Bridgefarmer, a farmer of Idaho ; and 
 Sarah, Mrs. Flett, resides in Wapato. Thomas 
 B. Hutt was a very successful man, and among 
 the pioneer troubles with which he had to con- 
 tend were the Indian wars, in which he par- 
 ticipated in a most creditable manner as lieuten- 
 ant. Under Captain Hembree, later killed by the 
 Indians, and supplanted by Captain Lee, he 
 served throughout the war of 1855-56. 
 
 At the age of eighteen Lewis S. Hutt removed 
 from the paternal farm near Yamhill to Walla 
 Walla, Wash., his mother and step-father accom- 
 panying him. In North Yamhill, November 4. 
 1 891, he married Frances Blackburn, a native of 
 Marion county, whose father, A. Blackburn, was 
 born in England. Mr. Hutt continued to live 
 near Walla Walla until 1897, and then returned 
 to the home taken up by his father, which has 
 since been his special charge. He owns three 
 hundred and twenty acres near Walla Walla, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 613 
 
 . anil one hundred acres in North Yamhill, 
 he engages in general farming, raising 
 . i stent, and carries on dairying on 
 Hie old homo occupied by his 
 . ■■ the long ago still shelters his interest- 
 family, comprising his wife and four 
 l\, \ erle R., Sylvia 1'., ami Le- 
 Mr. I hut is interested in educational 
 means of progress, and as a school 
 - contributed his share towards im- 
 he prevailing school conditions. Ever 
 • 'ir>t voting days ho has affiliated with 
 blican party. Inn the honors of office 
 never justified him in neglecting his home 
 triving tor their conference on him- 
 
 CHRISTIAN OBYE. Near North Yamhill 
 seen the tine farm of Christian Obye. who 
 ■ rn in Norway seven miles from Chris- 
 lia, his natal day being February 13, 1835. 
 - father. Lars ( )bye, was also a native of that 
 ditv, and throughout his entire life he carried 
 cultural pursuits. In the year 1845 lie 
 > \merica. induced to this step by the 
 rable reports which he had heard concerning 
 l new world and its opportunities. He took 
 ■ m a sailing vessel, and after a calm voy- 
 \eeks landed in New York City. He 
 did not tarry long in the east, however, but at 
 e made his way into the interior of the coun- 
 try, locating in Jo Daviess county, 111. There he 
 purchased a tract of land and engaged in farming 
 1 his life's labors were ended in death. He 
 married Miss Katherine Washburn, who was also 
 a native of Norway, and they became the parents 
 Ive children, nine sons and three daugh- 
 5, but the only ones now living are Benjamin, 
 a resident of Lake City, Iowa ; and Chris- 
 tian, who is the youngest of the family. The par- 
 1 mbers of the Lutheran Church and 
 k a very active part in church work, doing all 
 in their power to promote the cause of Chris- 
 tianity. The father died in 1854, at the age of 
 eventy-four years, and the mother survived him 
 for but a brief period, passing away in 1855, at 
 the age of sixty-eight years. 
 
 When thirteen years of age Christian Obye 
 :t home and has since been dependent upon his 
 for a livelihood. He began earning his 
 own living by working as a farm hand, and after 
 t time his educational privileges were very- 
 meager. He had previously attended the com- 
 mon schools of Illinois, but later the knowledge 
 hat he acquired came to him through the school 
 of experience. He continued to serve as a farm 
 hand in Illinois until 1855, when, attracted by 
 the business possibilities of the far west, he went 
 to California by way of the isthmus route, land- 
 
 ing at San Francisco in the fall of that year. Me 
 
 then resumed his journey overland until he 
 
 reached Shasta county, where he engaged in 
 placer mining, but he was not very successful, 
 and in consequence turned his attention to other 
 interests. In 1X58 he started for the Fraser river, 
 proceeding as far as Olympia, Wash. There his 
 supply of money became exhausted, and because 
 of his lack of funds he returned to Yamhill 
 county, Ore., and soon after purchased his pres- 
 ent place, comprising three hundred and thirty- 
 acres of land in the Pike valley. It was then a 
 tract wild and unimproved, but with character- 
 istic energv he began developing it into fields 
 ready for cultivation, and to-day he has one hun- 
 dred and seventy-five acres under the plow. 
 Thirty acres are planted to hops, for the produc- 
 tion of this product is becoming one of the lead- 
 ing industries of Oregon. He carries on general 
 farming and stock-raising, and in his business is 
 meeting with a fair degree of success. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Obye was united in marriage to 
 Miss Lucretia Turner, a daughter of Samuel 
 Turner, who crossed the plains in 1853. He was 
 born in De Kalb county, Mo., and became one of 
 the pioneers of the northwest. The marriage of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Obye was blessed with the follow- 
 ing children: Lewis S., who is on the home 
 farm ; J. E. and S. R, who operate an adjoining 
 farm ; Mrs. Mary A. Driscoll, who is in the Klon- 
 dike ; H. C, Emma V., and Nancy C, who are 
 under the parental roof. The parents hold mem- 
 bership in the Lutheran Church of Norway. Mr. 
 Obye is a Republican in his political views, and 
 has served as road supervisor, as school director, 
 as clerk, and for twenty-seven years has been 
 judge of elections. In all these offices he has 
 been found prompt, capable and reliable, and he 
 has the national characteristic of fidelity to duty 
 and unflinching honesty in all relations. 
 
 JOHN PERKINS, who came to Oregon in 
 the year 1844, was born in Greene county, N. Y., 
 August 21, 181 1, and in 181 7 was taken 
 by his parents to Cattaraugus county, N. Y., 
 where he resided continuously until 1832. In 
 that year the family removed to Tippecanoe 
 county. Inch, where, in 1836, John Perkins was 
 united in marriage to Miss Sarah Felix. Subse- 
 quently they moved to Benton county, Ind., 
 where they lived until 1844, when they deter- 
 mined to establish a home in the far northwest, 
 thinking that by taking advantage of its pioneer 
 conditions they might eventually secure a good 
 home and comfortable competence. Accordingly 
 they crossed the plains, accompanied by the fam- 
 ilv of Mr. Perkins' father. They were upon the 
 road for about six months, and endured many 
 hardships, trials and difficulties during that long 
 
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 journey, which led across the hot, sanely plains 
 of the middle west, and over mountains which 
 hardly afforded a trail. In November, 1844, 
 however, they reached Walla Walla. Mr. Per- 
 kins there separated from the others of the train 
 and assisted Dr. Whitman in repairing his mills 
 and grinding grain for the emigrants. Mr. Per- 
 kins conducted a grist-mill until the fall of 1844, 
 and in the spring of 1845 came to the Willamette 
 valley, locating on a farm near North Yamhill, 
 where, with the exception of the time spent in a 
 trip to California in 1849, ne resided continuously 
 until his death. On his return to Oregon, how- 
 ever, he and his father erected a saw and grist- 
 mill, the first in Yamhill county.- Shortly after- 
 ward Mr. Perkins purchased the property and 
 ran the mills several years. In 1853 he furnished 
 flour to the Spanish packers, who took the same 
 to the Yreka mines of California. 
 
 Unto Mr. Perkins and his wife were born nine 
 children, of whom eight are yet living. Mr. Per- 
 kins reached the age of seventy-five years, while 
 his wife has attained the advanced age of eighty- 
 seven years, and now resides with her daughter, 
 Mrs. Bedwell. He served as county commis- 
 sioner, and was a leading and influential citizen 
 of his community. Local progress and improve- 
 ment were causes dear to his heart, and he co- 
 operated earnestly and effectively in the efforts 
 to reclaim this district for civilization, and to 
 carry forward the work of improvement and ad- 
 vancement here. 
 
 H. F. BEDWELL is extensively and success- 
 fully engaged in general farming and hop-grow- 
 ing, being a well known representative of the 
 latter industry, which has become an important 
 one in Oregon. He was born January 21, 1842, 
 at Lone Jack, in Jackson county, Mo. His father, 
 Elisha Bedwell, was born September 9, 1819, in 
 Lafayette county, Mo., and April 12, 1847, before 
 the discovery of gold had attracted to the Pacific 
 coast so many emigrants, he made the long and 
 tedious journey across the plains with ox teams, 
 arriving in the northern part of Yamhill county, 
 October 12, after five months spent upon the way. 
 In 1848 he went to the mines of California, and 
 was engaged in mining and prospecting for a 
 time, but in 1849 ne returned to Oregon and 
 secured a donation claim near North Yamhill, 
 where he resided until 1874, when he sold tiiat 
 property and removed to Monmouth, there living 
 in retirement from further business cares until 
 his death. He was twice married, his first union 
 being with Miss S. A. Davis, by whom he had 
 two children : H. F., and one that died in in- 
 fancy. The mother died in Texas in 1844, and 
 June 19, 1850, Mr. Bedwell was again married. 
 
 his second union being with Miss A. M. Shelton, 
 who was one of the pioneer women of the north- 
 west, coming to Oregon from Missouri in 1846. 
 They became the parents of ten children, two 
 sons and two daughters still living. By trade 
 the father was a blacksmith, and for many years 
 he followed that pursuit, at the same time con- 
 ducting his farm. On the 14th of April, 184S. 
 he joined the Christian Church, and thereafter 
 lived a life in consistent harmony with its teach- 
 ings. He was a well known and popular citizen 
 and an honored pioneer who took an active and 
 helpful part in the work of development and 
 progress here. He died at the age of seventy-six 
 years, and his widow is still living in Monmouth. 
 
 H. F. Bedwell was two years of age when his 
 mother died, and he then became a member of the 
 household of his maternal grandparents, who, in 
 1852, also started' for Oregon, and with an ox 
 team crossed the plains, being about six months 
 upon the way. They first settled near North 
 Yamhill, and after they came to this state our 
 subject went to live with his father, with whom 
 he remained until twenty-two years of age. In 
 the meantime he acquired his education in the 
 district schools. 
 
 On the 31st of January, 1864, was celebrated 
 the marriage of H. F. Bedwell and Miss Eliza- 
 beth A. Perkins, a daughter of John and Sarah 
 Perkins, who were pioneers of 1844. They began 
 housekeeping upon a farm near North Yamhill, 
 where they lived for fifteen years, and on the 
 expiration of that period they removed to North 
 Yamhill. Here Mr. Bedwell first engaged in the 
 butchering business, but after a year he opened a 
 general mercantile store, which he conducted for 
 twenty-one years, his wife assisting him in the 
 store for fifteen- years. In 1891 he retired from 
 that business, and is now engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, carrying on agricul- 
 tural pursuits with excellent success. In the sea- 
 son of 1902 he raised twenty-six thousand 
 pounds of hops, and this brought to him a good 
 financial return. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bedwell have had no children of 
 their own, but the kindness of their hearts and 
 their sympathetic natures have prompted them 
 to care for a number of orphan children. Mr. 
 Bedwell belongs to the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and has served as treasurer of his 
 lodge. More than half a century has passed 
 since he became a resident of Oregon, and the 
 history of the northwest is therefore largely fa- 
 miliar to him, for he has seen it emerge from the 
 wild forests to take its place amid the ranks of 
 the states, whose development covers a much 
 longer period. He has seen the giant trees cut 
 down to give way to fields of waving grain or 
 the rich pasture lands, has seen the establishment 
 of industries and of commercial enterprises, and 
 
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 in the work of progress he has borne his full 
 that he is now known as a valued citi- 
 s ,. ell .i> an honored pioneer. 
 
 COL I. UNSEY H11-1-. M. D., Ph. D., one 
 
 51 eminent physicians, surgeons and 
 al writers oi the Willamette valley, has 
 n a resident of Oregon since 1853, and since 
 as been continuously engaged in the prac- 
 of his profession in Albany, Linn county. 
 torn m McNairy county. Tenn., February 
 -4;. Dr. Hill inherits his love for medi- 
 cine an.l surgery from his father, Dr. Reuben 
 Coleman Hill. The latter was a native of Ten- 
 and a descendant from an old and hon- 
 I family oi the Old Dominion. He was a 
 iracticing physician and a minister in the Bap- 
 hurch, both of which callings he followed 
 during most of his long and useful life. From 
 Kentucky he removed to Tennessee when a 
 roung man, and there married Margaret Gra- 
 ham Lair, a native of Kentucky. Thereafter he 
 continued to preach and to practice medicine for 
 manv years. Eventually he removed overland 
 Berrj county, Mo., where he lived for seven 
 years, continuing his useful and meritorious 
 labors. 
 
 Leaving his wife and nine children, he gave 
 evidence of his courage and determination bu- 
 ssing the plains on the back of a mule in 1850. 
 After devoting a year to mining and to preach- 
 and practicing medicine in California he 
 canu across the mountains to Oregon. He was 
 well impressed with the conditions which he 
 found in Oregon that he resolved to make it 
 his home. Pending his return to his family he 
 located in Albany, taught the first school estab- 
 lished there, and likewise became the first phy- 
 sician of the place. To the traveler of to-day, 
 the distance already covered by this enterprising 
 pioneer would seem quite sufficient for one life- 
 time, especially when the means employed are 
 considered; yet in 1852 he returned to Missouri 
 in this primitive manner. 
 
 In 1853 Dr. Hill outfitted with ox-teams and 
 wagons and started overland for Oregon with 
 his wife and children. After a journey of about 
 six months they arrived in the Willamette val- 
 lev. and soon afterward settled upon a farm in 
 Benton county. For seven years he made this 
 s home, practicing medicine and preaching the 
 spel. Almost from the first day of his resi- 
 dence in Benton county he wielded a beneficent 
 influence upon the community, which spread year 
 by year until, upon his location in Albany in 
 i860, he had become personally known to every 
 family within a radius of many miles, and was 
 greatly beloved by all. He was intensely inter- 
 d in McMinnville College, of which he was 
 
 one of the founders and For many years a trus- 
 tee, lie traveled extensive!} in behalf of the in- 
 stitution, making one trip to the east, raising 
 Funds for the furtherance of the work of the 
 school. Lie founded four permanent scholar- 
 ships for the benefit of his own descendants and 
 worthy young men who desired to fit themselves 
 for ministry in the Baptist Church. The work 
 which he inaugurated has been carried on since 
 his death by his son, Dr. J. L. Hill, in accord- 
 ance with the wishes of his father. 
 
 When he removed to Albany Dr. Hill took 
 up his residence in the old octagonal house now 
 occupied by his daughter, where he spent the 
 remainder of his life in devotion to the manifold 
 duties which he had imposed upon himself. He 
 took an active and important part in the political 
 undertakings of the county and the state, and for 
 three terms, between 1850 and i860, represented 
 Benton county in the state legislature. In poli- 
 tics he was a Democrat, but viewed all public 
 affairs with a liberal and unprejudiced eye. He 
 belonged to that class of men possessed of an in- 
 finite capacity for hard work, and thought noth- 
 ing of riding long distances at any hour of the 
 day or night, or in any kind of weather, to min- 
 ister to the physical or spiritual necessities of 
 the inhabitants of the valley, all of whom were 
 his friends. In many respects he was of that 
 type of " doctor of the old school " immortalized 
 by Ian McLaren in his stories of Scotch life — 
 " Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush." The great 
 northwest, with its multitude of rugged, sincere, 
 gracious, unselfish, useful men in all walks of 
 life, probably never numbered among its pioneers 
 a man who became more closely endeared to the 
 people of all classes than he ; and his death at 
 the age of eighty-three years, which occurred 
 December 31, 1890, was as deeply deplored as 
 that of any citizen of the Willamette valley. The 
 record of his noble life is eminently entitled to 
 a permanent and conspicuous place in the annals 
 of Oregon, and, besides being a source of pro- 
 found pride to his descendants, should prove an 
 inspiration to representatives of the present and 
 future generations. 
 
 Of the six sons and three daughters born to 
 the union of Reuben Coleman and Margaret 
 (Lair) Hill, four sons and one daughter sur- 
 vive, as follows: W. Lair Hill, an attorney-at- 
 law, now of Oakland, Cal., who compiled the 
 codes of Oregon and Washington ; George Al- 
 fred Hill, an attorney-at-law of Seattle ; Dr. J. 
 Linsey Hill ; H. Taylor Hill, a stock-raiser of 
 Washington county, Ore. ; Margaret Adeline 
 wife of Rev. Rufus Thompson, of Albany. 
 
 Dr. J. Linsey Hill was eight years of age when 
 his father returned to his eastern home from 
 his first journey to the west for the purpose of 
 bringing his family to Oregon with him. His- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 elementary education was received in the public 
 schools of Albany. As a boy he had become 
 familiar with typesetting and other features of 
 the printer's trade, and subsequently was asso- 
 ciated for a short time with T. B. Odcneal in 
 the publication of the Corvallis Gazette. In 1865 
 he began the study of medicine under the super- 
 vision of his father, who carefully assisted him 
 in laying a foundation of scientific knowledge 
 which has proven an important factor in his pro- 
 fessional career. In 1869 he entered the medical 
 department of Willamette University, from 
 which he was graduated in the spring of 1871 
 with the degree of M. D. In 1900 he took a 
 post-graduate course in the New York School of 
 Clinical Medicine. McMinnville College con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of B. A. and the 
 degree of Ph D. was conferred by an eastern 
 school in recognition of his contributions to the 
 medical literature of the day. 
 
 For thirty-two years Dr. Hill has been en- 
 gaged in a general medical and surgical practice, 
 though he has also made a specialty of mental 
 and nervous diseases. He has been a frequent 
 contributor to scientific journals, setting forth the 
 results of his research in and experience with 
 mental disorders, and his work in this direction 
 has received marked attention from the profes-. 
 sion in all parts of the country. He has also 
 contributed profusely to local periodicals, dealing 
 with subjects of immediate interest to the public. 
 
 Since 1895 Dr. Hill has occupied the chair of 
 genito-urinary diseases in the medical depart- 
 ment of Willamette University, and he is sur- 
 geon-general of the Uniformed Rank of the 
 Knights of Pythias. During the administration 
 of Governor Moody he served upon the official 
 staff of the latter with the rank of colonel, his 
 post being that of surgeon-general of the Oregon 
 National Guard. He is past grand chancellor of 
 the Knights of Pythias of the Grand Domain of 
 Oregon. He was made a Mason in Lyon Lodge 
 No. 27, A. F. & A. M., of Independence, and is 
 a charter member of St. John's Lodge, No. 4, of 
 Albany. He is also identified with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 It is doubtful if any resident of Albany has 
 contributed more extensively to its development 
 and its practical upbuilding than has Dr. Hill. 
 The Hill Block, a fine two-story business struc- 
 ture 56x100 feet in ground dimensions, is one 
 of his most important undertakings in this direc- 
 tion. He has erected a large number of resi- 
 dences in Albany, and is the owner of several 
 of the older buildings in the city, about which 
 cluster historical associations of nearly half a 
 century ago. Among his landed possessions are 
 a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in Ben- 
 ton countv, and real estate in Portland and 
 Yaquina Bay. He is an enthusiastic student of 
 
 ornithology, and has a fine collection of mounted 
 birds from, ail parts of the world. He is also the 
 owner of the finest museum in the Willamette 
 valley, including a most complete collection of 
 Indian relics and curios. 
 
 Dr. Hill was united in marriage on December 
 30, 1870, with Mary E. Penington, daughter of 
 S. M. and Abigail (Cooper) Penington, pioneers 
 of Oregon. (For family history see sketch of 
 S. M. Penington, which appears elsewhere in 
 this work.) She died on December 28, 1895, 
 leaving three children. Of these Clyde L., the 
 eldest son, is a doctor of dental surgery and is 
 practicing in Wasco, Ore. ; Gale S. is an attor- 
 ney-at-law of Albany ; and Emily G. resides 
 with her father 
 
 Dr. Hill has always led a strenuous life. In- 
 heriting the characteristics which made his father 
 one of the most remarkable of the pioneer in- 
 habitants of Oregon, among which is a rare ca- 
 pacity for work, he has made each day of his 
 life one of activity and usefulness. He has 
 always exhibited a deep and unselfish interest in 
 all movements which have appealed to him as 
 well-considered efforts to advance the material in- 
 terests of the community, and by the inhabitants 
 of Albany has come to be regarded as one of the 
 most enterprising, discreet and public-spirited 
 men of the city. No man enjoys to a greater 
 extent the confidence of all classes in the com- 
 munity where he has spent the better portion of 
 his life, and no one deserves in a greater degree 
 the appreciation of thoughtful people for that 
 sympathy and help in every movement calculated 
 to elevate the social, intellectual, moral and com- 
 mercial standards of the city. In an eminent de- 
 gree he is entitled to rank among the best class 
 of thoroughly representative men of the Willam- 
 ette valley. 
 
 JOHN F. COOK, one of the great army of 
 pioneers who have helped to develop the agri- 
 cultural resources of Yamhill county, and who 
 rose to prominence and wealth solely upon his 
 own merits and indefatigable energy, was born in 
 Tennessee, January 22, 1828, and died on his 
 farm near McMinnville, March 30, 1899. The 
 paternal grandfather, Thomas Cook, was a sol- 
 died in the Revolutionary war, and spent many 
 years of his life in Georgia, where his son, James, 
 the father of John F., was born February 11, 
 1786. He married Rhoda Faulkner, daughter of 
 a soldier of the Revolution, and who bore him 
 twelve children, all of whom attained maturity, 
 John F. being the tenth oldest. 
 
 Reared on his father's farm in Tennessee, 
 John F. Cook in time branched out into inde- 
 pendent farming, and before starting for the 
 west, March 6, 1852, had a little farm to sell, 
 which defrayed his expenses over the plains. 
 
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 irlier than any other trains that year, 
 
 managed to escape the ravages of 
 
 ■a which rendered hideous the route of 
 
 5 ekers, and he arrived in safety at 
 
 tion in Oregon City, August i6, [852. 
 
 jchausted his finances in outfitting and 
 
 himself on the outward trip, he was 
 
 seek employment with the fanners in 
 
 unty, and during the first winter worked 
 
 rm hand in Yamhill county. For a year he 
 
 his luck in the mines of Eureka. Cal., and 
 
 ik he did not strike it rich, he returned with 
 
 .it replenished finances. For the follow- 
 
 rs he earned about S40 per month at 
 
 11 work in Marion county, and after returning 
 
 1 Yamhill county, continued to lay up money 
 
 farm work wages. In time he was in a 
 
 n to purchase a farm of three hundred 
 
 I twenty acres six miles southwest of Mc- 
 
 dinnville. where he engaged in grain and 
 
 Jc-raising. Being a good manager, and hav- 
 
 ( xcellent business judgment, he from time 
 
 time added to his land and increased the 
 
 lume of business, so that he left to his heirs 
 
 more than twelve hundred acres of desirable farm 
 
 perty. The better to educate his children he 
 
 ought a farm of one hundred and thirty-eight 
 
 acres near McMinnville, with the active man- 
 
 ment of which he was engaged at the time of 
 
 eath. 
 The practical assistance of Mr. Cook was en- 
 listed in all efforts to better the condition of the 
 nmunity in which he lived, and he was es- 
 pecially alive to the benefits of education. In 
 this connection he contributed the land upon 
 which the Cook school house w-as erected, and 
 which has ever since borne his name. He was 
 a Republican in politics, but was inclined to es- 
 ouse the Prohibition platform, so earnestly did 
 believe in the tenets of that party. With 
 his wife he was a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. December 11, i860, Mr. 
 Took was united in marriage to Esther A. Pros- 
 who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daugh- 
 ter of Henry Prosser. of whom more extended 
 mention is made in another part of this work. 
 ( )f the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cook, 
 Mary, the oldest daughter, is deceased ; James, 
 1 graduate of McMinnville College, and of the 
 Medical Department of the University of Ore- 
 ion, is practicing medicine in McMinnville; 
 Rhoda died at the age of three years : Wilbur is a 
 fanner near McMinnville ; Etta is the wife of Rev. 
 H. 1!. Blood, and lives in Xew York state; 
 Royce is living with her mother; and Cora is also 
 living at home. 
 
 MRS. E. A. COOK. Among the pioneer 
 women of Yamhill county whose timely assist- 
 ance and unfailing spirit of courage have 
 
 Smoothed over many rough places and helped 
 
 to place home life in the west on a footing of 
 permanency may be mentioned Mrs. E. A. Cook, 
 wife of Thomas T. Cook, brother of her former 
 husband, John F. Cook. 
 
 Mrs. Cook was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and 
 was reared in Iowa and Illinois until her tenth 
 year, when she crossed the plains with her 
 family. Her father, Henry Prosser, was born in 
 Xew York state, where had settled his father, 
 Philip, after coming to America from his na- 
 tive England. The grandfather established the 
 family in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in 
 business for many years, and where his last davs 
 were spent. Henry Prosser was well fortified 
 with trades, having in his youth mastered both 
 the tailor and painter's trades. After leaving 
 Ohio he lived for five years in Burlington, Iowa, 
 going then to Abingdon, 111., in both of which 
 places he plied his trades. He was ambitious 
 and unsettled in the middle west, and readily 
 absorbed all news concerning the more prolific 
 opportunities in the far northwest. Accordingly 
 he outfitted with wagons and horse teams, and 
 without any particular incident during the fore 
 part of his journey across the plains arrived at 
 Fort Laramie. There the party were enjoying 
 a peaceful camp life and were partaking of an 
 appetizing dinner, when they were surprised by 
 the appearance on the scene of about three hun- 
 dred Indians. Consternation spread among the 
 travelers, for they expected to be massacred 
 forthwith, but the red men proved to be upon a 
 peaceful mission, and intended no harm. By 
 the time they reached Fort Hall winter had set 
 in, so Mr. Prosser decided to stay there until 
 spring, and in the meantime worked at his trade, 
 making many clothes for both Indians and whites, 
 and for the people connected with the Hudson 
 Bay Company. 
 
 In the spring of 1853 Mr. Prosser brought his 
 family on to Milwaukee, and June 4 bought a 
 a place in Powell's valley, where he lived for 
 two years. His next farm was located two miles 
 from Oswego, and consisted of one hundred and 
 sixtv acres, upon which he farmed and raised 
 stock most successfully. Chi this claim was dis- 
 covered the first iron ore found in the state of 
 Oregon, and it proved to be of a particularly 
 rich quality. Mr. Prosser sought relaxation from 
 the cares of his farm in a trip back to his old 
 home in Ohio, going by way of Panama, and 
 while there he died, leaving three children to 
 the care of his wife, who was formerly Mary 
 Hecock, a native of Ireland. Mrs. Prosser 
 who came to America with her brother, settling 
 in Ohio, died in Tillamook, Ore. Of the children. 
 William died in the Friendlv Islands ; Esther A. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 married Air. Cook; and George W. is postmaster 
 at Oswego, Ore. 
 
 Mrs. Cook was educated principally in the 
 public schools and at Oregon City Seminary, and 
 her first marriage occurred December 1 1 , 1 860, 
 with John F. Cook. Mr. Cook became a large land 
 owner in Yamhill county, and at the time of 
 his death owned a property consisting of twelve 
 hundred acres. Seven children were born 
 of this marriage : Mary, who died in Yamhill 
 count) - ; James, a practicing physician of Mc- 
 Minnville, and a graduate of McMinnville Col- 
 lege and the Medical Department of the Univer- 
 sity of Oregon ; Rhoda, who died at the age of 
 three years; Wilbur, who is engaged in farming 
 near his mother's place ; Etta, who is the wife of 
 Rev. H. B. Blood, of New York state ; Royce, 
 who is living at home ; and Cora, who is also 
 living with her mother. The second marriage 
 of Mrs. Cook was with Thomas T. Cook, brother 
 of her former husband, and who also was born 
 in Tennessee. Thomas T. Cook crossed the 
 plains with the rest of his family in 1852, and at 
 once went to the mines of California, gradually 
 making his way to the southern part of the state, 
 where he became interested in horticulture. He 
 improved a number of Orange groves in Cali- 
 fornia, and at the time of his marriage in Feb- 
 ruary, 1902, was living on an orange grove west 
 of Highlands. Mrs. Cook is a member of the 
 Methodist Church, and is president of the Ladies' 
 Aid Society. Also she is identified with the 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and has 
 been evangelistic superintendent for many years. 
 She is a woman of resource and much ability, 
 and her popularity in the vicinity of McMinn- 
 ville is based upon admirable traits of character, 
 and fine social attributes. 
 
 H. C. BURNS, who is engaged in the fur- 
 niture and undertaking business in McMinnville, 
 dates his residence in this city from 1866. He 
 was born in Missouri January 26, 1851, a son of 
 Harrison G. Burns, a native of West Virginia. 
 The paternal grandfather died in West Virginia, 
 where for many years he had practiced law and 
 was well known. The father became a farmer 
 and, removing to Kentucky, was there married 
 to Miss Jane K. Ball, a native of that state and 
 a daughter of William Ball, who was born in 
 Kentucky and belonged to one of its old fam- 
 ilies. Mr. and Mrs. Burns afterward removed 
 to Andrew county, Mo., settling upon the farm 
 which he cultivated and improved until the coun- 
 try became involved in Civil war, when the troops 
 invaded his place. He was a Union man and 
 had sons and sons-in-law in the northern army. 
 On one occasion he and his son-in-law, George 
 Henry, were sitting at home when a party of 
 
 rebels entered the house, saying that they were 
 federal soldiers off guard. They then drew their 
 guns and shot the son-in-law dead and severely 
 wounded the father, but he managed to make his 
 escape into a hemp field, where he lay in hiding 
 for some time. He eventually recovered from 
 his wounds and, disposing of his large landed 
 interests in Missouri, came to Oregon in 1866, 
 accompanied by his family. Settling in .Mc- 
 Minnville he established a general mercantile 
 store here which he conducted successfully for 
 some time, but his last eight years were spent in 
 retirement from labor. His death occurred in 
 Salem October 19, 1894, and his wife died in 
 McMinnville in 1884. In their family were thir- 
 teen children, nine of whom reached adult age, 
 while three are still living. H. C. Burns, how- 
 ever, is the only one now upon the coast. His 
 brother, Harrison G., died in Oregon when a 
 young man. Another brother, David D. Burns, 
 who was a member of the Thirteenth Missouri 
 in the Civil war, was captured at Lexington, Ky., 
 by General Price. He afterward escaped but was 
 captured a second time at Glasgow by the same 
 rebel leader. He was in active service until the 
 time of his second capture, but he was never 
 exchanged. Mr. Burns also had three brothers- 
 in-law who were in the army. 
 
 For fifteen years H. C. Burns remained upon 
 the home farm in the state of his nativity, re- 
 ceiving but limited educational privileges, be- 
 cause of the war which made the continuance 
 of schools in his locality impossible. In 1866 
 the family came to Oregon by way of the Pana- 
 ma route, San Francisco and Portland, arriving 
 in McMinnville in May. The son afterward had 
 the privilege of attending the Baptist College at 
 McMinnville for a few years, and at the same 
 time, during his leisure hours and the periods 
 of vacations, he assisted his father in the store. 
 In 1872 he was married and then began farming 
 ten miles south of McMinnville, where he carried 
 on the work of tilling the soil until 1890, when he 
 sold out and located in the city. He then pur- 
 chased the furniture and undertaking stock of 
 Mrs. Fellows and has since engaged in this line 
 of business. In 1899 he erected a fine two-story 
 brick building 30x125 feet. He now deals quite 
 extensively in furniture of all grades and is also 
 an embalmer and funeral director and has the 
 oldest business of the kind in the county. In 
 the furniture department he has an extensive 
 and well-selected stock and his earnest desire to 
 please his patrons, combined with straightfor- 
 ward business methods, has secured to him a 
 large and growing trade. 
 
 Mr. Burns was married in McMinnville in 1872 
 to Miss Mary L. Payne, who was born in Yam- 
 hill county, a daughter of Caleb J. Payne, who 
 came from the Mississippi valley to Oregon in 
 
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 623 
 
 days ami began fanning here in [849. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bums were born three chil- 
 
 Annie, the wife of II. R. Bills, of Union 
 
 Ore.; Jennie, who died at the age of 
 
 LMi years; and William Hollis, who is with 
 
 father in business. 
 
 Burns is now serving for the second term 
 1 member of the cit) council of McMinnville 
 - a member of the committee that drew 
 p the now city charter in 1902. He has always 
 n an earnest Democrat and has long been 
 ember oi the county committee, while for 
 uccessive years he was its chairman, lie 
 - to the hoard of trade, is connected with 
 Ige and endowment rank of the Knights of 
 Pythias, holds membership with the Woodmen 
 the World and belongs to the Methodist Epis- 
 opal Church. His is a well rounded character. 
 IK 5 g od practical common sense, add- 
 
 ed to keen business ability, a pleasant manner 
 and cordial disposition. Such qualities have made 
 him popular and Mr. Burns is well liked by young 
 ami old, rich and poor. 
 
 PETER HUME. For a great many years 
 the name of Peter Hume has been identified 
 with the commercial and political development 
 oi Brownsville and Linn county, and for the 
 
 - thirty-five years he has been a prominent 
 and familiar figure at Republican conventions. 
 The early life of this prosperous northwest- 
 erner was spent in Nova Scotia, where he was 
 lorn on the Isle of Cape Breton, August 16, 
 
 . >. and where his family name was asso- 
 ciated with large lumbering and ship-building 
 His paternal great-grandfather, 
 Peter, of Scotch descent, lived at one time in 
 Maine, where was born the grandfather, Peter, 
 the founder of the family in New Brunswick 
 and Nova Scotia. Reaching the latter country 
 ibout 1815. he engaged in lumbering and ship- 
 building, and in his clay was a veritable lumber 
 king, owning much timber land and many 
 ships. In an unfortunate hour he built a ship, 
 loaded it with lumber for the English market, 
 but after setting sail nothing was ever hear.] 
 of sbip or crew or owner. The lumber king 
 had left his business in good hands, however, 
 for. while yet a youth, his son George, the 
 father of Peter, had been trained in the various 
 departments of the trade, and for several years 
 before the departure upon the sea of the old 
 ship-builder. George Hume had practically 
 managed the enterprise. He was born in either 
 Maine or New Hampshire, and was engaged 
 in lumbering and ship-building almost up to 
 the time of his death, at the age of sixty'. Pie 
 married Christy McKay, who was born in 
 
 Scotland, daughter of Donald McKay, and 
 who bore him the following children: Cassic 
 deceased ; John, living in Australia; Mary, liv- 
 ing at Reading, near Boston, Mass.; Peter; 
 George, in New York City; Annie, living in 
 Nova Scotia; David, engaged in mining in 
 Alaska; Donald, a sea-faring man; Sarah, liv- 
 ing in Oakland, Cal. ; Joseph, a resident of 
 Brownsville, and Maggie, living in Olympia. 
 
 In Nova Scotia Peter Hume had small op- 
 portunity for acquiring an education, for as 
 early as fourteen years of age he apprenticed 
 to a carriagemaker for four years, and, in 1858, 
 began a similar apprenticeship to a house- 
 painter. In 1862 he came to Oregon via New 
 York, the Isthmus of Panama and San Fran- 
 cisco, and the following year, in 1862, he went 
 to British Columbia, located at Nanaimo, 
 where he worked in the mines, and at house- 
 painting and paper-hanging. The year 1863 
 found him seeking for gold in the great Cari- 
 boo mines in northern British Columbia, and, 
 in 1867, he returned to Oregon, locating at 
 Brownsville. For some time he worked at his 
 trade and became much interested in the po- 
 litical agitations then rife throughout the 
 northwest, little realizing at the time the prom- 
 inence he was to attain in the community. In 
 1872 he engaged in the general merchandise 
 business with the late W. R. Kirk, but sold his 
 interest in 1876, and engaged in farming on a 
 farm of three hundred and sixty acres near 
 Brownsville. In the meantime, in 1873, with 
 Thomas Kay and others, he re-established the 
 Brownsville Woolen mills and was elected 
 president of the company, an enterprise in 
 which he was interested for many years, and 
 which he was largely instrumental in keeping 
 in Brownsville, for, in 1887, parties in Albany 
 offered a bonus of $25,000 if the mills would 
 move to that city but Mr. Hume stepped in, 
 organized a new company, bought the mills, 
 and they have since been a means of employing 
 labor and stimulating the business life of the 
 town. In 1887, with J, M. Mover and W. R. 
 Kirk, he organized the Bank of Brownsville, 
 and. in 1892, he removed to Roseburg, where 
 he became cashier of the Douglas County 
 Bank, remaining in that capacity for five years. 
 During that time the bank passed through the 
 financial panic that wrecked many institutions 
 throughout the country, and, during this panic, 
 the bank's deposits diminished over eighty-five 
 per cent. Returning to Brownsville directly 
 after the presidential election of 1896, he re- 
 sumed his former association with the Bank of 
 Brownsville, retiring from the presidency two 
 years later, in 1898. Tn 1899 ne returned to 
 farming again, but, in 1902, he took charge of 
 the planing-mill, which he managed and put on 
 
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 a good paying basis ; but, finding tbe duties too 
 heavy, he retired from the business in 1903. 
 
 Like a sentinel, Mr. Hume has stood by the 
 Republican party in this state, backing it finan- 
 cially and with his own personal efforts, during 
 the trying days of its rising supremacy in the 
 west. He was president of the first city coun- 
 cil of Brownsville, and served his first term as 
 postmaster in 1873, being appointed to the 
 same office again in 1881. Pie was the first 
 recorder of this city, serving two terms, and he 
 has been school clerk three or four terms. 
 Fraternally, he is associated with Brownsville 
 Lodge No*. 36, A. F. & A. M., and Lynn Chap- 
 ter No. 19, R. A. M. 
 
 September 9, 1879, Mr. Hume was united in 
 marriage with Mary Walter, daughter of Elias 
 and Naomi J. Walter. Mr. Walter was one 
 of the early settlers of the Willamette valley, 
 and located near Brownsville about the same 
 time as Hon. H. L. Brown, Alexander Kirk 
 and James Blakely, the latter being the only 
 survivor of this, at one time, well known quar- 
 tette. Mr. Walter took a prominent part in 
 the early politics of his neighborhood, was 
 justice of the peace in his precinct for many 
 years and was elected county treasurer in 1861. 
 He was also a member of the territorial 
 legislature which sat in Oregon City in 
 1849. His death occurred in 1867. In early 
 manhood he married Naomi Williams, whose 
 mother was born in Ontario county, N. 
 Y., in 1825, and who moved to Michigan with 
 her parents when four years of age, six years 
 later moving to Illinois, her father having 
 died in the meantime. Eleven years later the 
 Williams family settled in Scott county, Iowa, 
 and, in 1845, Naomi crossed the plains to Ore- 
 gon with her brothers, Charles Austin and 
 Enos C. Williams, Mr. Walter being also one 
 of the party under command of Captain Holli- 
 day. Arriving at the south fork of the Platte 
 river they were surrounded by about five hun- 
 dred Pawnee Indians who tried to stampede 
 their stock, and who held them there during 
 one whole and the part of another night. 
 Knowing that United States troops were 
 within a day's march from them they managed 
 to hold off the Indians with threats and the 
 promise of a cow or two, and were thus al- 
 lowed to proceed with their stock. Neverthe- 
 less, the red men raided their camp and plun- 
 dered their wagons of considerable provisions, 
 but further than that they had no trouble up to 
 the time of their arrival in Oregon, November 
 I, 1845. Miss Williams was married at the 
 home of her brother, Enos Williams, in Amity, 
 Ore., October 10, 1846, to Elias L. Walter, and 
 thus the courtship begun on the plains had a 
 happy termination. The young people came 
 
 to their claim on the Calapooya, fording the 
 Willamette with their ox-teams, and improv- 
 ing the property which is still in the possession 
 of Mrs. Walter's heirs. This pioneer woman 
 (Mrs. Walter) became well known among the 
 early settlers, and in honor of her courageous 
 and fearless life in the midst of danger and ad- 
 versity, the local cabin of the Native Daugh- 
 ters of Oregon was named in her honor. Two 
 daughters survive her, Mrs. Hume and Ellen, 
 the wife of G. W. McHargue, late sheriff of 
 Linn county. Of the children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hume six are living: Maude, the wife of 
 C. P. Snyder ; Clair Austin ; Percy E. ; Christy 
 J. ; Anna I., and Alice L. Mr. Hume is now 
 perfecting a plan to establish a reservoir on 
 Powell Hill, three hundred feet above the 
 town, and thus furnish to the city of Browns- 
 ville a water system for domestic use and for 
 fire protection. 
 
 GEORGE W. HENDERSHOTT is an hon- 
 ored veteran of the Civil war, and back of him is 
 an ancestry honorable and distinguished because 
 of loyal service in behalf of the country upon its 
 battlefields. He was born in Lenawee county, 
 Mich., October 5, 1848, the youngest of the four 
 children of George and Mahala (Westcott) Hen- 
 dershott. The father was born in Pennsylvania 
 and was a son of William Hendershott, who was 
 also a native of the Keystone state, and served 
 his country in the war of 1812. Removing to 
 Lenawee county, Mich., in pioneer times, he set- 
 tled near Tecumseh, where he followed farming 
 until his death. He was of German descent. 
 George Hendershott was a loyal defender of the 
 United States in the Mexican war, and of the 
 same family is Robert Hendershott, the hero of 
 the Rappahannock. George Hendershott died 
 during the infancy of our subject, and the 
 mother, who was born in Lenawee county, Mich., 
 and was of New England descent, passed away 
 when her youngest son was but five years of age. 
 In the family were three boys and one girl, and 
 two brothers are still living, these being James 
 and George. William, the eldest, was a member 
 of the Fourth. Regiment of Michigan Infantry 
 during the Civil war, was held for seven months 
 in Libby prison, and died in Michigan. James, 
 who served in the Third Michigan Cavalry, is 
 now a resident of Russell county, Kans. 
 
 Left an orphan at the early age of five years, 
 George W. Hendershott lived with strangers 
 through the period of his youth, receiving a lim- 
 ited education in the district schools, and ample 
 training at farm labor, as he worked in field and 
 meadows for those with whom he resided. He 
 permanently put aside his text-books when fif- 
 teen years of age, and in February, 1863, he vol- 
 
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 5< rvice in the Civil war as a de- 
 
 the L'nion cause, becoming a member 
 
 in\ P. riiircl Michigan Cavalry, which 
 
 ,,1 to the Sixteenth Army Corps of 
 
 i the West, lie served in Missouri, 
 
 tlic Banks expedition up the Reel river, 
 
 i part in various engagements in Arkansas, 
 
 anil Louisiana, and following the 
 
 i Mobile, assisted in the capture of Fort 
 
 and Spanish Fort. While at Little 
 
 \rk.. in 18(4, he voted tor Abraham Lin- 
 
 r the presidency, tor though not yet of 
 
 the privilege of voting was granted to all 
 
 - in the field. 1 le was mustered out at 
 
 a 1 Orleans, and honorablv discharged in the 
 
 fall of t8 
 
 Mr. Hendershott then returned to Michigan, 
 and soon afterward began working in the lumber 
 - of Wisconsin. Lie also spent three years 
 n the lumber mills of ( )shkosh, Wis., after which 
 e went to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, 
 mployed in mills for five or six years. 
 to < hnro, Wis., he was there married, and 
 purchasing a small tract of land in that locality, 
 engaged in farming until 1872, when he 
 1 to Russell. Kans.. where he conducted a 
 lOtel and livery barn, also had a mail and stage 
 route. He was in charge of the mail route for 
 me hundred and fifty miles north of Red Cloud, 
 .. and fifty miles south of Great Bend, Kans. 
 In 1886. he sold his livery business and engaged 
 1 the cattle business, and his enterprise made 
 n well known in his portion of Kansas, while 
 is capability led to his selection for a number of 
 1 iffices. He served as a member of the city coun- 
 il of Russell, Kans., was marshal for six years, 
 deputy sheriff for four years, and sheriff of that 
 runty for four years, and in the discharge of his 
 duties was ever found prompt and faithful. A 
 Republican in politics, he attended the state con- 
 ventions and had considerable influence in public 
 affairs. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Hendershott came to Oregon, 
 ling in Stayton, Marion county, where he 
 lucted a hotel for a year, and then went to 
 1 urner. where he continued in the hotel business 
 until 1895. when he came to McMinnville. and 
 has since been proprietor of the Commercial 
 House. He is a popular host, for he puts forth 
 every effort to promote the comfort of his guests, 
 and has the faculty of meeting people in a man- 
 ner that indicates a friendly, cordial and genuine 
 spirit. 
 
 When in Wisconsin, Mr. Hendershott was 
 married to Miss Delia A. Wiles, who was born 
 in Xew York, and they have three children : 
 Jesse, a farmer of Yamhill county; Clarence, 
 who is with his father, and Mabel, at home. Mr. 
 Hendershott was made a Mason in Russell. 
 Kans., and is now a member of Union Lodge 
 
 No. 43. F. & A. M. lie also took the chapter 
 degree of Royal Arch Masonry in Russell, Kans.. 
 and he belongs to the lodge and uniformed ranks 
 of the Knights of Pythias of McMinnville, and 
 
 to Custer 1'ost, (i. A. R., of McMinnville, of 
 which he is a past commander. He is identified 
 with the Hoard of Trade, and is well known as 
 an earnest Republican, who has served as a 
 member of the county central committee of his 
 party. In matters of .citizenship he has fully up- 
 held the splendid family record for patriotism, 
 and is as true and loyal to his country as he was 
 when he followed the nation's starry banner upon 
 the battlefields of the south. 
 
 JOHN T. WOOD. Pleasantly located near 
 Amity, Ore., John T. Wood is successfully car- 
 rying on general farming and stock-raising. He 
 was born November 1. 1853, in Sullivan county, 
 Mo., a son of Henry Wood, a native of Monroe 
 county, that state, born in 1825 and a farmer 
 by occupation. He married Ara Smith, also a 
 native of that state, and they resided upon a 
 farm near Sullivan postoffice until 1864. when 
 desiring to establish a home in the far west and 
 take advantage of its better opportunities, they 
 started on the long and difficult journev across 
 the plains, their wagon being drawn by a team 
 of oxen. The train was known as the Big Mis- 
 souri train, and Eli Watson was chosen as its 
 captain. They were upon the road six months, 
 and though there were hardships and difficul- 
 ties to be met, they had no trouble with the Indi- 
 ans, being unmolested by the savages, who had 
 perpetrated so many horrors upon many other 
 emigrants. They made their way direct to Port- 
 land and the W^ood family came on to Yamhill 
 county, the father of our subject establishing his 
 home upon a farm near Amity. Here both he 
 and his wife lived until called to their final rest, 
 the former dying at the age of seventy-one years 
 and the latter when seventy-four years of age. 
 They had ten children, all of whom are now 
 living: Hester A., the wife of F. Wood, of Mc- 
 Minnville; W r illard H, a resident of Salem; 
 Robert F., who is living near Amity; Mary D., 
 the widow of Thomas T. Cooper, of Hopewell ; 
 Benjamin F., who makes his home in Idaho; 
 Susan E., the wife of J. Michael, of Corvallis. 
 Ore.; John T., Nancy J., the wife of Frank 
 Stephens, of Hopewell, ( )re. : William LI., who 
 is living near Whiteson, and Ella, the wife of 
 Charles Cooper, of Hopewell. The parents were 
 valued members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, with which Mr. Wood was identified 
 from the age of twelve years. He was a very 
 prominent and influential man who probably had 
 
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 not an enemy in the world and all who knew him 
 esteemed him for his genuine worth. 
 
 John T. Wood remained under the parental 
 roof until the time of his marriage, and in the 
 district schools he obtained his education. He 
 wedded Dullcenia Cooper, who was born in Iowa 
 and with her people came to Oregon in 1865. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wood began housekeeping on the 
 Richardson donation claim about two miles north 
 of Hopewell, and their home was blessed with 
 four children : Thomas A., now deceased; George 
 W., Charles E. and Henry C, who are still un- 
 der the parental roof. In 1896 the wife and 
 mother died and Mr. Wood afterward married 
 Miss Rebecca J. Potter, a native of Tennessee, 
 daughter of D. W. and Mary (Simmerly) Pot- 
 ter, by whom he has one daughter, Myrtle E. 
 
 Mr. Wood is the owner of one hundred and 
 seventy acres of land and in connection with gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising he conducts a 
 thresher and is engaged in sawing wood. He 
 has ten acres of land planted to hops and upon 
 his farm is a fine bunch of Jersey cattle. All of 
 the improvements upon his place stand there as 
 monuments to his thrift and enterprise and he 
 has one of the fine country homes of Yamhill 
 county. Neatness and thrift characterize every- 
 thing about his farm and the place is now a very 
 valuable one, giving evidence of the careful su- 
 pervision of the owner. 
 
 Mr. Wood takes quite an active part in politics 
 and keeps well informed on the issues of the 
 day, giving his support to the Democracy because 
 its platform contains the best elements of good 
 government. He is now serving as road super- 
 visor and has been a member of the school board. 
 He belongs to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and is one. of the promoters of the 
 rural free delivery route No 1 out of Amity. He 
 deserves great credit for his interest in this 
 matter, and in it, as in all matters of citizenship, 
 he has been progressive and public spirited. 
 
 JOHN W. COOVERT. A resume of the 
 men who have been important factors in the de- 
 velopment of Yamhill county would be incom- 
 plete were no mention to be made of John W. 
 Coovert, a valiant soldier during the Civil war, 
 and at present the owner of two hundred and 
 fourteen acres of land in one of the most fertile 
 parts of the county. Mr. Coovert was born in 
 Preble county, Ohio, February 5, 1845, an d was 
 one of a family of six children born to his parents, 
 who were farmers. As his parents died when 
 he was an infant, he was bound out to an uncle, 
 with whom he remained until fifteen years of age. 
 For two years after leaving his uncle's home he 
 was employed at farm worK- in the neighborhood, 
 but as at that time the Civil war was in full 
 swing, he threw aside the shackles of the peace- 
 
 ful occupation and enlisted in his country's serv- 
 ice. 
 
 In August, 1862, Mr. Coovert became a mem- 
 ber of Company I, Sixty-seventh Indiana Volun- 
 teer Infantry, and after being mustered in at 
 Madison, was sent to Louisville, Ky. From 
 there they went to Mumfordville, Ky., where they 
 were captured, and being paroled the next day, 
 were sent back to Indiana. After remaining in 
 camp in Indianapolis for some time, they were 
 exchanged and sent to Cairo and Memphis and 
 different parts of the south, and finally partici- 
 pated in the Vicksburg campaign, during which 
 Mr. Coovert was captured with about four thous- 
 and others at the battle of Carrion Crow, and 
 held for fifty-two days near Alexandria. After 
 being paroled he was sent to New Orleans and 
 held until June 1, 1864, and after being ex- 
 changed, went to Baton Rouge, and there re- 
 joined his regiment. The next engagement in 
 which he participated was at Dauphin Island, 
 and from there he went to Ft. Morgan, where 
 the siege lasted twenty-three days. Returning to 
 New Orleans, from there he proceeded up the 
 river, going into camp near Ft. Pickens, and re- 
 maining there until March, 1865. He next par- 
 ticipated in the siege of Ft. Blakely, from there 
 went to Selma, Ala., then to Mobile, remaining 
 until June 1, 1865, and finally, with his regiment, 
 was mustered out at Galveston, Tex. 
 
 For a year after the war Mr. Coovert remained 
 in Ohio, and then went to Elkhart county, Ind., 
 where he married Miss Marguerite Fudge, a na- 
 tive of Ohio, and thereafter lived in the same 
 locality for about three years. In 1869, Mr. 
 Coovert went to San Francisco, and from there 
 came to Oregon by water, and after stopping in 
 Portland one day, he settled upon his present 
 farm in Yamhill county. When he purchased the 
 farm there were about twelve acres cleared, but 
 he now has one hundred and fifteen acres cleared, 
 and has made many valuable improvements in 
 other ways. November 2, 1873, Mrs. Marguerite 
 Coovert died, leaving three children, of whom 
 Letha E. is the wife of M. M. Banister, of Van- 
 couver, Wash. ; W. A. lives in Centralia, Wash. ; 
 and Asher resides in Salem, Ore. For his second 
 wife Mr. Coovert married Hannah E. Sargent, 
 a, native of Iowa. Mr. Coovert is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, a mixed breed 
 of Jerseys being his principal brand. He takes 
 an active interest in all matters pertaining to the 
 general upbuilding of his neighborhood, and is 
 especially prominent in fraternal circles, being 
 past master of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, in which he has passed all of the 
 chairs. He is also a member of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic. In politics he is a Republican, 
 and in religion is identified with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 

 
 
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 ABEL A LEONARD, M. 1'.. whose resi- 
 
 n covers a period from 1852 down 
 
 sent time, was born in Kingston, Cald- 
 
 ;i county. Mo., March 10. [852. He was, 
 
 therefore, but an infant when brought to the 
 
 His father, Leicester Upham Leon- 
 
 w.in born in Pennsylvania, March 23, 1809, 
 
 son oi Abel Leonard, whose birth 
 
 urred at West Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Leonard, Sr., was a son of Austin Leon- 
 name of Massachusetts, and of either 
 sh or Scotch descent. Abel Leonard mar- 
 I Abi Leonard in Massachusetts, and after- 
 ward removed to Pennsylvania, locating in 
 Springfield township, Bradford county, in 1804. 
 Hi was a tanner by trade, and was engaged in 
 business for many years at Leonard's Hollow, 
 which is now Leona, Bradford county, Pa. In 
 1829 he removed to Ohio, and with his son 
 Leicester (J. engaged in shoemaking. He died 
 at Richmond Center, that state, when about 
 seventy-seven years of age. In 1828 Leicester 
 I". Leonard had removed to Ohio and located 
 near Richmond Center, where he followed shoe- 
 making and was later joined by his father. At 
 the age of twenty-six years he was married in 
 Richmond Center to Miss Cynthia (Lapham) 
 Blanchard, who died in Oregon. About 1839 
 they removed from Ohio to Missouri, settling 
 in Kingston, Caldwell county, where the father 
 studied medicine. 
 
 In 1852 he brought his family to Oregon, 
 ettling about four miles south of Silverton, 
 where he secured a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres. After three years 
 e sold this and bought another farm southwest 
 of the town. In 1856, in partnership with Ralph 
 leer, he engaged in the nursery business in 
 the Waldo hills, following that pursuit for two 
 years, after which he turned his attention to 
 farming and also engaged in shoemaking. He 
 - at one time the owner of an orchard which 
 rated as the most splendidly cultivated in the 
 valley. Mr. Leonard took great pride in its 
 care, and its output was awarded prizes at the 
 state fairs. It contained six acres planted to all 
 kinds of fruits of the best qualities. Mr. Leonard 
 died in the Waldo hills March 20, 1869, respected 
 by all who knew him. His wife was a native of 
 Xew York and a daughter of John Blanchard, 
 who removed from the Empire state to Ohio, 
 where he carried on farming. Later he took 
 up his abode seventeen miles from Detroit, Mich., 
 at a little town called Farmington, and there he 
 died when about eighty years of age. Unto Mr. 
 and Mrs. Leonard were born three sons and a 
 daughter : Yolney, who follows farming and re- 
 sides at Silverton at the age of sixty-six years; 
 Ellen Sylvania, who is the wife of Calvin' Geer, 
 
 a ranchman of Burns, ( >re.; Abel A. ; and I torace 
 Wade, who is a stenographer in Portland, Ore. 
 Dr. Abel A. Leonard obtained his early edu- 
 cation in the public schools oi the Waldo hills 
 and afterward continued his studies in Silverton 
 until he had prepared lor entrance in the Willam- 
 ette University in the fall of 1872. He spent 
 six months as a student there at that time and 
 afterward returned to the same school in 1876. 
 Not long afterward he went to Utah, and for six 
 months was a student in the University of 
 Deseret at Salt Lake City. Between the years 
 1 87 1 and 1876 Dr. Leonard was successfully en- 
 gaged in teaching school in Marion county in 
 order to secure the means necessary for the" ac- 
 quirement of further education. He also* worked 
 upon a farm during a part of the time. In 1877 
 he was employed as teacher of a school near 
 Salt Lake City, where he remained until the 
 spring of 1878, and then went to Montana. Dur- 
 ing the winter of 1878-9 he was principal of the 
 public schools of Virginia City, Mont., and in 
 the latter year he returned to Salt Lake City, 
 Utah, where he was again engaged in teaching. 
 In the spring of 1880 he was appointed to the 
 position of census enumerator of Salt Lake City, 
 and in the summer of that year he was appointed 
 special enumerator for the manufacturing indus- 
 tries of that place. In the winter of 1881 he en- 
 tered a wholesale and retail hardware and grocery 
 house owned by the firm of Kimball & Lawrence 
 at Salt Lake City, in the capacity of clerk and 
 bookkeeper, filling this position until 1883, when 
 the firm sold out. Dr. Leonard was afterward 
 connected with different business interests and on 
 February 1, 1884, as corresponding clerk in the 
 central office, he entered the employ of the Singer 
 Manufacturing Company, with which he re- 
 mained for five years. In 1889 he was promoted 
 to the position of chief clerk and acted in that 
 capacity for a year and a half, when he resigned 
 in the fall of 1890. 
 
 Dr. Leonard then went to St. Louis, Mo., and 
 entered the St. Louis Hygienic College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, in which he completed a full 
 course of study and was then graduated in the 
 spring of 1893. He next took post-graduate 
 work in Chicago in the summer of 1893, and then 
 went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was en- 
 gaged in practice for a year. In 1894 he was 
 placed in charge of the Brewster Sanitarium at 
 Oneonta, Cal. In the fall of 1896 he removed to 
 Oregon, establishing his home at Huntington, 
 where he became railroad surgeon for the Oregon 
 Railroad & Navigation and the Oregon Short 
 Line Railroad Companies. He also conducted a 
 general practice there until the fall of 1897, when 
 he removed to Silverton, where he has since re- 
 mained. In the intervening years he has built 
 up a splendid practice, receiving patronage from 
 
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 a large number of the best homes of the city. In 
 1899 the doctor built a fine residence on Main 
 street and he also has a splendidly equipped office. 
 
 On the nth of May, 1881, Dr. Leonard was 
 married in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Miss Nellie 
 M. Van Dam, who was born in Holland, a daugh- 
 ter of Cornelius and Catherine Van Dam, also 
 natives of the same country. Cornelius Van Dam 
 died while en route to Salt Lake City in 1864. 
 Unto the doctor and his wife have been born two 
 children, Lyman Austin, who was born March 
 22, 1882, and is now a sophomore in the Oregon 
 State Agricultural College at Corvallis ; and 
 Leicester Thurston, who was born March 9, 1889, 
 and died on the 21st of June of that year. 
 
 Dr. Leonard is connected with the lodge, en- 
 campment and Rebekah degree of the Odd Fel- 
 lows, the Woodmen of the World, the Fraternal 
 Circle and the United Artisans. In his political 
 views he is a Republican but is very liberal on 
 such questions. His religious belief is indicated 
 by a creed of his own framing: "So live today 
 that tomorrow will bring no regrets." That he 
 exemplifies this creed in his life is well known to 
 all who are acquainted with him. There is no 
 resident of Silverton more worthy of the regard 
 of his fellow-men than Dr. Leonard. He de- 
 serves great credit for what he has accomplished. 
 Beginning life in a very humble capacity he re- 
 solved to work his way upward, and directed his 
 efforts into the channels calling for strong in- 
 tellectuality and marked business ability. Stead- 
 ily he has advanced and today he occupies an 
 honored and prominent position among his fel- 
 low-men. 
 
 JAMES R. DERBY. The lamented death of 
 James R. Derby on his well-improved farm, one 
 mile west of McMinnville, January 10, 1902, re- 
 called to his many friends and associates the very 
 creditable career of this prominent upbuilder of 
 Yamhill county. Mr. Derby was one of the many 
 sons of New York who have found their way to 
 the extreme west, bringing with them the stable 
 traits of the more conservative east, and applying 
 them with satisfactory results to the unsettled 
 conditions which characterized their new home. 
 He was born in" New York August 26, 1826, his 
 parents, grand-parents, and more remote fore- 
 fathers having been engaged in farming "during 
 their entire active lives. 
 
 There were eleven children in the family of 
 Mr. Derby, and in 1831 the parents and children 
 removed to Michigan, where the children worked 
 hard on the paternal farm, and where they irregu- 
 larly attended the early subscription school in 
 their neighborhood. His services no longer re- 
 quired on the- home farm, J. R. Derby started out 
 to make an independent living, and for about two 
 
 years gained a good deal of practical experience 
 among the timber lands in the northern part of 
 the state of Michigan. After his marriage, in 
 1 85 1, to Lucy A. Olds, a native of St. Joseph 
 county, Mich., he lived for about six months in 
 Hillsdale, Mich., and during that time formulated 
 plans for emigration to the west in the spring. 
 This move meant a great deal to the aspiring 
 young man, yet his wife was hopeful as himself, 
 and together they settled their affairs and planned 
 to leave all they held dear behind them. With a 
 wagon and two yoke of oxen they joined a train 
 under command of James H. Olds, who safely 
 conducted the pioneers to Oregon, the journey 
 taking the greater part of eight months. At 
 once Mr. Derby came to Yamhill county and took 
 up a donation claim, six miles north of Lafayette, 
 where he lived for five years, and thereafter en- 
 gaged in the grocery business in Lafayette for 
 about two years. The next home, and the one 
 upon which this honored pioneer passed nine 
 years, was advantageously located on Deer creek, 
 and from there, in 1869, he removed to the farm 
 now occupied by his widow and son. Of the two 
 hundred and forty-nine acres in this farm, the 
 entire amount is under cultivation, and the 
 amount of work entailed in this operation ap- 
 peals to all who have taken up timber land in 
 Oregon. Mr. Derby was a practical and success- 
 ful farmer, in connection with which work he 
 associated many outside interests, and many ef- 
 forts to secure a stable and progressive state of 
 affairs in the county. His political preference lay 
 with the Republican party, and he always took an 
 active interest in local political undertakings. Al- 
 though not an office seeker, he held many posi- 
 tions of trust and responsibility in the commu- 
 nity, among them being that of school trustee and 
 clerk, road supervisor, and councilman. Of the 
 five children born to himself and wife, Eliza J. is 
 the wife of Joseph Garrison, of Idaho ; Jerome is 
 engaged in the feed business in McMinnville ; 
 William is engaged in business in Gresham ; Mary 
 is the wife of Jesse High, of McMinnville, and 
 James D. is living with his mother. Mrs. Derby 
 has proved herself an excellent manager since the 
 death of her husband, and with her son maintains 
 the progressive policy adopted and always in- 
 sisted on by her estimable husband. 
 
 A. C. CHANDLER, of McMinnville, has 
 been prominent in the establishment and 
 control of one of the leading enterprises 
 of Oregon, the Oregon Fire Relief Asso- 
 ciation, of which he is now the secretary. He 
 was born in Clackamas county, this state, Julv 
 26, 1856, and comes of an old New England 
 family. His paternal grandfather was born, lived 
 and died in Vermont. His father, the Rev. George 
 
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 indler, \\a> a native of Chester, \ t., and 
 I his education in Rochester College, of 
 V Y.. in which he was graduated, 
 hi the Green Mountain state he was ordained to 
 nistr) of the Baptist Church, and at an 
 ■!v day in the development oi Indiana he went 
 ■ state, where for several years he served 
 sident of Franklin College. The rapidly 
 west with its opportunities for min- 
 .! labor, however, attracted him and in 1852 
 lie came t" * >regon accompanied by his wife and 
 three children. They made the long journey 
 • the plains with an ox team, traveling with 
 train, and on reaching their destination Rev. 
 Mr. Chandler secured a donation land claim on 
 Mill creek, fourteen miles east of Oregon City. 
 only diil he give his attention to the develop- 
 ment of his farm, hut to some extent he engaged 
 in teaching in ( )regon City, and in 1858 he came 
 t<> Yamhill county and aided in the organization 
 and became the first president of McMinnville 
 which was formed under the auspices of 
 the Baptist denomination. In i860 he returned 
 I "lackamas county, but in 1862 he again came 
 McMinnville as president of the college, and 
 ed in that capacity for four or five years, when 
 he resigned. He was a pioneer minister of Ore- 
 and labored most earnestly, zealously and 
 effectively for the spread of the gospel. He took 
 tost active part in organizing the Baptist 
 lutrch here, and remained a resident of McMinn- 
 ville until 1873. In that year he accepted a call 
 lie pastorate of the Baptist Church in Forest 
 < irove, where he died in 1883. His wife, Persis 
 W. Heald. was born in Chester, Yt., and still 
 surviving her husband, is now living in Forest 
 In the family were six children : Ed- 
 ward K-, who is a graduate of the Madison Uni- 
 versity of New York, and is now professor in 
 e theological department in Ottawa College, in 
 fetawa, Kan. ; Julia C. who is the wife of Judge 
 W Lair Hill, a distinguished jurist of Berkeley. 
 Cal., and the author of Hill's Code ; Mrs. Sarah 
 Roberts, of Forest Grove; Airs. Mary Clark, of 
 Berkeley, Cal. : A. C. of this review, and William 
 T... who died in Forest Grove in 1887. 
 
 Throughout the greater part of his life A. C. 
 Chandler has resided in McMinnville, and after 
 attending the public schools for a time he con- 
 tinued his education in McMinnville College. He 
 then engaged in farming for ten or twelve years, 
 Mowed by several years' service as a bookkeeper 
 n the employ of different firms in McMinnville. 
 n 1896 he accepted the position with the Oregon 
 Fire Relief Association, and in 1900 was elected 
 secretary. This was established as a county 
 mutual fire association, but a year or two later 
 was extended to cover four adjoining counties. 
 A year thus passed and it was increased to take 
 m the Willamette valley, and when another year 
 
 had gone by the scope of the enterprise was ex- 
 tended until it embraced the entire state. The 
 growth of the business has been almost phenom- 
 enal, the company having entered upon an era 
 of continued progress. Now there are twenty 
 thousand members representing every county in 
 the state and over $13,000,000 of insurance i- 
 now theirs, this being more than one-eighth of 
 the entire fire insurance carried in the state. This 
 is all the more remarkable when it is known the 
 company takes no mercantile risks. There is a 
 branch office at No. 719 Marquam Building, in 
 Portland, but all policies are issued from the 
 main office at McMinnville. This is strictly a 
 mutual association and the average cost is less 
 than forty per cent of the regular stock insurance 
 companies' rates. The busmess has been most 
 capably and successfully managed and the loss 
 ratio is only about twenty-five" per cent of the 
 regular stock companies. 
 
 Mr. Chandler chose as a companion and help- 
 mate for life's journey Miss Mollie Lynch, who 
 was born in Yamhill county, a daughter of one 
 of the pioneers of the county. They have one 
 child, George C. Mr. Chandler holds mem- 
 bership with the Woodmen of the World and is 
 a Prohibitionist in his political views, and at 
 different times has served as a nominee of the 
 party for county offices. He belongs to the 
 Baptist Church, in which he is acting on the 
 board of trustees, and for fifteen vears he has 
 been one of its deacons. He has' also been a 
 member of the board of trustees and secretary of 
 McMinnville College since 1886, and in 1898 
 he was active in the re-incorporation of the col- 
 lege. Although his life is a busy one. largely 
 taken up by the onerous duties of his business, 
 he yet finds time and opportunity to aid in the 
 moral development of the county and is a very 
 influential and honored man. 
 
 MERRITT MILLER. As one of the enter- 
 prising farmers of Yamhill county Merritt Miller 
 is entitled to mention among the reliable and 
 progressive members of a thrifty community, He 
 was born in Bureau county. III, March 25, 1849, 
 and on the paternal side is of Revolutionary an- 
 cestry, his grandfather, a millwright and farmer 
 by occupation, having served with courage and 
 distinction under the banner of the immortal 
 Washington. 
 
 In Yirginia, where he was born Januarv 25, 
 1800, George Miller, the father of Merritt,' was 
 reared on a farm and in time married and reared 
 four children. With his wife he removed to In- 
 diana, where his first wife died, and where he 
 married Tobatha Curren. a native of the Hoosier 
 state. From 1845 t° 1854 the family fortunes 
 were located in Illinois, and from then until 1862 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 in the state of Iowa. Desiring to improve his 
 prospects Mr. Miller outfitted and prepared to 
 cross the plains to Oregon, the means of locomo- 
 tion being wagons, ox and horse teams, and the 
 journey consumed the greater part of the usual 
 six months. The party experienced practically 
 no trouble with the Indians, a happy state of 
 affairs due to the more settled condition of the 
 plains. Arriving at The Dalles Mr. Miller took 
 a boat to Portland, and from there moved direct 
 to the farm south of Dayton, which remained 
 his home for three years. He then purchased 
 the place of one hundred and sixty acres now 
 owned and occupied by his son, Merritt, where 
 he carried on general farming, and where he 
 lived to be over eighty years of age. His wife, 
 who died at the age of sixty-nine, was the mother 
 of five children: Calvin, deceased; Jefferson, a 
 farmer of Polk county, Ore. ; Jane, the widow of 
 M. Morrison, of Eugene, Ore.; Etta, the wife 
 of D. M. Hewitt, of Polk county ; and Merritt. 
 
 After ah uneventful childhood on his father's 
 farm, in which he combined farming and attend- 
 ance at the district schools, Merritt Miller mar- 
 ried Julia Peery, who was born in Missouri, and 
 forthwith assumed the management of the home 
 property. He is engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising, and many graded Jerseys browse 
 on his meadows. Mr. Miller has taken an active 
 interest in general affairs in his neighborhood, 
 especially in education, having been a member of 
 the school board for over twenty years. Inde- 
 pendent in politics, he has zealously labored for 
 the betterment of politics in general, and has 
 served as supervisor of roads for one term. The 
 wife of Mr. Miller, who died in 1895, was the 
 mother of five children, enumerated as follows : 
 Lena, wife of L. Hewitt, of this vicinity; 
 Ethel, deceased; Pearl, the wife of Fred Kirk- 
 wood, of Yamhill county ; Grace, the wife of 
 Ray Nash, of San Francisco ; and Elva, living at 
 home and attending school. Mr. Miller is a mem- 
 ber of the Evangelical Church, and contributes 
 generously toward its maintenance. He bears 
 an excellent reputation in the community of Yam- 
 hill county, and has many friends among appre- 
 ciators of sterling worth and unquestioned in- 
 tegrity. 
 
 FRANCIS M. YORK. Near LeRoy, Mc- 
 Lean county, 111., July 18, 1855, occurred the 
 birth of Francis M. York, who carries on gen- 
 eral farming and dairying in Yamhill county, 
 near Carlton. He comes of a family of English 
 descent that was established in an early day in 
 Tennessee, where his grandfather, Pleasant 
 York, was born. James M. York, the father, 
 first opened his eyes to the light of day near 
 Knoxville, Tenn., April 17, 1829, and was trained 
 
 to farm work, which he followed throughout his 
 business career. He wedded Sarah Ingle, who 
 was born in Tennessee in 183 1, a daughter of 
 Robert Ingle, also a native of that state. At the 
 time of the Mexican war James M. York entered 
 the service as a private and fought for his coun- 
 try's interest in 1847 an( l 1848. He then re- 
 turned to Tennessee, and the following year, 
 1849, removed to Illinois. He was married in 
 that state, the Ingle family having previously 
 emigrated from Tennessee to Illinois, Mrs. York 
 owning a farm, and at the time of their marriage 
 the father of our subject settled upon that prop- 
 erty and carried on general agricultural pursuits 
 for many years. In 1891 he disposed of his 
 farming interests in the Prairie state and re- 
 moved to Kansas, locating near Mount Hope, in 
 Sedgwick county, where he purchased a tract of 
 land and there engaged in general farming until 
 his death, June 13, 1896. His wife passed away 
 in 1877, and of their thirteen children, eleven 
 sons and two daughters, ten are yet living, Fran- 
 cis M. being the third in order of birth. After 
 the death of his first wife Mr. York was again 
 married in Illinois, his second union being with 
 Mrs. Julia Doyle, by whom he had one son, 
 Clyde Fisher York. His second wife died about 
 1890 and in 1893 Mr. York was again married. 
 His third wife still survives him and is now liv- 
 ing in Wichita, Kans. 
 
 When twenty-one years of age Francis M. 
 York started out to make his own living. He 
 determined to seek a home in Oregon and trav- 
 eled by way of San Francisco to Portland, whence 
 he journeyed onward to North Yamhill. He 
 had acquired a good education in his native state, 
 his early school privileges being supplemented 
 by iwo years' study in the Wesleyan University 
 at Bloomington, 111. He then engaged in teach- 
 ing for twelve years, following this profession 
 throughout the entire period in Yamhill county, 
 and for seven years he was a popular, capable 
 and successful teacher in District No. 17. In 
 connection with his educational work he also 
 carried on farming east of North Yamhill, where 
 he owned eighty acres of land. Eventually, how- 
 ever, he sold that property and came to McMinn- 
 ville in order to enter upon the duties of the 
 office of county assessor, to which position he 
 had been elected in 1888, serving therein until 
 1894. In 1895 he purchased a farm a quarter 
 of a mile south of Carlton, in Yamhill county, 
 here having two hundred acres of good land, 
 of which one hundred and seventy acres are 
 under cultivation. In addition to general farming 
 he carries on stock-raising and the dairy busi- 
 ness, keeping ten cows for the last named pur- 
 pose, and in the departments of his business ac- 
 tivity he is meeting with excellent success. 
 
 In 1882 occurred the marriage of Mr. York 
 
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 and Miss Martini Rowland, who was born in 
 lill count} . a daughter of ( ireen 1 .. Rowland, 
 
 I the pioneer settlers who located three 
 northeast oi Carlton. Five children have 
 born of this union: Dottie, Lloyd, James 
 M.. Francis M., Jr., and Nina O., all at home. 
 
 Mr. York exercises his right of franchise in 
 support of the men and measures of the Repub- 
 lican party and has served as county assessor, 
 • *>1 direetor and as school clerk for a lium- 
 l years. He holds membership relations 
 with the Woodmen of the World at McMinn- 
 \ille. where he is a past master, and belongs to 
 e Christian Church. In all of his business deal- 
 he is upright and straightforward and to 
 his honest work and his industry he owes his 
 sperity. 
 
 MRS. ANN SCOTT. Among the honored 
 pioneers oi Oregon are women, too, to be mim- 
 ed, women who have not faltered when duty 
 called them to follow their loved ones into the 
 far west, away from friends and old associations, 
 o the dangers and perils of the unsettled wil- 
 derness, there to do and live for the sake of the 
 coming generations. Their narhe is legion, but 
 often their courage and sacrifices are passed 
 over to give room to the men whose hands were 
 upheld by some woman's goodness. In the little 
 of Woodburn, Marion county, Ore., there 
 is "ue of these women with many about her to 
 and honor her for the good works she has 
 lone in her pioneer home. Born near Quebec, 
 .'anaila. May 22, 1835, she is the daughter of a 
 Scotch emigrant, John West, a millwright, who 
 ttled at St. Thomas, where he continued to 
 c at his trade. In 1848 he emigrated to 
 lifornia, coming from there to Oregon and 
 tling in Astoria, where he remained for eight 
 years, at which time he brought his family to 
 share what had been his solitude. In the eight 
 years lie had built many mills in Oregon, the 
 t being at Westport. 'Mr. W^est enjoyed the 
 Unction of being the pioneer millwright of 
 recoil, and lived to enjoy his pleasant western 
 home until his death. December 27, 1888. 
 
 The wife who shared the trials and troubles of 
 
 pioneer life was a bonny Scotchwoman, 
 
 Wargaret West, a cousin of the man whom she 
 
 arried. She passed away at Marquam, Clacka- 
 
 s county, (Ire., and is buried at Westport. 
 
 the six children of this union, four daughters 
 
 two sons. Mrs. Scott was the eldest. 'After 
 
 tnpleting her education in the common schools 
 
 Canada she was married at St. Fov, at the 
 
 J of twenty years, to Robert Half Scott, a 
 
 native oi the land to which her parents owed 
 
 their nativity, having been born at Samiston, Scot- 
 
 land, October 22, 1826. When a young man he 
 came to Canada, locating at Beauport, where he 
 secured employment as miller with a man by the 
 name of Henderson. In 185(1 lie and his wife 
 followed Mr. West and his family into Oregon, 
 locating at Westport, where he engaged with his 
 father-in-law in building mills, their first mill 
 put up in partnership being a t Oak Point. After 
 four years at that place lie went to Westport, 
 building a sawmill in partnership with four 
 others, remaining here for six years, and work- 
 ing it with a liberal profit for each of those in- 
 terested. In 1866 Mr. Scott came to the Nolen 
 donation claim, building both a grist and a saw- 
 mill, which later gave the place the name of 
 Scott's Mills. With a view to bettering his 
 condition lie came to Woodburn in 1892, building 
 the grist mill which is still operated by his son. 
 This mill is a three story structure, called the 
 Woodburn Roller Mills. As the name would 
 indicate, the roller process is used in the manu- 
 facture of flour, two brands of which are pro- 
 duced, the White Rose and Snowdrop, both fa- 
 mous throughout the country. This mill uses 
 all the home production of wheat and much of 
 this cereal is imported. Mr. Scott lived to be 
 seventv-one years old, passing away October 11, 
 1897. 
 
 To Robert H. Scott and his wife were born 
 ten children, four sons and six daughters, of 
 whom we mention the following : Margaret, de- 
 ceased, married Wade Thompson, and they had 
 one son, Carl R. ; her second marriage was to 
 William Loveridge. John, living in Tygh valley, 
 eastern Oregon, engaged in milling; Lizzie, de- 
 ceased, was married to Preston Wood ; Jane was 
 married to William Ross, now deceased, and had 
 two children, Ralph and Nellie ; her second mar- 
 riage united her with John Adams ; she con- 
 ducts the hotel at Brownsville, Ore. Charles 
 is written of more fully elsewhere in the volume ; 
 Lydia, unmarried, lives with her mother; Ellen 
 is the wife of John Korb of Scott's Mills ; Eva, 
 deceased, was married to John Steelhammer, of 
 Salem, Ore. ; a sketch of Robert Hall, Jr., ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this volume ; Walter is still 
 at home. 
 
 Through the strong personality of Mrs. Scott 
 those about her have accomplished their objects 
 in life really unconscious of the deep influence 
 exercised by this quiet woman, filled with the 
 spirit of three good nationalities, Scotch, Canad- 
 ian and American, and cheerfully upholding their 
 hands by the broad optimism of her own nature. 
 Airs. Scott has suffered a stroke of paralysis and 
 is, in consequence, unable to give her presence 
 at the social gatherings of the city, in which 
 those of her name have assisted so materially in 
 directing the business interests, and the loss is 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 much regretted, though her absence does not 
 make her any the less remembered as an honored 
 pioneer of Woodburn. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER C. PATRICK. New York 
 state has contributed many of her industrious 
 sons for the agricultural upbuilding of Polk 
 county, and among these Christopher C. Patrick 
 occupies an honored place in the vicinity of 
 Salem. His farm consists of two hundred acres, 
 twenty of which have been cleared by the pres- 
 ent owner, and one hundred of which are under 
 cultivation. Long since past the age where in- 
 clination or health dictated a continuance of 
 arduous labor, Mr. Patrick is enjoying a respite 
 from work in the field and participation in stock 
 deals, and has handed over the management of 
 his property to his son-in-law, Harvey Coyle. 
 Needless to say, he is still interested in watch- 
 ing the progress of things begun by himself in 
 the early days, and will undoubtedly fill his days 
 for many years to come with little happenings 
 around the place, both helpful and interesting. 
 
 As the name implies, the Patrick family comes 
 from Ireland, the emigrating ancestor being the 
 paternal grandfather, who settled in New York 
 state at a very early day, where was born his 
 son, James, the father of Christopher. James 
 spent his active life in farming in Cayuga county, 
 where Christopher was born July 28, 1828. The 
 father died in 1832, at the age of fifty, and was 
 survived by his wife, formerly Lucy Preston, 
 who also was born in New York, and died at the 
 age of sixty-five years. Christopher is the young- 
 est of the six sons and three daughters born to his 
 parents, only two of whom are now living, the 
 other being Elvira, the widow of Emmons Ham- 
 lin, inventor of the Mason & Hamlin organ. He 
 was but five years old when his father died. 
 Such education as his busy life in youth permit- 
 ted was acquired in the public schools, and he 
 continued to live on the home farm until re- 
 moving to Michigan in 1848. Locating in Cass 
 county, he engaged in farming and stock-raising 
 with considerable success, his life passing un- 
 eventfully, until the breaking out of the Civil 
 war turned men's thoughts from peace to strife 
 and practically incapacitated them for labor on 
 farm or in shop. September 7, 1863, he enlisted 
 in the Fourteenth Michigan Battery under Cap- 
 tain Heiney, and forthwith relieved the heavv 
 artillery at Washington, D. C, and afterward 
 performed the same service for the Sixth Massa- 
 chusetts Regiment of twelve hundred and fifty 
 men. There were one hundred and sixty-five 
 men in Captain Heiney's company, and they per- 
 formed valiant service wherever sent, Mr. Pat- 
 rick serving as sergeant. After being mustered 
 out of the service July 4, 1865, Mr - Patrick re- 
 
 turned to Michigan, incapacitated for a time 
 from the effects of a sunstroke sustained at 
 Camp Berry. He entered again upon agricul- 
 tural labor and from then on continued to farm 
 until coming to Oregon in 1881. He came direct 
 to Polk county, purchased his present farm, and 
 has lived thereon ever since. 
 
 While in Michigan, Mr. Patrick married, July 
 28, 1850, Harriet Savage, who was born in Ohio, 
 November 27, 1832, and whose father, John 
 Savage, moved to Michigan when his daughter 
 was a child. Twelve children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick, of whom two sons 
 and three daughters are living : Kate, wife of 
 A. H. Coyle; William P., of Tillamook county; 
 Edith, wife of Joseph Bixby, of Tillamook ; 
 Albert M ; and Hattie, wife of L. D. Gibson 
 Mr. Patrick is identified with the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, holding membership in Salem 
 Post No. 10, and with his wife is a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church at Zena, of which he 
 is a trustee, and a liberal contributor toward its 
 support. He is enterprising and successful, and 
 has many friends among his fellow agriculturists 
 in the neighborhood. 
 
 AUGUST R. FORD. One of the native 
 sons of Yamhill county is August R. Ford, his 
 birth having occurred in McMinnville, July 7, 
 1872. His father, Francis A. Ford, was born 
 in the year 1837 in Sparta, Wis., and died in 
 the year 1877, when forty years of age. Pie was 
 both a photographer and musician and had ac- 
 quired a comprehensive knowledge of both in- 
 strumental and vocal music. He taught in both 
 lines in McMinnville and also engaged in farm- 
 ing. In 1862 he made the long journey across 
 the plains to Oregon, his wagon being drawn by 
 oxen, and upon reaching this section of the state 
 he pre-empted a homestead. On this tract he 
 built a house and barn and carried on general 
 farming and stock-raising until his land was 
 transferred into well-developed fields, while in 
 his pastures were seen good grades of cattle, 
 horses and hogs. An earnest Republican in 
 politics, he was active in behalf of the party and 
 he received the nomination for county treasurer. 
 He served as road supervisor and in school 
 offices, and was ever loyal to the welfare and 
 progress of his community. A prominent Mason 
 of McMinnville, he served as master of its lodge 
 for a number of years and was instrumental in 
 extending its influence and inculcating its help- 
 ful and brotherly spirit among his fellow-men. 
 His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah 
 C. Martin, was born in Yamhill county, & 
 daughter of Nehemiah Martin, who came to 
 Oregon in 1844. It was here in McMinnville 
 that Mr, and Mrs. Ford were married and their 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 onion was blessed with three children: Lois 
 u living in Portland ; August K.. 
 of this review; and Mrs. Adele I L. Lambert, of 
 Portland. 
 
 Upon the home farm August R. Ford spent 
 
 the davs of his youth, his life being unmarked 
 
 nj event of special importance. He ac- 
 
 a good public school education and worked 
 
 in the fields and meadows, thus gaining a prac- 
 
 nowledge of farm life. He to-day has one 
 
 dred and seventy-rive acres of rich and pro- 
 
 ive land, of which ninety acres are under 
 
 a high state of cultivation and the fields of grain 
 
 annually return to him golden harvests. He is 
 
 likewise extensively engaged in the raising of 
 
 cattle, and now has upon his place one hundred 
 
 head of graded cattle. 
 
 occurred the marriage of Mr. Ford and 
 Mi>s fessie M. Rush, a native of Illinois, and 
 their union has been blessed with a little daughter, 
 Ruth M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ford are highly 
 led in the community, where they have 
 many friends and he is a valued representative 
 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen at 
 McMinnville. In politics he is a stalwart Re- 
 publican. 
 
 HENRY GEE. The history of the mercan- 
 tile enterprises of McMinnville demands men- 
 tion of Henry Gee, who is now engaged in deal- 
 ing in agricultural implements and who is a self- 
 made man, owing his prosperity and creditable 
 business position to his energy and his deter- 
 nination in conquering all obstacles in his path- 
 way. During thirty-seven years he has been a 
 resident of Oregon, having arrived in this state 
 when only nineteen years of age. His birth 
 occurred February 8, 1846, near what is now 
 Moberly, Randolph county, Mo. His paternal 
 ^reat-grandfather, who was a native of Germany, 
 became one of the pioneers who penetrated into 
 the interior of Kentucky, there to establish a 
 home, at which time his son, the grandfather of 
 Henry, was but two years old. Amid the wild 
 sc< nes of pioneer life he was reared and event- 
 ually he was married and established a home of 
 bis own in Kentucky. His eldest son, William 
 ice, was with General Jackson at the battle of 
 New Orleans in the war of 1812. 
 
 Levi Gee, the father of our subject, was born 
 in Kentucky, whence he removed to Randolph 
 county, Mo., where he carried on agricultural 
 pursuits until his demise. He wedded Mary E. 
 Grimes, a native of Virginia, and a daughter of 
 Cummingham Grimes, who was born in the Old 
 Dominion, afterward resided in Kentucky, and 
 subsequently moved to Randolph county. Mo., 
 and was killed while on his way back to visit 
 friends in Kentucky. From the age of six years 
 
 until her death, Mrs. Gee resided in Randolph 
 county. Mo. She was a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church and passed away May 10, 1900, her 
 remains being interred in Antioch cemetery. By 
 her marriage she had become the mother of six 
 children, of whom three are now living, but 
 Flenr.y is the only one now on the Pacific coast. 
 
 Mr. Gee was but nine years of age at the 
 time of his father's death, but for a long period 
 he continued to remain upon the home farm and 
 assist his mother. His school privileges were 
 extremely limited but through study in private, 
 through reading and observation he has become 
 a well-informed man. In his youth he was bound 
 out to a farmer, but after two years he left his 
 employer and secured work elsewhere as a farm 
 hand. He continued to follow that pursuit until 
 1865, when he joined the company under the 
 command of Granville Baker, which started for 
 the Pacific coast. At Nebraska City, however, 
 he abandoned that company and joined the 
 wagon train of Radford Angel. Mr. Gee rode 
 horseback to Fort Hall and afterward drove a 
 team of four yoke of oxen for Dade Seers to 
 Marion county, coming by way of Hams Fork 
 cutoff. He left the Mississippi valley on the 
 28th of March and arrived in Marion county 
 on the 15th of October, 1865. Indians manifest- 
 ed much hostility and travelers were in constant 
 danger because of this. The trip was a very 
 hard one and was accompanied with many diffi- 
 culties, but at length Mr. Gee arrived safely at 
 his destination. 
 
 He was penniless, however, and the first 
 money which he ever made in Oregon he earned 
 at Milwaukee, where he was engaged in sawing 
 logs for a half day, receiving but fifty cents for 
 his work. He then began working on the farm 
 of John Johnson in Marion county, with whom 
 he remained for four years, when he rented a 
 farm near Wheatland, Yamhill county, and on 
 the 15th of September, 1869, took up his abode 
 thereon and began the raising of grain. In 
 1872 he purchased a farm which he continued 
 to cultivate until 1877, when he sold that prop- 
 erty and removed to a place near Belleville, Yam- 
 hill county, where two years before he had pur- 
 chased two hundred acres of land. At that place 
 he continued his farming operations until 1892, 
 when he rented his farm to which he had added 
 until the place now comprises four hundred and 
 eighty-six acres. At the time he leased the prop- 
 erty he came to McMinnville, where he em- 
 barked in business as a dealer in monuments, 
 continuing in that line until 1902. when he be- 
 gan dealing in agricultural implements as a 
 member of the firm of Gee & Houser, his partner 
 being S. P. Flouser. They engaged in the sale 
 of various kinds of farm implements, including 
 Piano harvesters, the South Bend plows and 
 
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 other machines, and they likewise deal in the 
 Old Hickory wagons and Perry & DeMar bug- 
 gies. Mr. Gee was also one of the organizers 
 of the Oregon Fire Relief Association, which 
 was formed January 15, 1894, and he became 
 one of the first board of trustees. This organ- 
 ization at first embraced only Yamhill county, 
 but has since been extended until it takes in the 
 whole state and there are twenty thousand mem- 
 bers. With the exception of one year, Mr. Gee 
 has served continuously upon the board and is 
 now acting in that capacity. 
 
 In Marion county, Ore., occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Gee and Miss Mary J. Lebold, who 
 was born in Illinois and came to this state with 
 her parents in 1859, the family being established 
 in Lafayette. There is one child by this mar- 
 riage, Mrs. Anna M. Davis ; of McMinnville. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Gee is a stalwart 
 Democrat and has served as a member of the 
 county committee, of which he was at one time 
 chairman. For a number of years he has been 
 a member of the school board and he is now 
 serving his third term of the city council and is 
 chairman of the fire committee. In 1902 he 
 was a member of the charter committee, which 
 framed the new city charter of McMinnville. He 
 is likewise connected with the board of trade 
 here and has been an officer in the Woodmen of 
 the World to which he belongs. He is also a 
 member of the Catholic Church. Since coming 
 to Oregon Mr. Gee has attained very creditable 
 success. Arriving here without capital he ac- 
 cepted any employment that would yield him an 
 honest living until he could gain a better start. 
 His enterprise, industry and economy at length 
 enabled him to become a factor in agricultural 
 circles and eventually to win a prominent place 
 among the representatives of commercial inter- 
 ests and his course has ever been such as to 
 commend him to the confidence and good will 
 of those with whom he has been associated. 
 
 PROF. H.-L. BOARDMAN, who for seven 
 years, from 1896 to 1903, filled the honor- 
 able position of president of McMinnville 
 College, is a man whose career may well 
 be worthy of emulation, and his capa- 
 ble fulfillment of the duties devolving upon him 
 has won for him the esteem and regard of all 
 with whom he has been associated. He was born 
 June 23, 1866, in Dover, Ohio, and is a son of T. 
 W. Boardman, who was a native of Vermont. 
 His father, Amos Boardman, was also born in 
 the Granite state and was an honored pioneer 
 of that commonwealth, who followed the occu- 
 pation of farming. 
 
 The family is of English descent and the or- 
 iginal founders of the name in America became 
 
 early settlers of Cambridge, Mass. From there the 
 great-grandfather of Professor Boardman re- 
 moved to Vermont, where Amos Boardman was 
 born. His son, T. W. Boardman, was there born 
 and reared, and on arriving at early manhood 
 moved to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he be- 
 came a prominent farmer and tradesman. In 1870 
 he moved to Johnson county, Kans., where he re- 
 mained until 1874, when he moved with his fam- 
 ily to Oregon, settling in McMinnville. Here he 
 remained until 1886, following the wagonmak- 
 ing trade in connection with general farming. In 
 the year last mentioned he removed to the eastern 
 part of Washington, settling in Colfax. He was 
 a faithful and consistent member of the Baptist 
 Church both in Oregon and Washington, and 
 while living in those states the cause of Christi- 
 anity found in him a warm supporter and friend. 
 He was for years a member of the board of 
 trustees of McMinnville College, and his influ- 
 ence was ever given toward higher education. 
 In politics he was an earnest Republican, and in 
 him the temperance cause found a stanch sup- 
 porter. His death occurred in the fall of 1897. 
 His wife was Delia Ann Hanford, who was born 
 in Dover, Ohio, a daughter of Harry Hanford. 
 Her parents were of English descent and were 
 early pioneers of the Buckeye state. Mrs. 
 Boardman now makes her home with her son, 
 Professor Boardman. By her marriage she be- 
 came the mother of five children, but only two 
 grew to years of maturity : Alfred E., now liv- 
 ing in Boston, Mass., and H. L., the subject of 
 this review. 
 
 In his youth the latter was brought by his pa- 
 rents to Oregon and in the public schools of Mc- 
 Minnville he received his early education, later 
 taking a course in the preparatory department 
 of McMinnville College. On the removal of his 
 parents to Colfax, Wash., he attended Colfax 
 College, from which he graduated in 1889, with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Arts, later receiving 
 the degree of Master of Arts. In 1890 he at- 
 tended the School of Divinity in the University 
 of Chicago, where he remained until 1893, when 
 he returned to Washington and in Colfax was 
 ordained a minister in the Baptist Church. 
 Later he was assistant to the pastor of the First 
 Baptist Church of Tacoma, Wash. He was after- 
 ward pastor of the church of that denomination 
 at Eugene, Ore., until 1896, when he was elected 
 president of McMinnville College. Under the 
 capable management of Professor Boardman 
 the scope and usefulness of the college has been 
 greatly increased and extended, and he has organ- 
 ized a conservatory of music and business col- 
 lege as departments of the institution. The col- 
 lege was incorporated in 1858, under the name 
 of the Baptist College of McMinnville, and in 
 1897 it was re-incorporated and became the Mc- 
 
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 ville College. It now has a membership of 
 hundred and fifty pupils. In the work 
 ssor Boardman took a lead- 
 and to his efforts is largely due the suc- 
 llcge. The excellent work of this 
 widely recognized and its patrons 
 best families oi the great north- 
 essor Boardman is a member of the 
 livision oi the State Teachers Associa- 
 i member of the American Historical 
 •i. of Washington, D. C, and 
 of the Oregon Historical Society; is pro- 
 i history and philosophy in con- 
 u with his college duties. He is a 
 •narked ability, and his understand- 
 t the educational requirements of the 
 t country in which he lives is broad and 
 >. so that the service which he is able to ren- 
 B this respect is of a lasting character, ben- 
 not only to the present, but to the future 
 th and development of education in Oregon 
 surrounding states. 
 In Colfax, Wash., in 1891, occurred the mar- 
 >! Professor Boardman and Miss Myrtle 
 A. Jackson, a native of Kansas. She died in 
 < >f this marriage two children were born: 
 M. and Faith G. For his second wife the 
 hose Miss Alice Dorris, who was born 
 in California and is a graduate of the University 
 0, at Eugene. This union has been 
 1 with two children : Katharine H. and 
 e Dorris. In his political affiliations the pro- 
 is independent, endorsing the men and 
 leasures best fitted in his opinion to insure the 
 : welfare. A man possessing the highest 
 f heart and mind. Professor Boardman 
 cannot fail to be a power for good in the com- 
 munity in which he lives, and in which he is 
 numbered among the most progressive and pub- 
 lic-spirited citizens. 
 
 JOHN CRAWFORD. An Irish- American 
 elm possessed the most desirable of Celtic na- 
 tional traits and utilized them for the perma- 
 nent betterment of his adopted state of Oregon, 
 was John Crawford, whose death in 1901, accen- 
 uated the esteem with which he had ever been 
 [ed in the community. Mr. Crawford was 
 >rn in County Fermanagh. Ireland. May 12, 
 and in the locality of his birthplace his 
 parents had followed farming for many vears. 
 J861 they came to Canada with most of their 
 children, and there the father died. Subse- 
 quently, in 1870. the mother removed to Cali- 
 fornia with a portion of the family and later still 
 came to Oregon. The mother died at the 
 home of her son John at Pleasantdale 
 soon after her arrival in Oregon, leaving 
 four children: Robert, who lives in Ne- 
 
 halem; Thomas, a resident of Coos Bay; 
 Anna, the widow of H. Osborn and a resident 
 of Cincinnati. Ohio; and Jane, the wife of X. 
 
 Nelson, of Clackamas county. 
 
 The oldest oi eight children born to his parents, 
 John Crawford left home when quite young 
 and went to Scotland, where he embarked on a 
 sailing vessel bound for America. After spend- 
 ing a few years in New r York City, during which 
 time he was variously engaged, he found his 
 way to Kansas, where, in addition to running a 
 farm which he had purchased, he also engaged 
 in trading to a considerable extent. At the ex- 
 piration of two years in Kansas he returned to 
 Xew York and shipped for San Francisco via 
 Panama. In the vicinity of Placerville, Cal., 
 he engaged in mining for a time, but later went 
 to Florence, Idaho, still interested in searching 
 for gold. For several years he experienced the 
 usual ups and downs incident to the average 
 miner's life, but by exercising economy and bus- 
 iness judgment managed to lay by a small store 
 of worldly possessions. Returning to Oregon in 
 1865 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth 
 Savage, a native of Salem, and thereafter went 
 to Polk county, and near Lincoln purchased a 
 farm upon which he made his home for about 
 six years. He then located on French Prairie, 
 near St. Louis, and after six years settled on the 
 Gilmore donation claim near Hopewell, remain- 
 ing there also for six years. For the following 
 six years he lived on a farm on Pleasantdale 
 Prairie, and bought the fine property now occu- 
 pied by his widow on the Salem and Portland 
 road. The farm is finely improved and one of 
 the pleasantest homes in the county, representing 
 in every detail the arduous effort of this erst- 
 while ambitious and enterprising owner. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Savage) Crawford died in 
 December, 1894, having become the mother of 
 eight children, as follows : Sherman, of Hope- 
 well : Belle, the wife oi Sim McCamey ; Tillie, 
 who resides in Salem ; Frederick, of Pleasant- 
 dale Prairie ; John, deceased ; Dora, wife of Van 
 Robinson, of Salem ; Lulu, deceased : and Will- 
 iam, a resident of Amity. At Niagara. Canada, 
 September 27, 1897, Mr. Crawford was united 
 in marriage with Nancy Peer, a native of Can- 
 ada, and one in a family of eight children, whose 
 parents were farmers by occupation. When 
 Mrs. Crawford was a mere child her father died, 
 but her mother was spared until 1900. Mr. 
 Crawford took a prominent part in many of the 
 affairs in his neighborhood, especially in politics, 
 which he endeavored in every way possible to 
 elevate and keep in accord with moralitv and 
 high citizenship. He was a consistent member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, toward the 
 maintenance of which he contributed libcrallv 
 at all times, and he was also active as a Sunday 
 
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 school teacher and all round worker. For 
 many years he served in the capacities of road 
 supervisor and member of the school board. An 
 excellent manager and thrifty farmer, he 
 amassed quite a large estate and was enabled 
 to keep his family in all the comforts and many 
 of the luxuries of life. Always a stanch be- 
 liever in the value of a good education, he made 
 it a point to give his children the best opportun- 
 ities it was in his power to bestow, and by his 
 private example guided them in the paths of cor- 
 rect living and general uprightness. 
 
 CALEB J. PAYNE. The finest rural dwell- 
 ing between McMinnville and Sheridan has just 
 been completed by Caleb J. Payne, owner of one 
 of the best stocked, best equipped and most 
 thoroughly cultivated farms in Yamhill county. 
 This farm possesses more than an ordinary in- 
 terest for its fortunate owner and represents not 
 only the field of his mature and successful activ- 
 ity, but is as well the playground of his child- 
 hood and the scene of his birth, which occurred 
 December 21, 1858. The inspiration derived 
 from all worthy ancestors has had its effect in 
 forming the character of Mr. Payne, and fur- 
 thermore it is to his credit that he so well main- 
 tains the reputation of one of the noble, capable 
 and resourceful pioneers of the county. 
 
 The Payne family was early represented 
 in America, the paternal great-grandfather 
 holding large landed possessions in Penn- 
 sylvania. There in 1789 was born his 
 son, Aaron, the intrepid Oregonian pio- 
 neer, a man destined to fill a broad niche in 
 the affairs of his time and place. A farmer and 
 local preacher of the Christian Church by occu- 
 pation, Aaron Payne was also a courageous sol- 
 dier in the war of 18 12, and was later a soldier 
 in the Blackhawk war in Illinois, to which latter 
 service he was prompted by the massacre of his 
 brother, one of the first to fall before the murder- 
 ous vengeance of the Indians. In the war of 
 1812 he was with Jackson at New Orleans, and 
 in the Blackhawk war was a member of the 
 Light Horse Dragoons. He was wounded near 
 the place where the great Blackhawk was taken 
 prisoner, but not seriously, and finally located 
 on a farm in Illinois, a stanch advocate of peace 
 won at the expense of Indian extermination. 
 He married a Miss Murphy, who bore him thir- 
 teen children, eleven of whom grew to maturity. 
 Her death occurred in 1846, and the following 
 year he joined a caravan bound for the extreme 
 west, and without particular incident arrived at 
 his destination in Yamhill county, Ore. Here 
 he took up a donation land claim, cleared it of 
 timber to a certain extent, and made his home 
 among the crude conditions then prevailing in 
 
 the state. Leaving his farm to the care of his 
 children he took advantage of the gold rush to 
 California in 1849, tmt. on the way enlisted in 
 the Rogue River war, participating in many of 
 the important skirmishes. The need of his mili- 
 tary services over, he resumed his journey to 
 California, where he followed mining and pros- 
 pecting for about a year, returning then 
 to his donation claim, where he worked at its im- 
 provement for many years. He became promi- 
 nent in politics and represented his county in 
 the state legislature, all the while continuing to 
 preach and run his farm, doing all the good that 
 lay in his power to accomplish. His life was 
 fashioned on self-sacrificing lines, and while di- 
 recting the lives of hundreds into channels of 
 usefulness and peace, received no remuneration 
 save that conferred by an approving conscience. 
 It was against his principles to receive money 
 for preaching, but his farm netted him a fair in- 
 come and he was what might be termed a finan- 
 cially successful man. When he was about 
 eighty he retired from agricultural and minis- 
 terial work, thereafter living in retirement at 
 North Yamhill until his death, in 1883, at the 
 age of ninety-four years. 
 
 While Aaron Payne was living on his farm in 
 Sangamon county, 111., his son, Caleb J., Sr., 
 the father of our subject, was born May 24, 
 1 82 1. In time he left the paternal farm and 
 learned the butcher's trade in Illinois, and his 
 search for opportunity was rewarded in 1845, 
 when he was employed by a man by the name 
 of Ramage to drive ox-teams, and make himself 
 generally useful in a trip across the plains. This 
 was two years before the father came west, and 
 at the end of his journey he settled on the farm 
 on the Sheridan and McMinnville pike, near 
 where the son now lives, eleven miles southwest 
 of McMinnville and three and a half miles east 
 of Sheridan, and which is now occupied by his 
 son. At the time of the Cayuse war he was 
 endeavoring to utilize his six hundred and forty 
 acres in general farming and stock-raising, but 
 he responded to his country's needs and en- 
 listed as first orderly sergeant, taking part in 
 all the principal engagements of the war. His 
 peaceful farming existence was further inter- 
 rupted in 1849, when he went to California and 
 mined for a few months, but his hoard was con- 
 siderably lessened owing to the time he spent 
 in caring for an old friend, William Ball, who 
 had the misfortune to break his leg. Returning 
 to Portland on the Brother Jonathan, he was 
 forty-seven days en route, but finally reached 
 his claim, the wiser for his various experiences. 
 
 In 1850 Mr. Payne married Malinda Toney, 
 who was born in Callaway county, Mo., March 
 24, 1829, and who crossed the plains with her 
 parents in 1847, settling on a farm in Yamhill 
 
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 '.joining thai of her future husband. 
 nparatively brief married life was per- 
 Mr. Payne, for he dial in 1858, leaving 
 s children a large properly, but partially de- 
 llis widow continued to live on the 
 until 1S7J. when she married J. J. Butler 
 ved i" a farm in the vicinity. Her sec- 
 ond husband died a few years later, ami she her- 
 in McMinnville in 1898, at the age 
 j -nine years. Five children were born of 
 ■ narriage, of whom Amanda is the wife 
 of W. 1- Warren, of McMinnville, and Mary 
 - the wife of II. C. Burns, also of McMinnville; 
 ed in infancy, and Caleb C, Jr. 
 present owner of the Payne property was 
 ited in Monmouth and at the Portland Bus- 
 He continued to be an integral 
 rt of the home farm until his marriage to Mary 
 lond, a native of Marion county, and 
 uighter of Augusta and Mary Raymond, pio- 
 [' 1841. The young people lived in Mc- 
 Minnville for a short time, and thereafter lived 
 on a farm in Marion county for two years. He 
 I on the old home place in 1888, and the 
 majority of the tine improvements now facilitat- 
 extensive general farming and stock-rais- 
 terprise have been of his own making and 
 are the result of his enterprise and progressive- 
 He makes a specialty of fine cattle and 
 old sheep, and derives a substantial income 
 1 his fertile and productive property, which 
 comprises three hundred and fifteen acres. Of 
 le three children born into the Payne home Ethel 
 deceased ; and Rita and Raymond are living 
 at home with their parents. Mr. Payne is a 
 prominent Democrat in his neighborhood, and 
 ; an active interest in promoting the inter- 
 :s of his party. For several years he has been 
 a member of the school board, at times serving 
 clerk, and at present is one of the directors. 
 Fratcmallv he is associated with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Sheridan. Mr. 
 Payne is one of the live, progressive forces of 
 Yamhill county, his beautiful home, his scientific 
 and practical knowledge of farming and his 
 genial and optimistic manner, contributing to a 
 truly enviable reputation. 
 
 ELI T. BRANSON owns an excellent farm 
 pleasantly and conveniently located half a 
 
 file from the courthouse in McMinnville. He 
 
 now practically living retired and his rest is 
 
 well deserved, for he has reached the seventy- 
 
 )ird milestone -on life's journey and through- 
 out the greater part of his manhood his career 
 has been one of untiring activity and of honorable 
 effort. The ancestors of the Branson family 
 came from Norfolk, England, in 1733, three 
 
 brothers leaving their native land at that tune, 
 Levi, Eli and Thomas. One settled in Ohio, one 
 in Philadelphia and one in Indiana, and our sub- 
 ject came from the branch of Eli, who settled in 
 Ohio in 1733. Eli T. was born in Sangamon 
 county, 111., seven miles northwest of the city of 
 Springfield, May 13, 1829, where his father Oc- 
 cupied a farm for several years, and on leaving 
 that country he took up his abode in Ohio, where 
 he followed the occupation of farming, and later 
 he went from that state to Indiana and after- 
 ward to Illinois, settling in Sangamon county, 
 where his last days were passed. 
 
 Eli Branson, the father of our subject, was 
 born in the Buckeye state in 1775, and after ar- 
 riving at years of maturity he wedded Anna Tur- 
 ner, who was also a native of Ohio. Her pa- 
 rents lived to very advanced ages and died in 
 Sangamon county, 111., where they had followed 
 agricultural pursuits, her father passing away 
 when a centenarian and her mother departing 
 this life at the very advanced age of one hun- 
 dred and two years. Mrs. Anna Branson, how- 
 ever, died in 1829, at the birth of her son, Eli 
 T., being at that time about forty years of age, 
 Eli Branson, tne father, afterward wedded 
 Thankful Montgomery. The children of his first 
 marriage -were : Hannah, Sally, John and Will- 
 iam, all of whom are deceased ; Mrs. Mary Cad- 
 wallader, of Jersey county, 111. ; Calvin, who is 
 living in Fulton county, 111. ; Lydia and Nancy, 
 who are also deceased ; and Eli. The children of 
 the father's second marriage have all departed 
 this life, namely: Benjamin, Samuel, Abraham 
 and Martha. For his third wife Mr. Branson 
 chose Mrs. Wilkins, a widow, who survived him 
 for about a year. Pie became a resident of San- 
 gamon county, 111., at an early day and there 
 carried on agricultural pursuits until called to 
 his final rest, his death occurring in 1850, when 
 he was seventy-five years of age. 
 
 Under the parental roof Eli T. Branson spent 
 the days of his childhood and when eighteen 
 years of age he began earning his own liveli- 
 hood by working as a farm hand in the locality 
 in which he had been reared, but the business 
 opportunities of the west attracted him and with 
 the desire to embrace the advantages offered upon 
 the Pacific coast, he crossed the plains in 185 1, 
 and eventually arrived at McMinnville on the 
 15th of September. The journey had been made 
 with four yoke of oxen and he was accompanied 
 by William Hussey, but trouble arose between 
 them when they were on the way and they parted 
 on the plains, Mr. Branson going on alone from 
 Snake river. Pie passed through McMinnville, 
 going on to the home of his uncle, William 
 Branson, at the fork of the Yamhill and Willam- 
 ina streams. For four years thereafter he was 
 employed among the settlers and was in govern- 
 
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 merit survey work for a similar time. The 
 early experience of pioneer settlers came to him. 
 including hardships, trials and difficulties. He 
 took part in the Yakima Indian war, which be- 
 gan in February, 1855, and lasted for one hun- 
 dred and twelve days, during which time he was 
 subject to much exposure because the troops 
 were not well equipped for military service. 
 When the uprising of the Indians had been sup- 
 pressed Mr. Branson returned to Polk county 
 and in 1859 purchased a farm on Mill creek, the 
 tract comprising three hundred and twenty acres, 
 which he continued to cultivate and improve 
 until 1869. The following year he purchased 
 a farm in Yamhill county a mile and a half above 
 Sheridan, this being three hundred and ten acres 
 in extent. He retained possession of it until 
 1897, when he purchased his present farm of 
 forty acres conveniently located only half of a 
 mile from the courthouse. The land is devoted 
 to general farming, but Mr. Branson has practi- 
 cally retired from business life, leaving the care 
 of his property to others, while he is enjoying 
 the fruits of his former toil. 
 
 Unto our subject and his wife were born four 
 children, of whom two are yet living: William 
 Arthur and Calvin E., both at home. The latter 
 has been county surveyor for ten years. Mr. Bran- 
 son has taken the second degree of Masonry in 
 McMinnville and in politics he is a Republican. 
 A half century has passed since his arrival in 
 the northwest and wonderful has been the trans- 
 formation which has occurred in this period. 
 Railroads have been built and the land has been 
 made to yield its rich resources and gifts to the 
 settlers who have invaded its forests, claimed 
 its splendid timber districts and its prairie lands, 
 working its mines and establishing all kinds of 
 industries known to business life in the east. 
 Mr. Branson takes much pride in what has been 
 accomplished here and his work in behalf of the 
 county has been effective and beneficial, while 
 in the supervision of his farming interests he 
 has gained the success for which all men are 
 striving. 
 
 WILLIAM MERCHANT. If it had required 
 money to purchase the men who have put their 
 brawn and energy into the cultivation of the 
 west, Oregon would owe to many a locality for 
 that which they have lost and she has won. A 
 descendant of a sturdy Scotchman, William Mer- 
 chant claims his nativity in the United States, 
 and works for the welfare of the country 
 through his good citizenship in the state 
 of his adoption. His father, Robert Merchant, 
 was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 
 December of the year 1792, and at the age of 
 six years he was apprenticed to a shoemaker 
 
 to learn the trade. Three years later he left 
 home, and from that time on made his own way 
 in the world. In 1808 he decided to emigrate, 
 and after a short visit home, he started for the 
 United States, his manner of traveling showing 
 his determination of character, for not having 
 sufficient money to pay his passage he secreted 
 himself on board a vessel bound for New York, 
 and after an uneventful voyage, he landed in that 
 city, and though penniless and alone he was not 
 resourceless for he had an abundance of courage 
 and energy, as well as a trade to fall back upon. 
 He drifted about from place to place, seeing much 
 of this part of the world, but finally settling in 
 Elkhart county, Ind., where in 1838 he met and 
 married Lucretia Stewart, a native of that state, 
 born July 8, 1818. After drifting to various 
 places in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa, in the latter 
 state taking up government land and farming in 
 conjunction with his trade, he decided to try his 
 fortunes in the west. Accordingly he sold out 
 in 1847, an d crossed the plains, landing in Ore- 
 gon City September 27, having taken about six 
 months in the journey. After a very few days 
 spent in looking about him, he bought the right 
 to six hundred and forty acres of land, and here 
 he passed the remainder of his life, carrying on 
 general farming and also his trade, which latter 
 he found very profitable, working at times six- 
 teen hours a day, making boots for the miners 
 who were going to the mines of California, and 
 receiving for each pair the sum of $16. After 
 sixty-eight years of strenuous living that 
 marked his whole life he passed away, leaving 
 behind him the records of his industry and per- 
 severance in the well-tilled fields of the great 
 farm which he had truly earned in the improve- 
 ments put upon it. His life had been full of 
 hardships, but with no such word as failure in 
 his vocabulary he left his children a rich inheri- 
 tance in their western home. The mother out- 
 lived her husband many years, dying in Janu- 
 ary, 1 89 1. Of the eight children that blessed 
 the home, five were born in Oregon, the other 
 three experiencing the trip though almost too 
 young to recall the happenings. Andrew, the 
 eldest, located in Seattle, Wash., where he died 
 in 1899; Sarah Jane, the next in age; William; 
 Warren, the first native Oregonian of the family, 
 now in Vancouver; Mary Maynard, of Colton, 
 Wash.; Mariah Hendricks, of Seattle, Wash.; 
 and Robert, who is engaged in the commission 
 business at the last-named city. 
 
 William was the youngest of the children who 
 crossed the plains, having been born in Davis 
 county, Iowa, July 12, 1843, being at the time 
 of the journey four years of age. The years of 
 his boyhood he passed on his father's farm, 
 spending a small part of each year in the schools 
 of Oregon, going several miles to the de- 
 
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 '.in thai served as a school 
 building. At the age of twenty-two years, 
 be went to the mines in Idaho, remain- 
 there for three months, taking away with 
 him several hundred dollars, the result of his 
 Returning home, he went to work among 
 tlio fanners of his neighborhood, leaving the 
 ring on another mining expedition, bound 
 at this time for the Blackfoot mines, in company 
 with several others, among whom were Lee 
 Laughlin and Uncle Benjamin Stewart. Mr. 
 Merchant remained in eastern Oregon for three 
 months working on a stock ranch. He subse- 
 quently engaged in the sheep business and in 
 the spring of 1867 took six hundred head to 
 Boise City, where he sold them with a liberal 
 profit for his work. In the Boise Basin he tried 
 the livery business, giving it up later, however, 
 as he received at this time his share of his fath- 
 er's land, which was seventy-four acres. In 1868 
 he married Miss Martha Landess, a native of 
 Washington county, Ore., her father having 
 crossed the plains in the same train with the 
 Merchant family in 1847, settling in this county, 
 where he remained until his death. 
 
 From time to time Mr. Merchant has added 
 to his property until he now owns seven hundred 
 and fifteen acres, four hundred and forty of it 
 being land that belonged formerly to his father's 
 place. Nearly all of this large farm is in culti- 
 vation, being used for general farming and very 
 extensive operations in the line of stock-raising. 
 .Mr. Merchant has interested himself on all public 
 questions, taking an active part in school matters, 
 holding through Republican influence the posi- 
 tion of road supervisor and various school 
 offices. He is a very prominent man in 
 the county, giving his energies in the direction 
 of general improvement, and with all his worldly 
 success remembering the early days of Oregon 
 and seeking to perpetuate their memory by his 
 interest in the County Pioneer Association, in 
 which he has served as president. 
 
 JONAH WISEMAN MOORE. Half way 
 up the mountains, and commanding a fine view 
 of the city of Brownsville and the surrounding 
 county, is the home of Jonah Wiseman Moore, 
 around whom still clings those fast disappear- 
 ing characteristics with which fiction and im- 
 agination surround the old-time miners of the 
 west and north. This discoverer, and for years 
 partial owner, of the famous Lucky Boy mine 
 in the Blue River mining district, is by nature 
 fitted for a life on the outskirts of civilization, 
 possessing a ruggedness of constitution and a 
 fearlessness of thought and conviction particu- 
 larly adapted to unsettled regions. 
 
 Born on a farm in Sheridan county, Mo., 
 
 ( Ictober 15, [839, he comes of an old Tennessee 
 family, established in Missouri by his paternal 
 grandfather, Jonah. His father, Robert, was 
 a small boy when the family fortunes were 
 shifted from Tennessee to Sheridan county, 
 and he was reared to farming and educated in 
 the district schools. He married Malinda 
 Scrivner, a native daughter of Missouri, whose 
 father, James Scrivner, served in the war of 
 1812. Seven children, six sons and one daugh- 
 ter, were born into the Moore family in Mis- 
 souri, Jonah being the second. In 1852 the 
 father outfitted with ox-teams and wagons and 
 started across the plains with his family, Jonah 
 being then thirteen years of age, and able to 
 make himself useful driving stock and carrying 
 water in camp. The journey was a memorable 
 one for the homeseekers, for on the way the 
 mother succumbed to the strain of travel, and 
 was left in a wayside grave on the Big Dry 
 Sandy. Mournfully the procession proceeded 
 upon its way, the travelers enduring patiently 
 the hardships and deprivations incident to the 
 times and conditions, rendered doubly dreary 
 by a loss which had taken away the wife and 
 mother. The father took up a claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres near Harrisburg, 
 and, in 1858, moved to Josephine county, Ore., 
 the following year removing to Curry county, 
 where he engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
 ing. In 1873 he bought a small stock ranch in 
 Del Norte county, Cal., which he managed for 
 several years, and upon which he is now living 
 retired, at the age of eighty-six. 
 
 Two years after coming to Oregon with his 
 parents, in 1852, Jonah W. Moore started out 
 on _ his own responsibility, securing work on 
 different farms in Linn county. His mining 
 career began in the dry diggings near Grant's 
 Pass, in 1859, and when the Salmon river ex- 
 citement was at its height he made his way 
 thither. After taking an inventory of the situ- 
 ation he made up his mind that there was not 
 gold enough to go around, and that he stood 
 a better chance running a pack train to the 
 mines than in trying to work them, and this 
 he did with fair success for five years. In 1867 
 he began mining again, and the next year came 
 to the Willamette valley, and in Clackamas 
 county married Elizabeth Garrett, a .native 
 daughter of the state. Thereafter he engaged 
 in farming for some time, and, in 1887, began 
 what proved to be the most satisfactory part 
 of his career as a miner. He discovered the 
 great Lucky Boy. How great was his good 
 fortune may be imagined when it is known 
 that upon disposing of his share in the mine, i'i 
 1901, to F. C. Sharkey, he realized $20,000. 
 Few men in the state are more familiar with 
 the mines in the west than is Mr. Moore, who 
 
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 has traveled many hundreds of miles from one 
 camp to another, and has feasted in the light 
 of many camp-fires. Fortunately he has not 
 followed a phantom fortune, idealized by an 
 overwrought brain or exaggerated expecta- 
 tions, but has made his work count, and placed 
 himself beyond the reach of want. 
 
 Five children were born of the first marriage 
 of Mr. Moore, and of these, Anna May is the 
 wife of C. B. Wilson, of Oregon City ; Ivy is 
 the wife of W. W. Waters, of Brownsville ; 
 Ettie married S. B. Sawyer, of Brownsville ; R. 
 A. owns and manages a grocery store of this 
 town, and Richard Irvin is deceased. The pres- 
 ent Mrs. Moore was formerly Mrs. J. W. Han- 
 ley, a native of Washington, and daughter of 
 Marcus McMillen, a native of Ohio. Mr. Mc- 
 Millen crossed the plains from his home in 
 Michigan, in 1852, locating in the state of 
 Washington, where he eventually died. 
 Through her marriage with John W. Hanley 
 four children were born: William H. and Er- 
 nest F., deceased ; Lennie L. and Leo W. Mr. 
 Moore has always subscribed to the principles 
 of the Republican party, but his time has been 
 too much taken up in out-of-the-way places to 
 permit of any political service. For many 
 years he has been identified with the Encamp- 
 ment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 
 religion he is a Baptist. Mr. Moore has the 
 sincerity and straightforwardness of a large- 
 hearted and tolerant miner, augmented by gen- 
 erous and admirable traits of character. He 
 has found many opportunities to do kindly and 
 disinterested acts, in consequence of which 
 there are many living in different parts of the 
 northwest who gladly acknowledge their obli- 
 gations to him. Mr. Moore has recently pur- 
 chased 16,000 shares in the Lucky Boy mine, 
 and still keeps up his interest in mining circles. 
 
 M. S. PEERY. Four miles southeast of Day- 
 ton is the farm of two hundred and fifty-seven 
 acres belonging to M. S. Peery, recognized as one 
 of the stable and reliable members of the agricul- 
 tural community of Yamhill county. From an- 
 cestors similarly engaged Mr. Peery inherits a 
 special aptitude for his chosen work, augmented 
 by a practical home training on the paternal farm 
 in Missouri, where he was born October 15, 1852. 
 
 Wilson' Peery, the father of M. S., was born in 
 Kentucky in 1827, and at a very early date re- 
 moved with his parents to Missouri, when that 
 state was as yet an undeveloped prairie. As he 
 was one of a large family of children it was nec- 
 essary for him to assist in the maintenance of the 
 family, which he cheerily did, remaining at home 
 until his marriage, which united him with Miss 
 Maria Compton, who was also a native of Mis- 
 
 souri. For several years they kept house and 
 farmed in the vicinity of Pattonsburg, Davuss 
 county, in which town they sold their general 
 commodities, receiving in exchange sugar and 
 other staples. In 1863, Mr. Peery disposed of his 
 Missouri land and prepared to come to Oregon 
 with ox and horse teams, and during the long 
 trip, covering six months, had a comparatively 
 fortunate time. The extent of their unpleasant 
 experiences was the appropriation of some of 
 their stock bv the Indians, but otherwise they 
 were unmolested, thanks to the more settled con- 
 dition of the country. For a year the family lo- 
 cated in Clackamas county, and in 1864, removed 
 to Linn county, remaining there for seven years. 
 In 1 87 1, Mr. Peery retired from farming and 
 took up his residence in Dayton, where his death 
 occurred when he was seventy-one years of age. 
 His wife died when sixty-eight years old. Both 
 were members of the Baptist Church, in which 
 they were active workers. Of their eleven chil- 
 dren, James is deceased ; Hiram lives in Yamhill 
 county ; Archibald is a druggist in McMinnville ; 
 Jefferson is deceased ; M. S. is next in order of 
 birth ; Amanda is the wife of B. Harris, of 
 Dayton ; Eliza, Julia, Rebecca and Martha are 
 deceased ; and America is the wife of Alvis 
 Gains, of Yamhill county. 
 
 Directly after his marriage, in 1871, to Rachel 
 Kimsey, a native of the state and a daughter of 
 Alvis Kimsey, represented elsewhere in this 
 work, Mr. Peery went to housekeeping on the 
 farm which is still his home. He has a pleasant 
 rural residence, fine barns and out-buildings, and 
 his land is under a high state of cultivation, about 
 one hundred and sixty acres being used for gen- 
 eral crops. Shorthorn cattle, Cotswold sheep 
 and Poland-China hogs are raised in large num- 
 bers, and contribute a neat yearly income to the 
 owner. Mr. Peery is a Democrat in national 
 politics, and he has served officially as a member 
 of the school board and as road supervisor. Fra- 
 ternally, he is associated with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and in religion is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. 
 Rachel Peery died February 16, 1900, having be- 
 come the mother of three children : Nellie be- 
 came the wife of Prestoen Lung, of Polk county ; 
 Anna is deceased, and Maud became the wife of 
 Martin Rhodes, of Seattle. October 1, 1901, Mr. 
 Peery married Hattie Dorsey, the daughter of 
 George Dorsey, of Yamhill county, and one 
 daughter, Mildred, has blessed this union. 
 
 
 ROBERT N. MAGNESS. A native son of 
 Oregon who is reflecting credit upon earlv teach- 
 ings and the community in which he lives, is 
 Robert N. Magness, owner of one hundred and 
 ninety-two acres of land upon which he is en- 
 
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 gaged in farming and stock and hop raising. 
 
 During the last year he luul twenty thousand 
 
 . of hops, gathered from twelve acres of 
 
 Born near Springfield, Lane county. Ore., 
 
 er 15, 1855, Mr. Magness is a son of 
 
 ; and Virginia (Byrd) Magness, natives 
 
 Independence county. Ark., and the former of 
 
 - mentioned at length in the sketch of A. 
 
 brother of K. X. 
 
 — received a public school educa- 
 as reared without motherly care, for 
 -: friend of any boy died when he was 
 . three years oi age. In 1868 he went to 
 - with his father and brother, spending 
 • test part of his time in Canyon City, Ore. 
 While the older men prospected and mined he 
 rked as a clerk in a grocery store, and also 
 herded sheep, and in this wild and practicably 
 untamable region gained considerable business 
 and general knowledge. Returning to Marion 
 inty in 1871. he continued to make that his 
 home until 1876, when he came to Yamhill 
 inty and worked on a farm by the month. 
 He also became interested in logging and a gen- 
 eral lumber business, and in 1885 determined 
 settle down and become permanently identi- 
 with Yamhill county. After his marriage 
 with Ollie Barndrick, a native of McMinnville, 
 and of Holland descent. Mr. Magness lived for 
 rive years on a farm near "Wheatland, and then 
 bought the farm upon which he has since ex- 
 pended so much well-directed effort. The im- 
 provements are entirely of his own making, and 
 include one of the pleasantest and most modern 
 '.ciice- in this part of the county. Mr. Mag- 
 >s also has fine barns, implements and out- 
 houses, and is well equipped for what he intends 
 shall be an extensive and practical farming enter- 
 prise. 
 
 In political affiliations Mr. Magness is inde- 
 pendent, and has never evinced a desire to reap 
 political honors. Fraternally he is a member of 
 the Knights of the Maccabees, and a welcome 
 visitor in the lodge at Amity. His wife, who is 
 a member of the Evangelical Church, is the 
 mother of eight children, in order of birth being 
 '.Hows : Mabel, who is attending school at 
 m : Carrie, Josie. Bertha, John, Nettie, Vir- 
 ginia and Adeline, all of whom are at home with" 
 their parents. 
 
 SAMUEL R. BAXTER. One of the prom- 
 inent and influential machinists and blacksmiths 
 of Yamhill county is Samuel R. Baxter, owner 
 and manager of an enterprising business in Dav- 
 ton. and also extensivelv identified with Repub- 
 lican political affairs. Mr. Baxter was born in 
 Jefferson county, Ind., March 31, 1830, his 
 father, James, having been born in Montgomery 
 
 county. Ohio, where Dayton now stands, April 
 5, iSlo, and died in Dayton, Ore., February 27, 
 1903. The paternal grandfather, James, was 
 born in Ireland, and emigrated to America in 
 time to participate in the Revolutionary war, 
 some of his brothers also taking part in the same 
 momentous struggle for independence. James 
 Baxter married Martha M. Stott, affectionately 
 called by her friends Patsy, a name which clung 
 to her up to the time of her death on the home 
 place in 1892. at the age of eighty-one years. 
 She was born near Frankfort, Ky., and was the 
 daughter of a farmer who emigrated to Indiana 
 from Kentucky, and there married and died. 
 Mrs. Baxter was the mother of nine children, 
 four sons and five daughters, Samuel R' being 
 the oldest of those living. Of the other children, 
 Rebecca Long lives in Iowa ; Mrs. Sarah Perkins 
 lives in Indiana ; Mrs. Nancy Jones lives in Day- 
 ton, Ore. ; and Raleigh is a farmer of Indiana. 
 
 Samuel R. Baxter received his preliminary 
 education in Jefferson county, Ind., and in 185 1 
 crossed the plains with his brother, William, 
 there being twenty wagons in the train, under 
 command of Captain Bob Hariford. At the ex- 
 piration of six months the party landed in Ore- 
 gon City, September 10, and from there Mr. 
 Baxter went into Columbia county and located 
 near St. Helens, there becoming identified with 
 the firm of Crosby & Smith, builders of saw 
 mills. He w r as well qualified for this work, hav- 
 ing in his younger days learned the blacksmith's 
 trade in Indiana, and for a year took an active 
 interest in the erection of saw mills for the com- 
 pany. Following this employment he took up 
 a donation claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 near Troutdale, and at one time engaged in 
 blacksmith work on the corner of Second and 
 Morrison streets, Portland. Here he was obliged 
 to cut dowm fir trees in order to erect his shop, 
 but the effort was worth wdiile, for during his 
 three years' stay in the then small town of Port- 
 land he managed to work up quite a paying trade. 
 In 1858 he engaged in blacksmithing in Dayton, 
 Ore., and has since been an integral part of this 
 town's steady growth. At present he has a 
 machine shop in connection, and at all times of 
 the year he has about all the work that he can 
 turn out. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Baxter was united in marriage 
 with Xancy Comegys, of Polk county. Ore., and 
 a native of St. Charles county. Mo. Mrs. Bax- 
 ter, who died in 1888, at the age of fifty-six 
 years, was the mother of two daughters, Mrs. 
 Delia Converse, of Eugene, Ore., and Edna, who 
 is living at home. As a Republican Mr. Baxter 
 has taken an active interest in his adopted town, 
 and in fact with the various locations in which 
 he has lived since his voting davs. His first 
 active service was inaugurated in Yamhill county 
 
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 during 1878-79-80, when he was serving as a 
 commissioner of Yamhill. For many years he 
 has been a member of the school board, and has 
 also been mayor of Dayton on two occasions. For 
 twenty-five years he has been justice of the peace 
 of Dayton. Mr. Baxter is popular and well 
 known fraternally, being a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows for thirty years. 
 He has passed through all of the chairs of the 
 order, and has been a member of the Grand 
 Lodge. In 1880 the Baxter family was aug- 
 mented by the parents of Mr. Baxter, who came 
 from their home in the middle west. This con- 
 genial and very hospitable household was sad- 
 dened by the death of the senior Mr. Baxter Feb- 
 ruary 27, 1903. Mr. Baxter is a man whose 
 word receives the same consideration as would 
 his bond, and who exemplifies in his personality 
 and life a high order of western citizenship. 
 
 JUDGE L. FLINN. The cautious, thought- 
 ful and conservative elements so well known in 
 New England towns, but which is less widely 
 diffused west of the Mississippi, have been ad- 
 vantageously utilized in the upbuilding of Al- 
 bany by Judge L. Flinn, judge of Linn county 
 from 1880 until 1884, and for many years a prom- 
 inent legal practitioner, banker, and general man 
 of affairs. Born in Ireland in 1837, and arriving 
 in America with his parents while yet a boy, 
 Judge Flinn was reared on a farm in Sudbury, 
 Rutland county, Vt., and was educated in the 
 public schools and Middlebury College. As was 
 the custom in those days, the colleges gave long 
 Vacations during the winter season to enable the 
 students to engage in teaching, and Mr. Flinn 
 availed himself of this opportunity. Soon after 
 his graduation in 1863, he removed to Elizabeth- 
 town, N. Y., and studied law in the office of Rob- 
 ert S. Hale. In the meantime having determined 
 to spend his future among surroundings offering 
 greater opportunities, he started west via Pana- 
 ma and arrived in San Francisco in November, 
 1864. Fie continued his journey northward and 
 spent the first winter in Linn county, and the fol- 
 lowing: summer taught school in Polk county. In 
 
 and S. E. Young he purchased of John Conner 
 the First National Bank, Mr. Flinn becoming 
 president, Mr. Chamberlain cashier, and !\Ir. 
 Young vice president. The bank's charter ex- 
 pired, and was renewed April 2, 1903, but in the 
 meantime it has known a remarkably successful 
 era, having increased the capital stock from $50,- 
 000 to $80,000, and erected in 1889 the present 
 building, with a frontage of sixty-six feet, ll 
 weathered the financial panic of 1893, when so 
 many similar institutions throughout the country 
 were wrecked. Among other interests which 
 have profited by the sagacious counsel and prac- 
 tical co-operation of Judge Flinn may be men- 
 tioned the Albany Woolen Mills Company, the 
 Albany Water Company, in which he is a stock- 
 holder and of which company he was formerly 
 treasurer, and the Albany College, of which he 
 was a member of the board of trustees for many 
 years. Besides the judgeship, to which he was 
 elected by his Republican constituents, he has 
 served as mayor of Albany for one term, and has 
 been a member of the school board for several 
 years. 
 
 Judge Flinn married in Salem, Cynthia S. 
 Church, who was born in Pennsylvania, and is a 
 sister of Stephen and C. P. Church, of Salem. 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Flinn, of whom Stephen, the only son, died in 
 his junior year at Princeton College ; Anna W., 
 a graduate of Albany College and the Leland 
 Stanford University, is living- at home; Orpha J., 
 also a graduate of Albany College and Leland 
 Stanford University, is now the wife of A. C. 
 Schmett of Corvallis, Ore. ; and Ruth, a grad- 
 uate of the Albany College, is living at home. 
 
 
 W. W. NICKELL. The various occupa- 
 tions which have filled the busy life of W. W. 
 Nickell, in all of which he . has achieved com- 
 mendable success, entitle him to the consideration 
 which he at present receives from the agricultural 
 and business community of Yamhill county. He 
 became an occupant of his present farm in 1891, 
 and his location, eight and a half miles south of 
 
 McMinnville, and four and a half miles west of 
 
 1865 he removed to Albany and began teaching Amity, is most advantageous from many stand- 
 
 a small school held in one room, but which grew points, being among the most productive soil in 
 
 in attendance until in 1868 it required three the county. The place is known as the old Robert 
 
 rooms. His school duties had been combined Flenderson donation claim, and Mr. Nickell is 
 
 with further professional researches, and in 1865 engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 
 he was admitted to practice at the bar at Salem, being an extensive raiser of Cotswold sheep and 
 
 in 1868 forming a partnership with J. C. Powell. Shorthorns. He is also interested in a threshing- 
 
 At the end of ten years he severed his connection 
 with Mr. Powell and practiced alone for a year. 
 He then entered into partnership with George 
 E. Chamberlain, under the firm name of Flinn & 
 Chamberlain. This association continued until 
 when in connection with Mr. Chamberlain 
 
 machine, and his farm is fitted with machinery 
 for public feed chopping-. 
 
 A native of Henry county, Iowa, Mr. Nickell 
 was born June 27, 1859, a son °f James McD. 
 and Elizabeth (McClure) Nickell, natives of 
 Jackson county, Ohio, and born, respectively, De- 
 
CHsisi 
 
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PORTRAIT AND l'.K )t iRAPl IICAL RECORD. 
 
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 - 1822, and Apnl iS. [818. They were 
 I in Ohio, September 21, 1843, and re- 
 wa about 1844. there taking up crude 
 which the) improved, and which continued 
 their home for the remainder of their lives. 
 •her lived to be forty-two years old, and 
 sixty-two. There were but three chil- 
 li the family, of whom .Mary J. and Ben- 
 ■ F. are deceased. 
 Vs opportunity offered W. W. Nickel! at- 
 the public schools of Wayland, although 
 n'cation was curtailed at the age of fourteen, 
 when lie applied himself to learning the mill- 
 gj ' s trade. Thereafter he worked at his 
 • for many years, and. being frugal and 
 t'tv. managed to save quite a little money. 
 er 1, [879, he married, at Mount Pleasant, 
 [owa, Mary L. Martin, a native of Iowa, with 
 whom he continued to live in Iowa for a couple 
 rs. His next place of residence was Win- 
 !. Iowa, where he engaged in the mercantile 
 ir three years, and afterward followed 
 ade for a couple of years. In 1885, Mr. 
 Nickel! came to Oregon and settled for a couple 
 rears in McMinnville, and, as heretofore 
 stated, located on his present farm in 1891. Five 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Nickell, 
 Martin McD.. Wellman D., Blanche M., Ina E. 
 and Franklin D. Mr. Nickell is a Republican in 
 deal affiliation, and is at present serving as 
 lerk of the school board. Fraternally, he is as- 
 ated with the Woodmen of the World and the 
 \ncient ( >rder of United Workmen, in which 
 latter organization he has taken the degree of 
 honor. In his adopted state, Mr. Nickell has a 
 firmly established reputation for integrity, cau- 
 m, sterling business methods and progressive- 
 s as an agriculturist. 
 
 ROBERT HALL SCOTT, manager of the 
 Iburn Roller Mills, is one of the men who 
 have been closely identified with the best in- 
 terests of the Willamette valley for a long period, 
 Mid occupies a prominent place among the pro- 
 5sive enterprising men who are certain mate- 
 rially to impress their worth upon any commun- 
 Heredity and early environment had much 
 d do with fashioning the career of Mr. Scott, 
 Mid so closely has he always been allied with 
 the milling industry that any other occupation 
 would now be foreign to him. 
 
 Mr. Scott was horn January 5, 1875, m the 
 center of a thriving industry at Scott's Mills, 
 Marion county. Ore., a beautiful hamlet founded 
 by his father, and comes of sturdy Scotch ances- 
 try. His father, Robert H. Scott. Sr., was born 
 in Samiston, Roxburyshire, Scotland, October 
 22. 1826. and was reared and educated in his 
 native land. At an early age he learned the 
 
 miller's trade. In 1849 he emigrated to Canada 
 where he engaged in milling with considerable 
 success until 1850, and in that year came to Ore- 
 gon, locating in Westport, where he engaged in 
 the operation of a .sawmill until [866. He then es- 
 tablished the mills at the point which has since 
 been inseparably associated with his name, and 
 where, from 1866 to 1892, he bent all his ener- 
 gies to building up a community of interests 
 which he might leave as a heritage to his chil- 
 dren, lie established an exceptional reputation 
 lor good fellowship and business integrity, and 
 accomplished more toward developing the re- 
 sources of that locality and fostering its various 
 important enterprises than any other individual 
 who ever participated in the erection of the' great 
 industrial and commercial fabric of the Pacific 
 northwest. In the latter part of the year 1892 
 he removed to Woodburn and erected the Wood- 
 burn Roller Mills, which are devoted to the man- 
 ufacture of a high grade of flour; and in con- 
 nection with this industry built a large ware- 
 house. To this mill and its operation Mr. Scott 
 gave the same careful attention which he bad 
 bestowed upon his previous undertakings, and 
 his work in this direction proved to be one of 
 the most important features in the industrial life 
 of Marion county. He lived to be seventy-one 
 years, eleven months and twenty days of age, 
 and is recalled as one of the best business men 
 of the county, and as the possessor of sterling 
 personal characteristics. April 11, 1855, he was 
 united in marriage with Ann West, who was 
 born near Quebec, Canada, May 22, 1835, and 
 whose father, John West, was a native of Scot- 
 land. John West came to America in early life, 
 and after an extended and successful business 
 career in the Dominion located at Westport, Ore., 
 of which he was the founder, and which bears 
 his name. He built a canning establishment, 
 and was among the first to can fish in Oregon, 
 and was the inventor of useful appliances used 
 in this connection. He died in Westport in 1888, 
 at the age of eighty-six years. 
 
 Immediately after the completion of his course 
 in the public schools, Robert H. Scott, Jr., at- 
 tended the Portland Business College in Port- 
 land, and thus, equipped with his milling ex- 
 perience dating from the early years of his life, 
 was prepared for any emergency which the fu- 
 ture might present. He succeeded to the man- 
 agement of the mill now owned bv his mother 
 and brother, and which is equipped with modern 
 machinery. It has three stories and a basement, 
 and the roller process is used. The principal 
 brands produced are White Rose and Snowdrop, 
 both of which have an extensive sale throughout 
 the northwest and are shipped in large quantities 
 to foreign markets. The mills consume nearlv 
 all the wheat produced in their vicinity, and the 
 
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 management also imports from other sections 
 large quantities of this cereal. 
 
 June i, 1898, Mr. Scott was married, in Eu- 
 gene, Ore., to Maud M. Bonney, a native of 
 Monmouth, Ore., and a daughter of Charles Reu- 
 ben Bonney. The latter is also a native of Ore- 
 gon, and at the present time is engaged in the 
 harness trade at Portland, Ore. Mr. Scott is 
 a member of several fraternal and social or- 
 ganizations in Woodburn, but the one to which 
 he devotes the' most of his attention is Wood- 
 burn Lodge No. 102, I. O. O. F. In politics he 
 is a Democrat, and has served as city treasurer 
 of Woodburn for one term. He is one of the 
 careful, progressive and honored younger citi- 
 zens of Marion county, and unquestionably will 
 continue to exert a wide influence in business 
 and social circles. With the traditions of his 
 family to encourage and inspire him, a success- 
 ful future seems doubly assured. Mr. Scott and 
 his wife have one daughter, Rowena, born May 
 21, 1903. 
 
 EDMUND WOOD. A worthy representative 
 of a pioneer family of Yamhill county is Edmund 
 Wood, born back in the hills of Tennessee, in 
 Campbell county, January 1, 1836, the son of 
 John P. and Amy (Witt) Wood. When this 
 son was but nine years old the family moved to 
 Missouri, remaining there for two years and then 
 setting out for the great west, to endure all the 
 privations, hardships and perils of a seven 
 months' journey across the plains for the sake 
 of the home they hoped to make at the journey's 
 end. Besides Edmund there were four other chil- 
 dren who crossed the plains at the same time, 
 1847, namely: Joseph, now deceased; Henry; 
 Sarah Lady, deceased; and Mary E., wife of G. 
 W. Branson. Upon reaching Oregon the family 
 located in Yamhill county on a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres, two miles west 
 of Sheridan. Here Mr. Wood's father lived for 
 twenty-one years, giving the strength of his 
 early manhood to the hard proposition of Ore- 
 gon forests and fastnesses, clearing the one and 
 conquering the other until, in 1868, the year he 
 left the place for a retired life, his farm presented 
 the appearance of a well-kept eastern farm, with 
 the difference of the many broad acres stretching 
 away on every side evidencing the plenty of this 
 western land. The death of Mr. Wood's mother 
 occurred on the home place five years after they 
 reached Oregon. Mr. Wood, Sr., moved to Mc- 
 Minnville when he left the farm, where he died 
 in 1892, being eighty years old. 
 
 At eighteen years of age Edmund left home, 
 not from necessity but from choice, going to 
 Polk county, where he secured work with Mr. 
 Savage, with whom he remained for eight years, 
 
 evidently doing justice to the good opinion of 
 his employer. But with the restlessness of a 
 young man who has seen but little of the world 
 he left Mr. Savage at the expiration of this time, 
 going to Walla Walla, Wash., remaining there 
 just one year. After this comparatively brief 
 period of wandering, he came back to the county 
 chosen by his father for their early home, and 
 as if to anchor himself there, he bought one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres in Yamhill county, five miles 
 north of Willamina, where he has since spent the 
 greater part of his life. Later he increased his 
 farm to two hundred and seventy-six acres on 
 which he is actively engaged in sheep-raising and 
 general farming. 
 
 Mr. Wood has been quite active in local politics, 
 holding through Democratic influence the posi- 
 tion of road supervisor, also serving as school 
 director for sixteen years, a period of faithful- 
 ness not often met with in rural districts. He 
 also received the appointment as superintendent 
 of the farm of the state penitentiary from Gov- 
 ernors Grover and Thayer, which position he held 
 creditably for eight years. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows of Sheridan. In 1882 he was married 
 to Miss Matilda Shook and their union was 
 blessed with four children, the eldest of whom, 
 John, died in infancy. The three living are Let- 
 tie, Grover and Andrew. 
 
 GEORGE F. EARHART. Among the sons 
 of Ohio who have contributed to the agricultural 
 development of Oregon may be mentioned George 
 F. Earhart, for many years an expert sawmill 
 man, and since 1886 the owner of a farm of 
 ninety-two acres three miles northeast of Mc- 
 Minnville. A native of Darke county, Ohio, 
 Mr. Earhart was born December 22, 1836, a son 
 of Samuel and Elizabeth (Scribner) Earhart, 
 and grandson of George Earhart, a very early 
 settler in Darke county. 
 
 Samuel and Elizabeth Earhart were reared 
 on near-by farms in Darke county, and as chil- 
 dren enjoyed the same pastimes and attended 
 the same little school house. Samuel was born 
 in .Virginia and his wife in Connecticut, and both 
 removed to Darke county with their parents when 
 very young. The maternal grandfather, Azer 
 Scribner, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and 
 paid the price of his life for patriotism, as he 
 was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. After 
 the death of Samuel Earhart, the support of the 
 family naturally fell upon the shoulders of the 
 children, of whom there were six boys and five 
 girls, George F. being the fifth oldest, and at 
 that time sixteen years of age. With his brother 
 William he undertook the principal management 
 of the farm, and before leaving home at the age 
 
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 twenty-two. managed between times to serve 
 
 an apprenticeship of three years to a carpenter. 
 
 ears he followed his trade in Darke 
 
 unty, in connection with which he bought and 
 
 ■ i a sawmill for four years, lie then took 
 dence in Polk county, Iowa, where he 
 in the sawmill business for about nine 1 
 ir-. The sawmill disposed of, he located 
 in Vernon county. Mo., and after two years, in 
 located in Oregon. After looking around 
 a desirable location, he finally decided tipon 
 the farm upon which he has since spent the most 
 useful and profitable years of his life. His prop- 
 equipped with a comfortable residence, 
 tod barns and outhouses, and with all needful 
 iltural implements. He is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, and is one of 
 e practical and successful farmers of this lo- 
 cality. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Earhart was united in marriage 
 
 with Minerva G. Powell, a native of Darke 
 
 county, Ohio, who is the mother of three sons and 
 
 • daughters, of whom Hattie is the wife of 
 
 William McConkey, of McMinnville ; the other 
 
 children being: Ira, Leonard. Charles and Mary 
 
 Kate. Mr. Earhart is a Republican in politics, 
 
 and has held the offices of school director and 
 
 school supervisor. He was elected countv road 
 
 master in January. 1902. Fraternally he is as- 
 
 ited with the Masons of Lafayette, and is 
 
 treasurer of the organization. In religion he is 
 
 1 member and trustee of the Evangelical Church 
 
 I I.afavette. 
 
 PHILIP R. FENDALL. Upon the farm 
 which is now his home and which has been in 
 the possession of the family since 1845. Philip 
 l\. Fendall was born February 5, 1857. This 
 ownership, considered short in the east, is long 
 for the west, and like instances are comparatively 
 few in Oregon. His father, Charles E. Fendall, 
 one of the best known of the pioneers of Oregon, 
 was born in Baltimore. Md., in 1822, and was 
 reared and educated in his native state. In 1841 
 he became a resident of Missouri, and during his 
 two years there accumulated a great deal of en- 
 thusiasm and information concerning the land 
 beyond the Rocky mountains. His trip to the 
 west was accomplished after much preparation 
 and was undertaken in the spring of 1843, under 
 the guidance of Captain Xcsbeth. The greater 
 part of the journey he rode astride a horse, and he 
 was one of the hunters of the party, his skill with 
 the gun resulting in the replenishment of many 
 empty larders. He brought in game of all kinds 
 to cheer the weary travelers assembled around 
 camp fires, and made himself generally useful 
 as only a hale and decidedly good tempered bov 
 is capable of doing. 
 
 C. F. Fendall landed in Yamhill county and 
 with an old friend, N. K. Sitton, lived on a ranch 
 on Panther creek for two years. In [845 he took 
 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres on the Yamhill river in Polk county, now 
 owned by the Scroggin brothers, and here he 
 erected a log cabin to which he brought his newly 
 wedded wife. Amanda (Rogers) Fendall, a na- 
 tive of Iowa, and whose father crossed the plains 
 in 1845. Here Mr. Fendall spent a few years 
 when he traded for the farm. on the Willamina, 
 now occupied by his son, P. R., and here his 
 seventy-three years were rounded out amid the 
 prosperity brought about through his own un- 
 flagging zeal. After coming to Oregon he con- 
 tinued to hunt as on the plains, and this consti- 
 tuted his chief source of diversion. In 1849 ne 
 availed himself of the mining chances of Cali- 
 fornia, and for two years was fairly successful 
 along the American river. In 1857 he. started out 
 to re-stock his farm, and in order to secure the 
 best on the market, made a trip back to Kentucky 
 via the plains, and brought back with him a band 
 of Durham cattle. The severe, winter of 1861-62 
 was disastrous to the cattle, and he lost them all. 
 Again he went to California in 1869-70, so in 
 change his life had its compensations and was 
 relieved" from the monotony felt by the average 
 agriculturist. Of the thirteen children born to 
 himself and wife Oscar is deceased; George F. 
 lives in Ashland; Reilly Y. lives in Yamhill 
 county ; William E. is a resident of Lane county ; 
 P. R. is next in order ; Alice became the wife of 
 Lawson Maddux, now deceased; Elbridge G. 
 lives in the vicinity of Newberg; Charles L. is 
 deceased. Laura is the wife of O. E. Highland, 
 of Yamhill county ; Annie K. is the wife of Mart 
 High of Salem; Nathan K. is deceased; Frank 
 lives at Seattle ; and Fred was accidentally killed. 
 -Mrs. Fendall is still living and is seventy-three 
 years of age. Her married life extended over 
 many years, and started in when she was four- 
 teen. 
 
 Until his marriage, January 12, 1881, with 
 Laura Savage. Philip R. Fendall lived on his 
 father's farm, but thereafter removed to Wash- 
 ington, where he engaged in the stock business 
 for two years. He then returned to the old home 
 farm on the Willamina. three miles from the vil- 
 lage of that name, where he has since lived, and 
 where he now owns five hundred and eighty 
 acres, three hundred and fifty acres being in 
 bottom land. He is engaged in general farming, 
 stock, hog and sheep raising, and has been very 
 successful in the various departments of activity 
 represented on his farm. His property is 
 equipped with modern buildings and machinery, 
 and the evidences of good management are every- 
 where apparent. Five children are being reared 
 in a practical home atmosphere and receiving 
 
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 such educational advantages as their ambitious 
 parents can provide for them, and are named as 
 follows : Alvie, Kate, Lottie, Richard and Ulric. 
 Willie died at the age of two years. In political 
 affiliation Mr. Fendall is a Democrat. His wife 
 is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 LESTER POTTER, who is identified with 
 agricultural interests in Yamhill county, was 
 born in Cortland county, N. Y., January 23.. 1839, 
 so that almost the width of the continent 
 separates him from the place of his nativity. His 
 parents removed to Wisconsin when he was 
 but five years of age and he was reared to man- 
 hood near Oshkosh, that state. In 1859, at tne 
 age of twenty years, he crossed the plains with 
 an ox team, the spirit of adventure and the hope 
 of entering upon a successful career leading to 
 this step. He left the train at Umatilla, where he 
 secured a position to carry a chain on a govern- 
 ment survey, this work occupying his attention 
 for six weeks. On the expiration of that period 
 he went to Oregon City, where he was employed 
 for a time and then made his Way into southern 
 Oregon, where he was engaged in prospecting 
 and mining through the winter. In the spring 
 he returned to Oregon City, where he again be- 
 came connected with a surveying party, spend- 
 ing the summer in Washington. In the fall he 
 went to Portland and worked in a logging camp 
 for a few weeks, while during the winter season 
 he was employed as an assistant in the peniten- 
 tiary for four months. When spring again came 
 Mr. Potter went to the mines of Idaho, where he 
 prospected until fall, at which time he made his 
 way to Florence, Idaho. For a year he worked 
 in the mines at that place, making considerable 
 money during the period there passed. 
 
 Mr. Potter next returned to his home in Wis- 
 consin by way of the Panama and New York- 
 route. He remained for a year with his people 
 in the Badger state and then again came to Ore- 
 gon, making his way by water to Portland. 
 When he had passed a few months in that city 
 he began placer mining in the Boise basin, where 
 he continued for two years, his labors there re- 
 sulting in a good financial return. He then went 
 back to Portland and drove stock from the Wil- 
 lamette valley to Victoria, British Columbia, his 
 time being thus occupied for eight months. He 
 then determined to marry and establish a home of 
 his own. 
 
 It was in 1867 that Mr. Potter was joined in 
 wedlock to Miss Sarah H. Southmayed and in 
 the fall of that year he settled upon the farm 
 where he has since resided with the exception of 
 a period of three and a half years which were 
 passed in the mines in Sumpter, Ore., where he 
 owned one-quarter interest and was treasurer of 
 
 the Sumpter Stage and Transfer Company for 
 one year. He also owned considerable property. 
 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Potter has been blessed 
 with four children : Milton W., who has a ranch 
 in Gopher valley; Minnie, the wife of J. B. 
 Fryer, of Sumpter, Ore. ; Daisy, who is at home ; 
 and Flora, the wife of L. Swiggett of Sump- 
 ter, who is interested in mines. 
 
 Mr. Potter is the owner of a rich and valuable 
 tract of land, comprising five hundred and thirty- 
 seven acres in the Gopher valley, seven miles 
 north of Sheridan. It is located on Deer creek, 
 so that there is a water supply and he is engaged 
 extensively in the raising of cattle, goats and 
 sheep. He makes a specialty of Cotswold sheep 
 and has a number of fine registered animals. 
 He thoroughly understands the needs of stock, 
 follows progressive methods in his work and is 
 now a leading as well as prosperous representa- 
 tive of his line of business in this part of Oregon. 
 In politics an earnest Republican, he has been 
 elected and served in a number of local offices, 
 including that of school clerk, school director 
 and road supervisor. He filled the' latter position 
 for many years and has been largely instrumental 
 in improving the roads in this portion of the 
 county. Through the traits that go to make up 
 honorable manhood he has gained the friendship 
 and favor of many with whom he has come in 
 contact. 
 
 WILLIAM SAVAGE, father of Mrs. P. R. 
 Fendall, the latter of whom is one of the promi- 
 nent pioneer women of Yamhill county, was born 
 in Mexico, N. Y., September 18, 1826, and lived 
 in his native city until his seventeenth year. He 
 then removed to Indiana, where he taught school 
 for a couple of winters, and where he engaged 
 in farming until his removal to Missouri in 1844. 
 
 In the spring of 1845 M f - Savage joined the 
 few who were then seeking to make their home 
 in the west, and with John Ramage crossed the 
 plains with ox teams, in Yamhill county working 
 for Mr. Ramage for two years. He then removed 
 to Polk county where he took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres, and was 
 fairly established as an agriculturist when the 
 cry of gold began to agitate everyone within ear- 
 shot of California. After a year's trial in the 
 mines along the American river he returned to 
 his claim and farmed until 1867, and that year 
 went to Texas with Richard Perkins, who as- 
 sisted him in bringing eight hundred steers from 
 the great southern cattle state. These cattle were 
 disposed of on the ranges of Montana, and here 
 Mr. Savage went into extensive cattle interests, 
 which netted him a substantial fortune. In 1891 
 he entered the arena of finance in Oregon, and 
 with his hard earned money established the Dal- 
 
SYLVESTER CANNON. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 65'J 
 
 City Bank, of which he was president up to 
 the time of his death. September 20, 1896. He 
 was a man of leading characteristics, and his 
 strict integrity, truly western grit and enterprise, 
 and unusual resourcefulness, made themselves 
 felt in the communities in which he lived in the 
 
 From the organization of the party Mr. Savage 
 was identified with its most 'progressive prin- 
 iples, and his fitness for official recognition was 
 repeatedly demonstrated. He attended the first 
 Republican meeting in Oregon, and during his 
 two years' service in the legislature, ably fur- 
 thered the best interests of those who had hon- 
 ored him with their support. He was chiefly in- 
 strumental in securing the erection of the Ore- 
 Insane Asylum, now one of the best insti- 
 tutions of its kind in the state. Also he was one 
 oi the organizers of the Grange in Oregon, and 
 was master of it for five years. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Savage married Sarah Brown, 
 a native of Illinois, and daughter of James H. 
 Brown, a pioneer of 1850. Ten children were 
 Ixirn of this union, of whom Charley is deceased; 
 Edson lives in eastern Washington ; Gibson is 
 a rancher in the same locality in Washington ; 
 James lives in Polk county; Eugene is deceased; 
 Mrs. Fendall is next in order; William lives in 
 Tacoma ; Sarah is the wife of J. B. Stone, of 
 Polk county; Daniel lives at Willamina ; and 
 Bud is a member of the livery firm of Savage & 
 Stewart of Sheridan. Mrs. Savage survives her 
 husband, and is living in Sheridan, at the age of 
 sixty-eight. 
 
 SYLVESTER CANNON. Since coming to 
 Oregon in 185 1 Sylvester Cannon has engaged 
 in various occupations peculiar to the west, and 
 lias experienced many of the adventures which 
 he came prepared to meet. Nineteen years of 
 age when the opportunity came to leave the Ver- 
 milion county farm in Illinois, where he was born 
 May 14, 1833, he welcomed a change from the 
 monotony of farming, and joyfully anticipated 
 the success which he has realized. Across the 
 plains he drove a team of five yoke of oxen for 
 Martin Payne, thus earning his food and lodging 
 from day to day, an expediency to which many 
 ambitious men resorted in the very early days. 
 
 Arriving in Clackamas county after six months 
 of comparatively pleasant travel, Mr. Cannon 
 found employment in a lumber camp for a few 
 months, and then came to Linn county, where he 
 associated himself with a surveying party which 
 was engaged in laying out township and section 
 lines. Beginning in an humble capacity, he 
 remained with the party about four years, in 
 time becoming a practical surveyor. This occu- 
 pation was interrupted by the outbreak of the 
 
 Indian war in 1855, when he volunteered in the 
 fall in Company H, First Mounted Oregon Regi- 
 ment, under Captain Leighton, and served until 
 May, 1856. During the greater part of the 
 service he was in Washington along the Upper 
 Columbia, taking part in the terrible four (lays' 
 fight at Walla Walla. After the war he pur- 
 chased three hundred and twenty acres of land 
 four miles east of Albany. He was married in 
 June, 1856, to Johanna Cox, and brought his 
 newly wedded wife to his promising farm. Seven 
 years later he sold his farm and bought land 
 near Salem, but not finding it satisfactory he re- 
 turned at the end of a year to Linn county, and 
 bought four hundred and eighty acres of land 
 partially improved. In 1891 he settled on his 
 present farm, where he has made many improve- 
 ments, and where he has a comfortable and 
 pleasant home. 
 
 By his first marriage five children were born 
 into the family of Mr. Cannon, of whom Nellie 
 is the wife of George Maston of Albany, and the 
 mother of two children, Vida and George W. ; 
 Minnie is the wife of Dr. Cornelius ; Malisa, de- 
 ceased, was the wife of Jess Enyart ; Jennie is 
 the wife of S. G. Marvin, to whom have been 
 born two children, Donald and Lucille ; and An- 
 derson M. is engaged in the practice of law at 
 Medford, and married Miss Vesta Mason, daugh- 
 ter of D. P. Mason of Albany. She died leaving 
 one child, Carolyn. 
 
 March 28, 1886, Mr. Cannon married Martha 
 A. Hunter, widow of Aaron Hunter, and daugh- 
 ter of George Huston, who was born in Mc- 
 Donough county, 111., and crossed the plains in 
 1853. Mr. Huston settled on a claim in Linn 
 county,, and afterward married Lizzie Phipps, 
 vvho came across the plains with her parents in 
 1852. He served in the Indian wars, and pros- 
 pered in the west, his death occurring on his well 
 improved farm in July, 1900, at the age of sixty- 
 nine years. Four children were born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hunter, of whom George H. is deceased ; 
 Lizzie is engaged in the millinery business in 
 Brownsville; Charles L. is a graduate of the 
 Portland Business College ; and Glenn O. The 
 only child of Mr. Cannon's second marriage is 
 Arletha G. 
 
 P'or the past sixteen vears Mr. Cannon has 
 been a director of the Farmers' Warehouse Asso- 
 ciation, and has been instrumental in greatly in- 
 creasing its efficiency and its capacity for aiding 
 in the disposal of the products of the community. 
 He is a charter member of the Tangent Grange, 
 and in politics is identified with the Republican 
 party. Possessing great capacity for industry, 
 practical business judgment, and unswerving in- 
 tegrity, it is not surprising that Mr. Cannon can 
 lay claim to the consideration and respect of his 
 many friends and associates in the west. 
 
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 WILLIAM M. RUSSELL. Not always 
 does it happen that the immigrant, passing from 
 the associations and relations of his native coun- 
 try, finds in the one to which he goes those 
 pleasing attributes that characterized his early 
 recollections, for the dual reason that if the sur- 
 roundings are similar one is inclined to contrast 
 this similarity, with an unconscious disparage- 
 ment toward the latter ; if different, the old ways 
 naturally seem the best. William M. Russell 
 might almost be said to have escaped an inherited 
 tendency along these lines, for it has been his 
 fortune to be an emigrant as well as a pioneer, 
 following in the steps of his paternal grand- 
 father, who emigrated from England in the 
 eighteenth century, settling in Virginia, and 
 meeting with that unhappy fate of an immigrant, 
 in that he never forgot the land of his birth. He 
 did not continue to live in a country that grew 
 more and more distasteful as the war of inde- 
 pendence continued unabated and the ardent feel- 
 ings of those about him made it impossible to 
 remain neutral in the struggle and in 1777 he 
 returned to England, leaving, however, a touch 
 of American independence in the blood of his 
 family, which responded to the call of the coun- 
 try in later years against the flag the early Rus- 
 sells served. Henry Russell, his son, born near 
 Richmond, Va., served in the war of 1812, be- 
 ginning as a private and later rising to the rank 
 of a sergeant, bearing away with him a slight 
 evidence of the marksmanship of his English 
 brethren in the shape of a wound in the leg, 
 which, however, did not incapacitate him for 
 good work in the peaceful times that followed. 
 While in Virginia he worked at his trade, which 
 was that of a carpenter and joiner, but after his 
 marriage he went to Ohio investing in land, where 
 he carried on general farming in connection with 
 his trade. Eight children were born to himself and 
 wife, two daughters and six sons, the youngest 
 of whom was William M., born near Chillicothe, 
 July 2, 1832, his mother dying when he was but 
 two weeks old. In 1836 the family removed to 
 Indiana, locating in Tippecanoe county, where 
 they remained on a purchase of sixty acres until 
 Mr. Russell's death in 1848, in his sixty- fourth 
 year. Through all his life Mr. Russell was 
 strong in the faith of the principles of the Dem- 
 ocratic party. 
 
 After the death of his mother, William was 
 reared by his elder brothers and sisters until his 
 father's second marriage, when he found a 
 mother's love and care in the good woman who 
 filled the vacant place. He continued to make 
 his home with his father until the latter's death, 
 passing the years in the common schools of In- 
 diana. Realizing the necessity for striking out 
 in the world for himself, he commenced farming 
 at the age of sixteen years, in which occupation 
 
 he continued until 1852, leaving then for the far 
 west. With six wagons drawn by ox-teams, the 
 party made the trip, starting March 1, and ar- 
 riving in North Yamhill, Ore., October 20, 
 where the heart of the young traveler was glad- 
 dened by the sight of a boyhood friend, Sam 
 Roberts, who had previously left his eastern 
 home, settling in this location. The ensuing 
 winter William worked for John Perkins in a 
 flour mill, following in the summer with farm 
 work for the same man. During the Indian 
 troubles in 1855, this young emigrant, with no 
 trace of the trait that distinguished his grand- 
 father — love for the land of his birth rather than 
 solicitude for the country of his adoption — en- 
 listed with the troops that went into the tangled 
 wildernesses of the west, serving in eastern Ore- 
 gon and Washington in Company E, First Ore- 
 gon Regiment, under the command of Captain 
 Hembree. At the close of the war he returned 
 to Yamhill county, where, in September, 1858, 
 he married Miss Elvira Perkins, born in Mont- 
 gomery county, Ind., and whose parents crossed 
 the plains in 1844. Four children were born to 
 them, John H., Norris G., Lizzie Prine, all of 
 North Yamhill, and Lucretia, deceased. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Russell bought the farm of two 
 hundred and fifty acres in the Pike valley, where 
 he now makes his home. He first bought nine 
 hundred and fifty acres, the greater part of 
 which he divided among his children, selling the 
 remainder. Mr. Russell is engaged in general 
 farming, hop cultivation and stock-raising, forty 
 acres of the farm in cultivation, and fourteen de- 
 voted to hops. In the active life that Mr. Rus- 
 sell has led in the west, always lending himself 
 to every movement that had for its end the wel- 
 fare of his community, giving up personal ease 
 and comfort to serve the public at its demand, 
 he has proven himself a pioneer in nature as in 
 name a patriot and one of the many men of sterl- 
 ing qualities, without whom Oregon would not 
 be to-day the flourishing commonwealth that 
 commands the admiration of her sister states. 
 As a Republican Mr. Russell has served his com- 
 munity as road supervisor, school director and 
 school clerk. 
 
 ALFRED SMITH. Though recollection can- 
 not carry him back, oft repeated tales have made 
 very clear the long, long trip, comprising more 
 than one third, the distance around the globe, 
 which Alfred Smith had made before he reached 
 the location where he now makes his home. Born 
 in the city of Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng- 
 land, May 21, 1836, he crossed the ocean at the 
 age of four years, his father also a native of this 
 shire, emigrating to the United States in the 
 hope of bettering himself in regard to his worldly 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 661 
 
 affairs, a hope that met with fulfillment in the 
 latter years of his life. On their arrival in New 
 York they went at once to Racine county. Wis., 
 locating on a farm, though previous to this time 
 he had been engaged in the prosecution of his 
 trade, which was that of a hatter. He took up 
 one hundred and sixty acres of government land 
 and continued in this location for twenty years, 
 after which he moved to Juneau county, of the 
 same state, amply able to afford the life of re- 
 tirement to which his inclinations led him. He 
 lived to be eighty-four years old, becoming an 
 American citizen in the same sense of the word 
 that he was once an English, taking an active in- 
 terest in the events of the day and lending himself 
 to all movements that contributed to the general 
 welfare. He was in entire sympathy with the 
 emancipation movement, being a strong Repub- 
 lican in his political convictions. In his religious 
 views he found his church home with the Con- 
 gregational denomination. He reared a large 
 family and lived to see them all well settled in 
 life : ' Samuel W., of Mauston, Wis. ; Joseph, a 
 farmer of the same place; Alfred, the subject of 
 this sketch; Philip, who gave his life in active 
 service in the Twenty-second Wisconsin, Com- 
 pany H, during the Civil war; Eliza Fluno, of 
 Juneau county, whose husband is a miller; and 
 Marv Palmerton, who is now a widow engaged 
 in the millinery business in Chicago, 111. 
 
 After the days of his youth were passed — days 
 spent, during the summer time upon the farm, 
 in the winter in the primitive school of Racine 
 county — Alfred left home engaging in work for 
 himself, turning naturally to the cultivation of 
 the soil. Until 1864 he worked among the farm- 
 ers of the neighborhood, going in the last-named 
 year to join an emigrant train bound for the 
 west. After six months of tedious journeying 
 the party arrived safely in Boise City, Idaho, 
 having been singularly fortunate in escaping 
 the depredations of the Indians while on the 
 trip. For twelve months after his arrival in 
 Idaho, Mr. Smith worked in the mines, going 
 in the fall of 1865 to a farm near Portland, Ore., 
 which he worked for one year. He then bought 
 a farm in Multnomah county, situated on the 
 Columbia river, making this his home for the 
 next four years, his next venture being in Yam- 
 hill county, where he invested in nine hundred 
 and ninety-six acres of land located in Moor's 
 valley, about four hundred of which are in active 
 cultivation. For the same number of years that 
 his father had spent on the place tha-t gave him 
 his competency — twenty years — he remained here, 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 in 1900 retiring from active life, giving over the 
 duties to his sons. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married in 1863 to Miss Sarah 
 Miller, a native of New York, and the children 
 
 born to them are as follows: Mary E., at home; 
 Charles L., of The Dalles ; William B., of Carl- 
 ton; Samuel P., a veterinary surgeon of North 
 Dakota; Alfred, on the home farm; Arthur C, 
 of McMinnville ; and Emma Alexander, of 
 Moore's valley. In his political convictions Mr. 
 Smith follows the example of his father, up- 
 holding the principles of the "Republican party, 
 and serving in the same as road supervisor and 
 various school offices. 
 
 LEVI HAGEY. As one may inherit the color 
 of one's eyes and hair, a peculiarity of disposi- 
 tion, a distaste of certain things, a love of others, 
 so the pioneer instinct is transmitted from gen- 
 eration to generation, giving evidence of its 
 existence in the restlessness of the various mem- 
 bers of a family. So true is this pioneer instinct 
 and so forcible in its results, that these men make 
 the best inhabitants of an unsettled country, go- 
 ing out to the congenial work with the inner 
 consciousness in complete accord with the work 
 of the hands. This theory may account for the 
 fact that those of the name of Hagey have always 
 been successful in the work they came to do. 
 
 August 15, 1825, Levi Hagey was born in 
 Davie county, N. C, the son of Andrew Hagey, 
 born at the same place in 1800. The father was 
 a farmer, and a few years after his marriage 
 with Catherine Grimes, a native of North Caro- 
 lina, he emigrated to Indiana, taking land there 
 after the laws of that day, in Putnam county, 
 where he remained for six years. The son, Levi, 
 was then eight years of age, and he recalls quite 
 vividly the trip into Des Moines county, Iowa, 
 where his father purchased land, engaging in 
 general farming. In 1848, dissatisfied with their 
 location, the old people followed their son across 
 the plains, settling in Oregon, where Mrs. 
 Hagey outlived her husband by thirty years, 
 his death occurring in 1851, hers in 1881. 
 
 Levi Hagey received his education in the log 
 schools of Iowa, gathering with the schooling 
 process the general information and independence 
 that characterized the pioneer schoolboy, and 
 with his pioneer inheritance coming to the front, 
 he was not long in breaking his old associations 
 and starting for the land of the setting sun, 
 where he felt his ability great enough to over- 
 come the thousand and one obstacles in the way 
 of the success of the young man who came 
 empty-handed into the wilderness. It was liter- 
 ally empty-handed with this young man, who 
 went to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1847, joining an emi- 
 grant train of one hundred and twenty wagons, 
 one of which he drove on the seven months' trip 
 to pay for his passage. In the fall of 1847 the 
 train reached Chehalem valley, each man hasten- 
 
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 ing to find a suitable location for his future 
 home. Mr. Hagey took up a donation land claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres adjoining the town 
 of Dundee, Yamhill county, Ore., and on this 
 location he has ever since remained, finding in 
 those uncultivated fields an outlet for his strong 
 pioneer desires. In March, 1900, he removed 
 to McMinnville, intending to pass the remainder 
 of his days here, having divided his farm among 
 his children, and retaining only seventy-four 
 acres in his own name. March 18, 1847, Mr. 
 Hagey was married to Elizabeth Shuck, a native 
 of Indiana, born in that state March 11, 1826. 
 In 1888 Mrs. Hagey died, leaving a family of 
 seven children : Susan Parrot and Anne Robert- 
 son, located on their shares of the old donation 
 claim ; Andrew, in Newberg ; Jacob, farming 
 on his inheritance ; Eliza Grames, in Newberg , 
 Henry, on property acquired through his own 
 efforts, also that of his inheritance ; and Peter, 
 who is also farming his share of the old home- 
 stead. Mr. Hagey's second marriage occurred 
 August 13, 1891, his wife, Mrs. Emily Chaney, 
 being a native of Polk county, Mo., _ born March 
 30, 1834, of the union of David and Mary (Hall) 
 Stockton, natives respectively of Tennessee and 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Hagey has served the public in various 
 ways, holding, through Democratic influence, 
 the position of constable, road supervisor and 
 school director at various times. In his religious 
 views, though not a member of the Lutheran 
 Church, is in sympathy with its teachings, as he 
 was brought up in it and it naturally means 
 more to him than any other. He now makes his 
 home in McMinnville, retired from the active 
 duties of life. 
 
 D. B. KINGERY. Among the California ar- 
 gonauts who left their homes in the Mississippi 
 valley in search of the golden fleece was D. B. 
 Kingery, and his life history, if written in de- 
 tail, would present a picture of early conditions 
 upon the Pacific coast following the discovery 
 of gold. The incidents and events which are to 
 most people matters of history were to him a 
 matter of memory, because he participated in 
 the work of development here, lived through the 
 era when lawlessness reigned to a large extent 
 and gladly welcomed in the period when frontier 
 conditions gave way to those of an advanced 
 civilization. Mr. Kingery was born in Dauphin 
 county, Pa., which was also the birthplace of 
 his father, Daniel Kingerv, and of his grand- 
 father. The family is of German descent. The 
 father was a farmer and in 1844 removed with 
 his family to Illinois, proceeding down the Ohio 
 and up the Mississippi rivers. ' He first located 
 at Albany, 111., later removed to Union Grove, 
 
 that state, and then settled near Mount Morris, 
 Ogle county. He was a farmer by occupation 
 and died in Polo, 111. His wife, who in her 
 maidenhood was Susan Hoover, was born in 
 Pennsylvania and died in Iowa. In their family 
 were twelve children, ten of whom reached years 
 of maturity. John died in McMinnville, Ore. ; 
 Andrew J., David and Ephraim all served 
 throughout the Civil war and the last-named was 
 an officer. 
 
 D. B. Kingery was the fourth of those who 
 reached adult age and was born February 22, 
 1835. He remained in the Keystone state until 
 the removal of the family to Illinois, where he 
 attended the pioneer schools. He was reared 
 to farm life, and when quite young was employed 
 in the neighborhood as a farm hand. In 1852 
 he suffered an attack of gold fever and joined 
 a company that outfitted at Dixon, 111., securing 
 oxen, wagon and supplies, with which they 
 started in February for the Pacific coast, crossing 
 the Mississippi river at Albany and the Missouri 
 at Council Bluffs, in March. There they had to 
 wait until the grass grew on the California trail 
 in order that there might be feed for the oxen 
 and stock. While en route they had trouble with 
 ihe Pawnee Indians, who were determined to 
 have some of their possessions, but they success- 
 fully disputed the question with them and were 
 allowed to proceed up the North Platte. Chol- 
 era also broke out among the party and several 
 died of the disease. They proceeded by way of 
 Sublett's cutoff and the Humboldt river, going 
 one hundred and twenty-five miles into the coun- 
 try and making their own road into northern 
 California. 
 
 On the 22nd of August, 1852, Mr. Kingery 
 reached his destination, and at intervals for 
 twenty years he engaged in prospecting and min- 
 ing, but his time was principally devoted to 
 packing and freighting, to the hotel business and 
 to merchandising. He remained at Shasta City 
 until 1854, when he removel to Trinity county, 
 where he engaged in merchandising and mining. 
 In 1856 he removed to Siskiyou county, Cal., 
 locating on the south fork of Scott river, where 
 he carried on mercantile pursuits for a year. In 
 1857 he made his first trip to Oregon, riding on 
 a mule over the mountains to Willamette. He 
 purchased cattle in Yamhill county and drove 
 them back over the mountains to Siskiyou county, 
 Cal., to his stock ranch. That fall he sold his 
 stock and returned to Illinois by way of the 
 Panama route and New York, arriving in Febru- 
 ary, 1858, at the home of his parents, who were 
 then living in Freeport, 111. In May of the same 
 year he again came to California and once more 
 located on his ranch, comprising two hundred and 
 fortv acres. He engaged in the cattle business, 
 in general farming and in mining and freighting. 
 
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 In the latter business he drove teams of from 
 - \ to eight horses from Red Bluffs to Yreka, 
 using a toll wagon after the road was built, while 
 prior to that time he had done his packing with 
 mules. Thus various business interests claimed 
 the attention of Mr. Kingerv and w-ere success- 
 fully conducted by him. 
 
 In the regular session of 1880 and the special 
 
 ision of 1881 he was assistant sergeant-at-arms 
 in the California senate, and in die fall of the 
 latter year he returned to Siskiyou county, lo- 
 cating in Xapa City, where he resided until 
 188^. when he located permanently in Oregon 
 and purchased a farm of three hundred and forty- 
 seven acres, seven miles southwest of McMinn- 
 yille. This was but partially improved and he 
 continued the work of clearing and improving it, 
 devoting his energies to the cultivation of grain 
 the raising of hogs, cattle and sheep. In 
 ; he rented his land, but continued to live 
 on the farm until 1899. He spent that winter 
 in California and upon his return he purchased 
 a residence in McMinnville. In 1901 he engaged 
 in the real-estate and insurance business as a 
 member of the firm of Odell & Kingerv, handling 
 both city and farm property. 
 
 Mr. Kingerv was twice married. In Siskiyou 
 county, Cal., he wedded Miss Catherine Hay, 
 who was born in the north of Ireland and died 
 in the Golden state. They were the parents of 
 the following children: George W., who died 
 at the age of tw r enty-one years; Frederick T., 
 Henry Hoover. Alfred L. of Yamhill county, and 
 Daniel B., all of Siskiyou county, the last named 
 being engaged in mining; Willie Hay, who is 
 principal of the schools in Butte, Mont., and 
 Mrs. Mary Andrews, of Heppner, Ore. In 
 Sacramento, Cal., Mr. Kingerv wedded Miss 
 Mary Stoner, a native of Pennsylvania, and they 
 had one son, Clarence Stoner, who is in the 
 L "nited States Navy. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Kingerv was quite promi- 
 nent and from 1888 to 1892 he served as county 
 commissioner, this being the period when the 
 question of the removal of the county seat was 
 agitated, and during the same period the fine 
 new courthouse was built. For about forty years 
 he served as school director and the cause ever 
 found in him a warm friend. In politics he was 
 an unfaltering Republican from the organization 
 of the partv. He was a member of the board of 
 trade of McMinnville and belonged to both the 
 lodge and encampment of the Odd Fellows' so- 
 ciety. He was made a member in Yreka, Cal., 
 but his membership was latterly at Fort Jones, 
 that state. During his residence of over fifty 
 years in the west he made two trips back to the 
 east, first in 1879 an d again in 1882, but his in- 
 terests were centered in the west, and there he 
 labored earnestly for improvement and progress. 
 
 May 25, 1903, at the residence of his daughter, 
 Airs. Andrews, at Heppner, Ore., Mr. Kingery 
 died, and his remains were taken to Fort Jones, 
 Cal., for burial. He was buried by the Odd Fel- 
 lows lodge at Fort Jones, of which he had been 
 a member for over forty years. 
 
 LOUIS LACHMUND. hop merchant, was 
 born in New York City, December 29, 1870, son 
 of Henry and Louise (Meyer) Lachmund. His 
 father was a native of Bremen, Germany, where 
 he acquired a liberal education. In early life he 
 removed to New- York City, and engaged in 
 manufacturing. Upon the outbreak of the Civil 
 w'ar he enlisted in a New Jersey regiment of ar- 
 tillery, and served until the close of the war. In 
 recognition of his bravery and meritorious con- 
 duct on the field of battle, he was promoted to a 
 first-lieutenancy. Fraternally, he was a Master 
 Mason, who, in his daily life, exemplified the 
 beneficent spirit of the order. He died in 1885, 
 leaving a widow and four children, the subject 
 of this sketch being the only son. 
 
 Louis Lachmund, after graduating from the 
 public schools of his native city, secured a clerk- 
 ship in the private banking house of Knauth, 
 Nachod & Kuehne, of New^ York. His emplovers 
 soon recognized his ability, and promoted him to 
 the position of bookkeeper. In 1889 he entered the 
 employ of Horst Brothers, as bookkeeper in their 
 New York office, and in 1890 he was sent as their 
 representative to the state of Washington, locat- 
 ing in Puyallup, wdiere he remained for six years. 
 Here he studied the details of the hop business, 
 and familiarized himself with the conditions on 
 the entire Pacific coast. In 1895 the firm of 
 Horst Brothers was dissolved, and the business 
 was incorporated under the present stvle of the 
 Paul R. G. Horst & Lachmund Company. Mr. 
 Lachmund was elected secretary and treasurer of 
 the company, and made general manager of the 
 business on the Pacific coast. He removed to 
 Salem, where he has resided since. Mr. Lach- 
 mund can justly feel proud of the fact that he is 
 part of this company, wmich buys and sells about 
 fifteen thousand bales of hops annually, distribut- 
 ing them in all parts of the world. A well-known 
 biographer has well said: "Mr. Lachmund is a 
 strong man, mentally and physically. He never 
 does anything by halves. He never rests as long- 
 as there is any improvement to be made. He has 
 an intuitive knowledge of men, and therefore his 
 agents are always the best for accomplishing the 
 purposes for w-hich he selects them. In the or- 
 ganization and conduct of the large enterprise 
 with which his name is associated, he has ac- 
 quired the habits of thought peculiar to all suc- 
 cessful men. Broad, but accurate ; diligent, but 
 
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 deliberate ; patient, but prompt ; kind, but firm ; 
 fearing no weight of responsibility, yet not care- 
 less of it, he always meets and overcomes diffi- 
 culties." 
 
 JOHN T. FORD. As sheriff of Polk county, 
 John T. B'ord is looking well to the best interests 
 of the community which has honored him with 
 their confidences, and is proving an efficient and 
 conscientious adjuster of the complications by 
 which he is surrounded. For many of the sub- 
 stantial traits of character which have brought 
 about his success he is indebted to an ancestry 
 traced to that self-sacrificing and morally high 
 Huguenot element which was forced to seek for- 
 eign shores for the exercise of religious liberty. 
 Remote members of the family signed their 
 marriage and birth certificates "Fore," but for 
 convenience the American representatives 
 have adopted "Ford." James Ford, the paternal 
 great-grandfather, served with distinction in the 
 war of Independence, and as a member of a 
 Colonial regiment was present at the surrender 
 of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He was a large 
 planter in Virginia, and at the time of his death 
 left a well improved plantation in Westmoreland 
 county, where his son, Col. Nathaniel Ford, the 
 grandfather of John T., was born. 
 
 Col. Nathaniel Ford was reared in Virginia, 
 and as a young man removed to Howard county, 
 Mo., where he became prominent in political and 
 other affairs. He was sheriff of the county for 
 four years, and served for an equal length of time 
 as county clerk. His rank was conferred because 
 of meritorious service during the Black Hawk 
 war, and lie was further connected with the mili- 
 tary affairs of the state when helping to drive the 
 Mormons from Missouri. As early as 1844 he 
 outfitted and brought his family across the plains, 
 arriving in Polk county in November, and settling 
 on a donation claim four miles east of Dallas, on 
 the Rickreall or La Creole river, and which com- 
 prised six hundred and forty acres. As in Mis- 
 souri, he immediately identified himself with the 
 all-around growth of his adopted locality, and 
 became one of the most prominent and influential 
 men in his county. For several terms he repre- 
 sented his county in the territorial legislature, 
 and he was also county assessor for one term. 
 Needless to say, his sympathies were with the 
 south, for he was a southerner by descent and 
 birth. He was a master Mason, a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South, and was fore- 
 most in his district in promoting education. In 
 his young manhood he married Lucinda D. Em- 
 bree, a native of Kentucky, who died in 1874, at 
 the age of seventy-four years. 
 
 Though born in Howard county, Mo., Marcus 
 A. Ford, the father of John T., was educated in 
 
 Lexington, Ky., where he took the classical 
 course, and distinguished himself for brilliant 
 scholarship. In Howard county he studied law 
 under Ex-Governor Reynolds, and thereafter 
 practiced his profession for some time in his na- 
 tive state. He was one of the courageous band 
 who crossed the plains in 1844, and upon arriv- 
 ing in Polk county he undertook the practice of 
 law, and was the first law partner of Colonel Nes- 
 mith. Like his father and grandfather, he was 
 devoted to things military, and has had the oppor- 
 tunity to show his prowess in the Cayuse war 
 under that noble pioneer and famous soldier, 
 General Gilliam. He was the first district at- 
 torney of his district, and possessed personal char- 
 acteristics and pronounced abilities which pres- 
 aged uninterrupted success. However, when re- 
 turning from San Francisco in 1853, the ship 
 became becalmed off the coast of Mt. Columbus, 
 and in order to save time he and Mr. Stevens and 
 two sailors started for the shore, but, meeting 
 with a gale, were swamped and lost. Mr. Ford 
 was twenty-six years of age at the time of his 
 death, and left but one child, the present sheriff 
 of Polk county. His wife, who died in 1848, 
 was formerly Amanda Thorp, a native of Mis- 
 souri, and daughter of Maj. John Thorp, who 
 was born in Kentucky, and settled in Missouri. 
 Major Thorp was a large land owner in Mis- 
 souri, and enlisted in that state for the Black 
 Hawk war, in which he. won the rank of major. 
 He came across the plains in 1845, settling on a 
 donation claim four miles south of Independence, 
 on the Willamette river. In 1849 ne became in- 
 terested in mining in California, speculating to a 
 considerable extent. He was a member of the 
 territorial legislature, and lived to be .eighty-one 
 years of age. 
 
 Born on the old homestead in Polk county 
 November 17, 1847, John T. Ford was left an 
 orphan at the age of six years, and was reared 
 by Col. Nathaniel Ford. As a youth he was 
 trained in farming, and attended the district 
 schools of his district. When grown he moved 
 to Independence and was identified at times with 
 several business houses of that town, at the same 
 time taking an active interest in politics. Here 
 he married Mattie J. Irvine, a native of Marion 
 county, Ore., and daughter of Samuel Irvine, who 
 came from Missouri in 1852, and died in 1862. 
 Two sons have been born of this union, of whom 
 Marcus A. is a clerk in Dallas, and Walter I. is 
 attending Dallas College. Mr. Ford filled the 
 office of postmaster of Independence from 1885 
 to 1889 inclusive, and he was also .city recorder 
 for two terms. In 1898 he was appointed deputy 
 sheriff, and at the expiration of four years, in 
 1902, was nominated and elected sheriff on the 
 Democratic ticket, assuming control of his office 
 in July, 1902. Though the precedent is unusual, 
 
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 he keeps all the records of the sheriff's office, 
 and in this way keeps in immediate touch with the 
 
 illest details of the work. He is well fitted 
 for his responsible position, has a keen knowledge 
 
 human nature in all its workings, is not easily 
 influenced, and under no circumstances can 
 
 swerved from what he considers fair and right. 
 
 ] 1 1 is a man of culture and broad general knowl- 
 
 y idenced particularly during his newspaper 
 
 er in Independence, where he was editor of the 
 
 for tour years. Mr. Ford is an hon- 
 
 d member of the Polk County Pioneers' Asso- 
 ciation, and is one of the many leading citizens 
 oi the present time who have traveled the long 
 distance from a crude pioneer log cabin to posi- 
 tions of trust and responsibility. 
 
 SALMON WHITE CROWDER. Another 
 of those hardy pioneers of the early '50's whose 
 bravery, valor and undaunted spirit prepared the 
 way for those who now profit by the prevailing 
 prosperity, is Salmon White Crowder, developer 
 of several fine farming properties in Oregon, and 
 an Indian veteran of whom his adopted state has 
 cause to be proud. A man of fine personal char- 
 acteristics and extreme liberality of thought and 
 heart. Mr. Crowder has arrived at the age where 
 men appreciate the peaceful rather than the 
 money-getting side of life, and in his home in 
 Albany is exempt from business cares, and his 
 environment is all that is pleasant and artistic. 
 
 Patriotism may be said to be a leading trait 
 of the Crowder family, for soldiers bearing the 
 name have fought in all of the important wars 
 of this country. The paternal grandfather, 
 Archie, stacked his musket upon the battlefields 
 of the Revolution, and for several years slept 
 in the tents of the Colonial army. He was born 
 in Virginia and lived some years in Kentucky, 
 his death occurring on his farm in Champaign 
 county, Ohio. His son, John, the father of Sal- 
 mon White, also was born in Virginia, and when 
 the call to arms was issued in 181 2, he enlisted 
 and gave valiant service. He eventually settled 
 on a farm near Lewisburg, Ohio, where he died 
 at the age of eighty-two years, having been pre- 
 ceded several years by his wife, formerly Eliza- 
 beth (Browder) Crowder, who was born in Ver- 
 mont, and lived to be sixty years old. Fourteen 
 children were born into this family, all but one 
 of whom attained maturity, and four of whom 
 are living. The veteran father had the satisfac- 
 tion of seeing five of his sons enlist in the Civil 
 war, participate in the majority of the memorable 
 battles, and return to their respective homes. 
 These sons were named John H., Thomas, Har- 
 rison, William, and Sanford, only one of whom, 
 John H., was wounded during the service. 
 
 The little log school-house near the Crowder 
 farm was the only means of education available 
 to the large family of children, and they attended 
 irregularly, and principally during the leisure of 
 the winter months. Salmon White remained 
 under the paternal roof until he became of age, 
 and afterward engaged in farming independently 
 until coming to Oregon in 1853. With friends 
 he traveled by boat to Burlington, and there the 
 eight men comprising the party outfitted with 
 ox-teams and wagons, having brought with them 
 one hundred and sixty head of cattle and some 
 horses. This courageous party left Ohio March 
 6, 1853, and arrived in the Willamette valley in 
 October of the same year. It is not recorded 
 that their trip was in any way out of the ordi- 
 nary, or that their limited number inspired attacks 
 on the part of the red men. Mr. Crowder re- 
 luctantly parted from the men with whom he had 
 been so long and so intimately associated, and 
 after some time spent in investigating the condi- 
 tions by which he found himself surrounded, lo- 
 cated on a claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 ten miles south of Albany. Even then the Indi- 
 ans were rendering almost intolerable the life 
 of the settlers, and each regarded it as his per- 
 sonal duty to help restore order, and make possi- 
 ble the tilling of their land. During 1855-56 Mr. 
 Crowder was a member of Company H, First 
 Oregon Volunteer Infantry, and in this capacity 
 took part in the battle of Walla Walla or Whit- 
 man station, which covered four days of hard 
 fighting, and was one of the notable contests of 
 the Yakima war, as well as many other battles 
 and skirmishes. After being mustered out he re- 
 turned to his farm, a large portion of which he 
 cleared and improved. 
 
 While located at Sand Ridge Mr. Crowder mar- 
 ried Lucinda Wishard, who was born in Indiana, 
 and crossed the plains in 1852 with her father, 
 Archie, settling on a farm in Linn county. Of 
 this union there have been born six children, the 
 order of their birth being as follows : Emma, 
 now Mrs. Parish, of Albany; Henry, a carpenter, 
 of Los Angeles, Cal. ; Charles, foreman of the 
 round house of the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad 
 in Albany ; Salmon A., a carpenter, of Albany ; 
 Ada, the wife of John Simpson, an engineer on 
 the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad ; and George, 
 engaged in the hotel business in Portland. Soon 
 after his marriage Mr. Crowder sold his farm and 
 moved on a large stock farm at Butte Disappoint- 
 ment, Lane county, where he lived four years. 
 He then bought a farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres eight miles southeast of Albany, but after- 
 ward sold this property and bought three hun- 
 dred acres south of Lebanon. Eight years later 
 he removed to a farm near Miller's station, and 
 after that lived on several farms, all of which 
 
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 he disposed of upon coming permanently to Al- 
 bany. 
 
 In Lane county Mr. Crowder served four years 
 as justice of the peace, elected to the office by his 
 Republican constituents. He is a member of the 
 Christain Church, and of the Indan War Veter- 
 ans' Association. To an exceptional degree he 
 has the confidence of the country and town com- 
 munities in which he has lived, and his agricul- 
 tural, as well as political, war, and general efforts, 
 have always redounded to the credit of his 
 adopted state. 
 
 HON. SYLVANDER A. DAWSON. A 
 pioneer of 1861, and for many years connected 
 with the agricultural and political development 
 of Linn county, Hon. S. A. Dawson has been 
 a resident of Albany since 1897, and maintains 
 one of the fine and hospitable homes of the city. 
 Of Scotch descent, he was born in Marion county, 
 Ind., December 4, 1841, and was reared on a farm 
 seven miles north of Indianapolis. His father, 
 John R., was born in Jefferson county, Ky., 
 whither had come the paternal grandfather, Will- 
 iam, who emigrated from Scotland. The latter 
 was an extensive farmer and stock-raiser, and 
 lived to an advanced age in Kentucky. John R. 
 Dawson moved as a young man to Marion county, 
 lnd., and there married Juliette Morgan, who 
 was born in Morgan county, Va., a daughter of 
 James Morgan, who spent his entire life in Vir- 
 ginia. Three daughters and three sons were 
 born in Indiana, and accompanied their parents 
 across the plains in 1861, settling on a farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres five miles east of 
 Albany. Here the father farmed until his death 
 in 1873, he being survived by his wife, who died 
 in February, 1901, at the age of eighty-five years. 
 Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. John 
 R. Dawson : Lucinda Jane, married J. W. Swank, 
 of Portland ; Sylvander A. ; Ann Z., died in early 
 childhood in Indiana; Millard F. lives on a farm 
 five miles east of Albany ; Sylvester N. died at 
 age of eighteen years and six months, near Al- 
 bany ; Sarah J., wife of J. B. Haight, of Port- 
 land; Ida I., wife of Ed. R. M. Carter, of Port- 
 land. 
 
 In addition to the public schools of Indiana, 
 S. A. Dawson had the advantage for a year of a 
 school in Danville, 111., and with this nucleus for 
 his present well stored mind, was obliged to con- 
 tent himself at that time. On the trip across the 
 plains in 1861 he drove one of the ox-teams, 
 while his father drove another, and the hired 
 man a third. They brought considerable loose 
 stock, most of which stood the long jaunt fairly 
 well, the party arriving in Albany six months to 
 a day from the time they left Danville, 111. For- 
 tunately, half of the farm purchased by the father 
 
 was broken, and therefore cost him $15.50 per 
 acre. S. A. Dawson remained at home for two 
 years, and the following two years he spent in 
 mining and packing in Idaho and Montana. Re- 
 turning to Albany, he bought a farm near the old 
 home and engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
 and after the death of his father in 1873 came 
 into possession of the old place of one hundred 
 and sixty acres. From then until taking up his 
 residence in Albany in 1897 he farmed success- 
 fully, adding many improvements to the home 
 stead, and so operating the property as to bring 
 him in a comfortable profit. 
 
 Beginning r with 1878 Mr. Dawson became 
 prominently identified with Republican politics 
 in Linn county, and that year was nominated for 
 sheriff of the county, but was defeated. In 1880 
 he was elected a member of the legislature, serv- 
 ing in the session of that year, creditably repre- 
 senting the best interests of .his constituency. In 
 1886 he was elected to the state senate, served in 
 the session of 1887, assisting in the election of 
 Senator Dolph, and also served in 1889. Again 
 elected to the senate in 1894, he served in the ses- 
 sions of 1895-7, but has not been a candidate 
 since. At the present time he is serving his sec- 
 ond term in the Albany City Council, representing 
 the Second ward ; was formerly a member of 
 both the State Central and County Committees. 
 He has been one of the stanch supporters of his 
 party in the state, and his political service has 
 been characterized by the highest honor and never 
 at the sacrifice of principle. 
 
 In Linn county Mr. Dawson was united in mar- 
 riage in 1873 with Sarah L. Haight, who was 
 born in Linn county in 1849, an d whose father, 
 Silas Haight, a native of New York state, crossed 
 the plains in 1844. Georgia C, the only child of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Dawson, is attending the Albany 
 College and will graduate in the class of 1904. 
 
 Mr. Dawson was made a Mason in Albany in 
 1874, and is a member of Corinthian Lodge No. 
 17, A. F. & A. M.; Bayley Chapter No. 8, R. A. 
 M. Is also a member of Safety Lodge No. 13, 
 A. O. U. W., and was an active member of Har- 
 mony Grange No. 23. He has always evinced an 
 interest in all matters that he deemed worthy of 
 his consideration. 
 
 U. SCOTT LOUGHARY, a native son, and 
 the present clerk of Polk county, was born on a 
 farm six miles from Dallas, July 25, 1863. His 
 father, L. W. Loughary, owner of a well devel- 
 oped farm in the county, was born in Illinois, 
 but removed as a boy with his father, David, to 
 Des Moines county, Iowa. After coming to Polk 
 county in 1852, he continued to farm and build, 
 occupations to which his entire active life has 
 been devoted. Eliza Simpson, whom he married 
 
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 after coming to the west, and who is still living 
 with him on the old donation claim, was born 
 in Tennessee, and came across the plains with her 
 father, 1. M. Simpson, in the latter '40s. .Mr. 
 Simpson settled on a claim on the Luckiamute, 
 was ven successful, ami added greatly to his 
 original land, now occupied by his wife. Martha. 
 Besides U. Scott, the third child of the family, 
 there were horn to L. \Y. Loughary and his wife, 
 three other children, of whom Rosa is now Mrs. 
 O. A. Wolverton, of Monmouth; Rachel is Mrs. 
 
 . L. Hirshner, of the Hood River district; and 
 Frank is living at home. 
 
 After attending a course at the State Normal 
 School at Monmouth. U. Scott Loughary taught 
 school for a year, and then attended the State 
 Agricnltural College. Following another period 
 of teaching, he engaged in clerking in Independ- 
 ence for five years for Shilling & Van Dyne and 
 their successors, and for two years with the firm 
 of James Meyers & Son. Owing to impaired 
 health he went back and worked on the home 
 farm for a year, and in 1900 was nominated 
 county clerk on the Republican ticket, being elect- 
 ed by a majority of thirty-two over the fusion 
 candidate. In July, 1900, he took the oath of 
 office, and, having most acceptably filled the re- 
 sponsiblity, was re-elected in 1902 bv a majority 
 of over five hundred and ninety-six, his term of 
 office to continue until July, 1904. 
 
 In Spokane, Wash., Mr. Loughary married 
 Arminda Shupp, daughter of Rev. N. Shupp, the 
 presiding elder of the Evangelical Association. 
 ( >f this union there have been born three chil- 
 dren, Gladys, Helen and Lucile. Mr. Loughary 
 
 s well known in fraternal and social circles of 
 this county, and is identified with Jennings Lodge 
 
 No. 9, A. F. & A. M., Friendship Lodge No/6, 
 
 I. O. O. F.. and Woodmen of the World. For- 
 merly he was active in the Knights of Pythias, 
 and was past chancellor of Homer Lodge "of In- 
 dependence for two terms. Mr. Loughary is one 
 of the exceedingly progressive and popular men 
 of the county, and the ability to be an efficient 
 'public servant, added to personal characteristics 
 of a high order, have won him a host of friends. 
 
 JAMES COLEMAN. That James Cole- 
 man is indebted solely to his own pluck and 
 good management for his success in life is 
 evident from the fact that at the age of thir- 
 teen he was supporting himself by working 
 in a tan yard in Johnson county, Inch, whither 
 he removed with his parents when five years old. 
 He was born in Franklin, Warren county, Ohio, 
 July 21. 1821, and was the son of parents who 
 were but indifferently successful in life. From 
 Johnson county, Ind., he drove a team in 1839 
 
 to Louisa comity, Iowa, and was so well 
 pleased with the stale that he remained and 
 found work on farms in the vicinity. Frugal 
 and industrious, he saved enough money to 
 justify him in marrying Frances Murray June 
 5, 1845, an( l thereafter he continued to farm 
 for others for a couple of years. 
 
 In 1847 -^' r - Coleman followed the prompt- 
 ings of his good judgment and prepared for 
 the long journey across the plains, in a corn- 
 pan}- commanded by Captain Davidson and 
 Uaptain Mendenhall, four yoke of oxen being 
 sufficient to convey the family possessions in 
 one wagon. He had purchased some stock 
 with which to begin farming enterprises in 
 the west, but of some of this he was unfor- 
 tunately relieved by the Indians, who, it will 
 be recalled, entertained a profound admiration 
 for the cattle of the emigrating "pale faces" 
 in the early days. The train came by way of 
 Fort Hall, and they arrived at their destina- 
 tion none the worse for the danger and de- 
 privation which they had experienced. Mr. 
 Coleman found an opportunity for liveli- 
 hood at St. Paul, Ore., where he operated the 
 Mission sawmill during the first winter. The 
 next spring he took up a donation claim of 
 six hundred and forty acres seven miles above 
 McMinnville, all of which was wild timber 
 land. In the midst of this desolation he hewed 
 trees and built a little log house, his neighbors 
 being few and far between and many miles 
 distant. This log house continued to be the 
 abode of the family for twelve years, and in 
 the meantime the land was yielding fair re- 
 turns for the labor which had been expended 
 upon it. During the historic year 1849, Mr. 
 Coleman made his way with pack horses to 
 California and mined on the American river 
 for six weeks, afterward trying his luck on 
 Angel's creek. He was successful in a way, 
 and in the fall of the same year returned to 
 Oregon by way of the ocean, going direct to 
 his donation claim. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Coleman sold his claim and 
 came to Marion county, and bought three 
 hundred and twenty acres, which, however, 
 he has never occupied. In the fall of 1862 he 
 bought nine hundred acres, of which he owns 
 five hundred and eighty acres at the present 
 time. His land is under a high state of culti- 
 vation, and besides general farming and stock- 
 raising, he has twenty-four acres under hops. 
 A large family of children have been reared in 
 Oregon, six sons and five daughters, all of 
 whom are living and possess sound constitu- 
 tions. They are named as follows, in the 
 order of their birth : Annie Catharine, wife 
 of W. F. Davidson, of St. Paul; John, of Port- 
 land; Mary Elizabeth, wife of Charles O. Pel- 
 
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 land, of St. Paul ; James R., of Salem ; William 
 Thomas, of Champoeg ; Elizabeth Jane, wife 
 of F. C. Hammond, of Juneau, Alaska ; Stephen 
 Henry, on the home place ; Charles D., of 
 Juneau, Alaska ; Emily Frances, wife of Wil- 
 liam Murphy, of St. Paul ; Helen Louise, wife 
 of John J. Casey, of Portland; Frank N., of 
 St. Paul. Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Pelland and 
 Mrs. Hammond attended St. Mary's Academy 
 in Portland ; all the sons except Frank at- 
 tended Willamette University, and he at- 
 tended Mt. Angel College; Mrs. Murphy and 
 Mrs. Casey attended St. Paul's Academy, at 
 St. Paul. Ten are married and have homes 
 of their own, all being active and well to do 
 citizens of Oregon. 
 
 Mrs. Coleman died April 26, 1896, aged 
 seventy-two years. She was born in Ireland, 
 and in infancy crossed the ocean to America 
 with her father, Barney Murray. 
 
 The record of the life of Mr. Coleman should 
 prove a source of gratification to his family 
 and friends, as well as of justifiable pride to 
 himself. In every sense a self-made man, he 
 has looked with a charitable and indulgent eye 
 upon the struggles of the younger men of the 
 present generation, who have been able to ex- 
 tract from their knowledge of his continuous 
 success no small measure of inspiration in 
 their own undertakings. He has always 
 evinced an interest in the public welfare, and 
 co-operates willingly with his friends and 
 neighbors in all efforts put forth to better the 
 condition of humanity. Such men as he are 
 thoroughly representative of the best and 
 highest interests of the communities in which 
 they reside. The high esteem in which Mr. 
 Coleman is held by all who know him is 
 abundant testimony to the sterling traits in 
 his character and his manifest spirit of fair- 
 ness and liberality of thought and action in 
 dealing with matters that are of interest to 
 others than himself. 
 
 A. P. MAGNESS. Continuously for twenty- 
 two years A. P. Magness has been a school clerk 
 in Yamhill county, and during that time has 
 materially advanced the cause of education in 
 which he takes so keen an interest. He has also 
 served as justice of the peace for a few terms, 
 and has otherwise maintained the prestige of 
 Democracy in a prosperous and progressive 
 region. For many years identified with farming 
 hereabouts, Mr. Magness is now living near 
 the village of Wheatland, and in addition to gen- 
 eral farming- and stock-raising, derives a sub- 
 stantial revenue from hop culture, to which he 
 devotes ten acres of his well-cultivated farm. 
 During the last year he raised ten thousand 
 
 pounds, and he is contemplating an increase of 
 this amount in the near future. 
 
 Mr. Magness represents one of the pioneer 
 families of Yamhill county, having arrived here 
 in 1854. He was born in Independence county, 
 Ark., January 3, 1847, ms father, John R., hav- 
 ing been born in the same state and county in 
 1822. The elder Magness was a farmer and 
 stock-raiser in Arkansas, and while living there 
 married as a young man Virginia Byrd, a native 
 of the same state. The parents lived on this 
 farm until 1854, when, having disposed of their 
 Arkansas possessions, they outfitted and pre- 
 pared for the long and dreary journey across the 
 plains. There were about thirty teams in the 
 caravan of home and fortune seekers, and owing 
 to the more settled conditions of the country, the 
 little band missed some of the terrifying experi- 
 ences which befell earlier emigrants. The father 
 started with about one hundred and fifty head 
 of cattle, and owing to the depredations of the 
 Indians, was relieved of his responsibility to the 
 extent of about eighty head. He first settled 
 near Springfield, Ore., where he bought and 
 lived on a farm until 1859, i n which year the 
 faithful mother died, leaving her husband and 
 children disconsolate. Thereafter the family re- 
 moved to a farm upon which is now built the 
 town of Fairfield, Marion county, and where he 
 farmed with average success until 1864. Mr. 
 Magness then went into eastern Oregon on a 
 mining and prospecting tour, and for three years 
 experienced varying good and bad luck. He 
 afterward made a couple of trips back to Ar- 
 kansas, and on the last trip was taken ill and 
 one of his sons, Robert N., went and brought 
 him back to his home. Here he lived until his 
 death, July 29, 1893, having lived a very active 
 and worth-while life. An otherwise meritorious 
 career was made more interesting by valorous 
 service in the Mexican war, during which service 
 he encountered many of the vicissitudes incident 
 to a time of adventure and rapid happenings. 
 Before the battle of Buena Vista he was taken 
 prisoner and imprisoned for nine months, and 
 during that time had marched one thousand miles 
 to the City of Mexico. Four sons and one daugh- 
 ter were born into his family, of whom A. P. 
 is the oldest ; Perry G. is a resident of Portland ; 
 David A. lives in California ; R. N. is the next in 
 order of birth ; and Josephine is deceased. 
 
 At the age of seventeen years A. P. Magness 
 went into the mines of eastern Oregon, and 
 until his twenty-second year was engaged in 
 mining and prospecting. He received a fair 
 education in the district schools, and this begin- 
 ning has been added to in later years, so that 
 at the present time Mr. Magness is a well-in- 
 formed man on current events and knowledge 
 in general. After his marriage, September 29, 
 
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 i860, with Amelia Davidson, a native of Dayton, 
 Yamhill county, and daughter of Green C. and 
 Nancy Davidson, he lived in Fairfield for a 
 couple of years, and for two years on a farm near 
 where he now lives. His present farm has proved 
 • pleasant and profitable, and the fortunate 
 
 ner correctly estimates that he has one of 
 the most desirable farms in his neighborhood, 
 i ){ the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mag- 
 
 ss, lohn is deceased; Virginia is the wife of 
 T. T. Parker, of Roseburg; David Austin is jus- 
 tice of the peace in St. Paul, Marion county, and 
 is in the hard-wood business on the Willamette 
 river near St. Paul; Gertrude is the wife of 
 Samuel Whitmore, of Dayton; the next child 
 died in infancy and the following complete the 
 family : William B., Maud M., Green Clay and 
 Edna. The last named four children are living 
 with their parents. Mr. Magness bears an hon- 
 ored name in the community and his efforts have 
 ever been for its permanent betterment. 
 
 GEORGE MORRISON. Born in the sea- 
 washed isle of Scotland, George Morrison grew 
 up with the frugal and temperate ideas that go 
 hand in hand with the common life of that 
 little country, and bringing them with him across 
 the sea. virtually insured his success in a land 
 where plenty, carefully nurtured, means riches 
 by-and-by. 
 
 Samuel Watson, the maternal grandfather, 
 followed farming as his life calling. His daugh- 
 ter. Barbara, who married Alexander Mor- 
 rison, is living now in that distant land 
 in her seventy-fifth year, a widow, her husband 
 having died January 16, 1900, at the age of 
 seventy-six years. Banff, Scotland, was the 
 birth-place of father, mother, and the nine chil- 
 dren that were born to them, five of whom are 
 still in Scotland, William, Charles, and John 
 farming in the locality of their childhood home , 
 Alexander, the second oldest, being a laborer ; 
 Barbara, the one daughter, remaining at home 
 to brighten the iife of their aging mother ; 
 and two beyond the seas in the land of the 
 setting sun, James, the third, and George, the 
 fifth oldest, the latter of whom is reviewed in 
 this sketch. 
 
 November 19, 1863, is the date of his birth, 
 in the county before mentioned. At twelve 
 and a half years he was hired to a farmer to 
 work for the consideration of his board and $25 
 for the first six months. He had attended 
 the common schools of Scotland previous to 
 this and from now on he engaged in farming, 
 working in the rich lowlands of this maritime 
 county, and by the time he was twenty-three 
 years old he had managed to save fifty pounds, 
 his economy and thrift in all these years being 
 
 for the purpose of having money for his pass- 
 age to America. With no friends or relatives 
 to welcome him, he came as many another 
 young man did, with only his courage and de- 
 termination to sustain him in the loneliness of his 
 position. From Boston he came direct to 
 Aurora, 111., where he engaged in farming for 
 two years, the profits accruing very much more 
 rapidly than in the country of his birth. At the 
 close of the two years he came to Oregon, locat- 
 ing near Amity, Yamhill county, where he 
 worked as a farm-hand for Ladd and Reed for 
 the period of two years and nine months, invest- 
 ing then his savings in a farm of thirty acres 
 near Dundee, having as his partner, his brother 
 James. There were no improvements on the 
 place and they recognized the hardships that 
 barred their opportunity, but with their inherited 
 industry and thrift set to work to bring cultiva- 
 tion to the barren fields. They have a fine 
 orchard of nine-year-old prune trees in full bear- 
 ing, and with their Italian prune-dryer they pre- 
 pare splendid crops for the market. When the 
 trees were five years old they had a crop of 
 three tons of dried prunes ; when eight years 
 old, twenty tons ; when nine years old, thirteen 
 tons. In the winter of 1903, Mr. Morrison 
 bought a ten-acre eleven-year-old prune orchard 
 which makes him forty acres in all. Prune- 
 raising has been the only industry of the farm, 
 and it has proven very successful. In his 
 political views, Mr. Morrison is a Democrat. 
 
 GEORGE K. BRYANT is a member of 
 the firm of Bryant & Pennell, owners and 
 operators of a milling plant which is con- 
 ducted under the name of the Capital City 
 Mills. Mr. Bryant has resided in Oregon only 
 since 1894, but has become an active factor in 
 industrial circles here. He was born in Grand 
 Rapids, Mich., April 6, 1862, and was the third 
 in order of birth in a family of three sons and 
 a daughter born unto John and Rachel (Lumby) 
 Bryant. The father, a native of England, 
 crossed the Atlantic to Ontario, Canada, and 
 afterward removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 where he became purchasing agent for the Chi- 
 cago & Grand Trunk Railroad. He is still living 
 in that city. His wife passed away during the 
 early boyhood of their son, G. K. Her father, 
 George Lumby, was a native of Connecticut and 
 after his removal to Michigan followed the oc- 
 cupation of farming. 
 
 Mr. Bryant of this review spent his youthful 
 days in Grand Rapids, Mich., and to it's public 
 school system is indebted for the educational 
 privileges he enjoyed. His mother died when 
 he was but four years of age and soon after- 
 ward he was bound out to a miller, J. Wolf. 
 
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 When very young he assisted in the work of 
 the mill as his age and strength permitted, and 
 in 1876 he regularly entered the mill and com- 
 pleted his trade in the Glohe Mills under Mr. 
 Wolf. This mill -was operated with the old burr 
 process and subsequently Mr. Wolf purchased 
 another mill at Tallmadge Center. Mr. Bryant 
 remained v/ith him until six months after he had 
 attained his majority, when he removed to Ra- 
 venna, Muskegon county, Mich., where he 
 accepted the position of head miller in the 
 Ravenna Mills. Later he was made manager, 
 and while serving in that capacity he put in a 
 roller process. Eventually he leased the mill and 
 for five years was its proprietor, his connection 
 with that industry covering twelve years. This, 
 however, was terminated in 1894, when he came 
 to the northwest. 
 
 On arriving in Salem Mr. Bryant looked 
 about for a business opening and leased the 
 Aumsville Mill twelve miles from this city. He 
 was its proprietor for four years and then went 
 to California, spending five months at different 
 places in that state. He next proceeded to Port- 
 land and eastern Oregon, but in 1900 he re- 
 turned to Salem and as a member of the firm 
 of Bryant & Reeves purchased the mill which 
 he now owns. It is a steam mill with a fifty-six 
 horse power engine and a capacity of one hun- 
 dred barrels per day. The milling plant con- 
 sists of a building four stories in height and is 
 supplied with a Case system of roller process. 
 The firm is now Bryant'& Pennell and the busi- 
 ness is carried on under the name of the Capital 
 City Mills, an engraving of the state capitol 
 being stamped upon each sack of flour as its 
 trade mark. Various kinds of flour and break- 
 fast foods are manufactured, one of the main 
 brands being the "Perfection Flour," which, be- 
 cause of its superior excellence and quality, finds 
 a ready sale, upon the market. Mr. Bryant has 
 worked up an excellent business and the output 
 of the enterprise is continually being increased 
 to meet the growing demands of the trade. 
 
 In Coopersville, Mich., occurred the marriage 
 of G. K. Bryant and Miss Alice Burton, who 
 was born in Ohio, and they have one child, Mil- 
 dred W. Mr. Bryant was made a Mason in 
 Lisbon, Mich., and an Odd Fellow at Ravenna, 
 that state, and he is also connected with the 
 Knights of the Maccabees, while his political 
 support is given to the Republican party. 
 
 WILLIAM CAMPBELL. From early pioneer 
 times William Campbell has been a resident of 
 Yamhill county and his efforts have been far- 
 reaching and effective in the upbuilding and de- 
 velopment of this portion of the state. He was 
 
 born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and his 
 father, William Campbell, Sr., was a native of 
 Scotland. Crossing the Atlantic to America he 
 took up his abode in the Empire state, where 
 he engaged in farming until his death. His wife 
 was a Miss Logan, and the subject of this re- 
 view is their only living child and the only one 
 that came to Oregon. His birth occurred on 
 the 4th of September, 1827, so that he has now 
 passed the Psalmist's span of three score years 
 and ten, but he is still an active factor in the 
 business circles of McMinnville, where he is en- 
 gaged in real estate operations. When sixteen 
 years of age he was apprenticed to learn the 
 blacksmith's trade, which he followed until 1855, 
 and then started for California by way of the 
 Nicaragua route on the steamer The Golden 
 West. After crossing that Central American 
 country he again took passage on a steamer bound 
 for San Francisco, and on reaching the Golden 
 Gate, made his way at once to the mines. In 
 Yuba county he engaged in blacksmithing for 
 three months, and afterwards took up his abode 
 in Marysville, Cal., where he also established a 
 shop. In 1858, the year of the Frazier river ex- 
 citement in British Columbia, he was attracted 
 northward and proceeded as far as Victoria when 
 he met the prospectors and miners returning. Mr. 
 Campbell then made his way to Portland and 
 thence went to Lafayette, while two months later 
 he arrived in McMinnville. 
 
 There was only one store and a few houses 
 here when Mr. Campbell became a resident of 
 the city. He purchased a blacksmith shop on 
 Third street between B and C streets and there 
 he conducted business along the line of his trade 
 for many years, also devoting his attention to 
 wagon and carriage making. He built the first 
 carriage ever manufactured here and continued 
 working at his trade for about ten years, since 
 which time he has devoted his energies to real- 
 estate operations. Through this avenue of busi- 
 ness activity Mr. Campbell has contributed in 
 a large measure to the improvement of McMinn- 
 ville. He erected the Campbell block, which is 
 a brick structure two stories in height, 68x100 
 feet. He also built another building 60x100 feet 
 opposite the Campbell block and still others has 
 he erected in the business district, while in the 
 residence district he has put up a number of 
 cottages. Mr. Campbell has done not a little 
 for his fellow men by giving people an oppor- 
 tunity to own their own homes by allowing them 
 to pay for them upon the installment plan. He 
 has built more than any other one resident of the 
 city, and when the railroad was comtemplated 
 he was a generous contributor to a subscription 
 list that was raised in order to secure the ex- 
 tension of the line to this place. The road had 
 been terminated at St. Joseph, and Mr. Campbell 
 
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 led in securing the right of way from 
 ce to Amity. He realized how important 
 il,| be railroad connection with outlying points 
 I put forth every effort in his power to secure 
 the building of the road, which has proven of 
 st possible benefit to McMinnville. A 
 g .it' citizens was held at which Mr. Camp- 
 was appointed chairman of the committee 
 ure the right of way and the depot site. 
 and when he had accomplished this important 
 the growth of the town received a new 
 npetus that is still felt. Exclusive of time and 
 jfforts he gave over $3,000 in money to carry 
 his enterprise. Mr. Campbell has also im- 
 proved a number of farms in this portion of the 
 te and owns about one thousand acres of land 
 • McMinnville. most of which is under cul- 
 tivation, and he may well be termed a captain of 
 lustry, for certainly his life is an exemplifica- 
 tion oi earnest labor and its force as a factor in 
 the business world. He has also been the pro- 
 moter of a number of enterprises which have 
 been of value to the city as well as to the indi- 
 vidual owners. He established the first fruit- 
 drying factory of the county and became presi- 
 dent of the company having this in charge. He 
 built the first creamery here and was president 
 of the company owning and controlling this en- 
 terprise. He became one of the organizers of 
 • McMinnville National Bank and a member 
 of its first board of directors, and in that same 
 connection he is still associated with the insti- 
 tution. 
 
 Mr. Campbell was married in McMinnville 
 April 20. 1880, to Miss Hattie L. Loughary, who 
 was born in Iowa and came to McMinnville in 
 1864 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. VV. J. 
 Loughary, who still reside here. Unto our sub- 
 ject and his wife have been born two children : 
 Fuchia Pearl and William Chester. In his po- 
 itical faith Mr. Campbell is a Republican, hav- 
 ing been identified with the party since its organ- 
 ization. He has done everything in his power 
 promote its growth and insure its success and 
 has ever been an active factor in the political in- 
 terests of McMinnville. 
 
 For fifteen years he served as a member of 
 the city council and was the promoter of meas- 
 ures of benefit to the city. He belongs to 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Mc- 
 Minnville. in which he is a past noble grand; 
 is also connected with the Encampment and with 
 the Rebekah degree and has membership relations 
 with the Muscovites. In 1865 he returned to the 
 east by way of the Nicaragua route, and in 1868 
 he again visited the east, going by way of the 
 Panama route, but since coming to McMinnville 
 his deepest interests have centered here and he 
 has had firm faith in the country and its future. 
 
 ALFRED WILSON. Few men are more 
 familiar with western history than Alfred Wil- 
 son. What to most of the present generation 
 is a matter of reading is to him a matter of 
 memory. He has been a participant in many 
 of the advances connected with early travel 
 over the plains and with the settlement of the 
 west, and is thus very familiar with life upon 
 the great stretches of country that lie between 
 the Mississippi valley and the ocean. He 
 served in the Mexican war, and is among the 
 few survivors to-day of that struggle. He bore 
 his part in the work of improvement and devel- 
 opment as the tide of emigration steadily 
 flowed westward, and to-day he is one of the 
 respected, honored and successful agricultur- 
 ists of Yamhill county, where he owns a valu- 
 able tract of land of thirteen hundred and sixty 
 acres. 
 
 Alfred Wilson was born in Tennessee. April 
 2, 1826, and two years later his parents re- 
 moved to Howard county, Mo., where he was 
 reared upon a farm. There he became ac- 
 quainted with Kit Carson and there sprung up 
 between them a friendship which existed until 
 the death of the latter. In 1846, with the noted 
 explorer, hunter and guide, he went to the 
 Rocky Mountains on horseback, starting from 
 Fort Leavenworth. He made this trip in the 
 hope of benefiting his health, and afterward he 
 traveled with Kit Carson, piloting people 
 across the country. Often he slept with Mr. 
 Carson under the same blanket and shared 
 with him in all the experiences, encounters and 
 hardships which went to make up the life his- 
 tory of that famous man. Mr. Wilson has 
 killed many a bear with his hunting knife, thus 
 coming into close contact with the animals. 
 With Mr. Carson he acted as pilot to Steven- 
 son, a trader who went from St. Louis to New 
 Mexico. Mr. Wilson was engaged to drive a 
 six-mule team across the plains, starting from 
 Mann's Fort on the Arkansas river. After 
 being out five days they were attacked by the 
 Indians, and at that time Mr. Wilson killed his 
 first red man, a Comanche. He narrowly es- 
 caped death, for five arrows penetrated his 
 clothing. Five days later there was another 
 attack by the Indians, but day after day some 
 progress was made, until finally the party- 
 reached the last mountain, when he left the 
 train and returned. 
 
 In 1848 Mr. Wilson enlisted for service in 
 the Mexican war as a teamster, and after 
 reaching the land of the Montezumas he en- 
 listed as a scout in advance of the army, or, as 
 they were called, a ranger. He was at the 
 battle and in the siege of Santa Cruz, Mexico, 
 where the troops surrounded the town, and for 
 six days they subsisted upon one meal a day. 
 
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 Mr. Wilson was one of those chosen to throw 
 bombs into the town, and did his full share in 
 winning American victories there. After the 
 close of the Mexican war he returned north- 
 ward and several times crossed the plains, 
 making a trip in 1849 and another in 1850. In 
 the latter year he was captain of a company 
 that came to Oregon with an ox-team, journey- 
 ing from Fort Hall westward. He and his 
 brother also came along to Oregon and on the 
 trip killed three Indians. They proceeded to 
 the vicinity of McMinnville, and Mr. Wilson 
 put in a crop for Dr. Sutton, operating the lat- 
 ter's land on shares for a year. In the summer 
 of 185 1 he secured a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres where Riley Fendall 
 now resides. In the fall of that year he was 
 crippled while in the woods by a man hitting 
 him back of the knee with an ax. The injury 
 proved so serious that for eighteen months he 
 was unable to engage in any labor. About that 
 time news came that emigrants crossing the 
 plains were in a starving condition, and Mr. 
 Wilson then busied himself in taking up a 
 collection wherewith to secure provisions to 
 take to the travelers. He raised nearly $800 
 for that purpose, and it may well be supposed 
 that he was hailed with gratitude as a bene- 
 factor to 3 those who were suffering great hard- 
 ships for lack of food as they- journeyed west- 
 ward. At another time Mr. Wilson suffered a 
 second accident, having a leg broken by the 
 falling of his horse when near McMinnville. 
 However, his life altogether has been a pros- 
 perous one and has been filled with many in- 
 cidents which have made his history eventful, 
 and left to him many pleasant memories. In 
 1852 he secured a donation claim where he is 
 now living, becoming the owner of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres in this way. He has 
 made all of the improvements- upon the prop- 
 erty, and substantial buildings now stand as 
 monuments to his enterprise, while well tilled 
 fields indicate his careful supervision. As the 
 years have passed he has added to his property 
 until he now has thirteen hundred and sixty 
 acres of land in one body. He is largely en- 
 gaged in raising horses upon his ranch, and 
 has some very fine animals which bring a good 
 price in the markets. 
 
 Mr. Wilson has been twice married. In 
 1854 he wedded Miss Mary Sailing, and unto 
 them were born ten children, eight of whom are 
 now living: Melicia, wife of Ira Stevens; 
 Ludy, wife of James Le Masters ; Melvina, 
 wife of John Lady ; Minnie, wife of Andrew 
 Lady ; Lillie, wife of George Ball ; Bay, wife of 
 William Briddle ; Edward and Harley. Mrs. 
 Wilson died in 1890, and in 1894 Mr. Wilson 
 was again married, his second union being 
 
 with Miss Rebecca Bryan. In his political 
 views he is a Republican, having supported the 
 party since its organization. His life history, 
 if written in detail, would furnish more thrill- 
 ing chapters than are usually found upon the 
 pages of fiction. He knows what it is to en- 
 dure hardships, incident to a journey across 
 the plains before the advent of railroads. He 
 also knows what it is to fear the skulking foe 
 and to meet him in battle in the methods of 
 warfare employed by the red men. He has 
 also been a participant in his nation's battles, 
 and he has likewise performed the no less im- 
 portant work of reclaiming a wild district for 
 the purposes of civilization, that nature may 
 yield of its rich resources for the support, of 
 men. 
 
 ROSWELL L. CONNER, who is en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in Mc- 
 Minnville, was born in Polk county, Ore., 
 near Dallas, September 18, 1866. He traces his 
 ancestry back through several generations to the 
 Emerald Isle and the name was originally O'Con- 
 ner. The story goes that Robert O'Conner, a 
 native of Ireland, was a son of wealthy parents. 
 When twelve years of age he became imbued with 
 an irresistible desire to come to America, and 
 knowing that he could never win the consent of 
 his parents, he ran away and went to a sea cap- 
 tain, to whom he represented himself as an or- 
 phan and obtained permission from the captain 
 to come to America on his ship. In due time 
 with a little bundle he went aboard the ship 
 which soon afterward set sail. But the boy was 
 missed at home and the father getting some track 
 of him chartered another boat and overtook the 
 one on which his son had sailed. The captain, 
 however, in order to have no trouble, hid the boy 
 in a hogshead, and the last time the boy saw his 
 father was from the hold of a vessel as he peeped 
 through the bunghole of the hogshead. The cap- 
 tain brought him to this country on condition that 
 he would work for the captain for three years 
 in this country, and this Robert Conner did. He 
 was also allowed to attend school and he learned 
 a trade in his youth. After he attained his ma- 
 jority he wrote home to his parents, and his 
 father then offered to start him in any business 
 he might select if he would return to Ireland. 
 This he refused to do. Here he changed his 
 name by dropping the prefix and the family have 
 since had the patronymic of Conner. Robert 
 Conner married and among his children was a 
 son William, who also married and reared a fam- 
 ily, including Robert Conner, the grandfather of 
 our subject. 
 
 This Robert Conner was born in New York 
 and became a farmer of Ohio, whence in 1847 
 
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 he started with his family across the plains with 
 an coc-team and eventuall) reached Oregon. His 
 wife had died in the cast and his death occurred 
 
 i Polk county, this state, in 1S05. All of his 
 
 children came with him to the northwest, namely: 
 
 William, a tanner, who died in Polk county; 
 
 n. who died in California; Nathan, who died 
 
 • Polk county; Job, the father of our subject; 
 Mrs. Sarah Franklin, who died in Multnomah 
 ut\ ; Mrs. Klizabeth Hewitt and Mrs. Ann 
 Allawav. who died in the east ; Mrs. Mary Metz- 
 ker. who died in Lake county, Ore. ; Mrs. Han- 
 nah Dexter, who passed away in Polk county, as 
 did Mrs. Rachel Syron. 
 
 lob Conner was born in Ohio, December 3, 
 1827, and when twenty years of age came with 
 the family to Oregon. For two vears he engaged 
 lumbering in Oregon City, and in 1849 ne 
 went over the mountains to California, where he 
 spent one year in placer mining. Upon his re- 
 turn be settled in Polk county, where he pur- 
 chased the right of a party to a section of land, 
 but could hold only three hundred and twenty 
 acres. This he improved and farmed, living there 
 until his death in 1886. He was a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church and a Republican 
 in bis political belief. In early manhood he had 
 married Polly Ann Riggs, who was born in 
 Scott county, 111., April 13, 1834, a daughter of 
 Zadoc Riggs and a granddaughter of Scott Adams 
 Riggs. who settled near Exeter, 111., where he 
 followed farming until his death. Zadoc Riggs 
 was a farmer of Illinois until 1850, when he 
 -tarred with his wife and five children for Ore- 
 gon, but he died while on the way, near the last 
 crossing of the Sweetwater and was there buried. 
 His wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane 
 Leib, was born in eastern Tennessee and with 
 her father, John Lieb, went to Scott county, 111., • 
 where she became the wife of Mr. Riggs. After 
 her husband's death she continued the journey 
 to ( )regon, where she spent her remaining days. 
 Her brother-in-law, James B. Riggs, had settled 
 in Polk county in 1845, an d to that locality she 
 went. She secured a donation land claim eight 
 miles north of Dallas and there reared her fam- 
 ily, her death occurring in 1872. It was on the 
 29th of March. 1855, that Polly Ann Riggs be- 
 came the wife of Job Conner, and she died 
 April 13, 1871, when our subject was four years 
 old. She had seven children: Robert S., of 
 San Jose, Cal. ; Thomas E., a farmer of Yamhill 
 county; Mrs. Jane Baxter, of Polk countv ; Le- 
 ander, a farmer of that countv; Roswell L. ; Mrs. 
 Louisa Morrison, of Redlands, Cal., and Mrs. 
 Nancy Berdan. of Spokane, Wash. 
 
 ( in the home farm Roswell L. Conner remained 
 until twenty-one years of age, and after attend- 
 ing the common schools, spent one year in Mc- 
 Mmnville College. On attaining his majority 
 
 he entered Willamette University, at Salem, 
 where he remained two years. In 1889 he went 
 to Sheridan and bought on interest with bis 
 brother, Robert S., in the Sheridan flouring mills, 
 which they remodeled into roller mills and con- 
 ducted under the name of Conner Brothers until 
 1891, when R. L. Conner sold bis interest. He 
 was then appointed deputy sheriff under W. L. 
 Warren, serving until 1896. In the meantime 
 be bad taken up the study of law, and under the 
 direction and in the office of Judge J. E. Magers 
 he continued his reading until admitted to the 
 bar, at Salem, in June, 1897. Since that time he 
 has engaged in general practice in McMinnville 
 and now has a large and distinctively representa- 
 tive clientage. In 1900 he was appointed deputy 
 district attorney for Yamhill county, under J. N. 
 Hart, of Dallas, and in his law practice he has 
 shown marked ability in coping with the intricate 
 and involved questions of jurisprudence. 
 
 Mr. Conner was married in McMinnville to 
 Miss Myrtie Apperson, who was born in Oregon 
 City. He is a very prominent Mason, having 
 become a member of the order in Sheridan Lodge 
 No. 64, while now he is connected with Union 
 Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., of which he is a past 
 master. He was exalted in Ainsworth Chapter, 
 No. 17, R. A. M., at Dallas, and now belongs to 
 Taylor Chapter, No. 16, of which he is a past 
 high priest. His membership is likewise with 
 Hodson Council, No. 1, R. & A. M., of which 
 he was thrice illustrious master; the Order of 
 High Priesthood; DeMolay Commandery, No. 5, 
 K. T., having been a knight since 1894; Oregon 
 Lodge of Perfection, No. 1, Ainsworth Chapter, 
 No. 1, Rose Croix; Multnomah Council of Ko- 
 dosh, No. 1, and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. Mr. 
 Conner also belongs to the Commerce Club, of 
 which he is a member of the board of directors, 
 and he belongs to the Christian Church and gives 
 his political support to the Republican party. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Conner married Miss Apperson, a 
 daughter of Albert Jefferson and Eloise Au- 
 gusta (Cook) Apperson, the latter a native of 
 Batavia, Mich. Mrs. Conner's grandfather, Bev- 
 erly Apperson, was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
 Apperson. Her father is now living retired at 
 No. 472 Yamhill street, Portland, and at one 
 time he was receiver in the United States land 
 office at Sitka, Alaska. 
 
 PLEASANT COZINE, extensively en- 
 gaged in building and contracting in Mc- 
 Minnville, is a native son of Oregon, and was 
 born in Yamhill county, on the site of McMinn- 
 ville College, January 28, 1849. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of McMinnville, and 
 at the age of thirteen had his horizon materially 
 enlarged while on a trip with his father to the 
 Powder river mines in the Boise Basin, Idaho. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In the fall of 1863 he returned to this valley, 
 continued his education for several years, and 
 in connection therewith fanned on his father's 
 large claim. Finally he prepared for future in- 
 dependence by learning the carpenter and build- 
 er's trade, in which he has since been engaged 
 most successfully. In the fall of 1882 he re- 
 moved to Sprague, Wash., and worked at his 
 trade, spending some time also in Seattle, and 
 locating permanently in McMinnville in 1898. 
 To his skill in construction are due many of 
 the finest buildings of recent date in the town. 
 When Samuel Cozine, the father of Pleasant, 
 came to Oregon in 1843, tms state was a stranger 
 to all manner of civilization, and was the haunt 
 of wild beasts and many kinds of Indians. This 
 intrepid pioneer was born in Kentucky and re- 
 moved with his family to Missouri, from where 
 he started across the plains in 1843. He was 
 full of enthusiasm for the almost unknown west, 
 and, having nothing particular to bind him to 
 any place, gladly set out in a caravan composed 
 of many wagons, and many hopeful searchers 
 after homes and fortunes. He had a happy, 
 buoyant spirit, and made many friends among 
 the members of the party. Not the least im- 
 portant of the families represented in this band 
 of pilgrims was that to which Mahala Arthur 
 belonged, whose youthful beauty inspired a last- 
 ing regard in the heart of the young emigrant, 
 who at once began to think of the advantages 
 of a pretty and interesting helpmate. That the 
 attachment was reciprocated was a fact apparent 
 to all the members of the train, and substantiated 
 to the satisfaction of all after their arrival at 
 their destination, the marriage ceremony taking 
 place March 29, 1845. This emigrant train was 
 the first to come to the Willamette valley, and 
 on its arrival the young man, Samuel Cozine, 
 bought the right of Thomas Owens to a claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres, upon a portion 
 of which McMinnville College now stands. The 
 country roundabout was extremely wild, with 
 only an occasional cabin like their own dotting 
 the landscape, and here Mr. Cozine erected also 
 a little blacksmith shop, to follow the trade 
 which he had learned in Missouri. Needless to 
 say this young couple started under the happiest 
 auspices, notwithstanding they had little money, 
 and almost no friends in the wilderness. 
 
 In 1849 M r - Cozine left his wife and children 
 for a time while he went down into the mines 
 of California and endeavored to replenish their 
 finances. The first gold he found was made into 
 the ring now worn by the wife who remained 
 behind at the mercy of the Indians. Mr. Cozine 
 was very successful in his mining deals, return- 
 ing to his family about $6,000 richer than when 
 he departed. He ever afterward retained an 
 interest in mining, and in 1862 went into the 
 
 Powder river mines, Idaho, two years later visit- 
 ing the mines with satisfactory results. In time 
 he had numerous claims to his credit throughout 
 the west, man)' of which have since proved of 
 great value, but have unfortunately been dis- 
 posed of. Up to his death, in 1897, he still con- 
 tinued to manipulate the forge, in the meantime 
 taking a lively interest in the town of McMinn- 
 ville, the growth of which he had watched from 
 its infancy. Both himself and wife took great 
 interest in the college in the town, and the for- 
 mer contributed the twenty acres comprising the 
 college grounds. Also they contributed gener- 
 ously towards its upbuilding, and Mr. Cozine 
 was for many years a trustee of the college. 
 This very early settler was known for many 
 years as Uncle Sam, and his figure on the streets 
 and on the country roads was one of the most 
 familiar in the county. Generous and open- 
 hearted, he gave to everything that pointed to 
 the substantial upbuilding of his locality, and 
 his sound business advice and practical sugges- 
 tions were invariably sought at times of stress 
 and moment. From time to time this worthy 
 couple converted portions of their land into city 
 property, and at the last Mrs. Cozine had a hun- 
 dred acres left, while her husband had but forty. 
 At the present time Mrs. Cozine is living in her 
 pleasant home in McMinnville, where she owns 
 considerable property, and is among the most 
 esteemed of the brave pioneer women of this 
 state. She was born in Jackson county, Mo., 
 near Independence, her father, William, having 
 located there after coming from his native state 
 of Kentucky. As before intimated, Mr. Arthur 
 brought his wife, Millie (Malone) Arthur, a 
 native of Kentucky, and his eight children to 
 ^regon in the same train with Mr. Cozine, and 
 his daughter, Mahala, who had learned to shoot 
 a gun, had ample opportunity to test her prow- 
 ess on the plains. Of these children born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, David died in Clackamas 
 county, Ore. ; Richard died near Hillsboro ; 
 Brazilla died near Hillsboro ; Robert lives in 
 McMinnville ; Mahala is next in order ; William 
 is a resident of McMinnville, and Mary died in 
 California. There were eight children born to 
 Samuel Cozine and his wife, those living being 
 Mrs. Lucretia Storey, of McMinnville ; Mrs. 
 Auburn L. Linn, of Portland ; and Pleasant. 
 Mrs. Cozine was one of the organizers and a 
 charter member of the Baptist church of Mc- 
 Minnville, is a member of the Aid Society, and 
 has been identified with the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union for more than thirty years. 
 Her son, Pleasant, the builder and contractor of 
 McMinnville, is also a member of the Baptist 
 Church, and in political affiliation is a Repub- 
 lican. He is an enterprising and progressive 
 man, and reflects great credit upon the honored 
 
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 name of his father, upon the teachings of his 
 gifted pioneer mother, and upon the community 
 which regards him as one of its most substantial 
 and helpful citizens. 
 
 BENJAMIN WINDSOR. A worthy citi- 
 of I'oik county. Ore., who, through years 
 of vigorous prosecution of the natural advan- 
 afforded in the west, has won and re- 
 tained the confidence and esteem of all with 
 whom he has come in contact, is Benjamin 
 Windsor, the subject of this brief sketch. Mr. 
 Windsor was born in Buckinghamshire, Eng- 
 land. April 23. 1832, the son of William 
 Windsor, a native of the same shire, where he 
 died in 1845 at tne a & e °f seventy-five years. 
 He was a carpenter by trade, and served in 
 that capacity in the British navy under Ad- 
 miral Xelson. His wife bore the maiden name 
 of Leah Robinson; she was a native of the 
 same shire, dying there at the age of eighty- 
 five years. She was the mother of nine chil- 
 dren, five sons and four daughters, of whom 
 Benjamin was the fourth in order of birth, — 
 and the only one in the United States. 
 
 Up to the time he was ten years of age Mr. 
 Windsor attended the common schools of Eng- 
 land. At that time he was compelled to depend 
 upon his own resources, and accordingly he 
 sought employment among the farmers in the 
 vicinity of. his home, his remuneration being 
 >ix cents per day, out of which he had to pro- 
 vide his own living. When he was nineteen 
 years of age he went to London, where for 
 nine months he worked as a milk carrier. On 
 June 9. 1852, he took passage on the American 
 ship Masonic and after fifty-seven days landed 
 in Xew York City. Soon afterward he located 
 in Knox county, 111., where he farmed until 
 February, 1856. He then went to St. Louis, 
 where he took passage for Panama, continuing 
 on his journey to California. He first located 
 in Sierra county, where he engaged in mining 
 on the middle Yuba, near Downieville. There 
 he met with gratifying success, the amount 
 of the gold nuggets reaching as high as $25. 
 From one crevice in thfe rock he took out 
 thirty-six ounces of gold, which netted con- 
 siderable money. He soon tired of a miner's 
 life, so he went to San Jose, where he spent 
 but a short time, and from there went to 
 various cities of California, spending thirteen 
 months at Los Angeles. In 1859 he set sail 
 from San Francisco for Portland, Ore., going 
 from there to Lincoln, Polk county, where he 
 entered the employ of Major W. M. AValker. 
 On the boat which brought him from Portland 
 to Lincoln, was the finishing lumber for the 
 Spring Yalley Presbyterian Church. Having 
 28 
 
 been saving with his money and being pos- 
 sessed with a spirit of thriftiness. he soon began 
 to invest his earnings in land. His first pur- 
 chase was one-half of the McLench claim, for 
 which he paid $2.50 per acre. He next pur- 
 chased one hundred and sixty acres of the 
 Swift claim, for which he also paid $2.50 per 
 acre. In addition to this property he bought 
 one hundred and sixty acres near Lincoln, upon 
 which he at once began farming for himself, 
 making a steady upward climb until he has 
 reached a substantial place among the progres- 
 sive citizens of the community. He has made 
 other purchases from time to time, until he is 
 now the owner of between thirteen and four- 
 teen hundred acres of as good land as can be 
 found in any part of Oregon. His land is de- 
 voted to general farming, and in the raising 
 of grain he has been particularly successful, 
 having raised as high as five thousand bushels 
 in one year, besides devoting considerable at- 
 tention to raising Cotswold sheep and draft 
 horses. 
 
 Mr. Windsor was married April 10, 1872, to 
 Miss Mary Caroline Allison, who was born in 
 Canada, February 28, 1843. Unto this Avorthy 
 couple were born five children, as follows : 
 John Allison, who died at the age of seventeen 
 years; Caroline, who is now Mrs. John W. 
 Childers ; William, Frank, and Anne, who 
 make their home with their parents. 
 
 Politically Mr. Windsor is independent in 
 his views, but by no means indifferent to pub- 
 lic affairs. He has always been deeply inter- 
 ested in the cause of education, and was road 
 supervisor of his district several times. The 
 first railroad laid in Oregon received the ma- 
 terial assistance and co-operation of Mr. 
 Windsor, he having contributed $10 toward 
 the first survey of the same. One of the oldest 
 residents of this section of the county, through- 
 out his entire life Mr. Windsor has been 
 known as a man of thought and action, who 
 has the best interest of the community at heart, 
 and whose life is a worthy example of the 
 possibilities to be attained in this great north- 
 west. He is known as a friend of progress 
 and cheerfully lends his influence to any pub- 
 lic enterprise for the betterment of the com- 
 munity, whether social, political or religious, 
 and these qualities have won for him the high- 
 est regard of his fellow men. 
 
 GEORGE W. JONES. McMinnville owes 
 much to the enterprising efforts and business 
 ability of George W. Jones, who has done as 
 much, if not more, than any other man for the 
 promotion of commercial and industrial activity 
 here. He has seen this portion of the state when 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 much of it was still in its primitive condition, 
 when the work of progress and improvement had 
 scarcely been begun. He was born in Montgom- 
 ery county, N. Y., April 19, 1835, and his father, 
 Ahijah Jones, was also a native of that county. 
 The grandfather, Lynds Jones, was of Welsh pa- 
 rentage and engaged extensively in the manu- 
 facture of flour on Cayadutta creek, in Montgom- 
 ery county. Ahijah Jones became one of the 
 leading factors in industrial circles there, own- 
 ing and operating cotton and woolen mills and 
 also engaging in the manufacture of flour and 
 lumber, at what is now Berryville, N. Y. In 
 the fall of i860 he went to the south to engage 
 in manufacturing but the hard times accompa- 
 nying the war came on and he suffered heavy 
 losses. He died in Macon, Ga., in 1863. He 
 married Catherine Veeder, who was born in 
 Tribes Hill, N. Y., a daughter of Col. John S. 
 i/eeder, who was of Holland Dutch descent and 
 won his title by valorous service in the war of 
 1812. He took part in the battle of Sackett's 
 Harbor and was in other engagements, and after 
 his military life was ended he carried on farming 
 in Montgomery county. Mrs. Jones died when 
 her son, George W., was but seven years old. 
 
 George W. Jones was the only one of the four 
 children of the family who reached mature years. 
 Reared in New York, he attended the public 
 schools and the State Normal at Albany, where 
 he was a student from 1854 until 1856. In his 
 senior year, however, he left school and joined 
 his father, who had removed to New York City. 
 In his youth he had learned the trade of a mill- 
 wright and miller. For two years he was en- 
 gaged in the wholesale produce business in New 
 York City and in 1859 he left the Atlantic coast 
 for the Pacific, making his way to San Francisco 
 and thence to Crescent City, Cal., where for two 
 years he was manager of a saw and flouring 
 mill. In 1861, at the time of the Salmon river 
 excitement, he came to Portland, making the 
 journey on foot along the Columbia river. It 
 was an arduous trip, fraught with hardship and 
 even dangers. The snow lay so thick upon the 
 ground that sometimes he was able to cover only 
 six miles per day. At night he lay down in the 
 snow and he lived upon crackers and cold bacon 
 for days, but at length he reached his destina- 
 tion. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Jones went to Grande Ronde val- 
 ley, where he conducted a sawmill for Stephen 
 Coffin, and in the spring of 1865 returned to Boise, 
 Idaho, where he engaged in mining until August. 
 At that time he returned to Portland, there con- 
 ducting a sawmill for William L. Adams, on 
 Panther creek, and in 1866, in connection with 
 O. H. Adams, he bought out his employer, the 
 business being continued under the name of O. H. 
 Adams & Company, manufacturing lumber and 
 
 also conducting a sash and door factory in the 
 city. When Mr. Adams sold his interest to E. J. 
 Crawford, the firm style of Jones & Crawford was 
 assumed, and later Mr. Crawford sold to Mr. 
 Hill, and Mr. Adams again became became inter- 
 ested in the business. When the partners were 
 Mr. Adams, H. A. Reasoner, Mr. Hill and Mr. 
 Jones, the enterprise was conducted under the 
 name of Jones & Company, thus continuing until 
 1884, when Mr. Reasoner sold, and the follow- 
 ing year Mr. Hill disposed of his interest, the 
 firm then becoming Jones & Adams. In the 
 meantime O. H. Adams had transferred his in- 
 terest to his son, Frank G. Adams, and the busi- 
 ness has since been continued as Jones & Adams. 
 They have a sawmill at the south fork of North 
 Yamhill river and are extensively and success- 
 fully engaged in the manufacture of lumber. 
 They also conduct a planing mill for the manu- 
 facture of sash, doors, blinds and mouldings, and 
 both branches of their business are profitably con- 
 ducted, and a large trade is enjoyed. On the 9th . 
 of July, 1891, the firm suffered severely in the 
 fire which swept over the city, causing them a 
 loss of more than $20,000. May 31, 1892, a sec- 
 ond disaster occurred to their store building, 
 which with its stock of hardware, paints and oils 
 was burned out, causing a loss of $5,000. Dis- 
 aster again overtook the firm on the 26th of Au- 
 gust, 1896, in a third disastrous conflagration, 
 destroying their mill and other property in the 
 mountains, with a loss of $5,000. but. with char- 
 acteristic energy the firm rebuilt the mill and 
 began business anew with an energy and deter- 
 mination that have been marked characteristics 
 of the house. Mr. Jones had done more build- 
 ing in McMinnville than any other one man. 
 He was the pioneer builder here and has con- 
 tinued the work as the years have advanced until 
 the city is now largely indebted to him in this 
 direction for substantial improvement. He erected 
 a brick block in the business district, and in the 
 face of adverse circumstances he has pushed for- 
 ward, displaying fortitude and energy which have 
 commanded the respect and admiration of all. 
 
 Mr. Jones has been twice married. In Fonda, 
 N. Y., he wedded Miss Rachel Young, who was 
 born, reared and died *there, and their only child 
 also died in the Empire state. In Oregon Mr. 
 Jones was a second time married, this union being 
 with Miss Emma E. Adams, who was born in 
 Galesburg, 111., and was three years of age when 
 brought by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. 
 Adams, to the northwest. This marriage has 
 been blessed with seven children : Georgia May, 
 of Portland ; Lynds W., who is with Fleischner, 
 Mayer & Co., of Portland ; Katie V., also of that 
 city ; Mary, who was graduated in the high school 
 of McMinnville and is now a student in McMinn- 
 yjlle College; Frank, Willard and Ellen, at home. 
 
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 That Mr. [ones is regarded as one of the valued 
 
 ns of McMinnville is shown by 
 
 t | u : for twelve years, b\ popular ballot, 
 
 s retained as a member oi the citj council, 
 
 on many important committees and was 
 
 in of the committee on ways and means 
 
 C nuts and current expenses. He was 
 
 ember of the charter revision committee, 
 
 for one term he served as mayor of the city, 
 
 administration being beneficial because it was 
 
 sslike and practical. He has also been 
 
 rk of the school board for several terms. He 
 
 n an earnest Republican, with firm 
 
 in the party and the ultimate triumph of its 
 
 principles for the good of the country. Fra- 
 
 ternallv, Mr. Jones is connected with Union 
 
 No. 4,;. F. & A. M., of which he is a past 
 
 r, and is a charter member of the Ancient 
 
 ler of United Workmen. His wife belongs 
 
 the Christian Church, and both have many 
 
 friends in the city where they make their home. 
 
 Mr. lones has labored so consecutively along 
 
 hues ni general progress and improvement that 
 
 McMinnville 's history would be incomplete w'ere 
 
 his life record omitted. 
 
 MITCHELL MONTGOMERY ELLIS. The 
 intimate identification of Mitchell Montgomery 
 Lllis. of Dallas, Polk county, with the important 
 interests of the Willamette valley — which, broadlv 
 iking, means the state of Oregon — is well 
 illustrated by the fact that he has been for many 
 years extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 in that city; is the organizer, vice-president and 
 director of the Dallas City Bank; is the ownei 
 and operator of the largest prune orchard planted 
 by an individual in the state ; is one of the oper- 
 rs of the best flouring-mill outside of the city 
 I 'ortland ; was one of the organizers and prin- 
 cipal upbuilders of the Presbyterian Church of 
 Dallas, and is now serving his second term as 
 mayor of that city. These essential features of 
 his career in Oregon form, in themselves, an in- 
 tegral chapter in the history of the development 
 of the commonwealth. 
 
 Mr. Ellis was born near Zanesville, Ohio, Janu- 
 ary io. 1846, and is the son of Henry and Henri- 
 etta (Rowell) Ellis. Henry Ellis was born in 
 Pennsylvania, and in early manhood became a 
 merchant tailor, following his trade near Zanes- 
 .ille. Ohio, and in Ottumwa and Decatur, Iowa. 
 In 1855 he purchased three different tracts of raw 
 prairie land near Decatur, where he engaged ex- 
 tensively in farming and stock-raising until 1865. 
 Having disposed of his Iowa propcty. he came 
 across the plait- s to Oregon, settling on a farm 
 near Ballston, Polk county, in the latter year. 
 The journey across the plains was a memorable 
 one. The equipment consisted of mule and horse 
 
 teams. During the trip the emigrants were 
 stopped three miles east of Kearney, Neb., and 
 held until a company of one hundred men could 
 be assembled, when the government sent a mus- 
 tering officer to organize them into a military 
 company for the protection of the train, and drill 
 them. They continued as an organized company 
 along the Platte river until- the mouth of the 
 Cache la Poudre river was reached, which they 
 crossed with the main body of the train. Though 
 the number had diminished to less than one hun- 
 dred, they then elected a new captain, and con- 
 tinued on their journey to Salt Lake City. Here 
 the Ellis family separated from the rest of the 
 train, and with eleven teams came over the new 
 stage road four hundred miles to Boise City. 
 From this point they continued down the Snake 
 river without accident, until reaching the Cas- 
 cade mountains, where they felt themselves to be 
 in comparative safetv. They arrived in Salem Sep- 
 tember 14, 1865. The first winter they passed 
 in Yamhill county, and in the spring of 1866 set- 
 tled on a farm near Ballston, as before stated. 
 
 In politics Henry Ellis was a stanch Democrat. 
 Fraternally he was a Mason, affiliating with 
 Amity Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M. In religion 
 he was a Universalist. He died on the home farm 
 in 1900, at the age of seventy-two years. 
 
 Henrietta Row r ell Ellis was born in Jackson 
 county, Ohio, November 18, 1829, and was the 
 daughter of William Rowell, a descendant of a 
 distinguished family in Virginia. Her Grand- 
 father Row-ell followed the martial forces of 
 Washington during the Revolutionary war. Mrs. 
 Ellis is now residing in Salem, at the age of sev- 
 enty-five years. Through her marriage she be- 
 came the mother of eight children, of whom 
 Mitchell Montgomery is the eldest. The others 
 are : Elizabeth, wife of Judge N. L. Butler, of 
 Dallas, Ore. ; W. R., of Sheridan ; Sarah, wife 
 of W. H. Kuykendall, of Lewiston, Ore. ; H. J., 
 of Enterprise, Ore. : Mabel, wife of Judge C. A. 
 Johns, of Baker City, Ore. ; Martha, deceased 
 wife of Dr. J. N. Smith, of Salem ; and J. C. 
 Sheridan, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this 
 work. 
 
 Mitchell Montgomery Ellis was reared on his 
 father's farm in Iowa, and received his rudimen- 
 tary education in the public schools of that state. 
 Upon the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted 
 in Company I, Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer In- 
 fantry, but was rejected on account of his age. 
 In 1864 he re-enlisted in Company A. Thirty- 
 fourth Iowa Mounted Infantry, but his regiment 
 was never mustered into active service. In 
 1865 he crossed the plains in company with bis 
 parents, and since 186C has resided continuously 
 in Polk county. 
 
 In the fall of 1867 he entered the Baptist Col- 
 
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 lege at McMinnville, where he remained for one 
 year. The following year he was engaged in 
 teaching school in Polk county, after which he 
 re-entered the Baptist College, where he com- 
 pleted his education. In 1869 he went to Port- 
 land, and was employed as a clerk for Arnold & 
 Faim and later with Masters & Pratzman, until 
 the fall of 1872, when he engaged in business for 
 himself near where Ballston is now located, and 
 removed to Dallas and engaged in the general 
 merchandising business on his own account. 
 
 In the meantime Mr. Ellis had become inter- 
 ested in the political situation in Oregon, and in 
 1880 was elected county clerk of Polk county, 
 and was re-elected in 1882. The duties thus de- 
 volving upon him forced him to dispose of his 
 mercantile interests, in order that he might de- 
 vote his entire attention to the duties of his office. 
 
 After retiring from office in 1884 he purchased 
 the mercantile business of W. C. Brown, and 
 after four years of successful management sold 
 the business to its former owner. In 1888, with 
 the assistance of William Savage, he organized a 
 private concern known as the William Savage 
 Banking Company, and in 1892 assisted likewise 
 in the organization of the Dallas City Bank, suc- 
 cessor to the first-named institution, with a cap 
 ital of $50,000. He became the first president of 
 the concern, serving until 1898, when he resigned 
 in order to devote his attention to the manage- 
 ment of his prune orchard. He is now vice-pres- 
 ident of the banking company. During the finan- 
 cial panic of 1893 Mr. Ellis, as president of the 
 bank, established for himself a reputation as a 
 man of resources, sagacity and financial integ- 
 rity, his keen judgment being the most important 
 factor in enabling that institution to weather the 
 storm which wrecked so many similar enterprises 
 throughout the country. 
 
 In 1889 he began to set out a prune orchard 
 adjoining the city of Dallas, and at the present 
 time has sixty acres in bearing trees, this con- 
 stituting the largest orchard of its kind set out 
 and owned by an individual in the state of Ore- 
 gon. Evervthing pertaining to this enterprise is 
 on an extensive and modern scale, including well- 
 equipped warehouse, packing-house and the 
 largest drier in the state. The well known brand, 
 "K. & W.," is familiar to consumers of fine fruits 
 throughout the northwest, and in 1902 a consign- 
 ment of six carloads of the choicest of the product 
 of his orchard found its way to the markets of 
 London, Eng. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Ellis added to his responsibilities 
 by re-purchasing the mercantile business of W. 
 
 C. Brown, forming a partnership with Alonzo 
 Brown, and the business was conducted under the 
 style of Brown & Ellis until January, 1903, when 
 Mr. Brown's heirs disposed of their interests to 
 
 D. L. Keyt, of Perrydale, and the firm is now 
 
 Ellis & Keyt. In connection with Frank Gibson, 
 Mr. Ellis is the owner and operator of the Rick- 
 reall Flouring Mills, where is manufactured the 
 celebrated "White Lily'' flour, which is recog- 
 nized throughout the entire northwest as the fin- 
 est flour made in Oregon, outside of the city of 
 Portland. The mill has a capacity of one hun- 
 dred and fifty barrels per day, and its production 
 finds its way to many foreign ports, large quan- 
 tities being shipped annually to China and other 
 Oriental countries. 
 
 In his political affiliation a Democrat, Mr. Ellis 
 has served as chairman of the Democratic County 
 Central Committee and as a member of the Dem- 
 ocratic State Central Committee. Upon the in- 
 corporation of Dallas as a city, he was made its 
 first mayor, and in 1901 was again elected to the 
 office of chief executive on the Reform ticket, 
 being the only successful candidate on that ticket. 
 Fraternally he is a member of Jennings Lodge 
 No. 9, A. F. & A. M., of which he was master for 
 two terms. Without his financial and moral as- 
 sistance it is doubtful if the Presbyterian Church 
 of Dallas would have been organized or built. He 
 has been one of its chief supporters, contributing 
 largely to its upbuilding, and is now treasurer 
 of its board of trustees and superintendent of its 
 Sunday school. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Ellis was united in marriage with 
 Ella D'Lashmutt, who was born in Columbus, 
 Ohio, a daughter of Edward L. and Lydia (Mor- 
 ris) D'Lashmutt, also natives of Ohio. The 
 former died in Polk county in 1888. A sketch 
 of his life appears in another part of this review. 
 
 Thus is told, all too briefly, the story of the 
 career of M. M. Ellis, one of the stalwart found- 
 ers of the commercial fabric of the northwest, 
 upon whose shoulders rest lightly great responsi- 
 bilities. He has freely disseminated his views 
 relative to important business undertakings in 
 this region, whenever his advice has been sought, 
 and his judgment has been deferred to by the 
 promoters of many local enterprises. His sagacity, 
 his integrity and his keen appreciation of the pos- 
 sibilities afforded by this country of wonderful 
 resources have done much to inspire others to 
 their best endeavors, and the record of his career, 
 with its attendant success, will stand an- enduring 
 monument to the important part this man of 
 affairs has borne in the development of this yet 
 comparatively new region. 
 
 GEORGE J. WOLFER. Occupying a posi- 
 tion of importance among the wide-awake, en- 
 terprising business men of Hubbard, George J. 
 Wolfer is actively identified with the mercantile 
 interests of the city, and is also proprietor of the 
 far-famed Wolfer's Mineral Springs. A man 
 of energy and decision, public-spirited and am- 
 
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 is done much to improve and ad- 
 the place in which he resides, and is well 
 : the confidence reposed in him by his 
 fell 
 
 A nativ< rrison county, hid., he was 
 
 •:i March 25, 1842, a son of Rudolph W'olfer. 
 her. who was born, reared and educated 
 in I • ania, went with his father about 1835 
 rrison county. End. In 1846, with his wife 
 children, he removed to Bethel, Shelby coun- 
 Mn. and joined Dr. Kyle's colony, and was 
 in agricultural pursuits there for 
 :i years. In 1863 with this colony he 
 gon, and crossed the plains in an 
 iking with him his family and house- 
 The entire train, consisting of forty- 
 tw , -. was six months on the trip, and suf- 
 ! untold hardships, not the least unbearable 
 ng that o\ hunger. Locating in Aurora, he 
 tinned 111 the independent calling in which he 
 was reared, successfully carrying on general 
 farming until his retirement from active pursuits, 
 - -:il! living there, a venerable and respected 
 man of ninety-two years. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Katherine Yoght, was born in Ger- 
 many, and came to the United States with her 
 parents. She lived to an advanced age. dving 
 •he home farm, in Aurora, Ore., in 1887. Of 
 the eleven children born of their union, seven 
 wer and four girls, George J. being the 
 
 urth child in order of birth. 
 As a boy and a youth George J. Wolfer attend- 
 the district schools of Shelby county. Mo., 
 whither his parents located when he was about 
 four years of age. during the time obtaining a 
 practical knowledge of farming pursuits. Cross- 
 ing the plains with his parents in 1863, he drove 
 one of the teams in the long train, and on arriv- 
 ing in Aurora began farming with the colonv. 
 In 1878 he engaged in business for himself by 
 ning a cooper's shop in Hubbard, Marion 
 inty, managing it for five years. From 1883 
 until 1890, he was successfully engaged in the 
 nanufacture of brick and tile, but since that 
 time has carried on an extensive and lucrative 
 business in general merchandise, owning the 
 building occupied by his residence and store, and 
 carrying a varied stock of goods valued at $4,000. 
 About one-fourth of a mile from the city, Mr. 
 Wolfer owns seventy-five acres of land, on'which 
 his celebrated mineral springs are situated, and 
 his bottling works are erected. From a correct 
 anaylsis of the water obtained from these springs 
 the following matter in solution is found, proving 
 it to be of great value for both medicinal and 
 bathing purposes : 
 
 Chloride of sodium and potassium. . . 29.74 
 
 Bi-carbonate of lime 6.82 
 
 Bi-carbonate of soda 16.10 
 
 Bi-carbonate i^i magnesia 4.20 
 
 Bi-carbonate of iron 2.10 
 
 Silicia , ,,. 
 
 Sulphate of soda ^g 
 
 Manganese Trace 
 
 These springs are for sale on easy terms b> 
 the present proprietor. 
 
 Mr. W'olfer married, in Aurora, Ore., Miss Ot 
 tillia Will, a native of Shelby countv, Mo., and 
 into their household four children' have been 
 born, namely: Edward I., a resident of Med- 
 ford. Ore. # ; Alfred D., of Hubbard; Sadie, wife 
 of Lawrence Scholl, of Hubbard ; and Henrietta, 
 living at home. Politically Mr. Wolfer has long 
 been actively identified with the best interests of 
 county, town and state, and has uniformlv cast 
 his vote with the Republicans. While living in 
 Aurora he served as constable two terms; has 
 been school clerk and school director in Hub- 
 bard several years; road superintendent one 
 term ; and served as member of the Hubbard City 
 Council. 
 
 GEORGE W. OLDS, a retired farmer, 
 living in McMinnville, and a pioneer of 
 Oregon of 185 1, was born in Hillsdale, 
 Mich., July 16, 1831, and is of English 
 descent. His paternal great-grandfather was a 
 native of England and on emigrating to the new 
 world settled in Maine. The grandfather of our 
 subject was Timothy Olds, the father, Abel Olds. 
 The latter was born in Ohio and at an early 
 age was left an orphan. Locating in Hillsdale 
 county, Mich., he there followed farming for a 
 time and afterward removed to the vicinity of 
 Coldwater, Branch county, where he improved 
 a farm upon which he spent his remaining days 
 dying in 1850. He was a Universalis! in re- 
 ligious faith and a man of sterling worth and 
 integrity. He married Anna Thurston, who was 
 born in Lisle, Broome county, N. Y., a daughter 
 of Blakeley Thurston, who, on removing to the 
 west, settled in St. Joseph countv, Mich. The 
 parents of Mr. Olds were the first couple mar- 
 ried in St. Joseph county. The wife died in 
 1846 and four years later the husband passed 
 away. They were the parents of six children, 
 one son and five daughters, and the living are 
 George W. and Mrs. Derby, of McMinnville. 
 
 Lpon a farm in his native state the subject 
 of this review was reared, earlv becoming famil- 
 iar with the work of field and "meadow, while in 
 the subscription school he pursued his education. 
 He remained at home until after his father's 
 death and in 185 1 he started for Oregon, with 
 his uncle. Martin Olds. With horse teams they 
 left Branch county. Mich., and journeved west- 
 ward, crossing the Mississippi at Galena, 111., 
 
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 and the Missouri at Kanesville, their destination 
 being Oregon City. It was on the ioth of April 
 that they left their Michigan home, and on the 
 31st of October they arrived in Oregon City, 
 where Mr. Olds soon secured work, being in 
 the employ of others until 1857, when he pur- 
 chased a farm. 
 
 In October, 1855, however, he had volunteered 
 in an Oregon regiment for service in the Yakima 
 Indian war and served on the Snake river, in 
 Yakima and Walla Walla counties, and took 
 part in the battles of Fort Simcoe in Yakima 
 valley, remaining with his command until the 
 close of the war, being mustered out May 10, 
 1856. In 1861 he located on his farm of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, eight miles southwest 
 of McMinnville. This he fenced and improved, 
 devoting his energies to the production of grain 
 and the raising of stock. He erected good build- 
 ings there and for forty years he carried on 
 agricultural pursuits, after which he rented the 
 place in 1901, and in July, 1902, he sold that 
 property. Upon leasing his farm he removed 
 to McMinnville and purchased a residence in 
 which he has since lived retired. 
 
 On the ioth of November, 1859, i n Lafayette, 
 Mr. Olds was married to Miss Nancy Ellen 
 Shuck, who was born near Burlington, Iowa. 
 Her father was born near Crawfordsville, Ind., 
 June 19, 181 5, and the grandfather, Jacob Shuck, 
 was born in Pennsylvania, whence he removed 
 to Indiana, locating upon a farm. Later he 
 became a farmer of Iowa and in 1847 ne crossed 
 the plains, spending his last days in Yamhill 
 county near Dundee. He had served his coun- 
 try in the war of 1812 and was present at the 
 battle of Tippecanoe. Andrew J. Shuck was 
 reared in Indiana, afterwards becoming a resi- 
 dent of Iowa, and near Burlington, that state, 
 followed farming until 1847. I n tne meantime 
 he had wedded Mary Conlee, who was born in 
 Byron county, Ky., March 15, 1818, a daughter 
 of Reuben Conlee, who was an agriculturist and 
 a native of the Blue Grass state. He removed 
 to Greene county, 111., among its early settlers, 
 and served in the Black Hawk war. After his 
 military service had ended he became a resident 
 of Des Moines county, Iowa, settling near Bur- 
 lington, where his death occurred. He was a 
 leading and influential citizen of that state at 
 an early day and was serving as a member of 
 the Iowa legislature at the time of his death, 
 which occurred while he was in Des Moines 
 attending the sessions of the general assembly. 
 Isaac Conlee, the grandfather of Mrs. Olds, was 
 a farmer of Kentucky and died there in the year 
 
 l8 47- 
 
 Andrew J. Shuck, with his wife and six chil- 
 dren, started on the long journey across the 
 plains in a slow moving ox train, having been 
 
 nearly seven months upon the way ere they 
 reached the fertile valley of the Willamette. Mr. 
 Shuck secured a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres near North Yamhill and there 
 he developed his land, providing a good home 
 for his family. At the time of the Indian war 
 he made guns for the use. of the volunteers. He 
 was the first sheriff of Yamhill county and 
 served in that position for two terms, after 
 which he represented his district in the legis- 
 lature for three terms. He assisted in building 
 the first schoolhouse of his locality and took an 
 active part in establishing civilization in this 
 wild and unimproved region. Finally he located 
 in McMinnville, where he built a residence. He 
 was serving as school director at the time of the 
 erection of tne fine schoolhouse here and he 
 died in 1894, his death being lamented by all 
 who knew him, because he was a valued citizen 
 and earnest Christian man. In politics he was a 
 Democrat and was a warm friend of the cause 
 of temperance. Mrs. Shuck still survives her 
 husband and now makes her home with Mrs. 
 C. A. Wallace. By her marriage she became the 
 mother of seven children, Mrs. C. A. Wallace 
 being the eldest. Of the others we mention the 
 following : Mrs. Susan M. Openhoff, of Dawson, 
 and Nancy Ellen, the wife of our subject, are 
 twins ; Mrs. Matilda Wood is a resident of Yam- 
 hill county; William is next in order; Reuben 
 owns the old donation land claim; and Mrs. 
 Anna Fendall resides in Ashland. Unto Mr. 
 and Mrs. Olds were born three children, but 
 Minnie died at the age of sixteen years and 
 Augusta at the age of two and one-half years, 
 the surviving daughter being Ella, the wife of 
 J. E. Durham, of Portland. 
 
 Mr. Olds belongs to the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and he and his family are 
 connected with the Grange and Mrs. Olds with 
 the Degree of Honor. In politics Mr. Olds is a 
 Democrat and he belongs to the Indian War 
 Veterans' Association. He is also a member 
 of the County Pioneers' Association and both 
 he and his wife are members of the State Pio- 
 neers' Association, whose meetings they have 
 attended each year for the past eighteen years. 
 
 J. B. LAYSON. A well known farmer and 
 native son of Yamhill county is J. B. Lavson, 
 representative of one of the pioneer families of 
 this district, and during almost his entire life as- 
 sociated with this locality. He was born near 
 Hopewell, December 31, 1846, a son of Aaron M. 
 and Sarah J. (Matheny) Layson, natives of Illi- 
 nois, and farmers by occupation. 
 
 Aaron M. Layson was also the son of farmers, 
 and was reared to that useful pursuit. In 1842 
 he removed with his parents from Illinois to Mis- 
 
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 rf, where he lived on the home farm until his 
 ge with Sarah J. Matheny, and then con- 
 ducted farming independently until 1843. At 
 this early day a journey across the plains was a 
 truly hazardous undertaking, and required an 
 courage and determination hardly 
 lized by those who to-day observe the thrifty 
 -. through the windows of a Pullman palace 
 Nevertheless, Mr. Layson disposed of his 
 Missouri interests, gathered together his few 
 rldh possessions, and joined an ox train under 
 nmand oi Capt. William Burnett, one of the 
 intrepid leaders to western opportunity. With- 
 t any particular misfortunes the party arrived 
 > in ( )regon, where Mr. Layson took up a 
 donation claim, but failed to prove up on it. Not 
 realizing his expectations here the family moved 
 n into California during the gold excitement 
 of '49, where the father prospected and mined, 
 and also spent considerable time 1 in freighting. 
 In 1851 he returned to Yamhill county, and set- 
 tled on a farm where Hopewell now stands, and 
 after two or three years bought a place known as 
 the D. li. Matheny donation claim, three miles 
 north of Wheatland. Here he was fairly pros- 
 perous, and here died, his wife having pre-de- 
 I him during their residence in California. 
 At the age of nineteen J. B. Layson started 
 away from home to make his own living, 
 equipped with an extended farming experience, 
 and with a fair common-school education. With 
 the exception of eight years spent east of the 
 mountains in the stock-raising business, he has 
 since been a resident of this vicinity, where he 
 married Sarah C. Layson, widow of John Lay- 
 son. With his wife he started in at housekeeping 
 on his present farm, half a mile north of Hope- 
 will, known as the Rachel Matheny donation 
 claim, and on his property has made many im- 
 provements, including a pleasant home, fine barns 
 and outbuildings, and general agricultural imple- 
 ments. At the present time he is the owner of 
 about five hundred and ninety-seven acres of 
 land, a large portion of which is under cultiva- 
 tion, and where he is engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising. One child was born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Layson, whom they christened Howard, 
 and whose early death caused intense grief in the 
 little household. Mr. Layson is not a politician, 
 as the word is usually understood, although he 
 maintains a keen interest in the workings of the 
 Republican party. He is enterprising and thrifty, 
 and commands the respect and good-will of all 
 who are privileged to know him. 
 
 J. T. GOWDY. Among the sons contributed 
 by Illinois for the upbuilding of Yamhill county, 
 and who, through the force of their own charac- 
 ter and determination to succeed have risen to 
 
 enviable influence in agricultural and other cir- 
 cles, may be mentioned J. T. Gowdy, extensively 
 engaged in the raising of Shorthorn cattle and 
 Cotswold sheep. Of practical farming ancestry, 
 Mr. Gowdy was born in Tazewell county, 111., 
 November 21, 1835, and when a very small lad 
 was deprived by death of the affectionate care of 
 his parents. Left thus practically alone in the 
 world, his education and general training were 
 naturally restricted, and the fact that at present 
 he is one of the best informed and most progress- 
 ive men in his neighborhood argues most praise- 
 worthy application during the maturer years of 
 his life. Until his fourteenth year he made his 
 home with relatives, and thereafter found em- 
 ployment with one J. T. Scott, an uncle and 
 father of the present editor of the Oregoniaii. 
 In the family of Mr. Scott he found a home and 
 interested friends, and although hard work was 
 the order of the day on the farm owned by his 
 benefactor, Mr. Gowdy made great progress 
 physically and mentally, early evincing habits of 
 thrift and industry. 
 
 A man of keen insight and much ambition, Mr. 
 Scott determined to follow the tide of emigration 
 westward, and March 4, 1852, started on the long 
 journey across the plains, accompanied by his 
 seventeen-year-old charge, J. T. Gowdy, one of 
 the most enthusiastic and determined of the little 
 band. There were ten wagons in the train, and 
 the youth made himself useful in many directions, 
 particularly as a driver of oxen and cattle. Ar- 
 riving in Marion county September 27, 1852, his 
 first winter was spent witii Mr. Hall at Wood- 
 burn, and he afterward entered the employ of a 
 Mr. Brown, with whom he remained for eight 
 years. February 4, 1861, he married Anna Kemp, 
 who was born in Pettis county, Mo., November 
 23, 1843, an d who crossed trie plains with her 
 parents many years ago, her father dying on the 
 way to his new home in the west. 
 
 After his marriage, Mr. Gowdy located on one 
 hundred acres, purchased some time previously, 
 and there lived for about three years. In the 
 meantime, he prospected and mined in the Cari- 
 bou country on the Salmon river, near Florence. 
 Idaho. In the fall of 1868 he bought the hun- 
 dred acres of land in Yamhill county, which has 
 since been his home, and on which he has made 
 many improvements. He is engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, his stock including 
 Shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep. Four chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gowdy, of 
 whom Arthur lives in Portland, while Hattie G., 
 Lillian, and Elizabeth live at home. A Repub- 
 lican in politics, it was the good fortune of Mr. 
 Gowdy to cast his first presidential vote for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. However, though a stanch adher- 
 ent of his party, he has never worked for or been 
 willing to receive official recognition. Mr. Gowdy 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 lives three miles southwest of Dayton and five 
 miles from McMinnville, and his home is the 
 typical residence of a hospitable, successful, and 
 very popular westerner. 
 
 WALTER J. SARGEANT. The popular 
 postmaster and merchant of Bellevue has con- 
 tributed his share towards the agricultural devel- 
 opment of Yamhill county and is accounted one 
 of the most enterprising and successful members 
 of the pioneer families of '51. He was born near 
 Springfield, 111., March 10, 1847, a son of Philip 
 and Nancy Ann (Wilson) Sargeant, natives, re- 
 spectively, of Ohio and Illinois, the former born 
 March 10, 1820. 
 
 As a young man Philip Sargeant went away 
 from his father's farm in Ohio to Illinois, where, 
 about 1845, ne married, and where he lived until 
 1 85 1. He then undertook the trip across the 
 plains with ox teams, meeting with few encoun- 
 ters with the Indians, and having in all a fairly 
 successful trip. He took up a donation claim 
 near Grand Ronde, where he lived for three 
 years, and after selling the same, bought a farm 
 near Ballston, Polk county, and there spent the 
 remainder of his life, his death occurring when 
 he was only forty years of age. Ten children 
 were born into this family, of whom Walter J. is 
 the second oldest ; Nancy J., the first-born, is de- 
 ceased ; William resides near the old home place ; 
 Mary A. became the wife of William Thornton, 
 of Sheridan; Lewis C* and John are deceased; 
 Constantine is a resident of this state; George 
 resides near Ballston; Martha is the wife of D. 
 C. Coleman, of Sheridan; and Frank lives near 
 the old homestead. 
 
 While living on the paternal farm Walter J. 
 Sargeant attended the district schools, and also 
 the high school at Salem. At the age of seven- 
 teen he began to work at outside employment, 
 and November 1, 1864, enlisted in Company A, 
 First Oregon Volunteer Infantry, and was mus- 
 tered in at Salem. The regiment was first sent 
 to Vancouver and then to Grand Ronde, after 
 which they participated in a winter campaign east 
 of the mountains, and subsequently returned to 
 Grand Ronde, where they were mustered out. 
 Returning to his home in Yamhill county, Mr. 
 Sargeant worked at farm work until his mar- 
 riage, in November, 1870, with Martha A. Gant, 
 a daughter of Reuben Gant, whose career is men- 
 tioned in another part of this work. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Sargeant went to housekeeping on the old 
 Gant homestead, which they still own, and which 
 contains about two hundred acres. Here they 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising until 1892, 
 in which year Mr. Sargeant relinquished farming 
 in favor of a general merchandise business in 
 Bellevue, which he has since conducted in con- 
 
 nection with his duties as postmaster. He has an 
 up-to-date little store, where the residents of the 
 town and county may procure in their best qual- 
 ity the commodities most in demand, and which 
 is one of the busy centers of activity in the town. 
 Mr. Sargeant takes a keen interest in Republican 
 politics, and is foremost in all efforts at general 
 improvement in his town and county. He is va- 
 riously associated with the social organizations 
 in which his community abounds, and is a mem- 
 ber of Donaldson Post No. 55, G. A. R., and is 
 past post commander. 
 
 FRANK CAMPBELL. Two generations of 
 the Campbell family have been represented in 
 Yamhill county, and the example of industry and 
 progressiveness set by the father is shared in like 
 measure by the son, Frank Campbell, a native son 
 of this county, born northeast of Hopewell July 
 2, 1873. 
 
 The father, John Campbell, was born in Can- 
 ada in 1839, whither the grandfather had settled 
 many years before. John was reared to farming 
 and a general knowledge of business, and after 
 attaining his majority engaged in saw-milling on 
 a rapid Canadian stream. He married Martha J. 
 Davis, also a native of Canada, and in 1871, dis- 
 posed of his milling interests and brought his 
 little family to Oregon, remaining in Dayton for 
 about three months. In the meantime he had 
 Been looking around for desirable agricultural 
 property, and decided upon a farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, one mile north of Hopewell, 
 upon which he settled and farmed for several 
 years. He was ambitious and a good manager, 
 and so used the opportunities by which he was 
 surrounded in the west, that at the time of his 
 death he owned thirteen hundred acres of land. 
 Of the six children born to himself and wife, 
 Nellie is deceased ; Robert is living on the old 
 home place ; Frank, the subject of this article, is 
 the next in order of birth ; Cora is the wife of 
 George Nash, and they make their home in Hope- 
 well ; Elmer makes his home in this vicinity, and 
 Jennie is living at home, and attending school in 
 Salem. John Campbell raised considerable stock, 
 and was sixty-three years of ■ age at the time of 
 his death. His wife died in 1887, when about 
 forty years of age. 
 
 Until his marriage with Ruth Nash, a native of 
 Minnesota, Frank Campbell remained upon his 
 father's farm, and under the capable direction of 
 the elder man, developed habits of thrift and in- 
 dustry. He then started housekeeping on the 
 farm where he now lives, which was his father's 
 home the last years of his life. Mr. Campbell's 
 home is one of the pleasantest and most con- 
 venient rural homes in this vicinity, adding to 
 the value of his farm, as do also the barns and 
 
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 outbuildings, all of which are according to late 
 and improved plans. Of the two hundred and 
 thirtv acres owned by this energetic agriculturist 
 two hundred are under cultivation, and besides 
 general farming he is engaged in stock-raising on 
 a moderate scale, making a specialty of Cotswold 
 sheep. Besides the features already mentioned 
 .Mr. Campbell has four acres devoted to hops, in 
 the cultivation of which he is very successful. 
 Although independent in politics, Mr. Campbell 
 takes a keen interest in all political undertakings 
 in the neighborhood, and he may be depended 
 upon to further any effort at general improve- 
 ment in the community. One child has been born 
 to himself and wife, Bessie, who is living at 
 home. 
 
 JAMES HOUCK. Few men in the state of 
 Oregon are more interestingly reminiscent of the 
 very early days of the west than is James Houck, 
 at present a farmer of Yamhill county, and one 
 of its most venerable and honored residents. On 
 both sides of his family Mr. Houck is descended 
 from Revolutionary heroes, his grandfathers hav- 
 ing left their plows and families to follow the 
 martial fortunes of Washington. Longevity is 
 a condition which Mr. Houck may reasonably 
 expect in his own case, for his paternal grand- 
 father lived to be one hundred and four years 
 old, and his mother's father attained the unusual 
 age of one hundred and seven. His father, an- 
 other James, was the establisher of the family 
 m Licking county, Ohio, having removed there 
 at a very early age. He was born in 1801, and 
 like his sire lived far beyond the biblical allot- 
 ment, his life extending up to the century mark. 
 
 James Houck was born in Knox county, Ohio, 
 February 14, 1819, and was six years of age 
 when he accompanied his parents to Licking 
 county, Ohio. Possessing excessive vitality and 
 energy as a boy, he felt the limitations by which 
 he was surrounded on the home farm, and like 
 many another youth left the family fireside with- 
 out due notice, at the time being seventeen years 
 of age. His experience at South Bend, Ind., was 
 not entirely successful, so at the end of a year he 
 returned to his father's farm, and was received 
 with joy by his overanxious family. However, 
 having tasted the joys of independence he again 
 went away, and took up land in Washington 
 county, Iowa, upon which he lived for three 
 years. On the lookout for anything that held 
 out superior inducements he naturally heard much 
 of the possibilities of the far west, and as early 
 as 1843 started overland with a train of emigrants 
 consisting of many families and two hundred 
 wagons. Arriving in Oregon without any par- 
 ticular adventure, Mr. Houck engaged in getting 
 out logs for the Hudson Bay Company in Ore- 
 
 gon City, and in 1845 he joined a party con- 
 sisting of forty other men, one woman and three 
 children, all destined for the state of California. 
 The California memories of Mr. Houck are 
 interesting in the extreme, and may be taken as 
 typical of all who ventured thus early into one 
 of the most ideal portions of the United States. 
 Yet so little was the climate and resources appre- 
 ciated or known, that at the time of his arrival 
 in San Franciscq a small Spanish settlement was 
 drowsing in the sun, its citizens appallingly ig- 
 norant of any particular advantages, or any re- 
 sources to develop . The real estate in the town 
 was available for. $15 an acre, $4 down, and 
 everything was in proportion. No one was busy 
 in those days and the old Spanish way of putting 
 everything off until to-morrow prevailed through 
 the breadth and length of the state. The settlers 
 ied a free and careless life, their hospitality being 
 unbounded, and their larder free as long as it 
 lasted. Mr. Houck traveled around the state 
 with little expense to himself, for he was wel- 
 come everywhere, and could stay as long as he 
 liked. 
 
 The breaking out of the Mexican war offered 
 a chance in the money-making line, and, anticipat- 
 ing a demand, Mr. Houck started out with three 
 hundred head of horses to meet the oncoming 
 emigrants, his partner in business being a man 
 by the name of Walker. At Fort Bridges they 
 came across the searchers after homes in the 
 west, informed them of the state of war in Mex- 
 ico, and forthwith traded their horses for Amer- 
 ican mules, which they took to Mexico and sold. 
 In the Mexican war Mr. Houck served for three 
 months under Colonel Donaldson, and afterwards 
 engaged in mule-trading with the Navajo In- 
 dians, giving them a certain kind of beads and 
 $12 a head. The mules were taken to Santa Fe, 
 N. M., and sold to the government, and the sale 
 of this hardy animal netted a fair income to far- 
 sighted traders. With another pack of mules 
 Mr. Houck went to Missouri in 1848, and. having 
 disposed of them, visited his old "home in Ohio. 
 For the following year he traveled extensively 
 over the country, and in 1849 again crossed the 
 plains, this time with a six-mule team. Arriving 
 m California he made money in various ways, one 
 being in purchasing Spanish prisoners taken by 
 the Indians, and re-selling them to their parents 
 or friends in Mexico. Rich children were the 
 special prey of these sagacious Indians, and the 
 money which passed hands before their ransom 
 was accomplished mounted up into the thousands 
 of dollars. 
 
 During his first visit to California Mr. Houck 
 and a couple of friends started up the mountain 
 of Chester Butte, and on the way shot the only 
 white deer he has ever seen. Coming down from 
 the mountain and pausing to drink at a spring, 
 
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 tliey saw what they thought yellow rock, and, 
 thinking it pretty, filled their pockets with it. 
 Arriving in camp there was not one of the party 
 who knew that it was gold, and thinking it 
 worthless, threw it away. Later when gold had 
 been discovered by more knowing ones, and the 
 announcement thrilled the whole country, two of 
 the party returned to the spot and got the nug- 
 gets, which netted them $6,000. In the mean- 
 time Mr. Houck had made money, but had the 
 misfortune to go security for many people whom 
 he thought reliable, but who eventually proved 
 his undoing. In this way he lost about $4,700, 
 and, somewhat discouraged, returned to Ohio, 
 where he bought a farm and married Mary Jones. 
 He continued to farm in Ohio until 1875, and 
 then came to Oregon, locating on the farm which 
 has since been his home. He has two hundred 
 and twenty-five acres of land five and a half 
 miles southwest of McMinnville, upon which he 
 has made many fine improvements, and where 
 he has been successful. His first wife dying a 
 year and ten days after their marriage, he mar- 
 ried for a second wife Adelaine White, who 
 has borne him five children, of whom two are 
 living: Frances is the wife of John Rohrer, of 
 McMinnville, and has four children, Ada, Bert, 
 Dolly and Charley ; and Albert manages a ware- 
 house in McMinnville, and has two children, 
 James and Nettie. Mr. Houck is a Democrat in 
 politics, but has never identified himself with 
 office-seeking. He has been and still is one of 
 the substantial men of the west, and one around 
 whom cluster an unusual number of pioneer ex- 
 periences. Worthy of mention is the fact that 
 he was a passenger on the first railroad train 
 in the United States, and which extended from 
 Washington to Baltimore. This pioneer attempt 
 at transporting the public was crude in the ex- 
 treme, the cars being propelled over wooden rails 
 bv horse teams. 
 
 COL. JACOB C. COOPER. The career of 
 Col. Jacob C. Cooper is typical of all that is re- 
 sourceful, substantial, intellectual and progressive 
 in northwestern citizenship. Mr. Cooper arrived 
 in Oregon afoot in 1866, and following upon 
 this indication of depleted finances has engaged 
 successivelv in freighting, school teaching, mer- 
 chandising, grain dealing, building and contract- 
 ing, and surveying, in the meantime rising from 
 almost complete obscurity to his present position 
 as one of the most influential men in the state. 
 To his credit is a splendid war record, and his 
 immediate responsibilities include those in con- 
 nection with his position as a member of the 
 board of directors of the Lewis and Clark Cen- 
 tennial, the American Pacific Exposition, and 
 the Oriental Fair of 1905. He is a member of 
 
 the Oregon Chapter Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution, and is an author and writer of more than 
 local reputation, having written several stories, 
 among them the "Yamhills," and he has con- 
 tributed voluminously to such leading periodicals 
 as the Oregonian, the New York Journal and the 
 San Francisco Examiner. 
 
 A descendant of the German family of Keifer, 
 whose early representatives in America trans- 
 lated the name to suit their adopted environment, 
 Colonel Cooper was born in Lawrence county, 
 Mo., January 16, 1845. His paternal great-grand- 
 father was born in Pennsylvania, near the town 
 of York, and from that state enlisted at four dif- 
 ferent times in the Revohitionary war. The 
 first enlistment was under Captain Larch, and 
 after removing to the state of North Carolina, he 
 served with Marion's men, and participated in 
 the battles of Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, and the 
 siege of 1796, in time witnessing the surrender 
 of Cornwallis at Yorktown. When the Boones 
 went to Kentucky the great-grandfather was one 
 of their party, and he died in Wayne county, 
 that state, at an advanced age. His son, Henry, 
 the paternal grandfather, was born, reared, en- 
 gaged in farming, and eventually died in Wayne 
 county, Ky., where also was born Elbert Emer- 
 son Cooper, the father of Jacob C. 
 
 Elbert Emerson was the oldest of the children 
 born to his parents, and the only one to settle in 
 Missouri. In Lawrence county he took up a 
 farm in the wilderness, improved it, and thereon 
 reared seven sons and five daughters. He was 
 a minister in the old school Baptist Church, and 
 though he labored long and faithfully for the 
 uplifting of humanity, received absolutely no 
 compensation for his services. Owing to the 
 prevalence of the Rebel army in his district life 
 became almost unbearable, and he therefore gath- 
 ered together . his family and possessions and 
 crossed the plains in 1863, settling on a claim 
 near Salem, where he died in 1880, at the age 
 of sixty-eight years. His wife, formerly Nancy 
 Wann, who was born in Kentucky and died at 
 Independence, Ore., at the age of seventv-six, 
 was the daughter of William Wann, a native of 
 the south, and an early settler in Missouri. Dur- 
 ing his former residence in Tennessee Mr. Wann 
 was a member of the legislature with Andrew 
 Johnson, whose intimate friend he was, and in 
 Missouri he was county judge, as was also his 
 son, Daniel, the latter of whom served in the 
 Mexican war. Of the seven sons and five' daugh- 
 ters born to Elbert Emerson Cooper and his wife, 
 William H. was regiment saddler and a member 
 of Company E., Ninth Kansas Cavalry during 
 the Civil war, came to Oregon in 1868, and is now 
 living at Slayton, Ore. ; Daniel J. was an officer 
 in the Missouri State Militia, came to Oregon in 
 T863, and is now engaged in farming near The 
 Dalles ; Elizabeth is the deceased wife of Mr. 
 
 
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 Mann, of Polk county. Ore. ; James S. is presi- 
 dent of the First National Hank at Independence; 
 Lydia died in infancy ; Jacob C. ; Sarah J. is now 
 Mrs. Gildow, of Silverton, Ore.; Riley D. is a 
 hop grower and lives at Independence, his twin 
 ■r having' died in infancy; John E. and Elbert 
 \\ . are twins, the former living at Ashland, Ore., 
 and the latter at Independence, Ore. ; and Pa- 
 tience lives in Independence. 
 
 A tier the war broke up the activity of the little 
 school house near the Cooper home in Law- 
 rence county, Mo., there was additional induce- 
 ment for the youth of that district to shoulder 
 arms in defense of the union. At the age of sev- 
 enteen, April 3, 1862, Jacob C. Cooper enlisted 
 in the Fourteenth Missouri State Militia, and 
 (hiring his vear of service participated in the bat- 
 tles of Springfield, Neosho, Prairie Grove and 
 several others, and February 22, 1863, his regi- 
 ment was consolidated with the Fourth Missouri 
 Militia, and Companies L and G, Volunteer Cav- 
 alry, and mustered into the United States service. 
 The new regiment took part in the battle of Mine 
 Creek, or Big Blue, as the bodyguard for General 
 Pleasanton, and was afterward engaged in the 
 battles of Jefferson City and many guerrilla 
 fights. After driving General Price out of the 
 state they were stationed at Jefferson and Mar- 
 shall, Mo., until the close of the war, and were 
 mustered out at Warrensburg, Mo., April 3, 
 1865. While with the Fourteenth Mr. Cooper 
 was delegated to carry an important dispatch 
 from near Neosho to Fort Scott, Kan., and to 
 return to Mount Vernon with reply, and while 
 carrying out this order disguised as a country 
 youth without arms, he was captured and de- 
 tained. The same night he managed to jump the 
 pickets, and two days later succeeded in rejoin- 
 ing his regiment. 
 
 After the war Mr. Cooper lived for a time in 
 Fort Scott, and then spent the winter in Lawrence 
 county, Mo. Many thrilling experiences during 
 the war had not dimmed his ardor for adven- 
 ture or change, and he welcomed the opportunity 
 to cross the plains in 1866 as the driver of a six- 
 mule team for Hugh Kirkendall, the noted 
 freighter. There was plenty of excitement aboard 
 during this trip, for the Indians gave them a 
 great deal of unsolicited attention, even to the 
 point of exterminating a number of the party. 
 Arriving at Helena, Mont., Mr. Cooper walked 
 the five hundred miles between that town and 
 Walla Walla, Wash., and then drove a six-horse 
 team for three days to get money enough to pay 
 his boat fare to Portland. He arrived at Salem 
 October 17, 1866, having left Leavenworth May 
 25, 1866. In the meantime his family had settled 
 in Spring Valley, and after visiting them he 
 engaged in school teaching during the first win- 
 ter, and then engaged in the merchandise business 
 
 at Lincoln. At Zena and Perrydale he built 
 stores which he ran with fair success, and at the 
 same time became rather heavily interested in 
 buying and selling grain. For a time he was sec- 
 retary of a steamboat company, and afterward 
 was for fourteen years identified with contract- 
 ing, building, and architecture in McMinnville. 
 After taking up surveying Mr. Cooper became 
 identified with the United States survey in 1881, 
 and while thus employed established government 
 lines of importance. In time he was elected sur- 
 veyor of Yamhill county, from which position he 
 resigned to assume the postmastership of Mc- 
 Minnville, to which he was appointed by Presi- 
 dent Harrison in 1889. A change of administra- 
 tion affecting this office in 1894, he turned his 
 attention to his former occupation of surveying, 
 which he has since combined with literary work. 
 
 Until 1896 Mr. Cooper was a stanch advo- 
 cate of Republicanism as a whole, but, favoring 
 silver, has since ranged himself on the side of 
 this issue. He was chairman of the Oregon dele- 
 gation at the National Convention in St. Louis 
 in 1896, and also chairman of the committee on 
 order of business. In 1901 he was the author 
 of a bill creating a commission of seven to go to 
 Washington and make an appeal before congress, 
 the senate, and president, for pensions for Indian 
 war veterans. He himself was appointed a mem- 
 ber of this commission by Governor Geer in 1901, 
 and it is universally conceded that the successful 
 outcome of this mission was largely due to the 
 strenuous and altogether satisfactory work of the 
 commission from Oregon. An ardent admirer 
 of the much beloved William McKinley, it was 
 eminently fitting that an orator like Colonel 
 Cooper should deliver the memorial address at 
 McMinnville on September 19, 1901. 
 
 In Amity, Ore., Mr. Cooper became identified 
 with the Masons, and is now a member of the 
 Union Lodge, No. 43, of which he is past master ; 
 Taylor Chapter, R. A. M., of McMinnville, of 
 wdiich he is past high priest ,and Hbdson Coun- 
 cil, No. 1. He is a member and past commander 
 of Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R* and was com- 
 mander of the Department of Oregon during 
 1893-4, with the rank of major-general. From 
 1883 until 1886 he was assistant adjutant-gen- 
 eral of the Oregon State Militia under Governor 
 Moody, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and 
 in 1 89 1 was a delegate to the National Encamp- 
 ment which was held at Detroit, Mich. In 1898 
 Colonel Cooper organized and drilled a Manila 
 Guard, consisting of forty girls of McMinnville. 
 a venture which proved highly satisfactory, 
 for the girls proved splendid soldiers, and 
 were so well drilled that they drew encom- 
 iums of praise at Astoria, Portland and many 
 other points in the state. The trip to Astoria was 
 particularly interesting, thousands turning out 
 
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 to welcome the handsomely uniformed and mar- 
 tial appearing Manila Guard. 
 
 For several years Colonel Cooper was presi- 
 dent of the Board of Trade, and during this 
 time, as well as during the greater part of his 
 life here, he has been an important factor in 
 stimulating an interest in the town and county, 
 d^ng particular attention to its multiplicity 
 of resources, and its advantages as a home budd- 
 ing center. Much of the success of the local af- 
 fairs of McMinnville are traceable to his enthu- 
 siastic support, and his recognition of their de- 
 sirability has made of the state encampment a 
 ovful meeting place for war scarred veteran . 
 In 1868 Colonel Cooper made a trip back to Mis 
 souri via Panama, and while in his native state 
 married Melzena P. Spillman, who was born m 
 Lawrence county, Mo November 29, 1850 
 daughter of Judge Nathan C. Spillman, and a 
 £ter of Prof. William J. Spillman, governmen 
 agriculturist of Washington, D. C. . Of the ^chil 
 dren born of this union seven are living, the order 
 of their birth being as follows: Nora J is ^the 
 wife of R. W. Doane, in charge : of the expen 
 
 Los Angles, Cal. ; Wells C.,. living in Chicago, 
 Bl and a member of Company A Second Oregon 
 Volunteer Infantry ^ring the Phdippme ca m - 
 paion: Nellie, captain of the Manila Guards a 
 stenographer and at present private secretary to 
 he president of the State Normal School in 
 Washington; Paul B., a soldier in Company A, 
 S^nd Oregon Volunteer infantry a graduate 
 of Pullman College, a pharmacist at Olympia, 
 Wash. ; and Frederick Goss an artist and car- 
 toonist in San Francisco. Lewis J., the oldest 
 son in the family, died from injury at the age of 
 seventeen. Mrs. Cooper is a member of the Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian Church, and is prominent 
 in the Woman's Relief Corps, of which she is ex- 
 oresident. She is socially well known, and has 
 many friends among the most exclusive people 
 He state, and past matron of the Chapter ^ the 
 Eastern Star. In October, 1902 Colonel Cooper 
 was appointed a member of the Board of Direc- 
 tors of the Lewis and Clark Centennial, a posi- 
 tion for which his vast experience in various de- 
 partments of western activity has eminently fitted 
 him, and in 1903 was appointed chairman of the 
 special committee having entire charge ot 
 woman's work and woman's participation in the 
 exposition, through whose efforts the Lewis and 
 Clark Woman's Clubs are now being so exten- 
 sively organized throughout the state, and_ will 
 prove an important factor to the exposition. 
 
 Colonel Cooper is also performing important 
 work on the committees of Legislation and Agri- 
 culture. 
 
 HIRAM. SIMKINS. As one of the pioneers' 
 of 1847 Hiram Simkins has been identified with 
 the very early as well as later development of 
 Yamhill county, and to no one have the early 
 trials and deprivations brought more satisfactory 
 returns both as to character and personal posses- 
 sions. Mr. Simkins was reared in a family in 
 which there were nine other children, his earliest 
 recollections going back to the paternal farm in 
 Greene county, Pa., where he was born Novem- 
 ber 25, 1826. His leisure as a boy was very lim- 
 ited, and his schooling opportunities suffered in 
 consequence. Nevertheless, he gained much 
 solid training while working early and late, and 
 started forth in the world with a fair idea of 
 its responsibilities and opportunities. 
 
 When his services were no longer required on 
 the home farm Mr. Simkins applied himself to 
 learning the blacksmith's trade in Knox county, 
 111., whither his parents had removed in 1836, 
 and where his parents died at the ages respective- 
 ly of sixty-two and ninety-eight. In 1847 he 
 started across the plains with ox teams and 
 wagons as a driver for Ralph Geer, and after a 
 seven months' journey reached Oregon City, 
 under the able command of General Palmer. 
 Very soon Mr. Simkins made his way to Cham- 
 poeg, Marion county, Ore., where the breaking 
 out of the Cayuse war found him busily working 
 at his trade. With commendable appreciation of 
 the straits of his adopted state he enlisted in 
 Company H, First Rifle Corps Oregon Volun- 
 teers, as a private, and during his service par- 
 ticipated in many of the important Indian en- 
 gagements. After this glimpse of the seamy side 
 of life he returned to Champoeg, Marion county, 
 and there worked at blacksmithing until 
 the country was worked up into a fer- 
 ment in 1849. To test his ability and luck as a 
 miner he went down into California, but not 
 realizing his expectations returned to his former 
 home in Champoeg, where he found employment 
 in the McLoughlin warehouse for about five 
 years. During three years of this time he was 
 a yard laborer. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Simkins married Mary Ann Gay, 
 a native of Yamhill county, Ore., and daughter 
 of an English whaler. Mr. Gay retired to Ore- 
 gon after many years in pursuit of the wily 
 whale, locating in Yamhill county as early as 
 1836. After his marriage Mr. Simkins under- 
 took housekeeping on what was known as the 
 William Crozier donation claim four miles north 
 of Hopewell, and this continued to be his home 
 

HENRY HELMICK. 
 
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 for the long period of twenty-five years. He 
 then bought the farm upon which he has since 
 lived, which consists of two hundred and sev- 
 enty-two acres two miles south of Hopewell, 
 on the Polk and Yamhill county line. He is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 and it is needless to say that his reputation as 
 an agriculturist is in keeping with his firmly 
 established name as a progressive and well-in- 
 formed citizen. 
 
 To Mr. Simkins and his wife were born six- 
 teen children, the order of their birth being as 
 follows: Newton, living at home; Frederick, 
 living in this vicinity ; John, living near his 
 father : Andrew, a resident of Hoquiam, Wash. ; 
 Jesse, living with his parents; Mary and Jane, 
 both living in Oregon City ; Isabelle, residing in 
 Portland; Rosa, a resident of Oregon City; 
 Anna and Etta, both of whom are living at 
 home : Florence, a resident of this vicinity ; and 
 May, living near her parents. Three of the 
 children died in infancy : George, Alice and Lor- 
 raine. Mrs. Simkins died in 1891, leaving be- 
 hind her many mourning friends, as well as dis- 
 consolate children. As a member of an old 
 Democratic family Mr. Simkins has never de- 
 parted from the teachings of his youth, but has 
 rather strengthened his regard for the politics of 
 the south. He is fraternally identified with 
 Amity Lodge, F. & A. M., having been a mem- 
 ber ever since 1870. With his children he is a 
 member of the Evangelical Church. As a re- 
 minder of the very early days of Oregon Mr. 
 Simkins has in his possession the trowel used 
 in the construction of the first brick house in 
 Oregon, which mansion was none other than that 
 belonging to George Gays of Hopewell. 
 
 MRS. SARAH HELMICK. Not to the 
 sterner sex alone can be given the glory and 
 reverence due the founders of a state, for from 
 the lives, the hearts and homes of women have 
 come the strength that made possible the sac- 
 rifices necessary to succeed .in the herculean 
 task of leveling forest and upturning field, and 
 following this with the modern movements 
 which characterize the advance of this western 
 section. A most worthy and representative 
 member of these brave products of a western 
 life is Mrs. Sarah Helmick, who bore her 
 share of the burden in pioneer days as the 
 wife of Henry Helmick, with whom she had 
 come on her wedding tour to become a factor 
 in the growth of the west. 
 
 Mrs. Helmick was in maidenhood Sarah 
 Stepro, who was born in Harrison county, 
 Ind.. July 4. 1824, her parents being Harvey 
 and Catherine (Shuck) Stepro, both natives 
 of Pennsylvania. The father had become an 
 
 early settler in Harrison county, where he 
 engaged in farming and where his death oc- 
 curred. The widow then took her family of 
 eight children to Iowa, where she passed the 
 remainder of her days. Of this large family, 
 all grew to maturity and are all now living, 
 with the exception of one or two, and Sarah 
 is the fourth youngest. She made her home 
 in Indiana until 1833, when she became a resi- 
 dent of Iowa. There she engaged in spinning 
 and weaving, manufacturing from the raw ma- 
 terial. On account of straitened circumstances 
 she was allowed to attend school but three 
 months in her life. In February, 1845, she 
 married Henry Helmick, a native of Germany, 
 who had come from the Fatherland with his 
 parents and settled in Des Moines county, 
 Iowa, where he was employed at farming, and 
 also engaged as wagonmaker and blacksmith. 
 The following April found them en route for 
 Oregon, with tour yoke of oxen and one 
 wagon, the extent of their worldly wealth. 
 They came over the old Oregon trail, fording 
 the streams, facing the depredations of the 
 Indians, and patiently enduring the hard- 
 ships, privations and dangers of the journev 
 for the sake of the home they hoped to make 
 among the splendid conditions of the new 
 west. Six months and three days after leav- 
 ing the Mississippi valley found the young 
 pioneers at Cascade Falls, Ore. After coming 
 safely through the dangers of the trip they 
 here experienced the bitter misfortune of 
 losing everything they had through their raft 
 being swept over the falls. Undaunted, how- 
 ever, by their hardships, they continued their 
 journey as best they could, arriving at the 
 Tualatin Plains in October, where they re- 
 mained until Christmas. They then removed 
 to Salem and spent the balance of the winter. 
 In the spring of 1846 they took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres located 
 on the Big Luckiamute, four miles from Mon- 
 mouth, Polk county, which remained their 
 home for many years. Affluence and conse- 
 quent ease is now the portion of this family, 
 but the beginning of their career was that cf 
 a crucial nature, for with absolutely nothing 
 they took up the work of farmers in this loca- 
 tion. The first year was one of especial hard- 
 ship, not even three pounds of meat being 
 brought into the house, their entire diet con- 
 sisting of boiled wheat and peas, upon which 
 they carried on steady, earnest labor. Mrs. 
 Helmick continued her old occupation of 
 spinning, making stocking yarn, and giving 
 the help of a brave, patient woman to the up- 
 building and improvement of their own par- 
 ticular part of the state. The farm was im- 
 proved and cultivated in every- possible way, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and is still retained in the family. It is now 
 rented, for after the death of her husband in 
 1878 Mrs. Helmick removed to Albany, Linn 
 county, and located upon East Seventh street, 
 where she has built a comfortable home. 
 
 Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Helmick, James is located in Polk county, 
 and is engaged in farming on the home prop- 
 erty ; Lewis died in Polk county in 1899, at 
 the age of fifty-three years ; and Mary is the 
 wife of James Tedrow of Polk county. Mr. 
 Helmick was identified with the Cumberland 
 Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Helmick 
 is a member. The political affiliations of the 
 family have always been Republican, that being 
 tne party with which Mr. Helmick cast his vote 
 during his years of citizenship. 
 
 W. T. MACY. Among the young men of 
 Yamhill county who are recognized as active 
 and valued factors in business and public life 
 is W. T. Macy, who is popular with a large circle 
 of friends, not only in McMinnville, where he 
 makes his home, but also throughout the sur- 
 rounding district. He was born in Greenville, 
 Clay county, Iowa, March 19, 1872. His father, 
 Paul Macy, was a native of Indiana, born near 
 Richmond, while the grandfather, Thomas Macy, 
 was born in North Carolina, removing thence to 
 Ohio and afterward to Indiana. He was a shoe- 
 maker by trade and followed that pursuit in the 
 localities in which he made his home. He be- 
 came one of the pioneers of the Hoosier state 
 and subsequently he went to Iowa, where he 
 spent his remaining days. The Macy family is 
 of English descent. Paul Macy was but a boy 
 when his parents removed to Iowa and was 
 reared in Winneshiek county, where he became 
 acquainted with and married Miss Dosha Painter, 
 who was born in Indiana, although her parents 
 were natives of North Carolina. Her father, 
 Edwin Painter, became a farmer of the Hoosier 
 state, dying there at an early day. From Win- 
 neshiek county Mr. and Mrs. Macy removed 
 to Clay county, casting in their lot with its pio- 
 neer settlers, and there the father developed a 
 good farm. In 1889, however, he left the Mis- 
 sissippi valley and came to Oregon, settling in 
 Newburg, where he is now engaged in general 
 farming and in horticultural pursuits. He and 
 his wife are members of the Friends Society, and 
 he is a trustee of Pacific College at Newburg. 
 The children of this worthy couple are W. T., 
 of this review; Mrs. Effie M. Votaw, who re- 
 sides in Ashland, Ore. ; Walter, who is with the 
 Southern Pacific Railway Company at Newburg ; 
 Perry D. and Orie, both at home. 
 
 W. T. Macv spent his vouth upon the home 
 farm, and after attending the public schools con- 
 
 tinued his studies in Newburg. He entered Pa- 
 cific College at that place, remaining there as 
 one of the students in that institution for three 
 years. At the end of that time, in 1892, in Sher- 
 idan, he married Miss Mary M. Stowe, a native 
 of Oregon and a daughter of one of the pioneers 
 of the state. 
 
 The same year Mr. Macy established a furni- 
 ture store in Newburg, which he conducted suc- 
 cessfully for three years, and in 1896 he was nom- 
 inated for the position of county recorder upon 
 the Union ticket, being elected to that office over 
 the Republican candidate by a majority of three 
 hundred and eighty. He filled the position so 
 acceptably that in 1898 he was re-elected, being 
 the only one on the ticket who was successful 
 in that year. He received a majority of fifty- 
 five and was thus continued in the office from 
 July, 1896, until July, 1900. No higher testi- 
 monial of his capability or of the confidence re- 
 posed in him by his fellow-townsmen could be 
 given than the fact of his re-election. At the 
 same time he held local office in McMinnville, for 
 in November, 1899, he was elected to the city 
 council, but after three months he resigned. On 
 his retirement from the office of county recorder 
 he entered upon a business connection with the 
 Spaulding Logging Company and established 
 their lumber yard in McMinnville, conducting it 
 for a year. In January, 1902, however, he re- 
 signed, and accepted the agency of the Oregon 
 City Transportation Company at this place. 
 
 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Macy has been 
 blessed with two children : Glen and Evelyn V. 
 Mr. Macy was a charter member of the Com- 
 mercial Club of McMinnville and for a number 
 of years has been its secretary. He also belongs 
 to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to 
 the Woodmen of the World, and for four years 
 has served as clerk in the camp of the latter fra- 
 ternity. He votes with the democracy and his 
 religious belief is indicated by his membership 
 in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
 Macy is a young man possessed of the typical 
 spirit of the west, a spirit of marked enterprise 
 and progress and of adaptability and it is through 
 the united efforts of such men that the upbuild- 
 ing and progress of this section of the country 
 have been assured. 
 
 HUNDLEY SEVIER MALONEY is one 
 of the honored veterans of the Civil war 
 who fought for the preservation of the 
 Union and who in times of peace has 
 ever been loyal to the best interests of his 
 country, laboring for the advancement and up- 
 building of his home localitv, along material, 
 social, intellectual and moral lines. He has been 
 a resident of Oregon since 1873, his birth occur- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ring in Warrensburg, Tenn., February 28, 1849. 
 His paternal grandfather, Hugh Conway Ma- 
 loney, was a native of Ireland, and on emigrat- 
 ing to America took up his abode in Tennessee, 
 where he followed farming. He there married 
 a Mrs. Susannah (Conway) Sevier, the widow 
 of lohn Sevier, first cousin of Governor John 
 Sevier, of Tennessee. William Conway Maloney, 
 the father of our subject, was born in Tennessee 
 and followed farming and surveying near War- 
 rensburg, operating - his land with the aid of 
 slaves that he owned. He died in 1882, at the 
 of sixty-nine years. His wife, who in her 
 maidenhood had been Louisa Cureton, was like- 
 wise born in Tennessee, and was a daughter of 
 Richard Cureton, of German descent, one of the 
 heroes of the war of 1812. He, too, followed 
 farming in Tennessee, and iff was in that state 
 that his daughter, Mrs. Maloney, died, upon the 
 old family homestead. L T nto the parents of our 
 subject were born ten children, but only two are 
 now living, Thomas being an attorney at law 
 in Ogden, Utah. Enlisting in the Civil war June 
 1. 1863, he served first as a member of Company 
 L Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, and afterward as 
 a member of Company M, Ninth Regiment of 
 Tennessee Cavalry, with the Federal army, and 
 was discharged September 11, 1865, at Knox- 
 ville. Tenn. i\nother brother, Hugh D. Maloney, 
 was sergeant-major in the Fifth Tennessee Con- 
 federate Cavalry under General Joe Wheeler. 
 
 Hundley S. Maloney, named after Ambrose 
 Hundley Sevier, United States senator from 
 Arkansas, was reared upon his father's farm 
 and attended a private school. During the 
 progress of the war, although but a boy, he 
 joined the Eighth Tennessee Regiment and 
 served for a month, but on account of his age and 
 size could not be mustered in. On the 1st of 
 January, 1864, however, he volunteered as a 
 member of Company D ; Fourth Tennessee 
 Infantry, in defense of the Union, and was mus- 
 tered in at Loudon, Tenn., serving until the close 
 of hostilities. His regiment was engaged in 
 guerrilla warfare against Morgan's Cavalrv in 
 East Tennessee, and Mr. Maloney thus took' part 
 in numerous skirmishes and battles. The regi- 
 ment was housed altogether in tents, save when 
 they slept out of doors. In 1865 Mr. Maloney 
 was made a corporal and August 2, 1865, he was 
 mustered out at Nashville, Tenn. He was then 
 but sixteen years of age, yet he had rendered to 
 the country valiant service, and he displayed 
 bravery equal to that of many a veteran of twice 
 his years. - 
 
 After the close of the war Mr. Maloney became 
 a student in Tusculum College at Greeneville, 
 Tenn., where he remained until 1867. On the 
 22d of July of that year he was commissioned 
 second lieutenant in" the Thirty-third United 
 
 States Infantry by President Johnson, on the 
 recommendation of Colonel Reeves, for faithful 
 and meritorious service in the Rebellion. He 
 served in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina 
 during the reconstruction period and at the time 
 of the Ku Klux trouble. Remaining in the south 
 until September 6, 1870, Mr. Maloney then car- 
 ried on farming, and in the spring of 1873 came 
 to the west, making his way to San Francisco 
 and on to Portland, where he arrived April 30, 
 1873. He first located near Harrisburg, in Linn 
 county, and then went to southern Oregon in 
 October of that year. He began farming in Uma- 
 tilla county, where he carried on agricultural pur- 
 suits until 1876. His father had been a surveyor 
 and Mr. Maloney had studied surveying under 
 him and practiced it to some extent while in his 
 native state. In 1876 he was elected county sur- 
 veyor of Umatilla county over Lee Moorehouse, 
 but did not qualify. He afterward spent one sea- 
 son teaching in Linn county, and in October, 
 1877, he purchased a farm near Sheridan, car- 
 rying on agricultural pursuits and surveying 
 until 1880. In that year he was elected county 
 surveyor of Yamhill county and served for three 
 years while from 1887 until 1889 he was' deputy 
 United States surveyor and surveyed the Grande 
 Ronde Indian reservation. 
 
 Legislative honors were conferred upon him 
 in 1892, when he was chosen to represent Yam- 
 hill county in the general assembly. He served 
 during the session of 1893 and was a member of 
 the committee on enrolled bills and other im- 
 portant committees. He took an active interest 
 in the work of the house, giving each question 
 which came up for settlement his earnest consid- 
 eration and his influence was felt in legislative 
 measures enacted during his term. He was, 
 much interested in the passage of the Soldiers' 
 Home bill, providing for the establishment of a 
 home for the soldiers at Roseburg, and his efforts 
 in this and other directions for the benefit of the 
 state were not without result. In 1896 Mr. Ma- 
 loney was elected county surveyor of Yamhill 
 county for a two years' "term, and in February, 
 1902, he was appointed city recorder of McMinn- 
 ville. On the 3d of November following he was 
 elected to that office, his name being placed upon 
 both tickets. In connection with the duties of 
 the position he is also practicing surveying. He 
 laid out the original town of Newburg, also Will- 
 amina and several additions to Sheridan. In 
 1897 he located in McMinnville and in 1898-99 
 was mayor of the city. He has also been notary 
 public since 1880. 
 
 Mr. Maloney has been thrice married. His 
 first wife, Laura F. Hale, died November 2, 1872, 
 leaving no children. In Umatilla conntv, in 
 1873, he married Miss Mary Metzger, who' was 
 born in Tennessee, and died in 1893, leaving 
 
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 seven children, who are still living, namely : Mrs. 
 Lillie Scott, of Sheridan; Louisa M., of McMinn- 
 ville ; Nannie, wife of Charles Nelson, of Clover- 
 dale, Ore.; Hugh, of McMinnville; Carl; John, 
 who is a student in McMinnville College, and 
 Ray. Mr. Maloney's third marriage occurred 
 in Tennessee, Miss Lucy Scruggs, a native of 
 that state, becoming his wife. They have two 
 children, Flora and Emma. Mr. Maloney was 
 made an Odd Fellow in Morristown, Tenn., in 
 1873 and became a charter member of Sheridan 
 Lodge No. 87, I. O. O. F. He now belongs to 
 Occidental Lodge No. 30, of McMinnville, of 
 which he is noble grand. He retains pleasant re- 
 lationship with his old army comrades through 
 his membership in Custer Post No. 9, G. A. R. 
 He served for three terms as commander of Don- 
 nelson Post No. 55 while living at Sheridan, and 
 he was a delegate to the national encampment 
 at Louisville, Ky., in 1895, and was present at the 
 dedication of the national park comprising the 
 battlefield of Chickamauga. He served as aide on 
 the staff of the national commander, General 
 Clarkson, and has a number of times been aide 
 on the staff of the state department commander. 
 His wife belongs to the Women's Relief Corps 
 and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Mr. Maloney also visited the south to 
 attend the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta 
 in 1895. In 1864, when but fifteen years of age, 
 he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln under the 
 rule of allowing soldiers to vote, but since that 
 time he has given his support to the Democracy. 
 Mr. Maloney has led a busy and useful life and 
 one of his most noticeable characteristics has 
 been his loyalty to duty, whether duty to his 
 office he has been prompt and faithful and he is 
 a man of pleasant manner, kindly disposition, of 
 strong integrity and of marked liberality. 
 
 MILTON S. CHAPIN. Starting out in life 
 with assets consisting solely of his own per- 
 severance and good common sense, Milton S. 
 Chapin has so adjusted his opportunities as to 
 be numbered among the most substantial up- 
 builders of Yamhill county. A courageous sol- 
 dier during the Civil war, for many years a 
 successful farmer and stock-raiser, and at all 
 times a broad-minded and enterprising citizen, 
 Mr. Chapin has earned the right to the com- 
 parative immunity from active business cares 
 which he now enjoys. 
 
 A native of Branch county, Mich., Mr. Chapin 
 was born April 28, 1837, and is the oldest of 
 the three children born to his parents, one son 
 being deceased, while Nelson is a farmer of 
 Polk county, Ore. His father, who was a con- 
 tractor and builder for the greater part of his 
 active life, died in Michigan at the age of forty- 
 
 five years, and was survived by his wife — for 
 many years a school teacher — until her death 
 in Yamhill county in 1878, she having been a 
 resident of this state for ten years. In his youth 
 Milton S. Chapin attended the district schools 
 of Michigan, and when sixteen years of age de- 
 termined to henceforth make his own living. 
 Removing to Lagrange county, Ind., he remained 
 there until 1861, in August of which year he 
 enlisted as a private in Company G, Thirtieth 
 Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After being mus- 
 tered in at Fort Wayne he was sent to Inde- 
 pendence, and from there to Louisville, Ky ; , 
 later to Nashville, Tenn., being under command 
 of Colonel Lawton, who subsequently met his 
 death in the Philippines. Besides many minor 
 engagements he participated in the battles of 
 Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, and 
 the Atlantic campaign, and though subjected to I 
 the thickest of the fight fortunately escaped in- 
 jury sufficiently serious to incapacitate him 
 for fighting. Not more than thirty per cent, of 
 the brave Thirtieth returned to Indiana, and it 
 was said that no regiment was subjected to 
 greater danger or hardship, or more courageous- 
 ly stood by their leader and colors. 
 
 After his discharge from the service Septem- 
 ber 24, 1864, at Indianapolis, Mr. Chapin en- 
 gaged i-n farming near Springfield, 111., and Sep- 
 tember 1, 1866, he married Mrs. Jane (Crum) 
 Arthington, a native of Illinois. Thereafter he 
 continued to live in Illinois for nineteen years, 
 and was known in his neighborhood as one, of 
 its most reliable and successful agriculturists. 
 Four children were born in Illinois, of whom 
 Jennie is deceased ; Charles is a farmer in this 
 locality ; Pratt is deceased ; and Harry is a resi- 
 dent of Sherman county, Ore. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Chapin disposed of his Illinois in- 
 terests and, removing to Oregon, settled on what 
 was known as the Galloway farm, three and a 
 half miles east of Sheridan, where he lived for 
 sixteen years. In 1900 he built a delightful 
 little home on a small portion of his property, 
 and this is all that remains to him of the three 
 hundred and sixty-four acres which he once 
 owned in this fertile section. The rest of the 
 property has been divided among the children of 
 Mr. Chapin. In politics decidedly, independent, 
 Mr. Chapin has never taken an active interest in 
 the political agitation by which he has been sur- 
 rounded, but has rather chosen the quiet and 
 unobtrusive life of the high-minded, .popular and 
 unostentatious country gentleman. For more 
 than fifty years he has been a member of the 
 Christian church, and during that time has ex- 
 erted his emphatic energies toward its upbuilding 
 and general support. He is a welcome member 
 of Custer Post No. 55, G. A. R., and has passed 
 all of the chairs in connection with that organi- 
 
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 zation. To an exceptional degree Mr. Cliapin en- 
 - the confidence of his fellow townsmen, and 
 his fine personal characteristics have won and 
 retained for many years the most desirable of 
 friendships. 
 
 ISAAC LEVENS. Although years have 
 elapsed since the death of Isaac Levens, in 1892, 
 he is still recalled by his friends and associates 
 a whole-souled and public-spirited citizen, 
 whose efforts were invariably directed towards 
 the betterment of the conditions around him. 
 Mr. Levens was born in southern Illinois, and 
 was reared on the farm of his father, Otho Lev- 
 ens. one of the very early settlers of that state. 
 The rumors of gold penetrated into the district 
 of which the Levens family was an upbuilding 
 factor, and the sons determined to give up farm- 
 ing operations in Illinois and seek their fortune 
 in the west. Besides Isaac, Thomas and Zacha- 
 riah. there was a cousin, Henry Levens, who 
 joined the little party in their trip across the 
 plains, in 1848. and of these Thomas died in 
 Amity. Ore., and Zachariah died on the Cmpqua 
 river. 
 
 Isaac Levens stood the journey well across the 
 plains, and. after arriving at his destination, trav- 
 eled around considerably in search of a desirable 
 location. A part of the donation claim which he 
 purchased constituted what is now the western 
 part of the city of Dallas, and was six hundred 
 and forty acres in extent. Here he commenced to 
 clear his land, and prepare for the reception of 
 crops. He prospered in his adopted state, and 
 at the time of his death, at the age of seventy- 
 one, was the possessor of as fine a property as one 
 could desire. For a while he was interested in 
 the butchering business, and was for some years 
 a partner in the Ellendale Woolen Mill Company. 
 He laid out a portion of his property into city 
 lots, the sale of which brought him good financial 
 returns. He was progressive and quick to see an 
 opportunity among the complexity of interests by 
 which he was surrounded. A Democrat in poli- 
 tics, he served as county coroner for several 
 terms, and also acceptably filled other positions of 
 trust and responsibility in the neighborhood. He 
 was a member of the Christian Church. 
 
 Xear the town of Monmouth. Ore.. Mr. Levens 
 married, in 1850, Eleanor S. Whiteaker, who was 
 born in Old Virginia, near Abingdon, a daughter 
 of Benjamin Whiteaker, a native of Tennessee. 
 Mr. Whiteaker was of English descent, and a son 
 ot Richard Whiteaker. a native of Virginia, and 
 an extensive planter. At an earlv age Mr. White- 
 aker settled near Dixon, Lee county, 111., where 
 he conducted a hotel for about twelve vears, 
 and in this capacity had an opportunity to hear 
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 much about the prospects of the west. Accord- 
 ingly, outfitting with ox teams, he brought his 
 wife and nine children across the plains in 1848. 
 being five months on the journey. From Oregon 
 City he went to Independence, Polk county, and 
 there bought the claim of Dr. Boyle, consisting 
 of six hundred and forty acres. In this home he 
 spent the remainder of his days, and died at the 
 age of seventy-seven years. He was a Demo- 
 crat in politics, and came out fearlessly for the 
 principles of his party. In religion he was iden- 
 tified with the Baptist Church. Mr. Whiteaker 
 married Mary Hayter, who was born in Tennes- 
 see, a daughter of Esau Hayter, who was born 
 and died in Virginia. Mrs. Whiteaker lived to be 
 seventy-five years of age, and died on the old 
 homestead. Nine of her children attained ma- 
 turity : David, a soldier in the Indian war, and 
 who died in Independence in 1902 ; William, who 
 died several years ago in Washington; Rachel. 
 now deceased, was the wife of Mr. McGee, of 
 Washington; Mrs. Levens; James, who died in 
 Washington: Benjamin, who lives in Polk 
 county; Maria, a resident of Los Angeles; Mrs. 
 Mirah Ogden : Mary, who died in Polk county, 
 and George W., of Independence. 
 
 Mrs. Levens was born in Tennessee, November 
 3, 1832, and was fifteen years of age when she 
 came with her parents to Oregon. She had for- 
 tunately attended the public schools in Illinois, 
 otherwise her education would have been very 
 limited, as there was no school in the vicinity of 
 her father's home, after their arrival in Oregon. 
 She was a capable and willing girl, and readily set 
 about helping to make the wilderness home as 
 pleasant and attractive as possible. She was well 
 schooled in household arts, and her husband 
 found in her an invaluable assistant in hewing out 
 his fortune in the west. She came immediately 
 to the farm, upon which she lived for so many 
 years, and for which Mr. Levens paid Si, 600. 
 After her husband's death she built her present 
 residence in Dallas, although she still retains 
 eighty acres of the original claim, and has pur- 
 chased ten acres adjoining, which includes a hop- 
 yard. Mrs. Levens is possessed of excellent busi- 
 ness ability, and shows rare discretion and judg- 
 ment in her many charities. She is a typical 
 member of that noble band of pioneer women to 
 whom their husbands were indebted for the 
 greater part of their success, and from her early 
 struggle with adversity has evolved a strong and 
 self-reliant character, inspiring to all who are 
 associated with her in whatsoever capacity. She 
 is a member of the Christian Church, and con- 
 tributes liberally towards its charities and general 
 support. Of her two daughters, Nellie is the 
 wife of Frank Rowell, of Dallas. Ore., and Annie 
 is now Mrs. James Dougan, of Tacoma, Wash. 
 
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 JUDGE BENJAMIN F. RHODES, who is 
 serving upon the bench of Yamhill county and 
 has for a number of years maintained a position 
 among the leading representatives of the bar in 
 this section of the state, came to Oregon in 1873. 
 He was born in Madison county near Frederick- 
 town, Mo., January 15, i860. His father, John 
 Rhodes, was also a native of that county and the 
 grandfather, John Rhodes, Sr., was born in North 
 Carolina, whence he emigrated at an early day 
 to Missouri, becoming one of the pioneer farm- 
 ers of that state, where his remaining days were 
 passed. The great-grandfather was a resident 
 of Pennsylvania and removed from the Keystone 
 state to North Carolina, where be became a 
 planter. He was of German descent. 
 
 John Rhodes, the father of the judge, was 
 reared as a farmer boy and also became a me- 
 chanic and builder. He remained a resident of 
 his native county until 1873, when he brought 
 his family to Oregon, coming by way of San 
 Francisco and Portland. He made his way to 
 Salem, but a few weeks later settled at Mon- 
 mouth, Polk county, and after another two 
 months had passed he went to Portland, where 
 he was engaged in the building business. 
 Eighteen, months later, however, he was obliged 
 to abandon that pursuit on account of failing 
 health and removed to a farm in Polk county, 
 whence, in the fall of 1879, he came to McMinn- 
 ville. Here he again resumed work at his trade 
 and was identified with the building interests of 
 this place until he retired on account of a stroke 
 of paralysis. He died thirteen years later, in 
 August, 1900, and McMinnville thus lost one 
 of its representative and worthy citizens. He 
 was a Master Mason and his life exemplified the 
 helpful and beneficent spirit of the fraternity 
 In religious faith a Baptist, he was always loyal 
 to the teachings of his church and for twelve 
 years he served as a trustee of the Baptist Col- 
 lege at McMinnville. His wife, who in her 
 maidenhood was Eliza Graham, was born in 
 Madison county, Mo., and died in 1890. She 
 was a daughter of the Rev. Carter T. Graham, a 
 native of Kentucky, who became an early settler 
 of Madison county, Mo., where he followed 
 farming in order to provide for his family, but 
 on Sundays he engaged in preaching. He did 
 not, however, accept any recompense for his 
 services as a minister of the Baptist Church. 
 He was of Scotch descent so that the judge 
 comes of German and Scotch ancestry. Unto 
 John and Eliza Rhodes were born three children 
 — Benjamin Franklin, Josephine S., who died 
 in childhood, and M. D. L.. who is an attorney 
 in Seattle, Wash. 
 
 The judge spent the first thirteen years of his 
 life in the county of his nativity and then ac- 
 companied his parents to Oregon, where he fur- 
 
 ther continued his education in the schools of 
 Portland and of Polk county. In September; 
 1879, ne entered McMinnville College, where he 
 remained as a student for four years. In the 
 meantime he had begun teaching, taking up that 
 work in 1883. He followed the profession for a 
 year in Yamhill county, after which he again 
 spent a year as a student in McMinnville Col- 
 lege. He was afterward connected with mercan- 
 tile life for a year, followed by three years spent 
 as a teacher, and during the last two years of 
 that time he also pursued the study of law un- 
 der the direction of William D. Fenton. In 
 February, 1890, his mother died and about that 
 time he and his brother began in the insurance 
 and real estate business in McMinnville, which 
 they carried on until Benjamin F. had completed 
 his law course. In June, 1896, he was admitted to 
 the bar in Salem and at once opened an office 
 in McMinnville, where he has since been known 
 as a leading representative of his chosen calling. 
 Wealth and influence avail little or naught in 
 the legal profession. One does not trust impor- 
 tant litigated interests to unskilled hands and it 
 is the man of broad learning, who correctly ap- 
 plies his knowledge to the point in litigation, 
 that secures the legal business of a district. 
 Judge Rhodes manifested skill and ability that 
 soon won for him recognition as one of the lead- 
 ing lawyers at the Yamhill county bar and in 
 the spring of 1902 he received the Democratic 
 nomination for county judge, being elected by 
 a majority of two hundred and forty-two in a 
 county which usually gives a Republican ma- 
 jority of more than five hundred. He thus won 
 a noble victory and in July he took his seat upon 
 the bench where he is now serving in a most 
 capable manner. His decisions indicated absolute 
 fairness and freedom from judicial bias, broad 
 learning and a thorough understanding of the 
 points in evidence and already his course has won 
 the warm approval of the members of the legal 
 profession in McMinnville. 
 
 The judge was married in McMinnville to 
 Miss Mary I. Collard, who was born in Yamhill 
 county, a daughter of John J. Collard, who in 
 pioneer times came to Oregon from Illinois and 
 settled in Clackamas county. He crossed the 
 plains when a boy with his parents and subse- 
 quently he came to Yamhill county and now re- 
 sides in McMinnville. The home of the judge 
 and his wife has been blessed with three children 
 — Veda Ethelyn, Dada Althea and John Alvin. 
 
 The judge was made a Mason in Union Lodge, 
 No. 43 A. F. & A. M., of McMinnville, and 
 has twice served as its master. He is also con- 
 nected with the Woodmen of the World and the 
 Knights of the Maccabees, and in politics he 
 has been a stalwart Democrat since attaining his 
 majority, In 1892 he was appointed justice of 
 
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 the peace and was afterward elected for a two 
 years' term and was then re-elected, continuing 
 in the office until elevation to the bench in 1896. 
 He belongs to the Baptist Church of McMinn- 
 ville and since 1894 he has been an active and 
 valued member of the board of trustees of Mc- 
 Minnville College. He is a man of strong in- 
 tellectuality, of keen foresight and practical judg- 
 ment and his co-operation with any measure 
 therefore becomes a forceful factor in winning 
 for it success. His influence is ever on the side 
 of progress, reform and improvement and he is 
 to-day recognized as one of the influential and 
 prominent residents of the adopted city. 
 
 J. C. MICHAUX, M. D. As a leading ex- 
 ponent of medical and surgical science Dr. J. 
 C. Michaux is catering to a constantly increasing 
 patronage in McMinnville and Yamhill county, 
 and is besides winning many friends because of 
 stable and admirable personal characteristics. 
 The doctor is a transplanted easterner who did 
 not have to become acclimated in the west, but 
 rather brought with him a breeziness and enter- 
 prise which instantly adjusted him to the vigor- 
 ous opportunities here represented. While ap- 
 preciating and utilizing the best that his profes- 
 sion holds, his versatility invades various social 
 and other strata, a particularly pleasing trait be- 
 ing his fondness for that noble friend of man, 
 the horse. In the well-equipped stable of Dr. 
 Michaux the horse is seen at his best, both as to 
 appearance and speed, and when he travels upon 
 town thoroughfares or country roads one may 
 be sure that he encounters in his equine life such 
 treatment as is dictated by an innately humani- 
 tarian instinct. 
 
 The old-time ancestors of Dr. Michaux emi- 
 grated from France, with other religiously per- 
 secuted Huguenots, and after various migrations 
 settled in America in time to participate in the 
 Revolutionary war. His paternal grandfather, 
 J. E. Michaux. was a planter in Virginia, the 
 paternal great-grandfather having been a very 
 early pioneer of that state. Here was born J. G. 
 Michaux, the father of the physician of "Mc- 
 Minnville,- who also was a physician, and who 
 practiced for about half a century in Newport, 
 Tenn. The elder Michaux was a man of reso- 
 lute character and uncompromising ideas of 
 honor, and during his lifetime claimed many dis- 
 tinguished friendships, among them being that 
 of Andrew Johnson. He lived to be seventy-six 
 years of age, and was survived by his wife, for- 
 merly M. J. Wells, daughter of ' Robert Wells, 
 a native of North Carolina, and who at present 
 lives with her son in McMinnville. 
 
 The third oldest of the five children in his 
 father's family, Dr. Michaux, was born in New- 
 
 port, east Tennessee, September 13, 1858, and 
 in his youth was favored with exceptional edu- 
 cational advantages. After graduating from 
 Nashville College in 1878 he attended Yander- 
 bilt University for a couple of years, and then 
 entered upon his professional training at the 
 Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, 
 graduating therefrom in 1889. After practicing 
 for five years in his home town of Newport he 
 removed to Lafayette, Yamhill county, in 1886, 
 and for thirteen years devoted his energies to 
 ameliorating the physical ills of that community, 
 taking also an active interest in the social and 
 other life of the town. He became associated 
 with McMinnville in 1899, and it is to be hoped 
 that his enthusiastic reception by a large con- 
 tingent of the town and country will inspire a 
 permanent residence within these hospitable and 
 profitable borders. 
 
 With him from Tennessee came the wife of 
 Dr. Michaux, formerly Miss M. E. Easterly, a 
 native also of east Tennessee, and the mother 
 of one son, Carl. The doctor is a Democrat in 
 political affiliation, and is fraternallv associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd' Fellows of 
 Lafayette, Ore; the Encampment of Dayton; 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen;' and 
 the Knights of the Maccabees. Genial, opti- 
 mistic, alert to the pleasures as well as the dis- 
 advantages of living ; whole souled and generous 
 and thoroughly honorable, the doctor is indeed 
 an acquisition to his adopted town and county. 
 
 OLIVER H. ADAMS. More clearly than that 
 of any other inhabitant of McMinnville the name 
 of Oliver H. Adams is outlined against the back- 
 ground of its history and substantial interests, 
 its moral, intellectual and industrial growth, and 
 its just claims to distinction among the thriv- 
 ing communities of Yamhill county. No other 
 kind of existence could be expected of Mr. 
 Adams, through whose veins flows the blood of 
 two illustrious servants of this government, John 
 and John Quincy Adams, both of whom filled 
 the popular eye and ear in the highest office 
 within the gift of the xAnerican people. The em- 
 igrating ancestor was a Protestant of Scotch 
 origin who came from the north of Ireland, and 
 settled in Massachusetts while yet the banner of 
 England waved over increasing discord in the 
 colonies. The paternal grandfather of Oliver 
 H. Adams was a soklier of 1776. 
 
 A native of Painesville, Geauga county, Ohio, 
 Mr. Adams was born March 25, 1819, a son of 
 Sebastian and Eunice (Harmon) Adams, natives 
 of Vermont, and born respectively in Salisbury. 
 August 3, 1789, and in Rutland, October 24, 1798. 
 The parents were married in Painesville, Ohio. 
 May 6, 1818, and of their three sons and five 
 
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 daughters three sons and two daughters are pio- 
 neer residents of Oregon, Oliver H. being the old- 
 est. Of the children, William L. is a practicing 
 physician on the Hood river and crossed the plains 
 in 1848; Sarah J. is the deceased wife of A. N. 
 Phelph, of Illinois ; S. C. died in Salem ; Mary 
 P., Mrs. Skinner, resides in Kansas City, Mo. ; 
 Eunice M. is now Mrs. McBride, of Portland ; 
 Charlotte Ann is the deceased wife of W. H. 
 Hardman, of Oregon; and Caroline E. is the de- 
 ceased wife of A. Dunney, of Montana. Sebas- 
 tian Adams was a prominent farmer of Geauga 
 county, and for years was county sheriff. After- 
 ward he owned a large farm in Huron county; 
 and subsequently engaged in lumbering and farm- 
 ing in Jonesville, Mich. After removing to 
 Galesburg, 111., he built the first hotel in that 
 place, and died in the little town destined to be- 
 come an educational center, March 8, 1847. 
 Some time after his wife married a Mr. Goodale, 
 with whom she started across the plains in 1852, 
 Mr. Goodale succumbing on the way to the pre- 
 vailing cholera of that year. Continuing her 
 journey with her children, Mrs. Goodale located 
 in McMinnville and died in Eugene City, De- 
 cember 4, 1883, at the age of eighty-six years. 
 She was a remarkable pioneer mother, possess- 
 ing exceptional mental alertness, retained with 
 exuberant health to almost the end of her life. 
 
 An uneventful home life in Ohio on the part 
 of Oliver H. Adams was broken into by his at- 
 tendance at the Huron County Academy, of 
 which he was still a student when the family 
 fortunes were shifted to Michigan. Overcome 
 with homesickness he left the academy and 
 joined his parents in Michigan, and with them 
 removed to Galesburg in 1840. Here he mar- 
 ried, October 20, 1846, Sophia Hills, a native of 
 Connecticut, and daughter of Walter Hills, born 
 also in Connecticut, and the descendant of an old 
 New England family. After his marriage Mr. 
 Adams began to farm and team, and eventually 
 drifted into freighting between Galesburg and 
 Chicago, a distance of over two hundred miles. 
 The round trip consumed the greater part of 
 two weeks, and during the winter time fhe winds 
 of the prairies were frightfully cold. Going up 
 to Chicago and meeting people from all around 
 that section Mr. Adams heard considerable about 
 the prospects of the far west, and March 9, 1852. 
 he started from Galesburg with his wife and 
 three children, Alice, Emma and Mary, his 
 mother and stepfather, and two sisters, for Ore- 
 gon, the family equipment being ox and cow 
 teams, and three wagons. The party came along 
 the old Oregon trail, and this being the year of 
 the terrible cholera epidemic, they were horrified 
 by many evidences of departed travelers, who, 
 like themselves, had started forth with high 
 hopes for the future, Accidents also marred 
 
 the pleasure of the journey, one being the break- 
 ing of a wheel which was first successfully re- 
 paired, but which came to pieces a second time 
 with altogether dire results. In consequence, 
 Mr. Adams was obliged to resort to a mongrel 
 two wheeled cart for the conveyance of the uten- 
 sils, and thus crippled they started on their way. 
 October 1, 1852, the party arrived at Panther 
 creek, where lived Dr. Adams, the brother of 
 Oliver H., and the latter bought a claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres for $200, and was 
 soon comfortably settled with his family. He 
 was not slow in recognizing milling possibilities 
 on the rapid little creek, and so constructed the 
 first mill in that neighborhood. A little later he 
 took in a partner in the milling business who 
 was none other than G. W. Jones, a practical 
 miller, and later one of the chief upbuilders of 
 McMinnville, and with this addition to his re- 
 sources bought another mill, for many years 
 operated in connection with the original. The 
 combination of pioneer energy and business judg- 
 ment accomplished much toward building up the 
 section in which their milling was conducted, 
 and the two men represented all that was sub- 
 stantial and of good report in the county. 
 
 In 1872 the mills were sold out and Mr. Adams 
 and his partner moved into McMinnville and 
 built a factory in the heart of the then small 
 town. As the population and interests increased 
 they moved out on Third street, and there the 
 sash and door factory of Jones & Adams entered 
 upon an era of continuous prosperity. Even- 
 tually the business was handed over to the son 
 of Mr. Adams, who still continues to maintain 
 the financial prestige of the pioneer industry. 
 Probably no man in McMinnville has built more 
 than has Mr. Adams, especially deserving of 
 mention being a large brick building on Main 
 street ; the brick building of Jones & Adams : 
 numerous residences besides his own commodi- 
 ous home, and several stores and warehouses. 
 
 After coming to Oregon nine children were 
 added to the family of Mr. Adams, and of the 
 entire number eleven have attained maturity : 
 Inez lone is living with her father; Carrie Cor- 
 nelia is the wife of C. C. Scott, of Portland ; 
 Austin Hill is a sash and door manufacturer of 
 Astoria ; Frank Grant is a member of the firm 
 'of Jones & Adams; Lillie May died at the age 
 of fifteen; Alice Amelia is now Mrs. Crawford, 
 of Eugene, Ore. ; Emma Ellen is the wife of G. 
 W. Jones, of McMinnville; Mary Maria is the 
 wife of W.. G. Henderson, of McMinnville ; John 
 Quincy died in this town at the age of three 
 years ; Ida Irene is now Mrs. H. A. Reasoner, 
 of Washington; Eva Ellen is now Mrs. Simons, 
 of Washington ; and Ada Ann is the wife of W. 
 A. Hill, of McMinnville. Mrs. Adams died in 
 McMinnville March 3, 1902, at the age of 
 
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 Seventy-four years. She was a stanch adherent 
 of the Presbyterian Church, in which both she 
 and her husband labored for many years. 
 
 A Republican in national politics, Mr. xAdams 
 has ever maintained that character rather than 
 party should prevail in local offices especially, 
 and has therefore voted impartially on many oc- 
 casions. In his youth he labored zealously for 
 his friends, but has been somewhat averse to 
 lining official responsibility himself. How- 
 ever, he has been councilman for several years, 
 and his services as a member of the school board 
 have been of lasting benefit to the community. 
 He assisted in the building of the first log school 
 house which offered educational advantages to 
 the rising generation hereabouts, and has been 
 the chief instigator of the larger and more mod- 
 ern institutions which have supplanted the prim- 
 itive effort. Possessing the potent character- 
 istics best appreciated and developed in this man- 
 making region, Mr. Adams has adjusted his life 
 to high principle and large accomplishments, and 
 his name will be enrolled among the foremost 
 promoters of the peace and prosperity of Yam- 
 hill county. 
 
 H. Z. FOSTER, the treasurer of Yam- 
 hill county, a resident of Oregon since his 
 tenth year, and formerly an educator and agri- 
 culturist, was born twenty miles north of Keo- 
 kuk. Lee county, Iowa, October 8, 1843. At a 
 very early age his paternal grandfather removed 
 from Indiana to Tennessee, in which latter state 
 his father, Harrison Foster, was born in 1801. 
 
 Harrison Foster emigrated to Illinois about 
 1822, and lived in that then wild and inhospi- 
 table region until his removal to Lee county in 
 1838. In Illinois he married his first wife, a 
 Miss Barber, of that state, and the five children 
 of this union were born in Illinois and Iowa. Of 
 these, four are living, James Barber being a min- 
 ister of the Baptist Church in Boise City, Idaho ; 
 Jesse D., a Congregational clergyman in Cali- 
 fornia, and Mrs. Sarah J. Death and Mrs. Mar- 
 garet V. McComas, both residents of California. 
 In Lee county, Iowa, Mr. Foster married his 
 second wife, Sarah Booth, a native of England, 
 and daughter of John Booth, who emigrated 
 from England to New York state. The second 
 Mrs. Foster died at the old home in Oregon at 
 the age of eighty-three years, leaving two chil- 
 dren, the present treasurer of Yamhill county, 
 and Mrs. Mary E. Wood, of Tillamook county. 
 With his wife and children Harrison Foster un- 
 dertook the journey across the plains in 1853, 
 starting out from Council Bluffs, Iowa, in April, 
 and proceeding up the Platte and Sweetwater 
 
 rivers and down the Snake river to Umatilla, 
 then down the Umatilla. On the way they over- 
 took many other emigrants from Iowa, and the 
 six months' journey passed off without any par- 
 ticular incident, or any of the harrowing details 
 incident to the plain travel in the early davs. 
 The father took up a claim in the hills, and in 
 the spring of 1854 bought the right to a claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres on the Will- 
 amina, where he lived and worked for many 
 years, and where his death occurred in 1876, at 
 the age of seventy-five years. He was a quiet, 
 unostentatious man, but successful withal, and 
 in his adopted county made many friends. He 
 was a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 For some years after crossing the plains with 
 his parents H. Z. Foster had no educational op- 
 portunities, for the neighborhood in which he 
 lived had not yet risen to the dignity of main- 
 taining a log school house, or a teacher to dis- 
 tribute knowledge to the rising generation. The 
 advent of the first school house was heralded 
 with delight by both pupils and parents, and 
 among the first to assemble in the little log en- 
 closure was the youngest son of Harrison Fos- 
 ter. At the age of sixteen the youth spent 
 a year in the old McMinnville College, and then 
 studied for a year with Professor Johnson, of the 
 same institution. In 1872 he entered the Willam- 
 ette University at Salem, from which he was 
 duly graduated with the degree of B. S., in the 
 class of 1875. The same summer he returned 
 to the parental farm, and in 1878 located in Sher- 
 idan, where he taught school, worked in a ware- 
 house, and finally engaged in clerking. In Sher- 
 idan he married Edith LaFollette in 1885, a na- 
 tive of Dallas, Ore., and daughter of Capt. 
 Charles LaFollette, born in Indiana, and an early 
 pioneer of Oregon. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Foster returned to the old farm 
 and lived there until locating in McMinnville 
 in September, 1900. He has already accumu- 
 lated property in the town, and the sale of his 
 farm presupposed a permanent residence in this 
 thriving community of interests. His capacity 
 for public services found recognition in October, 
 1901, when, upon the resignation of County 
 Treasurer Rood he was appointed to take his 
 place by the county court. So satisfactory were 
 his services that he was duly elected county 
 treasurer by one of the largest majorities on the 
 Republican ticket in July, 1902, and thereupon 
 took the oath of office for two years. He has affil- 
 iated with the Republican party ever since cast- 
 ing his first presidential vote for Abraham Lin- 
 coln. Fraternally he is allied with the Masons of 
 Sheridan, and has been past master of that lodge. 
 Since 1873 he has been a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, and has been very active 
 
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 in both church and Sunday-school work. Three 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Foster : 
 Charles, Robert and Mary. 
 
 ALVIS KIMSEY. Although many years 
 have elapsed since the death of Alvis Kimsey, 
 there are many in Yamhill county who recall his 
 worthwhile endeavors while making a home for 
 his family in this then wild section of country. 
 Mr. Kimsey was born in Missouri May 26, 1816, 
 and owing to the death of his father when he 
 was but thirteen years old he was early obliged 
 to assist in the maintenance of the family. His 
 mother eventually married a second time, and 
 when his services were no longer needed on the 
 home farm he also married, taking for his wife 
 a Miss Simpson, who was born in Missouri. 
 The death of his wife temporarily shadowed his 
 life and left him with one small child, with no 
 guiding hand at the hearthstone. 
 
 Joining a band of west-bound emigrants in 
 1846 Mr. Kimsey reached his destination in Cal- 
 ifornia without any particular difficulty, and 
 once arrived at his new destination he had the 
 opportunity of serving in the Mexican war. Dur- 
 ing a part of his service he was a commissioned 
 officer, and his soldier days were marked by par- 
 ticular courage and devotion to the cause. In 
 1848 he removed from California to Oregon and 
 took up a donation land claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres on what is now called the Middle 
 Salem and Dayton road, about four and one- 
 half miles southeast of Dayton. In September of 
 the same year, 1848, he married Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Fulkerson Dorris, who was born in Missouri, 
 and whose husband died while crossing the plains 
 in 1847. When Mr. Kimsey purchased his claim 
 there was a small log house upon it and this 
 continued to shelter the family for a few years, 
 but subsequently he put up a more comfortable 
 and commodious residence. The discovery of 
 gold in California about this time enticed him 
 thither, but his stay was of short duration, and 
 upon his return home resumed his agricultural 
 duties. In 1855 he retired from active labor and 
 took up his residence in The Dalles, the change 
 being necessitated by overwork and responsibil- 
 ity. His death occurred in the latter home Sep- 
 tember 14, 1865, and was mourned by all who 
 had known him. At one time he took a promi- 
 nent part in politics, and served as sheriff of 
 Yamhill county, an office which he was com- 
 pelled to resign on account of impaired health. 
 
 Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Kimsey : Mary J., born on the old home- 
 stead, where she now lives, in 1849; Rachel 
 E., deceased ; and Wiley A., a resident of 
 Albany, Ore. Some years after the death of 
 
 her husband Mrs. Kimsey was united in mar- 
 riage with Willis Gains, who crossed the plains 
 in 1852. After their marriage they took up 
 their residence in Linn county, where Mrs. 
 Gains died at the age of sixty-seven. Two 
 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gains : 
 Holt is deceased and Anna became the wife of 
 John A. South, and resides in Linn county. Mary 
 J. Kimsey became the wife of R. W. Powell, 
 who crossed the plains in 1852 with his parents. 
 One child blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Powell : Addie, now the wife of A. A. Launer, 
 and they make their home in Dallas. Four years 
 after his marriage Mr. Powell died, and two 
 years later Mrs. Powell became the wife of H. 
 W. Peery. Seven children were born of this 
 marriage, of whom we make the following men- 
 tion : Minnie E., the wife of W. L. Jackson, of 
 Albany; Edward C, a resident of Linn county; 
 Edith, the wife of Ed Hoffman, of Oregon City ; 
 Amy C. and Claud C, twins, who are at school, 
 as is also Willie. One child died in infancy. 
 Mrs. Peery still owns one hundred and eighty- 
 nine acres of the old donation claim settled by 
 her father, and this property is classed among 
 the most desirable in Yamhill county. The family 
 have one of the finest rural homes in the neigh- 
 borhood and have many friends and well-wishers 
 in the community in which they reside. 
 
 J. L. HOSKINS. In an effort to maintain 
 the prestige of a fine old southern family re- 
 ligiously associated with the Society of Friends, 
 and in civic life identified with pioneering and 
 other substantial occupations ennobled by sterling 
 English worth, J. L. Hoskins, recorder of Yam- 
 hill county, has mapped out a career in harmony 
 with agricultural, educational and general ideals. 
 In accord with the workings of the twentieth cen- 
 tury philanthropic mind, institutions of learning 
 have come to be regarded as the medium through 
 which the good of the world is to be derived, and 
 this being the generally accepted theory, promo- 
 ters of education must needs be the chief factors 
 of civilization. It is perhaps in this connection 
 that Mr. Hoskins will be longest remembered, for 
 he has been one of the advance guard of the Pa- 
 cific College at Newberg, and has earnestly and 
 disinterestedly labored for the betterment of this 
 well-equipped institution of learning. 
 
 A native of the vicinity of Wellington, Clinton 
 county, Ohio, Mr. Hoskins was born March 20, 
 1846, a son of Joseph, and grandson of George 
 Hoskins, the latter of whom was born in North 
 Carolina, and removed with his parents to Clinton 
 county, Ohio, when a mere boy. The grand- 
 father later improved a farm in Clinton county 
 on his own responsibility, and there was passed 
 his long and meritorious life. Joseph Hoskins 
 
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 was born in Ohio, and from there removed to 
 Rush county, lnd.. where he farmed for many 
 ears prior to spending his last days with his son 
 in Yamhill count v. He married Sarah Ann Hod- 
 son a native of Clinton county, Ohio, and sister 
 of I. M. Hodson, of Portland, represented at 
 length in another part of this work. Mrs. Hos- 
 kins also died in Oregon, leaving four sons, her 
 only daughter, Carrie M., having died in Indiana. 
 Cyrus E.. the oldest of the sons, is a farmer at 
 Gold Hill, Ore.; A. M. is engaged in mining in 
 fackson county, Ore.; and Cyrus E. served in 
 the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry during the Civil 
 war, with his brother, J. L. 
 
 As has been the case in the lives of many 
 worthwhile men in this country the Civil war pre- 
 sented itself as a developing factor in the imma- 
 ture youth of Mr. Hoskins, and when not yet 
 seventeen, he enlisted in the Fourth Ohio Cav- 
 alrv. later consolidated with the Thirteenth Vol- 
 unteer Cavalry. He. was mustered in during 
 March. 1863, and was mustered out in Virginia, 
 in September. 1865. being later discharged in 
 Columbus, Ohio. During the time of his service 
 he participated in many of the important battles 
 of the war. including the Wilderness, Cold Har- 
 bor, the sieges of Richmond and Petersburg, Ap- 
 pomattox, and many others. The siege of Peters- 
 burg, on July 2d, proved most disastrous for the 
 regiment, for a roll-call revealed the death of at 
 least half of its members. Mr. Hoskins marched 
 up Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, when 
 peace had been declared, and this grand review 
 terminated his association with affairs military. 
 
 Saddened by his experiences on the battle field, 
 but with clearer defined ideas of life and its re- 
 sponsibilities, Mr. Hoskins returned to Ohio only 
 to find that his parents had removed to Indiana, 
 and were living on a farm in Rush county. He 
 joined them, and while assisting his father, taught 
 school for a couple of years, during the winter 
 season, working in the harvestfield in the summer 
 time. In 1&79, he came west to San -Francisco, 
 and from there by steamer to Portland, soon after 
 purchasing a little farm of fifty-six acres in the 
 brush near Newberg. This he proceeded to im- 
 prove and develop, and while engaging in gen- 
 eral fanning, has reaped a liberal income from an 
 orchard and small fruits, also considerable stock. 
 
 A stanch Republican ever since casting his first 
 presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, in 1864, 
 Mr. Hoskins was not particularly active until 
 1900, when he was nominated county recorder in 
 June, and elected by a large majority. So satis- 
 factory were his services that in 1902 he was re- 
 nominated, and re-elected by a majority of five 
 hundred and five, leading the ticket. His as- 
 sumption of office began in July, 1900, and will 
 continue until July, 1904. He is an ex-member 
 of the countv committee, and has attended many 
 
 conventions during his residence in Oregon. 
 Fraternally, Mr. Hoskins is identified with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having 
 joined that organization in the early '70s. He is 
 now past officer and past grand representative of 
 Willamette Lodge of Newberg ; a member of the 
 Encampment at McMinnville, and member of the 
 Woodmen of the World. He is also connected 
 with Shiloh Post, G. A. R., of Newberg. In 
 religion, Mr. Hoskins adheres to the faith of his 
 forefathers, that of the beautiful and impressive 
 Society of Friends. 
 
 JACOB GRAUER. At the age of ten years 
 Jacob Grauer came to America with his parents, 
 having spent his previous life in Germany, where 
 he was born January 31, 1856. His father, an- 
 other Jacob, was born in Germany in T823, and 
 was by trade a weaver, which trade he followed 
 for many years in his native land. He married 
 Catharine Grauer, a native of the same part of 
 the kingdom, and with her came to America in 
 1866, settling on a farm in Iowa. Here the 
 father enjoyed moderate prosperity, and here he 
 died at the age of sixty, his wife surviving him 
 until sixty-nine years of age. There were eight 
 children in the family, the order of their birth 
 being as follows : Mary, a resident of Iowa ; 
 George, also living in Iowa; Christ, a farmer in 
 Iowa; Lizzie, living with her brother, Jacob; 
 Jacob ; Kate, a farmer's wife in Iowa ; Adam, a 
 farmer of Iowa ; and Anna, deceased. 
 
 Until his twenty-first year, Jacob Grauer lived 
 on the paternal farm in Iowa, contributing his 
 share towards the support of the large family. 
 He attended the district schools as opportunity 
 offered, and his pastimes and diversions were 
 those of the average farm-reared youth. For ten 
 years after his marriage with Rosa Gutbrod, a 
 native of Germany, he continued to farm inde- 
 pendently in Iowa, and, in 1891, brought his 
 family to Yamhill county, Ore., settling near 
 Newberg on a small farm. At the expiration of 
 two years, Mr. Grauer bought a farm of M. S. 
 Sheridan, but after a year removed to the Raleigh 
 place, three and a half miles northeast of Sheri- 
 dan. In 1899 Mr. Grauer bought the farm of 
 one hundred and seventy acres which has since 
 been his home, and to which he has in the mean- 
 time added, so that he now owns five hundred 
 acres in all. Many fine improvements are the re- 
 sult of the good management and industry of this 
 enterprising farmer, his buildings, agricultural 
 implements and general farm furnishings being 
 the best known to the model, up-to-date farmer. 
 Mr. Grauer is independent in politics, although 
 he usually votes the Republican ticket. Office- 
 holding has never held any charm for him, as he 
 prefers to devote his time to his farm and family. 
 
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 He is a member of the Lutheran Church. The 
 following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Grauer : Louis, Anna, George, Jacob, Frederick, 
 Adam, Edgar and William, at home, and Carl, 
 deceased. 
 
 ABRAM COOVERT. Though at present 
 living a retired life in Dayton, Abram Coovert is 
 known as one of the broad-minded and energetic 
 developers of Yamhill county, and has been 
 closely allied with its agricultural, milling, edu- 
 cational and religious affairs. An additional dis- 
 tinction is attached to Mr. Coovert, growing out 
 of the fact that he and his wife, who died March 
 31, 1903, were undoubtedly the oldest married 
 couple in this county, and one of the oldest in this 
 part of the state. The parents of Mr. Coovert 
 were farmers during their active lives, and lived 
 for many years in Butler county, Ohio, where he 
 was born April 24, 1819. As his mother died when 
 he was ten years old, leaving six other children, 
 he was bound out to a family to remain until his 
 twenty-first year, at the expiration of which time 
 he was to receive $100 and a suit of clothes. The 
 consideration was fulfilled according to contract, 
 the youth in the meantime developing thrifty and 
 industrious traits of character. 
 
 Left to fashion his career as suited him best, 
 Mr. Coovert went to Indiana in 1840, and for five 
 years made himself useful to one of the wealthy 
 and appreciative farmers of the Hoosier state. 
 In 1845, ne married Martha A. Odell, a native of 
 Wayne county, Ind., and thereafter he made his 
 home in that state until 1851. He then prepared 
 to seek a home in the far west, and with two 
 wagons, six yoke of oxen and two horses, joined 
 a train under command of Captain Elder, and 
 spent six months on the way to Oregon, arriving 
 at Wheatland October 4, 1851. That same year 
 he bought a squatter's right to the farm which he 
 now possesses, located four miles southeast of 
 Dayton, and which was originally three hundred 
 and twenty acres in extent. Every improvement 
 on the place is due to the energy and progressive 
 spirit of the owner, who has kept abreast of the 
 times and equipped his place with all known de- 
 vices of a labor-saving and improving character. 
 Much of this property has now passed into other 
 hands, but Mr. Coovert still owns ninety acres 
 of about the finest farm land in the state of Ore- 
 gon. In 1857 he erected the first grist-mill in this 
 vicinity, and for many years this picturesque old 
 mill ground out flour and feed for the agricultur- 
 ists for many miles around. Located as it was on 
 the Dayton & Salem road, it was easy of access, 
 and became a common meeting place in which to 
 discuss the important happenings of the county. 
 
 An active politician during his years of great- 
 est activity, Mr. Coovert has at times labored 
 
 faithfully for the political advancement of his 
 worthy friends, although he himself has never 
 desired office of any kind. However, his active 
 interest in educational matters resulted in his 
 acceptance of a position on the school board, and 
 he has also served as road supervisor, thus filling 
 two of the most important and far-reaching 
 offices in the community. Mrs. Coovert had been 
 a member of the church ever since her fourteenth 
 year, and he has been similarly connected for 
 more than half a century, being still a trustee in 
 the church. In 1899 Mr. Coovert left his farm to 
 the care of younger hands, and retired, making 
 his home on the farm, and is now enjoying the 
 rest from care and responsibility which he has so 
 richly earned. Seven children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Coovert, named in the order of their 
 birth, as follows : John Q., deceased ; Sarah C, 
 the widow of W. D. Nichols, of this neighbor- 
 hood ; Mary E., the wife of John Lambert, of 
 Yamhill county ; Wilbur L., deceased ; Ida, wife 
 of N. Harris, and who resides at home with her 
 father ; and Henrietta and Ora, both of whom 
 are deceased. 
 
 CHARLES MITCHELL. When Charles 
 Mitchell landed in the United States, in 1884, he 
 brought with him a silver medal, which indicated 
 that he had come out first in a plowing contest. 
 This reward of merit was conferred in his native 
 country of Scotland, where he was born Septem- 
 ber 10, i860, and where thoroughness is the na- 
 tional watchword in all lines of activity. In 
 Banffshire, Scotland, the Mitchell forefathers had 
 tilled the soil for several generations, and here 
 the father of Mr. Mitchell owned a large farm, 
 and in Banffshire his mother is still living, at the 
 age of four score years. There were seven chil- 
 dren, who were left practically on their own re- 
 sources when the father died, at the age of forty- 
 six, but all had been reared to industry and fru- 
 gality, and their assumption of responsibility was 
 therefore less difficult than it would otherwise 
 have been. 
 
 Having arrived at the age of sixteen Mr. 
 Mitchell started out to make his living as a farm 
 hand, and for eight years was in great demand, 
 because of his excellent workmanship and con- 
 scientious application to business. Arriving in 
 America in 1884, he came at once to Oregon, and 
 soon after entered the employ of Duncan Ross, 
 near McMinnville, and afterward had charge of 
 the Ladd place, near Portland, for about nine 
 years. In 1894 he purchased the farm upon 
 which he now lives, and to the one hundred and 
 eleven acres has added by more recent purchase, 
 and now has two hundred and fifty-seven acres. 
 His industry and enterprise have resulted in the 
 equipment of the farm with a modern dwelling, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 convenient barns and outhouses, and the most 
 modern oi agricultural implements. He is en- 
 red in general farming and stock-raising, but 
 ins chief source of revenue is the raising of An- 
 gora goats. The year 1895 is recalled by Mr. 
 Mitchell as most disastrous to his prospects, for 
 he had the misfortune to burn out, and for a time 
 felt the weight of this loss. However, he has 
 mere than made up for the loss, and is to-day an 
 independent and comparatively well-to-do agri- 
 culturist. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Mitchell married Ellen Crim- 
 mins. a native of Oregon, daughter of John and 
 Jane Crimmins, and of this union there were 
 born six children : Robert, Raymond, Jeanette, 
 Cari, Lillian, and one child who died in infancy. 
 Mr. Mitchell is independent in politics, and be- 
 lieves in voting for the man best qualified to 
 serve the public interests. He has served as a 
 member and clerk of the school board, and as 
 road supervisor. The Mitchell farm is located 
 four and a half miles southwest of Amity, on the 
 Amitv and Ballston roads. 
 
 DUDLEY G. HENRY. Since coming to his 
 present farm near Salem, in Polk county, in 1878, 
 Dudley G. Henry has successfully engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, and now has 
 three hundred of his three hundred and forty 
 acres under cultivation. His property and its 
 appointments are worthy the progressive spirit 
 and practical insight of the owner, and speak 
 volumes for the untiring industry and thrift 
 which has characterized his entire active life. 
 Many of the present large landowners of Oregon 
 received their first impressions of life and work in 
 Pike county, Mo., and here Mr. Henry was born 
 September 20, 1843, a son °f John D. and grand- 
 son of Alexander, the latter of whom was born 
 in Yorktown, S. C. The grandfather was a sol- 
 dier in the war of 1812, and participated in the 
 battle of New Orleans, his death occurring in 
 Pike county, Mo., whither he removed at a very 
 early day, at the advanced age of eighty-nine 
 years. His son, John D., was born on a farm near 
 Xashville, Tenn., and as a child accompanied his 
 parents to Pike county, where he grew to matur- 
 ity, and wdiere he married Nancy Walker, a native 
 of Virginia. The parents eventually removed to 
 Red Lodge, Mont., where the father died in 
 1896 at the age of eighty-six, and the mother in 
 1900, at the age of seventy-eight. Dudley G. 
 is the third oldest in the family of four sons 
 and four daughters. His brother, W. A., an 
 extensive stock-raiser of the vicinity of Spokane, 
 Wash., is an ex-member of the Washington leg- 
 islature, and a prominent man in his district. 
 
 For about three months during the year Dud- 
 ley G. Henry attended the public schools in 
 
 Pike county, Mo., and at the breaking out of the 
 Civil war he was busily employed on the home 
 farm, being then eighteen years of age. In July, 
 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Missouri 
 Volunteer Infantry, and served for six months 
 as a private under Colonel Anderson in the home 
 guard. This service expired, he became a pri- 
 vate in Company D, Thirty-third Missouri Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, under command of Col. Clinton 
 B. Fisk, and went to St. Louis as a member of 
 Gen. A. J. Smith's Sixteenth Army Corps. In 
 this capacity he participated in many of the 
 notable engagements of the war, principally in 
 the battle of Vicksburg, the Red River campaign 
 and the campaign against Price, and he was dis- 
 charged August 23, 1864, and sent back to St. 
 Louis. Returning to Pike county, Mo., he again 
 engaged in farming on the old place, and re- 
 mained there until 186S. 
 
 The long water journey around the Horn was 
 chosen by Mr. Henry as the most desirable 
 way of reaching Oregon, and from Portland he 
 went over the mountains to California, where he 
 mined and engaged in the cattle business on 
 Feather river for about a year. He then re- 
 turned to Portland and went into Klickitat 
 county, Wash., where he engaged in farming 
 and stock-raising until 1876, when he returned 
 to me Willamette valley. February 22, 1876, he 
 was united in marriage with Nancy Walker, 
 who was born in Polk county, November 18, 
 1852, and whose father, Major W. M. Walker 
 crossed the plains in 1848. Her mother, Jane 
 (Mackey) Walker, is at present living in Salem, 
 Ore., and is eighty-four years old. Soon after 
 his marriage Mr. Henry took his wife to Seattle, 
 Wash., where he engaged in street contracting 
 and grading for a couple of years, and in 1878 
 returned to Oregon and purchased his present 
 farm of three hundred and forty acres. He has 
 taken a keen interest in the all around improve- 
 ment of his neighborhood, has been prominent 
 in local politics, and among other positions held 
 that of school director for man) 7 years. Hie is 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church at Zena, 
 and is an officer in the same, towards the main- 
 tenance of which he contributes generously. His 
 oldest son, Clyde, is a druggist at Evanston, 
 Wyo. ; Wayne is living at home ; and Worth is 
 a student at the Oregon Agricultural College at 
 Corvallis. Mr. Henry has excellent business 
 ability, broad-minded views of general happen- 
 ings, and bears a reputation for unswerving in- 
 tegrity in all his undertakings. 
 
 R. M. WOOLWORTH. A hop-raiser and' 
 farmer entitled to special mention among the 
 developers of Yamhill county is R. M. Wool- 
 worth, one of the types of men who have hewed 
 
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 their way through the world without much as- 
 sistance, either financial or influential, and who 
 are accountable only to themselves for their suc- 
 cess in a given line of activity. Mr. Woolworth 
 was born in Cortland county, N. Y., August 9, 
 1847, an( l comes of English ancestry authentically 
 traced back to the paternal great-great-great- 
 grandfather, Richard first, who was born in Eng- 
 land in 1600. 
 
 Calvin W. Woolworth, the father of R. M., 
 was born in Stratton, N. Y., his wife, Phoebe 
 (Lovell) Woolworth, being a native of the same 
 state. Through his entire active life the elder 
 Mr. Woolworth was a carpenter, and in 1854 
 crossed the plains to California, engaging in 
 mining for about three years. He then returned 
 to New York and worked at his trade until 1872, 
 in which year he removed to Michigan, and died 
 in Tustin, that state, in 1887. Of the two 
 daughters and eight sons born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Woolworth, four sons are living, R. M. being 
 the fourth oldest. Randolph is a resident of 
 Butteville, Marion county, Ore. ; Albert lives in 
 Silverton, Mich. ; and Dwight lives in Mt. Angel, 
 Ore. 
 
 A disagreement with his father when seven- 
 teen years of age resulted in the departure from 
 his home of R. M. Woolworth, who forthwith 
 removed to Schuyler county, N. Y., and lived 
 there for a couple of years. While there he 
 enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-first 
 New York Volunteer Infantry, Company H, but 
 was naturally too late in the service to participate 
 in any of the history-making battles. However, 
 he was sent south under General Grant, and was 
 eventually changed to Company C, Sixty-fifth 
 New York Volunteer Infantry. After being 
 mustered out in 1865 he returned to Rochester, 
 N. Y., lived there a year, and in 1867 went to 
 Michigan, thereafter engaging in farming and 
 logging in several counties in the northern part 
 of the state. In all he lived there for about 
 sixteen years, and, rich in experience, came to 
 Oregon in 1886, determined to henceforth exert 
 his abilities in the wonderfully prolific west. Mr. 
 Woolworth purchased his present farm of thirty 
 acres near Dayton, Ore., and has since cleared 
 one-half of it, seven acres being at present under 
 hops. Also he is engaged in general farming, 
 and his land has yielded him a fair income for 
 labor expended. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Woolworth married Eunice Doud, 
 who was born in Michigan, and who became the 
 mother of the following children : Mrs. Lena 
 Wade, of McMinnville ; Charles, a resident of 
 Dayton ; Grace, deceased ; Mrs. Mary Abdill, 
 of Dayton ; Hugh, living at home ; and Maudie 
 also living with her parents. A Republican in 
 political affiliations, Mr. Woolworth has been 
 
 school director for nine years in Oregon, and in 
 his old home in Michigan he served as constable 
 and school director. Fraternally he is identified 
 with the Ancient Order of IJnited Workmen of 
 Dayton, in which he has taken the degree of 
 honor; and with Upton Post No. 75, G. A. R., 
 of Dayton. 
 
 MONTGOMERY M. McDONALD, who was 
 born in Ohio in 1821, departed this life in 1876 
 and in Yamhill county, where he was living, his 
 death was deeply mourned. His father, Hugh 
 McDonald, was born amid the highlands of Scot- 
 land, and the grandfather left the land of hills 
 and heather with his grandson, M. M. McDonald. 
 The latter was in early life employed as a sales- 
 man in a dry goods house in Missouri and also 
 held a similar position in Kentucky. In his early 
 manhood he engaged in teaching school to some 
 extent. As a companion and helpmate for life's 
 journey he chose Miss Mary A. Hayes, who was 
 born in Westmoreland county, Pa., May 18, 
 1833, a daughter of J. L. Hayes, who was also 
 a native of Westmoreland county, and who fol- 
 lowed the occupation of farming. His wife, 
 Mrs. Julia Hayes, was a native of Maryland. 
 
 Mr. McDonald removed from Ohio to Ken- 
 tucky and afterward to Missouri. Later he took 
 up his abode in Iowa and began business in 
 Hollyville, Taylor county, in connection with 
 Nave & McCord. His wife removed from Penn- 
 sylvania to Iowa and it was in Taylor county that 
 they became acquainted and were married, the 
 wedding being celebrated in the year 1857. They 
 began their domestic life there and remained 
 residents of Taylor county for about five years, 
 when, on account of the failing health of Mr. 
 McDonald, they removed to Missouri, where he 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1866 
 they left that state for the far northwest, taking 
 a circuitous route, which led them by way of 
 New York, making the Isthmus of Panama, 
 thence over the waters of the Pacific to Portland. 
 On reaching the last-named place they at once 
 started for McMinnville, Ore., and in the suc- 
 ceeding spring Mr. McDonald purchased three 
 hundred and sixty acres of rich land about four 
 and one-half miles from the town. Taking up 
 his abode thereon he began its further cultiva- 
 tion and improvement, continuing to develop 
 that property through the succeeding ten years 
 of his life. In 1880 his widow and sons pur- 
 chased the farm of two hundred and twenty acres 
 upon which the former now resides. 
 
 Unto this worthy couple were born four sons : 
 William Douglas, who makes his home in Mc- 
 Minnville ; Robert, who is living with his 
 mother ; George and Henry, both deceased. Mr. 
 
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 McDonald was a prominent Mason of McMinn- 
 ville and in his life exemplified the beneficent and 
 
 helpful spirit of the craft. In politics he was a 
 Democrat, and his career was that of a good, 
 industrious, honorable man, who in all life's re- 
 lations was found true to duty. He passed away 
 in 1870, at the age of fifty-five years, and the 
 community lost a valuable citizen; his friends 
 one whose faithfulness was above question and 
 his family a devoted husband and father. 
 
 CATHERINE ELIZABETH STUMP. One 
 of the oldest living pioneers of Polk county, 
 Ore., is .Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth Stump, who 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 1844, en- 
 during with a pioneer's courage and patience 
 the trials and privations incident to the life of 
 the early settlers, and proving with the passing 
 oi the years her title to citizenship of this great 
 western commonwealth. 
 
 The father of Mrs. Stump, Aaron Chamber- 
 lin, was born in New York, July 4, 1809, and 
 removed to Michigan with his parents when a 
 young man, his father having settled near De- 
 troit. On attaining his majority he married 
 Catherine Mies, a native of New Jersey, and 
 after a time spent in Iowa, they removed to Mis- 
 souri, locating near St. Joseph. This city was 
 in the pathway of the western emigrants, and 
 it was only a short time until Mr. Chamberlin 
 was imbued with the idea of the advantages and 
 opportunities of the west, and after two and 
 a half years they joined an emigrant train drawn 
 by oxen, and started upon their journey. Dur- 
 ing the six months before they reached Oregon 
 City their greatest difficulty lay in their limited 
 provisions, but without other incident they ar- 
 rived at their destination a week before Christ- 
 mas, having left their home May 10. As soon 
 as the donation act went into effect, Mr. Cham- 
 berlin at once took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres, located south of Luck- 
 iamute, Polk county, upon which' he remained 
 until 1868, making a success of his western ven- 
 ture. In the last named year he went to Sonora, 
 Mexico, to visit a son, and while there he was 
 taken ill with the fever and died, March 4, 1869, 
 in his sixty-first year. His wife died on the 
 home place in Oregon October 20, 1883. She 
 was the mother of six children, four of whom 
 are now living, two daughters and four sons, 
 Joseph Chamberlin, Catherine, Ann and Enoch, 
 the third being Catherine, who was born in 
 Michigan, near Detroit, February 23, 1835. 
 
 Though but nine years old when the journey 
 was made to their new home, Mrs. Stump was 
 old enough to realize the trials and privations 
 which they necessarily experienced, and she 
 continued to bear with patience whatever fell 
 
 to her lot during the years in which her father 
 was making his competency. A very limited 
 education was received through the medium of 
 the early schools located in the vicinity of their 
 home, after which she was married March 10, 
 185c, to David Stump, who was born in Ohio, 
 October 29, 1819, and who, in 1845, when 
 twenty-one years old, crossed the plains alone 
 by cx-team and after his marriage settled on a 
 donation claim near Luckiamute, Polk county, 
 and engaged in farming and cattle-raising. In 
 his combined interests he met with most grati- 
 fying success, at his death owning in the county 
 twenty-three hundred acres of land. Not satis- 
 fied to be alone a financial success, Mr. Stump 
 gave much of his time to public works of va- 
 rious description, being actively interested in 
 the Christian College, which was organized in 
 1865, and also other notable movements, whose 
 aim was toward the upbuilding of the town of 
 Monmouth. As a Republican he ably represent- 
 ed his party in the state legislature for one term. 
 Religiously he was a member of the Christian 
 Church. His death occurred February 20, 1886, 
 at the age of sixty-six years. Of the four chil- 
 dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Stump, Mary S. is 
 the widow of Rev. T. F. Campbell, a professor 
 in the Christian College and for thirteen years 
 its president ; since his death his widow has 
 made her home with her mother ; Joseph Solo- 
 mon, a mining man of Nome, Alaska ; Cather- 
 ine B. also makes her home with her mother, 
 and John B. is located on a farm of six hun- 
 dred acres in this county. Mr. Stump had built 
 a handsome residence in Monmouth, on the 
 corner of Jackson street and College avenue, and 
 in 1878 had occupied it, giving to his children 
 the advantages of the college at Monmouth, 
 now the Oregon State Normal School, while the 
 two daughters took a post-graduate course at 
 Welleslev, Mass. 
 
 GEORGE T. CARY. A descendant of a de- 
 scendant of a pioneer is George T. Cary, his 
 father, Job Cary, being born in Yamhill county, 
 February 14, 1855, the son of Miles Cary, who 
 crossed the plains in 1843, m die interests of the 
 Hudson's Bay Company, settling in Yamhill 
 county, Ore., where he took up a donation land 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres near the 
 town of St. Joseph. Upon this claim he lived 
 for many years, rearing his family here, and 
 putting into the broad acres the strength of his 
 manhood that the tangled wilderness demanded 
 should a harvest time be desired. His son Job 
 worked with him until he was twenty years old, 
 going at that age to make a home for himself. 
 He first bought a farm north of Lafayette, which 
 he worked for some time, but becoming dissatis- 
 
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 fied he sold it, investing the money in the land 
 where his son now lives. He married Miss 
 Sarah Perkins, a native of the eastern state, and 
 of this union three children were born : Elm a. 
 Doney, of Lafayette; Edward, engaged in the 
 dairy business in Tillamook county; and the 
 youngest, George T., who was born December 
 29 of the Centennial year, and died February 13, 
 1903. 
 
 At nineteen years of age, George T. left home 
 to engage in the teaming business over the coun- 
 try, a business which at that time, though full of 
 hardships, still meant a great change from the 
 humdrum existence of life on a farm, he being 
 just at the age when he could most enjoy the 
 adventures incident to such a life in a new coun- 
 try. But having been reared with the broad 
 acres of harvest promise about him, the hills 
 covered with the life for which he must care, it 
 was impossible to keep away from the joys of 
 tilling the soil, consequently he came back and 
 occupied the farm which h'is father had bought 
 and which the latter now left, purchasing another 
 in the near neighborhood. Of one hundred acres 
 in the homeplace, forty-five are in active cultiva- 
 tion. Twelve, acres are devoted to the cultiva- 
 tion of hops, the remainder being utilized for 
 stock-raising. 
 
 December 5, 1895, Mr. Cary married Miss 
 Sarah Rogers, a native of Cowlitz county, Wash., 
 and three children share the home, Luvern, Leon- 
 ard and Sirene. Mr. Cary took pride in the fact 
 that he was independent of any political party, 
 voting rather for the man than the platform, be- 
 lieving that the greatest good will result for his 
 country in a ballot so cast. 
 
 R. W. McCALL. On the old farm in Mont- 
 gomery countv, Tenn., around which clustered 
 memories of his father and grandfather, R. W. 
 McCall was born February 21, 1851, his father 
 having been born on the same old landmark De- 
 cember 11, 1825. His mother, Martha A. Mc- 
 Call, was also a native of Montgomery county, 
 her natal day being January 22, 1825. She was 
 the mother of nine children, four daughters and 
 five sons, R. W. being the second oldest. 
 
 Although fairlv successful in Tennessee, D. 
 W. McCall realized the larger opportunities 
 which awaited the sojourner to the west, and in 
 1 85 1 emigrated with his family to Hancock 
 county, 111., where he bought a farm and con- 
 tinued to improve the same until 1865. Gather- 
 ing together the needful possessions he then 
 joined a caravan of one hundred and twenty 
 wagons bound for the Pacific coast, his own 
 wagons being drawn with horse rather than 
 ox teams. Dr. Goodwin, the amiable and help- 
 ful captain of the train, proved equal to his large 
 
 responsibility, and safely piloted his numerous 
 charges over the plains, arriving in eastern Ore- 
 gon September 17, having started out April 25. 
 Mr. McCall located in Union county for a year, 
 and engaged in ferrying on the Grand Ronde 
 river. In 1866 he came to Yamhill county, 
 locating on a farm of two hundred acres three 
 miles southwest of McMinnville, where he 
 farmed and raised stock until 1870. During that 
 year he became the possessor of a farm upon 
 which his son is now living. A few years before 
 his death, which occurred September 11, 1899, 
 he moved into McMinnville, and thereafter lived 
 in comparative retirement, his life rendered 
 lonely and purposeless because of the death of 
 his wife on the home farm in November, 1886. 
 
 Notwithstanding the excellent training which 
 R. W. McCall received under his father, he at- 
 tended the agricultural college at Corvallis for 
 a couple of years, and there learned of the prog- 
 ress attained in this most useful of sciences. 
 That this knowledge has been well applied is 
 evidenced to all who are privileged to visit his 
 well appointed farm, which consists of three hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, and which he inherited from 
 his father in 1899. Following close upon his 
 marriage^ in December, 1875, with Melissa J 
 Michael, born in Linn county, Ore., June 14, 
 1858, Mr. McCall remained on the home place 
 four years, and in 1 881 bought one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land near his present home, where 
 he lived until 1889. For the following six years 
 he rented land from his father, and then moved 
 onto a farm near by, where he worked and pros- 
 pered until coming into his present inheritance. 
 Mr. McCall is especially interested' in stock- 
 raising, and during the many years of his agri- 
 cultural independence has bought and sold many 
 head of valuable cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep. 
 Although not interested in politics aside . from 
 the formality of casting his vote, he is a stanch 
 supporter of Democracy. Mr. McCall has for 
 many years been an active member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South, is stew- 
 ard and trustee, and is at present doing excel- 
 lent work as superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school. The utmost respect and good-will is 
 evidenced towards Mr. McCall by all his asso- 
 ciates and his worth-while career is worthy of 
 emulation from many standpoints. 
 
 WILLIAM WESS, substantially identified 
 with farming interests in Yamhill county, was 
 born in Germany, February 19, 1847, his parents, 
 John and Kate Wess, being also natives of the 
 Fatherland. John Wess was a cabinetmaker bv 
 trade, and came to America when his son Wil- 
 liam was very young. After spending some time 
 in New York Citv he came on to Wisconsin, and 
 
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 worked at his trade in Milwaukee for the balance 
 of his life, his death occurring in 1852. There 
 were but throe children in his family, two sons 
 and <me daughter. 
 
 After the death of his father William Wess 
 lived with his mother and brother and sister, and 
 although they were in somewhat straitened 
 :ircumstances, he managed to receive a fair edu- 
 cation at the public schools of Milwaukee, and 
 to gain a slight knowledge of general business. 
 At the age of seventeen he availed himself of 
 the opportunity to serve his country as a soldier, 
 and in 1864 enlisted in Company E, Thirty- 
 eighth 'Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, as a pri- 
 vate, and was sent to Madison, then to Washing- 
 ton, and later to the front as a member of the 
 Army of the Potomac. He participated in the 
 battle of the Wilderness, Petersburg, Spottsyl- 
 vania, Appomattox Court House, Richmond and 
 mam- others, and was mustered out in August, 
 1865, thereafter returning to his former home in 
 Wisconsin. After attending school for a year and 
 a half Mr. Wess repaired to northern Wisconsin 
 and worked for several years in the sawmills, 
 afterward continuing in that line of activity in 
 Menominee county, Mich. . 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Wess came to Oregon, and in 
 Yamhill county bought eighty acres of land, to 
 which he has added by more recent purchase. 
 Out of one hundred and twenty acres in his 
 present farm forty acres are under cultivation, 
 and many improvements add to convenience and 
 profit of a general farming enterprise. There is 
 also an orchard of nearly five thousand fruit 
 trees, including both apples and prunes. In 1871 
 Mr. Wess married Sarah A. Coates, who was 
 horn in Xew York, and who is the mother of 
 three children, of whom Ira J. is a resident of 
 eastern Oregon ; Hugh E. is living at home ; and 
 ( iertrude O. also is living with her parents. Mr. 
 Wess is interested in various fraternal and other 
 organizations in which Yamhill county abounds. 
 A Republican in politics, he has served as school 
 director and clerk for a number of years, and is 
 also road supervisor. He is a welcome member 
 of Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R., and is past 
 grand commander. In religion he is identified 
 with the Christian Church and was its clerk for 
 several vears. 
 
 JESSE W. PUGH. The value of temperate 
 living and of upright business methods finds il- 
 lustration in the life of Jesse W. Pugh. who, 
 though eighty-five years old, still retains his 
 normal faculties, and manages his splendid farm 
 with as much skill as he did half a century ago. 
 The life of this honored pioneer, than whom 
 there is none more popular or influential in this 
 part of the county, began in Kentucky, October 
 
 26, 1818, and as a small boy he moved with his 
 parents to Illinois, soon afterward going to the 
 state of Iowa. The father was a farmer in 
 Kentucky, Illinois and Iowa, and led the strenu- 
 ous life of those clays. He was killed by light- 
 ning in 1822, his son Jesse being then four vears 
 old. 
 
 While on the home farm in Iowa Jesse Pugh 
 conceived the idea of joining the pioneers of the 
 western slope, and in 1846 joined a party bound 
 for the coast. With him came his wife, formerly 
 Sarah Ransom, who was born in England, and 
 who came to Iowa with her parents when she 
 was three years old. The emigrants met with 
 little trouble from the Indians, although one of 
 the men of the party, by name Edward Trimble, 
 was killed by a murderous red man. Mr. Pugh 
 and his wife spent the first winter in the west 
 at Whitman's Station, and in the spring of 1847 
 came to Washington county, Ore., where he 
 bought a squatter's claim and upon which he 
 lived for about five years. He became a resident 
 of Linn county in 1852, taking up the claim of 
 six hundred and forty acres upon which he has 
 since lived, and which is located eleven miles 
 south of Albany, and six miles west of Shedds. 
 Practically all of the improvements have been 
 made by the present owner, who has availed 
 himself of all known devices for conducting a 
 model scientific agricultural enterprise. More 
 land has been purchased by him at different 
 times, and once he owned eight hundred and 
 forty acres. His ranch is most complete in all 
 of its arrangements, and bears evidence of the 
 years of patient care which have been expended 
 on it. He raises large numbers of Shorthorn 
 cattle and Cctswold sheep, besides fine horses, 
 and grain. It is one of the model farms in the 
 county, and is exceptionally valuable from a 
 monetary standpoint. 
 
 From time to time Mr. Pugh has taken a keen 
 interest in politics, but has never been willing 
 that his name should appear as a candidate for 
 office. For many years himself and wife have 
 been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 and have attended regularly when the weather 
 and their health permitted. The little church 
 has been maintained largely through the gener- 
 osity of Mr. Pugh, whose influence for good has 
 been further felt in the educational matters of 
 the county. He is a stanch believer in educa- 
 tion, and in all that is progressive and helpful. 
 Seven children have been born to himself ana 
 wife, of whom Emma is the wife of D. Jenkins 
 of eastern Oregon ; James lives on a farm near 
 his father ; Alice is the widow of H. Wright of 
 Albany : Adelaide is the wife of H. Jackson of 
 the vicinity of Tangent : and Anna is the wife 
 of A. M. Kendell. near Shedds. Kindly in man- 
 ner and generous in his judgment of all with 
 
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 whom he has to deal, Mr. Pugh has always 
 maintained the most friendly relations with his 
 friends and associates, and no man in the neigh- 
 borhood more forcibly represents the substantial 
 and thoroughly reliable western farmer. 
 
 J. T. FRYER, who owns and operates one 
 hundred and forty acres of land in Yamhill 
 county, near Carlton, was born in Washington 
 county, near Hillsboro, May 6, 1858. His father. 
 John L. Fryer, was a native of Green county, 
 Ky., born June 30, 1823, and when a young man 
 he became a general tradesman and later he en- 
 gaged in farming. With his parents he went to 
 Missouri and then gave his attention to freight- 
 ing, making trips from St. Louis, Mo., to Santa 
 Fe, New Mexico. That was in the early days, 
 before the building of the railroads across the 
 plains, and such a life brought many hardships 
 and oftentimes was very dangerous. In these 
 pioneer times William Fryer, the grandfather of 
 our subject, also crossed the plains, making the 
 trip in 1852. He started with his wife and four 
 sons and three daughters. The three sons be- 
 sides John L. were Alex, James M. and Joseph, 
 Alex being the only one now living. John L. 
 Fryer was married to Mrs. Diana (Decker) 
 Landess, the daughter of John Decker, and was 
 born in Indiana, July 9, 1823. By her first hus- 
 band, Abram Landess, she had four daughters 
 and one son : Ellen, Mary Jane, Adeline, Martha 
 and George W., of Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Fryer became the parents of three daughters and 
 one son, namely : Sarah, deceased ; J. T., of this 
 review; Mrs. Angeline Edson, of Carlton; and 
 Mrs. Nettie May Edson, now deceased. Mrs. 
 Fryer's father and Abram Landess crossed the 
 plains from Illinois in 1847, locating in Wash- 
 ington county, near Hillsboro. When John L. 
 Fryer came to Oregon he took up his abode in 
 Yamhill county and in 1854 removed to Wash- 
 ington county, where he resided until 1863. He 
 then returned to Yamhill county and purchased 
 the farm upon which his son J. T. is now re- 
 siding. There he lived until his death, devoting 
 his energies to agricultural pursuits. He passed 
 away January 23, 1877, and his wife's death 
 occurred in April, 1882. 
 
 J. T. Fryer spent the days of his boyhood and 
 youth in his parent's home and when nineteen 
 years of age entered upon an independent busi- 
 ness career, taking charge of his father's farm. 
 He received his education in the common schools 
 and in the State University at Eugene, where he 
 spent a year and a half, being one of the first 
 students in that institution. Throughout his en- 
 tire career he has carried on farm work and hi? 
 
 careful management and supervision of his place 
 has led to the development of a highly improved 
 property. 
 
 In 1879 occurred the marriage of Mr. Fryer 
 and Miss Sarah E. Hutchcroft, who was born in 
 Wisconsin on the 7th of August, 1862. In their 
 family were four children, but one died in in- 
 fancy. The others are Harry L., Millard J. and 
 Robert L., who are at home. The farm com- 
 prises one hundred and forty acres of rich land, 
 of which one hundred and ten acres are under 
 cultivation. Mr. Fryer is now making a specialty 
 of the raising of hops, having twenty-five acres 
 planted to that crop. In his political views he is 
 a Democrat and has filled several local offices, 
 serving as road supervisor, justice of the peace 
 and in school offices. He belongs to the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen at Carlton, also to 
 the Artisans of that place, and is connected with 
 the Woodmen of the World at North Yamhill. 
 His entire life has been passed in Oregon and he 
 has therefore been a witness of much of its de- 
 velopment as it has left behind the conditions of 
 frontier life and advanced to a leading place 
 among the great states of the west. 
 
 P. A. BATES. Since his eighteenth year, 
 Mr. Bates has seen more even than the average 
 emigrant, of the boundless west, his life from 
 the time of his leaving his Michigan home being 
 full of incident and replete with interest. He was 
 born in Wayne county, Mich., April 26, 1832, 
 his father, Allen Bates, being a native of Ver- 
 mont, born in Spring-field, Windsor county, May 
 5, 1788, his wife, Anna, being a native of the 
 same place, born December 17, 1790. In 1830 
 the family removed to Wayne county, Mich., 
 where the father engaged at his trade, which 
 was that of a carpenter, until his death January 
 21, 1862, with the exception of a few years in 
 the mercantile business, shortly before his demise. 
 Of the ten children born to them, four are now 
 living, all at a distance from the home of their 
 childhood. Joseph D. is a farmer in Washington 
 county, Ore. ; Lydia A. is the wife of J. S. 
 Fisher, a farmer of Livingston county, Mo. ; 
 Ellen S. Kinney resides in Brown county, Kans., 
 and it was with this daughter that the widowed 
 mother made her home until her death in 1870; 
 the next to the youngest of the family is P. A. 
 Bates. 
 
 In addition to the education P. A. received in 
 the common schools of Michigan, he picked up 
 with unerring instinct the carpenter trade. At- 
 tracted by the reports from the west, with a 
 boy's intense enthusiasm he set out in 1850, for 
 California, going by way of the Isthmus of Pan- 
 ama. On reaching New York City he set sail 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 [or the isthmus, and on arriving he decided there 
 was opportunity in that little country, so he re- 
 mained for a year and a half, working- at his 
 trade. From the isthmus he came to San Fran- 
 cisco as ship carpenter, settling in Sacramento, 
 and during the prosecution of his trade it was his 
 unique fortune to measure the hives of the first 
 of bees ever brought west from eastern states. 
 Not yel satisfied as to his location for a home, 
 lie left California, coming by water to Portland, 
 and from there to Oregon City, where he took 
 up a homestead claim, leaving it, however, in a 
 short time for a farm near Forest Grove, Wash- 
 ington county, where he passed ten years of his 
 life, meeting with unbroken prosperity in the 
 union of bis trade with the tilling of the soil. 
 In 1863 he sold out, moving to Yamhill county, 
 settling' in Chehalem vallev, where he bought six 
 hundred and twenty acres, six miles west of 
 Newberg, remaining in this location for twenty- 
 seven vears, giving his industry and energy in 
 the improvement of one of the fine farms of the 
 county. With the proceeds of the sale of this 
 property he invested in a flour mill in Lafayette, 
 making good profits until 1899, when the loss 
 of the mill by fire induced him to again follow 
 agricultural pursuits. Near the city of Lafayette 
 he now owns four hundred acres of land the 
 farming of which he superintends, being also 
 engaged in conducting a warehouse in the city. 
 
 Mr. Bates was married April 22, 1855, to Miss 
 Nancy Bird, of Forest Grove, and two daughters 
 were born of this union : Anna S., deceased, and 
 Mary A., wife of P. A. Smith, of North Yam- 
 hill. After the death of his wife, March 9, 
 1859, Mr. Bates remained alone for nineteen 
 years, marrying the second time February 27, 
 1878, Olive E. Stout, a native of Kansas. One 
 son, Albert T., was born of this union. In his 
 political convictions Mr. Bates is a Republican, 
 serving as road supervisor and various school 
 offices through this influence. He is quite active 
 in church work, being a steward and. trustee of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lafayette, 
 and in his fraternal relations he is connected 
 with the Grange of Chehalem valley. 
 
 B. F. KAUFFMAN. For a number of years 
 Mr. Kauffman was a respected and worthy 
 citizen of Yamhill county and when called to 
 his final rest his death was deeply regretted 
 by many friends. A native of Pennsylvania, 
 he was born near Millerstown, in Perry coun- 
 ty. June 28, 1829, one of a family of five chil- 
 dren. His father was a farmer and in his youth 
 the son became familiar with all of the duties 
 and labors that fall to the lot of the agricul- 
 turist. He remained at home until seventeen 
 
 years of age, when he started out to make his 
 own way in the world. He had pursued his 
 education in the district schools and for many 
 winter seasons he engaged in teaching vocal 
 music, possessing splendid natural ability in 
 that direction. When a young man he was 
 engaged in the stock business, and to him was 
 due the credit of establishing the Nekoda post- 
 office. At that place he opened the first mer- 
 cantile store and also engaged in dealing in 
 farm implements. 
 
 Having made some progress toward the ac- 
 quirement of a comfortable competence and 
 feeling that he was justified in maintaining a 
 home of his own, Mr. Kauffman was united in 
 marriage to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, a native 
 of Pennsylvania. Unto them were born five 
 children, of whom James S., Clara E. and Al- 
 bert are all living in the Keystone state, and 
 William and Julius are deceased. While still 
 living in Pennsylvania the wife and mother 
 died, and in 1867 Mr. Kauffman was again 
 married, his second union being with Mary 
 Merideth, a native of Pennsylvania. They 
 continued to live in that state until 1880, when 
 they removed to Kansas and Mr. Kauffman 
 engaged in the stock business near Columbus. 
 There they lived until 1885, when they came 
 to Oregon and here he purchased a farm of 
 two hundred and fifteen acres, two miles east of 
 McMinnville. Upon this tract he placed all of 
 the improvements, building the largest house in 
 the locality and also a very extensive barn, in fact, 
 he owned one of the best equipped farms in 
 the neighborhood, it being one of the attrac- 
 tive features of the landscape and at the same 
 time the richly cultivated fields returned to 
 him a good income. 
 
 Unto the second marriage of Mr. Kauffman 
 three children were born, Herbert J., Cora B. 
 and Howard B., who are still living on the 
 old home place. The parents were devoted 
 members of the United Brethren Church and 
 their lives were in consistent harmony with 
 their professions. On May 29, 1899, Mr. Kauff- 
 man'^ labors were ended by death, but he left 
 to his family not only a comfortable compe- 
 tence, but also the priceless heritage of an 
 untarnished name. His widow and sons then 
 conducted the old homestead until March 11, 
 1901, when Mrs. Kauffman also passed away 
 and the sons are now managing the property 
 which has come into their possession. They 
 are extensive dealers in stock. and raise annu- 
 ally large numbers of Shorthorn cattle, Pol- 
 and-China hogs and Cotswold sheep. They 
 have recently engaged in the dairy business, 
 which they have instituted on an extensive 
 scale and their farm through their able man- 
 
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 agement has remained a paying investment as 
 it was in their father's time. 
 
 Herbert J. Kauffman is a member of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, of the For- 
 esters of America, and has served as trustee 
 of the latter lodge. Howard B. Kauffman is 
 also connected with the same fraternal or- 
 ganizations and is secretary of the Foresters. 
 Both brothers are independent in politics and 
 are well known business men, progressive, far- 
 sighted and energetic. Their business meth- 
 ods are such as commend them to the confi- 
 dence of the public and all who know them 
 esteem them for their genuine worth. 
 
 FIELDING D. STOTT, one of the pioneers 
 of Oregon who crossed the plains in 1851, and 
 creditably identified himself with farming and 
 other undertakings in Yamhill county until his 
 death, December 23, 1889, is recalled by all who 
 knew him as one of the most honorable and am- 
 bitious upbuilders of this part of the state. A 
 native son of the' Hoosier state, Mr. Stott was 
 born October 1, 1842, a son of Samuel R. and 
 Lucy (Denny) Stott, the former born in the 
 state of Kentucky. 
 
 Samuel R. Stott moved from Kentucky when 
 a young man, and was a farmer for many years 
 in Indiana. In 185 1 he started over the plains 
 with ox teams, and arrived at his destination in 
 Oregon without any out-of-the-ordinary experi- 
 ences enlivening his journey. Near Beaverton 
 he bought six hundred and forty acres of land, 
 which he occupied until 1861, and then traded 
 the same for an equally large farm on the shores 
 of Wapato Lake. Here he lived until his death 
 at an advanced age. Eight children were born 
 to himself and wife, four sons and four daugh- 
 ters. Of these, Mary J., Mrs. Myers, is de- 
 ceased ; Mrs. Avarilla Thompson is a resident of 
 East Portland ; Fielding D. is the next in order 
 of birth ; Raleigh and Frank are deceased ; Mrs. 
 Rebecca Ball is also deceased ; Samuel is a 
 farmer of Sumpter, Ore. ; and Frances is de- 
 ceased. 
 
 On his father's farm Fielding D. Stott was 
 reared to hard work and large responsibility, and 
 acquired his education in the public schools. 
 Upon starting out to earn an independent liveli- 
 hood he moved onto a farm near Wapato sta- 
 tion, and there farmed for about nine years, after- 
 ward removing onto his father-in-law Perry's 
 place, where he engaged in dairying and farming. 
 In August of 1878 he assumed charge of the 
 station at North Yamhill and for the balance of 
 his life acted as agent. He was a Republican in 
 politics, and was much interested in the cause of 
 education, his offices as school director and clerk 
 
 enabling him to exert a broadening influence in 
 regard to the schools of his locality. He was a 
 practical and successful farmer, and took his 
 place among the progressive and adaptive element 
 of Yamhill county. 
 
 In Washington county, October 1, 1866, Mr. 
 Stott married Mary Ellen Perry, a native of 
 Worcester, Wayne county, Ohio, and born Au- 
 gust 18, 1842. Mrs. Stott is a daughter of 
 Robert and Martha (Rossiter) Perry, natives 
 of Somersetshire, England. Mr. Perry emigrated 
 to America as a young man, settling in Ohio, 
 from which state he removed to Oregon via the 
 plains in 1852. He located on three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land five miles northwest of 
 Yamhill, and in 1855 bought a place near North 
 Yamhill station of about the same amount of 
 land. For the balance of his life he engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising, and was fairly suc- 
 cessful both as a farmer and business man. In 
 his family were two sons and one daughter, Mrs. 
 Stott being the youngest child and only daughter. 
 Thomas W. Perry is a farmer near North Yam- 
 hill ; and Johnson O. H. Perry is deceased. Mrs. 
 Stott still lives on the old homestead, and is one 
 of the highly respected and well known pioneer 
 women of this county. She has been agent for 
 the Southern Pacific Railroad at North Yamhill 
 for twenty-five years, and gives every depart- 
 ment her personal attention besides overseeing 
 two farms. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Stott were born 
 five children : Hazzard Stott, a farmer of Yam- 
 hill county and chairman of the Republican 
 County Committee ; Daisy M., wife of Everett 
 Bullock, of Portland ; Madge, deceased ; Olive 
 P., wife of Adolph Gabriel, of New York City, 
 and a graduate of the New York law school, 
 and in active practice in New York City ; and 
 Becca, wife of W. J. Partlow, residing with her 
 mother. 
 
 G. C. MORGAREIDGE. The Morgareidge 
 family has been represented in Oregon since 
 1875, and is associated with substantial efforts 
 along general farming and stock-raising lines. 
 The present chief bearer of the name was born in 
 Morgan county, Ohio, October 9, 1838, his strong 
 constitution and capacity for work having been 
 inherited from forefathers long engaged in till- 
 ing farms in different parts of the middle west. 
 To his worth)'- parents were born twelve chil- 
 dren, being evenly divided, six sons and six 
 daughters, and of this number eight are liv- 
 ing. About 1856 the family moved to Iowa, 
 and there heard a great deal about the prospects 
 of the west, of which they decided to avail them- 
 selves. Accordingly, in 1875, directly after the 
 marriage of G. C. Morgareidge and Elizabeth 
 
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 Harper, arrangements were made to join one 
 of the numerous caravans bound for the fertile 
 plains and valleys along the western coast. 
 
 Soon atler arriving in Oregon Mr. Morga- 
 reidge purchased his present farm, which orig- 
 inally comprised three hundred and ten acres, 
 and "then lived for a year in Portland, there- 
 after returning and settling permanently on 
 his farm. Practically no improvements what- 
 ever had been made on the tract at the time 
 it came into his possession, and the well-tilled 
 acres, fine residence and well constructed barns 
 and outhouses are the resnlt of unremitting en- 
 deavor on the part of a thoroughly practical 
 agriculturist and business man. About sev- 
 entv-five acres out of his hnndred and five are 
 under cultivation, and general commodities are 
 raised, as well as considerable stock. Six 
 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Morga- 
 reidge, of whom Oden is deceased; Anna is the 
 wife of C. O. Baxter; Raymond lives on an 
 adjoining farm ; and Dell, Nora and Wesley 
 are living at home. Mr. Morgareidge is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and in religion is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 MILES LEWIS. Prominent among the many 
 residents of Marion county, who are industri- 
 ously engaged in the prosecution of a calling 
 upon which the support and wealth of the nation 
 greatly depends, is Miles Lewis, a progressive 
 and prosperous agriculturist, carrying on general 
 farming and stock-raising on one of the largest 
 and finest equipped farms in the vicinity of Sil- 
 verton. He is a descendant of distinguished Co- 
 lonial stock, his paternal grandfather, James 
 Lewis, having been a second cousin of Daniel 
 Boone, and a son-in-law of John Couch, who 
 fought with Gen. George Washington, and had 
 the distinction of being the largest man in the 
 American army, at his death weighing upwards 
 of five hundred pounds. 
 
 Miles Lewis was born June 23, 1837, in Perry 
 county, Ky., a son of Daniel Lewis, one of the 
 early settlers of Marion county, Ore. Daniel 
 Lewis, born in North Carolina, January 23, 1807, 
 went with his parents to Kentucky in" 1810, and 
 was there reared and educated. ' Learning the 
 trade of a stone mason when young, he followed 
 it in Kentucky until 1840, when he moved with 
 his family to Piatt countv, Mo. Eleven years 
 later, in 1851, he started with his family for Ore- 
 gon, making the long journey with ox teams, 
 being one hundred and thirty days on the way, 
 and bravely daring all the hardships and priva- 
 tions incidental to life in an undeveloped coun- 
 try in order that his children and their descend- 
 ants might enjoy the comforts, and even the luxu 
 nes. of life without the labor and toil in which 
 
 his life was spent. Taking up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres in township 
 seven, eight miles southeast of Silverton, on the 
 Waldo Hills, he first built a small log cabin, and 
 as the years passed by and fortune smiled upon 
 his labors, that was replaced by a frame house of 
 more modern construction. Here he worked at 
 his trade, also carrying on the various branches 
 of agriculture, until his death, at the venerable 
 age of eighty years. He was a Democrat in poli- 
 tics, and a trustworthy citizen. When but sev- 
 enteen years of age, on November 18, 1824, he 
 married Margaret Spurlock, who was born in 
 Virginia, January 9, 1808, and then a girl of six- 
 teen years. They trod life's pathway together for 
 nearly sixty-three years, she surviving him a num- 
 ber of years, and dying at the age of ninety-one 
 years. They were the parents of ten children, 
 two of whom are now living, namely : Jesse H., 
 of Whitman county, Wash. ; and Miles, the sub- 
 ject of this review. 
 
 Coming with his parents to Marion county in 
 1 85 1, Miles Lewis has since resided here, and 
 has been actively identified with the agricultural 
 interests of the place. As a young man he taught 
 school for a number of terms in Marion county, 
 and has since evinced great interest in educa- 
 tional matters. Remaining beneath the parental 
 roof until after his marriage, he ably assisted his 
 father in improving the homestead, on which he 
 subsequently lived with his wife for nineteen 
 years, carrying it on with profitable results. Pur- 
 chasing then four hundred acres of the H. Jones 
 donation claim, about one-half mile west of his 
 father's old farm, he has added to its improve- 
 ments, and secured excellent results from his 
 labors, the land being rich, and under his man- 
 agement yielding good crops each year. In addi- 
 tion to general farming, Mr. Lewis makes a spe- 
 cialty of raising Durham cattle, Berkshire hogs, 
 and Shropshire sheep, meeting with good success 
 in this branch of rndustry. He invariably casts 
 his vote with the Democratic party, and is a 
 member of the Primitive Baptist Church. 
 
 On January 1, 1882, Mr. Lewis married Nancy 
 Jane Dillon, a native of the White river country, 
 Indiana, having been born June 15, 1855, and into 
 their household three children have been born, 
 namely, Isaac M., Lulu M. and Mary E. 
 
 DR. GEORGE W. ODELL. Although at 
 present living retired on a small place at Chase, 
 Yamhill county, Dr. Odel! has ministered for 
 many years to the physical woes of humanity, 
 and but for his own failing health would un- 
 doubtedly still be applying a science which he 
 adorned with erudition and true appreciation. 
 Dr. Odell is one of the many Hoosier citizens 
 who have swelled the ranks of home and fortune 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 seekers in Oregon, and his birth occurred in 
 Carroll county, Ind., October 3, 1838. His 
 father, John Odell, was born in South Carolina 
 in 1800, and died in 1869; while his mother, 
 Sarah (Holman) Odell, was born in Kentucky 
 in 1803, and died in January, 1887. John Odell 
 was a farmer during his entire active life. As a 
 young man he emigrated to Ohio at an early 
 day, but spent his last days in Indiana, where he 
 owned a farm of considerable size. 
 
 The third youngest in his father's family of 
 six sons and five daughters, Dr. Odell spent his 
 earliest youth in Indiana, and in 185 1, when thir- 
 teen years of age, started across the plains with 
 his parents, and a company consisting of the 
 owners of twelve wagons and their families. 
 The future follower of ^Esculapius entered 
 heartily into the novelty and zest of this expedi- 
 tion, and made himself useful in divers ways, as 
 only a sturdy and inquiring boy can. His father 
 was captain of the train during a portion of the 
 trip, and his place was afterward taken by one 
 Captain Allen. All went well as far as serious 
 trouble with the Indians or large loss of cattle 
 was concerned, and upon arriving near the vicin- 
 ity of Dayton, Ore., the father took up a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 upon which he passed the balance of his life. 
 
 When twenty-two years of age Dr. Odell be- 
 gan a self supporting existence by driving stock 
 to southern Oregon, after which hardening occu- 
 pation he began to study medicine at Salem, and 
 later at San Francisco. The medical diploma of 
 the doctor came from Willamette University in 
 1872, and soon after he took up his residence in 
 Lebanon, where he practiced with increasing 
 success for seven years. For the following seven 
 years he was a professional member of the com- 
 munity of Eugene, Ore., and then removed to 
 within four miles of Dayton, where large pro- 
 fessional responsibilities undermined his health, 
 and compelled retirement to a higher altitude. 
 Accordingly, the doctor removed to his present 
 home of forty acres near Chase, where he lives 
 with an older sister. The doctor is a Republican 
 in politics, and is fraternally connected with the 
 Masons of Dayton, of which he is past master. 
 Also he is the owner of a farm of one hundred 
 and eightv-two acres near Dayton, which he 
 rents, and which is devoted to general farming 
 and stock-raising. In 1870 Dr. Odell married 
 Mary Biddle. Dr. Odell is well known in his 
 vicinity, and bears a name identified with public 
 spiritedness. generosity, professional excellence, 
 and unquestioned personal integrity. 
 
 DUNCAN ROSS. Were one in search of 
 ideal general farming and stock-raising inter- 
 ests it were not necessary to go further than 
 
 the splendidly equipped farm of Duncan Ross, 
 situated four and one-half miles east of Mc- 
 Minnville, and containing in all seven hundred 
 and fifteen acres. Since coming under the 
 present management this property has under- 
 gone such vital changes as to bear scarcely any 
 resemblance to its former state, rebuilding and 
 additions having been unstintingly and con- 
 tinuously made. Six hundred acres are under 
 cultivation, and Mr. Ross farms about five 
 hundred and fifty acres. General farming is 
 maintained on a large scale, but the farm might 
 properly be spoken of as a stock farm, for this 
 department furnishes the greatest source of 
 revenue. In cattle a preference is given to 
 Shorthorns, and in sheep the Cotswold brand 
 is found the most profitable. That Mr. Ross 
 contemplates enlarging upon his present herd 
 of two hundred sheep is evidenced by the fact 
 that he has recently paid $165 for an imported 
 Cotswold buck. In horses, the ponderous and 
 finely fashioned Clydesdale yields a handsome 
 yearly income, and but recently a team weighing 
 thirty-five hundred and twelve pounds brought 
 their owner $475. Considering the fact that 
 Mr. Ross came to Oregon with a very small 
 capital his well deserved success and promi- 
 nence in the community are well worthy of 
 emulation. 
 
 Born among the hardy peasantry of Ros- 
 shire, Scotland, in November, 1847, Duncan 
 Ross was one of ten children whose father 
 was a blacksmith and carpenter. The lad was 
 reared in a practical home atmosphere, and 
 plenty of muscular exercise, wholesome food 
 and ordinary branches of study contributed to 
 a mental and physical soundness. At the 
 age of twenty-five he migrated to Canada and 
 managed the farm of Andrew Allen, of the 
 ship company lines, for about six years, and 
 in 1877 came to Oregon, where he bought part 
 of the Armstrong donation claim seven miles 
 south of McMinnville. Four years later he 
 engaged in farming on land on which the town 
 of Dundee now stands, and after remaining 
 there three years, purchased part of the White 
 donation claim four miles east of McMinnville, 
 where he lived four years. The present farm 
 of Mr. Ross came into his possession in 1889, 
 and of course at that comparatively late day 
 he was able to profit beyond the early set- 
 tlers, who were obliged to clear their land 
 from the timber. 
 
 An important factor in the success of Mr. 
 Ross has been the sympathy and encourage- 
 ment given by his wife, formerly Anna Mc- 
 Clennan, who was born in Scotland, and whom 
 he married in 1875. Mrs. Ross became the 
 mother of the following children : Duncan R., 
 deceased; Lizzie, the wife of James Cruick- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 shank, living on an adjoining farm ; Emily, 
 the wife of Fred McMikee, of Portland; 
 Rhoda, attending college in Portland: Lottie; 
 Anna; Alexander; Flora and Kittie. Mr. 
 Ross is identified with the Masons and Eastern 
 Star, and in religion is a member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church. To an exceptional degree 
 Mr. Ross occupies an honored place in the 
 community and he is recognized as one of the 
 best authorities on stock-raising and scientific 
 farming in Yamhill county. 
 
 F. M. GLOVER, who owns and operates 
 five hundred and seventy-seven acres of valu- 
 able land in Yamhill county, was born March 
 20, 1840, in Grundy county, Mo., one of a fam- 
 i!v of seven children, and a son of John Glover, 
 a merchant of Albany, Mo. The son obtained 
 his education in the district schools near his 
 home and remained under the parental roof 
 until he was fifteen years of age, when he 
 started out to make his own way in the world, 
 being first employed as a farm hand, which 
 occupation he followed in Missouri until 1864, 
 when he started to cross the plains. This was 
 long prior to the era of railroad travel in the 
 distant west and he made the journey after the 
 usual manner of the times — with ox-teams — 
 joining a train of about thirty-five wagons 
 which was upon the road for six months. He 
 first stopped at Virginia City, Mont., where 
 he remained for about a month and from there 
 made his way to The Dalles as passenger in 
 another wagon. From that place he proceed- 
 ed to Portland by boat, arriving at his desti- 
 nation with only ten cents in his pocket. He 
 came direct to Yamhill county and spent the 
 first winter with George Phillips, being prin- 
 cipally engaged in that season in hunting and 
 catching wild hogs. For a few years he was a 
 general laborer, but industry and economy en- 
 abled him to eventually become a landowner, 
 and he is now one of the prosperous farmers 
 of Yamhill county. 
 
 In 1869 as a companion and helpmate for 
 life's journey Mr. Glover chose Mrs. Sarah 
 J. Monroe and they settled upon a farm about 
 three miles west of Whiteson. Unto them 
 were born three children : Nettie, who is now 
 deceased; James A., who makes his home on 
 the old homestead : and Thomas H., of Hono- 
 lulu, Hayti. who is a member of the Sixty- 
 seventh Regiment Coast Artillery, United 
 States Army, having spent two years in the 
 Hawaiian Islands. In 1876 the wife and 
 mother died. Mr. Glover, however, continued 
 to reside on the old home place until 1897, 
 when he removed to his present place of resi- 
 dence in Whiteson, For his second wife he 
 
 chose Jennie N. Mills, a native of Kansas, and 
 they have one child, Mary Beatrice, who is 
 at home. 
 
 Mr. Glover owns four lots in the village of 
 Whiteson in addition to his valuable farming 
 property comprising five hundred and seventy- 
 seven acres of rich and arable land. He is now 
 living a retired life, his investments yielding 
 him a good income. From a very humble finan- 
 cial position he has steadilv worked his way 
 upward and may well be termed a self-made 
 man. His life history proves how potent in- 
 dustry, enterprise and careful management are 
 in the acquirement of success. His political 
 support is given to the Democracy. 
 
 JAMES MONROE CROWLEY, M. D. 
 The medical and surgical practice of Dr. James 
 Monroe Crowley was inaugurated in Monmouth 
 in 1 89 1. The doctor has many claims upon 
 the consideration of the community, among 
 them being the fact that he is a native son, and 
 representative of an influential pioneer * family. 
 He was born at what is now Crowley Station, 
 four miles north of Dixie, May 27, 1859, n ^ s u ^ e 
 beginning under conditions directly the reverse 
 of those of the remote forefathers, one of whom 
 settled in the extreme east long before the Revo- 
 lution, and participated with the colonies in the 
 effort to shake off English rule. The paternal 
 grandfather, John Crowley, was born in Ten- 
 nessee, September 27, 1810, and married Nancy 
 Jane Curtis, a native of Missouri, and daughter 
 of Elijah Curtis, member of an old Tennessee 
 family. Of this union were born three children, 
 among whom was Solomon Kimsey Crowley, 
 the founder of the family in Oregon in 1852. 
 The latter came west in 1864, locating first in 
 Polk county, and later in Benton county, his 
 death occurring at the home of his son at the 
 age of sixty-eight years. 
 
 Solomon Kimsey Crowley was born in Ray 
 county, northwestern Missouri, November 1, 
 1833, and was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Until 
 his nineteenth year he lived in his native state, 
 spending a somewhat unsatisfactory youth, and 
 looking always for chances to better his condi- 
 tion. His mother had died when he was a child, 
 and his father, when approached, at first re- 
 fused to sanction his emigration to the west. 
 Eventually he was persuaded, and the youth, 
 having a chance to drive a team across, started 
 out, encountering on the way many difficulties. 
 The year 1852 was prolific of disaster on the 
 plains, cholera and smallpox vieing with each 
 other in destructiveness. The smallpox was es- 
 pecially virulent, and the way of the train in 
 which young Crowley traveled was often blocked 
 by travelers burying their dead. Strong men 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 were bowed beneath the terrible sorrow of losing 
 all that they held dear in life, and mothers were 
 left with large families of children, or else ut- 
 terly alone in the world. The party crossed the 
 Missouri river May 10, and reached The Dalles 
 August 1 6th, having stopped nine days on the 
 way to nurse a sick child, and always rested 
 from their labors on the Sabbath, that the ani- 
 mals might have time to recuperate. Reaching 
 the Snake river, the cholera broke out, and the 
 camp was thrown into a panic because of the 
 death of three people within the short space of 
 five hours. Solomon Crowley, however, suf- 
 fered from none of the vicissitudes which over- 
 came the others, but was able to eat three square 
 meals a day, and had never a touch of cholera, 
 smallpox or mountain fever. He finally met 
 with a man engaged in packing to the mines of 
 California, and accompanied him thither, where 
 he increased his little hoard to the extent of 
 about $1,000. Mr. Crowley reached Oregon in 
 1852, and bought land in Fulkerson Gap, four 
 miles north of Dixie, and where Crowley Station 
 is now located. From time to time large tracts 
 of land passed through his hands, and he finally 
 became the possessor of a thousand acres. He 
 here lived and prospered, and in 1876 retired 
 from active life, his home at the present time 
 being in Oak Grove. Mr. Crowley is a fine 
 type of the early pioneer, and is a broad-minded 
 and liberal man, and has accumulated an exten- 
 sive and valuable property. In 1876 he took his 
 entire family to the Sandwich Islands, returning 
 in August of the same year, after having a most 
 delightful and instructive trip. 
 
 His wife was Hannah Rebecca Fulkerson, 
 whose father, Judge J. M. Fulkerson, was born 
 in Missouri, and crossed the plains in the early 
 '40s, settling in Oregon. He finally removed to 
 the Fulkerson Gap, named in his honor, where 
 he died in 1881, at the age of eighty-three years. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Crowley were born nine chil- 
 dren, four sons and five daughters, of whom the 
 doctor of Monmouth is the second child ; Mary 
 V. is Mrs. W. Faulk' of Oak Grove ; J. F. lives 
 in Seattle ; Nancy Jane is the wife of Milton 
 Taylor of Crowley Station ; S. H. lives near 
 Crowley Station; and Ada B., Effie L. and Ora 
 P. are living at home. Mr. Crowley is a Demo- 
 crat in politics, and with his wife is a membei 
 of the Baptist church, of which he has been a 
 deacon for many years. 
 
 In the fall of 1875 Dr. Crowley entered Mc- 
 Minnville College, which he attended for one 
 year. He then turned his attention to farming, 
 but having had from earliest youth an admira- 
 tion for and leaning towards medical science, 
 he began to study in 1884 under Dr. Lee of In- 
 dependence, in 1888 entering the Missouri Medi- 
 cal College at St. Louis, from which he was 
 
 graduated in 1891. The same year he came to 
 Monmouth, and, in order to keep abreast of the 
 times in his chosen profession, took a post-grad- 
 uate course at the Chicago Policlinic in 1898. 
 While living at Oak Grove, Ore., the doctor 
 was united in marriage with Emma King, who 
 was born in Missouri, a daughter of Andrew 
 King, who was born in the east and came to 
 Oregon in 1880. Mr. King located at Crowley 
 Station, of which he was postmaster and station 
 agent up to the time of his death in 1893, at 
 the age of seventy-two years. Seven children 
 have been born to Dr. Crowley and his wife, 
 the order of their birth being as follows : Es- 
 tella Katura, a student at the Monmouth Normal 
 school ; Azilla Emma, a student also at the Nor- 
 mal ; Graves F., also a student at the Nor- 
 mal; Douglas S., Wendell T., Norman G, and 
 James I. Dr. Crowley is a Democrat in politics, 
 and is a member of the Baptist church. He is 
 popular and enterprising, and his kindness of 
 heart, skill as a physician and surgeon, and 
 his many humanitarian and charitable acts are 
 well known throughout that locality. 
 
 SAMUEL M. DANIEL. In the estimation 
 of all who know him Samuel M. Daniel is a 
 typical captain of industry of the western slope, 
 his mercantile business in Monmouth contribut- 
 ing in no small measure to the financial sound- 
 ness of the town. No more familiar or wel- 
 come figure is seen on the streets of this thriv- 
 ing community, nor does any one represent in 
 greater degree the whole-souled interest which, 
 also, is suggestive of the west. A native son 
 of Oregon, he was born near Scio, Linn county, 
 May 14, 1865, and in his younger days laid 
 the foundation for his present sound physique 
 while rising early and laboring long on the 
 paternal farm. 
 
 Francis M. Daniel, the father of Samuel M., 
 was born in Crittenden, Ky., March 10, 1826, 
 and as a young man removed to Missouri, 
 whence started so many thousands of emigrants 
 for the coast in the early days. In 1852 he 
 joined a train bound for the other side of the 
 plains, and upon arriving at his destination in 
 this state, located on a farm near Dallas, after 
 three years removing to Scio, Linn county. In 
 time he disposed of his land and located in the 
 town, where he engaged in the general mer- 
 chandise business during 1864-5, under the firm 
 name of Daniel & Curl. Eventually he retired 
 from active business, and made his home on a 
 farm near Scio, where he remained until his 
 death, which occurred March 3, 1901. John T., 
 the grandfather, came from farming stock, and 
 lived on a farm in Kentucky for the greater 
 part of his life and lived to the remarkable age 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 of one hundred and two years. Mary Elizabeth 
 Daniel, the mother of Samuel M., was born in 
 Missouri, and was a daughter of Willis Gaines, 
 born in the east and an early resident of Mis- 
 souri. .Mr. Gaines crossed the plains in 1852, 
 his equipment being the old-time ox-teams, and 
 upon arriving in Oregon located on a donation 
 claim eight miles southeast of Scio. Here he 
 cleared his land and prospered as the years went 
 by, accumulating quite a competence for those 
 dependent upon his care. He lived to be more 
 than seventy years old, and during his most 
 active years was prominent in town affairs. 
 
 Besides Samuel M., there were five other chil- 
 dren in his father's family, only two of whom 
 are living, one being a daughter. Samuel M. 
 is the oldest of the children, and was educated 
 in the district schools, entering the Christian 
 College at Monmouth in 1881, and graduating 
 therefrom in 1885, with the degree of B. S. Be- 
 ginning with 1888 he engaged in the mercantile 
 business in Scio, which he continued until April, 
 1899, when he transferred his interests to Mon- 
 mouth, which has since been his home. He car- 
 ries a mercantile stock valued at $14,000, and 
 besides owns stock in the Monmouth Improve- 
 ment Company. An additional source of reve- 
 nue is a farm of two hundred and thirteen acres 
 half a mile east of Scio, a portion of which is 
 improved, and which serves as relaxation from 
 business to the fortunate owner. Other property 
 in the family is a forty-five acre farm four miles 
 west of Monmouth, belonging to Mrs. Daniel. 
 In Eugene, Ore., Mr. Daniel was united in mar- 
 riage with Verona F. Peek, a native of Junc- 
 tion, Ore., and daughter of Henry Peek, who 
 was killed in the mines when she was an in- 
 fant. Five children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Daniel: Norma E., Luella E., Lorena, 
 Clarence, and Edward Gail. In politics Mr. 
 Daniel is a Prohibitionist, and he has served as 
 councilman four or five terms. 
 
 JOHN DICKINSON. Though not long a 
 resident of Oregon Mr. Dickinson has already 
 made for himself a prominent place in the af- 
 fairs of the city in which he now makes his 
 home. His parents, William and Elizabeth 
 (Scarborough) Dickinson, were both natives of 
 Lincolnshire, England, who with their four sons 
 and one daughter emigrated to the United States 
 in 1 841, locating in Jackson county, Iowa, where 
 the father took up government land to the 
 amount of four hundred and eighty acres, upon 
 which he engaged in farming. Politically he 
 adhered to the principles advocated by the Re- 
 publican party. His death occurred upon his 
 farm in 1879, at the age of seventy-three years, 
 
 his wife afterward dying in Bridgewater, S. 
 Dak. 
 
 The fourth of the family of children was 
 John Dickinson, born in Lincolnshire, England, 
 March 16, 1838, and coming with the family 
 to America when but three years of age. His 
 early education was principally received at home 
 from the busy father and mother, with the as- 
 sistance of his brothers and sister ; at the age 
 of twenty-six years engaging in the work to 
 which his early training had inclined him, for 
 six years remaining in Jackson county, Iowa, 
 tilling the soil. Later he found remunerative 
 employment in conducting a grist-mill on Beaver 
 creek of the same county, and for sixteen years 
 he continued in this business. In 1881 he re- 
 moved to South Dakota, where he took a home- 
 stead of one hundred and sixty acres near 
 Marion, two years later disposing of his mill 
 in Iowa. For three years, 1877-79, Mr- Dick- 
 inson managed the grain elevator for the Inter- 
 state Elevator Company of Winona, Minn. In 
 1901 he moved his family to Oregon, where he 
 bought three hundred and twenty-seven acres 
 located six miles southwest of Independence, 
 Polk county, upon which he is now engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising. He has since 
 purchased property near the city, comprising 
 four acres of well cultivated ground, with a 
 beautiful residence and fine surroundings. Here 
 he now makes his home. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Dickinson united 
 him with Miss Elizabeth Chafer, a native of 
 England, who died in Sabula, Iowa. Six chil- 
 dren were born of this union, who are as fol- 
 lows : Mary, living in Iowa ; Harvey ; Percy, 
 and Don, of Oregon; Aloie and Elizabeth, de- 
 ceased. His second marriage also occurred in 
 Sabula, Iowa, Miss Minnie Cleveland, also of 
 England, becoming his wife. Two sons and 
 three daughters blessed this union, all of whom 
 are still at home, and are named in order of 
 birth as follows : George, Henry, Gertrude, 
 Belle and Queen. Mr. Dickinson is identified 
 with the Masons, being a member of the Blue 
 Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter and Eastern 
 Star. Politically he is a Populist and has often 
 been called upon to serve in public offices. In 
 McCook county, S. Dak., he was county com- 
 missioner for a term of three years, and has also 
 served as school director and road supervisor. 
 
 LYMAN DAMON. To have lived so well, 
 so successfully, and so agreeably as to have one's 
 name spoken with terms of warmest commenda- 
 tion and even affection by hosts of friends and 
 associates, is an achievement of Lyman Damon, 
 one of the pioneer upbuilders of Polk county, 
 and at present the owner of a little fruit and 
 
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 hop ranch of twenty-five acres across the river 
 from Independence, in Marion county. Mr. 
 Damon comes of farming ancestry, and he him- 
 self was reared on a farm in McHenry county, 
 111., where he was born February 20, 1849. His 
 paternal grandfather, Hosier, was probably born 
 in the state of Ohio, and at an early day located 
 in the then wilderness of Illinois, where he farmed 
 and prospered, living to a good old age. His son, 
 George W., the father of Lyman, was born in 
 Grundy county, Ohio, and with his parents 
 moved to Illinois when very young. After his 
 marriage he located on a farm in McHenry 
 county, near Marengo, and in i860 took up his 
 abode in Winneshiek county, Iowa, where he 
 became the owner of five hundred acres of land. 
 For .sixteen years he was a factor in the devel- 
 opment of Winneshiek county, and, after dis- 
 posing of his land at a profit in 1876, he located 
 two miles south of Monmouth, Ore., where 
 he engaged in farming upon three hundred acres 
 of land until his demise in 1884 at the age of 
 sixty-five years, his death being caused by an 
 accident while harrowing in his fields. Through 
 his marriage with Charlotte Levens, a native of 
 Pennsylvania, and who died in Oregon in 1886, 
 at the age of sixty-three years, seven children 
 were born, five sons and two daughters, Lyman 
 being the third. 
 
 Of an eminently ambitious nature, the youth- 
 ful Lyman began to realize his limitations on 
 the Iowa farm, and looked around for a broader 
 field. With a friend, Edward Snell, he preceded 
 his parents to Oregon in 1873, locating for a 
 year in Salem, Marion county, where he engaged 
 for a year in farming and trucking. Beginning 
 with 1874 he held the position of superintendent 
 of the Malheur Indian Reservation, and so suc- 
 cessful was he that his salary was raised from 
 $20 per month to $100 per month in less than 
 a year. After serving in this capacity for three 
 years, during three different administrations, he 
 came to Monmouth in 1877, and bought a farm 
 of one hundred and fifty acres of his father. 
 Here he lived and improved his property until 
 disposing of it in 1890, after which he located 
 in Independence, and engaged in the truck and 
 dray business for a year. He then purchased 
 a farm of forty acres one mile south of Inde- 
 pendence, cleared the land of timber and planted 
 hops, finally devoting sixteen acres to this hardy 
 growth. This farm 'continued in his possession 
 until 1902, when he sold out and bought his 
 present little property across the river from In- 
 dependence in Marion county. 
 
 In Salem, Ore., Mr. Damon married Nellie 
 Mitchell, a native daughter of Scotland, and 
 whose father, William, came to America about 
 1870. Mr. Mitchell located on a farm near 
 Dayton, Ore., soon after emigrating from his 
 
 native land, and here died at an advanced age. 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Damon, of whom Jessie is the wife of Oliver 
 Locke, clerk in a dry goods store in Salem ; 
 Grace is a telegraph operator at Salem ; Samuel 
 is a student in the freshman class at Corvallis, 
 Ore. ; and Nellie is at home. Mr. Damon is a 
 Republican in political affiliation, and for one 
 term served as school director of Monmouth. 
 Fraternally he is variously connected with the 
 lodges in which the town and county abound, 
 being a member of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows ; the Rebekahs ; the United Work- 
 men, in which he has taken the degree of honor ; 
 and the Knights of Maccabees. Aside from his 
 position as an agriculturist and general business 
 man Mr. Damon has been identified with certain 
 upbuilding agencies of a pioneer nature in this 
 county, notably in the early days when farmers 
 were struggling with the problem of rendering 
 their grain marketable. At this crisis he pur- 
 chased a threshing machine, which soon attained 
 popularity, and was very useful in facilitating 
 the handling of the enormous grain crops for the 
 following fifteen years. 
 
 JAMES A. GRIGSBY. One of the many 
 worthy citizens and capable and progressive 
 agriculturists of Polk county is Mr. Grigsby, 
 proprietor of a highly improved and attractive 
 farming estate two miles north of Independence. 
 A farmer by choice, he has acquired skill by 
 experience in the various branches of this im- 
 portant industry, and is meeting with deserved 
 success in his extensive operations. A son of 
 the late Benjamin F. Grigsby, he was born in 
 Meigs county, Tenn., December 23, 1848, of 
 Irish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, 
 Samuel Grigsby, was a native of Virginia, but 
 became a pioneer settler of Tennessee. Benjamin 
 F. Grigsby was born in Tennessee in the early 
 part of the nineteenth century, his birth occurring 
 in 1816. He has been a life-long resident of his 
 native state, and during his active carreer was 
 engaged in general farming, but is now living 
 retired in Meigs county. He married first Re- 
 becca King, who was born in Bradley county, 
 Tenn. She died in 1849, leaving three children, 
 of whom James A. is the youngest. The father 
 married for his second wife, Polly A. Owen, and 
 they have nine children. 
 
 After finishing his studies in the district school 
 James A. Grigsby attended Athens College, in 
 Athens, Tenn., for a time. At the age of twenty- 
 one years be began the battle of life on his own 
 account, becoming a farmer in his native state. 
 Emigrating in 1875 to Oregon, he located first 
 in Polk county, near Independence, and was 
 there prosperously engaged in agricultural pur- 
 
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 suits for fifteen or more years. Purchasing his 
 sent t'urm in 1891. Mr. Grigsby has since suc- 
 
 isfull) pursued his pleasant and profitable 
 ■pat ion here, making improvements of an 
 i xcellent character, and rendering the estate 
 of the most productive and desirable pieces 
 of property in the neighborhood. In addition to 
 managing his own farm, he also has control of 
 the Hurshburg farm of four hundred acres. He 
 devotes his attention to general agriculture, 
 making a specialty, however, of stock-raising, 
 rearing Cotswold sheep. 
 
 Mr. Grigsby married, in 1871, Miss Mary J. 
 Jordan, a native of Meigs county, Tenn., and a 
 daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Grigsby) 
 Jordan. Six children have been born of their 
 "union, four of whom are living, as follows: 
 Adra B., wife of Albert Dockster ; Robert C. ; 
 Savannah T. ; and Martha Jane. Politically 
 Mr. Grigsby is identified with the Republican 
 partv. and fraternally he is a member of Inde- 
 pendence Lodge No. 29, Ancient Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons. 
 
 HENRY FLICKINGER. For an example 
 of the prosperous farmer of the northwest one 
 need go no further than Henry Flickinger, whose 
 manv vears of good management have resulted 
 in substantial gains, and enabled him to live in 
 retirement with his daughter and son-in-law. 
 This honored pioneer of 1850 comes of an old- 
 time family of Lancaster county, Pa., where he 
 was born on a farm, January 27, 1830, his father. 
 Henry, having been born there in 1801. The 
 paternal grandfather, another Henry, was born 
 near Reading, Pa., and was of German descent. 
 The younger Henry was a tanner by trade, and 
 through his marriage with Annie Schnader, a 
 native daughter of Lancaster county, and also of 
 German ancestry, he reared a family of sixteen 
 children, four daughters and twelve sons, of 
 whom Henry is fourth, and the third in the fam- 
 ily to bear the name. In 1855 the father moved 
 from Pennsylvania to Stephenson county, 111., 
 where he bought a farm and remained for many 
 years, locating in the town of Freeport, 111., two 
 years before his death, in 1874. His wife sur- 
 vived him until 1893. attaining the age of eighty- 
 five years. She was born in 1808. 
 
 His father removing from Lancaster to Center 
 county, Pa., Henry Flickinger attended the dis- 
 trict schools as opportunity offered, and at an 
 early age learned the tanner's trade of his sire. 
 He was a strong and industrious lad, and am- 
 bitious withal, for w'hen twenty years old he 
 left home and started out to battle with the world 
 independent, of either money or influence. The 
 little which he had earned on the home farm was 
 expended for a ticket from New York to San 
 
 Francisco via Panama, and the trip thither had 
 all of the charm and novelty usual to one who 
 had seen little of the world. Arriving in San 
 Francisco May 8, 1850, he went at once to the 
 mines of Eldorado county, Cal., and met with 
 better success than falls to the majority who 
 stake their all on the prospects of mining. In 
 the fall of 185 1 he came by pack-horses over the 
 mountains from Yreka to Salem, Ore., reaching 
 the latter town October 18. Observing the ab- 
 sence of fresh meat in the mines, he thought that 
 to take cattle down there would be a paying in- 
 vestment. Having purchased his cattle, he re- 
 turned to California, and was so successful in 
 disposing of them that he continued in the bus- 
 iness for three or four years. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Flickinger married Martha N. 
 Pyburn, a native of Jackson county, Mo., and 
 daughter of Edwin Pyburn, who crossed the 
 plains in 1852. With his wife, Mr. Flickinger 
 located on his present farm of two hundred and 
 nine acres, where he engaged in general farm- 
 ing, stock and grain-raising, and succeeded be- 
 yond the average farmer. Some time ago he 
 handed the management of the firm over to his 
 son-in-law, H. Maxfield, who married his third 
 child. Lilie. Of the other four children, Caro- 
 line is the widow of Lyman Maxfield, of Cor- 
 vallis, Ore. ; Annie is the wife of Frank Brown, 
 of Airlie, Polk county ; and Elizabeth is the wife 
 of James Dalton, of Burns, Harney county, and 
 the eldest, Alfred, resides near Suver. Mrs. 
 Flickinger died at the family home on December 
 24, 1873, at the age of thirty-three years. Mr. 
 Flickinger cast his first presidential vote for a 
 Republican candidate, and has since given that 
 party his stanch support. Although in no sense 
 an office-seeker, he has served as school director 
 and road supervisor, and worked for the ad- 
 vancement of his friends. The Flickinger family 
 w T as well represented in the Civil war, for Oliver, 
 Charles and William, brothers of Henry, served 
 all through the contest, and as a result of wounds 
 received Oliver died in Linn county, Ore., in 
 1898. Mr. Flickinger has the respect and good 
 will of the community, towards the development 
 of which he has earnestly striven, and in his 
 character, attainments and general substantiality 
 is worth}- of emulation by younger generations. 
 
 MARTIN PARIS FRUIT. Although com- 
 paratively speaking the livery business of M. P. 
 Fruit is a recent venture in Corvallis, having been 
 started in 1900, the size of the patronage ac- 
 corded it, and the many-sided excellence of its 
 equipment and management would suggest an 
 enterprise of many years' standing. The Brick 
 Stables are the result of the consolidation of the 
 
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 Egglin stables, bought by Mr. Fruit, and the 
 stables of Mr. McMahan, at present the partner 
 and half-owner of the livery business, and they 
 are maintaining one of the finest livery establish- 
 ments to be found anywhere in the country. 
 
 A native son of the Golden West, Mr. Fruit 
 was born at Hellsboro, Sonoma count}". Cal., 
 February 13, 1862, and is of German- Scotch 
 descent. His father, Peter, was born in Indiana, 
 where he lived on a farm, and from where he 
 came to California in the historic year of '49. 
 After experimenting in the mines of California 
 for a time he settled down to horticulture near 
 the Red Bluff, and he was the first in his vicinity 
 to set out peaches, apricots and small fruits. He 
 had a fine orchard, which he eventually disposed 
 of, and engaged in the wholesale fruit business 
 in Hellsboro. In 1867 he removed to Oregon, 
 and for some time engaged in the stock business 
 at Brownsville, at present making his home on a 
 farm three miles from Crawfordsville, where he 
 is living, at the age of seventy-seven years. Dur- 
 ing the Rogue river war he acted in the capacity 
 of guard at the fort. His wife, formerly [Martha 
 Teeters, was born in Scotland, a daughter of 
 Henry Teeters, who settled in Oregon City in 
 1849. ^ r - Teeters was a stock man in this 
 state, an occupation which he continued after 
 removing to California, and settling at Red 
 Bluff. His death was a tragic one, and resulted 
 from falling from a horse. He is survived by his 
 wife, who is the mother of eleven children, six 
 of whom are living. 
 
 The third in his father's fa m ily, the liveryman 
 of Corvallis lived in California until 1867, and 
 then accompanied the family to Oregon, driv- 
 ing with horses over the mountains. He at- 
 tended the public schools at Brownsville, Linn 
 county, and when fifteen years of age found em- 
 ployment in the warehouse at Halsey, the same 
 county. For seven years he was associated in a 
 business capacity with T. J. Black, and finally 
 re^irned his position to engage in farming on 
 the old Wilson place near Halsey. Here he re- 
 mained for seven years, making quite a profit 
 out of the fertile farm, and at the expiration 
 of that time bought a farm of two hundred and 
 thirteen acres five miles south of Brownsville, 
 and at the foot of the Twin Buttes. Here he 
 lived and prospered until 1900, when he rented 
 his farm, moved to Corvallis, and engaged in his 
 present lucrative and successful livery business. 
 In Linn county. Mr. Fruit was united in mar- 
 riage with Emiline Michaels, a native of the 
 county, and who has become the mother of 
 three children: Eli Victor. George Henry and 
 Glenn. Mr. Fruit is a member of the Grangers 
 and the United Artisans, while the family is 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 South. 
 
 HENDERSON SIMPSOX. Another name 
 to be mentioned among those of the early 
 pioneers from the Mississippi valley is Hender- 
 son Simpson, who came to Oregon in 1845, m 
 company with his parents, growing to manhood 
 among the privations incident to the life of 
 the first settlers in a new country. He is now 
 retired from the active duties of fife and makes 
 his home upon the ranch which he purck 
 near Airlie, Polk county. 
 
 The father of Henderson Simpson, Rice W., 
 was born in Tennessee, reared in Alabama, and 
 on attaining manhood he removed to Arkansas. 
 In 1845 he followed the example of the many 
 other inhabitants of the Mississippi valley and 
 sought a home in the west, crossing the plains 
 by the route known as the Meeks cut-off, the 
 greatest difficulty experienced on the journey 
 being the lack of water. During the winter of 
 1845-6 he made a home for his family on Tuala- 
 tin plains, after which he located near Luckia- 
 mute, Polk county, where he remained for one 
 year. In 1847 he removed to Washington, lo- 
 cating seventeen miles above Vancouver, on the 
 Columbia river, his removal from this place be- 
 ing brought about by the report of the discov- 
 ery of gold in Cahfornia, whither he repaired in 
 1849 an( i engaged in the life of a miner. Re- 
 turning in the fall of the same year he pur- 
 chased, in the spring of 1850, a ranch of six 
 hundred and forty acres on the Luckiamute and 
 near Airlie, Polk county, for the sum of S200. 
 On this land he established a comfortable home, 
 and as the years have passed by and land in- 
 creased in worth it has become a valuable piece 
 of property". The remain in g years of his life 
 were spent upon this farm, his death occurring 
 in 1882 at the age of seventy-five years. His 
 wife. Rebecca, also a native of Tennessee, died 
 here in 1863, at the age of fifty-four years. She 
 was the mother of nine children, six sons and 
 three daughters. 
 
 The second oldest of this family of children 
 was Henderson Simpson, who was born in 
 Franklin county-. Ark., January 30, 1841, and 
 made the trip across the plains at the youthful 
 age of four vears. To the extent permitted by 
 circumstances he attended the district schools 
 in the neighborhood of his home, in his boyhood 
 vears, being trained to the useful and practical 
 life of a farmer. Some time previous to his 
 twentieth birthday he was engaged in farming 
 and stock-raising, and at that age he went to 
 Montana and was employed as a miner, after 
 which he tried life in the sunny clime of Cali- 
 fornia. For a brief period of his life he lived 
 in Lmpqua valley, and for one year in Tilla- 
 mook county. In 1883 he went into the logging 
 business, on Luckiamute river, from which he 
 has reaped the fruits of a laborious life, being 
 
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 interested in log contracting. In addition to his 
 home ranch he owns eighty acres located on 
 Ritner creek, which has not, however, been im- 
 proved. 
 
 Mr. Simpson was married in Airlie to Miss 
 Martha Faulkenberry, a native of Arkansas, 
 whose father, Hugh, of Tennessee, started from 
 Arkansas in 1853 to Oregon, and died while on 
 the way. He was buried near the present site 
 of Denver. Mrs. Simpson's mother was Sarah 
 Estes, also of Tennessee, and she ended her 
 widowhood by becoming the wife of William 
 Scoring, who is now deceased. He was born in 
 Ohio and crossed the plains in 1844 and located 
 in the Willamette valley. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Simpson were born the following children: 
 Jefferson and Hugh, deceased; Phy, a sketch 
 of whose life appears elsewhere in this work ; 
 David H., engaged in farming and logging near 
 Pedee, Ore. ; Lelia now Mrs. Hugh Hanna, of 
 Independence, Ore. ; Fain, engaged in the log- 
 ging camp ; and one child who died in infancy. 
 Mr. Simpson is a Democrat as to his political 
 preferment, and religiously is a member of the 
 Evangelical Church at Pedee. 
 
 JOHN REDMOND. Few men in Oregon 
 have done as much for the development of the 
 stock-raising industry as has John Redmond, and 
 for this he deserves credit, as the man who im- 
 proves the grade of stock thereby advances prices 
 and the entire agricultural community profits in 
 consequence. More than forty years have passed 
 since Mr. Redmond came to this state, and he has 
 therefore been a witness of the greater part of 
 its growth and development. He was born in 
 Ontario, Canada, August 26, 1839, upon the fam- 
 ily homestead, about twelve miles southwest of 
 Hamilton. He is descended from a prominent 
 family of Ireland, and the two Redmonds who 
 are members of parliament from the Emerald 
 Isle, are own cousins of our subject. His grand- 
 father. John Redmond, was a farmer, and spent 
 his entire life in Ireland. William Redmond, the 
 father, was born in Wexford, Ireland, and he, 
 too, followed agricultural pursuits. When a 
 young man he went to Canada, settling first in 
 Goderich, but afterward purchasing his farm near 
 Hamilton. That was then a new country, and in 
 the midst of the forests he hewed out his home. 
 He assisted in erecting the first three houses in 
 Hamilton, and devoted his energies to the culti- 
 vation of the land, which he had secured from 
 the government, until he had transformed it into 
 a fine farm. He wedded Margaret Buckley, who 
 was born in Newfoundland, a daughter of Daniel 
 Buckley, whose birth occurred in Dublin, Ire- 
 land, and who served in the English army. On 
 
 crossing the Atlantic to Canada, the vessel in 
 which he sailed was shipwrecked off the coast of 
 Newfoundland. For a time he remained in that 
 country, and then took up his abode near Hamil- 
 ton. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Redmond was 
 blessed 'with four sons and two daughters, and 
 with the exception of one son, all are living. 
 These are John; Daniel, who came to Oregon, 
 but of whom nothing has been heard for some 
 time; Francis William, of McMinnville ; Charles 
 Wesley, of Hillsboro, this state, and Margaret 
 and Mary Ann Smith. The father passed away 
 in the year 1865, and the mother's death occurred 
 in McMinnville. They held membership in the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 John Redmond, of this review, early mani- 
 fested the trait of character which has shaped his 
 business career — his love of horses. He was 
 reared upon the home farm in his native country, 
 and when not engaged with the duties of the 
 school, assisted in the labors of the fields, or the 
 care of the stock. In 1862, when twenty-three 
 years of age, he started for Oregon, making his 
 way to New York, where he took passage on the 
 vessel North Star, bound for Panama. Thence 
 he sailed on the San Diego de Cuba to San Fran- 
 cisco, and from there proceeded by steamer to 
 Portland, where he took up his abode. In Can- 
 ada he had learned the carpenter's trade, which 
 he followed in Portland for a year, after which 
 he made his way to the mines in the Boise basin 
 of Idaho, engaging in prospecting and mining 
 for five years. In 1867 he returned to Canada 
 by w r ay of the Nicaragua route to New York, 
 and thence to his old home. He purchased a 
 farm in the vicinity of the old family home near 
 Hamilton, where he carried on agricultural pur- 
 suits for five years, but he had become attached 
 to the west, and about 1873 he sold his property 
 in the Dominion and returned to Oregon, going 
 by rail to San Francisco. For a time he followed 
 the carpenter's trade in Portland, and in 1874 
 came to Yamhill county and purchased his pres- 
 ent farm of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 three miles southwest of McMinnville. He now 
 has three hundred and forty acres, and for almost 
 thirty years he has continuously carried on gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising here. He was the 
 first man to raise standard-bred horses. In 1878 
 he returned to Goshen, Orange county, N. Y., 
 where he purchased three stallions, which he 
 shipped to the coast, being among the first 
 standard-bred stallions brought to Oregon. 
 They were Kisbar, sired by Rysdeck Hamble- 
 tonian ; Durock Prince, by Messenger Durock 
 Hambletonian ; and Rockwood, by Truesdall 
 Hambletonian. Mr. Redmond owned these stal- 
 lions several years, and he has done much to im- 
 prove the grade of stock in Oregon, raising many 
 fine horses here. In 1899. however, he left his 
 
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 farm, and took up his abode in McMinnville, 
 where he now makes his home. 
 
 Mrs. Redmond was born in Scotland, and died 
 in Yamhill county, leaving three children : Wes- 
 ley, Mina and Roy. In his fraternal relations 
 Mr. Redmond is a Mason, belonging to Union 
 Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., of which he is a' past 
 master; Taylor Chapter No. 16, R. A. M., of 
 which he is a past high priest; Hodson Council 
 No. i, R. & S. M. ; Oregon Commanderv No. i, 
 K. T. ; Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. ; and the Ore- 
 gon Order of the High Priesthood. He is like- 
 wise connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. For forty years he was a member of 
 the Episcopal Church, but as there was no con- 
 gregation of that denomination in McMinnville 
 he is now connected with the Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian Church. His political support is given 
 to the Republican party. Mr. Redmond is a 
 high-minded and liberal man, prominent in pub- 
 lic affairs, and all recognize his devotion to the 
 best interests of his adopted county and state. 
 
 ALPHONSO WEBSTER STANARD. 
 Owning and occupying one of the pleasantest 
 and most desirable homesteads of Linn county 
 is A. W. Stanard, of Brownsville, who is dis- 
 tinguished not only as one of the original set- 
 tlers of this section of the county, but as a vet- 
 eran of the Rogue River Indian war. His land 
 is under a high state of cultivation, and, with 
 its comfortable and convenient farm buildings 
 and their neat and tasteful surroundings, in- 
 variably attracts the attention of the passer-by, 
 and bears speaking evidence of the thrift and 
 good management of the proprietor. He comes 
 of a New England family of worth and sta- 
 bility, and was born April 24, 1829, in New- 
 port, N. H, the home of many of his ancestors. 
 
 Removing with his parents to Van Buren 
 county, Iowa, when a lad of seven years, Mr. 
 Stanard was brought up on the farm which his 
 father bought, and was educated in the common 
 schools. During the winter of 185 1 and 1852 
 he taught school near the town of Bonaparte, 
 Iowa. In the spring, impelled by the restless 
 American spirit that led so many to seek new lo- 
 cations in the wild lands of this section of the 
 Union, he started for Oregon. Joining Clay- 
 bourn Hill's train, he drove an ox-team across 
 the plains, being six months on the way, be- 
 fore he reached Linn county. The trip was an 
 eventful one for him, as during the journey he 
 fell in love with Mr. Hill's daughter, Eliza J. 
 Hill, wooing her so earnestly that he won her 
 love in return, and. having gained the consent 
 of her father, married her in the fall of 1852, 
 soon after their arrival in Oregon. Taking up 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 
 acres in November, 1852, Mr. Stanard erected 
 a one-room log house, in which he and his bride 
 set up housekeeping. Clearing and improving 
 a homestead, he carried on general farming most 
 successfully, in the course of time erecting his 
 present residence, and other necessary build- 
 ings. With the exception of two years, from 
 1866 until 1868, when he served as county clerk 
 of Linn county, and the following three years, 
 when he was engaged in mercantile business in 
 Albany, and where, in 1868, he was elected' rep- 
 resentative to the state legislature as the nomi- 
 nee of the Democratic party, and in 1870 re- 
 elected, serving two terms, Mr. Stanard has de- 
 voted his entire attention to agricultural pur- 
 suits, becoming exceedingly prosperous in his 
 operations. A man of practical judgment and 
 executive ability, he served as mayor of Albany 
 during two of the five years that he resided in 
 that city, rendering efficient service while filling 
 that office. 
 
 During the Indian troubles of 1855 an d l ^>5^> 
 Mr. Stanard enlisted, in the fall of 1855, in 
 Captain Keeney's company, Second Regiment 
 of the Oregon Mounted Volunteers, and was 
 elected first lieutenant of his company by his 
 comrades. After serving three months in the 
 Rogue River campaign, he was discharged, and 
 returned to his home. Re-enlisting in the spring 
 of 1856 in the same regiment, he was made 
 orderly sergeant of Captain Blakeley's com- 
 pany, and again spent three months in the Rogue 
 River country, serving as long as his services 
 were needed. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Stanard's first wife died, leav- 
 ing his hearthstone desolate. Two years later, 
 in the fall of 1856, Mr. Stanard married Eliza- 
 beth Hill, a sister of his first wife. Of his first 
 union one child was born, named Melissa, who 
 is deceased. By his second marriage there were 
 ten children, three of whom have passed away : 
 Clara, Frederick and Bert. Those living are 
 William Obed, Charles Edwin, George Clay- 
 bourn, Harvey Alfred, Frank Coleman, Idilla, 
 wife of A. S. McDonald of The Dalles, and Min- 
 nie, living at home. Politically Mr. Stanard 
 was for many years an adherent of the Demo- 
 cratic party, but is now a sturdy supporter of 
 the principles of the Prohibition party, which in 
 1902 nominated him for the state legislature. 
 He is a consistent member of the Baptist Church, 
 with which he has been identified for fifty-one 
 years, and in which he has served as clerk and 
 deacon for many years. Mr. Stanard is a 
 brother of E. -O. Stanard of St. Louis, who was 
 at one time lieutenant governor of Missouri and 
 served as representative in congress from that 
 state. He is one of the best known residents 
 of St. Louis, where he has extensive milling in- 
 terests. 
 
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 ADDISON P. BLACKBURN. Two and a 
 half miles cast of Plainview lives Addison P. 
 Blackburn, owner of a farm of four hundred 
 acres in the valley, and of four hundred acres 
 in the mountains. An inspection of this proper- 
 ty is both interesting and instructive, for the 
 owner, a self-made man in the truest and fullest 
 sense of the word, is a keen appreciator of 
 country life, and brings to his aid those scien- 
 tific and modern devices which distinguish the 
 successful and progressive from the conserva- 
 tive and less ambitious farmer. 
 
 Born in Clinton, Monroe county, Mo., May 
 i j, 1844, a son of Robert and Salissa (Pollard) 
 Blackburn Mr. Blackburn was educated in the 
 public schools, and was reared in a family where 
 industry and moral rectitude were of prime im- 
 portance. His uneventful youth welcomed the 
 outbreak of the Civil war as an opportunity in 
 which to try his mettle, and with the first call to 
 amis he enlisted in September, 1861, under Gen- 
 eral Price, with whom he afterward served as 
 orderly, and whose banner he followed until 
 defeat overcame the brave little band. After 
 six months in the field Mr. Blackburn located 
 on a farm in Hancock county, 111., where he 
 met and married, July 3, 1864, Arabella Wood- 
 worth, daughter of Hiram and Polly (Glenn) 
 Woodworth. Two years later he moved back 
 to Missouri and settled in Saline county, pur- 
 chasing the farm upon which he lived until 
 1877. The same year he came to Oregon and 
 spent several months in investigating different 
 parts of the state, finally settling on a farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres in Linn county. 
 Purchasing his present home farm in 1883 he 
 lived thereon until 1898, in which year he moved 
 to Lebanon, remained four years, and then re- 
 turned to the old place. On his home and 
 mountain farm he raises large numbers of high- 
 grade cattle and sheep, and is unquestionably 
 one of the best judges of stock in the county. 
 
 Executive ability has made of Mr. Blackburn 
 a welcome addition to the social, political and 
 business element of the county, and few efforts 
 at advancement but receive his stamp of ap- 
 proval or are aided by his practical assistance. 
 For many years he has been prominent among 
 the Odd Fellows, and is a member of Lebanon 
 Lodge No. 47, Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, of which he is nobie grand and treasurer, 
 and which he represented at the Grand Lodge 
 in 1902. Mr. Blackburn has been a member of 
 the Presbyterian church since his youth, has in- 
 variably supported it with his means and active 
 interest, and has been an elder in the church 
 for many years. He is a man of strict integrity 
 and upright character, and his place among the 
 upbuilders of this section is an assured one. 
 To him and his wife ten children have been 
 
 born, named as follows in the order of their 
 birth: Luella, deceased, wife of H. E. Heller 
 of Pendleton, Ore. ; Lester, of Umatilla county, 
 Ore. ; Jennie, wife of Edgar Nichols of Leban- 
 on, Ore. ; Horace Eli, of Brownsville, Ore. ; 
 Minnie, wife of L. H. Fletcher of Lebanon, 
 Ore. ; Charles, deceased ; John, of Pilot Rock, 
 Umatilla county, Ore. ; Walter, Edith and 
 Ethel, all residing with their parents. 
 
 WILLIAM M. DAVIDSON. The landed 
 possessions of William M. Davidson in Linn 
 county include the home farm of three hundred 
 and seventy acres, where he is engaged in gen- 
 eral farming, and a foot-hill farm of four hun- 
 dred and eighty acres where he raises large 
 numbers of stock. The home farm has all those 
 aids to scientific and modern farming and to 
 up-to-date and comfortable living, which dis- 
 tinguish the progressive farmer. His dwelling, 
 barns, fences, shrubbery, plants, trees, and gen- 
 eral adornments, constitute a beautiful as well 
 as productive possession. 
 
 The early life of this substantial and popu- 
 lar farmer was passed in Fulton county, Ind., 
 where he was born April 8, 1845, a son OI 
 Henry and Sarah (Montgomery) Davidson, 
 natives of Ohio, and born respectively May 28, 
 1818, and December 27, 1824. Of Scotch-Irish 
 descent, Henry Davidson inherited the thrift and 
 resource of this combined ancestry, and made a 
 corresponding success of his life. As a young 
 man twenty-one years of age he left home and 
 went to Fulton county, Ind., where he began 
 farming for himself, and married in 1841 and 
 remained there until 1852, when he came to 
 Oregon, thereafter settling the first winter on 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres three miles north of Halsey. In 1876 he 
 moved into the town of Halsey, retired per- 
 manently from active life, and died in 1894, be- 
 ing survived by his wife, who still makes Hal- 
 sey her home. William M. is the second in 
 order of birth of the four children in the family, 
 Mrs. H. M. Murphy, the oldest daughter, being 
 a resident of Independence, Ore. ; Theodora, 
 living near Eugene in Lane county ; and Mary, 
 the wife of R. Cunningham, living in Lebanon, 
 Linn county. 
 
 His father's success and his own industry 
 permitted of more than the average education 
 for William Davidson, and from the public 
 schools he went to the Christian College at 
 Monmouth, which he attended during the sea- 
 sons of 1863-64. Leaving college he went 
 to eastern Oregon and engaged in stock-raising. 
 In 1866 he returned to Linn county and the 
 following year bought a place two miles and a 
 half east of Harrisburg, remaining thereon un- 
 
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 til the fall of 1874. He then sold his farm and 
 bought his present home five miles east of Har- 
 risburg, which he has since converted into one 
 of the very valuable and desirable properties in 
 this county. In June, 1867, Mr. Davidson mar- 
 ried Rosetta Morris, who was born in Missouri, 
 October 24, 1848, a daughter of George G. Mor- 
 ris, who crossed the plains in 1853, and settled 
 two miles southwest of Harrisburg. Of the 
 eight children born of this union six are living, 
 Clara, the oldest daughter, being the wife of 
 Clyde McCoy of Harrisburg; Bruce H. is liv- 
 ing at home; Elsie is the wife of George Pugh 
 of Brownsville, Ore.; John H. is a resident of 
 Rowland, Ore. ; Oril E. is a citizen of Cor- 
 vallis, Ore. ; and Lydia is living at home. Mr. 
 Davidson is a Republican in political affiliation, 
 and has served acceptably as school director and 
 clerk for a number of years. He is a member 
 and active worker in the Christian Church ,and 
 is at present a deacon. He is one of the broad- 
 minded and liberal farmers of this vicinity, and 
 numbers his friends and well-wishers by the 
 score. 
 
 WINFIELD S. GARDNER. The old-time 
 photographer, with his genius for exact imita- 
 tion, and his appalling ignorance of light, shade 
 and color effects, has long since been relegated 
 to the limbo of things obsolete. In his place has 
 arisen a successor who, in his best form, is some- 
 thing more than a reproducer, and who ofttimes 
 has at his command more resources than has the 
 painter or sculptor. More and more is photog- 
 raphy regarded as an all-important and distinct 
 art in itself, and its proper and most successful 
 practice demands of its devotees a spirit and 
 ability in harmony with its own infinite possi- 
 bilities. W. S. Gardner, of Corvallis, is credited 
 with being an especially keen appreciator of his 
 art, and the work so zealously prosecuted in his 
 modern and well-equipped studios bespeaks the 
 mind and heart not entirely given over to the 
 money-making phase of his calling. Though 
 making a specialty of his college trade, which 
 in itself constitutes a liberal yearly income, Mr. 
 Gardner has done much to perpetuate the 
 beauties of nature found in this valley, and his 
 photographs and views find their way to all 
 parts of the world, and are admired as specimens 
 of 'the highest development in photographic re- 
 production. 
 
 A native of Tioga county, Pa., Mr. Gardner 
 was born November 30, 1863, his father, Thomas, 
 being a native of New York state. A carpenter 
 and builder by trade, the father brought his 
 family to Oregon in the fall of 1876, settling in 
 Salem, where he plied his trade up to the time 
 of his death, June 10, 1885. His wife, formerly 
 
 Sarah Cornelia Cole, and who is now living 
 in California, is the mother of five children, all 
 of whom are living, three being in California 
 and two in Oregon, W. S. being the second child; 
 Arthur is a plumber, in Sebastapol, Cal. ; Capitola 
 is the wife of John Hulburt, of Benton county; 
 Van Ness lives in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, 
 Cal., and is engaged in horticulture ; and May 
 is Mrs. Homer Donten, of Woodland, Cal. 
 
 Thirteen years of age when the family fortunes 
 were shifted to the northwest, W. S. Gardner 
 had the advantages of the public schools of both 
 Pennsylvania and Oregon, and when fifteen 
 years of age, in 1878, began to look around for 
 a means of livelihood. Realizing that congenial 
 work means successful, and having an artistic 
 and high-strung nature, he seemed to see in a 
 dim sort of way the possibilities which opened 
 before the student of photography. Accord- 
 ingly, he began to study with W. P. Johnson, 
 of Salem, and in the capacity of apprentice and 
 assistant remained with this prominent artist 
 for about nine years. As may be imagined, he 
 was a real student of the art, constantly seeking 
 development in his chosen calling, and became 
 an expert in his profession, devoting all of his 
 time to improving himself and keeping pace with 
 the times. Coming to Corvallis in 1887, he in- 
 augurated the business in which he has since 
 been engaged, and for the accommodation of 
 which and to house his family, he has built one 
 of the really fine residences in the town. The 
 second floor is devoted to the studio, and a large 
 suite of rooms constitutes the gallery and re- 
 ception rooms. 
 
 In Corvallis Mr. Gardner married Louisa I. 
 Hurlburt, a native of Benton county, and a 
 daughter of Riley A. Hurlburt, a native of- 
 Huron county, Ohio. Mr. Hurlburt was born 
 November 26, 1830, a son of Abel Hurlburt, 
 the latter born in New York state. The grand- 
 father, Abel, was a blacksmith by trade, and 
 at an early day settled in Huron county, Ohio, 
 moving later to Kalamazoo county, Mich. Still 
 later he settled in Chariton county, Mo., where 
 he worked at coopering and blacksmithing. In 
 185 1 he brought his family to Oregon, settling 
 first on a donation claim in Benton county, 
 where he farmed, and from where he removed 
 to near Sheridan, Yamhill county. Here his 
 death occurred at an advanced age, his wife, 
 Anna (Reed) Hurlburt, having died in Benton 
 county. Of their seven children but two are 
 livings With Abel Hurlburt to Oregon came 
 his son, Riley A., then twenty-one years of 
 age, and very useful in helping to drive the 
 oxen and care for the loose stock. Riley A. lo- 
 cated on a claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 in Benton county, where he lived for four years, 
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 time to time he added to his land, and now 
 owns eleven hundred acres, all in Benton county. 
 He was successful in the west, and reared in 
 com fort his large family of nine children. In 
 Benton county he married Sophia Whittaker, 
 who was horn in Ohio, a daughter of Jacob 
 Whittaker, a stonemason by trade, who brought 
 his wife and children overland in 1852. He 
 settled on a farm in Benton comity, but eventu- 
 ally retired to Corvallis, where his death oc- 
 curred, being survived by his wife. Of the 
 children born to Riley A. Hurlburt and wife, 
 Mary Ann is now Mrs. Wrenn, of California; 
 John T. is living on the old home farm; George 
 F. is in Utah, and engaged in mining; Louisa 
 is Airs. Gardner, of Corvallis ; Jane is Mrs. 
 Caton, of eastern Oregon ; Seth is engaged in 
 mining in Utah ; Margaret is now Mrs. Smith, 
 of St. Louis, Mo. ; Fannie is Mrs. James Mace, 
 of Portland ; and Jacob is a farmer in Benton 
 county. 
 
 Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Gardner, Edna and Viola. Fraternally Mr. 
 Gardner holds membership with the Woodmen 
 of the World. Mr. Gardner is a member and 
 deacon of the Baptist Church, and is ex-supefin- 
 tendent of the Sunday school. He is a man of 
 high moral principle and pronounced public- 
 spiritedness, and his place in the business and 
 social world of Corvallis is an enviable one. 
 
 AMOS SMITH GLEASON. The agricul- 
 tural interests of Marion county are well rep- 
 resented by Amos S. Gleason, who is the owner 
 of a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres 
 situated one and one-half miles south of Hub- 
 bard, one hundred and thirty acres being under 
 cultivation and the balance used for pasturage. 
 Aside from general farming Mr. Gleason makes 
 a specialty of Shorthorn cattle, and of these he 
 has some" of the finest on the Pacific coast. He 
 also conducts a dairy and is very successful in 
 this line. From his youth up Mr. Gleason has 
 had a predilection for the occupation he has al- 
 ways followed, and at the age of twenty he start- 
 ed out to make his own way in the world. That 
 he has achieved success is indicated by the pros- 
 perous condition of his farm, the many improve- 
 ments he has added to it, and the fact that he 
 has acquired an independent fortune. All this 
 is due to the fact that his aim was high, that 
 whatever he undertook he carried forward to 
 completion, and that he considered anything he 
 did worth doing well. 
 
 The early history of Amos S. Gleason is that 
 of the average farmer lad. His birthplace was 
 Ripley county, Ind., near Milan, the date of his 
 birth October 13, 1832. He is a son of Parson 
 and Mary A. (Smith) Gleason, the former a 
 
 native of Vermont, born August 2, 1799; the 
 latter born in Connecticut in the year 1798. The 
 parents started housekeeping in Indiana, making 
 that state their home until 185 1. The father 
 had removed from Vermont to Indiana when he 
 was twenty-one, and through frugality and 
 economy had accumulated sufficient money to 
 purchase a farm, on which he lived with his 
 family until the year above mentioned, when 
 they crossed the plains, coming direct to Clack- 
 amas county. They were five months on the 
 way, and the journey was made with ox-teams, 
 without anything of importance occurring on 
 the way except that they could not fail to be im- 
 pressed with the grandeur of the scenery, when 
 they reached the mountains, and the broad, al- 
 most interminable stretch of the plains with 
 scarcely anything to relieve the eye over that 
 vast territory. Mr. Gleason, Sr., took up a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 01 land on the present site of the town of Needy. 
 The Gleasons were pioneers in this locality, the 
 work of civilization having been scarcely begun 
 at that time. The land was all wild and unim- 
 proved, and Mr. Gleason set about making a 
 home for himself and family. He built a hewed 
 log house in which the family resided for about 
 four years, when they removed to a farm on 
 Pudding river, three miles east of Hubbard, re- 
 maining there until the death of the parents. 
 In this family were twelve children, of whom 
 three are now living: Aaron B., of Hubbard; 
 Amos S., of this review; and Irving E., of 
 Benton county, Ore. The father of this family 
 lived to be over ninety years of age, while the 
 mother passed away at the age of eighty-three. 
 They were faithful and earnest members of the 
 United Brethren church and were the principal 
 promoters and builders of Hopewell Church. 
 Mr. Gleason was an ardent and active politician, 
 taking an active part in political matters, and 
 ever voting with the Republican party. He was 
 a farmer all his life and also conducted a dairy. 
 Amos S. Gleason received his preliminary ed- 
 ucation in the district schools of his native 
 county, and later pursued a course in the uni- 
 versity at Salem, afterward teaching school for 
 about seven years. December 29, 1859, ne was 
 married to Jane Amanda Johnson, who was born 
 in Illinois and came with her parents, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Neil Johnson, to Oregon in 185 1, settling 
 near Woodburn. After their marriage the young 
 couple established their first home on Butte creek, 
 six miles north of Siiverton. One child was 
 born of their union, Jane Amanda, the wife of 
 Herod Choate, of Clackamas county. In 1861 
 Mr. Gleason was called upon to mourn the loss 
 of his wife. He afterward married Miss Eliza- 
 beth J. White, who was born in Callaway county, 
 Mo., and with her parents came to Oregon in 
 
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 1852. Her family history is given elsewhere in 
 this volume, in connection with the life record 
 of her brother. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason continued 
 to reside on Butte creek until they removed to 
 their present home. In the meantime he was 
 engaged in the sawmill business in Marion and 
 Yamhill counties for about eight years. The 
 marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Gleason has been 
 blessed with four children : Erne, wife' of H. C. 
 Moon, of Woodburn; Sarah V., wife of S. T. 
 Loudon, of Aumsville; Nina A., at home; and 
 Arthur A., deceased. 
 
 February 22, 1856, Mr. Gleason enlisted in 
 Company E, First Regiment Oregon Mounted 
 Volunteers, under Capt. William A. Cason, and 
 was mustered in at Oregon City for service in 
 the Indian wars. The troops were sent east of 
 the mountains to protect the emigrants -from 
 the Indians and outlaws which infested the re- 
 gion at that period. Mr. Gleason served for 
 one hundred days, during which time his com- 
 pany had no severe engagement. His duty hav- 
 ing' been performed, he returned to his home 
 and took up the work of the home farm ; He 
 has also served as road supervisor, justice of 
 the peace and as a member of the school board. 
 In every respect his public service has met with 
 the approval of the people, and he stands high 
 in his community as an advocate of good roads, 
 good schools, and law and order. In politics he 
 is an earnest Republican, while his religious 
 views are indicated by his membership in the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 
 To say that Mr. Gleason is a man of practical 
 ideas, broad-minded and liberal in his views, 
 and of the highest integrity of character, is but 
 doing him simple justice. He takes pleasure in 
 fulfilling the duties of his daily life, and casts 
 his influence on the side of progress and general 
 advancement. 
 
 MOSES PARKER. No pioneer resident of 
 Linn county has more substantially aided in the 
 development of its agricultural and other re- 
 sources than Moses Parker, who has been a resi- 
 dent of this portion of Oregon ever since 1852, 
 and who, in 1855, bought the second threshing- 
 machine in the county, and has ever since op- 
 erated some one of these necessary machines. 
 True, the old time lumbering, wheezing, and 
 unreliable thresher has been many times sup- 
 planted by more modern innovations, steam has 
 taken the place of horse power, and expediency 
 in the disposal of the grain has left far in ar- 
 rears the slow and laborious pioneer methods. 
 While his fellow-agriculturists were struggling 
 with the old-time cradle, gathering the golden 
 grain into small bundles, and depositing it at 
 intervals in rows in the field, this energetic and 
 
 progressive tiller of the soil brought a reaper 
 into the county, the first to arouse the curiosity 
 of field laborers here, and a subject of endless 
 investigation and discussion. Criticism soon 
 gave way to praise, and others followed the 
 example of progress set by their honored com- 
 patriot. To equal extent but in different direc- 
 tions Mr. Parker has fostered advancement in 
 other fields, supporting with his influence and 
 practical assistance schools, road building, good 
 government, and humanitarian projects for the 
 uplifting of the people. 
 
 The earliest years of Mr. Parker were spent 
 on a farm in Ross county, Ohio, where he was 
 born November 4, 1830, remaining there until 
 the family removal to Burlington, Iowa, in 1845. 
 The ambitious lad saw beyond the borders of 
 the paternal farm, with its ceaseless drudgery 
 and small remuneration, and at the age of sev- 
 enteen, in 1847, ne went to Burlington and 
 learned the carpenter's trade. Becoming a jour- 
 neyman carpenter, he worked faithfully and lived 
 economically, hoping all the time for better 
 things, and finally coming to believe that he 
 would find them in the west of which he had 
 heard so much. In 1852 the opportunity came 
 to him, and with his brother Allen he outfitted 
 with a wagon and four yoke of oxen, crossing 
 the plains without any extraordinary happening. 
 
 In the fall of 1852 Mr. Parker took up a dona- 
 tion claim of one hundred and sixty acres on the 
 Santiam river, in Linn county, Ore., three miles 
 north of Lebanon, and while his summers were 
 devoted to his trade, for which he found great 
 demand, his winters were spent on the farm. 
 After living alone until 1856, he married Mary 
 C. Humphreys, and thereafter continued on the 
 farm until selling out in 1858. Mr. Parker then 
 bought his present farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres, and with the exception of three 
 years in Sweet Home valley, he has since made 
 this his home, and not only farmed and raised 
 stock, but has assisted neighboring farmers with 
 his threshing machine with the coming of every 
 harvest. He has added to his land and now 
 owns four hundred and eighty acres, all in the 
 valley, wheat and stock comprising his principal 
 source of revenue. In the early days he met 
 many obstructions to his progress, the Indians 
 proving at times very troublesome. During the 
 war of 1856 he enlisted in the Second Oregon 
 Mounted Cavalry, and saw service in the Walla 
 Walla country, taking part in many of the prin- 
 cipal battles and skirmishes in that memorable 
 contest. 
 
 In political affiliation Mr. Parker is a Demo- 
 crat, but he has never desired office. He is so- 
 ciable in the extreme, a very pleasant and genial 
 man to meet, and one who is inclined to look 
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 the Grange, and has greatly advanced the best 
 interests of that helpful institution, and is also 
 a member of the Ancient ( )n!er of United Work- 
 men. Right children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Parker, of whom the oldest son, Perry 
 1'.. lives near his father; Lewis T. is a resi- 
 dent of Portland; Hiram is a farmer in this 
 vicinity; William E. lives in the vicinity of the 
 home place and is operating a threshing ma- 
 chine; while Annie, Mary A., John and Allen 
 are deceased. 
 
 GEORGE R. FARRA, M. D. In 1877 Dr. 
 George R. Farra came to Corvallis, established 
 an office in a modest and unassuming way, and 
 from a small beginning long ago became an im- 
 portant figure in professional circles in Benton 
 count v. Nor have his efforts been confined to 
 a large practice, for his pronounced business and 
 executive ability have resulted in a position of 
 equal prominence as a promoter and financier. 
 From a childhood containing little of the joy 
 or expectancy of life the doctor has evolved 
 single-handed his present success. He was born 
 on a farm in Woodford county, Ky., September 
 13. 1843, a son °f J orm R- an d Martha J. Farra, 
 natives of the Blue Grass state, and of German 
 and Scotch ancestry, respectively. The parents 
 were married July 30, 1840, thereafter continu- 
 ing to live in their native state until 1847. re_ 
 moving then to Platte county, Mo., where the 
 father died September 9, 1852, his wife after- 
 ward re-marrying. 
 
 Dr. Farra was nine years of age when his 
 father died, and this loss in the family was a se- 
 vere blow to the growing and ambitious boy. He 
 was required to work hard to promote the gen- 
 eral support, and his education was sadly neg- 
 lected, a deficiency which he was not slow to 
 realize after reaching years of discretion. His 
 first insight into regular business was acquired 
 in a grocery store in Humboldt, Allen county, 
 Kans., where he remained for two years, and 
 for the following two years' was interested in the 
 drug business in Platte county, Mo. In the 
 meantime he had been reading medicine under 
 a well known physician and surgeon of Platte 
 county. Dr. W. P. Moore, and during 1875 en- 
 tered the medical department of the University 
 of Louisville, from which he was duly graduated 
 in 1877. having completed the course in a re- 
 markablv short time. After a short practice in 
 Louisville he came to Corvallis, where he has 
 since rendered himself indispensable to hun- 
 dreds of families in this county. Many things 
 have contributed to his successful practice, not 
 the least of which is an agreeable and optimistic 
 manner, and the ability to keep abreast of the 
 progress of medical and surgical science. In 
 
 this connection he has for many years been a 
 member of the Oregon State Medical Society. 
 
 The doctor is not only a large stock-holder 
 in many of the important enterprises of Corvallis 
 and vicinity, but has been the chief promoter and 
 instigator of many of them. From the time of 
 its incorporation in 1885, he has taken a keen 
 interest in the Corvallis Water Company, of 
 which he is the president and chief stockholder, 
 and which owes its present prosperity to his far- 
 sighted management and progressive methods. 
 He is a director of the old Oregon & Pacific 
 Railroad Company, now the Corvallis & Eastern, 
 and of the Willamette Land & Loan Association, 
 the latter incorporated in 1889. While living in 
 Corvallis Dr. Farra has built two residences, the 
 latter, built in 1903, being by far the finest in 
 the town. He married in Platte county, Mo., 
 February 9, 1873, Amna Hamilton, a native of 
 Missouri, who became the mother of two chil- 
 dren, both of whom are deceased. Dr. Farra 
 is a stanch upholder of the Democratic party, 
 but has never worked for or desired official po- 
 sitions. However, he has been a member of the 
 city council, and has served as county physician'. 
 He was for several terms a member of the pen- 
 sion board. He is fraternally connected with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, of which 
 he was examining physician for many years ; 
 the Woodmen of the World, of which he is a 
 charter member and the examining physician. 
 He is also a member of the Blue Lodge of Ma- 
 sons. 
 
 FRED BENTS. One of three brothers who 
 have made a signal success in the cultivation of 
 hops in the state of Oregon is Fred Bents, whose 
 birth occurred in Platte county, Kans., April 
 13, 1855. His parents were natives of Switzer- 
 land, his father, Henry, being born on a farm in 
 that country, where he was reared, and in man- 
 hood married Anna Bosshard, with whom he 
 emigrated to the United States in 1854. The 
 journey was not an uneventful one to this young 
 Swiss family, their first venture into the world 
 being shadowed by a perilous sea-voyage, the 
 sailing vessel on which the}' came springing a 
 leak in mid-ocean ; and the sad death of their 
 first child, which occurred upon the trip. Six 
 weeks from the date of sailing the vessel an- 
 chored in New York harbor, but the voung 
 people were not satisfied to make this their 
 home, having heard many glowing accounts of 
 the rich "farming lands of the Mississippi valley, 
 and toward that location they continued their 
 journey. 
 
 Settling in the eastern part of Kansas, Mr. 
 Bents took up a homestead, where he remained 
 farming until 1863, at that time losing his home 
 
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 and all the improvements which he had put upon, 
 it through a defective title. Nothing daunted 
 by the misfortunes which had attended him he 
 decided to seek a home still farther in the west, 
 starting in this last-named year for Oregon, 
 with four oxen drawing the wagon which con- 
 tained his worldlv possessions. Six months later 
 the little party reached their destination, settling 
 first in Marion county on the claim of Barney 
 Eberhard, where they 'remained until 1864, when 
 Mr. Bents bought the farm of three hundred 
 acres which is now in the hands of his children. 
 He paid but $500 for the entire tract, which at 
 that time was a wilderness of brush and timber. 
 He bought the land of John Scheurer,_ giving 
 him $100 for the first payment, in addition to 
 the remaining ox of the four with which he had 
 commenced 'the journey. In later days Mr. 
 Scheurer proved a valuable friend to this pioneer 
 family, assisting the father in many ways to 
 gain a competency for his family. Upon his 
 farm Mr. Bents at once built a cabin of hewed 
 logs, which consisted of two rooms, the entire 
 building being onlv 16x16 feet, and in this the 
 family found shelter for many years, going out 
 from this humble home each morning with the 
 pioneer's determination to win an honorable 
 place in this new state. Mr. Bents died June 
 20, 1869, at the early age of forty years; a suc- 
 cessful man, financially and socially, and his 
 death meant a personal loss to the community 
 His wife survived him many years, her death 
 occurring February 20, 1890, at the age of sixty- 
 four years. Thev were both consistent members 
 of the Lutheran' Church. Of their children all 
 but one were born in the United States, those 
 living being as follows: Fred, of this review; 
 Edward, located in Salem; William, a farmer 
 . and hop-grower on a part of the home farm; 
 and Henry L., also on a part of the home farm. 
 On the death of his father, Fred Bents, the 
 oldest of the sons and then only fifteen years of 
 age, took entire charge of the farm, which he 
 conducted with remarkable skill until 1881, when 
 he left the conservative lines of the general 
 farmer and undertook the cultivation of a five- 
 acre field of hops. Meeting with gratifying suc- 
 cess he gradually increased the number of acres 
 until, with the interests of his two brothers, 
 William and Henry L., he has nearly seventy 
 acres devoted to its cultivation. In 1902 he 
 alone raised twenty-seven thousand, four hun- 
 dred and fifty-three' pounds of hops. In partner- 
 ship with these same brothers Fred Bents owns 
 the original three hundred acres purchased by 
 their father, and upon his share of the same in 
 1887 he put some handsome improvements in 
 the line of buildings, etc., and moved to the pres- 
 ent location of his home. He has a finely im- 
 
 proved farm one and one-half miles from Butte- 
 ville, Marion county. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bents occurred April 3, 
 1885, and united him with Minnie Byland, a na- 
 tive of Linn county, Ore. Four children have 
 been born of this union, named as follows : Mary, 
 William, Clarence and Hattie. 
 
 In politics Mr. Bents is a Republican. Fra- 
 ternally he is a member of Champoeg Lodge 
 No. 27, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 and of the United Artisans. He is known as one 
 of the liberal-minded, progressive citizens of 
 the county, and actively interested in promot- 
 ing its welfare whenever the opportunity to do 
 so presents itself. 
 
 WALTER HUSTON. It is a far step from 
 the educational life in the early days of Virginia 
 to agricultural pursuits in the lands of Oregon, 
 but it is not an exaggerated one, and it may be 
 possible that Walter Huston owes his intelligent 
 and progressive labors to that ancestor, Archi- 
 bald Huston, who was one of the educators in 
 the state upon the Atlantic coast, where the 
 grandfather, Walter Huston, was born, his Irish 
 ancestry transmitting sturdy, steady virtues 
 which have made their influence felt among 
 various scenes and at different crises of the 
 country's history. A well known member of 
 this family and one whose history is indelibly 
 associated with that of the country to the south- 
 west, is Gen. Sam. Houston, the cousin of the 
 grandfather of Walter Huston. 
 
 The father, J. B. Huston, was born near 
 Nashville, Tenn., December 2.2, 1810, and when 
 a young man went to Henderson county, 111., 
 there engaging in farming as one of the early 
 settlers of that part of the country. A 3'ear 
 after his settlement there he returned to his 
 home in Tennessee, and while there married 
 Katherine Huston, who was born in 181 1, near 
 the same location in which Mr. Huston first saw 
 the light of day. They removed to Illinois, 
 where they remained pleasantly located until 
 1853, when, with their ten children, they crossed 
 the plains to Oregon, ox-teams being used in 
 the traveling and the journey occupying six 
 months of the year. The first winter was spent 
 in Linn county, where the father bought the right 
 to a claim twelve miles south of Albany, to which 
 they at once removed and engaged in cultivating 
 and improving the same. The death of Mr. Hus- 
 ton occurred in 1879, upon the farm selected 
 upon their first arrival here. The mother sur- 
 vived him until 1893, when she died in the same 
 location. Politically he was a Democrat and 
 religiously he was a member of the Christian 
 Church at Sand Ridge. Ore. 
 
 Of the twelve children which blessed the 
 
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 union of his parents Walter Huston was the 
 fifth in order of birth, and was born in Hen- 
 derson countv, 111., March i, 1839. and there 
 lived until he was fourteen years old, attending 
 the district school in the vicinity of his home in 
 the intervals of his home duties, which early 
 training, and a brief attendance in Linn county, 
 Ore., constituted his education. He removed 
 with his parents to Oregon in 1853, and re- 
 mained with them for the ensuing seven years. 
 When he reached his majority he left home 
 and sought livelihood and independence by 
 prospecting east of the mountains, and later 
 extending "his operations throughout the entire 
 northwest. Satisfied with the returns after 
 about four years of this kind of work, he bought 
 a farm located eight miles from Brownsville, 
 where he engaged in fanning for about ten 
 years. Industry, energy and perseverance are 
 never without their reward, and in 1874 he was 
 able to make a purchase of one hundred and 
 sixty acres which now make up his present 
 farm. This is located one and a half miles east 
 of Harrisburg, Linn county, where his time is 
 largely devoted to stock-raising, as he has for 
 the present retired from active farming. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Huston occurred in 
 1868, upon his father's place, and united him 
 with Susan E. Smith, a native of Missouri, 
 whose death occurred in 1876. In 1878 he mar- 
 ried Lodemma A. Shelley, who was born in Lane 
 county. October, 1855,. the daughter of Michael 
 Shelley, who crossed the plains in 1848 and lo- 
 cated in the county where his daughter was 
 born. By his first marriage he was the father 
 of the following children: Rosa B., the wife 
 of Alfred Huelat, of Seattle, Wash. ; and Es- 
 tella. the wife of Roy A. Reed, of Walla Walla, 
 Wash. By the second marriage the following 
 children have been born : R. C, now located 
 in Seattle, Wash. ; Raymond ; Ethel ; Veda ; 
 and Blanche. In his religious views Mr. Hus- 
 ton follows his father's convictions and holds 
 membership with the Christian Church, Harris- 
 burg, where he officiates as deacon. His wife 
 is a member of the same church. Politically he 
 casts his ballot with the Democratic party. 
 
 E. P. WALKER, who is serving his third 
 term as a member of the city council of Salem, 
 has made for himself a record as a public of- 
 ficial that is above condemnation or criticism. 
 He has been a resident of this city since 1880, 
 coming from the Mississippi valley. He was 
 born in Shelby county. 111., the son of Jesse 
 D. and Sarah (Calvin) Walker, both natives of 
 Kentucky, and the former of Scotch descent. 
 Removing to Illinois, the father settled in Shelby 
 county, where he carried on farming until his 
 
 death in 1852, while his wife passed away in 
 the same state in 1844. They were the parents 
 of eight children, of whom two sons and two 
 daughters are now living, the brother of our 
 subject being Harvey Walker, represented 
 elsewhere in this work. The daughters are Mrs. 
 Pauline Bankson, of Bethany, 111., and Mrs. 
 Martha Moore, of Moultrie county, 111. 
 
 Mr. Walker of this review was born April 
 13, 1832, and was reared upon the home farm 
 in Shelby county until nineteen years of age. 
 During that time he pursued his studies in a 
 log schoolhouse which was seated with pun- 
 cheon benches and had other primitive furnish- 
 ings. Quill pens were used and the text books 
 w r ere very crude as compared with those used 
 at the present time. He spent but three months 
 during the winter seasons in school and the 
 rest of the year worked in the fields. When 
 nineteen years of age he went to Van Buren 
 county, Iowa, where he spent the summer and 
 then returned to Illinois, having in the mean- 
 time been employed as a farm hand for $12.50 
 per month. After he again located in his na- 
 tive state he entered the employ of an English- 
 man who gave him $25 per month for feeding 
 and caring for the stock. That he was faith- 
 ful to the work intrusted to him was shown 
 bv the fact that he remained in the English- 
 man's service for seven years and during that 
 time he saved his money until he was enabled 
 to purchase a land warrant, for which he paid 
 $160. This entitled him to secure one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land in Moultrie county and 
 at different times he made purchases and 
 trades. In 1865 he removed to Tazewell coun- 
 ty, 111., settling near Pekin, where he secured a 
 farm of two hundred and forty acres which he 
 successfully cultivated until 1880. when he 
 came to Salem, Ore. He had visited this coun- 
 try in 1875, his object being to ascertain what 
 prospects the country afforded, and at that 
 time he made his way to the Rogue river. 
 That he carried away with him favorable im- 
 pressions is shown by the fact that he returned 
 in 1880 and two weeks after his arrival pur- 
 chased a farm of one hundred and eighty acres 
 for which he gave $16,000. This is one of the 
 finest farms in the valley, located four miles 
 northeast of Salem on the Silverton road. 
 Subsequently he extended the boundaries of 
 this property until the farm now comprises 
 three hundred and eighty acres in one body, 
 his land being operated by his two sons. Since 
 1893 Mr. Walker has lived retired from the 
 active duties of farm life. Two years of this 
 period have been spent in Pasadena. Cal., but 
 at the end of that time he returned to Salem. 
 where he has resided continuously since. 
 
 Mr. Walker was married in Tazewell county. 
 
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 111., to Miss Clary M. Davis, a native of that 
 locality and a daughter of one of the early 
 pioneer farmers of the state. Seven children 
 were born of this marriage : Thomas F., who 
 is living on the home farm ; Mrs. Sarah Sav- 
 age, who died in Salem ; Mrs. Annie Martin, 
 who also passed away in this city; Mrs. Emma 
 Savage, of Brooks, Ore. ; Harvey, who is liv- 
 ing on the home farm, and two who died in 
 infancy. 
 
 Since 1877 Mr. Walker has been a valued 
 member of Chemeketa Lodge, No. 1, I. O. O. 
 F. and is identified with the encampment of 
 Salem. On questions of national importance 
 he gives an earnest support to the Democracy 
 and in 1898 he was nominated on the Citizens' 
 ticket for the office of councilman from the 
 first ward. Having been elected he was ap- 
 pointed a member of the ways and means com- 
 mittee, also of the committee on accounts and 
 current expenses and chairman of the printing 
 committee. The duties of the office he re- 
 garded as a sacred obligation which he fully 
 met, giving to every subject which came up 
 for settlement his earnest consideration. He 
 was very active in reducing the city debt from 
 $85,000 to $65,000 and in funding the latter 
 amount with four per cent bonds in place of 
 eight per cent bonds and these were sold as 
 popular loans. He was also instrumental in 
 reducing the expense of the electric light of 
 the city to one-half the former amount. His 
 fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and 
 value in office, re-elected him on the Citizens' 
 ticket in 1900 by a large majority and during 
 the second term he was a member of the fire 
 and water committee, of the committee on ac- 
 counts and current expenses and chairman of 
 the ordinance committee. In 1.902, against his 
 wishes, however, he consented to again become 
 a candidate and is now serving for the third 
 term of two years. Over the record of his 
 public career and private life there falls no 
 shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He is 
 a man of much worth and high standing and 
 is also classed among the wealthy residents of 
 Salem. This fact is due to a life of industry 
 carefully directed. He started out for him- 
 self without means, but was determined to win 
 success if it could be gained through honorable 
 methods and persistency of purpose and to- 
 day he is one of the substantial men of his 
 adopted country. Mr. Walker is entirely 
 self-made and out of debt. No man can say that 
 he ever presented any obligation to him that was 
 not promptly met. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN CHUTE. Although 
 comparatively a newcomer in Monmouth, Mr. 
 Chute is well known, and wherever known i§ 
 
 respected. Great interest in all of the local en- 
 teprises is maintained by him, and he does all 
 within his power to promote the general pros- 
 perity of his adopted city. The birth of Mr. 
 Chute occurred in Faribault county, Minn., Sep- 
 tember 22, 1863, and his parents were William 
 E. and Mary Ann (Hill) Chute, both of Canad- 
 ian birth. Shortly before the birth of the son 
 the parents had left their home in Canada and 
 settled on a quarter section of land in Fari- 
 bault county, Minn., which from that time until 
 1 90 1 continued to be the family home. In the 
 year last mentioned, however, the father re- 
 tired from active cares and made his home with 
 his son, who in the meantime had removed to 
 Chicago, 111., and there the father's death oc- 
 curred in 1902, at sixty-five years of age. The 
 maternal grandfather, Walter Hill, was also a 
 Canadian by birth, and upon emigrating to the 
 United States located on a farm near Eagle 
 Lake, Minn, where the remainder of his life 
 was spent. 
 
 Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 William E. Chute, four sons and one daughter, 
 Abraham L. was the oldest son and second 
 child. His education was received in the ex- 
 cellent schools for which Canada is famous, and 
 in getting an education he worked with the 
 same energy that has characterized all his ef- 
 forts in life, doing with a will and determina- 
 tion whatever he set his hand or mind to do. 
 At twenty years of age^ he felt himself suffi- 
 ciently equipped to take up the affairs of life on 
 his own account, and forthwith took from the 
 government a grant of land in South Dakota 
 which he improved and cultivated for seven 
 years, but in 1890 he sold the land and went to 
 the Northwest Territory, where he also filed on 
 a piece of land and engaged in farming. It 
 was in the year 1894 that he cast in his lot with 
 the citizens of Oregon, and at once became 
 identified with her immense lumber interests. 
 One winter at this, however, sufficed to prove 
 that it was not a line that he cared to continue 
 permanently, and in June, 1895, took up his 
 abode in Monmouth, Polk county, and here he 
 expects to make his home continuously. 
 
 It is said nothing which we learn in life can 
 be wasted, but on the other hand can always 
 be turned to good account, and so it has proved 
 in the case of Mr. Chute. It was while he was 
 in Canada that he learned the blacksmith's trade, 
 and ever since his identification with the city of 
 Monmouth he has followed the latter calling, 
 for which he seems to have a special aptitude, 
 and is meeting with gratifying returns from a 
 monetary standpoint. His faith in the city of 
 Monmouth as a desirable place of residence has 
 been further indicated by the fact that in the 
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 fine residence, which is not only a credit to the 
 owner, but to the city as well. In addition to 
 this property he also owns nine acres of land 
 within the city limits. 
 
 It was while in South Dakota that Mr. Chute 
 and Miss Maggie Connor, a native of Canada, 
 were united in marriage. Three children were 
 born to them and all are still at home, their 
 names being as follows : Ray William. Blanch 
 Victoria and Stella May. Mrs. Maggie Chute 
 lied May I, 1896, at Monmouth, and in 1897 
 Mr. Chute was married to Annie Henson. a 
 native of Missouri, and three children have been 
 horn to then. Lora Anna, Mary Elizabeth and 
 lohn Lincoln, all being at home with their 
 parents. 
 
 Private interests have not consumed the en- 
 tire attention and time of Mr. Chute, as his two 
 terms of valuable service as a member of the 
 city council will testify, and in behalf of the 
 Prohibition party he has done all that has been 
 possible within his power to further the cause 
 of the party. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Woodmen of the World and the Fraternal 
 Union of America. The family are members of 
 the Evangelical Church, liberally assisting in 
 its support. 
 
 JOHN M. McCARTXEY. Countless as 
 were the number of men who cheerfully accept- 
 ed the hard conditions incident to life among 
 the undeveloped regions of Oregon in pioneer 
 davs, there is scarcely the name of one lost 
 from the history of the country. Although 
 nearly a scorce of years has passed since John 
 M. )dcCartney died, he is still remembered 
 among the people with whom he mingled as a 
 pioneer of the Willamette valley, there giving 
 his energy to the upbuilding of the country as 
 a cultivator of the broad fields of the generous 
 western land. 
 
 Mr. McCartney came with his parents to Ore- 
 gon in 1852. when he was only fifteen years 
 old, having been born November 18, 1837. He 
 was a native of Gibson county, Ind.. and a son 
 of Henry A. McCartney, who was born in Ten- 
 nessee, a descendant of Scotch ancestry. The 
 mother was Margaret A. Finney, of English 
 descent. When but one year old his parents 
 removed from Indiana, locating in Monmouth, 
 111., being there among the early settlers, after 
 which they spent six months in crossing the 
 plains, the journey's end finding them in Linn 
 county. Ore. There they passed the first win- 
 ter, after which the father took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres lo- 
 cated on the banks of the river and upon the 
 present site of Peoria, and of this little town 
 Mr. McCartney was one of the benefactors. 
 
 He also served two years in the Oregon legis- 
 lature. The mother died August 12, 1862, at 
 Peoria, and in 1881 Mr. McCartney sold his 
 property and removed to Sodaville, where he 
 died January 15, 1893. 
 
 The early education of Mr. McCartney was 
 received in the common schools of Linn county, 
 where he remained until attaining his majority, 
 when he left home and bought one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land located one and a half 
 miles west of Shedds, where he took up farm- 
 ing. After eight years' residence there he re- 
 moved to his father's old claim in 1872, and 
 continued there for four years, at the expira- 
 tion of that .time becoming the owner of the 
 two hundred and twenty acres which his widow 
 now r has in her possession. This is located two 
 and a half miles north of Harrisburg, and con- 
 sists of two acres more than was included in 
 the original purchase. From the time of the 
 purchase until his death, which occurred Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1885, Mr. McCartney remained here 
 engaged in farming. The wife of Mr. McCart- 
 ney was in maidenhood Melinda J. Porter, a 
 native of Boone county, Ind., having been born 
 there December 1, 1844. She was the daugh- 
 ter of James A. Porter, who was born in Rus- 
 sell county, Va., June 15, 1816, and died in 
 Harrisburg, Linn county. Ore., in 1880. He 
 had married Nancy S. Knott, a native of White- 
 water, Ind.. who died in 1862 near Halsey, Ore., 
 when forty-seven years old. In 1853 Mr. Porter 
 brought his family across the plains, September 
 11 finding them in the Willamette valley, where 
 he bought the right to a donation claim located 
 four miles northwest of Halsey, where Mrs. 
 McCartney w-as reared. After her education 
 was finished she married November 14. 1861, 
 and became the mother of four children, name- 
 ly : Asburv A., w T ho now r lives at home and 
 conducts the farm; Nancy A., the wife of A. 
 J. Basey, of Salem; Edgar I., deceased; and 
 Guv M., at home. Since the death of her hus- 
 band Mrs. McCartney makes her home upon 
 the farm, where general farming is now carried 
 on. Mr. McCartney was a Republican in poli- 
 tics. Mrs. McCartney is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church of Harrisburg, in which 
 she officiates as trustee, and has held that posi- 
 tion for the past five years. 
 
 JAMES S. BUCHANAN. Among the 
 prominent men of Polk county, Ore., is to be 
 named James S. Buchanan, wdiose success in life 
 has been entirely the result of excellent busi- 
 ness judgment and the abilitv to execute his 
 plans, combined with a quickness of decision 
 bv which he has taken advantage of many an 
 opportunity which would have escaped a less 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 astute man. Mr. Buchanan is now a merchant 
 of Airlie in a building which he erected in 
 1902, his business comprising no small item 
 among the mercantile interests of the city. 
 
 The father of James S. Buchanan, Thomas, 
 was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and on com- 
 ing to Canada at an early day he became em- 
 ployed at Montreal in building the docks. Later 
 he was engaged at Carryall Rapids in building 
 a canal, his business being that of a civil en- 
 gineer. Later in life he became the owner of 
 a large farm, where he was engaged in farm- 
 ing and breeding fine horses, meeting his death 
 while at this latter business in 1849 by the run- 
 ning away of a horse attached to a sleigh. He 
 was a finely educated, popular man, and was 
 very prominent in the local politics of his com- 
 munity and exercised no little influence in pub- 
 lic affairs. His business ability was indicated 
 by the fortune which he had acquired at the 
 time of his death. He married Floranda Hutch- 
 ins, a native of New York City, whose father 
 was a lumber merchant at the Lake of Two 
 Mountains, and was very successful in his busi- 
 ness, exporting large quantities of lumber. He 
 came to his death at a comparatively early age 
 while running a raft at Power's bridge at La- 
 chute. 
 
 Of the eight children born to his father and 
 mother, five sons and three daughters, James S. 
 Buchanan was the seventh child and the young- 
 est son, and was born on the Lake of the Two 
 Mountains. May 24, 1836. After his education 
 in the common schools was complete he and his 
 brother Paul were sent to the Ray school in 
 Newark, N. J., from which they graduated at 
 an early age. After serving an apprenticeship 
 at the boot and shoe trade he engaged in the 
 manufacture of these articles at the age of nine- 
 teen years, locating in Upper Canada, Huron 
 county. Until the Civil war broke out in the 
 United States he carried on a splendid business, 
 having ten men employed. Taking advantage 
 of the need in the neighboring country, he be- 
 gan importing horses into the United States to 
 sell to the government, and continued at this 
 with handsome profits until the close of the war. 
 In 1866 he decided to make his home in the 
 United States, locating first in Roscoe, 111., where 
 he engaged in broom manufacturing. After a 
 year there he sold his interests and removed to 
 Sheridan county, Mo., making a purchase of 
 eight hundred acres of land upon which he re- 
 mained engaged in farming until 1873, when 
 he again changed his residence, taking up a 
 homestead in Graham county, Kans., near Hill 
 City. Pie proved up on his property and paid 
 out, but not meeting with the success which he 
 bad hoped to find in stock-raising he came to 
 Oregon in 1887, purchasing a mercantile estab- 
 
 lishment at Wren, Benton county. For three 
 years he made this his sole interest, building 
 up a fine custom, and at the expiration of that 
 time he bought a store at Summit, conducting 
 the two for some time. In 1892 he disposed of 
 this second interest at a comfortable profit. 
 Leaving his son, Orville, to conduct his interests 
 at Wren he came to Airlie and engaged with his 
 son-in-law, A. D. McKisson, in a general mer- 
 chandise establishment, the partnership later be- 
 ing dissolved by Mr. McKisson leaving the coun- 
 try for Nome, Alaska, when Mr. Buchanan be- 
 came sole owner of the business. The business in 
 Airlie having grown to larger proportions than 
 Mr. Buchanan cared to handle alone, he sold his 
 interests in 1901 in Wren and gave his son em- 
 ployment in this city, in 1902 putting up the 
 building now occupied by his business. 
 
 Mr. Buchanan was married in Goderich, On- 
 tario, to Miss Eliza Dickson, a native of Brock- 
 ville, Canada, the daughter of a lumber mer- 
 chant, who died in that country when quite 
 young. Of the children born of this union 
 Floranda is now the wife of F. P. O'Neil of 
 Washington; Annie is Mrs. D. M. Collop, of 
 Fairhaven, Wash. ; Kate, deceased, was the 
 wife of M. Sexton ; Rosena is the wife of A. D. 
 McKisson of Montavilla, Ore. ; Orville makes 
 his home in Airlie, engaged in business with his 
 father, with whom he has always worked, be- 
 ing business manager of the mercantile estab- 
 lishment. He was born in Missouri, and is mar- 
 ried ; Mrs. Fay Glassford, who has three chil- 
 dren living — two sons and a daughter — Paul, 
 Neal and Gay; Evy, the wife of W. J. Newton, 
 a farmer located near Colfax, Wash. ; John and 
 Samuel, deceased, and buried in Blueville, Can- 
 ada; and two daughters who died in infancy 
 and were buried in Missouri. Mr. Buchanan is 
 a Democrat of the Jacksonian type. His wife 
 is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 HENRY H. BRINKLEY. A meritorious 
 war record preceded the coming of Henry H. 
 Brinkley to Oregon in the fall of 1866, and he 
 has since lived on a well improved farm of three 
 hundred and three acres in Polk county. Born 
 in Paducah, McCracken county, Ky., April 18, 
 1838, he is a son of William W., and grandson 
 of Timothv Brinkley, both of whom were natives 
 of North Carolina, and of English descent. Spe- 
 cial mention is due William W. Brinkley, who 
 was a cripple, and notwithstanding this discour- 
 aging circumstance, accomplished much during 
 his active life, acquired a good education in his 
 vouth, and also prepared for the future by learn- 
 ing the shoemaker's trade. For many years he 
 was a school teacher, and in connection therewith 
 made shoes, and also managed a farm. When 
 
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 his son, Henry H was a mere boy he removed 
 Illinois, locating on a farm in Gallatin county, 
 subsequently residing on farms in Hardin and 
 Hamilton counties. He was a stanch Democrat, 
 and served for many years as justice of the 
 peace, ami about 1850 represented Hamilton 
 county in the state legislature for a couple of 
 terms. In Gallatin county he was united in 
 rriage with Mar} Hall, a native of Gallatin 
 unty, and whose grandfather was a soldier 
 in the war of 1812. Mrs. Brinkley died in 
 Hamilton county at the age of forty, leaving five 
 children, three sons and two daughters. Her 
 husband survived her until 1870, and died in 
 Hamilton county at the age of seventy. 
 
 With the other members of his family Henry 
 II. Brinkley moved around a great deal in Illi- 
 nois, and at irregular intervals attended the 
 early subscription schools. He was living on a 
 farm in Gallatin county when the war broke out, 
 and September 16, 1862, enlisted in Company E, 
 Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry as a private, and 
 served as first duty sergeant. The regiment was 
 stationed at Peoria, 111., for five months, and 
 afterward sent to Louisville, from which head- 
 quarters it scoured the state under the command 
 of General Hobson. In the spring of 1863 it 
 - sent in search of General Morgan under 
 command of General Shackleford, returning to 
 Glasgow, Ky., at the expiration of five weeks. 
 In September, 1863, the regiment was sent across 
 country under General Burnside to Knoxville, 
 Tenn.. and was later with Sherman in the Atlanta 
 campaign, eventually falling back and joining 
 I leneral Thomas in the fight at Nashville. 
 During the last mentioned battle Mr. Brinkley 
 received a slight wound on the left hand from a 
 sabre, and also was hit in the face with a shell. 
 After being mustered out at Pulaski, Tenn., 
 July 31, 1865, he returned to Gallatin county, 
 111., and remained there until coming to Oregon 
 in i860. He took steamer at New York city, 
 crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and arrived in 
 San Francisco, from which port he -sailed for 
 Portland. 
 
 The Brinkley farm is valuable and well im- 
 proved, and is devoted to farming and stock- 
 raising, a specialty being made of Cotswold 
 sheep. A comfortable and commodious resi- 
 dence, good barns and the latest implements 
 contribute to the pleasure and profit of one of 
 the most peaceful and satisfactory occupations 
 in the world. In 1871 Mr. Brinkley married 
 Annie Wilds, a native of Benton county, and 
 born on Soap creek, upon which her father, John 
 W ilds, settled after crossing the plains in 1846. 
 Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Brinkley: Mary, the wife of A. J. Bagley of 
 Athens, Ore. ; John, living in Boise City ; Jessie, 
 the wife of Fred Koomtz, of Athens, Ore.; 
 
 Walter, at home; Annie, living at Salem, Ore.; 
 and Thomas, at home. Mr. Brinkley is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and has been road supervisor 
 and school director. He is fraternally associ- 
 ated with the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men of Corvallis, and the Grand Army of the 
 Republic of Independence. 
 
 JOSEPH ELMER HAMILTON. The pio- 
 neers who came to Oregon before the rush for 
 gold sent countless numbers out upon the plains, 
 thus minimizing the danger of travel, are deserv- 
 ing of more than passing mention, exhibiting as 
 they did a courage almost beyond the belief of 
 those who today occupy palace cars, and gaze 
 upon the farms which have supplanted the haunts 
 of the Indian from one ocean to the other. Among 
 the class of men who were influenced rather by 
 the fertility of the soil than the contents of the 
 mines, and who swelled the emigration west- 
 ward of 1847, must be mentioned Joseph Ham- 
 ilton, former agriculturist, merchant, state legis- 
 lator, and promoter of Linn county. This hon- 
 ored pioneer was the father of Joseph* E. Hamil- 
 ton, occupant of the old homestead at the present 
 time, and who was born thereon, June 17, 1862. 
 
 Joseph Hamilton was born on a small farm 
 near Londonderry, Ireland, March 25, 1819, and 
 came to the United States with his parents in 
 1826, settling on a farm in Ohio, where he grew 
 to manhood. He was married, in 1846, to Caro- 
 line Owens, born near Richmond, N. C, and after 
 his marriage continued his occupation of thresh- 
 ing in Iowa, to which state he had in the mean- 
 time removed. In 1847 he outfitted with ox- 
 teams and a prairie schooner, joined a train of 
 people bound for Oregon, and was on the road 
 six months. The party had several skirmishes 
 with the Indians, and one of the men was killed ; 
 they also had a number of cattle stolen. The 
 first winter was spent near Salem, and in the 
 spring of 1848 Mr. Hamilton came to Linn 
 county and took up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres eight miles southwest of 
 Albany, which property is now occupied by his 
 namesake son, Joseph E. The elder Joseph 
 built a little log cabin, as all the settlers were 
 obliged to do, and the substitution of this by a 
 more modern dwelling was an event of special 
 significance, indicating, as it did, the success 
 achieved by the father in clearing and cultivating 
 his land. A large part of his property was 
 prairie land, and this he devoted to general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, in time starting a general 
 merchandise store on his land, the first place in 
 the vicinity to sell goods. This little store was 
 quite a curiosity in its way, and people came 
 from far and near to purchase household necessi- 
 
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 ties, and incidentally to meet their friends and 
 talk over important happenings among the 
 settlers. The stock of the store was necessarily 
 limited, owing to the difficulty of transporting 
 goods from Portland, but it paved the way for 
 other and larger undertakings, and filled a long- 
 felt want among the pioneers. 
 
 In 1850 Mr. "Hamilton left his store and farm 
 to other hands and went to the mining districts 
 of California, and here, as elsewhere, he showed 
 his shrewd business sagacity. Realizing that 
 many were called but few chosen to succeed 
 as miners, he avoided being one of the latter 
 class by engaging in merchandising and freight- 
 ing rather than mining, and so wise proved this 
 decision, that he returned to his farm in Oregon 
 the richer by several hundreds of dollars. He took 
 an active part in politics from the time of attain- 
 ing his majority, filling a number of prominent 
 positions, representing Linn county in the state 
 legislature, and serving as county commissioner. 
 Even as a boy he was much interested in the 
 Presbyterian Church, and the older he grew the 
 more he appreciated church associations. Him- 
 self and wife were among the organizers of the 
 First Presbyterian Church in their vicinity, and 
 from year to year contributed to the best of 
 their ability towards its maintenance and chari- 
 ties. Even now at the age of seventy-seven years, 
 the wife who survives him is a regular attendant 
 at Sunday services. He was actively identified 
 with the organization of what is now the Cor- 
 vallis & Eastern Railroad Company and the con- 
 struction of its line and served on the committee 
 which endeavored to acquire the right of way 
 and the necessary legislation. He became one 
 of the stockholders in the company and was in- 
 terested in the project for many years. He had 
 previously been interested in the construction of 
 the first wagon road from Corvallis to Yaquina 
 Bay. In later years he was associated with other 
 leading men in the promotion of the County 
 Agricultural Society, and from its inception he 
 was one of the chief promoters of the State 
 Fair held at Salem, which he annually attended 
 in an official capacity. He and his brothers 
 brought with them, in 1847, the castings for the 
 first threshing machine ever operated in the 
 Willamette valley. This machine they made in 
 Ohio, and operated it in that state and Iowa. 
 After reaching Oregon they put the parts 
 together and operated it for several years, the 
 only implement of the kind in the valley. Mr. 
 Hamilton lived to be sixty-five years old, and 
 he left a finely improved property to his wife 
 and children. He was a man for whom all enter- 
 tained the most profound respect, and his death, 
 September 12, 1884, was mourned by a host of 
 friends and associates. He left six children, of 
 whom Joseph E. is the fifth. Angelina, the 
 
 oldest daughter, is the wife of George Riddell of 
 The Dalles ; Josephine is the wife of George 
 Henderson of Baker City; Jennie is the wife 
 of Rev. A. M. Acheson, of Pennsylvania ; Nellie 
 is the wife of G. T. Hamill of Idaho ; and Will- 
 iam B. is a physician practicing in Portland. 
 
 In his youth Joseph E. Hamilton had the ad- 
 vantages of the public schools and Albany Col- 
 lege, and has always lived on the home farm. 
 Since his father's death he has managed the farm 
 for his mother, with whom he is part owner, and 
 that he has made a success of it is not questioned 
 by anyone who visits the place, and inspects the 
 modern facilities for conducting an extensive 
 general farming and stock-raising enterprise. At 
 present he and his mother own eight hundred 
 acres, quite an increase over the father's original 
 purchase, and one hundred and fifty acres are 
 under cultivation. The family have a comfort- 
 able and pleasant home, and the barns and out- 
 houses are of the best. September 8, 1891, Mr. 
 Hamilton married Anna E. Greenlee, who was 
 born near Joliet, 111., and reared in Kansas. Of 
 this union there have been born four children, 
 Robert Bruce, Joseph Allen, Mary Isabella and 
 Amna Irene. Like his father, Mr. Hamilton is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church, in which 
 he is an elder. In political faith he is a Repub- 
 lican, with a strong leaning towards prohibition. 
 No family in the county represents in greater 
 degree moral and agricultural excellence, con- 
 servative growth and reliability, than does the 
 pioneer and prosperous family of Hamilton. 
 
 AI PORTER. A worthy representative of 
 one of the finest and most influential families 
 of the Willamette Valley is Ai Porter, the for- 
 tunate owner of six hundred and fifty acres of 
 land six miles southeast of Silverton. This 
 farm, and especially the house, has a two-fold 
 interest for Mr. Porter, for it represents the 
 place of his birth, December 31, 1873, the scene 
 of his childish pastimes and small labors, and 
 the surroundings among which developed his 
 rugged ancestral characteristics. At present he 
 is engaged in general farming and stock-raising 
 under the most favorable circumstances, his 
 barns, outhouses, implements and general im- 
 provements keeping pace with agricultural ad- 
 vancement as understood by practical and sci- 
 entific toilers of the soil. 
 
 The Porter family was established in Oregon 
 by Edward S. Porter, who removed from Ohio 
 to a location in Fulton county, 111., about 1835, 
 and there worked at his trade of blacksmith for 
 about twenty years. He came to Oregon in 
 1853 with ox-teams, and in Marion county lo- 
 cated with his wife and children on what is now 
 known as the Porter donation claim, five miles 
 
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 southeast oi Silverton. He lived to a good old 
 and after the death of his wife, Anna 
 (Anderson) Porter, made his home with his 
 youngest son. His son John, the father of Ai, 
 was born in Richland county, Ohio, October 6, 
 [830, and when rive years of age removed with 
 his parents to Fulton county, 111., where he was 
 
 tred and educated. He was twenty-three 
 of age when he came across the plains 
 with the rest of the family, and two years later, 
 on his father's donation claim near Silverton, he 
 married Annis White, who was born in Mis- 
 ri, and who came across the plains with her 
 parents in 1852, settling on the White donation 
 claim five miles southeast of Silverton. Mr. 
 Porter is possessed of marked business ability, 
 and to the farm upon which he first located 
 he added materially, and at present owns nearly 
 sixteen hundred acres of land. Two years after 
 his marriage he located near Fairfield, and in 
 [864 located on the White donation claim, re- 
 maining there until after the death of his wife 
 in iSe)7. Since then he has made his home with 
 his children, at whose homes he is a welcome 
 guest at all times. To an exceptional degree 
 .Mr. Porter enjoys the confidence of his fellow- 
 townsmen, and his services in behalf of the up- 
 building of this county have been appreciated. 
 
 Ai Porter was educated in the district schools, 
 and has always taken kindly and even enthusi- 
 astically to farming, for which occupation he 
 was prepared b\ r his wise and sagacious father. 
 October 22, 1901, he was united in marriage 
 with Miss Josie Bailer, a native daughter of 
 Oregon and, like her husband, educated in the 
 public schools. Her parents were Rosie and 
 Abraham Bailer. To Mr. and Mrs. Porter there 
 was born July 29, 1903, a son, whom they call 
 Clarence. In politics Mr. Porter is a Republican. 
 
 HENDERSON W. MURPHY. The head 
 of the Murphy family, Rev. John E. Murphy, 
 brought with him into the wilderness several 
 families to swell the growth of the western ter- 
 ritory, being accompanied on the journey by 
 his own immediate children, sons-in-law and 
 their families and several other relatives. The 
 train was known as the Murphy train, so many 
 of that name and blood did it contain, in fact, 
 by the time their destination was reached being 
 alone, as they had parted company with the other 
 emigrants long before. 
 
 Rev. Tohn E. Murphy was born in Barren 
 county, Ky., in 1806, and was the son of Will- 
 iam Murphy, also a native of that state, having 
 been born there of Irish ancestry. The elder 
 man was a farmer by profession, and brought 
 his children up to this life. In religion he was 
 
 a member of the Christian Church, and the 
 moral instruction which accompanied that of daily 
 duty bore great and good fruit in the person 
 of his son, John E. At an early day Mr. Mur- 
 phy took his family into Illinois, where they 
 located in Warren county, John E. Murphy 
 engaging then in the Christian ministry as well 
 as following agricultural pursuits. In Ken- 
 tuck)' he was married to Frances W. Daughty, 
 who was born in Barren county, in 1810, and 
 in 1852 they had quite a large family, many of 
 the children being married and having homes of 
 their own. When the trip to the west was talked 
 over they were nearly all in accord, and at once 
 began making preparations to leave the Miss- 
 issippi valley in the spring of 1852, four wagons 
 drawn by oxen conveying the possessions of Mr. 
 Murphy. There were about thirty wagons in 
 the train when it left Monmouth, 111., April 13, 
 1852, but as before mentioned they broke up 
 into smaller parties before the journey was 
 ended. Five months after the time of starting 
 their destination was reached, and their first 
 winter was spent where Crowley is now located, 
 the next spring finding them upon a claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres to which Mr. 
 Murphy had bought the right. This was located 
 near Airlie, and they remained for two years, 
 when he sold the farm and removed to Mon- 
 mouth, Polk county, engaging in farming and 
 stock-raising near that city. In addition to his 
 agricultural pursuits was the ministerial life 
 of Mr. Murphy, for as he had made that his 
 principal occupation in the Mississippi valley he 
 made it so here, and no small debt is owed to 
 him by the congregations of the Christian 
 Churches of Oregon. For many years he gave 
 himself almost entirely to the establishment of 
 churches and evangelistic meetings, both in 
 Oregon and Washington, and he met with great 
 success, for he was a speaker of unusual ability 
 and strong personality. He was also interested 
 in all educational movements and was active in 
 the organization of the Christian College at 
 Monmouth, which has since become the state 
 normal school. This was established in 1856, 
 and he became a trustee and financial agent, 
 discharging his duties with the admirable faith- 
 fulness which characterized his entire life. 
 
 Many incidents in the life of Mr. Murphy are 
 characteristic of his strong sense of right, which 
 was his, partly through inheritance, as his 
 father was also a Christian in the truest sense 
 of the word. The family was of southern blood, 
 and was well-to-do in every way, and like many 
 other Kentucky families its wealth consisted of 
 negroes, inherited from an estate in Virginia, 
 the former home of the Murphys. Opposed to 
 slavery in every thought and principle, though 
 every year up to the time of manhood had been 
 
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 spent among these conditions, Air. Murphy used 
 his influence toward the liberation of the slaves 
 held by his father, and was successful both with 
 father and an uncle, who also owned quite a 
 number of negroes. During the Civil war he 
 was strong and earnest in using his influence 
 for the defense of the Union, as he had been in 
 the case of the two plantations. During a too 
 brief life he made many friends by the kind- 
 ness and Christian charity which he ever gave 
 to those about him, and his death, which 
 occurred in Monmouth, in 1876, was a loss 
 felt by the entire community. His wife, who 
 had faithfully assisted him through the long 
 years of their married life, survived him until 
 December 30, 1891, when she died in the eighty- 
 first year of her age. 
 
 Of the twelve children which blessed the 
 union of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, Henderson W. 
 Murphy was the fourth, and was born in War- 
 ren county, 111., February 3, 1835, and received 
 his principal common school education in the 
 schools of Illinois. After settling in Oregon he 
 attended the Christian College at Monmouth for 
 some time, and when his education was con- 
 sidered complete he went into the stock business 
 in Polk county, later removing to Klickitat 
 county, Wash., where he continued the work. 
 Until 1882 he remained in that location, when 
 he purchased the property which he now owns 
 and upon which he makes his home. After five 
 or six years here he returned to Klickitat county 
 and engaged in the sheep business, having at 
 one time forty-five hundred head. He was very 
 successful, and after four years there he once 
 more settled upon his farm and "for the last 
 sixteen years he has been interested in general 
 farming and stock-raising, having at present 
 one hundred head of cattle and seventy sheep. 
 He is also interested in dairying and hop-rais- 
 ing, having twenty-two and a half acres devoted 
 to the cultivation of this plant. Altogther he 
 has nine hundred and forty-three acres, six 
 hundred of which is in active cultivation. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Murphy was married to Rebecca 
 L. Davidson, a native of Indiana, born there in 
 1842, and the daughter of Henry Davidson, who 
 crossed the plains in 1852 and located in Linn 
 county. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Murphy, Sarah is the wife of W. L. Wells; 
 John D. ; Omer is located in Independence ; Nel- 
 lie is the wife of A. M. Rayburn of Adams 
 county, Wash.; Kate is the wife of Wilmer 
 Cooper, of Klondike, Sherman county, Ore. ; 
 Carrie is the wife of Charles Dickman, of Monk- 
 land, Sherman county; and Claud is still at 
 home. Politically Mr. Murphy is a Republican, 
 and in religion both himself and wife belong to 
 the Christian Church at Monmouth. Some years 
 aero he served as his father had done in the 
 
 capacity of trustee for the Christian College at 
 Monmouth, and has also served as school 
 director and road supervisor. 
 
 WILLIAM M. PORTER. Not even second 
 to the thought that one is numbered among the 
 pioneers of this great commonwealth of Oregon 
 is the pleasure to be gained from the fact that 
 one is the son of a worthy man among them, 
 and the native son of the state which has been 
 an asylum and refuge for so many homeless 
 wanderers. The grandfather of W. M. Porter, 
 Samuel Porter, after his removal to Missouri 
 from Tennessee, followed this up with a trip 
 to the Sunset state, where his last days were 
 spent. The father, John, was born in Tennes- 
 see, and removed with his parents to Missouri, 
 from which he emigrated to Oregon in 1848, 
 in company with his wife and child and two 
 brothers. They went over the Barlow route in 
 an ox-train, the journey occupying six months. 
 Upon their arrival in Oregon Mr. Porter took 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres ten miles south of Corvallis, Benton 
 county, where was located the town which at 
 that time was called Marysville. Upon this 
 farm he remained for some time, engaged in 
 active farming and improving his property, 
 later removing to Lane county, and, with the 
 proceeds of his sale 'of his Benton county prop- 
 erty, investing in another farm in this section. 
 And once more, before being entirely satisfied 
 with his surroundings, he made a sale, settling 
 in Harrisburg, Linn county, in the latter place 
 remaining until his death. His wife was for- 
 merly Mary Winkle, a native of Alabama, whose 
 father, Isaac, moved to Missouri at an early 
 day, crossing the plains in 1848, taking up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 at Winkle Butte, nine miles south of Corvallis, 
 making this his home until his death. Mrs. 
 Porter is also deceased. 
 
 Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Porter, five are now living, the fourth oldest 
 W. M., who was born in Benton county, Ore ; , 
 January 3, 1861, being brought up on the farm 
 in Linn county. His educational advantages 
 consisted of a very irregular attendance upon 
 the common schools in the vicinity of his home 
 the three months of the year in which they 
 were in session. He remained with his parents 
 until he was twenty-four years of age, at that 
 time commencing an apprenticeship under a 
 blacksmith to learn that trade. These years were 
 not disagreeable ones to the young man, his 
 business relations being with his brother, Thur- 
 ston, who was a blacksmith in Harrisburg. 
 When his education in this line was completed 
 he left his brother and opened a business for 
 
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 himself in Corvallis, of his native county. This 
 event was in the year 1893, and since that time 
 his business lias grown to splendid proportions, 
 through the manner in which he has served the 
 public. Not only a good blacksmith, he is pat- 
 ronized by all who have horseshoeing to be done, 
 as he has made a specialty of this branch of 
 the business, and is an acknowledged leader in 
 tin- .section of the community. 
 
 In llarrisburg occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Porter which united him with Miss Marie 
 Pierce, a native of that place, and daughter of 
 iames Fierce, who came to Oregon in 1847 an( i 
 settled in Linn county. One daughter, bearing 
 the name of Mildred, has blessed the union. 
 Fraternally Mr. Porter is past master of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belongs to 
 the encampment, and is also a member of the 
 Rebekahs. He is also identified with the Wood- 
 men of the World. As to his political affilia- 
 tions he votes the Democratic ticket and in re- 
 ligion is a member of the Christian Church, in 
 which he now serves as deacon. 
 
 EDWIN A. ALDERMAN. A native son of 
 Yamhill county, who has done much to increase 
 its agricultural prestige, is Edwdn A. Alderman, 
 born on his father's farm November 30, 1866, a 
 son of Albert and Charlotte (Odell) Alderman. 
 Albert Alderman was born in Old Bedford, 
 Conn., December 16, 1820, and in his youth 
 learned the cooper's trade. From his native state 
 of Connecticut he moved to New York when a 
 young man, and from there to Michigan, in both 
 states being engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
 ing. In 1846, with ox teams, he crossed the 
 plains to Oregon, Captain Dunbar being captain 
 of the party. In Y r amhill county, Mr. Alderman 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres the following year, located near Day- 
 ton, the same on which he now resides, and which 
 has been brought to a high state of cultivation. 
 
 Mr. Alderman's first wife was Mary "J. Burns, 
 and at her death left four children, of whom 
 Margaret is now Mrs. Hubbard, of Polk county; 
 William is also a resident of that county ; Marita, 
 Mrs. McCowan, is also a resident of Polk county, 
 and Medorem was the youngest child. The sec- 
 ond marriage of Mr. Alderman occurred in 1866, 
 with Charlotte Odell, a native of Carroll county, 
 Ind., and daughter of John R. Odell, the latter of 
 whom was born in Indiana and crossed the plains 
 in 1 85 1, locating in Yamhill county. By his sec- 
 ond marriage the family of Mr. Alderman was 
 increased by four sons and one daughter, Edwin 
 A. being the eldest. Ennis resides south of Day- 
 ton ; Lewis R. is principal of the schools of Mc- 
 Minnville; George is deceased, and Eva E. is the 
 youngest member of the family. 
 
 Until the paternal donation claim was divided 
 among the children Edwin A. Alderman re- 
 mained at home with his father, receiving a thor- 
 ough agricultural and common-school education, 
 and evincing from the earliest youth, habits of 
 thrift and economy. In 1896 he received his 
 share of the home farm, which amounted to one 
 hundred and fifty acres, of which he has one 
 hundred acres under cultivation. While Mr. Al- 
 derman has derived considerable profit from gen- 
 eral farming, he also enjoys a substantial income 
 from his stock enterprises, in connection with 
 which he conducts a good-sized dairy. 
 
 On the first day of the year 1897, Mr. Alder- 
 man was united in marriage with Mary Bliss, 
 daughter of John and Rose (Hubbard) Bliss, 
 both of whom were natives of Lewis county, N. 
 Y. One son has blessed the marriage of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Alderman, who bears the name of Dwight 
 E. Private affairs have not consumed all of the 
 time and talents of Mr. Alderman, and his public 
 life has been above reproach. For several years 
 he was a member of the city council, and it was 
 his privilege to be the first chief executive of 
 Dayton. Political matters have always been of 
 interest to Mr. Alderman, and he has been a 
 stanch defender of the principles of the Repub- 
 lican party from young manhood. He is usually 
 a delegate to the county - conventions, and has 
 served as recorder of Dayton. School matters 
 have likewise been benefited by his abilities, his 
 service in the cause of education being felt while 
 he was school director. Fraternally, he is iden- 
 tified with the Woodmen of the World and the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Day- 
 ton Grange also claims Mr. Alderman as one of 
 its members. All in all, Mr. Alderman is one of 
 the rising young men of Yamhill county, to 
 whom the younger generation may look as an 
 example of honorable, upright living. 
 
 WILLIAM SHEPHERD. After one has 
 achieved a success in life there is a pleasure in 
 taking a retrospective view of one's career and 
 following the various steps which have led to 
 the place now r honorably occupied, and many 
 things serve as reminders, especially in a country 
 like Oregon, justly proud of the rapid advance- 
 ment which has characterized the growth of the 
 state. To William Shepherd, a pioneer of '47, 
 the past is recalled by a few old blacksmith tools, 
 which helped him to earn a livelihood during his 
 early days in the west, and by the broad acres of 
 his original donation claim, upon which stands 
 an old building of hewed logs, the first house 
 of worship put up in the country of the early 
 times. By a long, prosperous and helpful life 
 in this vicinity Mr. Shepherd has come to be 
 known among the people as one who helped to 
 
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 lay the corner stone of Oregon's greatness, the 
 esteem in which he is held being evidence of 
 his worth. 
 
 The life of Mr. Shepherd has been full of in- 
 teresting events, patriotism, a love of adventure 
 and a spirit of justice inducing him to give his 
 aid in various causes. He hails from the Em- 
 erald Isle, being born near Belfast, County 
 Down, November 26, 1821, and having lost 
 his father when he was nine years old he was 
 thrown upon his own resources. When only 
 sixteen years old he came with his mother and 
 sisters to make a new home among the more 
 hopeful conditions of the United States ; and 
 after a voyage of two months they landed and 
 became residents of Catskill, Greene county, 
 N. Y. In that city Mr. Shepherd served an 
 apprenticeship with a blacksmith, after which, 
 in 1842, he removed to Illinois. In the same year 
 he enlisted under Captain Stevenson for services 
 in the war between Texas and Mexico, where he 
 remained for about six months, during which 
 time he took part in the battle of Matamoras. 
 His remuneration for this period of service in 
 the cause of Texas was three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land, the value of which is shown 
 in the fact that he traded the entire tract for a 
 horse. After a siege of sickness which kept him 
 in Texas more than a year Mr. Shepherd crossed 
 the United States to Canada, and after a short 
 time there he visited his old home in New York, 
 and then located in Pittsburg, Pa. Afterward 
 he returned to Illinois, where he remained until 
 1847, when he started across the plains with ox- 
 teams, his brother-in-law being in the same train. 
 The- journey occupied six months, during which 
 they encountered no difficulties, and upon their 
 arrival in Linn county Mr. Shepherd at once 
 took up a donation claim, which he eventually 
 lost by enlisting again in the army. From that 
 location he came to Oregon City and worked at 
 his trade until he enlisted in Phil Thompson's 
 company for services in the Cayuse war, remain- 
 ing in Thompson's command for six months, 
 and was then under Captain Martin for three 
 months. It was his fortune to serve in every 
 engagement of this war, after which he was 
 mustered out, and returning to Linn county, he 
 again took up a donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres located four miles south of 
 Peoria. He here built the log cabin before men- 
 tioned as the first place of worship in this coun- 
 try. In 1849 hi s spirit of adventure was aroused 
 by the gold excitement of California, and with 
 ox-teams he journeyed thither and successfully 
 followed mining and prospecting for four months. 
 Returning north he engaged earnestly in the 
 cultivation of his donation claim, transforming 
 the wilderness into a farm of fine, well kept ap- 
 pearance, a comfortable dwelling and modern 
 
 out-buildings testifying to the prosperity which 
 has followed the well directed efforts of Mr. 
 Shepherd. In addition to his farming Mr. 
 Shepherd has always been employed at his trade, 
 the first blacksmith shop in this country being 
 his, many of the tools being still in his pos- 
 session. 
 
 In 1 85 1 Mr. Shepherd made a trip back to New 
 York state, via the Isthmus of Panama, and on 
 December 25, of the same year, he married 
 Mary F. Palmer, a native of that state, and in 
 the spring of 1852 they crossed the plains to- 
 gether with horse-teams, after six months reach- 
 ing the claim where their home was henceforth 
 to be. Of the children born to them, William 
 H. is located in the vicinity ; George B. is at 
 home ; Sarah A. is now Mrs. Williams, of Har- 
 risburg; Ida B. is Mrs. Bromwell, and Margaret 
 is Mrs. Allenham both of this vicinity. Mrs. 
 Shepherd having died in 1890, Mr. Shepherd 
 now makes his home with his son. In politics 
 Mr. Shepherd has always voted the Republican 
 ticket, though he has never been actively identi- 
 fied with any political movement, nor has he as- 
 pired to political office, satisfied with the honor 
 which his own sturdy efforts have brought to 
 him, the position among his neighbors and 
 friends as a worthy pioneer of Oregon. 
 
 C. H. PIOAG. On a farm in St. Lawrence 
 county, N. Y., where he was born September 
 15, 1 84 1, C. H. Hoag was reared to habits of 
 thrift and industry, and laid the foundation for 
 the strong constitution and natural aptitude which 
 have been so advantageously used during his 
 residence in Oregon. His father, Daniel Hoag, 
 was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., and by 
 trade was a carpenter, although his entire active 
 life was devoted to farming as well. As a young 
 man he married Eliza Barlow, who was born in 
 England in 1823, and when twelve years of age 
 came to New York state with her parents, lo- 
 cating on a farm. Seven children, three boys 
 and four girls, were born to Daniel and Eliza 
 Hoag, and all were reared in New York, where 
 the parents lived until about 1890, when they 
 came west to visit their children. The)' were 
 an unusually well mated and happy couple, and 
 even in death they were not long divided, for 
 both died in Chehalis county, Wash., in 1897, 
 the father at the age of seventy-seven and the 
 mother at the age of seventy-four. 
 
 During his youth C. H. Hoag worked on his 
 father's farm in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., 
 and irregularly attended the near-by district 
 school. Arriving at his majority, he desired to 
 depend solely upon his own efforts, so engaged 
 in farming on his own responsibility. He was 
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 ira of age, came west by way of New York, 
 Panama ami San Francisco, and for a year en- 
 red in teaming in Santa Cruz. In 1873 ne 
 came to Marion county, and at Jefferson became 
 manager for a saw-mill for a year and a half. 
 While thus employed he met his future wife, 
 ra Tcrhune, who was a native daughter of 
 Marion county, and born in December, 1852. Her 
 father. Jahez, crossed the plains at a very early 
 dav, locating on a donation claim near Jefferson, 
 Marion county. Two children have been born 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hoag, Dwight, of Chehalis 
 county, Wash., and Artie Gertrude, deceased. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Hoag went to eastern Oregon, 
 anil in Wasco county engaged in the cattle and 
 sheep husiness for two years. Returning to 
 Marion county he soon after came to Polk 
 county, and in 1878 bought his present farm of 
 one hundred and twenty-five acres, one hundred 
 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Hoag is 
 engaged in stock-raising and general farming, 
 and he has a well-improved place, with com- 
 modious residence and barns, good fences and 
 modern agricultural implements. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and has served as road super- 
 ir and school trustee. With his wife he is 
 a member of the Evangelical Church, of which 
 he is at present a steward. Genial and kindly 
 in his manner, enterprising and thrifty, Mr. 
 Hoag commands the respect and good will of a 
 host of friends and associates. 
 
 COL. JOHN KELSAY. High on the roll 
 of fame in Oregon appears the name of Col. 
 John Kelsay, and his influence has been felt far 
 beyond the limits of the locality in which he 
 made his home. He was long regarded as one 
 of the most learned lawyers of the state and 
 was not only a leading representative of the legal 
 fraternity, but was a student of the questions 
 relating to the social conditions, the labor in- 
 terests and the citizenship of this country. In 
 fact, his reading compassed almost every sub- 
 ject affecting the weal or woe of the nation and 
 his voice was raised in defense or opposition to 
 measures advanced, as he believed in their 
 utility or felt that they would prove detrimental 
 to the country. None doubted his patriotism, 
 all admired his wisdom and even those hold- 
 ing different views acknowledged his honesty of 
 purpose and honored him therefor. 
 
 Colonel Kelsay was born in Wayne county, 
 Ky., October 23, 1819, his parents being Alex- 
 ander and Jane (Kelley) Kelsay. He came of 
 Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was ten years of age 
 when in 1829 his parents removed from Ken- 
 tucky to Cooter, Mo., afterward locating in Mor- 
 gan county, that state. The educational privi- 
 leges in Missouri were then extremelv limited, 
 
 but his mother was a lady of rare intellectual 
 attainments and his early knowledge of books 
 was gained at her knee. She not only instilled 
 into his mind lessons that proved a foundation 
 for broad literary learning, but also planted in 
 his mind lessons of truth and uprightness which 
 developed into a character that has ever com- 
 manded the highest respect. Early in life his 
 mind seemed to possess, an analytical turn and 
 when he had attained his majority it seemed but 
 natural that he should take up the study of law. 
 In July, 1845, having read quite extensively, he 
 was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice 
 in the courts of Missouri. He remained a mem- 
 ber of the legal profession of that state until 
 1853 and in the meantime met in forensic com- 
 bat some men of ability who were forced to 
 acknowledge his skill. At the age of eighteen 
 he had been commissioned a captain of militia 
 and two years later he was promoted to the rank 
 of major, but not only military honors awaited 
 him, but political as well, for in 1844 he was 
 elected to represent his district in the legislature. 
 While Colonel Kelsay won distinction as a 
 legislator and lawyer in Missouri the far west 
 attracted him. He believed that amid the natural 
 resources and great opportunities of Oregon he 
 might find a broad field of labor, and therefore 
 in 1853 he crossed the plains, arriving in Ben- 
 ton county in September of that year. Immedi- 
 ately afterward he entered upon his practice, 
 opening an office in Corvallis, and while he won 
 distinction in that way, he was ever alive to the 
 best interests of the county and state and co- 
 operated in many measures for the general good. 
 On the breaking out of the Rogue river war he 
 organized a company with which he went to the 
 south and took an active part in the contest 
 against the Indians. He then resumed his legal 
 business and his clientage constantly grew and 
 became of a nature distinctively representative. 
 His knowledge of the law, his fitness for leader- 
 ship and his marked ability led to his selection 
 for honors somewhat outside of the strict path 
 of his profession and yet having close connec- 
 tion with the welfare of the territory. In 1857 
 he served as chairman of the military committee 
 on forming the state constitution. Again in 
 1868 he was called to public office, being elected 
 a judge of the supreme court of the state, and 
 upon the bench he showed himself the peer of 
 the ablest men who have ever graced the higher 
 court. While upon the bench he carefully lifted 
 the judicial ermine above the mire of parties. 
 Devotedly attached to his profession, systematic 
 and methodical in habit, sober and discreet in 
 judgment, calm in temper, diligent in research, 
 conscientious in the discharge of every duty, 
 courteous and kind in demeanor and inflexibly 
 just on all occasions, these qualities enable Judge 
 
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 Kelsay to take first rank among those who have 
 held the highest judicial office in the state and 
 made him the conservator of that justice wherein 
 lies the safeguard of individual liberty and hap- 
 piness and the defense of our national institu- 
 tions. 
 
 While residing in Missouri in December, 1846, 
 Judge Kelsay was united in marriage to Miss 
 Martha C. Monroe, a daughter of General Mon- 
 roe, one of the distinguished and eminent cit- 
 izens of that state. Her death occurred No- 
 vember 20, 1854, and for his second wife the 
 judge wedded Miss Countner, by whom he had 
 two children, Annie and Lyman P., the latter 
 dying in the Philippine Islands. 
 
 Judge Kelsay was a man of broad mind and 
 liberal views, strong in his convictions and thor- 
 oughly in earnest in whatever work he under- 
 took. He gained a high place in his profession 
 by hard work, and few lawyers have made a 
 more lasting impression upon the bar of the 
 state, both for legal ability of a high order and 
 for the intellectuality which impresses itself upon 
 a community. 
 
 JOSEPH M. NOLAN. Where the sons of 
 Erin are found, there are also found good citi- 
 zens and enterprising business men. Versatil- 
 ity energy and adaptability are the characteris- 
 tics of the men that Ireland has sent to the new 
 world, and J. M. Nolan of this review is a 
 worthy scion of his race. He is now a leading 
 merchant in Corvallis, and widely known in the 
 valley His birth occurred in Dublin, Ireland, 
 in December, 1842, his parents being Matthew 
 and Judith (Tiernan) Nolan, who were also 
 natives of the Emerald Isle. The father was a 
 farmer bv occupation and came of a family that 
 through 'generations had followed agricultural 
 pursuits. By his marriage he had eight children 
 of whom our subject is the seventh in order of 
 birth and the only one in America. 
 
 Reared upon his father's farm until sixteen 
 years of age J. M. Nolan during that time 
 acquired a good practical education in the 
 national schools. He then entered upon an 
 apprenticeship in a general mercantile store in 
 Tullow County Carlow, Ireland, where he served 
 for a term of five years, and afterward contin- 
 ued in the emplov of the same house for nine 
 consecutive years— a fact which indicates unmis- 
 takably his fidelity to the interests of his 
 employers and his absolute trustworthiness. He 
 afterward went to the city of Dublin, where he 
 was employed as a clerk in a large dry goods 
 store until 1872, when he resolved to come to 
 the United States. He made the voyage across 
 the Atlantic to Ouebec and thence crossed the 
 continent to San Francisco, where he secured a 
 
 clerkship in a dry goods establishment, remain- 
 ing there until 1877, when he came to Oregon, 
 settling in Albany. There he started in business 
 on his own account, having a capital of a few 
 hundred dollars which he had accumulated in 
 San Francisco. He prospered in his new under- 
 taking and in May, 1884, seeking a broader field 
 of labor, he moved his stock to Corvallis, where 
 he is now conducting a large dry goods and 
 clothing business. He has built up an excellent 
 trade through honorable methods, and in all his 
 dealings he closely adheres to the strictest com- 
 mercial rectitude, so that his business career is 
 alike honorable and commendable. Today he 
 occupies the central section of the First Nat- 
 ional Bank building, having a room twenty-five 
 by one hundred feet, with an annex 25x25 feet, 
 and around the whole is a broad gallery. Six 
 years ago the firm of Nolan & Callahan was 
 formed, the junior partner having learned the 
 business while in the employ of Mr. Nolan 
 as clerk. 
 
 Mr. Nolan has been twice married. He first 
 wedded Miss Mary Callahan, who was born in 
 Vancouver, Wash., her parents having been 
 pioneers of the northwest. She died in Cor- 
 vallis, leaving two children : Thomas Joseph, 
 who is a graduate of the Mount Angel Business 
 College and is now in his father's store ; and 
 Mary Kate, who is a student in St. Mary's 
 Academy, Portland, Ore. For his second wife 
 Mr. Nolan chose Miss Kate Thompson, a native 
 of Oregon, and their marriage was celebrated 
 here. There are two children by this union, 
 Edward Victor and Gertrude. In national poli- 
 tics Mr. Nolan is a gold Democrat, but at local 
 elections votes independently, regarding the 
 capability of the candidate without reference to 
 party ties. He has served for one term as coun- 
 cilman of Corvallis. For twenty-two years he 
 has been a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. His residence in America 
 covers a period of thirty-one years, during which 
 time he has worked his way steadily upward 
 and bv honorable methods has achieved success. 
 
 WESTON McLANE. The descendant of 
 Scotch ancestry, Weston McLane has brought 
 with him into the west those traits which dis- 
 tinguish the natives of that country, winning 
 through perseverance and industry a prominent 
 place in the business affairs of a community, 
 and the esteem of those with whom he mingles. 
 With no capital but an indomitable will, he 
 broke away from the associations of his boy- 
 hood and set his face steadily toward the setting 
 sun. becoming an emigrant in 1853. 
 
 The father" of Weston McLane, Milton, was 
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 also a native of that country, where lie combined 
 the two interests of tailoring and farming-. 
 Induced to cross the water to America he brought 
 his famih and located in Mason county, in what 
 was then Virginia but is now included in West 
 \ irginia. There he made his home until his 
 death. In that location Milton McLane grew to 
 manhood, and was there married to Mary 
 Summerville, a native of Mason county, and of 
 the three children born to them, two sons and 
 one daughter, the only one now living is Weston 
 McLane, the oldest, who was born in Mason 
 county, W. Va., May 30, 1833. The father 
 afterward became a resident of Indiana, engag- 
 ing in farming and stock-raising, and dying 
 there in 1865, at the age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 Six months of the life of Weston McLane 
 was spent inside the four walls of a school- 
 room, this being in West Virginia, during which 
 he acquired, necessarily, but little knowledge, 
 and not content with this he has bent every 
 effort toward self-improvement in the years that 
 followed that short attendance of a public 
 school, and through this perseverance and energy 
 he has become a well informed man, keeping in 
 touch with the events of the day. Early forced 
 to seek his own living, he left West Virginia 
 when only a boy, and going to Missouri, he 
 located in Pike county, where he engaged in 
 farm work on his uncle's plantation, acting as 
 overseer of the negroes. In the spring of 1853 
 he outfitted for the trip across the plains, intent 
 on seeking the gold mines of California, and 
 after five months and four days he arrived safely 
 with his wagon and five y r oke of oxen, locating 
 near Volcano, Amador county. Alternating his 
 work for others with independent action be 
 engaged in mining until 1878, when he came to 
 Oregon by water and located the same year 
 near Suver, Polk county. After two years in 
 which he engaged in farming he followed team- 
 ing, soon, however, ending that to accept the 
 position of agent for the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad at Suver, in which employment he has 
 since remained. While in California he com- 
 bined the management of the Amador Sulphur 
 works, with his mining ventures, continuing in 
 that position seven years. 
 
 Just previous to taking his trip across the 
 plains Mr. McLane married in Pike county, 
 Mo., Sarah Yeater, who was born there, March 
 31, 1833. She was the daughter of Henry 
 Yeater, an emigrant from Germany. Mr. and 
 Mrs. McLane have had three children, of whom 
 Edward is in the warehouse business at Suver, 
 and is named as one of the prominent men of 
 the town; and Francis and Martha deceased. 
 Mr. McLane is independent in his political 
 views, preferring to be free to exercise his judg- 
 ment in the matter of voting, though he inclines 
 
 to the principles of the Republican party. 
 Being interested in educational matters, he has 
 served for eight years as school clerk. In relig- 
 ion, he is a member of the Evangelical Church 
 at Suver. 
 
 AMON SHADDEN. It was on December 
 20, 1853, on the farm where he yet lives near 
 McMinnville, that Anion Shadden was born, 1 
 representative of an honored pioneer family. 
 Pie is a son of T. J. Shadden, one of the pioneer 
 settlers of this portion of the state. The days 
 of chivalry and knighthood in Europe cannot 
 furnish more interesting or romantic tales than 
 our own western history. Into the wild moun- 
 tain fastnesses of the unexplored west went 
 brave men, whose courage was often called 
 forth in encounters with hostile savages. The 
 land was rich in all natural resources, in gold 
 and silver, in agricultural and commercial pos- 
 sibilities, and awaited the demands of man to 
 yield up its treasures, but its mountain heights 
 were hard to climb, its forests difficult to pene- 
 trate, and the magnificent trees, the dense 
 bushes or the jagged rocks often sheltered the 
 skulking foe, who resented the encroachment 
 of the pale face upon these "hunting grounds." 
 The establishment of homes in this beautiful 
 region therefore meant sacrifices, hardships, 
 and oftimes death, but there were some men, 
 however, brave enough to meet the red man 
 in his own familiar haunts and undertake the 
 task of reclaiming the district for civilization. 
 The rich mineral stores of this vast region 
 were thus added to the wealth of the nation; 
 its magnificent forests contributed to the lum- 
 ber industries and its fertile valleys added to 
 the opportunities of the farmer and stock- 
 raiser, and to-day the northwest is one of the 
 most productive sections of the entire country. 
 That this is so is due to such men as T. J. 
 Shadden, whose name is inseparably inter- 
 woven with the history of the region. He was 
 born February 26, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn. 
 Plis parents were farmers by occupation, and 
 when he was but a small boy his father was 
 accidentally killed in a sparring match in which 
 he was engaged for exercise. The son then 
 remained at home with his mother until about 
 fifteen or sixteen years of age, when he startec 
 out to make his own way in the world, going 
 first to Mississippi, and afterward to Arkansas, 
 where he worked as a general laborer. In 
 early manhood he married Martha Sumler, a 
 native of Arkansas, and in 1842 they joined a 
 small colony of emigrants for the northwest. 
 Their outfit consisted of a wagon drawn by 
 oxen, and they carried with them a few house- 
 hold effects, Long was the journey and diffi- 
 
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 cult the way, but eventually they reached 
 Green river, Idaho. There they abandoned 
 their wagons and came on by pack trains to 
 Oregon as far as The Dalles, proceeding thence 
 by skiff to Portland, while the cattle were 
 driven across the country. Mr. Shadden and 
 his wife first settled in Tualatin plain, where 
 they remained until the spring of 1844, at 
 which time they started for California, also 
 journeying by pack train at that time. They 
 became residents of Sacramento, where they 
 resided until 1850, and there Mr. Shadden fol- 
 lowed prospecting and mining. He also en- 
 gaged in speculating to some extent, and con- 
 ducted a large ranch and trading post, bravely 
 meeting the difficulties and hardships incident 
 to frontier life. In 1850, however, he returned 
 by boat to Portland, after a successful sojourn 
 in California, bringing with him $180,000 in 
 gold dust. He took up a donation claim on 
 Beaver creek, about two and a half miles wesc 
 of McMinnville, and there he continued to 
 make his home until his death. His labors re- 
 sulted in the transformation of his land from 
 a wild tract to one of rich fertility. He placed 
 many improvements upon his farm, and at one 
 time he owned two thousand acres of rich land 
 in this vicinity. Extensively engaged in rais- 
 ing and dealing in stock he found it profitable, 
 and as the years passed he added continually 
 to his possessions. Mr. Shadden was a self- 
 made man who deserved great credit for what 
 he accomplished. He carried forward to suc- 
 cessful completion whatever he undertook. He 
 had no advantages, but with determined pur- 
 pose and unfaltering energy he worked his 
 way upward, and all that he acquired was the 
 direct result and merited reward of his own 
 labor. He was also a popular and prominent 
 citizen, deeply interested in the welfare and 
 prosperity of his community, and was a liberal 
 contributor to school and church enterprises. 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Shadden were born thir- 
 teen children : Lucilla, Madison, Jasper, 
 Thomas, Henry, Mary, Eliza and Riley, all of 
 whom are deceased; Amon, of this review, and 
 four, who died in infancy. The father passed 
 away in 1894, at the age of eighty-five years, 
 and the mother, when eighty-six years of age, 
 and both were laid to rest in McMinnville 
 cemetery. 
 
 Amon Shadden, whose name introduces this 
 record, began his education in the district 
 schools and afterward attended high school 
 and McMinnville College. He married Mag- 
 gie Mitchell, a native of New York City, and 
 they went to the home of Mr. Shadden's par- 
 ents, whom they cared for in their declining 
 years. Both became helpless and had to be 
 wheeled around in invalid chairs for a number 
 
 of years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Amon Shadden 
 was born one son, Granville, who is now living 
 upon a part of the old donation claim. For his 
 second wife, Amon Shadden chose Emma 
 Stewart, a native of Minnesota, and their only 
 child, Emma, is now deceased. His third wife 
 bore the maiden name of Docia Gillum, and is 
 still living with him upon his farm in Yamhill 
 county. 
 
 Throughout his entire life Mr. Shadden has 
 carried on general agricultural pursuits and 
 stock-raising, making a specialty of Jersey cat- 
 tle, Berkshire hogs and of draft and trotting 
 horses. He owns about two hundred and sixty- 
 four acres of land, most of which is the old 
 donation claim. He has placed his fields under 
 a high state of cultivation and has done not a 
 little to improve the grade of stock in this 
 locality by introducing valuable animals. In 
 recent years he has discovered gold upon his 
 place. -He has found large quantities of blue 
 quartz encased in silver coating, besides lead, 
 silver and gold indications, and he is confident 
 that the mineral deposits will give him a rich 
 yield. His life has been one of untiring in- 
 dustry and his energy has been a large factor 
 in his success. In his political views Mr. Shad- 
 den is a Democrat, and his religious faith is 
 indicated by his membership in the Christian 
 Church. For a half century he has lived upon 
 the farm which is now his home, and this 
 period covers his entire earthly pilgrimage. 
 There have been no exciting chapters in his 
 career or startling incidents, but probably no 
 sketch given in this volume proves more con- 
 clusively the force of industry and honesty as 
 factors in winning success. 
 
 JOHN H. GLASS. Among the prominent 
 business men of Brownsville, Linn county, must 
 be named John Hamilton Glass and Wilson 
 Blaine Glass, who have been influential factors 
 in the financial progress of this city and com- 
 munity. Through the display of exceptional 
 business sagacity they have won an enviable 
 place in the ranks of the progressive men of the 
 Williamette valley. The business life of John 
 H. Glass is so closely interwoven with that of 
 his brother that a history of one would scarcely 
 be complete without that of the other. 
 
 The first representative of the Glass family 
 on American soil was John Glass, a native of 
 County Antrim, Ireland, who came to the United 
 States in 1818. He first located in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., remaining for only a short time before he 
 went on to Ohio, where his son, Robert, the 
 father of the Glass brothers, was born, July 28, 
 1823, in the town of Steubenville. In 1831 the 
 family removed to Illinois, settling in Warren 
 
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 county, locating' six miles from the town of 
 Monmouth, and there engaged in farming. 
 I Hiring the gold excitement of 1849 Robert Glass 
 was so imbued with the spirit of adventure and 
 prolit lukl out by a trip to the west that be 
 determined to make the journey across the 
 He found a gratifying success at 
 Feather river, near Marysville, and several other 
 id localities famous in the early history of 
 California. Satisfied with the result of his min- 
 ing, be ventured north, in 1850 taking up a do- 
 nation claim of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 located in Linn county, on the present site of 
 the town of Crawfordsville. For some time he 
 was located in the city, engaged in a general 
 merchandise business, but soon returned to the 
 farm, where he died July 13, 1903, at the age 
 oi nearly eighty years, active in the business of 
 stock-raising and general farming up to the 
 time of his death. He recently celebrated the 
 golden anniversary of his wedding, having been 
 married February 8, 1853, to Jane Gray, a native 
 of Ohio. Her father was John Gray, born in 
 Kentucky, and who went to Ohio in an early 
 day, and followed that with a trip across the 
 plains to Oregon in 1852. He located three 
 miles southwest of Brownsville, on a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres which 
 occupied the .present site of Twin Buttes. He 
 met his death in 1889, at the age of seventy-six 
 years, being the victim of confidence men while 
 passing through Portland from a visit at Prine- 
 ville, eastern Oregon. The children which 
 ssed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Glass are five 
 in number, four Sons and one daughter, of 
 whom John H. and W. B. reside in Browns- 
 ville ; D. H. is assistant city engineer of Seattle, 
 Wash. ; J. W. is a farmer in this locality ; and 
 Ivy J. resides on the old home. After his son's 
 settlement in the west John Glass came to Ore- 
 gon, via the Isthmus of Panama, and made his 
 borne with the family, dying here May 26, 1870, 
 over eighty-eight years old. He was a sturdy 
 member of a good old Scotch family of whom 
 the eldest son had been given the name of John 
 for many generations, a complete history of the 
 genealogy of the family being in the possession 
 of a relative in Corvallis, Lillian Glass by name. 
 Religiously he was a Presbyterian. 
 
 John Hamilton Glass, the eldest son, was born 
 on his father's donation claim at Crawfordsville, 
 June 12, 1855, and was there reared to manhood, 
 receiving his education in the common schools 
 of Oregon, until he was nineteen y r ears old, when 
 he spent the winter of 1874-5 in the Oregon Ag- 
 ricultural College of Corvallis. In 1880 he be- 
 came interested in a planing mill, conducting the 
 same for several years, when the business was 
 transferred to Cottage Grove. Later, Mr. Glass 
 and his brother, W, B., invested in the Great 
 
 Northern Mill & Mining Company, for a half 
 of which the two put in a four-stamp mill. The 
 claim is located in the Blue river mining district, 
 one and one half miles northeast of the Lucky 
 Boy mine, and has been splendidly improved in 
 every way, tunnels, mills, etc., making it a very 
 valuable property. The company is now incor- 
 porated with a capital of $120,000, $100,000 of 
 which is paid up, and Mr. Glass is its president 
 and business manager. In 1896 he entered the 
 bank of Brownsville as cashier, in which posi- 
 tion he remained until January, 1903, when he 
 became vice president of the institution. 
 
 Mr. Glass' first wife was Bessie Trigg. She 
 was a native of Kentucky and while there on a 
 visit in 1885 with her husband she died, leaving 
 one son, Robert. Several years afterward Mr. 
 Glass was married in Crawfordsville to Althea 
 Chance, a native of Ohio, and who died in 1899. 
 Two daughters were born of the second mar- 
 riage, Ava and Hazel, who make their home with 
 their father. Fraternally Mr. Glass is a member 
 of the Blue Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; 
 Knights of Pythias; and Rathbone Sisters. In 
 his religious views he follows the convictions of 
 his ancestors and belongs to the Presbyterian 
 Church. As a Republican he has been of no 
 little service to his city, serving as city recorder 
 for one year and since that time as city treasurer 
 for some time. He has also been school clerk 
 since 1896. 
 
 The brother with whom Mr. Glass has been 
 so closely associated is Wilson Blaine Glass, 
 next to himself in age, having been born six 
 miles east of Crawfordsville August 30, 1858, 
 spending a large part of his youth upon the 
 paternal farm. He was educated in the common 
 schools in the vicinity of his home, later attend- 
 ing a private school, from which he received 
 a diploma for a business course. In 1883 he 
 engaged with his brother John in the planing 
 mills of Crawfordsville. In 1897 be came to 
 Brownsville and assumed the position of secre- 
 tary of the Eagle Woolen Mills Company, 
 three years later going to Cottage Grove to look 
 after the interests of the planing mills, which 
 which had been removed to that city. In June, 
 1902, he sold his interest in Cottage Grove 
 and returned to Brownsville, where he took 
 the position of assistant cashier in the bank of 
 Brownsville, and in January, 1903, was elected 
 cashier, a position which he has creditably 
 maintained up to the present time. As previ- 
 ously mentioned he is interested in the Great 
 Northern Mill & Mining Company, being a part- 
 ner with his brother in that concern. 
 
 The marriage which united W. B. Glass to 
 Vina E. Ramsey took place in Halsey, she also 
 being a native of Oregon, having been born in 
 
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 Lane county. Fraternally, Mr. Glass is associ- 
 ated with the Woodmen of the World, Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church at Craw- 
 fordsville, and is a Republican in politics, now 
 serving as clerk of school district No. 3, Linn 
 county. 
 
 WILLIAM P. IRELAND. At the present 
 time William P. Ireland is the owner of twelve 
 hundred acres of land in different parts of Ore- 
 gon, the greater portion being in Polk county. 
 A native of Jackson county, Irid., he was born 
 April 16, 1846, his father, David, having been 
 born in Ohio in 18 19. His mother, formerly 
 Mary A. Sanderson, was also born in Jackson 
 county, in 1825, and was reared on her father's 
 farm, remaining at home until her marriage. 
 David Ireland removed with his family from 
 Indiana to Illinois in 1853, locating on a farm 
 in Effingham county, where he remained for one 
 year. Next be located in Iowa for a year, and 
 in 1864 crossed the plains with mule-teams, 
 which they found a great improvement over the 
 old-time oxen. Six months were consumed on 
 the trip, and upon arriving in Oregon Mr. Ire- 
 land purchased a farm of six hundred and forty 
 acres adjoining the one now occupied by his 
 son, and here he spent many happy and success- 
 ful years, attaining to a prominent and influen- 
 tial place in the community. 
 
 William P. Ireland was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Lucas county, Iowa, and was 
 eighteen years of age when he came to Oregon. 
 At the age of twenty-three he started out on 
 his own responsibility, and from then until the 
 present time has had no help in carving out his 
 fortune. With his earnings he bought a portion 
 of his father's donation claim, which formed 
 the nucleus for his present large landed possess- 
 ions, and forthwith inaugurated large general 
 farming and stock-raising enterprises, a prefer- 
 ence being given to the latter. He is an excellent 
 judge of stock, but inclines to the reliable and 
 substantial ratber than fancy breeds. February 
 9, 1869, Mr. Ireland was united in marriage 
 with Cornelia Staats, who was born in Yamhill 
 county, January 11, 185 1, a daughter of Stephen 
 Staats, one of the foremost pioneers and up- 
 builders of this county. Eight children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ireland, of whom 
 Ora D. is a dentist of Portland ; Anna L. is 
 the wife of C. M. Tetherow of Lewisville ; Clar- 
 ence E. is at Independence ; Glenn O., Willard 
 W., Fred M., and Bessie F., are living at home. 
 Mrs. Ireland is a member of the Rebekahs, and 
 with her husband is active in the Christian 
 Church. Mr. Ireland has always subscribed to 
 
 the principles of the Democratic party, but has 
 never directed his efforts towards office-holding. 
 He is a broad-minded and progressive citizen, 
 devoted to his farm, his home and his friends, 
 and one in whom the community at large places 
 the utmost confidence. 
 
 The Staats family was very early represented 
 in the state of New York, where settled the first 
 German emigrants. Stephen Staats, the father 
 of Mrs. Ireland, was born in Albany, N. Y., 
 July 21, 1 82 1, a son of Isaac W. Staats, who 
 also was born in New . York, and who was a 
 merchant for many years of his life. The grand- 
 father came west on a visit around the Horn, 
 and died in Polk county at the age of seventy- 
 six years. He married Jane Ann Crowlins, 
 also born in New York, and who bore him ten 
 children, few of whom are living. Mr. Staats 
 was reared in Albany until fifteen years of age, 
 and then went across the country to Kansas 
 where he secured a position as clerk in a store 
 at Leavenworth. With his father he removed 
 after two years to Platte county, Mo., of which 
 county they were the very first settlers, and the 
 .first white people to whom the Indians sold 
 land. The father put up the first house in the 
 county, and lived there for eight years, or until 
 1845. That year Isaac and Stephen Staats 
 crossed the plains in an ox-train, one of the 
 members of the train being John M. Forest, 
 whose daughter, Cordelia, afterward became 
 Mrs. Staats. The journey was a pleasant one, 
 rendered so no doubt by the presence of a win- 
 some face, which he decided should henceforth 
 brighten his fireside. Arriving in Oregon the 
 Staats brothers each located a section of land 
 on the Luckiamute, and built log cabins in which 
 they lived until the marriage of Stephen, March 
 29, 1846. The following year the young people, 
 with Mr. Forest and his family and Isaac Staats 
 went over the mountain with pack mules, to 
 California. Locating in Santa Clara county, 
 Stephen Staats secured work in the redwoods, 
 and was at Sutter's Fort when gold was dis- 
 covered. Afterward he clerked for Sam Brannan 
 on Mormon's Island, the stock in trade being 
 blankets and general provisions for the Indians 
 and early settlers. The Indians had to pay ten 
 dollars apiece for blankets, the price being paid 
 in gold dust, determined by placing ten dollars 
 in silver on one side of the scales, and balancing 
 it on the other side with gold dust. In this way 
 a great deal of gold was taken into the crude 
 little store, and Mr. Staats came to regard the 
 precious metal as a very common and easily 
 gotten commodity. 
 
 In 1848 the same party wended their way 
 northward to Oregon, Mr. Staats having made 
 up his mind that gold was so common it would 
 no longer have great value. The ocean voyage 
 

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 for himself and wife cost three hundred dollars, 
 and ujKin arriving in Portland they decided to 
 spend the winter there. In the spring they 
 returned to the claim in Polk county, which the 
 er afterward traded for a rifle, and purchased 
 hundred and forty acres adjoining, upon 
 which he lived until his death, April 7, 1898. 
 Ten children were born to himself and wife, 
 the son, John H., being the first white child born 
 between the Luckiamute and La Creole. Mr. 
 Staats was an enterprising and progressive man, 
 and took an active part in promoting the inter- 
 5 of the Democratic party in his adopted 
 state. A fluent speaker, he assisted in many a 
 campaign, and his eloquence was equally appre- 
 ciated in the Grange, of which he was a lecturer 
 for many years. He was a justice of the peace 
 for many years, and represented his county 
 in the territorial legislature in 1876. He was 
 president of the County Pioneer Society. 
 
 WASHINGTON R. TOWNSEND. The suc- 
 cess of W. R. Townsend, one of the most enter- 
 prising farmers in Marion county, should serve 
 as an example to all who are willing to travel the 
 path of industry, business integrity, and progress. 
 Mr. Townsend is a representative of one of the 
 prominent pioneer families of the state, and on 
 his maternal side traces his descent from a Revo- 
 lutionary forefather named Sampson. W. R. 
 Townsend was born in Fulton county, 111., 
 November 27. 1846. and is a son of G. G. Town- 
 send, who was born in New York state August 
 12. 1803. 
 
 G. G. Townsend was one of the men who 
 builded solely upon his own energies, and with 
 tactically no assistance from outside sources. 
 His father died when he was a small bov, and 
 afterward he was put out to work, his earnings 
 going towards the support of his mother. While 
 still a boy he removed with his mother to Ohio, 
 where he grew to manhood, and married Mariam 
 Sampson, a native of Ohio, whose father served 
 six years and six months in the Revolutionary 
 war. Mr. Townsend eventually removed with 
 his wife and children to Illinois, and in 1850 
 started across the plains with ox teams, six 
 months being required for the journey. The fam- 
 ily came direct to Marion county and took up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 two and a half miles southeast of Woodburn, 
 which consisted entirely of wild land. In this 
 wilderness a little log house was built for the 
 accommodation of the family, and the desolation 
 of their situation may best be understood when 
 it is known that their nearest neighbor was four 
 miles distant. In time golden harvests rewarded 
 the industry of the father and children, a new 
 
 house took the place of the rough hewed log 
 structure, and many blessings came the way of 
 the industrious and thrifty family. On this same 
 farm sixteen children received their start in life, 
 and here the father lived to be eighty-one and 
 the mother eighty-two years of age. Of the 
 three children living of this large family Ebenezer 
 Leonard is living with his brother W. R., and 
 Jonathan Rockwell lives on a farm near Trout- 
 dale. 
 
 It is interesting to note the religious enthusiasm 
 accredited to the father, who was devoted to the 
 welfare of the Christian Church, going regularly 
 to a meeting-house ten miles distant from his 
 home. In politics he was a Republican. 
 
 In spite of the disadvantages attending his ac- 
 quirement of an education, W. R. Townsend man- 
 aged to qualify as a teacher, and was thus en- 
 gaged for a couple of years. At the same time 
 he continued to make the old donation claim his 
 headquarters, but after his marriage with Nancy 
 Emeline Stephens, wTio was born December 21, 
 1857, an d whose parents crossed the plains in 
 1852, settling near Needy, Clackamas county, he 
 went to live on the farm which has since been his 
 home, and which consists of ninety acres. The 
 most modern of improvements, practical man- 
 agement, and up-to-date methods have contrib- 
 uted to make the Townsend farm one of the most 
 desirable in Marion county. The owner has just 
 completed a modern two-story frame dwelling, 
 and his barns and out-buildings are substantially 
 constructed. He is engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising, twenty-eight acres being de- 
 voted to hops. Six children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Townsend, of whom Delbert H. is de- 
 ceased ; May, deceased, was married to Nathan 
 Jones : they had one daughter, Cecil, who lives . 
 with her grandparents ; Clyde S. is living at 
 home ; Winona G. is the wife of Grover Todd, of 
 Woodburn : Ammi Rockwell and Ada are living 
 with their parents. 
 
 A Republican in politics. Mr. Townsend has 
 taken an active interest in local affairs, and has 
 served as road supervisor, member of the school 
 board and as justice of the peace. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Woodburn Grange No. 79, and in re- 
 ligion is connected with the Christian Church. 
 
 WILLIAM R. McKAY. One and a half 
 miles from Champoeg is a farm which, from the 
 standpoint of equipment, cultivation and general 
 productiveness, is unexcelled in Marion county 
 or in the entire Willamette valley. That its 
 owner. William R. McKay, is a master in his line 
 and an agriculturist who works along scientific 
 lines, is evident to all who are permitted to avail 
 themselves of the hospitality of this ideal rural 
 
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 home, and to visit the various departments which 
 contribute to his large annual income. 
 
 Much may be accomplished on seven hundred 
 acres of land located in the center of one of the 
 most fertile valleys in the world; and this fact 
 has not been lost upon Mr. McKay, who has 
 the keen and far-sighted judgment of the typical 
 northwestern business man. Three hundred 
 and fifty acres of his estate are under cultivation, 
 and the balance is devoted to timber and pastur- 
 age. During the year 1902 the yield from 
 his forty-acre hop-yard was fifty-two thousand 
 pounds, and for the proper care of this pro- 
 duct he maintains three large hop-houses. The 
 barns, outhouses, implements and general im- 
 provements are on the most extensive scale, 
 in keeping with similar enterprises in the oldest 
 and most advanced. centers of agricultural activ- 
 ity. Upon the fertile pastures graze large 
 numbers of Shorthorn cattle and other high- 
 orade stock, and general farming is conducted 
 on a large scale. 
 
 The knowledge of such marked success natur- 
 ally presupposes years of exertion and struggle 
 with adversity, which are emphasized in the 
 career of Mr.' McKay. He is a native son of 
 Oregon, having been born near St. Paul, Marion 
 county, December 30, 1849. His father, James 
 McKay, was born in Ireland and came to Amer- 
 ica in young manhood where after various loca- 
 tions he made his way to Oregon and from that 
 time until his death was actively interested in 
 the growth and upbuilding of the state. For 
 more complete details, refer to the sketch of 
 James McKay, which appears on another page 
 of this work. William R. McKay was favored 
 with an education in the public schools and Santa 
 Clara College, Santa Clara, Cal. In 1873 he 
 became foreman of the Glynn ranch at Jacinto, 
 Cal. For about five years he resided in Califor- 
 nia, spending most of the time in Sacramento 
 and San Francisco. Upon his return to Oregon 
 he first assisted his brother, John N., in the man- 
 agement of his father's ranch, where general 
 farming and stock-raising was carried on on 
 an extensive scale. 
 
 January 13, 1885, Mr. McKay was united in 
 marriage with Anna Kavanaugh, a native of St. 
 Louis, Marion county, Ore., and a daughter of 
 Daniel and Catherine (Doyle) Kavanaugh, both 
 of whom were natives of Ireland, came to Amer- 
 ica in youth, were married in Illinois and settled 
 in Oregon about 1861. In that year he arid his 
 brother severed their partnership, William R. 
 McKay removing to the farm upon which he 
 has since accomplished such splendid results. 
 He and his wife are the parents of five children : 
 Stanley J., Arthur W., Estelle C, Justin L. and 
 Albert J. 
 
 Mr. McKay is a Democrat in politics and with 
 
 his family he finds a religious home in the Roman 
 Catholic Church. To an exceptional degree he 
 enjoys the esteem and confidence of all wbo 
 know him, and his personal characteristics are 
 such as to render him a popular member of the 
 community. Though he has never been a seeker 
 after political honors, he has been actively identi- 
 fied with most of the movements of a public 
 nature calculated to benefit the moral, educa- 
 tional or industrial standing of Marion county. 
 The indefatigable energy, the industry and busi- 
 nesslike methods he has displayed in the devel- 
 opment of his magnificent farm have naturally 
 resulted in placing him in a conspicuous position 
 among his fellowmen, and the younger men of 
 the present generation feel that, in him, they have 
 an example well worthy of emulation. Few 
 agriculturists have done so much as Mr. McKay 
 to illustrate the possibilities of the soil of the 
 Willamette valley, and for this reason, if no other 
 existed, he is entitled to rank among the repre- 
 sentative men of the valley. 
 
 HENRY S. SMITH. In a little log cabin 
 still standing, on what is now known as the 
 James Haggard place, Henry S. Smith was born 
 April 8, 1854, two miles northeast of Lewisville, 
 Polk county, Ore., the son of John H. Smith, a 
 pioneer of 1849. The latter was born in Mont- 
 gomery county, Mo., the son of James Smith, 
 who came to Oregon in the early days of her 
 history, dying at Lewisville at a ripe old age. 
 
 In the course of time John H. Smith grew to 
 manhood and married Martha J. Lewis, a native 
 of Kentucky, and with the courage born in the 
 American pioneer the two outfitted with ox- 
 teams and other articles necessary for such a 
 trip and in 1849 started across the plains for the 
 great northwest, regardless of the dangers and 
 months of weary travel that lay between them 
 and their destination. During the six months 
 which their trip occupied they had many en- 
 counters with the Indians, but managed to come 
 through safely, and on arriving in Polk county, 
 Ore., Mr. Smith at once took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, where 
 Mrs. Smith now makes her home, the land hav- 
 ing been retained in the family through the pass- 
 ing years. As a farmer Mr. Smith occupied all 
 his time, though for many years prior to his 
 death, which occurred January 13, 1893, at the 
 age of sixtv-eight years, ten months and twenty- 
 five days, he had been disabled through a spinal 
 affection, caused through exposure during ser- 
 vice in the Cayuse war in 1855-6. He was a 
 member of the Christian Church at Lewisville, 
 and one of the organizers of the congregation 
 at that place. Politically he was a Democrat. 
 
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 thru- daughters and six sons, Henry S. Smith 
 was the second, and on his father's farm, which 
 was located three miles northeast of Lewisville, 
 he grew to manhood, receiving his first knowl- 
 edge of books at the little log school-house in 
 the vicinity of his home. When his education 
 was considered complete he went to work for 
 his father in the farm duties to which he had 
 been trained from his earliest boyhood, and when 
 twentv-three years of age he entered upon the 
 business himself. 
 
 June 4. 1879, he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Kate Yeater, a native of Benton county, 
 Ore., born March 5, 1855. Of the three chil- 
 dren born to them Lulu A. is deceased ; Ray L. 
 lives in Falls City, Ore.; and Myrnie F. makes 
 her home with her parents. Politically Mr. 
 Smith is a Republican, and has served as school 
 director. His wife is a member of the Evan- 
 gelical Church of Lewisville. 
 
 Mr. Smith has met with a modest success. 
 Mrs. Smith owns sixty-four acres of land, thirty- 
 six of which her husband is busy cultivating, 
 and which is principally in hay. In addition to 
 his farm he also has a small store at Lewisville, 
 and acts as postmaster of that town. Before 
 settling steadily to his farm work he acted as 
 traveling salesman for a large implement house, 
 gaining an insight into the commercial world, 
 which has been of great benefit to him. 
 
 OREN D. RIDER. Among the extensive 
 and well-to-do agriculturists of Polk county, 
 Mr. Rider is prosperously engaged in his chosen 
 vocation on one of the pleasantest and most 
 desirable homesteads in the town of Independ- 
 ence. He also owns considerable city property, 
 one of his buildings being now rented for mer- 
 cantile purposes, and not far from the city lim- 
 its he has a small but valuable farm of thirty- 
 four acres, fourteen of which are devoted to the 
 raising of hops, while five acres are planted with 
 prune trees. 
 
 A native of New York, Mr. Rider was born, 
 in April, 1839, at Lawrence, Otsego county, of 
 English ancestry. His father, Abraham Rider, 
 was born at Leeds, Yorkshire England, about 
 1803. After learning the trade of a moulder 
 he emigrated to America in search of fortune, 
 coming here in 1823. Settling in New York, 
 he followed his trade at West Point, and in 
 different parts of the state, for many years, be- 
 ing successful in his labors as a foundryman. 
 He subsequently removed to La Salle county, 
 111., and from there to Palo Alto county, Iowa, 
 where he resided until his death, in 1876. He 
 married Sarah M. Harrison, who was born in 
 the western part of Connecticut, not many miles 
 from Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She came from dis- 
 tinguished ancestry, being a descendant of Gen- 
 
 eral Harrison, at one time governor of the 
 Northwestern territory. She is still living, mak- 
 ing her home with her son, W. S. Rider, in 
 Oregon City. Three children were born of their 
 union, namely: Oren D., the subject of this 
 sketch; W. S., of Oregon City; and Mrs. Sarah 
 A. Laurie, who died in Kansas. 
 
 Receiving such educational advantages as 
 were offered by the public schools of New York 
 state, Oren D. Rider remained at home during 
 his early manhood, subsequently working with 
 his father and brother until permanently settled 
 in Oregon. Removing from Illinois to Iowa, 
 he was there engaged in his independent occu- 
 pation of farming until 1875, when he became 
 a resident of Oregon City, Ore., where he re- 
 mained eight years as an agriculturist. Coming 
 to Polk county in 1883, Mr. Rider purchased 
 his present home farm of seventeen acres, on 
 which he has made valuable improvements. He 
 has erected a substantial dwelling-house, built 
 necessary barns and outbuildings, and has all 
 the implements and machinery essential to a 
 well equipped farming estate. He carries on gen- 
 eral agriculture, making somewhat of a specialty 
 of the culture of hops, to which nine acres of this 
 farm is devoted. For twelve years he also had 
 the management of the Hurschburger farm of 
 twelve hundred acres. In his agricultural 
 labors he has been prosperous, his practical and 
 systematic methods, excellent judgment and his 
 skill being conducive to success. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Rider married Mary E. Newell, 
 who was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. Eight chil- 
 dren blessed their union, six of whom are liv- 
 ing, namely : Fred, a resident of Washington ; 
 Mrs. Hattie E. Clark, of Salem, Ore.; Mrs. 
 Lena O. Jones, of Independence ; Mrs. Cora E. 
 Edwards, of Washington ; Frank, at home ; and 
 Netta, wife of Frank Buckley, of Washington. 
 In local affairs Mr. Rider evinces a deep inter- 
 est, keeping well informed on current events, 
 and contributing generously towards all enter- 
 prises calculated to promote the prosperity of 
 town and county. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and has served as road supervisor and as 
 school director. While living in Illinois he be- 
 came a Mason. 
 
 JAMES H. MULKEY. A man whose sus- 
 tained efforts have been productive of many re- 
 turns is James H. Mulkey, born in Benton 
 county, Ore., four miles west of Corvallis, No- 
 vember 24, 1848, the son of Luke Mulkey, one 
 of the early settlers of this state. The father 
 was born in Kentucky, May 9, 1810, the son of 
 a farmer, who died when Luke Mulkey was 
 quite a young man. With his remaining parent 
 he went to Missouri, and there met and married 
 Miss Ruth Allison, born in that state in 18 16. 
 
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 The father was one of nine children, several of 
 whom crossed the plains to Oregon, Johnson 
 Mulkey being the first. He made several trips, 
 the first one being in 1845, his return to the 
 east the next year being followed by his emi- 
 gration to Benton county, Ore., in 1847. 
 Thomas Mulkey, another brother, followed after 
 his father located in Yamhill county, but died 
 three days after his arrival. Luke Mulkey 
 crossed the plains with his family in 1847 with 
 ox-teams, and after six months on the trip they 
 arrived in Benton county, where they passed the 
 winter. In Benton county Mr. Mulkey took 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres, remaining upon it until 1858, when he 
 sold the place and removed to a farm near Mon- 
 mouth, Polk county. His farm here consisted 
 of four hundred and seventy acres, upon which 
 he remained until his death, which occurred at 
 the age of eight-four years in 1893. His first 
 wife having died in 1859 ne married Mrs. Nar- 
 cissa Brents, who died in 1865. The third part- 
 ner of his joys and sorrows was Mrs. Sarah 
 Caton, who departed this life in 1894. Mr. 
 Mulkey was an eminently successful man among 
 the farmers of this county, whose competency 
 came through his own well directed efforts, and 
 nothing could tempt him to depart from his 
 ways and engage in the worrying cares of pub- 
 lic life. 
 
 James H. Mulkey was one of six children, 
 the others being as follows : Rachel Waller ; 
 Eliza Hawley ; W. J., of Monmouth ; F. Y., also 
 of the same city ; and Renna Boney, of Port- 
 land. At the age of seventeen years, and after 
 his education in the schools of Monmouth had 
 been completed, James H. left home, going to 
 California, where he remained for sixteen 
 months. On his return to Oregon with the 
 substantial returns of his trip, he located in 
 Wasco county. Here he took up a ranch of 
 one hundred and sixty acres and engaged in 
 stock-raising, meeting with a success broken 
 only by one misfortune. On a trip to Colorado 
 with a drove of cattle the mercury fell so low 
 that he lost nearly all his stock. In 1881 he re- 
 turned to Polk county and located on the place 
 where he now makes his home. The farm con- 
 tains four hundred acres of land, three hundred 
 and fifty of which is tillable. He is now en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising, and 
 is also interested in an apple orchard, eleven 
 acres being devoted to its cultivation. Mr. 
 Mulkey's property in Monmouth consists of two . 
 brick store-buildings. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Mulkey married Miss Emily J. 
 Porter, born in Linn county, Ore., her father, 
 Samuel Porter, having crossed the plains in 
 1852. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Mulkey, eight of whom are now living. They 
 
 are as follows: Frank H., at home; May M. 
 McGowan, of Sherman county; Alice G. Hol- 
 raan, of Josephine county; and Augusta, 
 Blanche, Zona, Edna and Myrle, all at home 
 with their parents. Being a public-spirited man 
 and one interested in the affairs of his city and 
 county, Mr. Mulkey has been selected by the 
 Democratic party, of which he is a strong ad- 
 herent, to act as road supervisor and school 
 director of his district, having held the former 
 for many years. In religion he is a member of 
 the Christian Church, of which he is a deacon. 
 
 REV. I. N. MULKEY. From a long line of 
 ancestry has been transmitted to Rev. I. N. 
 Mulkey those traits which have distinguished 
 his useful life, though not yet having passed the 
 three score and ten years allotted to man. His 
 forefathers have been men of God, in whose 
 service in pioneer fields they have left the im- 
 press of their strong and capable personality 
 in the upbuilding of commonwealths. John 
 Mulkey, the grandfather, was born in Fairfor- 
 est, Spartanburg county, S. C, in the year 1773, 
 and as a young man served as a minister of the 
 Baptist Church, but was early identified with the 
 Christian Church, in November, 1809, organiz- 
 ing a church of this denomination. The father 
 of I. N. Mulkey, Jonathan, was born in Ken- 
 tucky, in September, 1795, whither his parents 
 had removed from their South Carolina home, 
 and in that state he grew to manhood, engaged 
 in the cultivation of the soil. In Kentucky he 
 married Tealitha Hardin, born in North Caro- 
 lina, in the year 1800, and together they removed 
 to Franklin county, 111., where he purchased a 
 farm and spent the greater part of the remainder 
 of his life engaged in its cultivation. His death 
 occurred in Williamson county, 111., in February, 
 i860, his life having been spent rather for the 
 benefit of those about him than for the accumu- 
 lation of wealth. Of the fourteen children born 
 of their union, five are now living: Lucinda, 
 now Mrs. Harlin of Iowa ; Jacob, of St. Joseph ; 
 Rev. I. N., of this review; W. J., who is con- 
 ducting a hotel in Eugene, Ore. ; and Rev. A. 
 H., of Coquille, a minister of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 In Monroe county, Ky., February 9, 1840, 
 occurred the birth of I. N. Mulkey, and after 
 a very limited education received in the primi- 
 tive schools of Illinois, he was apprenticed to a 
 blacksmith, with whom he remained for three 
 and a half years. Upon the close of his appren- 
 ticeship in "1866 he moved to Missouri, settling 
 in Worth county, and continued his trade. In 
 1868 he went to Nebraska, settling in Lancaster 
 county, where he took up a homestead claim. 
 
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 From the combined industries of farming and 
 blacksmithing he derived a good income. With 
 the hope of broadening his capabilities he re- 
 moved to Oregon in 1871, locating at Pleasant 
 Hill. Lane county, where he engaged at his 
 trade, and soon began to take an active part in 
 religious work, preparing himself by a close 
 study of the Bible, and finally took permanent 
 charge of pastorates throughout the country as 
 a minister of the Christian Church. In Octo- 
 ber, 1898, Mr. Mulkey was appointed pastor 
 of the church at Bethel, Polk county, where in 
 addition to pastorate work he engaged in gar- 
 dening upon the six and a half acres of land 
 which he had purchased. 
 
 In September, 1861, Mr. Mulkey was united 
 in marriage with Miss Sarah F. Randolph, a 
 native of Posey county, Ind., born July 12, 1846. 
 Her father, James Randolph, died in 1854, in 
 Williamson county, 111. Her mother, Margaret 
 (Williams) Randolph, also died in Williamson 
 county, 111., in 1856. Of the nine children born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Mulkey seven are now living. 
 They are as follows : B. F., ex-state senator 
 from Polk county and now president of the state 
 normal school at Ashland ; Luella, now Mrs. 
 Parks, of Pleasant Hill ; P. J., principal of 
 the schools at Arlington; J. E., of Palouse, 
 Wash. ; J. R., of Colfax, Wash. ; Charles, of 
 Ashland, Ore. ; and Veda, still at home. As a 
 Republican in politics Mr. Mulkey has always 
 stood for the best interests of the county. Fra- 
 ternally he is identified with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, of Springfield, Ore. 
 
 MATHIAS W. STEWART. Five hundred 
 acres of the most desirable farming land in 
 Polk county is owned and operated by Mathias 
 W. Stewart, an enthusiastic appreciator of 
 the many advantages of this great state, and 
 one of the most enterprising and resourceful 
 of the sons of New York to seek a home in the 
 northwest. Mr. Stewart was born at Auburn, 
 Cayuga county, N. Y., August 2, 1832, and 
 from his father, David C, inherits the traits 
 of perseverance and business ability which 
 have encompassed his success. The father 
 spent his entire life in New York state, where 
 he was born in 1806, and died in 1856. Dur- 
 ing the greater part of his active life he was 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he 
 achieved great success, and accumulated quite 
 a competence. He was prominently identified 
 with county affairs, and was treasurer thereof 
 for at least twelve years, during his term of 
 sendee faithfully serving the best interests of 
 Cayuga county. A Democrat in politics, he 
 was a stanch supporter of his party, and filled 
 
 many positions of trust besides that of county 
 treasurer. In religion he was a Presbyterian, 
 as was also his wife, formerly Elizabeth Hoff- 
 man, a native of New York state. Mrs. Stew- 
 art died in New York in 1869, having borne' 
 him four children, three sons and one daughter. 
 Catherine is deceased. The oldest son ; 
 Charles, sailed around the Horn in 1848, and 
 after mining and prospecting returned to his 
 home by way of Panama in 1852. The follow- 
 ing year he again came west, returning to New 
 York in 1856. During the Civil war he at- 
 tained the rank of colonel in a New York regi- 
 ment, while his brother, David, the youngest 
 of the children, became a lieutenant during 
 the same momentous struggle, and eventually 
 died in New York. 
 
 While attending the academy at Auburn, N. 
 Y., Mathias W. Stewart was a companion of 
 the late Roscoe Conkling, who now sleeps in a 
 graveyard at Utica, N. Y. He was also ac- 
 quainted with that distinguished secretary of 
 state under Lincoln, William H. Seward, who 
 came from the same town, and wdth whom he 
 played as a youth. After leaving the academy 
 Mr. Stewart entered his father's store, remain- 
 ing there until 1853. Becoming interested in 
 • mining, he then came west via Nicaragua, and 
 for eight years tempted fortune with varying 
 success and failure in the northern part of 
 California. In 1861 he located in Salem, Mar- 
 ion county, Ore., and in 1862 went to 
 Idaho, engaging in various occupations until 
 1864. Returning to Salem, he engaged as 
 clerk in the general merchandise store of R. 
 M. Wade for five years, in 1868 removing to 
 his present farm near Independence. A large 
 portion of his land is under cultivation, and 
 he has a fine rural residence, commodious 
 barns, convenient outhouses, and all necessary 
 agricultural implements. He is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, besides rais- 
 ing some fruit, and his scientific and practical 
 methods have resulted in gratifying returns. 
 
 In 1868, in Polk county. Mr. Stewart mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Davis, who was born in Kane 
 county, 111.. January 26, 1839. a daughter of 
 James Davis, who was born in Kentucky May 
 5, 1805, and died January 28, 1848. Mr. Davis 
 married in his young manhood Lavisa Law- 
 rence, born in Kentucky July 6. 1808, and died 
 April 1, 1879. She was the mother of two sons 
 and three daughters, of whom Mrs. Stewart 
 is second youngest. Mr. Davis started across 
 the plains in 1847, Dut died on reaching St. 
 Joseph, Mo., in January, 1848. The same year 
 his wife and children came over the plains to 
 Oregon. The mother took up a donation claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres near Inde- 
 
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 pendence, and in 1850 married Joseph Car- 
 mack, her death occurring on the old donation 
 claim as before stated. Mr. Stewart is a Dem- 
 ocrat in politics, and is fraternally associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
 at Independence. He was one of the first 
 stockholders in the Independence National 
 Bank, and for several years was a director. 
 Mr. Stewart is a man of sterling integrity and 
 forceful personal characteristics, coupled with 
 determination and good business judgment. 
 
 MATHIAS GAULET. Worthy of mention 
 among the upbuilders of Marion county is Ma- 
 thias Gaulet, at present living a retired life in 
 Gervais, but formerly extensively engaged in 
 farming, and in plying his trade as carpenter. 
 Mr. Gaulet was born in the district of Three 
 Rivers, Canada, July 15, 1827, and is the son of 
 Peter and Madeline (Vannas) Gaulet, natives 
 also of Canada, the former born in Quebec. As 
 the name indicates, the remote ancestors came 
 from France, and settled in Canada at a very 
 early day. Peter Gaulet was a blacksmith by 
 s trade, and followed his chosen occupation for 
 many years in Canada, and in 1848 engaged in 
 the grocery business in Montreal, which he fol- 
 lowed until his death in 1862, at the age of eighty- 
 two years. His wife, who lived to be eighty 
 years of age, died in 1863 ; she bore him eleven 
 children, three of whom are living, of whom 
 Mathias is the second child. Antoine, born in 
 181 5, lives in Gervais, Marion county, and Vir- 
 ginia, born in 1831, lives in Montreal, Canada. 
 
 Following upon his completion of the public 
 school training in Canada, Mr. Gaulet learned 
 the carpenter's trade, for which he showed very 
 early aptitude. At the age of fourteen he started 
 out to make his own way in the world, and in 
 1848 settled in Monroe, Mich., where he learned 
 his trade, later returning to his old home in Can- 
 ada. In 1 85 1 he was again a resident of Monroe, 
 and the following year he and his brother An- 
 toine outfitted and crossed the plains with a 
 horse team, being about six months on the way. 
 For a short time he followed his trade in San 
 Francisco, Cal., and then in May, 1852, came to 
 Marion county, Ore., where he soon after bought 
 a farm about three miles northwest of Gervais. 
 In 1855 he was united in marriage with Nancy 
 Baker, a native of Virginia, born in 1840, who 
 with two sisters crossed the plains in 1843. 
 
 Until 1892 Mr. Gaulet lived on the farm, which 
 he improved to the best of his ability, and made 
 of it a fine home and paying venture. Realizing 
 that his powers were waning as far as physical 
 endurance was concerned, and believing himself 
 entitled to a few years of relaxation from ardu- 
 ous duties, he located in a pleasant home in Ger- 
 
 vais in 1892, and has since made that his perma- 
 nent place of abode. Mr. Gaulet also owns other 
 town property, and taken all in all, is the pos- 
 sessor of a very fair competency. 
 
 In political affiliation Mr. Gaulet is a Demo- 
 crat, and among the offices held by him with 
 credit is that of treasurer of Gervais. He is a 
 member of the Catholic Church, as are also the 
 other members of his family. His wife died in 
 1880, leaving one son, George, born in 1858, 
 who is engaged in mining in Alaska, is married 
 and lives in British Columbia. Four children 
 died in early childhood. 
 In 1 89 1 Mr. Gaulet married- Mrs. Philomena 
 (Piett) Campbell, who had four children by 
 her former husband. Mr. Gaulet is a man of 
 strict integrity, and his many desirable personal 
 characteristics entitle him to the esteem and con- 
 sideration of all. 
 
 DAVID WRIGHT GRIERSON. To that 
 honored pioneer, David W. Grierson, is due the 
 distinction of having imported the first Clydes- 
 dale horses into the state of Oregon. Although 
 deceased in 1895, Mr. Grierson is recalled as one 
 of the best farmers and most progressive men 
 in Marion county, as indicated principally by 
 the farm now occupied by his widow, which has 
 few superiors from the standpoint of equipment 
 and fine cultivation. 
 
 A native of Durfrieshire, Scotland, Mr. Grier- 
 son was born February 28, 1833, and was reared 
 on the farm owned and occupied by his father, 
 who was a mason by trade, and quite a success- 
 ful man. At the age of seventeen the son started 
 out to make his own living, and, after landing 
 in America made his way to the gold fields of 
 California. That this was a congenial and suc- 
 cessful occupation was proven by the fact that he 
 remained at it for seventeen years in the Chero- 
 kee mines. He then took a trip back to Scotland, 
 and brought back with him some of the Clydes- 
 dale horses for which that country is famous, 
 and engaged in their sale in Salem, where he 
 located in 1873. He was fortunate in this ven- 
 ture, for the strong and beautiful animals won 
 friends wherever they were sold, and their prac- 
 tical worth was soon demonstrated to the satis- 
 faction of all who appreciated the fine points of 
 a horse. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Grierson married at Salem, Mar- 
 cella Hensley, who was born in Marion county, 
 111., March 5, 1854. There were four children 
 born to them : Thomas, who died in infancy ; 
 Florence B., the wife of Henry Frank, of Salem ; 
 they have one daughter, Helen A. ; Mary M., 
 living at home; Frank C, also living with his 
 mother. Ten months after his marriage, Mr. 
 Grierson left Salem and settled on a farm three 
 
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 Hooker and Meade, and took an active part m 
 „nnv of the more important battles of that time, 
 among others being the Seven Days' Fight, when 
 he reaived a bayonet wound in the hand; Gaines 
 Mills. South Mountain, Antietam, and Gettys- 
 burg During the latter engagement he served 
 at General .Meade's headquarters as a courier. 
 On March J, 1804. at Rapidan, Va., he received 
 his honorable discharge, and left the army in 
 \pril. [864, going directly to New York City. 
 
 A short time later Mr. Strong went to South 
 Carolina in search of contraband cotton, returning 
 the following year to New York. Removing to 
 McLean county. 111., in 1867, he engaged in ag- 
 ricultural pursuits, continuing there until Sep- 
 tember 3, 1888. meeting with unquestioned suc- 
 cess in his operations. Coming then to Oregon, 
 he spent six months in Salem, then settled at 
 McCoy, taking possession of his farm on March 
 4. 1889. He has ninety-one acres of land, on 
 which he has added many substantial improve- 
 ments. He managed it himself with most satis- 
 factory results for several years, but is now liv- 
 ing retired, enjoying a well deserved leisure. 
 
 Mr. Strong married, in 1873, Mary E. Sim- 
 kins, who was born in Highland county, Ohio, 
 August 28, 1846. Her father, Jeremiah Simkins, 
 was born January 22, 1822, in New Jersey, while 
 her mother, Margaret Rhodes, was a native of 
 Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Strong have one 
 child. William L. Strong, who operates a saw- 
 mill about five miles from McCoy, but lives with 
 his parents. Mr. Strong is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and has served as school director at McCoy. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Strong removed in August, 
 1003. to McMinnville, Yamhill county, where 
 they intend to reside permanently. 
 
 ELIJAH BAILEY. So well has Elijah Bailey 
 made use of the opportunities which have come 
 his way in the northwest that he is today one of 
 the foremost farmers and largest landowners in 
 his neighborhood in Polk county. Mr. Bailey's 
 ri-e in life may be studied with profit by any 
 who desire to overcome obstacles and slowly but 
 surely make their way to the front, for in his 
 make-up he has the traits of character most need- 
 ful for the well-being of substantial communities. 
 Born in Adair county, Ky., March 6, 1834, he is 
 a son of Robert and Ailsey (Hendricks) Bailey, 
 natives of Virginia. His grandfather, Lewis 
 Bailey, was also born in Virginia of Irish descent, 
 while his maternal grandfather, William Hen- 
 dricks, was of English descent, and by occu- 
 pation was an old-time school teacher. Robert 
 Bailey served in both the Creek and Cherokee 
 wars, but died comparatively young in 1835, 
 when his son Elijah was but a small boy. 
 
 Of the thirteen children, nine sons and four 
 
 daughters, in his father's family, Elijah and Cyn- 
 thia Larkin, of Sonoma, Cal., are the only sur- 
 vivors. When a year and twenty days old Elijah 
 moved with the rest of the family to Sangamon 
 county, III, and was there reared on a farm. He 
 was educated in a limited degree at the early 
 subscription school of his neighborhood. In 1849 
 the family moved to Greene county, Mo., and 
 settled on a productive farm, raised general farm 
 produce, and remained there until coming to 
 California in 1854. 
 
 Mr. Bailey contracted to accompany a herd 
 of cattle en route to California in that year, for 
 which he was paid $10 per month. He brought 
 his family with him. They were fairly success- 
 ful as miners, and returned to Greene county 
 via the Isthmus in 1858, remaining there until 
 Mr. Bailey again crossed the plains with ox 
 teams in i860. He located a place twenty-five 
 miles above Stockton, Cal., and in 1862 went 
 down to the Pajaro Valley, which place he sold 
 two years later, and came overland to Oregon. 
 
 Locating in Polk county, Mr. Bailey bought 
 a farm of one hundred and three acres in Spring 
 Valley, where he lived eight years, engaged prin- 
 cipally in a flourishing dairy business, and in the 
 buying and selling of stock. In 1872 he bought 
 his present farm of six hundred acres, of which 
 three hundred and fifty acres are cleared, and 
 where he raises sheep and goats, besides general 
 farming. He has been successful, being an ex- 
 cellent business manager as well as a practical 
 and scientific agriculturist. The household of 
 Mr. Bailey is presided over by his wife, who was 
 formerly America Mann, born in Indiana in 1837, 
 and whose father, John Mann, emigrated to Law- 
 rence county, Ind., at a very early day. Of the 
 four sons and three daughters born of this union 
 five are living: Loren W., of British Columbia; 
 Melvin, living at home ; Elijah, living on a dona- 
 tion claim near Salem ; Mrs. Olive Tilley, of In- 
 dependence ; and Leona Burden, of Oregon City. 
 A Prohibitionist in politics, Mr. Bailey has held 
 many positions of trust in the communities in 
 which he has lived, including those of school 
 director and road supervisor. He is a member of 
 the Christian Church of Salem. 
 
 THEODORE JEFFRIES. The name of 
 Jeffries is an honored one in Polk county, and 
 the second generation, represented in Oregon by 
 Theodore Jeffries, maintains the reputation for 
 industry and personal honor established by that 
 old pioneer, Thomas S. Jeffries. The latter was 
 born in the state of Ohio, and as a young man 
 removed to Missouri, where he married a native 
 daughter, Susan R. Nichols, born in the vicinity 
 of St. Louis. The following year he outfitted 
 and crossed the plains, locating in Marion county, 
 
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 five miles south of Salem, where he remained 
 until he came to Bethel, Ore., where he engaged 
 in the mercantile business for several years. In 
 1867 he shifted his mercantile interests to the 
 center of mining activity in Canyon City, Wasco 
 county, Wash., freezing his feet on the way, 
 necessitating amputation, and seven years later 
 returned to Polk county. He purchased the right 
 to a donation claim now occupied by his son, and 
 only living child, and one other child in the fam- 
 ily having died in infancy. He was successful 
 in his general farming and stock-raising, suc- 
 ceeded in paying for his entire farm, and left a 
 highly improved and valuable property. His 
 death occurred in 1895 at the age of seventy- 
 seven years, his wife having preceded him in 
 1882. 
 
 Better educational advantages than fall to the 
 lot of the average farm-reared youth facilitate the 
 life-work of Theodore Jeffries, and his conse- 
 quent breadth of mind and capacity for business 
 are apparent in the manner of conducting his 
 large property. From the public schools he 
 passed to the Bethel Academy, from which he 
 was duly graduated, after which he completed 
 the business course at the Portland Business Col- 
 lege. He then returned to the farm near Mc- 
 Coy, upon which his father had in the meantime 
 settled, and which has since been his home. He 
 has two hundred and forty acres of the original 
 claim, one hundred and sixty of which are under 
 cultivation. General farming and stock-raising 
 net him a fair yearly income, and he is thus en- 
 abled to maintain his family in comfort, and 
 educate his children according to his well known 
 high ideas of citizenship. A commodious and 
 modern residence, well arranged barns, good 
 fences, and late agricultural implements, combine 
 to make one of the desirable and profitable farm- 
 ing enterprises of Polk county. 
 
 Near Amity, Yamhill county, in 1881, Mr. Jef- 
 fries married Susan E., daughter of Isaac Robin- 
 son, who was born on a farm near Amity, May 1, 
 1855, and whose father crossed the plains at an 
 early day, and died at Amity in 1897, aged sev- 
 enty years. Elsie, the only child of this union, 
 is living at home. Mr. Jeffries is a Republican 
 in politics, but aside from the formality of cast- 
 ing his vote, has never interested himself in the 
 local undertakings of his party. Fraternally he 
 is identified with the Amity Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, and at one time was financier 
 of the organization. He is progressive and up- 
 right, well informed and agreeable, and has many 
 friends among the best families of his native 
 county. . 
 
 WILLIAM GORDON EVANS. One of the 
 best known men of the thriving little town of 
 Brooks is the genial and popular postmaster, 
 
 groceryman, and farmer, W. G. Evans, a resident 
 of the place since 1894, and of the state since 
 1865. Mr. Evans has gained a diversified idea 
 of life and work in Oregon, and is one of those 
 men who deserve great credit for their successful 
 circumvention of early hindrances, and wise dis- 
 position of later opportunities. He was born in 
 the state of Tennessee January 21, 1833, his 
 mother, a native of Tennessee, was Miss Rebecca 
 Keyton before her marriage, and his father was 
 William Evans, a native of Virginia. 
 
 When a small boy Mr. Evans was deprived by 
 death of the care and affectionate solicitude of 
 his mother, and the family soon after removed 
 to Kentucky, where they lived until taking up 
 their residence in Arkansas in 1843. Here the 
 father died about sixty years of age, and the 
 eight children thereafter conducted the farm, and 
 succeeded as best they could. When about twen- 
 ty-four W. G. saw an opportunity to go to Cali- 
 fornia to assist in driving five hundred head of 
 cattle, and his experiences while crossing the 
 plains with his numerous charges are recalled 
 most vividly at the present time. Arrhdng in 
 California August 2, 1857, he followed various 
 kinds of employment until 1865, working both 
 on farms and in the mines of the great western 
 state. In 1865 he came to Oregon and settled 
 near Brooks, and for the four following years 
 worked on different farms, in the meantime man- 
 aging to save considerable money. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Evans married Letitia Savage, 
 who was born November 3, 1852, and reared in 
 Oregon, her people having crossed the plains 
 in 1845. The couple went to housekeeping about 
 three miles west of where the town of Brooks is 
 now located, and remained there until they re- 
 moved to Brooks in 1894. Seven children have 
 been born of this union, of whom Hugh C. lives 
 on a farm near the town, is married and has 
 three children : Nellie A., deceased, was married 
 to George Dodge and had one daughter ; Threasa 
 is the wife of James Fruit, of Salem, and has two 
 sons ; B. Frank lives in Brooks, is married and 
 has two daughters ; Minnie is the wife of Fred 
 Neusom ; Lena Estelle, deceased ; and John C. is 
 living with his parents. Although his store and 
 post-office duties consume the greater part of his 
 time, Mr. Evans still manages his farm, and the 
 family spend a portion of each summer there. 
 
 A stanch Republican, and an active promoter 
 of the best interests of his party, Mr. Evans has 
 been influential in local affairs of a political na- 
 ture, and besides serving as postmaster for sev- 
 eral years, having been appointed by Grover 
 Cleveland during his first term, he has been clerk 
 of the school board in his district for many years, 
 road supervisor for several terms, and justice of 
 the peace for twelve years. He- and his family 
 are members of the United Evangelical Church, 
 
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 and contribute to the support of the same. Mr. 
 Evans enjoys an enviable reputation in the neigh- 
 borhood for sobriety, enterprise and honesty. His 
 tactful management of the post-office interests, 
 his business sagacity and an accommodating and 
 genial spirit, have secured him a substantial place 
 among the upbuilders of Marion county. 
 
 ternally he is identified with Salem Camp, No. 
 118, W. O. W., and Fraternity Lodge, No. 9, 
 A. O. U. W. He is a member of the Bankers' 
 Life Association of Des Moines, Iowa, and with 
 his family is a member of the Catholic Church. 
 
 HENRY MEIRING. Although not a land 
 owner in Marion county, Henry Meiring is one 
 of the very successful and prosperous fanners 
 around Gervais, where he is operating five hun- 
 dred and seventy acres of land comprising the 
 Landet donation' claim. He is engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising, having at his 
 direct disposal three hundred and seventy acres 
 oi cultivated land. An additional source of in- 
 come is derived from operating a threshing ma- 
 chine, in which he has been interested for the 
 past fifteen years. Mr. Meiring has further 
 added to his responsibilities by purchasing a flour- 
 ing mill at Gervais, which is proving a paying 
 and successful enterprise. 
 
 In Hanover, Germany, where he was born 
 September 15, 1849. Mn Meiring was reared on 
 his father's farm, and educated in the public 
 schools. His father died when he was twenty- 
 one, and his mother when he was six years of 
 age. and thereafter he lived with his brothers and 
 sisters. At the age of twenty he was drafted 
 into the German army, participating in the 
 Franco-Prussian war, and was in the front of 
 many of the notable combats of that memorable 
 time, culminating with the battle of Sedan. In 
 1876 he was united in marriage with Mary T. 
 Klene, who was born December 10, 1855, and 
 reared in Germany. Directly after their mar- 
 riage they came to America, settling near Buena 
 Vista, Ore. For about ten years this continued 
 to be their home, and in 1886 Mr. Meiring came 
 to Marion county, locating on the farm upon 
 which he has since lived. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Meiring six children have 
 been born. Annie K. is the wife of George H. 
 Finney of Gervais, where the latter is operating 
 the mill owned by Mr. Meiring ; they have two 
 daughters and one son. Helena is the wife of 
 Edward A. Finney, residing on a farm in Mar- 
 ion county ; they have one son and one daugh- 
 ter. Mary, Kate. Herman and Adaline are at 
 home. 
 
 In politics Mr. Meiring has been a Republican 
 ever since he came to this country, and he has 
 held some local offices, including those of road 
 supervisor four years and school trustee and 
 clerk. He takes an active interest in all up- 
 building enterprises in the county, and is a stanch 
 advocate of the agricultural and other advan- 
 tages which exist in this well favored state. Fra- 
 
 JOHN KNIGHT, until April, 1903, a promi- 
 nent farmer and politician of Marion county, 
 was born in Shelby county, Mo., January 25, 
 1849, a son OI Joseph and Catherine (Achticer) 
 Knight, the latter a native of Beride, Bavaria. 
 
 Joseph Knight was born in the state of Penn- 
 sylvania January 15, 1799, and by trade was an 
 iron-worker, in which method of livelihood he 
 excelled. About 1838 he located in Shelby coun- 
 ty, Mo., and in that comparatively wild section 
 built a home and cultivated a farm. In 1853 he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, and his train 
 was the first to cross the Cascade Mountains to 
 Steilacoom, Wash., from the old Ft. Walla Walla. 
 For about a year he lived in Shoal Water Bay, 
 Wash., and then came on to the Cascades, where 
 he found employment with the Portage railroad, 
 and was thus engaged when the Cayuse war de- 
 manded all the able-bodied men in the state. For 
 several days the people were surrounded and con- 
 fined in blockhouses, and suffered other inconven- 
 iences due to those troublesome times. About fif- 
 teen persons were killed before they were able to 
 reach the blockhouses. In 1856 Mr. Knight re- 
 turned to Missouri, and in 1863 prepared to 
 again cross the plains, this time taking with him 
 his family, and such possessions as were required 
 for housekeeping in the far west. As before, 
 he took up his residence in Shoal Water Bay, 
 Wash., and after two and a half years came to 
 Marion county, Ore., remaining here for three 
 years. His last home in the state was on a farm 
 in Clackamas county, where he died in 1872, his 
 wife surviving him until 1876. He was an in- 
 dustrious and successful man, and of the four- 
 teen children born into his family and reared to 
 years of usefulness and honor, but four survive. 
 George and William live in Canby ; Mary is the 
 wife of S. Burchem, of Cottage Grove, Ore. ; 
 and John is living retired in Salem. The elder 
 Knight was a stanch Republican, and delighted 
 in discussing the principles and issues of his 
 party. He took an active interest in politics from 
 his first voting days, but was always averse to 
 filling local offices. 
 
 For twenty years of his life John Knight re- 
 mained with his father, and then served an ap- 
 prenticeship to a blacksmith at Aurora, Ore. 
 During the three years spent in qualifying as a 
 knight of the forge and bellows, he received in 
 compensation board and clothing, and at the end 
 of his apprenticeship was not in a position to 
 start either a bank account or a business of his 
 
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 own. For a year he followed his trade in Port- 
 land, and in 1875 located in Salem, in and near 
 which he has since resided. For the first eighteen 
 months in Salem he worked for an established 
 blacksmith here, and then started a business of 
 his own, uninterruptedly conducted until 1892. 
 In the meantime his interest in Republican poli- 
 tics resulted in his becoming well known in the 
 community, and in 1892 his fitness for official re- 
 sponsibility was recognized by his fellow towns- 
 men by his election as sheriff of Marion county, 
 an office maintained with distinct credit for two 
 terms. 
 
 In Salem Mr. Knight was united in marriage 
 with Angeline Snyder, a native of Sullivan 
 county, Pa., who was born in 1855. He later 
 purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy- 
 six acres five miles north of Salem, on the old 
 territorial road. This land comprised a part of 
 the old William Stevens donation claim, and on 
 it Mr. Knight conducted general farming and 
 stock-raising. He makes a specialty of onions, 
 and during 1902 raised about four thousand bush- 
 els of this much-demanded vegetable. Three 
 children have been born into the Knight family, 
 of whom Edna A. is living at home ; and Claude 
 S., an accountant, is employed at The Dalles; 
 Benjamin W. met an accidental death when about 
 eleven years of age. Mr. Knight is one of the 
 most influential and popular men in his neigh- 
 borhood, and one of the best known men in 
 Marion county. For a term he served as alder- 
 man of Salem for the Second ward, and he is 
 associated with various fraternal and social or- 
 ganizations throughout the county. He was one 
 of the promoters of the first lodge of Elks organ- 
 ized in Salem, Ore., was the first exalted ruler 
 of Salem Lodge, No. 336, and has actively in- 
 terested himself in the welfare and growth of 
 the order. He is also a member of the Ancient 
 Order United Workmen, Valley Lodge No. 18. 
 In the spring of 1903 he disposed of his farm and 
 removed to Salem, where he is enjoying a well 
 earned rest. 
 
 CATHERINE S . BASKETT. The life his- 
 tory of Catherine S. Baskett is deserving of_ a 
 place in this work, although not filled with stir- 
 ring events. Her influence and position in the 
 social and business world is important. Pos- 
 sessed of strong individuality, combined with a 
 charming personality, Mrs. Baskett is well and 
 favorably known. She was born in Macoupin 
 county, III, September 21, 1828. Her father, 
 Elijah Bristow, was born in Washington county, 
 Va., and her mother, Susan Gabbert, in Overton 
 county, near Nashville, Term. Her father's fam- 
 ily emigrated to Tennessee, where Mr. Bristow 
 served as apprentice at the hatter's trade, but 
 
 he did not engage in it. Afterwards he removed 
 with his family to Cumberland county, Ky., where 
 he engaged in farming. In 181 2 the family again 
 removed to Illinois, locating first in Macoupin 
 county, where they lived for two years, and 
 then took up their abode in McDonough county, 
 where Mr. Bristow engaged in farming until 
 1846, when he crossed the plains to California. 
 In 1848 his family removed to Oregon, crossing 
 the Missouri river at St. Joseph, April 21, 1848, 
 and the Cascade mountains at Barlow Gate. Thev 
 located at Pleasant Hill, where Mr. Bristow took 
 up a donation land claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres of land twelve miles south of Eugene. He 
 built the first house in Lane county and petitioned 
 the territorial legislature to have his claim named 
 Pleasant Hill, which was done. Mr. Bristow lived 
 there until his death, in his eighty-fourth year. 
 
 Mrs. Baskett's husband, George J. Baskett, 
 was born in Shelby county, Ky., February 25, 
 1818. His father was William Baskett of Vir- 
 ginia, who, with his wife and son, aged ten, 
 moved to Missouri, locating in Howard county, 
 remaining there until 1848, when George crossed 
 the plains. On his trip across, he met his future 
 wife. He located first in Rickreall, but soon went 
 to California, where, during the gold excitement, 
 he was quite successful. In 1852 he returned to 
 Oregon and married Catherine S. Bristow. The 
 young couple settled in Polk county, buying the 
 right to their present place of six hundred and 
 forty acres. They lived there, engaging in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising until Mr. Baskett's death 
 in 1883. His family consisted of eight children, 
 but two of whom are now living — Josephine, wife 
 of Henry Clay Fox, of Rickreall, and George La 
 Fayette Lee, of Elk City, Idaho. The family 
 own all of the original place. Mr. Baskett was 
 a Democrat in politics, and with his wife held 
 membership in the Christian Church of Salem. 
 
 JOHN BLANTON. One of the extensive 
 hop raisers of the vicinity of Brooks is John 
 Blanton, who bought seventeen acres of land 
 in 1 87 1, and has since devoted fourteen acres to 
 hops. That he has improved his land to the best 
 possible extent would seem apparent from the 
 fact that 1902 netted him seventeen thousand 
 pounds of hops. 
 
 The paternal great-grandfather, John Blan- 
 ton, served under Washington in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and his descendants located in dif- 
 ferent parts of the east and middle west. Mr. 
 Blanton himself located in Ray county, Mo. Here 
 Joseph Blanton, the father of John, was born. 
 He learned the cooper's trade, and here married 
 Jane Muncus, also a native of Missouri. The 
 father followed his trade near St. Louis until 
 1844, and then started across the plains with 
 
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 seven yoke of oxen, hoping to improve his for- 
 tunes alter reaching the northwest. He died 
 near Council Bluffs, Iowa, en route to Oregon, 
 aged thirty-nine years, leaving his widow and 
 
 .-fnklren dependent upon their own resources. 
 
 e mother turned back to Andrew county. Mo., 
 and three years later married Samuel Hackwith, 
 
 | continued to live in Missouri for the re- 
 
 inder of her life. She died aged about sixty- 
 n years. 
 
 John Blanton was born in Jackson county, Mo., 
 April _'o. 1833, and with his parents started to 
 cross the plains in 1844. He lived with his 
 mother in Missouri until nineteen years of age, 
 and attended the district schools as opportunity 
 offered. For about three years he was employed 
 as a farm hand. In 1853 he had an opportunity 
 to come west as a driver of oxen, a chance which 
 he very readily accepted. The train was on the 
 road for three months and eleven days. Mr. 
 Blanton stopped for a short time at Big Sandy, 
 then went to live with an uncle, Isaac Blanton, 
 eight miles south of Salem. In 1861 he went to 
 the mines of southern Oregon, where he met 
 with fair success. In 1865 he married Catherine 
 Shephard, born in 1846 in Crawford county, Ark. 
 Mrs. Blanton crossed the plains with her parents 
 in 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Blanton went to house- 
 keeping on a farm near Eugene, in Lane county, 
 and after five years moved to Jackson county, 
 where Mr. Blanton engaged in the stock business 
 for a couple of years. He afterward lived in 
 Polk county for four years, and for a year in 
 the Waldo Hills, Marion county. In 1871 he 
 purchased his present home. 
 
 Twelve children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Blanton: James M. died aged twenty-one; 
 Ida May, the wife of Charles Van Ausdell, a 
 railroad man of Nebraska ; Hannah J., the wife 
 of Alexander Yeach, of Salem ; Mary E., the 
 wife of William Raney, of Salem; William, a 
 resident of Eugene ; John, died in 1900, leaving 
 two children; Marion, who is living -in Brooks; 
 Rose died at age of nineteen years ; Raymond, 
 living in Brooks ; Pearl, at home with her pa- 
 rents ; Franklin, died in infancy ; and Alice, the 
 wife of Enos Waite, of Salem. Mr. Blanton is 
 a Democrat and a member of the United Evan- 
 gelical Church. His many fine traits of char- 
 acter, and unquestioned devotion to the general 
 welfare of his adopted locality, have won him 
 the lasting regard of all with whom he is asso- 
 ciated. He has served as school director in his 
 district and as supervisor of roads. 
 
 FRANCIS XAVIER MOISAN. On the farm 
 upon which he is still living in Marion county, 
 F. Xavier Moisan was born December 16, 1845, 
 and comes of one of the prominent pioneer fam- 
 
 ilies of the northwest. Up in Canada the Moisans 
 were known for many years as merchants and 
 tradespeople, the French blood of remote ances- 
 tors contributing the national thrift and resource- 
 fulness. Near Montreal, Canada, in 1810 was 
 born Thomas Moisan, the father of F. Xavier, 
 who was reared and educated in his native land, 
 and was the only one of ten children to come 
 to the United States. 
 
 Before attaining his majority, Thomas Moisan 
 had started in upon a paying lumber business in 
 Canada, and was also interested in furs and trap- 
 ping, in which he dealt extensively. When 
 twenty-two years of age, in 1838, he made a 
 trip through the United States on horseback, 
 bringing up in New Orleans, where he found a 
 ready market for his furs. About 1840 he started 
 to make a trip across the plains, and for some 
 time was located in Vancouver, Wash., removing 
 later to Marion county, where he took up a claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres eight miles north 
 of Salem, on French Prairie. Half of this prop- 
 erty was prairie land. Here he erected a small 
 log house, the following year taking to himself 
 a wife named Harriet Longtrain. Miss Long- 
 train was born in Vancouver, Wash., May 16, 
 1824, a daughter of Andrew Longtrain, a famous 
 trapper in the employ of the Hudson Bay Com- 
 pany. Thomas Moisan lived on his claim until 
 his death, and there reared the three children 
 born to himself and wife, of whom F. Xavier is 
 the oldest. Philomena married F. J. Baiter, of 
 Salem, and Alexander lives on a farm adjoining 
 that of his brother. Mr. Moisan was a man of 
 pronounced characteristics and the most scrupu- 
 lous honor, and during his life in the west ma- 
 terially promoted the interests of religion and 
 education. He was a devoted member of the 
 Catholic Church, and was the means of securing 
 the erection of several churches throughout the 
 county. His widow, who still survives him, has 
 uninterruptedly made her home on a part of the 
 old donation claim. 
 
 September 30, 1872, Francis Xavier Moisan 
 married Mary V. Manning, a native of Perry 
 county, Mo., born July 11, 1854, who came to 
 Oregon in 1865 by way of the Isthmus, with her 
 parents, and they are living near St. Louis, Ore. 
 Her parents, G. A. and Caroline Manning, were 
 born in Missouri, and there farmed for many 
 years before coming to the west. All of the 
 modern improvements on this old donation claim 
 have been inaugurated by the present owner, who 
 has a fine large frame dwelling, a good barn, 
 and modern agricultural implements. He is en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising, and 
 in the meantime has taken an active interest in 
 the general affairs of his neighborhood. In poli- 
 tics a Republican, he has filled the offices of school 
 director and road supervisor, and since his first 
 
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 voting days has taken a keen interest in all mat- 
 ters political. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Brooks 
 Lodge, No. 137, and in religion is a member of 
 the Catholic Church. Fourteen children have 
 been born into the family: Thomas, who is 
 farming in Marion county; Caroline, deceased, 
 wife of John Roach ; Gustave, living in Gervais ; 
 Lewis, an attendant in the Insane Asylum ; Al- 
 bert, Rose, Tercilla, Agnes, Charles, Francis, 
 Winnie, Frederick, Hubert and Joseph. 
 
 Andrew Longtrain, one of the famous trappers 
 of the northwest, was born in Canada about 
 1791, and came west to Spokane, Wash., when 
 a young man. Here he married and engaged in 
 trapping for many years, selling his furs to the 
 Hudson Bay Company. After a time he took 
 up his residence in Vancouver, and at that time 
 there were very few white people in this part 
 of the country. He lived to be about eighty- 
 seven, while his wife died at the age of seventy- 
 six. He was a typical rugged pioneer of the far 
 west, and his name was known from one end to 
 the other of this trapper's paradise. The monu- 
 ment erected at Champoeg in 1902 in com- 
 memoration of the American purchase of the ter- 
 ritory stands on the claim originally owned by 
 Mr. Longtrain. 
 
 GEORGE W. YOUNG. Among the veteran 
 pioneers of Linn county who have spent the better 
 part of their lives within its precincts, aiding in 
 every possible way its growth and development, 
 G. W. Young, now living retired in Albany, 
 stands pre-eminent, having a good record for 
 length of days, and for long-continued and useful 
 activity. After his marriage he migrated to this 
 state, bravely daring all dangers and privations 
 incidental to life in an undeveloped country in 
 order to pave the way for those who followed, 
 and to establish a home where his children and 
 their descendants might enjoy the comforts, and 
 even the luxuries, of this world without the labor 
 and toil in which his earlier years were spent, 
 Wild animals of all kinds were then numerous 
 and destructive, and the majority of the resi- 
 dents lived in log cabins of the typical pioneer 
 style. These have long since been replaced by 
 substantial modern structures, and the land, 
 having been brought to a high state of cultivation, 
 yields abundantly of the grains and fruits com- 
 mon to this region. The small hamlets have 
 grown into thriving towns, villages and cities, 
 and prosperity smiles on every side. A native 
 of Ohio, George W. Young was born in Richland 
 county, November 4, 1828, a son of Benjamin 
 Young. 
 
 Of stanch New England ancestry, Benjamin 
 Young was born and reared in Connecticut. Re- 
 
 moving to Ohio when a young man, he worked 
 at the cooper's trade until 1837, when he settled 
 in Knox county, 111., where he was actively en- 
 gaged in coopering and farming until his death. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Mes- 
 more, was born in Ohio, and died in Illinois. 
 Of their large family of children, ten grew to 
 years of maturity, and eight, five girls and three 
 boys, survive. One son, John Young, went to the 
 front during the Civil war as a volunteer in an 
 Illinois regiment, and died while in service. 
 
 The second son of the parental household, G. 
 W. Young, was brought up and educated in Illi- 
 nois, attending school in the old log schoolhouse. 
 While yet a lad he acquired a good knowledge of 
 agriculture, also becoming familiar with the 
 cooper's trade by working in the shop with his 
 father in bad weather. He subsequently learned 
 the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for 
 awhile, remaining at home until reaching his 
 majority. The following six years he was en- 
 gaged in farming for himself, first in Knox 
 county, 111., then in Peoria county, and again in 
 Knox county. In the spring of 1853, influenced 
 partly by love of travel, and partly by a desire to 
 try the "hazard of new fortunes" he started for 
 the Pacific coast. Leaving Illinois in March, with 
 one wagon, which was drawn by four yoke of 
 oxen, he, with his wife and one child, crossed the 
 Missouri river at Council Bluffs on April 6, 
 and there took the old Oregon trail, coming along 
 the Barlow route, and arriving in Linn county 
 in October. 
 
 Locating in Sweet Home valley, Mr. Young 
 took up a donation land claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres and later purchased one hundred and 
 sixty acres on Sand Ridge, about fourteen 
 miles from Albany, and at once began the 
 establishment of a homestead. Clearing and im- 
 proving a large tract, he met with good success 
 in his agricultural labors, and has since owned 
 many different estates, buying and selling at a 
 profit, at one time having a clear title to seven 
 hundred acres of fine land. In 1866 he removed 
 to Albany, where he has since resided, a prosper- 
 ous and highly esteemed citizen. For eight or 
 ten years he carried on a good business as a 
 contractor and builder, being especially interested 
 in bridge contracting, and doing a great deal of 
 work for the county, having charge of the con- 
 struction of many of the bridges in Linn county. 
 Although he has lived in Oregon a full half cen- 
 tury, Mr. Young has never lost interest in the 
 home and friends of his youth, but on two occa- 
 sions has visited the east, going first in 1872, 
 and again in 1883. 
 
 While living in Illinois, Mr. Young married 
 for his first wife Clarinda Simons, who was 
 born in New York state, and died in Lebanon, 
 Ore. Of the children born of their union, one 
 
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 daughter is living, namely : Malinda, wife of 
 Mm H. Clelen, of Albany. To John H. Clelen 
 and win, have been born four children — three of 
 whom are living: Otto, an engineer of Albany, 
 married Anna Reninger and has two children, 
 fohn and Grace; Edna, wife of Charles G. Rawl- 
 
 K oi Albany ; they have two daughters, Mada- 
 line and Ruth ; Benjamin, resides in Albany ; 
 rgiana died at the age of one year. 
 
 Mr. Young's second wife was Miss Rose Clark, 
 who was born in Princeton, 111., of New England 
 ana-tors. Her father, Joseph S. Clark, was born 
 and reared in Xew Hampshire, where he learned 
 the trade of a brick mason. Subsequently re- 
 moving to Illinois he lived for awhile in Prince- 
 ton, then came to Oregon, locating in Albany in 
 1874, where he followed his trade for many years ; 
 living in this city until his death. He married 
 Harriet Richards, a native of Medina county, 
 Ohio, and they became the parents of eleven 
 children, nine of whom grew to years of matur- 
 itv. and seven of whom are now living. 
 
 Mr. Young has had a busy life as well as a 
 prosperous one, his success in the accumulation 
 of property being entirely due to his own energy, 
 perseverance, good judgment and honest business 
 principles. Politically he is a sound Democrat. 
 Fraternally he is a member, and past officer, of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which 
 he joined in 1855 ; of the Encampment and of 
 the Oregon Pioneer Association. 
 
 FRAXKLIX S. POWELL. On a well de- 
 veloped farm in Sangamon county, 111., Frank- 
 lin S. Powell, one of the foremost pioneers of 
 Polk county, was born March 20, 1830. As one 
 of the many hundreds who crossed the plains 
 in 1851 he has entered heartily into the de- 
 velopment of many northwestern enterprises, 
 benefiting all with his business ability, and 
 conveying to them his peculiar and con- 
 tagious enthusiasm. On both sides of his 
 family the ancestors were very early settlers 
 in America, and patriotism found expression 
 in the paternal grandfather, Joseph Powell, a 
 native of Kentucky, and a soldier in the war 
 of 1812 ; and the maternal great-grandfather, 
 Peter Borders, followed the martial fortunes of 
 Washington. 
 
 John A. Powell, the father of Franklin S., 
 was born on a farm near Dayton, Ohio, Febru- 
 ary 10, 1807, and in 1825 removed with his 
 parents to Sangamon county, 111., and was there 
 reared and educated, eventually taking as his 
 wife Savilla Smith, born in Ohio, September 
 10, 1812. At a comparatively early age Mr. 
 Powell entered the ministry of the Christian 
 Church, and during almost his entire active life 
 he combined the cultivation of the soil with the 
 
 preaching of the gospel. For some time after 
 his marriage he lived in Menard county, 111., 
 and in April, 185 1, outfitted and crossed the 
 plains to Oregon. With him came his wife 
 and nine children, among them Theresa, wife 
 of Wm. McFaden, whose death after leaving 
 the Blue mountains, at the age of twenty-two, 
 was the only sad or unfortunate occurrence 
 during the entire trip. Mr. Powell settled with 
 his family on a donation claim on the Santiam 
 in Linn county, and there lived until retiring 
 to Albany in 1870, in which town his death oc- 
 curred in 1880. He was a unique and in some 
 ways remarkable man, and during his active 
 life accomplished much good. An earnest 
 worker in the church, an eloquent and forceful 
 speaker, a sound reasoner, and thorough bible 
 student, his voice was heard in earnest ex- 
 hortation in many places in Oregon and Wash- 
 ington, and especially was he known and ap- 
 preciated in the Willamette valley. Mr. 
 Powell was a fine specimen of physical man- 
 hood, weighing two hundred and twenty-five 
 pounds. He was a Republican in politics, 
 and was a man of influence, personal magnet- 
 ism, and broad humanitarian views of life. 
 Eight years after his death, in 1888, the wife 
 who had shared his trials and joys, reared his 
 children to men and women of usefulness, and 
 been his chief consoler and sympathizer, died 
 at the home of her son near Monmouth, at the 
 age of seventy-eight. 
 
 Franklin S. Powell was the oldest of the four 
 sons and five daughters born to his parents. 
 Before leaving for the west he married, March 
 20, 1851, Louise J. Peeler, who was born in 
 Illinois, a daughter of Rev. Abner Peeler, a 
 native of Maine, and a minister in the Chris- 
 tian Church. Upon arriving in Oregon Mr. 
 Powell located on a donation claim eight miles 
 east of Albany in Linn county, where he built 
 a little house, and began the improvement of 
 his land. In time abundant harvests rewarded 
 his tilling of the soil, a larger house took the 
 place of the primitive structure, and twenty- 
 one years rolled by with ever increasing pros- 
 perity. During the Civil war he served two 
 terms as justice of the peace for Lebanon pre- 
 cinct. In 1874 he came to Monmouth, Ore., 
 built the home in which he now lives, and has 
 since identified himself with this community. 
 In 1898 he sold the farm near Albany, and now 
 owns a farm of three hundred and twenty-six 
 acres two and a half miles northwest of Mon- 
 mouth, during the bright summer months liv- 
 ing in his rural retreat, and in the winter time 
 availing himself of the advantages of the town. 
 
 At all times Air. Powell has held himself 
 in readiness to aid in the development of his 
 
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 adopted locality, and many enterprises have 
 reached completion through his energy and 
 practical assistance. He is one of the organ- 
 izers and stock-holders of the Polk County 
 Bank, and is also one of the founders and a 
 stockholder in the Independence and Mon- 
 mouth Railroad. He also aided in the con- 
 struction of a warehouse at Albany and one at 
 Independence, and is one of the chief upbuild- 
 ers of Christian College, with which he has 
 been identified as trustee and member of the 
 executive board for many years. In fact his 
 removal to Monmouth was practically dictated 
 by a desire to be near and assist in every pos- 
 sible way this very admirable educational in- 
 stitution. In Republican politics he has taken 
 an active part, in 1888 being elected to the 
 state legislature, and serving during the ses- 
 sion as chairman of the agricultural commit- 
 tee. This was about the time of the great 
 county-seat contest between Independence and 
 Dallas, and Mr. Powell entered into the thickest 
 of the fight. While a member of the legisla- 
 ture, in 1889, he introduced a bill to convert the 
 Christian College at Monmouth into a State 
 Normal School, and. while the bill was defeated 
 by only one vote, yet it laid the foundation for 
 the accomplishment of the same object by the 
 succeeding legislature in 1891. 
 
 Eight children have been born into the fam- 
 ily of Mr. Powell, of whom James M. is a phy- 
 sician of Spokane, Wash.; Cyrus is deceased; 
 John H. is a farmer near Farmington, Wash. ; 
 Lavina is deceased ; Marinthia is the wife of 
 A. M. Arant, a fruit rancher west of Mon- 
 mouth ; P. O. is a teacher of mathematics, 
 commercial law and literature in the Normal 
 School at Monmouth ; Ira C. is represented in 
 this work ; J. F. is living at home. In March, 
 1901, Mr. and Mrs. Powell celebrated their 
 golden wedding at their home in Monmouth, 
 where over one hundred friends came from far 
 and wide to wish them many years of happi- 
 ness. In the estimation of his hosts of friends 
 there is no more worthy man in this county than 
 Mr. Powell, whose well known business in- 
 tegrity, conservative yet progressive judgment, 
 and capacity for large undertaking have made 
 him a power in a cosmopolitan community. 
 
 GEORGE C. SMITH. The advantage of 
 learning a trade, and thereby having something 
 in the way of making a living upon which he 
 could always depend, was one of the teachings 
 which found practical expression in the life of 
 George C. Smith, one of the successful farmers 
 and stock-raisers of Polk county. Were Mr. 
 Smith to dispose of his farm and locate in some 
 of the busy marts of the country, he could un- 
 
 doubtedly command good wages as a practical 
 brick and stone mason, a trade to which he de- 
 voted three years of his life as an apprentice, 
 and which he plied for some little time. 
 
 For many years the family of Mr. Smith was 
 identified with farming interests in Virginia, in 
 which state he was born in Jackson county, Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1833. His father, John, was born in 
 Virginia in 1788, and spent his entire life in the 
 Old Dominion state. Left alone in the world 
 when a small boy, the elder Smith was con- 
 fronted by the responsibility of his own support, 
 and proved himself capable of coping with the 
 difficulty. For some time he worked on boats on 
 the Ohio river, and when quite young started 
 in to farm for himself, eventually purchasing 
 with his earnings about a hundred acres of land. 
 He never had any desire to desert his old south- 
 ern state, and lived contentedly and in compara- 
 tive comfort there until his death in 1878 at the 
 advanced age of ninety years. In his young 
 manhood he married a native daughter of Vir- 
 ginia, Julia A. Cummins, born in 1800, and who 
 died in 1855. Of this union were born fourteen 
 children, seven sons and seven daughters, of 
 whom six are now living : Conrad, George C, 
 John, David ; Julia, wife of Freeman Shower- 
 man ; Levina, wife of A. J. Moffit. 
 
 So large a family taxed the resources of the 
 Virginia farm, and of necessity the children were 
 forced to take themselves into outside fields of 
 activity when quite young. Thus it happened 
 that the sixth child, George C, resolutely turned 
 his face towards an independent livelihood, work- 
 ing at such occupations as came his way. At 
 the age of twenty-four he removed to Ray coun- 
 ty, Mo., and apprenticed himself to a brick and 
 stone mason for three years, and after working 
 for a while at his trade decided that he liked 
 farming better, and so found a position on a farm 
 in Ray county. He was not insensible of his lim- 
 itations in Missouri, and in 1865 hailed the op- 
 portunity to cross the plains with ox teams. 
 In the meantime he had married Eliza A. Craven 
 in 1859, sne being a native of Ray county. Mo., 
 and the daughter of a large land owner. His 
 wife and children therefore accompanied him 
 across the plains, their outfit consisting of four 
 yoke of oxen. The train had one hundred and 
 nine wagons to start with, but the party eventu- 
 ally separated, according to the desired destina- 
 tion of its many members. They were five 
 months and five days on the way, and Mr. Smith 
 located in the Eola hills, where he rented land 
 for five years. Frugal and industrious, he man- 
 aged to save considerable money while farming 
 his rented land, and in 1870 bought his present 
 farm, which consists of one hundred and twenty- 
 two acres, and is a portion of the old Babcock 
 donation claim. In addition to general farming 
 
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 and stock-raising, he has ten acres under hops, 
 and is contemplating devoting more land in the 
 future to this important and marketable com- 
 modity. 
 
 The wife oi Mr. Smith survived the journey 
 across the plains, and the hardship of pioneer 
 conditions for but three years, her death occur- 
 ring in 1869. She was faithful to her trust as 
 a mother and wife, and left to the care of her 
 husband three children. Laura, wife of S. H. 
 
 iwley; David Ackley and Charles Jackson. 
 In 1874 Mr. Smith married Sarah M. Coulter, 
 
 which union there have been born the follow- 
 ing children : Rosetta, wife of Sam T. Smith : 
 Stella M. : Elsie, wife of C. B. Whaley ; Seth ; 
 Lavina: George C, Jr.. and Lanora Alice. 
 
 Mr. Smith adheres to the principles of the 
 Democratic party, and he has served the com- 
 munity as road supervisor and school director. 
 He is a liberal and enterprising man. and a suc- 
 ss as a farmer and promoter of general pros- 
 perity. 
 
 WILLIAM. FRY. A venerable and very 
 highly esteemed citizen who was formerly closely 
 identified with the colony at Bethel, Mo., and later 
 at Aurora, and who is still a resident of this 
 favored city, is William Fry, a blacksmith by 
 trade, and a man of sterling characteristics. Mr. 
 Fry passed the first years of his life in Hunt 
 ington county, Pa., where he was born Septem- 
 ber 16. 1835. About 1845 ne removed with his 
 parents to Bethel. Mo., and at a later period 
 moved to Adair county, Mo., where he plied his 
 trade as blacksmith, and also engaged in farm- 
 ing. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Fry became a resident of Aurora, 
 Ore., having crossed the plains with ox teams, 
 and taking five months for the journey. His 
 experiences on the plains were of a more peace- 
 ful nature than those which characterized the 
 journeyings of earlier emigrants, and he arrived 
 at his destination in good health and spirits. He 
 at once started up a little blacksmith shop, the 
 first in the city, and he has never had a com- 
 petitor in the business. Needless to say he has 
 a flourishing business, and is known as a master 
 workman throughout the surrounding country. 
 He is the owner of a ten-acre home near the town, 
 where he raises staple commodities, and has a 
 pleasant and home-like residence. Here live his 
 wife, formerlv Anna Miller, a native of Columbi- 
 ana county, Ohio, born in 1841 ; and four children. 
 Andrew M.. George W., Matilda, and Walter O. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. Fry has held 
 numerous offices of trust and responsibility in the 
 city, including that of councilman for nine terms, 
 an office which he still occupies with great credit. 
 He has alwavs taken an interest in the cause of 
 
 education, and has served for three terms as a 
 member of the school board. Some military ex- 
 perience has enlivened the career of Mr. Fry, 
 who enlisted in Company E, Missouri Home 
 Guards, at Kirksville, Mo., and was elected Sec- 
 ond lieutenant and served until his leave of ab- 
 sence in order to come to Oregon. Mr. Fry 
 is a natural mechanic, and a large share of his 
 success along this line is due to the fact that 
 congenial work makes the successful workman. 
 His business methods are above reproach, and 
 his name stands for integritv and reliabilitv. 
 
 GEORGE W. L. VINTON. Of fine old Co- 
 lonial ancestry, George W. L. Vinton, one of the 
 foremost farmers of Marion county, was born in 
 Boston, Mass., December 25. 1823. From an 
 industrious and worthy sire he inherited traits 
 of industry and thrift, his father being a cooper 
 by trade, and a fairly successful man. The elder 
 Vinton was not unmindful of his duties as a citi- 
 zen of a grief-stricken republic, and in 18 12 re- 
 sponded to the call for soldiers, serving the 
 American cause as became a strong and rugged 
 personality. He was three times married, and 
 his useful life extended beyond the biblical al- 
 lotment of seventy years. 
 
 The advantages of the public schools felf to 
 the lot of George W. L. Vinton, and he naturally 
 connected the future with some one of the useful 
 trades, finally selecting that of the painter, for 
 which he served an apprenticeship of three vears. 
 Thereafter he plied his trade for about five 
 years. In 1848 he removed to Illinois, locating 
 on a farm in Bureau county. In 1853 he was 
 united in marriage with Alfreda Wilbur, who 
 was born in Pennsylvania. They resided 
 in Illinois until 1861, when they removed 
 to Iowa, where they remained until 1864. Of 
 ambitious tendencies, Mr. Vinton foresaw in the 
 far west opportunities not found in Iowa, and 
 therefore emigrated to Oregon in 1864. being 
 one of a train of one hundred and twenty-four 
 wagons under command of Captain Hulbert. Mr. 
 Vinton himself had eight yoke of oxen, and was 
 on the way about seven months. 
 
 In Marion county Mr. Vinton settled on a claim 
 twelve miles east of Salem, and at the expiration 
 of eighteen months rented a place on Howell 
 prairie for about a year. Following this he 
 worked at his trade for about four years, and in 
 1870 bought his present home of three hundred 
 acres fourteen miles from Salem, on the Howell 
 Prairie road. The clearing of his land presented 
 a large labor problem, but the present owner has 
 succeeded to the extent of about fifty acres, which 
 is devoted to general farming and stock-raising. 
 A well appointed home, substantial barns and out- 
 buildings, and up-to-date agricultural implements 
 
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 are among the additions inaugurated by the en- 
 terprise and thrift of this successful farmer. 
 
 Politics have not escaped the attention of Mr. 
 Vinton, who is a stanch upholder of Repub- 
 lican principles, and who has acceptably served 
 as supervisor and school clerk. Eight children 
 have been born into this family, of whom Charles 
 W. is a resident of Albino ; Cora A. was married 
 to William Ramsdon, but is now deceased ; Mary 
 B. is the wife of John Waltman of this vicinity; 
 H. Almina is the wife of C. McElwain, of Fruit- 
 land ; Anna Eva became the wife of E. Stevens, 
 but is now deceased ; George W. L., Jr., lives at 
 his father's ; Walter Augustus lives on North 
 Howell prairie ; and Arthur G. is still at home. 
 
 clerk of the school board. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Knights of Pythias and the Rath- 
 bone Sisters. Mr. Miller is unmarried and lives 
 with his parents. 
 
 HENRY J. MILLER is one of the young 
 men of Aurora who, recognizing an opportunity, 
 has taken advantage of it, and by sheer force of 
 will power and business judgment has dignified 
 his undertakings with large success. Ten years 
 ago Mr. Miller started, with a capital consisting 
 of brains and determination, to buy hops on a 
 small scale, and so well has he succeeded that he 
 is to-day a large property owner, and one of the 
 most substantial men in the town. The adapta- 
 tions of the surrounding country to the raising 
 of hops has been his great opportunity, and he 
 buys in large quantities, and ships to the mar- 
 kets of New York and London. He is one of 
 the best judges of this commodity in the county, 
 and his operations influence the price of hops 
 to a material extent. 
 
 Mr. Miller is a native son of Aurora, of whom 
 his fellow-townsmen are justly proud. He was 
 born here January 14, 1873, his father, Joseph 
 Miller, having been born in Bethel, Mo. The 
 elder Miller came to Oregon in 1863 with a col- 
 ony, bringing his possessions with ox teams, 
 and experiencing the usual number of adventures 
 on the way. He located with his family near 
 Aurora, and is at present a resident of the town, 
 being sixty-three years of age. His wife, Gert- 
 rude (Schuele) Miller, was born in Missouri, 
 and crossed the plains in 1863. She is the mother 
 of a son and five daughters. 
 
 Henry J. Miller was educated in the public 
 schools, and at the age of twenty began his ac- 
 tive business career. In Aurora he owns the 
 property upon which the postoffice is erected, and 
 he also owns property on the corner of Washing- 
 ton and Twelfth streets, Portland. This prop- 
 erty has all been bought with the money earned 
 from his hop enterprises, and certainly reflects 
 vast credit upon this enterprising and popular 
 young man. 
 
 In politics Mr. Miller is a Republican, but as 
 yet he has taken no special interest in the local 
 undertakings of his party, aside from serving as 
 
 ELMER W. FINZER, D. D. S. A lucrative 
 practice is always the aim of the professional 
 man, and the subject of this review has attained 
 a position in Woodburn, Ore., of which many 
 men of maturer years and time of service might 
 well be proud. A member of an old and much 
 respected family, the ancestral history is covered 
 in the review of a brother, Capt. W. E. Finzer. 
 The name of Finzer retains in a marked degree 
 the business and moral worth so characteristic 
 of the children of Switzerland. 
 
 Dr. Finzer is the third of nine children born 
 to Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hostettler) Finzer, 
 and was born near Shanesville, Tuscarawas coun- 
 ty, Ohio, June 22, 1871. While his father was 
 engaged in working at his trade of carpenter, 
 Fjlmer Finzer was attending the public schools 
 of that place, preparing himself for the future. 
 In 1888 he accompanied the family to Oregon. 
 They settled in Woodburn, and here he com- 
 pleted his education, and was employed as a 
 clerk in a general merchandise store where he 
 gained a practical business education. He was 
 one of those enterprising lads who have the 
 ability to succeed in the face of many obstacles, 
 and after due consideration of the lucrative pro- 
 fessions, the possibilities of dentistry appealed 
 to him. In 1894 he began as assistant to Dr. 
 George L. Fox of Woodburn, remaining for two 
 years, then with Dr. G. H. Marker of this city, 
 where he remained three years, and in June, 1899, 
 successfully passed the examination before the 
 State Board of Dental Examiners. Upon receiv- 
 ing his certificate he at once opened an office in 
 Woodburn, where he has built up a practice in 
 a short time far beyond his expectations. To 
 keep in touch with the advanced methods he 
 took a post-graduate course during May and 
 June, 1902, at the Northwestern University of 
 Dental Surgery at Chicago, 111. 
 
 Dr. Finzer was married in Woodburn May 5, 
 1898, to Miss Minnie Tasker, an estimable young 
 lady, who was born in Mitchell, Canada, Octo- 
 ber 10, 1875, a daughter of William Tasker, a 
 native of Yorkshire, England. He emigrated to 
 Ohio at an early day, and located in Akron, 
 where he was engaged as machinist. Some time 
 later he removed to Canada, and while there his 
 daughter was born. Returning to Akron, she 
 was reared and educated in the public schools. 
 Mrs. Finzer completed her education in Salem, 
 and at the age of seventeen began teaching 
 school, and continued until her marriage. In 
 .t886 Mr. Tasker and his family removed to Ore- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and conducted a general merchandise store 
 i Salem for a time. For a long time Mr. Tasker 
 had been deeply interested in Socialism. In order 
 to study social conditions under a regime of this 
 character, he went to New Zealand in January, 
 ■. and. with his wife is now making that 
 their home. His son, Charles, is living in Peoria, 
 111.: Walter in Denver, Col.. 
 
 ( )ne child has been born to Dr. Finzer and his 
 wife. Beatrice Irene, born March 9, 1899. In 
 his fraternal relations Dr. Finzer is a member 
 f Woodburn Lodge Xo. 102, I. O. O. F., and, 
 with his wife, is a member of Daughters of Re- 
 bekah, Woodburn Camp. No. 47, W. O. W., and 
 Woodburn Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M. He is 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in 
 politics is a Democrat. He is very conscientious 
 in his work, and has set a high standard of pro- 
 mal ethics for his own guidance. 
 
 JOHN J. FINN. Immediately identified with 
 the agricultural interests of Polk county, Mr. 
 Finn is carrying on general farming with signal 
 success at McCoy. An active, enterprising man, 
 he has won his way in the world by his own 
 efforts, and has made a good record as an in- 
 dustrious, intelligent citizen, and as a business 
 man of ability. A. son of the late John Finn, he 
 was born June 27, 1852, at Canton, Mass. 
 
 John Finn, the father of John J., was born in 
 County Limerick, Ireland, about 1788, and spent 
 the earlier part of his life in the Emerald Isle. 
 Crossing the Atlantic in 1847, he located in Massa- 
 chusetts, where he was successfully employed in 
 agricultural pursuits until his death, which oc- 
 curred in the town of Stoughton, Mass., in 1864. 
 He married Mrs. Annie (Dunn) Fitzpatrick, who 
 was born in Queens county, Ireland, in 1816, and 
 is now living in Massachusetts, a venerable 
 woman of eighty-seven years. Of the five sons 
 and four daughters born of their marriage, John 
 J., the second child, and his brother William, are 
 the only survivors. 
 
 Leaving the district school at the age of eleven 
 years, John J. Finn worked for a year in a 
 woolen mill, remaining meamvhile with his wid- 
 owed mother. The following year he left home, 
 and from that time until twenty years old wan- 
 dered around through New England, working 
 at whatever he found to do. Enlisting in 1872 
 in the Fourth United States Cavalry, he served 
 in Texas and the Indian Territory until dis- 
 abled by injuries received by being thrown from 
 a horse, when, in 1876, he was honorably dis- 
 charged from the service. After making a short 
 visit in Massachusetts. Mr. Finn came to Polk 
 county, Ore., locating on Mill creek, where he 
 worked for wages for a number of years. Being 
 prudent and thrifty, he saved his money, bought 
 
 a farm of one hundred and sixty acres on Mill 
 creek, sixty acres of it being timber land, where 
 he remained until 1882. He then took passage 
 from Portland on the vessel "Ivy," and went 
 around the cape to Queenstown, Ireland. Re- 
 turning via Boston, Mass., he visited his mother 
 at Stoughton, reaching Oregon again in the 
 spring of 1883. 
 
 In 1884 lie married Mrs. Julia A. (Rider) Da- 
 vis, and moved onto her farm of one hundred and 
 forty-eight acres near McCoy. Mrs. Finn's 
 father, Dr. James Rider, moved in 1876 from 
 Minnesota to Oregon, locating in Polk county, 
 where he resided until his death on May 30th, 
 1900. 
 
 By her first marriage, Mrs. Finn has three 
 children, namely: Capt. Milton F. Davis, U. S. 
 A., a graduate of West Point, who served with 
 the first cavalry in the Cuban campaign, after- 
 wards was assistant adjutant general on the staff 
 of Brigadier General Bell in the Philippine Isl- 
 ands, and now stationed at Fort Leavenworth; 
 Myrtle, living at home; and Richard, who en- 
 listed as a private in the Fourth United States 
 Infantry, rising from the ranks to a first lieu- 
 tenancy in charge of a company of Filipino scouts. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Finn have one child, J. Waldo Finn. 
 
 Mr. Finn is independent in politics, voting for 
 the best men and measures regardless of party 
 restrictions, and has served as road supervisor. 
 Fraternally he is a member of Amity Lodge 
 No. 20, A. F. & A. M., Oregon Consistorv No. 
 1, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rites, and Mc- 
 Coy Lodge, I. O. O. F. 
 
 WILLIAM A. WENGENROTH. The 
 standing and importance of the Wengenroth 
 family in Germany is best understood wdien one 
 recalls the picturesque little town of that name 
 on the Rhine, wdiere for several generations mem- 
 bers of the house pursued their various occupa- 
 tions, principally as merchants and manufac- 
 turers. At Wengenroth was born the manager 
 and proprietor of the Valley Manufacturing Com- 
 pany of Woodburn, May 26, 1845, an <3 there 
 also was born his father, Daniel, a wagon and 
 carriage manufacturer of his native town. The 
 father amassed quite a fortune by reason of 
 well applied industry, and the frugality charac- 
 teristic of his people, and his name stood for all 
 that was honorable and of good report. He was 
 actively engaged in business almost up to the time 
 of his death in 1897, at the age of seventy-eight 
 years. His wife, Margaret (Schuster) Wengen- 
 roth, was a native of the Rhine province, born 
 at Stalhofen, and her death occurred in Germany 
 in 1870, at the age of forty-five. 
 
 The eldest of the six children born to his 
 parents, William A. Wengenroth received a prac- 
 
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 tical home training, and was educated in the 
 public schools. At an early age he began to 
 learn his father's business, in time taking a re- 
 sponsible position with a large wagon manufac- 
 turing concern. He emigrated to America in 
 1879, locating at Champoeg, on the Willamette 
 river, where he engaged in wagon making for 
 two years. After a short time in Portland he 
 worked in Buena Vista, Independence and Wood- 
 burn, and in April, 1902, started an ax handle 
 manufactory under the firm name of the Valley 
 Manufacturing Company. Though compara- 
 tively in its infancy, this enterprise bids fair to 
 become one of the solid upbuilding forces of 
 Woodburn, location, available material, and mar- 
 ket conspiring in favor of this ambitious new 
 arrival. In addition to ax handles the firm turns 
 out many other kinds of handles, including 
 sledge, adz, auger, hammer, hatchet, and broom 
 handles, as well as neck-yokes. 
 
 With him from Germany Mr. Wengenroth 
 brought his wife, formerly Emma Hoefer, a na- 
 tive of the Rhine province, and whose father, 
 Martin, was a blacksmith in Germany. Three 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wen- 
 genroth, of whom William is with his father in 
 business ; Johanna, deceased, was the wife of 
 S. H. Brown of Gervais, Ore., and left one 
 daughter, Gertrude; and Walter is living with 
 his parents. 
 
 Mr. Wengenroth in politics is a Republican, 
 and is a member of the Champoeg Lodge No. 
 27, A. F. & A. M. He is a master workman, 
 and his many years of practical experience here 
 and in Germany have placed him among the 
 most expert in his chosen occupation. 
 
 JOHN J. HILL. It is doubtful if any enter- 
 prise in McCoy has contributed more materially 
 to the upbuilding of the town than has the ware- 
 house business of John J. Hill. Since 1892 he 
 has been handling large quantities of grain, wool, 
 hops, and other commodities which flourish in 
 this locality, and by his stanch support of the 
 agriculturists has fostered and encouraged their 
 efforts along these lines. During the year he 
 has handled no less than sixty-thousand bushels 
 of wheat and thirty thousand bushels of oats. 
 
 Mr. Hill came to McCoy with a great deal of 
 practical experience behind him, gained in sev- 
 eral busy marts of trade. He was born in Platte 
 county, Mo., November 17, 1839, his grand- 
 father, Spencer, and his father, Archibald, hav- 
 ing been born in Virginia, the latter in January, 
 1804. Archibald Hill was a man of prominence, 
 especially after removing to Missouri in 1836. 
 Although his entire life was spent on a farm, he 
 filled positions quite remote from that kind of 
 life, and was postmaster of Ridgely, Platte 
 
 county, under the administration of thirteen post- 
 master generals. He was successful in farming, 
 and lived until 1876. His wife, Eleanor Mc- 
 Manamy, was also a native of Virginia, and was 
 born February 13, 1807, her marriage occurring 
 in her native state, where her husband was at 
 that time engaged in a general merchandise busi- 
 
 ness. 
 
 Having completed the training of the public 
 schools John J. Hill attended Columbia Univer- 
 sity for a year, and thereafter lived for some 
 time on his father's farm. In 1861 he enlisted 
 as a private in Company E, Thirty-ninth Regu- 
 lar Militia, and was employed in guerilla war- 
 fare in the state of Missouri, eventually attain- 
 ing to the rank of sergeant. October 16, 1863, 
 he enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Kansas 
 Cavalry, and served under Generals Curtis, Pope 
 and Scofield. In 1865 he was sent to fight In- 
 dians in the Yellowstone Park, Montana, Wyom- 
 ing and the Dakotas, and in December of the 
 same year brought up at Fort Leavenworth, 
 where he received his discharge. Returning to 
 his home he engaged in farming on his own 
 responsibility, and between 1866 and 1870 en- 
 gaged in mail contracting. After completing his 
 mail services he continued to farm in Missouri 
 until 1876, when he came to Oregon, locating 
 near Bethel in Polk county. His farm consisted 
 of two hundred and eight acres, and this he 
 brought to a high state of cultivation, living 
 thereon until taking up his residence in McCoy 
 in 1892. 
 
 In Missouri, in 1863, Mr. Hill was united 
 in marriage with Mrs. Jemima Packwood, who 
 was born in Indiana, February 13, 1836. Of this 
 union there have been born two children, Effie 
 and Mattie, the latter being the wife of George 
 Richards, of Portland. 
 
 Mr. Hill is a Republican in politics, has been 
 school director and held other offices. Because 
 of services during the Civil war he is identified 
 with Custer Post No. 9, G. A. R., of McMinn- 
 ville. Possessed of sound business judgment and 
 unquestioned integrity, Mr. Hill commands the 
 respect of all with whom he is associated, and 
 it is to be hoped will long continue to be an im- 
 portant factor in the community of McCoy. 
 
 FREDERICK W. WILL. A hostelry in Au- 
 rora to which weary and travel-stained tourists 
 are glad to repair, is that owned and managed 
 by Fred W. Will, a native son of Oregon, and 
 who was born in Portland, January 29, 1875. 
 Like many of the present population of the town, 
 Mr. Will owes his principal interest here to his 
 father's pioneer association with the sister colony 
 of Bethel, Shelby county, Mo., from which he 
 emigrated with the other colonists in 1863. The 
 
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 elder Will was born in the Bethel colony, and 
 after crossing the plains and locating in Aurora, 
 took up his residence tor a time in Portland, 
 where he followed his trade as a wood-turner. 
 In 1883 he again became a citizen of Aurora, 
 and in partnership with A. Kocher, started a 
 1 ral merchandise store. This was a com- 
 paratively short-lived venture, for at the end of 
 ;i year he bought out his partner and ran the 
 business alone until disposing of it to his son, 
 Allen H. Will, in 1902. He married Henrietta 
 Miller, who was born in Missouri, and who came 
 to Oregon in 1865, settling with her parents in 
 \ ir the eight children born of this union 
 
 three are deceased, Frederick W. being the oldest 
 of the three sons and two daughters now living. 
 
 After completing his education in the public 
 schools of Portland, and graduating from the 
 Portland Business College in 1901, Frederick 
 \Y. Will engaged in the general merchandise 
 business at Needy, Ore., for six months, selling 
 out at that time to his partner. In Aurora he 
 afterward worked for his father in the general 
 merchandise store, and in January, 1902, bought 
 the hotel which has since been his greatest care. 
 A bar is maintained in connection with the hotel, 
 and the appointments of the entire enterprise are 
 modern, and in accord with successful entertain- 
 ment of the traveling public. Mr. Will has iden- 
 tified himself with important affairs in Aurora, 
 and that he has served as city treasurer argues 
 that his standing in the community is an honor- 
 able and worthy one. He is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and fraternally is a member of Hermes 
 Lodge, Xo. 56, Knights of Pythias. 
 
 In Needy, Ore.. December 25. 1900, Mr. Will 
 married Lettie M. Thompson, who was born in 
 Missouri, and whose father, William Thompson, 
 is an old settler and prominent farmer near 
 Needy. Mr. Will is energetic and prosperous, 
 and his natural qualifications of tact, good na- 
 ture and knowdedge of human nature, are such 
 as are most required of the up-to-date hotel 
 man. 
 
 HENRY A. SNYDER. Possessed of a ver- 
 satility which would make him an important fac- 
 tor in any community. Henry A. Snyder has 
 found a prolific field of activity in Aurora, where 
 he has many financial irons in the fire, all of 
 which are followed by unquestioned success. Mr. 
 Snyder is a young man to have found his rightful 
 place in the world, he having been born in this 
 town March 10. 1872. the son of Charles Snyder, 
 a pioneer of 1848. 
 
 Charles Snyder was born near Canton, Ohio. 
 and is the son of Henry Schneider, a native of 
 Germany, and who came to the United States 
 when twelve years old, settling in Ohio. When 
 
 Charles Snyder was a year and a half old his 
 mother died, leaving six other children to the care 
 of her husband, who lived to be sixty-five years 
 old. The father came to Oregon in 1848, and at 
 that time Charles was eleven years old. In 1869 
 he married Christian Schuele, who was born in 
 Bethel, Mo., and whose parents became members 
 of the Aurora colony. At the time of the disrup- 
 tion of the colony he was working at his trade 
 as carpenter, and he received for his share of 
 the property fifty-seven acres of timberland near 
 the town, while his wife received a house and lot 
 in Aurora. Mr. Snyder has been industrious, 
 thrifty and thoroughly honorable in all his deal- 
 ings, and at present owns a farm much larger 
 than his original grant, besides considerable prop- 
 erty in the town. Nine children have been born 
 to himself and wife, the order of their birth be- 
 ing as follows: Andrew C, Henry A., twin 
 boys who died in infancy ; Amelia and Augusta, 
 twins; Ernest and Ida (deceased) twins; and 
 Lawrence J. Mr. Snyder is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, but has never added his name to the mem- 
 bership of secret organizations. He is one of the 
 solid, substantial and thoroughly reliable citizens 
 of this part of the county, and the farm which 
 he is now conducting is a credit to the agricul- 
 tural standing of his section. 
 
 Henry A. Snyder received his education in the 
 public schools, and at the age of fifteen embarked 
 upon his first business experience as a clerk in 
 the general merchandise store of F. & J. Giesy. 
 Lnder these well known merchants he was also 
 assistant postmaster, and after severing this asso- 
 ciation was employed by the Willamette Trading 
 Company, of Aurora. March 3, 1898, he was 
 appointed postmaster of the town, an office which 
 he still holds. He is a stanch defender of the 
 Republican party, and various positions have 
 come his way because of special fitness, among 
 them being that of school clerk, city recorder for 
 three years, and president of the town council for 
 one rear. He has been a delegate to county and 
 state conventions, and has been a prominent and 
 influential political figure in this part of the 
 county. 
 
 In connection with the management of the 
 post-office, Mr. Snyder is running a confectionery 
 and tobacco store, and he also has an undertaking 
 establishment, and in partnership with W. S. 
 Hurst handles a large amount of real estate. He 
 has branched out into journalistic prominence as 
 half owner of a local paper known as the Aurora 
 Borealis. Mr. Snyder is social and genial, trah> 
 of character which have made him a welcome 
 member at various lodges in the county, includ- 
 ing Champoeg Lodge. No. 27, A. F. & A. M. : 
 the Knights of Pythias, in which he has passed 
 many of the chairs : the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, in which he has passed all of the 
 
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 chairs ; the Woodmen of the World, and the Na- 
 tive Sons of Oregon. 
 
 July I, 1903, Mr. Snyder was united in mar- 
 riage with Diana Vandeleur, daughter of John 
 Scott Vandeleur. 
 
 B. F. BRIDGES. It may truly be said that 
 the character of B. F. Bridges has been 
 strengthened and developed in the hard places 
 of life, and it is doubtful if he can recall many 
 instances of money coming to him without most 
 arduous effort on his part. The average man who 
 spends much time in the lumber camps of north- 
 ern Michigan gains physically, and in the case 
 of Mr. Bridges, his mental, moral and physical 
 powers were quickened into useful and rugged 
 growth. His patriotism was tested by a long and 
 meritorious service in the Civil war, and his later 
 years have been enriched with most successful re- 
 sults by his present mercantile business in Albany. 
 Years before the oppression of the colonists 
 culminated in historic strife, those bearing the 
 name of Bridges came from Scotland and pre- 
 sumably located in Massachusetts. Here was 
 born the paternal grandfather, who served in 
 the Revolutionary war under Washington, 
 settling after peace was restored, in Livingston 
 county, N. Y. On a farm he reared several sons 
 and daughters, among whom was Marchus, the 
 father of B. F. The father was engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising in Livingston county 
 for many years, finally settling in Breedsville, 
 Van Buren county, Mich., where he died in 1852 
 at the age of sixty-six years. He married Fara- 
 zine Kelley, a native of Geneseo, N. Y., where 
 she also died, leaving three children, of whom 
 B. F., the youngest, was born in Geneseo, in 
 March 1840. 
 
 Eight years of age when his family moved to 
 Van Buren county, Mich., B. F. was reared in 
 an unsettled and desolate region, the nearest 
 school-house being two miles away. In the heart 
 of a lumbering region, he naturally became in- 
 terested in sawmilling, a trade which he learned 
 in South Haven, and at which he was working 
 when the country was convulsed by the declara- 
 tion of war in 1861. He volunteered for service 
 in 1 86 1, in Company A., Third Michigan Caval- 
 ry, was mustered in at Allegan, and participated 
 first in the battle of Corinth, afterward march- 
 ing through Missouri and taking part in the 
 battles of Island No. 10, Iuka, Second Corinth, 
 Tallahoochie, and a minor skirmish with For- 
 rest's men. The regiment was finally brigaded 
 with the Seventh Kansas and kept fighting Gen- 
 eral Forrest, but was later sent to Arkansas, and 
 took part in the battles of Little Rock and Du- 
 val's Bluffs. They then went to Mobile, were 
 present at the surrender, and afterward went to 
 
 Baton Rouge and Shreveport. From the latter 
 town the regiment marched a distance of five 
 hundred and fifty miles to San Antonio, Tex., 
 where they were mustered out in March, 1866, 
 Mr. Bridges having been four years and seven 
 months in the service. He began as bugler of 
 his company, and for the last three years of the 
 service was in the regimental band. He was 
 singularly fortunate as far as the disasters of 
 war were concerned, for he was injured only on 
 one occasion, when, during a guerrilla fight, he 
 received a charge of buckshot in his left leg. 
 
 Returning to Michigan after the war, Mr. 
 Bridges became a sawyer in a mill and liked the 
 business so well that in 1870 he and Andrew 
 Green bought a mill in Allegan county, Mich., 
 and ran it for eight years. Then they set their 
 mill up near Macosta, on Mud Lake, and at a 
 still later period moved it to Lumberton, nine 
 miles west of Big Rapids. This proved the best 
 place in which they had operated, and during 
 twenty-six months' time they cut twenty-seven 
 million feet of timber. In Delta county, at Ma- 
 sonville, twelve miles above Escanaba, Mr. 
 Bridges repaired at the end of three years and 
 became an important factor in the upbuilding of 
 the little town. He started a general merchan- 
 dise store and built piers out into the lake at an 
 expense of $11,000. Hopeful as the situation 
 seemed, he was doomed to disappointment, for 
 the pier which was to bring trade to the town, 
 was rendered useless owing to the falling of the 
 water of the lake, and all his plans for a many- 
 sided little center of activity were as though they 
 had never been. Having nothing further to re- 
 tain him in this locality, he left in 1898, and be- 
 came foreman of the Metropolitan Lumber Com- 
 pany, at Metropolitan, Mich., remaining with the 
 company for eight years, until all of their work 
 was completed. His last years in Michigan were 
 spent at Rapid River, and while there he duplicat- 
 ed the success which had attended all of his 
 lumbering interests, his experience at Masonville 
 being the only unpleasant and discouraging prop- 
 osition with which he had to contend. 
 
 In April, 1899, Mr. Bridges transferred his 
 residence and business interests to Albany, Ore., 
 and at the same time located a timber claim of 
 a quarter section near Cascades, in the eastern 
 part of Linn county. He sold the same at the 
 end of a year, and at present owns a timber claim 
 in Klamath county, this state. In 1892 he started 
 his present merchandising business in the town, 
 under the firm name of Bridges & Lemke, pur- 
 chasing the store originally occupied by Mr. 
 Chandler, on the corner of Main and Salem 
 streets. He carries a general line of the com- 
 modities in demand at such stores, and judging 
 by the results so far achieved, his permanent suc- 
 cess is not to be questioned. 
 
PORTRAIT A XL) BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 In South Haven, Mich., Mr. Bridges was 
 united in marriage with Helen Briggs, a native 
 ot Van Buren county, Mich., and who died in 
 Masonville, Mich., leaving one daughter Belle, 
 now the wife of D. B. Adams, of Seattle, Wash. 
 His second marriage, in Escanaba, Mich., was 
 with Edla Nygren, born in Stockholm, Sweden. 
 Mr. Bridges is independent in politics, but aside 
 from serving as postmaster of Masonville for 
 eight years, he has never been willing to accept 
 official recognition. He is fraternally connected 
 with the South Haven Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 
 which he joined in 1867, and with the Knights 
 of Pythias of Kalamazoo, Mich. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army Post of Seattle. 
 
 HARVEY WALKER. Among the vener- 
 able and highly honored agriculturists of Polk 
 county who are enjoying immunity from labor 
 after years of successful striving is Harvey 
 Walker, occupying his finely developed farm of 
 three hundred and fifty-five acres near McCoy. 
 The Walker family is of Irish descent, and was 
 presumably established in America by the pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Thomas, who settled in 
 North Carolina, where was born Jesse D., the 
 father of Harvey. As a young man Jesse D. 
 moved with his parents to Kentucky, settling 
 in Christian county, where he married Sarah 
 Calvin, and settled down to farming. His son 
 Harvey was born September 16, 1826, and four 
 years later he removed to Shelby county, 111., 
 remained there about five years, and then set- 
 tled in Moultrie county, the same state, where 
 his death occurred in 1852, at the age of fifty- 
 five years. He was the father of eight chil- 
 dren, five daughters and three sons, Harvey 
 and his twin brother, Madison, being fourth 
 and fifth in order of birth. Madison attained 
 maturity, but died at the age of twenty-five 
 years. 
 
 The many tasks to be performed on the 
 Moultrie county farm left but little leisure for 
 the Walker children, and their attendance at 
 the public school in the neighborhood was at 
 best irregular. At the age of twenty-two Har- 
 vey started out on his own responsibility and 
 located on a farm in Tazewell county, 111., 
 where he worked by the month for a couple of 
 years, and thus managed to save a little money. 
 For the following two years he lived on the 
 home farm in Moultrie county, returning there- 
 after to Tazewell county, where he took up 
 farm land for himself. In 1850 he married 
 Hannah Davis, a native daughter of Tazewell 
 county, who was born March 7, 1843. Her 
 father, William Davis, was born in Tennessee 
 in 1801, while her mother, Jane (Eads) Davis, 
 was born in Gardner county, Mo., in 1806. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Walker engaged in 
 farming in Moultrie county, in 1852 returned 
 to Tazewell county, and three years later in 
 1855, bought a farm in Logan county. In the 
 latter county he was fairly successful, became 
 well and favorably known, and made it his 
 home until 1882. 
 
 Arriving in Oregon with his wife and chil- 
 dren, Mr. Walker located on a farm near 
 Salem, where he lived seven years, and then 
 sold out and purchased his present farm, ad- 
 vantageously located near McCoy. His pains- 
 taking methods and unfailing industry have 
 accomplished much for the place, and although 
 it was a valuable property at the time of pur- 
 chase, it has increased many fold since passing 
 into the possession of the present owner. In 
 1895 he took up his residence in McMinnville, 
 remained there until 1901, and then came to 
 spend the remainder of his life on the old farm. 
 He is passing his days in comparative rest, for 
 the farm is rented to others, who still carry 
 on the work so carefully planned and system- 
 atized by him. In his younger days Mr. Walk- 
 er took quite an interest in Republican poli- 
 tics, but of late has been seen at the polls only, 
 and never at any time has desired or worked 
 for public honors. For many years he has 
 been identified with the Masonic fraternity, 
 and is now connected with the lodge at Amity. 
 Seven of the children born to himself and 
 wife are living, and of these, Adelaine, wife of 
 John Shields, lives in Washington; Alice 
 Walker lives in McMinnville; Hettie, the 
 wife of George Shields, lives on the home 
 place ; Fannie is at home ; Mrs. Jennie Stairs 
 lives in Washington ; Lewis is also in Wash- 
 ington ; and Clafa Bewley is in Salem. 
 Though not one of the pioneers of Oregon, 
 but a comparatively brief period of his life hav- 
 ing been spent in the northwest, Mr. Walker 
 has a firmly established place in the hearts 
 of his fellow townsmen, and the business con- 
 tingent regards him as one of its thoroughly 
 reliable and upright members. 
 
 LAWRENCE M. SCHOLL. Among the 
 prosperous young business men of the present 
 day. in Hubbard, Marion county, who are leading 
 industrious and useful lives, the name of Law- 
 rence M. Scholl must not be overlooked. Mr. 
 Scholl was appointed postmaster of that place 
 April 26. 1900, in addition to which he owns a 
 half-interest in a drug store in the same city. He 
 is a son of John and Mary (Warner) Scholl and 
 grandson of George F. and Dora Scholl. His 
 birth occurred in Aurora November 1, 1875. 
 
 George F. Scholl, the grandfather, a native of 
 Wurtemberg, Germany, emigrated to the United 
 
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 States in 1832. He located for a time in New 
 York and later near Shoustown, in Pennsylvania. 
 He afterward went to Missouri, settling at Bethel. 
 In 1865 he went to the far west and found a 
 permanent home in Aurora, Ore. He attained 
 the age of seventy-two years. His widow sur- 
 vived him many years, her demise having taken 
 place in 1896, at the great age of eighty-two 
 years. Three sons and two daughters were born 
 to this worthy couple, the second youngest being 
 John, the father of our subject. 
 
 John Scholl was born at Bethel, Shelby county, 
 Mo., February 15, 1847. He accompanied his 
 parents to Oregon and in 1881 engaged in car- 
 penter work. Later he followed farming between 
 Aurora and Hubbard for a brief period, and 
 then purchased a quarter section of land, which 
 he cultivated until 1898, removing to Hubbard 
 at that date to re-engage in carpenter work. 
 In 1903 he entered the implement house of 
 Mr. Fry, where he purchased an interest. 
 
 While a resident of Aurora he married Mary 
 Warner, a native of Ohio, born in 1845, anc ' f° ur 
 sons were born to them. Henry F., who is mar- 
 ried, and George F., the oldest two, conduct the 
 farm, while Lawrence M., the third son, is the 
 subject of this writing, and David J., the young- 
 est son is serving as assistant postmaster. John 
 Scholl is a Republican in politics, and has served 
 his party as a member of the city council He 
 has also served as school director for twelve 
 years and socially he is allied with the Odd Fel- 
 lows. He has a nice residence in Hubbard 
 and is one of her most straight-forward citizens. 
 
 Lawrence M. Scholl had exceptional educa- 
 tional advantages. His common school educa- 
 tion was supplemented by a thorough course in 
 the Portland Business College, from which he 
 was graduated in 1896. After leaving college, 
 he spent one year clerking for the Marks Shoe 
 Company, in Portland', and later filled a similar 
 position with the Bebee Merchandise Store in 
 Hubbard. In 1898 he was appointed assistant 
 postmaster under J. L. Calvert, and served as 
 such until 1900, when he was appointed post- 
 master of Hubbard, which position he is now 
 filling. 
 
 In July, 1901, Mr. Scholl was joined in the 
 holy bonds of matrimony with Sadie Wolfer, 
 wbo is a native of Oregon. Like his father, 
 our subject affiliates with the Republican party. 
 He is an active politician and is now serving his 
 fourth term in the council. Socially, he is a 
 valued member of Hermes Lodge No. 56, K. P. 
 
 JENNINGS -BELLINGER COMLEY. For 
 many years a prominent lumber manufacturer, 
 and a well known business man Jennings B. 
 Comley, now living retired from active pursuits 
 
 in Albany, is numbered among those energetic 
 and enterprising pioneers who have contributed 
 largely toward the development of the industrial 
 prosperity of Linn county. Coming to this state 
 fifty years ago, he made the long and tedious 
 journey overland, with an ox-team, the popular 
 mode of traveling in those days. Settlements 
 in this part of the county were few and far be- 
 tween, and the people hereabout realized in no 
 small measure the hardships and privations that 
 had to be endured in a new and undeveloped 
 region. Neither railways, telegraph nor telephone 
 lines spanned these broad acres, and few eviden- 
 ces of civilization then existed. Through the stren- 
 uous efforts of the courageous pioneers, wonderful 
 changes have occurred, flourishing towns, villages 
 and cities have sprung up, and fertile farms 
 yielding an abundance of grain and fruit have 
 usurped the forests and plains, in the transforma- 
 tion Mr. Comley performing his part. He was 
 born September 21, 1823, in Lancaster, Ky., a 
 son of John Comley. His grandfather, David 
 Comley, a native of Manchester, England, settled 
 first in Virginia, and served as a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war. Subsequently, following in 
 the footsteps of Daniel Boone, the famous back 
 woodsman and trapper, he settled in the then 
 almost unknown country of Kentucky, and there 
 spent the remainder of his long life. 
 
 John Comley, a life-long resident of Kentucky, 
 died on his farm at the advanced age of eighty 
 years. Inheriting the patriotism and bravery 
 of his father, he took part in the war of 1812, on 
 January 8, 181 5, serving in the battle of New 
 Orleans. He married Martha McFadden. who 
 was born, and died in Kentucky, whither her 
 father, James McFadden, had removed from 
 Virginia. Of their family of twelve children, 
 Jennings B., the ninth child in order of birth, 
 is the only one residing in Oregon. 
 
 Brought up on a Kentucky farm, Jennings B 
 Comley left borne in early manhood, and subse- 
 quently learned the carpenter's trade in Prince- 
 ton, Ky., and at Lexington, Ky., became familiar 
 with the trade of a stair builder, which he fol- 
 lowed in connection with carpentering until 1853 
 In that year taking advantage of the opportunities 
 afforded to builders in a new region, Mr. Comley 
 came with his wife to Oregon, crossing the plains 
 with ox-teams, being six months and ten day? 
 en route from the Missouri river. Following the 
 old Oregon trail, he stood guard one-half of each 
 night while passing through the Indian country, 
 coming through safely. Spending the first winter 
 in Benton county, he went in the spring of 1854 
 to Astoria, where he built the stairway in the 
 old lighthouse. Returning then to Benton county, 
 he purchased a residence in Corvallis, and having 
 there established his family went to California, 
 where he was engaged as a prospector and miner 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 SOi 
 
 in Siskiyou county, Scotts river, Indian creek, 
 
 Greenhorn and Deadwood. While at the latter 
 
 he Indians cut oft" all trails so that he was 
 
 reed to abandon mining. Going, therefore, to 
 
 tts valley, he built a flour mill, putting in 
 
 ■ burr-stones, and helped run it for awhile. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Comley returned to Oregon with a 
 
 nrade, coming across the mountains on 
 
 horseback, and while passing through the 
 
 Indian country, at the close of the Rogue river 
 
 r, had several narrow escapes from the wily 
 
 -. Purchasing a ranch in Corvallis, he 
 
 rented that and worked at his trade for a few 
 
 years. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Comley removed to Albany, which 
 has since been his home, and from that time to 
 the present day has taken a keen interest in ad- 
 vancing its welfare. Erecting the first steam 
 mill in this locality, and the first sash and door 
 f actor v, he ran them both for seventeen years. 
 Selling out his mill and factory in 1876, he, in 
 company with Messrs. Comstock and Heard, em- 
 barked in the lumber business, hauling a mill 
 to Pass creek, Douglas county, with horse and 
 cattle teams. The mill, which had a capacity of 
 
 snty thousand feet per day, he continued to 
 operate until good timber in that vicinity became 
 scarce. Then, with Henry Miller and Mr. Com- 
 k, he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 lumber on Myrtle creek for awhile. Going from 
 there to Wolf creek, Douglas county, he built 
 a mill for Abramson & Willis, after which he 
 engaged with Mr. Comstock, and was engineer 
 of a mill on Gray creek until 1883. Returning to 
 Albany in February, of that year, Mr. Comley 
 remained here a short time, and then went to the 
 Selilz reservation, where he built a sawmill for 
 the Indians. He subsequently spent a brief time 
 at Yaquina bay, but since that time has resided 
 in Albany, being Sadly afflicted with rheumatism. 
 Mr. Comley married, in Mississippi, Dorinda 
 D. McFadden, who was born in Louisiana. She 
 died in 1893. leaving three children, namely: 
 Georgie, now Mrs. Walling, of Idaho ; ' Adrian, 
 who is successfully engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness in Washington ; and Edward, superintend- 
 ent of the electric light plant at Spokane, 
 Wash. Politically. Mr. Comley is identified 
 with the Democratic party, and has served four 
 terms as a member of the city council. Fra- 
 ternally he belongs to the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. 
 
 JACOB GIESY. The name of Jacob Giesy 
 is known to even- man. woman and child in Au- 
 rora and possibly to most inhabitants of Marion 
 county. Ever since T870 he has conducted a 
 hotel and restaurant business in the town, and 
 for manv vears trains arriving at this station 
 
 have depended upon his viands to appease the 
 hunger of thousands of passengers. At first Mr. 
 Giesy ran his hotel in the interests of the colony, 
 but after its dissolution he proceeded independ- 
 ently, and in the meantime has won a reputation 
 as one of the successful hotel men in the county. 
 The Aurora Hotel is a large and roomy structure, 
 with airy rooms well furnished, and all modern 
 improvements. Under the present ownership 
 many changes and additions have been made, in- 
 cluding wide porches, which extend the entire 
 length of the front of the house. Arrangements 
 for satisfying the inner man are in accord with 
 the broad knowledge of human nature possessed 
 by the genial proprietor, who realizes that a well 
 fed man is usually an agreeable one, and there- 
 fore easy to get along with. 
 
 Mr. Giesy has enjoyed many years of success- 
 ful activity, and is still a leader in the affairs of 
 his adopted town. He was born in Pittsburg, 
 Pa., March 20, 1827, and to an unusual degree 
 inherits the substantial traits of his Teutonic an- 
 cestors. His father, Andrew, was born in Basel, 
 northern Switzerland, near Baden, Germany, and 
 came to the United States in 1827. Near Alle- 
 gheny, Pa., he lived on a farm for many years, 
 and in 1845 removed to Shelby county, ' Mo., 
 settling in the Bethel colony. In 1855 he came 
 to Washington with a small colony, and there 
 died in i860, at the age of sixty-nine years. He 
 married Barbara Giesy, no relation, and also a 
 native of Basel, who died in Aurora, to which 
 town she removed after the death of her husband, 
 at the age of seventy-four years. This pioneer 
 woman was faithful to trusts imposed, and care- 
 fully and conscientiously reared ten sons and 
 four daughters, all of whom came with her to 
 Washington from the colony at Bethel, Mo. 
 
 In the public schools of Pennsylvania, Jacob 
 Giesy received his preliminary education, and he 
 accompanied the family to Missouri in 1847. 
 Here he engaged as a clerk in a general merchan- 
 dise store, and came to Oregon via the Isthmus 
 in 1855, living for a time in Portland, and com- 
 ing to Aurora in 1856. In i860 he made a trip 
 back to Missouri, where he enlisted in the Home 
 Guards, and remained there until the fall of 1862. 
 Via Panama he then returned to Oregon and 
 soon inaugurated his hotel and restaurant busi- 
 ness. In connection with the hotel he maintains 
 a well equipped livery stable, and he owns thirty 
 acres of land near the town, as well as other town 
 property, including the Lutheran Church build- 
 ing. Mr. Giesy is a Republican in politics, and 
 has been constable and school clerk. He is a 
 member of the Pioneer Association, and of var- 
 ious social organizations which abound in this 
 vicinity. Through his marriage with Caroline 
 Fry, who was born in Pennsylvania and died in 
 Missouri, one child was born, Sarah, who is now 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the wife of Emanuel Keil, of Aurora. Mr. Giesy 
 is very popular in this community, and it is doubt- 
 ful if any upbuilding agency in the town has 
 exerted a greater influence than has his well 
 conducted and paying hostelry. 
 
 GEORGE M. FRY. Every community has 
 its quota of business men who are more or less 
 successful. The gentleman whose name heads 
 this sketch has had a wide experience in the 
 mercantile world, being at the present time en- 
 gaged in handling all kinds of agricultural imple- 
 ments, farm machinery, etc., at Hubbard in Mar- 
 ion county. He has been a resident of Oregon 
 
 since 1863. p 
 
 Mr Fry was born near Shoustown, la, 
 Tanuary 31, 1842, and is a son of John and Sarah 
 (Gates) Frv, both of whom were also natives ot 
 the Keystone state. The father was born Oc- 
 tober 11, 1801, was married in 1828, and went 
 to Missouri with a colony, settling at Bethel, 
 Shelby county. He followed various occupations 
 for a livelihood and was finally cut off by death 
 January 4, 1854- The mother of our subject was 
 t,orn April 6, 181 1. and she passed to her final 
 rest five years prior to the death of her husband, 
 November 22, 1849. ,,.,,, 1 • 
 
 Georo-e M Fry is the seventh child born to nis 
 parents^the family consisting of eight children- 
 four sons and four daughters. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Missouri and in 1863 he 
 crossed the plains in company with a colony on 
 their way to Oregon. He located with the colony 
 at Aurora, where he opened a jeweler's store, and 
 carried on a successful business in that line for 
 raanv years. In 1887, he moved to Hubbard and 
 enraged in similar business for a period of twelve 
 years. In 1890 he sold out to advantage and 
 spent about six vears in general merchandising; 
 again selling he engaged in handling agricultural 
 implements, farm machinery, and all kinds ot 
 farm supplies, which is his business today, in 
 company with John Scholl, who purchased an 
 interest 'in the business in the spring of 1903. 
 
 Mr. Fry has met with success in his business 
 ventures and owns a fine residence in the heart 
 of Hubbard. He also acts as agent for his sister, 
 having control of her large estate in Marion 
 county, which contains eight hundred acres on 
 which Mr. Fry carries on general farming, has 
 twenty acres in hops, and leases out a part of 
 the land. While a resident of Aurora, he was 
 joined in matrimony with Caroline Scholl, who 
 was born in 1845, near Shoustown, Pa. They 
 have two children, Sarah A., now wife of 
 Harvey A. Hinkle, and Frank W., who married 
 Nellie Dimick. Sarah A. was born June 5, 1871, 
 and Frank W., November 15, 1873. 
 
 Mr. Fry is a Republican in his political prefer- 
 
 ence, and at the present time he is a member of 
 the city council. He is also greatly interested in 
 educational matters, having served on the school 
 board for nine consecutive years. In fraternal 
 circles he is a valued member of the Odd Fel- 
 lows. The sister above referred to, in whose 
 behalf Mr. Fry acts as agent, is Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Preobstel, who was born in Pennsylvania, assist- 
 ed in colonizing Oregon, and whose husband died 
 in Albina, this state. Mr. Fry deserves great 
 credit for his successful endeavors and the rich 
 fruitage they have borne, and he ranks among 
 the substantial business men of his community. 
 
 CHARITY J. LUPER. Both as daughter and 
 wife, Mrs. Charity J. Luper, a worthy member of 
 the society of Tangent, Linn county, Ore., has 
 experienced the trials of pioneer life, having 
 crossed the plains in 1852 with her parents, and 
 a few years later married John Luper, another of 
 the sturdy and reliable citizens of the new terri- 
 tory. Mrs. Luper was in maidenhood Charity 
 J. Fanning, born in Morgan county, 111., Novem- 
 ber 30, 1840, her parents being Levi and Nancy 
 (James) Fanning. The birth of her father oc- 
 curred in Virginia, February 8, 1810, and that 
 of her mother in Kentucky, November 18, 1806, 
 their marriage following in Illinois, whither they 
 had removed. In Morgan county they made their 
 home until the spring of 1852, April 1 of that 
 year finding them upon the plains with two 
 wagons and eight yoke of oxen to each, bound 
 for the broad lands of Oregon. While on the 
 journey the mother died on Snake river, August 
 2, 1852, leaving one son and two daughters. The 
 family continued their way into the west, where 
 the father took up a donation claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres located three miles south- 
 east of Tangent, remaining there for many years. 
 A few years previous to his death, which took 
 place June 5, 1888, he removed to a farm three- 
 quarters of a mile south of Albany and engaged 
 in farming. In August, 1853, he had married 
 Jane Gilliland, who is also now deceased. 
 
 Of her father's family Mrs. Luper was next 
 to the youngest in age, and the principal part 
 of her life has been passed among the scenes 
 of Oregon. She was married April 23, 1857, 
 near Tangent, to John Luper, who was born 
 in Crawford county, Pa., November 10, 1824. 
 He crossed the plains in 1853 and took up a do- 
 nation claim one mile northeast of Tangent, 
 where he engaged in farming for nearly forty 
 years, after which he removed to Tangent and 
 died there March 29, 1902. His widow, now a 
 resident of Tangent, has a life lease on the farm 
 of two hundred and twenty acres, and also owns 
 forty-one lots in this city. Of the children born 
 to them, Commodore P. is deceased ; Ella Flor- 
 
F. W. YANNKE. 
 
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 ence is the wife of John McFarland, located 
 near Albany : and Lola Charity is the wife of J. E. 
 Ownbey, located two and a half miles southeast 
 of Tangent. Another member of the family is 
 Loren B. Luper, an adopted son, who now lives 
 on the old homestead. Mr. Luper was a stanch 
 supporter oi the Prohibition principles in the 
 uo':. and fraternally was a member of the 
 ange. Me was a liberal supporter, member 
 and class leader of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, of which Mrs. Luper and her family 
 are members. 
 
 CHARLES W. YANNKE. Upon the ranch 
 where he now lives, not far from Salem, in 
 Marion county, Ore., Charles W. Yannke was 
 horn April 2. 1872. His father, Frederick Will- 
 iam Yannke, was a native of Germany, born June 
 2. 1826. and while still in the Fatherland he 
 served in the German army for three years. 
 About 1847 be bade adieu to his native country 
 and sailed for America, the journey being made in 
 a sailing vessel and occupying about four months. 
 He established his home in Belleville, St. Clair 
 county. 111., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Peter Yannke, had settled two years before. With 
 his father and his family Frederick Yannke came 
 across the plains in 1852, making the journey in 
 the primitive manner of the times with an ox- 
 team. They had no trouble with the Indians, 
 hut six months had elapsed before their eyes 
 were gladdened by the sight of the green fields 
 of Oregon. The first winter they spent at the 
 mouth of the Columbia river and in the succeed- 
 ing spring Frederick W. Yannke came to Salem, 
 lie was in limited financial circumstances, and 
 in order to earn a living he drove an ox-team 
 and hauled logs for a sawmill, following- that 
 pursuit for some time. In the summer months, 
 however, he was employed on ranches and also 
 worked in the fields during the harvest season, 
 swinging a cradle. He was married February 
 29. 1871 , to Elizabeth Frolich, who was also a 
 native of Germany, and this worthy couple be- 
 came the parents of six children : Charles W. ; 
 Emma, who became the wife of Frank Feely 
 and died at the age of twenty-four years ; Mary, 
 who died at the age of six years; Frederick, 
 whose death occurred when he was two months 
 old ; Louise, who died at the age of four years ; 
 and Frank J., who is employed by the Oregon 
 Shoe Company, of Salem. 
 
 In the spring of 1862 Frederick Yannke pur- 
 chased the farm of two hundred and fifty acres 
 upon which his son Charles made his home until 
 recently. In the fall of that year he removed 
 his family to that place and hereon spent his 
 remaining days. He made all of the fine im- 
 provements upon the farm, cleared the land, 
 
 placed the fields under a high state of cultiva- 
 tion and erected excellent modern buildings. 
 He devoted his energies to general farming and 
 stock-raising with good success throughout the 
 remainder of bis life, and September 29, 1895, 
 his life's labors were ended in death. He was a 
 zealous member of the Catholic Church and a 
 man who deserved great credit for what he had 
 accomplished, for he entered upon his business 
 career empty handed. When he purchased his 
 property near Salem it was all unimproved land, 
 with the exception of about thirty acres ; and 
 its development was entirely due to his own 
 energy and perseverance. His widow still sur- 
 vives him and is now living in Salem at the age 
 of sixty-three years. 
 
 Charles W. Yannke, whose name introduces 
 this review, was born and reared upon the home 
 farm and in the public schools of Salem he pur- 
 sued his education. In early boyhood he assisted 
 his father as much as his age and strength per- 
 mitted, and when he had completed his school 
 life he became his father's assistant and partner, 
 their work being carried on together until the 
 death of F. W. Yannke, when the son assumed 
 the entire charge of the home place. He to-day 
 carries on general farming and stock-raising with 
 good success. He has fine horses upon his place 
 and is engaged in the raising of cereals best 
 adapted to the soil and climate. To some extent 
 he is also engaged in the dairy business. The 
 old home is pleasantly located two miles from 
 Salem, near the penitentiary. On July 1, 1903, 
 in partnership with Albert A. Disque he pur- 
 chased the well-known Club Stables in Salem, 
 and in the fall of that year removed his family to 
 the city. 
 
 September 29, 1897, Mr. Yannke was married 
 to Miss Helena Neibert, and they have an in- 
 teresting little daughter, Genevieve Louise. The 
 family are identified with the Catholic Church. 
 In his political affiliation Mr. Yannke is a Demo- 
 crat. For one term he served as road supervisor 
 in his district. 
 
 PLEASANT MARION SCROGGIN. Con- 
 nected with the banking business of Lebanon, 
 Linn county, Ore., Mr. Scroggin is lending him- 
 self heartily to the forward march of the enter- 
 prises of this city in a way which has thoroughly 
 won the commendation of his fellow townsmen. 
 In 1899 he established the banking firm of P. M. 
 Scroggin & Co., with a capital of $25,000 and 
 a surplus of $5,000. His able management has 
 since advanced it among the business enterprises 
 of Linn county until it ranks first with institu- 
 tions of like character. His energetic yet con- 
 servative methods have proven his executive 
 ability and clear judgment, and there is every 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 prospect of a steady advancement and a gratify- 
 ing success in the many years of life which, in 
 all probability, Mr. Scroggin has before him. 
 
 Pleasant Marion Scroggin was born near Sher- 
 idan, Yamhill county, Ore., May 9, 1872, the son 
 of P. M. Scroggin. The latter was born in Logan 
 county, 111., in 1830, and on attaining manhood 
 he followed the life of an agriculturist, to which 
 he had early been trained. From Mount Pulaski, 
 111., he removed to Iowa, and from that state 
 emigrated about 1863 to Oregon, settling first 
 near McMinnville and later near Sheridan, where 
 he became the owner of a thousand acres ad- 
 joining the city on the south. He died there 
 April 18, 1894, at the age of sixty-four years. 
 As a Democrat he had been popular in his own 
 party, and had served for two terms as county 
 commissioner. Pie was married in Iowa to Sarah 
 Howard, a native of that state, who crossed the 
 plains with her husband and died in the same 
 year in which the latter 's death occurred. Of 
 the eight children who are now living P. M. 
 Scroggin is the eighth in order of birth, and re- 
 ceived his preliminary education in the com- 
 mon schools of Oregon, after which he attended 
 the Portland Business College for one year, 
 graduating in 1894 in the banking and business 
 course. In the same year he engaged in the 
 hardware business in Sheridan, the next year 
 finding him in Lebanon in his present business 
 enterprise. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Scroggin occurred in 
 Ashland, Ore., and united him with Lydia W. 
 Washburn, a native of Iowa. Two children now 
 add to the happiness of the home, namely : Sey- 
 mour Ralph and La Verne. Mr. Scroggin is a 
 member of the Christian Church, and politically 
 he adheres to the principles advocated in the 
 platform of the Republican party. 
 
 JESSE L. McKINNEY. One of the most 
 pleasantly situated and highly cultivated farms 
 in the vicinity of Hubbard is that owned by J. 
 L. McKinney, situated one mile north of the 
 city. Its owner is noted throughout Marion 
 county as a progressive agriculturist, and for 
 years he has been prominently identified with 
 the advancement of general farming and hop- 
 growing interests. 
 
 Ohio claims Mr. McKinney as a native son, 
 his birth having occurred in Highland county, 
 that state, July i, 1862. His father, Hardin 
 McKinney, was a native of North Carolina, born 
 May I, 1829. At a very early date in the his- 
 tory of Ohio the latter settled in Highland 
 county, where he worked by the month on a 
 farm until his marriage in 1858 to Louisa Mc- 
 Kinney. The lady whom he made his wife was 
 
 born February 6, 1836, and reared in Highland 
 county, Ohio, and the young couple began their 
 married life on a farm there, remaining in that 
 locality until 1876, when they removed to Marion 
 county, Iowa. There they made their home 
 during the winter of that year. They then de- 
 cided to try their fortune in the northwest. 
 Journeying to Marion county, Ore., they pur- 
 chased the farm which is now the home of Jesse 
 L. McKinney. They were pioneers of this lo- 
 cality, as the land was then wild and unim- 
 proved, giving little evidence of the present well 
 cultivated fields. Hardin McKinney immediate- 
 ly set to work to make a comfortable home for 
 his family. He cleared twenty-five acres of the 
 land, built a home and carried on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, providing comfortably for 
 his family, consisting o'f his wife and three chil- 
 dren : Sarah E., the wife of E. C. Churchill, 
 of Salem, Ore. ; Jesse L., of this review ; and 
 William H., who lives in the vicinity of Hub- 
 bard. The father of this family took an active 
 part in politics and cast his ballot for the Re- 
 publican party. His death occurred in his sixty- 
 third year, March 13, 1891. His wife still sur- 
 vives and makes her home with her son Jesse L. 
 The life history of J. L. McKinney is worthy 
 of mention from many standpoints, but the prin- 
 cipal one which we will name is the fact that he, 
 like the great majority of those who represent 
 the farming interests of the country, is one of 
 those substantial, quiet, unassuming men who 
 perform their duties in life without ostentation, 
 and leave the world better and the community 
 more prosperous for their having lived. Suc- 
 cess, fairly and impartially considered, is not so 
 much owing to the fact that a man has achieved 
 a great name, that he has accumulated vast 
 riches, or has donated large amounts to chari- 
 table institutions, as that he has found the voca- 
 tion best suited to him in life, that he has filled 
 that vocation honorably and well, has developed 
 the very best talent that is in him, and has used 
 that talent for the benefit of himself and man- 
 kind. All this may be said of Mr. McKinney. 
 As a youth he pursued his education in the dis- 
 trict schools, remaining at home and assisting 
 his father in the cultivation of the farm, during 
 the seasons of vacation and after he had left 
 school. Thus he grew to man's estate, when, 
 October 2, 1892, he wedded Anna Clausen, who 
 was a native of Valparaiso, Ind. Mr. McKinney 
 brought his bride to the family homestead, 
 where their lives have since been passed, and 
 where they have reared their family of three 
 children, namely : Louis Melvin, Elmer Clau- 
 sen and Harold Hardin, all at home. Mr. Mc- 
 Kinney is an acknowledge authority on the best 
 farming methods, and has eight acres devoted to 
 the cultivation of hops. He has been very sue- 
 
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 -ml in the raising of this staple product and 
 icome is annually increasing therefrom. 
 
 Mr. McKinney takes a deep interest in the 
 
 cause of education, and has ever been in favor 
 
 of good sell' >ols and good teachers. For several 
 
 ved as a member of the school board. 
 
 politics he is a Republican. Influential and 
 
 nent in the community in which he resides, 
 
 McKinney has gained popularity and friends 
 
 M "his excellent traits of character. 
 
 .MARSHALL W. CANTER. Twenty acres 
 of land adjoining Harrisburg on the east, four 
 valuable town lots, his own residence property, 
 and a well equipped, carpenter shop in which 
 I., ply his useful trade, is an accumulation re- 
 sulting from the well applied industry of Mar- 
 shall W. Canter, who came here a poor man in 
 3 ■. and is now one of the town's successful 
 and honored citizens. Born near Nashville, 
 IVnn.. January 17, 1836, Mr. Canter comes of 
 old family of the south, his father, James H., 
 and his mother, Anna (Fuqua) Canter, having 
 nub been born in Tennessee, the former in 1808. 
 The family moved to Missouri about 1838, lo- 
 tting first in Piatt and afterward in Buchanan 
 county, and engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
 The father, who died in 1888, at the age 
 eighty years, was a Democrat, and he was 
 verv active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 His wife also died in Missouri, leaving ten 
 children, six sons and four daughters, of whom 
 Marshall W. is the second. 
 
 At the age of twenty Marshall W. Canter 
 left home and learned the carpenter's trade, 
 thereafter plying the same as a means of live- 
 lihood until 1864. For a couple of years he 
 nined and prospected in the Dwight region, 
 Idaho, made quite a sum of money, and in 1866 
 came to Oregon to investigate the prospects for 
 an industrious and capable carpenter. Pleased 
 with the people and surroundings of Browns- 
 ville, he located there in 1867, one year later 
 taking up his residence in Harrisburg, which 
 has since been his home. Much of the best work 
 in the town is due to his knowledge of his trade, 
 and his little shop is never out of material await- 
 ing his attention. The start he got at the mines 
 while comparativeh' inconsequent, enabled him 
 to invest in town lots, all of which have increased 
 in value, with the result that he is today in a 
 more than comfortable financial position. 
 
 Although not an office-seeker, Mr. Canter has 
 been induced to exert his activity in promoting 
 the local wellbeing of the Democratic party, and 
 to serve as mayor of the town for three terms in 
 succession, to be a member of the council for 
 eighteen years, and to fill other positions of 
 trust and responsibility. He is fraternally con- 
 
 nected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and the Rebekahs, of which latter organiza- 
 tion he is an official. In Lane county, Ore., in 
 [868, Mr. Canter married Margaret Gage, who 
 was born in Benton county, Ore"., near Corvallis, 
 a daughter of Samuel Gage, who crossed the 
 plains with his family at an early day, locating 
 near Corvallis. Mr. Gage later removed to Lane 
 county, but his death occurred near Rosalia, 
 Wash., where he had engaged in mining for 
 eight or ten years. Two children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Canter, of whom Charles, 
 the oldest and only son, is a brakeman on the 
 Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company's road 
 with headquarters at Portland; and Lillian is 
 the wife of Lewis B. Maxon, and lives on a 
 farm near her father. Mr. Canter is popular 
 in his adopted town, and his influence has al- 
 ways been exerted in favor of education and all- 
 around advancement. 
 
 RICHARD C. SHISLER. Though a com- 
 parative newcomer to this town, having arrived 
 in 1903, Richard C. Shisler has already demon- 
 strated his ability- to entertain the traveling pub- 
 lic in comfort, if his management of the Har- 
 risburg Hotel can be taken as a criterion. The 
 hostelry in question is the only place of the kind 
 in this flourishing community, and as such it 
 takes high rank among other hotels in the 
 county, being modern in construction and fur- 
 nishings, and having thirty-two rooms. Mr. 
 Shisler understands among other things regard- 
 ing the hotel business that an excellent cuisine is 
 not to be despised, and he therefore lays par- 
 ticular stress upon this department of his well 
 conducted house. 
 
 Prior to going into the hotel business Mr. 
 Shisler farmed for many years, that being the 
 occupation to which he was reared in his youth 
 on the paternal farm in Ontario, Canada, where 
 he was born April 10, 1858. His father, Con- 
 rad, and his mother, Mary Ann (Flagg) Shis- 
 ler, were also born in Canada, and his grand- 
 father, John, a native of Lancaster county, Pa., 
 settled in Ontario at a very early day. The 
 grandfather took up a large farm, and in time 
 enlisted in the war of 1812. his death occurring 
 in his adopted country. The ninth child in his 
 father's family of four sons and six daughters, 
 Richard C. received his preliminary education 
 in the public schools, and at the age of fourteen 
 began to make his own way in the world by 
 working as a farm hand in the vicinity of Buf- 
 falo, N. Y. The same kind of work was pur- 
 sued near Albany, 111., in 1873, and in 1877 ne 
 went to Whiteside county. 111., continuing to 
 work on a farm for several years. 
 
 Mr. Shisler invested his earnings in land near 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Hiawatha, Brown county, Kans., in 1880, and 
 two years later bought a farm near Falls City, 
 Neb. In 1896 he removed to Missouri and lo- 
 cated on a farm of one hundred and forty acres 
 near Meadville, and in March, 1903, came to 
 Oregon and purchased the Harrisburg Hotel, 
 which had been built in 1902. In Illinois, Mr. 
 Shisler was united in marriage with Minerva 
 J. Sharer, who was born in Pennsylvania, and 
 who is the mother of five children : Lulu M., 
 Ralph E., Milo G., Lloyd W. and Hoy. A Re- 
 publican in political affiliation, he took a promi- 
 nent part in political affairs in Nebraska, and 
 served many terms on the school board. He is 
 fraternally connected with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, and is prominent in the Pres- 
 byterian Church, of which he was an elder while 
 living in Missouri. As becomes a hotel man, 
 Mr. Shisler is affable and genial, possessing a 
 fund of good spirits and good will, and the tact 
 to deal with all with whom he comes in contact 
 in a most satisfactory manner. 
 
 DANIEL J. YODER. Perhaps no part of 
 Marion county is better adapted to general farm- 
 ing, stock-raising and hop-growing purposes 
 than that portion surrounding Hubbard. In the 
 midst of this rich agricultural region the thriv- 
 ing town appears as a gem in an emerald setting, 
 and the cultivated fields which may be seen on 
 every side are an indication of the prosperity 
 and industry of the farming people who are resi- 
 dents of the community. A worthy representa- 
 tive of this class is D. J. Yoder, who resides 
 on a good farm of twenty-five acres situated two 
 miles east of Hubbard. Here he carries on gen- 
 eral farming and hop-growing and also, since 
 coming to Oregon, has followed the carpenter's 
 trade continuously, meeting with excellent suc- 
 cess in both occupations. 
 
 Mr. Yoder was born in Pennsylvania, Septem- 
 ber 9, 1850, and is descended from honest, in- 
 dustrious farming people. He was one of six 
 children born unto his parents, who removed 
 from Pennsylvania to Indiana, where the father 
 is still living at the age of seventy-eight years. 
 The mother was called to the home beyond at 
 the age of fifty-seven years. D. J. Yoder spent 
 the days of his boyhood and youth upon the 
 home farm in Indiana, receiving his education 
 in the district schools and remaining at home 
 until he grew to manhood and prepared for 
 having a home of his own by his marriage with 
 Louisa Miller, a native of Indiana. The young 
 couple remained in Indiana until the year 1881, 
 when Mr. Yoder, becoming impressed with the 
 opportunities for advancement offered by the 
 Pacific coast, decided to bring his family and 
 
 establish a home in the Willamette valley. Ac- 
 cordingly he purchased the farm which is now 
 his home. At this time the work of improve- 
 ment in this vicinity had been scarcely begun. 
 Mr. Yoder has since developed and cultivated 
 his farm until it is one of the best in the county. 
 He has erected a good home and other buildings, 
 and everything that can conduce to the comfort 
 of the family and to the conduct of the farm is 
 supplied. In the summer of 1903 he erected a 
 commodious new house. In coming to a com- 
 paratively new country such as Marion county 
 was when he settled here, Mr. Yoder has found 
 the trade of carpenter to be a very useful and 
 remunerative one, not only in constructing his 
 own dwellings, but many others, and he has thus 
 added substantially to his income as the years 
 have gone by. Five acres of his farm is devoted 
 to hop-growing. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Yoder have been born six- 
 teen children, twelve of whom are now living, 
 as follows : Laura, now the wife of D. Ramage, 
 of Hubbard ; Clyde, who is at home with his 
 parents ; Rose, of Albany, Ore. ; Clara, Jamie, 
 Harvey, Wilme, Grant, Minnie, Grace, Willis, 
 and Raymond. Mr. Yoder has always felt that 
 it was his duty to be informed on the issues of 
 the day. He casts his ballot for the Republican 
 party. The fraternal relations of life are 
 also maintained through his membership with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. Wherever 
 known, Mr. Yoder is accorded the friendship 
 and respect which he deserves, as his life has 
 been one of active indvastry, casting an influ- 
 ence for good among his fellow-men. 
 
 DAVID S. BUSEY. A career identified with 
 the mining and agricultural development of 
 Oregon since 1852 is that of David S. Busey, 
 who arrived in the state with a strong consti- 
 tution when a man of twenty-two. Mr. Busey, 
 who is now living retired in Harrisburg, is a 
 native son of Indiana, and was born in Putnam 
 county, November 14, 1830. Four years later 
 his father, L. W., also a native of Indiana, re- 
 moved to Illinois and in 1839 located in Mount 
 Pleasant, Iowa. The elder Busey was a brick- 
 layer by trade, in connection with which he 
 farmed during his active life, his last home be- 
 ing a large tract of land near Fayettsville, Ark., 
 to which he removed in 1872. He was success- 
 ful in both his occupations, although the Arkan- 
 sas farm netted him the largest returns, and 
 enabled him to leave his family well provided 
 for at the time of his death in 1877, at the age 
 of sixty-nine years. As a young man he mar- 
 ried Jane Penney, also born in the Hoosier state, 
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 child of her three sons and three daughters, 
 u;h nine years of age. 
 
 The little log school-house near the Busey farm 
 in Indiana at best furnished hut scanty opportuni- 
 t\ for a practical education, and as one of the 
 oldest and strongest in his father's family, David 
 S found little chance to escape from his home 
 duties long enough to attend school even irregu- 
 In 1851 he left home and worked on a 
 farm in Henry county, and while there became 
 interested in a projected trip across the plains 
 which was being agitated in the neighborhood. 
 As a driver he secured the chance to accom- 
 pany the party, which w-as headed by Captain 
 McCulIey. Without any particularly dangerous 
 experiences he drove his team of oxen during 
 the six months required for the passage, and 
 upon reaching his destination at Foster's, Ore., 
 August 11, 185 1, went at once to Milwaukee, 
 where he remained until the next spring. In the 
 fall of 1852 he went to the mines of eastern 
 ( )regon. and upon returning to the western part 
 of the state in 1854 took up a donation claim 
 of one hundred and twenty acres one mile east 
 of Harrisburg. This he sold in 1862 and bought 
 three hundred and twenty acres three miles 
 north of the town, but eventually sold all but 
 eighty acres, which he still ow r ns. He also has a 
 farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres near 
 Sodaville, Ore., both of which properties are 
 under fine cultivation, and available for stock 
 and general produce. 
 
 In Linn county, Mr. Busey married Nancy 
 Porter, born in Indiana, and daughter of W. 
 D. Porter, a native of Virginia who crossed 
 the plains in 1853, an d who located near Har- 
 risburg, where his death occurred. Six children 
 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Busey : Oscar 
 L., the oldest son, lives in Canfield, Wash. ; W. 
 D. lives in Sodaville, Ore. ; Mary is the wife of 
 W. R. McDanial of Los Angeles, Cal. ; Laura is 
 deceased ; Florence is the wife of J. H. Butler 
 of Medford, Ore. ; and Annie is deceased. As 
 a Democrat Mr. Busey has served in the Har- 
 risburg council about four years, and for many 
 years he has been a school director and road 
 supervisor. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 Blue Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. 
 \\ ith his family he is a member and active 
 worker in the Christian Church. Mr. Busey has 
 invariably proved himself a broad-minded and 
 liberal farmer, a sincere and amiable gentleman, 
 and an enthusiastic advocate of the many ad- 
 vantages to be found in the great northwest. 
 
 WILLIAM BAILEY DONACA. The vivid 
 'lay-dreams of the sixteen-year-old boy who 
 trudged barefoot across the plains in 1852 have 
 been more than realized by William Bailey 
 
 Donaca, for in financial standing, public spirit 
 and personal integrity, he occupies a high po- 
 sition among the developers of Linn county. 
 A native of Knox county, 111., Mr. Donaca was 
 born May 4, 1836, his parents, Samuel and 
 Elizabeth (Cook) Donaca, being natives, re- 
 spectively, of Virginia and Ohio. Samuel Don- 
 aca. came to Ohio at an early day, and in that 
 state enlisted in the war of 181 2 as a private. 
 He married in the Buckeye state, and, in 1830, 
 located in Illinois, purchasing a farm of three 
 hundred acres in Knox county. His associa- 
 tion with Oregon began in the fall of 1852; 
 after a long and tedious journey acrass the 
 plains, he having started April 4, and pro- 
 ceeded via the Platte river route. Locating in 
 Marion county, near Sublimity, he lived until 
 1862 upon his farm of one hundred and sixty- 
 acres, removing then to Lebanon, where he 
 lived in retirement until his death at the age of 
 eighty. His wife, who died in Knox county, 
 111., was the mother of nine children, six of 
 whom were sons. 
 
 The only educational advantages in Illinois 
 available for the Donaca children were the 
 early subscription schools, invariably held in 
 log houses, and located more or less remote 
 from the farm houses. At best, William, the 
 seventh of the children, attended school irregu- 
 larly, for he had to work hard on a farm which 
 scarcely supplied a living for the family. His 
 father's available resources were consumed in 
 the equipment for crossing the plains, and 
 William walked the entire way, barefooted, 
 but with the spring of youth and strength in 
 his step, hopefully looking forward to accom- 
 plishing great things in the region for which 
 he was headed. He continued to live on the 
 home farm until 1870, and then engaged in the 
 livery business in Lebanon, in the meantime 
 running the stage between Lebanon and Al- 
 banv. He made a great success of the line, and 
 he brought the first mail to Lebanon, there- 
 after securing the mail route in this direction. 
 Between 1880 and 1890 he engaged in the gro- 
 cery business in Lebanon, and, in 1890, began 
 speculating in stock, real estate and grain, 
 meeting with marked success, and continuing 
 thus until his retirement from active life in 
 1900. 
 
 As proof of his confidence in the future of 
 Linn countv, Mr. Donaca has invested heavily 
 in town and country properties, and at present 
 owns three farms, one of one hundred and 
 eighty-eight acres on Crabtree creek, one near 
 Lebanon of one hundred acres, and one of 
 sixty-five acres one mile north of the town. 
 He was one of the incorporators of the town, 
 has served in the council many terms, and has 
 been mayor one term, besides holding the ma- 
 
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 jority of the minor offices within the gift of his 
 Republican townsmen. In 1883 he built the 
 first brick block in the town, and still owns it, 
 and he also constructed the warehouses there, 
 as well as other buildings, and his own two- 
 story residence. He is identified with the Blue 
 Lodge, A. F. & A. M. In 1871 Mr. Donaca 
 married Lenora Jane Harbin, a native of Mis- 
 souri, and daughter of John Harbin, who 
 crossed the plains in 1865, lived first in Yam- 
 hill county, and later in Lebanon, and died in 
 Washington. Mr. Harbin was a blacksmith by 
 trade, and during his active life accumulated a 
 competence. 
 
 Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Donaca, the order of their birth being as fol- 
 lows : John Middleton, a clerk in an Albany 
 hardware establishment ; Lizzie Ellen, the wife 
 of O. H. Oliver, of Portland, Ore.; William 
 Hayes, of Portland ; Charles Walter, of Port- 
 land ; Ferrell Coler, of Lebanon, and Morton 
 Winford, of Portland. Mr. Donaca has ob- 
 served the greatest caution in all of his busi- 
 ness undertakings, and they have never par- 
 taken of the "wild-cat" order, as is so often the 
 case with people speculatively inclined. He 
 has a thorough knowledge of general business, 
 and an appreciation of values, and is possessed 
 of a high public spirit. 
 
 WILLIAM L. JACKSON. It is interesting 
 to note the progress and development of our 
 present splendid system of public instruction, and 
 to compare the numberless facilities of the school 
 of today with those of pioneer times. To be 
 fitted for the requirements of the position, the 
 present day school teacher undergoes far more 
 thorough preparation than was ever thought 
 necessary in former years, and the position of 
 county superintendent of schools presents diffi- 
 culties and problems that can only be success- 
 fully solved by one who has had experience in 
 teaching and whose executive ability is of the 
 best. Linn county, Ore., has been particularly 
 fortunate in her selection for this office, and in 
 the present incumbent, William L. Jackson, 
 many excellencies are united. 
 
 Mr. Jackson was born near Hannibal, Mo., 
 October 25, 1867, and for nine year following 
 was a resident of that vicinitv. His parents 
 were Martin and Callie (Blackburn) Jackson, 
 the father born near Nashville, Tenn., and the 
 mother a Kentuckian by birth. Martin Jackson 
 became an agriculturist and continued in that 
 business until he retired. During the terrible 
 conflict waged between the north and south he 
 saw three years of active service as a soldier in 
 the Confederate armv, and at the close of the 
 war he left the south for California, where he 
 
 spent two years in mining before returning to 
 his old home in Missouri. Mr. Jackson was so 
 well pleased with western life and saw so many 
 advantages for one who remained as a permanent 
 resident that in 1877 he took his family and 
 came west to Linn county, Ore., following his 
 life occupation there as in Missouri, and in ad- 
 dition raising live-stock. This he continued un- 
 til he felt that he had accumulated enough to 
 support him in his declining years, and he is now 
 living in retirement, respected and highly hon- 
 ored by all who know him. 
 
 While in Shelby county, Mo., he was united 
 in marriage with Callie Blackburn, and their 
 three children are as follows : William L. ; Ray 
 B., a prominent stock-dealer of eastern Oregon ; 
 and Ida M., widow of G. L. Calavan, of Linn 
 county. In politics Mr. Jackson was well known 
 as a firm Democrat. 
 
 William L. Jackson spent nine years of his 
 life in Missouri, and when his father removed to 
 Linn county, Ore., he also came with him. His 
 early education was attained in the public 
 schools of Linn county, where he applied him- 
 self earnestly to his books. This training was 
 supplemented by a normal course in the Santiam 
 Academy at Lebanon, after which he taught in 
 the district schools of the county and later be- 
 came instructor in the public schools at Browns- 
 ville, occupying the principalship in that city. 
 All these years were preparing him for the 
 greater position he was to occupy. In 1900 he 
 was elected county superintendent of Linn 
 county schools and has proven efficient in this 
 line of work. His special effort during his term 
 as superintendent has been to establish a uni- 
 formity in the work of the rural schools, and 
 he has brought the entire system to conform to 
 the state course of study. Through all the trials 
 of office he carries himself in a truthful, conscien- 
 tious manner as befits his position. 
 
 September 12, 1893, Mr. Jackson was joined 
 in marriage with Minnie E. Peery, who was 
 born in Yamhill county, Ore., and is a daughter 
 of Hiram W. and Mary J. (Kimsey) Peery. 
 Hiram W. Peery is one of the solid, substantial 
 farmers of Yamhill county and is descended from 
 one of the old established families of that coun- 
 ty. He and his wife are esteemed citizens of 
 worth. 
 
 Mr. Jackson resides in a pleasant, comfortable 
 home at No. 906 East Sixth street, Albany. He 
 and his wife have but one child, Glenn L. In 
 religious affairs they attend the First Presby- 
 terian Church, of which Mr. Jackson is a mem- 
 ber. In politics he is a Democrat, as was his 
 father before him. Fraternally he allies himself 
 with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees. 
 Mr. Jackson has been connected with educational 
 work all his life and is a member of the State 
 
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 IV ichers' Association, being particularly iden- 
 tified with the count}- superintendent's depart- 
 ment of work in the association. 
 
 fOHN C. HASTINGS has been for several 
 . s an honored resident of Airlie, and an Ore- 
 gon pioneer of 1852. A Southerner in ancestral 
 connections and early training, Mr. Hastings 
 was horn in west Tennessee, March 18, 1833, 
 .1 son of John Hastings, and Annie (Estes) Hast- 
 ings, both born in North Carolina. John Hast- 
 ings removed as a young man to near Paris, 
 Tcnn., and from there came farther w-est to near 
 Westport, Ark., where he farmed for many 
 \ears. and from where he removed to near 
 Batesville, where his death occurred at about 
 fifty-two years of age. 
 
 The fourth in a family of seven children, 
 five sons and two daughters, John C. Hastings 
 received a limited education in the. south, owing 
 to the necessity of the children early starting out 
 to earn their own living. The sons seem to have 
 been ambitious and alert to opportunities for 
 improving their prospects, for three of them, 
 John C, A. L. and B. L., became interested 
 in the glowing reports which reached them from 
 the west, and determined to shift their chances 
 to the coast. With ox-teams and wagons they 
 joined a caravan of home-seekers bound for 
 the other side of the Rockies via the Platte 
 river route, and after six months arrived in 
 Polk county. Ore., having experienced the usual 
 number of adventures on the way. The same 
 year they went to the mines of California, but 
 returned in 1853. locating in Polk county. John 
 C. and A. L. then became interested in building 
 and contracting, and in this capacity put up a 
 great many barns throughout the county. In 
 1856 John C. left off building and enlisted for 
 the Indian service in Company K, Second Regi- 
 ment of Oregon and Washington, and served 
 for more than four months, and participating 
 in manv skirmishes, and in the battles of Grand 
 Round and Walla Walla. 
 
 After being discharged from the service in 
 September, 1856, Mr. Hastings returned to Polk 
 county and married Melissa Wood, who was 
 born in Arkansas, and whose father, Frank 
 \\ ood. was a trader and farmer, who crossed 
 the plains in 1853. Locating near Eugene, Ore., 
 he traded and farmed until his death. Of this 
 marriage there have been born eight children, 
 the order of their birth being as follows : James 
 Francis and Martha Jane, deceased ; Henry 
 Greenbury, a farmer near Airlie; B. S., a far- 
 mer of this countv ; Joseph L., a conductor on 
 the Southern Pacific Railroad, with headquarters 
 at Roseburg, Ore. : Mary Alice, the wife of 
 Clyde Jackson, of Utah; John Franklin, living 
 
 at Walla Walla, Wash.; and Clara Olive, liv- 
 ing at home. For a time after his marriage Mr. 
 Hastings lived on a rented farm in Polk county, 
 and then went to Walla Walla, intending to make 
 that his home. However, he changed his mind 
 after eighteen months and came back to Polk 
 county, where he bought a farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres on the Willamette river, 
 but sold the same in 1871. He then purchased 
 his farm of four hundred and forty acres ad- 
 joining the town of Airlie, one hundred and sixty 
 acres of which is at present under cultivation, 
 and all is fenced and improved. His son, Henry 
 G., at present has charge of the property, and 
 he is enjoying life after many years of arduous 
 toil. Mr. Hastings is a Democrat in politics, 
 and has served as road supervisor and school 
 director, having held the latter office for twelve 
 years. He is a member of the Christian Church, 
 and has been since his young manhood. Hon- 
 orable and upright in all of his dealings, with 
 a stern sense of duty and the claims of citizen- 
 ship, Mr. Hastings has won the respect and good 
 will of all with whom he has come in contact in 
 the west, and his success is a matter of pride 
 in this progressive community. 
 
 L. ARTHUR CHURCHILL. Not only has 
 Mr. Churchill known no other home than Linn 
 county, but he has known no other home than 
 the farm upon wdiich he now resides, as it was 
 here that his birth occurred, March 20, 1857. 
 His father, Lewis Churchill, was a Kentuckian 
 by birth, born in 1806, and in many respects he 
 had an interesting as well as successful career. 
 When a young man he removed with his parents 
 to Sangamon county, III, which was his home 
 until his marriage in 1834, with Miss Mary A. 
 Cooper, a native of Tennessee. Shortly after 
 their marriage the young people removed to 
 Iowa, W'hich was their home until the year 1853, 
 when they were seized with an ambition to cross 
 the country and try their fortunes in the west. 
 They were more fortunate than many another 
 pilgrim who traveled- the same path, in that 
 they were not molested by the Indians. For 
 three years they made their home in Douglas 
 county, Ore., but in 1856 came to Linn county, 
 and ten miles southeast of Albany purchased 
 a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, for- 
 merly a part of the John Lineberger donation 
 claim. To his credit be it said that all the im- 
 provements upon the place were the work of his 
 hands, as when he assumed ownership of the 
 land it was wholly uncultivated. Success at- 
 tended his efforts, and in time he was enabled 
 to purchase two hundred and forty acres of ad- 
 ditional land. Stock-raising was his specialtv, 
 and in this department of agriculture he met 
 
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 with more than average success. In the course 
 of his career he accumulated quite a large prop- 
 erty. His political sympathies were in accord 
 with the principles laid down by the Republican 
 party. At the time of the Black Hawk war he 
 was still a resident of Illinois, and he took a 
 hand in quelling the Indian uprisings, his ex- 
 perience in those days furnishing topics of con- 
 versation in after years. It was in 1847 tnat Mr. 
 Churchill crossed the plains to California and 
 Oregon for the first time, making the journey 
 on horseback, but his return to Iowa followed 
 soon afterward, where he remained until the final 
 trip to the west in 1853. 
 
 To Lewis and Mary A. (Cooper) Churchill 
 were born eight children, and of those living 
 we make the following mention : James Madison 
 is a resident of Plainview ; Eliza A., wife of 
 Amos Dunham, makes her home in Prineville ; 
 Elizabeth, wife of M. Lafayette Wilmott, re- 
 sides in Albany; Winfield Scott lives near Plain- 
 view ; Emma A., widow of William T. Jordan, 
 resides with her brother, L. Arthur. The father 
 lived to reach his sixty-fourth year, and the 
 mother was eighty-two years of age at the time 
 of her death. Both were devout and faithful 
 members of the Christian Church. 
 
 L. Arthur Churchill attended the district 
 schools in the vicinity of his home during his 
 boyhood, and early in his career took an interest 
 in things agricultural. After his father's death 
 in 1869 he continued the work begun by the lat- 
 ter, and still has charge of the old home place, 
 which has been improved and kept in an up- 
 to-date condition. The dwelling and barns on 
 this estate are not excelled by any in the vicinity. 
 Mr. Churchill owns two hundred and fourteen 
 acres of the old home farm, of which one hun- 
 dred and fifty are under cultivation, general 
 farming and stock-raising forming his chief in- 
 dustries. Mr. Churchill's interest in fraternal 
 affairs is indicated by his affiliation with the 
 Knights of the Maccabees. Politically he is a 
 Republican. Following the early training of 
 his parentSi he is a member of the Christian 
 Church, to the support of which he contributes 
 liberally. Several times he has been called upon 
 to fill positions of trust in his community, and 
 the obligations have always been discharged in 
 a faithful and painstaking manner. Quiet and un- 
 ostentatious, Mr. Churchill bears a reputation 
 for honorable and upright living which all might 
 envy. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARD WILLIAMS. One 
 need look no further than William Edward 
 Williams, of near Airlie, Polk county, for the 
 typical agriculturist of the northwest, breezy 
 and inspiring of manner, large and rugged of 
 
 physique, shrewd, large-hearted and thoroughly 
 progressive. One ought also to say genial and 
 companionable, for these enviable traits have 
 been predominating ones in the life Of this hon- 
 orable native son, and have won and retained a 
 host of friends. Born on the farm upon which 
 he now lives, March 7, 1852, he represents one 
 of the prominent early families of the state, his 
 father, James E., having arrived here in 1845. 
 
 James E. Williams was born near Nashville, 
 Tenn., in 1803, and in his native state married 
 Martha Wicher, who was born in Virginia. 
 Seven children were added to the family in the 
 east, and with these and his wife, Mr. Williams 
 started across the plains in 1845, experiencing 
 on the way an aggregation of adventures of a 
 more or less novel and dangerous nature. How- 
 ever, glad as they were to reach Polk county, 
 after the wearisome journey, they were destined 
 for still further discomfort, for the first night 
 of their arrival, while camping on the banks of 
 the Luckiamute a severe storm caused the river 
 to rise, and in the darkness they were obliged to 
 seek a camp higher up on the bank, a very wet 
 and most disgusted little band of home-seekers. 
 Mr. ^Williams took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres of land, and though 
 at the time he had little in the world save en- 
 ergy and physical strength, he soon managed 
 to make a comfortable home for himself and 
 family in the wilderness. For many years they 
 lived in a log house, but this was afterward re- 
 placed by a more modern structure, and barns 
 and general improvements added as time went 
 on. A very broad-minded and public-spirited 
 man, he took an active part in the political un- 
 dertakings of the territory, and served two 
 terms in the territorial legislature. He also 
 helped to form the state laws, and all forward 
 movements for his neighborhood received not 
 only his sanction but practical support. His 
 death occurred in 1865, at the age of sixty-two, 
 while his wife, who shared his joys and sorrows, 
 and helped to bring about his success, survived 
 him until 1888, dying at the age of seventy- 
 five. This pioneer couple were very popular in 
 their county, and their home was the center of 
 much early hospitality. Both were members 
 and active workers in the Southern Methodist 
 Church, and the itinerant preachers who chanced 
 that way were always sure of a warm welcome 
 as long as they desired to remain under the Will- 
 iams roof. 
 
 In an atmosphere of industry, thrift and good- 
 ness, William Edward developed into a useful 
 and high-minded lad, and at the age of thirteen 
 was more matured than most lads of that age. 
 This was fortunate, for his father died at this 
 time, and it was necessary for him to be of use 
 to his mother, whose older children, numbering 
 
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 sons and hvo daughters, had many of diem 
 manage homes of their own. On at- 
 
 ing his majority he received his share of the 
 property, which was only fifty-three acres, but 
 he was not dismayed, for he had worked hard 
 during his minority, and had saved considerable 
 In time he bought out the other heirs 
 and became sole owner of the large property, 
 to the improvement of which he has unceasingly 
 It voted himself, and out of which he has made 
 a fine living for those dependent on him for sup- 
 port. In 1894 he built a modern tw^o-story 
 rural residence, one of the best in the county, 
 and here is maintained that spirit of hospitality 
 and good fellowship for which his parents es- 
 tablished a precedent in the pioneer days. 
 Mr-. Williams was formerly America Price, a 
 native of Polk county. Ore., and whose father, 
 Larkin Price, crossed the plains in 1849, locat- 
 ing on a claim in Polk county, consisting of six 
 hundred and forty acres. Mr. Price accumulated 
 a competence in the west, and at the time of 
 bis death was a very well-to-do member of the 
 community. Five children have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of whom Marcus 
 Clyde lives in Independence, Ore. ; Wade Hamp- 
 ton is living on the home farm ; Floyd A. is at- 
 tending the Oregon Agricultural College at Cor- 
 vallis, and is in the junior year; W. E. is on the 
 home farm ; and Yern Whitman is also living 
 with her parents. 
 
 To enumerate the many public services rend- 
 ered by Mr. W r illiams in his capacity of broad- 
 minded and progressive citizen were to follow 
 the footsteps of a very discerning and practical 
 philanthropist. He has helped to bring within 
 the range of the farmer many of the conveni- 
 ences hitherto enjoyed only by townfolk, among 
 them being the rural mail route Xo. 1, twenty- 
 three miles long; and the Luckiamute Rural 
 Telephone Company, of which he is a stock- 
 holder and director. He is also a stockholder in 
 the Independence National Bank. A Democrat 
 in political affiliation, Mr. Williams has held the 
 position of deputy sheriff of Polk county for the 
 past eight years, and has been a member of the 
 school board for four years. The church to 
 which his father ga~ e his earnest support for 
 so many years finds favor with the son, who 
 is a most generous contributor towards its 
 maintenance and charities. 
 
 EDWIN RUTHVIN SEELY. Among the 
 prominent pioneer families established in Ore- 
 gon in 1850. the one of which Edwin R. Seely is 
 a worthy representative takes foremost rank. 
 Mr. Seelv was born on his father's farm near 
 Boone's Ferry, Clackamas county, Ore., May 13, 
 1862, a son of Lucius Alexander and Sophia H. 
 
 (Buckman) Seely, natives of Potsdam, N. Y., 
 and born respectively August 10, 1821, and Feb- 
 ruary 16, 1825. 
 
 L. A. Seely was the son of a blacksmith, and 
 when a young man removed with his people to 
 Sangamon county, 111., where he married and 
 continued to live until 1850. His neighborhood 
 was agitated by reports of land and mining op- 
 portunities on the coast, and the young man and 
 his wife were among the most eager listeners 
 to these tales of returned travelers. On account 
 of ill health he took this opportunity to seek a 
 more congenial climate. Accordingly they out- 
 fitted with ox-teams and wagons, taking with 
 them considerable blooded stock, including some 
 very fine horses. At a certain stage of the jour- 
 ney the stock was transferred to Mormons, much 
 to the grief and consternation of the rightful 
 owners, who bitterly resented the thieving pro- 
 pensities of the so-called religious enthusiasts. 
 The train was a large one and represented many 
 beliefs and occupations, a curious fact in connec- 
 tion with their migration being that, after tak- 
 ing a vote as to whether they should travel on 
 the Sabbath day, those holding to the negative 
 reached their destination a month earlier than 
 those who failed to heed the biblical injunction. 
 Needless to say, Mr. Seely, throughout his entire 
 life a stanch Presbyterian, was among those who 
 believed in rest for man and beast on the sacred 
 day, and he was therefore among the first to ar- 
 rive at his destination in Oregon. The first win- 
 ter he stopped at Canemah, and in the spring 
 bought a farm on Baker's Prairie, where they 
 lived only a year. Again they settled in Cane- 
 mah, and later bought the farm near Boone's 
 Ferry, where they reared nine children of their 
 own and one adopted daughter, and where the 
 father died at the age of seventy-five, in 1879, 
 while his wife survived him until seventy-six 
 years of age, dying in 1901. The children were 
 as follows : Jira J. is deceased, leaving a family 
 of wife and seven children; George B. is a 
 farmer of Clackamas county; Joseph B. also 
 lives in Clackamas county; Harriet B., deceased, 
 was married to James Whitmore, and left four 
 children ; Franklin F. ; Stephen B. ; Judson L. ; 
 Robert I., all of Clackamas county; Edwin R. ; 
 and Emma, the adopted daughter, deceased. Mr. 
 Seely was a stanch supporter of the schools of 
 his neighborhood, and he was very active in the 
 church, contributing liberally towards its main- 
 tenance, and attending the services whenever his 
 health permitted. 
 
 Until his marriage with Julia E. Turner. June 
 24. 1883, Edwin R. Seely remained on the home 
 farm. His wife was born in Pike county, Mo., 
 November 24. 1863, and crossed the plains with 
 her people in 1865, making the journey with the 
 time-honored ox-teams, and bought a farm near 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Oregon City, in Clackamas county. The young 
 people went to housekeeping for a couple of 
 years near Boone's Ferry, and then purchased a 
 farm of one hundred and twenty acres on Butte 
 Creek, three miles east of Woodburn. At the 
 time of purchase there were thirty-five acres 
 under cultivation, and at present there are about 
 ninety acres devoted to the raising of the general 
 products of this section. To a considerable ex- 
 tent Mr. Seely is interested in hop culture, and 
 has thirty-five acres devoted to its cultivation. 
 He also has two and a half acres in onions, and 
 is carrying on general farming and stock-raising. 
 Everything about this farm indicates the careful 
 and practical manager and agriculturist, and it 
 is doubtful if any man in the neighborhood is 
 deserving of greater credit for the part he has 
 taken in the improvement of his district. So in- 
 dustriously has he applied himself to making an 
 ideal home for himself and family that he 
 has foresworn political aspirations, and all else 
 that would interfere with the discharge of his 
 primary obligations. He is a Prohibitionist in 
 politics, and is a supporter of the same church to 
 which his father devoted so many years of his 
 life. Nine children have been born into his fam- 
 ily, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 Harry B. ; Perry W. ; Lucius R. ; Thomas L. ; 
 Ruth E. ; Chauncey C, deceased ; Percy H. ; 
 Julia E. ; and Ethel A. 
 
 william Mcdonald turner. At 
 
 the age of eighteen, in 1835, William McDonald 
 Turner crossed the plains with his parents and 
 brothers and sisters, leaving behind the prosper- 
 ous little farm in Johnson county, Mo., upon 
 which he was born November 3, 1835, an d where 
 he had developed into a strong and self-reliant 
 youth. His father, Jonas, was born in Tennes- 
 see, as was also his mother, Luhettie (Gilliam) 
 Turner, although they were married in Mis- 
 souri, shortly afterward settling on the farm in 
 Johnson county. The long and wearying trip 
 across the plains was accomplished without any 
 particular incident, wagons, oxen and the vari- 
 ous members of the party bearing up well under 
 the necessarily severe strain upon their endur- 
 ance. Setting out May 3, 1853, they spent the 
 first winter in the Washoo valley, Nev., and the 
 next spring went on to California, locating in 
 Mariposa county for a couple of years. They 
 then went to Sonoma county, where the father 
 bought land, improved it, and lived thereon until 
 the death of both himself and wife. 
 
 Hard work on the home farm interfered some- 
 what with the education which William Turner 
 desired, and he really saw little of the public 
 schools of either Missouri or California. What 
 education he has received has been almost en- 
 
 tirely of recent acquisition, and has resulted in 
 his becoming a well-informed and liberal- 
 minded man. At the age of twenty he started 
 out to work among the farmers of Sonoma 
 county, CaL, receiving as compensation four 
 dollars a week and board. He was frugal and 
 had few wants, and by 1861 had saved quite a 
 little money, sufficient at any rate to bring him 
 to Polk county, Ore. Here he worked on farms 
 for a few weeks, and not being satisfied with the 
 prospects he went to eastern Oregon and en- 
 gaged in the laborious work of packing from 
 The Dalles to the Idaho mines. A frontier ex- 
 istence was both congenial and profitable, and 
 for nearly six years he continued freighting, 
 and otherwise interested himself in the occupa- 
 tions of the crude and as yet undeveloped 
 country. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Turner returned to Polk county, 
 and after living on rented farms in the Willam- 
 ette valley for several years bought his present 
 farm of one hundred and forty-five acres, ad- 
 vantageously located a few miles from Airlie. 
 Some of the finest horses in this country have 
 been bred upon the well-equipped Turner farm, 
 and have brought their owner substantial re- 
 turns for his care. Since 1873 Mr. Turner has 
 had the companionship and ready sympathy of 
 a very helpful and devoted wife, who was for- 
 merly Mary J. Waters, born in Iowa, October 
 20, 1847. Edward Waters, the father of Mrs. 
 Turner, crossed the plains with his family in 
 1853, locating on a farm in Polk county, near 
 Pedee. Of the eight children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Turner, Dorsa N., John C, William Troy, 
 Andy J., and Emmett live in or near Airlie ; 
 Benjamin F., the oldest son, resides near Pedee 
 and Emmett and Luhettie, the youngest children, 
 are living on the home farm. The Turner home 
 is a hospitable and pleasant one, and all of the 
 members are popular and well liked in their re- 
 spective neighborhoods. Mr. Turner subscribes 
 to the principles of the Democratic party, and 
 has held various official positions in his adopted 
 county, including that of school director and 
 road supervisor. He is a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church South, of Lewisville, of 
 which both himself and wife are trustees. 
 
 WALTER K. TAYLOR. On October 15. 
 1902, the Clover Leaf Dairy was organized and 
 is now one of the busiest industries in the thriv- 
 ing city of Corvallis, and if the past success of 
 the enterprise is any index of its future growth 
 and importance, its success is certainly assured. 
 The plant is equipped with all the latest devices 
 for the proper conduct of an establishment of 
 this nature, and the proprietor is ever on the 
 alert to acquaint himself with inventions and 
 
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 ideas bearing upon his line of endeavor. The 
 
 plant is modem in every respect, and is equipped 
 with an aerator, separator, and all the machinery 
 required in a first-class dairy. Sixty cows sup- 
 ply milk for the plant, and it is the endeavor of 
 the proprietor to replace all of them by animals 
 of the Jersey breed. 
 
 Walter K. Taylor is a native of Mifflin county, 
 Pa., born July 27, 1871, a son of M. P. and 
 Rhoda W. (Kearns) Taylor, both of whom were 
 also horn in Mifflin county. By occupation the 
 father was a farmer and followed that calling in 
 Pennsylvania until the removal of the family 
 to Kansas in 1878, settlement being made in 
 Osborne county. As in Pennsylvania, so in 
 Kansas, he followed farming, but in 1889 he 
 n changed his abode, this time coming to 
 1 >regon and engaging in the dairy business not 
 far from Corvallis. When the family left the 
 Keystone state it was their intention to locate 
 in Washington, but ere they reached their des- 
 tination death entered their ranks and at Prine- 
 viile. Cook county, they buried their son Her- 
 bert. It was while at the latter place that they 
 made the acquaintance of Mrs. Sarah Moore, 
 whose praise of Benton county as a desirable 
 place to locate changed their plans entirely. Of 
 the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor 
 three are living and Walter is the old- 
 est of the number. He was eighteen years old 
 when the family came to Oregon, and as soon 
 as old enough began to assist his father in the 
 duties of the dairy. At the time of the latter's 
 death he was thoroughly acquainted with every 
 detail of the business, and from that date, May, 
 1895, he assumed control of the business, run- 
 ning the same until the fall following, when he 
 sold out and went to Linn county, engaging in 
 farming there until 1898, when he again became 
 proprietor of the Corvallis dairy. After running 
 the same for two years he sold the plant to Jacob 
 Frank. In the meantime, in 1899, he had 
 purchased a tract of ninety-two acres adjoining 
 the city limits of Corvallis, and here" may be seen 
 one of the model homes of the country round- 
 about. It is up-to-date in every respect, and is 
 supplied with hot and cold water all over the 
 house. A windmill supplies a tank of twenty-five 
 hundred gallons capacity, from which water is 
 piped to the house and barn, the latter of which 
 is 60x70 feet ground dimensions. 
 
 In Corvallis October 23, 1895, occurred the 
 marriage of Mr. Taylor and Miss Christine Leu- 
 ger, the daughter of John Leuger, and a native 
 of Eugene, Ore. Four children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, named in order of their 
 birth as follows: Hugh, Herbert, Rhoda and 
 John. Mr. Taylor's name may be found en- 
 rolled among the members of the Odd Fellows, 
 in the local lodge, of which he is serving as past 
 
 grand, and is also identified with the Rebekahs 
 and Woodmen of the World. The family are 
 identified with the First Presbyterian Church 
 of Corvallis, which Mr. Taylor is serving as 
 deacon. 
 
 OLIVER P. COSHOW. In more than one 
 direction has Oliver Perry Coshow made his 
 personality felt in the state of Oregon, for 
 though a successful business man in the days of 
 her prosperity, he crossed the plains in the time 
 of danger and desolation and, coming into the 
 wilderness of the west, he turned his energies 
 along the lines necessary to profit by the multi- 
 tude of opportunities presented in the untried 
 fields. He is a pioneer of 185 1, and during the 
 intervening years he has served his adopted 
 land as patriot, farmer, merchant and the leader 
 of the woolen industry in the city of Browns- 
 ville. 
 
 The ancestry of the Coshow family is traced 
 back to Revolutionary times, the great-grand- 
 father of Oliver P. Coshow being one of the 
 soldiers who accompanied La Fayette through 
 the country during his visit in 1824. The grand- 
 father, William, was born in the state of Vir- 
 ginia, later in life making his home in Ken- 
 tucky, where his son, Robert Coshow, the father 
 of Oliver P., was born, April 30, 1808, near 
 Lexington. At a later date the family fortunes 
 were changed to Indian creek, Ohio, and to 
 Clermont county, same state, where the grand- 
 father died. Being reared to the life of a farmer 
 Robert Coshow continued in this occupation, 
 removing in manhood to Fayette county, Ind., 
 and in 1842 changing his location to Muscatine 
 county, Iowa, where he remained for one year. 
 After settling in Scott county, Iowa, he combined 
 the trade of a carpenter with his agricultural 
 pursuits, and remained at this until i860, when 
 he came, via the Isthmus of Panama, to Oregon, 
 making his home, until his death, at the age of 
 eighty-three years, with a daughter, Mrs. Car- 
 penter, of Salem. He married Julia Perin, who 
 was born near Connersville, Ind., and died in 
 Scott county, Iowa. She was the daughter of 
 John Perin, a native of Massachusetts, who, with 
 his brother Samuel, settled in Indiana, later mak- 
 ing his home in Iowa, where he died at the age 
 of ninety-four years. The great-grandfather of 
 Mrs. Coshow was Lemuel Perin, who was the 
 first to change the spelling of the name be- 
 queathed to him by his ancestor, John, a native 
 of England, who settled in Massachusetts in 
 1635. 
 
 Of the ten children born to his parents, three 
 sons and seven daughters, all but one of whom 
 attained maturity, Oliver Perry Coshow was the 
 oldest son and the second child. He was born 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 July 4, 1 83 1, in Connersville, Ind. Interspersed 
 as his home duties permitted he attended the 
 public schools intermittently as circumstances 
 would allow, growing up to the life of a farmer, 
 at which he remained until 1850, when he entered 
 a store in Appanoose county, Iowa, as a clerk. 
 In 185 1 he decided to try his fortunes in the 
 west and accordingly made arrangements with 
 the late Hon. R. B. Cochran, of Lane county, 
 Ore., whereby he was to have his passage for 
 driving an ox-team across the plains. Beyond 
 the minor trials incident to life on the plains 
 the trip was made without harrowing experi- 
 ences, the party arriving safely in Oregon, 
 where after helping Mr. Cochran to build a 
 cabin on his claim, Mr. Coshow ventured to the 
 Rogue river mines. Being prevented by illness 
 in the continuance of this work he took up, in 
 1853, a donation land claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, located one and one-half miles north 
 of Brownsville, Linn county, where he engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising. In 1858 he bought 
 two hundred and eighty acres five miles south- 
 east of Harrisburg and continued in his work. 
 For the better educational advantages of his 
 children he removed to Brownsville in 1868, and 
 in connection with H. R. Powell bought an in- 
 terest in the general merchandise business of 
 J. M. Morgan, but after one year Mr. Morgan 
 withdrew and Mr. Coshow and Mr. Powell con- 
 ducted the business for four years. In 1863 
 he traded his merchandise interest for an inter- 
 est in the Brownsville woolen mills, but oper- 
 ated the store in the interest of the new com- 
 pany, being also secretary of the latter. The 
 company then erected the business block on 
 Main street, for which Mr. Coshow parted with 
 his one-fourth interest in the woolen mill, in 
 1880, taking as a partner C. H. Cable, a resident 
 of this city. In 1888 he sold out to C. E. Stan- 
 ard, who has since conducted the business, and 
 with the exception of the handling of real estate 
 and the duties of a notary public Mr. Coshow 
 has retired to private life. As a patriot Mr. 
 Coshow enlisted, October 24, 1855, in Company 
 C, Second Oregon Regiment, under Captain 
 Keeney, and returned home without accident 
 after three months' service, as did all but one 
 man of the one hundred and twenty engaged. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Coshow occurred in 
 Brownsville, September 23, 1853, uniting him 
 with Sarah E. Cochran, who was born in Put- 
 nam county, Mo., January 23, 1837, and died 
 March 6, 1903. Her father, William Cochran, 
 a native of Kentucky, came from Missouri to 
 Oregon, crossing the plains in 1847, an d locat- 
 ing first in Molalla, Clackamas county, Ore., 
 when, after two years, he came to Linn county, 
 and took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres, where he engaged in farming 
 
 and stock-raising. He died near Rowland, of 
 this county, in the home of his youngest daughter, 
 at the age of eighty-eight years, having lived a 
 very successful life. Of the ten children born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Coshow, William Luther is a 
 farmer and stock-raiser in Lake county ; Soph- 
 ronia Alice is the wife of J. M. Howe, a mer- 
 chant of Eugene, Ore. ; Robert Heron is the 
 secretary of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mills 
 Company, of Salem, Ore. ; James Nelson resides 
 in Brownsville ; Mary Ellen is the wife of John 
 Franzen, a mechanical engineer, of Portland, 
 Ore. ; Oliver Perry, Jr., is an attorney at Rose- 
 burg, Ore. ; Sarah Elizabeth is the wife of R. 
 H. Chaplain, Seattle, Wash. ; Ida Alva is the 
 wife of G. C. Stanard, of Portland; George 
 Helm makes his home in Brownsville, where he 
 is secretary of the Brownsville woolen mills ; 
 and Kate Ethel is the wife of A. B. Cavender, 
 the business manager of the Brownsville Times. 
 Fraternally Mr. Coshow is a member of the 
 Blue Lodge chapter, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, and in religion is a Baptist. Politically 
 he is a Democrat and has been quite active in 
 the affairs of the city. He is a member of the 
 council, having been one of the first officers 
 elected in the town, and has served in the ca- 
 pacity of president. He has also served as city 
 recorder for several years. He was appointed 
 notary by Governor Lord and has served con- 
 tinuously since. 
 
 HENRY M. BERRY. Coming to Oregon 
 in such manner that he was obliged to begin 
 at the bottom round of the ladder, that well-re- 
 membered pioneer, Joseph Berry, accumulated 
 an estate of eight hundred acres, all of which 
 has since been divided among his children, one of 
 the most successful of whom is Henry M. Berry, 
 owner of two hundred acres of the original do- 
 nation claim. Joseph Berry was born in Chester 
 county, Pa., June 17, 1819, and as a young 
 man removed to Linn county, Iowa, where he 
 was variously employed, and where he married 
 Lucinda Osborn, who was born in Iowa, and 
 died in 1874, when forty-three years of age. 
 Soon after his marriage, in 1853, Mr. Berry 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, and settled 
 on a claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 fifteen miles north of Corvallis. His property 
 was heavily timbered, and instead of devoting 
 his energies to clearing it for crops, he was 
 primarily interested in converting the giant 
 trees into shingles, an occupation in which he 
 engaged about four years. He then traded his 
 claim for a farm of sixty acres near Airlie, and 
 in 1866 he bought a claim of two hundred and 
 twenty acres, which he partially cleared, and 
 put in good condition for general farming. His 
 
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 activities enlarged to such an extent that more 
 land was required, and he finally became the 
 possessor oi eight hundred acres, a large por- 
 tion oi which was valuable farming land. As 
 before stated, his children have been the bene- 
 ficiaries of his industry and bounty, and all are 
 profiting by the start in life which a less kindly 
 fate denied their resourceful and very success- 
 ful sire. Mr. Berry was never prominent in 
 politics, but he took a keen interest in good 
 roads, schools and general improvements in the 
 county, contributing his share towards any 
 measure calculated to add to the peace or wel- 
 fare of his fellow-agriculturists. His death oc- 
 curred in 1900, at the age of eighty-one years, 
 and he left behind a reputation for strength, 
 moral courage and great kindliness of character. 
 
 The third of the five sons and three daughters 
 in his father's family, Henry M. Berry was born 
 May 30, 1855, m Benton count) - , and w r as reared 
 to hard work on the home farm. Such education 
 as came within his grasp was acquired in the 
 public school near the farm, and when he arrived 
 at his majority he was given the two hundred 
 acres which constitute his present farm. He 
 has many fine improvements to facilitate a gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising enterprise, and 
 so well managed is his place that he derives a 
 large yearly income. Like his father, a Re- 
 publican in politics, Mr. Berry has served as 
 road supervisor, but has never desired official 
 recognition. He is a member of the Grange at 
 Lewisville. L T pright in all of his dealings, fair- 
 minded and progressive, Mr. Berry commands 
 the respect of all with whom he has to do, 
 whether in a business or social capacity. 
 
 George E., the youngest brother of H. M. 
 Berrv, resides with him, and is also engaged in 
 farmingf. 
 
 ELIAM S. MORRIS. The east holds innu- 
 merable records of long residence upon a given 
 place, but in the comparatively newly developed 
 west, to live for half a century among absolutely 
 the same surroundings, is an occurrence rarely 
 heard of. Yet, such has been the experience of 
 Eliam S. Morris, one of the most venerable farm- 
 ers of Yamhill county, who settled on his present 
 home February 10, 1852. Although ninety-two 
 years of age, Mr. Morris retains, unimpaired, 
 many of his most useful faculties, and is still 
 able to interest himself in the various depart- 
 ments conducted on his farm. 
 
 Mr. Morris is one of the many natives of 
 Pennsylvania who have found their most pro- 
 lific field of activity in the west. He was born 
 in Union township, Fayette county, Pa., Novem- 
 ber 15, 181 1, his father. William, having been 
 born in Berks county, Pa., as was also his 
 
 mother, Priscilla (Springer) Morris. William 
 Morris was a shoemaker by trade, and also a 
 farmer, and he spent his entire life in his native 
 state. Eliam S., the third oldest of the five sons 
 and six daughters born to his father, had an un- 
 eventful childhood, his educational opportunities 
 being confined to the early subscription schools. 
 Until twenty-four he remained with his people on 
 the home farm, and then removed to within nine 
 miles of Mineral Point, which continued to be 
 his home for thirteen years. During this time he 
 was not only engaged in farming, but was active 
 in promoting remunerative lead mines. Hoping 
 to improve his prospects, he gathered together 
 his possessions in 185 1, and started for Oregon 
 with ox teams and wagons, and was six months 
 on the journey. The first winter he spent three 
 miles from his present place, and the following 
 year bought three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land, comprising his present home. 
 
 In 1840, Mr. Morris married Susanna Good, 
 who was born in Missouri, December 6, 1822, 
 and comes of English ancestry. Richard Good, 
 the father of Mrs. Morris, was born in England, 
 and her mother, Sarah (Adams) Good, was 
 born in the Old Dominion. Seven sons and four 
 daughters were born into this family, named as 
 follows: Sarah P., Mrs. J. D. Phillips; John 
 Calvin ; Harriet S., deceased wife of Fred Chat- 
 field ; Justin G. ; Charles E. ; Martin Luther ; 
 Joann, Mrs. L. C. Triplett ; Jordan D. ; William 
 R. ; Morris Good and Elizabeth M. ; and Oliver 
 G. Holmes, who has been a member of the house- 
 hold from his infancy. Mrs. Morris has also 
 reared two grandchildren, a son and a daughter 
 of Harriet S. Chatfield. Mr. Morris is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and has been road supervisor and 
 school director, as well as justice of the peace, 
 in both Oregon and Wisconsin. He is one of the 
 honored members of the community for whose 
 well-being he has so faithfully labored, and he 
 has many true and tried friends among those who 
 have lived and struggled with him in the early 
 pioneer days. 
 
 JOSEPH LOE. At the time of his death, 
 June 9, 1899, Joseph Loe held an honored posi- 
 tion in the community around Rickreall, Polk 
 county, and was esteemed as one of the best 
 farmers and most enterprising men in his 
 neighborhood. He came to this section in 1883, 
 and bought one hundred and twenty acres of 
 land three and a half miles north of Monmouth, 
 to the cultivation of which he devoted the most 
 mature and las*- years of his well-directed life. 
 A native of Wayne county, Ky., he was born 
 October 6, 1826, his father, John, being a native 
 also of the Bourbon state. On the maternal 
 side he was of Welsh descent, for the forefathers 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of his mother, Rachel (Gross) Loe, pursued 
 their various occupations among the sheltering 
 hills of Wales. John Loe removed to Adair 
 county, Mo., in 1828, and in this wilderness cre- 
 ated a home for himself and little family, re- 
 maining there for the remainder of his life, his 
 death occurring in 1871, at the age of seventy- 
 one years. 
 
 The Missouri farm was productive in a way, 
 and John Loe found it a pleasant place upon 
 which to live and rear his family, but to the grow- 
 ing son, Joseph, it offered scant opportunities 
 for the future. It seemed necessary for him 
 to seek a wider field if he desired more than the 
 necessities of life, and accordingly he set forth at 
 a very early age, bent upon the problem of self- 
 support. Mr. Loe started across the plains with 
 ox-teams, being accompanied by his brother, 
 John Loe. The first winter in Oregon was 
 spent in Portland, where he helped get out tim- 
 ber for ship-building, and the following spring 
 he went down into the mines of California, where 
 he experienced considerable success as a miner. 
 Two years later he returned to Adair county, 
 Mo., and purchased a farm with his earnings, 
 living thereon for many years. In 1858 he mar- 
 ried Mary Kilgore, a native of Adair county, 
 Mo., born in 1837, and whose mother, Millie 
 Kilgore, is now living in Umatilla county, Ore., 
 at the age of one hundred years. In 1861 he 
 suffered the loss of his wife, who left a daughter, 
 who is now Mrs. Clarissa McNutt, of Forest 
 Grove, Ore. 
 
 While still living in Adair county, Mo., Mr. 
 Loe married for his second wife, October 25, 
 1866, Sarah J. Kirkpatrick, who was born in 
 Knox county, Ohio, February 22, 1833. Her 
 father, Nathaniel M. Kirkpatrick, was born in 
 Knox county, Ohio, October 6, 1808, and her 
 grandfather, Alexander, a native of Virginia, 
 was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Her 
 mother, Susan (Correll) Kirkpatrick, was born 
 in the town of York, Pa., May 19, 1810. Na- 
 thaniel M. Kirkpatrick was a farmer during the 
 greater part of his active life, and in 1839 re- 
 moved from Ohio to Pulaski county, Ark., where 
 he lived until 1846. His final place of residence 
 was a farm in Polk county, Mo., where he died 
 at the age of fifty-four years. After his second 
 marriage Mr. Loe continued to live on the farm 
 in Adair county until 1873, i n which year he 
 came to Oregon and bought a farm ten miles 
 northwest of Hillsboro, Washington county, 
 where he lived until removing to the farm now 
 occupied by his widow, in 1883. He took an 
 active part in the general undertakings of his 
 neighborhood, and was especially prominent as 
 a churchman, being a member and steward of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dallas. Po- 
 litically he was a Republican, but, being of a 
 
 quiet and unostentatious disposition, he never 
 sought an office or actively identified himself 
 with local or other affairs of his party. He 
 served during the Civil war first as home guard, 
 later as member of the Missouri state enrolled 
 militia, and later in the regular United States 
 service, serving with the western division, under 
 Capt. Dudley Brown. At the present time the 
 entire one hundred and twenty acres of his farm 
 are under cultivation, and in this pleasant rural 
 home live his widow and two sons, John S. and 
 Robert F. 
 
 SAMUEL T. HILLMAN. The many 
 rich and productive homesteads in the agri- 
 cultural section of Marion county have largely 
 been brought to their present state of per- 
 fection through the strenuous efforts of practical 
 farmers who ha\$ come here from older states, 
 noteworthy among them being S. T. Hillman, 
 who emigrated to Silverton from Kansas a few 
 years ago. He was born February 5, 1849, m 
 Center, Des Moines county, Iowa. His father, 
 a native of Ohio, removed to Iowa when a young 
 man, and there followed the carpenter's trade 
 for many years. He married Mary Ann Chap- 
 man, a native of England, and of the eleven 
 children born of their union seven survive. 
 
 Samuel T. Hillman acquired his elementary 
 education in the district schools, and after com- 
 pleting his studies at a high school was em- 
 ployed as a teacher for a number of terms. Sub- 
 sequently becoming proficient in the carpenter's 
 trade, he followed it for a while in Kansas, then 
 returned to Iowa and was there married, but 
 began housekeeping in Kansas, living there, with 
 the exception of a few years spent in Missouri, 
 until 1889. Removing then with his family to 
 Oregon, he settled eight miles southeast of Sil- 
 verton, on a farm owned by Miles Lewis, re- 
 maining there two years. Moving then to a place 
 somewhat nearer Silverton, he lived there a short 
 time, then purchased his present home farm, 
 lying eight miles from Silverton. Mr. Hillman 
 has seventy-three acres of land, well improved 
 and judiciously cultivated, constituting one of 
 the most attractive farms of the neighborhood, 
 and is engaged in stock-raising and mixed farm- 
 ing, finding his work profitable and pleasant. 
 
 On September 20, 1873, Mr. Hillman mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Beard, who was born and edu- 
 cated in Iowa. Of their union nine children 
 have been born, namely : Mary C, living in 
 Montana; Samuel W.. of Washington; Thomas 
 A., deceased ; Charles H., of Washington ; Vic- 
 toria E., deceased ; Theodore F. ; Elizabeth A. ; 
 Daniel H, and Violet E. The four last-named 
 children reside with their parents. Mr. Hill- 
 man is an earnest Democrat, ever sustaining the 
 
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 principles of that party by voice and vote, and 
 has served his district as school director. Fra- 
 ternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 SAMUEL AMES. Among the well known 
 
 merchants of Silverton is Samuel Ames, one 
 
 the leading hardware dealers, who has been 
 
 intimately associated with the business inter- 
 
 - of tliis thriving city for upwards of a quar- 
 ter of a century, and has contributed his full 
 share in promoting its advancement and pros- 
 perity. Thrown upon his own resources when 
 but a' bov. he has proved himself courageous and 
 brave, overcoming all the difficulties that have 
 
 set him in his varied career, and achieving 
 success by his industry, thrift and good business 
 management. Of substantial Scotch stock, Mr. 
 Ames" was born in Ohio, July 24, 1855, being 
 the youngest of a family of four children, all 
 boys, born of the union of Jacob and Charlotte 
 (Ccle) Ames, the three older sons being Jacob, 
 John and Louis. The father, a native of Scot- 
 land, emigrated to the United States when a 
 young man, and settled in Richland county, 
 Ohio, where he followed the trade of a stone 
 cutter until his death, at the age of fifty-three 
 years, in January, 1869, outliving his wife but 
 a few months, her death having occurred the 
 preceding April. 
 
 At the age of thirteen years, being left an 
 orphan. Samuel Ames began the battle of life on 
 his own account, his only equipment being the 
 meagre store of knowledge acquired in a few 
 years' attendance at the district school. After 
 working a short time in a tobacco store in Mans- 
 field, Ohio, he entered a machine shop, and later 
 served an apprenticeship as a carriage painter, a 
 trade that he followed a few years. Going west 
 in 1874, he spent a short time in Iowa, then 
 proceeded to Colorado, where he was for a 
 time engaged in silver mining. Coming to the 
 Pacific coast in 1877, he located first in eastern 
 Washington, then settled, the same year, in 
 Silverton, Ore., where has since resided. Es- 
 tablishing himself in business as a sash and 
 door manufacturer, he operated the factory for 
 several years most successfully, in partnership 
 with his brother Louis, and still retains his in- 
 terest, renting it for manufacturing purposes. 
 In 1885 Mr. Ames purchased a half interest in 
 the hardware business of John Hicks, with whom 
 he is still associated, and later, in 1899, formed 
 a partnership with his brother, Louis Ames, in 
 the same line of business. In their new store, 
 Messrs. Ames have a large supply of everything 
 likely to be found in a first-class hardware es- 
 tablishment, carrying a large and complete 
 stock, and by their enterprise, energy, unfailing 
 
 courtesy and systematic business methods have 
 won an extensive and lucrative patronage. Louis 
 Ames is also a large landholder, owning three 
 or four farms, and devotes a part of his land to 
 the raising of hops, a crop which has proved quite 
 remunerative in the past few years. 
 
 Mr. Ames married, in Silverton, Ore., Clo- 
 rinda A. Davis, who was born in Silverton. 
 January 14, 1858, a daughter of the late Leander 
 and Mary F. Davis, prosperous members of the 
 agricultural community of this locality. Three 
 children have been born of the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Ames, namely : Lora May, born Jan- 
 uary 10, 1883; Roscoe Davis, born May 3, 1887; 
 and Xorris Harold, born July 22, 1889. Polit- 
 ically Mr. Ames is a stanch Republican, and 
 socially he is a member of the Woodmen of 
 the World. 
 
 MAXLY MARTIX. The ancestry of Manly 
 Martin is traced back to Germany, a de- 
 scendant of which settled in Pennsylvania and 
 engaged in farming. There Jacob Martin, his 
 father, was born, March 20, 181 2, and following 
 the example of his father, he found occupation 
 in tilling the soil, a part of his life being spent 
 in Iowa, on the line between Iowa and Mis- 
 souri. Desirous of obtaining a better place in 
 the farming interests than Iowa offered, Mr. 
 Martin crossed the plains to Oregon among the 
 early pioneers of 1848, the journey being made 
 with ox-teams and occupying six months of the 
 year. Upon his arrival he took up a donation 
 land claim of six hundred and forty acres, locat- 
 ed in Benton county, twelve miles southwest of 
 Corvallis. For twenty years he remained upon 
 this farm, putting into its cultivation the strength 
 and energy of his manhood, and bringing it to 
 a state of fertility and consequent beauty. In 
 1868 he parted with the scenes of his early labor, 
 trading the property for a farm in a better loca- 
 tion. This was located near Independence, Polk 
 county, and there was nothing lost in the ex- 
 change. Mr. Martin died April 13, 1882. His 
 wife was Miss Evaline Parks, born in Iowa. 
 She was the mother of twelve children, seven 
 sons and five daughters, nine of whom are now 
 living. Mrs. Martin died at the home of her son, 
 Manly, in July, 1903, at the age of eighty-eight 
 years. 
 
 Manly Martin was the eighth of the chil 
 dren born to his father and mother, his birth 
 occurring April 22, 1851, three years after their 
 removal to Oregon. It was therefore his privi- 
 lege to assist in the cultivation of the first farm 
 owned by his father and later be of great service 
 on the farm for which his father traded. In the 
 winter seasons he profited by the advantages 
 offered in the schools of Benton and Polk 
 counties. Upon the death of his father he as- 
 
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 sumed control of the farm, conducting it for 
 some time with good judgment and manage- 
 ment, but after his marriage in 1885 with Miss 
 Maggie Link he bought a farm near Eola, Polk 
 county, and continued to live there until 1900. 
 In this last-named year he returned to his child- 
 hood's home, and purchasing one hundred and 
 eighty acres of the estate, engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising. The children born 
 of his. marriage are five in number and are 
 named as follows: Ralph, Clara, Iva, Roy and 
 Frank, all of whom are at home with their pa- 
 rents. Republican in his political affiliations, he 
 has held the positions of road supervisor and 
 school director. 
 
 JUDGE OLIVER P. GOODALL. One of 
 the foremost agriculturists of Linn county, Judge 
 Oliver P. Goodall is numbered among the enter- 
 prising, progressive and skillful farmers who 
 thoroughly understand the vocation which they 
 follow, and are carrying it on with pleasure and 
 profit. In the many places in which the judge 
 has resided, and the different industries in which 
 he has been interested, he has ever been regarded 
 as a man of integrity and honor, and is held in 
 high esteem by the community in which he now 
 resides, and to promote whose advancement 
 and prosperity he is always ready to lend a 
 helping hand. 
 
 Oliver P. Goodall was born August 1, 1828, 
 in Jefferson City, Mo. Receiving excellent edu- 
 cational advantages in his native place, he was 
 subsequently sent to St. Louis to finish his 
 studies, but while at school in that city, at the 
 age of seventeen years, ran away to enlist as 
 a soldier in the Mexican war. Joining Price's 
 regiment, he served with that gallant com- 
 mander in Kearney's division, throughout the 
 conflict. Returning home, he was subsequently 
 sent to a school in Luray, Va., where he con- 
 tinued his studies nine months. He afterwards 
 resided in his native city until 1852, when he 
 came across the plains to Oregon, driving cattle 
 all the way for Hiram Smith. Arriving at Har- 
 risburg, Linn county, Mr. Goodall spent a few 
 months in this locality, in the summer of 1853 
 locating a donation claim in Washington 
 county, where he lived four years. Removing 
 then to The Dalles, he was engaged in mercan- 
 tile pursuits two years, and the following two 
 years carried on a good business as general 
 merchant in Middleton, Idaho. Settling then 
 in the Grand Ronde valley, Union county, Ore., 
 the judge was extensively engaged in stock-rais- 
 ing for thirty-six consecutive years in that local- 
 ity, becoming one of the most prominent and 
 prosperous stock-raisers of eastern Oregon. Sell- 
 ing out his property in Union county in 1899, he 
 
 came to Linn county to settle permanently. 
 Purchasing four hundred and fifty-seven acres 
 of land on the Callapooia river, about two and 
 one-half miles east, of Crawfordsville, he is con- 
 tinuing his former occupation with characteristic 
 energy and success. 
 
 In October, 1853, Judge Goodall married 
 Louisa Bell, who bore him three children, 
 namely : Brooks W., of North Dakota ; John 
 W., also living in North Dakota ; and Ada, wife 
 of John Brown, of Spokane, Wash. The judge 
 married a second time, in 1864, Grace Gray, by 
 whom he has had nine children, namely : Kitty 
 C, Scott W., Mary, wife of Stephen C. Cun- 
 ningham ; George O., of LaGrange, Ore. ; Lynn 
 W., of LaGrange; Perry P., of LaGrange; 
 Byron, of Brownsville, Ore. ; Grace, in school 
 at Brownsville ; and Fanny, living at home. 
 While a resident of Union county Judge Goodall 
 was very prominent in public affairs, and filled 
 many offices of trust and responsibility. For 
 four years he was county assessor ; for four 
 years served as county judge, and was subse- 
 quently for four years a member of the State 
 Board of Equalization. In politics he is a 
 Populist, uniformly casting his vote in favor of 
 that party. The judge was one of the organizers 
 of the local Grange, which he served as master 
 a number of years, and is now an active member, 
 and master, of Holley Grange, No. 325. 
 
 JAY E. WINEGAR. Born in St. Charles, 
 Minn., January 29, 1879, Mr. Winegar's earlier 
 years were passed similarly to those of all far- 
 mer boys, giving his father the benefit of his 
 services until he reached his twenty-first year. 
 In the meantime, however, he had laid a good 
 educational foundation by attending the public 
 schools in the neighborhood of his home. He is 
 a son of Meltire and Mary (Coulson) Wine- 
 gar, the former a native of New York state and 
 the latter a native of England." From New York 
 the parents removed to the west, settling in 
 St. Charles, Minn., in the vicinity of which the 
 father carried on farming. The extreme west, 
 however, held out more glowing prospects, and 
 in 1895 the family wended their way across the 
 country, with Oregon as their destination. Set- 
 tling on a farm near McMinnville, he at once 
 set about to put his land in condition for culti- 
 vation, and that he has not failed in his efforts 
 is evidenced by the fine farm which he has today. 
 Of the eight children born to the parents six 
 are living. 
 
 As previously stated, J. E. Winegar remained 
 at home with his parents until he had reached 
 his majority. After having charge of his father's 
 farm for several years, in October, 1901, he 
 
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 831 
 
 changed the scene of his labors as well as his 
 upation, and in Corvallis bought the livery 
 and feed business of F. Elgin, which is now con- 
 ducted as a feed stable. With the same energy 
 which characterized all his undertakings lie at 
 ced his .--tables with a fine lot of su- 
 perior animals and has successfully followed 
 the livery business ever since. In addition to 
 d stable on Third street he also con- 
 ducts a livery and sales stable at the corner 
 I [efferson and Third streets, and here as well 
 in the first-mentioned stable he is meeting 
 with the success which he merits for his good 
 business qualities and perseverance. Recently 
 Mr. Winegar has taken a partner in the person 
 of Thomas Yidito, the firm name now being 
 Winegar & Yidito. 
 
 In McMinnville, September, 1900, Mr. Wine- 
 married Miss Hattie Hodge, a native of 
 Kansas, and of this union one child has been 
 born, to whom the parents have given the name 
 of Clair. In fraternal matters Mr. Winegar 
 takes an interest to the extent of allying himself 
 with, the Modern Woodmen of the World, and 
 politically votes with the Republican party. The 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a 
 member, receives his support, and all measures 
 set on foot tending to benefit his fellow-men 
 receive his aid unstintingly. 
 
 FRANKLIN YOCOM. After many years of 
 agricultural activity in Yamhill county, Franklin 
 Yocom is now enjoying the fruits of his labor in 
 retirement in Sheridan, where he is honored for 
 bis many fine traits of character, and for his gen- 
 erally substantial accomplishment in the west. 
 P.orn in Montgomery county, Ky., July 30, 1820, 
 when seven years of age, he was taken by his 
 parents to Illinois, where they entered six hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land in Sangamon county. 
 Here Franklin grew to manhood among the 
 crude and pioneer conditions then "existing in 
 Illinois, and his education was received in the 
 little log subscription school-house in the vicinity 
 of the paternal farm. The property was located 
 near Springfield, and at the time that the elder 
 Yocom allied his fortunes with that section, there 
 was just one little store to prophesy the capital 
 and flourishing city of to-day. 
 
 In 1842, Franklin Yocom was united in mar- 
 riage with Nancy J. Darnell, and of the ten chil- 
 dren born of this union, Allen is a farmer near 
 Sheridan ; Evelyn is the wife of James H. Brown, 
 of Yamhill county; Marilla J. is the wife of 
 David Carter, of Washington county ; Eliza is 
 the wife of Allen Bradford, of California; Re- 
 becca is deceased ; the others are : Tillie, Loretta, 
 Harvey, Lonah, and an infant, deceased. Mrs. 
 Yocom died June 29, 1897. With his family Mr. 
 
 Yocom prepared to emigrate to Oregon in 1851, 
 and, equipped with three yoke of oxen, crossed 
 the plains in six months. The party was exceed- 
 ingly fortunate during their entire journey, and 
 with the exception of having one ox stolen, suf- 
 fered no inconvenience at the hands of the In- 
 dians. The farm upon which Mr. Yocom lo- 
 cated, and which is still in his possession, is in 
 Polk county, just across the line from Yamhill 
 county, and four miles west of Sheridan. Three 
 hundred and twenty acres comprise this donation 
 claim, and about half of it is bottom land, lying 
 along the Yamhill river. At first the owner 
 erected a little log cabin, 16x20 feet, ground di- 
 mensions, and there lived with his family and 
 improved his property until 1876. Somewhat 
 weary of strenuous farming life, he then moved 
 into Salem, where for fourteen years he engaged 
 in the slab-wood business, made possible by the 
 large number of mills in the neighborhood. He 
 was very successful in this effort, following 
 which he returned to his farm and lived there 
 four years. From the farm he came to Sheridan, 
 and has since lived a retired life. Mr. Yocom is 
 a very large land owner, and besides his home 
 ranch, increased to seven hundred acres, owns 
 also two thousand in another body. 
 
 While carrying on general farming and stock- 
 raising, Mr. Yocom has variously interested him- 
 self in the affairs of his community, and has been 
 especially active in promoting the interests of the 
 Republican party. However, locally, he votes 
 for the man best qualified to serve the interests 
 of the people, regardless of party, and this 
 breadth of thought has characterized his entire 
 career in the west. For nearly sixty years he was 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 but is nOw identified with the Christian Sci- 
 entists. He is one of the highly-esteemed pioneer 
 residents of Yamhill county, and his moral, agri- 
 cultural and general influence has been of the 
 best. 
 
 WILLIAM L. WELLS. Identified with 
 both the political and agricultural pursuits of his 
 county, William L. Wells has won a place of no 
 little consideration in the esteem of his fellow- 
 citizens who have, in the past, favored him with 
 their support for various offices for which the 
 Republican party has nominated him. He is a 
 native of Oregon, his father, George A. Wells, 
 having emigrated in 1853 to the west, where he 
 passed the remainder of his life. 
 
 George A. Wells was born in Pike county, 
 Mo., January 14, 1830, the son of R. F. Wells, 
 who was of English and Welsh descent, and 
 when eighteen years old had followed his pa- 
 rents into Pike county. 111. There George mar- 
 ried in 1850 Henrietta Turner, who was born in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Virginia, December 4, 1831, and had come to 
 Illinois with her parents. In 1853 tne two P re " 
 pared to cross the plains. With the customary 
 ox-teams they made the journey in six months, 
 and first settled in Benton county, where Mr. 
 Wells took up a donation claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres near Philomath, and there re- 
 mained for four years. At the close of that 
 period he sold out and removed to Marion 
 county, where he purchased three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land near the present site of 
 Hubbard, and he there continued until March 
 14, 1867, when he again disposed of his property 
 and invested his money in a farm located one 
 mile north of Buena Vista, Polk county. Here 
 his death occurred April 25, 1891, his widow 
 still surviving him, and now making her home 
 with her daughter, Mary S. Bevens, who is 
 located in the same vicinity. The children born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Wells are as follows: R. F., 
 of San Francisco; Mary S., now the wife of 
 W. P. Bevens, of Buena Vista; Sarah E., the 
 wife of Alexander Collins, of Dallas; Margaret, 
 now deceased; William L., of this review; C. 
 P., of Independence; George A., of Buena 
 Vista; Emma J., the wife of F. P. Ground, of 
 Buena Vista, and John E., of Buena Vista. 
 
 The fifth of this family of children was Will- 
 iam L. Wells, who was born January 6, 1859, 
 upon his father's farm in Marion county, though 
 his education was received principally in the 
 public schools of Buena Vista. Upon the com- 
 pletion of the school course he engaged in farm 
 work with his father, remaining so employed 
 until 1886, when he was elected county assessor 
 upon the Republican ticket. After a two-years 
 service he returned to the farm and continued 
 there until 1890, and was then called to public 
 office once more, for two terms serving as county 
 sheriff. On again returning to private life he 
 engaged in business in Dallas from 1894 to 1896, 
 and in the last-named year was elected county 
 judge, in which position he remained until 1900. 
 He was then nominated joint representative for 
 Polk and Lincoln counties on the Republican 
 ticket, and was defeated by but forty votes. Re- 
 turning to his farm he has since engaged in 
 general farming and hop-raising, leasing one 
 hundred and ninety-five acres for the former and 
 twenty-two and a half for the cultivation of the 
 latter, and meeting with gratifying success in 
 the work. He owns a homestead of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres in Lincoln county, Ore. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Wells occurred Decem- 
 ber, 1887, and united him with Miss Sarah F. 
 Murphy, who was born in Linn county, Ore., 
 January 5, 1865, and was the daughter of H. W. 
 Murphy, a pioneer of 1852. Five children have 
 been born of the union, who are as follows: 
 Leroy G., Albert, Goldie R., Gladys and Leon- 
 
 ard, all of whom are at home. Fraternally Mr. 
 Wells is a very prominent man, being a member 
 of the United Artisans of Dallas ; past noble 
 grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows ; Ancient Order of United Workmen of 
 Dallas ; and the Native Sons of Oregon, holding 
 membership in Nesmith Camp of Dallas. In 
 religion he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, of Buena Vista. 
 
 JAMES WINSTANLEY. There have been 
 developed within the last few years in Oregon 
 many industries and enterprises which have 
 contributed in a large measure to the pros- 
 perity of the state and of its citizens. Among 
 the various businesses developed is that of hop- 
 growing, and of this James Winstanley is a 
 prominent representative, being now the sec- 
 retary of the Oregon Hop Growers' Associa- 
 tion. He is a man of keen discernment, quick 
 in recognizing opportunities and accurate in 
 his judgment of the difficulties and the obsta- 
 cles which are to be found in all lines of busi- 
 ness. While laboring earnestly for his own 
 financial advancement, his efforts have at the 
 same time been of value to the state, and in 
 his present position his labors are proving of 
 marked benefit to Oregon in the development 
 of one of her important industries. 
 
 Mr. Winstanley was born in Warrington, 
 Lancashire, England, September 12, 1847, an 'T 
 is the second in order of birth in a family of 
 six children, of whom three sons and a daugh- 
 ter are now living. His father, Peter Winstan- 
 ley, was born at Winstanley Hall in Lanca- 
 shire, and became the owner of extensive ware- 
 house interests in Warrington. In religious 
 faith he was a Wesleyan Methodist, and he 
 died at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, 
 Hannah Walker, was born in Cheshire, Eng- 
 land, a daughter of William Walker, who was 
 engaged in the transportation business between 
 Liverpool and Manchester. She, too, died in 
 her native country. 
 
 James Winstanley, of this review, is the only 
 representative of the family in America. He 
 was reared in Warrington and pursued his edu- 
 cation in the national schools of England until 
 ten years of age, when he was apprenticed to 
 learn the stair-builder's trade in his native 
 town, entering upon a seven-years' term of 
 service. He followed that pursuit, and also 
 the trade of pattern-making, and later he began 
 conducting business on his own account, doing 
 contracting and building, and being thus en- 
 gaged until he came to the new world. Mr. 
 Winstanley arrived in Oregon in 1888. Taking 
 up his abode in Salem, he secured employment 
 in a sash and door factory, where he remained 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 for a year. He afterward spent three years as 
 
 a pattern-maker in Drake's foundry, but in the 
 
 meantime he became interested in other lines 
 
 of business. Upon his arrival in Oregon he 
 
 had purchased a farm a mile and a half from 
 
 Salem, comprising forty-four acres, which was 
 
 covered with stumps. With characteristic en- 
 
 , he began to clear and improve this tract, 
 
 which lie planted to fruit and hops. . He now 
 
 large prune orchard, having fourteen 
 
 planted to fruit and ten acres in hops. 
 
 1 [e has made splendid improvements upon the 
 
 iperty, including the erection of a comfort- 
 • residence, substantial barns, a hop house 
 and fruit and prune dryer. He uses the Allen 
 Iryer, having a capacity of two hundred and 
 -i\tv-rive bushels. After four years devoted to 
 his trade he abandoned that pursuit in order 
 
 give his entire time and attention to horti- 
 cultural interests and to the hop industry. In 
 
 8 he assisted in organizing the Oregon Hop 
 i irowers' Association, was elected its secretary 
 and manager and has since served in that ca- 
 pacity. The object of this association is to 
 encourage and promote the industry of hop- 
 growing and to disseminate knowledge con- 
 cerning the best methods of producing hops. 
 
 Mr. VYinstanley was married in Warrington, 
 England, to Eleanor Barlow, a native of Che- 
 shire, that country. They have three children : 
 John B., who is a graduate of the State Uni- 
 versity, and is now a student in Capitol Busi- 
 ness College ; Edith Eleanor, and James Henry. 
 The parents attend the Baptist Church, and 
 Mr. Winstanley gives his political support to 
 the Republican party. He is a man of excel- 
 lent business ability, and the enterprise and 
 sound judgment which he has brought to bear 
 upon the development of his fine farm has 
 made it a valuable property, whereby he is 
 classed among the substantial citizens of his 
 community. 
 
 HEXRY MILLER ROBERTS. The way- 
 farer who chances to pass by the farm of Henry 
 Miller Roberts, adjoining Harrisburg on the 
 east, is delighted with the prevailing order and 
 thrift, and the many evidences of a prosperous 
 farming enterprise. If fortunate enough to per- 
 sonally know the man who has made this his 
 home since 1881, and whose energy and good 
 management are responsible for the well kept 
 buildings, orderly fences, and modern labor-sav- 
 ing devices, he has undoubtedly listened to many 
 interesting accounts of hairbreadth escapes in 
 the early days, and of divers encounters with 
 the resentful red men of the plains. In fact 
 the experiences of Mr. Roberts have been of a 
 most thrilling nature, and when recounted in his 
 
 eloquent and enthusiastic manner, are not only 
 diverting, but of historical moment. 
 
 To Harrison county, Ind., William Roberts 
 removed from his native state of Kentucky, and 
 in the comparative wilderness worked at his 
 trade of turner in the winter time, devoting his 
 summers to running flat-boats down the Ohio 
 river. Here his son, Henry Miller Roberts, was 
 born October 22, 1835, he being the third child 
 in a family of six sons and three daughters. 
 The mother, Mary Jane (Miller) Roberts, was 
 born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Henry Mil- 
 ler, who was born in Pennsylvania and died in 
 Indiana. The turner and boatman succeeded 
 well in Indiana, but the family harmony was 
 upset by his son Henry, who became disccjn- 
 tented with the quiet life by which he was sur- 
 rounded, and who unceremoniously took leave 
 of the household at the age of fourteen. The 
 youth made his way to McDonough county, 111., 
 where he found employment on the farm of his 
 uncle, John K. Roberts, with whom he remained 
 for two years before knowing the relation that 
 existed between them. At the end of that time 
 he returned home and was received with the 
 greatest kindness, and in 1851 returned to Illi- 
 nois with his parents, who were influenced by 
 his elowing accounts of the state. His father 
 later removed to Nebraska with his family, and 
 near Brownsville engaged in cattle raising until 
 starting across the plains in the spring of 1857. 
 The journey extended from May until Septem- 
 ber 17th, and at Angeles Camp, Cal., the elder 
 Roberts engaged in stock-raising until 1869. He 
 then removed to Sonoma county, of which he 
 was one of the early settlers, and in 1864 took 
 up his residence in Watsonville, then a small 
 aggregation of houses. He was a pioneer of 
 that locality. His shrewd mind anticipating the 
 increase in land values, he bought up property 
 and speculated with more than expected results. 
 He possessed strong characteristics, and while 
 inducing settlers to locate on his land, naturally 
 formed a wide acquaintance, many of his pur 
 chasers becoming his warmest friends. He was 
 energetic and shrewd, while he adhered to prin- 
 ciples of fairness and honesty. His death oc- 
 curred at the age of eighty-eight, and he left 
 behind him a name which is treasured and hon- 
 ored by his children, and respected by all who 
 were associated with him. 
 
 The spirit of adventure and rebellion at re- 
 straining influences which caused Henry M. 
 Roberts to desert his home as a boy, has fol- 
 lowed him through life. It has led him into 
 the dangers and excitement of the west, and re- 
 sulted in his investigating the many typical in- 
 dustries here represented. From his father's 
 farm near Angel's Camp he went forth to earn 
 his own living at whatever presented itself, and 
 
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 in i860 found his way across the mountains to 
 Canyon City, eastern Oregon. He was one of 
 the first to reach the gold mines of that section, 
 but he was not particularly successful, and so 
 came in 1862 to near Readville, Washington 
 county. In 1881 he purchased his present farm 
 of one hundred and eighty-one acres, where he 
 has one of the ideal rural homes of the county, 
 and is engaged principally in raising cereals. 
 
 At Hillsboro, Washington county, Ore., Mr. 
 Roberts married Elizabeth Jane Stewart, a na- 
 tive of that town, and the first white child born 
 there. Mrs. Roberts' father, Thomas, was born 
 in Missouri, and came overland with ox-teams 
 in 1847, taking up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres near Hillsboro. He was a 
 blacksmith by trade, and a hard-working man, 
 accumulating, during his thirteen years in the 
 west, quite a competence. Ida, the eldest child 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, is living at home, 
 while Myrtle is the wife of E. J. Hern ; S. P. is 
 a railway agent at Harrisburg; and Edward is 
 at home. Mr. Roberts is a Republican in politi- 
 cal affiliation, and has served the community as 
 recorder, and member of the council many terms. 
 Of strong and forceful characteristics, he has 
 exerted an influence for good in the town, and 
 has especially worked for the suppression of the 
 vicious element. In this he is fearless and de- 
 termined. As a reminder of the numerous en- 
 counters with the Indians in Oregon and Wash- 
 ington Mr. Roberts has an arrow mark on the 
 pit of his stomach, and other healed wounds in- 
 dicate the extent of his operations among the 
 Indians who so bitterly resented the encroaching 
 civilization. The arrow mark was received on 
 the Piatt river in 1862, and about this time this 
 intrepid investigator escaped many times from 
 places of imminent danger. He never partici- 
 pated in organized fights against the Indians, his 
 services being purely voluntary, and rendered 
 according to the exigencies of the situations in 
 which he found himself. Mr. Roberts is fra- 
 ternally connected with the Blue Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons, and in religion he 
 is a member of the Christian Church. 
 
 ISAAC W. STARR, M. D. An eminent 
 physician of Linn county, whose years of success- 
 ful practice have won him the lasting apprecia- 
 tion and good will of the community, is Dr. Isaac 
 W. Starr, of Brownsville. A native son of Ore- 
 gon, he was born on his father's donation claim 
 near Monroe, in Benton county, November 28, 
 1853, shortly after the arrival of the family in 
 the west. He comes of an ancestry which must 
 necessarily have inspired an ambitious lad to 
 endeavor, for his father, Philip M.,and his grand- 
 father, John Wesley Starr, were ministers in the 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and were renowned 
 for their self-sacrificing characters. John Wes- 
 ley Starr was born in the east, and crossed the 
 plains to Oregon in 1850, locating on a claim in 
 Benton county, where his farm was headquarters 
 for church services for a period of between 
 twenty and thirty years. He was an earnest and 
 noble man, giving unstintingly of his time and 
 substance for the furtherance of the cause which 
 he represented. In connection with preaching 
 he managed his farm, and died at the age of 
 seventy-five, leaving behind him a record unsur- 
 passed for nobility of heart. 
 
 Philip M. Starr was born in the state of Ohio, 
 April 18, 1825, and was reared on his father's 
 farm in Guernsey county, until the family re- 
 moval to Iowa in 1833. Under the inspiration 
 of his father's Christian life he also resolved to 
 devote his life to the ministry, and at a com- 
 paratively early age prepared for his lifew'ork 
 under the father's direction. He was ambitious 
 and in 1849 took advantage of the tide of emi- 
 gration wending its way to the coast, hoping to 
 find broader fields for his life's labors. He re- 
 turned to his home in Iowa via Panama in 1852, 
 and there married Ann Maria Rambo, who was 
 born in Elkhart county, Ind., February 14, 
 183 1. The following year, in 1853, Mr Starr 
 brought his family to Oregon, making his sec- 
 ond trip across the plains with ox-teams. Locat- 
 ing near Monroe, Benton county, on a large claim 
 he made this his home for many years, and like 
 his father, combined the management of his 
 property with an active ministry in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He was twenty-five years 
 in the church in Oregon, and during that time he 
 served for one term as presiding elder of the 
 Portland district, and in 1878 was delegate to 
 the general conference at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 
 1890 he retired from active life, and his death 
 occurred in Brownsville, Ore., October 22, 1900. 
 His first wife died at the age of twenty-four years, 
 leaving one son, Isaac W. He afterward mar- 
 ried a second wife, who bore him two sons and 
 two daughters, two of whom are living, Ann 
 Maria Leper and Edward D. Starr. 
 
 After completing his education in the public 
 schools, Isaac W. Starr entered Philomath Col- 
 lege, where he remained for two years. In 1874 
 he entered the medical department of the Willam- 
 ette University, graduating therefrom in the class 
 of June, 1877. After a short practice in Mon- 
 roe, Ore., he located in Halsey in 1879, and the 
 same fall came to Brownsville, taking up the 
 practice of Dr. S. C. Stone, now located in 
 Salem. During the intervening years the doctor 
 has made himself an integral part of the com- 
 munity, contributing to its sanitary and physical 
 well-being, and evidencing at all times an ap- 
 preciation of the magnitude and possibilities of 
 
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 lu> noble profession. For twenty-five years he 
 was part owner of a drug store in the town. 
 
 disposing oi the same to Osborne & Hume in 
 the fall of 1903. In Brownsville, Dr. Starr 
 married, in 1882, Clara L. Bishop, who was horn 
 in Oregon, a daughter of Rev. W. R. Bishop. 
 Chester 1 larvard, the only son in the family, born 
 October 23, i88_\ will graduate from the classical 
 course at Eugene in 1906; and Georgie, the 
 only daughter, was born March 16, 1892. On 
 account of educating the children, the family of 
 the doctor made their home in Eugene, and in 
 the fall of 1903 the doctor removed his family to 
 Salem for a permanent home. The doctor is a 
 Republican in political affiliation, and fraternally 
 is associated with the Blue Lodge, Xo. 36, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Royal 
 Arch Chapter, Xo. 19. of Brownsville; with the 
 Knights of Pythias : the Woodmen of the World ; 
 the Artisans; and the Independent Order of For- 
 resters of Albany. Genial, tactful and optimistic, 
 the doctor makes friends wmerever he goes, and 
 nowhere more than in the sick room. 
 
 HENRY FRED FISCHER. For many 
 years the name of Henry Fred Fischer was a 
 power in milling circles in Benton county, 
 although for several years before his death, 
 September 23, 1902, he was practically retired, 
 his son. Lewis Henry, assuming the greater 
 part of the responsibility, and in 1900 took 
 entire charge of the Fischer Flouring Mill at 
 Silverton. 
 
 As his name implies, Mr. Fischer was of Ger- 
 man ancestry, and his birth occurred in Han- 
 over. Germany, March 25, 1838. His father, 
 Fred, was also a native of Hanover, and by oc- 
 cupation was a farmer, wdio brought his family 
 to the United States in 1842, locating on the 
 farm in Du Page county, 111., where the bal- 
 ance of his life was spent. Henry Fred Fischer 
 was about four years old when he came to 
 America, and his youth and early manhood 
 were spent on the farm near Elmhurst, a very 
 undulating part of the state, the house being 
 located on a hill thirty feet high. At an early 
 age he evinced decided business ability, and 
 when barely twenty-two years old, built a mill 
 in the neighborhood of his home, which had 
 many years ot uninterrupted success, and 
 which is even now standing, and is used for the 
 manufacture of flour. The old mill was built on 
 a stone foundation and was of the Holland 
 order, the entire structure being one hundred 
 and sixty feet across, while the main shaft was 
 14x14 feet, and the tower reared into the air 
 one hundred and seventy-five feet. The mill 
 was arranged with sails for motive power, and 
 had a capacity of forty barrels a day, origi- 
 
 nally, but it was later equipped with steam ap- 
 paratus, which greatly increased its capacity. 
 Thus Mr. Fischer became an influence in the 
 commercial world of Du Page county, 111., and 
 in time acquired a competence through his 
 milling business. 
 
 Having disposed of his Du Page property, 
 Mr. Fischer came to Oregon in 1877, and, in 
 Corvallis, bought a third interest in the Co'r- 
 vallis Mills, owned by Gray, Corthaeur & Co. 
 This mill was a small affair, having a capacity' 
 of only thirty-five barrels per day, and had 
 been built about four vears. Mr. Fischer as- 
 sumed the active management thereof, and, as 
 may be imagined, after his long independent 
 milling experience, he did not particularly rel- 
 ish the partnership feature of the business. 
 Almost immediately he decided that he would 
 either sell his share or buy the others out, and 
 it happened that at the end of three years 
 he was sole possessor of the Corvallis mill, 
 with ambitious projects for its future. The 
 capacity was greatly increased by the addition 
 of modern machinery, the dam was enlarged, 
 and three large crib warehouses erected, each 
 having three floors, 36x130 feet in dimensions, 
 the combined capacity being one hundred and 
 sixty thousand bushels of wheat. In time the 
 capacity of the mill became two hundred and 
 twenty-five barrels a day, being one hundred- 
 horse (water) power, and the steam plant an 
 eighty-horse engine. Mr. Fischer also built a 
 warehouse at Peoria with a capacity of eighty 
 thousand bushels. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. Fischer bought the Oregon Mill- 
 ing Company's mill at Silverton, enlarged and 
 remodeled it. and made of it a sifter mill with a 
 capacity of two hundred and twenty-five bar- 
 rels a day. The combined milling interests 
 were then under his control, although by that 
 time the infirmities of age began to tell upon 
 his powers, and he naturally/ adjusted his af- 
 fairs accordingly^. His son, Lewis Henry r , had 
 been trained with special reference to sup- 
 planting his father as a miller, and his knowl- 
 edge of milling interests has resulted in his 
 prominence as the manager of the Silverton 
 mill, of which he assumed control in 1900, and 
 which he has greatly improved in the mean- 
 time, increasing its capacity^ to two hundred 
 and fifty barrels per day. The flour turned 
 out of these mills has a reputation far beyond 
 the borders of Oregon, and its merit is best in- 
 dicated when it is known that it took medals 
 at the Trans-Mississippi Fair at Omaha, the 
 Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and the 
 Charleston Fair. The product was also exhibited 
 at the Osaki. Japan, exposition. Willamette 
 vallev wheat is used exclusively in the manu- 
 facture of the flour, and such well known brands 
 
838 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 as Corvallis and Pride of the Waldo Hills finds 
 its way to the markets of California, South 
 America, Alaska, Havana, the Philippines, and 
 the ports of the Orient. 
 
 In his young manhood Mr. Fischer married 
 Sophia Rathjc, who also was a native of Ger- 
 many, and who came with her parents to 
 America, locating among the pioneers of Du 
 Page county, 111. Mrs. Fischer, who, at the 
 age of sixty, is living in Corvallis, is the 
 mother of eight children, of whom six are liv- 
 ing. In the order of their birth the children are 
 as follows : Emma, the deceased wife of Will- 
 iam Rotermund, of Addison, 111. ; William was 
 bookkeeper for the mills, and died in 1899, at 
 the age of thirty-five years ; August W., man- 
 ager for the Corvallis mill ; Lewis Henry, man- 
 ager of the Silverton mills ; Ernest, employed 
 in the Corvallis mill; Lousie, the wife of Rich- 
 ard Kiger, of Benton county ; Martha and 
 Frederick, living at home. A Republican in 
 politics, Mr. Fischer never identified himself 
 with political undertakings further than the 
 formality of casting his vote. In religion, he 
 was a member of the Lutheran Church. At the 
 time of his death he was sixty-four years of age. 
 He was buried in the churchyard at Corvallis, 
 and was mourned by the hosts of friends won by 
 his sterling personal traits, his unquestioned in- 
 tegrity, and his great services in behalf of the 
 upbuilding of Marion and Benton counties. 
 
 JAMES WILLIAMS COMPTON. Since 
 1889 James Williams Compton has made his 
 home in Scio, Linn county, where he bought 
 property at that date, and is now enjoying a rest 
 after an active life of well directed effort toward 
 a successful utilization of the advantages which 
 the state offered in its pioneer days. He was born 
 in Washington county, Mo., November 17, 1831, 
 the son of John Compton, who was born in 
 Woodford county, Ky., in 1794, and the grand- 
 son of Richard Compton, also a native of Ken- 
 tucky. The latter spent the greater part of his 
 life in his native state, and later moved to Mis- 
 souri, where he located near Jackson, and en- 
 gaged in farming, living to a ripe old age. The 
 father, John Compton, married in Kentucky 
 Margaret Schoffner, a native of that state, and 
 from there he moved to Missouri in 181 8, in 
 which state his wife later died. He located 
 first on the Merrimac river, and removed to 
 Washington county, in the neighborhood of the 
 county-seat, and there engaged in farming and 
 lead-mining. In 1849 ne made the trip which 
 was then so attractive to the inhabitants of the 
 Mississippi valley, and after a time in California, 
 where he met with some success, he returned to 
 Missouri, in March, 1850, and died in April of 
 
 the same year, having made the dangerous trip 
 across the plains with ox-teams, returning home 
 by way of the isthmus of Panama. 
 
 Of the twelve children, nine sons and three 
 daughters, born to his parents, James William 
 Compton was the tenth child. His education was 
 received through the medium of the subscription 
 schools of his native state, the amount of in- 
 struction and the worth of it being somewhat 
 limited, as was often the case among the ham- 
 pering conditions of those early times. In 1852 
 he engaged in farm work on his father's farm, 
 until the fall of that year, when he took up a 
 claim, remaining until March 27, of the next 
 year, when he followed the example of his father, 
 and with ox-teams, started across the plains for 
 the west. He chose the route along the Platte 
 river, and August 20, 1853, ne arrived at his 
 destination, in the Willamette valley, Ore., reach- 
 ing at this date what is known as Foster's place. 
 He first located in Benton county, where he split 
 rails and did a little farming, and in November 
 of the same year he took a donation claim four- 
 teen miles south of Corvallis, purchasing the 
 squatter's right to a tract of three hundred and 
 twenty acres. He remained there for four years. 
 In March, 1857, l"> e purchased a farm in Linn 
 county consisting of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, four and a half miles southeast of Scio, 
 and in February, 1858, moved upon it. Here 
 he engaged in farming, and later added one hun- 
 dred and seventy acres, and again a small tract 
 of four and a half acres, making the entire 
 amount four hundred and ninety-four and one- 
 half acres, which he sold May 14, 1902, at $20 
 per acre. His residence has since been in the 
 town of Scio, and his principal occupation the 
 loaning of the money which he derived from the 
 sale of his land. 
 
 Mr. Compton was married in Missouri to Me- 
 linda Sumpter, a native of that state. She was 
 the daughter of Alexander Sumpter, who was 
 born in east Tenessee, May 6, 1810, and was 
 but four years old when he removed with his 
 parents to Indiana, where, near Greencastle, he 
 followed the vocation of farming. In manhood 
 he removed as an early settler to Missouri, locat- 
 ing about ninety miles below St. Louis, on Black 
 river, where he continued to farm. In 1849 ne 
 journeyed to California, and, though taken sick 
 en route, he recovered and entered the mines, 
 finding employment in the Santa Clara valley. 
 In 1 85 1 he returned to Missouri, and two years 
 later came to Oregon across the plains, bringing 
 his family with him, and located six miles south 
 of Scio, Linn county, where he bought a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 upon which he lived until 1872. In the last- 
 named year he removed to Crook county, Ore., 
 and later traveled oyer many different counties 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 839 
 
 of the state, and Idaho, in October, 1896, making 
 his home with Mr. Compton, with whom he has 
 since lived. The fourteen children which blessed 
 the union of Mr. and .Mrs. Compton are: George 
 \Y.. a tanner in Linn county; John E., a farmer 
 in Polk county. Ore.; Margaret Jane, the wife 
 E. A. Bishop, a farmer in Willow county, 
 Ore.; Henry Clay, located in Linn county; 
 lames Silas, who is in Lebanon, Ore.; Charles 
 Dudley, in Scio; Riley, who is deceased; Albert 
 Lee, who is located southeast of Spokane, Wash. ; 
 Emma May. the wife of Henry Kinser, of Linn 
 county ; Thomas Jefferson, in Whitman county, 
 Wash. : Martha Alice, the wife of J. J. Arkison, 
 of Baker City, Ore. ; Nancy Ella, who is de- 
 ceased ; Larkin Lafayette, also deceased ; and 
 Otto William, who is in Whitman county, Wash. 
 Mr. Compton is a member of the Baptist Church, 
 and politically is a Democrat, and for many years 
 has served as road supervisor and school di- 
 rector. 
 
 WILLIAM E. OWEN. Though a resident 
 of Oregon but nine years, William E. Owen has 
 built up a substantial and lucrative business in 
 Monitor, Marion county, in the accomplishment 
 of which he has won the good will and esteem of 
 the citizens of this community through the many 
 good qualities which have distinguished his life 
 in the west. He was one of two children in an 
 Iowa family, whose occupation was that of till- 
 ing the soil, and after his birth in Monroe county, 
 May i. 1866, his parents, John E. and Elvira J. 
 (Berry) Owen, continued in this occupation, 
 rearing him to the same life. His education was 
 received through the medium of the district 
 schools, which he attended for some time. Upon 
 attaining manhood he remained with his father 
 engaged in farming until 1894, when he left 
 home and, coming to Oregon, located at Mon- 
 itor, Marion county, where he now makes his 
 home. 
 
 In this village Mr. Owen soon found employ- 
 ment with the Monitor Mills, where he remained 
 for eight years, giving the best of satisfaction 
 to his employers and winning the respect of all 
 by his application to business and his energetic 
 efforts toward success. Upon his resignation 
 from this position he took charge of the Monitor 
 Trading Company, a mercantile establishment 
 in which he has been a partner ever since 1897. 
 Under his management a large business is con- 
 ducted, the principal stockholder being Mr. Owen. 
 Since his connection with the establishment the 
 business has improved in many ways and has 
 shown a steady increase in volume. 
 
 Mr. Owen was united in marriage, January 30, 
 1901, to Emma McKee. a daughter of David 
 and Caroline McKee, who was born and reared 
 
 in the state of Oregon. They at once went to 
 housekeeping in the house in which they still 
 make their home. Through Republican 'influ- 
 ence, of which party Mr. Owen is a strong ad- 
 herent, he was appointed postmaster of Monitor, 
 August 25, 1902, by President McKinley. He 
 has also served as judge of election. Fraternally 
 he is quite prominent, being a member of the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, at his old home 
 in Iowa, to which he has belonged since his 
 twenty-first birthday; Woodmen of the World, 
 French Prairie Camp No. 47 ; and Modern Wood- 
 men of America, Monitor Camp No. 8281. Mr. 
 Owen owns his home in the village, and is also 
 owner of the building in which the mercantile 
 business is conducted. He has always taken an 
 active interest in school matters, and is chairman 
 of the board of Harmony District No. 70. 
 
 CHARLES FRANKLIN MOIST. Through 
 his association with the agricultural interests in 
 this section of the state Charles Franklin Moist 
 has become known in Linn county, and as a 
 successful farmer he has added much to the 
 importance of the industries of the state. He is 
 a native son, having been born on his father's 
 donation claim, three miles north of Lebanon, 
 Linn county, January 13, 1851. His father, 
 Joseph Moist, a native of Pennsylvania, settled 
 first in Iowa, from which state he crossed the 
 plains by ox-teams in 1845, an d became the 
 owner of six hundred and forty acres of land. 
 The remainder of his life was spent upon his 
 farm, where he died in 1893, at the age of seven- 
 ty years. He married Elizabeth Jane Ralston, 
 who was born in the east and crossed the plains 
 with her parents, and she now makes her home in 
 Albany, at the age of seventy-five years. Her 
 father was Jeremiah Ralston, who came from 
 Iowa to Oregon across the plains in 1847, ar >d 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres upon the present site of the city of 
 Lebanon. In the establishment of the town he- 
 gave much earnest help, being the first merchant, 
 and later conducting' a sreneral merchandise bus- 
 
 o o 
 
 iness. On his farm property he engaged in 
 stock-raising, and met with gratifying success. 
 His death occurred in this city. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Moist were born four sons, of whom Charles 
 Franklin was the eldest. 
 
 Mr. Moist was reared upon the paternal farm, 
 and received his education in the common schools 
 of the county. In 1877 he undertook the man- 
 agement of his father's farm, and in 1882 he 
 bought fifty acres west of Lebanon, upon which 
 he engaged in farming until 1890. At that date 
 he became the owner of one hundred and thirty- 
 seven acres of what is known as the Morgan 
 Kees donation claim, and upon which he is now 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 engaged in stock-raising, buying and selling 
 stock. He has his farm well improved, his dwell- 
 ing being a handsome, two-story building, well 
 located in the midst of his broad acres. In ad- 
 dition to this property he also owns one hundred 
 and forty acres west of the town. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Moist occurred in Le- 
 banon and united him with Mary Wassom, a 
 native of Oregon, and whose father, Jonathan, 
 came from Iowa to Oregon in 1846, and took a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 five miles north of Lebanon, and died in 1899 
 upon this place, at the age of seventy-three years. 
 The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Moist are: 
 Joseph ; Frank, deceased ; Carrie, also deceased ; 
 Ruth and Charles, who are at home with their 
 parents. Politically, Mr. Moist is a Democrat. 
 
 JOSEPH THOMAS ROSS. The Ross 
 family was established in Oregon as early as 
 1852, the leader of the exodus from Morgan 
 county, Ohio, being Thomas Ross, an expert car- 
 penter and builder, and experienced farmer. 
 Thomas Ross was born in Pennsylvania in 1807, 
 and was reared on a farm, receiving a limited 
 education in the public schools. As a young man 
 he removed with his parents to Ohio, settling in 
 Morgan county, where he learned the carpen- 
 ter's trade, to the application of which he de- 
 voted many years of his life. In Ohio he mar- 
 ried Margaret Van Horn, a native of the Buck- 
 eye state, with whom he went to housekeeping 
 on a farm, thereafter combining farming and 
 carpentering with some success. In 1852 he 
 outfitted and crossed the plains with ox-teams, 
 and during the six months' journey encountered 
 many difficulties with the Indians, besides ill- 
 ness and bad roads, but nevertheless the party 
 managed to reach its destination in fairly good 
 health and spirits. In Clackamas county Mr. 
 Ross took up a donation claim of two hundred 
 and eighty acres near Marquam, and the re- 
 mainder of his life was devoted to rendering 
 profitable this fine property. He lived to be 
 sixty-six years of age, dying in 1873. His wife 
 died in 1879, at the age of sixty-four years. To 
 their credit was the rearing of a family of nine 
 children, of whom the following are living : 
 Robert, of Dayton, Wash. ; George, of Palouse 
 City, Ore. ; Olive, wife of D. Wilcox, living five 
 miles from Palouse City, Ore. ; Mary, wife of 
 James Marquam ; Clara, wife of George Foster, 
 of Portland ; and Joseph T. Mr. Ross became 
 very prominent in his adopted locality in Ore- 
 gon, and probably accomplished more carpenter 
 work and building in this vicinity than any other 
 one man. He took an active interest in politics, 
 and from his first voting days was a stanch ad- 
 herent of the Republican party. In the Metho- 
 
 dist Episcopal Church he worked for many years, 
 and contributed of his means towards its general 
 support. Honorable and straightforward in all 
 his dealings, he not only won the confidence of 
 the business public, but by his kindly and sympa- 
 thetic manner made and retained many friends. 
 
 Reared on his father's farm, J. T. Ross was 
 educated in the public schools, and under his 
 father's practical guidance learned to be an ex- 
 cellent farmer. Just before leaving home he 
 married America Ouals White, who was born in 
 Callaway county, Mo., in June, 1849, an d a 
 complete history of whose family may be found 
 elsewhere in this work. The young couple went 
 to housekeeping on the White donation claim, 
 and then located on the farm upon which Mr. 
 Ross now lives, one and a half miles northwest 
 of Marquam. The farm was all wild land at the 
 time of the purchase, and at the present time 
 the owner has accomplished the clearing of fifty 
 of his one hundred and forty-seven acres. Butte 
 creek runs through the property, and the other 
 watering facilities are admirable. A comfortable 
 residence, good barns and outhouses, and plenty 
 of agricultural implements of modern make, 
 facilitate a general farming enterprise, and give 
 an impression of substantiality and thrift. A 
 Republican in politics, Mr. Ross takes a keen in- 
 terest in local affairs, and has served as school 
 director, road supervisor and for two terms as 
 constable. Fraternally he is associated with Mar- 
 quam Tent, Knights of the Maccabees. Mr. 
 Ross maintains the prestige accorded the family 
 name, which was established by his father, both 
 as to work accomplished and fine personal char- 
 acteristics. His career has been marked by strict 
 integrity, splendid business qualifications, broad- 
 mindedness and liberality of heart, together with 
 other qualities which combine to render a man 
 dear to his friends and a factor in the prosecution 
 of the affairs of life. Mr. Ross' family consists 
 of one child : Vert, who was born January 18, 
 1879, an d was married in October, 1901, to Miss 
 Alta Winslow, and they reside with the father, 
 J. T. Ross. 
 
 JOSEPH MAYER. A successful young 
 blacksmith of Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., is 
 Joseph Mayer, whose birth occurred in Sauk 
 City, Sauk county, Wis., June 2, 1861, his pa- 
 rents being John and Katherine (Lycum) Mayer. 
 The father was born in Prussia, and came to the 
 United States in 1847, locating at once in Sauk 
 City, Wis., where he followed his trade of black- 
 smithing. After a thirty-years residence in that 
 part of the Union he came to Oregon, and 
 bought seventy acres of land five miles east of 
 Lebanon, Linn county, and there he died in 1882, 
 at the age of sixty years. Through constant ap- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 841 
 
 plication and industry he had met with success 
 in ins efforts to gain a livelihood, making a com- 
 petency for his family before he was called upon 
 surrender life. He was a member of the 
 gelical Church, and was always active in 
 its work. Mrs. Mayer was born in Luxemburg, 
 rmany, and when about ten years of age she 
 crossed the ocean with her parents, and with 
 them made her home near Sauk City, at which 
 place she was married. Her death occurred in 
 Lebanon. Ore., in 1893. She was the mother of 
 five sous and daughters, of whom Joseph Mayer 
 was the fourth. 
 
 foseph Mayer received his education in the 
 common schools of Sauk City, and there made 
 his home with his parents until he was sixteen 
 years old, when he accompanied them to Ore- 
 gon in 1876. Having learned the trade of a black- 
 smith he engaged in 1883 at that work, investing 
 his earnings in a shop in Lebanon, in which he 
 has since pursued his vocation. He now requires 
 the help of another man in the shop, where he 
 does general blacksmith work and horseshoe- 
 ing. An evidence of Mr. Mayer's prosperity is 
 found in the handsome little cottage which he 
 has built in his adopted city, and where he now 
 makes his home. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Mayer occurred near 
 Lebanon, and united him with Ida Willard, a 
 native of Idaho, and who now shares his pleas- 
 ant home. The one child born of the union is 
 Maysel, a daughter. In fraternity circles Mr. 
 Mayer is exceedingly prominent, being active in 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; Knights 
 of the Maccabees ; Modern Woodmen of Amer- 
 ica : Knights of Pythias and Fraternal Order of 
 Reindeer. He adheres to the principles, of the 
 Republican party, taking an active interest in 
 movements toward a betterment of municipal 
 affairs, and lending his best efforts in this direc- 
 tion. At the behest of his party he has served 
 as city marshal for one year. 
 
 CHARLES LEVI BLAKESLEE. The de- 
 scendant of Xew England stock by both paternal 
 and maternal ancestry, Charles Levi Blakeslee 
 has brought with him into the west the thrift 
 and steadiness which characterize the people 
 of that section of country. He was born in 
 Battle Creek, Mich., in 1848, the son of Lafay- 
 ette and the grandson of Levi Blakeslee. The 
 grandfather was born in Connecticut, near Hart- 
 ford, and early settled in New York, where his 
 son was born in New Berlin of that state. Later 
 he took up his residence in Michigan, and en- 
 gaged in farming, his New England birth com- 
 bining with his Scotch-Irish blood in his quiet, 
 steady pursuit of a competency. Lpon attain- 
 ing manhood Lafayette Blakeslee also engaged 
 in farming in Michigan, where he remained 
 
 throughout his entire life, dying there at the age 
 of seventy-eight years, in ' 1902. He married 
 Sarah Mills, who was born in Cooperstown, 
 N. \., also a descendant of an old New 
 England family, and of the union six children 
 were born, five of whom are now living. Mrs. 
 Blakeslee still survives her husband and makes 
 her home near Battle Creek, Mich. 
 
 The eldest of this family of children was 
 Charles Levi Blakeslee, and upon his father's 
 farm he grew to manhood, engaging in the duties 
 that fell to his lot in his position. It was his 
 fortune to receive a good education, as, after his 
 days of attendance in the common schools was 
 over, he attended the Kalamazoo College. At 
 the age of twenty-one years he removed to the 
 state of Kansas, where he bought land on the 
 Delaware reservation and proceeded to put im- 
 provements upon it, and intelligently cultivate 
 it. After just having made a start which en- 
 couraged him to persevere in his efforts, there 
 came the year of the great disaster caused by the 
 grasshoppers, and he was left again at the be- 
 ginning of his career. Until 1875 he remained 
 in Kansas and upon this farm, but feeling that 
 the disadvantages were far greater than the 
 wealth the land might in time bring, he left in 
 this last-named year, and for the ensuing two 
 years was engaged in farming near Bedford, 
 Iowa. In 1882 he came to Oregon, and settling 
 m Roseburg, continued in the same occupation 
 for five years, 1887 being the date of his settle- 
 ment in Corvallis. Upon locating here Mr. 
 Blakeslee furnished himself with a modern 
 equipment for house-moving, and since that year 
 he has found his business lucrative. In 1897 he 
 also became interested in fruit drying, building 
 a dryer, which has added much to his income, 
 it having a capacity of two hundred bushels per 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Blakeslee was united in marriage in Kan- 
 sas with Miss Zeporah Burge, a native of St. 
 Joseph, Mo., and the daughter of James Burge, 
 who settled in Douglas county, Ore., in 1879! 
 and whose death occurred in 'Roseburg. Mrs. 
 Blakeslee is the mother of seven children, named 
 in order of birth as follows: Sarah, now Mrs. 
 James V. Brown, of Sellwood, Ore. ; Adella, now 
 Mrs. Frank Porter, of Portland; Clara, now 
 Mrs. C. R. Franklin, of Anacortes, Wash. ; 
 Lafayette, Ethel, Ernest and Birdie. Mrs. 
 Blakeslee is a member of the United Evangelical 
 Church. In his political associations Mr. Blakes- 
 lee affiliates with the Socialists. 
 
 JAMES MONROE CAMERON. As his 
 name indicates, Mr. Cameron is a descendant 
 of a Scottish family who, though not forgetful of 
 the land of their nativity, have still imbibed the 
 spirit of patriotism which characterizes the citi- 
 
842 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 zens of this country, an outward expression of 
 the feeling being typified by the cognomen which 
 this representative bears. The great grand- 
 father of Mr. Cameron first settled in Bucks 
 county, Pa., upon his emigration from Scotland, 
 later removing to Ohio, where his family was 
 reared. The grandfather, William, was born in 
 this last-named state and in the course of his 
 life proved the sincerity of his patriotism by 
 serving in the war of 1812. He was a carpenter 
 by trade, and spent his entire life in this state 
 engaged in the pursuit of this employment, lo- 
 cated principally in Hamilton county. He mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Robinson, a native of Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., whose father participated in the 
 hardships and glories of the Revolutionary war. 
 Of this marriage was born Daniel Cameron, 
 father of James Monroe Cameron. 
 
 Daniel Cameron was born in 181 1, and was 
 early instructed in the trade of his father, mak- 
 ing this and farming his occupation. His first 
 move from the paternal roof was into Clinton 
 county, Iowa, where he settled at Dewitt, later 
 following farming in the same state. Dis- 
 satisfied with his prospects in the latter state, 
 he decided to try his fortunes in the west, locat- 
 ing in Chico, Cal., in 1870, where he remained 
 for one year engaged in agricultural lines, at the 
 close of which time he came to Oregon, spending 
 eighteen months in Jackson county. His home 
 was eventually in Clark county, Wash., where he 
 was employed in a saw-mill in addition to the 
 farming which he continued in whatever loca- 
 tion he found himself. His death occurred in 
 his Washington home. His wife was in maiden- 
 hood Jane Abger, born in White House, N. J., 
 in 1827, a daughter of Isaac Abger, who was 
 of German parentage, the last days of the father 
 being spent in Ohio, where he had removed from 
 his New Jersey home. Mrs. Cameron survived 
 her husband until March 9, 1903, when she 
 passed away, in Corvallis, Benton county, Ore. 
 The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cameron 
 are as follows : William, who was a soldier in 
 the Eighth Iowa Infantry and served through 
 the Civil war, and is now engaged in the cattle 
 business in Little Medicine, Wyo. ; Mary, now 
 Mrs. Samuel Gaudy, living in Iowa ; Daniel, a 
 confectioner, in Portland ; James Monroe, of 
 this review ; Annie, who died in Corvallis ; E. 
 G., engaged in the harness business in Union, 
 Ore. ; Ambrose S., employed by his brother, 
 James Monroe Cameron ; Ellsworth, a confec- 
 tioner, in Portland ; and Nellie, who makes her 
 home with her brother, Ambrose S. 
 
 James Monroe Cameron was born March 17, 
 1858, in his home in the Mississippi valley, and 
 though only twelve years old at the time of his 
 father's removal to California, he sought and 
 found employment on a ranch in the vicinity of 
 
 their home, where he worked for $1.00 per day, 
 giving his first earnings to assist in the support 
 of the family. Up to the time of his father's 
 death he continued to work on the surrounding 
 ranches, but was then called back home, and 
 being the eldest of the family at home he took 
 entire charge of the farm, conducting it with 
 great energy and success until affairs were in 
 such a condition that he could leave and begin 
 work for himself. In 1877 he came to Oregon, 
 locating in Dayton, where he continued at his 
 old occupation of farming for one year, at the 
 end of that time becoming interested in the har- 
 ness manufacturing in the employ of his brother, 
 at Hillsboro, and later working for his brother's 
 successor. In 1880 he came to Corvallis and 
 was employed by Mr. Hemphill, a harnessmaker 
 of this city, continuing with him for one year, 
 after which he engaged with Mr. Briggs, and 
 when he bought him out, twelve years later, em- 
 ployer and employe parted with the remarkable 
 record of having never having had an unpleas- 
 ant experience in all their association. Since 
 his purchase of the property Mr. Cameron 
 has enlarged the business in every possible way, 
 carrying a general line of harness of all de- 
 scriptions, which he manufactures, having the 
 largest establishment of its kind west of the city 
 of Portland. He uses in his business Land's 
 leather manufacturing machine. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Cameron occurred in 
 Salem and united him with Miss Melissa Graves, 
 a native of that city. Seven were born of the 
 union and are as follows : Thomas, Winnie, 
 Clinton, Jennie, Mildred, Eva Linton and Don- 
 ald. Mr. Cameron is fraternally connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
 Woodmen of the World. As a Republican he 
 was nominated by acclamation for sheriff in 1900, 
 and of all the men who had run for this office in 
 the past sixteen years he received the largest 
 ballot, being defeated by only sixty votes. In 
 religion Mr. Cameron is a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church, in which he officiates as elder and 
 trustee. In addition to the property which Mr. 
 Cameron owns in the west he, with other mem- 
 bers of his family, is heir to a large and valuable 
 tract of land located near Philadelphia, Pa., the 
 original place of settlement of the first Cameron 
 who came to the United States. 
 
 WILLIAM BOGUE. During a residence 
 of thirty-seven years in the northwest, William 
 Bogue has been actively and prominently identi- 
 fied with agricultural and mercantile interests 
 and is now engaged in the hardware business 
 in Corvallis, while at the same time he has im- 
 portant farming and stock-raising interests in 
 Linn county. He was born near Indianola. 
 
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 Warren county, Iowa, April 3, 1853. His father, 
 Amos Bogue, was a native of Ohio and removing 
 stward settled in Illinois, where he was mar- 
 ried to Miss Mary Hayworth, a native of that 
 Mate, and a daughter of William Hayworth, who 
 became one of the early settlers of that state 
 and afterward removed to Iowa. His family 
 were of the Society of Friends or Quakers. 
 After his marriage Amos Bogue removed to a 
 farm in Iowa and in 1866 crossed the plains, 
 accompanied by his wife and their four sons 
 and two daughters. Their destination was Ore- 
 gon, and on May 10 they crossed the Missouri 
 river, making the journey with horse and mule- 
 teams. Alter traveling for three months they 
 reached the Willamette valley and on August 
 1 8. 1 8( >(>. located in Polk county. The father be- 
 gan the operation of a sawmill on the Little Luck- 
 iamute, purchasing the mill which he conducted 
 tor two years. In 1869 he went to the Goose lake 
 country, where he entered land and engaged in 
 the raising and herding of cattle. He followed 
 that business for three years and then went to 
 Linn county, settling three miles east of Cor- 
 vallis. He purchased a farm there, and made 
 it his home throughout his remaining days, his 
 death occurring in 1900, when he was seventy- 
 three years of age. His wife had passed away 
 in eastern Oregon in 1871. Both were Quakers 
 in religious faith. In their family were four 
 sons and two daughters that reached adult age, 
 and three sons and a daughter are yet living. 
 The family record is as follows : Job is a cattle- 
 man on Crooked Creek in eastern Oregon. Will- 
 iam is the second of the family ; Mahala died in 
 Multnomah county ; Ami died in eastern Ore- 
 gon ; George is engaged in the raising of cattle 
 in southeastern Oregon ; and Mrs. Luzetta 
 White resides in Portland. 
 
 William Bogue spent the first thirteen years 
 of his life in Iowa and when crossing the plains 
 to Oregon with his parents he took his turn 
 in standing guard all along the way. He con- 
 tinued his education in Dallas, Ore., and after- 
 ward went with his father to the Goose lake 
 country. In 1872, however, he returned to Linn 
 county and, with his father, purchased three 
 hundred and six acres of land, which he im- 
 proved and cultivated, making a specialty of 
 raising wheat. He was thus engaged until 1890, 
 and in the meantime he extended the boundaries 
 of his farm by the purchase of additional land. 
 He now has more than four hundred acres in 
 Linn county, three miles east of Corvallis, and is 
 engaged in the stock business, raising cattle and 
 fine Cotswold sheep. 
 
 In 1890 Mr-. Bogue removed to Corvallis, and, 
 purchasing an interest in a hardware store, en- 
 gaged in that business as a member of the firm 
 of Simpson & Bogue. After a year, however, 
 
 he sold out and resumed farming, to which he 
 gave his attention exclusively until 1899, when, 
 with Mr. Huston, he became the owner of the 
 store of which he had formerly been half-owner, 
 and which was conducted under the firm name 
 of Huston & Bogue. They improved the storej 
 enlarged the stock and carried a large line of 
 shelf and heavy hardware. Their storeroom 
 was 25x100 feet, and their warehouse 50x50 
 feet. Accurate and reliable, their business 
 methods required no disguise, but were always 
 open to rigid investigation. The enterprise 
 met with deserved success, and Mr. Bogue's mer- 
 cantile as well as farming interests returned 
 to him a desirable income. July 1, 1903, Mr. 
 Bogue disposed of his interest in the business 
 and is now devoting his entire attention to the 
 management of his farming interests. 
 
 In Polk county, Ore., Mr. Bogue was mar- 
 ried to Miss Mary A. Ellis, a daughter of John 
 Ellis, of Dallas, and they now have a son, Floyd, 
 who is attending the Oregon Agricultural Col- 
 lege. Socially Mr. Bogue is connected with 
 Barnum Lodge, No. 7, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, of which he is a past noble grand, 
 and he also belongs to the encampment, while 
 he and his wife are connected with the Rebekah 
 degree. Mrs. Bogue belongs to the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church and is a most estimable lady. 
 In politics Mr. Bogue is an unfaltering Repub- 
 lican, and for one term he served as a member 
 of the city council, giving his support to many 
 measures for the benefit of Corvallis. 
 
 ENOCH CHAMBERLIN. Among the prom- 
 inent farmers of Polk county, Ore., is to be 
 named Enoch Chamberlin, who is located upon a 
 farm taken up by his father in the spring of 
 1845, having altogether two hundred and eighty- 
 four acres of land, eighty-four of which is util- 
 ized in general farming, while the remainder is 
 in pasture, upon which he raises cattle. 
 
 The father, Aaron Chamberlin, was born in 
 New York state, in 18 10, and he married Cath- 
 erine Viles, a native of New Jersey, born in 1806. 
 After a short residence in Missouri Mr. Cham- 
 berlin gathered together his worldly wealth, and 
 with his wife and children, joined an emigrant 
 train bound for the great northwest. The train 
 was commanded by Captain Gilliam, and the 
 trip was one which was never forgotten by those 
 who experienced the trials and troubles of their 
 nine-months' journey. At the beginning they 
 were continually delayed by storms, and a large 
 number grew discouraged and despaired of ever 
 seeing the land which they were seeking. A 
 Mr. Mudgett canvassed the party and found 
 thirty who were willing to endure the hard- 
 ships which they foresaw before the journey 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was ended, and, electing this man captain of the 
 divided train, they continued upon their journey, 
 arriving safely in Oregon in 1844, Captain Mud- 
 gett having proven a worthy man for the posi- 
 tion to which he was chosen. Though fairly 
 well equipped at the beginning of the journey, 
 Mr. Chamberlin had but one yoke of oxen upon 
 his arrival at Salem, Ore. After the first winter, 
 which was spent at Salem, he took up a donation 
 claim in the spring of 1845, consisting of six 
 hundred and forty acres, upon which he lived 
 until October, 1867. In that year he took a trip 
 to Mexico in the hope of recovering his health, 
 and died in Sonora, in March, 1868. His wife 
 survived him until 1883, her death occurring 
 upon the home place. The entire width of the 
 continent had been traversed by these two pio- 
 neers, from the scene of their marriage, which 
 occurred in the state of New York, to the then 
 western state of Michigan, Iowa and Missouri, 
 leaving St. Joseph, a city of the latter state, for 
 the two thousand-mile journey which meant a 
 separation from all that associations had made 
 dear. Worthily they proved their citizenship in 
 the western state, Mr. Chamberlin doing his 
 part toward its upbuilding by the industrious 
 tilling of the soil. Of the four sons and two 
 daughters born to them Joseph is a stock-raiser, 
 of Arizona; Catherine E. makes her home in 
 Monmouth, Ore.; Sally Ann is the wife of J. 
 L. Coombs, of Grass Valley, Cal. ; and Enoch, 
 of this review, is the youngest child; Andrew 
 J. and Aaron are deceased. 
 
 Enoch Chamberlin was born near Suver, Polk 
 county, Ore., October 10, 1851, and through his 
 ancestry, English on the maternal side, and Ger- 
 man on the paternal side. The grandfather, 
 Enoch Chamberlin, was a near descendant of an 
 emigrant from the latter country, his home be- 
 ing in the state of New York, where as a farm- 
 er, he lived and died, and thus Enoch Chamber- 
 lin inherited the traits which distinguish natives 
 of the two great European countries. He re- 
 ceived his early education in the common schools 
 of Polk county, and at sixteen years of age had 
 completed the course. He then engaged in farm- 
 ing, assisting his elder brother in conducting 
 the home farm, his father having died the pre- 
 ceding year. Nine years later he took entire 
 charge of the farm, and continued the care of 
 his mother, which he had begun at the age of 
 twenty, taking her to Arizona, where they re- 
 mained for nearly five years, and then returned 
 to the old home farm in Polk county. This has 
 been his home ever since, and he has continued 
 the success which he has always enjoyed as a 
 farmer. He now has two hundred and eighty- 
 four acres. 
 
 Mr. Chamberlin married, February 15, 1885, 
 Miss Ellen Christian, a native of Polk county, 
 
 and a daughter of Henry Christian, who came 
 to Oregon via Cape Horn from his home in the 
 Isle of Man. They are the parents of one child, 
 Ross L., who makes his home with his father 
 and mother. As a Democrat Mr. Chamberlin 
 has served as road supervisor and school director 
 for a number of years. Fraternally he affiliates 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen of 
 Independence, and with the Artisans of Wells, 
 Benton countv. 
 
 HARRY H. CRONISE, the agent for the 
 Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, at Corvallis, has 
 been continuously in the service of the company 
 for a longer period than any other man, enter- 
 ing the employ of the road when it was known 
 as the Oregon-Pacific Railroad. He has arrived 
 at a minute knowledge of its affairs through 
 successive stages of promotion, and is now one 
 of its most trusted and all around useful repre- 
 sentatives. 
 
 The characteristics of the Teuton, so produc- 
 tive of order and strength in any community, 
 are possessed by Mr. Cronise in marked degree. 
 From Germany, many years ago, came his pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Henry, who settled in Fred- 
 ericksburg, Md., where he engaged in a mercan- 
 tile business. Later he removed his business 
 to Tiffin, Ohio, where he became prominent in 
 mercantile and agricultural affairs, amassing a 
 fortune and becoming possessed of landed pos- 
 sessions. His son, Henry, the father of H. H, 
 was born in Fredericksburg, and with his father 
 engaged in the merchandise business in Tiffin, 
 where he married Louise Hosmer, a native of 
 Seville, Ohio, and daughter of Henry Hosmer. 
 Mr. Hosmer was born in Connecticut and settled 
 in Medinah county, Ohio, where he farmed and 
 owned many acres of land. He came of an old 
 New England family, and was a soldier in the 
 war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Cronise started 
 housekeeping in Tiffin, and there was born their 
 son, H. H, July 10, 185 1. One year later the 
 family fortunes were shifted to Peru, LaSalle 
 county, 111., where the elder Cronise engaged 
 in a mercantile venture, but after about twelve 
 years he returned to Tiffin, where his death 
 occurred. His wife died in Seville, Ohio, leav- 
 ing four children, of whom H. H. is the second ; 
 Estella, the oldest daughter, is the wife of S. R. 
 Graves, of Seville, Ohio; Thomas is a photog- 
 rapher, of Salem, Ore. ; and Amma is the wife of 
 Mr. Trover, a photographer, of Salem. 
 
 After completing his education in the public 
 schools, H. H. Cronise attended the Hildeberg 
 College at Tiffin, Ohio, until his senior year, 
 and then quit to come to Oregon, in 1875. He 
 was the first member of his family to venture 
 so far away from home, but his subsequent en- 
 
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 thnsiastic advocacy of the west inspired his 
 brothers and sisters to do likewise, lie located 
 first in Josephine county, and the next spring 
 went to Junction, Lane county, where he found 
 employment on a farm. In 1877 he became as- 
 sociated ;b brakeman with the Oregon & Cali- 
 fornia Railroad Company, and six months later 
 became a clerk in Junction. Going to southern 
 i >regon. he became bookkeeper for E. J. Jeffrey, 
 builder of tunnels, and was thus employed for 
 about one year. Arriving in Portland in 1882, 
 he engaged in the mercantile business for a year, 
 and in the fall of 1883 went east, visiting his 
 friends and relatives in Ohio. In the summer 
 of 1884 he was again in Oregon, and in October 
 of the same year entered the employ of the old 
 Oregon-Pacific Railroad, now the Corvallis & 
 Eastern, which at that time had just been opened 
 to business. From the position of clerk under 
 William M. Hoag, general manager, in the gen- 
 eral offices in Corvallis, he advanced to the posi- 
 tion of agent in 1885, and has ever since been 
 agent and purser. He was located at different 
 times at Chitwood, Wren and Harris, as agent, 
 and as purser was on the steamers William M. 
 Hoag, N. S. Bentley, Three Sisters and Albany, 
 plying between Corvallis and Portland for three 
 years. From 1890 until 1893 he represented 
 the company in Portland, and was then agent at 
 Philomath for about two years. For the follow- 
 ing year he was purser on a boat belonging to 
 the company running between Portland and 
 Corvallis, and in 1897 assumed his present posi- 
 tion as agent at Corvallis. 
 
 Politically a Republican, Mr. Cronise has never 
 taken an active interest in politics. He is socially 
 popular, and is identified fraternally with Bar- 
 num Lodge Xo. 7, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and is ex-representative to the grand 
 lodge, and past noble grand. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Artisans, and is connected with the 
 Corvallis Improvement Company. The wife of 
 Mr. Cronise was formerly Luclora, daughter of 
 Valentine Kratz, extensively engaged in the mill- 
 ing business in the west for many years. Mr. 
 Kratz was at one time located at Junction, Lane 
 county, and then at McMinnville, and is at pres- 
 ent living in Los Angeles, where he is engaged 
 in horticultural pursuits. His industry and good 
 business judgment have brought him a goodly 
 share of this world's goods, including property 
 at Mabelville and in Dunne, additions to Port- 
 land. Two children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Cronise, Harrv Kratz and Mabel Estella. 
 
 WILLIAM RILEY SCHEURER. On the 
 old donation claim near Butteville, Marion 
 county, Ore., upon which his father located many 
 years ago, W. R. Scheurer was born January 
 
 26, 1N54, and he has since grown to manhood, 
 and attained to a prominent place in the business 
 world of his immediate native vicinity. 
 
 John Scheurer, the father of W. R. Scheurer, 
 was born in the walled and historic town of 
 Darmstadt, Germany, August 25, 1825, and in 
 the quaint Hessian city, with its museums and 
 churches, its splendid educational institutions and 
 palaces of the princes, learned in his younger 
 days the trade of wagon maker. In 1844 he came 
 to America in a sailing vessel and located in 
 Illinois. At the outbreak of the Mexican war he 
 was carrying on quite a wagon-making industry. 
 Nevertheless, with that patriotism which char- 
 acterizes the German born in any country he 
 chances to call home., he enlisted' in the war, 
 and after a meritorious service returned in the 
 fall of 1848 to his trade in the Illinois town. 
 Soon afterward, August 26, 1849, ne married 
 Elizabeth Yergen, who was born in Germany, 
 June 6, 1833, and in 1852 brought his wife across 
 the plains with four yoke of oxen and a wagon, 
 six months being consumed in the long and ar- 
 duous journey. They arrived in Oregon in Sep- 
 tember of that year. After remaining in Port- 
 land for three months Mr. Scheurer removed 
 with his wife to Butteville, where he lived until 
 1870. His property consisted of two farms of 
 three hundred acres each, which are at present 
 in one farm. Five hundred acres are cleared and 
 one hundred acres are still in brush. In 1870 
 Mr. Scheurer returned to Portland, where he 
 resided until his death, which occurred June 7, 
 1887. His wife and five children are still living. 
 
 W. R. Scheurer was educated in the public 
 schools and at the Portland Academy, terminat- 
 ing his school fife at the age of nineteen. At 
 the age of twenty-two he assumed the manage- 
 ment of the paternal farm with his brother 
 Joseph, and after a year removed to Butteville 
 and built the warehouse which has proved the 
 basis of his subsequent large produce business. 
 At the present time he is hauling enormous 
 quantities of feed, grain and hops, and at the 
 same time is agent for the Oregon Railroad 
 and Navigation Company, which has a line of 
 boats operating on the Willamette river. He is 
 also the owner of a hop ranch of fifteen acres, 
 and has some valuable town and county holdings 
 in real estate. 
 
 As a stanch Republican Mr. Scheurer has been 
 before the public in various capacities, princi- 
 pally as treasurer of Butteville for several terms. 
 He is fraternally connected with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and the Grange, being 
 treasurer of the latter. He is also treasurer and 
 a member of the Native Sons of Oregon. Mr. 
 Scheurer has pronounced business abilitv, un- 
 questioned integrity, and great capacity for utiliz- 
 ing successfully the opportunities by which he is 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 surrounded. Mr. Scheurer has two sons by his 
 first marriage, Fred W. and John J. In Sep- 
 tember, 1899, he married his second wife, Mrs. 
 Mary Usborne Geer, an Englishwoman. 
 
 Fred Scheurer is married and has one daugh- 
 ter, Violet. Mr. Scheurer was a grandfather 
 when forty-five years of age. 
 
 WILLIAM H. CURRIN. Conspicuous 
 among the foremost business men of Corvallis 
 is Mr. Currin, manager of the house of R. M. 
 Wade & Co., one of the best-known and finest- 
 stocked hardware establishments in* Benton 
 county, and one in which Mr. Currin is also 
 financially interested. During the twelve years 
 that have elapsed since he came to this city he 
 has identified himself with its highest interests, 
 heartily endorsing all worthy enterprises to pro- 
 mote its industrial, educational and moral ad- 
 vancement, proving himself in every respect a 
 valued member of the community. 
 
 Fie comes of Virginian stock, and was born 
 May 15, 1864, at Currinsville, Clackamas county, 
 Ore., a son of George Currin. The father, a 
 native of Virginia, came to Oregon prior to his 
 marriage, and settled on a farm of three hundred 
 and twenty acres in Clackamas county, at Cur- 
 rinsville, where he was subsequently engaged 
 in mixed husbandry, including stock-raising, 
 until his death, in 1879. Having crossed the 
 plains in 1845, ne was truly a pioneer settler of 
 that part of the state, performing his full share 
 of the labor of improving it. On his long jour- 
 ney he was accompanied by three of his brothers, 
 namely : Hugh, who died in Clackamas county ; 
 John, now a resident of Lane county; and Will- 
 iam, whose death occurred in Lane county. 
 George Currin married, in Clackamas county, 
 Lydia Wade, who was born in Missouri, and 
 came to Oregon in 1852, with her brother, R. M. 
 Wade, of Portland, Ore. Ten children were born 
 of their union, of whom six daughters and two 
 sons are now living, the eldest son, and fourth 
 child, being William H. Currin, while the other 
 son, Robert Currin, is a farmer in Clackamas 
 county. The mother survived her first husband, - 
 and is now the wife of L. F. Marrs, of Salem, 
 Ore. 
 
 Acquiring his early education in the old 
 school-house near his home, William H. Currin 
 assisted in the labors incidental to farm life 
 until twenty-two years of age, when he entered 
 the employ of Knopp, Burrill & Co., in Portland, 
 remaining with that firm four years, gradually 
 working his way up from the lowest office to the 
 highest position in their store, in the meantime 
 advancing his education by taking an evening 
 course at Armstrong's Business College, from 
 
 which he was graduated in 1888. Continuing 
 his connection with the same firm, Mr. Currin 
 went to Spokane Falls, Wash., in 1888, as book- 
 keeper, later to Tacoma as their salesman and 
 collector. Coming in the spring of 1891 to Cor- 
 vallis he established the branch house of R. M. 
 Wade & Co., of which he has since had control 
 as manager, and has here built up an immense 
 and lucrative business in his line of merchandise, 
 consisting of hardware of every description and 
 agricultural implements of all kinds, from the 
 smallest tool to the largest piece of machinery. 
 
 Mr. Currin married, in Corvallis, Miss Jennie 
 Buchanan, who was born in Benton county, Ore., 
 a daughter of Robert Buchanan, and a sister of 
 W. A. Buchanan, whose sketch may be found 
 elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Currin 
 have one child living, namely, Margaret Currin. 
 Mr. Currin is a stanch Republican in his political 
 affiliations, and is prominently identified with 
 the Odd Fellows, belonging to Barnum Lodge, 
 No. 7, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of 
 which he is a past officer, and which he has rep- 
 resented at the grand lodge ; to the Qui Vive 
 Encampment, of which he is past chief patriarch ; 
 and to the Rebekah Lodge. 
 
 EDWARD C. HERREN. Opportunity en- 
 compasses the whole human race, but the suc- 
 cessful man is he who can recognize and utilize 
 this opportunity. The name of Herren is closely 
 associated with the development of what has be- 
 come a very important industry in this region — 
 hop-growing. It is to the production and sale of 
 this commodity that Edward C. Herren gives his 
 attention, and almost from the beginning of the 
 hop industry in this state he has been actively 
 and successfully identified with the business. 
 
 " To know something of a man we must know 
 something of his ancestry," wrote a famous his- 
 torian. Edward C. Herren is descended from 
 good old Revolutionary stock. His great-grand- 
 father, a resident of the Old Dominion, fought 
 for the independence of the colonies as a member 
 of the Virginia troops. His grandfather, John 
 Herren, was also born in Virginia, where his 
 ancestors had lived for many generations. The 
 family is of English and Welsh descent. John 
 Flerren became a farmer of Kentucky, afterward 
 removing to Indiana, and later carried on agri- 
 cultural pursuits near St. Joseph, Mo., until 
 1845, when he crossed the plains to Oregon. 
 He was in the Meeks cut-off, and suffered the 
 hardships of a long and perilous journey. At 
 length, however, he reached his destination, set- 
 tling near Turner, Marion count}', where he se- 
 cured a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres. This he brought to a high state of cul- 
 
PORTRAIT AND I'.K )( iRAl'l I ICAL RECORD. 
 
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 tivatioii. Hero his life's labors were finally ended 
 in death. 
 
 (.'apt. William J. Herren, father of Edward 
 C. Herren, was born in Lexington, Ky., in Janu- 
 ary, iS-'-i. and accompanied his parents on their 
 various removals, including their journey across 
 the plains in 1845. During that memorable ex- 
 pedition the water supply became exhausted. 
 On horseback Captain Herren started in search 
 of water, and discovered the Blue Bucket spring. 
 He also found some shining lumps of metal, 
 which he took back with him and exhibited to 
 the members of the party. They were encamped 
 in that location for three days, and, seeking 
 these bright lumps, piled them all in one place. 
 But they did not recognize the value of their 
 find. 
 
 Captain Herren went through all the experi- 
 ences of a pioneer in the northwest, when the 
 country was being won from the domination 
 of the red men. In 1847 ne married and secured 
 a donation claim of a section of land located on 
 Salem prairie, four miles east of Salem. This 
 he cultivated for some time ; but, wishing to 
 afford his children better educational advantages, 
 he moved to Salem, where he spent his remain- 
 ing days, dying at the age of sixty-nine years. 
 He was captain of a company in Colonel Ne- 
 smith's regiment in the Rogue River Indian 
 war, his commission from Governor George L. 
 Curry dating September 28, 1854. He went to 
 the mines of California in the fall of 1848, being 
 among the first who sought wealth there after 
 the discovery of gold. In the spring of 1849 ^ e 
 returned, but made a second trip to California 
 a few weeks later, returning home in the spring 
 of 1850. He served as sheriff of Marion county 
 during the territorial days, filling the position for 
 two terms, his appointment being signed by 
 Acting Governor Hintzing Pritchette, dated June 
 1. 1850. In 1872 he organized the Salem Ship- 
 ping and Trading Company, and built the 
 Grangers' Warehouse, which he conducted for 
 many years. He finally consolidated his business 
 with milling interests under the name of the 
 Salem Flouring Mills, of which he was manager 
 for three years. In 1886 he was appointed by 
 Governor Moody commissioner on the Board of 
 Assessment and Taxation to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the death of his brother-in-law, Dan- 
 iel Clark. He also served as a member of the 
 old state Railroad Commission. 
 
 He was a man of affairs, alert and progressive 
 in business, and was the father of the hop in- 
 dustry in this state. It was he who induced 
 William Wells of Buena Vista and Ralph Geer 
 to set out the first hop yards in Oregon — about 
 1873. But the settlers were slow in taking up 
 this work, and even by 1880 only about seven 
 thousand bales of hops were grown in the entire 
 
 stale. There was not much increase until 1882, 
 when the price reached $1.15 per pound. This 
 stimulated the business, which thereafter stead- 
 ily increased until, in 1890, the crop amounted to 
 over twenty-seven thousand bales, and in 1895 
 there were one hundred and three thousand bales 
 — the largest crop ever produced in the state. In 
 1895 the price was so low that many yards were 
 ploughed up, but during the past two years the in- 
 dustry has again assumed considerable importance 
 Captain Herren was very prominent, a man of 
 forceful individuality, and wielded a wide influ- 
 ence in business and social circles. He held 
 membership in the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. His wife, Eveline (Hall) Herren, was 
 born near St. Joseph, Mo., in 1830, a daughter 
 of James and Cynthia Hall, who came to Ore- 
 gon in 1845, an d were in the Meeks cut-off. 
 Mrs. Herren is now living in Oregon. 
 
 In the family were five sons and one daughter, 
 the latter being deceased. The sons are : David 
 A., a stockman of Heppner, Ore. ; Albert W., a 
 grain merchant of Independence, Ore. ; George, 
 a commission merchant of Portland ; Willard H., 
 who is also a stockman of Heppner ; and Ed- 
 ward C. 
 
 Edward C. Herren was born in Salem April 
 27, 1863. He obtained his education in the pub- 
 lic schools of that city and Willamette Univer- 
 sity. In 1881 he became associated with his 
 father in the hop business, but continuing his 
 education, he nad graduated from the Portland 
 Business College in 1880. He then went to 
 Heppner, where for two years he was engaged 
 in general merchandising. Upon his return to 
 Salem he was again associated with his father 
 in the hop, grain and wool trade, this business 
 connection being maintained until the latter's 
 death in 1891, since which time he has been 
 alone. In years of activity he is the oldest hop 
 merchant in the city. He is also engaged in the 
 production of hops, owning a yard of thirty acres 
 six miles south of Salem, besides leasing other 
 yards. The product of his own yards and that 
 obtained by purchase is shipped to eastern and 
 foreign markets. In 1901 Mr. Herren, with his 
 brothers, and with George Conser, the banker at 
 Heppner, and E. C. Redfield, an attorney of that 
 city, organized the Heppner Coal and Railway 
 Company, which has begun the development of 
 what promises to be an extensive coal minirfg 
 property located principally on D. A. Herren's 
 ranch twenty miles southeast of Heppner. The 
 plans of this company contemplate the construc- 
 tion of a branch railway line from the mines to 
 Heppner, and it is expected that the work of 
 shipment will begin within the next two years. 
 Experts who have examined the product, which 
 has been tested on various parts of the Pacific 
 coast, state that it is a fine quality of cannel coal, 
 
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 containing about nineteen per cent of fixed car- 
 bon, which is higher than any other coal pro- 
 duced on the coast. 
 
 Mr. Herren was married in Salem April 4, 
 1898, to Lizzie V. Holman, who was born in 
 California, a daughter of Richard D. and Carrie 
 (Whitney) Holman, formerly of London, On- 
 tario. They were of English descent, and moved 
 from Canada to California. Mrs. Herren is a 
 member of the Unitarian Church. Mr. Herren 
 is identified with the Modern Woodmen of Am- 
 erica, the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks, the Oregon Hop Buyers' Association, the 
 Oregon Hop Growers' Association, and Daniel 
 Waldo Cabin, Native Sons of Oregon. In his 
 political affiliations he is a Democrat. Having 
 spent his entire life in Marion county, he has 
 become thoroughly imbued with the progressive 
 spirit which dominates this section of the coun- 
 try, and in his business career his close applica- 
 tion and keen discrimination have put him in 
 control of enterprises that bring to him good re- 
 turns. 
 
 CONRAD A. GERHARD. A book and sta- 
 tionery store to which it is a delight to go, is 
 that owned and managed by Conrad A. Gerhard, 
 a native son of Corvallis, and representative of 
 one of the very old and prominent families of 
 Benton county. Already the larger cities of 
 Oregon have their commercial aristocracy, their 
 citizen names which typify sound and permanent 
 growth, and stand for integrity and fair dealing. 
 To this class of men the Gerhards belong, and 
 as such are enrolled among the upbuilders of the 
 great northwest. 
 
 " Joseph Gerhard, the founder of the family in 
 America, and the father of Conrad, was born 
 in the city of Alberschweiler, Bavaria, in the 
 Palatinate, in 1825, a son of Johann and Anna 
 Maria (Webber) Gerhard, natives of Germany, 
 and the former a tradesman by occupation. 
 Joseph learned the blacksmith's trade when 
 young, and, as was the custom, enlisted for 
 service in the army, his term covering six years, 
 and including the war of 1848. He came to 
 America in 1852, and after a short time in New 
 York city moved to Boston, his brother, Lorenzo, 
 corning to Oregon, where he eventually died. 
 In Boston Joseph married Elizabeth Dorr, born 
 in Martinza, Bavaria, in 1835, daughter of Peter 
 and Elizabeth (Reischman) Dorr, born, reared 
 and died in Bavaria. Mrs. Gerhard is one in a 
 family of eight children, seven of whom are liv- 
 ing, five being in America. She was educated 
 in^the public schools of Germany, and in 1853 
 came to Boston from Havre in a sailing vessel. 
 After several vears of happy married life in 
 Boston Joseph Gerhard prepared to emigrate to 
 
 Oregon, the start being made March 5, 1858, 
 and the way being via the Isthmus of Panama. 
 One month later they reached San Francisco, 
 and from there embarked for Portland, coming 
 almost immediately to Corvallis. The first sum- 
 mer Mr. Gerhard worked at his trade near Mon- 
 roe, this county, and in the fall of 1858 came to 
 Corvallis, but located across the river at Or- 
 leans, Linn county, where he bought a house 
 and shop and started up a nice little business. 
 The flood of 1861-2 convinced him that he had 
 chosen a very undesirable location, so he came 
 over to Corvallis and bought a piece of land 
 fifty by one hundred feet on the corner of Sec- 
 ond and Madison streets. Here he built a resi- 
 dence and shop and engaged in the blacksmith 
 business for many years. He prospered exceed- 
 ingly, and his busy little shop was the center of 
 a flourishing and popular trade. A fire which 
 laid low the shop did not discourage him in 
 the least, for he soon rebuilt and proceeded as 
 before, confident that the west' Tiad only ultimate 
 good for him. As proof of his faith in his 
 chosen town he invested his hard-earned money 
 in town property, and among others owned four 
 lots on First street. Finally, weary of the anvil 
 and hammer, he bought a farm of one hundred 
 and ninety-three acres on old Palmer island, 
 and there moved with his wife and sons. The 
 island afterward became known as Gerhard 
 island, a name which it still retains. Farm- 
 ing and stock-raising filled the later life of this 
 pioneer blacksmith, and his death, July 5, 1886, 
 at the age of sixty-two years, found him the 
 possessor of a comfortable home in an ideal part 
 of the county. He was a Republican in politics, 
 and a stanch member of the Catholic Church. 
 The wife who survives him profits by his many 
 years of industry, having a nice home in Cor- 
 vallis, but spends her summers on the island 
 farm. Of her six children, George is a civil 
 engineer, of Fairhaven, Wash. ; Henry is living 
 on and managing the island farm; Leopold died 
 in Roseburg, Ore. ; Mary and Kate are at home ; 
 and Conrad is engaged in the book and sta- 
 tionery business in Corvallis. 
 
 The youngest in his father's family, Conrad 
 A. Gerhard was born in Corvallis, February 20, 
 1876, and was educated at Mount Angel Col- 
 lege, Marion county, from which he graduated 
 June 22, 1891, with the degree of Master of 
 Accounts. He was an unusually apt scholar, 
 and from the first of his school life appreciated 
 the great advantage of a thorough and syste- 
 matic education. This was demonstrated partic- 
 ularly by his post-graduate work. He after- 
 ward spent a couple of years on the farm, and 
 in 1898 bought the book and stationery store 
 to the improvement and enlarging of which he 
 has since devoted his attention. He is now 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 located in the Occidental block, and has the larg- 
 csl business of the kind in Benton county. lie 
 makes a specially of school supplies, and of the 
 incidentals which a cosmopolitan community 
 expect to find iii a modern and up-to-date store. 
 In Corvallis Mr. Gerhard married Adelaide 
 Morton Fullington, a native of Harrisburg, 
 ( )re.. and daughter of H. S. Horton, an old 
 settler of this county, now residing in Corvallis. 
 Mr. Gerhard is a member of the Corvallis Im- 
 provement Association, and in politics is affili- 
 ated with the Republican party. Fraternally he 
 : member of the Woodmen of the World. 
 Like his father, himself and family are members 
 of the Catholic Church. This popular stationer 
 stands high in the public esteem of his native 
 town, and is accounted one of the most successful 
 and promising young business men. 
 
 GEORGE FRANKLIN CRAW. To a far 
 greater extent than the average man, George F. 
 Craw has realized his painstaking and well di- 
 rected expectations. Just as the pent-up enthusi- 
 asm of twenty-one found expression in a meri- 
 torious war service, so the mature and public- 
 spirited plans of later years have resulted in his 
 election to every office to which he has been nom- 
 inated by his fellow-townsmen, as well as in a 
 financial standing merited by marked business 
 ability and fearless adherence to high moral prin- 
 ciples. The present manager of the Postal Tele- 
 graph Company, he is also the treasurer of Lane 
 county, and was for six or seven years city treas- 
 urer of Eugene. At the present time he is serv- 
 ing his twelfth appointment as notary public, and 
 in November, 1903, rounded out his twenty- 
 four years in this capacity. Notable among his 
 achievements in behalf of the town of his adop- 
 tion have been his whole-souled and practical 
 efforts to improve the educational facilities 
 of the town. With his resignation as school 
 clerk in May, 1902, ended fifteen years of truly 
 remarkable educational advancement, - nearly all 
 of the school buildings in Eugene having been 
 erected within that time, the sole exception be- 
 ing the oldest school house in the city limits. 
 Shortly after his election as county treasurer in 
 June, 1902, he was stricken with creeping paraly- 
 sis, but the disorder yielding to treatment at the 
 end of five months he was able to assume the re- 
 sponsibilities of office, to the joy of his many 
 friends, his election being a credit to the com- 
 munity which has honored him with its un- 
 bounded confidence. 
 
 ^ The youngest in a family of nine children, Mr. 
 Craw was born in the center of eastern conserva- 
 tism, Hartford, Conn., November 10, 1841, 
 and was reared on the farm of his parents, 
 Abial and Rhoda (Belknap) Craw, natives of 
 Connecticut, and of Scotch ancestry. Both the 
 
 paternal and maternal families were established 
 in Connecticut by the grandfathers, the former 
 coming from Aberdeen, Scotland, and locating 
 on a farm in Hartford township. Abial Craw in- 
 clined to his father's occupation, and he and his 
 wife died on the farm which had been their care 
 for so many years, and where they had reared 
 their large family of children. George F. was 
 not the only member of the family whom ambi- 
 tion beckoned to the west, for his brother, Ed- 
 ward, crossed the plains in an ox-train in 1850, 
 and, after varied experiences in the mines on the 
 coast, died in San Bernardino, Cal. 
 
 The well worn farm in Hartford township fail- 
 ing to provide for its many occupants, each set 
 about early in life earning his own living. George 
 F. Craw has received practically no assistance 
 from any source since he started in to work in 
 a woolen mill at the age of twelve. His summers 
 were spent in the mill and his. winters were de- 
 voted to attending the public schools. At the 
 age of sixteen he began to clerk in a store in 
 East Hartford, and was thus employed when the 
 long-smouldering hostility between the north and 
 south culminated in the Civil war. August 7, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Twentieth Con- 
 necticut Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered 
 into service at New Haven, Conn. After par- 
 ticipating in the battles of Antietam, Chancellors- 
 ville, and some minor skirmishes, he was stricken 
 with sun-stroke at four o'clock in the afternoon 
 while on the march to Gettysburg in June, 1863, 
 and failed to recover consciousness until mid- 
 night of the same day. Opening his eyes in a 
 little Fairfax Station church, he realized that his 
 war experience was practically ended, although 
 after being sent to a hospital in Alexander he 
 was anxious to rejoin his regiment, being pre- 
 vented only by his commanding physician. Un- 
 able to stand the rays of the sun or exposure to 
 heat, he was relegated to hospital duty for the 
 . remainder of the war, and was mustered out July 
 23, 1865. . 
 
 Returning to Portland, Conn., Mr. Craw 
 clerked in a dry-goods store in the town, and at 
 the same time devoted his leisure to learning 
 telegraphy. His first telegraphic charge was 
 with the Connecticut River Valley Telegraph 
 Company, in the affairs of which he afterward 
 became prominent, being advanced to the posi- 
 tion of superintendent of construction. In 1869, 
 about three weeks after the completion of the 
 Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads, 
 he made his way to the coast on one of the new 
 lines, arriving in Portland, Ore., in August, 1869. 
 Going to Salem, he found employment in the 
 woolen mills for two weeks, and for the following 
 year was employed as a clerk in the book and 
 stationery store of J. K. Gill of Salem. For 
 six months he clerked in the grocery store of 
 
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 Logan Adams, of Salem, and in 1871 secured the 
 position as agent and operator under Ben Holli- 
 day, at the Portland car shops of the Oregon & 
 California Railroad. Six months later he was 
 transferred to Harrisburg, where the bridge was 
 being built, and remained there until the com- 
 pletion of the road to Eugene. At Jefferson he 
 was agent and operator for a period of two years, 
 and after a visit of three months to his old home 
 in Connecticut, was agent at Aurora for two 
 weeks. At Junction City he remained agent and 
 operator for seven years to a day, resigning his 
 position January 12, 1879, to come to Eugene as 
 agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company. 
 Six or seven years later, when the Postal Tele- 
 graph Company opened an office in Eugene, he 
 became its general manager, holding the com- 
 bined positions until 1893, when he resigned from 
 the express company, and devoted his entire time 
 to the telegraph company. For fifteen years he 
 was agent at this point for the Oregonian, re- 
 signing therefrom June 1, 1903, on account of 
 impaired health, and an excess of outside work. 
 For the past seven years he has been interested 
 in the sale of pianos and organs, managing this 
 line of business with the same business acumen 
 and success which has characterized all of his 
 undertakings. 
 
 In Portland, Conn., in 1867, Mr. Craw married 
 Emma Griswold, a native of that town, who died 
 in May, 1895, leaving two children. Of these, 
 Nellie,' the wife of E. E. Awbrey, of Irving, 
 Ore., has four children; and Mabel is the wife 
 of Elmer Roberts, of Eugene. In Portland, 
 Conn., Mr. Craw became identified with the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity, and in Salem ex-Governor Chad- 
 wick conferred upon him the Scottish Rite de- 
 grees. Pie is at present a member of Eugene 
 Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M. He is also con- 
 nected with the Oregon Consistory No. 1, of 
 Portland, and with the J. W. Geary Post No. 7, 
 G. A. R., being past commander. Mr. Craw is 
 not unmindful of the moral and social advantages 
 of church membership, as well as its great oppor- 
 tunities for well-doing. For many years he has 
 been an active worker in the Episcopal Church, 
 has served as junior warden, vestryman and 
 treasurer, maintaining at the present time the 
 first two offices. He is a man of broad and tol- 
 erant sympathies, of great generosity towards 
 public benefactions, and intense and vitalizing 
 zeal in promoting educational and general town 
 interests. His friends are many, and his business 
 standing and personal reputation such as any 
 man might do well to emulate. 
 
 LUTHER WHITE. Not the least among 
 the brave pioneers who left home and friends 
 and with their few belongings undertook the 
 
 long, perilous journey across the western 
 plains, were Luther White and his wife, who 
 in 1847, l e ft their home in Piatt county, Mo., 
 for new and untried fields. After the usual six- 
 months journey they dismounted and unpacked 
 their household goods, the first location being 
 upon a donation claim eight miles south of 
 Brownsville, Linn county, and comprising six 
 hundred and forty acres. For many years, until 
 1872, this continued to be the home center, but 
 at that time Mr. White retired from the active 
 duties of farm life and took up his abode in 
 Brownsville, and has found his time sufficiently 
 occupied in looking after his property. 
 
 In referring to the personal history of Luther 
 White we find that his birth occurred in Ohio, 
 near the shores of Lake Erie, January 20, 181 5. 
 His father, John White, a native of Connecticut, 
 had located in Ohio in an early day, but in 
 181 5, shortly after the birth of his son, moved 
 to Wabash county, 111., settling at what was 
 known in that day as Barney Fort, but is now 
 called Friendsville, about eight miles north of 
 Mount Carmel. The Indians in those days 
 were anything but friendly, and in order to pro- 
 tect themselves from their depredations the 
 settlers were compelled to unite their efforts in 
 the matter of safety, hence the founding of Bar- 
 ney Fort. As a soldier in the Revolutionary war 
 the father did his part in protecting and fight- 
 ing for the cause of the colonists. His death 
 occurred on his farm in Wabash county when 
 in his sixty-ninth year. His wife, who in her 
 maidenhood was Sarah Knapp, was born in 
 Massachusetts, and she, too, died on the home 
 farm in Illinois. 
 
 Of the seven children born to these worthy 
 pioneer parents Luther was next to the eldest. 
 His education had been sadly neglected, owing 
 to the fact that his help was necessary in the 
 management of the home farm, and his father's 
 death occurring when he was eighteen years old, 
 ended all thought of future education for the 
 time-being. For one year he worked at any 
 honorable employment that presented itself, and 
 finally it was his good fortune to meet a Mr. 
 Smith, who was engaged in surveying public 
 lands. Mr. White was an apt pupil, and it was 
 not long before he, too, could handle the com- 
 pass and line. Subsequently he went to Louisi- 
 ana with another surveying party, and for six 
 months was engaged in this southern state. The 
 lack of opportunity in his earlier days for gain- 
 ing an education was made up for in his later 
 life, and when he returned to Illinois he took a 
 position as teacher in the house in which he 
 had been reared, but which at that time had been 
 devoted to school purposes. In 1833 he re- 
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 he taught school, but in the meantime having 
 pared himself for the ministry, he accepted 
 [large as paster, having charge of a circuit 
 in Grundy county, for one year in the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church. 
 
 In [843 Mr. White resumed farming opera- 
 tions, and it was about this time that he was 
 in marriage with Miss .Martha Ann Mans- 
 a native of Kentucky. Her death oc- 
 irred in Brownsville, Ore., January 4, 1894, at 
 the age of seventy years. Eleven children were 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. White, but only two of 
 the number are living. In order of birth they 
 are as follows: Sarah Elizabeth, John H., Eliza 
 Eleanor, Silas H., Mary Adeline, Samuel 
 Thurston and Finis E., all of whom are de- 
 ceased; Rose B., who is at home with her father; 
 Martha and Marguerite, both deceased; and Rob- 
 in, who resides on the old donation claim taken 
 up by his parents in 1847, anc ' which was their 
 irst home in the west. As a public official Mr. 
 White served as a member of the state legis- 
 lature for one term in 1852, and at one time filled 
 the office of city recorder for two terms. In 
 school matters he takes a keen interest, and as 
 school director and clerk his services have been 
 of 'great value to the community. He makes his 
 church home in the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, and in political affairs gives his influ- 
 ence and vote to the candidates of the Prohibi- 
 tion party, whose platform he believes best cal- 
 culated for the ultimate highest good of the 
 nation. 
 
 JAMES HILTIBRAND. As an able and 
 successful farmer of Polk county, Ore., James 
 1 liltibrand has followed in the footsteps of his 
 father, who gave to the growth and upbuilding 
 of the statehood of Oregon the strength of his 
 manhood. The name has been well and worthily 
 known in the northwest since 1845, the father, 
 Paul Hiltibrand, coming at that early date to 
 make one of the many pioneers who made the 
 state. 
 
 Paul Hiltibrand was born in Ohio, June 7, 
 1822, the son of John, who was a native of 
 Germany, and had come to the United States 
 in 1798 with his father, Jacob, and settled in 
 Pennsylvania. While serving in the war of 1812 
 he was wounded in the wrist by a gunshot in 
 the battle of New Orleans. From his home in 
 Ohio he later removed to Kentucky, where he 
 spent the remainder of his life, dying November 
 7. 1S67, having lived a worthy and useful life 
 in the country of his adoption. When only six- 
 teen years of age Paul Hiltibrand left home and, 
 going to Missouri, he remained there until 1845, 
 when he joined an emigrant train, under the 
 command of Solomon Tetherow, and bound for 
 
 Oregon. The journey was made in seven 
 months and sixteen days, counting the time from 
 St. Joseph, Mo., to which city Mr. Hiltibrand 
 had gone from his farm in Clay county to join 
 the train, until their arrival in Polk county, 
 Ore. With an interval of but three weeks' in- 
 action Mr. Hiltibrand took up the land which 
 is now owned by his children, six hundred and 
 forty acres in all, and commenced the improve- 
 ments which were necessary to make the farm 
 what it is today. In time he added four hundred 
 and sixty-six acres to his original farm, and 
 then owned considerably over a thousand acres. 
 He engaged for many years in stock-raising and 
 general farming, and lived the remainder of 
 his life upon tnis claim. He died September 29, 
 1 895, in the home wherein he had spent so many 
 worthy and useful years. 
 
 In the trip across the plains was the begin- 
 ning of the romance which gave Mr. Hiltibrand 
 his wife, for Captain Tetherow had his family 
 with him, and his daughter, Evaline, was mar- 
 ried in 1846 to her fellow-traveler. For a 
 fuller account of the life of Captain Tetherow 
 refer to the sketch of James P. Tetherow, which 
 appears on another page of this work. The 
 children which blessed the union of Paul Hilti- 
 brand and Evaline Tetherow are as follows : Le- 
 vina, who became the wife of Charles Cottell ; 
 Elizabeth, now Mrs. Marshall Scafford ; James, 
 of this review ; and John W., of Suver. As 
 members of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church of Luckiamute, Mr. and Mrs. Hiltibrand 
 added much to the moral life of the community, 
 giving freely of time and means in the growth of 
 the church. For many years Mr. Hiltibrand was 
 elder and clerk in this church and his death 
 was a loss felt by many. Fraternally he be- 
 longed to the Grange. 
 
 James Hiltibrand was born in Polk county, 
 Ore., November 12, 1850, being reared on the 
 paternal farm, and alternating his home duties 
 with an attendance at the district school in the 
 vicinity of his home. When eighteen years old 
 he left school and went to work on a neighbor- 
 ing farm, and at twenty-one he began farming 
 for himself, and has since continued in this 
 occupation with entire credit for the judgment 
 and energy which controls his actions. He now 
 owns two hundred and eleven acres of land, a 
 part of the original claim taken up by his father, 
 and upon which he has put all the improve- 
 ments, consisting of a house, well situated on a 
 hillside, barn and other outbuildings, making a 
 comfortable home. He carries on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, being principally interested 
 in goats and sheep. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Hiltibrand married Lavina J. 
 Fuqua, who was born in Jackson county, Mo., 
 July 30, 1850. Her father, Richard J. Fuqua, 
 
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 crossed the plains in 1864, and died at Parker's 
 Station in 1882, the farm in Polk county being 
 now occupied by the son, William Fuqua. The 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hiltibrand are 
 four in number, of whom John B. is in Inde- 
 pendence, Ore. ; Pauline is the wife of Frank 
 Skinner, a drayman, of Independence ; Ernest 
 E. and Clarence G. make their home with their 
 parents. Like his father in politics, Mr. Hilti- 
 brand is a stanch Democrat, and through his in- 
 fluence has served as road supervisor and school 
 director, holding the latter position for five 
 years. Fraternally he is a member of the Grange 
 of Suver and Modern Woodmen of America. 
 
 ADELBERT YERGEN. On his father's 
 farm, three miles east of Butteville, Marion 
 county, Adelbert Yergen was born November 
 28, 1854, and, as his name indicates, is of Ger- 
 man ancestry. His father, Augustus Yergen, 
 was born in Meilheim, Germany, November 28, 
 183 1, and at ten years of age came across the 
 ocean in a sailing vessel, many weeks being spent 
 upon the deep. With his parents he located in 
 Belleville, 111. At the time his father was very 
 poor, having barely enough to bring his family 
 to the United States. Nevertheless, the fertile 
 soil and desirable conditions of Illinois enabled 
 the elder Yergen to prosper in a modest way, 
 and make a comfortable home in a fertile and 
 resourceful state. However, he was doomed to 
 meet with misfortune, for his wife died a few 
 years after crossing the ocean,, and he was left 
 comparatively alone in the world. Augustus 
 Yergen was married, March 28, 1852, to Eliza- 
 beth Griffin, and a few clays later crossed the 
 plains with ox-teams, taking six months to ac- 
 complish the journey. For two years Mr. Yer- 
 gen lived in Washougal, Wash., and then came 
 to Marion county, Ore., where he purchased a 
 farm of one hundred and sixty acres three miles 
 from Aurora. Here he prospered and reared 
 his children, and here his death occurred May 
 24, 1902. Of his six children, Adelbert was the 
 oldest, and next is George, who is living on the 
 home place; Mary E., the wife of J. V. Swan, of 
 Portland, Ore. ; Frank, living on a farm near 
 Aurora ; Frederick, also near Aurora ; and 
 Henry, working the home place. The wife is 
 still living on the old homestead, and though in 
 her seventy-first year, still retains her interest in 
 the farm and the doings of her children. 
 
 The education of Adelbert Yergen was ac- 
 quired in the country schools and in those of 
 Portland. His youth was uneventful, as is that 
 of the average farm-reared boy. November 9, 
 1880, he was united in marriage with Ida J. 
 Carter, who was born in Yamhill county, »a 
 daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Lee) Carter, 
 
 the latter of whom was a daughter of James 
 Lee, who crossed the plains in 1852. Mr. Lee 
 came from Springfield, 111., and after a six- 
 months trip located on a farm of three hundred 
 and twenty acres near Gaston, Yamhill county, 
 upon which his son now lives. Benjamin Carter 
 was born February 22, 1826, in Hagerstown, 
 Md., in a house located exactly on the boundary 
 line between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and 
 from the Keystone state enlisted in the Mexican 
 war, serving for two years. He then went to 
 Iowa, whither his family had in the meantime 
 removed, and where he lived until 1852. He 
 crossed the plains in that year with ox-teams 
 and the usual outfit, locating near Hillsboro, 
 Ore., where he worked at his trade of millwright. 
 He was a practical mill builder and operator, 
 and during his life in the west erected many 
 mills in different parts of Oregon. After his mar- 
 riage with Jane Lee, September 1, 1863, he 
 bought what is known as Graham's Ferry across 
 the Willamette, and operated it continuously 
 until the year before his death, May 26, 1882. 
 He was survived by his wife until July 21, 
 1886, and of his two children Mrs. Yergen is 
 the oldest, Irvin Lee being a resident of Ta- 
 coma, Wash. It is a noteworthy fact that Mrs. 
 Yergen's parents and Mr. Yergen's father are 
 buried in the Butteville cemetery, which will 
 be the last resting place of all four parents. 
 
 Soon after his marriage Mr. Yergen came to 
 Butteville and engaged in the butcher business 
 for three years. He then went to Portland, and 
 for another three years had a very large dairy- 
 ing business. At times he milked sixty-five 
 cows, and supplied a large trade in the city and 
 suburbs. Returning to Butteville, he engaged 
 in the butcher business for six years, and has 
 since turned his attention to hop-growing on a 
 farm two miles south of Aurora. He has 
 twenty-six acres under this paying commodity, 
 and is contemplating an extension of his present 
 output. He has a pleasant rural home, and has 
 two children, Leonard G. and Martin D. He 
 is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the 
 Maccabees, while his family is represented in 
 the Congregational Church by his wife and sons. 
 His interest in educational matters is shown by 
 the fact that he served for nine years continu- 
 ously as school director in his district. 
 
 KERSEY C. ELDRIDGE. The creamery 
 business, as understood and operated by Kersey 
 C. Eldridge, of Independence, constitutes one 
 of the most profitable sources of income in this 
 part of the county. An expert in his line, Mr. 
 Eldridge invests his enterprise with the vim 
 and progressiveness of a genuine enthusiast, 
 with the result that his commodities are sought 
 
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 in all marketable centers along the coast, and 
 haw a reputation for excellence unexcelled. He 
 came to Oregon in 1897, and, having success- 
 t"ull\ started and maintained a creamery plant 
 in Xcwberg, came to Independence in 1899, his 
 efforts here being attended with equal good 
 fortune. To such an extent has the business 
 increased that he has established a plant at Jef- 
 ferson. Marion county, in connection with the 
 one at Independence. He has a capacity of 
 twenty-five thousand gallons of milk per day, 
 and makes one thousand pounds of butter a day. 
 Hie most modern machinery known to dairymen 
 has been introduced in his plants, and he is con- 
 templating even more extensive operations in 
 the near future. 
 
 A native of Lawrence, Kans., Mr. Eldridge 
 was born March 4, 1863, and in his youth had 
 the advantages of the public schools of Law- 
 rence and New York city. His father, Edwin 
 S. Eldridge, is a mining expert, and a constant 
 traveler from one mining section to another, 
 visiting from time to time such mining centers 
 - Colorado, California and Mexico. He was 
 born in Pittsfield, Mass., January 18, 1831, and 
 located in Kansas City, Mo., about 1856. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he lived in Lawrence, Kans., 
 and in 1879 took his family to New York City. 
 Eventually, however, he returned to Kansas 
 City, which has since been his headquarters, 
 and the center of his extensive mining opera- 
 tions. He is a well-known mining promoter, 
 and his opinion is sought by those who desire 
 > invest in this most precarious of ventures. 
 His wife, formerly Augusta Spicer, was born in 
 Yates county, N. Y., and died in Lawrence, 
 Kans.. in 1867, leaving a son and daughter, of 
 whom Kersey C. is the youngest. 
 
 Previous to coming to Oregon Mr. Eldridge en- 
 gaged, in 1880, in the dry goods business with J. 
 H. Diggles,of New York, and in 1883 he returned 
 Lawrence, Kans., and traveled with his father 
 in his mining business. In 1886 he was employed 
 as traveling salesman by a large grocery firm, 
 and in this capacity visited principally New 
 Mexico. In 1891 he went to Utah, near Ogden, 
 and engaged in the creamery business, and being 
 successful he determined to try his fortune in 
 Oregon. That this decision was a wise and 
 far-sighted one has been repeatedly demon- 
 strated, and unquestionably Mr. Eldridge con- 
 ratulates himself upon his happy choice of a 
 location, having established the creamery at 
 Xewberg in 1897, Independence in 1899, and at 
 Jefferson in March, 1903. 
 
 He was married in Placerville, Cal., to Ruth 
 A. King, daughter of Charles King, who was 
 born in Vermont, and came to California in 
 1848-9. Four sons have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Eldridge: Neville, Kersey C, Jr.; Shalor 
 
 and Lawrence. Mr. Eldridge is by no means 
 confined to the limits of his business, but has 
 a public-spiritedness which concerns itself with 
 social and other business interests of the town. 
 He is fraternally connected with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the 
 World, and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, in all of which lodges he is a welcome vis- 
 itor. Politically he is arrayed on the side of 
 Republicanism, although he has never sought or 
 accepted official positions. He is a man of 
 shrewd business ability and unquestioned integ- 
 rity. At the present time Mr. Eldridge is 
 erecting a plant at Portland for manufacture 
 of butter and ice cream. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARD FINZER. Imong 
 the many claims to distinction which make Adju- 
 tant General Finzer, of Woodburn, one of the 
 most popular and highly appreciated men of the 
 state is a military career of a particularly stir- 
 ring nature, excellent business ability, and com- 
 mendable service as an executive. He was born 
 in Shanesville, Ohio, September 25, 1867, and 
 comes of ancestors long connected with the Re- 
 public of Switzerland. His paternal grandfather, 
 Benjamin, was born in Berne, Switzerland, and 
 in hi^ native land was a farmer and stock-raiser, 
 an occupation which he continued after locating 
 in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on a farm of one 
 hundred and sixty acres. He was one of the 
 early settlers of that region, arriving in 1845, and 
 he lived to the advanced age of eighty-nine years. 
 His son, Benjamin, the father of W. E. Finzer, 
 came with him from Berne, where he was born 
 May 5, 1835, and in his youth was apprenticed 
 to learn the carpenter's trade in Shanesville. He 
 came to Oregon in 1888 and located near Hub- 
 bard, where he worked at his trade, made money, 
 and advantageously invested in town property. 
 He died in April, 1889. A Democrat in politics, 
 he became prominent in the local affairs of his 
 party, and served the community as constable 
 and road supervisor, while in Ohio. He married 
 Elizabeth Hostetter, a native of Ohio, who was 
 born April 7, 1847, an d died in February, 1890. 
 Her father, Isaac, came from Pennsylvania and 
 spent the rest of his life in Ohio, owning over a 
 thousand acres, which was considered a very 
 large farm. 
 
 The oldest of the five sons and four daughters 
 born to his parents, General Finzer was educated 
 in the public schools. In Shanesville and New 
 Philadelphia he clerked in mercantile establish- 
 ments. He came to Oregon in 1889, and in 1891 
 engaged in the grocery business in Woodburn. 
 That he had considerable enterprise and ability 
 is evidenced by the fact that at the end of three 
 vears he owned the business and continued it in- 
 dependently . until 1897. In 1891 he was ap- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 pointed postmaster of the city, and filled the obli- 
 gations of this office in connection with his suc- 
 cessful store. The dry-goods business, in which 
 he is now engaged, was started in 1897, and the 
 following year he responded to the call for 
 soldiers to participate in the Spanish-American 
 war. As first lieutenant in Company M, Second 
 Oregon Regiment, he served for one and a half 
 years, and during that time he took part in the 
 battles of Malabon, Polo, Marilao, Tay-Tay, Mo- 
 rong and others of equal interest. He was hon- 
 orably discharged from service in San Fran- 
 cisco, in August, 1899. During his absence in 
 the Philippines, General Finzer made a practical 
 study of the people and conditions, and his de- 
 scriptions and observations have proved of vital 
 interest to the friends and associates who re- 
 mained behind. He has been further connected 
 with military affairs as captain of Company D, 
 Fourth Regiment, O. N. G, and his experience 
 on the field is apparent in the high state of 
 efficiency to which he has brought the company. 
 The appointment of Captain Finzer to his present 
 position, that of adjutant general of the state of 
 Oregon, is of recent occurrence, he having taken 
 charge of the office September 1, 1903, in the 
 discharge of the duties bringing to bear the attri- 
 butes of the typical soldier, an endowment of 
 courage, resourcefulness and coolness. His 
 adopted town is justly proud of his soldierly bear- 
 ing and gallant service. 
 
 After returning from the Philippines General 
 Finzer engaged in the dry-goods business with 
 E. A. Austin, and at present has a well equipped 
 establishment which caters to a flourishing trade, 
 by far the largest in the community. Before leav- 
 ing for the war, General Finzer was elected 
 mayor of Woodburn, but resigned to go to the 
 front. He has served as school clerk and city 
 treasurer, and in all his political associations has 
 proven himself broad-minded, enterprising and 
 thoroughly in accord with municipal well-being. 
 
 In Portland, Ore., in 1892, General Finzer 
 was united in marriage with Louise Roberts, who 
 was born in Canada, January 7, 1872, and whose 
 father, Robert Roberts, was also born there and 
 came to the United States in 1887. Mr. Robert? 
 located in Butteville, Ore., and engaged in farm- 
 ing, and his death occurred on the day that Pres- 
 ident McKinley was shot, at the age of seventy 
 years. William Marvin Finzer, who was born 
 July 23, 1900, is the only child of the general 
 and his wife, and is a bright and interesting lad. 
 General Finzer is well known fraternally, being 
 a member of Woodburn Lodge No. 106, A. F. & 
 A. M. ; Woodburn Lodge, R. A. M. ; Hermes 
 Lodge No. 56, K. P., of Aurora; Woodburn 
 Lodge No. 37, A. O. U. W., and French Prairie 
 Camp No. 47, W. O. W., in the three orders last 
 named having passed ah the chairs.' 
 
 MARSHALL SCRAFFORD. As a prom- 
 inent and successful agriculturist of Suver, and 
 as a pioneer, and the son of a pioneer of Polk 
 county, Marshall Scrafford is well worthy of 
 representation in this biographical volume. He 
 was born in Delavan, Walworth county, Wis., 
 June 5, 1845, a son °f John J. Scrafford, com- 
 ing of German ancestry. His paternal grand- 
 father, Adam Scrafford, was born in Schoharie 
 county, N. Y., and there spent the greater part 
 of his life. 
 
 Born on the ancestral homestead, in Scho- 
 harie county, N. Y., August 3, 1817, John J. 
 Scrafford lived there until after his marriage, 
 and then, in 1843, emigrated with his family to 
 Wisconsin. Locating in Walworth county, he 
 took up land near Delavan, and was there en- 
 gaged in general farming for many years. Re- 
 moving to Cedar county, Iowa, in 1861, he there 
 continued his independent occupation for about 
 five years, when he again followed the tide of 
 emigration westward. Joining Captain Bean's 
 company, he crossed the plains with horse-teams, 
 there being thirty armed men in the train. Ar- 
 riving in Benton county, Ore., in the fall of 
 i860, he purchased one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land on Soap creek, and there improved 
 a farm, on which he resided until after the death 
 of his wife. Removing then to Corvallis, he 
 still makes his home in that city. He married, 
 in New York state, Martha Richardson, who 
 was born in Schoharie county, February 22, 
 1819, and died, in Benton county, Ore., Jan- 
 uary 2, 1873. Her father, James Richardson, 
 a farmer by occupation, was born in the Empire 
 state, of Irish ancestry. He was a private in the 
 war of 1812, and took part in the engagement 
 at Sackett's Harbor. Seven children were born of 
 the union of John J. and Martha (Richardson) 
 Scrafford, four of whom are living, namely: 
 James B., of Walla Walla, Wash.; Marshall, 
 the subject of this sketch; Mary, wife of Ira A. 
 Miller, of Newport, Ore.; and E. A., wife of 
 J. K. Morrison, of Monmouth, Ore. 
 
 Obtaining his first knowledge of books in the 
 district schools of his native state, Marshall 
 Scrafford subsequently attended a public school 
 in Iowa, and for seven months was a student at 
 Cornell College, in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Leav- 
 ing that institution, he enlisted, December 30, 
 1863, in Company D, Twenty-second Wisconsin 
 Infantry, in the same company to which his 
 brother, James B. Scrafford, belonged, being a 
 sergeant. Joining his regiment at Murfrees- 
 boro, Tenn., he spent the winter in camp at 
 Nashville, and in the spring of 1864 joined 
 Sherman in his memorable march to the sea. 
 Arriving in Savannah, Ga., he started with his 
 comrades through the Carolinas in pursuit of 
 General Johnston, whom they captured at 
 
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 Raleigh, X. C. Being mustered out of service. 
 i Louisville, Ky.. July 8. 1865, with the rank of 
 corporal, Mr. Scrafford proceeded with his regi- 
 ment to Madison. Wis., and a short time later 
 returned to the home of his parents. Entering 
 the academy at Tipton, Iowa, he continued his 
 
 iies there until the spring of 1866, when 
 he came with his parents to Oregon. While on 
 the way the company to which he belonged was 
 frequently troubled by men who attempted to 
 
 1 their horses and cattle, and on one occa- 
 sion Mr. Scrafford distinguished himself by 
 shooting one of three horse thieves that were 
 disguised as Indians. 
 
 Arriving in Benton county, Mr. Scrafford 
 spent the first winter there, in 1867 locating in 
 Polk county, where he taught school in Dis- 
 trict Twenty-eight, for a term of five months. 
 He subsequently taught three months in Ben- 
 ton county, then returned to Polk county, and 
 the following year married, and set up house- 
 keeping on a farm near the Luckiamute, where 
 he resided two years. The following year he 
 spent in eastern Oregon. Afterwards buying 
 one hundred acres of land near Buena Vista, 
 Polk county, he carried on general farming until 
 1881. when he was completely washed out by the 
 overflowing of the Willamette. The next eleven 
 wars he was employed in farming on the Luck- 
 iamute. and then assumed possession of his pres- 
 ent fine ranch, which contains two hundred and 
 ten acres of land, one hundred and twenty- 
 eight acres of it being adapted to the raising of 
 grain and fruits, while the remainder is used 
 for grazing purposes. He carries on general 
 farming, devoting eleven acres of his land to 
 hops, and in his various undertakings is meet- 
 ing with well merited success. 
 
 In 1868, on the farm which he now occupies, 
 Mr. Scrafford married Elizabeth Hiltibrand, 
 who was born in Polk county, Ore., October 11, 
 1848. Her father, Paul Hiltibrand, born near 
 Maysville, Ky., crossed the plains in 1845, an d 
 located on the present homestead of Mr. Scraf- 
 ford, and was here engaged in agricultural pur- 
 tit- until his death, in 1896. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Scrafford have one child. Kirk Scrafford, who 
 was horn April 30, 1878, and is now living with 
 his parents, assisting in the management of the 
 ranch. Politically Mr. Scrafford is a strong 
 Republican, and has never shirked the responsi- 
 hili'.ies of public office. He has served as road 
 supervisor, and for twenty-eight years served 
 as school clerk. In 1898 lie was elected repre- 
 sentative to the state legislature. The court 
 house being burned at that time, and all of the 
 ballots destroyed, his election could not be con- 
 tested, and the legislature decided that his elec- 
 
 tion was legal. Fraternally Mr. Scrafford is a 
 member and a trustee of Gibson Post, No. 64, 
 G. A. R., of Independence. 
 
 MARSHALL N. SUVER. The youngest 
 of the family of children in the home of Joseph 
 W. Suver was Marshall N. Suver, who is now 
 a prominent farmer in Polk county, Ore., in the 
 neighborhood of the town of Suver, which was 
 named in honor of the father, who was a pioneer 
 of 1844. In the effort to establish for himself 
 a position of comparative financial importance 
 the elder Mr. Suver traversed the entire con- 
 tinent, from Virginia, where he was born, April 
 14, 1814, to the Pacific slope, and from the time 
 of his emigration to his death, August 26, 1890, 
 he was one of the notably successful men in this 
 part of the state. 
 
 On his arrival in Oregon Joseph W. Suver 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres located in Polk county, and after two 
 trips made to California he settled down on this 
 farm, having married, in 1850, Delilah Pyburn, 
 a native of Missouri, and the daughter of Amos 
 Pyburn, who brought his family across the plains 
 in the same train with Mr. Suver. Mr. Pyburn 
 located on Soap creek, near the claim selected 
 by. Mr. Suver. For about fifty-six years Mr. 
 Suver made this claim his home, engaging in 
 general farming and stock-raising, until his 
 death. The mother also died on the home place, 
 the date of her death being March, i860. For 
 a complete account of the lives of these pioneers 
 refer to the sketch of Green B. Suver, appear- 
 ing on another page of this work. 
 
 Marshall N. Suver was born five miles south 
 of Monmouth, Polk county, Ore., April 1, 1858, 
 and was reared upon his father's farm. His 
 education was received in the common school 
 in the vicinity of his home, though his attend- 
 ance was more or less limited on account of the 
 various obstacles which impeded the acquisi- 
 tion of knowledge in the early days. At sixteen 
 he le.ft school, but, more fortunate than many, he 
 was well informed through instruction given by 
 his . father, outside of school sessions. He at 
 once began work upon his father's farm, with 
 whom he remained until the land was divided, 
 about one thousand acres being given to the 
 heirs at the death of the old pioneer. Mr. 
 Suver now has four hundred acres, two hundred 
 and fifty of which is tillable, and upon this he is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Suver occurred June, 
 1884, and united him with Hettie Patterson, the 
 daughter of John H. Patterson, who crossed 
 the plains in an early clay, and now makes his 
 home in Jefferson, Marion county. Two chil- 
 dren were born of the union, Fred and Nora, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 both of whom are at home. Politically Mr. 
 Suver follows the convictions of his father, and 
 adheres to the principles of the Democratic 
 party, and through this influence has served as 
 school director for a number of vears. 
 
 WILLIAM H. MURPHEY. One of the 
 many worthy citizens and capable and indus- 
 trious agriculturists of Polk county is William 
 H. Murphey, who is engaged in his independent 
 vocation on one of the finest and most desirable 
 homesteads near the town of Buena Vista. A 
 native of Oregon, he was born May 13, 1855, 
 in Marion county, a son of William Murphey. 
 His grandfather, Charles Murphey, was born, 
 of Irish ancestors, in Salem county, N. J., and 
 there spent his entire life, dying in 1824, on his 
 farm. His wife, whose maiden name was Mar- 
 garet McCasson, was a life-long resident of 
 Salem county, N. J., her birth occurring Decem- 
 ber 1, 1779, and her death in 1835. She bore 
 her husband five children, four sons and one 
 daughter, and of these one child only, William, 
 is living. 
 
 Born in Salem county, N. J., June 28, 1818, 
 William Murphey was left fatherless when six 
 years of age. When a boy of twelve years he 
 went with his widowed mother and her family 
 to Wilmington, Del., where all of the children 
 began working in the factories. Three years 
 later the entire family removed to Philadelphia, 
 and the boys sought employment as they could 
 find it in order to help support their mother 
 and sister, William Murphey securing work in 
 a brickyard. Returning to New Jersey in 1832, 
 the boys found employment as farm laborers, 
 and the family remained together until the death 
 of the mother, in 1835, but after that event the 
 cnildren became separated. Going to Ohio in 
 1838 William Murphey worked in various sec- 
 tions of the state, including Warren and Green 
 counties. Migrating from there to Illinois, he 
 located near Quincy, where he rented land for a 
 few years, and when the Black Hawk purchase 
 was thrown open, went there. Going thence to 
 Eddyville, Iowa, he remained there engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1847. 
 Starting then for Oregon, he bought an outfit, 
 crossed the river at St. Joseph, Mo., and after 
 a long and wearisome journey of six months 
 arrived in Marion county, Ore., September 20, 
 1847. Locating in Lane county, he remained 
 there until 1849, when he joined the gold-seek- 
 ers in California, where he was successfully 
 engaged in mining on the American river for 
 about six months. Returning to Oregon in the 
 fall of 1849, he purchased a claim on Howell's 
 Prairie, Marion county, and in the spring again 
 took up mining in California, remaining in. 
 
 Trinity county until the next fall. Then assum- 
 ing possession of his farm of three hundred 
 and twenty acres, situated in Howell, about 
 seven miles from Salem, he afterwards devoted 
 his entire time and attention to the care of his 
 homestead property, developing and improving 
 a valuable and productive ranch. 
 
 In 1852 William Murphey married Elvira 
 Ann Griffith, who was born in Pike county, 
 Mo., February 27, 1829, and died July 9, 1869, 
 in Marion county, Ore., leaving five children: 
 W. H., Margaret Ann, Charles, Walter W., and 
 Edward Grant. Her father, John W. Griffith, 
 came to Oregon from Missouri in 1852, and 
 bought a claim near Buena Vista, where he 
 spent the remainder of his life. In 1880 Mr. 
 Murphey married for his second wife Mrs. 
 Jane (Nelson) Ward. She bore him one child, 
 Mary Murphey. 
 
 One of a family of five children, four boys 
 and one girl, William H. Murphey grew to 
 man's estate beneath the parental roof-tree, 
 receiving his education in the pioneer school- 
 house on Howell Prairie. Becoming familiar 
 with the various branches of agriculture under 
 the wise instruction of his father, he chose 
 farming as his life occupation, after his mar- 
 riage settling on a ranch in the Silverton hills. 
 Subsequently purchasing land near the old home 
 farm, in Howell, he resided there until 1883, 
 when, in March, he disposed of that property, 
 and bought his present farm near Buena Vista. 
 His ranch contains two hundred acres, mostly 
 farming land, which he cultivates with most 
 satisfactory results, in addition to general farm- 
 ing raising a good deal of stock. 
 
 On January 14, 1879, Mr. Murphey married, 
 on Howell Prairie, Elmira Kays, who was 
 born in that place, October 29, 1859. Her 
 father, James Kays, born in Illinois, October 30, 
 1832, came to Oregon in 1852, and settled first 
 in Howell Prairie, but is now living in Oregon 
 City. He married Sarah Headrick, who was 
 born in Pike county, Mo., May 29, 1840, and 
 died in Oregon, January 17, 1889. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Murphey have one child, William Lester 
 Murphey. Mr. Murphey is a Republican in 
 politics, and fraternally is a member of Homer 
 Lodge No. 5, K. of P., of Independence, and of 
 the Buena Vista Lodge, W. O. W., in which 
 he has passed all the chairs. 
 
 JOHNSON E. RICHTER. Not always is 
 it years that make the man, nor yet years that 
 make the opportunity. Some very young men 
 have attained a splendid manhood, becoming a 
 power in their community, lending the strength 
 of their character and the command of their 
 intellect for the upbuilding of that part of the 
 
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 world with which they are in touch. To such 
 men. old or young- — if old, a product of the 
 times that laid the foundation of a country; if 
 young, their age making them hut the begin- 
 ning of a bulwark of defense and honor for a 
 country where men are counted man by man, 
 rather than in the masses — the western lands 
 now owe the debt that the east once owed its 
 pioneers, and which the latter is paying by 
 ssing on some of her brightest lights and 
 noblest blood to transmit their virtues through 
 orations to come to the development of the 
 northwest. 
 Comparatively early in the history of our 
 stern states, among the emigrants from Eu- 
 ropean shores, came the grandfather of J. E. 
 Richter. John Christian Richter, born in Dres- 
 den. Germany, who took up his home near 
 Staunton, Ya., where he remained for some 
 time, working at the trade learned in the 
 Fatherland, that of a millwright and miller. 
 In the Virginia home his son, Christian Rich- 
 ter. was born in 1826, and in 1836 the family 
 emigrated to Carroll county, Ind., where the 
 elder man continued in the prosecution of his 
 trade, training his son in a similar one, that of 
 a carpenter and builder. In 1871 Christian 
 Richter brought his young family across the 
 continent, which, though not the perilous jour- 
 ney that it had once been, still meant the sep- 
 aration from friends and kindred associations, 
 the breaking of ties formed in the happy years 
 spent in the pastoral scenes of the well tilled 
 middle west, to a country comparatively new, 
 with hills to traverse and forests to thread be- 
 fore their eyes could be gladdened by the sight 
 of the broad lands glowing with the harvest 
 yields. After eight years spent in residence 
 near Perrydale, Ore., where Mr. Richter en- 
 gaged in farming, the family removed to Yam- 
 hill county, purchasing a farm near Sheridan, 
 where he remained up to the time of his death, 
 which occurred in October of the year 1891, 
 having been a resident of Oregon for twenty 
 years. The wife who shared this western home 
 was. in maidenhood, Catherine Earnist. born 
 in Indiana, the daughter of Johnson Earnist, 
 the latter a native of Ohio, born near Cincin- 
 nati. He was a tanner by trade, and ran a tan- 
 nery in Carroll county, Ind. The three chil- 
 dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Richter were : Au- 
 gusta, who died in Yamhill county in 1887; 
 Ella, now the wife of Dan P. Stauffer, of Dal- 
 las, and Johnson E. 
 
 J. E. Richter was born near Camden, Carroll 
 county, Ind., February 17, 1864, and was seven 
 years old at the time of the removal of the fam- 
 ily to Oregon. He attended the public schools 
 in the vicinity of his home during the winter 
 season, the summers being spent on his father's 
 
 farm. When he attained manhood he con- 
 tinued with his parents, working the home 
 farm, and after the death of his father, assum- 
 ing entire control, managing affairs with an 
 efficiency inherited from his German ancestry. 
 He now owns one hundred and thirty acres of 
 land adjoining Sheridan, which is rented at 
 present, while he makes his home in Dallas, t"> 
 which he removed in 1897. In 1900 he built 
 the comfortable residence now occupied by 
 himself and mother. Mr. Richter is quite a 
 prominent man in his fraternal associations, 
 having been a member of Sheridan Lodge No. 
 87, I. O. O. F., since 1887, of which he is past 
 noble grand. He is also a member of Rebekah 
 Lodge at Dallas^ and in his political affiliations 
 supports the Democratic party. 
 
 GREEN B. SUVER. The name which ap- 
 pears at the beginning of this sketch is well 
 known in Polk county, Ore., being that of one 
 of the earliest settlers of Oregon, and the first 
 man to hold a donation claim on the banks of 
 the Luckiamute. Of the land that came into 
 the possession of Joseph W. Suver, father of 
 Green B. Suver, have been made several fine 
 farms, adding greatly to the commercial value 
 of property in the neighborhood, and to the 
 prestige of the pioneer who hewed his path- 
 way through the forest and first upturned the 
 soil. 
 
 Joseph W. Suver was born in Virginia, April 
 14, 1814, the son of John Suver, who was a near 
 descendant of a French ancestor, and whose wife 
 was of German descent. From his farming in- 
 terests in Pennsylvania, where he was born, 
 John Silver removed to Virginia, and when 
 Joseph W. was a young lad the family settled 
 in Ohio, where his father died in 1844. In 1830 
 Joseph W. Suver left Ohio and passed the next 
 few years in the state of Illinois, Iowa and 
 Missouri. When only a boy he herded cattle 
 on the plains of Illinois and other states, and 
 afterward bought and sold cattle. In 1844 he 
 decided to take the western trip, since that 
 promised more for him than farming in the 
 middle west could ever do. On arriving in 
 Oregon Mr. Suver left the train and coming 
 on to Luckiamute he settled upon the claim 
 which is now in the possession of his heirs, 
 trading for the same a pair of blankets which 
 secured the land from the Indian owner. With 
 his ox-team and a few head of cattle, which he 
 had brought safely through the six months' 
 journey across the plains, Mr. Suver equipped 
 his farm in the fall of 1849, having left the 
 other emigrants on Tualatin plains. Before de- 
 ciding to remain in Oregon, however, he had 
 made a trip to California, going overland, where 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he engaged in mining, and meeting with success 
 he returned to Oregon in the fall of the same 
 year, 1847, an & m ^4^ to0 ^ back wlt ^ *" m a 
 large party. On account of sickness he did 
 not then engage in mining and in the fall he 
 returned to Oregon and settled upon his farm 
 of six hundred and forty acres. Here he con- 
 tinued to live for many years, being principally 
 occupied in stock-raising, taking cattle into 
 Idaho, Montana and the eastern states, and 
 meeting with success in every line. He married 
 in 1850 Delilah Pyburn, a native of Missouri, 
 daughter of Amos Pyburn, who crossed the 
 plains in 1847. Delilah Pyburn was born in 
 1837, and she died in February, i860, on the 
 home place. They had five children, four of 
 whom are now living, and in order of birth are 
 as follows: Caroline, the wife of William M. 
 Fuqua, of Parker; Lena, the wife of John T. 
 James, located near Suver ; Green B., of this re- 
 view ; and Marshall N. Politically, Mr. Suver 
 has been a Democrat all his life. At the time 
 of his death, August 26, 1890, he was making 
 his home with Green B. Suver, having suffered 
 a stroke of paralysis, and had been tenderly 
 cared for for ten years by his son's family. 
 
 The birth of Green B. Suver occurred in 
 Polk county, Ore., five miles south of Mon- 
 mouth, September 1, 1856, and he received his 
 education in the common schools in the vicinity 
 of his home, though his time of attendance was 
 exceedingly limited, being in all about six 
 months. When he left school he engaged with 
 his father on the farm, and has ever since been 
 interested in farming and stock-raising. He 
 now has six hundred and thirteen acres of land, 
 all a part of the original claim taken in '49, and 
 the greater number of acres is devoted to gen- 
 eral farming, being tillable land. 
 
 Mr. Suver was married March 16, 1898, to 
 Grace Pyburn, a daughter of Edward Pyburn, 
 who crossed the plains in 1853, and now lives 
 in Benton county, near Rand's station. They 
 have one child, whose name is Joseph W., in 
 affectionate remembrance of the sturdy old 
 pioneer, who once lived here. In his political 
 convictions Mr. Suver prefers to remain inde- 
 pendent, casting his vote regardless of party 
 restrictions. Before the station of Suver was 
 built the elder Mr. Suver bought the section of 
 land owned by George Pyburn, and when the 
 railroad was put through in December, 1879, 
 the place was named in honor of the owner, and 
 quite a little town has grown up on the site. 
 
 would be incomplete without due mention of 
 John O. Fry, who was born on the farm of his 
 pioneer father, Olney Fry, November 2, 1859. 
 In his youth Mr. Fry worked hard on the home 
 farm, but at the same time was not unmindful 
 of the many advantages of a good education, 
 which he earnestly strove to acquire at the 
 ptiblic schools. Later he attended Albany Col- 
 lege for a year, and the impetus thus given has 
 remained with him unceasingly and inspired 
 him to further research along general lines. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one Mr. Fry left home 
 and engaged in farming on his own responsi- 
 bility, achieving considerable success by virtue 
 of well-directed industry and good manage- 
 ment. March 9, 1897, he married Gertrude 
 Holloway, and to their family has been added 
 a daughter, Zelma M. In 1902 Mr. Fry came 
 to his present farm, which comprises one hun- 
 dred and ninety acres, devoted to general farm- 
 ing, cattle and sheep-raising and dairying. In 
 addition to the home farm he has one hundred 
 and ninety-six acres, well improved, located a 
 short distance from the home place, besides 
 eighty-seven acres of the old homestead, which 
 was given him by his father about one year 
 ago. He has progressive and practical ideas of 
 farming, and a thorough knowledge of stock. 
 Since casting his first presidential vote for a 
 Democratic candidate he has adhered to the 
 principles of Democracy, although, in local 
 matters, he believes that character and ability, 
 rather than party, should count. He is frater- 
 nally connected with the Grange No. 10, of 
 Grand Prairie, in which organization he is 
 popular and well liked. 
 
 JOHN O. FRY. An enumeration of the 
 native sons of Linn county, who are profiting 
 by the worthy example of their sires, and main- 
 taining an excellent agricultural standard, 
 
 JOHN D. PARSONS. Five miles east of 
 Albany is to be seen one of the finest and best- 
 managed farms of Linn county, and here, in 
 addition to carrying on general farming and 
 dairying, Mr. Parsons conducts an orchard of 
 three thousand trees, divided among prunes, 
 apples and pears. An air of thrift pervades the 
 place, and it is an easy matter to discern the 
 owner to be a man of intelligence, and one who 
 thoroughly understands the work which he has 
 in hand. 
 
 A native of England, Mr. Parsons was born 
 in Devonshire, June 24, 1840, and, until eight- 
 een years of age, lived under English skies. It 
 was at the latter age that he severed home ties 
 and boarded a vessel which, in due season, 
 landed him in Ontario, Canada. For a time he 
 was in the employ of his brother, who was 
 conducting a mercantile establishment twenty- 
 five miles from New London. In 1859, by way 
 of the Isthmus, he went to California, and in 
 Nevada county was engaged in mining for the 
 
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 follow ing year and a half. By this time he was 
 sfied that the returns for his lahor were not 
 as remunerative as his efforts would warrant, 
 and decided to embark in something that would 
 secure to him a more regular income. In 
 freighting supplies to the mines he received sat- 
 isfactory returns, and after continuing this line 
 of endeavor for one summer, he went to the Ca- 
 ribou country, in 1862, remaining there one 
 season. From the latter place he was attracted 
 to the Puget Sound country, and for two years 
 was engaged in lumbering, meeting with good 
 success in his undertakings. 
 
 From Washington Mr. Parsons returned to 
 Canada, remaining there for a short time, and, 
 upon his return to Oregon, purchased eight) - 
 acres of land, which he improved, and upon 
 which he resided for one year. It was at this 
 point in his career that good fortune led him 
 to select his present farm, which comprises 
 two hundred and twenty-two acres of as fine 
 land as is to be found in the county. He has 
 not made his home here continuously since, 
 however, for, in 1873, he removed to a farm on 
 Oak creek, and for the ten years following im- 
 proved a farm there. From the latter year 
 until the present time he has made his home 
 upon the farm where he is now residing, and 
 where he expects to round out his life. 
 
 Mr. Parsons was united in marriage with 
 Miss Matilda Payne, the daughter of Martin 
 Payne, who, in 1852, came to Oregon and took 
 up the donation claim upon which Mr. Parsons 
 now resides. All matters which tend to up- 
 build his community have the hearty support 
 and co-operation of Air. Parsons. He is iden- 
 tified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN H. SCOTT, now serving as 
 county judge of Marion county, and residing in 
 Salem, was born near Mount Angel, Marion 
 county, September 10, 1865. His father, Alex- 
 ander D. Scott, was a native of Canandaigua, 
 N. Y., and the grandparents were natives of 
 Scotland, from which country they crossed the 
 Atlantic to the United States, settling in New 
 York. When seven years of age, however, 
 Alexander D. Scott was left an orphan. He 
 was reared upon a farm, and about 1852 the 
 gold excitement drew him to the Pacific coast. 
 He came to Oregon, making his way across the 
 plains, and thence proceeded to the gold mines 
 of California. In 1855, however, he returned 
 to Oregon and was married in Marion county 
 to Mrs. Ellen (Morris) Miller, a native of Mis- 
 souri, who came with her mother, two brothers 
 and two sisters, to the northwest. They, too, 
 made the overland journey and arrived in 
 Marion county in 1853, settling near what is 
 
 now Mount Angel. Mrs. Scott's first husband 
 was Bluford Miller, who came here in pioneer 
 days and followed farming. When a young 
 man he served as captain in the First Oregon 
 Regiment in the Yakima Indian war of 1855-56, 
 and in the struggle he was wounded. Fie then 
 returned to his home, and as typhoid fever set 
 in, this disease, together with his wound, 
 caused his death. He left one child, Bluford 
 Miller, who died at the age of seven years. At 
 the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Scott 
 settled near Mount Angel upon a farm where 
 he carried on agricultural pursuits until July, 
 1876, when he was accidentally killed by a run- 
 away team. His widow continued to reside 
 upon the old farm, and there reared her family 
 until 1891, when she located in Salem, where 
 her death occurred in 1895. From early girl- 
 hood she had been a devoted member of the 
 Christian Church, and to her family she was a 
 most loyal and tender mother. She had nine 
 children : Charles, of Montana ; William H., 
 of Marion county ; Lewis H., of Wasco county ; 
 John H., of. this review ; Mary E., of Salem ; 
 Clara G., who is a teacher in the same city; 
 Elmer H. and Alexander D., who reside in 
 eastern Oregon, and Alwilda, who died in 
 Salem. 
 
 In the county of his nativity and of his pres- 
 ent residence Judge Scott was reared, remain- 
 ing upon the home farm until twenty years of 
 age. In the meantime he had acquired a good 
 education in the district schools, and in the 
 Silverton High School. He then entered Wil- 
 lamette University, where he remained as a 
 student for a year. Through the succeeding 
 year he taught school and then spent another 
 year as a student in the university, followed by 
 two more years of teaching. In 1892 he re- 
 moved to Portland, where he engaged in the 
 real estate business, and while there he became 
 interested in law and began the study of the 
 profession. Entering the Portland Law School 
 he completed a year in that institution, and 
 was then called to Salem on account of his 
 mother's death. Here he continued his studies, 
 and in 1895 was admitted to the bar. It was in 
 the fall of that year that he became a senior in 
 the law department of the University of Mich- 
 igan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 
 1896 with the degree of Bachelor of Law. He 
 then returned to Oregon, making the trip on 
 his bicycle through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
 Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. 
 He left Michigan on the 30th of June and was 
 four months upon the road, during which time 
 he covered about five thousand miles. The 
 trip was a very enjoyable one and gave him an 
 excellent opportunity of seeing the country. 
 
 Upon his return Judge Scott began the prac- 
 
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 tice of law in Salem, and soon secured a good 
 clientele of a distinctively representative char- 
 acter. His ability was soon recognized, and in 
 June, 1900, he was nominated for the position 
 of county judge on the Republican ticket, being 
 elected by a good majority. In July of the 
 same year he entered upon the duties of the 
 office for a four-years' term, and upon the 
 bench his course has been in harmony with his 
 record as a man and a lawyer, characterized by 
 unwavering fidelity to duty. He has a com- 
 prehensive knowledge of the principles of juris- 
 prudence, weighs carefully any point of evi- 
 dence and the law bearing upon it, and in his 
 decisions is strictly fair and impartial, neither 
 fear nor favor swerving him in the slightest 
 degree from the course of an upright jurist. 
 He is a member of the county commissioners' 
 court, and, aside from his legal duties, is inter- 
 ested in lands, and finds recreation, pleasure 
 and profit in farming and horticulture. He has 
 an orchard near Marion and makes a specialty 
 of the production of prunes. 
 
 December 18, 1901, in Salem, occurred the 
 marriage of Judge Scott and Miss Maude Alice 
 Martin, who was born in this city, a daughter 
 of James Martin, a pioneer settler of Salem 
 and one of the superintendents of the Salem 
 city waterworks. The judge is past chan- 
 cellor in the Knights of Pythias fraternity, a 
 member of the Fraternal Union and the Native 
 Sons of the Golden West. He is also identified 
 with the Christian Church, and is now serving 
 as a member and secretary of its board of dea- 
 cons. In politics he is a Republican, and while 
 deeply interested in the success of his party, 
 he has allowed political labor in no way to in- 
 terfere with the faithful and impartial perform- 
 ance of his judicial duties. 
 
 SAMUEL NENIAN STEELE. Occupying 
 a position of influence and prominence among 
 the foremost citizens of Albany, Samuel N. 
 Steele is held in high regard as a man of in- 
 tegrity and ability, and is well known through- 
 out this section of the county as an extensive 
 and successful dealer in real estate. Coming 
 here in 1889, he has since identified himself 
 with the best interests of the community, and 
 has always been the encourager and supporter 
 of everything calculated to advance the intel- 
 lectual, moral and social welfare of the people. 
 A son of the late Samuel Steele, he was born 
 and bred in Montgomery county, Ind., com- 
 ing from sound old Revolutionary stock, both 
 of his great grandfathers, Andrew Evans and 
 Col. Samuel Newell, having fought in the Revo- 
 tionary war, both being in the thickest of the 
 fight at King's Mountain. His paternal grand- 
 
 father, James A. Steele, was a Kentuckian by 
 birth, but settled as a farmer in Indiana, where 
 all of his children were born. 
 
 Samuel Steele, a life-long resident of Indiana, 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits, includ- 
 ing stock-raising, until his death, which 
 occurred in August, 1861. He was for forty- 
 seven years a member of the Odd Fellows or- 
 der, in which he took an active interest. Pie 
 married Harriet Evans, a native of Indiana. 
 Her father, Jesse Evans, who removed from 
 Kentucky to Indiana at an early day, was a 
 soldier in the war of 1812. She was born 
 in March, 1823, and lived in Indiana several 
 years after the death of her husband. Remov- 
 ing, in 1868, to Iola, Allen county, Kans., she 
 resided there until 1891, when she came to 
 Albany to make her home with her son, Samuel 
 N. Steele, with whom she now resides. She 
 is a member of the Presbyterian Church, with 
 which she has been identified for many years. 
 Of her family of five sons and three daughters, 
 five children are still living, namely : Theo- 
 dore C, a talented artist, now residing in In- 
 dianapolis, Ind., pursued his art studies in 
 Munich, Germany, for five years ; Charles A., 
 of Wichita, Kans., is a successful farmer and 
 merchant ; William J. is a resident of Jefferson, 
 Ore. ; Altice Howe is engaged in mining in 
 Jacksonville, Ore., and Samuel N. 
 
 Removing from his Indiana home to Iola, 
 Kans., with his mother, in 1868, Samuel N. 
 Steele there completed his early education, 
 graduating from the Iola High School. He 
 subsequently assisted in the management of 
 the farm for awhile, and then went to Junction 
 City, Kans., where he learned the trade of a 
 harnessmaker, which he afterwards followed 
 in Moran, Allen county, until 1886. Locating 
 then in Burlington, Kans., he was there engaged 
 in the abstract business three years. Coming 
 then to Oregon, Mr. Steele was associated with 
 the Jarvis Conklin Mortgage Trust Company, 
 in Portland, for a year. Establishing himself 
 in the real estate business at Albany in the 
 spring of 1890, he has since resided here, and 
 as head of the enterprising firm of S. N. Steele 
 & Co., has been one of the largest real estate 
 operators in this section of the state. He is 
 the owner of farming and city property, includ- 
 ing a fine orchard about four miles northeast 
 of the city. 
 
 While living in Moran, Kans., Mr. Steele mar- 
 ried Abbie M. Southard, who was born in West 
 Salem, Wis., of New England ancestry, and 
 of Revolutionary stock, her great-grandfather 
 Southworth, as it was then spelled, having 
 served in the Revolution. Her grandfather, 
 Jonathan Southard, a native of New England, 
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 it was originally spelled, to its present form of 
 Southard. Mrs. Steele's father, Newell South- 
 ard, was born and reared in Fairfax, Vt." Be- 
 coming a pioneer settler of Wisconsin, he en- 
 gaged in business as a miller at La Crosse, 
 then at West Salem, after which he lived for 
 awhile in Logansport, Ind., where he was 
 superintendent of a railway company. Re- 
 turning to La Crosse, he resided there until 
 1890, then settled in Allen county, Kans., com- 
 ing from there to Albany, where his death 
 occurred, at the age of seventy-nine years. He 
 married Wealthy Pierce, who was born in 
 Vermont, the daughter of Helkiah Pierce, of 
 that state, and the granddaughter of a soldier 
 of the Continental army. She died in Indiana, 
 leaving four children, namely: Mrs. W. A. 
 Ross, of Pasadena, Cal. ; Mrs. D. C. Wads- 
 worth, of Tacoma, Wash. ; Mrs. Frank G. Nor- 
 ton, of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Samuel N. 
 Steele. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Steele are the parents of three 
 children, namely: Horace Newell, Medora 
 Wealthy, and Leighton Howe. In politics Mr. 
 Steele is a sound Republican, and though not 
 an office-seeker, takes a genuine interest in 
 local and national affairs. He belongs to var- 
 ious fraternal and social organizations, includ- 
 ing the Woodmen of the World, the Modern 
 Woodmen of America, the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and the Alco Club. He is 
 also a member of the Real Estate Exchange. 
 For many years he was chorister in the Pres- 
 byterian Church, of which he is now ruling 
 elder, and at the present time is serving his 
 second term as one of the board of trustees of 
 Albany College. 
 
 J. C. AVERY. History recounts the deeds 
 and records the indebtedness of the state to J. C. 
 Avery — one of the honored and prominent pio- 
 neers of the Willamette valley, whose efforts for 
 the upbuilding of the state were of the most 
 helpful character. Tales of heroism have been 
 the theme of song and story throughout the ages, 
 and there is no greater heroism shown than that 
 of the men who, reared in comfortable homes, 
 accustomed to all the privileges and conveniences 
 of life, have come to the wild western districts 
 and braved hardships untold. They have also 
 been menaced by the danger of death at the hand 
 of the treacherous Indian. Volumes have been 
 written, yet the story of the pioneers has never 
 been adequately told. They deserve all praise 
 and honor, and the mighty states of the west, with 
 their splendid improvements, enterprises and 
 tokens of civilization, are monuments to their 
 memory. 
 
 Corvallis owes its existence to the efforts and 
 labors of J. C. Avery, who laid broad and deep 
 the foundation for the present prosperity and 
 progress of the city. Mr. Avery was a native of 
 Pennsylvania, born in Luzerne county, June 9, 
 181 7. His father, Cyrus Avery, was a native of 
 Connecticut and removed to the Wyoming val- 
 ley of the Keystone state, where he followed 
 farming. He died at Tunkhannock, Pa. His 
 son, J. C. Avery, was educated in the schools of 
 Wilkesbarre, Pa., and when a young man re- 
 moved to Stark county, 111., where he engaged in 
 surveying, and was also a real estate and loan 
 agent. He was married March 13, 1841, near 
 Wyoming, Pa., to Miss Martha Marsh, who 
 was born in Kingston, Luzerne county, January 
 14, 1824, a daughter of Daniel C. Marsh, who 
 was a native of Connecticut and removed to 
 Kingston, where he engaged in teaching. He 
 wedded Esther Pettebone, also a native of Con- 
 necticut, and in their early married life they 
 removed to New York, and afterward to the 
 Wyoming valley. Mrs. Marsh was a daughter 
 of Oliver Pettebone, who was a pioneer of Penn- 
 sylvania, and lived there throughout the period 
 of the Indian troubles. His brother was killed 
 in the Wyoming massacre. Mr. Avery removed 
 to Illinois in 1834, not long after the Black Hawk 
 war, when the state was wild, unbroken prairie. 
 There Mr. Avery carried on farming until 1845, 
 when he made the long and hazardous journey 
 across the plains to Oregon and secured a claim 
 at the junction of the Willamette and Marys 
 rivers. In 1846 he moved onto this and built 
 a log cabin, thus establishing a home for his 
 family. In the following year he was joined 
 by his wife and children. They had traveled 
 with a company commanded by Captain Saw- 
 yer, who had come with Mr. Avery to Oregon in 
 1845. Captain Sawyer then returned to Illinois 
 for his family, and Mr. Avery arranged that his 
 wife and children should travel with the captain's 
 party when he again made the journey. It would 
 have taken Mr. Avery eighteen months to go to 
 Illinois and return with his family and he was 
 afraid his claim might be forfeited in that time. 
 Mrs. Avery had an outfit consisting of a five- 
 yoke ox-team and a wagon filled with provisions. 
 She also brought two milch cows and was ex- 
 actly six months upon the way, being met in 
 eastern Oregon by her husband, who then guided 
 the party by way of the Barlow route over the 
 Cascade mountains to his claim at Corvallis. 
 They had started April 2, from Stark county, 
 111., had crossed the Mississippi at Burlington, 
 Iowa ; the Missouri river at St. Joseph, and had 
 proceeded up the Platte river to the Oregon trail. 
 After crossing the Missouri the train numbered 
 eighty wagons, but from Independence Rock only 
 
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 six wagons came on to Benton county, arriving 
 here on October 2, 1847. 
 
 In the fall of 1848, following the discovery of 
 gold, Mr. Avery went to California, where he 
 engaged in mining. He spent the succeeding win- 
 ter at home, but in the spring of 1849 returned to 
 the mines, where he remained until the autumn 
 of that year, making a few thousand dollars. 
 He then returned, bringing with him a stock of 
 general merchandise which he had purchased in 
 San Francisco and shipped to Portland, thence 
 up the Willamette to where Corvallis now stands. 
 This was the first store of the place. The fol- 
 lowing year Mr. Avery laid out the town and 
 called it Marysville, but because of there being 
 a town in California of the same name some 
 confusion was occasioned and the Oregon town 
 changed its name to Corvallis — the core or cen- 
 ter of the valley. He was instrumental in secur- 
 ing the establishment of the postoffice and served 
 as the first postmaster. He was also the general 
 postal agent for Oregon and Washington. 
 
 Mr. Avery continued to engage in merchan- 
 dising at Corvallis until within four or five 
 years of his death. He rented his land and 
 laid out additions to the town, which have become 
 the principal part of the city. He also built 
 several stores and was always active in the im- 
 provement of the city which he founded and 
 which owes much of its early progress to his 
 practical efforts. He was greatly interested in 
 the building of the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, 
 but died before its completion. He was chosen, 
 together with J. F. Miller and B. F. Doughet, 
 to make the selection of a site for the Oregon 
 Agricultural College, and their choice fell largely 
 upon the broad meadows of Lake county, the best 
 lands then in the state open for selection. He 
 took a very active part in the building up of the 
 college, and his efforts were not without result. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Avery were born eight 
 children, of whom six are living, Charles and 
 James C. having died in Corvallis. The others 
 are Punderson, a prominent citizen here ; Na- 
 poleon ; George ; Mrs. Florence Jones ; Mrs. 
 Frances Helm ; and Gertrude, the wife of J. B. 
 Irvine. 
 
 Mr. Avery was a Master Mason and his life 
 was in harmony with the beneficent spirit of the 
 craft. In politics he was always a Democrat, 
 and he was twice elected to represent his dis- 
 trict in the state legislature, where he served with 
 ability, and during that time he had the name 
 of Marysville changed to Corvallis. He figured 
 prominently in the politics of the county for a 
 quarter of a century, and he had many warm 
 and true friends and few enemies. He died June 
 16, 1876, but though a quarter of a century has 
 since come and gone he is yet remembered by 
 many who knew him and his memory will ever 
 
 be revered as the founder of Corvallis. He was 
 a man of noble and generous impulses and a 
 warm heart, noted for his deeds of charity, his 
 acts of kindness and hospitality so freely ex- 
 tended to the suffering emigrants in an early 
 day. Mrs. Avery still survives her husband and 
 lives at the old home. She is a member of the 
 Baptist Church and is one of the brave pioneer 
 women who shared with the husbands and fath- 
 ers in the hardships and trials incident to the 
 settlement of the northwest. 
 
 DANIEL H. BODINE. The farm upon 
 which Daniel H. Bodine now makes his home 
 and upon which he carries on general farming 
 and stock-raising is located four miles east of 
 Albany, Linn county, Ore., and is the old do- 
 nation claim of Stephen D. Haley, which his 
 father, Daniel H., Sr., purchased when he 
 came to the northwest as a pioneer of 1854. 
 The father was born in Indiana, and was there 
 reared to manhood, where he learned the trade 
 of a carpenter. Subsequently he joined the 
 tide of emigration which was setting toward 
 the west, crossing the plains in company with 
 Nelson Wright. On his arrival here he bought 
 of Stephen D. Haley the right to a claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land in the 
 location above mentioned, and one hundred 
 and eight acres of school lands. Soon after 
 his arrival in Oregon he was united in mar- 
 riage with Margaret Foster. His death 
 occurred upon this farm, September 9, 1869, 
 when he was forty-seven years old. His wife 
 survived him until 1899, dying then at the age 
 of seventy-two years on the home farm. Both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bodine were members of the 
 United Presbyterian Church of Albany, in 
 which he had always been very active, at the 
 time of his death officiating as elder. Of the 
 six children born to these worthy pioneers, 
 Albert A. resides near Albany ; Oscar T. is 
 deceased ; Matilda I., a teacher, makes her 
 home with her brother, D. H., on the home 
 place ; Samuel S. is also near Albany ; Daniel 
 H., of this review, is on the home place, and 
 James A. is in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 The birth of Daniel H. Bodine occurred upon 
 his father's farm in Linn county, Ore., Decem- 
 ber 21, 1865, and with the exception of a few 
 years passed in attendance of various schools 
 he has always lived here. His education was re- 
 ceived in the common school in the vicinity 
 of his home and the Oregon Agricultural Col- 
 lege of Corvallis, after the completion of wdiich 
 he assumed charge of the home farm, being 
 then but nineteen years of age. He has since 
 remained in the work there, industry, perse- 
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 a success along agricultural lines. He has be- 
 come a man of influence in his locality, and 
 has served his party as school clerk for four 
 years. In politics he is a Republican. In fra- 
 ternal orders he also occupies a prominent po- 
 sition as member of the Grand Prairie Grange, 
 No. 10, serving in 1893 and again in 1898, as 
 master. He is also a member of Corinthian 
 Lodge, No. 17, A. F. & A. M., of Albany, in 
 which he has passed all the chairs. 
 
 EDWARD BELL. Prominent among the 
 native sons of Polk county is Edward Bell, 
 who was born on the paternal ranch near 
 Bethel, January 4, i860, and is now one of 
 four heirs to a farm of four hundred acres 
 left by his father, George C, the founder of 
 the family in Oregon, who was born in Mor- 
 gan county, Ohio, May 20, 1825, and in his 
 youth learned the carpenter's trade. March 
 30, 1851, he was united in marriage with Mary 
 A. Delong, born in Morgan county, Ohio, De- 
 cember 28, 1828, and the day after the wedding 
 started on the long and perilous journey across 
 the plains. This strange way of spending the 
 honeymoon seems to have been adopted by 
 many in the early days, and the courage in- 
 volved in the undertaking can hardly be ap- 
 preciated by united hearts who today have 
 their way paved with every comfort. Nothing 
 out of the ordinary befell the young people 
 during their four months' travel with ox-teams, 
 and after arriving in Oregon, they spent the 
 first winter in the city of Portland. Having 
 ascertained the whereabouts of several desir- 
 able farming properties, Mr. Bell investigated 
 their respective merits, and in the spring of 
 1852 located on a claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Bethel, to which he later 
 added eighty acres. There were practically no 
 improvements on the place, and in time he 
 substituted a more pretentious .modern resi- 
 dence for the little log house. About this time 
 his carpenter's trade proved useful, for the 
 settlers were arriving in the neighborhood, and 
 he secured the building of many of their homes. 
 He was a good workman and his work con- 
 stantly became more remunerative, so that be- 
 tween farming and his trade he managed to 
 get along better than the majority of the 
 settlers of that time. He made a specialty of 
 fine stock, and as time went on inaugurated 
 many changes on his place, making of it a 
 valuable and desirable farm. He was a Re- 
 publican in political preferment, and held many 
 of the minor local offices in his neighborhood, 
 including that of justice of the peace and school 
 trustee. He was a member of the Grange, and 
 of the Baptist Church. Mr. Bell met a tragic 
 
 death August 7, 1893, being run over by a train 
 while crossing the . railroad track between 
 McCoy and Amity. He was survived by his 
 wife until June 19, 1902. 
 
 The only son and fourth of the six children 
 born to his parents, Edward Bell was educated 
 in the public schools and at Bethel Academy, 
 from which institution he was duly graduated 
 in the class of 1878. Thereafter he engaged 
 in farming with his father, and in 1882 went 
 into Gilliam county, eastern Oregon, and en- 
 gaged in sheep-raising. He was fairly success- 
 ful in this line of activity, and upon returning 
 to Polk county in 1893, came to McCoy and 
 has since made this his home. He at present 
 rents the farm of four hundred acres, and de- 
 votes himself to managing the farm in Lincoln 
 county. Mr. Bell is independent in politics, 
 but has never been active in local undertakings 
 connected with any party. Lie is fraternally 
 connected with the Woodmen of the World of 
 Salem ; the Masons of Rickreall, and the 
 Grange of Oak Grove. He is one of four sur- 
 vivors in his father's family, his sisters being- 
 Mrs. Julia Jones, of Portland; Mrs. Agnes 
 Bean, of Bethel, and Mrs. Olive Raddeway, of 
 Oregon City. Public-spirited and enterprising, 
 Mr. Bell commands the esteem and considera- 
 tion of the thoughtful and appreciative com- 
 munity in which he lives, and which numbers 
 him among its successful and substantial land 
 owners. 
 
 ALBERT CAMPBELL was born August 
 29, 1862, the son of William and Margaret 
 (Simpson) Campbell, the father being of 
 Scotch descent. Mrs. Campbell's father, Rob- 
 ert Simpson, emigrated from Scotland and took 
 up his residence in the northern part of Canada 
 where she was born. 
 
 At a youthful age Albert left Port Huron, 
 Mich., where he was born, and went to West- 
 branch, Ogemaw county, Mich., where he 
 worked in the lumbering camps in the winter 
 and at the carpenter trade in the summer. In 
 1884 he came to Oregon, stopping at Dallas, 
 where he remained for a short time, taking up 
 ranching for his employment the first year, 
 following that up with a year of various kinds 
 of work and in 1886 going into the employ of 
 Riley & Coad, contractors and millmen. After 
 two years of building in the city he went into 
 the planing-mill, continuing at this until 1890, 
 when he commenced contracting and building 
 on his own account, at which business he has 
 remained since. There is a certain satisfaction 
 to Mr. Campbell in the fact that he has con- 
 tributed largely to the general appearance of 
 the little city of Dallas in the erection of some 
 
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 of the finest buildings, of which the town can 
 boast, and also the most useful, having just 
 finished the round-house of the Salem, Falls 
 City and Western Radroad, from King's Val- 
 ley to a distance seven miles below Salem. He 
 enjoys an enviable reputation, and from his 
 humble beginning he has advanced to his pres- 
 ent success by integrity and constant applica- 
 tion to his work. 
 
 E. C. KIRKPATRICK, one of the promi- 
 nent and influential men of Dallas, a Mason of 
 high degree, and one of the largest and most 
 successful hop-growers in Polk county, was 
 born in Camp Point, Adams county, 111., Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1867. His family was established in 
 the middle west by the paternal grandfather, 
 David, who came from Scotland with his par- 
 ents when a boy, settling first in Tennessee 
 and afterward in McDonough county, 111., near 
 Table Grove. 
 
 Dr. J. E. Kirkpatrick, the father of E. C, 
 was born on his father's farm near Knoxville, 
 Tenn. At an early age an appreciation of 
 medicine and surgery influenced him to strain 
 every nerve to acquire the best possible train- 
 ing in this direction, and eventually he grad- 
 uated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 New York City. His early practice was in 
 Quincy, 111., and Camp Point, the same county, 
 and in 1877 he located in Scio, Linn county, 
 Ore., where he practiced for six years. After 
 coming to Dallas in 1883 he became well known 
 in the surrounding country, and successfully 
 ministered to the physical maladies of a large 
 and appreciative patronage. For two terms he 
 served as county coroner, and held other offices 
 of a local nature. Taking with him the good 
 will of all with whom he had to do in Dallas 
 and vicinity Dr. Kirkpatrick retired from prac- 
 tice in Los Angeles, Cal., in 1898, and will 
 doubtless spend the remainder of his life in the 
 restful and beautiful city of the angels. In 
 early manhood he married Mary Griggsby, 
 who was born in Illinois, a daughter of Ben- 
 jamin Griggsby, who was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, and early removed to near Quincy, 111., 
 where he conducted a distillery for many years. 
 
 The second of the eight living children in 
 his father's family, and the only one on the 
 coast, save Mrs. G. M. Hyland, of Portland, 
 E. C. Kirkpatrick was ten years of age when 
 his father brought him to Oregon, and he at 
 once began to attend school at Scio, Linn 
 county. In 1884 he entered La Creole Acad- 
 emy, remaining there until undertaking an 
 apprenticeship at the printer's trade. For a 
 year he worked on the Polk County Itemiser, 
 and for the following year on the Salem States- 
 
 man, under General W. H. Odell and W. H. 
 Byers, after which he became foreman on the 
 Benton Leader. In 1890 he returned to Dallas 
 to engage in hop-growing, and the first year 
 of this experiment set out five acres of hops 
 one-half mile from Dallas. So successful was 
 the yield that the next year he increased his 
 acreage to forty-five, an average maintained 
 up to the present time. In 1894 Mr. Kirkpat- 
 rick formed a partnership with Mr. Williams, 
 the firm now operating under the name of Kirk- 
 patrick & Williams. The firm now has about 
 one hundred and sixty-four acres under culti- 
 vation, divided into fifteen and fifty-acre yards, 
 located six miles from Dallas. They are also 
 engaged in buying and selling hops throughout 
 the county, and in 1902 they led the market, 
 paid the highest prices and bought in all four 
 thousand bales, the lowest price paid being 
 twenty-one cents. 
 
 In political affiliation Mr. Kirkpatrick is a 
 Republican, and is active in local and state 
 undertakings. He is fraternally one of the best 
 known men in the county, being especially 
 prominent as a Mason, being the present mas- 
 ter of Jennings Lodge, No. 9, A. F. & A. M. ; 
 a member of Ainsworth Chapter, No. 17, R. 
 A. M., Oregon Consistory No. 1, of the Scot- 
 tish Rite, and the Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. 
 Also he is a member of the Woodmen of the 
 World, and has attended every convention 
 since the local organization, and served as 
 chairman of the district convention. He is a 
 member of the Benevolent Protective Order 
 of Elks. In Dallas, Mr. Kirkpatrick married 
 Mary V., youngest daughter of Henry Hagood, 
 the latter born in Henry county, Va., and be- 
 came one of the pioneers of Oregon. Mr. Kirk- 
 patrick is variously interested in city and 
 county affairs aside from the hop industry and 
 has dealt largely in real estate. He is a pro- 
 gressive factor in the community, and is pos- 
 sessed of resource and business ability, with- 
 out which little can be accomplished in the 
 northwest. 
 
 TIMOTHY DARIUS ALLEN. On the 
 farm near Silverton, adjoining the one where 
 he now lives, T. D. Allen was born, February 
 21, 1854, a representative of one of the pioneer 
 families of 1852. His father, Henry Allen, one 
 of the self-made men who have contributed to 
 the upbuilding of this part of the state, was born 
 in Tennessee, in December, 1827, and when a 
 small boy removed with his parents to Illinois. 
 He was reared on a farm, and was an indus- 
 trious, ambitious lad, who kept his eyes and ears 
 open, and impatiently awaited an opportunity to 
 better his condition. He managed to save enough 
 
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 money to go to California in 1848, via the Isth- 
 mus of Panama, and there followed mining and 
 prospecting' for a couple of years. Returning to 
 Illinois, he married Frances Rockwood, a native 
 of Illinois, who had been reared and educated 
 near the home of her husband. Together this 
 couple came to Oregon in 1852. outfitting with 
 ox-teams for travel across the plains, and ac- 
 complishing the journey without any special in- 
 cident. At first they conducted a hotel at Salem, 
 but the limited population and the generally pio- 
 neer conditions rendered this enterprise imprac- 
 ticable, and Mr. Allen located on a donation 
 claim of one hundred and twenty-six acres in the 
 Waldo hills. After a short time he bought part 
 of the Leonard farm, upon which he farmed for 
 some years, and in 1866 bought the place now 
 occupied by his son, T. D., three miles south of 
 Silverton, upon which he lived until 1902. At 
 present he is living retired in Silverton, en- 
 joying the competence which has rewarded 
 his years of industrious application. Besides 
 Timothy D., who is the oldest of the chil- 
 dren, there is R. D., a resident of Salem; H. L., 
 a resident of Baker City ; Allie, the wife of L. F. 
 Mascher, of this vicinity ; and Adelle, living with 
 her parents in Silverton. Though possessing 
 limited educational facilities in his youth, Mr. 
 Allen became a well read and well informed man, 
 and always took a keen interest in the schools of 
 his district. 
 
 Until his marriage, January 4, 1881, with 
 Geneva Aramatha Wolfard, T. D. Allen remained 
 on his father's farm, and thereafter went to 
 housekeeping on a place near Silverton. Mrs. 
 Allen is a daughter of Erhardt Wolfard and was 
 reared near Silverton, her parents having crossed 
 the plains in 1853, locating in the Waldo hills. 
 Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Allen, of whom Reber Glenn lives in Silverton ; 
 Lowell Clay lives with his parents ; Floyd Wol- 
 fard ; Wynola Frances ; Dewey Rockwood ; and 
 Fay Anita. In 1902 Mr. Allen came to the old 
 home place, where he manages five hundred acres 
 of land, and is engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. Ten acres are devoted to hop cul- 
 ture. Mr. Allen has never been active in politics, 
 although he is a stanch supporter of Republican 
 interests. He has been road supervisor and 
 school trustee, and like his father has taken a 
 great interest in the cause of education. He is 
 a member of the Woodmen of the World, and is 
 sociable in his tastes, having many warm friends 
 among the surrounding farmers. 
 
 JAMES HAYES. During the two score or 
 more years that James Hayes, late of Benton 
 county, resided in this state, he held a position 
 of prominence among the leading agriculturists 
 
 of his community, and was a distinguished pio- 
 neer of Oregon, a veteran of the early Indian 
 wars, and the discoverer Gold Hill Mine, 
 in Jackson county. Possessing excellent business 
 capacity, sound judgment, and an integrity that 
 was never questioned, he met with deserved suc- 
 cess in the various enterprises with which he was 
 identified. An upright man, a good citizen, a 
 kind husband, indulgent father, and a firm friend, 
 his loss will long be felt, and his memory cher- 
 ished by all who enjoyed 'his acquaintance or 
 friendship. A native of New York, he was 
 born May 20, 1833, and died January 8, 1903, on 
 his farm near Oak creek, Benton county, Ore. 
 
 Reared on a farm, he went with his parents 
 from the Empire state to Illinois when a boy, and 
 resided there until 1852. Hoping in the far west 
 to improve his financial condition, he then joined 
 a party coming across the plains with ox-teams, 
 and as a passenger paid $100 for his transpor- 
 tation. Coming directly to Oregon, he located 
 in Jackson county, where he resided about 
 eleven years, in the meantime having varied ex- 
 periences in pioneer life. While working for 
 Mr. Chavner, in April, 1859, Mr. Hayes went 
 out one morning on horseback to assist a man 
 named Wilson in the finding of a blind mule, 
 which had strayed away. In going down the 
 side of the mountain near Rogue river, his 
 saddle became loosened, and he was thrown to 
 the ground, much to the amusement of Mr. Wil- 
 son. In recinching his saddle, Mr. Hayes picked 
 up a piece of brownish quartz which he saw shin- 
 ing on the ground, and showed it to his com- 
 panion, who pronounced it of no value. After 
 the finding of the poor old mule, Mr. Wilson 
 left for California. Mr. Hayes subsequently 
 showed the rock which he had found to a man 
 named Ish, who spent the night at his cabin, and 
 he declared there was gold in the specimen. 
 
 Two weeks later Mr. Ish returned to the cabin, 
 bringing with him an emigrant, and the three 
 men at once proceeded to the mountain side 
 where the quartz had been picked up. Reaching 
 the point where he had been unhorsed, Mr. Hayes 
 at once picked up another rock that seemed to be 
 half gold, and soon saw that the ground round- 
 about was thickly strewn with similar pieces of 
 quartz for a distance of two hundred yards or 
 so, the place having since then been known as 
 Gold Hill. Continuing along the gold-lined path- 
 way until a rock of steel-gray color was reached, 
 Mr. Hayes there applied the pick which he had 
 brought with him, and discovered it to be liter- 
 ally filled with the golden metal. The three 
 men were nearly wild with excitement, and sat 
 down to consider what had best be done under 
 the circumstances. Not being willing to trust Ish 
 to go alone to Jacksonville, as he had proposed, 
 his proclivity for drink being known, the emi- 
 
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 grant was left to guard the gold plant, while 
 Mr. Hayes went with Ish to secure filing papers, 
 which were prepared by Mr. Huffman, clerk of 
 the court. 
 
 Ish, as expected, was soon under the influence 
 of poor whiskey, and Mr. Hayes returned alone. 
 Stopping at his cabin to get a grub stake, he 
 proceeded to Gold Hill, where he and the emi- 
 grant tented that night. Ish having given away 
 the secret of the discovery while drunk, at least 
 one hundred and fifty men were on the ground 
 the next morning, and within three days Gold 
 Hill was swarming with miners of all kinds and 
 conditions, crowding about so thickly that no 
 further investigations could be made for a week. 
 Small pieces of quartz were given away, and 
 these proved rich with the shiny metal, one small 
 piece given to a man named Bill Ballard netting 
 him $120. Spreading their blanket over the rich 
 specimens which they picked up from time to 
 time, Mr. Hayes and the emigrant slept each 
 night on the rocky bed, but even then could not 
 prevent the miners from stealing valuable speci- 
 mens from under their heads. Ish, as one of the 
 three partners who had secured the claim, gave 
 Messrs. Long and Miller, two notorious gam- 
 blers, an interest in the mine, and Mr. Hayes, 
 with characteristic generosity, made his friend, 
 Tom Chavner, a stockholder, likewise. The emi- 
 grant sold one third of his interest for $5,000. 
 Mr. Hayes deposited $3,000 which he had picked 
 up with Murray & Davis, in Jacksonville, and, 
 being a tenderfoot, easily imposed upon, and with 
 no idea of the immense value of his find, sold his 
 Gold Hill interests to Charles Williams & Co., 
 for $4,000. These men subsequently persuaded 
 him that the money he had already taken from the 
 mine rightfully belonged to them, so he lost 
 his $3,000 also. The gold pocket which Mr. 
 Hayes discovered, and from which he realized 
 such an insignificant sum was in reality worth 
 $300,000. 
 
 Removing to Polk county in 1863, Mr. Hayes 
 followed farming for four or five years, then 
 located in Benton county, buying a farm about 
 eight miles south of Corvallis. In 1872 he re- 
 moved to the city of Corvallis, where he carried 
 on an extensive business as a money broker, 
 amassing a valuable estate. He subsequently 
 purchased five hundred acres of land near Oak 
 Creek, and was there living at the time of his 
 death, which came without warning. In addi- 
 tion to his farm he owned other valuable pieces 
 of real estate, including considerable town prop- 
 erty. Beginning life poor in pocket, but rich 
 in courage and strength, he was in truth a self- 
 made man and the architect of his own fortunes, 
 his prosperity being due solely to his own earnest 
 efforts. 
 
 On October 20, 1861, Mr. Hayes married 
 
 Caroline Henkle, who crossed the plains with her 
 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henkle, in 1853, an d set- 
 tled in Jackson county, Ore. Of the seven chil- 
 dren born of their union, five are now living, 
 namely: Sarah B., wife of Thomas Bell, of 
 Corvallis ; Cora A., wife of I. Hunter, of Water- 
 ville, Wash. ; Nancy B., wife of E. Phillips, of 
 Corvallis ; John William, of Corvallis ; and Clyde, 
 who assists his mother in the management of the 
 home farm. Although interested in local, state 
 and national affairs, Mr. Hayes never aspired to 
 public office. He was a Republican in politics, 
 invariably supporting the principles of his party 
 at the polls. 
 
 JACOB AMSTUTZ. The highly improved 
 and prosperous condition of Marion county is in 
 a large degree due to its farming population, 
 which is for the most part composed of men who 
 are strong in character, energetic in disposition, 
 sensible in judgment and prompt to see and take 
 advantage of every opportunity that presents 
 itself. Among this class of citizens it is but just 
 to mention the name and give a short resume of 
 the life of Jacob Amstutz. In the province of 
 Alsace, then a part of France, but since 1871 
 under the protection of the German empire, his 
 parents were born and there received their edu- 
 cation and early training. At a very early day 
 the father came to our hospitable shores, unac- 
 companied by any of his kinsmen, and at once 
 sought work at his trade, wagonmaking. This 
 remunerative employment he continued to fol- 
 low until he retired from business life. In the 
 early days he went to New Orleans, and thence 
 traveled extensively through various parts of the 
 country, finally locating in Allen county, Ohio. 
 He lived to enjoy a peaceful old age, passing 
 away in his eighty-first year. He was preceded 
 many years by his faithful wife, who at the time 
 of her death was fifty-five years of age. 
 
 Twelve children were born to the parents of 
 Jacob Amstutz, and of the six who are now liv- 
 ing he is the only one who resides on the Pacific 
 coast. His birth occurred at Bluffton, Allen 
 county, Ohio, November 27, 1854. In the dis- 
 trict schools in the neighborhood of his early 
 home he received his first knowledge of books. 
 To prepare himself for an independent life he 
 learned the carpenter's trade, and for twenty 
 years, more or less, followed this calling^ Not 
 content with the limited possibilities of his home 
 surroundings, in 1877, when twenty-three years 
 of age, he crossed the country, with Oregon as 
 his goal. Work at his trade he found awaiting 
 him in Polk county, and after carrying on the 
 same there for two years he located on Howell's 
 prairie, Marion county. It was in the latter 
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 Miss Rosina Biery, who was born in Wayne 
 county, Ohio. The young people at once took 
 up their abode in the Waldo hills, where they 
 have since resided, with the exception of two 
 years spent in Salem, Mr. Amstutz in the mean- 
 time following his trade. 
 
 Mr. Amstutz's landed possessions aggregate 
 one hundred and eight and one-half acres, fifty 
 of which have been improved and are under cul- 
 tivation. Great credit is due the enterprising 
 owner, as when he came into possession of the 
 tract it was but partly improved, and all the im- 
 provements now to be seen are due to his untir- 
 ing efforts. General farming and stock-raising 
 form his principal industries. Into the home of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Amstutz seven children were born, 
 and of these four died in infancy. Of those who 
 were reared, Elizabeth died at the age of twelve 
 years, and Melvina, aged eighteen, and Theo- 
 dore E., aged one year, are at home with their 
 parents. Aside from his personal interests Mr. 
 Amstutz finds time to assist in matters of public 
 concern, as is shown by his seven years' service 
 as clerk of the school board. He has also ren- 
 dered valuable service in the capacity of road 
 supervisor. In politics he is independent, prin- 
 ciple, not party, gaining his vote. 
 
 D. W. GIBSON. In this age when so much 
 is heard of public corruption in places of official 
 preferment, it is interesting and gratifying to 
 find a man who regards a public office as a public 
 trust, and who brings to the discharge of his 
 duties the same loyalty and earnest attention 
 which he would give to the conduct of individ- 
 ual business interests. Such an official is D. W. 
 Gibson, the efficient chief of police of Salem. 
 
 Mr. Gibson was born in Pike county, 111., near 
 Pittsfield. The grandfather, Samuel Gibson, who 
 was of Scoth-Irish descent and for many years 
 followed farming in Missouri, spent his last 
 \ear in Illinois. His son, Guoyan Gibson, the 
 father of D. W. Gibson, was born in Pike county, 
 Mo., and afterward resided in Pike county, 111. 
 In 1850 he started for the northwest on the 
 overland trip, which seemed of much greater 
 distance at that time than at the present, when 
 the railroad has bridged over space and practi- 
 cally annihilated time. He was accompanied by 
 his wife and five children, two daughters and 
 three sons, and they traveled with a four-horse 
 wagon upon the six-months' trip, being a part of 
 the wagon train commanded by Captain Ball. 
 While en route the Indians stole their stock, but 
 perhaps they were fortunate in escaping with 
 their lives, as many of the emigrants met death 
 at the hands of the treacherous red men. Arriv- 
 ing in Oregon in the fall, the father settled upon 
 a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 
 twelve miles southeast of Salem, in the Mill creek 
 bottom, there establishing a pioneer home in 
 which the family lived while he broke his land 
 and brought his farm to a high state of improve- 
 ment. He died there about 1894, at the age of 
 seventy-two, but his wife is still living at the 
 age of eighty-one. He was long an exemplary 
 Mason and one of the valued frontiersmen of his 
 locality. His wife bore the maiden name of, 
 Sarah Ann Taylor and was born in Kentucky, a 
 daughter of William Taylor, who settled in Illi- 
 nois at an early day. In the Gibson family were 
 three sons and four daughters, and six of the 
 family are yet living. An uncle of our subject, 
 Davis Gibson, first crossed the plains in 1845, 
 after which he returned to Illinois, but in 1852 
 he came again to the northwest, settling in Polk 
 county. Other uncles — George and Albert Gib- 
 son — also came in 1852, and thus the family 
 contributed in no small degree to the development 
 and upbuilding of Oregon. D. W. Gibson is the 
 eldest of his father's family, the others being 
 Henry, who resides on the old home farm ; Mrs. 
 Mary McHaley, of Heppner, Ore.; Mrs. Ellen 
 Hobson, who died in Marion county ; Mrs. Mattie 
 Lucas, who also passed away in this county ; 
 George, of Salem ; and Mrs. Frankie. Putnam, 
 of Walla Walla, Wash. 
 
 The natal day of D. W. Gibson was September 
 5, 1846, and therefore he was only about six years 
 of age when the family arrived in this state. 
 Upon the home farm he was reared and in the 
 district schools he pursued his studies until 
 eighteen years of age, when he began earning 
 his own living by working as a farm hand. In 
 1866 he went to the mines in the Boise basin of 
 Idaho, where he remained for two years, mining 
 and prospecting, when there occurred an acci- 
 dent that covered him with loose dirt up to the 
 neck and his head was under water. A friend 
 however, discovered him, and held his head up 
 until the water had washed the dirt away and he 
 was rescued. For two weeks, however, he was 
 ill and then returned to Oregon to recuperate on 
 the home farm. In 1869 he made his way to the 
 Grande Ronde valley in eastern Oregon, where 
 he was engaged in breaking horses on a large 
 horse ranch for a year, when he returned home, 
 and for three years thereafter was engaged in 
 clerking in Stayton. He also spent two years in 
 Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 About that time Mr. Gibson was married and 
 located on a farm near Stayton, and later he 
 removed to Grant county, Ore., where for two 
 years he was engaged in raising sheep. In 1887 
 he became a resident of Salem and accepting the 
 position of superintendent of the farming depart- 
 ment of the penitentiary, acted in that capacity 
 for over two years, when in 1890 he was 
 appointed to a position on the police force of 
 
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 Salem, acting as night policeman for seven years. 
 During this period he served for one year as 
 deputy sheriff. In the December election of 
 1898 he was chosen by popular suffrage on the 
 Citizens' ticket for the office of city marshal, was 
 re-elected in 1900 and again in 1902 and is thus 
 head of the police force. Under his administra- 
 tion radical changes and improvements have been 
 made in the police system of the city and his 
 course inspires the confidence of all law-abiding 
 citizens and is a menace to evil-doers. 
 
 Mr. Gibson was married in Stayton to Miss 
 Ora A. Wilcox, a native of this state and a 
 daughter of Thomas Wilcox, who came to Ore- 
 gon in the period of its early development. Mrs. 
 Gibson died in Portland and their son, Eugene, 
 died in 1901, at the age of twenty-six years, 
 while Grace, now Mrs. Eves, is a resident of 
 Portland. For his second wife Mr. Gibson chose 
 Miss Minnie Daniels, who was born in the east. 
 They were married in Salem in 1898, and they 
 now have a daughter, Ruth. Mr. Gibson has 
 always been a stalwart Republican, interested in 
 the welfare and success of his party, but never 
 allowing party bias to influence him in the faith- 
 ful performance of his duty. Socially he is 
 identified with the Odd Fellows lodge here. 
 Without fear or favor, he has discharged the 
 duties of his office promptly and capably and has 
 supervision over the members of the city police 
 force in a way that results in loyalty in all who 
 represent this department of the city government. 
 
 H. W. KAUPISCH. Among the business 
 men of Corvallis who have made a success work- 
 ing along the line of their own methods is H. 
 W. Kaupisch, proprietor of the two large cream- 
 eries, the Corvallis and Halsey, which consume 
 the greater part of the milk produced in this 
 section of the country. Upon the purchase of 
 the Corvallis creamery, Mr. Kaupisch put in 
 the latest and most approved machinery, steam 
 being the motive power, this purchase in 1901 
 being followed by that of the Halsey creamery 
 in 1902, it also using the same motive power. 
 In the latter the simplex churn is used. The 
 production from the Corvallis creamery is im- 
 mense as to the quantity, and the fame of its 
 quality has reached all the adjacent cities, and 
 the demand far exceeds the supply. The butter 
 is sent direct to the retail dealers in Portland, 
 and in that city principally, has won its just 
 renown. 
 
 The congeniality which this employment has 
 for Mr. Kaupisch has been the growth of years, 
 his father, J. C. Kaupisch, having followed this 
 business for many years. The latter, a native of 
 Saxony, Germany, gave up his employment of 
 this nature to emigrate to the United States, 
 
 where, with the broader opportunities and less 
 crowded living, he hoped to accomplish greater 
 things in his work. He first settled in Elgin, 
 111., where for twelve years he was employed by 
 John Newman & Co., as superintendent of their 
 creameries there. Later he ventured to Califor- 
 nia, following the business on his own account 
 in that state ; from California to Carson City, 
 Nev., then to Vancouver, Wash., and Portland, 
 Ore., in each place spending some time in his 
 chosen work. A veteran in the business he 
 assists very materially in his son's affairs, the 
 home of the older man also being in Corvallis. 
 
 H. W. Kaupisch was born in Saxony, Ger- 
 many, the oldest child in his father's family, 
 which followed him to America in 1886, where 
 they made their home in Elgin, the young lad 
 gaining his education in the public schools of 
 that city. At thirteen years of age, however, he 
 left school to assist in his father's business. 
 He was capable and bright, and early gave 
 promise of the success which is now making him 
 prosperous among the citizens of Corvallis. After 
 assisting in California he followed his father to 
 Vancouver, and in 189 1 took charge of the 
 creamery there, where he remained for four 
 years. In Portland he had charge of the butter- 
 making department of F. C. Barnes' creamery, 
 later taking a more important position in the 
 Kaupisch creamery, after which he returned to 
 California, and engaged in the Bakersfield 
 creamery, where he remained for one year. 
 After his return to Oregon he managed the Cor- 
 vallis branch of the Hazelwood creamery of 
 Portland, in 1900, in 1901 inaugurating the busi- 
 ness which has grown to such splendid propor- 
 tions. 
 
 Not only one of the most successful men in 
 the creamery business in the Willamette val- 
 ley and one who thoroughly understands from 
 long experience every detail of the management 
 that makes for success, Mr. Kaupisch has made 
 himself a popular man in the city of Corvallis 
 were his exceptional ability is widely known 
 and appreciated. Fraternally he is identified 
 with the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 JOHN ENGLISH. For nearly four decades 
 the life and work of John English have been 
 closely interwoven with the history of the devel- 
 opment of the agricultural interests of the Will- 
 amette valley. He was born near Washington, 
 Daviess county, Ind., March 7, 1837, and is the 
 only son born to John and Sarah (Smiley) 
 English. Sarah (Smiley) English removed to 
 Oregon with her son, and spent the remainder 
 of her life with him. She was born in Sullivan 
 county, Tenn., October 15, 1812, and died at 
 
 
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 tin- honk' of her son in Silverton, Ore, March 
 _\ [900. Her husband died October 16, 1854, 
 in Daviess county, lnd. His parents emigrated 
 from Tennessee during the pioneer days of 
 Indiana, in which state they continued in their 
 occupation of farming, rearing their son in this 
 vocation. He received his education in the dis- 
 trict schools maintained in the vicinity of his 
 home. Until he arrived at the age of twenty- 
 eight years he remained with his parents, assist- 
 ing in the operation of the farm. At that time, 
 believing the prospects for a successful career 
 were better on the Pacific coast than at his 
 home, he decided to come to Oregon. He made 
 the journey hence in 1865. and soon after his 
 arrival purchased the farm in Marion county 
 upon which he has since resided. During the 
 thirty-eight years of his residence upon it, the 
 place has so changed as to be unrecognizable as 
 the tract he selected at that time. The farm con- 
 sists of one hundred and thirty acres, and is 
 pleasantly situated three and one-half miles north- 
 west of Silverton. Sixty acres are under culti- 
 vation, eighteen acres of which are devoted to 
 hops. Mr. English is engaged at present in 
 general farming and stock-raising, in which he 
 has met with uniform success. 
 
 On January 1, 1871, Mr. English was united 
 in marriage with Alice Hendricks, a native of 
 Marion county. Ore., and the daughter of Samuel 
 and Sarah (Morrison) Hendricks, who crossed 
 the plains about 1850 and took up land in this 
 county. Mrs. English was left an orphan at a 
 very early age. The married life of this couple 
 began on the place where they are now spend- 
 ing the evening of their life contentedly together. 
 Seven children have blessed their union, all of 
 whom are living. In the order of their birth they 
 are named as follows : Willard and Willis, who 
 are located in the vicinity of their birthplace ; 
 Linnie. wife of Leroy Simeral of Macleay, Ore. ; 
 John ; Osa. wife of Norris J. Thomas, residing 
 on a part of the home farm ; Elvin. who resides 
 at home; and Sadie, at home. The family 
 have all enjoyed good educational facilities, and 
 Mr. English's sons are becoming good, worthv 
 citizens. 
 
 Mr. English has been a useful man in his com- 
 munity. He has taken a deep and unselfish inter- 
 est in public affairs, and does all in his power to 
 advance the material welfare of Marion county. 
 His interest in the cause of education is illustrated 
 by the fact that he has served for fifteen years 
 as clerk of the school board, and has always 
 advocated securing the best possible teachers 
 for the school in his district. In religion he is 
 a member of the Christian Church, to the support 
 of which he is a liberal contributor. In politics 
 he is independent, preferring to keep himself 
 free from allegiance to any particular party, and 
 
 casting his ballot for the men, who, in his opin- 
 ion, will administer affairs for the best general 
 interests of the state and country. Personally 
 he is a man who is held in the highest esteem by 
 those who have been favored with his acquaint- 
 ance and thereby have learned to appreciate the 
 numerous fine qualities which go to make up his 
 character. 
 
 LUTHER ELKINS was born of English 
 stock in Cornville, Me., in 1809, the youngest of 
 nine children. His father, Samuel Elkins, was 
 one of the first settlers in Somerset county and 
 was granted a quarter section of land for hav- 
 ing the first white child born in that county — his 
 eldest son, Smith Elkins, who after growing to 
 manhood was a captain of a company of volun- 
 teers at the battle of Plattsburg, under Col. 
 Winfield Scott in General Brown's command in 
 18 12, became a practicing lawyer in New York 
 City, and died at an advanced age in Missouri, 
 an ex-judge. 
 
 At the age of thirteen Luther Elkins was left 
 an orphan in the state of Indiana, whence his 
 father had moved. He grew to be a tall, strong 
 man, taking jobs of labor as he could secure, 
 being at one time in company with mischievous 
 Jo Wright at Bloomington on a contract for pul- 
 verizing sandstone for brick making. This 
 same Jo Wright in after years became the dis- 
 tinguished statesman and jurist, and died while 
 United States minister, at the Court of Berlin. 
 
 Mr. Elkins was married in 1830 to Miss Philo- 
 theta Williams in the city of Wheeling, where 
 he worked at his trade of wagon and carriage 
 making. Thence they moved to Mt. Pleasant, 
 Ohio. Mr. Elkins made a permanent settlement 
 in Belmont county of that state, entering into 
 the merchandise and milling business, connect- 
 ing the same with wholesale buying of leaf to- 
 bacco, in which his operations were successful ; 
 however, for having, as justice of the peace, 
 fined one of his own hands for disturbing a tem- 
 perance meeting when drunk, the fellow set fire 
 to the great tobacco houses for revenge, and 
 their entire loss almost financially ruined Mr. 
 Elkins. He therefore resolved to cast his lot 
 in Oregon, and on May 1. 1852, crossed the 
 Missouri river above St. Joseph, entering upon 
 the great plains of Nebraska, with two teams of 
 four yoke of oxen each, with his two eldest 
 sons, James, aged twenty, and Joseph, aged 
 eighteen, at the helm, hauling their " little all," 
 with the wife and their eight children, of whom. 
 besides those named, were Louisa, Elizabeth, 
 William S., Clara. Julia and Chas. W. After a 
 tedious journey of five months they landed, Sep- 
 tember 26, at " Foster's, " east of Oregon City, 
 on the mountain overlooking the " land of 
 
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 promise," with one team only. Their journey 
 was without incident of note, beyond the usual 
 privations and hardships over a journey of two 
 thousand miles, except that which came near 
 stranding the little train after three days out on 
 the wild plains. Near sundown, the cattle hav- 
 ing fed over a bluff, out of hearing from the 
 bells, alarm was given that three Pawnee In- 
 dians were seen whooping with flying blankets 
 driving the band of cattle southward. With the 
 only horse in camp, which Mr. Elkins mounted, 
 he gave pursuit with desperation, realizing all 
 was lost if the cattle were not recovered. He 
 overhauled the stock after a chase of four miles, 
 the Indians scudding out of sight, and he re- 
 turned with the entire drove after dark, to the 
 great joy of all concerned, whose settlement in 
 Oregon came so nearly being indefinitely post- 
 poned. 
 
 Settling first upon a claim in the Santiam val- 
 ley, he subsequently was a general merchant in 
 Lebanon, Linn county, from 1858 to 1865. He 
 became prominently identified with the upbuild- 
 ing of this section of the state, being a projector 
 and liberal supporter of nearly every enterprise 
 inaugurated to benefit the county. He, with 
 Jason Wheeler, Abram Hackleman, William Ral- 
 ston, C. P. Burkhart, M. Luper, Andrew Cowan 
 and Jacky Settle, was one of the promoters of 
 the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountains 
 wagon road, four hundred miles in length, ex- 
 tending to the eastern boundary of the state. 
 The road company was inaugurated by this en- 
 terprising merchant and his farmer co-operators 
 for the sole purpose of enabling emigrants and 
 stock to cross the great Cascade mountains, that 
 settlement of central Oregon could be more 
 speedily brought about, avoiding what, at that 
 day, was the exorbitant expense of traveling 
 around by way of the Columbia river. The road 
 was to be kept open by reasonable tolls. The 
 company had no forethought at the time, nor 
 until much work had been done, to apply for a 
 land grant, which was afterwards obtained from 
 the government. The travel became immense 
 over this road and continued so until closed by 
 winter, exceeding that of any other mountain 
 route, being materiallv improved by a subsequent 
 company. The enterprise has proved the wis- 
 dom of the originators, in creating a direct con- 
 venience to the public and an improvement to 
 central Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Elkins, with several of his old co-oper- 
 ators, constructed the Albany and Santiam 
 Canal at a cost of $65,000, including terminal 
 lands, which has been of inestimable value to the 
 growth of the city. This property, however, 
 was entirely lost to the original builders, from 
 a forced sale of the property by outside influ- 
 ences — unnecessarily so, as Mr. Elkins had se- 
 
 cured the promise of abundant means to relieve 
 the financial situation. But this was thwarted, 
 and his answer to a sympathizer was : " Yes, 
 it has ruined us, but saved the town." 
 
 Mr. Elkins was likewise a prime mover, with 
 enterprising men in Albany and Lebanon, in in- 
 fluencing the Southern Pacific Railroad man- 
 agers, Villard and Kohler, to construct the 
 twelve miles of railway between Albany and 
 Lebanon, and to the question propounded to him 
 personally by Villard — " Will this piece of road 
 pay?"— he replied: "Yes, better than any 
 feeder you can have." This settled the construc- 
 tion of the road, and the result was assured, 
 and a great boon to Lebanon and Albany ac- 
 complished. 
 
 Being a man of force and strong views, he 
 readily attracted prominent notice, and twice 
 represented in part his county in the territorial 
 legislature. He was a member of the constitu- 
 tional convention and also served as state sen- 
 ator after the granting of statehood. Being 
 president of that body, he had the honor, on the 
 thirty-fifth ballot, of casting the vote that elected 
 General Nesmith and Col. E. D. Baker, two 
 loyal men, to the United States senate, in i860. 
 Mr. Elkins had endeavored by his influence to 
 elect Nesmith and Judge George H. Williams, 
 or Nesmith and Delazon Smith, determined that 
 Oregon should be represented by two loyal union 
 senators in Washington. Seeing the approach- 
 ing storm of secession, he warned O'Meara and 
 other leading Democrats of the Lane faction 
 that he would not be responsible much longer 
 for a non-election of United States senators, 
 when it depended upon his vote, and he was com- 
 pelled to give his casting vote on the last ballot 
 for Colonel Baker, a man of national fame, to 
 accomplish that result, thereby making certain 
 the election of General Nesmith. By doing this 
 Mr. Elkins received the plaudits of the war 
 Democrats and Republicans, but incurred the 
 enmity of very many of his old Democratic 
 friends in his county, and was accused of being 
 " bought " ; when in truth Colonel Baker and 
 his friends did not expect Mr. Elkins' support, 
 relying upon Amery Holbroke to eventually cast 
 the requisite vote. Mr. Elkins had avoided 
 Colonel Baker's pressing invitations and social 
 intercourse, and no man who should offer to 
 bribe him could escape his denunciation. He 
 w3s high-minded, and dealt not in any dishonor- 
 able means or secret plans. From that time on 
 Mr. Elkins ceased to be held a leader. While 
 still being classed as a Democrat, he frequently 
 acted independently. 
 
 Luther Elkins was a firm believer in the doc- 
 trines of Christianity. He led a busy and active 
 life, was warm-hearted, brave and forgiving, and 
 true to hig friends, and well calculated to be a 
 
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 pioneer. Though amassing small fortunes at 
 various times in his eventful life, he died at the 
 age oi seventy-eight a poor man. The last few 
 years of his life were spent with his son Joseph 
 at Lebanon, in retirement, suffering in his old 
 age from a general breaking down of his physi- 
 cal and mental powers. He left a large number 
 oi friends to remember the industry of a man to 
 whom Linn county is more indebted for her 
 material prosperity than to any other one indi- 
 vidual. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Philotheta Williams, was born in Chenango 
 county, N. Y., and preceded him in her demise in 
 Lebanon, Ore., in 1881, at the age of seventy- 
 four. She was a helpmate indeed, and a com- 
 forter in her husband's trials — a fond mother, 
 beloved by all. 
 
 The oldest child of the parental household, 
 James Elkins was - educated in Belmont county, 
 Ohio, and as a young man was first a clerk in 
 the auditor's office there, and afterwards in his 
 father's store. Coming with his parents to Linn 
 county in 1852, Mr. Elkins took up a donation, 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres near the 
 property of his father, which he improved. For 
 two terms he taught school, being the first 
 teacher employed south of Crabtree creek. In 
 1855 and 1856 he was clerk in the Quartermaster 
 General's office at Salem, Ore., during the Indian 
 war of those years. His brother, Joseph, going 
 out with the volunteers to fight the Indians, 
 James was afterwards appointed clerk in the 
 Surveyor General's office, under General Zieber. 
 At his father's request, Mr. Elkins gave up his 
 clerkship in 1858 to become a partner with him 
 in the mercantile business at Lebanon, remain- 
 ing there until 1862. Being then elected county 
 clerk of Linn county, Mr. Elkins removed to 
 Albany, and in 1864 was re-elected to the same 
 office for the ensuing two years. Becoming sec- 
 retary of the Wagon Road Company, he served 
 from 1866 until the road was sold in 1869 to 
 Colonel Hogg, after which he dealt in real estate 
 for a time. In 1870 he was a candidate for sec- 
 retary of state, against Judge Chadwick, but with 
 the rest of his ticket — General Palmer for gov- 
 ernor, Myer Hirsch for treasurer and Joseph 
 Wilson for congress— was defeated by the small 
 vote of three hundred and fifty. He was ap- 
 pointed by Benjamin Holliday as the first rail- 
 road agent at Albany, serving from 1870 until 
 1871, when, on account of ill health, he was 
 forced to resign. Going to eastern Oregon, he 
 was engaged in the cattle business in Crook 
 county, near Prineville, for awhile, then re- 
 moved to Beaver creek, where he enlarged his 
 operations, carrying on an extensive business 
 for a number of years as a stock-raiser and 
 dealer. His sons wishing a change of occupa- 
 tion, he sold his property and returned to Al- 
 
 bany, where he has since resided. In June, 
 1902, Mr. Elkins was elected county treasurer, 
 and assumed the duties of his responsible office 
 July 7, 1902. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Elkins married Miss Helen Mil- 
 lard, who was born in Burlington, Iowa, in 
 October, 1842, and came across the plains to 
 Oregon in 1851 with her widowed mother, 
 Amelia Millard (who afterward became the wife 
 of Rev. Edward Fisher). Mrs. Elkins died in 
 1899, leaving six children, namely: Charles 
 M., a general merchant in Prineville, Ore. ; Col- 
 lins W., a merchant in Lyle, Wash.; Luther, 
 an attorney in San Francisco, Cal. ; Frank, a 
 mechanic in Prineville, Ore. ; Helen and James, 
 Jr., at home Politically Mr. Elkins is a stanch 
 supporter of the principles of the Republican 
 party, and fraternally he is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
 is one of its board of trustees. 
 
 WILLIAM HAGER. One of the most promi- 
 nent merchants and leading business men of 
 Marion county is William Hager, who has been 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits from his youth. 
 In that line he has achieved success and has be- 
 come well known as a man of integrity and 
 honor. He meets promptly all obligations, his 
 word being as good as his bond, and in the com- 
 mercial world he is recognized as a keen and 
 sagacious business man, thoroughly up to date 
 and alive to the requirements of his patrons. 
 Mr. Hager is now at the head of a large estab- 
 lishment in Fairfield, conducts a general mer- 
 cantile business, and also has a large ware- 
 house and deals extensively in grain. He has 
 made good use of his business opportunities 
 and owns five hundred acres of valuable land, 
 including real estate in Portland and Salem, 
 Ore., besides a very nice residence and store 
 building in Fairfield. This prosperity has come 
 to Mr. Hager through his own well directed 
 efforts. He comes from Switzerland, that 
 little independent country which nestles among 
 the Alps, and whose sons are as familiar with 
 the word "Freedom" as are our own American 
 born citizens. It is an acknowledged fact that 
 emigrants from that country have ever been 
 thrifty, upright and self-supporting, and on 
 coming to America have always acquired a 
 competence for themselves, at the same time 
 advancing the prosperity of the land of their 
 adoption. Mr. Hager has been no exception 
 to this rule. He has established a home and a 
 name for himself in the new world, of which 
 any one may well be proud. As a private citi- 
 zen, he is highlv honored, while in public life 
 his record is alike commendable, he having 
 
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 served as postmaster of Fairfield for twenty- 
 two years. 
 
 In St. Gall, Switzerland, May 28, 1850, 
 Mr. Hager was born. There he acquired his 
 education and entered into the mercantile 
 business, serving as an apprentice for three 
 years and receiving nothing for his services 
 except the experience which he gained. This, 
 however, was good capital for a bright lad 
 such as he was, and proved to be an excellent 
 foundation for the future success which 
 awaited him in America. The family history 
 of Mr. Hager is of tragic character, owing to 
 the death of his beloved mother at the hands 
 of an assassin, and the demise of the father a 
 year later, which resulted from the shock at 
 the loss of his wife. John Hager, the father, 
 was born in St. Gall, Switzerland, in 1824, and 
 in that land followed the occupation of farm- 
 ing. In the home of his youth he was married 
 to Barbara Klingler, a native of the same 
 place, born in 1825. The family resided in 
 Switzerland until 1865, when Mr. Hager, hear- 
 ing of the great opportunities to be found in 
 America, crossed the broad Atlantic, settling 
 in Minnesota, where he resided until 1869, 
 at which time he removed to Portland, Ore. 
 In 1871 the wife and children came to America, 
 joining the father who immediately rented a 
 farm near Oregon City, and here they lived 
 very happily until Mrs. Hager was murdered. 
 She had received an inheritance from her 
 native land and the murderers probably 
 thought the money from the inheritance was 
 in her possession, and, although it is known 
 who did the deed, the perpetrators have never 
 been brought to justice, yet this great crime 
 is not hidden from Him who sees all hearts 
 and knows all things. As has been stated, 
 her husband survived only a year after her 
 death, she living to be fifty-five years of age 
 and her husband fifty-six. Three children 
 were born unto this couple: William, of this 
 review ; Mary, the wife of Charles Hickethier, 
 of Cedar Mills, Ore.; and Matilda, who is 
 deceased. 
 
 The .life history of a man who from a small 
 beginning has made his way upward in the 
 world, is always of interest to others, as it 
 indicates the amount of vim and energy which 
 has culminated in success, and to those who 
 have come to America from other countries, 
 bringing with them the very life-blood with 
 which to form a new and great nation, is due 
 the marvelous growth and progress of this 
 great land. In this connection the career of 
 Mr. Hager is an eminent example. On arriv- 
 ing in America in 1871, he made his way to 
 Portland, remaining in that city for about six 
 months, then proceeding to Fairfield, in 1872. 
 
 In the latter place he was engaged as a clerk, 
 serving in that capacity until 1879, when he 
 purchased a one-half interest in the business. 
 Thus was his progress toward success made 
 step by step. In 1880 he became sole owner 
 and proprietor of the general mercantile busi- 
 ness which he now conducts and through his 
 fair and honorable dealings Mr. Hager has 
 gained the good will and patronage of the 
 public. 
 
 In 1887 Cordelia Byrd became the wife of 
 William Hager, the marriage taking place in 
 Fairfield. Her parents were L. A. and Martha 
 Byrd, who came to the Pacific coast in 1849. 
 The present home of Mr. and Mrs. Hager is 
 the place where they first began housekeep- 
 ing. Four children have been born to them, 
 but only one, Harold B., is now living. He 
 makes his home with his parents. As post- 
 master for twenty-two years, as school clerk 
 for several years, Mr. Hager has contributed 
 with his best efforts to the advancement and 
 prosperity of his adopted city. In politics Mr. 
 Hager has always, allied himself with the 
 Republican party. 
 
 CAPT. S. B, ORMSBY. The family of which 
 Capt. S. B. Ormsby of Salem is a representative 
 was founded in America in the early colonial 
 days by descendants of the head of the ancient 
 Scottish clan Ormsby, who fought under Robert 
 Bruce for the freedom of Scotland. They were 
 of the Scotch nobility, possessed of a coat of 
 arms, were sturdy, brave lovers of freedom, 
 stern in their dispensation of justice, with a 
 large body of retainers who were ever ready 
 with sword and lance to defend the honored name 
 and person of their powerful chief. Through 
 many generations and the admixture of other 
 blood, these prime characteristics still remain 
 dominant in representatives of the family, evi- 
 dence of which may be found by study of the life, 
 the work and personality of the subject of this 
 brief memoir. 
 
 Joseph Ormsby, the grandfather of Captain 
 Ormsby, was a young man when the Revolution- 
 ary war began, and during the early days of the 
 struggle offered his services to the cause of the 
 colonists. Enlisting in the Continental army as 
 a member of the Third Regiment of the Penn- 
 sylvania Reserve, commanded by Gen. Anthony 
 Wayne, he served throughout the war with dis- 
 tinction. He was placed on guard at the door 
 of the room in which was held the court-martial 
 which resulted in the conviction of Major Andre, 
 the British spy, and witnessed his execution. 
 In the war of 1812 he served as guide to General 
 Hampton in his Canadian invasion, and was cap- 
 tured by the British. While held as prisoner along 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 885 
 
 the St. Laurence river, he was sent out to fish in 
 company with a boy. and while on his mission 
 succeeded in making his escape. He made his 
 way to the American lines, and eventually reached 
 Ubans, Vt., where he decided to locate and 
 establish a home. At this place he engaged in 
 farming for several years, finally removing to 
 Parishville, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where 
 he spent the remainder of his life. He died at 
 
 g lensburg, N. Y., at the age of eighty-eight 
 years. 
 
 Lyman Ormsby, father of the captain, was 
 born and reared at St. Albans. With his parents 
 lie subsequently settled in St. Lawrence county, 
 N". Y.. where he became a farmer. Later in life 
 ue moved to Jackson county, Wis., settling near 
 Black River Falls, where he died at the age of 
 eighty-six vears. Throughout his life he car- 
 ried on agricultural pursuits. A devoted member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he was its 
 class leader for sixty years, taking a very active 
 part in the work of the church. He voted at 
 everv presidential election from the time he cast 
 his first baiiot for John Quincy Adams until and 
 including the election of Benjamin Harrison. He 
 married Laura Bell, who was born near Burling- 
 ton, Yt. She was of English descent, and died 
 in Xew York state. Of this marriage there 
 were born two children — Mrs. Delia Howard of 
 Lincoln, Neb., and S. B. Ormsby, subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Captain Ormsby was born at Parishville, N. 
 Y.. October 18, 1835, and was dependent upon 
 his own resources from the age of eight years, 
 at which time his mother died. After acquiring 
 his rudimentary education in the public schools, 
 by working for his board among the farmers 
 he became qualified to teach and in this way he 
 gained sufficient means to enter St. Lawrence 
 Academy at Pottsdam. N. Y., where his studies 
 were completed. In 1856 he moved to Michigan, 
 traveling by boat to Detroit, whence he pro- 
 ceeded to Montcalm county. For a time he 
 taught school near Greenville, after which exper- 
 ience he entered the Michigan State Normal 
 School at Ypsilanti. He continued to teach at in- 
 tervals in order to meet the expenses of his normal 
 course, being thus engaged until the fall of i860, 
 when, because of failing health, he went to Mis- 
 souri. At Versailles and Tipton, in that state, 
 he continued to teach school until the outbreak 
 of the Civil war. Being a stanch Union man, 
 and taking part in the election of delegates to the 
 state convention, he made himself obnoxious to 
 the Confederate leaders and was ordered to 
 leave the state. Upon his refusal to do so he 
 was arrested and held as a prisoner for a time; 
 but managing to escape he made his way to St. 
 Louis, thence to Michigan, where he again 
 
 entered the Ypsilanti Normal School, from which 
 he was graduated in March, 1862. 
 
 Immediately after leaving school he enlisted 
 in Company K, Fifth Michigan Cavalry Volun- 
 teers, and was mustered in as a private in August, 
 1862, in Detroit. His command was assigned to 
 duty with the Army of the Potomac. He re- 
 mained with this regiment until June, 1864, and 
 with it participated in the Gettysburg campaign 
 and the operations immediately following it. In 
 June, 1864, he was commissioned first lieutenant 
 of Company C, One Hundred and Eighth United 
 States Colored Infantry. In 1865 he. was pro- 
 moted to the captaincy of Company A. and held 
 that rank when he was mustered out in March, 
 1866. After receiving his commission he served 
 in Kentucky, and for about six months guarded 
 Confederate prisoners at Rock Island, 111. The 
 remainder of his service was in Mississippi. 
 
 Returning to Michigan upon the close of the 
 war, Captain Ormsby resumed teaching in Wash- 
 tenaw county. In August, 1868, he removed to 
 Carthage, Jasper county, Mo., where he became 
 principal of the high school. Later he was 
 elected superintendent of the public schools of 
 Joplin, in that county, a position he filled until 
 May. 1882, when he resigned and returned to 
 Michigan on a visit. In January, 1883, he started 
 for the Pacific coast, arriving in Marion county, 
 Ore., in June. For seventeen years continuously 
 he was engaged in stock-raising in the mountains 
 of Marion county. He homesteaded one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land twenty-seven miles 
 northeast of Salem, improved this, and bought 
 two hundred and forty acres adjoining, all of 
 which he operated with success. 
 
 While in Missouri Captain Ormsby had taken 
 an active interest in politics as a stanch supporter 
 of the Republican party, having cast his first vote 
 for John C. Fremont in 1856. Upon coming to 
 Oregon he at once became interested in the polit- 
 ical situation in this state, laboring diligently for 
 Republican success. In 1892 he was the candi- 
 date of his party for the state legislature, and 
 was elected, serving in the session of 1893. He 
 was the father of the bill resulting in the estab- 
 lishment of the Soldiers' Home at Roseburg, and 
 promoted other legislative measures of import- 
 ance. In 1894 the governor appointed him 
 member of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' 
 Home, and he served as its president until Julv, 
 1897, when he resigned to take charge of the 
 office of superintendent of Forest Reserve in 
 Oregon, having been appointed Julv 1 bv Secre- 
 tary Bliss. This office he filled until it was abol- 
 ished January 1, 1903. Captain Ormsby's duties 
 included the protection of the forests from fire 
 and from timber trespassers, and the manage- 
 ment of stock-grazing upon the range. The total 
 area of the reserves in his charge was 4,548,640 
 
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 acres, and is included in the Cascade, the Bull 
 Run, and the Ashland reservations. These 
 ranges were a feeding ground for from two to 
 three hundred thousand head of sheep and 
 about five thousand head of cattle. His ad- 
 ministration of the affairs of the office gave 
 entire satisfaction, not only to the government, 
 but to the men who occupied the ranges. 
 
 Captain Ormsby has disposed of his cattle 
 interests and now rents his ranch. He has, how- 
 ever, considerable private business interests, 
 having acquired mining interests in Coos county, 
 Ore., where he .is actively engaged in mining 
 and where he is developing several gold claims, 
 which promise to become the leading mines of 
 southern Oregon. 
 
 In Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1862, Captain Ormsby 
 was married to Adelia Merritt, who was born 
 in Ontario, ' Canada, a daughter of Jefferson 
 Merritt, a native of Vermont. The Merritt fam- 
 ily came originally from France, settling in Cana- 
 da, and Mrs. Orsmby's father became a resident 
 of Michigan, following the wheelwright's trade 
 in Ypsilanti for many years. He died in Ionia, 
 Mich. Unto Captain and Mrs. Ormsby has 
 been born one son, Lyman Merritt, who is a grad- 
 uate of the School of Mines at Scranton, Pa., 
 and is now engaged with his father in develop- 
 ing their mines in Coos county, Ore. 
 
 Fraternally a Mason, Captain Ormsby was ini- 
 tiated into the craft at Ypsilanti and afterward 
 joined the lodge at Carthage, Mo. He is a mem- 
 ber of Sedgwick Post No. 10, G. A. R., and was 
 Commander of the Department of Oregon in 
 1894-95. He also served as an aide on the staff 
 of Grand Commander-in-Chief Adams. He is 
 a member of Oregon Commandery of the Loyal 
 Legion, and has always exhibited a deep interest 
 in military matters and the condition of the veter- 
 ans of the Civil war. He served for a time as 
 justice of the peace for Silver Falls precinct, but 
 otherwise has held no local office. In the state 
 and federal positions he has filled he has dis- 
 charged his manifold duties in a manner which 
 reflects credit not only upon himself but on the 
 appointing power. A man of strong mentality, 
 of an engaging personality, of culture and refine- 
 ment, he commands the respect of his fellow-men 
 who find him an entertaining and agreeable com- 
 panion. His life record, a brief outline of which 
 is here preserved for future generations, shows 
 him to have been a thoroughly representative 
 man, and an honorable, patriotic citizen. 
 
 WILLIAM C. JACKSON. As a blacksmith 
 and a dealer in all kinds of hardware, buggies and 
 wagons, William C. Jackson supports both com- 
 mercial and industrial lines of business in Shedds, 
 
 Linn county. His business probity and sterling 
 character have made him one of the most popular 
 men in the town and one deserving the confidence 
 and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Jackson 
 was born March 6, 1862, in Whiteside county, 
 111., the son of Barney K. and Malinda (Constant) 
 Jackson, the former being born in Mount Vernon, 
 Ohio, December 21, 1827, and the latter being a 
 native of Illinois. When only a boy B. K. Jack- 
 son removed with his parents to Illinois, and there 
 grew to manhood and married, following teach- 
 ing and clerking until the breaking out of the 
 Civil war, when he enlisted in Company E, 
 Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 
 which he served about sixteen months. He then 
 returned to Illinois, where he lived until 1866, 
 when he removed to Franklin county, Iowa, and 
 there followed farming for twenty years. In the 
 year 1886 he came to Linn county, Ore., locating 
 near Brownsville, where he lived retired until 
 his death at the age of sixty-nine years. Both 
 himself and wife were members of the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church. After the death of 
 his wife, which occurred at the age of fifty-one 
 years, Mr. Jackson married a Mrs. Wilson, who 
 still survives him. Besides William C. Jackson 
 of this review, there were the following children : 
 Charles L. located in the home place ; Mary, the 
 wife of Charles Sickle, of Topeka, Kans ; and 
 Anna, wife of Charles Manas, located in Porto 
 Rico. Her husband served as a lieutenant in the 
 regular army during the war with Spain. 
 
 In tracing the life of William C. Jackson we 
 find that it has been very much like that of 
 many other early Oregon pioneers. He enjoyed 
 a comparatively brief time of school attendance 
 in his home district, after which, at the age of 
 nineteen years, he took up the blacksmith trade, 
 in 1883 taking up his residence in California, 
 where he earned his livelihood by the prosecution 
 of his trade. At the close of eight successful 
 years in this locality he changed his location to 
 Shedds, Ore., succeeding E. Becker in a black- 
 smith shop of this place. Having met with a 
 success in his work he felt financially able in 
 1902 to enter into a hardware business, now 
 handling all kinds of farm implements, buggies, 
 wagons, etc. He owns both his business and 
 residence property here, and is enjoying a well 
 earned prosperity. 
 
 In California in 1885, Laura Brummett, a 
 native of Missouri, became the wife of Mr. Jack- 
 son, and they now have three children, all of 
 whom are at home — Gladys, Ellsworth and Mil- 
 dred. In his fraternal relations Mr. Jackson has 
 held all the chairs in the Woodmen of the World, 
 in which he is past consul. In religion he is a 
 member of the United Presbyterian Church, and 
 in politics cast his vote with the Republican 
 party. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 887 
 
 GARY E. LAWRENCE. A paying mercan- 
 tile business is being conducted at Scott's Mills 
 by G. E. Lawrence, who has succeeded so well 
 that he owns his store building and a fine resi- 
 dence, and is substantially identified with the 
 upbuilding of his adopted town. He comes from 
 farming ancestors, later members of which were 
 ited in the state of Iowa, where he was born 
 at .Magnolia, May 24, 1870. His father owns a 
 large farm in Iowa, but at present is living 
 retired, at Battle Creek, Iowa, after a life of 
 unusual activity and usefulness. His success 
 has been reflected in the lives of his four chil- 
 dren, all of whom profited by a liberal education, 
 and had advantages not enjoyed by the average 
 farm-reared youth. 
 
 G. E. Lawrence attended the public schools 
 and concluded his studies at the Normal School 
 at Woodbine, Iowa, remaining at home until he 
 was about eighteen. In search of greater oppor- 
 tunities he went to Nebraska, where he found 
 employment in a general store at Pender, and at 
 the expiration of four years had saved sufficient 
 means to negotiate the purchase of a grocery 
 and queensware store in the same town. In 
 1890 he disposed of comparatively flourishing 
 interests to come to Scott's Mills, Ore., where 
 a year later he started out in the business in 
 which he is at present engaged. He carries a 
 complete line of general necessities, and his cor- 
 rect business methods, genial and considerate 
 manner, and personal popularity, insure a con- 
 tinuation of present prosperity. 
 
 October 19, 1898, Mr. Lawrence married Lisa 
 
 M. Lint, a native of Richland Center, Wis., who 
 
 became the mother of one child, Irene E. In 
 
 politics Mr. Lawrence is a Republican, and in 
 
 religion is a member of the Christian Church. 
 
 REUBEN A. HASTINGS. The owner of 
 a finely improved farm lying two miles east of 
 Pedee, Reuben A. Hastings occupies an assured 
 position among the more intelligent, enterprising 
 and active citizens of Polk county. He is carry- 
 ing on general farming with success, year by 
 year adding to his wealth, and, having the 
 respect and confidence of his neighbors and 
 friends, is regarded as a valuable member of the 
 community. Native and to the manor born, 
 his birth occurred. January 26, 1857, on Soap 
 creek, Polk county, near Suver Station, on the 
 homestead which his father, Burres L. Hastings, 
 took up from the government. 
 
 His paternal grandfather, John W. Hastings, 
 was born April 15, 1798, in Orange county, N. 
 C. Emigrating to Tennessee with his bride, just 
 after his marriage, he lived in Henry county 
 until 1840. being engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits. He subsequently continued his independ- 
 
 ent vocation in Fulton county, Ark., until his 
 death, April 2, 1847. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Anna Estes, was born in Orange 
 county, N. C, and died, in 1850, in Arkansas. 
 They reared five sons and two daughters, Burres 
 L. being their third child. 
 
 Born April 2, 1832, in Henry county, Tenn., 
 Burres L. Hastings obtained the rudiments of 
 his education in his native town, completing 
 his studies in the common schools of Arkansas. 
 In 1852, in company with his brothers, John 
 and Archibald, he came to Polk county, Ore., 
 where all three located, and one of the brothers, 
 John Hastings, now resides in Airlie. Leaving 
 Arkansas on April 7, 1852, the brothers were a 
 little more than four months on the road, arriv- 
 ing in Portland, Ore., August 26. They remained 
 on the Luckiamute, Polk county, about two 
 weeks, and then proceeded to California, where 
 they were engaged in mining on Weaver creek 
 for some time. Having poor luck, Burres L. 
 Hastings returned to Oregon in the summer of 
 1853, an d took up a donation claim on Soap 
 creek, near Suver, and on his farm of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres engaged in mixed hus- 
 bandry, including stockraising, for four years. 
 Selling out, he purchased a ranch containing one 
 hundred and sixty acres, about two miles north 
 from his present home, and lived there a year 
 and a half. Disposing of that estate, he settled 
 on the Luckiamute, near Airlie, renting a farm 
 for three years, and then buying a ranch, which 
 he occupied until 1871. Renting that farm, he 
 moved into Tillamook county for the benefit of 
 his own and family's health, and lived there 
 fifteen months. He subsequently lived for a 
 time on his Airlie ranch, then carried on farming 
 on his Tillamook county ranch for a year. Re- 
 turning then to Airlie, he resided there until 
 1875, when he sold his farm, and moved to his 
 present homestead, in the vicinity of Pedee. He 
 has a well improved estate of three hundred and 
 seventy-nine acres, seventy five of which are in 
 a good state of cultivation, and he is carrying on 
 general farming and stock-raising with good 
 results. 
 
 Burres L. Hastings married, in 1854, Sophia 
 Simpson, who was born in Fulton county, Ark., 
 April 5, 1837, and of their union four children 
 have been born, namely : Rebecca Alice, de- 
 ceased ; Reuben A., the special subject of this 
 sketch ; Hannah J., wife of William Elkins, of 
 Dallas ; and R. W., of Cottage Grove, Ore. Mr. 
 Hastings is a Democrat in politics, and has served 
 as road supervisor and school director. Both he 
 and his wife are members of the Evangelical 
 Church at Pedee. 
 
 Born near Suver, Reuben A. Hastings, ob- 
 tained his early education in the common schools 
 of Polk count}-, and when yet a boy moved with 
 
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 his parents to the mountains near Pedee. As 
 soon as old enough to be of use, he began assist- 
 ing his father on the farm, and as early as prac- 
 ticable engaged in agricultural pursuits on his 
 own account. Locating on his present ranch, 
 not far from Pedee, he has one hundred and 
 twenty-nine acres of land, forty of which are in 
 cultivation, yielding excellent crops. In addition 
 to general farming he carries on a substantial 
 business as a stock-raiser. He also has charge 
 of his father's large ranch, managing it ably 
 and satisfactorily. 
 
 Mr. Hastings has been married three times. 
 He married first, October 12, 1879, Ella Price, 
 daughter of Fantley Price, who crossed the plains 
 in 1852, and located near Salt creek. She died, 
 at Pedee, in 1884. His second marriage, which 
 occurred August 3, 1890, united him with Etta 
 Johnson, daughter of John Johnson, who crossed 
 the plains in 1844, and settled near Lewisville, 
 on the farm now occupied by his widow. She 
 died on the home farm, February 20, 1895. Mr. 
 Hastings married for the third time, November 
 4, 1901, Tena Waters, a daughter of John 
 Waters, an early settler of Pedee. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hastings have one child, Grace Rowena. Politi- 
 cally Mr. Hastings is .actively identified with 
 the Democratic party, and has served his fellow- 
 citizens as school director, and as road supervisor. 
 
 JOHN N. McKAY. For more than twelve 
 years John N. McKay has successfully com- 
 bined agriculture with business interests in Port- 
 land connected with his father's estate, and 
 thereby has led a varied and by no means monot- 
 onous existence. Nevertheless he is a farmer 
 by inheritance and early training, and takes 
 great pride and delight in maintaining the high 
 standard established by his father on the old 
 homestead. He is the owner of six hundred 
 and twenty acres of the old donation claim, 
 the greater part of which is improved, and is 
 carrying on stock-raising and hop-growing, 
 having thirty-five acres under the vine. 
 
 On the farm which he now owns Mr. McKay 
 was born March 7, 1855, a son of James and 
 Cecelia (Lawson) McKay, natives respectively 
 of Ireland and Scotland, who came to America 
 early in life and settled at Albany, N. Y. After 
 various changes of location he crossed the plains 
 to Oregon in 1849 and subsequently purchased 
 the right to a donation claim in Marion county, 
 developing the farm now occupied by his son, 
 John N. McKay. Later in life he became exten- 
 sively connected with real estate operations in 
 Portland, in which city he spent his last days. 
 For more complete details of his life refer to his 
 sketch which appears elsewhere in this work. 
 John N. McKay was educated in the public 
 
 schools of Marion county and Portland. At the 
 age of twenty-five years he assumed the manage- 
 ment of his father's farm with his brother, 
 William R., continuing this association until the 
 marriage of the latter in 1885. His brother 
 sought a new location at that time, but the sub- 
 ject of this review remained on the homestead 
 until 1891, in which year he went to Portland 
 to assume charge of his father's city property. 
 He remained a resident of Portland for six 
 years, devoting practically all his time to the 
 management of his father's estate. Since that 
 time he has divided his time between the farm 
 and city property, discharging with exactitude 
 and rare business judgment the many obligations 
 devolving upon him by reason of his twofold 
 responsibility. 
 
 He was united in marriage November 26, 
 1900, to Caroline Bochsler, a native of Switzer- 
 land and a daughter of Joseph and Mary Bochs- 
 ler. Mary A., the eldest child of this union, 
 was born September 11, 1901, and the youngest 
 daughter, Cecilia Florence, was born August 
 IP, 1903. Mr. McKay is highly esteemed by the 
 citizens of Marion county and Portland for the 
 many admirable traits of character which he 
 possesses. Though he has taken no active part 
 in the political life of the community he has 
 always evinced a disposition to assist in further- 
 ing the best interests of the county, and in various 
 ways has shown himself to be the possessor of a 
 liberal mind and public spirit. He is regarded 
 as one of the most substantial men of the county, 
 and his probity and consideration for the rights 
 and privileges of his fellow-men have never been 
 brought into question. In religion he is a mem- 
 ber of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Paul. 
 
 MRS. PHOEBE A. JOHNSON. The farm 
 of one hundred and fifty-one acres now owned 
 and occupied by Mrs. Phoebe A. Johnson, is a 
 portion of the old homestead taken up by her 
 husband, John Johnson, as early as 1845. Many 
 of its improvements, and more especially the 
 pioneer clearing of the land, and the establishing 
 of a varied agricultural enterprise, are traceable 
 to this very early settler, whose death July 13, 
 1877, cut short a very useful and well balanced 
 career. Mr. Johnson was born in Worcester, 
 Tompkins county, N. Y., July 29, 1816, and 
 came to Oregon in 1845, making the long trip 
 with ox-teams in a train containing many other 
 home-seekers. He took up the donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres since divided 
 between his- wife and 'children, and in 1850 
 returned to the east, via Panama, remained in 
 Michigan for a year, and again crossed the plains 
 in 1 85 1. To the average traveler, however am- 
 bitious, these two jaunts would seem quite suf- 
 
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 firient, but .Mr. Johnson again returned to Michi- 
 gan in 1851. and in 1852 outfitted with ox-teams 
 for his third tramp across the plains. In this party 
 was James Taylor and his family, one of whom 
 was Phoebe A. Taylor, of whose many charms 
 oi person and character Mr. Johnson was fully 
 conscious. March 19, 1854, .near Pedee, he mar- 
 ried Miss Taylor, who proved a sympathetic and 
 helpful wife, and bore him three children, of 
 whom Alcida is the wife of Nicholas Tarter, of 
 Corvallis; Esther is deceased; and Fred is 
 working his mother's farm. After his marriage, 
 Mr. Johnson settled on the farm he had taken 
 up in 1845, and from then until the end of his 
 life engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 making a success of both occupations, and bring- 
 ing his land up to a high state of cultivation. 
 He was a man of high honor, and his upright 
 and well directed life was a credit to the promis- 
 ing community of which he was one of the most 
 respected members. 
 
 Mrs. Johnson, now living on the old home- 
 stead, was born in Erie county, N. Y., September 
 11, 1829, her father James Taylor previously 
 mentioned, having been born in Kennebec county, 
 Me., September 24, 1794. James Taylor was a 
 blacksmith, carpenter, and farmer, and in the 
 east married for his first wife, Esther Aldrich, 
 who was born in Rhode Island, in Smithfield 
 township, and died in Erie county, N. Y., July 
 19, 1833, at the age of about thirty. Of the 
 children of this union Mrs. Phoebe Johnson is 
 the oldest, while Esther is the wife of W. S. 
 Gilliam, of "Walla Walla, and Alcida died in 
 infancy. With his first wife Mr. Taylor moved 
 to New York, located on the farm in Erie 
 county, and worked at his trade for several years. 
 In 1835. hoping to find a more desirable place 
 of residence, he went to Michigan, leaving his 
 two motherless children with his mother in 
 New York. In Michigan he married in 1836, 
 Margaret Johnson, who bore him four children : 
 Anderson, deceased; John, living near Lewis- 
 ville : James, deceased ; and Persis, deceased. 
 In 1837 Mr. Taylor w r ent back east for his chil- 
 dren and brought them to Michigan overland in 
 a wagon, and in 1852 outfitted and crossed the 
 plains in the same party with his future son-in- 
 law, Mr. Johnson. Mr. Taylor reached Polk 
 county. Ore., November 26, 1852, and the follow- 
 ing spring bought the right to the farm upon 
 which he lived until his death, January 19, 1858. 
 He was taken with his final illness while in 
 Dallas, whither he had gone to build the county 
 jail, which he did not live to complete. He w r as 
 a prominent man in this county, and took a great 
 interest in Democratic politics, serving as judge 
 of Polk county from 1853 unt ^ l &5&- a position 
 he was holding at the time of his death. 
 
 Mrs. Johnson was educated in the public 
 
 schools, and has always been a great reader, 
 keeping well posted on current events, and having 
 a wide knowledge of the most progressive agri- 
 cultural methods. She lives with her son, Fred, 
 who is manager of the farm, and who is, like 
 herself, in favor of modern improvements, and 
 the many inventions which at present make farm- 
 ing life as admirable as it is comfortable and 
 congenial. 
 
 JOHN STEWART. An unusual amount of 
 pioneer interest is centered around the lives of 
 John and Mary (Scott) Stewart, the former of 
 whom died in Corvallis in 1885, at the age of 
 eighty-five years, and the latter of whom still 
 occupies the home in this town to which she 
 and her husband retired from active life in 1881. 
 These courageous homeseekers of '45 lived close 
 to the deprivation and discouraging conditions 
 of the very early days, and undertook with stout 
 hands and hearts the conquering of a great ad- 
 versity. Mrs. Stewart was the first woman to 
 live on the land upon a portion of which Cor- 
 vallis is built, and she, more than any other, has 
 stored up in her mind innumerable reminiscences 
 while this section was being awakened to a sense 
 of its possibilities as an agricultural region. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Stewart come from Revolution- 
 ary ancestors. John Stewart was born in the Old 
 Dominion state in 1800, his father, George Wash- 
 ington Stew T art, and his grandfather, being na- 
 tives of the same state. The grandfather stacked 
 his musket on many of the battlefields of the 
 war of Independence, and his son served in the 
 ":ar of 1812. George Washington Stewart re- 
 moved from Virginia to Indiana, and from there 
 to Missouri, and finally died on his farm in Ore- 
 gon. He married Mary Smith, who was born 
 in Virginia, and came to Oregon in 1851, where 
 her death occurred. John Stewart was fourteen 
 years old when the family removed to Missouri, 
 and his life was uneventfully passed on the pa- 
 ternal farm. In Switzerland county, Ind., Janu- 
 ary 7, 1842, he married Mary Scott, a native of 
 that part of Indiana, and daughter of William 
 Scott, who was born in old Virginia. The pater- 
 nal grandfather Scott was a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier, and passed his entire life in Virginia. 
 William Scott removed from Virginia to Ken- 
 tucky, and afterward became one of the very 
 early settlers of Indiana, arriving in time to par- 
 ticipate in the Indian difficulties which for a time 
 made life hazardous in the Hoosier state. His 
 wife, Rachel (Mounce) Scott, was born in New 
 Jersey, a daughter of Thomas J. Mounce, also 
 born in New Jersey, and who was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary and Indian wars. Mr. Mounce 
 died in Indiana, as did also his wife. He was 
 the parent of nine children, two of whom are liv- 
 
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 ing. Two sons and one daughter succeeded in 
 reaching Oregon, where one of the sons served 
 in the Cayuse war ; and one of the sons died 
 on the plains. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Stewart farmed for some time 
 in Holt county, Mo., and in the spring of 1845 
 prepared for the hazardous journey over the 
 plains. One child had been born in the meantime, 
 and accompanied its parents, who were outfitted 
 with two wagons and eight yoke of oxen, besides 
 having one hundred head of loose cattle. There 
 were one hundred wagons in the train, and they 
 started from Missouri May first, all going well 
 until they reached Boise City. One of the party 
 by the name of Meeks thought to shorten the 
 course by striking out from the main road, but 
 he got lost on the desert, and the rest had to 
 proceed without him. Without any particular 
 incident they arrived at Sheets, and then came 
 down to The Dalles, arriving in the valley in 
 November, 1845. O n the way they had lost near- 
 ly all of their loose cattle, but otherwise they 
 were in fairly good condition, at least possessing 
 fair health. After wintering at Tualatin Plains, 
 they stopped near Rickreall and raised one hun- 
 dred bushels of wheat, and in March, 1846, took 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres just north of Corvallis. Here their troubles 
 began in earnest, for at first they were obliged to 
 subsist almost entirely on boiled wheat and peas, 
 but finally they discovered that there was an 
 abundance of wild game, a most welcome addi- 
 tion to their limited menu. On the banks of 
 the Willamette Mr. Stewart built a comfortable 
 "little log house, and this same house proved a 
 blessing indeed to that uncivilized neighborhood. 
 The faithful wife made the clothes for the fam- 
 ily out of buckskin, and she was obliged to make 
 about six pairs of moccasins a week, so fast did 
 they wear out. They were of course intimately 
 associated with the Indians, who readily recog- 
 nized the friendship of the white settlers, and 
 displayed no animosity towards them. 
 
 Of importance in connection with these early 
 days was the organization of the first Methodist 
 Church in Benton county, which took place at 
 the Stewart home, and there received its first 
 impetus towards usefulness. The first pastor 
 was Rev. Leander Ballew, who crossed the 
 plains with Mr. Meeks. For three years the 
 services were held in the hospitable home of the 
 Stewarts, the people coming from many miles 
 around with ox-teams, and invariably staying 
 over night. They also partook of the boiled 
 wheat and game, and left refreshed materially 
 and spiritually. After three years a log school- 
 house was erected where Mrs. Stewart's house 
 is built in Corvallis, and thereafter the services 
 were held there, thus relieving these earnest pio- 
 neers of their courageously borne responsibility. 
 
 In time Mr. Stewart cleared considerable of his 
 land and was rewarded with golden harvests, and 
 still later fences enclosed the property, and ag- 
 ricultural devices of a modern nature facilitated 
 the large enterprises he had inaugurated. In 
 1850 he took a run down into California, spent 
 the summer in the mines, and experienced fair 
 success. He engaged during his active life in 
 the west in general farming, although he de- 
 voted considerable time to stock-raising and de- 
 pended for the larger part of his revenue upon 
 cattle and hogs. Before his death he disposed 
 of one hundred acres of his land, and in January, 
 1881, retired to a well earned rest in his pleasant 
 and comfortable home in the town. Mr. Stewart 
 was a Republican in politics, and although he 
 was not active therein in the west, had served 
 as probate judge in Missouri. 
 
 Since her husband's death Mrs. Stewart has 
 continued to live in the town home, where she 
 is honored not only for her brave and helpful 
 life in the past, but for those enduring qualities 
 of sympathy, humanity, and womanliness, which 
 have made her so conspicuous among the pioneer 
 women of Benton county. Mrs. Stewart still 
 owns five hundred and forty acres of the original 
 donation claim, which is being managed by her 
 son-in-law, Miner M. Swick, husband of her 
 second oldest child, Cerenda. Her oldest child, 
 and only son, John, was born in Missouri, is 
 married, has one child, Lenora, and lives near 
 Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Stewart has been a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Church since her girlhood 
 days, and is a member of the Pioneer Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 BARTHOLOMEW WIESNER. On the 
 Parkersville and Aumsville road, ten miles 
 northeast of Salem and five miles west of Sil- 
 verton, Marion county, Ore., is located the farm 
 of Bartholomew Wiesner, presenting a fair 
 picture of rural comfort. The house, barns and 
 outbuildings are all substantial and up-to-date, 
 and the farm itself is well stocked with Angora 
 goats, horses, Jersey cattle, Brown Leghorn 
 and Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, the fowls 
 having taken first prize at the Oregon State 
 Fair, where they are exhibited each year. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Wiesner occurred near 
 Zunderbach, Germany, March 7, 1835. His 
 father, Adam Wiesner, born in 1799, was a 
 manufacturer of tile and brick and also engaged 
 in farming up to the time of his death, which 
 occurred at the age of sixty years, in the year 
 i860, the mother, Margaret Happ, born in 
 1809, having died when about fifty years old. 
 Bartholomew Wiesner was one of eight chil- 
 dren, and the large family prevented him re- 
 ceiving as many advantages as would other- 
 
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 wise have been accorded him. His school days 
 were ended at the age of twelve years, at which 
 time he started for America. Having his own 
 livelihood to earn, he sought with remarkable 
 judgment the best field wherein to spend his 
 energy. It was in the year 1847 th at he came 
 to the United States and settled in Buffalo, 
 X. Y., where he served as an apprentice to his 
 uncle, who was a tailor. After a period of three 
 years spent in that city, Mr. Wiesner removed 
 to Lanada West, locating in what is now On- 
 tario, where he secured employment on a farm, 
 and remained until 1862. In the last-named 
 year he came to Oregon, via New York, Isth- 
 mus of Panama and San Francisco, and after 
 a stop in British Columbia of a few months, 
 he came to Marion county and settled on a 
 farm on French Prairie, where his management 
 and industry resulted in sufficient means to 
 enable him to purchase land in 1864. This 
 first purchase was located on the Prairie, and 
 there he bought the farm which he now owns, 
 consisting of one hundred and seventy-two 
 acres, though since his purchase he has added 
 twenty more. One hundred and twenty acres 
 of his land is under cultivation. Mr. Wiesner 
 has put all the improvements on this place 
 and has brought it to the present high state 
 of cultivation. 
 
 April 6, 1868, Mr. Wiesner was united in 
 marriage with Miss Louise Jane Cawood, who 
 was born in Daviess county, Ind., and with her 
 parents crossed the plains with mule teams in 
 1865. They took up their residence on the 
 farm on French Prairie, and in 1870 removed 
 to their present location. Eight children were 
 born of the union, of whom Emma is the wife 
 of Edward Baughton, a contractor of Portland, 
 and they have two children, Ralph and Mamie ; 
 Philip is in Mesa, Ariz., engaged in bee cul- 
 ture ; Ephraim G. and Ernest C. are at home ; 
 Opha is the wife of AVarren Gray, of Mar- 
 quam ; Bertha and Archie B. also make their 
 home with their parents, and Oso died in in- 
 fancy. One of the most important events in 
 the life of Mr. Wiesner was obtaining his mar- 
 riage license and teacher's certificate on the 
 same day. He taught school one term, organ- 
 ized a new district, there having previously 
 been no building, the pupils meeting in a room 
 of his own house. Politically Mr. Wiesner 
 is a Socialist and is a member of the Christian 
 Scientists. He has served in public offices at 
 different times, being elected justice of the 
 peace, serving four years, and school director 
 from 1870 to 1890. Mr. Wiesner is influential 
 in the Grange, and is now overseer in the Pa- 
 mona Grange and master of North Howell 
 Grange, No. 274, having passed all the chairs 
 of the subordinate Grange. 
 
 WILLIAM D. CLAGGETT, whose fifty-one 
 years of residence in Oregon covers almost the 
 v entire period of development and improvements 
 here, was for many years extensively engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising and still supervises 
 his interests in those directions from his home 
 in Salem, where he has resided since 1880. 
 
 A native of Missouri, William D. Claggett 
 was born near Albany, Gentry county, November 
 28, 1840, a son of Charles Claggett, who was 
 born in Woodford county, Ky., October 13, 1813. 
 The latter 's father died in Kentucky when Charles 
 Claggett was an infant. Charles Claggett was 
 reared in that state, and after attaining his major- 
 ity began farming on his own account in Gentry 
 county. In 1852 he left the Mississippi valley for 
 the coast, making the long and tedious journev 
 across the sands and through the mountain passes 
 until he reached Marion county. He settled four 
 miles north of Salem, where he secured about 
 three hundred and twenty acres of land covered 
 with a heavy growth of timber. He at once began 
 to improve the property, and in those early davs 
 he burned charcoal. His pits were long enough 
 to take in logs of seventy-five feet, and would 
 contain two thousand bushels of charcoal. Each 
 pit would be left to burn for three months, before 
 the product was considered ready for the mar- 
 ket. In this Mr. Claggett was quite successful, 
 although the early years of residence here were 
 a period of hardship to the family. The father 
 had but a single dollar at the time of his arrival, 
 and the first home of the family was a log cabin, 
 16x16 feet, and without a floor of any kind, or 
 a stove or a fireplace. Through many years, how- 
 ever. Charles Claggett successfully engaged in 
 the raising of stock and grain, and added to his 
 original purchase the adjoining farm. His death 
 occurred October 7, 1902, and thus passed away 
 one of the honored pioneer settlers. He had a 
 brother, Mason Claggett, who w r as a soldier in the 
 Mexican war. 
 
 The mother of William D., Mrs. Mary 
 (Irvine) Claggett, was a native of Kentucky and 
 a daughter of Jesse Irvine, who removed to Mis- 
 souri, where he engaged in farming until his 
 death in 1842. Mrs. Claggett passed away in 
 Salem in 1891. In the family were ten children, 
 of whom only four reached adult age : Mrs. 
 Margaret McNary, who died near Salem ; Mrs. 
 Sallie A. Pugh. who also died near Salem ; Will- 
 iam D., and Mrs. Martha Savage, who was 
 accidentally killed in Marion county. 
 
 When but eleven years of age William D. Clag- 
 gett came with his parents to Oregon. Thev left 
 their Missouri home on the 1st of April, with two 
 wagons drawn by oxen, and some loose cattle. 
 The boy William drove an ox-team of four yoke, 
 and in the lead had a pair of three-vear-old oxen 
 which he had broken from calves, and had made 
 
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 so tractable that he could stand on the wagon 
 tongue and guide them simply by speaking to 
 them. The party crossed the Platte river where 
 it was three miles wide. Mr. Claggett had his 
 three-year-olds in the lead of seven yoke of cattle, 
 and had they stopped swimming the wagons 
 would have sunk. This yoke of oxen crossed the 
 Platte seven times in one day, leading the other 
 big teams. At length they reached the old Ore- 
 gon trail and proceeded slowly until they arrived 
 at Fort Hall, when they quickened their pace 
 and passed every team which they overtoook 
 upon the road. On July 4 they reached the 
 North pass and came on toward Oregon, arriving 
 at The Dalles, September 13, and proceeding 
 down the Columbia on a flatboat, while the cattle 
 were brought by the trail. 
 
 Mr. Claggett arrived at Salem October 13, 
 1852, and proceeded to make himself useful on the 
 home farm. In the winter months, when his 
 services were not needed at home, he attended 
 the district schools, and between the years 1852 
 and 1862 he was a student in the Willamette 
 University. For some time he continued with 
 his father, assisting in the operation of the home 
 farm. Soon after reaching maturity he bought 
 one hundred acres, to which he added another 
 hundred, then three hundred and forty and subse- 
 quently other tracts, until he now owns over 
 nine hundreed acres in Marion county. His farm 
 is devoted principally to the production of grain 
 and the raising of stock. He has made a specialty 
 of fine Angora goats and now has a large and 
 valuable herd. He is one of the pioneers in this 
 industry in Oregon, and has the largest herd, 
 and has taken many prizes with his goats at the. 
 state fairs. He has also owned many fine horses, 
 including registered Clydesdales and some fine 
 trotting stock, on which he has also won first 
 premiums, and has raised fine sheep. Mr. Clag- 
 gett has always been a lover of high grade stock 
 and has ever kept on hand animals of superior 
 excellence. One of his horses, Homdell, has a 
 race record of 2:18, and has a half mile time 
 record of 1 :o8. 
 
 Mr. Claggett married Miss Ella Hennis, who 
 was born in Iowa and died in Marion county, 
 Ore., leaving two children: Mrs. Annie Cosper, 
 of Salem ; and Mrs. Ellen Welch, who is living 
 on the old homestead. For his second wife Mr. 
 Clago-ett chose Miss Eliza "Parrish, who was 
 born in Iowa and died in Oregon. There were 
 eight children of that union : Amelia, of New 
 \ork; Charles W., of Salem; Archie, who is 
 on one of the father's farms : Thomas of Wash- 
 ington ; Clyde, who is also on one of his father's 
 farm; Benjamin, Margaret and Harriet at home. 
 Mr. Claggett's third marriage was to Miss Lizzie 
 Jacobs, who was born in Marion county, her 
 
 father having been one of the first settlers of 
 that state, arriving here in the earliest pioneer 
 days. 
 
 Since 1880 Mr. Claggett has been a member 
 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 has held office in the lodge and encampment. In 
 politics he is an active Republican. As the 
 years have passed, through the careful conduct 
 of his business interests, through judicious invest- 
 ment and unflagging industry, he has prospered, 
 and is today one of the substantial citizens of 
 Salem, having extensive and valuable property 
 holdings in Marion county. Soon after his arriv- 
 al in the county he was ill for a short time with 
 mountain fever, but has since enjoyed remarkable 
 health, for the past fifty years never missing a 
 meal a single day. He is familiar with pioneer 
 history, and has witnessed the development of the 
 county, as early conditions have been replaced by 
 those of an advanced civilization, making Oregon 
 one of the most promising commonwealths in this 
 great country. 
 
 MAJOR MATTHEW H. ELLIS, M. D. 
 One of the prominent physicians and sur- 
 geons of Linn county is Major M. H. Ellis, 
 M. D., who has met with noteworthy success 
 in his professional career, and attained an en- 
 viable position among the foremost citizens 
 of Albany. A native of Ontario, he was born 
 near Owen Sound, being the oldest of the 
 eleven children of John Ellis. His grandfather, 
 Thomas Ellis, was born in the North of Ire- 
 land, of Scotch ancestry. When a young man 
 he emigrated to Ontario, where he was en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. 
 He was held in high esteem as a citizen, and 
 was an active member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
 John Ellis was born and educated in On- 
 tario, and was subsequently engaged in tht> 
 hotel business in Rochester, N. Y. Removing 
 from there to Port Hope, Ont., where he re- 
 sided several years, he then removed to Minne- 
 apolis, Minn., where he lived retired from ac- 
 tive pursuits until his death, in 1902. He mar- 
 ried, at Port Hope, Eliza Dean, who was born 
 in the North of Ireland, of Scotch ancestors. 
 Her father, the Rev. Matthew Dean, came to 
 Canada with his family, and settled in County 
 Durham, Ont., where he engaged in general 
 farming, and for some time preached in the 
 Methodist Church. John Ellis and his wife 
 were both members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Mrs. Ellis died in 1898. Seven of 
 their children are still living, two of them, the 
 doctor and his sister, Mrs. C. E. Sox, being 
 residents of Albany. 
 
 After his graduation from the Collegiate In- 
 stitute at Port Hope, Ont., Matthew H. Ellis 
 
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 entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which 
 he was graduated with the degree of M. D. 
 m [879. Beginning the practice of medicine 
 in Belmont county, Ohio, he remained in 
 facobsburg two years, when, in 1882, he re- 
 turned to Minneapolis, and there followed his 
 profession until coming to Oregon in 1884, and 
 located in Albany, where he has gained an ex- 
 tended reputation as a skillful physician and 
 surgeon, and has met with merited success in 
 his special work of treating diseases of the 
 eve and ear. Progressive in his methods, ever 
 aiming to keep himself well informed in regard 
 to the advances of medical and surgical sci- 
 ence, the doctor is still a close student, and in 
 1895 took a special course at the Post Gradu- 
 ate College in Chicago, 111. 
 
 In 1887 Dr. Ellis was appointed regimental 
 surgeon of the Oregon National Guards, a 
 position which he filled until the breaking out 
 of the Spanish-American war. In 1898 he was 
 commissioned, by Gov. T. T. Geer, surgeon 
 of the Second Oregon Infantry, with the rank 
 of major. Going with his regiment to the 
 Philippine Islands, he took part in various en- 
 gagements, and at the Battle of Norzagaray, 
 was wounded by a shot in the right leg, but 
 by riding a horse he remained with his regi- 
 ment, heroically performing his duties. During 
 the Malolos campaign Major Ellis was brigade 
 surgeon of the Staff of Brigadier-General Lloyd 
 Wheaton. Returning home with his regiment, 
 the major was mustered out of service at San 
 Francisco in August, 1899, returned to his 
 home and resumed the practice of his profes- 
 sion. He was subsequently re-appointed ma- 
 jor and surgeon in the Oregon National Guard 
 and still holds the position. He is likewise 
 United States Pension Examiner. 
 
 Politically Dr. Ellis is one of the leading Re- 
 publicans of the Willamette valley, having 
 served as delegate to the state conventions of 
 his party. In 1895 he was a delegate to the 
 National Convention of the Republican League 
 held in Cleveland, Ohio. For four years he 
 was a member of the State Central Committee, 
 representing Linn county. Fraternally the 
 doctor was made an Odd Fellow in Ohio, and 
 is a member of Albany Lodge, No. 4, I. O. O. 
 F., and is a member and Past Chief Patriarch 
 of the Albany Encampment, I. O. O. F. He 
 is also a member of Albany Camp, M. W. A. ; 
 the Independent Order of Foresters ; the Knights 
 of the Maccabees, and of the Oregon State 
 Medical Association. 
 
 NEWTON HOUSTON. A commodious 
 residence, excellent out-buildings, good fences 
 and the most modern of agricultural implements 
 
 help to make the farming property of Newton 
 Houston one of the most valuable and desirable 
 in Linn county. Located four miles east of 
 Albany, and in extent five hundred and ten acres, 
 it is principally devoted to stock and grain-rais- 
 ing, and the most scientific and successful kind 
 of general farming. As one of the very early 
 pioneers of Oregon Mr. Houston has accom- 
 plished much for his adopted state, and has been 
 unceasing in his efforts to improve the condi- 
 tions among which he has found himself. Born 
 in Miami county, Ohio, near Piqua, Septem- 
 ber 27, 1828, his father, Robert Houston, had a 
 large farm in the interior of the county, where 
 he married Mary Brown, and where he reared 
 a family of five sons and three daughters. An 
 ambitious man, he gave ready credence to the 
 reports of greater fertility in the northwest, and 
 in the spring of 1848 prepared for the long jour- 
 ney across the plains. For the transportation 
 of the husband, wife and eight children they 
 had two wagons with three yoke of oxen on each, 
 and another with five yoke, and they also took 
 with them three cows and two horses. Seven 
 months of travel brought them to Linn county, 
 this state, where the father took up a claim 
 just outside of Albany, and where he died at 
 the age of eighty-five years. 
 
 Ten years of age when he came to Oregon 
 in 1848, Newton Houston went into the mines 
 of California in 1850, accompanied by his 
 brother, Milton, with whom he drove across 
 the mountains. For six months he alternated 
 between success and failure, and after return- 
 ing to this county he continued to farm on the 
 home place. In 1852 he married Louisa Parish, 
 soon after purchasing a claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres, to which he has added and now 
 owns five hundred and ten acres. Having a 
 thorough understanding of farming, and a fine 
 knowledge of stock-raising, he has succeeded 
 in his adopted county and is one of its most con- 
 scientious and painstaking agriculturists. Five 
 sons and three daughters have been born into 
 his family, all of whom have been accorded the 
 best educational opportunities in their neighbor- 
 hood. Robert E. resides on a farm near the 
 home place, having married Aurelia Marshall, 
 a native of Oregon ; they have two children, 
 Ala E. and Robert L. ; Katherine, wife of W. 
 W. Phillippi of Walla Walla, Wash., and they 
 have four girls, Delia, Laura. Amy and Elsie ; 
 Charles W., who resides at the home place,, and 
 married Rose Wilson, to whom have been born 
 three children, Chester, Van and Ilda; Brown 
 J. and Leroy reside in Portland, Ore. ; Minnie 
 (now deceased) was the wife of Preston B. 
 Marshall, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere 
 in this volume ; Calista C, wife of A. B. Cus- 
 ter of Linn county; they have one child, Ira 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 N. ; Edward P. resides in Boise City, married 
 Nora Mills and has one child, Robert E. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Houston was 
 prominent in the early days, and at times has 
 been school director and road supervisor. He 
 is a member of the Grange, and his stanch 
 support has greatly facilitated the growth of 
 this institution. Although so many years have 
 passed over his head, Mr. Houston is still active, 
 and not only still performs his share of the labor 
 of life, but heartily enters into its joys and di- 
 versions. Honored by all who know him, he 
 has a cheery home, to which his many friends 
 like to go, and where they invariably receive a 
 warm and convincing welcome. 
 
 WILLIAM R. BILYEU. A judicial mind 
 and temperament, excellent business ability, 
 and a capacity for hard work well developed, 
 has placed Hon. William R. Bilyeu among the 
 foremost legal practitioners • in Linn county. 
 Of French origin, he represents a family the 
 earliest emigrants of which settled in Virginia, 
 and from the Old Dominion state branched out 
 into various parts of the south and east. His 
 paternal grandfather was the establisher of the 
 name in Tennessee, where was born Joseph 
 Bilyeu, the father of Hon. William R., the lat- 
 ter of whom settled at an early day in Miller 
 county, Mo. Joseph Bilyeu cleared a wilder- 
 ness farm in Miller county and married Anna 
 Osborn, who was born in Sangamon county, 
 111., a daughter of William Osborn, a farmer 
 who died in Illinois. In Missouri were born 
 six of the ten children reared by these parents, 
 of whom William R., the oldest, was born 
 March 19, 1847. ^ n 1 ^ 2 tne father outfitted 
 with wagons and ox and horse-teams and 
 brought his family across the plains, on the 
 way escaping many of the unfortunate experi- 
 ences which rendered terrifying and uncertain 
 the way of the earlier immigrants. Leaving 
 Missouri May 5, 1862, the party arrived at its 
 destination in Portland October 7, of the same 
 year, William and his brother driving the stock 
 down the old Columbia river trail, arriving a 
 few days later. Mr. Bilyeu settled on a claim 
 in Linn county, and the same winter removed 
 to Polk county, where he bought the farm 
 which he improved, and upon which he lived 
 for many years. A later place of residence was 
 a farm near Turner, Marion county, from 
 where he moved to Albany, where his death 
 occurred May 29, 1902, at the age of seventy- 
 nine years. From early manhood he was a 
 member of the Christian Church, as was also 
 his wife, who died in Marion county in 1899. 
 Of the large family of children, the following 
 seven attained maturity : William R. ; Larkin, 
 
 an attorney at Eugene, and representative for 
 several terms ; James, an educajtor at Scio ; 
 Lydia, now Mrs. Ennis, of Eureka, Cal. ; Tab- 
 itha, now Mrs. Vaughan, of Salem, Ore. ; 
 John, who died in Linn county, Ore., at the 
 age of twenty-seven, and Joseph, who died in 
 Linn county at the age of twenty, and who 
 was the only one born in Oregon. 
 
 The education of Hon. William R. Bilyeu 
 was acquired under difficulties, for, as the old- 
 est son in the family, he was early confronted 
 by large responsibility, the fulfillment of which 
 crowded out many opportunities. He was fif- 
 teen when the family came to the west, and on 
 the way he made himself useful by driving a 
 team of three horses. On the western posses- 
 sion he performed his share towards clearing 
 off the timber and rendering the land profit- 
 able, and through the exercise of great econ- 
 omy gained admission to the Tualatin Acad- 
 emy when he was twenty. This institution 
 afterward became the Pacific University, and 
 his tuition was met from the proceeds of his 
 several years of teaching in Washington, Linn 
 and Marion counties, thus enabling him to take 
 a six years' course, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Science. In conformity with a long-thought- 
 out determination, he began the study of law 
 in the office of Mallory & Shaw, of Salem, and 
 after being duly admitted to the bar in 1875, 
 engaged in practice in Albany, where his entire 
 professional life has been centered. He is 
 known as an astute and most capable lawyer, 
 and has received his share of the legal patron- 
 age of Albany and Linn county. 
 
 A stanch upholder of Democracy, Mr. Bil- 
 yeu has rendered signal service in state affairs, 
 but has never been induced to hold local office. 
 He was elected to the state senate in 1878, and 
 re-elected in 1882, and in 1902 was elected to 
 the house of representatives in the twenty-third 
 biennial session. While in the latter body he 
 drew up and was instrumental in securing the 
 passage of the mortgage tax law, which was 
 litigated in the courts, but finally sustained by 
 the United States Supreme Court. This ses- 
 sion also passed the Indian veteran bill, which 
 gave an appropriation of $100,000 for the vet- 
 eran fighters of '55-'56. In 1888 he was nomi- 
 nated presidential elector on the Democratic 
 ticket, and has attended many conventions, but 
 never as a candidate. For several terms he 
 was chairman of the County Central Commit- 
 tee, and he is an ex-member of the State Cen- 
 tral Committee. Fraternally he is associated 
 with St. John's Lodge, No. 62, of which he is 
 past master; Bayley Chapter, No. 8, R. A. M., 
 of Albany ; Temple Commandery, K. T., No. 
 3, and the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 
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 Elks. He married, in Corvallis, Mary Gold- 
 son, a native of Mississippi, and who has borne 
 him two children, Charles and Walter. Mr. 
 Bilyeu ranks among the foremost legal expon- 
 ents in the Willamette valley and personally 
 he embodies those strong' and admirable char- 
 acteristics which win respect and command at- 
 tention. 
 
 WILEY NORTON. Among the keen, pro- 
 gressive, and substantial agriculturists of Polk 
 county, conspicuous for their ability and worth, 
 is Wiley Norton, whose father, Lucius C. Nor- 
 ton, and maternal grandfather, Nahum King, 
 were Oregon pioneers. An important factor in 
 promoting the industrial interests of this section 
 of the state, he is actively and prosperously 
 engaged in his free and independent calling near 
 Lewisville, his home farm being one and one- 
 half miles from the village. A native of Mis- 
 souri, he was born at Big Bend, Carroll county, 
 March 27, 1844, and was but a year old when he 
 was brought to Oregon. 
 
 Horn in Illinois. December 26, 1818, Lucius 
 C. Norton subsequently settled in Carroll county, 
 Mo., where on October 7, 1839, ne married 
 Hopestill King, who was born February 7, 1816. 
 Her father, Nahum King, an early settler of 
 Missouri, was born in New York state. In 1845 
 Mr. Norton and Nahum King, with their fam- 
 ilies, crossed the dreary plains, coming to Ore- 
 gon with ox-teams. Losing the trail at Meeks' 
 cutoff, they were nine months on the way, and 
 endured terrible hardships and privations, their 
 provisions giving out just as they reached The 
 Dalles. After spending the first winter on the 
 Tualatin plains, in Washington county, they pro- 
 ceeded to Benton county, where both men took 
 up donation claims of six hundred and forty 
 acres each. The town thus founded, was after- 
 wards named Kings Valley in honor of Mr. 
 King, who became one of the leading men of 
 the place. He was a tanner by- trade, but 
 engaged in general farming from the time he 
 came to Benton county until his death, in 1853. 
 Mr. Norton's farm adjoined that of his father- 
 in-law, and he was there successfully engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of 
 his active career, dying at Kings Valley, May 
 6, 1859. His wife survived him many years, 
 dying November 16. 1893. at Norton's Station, 
 Lincoln county. Ore. Four boys and four girls 
 were born of their union, six of whom are now 
 living, namely* Isaac, a resident of Benton 
 county : Wiley, the subject of this brief sketch ; 
 Ashnah. wife of James Plunkett. of Kings 
 A alley ; Sereptah, wife of Willard L. Price, of 
 Kings Valley; Nahum, residing at Blodgett, 
 Benton county; and Lucius C, of Lincoln 
 county. 
 
 After completing his studies in the district 
 school, Wiley Norton assisted his brothers for 
 a while in the care of the home farm, after their 
 father's death. On coming of age he married, 
 and began housekeeping on a homestead farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres in Blodgett's 
 valley. He continued there as one of the most 
 successful farmers of the vicinity until 1900, 
 when he assumed possession of his present farm, 
 near Lewisville, Polk county, it being a part of 
 the donation claim which Mrs. Norton's father 
 took up from the government. He has ninety- 
 three acres of land, the greater part of which 
 is in a high state of cultivation, twelve acres 
 being especially devoted to the cultivation of 
 hops. 
 
 On May 18, 1865, on the farm which he now 
 owns and occupies, Mr. Norton married Nancy 
 A. Zumwalt, who was born on Tualatin plains, 
 Washington county, Ore., May 25, 1847. Her 
 father, the late Isaac Zumwalt, was born in St. 
 Charles county, Mo., May 29, 181 5. Coming 
 to Oregon as a pioneer in 1846, he took up a 
 donation claim near Lewisville, in Polk county, 
 and was here engaged in mixed husbandry until 
 his death, March 21, 1891. He married Sarah 
 Crow, who was born in Missouri, June 13, 1815, 
 and died on the home farm, in Polk county, 
 June 8, 1885. Twelve children, seven boys and 
 five girls, were born into their household, Mrs. 
 Norton being the sixth child in succession of 
 birth. Mr. and Mrs. Norton have six children 
 living, namely : Arthur, residing in eastern 
 Oregon ; Warren, of Benton county ; Le Roy, 
 of Benton county ; Walter, at home ; Serena, a 
 stenographer, in Idaho ; and James Emmett, 
 at home. Mr. Norton is a strong Republican in 
 politics, and has served as road supervisor, and 
 school director and clerk. 
 
 MRS. MARGARITE BECK. The business 
 interests of Salem find a worthy representative 
 in Mrs. Margarite Beck, who was for some 
 time the owner of the Capital Brewery. She 
 is the widow of Seirphein Beck, who was born 
 in Alsace and came to America when nineteen 
 years of age. He made his way into Illinois 
 where he learned the brewing business, and in 
 1878 he came to Salem in the employ of Mr. 
 Adolph, who was the owner of the old Salem 
 Brewery on Trade street. Mr. Beck served as 
 head brewer and subsequently he removed to 
 Portland to act in the same capacity for Mr. 
 Weinhard, filling that position until he was 
 taken ill, when he returned to Salem. Later 
 he again entered the employ of Mr. Adolph and 
 because of his business ability and thorough 
 understanding of the brewing industry he was 
 admitted into partnership under the firm name 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Adolph, Klinger & Beck. This relationship 
 was maintained for three years, when Mr. Adolph 
 sold out to his partners, Messrs. Klinger & 
 Beck continuing together in the conduct of 
 the old Salem Brewery. Later they purchased 
 a new site and built a new brewing plant, con- 
 ducting it under the name of the Capital Brew- 
 ery until the death of Mr. Beck, on April 25, 
 1899. 
 
 In Salem, in 1879, Mr. Beck had been united 
 in marriage to Miss Margarite Neibirt, who 
 was born in Wisconsin, a daughter of Paulus 
 Neibirt, whose birth occurred in Germany. 
 He wedded Annie Frizholtz, also a native of 
 the Fatherland, and soon after their marriage 
 they came to the United States, settling in 
 Wisconsin, where Mr. Neibirt followed farm- 
 ing. In 1871 he came to Oregon, settling in 
 Benton county, and in 1872 removed to Sub- 
 limity. There he purchased a farm, but was 
 not long permitted to enjoy his new home, for 
 he became ill and died about 1876. His wife 
 also passed away in Marion county in October, 
 1897. In their family were seven children, of 
 whom four are yet living. One son, George, 
 is a resident of Stayton, Marion county ; Lizzie 
 Schutt, a daughter, died in Sublimity ; Mrs. 
 Barbara Clasp, another daughter, is living in 
 San Francisco, and Mrs. Mary Wolf now lives 
 in Salem ; another son, Conrad, was murdered 
 while defending his house against an attack by 
 robbers. 
 
 Mrs. Beck is the youngest of her father's 
 family, and was born in Wisconsin. She at- 
 tended German schools of that state and is a 
 lady of culture and refinement, who possesses 
 marked business ability and keen discrimina- 
 tion in matters of trade. After her husband's 
 death she assumed the management of his 
 business affairs, and, in 1901, she bought out 
 the interest of Mr. Klinger's heirs and was the 
 sole owner of the Capital Brewery until 1903, 
 when she sold out. She remodeled the entire 
 plant, and new machinery of the most modern 
 kind and improvements was installed. In this 
 connection she also operated an ice plant, en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of pure ice, besides 
 operating an extensive malt plant. While Mr. 
 Beck and Mr. Klinger were associated in busi- 
 ness they built the Klinger & Beck building on 
 Commercial street, which has since passed into 
 other hands. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Beck were born three 
 children: Joseph Seirphein, Mary Leona and 
 Louie Conrad, who died at the age of ten years. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Beck belonged to the St. Joseph 
 Catholic Church, in which faith Mr. Beck died, 
 and was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery. 
 Mrs. Beck is still identified with the church, 
 and is a liberal contributor to its support. 
 
 THOMAS LINCOLN AMBLER. The 
 present postmaster of Mount Angel was for- 
 merly a well known educator. He was born in 
 Pike county, Ohio, June 14, 1864, a son of 
 Thomas and Catherine (Brill) Ambler, natives 
 respectively of Guernsey and Pike counties, 
 Ohio, and the former born July 7, 1831. 
 
 Thomas Ambler married Catherine Brill, 
 whose father was born in Pennsylvania, and 
 became an early settler of Pike county. He 
 served in the war of 1812 as a private, and 
 when the Civil war occurred he again entered 
 the military service, enlisting in the Ninety- 
 first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861, and was 
 with the Army of the Potomac. While on 
 picket duty he was taken prisoner by the reb- 
 els, and that they might not secure possession 
 of a whole gun, he broke it over a log. He was 
 confined in Libby prison, and was honorably 
 discharged in Virginia, in 1865. Mr. Ambler 
 was an active Republican. His death occurred 
 at the home of his son in Illinois, at the age of 
 eighty-four. In 1866 Mr. Ambler removed to 
 Champaign county, 111., where he settled on a 
 small farm, and remained there until 1878. He 
 (hen took up his residence near Fredonia, Wil- 
 son county, Kans., and. ten years later removed 
 to a farm near Bentonville, Ark., where his 
 death occurred at the age of sixty-three years. 
 Of the seven children born into his family, 
 those beside Thomas Lincoln Ambler, of this 
 review, are : William H., deceased ; Sarah C, 
 deceased; one child, deceased in infancy; Jo- 
 siah E., engaged in the bakery business in Kan- 
 sas City, Mo. ; Effie V., the wife of E. D. 
 Wright, of Portland, Ore., and Arietta M., the 
 wife of Z. Briggs, their home being in Iowa. 
 
 The third of the children in his father's fam- 
 ily, Thomas Lincoln Ambler received his ele- 
 mentary education in the public schools of 
 Kansas, and eventually took a course in the 
 Fredonia High school. At the age of fifteen he 
 began to make his own way in the world, de- 
 voting his summers to hard manual labor and 
 his winters to hard study. His efforts were 
 not in vain. In his twenty-second year he 
 began a most successful record as a teacher, 
 which terminated sixteen years later. He 
 taught for five years in the schools of Ne- 
 braska. He then removed to Oregon, where he 
 soon won a reputation which placed him in the 
 front ranks of his profession. In 1892 he lo- 
 cated at Mount Angel, and for four years 
 taught in the public schools at this place. He 
 then devoted the last six years of what we may 
 term a successftil life to the welfare of Hazel 
 Dell district, which adjoins Mount Angel on 
 the south, and while thus employed, in 1898, 
 was appointed postmaster of Mount Angel. 
 His discharge of the duties of this office has 
 

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 necessitated his withdrawal from educational 
 work, and it is a well-known fact that the strict 
 attention to duty on the part of Mr. Ambler 
 has brought the service in the city to a high 
 state of efficiency. The office is now third- 
 class, and under the administration of the pres- 
 ent incumbent, and principally through his en- 
 terprise and public-spiritedness, the present 
 postoffice building has been erected. This, a 
 two-story building, is adequate for all present 
 demands, and the system maintained has been 
 prolific of good results. Fraternally Mr. Am- 
 bler is a member of Silverton Pine Camp No. 
 [98, W. O. W., and politically has always been 
 active in the Republican party. 
 
 In Salem, Ore., March 17, 1892, Mr. Ambler 
 married Flora Wolf, who was born in Illinois, 
 December 20, 1858. Her father was Daniel 
 Wolf, a native of Preble county, Ohio, and was 
 born February 9, 1835. Mr. Wolf removed 
 from his native state to Illinois, thence to Mis- 
 souri, and from there to Nebraska, locating 
 near Lincoln. In 1892 he came to Oregon, but 
 was not long permitted to enjoy the west, for 
 his death occurred in 1896. The wife, who sur- 
 vives him, makes her home with her two sons 
 on a farm near Silverton. 
 
 Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ambler, Eda May and A. Dewey, the latter of 
 whom was named by special request of his 
 mother just a few moments before her death, 
 which occurred June 18, 1899. The loss of this 
 clear and sympathetic companion and wife has 
 been a severe trial to Mr. Ambler, and he has 
 found it difficult to take up alone the tasks that 
 confront him from day to day. 
 
 JOHN D. HAMPTON. The roll call of the 
 early plains emigrants, who struggled day after 
 day and month after month in the effort to reach 
 their northwestern goal, and who afterward lent 
 an unwavering courage and dignity to Oregon's 
 agricultural upbuilding, would be sadly incom- 
 plete without mention of John D. Hampton, a 
 pioneer of 1845, wno came to the state at the 
 age of fourteen, and continued to make this his 
 home until his lamented death, in March, 1899, 
 at the age of sixty-seven years. Mr. Hampton 
 bore himself well among the trials and dangers 
 which beset the pioneer settlers, and though only 
 a boy, seemed to realize the immensity of the 
 task which rested on the shoulders of the fore- 
 runners of western civilization. He not only ac- 
 complished his individual mission as he saw it 
 in his most ambitious moments, but left behind 
 him six sturdy sons to perpetuate his fine personal 
 characteristics and to become progressive and 
 influential factors of a latter-day development. 
 
 Of a fine old southern family, Mr. Hampton 
 
 was born in Lexington, Mo., in 1831, a son of 
 Jacob Hampton, who was born in Kentucky, and 
 grandson of a native of Virginia, who became 
 an early resident of Kentucky. For many years 
 Jacob Hampton built and contracted in Lexing- 
 ton, Mo., and in 1845 brought his family to Ore- 
 gon, crossing the plains with ox-teams, and set- 
 tling first on the Tualatin plains, Washington 
 county. Afterward he took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres in Yamhill county, 
 resided here until 1852, and then removed to a 
 farm near Goshen, Lane county, where he en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising for 
 three years. Returning to his- Yamhill county 
 farm he lived there many years, and for several 
 years also lived on a farm in Lake county. His 
 last years were spent with his son, John D., near 
 Goshen, and he died rich in experience, and 
 with a moderate share of this world's posses- 
 sions. 
 
 Following his father's footsteps, John D. 
 Hampton became early interested in stock-rais- 
 ing, and when a comparatively young man took 
 up a three hundred and twenty acre donation 
 claim near Goshen. To this farm he brought his 
 newly wedded wife, whom he married October 
 26, 1854, and who was formerly Mary Eleanore 
 Moore. Husband and wife "put their shoulders 
 to the wheel" to improve the crude property, and 
 render it not only a profitable but a pleasant 
 place in Avhich to live. Harvests rewarded their 
 efforts in well-doing, and soon more land was re- 
 quired for carrying on the large plans of the 
 owner. Accordingly he increased his possessions 
 to six hundred and fifty acres, all of which is 
 still owned bv his widow, one of the representa- 
 tive pioneer women of Lane county. Some time 
 before his death, Mr. Hampton moved into 
 Eugene and retired from active life, his last days 
 being spent among friends whom he had long 
 known, and by whom he was held in the highest 
 esteem. Throughout his life he cherished high 
 ideals, and instinctively impressed others with 
 his absolute sincerity and truth. His business 
 and private life was above reproach, and his 
 steady, calm temperament, enabled him to pursue 
 unflinchingly a course once marked out and 
 clearly defined. He was a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church from his sixteenth year, 
 and during his life contributed generously to- 
 wards its support. 
 
 Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Hamp- 
 ton has lived in the home in Eugene, and draws 
 a liberal income from the farm. Born near 
 Montezuma, Vermilion county, Ind.. January 31, 
 1836, she is a daughter of William Moore, who 
 was born in Pennsylvania, and who moved with 
 his father, Jonathan, also a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania, to Ohio, at a very early clay. The family 
 was established in Indiana in 1832, and there 
 
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 William Moore owned a large farm and prospered 
 as a farmer and stock-raiser. He was a discern- 
 ing and ambitious man, and though cautious and 
 conservative, readily grasped the full significance 
 of the favorable reports which reached him from 
 the west. Being well-to-do, he fared better on 
 the plains than many of his neighbors, for he was 
 able to purchase every comfort for his wife and 
 four children, and to go well supplied with horses 
 and cattle, as well as ox-teams. Although they 
 suffered small inconvenience from the Indians 
 or cholera, the alkali water of the desert killed 
 many of their cattle, and they were obliged to 
 replenish their stock by purchasing of other 
 emigrants. The survivors of the long, six- 
 months expedition still recall the details of the 
 trip, and Mrs. Hampton, who was then twenty 
 years of age, vividly remembers the trials and 
 hardships endured by those brave pioneers who 
 bore the brunt of the journey with Spartan 
 courage. Mr. Moore took up a claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres near Goshen, and died 
 there at the age of seventy-five, his wife, who 
 was formerly Eleanor Limerick, of Pennsylvania, 
 surviving him until seventy-seven years of age. 
 Mrs. Moore came of the famous old Limerick 
 family, of Ireland, and her father rendered valu- 
 able service in the war of 1812. Jonathan L., 
 one of the older sons of William Moore, was a 
 first lieutenant in the Rogue river war, and died 
 from drowning in Fall creek; about thirty years 
 ago. Mrs. Hampton is the third child of her 
 father's family, and although she has reached 
 her seventy-first year she has a heart and mind 
 in tune with the beneficent present. She is a 
 believer in high living and high thinking, in 
 courtesy and absolute fairness in all the little 
 ways of life, and all who come in contact with 
 her feel the charm of goodness and ideal sympa- 
 thy. She is justly proud of her six sturdy sons 
 and one daughter, and hopes to watch their suc- 
 cessful careers for many years to come. Frank, 
 the oldest son, is a member of the mercantile firm 
 of Hampton Brothers ; Horace lives on and farms 
 the old home place ; Hugh is a farmer near Eu- 
 gene ; Alton and John are at the head of Hamp- 
 ton Brothers, merchants ; Austin lives in Eugene ; 
 and Nellie is at home. 
 
 W. E. CRESSY. As an educator of many 
 years' experience, W. E. Cressy came to Ore- 
 gon in 1881, and, in 1883, located in Independ- 
 ence, where he lived retired for many years. 
 A man of more than ordinary endowments, he 
 was a linguist and scholar, a brilliant per- 
 former on the violin, and a keen appreciator of 
 things artistic and beautiful. Therefore, his 
 influence was rather in the intellectual than the 
 business world, and in this regard he filled a 
 
 nook hitherto unoccupied to a great extent. A 
 native of New Hampshire, Mr. Cressy was 
 born September 23, 1846, and was reared on a 
 farm, receiving his preliminary education in 
 the public schools. Into an otherwise unevent- 
 ful youth came the opportunity to serve his 
 country during the Civil war, and at the age of 
 seventeen he enlisted in Company H, First 
 Regiment, New Hampshire Cavalry, serving 
 for three months, or until a severe case of 
 measles compelled his retirement. The bent 
 of his mind is shown by his subsequent dispo- 
 sition of his bounty money, for he used it to 
 pay his way through a New Hampshire col- 
 lege, from which he was duly graduated with 
 honors. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Cressy removed from New 
 Hampshire to Henry county, 111., where he 
 engaged in teaching, and while there married 
 and had two children, of whom Warren P. is 
 a resident of South Bend, Wash., and Jessie 
 is deceased. In 1873 Mr. Cressy located in 
 Chico, Cal., and taught in the public schools of 
 that city, winning praise for his thorough and 
 practical methods of imparting knowledge. 
 Desiring a change, he brought his family to 
 Oregon in 1881, as heretofore stated, and here 
 his first wife died in 1886. He entered heartily 
 into various phases of northwestern life, his 
 personality and gifts winning for him many 
 admiring friends. After retiring from teach- 
 ing he retained his interest in the languages, 
 which he spoke with fluency, and also derived 
 much comfort and satisfaction from composing 
 music, of which he was unusually fond. On 
 the violin he played with expression and deli- 
 cacy, and in order to further an interest in 
 music in Independence he organized an orches- 
 tra which he drilled, and of which he thought 
 much. He was well posted on current events, 
 was in touch with the political situation, and in 
 conversation was most interesting and instruc- 
 tive. Although caring nothing for office, he 
 served for a time as councilman. In religion 
 he was a member of the Unitarian Church. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Cressy married his second wife, 
 Mary T. Turner, a native of Rock Island, 111., 
 and daughter of Elihu Turner, a native of New 
 York City. Mr. Turner came from a mercan- 
 tile rather than agricultural family, and that 
 bis parents were in moderate circumstances 
 was perhaps the best for the strong young 
 boy. At the age of twelve he apprenticed to a 
 shoemaker, and, having mastered his trade, 
 worked thereat until removing to Rock Island, 
 111., in 1837. Rock Island was then but an 
 embryo hamlet, so small that the industries 
 represented did not include a shoemaking es- 
 tablishment. Mr. Turner therefore filled a 
 waiting and necessary nook, and from a very 
 
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 small beginning worked up a trade which ren- 
 dered him a comparatively wealthy man. He 
 was influential in other lines than business, 
 took a deep interest in political and other af- 
 fairs, and was prominent and honored in the 
 community, where his death occurred June 18, 
 1888, at the age of seventy-three years. He 
 married Ann Tracy, who was born in Lim- 
 erick, Ireland, and who came to Canada with 
 her parents when six years of age. The family 
 of Tracy moved to Rock Island in 1838.. one 
 year after the arrival ot Mr. Turner. Six chil- 
 dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Turner, three 
 sons and three daughters, of whom Mrs. Cressy 
 is the fourth. The latter was educated in the 
 public schools of Rock Island, but in youth 
 was not favored with a very robust constitu- 
 tion. In order to improve her health she re- 
 moved to Denver, Colo., and later to Leadville 
 and Cheyenne. She came to Oregon in 1889,, 
 and the same year occurred her marriage with 
 Mr. Cressy. Mrs. Cressy is a woman of broad 
 and liberal ideas, and during her husband's 
 life was his most sincere appreciator and his 
 unfailing sympathizer and helper. She is a 
 member of the Presbvterian Church. 
 
 LORENZO A. BYRD. The story of the early 
 experiences of the pioneers of the northwest is 
 always of more or less interest, and particularly 
 so when the journey w r as made overland, compell- 
 ing the pioneer parties of the '40s frequently to 
 endure hardships and sufferings which no pen 
 will ever be able to describe. The reminiscences 
 of such a man as Lorenzo A. Byrd, who is now 
 living retired at No. 209 Union street, in Sa- 
 lem, w r ould make a volume of intensely inter- 
 esting narrative, from beginning to end. Sur- 
 rounding him is that absorbing interest which 
 is inseparably associated with the hardy fore- 
 runners of northwestern civilization, to whom 
 danger was a spur, and deprivation an accepted 
 heritage. 
 
 Lorenzo A. Byrd was born on a farm near 
 Batesville, Independence county, Ark., Decem- 
 ber 10, 1822, a son of John and Mary (Wise; 
 Byrd, both natives of Kentucky. Mr. Byrd 
 was but two years of age when his father's 
 death occurred. His mother afterward became 
 the wife of Reuben Millsaps, an officer in the 
 American army during the war of 1812, who 
 commanded a portion of the forces under Gen- 
 eral Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. To 
 John and Mary Byrd were born three children : 
 Micajah Luther, who died in Oregon ; Virginia, 
 also deceased, who became the wife of John 
 Magnes, and Lorenzo A. 
 
 The first twenty-four years of the life of the 
 subject of this sketch were spent upon the home 
 
 farm in Arkansas, and it is safe to assume that 
 he lost nothing from close association with the 
 soil, correct living, and exercise which de- 
 veloped an already strong constitution. In his 
 boyhood he knew no relatives excepting his 
 mother and a first cousin. Like the other 
 farmer lads of his neighborhood, life did not 
 pass by unobserved by him, for he was keenly 
 alert to all that the future might have in store 
 for him. Accordingly, when the opportunity 
 to cross the plains came to him in 1846, he wel- 
 comed it as a special dispensation of Provi- 
 dence, believing that the chance thus offered 
 him reflected all that he had thought and 
 dreamed regarding his future. The party of 
 which he was a member was under the guid- 
 ance of the Rev. Josephus Cornwall, the train 
 consisting of eighty wagons. Starting out 
 April 15, 1846, with a large number of oxen, 
 the man for whom young Byrd drove found 
 his resources dwindled down to two yoke of 
 oxen before the journey was completed. Dur- 
 ing the journey many great hardships were ex- 
 perienced by the travelers, but the greatest of 
 these were met with in the Applegate cutoff, 
 where they suffered untold agonies of mind 
 and body, nearly dying of starvation. If the 
 members of the party had not been possessed 
 of marvelous physical endurance fatalities must 
 have ensued as the result of this most trying 
 experience. The relief of the members of the 
 party upon their arrival in Polk county hi 
 January, 1847, can scarcely be appreciated by 
 modern tourists, who travel amid all the com- 
 forts, even luxuries, of the twentieth century. 
 
 In the month of April, 1847, Mr. Byrd lo- 
 cated on land in the Waldo Hills, Marion 
 county, fifteen miles east of Salem, but failed 
 to prove up on the three hundred and twenty 
 acres he intended to occupy. In the fall of 
 1848 he traveled overland to California, and 
 after mining near Redding's Fort, on the Sac- 
 ramento river, and on the American river, re- 
 turned to Marion county in the spring of 1849. 
 During the fall of the latter year he again visit- 
 ed California, where he remained until Janu- 
 ary, 1851. He made his way back to his home 
 by water, and in 1852 bought the right to a 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres fifteen miles north of Salem, on French 
 Prairie. Wild and destitute of all improve- 
 ments, this land underwent a great transforma- 
 tion at the hands of as earnest and hopeful a pio- 
 neer as ever turned a sod in the west. In the 
 course of time this property, naturally ver}' 
 fertile, approached a cultivated and valuable 
 state, supplying not only general farm produce, 
 but large numbers of high-grade stock. In 
 order to better educate his children, Mr. Byrd 
 left the farm and made his home in Salem in 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1890. Though still owning his farm, he rents 
 it to others, and is now enjoying a well-earned 
 rest from the cares and responsibilities of a 
 long and very active life. Two hundred and 
 ninety-two and a half acres still remain to him 
 of the original claim. 
 
 January 1, 1854, after being thoroughly es- 
 tablished on his claim, Mr. Byrd was united in 
 marriage with Martha C. Savage, who was 
 born in Missouri, December 3, 1836, and 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 1850. 
 Her father, Dr. John Savage, was for many 
 years a very popular physician and farmer in 
 Marion county, and left a large property at the 
 time of his death. Eight children have been 
 born unto Mr. and Mrs. Byrd, as follows : Wil- 
 liam H., a prominent physician of Salem, an 
 extended sketch of whose life appears else- 
 where in this volume ; J. C, a hardware mer- 
 chant of Spokane, Wash. ; E. F., also a resi- 
 dent of Spokane ; Cordelia J., wife of William 
 Hager of Fairfield, Marion county ; Lorenzo 
 A., who lives in Fairfield ; Virginia, who is an 
 employe in the United States Land Office at 
 Roseburg; Bertha C, who is engaged in edu- 
 cational work in the public schools of Salem, 
 and Roy, who resides with his parents, and is 
 now a student in the medical department of 
 Willamette University. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Byrd has served 
 as school director for many years, but has not 
 otherwise been actively interested in official 
 life. Though past four score years of age, he 
 still retains his mental and physical alertness 
 to a remarkable degree, and exhibits a keen 
 interest in the affairs of his family, his friends 
 and the community in which he is a venerable 
 and honored acquisition. He is a striking type 
 of the better class of pioneers who founded the 
 commonwealth, and the record of no man's 
 life is more worthy of a place in the historical 
 literature of the Willamette valley. 
 
 BENJAMIN C. MILES, a captain of indus- 
 try of whom Oregon may well be proud, and 
 who has been variously interested in the in- 
 dustrial, commercial, educational and political 
 upbuilding of Newberg and vicinity, was born 
 in Westbranch, Cedar county, Iowa, January 
 3, 1865, and is of English descent. The great- 
 grandfather Miles came from England and 
 settled in North Carolina, in which state his 
 son, AVilliam, the paternal grandfather, was 
 born, and whence he removed to Ohio, his last 
 place of residence. 
 
 Benjamin Miles, the father of Benjamin C, 
 was born in Miami county, Ohio, and was a 
 farmer by occupation. During the early '50s 
 he located in Cedar county, Iowa, where he 
 
 engaged in farming, but later entered the In- 
 dian work, being appointed superintendent of 
 the Osage Agency schools, a position main- 
 tained for six years. Mr. Miles became promi- 
 nent in promoting the best interests of the In- 
 dians, and among his other attempts to amel- 
 iorate the condition of these wards of the na- 
 tion was the establishment of the Manual La- 
 bor Institute, near Salem, Iowa, of which he 
 was superintendent and manager for four 
 years. This institution was run by contract 
 with the government, Mr. Miles receiving so 
 much per capita for educating the pupils under 
 his charge. He accomplished a great and last- 
 ing work, and is enrolled among the noble and 
 disinterested men who have labored for the 
 uplifting of a race fast receding into the back- 
 ground of American history. Mr. Miles be- 
 came associated with Oregon in 1887, and 
 settled in Newberg, finally locating on sixty- 
 five acres of land adjacent to the city of New- 
 berg. Here he lived in comparative retirement 
 up to the time of his death in 1890. His wife, 
 Elizabeth R. (Bean) Miles, was born in New 
 Hampshire, a daughter of a farmer and woolen 
 manufacturer. 
 
 The youngest in his father's family of three 
 sons and two daughters, Benjamin C. Miles 
 was educated in the public schools and at Penn 
 College, Iowa, from which latter institution he 
 was graduated in the spring of 1886, with the 
 degree of B. S. He came to Oregon in 1886, 
 at the age of twenty-one years, and for a year 
 engaged in educational work in the Friends' 
 Pacific Academy, located at Newberg. He 
 then became interested in a general merchan- 
 dise business with F. A. Morris, and in 1893 
 became cashier of the bank of Newberg, which 
 position he maintained until 1897. At the pres- 
 ent time he occupies the responsible position 
 of president of the bank of Newberg, and he 
 is also secretary and treasurer and a large 
 stockholder of the Charles K. Spaulding Log- 
 ging Company. Near the town Mr. Miles 
 owns sixty acres of land on the river, which he 
 rents and which is devoted to general farming. 
 
 As a stanch adherent of the Republican 
 party, Mr. Miles has filled many positions of 
 trust and responsibility in the community, his 
 active service being inaugurated in 1888, when 
 he began a term of four years in the city coun- 
 cil. In 1902 he was nominated and elected 
 state representative from this district, and is 
 ably and conscientiously advancing the inter- 
 ests of those Avho placed him in power. He is 
 a member of the Friends' Church, and is fra- 
 ternally associated with the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 In Newberg, Ore., Mr. Miles was united in 
 marriage with Anna E. Bell, who was born in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Iowa, and whose father, Martin Cook, a native 
 of Indiana, was one of the early settlers of 
 Iowa. Mr. Cook came to Oregon in 1887, after 
 years of farming and successful service as a 
 railway agent; he is now living a retired life 
 in Newberg. Three children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Miles, Lyra B., Ross C. and 
 Eva, all of whom are living with their parents. 
 Mr. Miles is typical of that class of men who 
 invade the undeveloped regions of the world, 
 leaving them better and more advanced, and 
 indeliblv stamped with their strong personal- 
 ity. 
 
 JACOB G. MILLER. A citizen who owns 
 one of the finest residences in Aurora, and 
 occupies an honored place in the business and 
 social world of the town, is Jacob G. Miller, a 
 wheelwright by trade, who was formerly 
 prominently connected with the colony found- 
 ed by Dr. Keil. A native of Mahoning county, 
 Ohio, Mr. Miller was born April 23, 1837, and 
 is the fourth of the eight children born to Sam- 
 uel and Sarah (Betts) Miller. The family was 
 established in Ohio by the paternal grand- 
 father, George, who was born in Pennsylvania, 
 January 18, 1773, and Avho died in Mahoning 
 county, Ohio. He married Mary Koup, who 
 was born December 31, 1783, and who died in 
 Oregon, to wdiich state she came with her son 
 in 1863, at the age of ninety-two years. She 
 was the mother of eleven children, of whom 
 Samuel, the father of Jacob G., was the oldest, 
 he being born in Berks county, Pa., August 
 26, 1801, and moved with his parents to Ohio 
 when quite a young man, and engaged in farm- 
 ing. 
 
 Jacob was a mere youth when he became 
 interested in the colony at Bethel, with which 
 he took up his abode in 1845. He subsequently 
 became prominent in the affairs of the colony. 
 His death occurred in Aurora in 1886. 
 
 The youth of Jacob G. Miller was character- 
 ized by hard work and little recreation, and 
 still less opportunity for acquiring an educa- 
 tion. He developed early a strong and wiry 
 constitution, so that when very young he could 
 accomplish almost a man's labor during the 
 day. In 1863 he came to the branch colony 
 in Aurora, and during his father's absence in 
 Bethel, he took the place of the elder man as 
 one of the lieutenants of Dr. Keil. When the 
 father returned to the west the son went to 
 Bethel and took his place at that end of the 
 line, becoming in time president of the colony, 
 and filling that position until the dissolution of 
 the colony in 1880. Thereupon he took up his 
 residence in Marion county, where he pur- 
 chased a farm and lived thereon until cominsr 
 
 to Aurora in 1899. Here he built a modern 
 and comfortable residence which is a distinct 
 credit to the architectural appearance of the 
 town, and at the same time continues to own 
 his farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres. 
 He is also the possessor of three hundred acres 
 of unimproved land in Clackamas county. In 
 his youth in Missouri, Mr. Miller learned the 
 trade of wheelwright, and devoted considerable 
 time to the making of wagons and spinning- 
 wheels. On his property in Aurora he has 
 built a cabinet shop, and passes some of his 
 leisure time in working at his trade. In 1882 
 he rented and ran a saw-mill from the fall 
 until the summer of 1883, but did not make of 
 it the success which he had anticipated. 
 
 In politics Mr. Miller has upheld the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, and has held 
 some prominent positions within the gift of 
 his fellow-citizens, among others being that of 
 recorder, to which he was elected in 1900. He 
 has been road supervisor, and is now serving 
 as councilman. Mr. Miller cast his first presi- 
 dential vote for Abraham Lincoln. He is a 
 Christian, but does not affiliate with any par- 
 ticular church. When he came from Missouri 
 Mr. Miller brought with him five people, to 
 all of whom he gave a home for the remainder 
 of their lives. Of late he has been appointed 
 guardian for Morton L. and Frederick A. 
 Giesy, both of whom are living with him at 
 the present time. Mr. Miller is a man of broad 
 humanitarian tendencies, and a great deal of 
 the good that he has accomplished during his 
 life is of the unostentatious kind, the sole re- 
 ward of which is found in an approving con- 
 science and in the gratitude of individual 
 hearts. 
 
 LEVI M. HERREN. A substantial and 
 prominent farmer of Marion county, Ore., Levi 
 M. Herren, who was born in Decatur county, 
 Ind., September 7, 1835, is the son of John 
 Herren, a Kentuckian, who, after his mar- 
 riage in that state to D. Robbins, removed 
 to Indiana, where he engaged in farming. In 
 1838 he took his family to what was then 
 known as the Piatt Purchase, near Arkansas 
 City, Kas., where they made their home until 
 the spring of 1845, when, with three wagons 
 and three yoke of oxen to each wagon, they 
 started across the plains. AVhile on the wav 
 they fell in with Stephen Meeks, a brother of 
 Joe Meeks, who attempted to pilot the party 
 by a nearer route, but failed. The trip was 
 made memorable, aside from the various in- 
 cidents which made interesting the journey 
 across the plains, by a dearth of provisions, 
 the company being entirely out of flour at the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 time of their arrival at The Dalles, Ore. There 
 Mr. Herren built a flatboat and with his family 
 floated down the river to Cascade, Wash., and 
 from there went to Whiteson, Yamhill county, 
 Ore., where lived an uncle of the family. After 
 one month spent there, they moved upon a 
 farm on Salem Prairie, in March, 1846, and 
 located four miles east of Salem, Ore., pur- 
 chasing the right to six hundred and forty acres 
 of a Mr. Gobin. A cabin having been erected 
 there, the family at once found shelter. In 
 1848, Mr. Herren was attracted to California 
 in the hope of sharing in the rich profits of 
 mining, and after an absence of about five 
 months, returned to Oregon with $2,000 in 
 gold dust. He was thirty-nine days making 
 the voyage from San Francisco to the mouth 
 of the Columbia river, a fierce storm having 
 driven them about on the ocean. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Herren took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and thirty-five acres, located on 
 Mill creek, six miles southeast of Salem, and 
 near which the State Reform School has since 
 been built. He remained here until his death 
 in 1864, at the age of sixty-four years. Re- 
 ligiously he was a member of the Christian 
 Church. His wife also died here when seventy- 
 seven years old. Of the thirteen children born 
 to them, all attained maturity, seven sons and 
 six daughters, seven of whom are still living. 
 Of these, Susanna is the wife of W. T. Wal- 
 lace, of Josephine county, Ore. ; Mary J., the 
 wife of John Kiser, of Salem ; Martha, the 
 wife of Judge N. T. Katin, of Sprague, Wash. ; 
 Sarilda, the wife of T. S. Leonard, of Dayton, 
 Wash. ; N. F., located in Salem ; and Levi M., 
 of this review. Those now deceased are as 
 follows : William, John, Daniel S., James R., 
 Perry L., Bertha and Elizabeth H. 
 
 But ten years of age when his parents came 
 to Oregon, Levi M. Herren has spent prac- 
 tically all his life in this state. He was reared 
 on the paternal farm, engaging in home duties 
 until 1859, when he located on a hundred-acre 
 farm on Salem Prairie, where he followed farm- 
 ing until his father's death, at which time he 
 returned to take charge of the home place and 
 care for his mother, which he did until her 
 death. He was married November 15, i860, 
 to Martha E. Mathews, a native of Missouri, 
 who started across the plains with her parents 
 in 1852, and met with the loss of both parents 
 while on the journey. • Three children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Herren, of whom 
 Thomas is still at home ; Ida is the wife of 
 R. N. Morris, of Oregon City, and Flora is the 
 wife of George Bailey, of Portland. Mr. Her- 
 ren now owns three hundred and eight acres, 
 upon which he carries on general farming and 
 stock-raising. In politics Mr. Herren is a 
 
 Democrat. Though not a seeker after political 
 preferment, he has filled local offices, and has 
 always exhibited a deep interest in the welfare 
 of his party. Fraternally he is identified with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 of the Turner Grange, and has been master of 
 the latter bod)'- for several years. 
 
 Mr. Herren occupies a high place in the es- 
 teem of his fellow citizens in Marion county. 
 He is known as a man possessed of a public 
 spirit, always willing to assist in the promo- 
 tion of all enterprises intended to enhance the 
 material advantages of the community in 
 which he resides, by the contribution of both 
 time and money. He takes a broad-minded 
 view of affairs in general, and in all ways has 
 shown himself to be a useful citizen, meriting 
 the respect of all with whom he comes in con- 
 tact. 
 
 ALVIN A. BURTON, who has the repu- 
 tation of making the best brick in the Willam- 
 ette valley, was born near Rochester, N. Y., 
 October 8, 1852, and from his father, Alvin A., 
 Sr., acquired an appreciation of the merits of 
 brick manufacturing. The elder Burton was 
 born in Vermont, and came from an old and 
 honored family. He learned brickmaking in 
 early life, and eventually had a large plant at 
 Brighton, N. Y., whence he removed, in 1853, 
 to Princeton, 111. Here, for many years he was 
 the foremost brick manufacturer in the county, 
 and, in 1866, removed to Marseilles, La Salle 
 county, 111., where his death occurred in 1877. 
 He was a member of the Baptist Church, and 
 in politics was a Republican. Mr. Burton mar- 
 ried Harriet M. Baker, a native of Greenville, 
 Greene county, N. Y., and daughter of David 
 Baker, a farmer and miller by occupation. Mrs. 
 Burton, who died in Illinois, was the mother 
 of ten children, all of whom attained maturity, 
 seven of whom are living, and four of whom 
 are engaged in the brick business in Oregon. 
 
 In Princeton and Marseilles, 111., Alvin A. 
 Burton, Jr., received his education, and as a 
 boy, learned brickmaking under the instruc- 
 tions of his father. He realized the advantage 
 in dealing in a commodity for which there 
 must always be a demand, and he was the first 
 in his family to transfer his allegiance to Ore- 
 gon, which promised such splendid results. In 
 December, 1874, he made his way to this state, 
 and in order to get a start, engaged as a clerk 
 in a grocery store for three or four years. He 
 was then employed by the Oregon Railway & 
 Navigation Company as foreman of their 
 woodyard at Celilo, and at the end of two 
 years returned to Salem and became foreman 
 of the State Penitentiary brickyard. This po- 
 
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 sition was maintained by him for five yearo, 
 and during that time the yards turned out an 
 enormous number of brick, among other con- 
 tracts making the brick used in the construc- 
 tion of the State Asylum for the Insane. The 
 yearly output was two and a half million brick, 
 and the quality was unsurpassed up to that 
 time. Luman Burton, one of the brothers of 
 the superintendent, came to Oregon in 1878, 
 and filled a position in the yard with his 
 brother, and some years later two other broth- 
 ers, Edwin and Percy, arrived in the state, 
 eventually making up the firm of Burton 
 Brothers. 
 
 Upon severing his connection with the peni- 
 tentiary, in 1883, Mr. Burton took charge of 
 the brickyards of George Collins, of Salem, for 
 five years, and of Theodore Jensen, of Port- 
 land, for three years. In the meantime, in 
 1890, with his brothers, he had purchased the 
 Salem yards of Mr. Collins, and the following 
 year came here to superintend their manage- 
 ment, conducting his business under the firm 
 name of Burton Brothers. In 1894 he became 
 sole owner of the yards, and has since con- 
 ducted them independently. He owns twenty 
 acres of clay land on State street, also three 
 and a half acres on Twenty-fourth street, be- 
 tween State and Asylum avenue. The capac- 
 ity of the yards is sixteen thousand a day, or 
 more than two million a year, and abundant 
 facilities for shipping are furnished by a switch 
 run into the yards from the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad. Aside from the 'numerous contracts 
 fined in Salem, Mr. Burton has furnished the 
 brick for the construction of the State Univer- 
 sity at Eugene, and for the government Indian 
 school at Shewawa. In Salem he has supplied 
 brick for the Odd Fellows' building, the city 
 hall, the Bayne building, the Schriber building, 
 and many others of equal importance. The 
 brick are manufactured with horse power ma- 
 chinery. 
 
 The beautiful brick residence built by Mr. 
 Burton on East State street, between Twenty- 
 first and Twenty-second streets, is presided 
 over by his wife, who was formerly Daisy G. 
 Colwell, a native of Comanche, Iowa, and 
 daughter of C. H. Colwell, a native of Dela- 
 ware. Mr. Colwell was a builder and contrac- 
 tor, and an early settler in Iowa, where he 
 lived for many years in Moingona, Boone 
 county. In 1875 he came to Salem and con- 
 tinued his occupation up to the time of his 
 death, in March, 1884, at the age of sixty years. 
 He was a member of the Baptist Church, as is 
 also his wife, Hannah (Howard) Colwell, a 
 native of Greenville, N. Y., and who still lives 
 in Salem at the age of seventy-three years. 
 Three of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 
 Colwell are living, Mrs. Burton being the sec- 
 ond. She is the mother of two children, of 
 whom Roy, a graduate of the Capitol Business 
 College, is bookkeeper for the banking firm of 
 Ladd & Bush, and Delbert is living at home. 
 Mr. Burton is a Republican in politics, and 
 finds a religious home in the Baptist Church. 
 He is fraternally connected with the Knights 
 of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 JAMES STARR VAN WINKLE. The de- 
 scendent of an old Knickerbocker family, 
 James Starr Van Winkle has well kept up the 
 traditions of the early Hollanders in New 
 York state, both in personal characteristics and 
 public prominence, becoming in this western 
 state, of which he is a native son, a man of 
 wide popularity and gratifying success through 
 the many admirable traits which distinguish 
 him. Chiefly by his own efforts has Mr. Van 
 Winkle won the position he holds today in Al- 
 bany, one of social prominence and intellectual 
 equality. 
 
 The grandfather of Mr. Winkle, Isaac, 
 spent the greater part of his life in the middle 
 west, living in Kentucky and Tennessee, and 
 from the latter state emigrating to Oregon in 
 1859, where he died in Linn county soon after 
 his arrival. He was a worthy representative 
 of an old Dutch family that had made New 
 York its home at an early date in the history 
 of our country, fighting for national honor both 
 in the war of 18 12 and the Mexican war. His 
 son, Isaac N., was born in Kentucky and reared 
 in east Tennessee, among the Cumberland 
 mountains of Morgan county, engaging in ag- 
 ricultural labor on the paternal farm, and 
 crossed the plains of Oregon with his father's 
 family in 1859, where he located in Linn 
 county. He went first to the mines of Bannock 
 City, Idaho, where he remained for several 
 seasons, at the close of that period returning, 
 and with the fruits of his labor purchasing a 
 farm near Halsey, where he is now engaged 
 in farming. Religiously he is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is 
 an ordained minister. Fraternally he affiliates 
 with the Masons. He married Elizabeth Pearl, 
 a native of Missouri, and daughter of James 
 Pearl. The latter was born in Ohio, and on 
 attaining manhood settled in Missouri, from 
 which state he emigrated in 1852 to Oregon, 
 crossing the plains and locating first in Linn 
 county, near Jefferson, and later taking up a 
 donation claim east of Harrisburg, upon which 
 he lived for many years. Upon retiring from 
 the active cares of life he located in Halsey, 
 where his death occurred in 1898. The chil- 
 
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 dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Van Winkle are as 
 follows: James Starr, of this review; I. H., 
 an attorney of Salem; J. O., a student in the 
 medical department of Willamette University, 
 of Salem; J. F., of the United States Hydro- 
 graphic office in Portland ; Charles W., on the 
 home farm, and Sarah C, now the wife of J. G. 
 Patterson, of Salem. 
 
 James Starr Van Winkle was born near Hal- 
 sey, Linn county, Ore., December 30, 1866, and 
 was reared upon the paternal farm until he 
 was seventeen years old. At that age, having 
 acquired a fair education through application 
 and attendance at the district school in the 
 vicinity of his home, he began teaching in the 
 common schools of his native county, with the 
 view to appropriating the funds so acquired 
 for a collegiate course. Energy and persever- 
 ance succeeded, and he later entered Willam- 
 ette University, where he remaind for three 
 years. For some time after leaving college he 
 engaged in the drug business in Silverton, Ore., 
 and in 1888 located in Albany, where he has 
 since made his home, being then interested in 
 the abstract of title business, and later one 
 of the founders of the Linn County Abstract 
 Company, of which he was manager for some 
 time. In 1898 he was appointed chief clerk of 
 the Albany postoffice, and in 1899 was elected 
 city recorder of Albany, and was re-elected in 
 1901. He is now justice of the police court, 
 justice of the peace, and city recorder. 
 
 December 19, 1888, Mr. Van Winkle was 
 married in Marion county to Miss Lida B. 
 Hayes, a native of Marion county, and daugh- 
 ter of John C. Hayes, a druggist of Silverton, 
 and of the union three children have been born, 
 being named in order of birth as follows: J. 
 Stanley, V. Keith and James Hayes. Frater- 
 nally, Mr. Van Winkle is prominent. In the 
 Knights of Pythias he is past chancellor, and 
 was representative to the State Grand Lodge; 
 as a member of the Knights of the Maccabees 
 he is past officer and for six years served as 
 state commander, and is now serving as past 
 commander; he is ex-president of Delazon 
 Smith Cabin, No. 9, Native Sons of Oregon; 
 consul of the Woodmen of the World; 
 past workman of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen; and a member of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks. He is also secretary 
 of the Alco Club, having held this position 
 since its organization. 
 
 ELISHA P. MORCOM. As an exponent of 
 legal science Elisha P. Morcom ranks high in 
 professional circles in Marion county, for al- 
 though Woodburn claims him as her pioneer and 
 foremost attorney, his skill in adjusting compli- 
 
 cations touching the law has created a demand 
 for his services far beyond the borders of his 
 promising little town. Mr. Morcom was born in 
 Dodgeville, Wis., February 6, i860, his father, 
 John, having been born near Sunny Corners, 
 England. His grandfather, Captain John Mor- 
 com, was captain of the Bodmonic (Wis.) mines, 
 and was sent by an English company to Eagle 
 Harbor, Mich., where he opened the first copper 
 mines of that vicinity. These mines proved a 
 source of great profit to their promoters, and so 
 practically exhaustless are they that they are 
 being worked at the present time. The grand- 
 father died in Michigan before his grandson was 
 born, leaving behind him an example of industry 
 and correct living. His son, John, eventually lo- 
 cated at Dodgeville, where he combined mining 
 and farming, and where he died at the early age 
 of thirty years. His wife, Lucy (Scourick) Mor- 
 com, was born in St. Ives, England, of Cornish 
 descent. Some years after the death of John 
 Morcom, she married James Pratt, a native of 
 Yorkshire, England, who came to the United 
 States with his parents when twelve years of age. 
 He is engaged in mining in Wisconsin, making 
 his home in Dodgeville. 
 
 The only child in his father's family, Elisha 
 P. Morcom was left to the sole care of his 
 mother when six months of age. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, graduating from the 
 high school in 1883. At a very early age he be- 
 came interested in the study of law, and it was 
 practically no trouble for him to decide upon 
 devoting his life to this interesting profession. 
 At the age of sixteen he began to study law with 
 the firm of Briggs & Jenks, of Dodgeville, and 
 thereafter devoted his leisure to increasing his 
 knowledge in this direction. For four years he 
 was assistant postmaster of Dodgeville, and in 
 1887 took up his residence in Tower, Minn., 
 where he was admitted to the bar in 1891, and 
 formed a co-partnership with W. H. Johnson, of 
 Tower, an association amicably continued until 
 1893. He practiced law for three months in the 
 Marquam building at Portland and in January, 
 1892, came to Woodburn and the next year he 
 removed to Silverton. Having better opportun- 
 ities in Woodburn he returned in 1894, and took 
 up his practice under very favorable conditions, 
 as he had no competitor in the profession, and 
 there was a large field for a substantial and relia- 
 ble man in the community. For seven years he 
 has acceptably served as city attorney of Wood- 
 burn, and at the same time has had in charge the 
 greater part of the important cases in the neigh- 
 borhood. He has a profound understanding of 
 law, is lucid and clear in his expositions, and 
 eloquent and convincing in his argument. 
 
 In Dodgeville, Wis., Mr. Morcom was united 
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 in Dodgeville, October 23, i860, and whose 
 father, William Hooper, was born in England 
 and emigrated to America when a boy of twelve. 
 Mr. Hooper was for many years identified 
 with a flourishing merchandise business in 
 Dodgeville, but is now retired from active life. 
 The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Morcom, Lucy 
 A., is in the second year of the preparatory de- 
 partment of Willamette University at Salem. Mr. 
 Morcom is a Republican in politics, and is frater- 
 nally connected with Lodge No. 102, I. O. O. F., 
 and Knights of the Maccabees, Tent No. 8. He 
 is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 is superintendent of the Sunday school, and has 
 had charge of the senior Bible class since coming 
 to Woodburn. 
 
 ALEXANDER SEAVEY. If any man is 
 able to appreciate the peace and tranquillity of an 
 agricultural existence it seems as if that man 
 might be Alexander Seavey, now engaged in a 
 large stock-raising and hop business on his farm 
 of eleven hundred acres, near Eugene. The early 
 life of Mr. Seavey was sufficiently crowded with 
 daring and eventful happenings to please the 
 most ambitious seeker after adventure, and many 
 a boy whose ideas of life are gained from books 
 of travel and imagination might well envy him 
 his early experiences in the midst of danger and 
 hair-breadth escapes. As a lad he played in the 
 sands of Penobscot bay, on the west shore, and 
 ten miles from the ocean, in front of the town of 
 Rockland, Me., where he was born April 1, 1824. 
 As he thus played, his thought was centered more 
 on the outgoing than the incoming boats, and he 
 wondered whither they were going and what their 
 errand across the deep. As he grew older he 
 used to go out in fishing-boats, and his joy and 
 sorrow was gauged by the size of the catch which 
 he sold as a means of livelihood. Gradually the 
 shore limits grew tiresome, and to. realize his 
 dreams he embarked in a sailing vessel in the 
 West Indian trade, in 1849 shipping as mate on 
 the bark Challenge. The Challenge was destined 
 for a dreary ending of its career, for off the . 
 Brazilian coast, South America, it burned, the 
 crew making their escape in boats. For three 
 days the faithful mariners wandered around the 
 open sea, and after reaching land remained on 
 Brazilian territory until the following July. 
 
 Taking passage on a Scotch ship, Oughtertyre, 
 from Aberdeen, Scotland, Mr. Seavey was cer- 
 tainly risking his life, for he was regaled with 
 the cheerful information that the former crew, 
 with the exception of the captain and cook, had 
 died of yellow fever. This boat was destined 
 for San Francisco, and one hundred and seventy- 
 three days were required to round the Horn, 
 severe storms impeding the progress of the 
 
 stanch little craft. Once in California, Mr. 
 Seavey went to the mines of Trinidad, and there 
 embraced a waiting opportunity by purchasing 
 mules and running a pack-train.' Accustomed to 
 the life of a land-dweller, and liking it quite 
 as well as the sea, he started a little store on 
 Althouse creek, Josephine county, Ore., in part- 
 nership with George O. Collins. ' This little store 
 proved a decided success, and was continued un- 
 interruptedly for five years, at the end of which 
 time Mr. Seavey sold out to his partner and went 
 on a mining expedition to the Rogue river. In 
 1855 he came to Lane county and took up one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land in the hills, three 
 miles north of Springfield, and there engaged in 
 stock-raising on a large scale, starting with a band 
 of three hundred and fifty cows and calves. With 
 the money made from this successful enterprise 
 he purchased his present farm of eleven hundred 
 acres, and in 1883 started hop-raising on a small 
 scale, gradually increasing until his one hun- 
 dred acres are invaded by an army of pickers 
 every fall and reap for their employer a hand- 
 some fortune. 
 
 Through his marriage with Sarah A. Blachly 
 the following children have been born to Mr. 
 Seavey : W r illiam C. is a farmer of Lane county ; 
 James, John and Jess are at home; Anna is the 
 wife of Ed Bushnell ; Alwilda is the wife of Jas- 
 per Wilkins ; and Sophronia is deceased. It will 
 be seen that perseverance and industry have been 
 leading factors in the life of Mr. Seavey, and 
 that the humble sailor starting away from the 
 coast of Maine had the heart and brain and good 
 judgment to put to practical use the abilities and 
 opportunities which were his by natural right. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. GIESY, M. D. A promis- 
 ing young medical practitioner, destined to re- 
 flect great credit upon his native town of Aurora, 
 Benjamin F. Giesy, born here February 15, 1875, 
 is the reprsentative of a family numerously repre- 
 sented in the medical profession. 
 
 Martin Giesy, from whom his son inherits a 
 keen appreciation of the importance of medical 
 science, was born in Pennsylvania, and came as a 
 child with his parents to Bethel, Mo., whence 
 he came with the other members of his family 
 to Oregon in 1855, across the plains. He was a 
 very warm friend of Dr. Keil, the founder of the 
 Aurora Colony, and through him became inter- 
 ested in medicine, for the practice of which he 
 qualified in the state, and thereafter entered upon 
 a practice covering many years. In the earlv 
 days he experienced all of the discomforts of a 
 laborious and extensive country practice, and 
 used to ride long and weary distances to patients 
 who placed implicit faith in him. and hesitated 
 to call anyone else. He was very popular with 
 
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 all classes, and, added to a profound knowledge 
 of his chosen calling, possessed a genial and 
 optimistic disposition, which not only made but 
 retained friends. His very presence in a sick 
 room seemed to be an antidote for many of the 
 ills to which flesh is heir, and his retirement from 
 practice was deeply regretted by his many hun- 
 dreds of patients. As his practice increased he 
 saw the necessity of a drug store in the place, 
 and at present owns the only one in the town. 
 Through his marriage with Martha Miller, 
 seven children have been born into his family, 
 five boys and two daughters, of whom three sons 
 and one daughter are living. 
 
 The preliminary education of Benjamin F. 
 Giesy was received in the public schools of Au- 
 rora, Ore., after which he studied Greek, Ger- 
 man and Latin with a private tutor. In 1892 he 
 entered the State Medical College, from which 
 he was graduated in 1896, and thereafter, from 
 1896 to 1897, served as house surgeon in the 
 Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. He was 
 also graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 
 Philadelphia, Pa., in 1900 ; and entered upon the 
 active practice of medicine in Aurora in 1897. 
 He is filling his father's place to an extent hardly 
 prophesied by the most sanguine, and has won 
 a popularity and good will which presages unin- 
 terrupted success. Dr. Giesy is well known fra- 
 ternally, and is identified with the Masons, the 
 Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias, 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Knights of the Maccabees. He is examining 
 physician for all the local orders that have insur- 
 ance privileges except the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. 
 
 JAMES L. ATWATER. One of the many 
 enterprising men engaged in farming in the rich 
 and fertile lands of Polk county is James L. At- 
 water, residing near Lewisville, who has brought 
 to his chosen calling good business methods, and 
 is meeting with deserved success in his labors. 
 A son of Miles L. Atwater, he was born Febru- 
 ary 4, 1852, in Fulton county, 111. His paternal 
 grandfather, Lyman Atwater, was born in Con- 
 necticut in 1798, and died in Illinois in 1863. 
 Migrating westward from his New England 
 home he located first in Ohio, afterwards settling 
 in Illinois as a pioneer of Fulton county. He 
 was a man of great activity, fully interested in 
 the welfare of his county and state, and after 
 serving in the Blackhawk war assisted in driv- 
 ing the Mormons from the Nauvoo settlement 
 in Illinois. 
 
 A native of Ohio, M. L. Atwater was born 
 October 20, 1825, in Ashtabula county, but was 
 reared in Fulton county, 111., where he learned 
 the cooper's trade. On the breaking out of the 
 
 Civil war, he enlisted in the Sixth Iowa Infantry, 
 but after serving six months had the measles, 
 and was subsequently discharged on account of 
 physical disability. Re-enlisting in the Eighty- 
 fifth Illinois Infantry, in Company G, he served 
 throughout the remainder of the war, being with 
 Sherman on his march to the sea. Passing 
 through various engagements without being 
 wounded, he was mustered out of service and 
 returned to Illinois, where he turned his atten- 
 tion to agricultural pursuits. In 1891 he came 
 to Oregon and purchased a farm near Lewisville 
 and afterwards lived with his son, James L. At- 
 water, near Lewisville, until his death, April 20, 
 1898. His wife, whose maiden name was Har- 
 riet Baldwin, was born in Coshocton county, 
 Ohio, December 8, 1832, and now resides in 
 Portland, Ore., making her home with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Hollister. She bore her husband 
 four children, namely : L. H., who lives at Hills- 
 boro, Ore.; James L., the subject of this sketch; 
 Emma J., wife of Thomas Hollister, living at 
 University Park, Portland, Ore. ; and William, 
 also of Portland. 
 
 Leaving school when thirteen years of age, 
 James L. Atwater worked as a farm laborer for 
 about six years. The following twelve years he 
 was employed on the Wabash railroad as a stone- 
 mason, in the meantime learning the trade of a 
 carpenter and bridge-builder. Going to Minne- 
 sota in 1880, he was engaged in carpentering in 
 Minneapolis for four years. From there he went 
 to Idaho in the spring of 1884, and until August 
 of that year was engaged in mining in the Coeur 
 d'Alene district. Not meeting with success, Mr. 
 Atwater continued westward to Polk county, 
 and located on his present farm, near Lewis- 
 ville. He has seventy-three acres of land, which 
 were formerly a part of the donation claim taken 
 up by his father-in-law, Mr. I. Zumwalt. In 
 addition to general farming he pays much at- 
 tention to stockraising, and is carrying on a sub- 
 stantial business, each year adding materially to 
 his income. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Atwater married Amelia Zum- 
 walt, a native of Polk county, and they have 
 three children, namely : Essie, Hattie and 
 Mamie. A stanch supporter of the principles of 
 the Republican party, Mr. Atwater takes an in- 
 telligent interest in public affairs, and since 1888 
 has served as school director. He is a member of 
 the South Methodist Episcopal Church of Lewis- 
 ville, of which he has been one of the board of 
 trustees since its organization. Mrs. Atwater 
 belongs to the Evangelical Church of Lewisville. 
 
 SARAH C. PRICE. Previous to their mar- 
 riage in Ohio, Edward B. Waters and Sarah 
 Griffith had moved with their parents from their 
 respective homes in Frederick county, Maryland, 
 
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 and Pennsylvania, and from Ohio moved to Por- 
 ter county, Ind., where Sarah, the future Mrs. 
 Price was born, the third in a family of two 
 suns and three daughters. The children were 
 roared in the public schools of Indiana, and the 
 parents, having heard much about the superior 
 agricultural and other advantages in the far 
 northwest, determined to see ' for themselves if 
 these reports could be verified. Accordingly, 
 they disposed of die Indiana farm in 1852, and 
 in the fall of the same year went to Iowa, re- 
 maining in that state until the following spring. 
 In Iowa they made the necessary preparations 
 for crossing the plains, outfitting with ox-teams 
 and loose cattle, and their journey extended from 
 May until October. They encountered many 
 Indians on the way, but were able to hold their 
 own. and arrived at their destination in Polk 
 county in fairly good condition. In the spring of 
 1854 the father took up a claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres near Pedee, but in 1859 
 disposed of it and settled on a farm in Klickitat 
 county, Wash. In 1865 they came to Polk 
 county, Ore., and settled on a farm near where 
 Mrs. Price now lives, but in later life they lived 
 in retirement in Dallas, where the father died at 
 an advanced age. The mother at present lives 
 with W. D. Turner, of Airlie, Ore. 
 
 Sarah Waters remained at home with her 
 parents until her marriage, in 1859, with Marcus 
 D. L. Gilliam, son of that splendid old pioneer 
 and Indian fighter, Cornelius Gilliam, around 
 whom centers a world of adventure and romance, 
 and whose name will be connected with the 
 earliest civilization of Oregon as long as history 
 endures. Marcus Gilliam was born in Platte 
 county, Mo., and crossed the plains with his 
 father in 1844, settling temporarily on the farm 
 of his father near Dallas. He afterward took 
 up the claim upon which Mrs. Price now lives, 
 and where the father and mother spent several 
 years of harmonious married life. Mr. Gilliam 
 was not destined for long life, for he died on 
 this place, March 27, 1868, at the age of thirty- 
 four years, two months and eleven days. His 
 life was ennobled by a self-sacrificing service in 
 the Yakima war of 1855-6, and it is said of him 
 that he was an excellent farmer, a kind husband, 
 and a good friend. Three children were born 
 to himself and wife, and of these, Frank, the 
 oldest, is managing the home farm ; Alice A. is 
 the wife of W. D. Mohney, of Salem, Ore. ; and 
 Esther is deceased. 
 
 About 1883 Mrs. Gilliam was united in mar- 
 riage with Larkin Price, who was born in Vir- 
 ginia. Mrs. Price owns two hundred and seven- 
 teen acres of land, which is proving productive 
 and remunerative under the excellent manage- 
 ment of her son Frank. She is one of the highly 
 respected and broad-minded women of her neigh- 
 
 borhood, and many friends delight to visit her 
 hospitable and comfortable home. General 
 farming and stock-raising are carried on exten- 
 sively, and fine improvements are combined with 
 modern and scientific methods. 
 
 PHILIP T. AND CPIARLES F. HICKS. 
 In the vicinity of Silverton are to be found many 
 rich and productive farming estates, and among 
 the energetic and self-reliant men who are con- 
 ducting its agricultural interests the subjects of 
 this sketch occupy no unimportant place. They 
 are numbered among the brave pioneers of this 
 section of Marion county, and are still living' on 
 the farm on which they settled with their parents 
 in 1866, their property being situated on Silver 
 Creek road, about two and one-half miles south- 
 east of Silverton. 
 
 Coming from excellent New England ancestry, 
 they are sons of Frisby Hicks, who was born 
 July 27, 1806, in Vermont, but was reared and 
 educated in New York state, and in Indiana, his 
 parents having lived in both states. As a boy of 
 sixteen years, Frisby Hicks determined to make 
 his own way in life, and with that object in view 
 began flat-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi 
 rivers. A few years afterward he had made such 
 progress in his new occupation that he found 
 himself the owner of a line of steamboats plying 
 between St. Louis and New Orleans. He made 
 his home, however, in Indiana until 1846, when 
 he removed with his family to St. Louis, where 
 he lived a year. Giving up his boats at that time, 
 he located in Iowa, and was there successfully 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1866, 
 when, lured by the prospects of cheap land in a 
 new country, he came to Marion county, making 
 the five months' journey by team across the 
 plains, and having but little trouble with the 
 Indians on the way. Buying the four hundred 
 and eighty acres of land comprised in the present 
 homestead of his sons, he labored, with the help 
 of his children, to redeem a farm from the wilder- 
 ness, and by dint of hard labor, thrift and good 
 management succeeded well, rendering it one of 
 the finest estates in the vicinity. He lived to the 
 ripe old age of four score and four years, honored 
 and respected by all. He took an intelligent in- 
 terest in public affairs, and while a resident of 
 Iowa served a number of terms as justice of the 
 peace. In 1839 he married Catherine Taylor, who 
 was born in Pennsylvania, and died at the age of 
 seventy-two years, on the home farm in Silver- 
 ton. Of the children born of their union, six 
 are living, namely : Philip T. ; Charles F. ; Mary 
 E., wife of John Maulding, of Yamhill county; 
 John, of Silverton ; E. Pitt, and Harry P., who 
 live near Silverton. 
 
 Philip T. Hicks was born March 22, 1844, in 
 
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 Patriot, Switzerland county, Ind. He received 
 excellent educational advantages, and in his 
 younger days taught school several terms. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he gave evidence of his pa- 
 triotism by enlisting May 16, 1864, in Company 
 H, Forty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, being 
 mustered into service at Keokuk. With his regi- 
 ment he was sent first to Memphis, Tenn., and 
 assigned to garrison duty during the four months 
 prior to the expiration of his term of enlistment. 
 On returning from the scene of conflict, he re- 
 mained at home until 1866, when he crossed the 
 plains with his parents, and from that time until 
 the present has resided on the homestead which 
 he ably assisted his father in clearing and im- 
 proving, and is now successfully employed in 
 general farming and stock-raising. He is a 
 stanch Republican in politics, and has served on 
 the school board, and as road supervisor. He 
 is an active member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, in which he takes great interest. Philip 
 T. Flicks married, December 22, 1881, Nettie 
 Morley, a native of Silverton, and a daughter of 
 John Morley, and into their household six chil- 
 dren have been born, namely: Alma, Morton, 
 Audrey, Tero, and Avery M. and Avis M., twins. 
 Charles F. Hicks was born in Patriot, Inch, 
 December 26, 1841, and was educated in the dis- 
 trict schools of Iowa. In 1863 he offered his 
 services to his country, enlisting in Company B, 
 Fourth Iowa Independent Battery. After being 
 mustered in at Davenport, he went to New Or- 
 leans, where he assisted in protecting railroad 
 property, being on guard duty a large part of 
 the time that he was in service. At the close of 
 the war he returned to the parental homestead, 
 and the following year, accompanied his parents 
 and their family in the long trip across the plains. 
 He labored with characteristic energy in the 
 clearing and improving of the farm on which his 
 parents settled, and where, with 1 the exception of 
 five years that he had charge of a grist-mill in 
 Silverton, he has since resided. He is actively 
 engaged in farming, being associated with his 
 brother Philip, with whom he makes his home, 
 and is deservedly prosperous in his undertak- 
 ings. He is a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic and is a stanch Republican in politics, 
 being a leader in party affairs. He has served 
 to the satisfaction of his constituents in various 
 public offices, and represented his county in the 
 state legislature one term, having been elected to 
 the office in June, if" 
 
 JOHN C. McCREA, commissioner of Yam- 
 hill county, represents a type of citizen in 
 whom is blended enthusiasm for whatever he 
 has to do, a healthy mind and sterling integ- 
 rity, and that most precious of possessions- 
 
 hard common sense. In the hard school of 
 self-culture Mr. McCrea learned all his lessons 
 of life, his affiliation with the serious and re- 
 sponsible side of life having been inaugurated 
 at a very early age. He was born in Branch 
 county, Mich., September 16, 1847, and at the 
 age of five years lost his father, John McCrea. 
 The elder McCrea was a native of Ireland, 
 and in his native land was engaged in farming 
 and saw-milling. He came to the United 
 States with his parents, settling in Crawford 
 county, Ohio, from where he removed to the 
 farm in Michigan, where his death occurred at 
 the age of fifty years. He was a practical 
 farmer and expert lumberman, and managed 
 by industry and frugality, to lay up quite a 
 little property. His wife, Rachel (Eberhard) 
 McCrea, was born in Pennsylvania, and came 
 to Ohio with her parents when a child. Her 
 great-grandfather served in the war of 1812. 
 Mrs. McCrea had nine children, four sons and 
 five daughters, John C. being the youngest son 
 and eighth child. 
 
 Left fatherless, at the age of five, John C. 
 at nine, was leading a horse that was working 
 a stump puller, and from this minor occupa- 
 tion graduated into work requiring muscular 
 development and business ability. Childish di- 
 versions were almost unknown to the lad, who 
 in 1871, departed from his native surroundings, 
 having acquired considerable experience while 
 managing comparatively large interests. In 
 search of a favorable permanent location, he 
 lived for a year in Freemont county, Iowa, and. 
 one year in Clay county, Mo., 1873 finding him 
 again in Freemont county. In 1874 he located 
 in Republic county, Kans., on the state line, 
 and, in 1875, removed to California, locating 
 forty miles southeast of San Francisco. Here 
 he drove a six-mule team, and also farmed and 
 worked in a brickyard. In 1876 he investigated 
 conditions up in the Sound country, and in 
 March, 1877, located on a farm of two hundred 
 and fifty acres on the Willamette river in 
 Marion county, to which he added later by 
 purchase, one hundred and sixty acres. This 
 property was improved to a large extent by 
 Mr. McCrea, and disposed of in 1901, although 
 he had taken up his residence in Newberg in 
 1899. The McCrea residence is one of the most 
 beautiful in the town, situated in the midst of 
 five acres of orchard land on the banks of the 
 Willamette. The members of the family are 
 popular and well known, and the hospitality 
 and good fellowship dispensed are proverbial. 
 
 A stanch Independent, Mr. McCrea has 
 taken an active interest in the political under- 
 takings of this county, and has variously 
 served the interests of the communities in 
 which he has lived. In Marion county he was 
 
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 road commissioner for several terms, and in 
 
 uliill and Marion counties he has been a 
 
 member oi the school board. On the Populist 
 
 ticket lie was elected county commissioner in 
 [Q02, and is acceptably rilling this important 
 responsibility. Among the many outside in- 
 terests which claim the attention of Mr. Mc- 
 
 a may be mentioned the vice-presidency of 
 the Chehalem Valley Bank, of which he is a 
 
 'kholder, and of which he has been a direc- 
 tor for seven years. He is also interested in 
 oil wells in California, and in mines, being a 
 
 •kholder in the Little Giant Gold Mining 
 Company, the prospects of which look very 
 encouraging. Mr. McCrea is fraternally asso- 
 ciated with the Blue Lodge of Masons, the 
 Knights and Ladies of Security, and the United 
 Artisans. 
 
 At Burr Oak. St. Joseph county, Mich., on 
 December 25, 1867, Mr. McCrea married Altha 
 Eleanor Baldwin, whose father, Daniel, was 
 born in Connecticut and died in Michigan, at 
 the age of fifty-five. Six children have been 
 born into the McCrea home: Frederick L., 
 born in Branch county, Mich., May 16. 1869, 
 resides in Umatilla county, Ore. ; Willis J., 
 born in Clay county, Mo., January 15, 1873, 
 died December 28, 1873 ; Elsie C, born in 
 Branch County, Mich., December 12, 1874, died 
 April 25, 1902 ; Edith A., born in Marion 
 county, Ore., October 2, 1882 ; John C, born in 
 Marion county, Ore., August 2, 1885; Archie 
 E.. born in Yamhill county, Ore., November 
 23, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. McCrea have five 
 grandchildren, four boys and one girl. 
 
 JAMES N. B. FULLER. Foremost among 
 the men of large capacity who are developing 
 the giant lumber industry of Oregon is James 
 X. B. Fuller, partner of J- B. Hopkins, in the 
 Eugene Lumber Company, and a man of forceful 
 characteristics and practical upbuilding tenden- 
 cies. In common with all of the captains of 
 industry who have achieved success in the state, 
 the early life and environment of this merchant 
 are of interest to an onlooking public, for un- 
 questionably the majority who are struggling for 
 a competency may profit by a knowledge of the 
 means pursued by those high in public esteem. 
 
 The Fuller ancestry is an interesting one. and 
 reaches far back into dim colonial davs to one 
 Thomas Fuller, whose desire for larger oppor- 
 tunity inspired him to embark from English 
 shores in 1632, and assume the life of self-sacri- 
 fice and small compensation to which the earliest 
 settlers of Massachusetts were heir. The next in 
 order of succession of whom record has been kept 
 is Israel Fuller, the paternal grandfather of 
 James N. B., and who represented the sixth gen- 
 
 eration in the United States. This sire was born 
 in the stronghold of conservatism in Danvers, 
 Mass., and in time established his family in New 
 Hampshire, where he owned and operated a large 
 farm for the balance of his life. At one time 
 he lived in Amherst, N. H, where his son, 
 Samuel, the father of James X. B., was born, 
 in 1807. and who continued to spend his days in 
 Hillsboro county, his death occurring two miles 
 from where he was born, at the age of eighty-five 
 years. He married into the Hastings family, 
 which also had its representatives among the 
 colonists. Mrs. Fuller was born and reared in 
 Shirley, a post township of Middlesex county, 
 Mass. Four of the six children born to Samuel 
 Fuller and his wife are living, James N. B., the 
 only son in the family, dating his birth from 
 October 9, 1850. 
 
 Educated in the public schools and at the New 
 Ipswich Academy, James N. B. Fuller applied 
 himself to the mastery of civil engineering when 
 he was eighteen years old, eventually following 
 the same in Hillsboro county, N. H.. for three 
 or four years. After coming to Oregon in 1877 
 he spent the first winter in McMinnville, and in 
 the spring of 1878 engaged in the planing-mill 
 business in Crawfordsville, Linn county, with 
 Mr. Crawford, after whom the town was named. 
 In 1884 the partners extended their operations 
 to the banks of the Mohawk, where they built 
 a water-power sawmill, operated it for a year, 
 and then built a steam-mill at the mouth of' the 
 Mohawk. This mill was not long after removed 
 to McGowan Creek, and operated until Mr. Ful- 
 ler came to Eugene in 1890 to help start on its 
 successful career the Eugene Lumber Companv. 
 With his partner he built the mill by the bridge, 
 which in 1900 was burned to the ground, and 
 which calamity necessitated the building of the 
 present modern structure. 
 
 In Baldwin, Kans., in April, 1893. Mr. Fuller 
 married Mamie Carman, a native of Omaha, 
 Neb., being born in August, 1862. Mrs. Fuller 
 is the daughter of John and Mary (Lynde) Car- 
 man, now residents of Eugene, the former born in 
 England and the latter in New York. One son, 
 James Carman, a bright and interesting child, 
 has blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Fuller. 
 Mr. Fuller is a Republican in political affiliation, 
 and is variously connected with fraternal and 
 social organizations in the county. He possesses 
 the elements of popularity and success, and to 
 an exceptional degree enjoys the confidence of 
 the communitv in which he dwells. 
 
 JOHN T. JAMES. Diversified farming, 
 stock and hop-raising are being successfully con- 
 ducted on the three hundred and ten acre farm 
 of John T. James, in the vicinity of Stiver, Polk 
 
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 county. Mr. James has been a resident of this 
 county for so many years that he is considered 
 an important part of its development, and a 
 typical representative of its prosperity. From a 
 middle-west farm in Cumberland county, 111., 
 where he was born January 17, 1848, he crossed 
 the plains in 1866 with his parents, Samuel 
 M. and Julia A. (Troxel) James, the latter a 
 native of Indiana, and the former born in 1818. 
 On the maternal side Mr. James is of German 
 descent, his mother's family having been repre- 
 sented in America for many years. Samuel M. 
 James was a shoemaker by trade, and also 
 farmed during the greater part of his active life, 
 devoting himself exclusively to the latter occu- 
 pation after locating on his farm in Douglas 
 county, Ore., in the fall of 1866. He was not 
 destined to long enjoy his life in the west, for 
 his death occurred in 1868. He was survived 
 by his wife until 1888, when she died at the 
 age of sixty-seven years. Besides John T., the 
 youngest of the three children, there is J. H., 
 the oldest son, living in Coquille, Coos county, 
 Ore., and Mary Jane, the wife of George Hall 
 of Ashland, Ore. 
 
 The farm-reared youth of today can hardly 
 realize the difficulty which John T. James had 
 in acquiring an education, for his father's ill 
 health in both Illinois and Oregon made it 
 imperative that the sons assume the entire re- 
 sponsibility on the farm, a fact which gave them 
 little opportunity to attend the schools of their 
 neighborhood. That Mr. James is today a well 
 informed and well educated man is due entirely 
 to later application, and to his appreciation of 
 books and periodicals. He was eighteen years 
 of age when he came to Oregon, and three years 
 later, in 1870, he moved to Polk county, and 
 near Suver engaged in the pork-packing busi- 
 ness. Afterward he engaged in other occupa- 
 tions in the neighborhood, remaining there 
 about four years. Later he returned to Douglas 
 county, and near Oakland went into the stock- 
 raising business, being thus employed until 
 1 891. He then sold out and returned to Polk 
 county, locating on a farm formerly owned by 
 J. W. Suver, near Suver, eighteen acres of 
 which are under hops. 
 
 Notwithstanding his busy agricultural life 
 Mr. James has found time to interest himself 
 in politics and social diversions, thus placing 
 himself in touch with all phases of life in this 
 county. On the Democratic ticket he -has been 
 elected school director and clerk, and has also 
 served as road supervisor. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the United Artisans of Wells, 
 and the Masons of Oakland, Douglas county. 
 March 15, 1873, ^ e married Carolene Suver, 
 who was born in Polk county. December 9, 1854, 
 and in honor of whose father the town of Suver 
 
 was named. Seven children have been born 
 of this union, the order of their birth being as 
 follows: Joseph H., of Washington,; Julia 
 Ann, at home; Mary Alice, the wife of A. E. 
 Harper, of Springfield, Lane county, Ore. ; John 
 E., at home; Carolene, the wife of O. M. Allen, 
 of Suver, Ore.; Harriett Elizabeth, at home; 
 and Lenora Belle, also at home. Mr. James 
 is a practical and scientific farmer, and his 
 buildings, fences, and general improvements 
 give evidence of a progressive and resourceful 
 mind. He is appreciated for his many fine 
 traits of character, and especially for his sin- 
 cerity and public spiritedness. 
 
 THERON A. IRELAND. As fine and pro- 
 ductive a farm as one would care to own is 
 that occupied by Theron A. Ireland, one of the 
 successful stock-raisers and farmers of Polk 
 county. Of Scotch-Irish descent, Mr. Ireland 
 claims Jackson county, Ind., as the place of his 
 nativity, the date thereof being December 10, 
 1842. His parents were David and Mary A. 
 (Sanderson) Ireland, and his grandparents were 
 James and Sarah (Burnell) Ireland, the grand- 
 father being a native of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Near the paternal farm in the vicinity of 
 Sheridan, Lucas county, Iowa, to which the 
 family had removed from Indiana, was a little 
 log schoolhouse where knowledge was dis- 
 pensed according to old-time methods, and 
 hither went Theron A. when the work on the 
 farm permitted. At the age of twenty he began 
 to devote all of his time to farming, assisting 
 his father with the management of the property 
 and drawing his regular income from the sale 
 of grain and other commodities. In the mean- 
 time he was thinking of broader opportunities 
 than those by which he was surrounded and 
 decided to cast his lot among the emigrants to 
 the unknown west. Nancy L. Brummett was 
 born in Brown county, Ind., December 15, 1845, 
 and her marriage with Mr. Ireland took place 
 March 17, 1864. Thereafter the young people 
 devoted their time to outfitting for crossing the 
 plains with mule-teams, and made the start from 
 the home farm April 4, 1864, less than a month 
 after their marriage. Their long and tedious 
 journey was accomplished without mishap and 
 they arrived at The Dalles, September 26, 1864. 
 The first winter was spent near Monmouth, and 
 the following spring Mr. Ireland rented a farm 
 of eighty acres two miles south of the town, 
 where they lived for one year. The farm 
 proved undesirable, and he removed to his pres- 
 ent farm, which consists of three hundred acres,' 
 a large portion of which is under cultivation. In 
 addition to general farming the owner is engaged 
 extensively in stock-raising, and while making 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 no attempt at registered or fancy breeds he 
 keeps a substantial and generally high grade of 
 eattie. lie is successful in his chosen occupa- 
 tion, and attributes his good fortune to industry, 
 I business judgment, economy, and strict 
 integrity. 
 
 \ Socialist in politics, Mr. Ireland has held 
 several offices of responsibility in his neighbor- 
 hood, including that of road supervisor and 
 school director. He is a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church of Monmouth, Ore., and since 
 young manhood has supported, as his means 
 permitted, his chosen denomination. Six chil- 
 dren have been reared in his home to make useful 
 members of the community : William H., living 
 on the Mackenzie river in Lane county ; Frank 
 V. lives on a ranch near Santa Ana, Orange 
 county, Cal. ; Mary B. is at home; Effie M. is 
 the wife of Sam Tetherow of Lewisville ; Mellie 
 M. is the wife of G. W. Girard of Independence; 
 and Clara E. is living- at home. 
 
 J. EARL HOSMER. Among the wideawake 
 and progressive young journalists who are help- 
 ing to mould public opinion in Marion county is 
 J. Earl Hosmer, editor of the Silverton Appeal, 
 a weekly, seven-column, eight-page newspaper, 
 devoted to promoting the best interests of this 
 wonderfully fertile valley. The Silverton Appeal 
 has a large circulation throughout the entire 
 county, and its pages are filled with valuable 
 suggestions on all departments of living, it be- 
 ing a stanch advocate of fundamental things, 
 such as hygiene, diet, education, agriculture and 
 home-building. It is the effort of the manage- 
 ment to obliterate such information as tends to 
 lower the standard of a progressive and inquiring 
 community,, and to place all in touch with clean, 
 optimistic views of life. A live paper in every 
 ML-nse of the word, the Appeal is destined for a 
 long era of prosperity, and is not likely to fail 
 through advocacy of issues or principles not 
 founded on common sense, and the individual 
 rights of man. 
 
 Mr. Hosmer was born in Durand, Pepin 
 county, Wis., February 17, 1862, and is the 
 son of Albert M. and Cynthia (Earl) Hosmer. 
 natives respectively of Vermont and Canada. 
 Albert M. Hosmer removed from Vermont to 
 Xew York state when eleven years of age, and 
 before the Civil war settled in the colony at Du- 
 rand, Wis., where he died at the age of sixty- 
 four years. As an early settler of that region, 
 he was identified with various pioneer industries, 
 among them hotel keeping, ferrying, stage driv- 
 ing, farming and carpentering. His wife removed 
 to New York with her parents when a child, and 
 was reared in St. Lawrence county. She was the 
 mother of five children, four sons and one daugh- 
 
 ter, of whom the editor of the Appeal is the third 
 child. 
 
 J. Earl Hosmer acquired his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Durand, and the 
 Oregon State Normal School, from which he 
 was graduated in 1893, with the degree of B. S. 
 D. This training was supplemented by a course 
 at the Western University of Chicago, 111., from 
 which he was graduated in 1897, with the de- 
 gree of Ph. D. His youth contained somewhat 
 of hardship and responsibility, for at the age of 
 twelve he began to drive a team for his father, 
 and afterward engaged in active farm work. 
 In 1901 he bought the Silverton Appeal, installed 
 the plant with modern water-power machinery, 
 and has increased the subscription list one hun- 
 dred per cent. Aside from his journalistic work 
 Mr. Hosmer is interested in real estate, and is 
 president of the Cascade Real Estate Company, 
 which has at its disposal vast areas of timber 
 lands, improved farms, stock ranches, saw-mill 
 property, and city property. This company has 
 done much in promoting the well-being of Marion 
 county, and in placing its many merits before 
 prospective purchasers. 
 
 September 1, 1885, Mr. Hosmer was united in 
 marriage with Minnie Page, who was born in 
 Minnesota, March 30, 1867, and removed when 
 young to Durand, Wis., with her parents. She 
 was educated in the high school of the latter 
 town, eventually engaging in educational work, 
 locating in Oregon in 1890 with her husband. 
 The pre-empted claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres taken up at that time by Mr. Hosmer in 
 Tillamook county was sold by him in 1903. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hosmer were among the founders of 
 the Liberal University at Silverton, and reluct- 
 antly resigned from the association because of 
 their inability to coincide with certain beliefs 
 which crept into the university. Mrs. Hosmer 
 died February 1, 1901, and August 4, 1902, Mr. 
 Hosmer married Frances Rauch, a native of Ma- 
 rion county. Mrs. Hosmer is the capable assist- 
 ant of her husband in his newspaper work. 
 
 A. M. CLOUGH, who is engaged in the un- 
 dertaking business in Salem, has been a resident 
 of the city since 1876. He was born in St. 
 Johnsbury, Vt., September 4, 1850, being one 
 of a family of seven children born unto Gardner 
 and Laura (Joslin) Clough. The father was a 
 native of Massachusetts and the family is of 
 Scotch lineage, for the grandfather, Jabez 
 Clough, was a native of Scotland, whence he 
 emigrated to the new world, establishing his 
 home in the Bay state. A few years later he 
 removed to Vermont, where he carried on farm- 
 ing and at the time of the war of 1812 he aided 
 his adopted country. Gardner Clough was a pat- 
 
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 ternmaker and millwright and followed his trade 
 in Vermont until 1856, when he removed to 
 New York, and in 1857 to northeastern Iowa, 
 settling in Winneshiek county. He built some of 
 the first grist-mills in that part of the state and 
 was thus instrumental in establishing a new in- 
 dustry there. He resided near Bluffton until 
 September, 1861, when he volunteered for ser- 
 vice as a defender of the Union cause, enlisting 
 m Company I, Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry. 
 At the end of his term of enlistment he re-en- 
 listed and served until the close of the war, but 
 his health became impaired from the effects of 
 his long and arduous service, and he never fully 
 recovered. Upon his return in 1865 he secured 
 a homestead farm in Buena Vista county, Iowa, 
 where he died about five years later. In politics 
 he was a stanch Republican and held the office of 
 county commissioner and county recorder in 
 Buena Vista county. His wife, who was born 
 in Kirby, Vt., was a daughter of Sylvanus Jos- 
 lin, also a native of that locality and a farmer by 
 occupation. He belonged to one of the old Puri- 
 tan families of New England, held membership 
 with the Congregational Church and died at the 
 age of eighty-nine years. Mrs. Clough survived 
 her husband for many years and passed away in 
 Iowa at the age of seventy-eight. In their fam- 
 ily were seven children, of whom five are 
 yet living. Fernando, the eldest, who was a 
 member of Company B, Ninth Iowa Cavalry, 
 served for two years and four months in the 
 Union army and" was taken prisoner at Little 
 Rock, Ark., while carrying dispatches. After- 
 ward he was exchanged, and he now resides at 
 Elk Falls, Kans. The next member of the fam- 
 ily is A. M. Clough of this review. The others 
 are Fred M., John O., and William L., all resi- 
 dents of Iowa. 
 
 A. M. Clough was seven years of age when he 
 accompanied his parents to Iowa and took up 
 his abode upon a farm in Bluffton township, 
 Winneshiek county. He spent his boyhood days 
 in the usual manner of farm lads of that period, 
 and the public schools afforded him his educa- 
 tional privileges. When the Civil war broke out 
 his mother removed to Waukon, Iowa,, where the 
 family resided during the period of hostilities, the 
 father being absent, serving in the army. In 
 the spring of 1865 A. M. Clough ran away from 
 home to McGregory and enlisted, but after thir- 
 teen days with the troops he was rejected on 
 account of his age and size. In the same year, 
 after the close of the war, the family removed 
 to Buena Vista county, Iowa, settling near Sioux 
 Rapids, and our subject resided upon the home 
 farm until 1866, when he took up his abode in 
 Waukon and for three years was engaged in 
 driving stage. He then went to Bluffton. Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farming and also learned 
 
 the carpenter's trade, which he followed for about 
 three or four years. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Clough arrived in Oregon and 
 secured a situation in the Babcock cabinet shop, 
 working in their undertaking establishment until 
 1884, when Mr. Babcock was elected county 
 clerk. In that year Mr. Clough purchased his 
 undertaking business and has since continued as 
 undertaker and funeral director. He is a gradu- 
 ate of three different schools of embalming, of 
 which he makes a specialty. He is very success- 
 ful in his chosen field of labor. 
 
 In Cresco, Howard county, Iowa, in 1873, Mr. 
 Clough was united in marriage to Adella Rider, 
 who was born in Woodstock, 111., and with her 
 parents came to Oregon in 1876. Her father is 
 now deceased, but her mother is still living. In 
 Mr. Clough's family are three children : Bertha 
 L., Mona M. and Alice L. The parents hold 
 membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 of which Mr. Clough is a trustee. He has al- 
 ways been a stanch Republican, attending the 
 county and state conventions, and his influence 
 carries weight in the councils of the party. In 
 1894 he was elected county coroner, and so capa- 
 bly did he serve that he was re-elected in 1896 
 and 1898. On the expiration of his third term 
 in 1900 he retired, but in 1902 he was again 
 elected and will continue in the position until 
 July, 1904. He belongs to the Greater Salem 
 Commercial Club, to the lodge and Rebekah de- 
 gree of the Odd Fellows society, to the Union 
 Artisans, and is past master and member of the 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 GEORGE W. KNIGHT. The best mercan- 
 tile interests of Hubbard, Ore., are being main- 
 tained by George W. Knight, who, in partner- 
 ship with Peter Susbauer, who owns the build- 
 ing, is conducting an up-to-date store. The stock, 
 valued at $13,000, comprises such necessities and 
 luxuries as would be required in any cosmopoli- 
 tan community. It is the policy of the partners 
 to observe the greatest courtesy and consideration 
 for patrons, and this, combined with cleanliness, 
 and absolute business integrity, has assured to 
 the firm of Knight & Susbauer many years of 
 uninterrupted success. 
 
 Mr. Knight comes of an honored old pioneer 
 family of the state of which he is a native son. 
 He was born in Canby, Clackamas county, April 
 14, 1874. His father. Dr. Charles Knight, for 
 many years a practicing physician of Canby, was 
 born in Harrisburg, Pa., December 10, 1828, and 
 moved with his parents to Pittsburg, Pa., in 183 1. 
 He became an employe in a foundry in that city, 
 and at the age of eighteen found a less strenu- 
 ous position, which enabled him at the same time 
 to study medicine. In 1845 ne removed to Mis- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 souri, ami made that state his home until coming 
 to Oregon in 1S71. He was the first to settle in 
 Canb) . the first to map out the future of the 
 town, the pioneer dwelling of the embryo village 
 being due to his constructive ability. He was 
 known throughout the entire surrounding coun- 
 try, and in connection with a large and lucrative 
 practice conducted a drug store for many years. 
 His death, July 22, 1893, removed a man whom 
 all delighted to honor, and who had an enviable 
 reputation as man and physician. He married 
 Catherine Schriver, who was born in Frankfort, 
 Ohio, in 1834, married in 1862, and died October 
 16, 1898. She was the mother of nine children, 
 five sons and four daughters, of whom George 
 W. is the eighth child. Those living are : Louisa, 
 Henry. George W. and Esther. 
 
 George W. Knight was educated in the public 
 schools, and his youth did not differ materially 
 from that of the average boy of his town. He 
 was employed for some time in his father's drug 
 store, and while still living in Canby became 
 interested in Republican politics and served on the 
 town council for four years. At the age of 
 eighteen he went into the employ of Carlton and 
 Rosecrans, remaining for seven years. He went 
 to Hubbard, February 2j, 1899, bought out the 
 general merchandise business of George H. 
 Beebe, and converted it into the present reliable 
 and progressive business. After settling there 
 he married Minnie Whitney, a native of Oregon, 
 born November 19, 1884. and daughter of John 
 and Anna (Feller) Whitney, formerly prominent 
 farmers in the vicinity of Woodburn, but now lin- 
 ing retired near that city. Mr. Knight has served 
 in the council of Hubbard, and has otherwise 
 identified himself with the upbuilding of the city. 
 He still owns a one-third interest, twenty-four 
 acres of his father's original donation claim ad- 
 joining Canby, ten acres of which are devoted to 
 hops, and the remainder to general farming. 
 Though one of the younger generation of busi- 
 ness men in this county, Mr. Knight is esteemed 
 for his general business qualifications, and for 
 many estimable traits of character. He is a mem- 
 ber of Hermes Lodge K. of P. No. 57 ; passed 
 the chairs and represented the local to Grand 
 Lodge three times. Is a member of Hubbard 
 Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 76. Passed the chairs of 
 Columbia Lodge No. 47 A. O. U. W. 
 
 GEORGE N. FRAZER. Outside of Port- 
 land, the Eugene Iron Works is the largest en- 
 terprise of the kind in the Willamette valley. 
 George N. Frazer, the owner and proprietor, is 
 unquestionably one of the most experienced in 
 all kinds of iron manufacturing on the western 
 coast, and as such enjoys a prestige commensurate 
 with the worthy and far-reaching industrial re- 
 39 
 
 suits of which he is the chief incentive. Born 
 in Brockport, Monroe county, N. Y., June 12, 
 1851, he is of English ancestry, his parents, 
 James Scott and Sarah Ann (Ken worthy) Fra- 
 zer, having been born in Oldham, Lancashire, 
 England, where had lived many generations of 
 his grandfathers. Upon emigrating to America, 
 the father settled in Monroe county, N. Y., 
 where he worked at the moulder's trade, and 
 in time practically started the town of Brockport, 
 by establishing the first store and butcher shop. 
 Meeting with financial reverses in 1858, he dis- 
 posed of his interests and removed to San Fran- 
 cisco, where he followed his trade until 1870, 
 removing then to the city of Portland, Ore. His 
 death occurred by drowning in the Willamette 
 river in 1872. 
 
 The necessity for early self-support over- 
 shadowed the diversions and even education of 
 George N. Frazer, for at the age of twelve he 
 learned the moulder's trade from his father. 
 While serving his apprenticeship in the San Fran- 
 cisco Iron Works he came to a realization of the 
 possibilities of his trade and applied himself with 
 zest to learning all that his superiors had to teach 
 him. From the San Francisco Iron Works he 
 went to the Oregon Iron Works, and in 1871 
 went into business with his father, operating the 
 Eagle Iron Works of Portland. Encouraged 
 by a contract for the iron work for the construc- 
 tion of the Clackamas river railroad bridge be- 
 low Oregon City, the business progressed rapidly, 
 many notable and paying contracts being filled 
 under the able leadership of father and son. Mr. 
 Frazer afterward started the Pioneer Brass 
 Foundry in Portland, and after its destruction 
 during the great fire, he entered into partnership 
 with W. J. Zimmerman in an iron business which 
 was later operated under the same management 
 in Ashland and Roseburg. 
 
 Disposing of his business in 1886, Mr. Frazer 
 came to Eugene and started the Eugene Iron 
 Works in partnership with J. C. Land, the latter 
 retiring at the end of the first year, and leaving 
 the business to the sole supervision of the senior 
 member of the firm. That the iron works have 
 more work than can be accomplished at present, 
 and in fact are six months behind with their or- 
 ders, may be taken as a fair indication of their 
 standing in the community. The most modern 
 of machinery facilitates the conduct of a bus- 
 iness which embraces the most delicate as well 
 as the heaviest of iron productions, ranging from 
 donkev engines to structural iron work, sawmill 
 machinery and engines weighing many tons. The 
 machine shop proper is two stories high and 
 36x50 feet ground dimensions, the foundry is 
 40x70 feet, and the blacksmith and boiler shop 
 is 50x40 feet. Needless to say, Mr. Frazer is at 
 home in any department of his business, having 
 
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 mastered the minutest details, and is therefore 
 able to command the best possible effort from his 
 men. Having no competition south of Eugene 
 in the state, his trade is drawn from a wide ter- 
 ritory, orders coming in from all along the coast, 
 and from the principal cities of the surrounding 
 states. 
 
 The agencies inaugurated for the improvement 
 of Eugene have invariably received the stanch 
 support of Mr. Frazer. He is the friend of edu- 
 cation, of municipal purity and political upright- 
 ness. As a Republican he has served on the 
 county committee for several years, although of- 
 fice-holding has never appealed to him, or been 
 in accord with his otherwise busy life. An en- 
 thusiastic advocate of the climate, resources and 
 general advantages of Lane county, he has shown 
 his faith in its future by investing heavily in 
 town and country property, his own residence 
 being one of the finest and most hospitable in the 
 town. He is interested in the Eugene Opera 
 House Company, and various substantial enter- 
 prises of public character, and his social asso- 
 ciates include the cultured and progressive ele- 
 ment of the town. Fraternally Mr. Frazer is 
 identified with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows of Eugene, in which he has thrice been 
 noble grand ; with the Encampment, in which he 
 is past chief patriarch, and the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is a member of the Congregational 
 Church of Eugene. In Ashland, in 1877, he was 
 united in marriage with Ella E. Jackson, who 
 was born in California, and who is the mother 
 of two children : George N., Jr., who is inter- 
 ested in business with his father; and Arthur L., 
 instructor of the piano at the University of 
 Oregon. 
 
 LAFAYETTE F. HALL, of Newberg, identi- 
 fied principally with loans and insurance, is a 
 worthy representative of one of the best-known 
 pioneer families of Yamhill county, and one most 
 intimately connected with its growth. Mr. Hall 
 was born in Carlinville, Macoupin county, 111., 
 January 17, 1846, his father being a native of 
 North Carolina, and born February 5, 1798, while 
 his mother, Malinda, was born in Tennessee. 
 
 Mathew Hall was one of those strong and rug- 
 ged personalities which stands out vividly from 
 the pioneer ranks of Yamhill county. As a youth 
 in his native state he learned the blacksmith trade, 
 and as a young man grown he settled in Ma- 
 coupin county, 111., where he plied his trade for 
 a number of years. He was one of those cou- 
 rageous men who braved the dangers of the plains 
 before the craze for gold made the expedition one 
 of comparative safety, and in 1847 se t ou t with a 
 party, eventually arriving at his chosen desti- 
 nation in Clackamas county. The first winter was 
 spent in Molajla, and in the spring he engaged 
 
 in ranching near Astoria, on the Columbia river. 
 Not being favorably impressed with that farming 
 section he went to Portland and worked at his 
 trade, and the quality of his work may be esti- 
 mated when it is known that when he took his 
 departure in 1849, tne P e °pl e of Portland offered 
 to give him a house and lot and place to put his 
 shop if he would remain. Notwithstanding this 
 tempting offer he decided to settle on a farm near 
 where Newberg now stands, and, having com- 
 fortably installed his family, he went down into 
 California and struggled for a year among the 
 mines in that state. Although fairly successful 
 he was not forcibly impressed with mining as a 
 means of livelihood, his practical and shrewd 
 mind detecting easily the chances in favor of the 
 few rather than the many. Returning to Oregon 
 he settled on his farm of six hundred and twenty 
 acres, a portion of which he improved, and where 
 he died in 1869, at the age of seventy-one years. 
 He was known far and near as Squire Hall, as 
 he filled the office of justice of the peace for be- 
 tween twelve and fourteen years. In his rulings 
 he was invariably just and impartial, and rarely 
 were his decisions questioned. 
 
 The youngest of three sons and four daughters 
 born to his parents, Lafayette F. Hall was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, supplemented by one 
 term at McMinnville College. During six years 
 of his life he was an educator, and during that 
 time was also manager of his father's farm. In 
 1875 he abandoned teaching and divided his at- 
 tention between farming and outside business. He 
 has since been engaged in a general business, and 
 in connection therewith handles collections and 
 insurance, and a little real estate. He is a notary 
 public, and has been justice of the peace for two 
 terms. Mr. Hall is theowner of considerable 
 town and country property, including two lots 
 on Columbia Heights, two lots upon which his 
 residence is erected, an additional lot elsewhere 
 in the town, and three hundred and twenty acres 
 of the home place, now being managed by his. 
 son, W. L. 
 
 The first Mrs. Hall was formerly Amanda S. 
 Ellison, who was born in Virginia, and died in 
 Yamhill county in 1879, leaving four sons : Will- 
 iam L., on the home farm ; O. E., in Washington ; 
 Elmer C, engaged in mining near Gratz Pass; 
 and Ellis, also engaged in mining near Sumpter. 
 For a second wife Mr. Hall married in Novem- 
 ber, 1885, Frances M. Rowland, who was born 
 in Tennessee, as was also her father, R. P. Row- 
 land. Mr. Rowland came to Oregon in 1885, lo- 
 cated for a time on the Lewis river, and is now 
 conducting a dairy farm near Mount Tabor. Of 
 this second union there has been born one daugh- 
 ter. Ethel, living with her parents. In political 
 affiliation Mr. Hall is a Democrat, although he 
 is decidedly averse to the silver platform. 
 
 
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 919 
 
 IT'NDERSON AVERY is a capitalist and 
 \erv successful man who is uniformly spoken 
 of in terms of praise, commendation and good 
 will. He is an extensive and successful manu- 
 facturer of flour and is the leader in this re- 
 gard in the state. He is now serving as presi- 
 dent of the city council of Corvallis, and Ben- 
 ton county has profited by his efforts in her 
 behalf along many lines. It is, therefore, well 
 that he should be mentioned among the repre- 
 sentative citizens of the Willamette valley and 
 it is with pleasure that we present to our read- 
 ers this record of his career. 
 
 Mr. Avery is a native of Stark county, 111., 
 born in 1843, an d is a son of J. C. Avery, who 
 was the founder of Corvallis and is represented 
 elsewhere in this work. In the year 1847 Mrs. 
 Avery came to the northwest to join the father, 
 who had crossed the plains in 1843. She was 
 accompanied by her three children, Charles, 
 Punderson and Florence, and they were met 
 in eastern Oregon by the husband and father, 
 who conducted them by way of the Barlow 
 route over the Cascade Mountains to the old 
 town of Marysville, now Corvallis. Mr. Avery 
 had secured a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres and upon this the city of Cor- 
 vallis was established. 
 
 On the old family homestead Punderson 
 Avery of this review was reared and in early 
 life became connected with merchandising. He 
 pursued his preliminary education in the dis- 
 trict schools and afterward became a student 
 in the Baptist College at McMinnville. Later 
 he spent eight years in his father's store and 
 in 1872 he removed to Lake county, Ore., 
 where he was engaged in the cattle business, 
 having a large range on which he herded his 
 cattle and also put up hay and feed for the 
 market. His father, together with John F. 
 Miller and B. F. Dougthet, was selected by the 
 state to choose a site for the Agricultural Col- 
 lege, and made choice of the meadow lands 
 of Lake county. They gained considerable 
 knowledge of the state while endeavoring to 
 make a location and Punderson Avery, hearing 
 favorable reports of the Lake county land, con- 
 cluded that he would remove to that district 
 and engage in the cattle business. According- 
 ly, he located there in 1872 and purchased 
 one thousand acres of the college land which 
 lie fenced and improved. For fifteen years he 
 remained there, being extensively engaged in 
 the cattle business, and success attended his 
 efforts. At the time of the Modoc war he and 
 other residents of that locality built Fort Che- 
 waucan which they occupied for four months 
 during the Indian troubles. In 1887 he dis- 
 posed of his business interests in Lake county 
 and returned to Corvallis. In 1889 he began 
 
 the milling business here, forming the present 
 company in connection with Mr. Smith and 
 Mr. Rickard. They built the Benton county 
 mills and five years later incorporated the busi- 
 ness under the name of the Benton County 
 Flouring Mills Company, of which Mr. Avery 
 has since been the president. The mill was 
 erected in 1889 and has since been operated by 
 steam power. The plant has a capacity of two 
 hundred and twenty barrels daily and manu- 
 factures flour which is unexcelled in the state. 
 In fact, the firm received the highest award at 
 the Oregon state fair in 1902 and again in 
 1903 on the Benton and Snowfall brands. 
 Other premiums have been awarded to the 
 firm which not only manufacture wheat flour, 
 but also place upon the market graham flour 
 and cereals. The business was begun with a 
 capacity of one hundred barrels, but in order 
 to meet the increased demand of the trade the 
 capacity was increased to two hundred and 
 twenty barrels per day in 1899. The Wagner 
 roller system is used and the plant is equipped 
 with all modern facilities, the mill being one 
 of the best in the northwest. It is a four-story 
 structure and the power is supplied by a 
 seventy-five-horse-power engine. The product 
 is shipped to California, South America and 
 the American possessions in the Pacific and 
 to the Orient. In addition to his milling prop- 
 erty Mr. Avery owns two fine farms in Benton 
 county devoted to the raising of grain and 
 stock. One of these farms comprises four 
 hundred acres and is situated a mile and a 
 half south of Corvallis, while the other com- 
 prises three hundred and twenty acres and is 
 about twelve miles south of the city. Mr. Av- 
 ery and his brother laid out two additions to 
 Corvallis, most of which has since been sold 
 and improved by the erection of good build- 
 ings. 
 
 In Corvallis Mr. Avery was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Elizabeth Mobley, who was born 
 in Missouri and went with her parents to Cali- 
 fornia in early life, coming thence to Benton 
 county, Ore., in i860. Her father, William 
 Mobley was a farmer by occupation. Unto 
 this marriage have been born five children : 
 Chester, who is engaged in the cattle business 
 in Lake county ; Clarence W., who is a gradu- 
 ate of the Oregon Agricultural College and is 
 now engaged in the stock business and is also 
 manager of the Bingham Spring, near Pendle- 
 ton ; Mattie, who is now the wife of Professor 
 Fulton of Corvallis ; Grover and Virgil, who 
 are at home. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Avery was elected county treas- 
 urer of Benton county and served for one term, 
 while for many years he has been a member of 
 the city council of Corvallis and is now its 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 president. He has always been a Democrat in 
 politics and for many years was chairman of 
 the county committee, and was also a member 
 of the state committee. He belongs to the 
 Oregon Pioneer Association and to the Cor- 
 vallis Business Men's League and his wife is 
 a member of the Presbyterian church. He 
 stands today among the prominent business 
 men of the Willamette valley. Keen and clear- 
 headed, always busy, always careful and con- 
 servative in financial matters, moving slowly 
 but surely in every transaction, he has few 
 superiors in the steady progress which invari- 
 ably reaches the objective point. 
 
 DELAVAN S. SMITH. Born on the home- 
 stead which he now owns and occupies, February 
 1 6, 1858, Delavan S. Smith is distinguished not 
 only for his enterprise, ability and honesty of 
 purpose, but as the worthy representative of one 
 of the most honored pioneers of Linn county. 
 He comes of excellent New England stock, the 
 blood of many of the early families of that part 
 of the Union flowing through his veins. Promi- 
 nent among his more immediate ancestry are 
 several families of distinction in the annals of 
 Rhode Island and Massachusetts, among others 
 that may be mentioned being those of Hopkins, 
 Briggs, Harris and Wilkinson. Stephen Hop- 
 kins, a signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence, was descended from the same immigrant 
 ancestor. A direct descendant in the fifth gen- 
 eration from John Smith, of Rhode Island, his 
 lineage is as follows : John, Capt. Jonathan, 
 Archibald, Delazon, Delavan S. 
 
 John Smith, a resident of Scituate, R. I., and 
 a citizen of influence, reared seven children, six 
 stalwart sons and one daughter, namely : Rich- 
 ard, Joseph, Jonathan, Oziel, Thomas, Hope and 
 Sarah. Richard served in the old French and 
 Indian war. Joseph was one of those brave 
 Green Mountain Boys that stormed the breast- 
 work in the battle of Bennington, while his son, 
 a lad of fifteen years, took part in that famous 
 engagement. Jonathan and Thomas were sol- 
 diers in the Revolution, the latter losing his life 
 while in service. 
 
 • Capt. Jonathan Smith was lieutenant of a com- 
 pany that responded to the Lexington Alarm 
 call, on April 19, 1775, and marched with his 
 company as far as Cambridge. He subsequently 
 served throughout the war, afterwards receiving 
 a bounty for his services while in the army. 
 
 Archibald Smith settled in New Berlin, N. Y., 
 where he was engaged during his active career 
 as a mechanic. He married Miss Briggs, a 
 woman of much culture and force of character. 
 Her father, Joseph Briggs, was born in Massa- 
 chusetts, but subsequently removed to Vermont, 
 
 He took an active part in the grand struggle 
 for independence, being captain of a company, 
 and took a prominent part in the battle of Bunker 
 Hill, the battle of Bennington, witnessing Bur- 
 goyne's surrender at Saratoga, and being in the 
 midst of the conflict at Monmouth. Archibald 
 Smith's wife died in early womanhood- — in 1825 
 — leaving five young sons, one of whom subse- 
 quently lost his life on the battlefield during the 
 Mexican war. 
 
 Delazon Smith, the fourth son of his parents, 
 was born in New Berlin, Chenango county, N. 
 Y., October 5, 1816. Left motherless at the ten- 
 der age of nine years, he secured such education 
 as his limited opportunities afforded. In 1831, 
 taking all of his worldly effects in a small pack- 
 age under his arm, he joined an elder brother 
 in the western part of his native state, and re- 
 mained there two years, continuing his studies as 
 best he might. Hearing that at the manual-labor 
 college in Ohio he could pursue the higher 
 branches of learning, and at the same time find 
 employment to defray his expenses, he entered, in 
 the spring of 1834, the Collegiate Institute, at 
 Oberlin, and remained two years, withdrawing 
 then, as he was not in sympathy with the anti- 
 slavery movements of the school and the ptace. 
 Going from there to Cleveland, he studied law, 
 and was a frequent contributor to the leading 
 newspapers of that day. In 1838, being urged 
 to assist in establishing a paper in Rochester, 
 N. Y., he accepted the invitation, and for two 
 years thereafter edited the New York Watch- 
 man. Prior to that time this embryo attorney 
 had taken active part in state and national poli- 
 tics, and during the stirring campaign of 1840 
 edited and published a paper called the True Jef- 
 fersonian. He also did able work throughout 
 New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, taking the 
 stump for Van Bttren and Johnson. He after- 
 wards published the Western Herald a short 
 time, but was not successful. Returning to Ohio, 
 he established a paper devoted to the inter- 
 ests of the Democratic party, naming it the West- 
 ern Empire, which remained in existence several 
 years. In 1844 Mr. Smith supported the Demo- 
 cratic candidate for presidency, James K. Polk, 
 and at the close of the campaign was appointed 
 by President Taylor a special commissioner to 
 Ecuador, S. A., being given full power to treat 
 with that government. After staying a while at 
 Quito, he found that on account of an internal 
 quarrel he could not accomplish his mission, so 
 returned home. 
 
 Removing to the territory of Iowa in the 
 spring of 1846, Delazon Smith settled on a farm, 
 which he carried on a few years, also practicing 
 his profession to some extent. He became promi- 
 nently identified with the political issues of the 
 time and place, supporting the Democratic prin- 
 
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 s and candidates with vigor and ability. In 
 the campaign of 1848 he edited the Iowa Demo- 
 and stumped the state for Cass and Butler. 
 The climate of Iowa proving unhealthful to him- 
 self and family, he came to Oregon in the spring 
 of 1852, being five months making the trip from 
 the Missouri river to The Dalles. Losing all of 
 his cattle while on the way, he came to Linn 
 county almost penniless. With brave courage, 
 he set about retrieving his fortunes. Taking up 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 s, lving about six miles southeast of Albany, 
 he cleared and improved a good homestead. In 
 the meantime he opened a law office in Albany, 
 where he built up a substantial practice, becoming 
 widclv known. Being nominated in the spring 
 of 1854 for the state legislature, he was elected 
 on the Democratic ticket by a majority of two 
 hundred votes. The following year he was re- 
 elected as a representative to the legislature, this 
 time his majority being doubled, and when the 
 Assembly met he had the honor of being chosen 
 speaker of the house. In 1856 he was again re- 
 elected to the house of representatives, and in 
 1857 was made a delegate to the constitutional 
 convention. In July, 1858, by a four-fifths vote 
 of the legislature, he was chosen one of the 
 first United States senators from Oregon, and 
 in casting lots drew the short term. Soon after 
 his return from Washington, where he had ren- 
 dered efficient service in the national congress, 
 he passed to the great life beyond, dying in Port- 
 land November 18, i860. 
 
 Delazon Smith was twice married. His first 
 wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Yoke, died 
 in early life, leaving one child, Volney V., now 
 deceased. He married for his second wife Mary 
 Shepherd, by whom he had five children, four 
 of whom have passed away, namely : Ianthe, 
 who married P. C. Harper; Viola; Elizabeth; 
 and Delazon D. The only survivor of the paren- 
 tal family is Delavan S. Smith, the subject of 
 this sketch. The mother died on the home farm 
 in 1 87 1. The father was a charter member and 
 the first master of Corinthian Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 of Albany. 
 
 Delavan S. Smith grew to manhood on the 
 parental homestead, acquiring the rudiments of 
 his education in the common schools, and at- 
 tended Albany College for two years. At the 
 age of twenty-one years he was made deputy 
 sheriff under I. C. Dickey, and afterwards served 
 in the same capacity under Sheriffs George 
 Humphrey and J. K. Charlton. In 1886 he suc- 
 ceeded Sheriff Charlton, and for two years was 
 sheriff of Linn county. He was subsequently 
 deputy sheriff under John Smallman and Matt 
 Scott for a year, and again under C. C. Jackson 
 for one term. In 1895 Mr. Smith returned to the 
 old homestead, of which he owns . two hundred 
 
 acres, and has since carried on general farming 
 and stock-raising. 
 
 On December 14, 1881, Mr. Smith married 
 Carrie M. Clark, daughter of J. S. Clark, and 
 they have six children, namely : Ina M., Volena, 
 Delazon, Merrill, Mary and Ianthe. Politically, 
 Mr. Smith, following in the footsteps of his hon- 
 ored father, is a stanch Democrat, and fraternally 
 he is a Knight of Pythias. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 ISAAC M. SIMPSON. As a native-born 
 citizen of Polk county, an extensive and pro- 
 gressive agriculturist and stock-raiser, and as a 
 worthy representative of one of the most widely 
 and favorably known families of the Willamette 
 Valley, Isaac M. Simpson is entitled to honorable 
 mention in this biographical work. A son of 
 the late I. M. Simpson, he was born April 23, 
 1857, at Simpson's Station, on the farm where he 
 has since resided. His paternal grandfather, 
 Malachi Simpson, was born of Scotch ancestry, 
 in Georgia, and lived there until about 181 5, 
 when he removed with his family to Franklin 
 county, Tenn., settling about three miles from 
 Nashville, being a pioneer of that place. 
 
 Born on the Georgia homestead in 1812, I. M. 
 Simpson was but a small child of three years 
 when he accompanied his parents to Tennessee, 
 where he grew to man's estate. Choosing the 
 vocation of a farmer, he migrated to Arkansas 
 in 1835, settling in Lawrence county, where he 
 lived ten years. Leaving there early in 1845, 
 he stopped a short time in Jackson county, Mo., 
 then crossed the plains to Oregon, making the 
 journey with wagons drawn by four yokes of 
 oxen, coming by way of Meeks' cut-off, and be- 
 ing six months on the way. At once locating in 
 Polk county, he took up a donation claim of 
 six hundred and forty , acres at what is now 
 Simpson's Station, in the fall of 1845, ar »d at 
 once began the improvement of a farm. During 
 the gold excitement of 1849, he went to the Cal- 
 ifornia mines, but soon returned on account of 
 ill health. Resuming his agricultural labors, he 
 resided on the farm which he cleared, until his 
 death, July 11, 1887. He was a man of un- 
 blemished character, deeply respected by all who 
 knew him, and was a member of the Baptist 
 Church. In his political affiliations he was a 
 Democrat. At Lawrence county, Ark., in 1836, 
 he married Martha Jackson, who was born No- 
 vember 8, 181 5, in Franklin county, Tenn. She 
 was a daughter of Thomas Jackson, who emi- 
 grated from Tennessee to Arkansas in 1835, at 
 the time that Mr. Simpson went there with his 
 parents. Four children were born of their union, 
 namely : Amos C, deceased ; Marshall W., of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Elk City, Ore. ; Eliza, wife of L. W. Loughary ; 
 and Isaac M., the special subject of this brief 
 sketch. 
 
 Receiving a practical education in the public 
 schools of his district, Isaac M. Simpson as- 
 sumed the management of the home farm when 
 nineteen years old, and has since had sole charge 
 of the estate. He has seven hundred acres of 
 productive land, and is extensively and profit- 
 ably engaged in general agriculture, including 
 dairying, stock-raising, hop-growing, and the 
 culture of fruit. He keeps Cotswold sheep, Dur- 
 ham cows, and Angora goats, and has forty acres 
 of land planted to hops, which do well in this 
 climate, and yield excellent returns for the time 
 and money expended in their culture. 
 
 Mr. Simpson married, in Lincoln county, Ore., 
 Tabitha Morrison, who was born in Dallas coun- 
 ty, Iowa, June 3, 1861. Her father, Barney 
 Morrison, who comes of Irish ancestry, was born 
 in Lincoln county, Tenn. Crossing the plains 
 in 1862, he settled first in Yamhill county, Ore., 
 removing from there to Polk county, and now 
 resides in Lincoln county, this state. His wife, 
 whose maiden name was Jemima Stone, is of 
 German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have 
 one child, Otto Simpson, who is a student at the 
 Oregon Agricultural College, in Corvallis. A 
 stanch Democrat in politics, Mr. Simpson served 
 as county commissioner four years, being elected 
 on the Democratic ticket in 1880. In 1890 he 
 represented Polk and Lincoln counties in the 
 state legislature, and is now a school director. 
 He is a member of Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, of Independence, and of Royal Arch 
 Masons. He also belongs to Valley Lodge, In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Independ- 
 ence, and to the Woodmen of the World, of 
 Airlie, in which he has served as council com- 
 mander for two terms. 
 
 JOHN W. PROPST. For forty-two years 
 John W. Propst has lived on his farm four and 
 u a half miles east of Albany, and during that time 
 the once timbered property has undergone many 
 changes, new buildings taking the place of their 
 worn-out predecessors, and modern machinery 
 making light tasks that were once arduous. But 
 it is not only as an agriculturist and stock-raiser 
 that Mr. Propst has contributed to the upbuild- 
 ing of his neighborhood, for he has exerted a 
 moral and educational influence as well, promot- 
 ing to the extent of his power the schools of 
 the district, and generously contributing to the 
 advancement of the Christian Church, of which 
 he is one of the substantial and honored mem- 
 bers, and in which he has been an elder for 
 twenty-five years. The Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen has profited by his membership for 
 
 many years, and during the latter part of* his 
 life he has furthered the interests of the Repub- 
 lican party. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Propst was uneventfully 
 passed in Maynard county, 111., on the farm 
 where his birth occurred April 12, 1837. In 
 1852, when he was fifteen years of age, he took 
 an active part in completing arrangements to 
 cross the plains, his father desiring to settle in 
 the west, where he hoped to make more money 
 with less of the hard work to which he had 
 been accustomed from his boyhood days. With 
 ox-teams and prairie schooners, cattle and house- 
 hold goods, the little party set out, arriving at 
 their destination in Marion county at the end 
 of the usual six months. Lucinda (Powell) 
 Propst, the mother, died in eastern Oregon on 
 Butter creek en route, and Anthony Propst, the 
 father, died just after crossing the Cascade moun- 
 tains at Foster. John W. Propst lived for a 
 year on a farm near Parkersville, and after that 
 went to the farm of his uncle, Noah Powell, in 
 Yamhill county, making that his home until 1855. 
 He then came to Linn county and lived with 
 another uncle, John A. Powell, who had been ap- 
 pointed his guardian after the death of his pa- 
 rents, and remained there until he was twenty- 
 four years of age. Still making his home with 
 his uncle, he worked on surrounding farms until 
 twenty-four years of age, when, having saved 
 considerable money, he married Margaret J. Cole, 
 November 1, i860. For the following year he 
 lived on a farm on the Santiam, and in the fall 
 of 1861 came to his present farm, where he has 
 lived ever since. To himself and wife have been 
 born three children, of whom Quincy E. is living 
 in Albany, married and has two children, Leona 
 and Elmer. Frank W. died at the age of twenty- 
 nine years in Albany; Leona died at the age of 
 twenty-one years, at home. A practical farmer 
 and an earnest, conscientious man, Mr. Propst 
 does credit to this garden spot of Oregon, where 
 he is so well known and so highly respected. He 
 is a member of Harmony Grange. He served as 
 school director and clerk for twenty-five years, 
 and two years as constable. His farm of one 
 hundred and ninety-seven and one-half acres has 
 all been improved by his own efforts. In con- 
 nection with his farming he has run threshing 
 machines, reapers, headers, etc., among the farm- 
 ers in his locality for the past thirty years. 
 
 ISAAC MEEKER. As a farmer in the broad 
 fields of Oregon, Isaac Meeker is giving the 
 strength and intelligence of his manhood toward 
 the growth and upbuilding of state citizenship, 
 and especially in the county of his father's adop- 
 tion. He was born in Rock Island county, 111., 
 
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 923 
 
 March 1. 1S47, the son oi " John Meeker. The 
 latter was a native of Butler county, Ohio, hav- 
 ing been horn there September 6, 1822, and was 
 there married to Lydia Miller. In the fall of 
 1S47 Mr. Meeker went to St. Joseph, Mo., with 
 the intention of emigrating from that location to 
 the west. In the spring of the next year he 
 crossed the plains, his worldly wealth embodied 
 in one wagon and an ox-team. After six months 
 of journeying the party arrived in Oregon, and 
 the first winter found them located in the San- 
 tiam valley, Linn county. 
 
 Being driven from their first settlement in 
 Linn county by high water, Mr. Meeker took his 
 family farther west in the county, where he be- 
 came the owner of a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres, situated three miles from 
 the town of Jefferson. This consisted principal- 
 is- of prairie land. After the erection of a log 
 cabin they made this their home, remaining here 
 until 1880, when he removed to a location upon 
 the banks of the Willamette river, directly oppo- 
 site the city of Albany. His death occurred in 
 that place in 1883, his wife surviving him three 
 years. Like the lives of many early settlers, Mr. 
 Meeker's was full of varied experiences, one be- 
 ing a prospecting trip to the gold mines of Cali- 
 fornia in 1849, from which he returned on a sail- 
 ing vessel which landed him at Astoria thirty 
 days from the date of sailing from San Francisco. 
 In 1855-6, during the Rogue River war, he hauled 
 supplies to the soldiers in the southern part 
 of Oregon. Of six children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Meeker, Elizabeth is the wife of Samuel 
 Smith, of Washington ; Isaac is the subject of 
 this review ; William was drowned February 
 17, 1903; Mary is the wife of William Bowman; 
 Martha was the wife of H. Butcher, and died in 
 1864 ; and Edward, the youngest child, is located 
 on a part of the old claim. 
 
 Practically the entire life of Isaac Meeker has 
 been spent in Oregon, for he was but one year 
 old when the trip was begun, and he remained at 
 home until he was thirty-one years old. He was 
 reared to the duties of a farmer. Upon begin- 
 ning work for himself he followed his early train- 
 ing, now being located upon one hundred and 
 sixty-eight acres of his father's claim, and is en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising. He 
 first married, January 20, 1878, Melvina Hale, 
 who was born in Oregon, the daughter of Will- 
 iam Hale. Three children were born of this 
 union, the one now living being Clyde. Mrs. 
 Meeker died January 15, 1898, and October 24, 
 1900, Mr. Meeker married Mrs. Mary Wilson, 
 who was born in Marion county, Ore., the daugh- 
 ter of Joseph J. Groshong.' Politically, Mr. 
 Meeker is a Democrat, and fraternally belongs to 
 the Grange. 
 
 MART V. MILLER. To the very early and 
 widely scattered settlers of Linn county the 
 building of the first log school-house was quite 
 an undertaking, and established the community 
 as progressive and enterprising. Of hewed logs, 
 and with slab benches and desks, it was innocent 
 of glass at the openings called windows, nor was 
 there a door to keep out the rain or snow. But 
 the pupils gathered there when their home duties 
 permitted. Among these original pupils was 
 Mart V. Miller, who was ten years of age when 
 he came to the state with his parents, and who 
 plodded in all kinds of weather to the primitive 
 school-house near Albany. The lessons there 
 learned have proved of immense value to him in 
 later life, and served as a nucleus for later study. 
 Since 1850 he has lived on his present farm, two 
 hundred and seventy-five acres in extent, and lo- 
 cated five miles from Albany. He is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, and is suc- 
 cessful and prosperous, enjoying to an unusual 
 extent the confidence of his fellow-agriculturists. 
 
 Born near Jamestown, Boone county, Ind., 
 February 28, 1837, Mr. Miller is a son of Chris- 
 tian and Mary A. (Coddington) Miller, natives 
 respectively of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 
 Christian Miller located in Indiana when a young 
 man, lived there many years, and in 1847 went 
 to Huntsville, Mo., to outfit for crossing the 
 plains. In the spring of 1848 he started out with 
 two wagons, in a train of forty others, the trip 
 across covering about four months. With him, 
 besides his wife and children, was his brother 
 Isaac, who subsequently acquired distinction as 
 an Indian fighter, serving in both the Modoc war 
 and the war of 1855-6. Christian Miller settled 
 on a section of land half a mile south of Albany, 
 and in the spring of 1850 sold his property for 
 $500. Near Knox's Butte he bought a squatter's 
 right to another section of land, and in the fall 
 of 1851 came to the farm now occupied by his 
 son Mart. A cow was the price paid for the 
 three hundred and twenty acres, and Edward 
 Strcitheoff was the man who received the cow 
 in lieu of his land. Mr. Miller's death occurred 
 in 1874, at the age of sixty-five years. During 
 his life in the west he seemed to have a happy 
 faculty for making the best of things, and suc- 
 cess rewarded his untiring industry and wise 
 management. A change from farming came in 
 the golden year of 1849, when he went to Cali- 
 fornia and ran a pack train from Sacramento 
 City to the mines on the American river. His 
 wife, who died September 8, 1892, at the age of 
 eighty-six years, was the mother of six children. 
 They were : Maria, who died in 1897, having 
 married Eli Miller; Moses, living on a farm 
 near Albany; Nelson, who died young; Mart 
 V. ; John, who died in youth ; and Enoch, who 
 lives on a farm near Scio, Linn county. Christian 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Miller deserved great credit for his rise in life, 
 for he was- a man of little education, and there- 
 fore dependent upon his innate shrewdness and 
 common sense. The first winter in Oregon him- 
 self and family lived on boiled wheat and New 
 Orleans molasses, and in after years, when suc- 
 cess came, and the luxuries of life were possible 
 to him, he used to recall, with thankfulness for 
 present blessings, the dark days wherein depriva- 
 tion and poverty played so large a part. 
 
 March 15, i860, Mart V. Miller was united in 
 marriage to Mary C. Cunningham, of which 
 union there were born four children : Alonzo, a 
 resident of Albany; Elam, also a resident of 
 Albany; Wayne, in California, and identified 
 with the railroad; and Homer B., deceased. 
 Mrs. Miller died in 1875; and April 26, 1878, 
 Mr. Miller married Maria Propst, who is the 
 mother of seven children : Iona B., wife of 
 Frank Warner; Ray F. ; Eunice M. ; Ernest 
 C, who has been a helpless cripple for nine 
 years, unable to move a limb or any part of the 
 body ; Roma D. ; Victor V. ; and Fay. Mr. Mil- 
 ler is a man of high moral character, and for 
 twenty-five years has been an active worker and 
 elder of the Christian Church. 
 
 FRANK M. MILLER. Among the industri- 
 ous and deservedly successful farmers of Linn 
 county Frank M. Miller holds a recognized 
 place, having been for many years an agricultur- 
 ist of this section of the state. He now owns 
 three hundred and fifty acres of rich, productive 
 land, which land was once a part of the donation 
 claim taken up by Jacob L. Miller, the brother of 
 Frank M., in the year 1847, immediately after 
 crossing the plains with his wife. The entire 
 claim amounted to six hundred and forty acres. 
 Though rich in land he desired something more, 
 and in 1849 he followed the current setting to- 
 ward the gold mines of California, before his 
 father, Abraham Miller, had brought his family 
 into the west. 
 
 Abraham Miller was born in Tennessee in 
 1789, and when a young man he removed to In- 
 diana, where he met and married Mary Little. 
 He subsequently removed to Mercer county, 111., 
 and founded the village of Millersburg, and in 
 the spring of 1850 they followed their oldest son, 
 Jacob L., across the plains. Their worldly wealth 
 consisted of four wagons with four yoke of oxen 
 to each, and after a six months' trip he arrived 
 with his wife and six children in the country 
 wherein they were to make a new home. 
 The first fall found them located near 
 Jefferson, Marion county, but across the 
 county line in Linn county, on a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, the right to which had been purchased 
 
 from Ashby Pierce. A one-story log house of- 
 fered the family shelter and into this they moved, 
 ambitious to make from this wilderness a fertile 
 farm, and the productive valley land promised 
 them speedy returns for the springtime sowing. 
 Here the family remained for a great many 
 years, the father reaching the ripe old age of 
 eighty-six before meeting his death, December 
 29, 1875, when he was killed by the cars, his 
 deafness preventing him hearing the approach 
 of the train. His wife died February 15, 1879, 
 aged seventy-two years. She was born in Wayne 
 county, Ind., January 1, 1807. They were the 
 parents of eleven children, ten of whom attained 
 maturity, though the only' two now living arc 
 Frank M. and Betsey, the latter of whom is the 
 wife of Samuel Brown, and now makes her 
 home in Galesburg, Knox county, 111. 
 
 Frank M. Miller was born November 20, 1843, 
 in Millersburg, Mercer county, 111., and was 
 seven years old when the trip was made across 
 the plains. He was reared upon the paternal 
 farm and educated in the common school in the 
 vicinity of his home, where the most primitive 
 conditions prevailed, slab benches being used 
 for seats. When grown he engaged with his 
 father in carrying on the duties of the home 
 farm until his marriage, which occurred May 15, 
 1873, Nancy E. Bowman becoming his wife. 
 She is the daughter of Preston H. and America 
 (Allphin) Bowman, who came to Oregon from 
 Missouri in 1847, an d were married in Linn 
 county October 11, 1850. After his marriage 
 Mr. Miller changed his location, coming to the 
 farm which has ever since occupied his atten- 
 tion. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of 
 two children, of whom Nora is the wife of Arthur 
 Holt, of Albany, and Albert A. is located in 
 Jefferson. Mr. Miller is now engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising and has eighteen acres 
 devoted to the cultivation of hops. Politically he 
 is a Democrat and fraternally belongs to the 
 Grange. 
 
 EDWARD MEEKER. Many agriculturists 
 whose intelligence, enterprise and progressive 
 spirit are a benefit to any community in which 
 their lot may be cast, are to be found in Linn 
 county, one of the open gateways to the east. 
 Among them is Edward Meeker, the youngest 
 son of one of the sturdy pioneers who early 
 sought the western life for the sake of the multi- 
 fold opportunities awaiting the perseverance and 
 energy of such men as himself. 
 
 His father, John Meeker, was born in Butler 
 county, Ohio, September 6, 1822, and in the 
 spring of 1848 he left the city of St. Joseph, 
 Mo., with one wagon and an ox-team, for 
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 Mr. Meeker first located in the Santiam 
 valley but was driven out by the high water, 
 whereupon he removed to another part of the 
 county and took up a claim of six hundred and 
 fortv acres very near the dividing line between 
 the counties of Linn and Marion, within three 
 miles of the town of Jefferson of the latter coun- 
 ty. He later became a resident of a location di- 
 rectly opposite the city of Albany, and there his 
 death occurred in 1883, followed by that of his 
 wife, formerly Lydia Miller, in 1886. The elder 
 Mr. Meeker was variously interested in the af- 
 fairs of his adopted state, and took part in many 
 of the movements for her welfare, a fuller ac- 
 count of which can be found in the sketch of 
 Isaac Meeker, the oldest son of this worthy 
 pioneer. 
 
 Edward Meeker was born on his father's old 
 donation claim in Linn county, July 17, 1858, 
 and was there reared to manhood, receiving his 
 education in the common schools of the county. 
 He remained at home until his marriage, March 
 14, 1880, to Miss Ollie A. Allphin, when he 
 moved upon the part of the farm where he now 
 lives. He owns at present one hundred and 
 fifty-four acres of land, upon which he carries 
 on general farming and stock-raising. In addi- 
 tion to his farming interests he has always taken 
 an active part in politics, being a stanch Demo- 
 crat. In 1900 he was elected on that ticket as 
 county recorder of Linn county, which office he 
 maintained for two years. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Meeker are the parents of one 
 child, whose name is Stacey. Fraternally Mr. 
 Meeker affiliates with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, holding membership with Santiam 
 Lodge, of Jefferson. 
 
 PRESLEY COMEGYS. The name of Pres- 
 ley Comegys is familiar to most of the residents 
 of Lane county and carries with it an impression 
 of influence and unquestioned integrity, his life 
 as a farmer in this section of the country evi- 
 dencing those qualities which win popularity. Mr. 
 Comegys was born in St. Charles county, Mo., 
 July 2, 1830, the son of Benjamin and the grand- 
 son of Abraham Comegys, both owing their na- 
 tivity to the state of Maryland. The family is 
 of German ancestry, the members of which have 
 followed agricultural pursuits for many genera- 
 tions, which in a measure accounts for the ex- 
 cellence of the work of this citizen of Oregon. 
 The grandfather removed to St. Charles county, 
 Mo., about 1819, and the father became a farmer 
 in that state, where he died in 1844. He married 
 Lucinda Scott, who was born in Monongahela 
 county, W. Va. She was the daughter of Felix 
 Scott, a native of Virginia, who became a farmer 
 in West Virginia and later settled in Missouri, 
 
 where he continued to follow that occupation. 
 In 1845 ne made the journey to California and 
 wintered there, the year following crossing the 
 mountains on the old pack trail to Oregon. He 
 first settled in Yamhill county and later removed 
 to Lane county, where he became a farmer and 
 stock-raiser. In the winter of 1859 ne wcnt 
 east via the Isthmus of Panama, and in Ken- 
 tucky purchased several fine horses, with which 
 he started across the plains, taking the southern 
 Oregon route. On this return trip in i860 he and 
 his men were murdered in the Modoc country 
 by the Indians, and the horses entirely disap- 
 peared. Mrs. Comegys died in Oregon, the 
 mother of three children, the two besides Pres- 
 ley being Wilmer, who died in southeastern Ore- 
 gon, and Nimrod, now located in Burns, Ore. 
 
 Presley Comegys was reared in Missouri until 
 he reached his fifteenth birthday, when, with his 
 mother and family, he removed to Magnolia, Put- 
 nam county, 111. With but a very limited dis- 
 trict school education he was compelled to go to 
 work on a farm, as that had been all of his 
 early training. In 1850 he and his brother Wil- 
 mer joined an uncle and with ox-teams crossed 
 the plains to California, where they remained 
 in the mines until 1851, when they came to Port- 
 land, Ore., and thence made their way into Lane 
 county. The same year Mr. Comegys took up a 
 donation claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 located three miles northeast of Springfield, and 
 there began the improvement and cultivation 
 which was to make that one of the substantial 
 farming enterprises of the county. Thirty-seven 
 years passed away before he removed from that 
 location, during which time his well merited suc- 
 cess enabled him to purchase more land. He 
 now owns two hundred and thirty acres. 
 
 Mr. Comegys has been married twice, the first 
 ceremony being performed near Springfied, Ore., 
 in 1863, uniting him with Melzena Duncan, a 
 native of Iowa, and the daughter of Warren S. 
 Duncan, who came to Oregon in 1862, and en- 
 gaged in farming in Lane county. Mrs. Comegys 
 died on the home farm, April 30, 1868. The two 
 children born to them are Viola, widow of W. 
 W. Withers, whose sketch appears elsewhere in 
 this work ; and Melzena, wife of O. A. Camp- 
 bell, of Camp creek valley, Lane county. The 
 second marriage of Mr. Comegys occurred in 
 1872, Malinda J. Clearwater, of Indiana, be- 
 coming his wife. She was the daughter of 
 Martin W. Clearwater, a native of Ohio, who 
 settled in Putnam county, Ind., removed in 1851 
 to Marion county, Iowa, and in 1864 brought his 
 family across the plains, locating near Spring- 
 field, Ore., where he engaged in farming and re- 
 mained there until his death, which occurred 
 in 1898, at the age of eighty-three years. Mr. 
 Clearwater married Elizabeth J. Evans, a native 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Tennessee, and of the seven children born to 
 them only three are now living, the third being 
 Mrs. Comegys. Mr. and Mrs. Comegys have one 
 child, Arthur, who is a telegraph operator in 
 the employ of the Southern Pacific Company, in 
 Grant's Pass. Fraternally Mr. Comegys is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. He and his wife belong to the Christian 
 Church, in which Mr. Comegys is both elder and 
 trustee. He also belongs to the Oregon Pioneer 
 Society. In politics Mr. Comegys is a Demo- 
 crat, and at various times he has served in the 
 interests of his party, for one term acting as 
 county commissioner. His first vote was cast 
 in 185 1, in Lane county. He came from Colorado 
 August 12 Of that year to the city of Portland, 
 which had then a population of three hundred 
 inhabitants. Mr. Comegys served on the first 
 grand jury impaneled in Lane county, in March, 
 1852, and of the sixteen men he is the only one 
 now living. 
 
 MATHEW C. CHAMBERS. Four miles 
 east of Albany is a farm which, for value and 
 actual productiveness, has few equals in Linn 
 county. Associated with its earliest develop- 
 ment,' with its timber and log-house days, and 
 with its later prosperity, is the name of one of 
 the very early settlers of the northwest, and one 
 who represented in his character and attainments 
 all that was best among early pioneers. Mathew 
 C. Chambers was born in Bridgeport, Vt., in 
 1817, and was reared on a sterile and mountain- 
 ous farm which held out small inducements for 
 an ambitious and physically robust boy. As a 
 youth he appreciated the advantages of a good 
 education, and he so disposed of his home work 
 that all possible time could be spent at the early 
 subscription school of his neighborhood. This 
 desire for knowledge followed him on the long 
 overland trip from Vermont to Galesburg, 111., 
 whither he went at the age of about twenty-one. 
 
 Having no ties to hold him in the middle west, 
 Mr. Chambers heard with every manifestation of 
 interest of the superior land and mining induce- 
 ments in the west, and in 1847 crossed the plains 
 with an ox-train which included among its home- 
 seekers Ashby Pierce. The two men became 
 warm friends, and many a night was spent side 
 by side over the camp fires, discussing their 
 plans for the future, when they should arrive at 
 the New Eldorado in Oregon. The tramp across 
 the plains was not particularly eventful, and no 
 serious trouble seems to have been experienced 
 with the Indians, nor did illness lessen the ranks 
 of the band. Mr. Chambers spent the first win- 
 ter in Linn county, and in the spring of 1848 took 
 up the donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres now owned by his heirs, four miles from 
 
 Albany. He was in time to participate in all of 
 the excitement centering around the early days, 
 and his first important experience was during the 
 gold craze of '49. With pack mules he crossed 
 the mountains to California, and mined and pros- 
 pected with fair results. Like many of the set- 
 tlers he had a great deal of trouble with the In- 
 dians, and his little log cabin was often visited 
 by bands of red men intent upon appropnating 
 whatever of value suited their fancy. Later on he 
 took part in the Indian wars, principally that of 
 1855-6, and gladly contributed both time and 
 money to secure a more settled state of affairs. 
 
 Through his marriage with Margaret M. 
 Knox, he became associated with a family which 
 had crossed the plains earlier than himself, hav- 
 ing arrived here in 1845. Eleven children were 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, of whom Robert 
 lives at Toledo, Ore. ; William is a resident of 
 San Francisco, Cal. ; Martha is the wife of Will- 
 iam Stevens, of Crook county, Ore. ; Mathew is 
 a farmer in Gilliam county, Ore. ; Lettie is liv- 
 ing at home ; Edward is mining in Idaho ; John 
 is on the home farm ; Lillian is the wife of Jer- 
 ome Williams of Albany ; Thomas lives in As- 
 toria ; Jacob W. is on the home ranch ; and 
 Cordelia, wife of J. J. Brown, of Douglass coun- 
 ty. Mr. Chambers became prominent politically 
 in Linn county, and was the first county judge, 
 discharging his duties with rare discretion and 
 satisfaction. He continually improved his farm, 
 adding new buildings from year to year, and 
 more extensively raising all kinds of stock. 
 Since his death, in 1898, his son Jacob W. has 
 carried on the farm, and in his management 
 evidences the same superior judgment and far- 
 sightedness which marked the progress of his 
 lamented father. Mr. Chambers is survived by 
 his wife, now very aged, who serenely contem- 
 plates the things around her, and retains to a 
 gratifying extent her sight, hearing, and other 
 useful faculties. 
 
 JAMES B. DAVIS. Four miles west of Jef- 
 ferson, Marion county, just across the line into 
 Linn county, is situated the finely improved farm 
 of James B. Davis, upon which he is engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising. He now owns 
 one hundred and sixty acres once embodied in 
 the farm where he first saw the light of day, for 
 he is a native son of Oregon, and the son of a 
 pioneer of 1852. 
 
 The birth of James B. Davis occurred in Linn 
 county, December 22, 1856, his father being 
 James J. Davis, a native of Indiana. The father 
 was also reared to a farmer's life, and on at- 
 taining manhood he removed to Lovilia, Iowa, 
 where he remained until crossing the plains in 
 1849. With the customary ox-teams he jour- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 927 
 
 neyed to California and spent the ensuing three 
 years in prospecting and mining. At the close 
 of that period he came to Oregon, in 1852 set- 
 tling in Santiam City, Linn county, where he 
 conducted a ferry and a small store. He was 
 there married to Mary A. Miller, and soon after 
 bis marriage he removed to the farm now owned 
 by his children, making many excellent improve- 
 ments on the four hundred and eighty acres 
 which comprised the property. He carried on 
 general farming and stock-raising until his death, 
 March 8, 1890, at the age of sixty years. His 
 wife had died in April, 1875. Besides James B. 
 of this review they were the parents of the fol- 
 lowing children : Delia, wife of Henry Long of 
 Marion county; Florence, the wife of George 
 W. Birtchet, on the old home place; Dalleson, 
 deceased ; and Mary R., deceased wife of George 
 Connor. 
 
 James B. Davis was reared upon his father's 
 farm, and was trained to the duties of a farmer, 
 receiving his education in the common schools 
 of Jefferson. Upon growing to manhood he re- 
 moved to a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, 
 which he proceeded to cultivate for a few years, 
 but at the death of his father he was compelled 
 to return to the home farm and take charge of 
 the management there, where he remained for 
 three years. In 1893 ne moved to his present 
 location. Mr. Davis was married November 9, 
 1880, to Rosa Lewis, and four children have 
 blessed the union, who are as follows : Jessie, 
 Cleveland, Nora and Paulina. In addition to 
 his farming interests Mr. Davis also owns prop- 
 erty in the city of Albany. In politics Mr. Davis 
 is a Democrat and fraternally he belongs to the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding 
 membership with Santiam Lodge of Jefferson. 
 
 CHARLES P. GLOVER. In Lincoln county, 
 Mo., Philip and Sarah (Koentz) Glover lived 
 on a large farm which yielded sufficient liveli- 
 hood for their ten children, among whom was 
 Charles P., now one of the prosperous farmers 
 of Linn county, Ore., whose birth occurred June 
 7, 1840, in Lincoln county, Mo. To the quiet and 
 uneventful farming locality came rumors of gold 
 and fertile lands on the coast, and to the elder 
 Glover this seemed an opportunity to improve 
 the condition of his family, an opinion in which 
 his wife and the oldest children heartily con- 
 curred. The farm being disposed of, the prepara- 
 tions for removal proceeded rapidly, and for the 
 accommodation of the family three wagons were 
 required, having three yoke of oxen each, and 
 enough loose stock to furnish milk and meat for 
 the travelers. The train consisted of thirty-six 
 wagons. Charles P., then a youth of nine, rode 
 one mare and led another owned by a Mr. Gib- 
 
 son, one of whose colts sold at $600 and the other 
 at $550 in Marion county. For this trouble- 
 some service the lad received a pair of shoes, a 
 remuneration which would scarcely appeal to the 
 youth of today. 
 
 The Glover family met with few adventures on 
 the way across the plains, and once in Oregon the 
 father took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and seven acres in the Waldo Hills. His chil- 
 dren helped to clear the land and put in the 
 crops, and all in all the emigration to the west 
 proved a decided benefit to all the members of 
 the family. Chas. P. left home in 1862, at the 
 age of twenty-two, and tried his fortunes in the 
 mines on the Salmon river, six months convinc- 
 ing him that he was not a born miner, and was 
 much better adapted to work on a farm. Return- 
 ing to the old home farm he remained until 1892, 
 and then came to his present farm of two hun- 
 dred and thirteen acres six miles east of Albany. 
 His farm is well improved, and many years of 
 industry and economy. have placed him in a posi- 
 tion of independence and thrift. In 1865 Mr. 
 Glover married Clarissa Palmer, who proved a 
 helpmate and a ready sympathizer in the vicissi- 
 tudes which have come into the life of her hus- 
 band, and died in February, 1886. In an at- 
 mosphere of kindliness and goodness eleven chil- 
 dren have been reared, five sons and six daugh- 
 ters, all of whom are living. Lenora, at home ; 
 Laura C, the wife of George U. Ashby, a mer- 
 chant of Weizer, Idaho ; Samuel, near Antelope, 
 Ore., a rancher. ; Orange, of Portland, Ore. ; 
 Narcissa, the wife of Harvey S. Taylor, of 
 Macleay, Ore. ; Wallace, of Goldendale, Wash. ; 
 Edith, at home ; Matilda, the wife of Clarence 
 Turner, confectioner of Lebanon, Ore. ; Ralph, 
 of Salem, bookkeeper ; Ronald, at home ; Mable, 
 also at home. These children were born in the 
 Waldo Hills and educated in the common schools, 
 and schools of Monmouth and Salem. 
 
 In political belief Mr. Glover is a Republican, 
 but he has chosen rather his own farm and 
 fireside to the excitement and always doubtful 
 success of the politician. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Ancient order of United Work- 
 men. A good manager, excellent business man, 
 and unquestionably reliable in all his dealings, 
 Mr. Glover commands the respect of all who 
 know him and is deserving of the success which 
 has come his wav. 
 
 JOSEPH A. JONES. Located upon a farm 
 of three hundred and thirty acres in Linn county, 
 Ore., Joseph A. Jones is engaged in carrying on 
 general farming and stock-raising, one hundred 
 and twenty-five acres being devoted to cultivation 
 and the remainder used as pasture. He has fol- 
 lowed the early training received from his father 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 along agricultural lines, and has certainly made 
 a success of his work since taking it up for him- 
 self. 
 
 The birth of Joseph A. Jones occurred in 
 Linn county, Ore., December 3, 1857, u P on the 
 old homestead. He is the son of Samuel T. 
 Jones, a native of Illinois. The father emigrated 
 from his native state in 1849, crossing the plains 
 into California, where he engaged in mining, 
 but, later returning to Illinois, he again made the 
 journey west, in 1852 coming to Oregon and 
 settling in Linn county. He here bought the 
 right to a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres from Jackson Allphin, and at once 
 moved into the little log cabin which had already 
 been erected upon the place. The remainder of 
 his life was passed upon the property, convert- 
 ing it from an uncultivated wilderness into a 
 fruitful farm by energy and perseverance. At 
 his death he owned four hundred and eighty 
 acres of land. Politically he was a Republican. 
 Mrs. Jones also died in their western home. She 
 was the mother of two children, of whom Mary, 
 the wife of Perry Miller, is deceased ; and Joseph 
 A. is the subject of this review. 
 
 Joseph A. Jones was born and reared upon his 
 father's farm, growing into manhood there, his 
 earliest remembrances being those of farming 
 duties. He was educated in the common schools 
 of the county, and was married December 3, 
 1882, to Mary E. Rainey, and they have five 
 children, being named in order of birth as fol- 
 lows : Fred, Nellie, Frank, Myrtle and Charles. 
 Like his father, Mr. Jones adheres to the prin- 
 ciples advocated in the platform of the Repub- 
 lican party. He has served for seventeen years 
 as school clerk in the district where his home 
 is located, five miles west of Jefferson, Marion 
 county. Fraternally he affiliates with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, being a member 
 of Santiam Lodge No. 27, of Jefferson. 
 
 SMITH COX. On his father's donation claim, 
 eight miles southeast of Albany, Smith Cox was 
 born February 2, 1859, and was there reared to 
 a practical agricultural life. Although his fam- 
 ily was comparatively poor, and the children 
 were obliged to work hard, he managed to se- 
 cure a fair education in the district school, which 
 he attended at irregular intervals, and mostly 
 during the winter season. In 1888, at the age of 
 twenty-nine, he left the home farm and moved 
 upon his present claim, which consists of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, all but twenty of which 
 are under cultivation. Seventy acres of this land 
 is in the bottoms and is unusually fertile, well 
 adapted to wheat and general grain-raising, of 
 which the owner makes a specialty. Mr. Cox 
 
 owns one hundred and sixty acres of timber land 
 in Douglas county. 
 
 Two years after starting out to farm on his 
 own responsibility, Mr. Cox tired of keeping 
 bachelor quarters, and married, March 5, 1890, 
 Annie Archibald, a native daughter of Linn coun- 
 ty, who is the mother of two interesting children, 
 Roya and Edna. Mr. Cox is a Democrat in polit- 
 ical affiliation, and though not an office seeker, 
 has served both as school director and road su- 
 pervisor. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. Thrifty, and 
 with great capacity for industry, Mr. Cox well 
 deserves the reputation of being one of the 
 worthy and successful farmers of Linn county. 
 
 EDWIN G. COX. As a general farmer and 
 stock-raiser Edwin G. Cox reflects credit upon 
 Linn county, Ore., where he was born on a large 
 donation claim eight miles east of Albany, No- 
 vember 22, 1852. For many years his father, 
 Lewis Cox, was known as a successful farmer 
 in Ohio,, in which state he was born near Dayton, 
 May 11, 1818, and from where he moved at the 
 age of seventeen to Wabash county, Ind. About 
 1845 ne took up his residence on a farm in 
 Iowa, and there he married his first wife, a Miss 
 Castor, who bore him one child, Cynthia, now 
 Mrs. Thompson of Denver, Colo. His second 
 wife, Elizabeth (Trites) Cox, was born in New 
 Brunswick, and with her Mr. Cox crossed the 
 plains in the spring of 1850, outfitted with one 
 wagon, three yoke of oxen, and two cows. They 
 were on the way some four months, meeting 
 with few unpleasant experiences. Mr. Cox pur- 
 chased the right of six hundred and forty acres 
 of land of Lud Maxwell, which contained a log 
 cabin and a sawmill. He was obliged to go in 
 debt to the amount of $3,000 on his property, 
 but so well did he succeed that bv 1856 he had 
 cancelled this indebtedness and had $3,000 clear 
 profit. In the meantime he had thought always 
 of returning to Iowa and spending his last days 
 there, so he took his little hoard, all in gold, and 
 made his way back to the scene of his earlier 
 efforts. Like the majority who return after years 
 to old and familiar surroundings, he experienced 
 a keen sense of disappointment, and made up his 
 mind that Oregon, after all, held far superior 
 inducements. Thus it happened that the little 
 fortune was re-invested in Oregon, to which state 
 he returned by way of Cape Horn, being six 
 months on the way. Locating on the farm which 
 is now owned by his son, he remained there until 
 his death, February 20, 1884, at the age of sixty- 
 six. Fie attained considerable prominence in 
 political circles, serving as county commissioner 
 one term. Twelve children were born of his 
 second marriage, four of whom died young. 
 
MR. AND MRS. GODFREY DENTEL. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 929 
 
 Mary I., the oldest daughter, is the wife of Elias 
 Maxwell of Linn county; Anderson is deceased; 
 Edwin G. is the third; Smith lives near Albany; 
 Vallalio lives at Coos Bay : Ira is a farmer in 
 Linn county; Lewis lives with his mother on 
 the home farm ; and Agnes is the wife of Alex- 
 ander McXabb of Centralia. Wash. 
 
 The youth of Edwin G. Cox was not unlike 
 that of other farm-reared boys in the northwest, 
 and he had the average number of advantages 
 and diversions. He was a diligent student at 
 the public schools, and as a boy and man has 
 been industrious and painstaking. He located 
 on his present farm at the age of twenty-one, 
 and has since made many fine improvements on 
 his property. Of his four hundred and eighty 
 acres of land, one hundred and sixty are under 
 cultivation, and the greater part of his property 
 is in the valley. He raises a high grade of stock, 
 and the general produce of a farm increases his 
 yearly income to a considerable extent. He is 
 a Democrat in politics, and in religion is a mem- 
 ber of the Christian church. In 1875 he mar- 
 ried Clarissa Morgan, of which union there have 
 been born seven children : Annie, wife of W. H. 
 Schiller of The Dalles ; Plessie died at the age 
 of eighteen ; Lewis G. : Clarence ; Archie ; and 
 two deceased. Mr. Cox is popular and well 
 liked, responding generously to all appeals for 
 assistance in the community, and in his farming 
 maintaining the high standard established in one 
 of the most fertile and resourceful parts of the 
 state. 
 
 ^ GODFREY DENTEL was born in Saxony, 
 Germany, December 17, 1844. He was brought 
 by his parents to America in 1847, the family 
 making their home in Monroe county, Mich., on 
 a farm eight miles west of Monroe, Avhere God- 
 frey Dentel grew to manhood. At the age of 
 twenty-two he located in Sangamon county, 111., 
 and began working on a farm near Springfield, 
 that county. He continued working by the 
 month for three years, and was then married to 
 Miss Elizabeth Buirgy, December 23, 1869. 
 Mrs. Dentel was a native of Clermont county, 
 ( )hio, and after her marriage she ably assisted 
 her husband, performing the duties of the house- 
 hold in an exemplary manner. They continued 
 to reside in Sangamon county for about twelve 
 years. In 1877 they removed" to Portland, Ore., 
 remaining there for a period of three months. 
 The duration of their stay in Clackamas county 
 covered a period of two years, at the end of which 
 time they settled in Marion county, near Aurora, 
 on their present farm, which comprises one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres. When Mr. Dentel 
 took up the work of improvement upon this place 
 there had been nothing whatever done in that 
 
 direction, but with determined zeal he went to 
 work, and placing his standard high, he has 
 reached a degree of excellence in the cultivation 
 and management of his property, which is not 
 excelled by any, and is equaled by few. When 
 he purchased this farm it contained no buildings, 
 but Mr. Dentel has built a comfortable and com- 
 modious residence and all necessary out-build- 
 ings for the shelter of grain and stock, and the 
 appearance of thrift and neatness is everywhere 
 apparent. Mr. Dentel is an experienced hop- 
 grower, having been engaged in that enterprise 
 for the past eighteen years, and at present he has 
 fourteen acres under hops. Llis attention has 
 also been given to general agricultural pursuits, 
 and as he is a man who never fails in anything 
 he undertakes, his efforts have resulted in his 
 becoming well-to-do and prosperous in a marked 
 degree. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Dentel have been 
 born eight children, seven of whom are now liv- 
 ing : Arbon, of Marion county ; Mattie, the wife 
 of A. H. Giesy, a merchant of Aurora ; Clara, the 
 wife of Chris F. Siegler, a resident of Marion 
 county ; Fred, also of Marion county ; Ruth, Liz- 
 zie and William, who make their home with their 
 parents. 
 
 It will easily be understook that a man who can 
 ably conduct a large farm, thus advancing the 
 agricultural interests of the community in which 
 he lives, must necessarily be broad-minded and 
 public-spirited, and it comes as a matter of course 
 that Mr. Dentel should take a prominent part in 
 promoting the general progress of his county. 
 He has ever favored good schools and good 
 roads, realizing that both are essential to the ulti- 
 mate success of any section, and has served both 
 as road supervisor and as school director. He 
 favors the platform of the Republican party and 
 votes accordingly, while his fraternal relations 
 connect him with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. His religious views are expressed by 
 his membership in the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The history of Mr. Dentel may be read with 
 interest by those who have their own way to 
 make in the world, and who start out in life wish- 
 ing to gain, through the experience of others, 
 the key-note to success. Reading between the 
 lines of this record, it would appear that the 
 causes of Mr. Dentel's success have been his un- 
 tiring energy, his indomitable will, which has 
 overcome all obstacles, and his inherent integrity, 
 which is unquestionable. 
 
 EDWIN McGREW. Under the able admin- 
 istration of Edwin McGrew the Pacific College at 
 Newberg has undergone a transformation ex- 
 tremely gratifying to interested spectators of ed- 
 ucational advancement in Oregon. Although 
 
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 young in years for so important a responsibility, 
 Professor McGrew has long since passed the ex- 
 perimental stage of his career, and possesses to 
 an unusual degree that financial and executive 
 ability which, combined with scholarly attain- 
 ments, meets the requirements of latter-day edu- 
 cational standards. The management of the col- 
 lege, which is under the auspices of the Friends 
 Church, was undertaken by Mr. McGrew in 
 1900, and at the time was deeply in debt. Due 
 partially to funds solicited in the east by the pres- 
 ident, who made a special trip for that purpose, 
 the indebtedness has been completely wiped out, 
 and the scholarship roll has been increased. The 
 college is well equipped for scientific and other 
 research, and the thoroughness of the training 
 possible in its various departments precludes 
 any reasonable possibility of its usefulness wan- 
 ing or its present prestige being diminished as 
 one of the important educational factors of Ore- 
 gon. 
 
 A native of the vicinity of Marshalltown, Mar- 
 shall county, Iowa, Mr. McGrew was born March 
 4, 1868, a son of David D. and Alpha (Pierson) 
 McGrew, natives of Ohio, and the latter a daugh- 
 ter of John Pierson, of Ohio. The paternal 
 grandfather, Jacob B., was born in Pennsylvania, 
 and from there removed at an early day to Ohio, 
 where his death occurred several years after his 
 retirement. Like his father, David D. McGrew 
 was a farmer during the greater part of his 
 life, and his death occurrred in Marshall county, 
 Iowa, at the age of sixty-five years. Of the 
 three children born to David D. and Alpha (Pier- 
 son) McGrew, Edwin is the only son, and sec- 
 ond child. 
 
 The education of Mr. McGrew was acquired 
 in the public schools and at the Friends Academy 
 at LeGrand, Iowa, from which latter institution 
 he was duly graduated in 1887. In 1890 he 
 graduated from the Capitol City Commercial Col- 
 lege, and in 1895 from the Penn College at Oska- 
 loosa, Iowa, with the degree of B. S., receiving 
 from the same institution the degree of M. S. in 
 1898. Besides being a student at the college Mr. 
 McGrew was also an educator, and in the capac- 
 ity of principal was identified with the prepar- 
 atory department from 1895 to 1897. In 1895 
 he was recorded as a minister in the Friends 
 Church at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and though still oc- 
 cupying this position does very little preaching 
 at the present time. In the fall of 1897 Mr. Mc- 
 Grew assumed charge of the Friends Church at 
 Earlham, Madison county, Iowa, and in 1900 un- 
 dertook his present responsibility as president 
 of the Pacific College at Newberg. 
 
 In New Providence. Iowa, Mr. McGrew was 
 united in marriage with Edith Ware, a native 
 of Indiana, a daughter of Talbot Ware. Talbot 
 Ware is still a resident of Indiana, where he is 
 
 engaged in farming and the mercantile business 
 and is also interested in building and contracting. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. McGrew has been born one 
 child, Marion Edwina. 
 
 JULIUS C. HODSON. The men's clothing 
 house, owned and managed by Julius C. and C. A. 
 Hodson, is one of the substantial and upbuilding 
 business enterprises of Newberg. Julius C. Hod- 
 son, one of the most prominent men of the town, 
 was born in Spiceland, Henry county, Ind., No- 
 vember 11, i860, and is a son of Caleb Hodson, 
 a native of North Carolina. The family was 
 established in America by the paternal great- 
 grandfather, Robert, who left his ancestral home 
 in England to profit by the less trying conditions 
 in the New England colonies. He eventually 
 found his way to North Carolina, where was 
 born his son, Jesse, the paternal grandfather of 
 Julius C, the founder of the family in Henry 
 county, Ind. As a young man Caleb Hod- 
 son removed with his father to Indiana, where he 
 in time bought a farm, and after the death of his 
 father purchased the old homestead in the Hoosier 
 state. 
 
 The sixth of the nine sons born to his father, 
 Julius C. Hodson was educated at the public 
 schools and at an academy, and, having qualified 
 as an educator, was thus employed after his re- 
 moval to Yamhill county in 1879. His mother 
 purchasing property near Newberg, he made this 
 farm his headquarters, and until 1891 was en- 
 gaged in teaching in Washington and Yamhill 
 counties, and in eastern Oregon. In 1891 he 
 located in Newberg, and for nine years had 
 charge as principal of the public schools of the 
 town, in the meantime materially advancing the 
 standard of education in the county. In 1897 he 
 started the present clothing business with his 
 brother, C. A. Hodson, and two years later re- 
 linquished his educational work to assume entire 
 control of the clothing business. 
 
 In Fountain City, Ind., Mr. Hodson was 
 united in marriage with Lorena Townsend, a na- 
 tive of Indiana, as was also her father, James 
 Townsend. Mr. Townsend was a farmer for 
 the greater part of his active life, owning farms 
 in both Iowa and Indiana, but finally settled in 
 Fountain City, Wayne county, Ind. Two chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hodson : 
 Esther L. and James L., both of whom are living 
 at home. Mr. Hodson is a welcome member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He 
 is a Republican in politics, and for some time has 
 been president of the Republican Club of New- 
 berg. He was a candidate for county superin- 
 tendent of schools in 1896, and has served on the 
 city council. Mr. Hodson has given evidence 
 of his faith in the continued prosperity of this 
 
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 section by investing in considerable town and 
 country property. He is one of the most helpful 
 citizens, and broad-minded cultured men who 
 have invaded Yamhill county to the advantage of 
 the large community. 
 
 LEWIS RITXER. Among the native sons 
 of Polk count v who have spent their entire lives 
 upon farms where they were born in the pioneer 
 days of the state, is Lewis Ritner, whose birth 
 occurred November 2. 1857. He is a son of 
 Sebastian and Sarah (Woodling) Ritner, and is 
 the second of three children born of the sec- 
 ond marriage of his mother. Mrs. Ritner was 
 born in Northampton county, Pa., August 5, 
 181 7, and before her marriage was Sarah Wood- 
 ling, daughter of Peter and Mary (Houghner) 
 Woodling, the former born in England, and a 
 farmer during his entire active life. In her 
 native state Miss Woodling married for her 
 first husband, in 1833, John Ritner, who was 
 born in Switzerland, and came to the United 
 States at an early day, locating in Missouri, 
 Platte county. He was a mechanic by trade, and 
 combined that with farming during nearly all 
 of his working life. Hearing favorable reports 
 of the agricultural prospects in the far west, he 
 sold his farm, and left to others his little busi- 
 ness, outfitting in 1852 to cross the plains with 
 ox-teams. He was not destined to reach the 
 Mecca of his desires, for on the plains he suc- 
 cumbed to illness, died, and was buried in a 
 lonely wayside grave. His wife and four chil- 
 dren' finished the journey to the coast, and the 
 mother took up a donation claim of two hundred 
 and thirty acres, which is the present home of 
 the family. In 1854 Mrs. Ritner married Sebas- 
 tion Ritner, brother of her former husband, who 
 was also born in Switzerland, the date of his 
 birth being 181 5. 
 
 Sebastian Ritner crossed the plains as early as 
 1845, but it is not on record that he experienced 
 any particular adventures. He farmed for a 
 time in Oregon, and in 1847 went to tne mmes 
 of California, returning at the end of a year 
 considerably richer than when he went. With 
 his earnings he took up a donation claim of three 
 hundred acres, and so successfully operated it 
 that he was able to add to his possessions, and 
 at the time of his death owned nine hundred 
 acres. He engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising, although in his youth he had 
 worked as a mechanic, and had a wide range of 
 knowledge bearing upon mechanical subjects. 
 He was a thoroughly reliable man, upright and 
 considerate in all of his dealings, and of more 
 than ordinary business shrewdness. He died 
 at his home near Pedee, September 10. 1887. 
 
 The children of the first marriage of Mrs. Rit- 
 
 ner who are now living are : Mary E., the wife 
 of Lew Hannam, of Lewisville ; Missouri Anna, 
 the wife of Joe Edwards, of Pedee ; Anna, the 
 wife of Richard Dunn, of King's Valley; and 
 Flora, the wife of John Waters, of McTimmons 
 Valley. By the second marriage there were four 
 children : John Ritner ; Lewis ; Sophrona, wife 
 of James Grant ; and Frank Ritner, deceased. 
 
 Lewis Ritner spent an uneventful youth on 
 his father's farm, and was so thoroughly trained 
 in the science of farming that he took charge of 
 the whole property at the age of eighteen years. 
 This responsibility came to him because of the 
 marriage of his brother and his removal to a 
 farm of his own. In April, 1883, Mr. Ritner 
 married Corinda, daughter of James Edelman, 
 Mrs. Ritner being a native of Benton county, 
 Ore. The father was born in the state of Penn- 
 sylvania, and located on a farm in Benton 
 county, where he died at the age of sixty-two 
 years. Mr. Ritner is farming five hundred acres 
 of his father's claim, and has large numbers of 
 fine stock, including thoroughbred horses, red 
 and roan Shires, Cotswold sheep, and dairy cat- 
 tle. An additional source of revenue is a log- 
 ging business in which he engages for a por- 
 tion of each year. He also has sixteen acres 
 under hops, and considerable fruit. He is very 
 successful, and is regarded as one of the most 
 scientific and practical farmers in the county. 
 He is a Republican in politics, and with his wife 
 is a member of the Evangelical Church of Pedee, 
 in which he is a steward and active worker. Mr. 
 Ritner has the sterling and reliable traits of char- 
 acter which brought about his father's success, 
 and which have brought him many stanch 
 friends, as well as»the esteem of the entire com- 
 munity. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Ritner have been 
 born three children : Ella, wife of Frank 
 Sheythe; Annie and Martin P. Ritner, at home. 
 
 CHARLES FRANCIS DE GUIRE (Da 
 Guera, French spelling). Born September 12, 
 1846, among the quiet scenes of Fredericktown, 
 Madison county, Mo., Mr. De Guire still recalls 
 his first great journey in the world taken in 1854 
 over the wild, uncultivated lands that lay be- 
 tween the Father of Waters and the peaceful 
 waves of the Pacific ocean. It was not the first 
 journey into the west, made by members of his 
 family, as his father, Francis B., who was born 
 March 30, 1818, in Ste. Genevieve county, Mo., 
 had gone to California in 1849, having fallen a 
 victim to the gold craze. Returning after about 
 two years of prospecting and mining he again 
 made the perilous journey, in company with his 
 family, traveling by ox-team, and arriving safely 
 at their destination with the usual experiences 
 
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 incident to the life on the plains by which they 
 recall their long trip of six months. 
 
 After one winter spent in that state, another 
 journey was taken, the family coming by horse- 
 teams over the mountains to settle near St. Paul, 
 Marion county, Ore. In this location Mr. De 
 Guire again followed the occupation of his fore- 
 fathers, engaging for three years in agriculture, 
 and at the end of that time removed to a farm 
 six miles southeast of Silverton. In his Missouri 
 home he had married Eleanor St. Geme, a native 
 of the same state, and after her death in 1862 
 he made his home with his son, C. F. The re- 
 maining children that blessed the union were as 
 follows : John, who makes his home with C. F. ; 
 Mary C, wife of D. R. Hubbard, of Marquam, 
 Clackamas county, Ore. ; Louisa, and Clotilda, 
 of Salem ; James L., deceased ; and Henry, of 
 southern California. Personally, the elder Mr. 
 De Guire is energetic and lively, bearing his 
 eighty-six years lightly, his unimpaired memory 
 recalling days of his struggles in the west with 
 genial satisfaction. He had given up a lucrative 
 position in his home community, being then deal- 
 ing in lead mining stock, and enjoying the popu- 
 larity and esteem of a successful man, to try his 
 fortunes in the west, and through the trying 
 years of his pioneer life he had been confident 
 of the fruition he now enjoys. Another incen- 
 tive to his removal to Oregon was the fact that 
 his brother, J. B. De Guire, having made the 
 journey in 1840 in the interests of the American 
 Fur Company, had taken up a donation claim 
 near Rays Landing, being one of the first settlers 
 of Oregon. It was his distinction to come west 
 in company with Captain Sublett. Fifteen years 
 of his life were spent in the 'Rocky mountains, 
 where he hunted and trapped, gaining a wide 
 reputation as a furrier. 
 
 C. F. De Guire was reared in Oregon, where 
 he attended the public schools when occasion of- 
 fered, which was but little of the time, so that 
 his wide knowledge and general information are 
 due largely to his own efforts, made through the 
 years in which he has been gaining his livelihood. 
 At the age of fourteen he started out into the 
 world to make his own way, going first into 
 woolen mills where he learned weaving, in which 
 business he continued for six years. On May 
 13, 1873, he married Miss Arlena Brown, a na- 
 tive of Silverton, Ore., and the daughter of 
 James Brown, who crossed the plains in 1846. 
 After a year of married life in Salem, the young 
 people moved to their present location, being a 
 part of the Brown donation claim, of which there 
 is left in the family about one hundred and fif- 
 teen acres. Upon his farm Mr. De Guire has put 
 almost all the improvements of which it boasts, 
 and is now busily engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising. The death of his wife oc- 
 
 curred in October, 1885. In January, 1893, Mr. 
 De Guire married a native of England, Miss 
 Julia Brydge. He has four children, of whom 
 Murton E., a son by his first wife, is a dentist 
 in Silverton ; the other three, Olfan, Alvis H. 
 and Vada being born of the second union, and 
 all at home. 
 
 Mr. De Guire is well known and a very popu- 
 lar man in his community, having been in the 
 jewelry business in Silverton for ten years, also 
 dealing in city and farming property for several 
 years. While in that city he served for some 
 time as deputy postmaster, being politically in- 
 dependent. He was delegate to the first Prohi- 
 bition convention held at Salem. He has also 
 seen military service, having enlisted December 
 9, 1864, in Company C, First Oregon Infantry, 
 mustered in at Salem. The regiment was first 
 sent to Vancouver, later to Ft. Stillicom, where 
 they did garrison duty, and received his dis- 
 charge in October, 1865. He was one of the or- 
 ganizers and a charter member of Geo. H. 
 Thomas Post G. A. R. of Silverton. 
 
 GEORGE CUSITER. To an appreciable ex- 
 tent Silverton has profited by the shrewd busi- 
 ness ability of George Cusiter, one of those 
 rugged and honest Scotchmen whose thrift and 
 industry have been the making of many a com- 
 munity in the United States. The early life of 
 George Cusiter was passed in the vicinity of 
 Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was born August 
 18, i860, and where he received a practical home 
 training in a typical Scotch family. His father, 
 George Cusiter, was born in the Orkney Islands, 
 off the north coast of Scotland, and spent the 
 greater part of his boyhood and young manhood 
 among these rather bleak and cheerless Scottish 
 possessions. His ancestors had long tilled the 
 soil of the unprofitable lands, and his grand- 
 father and great-grandfather spent their entire 
 lives where the mists hung heavy for the greater 
 part of the year, and where the crops were back- 
 ward and limited to few varieties. George Cusi- 
 ter was an educator of prominence at Dalke, his 
 education having been received at that school, 
 and he was also a man of science, having made a 
 particular study of coal gas. At frequent inter- 
 vals he contributed articles on chemistry and 
 science to the leading journals throughout the 
 United Kingdom, and withal was a profound 
 and conscientious student. His death occurred 
 in 1874. He was survived by his wife, formerly 
 Miss Mary Young, a native of Selkirk, Scotland, 
 who is now sixty-six years of age. 
 
 The only son, and the oldest of the four chil- 
 dren born to his parents, George Cusiter had the 
 inspiration to study which his father's scholarly 
 life furnished, and he had the advantage both of 
 
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 common school education, and of a course in 
 the George Watson College at Edinburgh, from 
 which he was duly graduated in 1876. The year 
 of his graduation he embarked upon a business 
 life as a clerk in the office department of a whole- 
 sale grocery concern, and there laid the founda- 
 tion for the practical life in which he has since 
 engaged. The thoroughness required of em- 
 ployes in all departments of activity in Scotland 
 had its effect, as did the upright methods every- 
 where recognized as a shining characteristic of 
 Scottish national life. 
 
 Armed with his experience and with great 
 hope in the future of America, Mr. Cusiter came 
 to the United States in 1885, and after crossing 
 the continent to Portland, Ore., remained there 
 for a couple of months. Not being particularly 
 well impressed with the northern city he found 
 his way to Silverton, where he secured a position 
 as bookkeeper for the flouring mills of this city. 
 Five years' association in this capacity convinced 
 him that he had found a good place in which to 
 live, and one which held out a helping hand to 
 all who were industrious and capable. Desiring 
 to engage in business on his own responsibilitv, 
 he bought out a merchandise business with a 
 partner, and thus continued to cater to the needs 
 of the community for several years. In 1902 he 
 bought out his partner, and has since conducted 
 the business alone. His store contains a stock 
 valued at $8,000, and his goods are selected with 
 reference to supplying a large and exacting 
 trade. The greatest consideration is shown pa- 
 trons of this well managed enterprise, the pro- 
 prietor encouraging in his assistants, tact and 
 patience, and the greatest order and neatness. 
 
 In Salem, Ore., in 1893, Mr. Cusiter married 
 Nettie Ridings, a native of Clackamas county, 
 Ore., near Marquam. Mr. Cusiter is a Democrat 
 in political affiliation, and among the positions 
 of trust held by him during his residence here 
 may be mentioned that of mayor of the city for 
 three terms, and member of the council for two 
 terms. He is fraternally connected with Silver- 
 ton Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., and Home 
 Lodge No. 35 Knights of Pythias. The friends 
 and associates of Mr. Cusiter speak of him as a 
 whole-souled, honorable and public-spirited gen- 
 tleman, and one in whom his adopted city may 
 well repose the greatest confidence. 
 
 MARION J. AND JOHN R. WHITE. As 
 small and irresponsible lads, M. J- and J. R. 
 White came across the plains in 1852: but as 
 strong, courageous and resourceful men, they 
 occupy an important position in the agri- 
 cultural world of the Willamette valley. Side 
 by side, they have worked and progressed along 
 natural lines of development, until to-day the 
 
 farm operated by the two brothers, and the hop 
 business conducted by M. J. & J. R. White & 
 Son, represent all that is substantial and reliable, 
 both as to the extent and scope of their operations 
 and the character and attainments of the men 
 conducting them. 
 
 On a farm in Callaway county, Mo., Marion J. 
 White was born September 17, 1845, while his 
 brother, John R. White, was born November 17, 
 1846. Peter White, their father, whose first wife 
 had lived but a short time after their marriage, 
 was borrf in Pennsylvania in 18 10, and in young 
 manhood removed to the far-off state of Mis- 
 souri. There he learned the trade of silversmith, 
 and was employed at the same until his second 
 marriage, in 1843, with Virginia Q. Foster, who 
 was born in Virginia in 1813. Subsequently, he 
 settled upon a farm in Callaway county, Mo. 
 Upon the outbreak of the Black Hawk war he 
 left his duties on the farm and enlisted in a Mis- 
 souri regiment, serving three years in this mem- 
 orable conflict. His military experiences were 
 interesting. He was attached to the escort of 
 General Fremont during the latter's expedition to 
 the Rocky mountains, and participated in numer- 
 ous important engagements. After being mus- 
 tered out, he returned to the farm and pursued 
 the even tenor of his way until 1852. In the 
 meantime, four children had been born into his 
 family, named in the order of their birth, as 
 follows: Elizabeth J., wife of A. S. Gleason, of 
 Hubbard, Ore. ; M. J. ; J. R., and America Q., 
 wife of J. T. Ross, who resides near Monitor, 
 Ore., on part of the White homestead. 
 
 In the spring of 1852, Mr. White disposed of 
 his Missouri property and outfitted for a journey 
 over the plains, M. J. and J. R. then being six 
 and five years of age, respectively. Always full 
 of lurking dangers, and uncertain of accomplish- 
 ment, this journey, as did many in those perilous 
 times, proved the futility of the plans of man- 
 kind. All went well until Fort Laramie was 
 reached. There the father was stricken with the 
 cholera, and died while the party was stopping on 
 Deer creek. The disconsolate widow buried her 
 greatest treasure at that lonely spot, and for- 
 tified herself to bear, unaided, the greatest blow 
 that had ever befallen her. Wearily she traveled 
 the rest of the distance with her little family, and 
 with a heavy heart and little hope for the future. 
 took up a donation claim of one hundred and 
 sixty acres on Butte creek, two and a half miles 
 southeast of Monitor, in Marion county. The 
 land was a wilderness, and the immediate re- 
 sources must have been pitifully small ; but good 
 fortune came her way from the start, for her sad 
 story touched the hearts of the neighboring set- 
 tlers, who. one and all, put their shoulders to the 
 task of building her a little log cabin, in which 
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 weather. Food and other necessities were also 
 forthcoming, and, being one of those courageous 
 and dauntless pioneer women of whom one reads 
 with feelings of the most profound admiration, 
 she succeeded, in spite of adversity, in rearing 
 her children and in making them a comparatively 
 comfortable home. When the boys were old 
 enough to do so, they erected a more pretentious 
 modern structure, and the farm began to take on 
 the aspect of an up-to-date and enterprising cen- 
 ter of activity. This pioneer mother continued to 
 guide the affairs of her household for many years, 
 and lived to be sixty-nine years of age, dying 
 April 6, 1883. 
 
 Of the sons who have attained prominence in 
 Marion county, Marion J. lived at home until 
 1874. In that year he made his home with his 
 brother, with whom he has since resided. He 
 has never married. He received his education in 
 the public schools, as did also his brother, John 
 R., both also attending the high school at Silver- 
 ton. John R. finally engaged in educational work 
 for a few terms. He was united in marriage, 
 October 3, 1872, to Mary A. Birtchet, a native 
 of Yamhill county, Ore., born December 1, 1853. 
 Her parents, George and Elizabeth (Haughn) 
 Birtchet, came from Missouri to Oregon in 1853, 
 crossing the plains and locating near Wilsonville. 
 Mr. and Mrs. White began housekeeping 
 on the farm which is still their home, 
 and where, with his brother, John R. 
 is laying by a competence. Of the farm 
 of four hundred and ninety-six acres, two hun- 
 dred and fifty are under cultivation, fifty-six acres 
 being devoted to the culture of hops. In 1902, 
 the hop harvest yielded fifty-four thousand 
 pounds. All of the improvements on the White 
 farm have been made by the brothers, for they 
 had to deal with wild land from the beginning, 
 and much arduous labor was required before the 
 seed could be placed in the ground, or any hope 
 of gain indulged in. At present large numbers 
 of Shorthorn cattle browse in the fertile mead- 
 ows, and other high-grade stock contribute to a 
 substantial income. While the farm in general 
 is managed by the brothers, the hop industry, 
 which entails additional responsibility, is under 
 the care of George Gasner, son of J. R" White. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. R. White were born nine chil- 
 dren ; Lulu P. became the wife of A. L. Briggs, 
 of Cottage Grove, Ore., and they have two sons, 
 Merl and Verne; Marion P., who resides in 
 Clackamas county, married Hattie Taylor, and 
 they have one son, Drexel ; Euphe M. died at the 
 age of twenty years ; George Gasner, who lives 
 on the home farm, married 'Mary Pursifull; Vir- 
 ginia Elizabeth became the wife of R. Scheurer, 
 a resident of Plaza, Wash. ; America R., Volney 
 J. R., Rosetta and Merton O. are living at home. 
 
 The White brothers occupy an enviable place 
 
 in their neighborhood, where both are regarded 
 as public-spirited and progressive men. Politi- 
 cally both view public affairs from an independent 
 standpoint, and John R. White has been promi- 
 nently identified with local matters. Both broth- 
 ers are members of the Butte Creek Grange. Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. R. White are members of the Chris- 
 tian Church, in which Mr. White is a trustee, 
 and for twenty-five years he has served as clerk 
 of the school board. 
 
 HOMER C. DAVENPORT. Perhaps no 
 other newspaper artist in the United States has 
 been the subject of so many " write ups " as the 
 person whose name heads this article. His ap- 
 pearance among the foremost cartoonists was 
 so sudden and unheralded that writers of all de- 
 grees were tempted to try their descriptive and 
 analytic powers upon him. Of necessity, they 
 had not much data to draw from, for he had no 
 diploma from any American art school ; had not 
 been in England, Germany, Italy or France ; in 
 fact, had hot been educated in art anywhere ; and 
 as he was not a lineal descendant from artists, 
 as any one knew, it was not strange that many 
 of the " interviews " were as grotesque as the 
 artist himself could wish. He never claimed 
 to be an artist, and so when questioned as to the 
 employment of his youth, he generally gave such 
 facts as would make a humorous picture, such as 
 firing on a steamboat, wiping locomotives, breed- 
 ing and fighting game chickens, playing clown 
 for a circus, feeding lions and tigers in a men- 
 agerie, clog dancing in a minstrel show, um- 
 piring base ball games, or any other of the 
 thousand and one things boys attempt in the 
 rattle-brain period of existence. As such things 
 made up the greater part of his antecedents, 
 upon which his interviewers delighted to dwell, 
 the opinion became prevalent that his case lies 
 outside of heredity and that early art training 
 is unimportant. If from such vagaries, and 
 without previous training, a green Oregon boy 
 could enter the field of art and carry off high 
 honors and emoluments, why not others do the 
 same ? Hence, all over the Pacific coast, boys 
 who had never taken a thought of how pictures 
 are made, began to draw cartoons, full of enthu- 
 siastic purpose, to become famous like Homer. 
 
 Young men just beginning to encounter the 
 earnest tug of existence and wanting to find an 
 easier way of making a living ; and boys who had 
 seen Davenport's pictures in the Examiner and 
 Journal and were stirred with emulation, these 
 brought samples of their art yearnings to be ex- 
 amined by the celebrated cartoonist, during his 
 short visit in Salem two years ago. One hope- 
 ful woman desired him to leave the train and go 
 six miles into the country to see the work of her 
 
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 darling boy, who had been drawing for only 
 three months, and never made a line until he was 
 twelve years old. One of Homer's early com- 
 panions, now editor of a Seattle paper, said, " It 
 is too bad, so many young people should abandon 
 pursuits in which they can make a living, and 
 spend their precious early years in drawing 
 hideous pictures and dreaming of brilliant suc- 
 - in art." To satisfy his regret of such a con- 
 dition, he proposed to publish his opinion that 
 Homer's success is the worst calamity that ever 
 befell the boys of the Pacific coast. 
 
 Such a statement, however emphatic, will not 
 deter any ambitious boy, for has not everybody 
 seen the catchy write-ups of Homer, who was 
 pictured in spicy phrase as a queer, jolly fellow ; 
 a veritable freak of nature, given to all sorts of 
 vagaries, and having a disrelish of book learn- 
 ing, as well as any remunerative employment, 
 and that his present success is the result of one 
 or two lucky incidents? 
 
 One, that he painted, on the outside of a hen 
 house, a game cock so life-like that his bull dog 
 thought it a veritable live cock and bristled for 
 a fight every time he passed that way ; another, 
 that a friend having confidence in the sagacity 
 of the dog, suggested to Homer that he had 
 better work at art for a living. There is plenty 
 in all this to rattle the boys and make them 
 believe there is an easy way to fame and fortune, 
 such as Homer had found or strayed into. 
 
 But the dear school of experience is a very 
 effective teacher, and tw T o years of experiment- 
 ing and cartooning has convinced most of the 
 boys that the hill of art is as hard to climb as 
 the hill of science which they abandoned to loiter 
 in the royal road to fame. 
 
 Only here and there an art scribbler is left, 
 punishing himself in the vain endeavor to evoke 
 a faculty too weak for self-assertion ; very much 
 like making something out of nothing. The 
 plain, unvarnished truth, as respects Homer's 
 early years, would have saved the boys from the 
 unlucky diversion, but his interviewers were not 
 informed thereof. In fact Homer himself at- 
 tached no importance to his early habits, nor 
 had he considered the controlling impulse which 
 prompted them. It is doubtful if he could have 
 given as good a reason for himself, as Topsv did, 
 that he " just grow'd." 
 
 The common mind everywhere takes but little 
 account of what is most influential in the form- 
 ative period of human character. Unless a per- 
 son has received an academic education, he says 
 at once, " I am uneducated," and considers as 
 unworthy of mention the early, constant, and un- 
 aided exercise of his mental faculties, the only 
 true and reliable education. And it is owing to 
 the omission of the basic conditions, the absolute- 
 ly essential antecedents, from the biographical 
 
 sketches, that make of Homer an inexplicable 
 personage. Very creditable accounts, however, 
 have been written within a year by Allan Dale, 
 Julian Hawthorne and Arthur McEwan, but 
 they contain no antidote to the irrational intoxi- 
 cation which possessed the young would-be art- 
 ists of Oregon. If they could have been as- 
 sured, for a fact, that although Homer never 
 attended an art school or had an art teacher, he 
 had spent his whole life in the daily and almost 
 hourly practices of art, not as technically under- 
 stood, but of drawing such pictures as suited his 
 fancy, not because any one else was an artist, 
 or to satisfy an ambition to be an artist, for he 
 was void of purpose, but from an inherited en- 
 dowment of special faculties and an irrepress- 
 ible desire to exercise them, they would have 
 dropped their pencils in utter amazement, to 
 think of following in the track of such a being. 
 He didn't wait until he was twelve years old 
 before he began to trace his mental pictures on 
 paper. Before he was three years old he was 
 observing and drawing, rudely but continuously, 
 subject to such intermissions of play as chil- 
 dren take. It is nothing uncommon for young 
 children to draw, but it is very rare to see one 
 absorbed in the work hour after hour, putting his 
 observations to paper as though it were a de- 
 votion. His extraordinary love for animals, and 
 especially of birds, was exhibited when only a 
 few months old. Unlike other babies, toys af- 
 forded him but little amusement. Shaking rat- 
 tle boxes and blowing whistles only fretted him, 
 and his wearied looks and moans seemed to say 
 that he was already tired of existence. Carry- 
 ing him around into the various rooms and show- 
 ing pictures soon became irksome, and in quest 
 of something to relieve the monotony of in- 
 door life, his paternal grandmother found a 
 continuous solace for his fretful moods in the 
 chickens. It was worth the time of a philoso- 
 pher to observe the child drink in every motion 
 of the fowds and witness the thrill of joy that 
 went through his being when the cock crew or 
 flapped his wings. Such a picture is worth re- 
 producing. Old grandmother in her easy chair 
 upon the veranda ; baby sitting upon the floor by 
 her side ; his little hands tossing wheat, at inter- 
 vals, to the clucking hen and her brood, the lat- 
 ter venturing into baby's lap and picking grains 
 therefrom, despite the warnings of the shy old 
 cock and anxious mother. This lesson, with all 
 its conceivable variations learned, ceased to be 
 entertaining, and a broader field was needed. So 
 grandma, or her substitute, carried baby to the 
 barnyard, and there, sitting under the wagon 
 shed, acquaintance was made with the other 
 domestic animals, which afforded him daily di- 
 version. At first their forms and quiet attitudes 
 w r ere of sufficient interest, but as these became 
 
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 familiar, more active exhibitions were required, 
 and the dog perceiving his opportunity, turned 
 the barnyard into a circus of animals. 
 
 Whether this was the cause and beginning of 
 Homer's extravagant love for dogs, is probably 
 not material, but unlike Madame DeStael, who 
 said, " The more I see of men the better I like 
 dogs," he has love enough to go all around. All 
 this seems very commonplace, as any child would 
 be likewise entertained, but it is a very rare infant 
 to whom such scenes and acquaintances are a 
 necessity. And that the forms and actions of his 
 speechless friends were being photographed up- 
 on his brain, was shown by the fact that as soon 
 as he could use a pencil he began to sketch them, 
 very imperfect in proportions and form, but ex- 
 hibiting them in action with sufficient accuracy 
 before long to label one as untamed, another 
 mad, and another frolicksome. After his moth- 
 er's death from smallpox, on the 20th of No- 
 vember, 1870, the family was subjected to sev- 
 eral months of social isolation, during the rainy 
 season, when Homer, just recovered from the 
 dread disease, was kept in doors. During these 
 dull months he worked more assiduously at draw- 
 ing than ever since for pay. Sitting at the desk 
 or lying prone upon the floor, it was draw, draw, 
 draw. Fearing the effect of such intense appli- 
 cation upon the slimsy fellow, his grandmother 
 tried various diversions without much success. 
 She could interest with Indian or ghost stories, 
 but such gave him no bodily exercise and only 
 set him to drawing how granny looked when 
 telling ghost stories. 
 
 Plainly observable, even thus early, was his 
 love of the dramatic in everything having life. 
 Though much attracted by beautiful specimens of 
 the animal kingdom, his chief satisfaction came 
 from representing them in their moods. His 
 pictures were all doing something. Horses, dogs, 
 monkeys, chickens, ducks, pigeons, were exhibit- 
 ing their peculiar characteristics and so fitted 
 to the occasion as to awaken the supposition that 
 the artist must be " en rapport " with all ani- 
 mated nature. Of course, his artistic creations 
 were wide of the mark, as respects conformity to 
 natural proportions, which his visiting critics 
 unfailingly pointed out. " Homer ! this horse's 
 legs are too long for his body ; his back is too 
 short and his neck too long. And this dog, 
 chasing the horse, is too long bodied and too 
 short legged. Nobody ever saw a dog like that." 
 His reply was, " That is a bench-leg dog and the 
 horse can't kick him." The real excellence of 
 the disproportioned animals, which the volun- 
 tary critics did not see, lay in the fact that they 
 were truly acting out their natures, under the 
 circumstances, and exhibiting the same con- 
 trolling animal desires in every limb and feature. 
 A mad horse was mad all over, and an ardent 
 
 dog showed it in every part, regardless of pro- 
 portions. 
 
 It may be said that these are a fond parent's 
 after-thoughts, or the result of his own sug- 
 gestions at the time, but neither of these sus- 
 picions can be true. The suggestion as to har- 
 mony in dramatic composition and co-ordination 
 of details might be elaborated to a student a thou- 
 sand times, and yet, without natural faculty to 
 perceive, without the sympathy with nature, the 
 suggestions would result in a mere artificiality as 
 devoid of life as " a painted ship upon a painted 
 ocean." Art education at the highest schools can- 
 not supply an artist's natural deficiency in me- 
 chanical aptitude or give him a receptive sym- 
 pathy with life. 
 
 A highly accomplished Parisian artist, work- 
 ing on the Examiner, saw a cartoon by Homer, 
 representing the havoc created among the ani- 
 mals of a barnyard, by the passing of the first 
 railroad train through it, and remarked, " No 
 man who was not born in a barnyard could do. 
 that." Evidently that artist was off in his casu- 
 istry, for he, too, had seen ducks and geese, cows 
 and calves, goats and sheep, horses and mules, 
 all of them in action, and while he could repre- 
 sent them in action with far more accuracy as 
 to proportion of parts, his animals in such a 
 scene would be doing some very poor acting, in 
 fact, not looking and acting like themselves. If 
 an early acquaintance and continuous existence 
 with domestic animals could make an artist 
 then all farmers' boys would be artists. The 
 poor Irish who raise pigs and chickens in the 
 house, and the Arabs who tent their horses and 
 children together from birth, should be artists. 
 Such incidents do not make artists ; they merely 
 furnish opportunity for the exercise of birth 
 endowments. 
 
 And Homer's early method of work, if an im- 
 pulsive employment may be dignified by the term 
 method, was "sui generis " and probably unique 
 if not wonderful. Coincident with the drawing 
 of a mad horse, was the acting by himself. The 
 work would be arrested at times, seemingly for 
 want of appreciation or mental image of a horse 
 in that state of feeling, and then he took to the 
 floor. After viciously stamping, kicking, snort- 
 ing and switching an improvised tail which he 
 held in his hand, behind his back, until his feel- 
 ing or fancy became satisfied, the picture was 
 completed and referred to me with the question, 
 "Is that the way a mad horse looks?" Yes, 
 he appears to be mad through and through. 
 
 Granting that the importance of harmony in 
 a composition was frequently spoken of in his 
 vouth, I lay no claim to being his teacher, for 
 he was moved by an impulse that paid but slight 
 regard to the technical restrictions of scribe and 
 rule, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 And although it has been said by a writer in 
 the New York World that he " has a robust con- 
 tempt of art," his natural ability and aptitudes 
 for accomplishing such results as the critic would 
 call artistic are unsurpassed. The mechanical aids 
 and dilatory processes of the schooled artists 
 arc never resorted to by him. He does not use 
 a snap-shot camera or wait for a dead-rest pose, 
 but sketches on the spur of the moment, and 
 " shoots folly as it flies." Under such circum- 
 stances, faultless art is out of the question, nor 
 does a daily newspaper need it. During the 
 Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1892, a 
 famous horse race occurred and all the great 
 newspapers sent artists to sketch the winning 
 horse. Homer's picture for the Chicago Herald 
 easily surpassed all competitors. What other 
 artist in America can study a man's features 
 for a minute or two, then walk a mile to his 
 studio and draw a better likeness of him than 
 was ever done by any artist having a pose ? Sam 
 Rainy s picture was taken in this way and he was 
 so pleased with it that he procured the original 
 from the Examiner and has it framed in his 
 office. And still Homer makes no pretensions 
 to serious art, as taught at the schools. His 
 forte is caricature, though Clara Morris says it 
 is not, but that he is a great actor. He fell in 
 love with the beautiful beasts and birds at first 
 sight, and the attachment continues unabated. 
 His fondness for dramatic scenes, first noticed 
 in connection with them, did not end there. Very 
 early, even at three years of age, he was experi- 
 menting with his playmates, for no observable 
 reason, except that he desired to see them act. 
 People said he was a hector, a tease, and few of 
 them discovered the cause, as there seemed to 
 be no connection with anger or ill will. Many 
 a delightful play ended in a rumpus, which he 
 eagerly eyed, the only placid and sweet-tempered 
 one of the company. One woman said she be- 
 lieved Homer loved to see children .quarrel and 
 cut up. Indeed, she had come very close to the 
 truth, but the motive she had not divined. 
 Likely, he was probing human nature and as- 
 similating its moods. I do not take him to be a 
 philosopher. His peculiarities in this respect are 
 referred to his mother, who was the most con- 
 summate reproducer of social scenes. No per- 
 son, however odd in feature, form, voice or 
 gesture, was beyond her powers of imitation. 
 And it was all so natural that I did not call it 
 acting. Rather, it was being. I asked her once 
 how she could do this, and she said, " I feel like 
 them." I have often thought, when seeing Ho- 
 mer immersed in his work, that he. too, feels like 
 his subjects. 
 
 All through his boyhood days he was fond of 
 pictures and spent much time in poring over il- 
 lustrated books and papers and in visiting art 
 
 galleries, but he was never known to copy from 
 them. His innate desire and tendency, as well 
 as my advice, was to illustrate his own concep- 
 tions and fancies. His first observations, as be- 
 fore narrated, were at home in his father's barn- 
 yard, but as he grew he began to roam in quest 
 of something new, and when he heard of any 
 strange breed or any extraordinary specimen of 
 the animal creation, he was at once seized of 
 what ordinary people would call an irrational 
 desire to see it. And to see, in his case, meant 
 the most intense study, not for a few minutes 
 or an hour, but continuously until the subject 
 became a part of him. Of scores of pigeons he 
 knew every individual and discovered that the 
 old story of their marital faithfulness is a myth ; 
 that they have their little jealousies and love in- 
 trigues like human beings. Of his visits over 
 the country, people said they were idle, purpose- 
 less ; that he was sowing wild oats, a mere pleas- 
 ure seeker, but I noticed that he came home full, 
 not of book learning, but of the only kind of 
 acquisitions for which he cared, new birds and 
 beasts, new men and their character manifesta- 
 tions, as he could prove with his ever ready 
 pencil. They were as much voyages of dis- 
 covery as Columbus undertook in 1492. Unlike 
 the great navigator, his cruisings were not for 
 wealth or power or the introduction of religion 
 to heathen lands ; they had no ulterior purpose 
 of financial gain, for the thought had never 
 crossed his brain that he was in this spontaneous 
 and almost unconscious way preparing himself 
 for a gainful occupation. But he was approach- 
 ing manhood and I occasionally remarked to him 
 that he had so far been acting as though life here 
 were a holiday or a visit, when in fact it is a 
 very serious matter and requires earnest effort 
 to get a good living. He did not dissent from 
 my view of it, but seemed at a loss in deciding 
 for what he was best fitted. 
 
 We had a general merchandise store and he 
 had experimented enough in selling goods to 
 know that his mind could not be tied to the busi- 
 ness. Customers buying tobacco got it at their 
 own price and shopping women objected to his 
 habit of stretching elastic tape when selling it 
 by the yard. There was fun in such things but 
 no perceptible profit. He opened the store in 
 the morning while I was at breakfast and took 
 his afterwards, and upon going in one morn- 
 ing and finding the floor unswept, I soon saw 
 what had engaged his attention during the half 
 hour. A magnificent carrier pigeon on the wing, 
 and aboVe it in colored letters, this legend, " How 
 glorious the flight of a bird must be ! " 
 
 My mind was made up ; Homer is an artist 
 or nothing ; he shall fly. As a preparatory step, 
 he was sent to the Commercial College in Port- 
 land, which was of great advantage to him, al- 
 
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 though he spent considerable time in his life-long 
 habit. The principal reported him bright, but 
 not sufficiently studious of the works in vogue, 
 and mildly suggested that bookkeeping by 
 double entry was not, as a rule, illustrated by 
 animals, wild or tame. Receiving a letter from 
 me, containing a reprimand for his want of 
 earnestness, he, no doubt, gave an hour or two 
 to retrospection, and passed in review his various 
 attempts at the employments which afford other 
 men a living, and wisely regarding them as hope- 
 less for him, he turned to the only thing he could 
 do and applied for a position on the West Shore, 
 an illustrated monthly published in Portland. 
 The publisher sent him to the head artist, a Mr. 
 Smith, who eyed the young man rather con- 
 temptuously. " Then you think, Mr. Davenport, 
 that you have a natural talent for drawing ? " 
 Mr. Davenport, somewhat withered, thought he 
 had some. " Do you see that man across the 
 street, leaning against a drygoods box? Draw 
 him," and the artist went down stairs and across 
 the street to where the leaning individual was, 
 thinking, as he went, that one egotistical green- 
 horn was effectually disposed of. He was sur- 
 prised, upon his return, to find the green-horn 
 had finished two pictures, the leaning person and 
 Mr. Smith: " Where did you take lessons in art?" 
 " I never took any," said Davenport. Thinking 
 there was a misunderstanding, he asked, " What 
 art school did you attend?" "I never attended 
 an art school." Mr. Smith slowly and musingly 
 ejaculated, " Well, young man, you are either a 
 liar or a fool." Homer felt let down at such 
 abuse, but I consqled him by saying it was the 
 only genuine compliment he had ever received 
 from a professional, though couched in rough 
 language. 
 
 Shortly afterwards I said, " Homer, the Fates 
 are against us, we must separate; here is some 
 money, go to San Francisco, and recollect, it 
 is art from this on." We had supposed that the 
 head of an art school would be glad to wel- 
 come a young man with such decided predilec- 
 tions as Homer had shown, and be willing, as 
 well as able, to add improvement and give dis- 
 cipline without attempting to destroy his indi- 
 viduality, but in this we were completely in 
 error. Homer was soon informed that his art 
 was not art at all, but an uncouth vagary which 
 must be forthwith abandoned. Henceforth he 
 must drop his fancies and draw by scribe and 
 rule ; everything must exist in natural and there- 
 fore proper proportion; expression without it is 
 a veritable nightmare, and the boy who would 
 undertake to draw a figure without, in the first 
 place, blocking it in proportion, is a fool from 
 whom nothing excellent can be expected. This 
 lesson was dinned, with so much rudeness and 
 
 so continuously, that the benefit hoped for was 
 impracticable. 
 
 Homer was too long for the teacher's Pro- 
 crustean bed, and, therefore, spent very little 
 time in that school. As before, the city with 
 its zoological garden and heterogenous popula- 
 tion became his school, at which he was not 
 laggard in attendance. 
 
 A siege of la grippe sent him home, and soon 
 after he got a position on the Portland Mercury, 
 and worked several months for that paper, using 
 star plates, the abomination of all artists. While 
 working there he was sent to New Orleans to 
 sketch the Dempsy-Fitzsimmons fight, and 
 made some very clever drawings of the com- 
 batants. 
 
 The short time he was in the south was very 
 valuable, as it introduced him to a new world, 
 and one rich in that unrestrained and exuberant 
 abondon of the negro race. He returned with 
 his head and heart full of it and for several days 
 was oblivious to all surroundings, until he had put 
 into form the queer characters he had observed 
 away down in Louisiana. He has never pro- 
 duced anything better than the darkey preacher, 
 traveling on the train through Texas, engaged in 
 his pastoral work. It was equal to anything 
 from A. B. Frost and with the addition of Ho- 
 mer's humor, which is extravagant enough for 
 any darkey, was superb. In sanctimonious swell, 
 the negro divine far exceeded the Rainsfords 
 and. Talmages of the north. Though his plug 
 hat was somewhat battered by long and rough 
 usage, his clothes seedy and threadbare, and his 
 patent leather shoes really spurning his ample 
 feet and grinning with more teeth than a shark, 
 they did not prevent a lugubrious flow of re- 
 ligious unction all impossible to the thin-lipped 
 Caucasian. 
 
 If I were inclined, like some of Homer's inter- 
 viewers, to distrust the force and persistency of 
 inherited genius, I might say that if he had not 
 made that picture, he would not have obtained 
 his present place upon the New York Journal, 
 and the conclusion would not be as violent an 
 assault upon human nature as much that is 
 written about him. That picture was an evidence 
 of his ability to go up much higher, and I thought 
 so well of it that I sent it with some others to C. 
 W. Smith and Wm. Henry Smith, our cousins 
 living in Chicago, who received them in the 
 presence of the head of the art department of the 
 San Francisco Examiner, and by the aid of those 
 gentlemen, Homer was forthwith employed upon 
 the great daily. But that was only an oppor- 
 tunity and one so hedged about with unobserv- 
 ing control that his expressed desire to begin 
 the work to which he is by nature best adapted, 
 was unheeded. He is a humorist and caricatur- 
 ist, but at that time Mr. Hearst was absent in 
 
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 Europe and his art manager had either not made 
 the discovery or was doubtful of that sort of 
 work being a paying investment. Being tied 
 up rather "sternly and his pet yearnings often 
 rebuked, he went to the San Francisco Chronicle, 
 where he was allowed more liberty and was fair- 
 ly beginning to show how the world of humanity 
 looks" when stretched in the line of its tend- 
 encies, when the desire to see the World's Fair 
 took him to Chicago. At its close, he returned 
 to the Chronicle, and the Mid- Winter Fair com- 
 ing on soon after, he found therein an ample 
 field for the use of his faculties, and exercised 
 them with but little hindrance from the kind and 
 appreciative art manager of that paper. At that 
 time he was getting but $35 a week, and when 
 \Y. R. Hearst returned from Europe and took 
 in the situation by personal inspection, he saw 
 what all others, managers and artists alike, had 
 failed to see, viz. : that a caricaturist so affluent 
 in imagination, so overflowing with distinctively 
 American humor, so fertile in artistic expedients 
 and withal so rapid in execution, could be put to 
 a higher and more extended use than merely 
 making people laugh. The result of Mr. Hearst's 
 discovery was the employment of Homer upon 
 the Examiner at $100 a week. Everybody knows 
 the rest. The purchase of the New York Jour- 
 nal by Hearst, the transferrence of Davenport 
 to that paper in which the unschooled Oregon 
 boy has proved himself equal to the ambition of 
 his employer. 
 
 Anvone visiting him at his home in New 
 Jersey will readily see that although he is no 
 longer a resident of the Webfoot state, in re- 
 spect of character there has been no change. He 
 works from the small hours in the afternoon 
 until near midnight at the New York Journal 
 office in the Tribune building, New York City, 
 and after breakfast in the morning he and his 
 two children live in his barn-yard, that has a 
 larger assortment of choice animals than his 
 father's had. His rest, relaxation and inspiration 
 are with his earliest idols. Game chickens with 
 long pedigrees, from the parks of United States 
 senators and foreign noblemen, aristocratic bull 
 dogs with immaculate hides and no taint of cold 
 blood, a beautiful Arab steed, Koubishan by 
 name, and a real child of the desert with a grace 
 and style worthy his lineage of a thousand 
 years ; a Kentucky thoroughbred carriage horse ; 
 numerous parks of native and foreign pheasants ; 
 quails from the Pacific coast, and carrier pigeons 
 suggestive of the legends of his youth. To be 
 with these and of these, is his only dissipation. 
 Every room in his house is ornamented with 
 pictures by Nast, Remington, Frost, besides his 
 own pen pictures of distinguished men, odd 
 characters by nature, and the abnormal or ex- 
 cruciating shapes of humanity, the products of 
 
 social environment, religious mendicants of 
 Rome, cockneys of London, colored southern 
 gentlemen, unscrupulous political bosses and less 
 heartless thieves. 
 
 It may be said that he is not a user of tobacco, 
 opium or stimulating drink of any kind, not even 
 of tea or coffee. While most artists are frequently 
 incapacitated for work by reason of intemperate 
 habits and are subject to spells of mental de- 
 jection or irrational stimulation, he is compe- 
 tent every day to get the best output of his 
 faculties. Young people desirous of succeed- 
 ing should think of this, and also that something 
 more is needed to attain success than a " pull." 
 A " pull " at the right time may bring an oppor- 
 tunity, but the main thing is the inside " push " 
 which does not wait for a " pull." And again, 
 Homer's mental and physical make-up is not an 
 accident, as people say; he comes by it honestly. 
 With controlling art and dramatic tendencies 
 on both sides of the ancestral house, there is 
 no need of exploiting the regions of fancy to 
 account for outcroppings of similar tendencies 
 in the children. And inherited tendencies, what- 
 ever they may be, do not lie dormant all through 
 childhood and all at once spring into prominence, 
 creating geniuses and prodigies. They show 
 from the first, and it is from the early and con- 
 tinuous discipline of such birth endowments that 
 excellence comes. Great poets begin very earlv 
 to lisp in numbers and great inventors to con- 
 jure with mechanical tools. It is well enough for 
 young people to aspire to high places in the 
 line of human endeavor, but it must be in ac- 
 cordance with their natural aptitudes and tend- 
 encies or they cannot rise. A great amount of 
 time is lost and the lives of many people ren- 
 dered fruitless, by a wrong direction of their 
 energies, and it is to aid in preventing such oc- 
 currences that this brief sketch is written. 
 
 [The foregoing sketch of Homer Davenport 
 was written by the noted cartoonist's father, 
 Hon. T. W. Davenport.] 
 
 JAMES P. G. HENDERSON. Four miles 
 south of Philomath, and not far from the village 
 of Fern, is located the finely cultivated farm of 
 two hundred and seventy-six acres owned and 
 operated by Mr. Henderson. Here he carries 
 on general fanning and stock-raising, making, a 
 specialty of Jersey cattle, two hundred and fifty 
 acres of the tract being under active cultivation. 
 Mr. Henderson was born October 17, 1848, in 
 Buchanan county, Mo., the son of Perman Hen- 
 derson, who was born September 19, 1801, near 
 Knoxville, Tenn. With his parents, who were 
 farmers, he remained at home until he was 
 eighteen years of age, when he started out in 
 the world on his own account, going direct to 
 
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 Missouri. His first employment was on a farm, 
 but he later became interested in the saw and grist 
 mill business, and with the proceeds of his labor 
 purchased land, at one time owning property 
 which is now the site of Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 It was in Kansas City that Perman Hender- 
 son and Miss Sarah Trapp were united in mar- 
 riage. Mrs. Henderson was born in Tennessee 
 August 27, 1805. Until 1852 the young people 
 resided in Missouri, when they outfitted for the 
 west; but before they had gone very far they 
 deemed it wise to retrace their steps on account 
 of the cholera scourge that broke out at that 
 time. In the spring of the following year they 
 resumed the journey, and by means of ox- 
 teams made the trip in five months, experiencing 
 no serious difficulty with the Indians. About one 
 mile from Wren and twelve miles from Cor- 
 vallis, in Benton county, they took up a dona- 
 tion claim on which they resided about four 
 years, and then bought a tract three hundred and 
 twenty acres in extent, located three and one- 
 half miles south of Philomath, a part of which 
 is now owned and occupied by his son James. 
 The father made all the improvements to be 
 seen upon the place at the time he lived upon it, 
 and in addition owned other property, at one 
 time being the possessor of thirteen hundred 
 acres in this vicinity. The parental family orig- 
 inally comprised thirteen children, but with the 
 exception of five all are deceased. Martin re- 
 sides in Californa ; W. J. lives near Wren ; L. M. 
 resides eight miles southwest of Philomath ; 
 Keziah is the wife of W. S. Gibbs, and resides 
 in Linn county, and James is the youngest of 
 the family. The father was a very public-spir- 
 ited man, popular with all who knew him and 
 very successful in all his busness undertakings. 
 He served two terms as county commissioner, 
 and in politics was a stanch Democrat. In the 
 work of the Christian Church he took a keen 
 and active interest, and during his membership 
 of about sixty-five years in that denomination took 
 a part in all its avenues of usefulness. He lived 
 to reach the unusual age of ninety-three years, 
 and his wife died when over eighty-two years of 
 age. 
 
 When his parents crossed the plains to Oregon 
 James was a child only four years old, so that 
 he recalls little or nothing of his birthplace. His 
 education was received in the district schools 
 and in the State Agricultural College at Cor- 
 vallis, he in the meantime making his home on 
 the parental farm. His marriage united him 
 with Miss Emma Frances Baumgartner, a na- 
 tive of Oregon, the young people at once settling 
 on their present homestead. Their neat two- 
 story frame dwelling is modern in every respect 
 and is a credit to the owner, as well as to the lo- 
 cality. Five children blessed the marriage of 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, all of whom are at 
 home, whose names are as follows : Earl B., 
 Mary F., Esther P., Catherine L. and Grace W. 
 Politically Mr. Henderson takes an active in- 
 terest in matters which affect the Democratic 
 party, and always votes for its candidates. As 
 was his father, he is a member of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 CHARLES P. McCORMICK. The McCor- 
 mick farm located three and one-half miles 
 northwest of Woodburn, Marion county, has 
 attained about the highest state of productiveness 
 known to modern agricultural science. With its 
 pioneer development is associated the name of 
 one of the most potential of the early settlers 
 of Oregon — Mathew McCormick — whose land 
 holdings have steadily increased to the posses- 
 sion of six hundred and forty acres, and whose 
 name is honored and respected wherever it is 
 known. For many years assisting in the man- 
 agement of the farm, his son, Charles P. Mc- 
 Cormick, has been in almost entire control since 
 1897, and may be said to have inaugurated the 
 splendid enterprise of the latter day which has 
 helped to establish the farming and stock-raising 
 prestige of the county and the Willamette val- 
 lev. Mathew McCormick was born in County 
 Meath, Ireland, December 12, 1825, and was 
 seven years of age when his family boarded a 
 sailing vessel for America. Arriving in Genesee 
 county, N. Y., his father, Patrick McCormick, 
 bought a farm. Mathew McCormick spent his 
 youth on this farm with his brother, John. 
 There was need for the boys in the family to 
 embark upon self-supporting careers as soon as 
 their physical and mental powers were developed. 
 At the age of fifteen Mathew McCormick went 
 to Rochester, N. Y., and was apprenticed to a 
 carriage-maker, and while thus employed was 
 interrupted in his work by the demand for his 
 services in the Mexican war. In 1844 ne enlisted 
 in the Fourth United States Infantry. At the 
 battle of Monterey, he was wounded above the 
 left knee while charging to take a battery, and 
 was laid up for some time in a hospital. He was 
 afterward sent on a furlough to New Orleans, 
 where he was discharged from the service. 
 Going to St. Louis, Mo., he became a member 
 of the police force, on which he served for a 
 year. For another year he was engaged in 
 blacksmithing and wagon-manufacturing, and in 
 the meantime was looking about for a permanent 
 outlet for his ambitions. Hearing about the 
 men who were seeking new homes in the far 
 west, he determined to cast his lines with these 
 heroic and daring investigators. Outfitting with 
 five yoke of oxen to a wagon, he set forth 
 upon his mission as a miner and fortune-hunter. 
 
WILLIAM J. HUMPHREYS 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1)41 
 
 After six months of varying adventures, he 
 reached California in October, 1849, an d pros- 
 pected and mined on the Feather river until 
 late that year, in the meantime finding living 
 very expensive, being compelled at times to pay 
 $1.25 per pound for flour. 
 
 Upon the conclusion of his mining experi- 
 ences, Mr. McCormick embarked on a schooner 
 for Portland, and was three weeks on the jour- 
 ney, encountering severe storms on the way. 
 Arriving at Milwaukee, Ore., he remained there 
 for some time, but finally decided to settle in 
 Marion county. His first location was on French 
 Prairie. In the fall of 1850 he settled on his 
 present farm of six hundred and forty acres, 
 known as the La Rock donation claim. Incredi- 
 ble as it may seem, he purchased this entire pro- 
 perty for $1,000. At the time there were but 
 a few acres cleared, and a log cabin had been 
 erected. With this small encouragement he set 
 about to make himself and his family comfort- 
 able, and in time his labors were rewarded with 
 abundant harvests and fine cattle. 
 
 In 1846 Mr. McCormick married Johannah 
 Clancey, and of the seven children born to this 
 couple but two survive — John and Charles — 
 both of whom are engaged in farming in Marion 
 county. Mr. McCormick is a Democrat in poli- 
 tics and in religion is a member of the Roman 
 Catholic Church. For about twelve years he 
 served as school director. He is a man of sterl- 
 ing worth, and the value of his services in behalf 
 of the upbuilding of his adopted state can 
 hardly be estimated, nor can it be in the cases 
 of any of the noble and self-sacrificing men who 
 came in the early days to conquer the wilderness. 
 
 Charles P. McCormick, manager of the pater- 
 nal farm, was born within speaking distance of 
 his present home March 25, 1857, and has always 
 resided upon the farm. He was educated in the 
 public schools and in St. Lawrence. College, 
 Montreal, Canada, and at an early age was 
 taught to assist in all departments of farm work. 
 Together father and son operated the broad ex- 
 panse of fertile land until 1897, in which year 
 the son assumed complete charge, and is now 
 responsible for the success of the enterprise. 
 Beginning with 1890, hop-raising was inaugur- 
 ated with the planting of thirteen acres in that 
 plant. This area has since been continually 
 enlarged, until at the present time he has sixty- 
 five acres under this product. In 1902 the yield 
 from his vines was seventy-five thousand pounds. 
 
 On October 24, 1888,' Mr. McCormick was 
 united in marriage with Mary Van Wessenhove, 
 daughter of Frank and Ellen (Coyle) Van Wes- 
 senhove, of which union seven children have been 
 born, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 John T., Josephine C, Caroline E., Zeta A., 
 Rosa, Nellie, and Grace Irene. 
 
 Like his father, Mr. McCormick is a Democrat 
 in politics, and in religion a Roman Catholic. 
 He is a man of enterprise and energy, is practical 
 and progressive, and his farm is one of the most 
 neat and well cultivated in Marion county. He 
 is highly respected by those who know him, 
 for he has always taken an active interest in 
 those affairs tending toward the promotion of 
 the best interests of his community, and makes 
 good fellowship one of the cardinal principles 
 of his dailv life. 
 
 WILLIAM J. HUMPHREYS. The Hum- 
 phreys brothers, both of whom are large land 
 owners and very successful farmers, stock-raisers 
 and miners, are men of solid worth, and have 
 materially contributed to the well being of Marion 
 county. William J., the oldest in a family of 
 eleven children, five sons and six daughters, was 
 born in Monroe county, Tenn., December 4, 
 1828, a son of Thomas M. and Jane (Harrison) 
 Humphreys, farmers for many years in Tennes- 
 see. 
 
 On the Tennessee farm Mr. Humphreys re- 
 ceived a substantial home training, and his edu- 
 cational opportunities were those of the early sub- 
 scription schools of his district. In his neigh- 
 borhood was a family by the name of Wilson, 
 who had two interesting daughters, with one of 
 whom Mr. Humphreys became much impressed, 
 his brother, John P., entertaining an equal re- 
 gard for the other sister. A double wedding, 
 celebrated July 21, 1852, united the four hopeful 
 young people who had shared each other's joys 
 and sorrows since earliest childhood, and the 
 following September, the two brothers and their 
 wives, Mr. Humphreys, Sr., and his family, be- 
 sides others from the same neighborhood, started 
 overland for Missouri, where they spent the win- 
 ter. The following spring they outfitted for 
 crossing the plains, and without any particular 
 misfortunes succeeded in reaching their destina- 
 tion in Oregon, having lived well on the way, 
 game and fish contributing towards a varied and 
 by no means undesirable diet. Mr. Humphreys 
 located in the Waldo Hills, and in the fall of 
 1854 bought the right to one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land of John Greenstreet, the property 
 having a little log house of one room ready for 
 occupancy. Otherwise there were no improve- 
 ments on the place, and the new owner at once 
 began to clear his land and prepare the way for 
 planting. This farm, comprising three hundred 
 and seventy acres, is one of the best in the county, 
 and the visitor is impressed with the innumerable 
 evidences of neatness, thrift and practical man- 
 agement. 
 
 In the spring of 1854 Mr. Humphreys bought 
 a claim in Jackson county. Ore., and operated it 
 
942 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for several months. Since then, however, he 
 has been interested in mining from time to time, 
 at present owning a number of valuable claims. 
 Though living a very busy life, he has invariably 
 evinced a keen interest in general affairs in 
 Marion county, and as a stanch upholder of 
 the Republican party has filled local positions of 
 trust, though he has never aspired to political 
 offices. He is identified with the Grange, and 
 is a member of and liberal contributor towards, 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the large 
 family of children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hum- 
 phreys, Margaret is deceased; John M. lives 
 near Heppner, Ore. ; Augustus lives in Portland ; 
 Texanna B. is the wife of Joseph Rogers, of 
 Portland; Sarah J. is the wife of Grant Ashby, 
 -of Antelope, Ore. ; Mary L. is the wife of J. B. 
 Ashby, of East Salem ; William lives in East 
 Salem ; the next child, a son, died in infancy ; 
 Carrie P. is the wife of C. L. Rogers, of Rose- 
 dale, Marion county, Ore. ; Minnie C. died at the 
 age of eleven years ; and Harrison H. is man- 
 aging his father's farm. Mr. Humphreys is suc- 
 cessful and popular in his neighborhood, and has 
 made many warm friends during the years of 
 his residence in the northwest. He is a man of 
 marked integrity of character, has given frequent 
 evidence of the possession of a high public spirit, 
 and is always ready to assist in the promotion of 
 enterprises tending to advance the best inter- 
 ests of the county. 
 
 HON. TIMOTHY WOODBRIDGE DAV- 
 ENPORT. The family which in the present 
 generation claims Homer C. Davenport, the fa- 
 mous cartoonist, as one of its most gifted rep- 
 resentatives, is one which has ever treasured high 
 ideals, and numbers among its members, both in 
 the present and past generations, eminent 
 scholars, litterateurs, artists, sculptors, musicians 
 and scientists — all of whom have striven to at- 
 tain the greatest heights in their chosen fields 
 of endeavor. Creditably maintaining the prece- 
 dent long since established by his family is the 
 Hon. Timothy Woodbridge Davenport, one of 
 the most erudite scholars of the west, a prolific 
 writer on educational and scientific topics, phy- 
 sician, lawyer, ex-member of the state legislature, 
 surveyor and stockman. 
 
 Mr. Davenport was born on a farm in Colum- 
 bia county, N. Y., July 30, 1826, a son of Dr. 
 Benjamin Davenport, a grandson of Jonathan 
 Davenport, a great-grandson of Benjamin Daven- 
 port, and great-great-grandson of Thomas Dav- 
 enport. The latter, the founder of the family in 
 America, emigrated from England prior to 1640, 
 locating at Dorchester, Mass. His son, Benja- 
 min, was born in Boston, Mass. Jonathan Dav- 
 enport, of the third generation, was born in 
 
 Rhode Island, and eventually became a farmer of 
 Columbia county, N. Y. His death occurred at 
 Spencertown, in that county. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin Davenport, great-great-grand- 
 son of the founder of the family and the father 
 of the subject of this review, was born on a farm 
 in Columbia county, N. Y., June 24, 1799. He 
 was educated in the Pittsfield Medical College, at 
 Pittsfield, Mass., from which he was graduated 
 either in 1824 or 1826. In 183 1 he engaged in 
 the practice of medicine in Lucerne county, Pa., 
 removed to Union county, Ohio, in 1836, and ul- 
 timately located in Champaign county, continu- 
 ing his professional labors in both localities. In 
 1850 he went to Newark, Mo., and in the spring 
 of 185 1 outfitted for the journey across the plains. 
 Arriving in Oregon in the fall of that year, 
 he settled upon a donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres in the Waldo Hills, Marion 
 county, where his death occurred in February, 
 1857, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He 
 married Sarah R. Gott, a native of Columbia 
 county, N. Y., where she was born in 1803. Her 
 father, Story Gott, was born in New York state, 
 and held a commission in a New York regiment 
 during the Revolutionary war, in which he 
 served with distinction. He was an extensive 
 land-owner and cattle trader, amassing great 
 wealth through this occupation. In keeping with 
 a genial and hospitable nature, he spent his 
 money lavishly, supplying his table from a well 
 filled wine cellar and a larder which indicated his 
 fastidious and epicurean tastes. He lived to an 
 advanced age, his death occurring in Columbia 
 county in 1842. He was possessed of an im- 
 pressive personality, and he commanded great 
 popular attention during the many years of his 
 active life. 
 
 Four sons and one daughter were born to Dr. 
 Benjamin Davenport and his wife, of whom Hon. 
 Timothy Woodbridge Davenport is the eldest. 
 The remaining members of the family were : 
 John C, of Aberdeen, Wash. ; Joseph W., de- 
 ceased ; Lucinda, wife of Judge Orange Jacobs, 
 of Seattle; Benjamin Franklin, who resides on 
 a part of the donation claim in the Waldo Hills. 
 
 Dr. Davenport took an active interest in pol- 
 itics, and in his younger days was an ardent 
 Abolitionist. During his residence in Ohio, his 
 home was one of the stations of the famous 
 "undergrotind railway," and he assisted many 
 slaves to freedom. Upon the organization of the 
 Republican party in 1856 he identified himself 
 with that body, and was one of five who attended 
 the first meeting for its organization in Marion 
 county. Of profound wisdom and excellent 
 judgment, combined with unimpeachable integ- 
 rity and a nobility of character which made him 
 a conspicuous figure wherever he lived, he was 
 also firm, quick to arrive at a decision, and gen- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 943 
 
 erally right beyond question. Through the pos- 
 session of these marked characteristics, he left 
 the stamp of his individuality upon the com- 
 munity. He was also gifted as an artist and 
 musician. It is not to be marvelled at that the 
 many talents he possessed have been inherited by 
 representatives of the family in later generations, 
 with their broader opportunities for study and 
 contact with the world in a more cosmopolitan 
 
 a 8 e - 
 
 After completing his elementary studies in 
 
 the public schools, the Hon. Timothy Wood- 
 bridge Davenport was graduated from the acad- 
 emy at Woodstock, Ohio, and attended a course 
 of medical lectures at the Starling Medical In- 
 stitute, at Columbus, Ohio. From the fall of 1846 
 until the spring of 1847 ne was engaged as an 
 instructor in Wilson's Academy at Woodstock, 
 Ohio, after which he devoted another year to 
 study in the Starling Medical Institute. In the fall 
 of 1848 he returned to Ohio, and engaged in the 
 practice of his profession at Woodstock. In 1850 
 he removed with his parents to Missouri, and in 
 185 1 crossed the plains with the rest of the 
 family, locating on a tract of three hundred and 
 twenty acres adjoining that taken up by his 
 father, which he had purchased. There he en- 
 gaged in farming and surveying. It was not 
 long before he became interested in the political 
 undertakings of his neighborhood, and in 1864 
 was elected county surveyor, and was re-elected 
 in 1866, filling the office for four years. In 1868 
 he was elected representative to die state legis- 
 lature, was re-elected in 1870, and in 1882 was 
 elected to the state senate. In 1895 Governor 
 Lord appointed him state land agent, and he oc- 
 cupied that office four years. 
 
 In Marion county, November 17, 1854, Mr. 
 Davenport was .united in marriage with Flora 
 Geer, a native of Madison county, Ohio, and a 
 daughter of Ralph C. Geer. She was a cousin 
 of the Hon. T. T. Geer, formerly governor of 
 Oregon. Mrs. Davenport was an unusually 
 gifted woman, an artist of more than local re- 
 nown, and possessed of rare histrionic ability. 
 She died of smallpox November 20, 1870. She 
 became the mother of four children, of whom 
 Olive died at the age of four years ; John died 
 in infancy; Orla is the wife of John D. Renshaw, 
 a farmer and rancher on the Pend d'Oreille 
 river, and Homer C, the cartoonist, is a resident 
 of New York. (A more extended sketch of 
 the latter appears elsewhere in this work.) 
 
 October 1, 1872, Mr. Davenport married Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Wisner, a native of Hancock county, 
 111., and a daughter of John W. Gilmour. Her 
 father was born in Kentucky, September 13, 
 1813, and came to Oregon in 1851, locating on a 
 ranch in Linn county. For several years he has 
 resided for a portion of the time in Silverton, 
 
 but spends considerable of his time with his 
 children. Five children were born of this mar- 
 riage. Of these, Timothy Clyde is deceased; 
 Adda is a sculptor and musician; Alice is also 
 a sculptor and musician, and assistant manager 
 of the Barnard Concert Tour Bureau, of San 
 Francisco, Cal. ; Georgia is a well known and 
 talented contralto soloist; and Mary Delle is a 
 talented young musician. 
 
 Throughout his life Mr. Davenport has been 
 a profound student, and it is doubtful if any man 
 on the entire Pacific coast has better trained men- 
 tal faculties or a more comprehensive knowl- 
 edge. His erudition is recognized by scholars 
 and educational institutions in the east, and he 
 is frequently consulted on those subjects pertain- 
 ing to the foundation of modern knowledge, es- 
 pecially in regard to the law, mathematics and 
 medicine, all of which sciences he has mastered. 
 He has been a frequent contributor to leading 
 periodicals published in the east, and has pre- 
 pared monographs on subjects pertaining to med- 
 ical science. A recent contribution which has 
 evoked widespread comment was an article on 
 " An Object Lesson in Paternalism," published 
 in the March number of the Oregon Historical 
 Quarterly. 
 
 Thus is recorded, in outline, those events in 
 the life of Timothy Woodbridge Davenport which 
 illustrate his identification with the world of let- 
 ters, of science, and of politics. It is seldom that 
 a man of such strong mentality and splendid 
 equipments is to be found spending his life amid 
 pastoral scenes; but the environments of Mr. 
 Davenport have not adversely affected his useful- 
 ness to the world, which, for many years, has 
 benefited by his published writings and his cor- 
 respondence with other brilliant leaders in the 
 advanced thought of the day. The example he 
 has set for his children has been a magnificent 
 one, and they have been inspired to the utmost 
 development of their inherent talents. An il- 
 lustration of this faculty of Mr. Davenport is 
 the following tribute to his gifted son, Homer 
 Davenport, which was written by James Mon- 
 tague : 
 
 "Homer Davenport, of all successful Ameri- 
 cans, is the least puffed up by his achievements. 
 He is entitled to no credit whatever, he says ; 
 it all belongs to his father. And out on the 
 cartoonist's remarkable menagerie-farm, at 
 Morris Plains, N. J., may be seen a quiet old 
 gentleman, feeding the flocks or watching the 
 many birds that enliven the landscape, who is 
 not at all willing to shoulder the glory thus 
 thrust upon him, but asserts with equal positive- 
 ness, that the boy has grown from a lank coun- 
 try youth to a world-famous cartoonist, unaided 
 by any parental word or hand. Yet, whatever 
 may have been the influence of the older Daven- 
 
944 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 port upon the younger, there is just one man in 
 all the world who thoroughly understands the 
 mixture of high purpose and utter irresponsibil- 
 ity which make up the character of Homer 
 Davenport, and that one man is his father. From 
 babyhood to boyhood, on up through an un- 
 promising youth to a remarkable manhood he has 
 followed the career of this nature lover, and has 
 noted, as if with a register, every step in his de- 
 velopment. Fond, but unbiased, he has dis- 
 covered how and why his son succeeded, and 
 what he has written here will be worth while 
 not only to such youth as aspire to fill four col- 
 umns on the first page of the great dailies with 
 masterpieces of satire that shall make one-half 
 of the world laugh while the other half squirms, 
 but to every boy who is honestly and solidly in- 
 terested in making something of himself." 
 
 REUBEN GANT. A pioneer of pioneers is 
 Reuben Gant, one of the j oiliest of the daring 
 venturers who left peaceful homes in the east and 
 ventured, across the trackless plains in 1845. R 
 is doubtful if in the length and breath of this 
 state there may be found one whose memory is 
 so stored with incident, so interestingly reminis- 
 cent of the days when law and order were as yet 
 unestablished, and when all was new and at the 
 disposal of whomsoever might arrive with his 
 humble ox-teams and limited possessions. Dur- 
 ing the intervening years Mr. Gant has taken 
 his place enthusiastically and helpfully, all the 
 while smoothing the way of his friends with his 
 optimistic and genial views, with his jest and 
 merry-making, and his encouragement which 
 follows in the wake of all who make the best of 
 their opportunities, however meager and diffi- 
 cult. 
 
 May 16, 1818, Mr. Gant was born in Franklin 
 county, Ind., in which state and county his pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Tyrra, had settled upon re- 
 moval from his native state of North Carolina. 
 In Franklin county was reared Cador Gant, who 
 was born in North Carolina, and came with his 
 parents overland to Indiana. About 1820 he re- 
 moved to Bartholomew county, Ind., bought a 
 farm and improved it, and there died in 1844. 
 He was a Democrat in politics, but was never 
 active or an office-seeker. Through his marriage 
 with Katherine Jones, also a native of North 
 Carolina, he became connected with Revolution- 
 ary stock, for Samuel Jones, the grandfather of 
 Mrs. Gant, came from England long before the 
 Revolution, and participated in the effort to es- 
 tablish independence for the colonies. Tyrra 
 Gant was the parent of twelve children, eight 
 sons and four daughters, of whom Reuben is the 
 second child. 
 
 In a little log school-house, with puncheon 
 
 floors and benches, Reuben Gant learned the rule 
 of three, and incidentally was included in the 
 discipline which figured conspicuously in the 
 early school teachers' methods of imparting in- 
 formation. With these pioneer conditions went 
 also the fever and ague, prevalent in low lands, 
 and superinduced by inefficient drainage. This 
 distressing ailment afflicted Reuben to such an ex- 
 tent, that in 1840 he removed to Missouri, and 
 in the vicinity of Springfield hunted and trapped 
 for a few years. The country thereabouts was 
 wild and undeveloped, and the free spirit of the 
 youth found great pleasure in thus exposing him- 
 self to danger, and bringing down the game 
 which abounded in that section. While out with 
 his gun he was in a position to hear a great deal 
 about the west, and having nothing to hold him 
 in any one place, he determined to avail him- 
 self of the opportunities as yet but imperfectly 
 understood on the coast. April 17, 1845, he 
 cracked his whip over the backs of well fed and 
 sleek oxen, and slowly started on a journey which 
 in those days meant everything or nothing to the 
 adventurer. His well loaded wagon was the 
 first to cross the Cascade mountains into the 
 Willamette valley, a feat accomplished at the ex- 
 piration of about eight months, he arriving at 
 his destination November 17, 1845. I n July, 
 1846, he arrived in Oregon City, having come 
 via the Mount Hood route. Locating in Yamhill 
 county near Bellevue, he took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres, January 8, 1848, 
 and his farm, with its innumerable reminders of 
 struggle, privation, loneliness, and hard work, 
 is still in his possession. He built a small log 
 cabin, and made a home for himself and family. 
 Thus he advanced step by step, interesting him- 
 self in the progress of the neighbors who began 
 to settle at rather remote distances, all the while 
 keeping up his reputation as a whole-souled, hon- 
 est and royally jolly companion, the casual meet- 
 ing with whom put every one in a comfortable 
 frame of mind. 
 
 It is a well known fact that many romances 
 began and developed on the vast expanse of the 
 plains, the long days, the slow-moving train, and 
 the opportunities for social intercourse in the 
 camp being ideal for the framing of united for- 
 tunes. Reuben Gant drove the oxen of one 
 Carmi Goodrich, who was born in the east, and 
 who located on a claim near Dayton, Ore. Mr. 
 Gant and Mr. Goodrich became very warm 
 friends, and sat many a night talking over the 
 camp fires. Incidentally the daughter of Mr. 
 Goodrich, a bright-eyed girl called Nancy, be- 
 came an earnest participant in these communings, 
 and so impressed was Mr. Gant with her woman- 
 ly and fine qualities of mind and heart, that the 
 couple were married in Yamhill county. Mrs. 
 Gant did not live long- enough to rear her entire 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 915 
 
 family, for she died when only thirty-eight years 
 of age, leaving seven of her eight children to the 
 care o\ her husband. These were John Wesley, 
 who makes his home on the old farm; Martha is 
 the wife of W. J. Sargeant, merchant and post- 
 master of Bcllevue; Carmi, deceased; Ithigena, 
 now the wife of George Sawyer of Idaho; Sarah 
 lane, the wife of Ben Mitchell of Washington; 
 Mary Ellen, the wife of John Hinkle of East 
 Portland, and engaged in the real estate business ; 
 Albert, deceased in infancy ; and Henry, living 
 in Idaho. For a second wife Mr. Gant married 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Speedie) Finlayson, born in 
 Perthshire. Scotland, and who came to the United 
 States with her brother in 1884, locating in For- 
 est Grove. The father of Mrs. Gant, Peter 
 Speedie, was born in Scotland, was reared there, 
 and married and died in his native land. In 
 politics Mr. Gant is a Prohibitionist. He is a 
 liberal-minded, humane, and very intelligent 
 pioneer, brim full of good nature, and bearing 
 malice towards none. He has lived retired in 
 Philomath since 1892, for he found that good 
 men were scarce to work his farm, and so rented 
 his land to avoid all further responsibility. He 
 is one of the familiar figures on the streets of the 
 town, and he always has something genial and 
 witty to say to any who stop to speak with him. 
 
 WILTON LEROY SIMERAL. March 22, 
 1896, Wilton Leroy Simeral was appointed stew- 
 ard and head farmer of the Oregon State Reform 
 School by Governor Lord, and with the exception 
 of a nine-months leave of absence, he has since 
 held this large responsibility. In the estimation 
 of those who are privileged to witness the many 
 improvements inaugurated by the present stew- 
 ard, no better man could have been found for the 
 position, his many years of association with va- 
 rious lines of activity in the west having fitted 
 him for most tactful and satisfactory dealings 
 with trustees and others interested in state insti- 
 tutions. There are six hundred acres in the 
 school farm, all of which land is under his direct 
 supervision, and the operation of which involves 
 a large amount of calculation and good business 
 judgment. He also has charge of the purchasing 
 of the cattle and other stock. 
 
 The many claims to consideration acknowl- 
 edged by all who know him, are by no means 
 based solely upon his good work with the reform 
 school, for Mr. Simeral has been a resident of 
 Oregon since 1865. He was born near Maquo- 
 keta, Jackson county, Iowa, March 9, 1855, the 
 son of John H.. a veterinary surgeon, and the 
 grandson of another follower of the same calling. 
 The father came of German ancestry, and was 
 born in Indiana, where he was there reared to 
 manhood, removing thence to Iowa, In 1864 he 
 
 outfitted with wagons, provisions and horse teams 
 and crossed the plains, settling near Boise City, 
 Idaho, soon after removing to Pendleton, Ore., 
 then a small hamlet containing a hotel and black- 
 smith shop. In September of 1865 he came to 
 Marion county by team, locating near Salem for 
 two years, and then moved upon leased land in 
 the Waldo Hills. In 1871 he bought three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of timber land in Clacka- 
 mas county, which he occupied for two years, 
 when he sold that and bought one hundred and 
 twenty acres near Silverton, where he lived until 
 1890. Some months later he died in Macleay, at 
 the age of sixty-six years, the date of his death 
 being December 21, 1891. He is survived by his 
 wife, who was in maidenhood Elmira E. Crane, 
 and who was born in New York, October 28, 
 1832. W. L. is the oldest of a family of five chil- 
 dren, the second oldest of whom is A. Frank, a 
 boot and shoe merchant at Silverton ; he married 
 Elsie Riches, and they have six chidren : Vernie, 
 Ada, Wayne, Frank, Manley and Elsie. Carrie 
 is the wife of H. S. Hicks, of Silverton, their one 
 daughter being Florence. Newell L. died in 
 1864, at the age of three and a half ) r ears ; and 
 Clarence John is a traveling inspector for the San 
 Francisco machine firm of Baker & Hamilton ; 
 he married Ariadne Cornelius, and they have one 
 son, Claire, and make their home in Salem. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one years, W. L. Simeral 
 started out into the world to make his own way, 
 and was married November 29, 1876, Emma 
 Catherine Anderson becoming his wife. She was 
 the daughter of John Franklin and Lucinda 
 (Jarvis) Anderson, the father being a farmer on 
 Howell Prairie, and justly famed 'for his neat, 
 practical methods in the pursuit of his agricul- 
 tural labors. He also served as county commis- 
 sioner in Marion county. Of the other children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson we mention the fol- 
 lowing: Solomon F., a successful farmer in the 
 Waldo Hills, married Amanda Stormer, by whom 
 he has one son, Carl; George S., engaged in farm- 
 ing on his father's place, married Elizabeth Lim- 
 beck, and they have one daughter, Ruth ; Eliza- 
 beth M. became the wife of Robert Florer, who 
 is located near Des Moines, Iowa, their five chil- 
 dren being as follows : Jennie, Margery, Max- 
 well, Maurice and Dorothy. Carrie is the wife of 
 Frank Bowers, the cartoonist, living in Indian- 
 apolis, Ind. Both parents are still living, and 
 make their home on Howell Prairie, the father 
 being sixty-nine and the mother seventy-one years 
 of age. For a year after his marriage Mr. Sime- 
 ral rented the Hubbard farm, four miles from 
 Salem, with his father, then removed to Howell 
 Prairie, and with his father-in-law farmed one 
 vear, and then moved three miles southeast of 
 Turner and rented a farm of three hundred and 
 twentv acres of W. C. Morris. After six vears 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of successful management of this large property 
 he felt justified in branching out into land owner- 
 ship, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres 
 in the Waldo Hills, ten miles east of Salem. In 
 1899 he removed with his family to the Governor 
 Geer farm, and now owns in all two hundred and 
 five acres of land. An aid to Mr. Simeral in his 
 farming and stock-raising enterprises has been 
 his knowledge of veterinary surgery, learned 
 from, his father and grandfather, and which he 
 has had occasion to use extensively since engag- 
 ing in independent farming. He was appointed 
 county stock inspector, serving for nine years, 
 and was associated for some time as local inspec- 
 tor with State Veterinary Surgeon James Whit- 
 comb. This was carried on in connection with 
 general farming, and was not abandoned until the 
 appointment to his present position with the re- 
 form school. For nine years he served as chief 
 marshal of the Oregon State Fair. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. Simeral has never 
 aspired to office, though solicited many times by 
 his friends. Fraternally, he is a member of Pearl 
 Lodge No. 66, A. F. & A. M. ; Macleay Lodge 
 No. 50, A. O. U. W. ; Degree of Honor No. 84 ; 
 charter member of Salem Camp, M. W. A. ; Capi- 
 tal City Lodge No. 34, I. O. L., and member of 
 the Macleay Grange. Four children have been 
 born into the Simeral home : Leroy J., who was 
 educated at the Oregon Agricultural College, 
 married Linnie English, resides in Macleay, and 
 is rural mail carrier ; Raymond W., a page in the 
 state senate in 1894, when twelve years old, and 
 is now operating the home farm ; George F., who 
 graduated from District No. 100, of the public 
 schools, at the age of sixteen years ; and Myrtle 
 C, at home. The two older sons are members of 
 Macleay Lodge No. 50, A. O. U. W., in which 
 Raymond acts as recorder, and Mrs. Simeral is a 
 member of the Degree of Honor and has passed 
 all the chairs of the same. George is also a mem- 
 ber of the Degree of Honor and holds the position 
 of recorder. Mr. Simeral is capable and re- 
 sourceful, and keeps abreast of the times on agri- 
 culture and general business. He is upright and 
 progressive, and in his relations with his subordi- 
 nates maintains the first principles of considera- 
 tion, tact and humanity. 
 
 HENRY T. BRISTOW. The birth of 
 Henry T. Bristow occurred September 13, 
 1852, in Macon county, Mo., he being a son 
 of Wesley O. and Sarah (Cherry) Bristow, 
 natives respectively of Virginia and Illinois, 
 the former born April 15, 1815. The father's 
 family, who were of English descent moved 
 from the Old Dominion when their son was 
 a mere youth and settled in Illinois in the early 
 days of that state's history. It was while re- 
 
 siding there that he met and married the future 
 sharer of his joys and sorrows, Sarah Cherry. 
 Some years after their marriage, in 1839, they 
 removed to Missouri, which was their home 
 thenceforth until their death, Mr. Bristow pass- 
 ing away when seventy-two years of age, and 
 his wife when comparatively a young woman, 
 at the age of forty-one. 
 
 Of the twelve children who comprised the 
 parental family, Henry T. Bristow was the 
 eleventh in order of birth. His earliest knowl- 
 edge of books was obtained in the district 
 schools in the vicinity of his home in Macon 
 county, Mo., and subsequently it was his good 
 fortune to attend the state normal at Kirks- 
 ville, Adair county, Mo. Upon graduating 
 from the latter institution he began teaching 
 school, and for the following ten years was 
 engaged in this vocation, a portion of the time 
 in Missouri and the remainder in Oregon. It 
 was in 1874 that he became identified with this 
 growing state in the west, settlement being 
 made in Lane county. There in 1884 he was 
 united in marriage with Joycy Laird, a native 
 of that county, and there the young people 
 made their home for five years, or until 1889, 
 when they located in Polk county. His identi- 
 fication with Benton county dates from the 
 year 1890,. when he purchased his present farm 
 of five hundred and sixty acres, conveniently 
 located one and one-half miles west of 
 Bellfountain. Many improvements have been 
 made since the property came into Mr. 
 Bristow's possession, and he now has 
 one hundred acres planted to prunes, and fifty 
 acres to apples and pears. In order to properly 
 prepare the fruit for the market Mr. .Bristow 
 has erected a large modern drying house, 
 equipped with all the latest improvements and 
 devices that can be utilized in the business. 
 
 To the marriage of Henry T. and Joycy 
 (Laird) Bristow four children were born, and 
 all of them are at home with their parents, their 
 names being as follows : Gretta E., Floyd O., 
 Hazel D. and Dorothy R. Although Mr. Bris- 
 tow has resided here but a comparatively short 
 time, the improvements he has caused to be 
 made and the regard in which he is held by his 
 fellow-citizens might represent a much longer 
 residence. In addition to his fine fruit ranch 
 he also raises stock quite extensively, and from 
 this branch alone realizes a good income. 
 
 Mr. Bristow and his family are identified 
 with the Church of Christ, and are ever to be 
 found on the side of all measures that have for 
 their object the betterment of mankind. Fra- 
 ternally he himself is identified with the Fra- 
 ternal Union of America, and in politics is a 
 stanch believer in the principles laid down by 
 the Republican party. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 FRANK BUSKEY. The great fertility of 
 Marion county has furnished a competence to 
 Frank Buskey, owner of a farm of three hun- 
 dred and eight acres, about two hundred of 
 which are under cultivation. The watering 
 facilities could hardly be excelled, and the im- 
 provements are of the most modern kind 
 known to agriculturists in the northwest. 
 S lock-raising, general farming and hop-grow- 
 ing represent the three distinct departments of 
 activity on the farm, seventeen acres being 
 under hops. 
 
 Of French-Canadian ancestry, Mr. Buskey 
 was born in Michigan, and at a very early age 
 was thrown on his own resources. In 1859 
 he had the opportunity to come to Oregon with 
 a Samuel Gouley, and in Marion county 
 worked on a farm for Mathias Gouley until 
 1861. Hoping to find a short road to fortune, 
 Mr. Buskey went to Idaho in 1861, and after 
 two seasons of experience as a miner, re- 
 turned to Oregon, and was glad of a position 
 on a farm. With the money thus earned he 
 bought some mining claims near Boise, Idaho, 
 and this time was more fortunate, making con- 
 siderable money. His total experience as a 
 miner covers a space of six years. 
 
 In Marion county, Ore., he married, in 1871, 
 Elizabeth Bauer, who was born in Missouri 
 in 1848, and came with her parents to Marion 
 county, Ore. Her father, Andrew Bauer, was 
 born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1810, and came 
 to America with his wife in 1837, settling in 
 Indiana. Later he removed to Missouri, and 
 from there came to Oregon over the plains, six 
 months being consumed in reaching The 
 Dalles. From there he came to Portland in a 
 skiff, and thence to Champoeg, arriving in the 
 latter town with a wife, three children and five 
 dollars in money. Fortunately he soon found 
 friends, for he was allowed to live in a small 
 house on the Kennedy farm, but the. same year 
 made arrangements to buy the right to a do- 
 nation claim of two hundred and forty acres. 
 Soon after he started a blacksmith shop on his 
 place. In the spring of 1849 he went to Sutter 
 Mills, Cal., where he mined with considerable 
 success until fall. Returning, he joined his wife 
 on their place, and made that his home until 
 his death in 1884. For many years he con- 
 ducted his little shop, and was well known in 
 his neighborhood as a skilled workman and 
 honorable man. His last years were compara- 
 tively lonely for his wife died in 1869, having 
 reared nine children, three of whom are living, 
 these are Mrs. Buskey; Fred, who is a resi- 
 dent of Woodburn ; and Katie, the wife of Wil- 
 liam Chambers, of Portland. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Buskey rented Mr. 
 Bauer's farm until the death of the latter, and 
 
 he then purchased the right of the other heirs, 
 thus owning the entire farm. Four children 
 have been born to himself and wife, of whom 
 Mary E. is a teacher; Elsie was educated in St. 
 Paul convent ; Theresa was educated at Mount 
 Angel Convent ; and Frank is a graduate of the 
 Mount Angel College. Mr. Buskey is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and his wife and children 
 are members of the Catholic Church. He is in- 
 dustrious and prosperous, and in his commun- 
 ity is esteemed for his thrift and success. He 
 is entirely a self-made man, having been 
 thrown upon his own resources in his youth 
 by the death of his father. 
 
 BARNEY KENNEDY. Although so many 
 years have elapsed since the death of Barney 
 Kennedy, December 28, 1865, there are many 
 old settlers in Marion county who recall this 
 earnest pioneer, who crossed the plains in 
 1847, bringing with him a rich Irish nature and 
 capacity for hard work, and in time becoming 
 the possessor of twelve hundred acres of land. 
 
 Born at Blown Rock, County Donegal, Ire- 
 land, in 181 1, Mr. Kennedy remained on the 
 small and unproductive farm until his youth 
 was passed, and then made his way across the 
 sea to Canada, where he lived for a few years. 
 Coming from Canada to the United States, he 
 located in Joliet, 111., and there met and mar- 
 ried, in February, 1839, Arah Underwood, who 
 was born in Orange county, Ind., February 
 10, 1819, and of which union there have been 
 born the following children : Charles, de- 
 ceased ; John, now living in Woodburn ; Wil- 
 liam, living on the home place ; Thomas, de- 
 ceased ; Hugh, deceased ; Mary, and Sarah, 
 both on the home farm. After his marriage 
 Mr. Kennedy removed to Louisa county, Iowa, 
 where he remained until 1847, an d that year 
 outfitted with his brother, John, for the journey 
 over the plains. Each of the brothers had a 
 wagon with three yoke of oxen, and on the 
 way they crossed the Missouri river at St. 
 Joseph, taking the usual six months for the 
 trip. 
 
 Arriving in Oregon, Mr. Kennedy purchased 
 the right of Mr. Doughran to six hundred and 
 forty acres of land, upon which had already 
 been erected a small round-log cabin, into 
 which the family moved and began to make 
 themselves comfortable. In time the cabin was 
 supplanted by a hewed-log house. The farm 
 was improved to a considerable extent during 
 the life-time of Mr. Kennedy, whose start in 
 life may be ascribed partially to mining, in 
 which he engaged in California during 1849. 
 He crossed the mountains with pack mules in 
 the spring, was successful as a miner and pros- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 pector, and returned in the fall considerably 
 richer than when he left Oregon. In his day 
 agricultural improvements had not attained 
 their present perfection, but as far as possible, 
 he kept pace with those around him, and made 
 of his property a valuable and paying one. His 
 large farm is still in the possession of his 
 family, and Sarah, his youngest daughter, has 
 the superintending of nine hundred acres. She 
 has a hop-yard of fourteen acres, and is con- 
 ducting general farming and stock-raising. 
 She is a woman of good business and general 
 judgment, as evidenced by her wise disposition 
 of her land, and its large yearly profits. Mrs. 
 Kennedy is still residing on the homestead, in 
 good health and quite active in spite of the 
 eighty-four years of her life. 
 
 GUILFORD BARNARD. Prominent today 
 as a man of sterling worth, Guilford Barnard 
 has won his position in Benton county through 
 a half century of the strenuous living which 
 characterized the pioneers in the state of Oregon 
 in the days when men's lives were counted small 
 in the balance with the statehood which sagacious 
 minds foresaw for this section of the country. 
 It was in 1852 that Mr. Barnard was first num- 
 bered among the citizens of the west, and since 
 that date he has lived a strong, influential life, 
 now occupying an enviable place in the esteem 
 of all those with whom he has come in con- 
 tact, as a financial, social and moral power, un- 
 selfishly given for the growth of the community. 
 
 A native of Bourbon county, Ky., Guilford 
 Barnard was born February 9, 1825, the son of 
 a farmer, who, in 1834, removed to Missouri 
 and in 1844 to Illinois. In the latter state the 
 father and mother spent the remaining years of 
 their lives, dying there in the sixty-sixth year of 
 their ages. Mr. Barnard was one of seven chil- 
 dren, and he was educated principally in the 
 district schools of Missouri, at the age of 
 twenty-one leaving the home which was then in 
 the state of Illinois to make his own way in the 
 world. With no capital but energy and industry 
 he began working as a farm hand in Adams 
 county, 111., following the training which fod 
 been his from earliest childhood. Until The 
 spring of 1852 he continued in that work, but 
 was then impelled to undertake the journey into 
 the west for the sake of the opportunities of- 
 fered in the new lands. Outfitting with ox- 
 teams and the necessary articles for such a trip 
 he started with his family across the plains that 
 year, and though during the six months no 
 trouble was experienced from the Indians, the 
 dread disease of -cholera claimed many victims 
 among the emigrants to the west. Fortunately 
 Mr. Barnard suffered but a mild attack of the 
 
 disease and came through safely, spending his 
 first winter in Clackamas county, Ore., in the 
 spring of 1853 locating on a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, situated seven 
 miles east of Harrisburg, Linn county. For four 
 years this was the home of the Barnard family, 
 after which they removed to another place in the 
 same neighborhood, where they remained until 
 1869. In the last named year Mr. Barnard came 
 into Benton county and purchased six hundred 
 acres, located one mile east of Bellfountain, and 
 a part of which purchase now forms their farm 
 of the present day. Immediately after invest- 
 ing in the land, Mr. Barnard set to work to 
 improve the farm, now boasting the best build- 
 ings in the way of dwelling, barns, etc., in the 
 vicinity. The house is situated on an elevation 
 which gives an outlook over the broad sweep of 
 the valley, making an ideal location for a home. 
 Mr. Barnard now owns four hundred and sixty- 
 five acres, upon which he carries on general 
 farming and stock-raising, and excelling in every 
 line which he attempts. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Barnard occurred April 
 1, 1849, an( i united him with Catherine Wigle, 
 who was born in Adams county, 111., April 2, 
 1832. Of the six children born to them two 
 now survive and are named as follows : Mary 
 M. and Francis M. The former is the wife of 
 S. C. Starr, of this vicinity, and the latter makes 
 his home with his parents. Landa W., the old- 
 est child, died of cholera while crossing the 
 plains with his parents. In politics Mr. Barnard 
 is a Republican, and has filled many minor of- 
 fices in the interests of that party. Though not 
 affiliating with any church organization, Mr. 
 Barnard has certainly taken for his guide in life 
 the precepts taught by the golden rule, for he 
 has let pass no opportunity to extend a helping 
 hand to another weaker than himself and to 
 remember with kindness the helpless. In addi- 
 tion to his own children four others owe to him 
 the care and attention which they missed from a 
 parent's hand, remembering gratefully the happy 
 years spent in Mr. Barnard's home. In public 
 affairs ever broad-minded and open-hearted, he 
 was a moving power in the establishment of the 
 United Brethren College at Philomath, on the 
 board of which he served for many years. 
 
 ADAM RADIR. The successful farmers of 
 Benton county include Adam Radir, one of the 
 man}' sons of the German empire to cast their 
 lot with the fertility and bounty 'of Oregon. In 
 his youth in the fatherland, where he was born 
 July 29, 1830, he learned the blacksmith trade 
 of his father, and practiced the same for several 
 years in his home locality. His work was inter- 
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 military services, and he served three years in 
 barracks and on the field ere he resumed work 
 at his trade. He was successful as a master 
 mechanic ; and, being able to command corres- 
 pondingly good wages, managed to get ahead 
 financially- 
 Thinking to widen his prospects, Mr. Radir 
 disposed of his shop in Germany and came to 
 the United States in a sailing vessel in 1852, and 
 in Pittsburg found work at his trade until 1876. 
 The same year he married Margaret Lieson, a 
 native of Ireland, and with her came to the west, 
 purchasing soon afterward the farm of one hun- 
 dred and eighty-one acres upon which he now 
 lives, and which is located one and a half miles 
 east of Corvallis. From time to time he has 
 added to his land, and now has two hundred and 
 ninety-three acres. It is no exaggeration to say 
 that this is one of the finest properties in the 
 neighborhood, for Mr. Radir has wide-awake 
 ideas of farming and things in general, and 
 means to avail himself of modern inventions 
 insofar as they appeal to his common sense and 
 practicability. His home is modern, his barns 
 large and convenient, his fences kept in good 
 repair, and there is a general air of neatness 
 which suggests a master hand at the helm of 
 affairs. 
 
 Politically Mr. Radir is a Republican, but no 
 office-seeker, and fraternally he is associated with 
 the Free and Accepted Masons. To himself 
 and wife have been born four children : Mary 
 is living in Corvallis ; Sadie is in Pennsylvania ; 
 Permilla is at home ; and William T. is deceased. 
 This part of Oregon has no more substantial 
 advocate than this very successful agriculturist, 
 who has made many friends, and in innumerable 
 ways shown a degree of public-spiritedness con- 
 sistent with the continued prosperity of this 
 county. 
 
 EDGAR O. TOBEY. One of the' most ex- 
 tensive and prosperous wheat growers of Ore- 
 gon is E. O. Tobey, a resident of Eugene, who 
 owns and operates a large wheat ranch in 
 Gilliam county. Possessing keen business 
 ability and excellent judgment, he has been 
 unusually fortunate in his agricultural opera- 
 tions, and through his own strenuous efforts 
 has accumulated a competency. He was born 
 in Tuscola, Mich.. December 31, 1852, a de- 
 scendant of an old New England family, his 
 grandfather, Samuel Tobey, having been a 
 life-long resident of Eliot, Me., and his father, 
 Oliver P. Tobey, a native of the same place. 
 
 Born in Eliot, Me., February 26, 1826, Oliver 
 P. Tobey was there reared and educated. Fol- 
 lowing the tide of emigration westward, he 
 went to Tuscola, Mich., in early manhood, 
 
 and there began life for himself with no other 
 means than stout hands and a willing heart. 
 Energetic and persevering, he accumulated 
 money, and in course of time became the 
 owner of a well improved farm. Removing to 
 Oregon in 1884, he engaged in farming in 
 Gilliam county for eight years, then went back 
 to his Michigan home, where he remained 
 eight years. Returning again to Oregon, in 
 1900, he lived retired from the activities of 
 life, in Eugene, until his death, April 14, 1903, 
 at the age of seventy-seven years. He was a 
 strong Republican in politics, and a member 
 of the Baptist Church. He married Augusta 
 M. Slafter, who was born in Norwich, Vt., and 
 who now resides in Eugene, Ore. Her father, 
 William Slafter, removed from Vermont to 
 Michigan, where he spent his last years. Five 
 children were born of the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Oliver P. Tobey, four sons and one 
 daughter, and of these the sons are living, 
 namely: E. O., the special subject of this 
 sketch ; F. W., a wealthy grain farmer, living 
 at The Dalles, and W. L. and F. L., merchants 
 and farmers in Olex, Gilliam county, Ore. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm in Michigan 
 E. O. Tobey obtained his early education in 
 the district schools, and was well trained in 
 agricultural lore while yet young. Hearing 
 through a friend, who settled in Oregon in 
 
 1878, of the fine chances for a young man of 
 industry in this fertile country, he and his 
 brother, F. W. Tobey, came to this state in 
 
 1879, taking a boat at San Francisco, and from 
 The Dalles proceeding by horseback to Gill- 
 iam county. After working for wages three 
 years, he and his brother invested their earn- 
 ings in a bunch of sheep, intending to embark 
 in business as sheep raisers. In the spring of 
 1883, they purchased forty acres of land, and 
 in the fall each of them filed on one hundred 
 and sixty acres of near-by land. Fearful of 
 risking their sheep on the range in the winter 
 season, they sold out their stock the next fall, 
 intending to purchase more in the spring. 
 Having a horse, they began plowing their land 
 that fall, and as sheep were very high in price 
 the following spring they gave up their plan 
 of buying more, and continued to work their 
 land, putting in eight acres of wheat, which 
 yielded well, averaging forty bushels an acre. 
 Succeeding so much better than they had ex- 
 pected, Mr. Tobey and his brother continued 
 their agricultural operations as wheat-raisers, 
 and have been exceedingly prosperous. Both 
 have become extensive land owners, having 
 four hundred and eighty acres of tillable land 
 in partnership, besides which Mr. Tobey has 
 three thousand, one hundred and fifty-seven 
 acres in one body, and another wheat ranch of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 nine hundred acres. His land lies thirteen 
 miles south of Arlington, in Gilliam county, 
 and is especially adapted for wheat-raising, 
 producing from twenty-five thousand to thirty 
 thousand bushels each year. In cultivating 
 his land, he uses four large three-bottom, four- 
 teen-inch plows, and employs forty horses. In 
 harvesting their wheat, he and his brother 
 have a steam thresher and header, and stack 
 their grain. 
 
 Desirous of making a home for himself and 
 family in the valley, Mr. Tobey purchased a 
 house in Eugene in 1898, and has since re- 
 sided in this city, visiting his ranch three times 
 a year. He owns considerable property of 
 value in Eugene, and is also interested to some 
 extent in timber lands and mines. He is a 
 true type of the self-made man of this state, 
 having made such judicious use of the sev- 
 enty-five dollars that he had when he arrived 
 at The Dalles that the small sum has devel- 
 oped into a fortune, which he is using wisely 
 and well. 
 
 Mr. Tobey married, in Halsey, Linn county, 
 Ore., in 1892, Miss Iness Cummings, who was 
 born in that city, of pioneer parents, Berry- 
 man and Hannah (Bond) Cummings. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Tobey have three children, namely: 
 Frank E., Myrtle G and Ralph B. In politics 
 Mr. Tobey is a straightforward Republican, 
 and does all that he can to advance the inter- 
 ests of his party. He was made an Odd Fel- 
 low in Michigan, and now belongs to Spencer 
 Butte Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F. He is also a 
 member of the Woodmen of the World, and of 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He 
 is prominent in social circles, and belongs to 
 the Commercial Club of Eugene. Mrs. Tobey 
 is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 MRS. ANNE BURNS SYLVESTER. In 
 the establishment of a commonwealth in the 
 northwest there were probably as many women 
 who gave their strength and intelligence to the 
 cause as there were men. In Polk county, Ore., 
 is located the home of one of these self-sacrific- 
 ing and courageous women, Mrs. Anne Burns 
 Sylvester, but who came to the west as the wife 
 of Lambert McTimmonds, the two being pio- 
 neers of 1845, an d together they worked side by 
 side toward the fulfillment of the promises which 
 bespoke the future of Oregon. The valley in 
 which Mrs. Sylvester now lives is known by the 
 name of McTimmonds, as their donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres was here taken 
 up when there were no other inhabitants, and 
 when wild animals were their only companions, an 
 experience of Mrs, Sylvester's being the picking 
 
 of blackberries on one side of a log while a huge 
 bear rested against the other. The conditions 
 changed with the passing years, and from hard- 
 ship and privations the family came to that pros- 
 perity which distinguishes the early settler of 
 determination and energy, their labor having 
 brought them ample returns. 
 
 Mrs. Sylvester is not a native of the country 
 wherein she has become a citizen of such long 
 standing, having been born in County Donegal, 
 Ireland, in May, 1817. When fourteen years old 
 she came to America, following her parents, 
 Michael and Anne (Scandlin) Burns, both of 
 Irish birth, who had emigrated two years before 
 with one of the children of the family. Michael 
 Burns had located in Wilmington, Del. He was 
 a stone mason by trade and later removed to Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa., where his death occurred in 1833. 
 After the death of her father Anne left home 
 and went to live with a married sister, who had 
 preceded Anne to America, and who lived in 
 Quincy, 111., later locating in McDonough coun- 
 ty. When eighteen years old she married Lam- 
 bert McTimmonds, who was born in Worcester 
 county, Md., September 10, 1797. When a young 
 man Mr. McTimmonds had removed to Ohio, 
 becoming a pioneer of that state, from which he 
 later located in Quincy, 111., where he followed 
 farming and also helped to survey the first rail- 
 road that came into that little city. There the 
 young people made their home for two years, 
 while they conducted a boarding-house, when 
 they removed to Missouri and lived in various 
 places, at one time being residents of St. Louis. 
 Early following the westward trend of civiliza- 
 tion they crossed the plains in 1845, leaving May 
 1 and arriving in Portland in October, all the 
 perils and weariness of a journey across the 
 plains with ox-teams being theirs. Their first 
 winter in the west was spent upon Tualatin 
 plains, Washington county, and the following 
 spring they located in Polk county, where Mr. 
 McTimmonds took up his claim in May. Here 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising being 
 principally interested in the latter, which he con- 
 tinued until his death on the old home place in 
 June, 1878, after an active and useful career as 
 a hardy and practical pioneer. 
 
 The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McTim- 
 monds are as follows : Henry C, of Linn coun- 
 ty ; Alexander, located in California ; Erastus 
 C., on the home place; Joseph, also at home; 
 and Charles, in eastern Oregon. There were six 
 other children who are not now living. The 
 number of acres in the farm had been increased 
 to seven hundred and thirteen before the death 
 of the father, and the work of this farm is now 
 conducted by the two sons, Erastus C. and Jo- 
 seph, cultivating one hundred and seventy-five 
 acres, while they are extensively engaged in the 
 
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 raising of goats, sheep and general stock. Mr. 
 McTimmonds was a worthy member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church of Dallas, where his 
 wife now holds membership. In politics he was 
 a Republican. 
 
 In Corvallis, in 1879, Mrs. McTimmonds be- 
 came the wife of John Sylvester, a native of 
 Maryland. Mr. Sylvester crossed the plains in 
 1845 and located in Benton county, taking part 
 in many of the defenses of the country in the 
 early times, and serving valiantly in the Cayuse 
 war' in the neighborhood of Snake river. He 
 died in 1890, in Corvallis, and his widow, now in 
 her eight-fifth year is cared for by her two 
 sons, Erastus C. and Joseph, her home being upon 
 the old home place. 
 
 HERMANN STOLLE. It is a well known 
 fact that the greater part of Oregon is arable, 
 and large crops are now raised on lands formerly 
 used for grazing or supposed to be unfruitful. 
 It is the cultivation of this land that occupies 
 the attention of H. Stolle, the subject of this 
 biography, who resides on a fine fifty-seven acre 
 farm near Silverton, in Marion county, having 
 been a resident of this state for the past quarter 
 of a century. 
 
 Mr. Stolle is a native of Oldenburg, Germany, 
 and he was born November 9, 1853. In choos- 
 ing the occupation of a farmer, he but followed 
 in the footsteps of his forefathers. He attended 
 school in his native country and his education 
 was further supplemented by his attending dis- 
 trict school after coming to the United States. 
 'When fifteen years old he accompanied a brother 
 to this country, and they settled in Wisconsin, 
 where young Stolle found employment as farm- 
 hand by the month, continuing to work in that 
 capacity for a few years. He subsequently spent 
 five years in Nebraska at similar work, and in 
 1878 came to Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Stolle followed farm work in the vicinity 
 of Silverton until his marriage, December 2, 
 1881, with Lena Schnackenberg, daughter of 
 John and Gesche (Schnackenberg) Schnacken- 
 berg. Mrs. Stolle is of German descent but was 
 born in Minnesota. Immediately after marriage, 
 the young folks went to housekeeping on a farm 
 near Mehama, where they lived four years. The 
 following year they lived on Salem Prairie. Af- 
 terward they moved to Salem and later to Sil- 
 verton. Mr. Stolle was engaged as teamster for 
 some time, but subsequently followed agricul- 
 tural pursuits on a farm south of Salem for a 
 brief period, previous to locating permanently 
 on his present farm near Silverton, which he 
 purchased in the fall of 1900. 
 
 He carries on general farming and stock-rais- 
 ing, having about twelve acres of hops. Many 
 
 modern improvements have been made on his 
 farm, which is located about two miles north of 
 Silverton. Mr. and Mrs. Stolle have five chil- 
 dren, namely : Rena, Jessie, Elda, Violet and 
 Omar. Politically, our subject is a stanch sup- 
 porter of the Republican party and in fraternal 
 circles ranks among the members of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 ROBERT GLASS. A prominent name 
 among those of the original settlers of Craw- 
 fordsville is that of Robert Glass, who, until his 
 death July 13, 1903, was closely connected with 
 the development and advancement of this part 
 of Linn county. During the fifty or more years 
 which he passed here he was influential in pro- 
 moting its agricultural and mercantile industries, 
 and was a prime mover in establishing many 
 beneficial enterprises. When he first came to 
 this locality the country was but thinly popu- 
 lated, wild beasts roamed the wilds, Indians were 
 numerous, and, as there were no markets near, 
 the pioneers subsisted chiefly on farm products 
 or game. He lived to see populous cities and 
 towns spring up in the wilderness, finely cul- 
 tivated, well stocked farms on every hand, and 
 the luxuries of the seasons grace the farmers' 
 tables. A native of Ohio, he was born January 
 28, 1823, in Jefferson county, near Steubenville, 
 and lived there until eleven years old. In 1834 
 he removed with his parents to Warren county, 
 111., near Monmouth, and there grew to man's 
 estate. 
 
 In 1849, fired with enthusiasm by the reported 
 discovery of gold in California, Mr. Glass de- 
 termined to try his fortune in the land of glow- 
 ing promise. Therefore, in partnership with 
 three Hanna brothers, he purchased an outfit 
 consisting of two wagons and four yoke of oxen, 
 and on April 1, 1849, started for the Pacific 
 coast. Arriving in California August 12, after 
 a safe and comparatively short journey, he was 
 engaged in mining on Bear river for awhile, but 
 was not very successful. He subsequently made 
 some money hauling freight from Sacramento to 
 the mines, where he sold flour at $1.00 per pound, 
 but in his next venture, which was that of hiring 
 men to make shingles, he lost money. In the 
 spring of 1850 he spent a few months in buying 
 gold claims opposite Nevada City, and at Gold 
 Run, but did not find his transactions very profit- 
 able. In June, 1850, Mr. Glass came to Oregon, 
 crossing the mountains with a pack train, con- 
 sisting of nine horses, journeying through the 
 Rogue river Indian country. Settling in Linn 
 county he looked about for a favorable location, 
 and in the fall took up three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land at Crawfordsville, lying mostly 
 
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 in the valley, and improved a fine homestead. 
 Succeeding well in his agricultural labors he 
 invested his surplus in other lands, and became 
 the owner of seven hundred acres of valuable 
 land. In addition to general farming he was 
 prosperously engaged in stock-raising and deal- 
 ing, a profitable industry in this country. In 
 1875 he embarked in mercantile pursuits, open- 
 ing the first store in Crawfordsville, and for 
 thirteen years was postmaster of the town. 
 
 In 1853 Mr. Glass married Jane Gray, who 
 came across the plains to Oregon in 1852, and 
 five children were born to them : John H., of 
 Brownsville, Ore. ; W. B., also of Brownsville ; 
 David H., who is living at Seattle, Wash., where 
 he is in the employ of the city engineer; Joseph 
 W., a farmer of Crawfordsille ; and Ivy J., 
 living at home. Mr. Glass warmly upheld the 
 principles of the Republican party, and filled 
 various public offices with credit to himself, and 
 to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents. 
 For a number of years he was justice of the 
 peace and school clerk, and served in the .state 
 legislature in 1864, and in the extra session of 
 1865. He was an active member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church, in which he served as elder 
 from 1870 until his death. 
 
 RICHARD CARTWRIGHT, M. D. One of 
 the most distinguished physicians and surgeons 
 of the Willamette Valley is Dr. Richard Cart- 
 wright, who for thirteen years has been engaged 
 in the practice of his profession in Salem. A 
 native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he was born 
 July 9, 1 85 1, a son of Edmund and Jane (Clarke) 
 Cartwright. His great-grandfather, the Rev. 
 Edmund Cartwright, was a minister in the 
 Church of England. While his life was devoted 
 chiefly to the work of the church in England, he 
 also possessed marked mechanical ingenuity and 
 invented and perfected the first power loom ever 
 used in the manufacture of cloth. His son, 
 Richard, grandfather of the subject of this re- 
 view, was a manufacturer of Leicester, England, 
 and it was in that city that Dr. Edmund Cart- 
 wright was born and reared. He was provided 
 with excellent educational privileges. Upon the 
 completion of his classical course he was grad- 
 uated from King's College, London. The foun- 
 dation of his medical knowledge was gained in 
 the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 London, from which he received the degree of 
 doctor of medicine. In young manhood he came 
 to America and became a practitioner at Ham- 
 ilton, Ontario, where he remained until 1857. 
 In the latter year he removed to Iowa, and con- 
 tinued the practice of his profession in Charles 
 City, Waukon and Decorah. His death occurred 
 in the latter city in 1900, he having attained the 
 
 age of eighty-one years. He possessed marked 
 skill and ability in the practice of medicine and 
 surgery. He married Jane Clarke, a native of 
 Lincolnshire, England, who is still living in 
 Iowa. Of the six children born to Dr. Edmund 
 Cartwright and his wife, five survive. 
 
 Dr. Richard Cartwright, the second child in 
 the family, was reared in Iowa, where he received 
 his preliminary education. After leaving the high 
 school of Waukon he devoted his attention to 
 farm work for some time, and also served as 
 builders' clerk. When he finally determined to 
 enter the ranks of the medical profession, he dis- 
 played the strength of his character by provid- 
 ing the means for his own education. In 1873 ne 
 entered the Detroit Medical College, from which 
 he was graduated in 1875 with the degree of M. 
 D. He began practice in Fayette, Fayette county, 
 Iowa, where he remained for two years. Upon 
 the expiration of that period he located in West 
 Union, Fayette county, Iowa, where he remained 
 in practice until 1879. While a resident of West 
 Union, Dr. Cartwright married Miss Cora Aiken, 
 a native of Iowa, but after two years of happy 
 married life she passed away. 
 
 Leaving the Mississippi valley in 1883, Dr. 
 Cartwright came to Oregon, but soon afterward 
 located in Grass Valley, Nevada county, Cal., 
 where he was engaged in general practice until 
 1890. In that year he returned to Oregon, and 
 at once opened an office in Salem, where he has 
 since remained continuously in practice. In June, 
 1900, he erected the Florence Sanatorium, a pri- 
 vate hospital, one of the most perfectly equipped 
 on the entire Pacific coast. He makes a specialty 
 of chronic and surgical cases, and has become 
 well known in Salem and throughout the sur- 
 rounding country, by reason of the great suc- 
 cess which has attended his professional labors. 
 
 Dr. Cartwright's preparation for his chosen 
 work was very thorough. Not content with the 
 foundation of medical knowledge obtained in the 
 school which conferred upon him his first degree, 
 he took a full course in the Chicago Homoeo- 
 pathic Medical College, from which he received 
 the degree of M. D. in 1882. He made a special 
 study of clinical gynecology in the medical de- 
 partment of Willamette University, pursued a 
 course in the Post-Graduate College in New 
 York, and took a post-graduate course in Chi- 
 cago in 1893. He is continually broadening his 
 knowledge by individual research and investiga- 
 . tion. Since 1895 he has given special attention 
 to gynecology, and occupies a place among the 
 foremost representatives of this important branch 
 of medical practice in the Pacific northwest. 
 
 Dr. Cartwright was married a second time in 
 Portland, Ore., to Miss Florence Byrne, a native 
 of Illinois, who was reared in California. They 
 are the parents of three children : Gladys L., 
 
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 Constance and Florence Elizabeth. The doctor 
 and his wife occupy an enviable position in social 
 circles, and their own pleasant home is celebrated 
 for its gracious hospitality. He has always 
 been an earnest Republican, though never a seeker 
 for political honors. He is well known in Ma- 
 sonic circles in Oregon, being a member of .Salem 
 Lodge Xo. 4, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 in which he is past master; and of Multnomah 
 Chapter Xo. i, Royal Arch Masons, of Salem. 
 He was one of the organizers and a member of 
 the board of directors of the Illihee Club, of which 
 he is now the president. His wife is a member 
 of the Unitarian Church. In connection with 
 his profession he is a member of the Marion 
 County Medical Association. 
 
 Dr. Cartwright is constantly overburdened by 
 the demands upon his time, both professionally 
 and socially. He leads a strenuous life ; any- 
 thing that rends to bring to man the key to that 
 complex mystery which we call life elicits his 
 earnest attention ; and in the alleviation of human 
 suffering his labors have been far-reaching and 
 successful. During the years of his residence in 
 Salem he has proven himself a useful citizen and 
 man of affairs, always not only willing, but anx- 
 ious, to assist in the promotion of all worthy 
 enterprises, and especially all those movements 
 calculated to advance the material interests of 
 the community in which he resides. It is to such 
 men as Dr. Cartwright that the northwest is in- 
 debted for the inculcation into the minds and 
 hearts of the present generation of its manifest 
 spirit of progress ; for he is a man of most ad- 
 vanced ideas, wide-awake to the manifold oppor- 
 tunities of the state of Oregon, of whose future 
 greatness he feels assured. 
 
 JOHN WATERS. Upon his farm of one 
 hundred and seventy-three acres, located two and 
 a half miles west of Lewisville, Polk county, 
 John Waters has spent thirty-six useful years, 
 indicated now by the substantial appearance of 
 his property, on which he has made all the im- 
 provements, beginning in the pioneer days of 
 the country. Out of a wilderness of shrubs and 
 brush he has brought forty-five acres under 
 cultivation, which he devotes to general farm- 
 ing, and is also largely engaged in raising sheep, 
 goats and cattle. 
 
 Mr. Waters is of Scotch descent, his great- 
 grandfather, Zachariah Waters, having emi- 
 grated from Scotland and settled as a farmer in 
 Maryland, where the descendants of the family 
 passed many years. Joseph, the grandfather, 
 was born in Frederick county, Md., and like- 
 wise Edward B., the father of John Waters, his 
 birth occurring in 1807, and it was there he died 
 in 1816, after a life of industry and energy as 
 
 a carpenter and joiner. Being but nine years 
 old when his father died, Edward B. Waters 
 went to live with an uncle, and while making 
 his home there he served an apprenticeship of 
 three years with a blacksmith at Fredericks- 
 burg. In 183 1 he came as far west as Ohio 
 and located in Perry county, where he worked 
 at his trade, combining it with the interests of 
 a farm. He there married, in 1836, Sarah Grif- 
 fith, who was born in Greene county, Pa., Jan- 
 uary 18, 1813, of German descent, and from 
 which location she had removed with her pa- 
 rents to Ohio, where her father engaged in 
 farming. For five years they continued to make 
 their home in Ohio, and in 1841 Mr. Waters 
 took his family to Laporte county, Ind., where 
 he engaged in farming until the fall of 1852, 
 when he went to Clinton county, Iowa, the fol- 
 lowing spring finding them en route for Ore- 
 gon. The trip across the plains occupied six 
 months, and at the end of the journey they lo- 
 cated for the first winter at Ritners, near King's 
 valley, to which they had come on their arrival on 
 the Luckiamute. The next spring they went 
 up Edward's creek and took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres, upon 
 which they remained for six years, engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising, after which, 
 in 1859, Mr. Waters sold out, and going to 
 Klickitat county, Wash., he took up a home- 
 stead of one hundred and sixty acres. Until 
 1865 he followed the business of stock-raising, 
 when he returned to Polk county and bought six 
 hundred and forty acres of land located on Pe- 
 dee creek, where he continued to live for five 
 years. In 1870 he retired from the active cares 
 of life, his choice of location for the remainder 
 of his days being Dallas, Polk county, where 
 his death occurred June 23, 1879, after which 
 Mrs. Waters went to live with her daughter, 
 Mary Jane Turner, located near Airlie. Mr. 
 Waters was a radical Republican in politics, hav- 
 ing been so since the Civil war, and in religion 
 he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, having joined that denomination in the 
 east. Besides John Waters, his parents had the 
 following children : William, of Wheeler county, 
 eastern Oregon ; Sarah C, now Mrs. Price, of 
 Pedee, Ore. ; Mary J., now Mrs. Turner, near 
 Airlie; and Martha A., the wife of Nathaniel 
 Holman, of Dallas, Ore. 
 
 John Waters was born in Perry county, Ohio, 
 May 5, 1839, the second of his father's family. 
 He received his education through the medium 
 of the common schools of Indiana, after which he 
 went to the farm with his father and engaged un- 
 til his twenty-first birthday in working for him, 
 after which he became independent, though he re- 
 mained at home. He was married June 19, 1867, 
 to Flora A. Ritner, who was born December 
 
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 7, 1850, in Platte City, Mo., the daughter of 
 John Ritner, who died on the plains en route 
 to Oregon, in 1852. Of this union ten children 
 were born, eight of whom are living, namely : 
 Sarah J., the wife of R. A. Hastings; Mary A., 
 the wife of C. J. Pugh, of Falls City; Francis 
 M., who is employed by I. M. Simpson; Delia 
 M., attending school at Monmouth; Ida A., at 
 home; Chester D., also at home; Flora E., a 
 student at Monmouth ; and Gertrude E. at home. 
 After his marriage Mr. Waters bought the farm 
 on which he now makes his home. 
 
 In his political relations Mr. Waters is, like 
 his father, a stanch Republican, and as such 
 has served in the interests of his party in vari- 
 ous minor offices, among them being road super- 
 visor and school director, the latter office having 
 been faithfully filled by Mr. Waters for twenty- 
 seven years. In his fraternal affiliations he is 
 a member of the Grange of Lewisville, and in 
 religion both himself and wife are members of 
 the Evangelical Church, of Lewisville, in which 
 he has officiated as steward.' 
 
 THOMAS WILLIAMS. When Thomas 
 Williams came to Lewisville, Polk county, Ore., 
 he had but $17 in money, and a family to rear 
 and educate, and in face of such an outlook 
 a less courageous, energetic, determined man 
 might have faltered and lost the battle when 
 success was just within his grasp. He came here 
 December 13, 1893, and at once started a little 
 blacksmith shop, that being his trade, and after 
 two years he was able financially to purchase 
 thirty-five acres of land, located three-quarters 
 of a mile south of the city, upon which he erected 
 a shop and began to clear his property; at the 
 present time he conducts a general blacksmith 
 and wagon shop and a chopping-feed mill, and 
 has built a fine residence and many other valua- 
 ble improvements which indicate the prosperity 
 which is the fruit of his industry and perse- 
 verance. 
 
 Mr. Williams was the third of a family of 
 fourteen children, ten sons and four daughters, 
 and was born in Denbighshire, Wales, July 14, 
 1 85 1. His father was William Williams, a 
 native of the same locality, and who died in 
 Shropshire, England, in 1896, when seventy- 
 three years old. He had been occupied through- 
 out his life in a manufactory of woolen goods. 
 His wife was Elizabeth (Edwards) Williams, 
 who was born in Merionethshire, Wales, and is 
 now living in her native country, over ■ eighty 
 years old. On account of limited means, Mr. 
 Williams was unable to attend school, being ap- 
 prenticed to learn the trade of a woolen worker 
 when only eight years old, and after seven years 
 devoted to this he was apprenticed to a black- 
 
 smith, where he served for six years. He was 
 then twenty-one years old, and after his marriage 
 in 1872 with Eleanor Roberts, a native of Meri- 
 onethshire, Wales, born there January 3, 1852, he 
 emigrated to the United States, confident, though 
 he could neither read nor write, that determina- 
 tion and will power were as potent factors in 
 winning the battle of life as education, and that 
 he could succeed where these qualities were 
 recognized and appreciated. He landed at New 
 York City, thence to Laporte City, Iowa, where 
 he remained four years, two of which he gave 
 in the work of his trade to pay his passage to 
 America. In 1878 he located in Madison county, 
 Neb., where he engaged for himself in the work 
 of a blacksmith, finding employment on the 
 Union Pacific Railroad in every section of the 
 middle west. In 1892 he left the Mississippi 
 valley and coming west, he located first in Kitsap 
 county, Wash., and a year later found him in 
 Corvallis, Benton county, Ore., where he re- 
 mained for nine months. His next move was to 
 Lewisville, from which he removed to his pres- 
 ent location, at Maple Grove, which village he 
 founded. In addition to his interests in his 
 business, he owns a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres two miles west of Lewisville, which 
 is utilized for stock-raising, the stock being cat- 
 tle, goats and sheep, also carrying on a little 
 farming. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Williams were born thirteen 
 children, twelve sons and one daughter, and the 
 seven sons now living are as follows : William 
 C, T. Henry, John L., Albert E., Ira S., Arthur 
 B. and Kenneth L., all of whom are at home. 
 In his political relations Mr. Williams is a Re- 
 publican and in the interests of his party he is 
 at present serving as school director. Fra- 
 ternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen of Dallas, and both himself 
 and wife are members of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church South, of Lewisville, in which he 
 officiates as trustee. 
 
 JAMES E. EDWARDS. A prosperous and 
 worthy life has been that of James E. Edwards, 
 a prominent citizen of Benton county, who, 
 though now in his eighty-seventh year, enjoys 
 remarkably good health and lively spirits, which 
 are evidenced in his animation as he recalls the 
 days when Oregon was a wilderness of un- 
 threaded forests and fallow fields, and he was 
 numbered among the hardy men who gave their 
 youth and strength of purpose to the formation 
 of the western statehood. He first settled in 
 Benton county in 1853, and has made this his 
 home ever since, ably profiting by the many op- 
 portunities presented in the early days, and now 
 enjoying the evening of his life amid the changes 
 which the years have brought. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 The birth of James E. Edwards occurred in 
 Fayette county, Pa., May 2, 1817, his father 
 being- a farmer in that section. When only a 
 child he lost this parent, and the widow and her 
 children then removed to a piece of land which 
 had been taken up by the father in Ohio in an 
 early day. Their removal was made in 1823, and 
 there the mother married a second time, making 
 her home upon this property until her death, at 
 the age of fifty years. The early education of 
 Mr. Edwards was received in the district school 
 in the vicinity of his Ohio home, remaining in 
 the latter until his mother's death, when he 
 sought employment among the neighboring 
 fanners. He was then twenty-one years old, 
 his residence in that state continuing until 1853, 
 when he decided to change his location to the 
 western slope of the country, whither so many 
 people were taking their course. The first step 
 in this direction was made by water as far as St. 
 Louis, in that city purchasing the oxen and nec- 
 essary outfit for the trip across the plains. May 
 7, 1853, found them started upon their journey, 
 and after six months of uneventful travel the 
 party reached Oregon, where Mr. Edwards took 
 up a donation claim in the Alsea valley, Benton 
 county, and there remained for four years, at the 
 close of that time purchasing property located 
 northwest of Dusty. Until about 1863 this was 
 the home of the Edwards family, Mr. Edwards, 
 at that date, purchasing the farm upon which 
 they now live. This consists of three hundred 
 and twenty acres of land, located fifteen miles 
 southwest of Corvallis and one and one-half 
 miles from Bellfountain, and upon which Mr. 
 Edwards has put all the improvements, even to 
 the doing of the carpenter work himself. He 
 has a fine location for a home, the outlook taking 
 in the wide sweep of the productive valley and 
 well-improved farms about. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Edwards and Mary 
 Longsworth, the latter a native of Maryland, 
 was solemnized in 1844, the trials arid hardships 
 of the memorable journey across the plains and 
 the long years of patient toil in the new land 
 having been shared by his wife, who lived to be 
 sixt\>five years old. Of the nine children which 
 blessed this union six are now living, of whom 
 Lucinda is the wife of Nathan Wheland, of The 
 Dalles ; Isaac is located in Lane county ; William 
 is in Douglas ; Lewis is in the vicinity ; James F. 
 is in Indiana, and Joseph Harold is still on the 
 home place. As a Republican, Mr. Edwards has 
 been active in the affairs of the county, having 
 served for fourteen years as county commis- 
 sioner, ten years as school clerk, and a great 
 many years as school director. For over fifty 
 years he has been a faithful member of the 
 United Brethren Church. Though now at a ripe 
 old age, the mental and physical faculties seem 
 
 not to have suffered a loss in activity and Mr. 
 Edwards is still actively interested in the affairs 
 of his community. 
 
 CHARLES LEONARD STARR, superin- 
 tendent of schools of Polk county, and one of 
 the successful and promising educators in the 
 state, was born near Santa Clara, Cal., February 
 13, 1877, a son of J. P., and grandson of Llewel- 
 lyn Starr, who came from England and lived in 
 the south before locating in New Jersey. 
 
 J. P. Starr was born in Rahway, N. J., and 
 reared in Columbia and Washington counties, 
 N. Y. In early manhood he learned the black- 
 smith trade, and for a time, near New York City, 
 engaged in buying and selling stock. Upon lo- 
 cating in Santa Clara county, Cal., he worked at 
 his trade from 1870 until 1878, and then removed 
 to Oregon, residing for six months in Dayton, 
 five years in McMinnville, a number of years in 
 Sheridan and Falls City, industriously plying 
 his trade in all of these places. Since 1898 he 
 has lived a retired life in Dallas. Mr. Starr mar- 
 ried Adeline Crawford, who was born in Rhine- 
 beck, N. Y., a daughter of John Crawford, a 
 native of Erie county, Pa., and a member of an 
 old Pennsylvania family. Five children were 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Starr, of whom Charles 
 Leonard is the third. The oldest son, Arthur P., 
 is engaged in the hotel and stage business at 
 Falls City ; Harry E. is a farmer near Falls City ; 
 Marianna is a resident of Dallas, and William 
 died September 11, 1903. 
 
 The education of Professor Starr was acquired 
 in the public schools of McMinnville, Dallas and 
 Falls City, and under private tutorships, covering 
 four or five years. He entered upon his educa- 
 tional career in 1894, as a teacher in the district 
 schools. In 1900 he was nominated for superin- 
 tendent of schools of Polk county on the Repub- 
 lican ticket, and was elected by a majority of 
 one hundred and eighty, the largest majority of 
 any candidate on the county ticket, save that of 
 senator. Upon the resignation of County Super- 
 intendent of Schools J. N. Hart, July 1, 1900, to 
 assume the office of district attorney, Mr. Starr 
 was appointed to fill the unexpired term by the 
 county commissioner, and was thus prominently 
 brought to the notice of the public. His term of 
 office dates from August, 1900, until August, 
 1904, and already Mr. Starr has demonstrated 
 his particular fitness for his large responsibility. 
 The present educational administration is uni- 
 versally conceded to be the best in the history of 
 Polk county, and is directly traceable to certain 
 innovations suggested by the practical fore- 
 thought of Professor Starr. The teachers' insti- 
 tute forms an important part in the educational 
 system, and through this medium the teachers 
 
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 are kept in touch with the plans of their adviser, 
 and are continually stimulated to greater and 
 more advanced effort. Monthly reports sent in 
 by the teachers have proved advantageous, and 
 the schools are visited by the superintendent at 
 least once a year. Superintendent Starr lays 
 great stress upon the "practical" in education, 
 and it is his wish to place students in a position 
 to meet the every-day issues of life. He is a 
 member of the State Teachers' Association, presi- 
 dent department of superintendents. In political 
 affiliation he is a Republican, and fraternally is 
 identified with, and a charter member of, the 
 Falls City Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. 
 
 WILLIAM J. WILLBANKS. A typical 
 southerner who has transferred his allegiance 
 to the bountiful northwest and materially as- 
 sisted in promoting its agricultural and other 
 interests is W. J. Willbanks, a large land 
 owner of Benton county, but now living re- 
 tired in Corvallis. Mr. Willbanks came to 
 Oregon in 1874, and in Linn county bought a 
 farm of two hundred and ninety-two acres one 
 mile east of Corvallis Ferry, where he con- 
 ducted a very successful wheat and sheep- 
 raising enterprise. The large profit from the 
 sale of these commodities enabled him to 
 branch out as a land owner, and to his original 
 purchase he added an adjoining two hundred 
 and fifty acres. At the present time he owns 
 five hundred and forty-two acres of improved 
 land in one of the garden sections of Oregon, 
 and which is more valuable because in one 
 body. Here he farmed until 1891, and then 
 left his son with the management of the large 
 property, he himself taking up his residence 
 in Corvallis. 
 
 The boyhood of Mr. Willbanks was spent in 
 the Anderson district, South Carolina, where 
 he was born August 22, 1834, the sixth in the 
 family of eight children, of whom two sons 
 and one daughter are living. His father, Eli- 
 jah, was also born in the Anderson district, 
 where his emigrating ancestor presumably set- 
 tled after coming from Scotland. From South 
 Carolina he removed to Carroll county, Miss., 
 where he farmed, and where he married Nancy 
 Presley, a native of Carroll county, and 
 daughter of David Presley, also of Scotch de- 
 scent. In Carroll county Elijah Willbanks 
 passed his last years, as did also the wife who 
 so faithfully and practically reared her large 
 family. Of the sons, W. J. attended the early 
 subscription school held in a log cabin in the 
 Anderson district, and he remained on the 
 home farm until twenty-three years of age. 
 He was first married to Eleanor J. Mecklin, a 
 
 native of the Abbeyville district, South Caro- 
 lina, and in 1857 removed to Carroll county, 
 Miss., where he bought a farm and engaged in 
 raising cotton. In time he had one hundred 
 and sixty acres under cotton cultivation, and 
 at the time of the culmination of hostilities be- 
 tween the north and south in 1861, had a very 
 profitable source of livelihood. He wisely 
 scented danger owing to the unsettled condi- 
 tion of the south, and the uncertainty as to the 
 outcome of the Confederacy, and disposed of 
 the greater part of his cotton. However, he 
 had four bales left, amounting to two thousand 
 pounds, or one ton, and this he left on the 
 barn floor covered up with cotton seed. 
 
 Enlisting in Captain Barns' company, Var- 
 den Artillery, of Carroll county, Mr. Will- 
 banks started for the war, and served four 
 years and four months. He participated in the 
 battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and the siege of 
 Vicksburg, and three months later was cap- 
 tured and exchanged and sent to Mobile, Ala. 
 After the evacuation of the latter city he was 
 sent to Demopolis, Ala., and remained until 
 the surrender of the city, thereafter serving 
 as assistant to the regiment surgeon, Allison. 
 In the latter capacity he had charge of the 
 tents and hospital appliances, and was also 
 hospital steward until the close of the war. 
 Returning to his home in Carroll county, 
 Miss., he found the four bales of cotton un- 
 molested on the barn floor, notwithstanding 
 the fact that the county was raided several 
 times, and he himself was otherwise almost 
 impoverished thereby. Nevertheless, the cot- 
 ton served as a nucleus for a new beginning, 
 for he sold it for forty-five cents a pound, and 
 thus had a nest egg of $900. Continuing on 
 the old farm after the war he found things 
 sadly changed, and by 1874 had sold his pro- 
 perty and prepared to take up his residence in 
 the west. 
 
 Two weeks after his arrival in Oregon, Mr. 
 Willbanks lost his wife by death, and five 
 children were left to his care. Of these, Katie 
 is the wife of Mr. Adler of Gilliam county, 
 Ore. ; Nettie is the wife of W. A. Buchannan 
 of Corvallis ; Josephine is now Mrs. Bogue 
 of Paisley, Ore ; James is a farmer in Benton 
 county; and John is on the home farm. The 
 second marriage of Mr. Willbanks occurred 
 in Portland, Ore., and was with Margaret C. 
 Mecklin, April 21, 1875, the second wife being 
 a sister of the first. Her father, David Meck- 
 lin, was born in South Carolina, and his 
 father came from the north of Ireland. David 
 farmed in South Carolina, but eventually re- 
 moved to Mississippi, where he died, as did 
 also his wife, Elizabeth (Caldwell) Mecklin. 
 Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 
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 Mecklin, three of whom are living. Pearl, the 
 only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Willbanks, 
 is now the wife of Clarence Hout of Corvallis. 
 A Democrat ever since his first voting days, 
 Mr. Willbanks has been prominently before 
 the public of Benton county, and in 1899 was 
 appointed councilman of the third ward to fill • 
 an unexpired term of one year. So satis- 
 factory were his services that he was regu- 
 larly elected in 1900 for a period of three years, 
 and during that time was chairman of the 
 street committee. He is a member and deacon 
 of the Congregational Church, and contributes 
 generously toward the maintenance of the 
 same. An excellent business man, progressive 
 in his ideas and abreast of the times, Mr. Will- 
 banks is a notable acquisition to the general 
 life of Corvallis, and has made many friends 
 bv reason of his public-spiritedness and admirable 
 personal characteristics. 
 
 WILLIAM M. SHERER. The farming 
 lands of Linn county comprise its most val- 
 uable property, and the men who have re- 
 deemed the wilderness from its primitive con- 
 dition occupy no unimportant position among 
 a vast and intelligent population. William M. 
 Sherer properly belongs to this class, and as a 
 reward of his efforts, he is the possessor of one 
 of the best and most fertile farms in the entire 
 county. General farming and stock-raising 
 form his chief occupation, and in the latter 
 department he makes a specialty of raising 
 Percheron horses, Durham and Holstein cat- 
 tle. Modern buildings adorn the place, promi- 
 nent among which is noticeable the family 
 residence, a fine structure recently erected. 
 Commodious and well arranged outhouses en- 
 hance the appearance of the place, and facili- 
 tate the labors incident to managing a large 
 farm. 
 
 In Columbiana county, Ohio, whither his 
 parents had settled about 1826, William M. 
 Sherer was born July 29, 1828. That he him- 
 self is an agriculturist of no inferior order is a 
 natural sequence, as he is descended from a 
 long line of tillers of the soil. His father, 
 David Sherer, was a native of Pennsylvania, 
 born in Beaver county in 1797. The Keystone 
 state was also the birthplace of the mother, in 
 1800, who was known in her girlhood as Sarah 
 Miller. It was about the year 1826 that the 
 parents took up their abode in Columbiana 
 county. From Ohio the family removed to 
 Henderson county, 111., in 1838, and for the 
 following fourteen years made their home in 
 the latter state, carrying on general farming. 
 The belief that larger opportunities awaited 
 him in the newer western countrv induced the 
 
 father, in 1852, to seek a home there, and, ac- 
 cordingly, he started with his family and house- 
 hold belongings, the wagons being drawn by 
 the slow-moving ox-teams. Ere they had 
 reached their destination, however, the father 
 was stricken with cholera, from which sick- 
 ness he never recovered. He died and is 
 buried on the Loup, fork of the Platte river, 
 and thus the little party was left without a 
 leader. With true pioneer courage the mother 
 assumed the responsibility which was thus put 
 upon her shoulders, and after nursing her son 
 William back to health, he, too, having fallen 
 a victim to the disease, she proceeded to Linn 
 county, Ore., one redeeming feature of the 
 journey being that the Indians gave them no 
 trouble whatever. Seven months had expired 
 before they finally reached Linn county, but 
 the mother at once took up a donation claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres, about four miles 
 from Shedds, to the improvement of which she 
 set about immediately. This tract of land was 
 at the time in its primeval condition, but. 
 through her efforts it was transformed and all 
 the improvements were due to her indomitable 
 persistence. Here her death occurred at the age 
 of sixty-four years. The family comprised five 
 children, but of the number only two are now 
 living, William M. and Elizabeth, the widow of 
 William Millhollen, of Albany. 
 
 William M. Sherer received his education in 
 the district schools of Illinois, principally, and 
 at the time the family removed to Oregon was 
 about twenty-four years of age. Owing to the 
 death of his father much of the care and re- 
 sponsibility of the family naturally fell upon 
 him, and he was not reluctant in discharging 
 the duties. Until his mother's death he made 
 his home with her on the old donation claim, 
 which she took up on coming to Oregon in 
 1852, and subsequently he took up an adjoining 
 claim, on which he now resides, and upon 
 which he expects to pass the remainder of his 
 life. As the greater part of his life has been 
 spent in the confines of Linn county it is but 
 natural that he should take an abiding interest 
 in its progress and development, and none will 
 dispute the fact that he has done his full share 
 in making it the magnificent farming region 
 that it now is. In politics Mr. Sherer takes a 
 keen interest, and Republican candidates are 
 sure of his vote and support. 
 
 NORRIS P. NEWTOX. To his numerous 
 friends and associates in Philomath it would 
 seem that Norris P. Newton has cause to con- 
 gratulate himself upon his fortunate disposal of 
 western opportunities. The owner of a flourish- 
 ing little harness shop and store, of a comfort- 
 
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 able residence, two stores, and a farm of one 
 hundred and seventeen acres adjoining the town 
 on the northeast, he certainly has much to show 
 for years of patient attention to business, and for 
 that eternal vigilance which establishes a repu- 
 tation for sobriety, honesty and enterprise. 
 
 Born on a farm within sixteen miles of Co- 
 lumbus, Ohio, April 18, 1830, Mr. Newton comes 
 of ancestors located for many years in the state 
 of Massachusetts, in which seat of Puritanism 
 his father, Abiathar, was born in 1806. The 
 elder Newton went to Kentucky at a very early 
 day, locating in Louisville, where he worked at 
 his trade of blacksmith and boilermaker. While 
 that state was young in enterprise he removed to 
 Ohio, and near Columbus bought and lived on 
 government land until 1841. A later place of 
 residence was Van Buren county, Iowa, where 
 he pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, and improved the same into a paying prop- 
 erty. Ambitious and resourceful, he was one of 
 the first in his neighborhood to give credence to 
 the stories of fertility which reached them from 
 the coast, and in 1848 he sold his land and out- 
 fitted for the long and tiresome journey over the 
 plains. No experiences of a thrilling or unusual 
 nature are recorded of this trip, and it is sup- 
 posed the train of home-seekers arrived at their 
 destination in fairly good health and spirits. Mr. 
 Newton took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres near Corvallis, in Benton county, 
 where he farmed exclusively, no longer paying 
 attention to his trades. He lived to the advanced 
 age of eighty-six years, his wife, formerly Rachel 
 Garlinghouse, born in the east in 1806, also 
 attaining to and beyond the biblical allotment. 
 Of the eight children there were four sons and 
 four daughters, Norris P. being the second child 
 and oldest son. 
 
 As a boy Norris P. Newton had the advan- 
 tages of the public schools of Ohio and Iowa, and 
 was of course reared 'on the paternal farms in 
 these states. He was just eighten when the 
 family preparations were made for crossing the 
 plains, just the age to appreciate the situation, 
 and profit largely by the all around change. 
 Near his father's farm he took up a claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, lived thereon 
 until 1890, and then engaged in the livery busi- 
 ness in Philomath for about seven years. Seven 
 years later, in 1897, he embarked in the harness 
 business, which he has since followed with suc- 
 cessful results. He is a practical harness maker, 
 and besides catering to a large retail purchase 
 trade, makes a specialty of repairing old harness. 
 
 Near Corvallis Mr. Newton was united in mar- 
 riage with Justina Knotts, who was born in Ohio, 
 and who has borne him nine children : Cynthia, 
 Mrs. Hinkle, resides near Corvallis ; the others 
 are Abiathar and Walter, both of Philomath; 
 
 Edwin, deceased; Harvey, residing in eastern 
 Oregon; Laura, now Mrs. William Haynes of 
 Forest Grove, Ore. ; Ernest, of eastern Oregon ; 
 and twb children who died in infancy. As a 
 stanch Republican Mr. Newton has been active 
 in local affairs, and has served as school director 
 and as a member of the city council. He is prom- 
 inent in fraternal affairs, and is identified with 
 the Corvallis Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M., and the 
 Chapter ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and the Rebekahs. With his family he is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 LOUIS HENRY FISCHER, who is now 
 manager of the Fischer Flouring Mill at Silver- 
 ton, was born in DuPage county, 111., September 
 14, 1870, and was but seven years of age when 
 he came to Oregon. His father, Henry Fred 
 Fischer, was born in Hamburg, Germany, March 
 4, 1838, and was a son of Fred Fischer, who 
 was also a native of Hamburg, and brought his 
 family to the United States about 1842, locating 
 in DuPage county, 111. There he followed farm- 
 ing throughout his remaining days. The father 
 of the subject of this biography was only four 
 years of age at the time of the emigration to 
 the new world. He built a flour-mill near Ad- 
 dison, 111., being the first built there, fourteen 
 miles west of Chicago, when twenty-one years 
 of age and was thus identified with industrial in- 
 terests in that locality. In 1877 he came to Ore- 
 gon, locating in Corvallis and there he purchased 
 the Corvallis Flouring Mill, which he conducted 
 up to the time of his death, September 25, 1902. 
 He had learned the miller's trade in Illinois and 
 was an expert in that work. He married Sophia 
 Rathje, who was born in Germany and came, to 
 the United States when but three years of age 
 with her parents, the family locating in DuPage 
 county, 111. Her father was Fred Rathje, who 
 was also a native of Germany and was a farmer 
 by occupation. He prospered in his undertakings 
 after coming to the new world and was worth 
 about $50,000, when he died in Illinois at the 
 age of eighty-four years. His sons are William 
 and Louis, who are bankers in the Englewood 
 National Bank of Chicago, 111. His daughter, 
 Mrs. Fischer, still survives and is now residing 
 in Corvallis. She is actively connected with 
 the Fischer Flouring Mill. Unto the parents of 
 Louis Henry Fischer were born eight children, 
 five sons and three daughters. 
 
 Louis Henry Fischer, the third in order of 
 birth, acquired his early education in the public 
 schools and afterward entered the Portland Busi- 
 ness College, where he was graduated in the 
 class of 1891. From early youth he was famil- 
 iar with the milling business as he assisted his 
 father in the mill and in 1900 he became man- 
 
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 ager of the Fischer Flouring Mill of Silverton. 
 Coder his control the business has grown to 
 very extensive and profitable proportions. He 
 lias overhauled all of the machinery and the 
 plant is now equipped with a full roller process 
 and has a capacity of two hundred and fifty bar- 
 rels per day. The mill is operated by water power 
 and the product is shipped to Portland, San 
 Francisco and also sells to the home trade. Mr. 
 Fischer has a thorough understanding of the 
 business in every detail, and his capable man- 
 agement has been a valued factor in the success- 
 ful conduct of the business. 
 
 In Corvallis, Ore., Mr. Fischer was united 
 in marriage to Miss Lida McDaniel, who was 
 born in Independence, Polk county, Ore., a 
 daughter of Joseph McDaniel, of Polk county, 
 who is now connected with mining interests in 
 Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Fischer have two inter- 
 esting children, Harvey and Raymond, both of 
 whom are at home. In politics Mr. Fischer is a 
 Republican. 
 
 THOMAS SKAIFE. In Silverton are many 
 men who have won undoubted success in the 
 business world by sheer persistency and force 
 of will, prominent among the number being Mr. 
 Skaife, who has been an important factor in de- 
 veloping the lumber, manufacturing and agri- 
 cultural resources of both eastern and western 
 Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Skaife is a native of Wisconsin, his birth 
 occurring September 8, 1847, m Grant county. 
 He comes of English ancestry, his father, Robert 
 Skaife, having been born October 26, 1818, in 
 Yorkshire, England, the life-long residence of 
 John Skaife, the father of Robert, and grand- 
 father of Thomas Skaife. (For a more extended 
 account of the life of Robert Skaife, see biog- 
 raphy of Michael Skaife.) In 1857 Robert 
 Skaife located in Jackson county, Iowa, and was 
 there engaged in milling for nine years, owning 
 and operating a grist-mill. In 1866 he journeyed 
 by way of the Isthmus and San Francisco to Ore- 
 gon, and located in Salem, going from there 
 to Lincoln, this state, where he bought a farm 
 of one hundred and eighty-three acres, which 
 he managed successfully until his retirement 
 from active pursuits. 
 
 Thomas Skaife acquired his early education 
 in the district schools of Iowa, where his youth- 
 ful days were spent. Coming to Oregon with 
 his father and arriving June 13, 1867, he and his 
 brother, Michael Skaife, were first employed in 
 a flour-mill in Salem, remaining there until 1872. 
 when they purchased a saw-mill in the near-by 
 town of Lincoln, and at once erected a flouring- 
 mill to operate in conjunction, their property ad- 
 joining the farm which their father subsequently 
 
 bought. They afterward exchanged their mills 
 for the farm of J. D. Cooper, later trading the 
 farm for a half interest in a Silverton flour-mill, 
 which they operated in partnership with the 
 Mackintosh Brothers, and another brother, Jas- 
 per Skaife, for four years, when they bought out 
 their partners, subsequently running the mill 
 alone for two years, when it was known as 
 Skaife Brothers Milling Company, then dispos- 
 ing of the property to the Oregon Milling Com- 
 pany. From that time until 1887 Mr. Skaife 
 was connected with a flour-mill in Salem, then 
 went to Summerville, where he was successfully 
 engaged in business for fourteen years. Return- 
 ing to his former home, he remained in Silver- 
 ton a brief time, then assumed charge of the 
 La Grande Flouring Mills, formerly known as 
 Alliance Flouring Mills, retaining that position 
 until 1902, when he settled at his present home 
 in Silverton. He now owns considerable real 
 estate in this vicinity, including a house and some 
 lots in the city, and a valuable farm on the Abaqua 
 river, about one hundred acres of which is in 
 a good state of cultivation, nine acres of it being 
 devoted to the raising of hops. 
 
 Mr. Skaife married, in Summerville, Ore., 
 Lenona May Settlemier, who was born in Al- 
 bany, July 17, 1872, daughter of Alexander and 
 Linnie (Allen) Settlemier, the former a native 
 of Illinois, who came to Oregon across the 
 plains in 1852, and located on the Pudding river, 
 becoming a pioneer settler of that part of the 
 state. Politically Mr. Skaifie strongly advocates 
 the principles promulgated by the Republican 
 party, and fraternally he is a member of Silver- 
 ton Lodge, No. 45, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, and with his wife is a member of the 
 Eastern Star. 
 
 MICHAEL SKAIFE. A farm that never 
 fails to attract the attention of the passerby is 
 one located three miles south of Silverton, Marion 
 county, Ore., belonging to Michael Skaife, into 
 the improvement of which he has put the un- 
 wearied strength and eager effort of a man who 
 tills the soil from a love of it, and not from 
 necessity. He was reared to the life of a miller, 
 that being the trade of his father, Robert Skaife, 
 a native of Yorkshire, England, born October 
 26, 1 818. Emigrating to the United States in 
 1840, the father settled near Dubuque, Iowa, 
 where he engaged in farming till about 1846, 
 after which he removed to Grant county, Wis. 
 In the spring of 1850 he removed again to his 
 farm near Dubuque, Iowa, and in 1857 removed 
 to Jackson county, Iowa, where he engaged in 
 the milling business. In 1867 he came to Ore- 
 gon, sailing from New York to the Isthmus of 
 Panama, and on the Pacific side stopping at 
 
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 San Francisco on his way to Portland. He 
 first settled at Salem, where he worked at his 
 trade for a short time, soon, howevei, changing 
 his residence to Polk county. After a period of 
 twelve or thirteen years spent in this county, he 
 removed to Silverton, Marion county, where he 
 passed the remainder of his life. His wife, Jane 
 Skaife, also a native of Yorkshire, England, horn 
 June 9, 1818, had borne him eight children, 
 named in order of birth as follows : Joseph, 
 born August 22, 1841 ; Emma, born June 6, 1839, 
 and John G., deceased, born December 29, 1842, 
 the latter dying while serving in Company I, 
 Twenty-fourth Iowa Regiment during the Civil 
 war; Michael, of this review; Thomas, of Sil- 
 verton ; Jennie, born July 25, 1850, and Mary A., 
 born June 1, 1855, also deceased; and Jasper, 
 born December 19, 1861, now living in Colfax, 
 Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Skaife were devoted mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being 
 very active in church work. The death of these 
 old people, occurring to each in their eightieth 
 year, was a loss mourned by many. 
 
 Michael Skaife was born April 18, 1845, in 
 Dubuque county, Iowa. He received his early 
 education in the district schools, later attending 
 a high school and a business college. From his 
 father he learned the milling business, following 
 it steadily from 1867 to 1885. The last eight 
 years in which he was engaged in this business 
 he spent at Silverton, where with his brothers, 
 Thomas and Jasper, he conducted the mills of 
 that place. There h§ 1878 he married Miss Anna 
 Schnackenberg, a native of- Missouri, born Au- 
 gust 28, 1858, who had come with her parents 
 to Oregon in 1876. Four children blessed their 
 union, their names in order of birth being as 
 follows: Roy A., Bennie M., Robert Guy and 
 Mary J. The two last named are now deceased. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Skaife moved his family to the 
 farm where he now lives, three miles south of Sil- 
 verton, the place containing three hundred and 
 twenty acres, one hundred and ninety of which 
 are under cultivation. Here he carries on general 
 farming and stock-raising. He is also interested 
 in hop cultivation, having twenty-six acres de- 
 voted to this plant, which in 1902 produced nearly 
 seven tons. Mr. Skaife further improved his 
 property by erecting a handsome, modern house. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Skaife has always taken 
 a prominent place, serving as mayor of Silverton 
 and in minor offices, also as- school clerk and 
 member of the board of education. Politically 
 he is a Republican, and fraternally is associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and with the Daughters of Rebekah, having 
 passed all the chairs, and also filled one appointive 
 office in the grand lodge. Mr. Skaife has proven 
 himself an able and earnest citizen whose broad- 
 est aim is to assist in the upbuilding of the 
 
 country's prosperity. His success is seen, not 
 only in the well tilled fields of his farm, but also 
 in the general esteem in which he is held by the 
 men with whom his associations have lain for 
 so many years. When the brothers located in 
 Silverton there were but two hundred and fifty 
 inhabitants, and they built up the milling busi- 
 ness and also extended the railroad to their mill, 
 and in other ways liberally contributed to all 
 movements that advanced the interests of the city 
 and people. 
 
 ANDREW G. STEELHAMMER. Many of 
 the most thriving and enterprising agriculturists 
 and business men of Marion county have come 
 from the land beyond the sea, and of this number 
 Mr. Steelhammer is a worthy representative. The 
 second child in a family consisting of two sons 
 and a daughter, he was born in Carlstadt, 
 Sweden, January 6, 1847, an d was there reared 
 and educated. After leaving school, he worked 
 as a puddler in the iron works of his native town 
 until 1869, when he emigrated to America, a 
 land supposed to be flowing with milk and honey. 
 
 Arriving in the United States, Mr. Steelham- 
 mer located first near New Boston, 111., where he 
 worked as a farm hand about three months, 
 when he joined a harvesting gang, which he fol- 
 lowed through northern Illinois, Minnesota and 
 Iowa. The ensuing year he was employed in 
 the construction department of the Milwaukee & 
 St. Paul Railway Company, laying rails for a 
 year. Settling in Winona, Minn., in 1871, he 
 served as an apprentice at the carriagemaker's 
 trade, which he followed in that place for ten 
 years. Going then, in 1881, to North Dakota, 
 he was there engaged in blacksmithing for ten 
 years, when he followed the tide of emigration 
 westward to the state of Washington, where he 
 stayed about two months. Early in 1892, Mr. 
 Steelhammer came to Silverton, Ore., and at 
 once established himself as a blacksmith, meet- 
 ing with signal success from the first. He has 
 since purchased twenty-eight acres of land, one 
 half of it adjoining city property, and has ma- 
 terially improved his purchase by the erection 
 of a fine residence on the hill overlooking the 
 city of Silverton. He has further utilized his 
 land by devoting three acres of it to the raising 
 of prunes, and eight acres to the raising of hops. 
 
 At Winona, Minn., in 1871, Mr. Steelhammer 
 was united in marriage with Miss Christina An- 
 derson, who was born and reared in Norway, 
 living there until 1869, when she came to the 
 United States, settling in Winona, Minn. Of 
 their union the following named children have 
 been born: John F., a resident of Salem, Ore.; 
 Carl G., deceased ; Helma, wife of A. P. Allen, 
 San Francisco, Cal. ; Oscar Adolph, connected 
 
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 with the .Military Rand at Salem, Ore.; Louie R., 
 oi Salem. Ore.: Artie E., living at home; 
 George W .. at home; and William H., living 
 with his parents, plays in the Silverton band. 
 
 Mr. Steelhammer is a stanch adherent of the 
 Republican party, and takes an active interest in 
 political affairs, attending all local and county 
 conventions. He is prominent in fraternal cir- 
 cles, being a member and past master of Silver- 
 ton Lodge Xo. 45, A. F. & A. M. ; Ramona 
 Chapter Xo. 58, Eastern Star : past grand of the 
 Silver Lodge Xo. 21, I. O. O. F. ; and past chief 
 in the Ridgley Encampment. 
 
 FRANK VAX WESSEXHOVE. Farm- 
 ing and mining have been followed by Frank 
 Van YVessenhove with equal success, al- 
 though he undoubtedly would give the prefer- 
 ence to farming, in which he has been con- 
 tinuously engaged since 1859. This indus- 
 trious and exemplary farmer is one of the 
 many who have come from the little country 
 of Belgium and identified their special abil- 
 ities with the upbuilding of this fortunate 
 nook of the world. He was born on a farm 
 not far from Brussels, March 8, 1841, and 
 was but three years of age when his parents 
 embarked in a sailing vessel for American 
 shores, reaching their destination after many 
 weeks of storm and calm. The parents 
 located in Monroe county, Mich., where the 
 son Frank grew to manhood, and where he 
 secured a fair education in the public schools. 
 
 Of all the youth in the farmer families of 
 Monroe county r none listened more attentivelv 
 to the accounts of wealth in the west than did 
 Frank Van Wessenhove, then approaching 
 eighteen years of age. Accordingly r , he made 
 preparation to cross the plains in a train of 
 emigrants in 1859, and located the first winter 
 in Portland. In the spring of i860 he came to 
 the French Prairie, in Marion county, and 
 after living on a farm for a year tried his luck 
 in the mines of Idaho. He was fairly success- 
 ful in the latter enterprise, and upon returning 
 to Marion county located on a rented farm 
 near Gervais, where he lived until 1867. In 
 the meantime, in 1863, he had married Ellen 
 Coyle, a native of Minnesota and a daughter 
 of James Coyle, who came to Oregon in 1853, 
 locating in Yamhill count\ r , whence he moved 
 to St. Paul. He married Charlotte Scott, a 
 native of Wisconsin, who died on the Platte 
 river while crossing the plains. Mr. Coyle 
 died at the home of Mr. \ r an Wessenhove' in 
 1897. In 1867 Mr. Van Wessenhove and his 
 wife located on the farm which has since been 
 the family home, and which is located one 
 mile from Champoeg. Of this first marriage 
 
 there were born six children, of whom four 
 are living; Mary, the wife of Charles P. Mc- 
 Cormick ; Josephine, wife of Thomas Kerr, of St. 
 Paul; Alexander J., of Portland; and Eliza, 
 wife of John Kerr, of Washington county, 
 Ore. June 1, 1898, Mr. Van Wessenhove's 
 first wife died, and February 5, 1901, he was 
 united in marriage with Mrs. Ellen Ramsey. She 
 was reared in Boston, a daughter of William and 
 Mary (McArthur) Walsh. She is a niece of 
 Archbishop Walsh of Ireland, and a sister of 
 Rev. James Walsh, a priest now located in 
 Queenstown, Ireland. She was united in mar- 
 riage with Patrick .Ferguson, and they became 
 the parents of two children, George and Agnes. 
 Her second marriage united her with Edward 
 Ramsey, and they had one daughter, Henri- 
 etta. All now reside at home. Mrs. Van 
 Wessenhove has been a resident of Oregon 
 eleven years. 
 
 The Van Wessenhove farm consists of 
 four hundred and sixty-five acres, upon which 
 is conducted general farming and stock- 
 raising. An additional source of revenue is a 
 hop yard of forty-seven acres, with which 
 the owner has had great success. In politi- 
 cal affiliation Mr. Van Wessenhove is a Re- 
 publican, and fraternally he is associated with 
 Hubbard Lodge No. 76, I. O. O. F., and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. In re- 
 ligion he is identified with the Roman Catho- 
 lic Church. He is thrifty, enterprising, thor- 
 oughly honorable and popular, and his worthy 
 career has added materially to the upbuilding 
 of the agricultural interests in Marion county. 
 
 SAMUEL CLIXTOX BROWXE, M. D. In 
 the extent of its breadth and activity the life 
 of Dr. Samuel Clinton Browne has exceeded by 
 far that of the average medical and surgical prac- 
 titioner. A resident of Scio since 1898, the 
 doctor has w^on a large and appreciative practice 
 in the town and surrounding country, devoting 
 himself to general practice of medicine and sur- 
 gery. 
 
 The family to which Dr. Browne belongs was 
 established in Pennsylvania by his paternal 
 grandfather, Hugh Browne, who came from Lon- 
 donderry, Ireland, at an early day, and engaged 
 in the manufacture of brick. He was success- 
 ful in his chosen occupation, and at the time of 
 his death at the age of sixty left those dependent 
 on him in comfortable circumstances. A mili- 
 tary strain runs through the family, remote an- 
 cestors having been distinguished for their 
 knowledge of warfare and their bravery on the 
 field of battle. This patriotic tendency was ap- 
 parent in at least three of the sons of the grand- 
 father, two of whom, Edward and Hugh, served 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 all through the Mexican war, while Andrew, the 
 father of Dr. Browne, devoted nearly all of his 
 active life to military service. This father was 
 born near Lebanon, Pa., and married Sarah Clin- 
 ton, and they had three children, two of whom 
 died in early childhood, Samuel Clinton Browne 
 being the only survivor. 
 
 Born on a farm bordering on the Susquehanna 
 river, near Harrisburg, Pa., January 13, 1856, 
 Dr. Browne went from the public schools to 
 Palmyra Academy in 1874, and in 1875 began 
 a two-years' course at the Lebanon Valley Col- 
 lege at Annville, Pa. In 1877 he went to Dick- 
 inson county, Kans., and e/igaged in teaching 
 school for a couple of years, and from 1879 un ~ 
 til 1883 combined teaching with studying med- 
 icine under Dr. A. S. Gish, of Abilene, Kans. 
 At the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, which he entered in 1884, and from which 
 he was graduated in 1890, he took a special 
 course in the eye and ear department, receiving 
 a diploma for proficiency therein. In the mean- 
 time, in 1887, he had taken his mother to Ore- 
 gon for her health, and had been much impressed 
 with the climate and apparent resources of the 
 country. After graduating, he returned to Ore- 
 gon, and opened his initial practice in Mill City, 
 remaining there for two years. In 1894 he 
 changed his location to Salem, in 1896 moved 
 to Fall City, and from the latter town, to Scio, 
 in 1898. 
 
 Through his marriage in Salem, Ore., with 
 Ida R. Bunn, a native of Pennsylvania, Dr. 
 Browne became identified with a family splendid- 
 ly honored by the remarkable professional ser- 
 vices of Mrs. Browne's father, Prof. James M. 
 Bunn, M. D., who also was born in the Quaker 
 state. Dr. Bunn was a graduate of the Jefferson 
 Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., and was a 
 scholar of wide scientific research. The asso- 
 ciate of many of the most learned men of the 
 country, and the fellow of the most prominent 
 and time-honored medical and scientific associa- 
 tions in America and Europe, he received inter- 
 national attention as one of the finest bacteriolo- 
 gists which this country has produced. Few 
 have accomplished so much in this particular 
 line. He was the founder, and up to the time 
 of his death, December 15, 1896, the president, of 
 the National Bacteriological Society, and as such 
 contributed many notable papers on the subject. 
 For many years he made his home in Altoona, 
 Pa., where his demise was brought about through 
 neuralgia of the heart. Fifty years of profes- 
 sional activity had made him a power in the 
 Quaker state, and the loss sustained by the scien- 
 tific world at large, especially that part devoted 
 to the sudy of organisms, was greatly felt. 
 
 Dr. S. C. Browne is a member of the Oregon 
 Eclectic Medical Association and the National 
 
 Eclectic Medical Association. Since coming to 
 Oregon Dr. Browne has by no means confined 
 himself to professional undertakings but has en- 
 tered heartily into the promotion of the civic, 
 social and military development of his respective 
 localities. In 1893 he was appointed on the hos- 
 pital staff of the Second Regiment Ohio National 
 Guards and surgeon of Southern Veterans United 
 States of America, of which he was captain of 
 a cavalry company at Camp Sumpter and later 
 at the dedication of the Soldiers' Home at Rose- 
 burg, May 9-10, 1894. He was elected and com- 
 missioned lieutenant-colonel and served one year 
 as such. He is a military man in his bearing 
 and character, being of particularly forceful na- 
 ture and feels at home on tented field. 
 
 DAVID H. JOHNSTON. In the community 
 of Scio David H. Johnston is regarded as an 
 excellent business man, a wide-awake and pro- 
 gressive citizen, and a loyal and high-minded 
 friend. Many admirable characteristics have 
 contributed to his success, not the least of which 
 are common-sense indefatigable industry, and 
 unswerving integrity. At present the bookkeeper 
 and business manager of a planing mill which he 
 bought for his sons in 1900, Mr. Johnston has 
 been identified with agricultural and stock-rais- 
 ing interests in Oregon ever since coming here 
 in 1873, and it is from these reliable sources that 
 his present ample fortune has been derived. The 
 farm upon which he lived for twenty-seven years 
 in Marion county, and which he still owns, is lo- 
 cated near Stayton, and is five hundred and fifty 
 acres in extent. Needless to say, every known 
 aid to scientific farming has been introduced on 
 this modern property, and during the residence 
 of the family there, they were surrounded with 
 all the comforts and many luxuries of life. 
 
 A native of Fifeshire, Scotland, Mr. Johnston 
 was born November 8, 1838, and in his youth had 
 the advantages of the public schools. His father, 
 George Johnston, also a native of Scotland, was 
 a linen manufacturer, and owned and operated 
 a mill of three hundred looms at Wemyss. He 
 was successful in his chosen occupation, and 
 amassed a competence, making a name for him- 
 self as one of the foremost and influential men 
 in the community. His entire life was passed in 
 Scotland, and his death occurred at the age of 
 sixty-five, his wife, Jane (Sibbald) Johnston, also 
 dying in her native land, after rearing a fam- 
 ily of seven children. David Henry, being the 
 oldest in the family, naturally became interested 
 in his father's linen business, and as a youth 
 began at the bottom and learned to be a practical 
 linen weaver. In time he assumed partial respon- 
 sibility in the management of the manufactory, 
 and was thus employed until coming to America 
 
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 in 1S73. With him to America came his wife, 
 formerly Alice Christie, who died in Scio in 1900, 
 at the age of sixty years, leaving two sons, 
 rge G. and Harry S., who are now in busi- 
 ness with their father. Mr. Johnston is a Re- 
 publican in politics and has taken a keen interest 
 111 local affairs, serving for several years as 
 school director and road supervisor. Resource- 
 ful and ambitious, Mr. Johnston lias demon- 
 strated the worth of conservative and cautious 
 business methods, of a temperate and equable 
 disposition, and tact and consideration. He has 
 many friends in Scio, as well as in the locality 
 where so many successful years of his life were 
 passed. 
 
 NICHOLAS GOODING. Born in Prussia, 
 fanuary 18, 1832, Nicholas Gooding was a very 
 early emigrant to the United States, having 
 come with his parents to this country in 1844, 
 his first home being in Vernon, Jennings county, 
 Ind., where his father purchased a farm and be- 
 came interested in the cultivation of the soil. 
 L'pon this farm the boyhood days of Nicholas 
 Gooding were spent, his training being princi- 
 pally along agricultural lines, though he received 
 a substantial education in the common schools 
 of the neighborhood. 
 
 L'pon attaining manhood Mr. Gooding de- 
 parted from his early training, and after a thor- 
 ough apprenticeship with a blacksmith passed 
 the twelve years following his seventeenth birth- 
 day in that business, acquiring sufficient means 
 to launch him well in farming which, after all, 
 proved more congenial. After engaging in this 
 work for twenty- eight years in the middle west, 
 be concluded to test the opportunities of the 
 lands of the Pacific coast. In 1889 he came to 
 Oregon and invested the proceeds of his many 
 years' work in the farm known as the Gratton 
 farm, and which included seventy-five acres of 
 land located southeast of his present farm. In 
 that location he remained until 1895, engaged in 
 general farming and hop-raising, having fifteen 
 acres devoted to this plant. In the last-named 
 year he made the purchase of the farm which he 
 now owns, formerly known as the Clary place, 
 consisting of one hundred and seventy-one acres, 
 and located three-quarters of a mile from St. 
 Paul, Marion county. At the present time he is 
 interested in general farming and hop-raising, 
 eighteen acres of the farm being utilized in hop- 
 cultivation. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Gooding was united in marriage 
 with Mary Erbsland, daughter of Joseph and 
 Tracy (Lang) Erbsland. To this union eleven 
 children have been born, eight of whom are now 
 living. They are as follows : George, at home ; 
 Lizzie, wife of John Glatt, of Jennings county, 
 
 Ind. ; John and Charles, in Marion county ; Law- 
 rence, located near St. Paul ; Annie, wife of 
 Fred Davidson, living on a farm south of St. 
 Paul ; Joseph, a merchant of St. Paul ; and Will- 
 iam L., at home. Those deceased are Tracy, 
 and Peter and Jacob, twins, who died in infancy. 
 In politics Mr. Gooding is a Democrat, though 
 he has never been a seeker after official life. In 
 religion he is a devoted member of the Catholic 
 Church. He has never shirked any responsi- 
 bility which has been placed upon his shoulders, 
 and has always accomplished all in his power 
 toward the improvement of educational, moral 
 and social conditions in Marion county. He is 
 widely known as a good citizen in the highest 
 sense of the word, being possessed of a disposi- 
 tion to assist in the promotion of all worthy enter- 
 prises. 
 
 JAMES M. HERRON. On the farm now 
 occupied by James Martin, in Benton county, 
 James M. Herron was born October 9, 1863, ms 
 parents, Robert and Mary W. (Neil) Herron, 
 having moved there in 1861. Robert Herron 
 was born in Ireland, and came to the Umited 
 States in 185 1, passing through Illinois, where 
 his future wife was living with her parents. He 
 came on to Oregon via the Isthmus of Panama, 
 and in Oregon took up a claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres five miles northeast of Mon- 
 roe. Ten years later, in 1861, he returned to 
 Illinois and married Miss Neil, with whom he 
 returned to the west and settled on his donation 
 claim, and where he lived to be fifty-five years 
 old. He was a soldier in the Rogue river war, 
 and was a worthy man and helpful citizen. His 
 wife married for her second husband James 
 Barclay, who was born in Missouri, and crossed 
 the plains in 1851. He took up a farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, the location being 
 twelve miles from Corvallis, where he lived until 
 his death in 1892. At present his widow is occu- 
 pying this property, and is managing successfully 
 a large general farming and stock-raising en- 
 terprise. 
 
 James M. Herrcn was educated in the public 
 schools, and remained on the home farm until 
 twenty-seven years of age. He then purchased 
 three hundred and eighty-five acres of the Aaron 
 C. Richardson donation claim fourteen miles 
 south of Corvallis on the old Territorial road, 
 and for two years kept desolate bachelor 
 quarters. Realizing that to best succeed in life 
 he needed the assistance of a discerning and 
 svmpathetic wife, he married, March 21, 1894, 
 Ella Montgomery, who was born in Linn county, 
 Ore., but spent most of her maidenhood in Lane 
 county, Ore., and with whom he went to 
 housekeeping under a little more cheerful aus- 
 
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 pices. He has prospered exceedingly, has a 
 variety of interests on his farm, and is equally 
 successful in all of its departments. A substantial 
 revenue is derived each year from Cotswold 
 sheep and Jersey cows, and he has twenty acres 
 under hops. He has been particularly success- 
 ful with his hop culture, the last year netting 
 him eighteen thousand pounds. Mr. Herron is a 
 Democrat in politics, and among other offices 
 has held that of road supervisor and school di- 
 rector. Fraternally he is identified with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Herron is 
 not only a successful and scientific agriculturist, 
 but he exerts a broad influence in the community 
 because of sterling personal characteristics. He 
 is a power in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South, in which he is a trustee, steward and 
 Sunday school superintendent. 
 
 THOMPSON D. HINTON. Though not 
 one of the very large land-owners of Benton 
 county, Thompson D. Hinton is one of its most 
 successful farmers, and most popular and influ- 
 ential residents. His name is a well known one 
 hereabouts, and was established in the west by 
 his father, R. B. Hinton, a pioneer of 1846. The 
 elder Hinton was a typical forerunner of civil- 
 ization, and his career in the west, productive 
 of such advancement in Benton county, has else- 
 where received the extended mention due him. 
 Two of his sons, Wesley and Thompson, are 
 maintaining the prestige established by their 
 father, and of these, Thompson was born in 
 Franklin county, Mo., July 31, 1840, and was 
 therefore six years of age when he accompanied 
 the family across the plains. On the large dona- 
 tion claim near Monroe, Mr. Hinton was reared 
 to farming, and his education was acquired in 
 the near-by district school, augmented by further 
 study in the town schools. At the age of twenty- 
 one he followed out a long-intended plan, and in 
 the mines on the Salmon river sought to multi- 
 ply his gains in short order. The fact that he 
 remained but a year would suggest comparative 
 failure of his expectations, and his return to 
 farming indicates an appreciation of that peace- 
 ful and sure means of livelihood. After a couple 
 of years on the farm he again engaged in min- 
 ing, this time on the John Day river, but after 
 several months returned to the old claim settled 
 by his father in the early days. February 12, 
 1865, Mr. Hinton married Margaret Barclay, 
 a native of Missouri, and who crossed the plains 
 with her people in 1850. For a year after the 
 wedding the young people kept house on the old 
 claim, and then moved to the J. E. Barclay place, 
 remaining thereon for about three years. Mr. 
 Hinton then bought the home where he now 
 
 lives, and which consists of ninety-three acres, in 
 the vicinity of Bruce. He is engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, and has so wisely dis- 
 posed of his property that his profits are large 
 and enable his family to live in comfort. 
 
 At all times quiet and unostentatious, Mr. 
 Hinton has never been associated with political 
 matters in his neighborhood other than as a 
 voter, nor does he allow outside interests of any 
 kind to interfere with the even and very industri- 
 ous tenor of his way. Nine children have been 
 born into his family, and of these, Henry C. 
 lives in Linn county; R. W. lives near his 
 brother in Benton county; Amy E. is one of the 
 industrious members of the household; George 
 E. assists his father with the home farm ; Fred 
 also is one of his father's main-stays; Minnie 
 C. is the wife of C. Sickles, of Linn county; 
 Ivan lives near his father; Wade is at home; 
 and Eddie F. met a tragic death by drowning. 
 Mr. Hinton is a member of the American Guild. 
 He possesses the same regard for business in- 
 tegrity which characterized the dealings of his 
 honored sire, and as a father, husband and agri- 
 culturist, reflects credit upon his prosperous 
 home district. 
 
 _ WILLIAM D. BARCLAY. A prominent 
 farmer of Benton county, Ore., is William D. 
 Barclay, the son of William Barclay, deceased, 
 the latter of whom was a pioneer to the west in 
 1850. The Barclay family came originally from 
 Scotland, the emigrants to the United States 
 being the parents of William Barclay, and their 
 first settlement was made in North Carolina. 
 They later became residents of Missouri, in the 
 latter state making their home until their death. 
 There William Barclay was born, in 1805, and 
 reared to manhood, following for a livelihood 
 surveying and school teaching, and there marry- 
 ing Mary Ann Brown, a native of Tennessee. 
 They continued to make their home in Missouri 
 until 1850, when they were induced to join the 
 pioneers of the Pacific slope. With the usual 
 ox-teams they started upon their journey, reach- 
 ing without incident the South Platte, where 
 Mrs. Barclay died from the effects of the dread 
 disease, cholera. There was nothing left but to 
 continue the journey with saddened hearts, and 
 on arriving in Oregon they first settled in Yam- 
 hill county, where they spent the winter follow- 
 ing the trip. In the spring of 1851 they came 
 to Benton county, where Mr. Barclay took up a 
 donation claim, located twelve and one-half 
 miles south of Corvallis, on which he lived until 
 his death. He was the father of seven children, 
 of whom Robert S. is located in Alsea valley ; 
 Mary E. is the widow of Andrew Rickard ; 
 James is also in Alsea valley ; Margaret is the 
 

MRS. ELIZABETH ISOM. 
 

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 wife of T. D. Hinton, of this vicinity; Winnie 
 the wife of William LeYaugh, of Linn 
 count v : and William is the subject of this review. 
 Mr. Barclay lived to be eighty-three years old, 
 the many years which he spent in this com- 
 munity being filled with the practice of good citi- 
 zenship, winning thereby the esteem and confi- 
 dence of all with whom he came in contact. He 
 filled many minor offices, among them being that 
 of justice of the peace. At his death he was 
 a very wealthy man, his years of earnest effort 
 toward the fulfillment of the many promises of 
 Oregon's early opportunities bringing him rich 
 returns. 
 
 William D. Barclay was born in Missouri, 
 March 21, 1850, and in the same year was 
 brought across the plains. He has therefore 
 spent practically his entire life in this state. He 
 grew to manhood on the paternal farm, engaging 
 in the various duties which his home life 
 afforded, attending the district school in pur- 
 suit of an education. He remained at home until 
 his marriage to Eliza Reeves. She was a native 
 of Oregon, her parents having crossed the 
 plains in 1844 and settled in Benton county. The 
 young people went to housekeeping on the place 
 where they now live, which was a part of the 
 old home place. He has made the greater part 
 of the improvements which have so much en- 
 hanced the value of the property, having good 
 barns, out-buildings, and a commodious dwell- 
 ing. He now owns two hundred and eighty- 
 seven acres, one hundred and thirty acres of 
 which are under cultivation. He is engaged at 
 present in general farming and stock-raising, 
 making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle. 
 
 The union of Mr. and Mrs. Barclay has been 
 blessed by the birth of three children, of whom 
 Ina is the wife of Edward Bryan, of Ontario, 
 Ore. : Chauncey is located in the vicinity ; and 
 Iva is at home. Fraternally Mr. Barclay is a 
 member of the Masonic order and Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. Politically he is a Dem- 
 ocrat. 
 
 JEFFERSOX D. ISOM. Beyond any con- 
 sideration of money-making the farm of Jef- 
 ferson D. Isom is a valued possession, for on 
 this same land he was born July 4, 1861, and 
 here passed his childhood days, developed into 
 manhood, and still lives, a successful and pop- 
 ular member of a thriving community. His 
 father, John Isom. was born in Grayson coun- 
 ty. Va., October 7. 1827. and while still a youth 
 removed to Jefferson City. Mo., where he ap- 
 prenticed himself to a blacksmith. He mar- 
 ried a widow by the name of Elizabeth 
 (Smith) Duncan, and in 1853 crossed the 
 
 plains with ox-teams, accompanied by his 
 wife, her brothers and her father, and numer- 
 ous emigrants from his neighborhood. The 
 journey was uneventful, and after six months 
 they arrived in Linn county, where Mr. Isom 
 took up a claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres upon which he lived for a short time. Ho 
 then purchased the present farm now occupied 
 by his son and engaged in stock-raising until 
 1884, when he went to Albany and bought the 
 Parker & Morris warehouse. This large struc- 
 ture he converted into the Red Crown Flour- 
 ing Mill, which he operated until 1895, and after 
 that made his home with his son until his 
 death March 14, 1903, at the age of seventy-six 
 years. He was prominent as a Democrat, and 
 took a keen interest in local affairs, serving 
 among other capacities as county commission- 
 er. The widow is still living, making her home 
 with a daughter in Albany. She was born Ifl 
 1824. 
 
 With his seven sisters and two brothers Jef- 
 ferson Isom was reared on the Linn county 
 farm, and all of the children received a prac- 
 tical education in the public schools of the 
 country and Albany. He was' thrifty and in- 
 dustrious as a youth, characteristics which are 
 apparent to all who visit his well kept and 
 highly developed property. In 1883 he mar- 
 ried Mabel Woolen, who died after ten months 
 of wedded life. For a second wife Mr. Isom 
 married in 1885, Jane Arehart, who was born 
 in Linn county, a daughter of George and 
 Minerva (Matthews) Arehart, both now liv- 
 ing in Junction City, Lowe county. Ore. Of 
 this union there have been born three children, 
 of whom Hugh and Jefferson are living, while 
 one, Ira, is deceased. Mr. Isom at present 
 owns six hundred acres of land, and makes a 
 specialty of high-grade stock. Shorthorn cattle 
 and Cotswold sheep, many of which are regis- 
 tered. His farm is also devoted to a model 
 dairy business, his butter and dairy products 
 taking high rank in the local market. The farm 
 is located fifteen miles southeast of Albany, 
 and in its general aspect shows the many years 
 of good management to which it has been sub- 
 jected. Like his father, Mr. Isom favors the 
 Democracy, but he has never taken an active 
 interest in local party affairs, other than cast- 
 ing his vote. He is fraternally a Knight of 
 Pythias, and is a member of Do\vdell Lodge 
 Xo. 16. of Brownsville. Industrious and ca- 
 pable, Mr. Isom maintains the most friendly 
 relations Avith his neighbors and associates, 
 and that he is honored and esteemed by all 
 argues well for his personal integrity and gen- 
 eral characteristics, for his entire life has been 
 an open book to those, who, like himself, have 
 lived many years in this community. 
 
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 COLUMBIA READ. Personal character- 
 istics of a high order, a life of devotion to the 
 responsibilities imposed upon him, as well as the 
 fact that he is a native son and representative of 
 one of the old pioneer families of the state, en- 
 title Columbia Read to mention among the up- 
 builders of this well favored nook of the world. 
 Although a resident of Corvallis only since 1892, 
 he was born on the old donation claim seven 
 miles north of this town, December 29, 1852, a 
 son of Thomas, and grandson of a soldier of the 
 war of 1812, who died when a very young man. 
 The family is of English descent. He is now 
 practically retired from active life, but still over- 
 sees his productive farming property, and rejoices 
 in the possession of some of the finest Shorthorn 
 cattle and Cotswold sheep this side of the 
 Rockies. 
 
 To all old settlers, and in fact to all who have 
 kept pace with the progress of Oregon from a 
 wilderness to its present prosperous condition, 
 the- name of Thomas M. Read is a familiar one. 
 Because of brains and perseverance he emerged 
 from poverty and obscurity to the possession of 
 three thousand acres of land, and great in- 
 fluence in his community. Born in New Hamp- 
 shire he early settled in Iowa and engaged in 
 steamboating on the Mississippi river, also turn- 
 ing his attention to the manufacture of brick at 
 Fort Madison. In 1845, while still a young and 
 unmarried man, he crossed the plains with ox- 
 teams to Oregon, and after a six months' trip 
 located on a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres in Benton county. Having very lit- 
 tle capital with which to start out, he had some 
 difficulty in getting along at first, and used to 
 resort to various devices for making a liveli- 
 hood while his land was being cleared for crops. 
 He used to go to Oregon City and assist in the 
 manufacture of brick in order to get a little 
 money ahead. During 1849-50 he tried his luck 
 in the mines of. California, but it would not seem 
 that he materially improved his prospects by this 
 venture. At different times between 1862 and 
 1868 he drove stock to the mines of Idaho, sold 
 his cattle for big money, and always returned 
 richer in hope and finances. It is not surprising 
 that one of such resource and many-sidedness 
 should prosper, or that he should add to his 
 lands, and render them valuable through culti- 
 vation. He made his money chiefly through 
 grain-raising and stock manipulations, and at the 
 time of his death in September, 1892, was one 
 of the well-to-do men of Benton county. For 
 two years he was survived by his wife, whom he 
 married in Benton county, and who was formerly 
 Nancy White, a native of Iowa. Nancy White 
 married for her first husband a Mr. Hawkins, 
 with whom she started across the plains in 1845. 
 He was not destined, however, to profit by his 
 
 chances in the west, for he was overtaken with 
 disease on the plains, and died on the Snake 
 river. Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Read, five are living, four sons and one daughter. 
 Of these, Theresa, was the deceased wife of John 
 Benson, of Benton county; Perry is a stockman 
 in Crook county, Ore.; Columbia; Sumner is a 
 business man of Tacoma, Wash.; Charles is 
 living in Oregon City; and Clara is the wife of 
 Tolbert Norton, of Corvallis. 
 
 Until his twenty-first year Columbia Read 
 lived with his father, and from him learned to be 
 a successful farmer and stock-raiser. Upon start- 
 ing out to farm independently he bought a ranch 
 two miles from his old home, and now owns a 
 farm of four hundred and eighty acres near 
 Wells Station. Needless to say, his property is 
 finely improved, is all under cultivation, and for 
 many years has been devoted principally to grain 
 and stock-raising. Having amassed a compe- 
 tency, Mr. Read moved to Corvallis in 1892, 
 bought a piece of property, and built his present 
 large and modern home. In Benton county he 
 married Tillie Dudley, who was born in Illinois, 
 near Rock Island, a daughter of Gustavus Dud- 
 ley, who brought his family to Oregon in 1868. 
 William and Bert, the two children in the family, 
 are living in Corvallis. Mr. Read is a Republican 
 in politics, and is fraternally connected with the 
 Knights of the Maccabees and the Artisans. 
 Mrs. Read is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 Mr. Read is a genial and popular man, and has 
 many friends in the town and county. 
 
 THOMAS LEESE. Though a young man 
 and a new-comer to the state, Mr. Leese is nev- 
 ertheless much interested in Oregon, and dur- 
 ing his short residence in Corvallis he has proved 
 his worth as a substantial citizen of the place bv 
 his straightforward business methods. Mr. Leese 
 is manager of the Willamette Valley Banking 
 Company, which carries on a general banking 
 business, and he has had wide experience as a 
 banker, being interested at the present time in 
 no less than four banking houses. An English- 
 man by birth, with Crewe, Cheshire, as his birth- 
 place, he is a descendant of an old and honored 
 English family. He obtained a good education 
 in his native land, where he attended college. 
 His father, Isaac Leese, was a farmer by occu- 
 pation, as was also his grandfather, Abraham 
 Leese. His mother was a native of Stafford- 
 shire, England, and was before marriage, Sarah 
 Wood, a daughter of John Wood, a prominent 
 stockman. She died in her native land and Isaac 
 afterward crossed the ocean and sought a home 
 in America. 
 
 Thomas Leese was born December 16, 1862, 
 and was the only son of his parents. After 
 
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 leaving an agricultural college he served three 
 years as surveyor and civil engineer at Capes- 
 thorne. In 1883 he emigrated to America and 
 engaged in farming with his father in Manitoba, 
 Dominion of Canada. They improved the land 
 and farmed on a large scale, meeting with un- 
 limited success in that line. He was elected 
 county treasurer of Birtle county, Manitoba, in 
 [890, serving until 1900. He was also engaged 
 in exporting fine cattle to England and Scotland, 
 from Manitoba and Northwest Canada, shipping 
 direct to Liverpool, London and Glasgow. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Leese first engaged in the banking 
 business by establishing a bank at Birtle, and 
 later an associate bank at Russell. In this ven- 
 ture he had two partners, J. C. Dudley and Will- 
 iam Scarth. The partnership then formed is 
 still in force, and although Mr. Leese has left 
 that section of the country, he still retains his 
 interests in both banks. In 1900 Mr. Leese left 
 Manitoba and the following year came to Ore- 
 gon, opening the Lincoln County Bank of To- 
 ledo, and served as active manager for one year. 
 In July. 1902, he opened the Willamette Valley 
 Bank in Corvallis, of which he is now manager, 
 leaving the Lincoln County Bank in charge of 
 Mr. Scarth. 
 
 Mr. Leese was united in marriage with Emma 
 Fields, of Ontario, that happy event taking place 
 in Wisconsin, and they unite in worshiping at the 
 Episcopal Church. In fraternal circles, Mr. 
 Leese holds a membership with the Knights of 
 Pythias and he is a valued member of the Amer- 
 ican Bankers' Association. 
 
 BUSHROD W. WILSON. There are few 
 men whose lives are crowned with the honor and 
 respect which was uniformly accorded Bush- 
 rod Wilson, but through many long years of 
 connection with Oregon's history his was an 
 unblemished character. With him success in life 
 was reached by his sterling qualities of mind and 
 heart. True to every manly principle he never 
 deviated from what his judgment would indi- 
 cate to be right and honorable between his fellow- 
 men and himself ; he never swerved from the 
 path of duty, and in the evening of a long and 
 eventful career he could look back over the past 
 with pride and without regret for any unworthy 
 action done. In fact, he had the right to enjoy 
 the consciousness of having gained for himself 
 by his honorable, straightforward career the con- 
 fidence and respect of the entire community in 
 which he lived. He stands high in the history of 
 the state, in that he filled the position of a county 
 clerk for a longer period than any other man who 
 has ever resided in Oregon. His life record pre- 
 sents many exemplary traits of character and 
 may well prove of great benefit to others, if they 
 
 will but heed the obvious lessons which it con- 
 tains. 
 
 In pioneer times Mr. Wilson became a resident 
 of Oregon. He was born in the far-off state of 
 Maine, his natal year being 1824 and his birth 
 place Columbia Falls. On the paternal side he 
 comes of Anglo-Saxon lineage and on the ma- 
 ternal side he was of French Huguenot descent. 
 Perhaps the early trials of his mother's family, 
 who had been exiled from Arcadia, were some- 
 what responsible for the intense love which he 
 always manifested for our American free insti- 
 tutions and for the country in which man can 
 worship according to the dictates of his own 
 conscience. However this may be, Mr. Wilson 
 always displayed the utmost fidelity to the coun- 
 try, and' in matters of citizenship he was most 
 loyal and progressive. He was also a bitter op- 
 ponent of anything that seemed to him out of 
 harmony with the keeping of the American spirit 
 of freedom and protection for all, and thus it 
 was that in early life, he became a free-soil Whig 
 and afterward a stanch abolitionist, ever known 
 as the champion and friend of the cause of the 
 oppressed. 
 
 When but nine years of age Mr. Wilson ac- 
 companied his parents on their removal to New 
 York, and to some extent attended the public 
 schools of that city, but his educational privi- 
 leges were somewhat limited. In later years, 
 however, reading, experience and observation 
 brought to him broad knowledge and he became 
 a well informed man. Especially did he keep 
 in touch with everything pertaining to his coun- 
 try and her interests. His independent spirit and 
 self-reliance were early manifested, for from a 
 very youthful age he depended upon his own re- 
 sources and by the time he had reached the age 
 of seventeen he had gained much skill in various 
 pursuits that brought to him a substantial re- 
 turn. He worked at the printer's trade with 
 Horace Greeley, and when nothing better offered 
 he would run errands and thus add to his weekly 
 income. It was not necessity that forced Mr. 
 Wilson to do this, for his father was in rather 
 comfortable circumstances, but an innate spirit 
 of independence was his and he was in no way 
 afraid to work. In fact, throughout his entire 
 life indolence and idleness were utterly foreign 
 to his nature, and he was ever busy either with 
 his own private interests or in furthering meas- 
 ures and movements for the general good. 
 
 In the year 1840 Mr. Wilson's father removed 
 to Illinois when the greater part of that state 
 was an unbroken prairie and the city of Chicago 
 was open fields. The mother of Bushrod Wilson 
 had died some years previously, and after moving 
 west the father married again. After a time, 
 being of an adventurous disposition, Bushrod 
 Wilson, desiring to see more of the world, made 
 
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 his way to the Atlantic coast and took passage 
 upon a whaling vessel, bound for the Pacific 
 waters, on a three-years' cruise. He sailed under 
 Captain Taber on the bark Harvest, and experi- 
 enced the hardships and difficulties incident to 
 such a trip at that time. Whaling at that time 
 was also attended with various dangers and it 
 was necessary that the men should become ex- 
 pert swimmers, as they were often thrown into 
 the water. He related that when out in the 
 middle of the Pacific with the boat crew he was 
 several times in the water for the greater part 
 of a day. When the voyage was over Mr. Wil- 
 son paid a visit to his father and brothers in the 
 west and then again went to sea, making several 
 voyages up the Mediterranean, and subsequently 
 acted as pilot on the lakes, in which capacity he 
 was employed for five years. On the expiration 
 of that penod he made a trip around Cape Horn 
 in the ship William Gray, arriving in San 
 Francisco in time to participate in the celebration 
 of July 4, 1850. The present populous city was 
 then scarcely more than a mining camp. After 
 spending one season in the mines on the Yuba 
 and American rivers Mr. Wilson started for 
 Umpqua as a passenger on the schooner Rein- 
 deer. He was induced to take this step through 
 reports which had been circulated by the trans- 
 portation people concerning the richness of the 
 mines of the Umpqua district, but he was doomed 
 to disappointment on reaching his destination, 
 as the reports had been entirely wrong. He then 
 started up the Umpqua river in a canoe, leaving 
 at the landing his chest of ship-carpenter's tools 
 valued at $300, and when he returned these were 
 nowhere to be found. Proceeding up the coast 
 to the Willamette valley he arrived at the site 
 of Marysville, Wash., late in the fall of 1850. 
 Although his advent into Oregon seemed un- 
 profitable, it after all worked for his good, for he 
 was pleased with the Willamette district and 
 eventually became a resident of this portion of 
 the state. Taking up a claim, he afterward gave 
 this away and secured another one, which in 
 turn he traded for a saw-mill property at Pe- 
 oria. There he engaged in the manufacture of 
 lumber, the splendid forests of the state offering 
 ample opportunity for the prosecution of this 
 business, but there was no market for the product 
 and he lost all that he had invested. After some 
 ten years employed in carpenter work and min- 
 ing, Mr. Wilson secured employment in the 
 office of Eugene Perham. county clerk of Ben- 
 ton county, and at the election in 1864, having 
 been nominated by his party for that office, 
 he was chosen by the popular vote for the posi- 
 tion wherein be continually served through re- 
 election, for thirty years. He then declined 
 further nomination and voluntarily retired from 
 the position as he had entered it — with the con- 
 
 fidence and good will of the entire public. His 
 official record is certainly commendable, for over 
 it there fell no shadow of wrong-doing or sus- 
 picion of evil. He was prompt, methodical and 
 systematic in the execution of his duties. He 
 was ever willing to aid all who came to him in 
 Connection with the business of the office, and 
 it is said that the only enemies that he ever had 
 were certain lawyers who felt that he infringed 
 upon their rights by giving freely information to 
 those who sought it in the office of the county 
 clerk. Mr. Wilson made one other investment 
 aside from his saw-mill, which did not prove 
 entirely profitable, and yet became of the utmost 
 value to the state. He was one of the founders 
 of the Oregon & Pacific Railroad, his idea be- 
 ing to build the road to Yaquina, and thus afford 
 direct shipping facilities for Europe, that the 
 grain producers might ship their wheat direct to 
 the different parts of the old world. Mr. Wilson 
 induced other men to join him in the enterprise, 
 and he became a secretary and trustee of the 
 company, and also one of its directors until his 
 health failed. The road was completed, put in 
 running order and met the needs of the com- 
 munity in the direction which Mr. Wilson had 
 indicated. He did not realize, however, from his 
 investment, in fact, lost heavily, but his work has 
 proved of the greatest benefit to the people of 
 the state. 
 
 Whatever tended to advance the welfare and 
 progress of Benton county or of Oregon awak- 
 ened the interested attention and helpful efforts 
 of Bushrod Wilson. To enumerate in detail 
 what he has done would be to overstep the bounds 
 of history. In the early days he was more than 
 usually active in the establishment and up-build- 
 ing of the State Agricultural College, and for 
 many years he gave substantial support to the 
 Gazette, assisting it over many difficult places in 
 its early career. He took from his funds only 
 enough to enable him to meet his obligations and 
 to provide a comfortable home for his family and 
 the" remainder of his income went in benevolent 
 and charitable work or in co-operation in move- 
 ments for the general good. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to 
 Miss Priscilla O. Yantis, who was born in Mis- 
 souri in 1838, and in 1850 crossed the plains with 
 her parents, James M. and Sarah A. Yantis, who 
 located on a donation claim in Linn county, two 
 miles from Shedds Station. There her father 
 improved a fine farm upon which he spent his 
 remaining days, passing away in 1879. His wife 
 bore the maiden name of Sarah A. Hamilton 
 and is also deceased. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
 son were born nine children : Lafayette Y., 
 who is engaged in mining in Alaska ; E. Belle, 
 the wife of J. B. Walker, who is on the editorial 
 staff of the Scientific American in New York 
 
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 973 
 
 City ; James O., who follows iarming near 
 Corvallis; J. H., an attorney of Corvallis; 
 Robert J., a practicing physician of New 
 York City and is now serving on the New 
 York board of health and is an instructor 
 in Bellevue .Medical College and the Univer- 
 sity of New York and sanitary inspector of 
 greater New York; Thomas E., who is an 
 attorney in California ; Minnie A., who is 
 employed in the First National Bank of Cor- 
 vallis; Cara H. M. and Bushrod W., who re- 
 side in Corvallis. 
 
 Mr. Wilson, the father of this family, passed 
 away March 4, 1900, and is still survived by his 
 widow, who yet resides on the old homestead. 
 His life was devoted to his family, his friends 
 and his country, and his unswerving purpose, 
 his unquestioned fidelity, his unfailing honesty, 
 and his unchanging will commanded the high- 
 est respect of all. He was a leader in the 
 cause of liberty, of freedom and of progress 
 and his hearty co-operation was ever given to 
 that which tended to elevate mankind. Mr. 
 Wilson was made a Mason in Corvallis Lodge 
 over forty years ago. He attained the thirty- 
 second degree Scottish Rite and was also a 
 member of the Noble Mystic Shrine. He 
 passed all the chairs in the subordinate lodges. 
 Four of his sons are Master Masons. 
 
 JOHN W. RANSOM, M. D. A resident of 
 Marion county since 1887, Dr. John W. Ran- 
 som has, during the past fifteen years, endeared 
 himself closely to the inhabitants of Turner and 
 vicinity, where he has been engaged in a la- 
 borious professional practice, in connection with 
 the management of an extensive general mer- 
 chandise business. 
 
 Dr. Ransom was born near West Bedford, 
 Coshocton county, Ohio, August 18, 1841, and 
 is a son of Robert and Nancy Ransom, of Penn- 
 sylvania. In 1850 his parents moved to Hart- 
 ford City, Blackford county, Ind., where they 
 located on a farm. There Dr. Ransom was 
 reared, receiving his rudimentary education in 
 the public schools. His early studies were sup- 
 plemented by a course in Tiber College, located 
 at Portland, Ind., after the completion of which 
 he returned to the farm and continued to render 
 his father such assistance in its management as 
 was demanded of him. In i860 he was united 
 in marriage with Elizabeth Anderson, daughter 
 of William Anderson and a native of Indiana. 
 
 Having determined to prosecute the practice 
 of medicine, Dr. Ransom entered the medical 
 department of the University of Michigan at 
 Ann Arbor in 1863, where he remained a year. 
 He then continued his studies for four years 
 under the supervision of Dr. Mills of Hartford 
 
 City, Ind. After having qualified for his chosen 
 field of labor, he engaged in practice for two 
 years with his preceptor, at the end of which 
 period he opened an office in Tustin, Osceola 
 county, Mich., where he conducted a successful 
 practice for fourteen years. Finding this field 
 too limited for a man of more than ordinary 
 capabilities, he decided to remove to the far 
 west, and in 1887 came to Oregon. Locating 
 at Turner, he has since made that town his 
 professional and business headquarters, and has 
 never had cause to regret the happy inspiration 
 which directed his footsteps toward the region 
 beyond the Rocky mountains. Eleven years 
 after settling in Turner Dr. Ransom established 
 a general merchandise store, in company with 
 his son, and is now transacting a business which 
 has assumed satisfactory proportions. 
 
 In 1861 Dr. Ransom's first wife died, and in 
 1862 he married Tabitha C. Anderson, of which 
 union there were born ten children, as follows : 
 Rhoda, deceased; Susan, deceased; Effie, wife 
 of W. A. McGovern, a resident of Tustin, Mich. ; 
 Thomas, living in Tustin, Mich. ; Charles, a part- 
 ner with his father in the mercantile business in 
 Turner, Ore.; Mary, wife of B. J. Oiler, of 
 Portland, Ore.; Alice, residing at Cadillac, 
 Mich. ; John, a resident of Omer, Mich. ; Harvey, 
 of Tustin, Mich. ; and Clayton, a graduate of 
 the medical department of Willamette Univer- 
 sity, of Salem, Ore., and now practicing in part- 
 nership with his father. In 1889 Dr. Ransom 
 married Olive M. Gulvin, with whom he is now 
 living. 
 
 Since 1866 Dr. Ransom has been identified 
 with the Masonic fraternity, and is now a mem- 
 ber of Jefferson Lodge No. 33, of Oregon. He 
 has been a member of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows since 1875, an d is now a mem- 
 ber of Fidelity Lodge No. 36 of Oregon. Dr. 
 Ransom possesses an exceedingly social dispo- 
 sition, and his optimistic temperament undoubt- 
 edly has contributed largely to his success as a 
 medical practitioner. By his numerous friends 
 he is highly esteemed for the many splendid 
 traits in his character, and for the unselfish in- 
 terest he has taken in those projects which are 
 intended to benefit the community in which he 
 resides. 
 
 L. F. MASCHER. Not alone for its beau- 
 tiful surroundings and fine improvements is the 
 farm of Fred Mascher noted, but for the fact 
 that its owner is the only man in the vicinity 
 who can boast that every year of his life of 
 over half a century has been spent upon the 
 location where he first saw the light of day. 
 Time has not diminished his attachment for his 
 
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 birthplace, as is shown in the care and attention 
 which he gives to every detail that tends toward 
 the improvement of his home; each recurrence 
 of the seedtime and harvest yields recalling the 
 days of boyhood and young manhood spent on 
 the farm from where he looks forward to a 
 happy old age among the same pleasant scenes. 
 
 The father of L. F. Mascher, Christ F., was 
 born December 29, 181 1, in Germany, and emi- 
 grated in 1836 to the United States, settling in 
 Baltimore, Md., where he engaged in the iron 
 works as a puddler. Soon after his arrival in 
 America he married Sarah Eisenhardt, also a 
 native of Germany. In 1844 the family removed 
 to Missouri, where the father engaged in farm- 
 ing, remaining, however, but eight years, the 
 next venture taking them to the Pacific coast, 
 the journey being made by means of ox- teams 
 and lasting seven months. The only trouble 
 experienced from the Indians on the trip was 
 the loss of some of their cattle. On reaching 
 Oregon, they came direct to Marion county, 
 where Mr. Mascher bought the squatter's right 
 to six hundred and forty acres located in the 
 Waldo hills, three miles south of Silverton, en- 
 gaging in general farming and stock-raising. 
 Here Mr. and Mrs. Mascher passed the re- 
 mainder of their days, living to the ages of 
 eighty-seven and seventy-five, respectively. Mr. 
 Mascher was actively interested in politics and 
 in all public affairs, taking an intelligent inter- 
 est in matters of educational advancement and 
 giving a strong support in church movements, 
 and in all matters tending to morality. 
 
 Of the six children born to his parents, L. F. 
 Mascher is the only one now living. His birth 
 occurred December 6, 1850, the same year in 
 which his parents made the trip from the middle 
 west, and on the farm where he now makes his 
 home. In his youth he attended the district 
 schools in the vicinity, and on attaining man- 
 hood engaged with his father in farming, which 
 occupation he has continued his entire life. In 
 1875 he married Allie J. Allen, also an Ore- 
 gonian, the daughter of Henry Allen, whose 
 sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Three 
 daughters were born to them, of whom the 
 eldest, Lillian M., is the wife of L. J. Burnham, 
 of Tacoma. The two remaining daughters, 
 Grace and Minnie, are still at home with their 
 parents. 
 
 In the farm of Mr. Mascher are included three 
 hundred and fifty-five acres of the old donation 
 claim taken by his father, upon which stands the 
 house in which he and his wife first began 
 housekeeping and where they now live. The 
 land is devoted to general farming and stock- 
 raising, Mr. Mascher making a specialty of 
 hops and Shropshire sheep. From thirty-three 
 acres of hops the crop produced amounted to 
 
 thirty-six thousand pounds in 1903. Mr. 
 Mascher has given his entire thought to agri- 
 culture, and in the last twenty-five years has 
 demonstrated his ability to get the best returns 
 possible from the cultivation of the soil. Po- 
 litically he is a Republican and in religion he 
 and all the members of his family are members 
 of the Christian Church. 
 
 ASBURY PEARNE STARR. With the ex- 
 ception of three years spent in Salem educating 
 his son, Asbury P. Starr has lived all his life 
 on the farm one mile southwest of Bellfountain, 
 where he was born April 22, 1853. He comes 
 of one of the fine old pioneer families of this 
 section, and in his youth had the advantage of 
 a Christian home, presided over by a father 
 whose life was devoted to the welfare of those 
 around him, and who, as pioneer preacher in 
 this county, accomplished a world of good for 
 the early settlers. As one in a numerous family 
 dependent upon the poorly paid services of the 
 father, Asbury P., was reared to habits of thrift 
 and industry, and remained under the paternal 
 roof until his marriage, December 22, 1878, with 
 Carrie Tharp, who was born in Kansas and came 
 to Oregon in 1864. One son has been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Starr, Philip Ray, who is living 
 with his parents. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Starr located on his 
 part of the home ranch, which consists of three 
 hundred and forty-four acres, fifty of which 
 are under cultivation. The finest of modern 
 improvements facilitate a general farming and 
 stock-raising industry, a specialty being made of 
 high-grade stock, including Jersey cattle, Cots- 
 wold sheep and fine horses. The farm is one of 
 the most desirable and valuable in Benton county, 
 and the methods employed in conducting it are 
 those of the intelligent, well informed, and scien- 
 tific student of ways and means, who surrounds 
 himself with the comforts and luxuries, which 
 mark the difference between the successful and 
 the unsuccessful landsman. As an upholder of 
 Republicanism, Mr. Starr has filled many local 
 positions in the county, but always reluctantly, 
 as he has never sought or worked for official 
 distinction. He is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 Rev. John W. Starr, father of Asbury P., was 
 born in Maryland, April 22, 1794, and as a boy 
 moved with his parents to Virginia, and in after 
 years to Ohio, where the old people died. The 
 son remained on the home farm in Ohio until 
 attaining his majority, and then studied for the 
 ministry, to which he devoted his entire active 
 life. His first wife, a Mrs. McWilliams, bore him 
 five children, of whom Mrs. Nancy Belknap of 
 California, and J. W. Starr of Junction City, 
 
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 Ore., are living. Mrs. Starr lived but a few 
 wars, and alter her death in Ohio her husband 
 married Eliza A. Lucas, with whom he removed 
 to Iowa in 1840, and who bore him twelve chil- 
 dren, of whom the following are living: Mrs. 
 Precious Shedd of Corvallis ; S. E. of The 
 Dalles; M. L. of Bellfountain ; L. H. of Albany; 
 Mrs. E. A. Burlingame of Sheridan; S. C. ; 
 A. P. of Bellfountain ; and Mrs. M. E. Tharp 
 of Hell fountain. In 1848 Rev. Starr disposed 
 of his interests in Iowa and crossed the plains 
 with his wife and children, outfitting with ox- 
 teams, and being the usual time, six months, 
 on the way. The little party was not seriously 
 disturbed by the Indians, , and Capt. J. Belknap 
 was their competent guide to the far-off north- 
 western country. The journey was saddened 
 by the death of one of the children, but other- 
 wise all went well, and upon arriving at his 
 destination Mr. Starr took up the donation 
 claim near Bellfountain, upon a portion of which 
 his son is now living, and which consisted of 
 six hundred and forty acres of land. 
 
 Rev. Starr is entitled to more than passing 
 mention among the early settlers of Benton 
 county, for his influence was a broad and human- 
 itarian one, and was not only exerted in favor 
 of agriculture and stock-raising, but extended 
 to educational and moral development. He was 
 known as " Uncle John," and his home was 
 always open to whomsoever might come that 
 way, no matter what his need or mission. He 
 was the first local preacher in Benton county, 
 or indeed anywhere around this section, and he 
 was never too weary to go on a long journey to 
 perform marriage ceremonies, to bury the dead, 
 or comfort the living. Strong, sincere and fear- 
 less, he was an inspiration in the early and 
 lawless days, and many a discouraged pioneer 
 has been turned towards more hopeful things by 
 the force of his eloquence, and the honesty of 
 his convictions. He was one of the promoters 
 and builders of Simpson's chapel, the first place 
 of worship in this vicinity. Rev. Starr lived to 
 be seventy-four years old, and the wife who 
 had shared his lifework for so many years, and 
 who had so faithfully reared her large family 
 of children to be noble and helpful men and 
 women, survived him until eighty-three vears 
 old. 
 
 CAPT. MELANCTHON W. HUNT. Af- 
 ter many years of arduous professional labor 
 as one of the leading representatives of the bar 
 of Oregon, Capt. M. W. Hunt retired in the 
 spring of 1902, to his farm of two hundred and 
 sixty acres near Whitaker, Marion county, where 
 he contemplates devoting the remainder of his 
 life to the less strenuous occupation of agricul- 
 
 ture. Though still a comparatively young man, 
 Captain Hunt had risen to a position of distinc- 
 tion at the bar before deciding to lay down the 
 cares his practice imposed upon him', and those 
 most familiar with his character and ability, in- 
 herent and cultivated, express the opinion that 
 his attainment of high political office would have 
 been dependent solely upon his own desires in 
 the matter, had he cared to remain in professional 
 and public life. 
 
 Capt. M. W. Hunt was born on a farm in the 
 Waldo hills, Marion county, April 14, i860, and 
 is a son of George W. and Elizabeth (Smith) 
 Hunt, pioneer settlers of the Willamette Val- 
 ley. (An extended sketch of the Hunt family 
 will be found elsewhere in this work.) His 
 elementary education was acquired in the public 
 schools in his neighborhood. At the age of 
 seventeen years he entered Willamette Univer- 
 sity, remaining a student in that institution from 
 the fall of 1877 to the spring of 1880, when he 
 returned to his home upon the farm. Soon after 
 leaving college Captain Hunt decided to enter 
 upon a military career, and enlisted as a private 
 in the United States Heavy Artillery. He was 
 assigned for duty with Battery B, First United 
 States Artillery, and was stationed at Fort Point, 
 San Francisco, for about a year. At this station 
 the accidental discharge of a gun disabled his 
 left hand, incapacitating him for further duty, 
 and he was honorably discharged and permitted 
 to return to his home. October 8, 1883, he was 
 united in marriage with Miss Minnie G. Mc- 
 Monies, the daughter of John and Marv J. (Ros- 
 siter) McMonies, all natives of Canada. Mrs. 
 Hunt's parents are now residents of Portland. 
 Two years later, in 1886, Captain Hunt re- 
 moved to Salem for the purpose of qualifying 
 himself for the practice of law, a profession for 
 which he had for some time entertained a prefer- 
 ence. For two years he studied in the office of 
 S. T. Richardson, and after being admitted to 
 the bar in 1888, entered into partnership with 
 S. L. Hayden. Six months later he entered into 
 a similar relationship with W. H. Pratt, now of 
 Kansas, and subsequently this firm consolidated 
 its interests with those of the Hon. J. J. Shaw, 
 under the firm name of Shaw, Pratt & Hunt. 
 For several years thereafter this firm was recog- 
 nized as one of the strongest in Oregon, and 
 conducted many cases which became celebrated 
 in the annals of jurisprudence in the Willamette 
 Valley. 
 
 In recognition of his profound knowledge of 
 the law and his excellent judgment in the appli- 
 cation of its principles to the cases intrusted to 
 his charge during the years of his practice, Cap- 
 tain Hunt was appointed attorney for the Oregon 
 State Land Board in 1891, filling the post with 
 credit to himself and conserving the best in- 
 
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 terests of his client, the people, until his resigna- 
 tion and retirement from practice in 1902. Prior 
 to this period he had received from President 
 McKinley, in July, 1889, an appointment as a 
 member of the board of United States commis- 
 sioners for Alaska, there being three other mem- 
 bers of the body. After serving in this capacity 
 for three months he resigned. For two terms 
 he served as a member of the Salem city council, 
 taking an active interest in the promotion of 
 those projects calculated to enhance the ma- 
 terial advantages of the city. He was also deep- 
 ly interested in the military organization of the 
 state. In 1884 he enlisted as a member of Com- 
 pany C, First Regiment of the Oregon State 
 Militia, and was elected captain of that company. 
 Upon the reorganization of the militia, in July, 
 1884, as the National Guard, he was commis- 
 sioned captain of Company C, Second Regiment, 
 serving until 1886, when he resigned and went 
 to Salem. In July, 1887, he was commissioned 
 second lieutenant of Company B, Second Regi- 
 ment, O. N. G., and on August 2, 1887, was pro- 
 moted first lieutenant and adjutant Second Regi- 
 ment, O. N. G., and on November 29, 1889, was 
 commissioned captain of Company B, Second 
 Regiment, O." N. G, and on April 29, 1890, to the 
 position of lieutenant colonel of the same regi- 
 ment. In December, 1893, he resigned and went 
 back to the ranks, and on February 21, 1894, was 
 commissioned second lieutenant of Company B, 
 Second Regiment, O. N. G., and in March, 1894, 
 was promoted to a lieutenant colonecy on the 
 staff of Governor Lord, remaining in this capac- 
 ity throughout the terms of Governors Lord 
 and Geer, a period of nine years. 
 
 Captain Hunt has always been a Republican, 
 and has been actively interested in the success 
 of his party in the local, state and national elec- 
 tions. Fraternally he is identified with Salem 
 Lodge, No. 4, A. F. & A. M., and with Mult- 
 nomah Chapter No. 1, R. A. M. 
 
 The decision of Captain Hunt to retire from 
 the practice of law brought with it a distinct 
 loss to the bar of the state. Few men of his 
 years have been so successful in their profes- 
 sional labors, and none had a higher standing 
 among his contemporaries or with the laity than 
 he. Unquestioned integrity marked his con- 
 duct of all causes which he espoused, and no 
 charge of questionable tactics was ever laid 
 against him, even by innuendo. He is a man 
 possessed of a masterful mind, quick to grasp 
 the essential points, pro and con, in any case, 
 a forcible pleader, never resorting to those tricks 
 in practice which are too common among the 
 exponents of this branch of science. Though 
 now permanently retired from active practice 
 his work has not been forgotten, as he is still 
 spoken of as one of the brilliant minds which 
 
 have adorned the bar of Oregon. Captain Hunt's 
 family consists of his wife and four children, 
 the names of the children being as follows : 
 George M. ; Percy C. ; Homer and Gertrude E., 
 all of whom are at home with their parents. 
 
 M. P. BURNETT. The present sheriff of 
 Benton county comes of a family of whom 
 much is expected, a precedent for great accom- 
 plishment having been established many years 
 ago, and faithfully maintained by successive 
 bearers of the name. From their firmly knit 
 and substantially endowed ranks has stepped 
 forth Peter H. Burnett, the first governor of 
 California, who undertook the responsibilities 
 of his position under the most unfavorable and 
 trying circumstances, but who, with the help 
 of able men around him, managed to weather 
 the storm of opposition and enmity created by 
 jealousies and to overcome the difficulties en- 
 countered because of an empty exchequer. As 
 is well known, the state of California began 
 administrative business without a cent in its 
 treasury, and at the time owned neither ink- 
 stand, pen, nor yet a ream of paper. That the 
 financial stringency was lifted, and appropria- 
 tions forthcoming, was due largely to the tact 
 and forbearance, as well as financial and ex- 
 ecutive ability of the pioneer occupant of the 
 gubernatorial chair. 
 
 Several of the brothers of Governor Burnett 
 came to the coast, nearly all of them having 
 been born in Clay county, Mo. Among the 
 brothers was James White Burnett, the father 
 of M. P., the sheriff of Benton county ; Thomas, 
 who died in California ; William, who died in 
 McMinnville, and who was the father of Judge 
 George Burnett; Glen O., and Horace, who 
 died in California. James White Burnett, a 
 native of Clay county, Mo., crossed the plains 
 in '49, engaged in mining for some time, and 
 then operated a farm in Colusa county, Cal. 
 He came to Oregon in 1867, settling in the 
 Chehalem valley, Washington county, where 
 he engaged in farming, and from where he 
 removed to near Bethel, Polk county. At a 
 later period he lived at The Dalles, but re- 
 turned to near Bethel, Polk county, where he 
 died at the age of sixty-five years. He was a 
 member of the Christian Church, and a Demo- 
 crat in political affiliation. In his young man- 
 hood he married Sarah J. Turner, who was 
 born in Fayette, Mo., January 4, 1828, and 
 now lives in Corvallis, and whose father, 
 Thomas Turner, was born at Lexington, Ky., 
 in 1797, and was an early settler in the state 
 of Missouri. Mrs. Burnett is the mother of 
 four sons and seven daughters, of whom three 
 sons and three daughters are living, M. P. 
 
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 being the second son. Of the daughters, Flor- 
 ence is living in Crook county, Ore. ; Lulu is 
 living in California ; and Mattie is a resident 
 of Corvallis. 
 
 M. P. Burnett, sheriff of Benton county, was 
 born in Colusa county, Cal., August II, 1861, 
 and when seven years of age came over the 
 mountains with his parents to Oregon, travel- 
 ing by means of ox-teams. Although he has 
 made his own way in the world since twelve 
 years of age, he has succeeded in acquiring an 
 excellent education, studying not only in the 
 public schools but at the academies at Bethel 
 and La Creole. At first his remuneration from 
 a business standpoint was extremely meagre, 
 working on a farm until the age of twenty-one, 
 when he began as clerk in McCoy, receiving 
 $10 per month, out of which he had to board 
 himself. Six months later the merchant with 
 whom he was employed came to Corvallis, and 
 his competent clerk accompanied him, making 
 no arrangement, however, in regard to wages. 
 At the end of the year he was presented with 
 S50 per month, and as time went on he became 
 practically the head of the establishment, man- 
 aging its affairs and doing the entire buying. 
 At the expiration of four or five years he sev- 
 ered his relations to engage in business for 
 himself, and after successfully conducting a 
 cigar store for some time he was offered the 
 position of managing a store closed out by the 
 administrator. Later he engaged as clerk for 
 Jacobs & Nugos for a year, and then for J. M. 
 Nolan, and finally became identified perma- 
 nently with Z. H. Davis, with whom he re- 
 mained for six years, making a splendid record 
 as a business man and faithful employe. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Burnett was elected county 
 treasurer by a large majority, and re-elected in 
 1892, serving until July, 1894. In July. 1896, 
 he became deputy sheriff under Peter Rickard, 
 and after serving thus for four years was 
 elected sheriff by a majority of one hundred 
 and twenty-six. In 1902 he was re-elected by 
 a majority of three hundred and seventeen, the 
 county at that time having a Republican ma- 
 jority of two hundred. In order to have his 
 affairs in perfect order, and that he may un- 
 derstand about everything connected with his 
 responsibility, Mr. Burnett keeps his own 
 books, and attends to all of the business him-' 
 self. He is well equipped to serve as sheriff, 
 having a keen knowledge of human nature, a 
 great fund of good nature, perfect command 
 of himself at all times and under all circum- 
 stances/and absoiute fearlessness. 
 
 Since living in Corvallis Mr. Burnett has 
 married Minnie Huffman, who was born in 
 Benton county, Ore., and who is the mother 
 of two children, Leo, aged fourteen years, and 
 
 a baby unnamed. At the age of twenty-one 
 Mr. Burnett became a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethel, and 
 he is now a member of Corvallis Lodge No. 7. 
 He is also identified with the Woodmen of 
 the World, the Knights of the Maccabees and 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 FRANK J. MILLER. Albany is the home of 
 many of the leading enterprises that are building 
 up and adding to the importance of Linn county 
 as an industrial center, and among the men that 
 are actively identified with the establishment 
 and development of these industries Frank J. 
 Miller, secretary of the Albany Iron Works, oc- 
 cupies a position of influence. A man of ener- 
 getic ability and keen foresight, he has met with 
 much success in his various undertakings, and is 
 one of the popular and esteemed residents of 
 Albany. A native of Ohio, he was born Septem- 
 ber 6, 1857, in Dallas, now Ansonia, Darke 
 county, a son of Albert S. Miller. 
 
 Born in Massachusetts, Albert S. Miller comes 
 from sturdy Puritan stock. Remaining in the 
 old Bay state until twenty-three years of age, he 
 there learned the trade of bridge building, and 
 then removed to Ohio, where he was for a num- 
 ber of years superintendent of bridge building on 
 different railways. During the Civil war he of- 
 fered his services to his country, but on being ex- 
 amined, was rejected. Coming to Oregon in 
 1873, he lived first in Lebanon, Linn county, then 
 in Eugene, Lane county, engaged as a bridge 
 builder and contractor. When the first railway 
 was built through the valley, he accepted the con- 
 tract for building the bridges between Roseburg 
 and the Rogue River valley. He subsequently 
 had charge of the construction of the bridges, east 
 of Portland, for the Oregon Railroad & Naviga- 
 tion Company, and on the completion of the road 
 embarked in mercantile business in Portland, in 
 which he continued until his retirement from ac- 
 tive pursuits. He is now living at Grant's Pass, 
 Josephine count)', a hale and hearty man, eighty- 
 two years old. He is an honored member of the 
 Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the de- 
 gree of R. A. M. He married Cecilia Harris, 
 who was born in Ohio, in 1821, of French an- 
 cestry, and the daughter of an early settler of that 
 state. She died in Portland, Ore., in December, 
 Five children were born of their union, 
 
 namely : Mrs. Nellie Burgess, who died in Sa- 
 lem, Ore. ; Harry B., formerly a manufacturer 
 and merchant at Grant's Pass, is now United 
 States Consul at Niuchwang, China ; Frank J., 
 the subject of this review; Leroy, who died in 
 Ohio ; and Albert, who passed away in Portland. 
 Obtaining his elementary education in the pub- 
 lic schools of Ohio, Frank J. Miller remained in 
 
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 Toledo until he came with his parents to Oregon. 
 On the opening of the University of Oregon, he 
 entered the first class, and there continued his 
 studies three years, leaving the institution during 
 his senior year on account of the removal of the 
 family to Salem. Becoming familiar with the 
 trade of bridge building when young, he assisted 
 his father in the construction of many of the 
 bridges on the O. & C. Railroad. In the fall of 
 1883, Mr. Miller entered into business as a bridge 
 contractor on his own account, and during the 
 two years that he was thus engaged, built bridges 
 for counties and cities in ' >regon, Washington 
 and Idaho. The ensuing two years he acted as 
 agent for the San Francisco Bridge Company, 
 which he represented throughout the northwest, 
 from 1885 until 1887. He was subsequently as- 
 sociated with bridge constructing on the C. & E. 
 Railroad for a while, and then became superin- 
 tendent of bridges and buildings on the O. P. 
 R. R., a position that he retained three years. 
 After working at bridge building for a short time, 
 he then accepted the appointment of secretary of 
 the Oregon State Board of Railroad Commission- 
 ers, which he held two years, from 1891 to 1893, 
 his headquarters being in Salem. 
 
 During the year 1892-93, he was supervising 
 engineer for Albany for the building of the Al- 
 bany steel bridge, which, with approaches, reaches 
 nearly one-half mile in length. 
 
 Purchasing an interest in the Albany Iron 
 Works in 1892, Mr. Miller served as president of 
 the company several years, and is now its secre- 
 tary and treasurer. When he entered the firm, its 
 business was comparatively unimportant, but has 
 rapidly increased, and has now control of all the 
 iron work required on the C. & E. R. R., and on 
 the Oregon & Southeastern Railway. The com- 
 pany also makes a specialty of manufacturing 
 heavy saw-mill machinery, carrying on an excep- 
 tionally large business in that line, furnishing 
 many of the mills in Oregon with machinery and 
 supplies. The buildings connected with the 
 works cover four full lots, and in the shops 
 twenty-five men are kept constantly employed. 
 Mr. Miller has also other interests, with his 
 brother owning, at Grant's Pass, a thirteen hun- 
 dred acre ranch, which is devoted to agriculture 
 and horticulture, much hay, grain and fruit being 
 produced each year. 
 
 Mr. Miller was married in Eugene, Ore., De- 
 cember 1, 1880, to Miss Maggie Gray, who was 
 born, reared and educated in Eugene. Her 
 father, Hon. J. G. Gray, for many years a promi- 
 nent merchant in that city, was for sixteen years 
 county treasurer of Lane county. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Miller are the parents of three children, 
 Lena, Inez and Nellie Gray, students at Albany 
 College, and J. Franklin. Mr. Miller is promi- 
 nent in Masonic circles, and is a member and 
 
 past master of St. John's Lodge No. 62, A. F. & 
 A. M. ; past high priest of Bayley Chapter No. 8, 
 R. A. M. ; illustrious master of Adoniram Coun- 
 cil No. 4, R. & S. M. ; past eminent commander of 
 Temple Commandery No. 3, K. T. ; is grand 
 master of Third Vail in the Grand Chapter of 
 Oregon; is grand junior warden of the Grand 
 Commandery of Oregon ; is a member of Al 
 Kader Temple, N. M. S., of Portland; and is an 
 officer in the Order of High Priesthood. Socially 
 he is a member of the Alco Club. He is an active 
 member of the First Presbyterian Church, and 
 for many years has been one of its trustees, serv- 
 ing two terms as chairman of the board, and is 
 now serving as president of the board of trustees 
 of Albany College. He is actively and promi- 
 nently identified with the Republican party, and 
 has rendered good service as a delegate to county 
 and state conventions. 
 
 MRS. MAHALA F. TURNER. Continuing 
 in the work which her husband laid down at the 
 summons of death Mrs. M. F. Turner is carry- 
 ing on the routine of a general farm and stock- 
 raising business with the success which always 
 characterizes the methods and plans of one who 
 has made a thorough and far-reaching study of 
 agricultural pursuits. She is located upon a farm 
 of two hundred and twenty acres six miles north- 
 east of Harrisburg, Linn county, this being a part 
 of the donation claim which her husband's father 
 made in the early history of the country, and 
 which became the property of her son, G. H. 
 Turner, through her husband's purchase of his 
 childhood's home. 
 
 Mrs. Turner was before marriage Mahala F. 
 Cochran, her father being William Cochran, who 
 was born in Madison county, Ky., November 20, 
 1813, his principal occupation on attaining man- 
 hood being that of stock-raising. He married 
 Ollie Johnson, a native of Putnam county, Mo., 
 having been born there September 6, 1813, of 
 Scotch-Irish ancestry, and in 1847 they outfitted 
 for the trip across the plains, bringing their 
 worldly wealth to Oregon in a six months' jour- 
 ney with ox -teams. In the fall of the same year 
 they located on Molalla river in Clackamas coun- 
 ty, where they remained for two years, after 
 which, in 1849, they became residents of Linn 
 bounty. Here Mr. Cochran took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, located one 
 mile north of Brownsville, which remained the 
 home of the family for many years. In 1889 Mr. 
 Cochran removed to San Jose, Cal., near which 
 he lived retired until 1898, when he returned 
 north and located permanently in Albany, in 
 which city he lived until January 24, 1900, when 
 he went to the home of Mrs. M. F. Turner, where 
 he remained until his death, which occurred Au- 
 
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 gust 4, 1901, and his last resting place is in Al- 
 bany cemetery beside his last wife, who died 
 January 7, 1900. He was married four times, 
 "his first wife having died September 12, 1854, 
 in their home near Brownsville. They were 
 the parents of ten children, of whom the ninth 
 in order of birth was Mahala F., born in Putnam 
 county, Mo., July 14, 1846. 
 
 The early education of Mahala F. Cochran was 
 received in the common schools at Brownsville, 
 beyond which she has no recollection, as she was 
 bnt one year old when the journey was made 
 to their new home. When only seventeen years 
 old she became the wife of Francis M. Rice, who 
 had crossed the plains in 1852 and located three 
 miles west of Brownsville. After her marriage 
 her home was eight miles southeast of Harris- 
 burg for a period of three years, after which, 
 in 1866, they moved to a farm adjoining that on 
 which she now lives, where her husband's death 
 occurred in 1880. In this same location Mrs. 
 Rice remained until her second marriage, which 
 occurred October 12, 1887, uniting her with 
 Thomas Turner. Mr. Turner was born in Indi- 
 ana, January 16, 1835, and when he was seven- 
 teen years old crossed the plains with his father, 
 the latter of whom took up the donation claim 
 before mentioned in 1852. This Thomas Turner 
 bought of his father and made it the home for 
 his wife and son George, at the time of his 
 death owning three hundred and sixty acres. 
 He died February 7, 1900, at the home place. 
 Mr. Turner's life had been one of active interests, 
 eight years of which, between 1854 and 1862, he 
 passed in the gold mines of southern Oregon, 
 and as a Democrat in politics he had always 
 taken an active interest in every movement cal- 
 culated to advance the tide of civilization and im- 
 prove the conditions of his own community. He 
 served variously as road supervisor and school 
 director. He was a member of the Christian 
 Church at Harrisburg, where his wife now holds 
 membership. 
 
 Of the seven children born to Mrs. Turner, six 
 by the first union and one by the last, Farmer J. 
 is located on the adjoining farm ; Rettie is de- 
 ceased ; Archer is at lone, Morrow county, Ore. ; 
 William is at Northport, Wash. ; Mahala is the 
 wife of T. J. Rogers, of Harrisburg ; Frances M. 
 is the wife of C. D. Bucknum, of Junction City ; 
 and George H., the son by the last marriage, is 
 still at home with his mother. 
 
 CASPER ZIEROLF. The name of Ziefolf is 
 a well known one in Oregon, its two representa- 
 tives being men of the highest moral character, 
 supplemented by good business ability and pro- 
 nounced capacity for industry. Peter Zierolf, 
 a resident of Corvallis, is the youngest, and 
 
 Casper, of whom this sketch makes men- 
 tion, is the oldest of the six children in his 
 father's family. His birth occurred in Boston, 
 Mass., December 8, 1840, his parents having 
 settled there after coming from their na- 
 tive land of Bavaria, Germany. The family later 
 removed to Medina county, Ohio, and from there 
 to Henry county, where the father lived to be 
 sixty-five and the mother sixty-three years of 
 age. Both are buried in a little Ohio churchyard, 
 where they were laid to rest by their well loved 
 children, who honored them for the practical 
 and conscientious training which they had given 
 them. The father was a rope-maker by trade, 
 but, though he followed that in Bavaria, he de- 
 voted his energies entirely to farming in his 
 adopted country. Besides Peter and Casper, al- 
 ready mentioned, are Mary, who is the wife of 
 John Whitaker of this vicinity, and William, who 
 is living in Ohio. 
 
 In his youth Casper Zierolf had ambitions not 
 entirely centered in farming, for while still quite 
 young he served an apprenticeship to a brewer, 
 and followed that business for about four years. 
 The breaking out of the Civil war offered an 
 opportunity for action which was thoroughly ap- 
 preciated in a hitherto uneventful existence, and 
 April 13, 1 861, he enlisted in Company D, Four- 
 teenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and 
 was mustered in at Defiance, Ohio. The regi- 
 ment was first sent to Virginia, and in their order 
 took part in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, 
 Cheat Mountain and Carrick's Ford, in which 
 last engagement Mr. Zierolf was wounded and 
 forthwith returned to his home, his term of serv- 
 ice having expired. Not satisfied with his com- 
 paratively short service he re-enlisted in Com- 
 pany E, One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Vol- 
 unteer Infantry, and after being mustered in at 
 Toledo was sent to Harper's Ferry to join the 
 Ninth Army Corps. After the memorable battle 
 at the Ferry he was transferred to the Twenty- 
 third Army Corps of the Western Army, sent to 
 Louisville, Ky., Bowling Green and Murfrees- 
 boro, and later to Frankfort, Ky. From east 
 Tennessee he went to join Sherman in his march 
 to the sea, and at Atlanta Mr. Zierolf was wound- 
 ed and sent to the hospital. Later he was sent 
 to Camp Dennison and mustered out, immediately 
 returning to his home in Ohio, where he rested, 
 and then continued his association with the brew- 
 ery. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Zierolf married Mary Hauck, who 
 was born in Ohio, and in the fall of 1870 the 
 young people came to Oregon and settled near 
 their present home. In 1871 he bought his pres- 
 ent farm of two hundred and sixty acres, twelve 
 and a half miles south of Corvallis on the old 
 Territorial road. He has made all of the im- 
 provements which go to make it a valuable and 
 
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 productive property, including a fine rural house, 
 large and commodious barn, and the latest in 
 agricultural implements. To his original purchase 
 he has added and now has two hundred and nine- 
 ty-six acres, one hundred and seventy-five of 
 which are under cultivation, and devoted to gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising. By no means 
 narrow in his views or circumscribed in his in- 
 terests, Mr. Zierolf takes a keen interest in the 
 political and other developments in his neigh- 
 borhood, and as a stanch Republican has ma- 
 terially influenced party undertakings. He has 
 served as road supervisor, school clerk and is at 
 present director, and in these capacities has in- 
 variably worked for the best good of the com- 
 munity. Eleven children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Zierolf, the order of their birth being 
 as follows : Albert, living in this vicinity ; Eva, 
 the wife of C. Dennis, of Monroe, this county; 
 Lorenzo, conducting general farming near Bruce ; 
 Cora, living at home ; Irena, making her home 
 in Pendleton ; Judd and Jay, twins, living at 
 home ; Ada, the wife of J. Hurlburt, of the vicin- 
 ity of Corvallis ; Florence, living at home ; Isaac, 
 and Ida. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Zierolf died in Portland on 
 April 19, 1903, after a short sickness. She was a 
 devoted wife and a kind and loving mother. 
 She was a devout member of the Roman 
 Catholic Church and is buried in the cemetery at 
 Monroe, Benton county. She was fifty-nine years 
 of age at the time of death. 
 
 ABRAHAM B. B. LEWIS. In the days of 
 his buoyant youth, and when teaching school or 
 farming, or risking his life on the battlefields of 
 the Mexican or Civil wars, Abraham B. B. Lewis 
 was as fine a specimen of physical manhood as 
 one could find in the length and breadth of this 
 great country of ours. Six feet two inches in 
 height, broad chested, perfectly proportioned, 
 and erect as an arrow, he was the cynosure of all 
 eyes wherever he went, and the admiration of 
 all who were permitted to note the harmonious 
 blending of his material and mental endowments. 
 At present Mr. Lewis is a very old man, four 
 score and two years, and paralysis has caused his 
 shoulders to stoop, and his hardihood to vanish, 
 but his mind is clear and rich in memory, and 
 he is still a comfort to his many friends in Phil- 
 omath. 
 
 For centuries the Lewis ancestors pursued their 
 various occupations in the snug little country of 
 Wales, the first to think seriously of departing 
 from accustomed haunts being the paternal grand- 
 father, John, who came to America at the age 
 of fourteen. He settled presumably in the state 
 of Kentucky, where he farmed for the rest of his 
 life, and from where he enlisted in the Colonial 
 
 army during the Revolutionary war. In Ken- 
 tucky was born his son, Thomas S., the father of 
 Abraham B. B., and who in 1819 removed to near 
 Madison, Ind., later taking up his residence on 
 a farm near Indianapolis, Ind., where Abraham 
 B. B. was born June 3, 1821. Thomas S. Lewis 
 removed to Schuyler county, Mo., and in 1855 
 to near Humboldt, Kan., where he died in 1858. 
 He was a successful farmer, and to an otherwise 
 creditable life added valuable service as a non- 
 commissioned officer during the war of 1812. 
 Through his marriage with Margaret Ellen 
 Bayle, a native of Scotland, and who died near 
 Indianapolis, eight children were born, five sons 
 and three daughters, Abraham being the second 
 oldest. 
 
 Educated in the common schools and at Frank- 
 lin College, Indiana, Abraham Lewis began teach- 
 ing school in the Hoosier state in 1844, and in 
 1854 shifted his educational field to Higginsville, 
 111. In 1874 he removed to St. Clair, Mo., and 
 after teaching a term engaged in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising for about twelve years. 
 Coming to Oregon in 1887, he took up a home- 
 stead near Vernonia, Columbia county, and suc- 
 cessfully improved his one hundred and twenty 
 acres, remaining thereon until retiring from active 
 life in Philomath in 1895. Interspersed prin- 
 cipally with his teaching has been the military 
 service of Mr. Lewis, which began in May, 1846, 
 when he enlisted as a private in Company H, 
 First Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and went to 
 the front in Mexico, remaining away from home 
 until the following January. He then re-enlisted 
 in Company D, Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infan- 
 try as first lieutenant, and served until his dis- 
 charge in July, 1848. During the service he 
 participated in the battle of Huamantla, Mexico, 
 a town located two days' march from Pueblo, 
 and where the Mexicans were defeated by the 
 Americans October 9, 1847. He also took part 
 in innumerable skirmishes of a more or less seri- 
 ous nature, during the first part of his service 
 being in the Taylor line, and during the latter 
 part in the Scott line. During the Civil war Mr. 
 Lewis enlisted July 3, 1861, in Company I, Thir- 
 ty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry as captain, 
 and at St. Louis was under General Fremont, 
 and later under General Buell. He took part in 
 many minor battles and skirmishes, and in 1862 
 found himself in Louisville, Ky. Here he was 
 overtaken by a severe attack of rheumatism, in 
 consequence of which his service was curtailed, 
 and his discharge took place in Louisville in 1863. 
 
 Near Williamsport, Warren county, Ind., Mr. 
 Lewis was united in marriage with Artemisa 
 Harris, a native of Marion county, Ind., and 
 daughter of Benjamin Harris, who came from 
 Kentucky to Indiana, locating in Marion county, 
 and afterward removing to Boone and Warren 
 
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 counties. Mr. Harris was a Baptist preacher 
 and a farmer, and died in Park county, Ind. Of 
 the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis two 
 are deceased. The oldest son, Willis Oscar, is 
 living in Missouri; William Wallace is a resi- 
 dent of Oregon ; Milton Douglas ; Benton Edgar; 
 Minnie Agnes is the wife of J. K. Atkison, of 
 Gaston, Ore.; Effie Estella is now Mrs. William 
 H. Dark, of Portland, Ore. ; Orphia Nina is the 
 wife of Robert A. Clark, of Philomath; and 
 Louise E. is the wife of S. O. Watkins, the 
 latter, a professor in the Philomath College. 
 In politics thoroughly independent, Mr. Lewis 
 has served as justice of the peace in Missouri 
 and Oregon for about eleven years, and he 
 was a school director in Columbia county, Ore. 
 He is a member of the Cumberland Presby- 
 terian Church, and during his life has contrib- 
 uted unstintingly toward its maintenance. A 
 man of fine principle, great capacity for indus- 
 try, and unflagging zeal in whatever he under- 
 took to do, he furnishes a worthy example of 
 the transported easterner who soon becomes at 
 home and at ease in his new and more purposeful 
 surroundings. 
 
 LEWIS ABRAMS. Among the men first 
 connected with the business enterprises of Lin- 
 coln, Polk county, Ore., is Lewis Abrams, the 
 pioneer merchant and warehouseman of this 
 city. He is not a native of the west, having been 
 born in Monmouth county, N. J., February 29, 
 1824, the son of Stephen Abrams, also a native 
 of that locality, and died in Scott county, 111., in 
 1862, at the age of sixty-two years. The fam- 
 ily of this name was first located on American 
 soil in the state of New Jersey, the grandfather 
 having also been born there, of English parents, 
 and on attaining manhood proving his loyalty to 
 his country by serving as a colonel in the Revo- 
 lutionary war, under Washington. The grand- 
 mother was of German parentage, giving to her 
 descendants the sturdy qualities which character- 
 ize the people of that country. In 1833 the father 
 brought his family to Morgan county. III, though 
 afterward, through a division of the counties, 
 he found himself located in Scott county, and 
 there he engaged in farming and milling, meet- 
 ing with excellent success. Religiously he was 
 a Methodist. His first wife was Letitia Conover, 
 a native of the same state ; she died in Illinois in 
 1835. having become the mother of six children, 
 of whom Lewis Abrams is the only one living. 
 Mr. Abrams afterward married Anne Tavlor, 
 and three children were born of this marriage. 
 
 Lewis Abrams was nine years of age when the 
 family fortunes were changed to Illinois, and 
 he was there educated in the primitive log school 
 houses of Scott countv. When sixteen vears of 
 
 age his education was considered finished and he 
 started out into the world to make his own way, 
 as was the custom in those early days, and he 
 secured employment on the Illinois river. Meet- 
 ing with success he invested his earnings in a 
 boat, running it from St. Louis up the river, and 
 continuing thus employed for about four years. 
 In 1849 ne g ay e up these interests to make the 
 journey to the gold fields, crossing the plains in 
 an ox train under the command of Captain Pope, 
 of Booneville, Mo. Beyond minor incidents the 
 trip was uneventful, and on arriving at his des- 
 tination he went at once to the mines at the 
 American river, and though not finding a fortune 
 in the mining venture he left the mines in 1861 
 with considerable money. Still interested in the 
 precarious life of a miner he started with a pack 
 train for the Fraser river, but stopped at Colville, 
 Stevens county. Wash., where he engaged in a 
 general merchandise business, packing his sup- 
 plies from Portland. Meeting with considerable 
 success he remained there until the spring of 1868, 
 when he sold out and came to Polk county, Ore., 
 locating at Lincoln in the spring of 1869. having 
 previously lost about $30,000 in the mines of 
 British Columbia. He at first entered into part- 
 nership with J. D. Walling, but the death of the 
 latter occurring soon afterward he became sole 
 proprietor of the mercantile business, remaining 
 in the same since, with entire success. In addi- 
 tion to his mercantile business he has been en- 
 gaged for many years in the buying, storing and 
 shipping of grain. His store and warehouse are 
 situated on the banks of the Willamette river, af- 
 fording convenient transportation to Portland. 
 He has handled as much as one hundred thousand 
 bushels of grain per annum, and is still conduct- 
 ing a large and lucrative business. He is the 
 owner of a fine residence in Lincoln, which he 
 built in 1869 
 
 Mr. Abrams was married in 1864, in Scott 
 county. III, to Mary Shea, a native of that state, 
 who died in Lincoln in 1869. Five years later 
 he married Phosia Witten, a native of Portland, 
 Ore., the daughter of Joshua Witten, a native 
 of Tennessee, and a pioneer of 1852. By his 
 first marriage Mr. Abrams has one daughter, 
 Lois, now Mrs. L. Rea Green, a music teacher in 
 Philomath, Benton county, Ore., and three chil- 
 dren by his later marriage, Letitia E., a teacher of 
 elocution at Philomath College, Benton county ; 
 W. Carleton, a reporter on the Statesman, of 
 Salem, and who served in the Philippine Islands 
 with the Second Oregon Regiment as sergeant 
 in Company K ; and Chester W., now in his sec- 
 ond year in Corvallis College. Politically Mr. 
 Abrams is a Republican and has held several 
 offices through this influence, among them being 
 that of postmaster, to which he was appointed in 
 1870, and several terms thereafter; road super- 
 
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 visor and many school offices. Religiously both 
 himself and wife are members of Lincoln Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, which they assisted mate- 
 rially in building and in many other ways since 
 its organization. Mr. Abrams is a steward and 
 trustee., filling the offices in a manner which has 
 won and retained the confidence of the citizens 
 of the community. Throughout his entire busi- 
 ness career, he has been known as a man of 
 honor and integrity, whose name is above re- 
 proach. 
 
 VICTOR P. MOSES. Benton county's 
 leading citizens find a worthy representative 
 in Victor P. Moses. The qualities essential to 
 honorable and strong manhood are his — dili- 
 gence, intelligence, reliability — and he has for 
 a number of years been regarded as one of 
 the most popular and prominent citizens of 
 this portion of the state. He is a leader in 
 musical circles and in public office his course 
 has awakened the commendation and good 
 will of even those opposed to him politically. 
 
 Mr. Moses is a native of Quitman, Ark., and 
 has back of him an ancestry honorable and 
 distinguished. His father, the Rev. P. A. 
 Moses, has in his possession the ancestral his- 
 tory of the family back to the time when repre- 
 sentatives of the name left their homes in 
 Amsterdam, Holland, and crossed the Atlan- 
 tic to the new world, settling in Pennsylvania, 
 at an early epoch in the seventeenth century. 
 Prior to the Revolutionary war the family was 
 founded in Virginia and when the colonies be- 
 came involved in war with England the family 
 was represented in the Continental army by 
 loyal patriots. Samuel Moses, the grand- 
 father of our subject, was born in Virginia 
 and there engaged in surveying. His son, 
 Rev. P. A. Moses, was also a native of the 
 Old Dominion and was graduated in Ran- 
 dolph-Macon College, of Lynchburg, Virginia, 
 with second honors of the class of 1855. He 
 became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church South, and removed to Arkansas, 
 where he became prominent as a divine and 
 educator. He served for a time as president of 
 Quitman College and during the Civil war 
 he for three years filled the position of chap- 
 lain, with the rank of major, in the Thirty- 
 fourth Arkansas Regiment Confederate Volun- 
 teers. In 1875 ne came to Oregon, settling in 
 Linn county, and for one term served as 
 county superintendent of- schools there. He 
 was also principal of the schools of Albany 
 and principal of the Lebanon Academy for 
 several years, and throughout this time he 
 also continued his labors in the Methodist 
 ministry. He is now living a retired life in 
 
 Corvallis, and well does he deserve the rest 
 which has been vouchsafed to him, as his has 
 been a most useful life, his labors proving of 
 marked benefit and helpfulness to his fellow- 
 men. He married Miss Lucy Howell, who was 
 born in Arkansas of Scotch descent and who 
 has been to him for many years a faithful com- 
 panion and helpmate on life's journey. They 
 have six children : R. J., a merchant of Philo- 
 math, Ore. ; A. W., who is connected with 
 the Indian service department at Chilocco, 
 Okla. ; S. H., who is also engaged in mer- 
 chandising in Philomath ; Mrs. Susie Jenks, 
 of Tangent, Ore. ; Josie, now Mrs. S. E. Trask 
 of Corvallis ; and Victor P. 
 
 The last named was born September 20, 
 1875, i n Quitman, Ark., and the lullowing year 
 the family joined the father in this place, Rev. 
 Moses being at that time principal of the 
 Brownsville school. The son pursued his edu- 
 cation in Albany, completed the high school 
 course in 1892 and in the fall of the same year 
 he entered Albany College, where he remained 
 until the spring of 1893, after which he en- 
 gaged in teaching in Douglas county. In the 
 fall of the latter year he came to Corvallis and 
 matriculated in the Oregon Agricultural Col- 
 lege, where he continued the work until he had 
 reached the senior year. He was leader of the 
 band while in Albany College, and was also 
 leader and instructor of the band of the Ore- 
 gon Agricultural College and under his guid- 
 ance it attained a high degree of proficiency 
 and became one of the attractive features of 
 the school. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Moses accepted the position of 
 deputy county clerk under Virgil E. Watters 
 and acted in that capacity for nearly six years, 
 when, without his solicitation he was nomi- 
 nated by the Democratic party, in 1902, for 
 the position of county clerk and was elected 
 by a majority of twenty-three. He took the 
 oath of office on July 7, of the same year, to 
 serve for two years, and his previous experi- 
 ence in the position of deputy having made 
 him familiar with the duties of the office, he is 
 now proving a most capable official. He is 
 methodical, accurate and reliable in the dis- 
 charge of the duties which devolve upon him 
 and his course is winning for him unqualified 
 commendation. He is also clerk of the county 
 commissioners and probate courts. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Moses is connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World, is consul commander 
 and served for five years as clerk. He is also 
 a member of the Uniformed Rank of the same 
 order and is past chancellor of the Knights of 
 Pythias Lodge at Corvallis and chaplain of 
 the Knights of the Maccabees. While inter- 
 ested in political and social work, he never • 
 
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 neglects the higher, holier duties of life, being 
 a Faithful and active member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South. He is serving as 
 a member of its board of trustees and since he 
 attained the age of twenty years has been 
 superintendent of the Sunday School, putting 
 forth strenuous effort for the promotion of the 
 cause. He is a charter member of the Jeffer- 
 sonian Society of the Oregon Agricultural 
 College and was at one time its president. In 
 musical circles Mr. Moses is very prominent 
 and has done much to promote the musical 
 culture of the city in which he makes his home. 
 He possesses a fine tenor voice, has a broad 
 knowledge of the art and has done much to 
 cultivate a taste for both vocal and instru- 
 mental music in his city. He has been a 
 teacher of both and is also active in the music- 
 al development of the college and vicinity, 
 taking an important part in the musical fes- 
 tivals of the college and the Willamette Valley 
 Choral Association. Other interests of Cor- 
 vallis also claim his time and attention. He 
 belongs to Hose Company No. 2, of the Cor- 
 vallis Fire Department, of which he has been 
 captain and for two terms he was its president. 
 His is a finely balanced mind and a well 
 rounded character, enabling Him to view the 
 various departments of activity which consti- 
 tute life in their true portions and to give due 
 attention to each. His splendid qualities, -his 
 ready smile, his kindly nature and his unfail- 
 ing courtesy render him very popular and have 
 gained for him a host of warm and sincere 
 friends. 
 
 CHARLES BRUCE MONTAGUE. With a 
 wide knowledge of the advantageous locations of 
 various parts of the world, Charles Bruce Mon- 
 tague selected Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., 
 as a place of residence. There he has be- 
 come an important factor in the business 
 and political affairs of the community. Previous 
 to his retirement from the active cares of life, 
 in 1892, he had been engaged in the mercantile 
 business, for twenty-five years having success- 
 fully conducted a store. He has held various 
 political offices, his broad-minded, earnest thought 
 and effort being calculated to elevate the char- 
 acter of both state and municipal government. 
 
 Mr. Montague is the representative of an old 
 Scottish family, his ancestors having figured in 
 various political warlike movements associated 
 with the fortunes of England. His grandfather, 
 Andrew Montague, a native of Scotland, and 
 the son of another Andrew, whose birth. and 
 death occurred in that country, held the rank of 
 major at the battle of Waterloo. He died in 
 Scotland, when fifty vears old. The father of 
 
 Mr. Montague, Thomas, was born in Scotland 
 and came to the United States about 1847, ar >d 
 as a contractor he was employed by the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company. After spending four 
 years in different sections of the Union, and 
 seeing the greater part of the western country, 
 he returned to Scotland in 1853. His wife, Kath- 
 erine De Courcey, likewise a native of Scotland, 
 where she died, was the mother of four sons and 
 three daughters, of whom Charles Bruce was 
 the fourth. He was born in Argyll, Scotland, 
 January 4. 1833. He came with his parents to 
 America in 1847, when he was sixteen years old. 
 His education was obtained in private schools in 
 his native land. Having an uncle, John De 
 Courcey by name, located in San Francisco, Cal.. 
 Mr. Montague passed a part of the year 1852 
 with him, working in his uncle's mercantile estab- 
 lishment. Returning to Scotland, he enlisted 
 in 1854 for service in the Crimean war, and 
 served until the fall of 1856, with the commission 
 of lieutenant. After the close of his service he 
 returned to London, England, from which city 
 he made trips to various parts of Europe, jour- 
 neying through Ireland, Scotland, France, Egypt, 
 and Greece, spending some time in Athens. In 
 185S Mr. Montague returned to the United 
 States, and after a short time spent in San Fran- 
 cisco he came to Oregon. Soon after he started 
 for the mines of the Fraser river, but changed 
 his mind when he reached Salem, and began 
 teaching school in the Waldo Hills. Three 
 years later he joined the First Oregon Cavalry, 
 became first sergeant in Company B, and freely 
 gave his services to his adopted country in her 
 time of need. He remained in the service from 
 1 86 1 to 1864, in the last-named year being mus- 
 tered out at Vancouver, Wash. In the same 
 year he became chief clerk, under Captain Hop- 
 kins, of the United States quartermaster depot, 
 stationed at Vancouver. In 1866 he was ordered 
 to San Francisco. The next year found him 
 located in Sitka, Alaska, by order of the govern- 
 ment. Three years later he resigned his office 
 as chief clerk and, coming to Lebanon, Linn 
 county, Ore., he was there engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business for twenty-five years. 
 
 Mr. Montague was married in Marion county. 
 Ore., in i860 to Martha Peebler, a native of 
 Iowa, who died in Lebanon. She was the 
 daughter of David Peebler. a pioneer of 1852, 
 who died in Lebanon at the age of ninety-six 
 years. The six children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Montague, three sons and three daughters, are 
 named in order of birth as follows: Elmer E., 
 of Albany, Ore. ; Clara N. ; Mary, the wife of 
 G. AV. Giboney, D. D.. pastor of the First Pres- 
 byterian Church of Spokane, Wash. ; Charles 
 D., a member of the board of examiners in the 
 United States custom service in Portland, Ore. ; 
 
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 Ida M., wife of Dr. J. S. Courtney, of Dayton, 
 Ore. ; and Robert B., who is engaged in the real 
 estate business in Albany. In 1879 he was united 
 in marriage with Mrs. Priscilla C. Redpath of 
 Albany, Ore. She is a native of Saline county, 
 Mo., the daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Ostrander, 
 deceased. He was a native of the Hudson valley 
 in New York state, removed to Missouri in 
 young manhood, and in 1852 came to the Pacific 
 coast, locating on the Cowlitz river. For about 
 forty years he was continually engaged in the 
 practice of medicine, being located for over a 
 quarter of a century in Olympia, Wash., where his 
 death occurred in 1901. Mrs. Montague's uncle, 
 J. L. Yantis, D. D., a native of Kentucky, became 
 a pioneer minister of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Oregon, and founded the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Portland in 1852. In 1853 he removed 
 to Linn county and took up a donation claim 
 located near the site of the town of Shedds. The 
 latter years of his life were spent in Missouri. 
 
 In addition to the property upon which Mr. 
 Montague makes his home, a large and hand- 
 some dwelling, which he built in 1890, he owns 
 other residence and business property in Lebanon 
 and also farming land near Vancouver, Wash. 
 In his political associations a Democrat, in 1891 
 he ably represented his party in the state legis- 
 lature, as a member of the house of representa- 
 tives, and there exercised no little influence 
 through his associations upon various important 
 committees. He has been active in municipal 
 affairs, having served as mayor of the city for 
 many terms, and also as a member of the council. 
 In 1896 he became county clerk for Linn county, 
 a position he filled for two years. Fraternally 
 Mr. Montague is a Mason. He belongs to the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 ABNER DAVIS GARDNER. A man whose 
 business career has contributed materially to the 
 prestige of Stayton, Marion county, is A. D. 
 Gardner, the character of whose work has ex- 
 tended beyond the narrow confines of that little 
 city, reaching two-thirds of the way to the At- 
 lantic coast, the section of country which has 
 found it hard to believe all that is said of the 
 great resources of this part of the northwest. 
 The flour produced by the mills of the Gardner 
 Brothers has been awarded two prizes for its 
 excellence, the first being at the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893, and the sec- 
 ond at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at 
 Omaha, in 1898 ; and the awards are emphatic- 
 ally indorsed by thousands of consumers through- 
 out the west. 
 
 The father of the subject of this sketch, A. D. 
 Gardner, Sr., was born in Ohio in 1819; subse- 
 quently removed to Osage county, Mo., and in 
 
 that state was united in marriage with Sarah P. 
 Johnson, in 1842. Immediately thereafter he re- 
 moved to a location near Des Moines, Iowa, fol- 
 lowing the occupations of farming and preach- 
 ing, the latter in the local way so popular in the 
 earlier days. Not realizing a sufficient remunera- 
 tion from his combined efforts, he decided to emi- 
 grate to a more western state, following up his 
 intention in the spring of 1852 by heading a 
 party bound for Oregon. Mules and ox teams 
 were employed in the expedition, and Mr. Gard- 
 ner was chosen to command the train. After a 
 wearisome trip of several months the caravan 
 arrived in Oregon. Mr. Gardner and his family 
 spent their first winter here near Salem, where 
 he made as careful an investigation of the re- 
 sources of various sections of the Willamette 
 valley as was possible under the circumstances. 
 As the result of his inquiries he decided to locate 
 in Linn county, where he took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres the fol- 
 lowing spring. The house erected on the claim, 
 though constructed of roughly hewn logs, was 
 regarded as a very fine one in those days, since 
 it possessed two rooms, where most settlers were 
 content, or appeared to be, with but one room. 
 Most of his farm was bottom lands at Fox Val- 
 ley, on the Santiam river, and was provided with 
 excellent natural advantages for general farming 
 and stock-raising. The remaining years of his 
 life were passed upon this estate, with the excep- 
 tion of a few years, during which he conducted 
 a hotel at Scio, to which town he removed for 
 better school advantages. He died in 1885, at 
 the age of sixty-six years. 
 
 Mr. Gardner was the father of eight children, 
 named in the order of their birth as follows : 
 Mary L., widow of Dr. L. S. Skiff, of Salem, 
 Ore. ; Isaac W., living on the homestead ; Sarah, 
 wife of James Berry, residing near Mill City, 
 Ore. ; Electa J., wife of J. I. Crabtree, of Stay- 
 ton, Ore. ; Abner D., of this review ; Elizabeth 
 E., deceased ; Marilla, wife of James Gardner, of 
 Baker City, Ore., and Etta, wife of Charles Mills, 
 who resides in Fox Valley. 
 
 Abner D. Gardner was born in Fox Valley, 
 Linn county, Ore., March 27, 1855. He was 
 reared on the homestead, receiving every advan- 
 tage in the educational line which the public 
 schools of Scio afforded, in addition to private 
 schools. When twenty-one years of age, he pur- 
 chased a drug store at Stayton, in partnership 
 with Dr. McCauley, and six months later bought 
 the interest of his partner. It is not necessary to 
 enlarge upon his success in this undertaking, for 
 in a country where opportunities are so plentiful 
 that they tempt men to try another than their 
 own established business, success is reasonably 
 sure to follow. 
 
 In 1 89 1 Mr. Gardner purchased the Stayton 
 
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 (louring mills, which are now operated under the 
 firm name of Gardner Brothers. Upon his pur- 
 chase of this industry he reconstructed the mill, 
 putting in the most improved modern machinery, 
 including" that necessary for the roller process. 
 The capacity of the mill is about eighty barrels 
 per day. The location is very advantageous, 
 being upon the Santiam river, which furnishes 
 the motive power. In 1899 he disposed of his 
 drug store in order that he might give his undi- 
 vided attention to his milling interests, which 
 have increased, year by year, as the territory he 
 supplies becomes more thickly populated. 
 
 In 1878, Mr. Gardner was united in marriage 
 with Minnie Schneider, a native of Iowa, and a 
 daughter of Albert and Mary (Mohr) Schneider, 
 who were born in Switzerland and Germany, re- 
 spectively. Mr. Schneider was one of the young- 
 est soldiers in the Mexican war. Four children 
 have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Gardner: Ethel E. and Veva A., graduates of 
 Willamette University, and Norma and Abner 
 Davis, Jr. Mr. Gardner has an interesting fam- 
 ily, and is giving to his children every possible 
 educational advantage, realizing that a good 
 mental equipment will have a greater bearing 
 upon their future lives than a liberal heritage of 
 worldly goods. In 1901, Mr. Gardner embarked 
 in the dairy business, and has eight hundred acres 
 devoted to this industry. 
 
 That Mr. Gardner's good citizenship has not 
 been unappreciated is evidenced by the fact that 
 in 1876 he was appointed postmaster of Stayton, 
 and for thirteen successive years served in this 
 office, under both Democratic and Republican 
 administrations. As a boy he received training 
 that proved helpful to him in this work, his 
 father having been postmaster at Fox Valley for 
 several years. Though a stanch Democrat in 
 his political convictions, he has never exhibited 
 a narrow- or offensive partisan spirit, but has 
 shown himself to be, first of all, a splendid type 
 of the American citizen. He has been a member 
 of the town council for two terms, and has 
 served for some time on the school board. Fra- 
 ternally he is identified with the Masons, being 
 a member of Santiam Lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. 
 M.. in which he has been secretary for several 
 years, as well as filling other positions ; is also 
 identified with Aumsville Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; 
 Degree of Honor No. 147, Stayton Camp No. 
 51. Woodman of the World, and is a charter 
 member of Stayton Circle No. 142. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
 which he has officiated as class leader, and is 
 now trustee and steward. 
 
 Mr. Gardner is in the highest sense a public- 
 spirited citizen. He contributes freelv of his 
 time and his means toward the success of all 
 movements which have for an end the improve- 
 
 ment of the moral, educational, social or indus- 
 trial status of the community, and is recognized 
 as a man of probity and a high sense of personal 
 honor. It is to such men as he that the north- 
 west owes much for its advancement, and the 
 state of Oregon for the position which it has 
 attained among the sisterhood of states in the 
 American commonwealth. Those responsible for 
 the compilation of this volume take pleasure in 
 honoring the request of those who know Mr. 
 Gardner best, that he be accorded a place of 
 more than passing distinction in the memoirs of 
 the men who have taken the lead in the march of 
 progress in the Willamette valley. 
 
 PHILIP PETER GOULEY. Born in Mon- 
 roe, Mich., September 21, 1845, Philip P. Gou- 
 ley carries with him the characteristics which 
 are the native gifts of the sons of the middle 
 west, as well as those which are his by inherit- 
 ance through his Canadian ancestry. His father, 
 S. A. Gouley, was born in Canada, March 2, 
 1 81 7, being reared to manhood in this country. 
 Having learned the trades of carpenter and 
 wagon-maker, he left his native cotmtry and, 
 coming to the United States, settled in Monroe, 
 Mich., where he remained until 1852, engaged in 
 the prosecution of his combined business inter- 
 ests. In his Michigan residence he met and 
 married Marcelles Duval, a native of that state, 
 being born near Monroe, in 1821, and in that 
 city the young people first made their home. In 
 1852 Mr. Gouley took his first western trip, com- 
 ing by horse teams across the plains to Califor- 
 nia, leaving his family in the home in Michigan 
 to await his return. But briefly interested in 
 the mining prospects of California, he came 
 to Oregon during the same winter, settling 
 in Marion county, near Woodburn, where he 
 remained until 1856, at that time returning to 
 Michigan by water, when he was again united 
 with his wife and children. In 1859 he brought 
 his family across the plains in the same manner 
 in which he had first made the trip. Coming 
 directly to his property near Woodburn, which 
 he had purchased, they continued to make it 
 their home until 1886, then removing to Wood- 
 burn for a short time. In 1896 they came to 
 their present home in Gervais. where Mr. Gou- 
 lev now leads a retired life, himself and wife 
 being verv popular in the society of that town. 
 Of the five children born to them Philip P. Gou- 
 lev, of this review, is the eldest ; Fred is lo- 
 cated in Salem : Ellen is the wife of Dennis 
 Manning, living east of Parkersville ; Minnie is 
 the wife of Michael Murphv of Gervais ; and 
 Henrv makes his home in Woodburn. 
 
 The education of P. P. Gouley was received 
 in the common schools of both Michigan and 
 
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 Oregon, being fourteen years old at the time of 
 his father's removal to the latter state. He con- 
 tinued to make his home with his parents until 
 his marriage, in 1872, with Miss Lydia Lerwill, 
 who was born April 3, 1856, and reared on 
 French Prairie, Marion county, Ore. Her par- 
 ents were William and Sarah (Stanton) Ler- 
 will, who crossed the plains in 1852 and settled 
 at Parkersville. Mr. Lerwill was a miller, the 
 first mill of Salem being under his management. 
 Three children were born to them, as follows: 
 Lydia, Mrs. Gouley ; Emily, wife of D. W. 
 Cross of Los Angeles, Cal. ; and Walter, in 
 Pardee, Cal. Neither of the parents are now 
 living, the mother having died at the age of 
 thirty-three years, and the father was killed at 
 the age of sixty-six by the running away of the 
 team which he was driving. Mr. Gouley and 
 his wife commenced their married life on a part 
 of her father's old donation claim, located nine 
 miles north of Salem, on the Oregon City and 
 Salem road. They have two hundred and 
 twenty-seven acres of land, the majority of it 
 being under cultivation, and here Mr. Gouley is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 also having a hop yard of forty-five acres, the 
 latter pursuit yielding him a good income. In 
 1902 he raised forty-seven thousand pounds, and 
 the year before over fifty thousand pounds of 
 hops, this amount representing quite a sum of 
 money. All the improvements upon the farm 
 are the work of Mr. Gouley, the substantial 
 dwelling house and good out buildings giving 
 indisputable evidence of his success in his chosen 
 work. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Gouley two children were 
 born. Homer, born December 21, 1874, is mar- 
 ried and has one son, Lawrence Homer, farming 
 near Brooks ; Romeo, born August 9, 1885, i s 
 at home. Both of the sons were given business 
 educations. 
 
 Personally Mr. Gouley is a man who has made 
 himself useful in the community in which he 
 lives, his attitude in regard to national and local 
 affairs being always for the broadening influ- 
 ences likely to carry the country or community 
 to a higher plane of morality. He has never 
 swerved in his allegiance to the Republican 
 party, his maturer mind following the principles 
 endorsed by his youth, and in the service of this 
 party he has acted as school director for several 
 years. Fraternally he is a member of the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, being a char- 
 ter member of Fraternity Lodge No. 9, but later 
 he was transferred to Brooks Lodge No. 137. 
 
 CHARLES MILLER. The son of a pioneer, 
 Charles Miller has not depended alone on the 
 strength of his father's worth and ability, but has 
 
 built up for himself a position of prominence in 
 the affairs of his adopted county and state, as well 
 as a place of financial importance among the en- 
 terprising men of the community. Principally 
 through his own efforts Mr. Miller has acquired 
 the title to a farm of five hundred acres of rich 
 and productive land, his first purchase being 
 made with the fruits of a trip to the gold mines 
 of California in 1849. Since that time he has 
 made his home upon this property, with the ex- 
 ception of the years 186 1-2, when he again visited 
 the southern state. Every intelligent effort has 
 been put forth in the making of a model farm 
 and an ideal residence of the spot selected by his 
 father on his first settlement in the west. 
 
 Back beyond the events of the last fifty years, 
 when men were following the march of progress 
 toward the setting sun, Isaac Miller, the father 
 of Charles, sold his farm in Miami county, Ind., 
 to which he had removed four years previously, 
 from Montgomery county. The sale was made 
 with the full intention of emigrating to the west, 
 but he met with such opposition from his mother 
 that, out of consideration for her affections, he 
 changed his plans and remained in the state, pur- 
 chasing a farm in Montgomery county, where he 
 lived until her death two years later. In the 
 fall of 1847 Isaac Miller and his brother, Chris- 
 tian, went to Missouri, where they passed the 
 winter, outfitting in the spring for the journey, 
 across the plains. Mr. Miller had three wagons 
 with five yoke of oxen to each wagon, and his 
 brother had two. The train of which they com- 
 posed a part consisted of thirty wagons, over 
 which Mr. Miller was appointed captain, and the 
 journey from the Missouri river occupied four 
 months and ten days. They were providentially 
 spared the depredations of the savages, the only 
 encounter being in Nebraska with the Pawnee 
 Indians. 
 
 Upon arriving in Oregon Mr. Miller took 
 up a donation claim, consisting of six hundred 
 and forty acres located in Marion county, and 
 after one year's residence he sold the property 
 to his two sons, Charles, of this review, and his 
 brother, Samuel. He then removed to Clackamas 
 county, and later to Linn county, in the latter 
 locating near Albany, and later buying land near 
 Millers. He continued accumulating property 
 embodied in the broad lands of the northwest 
 until he owned twelve hundred acres, when he 
 sold out and removed to Ashland. There his 
 death occurred in 1878, at the age of seventy-two 
 years, he having been born February 8, 1806. In 
 the early history of the country no one man 
 contributed more toward the growth of the state 
 than Isaac Miller. He was a member of the 
 territorial legislature, and during the Indian war 
 he held a commission as major by appointment 
 of the governor of the state. He also served 
 
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 in the Rogue River war, 1855-6, during which 
 service he was wounded. He also served during 
 the troubles of that period on the Snake river. 
 Mr. Miller was recognized as a power in his 
 own neighborhood, helping to lay out roads, es- 
 tablish schools and many other important move- 
 ments calculated to establish a successful gov- 
 ernment in the new land. He was the father of 
 nine children, five sons and four daughters, his 
 wife, who was born in Tennessee, in 1805, dying 
 on the same day that marked his death. They 
 were buried in the same grave at Ashland. They 
 were both members of the Christian Church. 
 
 Charles Miller was one of the party who 
 crossed the plains, having been born near Craw- 
 fordsville, Montgomery county, Ind., February 
 23. 1830. His first move was made when he was 
 ten years old, his parents then settling in Miami 
 county, where they lived four years. His for- 
 tunes continued to lie parallel with those of his 
 father's family until he was nineteen years old, 
 when he went with his brother Samuel to the 
 territory of California. The trip was made on 
 horseback, with packs containing their outfit and 
 supplies, and on their arrival they went to work 
 on the American river. The work of a summer 
 found them satisfied, and they returned to Ore- 
 gon with $1,500 each, and at once invested the 
 money in the farm which their father was ready 
 to sell. Trained as were the sons of other pio- 
 neers. Mr. Miller was able to turn his hand 
 to almost anything, and for some time he en- 
 gaged in carpentering. As before mentioned, 
 Mr. Miller now owns five hundred acres, which 
 is finely improved, and upon which he carries 
 on general farming and stock-raising. He has 
 a large herd of full-blooded Jersey cattle, and 
 as one industry of his own farm he has built 
 a creamery, thus affording a livelihood for many 
 laborers and a ready market for his milk. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Miller was united in marriage 
 with Miss Nancy Vaughn, one of the number of 
 heroic women who faced the perils of the plains 
 and the privations of the wilderness with the 
 courage of the old-time pioneers. She was a 
 native of West Virginia, and just previous to 
 the western venture she made her home with 
 her parents in Platte county, Mo., where her 
 father died in 1842. The family joined the 
 current of emigration in 1852, and coming 
 through safely, they settled near Turner, Marion 
 county, where Mrs. Vaughn lived with her son, 
 William. Eight children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Miller, of whom Louisa is the eldest; 
 Lydia is the wife of J. B. Hoyt, of Jefferson; 
 Ada is now deceased ; Charles is located on a 
 part of the home place ; Nancy J., now also 
 deceased : Ida is the wife of Fred Looney, of 
 this county ; Emma makes her home with her 
 parents, and the youngest child died in infancy. 
 
 As a member of the Democratic party Mr. Miller 
 was elected to the state legislature in 1885, and 
 in 1892 he ran for congress on the Populist ticket. 
 He has served as justice of the peace for several 
 years, and was chairman of the Populist State 
 Central Committee during the campaign of 1894. 
 Fraternally he has been a Mason since 1864, 
 being a member of Jefferson Lodge No. 33, A. 
 F. & A. M., and is a charter member of the 
 Grange. Mr. Miller was one of the founders of 
 Jefferson Institute, established half a century 
 ago, and is the only survivor in the neighborhood 
 who was actively identified with its upbuilding 
 for many years. He served as president of the 
 board of directors for several years, and was 
 largely instrumental in the construction of the 
 school building. His wife belongs to the Chris- 
 tian Church, which is situated two miles north 
 of Jefferson. , 
 
 A little incident in the life of Mr. Miller in the 
 early days of the territory is worthy of mention, 
 as showing the dangers and trials which are 
 necessarily a part of the lives of those who lay 
 the foundation of a great commonwealth. With 
 several companions, among them being George 
 W. Hunt, Lewis Streidt and Samuel Hart, the 
 latter a mountaineer, Mr. Miller camped in 1851 
 on the Rogue river, and during the night the 
 Indians stole, nineteen of the twenty horses which 
 they had. On discovery of the loss Mr. Miller 
 with one of the others, started out on the depart- 
 ing trail in the hope of overtaking the Indians and 
 securing the return of the animals. Though 
 finally successful in the recovery of the horses 
 they had much trouble and a long hunt, following 
 the Indians seven days and nights on one trip 
 and eight days on another before finding them, 
 as, after going fifteen miles they had separated 
 and driven the horses in different directions. 
 In the meantime they had captured the two chiefs, 
 putting their Indian families under guard, which 
 operated in their favor and induced the return 
 of the stolen property. 
 
 CLARENCE BUTT. As the standing of 
 a community is best illustrated by the character 
 and attainments of its legal exponents. Newberg 
 is fortunate in being represented by Clarence 
 Butt, a self-made man, and one of the most 
 promising and brilliant of the younger generation 
 of orators as well as lawyers. Born in Colum- 
 bia county. Pa., May 27, 1871, Mr. Butt comes 
 of reliable English ancestry, and from that source 
 inherits not only professional, but business and 
 social abilities. The family was first represented 
 in America by the paternal great-grandfather, 
 William, who came across the sea with his sons, 
 Joseph and Zephaniah. Zephaniah became a 
 college man and medical graduate, and after 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 
 settling in Ocala, Fla., managed to amass quite 
 a fortune, being worth at the time of his death, 
 $150,000. His son, Joseph, the paternal grand- 
 father, was born in 181 2, and in his young man- 
 hood settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. 
 For a time he ran on the canals of that section 
 of the state, but in after years turned his attention 
 to farming, an occupation engaged in almost up 
 to the time of his death at the age of seventy-two 
 years. Although but moderately successful finan- 
 cially, he yet wielded an important influence in 
 his community, especially from a political stand- 
 point. He was an almost rabid Republican, and 
 did not hesitate to show his colors in the Fishing 
 Creek Confederacy. • 
 
 Zephaniah A. Butt, the father of Clarence, 
 was born in Pennsylvania, May 18, 1849, an d 
 at the present time is one of the leading Repub- 
 licans and citizens of his community. He lives 
 on the home farm in Yamhill county, and con- 
 ducts lumbering in connection with farming, 
 and is fairly successful in both occupations. 
 Although in a strong Democratic community he 
 courageously waves the Republican banner when- 
 ever opportunity offers, and in this connection is 
 one of the strongest supporters of the party in 
 his county, and has many stanch friends among 
 those who have known him for a lifetime. When 
 comparatively young he married Clara Everhart, 
 a native also of Pennsylvania, and daughter of 
 Daniel Everhart, born in eastern Pennsylvania, 
 and by occupation a lumberman and farmer. Mr. 
 Everhart, who was a Democrat in politics, and 
 fairly successful from a business standpoint, 
 died in his native state at about the age of 
 seventy years. Of the two sons and two 
 daughters born to Zephaniah A. Butt and his 
 wife, the popular lawyer of Newberg is the 
 oldest; William lives at Benton, Pa.; Mary is 
 an educator in Pennsylvania ; and Anna lives at 
 her home in the Quaker state. 
 
 After completing his education in Pennsyl- 
 vania, Clarence Butt attended the Bloomsburg 
 State Normal, and then entered the law depart- 
 ment of the Northern Indiana Law School. At 
 the expiration of two years he graduated from 
 the latter institution wih the degree of LL. D., 
 and after being admitted to the Indiana bar 
 removed to Hamilton, Mont., where a residence 
 of three months convinced him of its undesira- 
 bility as a field for practice. Fairview, Ore., was 
 a future field for experiment, and in 1895 he 
 came to Newberg, and has since engaged in a 
 general practice of law. Since coming here Mr. 
 Butt has entered enthusiastically into all Repub- 
 lican matters, and has made an honored place for 
 himself among the higher ranks of politicians. 
 Possessing a ready command of language, and 
 concise knowledge of all facts in connection with 
 his party, his services have been in great demand 
 
 upon all important occasions. He was a dele- 
 gate to the state congressional convention in 
 1896, and was chairman of the Republican 
 county convention in 1898. The same year he 
 was nominated and elected state representative, 
 and re-elected again in 1900. During both terms 
 he was on the railroad committee, and during the 
 first term was on the committee to investigate 
 state university affairs. During the second term 
 also he was chairman of the banking and busi- 
 ness committee, and a member of the special 
 committee on the state land board. During his 
 second term in the house Mr. Butt caused consid- 
 erable excitement by his effort to reduce the rail- 
 road fare in the state from four to three cents. 
 Although the only one of the committee in favor 
 of it, he submitted three minority reports, and 
 succeeded in getting the minority reports adopted 
 by the balance of the house, an act which led 
 eventually to the desired reduction by the rail- 
 roads themselves. 
 
 In Fairview, Ore., Mr. Butt was united in 
 marriage with Inez Barrett, who was born in 
 Elmwood, Peoria county, 111., and whose father, 
 George Barrett, was a farmer and stock-raiser 
 in Illinois, where his death occurred. Mrs. Butt 
 received her education in her native state and 
 at the Northern Indiana Normal School at Val- 
 paraiso, Ind., and after coming to Oregon a year 
 before her husband, she engaged in educational 
 work for a couple of years. Two children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Butt, Ralph and 
 Dale who are living at home with their parents. 
 Mr. Butt is fraternally associated with the Blue 
 Lodge of Masons, with the Eastern Star, and 
 the Artisans. In the Methodist Church, of which 
 he is treasurer and trustee, he is active in pro- 
 moting its charities and general work, and con- 
 tributes generously towards its financial necessi- 
 ties. Mr. Butt possesses a judicial mind and 
 temperament, excellent business ability and judg- 
 ment, and a capacity for hard work well devel- 
 oped. A minute comprehension of the theory 
 and practice of the law, supplemented by those 
 admirable characteristics, faithfulness and energy, 
 assure him not only a continuation but an 
 increase of his present professional prominence. 
 
 CAPT. JULIUS HOWD. A large portion 
 of the six hundred acres of land purchased by 
 Capt. Julius Howd in 1869 was covered with 
 dense timber, and necessitated arduous labors 
 before the clearing and cultivation of the same 
 was completed. That three hundred acres are 
 now available for general crops is in itself an 
 index to the industry and enterprise of the suc- 
 cessful owner. Many fine improvements increase 
 the value of the property, the residence, barns, 
 outhouses and implements being such as to facili- 
 
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 tate an extensive and remunerative farming and 
 stock-raising enterprise. Located in the Waldo 
 Hills, about eight miles east and three miles south 
 Salem, the land is adapted to the culture of 
 grain and general produce. Captain Howd has 
 made a specialty, for many years, of high- 
 grade sheep, many of those sent out from his 
 place being registered. 
 
 For his start in life Captain Howd was not 
 indebted to any especial mark of good fortune, 
 for Ins parents were not prepared to lend him 
 any material assistance toward a successful 
 career. He was born in Onondaga county, N. 
 Y.. December 6, 1829, the son of Isaac C. Howd. 
 At the age of six years he was taken by his 
 parents to the vicinity of Carthage, 111., and was 
 there reared on a farm, eventually succeeding to 
 the management thereof. In 1852, when twenty- 
 three years of age, he started across the plains 
 with an ox-train. After six months of varied 
 adventure he reached Silverton, Ore., where he 
 spent the first winter splitting rails. Afterward 
 he worked on a farm for several months. In 
 1855 he went to California with a herd of cattle, 
 assisting the owner in getting them safely over 
 the mountains. Lpon returning to Silverton the 
 same fall he volunteered for service in the Cayuse 
 Indian war, under Captain Bennett. During the 
 six months of his service he engaged in the cam- 
 paign in the eastern part of the state, participat- 
 ing in the battle of the Yakima, and afterward 
 taking part in the battle of Walla Walla, Wash. 
 
 Soon after the close of the war Captain Howd 
 went to Salem, where he was employed in a 
 livery barn for one year. He then returned to 
 his old home in Illinois, by way of the Isthmus 
 of Panama and the Mississippi river. A year 
 later he came back to Oregon, and soon went to 
 work upon a farm. Subsequently he rented a farm 
 for four years. In the meantime he had saved 
 some money through his frugality and thrift, and 
 in time he purchased one hundred and thirty 
 acres near the State Insane Asylum, nearly all 
 of which was timbered. He cleared a consider- 
 able portion of this property and resided upon it 
 for six years, for the first four years keeping 
 bachelor quarters. November 7, 1865, ne mar- 
 ried Mary Baker, who was born in Iowa, a 
 daughter of W. Harrison Baker. Of this union 
 there have been born five children, the eldest of 
 whom, Eva, is the wife of Henry King, residing 
 in the vicinity of Shaw, Ore. ; Elizabeth is the 
 wife of Andrew Smith, who resides at Cottage 
 Grove, Ore. ; William H. operates the home 
 farm ; May is the wife of J. L. Patton of Cottage 
 Grove, Ore. ; and Maude is the wife of W. J. 
 Haberly. who resides near Willard, Ore. 
 
 Two years after his marriage, in 1867, Captain 
 Howd moved upon a farm of two hundred acres, 
 now owned by Reuben Lee, where he resided for 
 
 two years. This property he then traded for the 
 farm which has since been his home. 
 
 Captain Howd became a charter member of 
 the Salem Grange, and has since transferred his 
 membership to the Grange at Macleay. In re- 
 ligion he is identified with the Christian Church. 
 Politically, he affiliates with the Democratic party, 
 but he has never aspired to or been willing to 
 accept political office. Notwithstanding his own 
 large family he has added to the responsibilities 
 of his household by adopting a homeless boy 
 named John Ulrich, who is still living with him, 
 and who came to his home when eight years of 
 age. 
 
 The benefactions of Captain Howd are always 
 quietly and unostentatiously conducted, and rarely 
 reach the ears of the public. The record of his 
 life is free from blemish — that of an upright, 
 honorable man. No man in the county is more 
 fully entitled to a permanent place among the 
 representative men of the Willamette valley than 
 he, and the careers of few afford a greater inspir- 
 ation to the youth of today. 
 
 WILLIAM L. CUMMINGS, formerly princi- 
 pal of the Oregon State Reform School for Boys, 
 is eminently qualified for responsibilities of 
 that character, his experience for many years as 
 an educator having given him a thorough knowl- 
 edge of human nature, and a patience and wis- 
 dom in dealing with children. During his resi- 
 dence in Oregon Mr. Cummings has touched 
 upon various phases of endeavor in the north- 
 west, has been successful as an agriculturist and 
 horticulturist, and has served his community with 
 distinction in the legislature. 
 
 A native of the vicinity of Racine, Walworth 
 county, Wis., Mr. Cummings was born Septem- 
 ber 7, 1848, and when five years of age moved 
 with his parents to Berlin, in the same state. His 
 youth was a somewhat migratory one, for his 
 father was a lumberman, and prosecuted his 
 business in several lumbering localities in the 
 state, finally locating on a farm in Clark county 
 in 1862. The son was educated in the public 
 schools and at Galesville University, and at the 
 age of nineteen began a period of teaching in the 
 graded schools of Trempealeau county covering 
 sixteen years. In 1884 he was elected county 
 superintendent of schools in Trempealeau county, 
 and while serving thus for eight years, materially 
 elevated the standard of education in the district 
 over which he had control. In 1893 he removed 
 to Oregon, purchased near Shaw five acres of 
 land, and made thereon many fine improvements. 
 He now owns forty-five acres. At first he set out 
 five acres in Italian prunes, and at the present 
 time he has nine acres under this favorite fruit, 
 and five acres under apples, pears, and cherries. 
 
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 Refreshed by a year of experience in the 
 country, Mr. Cummings returned to his former 
 occupation, and after teaching for a year at 
 Turner, acted as assignee for a bankrupt store 
 at Shaw for a year. In the meantime he had 
 become active in politics, and in 1898 was elected 
 to the legislature on the Republican ticket, serv- 
 ing in the special and regular sessions. In the 
 spring of 1899 he was appointed principal of 
 the Oregon State Reform School for Boys, a 
 position maintained by him with great satisfac- 
 tion to all concerned. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Cummings was united in marriage 
 with Adelaide Bunn, of which union there have 
 been born the following children: Florence, a 
 teacher; Carroll, for some time a teacher in 
 the public schools of Oregon and Washington; 
 Susie, the wife of Otis Bates ; Sybil, a graduate 
 of the State Agricultural College at Corvallis, 
 class of 1903 ; Alson, attending the Salem Busi- 
 ness College; Arthur and Laura. The Cum- 
 mings family are members of the Methodist 
 Church. Mr. Cummings retired from the prin- 
 cipalship of the Reform School April 1, 1903, and 
 since then has devoted his time to the culture of 
 fruit. 
 
 MARY E. HUNT. A woman who, herself a 
 success financially, gives generously of her 
 abundance, contributes in countless ways to the 
 happiness and well-being of those around her. 
 Such an one is Mary E. Hunt, of Scio, known to 
 all, and lovingly called " Aunt Mary." There is 
 no more popular residence in the town than that 
 owned and occupied by this earnest and kind- 
 hearted business woman, who loans money, looks 
 after her large property interests, and is a stanch 
 supporter of the Missionary Baptist Church. 
 
 Before her marriage Mrs. Hunt was Mary E. 
 Shelton, and she was born in Jackson county, 
 Mo., April 2, 1837. Her father, Hayman Shel- 
 ton, was born in the Old Dominion state, and 
 there married Priscilla Fitzgerald, also a native 
 of Virginia, who died at the home of her son in 
 Linn county in 1876, at the age of seventy-seven 
 years. After his marriage, Mr. Shelton removed 
 to North Carolina, thence going to Missouri, 
 locating on a farm in Jackson county. This he 
 afterward sold, and bought a farm in Andrew 
 county, near St. Joseph, which continued to be 
 his home until crossing the plains in 1847. ^ n 
 the meantime twelve children had been born into 
 the family, seven sons and five daughters, of 
 whom four sons and four daughters are living. 
 The children were all members of the little party 
 ' which set out on its perilous journey, and, from 
 May until October, endured the hardships of 
 travel by day, and precarious camping at night. 
 Mr. Shelton looked around him in Oregon for a 
 
 desirable location, and finally selected a claim 
 six miles east of Scio on Thomas creek, where 
 he lived until his death, March 8, 1876, seven 
 months before the death of his wife. 
 
 The children were reared to habits of thrift 
 and industry, and each was obliged to perform 
 his or her share towards the general support. 
 Mary E. was no exception, and the discipline 
 was beneficial, for she grew into a strong and 
 self-reliant woman, learning her lessons of life 
 from her immediate surroundings, rather than 
 from the country school which she attended ir- 
 regularly. After coming to Oregon she lived 
 on the home farm, making herself useful in its 
 management, and each year developing the lov- 
 able and generous traits of character which are 
 the delight of her friends of today. In 1857 Enoch 
 Hunt, who had been in California, and was on a 
 visit to his brother in Oregon, became acquainted 
 with Miss Shelton, admired her character and at- 
 tainments, and finally persuaded her to share 
 his life fortunes. They were married in the fall 
 of 1864, and their united life proved a very happy 
 one. 
 
 Enoch Hunt was born in North Carolina, July 
 25, 1825, his father, Nathan, being a native of 
 the same state. The family moved to Missouri 
 at a very early day, and at Lone Jack the father 
 owned a farm, distillery and flouring mill, which 
 he operated with considerable success. The re- 
 mainder of his life was spent in Missouri, where 
 he lived to an advanced age, honored and 
 esteemed by all who knew him. Enoch came 
 to California across the plains in 1852, by 
 means of slow-moving oxen, the journey last- 
 ing about six months. He was fairly 
 successful in the mines, and when he came 
 to Oregon had no intention of remaining. A year 
 after his marriage he took his wife to California, 
 and in Napa county they lived on a beautiful 
 ranch devoted to deciduous fruits and general 
 farming, and where the rest of their married life 
 was spent. Here Mr. Hunt died in 1887, leav- 
 ing a very comfortable fortune to the wife who 
 had been his companion and sympathizer. He 
 was a quiet, unassuming man, and after he came 
 to California thought it the garden spot of the 
 world. He was a Democrat in politics, but chose 
 rather the quiet of home life than the strife and 
 uncertainty of political office-seeking. 
 
 After her husband's death Mrs. Hunt came to 
 Scio, and she has since been the promoter of 
 multitudinous good works, and many business in- 
 terests. Her sympathetic ear is always attentive 
 to the woes of others, and she invariably has 
 good cheer and practical counsel with which to 
 dispel discouragement and hopelessness. Truly 
 " Aunt Mary " occupies an enviable place in the 
 hearts of those who comprise the community of 
 Scio. 
 
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 COLLIN AUSTIN WALLACE. No state 
 can boast of a more heroic band of pioneers 
 than Oregon. There came to the northwest men 
 who were not adventurers or fortune seekers, but 
 were intent upon establishing homes for them- 
 selves and families and of founding a commun- 
 itv of law-abiding citizens who wished to 
 take advantage of the natural resources of this 
 portion of the country. Mr. Wallace was a 
 representative of this class, and in the years of 
 his business career he has gained success. He 
 is thoroughly familiar with the early history 
 of the state, his memory forming a connecting 
 link between the primitive past and the pro- 
 gressive present. He arrived in Oregon in 
 [852, coming to this state from the Mississippi 
 valley. His birth occurred in Branch county, 
 near Coldwater, Mich., January 17, 1834, his 
 parents being Timothy and Roxy (Thurston) 
 Wallace. The father was born in Connecticut 
 and the grandfather, Payne Wallace, died in 
 that state. The family is of Scotch descent 
 and was established in New England in colon- 
 ial days. Timothy Wallace removed from 
 Connecticut to Branch county, Mich., where 
 he improved a good farm upon which he spent 
 the remainder of his life. His wife was a 
 native of Sandusky, Ohio, and a daughter of 
 Jason Thurston, who was born in Ohio and 
 became a farmer of Burr Oak, Mich. Mrs. 
 Wallace also passed away in the Wolverine 
 state. By her marriage she became the mother 
 of six children : Edward P., who came to 
 Oregon in 1852 and now resides in Amity; 
 Lewis K., who arrived in the same year and 
 died in 1886; Collin A.; David, who came in 
 1861 and resides in Yamhill county; Roxelane, 
 the wife of Dr. Woodard, of Olympia, Wash., 
 a resident of the state since 1852 ; and Will- 
 iam, who died at the age of four years. 
 
 Collin Austin Wallace was reared in the 
 usual manner of farmer lads. His father died 
 when he was but fourteen years of age and his 
 mother the following year, and thus he was 
 early thrown upon his own resources. In his 
 youth he attended the subscription schools. 
 After his parents' death he was employed in 
 teaming at the time of the building of the Lake 
 Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. In 
 1852, he and his two brothers, Edward P. 
 and Lewis K., came to Oregon, starting 
 from Branch county, Mich., on the 25th day of 
 March with an ox-team and some cows. They 
 traveled by the Avay of Chicago, crossing the 
 Mississippi river at Galena and the Missouri 
 at Council Bluffs and by the way of Fort 
 Hall continued the journey arriving at The 
 Dalles on the 17th of October. Collin A. Wall- 
 ace continued on his way to Portland, where 
 he remained for a short time, but the same fall 
 
 took up his abode in Lafayette, Yamhill county, 
 where he spent the winter. In June, 1853, he 
 went to Olympia, Wash., where he remained 
 for five years, acting as mail carrier and 
 express messenger for Governor I. I. Stevens 
 of Washington Territory. At various times 
 there were outbreaks among the Indians and 
 Mr. Wallace volunteered for three months' 
 service in the Indian war, joining the First 
 Washington Regiment under Captain Eaton. 
 About twenty-one days later Governor Stevens 
 detailed him to act as express messenger, and 
 he carried the express from Olympia to Van- 
 couver and Snake river points for a year. This 
 was oftentimes a hazardous undertaking, but 
 the duty was always faithfully performed. 
 While in the military service he took part in 
 the battle of Walla Walla valley, being with 
 a company of volunteers who engaged the 
 Indians there. In 1856 he secured the mail 
 contract in Washington, but later sold out and 
 turned his attention to farming. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Wallace came again to the Will- 
 amette valley and through the succeeding 
 winter conducted a butcher shop. In 1859 rie 
 resumed farming and in 1861 purchased a 
 tract of land six miles southwest of McMinn- 
 ville. He at once began the cultivation and 
 improvement of this land, and in 1865 sold it 
 and purchased a farm of two hundred and fifty 
 acres two and a half miles from McMinnville, 
 upon which he developed a splendid farm, 
 pleasantly located on the Sheridan road south- 
 west of the city. There he carried on agri- 
 cultural pursuits with good success until 1878, 
 when he removed to McMinnville and estab- 
 lished a grocery store, but later retired from 
 mercantile life and devoted his energies to the 
 supervision of his farming property until April, 
 1903, when he moved to Salem. He sold his 
 original farm and now owns the old fair 
 grounds at McMinnville, comprising ninety 
 acres, on which there is a fine track a 
 mile in extent, and which is unsurpassed by 
 any in the state. Here he has a nice park, 
 and he also owns other lands in Yamhill county 
 devoted to farming purposes. He has raised 
 fine standard-bred horses, owning some very 
 valuable stock, including Alta Dell, who at 
 three years made a record of 2:16. In 1888 
 Mr. Wallace went east and brought out a carload 
 of full-blooded Holstein cattle. These he pur- 
 chased from Captain Wales, of Iowa, and they 
 were among the first blooded cattle brought 
 into the state. Mr. Wallace was one of the 
 organizers of the Oregon Fire Relief Association 
 of McMinnville, and served on its first board of 
 trustees, filling the position for several years. 
 
 In North Yamhill in 1857 occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Wallace and Miss Eliza J. Shuck, 
 
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 who was born near Burlington, Iowa, a 
 daughter of Hon. Andrew J. and Mary (Con- 
 lee) Shuck. Her father was born near Craw- 
 fordsville, Ind., June 19, 1815 and her grand- 
 father, Jacob Shuck, was born in Pennsylva- 
 nia, whence he removed to Indiana, locating 
 upon a farm. Later he became a farmer of 
 Iowa and in 1847 crossed the plains, spending 
 his last days in Yamhill county near Dundee. 
 He had served his country in the war of 1812 
 and was present at the battle of Tippecanoe. 
 /\ndrew J. Shuck was reared in Indiana and 
 afterward became a resident of Iowa. He 
 there followed farming near Burlington, until 
 1847. I n the meantime he had wedded Mary 
 Conlee, who was born in Byron county, Ky., 
 March 15, 1818, a daughter of Reuben Conlee, 
 who was an agriculturist and a native of the 
 Blue Grass state. He removed to Greene 
 county, 111., among its early settlers and served 
 in the Black Hawk war. After his military 
 service had ended he became a resident of 
 Des Moines county, Iowa, settling near Bur- 
 lington, where his death occurred. He was a 
 leading and influential citizen of that state 
 and was serving as a member of the Iowa 
 legislature at the time of his death, which 
 occurred while he was in Des Moines attending 
 the sessions of the general assembly. Isaac 
 Conlee, the grandfather of Mrs. Shuck, was a 
 farmer in Kentucky and died there in the year 
 1847. Andrew J. Shuck with his wife and six 
 children started on the long journey across the 
 plains in a slow-moving ox-train, having been 
 nearly seven months upon the way ere they 
 reached the fertile valley of the Willamette. 
 Mr. Shuck secured a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres near North Yamhill, 
 and there he developed his land, providing 
 a good home for his family. At the time of 
 the Indian war he made guns for the use of 
 the volunteers. He was the first sheriff of 
 Yamhill county and served in that position for 
 two terms, after which he represented his 
 district in the territorial legislature for two 
 terms and was a member of the first state 
 legislature. He assisted in building the first 
 schoolhouse in his locality and took an active 
 part in establishing civilization in this wild 
 and unimproved region. Finally he located in 
 McMinnville, where he built a residence. He 
 was serving as school director at the time of 
 the erection of the present fine schoolhouse, 
 and he died in 1894, his death being lamented 
 by all who knew him. In politics he was a 
 Democrat and was a warm friend of the cause 
 of temperance. Mrs. Shuck still survives her 
 husband and now makes her home with Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wallace. By her marriage she 
 became the mother of seven children, of whom 
 
 Mrs. Wallace is the eldest. The others are Mrs. 
 Susan M. Oppenhoff, of Dawson City, Alaska; 
 Mrs. Nancy Ellen Olds, of McMinnville ; Mrs. 
 Matilda Wood, of Yamhill county; William 
 and Reuben, who own the old donation claim ; 
 and Mrs. Ann Fendall, of Ashland. 
 
 Mrs. Wallace was born in Iowa in 1839 an( l 
 in her youth attended a subscription school 
 held in a log building. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
 have three children: Edward West, who for 
 fourteen years was a grocery merchant of 
 McMinnville, but is now living upon his 
 father's farm ; Mrs. Anne Todd, wife of Joseph 
 Todd of Napa, Cal. ; and Cora, the wife of T. 
 B. Kay, who is president of the Salem Woolen 
 Mills of Salem. 
 
 Mr. Wallace has always been honored and 
 respected by his fellow-citizens, and was twice 
 elected to the McMinnville city council, serv- 
 ing as president for one term. Both he and 
 his wife hold membership in the Christian 
 Church, in which they take an active interest. 
 He was a member of the board of elders and 
 was superintendent of the Sunday school for 
 a number of years, while Mrs. Wallace was 
 president of the Ladies' Aid Society. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Wallace is independent and is a strong 
 temperance man. He belongs to the Indian 
 War Veterans Association and was captain for 
 a number of years. It is not difficult to deter- 
 mine upon what side of a question C. A. 
 Wallace will be found, for he is outspoken and 
 fearless in the defense of his honest convic- 
 tions. He has been not only a witness of the 
 development of Oregon for a half century, but 
 also a participant therein. He has done much 
 effective work for Yamhill county and well 
 deserves mention in this volume. 
 
 FRANKLIN PROPST. Seven miles east 
 of Albany is the one hundred and ninety-three- 
 acre farm of Franklin Propst, a well known and 
 successful farmer of Linn county. Born on a 
 farm in Fayette county, W. Va., April 10, 
 1832, Mr. Probst removed with his parents 
 near Petersburg, 111., in 1842, and there grew 
 to manhood, receiving his education in the 
 public schools. His youth was uneventful, 
 and he gladly welcomed the opportunity to 
 come west which presented itself in 1852. 
 With his uncle, Anthony Propst, and his fam- 
 ily, he started across the plains with ox- 
 teams. On the way the uncle and aunt died, 
 leaving the youth entirely dependent upon 
 his own resources. Five months and ten days 
 from the time of starting he reached his desti- 
 nation in Linn county, and there found em- 
 ployment in the saw-mill of Mr. Lewis Cox, 
 
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 an occupation to which he readily adapted 
 himself. 
 
 In 1853 Mr. Propst went to southern Oregon, 
 and on Althouse creek worked for about six 
 months, at placer mining; but this was such 
 a wild and desolate region, and so infested with 
 Indians, that he was obliged to seek employ- 
 ment in safer quarters. Returning to the saw- 
 mill of Mr. Cox in Linn county, he worked for 
 several months, and in July, 1854, went into 
 partnership with Frank Powell and rented 
 the Powell mill. This association was amic- 
 ably continued for about nine months, when 
 Mr. Propst was married, in 1855, to Mary 
 Powell, and with her removed to a farm 
 near by, which he had bought. There have 
 been born seven children of this union : John 
 Henry, of eastern Oregon ; Marion, a farmer of 
 Linn county ; Maria A., Avife of Martin Miller, 
 of Linn county ; Zidana, wife of F. C. Butler, 
 of Linn county ; Anthony G., who resides on 
 the home farm ; Layton B. residing near Leb- 
 anon on a farm ; Mary S., wife of Thomas 
 Reilly. a railroad man of Albany. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Propst sold his farm and moved 
 to his present home, which he has greatly im- 
 proved, and made valuable and productive. 
 ( Hitside interests have contributed to a sub- 
 stantial yearly income, and have served to 
 bring into play the many abilities of this popu- 
 lar farmer. In 1893 he added to his respon- 
 sibilities by starting a tile factory, which he 
 successfully managed for about seven years. 
 He has never taken a more than passing inter- 
 est in politics, but is nevertheless a stanch 
 supporter of the Republican party, for whose 
 candidate he cast his first presidential vote 
 in 1853. Mr. Propst is highly esteemed in his 
 neighborhood, is enterprising and thrifty, and 
 his farm is a model of neatness and good 
 managment. 
 
 FRANCIS M. DODGE. In his pioneer ven- 
 ture into the west Francis M. Dodge was not 
 alone, having the support" of his parents, who 
 came with the courage of youth to add their 
 touch to the growing civilization when the sun 
 of their lives was well in its zenith. The 
 father, John Dodge, was born in Susquehanna 
 county, N. Y., in 1810, the son of a farmer, 
 and to this training he added the trades of 
 a brick mason and plasterer. His early dis- 
 cipline was calculated to foster the traits of 
 independence and self-reliance, as he was 
 forced by the death of his parents into the 
 struggles of life at a very youthful age, and 
 his course throughout his career has evidenced 
 his good judgment and earnestness of purpose. 
 He married Sarah Ives, a native of Middleton, 
 
 Conn. In Pennsylvania they made their home 
 until 1844, when they removed to Stark county, 
 111., leaving the latter home in 1853 f° r tne 
 long and dangerous journey across the plains, 
 made with the slow-plodding oxen, and in the 
 tight most pleasant months of the year. There 
 was no serious trouble with the Indians to 
 mar the pleasure of the trip, nor in any way 
 was their progress impeded. 
 
 Coming direct to Salem, Ore., Mr. Dodge 
 was satisfied to make a home there for his 
 family, and ten years passed before they again 
 made a move. In 1863 they went to the Puget 
 Sound country, locating fourteen miles from 
 Olympia on Miami Prairie, and after residing 
 there for some time, returned to Marion coun- 
 ty, Ore., but later making the former place 
 their permanent home. The death of both of 
 the parents occurred at Mud Bay, the father 
 dying at the age of eighty-two years, the 
 mother at seventy-six. Of the children born 
 to them Bruce, Desdemona and Samuel make 
 their home near Olympia ; and Francis M., of 
 this review, is a resident of Marion county, 
 Ore. At all times a Republican, Mr. Dodge 
 served for some time as Indian agent on the 
 Black river, through this influence. Though 
 not a member of any church he was a believer 
 in Christianity, and practiced it to the extent 
 of his ability. 
 
 Francis M. Dodge was born in Crawford 
 county, Pa., October 29, 1835, and was thus 
 seventeen years old at the time of his father's 
 removal to Oregon, nine years having been 
 spent in the state of his birth. His early edu- 
 cation was received in the common schools of 
 the last named states and in the schools of 
 Salem, though he left home soon after the re- 
 moval to the west. Going to Miami Prairie, 
 Wash., he enlisted in 1855 in the company 
 commanded by Capt. Gilmore Hayes, for ser- 
 vice in the Cayuse Indian war, during which 
 he took part in numerous engagements, among 
 them being those at White river, South Prai- 
 rie, Connell Prairie and Walla Walla, and was 
 a member of Shaw's train at the time it was 
 captured. On being mustered out a year later 
 he returned to Miami Prairie, where he had 
 previously taken up a donation claim, and 
 upon this property he remained until 1861, at 
 that time removing to Oregon. After a few 
 years spent as a teacher in this state, Mr. 
 Dodge invested his earnings in land near Port- 
 land, and remained upon the same for a year, 
 at that time purchasing the one hundred and 
 sixty acres upon which he now makes his 
 home. This is located on Butte creek, three 
 and a half miles east of Woodburn, and at the 
 time of the purchase was wild land with the 
 
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 exception of six or seven acres. Through his 
 own efforts he now has one hundred acres 
 under cultivation, all of the improvements be- 
 ing a credit to his energy and an evidence of 
 his prosperity. He is engaged at present in 
 general farming and stock-raising. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Dodge was united in marriage 
 with Jane Caples, a native of Andrew county, 
 Mo., having been born there November 2, 1847. 
 In 1849 s he crossed the plains with her parents, 
 William and Nancy (Nowell) Caples. Mrs. 
 Dodge is a cousin of Judge John F. Caples, 
 whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this 
 volume. To this union of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge 
 were born six children, of whom Robert Bruce 
 died at the age of eighteen years. Elmer John, 
 unmarried, makes his home with his parents; 
 Edgar is located in Eugene and has one son, 
 Ray ; Lizzie Willema is the wife of A. Pugh 
 of eastern Oregon ; Walter S. is at home ; and 
 Oscar died at eight years of age. Like his 
 father Mr. Dodge is a Republican in politics 
 and has always taken an intelligent and active 
 interest in the movements of this party. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Dodge are members of the Oregon 
 Pioneer Association, and both are living true, 
 Christian lives, in word as well as in deed. 
 
 ABNER LEWIS. The family to which Abner 
 Lewis belongs is one of the oldest in Oregon, his 
 father, Reuben, having been a member of the 
 first train of emigrants to cross the plains in 
 1842. This heroic traveler was born in the 
 state of New York in 1814, was reared on a farm, 
 and with a very meager education began to make 
 his living on the canal at the age of sixteen 
 years. Gradually vistas of usefulness opened 
 before him further west, and he finally located 
 in Iowa, where he worked at whatever he found 
 to do. There was no shadow of hesitancy or any 
 want of courage in his character and when the 
 projected trip across the plains began to take 
 definite shape he prepared like a Spartan for a 
 plunge into the unknown region, which of neces- 
 sity held the possibility of death in every step of 
 the way. This, the first emigrant train to brave 
 the dangers of the plains, consisted of sixteen 
 wagons. As the trials of the early home-seekers 
 have been told in romance and history innumer- 
 able times, it is hardly necessary to go into the 
 details of their daily life, or follow their progress 
 too closely, as they overcame obstacles undreamed 
 of by the tourist of today. Mr. Lewis contributed 
 his services as a hunter in return for accommo- 
 dations on the plains, and much large and small 
 game and fish were brought into camp for the 
 relief of hunger stricken travelers by this intrepid 
 hunter. Arriving at Fort Hall the party aband- 
 oned their wagons, and with packs strapped to 
 
 their backs, proceeded on foot to their destination 
 in Oregon City. 
 
 In the primitive community of Oregon City 
 Reuben Lewis helped build a mill, and February 
 14, 1844, married Polly Frazier, who, with her 
 mother and step-father, John McHaley, had 
 crossed the plains in 1843. With his newly 
 wedded wife he took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres one and a half miles 
 northwest of Aumsville, and erected a rude log 
 house 16x16 feet, ground dimensions. In this 
 primitive house Abner Lewis was born Decem- 
 ber 10, 1846, the second of the nine children born 
 to his parents. His older brother, William H., 
 resides in Ohio; Newton lives at Gates, Ore; 
 John is a farmer near Aumsville; Melinda is the 
 widow of J. Chambers of Turner, Ore; Nelson 
 died when quite young; Mary A., deceased, was 
 the wife of Charles Bowie; Frank is a resident 
 of Pendleton ; and Sarah died September 10, 
 1881. 
 
 In the early days his father took a keen inter- 
 est in his crude surroundings, and while cutting 
 down his timber and getting his land in shape 
 for the seed looked out also for the general im- 
 provement of the locality. He took a special 
 interest in laying out roads, in establishing 
 schools, and erecting churches, and he was a man 
 of untiring industry and great business judg- 
 ment. Necessarily he had to contend with the 
 encroaching Indians, and he took an active part 
 in the early efforts to exterminate the murderous 
 red men. At the age of seventy-five years, April 
 6, 1886, this pioneer of pioneers passed quietly 
 from life, leaving behind a fair competency for 
 those dear to him, and the legacy of a good name 
 earned by industry and integrity. His wife had 
 preceded him to the unknown Jury 14, 1862, at 
 the comparatively early age of thirty-five. Both 
 were members of the Christian Church. Mr. 
 Lewis took no very active interest in politics, 
 probably because there was little political agita- 
 tion in his neighborhood. He favored statehood 
 for Oregon, and used his influence and vote 
 in behalf of the movement toward that end. 
 
 The success of his father enabled Abner Lewis 
 to start out in life with a better education than 
 falls to the lot of the average farm-reared youth, 
 for he not only studied at the district schools, 
 but received supplementary training at the Will- 
 amette University. He remained at home until 
 his marriage, December 12, 1869, with Margaret 
 A. Baker, a native of the vicinity of Turner, 
 Marion county, Ore. Soon after he purchased 
 a part of the farm upon which he has lived 
 most of the time since, and which is now 
 increased to two hundred and forty acres of 
 land in the home farm. Mr. Lewis is also the 
 owner of eighty acres near Aumsville, and one 
 hundred and five acres seven miles south of 
 
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 Salem. He is engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising, and has some of the finest and best- 
 improved property in Marion county. A practi- 
 cal and -scientific farmer, he stands at the head of 
 his calling in his neighborhood, keeping abreast 
 of the time in agricultural and general matters, 
 and contributing in every way in his power to 
 the stability and upbuilding of his district. Of 
 the children born to himself and wife, Emma 
 was born December 8, 1870, and died October 3, 
 1 883 : Albert is a resident of Portland, and 
 was born April 2J, 1872; Elmer was born Feb- 
 ruary 7, 1874, and lives in Idaho; Oren Edwin, 
 was born January 7, 1876, and lives south of 
 Salem; Julius was born July 1, 1877, and lives 
 in southern Oregon; Carl was born April 28, 
 1879, and is deceased; Clifford, a school teacher, 
 was born April 6, 1881 ; and Floyd was born 
 August 3, 1885. 
 
 Mr. Lewis has been a member of the school 
 board for many years, and his appreciation of the 
 value of a good education has made him an earn- 
 est advocate of a high standard of intellectual 
 training. Mr. Lewis has always been a supporter 
 of the principles of the Republican party -and 
 active in the councils of that party. In June, 
 1897, he was elected to the state legislature 
 representing Marion county and serving in the 
 special session of October, 1897, when he sup- 
 ported Hon. Joseph Simon for the United States 
 senate. He also served in the regular session 
 following and was appointed a member of the 
 committees on assessment and taxation, roads and 
 highways, public library, and was chairman of 
 the committee to examine the accounts of the 
 secretarv of state. 
 
 HON. J. H. ACKERMAN is now serving for 
 the second term as State Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Instruction in Oregon, and the fact that he 
 was re-elected by an increased majority stands as 
 incontrovertible evidence of his capability and his 
 effective labors in behalf of education. He was 
 born in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, Novem- 
 ber 7, 1854, and is of German lineage. His pa- 
 ternal grandfather spent his entire life in Ger- 
 many, and his father, John Ackerman, was born 
 in Wurtemberg, Germany. In early life he 
 learned the blacksmith's trade and when a young 
 man, prior to his marriage, he emigrated to the 
 new world, settling in Warren, Ohio, where he 
 engaged in blacksmithing until 1855. In that 
 year he removed to Toronto, Clinton county, 
 Iowa, where as a pioneer blacksmith of the place 
 he carried on business with success until 1900. 
 He then established his home in Hale, Mo., 
 where he is now living a retired life. Twice he 
 volunteered for service in the Civil war, but 
 each time was rejected on account of disability. 
 
 In religious faith both he and his wife are Luth- 
 erans, and in political belief he is a Republican. 
 He wedded Caroline Hartman, a native of Trum- 
 bull county, Ohio, and a daughter of Philip Hart- 
 man, who came from Germany and settled upon 
 a farm in Trumbull county. Subsequently he 
 took up his abode at Arcadia, Trempealeau 
 county, Wis., where he carried on agricultural 
 pursuits. Mrs. Ackerman, the mother of our 
 subject, died in Iowa, leaving four children: 
 J. H., of this review; George, a farmer of Mis- 
 souri ; Frank, a merchant of Black Hawk county, 
 Iowa, and Mrs. Virginia Sennett, of Missouri. 
 
 Professor Ackerman was reared in Toronto, 
 Iowa, and in his youth acquired a public school 
 education. From the age of sixteen years he 
 has made his own way in the world and is truly 
 a self-made man. At that time he began work 
 upon a farm and between the ages of seventeen 
 and twenty he followed carpenter work on rail- 
 roads in Iowa and Illinois. Then came the finan- 
 cial panic of 1873, and his employer, who had 
 just taken a contract for building a section of 
 the Northern Pacific Railroad, found that the 
 company had failed and the work was abandoned. 
 Accordingly Professor Ackerman lost his position 
 and in 1874 he went to Arcadia, Wis., where he 
 had an uncle engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing. While there his uncle advised him to go to 
 school and his teacher suggested to him that he 
 should teach. The county superintendent per- 
 suaded 'him to take an examination and he did 
 so, thereby receiving a certificate in the spring 
 of 1875. He became a district school teacher at 
 a salary of $25 per month and thus he entered 
 upon what has been his lifework— a profession in 
 which he has attained distinction, while his labors 
 have been a great benefit to the localities in which 
 he has lived. He continued to teach in the dis- 
 trict schools near Arcadia, Wis., and afterward 
 in Minnesota and Iowa until 1888 and during 
 that period was principal of the high school at 
 Arcadia for six years. Wishing to receive better 
 instruction himself, he then took an examination 
 for entrance into the State Normal School at 
 Milwaukee, Wis. His knowledge had been sup- 
 plemented by reading, observation and study, but 
 previous to this time he had received no mental 
 training, save that of a district school course. 
 However, he was graduated from the Wisconsin 
 State Normal in 1889 and in that year he came 
 to Oregon, locating first in Portland, where he 
 accepted the principalship of the Holladay school. 
 For a year he thus served and was then elected 
 city superintendent of the schools for East Port- 
 land. After a year the schools were consolidated 
 with those of the main city of Portland and he 
 was made assistant superintendent. In 1892 he 
 was nominated on the Republican ticket for the 
 office of county superintendent of schools of 
 
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 Multnomah county and was elected by a good 
 majority. In 1894 he was re-elected, receiving 
 the highest vote on the ticket and from 1894 until 
 1896 he not only served as county superintendent 
 but also as principal of the Harrison Street 
 school, and continued to act in that capacity until 
 1898. He was then nominated on the Republican 
 ticket for state superintendent at the Astoria con- 
 vention and was elected by a plurality of about 
 ten thousand. In January, 1899, he took the oath 
 of office and removed to Salem, where he is now 
 living. Throughout the state he received the 
 endorsement of leading educators and public men 
 of all classes, and in 1902 he was re-nominated 
 and re-elected by a majority of nearly fifteen 
 thousand, his term of office continuing until 
 January, 1907. 
 
 Since becoming state superintendent Professor 
 Ackerman has re-organized the State Teachers' 
 Association and divided it into the eastern and 
 western divisions, each having its individual or- 
 ganization and officers, while before there had 
 been but one society, with the superintendent of 
 public instruction as its president. He originated 
 the preparation of a state course of study for 
 all of the schools of Oregon, so that there is now 
 a uniform course from the introduction into the 
 schools until the completion of the high school 
 work. During his administration he has also 
 been instrumental in obtaining a thorough revis- 
 ion of the school laws of the state. He is a mem- 
 ber of the National Educational Association, and 
 has served as representative from Oregon to its 
 conventions and was one of its trustees. He is 
 a member of the State Historical Society, of 
 which he is a trustee. By virtue of his position 
 he is ex-officio member of the board of regents 
 of the State Normal schools at Monmouth, Drain 
 and Ashland; also of the State Agricultural Col- 
 lege of Corvallis. He is likewise ex-officio mem- 
 ber of the board of trustees of the State School 
 for the Blind at Salem, and of the State School 
 for the Deaf at Salem. During his incumbency 
 in office Professor Ackerman has twice visited 
 every county in the state, except Curry, has done 
 much to infuse his own enthusiasm and deep in- 
 terest in the work into those who are promoters 
 of educational work and advancement through- 
 out the state. 
 
 In Arcadia, Wis., occurred the marriage of 
 Professor Ackerman and Miss Ellen Boorman, a 
 native of that state, while her parents were from 
 Illinois. They have three children: Lilian, who 
 was graduated from the University of Oregon 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and is now 
 Mrs. Carlton, of Albany, Ore. ; Mrs. Caroline 
 Burton, who is a graduate of the Portland high 
 school, and is serving as chief clerk in the office 
 of the state superintendent of public instruction ; 
 and Isabella. Fraternally, Mr. Ackerman was 
 
 for some time connected with Arcadia Lodge, No. 
 45, A. F. & A. M., but now holds membership 
 in Washington Lodge, No. 46, of Portland, of 
 which he is a past master. He took the royal 
 arch degree in Washington Chapter R. A. M. of 
 Portland. Both he and Mrs. Ackerman are mem- 
 bers of the Eastern Star, of which he is past 
 worthy patron of Martha Washington Chapter. 
 They hold membership in the Unitarian Church. 
 Professor Ackerman has always given his po- 
 litical endorsement to the Republican party. 
 There is no interest which is more closely allied 
 to every household than that of public education, 
 and it is therefore of the greatest moment that 
 he who stands at the head of the educational sys- 
 tem of the state shall be a man of high scholar- 
 ship, of strong mentality and of irreproachable 
 character. Such a one is Professor Ackerman, 
 whose advancement to the prominent position 
 which he now occupies has been steady and well 
 merited. He has ever been a student, thorough 
 and painstaking, and is' not only ready to 
 quickly follow every idea or improvement ad- 
 vanced by others for the improvement of schools, 
 but is also instituting many methods of reform 
 and improvement of his own, and under his 
 guidance the schools of Oregon have taken rank 
 with those of the older states, and the citizens 
 of Oregon have every reason to be proud of their 
 educational system. 
 
 HARRY B. CLOUGH, M. D. Probably 
 every state in the Union has sent representatives 
 to Oregon, and among those that Vermont has 
 furnished to the Sunset state is Dr. Harry B. 
 Clough, who is now practicing his profession in 
 Newberg. He was born near Montpelier, Vt., 
 May 4, 1864, and is a son of Storrs S. Clough, 
 also a native of the same state. His grand- 
 father on the paternal side, Thaddeus Clough, 
 was likewise born in the Green Mountain state, 
 and throughout his entire life he followed agri- 
 cultural pursuits. He represented an old New 
 England family of Scotch descent that was 
 founded in America by the great-grandparents of 
 the doctor. In the control of his farming inter- 
 ests Thaddeus Clough manifested perseverance, 
 diligence and sagacity and as the years passed 
 became the possessor of a very desirable compe- 
 tence. He died at the age of seventy-two years. 
 
 Storrs S. Clough likewise turned his attention 
 to farming, and in connection with the raising of 
 the cereals best adapted to the soil and climate 
 he also established a nursery upon his farm and 
 to some extent he dealt in dairy products. He 
 became the owner of a large and valuable tract 
 of land and was a successful agriculturist. He 
 married Jane Snyder, who was born in Hunting- 
 ton, Vt., a daughter of John Snyder, whose birth 
 
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 occurred in Now England and who in early life 
 conducted a flouring-mill, while later he engaged 
 in tanning. He, too, enjoyed a fair degree of 
 prosperity, and he lived to be seventy-eight years 
 oi age. When his country became involved in 
 hostilities with England a second time he joined 
 the American army, thus serving in the war of 
 1812. 
 
 Dr. Clough, of this review, was the youngest 
 of a family of five children, three sons and two 
 daughters. His boyhood days were spent in the 
 Green Mountain state and he acquired his early 
 education in the common schools, while later he 
 was a student in the Vermont Methodist Semi- 
 nary of Montpelier, being graduated in that in- 
 stitution with the class of 1887. Going thence 
 to Hanover, N. H., he was apprenticed to a 
 pharmacist for two years, devoting his attention 
 to the mastery of the business with such good re- 
 sults that he was advanced from time to time by 
 his employer until he became the head of the 
 house. Such friendship did his employer enter- 
 tain for him that he released him from his three 
 vears' contract and encouraged him to pursue a 
 course in medicine. x\cting upon this advice Dr. 
 Clough entered the medical college at Dartmouth, 
 where for six months he attended a course of 
 lectures. At the end of that time he went to Bos- 
 ton, Mass., where he entered the city hospital in 
 order that he might earn the money which would 
 enable him to resume his own studies. Owing to 
 over-work there which undermined his constitu- 
 tion he suffered from an attack of grip, and this 
 changed his plans. 
 
 In the year 1 891 Dr. Clough arrived upon the 
 Pacific coast, locating first in Portland, where he 
 remained for a few" months, when he went to 
 Moscow, Idaho, spending three years in that 
 city. There he took up medical work again and 
 afterward went to Louisville, Ky\, entering the 
 medical college of that city, in which he was 
 graduated in 1897 with the degree of M. D. He 
 also won the gold medal in the line of obstetrics 
 and returned to Oregon with a comprehensive 
 and thorough knowledge of the principles of the 
 medical science. Making his way direct to Port- 
 land he there passed the examination before the 
 state medical board and in the spring of 1897 
 he located in Yoncalla, Douglas county. Ore. 
 where he engaged in practice for two years. In 
 1898 he removed to Whitman county, Wash., 
 where he was engaged in practice for four years, 
 and in August, 1902, he arrived in Xewberg, 
 where he opened an office and is now located. 
 
 Dr. Clough was married in Xewberg, in 1893, 
 to Miss Anise Brown, a native of Champaign 
 countv. 111., and a daughter of John Brown, who 
 was likewise born in Illinois, and came to Ore- 
 gon in one of the first trains that crossed the con- 
 tinent. He settled in the vicinity of Newberg and 
 
 has been a resident of the city for about thirty- 
 nine years — classed among the honored pioneers 
 who have been instrumental in developing their 
 localities. Three children have been born to the 
 doctor and his wife, but only one is now living, 
 Dorothy, who is still with her parents. The 
 doctor "belongs to the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, holds membership in the Presbyterian 
 Church, and gives his political support to the Re- 
 publican party He has a comfortable residence 
 in Xewberg. Xear it is his office, which is cen- 
 trally located on the main street of the city. In 
 addition to his practice he owns a sixteenth in- 
 terest in the Orient Gold & Copper Mining Com- 
 pany, which was incorporated for $1,000,000, and 
 which is a paying investment. His attention, 
 however, is largely given to his practice and al- 
 ready he has gained in X T ewberg a liberal patron- 
 age, accorded him in recognition of his skill and 
 ability. He has always been a close and discrim- 
 inating student and his knowledge of the princi- 
 ples of medicine is good. 
 
 Dr. Clough is a member of the Whitman 
 County (Wash.) Medical Society, Washington 
 State Medical Society, Yamhill County and the 
 Oregon State Medical societies, and the Amer- 
 ican Medical Association. 
 
 JOHX LICHTY. Prominently identified with 
 the lumber interests of Marion county is Mr. 
 Lichty, who owns and operates a large and 
 finely equipped manufacturing plant on Silver 
 creek, in Silverton, where he carries on an exten- 
 sive and prosperous business. During the many 
 years in wdiich he has been engaged in this indus- 
 try he has labored unceasingly, gaining wisdom 
 by practical experience, and has now reached 
 the point where every effort put forth brings 
 him in rich reward for the time and money so 
 lavishly expended. 
 
 A native of Switzerland, Mr. Lichty was born 
 December 21, 1852, in the canton of Berne, and 
 was there reared and educated. His father, 
 also named John Lichty. spent his entire life in 
 the same canton, being a successful farmer and 
 stock-raiser and one of the active members of the 
 Mennonite Church. To him and his wife, whose 
 maiden name was Mar}' Ann Lark, eight chil- 
 dren were born, John, with whom this brief 
 sketch is principally concerned, being the second 
 in order of birth. Neither of the parents are now 
 living, the father having passed away at the age 
 of sixty-five years, and the mother when sixtv- 
 three years of age. 
 
 Tohn Lichty became familiar with agricultural 
 pursuits in his youthful days, remaining at home 
 and assisting his father in the farm labors until 
 about nineteen years old. Filled then with an 
 ambitious desire to try his fortune in a newer 
 
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 country, he emigrated, in 1872, to the United 
 States, and located first in Wayne county, Ohio, 
 where he served an apprenticeship at the car- 
 penter's trade, which he followed for four years. 
 Making another move westward in 1876, Mr. 
 Lichty came to Oregon in that year, and being 
 impressed with the desirability of Howells 
 Prairie as a place of location, he there purchased 
 ninety acres of timberland, from which he im- 
 proved and cleared a good farm. As an agricul- 
 turist he has been unusually successful, from 
 time to time adding to his original purchase, 
 his farm now aggregating three hundred and 
 sixty acres, and being one of the most valuable 
 and well kept in its vicinity. Here he and his 
 family have a most attractive home. In 1890, 
 Mr. Lichty, with characteristic enterprise, erected 
 a sawmill on Pudding river, and for twelve years 
 was there engaged in the manufacture of lumber. 
 Disposing then of that property, he immediately 
 transferred his business interests to the city of 
 Silverton, locating on Silver creek, where he has 
 built one of the largest lumber mills in the Wil- 
 lamette valley. The plant which includes a saw- 
 mill, a planing mill, a dryer, etc., is fully equipped 
 with the most approved modern machinery, the 
 total cost being $20,000, and the capacity of the 
 plant being 25,000 feet of lumber per day. He has 
 also been fortunate in so fixing the dams in Silver 
 creek that he can at any time, no matter how 
 low the water, so manipulate the gates as to 
 float his logs down to his mill, the damming 
 expenses amounting to $7,000. He also owns 
 sixteen hundred acres of timber land nearby, 
 from this cutting much of the material used in 
 his plant, the output of which he sells princi- 
 pally in the local markets. 
 
 Mr. Lichty married at Wooster, Ohio, Eliza- 
 beth Stefen, who was born in Wayne county, 
 Ohio, May 1, 1856, and died June 24, 1899. 
 Eleven children were born of the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Lichty, namely : Minnie, the wife of 
 Gideon Welty, the family residing on the home 
 farm ; William, Henry, Matilda, Alexander, 
 Bertha, Josephine, Lillian, Lida, Ruth and John. 
 In politics Mr. Lichty has always been a 
 Republican. 
 
 HEZEKIAH H. WINSLOW. Preceded by 
 many years of activity as a merchant, farmer, 
 dentist and politician, Hezekiah H. Winslow 
 came to Oregon in 1886, and though agricultur- 
 ally successful during several of the following 
 years, is now living retired on one of the finest 
 little places in Newberg. Mr. Winslow has ten 
 acres of land on the outskirts of the town, made 
 attractive and homelike with a two-story, com- 
 fortable-looking dwelling, surrounded with trees, 
 shrubs and flowers. 
 
 The Oregon career of Mr. Winslow gives but 
 a faint conception of the large accomplishment 
 which has characterized his active life. He was 
 reared in three middle western states, and was 
 born in Randolph county, N. C, November 15, 
 1838. His father, John Winslow, preferred farm- 
 ing as an occupation, and conducted the same 
 for many years in his native state of North Caro- 
 lina, removing in 1841 to Grant county, Ind., of 
 which he was one of the very early settlers. "In 
 1852 he took up his residence in Howard county, 
 Ind., where he engaged in the merchandising 
 business until 1870. At a later day he returned 
 to Grant county, where he lived retired and 
 eventually died, at the age of seventy-four years. 
 His wife, Elizabeth (Henley) Winslow, was also 
 a native of North Carolina, and died when her 
 son Hezekiah was four years of age, be being 
 the youngest of the five sons and three daughters 
 in the family. 
 
 The first business experience of Hezekiah H. 
 Winslow was acquired in Indianapolis, whither 
 he removed at the age of seventeen, and where 
 he was identified as a clerk with the firm of J. 
 M. Tolbott & Co., wholesale dry goods merchants, 
 from 1856 until 1859. Upon returning to How- 
 ard county, Ind., in the latter part of '59, he was 
 appointed deputy sheriff, a position creditably 
 maintained until the breaking out of the Civil 
 war. In 1861 Mr. Winslow enlisted in Com- 
 pany D, Sixth Indiana Infantry, and for three 
 months served as corporal of his company. After 
 being mustered out he again enlisted, in August, 
 1862, in Company F, Eighty-ninth Indiana In- 
 fantry, and upon the organization of the regiment 
 was made sergeant-major. In the spring of 1863 
 he was promoted to the rank of second lieuten- 
 ant, and for the greater part of the service was 
 detailed at brigade headquarters as aid-de-camp. 
 In 1864 he was promoted to the rank of first 
 lieutenant of Company F, but still remained on 
 detail service. He participated in the Red river 
 campaign under Gen. A. J. Smith, and was in the 
 battle of Nashville, later going down the river 
 to New Orleans and around to Mobile, Ala., 
 where he was finally discharged, at the close of 
 the war. 
 
 After the war Mr. Winslow returned to Indi- 
 ana, and upon locating in Kokomo, studied 
 dentistry with his brother, at the same time be- 
 coming vitally interested in Republican politics. 
 In 1866 he was defeated for the nomination for 
 treasurer of .Howard county by one vote, but 
 was elected to the office of county clerk in 1867, 
 t a position creditably held for four years. He was 
 elected a second time without opposition, and 
 during his occupancy of this office for eight 
 consecutive years gave a very satisfactory service. 
 In 1876 he was appointed postmaster at Kokomo 
 under Grant's last administration, and in 1879 
 
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 resigned in order to remove to a farm near In- 
 dependence, Montgomery county, Kans. After 
 \ears oi successful farming he went to the vicin- 
 ltv of Liberty. Mo., and four years later, in the 
 spring of 1886, came to Oregon to investigate the 
 country with a view to future residence. Con- 
 vinced that he had found a desirable location, 
 one promising the largest financial and home- 
 building returns, he went back to Missouri for 
 bis family, with whom he located on a farm in 
 the Waldo hills the following fall. In 1887 he 
 settled on a farm near Sheridan, Yamhill county, 
 and in 1898 came to his present home, for which 
 he traded bis Yamhill county farm. 
 
 While living in Kokomo, Ind., Mr. Winslow 
 married Angelina Fenton, who was born in Trum- 
 bull county, Ohio, and whose father, Jesse, a 
 farmer and merchant of Indiana, moved from 
 there to Kansas and engaged in farming. Mr. 
 Fenton finally removed to Missouri, and then 
 about the time his son-in-law came to Oregon, 
 located in Jacksonville, 111. Four children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Winslow, of whom 
 Jessie is the wife of J. W. Bewley, of Salem ; 
 Ralph F. is engaged in the jewelry business at 
 Roseburg, Ore. ; Glenn is engaged in the jewelry 
 business at Pendleton, Ore. ; and Sadie is now 
 the wife of William H. Manning, and they re- 
 side upon a farm. Since the beginning of his 
 voting days Mr. Winslow has been identified with 
 the Republican party, although he is extremely 
 liberal in his political tendencies. He is fra- 
 ternally identified with the Grand Army of the 
 Republic. 
 
 Since the foregoing was written Mr. and Mrs. 
 Winslow have sold their home in Newberg and 
 have bought back their old home near Sheridan 
 and now reside there. 
 
 HON. JOSIAH C. NELSON. Were one to 
 search the state of Oregon over for a -narrator 
 of happenings in the early pioneer days, one 
 could hardly find one more interestingly remin- 
 iscent than is Hon. Josiah C. Nelson, for many 
 years associated with agricultural, mercantile, 
 and political affairs in Yamhill county, and now 
 living in retirement in Newberg. Mr. Nelson 
 was born in Jackson county, Mo., May 25, 1827, 
 his ancestors having arrived from England prior 
 to the Revolution, in which momentous struggle 
 they fought on the side of the colonies. 
 
 George S. Nelson, the father of Hon. Josiah, 
 was born in east Tennessee, July 20, 1801, and 
 was a farmer during the greater part of his life. 
 He was a very capable and ingenious man, me- 
 chanical in his bent, and able to build almost any- 
 thing. At the age of sixteen years he removed 
 to Missouri, and this being 1817 there were prac- 
 tically few settlers in his district. Nevertheless, 
 
 he succeeded in developing a paying farm in the 
 wilderness, but, after his marriage, sold this and 
 located on one hundred and sixty acres of land 
 in Jackson county, purchased at $1.25 per acre. 
 Afterward he lived both in LaFayette and An- 
 drew counties, and in the latter was obliged to 
 give up some of his land when it was surveyed. 
 Thereafter he sold out and removed to two miles 
 east in the same county, remaining there until 
 preparing to cross the plains in 1844. The family 
 started May 1, and on the way encountered many 
 obstacles, owing chiefly to overflows of the rivers, 
 and depredations on the part of the Indians, who 
 stole six head of valuable cattle on the Nemaha 
 river. One of the children died of mountain 
 fever at Vancouver. They settled on a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty-five acres near 
 what is now Newberg, and for some time lived in 
 a little log house, built the previous year by a man 
 who had sowed and harvested a little wheat and 
 planted some potatoes. These commodities served 
 for food for the parents and four children during 
 the long cold winter, and as may well be imagined 
 they endured many hardships while waiting for 
 the spring sunshine to warm the earth. Upon 
 arriving here there were but eight families in the 
 valley, in six of which were Indian or half-breed 
 wives. Here Mr. Nelson farmed and prospered 
 until his sixty-fifth year, when he sold his farm, 
 and for a few years lived with his son in Kings 
 Valley. He then removed to LaFayette, Ore., 
 where his death occurred December 31, 1884, at 
 the age of eighty-three years, five months and 
 nine days. His wife, whom he married in 1825, 
 was formerly Margaret Crawford, a native of 
 Tennessee, and her death occurred April 15, 
 1886. Of the six children born to this couple, 
 renowned for their hospitality and cheerfulness 
 under trying pioneer conditions, five grew up, 
 the eldest having .died in infancy. Of these, 
 Josiah is the oldest ; William died at Vancouver, 
 Wash., on the way to Oregon ; Mary Jane is the 
 deceased wife of Clark Rogers, of Portland; 
 Cornelius G. died at the age of four in Grass 
 Valley, Baker county, Ore. ; and Thomas H. is 
 a resident of LaFayette. Mrs. Nelson was left 
 an orphan at the age of three years, and was in- 
 debted for her early training to a cousin with 
 whom she remained until her marriage. 
 
 Owing to the unsettled state of both Missouri 
 and Oregon, the early education of Josiah C. 
 Nelson was most fragmentary, and was irreg- 
 ularly acquired at the little frontier log schools, 
 sparsely furnished, always a long distance from 
 home. At the age of twenty-three he was united 
 in marriage with Mary E. Bird, who was born 
 in Illinois, and of which union there were born 
 two children : Nancy Jane, the wife of Charles 
 T. Belcher, of the St. Charles Hotel, Portland; 
 and William W., of Newberg. Directly after 
 
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 his marriage Mr. Nelson bought out a claim 
 from a man whom he came across, giving in pay- 
 ment of the right a mule and a cow for five 
 hundred and one and three-fourths acres. Some 
 time after the death of his first wife, Mr. Nelson 
 married Sarah C. Cummins, who was born in 
 Indiana, and who bore him five children : Cora 
 Alice, deceased ; Cornelia Mary, now Mrs. A. P. 
 Fletcher, whose husband owns two hundred acres 
 of land in La Fayette, Ore. ; Mary Estella, wife 
 of T. H. Bryant, who lives on the Nelson farm; 
 Maggie L., the widow of Dr. Littlefield, who 
 died recently; and Walter Hugh, of Newberg, 
 Ore. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Nelson moved into Newberg, 
 built himself a comfortable and commodious res- 
 idence, and has been living in retirement ever 
 since. From time to time he has been before the 
 public in the capacity of a politician, his interest 
 in politics dating from the time when he cast his 
 first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas. 
 In 1858 he was elected to the first Oregon state 
 legislature ; was re-elected in 1882-4, and in 
 1885 served in a called session of the legislature. 
 After embarking upon a general merchandise 
 business in La Fayette, Ore., in 1875, he served 
 as member of the council of the town during his 
 seven years' residence there. He has also been 
 a school director almost the entire time of his 
 stay in Oregon, and for many years was clerk 
 and road supervisor. While using his farm for 
 a headquarters, Mr. Nelson has not been obliv- 
 ious to other opportunities in the west, and be- 
 sides his mercantile venture, engaged also in 
 mining in California from October, 1849, to 
 April, 1850. He was fairly successful as a 
 miner, and was successful as a merchant. As a 
 soldier in 1848 he performed his part in sup- 
 pressing the Indians, and served in this capacity 
 under Captain Thompson for about three months. 
 Mr. Nelson is typical of the broad prairies, the 
 generosity engendered among pioneers of what- 
 ever region, and the strength and stamina devel- 
 oped while laboriously striving for the best that 
 the west has to offer. 
 
 ALBERT B. BOND. The pioneer annals of 
 Oregon must needs contain the name of Nathan 
 W. Bond, who twice crossed the plains to the 
 west, and whose son, Albert B., is at present the 
 part owner of his original donation claim. Na- 
 than Bond was born in Tennessee, and as a boy 
 moved with his parents to Illinois, and from there 
 to Iowa, in which latter state he married Eliza- 
 beth J. Trailer. Leaving his wife and children 
 on a farm he crossed the plains with ox-teams in 
 1850. and after a few months in the gold fields 
 of California returned by way of the Isthmus 
 
 of Panama. The ship in which he sailed was 
 becalmed, and for forty days the anxious crew 
 and passengers looked in vain for a breeze to fill 
 their sails and bear them away. Provisions be- 
 came scarce, and water low, and their successful 
 landing became problematical. Eventually reach- 
 ing his Iowa farm, he remained there until the 
 spring of 1853, and then packed together his 
 household goods, laid in a store of provisions, 
 and started several teams of plodding oxen across 
 the plains. The first winter was spent in the 
 Looney settlement, and in the spring of 1854 the 
 father bought the right to a three hundred acre 
 claim. So successful was he, and so confident 
 of the ultimate development of this entire part of 
 the country, that in 1856 he bought three hun- 
 dred and thirty acres more. For twenty-nine 
 years he labored successfully in his adopted state, 
 his death occurring in 1889, at the age of seventy- 
 three years. The wife who had shared his joys 
 and sorrows, and who had materially aided in 
 bringing about success, survived him until 1896, 
 or until seventy-three years of age. Caroline, 
 the oldest of their children, is the wife of Lewis 
 Cox, of Washington ; Annie is the wife of John 
 Reed, of Lebanon; Benjamin F. died in the midst 
 of a successful medical practice at Dallas, in 
 1 87 1 ; and Susanna died in Iowa at seven years 
 of age. 
 
 The youngest in his father's family, and three 
 years of age when he came across the plains, 
 Albert B. Bond was reared on the home farm, 
 and at irregular intervals attended the district 
 schools. He assisted with the management of 
 the entire farm until his marriage with Cornelia 
 J. Beeler, at the age of twenty-three, after which 
 he purchased one hundred and thirty acres of 
 farm land near Scio, and there he farmed for 
 eight years, and then went to eastern Oregon, 
 where he remained two years, and in 1882 he 
 moved upon his present farm of two hundred and 
 eightv acres, the same being a part of the old 
 donation claim. He has made those modern im- 
 provements upon which the latter-day farmer 
 prides himself, and for many years has engaged 
 in general farming, stock and grain-raising. Six 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bond, 
 of whom the oldest son, William B., was a soldier 
 in the Spanish-American war, and as a member 
 of the Fourth Infantry was present at El Caney 
 and Santiago, afterward being under command 
 of General Lawton in the Philippines. Clora E., 
 Benjamin Franklin, Archie T., Looney C, and 
 Loren are living at home with their parents Mr. 
 Bond is devoted to his farm and home, and has 
 never found time or inclination to step out into 
 the glare of political or other publicity. He is 
 honest in all of his dealings, kindly and consider- 
 ate in his association with those around him ; and 
 inclined to look on the better side of life. 
 
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 JOHN WESLEY RICHARDSON. Illinois 
 has furnished no more substantial acquisition to 
 the agricultural element of Linn county, Ore., 
 than fohn W. Richardson, whose farm of three 
 hundred acres, located six mile's southeast of the 
 village of Scio, is one of the most remunerative 
 tracts in the vicinity. While to a certain 
 extent he follows general farming, stock-raising 
 is more to his taste, Poland-China hogs and Here- 
 ford cattle being his specialty. 
 
 As previously intimated, Mr. Richardson is a 
 native of Illinois, born in Adams county, twenty- 
 five miles east of Quincy, January i, 1832. His 
 father, John Richardson, was a native of the 
 same state, born in Monroe county in October, 
 1798, and descended from good fighting stock, 
 his father, George Richardson, who was of Irish 
 descent, having served valiantly in the Revolu- 
 tionary war and later in the war of 181 2. At 
 the time of the latter conflict John Richardson 
 was a mere youth. His enthusiasm was great, 
 and though only fourteen years old he enlisted 
 as a private, and participated in the battle of 
 the Narrows, now Quincy. His uncle, John 
 Belts, was killed by the Indians during the 
 engagement on the island in the Mississippi at 
 that point. John Richardson continued to make 
 his home in his native state until 185 1, when 
 with his family, he crossed the plains with ox- 
 teams, and was six months in reaching Linn 
 county. The year following his arrival he took 
 up a donation claim six miles southeast of Scio, 
 upon which he engaged in farming the remainder 
 of his life, his death occurring April 14, 1873. 
 His wife was in maidenhood Miss Orpha Thomp- 
 son, a native of South Carolina. She lived to 
 reach her sixty-seventh year, passing away in 
 Linn county in 1863. The twelve children of 
 John and Orpha (Thompson) Richardson were 
 named as follows in the order of their birth : 
 Milton Empson, who died in infancy; Thomas 
 Jefferson, who died at Jefferson, Ore., in 1894; 
 William Winston, who died at Scio, Ore., in 
 1900; George Washington who died at Salem 
 m 1880: Lewis Clark, who died on his father's 
 farm in Linn county in 1870 ; Elijah Thompson, 
 now living at Spokane, Wash. ; Obadiah Waddle, 
 of Wasco, Ore. ; John Wesley, of this review ; 
 Andrew Jackson, of Stayton, Ore. ; Enoch Num- 
 bers, who died in infancy; Dr. James Asher 
 Richardson, of Salem: and Rebecca Jane, 
 deceased, wife of James Ennis, deceased, of 
 Shelburn, Linn county. All were natives of 
 Illinois, and all who grew to maturity became 
 pioneers of Oregon, settling in Linn county. 
 " Richardson Gap," a picturesque canon south- 
 east of Scio, was named for the family, who oc- 
 cupied nearly all the land in that vicinity in the 
 early days of the county's historv. 
 
 Of the children born to his parents, all of whom 
 
 were boys with one exception, John W. Richard- 
 son was the eighth in order of birth. His life 
 upon his father's farm was devoid of any unusual 
 experiences, and when not attending the district 
 school was helping with the chores about the 
 farm. When twenty years of age, in 1852, he 
 assumed the responsibility of carrying on a farm 
 of his own, taking up a donation claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres adjoining his father's 
 farm. It is safe to conjecture that he met with 
 success in his agricultural venture, for two years 
 iater, July 23, 1854, followed his marriage, which 
 united him with Miss Mary A. Conkrite, 
 born in Pike county. 111., October 14, 1836, 
 daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hill) Conkrite. 
 She had crossed the plains with her mother in 
 1853, settling in Linn county. Mr. and Mrs. 
 John W. Richardson became the parents of six 
 children, of whom we make the following men- 
 tion : Melvina is the wife of Peter Brenner and 
 resides near Heppner, Ore. ; Almira became the 
 wife of James Curl and makes her home in 
 Spangle, Wash. ; Melissa, Mrs. John Turner, 
 resides in Waterville, Wash. : Wallace is de- 
 ceased ; Wilson is at home with his parents, and 
 Truman B. is a resident of Washington, where 
 he is actively engaged in the sheep industry. 
 
 Mr. Richardson takes a commendable pride 
 in Linn county, and especially in that portion 
 of it in which he resides, and every movement 
 looking" to its material advancement meets his 
 encouragement and active support. Educational 
 affairs have always had a stanch ally in Mr. 
 Richardson, who for thirty years has been school 
 director and clerk of his district. His services 
 in the capacity of county thistle commissioner 
 for the past four years have also been of material 
 benefit. The Christian Church of Scio numbers 
 Mr. Richardson among its worshippers and for 
 many years he officiated as deacon. The Repub- 
 lican party is sure of his vote at elections. He was 
 one of the charter members of Santiam Grange 
 and for manv vears was identified with that order. 
 
 JOHN R. COOPER. Three great common- 
 wealths have contributed to the admirable char- 
 acter of one of the representative men of Polk 
 county, these being the states of Kentucky, Illi- 
 nois and Oregon ; the first through inheritance, 
 it being the land of his father's birth ; the second 
 the scene of his own ; and last, that which has 
 become the home of his mature years. Without 
 the advantages which are the birthright of the 
 youth of our times Mr. Cooper has elevated him- 
 self by his own unaided efforts to a position 
 with the first men of the count}', both as regards 
 erudition and finance. His wide reading and 
 ready assimilation have made him a master of 
 past events, while his broad mind and heart}' 
 
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 benevolence keep him in touch with every public 
 movement, whether political or charitable. His 
 courage has been tested in the years gone by, 
 and his acts of courtesy and kindliness extend 
 not only to his neighbors but to the " beasts of 
 the field and the birds of the air." 
 
 John R. Cooper was born in Sangamon county, 
 111., November 5, 1836, the state being that to 
 which his father, Louis L., had moved at a very 
 early day. The father was born in Kentucky, 
 in 1796, and after his removal to Illinois he 
 engaged in farming. In 1839 he took his family 
 to Missouri, locating near Sheridan, where he 
 became interested in the raising of cattle and 
 hogs. Missouri was then giving many pioneers 
 to the great west, and Mr. Cooper early caught 
 the emigration spirit, and in 1852 he again bade 
 farewell to the home which he had established 
 there, and set out across the plains with the cus- 
 tomary ox-teams and wagons. After a journey 
 without any special incident his party arrived 
 in Oregon, spending the first winter in Marion 
 county, the spring finding them located seven 
 miles from Independence, Polk county, on a 
 farm of three hundred and twenty acres which 
 Mr. Cooper purchased. Upon this property he 
 remained until his death in 1875, at the age of 
 seventy-nine years. His wife was formerly Miss 
 Mary Linzie,, also a native of Kentucky, and' 
 whose death occurred in Oregon in 1853, one 
 year after their removal from Missouri. She 
 was the mother of seven children, four sons and 
 three daughters, of whom John R. Cooper was 
 the youngest son and next to the youngest child. 
 
 Being sixteen years of age when the trip was 
 made from the east, John R. Cooper recalls viv- 
 idly the long, tiresome months of the journey 
 and especially that part which intimately concerns 
 himself. The cholera broke out in the train, and 
 though Mr. Cooper also experienced an attack 
 of the disease he was not seriously ill, and soon 
 recovered. With the exception of about six 
 months' attendance at the common schools he 
 gave all the years of his boyhood and manhood 
 to the cultivation of his father's broad fields. 
 During the Indian uprising of 1855 Mr. Cooper 
 enlisted in the company commanded by Miles 
 F. Elkhorn, November 10 of that year and con- 
 tinued in the service until May, 1856, in which 
 time he was in the engagements at Deer creek, 
 Rogue river, Murphy's creek and Big Meadows. 
 With the cessation of hostilities he became inter- 
 ested in the mining possibilities of Jackson creek 
 and remained there for three years, at that time 
 returning home where he again found employ- 
 ment on his father's ranch. In 1864 he engaged 
 in farming for himself, renting land until 1869, 
 when he bought seven hundred and fifty acres, 
 two miles west of Monmouth, upon which he 
 remained for five vears, He then sold his farm 
 
 and came to Independence, and has since been 
 extensively engaged in brick manufacturing, his 
 factory furnishing bricks for almost every busi- 
 ness house in Independence. For many years 
 his was the only successful factory of its kind 
 in this section of the country, and therefore 
 his business was markedly successful. Just 
 across the river in Marion county, Mr. Cooper 
 owns a seventy acre farm, forty acres of which is 
 cleared, and upon this he is engaged in agricul- 
 tural pursuits. Much of the hop-raising industry 
 in this country is due to his judgment, his farm 
 having been the first to be devoted to its cultiva- 
 tion, in the year 1882. Thirty-six acres of hops 
 now yield him a handsome income. In addition to 
 these interests he is also connected with the lum- 
 bering interests of Oregon, owning a logging 
 camp which is thoroughly equipped for carrying 
 on the business, six men being required for its 
 management. 
 
 April 3, 1864, was the date upon which he was 
 united in marriage with Miss Lavilla Williams, 
 born near Independence, Ore., the daughter of 
 Leonard Williams, who crossed the plains in 1847 
 and took up a donation claim in this part of the 
 country, and by his integrity and public spirit 
 winning a prominent place in the affairs of the 
 community. For some time he served as post- 
 master of Independence. His death, which oc- 
 curred in this city, was regretted by many. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Cooper were born seven children, of 
 whom Roselia is now the wife of O. F. Dixon, of 
 Washington ; Lillian is the wife of Dr. F. B. 
 Eaton, of Berkeley, Cal. ; John A., of Montana ; 
 Pearl is at home ; Earl is deceased ; and Ivy 
 and La Villa are at home. As to his political affil- 
 iation Mr. Cooper casts his ballot with the 
 Republican party. 
 
 THOMAS B. CUMMINGS. So thoroughly 
 has Thomas B. Cummings become identified with 
 the reliable business interests of Newberg that he 
 is regarded as an integral part of the town's 
 present and future prosperity. Although a resi- 
 dent of the town only since 1891 he has accom- 
 plished as much as would many in a decade, 
 a showing traceable to his sound business judg- 
 ment, and thorough mastery of his chosen occu- 
 pation. As a builder and contractor his many 
 years of experience have fitted him for the 
 successful conduct of so large a business as now 
 claims his attention, an additional distinct advan- 
 tage of the town being that he is able to give 
 employment to many people. Besides building 
 and contracting he owns and manages an under- 
 taking and furniture store, and carries quite a 
 stock of goods for which he receives liberal 
 patronage from the town and surrounding 
 country. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Much oi the push and energy which is char- 
 acterizing the career of Mr. Cummings is inher- 
 ited from a father whose ambition was boundless, 
 and who was many things in the communities in 
 which he lived. John M. Cummings was born 
 in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., in which town 
 his father, Thomas, conducted a large and profit- 
 able brewery. The grandfather claimed Scotch 
 descent, and in truth possessed sufficient Scotch 
 perseverance to make an entire success of his 
 business, his fortune at the time of his death 
 being quite considerable for those days. John 
 M.. his son, became a merchant tailor in early 
 life, but in after years departed somewhat from 
 his early teachings and invaded other avenues of 
 activity. At the age of thirty he moved to Cam- 
 bridge. Wayne county, Ind., where he plied his 
 trade, and also read and practiced law. He 
 became a prominent man in the community, 
 and was elected to the legislature of Indiana for 
 two terms. He was an uncompromising Demo- 
 crat, and tolerance of the opposite party was 
 not one of his strong points. During the Civil 
 war he became captain of the Sixty-ninth In- 
 diana Volunteer Infantry, and served his cause 
 with courage and distinction. His death occurred 
 near Anderson, Madison county, Ind. His wife, 
 formerly Elizabeth Chapel, died in Fayette 
 county, Ind. Of the three children born of this 
 union, one son and two daughters, Thomas B. 
 is the oldest. 
 
 Equipped with a common school and academ- 
 ical education. Mr. Cummings entered upon a 
 building apprenticeship in Indianapolis directly 
 after his graduation from the Academy at 
 Knightstown, Ind., at which time he was twenty- 
 one years old. Having qualified as a builder he 
 worked in Indianapolis and the surrounding 
 country and towns for some time, and in 1876 
 went to Junction City, Kans., and there worked 
 for what is now the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany. He was employed by the railroad- com- 
 pany all along their line from Kansas City to 
 Brookville, Kans., and during his association 
 with the company lived for two years in Junction 
 City, about the same length of time in Topeka, 
 and for several years in Newton, Kans. In 1891 
 he came to Newberg, Ore., as before stated, and 
 has had no cause to regret the happy circum- 
 stance which dictated so advantageous a loca- 
 tion. 
 
 In Indiana Mr. Cummings was united in mar- 
 riage with Capitola M. Hoskins, who was born 
 in Iowa, and whose father, Ely, was a native of 
 Ohio. A shoe manufacturer by trade, Mr. Hos- 
 kins lived for many years in Iowa, and then re- 
 turned to bis native state, where his last years 
 were spent, and where he lived to be fifty years 
 of age. Three children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cummings, of whom Claude is a part- 
 
 ner in his father's business ; Pearl is living at 
 home, as is also Thomas L. Disregarding the 
 parental example, Mr. Cummings is as stanch a 
 Republican as his father was a Democrat, and he 
 has been initiated into public office through the 
 confidence of his fellow-townsmen. For two 
 terms he was coroner of Yamhill • county, and 
 while in Newton, Kans., was a member of the 
 city council from the first ward. Fraternally he 
 is identified with the Knights Templar of Mason- 
 ry, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 in which he carries $2,000 insurance. 
 
 GEORGE TOWLE. Though a resident of 
 Oregon for but thirteen years, Mr. Towle has 
 become closely and prominently identified with 
 one of its most important interests — that of 
 prune culture. Previous to the year 1890, 
 when he took up his residence in Oregon, he 
 had lived in various parts of the United 
 States. At the present time he is known as 
 one of the most extensive and successful prune 
 growers in Marion county. Upon locating 
 near Aumsville in 1890 he purchased a farm of 
 fifty acres, one mile from the town and to this 
 he has added by the purchase of twenty-two 
 and one-half acres. Soon after establishing 
 himself at this point he began to set out Italian 
 prune trees, and twenty acres are now devoted 
 to the culture of this fruit. About five acres 
 more are under other fruits. So greatly did 
 Mr. Towle's business increase after it was once 
 established that in 1897 he erected a prune 
 drier for the preparation of his own fruit for 
 the market and the accommodation of his neigh- 
 bors ; but as the years went by its capacity 
 proved wholly inadequate, and in 1902 he 
 built one of the largest and most completely 
 equipped driers in the Willamette valley. This 
 drier covers a space 62x62 feet, and is equipped 
 with the most modern machinery for the use 
 of horticulturists. It has a capacity of five 
 hundred bushels for each drying. 
 
 Of rugged English ancestry, Mr. Towle was 
 born near Montreal, Canada, October 4, 1836, 
 a son of William and Mary (Abbott) Towle. 
 His father was a native of Lincolnshire, Eng- 
 land, and his mother of Montpelier, Vt. AVhile 
 he was yet a youth his parents removed to 
 County Oxford, Ontario, Canada, and there he 
 was reared on a farm and educated in the public 
 schools. At the age of twenty years he went to 
 Prescott, Wis., where he engaged with friends in 
 the manufacture of brick ; but not finding, this 
 occupation satisfactory, he returned to his 
 former home in Canada, where he soon after- 
 ward engaged in farming and stock-raising. 
 In 1875 he removed further west in Canada, 
 locating near Lake Superior, where he resided 
 
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 until 1880. North Dakota became his next 
 field of activity, and near Park river, Walsh 
 county, in that state, he homesteaded a claim 
 of six hundred and seventy-two acres. For 
 the succeeding ten years he experienced vary- 
 ing successes and failures as an extensive 
 grain producer. In 1890, having become imbued 
 with a desire to devote the rest of his life to a 
 region of country where the climate and nat- 
 ural advantages were more satisfactory, he 
 decided to remove to Oregon, and since that 
 year he has been continuously engaged in the 
 scientific culture of prunes and other small 
 fruits. He has made his farm one of the land- 
 marks of Marion county, a place attractive to 
 the eye, as well as a venture which has proven 
 pleasing and profitable. 
 
 Mr. Towle was married in October, 1859, to 
 Mary J. Service, a native of Ontario. They are 
 the parents of the following children : • Ida, 
 wife of Richard Claxton, a well known fruit 
 grower residing on a farm adjoining that of 
 Mr. Towle; George E., cashier of the First 
 National Bank of Park River, N. D. ; Edward 
 A., one of the foremost citizens and best- 
 known ranchers of the vicinity of Park River, 
 who has twice served as a member of the 
 North Dakota legislature ; and James E., a 
 teacher, a graduate of the Monmouth Normal 
 School, class of 1893, residing with his parents. 
 
 During the years of his residence in Marion 
 county, Mr. Towle's fellow-citizens have come 
 to regard him as a man of sterling worth — pro- 
 gressive, enterprising, broad-minded in his 
 view of affairs and a warm friend of the cause 
 of education and of good roads. His attitude 
 on all questions of local interest has been such 
 as to win for him the regard and esteem of all. 
 
 W. W. WALKER. At the present day it 
 means but a short, pleasant trip to pass from the 
 extreme northeastern part of the United States 
 to its opposite on the Pacific coast, with the 
 thousands of miles marked by straight, true lines, 
 over a peaceful, pastoral country, in elegant 
 coaches, and ready service at every stopping 
 place. But in the days gone by a jottrney from 
 Maine to Oregon meant many months of danger 
 from the depredations of the Indians who har- 
 assed the trail of the emigrant train, and hard- 
 ships and trials and troubles without number. 
 
 From Maine to Oregon William W. Walker 
 has come, making the journey, however, in not a 
 few months, but in many years, as his life has 
 been full of the adventures incident to the history 
 of a man who was thrown upon his own resour- 
 ces in the early days of our country. Born in 
 Washington county, Me., April 14, 1836, he was 
 the son of John S, and Ellen (O'Neil) Walker, 
 
 natives respectively of Oldtown, Penobscot 
 county, Me., and County Cork, Ireland. When 
 a young man the father had joined a party of 
 men going to Canada, near Quebec, there to work 
 in a logging camp, in which employment he 
 remained for some years. It was while thus 
 engaged he met and married Ellen O'Neil. He 
 then brought his family back to Washington 
 county, where he engaged in the saw-mill busi- 
 ness, continuing in this occupation up to the 
 present time. 
 
 The early education of W r illiam W. Walker 
 was necessarily rather limited, as school facili- 
 ties were very meager, but he put in the years 
 in the common schools of Maine, and after he 
 left home at the age of nineteen years, he took up 
 a work in which discipline is not the least requi- 
 site for its success. He shipped from Millbridge, 
 a city on the coast of Maine, in a square-rigged 
 brig, under two masters, its trade being that of 
 a coaster. For nine years he remained in this 
 business, acting as mate after two years' service. 
 Later, he was captain of the brig, the May Hand, 
 on a voyage from New York to Africa, going 
 as far south as the equator, a trip which was 
 full of adventure and varied experience, as well 
 as success financially. In 1858 he went to Cal- 
 ifornia, locating in San Francisco, where he 
 remained for two months, but with the restless 
 spirit incited by, a sea-faring life, he was soon off 
 again, having shipped for the Fraser river in 
 British Columbia. For some time after that he was 
 engaged in boating on the waters of Puget Sound, 
 going to Portland in i860, where he remained for 
 one year steamboating on the Columbia river. 
 With wide experience in the waters of the world 
 he now sought a knowledge of the bowels of 
 the earth, giving up the roving life of a seaman 
 for the alluring prospects of a miner. At Pierce 
 City, Idaho, he first took up this employment, 
 working with notable perseverance until March, 
 1870, when he returned to Portland. In the 
 varied positions in which he found himself in his 
 adventurous life he had acquired a knowledge 
 of some trades which proved to be exceedingly 
 useful to him as a landsman, now putting into 
 practice one of them, that of a carpenter, working 
 for two years at this before he decided to change 
 his residence. In 1872 he came to Yamhill 
 county, inclined now to settle down for life and 
 choosing the tilling of the soil as the most con- 
 genial labor, being that at which . he had first 
 turned a hand, in the long-past days of his boy- 
 hood in the old Pine Tree state. After a year 
 and a half spent in emplovment under R. R. 
 Thompson, he engaged in farming for himself, 
 locating in 1876 on his present property, and now 
 owns one hundred and thirty-three acres, fifty 
 of which is in active cultivation, being utilized 
 for general farming. 
 
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 Mr. Walker securely anchored himself to the 
 land by his marriage with Miss Lucretia Per- 
 kins, in 1873. She is a native of North Yam- 
 lull. Ore., born in 1848. In their pleasant home 
 there are five children now to make bright the 
 quiet years that might otherwise become monoto- 
 nous to the seaman whose life has been so filled 
 with exciting changes — Jennie M., G. L., W. O., 
 !•". X., and John P. — F. N. being the only one 
 who is not a member of the household, his em- 
 ployraent being in Washington. In his political 
 convictions, Mr. Walker is a Democrat, serving 
 as road supervisor and school director through 
 the influence of this party. In his fraternal rela- 
 tions he is identified with the Masons, being a 
 member of Lodge No. 3 of La Fayette, and also 
 of Lodge No. 29, I. O. O. F. 
 
 JESSE W. LOONEY. When only four years 
 of age Jesse W. Looney became a resident of 
 Oregon, having crossed the plains in company 
 with his parents, who were seeking a home in 
 the west, not so much for the wealth they fore- 
 saw in the possibilities of the new land as to 
 make a link in the chain which was to bind the 
 great northwest to the middle and eastern states. 
 A perusal of the history of the lives of these 
 pioneers, setting forth the conditions and priva- 
 tions which tried their souls, will clearly show 
 the moral stamina which laid the groundwork 
 for the statehood. 
 
 The father of Jesse W. Looney, also named 
 Jesse, was a native of Knoxville, Tenn., having 
 been born there in 1801, and reared to manhood 
 on a plantation. When a young man he went to 
 Alabama, and for several years thereafter he 
 traveled about in the states of the middle west, 
 spending some time in Illinois, Wisconsin and 
 Missouri, in the latter state feeling more strongly 
 than ever before the current setting toward the 
 western lands. Impelled through an intense 
 hatred of the condition of slavery to seek a 
 home in a different section of the country, he 
 looked favorably upon the western movement, 
 in 1843 going to St. Joseph, Mo., where he out- 
 fitted for the trip. He bought four wagons and 
 a large number of oxen, planning to have from 
 three to five yoke for each wagon, twenty head 
 of fine cows, five mares, and a great quantity 
 of fruit seeds, intending to establish a model 
 home beyond the wide prairies. The journey 
 was safely made, the fall finding them at Whit- 
 man's station, and in the spring of 1844 he came 
 by water on the Hudson Bay boat to Oregon 
 City, after which he settled three miles south of 
 Salem. He there erected a small log cabin, but 
 remained only a short time, when he took tip a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 at the foot of what is now known as Looney 's 
 
 Butte, and upon this property his sons, N. H. 
 and David now make their homes. This was 
 principally prairie land located in the valley and 
 was rich and productive. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Looney occurred in 
 Alabama, in 1827, and united with him Ruby 
 Bond, a native of Knoxville, Ky., but who had 
 removed to Alabama when she was but nine 
 years old. Through their long years of pioneer 
 life in Oregon she was in entire sympathy with 
 her husband, giving him the help of a brave, 
 tender woman in his battle in the wilderness. 
 She, too, had been anxious to leave the south, 
 and to bring their children, of whom there were 
 six at the time of their removal to the west, to 
 a free country. Until the railroad was built 
 through his section of country these pioneers 
 kept the overland stage station, where all pass- 
 engers stopped for meals, and the coaches to 
 change horses. During the early days of the 
 community Mr. Looney gave much thought and 
 effort to the upbuilding of the country, helping 
 to lay out roads, organize schools, etc. He was 
 a member of the first provisional government, 
 and was instrumental in many progressive move- 
 ments, taking an active interest in the welfare of 
 his adopted state. He had also the distinction of 
 being the first settler in the Santiam valley, the 
 first schoolhouse of which being built upon his 
 land. At his death, March 25, 1869, he owned 
 over two thousand acres. His wife survived him 
 many years, living to the age of ninety-two years, 
 her death occurring May 7, 1901. She was the 
 mother of thirteen children, ten of whom are 
 now living, and are given in order of birth as 
 follows : Susan, the wife of Fred Stivers, of 
 Salem; John B.. of Jefferson; Ellen, the wife 
 of Abner Gaines, of Portland ; Jesse W, of this 
 review; Benjamin F., in the Looney settlement; 
 Pauline, of Jefferson; David and Norris H., 
 who are located on a part of the home farm; 
 Frankie, the wife of Wilbur Connell, of Salem; 
 and Ada, the wife of Augustus Fairbanks, of 
 California. 
 
 Jesse W. Looney was born in Springfield, Mo., 
 August 2.J, 1839, and the greater part of his 
 life has been spent in the state of Oregon. He 
 grew to manhood on the farm which his father 
 had chosen for a home on his first settlement 
 in the west, and on attaining manhood he farmed 
 a part of his father's property for two years. At 
 the close of that period he decided to change his 
 location, and he then settled upon a farm <n the 
 neighborhood of Jefferson, where he remained 
 until his retirement, in 1898, when he made his 
 home in Jefferson, Marion county, where he now 
 lives. He now owns four hundred and fifty 
 acres embodied in two farms, upon which is car- 
 ried on general farming- and stock-raising. 
 
 The marriage of Jesse W. Looney occurred in 
 
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 1 86 1, Miss Mary Gunsaulus, of Illinois, becoming 
 his wife. She had emigrated to Oregon in 1853. 
 Of three children born to them Fred is a farmer 
 in Marion county ; Frank is located in Jeffer- 
 son ; and Walton is on the home farm. Though 
 a Republican in politics Mr. Looney has never 
 sought political preferment, as he has always 
 inclined to the quiet, industrious life of a country 
 gentleman. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the 
 Grange. 
 
 JOHN A. SHAW. Among the well known 
 business men of Linn and Marion counties is 
 John A. Shaw, general manager of the Curtis 
 Lumber Mills at Lake City, and a prominent 
 resident of Albany. Enterprising and capable, 
 with a remarkable degree of push and energy, 
 he has been especially active in advancing the 
 lumber interests of this section of the state, and 
 has likewise taken a noteworthy part in promot- 
 ing the general prosperity of town and county. 
 He was born December 2, 1849, on a farm near 
 Lakeside, Oxford county, Ontario, Canada. 
 
 John A. Shaw obtained a practical education 
 in the district schools of Lakeside, Ont, and 
 worked on the old home farm until after attaining 
 his majority. During winters of the following 
 two years, from 1869 until 1871, he was employed 
 in the lumber regions of Michigan, and was en- 
 gaged in logging. Coming to Oregon in 1875, he 
 carried on general farming near Salem for awhile. 
 In 1878, with Thomas Sims, he purchased the 
 Stayton saw-mill, and for five years was success- 
 fully employed as a lumber manufacturer and 
 dealer. Forming a partnership with W. H. 
 Hobson & Company in 1883, Mr. Shaw embarked 
 in the mercantile business in Stayton, Marion 
 county, and for many years had an extensive and 
 lucrative trade. Organizing the Santiam Lum- 
 ber Company in 1887, he was made secretary and 
 manager. Erecting the first and only saw-mill 
 in Mill City, the company engaged in the manu- 
 facture of lumber on an extensive scale, their 
 plant having a capacity of 35,000 feet per day. 
 In 1899 the company dissolved, selling the mill 
 property to the Curtis Lumber Company, of 
 which Mr. Shaw was made general manager, a 
 position that he has since ably and satisfactorily 
 filled, his wide experience in the lumber business 
 particularly qualifying him for the office. The 
 plant has since been enlarged, having now a 
 capacity of 80,000 feet per day, and the two 
 hundred employes are kept busy in supplying 
 the coast markets with its products. Taking up 
 his residence in Albany in 1896, Mr. Shaw is 
 numbered among its most progressive citizens. 
 After an absence of more than a quarter of a 
 century, he, accompanied by his wife and son, 
 
 Angus, in June, 1901, visited his old home in 
 Ontario, being away two months, the trip being 
 in every way most enjoyable. 
 
 Mr. Shaw married, July 3, 1873, i n Ontario, 
 Canada, Elizabeth Quinn, who was born in 
 Thamesford, Ontario. Four children blessed their 
 union, namely: Robert S., who was educated in 
 Albany College, the State Normal School at 
 Monmouth, and a graduate of the Salem Busi- 
 ness College, and is now a merchant in Mill City, 
 Ore. ; Angus Albert, who was graduated from 
 Albany College, is engaged in mercantile pur- 
 suits at Gates, Ore. ; Daniel O., a student at 
 Albany College, died in August, 1900, aged 
 seventeen years; and James Royal is a student 
 at Albany College. Politically Mr. Shaw is a 
 firm Republican. Fraternally he was made a 
 Mason in Pearl Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Turner, 
 and now belongs to Santiam Lodge, at Stayton ; 
 he joined the Scio Chapter, R. A. M. and is 
 now a member of Bayley Chapter, R. A. M. ; is a 
 member of Temple Commandery No. 3, K. T. ; 
 and belongs to the Mill City Lodge, I. O. O. F. 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are members of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Mill City. 
 
 WILLIAM C. KRUGER. Prior to entering 
 upon a retired life in Newberg in 1902, William 
 C. Kruger had an extended experience as an 
 agriculturist and business man, and that he was 
 successful in both departments of activity is 
 shown by his present affluent and thoroughly 
 comfortable circumstances. Mr. Kruger has 
 erected a commodious house in a pleasant part of 
 the town, and, because of ill health, is con- 
 templating spending the coming winter in the 
 milder climate of California. This esteemed and 
 well known German- American was born in West- 
 phalia, Germany, December 20, 1847, ms father, 
 Fred, being a native of the same part of the 
 country. 
 
 The Kruger family came to America in 1868, 
 locating on a farm in Manitowoc county, Wis., 
 from where they removed to Iowa in 18^6. The 
 father purchased a large farm in Adair county, 
 and farmed and raised stock almost up to the 
 time of his death in 1900. His wife, Fredericka, 
 was a native of the same part of Germany, and 
 though dying at the comparatively early age of 
 forty-six years, seven months and seven days, was 
 the mother of ten children, five of whom attained 
 maturity, three sons and two daughters, of whom 
 William C. is the third. 
 
 Soon after coming to the United States in 
 1866, William C. Kruger found employment near 
 Newton, Jasper county, Iowa, and in time saved 
 sufficient money to purchase one hundred and 
 twenty acres of land. This he»improved to the 
 best of his ability, and in 1877 came to Oregon, 
 
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 spending- one year in Portland. Not entirely 
 content with the prospects in the northwest he 
 returned to Cherokee county, Iowa, but soon had 
 a return of the western fever, and determined 
 to again try his luck in the great timber state. 
 In 1887 he bought a hardware and implement 
 business in Newberg, and from a comparatively 
 small beginning increased his business from time 
 td time, and finally gained the greater part of 
 the patronage of his section. His health being 
 undermined, he was advised to step out of busi- 
 ness entirely, and in 1902 sold out to A. R. Moo- 
 maw & Son, and in Newberg built his present 
 residence on First street. 
 
 For his first wife Mr. Kruger married Lizzie 
 Grauer, also a native of Germany, and whose 
 father, Jacob, came to America in 1866, locating 
 in Iowa, where his death occurred. Two children 
 were born to them, Rosa and Leland. Mr. Kru- 
 ger married for a second time Mrs. Ida May, 
 daughter of Lewis Piatt of Newberg. They have 
 one child, Gladys. Mr. Kruger is a Republican 
 in politics, and has twice been a member of the 
 town council. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Blue Lodge, F. & A. M., and the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and the Artisans. He is 
 well known in Yamhill county, and in all his 
 dealings has won the respect and confidence of 
 the community at large. 
 
 FRANCIS A. MORRIS is one of the most 
 energetic and capable real estate, insurance and 
 loan men in Yamhill county. Equipped with a 
 common school education, excellent home train- 
 ing, and considerable mercantile experience, he 
 came to Newberg about sixteen years ago, and 
 has since been active in mercantile and real estate 
 circles. Boone county, Ind., where Mr. Morris 
 was born October 10, 1852, was the home of his 
 father, William E., who became identified with 
 the town of Thorntown, as a young -man, and 
 in time was one of the most prominent men in 
 the community. He was born in North Carolina, 
 where his father, Zachariah, was also born, the 
 latter being a planter and land owner in his native 
 state. 
 
 William E. Morris married Ella Binford, 
 she being a native of Virginia, and whose par- 
 ents were pioneers of Montgomery county, 
 Ind. Soon after he removed to Bloomingdale, 
 Park county, where he engaged in a general 
 merchandise business, and also ran a grist-mill. 
 These combined industries proved most profit- 
 able and netted their owner at least a comfortable 
 fortune. He has reached the age of seventy-five 
 years and is still enjoying the respect and appre- 
 ciation of his fellowmen. Five children were 
 born to himself and wife, one son and four 
 daughters, of whom Francis A. is the oldest; 
 
 Mrs. Stanton Newlin, living near Bloomingdale, 
 Ind. ; Mrs. Fred M. Davis of Minneapolis, Minn. ; 
 Mrs. Edgar Palm, also of Minneapolis, Minn. ; 
 and Alice, who died at the age of fourteen years. 
 
 The first actual business experience of Mr. 
 Morris was acquired as a clerk in a dry goods 
 house in Indianapolis, Ind., with which he was 
 connected in increasingly responsible capacities 
 for about ten years, at the time of his resignation 
 being assistant manager. After coming to New- 
 berg he engaged in a general merchandise busi- 
 ness for about twelve years in partnership with 
 B. C. Miles, an outline of whose career may be 
 found elsewhere in this work. Upon disposing 
 of his store interests Mr. Morris embarked upon 
 his present undertakings in real estate, loans and 
 insurance, and much valuable town and country 
 property has in the meantime passed through 
 his hands. Nor have his abilities been confined 
 entirely to mercantile and real estate concerns, 
 for so public-spirited a man must needs fill many 
 niches in a wide-awake community. For two 
 years he was president of the Chehalem Valley 
 Bank, and he has taken an active interest in 
 promoting the erection of modern and substan- 
 tial buildings. The firm of Morris & Mills was 
 responsible for the first brick building in the old 
 town of Newberg. As a Republican Mr. Morris 
 has contributed his share towards filling import- 
 ant offices, and aside from being councilman for 
 many terms, he has served as mayor of the town 
 for two terms. He is a welcome member of 
 various fraternal organizations, including the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Woodmen of the World, in both of which he is 
 extremely active. 
 
 At his old home in Indiana Mr. Morris was 
 united in marriage with A. M. Maris, who was 
 born in Park county, Ind., a daughter of Jon- 
 athan Maris, a native of North Carolina. Mr. 
 Maris was a farmer for many years in Indiana, 
 of which state he was a very early pioneer. He 
 came to Oregon to visit his daughter and son- 
 in-law, and died here at an advanced age. Mr. 
 Morris is a member of the Society of Friends. 
 A peculiarity in connection with the family of 
 Mr. Morris is that there has been established for 
 many years a circular letter system, put into 
 effect periodically, and by means of which inform- 
 ation concerning every member is passed around 
 with the greatest regularity, no stoppage being 
 allowed for more than four days. This custom 
 is a very old one, and is so interesting and admir- 
 able that one wonders why it is not oftener 
 utilized to preserve an interest in members of 
 a given family. , 
 
 JOHN S. LARKIN. With his family, John 
 S. Larkin represents the highest type of western 
 development. One of the honored and influen- 
 
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 tial citizens of Newberg, he has a meritorious 
 record as a farmer and large landowner in Wis- 
 consin, Minnesota and Oregon, in which states 
 he has promoted in no small measure agricul- 
 tural, educational, moral and general growth. 
 
 The fine and substantial traits of character 
 which have made the canny Scotchman a wel- 
 come settler in any country under the sun are 
 inherited by Mr. Larkin from a long line of 
 Scottish ancestors, first represented in America 
 by his paternal grandfather, John Larkin, who 
 was a sailor and died at a comparatively early 
 age. John Larkin, son of the mariner, was born 
 in Portsmouth, N. H., and when a young man 
 engaged in the restaurant business in Boston, 
 Mass. In 1846 he located among the pioneers of 
 Wayne county, N. Y., where he bought ninety- 
 six acres of land near Massadon, and lived there 
 until his retirement in 1856 to a couple of acres 
 of land at East Marshfield, Mass. The last years 
 of his life were spent in Michigan, where he 
 bought one hundred acres of land, and where 
 he lived until his death at the age of seventy- 
 five years. He had quite an interesting life, and 
 was fairly successful as a farmer, his youth 
 having been enlivened by service in the war of 
 181 2, when, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted 
 as a privateersman with his father. He married 
 Lydia Quimby, who was born in Maine, and 
 whose father, Dr. Samuel Quimby, was a prac- 
 ticing physician during the greater part of his 
 active life. Seven children were born of this 
 union, two daughters and five sons, of whom 
 John S. is the oldest living. 
 
 At the age of eighteen John S. Larkin began 
 to clerk in a store at Liberty Square, Boston, 
 Mass., and in 1855 removed to Wisconsin, set- 
 tling on one hundred and sixty acres of govern- 
 ment land in Adams county. He improved his 
 land and raised general produce, and in 1863 lo- 
 cated in Blue Earth county, Minn., and took up 
 six hundred acres of land. This continued to 
 be his home until 1887, when he came to Oregon 
 and near Newberg purchased one hundred and 
 twenty-eight acres of land. At first he engaged 
 in general farming, but later planted an orchard 
 of prunes, pears and apples, the products of 
 which constituted his principal source of reve- 
 nue. 
 
 In Blue Earth county, Minn, January 22, 1866, 
 Mr. Larkin was united in marriage with Eliza 
 Jarman, who was born in St. Clair county, Mich.. 
 a daughter of a Michigan farmer who removed 
 to Minnesota and then to Iowa, in which latter 
 state his death occurred. Seven children were 
 born of this union, of whom six are living : The 
 children in the order of their birth are as fol- 
 lows : Charles; Josephine, wife of N. C. Chris- 
 tenson; John; Elizabeth, who died in Minneso- 
 ta; George; Nellie, now Mrs. Hugh Nelson, 
 
 of Newberg; and Jennie, living at home. Mr. 
 Larkin has reason to be proud of his bright and 
 enterprising sons, who inherit his adaptability 
 and business capacity. George Larkin, a prac- 
 ticing and very successful young dentist of this 
 town, was educated in the commercial and com- 
 mon schools of Minnesota and Oregon, and also 
 spent three years at the Pacific College of New- 
 berg, and three years at the North Pacific Den- 
 tal College, at Portland, from which latter in- 
 stitution he graduated with honors in May of 
 1902. Formerly a member of the Omega Dental 
 Fraternity, he is now associated with the State 
 Dental Society. Although but a short time out 
 of college, he is making rapid strides towards 
 the best that his profession holds, and he will 
 undoubtedly rank among the best of his profes- 
 sion ere many years have elapsed. John Larkin, 
 no less ambitious and successful than his brother, 
 has ability of a mercantile order, and owns a 
 half interest in the largest mercantile establish- 
 ment in Newberg, the firm of Porter & Larkin. 
 The sons are both living with their parents, and 
 both are unmarried. 
 
 Mr. Larkin is a Democrat in national poli- 
 tics, and has been prominently before the pub- 
 lic in support of his party. In Minnesota he 
 was chairman of the board of supervisors during 
 four or five terms, and was also member of the 
 Minnesota legislature. He is fraternally con- 
 nected with the Blue Lodge of Masons and the 
 Eastern Star. Mr. Larkin has an enviable repu- 
 tation in the community of Newberg, his ster- 
 ling honesty, progressiveness, and all around 
 worth having met with the deserved appreciation 
 of his fellow-townsmen-. 
 
 JAMES SIMPSON. Another one of the 
 family names connected with the pioneer days 
 of Oregon is that to which James Simpson is 
 heir, a prominent citizen and farmer now living 
 on a portion of the original donation claim upon 
 which his father settled in 1847. The latter, 
 William Simpson, was born on an old cotton 
 plantation in North Carolina in 1794, his father 
 being a member of a family long connected with 
 the south. When ten years of age he went with 
 his parents to another farm in Tennessee, and 
 here grew to manhood, and in time married Mary 
 Kimsey, settling on a farm of his own in the 
 neighborhood. Outfitting with teams and wagons 
 he took his wife to Howard county, and later to 
 Johnson county, Mo., and in 1837 removed to 
 Piatt county, on the Platte purchase, where he 
 took up government land and lived thereon until 
 April, 1846. In Johnson county was born the 
 son, James, December 23, 1833, the paternal farm 
 being near Warrensburg, and in a very fertile tract 
 of land. At one time there was a great deal of 
 
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 dissatisfaction in the Platte Purchase, as there 
 was throughout the whole middle western sec- 
 tion, and William Simpson was one of the first 
 to seriously consider the proposition of uprooting 
 entirely and removing to the far west. Having 
 decided to do so. he packed together such pos- 
 sions as would be required for housekeeping 
 in the new country, and with two wagons, one 
 with four, and the other with three yoke of oxen, 
 he set forth with his wife and eight children 
 for the hopeful country beyond the mountains. 
 Behind him remained one child who was old 
 enough to look out for himself, and one child 
 lay in its grave in a little Missouri churchyard. 
 Leaving home April 18, 1846, they arrived in 
 Yamhill county. Ore., in September, and spent 
 the first year in North Yamhill. 
 
 In the fall of 1847 ^ r - Simpson located on 
 the farm upon a portion of which his son James 
 now lives in the Waldo Hills. Two and a half 
 miles from Aumsville he took up six hundred 
 and forty acres, upon which he built a rude log 
 house 16x16 feet, and containing but one room. 
 In these circumscribed quarters this large family 
 lived contentedly and even happily. Fortunately 
 game was plentiful, and the head of the family 
 was a good shot, and in the creeks was an abund- 
 ance of fish. Several of the children were old 
 enough to make themselves useful in clearing 
 the land, and the good work grew apace until a 
 semblance of civilization took the place of pri- 
 meval stillness and inactivity. Mr. Simpson 
 was a great church man, and he organized and 
 helped to build the first Baptist Regular Church 
 in this section of the country. He also had much 
 to do with building and improving the schools, 
 and in the making of roads. In 1858, the year in 
 which he died, occurred also the death of his 
 faithful wife, and thus even in death this well- 
 mated and always helpful couple were not 
 divided. Of the children, Ellen married James 
 Anderson ; Thomas K., deceased, came to Oregon 
 in 1851 ; Benjamin lives in Portland; Harriet, 
 deceased, was the wife of Larkin Price : Mary 
 A., deceased, was the wife of William Macklin ; 
 Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of N. B. Wis- 
 dom : David is a resident of Salem: Martha J., 
 deceased, was the wife of N. Ford : James and 
 W. B., who live in Salem. 
 
 To a boy of thirteen the journey across the 
 plains was invariably a most interesting pro- 
 ceeding, and James Simpson was no exception to 
 the rule. He helped to drive the cattle and make 
 himself generally useful, and after locating on 
 the donation claim with his parents and brothers 
 and sisters, found time during the winter season 
 to attend the early subscription school held in a 
 little log house in the neighborhood. At the 
 age of nineteen he rented land and engaged 
 independently in farming, and in 1853 married 
 
 Mary C. Havens, who was born in Missouri, 
 and came to Oregon in 1852. In 1854 Mr. Simp- 
 son brought his voting wife to the farm which is 
 still their home, and which consists of two hun- 
 dred and thirty acres, one hundred and fifty of 
 which are part of the old donation claim. He is 
 engaged in general farming, and upon his fertile 
 meadows graze large numbers of fine stock. 
 He is progressive and popular, and his farm pre- 
 sents a scene of activity, thrift and neatness. 
 He is a Democrat in political affiliation, but has 
 never sought or desired official recognition. Ten 
 children have been born into the family, of whom 
 Gilbert died at the age of three years ; Cassie is 
 the widow of Hiram H. Hicks ; Melissa Ann 
 is deceased : Nancy J. is deceased ; Rosa is at 
 home ; William ; James ; Frank ; John E. is 
 deceased ; and Barnett, deceased. 
 
 PHILIP PHILE. For many years a familiar 
 and interesting figure in the river life of Cor- 
 vallis, Ore., Mr. Phile has won by his genial and 
 whole-souled manner a host of friends among 
 the people whom he has ferried across the Will- 
 amette river. Not a native son of this state, nor 
 yet of the nation, Mr. Phile has, however, grown 
 strongly attached to the land of his adoption and 
 in proportion as it has given him prosperity he 
 has returned an earnest patriotism and hearty 
 interest in public events, a characteristic of 
 value in the citizens of a country. 
 
 The forefathers of Philip Phile have long 
 been natives of the grand duchy of Baden, Ger- 
 many, where they have engaged in the cultiva- 
 tion of the soil, his father, Christopher Phile, 
 passing his entire life in that location, his wife, 
 Magdalene also giving to her children, of whom 
 there were five sons and one daughter, an 
 inheritance of the qualities of this section 6f 
 Germany. Philip was the fourth child in the 
 family, and was born August 31, 1825, in Baden- 
 Baden, near Carlsruhe, and under his father's 
 instruction was reared to the life of a farmer. 
 His early education was received in the German 
 schools. Upon attaining manhood he decided to 
 try his fortunes in the great land of the western 
 world of which he had heard so much, whose 
 only drawback was the change of language and 
 the loneliness which must necessarily follow the 
 wanderer from home and friends. To alleviate 
 this latter burden his sister, the one daughter of 
 the familv, took upon herself the hardships of 
 the pioneer, and together the young people 
 boarded the sailer, Havre, at the city of that name 
 in France, and after the remarkably short voyage 
 of twenty-one days they arrived in New York 
 city, the trip having been made on the best 
 clipper of the ocean. 
 
 Having an uncle by the name of Fred K. Zim- 
 
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 merman living near Wheeling, 111., Mr. Phile at 
 once sought the middle west, coming by the way 
 of Chicago, and though there were opportunities 
 in plenty in that city he did not care to make 
 it his home, as at that time Chicago seemed to 
 be somewhat precariously located in the mud 
 and water about Lake Michigan, without any 
 clear distinction as to where the lake ended and 
 the land began. Hunting up his uncle he went 
 to work on a farm in the vicinity of Wheeling, 
 remaining there for five years, at the end of 
 that time coming still farther west, a corruption 
 of Horace Greeley's advice being " Go as far 
 west as you can." With a party of ox-teams he 
 left Illinois early in March over the old Oregon 
 trail, crossing the Mississippi river at Rock 
 Island and striking the Missouri river in almost 
 a direct line west of that place, crossing the 
 latter where the town of Council Bluffs is 
 located. The trip was a long and tedious one, 
 not differing greatly from the many others made 
 in that early day. The party was never left 
 without a guard, day or night, each man's duty 
 being a half of the night. After an eight months 
 journey the party arrived safely in the Will- 
 amette valley, and Mr. Phile went at once to 
 Linn county to Lushman's place, and in passing 
 through Corvallis he was offered work at the 
 ferry, but did not then accept. After spending 
 the winter in King's valley hauling rails he 
 returned to Corvallis and accepted the offer 
 made him in November, going to work for Isaac 
 Moore, the ferryman. Later Mr. Moore built 
 a new boat, following the suggestions of Mr. 
 Phile, who had in mind for a model a boat which 
 plied upon the river Rhine. The boat was a 
 great success, and Mr. Phile made himself of so 
 much value, not only through his suggestions 
 but by his steady, trustworthy work, that the 
 ferry company, which had now become a firm 
 of two under the firm name of Moore & St. 
 Clair, employed him to conduct the ferry. Orig- 
 inally a rope ferry was used in the conveyance 
 of people at this point, the buoy ferry later 
 taking the place of the more primitive affair, 
 this also being at the suggestion of Mr. Phile. 
 For twenty-one years Mr. Phile served in the 
 capacity of ferryman for Corvallis, and the few 
 moment's talk as the little boat swung out into 
 the stream sent many a traveler on his way 
 with a lighter heart, for a merry word and a 
 genial smile were as truly a part of this man's 
 life as the daily work which was given him to 
 do. In storm and sunshine his boat plied upon 
 the river, and he recalls many times when the 
 tide was running high and peril was imminent, 
 but no accident ever came to him to mar the 
 enjoyment of the life which he followed. For 
 ten years he bore the responsibility of conveying 
 the overland mail across the river in the night, 
 
 the one from Portland coming in at eleven p. m., 
 followed by the San Francisco mail at two a. 
 m. In 1874 Mr. .Phile retired from his duties, 
 erecting a house in Corvallis, where he has 
 since made his home. 
 
 February 10, 1875, Mr. Phile allied himself 
 by marriage with a descendant of a German 
 family, Mrs. Catherine (Rodemocher) Tideman, 
 who had removed to Corvallis in 1863. She was 
 born in Germany, on the estate of Hanover, her 
 grandfather, John, and father, Biern, both being 
 natives of the same place, where they engaged 
 in farming. Her mother, Margaret Gossen, was 
 also born in that locality, and was the daughter 
 of a farmer. Of the eight children born to her 
 father and mother six came to r the United States 
 and settled in Oregon, four of whom are now 
 living, and are as follows : Lucy, now Mrs. 
 Tideman of Portland; Annie, Mrs. Schlosser 
 of Albany ; Carsten, of Corvallis, now a retired 
 farmer ; and Catherine, now the wife of Mr. 
 Phile of this review. In i860 Mrs. Tideman 
 commenced the journey toward Oregon, coming 
 from New York city to Aspinwall, and after 
 crossing the Isthmus of Panama she took pass- 
 age on a steamer bound for San Francisco and 
 from there to Portland, the remainder of the trip 
 to Corvallis being made by stage. She was 
 married in San Francisco in i860 to Matthias 
 Tideman, also a native of Hanover, and who had 
 come to the Californian mines in 1850. In Linn 
 county Mr. Tideman took up a claim located 
 three miles east of Corvallis, where he engaged 
 in farming. In 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Tideman 
 took a pleasure trip back to their German home, 
 returning in 1872, when Mr. Tideman died of 
 smallpox in a hospital in New York city, the 
 widow finishing the journey alone. The three 
 children born of the union, Caroline, Mary and 
 Henry, all died in youth. 
 
 Mr. Phile takes an intelligent interest in the 
 affairs of his adopted town, and is always ready 
 to assist in any worthy movement toward the 
 development of its resources. Politically he has 
 been a stanch Republican since the Civil war, 
 and through this influence has served as council- 
 man for one term. He is a member of the 
 Lutheran Church. 
 
 J. B. SHANKS. The Shanks family in 
 Oregon is associated with successful agricul- 
 tural enterprises, and with an earnest and 
 hopeful ministry in the old school Baptist 
 Church. J. B. Shanks, representing the second 
 generation in the northwest, and the owner 
 of a farm near Monitor, Marion county, was 
 born on a farm in Carroll county, Ind., March 
 11, 1839, and is the son of Abner and Anna 
 (Lenon) Shanks, natives of Ohio, and the 
 
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 former born in Miami county, December 27, 
 1810. 
 
 Abner Shanks, the founder of the family in 
 Oregon, moved with his parents from Ohio to 
 Indiana as early as 1829, and there settled on 
 a farm in a comparatively wild section of 
 country. His father was a minister in the 
 Baptist Church, and from him the son un- 
 doubtedly inherited his ability as a preacher 
 and humanitarian. About 1853 the family 
 removed to Iowa, where Abner Shanks followed 
 tanning and preaching, and also for a time 
 engaged in the general merchandise business. 
 In 1865 he outfitted for the long journey 
 across the plains, and during the passage 
 encountered numerous difficidties with the 
 Jndians, although his family stood the trip 
 with great courage, reaching their destination 
 in Marion county in comparatively good health 
 and spirits. For seven or eight years Mr. 
 Shanks lived on a farm in the Waldo Hills, 
 and then purchased a farm on Howell's Prairie, 
 which continued to be his home until 1882. In 
 the meantime he had continuously preached the 
 gospel, and in this way accomplished much 
 good, filling many hearts with hope and en- 
 couragement. Eventually he took up his resi- 
 dence in Turner, but after the death of his 
 second wife, who was formerly Elizabeth 
 Ewing, he lived with his children, his death 
 occurring at Stayton, November 26, 1902, at 
 the age of ninety-two years. He was a genial, 
 kindly man, very public-spirited and liberal, 
 and during his helpful earthly pilgrimage 
 made many friends. Of the children born of 
 his first marriage five are living: J. B., of 
 University Park, Portland ; N. J., of North 
 Yakima county, Wash. ; Henry, of Weston, 
 Ore. ; J. S., of Turner, Ore. ; and Elizabeth, 
 widow of J. M. Hosier, of Mt. Angel. Mr. 
 Shanks' first wife died in Indiana, and of the 
 second union there were born six children, of 
 whom five are now living: Levi, of Portland; 
 Benjamin, of Palouse, Wash ; Martha, wife 
 of H. Anderson, of Stayton ; Maggie, wife of 
 M. Anderson, of Oregon City ; and Anna, wife 
 of F. Cook of Grant's Pass. 
 
 With a common school education at his 
 command, and with the mental balance ac- 
 quired in a Christian and very orderly home, 
 J. B. Shanks started out to make his way in 
 the world when twenty-two years of age, and 
 after engaging in teaming for one year went 
 to Montana and mined and prospected for a 
 couple of years. In 1865 he met his people at 
 Boise City and came with them to Marion 
 county, where he resumed teaming up to the 
 time of his marriage. His wife was formerly 
 Sarah Lenon, a native of Indiana, who crossed 
 the plains in the same train with her husband, 
 
 settling with her parents on a farm in Marion 
 county. The young people went to house-keep- 
 ing in the Waldo Hills for a couple of years, and 
 then removed to Monitor, remaining in that town 
 for twelve years. Mr. Shanks then purchased 
 his present home of one hundred and twenty 
 acres one and a fourth miles southeast of 
 Monitor, three miles from a railroad and here 
 he has since engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. At present he has fifty acres 
 under cultivation, and his buildings and general 
 improvements are in accordance with scientific 
 and intelligent farming. Eight children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shanks, of whom 
 Luella is the wife of Charles McKee, of Mc- 
 Kee, Ore. ; Anna is the wife of F. M. Girard, 
 of Monitor, Ore. ; L. S., Jr., of Monitor ; and 
 Misses Mary and Maggie, of Portland. Three 
 of the children died in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Shanks is one of the very prominent 
 men of this community, and to an exceptional 
 degree enjoys the confidence of his fellow 
 townsmen. He has abundant opportunities 
 to display his public spirit and broad-minded- 
 ness, and has demonstrated in various ways 
 his possession of those characteristics which 
 go to make up the acknowledged man of 
 affairs. No worthy movement toward the pro- 
 motion of the public welfare is allowed to pass 
 unnoticed by him. He has elways exhibited 
 a desire to witness the highest possible im- 
 provement in the moral, intellectual and spirit- 
 ual condition of those surrounding him. It 
 is to such men as Mr. Shanks that the state 
 of Oregon owes a debt that it can never pay, 
 for the high and unselfish spirit which has 
 actuated all his actions in dealing with matters 
 outside of his own domestic circles. He is 
 entitled to rank with the most thoroughly 
 representative men of the Willamette valley, 
 and to occupy a position of prominence in a 
 record of this character. 
 
 B. A. CATHEY, M. D. The world instinc- 
 tively pays deference to the man whose success 
 has been worthily achieved, who has attained 
 wealth by honorable business methods, acquired 
 the highest reputation in his chosen calling by 
 merit, and whose social prominence is not the 
 less the result of an irreproachable life than of 
 recognized natural gifts. We pay the highest 
 tribute to the heroes who on battlefields win vic- 
 tories and display a valor that is the admiration 
 of the world. Why should the tribute be with- 
 held from those who wage the bloodless battles 
 of civil life, who are conquerors in Hie world 
 of business? Greater than in almost any line 
 of work is the responsibility which rests upon 
 the physician. The issues of life and death are 
 
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 in his hands. An incorrect prescription, an un- 
 skilled operation may take from man that which 
 he prizes above all else — life. The physician's 
 power must be his own ; not by purchase, by 
 gift or by influence can he gain it. He must 
 commence at the very beginning, learn the very 
 rudiments of medicine and surgery, continually 
 add to his knowledge by close study and earnest 
 application and gain reputation by merit. If he 
 would gain the highest prominence it must come 
 as the result of superior skill, knowledge and 
 ability, and these qualifications are possessed in 
 an eminent degree by Dr. Cathey. He is known 
 as one of the most eminent members of the pro- 
 fession in the Willamette valley and his opinions 
 are largely recognized as authority throughout 
 this section of the state. 
 
 Dr. Cathey was born near Gresham, Multno- 
 mah county, Ore., on the 17th of February, 1854, 
 and is a son of W. G. and Thersa J. (Cornutt) 
 Cathey. The father was a native of Johnson 
 county, Mo., and the grandfather, Andrew 
 Cathey, died in that state. W. G. Cathey was 
 reared as a farmer boy and in the fall of 1853 
 he came to Oregon, making the overland trip 
 with ox-teams. He settled near what is now 
 Gresham in Powells valley and purchased a do- 
 nation claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 of land, after which he turned his attention to 
 agricultural pursuits. He now resides on the 
 old homestead, retaining possession of eighty 
 acres of land. His farm is along the street car 
 line from Portland. His wife, also a native of 
 Missouri, is a daughter of Alfred Cornutt, who 
 was born in Virginia, whence he emigrated west- 
 ward, becoming a Missouri farmer. In 1853 he 
 made the journey by ox-team to Oregon and 
 here followed farming near Gresham for a period 
 of ten years. He then removed to Douglas 
 county where he purchased a farm and carried 
 on agricultural pursuits until his death. He was 
 a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. Mr. Cathey, the doctor's father, is now 
 living at the age of seventy years, but the 
 mother passed away in 1888. In their family 
 were eleven children, of whom six yet survive. 
 
 The doctor spent the days of his boyhood and 
 youth upon the home farm. If the roll of suc- 
 cessful and prominent business men were called 
 to determine what were their early surroundings 
 it would be found that a large majority had been 
 reared amid rural scenes, gaining there strength 
 for the duties of later life. The doctor attended 
 the district schools and for a short time was a 
 student in the Portland high school. He en- 
 gaged in teaching for six months and then en- 
 tered the Albany College, where he remained for 
 a period of six months. He then accepted the 
 position of principal of the North Brownsville 
 school, where he served for four terms, after 
 
 which he again spent a year in Albany College. 
 Thus he worked his way through, meeting the 
 expenses of his course by teaching in the public 
 schools and also by teaching vocal music. For 
 one year he was the principal of the Halsey 
 school and he afterward taught in Canyonville 
 and in Riddles. He was principal of the Rose- 
 burg school for three years and then returned 
 to Canyonville as principal of the schools of that 
 place. During four years of this time he was 
 also engaged in reading medicine, for he had de- 
 termined to engage in the practice of the profes- 
 sion as a lifework. Soon after his return to 
 Canyonville he had to dismiss his school on ac- 
 count of an epidemic of diphtheria. Some dif- 
 ficulty arising, the local physician had to leave 
 the town and his patrons came to Dr. Cathey for 
 medical assistance, knowing that he had for some 
 time been studying. It was thus that he began 
 practice and the doctor said that his early work 
 in that direction was the hardest he had ever 
 done in connection with his professional career. 
 It was not his desire to engage in practice before 
 he had completed his medical studies, but he 
 finally assented to the wishes of the people of the 
 community and was very successful in his work. 
 He lost only three cases out of thirty and two of 
 these had been treated by others before his serv- 
 ices were called upon. The disease had reached 
 its last stages when he attempted to render as- 
 sistance, so that in reality he lost but one case 
 out of twenty-eight. A year later another physi- 
 cian located in the town and began practice. Dr. 
 Cathey then proposed to discontinue his own 
 labors in the profession, but those who had em- 
 ployed him opposed this step and he therefore 
 continued in practice at that place for four and 
 a half years. He sold out his drug store in order 
 to give his entire attention to the alleviation of 
 human suffering, and his success indicated that 
 nature certainly intended him for that line of 
 activity. 
 
 In the fall of 1888 Dr. Cathey entered the med- 
 ical department of Willamette University, which 
 was then located in Portland, and was graduated 
 in that institution in 1890 with the degree of 
 M. D. He then located in Woodburn, where he 
 practiced until 1899, when the medical college 
 was transferred from Portland to Salem and in 
 that school he was elected professor of physi- 
 ology, filling the chair for four years, when he 
 resigned in order to establish his home in Cor- 
 vallis. Since coming to this city he has built 
 up a very extensive practice, in fact, is regarded 
 as one of the leading physicians in the valley. 
 As a medical and also as a surgical practitioner 
 he has been extremely successful and has the 
 largest surgical practice in the city and county. 
 
 Dr. Cathey was married in Brownsville, Ore., 
 to Miss Lucinda Elizabeth McFeron, who was 
 
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 born in Missouri, and their marriage has been 
 blessed with five children : Cecil C, George A.. 
 Collins F.. Alice Marie and Evelyn. The second 
 son is now a student in the medical department 
 of the Willamette University. The doctor be- 
 came a Mason in Canyonville, became a charter 
 member of the lodge at YVoodburn and is now 
 affiliated with Corvallis Lodge. Xo. 14. A. F. & 
 A. M. He is also connected with the Order of 
 the Eastern Star and the Woodmen of the 
 World. His religious faith is indicated by his 
 membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 in which he is serving as a trustee. Profession- 
 ally he is connected with the State Medical So- 
 ciety and he is continually reading and studying 
 in order to promote his skill and efficiency in the 
 line of a profession which by many is regarded 
 as the most important to which man can direct 
 his energies. His knowledge is broad and com- 
 prehensive, and not only has he a love of his 
 calling because of his scientific interests, but also 
 because of his broad humanitarian spirit. Dr. 
 Cathey today stands among the most eminent 
 members of the profession in the Willamette val- 
 ley and is possessed of marked ability and com- 
 prehensive professional learning. 
 
 MARTI X WOODCOCK. There is some- 
 thing in the story of the life of the pioneer that 
 is always of keenest interest. This is perhaps 
 because it displays bravery such as is manifested 
 by the soldier on the field of battle. It requires 
 no little heroism and strength of purpose to 
 meet the conditions which existed on a frontier 
 region, and it is well that we preserve the his- 
 tory of those who met those conditions and made 
 their portion of the country habitable, rich in 
 fruitage and pleasing to the eye. Martin Wood- 
 cock was one of the distinguished early settlers 
 of Oregon who became a prominent factor in 
 the business life of Benton county. Wherever 
 he went he commanded the respect and confi- 
 dence of those with whom he was associated 
 and his life history contains many elements 
 which are worthy of emulation and should serve 
 as a source of inspiration to others. 
 
 Mr. Woodcock was born in Schoharie county. 
 X. Y.. July 20, 1824, and passed away in the 
 early morning of March 22. 1884. his life record 
 therefore covering almost sixty years. He was 
 a son of William and Catherine Woodcock. His 
 ancestors, as far back as is known, were from 
 Holland, whence they went to England and from 
 the latter country three brothers of the name 
 crossed the Atlantic to the Empire state. From 
 one of these the subject of this review was de- 
 scended. On his mother's side the first ances- 
 tors, as far as is now known, were Peter Cooper, 
 Martin Cooper, Catherine Hamm and Regina 
 
 Krum, all of whom were born in the town of 
 Westerwald, Prussia. Coming to America they 
 settled in Livingstone Manor in Dutchess county, 
 X. \ .. in 1761. From the marriage of Peter 
 Cooper and Catherine Hamm there sprung two 
 children, one of whom was given the name of 
 Peter and was born July 6. 1775. By the mar- 
 riage of Martin Cooper and Regina Krum there 
 were seven children, one of whom was named 
 Regina Cooper. In 1796 Peter C. Cooper, the 
 son of Peter Cooper, and Regina, the daughter 
 of Martin Cooper, were married and unto them 
 were born nine children, including Catherine, 
 who on August 12, 1821, gave her hand in mar- 
 riage to William Woodcock. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Woodcock, accompanied by six of their children, 
 including Martin, who was then fourteen vears 
 of age. left New York in 1838 and settled in 
 what was then the wilderness of Woodland in 
 Wisconsin, about eight miles from where now 
 stands the city of Milwaukee. There the father, 
 with the assistance of his sons, Horace and Mar- 
 tin, hewed out a farm in the midst of the hereto- 
 fore unbroken forests, earning the means with 
 which to pay for the homestead by cutting cord 
 wood. From that time on Martin Woodcock- 
 assisted in the work of the home farm and was 
 there reared to manhood. He lived under the 
 parental roof until twenty-four years of age 
 and on August 28. 1848. he was united in mar- 
 riage to Amanda J. White. They became the 
 parents of one son and two daughters. The son. 
 M. S. Woodcock, is now president of the First 
 X'ational Bank and is ex-mayor of Corvallis. One 
 daughter. Mrs. Eva L. Stannus. born Februarv 
 7. 1855. resides in Idaho. The other daughter. 
 Carrie L., was born July 2. 1865. When gold 
 was discovered in California the news of the "find 
 spread like wildfire throughout the country. It 
 reached the ears of Mr. Woodcock and others 
 in Wisconsin and, being attracted by the mam- 
 advantages then offered on the far-off Pacific 
 coast, Mr. Woodcock resolved to seek his fortune 
 in the west, and. with his wife and son. accom- 
 panied by his older brother. Horace, with the 
 latter 's wife, and a younger brother. W. C. Wood- 
 cock, and his sister, Rena A. Dayton and her 
 husband, H. C. Dayton, started for Oregon on 
 February 24. 1853. It was mid-winter, and in 
 wagons drawn by oxen they loaded all that thev 
 possessed and turned their faces toward the 
 setting sun in search of the land of promise — 
 the then but little known Oregon. After a long 
 and tiresome journey across the plains thev 
 arrived at their destination on September 24. 
 and after looking over various parts of the Will- 
 amette valley for land subject to location under 
 the donation act Mr. Woodcock and his brother. 
 W. C. settled upon adjoining farms about four- 
 teen miles west of Eugene City in Lane countv. 
 
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 This land was wild and unimproved, but with 
 characteristic energy Mr. Woodcock began its 
 development and there lived for about four years, 
 during which time he built a new home and 
 made good improvements upon his property. 
 During the succeeding two years he was engaged 
 in learning the wagonmaker's trade of a neigh- 
 bor, Jacob H. Wellsher and in the fall of 1859 
 Martin Woodcock and his brother Horace joined 
 Mr. Wellsher in forming a partnership for the 
 purpose of engaging in the manufacture of 
 wagons and carriages. They all removed to 
 Monroe, Benton county, where they continued 
 in that business until the winter of 1863, during 
 which time they built up a large trade. Their 
 wagons found favor with the public because 
 of their neatness, durability, light draft and the, 
 evident care with which they were constructed. 
 They thus had many purchasers, some of whom 
 came from long distances. 
 
 About the time of his removal to Monroe, 
 Martin Woodcock also entered into partnership 
 with his brother, W. C. Woodcock, for the pur- 
 pose of conducting a general mercantile business 
 at that place. They established their store and 
 conducted it with success until the winter of 
 1869. In the spring of 1874 Mr. Woodcock, 
 with his wife and daughter, removed to east 
 Portland and in the succeeding fall he purchased 
 a part of the William Herron farm near Salem, 
 whereon he resided for some time. He built 
 another home there and devoted his energies to 
 the supervision of his farming interests until the 
 spring of 1882, when he sold that property. 
 During the following summer, accompanied by 
 his wife and youngest daughter, he visited the 
 old home in Wisconsin where his aged mother 
 was still living on the land he had helped to clear 
 for her and his father in his early boyhood days. 
 She was then seventy-eight years of age. Return- 
 ing to Oregon, Mr. Woodcock then removed in 
 April, 1883, to the farm about a mile east of 
 Salem, which continued to be his place of abode 
 until his demise. There he once more commenced 
 to build a home for his old age in which he hoped 
 to rest from hard work and care, but after an 
 illness of a few weeks he died surrounded by 
 his loved ones and many friends. He passed 
 away at the age of fifty-nine years, eight months 
 and two days. In February, 1884, he had been 
 summoned to serve on the county jury. The 
 weather at that time was very cold and there 
 was a deep snow. During the first week of his 
 jury services Mr. Woodcock contracted a severe 
 cold, but instead of asking to be excused by the 
 court he continued to act on the jury nnd at the 
 end of the two weeks his cold had developed into 
 a severe attack of pneumonia, which resulted in 
 his death. Thus closed the life of another hon- 
 ored pioneer, whose best years were closely iden- 
 
 tified with the growth and prosperity of his 
 beloved Oregon. His life was characteristic of 
 untiring energy and unswerving integrity. He 
 was often heard to say that his whole aim in life 
 was to do to others as he would wish others to 
 do unto him, and this motto was not lightly 
 regarded by him, but had a broad significance 
 which made it enter into every detail of his 
 daily life, and to be his rule and guide in all trans- 
 actions with his fellow-men. When he neared the 
 end and the shadows of death were falling across 
 his path, almost his last words were that he could 
 look back over every act of his life with satisfac- 
 tion. This was because he had never taken ad- 
 vantage of the necessities of his fellow-men, but 
 had lived honorably with them and therefore he 
 was not afraid to die. One who knew him paid 
 the following tribute to his memory : " His scru- 
 pulous exactness in performing all he promised 
 and his straight- forward course in whatever path 
 duty called, regardless of all else, had gained 
 him the respect of all who came in contact with 
 him and the esteem and warmest affection of 
 those who knew him best. Many will mourn 
 him as a friend gone and his memory will be 
 cherished long after his form is returned to 
 dust from whence it came. May his fidelity to 
 his favorite motto exemplified in his whole life 
 give it new and nobler meaning to his friends 
 who survive him." 
 
 AUGUST HODES is a very successful gro- 
 cery merchant of Corvallis and therefore a lead- 
 ing representative of commercial interests in the 
 city. He is one of the worthy citizens that 
 Germany has furnished to the new world, his 
 birth having occurred in Herstelle, Westphalia. 
 His paternal grandfather, Cornelius Hodes, 
 was also a native of that country and was 
 engaged in the canal-boat business. Becoming a 
 member of the German army, he served in one of 
 the wars in that country. His religious faith 
 was that of the Catholic Church. Henry Hodes, 
 the father of our subject, was also born and 
 reared in Westphalia and became a mason and 
 builder, while later he was superintendent of 
 large stone quarries at Herstelle. There he 
 died in the year 1880, and his community mourned 
 the loss of one of its representative business men. 
 He married Miss Julia Hodes, who was born 
 in Westphalia, • but although of the same name 
 belonged to a different family. She died in 1863 
 when our subject was nine years of age, and the 
 father was afterward again married. By the first 
 union there were four children, three of whom 
 are still living, namely : Amelia, now Mrs. Zier- 
 olf, of Corvallis; August; and Mrs. Mina Wus- 
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 there are four living children, one of whom, Carl, 
 is a resident of Albany, Ore. 
 
 The birth of August Hodes occurred on March 
 27, 1853, and in his parents' home the days of 
 his youth were passed, while in the common 
 schools he pursued his education. From boy- 
 hood he followed canal boating until seventeen 
 years of age and then in 1871, thinking that he 
 might have better opportunities in the new world, 
 he came to America, sailing from Bremen to 
 New York: He then made his way across the 
 country to San Francisco, Cal., and thence trav- 
 eled to Portland, Ore. In May, 1871, he arrived 
 in Corvallis, where he has since made his home 
 with exception of a short time passed in Eugene, 
 where he was employed in a hotel and afterward 
 by a dentist, being thus engaged until December, 
 1872, when he returned to Corvallis. He then 
 entered the service of Henry Warrior, a mer- 
 chant of Corvallis, with whom he remained until 
 May, 1881, when, with the capital he had acquired 
 through his own efforts, he engaged in the 
 grocery business as the senior member of the 
 firm of A. Hodes & Company. In 1888 he pur- 
 chased his partner's interest and has since con- 
 tinued alone in the business. He has a fine 
 store on Main street in the center of the city in 
 which he carries a full line of staple and fancy 
 groceries. The store is characterized by neat- 
 ness and cleanliness and is most attractive in its 
 appearance, so that it has a liberal patronage. 
 
 In Corvallis Mr. Hodes was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Louise Bamberger, who was born 
 in San Francisco, and is a daughter of Adam 
 Bamberger, who came from Alsace, France, to 
 the Pacific coast and was one of the early settlers 
 of San Francisco. Later he engaged in the bak- 
 ing business in Corvallis and he now resides in 
 Portland. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hodes were born 
 four children : Clemens and Carl G., who are 
 with their father in the store; and Frances and 
 Earl, at home. 
 
 Mr. Hodes is now serving for the third year 
 as a member of the city council, and is on the fire 
 and water committee. For a number of years 
 he was a member of the fire department, belong- 
 ing to the Big Six Engine Company. Fratern- 
 ally he is connected with the Knights of the 
 Maccabees and politically is a Democrat. He 
 is a very progressive and enterprising man, is 
 liberal in matters of citizenship and endorses 
 every movement for the welfare of Corvallis and 
 gives to public measures for the general good 
 his hearty co-operation. 
 
 MILTON S. WOODCOCK. A man's repu- 
 tation is the property of the world. The laws 
 of nature have forbidden isolation. Every human 
 being submits to the controlling influence of 
 
 others, or as a master spirit wields a power 
 either for good or evil on the masses of man- 
 kind. There can be no impropriety in justly 
 scanning the acts of any man as they affect his 
 public and business relations. If he is honest 
 and eminent in his chosen field of labor investi- 
 gation will brighten his fame and point the path 
 that others may follow with like success. From 
 among the ranks of quiet, persevering yet promi- 
 nent citizens — prominent on account of what he 
 has done in commercial circles — there is no one 
 more deserving of mention in a volume of this 
 character than Milton S. Woodcock, who is ex- 
 mayor of Corvallis and president of the First 
 National Bank. 
 
 Hon. Milton S. Woodcock is a native of Wis- 
 consin and has been a resident of Oregon since 
 1853. He was born in Wisconsin, near Green- 
 field, eight miles from Milwaukee, May 9, 1849, 
 and is a son of Martin Woodcock a native of 
 New York. The paternal grandfather, William 
 Woodcock, removed from New York to Wis- 
 consin, settling near Milwaukee at a pioneer 
 epoch in the development of that state. The 
 father of Milton S. became a farmer by occupa- 
 tion and in 1853 brought his family across the 
 plains with ox-teams. In the same party traveled 
 his older brother, Horace Woodcock and his 
 family, his younger brother, William, who was 
 then a single man, and his sister and brother-in- 
 law, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Dayton. Martin Wood- 
 cock brought with him his wife and only son, 
 the subject of this review, and settled fourteen 
 miles west of Eugene on a donation claim, where 
 he lived for four or five years. Removing then 
 to Monroe, Benton county, he there engaged in 
 merchandising with his younger brother, and 
 was associated with his older brother in the 
 manufacture of wagons. Subsequently he took 
 up his abode in the vicinity of Salem, Marion 
 county, where he resided until his death, which 
 occurred when he was fifty-nine years of age. 
 He married Amanda J. White, a native of the 
 Empire state, who went with her parents to 
 Wisconsin. She still survives, and is now living 
 near Salem. In the family were three children, 
 these being Milton S. ; Mrs. Stannus, of Idaho ; 
 and Mrs. Savage, who is living near Salem. 
 
 Milton S. Woodcock, the eldest and the onlv 
 son, was but a small lad when brought by his 
 parents to the northwest. He is indebted to the 
 public school system for the educational privi- 
 leges he received in his youth. In his boyhood 
 he was employed in his father's store, earlv 
 becoming familiar with mercantile methods. In 
 1869 he began general merchandising on his own 
 account in Monroe, conducting his business with 
 a fair degree of success until 1874, when he sold 
 his store there and sought a broader field of 
 labor in Corvallis. In the meantime he had taken 
 
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 up the study of law under the direction of Col- 
 onel Kelsay and after completing his preliminary 
 reading he was admitted to the bar in Salem in 
 1875. Mr. Woodcock then began the practice 
 of his chosen profession in Corvallis and has 
 since been identified with the legal profession, 
 although many other interests have also claimed 
 his attention. He was for a time engaged in 
 the general hardware and implement business 
 as a member of the firm of Woodcock & Bald- 
 win, this association being maintained for four- 
 teen years. In 1887 he established a private bank 
 under the name of the Benton County Bank, 
 which was opened for business in June, 1887. 
 In 1890 he organized the First National Bank 
 with a capital stock of $150,000 which was incor- 
 porated and from the beginning Mr. Woodcock 
 has served as its president. After a time he dis- 
 posed of his hardware business in order to devote 
 his entire attention to his banking interests. 
 Prosperity has come to him as the natural con- 
 sequence of industry and close application, and 
 his splendid success bears testimony to his mature 
 judgment in business affairs. Whatever he has 
 undertaken he has accomplished. He was not 
 yet twenty years of age when he began mer- 
 chandising on his own account, and he had a 
 capital of less than $1,000, but he agreed to pay 
 for the stock of goods which he purchased within 
 a year. He worked hard, in fact, unremittingly, 
 and through his business career, as at the outset 
 he has fully met every obligation. Mr. Wood- 
 cock is a self-made man and, in a country where 
 merit must win, Mr. Woodcock has achieved 
 success. Wealth may secure a start, but it 
 cannot maintain one in a position where brains 
 and executive ability are required, and Mr. 
 Woodcock did not have wealth to aid him in the 
 beginning of his business career. His reliance 
 has been placed on the more substantial quali- 
 ties of perseverance, untiring enterprise, resolute 
 purpose and commendable zeal, and withal his 
 actions have been guided by an honesty of pur- 
 pose. He is a true type of western progress and 
 enterprise, the leading spirit which has produced 
 the phenomenal growth of Oregon. His energy, 
 prudent business methods and sagacity have all 
 combined to make him one of the foremost busi- 
 ness men of the great northwest. 
 
 Mr. Woodcock was married in Corvallis to 
 Miss Emma J. Simpson, who was born in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., a daughter of the Rev. Anthony 
 Simpson, a native of Manchester, England, and 
 on crossing the Atlantic took up his abode in 
 Philadelphia. He was educated for the Presby- 
 terian ministry and became an active factor in 
 the work of that denomination. At the time of 
 the Civil war he served as a chaplain, bemg 
 sent into Virginia by the Young Men's Christian 
 Association. In 1865 he came to Oregon by 
 
 way of Panama, accompanied by his wife and 
 four children. They sailed on the old boat 
 Golden Rule, which was wrecked in the Car- 
 ibbean sea in June, 1865. The ship went down 
 but the passengers all escaped, and ten days later 
 they were taken by a United States man-of-war 
 to Aspinwall and on to Panama, where the Simp- 
 son family took passage on the steamer America 
 for San Francisco. At the latter place they 
 boarded the vessel Brother Jonathan, for Port- 
 land and safely reached their destination, but on 
 its return trip that vessel was also wrecked. 
 Rev. Simpson lived in Albany for some time, 
 and afterward went to Olympia, Wash., acting 
 as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church there 
 for two years. In 1867 he removed to Corval- 
 lis to accept the pastorate of the church here 
 and later he removed to a farm in Benton county 
 upon which he afterward continued agricultural 
 pursuits for some time. He also continued his 
 ministerial work, and while there it was through 
 his efforts that the First Presbyterian Church 
 at Independence was built, and he served as 
 pastor of this congregation for many years. He 
 later returned to Philadelphia, Pa., where he 
 died soon afterward. He was a man of marked 
 influence, most zealous in his labors for the 
 church and his efforts were productive of great 
 good among his fellow-men. In his social rela- 
 tions he was a Mason. Mr. Simpson was united 
 in marriage in early manhood to Miss Helen 
 Crawford, who was born in County Antrim, Ire- 
 land, and was of Scotch-Irish lineage. She 
 died in Albany, Ore. In their family were four 
 children, of whom three are living: John H., 
 who is a hardware merchant in Corvallis ; Emma, 
 the wife of M. S. Woodcock, of Corvallis ; and 
 George, of Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock have been born 
 three children : A. R., who is a graduate of the 
 Oregon Agricultural College, is an ornithologist 
 and stands at the head of that science in the state 
 of Oregon ; C. H. is connected with the 
 First National Bank of Corvallis ; and E. M. is 
 the youngest of the family. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Woodcock is an 
 earnest Republican and wields a wide influence 
 in the councils of his party. In 1901 he was 
 elected mayor of the city and his administration 
 was one that gave entire satisfaction to the pub- 
 lic because it was business-like, progressive and 
 beneficial. A very prominent Mason, he was 
 initiated into the order in Monroe Lodge No. 
 49, and is now connected with Corvallis Lodge 
 No. 14. He likewise belongs to Ferguson Chap- 
 ter, R. A. M., of Corvallis, of which he is the 
 past high priest and he holds membership in Ore- 
 gon Council of Corvallis, of which he is a past 
 officer and is the past grand master of the Grand 
 Council of Oregon. He is also a member of the 
 
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 Order of High Priesthood and he and his wife 
 are connected with the Eastern Star. Air. Wood- 
 cock was the organizer of the Eastern Star lodge 
 in Corvallis and served as its first worthy patron, 
 acting in that capacity for several years. He 
 is also identified with the State Pioneer Associ- 
 ation and the American Bankers' xA.ssociation. He 
 is a man of enterprise, positive character, indom- 
 itable energy, strict integrity and liberal views, 
 and has been fully identified with the growth 
 and prosperity of the state of his adoption. He 
 has persevered in the pursuit of a persistent pur- 
 pose and gained a most satisfactory reward. He 
 is a man of fine personal appearance, and his 
 kindliness, sympathy and generosity beam forth 
 in his eye and are substantially manifest in his 
 actions. His life is exemplary in many respects 
 and he has the esteem of his friends and the 
 confidence of those who have had business rela- 
 tions with him. 
 
 JUDGE JOSHUA J. WALTON. In the 
 annals of Lane county no man occupies a 
 more honorable and eminent position than 
 Judge Joshua J. Walton, of Eugene. A man 
 of undoubted integrity, superior ability and 
 judgment, energetic and public-spirited, he 
 has been an important factor in the upbuilding 
 of the city in which he resides, uniformly ad- 
 vocating and working for the supremacy of 
 those plans and measures which shall be of 
 perpetual benefit to the community. In the 
 establishment of the University of Oregon at 
 Eugene, he was one of the prime movers, 
 working hard to secure the necessary funds 
 for its location there, and giving with an un- 
 stinting hand from his own private purse to- 
 wards its erection. A son of Joshua J. Wal- 
 ton, he was born April 6, 1838, in Rushville, 
 Ind. Of English ancestry, he is descended 
 from one of three brothers who emigrated 
 from England to America in colonial days, 
 and settled in New England. His paternal 
 grandfather, Capt. Thomas Walton, a resident 
 of Connecticut, sailed the seas as master of his 
 vessel, and while on one of his vovages was 
 lost at sea with all his crew. 
 
 A native of Wethersfield. Conn.. J. J. Wal- 
 ton, the elder, there grew to manhood, and 
 learned the shoemaker's trade. Emigrating 
 from Xew England to Indiana, he was there 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits for a few 
 years. In 1839 ne removed to Illinois, locat- 
 ing near Springfield, and subsequently lived 
 in St. Louis, Mo., and in Keosauqua, Iowa. 
 In the spring of 1849 ne again took up his 
 march westward, coming with his family to 
 Fremont, Cal.. thence to Yreka, where he 
 spent the winter. Locating in the Rogue river 
 
 45 
 
 valley in the spring, he took up a donation claim 
 near Ashland, on Wagner creek, being one of 
 the original pioneers of that vicinity. Erect- 
 ing a small log house, he commenced the im- 
 provement of a farm, in addition being engaged 
 in packing and freighting from Scottsburg and 
 the Willamette valley to Yreka, Cal. In 1853 
 he and his son, J. J., assisted in building the 
 blockhouse at Fort Wagner, and were on guard 
 there for nearly six months. On leaving the 
 fort, he disposed of his ranch, and moved to 
 Green valley, on the Umpqua river, where he 
 carried on general farming and stock-raising 
 for five years. Locating in Eugene City in 1858, 
 he opened a general merchandise store which he 
 managed several years. The following three 
 years he and his son, J. J. Walton, were em- 
 ployed in mining, being at the Salmon river 
 mines the first year, at Boise mines, near Idaho 
 City, the second year, and at the Oyhee mines 
 the third year. Returning then to Eugene, he 
 was employed as a clerk until his retirement 
 from active pursuits. He attained a venerable 
 age, dying in Eugene at the age of four score 
 and four years, in 1896. He had the distinction 
 of voting for the constitutions of three states, 
 of Iowa in 1846, of California in 1850, and of 
 Oregon in 1858. 
 
 J. J. Walton married Ann M. Shockley, of 
 Rushville, Ind. She was born near Flemings- 
 burg, Ky.. the birthplace of her father, William 
 Shockley, who removed from Kentucky to 
 Rushville, and there spent his declining years. 
 She survived her husband, dying at the age 
 of eighty-three years in 1901. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of 
 their union nine children were born, namely : 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Wilson, who died in Washing- 
 ton ; Joshua, the special subject of this sketch; 
 Mrs. Phebe Hughes, residing at Creswell, Ore : 
 Mrs. Mary E. Coleman, of Coburg, Ore ; C. 
 Wesley, a resident of Spokane, Wash. ; Amanda 
 J., wife of St. John Skinner, of Wardner, Idaho; 
 Ira D., of Springfield, Ore. ; Henry E., who 
 died at Salem Ore. ; and Mrs. Iula Cole, of 
 Spokane, Wash. 
 
 After living in Indiana, Illinois. Missouri and 
 Iowa, Joshua J. Walton crossed the plains. with 
 his parents when a boy of eleven years, going 
 with ox-teams to California in 1849, following 
 the trail up the Platte river, and coming by way 
 of Salt Lake, where the jaded cattle were ex- 
 changed for fresh ones. Thence they proceeded 
 down the Humboldt, across the desert to Truc- 
 kee, and on to Fremont, Cal., being from April 
 until October making the trip. In 185 1 they 
 moved to Yreka, in the spring of 1852 to the 
 Rogue river valley, and in the fall of the fol- 
 lowing year he came with the remainder of 
 the familv to Green valley, Ore., and subse- 
 
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 quently assisted his father in packing and 
 freighting between Oregon and California, and 
 helped build Fort Wagner, as previously men- 
 tioned. Upon coming with the family to Eu- 
 gene, in 1858, he attended the old Columbia 
 college until the building was burned. Com- 
 pleting his education at Union University, 
 under Professor Cornelius, he was afterwards 
 engaged with his father in various mining en- 
 terprises, at the Salmon river mines, in 1862, 
 making considerable money, but being unsuccess- 
 ful at Boise Basin in the summer of 1863, and 
 at the Oyhee mines in 1864. While at home, 
 in the intervals of mining, he read law with 
 Judge Riley E. Stratton, and after his admis- 
 sion to the bar, in 1863, began the practice of 
 his profession in Eugene, where he has since 
 continued most successfully, sometimes being in 
 partnership with others, and sometimes alone. 
 In 1868 he was elected county judge and served 
 four years. In 1875 he was appointed to the 
 office by Governor Grover and in 1876 was 
 elected to the office for a term of four years. 
 Judge Walton also served as deputy district at- 
 torney four years, and has been United States 
 commissioner since his first appointment, in 1884, 
 by Judge Deady, having been reappointed by 
 Judge Bellinger. 
 
 Taking a keen interest in educational matters, 
 Judge Walton was one of the five men present 
 at the meeting held in the old schoolhouse, in 
 July, 1872, to consult in regard to plans for 
 having a university located in Eugene, the 
 others present being B. F. Dorris, the late John 
 M. Thompson, the late John C. Arnold, and the 
 late S. H. Spencer. The first thought of these 
 gentlemen had simply been to have a higher 
 grade school established here, but on Mr. 
 Thompson's proposition to try arid secure the 
 university for this place, the meeting adjourned 
 until some future time in order that more defi- 
 nite action might be taken. Subsequently the 
 Union University Association was organized for 
 the purpose of securing the incorporation of a 
 university, Judge Walton being elected one of 
 the directors, and secretary of the board. Draft- 
 ing a bill, he presented it to the state legislature, 
 offering the grounds, and buildings worth $50,- 
 000, if the state would locate the university in 
 Eugene. The bill passed, and the association 
 was given until the fall of 1874 to secure a site, 
 and complete the building. The first bill pro- 
 vided that $30,000 should be raised by county 
 taxes, the citizens of Eugene to contribute the 
 remaining $20,000. Some of the taxpayers were 
 dissatisfied and having threatened to enjoin the 
 collection of the $30,000 the matter was pre- 
 sented to the county court, where every objec- 
 tion was heard, Judge Walton representing the 
 interests of the Union University Association, 
 
 while J. M. Thompson, president of the associa- 
 tion, was county judge. Fearing that the tax, 
 if raised, would involve tne county in a heavy 
 debt, the order was revoked by the county com- 
 missioners, and Judge Thompson resigned as 
 president of the association, being succeeded by 
 Judge Walton, T. G. Hendricks being elected 
 secretary. After meeting many discourage- 
 ments, the association, largely through the stren- 
 uous efforts of its president, raised the entire 
 $50,000 by subscription, and after the building 
 was completed the deed was made out, and ac- 
 cepted by the state. Although the brave pro- 
 moters of the university had a hard struggle in 
 its establishment and building, they now take 
 great pride and pleasure in the result of their 
 labors. 
 
 In April, 1873, the board of regents was 
 organized with Judge Matthew P. Deady as 
 president, and Judge Walton, who was one of 
 the three regents elected by the Union Univer- 
 sity Association, as secretary of the board, a 
 position to which he has been continuously re- 
 elected ever since. During the first thirteen 
 years of the university's existence the judge 
 served as both regent and secretary, but has 
 since that time acted as secretary only. 
 
 Judge J. J. Walton was married, first, in 
 Eugene, to Elizabeth Gale, who was born near 
 Galesburg, 111. She died in 1873, leaving three 
 children, namely : Ada Osie, who was graduated 
 from the University of Oregon, and is now 
 living in Seattle, Wash. ; Clara D. died in 
 Eugene ; and Hattie E., a trained nurse at the 
 General Hospital in Seattle, Wash. The judge 
 was married a second time in 1876, in Eugene, 
 to Miss Emma Fisher, a native of Richmond, 
 Ind., and a daughter of Robert Fisher, who 
 spent his last years in Minnesota. The only 
 child of Judge and Mrs. Walton, Pauline E. 
 Walton, is attending the University of Oregon, 
 being a member of the class of 1904. Judge 
 Walton owns considerable property in Eugene, 
 having erected the Walton block, which is 46x60 
 feet, two stories in height, and having a fine 
 farm of four acres, lying on Mill street, between 
 Eighth and Ninth streets. This he devotes to 
 black walnuts and fruits of various kinds, having 
 sixty different kinds of trees in his orchards. 
 
 Politically Judge Walton is a stanch Demo- 
 crat, and has filled many public offices of trust 
 and responsibility, including those of council- 
 man and school director, at the present time 
 being a member of the city school board. 
 He was formerly a member of the county 
 central committee, which he served as chair-' 
 man, and of the state central and congres- 
 sional committees. Fraternally, he is promi- 
 nently connected with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, being past noble grand of Eugene 
 
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 Lodge, with which he united in 1861 ; past 
 grand master and past grand representative of 
 the Grand Lodge of Oregon, which he repre- 
 sented at the Sovereign Grand Lodge, in Bal- 
 timore, in 1878 and in 1879 ; a member, and past 
 chief patriarch, of the Encampment ; and since 
 1S64, has belonged to the Grand Encampment, 
 which he represented at the meeting of the Sov- 
 ereign Grand Lodge, which met in Milwaukee, 
 Wis., in 1893, and in Chattanooga, Term., in 
 1894. He is also a past master workman of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, which he 
 represented at the Grand Lodge twice. He is 
 also a member of the State Historical Society. 
 He takes a deep interest in religious affairs, and 
 is a valued member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, of which he has been one of the trustees 
 for many years, for a long while serving as 
 chairman of the board. For a number of years 
 he was also superintendent of the Sunday school. 
 
 HUGH HERRON. In Hugh Herron the 
 agricultural community around Bruce has a prac- 
 tical and thorough farmer, and a substantial and 
 helpful citizen. Like the majority of his country- 
 men who have crossed the water, he has been 
 pleased to look on the happy side of things in his 
 adopted land, and in consequence has met with 
 a warm reception in return, and realized gener- 
 ous financial returns from labor invested. Born 
 in County Down, Ireland, in September, 1839, 
 he was reared on a small Irish farm from which 
 little profit could be derived, the family main- 
 tenance being principally dependent upon the 
 trade occupation of the father, who was a 
 weaver of fine linen. The elder Herron mar- 
 ried Mary Cleland, who also was born in Ire- 
 land, and who, after the death of her husband 
 in 1849, wisely concluded that the old country 
 held little of prospect for her eight children. 
 Accordingly, she secured passage for her family 
 in a sailing vessel in 1850, locating in Mahoning 
 county, Ohio, from where she later removed to 
 Illnois. Here she lived to be sixty-five years 
 old, an honored, well loved mother, who had the 
 courage of her own convictions, and the strength 
 of will and endurance to carry them to execution. 
 Of her children, David is in Illnois ; William is 
 a farmer in Missouri ; Sarah also is in Illinois ; 
 Jane is in Missouri ; and Hugh, the youngest 
 is in Oregon. 
 
 Little is recalled by Hugh Herron of the trip 
 across the ocean in the slow-moving sailer, for 
 he was but eleven years of age at the time, and 
 that was many years ago. Needless to say he 
 had to start out to make his own living at as 
 early an age as possible, and when fourteen began 
 to work on the surrounding farms by the month. 
 
 In 1862 he started across the plains with a mule 
 team, and on the way found little difficulty of 
 any kind, the Indians by that time having become 
 used to the homeseeking paleface. Arriving in 
 Benton county he rented a farm for three or four 
 years, and then purchased a place of two hun- 
 dred and fifteen acres five miles northwest of 
 Monroe, and which constitutes a portion of the 
 old Harlow Bundy donation claim. Immediately 
 preceding this purchase he had married, in 1867, 
 Nicy Winn, a native of Tennessee who crossed 
 the plains with her brothers in 1865. 
 
 To his first land Mr. Herron has added from 
 time to time, and now owns eight hundred acres, 
 half of which are under cultivation. He car- 
 ries on general farming and stock-raising, and 
 makes a specialty of Durham cattle. Everything 
 around his farm indicates the careful and pains- 
 taking agriculturist, the thrifty and resourceful 
 husbandman. Residence, barns, outhouses, and 
 implements are in accord with progressive 
 ideas, and are intended to facilitate labor and 
 add to the satisfaction of existence. In politics 
 a Democrat, Mr. Herron is one of his party's 
 most enthusiastic advocates, and his appreciation 
 of the principles and issues of Democracy have 
 met with generous response from his fellow 
 townsmen. He has held various minor offices 
 of a local nature, and has been commissioner 
 of Benton county for some time. He is popular 
 and influential, and his advice and practical 
 assistance lend worth to any proposed public 
 enterprise. Six children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Herron : William E. is in Washington ; 
 Elizabeth is deceased ; Robert lives and farms 
 near his father ; Clayton is at home ; Margaret 
 is living at home ; and Hattie is the wife of 
 C. Bushnell of Washington. Mr. Herron is 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 with which organization he has been associated 
 since his young manhood. 
 
 LEE MOXOM TRAVIS. With thirty years 
 behind him L. M. Travis has made for himself 
 a record of will, courage and purposeful living 
 that has written his name above the heads of 
 many older men and set his feet firmly on the 
 ladder of success. He is a rising young attor- 
 ney, successful in his profession and in business 
 enterprises, clear, logical and convincing in 
 thought and expression, the developed resources 
 of a native ability, having spent several years 
 in preparation for the work which he has chosen 
 for his vocation. That he will succeed in the 
 years yet to come none who know him doubt, 
 and it has been his fortune to become well 
 known through his connection with various 
 political movements wherein he has taken a 
 very active part, being nominated in June, 1902, 
 
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 by the Democratic convention as candidate for 
 state senator. Though defeated, he made a 
 splendid showing, running much ahead of the 
 remainder of the ticket, in a county which had 
 always given a thousand Republican majority, 
 lacking but two hundred and seventy votes of 
 success. In the first congressional convention 
 in 1903, in Albany, he placed A. E. Reames in 
 nomination for member of congress, and he was 
 afterward nominated by the party. 
 
 Not only a success himself, L. M. Travis has 
 the example of his father before him to spur 
 him to greater efforts to support the honor of a 
 family which has certainly deserved the com- 
 mendation of fellow-citizens. The family came 
 originally from New York state, the father, 
 Gould J. Travis, having been born in Pough- 
 keepsie, while the grandfather, Alexander Tra- 
 vis, was a farmer in Dutchess county. He was 
 a patriot in the war of 1812. G. J. Travis was 
 educated in a theological seminary of Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., from which he was in time graduated, 
 and became a minister in the Baptist Church. 
 In pursuit of this vocation he traveled over 
 many states, preaching in New York, Michigan, 
 Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska, California, and 
 finally in Oregon where his last days were 
 passed. A patriot, true and earnest, as was his 
 father, he served as chaplain, with the rank of 
 captain, in the Forty-fourth New York Volun- 
 teer Infantry, in the Civil war, after which he 
 returned to his chosen lifework. He came to 
 California in 1884, settling in San Diego, and 
 four years later he came to Oregon, locating at 
 Eugene, where for three years he served as 
 pastor of the Baptist Church. He then felt 
 impelled to retire from the active life which had 
 so long engrossed his attention, and thus lived 
 until his death in 1893. He was a Republican 
 in politics, and fraternally belonged to the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows and was a 
 Knight Templar in the Masonic order. He was 
 also a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
 lic. He married Ella Ford, who was born in 
 Hornellsville, N. Y., the daughter of Lyman 
 Ford, a farmer in that state. She is still living 
 and now makes her home in Eugene, the mother 
 of three sons and two daughters, all of whom 
 are living. 
 
 The eldest of his father's children, L. M. 
 Travis was born in Hornellsville, N. Y., June 
 20, 1874, and with his parents he removed to 
 various states in his youth. His education was, 
 however,, in no wise neglected, for he kept up 
 with his studies, attending both public and high 
 schools. He was fourteen years old when he 
 became a resident of Eugene, Lane county, and 
 in 1890 he entered the preparatory department 
 of the University of Oregon, becoming a fresh- 
 
 man in 1893. His graduation occurred in 1897, 
 with the degree of B. A. He has acted as one 
 of the representatives of his college in the 
 famous oratorical contest of the schools of the 
 state in 1896, and stood second in the state. He 
 was also prominent in athletics, being manager 
 of the football team in 1896, and manager of 
 the track team in the following year. 
 
 In 1898 this son and grandson of patriots 
 responded to the call of the nation and the name 
 of L. H. Travis was enrolled as a member of 
 Company C, Second Oregon Regiment, and later 
 accepted the work laid out for the regiment, 
 going to the Philippine islands. It was not his 
 fortune, however, to serve in that distant land, 
 for he was taken dangerously ill in Cavite with 
 typhoid fever. When able he was granted a fur- 
 lough and sent home on the hospital ship Rio 
 Janeiro, and he was mustered out but a few days 
 before the mustering out of the entire regiment. 
 The year previous to his enlistment he had 
 begun the study of law in Eugene, and in 1899 
 he was admitted to the bar and at once began 
 practice. In the fall of the same year he en- 
 tered the department of law of the University 
 of Michigan in the senior class and in 1900 was 
 graduated with the degree of L.L. B. Again 
 locating in Eugene he began a practice which he 
 has since continued, being interrupted only for 
 the political movements with which Mr. Travis 
 is so heartily in sympathy. 
 
 Mr. Travis is a charter member of the Com- 
 mercial Club, and fraternally he is a Mason, 
 having been made a member in Eugene Lodge 
 No. 11, there acting as junior warden, and also 
 belongs to Eugene Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. 
 In addition to this he is a member of the Benev- 
 olent and Protective Order of Elks, Order of 
 Eagles, in which he is worthy president, and 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 WILLIAM T. COCHRAN. Among the 
 native-born citizens of Linn county notable 
 for their ability and worth stands William T. 
 Cochran, whose birth occurred on the farm 
 which he noAv owns and occupies, May, 6, 
 1851. During his more than half century of 
 life in this vicinity, he has won for himself an 
 enviable reputation as an honest man and a 
 good citizen, and as one who has contributed 
 his full quota toward the advancement and 
 development of one of the finest agricultural 
 regions in this section of Oregon. 
 
 William Cochran, the father of William T., 
 was born in Kentucky, November 20, 1813. Re- 
 moving as a young man to Missouri, he mar- 
 ried Polly Johnson, who was born September 
 6, 1813. In the spring of 1847, ne left Missouri, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1023 
 
 starting across the plains with his wife and 
 seven children, bringing his family and his 
 household effects in two wagons drawn by ox- 
 teams. Taking up a donation claim in Linn 
 countv, he cleared and improved a farm, on 
 which he resided until his death, which oc- 
 curred at the home of his daughter, Mahala F., 
 wife of Thomas Turner, August 17, 1901. 
 Two more children were born in their pioneer 
 home, one being William T., as stated above, 
 the other a daughter, Delilah, who died in 
 childhood. One son. Nelson J., now residing 
 in Brownsville, was born in Missouri. The 
 first Mrs. Cochran's death occurred on the 
 home farm April 12, 1854. For a second wife 
 Mr. Cochran married Cynthia, widow of Rev. 
 William Sperry, a pioneer minister of the Bap- 
 tist Church and father of Rev. Carpus Sperry. 
 After her death he married Mrs. Kerns, who 
 died a few years after her marriage. His last 
 wife was the widow of Henry Warren, and is 
 also deceased. 
 
 William Cochran's success in life may be 
 estimated by a statement of the fact that one 
 time he was the heaviest taxpayer in the 
 county. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Brownsville Woolen Mills, and for many years 
 was the heaviest stockholder in the concern. 
 
 Reared on the home farm, William T. Coch- 
 ran obtained his early knowledge of books in 
 the district school, subsequently completing 
 his education at the Oregon Agricultural Col- 
 lege in Corvallis. After leaving college he car- 
 ried on the home farm for a few years, but in 
 1878 and 1879 was engaged in the drug busi- 
 ness at Brownsville. Coming into possession 
 of the homestead, which is located about one 
 and three-fourths miles from Brownsville, Mr. 
 Cochran has nine hundred and thirteen acres 
 of land all in one body, constituting one of 
 the most valuable and attractive farms in the 
 locality. He carries on general farming on an 
 extensive scale, raising cattle and horses, and 
 keeping a choice dairy of thirty cows. He 
 deals in stock, buying and selling cattle, and 
 among his horses is an imported stallion of the 
 Clydesdale breed, and also one of trotting 
 stock. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Cochran married Lucy J. Phil- 
 pott, daughter of William J. Philpott. She 
 
 Woodmen of the World. Pie is a member 
 of the Baptist Church, in which he is an active 
 worker, and for a number of years has been 
 superintendent of the Sunday School. 
 
 died June 25, 1 
 
 leaving two children, 
 
 namely: Ethel, who is studying music at 
 Portland, Ore. ; and W. Earl, living at home. 
 On March 9, 1890, Mr. Cochran married a 
 second time, Sarah Swank, daughter of James 
 Swank, and of this marriage three children 
 have been born, namely: Leroy T., Mabel F., 
 and Frederick W. Fraternally Mr. Cochran 
 belongs to Brownsville Lodge No. 36, A. F. & 
 A. M., of which he is past master, and of the 
 
 HON. EDWARD MARION CROISAN. The 
 life history of the Hon. Edward Marion Croisan, 
 now serving in the Oregon state senate from 
 Salem, forms an interesting chapter in the annals 
 of Oregon. His career has been closely inter- 
 woven with the progress of the state during 
 the past score of years, and at the present time 
 he is recognized as one of the most thoroughly 
 representative men of affairs in the Willamette 
 valley, whose future preferment for high pub- 
 lic honors lies practically within his own control. 
 
 Senator Croisan is a native son of Oregon, his 
 birth having occurred upon the old homestead 
 in Marion county, three miles southwest of 
 Salem, March 27, 1855. His father, Henry 
 Croisan, was born in Munich, Bavaria, but came 
 of French ancestry, the name being originally 
 Croissant, meaning " growing." There were 
 three brothers of the name who, at the time of 
 the Huguenot massacre in France, fled to Ger- 
 many. At the time of the revocation of the Edict 
 of Nantes representatives of the family again 
 were compelled to flee for safety, making their 
 way across the Franco-German frontier in their 
 night clothing. These were the grandfather and 
 grandmother of the father of Senator Croisan, 
 all of whom settled in Bavaria, where they might 
 enjoy their religious privileges unmolested. 
 
 Senator Croisan's grandfather came to the 
 United States in 1839, landing at New Orleans. 
 It had been his intention to locate somewhere in 
 the west, but while coming up the Mississippi 
 river he was taken ill with yellow fever and was 
 buried along the banks of the " father of waters." 
 Henry Croisan had remained in Germany in order 
 to settle up some business, after the completion of 
 which he crossed the Atlantic to the new world. 
 Not long after his arrival he took up his abode 
 in Illinois, the family settling at Peru, that state, 
 in 1839. Henry Croisan had acquired a good 
 education in Munich. In Illinois he followed 
 farming until 1846, when, attracted by the oppor- 
 tunities of the west, he started across the plains, 
 traveling in a wagon drawn by ox-teams. He 
 secured his outfit at Independence, Mo., and 
 joined Capt. Rice Dunbar, who commanded a 
 wagon train. They came through the Applegate 
 cut-off, suffering many trials and hardships, and 
 were continually on the alert for fear of attacks 
 by the Indians. At Tulare lake they had a battle 
 with the Indians, three of the company being 
 shot and two of the number afterward dying from 
 the effects of their wounds. Starvation also 
 stared them in the face, for their supply of pro- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 visions gave out, and it seemed as if they must 
 meet death in this way. Upon this trip, however, 
 Henry Croisan met his future wife, who was a 
 member of Captain Dunbar's company, and they 
 were married near Ogden in 1846. At the same 
 time Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Savage, now of Sum- 
 mit, Benton county, Ore., were also joined in 
 wedlock. It will thus be seen that there were 
 some pleasant occasions as well as hardships 
 connected with the trip. 
 
 By the time the party reached Rogue river 
 the supply of provisions had become exhausted, 
 and in the month of December Henry Croisan 
 and Jesse Boone were selected to make their way 
 to Oregon City in order to purchase flour for the 
 party. This was a trip attended by great danger, 
 for the Indians of southern Oregon were at that 
 time so hostile that death at their hands was to 
 be feared at any time. Both the men slept with 
 their horses' reins in their hands, knowing that 
 the approach of their savage enemies would 
 startle the horses and thus awaken the men. 
 They traveled almost night and day, and finally 
 returned in safety, although, when on their way 
 back with their load of flour, and but one day's 
 journey from the camp upon Rogue river, they 
 came upon a band of Indians who were seated 
 upon the bluffs and blockading their way. Boone 
 said, " They will kill us," and advised that the 
 two turn back and pursue a different course. 
 But Mr. Croisan replied, " We must put on a 
 bold front and proceed; for if we turn back 
 we will be killed anyhow." He therefore started 
 in the lead with his gun lying across his arm 
 ready for immediate action, but the Indians, see- 
 ing that the men were apparently fearless, moved 
 out of their way and did not molest them. After 
 passing the Indians, darkness soon came upon 
 them and they lost their way. They wandered 
 around, believing that the camp must be very 
 near, and late at night they heard the bells 
 upon the animals of their own camp. With 
 this sound as a guide they reached their desti- 
 nation in safety, though thoroughly exhausted. 
 They had obtained from Dr. McLaughlin all 
 the flour they needed, and were hailed with 
 every manifestation of joy by the party for 
 whose succor they had made this dangerous 
 and memorable trip. Upon leaving the Rogue 
 river, the party left their cooking utensils, 
 wagons and other supplies which they thought 
 they might possibly get along without. A 
 few months later, in 1847, Mr. Croisan re- 
 turned to the site of the camp with an ox-team, 
 but all that he found there was a couple of 
 wagons, the rest of the articles having been 
 carried away. His friend and companion, 
 Jesse Boone, with whom he made the trip for 
 the flour, was a distant relation of Daniel 
 
 Boone, and afterwards established Boone's 
 Ferry, on the Willamette river. 
 
 It would be impossible, in a work of this 
 nature, to give a detailed account of the pio- 
 neer experiences endured by the Croisans and 
 others who lived in Oregon as early as 1846. 
 Every day brought with it new and trying 
 experiences, and slow progress was made 
 toward the ultimate destination. While they 
 were slowly and laboriously proceeding north- 
 ward, Mr. Goff formed a small party of Polk 
 county settlers and drove out some beef cattle 
 for the relief of the company, which finally 
 arrived in the Willamette valley in February, 
 1847. 
 
 Henry Croisan took up some land and 
 engaged in farming near Buena Vista for a 
 year, but in the spring of 1849 he started over- 
 land for California, where for a time he was 
 successfully engaged in placer mining in the 
 Feather river district. Early in 1850 he re- 
 turned to Oregon, and on March 2 of that year 
 secured a donation claim three miles southwest 
 of the site of Salem, where he established his 
 home and reared his family. There he spent 
 the remainder of his life, a full quarter cen- 
 tury, passing away September 14, 1875, in the 
 fifty-ninth year of his age. 
 
 Mr. Croisan's wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Mary A. Hall, was born in Illinois. 
 She is one of the brave pioneer women yet 
 remaining to tell the tale of the early days in 
 Oregon. Her father, Reason B. Hall, who 
 was born in Kentucky, removed to Ilinois in 
 early manhood and followed farming near 
 Peru. In 1846 he started for Oregon as a 
 member of the same party which included the 
 Croisan family, and upon reaching the terri- 
 tory settled upon a donation claim on the 
 present site of Buena Vista. He laid out the 
 town, and named it after the city of Buena 
 Vista, Mexico, which he had visited while 
 serving in the American army during the 
 war with Mexico. In his new Oregon home he 
 spent the remainder of his life, his death oc- 
 curring in the town which he had founded. 
 Mrs. Croisan, his daughter, who is now sev- 
 enty-three years of age, is no less deserving 
 of prominent and honorable mention in the 
 annals of Oregon than is her husband, for the 
 pioneer women bore fully as important a part 
 in the early development of the country as 
 did their husbands and fathers, although their 
 work was of a more quiet nature. 
 
 Unto Henry and Mary (Hall) Croisan were 
 born six children, namely: Mrs. Martha A. 
 Wilson, who is now living near Peru, 111. ; 
 George H., a farmer living upon a part of the 
 old homestead; Mrs. Caroline Bushnell of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1025 
 
 Salem ; Edward M., the subject of this review; 
 Henrietta, who died in childhood ; and Clara 
 E. Farmer of Salem. 
 
 Edward M. Croisan was reared amid the wild 
 scenes of frontier life upon the homestead of 
 his father. The earlier days were a period 
 of hardship, to a considerable extent, but as 
 the country became more thickly populated 
 and the work of progress and improvement 
 was carried on, conditions gradually improved. 
 He attended the public schools of Salem until 
 well along toward manhood, when he took up 
 the work upon the farm. Here he remained 
 until twenty-eight years of age, carrying on 
 the work in company with his brother until 
 his entry into official life. In the summer 01 
 1892 he established himself in business in 
 Salem as a dealer in agricultural implements, 
 and conducted the business successfully until 
 May, 1900, when he sold his store to F. A. 
 Wiggins in order to give his attention in a 
 more undivided manner to the cultivation of 
 hops, an industry which he is carrying on at 
 the present time with success. His ranch in 
 Marion county consists of three hundred and 
 seven acres, on which he also carries on gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising to some extent. 
 But he makes a specialty of the cultivation of 
 hops, which in recent years has grown to be 
 a very important and profitable industry in 
 Oregon. In 1902 he erected the large Capital 
 Stables in Salem, which he leases. He has 
 built a fine residence on Church street, and is 
 largely interested in real estate in Salem and 
 vicinity, while his wife also has large landed 
 interests in Polk and Marion counties. Mr. 
 Croisan is likewise a representative of financial 
 interests, being the vice president of and a 
 director in the Capital National Bank. Fra- 
 ternally he occupies a high place in Masonry. 
 He is a member of Salem Lodge No. 4, A. F. 
 & A. M., of Multnomah Chapter No. 2, of De 
 Molay Cornmandery No. 5, K. T., of Salem, 
 and of Al Kader Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
 Shrine, of Portland. He is also identified with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the 
 Modern Woodmen of America, and with 
 Daniel Waldo Cabin, Native Sons of Oregon, 
 of which he is financial secretary. 
 
 Mr. Croisan was married in Salem in 1886 
 to Miss Ella S. McNary, who was born at 
 The Dalles and 'is a daughter of A. W. Mc- 
 Nary, who came to Oregon in 1845. She was 
 educated in the Sacred Heart Academy of 
 Salem, from which she was graduated in 
 1882. She became the mother of one daughter, 
 Helen S. Croisan. The greatest blow that 
 ever befell the household was the loss of this 
 daughter, who died at the age of sixteen 
 months. Mrs. Croisan is a member of the 
 
 First Presbyterian Church of Salem, and is 
 widely and favorably known in the social cir- 
 cles of the capital city. 
 
 Senator Croisan's political record has been 
 one which has not only reflected great credit 
 upon him as a broad-minded and public-spir- 
 ited citizen, placing him in a distinguished 
 position among his fellow-men, but also one 
 which has been so well considered in its every 
 feature as to add honor and prestige to his 
 constituency. For four years — from 1884 to 
 1888— he served as deputy sheriff of Marion 
 county under John W. Minto. In 1888 he 
 was nominated for the office of sheriff by the 
 Republicans of the county and elected. Upon 
 the expiration of his two-year term he was re- 
 elected by a largely increased majority, and 
 retired from office in July, 1892, with the 
 entire confidence, good will and approval of 
 the citizens of the county. He was chairman 
 of the Republican county central committee 
 in 1894, was a member of the state central 
 committee in 1896 and of the executive com- 
 mittee of the state committee in 1897. Gov- 
 ernor Lord appointed him superintendent of 
 the State Reform School in 1897, a position he 
 filled with distinct credit until 1899. Further 
 political honors were conferred upon him in 
 1902, when he was elected to represent his 
 district in the Oregon state senate, his major- 
 ity being about seven hundred votes. 
 
 Although reared in the faith of Democracy, 
 Senator Croisan has been an advocate of Re- 
 publican principles since attaining manhood, 
 and is now recognized as one of the most po- 
 tential leaders of his party in the state. He 
 commands the respect and confidence of 
 thoughtful men of both great political parties, 
 the leaders of the opposition recognizing his 
 loyalty, devotion to what he believes to be 
 right, and his deep interest in the welfare of 
 his community and the state at large. In mat- 
 ters of business he possesses sound judgment, 
 powers of keen discrimination, and unflagging 
 enterprise — qualities which have enabled him 
 to work his way upward until he is an influen- 
 tial factor in business circles. He puts forth 
 every effort in his power to advance the mater- 
 ial upbuilding, the social and the intellectual 
 progress of the state and its political status. 
 Moreover, he is a man of such pleasing per- 
 sonal qualities that the circle of his friends is 
 almost co-extensive with the circle of his ac- 
 quaintances. Not only because of his con- 
 nection with one of the oldest and most highly 
 honored pioneer families of Oregon, but also 
 because of his personal worth and his efforts 
 in behalf of the commonwealth, is he entitled 
 to distinctive representation in this volume. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 THOMAS C. MACKEY, M. D. The life of 
 Dr. Thomas C. Mackey has been characterized 
 by a sturdy faithfulness to his duty, the good 
 Scotch blood which is his by right of lineage 
 giving him the courage to act in the face of 
 disaster or temporary ruin, and it was this, 
 coupled with a love for that section of the 
 country wherein his people had become resi- 
 dents, that made him take up arms for the cause 
 of the south, in September 1861. Passing from 
 the common schools to private tutor, and thence 
 to the University of Virginia, he studied classics 
 until 1 86 1, when his studies were cheerfully put 
 aside at the call of duty. He served in the Con- 
 federate Hospital service until he was mustered 
 out at Greensboro, N. C, April 14, 1865. He 
 had previously studied medicine under a pre- 
 ceptor, and had attended lectures at Philadelphia 
 and the University of Virginia, and he was given 
 the degree of M. D. in 1864. 
 
 The first of the name of Mackey to come 
 from their home in Scotland was John, the 
 grandfather, who came to the United States in 
 18 14. In his native country he was a linen 
 manufacturer in Perth, the business which he 
 then established continuing to the present day. 
 On settling on this side of the water he first 
 engaged in farming, and during the latter pari 
 of his life he became extensively connected with 
 the tobacco interests of the state of Virginia. 
 He met with extremely gratifying results in his 
 work, some of the largest warehouses in Rich- 
 mond belonging to him. His death occurred 
 at the age of sixty-nine years, upon his plantation 
 in Albemarle county. His son, Cyrus, the father 
 of Dr. Mackey, was born in Virginia, and like his 
 father first interested himself in agriculture, con- 
 bining it with the business of stock-raising on the 
 large plantation which he owned, and dealing in 
 fine stock. For twenty years of his life he was 
 connected with government positions, being 
 postoffice inspector. He died on his plantation 
 when seventy-two years old, after a very suc- 
 cessful career. His property was directly in the 
 path of the many Virginia campaigns, and he suf- 
 fered heavily. The wife of Mr. Mackey was in 
 maidenhood Elizabeth Caldwell, a native of Vir- 
 ginia, and the daughter of Richard Caldwell, 
 who came from Scotland at an early day, and 
 located upon a plantation in Virginia, where his 
 death occurred at an advanced age. Mrs. 
 Mackey died in 1848, when thirty-nine years 
 old. She was the mother of two sons and one 
 daughter, the only one of whom is now living 
 being Thomas C, who was born in Albemarle 
 county, May 14, 1842, the youngest of his father's 
 family. 
 
 Upon the return of Dr. Mackey from the days 
 and nights of hospital service he began the 
 practice of medicine in his own neighborhood, 
 
 continuing there until 1872, when he decided to 
 change his location to the western states, be- 
 lieving there would be a better and broader 
 opportunity there than in the war-ruined section, 
 and he therefore became a resident of California, 
 locating in 1872 in Healdsburg, where he engaged 
 in general practice until 1875, after which he 
 removed to the northwest, and has since made 
 this section his home. In the last-named year 
 he took charge of the Marine Hospital at Coos 
 bay, and after a creditable maintenance of this 
 position for five years he was transferred to Ft. 
 Umpqua, receiving the appointment of state 
 health officer from Governor Fair. This posi- 
 tion he held for twelve years, and at the close of 
 this period of faithful service he removed to 
 Albany, Linn county, and engaged in general 
 practice for one year, but not satisfied with the 
 location he then became a resident of Harris- 
 burg, where he has since resided, enjoying the 
 same success in his work here that has charac- 
 terized his faithful and persevering efforts 
 throughout his entire professional career. He is 
 now the only resident physician of Harrisburg, 
 a position which has been his for nearly a 
 decade. Also successful in the accumulation of 
 property, Dr. Mackey is now the owner of one 
 hundred and sixty acres of timberland located in 
 Linn county. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Mackey united him with 
 Ada May Sacry, a native of California, and 
 one daughter, Edna, now adds to the happiness 
 of the home. In his fraternal relations Dr. 
 Mackey occupies several prominent positions, 
 being a master Mason ; in the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen having served for fifteen 
 months as grandmaster ; and in the Artisans he 
 holds the degree of honor. In religion he is a 
 member of the First Baptist Church, and poli- 
 tically is a Democrat, through the influence of 
 this party being given the appointment of post- 
 master at Gardner, Ore., under Cleveland's first 
 administration and held the office for six years. 
 
 LEWIS P. SWAN. The flouring mill of 
 Lewis P. Swan at Champoeg is a credit to the 
 little town of which it is an integral part, and 
 its output of sixty barrels of flour a day finds a 
 ready market in Woodburn and other towns. 
 Mr. Swan is a practical miller of many years 
 experience, his first memories in connection 
 therewith dating back into his childhood, and 
 to his native land of Sweden, where he was born 
 July 8, 1845. I" the neighborhood of his Swed- 
 ish home his father owned and operated a mill 
 for many years, this being his life's chief occu- 
 pation. Naturally the son followed in his foot- 
 steps, and from his sire learned the business, 
 becoming in time an expert in his line. 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1029 
 
 Equipped with the knowledge of a paying 
 trade. Mr. Swan emigrated to America in 1869, 
 and tor a few months worked in Chicago. He 
 then removed to Lansing, Iowa, and two 
 years later to La Crosse, Wis., where he engaged 
 in Hour manufacturing for about eighteen years. 
 Going to Vernon county, Wis., for sixteen years 
 he operated a mill at Coom Valley, becoming 
 prominent in the affairs of his neighborhood, and 
 identifying himself with all efforts at improving 
 his adopted locality. Desiring a change of sur- 
 roundings, he disposed of his mill about 1889, 
 and, coming to Oregon, bought a mill near Cham- 
 poeg on Mill Creek. In 1890 the mill was washed 
 away by the swollen stream, and the same year 
 was replaced by the present mill, which is 
 equipped with modern roller machinery, and is 
 netting its owner a handsome income. Under- 
 standing as he does every detail of modern and 
 scientific milling, Mr. Swan is destined to take 
 an important part in the milling enterprises of 
 this county, and will doubtless in time greatlv 
 increase his capacity. He is possessed of shrewd 
 business ability and strict integrity, and during 
 his residence here has won the confidence of 
 the business and social world. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Swan was united in marriage with 
 Sina Xeprud, of which union there have been 
 born five children : Augustus, Annie, Amanda, 
 Lawrence and Eva. From a political standpoint 
 Mr. Swan is not a party man, but believes rather 
 in voting for the candidate best qualified to serve 
 the public welfare. He is fraternally connected 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen 
 and the Knights of the Maccabees, and in reli- 
 gion is a member of the Lutheran Church. 
 
 \\ 1LLIAM F. SMITH. As an agriculturist 
 William F. Smith has assisted in the develop- 
 ment of the resources of Lane county. At the 
 time of the emigration he was old enough to 
 appreciate the difficulties and dangers which lay 
 in the path of western progress undertaken by 
 those hardy men of the middle west, princi- 
 pally, though all states and nations have con- 
 tributed a large quota of intellect and practical 
 ideas to which the commonwealth owes her 
 growth. 
 
 The father of Mr. Smith, John, was born in 
 Kentucky, in 1815, and there married Martha 
 Looney, born in 1817, and by this marriage he 
 had five children, namely: William F., of this 
 review, who was born in Missouri, October 
 2 5' T 835; Jesse H., whose sketch appears else- 
 where in this work ; Alfred R., located near 
 Coburg; E. Looney, whose sketch also appears 
 elsewhere in this work ; and John C. died in 
 1844. After the death of his first wife the 
 father married her sister, Nancy, and they had 
 
 one child, Margaret J., now deceased. The 
 family were living in the state of Missouri at 
 that time and in the spring of 1849 they crossed 
 the plains with two wagons, six yoke of oxen 
 and one horse. Upon arriving in Oregon they 
 located near Jefferson, Marion county, where 
 they spent the first winter. In 1850 they put 
 in a crop in Marion county and in the fall of the 
 year they removed to Lane county, where they 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres five miles southeast of Springfield, 
 along the Willamette river, their first shelter 
 being a round-log house of one room. The 
 elder man did not live to see the fruit of the 
 heroism of the early pioneers, as his death oc- 
 curred April 4, 1859. 
 
 Soon after coming to Oregon William F. 
 Smith went to live with John H. Bellinger, who 
 was located near Jefferson, and he remained 
 with him until the death of his father, when he 
 went back to the old home place and has never 
 left it since. In 1874 he married Mrs. Mary S. 
 Powers, the widow of Thaddeus, and the 
 daughter of C. J. Hills. She was born near 
 Pleasant Hill, Lane county, Ore., April 3, 1852, 
 her father being a native of Syracuse, N. Y., 
 who located first in Wisconsin and in 1847 
 crossed the plains to this state and became a 
 resident of Lane county, in the vicinity of Jas- 
 per station. Four children have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith of whom Lena is the wife 
 of James Taliafero, located on a part of this 
 farm ; Loretta and Charles B. are at home and 
 Pearl is deceased. Mr. Smith now owns three 
 hundred and seventeen acres of his father's do- 
 nation claim and a ranch of two hundred and 
 fifteen acres. He is engaged in carrying on 
 general farming and stock-raising. In politics 
 a Republican, he has served in various minor 
 offices in the interests of his party, for eleven 
 years acting as school director and for fourteen 
 as school clerk, delegate to the county conven- 
 tion once, and was road supervisor for two terms. 
 He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and was one of the organizers of the 
 Lane Countv Pioneer Society. 
 
 JOHN L. JOHNSON. A resident of Oregon 
 for more than a half century, John L. Johnson 
 has contributed no small share to the prosperity 
 which is now apparent on every hand in this 
 great and growing state. That the life history 
 of this worthy pioneer will be of interest to our 
 readers we have no doubt, for the residents of 
 Marion county are not unmindful of or ungrate- 
 ful to those who have laid the foundation of 
 success here, through their untiring and well 
 directed efforts. 
 
 Tazewell county, 111., is the birthplace of Mr. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Johnson, the date of his birth being November 
 15, 1830. His father, Neill Johnson, was a 
 native of North Carolina, born September 7, 
 1802. When a child his parents removed to 
 Kentucky, where they resided until he was a 
 young man, when they removed to Illinois, 
 making that state their home. In the latter 
 state Neill Johnson was married, in 1828, to 
 Esther Roelofson, a native of Kentucky, and 
 for twenty years, or until 1848, they remained 
 in Illinois. Mr. Johnson had taken up the work 
 of the ministry in early manhood, and the privi- 
 lege of preaching the gospel was to him a sacred 
 mission. In 1848 he brought his family to Henry 
 county, Iowa, residing there until 1851, at which 
 time they removed to Oregon, crossing the 
 plains with ox-teams, the journey consuming six 
 months. Although they lost some stock through 
 the depredations of the Indians, their lives were 
 not endangered, and they met with no serious 
 encounters. 
 
 Arriving in Marion county Mr. Johnson pur- 
 chased a squatter's claim about one mile south- 
 east of Woodburn, consisting of three hundred 
 and twenty acres of land, which is now owned 
 by P. L. Kennedy. The Johnson family resided 
 upon this place for about twelve years, when 
 they removed to east Oregon. Mr. Johnson fol- 
 lowed the ministry all his life, and was a man 
 of the deepest Christian spirit and principles, 
 whom nothing could shake from his firm faith 
 in the immortality of the soul and the divine 
 teachings of Christianity. He became prominent 
 in the upbuilding, morally and spiritually, of 
 eastern Oregon. As an indication of his high 
 standing among the people, he was elected pro- 
 bate judge of Baker county, the first who ever 
 sat upon the probate bench in that county. The 
 family remained in eastern Oregon until 1865, 
 when they removed to McMinnville, Yamhill 
 county, where the father passed away at the 
 age of eighty-seven, and the mother at the age 
 of sixty-six years. Twelve children were born 
 unto them, those surviving being as follows: 
 Mary A., the wife of B. F. Hall, of Woodburn; 
 Sarah, the wife of P. J. Jack, of Gresham, Ore ; 
 Anderson F., a resident of Multnomah county, 
 Ore. ; Joel H., of Portland ; and J. L., of this 
 review. The father of this family led a life of 
 usefulness to others. As pastor of the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church his efforts were untir- 
 ing in behalf of the spiritual welfare of his 
 flock. He established the first nursery in Ore- 
 gon, and was a Republican in his political affili- 
 ations. He was an intimate friend of Abraham 
 Lincoln. 
 
 J. L. Johnson spent the days of his boyhood 
 and youth at home, receiving his education in 
 the district schools. Upon reaching maturity 
 he was married to Viletta Kennedy, who was 
 
 born in Pike county, 111., in 1842, and in 1853 
 came with her parents to Oregon. After their 
 marriage Mr. and Mrs. Johnson took up their 
 home on part of an old donation claim, where 
 they resided for three years. At the end of 
 that time they settled in Grande Ronde valley, 
 making their home in this fertile region for three 
 years, when they returned to Marion county, and 
 lived in several places before finally settling 
 on their present place of abode two miles east of 
 Woodburn. Mr. Johnson's farm of fifty acres is 
 well cultivated, and is one of the best improved 
 farms of the neighborhood, owing all its improve- 
 ments to Mr. Johnson, who has made a specialty 
 of agriculture and well knows how to conduct 
 a farm in all its details. He has a fine five-acre 
 orchard planted in winter apples of the best 
 grade and quality to be produced. In politics 
 Mr. Johnson is a Republican, like his father. 
 He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, in which he has served as elder tor over 
 sixty years. By their marriage Mr. Johnson and 
 his wife became the parents of but one child, 
 Iona, now deceased. They have two adopted 
 children, Olive, now the wife of D. J. Wilcox, 
 of Palouse, Wash., and Florence, at home. 
 
 Mr. Johnson has ever been known as a man 
 who takes a deep and abiding interest in the wel- 
 fare of his community, and he has never missed 
 an opportunity to advance the interests of the 
 state in matters of education and moral and tem- 
 poral growth. He has served as justice of the 
 peace in Lane county, also as school clerk and 
 director and road supervisor. As a young man 
 he enlisted in 1856 in Company K, Washington 
 Territory Mounted Volunteers under the com- 
 mand of Captain Goff, serving under Governor 
 Stevens. He served for six months, being mus- 
 tered in at Portland, and was first sent to The 
 Dalles. He encountered no serious engagements, 
 and on being mustered out returned to his home, 
 where he resumed the peaceful vocation of his 
 youth, agriculture. 
 
 It is easy to read the character of the man, 
 through a long life spent in usefulness and in 
 doing what he has considered to be right and 
 just. It may seem a small thing to say of a 
 man, " Fie has always done his duty," but when 
 we remember that the path of duty is not always 
 the easiest one to tread, that there are tempta- 
 tions on everv hand to draw a man from the 
 straight and narrow way, we must admire and 
 honor those who have never faltered or turned 
 back but have kept persevering through all diffi- 
 culties. Such a man is J. L. Johnson, and his 
 name does credit to this record. 
 
 TOSEPH J. RYAN. In that • undulating 
 country known as Norfolk, England, washed 
 bv the North Sea, and containing an abundance 
 
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 1031 
 
 of game which renders it the huntsman's para- 
 dise, Joseph J. Ryan was born March 9, 1851, 
 and was reared on a farm for many years in the 
 possession of his English ancestors. On this 
 staid English farm, with the slight chances for 
 advancement it offered, owing to the peculiar 
 land laws prevailing in the country, the youth 
 dreamed of broader opportunities beyond the 
 borders of English supremacy. Accordingly, he 
 welcomed with delight the opportunity which 
 came when he was sixteen to engage as a seaman 
 on a merchant vessel plying between Liverpool 
 and London. Eventually he found his way on 
 board vessels engaged in trade with the Orient, 
 and in this capacity visited the ports of India 
 and China, even coming as far as Vancouver, 
 Wash. Four years he followed the uncertain 
 yet fascinating life upon the deep, and in 187 1 
 determined to henceforth identify his fortunes 
 with the land. The same year he found his way 
 to Oregon, and in Butteville engaged in a gen- 
 eral mercantile business from 1872 to 1876. In 
 1876 he settled upon a Marion county farm, and 
 after occupying it until 1883 returned to the 
 store, at the same time keeping the farm of two 
 hundred and eighty-two acres in his possession. 
 
 For twenty-seven years Mr. Ryan has been 
 identified with mercantile affairs in Butteville, 
 and to say that he is the arbiter in this line in the 
 town is no exaggeration. Besides conducting 
 his store he returns occasionally to his farm, 
 where he finds relaxation from business worries, 
 and which nets him a handsome income. Gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising have been engaged 
 in extensively, and formerly twenty acres were 
 devoted to hops, although at present there are 
 but ten acres. 
 
 December 24, 1.876, Mr. Ryan was united in 
 marriage with Mary Feller, daughter of Peter 
 Feller, one of the foremost pioneers of Marion 
 county. Mr. Feller was born March 6, 1822, 
 in Lorraine, then a French province, npw belong- 
 ing to Germany, and came to the United States 
 in 1847, landing after a twenty-six-days voy- 
 age in New Orleans, from which town he went 
 up the Mississippi river to Galena, 111. The 
 following year he married a sailing companion, 
 Annie Notum, also born in Lorraine, and of this 
 union there were born two children in the state 
 of Illinois. Mr. Feller came to Oregon alone in 
 1853, his object being to select a home for his 
 family more in keeping with his ambitions in the 
 new world. In 1857 he returned and brought 
 his wife and children to join him on a farm in 
 Marion county, where he spent the remainder of 
 his life, firm in the assurance of profound 
 esteem on the part of all with whom he was 
 associated in the west. Four children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Ryan : William, Josie, 
 James and Lizzie. Mr. Ryan is a Democrat in 
 
 politics, and is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. He is a broad-minded and enterpris- 
 ing citizen, and has contributed materially to the 
 upbuilding of this prosperous little town. 
 
 LORENZO HARVEY LASSELL. The 
 present mayor of Harrisburg, Lorenzo Harvey 
 Lassell, is numbered among the prominent and 
 influential citizens of the community, through the 
 many qualities which make him a useful factor 
 in the growth and upbuilding of the western 
 state. His position as mayor has been creditably 
 maintained for four years, previous to which he 
 served in the city council for many terms, using 
 his influence to advance the cause of the Repub- 
 lican party, of which he is a faithful adherent. 
 In addition to his connection with municipal 
 affairs Mr. Lassell has given substantial aid to 
 the advancement of the commercial interests 
 of the city through his connection with the mer- 
 cantile business of Harrisburg. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Lassell occurred in Platts- 
 burg, Clinton county, N. Y., April 28, 1838, 
 the son of Harris Lassell, a native of Vermont 
 who had settled as a young man in the Empire 
 state, where he engaged in getting out marble 
 slabs in Dekalb, St. Lawrence county. In 1832 
 he removed to Plattsburg, and there followed the 
 life of a saw-mill operator, until his last removal 
 in 1854, which left him a permanent resident 
 of Decatur, Green county, Wis., where he 
 engaged in farming until his death at the age 
 of eighty-two years. His wife was in maiden- 
 hood Lydia Fisk, a native of New Jersey, and 
 who became a resident of New York state 
 with her parents. She died in Wisconsin when 
 seventy-eight years old, the mother of three sons 
 and three daughters, of whom Lorenzo Harvey 
 Lassell is the fourth child. Mr. Lassell was 
 given every advantage in securing a good edu- 
 cation in his youth. After attending the com- 
 mon schools he took the preparatory course at 
 the college at Beloit, Wis., after which, in 1859, 
 he came to California with his brothers, Luther 
 and William, and with them he located at Placer- 
 ville and engaged in mining. Quite a number of 
 years following were spent in this line of work, 
 his success being sufficient to warrant a continu- 
 ance. He passed the winter of 1862 in Oregon, 
 and following this he located in the Boise Basin, 
 Idaho, engaging in mining, the winters of 1863- 
 64-65 being passed in Marion county. In the 
 last named year he made the trip back to Wis- 
 consin, and while in the middle west he visited 
 Kansas and later engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness in Iowa, in which he remained until 1889, 
 since which date he has been a resident of Ore- 
 gon. For the first six months he located in 
 Portland, after which he engaged until 1902 in 
 
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 the conduct of a sawmill at Harrisburg, in 
 which he owned a one-third interest. This mill 
 was burned and rebuilt in 1896. He shortly after 
 closed out his milling interests and purchased 
 with his sons the merchandise establishment in 
 Harrisburg. Mr. Lassell has met with entire 
 success in all his efforts and has accumulated 
 quite a large fortune, owning among other 
 pieces of property seven lots in the city of 
 Portland, and five at University Park. He has 
 also built a handsome residence in this city, well 
 located and commodious, the whole occupying 
 an entire block of twelve lots, and adding greatly 
 to the appearance of the town, and does credit 
 to the judgment of its prosperous owner. 
 
 Mr. Lassell was married in Wisconsin in June, 
 1874, to Emma Lyman, who was born near 
 Whitewater, that state. Her father was Dwight 
 Lyman, a native of New York, who after his 
 removal to Wisconsin became a farmer, and in 
 later years loaned the money which had been 
 the fruit of his years of earnest effort. He died 
 in Brodhead, Wis., in 1878. Of the three chil- 
 dren which blessed this union Lyman G., the 
 eldest and Robert B., the youngest, are connected 
 with the mercantile interests of their father. 
 The one daughter, Anna M., is now deceased. 
 In his fraternal relations Mr. Lassell is promi- 
 nent among the Masons belonging to Blue 
 Lodge, Royal Arch chapter and Knights Temp- 
 lars. 
 
 GREAR STORTS. During the year 1902 
 Grear Storts gathered forty thousand pounds of 
 hops from thirty acres of land, in addition to 
 which he derived a substantial income from var- 
 ious other products which mature upon his well 
 improved farm. Though not one of the very 
 large farms of Marion county, containing but 
 seventy-three acres, all of it has been placed 
 under cultivation, forty acres having been cleared 
 by the former owner. Located three and a half 
 miles east of Woodburn, and comprising a por- 
 tion of the Major Magoon donation claim, the 
 operation of this farm has brought prosperity to 
 Mr. Storts, who has reason to congratulate him- 
 self upon his wise choice of a home. 
 
 A native of Washington county, Ohio, Mr. 
 Storts was born March 2, 1847, and was reared 
 on the farm of his parents, both of whom came 
 from farmer stock, and devoted all of their 
 lives to this means of livelihood. As the Ohio 
 farm was not a large one, and as there were 
 ten children to feed and clothe, the children 
 were early taught to depend upon themselves, 
 and were thoroughly drilled in agriculture and 
 general business. Grear remained with his 
 parents until his twenty-fourth year, and then 
 made his wav to Nebraska, where he farmed in 
 
 Holt county, and where he married Emma Car- 
 penter, a native of Marietta, Ohio. Directly 
 after his marriage he took his wife to Marion 
 county, S. D., where they took up land, and 
 lived for about eight years. Not realizing their 
 expectations in the northern state they returned 
 to Nebraska and lived for eight years, and 
 in 1888 came to Oregon, settling in Clackamas 
 county. After four years they removed to the 
 present Stort's farm, to the improvement of 
 which the enterprising and practical owner is 
 devoting all .of his attention. Two interesting 
 children contribute to the happiness and hope of 
 their parents, Katie M. and Ray C. Mr. Storts 
 is a Democrat in politics, but has never shown 
 any inclination to enter the uncertain field of 
 official life. He is successful and popular, and 
 is appreciated for his honesty of purpose and 
 breadth of mind. 
 
 GEN. MARTIN VAN BUREN BROWN. 
 Nearly a quarter of a century has passed away 
 since the death of Gen. Martin Van Buren 
 Brown, but he is still remembered as one of the 
 men most closely identified with the early history 
 of Oregon. A strong, earnest and forceful per- 
 sonality was his, and it was through his ex- 
 cellent newspaper work that he impressed this 
 personality upon the growth of his adopted state 
 in the brief sixteen years which he passed within 
 her borders, and through his association with 
 the Oregon press that he is best remembered 
 and his efforts appreciated. Beyond the fact 
 that he was an able and forceful writer in his 
 chosen work, General Brown was a patriot and 
 faithful to the country which gave him citizen- 
 ship, responding to the first call of President 
 Lincoln in the time of the country's need and 
 serving until incapacitated, when he was honor- 
 ably discharged and returned to the work for 
 which he was eminently fitted. 
 
 In Winchester, Ind., March 15, 1843, occurred 
 the birth of Martin V. Brown, shortly after which 
 event his parents removed to Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 Early introduced to the practical duties of life, 
 as a lad of twelve years he was apprenticed to 
 learn the work of a printer, in the office of the 
 Oskaloosa Herald, remaining therewith for sev- 
 eral years. Desiring to broaden his education 
 with experience, he left Oskaloosa, and for some 
 time after was identified with various papers of 
 the middle west, among them being the St. Louis 
 Republican and Democrat, the Memphis Ava- 
 lanche, Louisville Courier and Quincy Whig. 
 It was after his return to the Oskaloosa Herald 
 that a call for volunteers was made by the pres- 
 ident, and, in company with many others of the 
 printing office force, this lad of eighteen enlisted 
 for service, his name appearing sixth upon the 
 
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 volunteer roll in Mahaska county. He became 
 a member of Company H. Third Iowa Regiment, 
 ami served in all the early Missouri campaigns 
 of the first year; after about nine months he 
 was honorably discharged from the army on 
 account of failing health. His father and two 
 brothers likewise enlisted for service in the Union 
 army and served faithfully until the* close of 
 the war or until removed by death. 
 
 Returning to Iowa, General Brown made that 
 his home for some time, after his recovery to 
 health becoming city editor and business man- 
 ager of the Albia Union, in which work he con- 
 tinued profitably for some time. After his mar- 
 riage. March 28. 1865, to Miss Henrietta Stew- 
 rrt. he started. May 2, for Oregon, in company 
 with the family of his father-in-law, Dr. W. Q. 
 Stewart, arriving at The Dalles October 2, of 
 the same year. During his first winter in the 
 west General Brown made his home in Port- 
 land, and, being an expert printer, he found no 
 difficulty in obtaining employment in that city, 
 being engaged on the Oregonian and various 
 ether papers until August of the following year, 
 when he went to Albany and was there associated 
 with M. H. Abbott, in the purchase and publi- 
 cation of the State Rights Democrat. Up to 
 within a few months of his death the work of 
 this paper continued to engross his attention, and 
 his able pen was ever wielded in the effort to 
 advance and elevate the civilization of the west, 
 and fulfill the law of duty. His death occurred 
 at the age of thirty-eight years, August 3, 1881, 
 passing away at Lower Soda Springs. Ore.. 
 from which place his body was conveyed to Al- 
 bany for interment. 
 
 In politics General Brown was a Democrat 
 and was always active in the work of promoting 
 the principles of his party, and as a strong man 
 of his party was often called upon to serve in 
 positions of trust and responsibility. He was 
 elected in 1874 state printer, and two years later 
 was made a delegate to the national Democratic 
 convention which nominated Samuel J. Tilden 
 for president, and was at one time chairman of 
 the Democratic state central committee. Com- 
 missioned by Governor Grover brigadier general 
 of the Oregon State Militia, he commanded the 
 troops in the campaign against the Bannock In- 
 dians in 1877, the settlers of Grant and Wasco 
 county having cause for grateful remembrance 
 of him for his efficient service. As a resident 
 of Albany he exerted every influence in his 
 power to promote the general welfare of the 
 citv and was universally recognized as a man 
 faithful to duty, earnest and energetic in the 
 discharge of the work which became his as a 
 public officer, and he was chosen at different 
 times to represent the interests of the city as 
 mavor. recorder and councilman. He was a 
 
 charter member of the old Albany Engine Com- 
 pany Xo. i, and for many years was its president, 
 his last term ending in June, 1881. Fraternally 
 he was identified with Corinthian Lodge No. 
 17. A. F. & A. M., was also a Royal Arch Mason 
 and a Knight Templar, and had united with 
 Willamette Lodge, A. O. U. W., soon after 
 its organization in Albany. The first named 
 order had charge of the funeral services of 
 General Brown, the imposing ceremonies being 
 conducted by Past Grand Commander R. ^ 
 Earhart. 
 
 WILLIAM W. WITHERS. In the faithful 
 discharge of his duty as sheriff of Lane county, 
 William W. AYithers was mortally wounded at 
 seven o'clock, Thursday evening,' February 5, 
 1903, his death following Saturday morning, at 
 half past eleven o'clock. In reply to a telegram 
 from the sheriff of Jackson county Mr. Withers 
 had gone to arrest L. E. Lyons," a horse-thief, 
 who had broken jail, and the man wanted dis- 
 charged his weapon and the shot took effect in 
 the windpipe of the sheriff. Mr. Withers was a 
 man universally respected and much beloved bv 
 those who knew him best, for the many noble 
 qualities which distinguished him. among his 
 associates, and though only forty-five years old 
 he had made for himself a record of worldly 
 success and moral triumph that numbered him 
 among the first men of the countv. 
 
 J. E. P. Withers, the father of William W., 
 and the pioneer of the family, was born in Jes- 
 samine county, Ky., of Scotch ancestry, and 
 early removed with his parents to Illinois, 
 locating near Springfield, where he was left 
 an orphan. He then went to Missouri and in 
 1 85 1 brought stock across the plains to Oregon, 
 first settling in Benton county, and later remov- 
 ing to Lookingglass valley, Douglas county. 
 There he engaged as a stockman, but remained 
 but a comparatively short time until locating 
 on a farm near Eugene, Lane county, here com- 
 bining his interests with agricultural pursuits. 
 He now makes his home on a farm near Thurs- 
 ton, Lane county. He served one term in the 
 state legislature. He married Margaret Gilles- 
 pie, a native of Missouri, and she is now living 
 at the age of sixty-eight years, while Mr. 
 Withers is seventy-two. The father of Mrs. 
 Withers was the Rev. Jacob Gillespie, a pioneer 
 of 1852, and a minister in the Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian Church, which he founded in Eugene. 
 With the practical ideas of the ministers of 
 early times he combined farming with his preach- 
 ing, thus making the support of a church an 
 easy matter for the people in moderate circum- 
 stances. He died in Eugene at the age of eightv- 
 
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 five years. Of the eight children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Withers, Mary is the eldest and is the 
 wife of William Van Duyn of Eugene ; Mabel is 
 the wife of A. G. Bogart, of Eugene; William 
 W., of this review, was born in Benton county, 
 Ore., January 31, 1858; Alice is the wife of 
 J. H. Hawley of Lane county ; Price is located 
 in Harney City, Ore. ; Anna is the wife of W. 
 T. Emery, of Coles valley, Douglas county ; 
 Emma is the wife of N. L. Cornelius, of Helena, 
 Mont. ; and Jessie is the wife of W. W. Edmis- 
 tbn, of Thurston, Ore. 
 
 William W. Withers was reared in Looking- 
 glass valley, Douglas county, and was still a 
 youth when his parents removed to Lane county. 
 His educational advantages consisted of the dis- 
 trict school and an attendance at the University 
 of Oregon, after which he engaged in farming 
 and stock-raising near Thurston, his last ranch, 
 located five miles east of Springfield, consisting 
 of seven hundred acres. In 1898 he was elected 
 sheriff of the county on the Democratic and 
 Populist ticket, his majority being but twenty- 
 five votes. That he met with the popular favor is 
 indicated by the fact that, at his re-election in 1900 
 his majority was eight hundred, and his election 
 to a third term was by a majority of one thous- 
 and and twenty-one. Earnest and conscientious 
 in his work, he carried his principles into public 
 offices, and, unlike many, kept them with him, and 
 applied them to his daily life. Upon his election 
 in 1898 he had removed with his family to 
 Eugene, there to assume the office. His remains 
 now rest in the Masonic cemetery, the highest 
 honors having been accorded him in burial as 
 a citizen. Fraternally he was a member of 
 Knights of the Maccabees ; Knights of Pythias ; 
 Woodmen of the World ; Elks, and Native Sons. 
 In his religious views he belonged to the Chris- 
 tian Church. 
 
 Mr. Withers was married, December 18, 1884, 
 to Miss Viola Comegys, who was born near 
 Springfield, Lane county, the daughter of Pres- 
 ley Comegys, a sketch of whose life appears 
 elsewhere. She was reared in this vicinity and 
 educated in the University of Oregon. The one 
 son born of their union is Frank. She still owns 
 and conducts the ranch which belonged to her 
 husband, and like him is a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church. 
 
 MATTHEW COOPER GILL. An early 
 settler and one who has been identified with much 
 of the progress of Scio, Linn county, is Matthew 
 Cooper Gill, who was born in Giles county, 
 Tenn.. January 23, 1842, the son of Samuel H. 
 and Millie (Usery) Gill. The parents _ were 
 both of southern birth, the father a native of 
 Tennessee and the mother of Georgia. In the 
 
 fall of 1856 the elder man located as a farmer 
 in Appanoose county, Iowa, and later settled in 
 Kansas, from which state, after the death of his 
 wife near New Albany, he removed to Missouri 
 with his children, and there remained until his 
 death at a ripe old age. 
 
 The fourth of six sons and six daughters which 
 were born in the family of his father, Matthew 
 Cooper Gill early acquired the self-reliance and 
 independence of the youth of those early days, 
 and after the completion of his education in the 
 common schools of Tennessee and a brief period 
 with his parents in the state of Iowa, he started 
 with ox-teams for the west. Six months of the 
 year 1864 was consumed in this journey, which 
 must certainly have left a strong impression on 
 the mind of Mr. Gill, on account of the various 
 dangers and hardships which he then experi- 
 enced, the principal difficulty being the Indians. 
 Near Deer Creek Station, on the Platte river, 
 they were attacked by the Indians, who succeeded 
 in stealing some of the stock, in the defense of 
 which three men were killed and Mr. Gill re- 
 ceived a wound in the arm from an arrow. On 
 his arrival in Oregon Mr. Gill located first on 
 Mill Creek, spending the winter there, and in 
 1865 he came direct to Scio, Linn county, and 
 has since been a resident of the town, with the 
 exception of two years which he spent in eastern 
 Washington for the benefit of his wife's health. 
 The blacksmith shop which he then bought 
 remained in his possession for twenty consecu- 
 tive years, and, with his trade of tinner, he was 
 able to build up a good business. That it was 
 lucrative is indicated by the fact that he was 
 justified in establishing a hardware business in 
 1889, which though small in the beginning, has 
 now grown to very remunerative proportions. 
 He nows owns his own home here, and though 
 having disposed of a half interest in the hard- 
 ware business, it is still retained in the family, 
 his son, William Franklin Gill, being the partner. 
 March 16, 1903, the Mercantile and Produce 
 Company of Oregon was incorporated with Mr. 
 Gill and his son as stockholders with houses at 
 Grant's Pass, Cottage Grove and Scio. 
 
 Mr. Gill was married in Linn county to Miss 
 Nancy Elizabeth Howell, who was born on 
 Howell Prairie, Ore., in 1848. She was the 
 daughter of William B. Howell, a pioneer of 
 1843, an d for whom the location of his daughter's 
 birth was named. The children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Gill are as follows : William Franklin, 
 who, in addition to his hardware interests, is 
 postmaster of Scio; Lillie May, the wife of 
 Ross Hibler, of Scio; Ralph W., also of Scio; 
 Roy R., of Portland, in the employ of Honey- 
 man Hardware Company; Grace A., a teacher 
 in the schools of Washington ; Archie Laflin, 
 deceased ; John G., a student in the Dental 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 School of Portland; Imogene, at home; Mary 
 and Mark, both deceased. Fraternally Mr. Gill 
 s a member of the blue lodge and chapter 
 of the Masonic order; Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. In religion he is a member of the 
 Christian Church, in which he officiates as an 
 elder. In addition to his business interests of 
 the city, Mr. Gill has always been active in the 
 municipal government, as a Republican serving 
 as mayor of the city for one term, as councilman 
 for many years, and as school director for one 
 term. He has always proven his interest in 
 public welfare by his disinterested and broad- 
 minded action, and as a man of integrity and 
 capability the community depends upon him to 
 help sustain the honor and prosperity of their 
 city. 
 
 JOSEPH R. KEEBLER. Now retired from 
 the active cares of life Joseph R. Keebler makes 
 his home in Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., near 
 which city over a quarter of a century of his life 
 has been passed, his energy, industry and perse- 
 verance given to an intelligent cultivation of the 
 soil. He came to Oregon in 1875 and has since 
 resided in this state, becoming a sturdy and trust- 
 worthy citizen of the western commonwealth, and 
 in connection with his accumulation of a compe- 
 tency he has fulfilled the duties that have come 
 to him as a member of the community in which 
 he made his home. 
 
 The Keebler family came originally from the 
 Middle Atlantic states, the grandfather, James, 
 having been born in Virginia, from which state 
 he removed to Tennessee, and died there while 
 engaged in farming. The father of Mr. Keebler, 
 another James, was born in Tennessee, and in 
 1849 ne crossed the plains with ox-teams, and 
 located in California, where he became connected 
 with a stage line between Sacramento and Placer- 
 ville, which was then called by the significant 
 name of Hangtown. He drove a stage for some 
 time over this route, his last trip being made 
 in the year 1852, when he drove in at the end 
 of the line and some time later was found dead 
 on a mound of hay near, cholera having claimed 
 him for its victim. His wife, formerly Katherine 
 Crouch, a native of east Tennessee, was again 
 married, after the death of her first husband, 
 and then removed to Illinois in 1856, from which 
 state she crossed to California in 1861. She 
 later made her home in Oregon, where her death 
 occurred. Her second husband, Allen Range, is 
 also deceased. 
 
 Of the two sons and one daughter born to his 
 parents, Joseph R. Keebler was the eldest, and 
 was born in east Tennessee. May 14, 1840, 
 where he lived until he reached the age of four- 
 
 teen years. During these years of childhood he 
 attended the common schools of his native state, 
 gleaning what little knowledge he could under 
 the adverse conditions of those early times. On 
 going to Illinois he found employment on a 
 farm until 1871, and at that date he crossed the 
 plains to California and located in Yolo county. 
 After four years spent as a farmer in that loca- 
 tion Mr. Keebler came north to Oregon, and 
 with the proceeds of his previous years of labor 
 he bought two hundred and fifty acres of land 
 one mile north of Lebanon, Linn county. Later 
 he parted with a portion of this purchase, and at 
 the present time owns but one hundred and 
 sixty acres, which he rents. In September, 1902, 
 he removed to Lebanon, and has since made this 
 his home. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Keebler occurred in Illi- 
 nois. Lucinda Melvin, a native of that state, 
 becoming his wife. Her death occurred in Ore- 
 gon. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Keebler, John Allen is now deceased ; James 
 V. is located upon the home farm ; Elbert E. 
 is also in this county ; Katie is the wife of S. 
 G. Keefhaver, of Linn county, Ore. ; William 
 Henry is deceased ; Anna is the wife of D. Hil- 
 dreth, living in this county; Bell is the wife of 
 Frank Lutz, of Linn county ; Myrtle is Mrs. 
 Frank Parrish. of Linn county ; Mary Narcissus 
 is deceased; Joseph Benjamin is located in this 
 county ; and T. E. is engaged in logging in 
 Washington. In his fraternal relations Mr. 
 Keebler is a master Mason, and also belongs to 
 the F. O. R. Politically he is a Democrat and 
 has served as road supervisor and school director. 
 
 ANDREW V. LANE. Although several 
 years have elapsed since Andrew V. Lane went 
 from the scenes of his activities in Lake county, 
 he is still recalled by those who survive him, 
 and who met him at the home, in the church, 
 or in public life, as the embodiment of virile 
 manhood. Born in Vermilion county, 111., De- 
 cember 5, 1852. Mr. Lane was a son of Horace 
 and Margaret (Earner) Lane, natives of Ohio. 
 The parents were married in the Buckeye state, 
 and from there removed at an early day to 
 Vermilion county. 111. The year after Andrew's 
 birth, in 1853, the parents crossed the plains, the 
 father taking up a donation claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres upon the present site of 
 Rowland Station. Here he succeeded fairly well 
 as a farmer and stockman, and reared his fam- 
 ily in comparative comfort, giving his children 
 such advantages as were in his power. His 
 wife dying in Colfax. Wash., in 1885, he con- 
 tinued for a time to live on the home farm ; 
 but his last days were spent at the. home of his 
 
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 daughter, Mrs. Joel Huston, where his death 
 occurred in October, 1896. 
 
 Andrew V. was the third of the children born 
 to his parents, and his youth was uneventfully 
 passed on the home farm. Although he at- 
 tended the public school with comparative regu- 
 larity, he learned more from observation than 
 books, and in later life especially, kept abreast 
 of the times, becoming a well informed man on 
 current events. In 1868 he left the home place 
 and went to Big Valley, Cal., where he engaged 
 in stock-raising until 1873, and then moved 
 to Silver Lake, Ore., and dealt in stock until 
 his death, which occurred December 13, 1896. 
 His wife, formerly Martha Small, was born 
 in Lane county, February 23, 1857, a daugh- 
 ter of George Small, the latter born in Ten- 
 nessee, January 6, 1802, and who died in 
 California, March 13, 1862. Mr. Small was a 
 farmer during his entire active life, and crossed 
 the plains with the emigrants of 1853, locating 
 in Lane county on three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land adjoining Cottage Grove. Here 
 he farmed until removing his family to Califor- 
 nia in i860. His wife, Malinda (Hinch) Small, 
 was born in Cape Girardeau county, Mo., Aug- 
 ust 25, 1813, and died at Cottage Grove, Ore., 
 March 13, 1893, leaving five children, of whom 
 Mrs. Lane is the youngest. 
 
 Mr. Lane was a very successful man, and at- 
 tained to great prominence in the community 
 which he adorned with his exemplary character 
 and well directed industry. He was a stock man 
 in every sense of the word, and understood more 
 about his occupation than the average man thus 
 interested. He was a Democrat in politics, and 
 though never seeking office, consented to fill un- 
 important local offices, as well as that of com- 
 missioner of Lake county for six years, or from 
 1890 to 1896. After his death his widow con- 
 tinued to live on the old place until 1899, and 
 then moved onto her present farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, four and a half miles east 
 of Harrisburg. She is the owner of a stock 
 ranch of seventeen hundred acres in Lake 
 county, the proceeds from which net her a hand- 
 some yearly income. In her general farming in- 
 dustry she is assisted by her second son, William 
 G, her oldest son James H., residing in Salem; 
 while her youngest daughter, Bernice, is also liv- 
 ing at home. 
 
 FRANKLIN A. LINK. An industrious and 
 well-to-do agriculturist of Polk county, Frank- 
 lin A. Link is proprietor of a fine homestead, 
 located two and one-half miles southwest of 
 Lewisville, which in regard to its appointments 
 and improvements compares favorably with any 
 in the neighborhood. The neatness and orderly 
 
 appearance of the property manifest to the most 
 casual observer, the thrift and care of the owner, 
 all show conclusively that he has a thorough 
 knowledge of his business and exercises good 
 judgment in its management. A German by 
 birth, he was born in Bavaria, October 23, 1832. 
 on the paternal side being of French extraction, 
 his Grandfather Link, who came into Germany 
 during the reign of Napoleon, having at that 
 time changed his original name of De Linn to 
 Link to avoid trouble with the French. 
 
 George Link, father of Franklin A., was born 
 in Bavaria, Germany, in 1798, and while living 
 in the fatherland was extensively engaged in 
 farming. Emigrating to America in 1846 with 
 his family, he had a stormy voyage of fifty-two 
 days before reaching New York. Locating first 
 in Wheeling, W. Va., he lived there two years, 
 then spent eight years on a farm in Washington 
 county, Pa. Removing to Iowa in 1856, he pur- 
 chased land in Dubuque county, and was there 
 successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until his death, in November, 1878. He was a 
 skilfuJ farmer, a trustworthy citizen, and a man 
 of strict integrity, in every way worthy of the 
 respect accorded him by his neighbors and 
 friends. He married Mary A. Linbach, who 
 was born in the Rhine valley, Germany, and 
 died, in July, 1878, in Dubuque county, Iowa, 
 aged seventy-three years, her birth having oc- 
 curred in 1805. Of their family of three sons 
 and two daughters, Franklin A., the subject of 
 this sketch, was the third child. 
 
 Acquiring his early education in Germany, 
 Franklin A. Link came to this country with his 
 parents in 1846, and a few years later studied 
 for three months at an academy in Pennsylvania. 
 While living in Wheeling, W. Va., he served an 
 apprenticeship of two and one-half years at the 
 tailor's trade, afterwards going to Pennsylvania, 
 where he assisted his father in farming until 
 1856. In June of that year, he emigrated to 
 Ohio, and for ten years was engaged in farm 
 work in Belmont county, in the meantime taking 
 unto himself a wife. Removing with his family 
 to Missouri in 1866, he carried on general farm- 
 ing in Bates county ten years. Following the 
 march of civilization westward, he came to 
 Oregon in 1876, settling with his family in Polk 
 county. Renting the farm of Benjamin Hayden, 
 in Independence, he managed it for seven years, 
 subsequently renting the farm of Pierce Riggs for 
 nine years. In 1891 Mr. Link purchased his 
 present farm of five hundred and fifteen acres. 
 lying about two and one-half miles southwest of 
 Lewisville, and, moving on it in 1896, has since 
 resided here. He has made various and substan- 
 tial improvements on the place, and is exten- 
 sively engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising. He makes a specialty of breeding and 
 
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 raising goats and sheep, having thoroughbred, 
 registered Angora goats, keeping about one hun- 
 dred and forty in his herd, and has an equally 
 large herd of Cotswold sheep. 
 
 In Washington county, Pa., in 1856, Mr. Link 
 married Margaret Craig, who was born in that 
 count) . She died in Harrison county, Ohio, in 
 1802, leaving two sons, Harrington R., deceased, 
 and "George C, of Allegheny county, Pa. Mr. 
 Link married again in 1864, Mary L. Frazier, who 
 was born in Belmont count}', Ohio, in March, 
 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Link are the parents of 
 five children, namely: Margaret, wife of Man- 
 ley Martin, of Independence. Ore. ; Mary E., 
 living at home; Lizzie M., a twin sister of Mary 
 E., is. the wife of Andrew Hannam, who lives 
 near Pedee, Ore. ; Homer, at home ; and Nellie, 
 at home. In his political views Mr. Link is 
 independent, using his own best judgment in 
 casting his ballot, instead of blindly following 
 any political leader, or giving an unqualified ad- 
 herence to any part}-. While living in Ohio, 
 Missouri and Oregon, he was road supervisor, 
 serving in that capacity twelve years in all, and 
 since 1896 has been school clerk in District No: 
 39. Fraternally he belongs to Independence 
 Lodge. A. F. & A. M. 
 
 JEDEDIAH WHEELER. When his day's 
 work is over and he sits down to enjoy the peace 
 and happiness of his home, the reflections of 
 Jedediah Wheeler must be tinged with satisfac- 
 tion. The prominence which is his in Lane 
 county is of the solid and well founded kind, 
 painstakingly and laboriously acquired, as is also 
 the competence which placed him among the 
 financial successes of his neighborhood. The 
 boy wrestling with limitations might well draw 
 encouragement from the upward path of this 
 honored pioneer, for his life-story is that of the 
 poor boy who had to look within rather than 
 without for his help in time of need. His father 
 <lying when he was two years old, his mother 
 joined the great majority when he was twenty, 
 and the home in Illinois, where he was born 
 January 30, 1832. was thus sadly uprooted, the 
 five children being thrown upon their own re- 
 sources, the subject of this review being the 
 youngest. 
 
 Beginning with his tenth year, Mr. Wheeler 
 found employment in a house as a servant in 
 Illinois, and when he was fifteen he made his 
 way to within fifty miles east of St. Louis, 
 where he worked in a sawmilling and logging 
 camp and a grist mill. This occupation opened 
 up a possibility in a tavern, to the management 
 of which he finally succeeded, and in 1850 he 
 started in to serve an apprenticeship to a car- 
 penter and cabinetmaker. To his youthful mind, 
 
 to master a trade was the personification of in- 
 dependence, and with this feeling of certainty 
 regarding the future, he crossed the . plains in 
 
 1853 as a driver of an ox-team, spending about 
 six months on the way. In the Sacramento 'val- 
 ley he made his living at teaming for a few 
 months during the winter, and in the spring of 
 
 1854 went to the mines, where he labored for a 
 time with alternate success and failure. Having 
 heard of the possibilities of Oregon, and not 
 having made a success of his mining venture, 
 and desiring to reach that state, he walked the 
 entire distance of three hundred and fifty miles. 
 In Eugene he worked at his trade as carpenter 
 for about five years. In 1859 he was united in 
 marriage with Amanda E. Walker, a native 
 daughter of Oregon, with whom he established 
 a home, purchased with his earnings as a car- 
 penter. In 1864 he disposed of his city property 
 for a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 twelve miles east of Eugene, which comprised 
 the whole of the Pingree donation claim, where 
 he lived a couple of years and then sold it. 
 Again in Eugene, he started and conducted a 
 tinshop for a year, and then bought a farm of 
 three hundred and twenty acres on the Coast 
 Fork, where he lived until 1889. Following his 
 farming experience, Mr. Wheeler settled in 
 Pleasant Hill and engaged in a general mer- 
 chandise business for ten years, identifying him- 
 self with political and other means of advance- 
 ment and becoming an important factor in busi- 
 ness circles. The old appreciation of farming 
 and the quiet and peace of country life re-assert- 
 ing itself, he disposed of his store in 1899 and 
 bought the one hundred and fourteen acres of 
 land on Pleasant Hill which is now his home, 
 and where he is engaged in general farming. 
 
 Since young manhood a Whig, and later a 
 supporter of the Republican party, Mr. Wheeler 
 has been variously honored by his fellow-towns- 
 men at different stages of his career, having 
 served with equal satisfaction as postmaster, 
 deputy sheriff, constable of Eugene, and for 
 many years school director. His first wife dying 
 in 1880, he married the following year Elizabeth 
 Davis, a native of Indiana. By the first mar- 
 riage there were eight children, of whom five 
 survive, Allie E., Halvor C. and William L., liv- 
 ing in the vicinity of Pleasant Hill, while Les- 
 ter A. is a resident of California, and Walter B. 
 lives in Coburg. Emma J. married Edgar C. 
 Baxter, both now deceased. During his lifetime 
 Mr. Wheeler has laid up a store of useful and 
 interesting information, has cultivated the graces 
 of honesty and fair dealing, and has made many 
 true and tried friends in the places which he 
 has called home. Mr. Wheeler and his family 
 are members of the Christian Church at Pleas- 
 ant Hill. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 WILLIAM FIRMAN HENDRICSON, a re- 
 tired agriculturist of Albany, has spent a long 
 and busy life, actively engaged the greater part 
 of the time in tilling the soil. Emigrating from 
 Pleasant Grove, Iowa, in 1845, he took up land 
 near Albany, where he had much pioneer work to 
 perform, contributing his part, toward the de- 
 velopment of this fine agricultural region. When 
 he came to Oregon the red man roamed the coun- 
 try at will, wild animals were plentiful, not in- 
 frequently making their appearance near the hum- 
 ble cabins of the newcomers. There being no 
 near-by markets the family provisions were usu- 
 ally supplied from the products of the land, or 
 obtained by gun or rod. In the wonderful and 
 rapid changes of conditions that have since taken 
 place he has been a gratified observer and partici- 
 pant. 
 
 A son of John Henricson, he was born January 
 26, 1824, in Lewis county, Ky., a descendant of 
 English ancestry, his paternal grandfather, Daniel 
 Hendricson, having been born in England, al- 
 though he died in Kentucky, on a homestead 
 which he had cleared from the wilderness. John 
 Hendricson, a life-long farmer of Kentucky, died 
 in 1824, and his wife, whose maiden name was 
 Agnes Wilson, died eight years later. 
 
 Knowing nothing of a father's care, and be- 
 ing left motherless when but eight years of age, 
 W. F. Hendricson had a lonely childhood. At 
 the age of twelve years he left his old Kentucky 
 home, going to Rush county, Ind., and later to 
 Yorktown, Ind. In 1840 he removed to Pleasant 
 Grove, Iowa, and five years later drove across 
 the plains to Oregon, coming with the Hackle- 
 man train of ox-teams by way of the Tualitin 
 plains. He took up land on the Santiam river, 
 and soon after, in 1847, returned to Iowa, cross- 
 ing the plains with pack animals, calculating to 
 return to Oregon early in 1848, but failing to do 
 this he lost his claim. In 1850 he made another 
 journey across the plains with ox-teams, locating 
 in California, where he was engaged in mining 
 for a year. Returning then to Iowa by way of 
 the Isthmus, Mr. Hendricson staid but a short 
 time, when, in 1852, he started with his family 
 and all his worldly effects for Oregon, coming via 
 the Barlow route ; with ox-teams, and being from 
 March until August 9, en route. Taking up a 
 donation claim six miles south of Albany, he 
 cleared a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 adding substantial improvements, and was there 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising 
 until 1887. He met with most satisfactory re- 
 sults from his labors, his industrious toil bringing 
 him good returns. Renting his farm, he has 
 since resided in Albany, where he is held in high 
 respect as a man of honest integrity and worth. 
 
 Mr. Hendricson married first, in Iowa, in 1848, 
 Sarah Jackson, who .was born in Rushville, Ind., 
 
 January 29, 1827, a daughter of Omar Jackson, 
 a native of 'Virginia, who was first engaged as a 
 tiller of the soil in Indiana, and afterwards in 
 Iowa. Mrs. Hendricson died at Albany, Ore., 
 October 23, 1891. She was a woman of ex- 
 emplary character, widely known and esteemed, 
 and a member of the Christian Church. Seven 
 children were born of their union, namely : Leona, 
 the wife of John Huston, of Albany ; Lavinia, 
 who died in Albany ; Morvin, residing in Ore- 
 gon, near The Dalles ; Omar P., who was deputy 
 sheriff at Colfax, Wash. ; Mary, who became 
 Mrs. Bellshaw, living in St. Paul ; Frank, who 
 died in Albanv ; and Willie, a painter in Lebanon, 
 Ore. 
 
 On July 18, 1893, Mr. Hendricson married Mrs. 
 Mary E. Fronk, who was born in Goshen, Orange 
 county, N. Y.,a daughter of Alexander S. Brown, 
 and granddaughter of Thomas Brown. Alex- 
 ander S. Brown, who spent his earlier life in 
 Orange county, N. Y., was a shoe dealer first 
 in Goshen, and then in Mechanicstown. In 1845 
 he removed to Elkhorn, Wis., where he continued 
 his former business. He was elected judge of 
 the county court of Walworth county and served 
 for a few years. In 1853, accompanied by his 
 wife and four children, he came across the plains 
 to California, Mrs. Hendricson, then a girl of 
 fourteen years, driving one of the ox-teams dur- 
 ing the trip of six months. Settling in Yuba 
 City, he was engaged in the hotel business there 
 a year, then purchased a ranch in Sutter county, 
 on which he resided until his death, at the age 
 of seventy-eight years. His wife, whose maiden 
 name was Mary Brundage, was born in Orange 
 county, N. Y., a daughter of Gilbert Brundage, 
 and died in 1859, in Sutter county, Cal., aged 
 fifty-nine years. Of the four children, two sons 
 and two daughters, born of their marriage, 
 Mary E., now Mrs. Hendricson, is the only sur- 
 vivor. Mary E. Brown was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Wisconsin and California. In 1853 
 she married, at Yuba City, Cal., John M. Fronk, 
 a native of Vincennes, Ind. As a young man, 
 Mr. Fronk was a boatman on the Ohio river. 
 Emigrating to California in 1850, he established 
 a ferry across the Feather river. In 1871 he 
 took charge of Love's Hotel, in Portland, Ore., 
 and managed it six months. He subsequently 
 conducted the St. Charles Hotel in Albany, Ore., 
 for a time, and went afterwards to Eugene, Ore., 
 where he conducted the St. Charles Hotel until 
 1884, then engaged in farming in Lane county 
 for a few years. Returning from there to Eugene, 
 he resided there until his death, November 30, 
 1890, at the age of sixty-four years and ten 
 months. He was a Republican in politics, a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and had 
 taken the Knight Templar degree of Masonry. 
 Of the nine children born of the union of Mr. 
 
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 and Mrs. Fronk, four grew to years of maturity, 
 namely : C. K. Fronk, agent of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad Company at Albany; Margaret, 
 wife of Alan J. Goodman, of Independence, Ore.; 
 Henry E.. of Albany; and Edwin A., who is in 
 the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company. 
 
 Mrs. Hendncson is a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hendricson is a 
 member, and one of the deacons, of the Chris- 
 tian Church. Politically he is an uncompromis- 
 ing Republican. 
 
 THOMAS FRANKLIN MILLER. The 
 successful sheep-raisers in Linn county include 
 Thomas Franklin Miller, who owns considerable 
 valuable property in Lebanon, and has a ranch 
 of one hundred acres one mile south of the town. 
 Mr. Miller comes of an old southern family rep- 
 resented for many years in Virginia, where he 
 was born in Rockingham county, June 21, 1835. 
 His father, Thomas Miller, and his mother, Anna 
 (Spotts) Miller, were also natives of Virginia. 
 Thomas Miller was the only child born to his 
 parents. He located in Saline county, Mo., in 
 1839, and while living on a tract of land com- 
 prising seven hundred acres, engaged in brick- 
 making quite extensively. He was a very suc- 
 cessful man, prominent and influential, and left 
 a valuable property to his heirs at the time of 
 his death in December, 1870, at the age of sixty- 
 nine years. His wife survived him and died in 
 Waverly. Mo., leaving two sons and three daugh- 
 ters, of whom Thomas F. is the youngest. 
 
 At the time of his father's death Thomas F. 
 Miller assumed entire management of the large 
 Missouri farm which had been willed him by 
 his sire, and retained possession of it until 1880. 
 He then came to Oregon and located near Scio, 
 where he bought two hundred and seventy acres 
 of land, remaining there until disposing of it in 
 1899. His next purchase was a farm of one 
 hundred and eighty-six acres two and a half 
 miles south of Lebanon, which he sold in 1902, 
 and took up his residence in the town. His home 
 property consists of five acres, under a high state 
 of cultivation, and he has an attractive cottage, 
 surrounded by shrubs, trees and flowering plants. 
 On his farm of one hundred acres a mile from 
 town he is extensively engaged in raising sheep, 
 making a specialty of the Cotswold breed, many 
 of his animals being registered. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Miller occurred in 
 Missouri, and was with Sarah E. Yager, who 
 was born in Missouri, and died there, leaving 
 three children : Ella, the wife of L. J. Wiltfong 
 of Washington; L. Edwin, a resident of Scio; 
 and Cora, the wife of Grant Hawley of Grass 
 \ alley, eastern Oregon, For a second wife he 
 
 married a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, 
 born near Zanesville, May 18, 1847. Riley Brat- 
 •ton, the father of Mrs. Miller, was of Scotch 
 ancestry, and was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, 
 He crossed the plains to California in the spring 
 of 1850, but returned and settled with his family 
 in Iowa in 185 1, taking up a homestead near 
 Oskaloosa, whence he moved to Linn county, 
 near Brownsville, in 1867. Mr. Bratton was a 
 farmer and a potter by trade, and came to Ore- 
 gon in 1 88 1, living for a time with his son-in-law, 
 but eventually settling on a homestead in west- 
 ern Oregon, where he died at the age of seventy- 
 two years. Of the four children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Miller, Howard lives in Franklin 
 county, Wash., and Roland is at home, Walter 
 E. and Lester being deceased. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. Miller has held 
 a number of offices in the places where he has 
 lived, principally in eastern Oregon and Mis- 
 souri, in both of which places he served as 
 notary public, road supervisor and school di- 
 rector. He is a member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, having earned the right thereto 
 by a service of three years and one month in the 
 Civil war. for which he enlisted in Company F, 
 Seventh Regular Cavalry, serving in the western 
 department under Col. John F. Phillips, of Kan- 
 sas City. For injuries sustained while in the 
 service Mr. Miller draws a pension. He is a 
 whole-souled and generous man, agreeable to 
 meet, sincere and loyal to friends and trusts im- 
 posed, and of unquestioned integrity. 
 
 JOSEPH ERBSLAND. The vicinity of 
 Aurora is well adapted for general farming, 
 hop-growing and other agricultural pursuits, 
 and to those who assiduously apply themselves 
 to this vocation, success is assured. One of the 
 most prosperous men in this line of activity is 
 Joseph Erbsland, who has a fine farm near 
 Aurora, devoted to the above named industries. 
 To say that Mr. Erbsland's farm is well con- 
 ducted, improved and cultivated is but simple 
 truth. The progressive owner has brought 
 about this state of affairs through his own in- 
 dustry and enterprise. 
 
 The history of Joseph Erbsland does not differ 
 in many respects from that of the most of our 
 substantial western men. who. born in eastern 
 and central states, seek homes farther away from 
 the close touch of civilization, knowing that the 
 tide of empire westward winds its wav, and 
 that the best chances are for the one who ar- 
 rives first. Mr. Erbsland is a native of Indiana, 
 having been born in Jennings county, that state, 
 near North Vernon, October n, 1850. receiving 
 his education in the common schools of the 
 neighborhood and living upon a farm, thus be- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 coming acquainted in early youth with the work 
 of tilling the soil. At the age of nineteen he 
 began working at the stone cutter's trade, fol-. 
 lowing this occupation until 1887, when he came 
 to Oregon and began working on a farm in 
 Marion county. He saved enough to purchase a 
 farm of his own, which he did soon after his mar- 
 riage in January, 1890, with Miss Louisa Beck, 
 a daughter of Charles Beck. On the home farm 
 Mr. Erbsland has made improvements which 
 render it very valuable and make it one of the at- 
 tractive and prosperous-looking places of the vi- 
 cinity. He has seven acres planted in hops, and 
 the raising of this herb proves a great source of 
 income. There are few farms in Marion county 
 that yield a better return for the care and labor 
 bestowed upon them than does that of M'r. 
 Erbsland, and he may well look upon his fields 
 with pride, knowing that through his well di- 
 rected efforts has come the success which he en- 
 joys. Fraternally he is a member of Aurora 
 Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 while in politics he affiliates with the Democracy. 
 A consistent and earnest member of the Luth- 
 eran church, Mr. Erbsland in his own life fol- 
 lows the teachings of his religion. He is a sub- 
 stantial, well balanced and thoroughly up-to- 
 date, plain, every-day farmer, one who does 
 credit to his county and who has the good will 
 of all who know him. 
 
 HON. J. A. RICHARDSON, M. D., the 
 oldest practicing physician of Salem, and for- 
 mer member of the state legislature, was born 
 in Adams county, 111., November 15, 1840, and 
 is of English and Scotch-Irish descent. His 
 paternal grandfather, George, a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, came to Illinois in 1793, settling at 
 Kaskaskia, the first capital of Illinois territory. 
 He was a trapper, hunter and Indian fighter, 
 and is believed to have served in the Revolution- 
 ary war. At any rate, he took an active part in 
 scattering the Indian forces around Kaskaskia 
 directly after the war of Independence, and was 
 present at Horner's defeat. He served also in 
 the war of 1812, and soon after settled on the 
 American bottoms, five miles from East St. 
 Louis. Here he farmed for many years, but was 
 finally drowned, while trying to ford a stream 
 in Greene county, 111. John Belcher, who came 
 with the Lewis and Clark expedition as far as the 
 Mandan country and in the following spring 
 was returned to St. Louis with dispatches and a 
 report of the expedition to that point, and who 
 was killed at the battle of the Narrows, near 
 the present site of Quincy, 111., during the war 
 of 1812, was a cousin of Dr. Richardson's father, 
 John G. Richardson, and held a lieutenant's 
 
 commission in the army at the time of his 
 death. 
 
 John G. Richardson, the father of the doctor, 
 was born on his father's farm near East St. 
 Louis, and he, also, served in the war of 1812. 
 Soon afterward he removed to Greene county, 
 111., and from there to Adams county, and in 
 1 85 1 brought his wife and children to Oregon, 
 settling on a donation claim near Scio, Linn 
 county, where he died in 1871. He married 
 Orpha Thompson, who was born in South Caro- 
 lina, and who removed as a child with her pa- 
 rents to Illinois. Mrs. Richardson, who died in 
 1866, was the mother of nine sons and one 
 daughter, the order of their birth being as fol- 
 lows : Thomas J., who came to Oregon in 1853 
 and died at Jefferson ; William Winston, who 
 came west in 1851 and died in Scio, in 1901 ; 
 George W., who also came west in 185 1 and who 
 died in Salem, in 1883; Lewis Clark, who came 
 to Oregon in 1847 an( i died in 1869; Elijah T., 
 who came to California in 1849, t0 Oregon in 
 1856, and is now living in Spokane, Wash.; 
 Obediah W., who came to California in 1849, to 
 Oregon in 1858, and lives at present in Sherman 
 county, Ore.; John W., who came west in 1851 
 and is near Scio; Andrew J., a pioneer of 1851, 
 and now living at Stayton, Ore. ; James Asher, 
 the subject of this sketch; and Rebecca, who 
 married James Enos and died near Scio, in 1881. 
 
 Although but ten years of age when he came 
 with his family to Oregon Dr. Richardson vivid- 
 ly recalls the many incidents which enlivened 
 the long journey across the plains. Much of his 
 time was devoted to helping to drive the loose 
 horses and cows. They crossed the Missouri 
 river at Council Bluffs, but owing to the swollen 
 condition of the Elkhorn river they were de- 
 tained for over a month. At Goose creek, near 
 the Snake river, they were attacked by Indians. 
 The fight lasted until after dark and was re- 
 sumed in the morning. About ten o'clock they 
 succeeded in making their escape through front 
 and rear guards, taking with them their wagons, 
 twenty-one in number. The train came down the 
 Columbia river in a body, and the Richardsons 
 settled on their claim in the fall of 185 1. The 
 doctor was educated in the district schools near 
 his father's claim, at Bethel College, in Polk 
 county, then the leading college in the state, and 
 Lebanon Academy, which he attended for a year. 
 For several years he engaged in educational work 
 and during a part of that time studied medicine 
 under the direction of Dr. Ballard, of Lebanon. 
 In 1864 he entered the Toland Medical College, 
 of San Francisco, now the medical department 
 of the University of the Pacific, and after grad- 
 uating in 1866 engaged in practice at Amity, 
 Yamhill county, Ore., for about a year. There- 
 after he lived "and practiced in McMinnville, and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 in 1S69 entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical 
 College, of New York City, from which he was 
 graduated in 1870. The same year he returned 
 to Oregon and located in Salem, where he prac- 
 ticed successfully until going to The Dalles, in 
 \$jq. In 1887 he took a post-graduate course in 
 the New York Post-Graduate School, returning 
 then to Salem, which has since been his home. 
 The doctor has never allowed himself to get be- 
 hind the times in his profession, in proof of 
 which he returned to New York City in 1895 for 
 an additional post-graduate course. 
 
 Aside from a general medical and surgical 
 practice Dr. Richardson has filled many posi- 
 tions of trust and responsibility in the commun- 
 ity. As early as 1872 he became identified with 
 the medical department of the Willamette Uni- 
 versity, filling the chairs of obstetrics, diseases 
 of women, hygiene and materia medica up to the 
 time when the school was removed to Portland. 
 When the school was again located in Salem 
 he was appointed to the chair of diseases of 
 children. For about twelve years he served as 
 a member of the pension board ; has been con- 
 nected professionally with the Oregon Insane 
 Asylum for three years ; with the Oregon State 
 Penitentiary ; with the Oregon Reform School 
 for nine years ; as well as with the Blind and Deaf 
 schools. He is a member of the County Medi- 
 cal Society, a charter member of the State Med- 
 ical Society, of the Historical Society and the 
 Pioneer Association. 
 
 Much of Dr. Richardson's prominence is due 
 to his exceptional political service, he being a 
 stanch exponent of Republicanism, and at all 
 times incorruptible and broad-minded when in 
 office. He was a member of the state senate from 
 1872 to 1876, was mayor of Salem for one term, 
 and is an ex-member of the state central com- 
 mittee and the county committee. Fraternally 
 he is one of the best known men of the county, 
 being formerly identified with Amity Lodge No. 
 20, A. F. & A. M., of Amity ; Union Lodge No. 
 46, of which he was master ; Pacific Lodge of 
 Salem, of which he was master ; and Wasco 
 Lodge at The Dalles, of which he is past master. 
 He is also associated with The Dalles Chapter, 
 R. A. M., of which he was high priest for one 
 term ; De Molay Commandery No. 5 ; Oregon 
 Consistory No. 1 ; the Eastern Star, of which 
 he organized the Second Chapter in Oregon at 
 McMinnville. 
 
 In Salem, Ore., Dr. Richardson married Fannie 
 Boyd, who was born in Yamhill county, Ore., in 
 1852, the daughter of John and Lodowiska 
 (Adams) Boyd, her parents having arrived in 
 the state in the early forties. Two children have 
 been born to the doctor and his wife, of whom 
 Frankie is a graduate of the law department of 
 Willamette Yallev ; and Bovd is a graduate of 
 
 the medical department of the same university, 
 and is now with the hospital staff in Manila. Dr. 
 Richardson is a splendid example of the sub- 
 stantial and well balanced physician who is also 
 the man of affairs, and vitally interested in the 
 moving world around him. To no one in the 
 county is the medical profession more indebted 
 for the maintenance of sound and practical the- 
 ories, or for that spirit of humanity, tolerance 
 and kindliness which the world at large has come 
 to associate with its foremost disciples of yEscu- 
 lapius. 
 
 JAMES W. MILLER. The prosperous 
 owner of four hundred and seventeen acres, one 
 hundred and sixty of which comprise a part of 
 the old donation claim taken up by his father in 
 October, 1850, James W. Miller is one of the 
 enterprising farmers of Linn county, now en- 
 gaging in general farming and stock-raising, 
 meeting with the returns which follow persever- 
 ing and intelligent industry. Through the efforts 
 of himself and a family of exceptional ability 
 Mr. Miller has contributed in no small measure 
 to the growth of this part of the Willamette 
 valley in which he makes his home, his position 
 of prominence being the result of praiseworthy 
 ambition along the lines of state advancement. 
 
 James W. Miller was born in Bridgeport, 
 Nova Scotia, August 17, 1833, the son of Mal- 
 colm Miller, for a fuller account of whose life 
 refer to the sketch of Gabriel Miller, which ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this work. When ten years 
 old he removed with his parents to Pennsylvania, 
 and after seven years' residence in that state, the 
 family crossed the plains in the spring of 1850, 
 landing in Linn county safely after the long and 
 trying journey. In December, 1851, he went 
 with his father and brothers George and An- 
 drew to California with pack animals, and there 
 worked in the mines for the ensuing winter. In 
 the fall following this he began to conduct a 
 pack-train from Portland to the Yreka mines, at 
 which work he continued until the spring of 
 1853, when he went to the Coos Bay country and 
 there opened up cove mines. He afterward be- 
 gan buying and selling cattle, which he drove 
 through from Linn county into southern Ore- 
 gon and California, reaping returns that justified 
 a continuance in the work until 1859. Still inter- 
 ested in mining Mr. Miller went in 1862 to the 
 Salmon river mines in Idaho, but after a few 
 months he returned to Linn county, and has since 
 that time devoted his energies entirely to farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Miller occurred Janu- 
 ary 25, 1874, and united him with Mrs. Rosa A. 
 Baker, a daughter of Peter S. Brenner, who 
 came to Oregon in 1853 from La Fayette, Ind., 
 
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 and bought Dr. Warren's right to a donation 
 claim near Scio, where he died in 1899. The 
 children of this union are as follows : Malcolm 
 B., located on an adjoining farm; J. W., Jr., who, 
 after securing an education in Monmouth, has 
 devoted his talents to instruction in the school 
 room for the past six years ; Kate B., also edu- 
 cated in that city, has become a teacher ; Rosa 
 L., also a teacher; and Nona P. Mr. Miller 
 is a member of the Presbyterian Church, re- 
 ligiously, and though not a politician, in his pub- 
 lic life he has always demonstrated his willing- 
 ness to aid in the government of the community 
 to the best of his ability by serving in various 
 offices. 
 
 HON. SYLVESTER PENNOYER. One of 
 the most forceful and earnest men to be named 
 in connection with the early history of Oregon 
 is the Hon. Sylvester Pennoyer, whose term of 
 office as governor of the state was characteristic 
 of the qualities which distinguished this pioneer. 
 He was born in Groton, Tompkins county, N. Y., 
 July 6, 1831, the son of Justus Powers and Eliza- 
 beth (Howland) Pennoyer, both of whom were 
 representatives of fine eastern families which 
 transmitted to their descendants the good charac- 
 teristics of natives of several European countries. 
 Justus Powers Pennoyer was one of the largest 
 farmers in Groton and one of the foremost men 
 of the town in all public enterprises, and at one 
 time he represented his county in the New York 
 assembly, though he was not at all a politician in 
 the common acceptance of the term. 
 
 The boyhood of Mr. Pennoyer was much like 
 that of any other farm-bred youth, consisting of 
 alternate work and school, until he had attained 
 a sufficient age to become a student of Homer 
 Academy, New York, where he took a full course 
 of study. Later he attended the Dane Law 
 School, Harvard University, from which he re- 
 ceived his diploma in the summer of 1854. The 
 following year he left his home and came west, 
 arriving in Portland, Ore., about the 10th of 
 July, 1855. Shortly after his arrival in the state 
 he engaged in teaching in the public schools, in 
 which occupation he remained for five or six 
 years. It was about the year 1862 that Mr. Pen- 
 noyer became interested in the lumber business in 
 Portland, this remaining the subject of his busi- 
 ness activity throughout the greater part of his 
 life. With his intellectual capacity he naturally 
 became connected with the papers of the west, 
 from 1868 to the year 1 871 serving for the 
 greater part of the time as editor of the Oregon 
 ^Herald. He became well and favorably known 
 as a political writer of the day; though his arti- 
 cles were always forcible and pungent they sel- 
 dom aroused animosity, both on account of the 
 
 infusion of a warm humor and the entire absence 
 of any manifestation of malice in all his writings. 
 Though a strong Democrat and always active in 
 the promotion of the principles which he es- 
 poused, he neither sought nor cared for political 
 recognition, and it was not until 1886 that his 
 name was brought up as that of a candidate for 
 public office. He was then nominated for gov- 
 ernor of the state on the Democratic ticket, the 
 action being entirely without effort on his part, 
 as he declined to do more than to promise to ac- 
 cept the nomination if given him. He had be- 
 come a very prominent man in the state, however, 
 through his espousal of the cause of the Anti- 
 Chinese party, the agitation of which question 
 had recently caused bitter feeling. Following 
 his nomination Mr. Pennoyer canvassed the state 
 with, that determination and energy characteristic 
 of him in all his efforts, whether personal or 
 public, and in his speeches proved a logical and 
 forceful advocate. His inaugural address was 
 faultless as a literary production, though it 
 aroused much sharp criticism on account of the 
 position which the governor took in regard to 
 the right of the courts to nullify a law of the 
 state. During his administration he maintained 
 the same direct, positive manner in dealing with 
 whatever came under discussion and won recog- 
 nition as a man fearless and determined in the 
 maintenance of his principles. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Pennoyer occurred in 
 1856, and united him with Mrs. Mary A. Allen, 
 by whom he had five children, two of whom are 
 still living. 
 
 LA FAYETTE GROVER. The name which 
 heads this review is one that is widely known 
 throughout the state of Oregon, and the man 
 who bears it is one honored in the early history 
 of the northwest. In all early political move- 
 ments, progressive in their trend, he was officially 
 connected and gave substantial aid, rising suc- 
 cessively, step by step, until he attained the posi- 
 tion of fourth governor of Oregon. 
 
 He was born in Bethel, Me., November 29, 
 1823, of ancestry on both sides distinguished in 
 the early history of Massachusetts. His educa- 
 tion was received in the Classical Academy at 
 Bethel and in-Bowdoin College, after which he 
 studied law in Philadelphia, under the instruction 
 of the late Asa I. Fish. He was admitted to the 
 bar in March, 1850, shortly after which event he 
 put aside his bright prospects in the east and 
 went to California, arriving in July, 185 1, and 
 in the next month reached Portland via the old 
 steamer Columbia. He at once proceeded to 
 Salem, where he established himself as a lawyer. 
 He was shortly appointed clerk of the First Ju- 
 dicial district, from which office he resigned to 
 
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 become a law partner of Benjamin F. Harding, 
 afterwards United States district attorney, sec- 
 retaf) oi the territory of Oregon and United 
 States senator. In 1852 Mr. Grover was elected 
 prosecuting attorney of the second judicial dis- 
 trict, and the year following was elected and 
 served as a member of the territorial legislature 
 for three terms, the last two terms being a repre- 
 sentative from Marion county. In 1857 he was 
 chosen a member of the state constitutional con- 
 vention and was elected first congressman for 
 Oregon in 1858, taking his seat February 15, 
 
 ( )n his return to Oregon Mr. Grover devoted 
 his time to professional and business pursuits, 
 besides a practice of his profession in partnership 
 with Hon. Joseph S. Smith and Judge W. W. 
 Page, taking an active part in various enterprises. 
 In 1856 he took an active part in the organization 
 of the Willamette Woolen Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, at Salem, and four years later became a 
 one-third owner of all the mills and water-power 
 of the city, and during his management of the 
 company's interest the Salem Flouring Mills were 
 completed and became an industrial success of 
 the valley. In 1866 he presided over the Demo- 
 cratic state convention of that year, and by the 
 convention was elected chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic state central committee, which position he 
 held for four years. At the close of that period 
 he was elected governor of Oregon on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket, and was re-elected and served until 
 1877, when he resigned to accept the position of 
 United States senator, to which he had been 
 elected. He served in the senate until 1883, 
 when he retired permanently from public and 
 professional life and devoted his time to private 
 affairs. 
 
 Mr. Grover was married, in 1865, to Miss 
 Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Thomas Carter, 
 well known as an early resident of Portland, and 
 they have one son, John Cuvier Grover. 
 
 HEXRY STEWART. Since the latter part 
 of the '80s Henry Stewart has been known 
 around Albany as an enterprising and successful 
 dairyman-farmer. He came to the state in 1885, 
 engaged at various occupations in Albany for a 
 couple of years, for two years conducted a small 
 ranch near the city and finally settled upon his 
 present farm, four and a half miles southwest of 
 Albany. He has one hundred acres of land, a 
 large part of it in pasture, and his general im- 
 provements are modern and consistent with an 
 ideal dairying enterprise. 
 
 Born in Ashe county, N. C, February 9, i860, 
 Mr. Stewart is a son of Jackson and Hila ( Fran- 
 cis) Stewart, natives of North Carolina, and the 
 former born 'in Surrey county, N. C, February 
 
 29, 1 819. Jackson Stewart was formerly a farm- 
 er, who left his large southern property to enlist 
 in the Civil war, during which service he con- 
 tracted an illness which has since resulted in total 
 blindness. He was a member of the Home 
 Guard, and was never afterward able to work as 
 well as before the fortunes of war left him with 
 weakened faculties. Many years ago his wife 
 died at the age of sixty-four, and he, himself, is 
 eighty-four, a philosopher in his affliction, and 
 inclined to view the world after better fashion 
 than it has treated him. Thirteen children have 
 been born into his family, and of this large num- 
 ber the following are living: Casper, of Eu- 
 gene ; Eli, of Albany ; John, of North Carolina ; 
 Jacob, also of North Carolina ; Margaret, New- 
 ell, Henry, Lowry and Lular. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one Henry Stewart left 
 the old farm in North Carolina and went to Vir- 
 ginia, where he followed farming for a couple 
 of years. For a year, also, he farmed in Ne- 
 braska, but not being particularly well pleased 
 with the middle west came to the coast and set- 
 tled in Albany in 1885. With him came his wife, 
 who was formerly Celia V. Testermon, a native 
 of Virginia, and who is now the mother of five 
 children, the order of their birth being as fol- 
 lows : Maggie E., Ella L., Dent F., Roy C. and 
 Dora B. While not an office-seeker, Mr. Stew- 
 art is a stanch upholder of Republicanism, and 
 has served for one term on the school board. He 
 is fraternally connected with the Knights of the 
 Maccabees. As a farmer and promoter of the 
 wellbeing of Linn county, Mr. Stewart takes 
 high rank, and he has many friends in the county. 
 His dairy products have reached the highest 
 standard of excellence, and he has as high grade 
 Jersey cattle as will be found in Linn county. 
 
 GILBERT L. WORKINGER. Enviable 
 prominence in Linn county has followed as the 
 result of many years of agricultural and other 
 activity on the part of Gilbert L. Workinger, 
 whose ninety-acre farm, though a comparatively 
 small one, is one of the finest in this vicinity. 
 Located four miles northwest of Sheclds, and 
 fourteen miles southwest of Albany, it is a part 
 of the old Jacob Miller donation claim, and is 
 indebted to its present owner for the greater part 
 of its improvements. A fine modern dwelling 
 and unquestionably the largest and finest barn in 
 the neighborhood, as well as the most modern 
 of agricultural implements, facilitate the carry- 
 ing on of as scientific and practical a general 
 fanning enterprise as may be found in this 
 county. A model dairy contributes a consider- 
 able share of the income from this splendidly de- 
 veloped farm. 
 
 That congenial work means successful work 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 is undoubtedly the secret of Mr. Workinger's 
 success, for he expresses the greatest enthusiasm 
 for the free and beautiful life of the country, and 
 for the infinite possibilities of the soil and climate 
 to be found in this fertile region. As far back as 
 is known, his ancestors were tillers of the soil in 
 the state of Pennsylvania, where his birth oc- 
 curred September 5, 1862. His father was a car- 
 penter and millwright by trade, as well as a 
 farmer, and, until the time of his death, at the 
 age of forty-six, he combined these occupations 
 with moderate success. He was survived for 
 many years by his wife, who lived to be seventy- 
 nine, and who reared a family of eleven children. 
 Like his brothers and sisters, Gilbert L. attended 
 the public schools irregularly, but there were 
 many mouths to feed, and the children were 
 obliged to support themselves as early as pos- 
 sible. He started away from home at the age of 
 eleven, and for the following five years worked 
 as a farm hand in his native county of Indiana, 
 receiving as compensation for services his clothes 
 and board and schooling. His five years ended, 
 he continued with his employer for nine months, 
 and for the latter period received the — to him — 
 large sum of $60. 
 
 At the age of seventeen Mr. Workinger went 
 to Johnstown, Pa., and was employed in the Cam- 
 bria Iron Works for a couple of years, and when 
 nineteen went to Kansas and worked on a farm 
 for about two years. His path then led to Mon- 
 tana, where he found employment in a hardware 
 store until the fall of 1884, when he returned to 
 Pennsylvania, and farmed until 1885. In his 
 native state he married Jennie N. Gibson, born in 
 the Quaker state, and with whom he came to 
 Oregon in the spring of 1886. At that time he 
 purchased his present farm, and has since de- 
 voted his energies to improving it, and to making 
 a name for himself among the most honored and 
 influential citizens of this county. He is the only 
 one of his family who has come to the west, and 
 his exertions here have certainly reflected credit 
 upon those responsible for his training in the 
 east. There is not a man hereabouts who is more 
 universally commended, both for accomplish- 
 ment and character, or one who more nearly typi- 
 fies the representative northwestern farmer. He 
 is a Republican in politics, and is a member of 
 the United Brethren Church. In his family have 
 been born six children, the order of their birth 
 being as follows : Tillie Margaret, Clata Mae, 
 George William, Gilbert Frank, Edith Jane and 
 Gerald Lowry. 
 
 GEORGE W. CLINE. Among the native sons 
 of Marion county, none are more typical of the 
 successful and progressive northwestern farmer 
 and stock-raiser than George W. Cline, at present 
 
 owning and living on a farm formerly owned by 
 his father. He was born on a farm near Salem, 
 May 6, 1849, hi s father, George Cline, being one 
 of the foremost of the early settlers of Oregon. 
 The elder Cline was born in Indiana, March 5, 
 1799, and came of German parentage, his an- 
 cestors, as far back as is known, having been 
 tillers of the soil in different parts of the east. 
 He was thrice married, his last wife, formerly 
 Jane Oliver, and the mother of George W., 
 having been born in Ohio. 
 
 The Cline family lived an uneventful life in 
 Indiana for many years, and in their neighbor- 
 hood were known as exceptionally thrifty and 
 successful people. George Cline was no ordi- 
 nary plodding farmer, but forged his way to the 
 front, and improved a farm that brought a good 
 price when he decided to sell. This he did in 
 1846, for he had long heard glowing reports from 
 the west, and determined to see for himself if 
 there was any truth in them. His success in life 
 permitted him to outfit much more completely 
 than the average emigrant, and he not only had 
 plenty of substantial wagons and strong oxen, 
 but brought along a large drove of horses and 
 cattle. The party of which his family were mem- 
 bers had little trouble with the Indians, and 
 were not laid low by illness, as was the case 
 with so many during the long journey of those 
 days. Mr. Cline started away from home with 
 three thousand dollars, and by the time he 
 reached The Dalles he had just twenty dollars. 
 This decrease in his finances was largely due to 
 his generosity, for there were many very poor 
 people in the train, to many of whom he gave 
 practical assistance. He spent the first winter 
 with his family on the present site of Portland, 
 and in the spring settled in Marion county, near 
 Salem, purchasing a squatter's right to which 
 he afterward proved up. The next spring he 
 settled in Linn county, where he took up six 
 hundred and forty-three acres adjoining Albany, 
 where he spent the remainder of his life. At the 
 time of his death, at the age of sixty-four, he 
 was apparently strong and robust, and seemed to 
 be destined for many years more of useful citizen- 
 ship. In both the east and west he took an 
 active part in local politics, in Porter county, Ind., 
 and in Linn county, Ore., serving as sheriff 
 of the respective counties, besides holding many 
 local offices. He erected one of the first sawmills 
 in the vicinity of Albany, and operated the same 
 for some time in connection with his general 
 farming. He was a very successful man, and he 
 was also very honorable and reliable. 
 
 The only one living of his father's last fam- 
 ily of five children, George W. Cline received his 
 education in the country schools and the public 
 schools of Albany, his father's success permitting 
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 than fell to the lot of many of his neighbors. 
 He .-taxed at home uninterruptedly until his 
 marriage, in 1879. with Xellie Smith, who was 
 horn in Clackamas county, Ore., in 1863, and 
 after the ceremony went to housekeeping on 
 a portion of the old farm, which he has man- 
 aged since his father's death, and now owns. 
 There were comparatively few improvements 
 here at first, but at present he has good buildings 
 and modern facilities for conducting a practical 
 general farming enterprise, besides one hundred 
 acres cleared and available for general crops. He 
 lias a fine dairy in connection with the farm, and 
 makes a specialty of Jersey cattle, standard breed. 
 He is a director and vice president of the Albany 
 Creamery Association, of Albany, Ore. Like 
 his father he is an active Democrat, but as yet 
 lie has shown no disposition to leave the quiet 
 of his home to participate in the excitement of 
 office-getting. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Of the 
 three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cline, Nina 
 M. is the wife of H. B. Cusick, of Albany, and 
 Margaret and Charles O. are living at home. 
 Mr. Cline is prominent in his locality, and may 
 be counted on to further any enterprise for the 
 betterment of his home district. 
 
 EDWARD H. HAWKINS. The name of 
 Edward H. Hawkins is associated with a prac- 
 tical farming enterprise in Lane county, his farm 
 being one of the many finely improved proper- 
 ties in which this locality abounds, and his meth- 
 ods are those which have elevated the agricul- 
 tural standard to a par with that in any part of 
 the country. When Mr. Hawkins crossed the 
 plains in 1845 ne represented the third genera- 
 tion of his family to journey westward at the 
 same time, his father Zachariah, and his grand- 
 father. Henry, looking forward with equal en- 
 thusiasm to a life under different auspices in 
 the new country. On this journey Zachariah 
 died ere he had reached his destination, but the 
 grandfather, Henry Hawkins, lived to settle on 
 a claim in Polk county, where he farmed for the 
 remainder of his life. He was of Irish descent, 
 and was fairly successful as a farmer and stock- 
 raiser. Edward H. was three years old when 
 his parents crossed the plains, having been born 
 in Lee county, Iowa, February xy, 1842. His 
 mother, formerly Nancy White, was born in 
 Indiana, reared a family of two sons and three 
 daughters, of whom' Edward is the fourth child. 
 Mrs. Hawkins died on the old homestead in 
 Benton county in 1900. For the first winter in 
 Oregon she lived in Polk county, and the next 
 spring went to Benton county, where she mar- 
 ried T. M. Reed. Mr. Reed took up a donation 
 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, and there 
 the children were reared and educated. 
 
 At the age of sixteen Edward H. Hawkins 
 grew weary of his life on the home farm and 
 went to eastern Oregon, where he was engaged 
 with stock for some time. Industrious and sav- 
 ing, he managed to save quite a little money, 
 and in 1865 bought a farm nine miles east of 
 Harrisburg, in Linn county, which he sold after 
 three years of profitable farming. He next 
 took up two hundred and seventy acres near 
 Monroe, Benton county. He lived thereon un- 
 til disposing of it in 1889, when he pur- 
 chased four hundred acres on Spencer creek. 
 Three years later he sold out and bought three 
 hundred and seventy-eight acres, comprising his 
 present farm, about three miles southwest of 
 Eugene. For his first wife Mr. Hawkins mar- 
 ried, in 1865, Susan Norton, who was born in 
 Missouri, and died in 1880, leaving three chil- 
 dren, of whom Clarence is deceased, and Clara 
 and Clayton are at home. The second marriage 
 of Mr. Hawkins occurred in 1882, and was with 
 Nancy Taylor, who was born in Virginia, Jan- 
 uary 1, 1862, and who is the mother of three 
 children, Virgil, Ruth H., and Edward Herbert. 
 A Republican in political preference, Mr. Haw- 
 kins is liberal-minded as regards office seekers, 
 and believes in voting rather for principle than 
 party. At the time of his removal from Benton 
 to Lane county, in 1889, he was obliged to re- 
 sign the office of county commissioner, and in 
 this county he has served many terms as county 
 supervisyr and school director. He is a wide- 
 awake and progressive man, favoring all move- 
 ments that have to do with the development of 
 the resources of the locality or its improvement 
 along educational, moral or industrial lines. 
 
 JOSEPHUS J. BEARD. The position of 
 agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Tan- 
 gent, Linn county, Ore., is now held by Josephus 
 J. Beard, his continuance in the office having 
 been from 1873, and during the intervening years 
 he has never lost a day's time from the faithful 
 discharge of duty. Mr. Beard was born October 
 13, 1844, in Vigo county, Ind., the son of Zach- 
 ariah Beard, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 
 1804, and emigrated with his parents to Indiana, 
 in 1808. The grandfather was a miller by trade 
 and he built one of the first grist mills on the 
 banks of the Wabash river, and there Zachariah 
 took up this work and followed it until he came 
 to Oregon in 1873. He first married Ludicy 
 Ferguson, a native of Indiana, and they had ten 
 children, Josephus J. Beard, of this review, being 
 the only one now living. The mother died in 
 1848, after which Mr. Beard again married, and 
 
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 this wife died within a year, leaving him one 
 child, who is now deceased. 
 
 Josephus J. Beard and his father came together 
 to Oregon in 1873, tne former securing the posi- 
 tion previously mentioned, that of agent for the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad, which he has since 
 held. In 1874 he married Callie Spangler, a na- 
 tive of California, and of the children which 
 have blessed the union, Maude M. is the wife of 
 M. C. Jenks, in the vicinity of Tangent; M. 
 Claude is now deceased ; Harry L. is located in 
 Chemawa, Marion county; Joseph Ivan is at 
 home ; and Roy B. is deceased. Mrs. Beard died 
 in 1884, and for a second wife Mr. Beard married 
 Mrs. Mary E. Morgan, and in their home the 
 father of Mr. Beard passed away at the advanced 
 age of eighty-one years. In his fraternal rela- 
 tions Mr. Beard is a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows ; and is past commander 
 in the Knights of the Maccabees. He belongs 
 to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 
 politics Mr. Beard is a stanch Democrat and has 
 faithfully served his party in various offices since 
 his residence in Oregon, being for eight years 
 justice of the peace, and for fourteen years post- 
 master of Tangent. Mr. Beard has certainly 
 made a success of his life since coming west, 
 accumulating property located in this city, tak- 
 ing an advanced place in the affairs of the com- 
 munity and interesting himself generally with all 
 movements calculated to promote the general 
 welfare and increase the importance of the state 
 which so many eastern emigrants have made their 
 own by adoption. 
 
 NICHOLAS MICKEL. Many changes of 
 scene have come to N. Mickel, whose first recol- 
 lections go back to the place where he was born, 
 December 14, 1844, in Saxony, the son of George 
 and Mary Mickel. He was one of seven children, 
 six of whom are living and settled in the United 
 States. In 1855 the family set out on the jour- 
 ney that was to end when they had crossed an 
 ocean and a continent. They first setled in Du- 
 page county, 111., where they remained for two 
 years, going from there by ox-team to Nicollet 
 county, Minn., spending the ensuing twelve 
 years in that location before continuing the jour- 
 ney across the continent. The reports from the 
 west growing more favorable as the years went 
 on, and the prospects being bright for the suc- 
 cess of the energetic and persevering, the father 
 once more made up his mind to go still farther. 
 In the year 1869 the family came to Oregon, 
 settling one and a half miles north of Mount 
 Angel, but later removing to Polk county, where 
 the father died in 1880, at the age of sixty-five 
 years. His widow survived him for about 
 twenty years, her death occurring in Gervais, 
 
 Marion county, January 1, 1900, in her seventy- 
 fifth year. Besides the subject of this sketch, 
 the children in the family are George, of Ger- 
 vais ; Michael, of eastern Oregon ; Agnes Inhover, 
 of Nicollet county, Minn.; Mary Schreiber, re- 
 siding near The Dalles; Lena Bowers, of Vic- 
 toria, and Peter, who is now deceased. 
 
 N. Mickel received his education in the dis- 
 trict schools of Minnesota, remaining at home 
 with his parents until he enlisted, at seventeen 
 years of age, in Company L, First Mounted 
 Rangers of Minnesota. The company was mus- 
 tered in at St. Peter, Nicollet county, where it 
 was assigned to garrison duty, being principally 
 occupied in guarding the frontier. After having 
 served fourteen months, he was mustered out at 
 Fort Snelling, and returning home he took up 
 the brickmason trade, following that until he 
 came to Oregon, via New York, the Isthmus of 
 Panama and San Francisco. Coming direct to 
 Marion county, he bought the farm where he 
 now lives. At that time it consisted of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of virgin land. He now has 
 one hundred and thirty acres under cultivation, 
 upon which he is engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising, being also interested in the 
 cultivation of hops. In 1902 he produced about 
 fifteen thousand pounds of the latter from six- 
 teen acres. Since its purchase he has greatly im- 
 proved the place by the erection of a modern 
 house upon the location of the one in which 
 he first went to housekeeping upon his marriage 
 to Miss Anna Mary Koler, a native of Bavaria, 
 born in 1842. Four children have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Mickel, of whom the eldest, Mary 
 Ann, is the wife of F. E. Moore of Ball Butte, 
 Mont., has one son, Ernest W. ; the three re- 
 maining at home are Mary, Nicholas George, 
 and Maggie. 
 
 Mr. Mickel has served as road supervisor and 
 on the school board of the district in which fie 
 lives. In politics he is a Democrat. The family 
 is identified with the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 ALBERT BROWNELL. The Albany Nur- 
 series constitute one of the finest and largest en- 
 terprises of the kind in the state of Oregon. In 
 keeping with its reputation for the propagation of 
 the fruits and flowers of a remarkably fertile 
 region, is the career of its manager and owner, Al- 
 bert Brownell, to whom is accorded well merited 
 praise for the success which he has wrought out 
 by his own unaided exertions. In tracing the 
 life of Mr. Brownell it is important to note the 
 early connection of his family with the history 
 of America, his emigrating ancestors having fol- 
 lowed close in the wake of that historic craft — ■ 
 the Mayflower — and launched their various en- 
 terprises in the midst of primitive colonial con- 
 
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 1053 
 
 ditions. It is supposed that the family was rep- 
 resented in the Revolutionary war, and the pa- 
 ternal grandfather of Albert Brownell had the 
 satisfaction of seeing four of his sons depart for 
 the Civil war, only one of whom, however, re- 
 turned to his family and friends. Another son, 
 the father of Albert, was a merchant in Evans, 
 X. V. for the greater part of his active life, and 
 here he married Priscilla Southwick for his first 
 urife, who bore him six children. Of a second 
 union there were born three children, and the sec- 
 ond wife still survives her husband, who died at 
 about the age of seventy. He was born in Massa- 
 chusetts, and settled as a young man in New 
 York, where he made a success of merchandising, 
 and was an influential man in his town. 
 
 Albert Brownell was born near Buffalo, N. Y., 
 April 24, 1854, and is one of the children of his 
 father's first marriage, his mother dying at the 
 age of forty-five. He was educated in the public 
 schools and remained at home until he was of 
 age. when he went to Iowa, and during the win- 
 ter taught school, working in the harvest fields 
 during the summer time for about five years. 
 While there he was married, April 17, 1870, to 
 Xettie M. Read, a native of Iowa, and thereafter 
 continued to live in the state until removing 
 to Missouri in the fall of 1870. Continuing to 
 farm and teach until 1884, he came to Oregon 
 and bought a place near Wells Station, Benton 
 county, where he lived about four years. He 
 then came to Albany and purchased the Cline 
 homestead and established the Albany Xursery, 
 conducting the same under the firm name of Hy- 
 man & Brownell until he succeeded to the entire 
 business, of which he has since been owner and 
 general manager. The nursery has seventy-five 
 acres under cultivation just outside of the city 
 limits, and, besides, Mr. Brownell has other prop- 
 erties in different parts of the county devoted to 
 nursery stock. The size of the enterprise may be 
 estimated when it is known that from fifty to 
 seventy-five men are required in the different 
 departments at certain seasons of the year, while 
 from twenty to fifty are employed all the year 
 round. Most of the improvements have been 
 made by the present owner, who has a thorough 
 understanding of his interesting calling, and con- 
 templates even more extensive operations in the 
 near future. 
 
 A Republican in political affiliation, Mr. Brow- 
 nell has held most of the minor local offices in 
 his neighborhood, and has taken an active part 
 in promoting the best interests of his party. He 
 is fraternally connected with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, and finds a religious home 
 in the Congregational Church, in which he is a 
 deacon. Five children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Brownell, of whom Joyce B. is the wife 
 of Rev. H. Hopkins, of Chicago: Carl R. is de- 
 
 ceased; Clara and Dorothy are living at home; 
 and William S. is deceased. 
 
 Mr. Brownell is a broad-minded and cultured 
 gentleman, genial and agreeable to meet, and 
 sincere and earnest in the conduct of the various 
 activities for which nature and inclination have 
 richlv endowed him. 
 
 GEORGE W. DIMICK. General farming is 
 the occupation to which G. W. Dimick is devot- 
 ing his energies. That he has achieved success 
 in his chosen line of work is evidenced by his 
 well cultivated farm of one hundred acres situ- 
 ated one and one-half miles east of Hubbard, 
 on which he has a splendid orchard of sixty 
 acres, nearly all of which is planted in apples. 
 ' Mr, Dimick is also well known as a dealer in 
 fine cattle, having been at one time the largest 
 individual breeder and raiser of Short-horn and 
 Aberdeen cattle in the state. Perhaps his work 
 as an agriculturist has been secondary to what 
 he has accomplished for Oregon in elevating its 
 educational and political standard, as well as im- 
 proving the country in the way of good roads 
 and all that it means in commercial advance- 
 ment, for he has faithfully served as road super- 
 visor and as a member of the school board, and 
 in politics he has for years been an acknowledged 
 power. He is a member of the Democratic 
 party, but favors prohibition, and was the or- 
 ganizer of the Prohibition party in the state, be- 
 ing chairman of the first state central committee 
 and manager of St. John's campaign in Ore- 
 gon at the time when that great Prohibition 
 leader was making his memorable fight in the 
 cause of temperance. Under the management 
 of Mr. Dimick as chairman of the state central 
 committee, the largest vote that Oregon ever 
 cast for the Prohibition party was polled. Mr. 
 Dimick was the first candidate for congress on 
 that ticket, and his efforts have been of great 
 value in cleansing and purifying the politics of 
 Oregon. The part he has taken in political life 
 has ever been an active and prominent one, and 
 he is among the most influential men of the state 
 in that respect. 
 
 G. W. Dimick was born April 28, 1837, in 
 Boone county. 111., and is a son of Augustus R. 
 Dimick. who was born April 10. 1790, in Con- 
 necticut. His parents having died when he was 
 a child, he was reared to manhood by his brother. 
 From Connecticut he removed to New York 
 state, thence to Ohio, and early started out in 
 life to make his own way in the world. On leav- 
 ing Ohio he took up a claim in Illinois, camp- 
 ing on the present site of Chicago. Before 
 coming to Illinois he was united in marriage to 
 Laura Pangburn. the wedding taking place in 
 Ohio. Mr. Dimick and his family resided in II- 
 
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 linois until 1846, when they started for Oregon, 
 but stopped in Missouri for the first winter. In 
 1847 they crossed the plains with a company 
 under command of General Palmer. Ox-teams 
 were used in making the journey, there being 
 one hundred wagons in the train, which was 
 afterward divided. The journey was made in 
 seven months, and the party encountered no 
 serious trouble with the Indians. On arriving 
 in Oregon Mr. Dimick came direct to Marion 
 county, taking up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres one and one-half miles 
 east of Hubbard, on a part of which the home of 
 G. W. Dimick now stands. This land was all 
 wild and unimproved and the father built a log 
 house upon it for his family, residing therein 
 until 1856, when the present dwelling was con- 
 structed. Four children were born unto himself 
 and wife, the subject of this review being the 
 eldest, the other living child being John B., who 
 resides on the east half of his father's donation 
 claim. A. R. Dimick lived to be seventy-three 
 years of age, while his wife passed away at the 
 age of forty-eight years. He had been married 
 twice prior to his marriage with Miss Pang- 
 burn, and the children born of those marriages 
 are now deceased. He served as justice of the 
 peace for a number of years and was a promi- 
 nent man in the communities in which he lived. 
 
 G. W. Dimick received his early education in 
 the district schools near his home, and remained 
 with his parents until his marriage, which oc- 
 curred November 17, 1859, the lady °f his choice 
 being Minerva Gleason, daughter of Parson 
 Gleason. She was born in Indiana and came to 
 Oregon with her people in 1851. The young 
 couple took up their abode on the old claim 
 which had been taken up by the elder Dimick, 
 where they have since made their home, living 
 with the parents until the death of the latter. 
 Six children were born unto them, of whom the 
 following survive : G. Douglas, a resident of 
 Washington ; John A., who resides in the vi- 
 cinity of Hubbard ; Lottie May, of Idaho ; Par- 
 son Gleason and Augustus, of Portland. His 
 first wife dying, Mr. Dimick was married Oc- 
 tober 24, 1878, to Rhoda Gleason, a niece of his 
 first wife, who bore him four children. Of these 
 Walter A., now of eastern Washington, sur- 
 vives. June 11, 1890, he married Mrs. Sadie 
 McCraw. Their children are Orrin R., Harri- 
 son Roy H., Ada V., Harold A., and Raymond 
 E., all at home. 
 
 It will be seen that for nearly half a century 
 the best energies of Mr. Dimick have been ex- 
 pended in Oregon. He was but ten years of 
 age when his parents emigrated here, and from 
 his youth up he has been interested in the growth 
 and progress that has taken place, transforming 
 the state from a vast wilderness into a land that 
 
 can hardly be excelled for agricultural resources. 
 During his residence in Oregon he has cleared 
 over two hundred acres of land. In the ques- 
 tions and issues that have been before the people 
 he has taken a prominent part, and his influence 
 has been widely felt throughout the state. A 
 man of the highest integrity, Mr. Dimick has the 
 respect of all who know him, and in the history 
 of the county his name will be ever regarded 
 by posterity as that of an honored pioneer. 
 
 HIRAM HENRY STARR. The early life 
 of Mr. Starr is interesting. His father, Jeremiah 
 Starr, was one of the foremost and earliest 
 settlers of the state, and was born in Virginia 
 in 1794, as was also his father, Samuel. The 
 latter took his family to Ohio in 1799, locating 
 in Scioto county. Here Jeremiah Starr married 
 Elizabeth Beavers, who bore him one daughter 
 and one son, soon thereafter dying, and was 
 buried in Ohio. A few years afterward Mr. 
 Starr was again married, his second wife be- 
 ing Sarah Scott, by whom he became the father 
 of five sons, Hiram Henry, of this article, 
 being the oldest. In 1828 Jeremiah Starr set- 
 tled in Vermilion county, 111., but not liking 
 it very well sold out, and in 1843 took U P a 
 donation claim in Wapello county. This farm also 
 had its drawbacks, and the owner looked around 
 for ways of improving his condition and that of 
 his family. April 27, 1847, he started out with 
 ox-teams and wagons to make the long journey 
 across the plains, and without any unfortunate 
 happenings arrived on the south bank of the 
 Columbia, south of Vancouver, November 27, 
 of the same year. The first winter in the strange 
 country they spent on the Clatsop plains, at the 
 mouth of the Columbia, and in the spring of 
 1848 Mr. Starr took a donation claim near Amity, 
 Yamhill county. This was not altogether satis- 
 factory, and in the spring of 1850 he went to 
 Benton county, and took up a claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres, which he improved and 
 occupied, and which he disposed of at a profit 
 in 1865. He then took up his abode in the 
 Alsea valley, west of Monroe, Ore., and there 
 lived until the death of his wife, formerly Sarah 
 Scott, a native of Monongahela county, Va., 
 whose father died when she was a small child. 
 In July, 1866, shortly after burying his beloved 
 helpmate he went to live with his daughter in 
 Monroe, Ore., and there died at the age of ninety 
 years. He was a man of fine personal traits 
 and his industry and thrift residted in a substan- 
 tial property, acquired solely through his own 
 efforts. He was stronglv in favor of education 
 and all advancement, and gave to his daughter 
 and five sons every advantage within his power 
 to confer. 
 
ZILPHA AND SAMUEL McCOLLUM. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1057 
 
 Hiram Starr was born in Ohio, December 19. 
 1826. With his brothers and sisters he attended 
 the early subscription schools near the paternal 
 farm in Illinois, where the family had located 
 when he was two years of age. As the oldest in 
 the family he early assisted his father in man- 
 aging the farm, and was one of the most enthu- 
 siastic concerning the plans to emigrate to the 
 west. At that time he was little past twenty, 
 just the age to appreciate the chances by which 
 he was to be surrounded, and he entered with 
 into the preparations for the six months' 
 journey. In 1840 he left the donation claim in 
 < )regon and in Oregon City undertook to learn 
 the coopers trade, having completed which he 
 returned to Yamhill county and, with his father, 
 engaged in saddle manufacturing. In 1850 he 
 engaged in the saddle business in La Fayette, but 
 a year later gave up his business to go to the 
 mines of California. Returning in 1855, he 
 soon thereafter started for the mines in Colville, 
 and this trip resulted in his enlisting in the 
 Oregon Cavalry, and fighting against the Indians. 
 The next year found him working at saddle 
 making in Corvallis, Benton county. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Starr went to the Alsea valley and 
 took up one hundred and sixty acres of land, 
 which proved so profitable, and was so con- 
 genially located, that he remained on it for over 
 twenty years. He improved his land and raised 
 general commodities and stock, and at the time 
 of disposing of it in 1887, had made of it a 
 valuable and paying property. His next home 
 was on a farm near Falls City, where he pros- 
 pered until 1902, and then retired from active 
 life within the borders of the town. He is con- 
 templating building a pleasant little home in 
 which to spend his declining years, and where 
 he may enjoy many of the pleasant things of life 
 which have hitherto been debarred owing to his 
 unflagging industry. He is a Prohibitionist in 
 political preferment, and has served as school 
 director and clerk for several years. In religion 
 he is identified with the Free Methodist Church. 
 In i860 Mr. Starr was licensed as a local 
 preacher and since has done much towards the 
 spread of the gospel and is at present assisting 
 the pastor of the Falls City church. 
 
 McCOLLUM BROTHERS. The McCollum 
 family is represented in Lane county by several 
 members of a rugged and capable second gen- 
 eration, of which two of the best known are 
 Perry and William, occupying a farm of one 
 hundred and eighty acres near Eugene. Will- 
 iam McCollum. the senior of the two, was born 
 on the paternal farm in Kentucky in April, 1841, 
 his father, Samuel, one of the Oregon pioneers 
 of 1850, being a native of the same state. His 
 
 mother, Zilpha Callahan, was also born in Ken- 
 tucky, and died on the old donation claim in 
 Lane county in 1897, at -the age of eighty-four, 
 her husband living to be two years older. There 
 were five children in the family, William being 
 the oldest of all. 
 
 A boy of nine years when the family fortunes 
 were shifted to the west, William attended the 
 public schools as opportunity offered, although 
 hard work on the home farm interfered mate- 
 rially with both diversions and education. He 
 remained at home until thirty years of age, and 
 then purchased his present farm with his brother 
 Perry, since then engaging in general farming 
 and stock-raising. Mr. McCollum is a quiet, 
 unassuming gentleman, loyal to his friends and 
 interests, and heartily in touch with the work 
 to which he is devoting his life. He is a Demo- 
 crat in politics, but has never worked for or de- 
 sired official recognition. Mr. McCollum is un- 
 married. 
 
 Perry McCollum was born after his father 
 and older brother had crossed the plains to Ore- 
 gon, January 1, 1855, and he was educated in a 
 little log school-house on Spencer creek, being 
 reared to an appreciation of farming and a gen- 
 erally industrious life. Always most congenial 
 in their relations to each other, it seemed emi- 
 nently fitting that Mr. McCollum should engage 
 in farming in partnership with his brother Will- 
 iam, with whom he has since lived. Mr. McCol- 
 lum married, in 1897, Frances Gearhart, and one 
 son, Frank, has been born of this union. Like 
 his brother, he is a Democrat in political affili 
 ation, and has served as judge of elections. Pro- 
 gressive and enterprising, Mr. McCollum main- 
 tains a high standard of agricultural excellence 
 on his farm, and his improvements are modern 
 and extensive. He enjoys the confidence and 
 good will of the community, which regards him 
 as one of its most worthv native sons. 
 
 ANDREW J. BLEVINS. A prominent pio- 
 neer family of 1850 is represented by Andrew J. 
 Blevins, one of the venerable and highly hon- 
 ored agriculturists of Linn county. Mr. Blevins 
 is one of the very successful farmers and agri- 
 culturists of his neighborhood, and his farm of 
 two hundred and ten acres, a part of the old do- 
 nation claim settled by his father, has every evi- 
 dence of being managed by a painstaking and 
 progressive tiller of the soil, and one who has 
 thoroughly appreciated the possibilities of the 
 country in which his lot has been cast. A con- 
 siderable revenue is derived from the raising of 
 Clvdesdale and Percheron horses. Shorthorn cat- 
 tle and Cotswold sheep. These high-grade ani- 
 mals have for years been an interesting study to 
 Mr. Blevins, who is thoroughly conversant with 
 
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 their good points, and possesses the best of facil- 
 ities for rearing and caring for them. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Blevins was passed in 
 Clay county, Ky., where his father, Isaac, was 
 known as a large landowner and blacksmith. 
 Isaac Blevins was born in Tennessee, January 12, 
 1799, and there learned the trade to which he 
 devoted many years of his life, remaining in his 
 native state until his sixteenth year. He then 
 went to Kentucky, and there married, in 1833, 
 Eliza Maupin, who was born in the Bourbon 
 state January 18, 1809. Seven years after his 
 marriage, in 1840, Mr. Blevins took his wife and 
 children overland to Missouri, and for ten years 
 engaged in farming with fair success. In 1850 
 he sold his farm and purchased the required outfit 
 for joining an emigrant train across the plains, 
 his son, Andrew J., being at that time fifteen 
 years of age, and therefore of practical assistance 
 in driving the oxen and caring for the loose 
 stock. A great deal of this stock passed into the 
 possession of the Indians, notwithstanding the 
 care exercised in keeping it together. Otherwise 
 the travelers had few adventures out of the ordin- 
 ary, and reached Linn county, Ore., weary enough 
 to appreciate almost any permanent abiding place. 
 Mr. Blevins took up a section of land eight miles 
 southwest of Albany, a portion of which is now 
 occupied by his son, Andrew J., and which is 
 located on the old Albany and Harrisburg road. 
 In the lonely forests, with neighbors many miles 
 remote, and with few financial or other resources 
 at his disposal, he laboriously hewed out timber 
 for a little log cabin, his family in the mean- 
 time continuing to live in the prairie schooner 
 which had housed them so many nights on the 
 plains. It may be imagined with what speed the 
 land was prepared for crops, and how impatiently 
 the wife and children waited for the maturing of 
 the grain and other commodities which should 
 furnish them the necessary food for subsistence. 
 The father was successful, soil and climate con- 
 spiring for the comfort and even enjoyment of 
 himself and family. He was a genial and whole- 
 souled man, and as the district became settled, 
 and the homes separated by fewer miles, he made 
 many friends among his neighbors, all of whom 
 admired his strength of character and upright- 
 ness. He took an active part in political affairs 
 in the county, and was equally active in the 
 church, which he attended regularly, and taught 
 his children to do the same. He lived to be 
 eighty-five years old. One of the cherished mem- 
 ories of his younger days was that he met Lewis 
 and Clark, now famous as discoverers of Ore- 
 gon. Mr. Blevins was survived by his wife until 
 her ninety-first year. In his young days in Ten- 
 nessee Mr. Blevins offered his services to General 
 Jackson in the war of 1812, but owing to his 
 size and age they were not accepted. Besides 
 
 Andrew J., who is the second of the five children, 
 there was Pendleton, now of Crook county ; Al- 
 fred, living in this vicinity ; John, a resident of 
 Whatcom, Wash. ; and Isaac C, deceased. 
 
 As a young man Andrew J. Blevins, who was 
 born in Clay county, Ky., December 17, 1835, fol- 
 lowed mining in California, British Columbia and 
 Idaho, for several years. His educational oppor- 
 tunities were comparatively limited, owing to the 
 unsettled condition of the country. In 1859 ne 
 was united in marriage with Alvilda Miller, a 
 native of Iowa, with whom he went to house- 
 keeping in Linn county, and in 1863 settled on 
 his present farm, a part of his father's donation 
 claim, and has since uninterruptedly devoted him- 
 self to its cultivation. His wife, who lived to be 
 only twenty-eight years old, left him three chil- 
 dren, of whom Edward A. lives near his father ; 
 Mary is the wife of Asa Lewelling, of this 
 county ; and George S. is on the old homestead. 
 Like his father, Mr. Blevins has taken an active 
 interest in politics ever since arriving at years 
 of discretion, and he has been a member of the 
 Grange for many years. Like his sire, also, he 
 has made many friends as he pursued the even 
 tenor of a useful life, and no name in the com- 
 munity carries with it more of respect and good 
 will on the part of his fellow agriculturists. 
 
 HON. ALFRED BLEVINS. As a farmer 
 and cattle-raiser, Indian fighter, miner and state 
 legislator, Hon. Alfred Blevins has filled an im- 
 portant niche in the development of Oregon, and 
 especially of Linn county. He is a member of a 
 prominent pioneer family of this state, and his 
 birth occurred in Rockcastle, Trigg county, Ky., 
 October 24, 1837, a son of Isaac Blevins, of 
 whom extended mention is made in the sketch of 
 his son, Andrew J. Blevins. 
 
 Educated in the district schools of his home 
 township, Mr. Blevins early came to realize the 
 limitations by which he was surrounded, and 
 when twenty-one years of age left his home and 
 came to California in search of a fortune in the 
 mines. After a short time spent in mining and 
 prospecting he came to the conclusion that he 
 was not one of the elect, so turned his attention to 
 mining and cattle-raising in Jackson county, Ore. 
 His operations were necessarily retarded by the 
 precarious condition of the country at that time, 
 for the Indians were constantly harassing the 
 white men and resenting the encroachment upon 
 the land hitherto their sole possession. To sup- 
 press the rising rebellion, Mr. Blevins enlisted 
 in Company C, Second Oregon Mounted Volun- 
 teers, and served for one hundred and three days, 
 mostly on guard duty. He also served as guard 
 for freighters between the Willamette valley and 
 southern Oregon, but it must not be understood 
 
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 that he escaped active duty, for in the capacity of 
 private he came to a full realization of the barbar- 
 ous warfare of the supplanted red men. 
 
 Returning to his home ranch, Mr. Blevins took 
 advantage of the Salmon river excitement in 
 Idaho, and was so successful that he remained 
 'here about six years. In 1869 he returned to 
 'us old home place, and the following year, in 
 1870, was united in marriage with Lucina Maxie, 
 who was born in Missouri, June 8, 1852, and with 
 whom he went to housekeeping on a farm he 
 purchased that fall and which is still their home, 
 < 'lie and a half miles west of Tangent, the same 
 being a part of the old James Cochran donation 
 claim. The farm consists of two hundred and 
 seventeen and a half acres, one hundred and sev- 
 enty-five of which are under cultivation. The 
 majority of the improvements are due to the en- 
 terprise and progress of the present owner, who 
 has a comfortable dwelling, good barns, out- 
 houses and fences, and who is extensively engag- 
 ing in general farming and the raising of fine 
 stock, principally Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Blevins 
 possesses pronounced business ability, and for 
 fourteen years managed the Albany Farmers 
 Company Elevator at Tangent. Other business 
 projects have benefited by his far-sighted judg- 
 ment, and, taken all in all, his active life has 
 been diverse, interesting, and above all useful, 
 and productive of general excellence. A Socialist 
 in political affiliation, he has held many minor 
 local offices, and has twice represented his dis- 
 trict in the state legislature. He is a member of 
 the Grange at Tangent, and is identified with 
 Corinthian Lodge No. 17, A. F. &. A. M. Nine 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Blevins, 
 of whom Lillie died in infancy ; Laura also died 
 at the age of seventeen years ; Wade H. lives in 
 Douglas county, Ore. ; Clara, Alfred, Georgia, 
 Edna. Hattie and Glenn are at home. Mr. Blev- 
 ins is one of the representative men of this coun- 
 ty, and to an unusual extent enjoys the confidence 
 and good will of his fellow agriculturists. 
 
 ALANSON BRIDGEFARMER. A worthy 
 representative of an honored pioneer family of 
 Oregon, and one of the most highly esteemed 
 residents of Linn county, Alanson Bridgefarmer, 
 of Tangent, for the past thirty years has been 
 prominently identified with the development and 
 progress of this section of the state, and, as op- 
 portunity has occurred, he has given his influ- 
 ence to encourage the establishment of enterprises 
 conducive to the public welfare. A son of the 
 late David Bridgefarmer, he was born January 
 13, 1832, in Warren county, 111., of German 
 ancestry. 
 
 A native of North Carolina, David Bridge- 
 farmer was born in 1796, and was reared to 
 
 man's estate on his father's farm. Shortly after 
 his marriage he removed to Kentucky, going 
 from there to Indiana, thence following the emi- 
 grant's pathway to Illinois, where he resided a 
 year. Again continuing his march towards 
 the west, he moved with his family to Ben- 
 ton county, Mo., where he lived and labored 
 a number of years. In 1847 ne an d one of 
 his neighbors, with their families, came to 
 Oregon, crossing the plains with ox-teams, 
 and being six months on the trip. They had 
 no serious trouble on the way, but lost some 
 of their stock, which was stolen by the Indians. 
 After spending the first winter about nine miles 
 south of Vancouver, David Bridgefarmer located 
 in Yamhill county, in the spring of 1848, taking 
 up a donation claim on the west side of Wapato 
 lake, his land adjoining the present site of Gas- 
 ton. Improving a productive ranch, he resided 
 there until his death, at the age of sixty-eight 
 years. A man of intelligence and ability, he 
 became one of the leading citizens of his locality, 
 and was active in the establishment of schools 
 and churches, being one of the organizers of the 
 first Methodist Episcopal Church formed in that 
 vicinity. He married, in North Carolina, Nancy 
 A. Hall, a native of that state. She came with 
 him to Oregon, and died on the homestead, in 
 Yamhill county. Of their twelve children, six 
 are now living, namely : Christian, residing at The 
 Dalles; Alanson, the subject of this sketch; Will- 
 iam, of Bridgeport, Wash. ; Francis M., of Wash- 
 ington ; David McD., of Washington ; and Adam 
 S., now a resident of Seattle. 
 
 After leaving the district school, Alanson 
 Bridgefarmer assisted in the care of the home 
 farm until twenty-two years of age, becoming 
 thoroughly acquainted with the various branches 
 of agriculture. Selecting farming for his occu- 
 pation, he came then to Linn county, and took 
 up a donation claim at the forks of the Santiam 
 river. A few years later he bought his present 
 farm a mile southeast of Tangent, where he has 
 for over forty years been prosperously engaged 
 in general farming and stock-raising. During 
 his residence here he has diligently improved his 
 property, continually adding to its value, his 
 beautiful homestead, with its substantial and con- 
 venient buildings, giving ample evidence of his 
 skill as a practical farmer. He was formerly 
 extensively engaged in the raising of fine horses, 
 but of late years has paid less attention to that 
 branch of industry. During the Rogue River In- 
 dian war he enlisted, in 1855, under Capt. Jon- 
 athan Keeney, who commanded Company C, and 
 after serving on guard duty for one hundred and 
 one days, was mustered out of service. 
 
 October 6., 1872, Mr. Bridgefarmer married 
 Susan A. Bond, a native of Iowa, and brought 
 her as a bride to his present homestead of one 
 
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 hundred and fifty-five and one-half acres of land, 
 and here they established their household. Mrs. 
 Bridgefarmer died December 2, 1886, leaving five 
 children, namely: Huldah I., wife of George 
 Kuthe, of Jefferson; David S., living in Wash- 
 ington; Anna M.; Ella F. ; and William A. In 
 politics Mr. Bridgefarmer is a strong Prohibition- 
 ist. He belongs to Tangent Grange, of which 
 he is a trustee, and is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. . 
 
 Adam S. Bridgefarmer, youngest brother of 
 Alanson, was born August 24, 1838, in Benton 
 county, Mo. Coming to Oregon with his parents 
 when seven years of age, he received his educa- 
 tion in the district schools. On August 15, 1856, 
 he enlisted in Company B, Oregon Mountain 
 Rangers, under Capt. Hiram Wilbur and First 
 Lieut. W. H. H. Myers, and served in the Ya- 
 kima Indian war one hundred and ten days, tak- 
 ing an active part in several fierce skirmishes. 
 He then remained at home until twenty-two years 
 of age, working on the home farm, and also 
 learned the carpenter's trade, which he has since 
 followed, and is now a member of the Carpenter's 
 Union. At the present time he makes his home 
 in Seattle. He is a Prohibitionist in politics, and 
 a member of the Salvation Army. While serving 
 in the Yakima war he was at one time, with his 
 comrades, surrounded by Indians, and for five 
 days and nights was without food or water. .He 
 married Mary E. Holmes, a native of Missouri, 
 and of their union four children were born, 
 namely: Cora A., deceased; Sarah M. E., resid- 
 ing in Washington ; Minnie E. M., living in Iowa ; 
 and Martha E., of Halsey, Ore. 
 
 SCOTT TAYLOR HOBART. A fine repre- 
 sentative of the many enterprising and energetic 
 men who are extensively engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising in Marion county is S. T. Hobart, 
 of Silverton, who has attained success in his in- 
 dependent calling by wise foresight, excellent 
 management, and sheer persistency in one line of 
 effort. Coming of sturdy New England ances- 
 try, he has inherited in a marked degree those 
 sterling qualities of heart and mind that go to- 
 ward the making of a good citizen, and through 
 his influence many projects of benefit to the gen- 
 eral public have been successfully inaugurated 
 and established. 
 
 A native of Illinois, S. T. Hobart was born 
 December 26, 1845, U1 Hancock county, a son of 
 Anson and Jane (Lincoln) Hobart. His father 
 was born and reared in Vermont, living among 
 the green hills of that state until his removal, 
 with his parents, to the state of New York, thence 
 to the more fertile lands of Illinois. When young 
 he learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he 
 followed in Illinois until 1850, when he sought 
 
 the gold fields of California, crossing the plains 
 to that far-off country with a team of horses. 
 After working at his trade, instead of mining, on 
 the Pacific coast for two years, he returned, via 
 the water way, to- Illinois, and, with his family, 
 crossed the plains again, in 1853, going this time 
 by ox-team. Going farther north than before, 
 he located in Oregon, taking up a donation claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres, about four 
 miles southeast of Silverton. In 1857 he located 
 on the farm now occupied by his son, Scott T., 
 about a mile east of Silverton, where he cleared 
 a homestead, on which he was prosperously en- 
 gaged in farming and stock-raising until his 
 death, in February, 1890, at the ripe old age of 
 eighty-one years. He was married three times, 
 his first wife, Carolina Towne, who died in Han- 
 cock county, 111., leaving one child, a daughter, 
 Edna R., who is the widow of R. E. Libby, of 
 Silverton. She now resides at Tualatin. Ore. 
 While living in Illinois he married Jane Lincoln, 
 a native of New York state. She started with 
 him for their new home in Oregon, but was un- 
 able to accomplish the journey, and died on the 
 way, near La Grande, Ore. The four children 
 born of their union were : George Washington, 
 deceased ; Charles Wilbur, who resides near Sil- 
 verton ; Scott T., with whom this brief sketch is 
 principally concerned, and Josiah W., residing 
 near Silverton. The father subsequently, mar- 
 ried, for his third wife, Loraine M. Horrell-, who 
 died in 1869. 
 
 After leaving the district school, Scott T. Ho- 
 bart pursued his studies for a year in the high 
 school at Portland, Ore., after which he taught 
 school with much success for a number of terms. 
 Choosing agriculture as his lifework, he settled 
 about a mile east of Silverton on the farm he now 
 owns and occupies, which is known as the "Ho- 
 bart place," and has here made many and sub- 
 stantial improvements, including a neat and con- 
 veniently arranged dwelling-house, and good 
 barn and outbuildings. Of the two hundred and 
 thirty acres of land contained in his farm, one 
 hundred and .five acres are in a good state of cul- 
 tivation, and he carries on stock-raising on an 
 extensive scale, besides general farming, meeting 
 with signal success in both branches of agricul- 
 ture. He devotes his time principally, however, 
 to stock-raising. 
 
 Everywhere respected and esteemed for his 
 sterling integrity and manly traits of character, 
 Mr. Hobart holds a place of importance in the 
 community in which he resides, and is often 
 called to positions of responsibility, serving as 
 administrator of estates, or as guardian of 
 minors, in all cases faithfully performing the du- 
 ties thus devolving upon him. For six years he 
 has been an active member of the school board, 
 serving when the new school building was erected 
 
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 in Silverton, and was also one of the trustees of 
 the Methodist Church when the new edifice was 
 built. Fraternally, he is a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Foresters, and politically 
 affiliates with the Republican party, for the past 
 ten years representing his district at the Repub- 
 lican county conventions. 
 
 Mr. Hobart was married in Silverton, Octo- 
 ber 2$, 1870, to Emeline Fletcher, who was born 
 in Illinois, but came to Oregon with her parents, 
 Benjamin F. and Eliza (Turner) Fletcher, when 
 a child, crossing the plains in 1863. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hobart have four children, namely: Arthur 
 F. ; Meda, wife of Helmuth A. Brandt, of Silver- 
 ton ; Daisy A., and Edgar L. 
 
 SAMUEL LINCOLN BOND. As a mer- 
 chant of Irving, Lane county, Samuel Lincoln 
 Bond occupies a prominent and influential posi- 
 tion in this section of the community. He is a 
 native of this state, having been born on his 
 father's donation claim one mile west of Irving, 
 February 27, 1861, his father, Allen Bond, be- 
 ing a pioneer of 1853. He was born in Shenan- 
 doah county Ya., December 5, 1833, and was 
 taken to Indiana at the age of three years. 
 There he married Rachel Robinson, and shortly 
 after their marriage the young people crossed 
 the plains with ox-teams. During the passage 
 Mr. Bond met with the misfortune of losing his 
 team, and was thus compelled to complete the 
 trip with the assistance of his brother. He at 
 once took up a donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres upon his arrival in Lane coun- 
 ty. Ore., and here he erected the first log cabin 
 in the neighborhood, and remained an active 
 citizen of this locality until 1898, when he re- 
 moved to Irving and died here, October 22, 
 1902, his wife having passed away in 1901. He 
 was a Republican in politics and always took an 
 active part in the promotion of the principles 
 which he so heartily endorsed. As a member of 
 the state legislature he ably represented his party 
 in 1876, and as a patriot he was a member of 
 the home guard during the Indian troubles of 
 the early days. His wife was a member of the 
 Christian Church. Eleven children were born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Bond, of whom four sons and 
 five daughters are now living. 
 
 S. Lincoln Bond was reared upon his father's 
 farm and educated in Clear Lake, Lane county, 
 and in Portland Business College, in the latter 
 receiving a thorough course in business train- 
 ing. On returning to the farm he engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits and carried to the work 
 the advantages of his business training, remain- 
 ing so employed until the fall of 1882, when he 
 came to Irving and entered upon a mercantile 
 life in partnership with his father. This part- 
 
 nership was continued until the death of the lat- 
 ter, and since then Mr. Bond has continued the 
 work alone, having a complete line of merchan- 
 dise such as usually found in a general store. 
 He has also a lumber-yard, and deals as well in 
 grain, hogs, etc. At the death of his father he 
 was appointed one of the administrators of the 
 estate and sole administrator of the firms of A. 
 Bond & Son. 
 
 December 24, 1884, Mr. Bond was united in 
 marriage with Miss Belle Bushnell, the daughter 
 of G. E. Bushnell, and they have the following- 
 children : Livia, now attending the academy at 
 Philomath, a young lady of excellent attainments, 
 having just completed a four-years course in 
 music ; Franklin L., and Samuel C. Like his 
 father, Mr. Bond has always been public-spir- 
 ited, and takes an active interest in the affairs 
 of the community, and as such he holds a position 
 on the board of trustees of Philomath College, 
 and in the United Brethren Church, of which he 
 is a member, he is also trustee, having previous- 
 lv served for three years as steward. 
 
 EMIL KOPPE. The woolen mills at 
 Brownsville, of which Emil Koppe was manager 
 and superintendent, as well as equal partner 
 during a part of 1902 and 1903, do a large busi- 
 ness in weaving blankets, flannels of all kinds, 
 cloths and robes, and employs in its various de- 
 partments fifty people. The mills are run by 
 water-power, although many improvements are 
 being inaugurated, and modern machinery will 
 soon replace that which is worn, but which, nev- 
 ertheless, has so far proved satisfactory. The 
 trade of the mills extends all along the coast, and 
 the commodities sent out have the reputation of 
 being of excellent quality. Many years of prac- 
 tical experience have fitted Mr. Koppe for any 
 position in connection with the woolen industry, 
 and he is probably as competent a judge of wool 
 as any man engaged in the business in the west. 
 
 As his name implies, Mr. Koppe is of German 
 descent, and was born in Saxony, southern Ger- 
 many, February 16, i860. His father, Karl, was 
 born in the same part of the empire, and came to 
 the United States in 1882, settling on a farm 
 near Ashley, N. D. In 1892 he sold his land 
 and came to Oregon, remaining, at the home of 
 his son, Emil, until his death, in 1894, at the age 
 of sixty-nine years. The wife, who was born in 
 Altenburg, Germany, and was formerly Johanna 
 Winter, died in her native land after rearing a 
 family of seven children, five sons and two 
 daughters. Emil, the fourth in the family, came 
 to the United States in 1879, when nineteen years 
 of age, and was employed in the weaving estab- 
 lishment of Weil & Son, of Philadelphia, Pa., 
 four years. In 1884 he located in Brownsville, 
 
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 Ore., and engaged in weaving in the Brownsville 
 Mills. In 1890, taking up his residence in Salem, 
 he became foreman of a weaving department in 
 the Thomas Kay Woolen Mills. Again coming 
 to Brownsville, in 1902, he identified himself 
 with the same concern as before, this time as 
 superintendent and business manager. 
 
 While living in Philadelphia Mr. Koppe was 
 united in marriage with Augusta Harzer, a native 
 of Saxony, Germany, and she is the mother of 
 eight children : Clara F., Paul, Lewis, Hattie, 
 Otto, Nellie, Carl and Tilly. Mr. Koppe is a 
 Republican in political affiliation, and is frater- 
 nally connected with the Modern Woodmen of 
 America. With his wife and children he is a 
 member of the Lutheran Church. He has the 
 substantial traits, rugged integrity, and adapta- 
 bility of his countrymen, and his business ability 
 is materially promoting the wellbeing of Browns- 
 ville. In September, 1903, Mr. Koppe sold his 
 interests in the woolen mills and retired from its 
 management. 
 
 SAMPSON D. ADKINS. In a beautiful 
 location, adjacent to the town of Scotts Mills, 
 Marion county, stands a handsome modern resi- 
 dence, the home of S. D. Adkins, the efficient 
 postmaster of that town, who is now serving his 
 second term in that capacity, having formerly 
 been a successful merchant there. 
 
 A native of Morgan county, Ky., his birth 
 dates back to April 18, 1846. He had the mis- 
 fortune to lose both parents early in life, being 
 only six years old when his father, a miller by 
 trade, passed to his final rest. A few years after- 
 ward his mother removed with the balance of 
 the. family to Grant county, Wis., and she died a 
 few days after reaching their destination. After 
 her death, young Adkins made his home with an 
 uncle until the breaking out of the Civil war. 
 Responding to his country's call for men, he 
 enlisted February 9, 1862, as a private in Com- 
 pany B, Fifth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer 
 Infantry, and was mustered into service at Lan- 
 caster, Wis., while yet in his sixteenth year. He 
 served three years and four months, and was off 
 duty only three weeks, during which time he 
 was ill in New York City. He was sent first to 
 Alexandria, Va., and saw a great deal of active 
 service. He participated in all the principal bat- 
 tles of the army of the Potomac, besides a great 
 many minor engagements, in all about fifty. The 
 most prominent battles in which he took part 
 were second Bull Run, first and second Fred- 
 ericksburg, Antietam, The Wilderness, Gettys- 
 burg and Petersburg. He was honorably dis- 
 charged from service and was mustered out at 
 Madison, Wis., July 19, 1865. 
 
 Returning from the war, Mr. Adkins took up 
 
 his abode with a sister in Iowa county, Wis., and 
 about two years later went to Lyons county, 
 Iowa, where he followed agricultural pursuits 
 uninterruptedly until 1895, removing at that time 
 to Scotts Mills, Ore., which has been his home 
 ever since. Here he first engaged in mercantile 
 business, but after a brief but prosperous career, 
 his establishment was burned and the business 
 was discontinued. In August, 1897, Mr. Adkins 
 received his commission and became postmaster 
 of Scotts Mills, and in 1901 was re-appointed to 
 the same position, which he ably fills at the 
 present writing. 
 
 In 1869, while a resident of Wisconsin, Mr. 
 Adkins was united in marriage with Eliza J. 
 Clark, a native of New York, born August 9, 
 1850. Fourteen children have been born to this 
 union, as follows : S. Leonora, wife of W. F. 
 Leeds, of Portland ; Carrie L., wife of G. S. Hull, 
 of Scotts Mills ; Braman C, of Pipestone, Minn. ; 
 Gertrude M., wife of John Haugh, of Portland; 
 Nellie, wife of William Cable, also of Portland; 
 Guy D., of the same city; Olive, who is still at 
 home ; Arthur E., Samuel Eugene and Harry, 
 who reside in Scotts Mills; and Margie, Bessie 
 D. and Stella G, who also brighten the home 
 with their presence. One son, Edwin S., died in 
 Iowa, aged two years. 
 
 Mr. Adkins' home place contains twenty-two 
 acres of land, adjoining the town, and he devotes 
 a part of his time to fruit-raising. He has a fine 
 orchard of about twenty acres, and raises many 
 choice varieties of fruits, mostly prunes. His 
 political views coincide with Republican doc- 
 trines, and he takes a fitting interest in affairs in 
 his locality. Fraternally, he is a member of 
 Butte Lodge, No 126. Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and also of Silver Encampment. He 
 has been delegate to county and state conven- 
 tions, but never an aspirant for office. 
 
 HENRY B. SPRENGER One of the most 
 enthusiastic admirers of Clydesdale and driving 
 horses and fine stock, generally, in Linn county 
 is Henry B. Sprenger, a worthy representative 
 of a fine old pioneer family of this state, and son 
 of Nicholas Sprenger, mentioned at length in 
 another part of this work. Born in Morgan 
 county, Ohio, January 12, 1850, he was two years 
 old when his father started with his wife and 
 children for Oregon, and he was reared on the 
 home farm, and educated in the public schools. 
 
 May 28, 1873, Mr. Sprenger married Izzie M. 
 Powers, daughter of William Powers, one of 
 the pioneers of this vicinity. The young people 
 went to housekeeping on a part of the old dona- 
 tion claim, where Mr. Sprenger has since en- 
 gaged in stock-raising. He owns two hundred 
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 thirty-five of which are under cultivation. His 
 enterprise and progressive spirit are apparent to 
 all who are privileged to visit him in his pleasant 
 home. He is engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. He owns property in Shedds, 
 which is proof of his faith in the continued well- 
 being of this favored part of the state. 
 
 In politics a Republican. Mr. Sprenger has 
 come to the front as a representative man of 
 more than ordinary usefulness, and his public 
 spirit and absolute integrity have been apparent 
 to those watching his administration of the of- 
 fices intrusted to his care. At the present time 
 he is serving as county commissioner, having 
 been elected on the fusion ticket. He is promi- 
 nent fraternally, and in Shedds Lodge No. 79, 
 A. F. & A. M., has passed all of the chairs, as 
 well as all of the chairs in the Grange, except 
 that of treasurer. Five children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Sprenger, of whom Alida is the 
 wife of Charles E. Powers, of Tangent ; Lenna 
 V. is deceased ; Sarah L. is the wife of Charles 
 A. Pugh. of Shedds, and Frederick J. and Harry 
 G. are living at home. Mr. Sprenger is one of 
 the substantial and reliable men of his township, 
 his life and success reflecting great credit upon 
 a community which cherishes high standards of 
 excellence. 
 
 GEORGE W. COCHRAN. No farm in the 
 vicinity of Albany has finer improvements, or is 
 conducted on a more practical or scientific basis 
 than that of George W. Cochran. Near by the 
 comfortable and commodious house occupied by 
 the present owner is a log house around which 
 are clustered many memories of the old days, 
 and which was built by James Cochran, the father 
 of George, who established the family in the 
 northwest in 1851. 
 
 Tames Cochran was born in the state of Iowa, 
 and as a boy removed with his parents to .Mis- 
 souri, where he received his start in life, and 
 lived for many years. His first wife, formerly 
 a Miss Morris, lived but a few years after her 
 marriage, leaving to the care of her husband 
 two children, of whom James is in Idaho, and 
 Paula Anna is deceased. The second wife, Ruth 
 A. ( Boggs) Cochran, was born in Virginia, and 
 bore her husband six children. Of these, An- 
 drew is at Arlington. Ore. ; Eleanor, wife of J. 
 H. Settlemier, of Woodburn, is deceased ; Vir- 
 ginia died in childhood, while crossing the plains ; 
 George W. is living on a part of the old home- 
 stead : Emma K. is the wife of Lewis Simpson, 
 of Idaho, and Pearne Alexander is a resident of 
 Woodburn. 
 
 About 185 1 James Cochran became dissatisfied 
 with his prospects in Missouri, and, disposing of 
 his farm, purchased the necessary outfit for 
 
 bringing his wife and children across the plains. 
 They were but a comparatively short distance 
 from home, when George W. was born in De 
 Kalb county, Mo., May 17, 1851, and his infancy 
 was therefore passed in constant journeying. As 
 the coming of a little child gladdened the hearts 
 of the home-seeking parents, the death of another 
 child during the journey, filled them with sadness 
 and a sense of loss. The Indians, fortunatelv, 
 caused them little trouble, but the}" were, never- 
 theless, a weary and travel-worn company, glad 
 to rest even among the crude and uninviting con- 
 ditions among which they found themselves in 
 Oregon. The father took up a donation claim of 
 a section six miles south of Albany, nearly all of 
 which was prairie land. The western boundary 
 of this claim was marked by the Calapooia creek, 
 which cut off a small section in the northwest 
 corner of the claim. Mr. Cochran at first erected 
 the log house before referred to, and which is 
 being jealously preserved by his devoted chil- 
 dren. As he prospered on his land, and got a 
 fair start in the new country, he built a larger 
 and more modern house, in which he spent the 
 balance of his life, his death occurring July 26, 
 1863, at the age of forty-two years. He is sur- 
 vived by his widow, who has since made her 
 home principally in Woodburn. 
 
 George W. Cochran was twenty-five years of 
 age when, on October 1, 1874, he married Eu- 
 genia K. Couch, a native of Scotland county, 
 Mo., who crossed the plains with her parents at 
 an early day. She is a daughter of P. Henry 
 and Rebecca Ann (Morris) Couch, who came to 
 Oregon from Scotland county. Mo., in 1865, lo- 
 cating in Harrisburg. They have resided in 
 Linn county since that time with the exception 
 of one year spent in Lane county. The young 
 people went to housekeeping on a part of the old 
 claim, and together have created as happy and 
 comfortable a home as one would wish to see. 
 They have two children, Ernest C. and James C, 
 the latter at home, and both assist the father in 
 caring for his splendidly improved and produc- 
 tive farm. Ernest C, the oldest son, was united 
 in marriage in June, 1901, with Vivian Starr, 
 daughter of Stephen C. Starr, of Tangent. They 
 at once went to housekeeping in the first frame 
 house erected by his grandfather, the founder of 
 the family in Oregon. Mr. Cochran has all of 
 the facilities for carrying on the most modern of 
 general farming, and his dairy is equipped with 
 all that is needful to conduct an ideal enterprise. 
 He has a large number of Jersey cattle, besides 
 other stock, some of it high-grade, including 
 some fine blooded horses. He is a Democrat in 
 politics, and is a broad-minded, liberal and popu- 
 lar man, contributing generously of his time and 
 monev for anv cause destined for the wellbeinsr 
 of the communitv. 
 
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 JOHN ALBERT LAMBERSON, M. D. 
 Those who blazed the western trail are pioneers 
 well worthy of the country which they have made 
 their own, and which gives them honor for the 
 dangers and hardships borne in those early 
 times. Numbered among these pioneers is Dr. 
 John A. Lamberson, whose message has been 
 one of welcome ministry, his life having been 
 given over to the profession which means amel- 
 ioration of the ills of suffering humanity. He is 
 both the son and grandson of pioneers, the 
 grandfather, Timothy Lamberson, a native of 
 Bolivar, Ohio, having crossed the plains in 1845, 
 and located in Oregon. The trip was made with 
 ox-teams, and upon the arrival at their destination 
 Mr. Lamberson took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres located on Scappoose 
 plains, Columbia county, which was the home of 
 the family for some years. In 1846 he went to 
 California, where he remained for eighteen 
 months in the pursuit of agriculture and stock- 
 raising, at the expiration of this period return- 
 ing to Oregon. Hardly had he returned when 
 the gold excitement in the former state again 
 attracted him, and in 1849 ne made the trip to 
 California and engaged in mining upon a tribu- 
 tary of the Sacramento river, where he met with 
 a gratifying success. In 1850 he returned to his 
 claim in Columbia county, and there built the 
 first sawmill in the locality, a tiny cabin on 
 Scappoose creek, from which he shipped lumber 
 to many parts of the country. In 1859 ne ven " 
 tured to Sonora, Mexico, where he engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising, and in i860 he located 
 permanently in Arizona, where he established 
 the town of Walnut Grove. He built the first 
 grist-mill in the place, most of it being the work 
 of his own hands, his burrs being made from 
 granite, his trade having been that of a stone- 
 cutter, and the belts being made from rawhide. 
 Connected with his milling interests he also en- 
 gaged in mining and farming, the combination 
 of lucrative work affording him quite a fortune. 
 His death occurred in Walnut Grove, Ariz., in 
 189 1, at the age of seventy-six years. Mr. Lam- 
 berson was a Whig, and later a strong Abolition- 
 ist. During the later years of his life he was a 
 Republican. Possessed of a lively, energetic tem- 
 perament, his real worth won for him many 
 friends. He bore the privations and hardships 
 of a pioneer life with an optimism characteristic 
 of the pioneer settler of Oregon, California and 
 Arizona. Timothy Lamberson's son, Daniel, was 
 tortured to death by the Apache Indians near 
 Tucson, Ariz., about 1865. His body was riddled 
 by arrows and hanged among the chaparral. 
 The eldest son, Samuel, the father of Dr. Lam- 
 berson, was also a native of Bolivar, Ohio. 
 He crossed the plains with his parents in 
 1845, at the age of fourteen years, being 
 
 old enough, however, to appreciate the trials 
 and dangers which such a journey meant. He 
 became a stockman and farmer in Oregon, 
 remaining for some years upon the pa- 
 ternal homestead. In 1876 he disposed of this 
 property and removed to Gilliam county, Ore., 
 where he continued in the stock business, making 
 his home there the remainder of his life. While 
 preparing to join the family reunion at Condon, 
 Gilliam county, December 24, 1901, he died of 
 heart disease on the prairie near Condon, at the 
 age of seventy-three years. His loss was not 
 felt alone by the family, for his years of peaceful, 
 kindly living had endeared him to many. He 
 had married Mary Jane Armstrong, a native of 
 La Harpe, Hancock county, 111., who started 
 across the plains with her parents in 1852. The 
 journey was one which can never be effaced 
 from her memory on account of the misfortunes 
 that accompanied the party. Her mother, Mary 
 Jane Armstrong, died of the cholera and was 
 buried on the banks of the Platte river, and 
 her father, John Armstrong, a native of Indiana, 
 passed away the latter part of the year 1852, 
 near Baker City, Ore., a victim of mountain 
 fever. To Mr. and Mrs. Lamberson were born 
 sixteen children, four sons and twelve daughters. 
 The oldest of his father's children, John Albert 
 Lamberson was born in Columbia county, Ore., 
 June 16, 1854, and received his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the common schools of his native 
 county. In 1872, at the age of eighteen years, 
 he entered the academy of Prof. George W. Cur- 
 tis, at Vancouver, Wash., and through appli- 
 cation and hard work secured an excellent foun- 
 dation for higher studies in the three years which 
 he spent there. After leaving the academy he 
 went to Arizona, where he found employment 
 in the Hassayampa mines, where he met with a 
 fair return for his labor. In 1876 he settled in 
 eastern Oregon, engaging in the stock business 
 at Fossil, remaining there for six years, three of 
 which were spent in the study of medicine under 
 the tutelage of Dr. W. W. Oglesby, now of 
 Cottage Grove. At the expiration of this period 
 in 1882, he removed to Lebanon, Linn county, 
 and began practicing with Dr. D. W. Ballard, 
 an old resident physician, who had been ap- 
 pointed in an early day by President Grant as 
 governor of Idaho territory. Their professional 
 interests continued together until the death of 
 Dr. Ballard. In 1890 Dr. Lamberson became 
 interested in the sale of cascara sagrada bark, 
 and from a small beginning he is now under 
 contract to collect all of that product to be found 
 in the states of Oregon and Washington, as it 
 is grown only in the Pacific northwest. When 
 he first began the business there were only about 
 twenty tons consumed annually, but the annual 
 consumption is now two hundred tons. In addi- 
 
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 lion to this business he is also interested in ship- 
 piny balsam rir, principally to New York markets, 
 having begun this in connection with Capt. 
 George Pope, of Portland, Ore., who has since 
 left the business entirely to the doctor. Leading 
 up to this business was his help in promoting the 
 establishment of the Essential Oil Company for 
 the manufacture of cedar, hemlock and pepper- 
 mint oils. 
 
 Though interested along various lines. Dr. 
 Lamberson has never forgotten that his practice 
 means more to him than any other work, and he 
 has neglected no opportunity to become profi- 
 cient therein. In 1891 he passed an exhaustive 
 examination before the State Board of Medical 
 Examiners, his clear, practical knowledge and 
 judgment winning words of commendation from 
 the board, accompanied by the much-valued med- 
 ical certificate. He then continued his practice, 
 and in 1900. with Dr. J. Linsey Hill, of Albany, 
 Ore., as companion, he took a special course in 
 surgery in the New York School of Clinical 
 Medicine. Upon his return from New York 
 City he worked for a month each spring under 
 the instruction of Dr. A. E. Rockey, of St. Vin- 
 cent's Hospital, Portland, Ore., and a warm 
 friendship exists between the two men. Through 
 intense application to his work, which has char- 
 acterized every effort of Dr. Lamberson, he suf- 
 fered a paralytic stroke, January 25, 1902, which 
 has partly incapacitated him, leaving him able to 
 attend to the office practice only. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Lamberson occurred in 
 Lebanon, in 1882, and united him with 
 Mahala Mossholder, a native of Ohio, and the 
 daughter of Joseph Mossholder, who emigrated 
 to Oregon in 1863 and, locating in Lebanon, 
 built the first hotel in that town. The one child 
 born to them is Norman Vivian, who was born 
 May 22, 1885, and is now attending Santiam 
 Academy. Inheriting more than ordinary talent, 
 this representative of the pioneer family of Lam- 
 berson displays it in the writing of excellent 
 poetry, having begun its composition at the age 
 of thirteen years. Another member of the house- 
 hold of Dr. Lamberson is an adopted daughter, 
 Hazel May, who is also unusually talented, being 
 a contralto singer of no little ability. As a Re- 
 publican in politics Dr. Lamberson is very much 
 interested in the movements of his party, local or 
 national, and lends his best efforts toward ad- 
 vancing what he considers the broadest prin- 
 ciples of government. His busy life admitting 
 of no room for political honors, he has neverthe- 
 less given his time in various ways, serving for 
 several terms as committeeman. In 1896 he 
 edited a Republican paper called the Lebanon 
 Truth, which met with success under his able 
 management, though he discontinued the publi- 
 cation at the close of the political campaign of 
 
 that year. Fraternally he belongs to a number of 
 different orders, being tent physician of the 
 Knights of the Maccabees, in which he has served 
 as commander for eight terms. He was ap- 
 pointed state physician in 1899 for one term, 
 consisting of one year. In the Woodmen of the 
 World he is a member of Lamberson Camp, 
 No. 507, which was named in honor of himself, 
 and in which he serves as presiding officer; he 
 is also associated with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and the Order of Pendo, for 
 which he is general examiner. He is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lebanon. 
 
 WILLIAM O. HUDSON. To the student of 
 nature the nurseryman's occupation opens up fas- 
 cinating vistas of investigation, and he has the 
 added satisfaction of seeing his products sent 
 forth to beautify and gladden the world about 
 him. No humdrum life is his, but one fraught 
 with never-ending interest, that interest felt while 
 watching growth from seed to perfection, and 
 in working always near to the heart of nature. 
 A particularly appreciative disciple of horticul- 
 ture is William O. Hudson, whose many years 
 of practical experience with flower and shrub, 
 fruit and vine, has entitled him to rank among 
 the most cultured of those who plant, train and 
 develop. 
 
 All of the active life of Mr. Hudson has been 
 devoted to horticulture, his first interest therein 
 having been aroused on his father's farm in Alle- 
 gan county, Mich., where he was born July 28, 
 1846. The four other children in his father's 
 family spent their youth as did he, in assisting 
 with the wcrk around the home, and in attending 
 the public schools. As a young man he took 
 up the nursery business, and from the beginning 
 strove to learn all that his teachers had to tell 
 him. At the age of twenty he started out on his 
 own responsibility, went to Missouri, and worked 
 in a nursery in that state for about two years. 
 With this experience he then returned to Michi- 
 gan and started the Allegan County Nursery, a 
 venture which proved successful, and to which 
 he devoted nineteen years of the best part of 
 his life. In Michigan he married, December 13, 
 1870, Anna Donaldson, who was born in Ohio, 
 and of which union there have been born three 
 children : Cora L., the wife of H. H. White, of 
 Wasco City ; Albert D., of Tangent ; and Flor- 
 ence A., of Eugene. 
 
 In 1891 Mr. Hudson disposed of the Allegan 
 County Nursery and, having heard favorable 
 reports of the soil possibilities of Oregon, 
 brought his wife and children to Tangent. For 
 three years he served as foreman of the Settle- 
 mier Nurseries, and in 1893 became identified 
 with the Pacific Nursery Company, now owned 
 
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 by himself and son. Father and son have proved 
 of great help to each other, are most congen- 
 ially associated, and do one of the largest busi- 
 nesses in this county. They own one hundred 
 and fifty-two acres of land, about sixty of which 
 is under nursery cultivation. A visit to this 
 nursery reveals many interesting sights, and the 
 •visitor is impressed with the many-sided knowl- 
 edge of things that grow, as shown by the many 
 kinds of plants, the neatness and compactness 
 of arrangement, and the modern facilities for 
 watering, wintering, and general care. Mr. Hud- 
 son is past master of his calling, and his plants 
 seem to understand and appreciate his interest, 
 and to respond with dutiful alacrity to his expec- 
 tations. He is well and favorably known 
 throughout the entire county, and his products 
 find a ready market in the surrounding states, 
 and in towns all along the coast. Mr. Hudson 
 has never taken any special interest in politics, 
 and generally votes for the man best qualified to 
 fill the office. He is fraternally connected with 
 the Knights of the Maccabees, and is a member 
 and active worker in the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 Albert D. Hudson, the son and partner of 
 William O., was born in Michigan, September 
 17, 1874, and came to the west with his father in 
 1 89 1. As a lad he became versed in the work 
 around the nursery, and has steadily advanced to 
 the fore, so that he is today a remarkably well 
 informed nurseryman. He married Golden 
 Knighten, a native daughter of Oregon, and an 
 earnest sympathizer with her husband's busi- 
 ness. Mr. Hudson is independent in politics, is 
 fraternally a Knight of the Maccabees, and is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
 is a young man of great promise, and should his 
 father retire from his present responsibility as 
 general manager of the nurseries, he will leave 
 the business in most capable and business like 
 hands. 
 
 ENOCH D. SLOAN. Conspicuous among 
 the older residents of Albany is Enoch D. Sloan, 
 who has attained distinction as one of the brave 
 and courageous pioneer settlers of Linn county, 
 and is deserving of honored mention in this bio- 
 graphical volume as a veteran of the early Indian 
 wars. Coming here when the country was but 
 sparsely populated, he took up land that was 
 in its pristine wildness, and while clearing his 
 claim was also actively identified with the estab- 
 lishment of the great lumber industry of the Pa- 
 cific coast by the erection of a saw-mill. At the 
 present time he is carrying on a substantial bus- 
 iness as a wagon and carriagemaker, his shop 
 being located on West Second street, Albany. A 
 son of the late William Sloan, he was born June 
 
 12, 183 1, in Montgomery county, Ohio, seven 
 miles north of the thriving city of Dayton. 
 
 A Pennsylvanian by birth, William Sloan re- 
 moved to Montgomery county, Ohio, when 
 young, and was there engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits several years. Removing with his fam- 
 ily to Covington, Ind., he resided there until 
 !853, when he came with his family to Oregon, 
 making the journey across the dreary plains with 
 bull-teams. He located first in the Umpqua val- 
 ley, but afterwards took up land in Linn county, 
 about eight miles from Albany, and there car- 
 ried on general farming until his death. He 
 married Mary Dunkereley, who emigrated with 
 her parents from England, her native country, 
 to Ohio, when a girl of ten years. Of their fam- 
 ily nine children, eight sons and one daughter, 
 six sons survive, three of them being residents 
 of Oregon. 
 
 Being but a small child when his parents left 
 Ohio, E. D. Sloan was brought up and educated 
 in Indiana, on the home farm. Learning the car- 
 penter's trade when eighteen years of age, he 
 subsequently worked at that occupation until 
 1853, when he came with his parents to Oregon, 
 driving five yokes of bulls all the way across the 
 plains. Settling in Linn county soon after his ar- 
 rival, he began work as a carpenter, and took up 
 a donation claim about three miles from the 
 village of Albany. He cleared the land, bringing 
 a large part of it under cultivation, and erected a 
 saw-mill on the Callapooia river. Thus well start- 
 ed in business, he carried on general agriculture 
 and lumbering quite successfully for awhile. En- 
 listing in 1855 in Company D, First Regiment 
 of Oregon Volunteers, he took an active part in 
 the various engagements with the Indians of the 
 northwest, remaining in Walla Walla county, 
 Wash., until June, 1856, when he was honorably 
 discharged from service. 
 
 Returning then to Linn county, Ore., Mr. 
 Sloan resumed work at the carpenter's trade, and 
 did considerable building, hewing the timber from 
 the forests, and putting up houses, confining his 
 operations as a contractor and builder to Albany 
 and vicinity. Becoming well known as a skillful 
 mechanic, he was for five years employed by the 
 government, being for two years carpenter at the 
 Warm Springs Indian reservation, and for three 
 years at the Klamath Indian reservation. Com- 
 ing back to Albany, Mr. Sloan followed his for- 
 mer trade until 1897, when he removed to Pen- 
 dleton, where he was engaged in business with 
 his brother for five years. Since the fall of 1902 
 he has resided in Albany, where he is prosper- 
 ously employed as a wagon and carriage manu- 
 facturer, as previously mentioned. 
 
 Mr. Sloan married, while living near Albany, 
 Emily Haley, who was born in Illinois, and came 
 to Oregon with her parents in 1847. Their only 
 
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 1060 
 
 child, Burr M. Sloan, is employed as a govern- 
 ment carpenter at an Indian reservation in North 
 Dakota. Politically Mr. Sloan is an adherent 
 oi the Democratic party, and fraternally he is a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and of the Indian War Veterans' Associa- 
 tion. Mrs. Sloan is a valued member of the 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 JOHN R. SMITH. A pioneer who has met 
 with most gratifying returns for the days of 
 bardships and privations which he passed when 
 the country was new, for the dangers he faced 
 in the unsettled wilderness, for the strength of 
 youth which he gave to the upbuilding of the 
 commonwealth, is J. R. Smith, the postmaster of 
 Lebanon, Linn county, Ore. He came to Ore- 
 gon in 1852, and has spent most of the interven- 
 ing years within the borders of the state, where 
 he has won more than local renown through the 
 display of characteristics which have contributed 
 to the country's greatness. 
 
 The father of J. R. Smith, Dr. Elijah Smith, 
 was also a pioneer, emigrating from his native 
 state of Ohio to Iowa in 1837, where he remained 
 until he settled permanently on the Pacific slope. 
 His father was John J. Smith, a native of Ken- 
 tucky, who came to Ohio in an early day and 
 located in Madison county, his land being that 
 upon which the town of Mount Sterling was 
 afterward built, and toward which he helped very 
 materially. His occupation was primarily that 
 of a millwright, though he combined the inter- 
 ests of farming with his trade. He owned both 
 a saw and a gristmill. In 1838 he removed to Jef- 
 ferson county, Iowa, and there engaged in farm- 
 ing, his death occurring there at the age of 
 eighty-six years. Elijah Smith removed to Iowa, 
 in 1837, and located in Jefferson county, where, 
 with his farming, he combined the practice of 
 medicine. He had made a special study of can- 
 cer, and it was in this line that he really made 
 his greatest successes. He soon became well 
 known throughout the state through his evident 
 knowledge and practical treatment of the dis- 
 ease. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, 
 and entered the mines at Placerville, and two 
 years later he came north and located in Oregon. 
 He took a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres in Marion county, near the town 
 of Sublimity, and, combining farming with the 
 practice of medicine, he soon became as thor- 
 oughly known in Oregon as he was in the middle 
 west, people coming to him for relief from every 
 part of the northwest. Later in life he removed 
 to Macleay and passed a few years in retirement, 
 where he died in 1885, at the age of eighty-six 
 years. Pie had married Annie Riddle, a native of 
 Ohio, who died in Salem, Ore., in 1880, when 
 
 seventy-five years old. She was the daughter of 
 John Riddle, who was born in Ohio, and spent the 
 greater part of his life there, engaged in the 
 cultivation of the soil. His death occurred in his 
 native state. 
 
 Of the eleven children born to Dr. and Mrs. 
 Smith, six sons and five daughters, J. R. Smith 
 is the oldest, and was born in Madison county, 
 Ohio, September 23, 1830, and remained at home 
 with his parents for many years. He received 
 his education in the primitive schools, and when 
 about twenty years old he crossed the plains with 
 his parents and became a resident of Placerville, 
 Cal., where he engaged in mining, in which he 
 enjoyed a fair degree of success. In the fall of 
 the same year he returned to Iowa with his pa- 
 rents, arriving in the state which had so long 
 been their home, in January, 185 1. The next year 
 found them again upon the plains, this time 
 bound for the great northwest. This son soon 
 became independent, and engaged in work in 
 which he hoped to reap substantial returns. 
 In the Waldo Hills, Marion county, he engaged 
 in buying and selling cattle and following the car- 
 penter's trade, and a few years later, through 
 energy and industry, he was able to make a pur- 
 chase of land, the first being near Sublimity, and 
 consisted of three hundred and twenty acres, upon 
 which he remained for two years. At the close 
 of that period he sold this property and bought 
 two hundred acres in the same iocality, upon 
 which he engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
 until 1865, when he became the owner of land 
 in the neighborhood of Lebanon. Thirty years 
 passed away while he made this place his home 
 and many changes came to the sturdy pioneers 
 of this one-time wilderness. In 1895 he removed 
 to his present home, a pleasant, well improved 
 residence on Bridge avenue, Lebanon, and with 
 two acres of rich land to cultivate. On his first 
 residence in the city he engaged with his son 
 in the drug business. Mr. Smith still owns a 
 farm in the vicinity of this place, comprising 
 three hundred and fifty acres of land. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Smith took place in Ma- 
 rion county, Ore., Ann E. Peebler, a native of 
 Iowa, becoming his wife. The five children which 
 blessed their union are : Mary M. is the wife of 
 D. V. S. Reed, a professor in the high school 
 of Heppner, Ore. ; Flora M. is the wife of George 
 N. Bolton, of Moro, Ore. ; I. M. is a physician 
 at Tillamook, Ore. ; Addie is the wife of W. S. 
 Mayberry, an educator of Milton, Ore. ; and N. 
 W. is assistant postmaster under his father. 
 Through the influence of the Republican party, 
 of which he is a stanch and active partisan, Mr. 
 Smith was appointed, in 1899, postmaster at Leb- 
 anon. He has also been a delegate to various 
 state and county conventions, and a school di- 
 rector for many terms. During the Rogue River 
 
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 war of 1855-6 he was first lieutenant in a minute 
 company, stationed at Sublimity, but they were 
 never called out to active service. In religion 
 Mr. Smith is a member of the Baptist Church of 
 Lebanon. 
 
 VALENTINE H. CALDWELL. Living on 
 his pleasant and well appointed homestead, four 
 miles southwest of Albany, Valentine H. Cald- 
 well is numbered among the most extensive land- 
 holders, and successful agriculturists of Linn 
 county. Beginning life for himself on a low rung 
 of the ladder, his worldly capital being $7.50, he 
 has since made diligent use of his faculties and 
 opportunities, and has proved himself a useful 
 and worthy citizen, well meriting the confidence 
 and esteem in which he is held throughout the 
 community. He is a son of John Caldwell, and 
 was born in Kentucky. His father was born of 
 Irish ancestors in Kentucky, but from the age of 
 six years until his death, at the age of four 
 score and six years, he was a resident of Mis- 
 souri. He married Mary Stockton, a native of 
 Kentucky, and she survived him, living to a very 
 advanced age. 
 
 The oldest of a family of five children, Valen- 
 tine H. Caldwell received his knowledge of books 
 in the subscription schools of his native state, 
 and remained beneath the paternal roof-tree 
 until attaining his majority. In the spring of 
 1852 he started across the plains, driving an ox- 
 team for his uncle, who was captain of the train. 
 While on the way several members of the party, 
 including his uncle, died from cholera. Arriving 
 in Oregon, Mr. Caldwell spent a short time near 
 Monroe, Benton county, after which he engaged 
 in mining near Jacksonville, Jackson county. 
 Settling then in Marion county, he took up a do- 
 nation claim near Sublimity, and subsequently 
 lived there and in that locality until 1868. Com- 
 ing then to Linn county, he purchased one hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land, which are now in- 
 cluded in his present homestead. He has since 
 made extensive purchases of land, being now the 
 possessor of twelve hundred acres, more than 
 one-half of which are in a good state of cultiva- 
 tion, being devoted to general farming and stock- 
 raising. In the latter industry he has met with 
 excellent success, chiefly breeding and rearing 
 Red Durham cattle. On this homestead Mr. 
 Caldwell has made marked improvements, hav- 
 ing erected new buildings of modern character, 
 his barns and outbuildings being commodious and 
 convenient, and his farm amply supplied with the 
 necessary tools, machinery and appliances for 
 successfully carrying on agricultural operations. 
 
 With the exception of six years, Mr. Caldwell 
 has been engaged in agricultural labor since com- 
 ing to Oregon. During the Yakima Indian war 
 
 he enlisted, in 1856, and served one hundred and 
 six days under Captain Hardin, being on guard 
 duty the greater part of the time. Although tak- 
 ing an earnest interest in public affairs, he has 
 never been an aspirant for official honors, but has 
 warmly supported the principles of the Prohibi- 
 tion party. He is identified with the Oregon 
 Pioneer Association as a member, and belongs 
 to the society organized by the Indian War Vet- 
 erans. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Caldwell married Sarah Grier, a 
 native of Ohio, and into their home seventeen 
 children have been born, namely : John H, now 
 deceased ; Mrs. Mary S. Kantz, of Roseburg, 
 Ore. ; George, residing in Portland ; Seth, de- 
 ceased ; Jackson, living in Washington ; Mrs. 
 Nellie Hughs, of Pendleton, Ore. ; Charles, of 
 Walla Walla, Wash. ; Fannie, at home ; Mrs. 
 Martha Marsh, of Odessa, Wash. ; Lydia, of 
 Roseburg ; William, living near Albany ; Frank 
 and Fred, twins, living at home ; Jane, at home ; 
 James ; Media, at home ; and Almetia, twin sis- 
 ter of Media, deceased. In these days when so 
 much is said about the small families of native 
 Americans, it is refreshing to come upon a house- 
 hold such as Mr. Caldwell's. Mr. Caldwell united 
 with the Baptist Church in 1851, and has 
 served many years as one of its deacons. Mrs. 
 Caldwell is also a member of the same church, 
 having joined in 1871. 
 
 WILLIAM B. HENDERSON. The sense of 
 security and substantiality one feels when speak- 
 ing with William B. Henderson is borne out in 
 his character and attainments, and he is known 
 today among the chief developers of the sections 
 in which he has lived. Mr. Henderson comes of 
 a family which came to the fore in the early emer- 
 gencies of the country, its members filling many 
 positions of trust and responsibility, and his 
 grandfather on the paternal side serving with 
 distinction in the war of 1812. As far back as is 
 known his people were tillers of the soil, an occu- 
 pation followed by his parents in Guernsey 
 county, Ohio, where he himself was born, Octo- 
 ber 9, 1839. He comes of long-lived ancestry on 
 both sides of the family, his father living to be 
 eighty-six, and his mother eighty-eight years of 
 age. 
 
 Mr. Henderson had eleven brothers and sisters, 
 all of whom were reared on the Guernsey county 
 farm, and were taught to be practical agricul- 
 turists, as well as upright and useful citizens. 
 William B. was studious as a lad, and made the 
 most of his opportunities at the public school in 
 his neighborhood, eventually qualifying as a 
 teacher, an occupation to which he devoted several 
 years of his life. Beginning at the age of nine- 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1073 
 
 toon, he taught tor five or six years in Ohio. His 
 advent into a more strenuous activity began in 
 iSo_\ when he joined his brother, A. C, in the 
 necos^ary preparations for coming to the coast. 
 Via the Isthmus of Panama and San Francisco 
 they finally arrived in Portland, and Mr. Hen- 
 derson lived for the first three years in Polk 
 and Marion counties, where he taught school 
 for three years. Following this he taught for 
 two years in Linn county. In the year 1867 
 lie was united in marriage with N. Jane 
 Deckard, a native of Missouri, who crossed 
 the plains with her parents in 1853. Her 
 parents, Anderson and Lydia Deckard, settled 
 on a donation claim ten miles south of Albany, 
 where they lived for the balance of their lives. 
 After his marriage Mr. Henderson farmed for a 
 time, and in 1870 purchased a drove of cattle and 
 took them to Crook county, where he engaged in 
 stock-raising for a couple of years. In 1872 he 
 purchased a place of three hundred and forty-one 
 acres two miles southwest of Albany, comprising 
 a portion of the old Jarvis Briggs donation claim. 
 Two years later he sold part of this farm, and in 
 1878 moved to Umatilla county, with the best 
 development of which he was connected for about 
 twenty years. He was one of the largest wheat 
 raisers in the county, his last crop being ten 
 thousand bushels. He owned three quarter-sec- 
 tions of land, and also extensively raised cattle, 
 sheep and horses. He was one of the chief pro- 
 moters and organizers of the town of Helix, 
 and was instrumental in getting the postoffice 
 there, also in laying out precincts and town- 
 sites. At the present time he is a large property 
 owner of Adams, Umatilla county. Although 
 never active in politics, he held the office of 
 justice of the peace for several years, and, taken 
 all in all, was as prominent and progressive and 
 forceful a man as the country had known in its 
 history. 
 
 From Umatilla county Mr. Henderson came to 
 Albany and bought five acres adjoining the town, 
 where he is still living, and upon which he has 
 made extensive improvements. He also owns 
 two hundred and seventy-three acres near Albany, 
 which he himself manages, and he also owns a 
 farm of three hundred and forty-four acres in 
 Benton county. He is extensively engaged in 
 raising Cotswold sheep and fine cattle, and, need- 
 less to say, his farms are valuable and very pro- 
 ductive. Since 1869 he has been comparatively 
 alone, for his wife died that year, leaving to his 
 care two children, of whom E. Maud is living 
 with her father, while Guy S. until recently lived 
 in New York city, where he gained quite a rep- 
 utation as an artist and designer. He is now 
 connected with the Holmes Business College of 
 Portland, having charge of the penmanship and 
 art department. 
 
 Since his seventeenth year Mr. Henderson has 
 been a member of the Christian Church, and has 
 ever since been active in church work, contribut- 
 ing generously of his means towards its main- 
 tenance and general charities. No one in this 
 or Umatilla county bears a more enviable repu- 
 tation for absolute fair dealing and personal in- 
 tegrity, nor has any been more successful in 
 turning to good account the advantages by which 
 they were surrounded in a new and strange 
 country. 
 
 STEPHEN RIGDON. Wherever men have 
 gone in the pursuit of wealth, no matter how 
 remote the location, how lonely or unpromising 
 the conditions by which they are surrounded, it 
 invariably necessitates self-sacrifice combined 
 with all the ennobling influences which are em- 
 bodied in human make-up. Of such character 
 was John Rigdon, father of Stephen Rigdon, the 
 latter one of the most prominent and influential 
 farmers of Lane county. 
 
 John Rigdon was born in Pennsylvania, Oc- 
 tober 15, 1796, and was reared on a farm, re- 
 ceiving his preliminary education in the district 
 schools. As a young man he left home and 
 started for the west, locating in Ohio, where he 
 entered the ministry and preached in connection 
 with farming. December 8, 1818, he married 
 Catherine Logan, who was born in the Buckeye 
 state June 12, 1798. They continued to live in 
 Ohio until removing to Illinois in 1832. It was 
 while living in Iowa, to which he removed in 
 1848, that he became interested in the far west, 
 and as the numbers westward bound increased 
 every year, he was more and more convinced that 
 his best and broadest opportunity lay the other 
 side of the Rockies. Starting out in March, 
 1852, he had rather an uneventful trip across 
 the plains, and in Oregon settled in Polk county, 
 remaining there about two years. Mr. Rigdon 
 then came to Lane county and took up a claim 
 five miles southeast of Pleasant Hill, in a place 
 known as Rattle Snake valley, where he farmed 
 for the remainder of his life, although his 
 preaching took him from home for many months 
 during the year. He was one of the organizers 
 of the first church in this part of the county, and 
 he was one of the first ministers in this part of 
 the state. Those familiar with his life and work 
 unhesitatingly credit him with accomplishing 
 more good than did any other similarly engaged 
 in the county, although the scope of his activity 
 was by no means a local one. It were impos- 
 sible to even estimate the number of miles trav- 
 eled by this pioneer preacher in his more than 
 ordinarily busy life, for he counted no effort too 
 great providing some soul was benefited there- 
 by. Probably no man of his time could lav 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 claim to greater familiarity with both well 
 known and out of the way places in Oregon and 
 Washington, for he visited both states with im- 
 partial spirit, going wherever there was demand 
 for his services, and performing them regard- 
 less of financial remuneration. Few students of 
 the bible saw so clearly through the mazes that 
 perplex, vex and discourage travelers on the 
 highway of life, and his sermons were as clear 
 and convincing as his mind and heart were 
 bright and true. His eloquence, humanity and 
 goodness drew to him many fine and distin- 
 guished friends, and no home in the county was 
 better known, more eagerly sought, Or more hos- 
 pitable. Mr. Rigdon retired from active life a 
 few years before his death, which occurred in 
 March, 1859, at the age of eighty-two years, his 
 wife living to be eighty years of age. His first 
 wife dying June 15, 1834, Mr. Rigdon married 
 in Illinois a Miss Laughlin, who was born _ in 
 Kentucky. They had one child, who died in in- 
 fancy. For a third wife he married Mary Bell, 
 a native of Ohio, and of this union there were 
 born several children, of whom Mrs. Phoebe 
 Parker lives in Lane county ; George lives in 
 Union county; and Addie lives near the old 
 place. 
 
 Stephen Rigdon was reared on the old farm 
 in the middle west and preceded his father to 
 the coast in 1850. He also came with ox-teams, 
 but stopped in California after a journey of four 
 months and a half, and remained there until 
 1853. He was fairly successful, and joined his 
 people in their new home in Lane county the 
 richer by a few hundred dollars. After a short 
 visit he left for Marion and Clackamas counties, 
 looking for a desirable permanent location, and 
 in the spring of 1854 located in Lane county. 
 The same year he was united in marriage with 
 Zilphia Bristow, who was born in McDonough 
 county, 111., in 1834, and crossed the plains 
 with her parents in 1848. The young people 
 went to housekeeping on a part of the father- 
 in-law's donation claim, Elijah Bristow being 
 one of the foremost pioneers of his time and the 
 owner of a large tract of land. He was the first 
 white man to take up land within the limits of 
 Lane county, and is credited with building the 
 first house in the county. The two hundred and 
 seventy-five acres now owned by Mr. Rigdon 
 have been improved under his direction. His 
 barns and out-buildings are of modern and con- 
 venient construction. He is engaged in stock- 
 raising and small farming, and is one of the suc- 
 cessful and prominent men of his vicinity. Bear- 
 ing an honored name owing partly to the ex- 
 emplary life of his father, his own character 
 and attainments are in keeping with what one 
 might expect from so noble and kindly a source. 
 The elder Rigdon was a Whig of intense convic- 
 
 tions, and his son is a Republican, the majority 
 of the local offices in the community having 
 fallen to his share during the recent years. Hav- 
 ing no children of his own, he has adopted a son, 
 Paul L. Bristow, who has lived with the family 
 for forty-two years. This adopted son is a 
 nephew of Mrs. Rigdon, and is married and has 
 four children, Jeannie W., Clarence R., Lillie, 
 and Edith. Mr. Bristow is now conducting the 
 home farm. He was the son of E. L. Bristow, 
 one of the pioneers of the Willamette valley and 
 a man of literary attainments. Mrs. Rigdon 
 died at the home where she and her husband 
 had lived for so many years May 1 1, 1903, leav- 
 ing behind her a multitude of friends and a void 
 that is impossible to fill. She was one who al- 
 ways took the lead in charitable matters in her 
 neighborhood. 
 
 ANDREW EDGAR WRIGHTMAN, M.D. 
 Among the more recent arrivals in Oregon is 
 Andrew Edgar Wrightman, of Silverton, who 
 since September 20, 1902, has practiced his pro- 
 fession here. He is a young man of strong in- 
 tellectuality, marked individuality and keen en- 
 terprising spirit and the future promises him suc- 
 cess. He was born in Bowmanville, Canada, 
 October 8, 1876, a son of John Wrightman, 
 whose birth occurred in St. Ignace, Mich. His 
 grandfather was a native of England and when 
 a young man came to the United States, locating 
 first in St. Ignace, Mich., where he engaged in 
 'the lumber business. At the time of his. death 
 his son John took the business and conducted it 
 for some time. He subsequently removed to 
 Canada, where he had mills on the river Trent. 
 He was recognized as one of the leading repre- 
 sentatives of the lumber trade of his day, own- 
 ing between thirty and forty different mills, to- 
 gether with a large number of logging camps 
 and employing hundreds of men. His business 
 grew until it had reached extensive proportions, 
 making him one of the leaders in the entire 
 country. He was also a prominent Orangeman, 
 and while entertaining his employes one night at 
 one of his lumber camps five miles south of 
 Chatham, Canada, the Catholics, who disliked 
 him because of his connection with the Orange- 
 men and because he would not employ them as 
 laborers, came to the camp and with clubs and 
 knives began fighting the employes of Mr. 
 Wrightman. He displayed great valor in at- 
 tempting to restore peace, but he and two of his 
 men were killed and a number of others were 
 injured. This occurred in 1879. Mr. Wright- 
 man had also been connected with the Fenian 
 Raid. He was a very wealthy man, whose large 
 and important business interests had been built 
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 splendid success. At the time of his death his 
 family were living in Chatham. In early man- 
 hood he had wedded Mary Gould, a native of 
 Canada, who now resides in Bowmanville, On- 
 tario. She was a distant relative of Jay Gould. 
 1 lei" lather came to Canada at an early day from 
 England. He was a farmer and an Indian fighter 
 and for many years lived in Toronto, where his 
 death ultimately occurred. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wrightman were born two sons and five daugh- 
 ters. 
 
 The doctor is the youngest of the family, and 
 acquired his early education in the public 
 schools of his native town. When but nine years 
 of age he went to Tidioute, Pa., where he se- 
 cured a position as landscape painter in a chair 
 manufactory. After a short time in that position 
 he went to Jamestown, N. Y., where he was 
 employed at his trade and then started a business 
 of his own as a painter and landscape artist. 
 In 1889 he removed to New York City, where he 
 was employed in landscape painting of opera 
 scenery for John Coe & Company. He possessed 
 natural artistic ability and produced some very 
 creditable work. In 1890 he took up his abode 
 in Toronto, Canada, where he established the 
 Toronto Portrait Company for enlarging pic- 
 tures, thus instituting a business which is still 
 in existence. In 1891 the doctor withdrew and 
 went to Minneapolis, Minn., and in the fall of 
 the same year he again went to Jamestown, N. 
 Y., where he took charge of the chair manu- 
 factory business of the firm of Curtis & Page., 
 continuing in that capacity until 1893. 
 
 In the year mentioned Dr. Wrightman became 
 a student in Dwight L. Moody's School at Mount 
 Hermon, Mass., where he pursued a literary 
 course for two years and in 1895 he became a 
 student in Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, 
 where he pursued a theological course. He went 
 to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1896, and entered upon 
 a four years' course in the Eclectic Medical In- 
 stitute, and in 1899 he went to Baltimore, Md., 
 where he pursued a special course in the medical 
 department of Johns Hopkins University, mak- 
 ing a specialty of the diseases of the blood and 
 skin. He also took a special course on the dis- 
 eases of women and children in Child's Hospital, 
 and in 1901 he returned to Cincinnati, where he 
 completed his studies in the Eclectic Medical 
 Institute. Then locating at Mansfield, Ohio, he 
 practiced there for four months and on Septem- 
 ber 20, 1902, he arrived in Oregon, locating at 
 Silverton, where he has since engaged in prac- 
 tice with growing success. . He also owns a half 
 interest in the drug business of Lewis Johnson 
 & Company, Mr. Johnson being his brother-in- 
 law. 
 
 Julv 9, 1902, in Jamestown, N. Y., the doctor 
 was united in marriage with Miss Helen Marie 
 
 Johnson, a daughter of J. W. Johnson, who was 
 born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and came to 
 the United States in 1886, at which time he es- 
 tablished his home at Jamestown, N. Y., and 
 there engaged in dealing in ice. He had a 
 monopoly of the trade at that place for twenty- 
 seven years and did a very extensive and pros- 
 perous business. He was also proprietor of the 
 Buffalo House in that city, and he is now a well 
 known and prosperous real estate man of James- 
 town. 
 
 The doctor and his wife have already won 
 many warm friends in the leading social circles 
 in Silverton. He is a most pleasant, genial gen- 
 tleman, popular wherever he goes. He belongs 
 to the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and to the Congregational Church. 
 In his profession he is giving evidence of ability, 
 which promises well for a successful future. 
 Few men have talent along as many lines as has 
 Dr. Wrightman. He not only possesses much 
 natural artistic ability, but is a fluent and force- 
 ful writer and has considerable poetic talent. 
 One of the beautiful little gems which he has 
 written is "Night Thoughts," and we here give 
 it as a specimen of his literary ability : 
 
 When the winds are sadly moaning 
 
 Thro' the trees so tall and bare, 
 And the moon's rays gently gleaming 
 
 Making night seem soft and fair ; 
 Then my thoughts go slowly stealing 
 
 To the shores of long ago, 
 Where the sun of childhood shining 
 
 Kept away all care and woe. 
 
 On the shores are loved ones standing, 
 
 Who were dear as life to me ; 
 But they're now beyond the billows 
 
 Breaking on life's troubled sea. 
 Shall I know them up in Heaven 
 
 Where the gates are open wide? 
 Will they happily be standing 
 
 Close to my dear Savior's side? 
 
 When the angels softly singing 
 
 Fill the hills with welcome song, 
 Shall I hear their voices ringing 
 
 Sweetly from the angel throng? 
 Will they, when the harps of Heaven 
 
 Send their music out afar, 
 Lead me by the hand so gently 
 
 Thro' the golden gates ajar? 
 
 From the wind now softly sighing 
 
 Comes a voice both clear and sweet, 
 And it says, "Yes, up in Heaven 
 
 You will all your loved ones greet." 
 Now the voice is lowly pleading 
 
 That I tread earth's path aright, 
 So at last I'll live in glory 
 
 Where there's no more wind of night. 
 
 DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN. The name 
 most early connected with the pioneer history of 
 Oregon is that of Dr. John McLoughlin, who 
 
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 came to Oregon in 1823, as director for the Hud- 
 son Bay Company, acting under authority of the 
 British government. For twenty years there- 
 after he was called governor of Oregon, by cour- 
 tesy and authority of the company with which he 
 was identified, the territory over which he exer- 
 cised control extending from the Rocky Moun- 
 tains to the Pacific ocean and from California to 
 Alaska. It was a dangerous and lonely life, but 
 that earnest and unfaltering courage demanded 
 in the pioneer was fully met by the character of 
 Dr. McLoughlin; no better man, no truer pio- 
 neer could have been chosen to prepare the way 
 for those who were to come after and live in the 
 prosperous conditions which to-day make of Ore- 
 gon a state equal to any in the Union. It is no 
 less a pleasure than a duty to recall the lives of 
 such men. 
 
 Dr. John McLoughlin was born in Quebec, in 
 1784, and received his education in France. He 
 was the representative of Scotch ancestry and 
 many of the strong traits which distinguished this 
 people made up the character of the man who 
 proved so potent a factor in the early life of the 
 northwest. That he was earnest in purpose, en- 
 ergetic in action and indomitable in will all the 
 records of his life show, and as a mere lad he 
 entered the service of the old North-West Fur 
 Company and put to practical use his native char- 
 acteristics. For about twenty-four years he saw 
 much of the hardships and dangers which made 
 up the life of the traders, and in that time he 
 labored patiently, passing, step by step, from the 
 lowest to the highest position that could be given 
 him. When the object of the Northwest Fur 
 Company was attained and they were admitted 
 to the privileges of the Hudson Bay Company, 
 whose name they assumed, Dr. McLoughlin came 
 to Astoria and accepted the responsibilities of 
 the first governor of Oregon. Beyond the official 
 duties which the position entailed upon him the 
 doctor put forth his most earnest efforts toward 
 advancing the interests of the territory over 
 which he had assumed control, and for which 
 he foresaw a great future. He it was who first 
 brought wheat, oats, barley, corn, potatoes and 
 tame grass seeds to Oregon, and it was through 
 his indefatigable efforts that to agriculture was 
 devoted so much time and attention in those early 
 days. Soon after coming to Astoria he moved 
 the post to Vancouver, Wash., and in every pos- 
 sible way encouraged settlement, as well as meet- 
 ing with success in his official capacity. Through 
 a kindly benevolence and wide charity he en- 
 deared himself to all with whom he came in con- 
 tact, winning the regard of all nationalities, al- 
 though he stoutly maintained the interests of the 
 Hudson Bay Company. 
 
 With the coming of the American pioneers into 
 the country made habitable by Dr. McLoughlin. 
 
 conditions were changed and there came a time 
 of trouble into the life of this truly noble man. 
 From 1840 to 1847 ne witnessed the gradual de- 
 cline of his personal authority, the falling away 
 of those who had been his stanch adherents, and 
 the shadow of an almost universal condemnation 
 which well nigh obscured his life of service in 
 Oregon. His was a peculiar position. In Eng- 
 lish employ for many years, he labored zealously 
 for the interests of his native country upon dis- 
 puted territory ; with the coming of the American 
 pioneers he gave to them the humane and cour- 
 teous treatment which was a part of his charac- 
 ter, gaining inevitably the condemnation of his 
 own government and not the friendship of the 
 other, since he had so long been considered un- 
 friendly to American colonization. He, there- 
 fore, stood alone. Later in life he absolved al- 
 legiance to the British government and became 
 a citizen of the United States, but through relig- 
 ious opponents he lost his fortune, and at his 
 death, in 1857, was a P oor man. In religion Dr. 
 McLoughlin was a member of the Roman Cath- 
 olic Church, but was broad and liberal in his 
 views in the matter of religious beliefs, as well 
 as in all that pertained to his daily life among 
 the pioneer condition of early Oregon. 
 
 CHARLIE LONG. Much attention is paid 
 to fruit-raising in western Oregon, and the fruits 
 are of fine quality and flavor. Apples, pears, 
 cherries, plums, prunes, grapes, and various other 
 fruits grow in abundance. Mr. Long, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, has a delightful little farm 
 of twenty-three acres in the vicinity of Silverton 
 and raises fruit quite extensively. An Ohioan 
 by birth, he was born in Washington county, 
 March 13, i860. He is a son of Martin S. and 
 Martha A. (Carroll) Long. 
 
 Martin S. Long was born April 6, 1820, in 
 Belmont county, Ohio, and was left an orphan at 
 the tender age of three years. He was cared for, 
 however, by a Belmont county family, with whom 
 he lived until he attained the age of eighteen 
 years, when he began to make his own way in 
 the world. He went to Louisville, Ky., where 
 he learned the trade of a ship-carpenter. Dur- 
 ing the Mexican war, he went to sea in pursuit 
 of his chosen calling, but subsequently returned 
 to Washington county, Ohio, where he married 
 a Miss Pinkerton. Four children blessed this 
 union, two being now deceased. Those living 
 are Mrs. Susan Miller, of Harmer, Ohio, and 
 Mrs. Mary E. Randell, of Seattle, Wash. The 
 mother of these children died in Washington 
 county, Ohio. Some time later, Mr. Long con- 
 tracted a second matrimonial alliance in Morgan 
 county, Ohio, where he was united with Martha 
 A. Carroll, of Maryland. After marriage, they 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 made their residence in Washington county, 
 Ohio, until 1874, when they came to Oregon. 
 They took up their abode near Gervais for about 
 a year and a half, and then purchased a two 
 hundred and eighty-acre farm, about two and 
 one-half miles north of Silverton. They reared 
 six children, as follows: Emma, of Linn county; 
 Charlie, the subject of this biography 7 ; Clara, 
 deceased; James C, of Polk county; Amos W., 
 of The Dalles ; and Minnie, who resides near 
 Salem. Both parents lived to a good old age, 
 the father being seventy-five and the mother 
 seventy-one years of age at the time of her 
 demise. The former was prominently connected 
 with the Odd Fellows. 
 
 Charlie Long obtained his education in the 
 district schools and assisted his father on the 
 farm until he reached his majority. He then 
 went to Walla Walla, Wash., where he spent 
 two or three years at various occupations, and, 
 after a brief trip through California, he spent 
 the five years following in southern Oregon. He 
 afterward returned to his home, where he was 
 married and settled down on a part of the home 
 place, where he still resides. He was united 
 in marriage, November 5, 1892, with Frances 
 Prouty. who was born in Nebraska, but came to 
 Oregon in 1888. She is a daughter of Willard 
 and Leonora (Sykes) Prouty. Mr. Long is a 
 man of good principles and his name is respected 
 throughout his community. In politics he is a 
 stanch Republican. 
 
 THOMAS E. MILES. In spite of reverses 
 which have often impeded a nevertheless success- 
 ful career, T. E. Miles has firmly established 
 himself as a business man of Scott's Mills, and 
 was engaged in a paying and quite extensive 
 mercantile enterprise, known as Miles & White, 
 until 1898, when he purchased the entire inter- 
 ests. A devastating fire in 1897 temporarily 7 
 crippled his prospects, but he has since recouped 
 his losses, and not only owns his store and resi- 
 dence, the latter of which is one of the finest in 
 the town, but is the possessor of considerable 
 other valuable property. 
 
 Had Mr. Miles followed the teachings of his 
 youth he would always have been a farmer, for 
 his people reared him to this occupation on the 
 farm in Wabash county, Ind., where he was 
 born March 2, 1857. His father was the owner 
 of a farm in that county, upon which he lived 
 for some years, then removed to Wayne county 
 and lived there until his death, at the age of 
 seventy-two years. He is survived by his wife, 
 aged seventy-six years, now living in Wayne 
 county, Ind., and who is the mother of six chil- 
 dren. Until his twenty-sixth vear T. E. Miles 
 remained on the home farm, but after his mar- 
 
 riage, in 1883, with Sarah C. White, a native of 
 the Hoosier state, he went to housekeeping in 
 Dickey county, N. D., in 1883, an d lived in that 
 state until 1894, coming then to his present home 
 in Scott's Mills. 
 
 Three children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Miles, of whom Walter R., the oldest son, 
 is at college ; while William L. and Mary E. are 
 living at home. Mr. Miles is a Prohibitionist 
 in politics, and is a member of the Society of 
 Friends. Though never desiring official recogni- 
 tion, he has filled local offices, and is at present 
 clerk of the school board, and a notary public. 
 Fraternally he is identified with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. Mr. Miles is typical 
 of all that is honorable and reliable, traits which 
 are not only appreciated in his business connec- 
 tions, but from a social standpoint render him a 
 proper man. He is successful and well favored 
 with this world's goods, and has many friends in 
 the town of his adoption. June 14, 1903, he sold 
 his mercantile business interests and invested 
 in timber land, which he intends developing. 
 
 WASHINGTON L. COON. Both as an 
 educator and breeder of high-grade stock, Wash- 
 ington L. Coon won praise because of his thor- 
 oughness, reliability and adherence to the best 
 possible methods in his chosen occupations. He 
 is recalled as a man of whom his adopted state 
 had reason to be proud, and whose adaptive and 
 pleasing personal traits won him many friends 
 among his pupils and business associates. Born 
 in Jefferson county, Ky., March 10, 1825, he was 
 of English and Dutch ancestry, and came of par- 
 ents who devoted their entire lives to farming. At 
 the age of six he moved with the rest of his fam- 
 ily to Warren county, 111., and when eighteen 
 years old removed to Pike county, Mo., remaining 
 there until the spring of 1850. 
 
 After a journey covering the usual six months, 
 Mr. Coon arrived in Oregon, September 19, 1850, 
 and settled upon the farm now occupied by his 
 wife, and located fifteen miles southeast of Al- 
 bany on the Willamette river. Having studiously 
 availed himself of the opportunities of the early 
 subscription schools in Illinois and Missouri, he 
 applied himself to teaching school in this neigh- 
 borhood for several winters, working on his 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres in the 
 summer. He was engaged in packing to the 
 mines for several years', and in taking several 
 droves of cattle to California. In 1864 he re- 
 turned to Illinois, via Central America, the next 
 year locating and teaching school in Montgomery 
 county, Ind., for one year. He then returned 
 to Mercer county, 111., and taught until 1870, and 
 also took a course in the State Normal in Illinois, 
 gradually working his way eastward, through 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and re- 
 turning to Washington county, Pa., where he re- 
 mained for a time. Here good fortune came to 
 him, inasmuch as he met and won Mrs. Susan 
 A. Bane, who was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Janu- 
 ary 17, 1840, arid whose father, George Speer, 
 died when she was a child. Her mother, Mar- 
 garet (Leadwith) Speer, was of Scotch descent, 
 and was born in the state of Maryland. The 
 marriage of Mr. Coon and Mrs. Bane occurred 
 March 15, 1875, and the same spring they came 
 to Oregon and began housekeeping on the claim 
 taken up by the husband in the early days. 
 
 Mr. Coon was an extensile raiser of high- 
 grade stock, making a specialty of fine draft 
 horses. He was a good business manager, was 
 thrifty and economical, and both made and 
 saved money. From time to time extensive im- 
 provements were made on the claim, and today it 
 is one of the best improved properties in this sec- 
 tion. The same house built by the husband in 
 the early days is still occupied by his wife, al- 
 though modern improvements have changed its 
 character somewhat. Mrs. Coon also owns one 
 of the finest timber tracts on the Willamette. Mr. 
 Coon never interested himself in politics aside 
 from the formality of casting his vote for Re- 
 publican nominees, but he was very active in the 
 United Presbyterian Church of Oakville, of 
 which he was one of the first members in this 
 district. To himself and wife were born the two 
 children who live at home, Michael S. and Sarah 
 Margaret, the former of whom manages the farm 
 for his mother. Mr. Coon died on his farm 
 March 28, 1901. He was sincere in all his be- 
 liefs and a Christian from principle. 
 
 WILLIAM J. FISHER. One of the most 
 popular and promising members of the later gen- 
 eration around Albany is William J. Fisher, su- 
 perintendent and manager of the county poor 
 farm, and owner and manager of a large wood- 
 yard in Albany. Should Mr. Fisher weary of 
 farming or general business he could turn his at- 
 tention to engineering with reasonable chances of 
 success, for in his younger days in Canada, where 
 he was born in Ontario, October 25, 1873, he 
 learned the trade of engineering, but has never 
 practiced it for purposes of livelihood. John 
 Fisher, the father of William, was also a native 
 of Ontario, and was born May 10, 1836. In his 
 young manhood he married Margaret Orr, a na- 
 tive of Ireland, and in 1892 brought his family 
 to Linn county, Ore., settling on the farm which 
 is still his home near Albany. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and is a member of the United 
 Presbyterian Church. William J. is the third of 
 the five children, the others being Sarah J., of 
 
 Canada ; Jeanett, also living in Canada ; James, 
 deceased ; and Robert, at home. 
 
 Educated in the public schools of Ontario and 
 Albany, William J. left the school room to learn 
 engineering, but continued to live at home until 
 his marriage with Winnie Sprenger, a native of 
 Oregon. The young people went to housekeep- 
 ing on the county poor farm, of which Mr. Fisher 
 had been appointed superintendent and manager, 
 and where they have since lived. The poor farm 
 comprises one hundred and twenty acres of fertile 
 land, and has good improvements, including fa- 
 cilities for carrying on the kind of general farm- 
 ing required at such an institution. The wood- 
 yard at Albany, started some time since, has 
 proved a profitable source of revenue, and, taken 
 in connection with the farm, is about all that 
 Mr. Fisher has time to attend to. Like his father, 
 he is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, 
 and he is one of the most influential members of 
 the Grange. He has an interesting household, and 
 one in which hospitality and good fellowship 
 abound, two bright children, Lawrence and Vio- 
 let, contributing to the beauty of his home. Pub- 
 lic-spirited to a marked degree, Mr. Fisher may 
 be depended on to promote any wise undertaking 
 which has for its object the improvement of the 
 town or county, and of one thing his friends may 
 be sure : he will advance steadily and surely to 
 the front, his efforts being based always on the 
 substantial and worthy. 
 
 HON. AUGUSTUS C. JENNINGS. Ear- 
 nest and faithful in whatever he undertakes, 
 with that inherent force and wide understanding 
 which characterizes the typical American, the 
 Hon. Augustus C. Jennings has become one of 
 the most prominent men in Oregon during the 
 last twenty-five years, a position won by personal 
 application and a close adherence to those prin- 
 ciples which constitute the loyalty and honor of 
 manhood. He has never been found lacking in 
 those qualities needful in party or personal friend, 
 and he has come to be recognized as a substan- 
 tial factor in affairs of state or community. He 
 also interests himself intelligently in stock-breed- 
 ing, having a thousand head of Cotswold sheep, 
 which he puts out on shares. In the time of 
 our country's need, as a boy of eighteen years, 
 he gave his youth and strength in the cause of 
 national union, and is now numbered among the 
 veterans who claim a nation's gratitude. 
 
 The Jennings family is of English ancestry, 
 though long associated with the progress of the 
 western world, the father, Charles M. Jennings, 
 being a native of Pennsylvania. Animated by 
 the same spirit which prompted his forefathers 
 to become citizens of the colonies, he removed to 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1079 
 
 Davis county, Iowa, at an early day, being num- 
 bered among the pioneers. In connection with 
 the improvement and cultivation of a farm, he 
 conducted a mercantile establishment in Drakes- 
 ville, Iowa, his interests remaining so identified 
 until his death, which occurred in that location. 
 His wife was formerly Hannah Glover, a native 
 of New Jersey, and her death occurred in her 
 home in Iowa. Of the eleven children who 
 blessed this union four are now living, and of 
 these Thomas, who served in Company B, Thir- 
 tieth Iowa Regiment, is located as a practicing 
 physician in Drakesville, Iowa, and Joseph C. is 
 a resident of Lane county, Ore., where he is en- 
 gaged in farming ; Adda is the wife of Charles 
 W. Wilson of Moulton, Iowa. 
 
 The second youngest of the children is A. C. 
 Jennings, his birth occurring in Drakesville, 
 Davis county, Iowa, January 16, 1845. His boy- 
 hood years were passed in the location of his 
 birth. While receiving a good education in the 
 common schools of the state he gained an in- 
 sight into commercial life that was of great ben- 
 efit to him. He was carrying the mails between 
 Drakesville and Centerville in 1863, when he en- 
 listed in Company M, Ninth Iowa Cavalry, be- 
 ing mustered in at Davenport, Iowa. He was 
 sent to Benton Barracks, at St. Louis, after which 
 he participated in many engagements in Arkan- 
 sas, among them being Grand Prairie. He con- 
 tinued in the service until the close of the war, 
 when he was mustered out in February, 1866, then 
 returning to his home in Iowa. After some 
 work in his father's store and an attendance at 
 the high school, he engaged in teaching in the 
 public schools, and later became one of the sub- 
 stantial merchants of Drakesville, where he re- 
 mained until 1875. His brother, Joseph C. Jen- 
 nings, having located in Lane county, Ore., in 
 1854, Mr. Jennings decided to also settle in the 
 west. He first rented a farm near Irving, upon 
 which he engaged extensively in the cultivation 
 of grain. Combining with this employment a 
 broad political interest, he remained in that lo- 
 cation until 1894, when he removed to Eugene. 
 
 A Republican whose loyal maintenance of 
 principles has won him the confidence of party 
 leaders, Mr. Jennings was chosen in 1889 to rep- 
 resent his district in the state legislature, and 
 was re-elected in 1891, a large majority attest- 
 ing the popularity of the candidate. During the 
 second term it was his privilege to help elect 
 John H. Mitchell to the United States senate. 
 In June, 1894. Mr. Jennings was elected county 
 clerk, and took the oath of office in July. He 
 was re-elected to this office in 1896, and during 
 the four years in which he served the plans for 
 the new court house were drawn up and the 
 building nearly completed. At five different 
 times he has been called upon to serve as chief 
 
 clerk of the house of representatives, the first 
 being in 1887. In 1893 he was employed in the 
 office of the secretary of state, in 1898 was chief 
 clerk of a special session of the legislature and 
 followed this with a similar service in the ses- 
 sions of 1899, 1 90 1 and 1903. 
 
 Mr. Jennings was married in Iowa to Miss 
 Rhoda Burks, a native of Indiana, who died in 
 Oregon. Of the thirteen children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Jennings, eleven are now living, and 
 all make their home with their father with the 
 exception of the following: Mildred, wife of 
 Samuel Flint, located near Irving; Mattie, wife 
 of E. L. McPherson, of Eugene; Helen, the 
 wife of C. P. Sylvester, of Eugene; Elbert, of 
 Portland; and Hetty, the wife of J. G. Robin- 
 son, of New York. August, 1900, Mr. Jennings 
 was again married to Mary Van Duyn, who was 
 reared in Bloomfield, Iowa, and there married. 
 Socially Mr. Jennings is a member of the Com- 
 mercial Club, and fraternally belongs to the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he 
 is past grand ; the Woodmen of the World ; and 
 J. W. Geary Post No. 7, G. A. R., of which 
 he is past commander. He is a member of the 
 Christian church, in which he officiates as trus- 
 tee and chairman of the official board. 
 
 MRS. MARTHA BARNES. Since her ninth 
 year the life history of Mrs. Martha Barnes has 
 been interwoven with the changing conditions 
 of Oregon, ranging in extent from the pioneer 
 desolation and crudeness of '45 to the surprising 
 development of the present time. A resident of 
 Albany since the death of her husband in 1885, 
 Mrs. Barnes is one of the pioneer women around 
 whom gathers a world of good will and social 
 prominence, and whose many fine personal char- 
 acteristics bind to her indefinitely a host of 
 worthy friends. Born on a farm near Weston, 
 W. Va., she is the seventh of the ten children 
 born to her parents, Henry J. and Eliza (Allen) 
 Peterson, natives respectively of Virginia and 
 Massachusetts. Distinction is conferred on the 
 maternal family by the war record of Ethan 
 Allen, the famous colonel of the Colonial army 
 during the Revolutionary war, and the paternal 
 side of the house has no less a worthy represen- 
 tative in the Rev. Peterson, a minister of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church whose era of great- 
 est usefulness centers around the strenuous times 
 culminating in the Civil war. Mr. Peterson led 
 the useful and self-sacrificing life of the earlv 
 clergvman, and though a southerner in character, 
 chivalry and manner, he vigorously espoused the 
 cause of the down-trodden slave, freeing those 
 upon his own plantation as soon as he became 
 convinced that slavery was wrong. 
 
 Henry J. Peterson was reared in West Vir- 
 
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 ginia, and as a young man made many moves in 
 search of a desirable location. From Indiana he 
 removed to Medina county, Ohio, afterward to 
 Illinois for one winter, and still later to Henry 
 county, Iowa, his last home in the middle west. 
 In 1845 he prepared for a journey across the 
 plains which, in the extent of its adventure, de- 
 privation and suffering, equaled that of any un- 
 dertaken at that very early time. Five sons and 
 five daughters had been added to his family, and 
 for their transportation to the coast he had five 
 wagons, each with from three to five yoke of 
 oxen, as well as a yoke of oxen on the wagon 
 used to transport their provisions. The In- 
 dians proved very troublesome, and constant vig- 
 ilance was required on the part of the emigrants 
 to preserve their ownership of the stock. They 
 came by way of the ill-fated Meek's cut-off, one 
 of the most troublesome routes presented to early 
 emigrants to the west, and it is doubtful if any 
 aggregation of men, women and children arrived 
 at The Dalles at any time in the emigration days, 
 more weary, discouraged, or hopeless. For many 
 days and weeks food had been scarce, and to- 
 wards the latter part of the journey starvation 
 stared them in the face. One son two years old 
 died on the Green river cut-off, and was left in 
 a grave beside the river. The father stopped the 
 first winter on the Tualatin plains, and in the 
 spring of 1846 moved to Howell's Prairie, and 
 later to Santiam. In 1848 he took up a claim at 
 Peterson Butte, twelve miles southeast of Al- 
 bany. He was a natural mechanic, and applied 
 his ability to the construction of a home more 
 comfortable than that of many less skilled in the 
 art of construction, and around him established 
 a large stock-raising enterprise, probably the 
 most successful in his vicinity. He was influen- 
 tial as a politician, and was a member of the 
 First Territorial Legislature, which convened at 
 Oregon City. His children followed his ex- 
 ample and took up farms of their own, many of 
 them settling around him as neighbors, often vis- 
 iting the old home, with its memories of strug- 
 gle and adversity. The wife died in 1861, and 
 the husband in 1864, both firm believers in the 
 tenets of the Methodist Episcopal church. Asa, 
 the oldest of their children, died in Lebanon, 
 Ore. ; William died in Albany ; Marshall, a vet- 
 eran of the Rogue River war, lives in eastern 
 Oregon; Henry lives at Plainview ; Granville 
 died on the plains ; Lydia, the wife of Mr. Par- 
 ish, died in Linn county: Sarah is the deceased 
 wife of Mr. Brooks of The Dalles ; Laura, now 
 Mrs. Ketcham, lives in Pomeroy, Wash.; Mar- 
 tha, now Mrs. Barnes; and Eliza, now Mrs. 
 Walker of Athena, Ore. 
 
 Mrs. Barnes celebrated her ninth birthday on 
 the plains, and after reaching Oregon lived with 
 her parents, attending irregularly the early pub- 
 
 lic schools. She learned to speak the language 
 of the Chinook Indians, and thus was called to 
 maintain amicable relations with these untutored 
 neighbors. Her marriage at Peterson Butte, 
 December 24, 1862, was one of the notable events 
 of the neighborhood, her husband, Charles 
 Barnes, being well and favorably known as a 
 successful stockman. Mr. Barnes was left an 
 orphan in his native state of New York when a 
 boy of seventeen, and his life was uneventful 
 until the opportunity came to cross the plains in 
 an ox-train in 1853. He worked his way to the 
 coast driving oxen and loose stock, and, arriv- 
 ing at his destination, found employment in 
 southern Oregon and California, both as a far- 
 mer and miner. Laden with more than the or- 
 dinary returns from the mines, he came to the 
 Willamette Valley and was married, afterward 
 purchasing a farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, which he farmed five years. He added 
 materially to his possessions, in time owning 
 four hundred acres near Plainview. He was al- 
 ways an enthusiast on the subject of fine stock, 
 and his land was invariably devoted to its rais- 
 ing, little attention being paid to general farm- 
 ing. After renting out his farm he devoted some 
 time to driving horses over the mountains to 
 California, and on his return located in Albany, 
 where he engaged exclusively in the stock busi- 
 ness. He had many fine horses and secured high 
 prices for them, being an excellent judge of 
 thoroughbreds, and dealing only in the best. 
 Mr. Barnes accumulated a comfortable fortune, 
 and at the time of his death, December 9, 1885, 
 at the age of forty-eight, left his wife and chil- 
 dren in good circumstances. 
 
 At 238 East Fifth street Mrs. Barnes has a 
 new and commodious home, where is exercised 
 unstinted hospitality, and where her friends de- 
 light to gather. She is the owner of the four- 
 hundred-acre farm in this county, with the ex- 
 ception of the town site of Plainview, and she 
 also owns another farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres in the same neighborhood. Three children 
 were born to Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, of whom 
 but one attained maturity, Loella, now Mrs. La- 
 Forest. In political preference, Mrs. Barnes is 
 a Republican. 
 
 JOHN W. WRITSMAN. To be the pos- 
 sessor of twelve hundred acres of land 
 in one body in one of the most fertile 
 parts of Benton county must needs carry 
 with it a sense of security and satisfac- 
 tion which the most independent might 
 envy- Such is the good fortune of John W. 
 Writsman, whose industry and good manage- 
 ment has enabled him to purchase all but the six 
 hundred and forty acres inherited from his 
 
ALFRED WILSON. 
 
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 father. That he is an excellent agriculturist, 
 in touch with modern and scientific methods 
 utilized in older and more stable farming com- 
 munities, is apparent to all who visit him in 
 the midst of his activity, and note his commodi- 
 ous residence, convenient and modern barns, 
 and general up-to-date improvements. This 
 farm is located two and a half miles from Wells 
 Station, and is devoted principally to stock-rais- 
 ing, sheep, goats and cattle bringing a large 
 yearly revenue. 
 
 The fifth of the seven children of Francis 
 and Lucinda (Office) Writsman. John W. was 
 horn December 29, 1840, in Andrew county, 
 Mo., and in 1847, when seven years of age, he 
 crossed the plains with his parents. The father 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres, erected a small log cabin for the 
 temporary accommodation of his family, and 
 proceeded to clear his land and put in the seed. 
 This small cabin is still standing, and, with its 
 infinite reminders of the peril, deprivation and 
 loneliness of the pioneer days, is a prized pos- 
 session of its owner. In those times neighbors 
 were few and far between, provisions were often 
 scarce, and toil from early morning until sunset 
 precluded much of the joy or recreation of life. 
 Francis Writsman succeeded well in his adopted 
 state, and at his death in 1877, at the age of 
 seventy-six years, left a large and valuable prop- 
 erty to his heirs. The wife who shared his up- 
 hill road to prosperity survived him until 1901, 
 being then ninety years old. Mary J., the oldest 
 daughter in the family, is the wife of James 
 Horn, of Grant county ; Julia is the wife of 
 Joseph Chamberlain ; Susan is the widow of 
 Mr. Perrin; Caroline is the deceased wife of 
 Mr. Williams; John W. was the next born; 
 Josephine is the wife of J. H. Parsons, and 
 James lives in Los Angeles. 
 
 John W. Writsman availed himself of such 
 educational chances as were possible in his 
 youth, and is today a well informed and very 
 progressive man. He bears an honored name 
 in the community, and a continuation of his 
 present success is the wish of all who are priv- 
 ileged to know him. 
 
 ALFRED WILSON. Few men are more 
 familiar with western history than Alfred Wil- 
 son. What to most of the present generation is 
 a matter of reading is to him a matter of mem- 
 ory. He has been a participant in many of the 
 advances connected with early travel over the 
 plains and with the settlement of the west, and 
 is thus very familiar with life upon the great 
 stretches of country that lie between the Missis- 
 sippi valley and the ocean. He served in the 
 Mexican war, and is among the few survivors 
 
 to-day of that struggle. He bore his part in the 
 work of improvement and development as the 
 tide of emigration steadily flowed westward, 
 and to-day he is one of the respected, honored 
 and successful agriculturists of Yamhill county, 
 where he owns a valuable tract of land of thir- 
 teen hundred and sixty acres. 
 
 Alfred Wilson was born in Tennessee, April 2, 
 1826, and two years later his parents removed 
 to Howard county, Mo., where he was reared 
 upon a farm. There he became acquainted with 
 Kit Carson and there sprung up between them 
 a friendship which existed until the death of the 
 latter. In 1846, with the noted explorer, hunter 
 and guide, he went to the Rocky Mountains on 
 horseback, starting from Fort Leavenworth. He 
 made this trip in the hope of benefiting his 
 health, and afterward he traveled with Kit Car- 
 son, piloting people across the country. Often 
 he slept with Mr. Carson under the same blanket 
 and shared with him in all the experiences, en- 
 counters and hardships which went to make up 
 the life history of that famous man. Mr. Wilson 
 has killed many a bear with his hunting knife, 
 thus coming into close contact with the animals. 
 With Mr. Carson he acted as pilot to Stevenson, 
 a trader who went from St. Louis to New Mex- 
 ico. Mr. Wilson was engaged to drive a six- 
 mule team across the plains, starting from 
 Mann's Fort on the Arkansas river. After be- 
 ing out five days they were attacked by the 
 Indians, and at that time Mr. Wilson killed his 
 first red man, a Comanche. He narrowly es- 
 caped death, for five arrows penetrated' his 
 clothing. Five days later there was another 
 attack by the Indians, but day after day some 
 progress was made, until finally the party 
 reached the last mountain, when he left the train 
 and returned. 
 
 In 1848 Mr. Wilson enlisted for service in the 
 Mexican war as a teamster, and after reaching 
 the land of the Montezumas he enlisted as a 
 scout in advance of the army, or, as they were 
 called, a ranger. He was at the battle and in 
 the siege of Santa Cruz, Mexico, where the 
 troops surrounded the town, and for six days 
 they subsisted upon one meal a day. Mr. Wilson 
 was one of those chosen to throw bombs into the 
 town, and did his full share in winning Amer- 
 ican victories there. After the close of the Mex- 
 ican war he returned northward and several 
 times crossed the plains, making a trip in 1849 
 and another in 1850. In the latter year he was 
 captain of a company that came to Oregon with 
 an ox-team, journeying from Fort Hall west- 
 ward. He and his brother also came along to 
 Oregon and on the trip killed three Indians. 
 They proceeded to the vicinity of McMinnville, 
 and Mr. Wilson put in a crop for Dr. Sutton, 
 operating the latter's land on shares for a year. 
 
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 In the summer of 1851 he secured a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres where 
 Riley Fendall now resides. In the fall of that 
 year he was crippled while in the woods by a 
 man hitting him back of the knee with an ax. 
 The injury proved so serious that for eighteen 
 months he was unable to engage in any labor. 
 About that time news came that emigrants 
 crossing the plains were in a starving condition, 
 and Mr. Wilson then busied himself in taking 
 up a collection wherewith to secure provisions 
 to take to the travelers. He raised nearly $800 
 for that purpose, and it may well be supposed 
 that he was hailed with gratitude as a benefac- 
 tor to those who were suffering great hardships 
 for lack of food as they journeyed westward. 
 At another time Mr. Wilson suffered a second 
 accident, having a leg broken by the falling of 
 his horse when near McMinnville. However, 
 his life altogether has been a prosperous one 
 and has been filled with many incidents which 
 have made his history eventful, and left to him 
 many pleasant memories. In 1852 he secured 
 a donation claim where he is now living, becom- 
 ing the owner of three hundred and twenty 
 acres in this way. He has made all of the im- 
 provements upon the property, and substantial 
 buildings now stand as monuments to his enter- 
 prise, while well tilled fields indicate his careful 
 supervision. As the years have passed he has 
 added to his property until he now has thirteen 
 hundred and sixty acres of land in one body. 
 He is largely engaged in raising horses upon his 
 ranch, and has some very fine animals which 
 bring a good price in the markets. 
 
 Mr. Wilson has been twice married. In 1854 
 he wedded Miss Mary Sailing, and unto them 
 were born ten children, eight of whom are now 
 living : Melissa, wife of Ira Stephens ; Lovina, 
 wife of John Lady ; Minnie, wife of Leander 
 Lady ; Lilly, wife of George Ball ; Meluda, wife 
 of James Le Masters ; Lucinda, wife of William 
 Bridwell ; Edward Nazzard ; and Col. Harley 
 Murphy Wilson. Mrs. Wilson died in 1890, 
 and in 1894 Mr. Wilson was again married, his 
 second union being with Miss Rebecca Bryan. 
 In his political views he is a Republican, having 
 supported the party since its organization. His 
 life history, if written in detail, would furnish 
 more thrilling chapters than are usually found 
 upon the pages of fiction. He knows what it 
 is to endure hardships, incident to a journey 
 across the plains before the advent of railroads. 
 He also knows what it is to fear the skulking 
 foe and to meet him in battle in the methods of 
 warfare employed by the red men. He has also 
 been a participant in his nation's battles, and he 
 has likewise performed the no less important 
 
 work of reclaiming a wild district for the pur- , 
 poses of civilization, that nature may yield of 
 its rich resources for the support of men. 
 
 JAMES P. WILSON. Not far from Wells 
 Station is the two-hundred-acre farm of James 
 P. Wilson, a man who stands high in the estima- 
 tion of his fellow-men, and who has materially 
 advanced farming interests in this county. Born 
 in Kentucky, near the Virginia line, September 
 15, 1823, he was seven years of age when 
 his parents took him to Vermilion count}', 
 111., where he helped to improve a crude farm, 
 and worked hard from morning until night. At 
 the age of fourteen, in 1837, he accompanied 
 an older brother to Iowa, and near Keokuk, 
 took up government land in the wilderness. 
 The land was wild and partially timbered, and 
 the desolation was increased by the absence of 
 other settlers, few having as yet arrived to assist 
 in the development of a very promising stretch 
 of country. 
 
 The Wilson boys succeeded in Iowa, and 
 James P. took unto himself a wife who was 
 Theresa Kilgore, an interesting girl living in 
 the neighborhood. Of this union one child was 
 born — a son, named Albert. His wife dying, 
 Mr. Wilson later married Mrs. Lucy Rowe, 
 who bore him three children — Rebecca, Robert 
 and Edward W. Robert still lives on the home 
 place, with his family, consisting of his wife, 
 who was Miss Lillie Dixon, and their three in- 
 teresting children, Clement, Ray and Vera. 
 By her first marriage Mrs. Wilson had one son, 
 Ira Rowe, who is still living. 
 
 With his wife Mr. Wilson crossed the plains 
 to California with ox-teams in 1852, and after 
 five months of comparatively pleasant associa- 
 tion with other home and fortune seekers ar- 
 rived in Sacramento City, where he followed 
 gardening for a couple of years. He then took 
 up three hundred and twenty acres of land in 
 Sacramento valley, remained thereon until 1867, 
 and then came to Benton county, Ore. After 
 living on a farm near Philomath for a couple 
 of years he bought a farm near the Mountain 
 View schoolhouse, consisting of three hundred 
 and sixty acres, and upon which he made his 
 home for some years. He then bought his pres- 
 ent farm near Wells Station, where he is en- 
 gaging in general farming and stock-raising. 
 Ever since his first ambitious voting days he 
 has been a stanch defender of the Democratic 
 party, and in his present neighborhood has 
 served as school director and road supervisor. 
 He is a member of the Evangelical Church, and 
 in his daily life conveys the impression of moral 
 strength and uprightness attributed to the fol- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lowers of that denomination. A successful 
 farmer and genial man, Mr. Wilson commands 
 the respect and good will of all who know him. 
 
 WILLIAM CREES. Occupying a position 
 of prominence among the respected and highly 
 esteemed citizens of Corvallis is the gentleman 
 whose name appears at the head of this sketch. 
 A man of progressive enterprise and much force 
 of character, possessing excellent judgment and 
 good business ability, Mr. Crees has met with 
 undoubted success both in his agricultural labors 
 anci in his investments, by judicious toil and 
 wise economy accumulating a handsome prop- 
 erty. For a quarter of a century or more, he 
 lived and labored on the farm which he still 
 owns, but of more recent years he has rented 
 his homestead property, and he and his good 
 wife are living at ease in their comfortable home 
 in the city of Corvallis. 
 
 Of excellent German ancestry, Mr. Crees was 
 born January 2, 1836, in Allegheny county, Pa., 
 about fourteen miles below Pittsburg, a son of 
 John Crees, Jr. His grandfather, John Crees, 
 Sr., was born and educated in Germany. Leav- 
 ing the fatherland when a boy -of sixteen years, 
 he came alone to New York city. He remained 
 in New York state a few years, serving an ap- 
 prenticeship at the millwright's trade, then pur- 
 chased a mill in Berks county. Pa., where he 
 lived for awhile. Disposing of his property 
 there he removed, in 1802, to Allegheny county, 
 crossing the river at Fort Pitt on a ferry boat, 
 and from that time until his death, at an ad- 
 vanced age. was profitably engaged in general 
 farming. He became an extensive landholder, 
 and bequeathed to each of his children, five sons 
 and one daughter, a farm. 
 
 John Crees, Jr., was born in 1785 in Penn's 
 Valley, Berks county. Pa., but spent the larger 
 part of his life in Allegheny county, being en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits. He married 
 Mary Gunsollis, who was born in Allegheny 
 county, a daughter of Samuel Gunsollis, a sol- 
 dier in the Revolutionary war, and a prosperous 
 farmer, who spent his declining years in Mercer 
 county, Pa. Of the eleven children born of 
 their union, one son and three daughters sur- 
 vive, William, being the only one residing in 
 the extreme western part of the Union. 
 
 Gleaning his early education in the district 
 schools of his native place, and working hard 
 on the farm from boyhood, William Crees re- 
 mained on the parental homestead until thirty- 
 five years old, from the age of sixteen years hav- 
 ing sole management of the farm of two hun- 
 dred acres. Coming to the Willamette Valley 
 in 1871, he located in Benton county, buying a 
 
 farm of two hundred and twenty acres, about 
 one and one-half miles northwest "of Corvallis. 
 This he has improved, and brought to a very 
 high state of cultivation, until it is now known 
 as one of the most desirable and attractive es- 
 tates in the county. For many years he made 
 a specialty of butter-making, being a leader in 
 that industry, and of cutting hay for market, 
 raising large quantities of the latter. He used 
 modern machinery in manufacturing butter, in 
 1873 introducing into the state the first endless 
 chain dog-power for churning, later bringing 
 in the Cooley automatic creamer, in which the 
 cream is raised while immersed in water, thus 
 preventing contamination from anything in the 
 atmosphere. Mrs. Crees proved herself an able 
 coadjutor by formulating a method of her own 
 for mixing and working the butter, and ere long 
 had won for herself an enviable reputation as 
 a butter-maker, the president of the Oregon 
 Agricultural College, B. L. Arnold, when he 
 tested it, pronouncing it the best country butter 
 he had ever seen. Making ninety pounds of 
 butter a week, Mr. Crees sold it at his own price, 
 thus ruling the market. He subsequently sold 
 his milk, supplying Corvallis. In addition to 
 dairying, and raising hay, he made fruit-raising 
 somewhat a specialty, having excellent orchards 
 on his farm. The past few years he has rented 
 his farm and now lives, as before mentioned, in 
 the city. 
 
 Mr. Crees married first, Miss Catherine Trim- 
 mer, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died 
 in that state, leaving five children, namely : Har- 
 ris W., a farmer in Washington ; Mrs. Sarah 
 Ellen Mays, of Elk City, Ore.; Mrs. Clarissa 
 Irene Young, of Oregon City; Mrs. Celesta J. 
 Scrafford, of Corvallis ; and Mrs. Kate C. Gragg, 
 of Corvallis. He married for his second wife, 
 Sarah J. Brooks, of Pennsylvania, who came 
 to Oregon with Mr. Crees, but only lived two 
 months after reaching this place. His third 
 marriage took place in Allegheny, Pa., April 
 10, 1873, w i tn M rs - Louisa (Blair) Rishaberger, 
 daughter of Frederick and Augusta (Owelen- 
 der) Blair, both of whom were born in Germanv, 
 and died in Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Crees' first 
 husband, John Rishaberger, a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, was in business for many years in Al- 
 legheny City, but on account of ill health moved 
 to a farm in Alliance, Ohio, where his death 
 occurred six months later. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Crees has been born one child, Gussie B., now 
 the wife of M. E. Grausbeck, of Portland, Ore. 
 
 Mr. Crees takes an active interest in public 
 affairs, and is now serving his second term as a 
 member of the city council. He was formerlv 
 a Republican in his political affiliations, voting 
 for Abraham Lincoln in i860 and 1864, but is 
 
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 now a Prohibitionist, and a member of the State 
 Temperance Alliance, and Mrs. Crees belongs 
 to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 ARTHUR C. MILLER. Among the men 
 who have quickly risen to a financial promi- 
 nence is Arthur C. Miller, who has been num- 
 bered as a citizen of Oregon only since 1879, 
 through industry, perseverance and business 
 judgment having acquired a handsome fortune 
 since that date. In addition to his farming in- 
 terests, which may well be considered to take 
 considerable of his time, as he now has one 
 thousand acres in his home place, he is active 
 in several business enterprises, being part owner 
 of a store at King's Valley, and since 1902 hav- 
 ing a one- third interest in a $10,000 mercantile 
 establishment at Airlie, Polk county. 
 
 Arthur C. Miller was born in Chickasaw coun- 
 ty, Iowa, September 10, 1857, and in 1865 his 
 parents returned to their native place of Schuy- 
 ler county, N. Y., and he remained with them 
 there until his twenty-first birthday. After work- 
 ing for a short time on a farm he decided to 
 try his fortunes in the west and in 1879 he 
 came to Oregon, and at once became employed 
 in farming in King's valley. After four years 
 he rented land and became independent in his 
 work, this proving so successful that in a few 
 years he was enabled to purchase a farm of 
 eighty-six acres, out of which has grown his 
 present affluence. He has also three hundred 
 and twenty acres of timber land, and now holds 
 a contract to take out three million feet of lum- 
 ber. Among his interests is the raising of Perch- 
 eron horses. In 1892 he bought out the Cham- 
 bers Brothers, a mercantile establishment in 
 King's Valley, and after two years in which he 
 conducted the business alone he took in, as a 
 partner, W. S. Alcorn. Since 1892 he has served 
 as postmaster. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Miller married Miss Hettie Allen, 
 and they are now the parents of three children, 
 Curtis, Paul and Algy. In his political convic- 
 tions Mr. Miller casts his vote with the Repub- 
 lican party. 
 
 JAMES LYMAN LOMBARD. In his 
 younger days James L. Lombard learned three 
 distinct trades, to any one of which he might 
 be applying himself at the present time with 
 reasonable assurance of laying by a little each 
 year. Instead, his ambition has led him into 
 broader channels, and he is today one of the 
 most successful and prosperous contractors in 
 the city of Eugene. With his advancement in 
 the business world have come the ' social and 
 
 other prerogatives of wealth, including one of 
 the fine homes of the city, and distinction and 
 prominence in the fraternal organizations of the 
 county. Around him on all sides are evidences 
 of his participation in the upbuilding of the city, 
 for as a contracting plasterer he has done the 
 work on Science Hall, one of the university 
 buildings, Cbrisman, McClung, Eugene Loan 
 and Savings bank, and Gross Hotel buildings, 
 besides scores of the largest and finest residences 
 in the city and surrounding country. His own 
 residence at 227 West Eighth street is a model 
 of comfort and modern elegance, and is besides 
 the center of an unstinted and genial hospitality. 
 At one time Mr. Lombard owned two hundred 
 and forty acres of land seven miles south of the 
 city, on fifteen of which he raised large quan- 
 tities of fruit, and derived a substantial income 
 from its shipment. Later, the stress of business 
 necessitated the sale of the fruit ranch, but the 
 little property contributed greatly to his health 
 and enjoyment, and its cultivation is recalled as 
 one of the most congenial and satisfactory ef- 
 forts of his life. 
 
 Patriot sires and model dames were included 
 in the early family of which Mr. Lombard is a 
 member, and his maternal great-grandfather 
 Hobbs .slept on his knapsack for a pillow upon 
 many of the battlefields of the Revolutionary 
 war. His paternal great-grandfather made his 
 home for some time at Cape Cod, where Cor- 
 nelius Lombard, the paternal grandfather, was 
 born. Cornelius Lombard settled at Bangor, 
 Me., at a very early day, drawn there by the 
 opportunities for lumbering, which at that time 
 were not exceeded in any part of the United 
 States. His son, James A. Lombard, the father 
 of James L., was born at Bradford, near Bangor, 
 and not only followed his father's example as a 
 lumberman, but branched out into general build- 
 ing and contracting in Boston, Mass., removing 
 at a later day to Fall River, the same state, where 
 he died at the comparatively early age of fifty- 
 one years. He married Martha Hobbs, who was 
 born in Bradford, Me., her father and grand- 
 father both being natives of the northern state. 
 Mrs. Lombard survives her husband, and is 
 making her home in Otter Tail county, Minn. 
 
 The eldest of the three children living in his 
 father's family, James L. Lombard was born in 
 Bradford, Me., October 15, 1858, and was edu- 
 cated principally in the public schools of Bos- 
 ton, finishing at the high school of Fall River. 
 At the age of sixteen he began work which 
 eventually led up to his present trade of a plas- 
 terer. In 1879 he located in Sioux City, Iowa, 
 and learned the stone mason's trade, at which 
 he worked for about nine years, in connection 
 with contract plastering. In 1888 he came west 
 to Eugene, Ore,, stepping at once into a fair 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 business, and advancing as his ability and busi- 
 ness sagacity began to be appreciated. With 
 him to the west came the wife whom he had 
 married in Battle Creek, Iowa, and who was 
 formerly Sarah E. Bowser, a native of Argyle, 
 Wis. Nine children have been born to Mr. and 
 .Mrs. Lombard, Naomi I., James B., Richard S., 
 Grace, Sarah, Belle, Harry, Ruth and Christine, 
 and all make their home with their parents. Mrs. 
 Lombard died in October, 1897. 
 
 Politically Mr. Lombard is devoted to Repub- 
 lican principles, but has never actively partici- 
 pated in the affairs of his party. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Commercial Club, and active in pro- 
 moting social and other undertakings in the city. 
 While in Danbury, Iowa, he became a member 
 of the Danbury Masonic Lodge, and is now 
 identified with Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & 
 A. M., Eugene Chapter No. 10, R. A. M., Ivan- 
 hoe Commandery No. 2, K. T. ; the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks ; the Foresters ; Eagles ; 
 Woodmen of the World ; and Modern Wood- 
 men of America. Mr. Lombard is One of the 
 progressive and enthusiastic men who are bound 
 to inspire others with a keen relish of life, and 
 who look instinctively on the bright side of 
 things. Success tarries with him because it en- 
 joys his company, and because it feels that it 
 has been fairly won, and is estimated at its cor- 
 rect valuation. 
 
 SOLOMON KING. A history of the sub- 
 stantial men of Benton county were sadly in- 
 complete without due mention of Solomon King, 
 who has been a resident of Oregon since his 
 twelfth year, and who has in the meantime 
 been identified with its business, political and 
 agricultural upbuilding. Distinguishing feat- 
 ures have characterized the western career of 
 this honored citizen, chief among which is the 
 fact that he has served as sheriff of Benton 
 county for a longer time than has any other 
 man who has held the office. Born in Madison 
 county, Ohio, near Columbus, February 26, 
 1833, he is a son of Naham King, who was born 
 in New York state, and there married Serepta 
 Norton. 
 
 Naham King was a man of resource, and 
 withal was an interesting personality, achieving 
 success in the greater part of his undertakings. 
 Soon after his marriage he removed with horse 
 teams from New York state to Ohio, where he 
 settled on a farm, and from where he enlisted 
 in the war of 1812. At a later period he moved 
 from Madison to Franklin county, Ohio, and 
 from there to Carroll county, Mo., in 1841. His 
 farm was a fertile one, well improved and profit- 
 able, and he made money through the sale of 
 general farm commodities. Eight children were 
 
 born into his family, and these were educated 
 to the best of his ability, and in time some of 
 them married and had homes of their own. 
 There was a strong community of interest exist- 
 ing between the various members of this large 
 family, and all relied upon the superior judg- 
 ment of Naham King, whose strength of charac- 
 ter and success inspired confidence. It was not 
 surprising therefore that when the father made 
 up his mind to cross the plains all of the children 
 should accompany him, share in his enthusiasm, 
 and aid him by every means in their power. 
 In 1845 the family band started out as well 
 equipped as any which undertook the hazardous 
 venture, having five wagons with from three to 
 five yoke of oxen each, and thirty-five head of 
 fine Durham cattle. The entire party consisted 
 of sixty-five wagons, under command of Captain 
 Tevalt and Stephen Meeks, and they were more 
 than six months on the way. From Boise City 
 they went by what was known as the Meeks 
 cut-off, and in consequence lost their way and 
 had to retrace their steps a long way. This un- 
 necessary delay entailed severe hardship in more 
 ways than one, for they ran short of provisions, 
 and wearied their cattle exceedingly. From 
 The Dalles the party came down to the Cascade 
 Falls on a raft, and here transpired the first real 
 sorrow in the family, for John King, the oldest 
 son in the family, together with his wife and two 
 children, died on this trip down the Columbia 
 on a raft of pine logs. The rest of the band 
 came from the falls to Linton by boat, the cattle 
 being driven over the trail, and on to Washing- 
 ton county. All wintered on Gale creek, near 
 Forest Grove, and in the spring of 1846 Naham 
 King went on a tour of investigation, finally 
 setfling in the valley in Benton county which has 
 ever since borne his name, and of which he was 
 the first settler. This valley is six miles long 
 and from a mile to a mile and a half wide, and 
 is all open and fertile land, and here Mr. King 
 took up a claim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 while his son-in-law, Lucius Norton, took up a 
 similar amount, and another son-in-law, Rowland 
 Chambers, took up the same amoiint. Two of 
 the sons later took up six hundred and forty 
 acres each, and Stephen, one of the sons, and 
 Mr. Chambers, put up a grist mill. 
 
 In the spring of 1849 Mr. King moved to 
 Portland for a year, and then settled on a claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres near Wren's 
 Station, where he lived until his death in 1857, 
 at the age of seventy-three years. He became 
 prominent in political and 1 other affairs, and 
 helped to elect the first senator to congress. 
 His wife, who survived him until 1863, dying 
 at the age of seventy, was the mother of four- 
 teen children. Of these, John died coming 
 down the Columbia ; Stephen, who helped to 
 
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 erect the grist mill and served throughout the 
 Cayuse war, died in November, 1854; Isaac 
 died in the fall of 1866; Amos N. died in Port- 
 land in 1902, having been interested for many 
 years in a tannery, and also in building and 
 contracting ; Solomon ; Rhoda married Eli 
 Summers and lives in Heppner, Ore. ; Lydia 
 married John Williams of Portland; Abigail 
 married B. Fuller, now deceased; Eliza married 
 Rowland Chambers ; and Hope married Lucian 
 Norton. The other children died young. 
 
 Twelve years old when his father and the 
 rest of the family crossed the plains, Solomon 
 made himself useful during the trip by driving 
 his brother-in-law's ox-team for more than half 
 the way, and in other ways contributed to the 
 comfort of the homeseekers as only a young, 
 strong and enthusiastic boy is capable of doing. 
 "W.hen he first arrived in King's valley there 
 was no sign of a schoolhouse, and when plans 
 were finally made for the education of the rising 
 generation he helped to hew the logs and put in 
 the slab benches. He himself imbibed some 
 knowledge at this primitive educational center, 
 but for the greater part was dependent on his 
 own resources for his practical all-around educa- 
 tion. He worked hard to improve the land and 
 place it on a paying basis, and when twenty-one 
 years of age had saved enough money, and had 
 bright enough prospects to justify him in 
 taking a wife in the person of Maria King. 
 Thereafter he assumed the management of his 
 father's farm until 1872, and then moved to Cor- 
 vallis, where he engaged in the livery business 
 for fourteen years. While there he became 
 greatly interested in politics, and was elected 
 sheriff of Benton county on the Republican 
 ticket in 1876, being successively re-elected five 
 times, and serving in all ten years, the longest 
 time any incumbent has held that office. 
 
 His term as sheriff expiring, Mr. King soon 
 after bought a farm near where the college is 
 now located, and lived thereon until 1891. He 
 then came to his present farm one and a half 
 miles from Corvallis, where he has prospered 
 exceedingly, and added to his original purchase. 
 Until recently he owned a thousand acres of 
 land, but the greater part of this has been divided 
 among his children. His money has been made 
 with Short-horn cattle and general farming, and 
 he has also conducted a very successful dairy 
 business for several years. Of the six children 
 born to himself and wife, Annie is the deceased 
 wife of W. B. Kinder, the latter living near 
 Lebanon; Eli married Miss Tomkins and lives 
 on the home farm; William G. married Alice 
 Bird and runs a sawmill at Burns, Ore.; Abra- 
 ham married C. Bussey and lives near Corvallis ; 
 and Scott is with his 'father. Mr. King is well 
 known fraternally, and is identified with the 
 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. Of un- 
 questioned integrity, great common sense in all 
 of his dealings, and of indefatigable energy, Mr. 
 King commands the respect and good will of all 
 who know him, and is richly deserving of the 
 financial success which has come his way. 
 
 THOMAS J. PHILPOTT. On an average 
 sized farm in middle Missouri William J. Phil- 
 pott farmed for many years, having settled 
 there after removing from his native state of 
 Virginia, where he was born February 22, 1822. 
 When a young man he married Sarah Darby, 
 and with her crossed the plains to Oregon in 
 1 85 1, his outfit consisting of four yoke of oxen, 
 plenty of clothing and provisions, and several 
 milch cows. On the way he was attacked by 
 Indians, some of his cattle were stolen, and one 
 of his party was killed. Otherwise his trip to 
 the west was uneventful, and he arrived at his 
 destination in this county with sufficient means 
 to start life under favorable conditions. He 
 took up a claim two miles north of Holley, where 
 he farmed for many years, and where his son, 
 Thomas J., was born June 14, 1854. The elder 
 Mr. Philpott finally retired from active life, and 
 his death occurred in Oakville in December, 
 1900. 
 
 Reared on his father's farm, and educated 
 in the public schools, Thomas J. Philpott devel- 
 oped habits of thrift and industry, and consider- 
 able sagacity as a business manager. He re- 
 mained at home until twenty-eight years of age, 
 and then moved to the A. R. Breeden donation 
 claim, of which he now owns two hundred and 
 sixty-six acres, under a high state of cultivation. 
 He is engaged principally in stock-raising, and 
 upon his fertile meadows graze Short-horns, 
 Durhams, Cotswold and Merino sheep, and fine 
 horses. He understands and likes stock, and 
 makes it a rule to have only the best on his 
 farm. His general improvements are in accord 
 with modern ideas of farming and stock-rearing, 
 his home is comfortable and commodious, and 
 he is to be congratulated upon the many evi- 
 dences of good management to be found upon 
 his paying and valuable farm. 
 
 Through his marriage, in 1882, with Sarah 
 R. Rice, a native of Linn county, six children 
 have been born into the family of Mr. Philpott : 
 Tracy, Cleveland, Justin, Vera, Franklin and 
 Landis. As a Democrat Mr. Philpott has been 
 quite active in the county, although he has never 
 worked for office, holding with credit, however, 
 those of school director and road supervisor. 
 He is a member of trie Grange at Halsey, has been 
 treasurer of the same for some time, and in his 
 religious inclinations is identified with the Chris- 
 tian Church. Mr. Philpott is a scientific and 
 
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 successful farmer and stock-raiser, broad minded 
 and liberal promoter of the general well being 
 oi his neighborhood, and a man in whom his 
 friends and associates place the most implicit 
 confidence. 
 
 WILLIAM PRESTON. The harness, sad- 
 dlery, paints and oils establishment of Preston & 
 Hales lias a reputation in keeping with the high 
 character of the men directing its management. 
 William Preston, the senior member of the firm, 
 who is a Mason of high degree, and one of the 
 prominent men of Eugene, is a practical harness- 
 maker, having fortified himself with the trade 
 when he first started to make his own living. 
 His life has practically been spent in handling 
 leather goods, and no better judge of fine work- 
 manship is known in the state. The present 
 headquarters of the firm are in the building 
 which was erected in 1902, and constructed with 
 particular reference to the manufacture of har- 
 ness and saddles, and to the handling of a com- 
 plete assortment of paints, oils, and glass. The 
 ground dimensions are 30x114 feet, and two 
 floors are occupied by the company, which caters 
 to a large trade by no means local in extent. 
 
 Born in Picton, Prince Edward county, On- 
 tario, Canada, in 1844. Mr. Preston is the 
 youngest of the five children born to his parents, 
 George and Isabella (Beatty) Preston, farmers 
 by occupation, and both of whom died in On- 
 tario. George Preston came from Ireland as 
 a young man, and after living for a short time 
 in New York City proceeded to Ontario, with 
 his wife, locating on a farm. William remained 
 at home until about twenty years old, in the 
 meantime, at the age of seventeen, serving an 
 apprenticeship to a harnessmaker in Picton. In 
 the fall of 1864 he went to Oswego, N. Y., and 
 worked at his trade, and in 1868 invested his 
 earnings in transportation to California by way 
 of Panama. At Calusa, Cal., he worked at his 
 trade for three years, and in April, 187 1, made 
 his way to Oregon, and worked as a journeyman 
 for a couple of years. Feeling amply qualified 
 to conduct an independent harness business he 
 bought out Sam Ashley's harness shop on East 
 Ninth street, but later sold out and bought a 
 harness shop in partnership with L. T. Bragg 
 on Willamette street, north of where he is located 
 at present. A year later he bought his partner's 
 interest and continued alone for five years, at 
 the end of that time taking C. H. Hales into 
 the business under the firm name of Preston 
 & Hales. 
 
 In Eugene Mr. Preston married for his first 
 wife, Iola Bristow, daughter of W. W. Bristow, 
 one of the pioneers of Oregon. Mrs. Preston, 
 who was born in Lane county, died not long 
 
 after her marriage, leaving a daughter, Etta V., 
 now the wife of Emerson L. Fisher of Eugene. 
 For a second wife Mr. Preston married Miss 
 Emma C. Hunsacker, also born in Lane county, 
 and daughter of Daniel Hunsacker, a retired 
 pioneer of the state living in Eugene. Three 
 children have been born of this second marriage, 
 Vera, who died in infancy, and Donald and 
 Guerold are living. Mr. Preston's activities 
 have extended to political life, and he has always 
 maintained the interests of the Republican party. 
 For six years he served as councilman of Eu- 
 gene, and has been a member of the school 
 board for three years. He is prominent frater- 
 nally, and is a member and past master of Eugene 
 Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M.; Eugene Chapter 
 No. 11, Royal Arch Masons; Ivanhoe Com- 
 mandery No. 2, of which he is past eminent 
 commander; and ex-officer of the Grand Com- 
 mandery of Oregon ; also a member of the Al 
 Kader Temple, N. M. S. He is a man of broad 
 sympathies, intense public spiritedness, and may 
 be counted on to further financially and other- 
 wise, all efforts for the general improvement 
 of the city. 
 
 MRS. SAMANTHA ANN HUDDLESTON. 
 The early days of territorial development and the 
 birth and growth of a statehood is often recalled 
 to the present generation by Mrs. S. A. Huddle- 
 ston, one of the old members of the society of 
 Lane county, her home having been in the 
 vicinity of Eugene since 1847. She came as a 
 child to the west, settling here when the primi- 
 tive conditions which prevailed entailed the 
 greatest hardships and privations upon the pio- 
 neers, and with but a vague promise of the fu- 
 ture which awaited the country to give them 
 courage and cheer amidst their efforts. Passing 
 years have brought the changes which required 
 great faith to foresee, and her home is now among 
 the affluent ones of the state of Oregon as it 
 exists today. 
 
 There is more than a passing interest attached 
 to those sturdy products of the middle west and 
 a deep and absorbing pleasure in going over the 
 events of their lives. Mrs. Huddleston was 
 in maidenhood Samantha Ann Davis, the 
 daughter of Benjamin Davis, who was a 
 native of Ohio. He was a tailor by trade, and 
 when a young man he removed to Plymouth, 
 Ind., and in 1847 outfitted with ox-teams and 
 wagons and prepared to bring his family into 
 the west. The trip occupied six months and was 
 full of the dangers and hardships incident to the 
 life of the early travelers. They came by the 
 southern route, the only firearm which the father 
 had being an old flintlock gun, and though they 
 arrived safely in Oregon, September, 1847, two 
 
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 years later it was impossible to come by that 
 passage. With his wife and six children he lo- 
 cated on a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres two miles from the present site of 
 Eugene, though at that time there was no city 
 in the vicinity and the subject of this sketch rode 
 on horseback in this region when the grass grew 
 to the pony's back. Their first year in the west 
 was one of untold hardships, for they were penni- 
 less, with the exception of seventy-five cents 
 which the father had. They built a log house 
 for a temporary shelter and though wheat sold at 
 $5 per bushel, they lived on boiled wheat, served 
 without salt or milk. The first soda was made 
 from ashes, and the first soap from balsam 
 drawn by the mother from the fir trees and made 
 with lye, and vinegar was produced from the 
 Oregon grape until they began to use the crab- 
 apple. Salt-rising bread was another of their 
 homely products. The first dress which Mrs. 
 Huddleston had made for her in her western 
 home was from an old wagon cover, washed, 
 and dyed with alder bark, and the first dress pur- 
 chased being English calico and costing seventy- 
 five cents a yard. Wild animals of all kinds 
 roamed the country, and made hunting a com- 
 mon and much-enjoyed sport. 
 
 As the finances of Mr. Davis increased, the 
 second year in Oregon finding him among the 
 wheat-growers, which brought them an income, 
 he added a frame a'ddition to his log house, the 
 first of the kind in Lane county, and the frame 
 house which finally took its place was also the 
 first of its kind. This latter is still standing, a 
 landmark of those early times. All the pro- 
 visions of the- family were brought from Van- 
 couver, Wash., at that time their nearest mer- 
 cantile point. Mr. Davis became a successful 
 marl in the country, accumulating property which 
 he proceeded to improve, and taking a strong 
 and active interest in all that concerned the wel- 
 fare of the growing state. He had the confi- 
 dence and esteem of all his fellow-citizens, who 
 respected him for the many sterling qualities 
 which distinguished his character and made him 
 valuable as a member of their community. His 
 death occurred upon his claim in 1856, at the 
 age of forty-nine years. He had married Cath- 
 erine Slater, a native of Pennsylvania, whose 
 father died in Ohio, at the advanced age of one 
 hundred and two years. The mother made her 
 home with her daughter, Mrs. Huddleston, un- 
 til her death at the age of eighty-seven years, in 
 1897. Besides Mrs. Huddleston, she was the 
 mother of the following children: Lemuel E., 
 located in Yaquina Bay, Ore. ; Iantha Jane, who 
 became the wife of F. Castleman, and died in 
 Portland ; Lycurgus, located on a part of the old 
 claim ; William Lewis, in Summit, Ore. ; Caroline, 
 who became the wife of Edward Davis and died 
 
 in California; and Melancthon M., in the steam- 
 boat business at Yaquina. 
 
 Mrs. Huddleston was educated in a subscrip- 
 tion school in Yamhill county in her girlhood, 
 her marriage to James Huddleston occurring in 
 Lane county, in 1853. Mr. Huddleston was 
 born in West Virginia and was left an orphan 
 at a very early age, after which he made his 
 home with an uncle, who resided on a farm. 
 When about twenty-three years old, in 1851, he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams and the next 
 spring engaged in placer mining in California. 
 After a short time he returned to the Willamette 
 valley, and engaged in the mercantile business in 
 Eugene in partnership with A. P. Ankeney, this 
 store being the first in Lane county. The build- 
 ing utilized for the purpose was a shed, or " lean- 
 to," belonging to the house of E. Skinner. Later 
 they erected a store building at the point where 
 the bridge now enters the city and still later built 
 at the corner of Ninth and Oak streets a frame 
 structure which was considered at that time to 
 be exceedingly large. For a time the two men 
 were connected in this business, and then Mr. 
 Huddleston became sole proprietor. When Mr. 
 Huddleston first came to Eugene he took up a 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres which is now a part of the land upon which 
 the city is situated, only one hundred and sixty 
 acres being left in the estate. He made his home 
 upon this farm, engaging in agricultural pur- 
 suits in connection with his mercantile interests 
 until he disposed of the latter in 1856 and de- 
 voted his energies to the improvement and culti- 
 vation of his farm. His death occurred Novem- 
 ber 27, 1 89 1. Politically he was a Democrat 
 and had served his party for one term as county 
 treasurer. Fraternally he was an Odd Fellow 
 and a member of the Encampment. 
 
 Since her husband's death Mrs. Huddleston 
 has laid out an addition to the city of Eugene, 
 in the spring of 1903 apportioning thirty acres 
 on the west side to city lots. She has one son, 
 Henry C. Huddleston, a native of Eugene, who 
 was formerly in business here, but now combines 
 his interests with those of his mother. He is, 
 like his father, of Democratic convictions. 
 
 JOHN C. CHURCH. Long associated with 
 the commercial activity of Eugene, Lane county, 
 John C. Church is not forgotten in business cir- 
 cles, though several years have passed since he 
 came to his death through a fall from the top 
 of the electric light building. Not only an im- 
 portant factor in the business world, Mr. Church 
 also stood high as a man of integrity and ear- 
 nestness of purpose, the esteem given to an hon- 
 orable and upright citizen being his throughout 
 his residence in Eugene. Previous to his re- 
 
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 moval to the west he was located in various 
 states of the middle west, where he served as a 
 soldier in the Civil war. 
 
 .Mr. Church was born in Genesee county, N. 
 V.. June 22, 1834, and was left an orphan at a 
 ver\ early age. His father having been a farm- 
 er, he was more or less trained in agricultural 
 pursuits, and especially so in those frugal and 
 industrious habits which foretell success in life. 
 Coming toward the west, he first located in Tif- 
 tin, Seneca county, Ohio, where he remained 
 until 1852, when he crossed the plains to Cali- 
 fornia and engaged in mining for the ensuing 
 six years. Satisfied with his returns, he went 
 back to Ohio, traveling by way of the Isthmus 
 of Panama, and after a brief period in that state 
 he removed to Iowa, where he engaged in clerk- 
 ing in a mercantile establishment. At the break- 
 ing out of the Civil war he enlisted in the Sec- 
 ond Iowa Regiment of cavalry and served for 
 four years, during which time he became orderly 
 sergeant of Company C, and was afterward pro- 
 moted to the rank of second lieutenant. Soon 
 after the close of the war he removed to Macon, 
 Mo., where he engaged as a clerk in a hardware 
 establishment, where he remained until 1872, 
 when he came to Eugene, Ore. In connection 
 with J. F. Robinson he established a hardware 
 store, the firm name being Robinson & Church, 
 and together they built up a large and lucrative 
 business, which was successfully continued for 
 many years. Disposing of his interests to Brown 
 & Griffin, he engaged in the electric light busi- 
 ness with Mr. Robinson, the concern being 
 known as the Eugene Electric Light Company, 
 of which Mr. Church became president. When 
 the building was nearing completion Mr. Church 
 came to his tragic death, the date being August 
 3. 1897. 
 
 In politics Mr. Church was a Republican, and 
 was active in the work of establishing the prin- 
 ciples of this party in his adopted city. For one 
 term he served as county judge of Lane county, 
 and was a member of the city council for two 
 years. He was a member of J. W. Gearv Post, 
 G. A. R., and fraternally he was an Odd Fellow 
 and a Mason of the Knights Templar degree. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Church occurred in 
 Macon, Mo., November 16, 1869, an d united him 
 with Adaline Greene. She was born in Rich- 
 mond county, Ky., the youngest of seven chil- 
 dren born to her parents, H. M. and Adeline 
 (Campbell) Greene, both of whom also owed 
 their nativity to the state of Kentucky. The 
 father of the former came from Ireland and set- 
 tled there, bringing with him the traits of an 
 English, Scotch and Irish ancestry. Mrs. 
 Church's father was a farmer, and became a 
 resident of Macon county, Mo., where he died. 
 All of the children of that family are now liv- 
 
 ing, though the only one in Oregon is Mrs. 
 Church, who was reared in Missouri and re- 
 ceived her education in the public schools and 
 Huntsville College. She has the following chil- 
 dren : Lee W., chief engineer of the Lane Coun- 
 ty Electric Light Company ; Earl H., a graduate 
 of the University of Oregon, and served in the 
 Philippine Islands under General Summers in 
 the Second Oregon Regiment; Erminie E., and 
 Curtis H. Since her husband's death Mrs. 
 Church has made her home in Eugene, where 
 she owns considerable property. 
 
 ROBERT CALLISON. In the neighbor- 
 hood where he has grown old in the service of 
 agriculture and general advancement, Robert 
 Callison is universally associated with the wife 
 who has traveled the uphill road with him, and 
 whose economy, bravery and unfailing sympathy 
 have never wandered or forsaken him. At pres- 
 ent retired from active life, these pioneers of 
 1848, these Kentuckians so far from the sur- 
 roundings of their birth and childhood, are one 
 of the most delightful and interesting couples 
 to be found in Lane county. The oldest married 
 people in this part of Oregon, their minds are 
 stored with valuable facts personally noted 
 during their long residence here, and their wit 
 in conversation might well be envied by the 
 rising generation. 
 
 A hard struggle for existence characterized 
 the youth of Mr. Callison, who was born in 
 Adair county, Ky., June 5, 1818. His parents 
 dying when he was a small boy, he started away 
 from home to make his own living at the age of 
 fifteen, his first work bringing him in $6 a 
 month and board. In 1833 he made his way 
 overland with teams to Illinois, accompanied 
 by his uncle and family, and inspired in his 
 journey by the fact that four brothers had pre- 
 ceded him to Illinois. He lived and worked with 
 his uncle and brothers until his marriage, De- 
 cember s, 1839, w i tn Polly Bristow, who was 
 born in Kentucky, October 28, 1820, her father, 
 Elijah Bristow, having been born in the Old 
 Dominion state in 1786. The Bristows emi- 
 grated to Illinois in 1827, and Elijah came over- 
 land to California in 1845, then to Oregon, his 
 family following in 1848. All of the members 
 took up claims in Lane county, and the father 
 lived to be eighty-five, and the mother eighty- 
 three years of age. A brother of Mrs. Callison 
 taught the first school in Lane county. The fam- 
 ily became identified with political, church and 
 social advancement. Elijah Bristow was a 
 soldier in the war of 181 2. In his family were 
 fifteen children, two besides Mrs. Callison being 
 alive at the present time. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Callison located on 
 
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 a farm in McDonough county, 111., remaining 
 there and prospering for nine years. His out- 
 fit for crossing the plains in 1848 consisted of 
 a wagon with two yoke of oxen, and one of 
 cows to furnish milk during the journey. Fear- 
 lessly they joined the band of fifty wagons 
 which ventured forth into the practically un- 
 known, and, overcome with weariness each night, 
 pitched their tent only to face the incessant 
 march of the following day. It is not remem- 
 bered that anything out of the ordinary hap- 
 pened on this mission to the west, and at the 
 end of seven months the various members of the 
 cavalcade dispersed to their respective claims, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Callison coming directly to Lane 
 county, and settling on a claim of a section of 
 land on what is now known as Pleasant Hill. 
 Several years later they bought their present 
 farm of six hundred and forty acres, comprising 
 the W. W. Bristow donation claim, made the 
 extensive improvements which have increased 
 its value from year to year, and which now 
 forms one of the most modern and productive 
 properties in Lane county. As early settlers on 
 their farm Mr. and Mrs. Callison had but two 
 neighbors, and their long drives over the new 
 country revealed few signs of activity, agri- 
 cultural or otherwise. Long since they have 
 deeded their large farm to their only son, 
 Josiah T., and their daughter, Lucetta, widow 
 of W. H. Baughman, their respective portions. 
 This venerable couple have two granddaughters, 
 ten grandsons and thirteen great grandchildren. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Callison live on one hundred and 
 twenty-five acres which they reserved for their 
 home. 
 
 A large share of the influence of this worthy 
 family is due to the uprightness of their lives, 
 and to their participation in church and edu- 
 cational advancement. Mrs. Callison was thir- 
 teen and her husband fifteen years of age when 
 they joined the Christian Church, and their al- 
 legiance has never wandered from the denom- 
 ination thus early espoused. They, and the 
 father of Mrs. Callison, were the chief promot- 
 ers of the Christian Church on Pleasant Hill, 
 and they are two of the three charter members 
 of the church which have survived the changes 
 of all these years. A Republican in politics, Mr. 
 Callison cast his first vote for the first President 
 Harrison, and though working at times for the 
 recognition of his friends, he himself has never 
 desired to hold office. Broad-minded, generous, 
 practical and well abreast of the times in which 
 he lives, Mr. Callison commands the best thought 
 of his neighbors and friends, his life work plac- 
 ing him among the foremost of the noble band 
 whose courage and nobility have accomplished 
 the redemption of Oregon. 
 
 MRS. ROSALIA BAUSCH. Floriculture 
 and women seem such a natural combination that 
 one scarcely requires a practical demonstration 
 of their ability in this direction. In no other 
 country in the world have women given the sub- 
 ject such profound and serious consideration, or 
 have so well succeeded in carrying out ambitious 
 projects of catering to large and exacting trades, 
 in direct competition with men of larger means 
 and infinitely greater resources. The greatest 
 opportunities of the kind are by no means con- 
 fined to our sister state of California, for one 
 has but to call attention to such successful flor- 
 ists as Mrs. Rosalia Bausch of Eugene, in sub- 
 stantiation of Oregon's claim of supremacy. 
 Mrs. Bausch has by far the largest floral estab- 
 lishment in the town, and its conduct has been 
 and still is characterized by shrewdness, tact, and 
 good judgment. 
 
 Mrs. Bausch possesses the home-loving and 
 practical traits of the typical women of her na- 
 tive land, Germany, where she was born at 
 Wieselburg, on the Danube, in Bavaria, and 
 where her father, Joseph Auman, was a well 
 known blacksmith. The latter married Monica 
 Kuchler. In the Fatherland eight children were 
 born into his family, all of whom he brought to 
 America in 1854, Mrs. Bausch being at that time 
 thirteen years old. Settling in Manitowoc, Wis., 
 Mr. Bausch worked at his trade until retiring 
 from active life, his death occurring at the age 
 of seventy-seven years. Prior to coming to 
 America Mrs. Bausch had received a practical 
 education in the Gymnasium at Regen, and no 
 member of the family was more delighted than 
 she when the family boarded the sailer Beta, at 
 Bremen, and spent six weeks of storm and calm 
 ere they landed at Baltimore, Md. Stopping at 
 Pittsburg and Chicago on the way to Wisconsin, 
 she completed her education in the latter city 
 and grew into a graceful and attractive woman, 
 making many friends among her schoolmates 
 and members of the German colony. August 5, 
 1856, she was united in marriage with Peter 
 Zimmer, a native of Dolheim, Luxemburg, Ger- 
 many, and who was engaged in building and con- 
 tracting in Manitowoc, Wis. Mr. Zimmer died 
 in Dakota. His wife afterward went to St. Paul, 
 Minn., and in 1876 came to San Francisco with 
 friends. 
 
 Soon after her arrival in the west, in April, 
 1876, she was united in marriage with Peter 
 Bausch, a native of Bayford, Luxemburg, Ger- 
 many, who in his youth learned the shoe- 
 maker's trade in the neighborhood of his home. 
 He was more than an ordinarily fine workman 
 when he came to America in 1876, eighteen years 
 of practical experience in the finest shops in 
 Paris having fitted him for the most delicate and 
 artistic work in his line. He settled first in Al- 
 
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 bany, Ore, and in the fall of the same year took 
 up his residence in Eugene, where he engaged at 
 his trade for two years before retiring from 
 active life. His death, September 17, 1894, left 
 a void in the hearts of many friends who had 
 been attracted to him in the west, for he was a 
 genial and kindly man, large of heart and gentle 
 in his judgment of humanity at large. Polit- 
 ically he was a Democrat, and in religion was a 
 member of the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 In taking up the burden of life after the death 
 of her second husband. Mrs. Bausch displayed 
 a great deal of courage and determination, for 
 she had little to depend on for immediate sup- 
 port, and had never qualified for earning her own 
 living. In 1893 she started a florist and green- 
 house enterprise, which from the first grew 
 apace and encouraged her with more than ex- 
 pected returns. A natural lover of flowers, she 
 studied the nature and peculiarities of the blooms 
 which developed under her watchful care, grow- 
 ing more and more familiar with the many mem- 
 bers of her interesting family. At present her 
 greenhouse measures 16 x 40 feet, and in the 
 summer time she has outside gardens of roses 
 and other flowers. She supplies the largest trade 
 in Eugene, and her collection includes many rare 
 and fine specimens of the florist's art, including 
 orchids of many varieties. A comfortable home 
 is owned and occupied by Mrs. Bausch at 118 
 West Seventh street. With every thought for 
 their ultimate welfare, she has reared three of 
 her five children, all of whom were born of the 
 first marriage. Of these, Mary is the wife of 
 Frank Kading of Penn, N. Dak., while John and 
 Frank are living in Eugene, the latter a master 
 carpenter. Mrs. Bausch is a member of the Re- 
 bekahs and of the Catholic Church. 
 
 JOSEPH W. STEWART. In Lane county 
 are to be found many thorough-going, keen- 
 sighted business men who have achieved success 
 in life through their own tact, sound judgment, 
 and persistent determination. Prominent among 
 this number is Joseph W- Stewart, of Spring- 
 field, who, in his long and prosperous career, has 
 accumulated a sufficiency of this world's goods 
 to enable him to pass his remaining years in ease, 
 surrounded by not only the comforts but the 
 luxuries of life. A man of honest worth, ever 
 ready to support all enterprises conducive to the 
 best interests of his town and county, he has 
 gained in a marked degree the respect and con- 
 fidence of his fellow -men, and is held in high 
 esteem in the community. A son of the late 
 Elias Stewart, he was born September 13, 1835, 
 in Macoupin county, 111. His grandfather, Bri- 
 son Stewart, was born and reared in Virginia, 
 but subsequently moved to Tennessee, thence to 
 
 Illinois, and in 1839 settled in Missouri, where 
 he passed the remainder of his years. He was a 
 tiller of the soil, and as a pioneer assisted in 
 breaking the land in three of the states above 
 mentioned. He enlisted as a soldier in the clos- 
 ing years of the war of 1812, but was never 
 called into active service. 
 
 The oldest of a family of eight children, six 
 of whom grew to years of maturity, Joseph W. 
 Stewart received his early education in the dis- 
 trict schools of Missouri. Coming to Lane coun- 
 ty in 1852, he assisted his father in the' labors 
 incidental to life in a new and uncivilized region, 
 remaining at home until 1862. Going then to the 
 mines of Boise, Idaho, he met with success in his 
 search for the golden ore, returning home in 1863 
 with $1,200 in gold. For a few months there- 
 after he was employed as a clerk in a store at 
 Eugene. On November 5, 1863, he moved to 
 Springfield, Ore., where, in partnership with his 
 brother, John Stewart, and Mier Rosenblatt, he 
 embarked in business as a general merchant. In 
 1865 Mr. Stewart and his brother bought out the 
 interest of the remaining partner of the firm and 
 conducted a successful mercantile business until 
 1873, when the partnership was dissolved. Tak- 
 ing the store, Mr. Stewart continued its manage- 
 ment alone until March 26, 1902, when he sold 
 out to T. G. Chandler, and has since lived re- 
 tired from active pursuits. Mr. Stewart has 
 large property interests to look • after, owning 
 considerable real estate, a large part of which is 
 in town lots. He has twenty-two acres in one 
 body adjoining Eugene on the southwest, which 
 he has named in honor of his father, the Elias 
 Stewart addition, twenty acres of it being plat- 
 ted. He is also owner of three blocks on Cottage 
 Hill, in Eugene, and in the city of Springfield 
 has a fine residence, two store buildings, and 
 other property, including twelve city lots. He 
 manages his own real estate interests and con- 
 ducts an extensive business besides in loaning 
 money. 
 
 In 1864, near Eugene, Mr. Stewart married 
 Julia Walker, who was born in Greene county, 
 Mo. She died August 16, 1874, aged twenty- 
 seven years, leaving two children, namely : 
 Henry, who is telegraph operator and station 
 agent for the Southern Pacific Railway Company 
 at Comstock ; and Hattie, wife of A. O. Wheeler, 
 an engineer, residing at Portland, Ore. On De- 
 cember 2. 1875, Mr- Stewart married Elizabeth 
 Evans, who was born in Baltimore, Md., but, 
 being left an orphan when young, came to Ore- 
 gon, in 1874. to live with her brother. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Stewart have three children, namely : James 
 E.. a butcher in Springfield; Mary Ethel, wife 
 of J. L. Clark, postmaster at Springfield ; and 
 Harry M., who is assistant postmaster. Polit- 
 ically Mr. Stewart is a stanch supporter of the 
 
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 principles of the Democratic party. He has 
 filled many positions of public trust and respon- 
 sibility, having been postmaster at Springfield 
 for eight years, serving through President 
 Hayes' administration and during the first term 
 of President Cleveland ; he was school director 
 a number of years ; was a member of the city 
 council several terms ; and at the present time is 
 serving most efficiently as city treasurer. 
 
 L. W. BROWN, M. D. A profound and 
 ever-increasing knowledge of medicine and sur- 
 gery, more than ordinary penetration into pos- 
 sible business chances, and the requisite executive 
 ability, as well as a public spirit wide enough to 
 cover all phases of life and activity, have con- 
 spired to make the career of Dr. L. W. Brown a 
 notable one in Eugene. Today he is unquestion- 
 ably the most in demand of any who follow his 
 calling in Lane county, and he is the oldest in Eu- 
 gene to subscribe to the principle of similia simil- 
 ibus curantur. Preceded by twenty years of prac- 
 tical professional experience in Philadelphia, he 
 came to Eugene in 1887, and, liking the people 
 and country, has since made this his home. He 
 is especially devoted to surgery, and some of his 
 most satisfactory results have been accomplished 
 along this line, his success creating a demand 
 for his services throughout southern Oregon. 
 
 Of substantial farming stock, Dr. Brown was 
 born in Lorain county, Ohio, February 2, 1844, 
 the fourth of the seven children born to Lewis and 
 Mary (Henninger) Brown, natives respectively 
 of Prussia and Ohio. Lewis Brown came to 
 America as a young man, and settled in Lorain 
 county, where he farmed continuously until his 
 death in 1851, when his son L. W. was seven 
 years old. The death of his wife had occurred 
 the year before. The orphan children were kept 
 together during their early years on the Lorain 
 county farm in Ohio, and when L. W. Brown 
 was still young he went to Cleveland and became 
 a clerk in a drug store. While there he became 
 interested in medicine, and after two years in the 
 store, began to study with Dr. S. R. Beckworth, 
 professor of surgery in the Homoeopathic Medi- 
 cal College. Having completed his tuition under 
 this capable guide he entered the New York 
 Homoeopathic Medical College, being gradu- 
 ated therefrom in the spring of 1864. The Civil 
 war then approaching its end, he became post- 
 surgeon of the General Hospital No. 7, of 
 Louisville, Ky., with the rank of captain, served 
 his time, and, returning to Philadelphia, entered 
 upon the practice which covered the long period 
 of twenty years. 
 
 In enumerating the business enterprises which 
 have profited by the co-operation of Dr. Brown, 
 mention should be made of the Eugene Theatre 
 
 Company, of which he is a director and the vice 
 president, and which has recently completed a 
 $30,000 opera house. He is a director in the 
 LeRoy Mining Company, operating in the Bo- 
 hemia mining district, and manufacturing steam 
 machinery for mining and development. He 
 has stock in a number of prominent mines, and, 
 taken all in all, is a most successful mining pro- 
 moter. Dr. Brown was pension examiner for 
 five years, or until the obligations of an exten- 
 sive practice obliged him to curtail outside re- 
 sponsibilities. He is examiner for the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the 
 Maccabees, and the Lions. Since his first voting 
 days he has been in favor of Republican prin- 
 ciples, and in many ways has furthered the local 
 interests of his party. While still living in Penn- 
 sylvania, Dr. Brown married Isabelle Lotridge, 
 who was born in La Crosse, Wis., and died in 
 Philadelphia in 1878, leaving two children: Isa- 
 belle J., a graduate of the University of Oregon, 
 now the wife of Prof. R. H. Dearborn of the 
 University of Oregon; and Leonard G, also 
 educated at the University of Oregon, a grad- 
 uate of pharmacy, and at present secretary and 
 treasurer of the Erie Copper Mining Company 
 of Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 FRED FISK. The office of sheriff of Lane 
 county has never been more ably maintained 
 than by its present incumbent, Fred Fisk, whose 
 broad education and earnest intelligence pecu- 
 liarly qualify him to hold a position where 
 judgment as well as action is required in the 
 discharge of duties. Mr. Fisk was .born in Fisk, 
 Adair county, Iowa, December 10, 1873, the son 
 of Judge A. H. Fisk, a native of Northfield, Vt. 
 The latter was the son of Henry Fisk, also a 
 native of Vermont, who became an early settler 
 of Adair county and passed the remainder of 
 his life there as a farmer. A. H. Fisk engaged 
 in business in that county as a stockman and 
 farmer, making his home in the town of Fisk, 
 which received its name from his own. He was 
 a prominent and influential man there, serving 
 as a member of the board of supervisors, but he 
 left his well grounded interests to find a home 
 among the interesting conditions of the state of 
 Oregon. He first located in Lane county, engag- 
 ing in the mercantile business in Eugene, where 
 in 1892 he was elected county judge for four 
 years, after which he retired from public duties 
 and so remained until his death December 2, 
 1 901. Politically he was a Democrat and fra- 
 ternally he was a Royal Arch Mason. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Emerson, a native of Vermont. 
 
 Fred Fisk was reared in Iowa and educated 
 in the public schools of that state. He was fif- 
 teen years old when the family removed to 
 
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 Eugene, and he at once entered the high school, 
 from which he was graduated in 1891, for a 
 short time thereafter serving as a clerk. Eager 
 to win in an educational race for which he had 
 special ability, he entered the University of Ore- 
 gon, and in 1897 was graduated with the degree 
 of A. B. In the same year he won the state 
 oratorical contest and also the inter-state ora- 
 torical contest, open to the states of Oregon, 
 Washington and Idaho. Upon leaving the uni- 
 versity Mr. Eisk went back to Iowa and passed 
 the years of 1897-98, and on his return to Oregon 
 was appointed, September 1, 1898, deputy sher- 
 iff under Sheriff W. W. Withers, his principal 
 duty being the charge of the office. He contin- 
 ued in this position until the unfortunate death 
 of the sheriff, February 7, 1903, when he was 
 appointed by the county commissioners as sheriff 
 of the county. He took charge of affairs at 
 once, his ability being promptly demonstrated 
 by the able manner in which he took up the 
 work so suddenly laid down. As a Democrat, 
 Mr. Fisk has upheld the interests of the party 
 in such a way as to prove the depths of the loy- 
 alty with which he adheres to the principles 
 advocated. 
 
 Mr. Fisk is also interested in real estate in 
 this part of the state, being the owner of timber 
 lands in Lane county. In his fraternal relations 
 he was made a Mason in Eugene Lodge Xo. 11 
 and is now a Royal Arch Mason. He also be- 
 longs to the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen 
 of the World. He is an active member of the 
 Alumni Association of the University of Ore- 
 gon, and a member of the Commercial Club. 
 
 PROF. GEORGE COOTE. It is well-nigh 
 impossible to overestimate the great progress 
 that has been made in scientific agriculture 
 during the past half century, more especially 
 that made since the establishment by congress 
 in each of the states and territories of an agri- 
 cultural experiment station. In order that the 
 highest possible results shall be obtained in each 
 of these stations, it is necessary that the staff 
 of instructors must be composed of men of 
 ability and education, whose preliminary train- 
 ing shall have especially fitted them for the 
 work in hand. Noteworthy in the faculty of the 
 Oregon Agricultural College is Prof. George 
 Coote, who is at the head of the floricultural and 
 gardening department, also having supervision 
 of the vegetable department at the experiment 
 station. 
 
 A native of England, and the descendant of 
 an old and respected family. Professor Coote 
 was born, February 28, 1842, in Bromley, Kent 
 county. His father a life-long resident of Eng- 
 land, was successfully engaged in agricultural 
 
 pursuits, the occupation by which his ancestors 
 lived and thrived, for many years. He married 
 Martha Keeble, who was born in County Essex, 
 England, and died in her native land. Three 
 children were born of their union, two of whom 
 are living, George, the subject of this brief 
 sketch, being the only one to cross the Atlantic, 
 and settle in a newer country. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm, and educated 
 in the national schools, George Coote remained 
 with his parents until sixteen years old, when he 
 entered tne employ of Mr. Jack, a noted florist 
 and gardener, with whom he served an appren- 
 ticeship of four years, at Langley Park, Becken- 
 ham, County Kent. After working as a garden- 
 er for three ensuing years, he had the entire 
 charge of laying out seven acres of private 
 grounds, arranging the landscape in an artistic 
 manner, subsequently having charge of the 
 grounds from 1864 until 1868. Assuming then the 
 management of a large estate in Down, County 
 Kent, he became a neighbor of Darwin, with 
 whom he formed an intimate acquaintance, and 
 oftentimes helped him in his work, and aided 
 him in the various experiments in the fertilizing 
 of orchids, and in the development of plants. 
 Becoming interested in the Pacific coast through 
 a friend, T. E. Hogg, who was connected with 
 the Corvallis & Eastern Railway Company, Mr,. 
 Coote emigrated to America in 1877, coming 
 under the auspices of a London company to take 
 charge of seventy thousand acres of land appor- 
 tioned to Oregon in 1862, the interest arising 
 from the proceeds of said land being devoted to 
 the instruction of the industrial classes in such 
 branches of learning as relate to agriculture and 
 the mechanical arts. The company failing a 
 few years later, Mr. Coote purchased land west 
 of Corvallis, and was there engaged in general 
 farming for five years, later being located at 
 Yaquina bay. 
 
 Accepting, in 1888, the appointment as assist- 
 ant professor of horticulture at the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College, then just opened, he laid out 
 the college grounds, erected the greenhouses, 
 and subsequently filled the chair of horticulture. 
 A year later he was made superintendent of 
 grounds, a position which he ably filled for three 
 years, when he accepted his present position as 
 professor of floriculture and gardening. The 
 professor is a recognized authority on all ques- 
 tions pertaining to horticulture, floriculture, 
 vegetable and landscape gardening, through his 
 wide experience in these branches gaining wis- 
 dom and knowledge of great value to himself 
 and his students. 
 
 Professor Coote married, at St. George's 
 Church, Beckenham, England, Miss Marv Ann 
 Harvey, who was born in Ipswich, County Suf- 
 folk, England, and they have two children, 
 
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 namely : Annie, wife of W. Butler, of Santa 
 Barbara, Cal. ; and Edith, wife of Prof. E. F. 
 Pernot, of Corvallis. Politically Professor Coote 
 is a Democrat, and fraternally is a member of 
 Corvallis Grange No. 242, in which he is now 
 serving his second term as master. He is an 
 active member of the Episcopal Church, of which 
 he was for a number of years lay reader, senior 
 warden, and vestryman. 
 
 HENRY E. PARRISH. On the farm which 
 is now his home, Henry E. Parrish was born 
 January 18, 1848. In Oregon, a date so remote, 
 while not indicating anything beyond a man in 
 his prime, carries with it an impression of primi- 
 tive and pioneer conditions, which was certainly 
 the case, although the grandfather, E. E. Par- 
 rish, and the father, Gamaliel Parrish, were 
 already well established in the state, they having 
 crossed the plains in 1844. The grandfather 
 removed at a very early day from his home in the 
 east to Ohio, where Gamaliel was born, and 
 where he reared several other children, all of 
 whom, except one son, accompanied him to Ore- 
 gon. He was both a physician and minister of 
 the gospel, and in Oregon settled on a claim near 
 Jefferson, Marion county, in what was known as 
 Parrish Gap. 
 
 Gamaliel Parrish remained at home until 1847, 
 and then took up a section of land near Plain- 
 view, a portion of which comprises the farm of 
 Henry Parrish. He went to the mines of Cali- 
 fornia in 1849, making the trip to and fro by 
 water, and bringing home with him much more 
 money than he had hoped to make in the mines. 
 Before settling on his farm, February 25, 1847, 
 he married Miss Lydia M. Peterson, and the 
 young couple settled down to housekeeping in 
 a little round-log house with one room, and here 
 made themselves as comfortable as possible for 
 some years, eventually replacing the log house 
 with one of more modern construction. The 
 wife died on the farm May 14, 1876, and was 
 survived by her husband until November 12, 
 1884. Henry E. is the oldest of their three 
 children, and Sarah E., the only daughter in the 
 family, is the widow of Alpheus Frum, while 
 Granville E. lives in Yakima, Wash. 
 
 Henry E. Parrish remained with his father 
 until his twenty-eighth year, and in the meantime 
 had acquired a practical education in the public 
 schools, receiving from his father a thorough 
 agricultural training. Somewhat weary of the 
 monotony of farming life, he went to Lebanon 
 in 1884 and conducted the St. Charles Hotel for 
 eighteen months, afterward managing a restaur- 
 ant with fair results for a couple of years in 
 the same city. For a year he lived on a farm in 
 Benton county, and for a year and a half operated 
 
 a farm near Plainview. He then returned to 
 the old homestead, where he has since lived, 
 and where he owns two hundred and fifty-six 
 acres of the original claim. He is engaged in 
 general farming, stock-raising and dairying, and 
 on his property has made many improvements 
 in addition to those made by his father in the 
 early days. July 26, 1876, Mr. Parrish married 
 Miss Emma Bates, who was born in Marshall 
 county, Iowa, and crossed the plains with her 
 parents in 1864. Arnie J., the only child born 
 into the Parrish home, died in 1896, at the age 
 of six years. Mr. Parrish is a Republican in 
 politics, though never seeking official recogni- 
 tion, and with his wife is a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church. He is honorable and upright in 
 all of his dealings, and in his neighborhood is 
 regarded as a very successful and public-spirited 
 citizen. 
 
 CHARLES PATTISON. Ten miles south 
 of Albany is the sixty-five-acre farm of Charles 
 Pattison, who, in his younger and more rugged 
 days tilled many acres of land in this fertile 
 valley. Mr. Pattison belongs to that class of 
 successful men who have worked out their own 
 destiny, and who, at no stage of his career, has 
 received material financial or other aid. His 
 father, William, a native of Ireland, was born 
 in 1798, and at a very youthful age was left 
 an orphan. Thereafter he went to live with his 
 paternal relatives, with whom he came to Am- 
 erica in 1803, settling on a farm in South Caro- 
 lina. In 1818 the entire family removed to the 
 state of Illinois, William remaining with his 
 friends until his marriage with Mary Mumford, 
 a native of South Carolina. Eventually he be- 
 came a farmer in Randolph county, where his 
 son, Charles, was born December 24, 1833, and 
 where he remained until the spring of 1849. The 
 father was ambitious of better things, and, hav- 
 ing outfitted with ox-teams and wagons, started 
 across the plains with his wife and children, ex- 
 periencing on the way but little trouble with the 
 Indians. They were on the road about nine 
 months, and in the late fall reached Multnomah 
 county, Ore., where they spent the first winter 
 on a farm. In March, 1850, Mr. Pattison moved 
 to Oregon City, where he followed laboring until 
 the fall, when he took up his residence in Cow- 
 litz county, Wash., on a section of land.. This 
 continued to be his home for eighteen months, 
 and, not being pleased with the location, he 
 moved near Olympia, in the Puget Sound re- 
 gion. Eight or nine years later he moved to 
 Lane county, Ore., where he bought four hun- 
 dred acres of land, and where his death occurred 
 at the age of seventy-five years. He was sur- 
 vived by his wife until her eighty-second year, 
 
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 her death occurring at the home of her son, 
 Charles, with whom her last years were spent. 
 William Pattison was a man of strong character 
 and much natural ability, and in the early days 
 served faithfully in the Yakima war for three 
 months. He was a member and active worker in 
 the United Presbyterian Church, which he joined 
 as a young man, and was ever afterward de- 
 voted to its interests. 
 
 The children of William Pattison numbered 
 six. and all were reared on the home farm, start- 
 ing out at comparatively early ages to earn their 
 own living. Charles chose blacksmithing as a 
 means of livelihood, but never plied his trade to 
 any extent. At the age of twenty-eight he took 
 up an adjoining claim to the old homestead, and 
 made that his home until 1880, when he bought 
 his present farm of sixty-five acres in the Oak- 
 ville vicinity, ten miles southwest of Albany. He 
 is interested in general farming and stock, and 
 has found his occupation both congenial and re- 
 munerative. At no time in his life has Mr. 
 Pattison taken more than a passive interest in 
 politics, but is ranged on the side of Prohibition. 
 Armilda, the first wife of Mr. Pattison, who 
 died in 1877, bore him four children, three of 
 whom are living: Mrs. Ida Morris, who lives 
 in Washington ; Mrs. Agnes Shough, living in 
 Albany ; and Mrs. Anna Barton lives at the 
 paternal home. For a second wife Mr. Pattison 
 married Sarah Redford, a native of Missouri, of 
 which union there have been born three children : 
 Nellie, of Portland ; Alice, at home ; and John 
 W., assisting his father with the home farm. 
 Like his father, Mr. Pattison served in the Ya- 
 kima Indian war for three months, during 1855- 
 6, and he recalls many thrilling experiences 
 with the red men in the early days. He also 
 is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. 
 Upright and honorable in all his dealings, prac- 
 tical and public-spirited, Mr. Pattison commands 
 in large meaasure the respect of the community 
 in which he lives, and towards the improvements 
 of which he has so earnesly striven. 
 
 EDWARD ERNEST UPMEYER. A many- 
 sided ability and the faculty of not only recog- 
 nizing but creating opportunities, has enabled 
 Edward Ernest Upmeyer to lead a life of more 
 than ordinary interest and usefulness. In fact 
 there are few important enterprises in and around 
 Harrisburg which have not been influenced by his 
 judgment or promoted by his practical assistance. 
 At present retired from active participation in 
 the interests which are still conducted under his 
 name, Mr. Upmeyer has amassed a fortune in 
 stock-raising, land speculating, saw-milling, and 
 other lines of enterprise, and in his rise is an 
 inspiring example of the man who builds upon 
 
 the sure foundation of practical business judg- 
 ment and fair dealing. 
 
 Inheriting strong and reliable characteristics 
 of his Teutonic ancestors, Mr. Upmeyer was 
 born in Baltimore, Md., October 28, 1842, his 
 father, Ernest, having settled in the Maryland 
 city upon his arrival from Prussia in 1835. A 
 carpenter by trade, the elder Upmeyer found 
 ready employment during his active life, and, be- 
 ing a master workman, commanded good wages. 
 His removal with his family to St. Louis, Mo., 
 in 1846, resulted in a change for the better, but 
 his death, which occurred two years later, in 
 1848, cut short a career still promising, although 
 he had reached the half century mark. With 
 him from Prussia came his wife, Sophia (Hol- 
 stein) Upmeyer, and four of their children, five 
 more being born in the United States. The 
 parents were devoted to each other and to their 
 home. The mother also died in 1848, six weeks 
 after the death of her husband. 
 
 After his parents' death, when he was five 
 years old, Edward Ernest went to live with a 
 cousin at Trenton, 111., and remained there until 
 the spring of 1868. He then started out to 
 farm on his own responsibility, and in 1869 mar- 
 ried, in Louisville, Ky., Liza Jane Bain, who 
 was born in Manchester, England, and came to 
 the United States with her friends at the age 
 of eighteen years. Locating in Louisville, Ky., 
 Miss Bain taught in the public schools of that 
 city for twelve years, or until her marriage. 
 The young people settled near Lawrence, Kans., 
 and afterward removed to Hutchinson, the same 
 state, at the end of a year taking up their resi- 
 dence in Salina county. Here Mr. Upmeyer 
 owned and managed a threshing machine for 
 three years, then with his gains went to Bear 
 Valley, Colo., the following year locating on a 
 rented farm near Harrisburg, Ore. His actual 
 start in life Mr. Upmeyer dates from 1885, when 
 he bought two hundred and eighty acres of land 
 two miles east of Harrisburg, but still made his 
 home on the rented farm, which comprised 
 about a thousand acres. He began to buy, sell 
 and raise stock on a large scale, and to a greater 
 extent than the average newcomer succeeded 
 from the first, increasing his business from 
 month to month, until at the end of two years 
 he stepped down and out, his efforts having 
 netted him a tidy little sum. 
 
 Locating in Harrisburg in 1888, he purchased 
 a warehouse and stored wheat and oats for three 
 years, and in 1890 purchased a saw-mill in the 
 town, which he conducted successfully for 
 twelve years. In 1894 he became one of the pro- 
 moters of the Harrisburg Water Power Canal, 
 was the first president of the company, and 
 eventually became the sole owner of the con- 
 cern. Saw-mill and canal were in a flourishing 
 
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 condition in 1902, when Mr. Upmeyer had an 
 opportunity to dispose of both advantageously, 
 which he did to Booth & Kelley Lumber Com- 
 pany. Needless to say, the margin from these 
 transactions was sufficient to insure him a life of 
 ease and independence, a consummation fully 
 earned by his years of devotion to the best tenets 
 of business. In the meantime, in 1901, he had 
 added to his landed possessions, and at the pres- 
 ent time he has five hundred acres within two 
 miles of Harrisburg, besides a farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres of timber land on the 
 Siuslaw river. 
 
 The Republican party in Linn county has 
 profited by the substantial support of Mr. Up- 
 meyer, who has been mayor of Harrisburg for 
 one term, has been a member of the council 
 many times, and for nine years has endeavored 
 to promote educational excellence in the com- 
 munity as a member of the school board. He is 
 fraternally connected with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. Since early manhood he has 
 been a member and active worker in the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, to which his wife also 
 belonged. Mrs. Upmeyer was an invalid for the 
 last six years of her life, and notwithstanding 
 the unceasing efforts of her husband in her be- 
 half, her death occurred March 19, 1903. No 
 children being born to Mr. and Mrs. Upmeyer, 
 they adopted Dena Holt, who is now the wife of 
 E. J. Nixon, a farmer near Harrisburg. A. B. 
 Hulett, a general merchant of Island City, also 
 owes his training from thirteen years of age to 
 these large-hearted people, who gave him a home 
 and a practical education, and started him out 
 in life. Mr. Upmeyer has an abiding confidence 
 in the slow and sure ways of making a living, 
 and anything on the speculative order has never 
 appealed to his judgment. His advancement has 
 been steady, and dictated by sober thought and 
 practical common sense, and has met with tfte 
 approval of conservative and painstaking asso- 
 ciates in the business world. Mr. Upmeyer is 
 one of the organizers and president of the Kla- 
 math Lake Navigation Company, which are op- 
 erating both freight and passenger boats on the 
 Klamath Lakes in southeastern Oregon. 
 
 ALFRED R. LOCKE. Among the well known 
 early settlers of Benton county who have con- 
 tributed to its agricultural upbuilding is that 
 to which Alfred R. Locke belongs, himself a 
 native son of the county, and born on the farm 
 which is still his home, November 10, 1850. 
 Upon the increasingly fertile acres redeemed 
 from the wilderness by his father he was reared 
 to a life of toil and usefulness, but though en- 
 couraged in industry, and in the development of 
 his abilities as a whole, fine opportunities were 
 
 his, also, especially in the line of education. He 
 was a student at the public schools for many 
 years, which training was supplemented by a 
 course at that excellent educational center, the 
 Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis. 
 
 After his father's death in 1873 Alfred R. 
 and Alonzo, his brother, assumed control of the 
 old donation claim, and amicably managed the 
 same together for about six years. Alfred then 
 bought out his brother's interest, and has since 
 cqnduqted the whole independently and with 
 great success. He owns two hundred and twen- 
 ty-seven acres, and carries on general farming 
 and stock-raising, and also has a large dairy busi- 
 ness. Located five miles north Of Corvallis, on 
 the Independence road, the farm is admirably 
 adapted for all kinds of farming, and has ac- 
 commodations for a large number of stock. 
 
 May 30, 1876, Mr. Locke married Maryetta 
 Williams, who was born in Missouri, and whose 
 father died when she was a child. The meeting 
 between the young people occurred when Mr. 
 Locke was making a visit in Missouri, and al- 
 most immediately they came to the west, lo- 
 cating on the old donation claim, where the 
 young wife received a warm welcome from her 
 husband's people. Three sons have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Locke, of whom Horace is at 
 Corvallis, Ore., while Walter and Otto are liv- 
 ing with their father. Mr. Locke is a Demo- 
 crat in politics, but has never desired to enter 
 the ranks of office-seekers. He is fraternally 
 connected with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South. He is a bright and 
 enterprising man, well posted on current events, 
 and above all else is in touch with the agricul- 
 tural advancement in his neighborhood. 
 
 ROBERT A. SMITH. The untiring indus- 
 try of Robert A. Smith has gained him the pos- 
 session of a farm of ninety-eight acres three 
 miles from Corvallis, where he has a pleasant 
 home, and most congenial occupation. He has 
 been a farmer for many years, and during that 
 time has kept abreast of the times, and im- 
 proved his property with everything calculated 
 to facilitate a general farming and stock-raising 
 industry. In western Canada, where he was 
 born May 17, 1837, Mr. Smith was reared on 
 his father's farm, but in his youth had few edu- 
 cational advantages. That he has more than 
 made up for this deficiency argues his appre- 
 ciation of knowledge as a whole, for he is to- 
 day a well informed man, and an interesting ob- 
 server of the people and happenings around him. 
 
 Starting out to make his own living at the age 
 of nineteen, Mr. Smith worked on farms by 
 
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 the month for several years, and upon coming to 
 the United States settled near Aurora, 111., where 
 the breaking- out of the Civil war found him 
 saving money through farm labor. Responding 
 to his adopted country's call he enlisted in Com- 
 pany 15. One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Illinois 
 Volunteer Infantry, and was sent south guard- 
 ing government property, serving in this ca- 
 pacitv until the close of the war. After the 
 restoration of peace he went to the pineries of 
 Wisconsin, and from the lumber camps to Dal- 
 las county, Iowa, where he found employment 
 on a farm. A short time afterward he bought 
 a farm, and married Mrs. Janet Wheeler, widow 
 of James Wheeler, and daughter of Alexander 
 McTaggert, the latter of whom was born in Scot- 
 land and died in Iowa. Mrs. Wheeler had two 
 children, of whom James A. is living with his 
 step-father. Two daughters have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of whom Etta is a grad- 
 uate of the Oregon Agricultural College at Cor- 
 vallis, and Robena is a graduate of the State 
 Normal of Monmouth. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Smith left Iowa and came to 
 Benton county. Ore., living for two years in 
 the town of Corvallis, but not liking it as well 
 as he thought he should, returned then to Iowa. 
 In 1889 he returned to the coast, convinced by 
 his experience that after all this was one of 
 the garden spots of the country. This time he 
 located three miles from Corvallis, which is his 
 present farm, and to which he has devoted the 
 best years of his life. He is a quiet, unassuming 
 man, and averse to office-holding or participation 
 in public affairs. He is a Republican in politics. 
 Upright and honorable in all of his dealings, 
 Mr. Smith has the esteem of his neighbors and 
 associates, and his farm and himself are a dis- 
 tinct credit to a thriving community of agricul- 
 turists. 
 
 A. W. PATTERSON. M. D. That giving, 
 not living, is the more important part of life, has 
 been demonstrated in the career of Dr. A. W. 
 Patterson, one of the pioneer physicians of Ore- 
 gon, and a worthy representative of one of the 
 noble and unselfish professions that have helped 
 to lift the world to a higher plane in its physical, 
 social and moral status. In his many ministra- 
 tions in the early days of the country he came 
 in contact with those whose character was to 
 form the foundation of the western common- 
 wealth, and with all conditions that tried the souls 
 of pioneers and proved their worth ; and not 
 until a retrospective glance is taken can one 
 realize his forceful personality as an individual 
 and his consecrated effort toward the upbuilding 
 of the state and the advancement of western 
 civilization. It is well to pause in the march of 
 
 progress and review the lives of such men, for 
 they are a constant inspiration toward higher 
 living, and an example which the vounger gen- 
 eration can make no mistake in following. 
 
 The grandfather of Dr. Patterson, John by- 
 name, was born in Scotland, came to America 
 in the eighteenth century, and became a soldier 
 under Washington in the Revolutionary war, 
 while in service receiving a slight wound. He 
 died during the war, while the army was win- 
 tering in New Jersey. His son, Andrew, was 
 born in Bucks county. Pa., and was reared to 
 manhood in that locality. He became appren- 
 ticed to a manufacturer of spinning wheels, and 
 after serving his time became connected with 
 a carpenter and cabinetmaker. He continued 
 in this business for many years and later in life 
 engaged in farming in Armstrong county, where 
 his death occurred in 1832, at the age of sixty- 
 one years. Moral and upright, he lived the 
 righteous life of a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. His wife was formerlv Jane Lindsay, 
 a native of Shippensburg, Pa., who had been 
 left an orphan at an early age. She was reared 
 by an uncle who was in business in Jamaica, N. 
 Y., and was known as Jamaica Lindsay. Mrs. 
 Patterson died in Butler county. Pa., the mother 
 of eleven children, of whom five sons and three 
 daughters attained maturity. 
 
 The youngest son and the onlv one now in 
 Oregon is Dr. A. W. Patterson, who was born 
 in Armstrong county. Pa., October 4, 1814, and 
 reared upon his father's farm. His education 
 was received in Bassingham Academy and the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pitts- 
 burg. Upon the completion of his studies he 
 took up the study of medicine under the tutelage 
 of Dr. Joseph Gazam, and later went to Phila- 
 delphia and entered Pennsylvania .College of 
 Medicine, then a new school started bv a part 
 of the faculty of Jefferson Medical College. 
 Previous to his graduation in March, 1841, with 
 the degree of M. D., he had practiced for one 
 year in what is now Pittsburg, as his first course 
 of lectures had been taken in 1839. After his 
 graduation he located in Greenfield, Ind., and 
 practiced for a time, and then returned to Pitts- 
 burg, and after practicing there for some time 
 he began to travel through the west as a repre- 
 sentative of a surgical instrument manufacturer. 
 In April. 1852, he became one of a party of five 
 to start on horseback for the more remote west, 
 the first part of the journey being in company 
 with an emigrant train, which, however, they 
 soon left in the rear, arriving at The Dalles 
 August 28, being among the first emigrants of 
 that year. With the good judgment which has 
 unifortulv distinguished the business ventures of 
 Dr. Patterson, he took up a donation claim one 
 mile west of Eugene, Lane count v, the fulfill - 
 
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 ment of his expectations being in 1853, when the 
 county seat was located in that city. 
 
 Turning his attention to public service, Dr. 
 Patterson became a government surveyor, and 
 was also awarded the contract by the county 
 commissioner to survey the plot of Eugene. In 
 1854 he undertook the work of laying out the 
 town, forty acres of which was donated by Char- 
 nel Mulligan and a like number of acres by Eu- 
 gene Skinner, Eighth street forming the division 
 line. The work was a success, and met with the 
 commendation of those most interested, and he 
 felt encouraged to continue his surveying, which 
 he did for a couple of years in both Oregon and 
 Washington. At the breaking out of the Rogue 
 River Indian war he was selected to raise a 
 company, but declined to do so, suggesting in- 
 stead Captain Buoy, who had served in the Black 
 Hawk war, his own inclinations leading him to 
 prefer an appointment as a physician. Receiv- 
 ing no call, however, in that line, he agreed to 
 accept the first lieutenancy in the company, 
 which reached the battle ground on the evening 
 of the third day of the battle of Hungry Hill. 
 He there met the commissary-general, Dr. Joseph 
 Grew, who asked him to accept the position of 
 surgeon. Notwithstanding the fact that he could 
 not offer his resignation until the following day, 
 Dr. Patterson went to work immediately dress- 
 ing the wounds of the men, and the next morn- 
 ing after having resigned his commission as lieu- 
 tenant he was commissioned and appointed by 
 General Grew as surgeon, in which position he 
 remained until April 15, 1856, when he resigned. 
 During the Rogue River campaign the service 
 was exceedingly strenuous and told upon the 
 strength of even the doctor's rugged constitu- 
 tion, and as recruits were needed he was appoint- 
 ed to return to Eugene to secure enlistments, 
 which he immediately did. In the spring of 1857 
 he took a contract to survey six townships in 
 Lane county, during which service he was much 
 in demand, as he was one of the very few phy- 
 sicians in the country. Upon the appointment 
 of a new surveyor, General Chapman being the 
 man selected, Dr. Patterson was offered the posi- 
 tion of chief clerk, which he accepted and ably 
 maintained until a change of office, when, having 
 secured a contract to survey five townships be- 
 tween The Dalles and the John Day river, he 
 took up surveying once more. In the spring of 
 1862 he began the practice of medicine in Eu- 
 gene and continued faithful to the interests of 
 his profession for thirty-three years, in 1897 
 seeking a retirement much needed after a life 
 of such arduous labor. Several years previous 
 to his retirement he had confined his practice to 
 office consultation. 
 
 In the various public movements which were 
 vital to the growth of the country, Dr. Patterson 
 
 has ever fulfilled his part as a loyal and intelli- 
 gent citizen. In the early educational enterprises 
 he exercised a strong influence, for four terms 
 serving in his county as superintendent of 
 schools, and also as school director, a monu- 
 ment reared to the memory of his services being 
 the Patterson School, which was named in his 
 honor. In connection with Samuel Simpson he 
 was engaged for some time in getting up a 
 series of school books to be used in the schools 
 of the Pacific coast. They wrote five Pacific 
 coast series, which were used for a number of 
 years, and also wrote three readers and one 
 speller, which were published by Bancroft & Co., 
 of San Francisco. As a Democrat he served one 
 term in the territorial legislature in 1855, and 
 as state senator from 1870 to 1874. With all 
 these public interests he has not neglected the 
 cultivation and improvement of a part of the 
 land which forms his adopted county, being one 
 of the early hop-growers. His ranch near the 
 city was washed away, and he then bought what 
 is now Patterson's Island and started a yard. Of 
 a farm of seventy acres he devoted forty to the 
 cultivation of hops. This land is universally 
 conceded to be the best in the world for the 
 growth of this plant. He has also spared no 
 pains in his work, having sent to England for 
 the first hop roots, securing the English varieties. 
 
 In 1847 Dr. Patterson was married in Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., to Miss Elizabeth Sovern, the daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Levi Sovern of Pittsburg. She died 
 in 1848 with her only child, and both were buried 
 in the same grave. 
 
 In Eugene, July 4, 1859, Dr. Patterson was 
 married to Amanda C. dinger, a native of Iowa, 
 and the eldest of six daughters and two sons, of 
 whom four daughters and one son are now liv- 
 ing, born into the family of her parents. Her 
 father, Abraham Olinger, was born in Dayton, 
 Ohio, the son of John Olinger, and as a farmer 
 he removed to Iowa, from which state he crossed 
 the plains in 1843 with ox-teams. He was in 
 the first train of emigrants to the Willamette 
 valley, which they reached after a journey of 
 nine months. He first located in Yamhill county, 
 where he engaged in farming for three years, 
 when he removed to the Waldo hills, in Marion 
 county, settling two and a half miles from Daniel 
 Waldo's place and becoming a sturdy and reliable 
 citizen. He engaged in agricultural pursuits un- 
 til his death, which occurred in that location. 
 His wife was Rachel Stout, born in Missouri, 
 the daughter of Ephraim Stout, who crossed 
 the plains in 1843 ar >d died in 1852. Mrs. Pat- 
 terson was reared in Oregon and educated in 
 the public schools, and attended Willamette Uni- 
 versity for a short time. She is the mother of 
 four daughters and one son, all of whom are 
 living, of whom Augusta is the wife of Mr. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1107 
 
 Karlstrom, of Point Terrace, Ore. ; Anna is the 
 wife of Mr. Potter, of Eugene. She is a gradu- 
 ate of the University of Oregon in the class of 
 [885. Ida is a graduate of the University of 
 Oregon in the class of 1886, and is now principal 
 oi the Patterson school ; Clyde Llewellyn is a 
 student at the conservatory of music in Ithaca, 
 N. V.: and Harriet is a graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon in the class of 1903. The home 
 of this_ pioneer family is now located at No. 387 
 East Eleventh street, where a beautiful residence 
 has been erected. Dr. Patterson is a member of 
 the State Medical Society. He was made a 
 Mason while in the eastern states, and now be- 
 longs to Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M. 
 In religion he is a member of the Unitarian 
 Church. 
 
 WILLIAM S. HURST. The history of every 
 city of progress always includes the biographies 
 of certain of its enterprising citizens who have 
 been prominent in forwarding the growth and 
 development of the place and by their exertions 
 have mounted the ladder of success to an envi- 
 able position. To this class of citizens we must 
 include the name of W. S. Hurst, who is the 
 head of the commission house of W. S. Hurst 
 & Co., of Aurora, Ore. 
 
 The firm of W. S. Hurst & Co. was established 
 in 1893, and began business in a small way. In 
 1902, Harvey A. Hinkle, one of the most expert 
 hop-buyers on the western coast, was admitted as 
 a partner. Besides the main commission house 
 in Aurora, the firm has now three branch houses, 
 at Aurora, Hubbard and Canby. In addition, 
 agents are employed at every point where car- 
 load lots can be obtained or handled. The firm 
 handles all kinds of grain and produce, but makes 
 a specialty of buying and selling hops, potatoes 
 and onions. They pay the highest market prices, 
 and liberal advances are made on consignments. 
 Their produce is marketed in Alaska, California, 
 Texas and all western points. The business, 
 which was small in the beginning, now aggre- 
 gates from $60,000 to $100,000 annually. 
 
 William S. Hurst was born in Wasco county, 
 Ore., October 5, 1863, and he is a son of John 
 Daniel and Helen (Corlburg) Hurst, the former 
 a native of Rheinstadt, Germany, and the latter 
 of Sweden. When thirteen years old his father 
 crossed the ocean with a brother and located in 
 New York, later coming on to Oregon. He and 
 his wife reared a family which consisted of four 
 sons and one daughter, the eldest of whom was 
 William S., the subject of this biography. 
 
 While still a lad he found employment in the 
 flouring mill owned by his father and uncle. His 
 common school education was broadened by a 
 thorough course in the Portland Business Col- 
 
 lege, at Portland, Ore., from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1883. The year following his gradu- 
 ation he went to Aurora and entered into part- 
 nership with his father in the milling business, 
 purchasing at that time a third interest in the 
 Aurora Mills. In 1893, as mentioned, he estab- 
 lished the commission house, besides which he 
 handles both fire and life insurance in Aurora 
 and surrounding country. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Hurst was united in marriage 
 with Amelia M. Ritter, of Clackamas county, 
 Ore. Her father was John Ritter, and was born 
 in Austria. Upon coming to this country he lo- 
 cated first in Pennsylvania, later in Missouri, 
 and finally settled permanently in Clackamas 
 county, Ore. He is now retired, a highly re- 
 spected citizen of Marion county. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hurst have been born one son, Reginald 
 W., and one daughter, Ruth D., both of whom 
 are at home. The family favor the Presbyterian 
 Church in their religious worship. 
 
 The foregoing record of Mr. Hurst offers a 
 splendid example of what may be accomplished 
 by one who allows no obstacle to impede his ad- 
 vancement. In addition to his individual busi- 
 ness interests, Mr. Hurst has won and retained 
 the confidence of the people, and has filled va- 
 rious offices of public trust. He has served as 
 justice of the peace in Aurora four terms, as 
 school director, and as notary public ; and he 
 has been active in politics. Fraternally he is a 
 valued member of the A. F. &. A. M., the K. of 
 P., the I. O. O. F., the A. O. U. W., and the 
 W. O. W. 
 
 ABSALOM C. WOODCOCK. The highest 
 tenets of legal science find expression in the 
 large professional practice of A. C. Woodcock, 
 one of the most courteous and energetic mem- 
 bers of the Lane county bar. In his rise from 
 obscurity and comparative poverty Mr. Wood- 
 cock presents an example of perseverance and 
 determination which may well serve as an ex- 
 ample to whomsoever rebels at the limitations 
 which shut in his youthful horizon. Starting in 
 to make his own living at the age of thirteen, he 
 demonstrated innate ability and faithfulness, for 
 at a time when farm labor was poorly rewarded 
 he was able to command $20 a month and board. 
 He is the fourth of eleven children born to W. 
 D. and Alizina (Cornelius) Woodcock. The 
 chief cause of the family's financial stress lay 
 in the fact that his father died in 1870, leaving 
 his large family dependent upon the output of 
 the donation claim on the Molalla upon which 
 he had settled in 1845. 
 
 W. D. Woodcock was a native son of Illinois, 
 but was reared and educated in Missouri. He 
 possessed grit and determination, for he started 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 across the plains in 1845, an undertaking hazard- 
 ous in the extreme, and holding out but one 
 chance in a thousand of ever reaching his goal. 
 Fellow travelers in the ox-train with him were 
 Absalom Cornelius and his family, one member 
 being a daughter, Alizina, whose youthful charms 
 seriously impressed themselves upon the hopeful 
 and ambitious young homeseeker. At the part- 
 ing of the ways in Oregon Mr. Cornelius settled 
 on a claim near Turner, Marion county, but his 
 daughter soon after became mistress of the farm 
 on the Molalla, and thus yet another of the 
 innumerable romances begun around the camp- 
 fires and on the dreary march across the plains, 
 was brought to a happy termination. Mr. 
 Woodcock died at the age of fifty-two, and his 
 wife survived him until 1889. Besides Absalom 
 Cornelius, who was born on the Molalla farm 
 July 23, 1859, there are living at the present 
 time seven other of the eleven children : W. D. 
 is a blacksmith in Lake county, Ore. ; W. S. is 
 a stockman in Wasco county; T. P. is a large 
 commission man of Weiser, Idaho; Newton and 
 Jasper are twins, the former living in Weiser, 
 Idaho, and the latter in Wasco county, Ore. ; 
 Keziah is the wife of E. B. Ramsby of Lake 
 county, Ore. ; and Ada is the wife of W. H. 
 Harriman of Wasco county, Ore. 
 
 A. C. Woodcock was eleven years of age 
 when his father died, and at thirteen he began 
 to work on the farm of William Barlow, one of 
 the best known of the early pioneers. He saved 
 everything possible out of his wages of $20 a 
 month, and at the end of a year went into a 
 butchering and stock business at The Dalles 
 with his brother, T. P. While thus employed 
 he made up for a somewhat defective education 
 by attending the public schools during the 
 winter time, and in 1879 entered the sub-fresh- 
 man class of the University of Oregon at Eu- 
 gene, from which he was graduated in 1885 
 with the degree of B. S. Afterward he was 
 appointed a tutor in the university, and at the 
 same time took up the classical course, being 
 graduated therefrom in 1887 with the degree 
 of A. B. In the meantime he had become 
 interested in the study of law, and after prelimi- 
 nary training under Dolph, Mallory, Bellinger 
 & Simon of Portland he was admitted to the bar 
 in October, 1887. In partnership with George 
 S. Washburn he began practice in Eugene, con- 
 tinuing alone after the death of his old friend, 
 and in May, 1903, inaugurated a partnership 
 with L. T. Harris, under the firm name of 
 Woodcock & Harris. The firm is engaged in 
 a general practice of law, in addition to which 
 they are attorneys for the Booth-Kelley Lumber 
 Company, and other representative firms of the 
 . county. 
 
 A stanch Republican, Mr. Woodcock has been 
 
 prominently identified with party affairs in the 
 town and county, has served as chairman of the 
 county central committee, and has been a mem- 
 ber of the state committee, and of the state 
 board of equalization. He is a member of the 
 State Bar Association, of the Eugene Com- 
 mercial Club, and of the native sons. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with Eugene Lodge No. 
 11, A. F. & A. M.; the Royal Arch Masons; 
 the Commandery ; the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks ; and the Knights of Pythias. 
 Mr. Woodcock is held in high esteem by all 
 who have the honor of knowing him, and to 
 those familiar with his advancement his outlook 
 is an unusually gratifying one, fully warranted 
 by recognized capability, deserved popularity, 
 and thorough adaptation to the requirements and 
 amenities of his profession. 
 
 WILLIAM ANGUS McPHERSON. The 
 history of Oregon is indelibly stamped with the 
 personality of those men who came when the 
 country was a wilderness and gave to the mak- 
 ing of a state the best part of their lives, in 
 the various avenues which go to make up the 
 daily routine of life, exerting strength and in- 
 tellectual effort toward general advancement. 
 A self-evident fact is the potent influence ex- 
 erted by the newspapers of the country, and it 
 was through this medium that the voice of Will- 
 iam Angus McPherson spoke for the uplifting 
 of mankind in the pioneer clays now fast pass- 
 ing into history, and though he, too, is of the 
 past, his influence still lives and ever makes for 
 the betterment of the state which he made his 
 home as a pioneer of 1852. 
 
 William Angus McPherson was born in Chat- 
 ham county, N. C, February 22, 1828, the son 
 of William and Margaret W. (McDonald) Mc- 
 Pherson, and when a small boy he was brought 
 to Iowa by his parents and reared to manhood 
 near Keokuk. In 1850 he became interested in 
 the possibilities of the west, and the same year 
 came to Oregon and spent the winter near Jef- 
 ferson, Marion county, and in the spring of the 
 following year went overland to California. Dur- 
 ing this journey he encountered the Indians in 
 southern Oregon, but was successful in making 
 his way to the mines of the Golden state, where 
 he mined during the summer and met with suc- 
 cess. In the fall of 185 1 he returned to Iowa 
 via the isthmus and spent that winter in his old 
 home. His father having died in 1849, J us t 
 prior to the first trip across the plains. Mr. Mc- 
 Pherson found himself the principal support of 
 the family, and his interest in Oregon being no 
 less, because of his success in California, he de- 
 cided to locate permanently in the former ter- 
 ritory. In company with his mother, brother- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 in-law and the two little children of the latter, 
 he crossed the plains in the spring of 1852 and 
 upon his arrival bought the right to two hun- 
 dred and fifty acres of land located in Linn 
 county, near Jefferson, and at once engaged in 
 [arming. 
 
 October 7, 1852, Mr. McPherson married 
 Nancy Jane Fenn, who was born in Pike county, 
 111., May 17, 1840. She was the daughter of 
 fohn Fenn, who, in 1847, brought his family 
 across the plains by ox-teams, and after a six 
 months' journey over the Cascade route they ar- 
 rived in Oregon City, Ore., where three weeks 
 were passed before attempting to locate per- 
 manently. In Oregon City Mr. Fenn married 
 Elizabeth Jory, a sister of his first wife, Mary 
 Jory, who had died a year before the trip was 
 made to the west. But a little later in the fall 
 the family went down the Willamette and Co- 
 lumbia rivers in a canoe manned by eight Indi- 
 ans, and located near William Hobson's dona- 
 tion claim on Clatsop plains. In the spring of 
 1849 tne f am ily removed to Marion county, and 
 the father left them with the Jorys in Salem and 
 went to California by water, and mined for a 
 short time. He met with success and about 
 Christmas of the same year he returned to Ore- 
 gon, and in the following spring bought the 
 improvements on a donation claim in Linn 
 county, located six miles north of Albany, and it 
 was in that location that Mrs. McPherson grew 
 to womanhood. After marriage Mr. McPherson 
 and his wife took up their residence on his farm 
 before mentioned, where they lived until 1858 
 and then removed to a farm near Scio, same 
 county, and passed the ensuing five years. It 
 was in 1864 that Mr. McPherson took up news- 
 paper work, locating in Albany, where he was 
 the editor of the Albany Journal, and was con- 
 nected therewith until 1866, when he was 
 elected state printer on the Republican ticket. 
 Until the expiration of his service as state printer 
 he lived in Salem, and from that city he' removed 
 to McMinnville and started The Blade, and after 
 two years again located in Linn county, in 1871, 
 engaging for a short time in farming. After 
 a short period of newspaper work in Albany he 
 was compelled, through failing health, to change 
 his place of residence, and on locating in Rose- 
 burg, Douglas county, in 1873, he became the 
 editor and proprietor of the Plain-dealer, in the 
 publication of which he continued successfully 
 for several years. From Roseburg he went to 
 Ashland, and was there associated with Oliver 
 Applegate in editing the Ashland Tidings, a 
 paper which had been established by Mr. Mc- 
 Pherson and William Sutton. In 1878 Mr. Mc- 
 Pherson withdrew, and after three years spent 
 in Jacksonville in the newspaper work, he went 
 to Portland and was there connected on various 
 
 papers, among them being the Oregonian and 
 Vindicator. His death occurred in that city, in 
 the midst of a still busy career, January 28, 
 1891. 
 
 With the passing away of Mr. McPherson 
 the work with which he had been connected for 
 so many years lost a man of no small ability, 
 and one who put forth his best efforts to broaden 
 and uplift the spirit and standard of this west- 
 ern state. He was a loyal, patriotic citizen, who 
 never wavered in his allegiance to his native 
 land, and at the time of Civil warfare he was 
 earnest and faithful in his endeavors to keep 
 public opinion in sympathy with the government. 
 While in Salem he edited a paper known as the 
 Unionist, which was strongly anti-slavery, and 
 voiced the principles which he endorsed. ' Politi- 
 cally he was a Republican, and had been one 
 throughout his entire life. In religion both him- 
 self and wife were members of the Presby- 
 terian Church, and for the greater part of his 
 life he was connected fraternally with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows. Three weeks 
 previous to his death Mr. McPherson voiced 
 the thoughts which took possession of him as he 
 viewed the grandeur of the accomplishments of 
 the quarter century and more since he first cast 
 his lot with the Oregon pioneers, in a poem en- 
 titled "Portland Heights," which is filled with 
 beautiful thoughts and strongly descriptive of 
 the changes which the years have brought, and 
 speaks eloquently of the talent which he gave 
 to the western cause. 
 
 PORTLAND HEIGHTS. 
 
 'Tis forty years since first I stood 
 
 Upon these heights ; 'twas bright spring time. 
 Glade, forest, river, lake and wood 
 
 Were vocal only with the chime 
 Of nature's melody ; the birds 
 
 Chanted their matin songs while borne 
 Upon the zephyr's wings that stirred 
 
 The sweet aroma of the morn. 
 Like incense from a censer cast, 
 
 There came the rich perfume of lands 
 Where perennial summers last 
 
 And crystal waters lave the sands 
 Of limpid lakes. 
 
 Lone, solitude, primeval stood 
 
 Portress at the opening dawn, 
 And gladsome nature seemed to brood 
 
 O'er pleasing phantasies, all drawn 
 From out the mystic realms where dwell 
 
 The muses, on Boeotia's hight, 
 And streams of music ever swell, 
 
 Where scenes celestial greet the sight, 
 The pheasant drummed his monotone, 
 
 Deep within the forest shades, 
 While the plumed grouse sat perched alone, 
 
 And antlered deer, o'er verdant glades 
 
 Wandered with stately grace. 
 
 The mountains reared their lofty hights, 
 Just as they now appear ; old Hood, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In pride, proclaimed her regal rights, 
 
 As like a sentinel she stood 
 Athwart Aurora's brow. But come, 
 
 And, with me, nearer view, a scene 
 Of sombre hue ; a dreary zone 
 
 Of wilderness ; no glittering sheen 
 Of sunlight, no radiant ray 
 
 E'er shone within its shades. Deep, dark 
 And fathomless it seemed; bright day 
 
 Recoiled upon itself; the lark 
 
 Soared high above the gloom. 
 
 The river coursed its widening way 
 
 On to the moonmad sea; its tide 
 Flowed on unvexed, nor stop, nor stay 
 
 Delayed its onward flow. There plied 
 No busy steamers then, to wake 
 
 The echoes of its fir-clad shores, 
 No rumbling train to rudely shake 
 
 The pulseless solitude. No oars 
 The silvery wavelets cleft, save when 
 
 The Indian, in his light canoe 
 Glided the waters o'er to fen 
 
 Or glade, his timid game to woo 
 With crafty wiles. 
 
 From where I sat there was no sign 
 
 Of human habitation viewed, 
 Save where a rude and homely line 
 
 Of cabins reared their walls, unhewed, 
 Along the river's shaded bank; 
 
 There the brave pioneer had spread 
 His tent, 'neath the balm trees' dense, dark 
 
 Canopy, where erstwhile no tread 
 Nor sound disturbed the quietude 
 
 But the wolf's long howl, or the fierce 
 Warwhoop, when the savage, in rude 
 
 And bloody strife, remorseless, pierce 
 Each other to the heart. 
 
 Behold what changes time hath wrought ! 
 
 The birds, the timid deer have fled, 
 And in some mountain glen have sought 
 
 A safe retreat from sportsmen, led 
 Thither, joyous, in the noisy chase. 
 
 Felled is the forest, and where sang 
 The feathered warblers not one trace 
 
 Is seen or heard. Silent the twang 
 Of bowstring — gone the dusky race 
 
 That ruled, with undisputed sway, 
 This empire — boundless, dreary space, 
 
 Where last the radiant light of day 
 Bids earth goodnight. 
 
 Transformed are all things, and I gaze, 
 
 Bewildered and perplexed with dread, 
 Upon the scene ; one glittering maze 
 
 O'ercomes me, and I seem to tread 
 Upon enchanted ground. The past 
 
 Recedes, a panoramic view, 
 Fleeting as Orpheus, to the vast, 
 
 Illimitable sea, to strew 
 Its piteous pageants on the shore 
 
 Of bleak forgetfulness. A change, 
 Mysterious, wondrous, has o'er 
 
 Landscape, stream and mountain range 
 Its mantle cast. 
 
 A city, proud in wealth and power, 
 Rises like fabled Phcenix, o'er 
 
 The ashes of the past. Dome, tower 
 And minaret rear heavenward more 
 
 Than thrice ten thousand gilded spires 
 
 To mark the onward march of art, 
 Science — religion's sacred fires 
 
 Illume an ever busy mart, 
 Where commerce spreads her purpling wing 
 
 And thronging thousands westward pour, 
 One living tide, and hither bring 
 
 Trophies to deck the golden shore 
 Of sunset sea. 
 
 Thus have I sang, in numbers rude, 
 
 Of buried years, when buoyant youth 
 And high resolve bright flowers strewed 
 
 Along ambition's path ; and truth, 
 And hope, best boons to mortals given, 
 
 Guided my wayward steps and led 
 Me onward, upward to a haven 
 
 Of blissful rest. But time has fled, 
 Unstrung my lyre, my task is o'er. 
 
 Proud city of the west, all hail ! 
 And all hail to friends who never more 
 
 Shall greet me, as I homeward sail, 
 
 On life's tempestuous sea. 
 
 AUGUSTUS J. F. VITUS. For various and 
 well founded reasons the Vitus family com- 
 mands the attention of people in Lane county. 
 First and foremost it supplies the comforting 
 assurance that obstacles, however great, are by 
 no means insurmountable, and that good judg- 
 ment, perseverance, and plenty of common 
 sense are excellent aids in accomplishing one's 
 desires. The law of heredity, however much it 
 may be questioned by later day science, is 
 convincingly emphasized in this instance, for 
 Augustus J. F. Vitus, the founder of the family 
 in the far northwest, has handed down his fine 
 traits of character, his strong will and un- 
 flinching rectitude, to several sons who represent 
 collectively and individually the backbone and 
 sinews of the commonwealth. 
 
 Born in Prussia, Germany, April 5, 1828, Mr. 
 Vitus comes from farming stock, although his 
 family was represented among the trades and in- 
 dustries of the Fatherland. According to cus- 
 tom, he ceased to be dependent upon the support 
 of his parents after his fourteenth year, at which 
 time he began to work in the silk mills of Prus- 
 sia, and was thus employed until coming to 
 America in 1852. At this time he was twenty- 
 four years old, strong of frame and clear of 
 mind, and filled with great enthusiasm for the 
 land to which so many of his friends had emi- 
 grated. The sailing vessel successfully weath- 
 ered calms and storms, landing in New York 
 at the end of five weeks. Mr. Vitus looked 
 around for work, and not finding it in the silk 
 mills, identified himself with a tannery near 
 Dunkirk, N. Y., remaining there during the 
 winter, and the following spring making his 
 way to Philadelphia. Here he entered the 
 woolen mills and learned the trade of weaver, 
 removing in 1865 to Springfield, 111., where he 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 was similarly employed. In 1872 he removed to 
 Caldwell count}'. Mo., where he purchased one 
 hundred and eighty-one acres of land, and con- 
 templated spending many years in its improve- 
 ment. His hopes were doomed to disappoint- 
 ment, for drought interfered with the maturing 
 of the crops, and he not only lost them all, but 
 was obliged to sacrifice his farm upon which he 
 had intended to pay a large installment that 
 year. 
 
 In the face of this first setback in America 
 Mr. Vitus decided to come to the far west with 
 his family, and arrived in Oregon in the spring 
 of 1878. With his sons he found employment 
 on farms surrounding the town, and in the 
 spring of 1879 rented a farm with his sons in 
 Lane county. This venture proved even more 
 disastrous than the last, for after renting for 
 one year the strugglers found themselves in 
 debt about $4,000. Mr. Vitus decided after five 
 years of renting to purchase a farm, and for 
 this he was obliged to go in debt $12,000. This 
 fact alone would discourage the average man 
 who had already experienced hard luck, but 
 father and sons bravely put their shoulders to 
 the wheel, paid off the indebtedness, and es- 
 tablished themselves as men possessing business 
 judgment of a high order, and more than aver- 
 age perseverance. Thus has the father trans- 
 planted to the larger opportunities of the states 
 the reliable and always welcome Teutonic traits, 
 admittedly as strong and upbuilding as any that 
 come to us from foreign shores. 
 
 Broad-minded and liberal in all of his tenden- 
 cies, Mr. Vitus makes no exception of politics, 
 and though inclined towards the Republican 
 party believes in voting for the man best quali- 
 fied to serve the public good. For a time he 
 served as postmaster of Junction City. Through 
 his marriage with Minnie Behren in 1851, eight 
 children have been born into his family, the five 
 sons who are reflecting great credit upon his 
 teaching and example, and three daughters. The 
 sons are mentioned elsewhere in this work, and 
 the daughters, Rosa and Mary, are the wives re- 
 spectively of F. H. Miller and Benjamin Frank 
 Andrews. Although a comparatively old man, 
 Mr. Vitus is still in heart, mind, and physical 
 activity the equal of many men twenty years his 
 junior. 
 
 JOSEPH PIRONI. The popular manager 
 of the Henry Weinhard ice plant and beer depot 
 at Eugene is indebted for his success to many 
 years of faithful and efficient service, during 
 which time he has worked his way from a com- 
 paratively humble to a very responsible position. 
 Possessing the adaptiveness of the Latin race 
 from which he springs, augmented by a practical 
 
 home and business training in the staid and con- 
 servative town of Herstelle, Westphalia, north- 
 western German)', where he was born May 26, 
 1857, Joseph Pironi came to America in 1875, at 
 the age of seventeen, well equipped for whatever 
 chance might have in store for him. His pater- 
 nal grandfather, Joseph Pironi, was born almost 
 within the shadow of Vesuvius, near Naples, 
 Italy, and came of a family long associated with 
 that beautiful and historic region. As a boy he 
 learned the tinsmith's trade, and for years trav- 
 eled through his vineclad, olivegrown and re- 
 splendent country, now visiting an inland town, 
 and now a picturesque aggregation of highly 
 colored houses basking in the sunshine, on a hill 
 lapped by the blue Mediterranean. In time he 
 made his way to the north, settling in the less 
 romantic kingdom of Westphalia, Germany, 
 where he worked at his trade until retiring a 
 few years before his death. In Herstelle, West- 
 phalia, his son, Henry, the father of the sub- 
 ject of this review, was born, and in his youth 
 also learned the tinsmith's trade. He married 
 a native daughter of Westphalia, Regina Wuste- 
 feld, whose father, John Wustefeld, devoted his 
 active life as a captain on the boats plying on the 
 Weser river. Henry Pironi is now living re- 
 tired in Herstelle, Germany, but the wife who 
 bore him three sons and three daughters has long 
 been deceased. 
 
 Joseph Pironi in common with the custom 
 of the country, began to earn his own living 
 at the age of fourteen, at which time he was 
 apprenticed for three years as clerk in a large 
 wholesale and retail commission house. Having 
 completed his time of service he clerked in 
 another concern for a year, and after arriving 
 in America in 1875, located in Baltimore, where 
 he hoped to find employment along the line 
 for which he was amply qualified. Failing in 
 his intention, he did not spend any time in 
 bemoaning his fate, but at once applied himself 
 to learning the baker's and confectioner's trade, 
 following the same until coming to Oregon in 
 1879. Encouraged by the outlook in Corvallis 
 after working in a bakery for a year, he con- 
 tracted a partnership with August Hodes, in a 
 bakery and grocery business, under the firm name 
 of Hodes & Company, conducting the same until 
 disposing of his interest in 1888. 
 
 In Portland Mr. Pironi entered the employ 
 of T. Leebe, an old-time and well known baker 
 of the city. After two years, he became identi- 
 fied in the capacity of shipping clerk with the 
 company whose interests he now represents. 
 After eight years of close application in the 
 various departments in which he was called upon 
 to serve, his worth received substantial recog- 
 nition through his appointment to his present 
 position as manager of the ice plant and beer 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 depot, in November, 1899. The firm's ice fac- 
 tory has a daily capacity of seven tons, and the 
 depot has enormous storing capacity, sufficient 
 to supply a trade not only local, but extending 
 into Douglas county. A retail and wholesale 
 business is carried on, and under the present 
 management the business has greatly increased, 
 system and orderliness being apparent to all. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Pironi occurred in 
 Corvallis, to Josephine Dubille, a native of Can- 
 ada, but reared and educated in Portland. Four 
 children were born of this union, of whom Leo, 
 the oldest child and only son is employed in 
 the carshops of the Southern Pacific Railroad at 
 Portland, while Gertrude, Aileen and Marie are 
 living at home. For a second wife Mr. Pironi 
 married a native daughter of Portland, Mary 
 Shelland, and one child, Henry Paul, is the 
 result of this union. Fraternally Mr. Pironi is 
 connected with the Sons of Hermann, of Port- 
 land, in which he has served as president and 
 secretary ; and he is also identified with the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the 
 Eagles, of Eugene. He has made many friends 
 since coming to Eugene, and is rightfully re- 
 garded as an important part of its social and 
 business structure. 
 
 JAMES CYRUS SABIN. Many years of 
 practical experience with stock of all kinds has 
 qualified James Cyrus Sabin for the successful 
 conduct of his business. He has been associated 
 with stock for practically his entire business life, 
 and is able to place a correct value upon different 
 grades of stock. A speculative spirit has also 
 led him into other lines of profit, notably coun- 
 try and town properties, in the disposal of which 
 he has invariably realized his monetary expec- 
 tations. Much of his country land is rented out, 
 as are also his town lots and a business block on 
 the main street of Harrisburg, Ore. In 1900 
 he purchased a farm of eighty acres three miles 
 northeast of this town, upon which he has sixty 
 head of cattle and three hundred sheep, and to 
 which he retires at times to get away from his 
 many business responsibilities. 
 
 Born in Medina county, Ohio, August 16, 
 1847, Mr. Sabin is a son of Orson, and grand- 
 son of Charles Sabin, the latter of whom was 
 born in the east and was the founder of the 
 family in Medina county. At one time the 
 grandfather owned and operated a farm in New 
 York state, where his son Orson was born and 
 reared. In Ohio Orson farmed and learned the 
 carpenter's trade , and in 1868 removed to 
 Berrien county, Mich., where he combined farm- 
 ing and carpentering with considerable success. 
 In March, 1846, he married Ellen Brown, a 
 
 native of Wayne county, Mich., who died in 
 Medina county, Ohio, leaving two sons, of whom 
 James Cyrus is the oldest. Orson Sabin died 
 in November, 1863, at the age of thirty-nine. 
 
 Educated in the public schools of Michigan 
 and Ohio, James Cyrus Sabin was reared on his 
 father's farms, and welcomed the outbreak of the 
 Civil war as an opportunity in which to gratify 
 his love of adventure. His youth and home du- 
 ties prevented his enlistment at the beginning 
 of the strife, but when seventeen years old, in 
 February, 1865, he enlisted in Company C, First 
 Michigan Cavalry, and became a soldier in the 
 Army of the Potomac. His company was con- 
 solidated with the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh 
 Michigan Cavalry and sent to protect the mail 
 route against the Sioux Indians, and on this 
 campaign Mr. Sabin was detailed as a teamster 
 in the quartermaster's department. After being 
 discharged from the service December 7, 1865, 
 at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., he returned to 
 Michigan, and turned his attention to logging 
 in the northern part of the state. He also specu- 
 lated in stock and lumber, and with considerable 
 success to his credit decided to join the forces 
 who were profiting by the superior opportunities 
 in the northwest. 
 
 Arriving in Portland February 22, 1877, he 
 spent a week in looking around, and then visited 
 Salem, Dallas and Albany, in the latter town 
 becoming associated in business for a short time 
 with J. B. Roberts. He was variously employed 
 for twenty-three months, and in 1878 returned 
 to his old home in Michigan, remaining there 
 until June of the following year. Again in Ore- 
 gon, he spent the summer in herding sheep in 
 the eastern part of the state, and in the fall came 
 to Harrisburg and worked on farms for a couple 
 of years. Since coming here in 1881 he has 
 taken a prominent part in the advancement of 
 the town, and established a home immediately 
 after his marriage, October 2, 1881, with Mrs. 
 Emma (Scott) White, who was born in Iowa, 
 and crossed the plains with her parents in 1853. 
 Her father, Samuel R. Scott, was born near 
 St. Charles, Ohio, and from there moved to 
 Iowa, remaining there until outfitting with ox- 
 teams for the long journey over the plains. He 
 spent the first winter in the west in Salem, and 
 in the spring went to the mines of Josephine 
 county, remaining there until 1873. Returning 
 to Salem, he engaged in flour milling and after- 
 ward farming, and now lives retired in Harris- 
 burg-, spending a portion of each year with his 
 son-in-law, Mr. Sabin. Clyde E., the oldest 
 child and only son born to Mr. and Mrs. Sabin 
 is living in Portland, and the daughter, Ethel H., 
 is living with her parents. Mr. Sabin cast his 
 first presidential vote for a Republican candidate, 
 and has since given that party his unswerving 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1115 
 
 allegiance. At present he is a member of 'the 
 city council, an office to which he has given 
 many terms of service. For the second time he is 
 serving as master workman of Harrisburg Lodge 
 No. 39, A. O. U. W. With his wife and chil- 
 dren he is a member of the Christian Church. 
 Mr. Sabin is a typical representative of western 
 enterprise and thrift, and his undertakings have 
 been characterized by conscientious dealings and 
 upright and reliable business principles. 
 
 ROBERT McMURPHEY. The architect of 
 his own fortunes, a man of action, possessing 
 broad and charitable views, and aiding every 
 well considered movement for the advancement 
 of education, morality and the general well- 
 being of the community, Robert McMurphey, 
 president of the Willamette Valley Woolen 
 .Manufacturing Company, is one of the most 
 enterprising and forceful of the citizens of Eu- 
 gene. He is one of the younger generation of 
 business men of Lane county, having been borri 
 in Pierce county. Wis., February 16, 1866. 
 From a noble Scotch ancestry he has inherited 
 the thrift and reliability which have proven the 
 foundation of his success. Mr. McMurphey 
 represents the sixth generation of his family in 
 America. The family was founded in this coun- 
 try by Robert McMurphey, who came from the 
 north of Ireland in colonial days, and arrived 
 in Xew York with but sixpence in his pocket. 
 His descendants lived principally in the state 
 of Delaware, where George Washington Mc- 
 Murphey. father of the subject of this review, 
 was born. He was the seventh son in a large 
 family, and Robert McMurphey is the seventh 
 son in his family, which consisted of thirteen 
 children. The early life of G. W. McMurphey 
 was spent in Delaware, where he was engaged 
 in farming and milling. In young manhood he 
 removed to Pierce county, Wis., where he pur- 
 chased land from the Indians and inaugurated 
 a farming interest in the wilderness. His mar- 
 riage with Maria A. Rice in 1848 was the first 
 wedding ceremony performed in Wisconsin 
 territory. The Rice family located in Wiscon- 
 sin in 1846, removing thence from Boston, 
 Mass., where Mrs. McMurphey was born. Her 
 father, James R. Rice, was also a native of that 
 city. Mr. McMurphey resided on his farm 
 fifty-five years, or until attaining the as^e of 
 eighty-two years, and has but recently effected 
 the sale of the property. He is now a resident 
 of Prescott, Wis. 
 
 Equipped with a high school education and 
 subsequent training received at the St. Paul 
 (Minn.) Business College, Robert McMurohey 
 began his independent career as a clerk in a Wis- 
 consin office of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapo- 
 
 lis & Omaha Railroad Company, subsequently be- 
 coming a clerk in the office of the general pas- 
 senger agent of the Great Northern Railroad 
 Company at St. Paul. Being appointed private 
 secretary to the superintendent of the Northern 
 Pacific Railroad at Livingston, Mont., he re- 
 mained there until 1889, when he removed to 
 Portland, Ore., as private secretary for George 
 H. Andrews, secretary of the Oregon & Cali- 
 fornia Railroad Company. July 31, 1893, he 
 was united in marriage with Alberta Shelton, a 
 native of Salem, Ore., and the only daughter of 
 Dr. T. W. Shelton, a prominent physician of 
 Salem, who later was identified with business and 
 professional affairs in Eugene. Dr. Shelton was 
 the founder and first president of the Eugene 
 Water Company, and by reason of an active and 
 well appointed life accumulated a fortune. Upon 
 his death in 1893 hi s son-in-law, Mr. McMur- 
 phey, removed to Eugene to look after his 
 varied interests, and assumed the management 
 of the water works, improving and enlarging 
 their capacity, with which enterprise he is still 
 connected. 
 
 In December, 1901, Mr. McMurphey incor- 
 porated the Willamette Valley Woolen Manu- 
 facturing Company, of which he has since been 
 president and general manager. For the furth- 
 erance of the business the present modern and 
 finely equipped mills were erected in that year 
 for the manufacture of cloth and woolen goods 
 in general, native Oregon wool being utilized. 
 The plant is a four-set mill, is operated by 
 water power, and gives employment to about 
 eight}- persons. For the sale of the output of 
 the mills the concern has established branches 
 in San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia, and 
 the blankets, robes, flannels and other cloths 
 manufactured find their way to foreign mar- 
 kets, as well as to the principal cities of the 
 United States. 
 
 Attractive personal characteristics have 
 placed Mr. McMurphey in touch with the most 
 exclusive social life of Oregon, and among 
 his personal friends are many men of great 
 prominence in political, industrial and fraternal 
 circles. He was one of the organizers, the first 
 vice president and the second president of the 
 Eugene Commercial Club, and still fills the lat- 
 ter office with dignity and satisfaction. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with Eugene Lodge 
 No. 11, A. F. & A. M. ; Eugene Chapter No. 
 10, R. A. M. ; Oregon Consistory No. 1, of Port- 
 land ; the Knights of Pythias, in which he is past 
 chancellor ; the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men ; the Modern Woodmen of America ; the 
 Woodmen of the World : the Independent Or- 
 der of Red Men, and the Knights of Maccabees. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a member 
 of the Congregational Church, in which he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 serves as trustee. Five children have been born 
 to him and his wife, named as follows in the 
 order of their birth: Lois Alberta, Robert 
 Shelton, Adah Antoinette, Elsie Mearle and 
 George Winthrop. 
 
 Though a comparatively young man, Mr. Mc- 
 Murphey wields a wide and powerful influence 
 among the business men of the Willamette val- 
 ley. Perhaps the foundation of his strength 
 among his fellowmen is the high public spirit 
 he has always exhibited. In all those movements 
 which have for their aim the elevation of the 
 moral tone of the community or the advance- 
 ment of the material interests in other depart- 
 ments of life, educational, social, religious, com- 
 mercial and industrial, he has taken an active 
 interest, always exhibiting an unselfish spirit. 
 By men of discriminating intelligence he has 
 come to be regarded as a high-minded man 
 of affairs, whose chief aim is an honorable bus- 
 iness success and the elevation of the city of 
 Eugene to the highest rank among the cities 
 of the northwest which it is possible to attain. 
 
 CLARENCE FREDERICK SOMERS Prac- 
 tical and businesslike in all his methods and 
 dealings, C. F. Somers has combined with these 
 sturdy qualities an enterprising spirit which well 
 fits him for citizenship in a comparatively new 
 country. He makes his home in Eugene, Lane 
 county, and since the fall of 1902 has acted as 
 president of the Eugene Planing Mill Company, 
 of which he was one of the organizers. The 
 vice president is P. J. Olsen, the secretary and 
 treasurer being P. Lorenzen. They have erected 
 a new mill on Lawrence street, the dimensions 
 of which are 44x80 feet, and have equipped it 
 with all modern machinery, including a thirty- 
 horsepower steam engine and a dry kiln, where 
 they turn out all kinds of planing-mill stock. 
 
 There were six children born in the Somers 
 family, five of whom are now living, the second 
 being C. F. Somers, who was born in St. Johns- 
 bury, Vt, April 14, 185 1. His father was Fred- 
 erick A. Somers, a native of Barnet, Vt., and 
 though a stonecutter by trade he followed farm- 
 ing throughout the principal part of his life. 
 In 1853 he removed to Lombard, 111., and later 
 located in Doniphan, Neb., where his death 
 occurred. He married Sarah E. Hardy, a native 
 of Bangor, Me., born in 1828, the daughter of 
 Capt. Charles Hardy, who followed the sea for 
 a livelihood and was thereby lost. Mrs. Somers 
 is now living in Doniphan, Neb. C. F. Somers 
 was reared in Illinois on his father's farm, and 
 interspersed his home duties with an attendance 
 at the district school. He remained at home 
 until attaining his majority, when he became an 
 apprentice at the carpenter's trade, in Wood- 
 
 stock, 111., where he served for two years. From 
 that city he settled in Rockford, of the same 
 state, and engaged in the prosecution of his 
 trade until December, 1877, when he removed 
 to Doniphan, Neb. There he became the owner 
 of eighty acres of railroad land which he pro- 
 ceeded to improve, at the same time engaging 
 in contracting and building in that city. Becom- 
 ing dissatisfied with the existing conditions of 
 Doniphan, he decided to remove to the west, 
 and in 1890 he located in Baker City, Ore., 
 where he was employed for eleven months in a 
 planing mill, and in 1891 he located in Port- 
 land and followed his trade until the fall of 
 1892. He then purchased nine and a half acres 
 of land four miles west of the city of Eugene 
 and engaged in contracting and building here, 
 which he continued successfully until the fall 
 of 1902, when he withdrew from that employ- 
 ment to enter upon his present work. This busi- 
 ness is rapidly becoming one of the principal 
 industries of Eugene and is adding very mater- 
 ially to the business prestige and future growth 
 of the city. 
 
 In Rockford, 111., Mr. Somers was married to 
 Miss Elizabeth Elwick a native of that state, 
 and their two children are Daisy and Dorilla. 
 In religion Mr. Somers is a member of the 
 Christian Church, in which he officiates as a 
 deacon, and in politics he has always been a 
 stanch and earnest Republican. Personally, he 
 is a man of many fine qualities and is liberal 
 and enterprising as a citizen, worthy to be 
 named among the representative men of Eugene. 
 
 MRS. EMALINE WALLIS. Enjoying the 
 affection and esteem of a younger generation 
 while occupying the position of honor which 
 belongs to her as a pioneer, Mrs. Emaline Wallis 
 is one of the connecting links between the early 
 days and the present affluence and prosperity 
 of Oregon, living and faithfully laboring in the 
 one, which service has given her the right to 
 ease in the present. 
 
 Mrs. Wallis was in maidenhood Emaline 
 Lindley, born in Nashville, Tenn., the daughter 
 of Jonathan Lindley, of South Carolina, where 
 her grandfather, also Jonathan Lindley, was a 
 planter. The father was a farmer and became 
 a stock-raiser in Tennessee, when he removed 
 to Cedar county, Mo., where his death occurred 
 at the age of fifty-five years. His wife was 
 formerly Clara Ann Terry, a native of Georgia. 
 She died at the age of eighty years, at the home 
 of Mrs. Wallis, having crossed the plains with 
 her in 1852. Of the nine children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Lindley, seven attained maturity and 
 two are now living, Mrs. Wallis being the only 
 one in Oregon. She was reared in Missouri 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1117 
 
 from her seventh year, and received her educa- 
 tion in a little log schoolhouse, where the dis- 
 tribution of knowledge was conducted in a prim- 
 itive way. February 18, 1847, sne married 
 Matthew Wallis, who was born in North Caro- 
 lina and had come to Missouri when quite a 
 young man, where he became a farmer and 
 stock-raiser. In 1852 this family outfitted with 
 ox-teams, two wagons, some loose cattle and 
 necessary supplies and set out upon the journey 
 which meant so much in those early days. They 
 left Missouri Aprii 15 and arrived at Foster's, 
 September 13, the trip having been made over 
 the old Barlow route, during which they had 
 encountered the Indians at Snake river, when 
 the further progress of the party was disputed. 
 They succeeded, however, in making their es- 
 cape, and this was their most serious trouble 
 during the journey. 
 
 On their arrival in Oregon, Mr. Wallis took 
 up a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres located two and a half miles west of 
 Eugene, Lane county, and there erected a hewed 
 log house which is still standing as a type of 
 the early habitations of the country. Into the 
 improvement and cultivation of this farm, both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wallis put the strength and energy 
 of their young lives, making that their home for 
 many years. In 1873 they removed to the city 
 of Eugene, but still conducted their farming 
 interests, adding to their property by continued 
 purchase until the estate numbers besides the 
 original claim over a thousand acres, which is- 
 now utilized as a modern stock farm and also 
 in the cultivation of grain, this property being 
 rented at present. A handsome residence was 
 built in Eugene, and there Mr. Wallis died July 
 17, 1895. He was a member of the Christian 
 Church in which he officiated as deacon. In 
 politics he was a Democrat. 
 
 Since the death of her husband Mrs. Wallis 
 continues to reside in Eugene. Of her family 
 of six children Clara married John Duncan and 
 resides near Dayton. Wash. ; Alice became the 
 wife of John Welch, of Portland ; Margaret 
 married Rufus Edmunson, of Eugene ; Web- 
 ster is a farmer located near Dayton, Wash. : 
 M. Sneed is a clerk in the sheriff's office in this 
 county ; and Harris L. is a farmer of Eugene. 
 Mrs. Wallis is a member of the Christian Church 
 and a Democrat. Through the membership of 
 her husband with the Royal Arch Masons she 
 belongs to the Eastern Star. 
 
 FRANCIS FELLER. One who desires to 
 know the extent of the farming possibilities of 
 Marion county need look no further than the 
 splendidly equipped farm of Francis Feller, 
 which stretches out over eight hundred and sixty 
 
 acres in extent, and is located four miles from 
 Butteville. This property is well tiled and 
 ditched, has modern barns and outhouses, and 
 its fences are kept in good shape by a pains- 
 taking and orderly owner. Until 1884 ne car- 
 ried on general farming and stock-raising ex- 
 clusively, but that year he put out twelve acres 
 in hops, and since then from time to time has 
 increased his acreage of that product, untif at 
 present the hop pickers have to wander over 
 seventy acres. This is probably the largest hop 
 enterprise in the county. 
 
 Until his fourteenth year Francis Feller was 
 reared on a farm in Lorraine, a province which 
 at that time belonged to France, but which was 
 ceded to Germany in 1871, where he was born 
 July 28, 1840, and where his father was exten- 
 sively engaged as a horticulturist, and more es- 
 pecially a grower of grapes for wine-making, 
 in 1855 the ancestral property was disposed of 
 and the family embarked for America in a sail- 
 ing vessel, forty days later moving slowly into 
 the great harbor of New York City. At Galena, 
 111., the father bought a farm, and two years 
 later, in 1857, Francis Feller came to Oregon 
 with Peter Feller, of whom he borrowed the 
 money for transportation via the isthmian route. 
 From Portland he came to Butteville, June 6, 
 1857, an d m the vicinity of the town found work 
 on the farm of William Case. For the follow- 
 ing few years he tried his luck in the mines of 
 Idaho, and upon returning to Oregon felt dissat- 
 isfied, so again visited the mines in 1863. This 
 time he remained for a year and a half, and was 
 so successful that upon his return he was able 
 to purchase for cash a farm of four hundred 
 and twenty acres, the same being now occupied 
 by Jacob M. Miller. He remained on this farm 
 and made many improvements, but finally dis- 
 posed of it in 1875, and purchased the eight 
 hundred and sixty acres upon which he now 
 lives, and which is located four miles from 
 Butteville. 
 
 March 12, 1865, Mr. Feller was united in 
 marriage with Miss Reuamah Whitney, of which 
 union there were born nine children, the order 
 of their birth being as follows : James P., a 
 farmer near Butteville; William, a resident of 
 British Columbia; Alfred and Charles, living 
 on the home farm ; Elizabeth, wife of Clarence 
 Bearinger, of Benton county, Ore.; Nellie, wife 
 of Clarence Scheurer of Portland; Hattie; 
 Annie ; and Ida. The faithful mother of this 
 large family died October 1, 1892, at the age of 
 forty-five years. January 8, 1895, Mr. Feller 
 married Ida Garrett, who was born in Clackamas 
 county, a daughter of Thomas Garrett, who 
 crossed the plains in 1852 from Missouri and 
 took up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Marquam. One daughter, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Ivy, was born of the second union of Mr. Fel- 
 ler. 
 
 Although his large farm is a wearing respon- 
 sibility, Mr. Feller finds ample time to interest 
 himself in political and other matters in his 
 county, and although he has been defeated in his 
 candidacy for the legislature and as county com- 
 missioner, his showing has been a good one, con- 
 sidering that his political faith is contrary to his 
 Republican environment. His liberal and pro- 
 gressive, ideas of farming have resulted in a keen 
 interest in the welfare of his fellow agricultur- 
 ists, and in this connection he was one of the 
 organizers of the Farmers' Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany, has been president for three years, and is 
 still a director. He is also one of the organizers 
 and chief promoters of the Hop Growers' Fire 
 Insurance Company, and has been a director 
 therein for many years. For more than twenty 
 years he has been identified with the Masonic 
 fraternity, and is now a member of the Cham- 
 poeg Lodge No. 27, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, and Multnomah Chapter, of Salem. He 
 is also a member of Protection Lodge No. 2, An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, of Salem. Mr. 
 Feller bears an enviable reputation in the vicini- 
 ty of Hubbard, and in fact is known throughout 
 the length and breadth of Marion county as one 
 of its substantial and thoroughly reliable citi- 
 zens. 
 
 WALTER T. WILES. The term " captains 
 of industry" is a familiar one of the day and has 
 arisen from the conditions existing in the world 
 when business activity has replaced the records 
 of war and conquest in the world's history. 
 The men who awaken public attention and regard 
 are those who control the large commercial, in- 
 dustrial and financial interests or manage the 
 professional labors. Each city has its represen- 
 tatives who have worthily won this title, and in 
 Corvallis Walter T. Wiles is a representative of 
 this class. He is today the cashier of the First 
 National Bank of Corvallis, a man of keen dis- 
 crimination in business, of sound judgment and 
 unflagging industry. 
 
 Born in Benton county, near Wells, June 17, 
 i860, he is the fourth in a family of seven 
 children whose parents were John and Martha 
 Ann (Hughart) Wiles, respected and honored 
 pioneer settlers of Oregon, who are represented 
 elsewhere in this work. His childhood days 
 were passed on the old homestead and his early 
 education was acquired in the public schools. 
 Subsequently he entered the Oregon Agricult- 
 ural College and later he was engaged in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising until May, 1887, when he 
 was appointed by President Cleveland to the 
 position of inspector of customs under Q. A. 
 
 Brooks, collector for the district of Puget 
 Sound, Wash., the custom house being at Port 
 Townsend, that state. Mr. Wiles remained in 
 charge of his duties for some time and then 
 resigned in order to return to Oregon and take 
 charge of the home farm. Later he entered the 
 pharmacy of Foshay & Mason at Albany, Ore., 
 and in due time became prescription clerk. In 
 1890 he resigned that position and returned to 
 Corvallis, where he became one of the incor- 
 porators of the First National Bank. He was 
 elected a member of the board of directors and 
 assistant cashier and later he was also chosen 
 to the position of vice president of the bank, 
 holding the two positions until November, 1895, 
 when, upon the death of W. T. Peet, the 
 cashier, Mr. Wiles was elected his successor and 
 since that time has filled the responsible position 
 which he now occupies. The success achieved 
 and the high standing of the First National 
 Bank are due in no small degree to his ability 
 as a bank official. His affable manner, cour- 
 teous treatment of the clients of the institution, 
 his straightforward dealing and his accuracy in 
 all transactions with the public — these inspire 
 the greatest confidence, and thus in association 
 with other officers in the institution, he has 
 placed the bank upon the substantial plane which 
 it now occupies, ranking it among the most reli- 
 able banks of the entire state. Mr. Wiles is 
 also largely interested in farming, and owns a 
 part of the old family homestead near Wells. 
 This is a well improved place in which he is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
 making a specialty of the Aberdeen Polled Angus 
 cattle. 
 
 On October 8, 1890, in Linn county, Ore., was 
 celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wiles and Miss 
 Mary Brandon, a native of that county and a 
 daughter of Alexander Brandon, who was born 
 in Madison county, Ind. Her paternal grand- 
 father, Moses Brandon, was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania and when a young man removed to 
 Madison county, Ind., where he married a Ken- 
 tucky lady. Subsequently he took up his abode 
 in Minnesota, where his remaining days were 
 passed. Alexander Brandon crossed the plains 
 to the Willamette valley when a young man, 
 the year of his emigration being 185 1. Here 
 he married Mrs. Arminda (Whipple) Andrews, 
 who was born near Meadville, in Crawford 
 county, Pa., a daughter of Albert Whipple, also 
 a native of the Keystone state. She first mar- 
 ried Harrison Andrews and removed to Asnta- 
 bula county, Ohio. About 1863 Mr. and Mrs. 
 Andrews started for the northwest by way of 
 the Panama route, but a few days after leaving 
 Panama Mr. Andrews died. His widow then 
 continued her way to Oregon and in the year 
 1865 she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. 
 
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 1119 
 
 Brandon. By her marriage with Mr. Andrews 
 .-he became the mother of one son, C. L. 
 Andrews, who is now chief deputy collector of 
 customs in Skagway, Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Brandon still reside upon the old donation claim 
 at Plainview, Linn county. Ore., which Mr. 
 Brandon took up as a home when he came to the 
 northwest as a pioneer settler. Five children 
 were born of their marriage, namely : Mrs. B. 
 W'healdon, of Idaho : Mrs. Wiles ; Alfred, who 
 is living on the old homestead; Mrs. O. G. 
 Chamberlain, of Athena, Ore. ; and Anna, who 
 resides at home. Mrs. Wiles was educated in 
 Albany College, and is a most estimable lady. 
 Unto our subject and his wife has been born 
 but one daughter, a lovely and affectionate 
 child named Frances Alberta. Mr. Wiles be- 
 longs to the Ancient Order of the United Work- 
 men and to Corvallis Cabin of the Native Sons, 
 of which he is the treasurer. Although his time 
 is largely taken up by extensive and important 
 business interests, he never neglects his duty 
 as a Christian and is a useful and active mem- 
 ber of the First Baptist Church of Corvallis. 
 He is now serving on its board of trustees and 
 during the building of the house of worship and 
 for several years afterward he served as clerk 
 of the board. He has also been very active in 
 Sunday school work. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat where national issues and questions are 
 involved, but at local elections does not con- 
 sider himself bound by party ties. His unswerv- 
 ing purpose, his unquestioned fidelity, his unfail- 
 ing honesty and his unchanging will have com- 
 manded the highest respect of all, and there is 
 in Corvallis no one held in warmer esteem than 
 this native son of Oregon. 
 
 CHARLES O. PETERSON. Few of the 
 thousands of people who take advantage of 
 the product known as excelsior, in the loose 
 meshes of which can be transported in perfect 
 safety to the uttermost parts of the earth the 
 most costly or fragile articles, realize to what 
 extent its manufacture is a money-making and 
 employment proposition. A visit to the factory 
 and warehouses of the plant of C. O. Peterson 
 and W. J. Royse at Eugene, would convince the 
 most casual observer that he is in the midst of 
 a live, substantial, and far-reaching business, 
 based upon sound commercial principles, and 
 contributing to an enormous outstanding trade. 
 Especially would one gain a complete under- 
 standing of the business were one accompanied 
 on the tour of Inspection by Mr. Peterson, the 
 junior member of the firm, whose many years 
 of practical experience in this line qualify him 
 to speak authoritatively. The plant has a few 
 protected patents not known to others similarly 
 
 equipped, besides the most modern machinery, 
 ten machines being operated the year around. 
 The exclusive machinery facilitates the manu- 
 facture of the product, the capacity being ten 
 tons per day of twenty-four hours. This output 
 of course necessitates a large amount of wood 
 that must be kept on hand, and from two thous- 
 and five hundred to six thousand cords are con- 
 tinually in process of seasoning, the latter an 
 absolute necessity in this department of manu- 
 facture. Balmwood alone is used to make the 
 thin shavings, and the banks of the Willamette 
 yield up many trees in the course of a year. 
 Once finished, the product is pressed into bales 
 of one hundred and forty pounds each, average 
 weight, and shipped to different parts of Ore- 
 gon, California, Washington and Utah. The 
 two large buildings at the corner of Sixth and 
 High streets are supplemented by warehouses 
 holding many tons, and the whole enterprise is 
 adequately protected from fire by the best 
 hydrant and fire system known in the west. 
 From sixty to seventy-five hands are employed 
 to cut wood for the mill, about five months of 
 the year, and many more are required for the 
 operation of the plant. 
 
 Mr. Peterson, who embodies in his make-up 
 the push, energy and force of the successful 
 western business man. is a native of Iowa, and 
 was born near Lansing, December 20, 1868. 
 Nine years later, about 1877, he accompanied his 
 parents to Lacenter, Wash., where his father 
 died, and where he was left to support himself 
 at the age of twelve years. He had much to 
 be thankful for, however, as he was strong- 
 limbed and stout-hearted. For two years he 
 worked on a farm for his clothes and board and 
 the privilege of attending school for a few 
 months, and two years also he spent on a farm 
 in Benton county. Ore. At the age of sixteen 
 he arrived in Portland, and after various at- 
 tempts at employment began working for Henry 
 Nicholi of the Portland Excelsior Mill, remain- 
 ing there for about two years. He seemed to 
 take naturally to the work, advanced rapidly, 
 and was promoted even further after entering 
 the Willamette Falls Excelsior Works at Ore- 
 gon City. Here he became foreman of the mill, 
 but his work was interrupted by the death of 
 his mother and the necessity of temporarily 
 withdrawing to settle the estate. Afterward, he 
 went to Lebanon and engaged in the excelsior 
 manufacturing business for himself, purchasing 
 an interest in the concern of O'Neill Brothers, 
 which operated under the name of O'Neill 
 Brothers & Peterson for six years. While thus 
 employed Mr. Rovse, his present partner, pur- 
 chased the O'Neill interests and in this manner 
 the business was continued in Lebanon until 
 September, 1899. Owing to superior facilities 
 
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 for conducting the business it was removed to 
 Eugene, and the present mill and warehouses 
 erected. 
 
 In Oregon City Mr. Peterson married Hannah 
 Stuart, a native of Iowa, and whose father, Joel 
 A. Stuart, a builder by occupation and now living 
 retired in Seattle, Ore., came to Oregon with 
 his family in 1868. Albert and Myma, the two 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, are 
 living at home. Mr. Peterson has taken an 
 active interest in Democratic politics, and for 
 two terms was a member of the town of Lebanon 
 council. He is a member and past officer in the 
 Knights of the Maccabees. 
 
 JAMES M. STAFFORD. A member of the 
 legislature in 1887, and again in 1889, James 
 M. Stafford has also served Lane county in many 
 other official capacities, elected thereto by his 
 fellow Republican townsmen. Under public 
 observation he has proven himself possessed of 
 clear judgment, and disinterested devotion to 
 the public welfare, at the same time enjoying 
 the satisfaction of having been elected without 
 canvassing, or any solicitation of votes. A resi- 
 dent of Oregon since his tenth year, he was 
 reared on the farm which is still his home, and 
 which was taken up by his parents, William 
 and Priscilla J. (Ramsey) Stafford , in 1852. 
 The parents were born and married in Indiana, 
 and at an early day removed to Atchison county, 
 Mo., where their son, James M., was born May 
 18, 1842. Missouri continued to be the home 
 of the Staffords until 1852, when the father 
 outfitted with three wagons, eleven yoke of oxen, 
 fifteen cows and three horses, out of which he 
 had, at the end of his journey, fourteen steers 
 two cows and two horses. From May until 
 November the train moved slowly over the 
 plains, the travelers leading for the most part 
 an uneventful existence, and meeting with little 
 resistance from Indians, weather or illness. In 
 the fall the father took the three hundred and 
 twenty acres above referred to, and in November 
 erected a one-room log cabin, about 18x18 feet 
 in ground dimensions. Fortunately the land 
 was mostly prairie, and more easy to cultivate 
 than the heavily timbered properties. Success 
 attended his efforts, and in 1866 he sold out and 
 moved to a farm near Halsey, Linn county, still 
 later moving to Umatilla county in order to 
 engage in extensive wheat-raising. In 1888 he 
 took up his residence in Tacoma, Wash., and 
 died there June 30 of that year at the age of 
 seventv-four years. For the last three years 
 of her life his wife lived with her son, James M., 
 her death occurring January 23, 1903, at the 
 age of eighty four years. Since 1853 she had 
 
 been a member of the Christian Church, during 
 which year she joined the church with her hus- 
 band, both working zealously thereafter for the 
 promotion of the cause of truth and morality. 
 
 The first departure from accustomed grooves 
 in the life of James M. Stafford was when he 
 went to Idaho, and with the rough and daring 
 element in search of fortunes in the mines exper- 
 ienced a decided change from the quiet farming 
 existence. Fourteen months sufficed to convince 
 him of the dignity and usefulness of the life 
 he had left behind, and returning to it, he has 
 never ceased to pay it the homage of a sincere, 
 practical and industrious devotion. In 1866 he 
 bought four hundred acres of his father's farm, 
 and October 25, 1866, married and brought to 
 the old home, Sarah Hardman, daughter of 
 Samuel and Mary (Backus) Hardman. Unto 
 Mr. and Mrs. Stafford eleven children were 
 born : Of these Marion F. is the oldest ; Lina 
 F. is the wife of Findley Lena ; Clara M. is the 
 wife of John Haines of Eugene ; Geneva M. is 
 the wife of Thomas Seavey ; Laura V. ; Pearl ; 
 Fred J. died at the age of fourteen years ; Wal- 
 ter ; William G. ; Edgar L. ; and Esther B. 
 
 At the present time Mr. Stafford owns five 
 hundred acres of land in the Mohawk valley, 
 seven miles northeast of Springfield, and carries 
 on principally stock-raising, having large num- 
 bers of Shorthorn cattle. In addition to his polit- 
 ical services he was prominent in the Mohawk 
 Grange during its existence, serving as master, 
 and in many ways promoted the best interests 
 of the association, and for many years was mas- 
 ter of the Pomona Grange. Mr. Stafford enjoys 
 the prestige arising from a successful career, 
 and from the possession of those personal attri- 
 butes which win and retain friends, and inspire 
 confidence in those with whom he is associated. 
 
 
 JESSE H. SMITH. A busy, energetic and 
 capable life has been that of Jesse H. Smith, who 
 has long been a resident of Lane county, his 
 home being in the vicinity of Natron. He was 
 born in Polk county, Mo., February 20, 1837, and 
 came here in 1849 with his parents, for a more 
 detailed account of whom refer to the sketch of 
 William F. Smith, the oldest son of the family, 
 given on another page of this work. The duty of 
 this young emigrant while on the trip was to 
 guard the cattle, and after his arrival in Ore- 
 gon he lived the life of a pioneer's son in his 
 father's home until 1854, when he helped to 
 build the first courthouse in Eugene, there 
 being only four other men detailed on the work. 
 In 1856 he went to the mines in southern 
 Oregon and located with others on Grave creek, 
 where he took out a half cupful of gold every 
 
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 day, but after nine days they were driven out 
 by the Indians. Returning to his father's farm 
 he remained there until the death of the latter, 
 in the meantime purchasing a farm of three 
 hundred and thirty-three acres, where he lived 
 for a year. This property he sold and invested 
 the proceeds in the farm which he now occupies, 
 at the present time owning seven hundred acres 
 of land, it having been reduced from twelve 
 hundred by the distribution of a large amount 
 to his children. Throughout his life he has 
 carried on general farming and stock-raising, 
 and has also been largely interested in the 
 dairy business. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Smith occurred in 1856, 
 and united him with Miss Mary Grigsby, and 
 of the five children born to them Sadie is the 
 wife of John Laird, of Garfield, Whitman 
 county. Wash. ; Emma is the wife of James 
 Wallace, in this vicinity ; Cora is the wife of 
 Xewton Lindley, also in this vicinity; Walter 
 is a merchant in Xatron ; and John died at the 
 age of twenty-one years. In his political rela- 
 tions Mr. Smith has always been a stanch Repub- 
 lican, and through the influence of this party 
 his son Walter was made postmaster at Xatron. 
 In religious views the family are all in accord, 
 their membership being in the Christian Church. 
 
 ALBERT S. WALKER. The advancement 
 and prosperity of the thriving little city of 
 Springfield, Lane county, Ore., is largely due to 
 the progressive and energetic captains of indus- 
 try, who early perceived its advantages as a 
 business center and have been influential in de- 
 veloping its resources. Prominent among these 
 is Albert S. Walker, now one of its foremost cit- 
 izens and a prosperous real estate dealer and in- 
 surance agent. A native of Missouri, he was 
 born January 11, 1846, in Greene county, a son 
 of the late William Walker, an Oregon pioneer. 
 
 William Walker was born in Georgia, but 
 spent a large part of his earlier fife in Chatta- 
 nooga, Tenn. Going to Greene county. Mo., in 
 1843, n e lived there four years, working as a 
 millwright and a cabinetmaker. Coming across 
 the plains in an ox-team train in 1853, ne located 
 first in Lane county, Ore., taking up three hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land near Creswell, where 
 he lived four years. Removing to Eugene in 
 1857, he established himself in mercantile pur- 
 suits, dealing in drugs and general merchandise 
 until 1 861. Investing then in land near Eugene, 
 he carried on ranching ten years in that location, 
 and then, in 1871. purchased a farm at Pleasant 
 Hill, where he pursued his independent vocation 
 until his retirement. He attained a good old age. 
 dving at Springfield, Ore., in 1881, at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. One of the representative 
 
 pioneers of this section of the state, he rendered 
 material assistance in developing one of the best 
 counties in Oregon, and was an important factor 
 in advancing its educational, moral and political 
 status. In his younger days he was a Whig, and 
 afterward affiliated with the Republican party, 
 and was in hearty sympathy with the Abolition- 
 ists. He married Mary Shields, who was born 
 in Georgia, and died, at the age of seventy-six 
 years, in Eugene, Ore. Of the nine children 
 that blessed their union, Albert S. was the only 
 son. 
 
 Having been but seven years of age when he 
 came with his parents to Lane county, Albert S. 
 Walker obtained the rudiments of his education 
 in the common schools, afterwards attending the 
 old Columbia College, at Eugene, for two years, 
 finally graduating therefrom. Assuming charge 
 of the farm which his father owned in the vicin- 
 ity of Eugene, he conducted it from 1862 until 
 1881. being successful as a farmer. Locating 
 then in Springfield, Mr. Walker established him- 
 self as a blacksmith, winning a large and lucra- 
 tive patronage in this vicinity. Since retiring 
 from his trade in the spring of 1903, Mr. Walk- 
 er has been actively engaged in the real estate 
 and insurance business, in which he is meeting 
 with encouraging success, handling both farm 
 and town propertv. He has acquired a good 
 share of this world's goods, and owns a well 
 improved ranch of forty acres, lying about three 
 miles southeast of Springfield. 
 
 Mr. Walker married, in Polk county, Ore., in 
 1868, Miss Sarah L. Higgins. who was born in 
 Massachusetts. Her father, the late Seldon 
 Higgins. also a native of Massachusetts, was a 
 dyer by trade, and worked for a number of 
 years in the mills of Woburn. Mass. Leaving 
 his native state in 1851. he came with his family 
 by train to the Missouri river, and then across 
 the plains with ox-teams, to Oregon. Locating 
 in Polk county, he purchased three hundred and 
 sixty acres of land in Spring Valley, and was 
 there engaged in general farming until his death, 
 at a venerable age. in 1898. In common with 
 the other pioneers of his county, he labored with 
 untiring energy to develop a farm from the 
 wild country in which he had settled, and was 
 successful in his efforts. Mr. and Mrs. Walker 
 are the parents of eight children, all living at 
 home, namely: Herbert E., William F.. Mary 
 B.. Ralph Gladstone. Jessie May. Grace. Ida 
 and Joy. A man of broad and liberal views, 
 alive to the important needs of the day. Mr. 
 Walker has been influential in educational and 
 political circles, and besides serving ten years 
 as school director has the distinction of having 
 served in 1891 as the first mayor of Spring- 
 field. He has likewise served as councilman, 
 and is one of the leading Republicans of the 
 
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 city. For twenty-two years he has been identified 
 with the independent Order of Odd Fellows, be- 
 ing a charter member and past noble grand of 
 the subordinate lodge, and a member of the en- 
 campment. He also belongs to the fraternal 
 order of Woodmen of the World. He is an active 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of 
 which he is a trustee, and also the superintendent 
 of its Sunday School. 
 
 BRUNO C. VITUS. The road to success, 
 with its innumerable windings, furnishes a never- 
 ending theme to the old and young, the latter be- 
 cause they desire, and the former because their 
 own course still charms with its gain, or endears 
 with its sorrow and misfortune. Each suc- 
 ceeds in his own way, yet certain underlying 
 principles light the careers of the truly suc- 
 cessful. These same principles lead more often 
 through hard and disappointing ways, as many 
 right in our own midst might testify, and were 
 One to select an example of the truth of the say- 
 ing it were impossible to find a better than that 
 furnished by a whole family, banded together and 
 working- for their mutual benefit, and that one 
 in Lane county. The family referred to is that 
 of Augustus J. F. Vitus, himself one of the most 
 prominent of the pioneers, and the father of sons 
 who would scorn the idea of failure in life. 
 
 Bruno C. Vitus, the second child of the five 
 sons and three daughters of Augustus J. F. Vitus, 
 was born in Dunkirk, N. Y., December 17, 1852, 
 and his removal to Philadelphia, Pa., followed 
 not many months later. He was twelve years 
 old when the family located in Springfield, 111., 
 where he attended school for nine years, and 
 then accompanied his parents to Breckenridge, 
 Mo., in 1873. Long years before, the 50ns and 
 father had established a sort of co-operative 
 existence, inspired by peculiarly strong family 
 ties, and the harmonious blending of dispositions 
 and aspirations. They had not been successful 
 in Missouri, and when they arrived in Oregon 
 in 1878 tne family assets consisted of thirty-two 
 dollars and a wonderful amount of determina- 
 tion. A cook-stove was purchased for thirty 
 dollars, some tinware for the remaining two 
 dollars, and a sack of flour was purchased on 
 credit. It was necessary for all hands to start 
 out at once to earn money for the necessities of 
 life, and father and sons succeeded in finding 
 work on the surrounding farms during the first 
 summer. That fall thev rented a farm, and went 
 in debt for a considerable amount, the following 
 vear blasting- their expectations, owing to rust 
 on the wheat. They were obliged to borrow 
 $4,000. oaving fifteen per cent interest, and the 
 drain of such an expenditure, even with the most 
 favorable crops, can be imagined, but hardly 
 
 appreciated. Nevertheless, this difficulty was 
 overcome by pluck and perseverance, and in time 
 the sum of $25,000 was paid in full on the 
 farm. After getting started this was compar- 
 atively easy, and they often made as high as 
 $13,000 a year on grain and stock. For six- 
 teen years father and four sons worked together 
 on the six hundred and ninety-five acres, their 
 name standing for all that was reliable and 
 substantial in business, and fine and honorable 
 in character. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Vitus left the home farm and 
 witn his earnings bought his present farm of 
 three hundred and twenty-seven acres two and 
 a half miles northeast Of Springfield. This by 
 no means represents the whole of his investments, 
 for he owns fifty lots in an addition to the city 
 of Eugene on the south and has other property 
 scattered over the county. For his first wife 
 Mr. Vitus married, in 1894, Theresa Kimmel, 
 who lived only six years after her marriage. 
 The present Mrs. Vitus was formerly Dorothy 
 Blume, daughter of John F. and Henrietta 
 (Kriesel) Blume, who was married in 1900, 
 and who is the mother of two children, Maurice 
 Bruno and Cosima Dorothy. The Vitus home is 
 a pleasant and hospitable one, surrounded by 
 well kept lawns, and outhouses and fences of 
 modern and substantial make. The farm is all 
 valley land, and Mr. Vitus devotes the greater 
 part to stock and hog raising. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and is fraternally associated 
 with the Eugene Lodge of Elks. Personally 
 and from a business standpoint, Mr. Vitus ex- 
 erts a wide influence in Lane county, his repu- 
 tation resting upon his own individual efforts, 
 rather than upon any dignity and honor cast by 
 his capable and prominent father. He is broad- 
 minded, enterprising and public-spirited, foster- 
 ing education, morality and integrity. 
 
 AUGUSTUS J. F. VITUS, JR. Yet another 
 of the sons who are helping to maintain a stand- 
 ard established by an earnest and capable pioneer 
 is Augustus J. F. Vitus, Jr., the namesake of his 
 sire, and in many respects the counterpart of the 
 older man. Mention having been made else- 
 where of the ambitious man who brought his 
 family to Oregon in 1878, and who has given to 
 his adopted state sons of whom she may well 
 be proud, it is necessary only to say that in his 
 home he enforced obedience, and reared his 
 children to improve and use the faculties with 
 which they had been endowed. Augustus J. F., 
 Jr., was born near Springfield, 111., August 8. 
 1867, and was therefore eleven years of age 
 when he came to this state. 
 
 After coming to the west Mr. Vitus com- 
 pleted the education begun in the public schools 
 
JAMES M. SPORES. 
 
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 of the middle west, and with his brothers and 
 father conducted their large stock-jaising and 
 milling business. He then identified himself 
 with his brother, Robert, leaving his other 
 brothers and father sole possessors of the former 
 enterprise. The two brothers own about a 
 thousand acres of land, six hundred of which 
 are given up to grain cultivation, and the bal- 
 ance to stock and general farming. No more 
 enterprising or successful young men are con- 
 tributing to the upbuilding of this section, nor 
 are any more enthusiastic in their praise of the 
 state which has given them an assured income, 
 as well as a pleasant home and genial friends. 
 Mr. Vitus was happily married to Laura Wes- 
 trope, the ceremony having taken place Novem- 
 ber 19, 1902. From her native Sonoma county, 
 Cal., Mrs. Vitus seems to have brought a dispo- 
 sition and character tinged with the brightness 
 and cheerfulness always expected of the daugh- 
 ters of California. This young couple are well 
 educated and progressive, alert to the happenings 
 in the outside world, and by no means confining 
 themselves to the borders of their farm. Both 
 are members and workers in the Baptist Church, 
 and Mr. Vitus is a stanch Republican, although 
 he is never troubled with official longings, and 
 would in all probability refuse tendered offices. 
 He has many friends in the neighborhood and 
 county, and is destined to take an important 
 part in the development of agriculture and 
 stock-raising. 
 
 JAMES M. SPORES. One of the largest 
 family gatherings which came to Oregon in 1847 
 was that gotten together by Jacob C. Spores, the 
 founder of an honored name and a large farm- 
 ing and ferrying interest in Lane county. His 
 son, James M., to perpetuate whose memory this 
 sketch is written, and whose death on his farm 
 near Springfield, February 22, 1900, caused 
 widespread regret, was born while his parents 
 were living in Winnebago county, 111., May 19, 
 1835. In 1846 the family removed to Missouri, 
 and in the spring of 1847 carried out the object 
 which had inspired their emigration, the making 
 of a home among the crude but promising con- 
 ditions of the northwest. Jacob C. Spores reared 
 a large family, some of whom married young 
 and had children of their own, all living around 
 the old folks, or on nearby farms. These helped 
 to swell the number of the party with western 
 aspirations, and all lent a helping hand in the 
 extensive preparations required for the overland 
 jaunt. Many horses and cattle accompanied the 
 expedition, and in due time, and with the usual 
 number of unpleasant occurrences, the west was 
 reached, holding out to the industrious and re- 
 sourceful pioneers varied and giant possibilities. 
 
 The grandfather settled on a farm near Coburg, 
 and the town afterward springing up on a portion 
 of his land, he was the very first thus to identify 
 his fortunes with the now prosperous locality. 
 At that time a man by the name of Eugene 
 Skinner occupied the townsite of Eugene. Jacob 
 C. Spores set about making himself comfortable 
 in his new surroundings, and on his section of 
 land erected a log cabin near where the bridge 
 has since been built. He regarded the river from 
 the standpoint of utility, and, knowing that manv 
 must pass and repass before much had been ac- 
 complished in the way of upbuilding the neigh- 
 borhood, he started a ferry across, which was as 
 useful as it was novel and enterprising. He was 
 the architect and builder of the ferry-boat, mak- 
 ing it out of rough timber, a strong but unwieldly 
 structure, calculated to weather the stress and 
 storms of a long and varied career. The boat 
 was not erected too soon, for during 1848-9 
 hundreds of miners passed that way on their way 
 to California, and all were glad to avail them- 
 selves of the easy transportation, thus swelling 
 the receipts from this pioneer water-craft, and 
 giving the ferryman a good start in life. With 
 the advent of the bridge the boatman's occupa- 
 tion disappeared, and something of the pathetic 
 surrounds the thought of the modern innovation, 
 for many years had passed since the cumbersome 
 craft first glided over the water, and many mem- 
 ories had been stored up in the mind of the 
 ferryman. It was necessarily a part of his life, 
 and as such was hard to part with. He con- 
 tinued to make his home on the old place for the 
 remainder of his life, both himself and wife living 
 to an advanced age. 
 
 While James M. Spores was driving an ox- 
 team across the plains for his father he dreamed 
 many dreams, and fortunately was able to realize 
 more than does the average dreamer in this world 
 of chance. A turning point in his life was his 
 marriage, March 27, 1853, with Mary C. Thomas, 
 member of one of the pioneer families of Ore- 
 gon, and a native of Calhoun county, Mich., 
 where she was born in 1832. Her parents, Jona- 
 than and Jeanette (Simons) Thomas, were born 
 in New York state, moved soon after to Michi- 
 gan, and from there went to Illinois in 1836. 
 In Winnebago county the father took up gov- 
 ernment land, and, in the spring of 1852, 
 crossed the plains with seven yoke of oxen, 
 three cows and a mare, his family at that, time 
 consisting of his wife and five children, of 
 whom Mrs. Spores is the oldest. Louisa, the 
 second daughter, married Frank Powers ; 
 Samuel lives near Coburg; Almira married 
 John H. Milliron, and lives on the McKenzie 
 place, and John lives on the home place near 
 Coburg. The family were nine months in ac- 
 complishing the journey to Oregon, and their 
 
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 trip was characterized by all of the horror and 
 dread of that great cholera year. At the end 
 of the trip Mr. Thomas found that he had just 
 two oxen and the mare with which to start 
 life in the west, all of the other stock having 
 died on the way. The following spring he 
 took up a claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres near Coburg, and here the remainder of 
 his life was spent, his death occurring in 1876, 
 at the age of seventy-seven years. 
 
 Shortly after his marriage Mr. J. M. Spores 
 moved near the farm now occupied by his 
 widow, and worked in the sawmill for a time, 
 afterward returning to his father's farm and 
 assisting him with the ferry-boat. In June, 
 1857, he located on the farm where his last 
 days were spent, and which at the time con- 
 sisted of one hundred and sixty acres. Prac- 
 tical and progressive, he utilized the most ad- 
 vanced ideas in further improving his farm, 
 additional land being required as his interests 
 increased in variety and extent, and in time he 
 accumulated nearly one thousand acres. The 
 farm is unrivalled for location, being five 
 miles northeast of Springfield, on the McKen- 
 zie river, and in the Mohawk valley. Mr. 
 Spores was sufficiently public-spirited to ap- 
 preciate the duty of every able-bodied ; citizen 
 from a political standpoint, and he gladly gave 
 his services towards maintaining a high stand- 
 ard of excellence in county government. He 
 was county commissioner for two terms, and 
 served on the jury for sixteen years continu- 
 ously. From early manhood he gave his moral 
 and financial support to the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and he was fraternally con- 
 nected with the United Workmen. Since his 
 death, his widow has continued to reside on 
 the home place, and, assisted by her sons, ex- 
 pects to carry out the plans so well laid by 
 her popular and highly respected husband. A 
 large family was born to Mr. and Mrs. Spores, 
 the oldest daughter, Arminda, being the wife 
 of Thomas Jenkins, and living on the home 
 place ; John married Emma Drury, and lives 
 near his wife's mother ; George married Josie 
 Clark ; Mary S. is the wife of George Smith, of 
 Coburg; Samuel lives in eastern Oregon; 
 Irene is the wife of John Reneger, of this vi- 
 cinity ; Frank married Belle Barrett, and lives 
 near his mother; Charles is engaged in mining 
 at Nome, Alaska ; Daniel married Kate Drury, 
 and Leila lives in Portland. Mr. Spores was a 
 man of leading characteristics, and he not only 
 succeeded from a financial standpoint, but 
 made many and true friends, leaving to those 
 bearing his name the heritage of a nobly-lived 
 and well-directed life. 
 
 HON. JAMES L. COLLINS. Prominent 
 among the representative men of Polk county is 
 Hon. James L. Collins, known not alone as one 
 whose name was among the first to be identified 
 with the American settlements in Oregon, but 
 rather for his intimate relations with the per- 
 manent history of our commonwealth. Begin- 
 ning in pioneer days, in the midst of undeveloped 
 resources and a rude civilization, he gave himself 
 wholly to the western cause, faithful in the pur- 
 suit of duty, whether in camp or field, as a sol- 
 dier in defense of the settlers or a citizen in the 
 material upbuilding of the country ; through 
 the changes of time and progression he has ad- 
 vanced his own interests and those of his 
 adopted state by lifting himself to a position of 
 exceptional prominence among the many who 
 are entitled to the esteem and admiration of the 
 present generation. The interest which attaches to 
 the pioneers of Oregon is not inspired by cur- 
 iosity, but rather by that affection which centers 
 about the lives and deeds of those who blazed 
 the trail for the westward march of progress. 
 Before touching upon the life of Judge Collins 
 we will give a brief outline of the ancestry to 
 which he owes those characteristics which have 
 enabled him to become a power among many 
 hampering conditions. His maternal grandfather 
 was a descendant of Thomas Wyatt, a man well 
 known in the history of England through his 
 opposition to the marriage of Queen Mary to 
 Philip of Spain, and who was beheaded by her 
 orders for his participation in the rebellion 
 which occurred about 1554. Sir Henry Wyatt, 
 the father of Thomas Wyatt, was a member of 
 the privy council ot Henry the Eighth. His 
 maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Sea, was de- 
 scended from the Duke of Argyll, while his 
 father's mother was Jane Eddings, the repre- 
 sentative of an old Virginia family. Smith Col- 
 lins, the father of Judge Collins, was born in 
 Orange county, Va., in 1804, the son of George 
 and the grandson of William, both of whom 
 were natives of the. same location. The latter 
 was an intimate friend of General Washington 
 and served under him in the Revolutionary war. 
 He was a Virginia planter and died in the Old 
 Dominion. George Collins moved to Montgom- 
 ery county, Mo., and later by a division of this 
 county he found himself located in the new 
 county of Warren, near Warrenton, where he 
 owned a large tract of land on Barracks creek, 
 and was engaged extensively in the culture of 
 tobacco and corn. He served in the war of 
 1812, and died in Missouri in 1845. 
 
 Smith Collins was a boy of ten years when 
 the British burned the city of Washington, and 
 he heard the cannonading and saw the con- 
 flagration. His home remained in Virginia for 
 
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 1127 
 
 many years, and at the age of eighteen he learned 
 the tanner's trade at Port Republic, that state. 
 On the completion of his apprenticeship he went 
 to Fayetteville, N. C, where he worked as a 
 journeyman for a Mr. Prince, and later re- 
 moved to Cheraw Hill, S. C, and became fore- 
 man for H. G. Nelson. In 1827 he located in 
 Missouri, where his father had previously set- 
 tled, both being pioneers in this state of the 
 middle west. He brought with him a little mare 
 for which he was offered forty acres of land now 
 in the heart of the city of St. Louis, which was 
 then only a little French village with the greater 
 part of the land about covered with black-jack. 
 When the Collins family left the state, nineteen 
 years later, St. Louis had become an important 
 city of the south, with flourishing markets and 
 substantial business houses. On his arrival in 
 Missouri Mr. Collins became superintendent of 
 the Stevenson tannery in St. Charles county, 
 where he remained until 1829, when he opened a 
 tanyard and shop near his father's home on Bar- 
 racks creek. He was married the same year and 
 shortly afterward his father-in-law, Douglas 
 Wyatt, gave his daughter forty acres of land 
 located on Chariton creek, where Mr. Collins 
 subsequently established a tannery and conducted 
 the same in connection with farming. 
 
 In 1846 Mr. Collins outfitted for the trip 
 across the plains, having decided to become a 
 pioneer of the northwest. Besides ten yoke of 
 oxen he brought with him valuable loose cattle 
 and horses upon a trip made memorable by in- 
 numerable hardships and dangers. They crossed 
 the Kansas river, thence followed the Republi- 
 can fork, and the Platte river, by Ft. Laramie, 
 and on to the Black Hills. They were not mo- 
 lested by the Indians until they reached the Hum- 
 boldt valley, in Nevada, but from there on they 
 encountered considerable difficulties. One week 
 was consumed in passing through the Umpqua 
 canon, a distance of twelve miles, as they were 
 compelled to bridge over the rocks, follow the 
 streams, etc. Upon their arrival at the present 
 site of Eugene City, they found but one house, 
 that having been built by Eugene Skinner, but 
 with no occupants. Here the subject of this 
 sketch remained with the wagons and ex- 
 hausted stock during the winter, while the rest 
 of the family proceeded on pack-horses, to the 
 settlements on the Luckiamute river, about sixty 
 miles further north. 
 
 In the spring of 1847 Mn Collins took up a 
 donation claim located between the Luckiamute 
 and Soap creek, in Polk county, and entered at 
 once upon the work of reclaiming the land from 
 its wilderness state. The stock which he had 
 brought with him to Oregon he turned upon the 
 open range. By energy, perseverance and man- 
 
 agement he acquired a large amount of property, 
 in later years trading stock for land in the 
 southern part of Polk county, which he retained 
 until the time of his death. Mr. Collins had 
 brought with him to Oregon several hundred 
 dollars' worth of leather, the first brought into 
 the state, and on his claim he established a small 
 tannery which he conducted for several years. 
 Mr. King, the first settler of King's valley em- 
 ployed him to finish some leather which he had 
 previously tanned, but could not curry and finish. 
 Mr. Collins was married in 1829 to Miss 
 Eliza Emily Wyatt, who was born near Mount 
 Sterling, Ky., in 1812. She was a daughter of 
 Douglas Wyatt, a native of Kentucky and pio- 
 neer of Warren county, Mo. Twelve children 
 were born to Mr. and Mrs. Collins, namely: 
 Jane E., who became the wife of M. M. Neelev, 
 and died in Oregon; James Layton, the subject 
 of this review; Francis M., of Dallas; George 
 Smith, who was killed at the age of six years 
 while crossing the plains; Eliza Melvina, of 
 Dallas, the widow of William P. Shaw ; Doug- 
 las Wyatt, of Klickitat county, Wash. ; William 
 Wallace, of Polk county; David Crockett, who 
 was drowned in Forest creek in 1875 ; Alex- 
 ander H., of Dallas ; Emily A., who became the 
 wife of Richard Wells, and died in Polk county ; 
 Mary I., the wife of Elvin Carter of Klickitat 
 county, Wash. ; and A. S., of Prineville, Ore. 
 The eight children first mentioned were born 
 in Missouri and accompanied their parents to 
 Oregon, while the last four were born in Polk 
 county. Mr. Collins died in 1872. 
 
 James Layton Collins was born in Warren 
 county, Mo., May 9, 1833, and shortly before his 
 thirteenth birthday he was en route for Oregon, 
 a member of the first company that ever came 
 by way of the Klamath lakes, and across the 
 Siskiyou, Umpqua and Calapooia mountains into 
 the Willamette valley. He was often detailed 
 to drive the foremost team that broke down the 
 thick sage brush upon the trackless waste and 
 was thus in the van of danger and difficulty 
 throughout the greater part of the trip. On 
 October 10, the party arrived in the Willamette 
 valley at the present site of Eugene City. There 
 a great many of the hardships and perils of 
 pioneer life fell upon the shoulders of Judge 
 Collins, then a mere lad, the necessity of pro- 
 viding game in sufficient quantity for the sup- 
 port of himself and two sick companions, en- 
 forcing him to shoulder his gun, and with its 
 breech breaking the ice in the sloughs and 
 streams, wade through them in order to reach 
 good hunting grounds on the other shore. In 
 the spring of the following year he settled with 
 his parents in Polk county where he helped to 
 erect and improve their pioneer home. For sev- 
 eral vears he remained at home, assisting in the 
 
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 general work of the farm. During this period 
 he followed out his natural inclinations and 
 began to devote every spare moment to study; 
 not being able to procure lights, he pursued 
 his studies by the glow of the pitchwood fire 
 in the rude fireplace, the foundation for knowl- 
 edge having been laid in the subscription schools 
 of his native state. After a few years, when the 
 family could manage to get along without his 
 assistance, he became a student in the old Ore- 
 gon Institution at Salem, then conducted by Pro- 
 fessor Hoyt, and which has since become Will- 
 amette University. Being under the necessity 
 of working for his maintenance while attending 
 school, he was first employed by Father Waller. 
 Professor Hoyt soon recognized the intellectual 
 qualities of the ambitious lad, and employed him 
 to cut wood and to work in the campus garden, 
 for these services paying him twenty-five cents 
 per hour. He occupied a room in the upper 
 story of the college building, and for two years 
 put in many hours of hard labor daily, and soon 
 became proficient in Greek and other branches. 
 In 1853 Judge Collins went to the mines of 
 northern California, where he remained until the 
 fall of 1855, when he returned to Oregon. The 
 legislature being in session, he secured a posi- 
 tion as reporter for the Democrat-Standard, and 
 continued as such until the close of the session, 
 during which the capital was removed from Cor- 
 vallis to Salem. A few days before the adjourn- 
 ment of the legislature Capt. B. F. Burch organ- 
 ized Company B of the recruiting battalion of 
 the first regiment of Oregon Mounted Volun- 
 teers, for service in the Yakima Indian war. 
 Judge Collins at once enlisted, and after the 
 adjournment of the assembly he joined the 
 troops in the field on the Columbia river and 
 participated in the hardships and perils which" 
 followed. He was with Col. Thomas R. Cor- 
 nelius throughout his famous " horse-meat cam- 
 paign," when the volunteers pursued the In- 
 dians for two months, being often reduced to 
 the necessity of subsisting upon the horses cap- 
 tured from or abandoned by the Indians in their 
 flight. He also took an active and honorable 
 part in the battle of the Simcoe, which won for 
 him the respect of his officers and the confidence 
 and esteem of all his comrades in arms. 
 
 After the close of hostilities Judge Collins re- 
 turned to Polk county and engaged in teaching 
 school, at the same time continuing his studies. 
 He had previously studied law under Hon. B. 
 F. Harding and Hon. L. F. Grover while a resi- 
 dent of Salem, and in 1859 he made application 
 for admission to the bar. Judge Wilson, then 
 District Attorney, wrote the motion for his 
 admission, a committee was appointed, consist- 
 ing of Judges J. G. Wilson, George H. Williams 
 and Ben Hayden, to examine him, and he was 
 
 admitted November 19, of the same year. Dur- 
 ing the session of 1864 and the special session 
 of 1865 he was chief clerk of the house of 
 representatives. In 1869 he was appointed 
 by Gov. Geo. L. Woods county judge of 
 Polk county, and the same year was appointed 
 by Judge Deady to the office of United States 
 commissioner, which he has held up to the 
 present time. He has served as deputy prose- 
 cuting attorney for several years and has been 
 attorney for the state in managing the school 
 fund of Polk county for the past fifteen years. 
 In politics the judge is a Republican, though he 
 had been a Democrat until the breaking out of 
 the Civil war. At that time he abandoned that 
 party and as a member of the state convention 
 at Eugene City aided in organizing the Repub- 
 lican party for its first effective campaign in 
 Oregon. He has also served as chairman of the 
 county central committee, and was a member of 
 the state central committee and has served as a 
 member of the Dallas city council. As county 
 superintendent of schools for two years he was 
 active in the promotion of educational matters, 
 being instrumental in the organization of Dallas 
 College, and takes great interest in all move- 
 ments pertaining to the general welfare of the 
 community. He is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church and served as trustee. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Collins occurred in 
 Polk county in 1861, Miss Mary Whiteaker be- 
 coming his wife. She was born in De Kalb 
 county, 111., in 1846, the daughter of Benjamin 
 Whiteaker, who was one of the pioneers of Polk 
 county in 1847, an d a relative of John White- 
 aker, the first governor of Oregon. Mrs. Col- 
 lins died in 1864, leaving one daughter, Nellie, 
 who is a graduate of La Creole Academy, the 
 state normal school at Monmouth, and the New 
 York state normal college at Oswego, N. Y. 
 She is now critic in the state normal school at 
 Madison, S. D., which position she has occupied 
 for the past ten years. On January 1, 1867, 
 Judge Collins married for his second wife Miss 
 Mary E. Kimes, a native of De Kalb county, 
 Mo., and a daughter of Lewis Ray Kimes, who 
 started with his family for Oregon in 1852 and 
 was drowned while attempting to cross the Mis- 
 souri river. His widow continued her journey 
 to Oregon, locating in Yamhill county, where 
 was born her son, Lewis Ray Kimes, now a 
 prominent farmer of Polk county. To Judge 
 and Mrs. Collins were born ten children, name- 
 ly : Ray Smith, deceased ; Edgar Layton, of Ka- 
 lama, Wash. ; Mary, wife of Prof. E. E. Watts, 
 of Washington county, Ore. ; Ednelle, a teacher 
 in the public schools of Dallas ; Ben David, de- 
 ceased ; Ora ; Frank Wyatt, a mechanical en- 
 gineer in the Union Iron" Works of San Fran- 
 
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 cisco ; Louise ; James Dean ; and Margaret, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 In 1S59 Judge Collins opened an office in In- 
 dependence, but since i860 has been continu- 
 ously engaged in the practice of law in Dallas. 
 By his contemporaries he is regarded as an able 
 lawyer, a safe counselor, a strong pleader, well 
 grounded in the principles of his chosen profes- 
 sion, and equipped with unexcelled ability to 
 apply them correctly to the case in hand. A 
 young attorney once cast reflections upon the in- 
 tegrity of Judge Collins. Governor Gibbs re- 
 plied : " He is a man who may safely be trusted 
 with uncounted gold." An attempt was once 
 made to throw out of court a case in which Judge 
 Collins was the attorney. Judge Boise, who pre- 
 sided, said : " Judge Collins has practiced before 
 me, and has uniformly appeared with the best 
 papers ever presented in my court." The mo- 
 tion was overruled. 
 
 This brief outline of the life record of Judge 
 Collins illustrates what careful and thorough 
 preparation, determination and perseverance, 
 supplemented by a righteous ambition to attain 
 a position of responsibility and honor, will ac- 
 complish. Many a young man of the present 
 generation, or ot generations yet to come, doubt- 
 less will find in the story of his life much that 
 will prove an incentive to earnest and conscien- 
 tious effort, and without these qualifications no 
 man may hope to make a success of his elected 
 vocation, regardless of the extent of his mental 
 attainments. 
 
 GEORGE EBERHARD. To his apprecia- 
 tion of the dignity and usefulness of an agri- 
 cultural life George Eberhard owes his finely 
 improved farm in Marion county, and the com- 
 petence which enables his family to enjoy the 
 comforts and many of the luxuries of life. 
 As long ago as i860 his good judgment sug- 
 gested the purchase of the three hundred and 
 twenty acres which have been his home, and 
 whereas at that time only sixty acres were 
 cleared, his industry has completed the clear- 
 ing of one hundred and fifty acres in all. All 
 kinds of grain and general produce attain ma- 
 turity upon the well tilled acres each year, and 
 fine stock graze in contentment under the sum- 
 mer sun. This land is a portion of the old 
 Peter Burke donation claim, and cost the pres- 
 ent owner but Si, 200. That its value has in- 
 creased many fold in the meantime is apparent 
 to all who visit this hospitable home, and note 
 the progressive methods employed by the tact- 
 ful, resourceful and diligent owner. 
 
 The state of Ohio has contributed many native 
 sons to the upbuilding of Oregon, and to this 
 
 class Mr. Eberhard belongs, he having been 
 born near Bucyrus, Crawford county, November 
 25, 1832. When he was four years of age his 
 parents removed to St. Joseph county, Mich., 
 where he grew to manhood on a farm, and was 
 educated principally in the public schools. As 
 time went on he realized the limitations by 
 which he was surrounded on the Michigan farm 
 and wisely determined to strike out for himself, 
 although in a strange land and with but scant 
 available resources. Accordingly, in 1855, when 
 about twenty-two years of age, he set forth 
 for San Francisco by way of Panama. Arriv- 
 ing at his destination, he went at once to the 
 mines in Eldorado county. Altogether he spent 
 about five years in California, alternating be- 
 tween mining and ranching, and in 1859 came 
 to Oregon, locating in Marion county. 
 
 In January, 1866, Mr. Eberhard was united 
 in marriage with Louise Jones, and of the six 
 children born to this union three are living: 
 Barbara, the wife of Mr. Austin ; John P. ; 
 and George A. David L., Benjamin F. and Wal- 
 ter are deceased. Mr. Eberhard is a Democrat 
 in politics, and has held the offices of school 
 director and supervisor for many years. Fra- 
 ternallv he is a member of the Grange. 
 
 CHARLES P. FULLERTON. The ro- 
 mance-tinged history of the early days in Ore- 
 gon were sadly incomplete without due mention 
 of the career of that pioneer of pioneers, C. P. 
 Fullerton, at present living in retirement in 
 Corvallis. That the mention of a name in the 
 owner's locality calls up instinctively the dom- 
 inating characteristics which his friends of many 
 years have carefully observed is invariably true, 
 and in Mr. Fullerton's case the keynote of his 
 influence would seem to be an absolute and un- 
 questioned integrity. With this admirable trait 
 for a foundation, he has traveled the weary 
 years since 1846, accomplishing substantially 
 and conservatively, and in such way that his posi- 
 tion has never been swayed by passing events. 
 Born in Troy, Lincoln county, Mo., September 
 1, 1830, he comes of Revolutionary stock, for 
 his grandfather, Arannah, left his home near 
 Pembroke, Mass.. and stacked his musket on 
 Revolutionary battlefields. He served from Sep- 
 tember 28, 1777, to November 1, 1780, enlisting 
 as a private and being mustered out as sergeant. 
 On the Massachusetts farm Rufus, the father of 
 C. P. Fullerton, was born, and from his native 
 state removed to Missouri in 1823 or 1824. He 
 was a merchant and farmer, and died in his 
 adopted state in 1842. His last years were spent 
 alone, for his wife, Janet (Pringle) Fullerton, 
 died in 1836, leaving three children, of whom 
 
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 C. P. is the only one living. Mrs. Fullerton 
 was a native of Connecticut, and with her father, 
 Norman Pringle, removed to Warren county, 
 Mo., in 1820, locating on a large farm at what 
 is now Hickory Grove. One of her sons, L. B., 
 came to Oregon in 185 1, and died some years later 
 in Salem. 
 
 Left an orphan at the age of about eleven, Mr. 
 Fullerton was reared on a farm in Missouri, and 
 when fifteen years of age had a chance to come 
 to the coast with his uncle, V. K. Pringle. Start- 
 ing out with ox-teams and provisions April 20, 
 1846, he drove nearly all the way across, and on 
 the way encountered some sorry experiences. 
 He happened to be in the Applegate cut-off, and, 
 in company with others similarly placed, nearly 
 starved to death. The party reached Salem 
 December 25, 1846, and the Fullertons spent the 
 winter in the town, the uncle settling on a farm 
 near Aumsville, Marion county, the following 
 spring. C. P. lived with his relative for a year, 
 but much to his disappointment there was no 
 school for him to attend, and consequently his 
 western education has been entirely of his own 
 getting. Soon after reaching the west he be- 
 came familiar with the dangers as well as ad- 
 vantages of the wilderness country, for duty com- 
 pelled him to enlist in the Cayuse war during 
 1847-8, first as a private in Capt. W. P. Pugh's 
 company, and later in the company of William 
 Martin. Having completed his two enlistments 
 he returned to his home, and in April, 1849, 
 started across the mountains to California, where 
 he hoped to make a fortune in the gold mines. 
 His expectations were evidently not realized, 
 for during September, 1849, he started back 
 across the mountains, fully resolved to hence- 
 forth rely upon more certain, even if slower, 
 means of livelihood. 
 
 In 185 1 Mr. Fullerton took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres south 
 of Salem, which he improved, and to which he 
 added until he possessed four hundred and 
 eighty-two acres. He engaged principally in 
 grain and stock-raising, his farm being located 
 four miles south of Salem. Success rewarded 
 his efforts to clear his land and make it profitable, 
 and he became prominent in his locality, promot- 
 ing its all-around interests, especially along edu- 
 cational lines. Realizing his own want of op- 
 portunity upon arriving in the far west, he saw 
 to it that the youth of the rising generation had 
 better chances, and assisted in establishing the 
 first school in his district. He was an officer 
 of the school board up to the time of selling his 
 farm and removing to Alsea, Benton county, in 
 1887. Here Mr. Fullerton bought six hundred 
 and forty acres of land, upon which he engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising, and where he made 
 his home until disposing of the same in 1901. 
 
 December 31, of that year, he located in Cor- 
 vallis, and the following year built one of the 
 attractive residences of the town, and which is 
 surrounded by fifteen acres of land. 
 
 Through his marriage in Yamhill county, in 
 1854, with Cornelia M. Lady, a native of Ten- 
 nessee, and daughter of William G. Lady, a 
 Yamhill pioneer of 1854, eleven children have 
 been born : Lucy T., now Mrs. C. J. Bradner, of 
 Seattle; Walter, engaged in the stock business 
 in Crook county; Mark, a graduate of the 
 Willamette University, and an attorney at law, 
 in Olympia, and member of the supreme bench 
 of Washington ; David, engaged in mining in 
 Alaska; Finley, living on a part of the Alsea 
 ranch ; Rufus, a merchant in Kennewick, Wash. ; 
 Nellie C, now Mrs. D. H. Glass, of Oregon 
 City, and an educator by occupation; Juliet at 
 home ; Lucian, in Crook county, Ore. ; Josephine, 
 a teacher in Corvallis ; and Charles, Jr., attend- 
 ing the Oregon Agricultural College. A Re- 
 publican in politics, Mr. Fullerton has never had 
 any desire for public office, but at one time did 
 serve as justice of the peace at Alsea. In re- 
 ligion he is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. In the estimation of his many 
 friends in Corvallis and throughout the county, 
 Mr. Fullerton is representative of the highest 
 western citizenship ; strong of character, upright 
 in motive and act, and genial in manner, he com- 
 mands the respect and esteem of all who have 
 ever been associated with him. 
 
 ADOLPH F. PETERSON. Many of the 
 handsomest residences, the most modern and 
 practical public buildings, and the most am- 
 bitious architectural accomplishments in general 
 in Corvallis are due to the skill and artistic ap- 
 preciation of Adolph F. Peterson, one of the 
 foremost builders and contractors in Benton 
 county. The armory of the Oregon Agricultural 
 College, and the court houses of Wheeler, Gill- 
 iam and Sherman counties may be mentioned 
 as fair samples of his excellent and substantial 
 construction. Since coming here Mr. Peterson 
 has found his way into the front rank of the 
 business community, and his very 'successful 
 career may be taken as typical of the best and 
 most progressive class of Swedish-Americans. 
 
 In Minnesota, whither have settled so many of 
 his countrymen, Mr. Peterson was born at Mound 
 Prairie, Washington county, August 8, 1858, his 
 father, John F., being one of the very earliest 
 settlers of that section of the north. John F. 
 Peterson was born in Smaalan, southeastern 
 Sweden, and when about fourteen years of age 
 was apprenticed to a crown tailor of Stockholm. 
 In his native land he married Katrina Harden, 
 a native of Stockholm, and member of a promi- 
 
 
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 Bent Swedish family, and three children were 
 born to this union in the old country. With his 
 wife and children Air. Peterson came to America 
 at an early day, and in Xew York city was 
 swindled out of considerable money by his sup- 
 posed friends. In diis way the savings of many 
 years were lost, and it was with difficulty that 
 he succeeded in getting his family to St. Paul, 
 .Minn. The northern metropolis at that time con- 
 M>ted of a few small log cabins occupied by some 
 French settlers and Indians, and the new ar- 
 rival was probably as ignorant as they of the 
 teeming industry and giant enterprises which 
 would one day have their birth upon his farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres. Had he fore- 
 seen, he would probably have held his land until 
 it increased in value, but as it was he saw noth- 
 ing beyond rather barren and not particularly 
 profitable acres fit for certain kinds of grain and 
 general produce. So he disposed of his land 
 and removed to Sauk Center, where he engaged 
 in farming until the Sioux Indian outbreak in 
 1861-2. Thus surrounded by danger, his family 
 were obliged to make their escape with ox-teams 
 to St. Cloud, and from there to St. Paul, where 
 they remained until peace was restored. In the 
 meantime the father had taken up the defense of 
 the settlers, and was serving as a scout under 
 General Sibley, his oldest son standing valiantly 
 by his side, and assisting in every way in his 
 power to break the sway of the murderous red 
 men. Father and son participated in the battle 
 of Xew Ulm, and assisted in the capture and 
 subsequent hanging of thirty-eight of the ring- 
 leaders among the Indians. Xot content with 
 his service in the north, Mr. Peterson then en- 
 listed for the Civil war, then at its height, in 
 Company G, Seventh Minnesota Volunteer In- 
 fantry, which company was composed of Swedish 
 and German citizens. "With the rest of his com- 
 rades he went south, fought bravely upon many 
 a field of battle, and finally died of exposure and 
 deprivation in Little Rock, Ark. That his valor 
 was appreciated, and that his sad end touched 
 a sympathetic chord in at least one heart, was 
 proven when a comrade-in-arms walked three 
 hundred miles to inform the widow of his un- 
 timely and tragic death. This faithful wife, who 
 had braved the dangers and trials of the early 
 pioneer days in the north, finally died in St. 
 Paul, mourned by her large family of children, 
 nine in all, of Avhom Adolph F. is the eighth. 
 One of the sons, John by name, is engaged in the 
 real estate business at Grant's Pass, Ore., and 
 served as assistant surgeon during the rebellion ; 
 and Victor distinguished himself as a second 
 lieutenant during the Civil war. 
 
 In St. Paul Adolph F. Peterson received his 
 education in the public schools, but quit during 
 the junior year at the high school to apprentice 
 
 to a carpenter. In tne meantime his brother had 
 come to Oregon and engaged in the sawmill 
 business on Yaquina bay, and in 1875 Adolph 
 joined him, and unsuccessfully engaged in saw- 
 milling. But success came to him when he be- 
 came foreman of construction on the United 
 States jetties at the mouth of the Columbia 
 river. His superior, J. S. Polhemus, gave him 
 the most superior recommendations when he left 
 his service at the expiration of eight years. Dur- 
 ing his service for the government Mr. Peterson 
 married Etella Thompson, a native of Corvallis, 
 and daughter of R. M. Thompson, a man of 
 great prominence in this part of the county, hav- 
 ing succeeded as postmaster, merchant and agri- 
 culturist. Mr. Thompson was foremost in pub- 
 lic affairs in Corvallis, and was an active worker 
 in the Republican party. More extended mention 
 of this early settler may be found elsewhere in 
 this work. 
 
 Owing to the precarious state of his wife's 
 health Mr. Peterson removed to Los Angeles, 
 Cal., where he built and contracted for a couple 
 of years, after which he returned to CorvalliSj 
 and has since made this his home. Three chil- 
 dren have been born into his family, Ileen, Ray- 
 mond George and Agnes Reka. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and though often urged to 
 accept office, has steadfastly refused all honor 
 of an official nature. He is fraternally popular 
 and well known, and is identified with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Arti- 
 sans, the Knights of Pythias, and the Degree 
 of Honor. He is well adapted to his chosen call- 
 ing, to which he brings an astute mind, a clear 
 conception and a versatility which finds expres- 
 sion in delightful, harmonious and practical 
 effects. 
 
 JUDGE VIRGIL E. W r ATTERS, who is 
 now serving upon the county bench, dates his 
 residence in Oregon from 1877 and in Benton 
 county from 1884. He was born in Holton, 
 Jackson county, Kans., in 1863. His paternal 
 grandfather, Dr. James Watters, was a repre- 
 sentative of an old Xew England family of 
 Scotch-Irish descent. Leaving the east he 
 settled in Indiana and afterward removed to 
 Wassonville, Iowa, where he engaged in the 
 practice of medicine. In 1857 he removed to 
 what is now the city of Holton, Kans., where he 
 spent his remaining days, dying in 1891, when 
 more than ninety years of age. Thomas G. 
 Watters. the father of the judge, was born in 
 Rockville, Ind., and reared in Iowa, and later 
 became one of the pioneers of Kansas, taking a 
 very active part in its early development. He 
 arrived in that state in 1857, settling first in 
 Lawrence, and later took up his abode upon the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 prairies of Jackson county, where Holton now 
 stands. He was actively interested in the border 
 troubles and being a warm friend of the cause 
 of freedom, his home became a station on the 
 famous underground railroad. He entertained 
 John Brown on his last trip over that section of 
 the country. He became one of the founders 
 of the city of Holton, and was there engaged in 
 the jewelry business for a number of years. For 
 several terms he served as sheriff of Jackson 
 county and at the time of the Civil war he 
 joined a Kansas regiment and did duty at the 
 front. In 1877 he brought his family to Oregon, 
 settling in Ashland, where he again engaged in 
 the jewelry business until 1879. In that year 
 he removed to East Portland, where he contin- 
 ued in the same line of trade in what is now 
 Grand avenue. In 1880 he became a resident 
 of Hillsboro, where he conducted a jewelry 
 store up to the time of his death, which occurred 
 March 4, 1885. He belonged to the Knights 
 of Pythias fraternity and to the Baptist Church, 
 and in early life he gave his political support to 
 the Republican party, but at the time Greeley 
 made the race for president he joined the Democ- 
 racy and was afterward one of its advocates. 
 He married Climena Bevens, who was born in 
 Indiana, and who went with her parents to 
 Iowa at a very early day. The Bevens family 
 was of English descent and was represented 
 in the patriot army during the Revolutionary 
 war. Mrs. Watters survived her husband for 
 several years and died in Oakland, Cal., in 1893. 
 She was the mother of twelve children, six of 
 whom reached years of maturity and became 
 residents of Oregon, but all now are living in 
 California with the exception of the judge. 
 
 Judge Watters of this review was the third 
 in his father's family and was born in Holton, 
 Kans., August 8, 1863. There he attended 
 school until 1877, when the family removed to 
 Ashland, Ore. There he went to work on the 
 Ashland Tidings, edited by Captain Applegate, 
 a distinguished officer of the Modoc war. The 
 judge learned the printer's trade and afterward 
 acted as a compositor on the Lakeview Examiner 
 until 1879, when he went to East Portland. 
 There he worked on the Evening Telegram until 
 the fall of 1880, when he came to Hillsboro, 
 where he joined his father in the jewelry busi- 
 ness, continuing in that line until the spring of 
 1884. At the latter date Judge Watters removed 
 to Yaquina Bay district and was engaged in the 
 jewelry business there until 1885, when he was 
 appointed postmaster of Yaquina. In fact, he 
 established the office and was the first post- 
 master, his appointment being made by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland. In 1892 he was nominated on 
 the Democratic ticket for the position of county 
 recorder of conveyances and was elected by a 
 
 majority of one hundred and thirteen. During 
 the legislative session of 1893 the county was 
 divided, Summit being made the line, and in 
 1894 Judge Watters was re-elected to the office 
 of county recorder for Benton county by a 
 majority of sixty-eight, serving in that capacity 
 until July, 1896. He was then nominated for 
 county clerk on the Democratic ticket and was 
 elected by the very large and flattering majority 
 of five hundred and twenty-six. Again he was 
 chosen to the office in 1898, and for a third term 
 in 1900, and thus he served until July 7, 1902. 
 In that year he was nominated on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket for the office of county judge and 
 was elected by a majority of thirty-four for a 
 term of four years, entering upon the duties of 
 the position July 7, 1902. 
 
 The judge was married in Washington 
 county, Ore., to Miss Dora A. Wiley, who was 
 born there. Her mother, who bore the maiden 
 name of Jane Baldra, was the first white woman 
 born in Oregon, her birth having occurred on 
 Tualatin plains, August 1, 1840. Her father 
 was an Englishman who came to this section 
 of the country from Hudson Bay in 1839. 
 Judge and Mrs. Watters now have three living 
 children : Ethel Jane, Alice Marie and Thomas 
 Virgil. Their second daughter, Minnie, died 
 at the age of four years. 
 
 The judge is an Ancient Odd Fellow and is a 
 past officer in both the lodge and encampment. 
 He was made a Mason in Corvallis and is a 
 past master of the lodge. He is also past master 
 workman of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, in which position he served for two 
 terms, and he is now grand overseer of the 
 grand lodge of Oregon of that organization. 
 Judge Watters was converted to the faith of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church in Corvallis, and 
 for several years he has been president of its 
 board of trustees, is president of its board of 
 stewards and is superintendent of the Sunday 
 school. He is actively interested in everything 
 that pertains to municipal reform and the en- 
 forcement of law, and his influence is felt on the 
 side of improvement and right and advance- 
 ment. For some years he was active in the fire 
 department of Corvallis and his energies have 
 been directed along many lines contributing to 
 the general good. During his early boyhood his 
 father met with financial reverses in Kansas so 
 that the youth of our subject was one of hard- 
 ship. During his boyhood he did much toward 
 the support of the family and after his father's 
 death he conducted the business and took care 
 of the younger members of the household. Later 
 he sent his mother to California for her health. 
 He holds friendship inviolable and regards a 
 public office as a public trust. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1135 
 
 EPHRAIM LOOXEY SMITH. Among the 
 reliable, substantial and prosperous citizens of 
 Lane county there is probably no one who 
 stands higher in the estimation of his fellow- 
 men than Ephraim L. Smith, of Springfield. 
 A man of active enterprise and practical ability 
 he has been intimately associated with the agri- 
 cultural prosperity of this part of the state, 
 and has contributed in a large measure towards 
 its development and advancement. For two 
 years he has been a resident of Springfield, and 
 in the meantime has effected upon the property 
 which he owns in this vicinity improvements 
 that in their character speak in a forcible manner 
 of his skill, wise management and cultivated 
 tastes. A son of John Smith, he was born 
 in Polk county, Mo., November 24, 1840. 
 
 Spending the larger part of his life in Polk 
 county, Mo., John Smith removed from there 
 to Oregon, crossing the plains with an ox-team 
 train in 1849. Locating in Lane county, he took 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres about ten miles southeast of Eugene, and 
 having improved a productive ranch, was there 
 engaged in general farming until his death, at 
 the early age of forty-four years. He married 
 Mary Looney, who was born in Alabama, and 
 died, while yet a young woman, in Missouri. 
 Four sons were born of their union, Ephraim 
 L. being the youngest. 
 
 After receiving a limited education in the 
 common schools of Missouri, Ephraim L. Smith 
 came with his parents to Oregon, and attended 
 the district schools of Lane county during the 
 winter terms, assisting his father in the farm 
 labors during seed time and harvest. At the 
 age of seventeen years he began an apprentice- 
 ship at the blacksmith's trade, living with his 
 cousin, Clint Looney, and later with Henry 
 Hill near Lorain. Establishing a blacksmith's 
 shop in Eugene, Ore., in 1859, he was there em- 
 ployed at his trade two years. Upon his re- 
 turn to the donation claim which his father took 
 up from the government, Mr. Smith turned his 
 attention to agriculture, and was there profit- 
 ably engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising until 1 901. He still owns this estate, 
 which is one of the finest in its appointments 
 and improvements of any in the vicinity. On 
 it are three residences, one being a commodious 
 house of thirteen rooms, the others being con- 
 veniently arranged, but smaller. He has also 
 good barns and out buildings, and a railway 
 station, store and blacksmith shop are on the 
 farm. He is especially interested in stock- 
 raising, having a fine herd of one hundred cat- 
 tle, Durhams and Shorthorns, and a choice lot 
 of Poland-China hogs. In 1901 Mr. Smith re- 
 moved to Springfield, buying one of the finest 
 residences in town, and has since made his 
 
 home here. In 1902 he purchased one hundred 
 acres of land adjoining the town, it being a 
 well improved place, with a two-story, modern 
 house, and all the necessary buildings for suc- 
 cessful farming and fruit-raising. He is a large 
 landowner, his acreage, including his farms and 
 town property, aggregating over eleven hundred 
 and thirty-three acres. 
 
 Mr. Smith was married, in Vancouver, Wash., 
 February 14, 1866, to Sarah E. Taylor, who was 
 born in 185 1, while her parents were en route 
 across the plains. Her father, David M. Taylor, 
 a native of Iowa, came to Oregon with his 
 family in 1851, and took up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres near Harris- 
 burg, and lived there until i860. Going then to 
 San Buena Ventura, Cal., he there spent his 
 remaining years and died October 31, 1895. 
 Eleven children were born of this union of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Smith, namely : Mrs. Anna Han- 
 secker, deceased; Franklin, deceased; Lulu, 
 wife of Augustus Sundermann, of Pilot Rock, 
 Ore.; Jennie, deceased; Hattie, wife of Clif- 
 ford Powers, of Cottage Grove; Dollie and 
 Ollie, twins ; Bertie F. ; Myrtle, deceased ; Etta ; 
 and Fay. In his political views, Mr. Smith is 
 a decided Republican, and has served as road 
 supervisor, and as school director. He is pub- 
 lic spirited and liberal, ever ready to contribute 
 toward beneficial enterprises, and is a valued 
 member of the Christian Church of Thurston. 
 
 GEORGE H. MURCH. The record of a 
 man who has risen to a position of influence 
 and honor in the community possesses much of 
 inspiration to the general public, and as an ex- 
 ample for members of the rising generation is 
 certainly of inestimable value. That prosperity 
 is the portion of those not afraid of hard work 
 is one of the most forceful lessons derived from 
 the careers of men like George H. Murch, who 
 has not failed to realize that fortunes, like 
 Rome, are not built in a day, and that sooner or 
 later honest and well directed effort is bound 
 to win recognition. In tracing the career of 
 this honored farmer of Lane county one comes 
 across many useful lessons, and the following 
 facts in regard to him are gladly submitted: 
 
 Mr. Murch was born near Jay, Essex countv, 
 N. Y., February 21, 181 7, but 'notwithstanding 
 his age enjoys reasonable health, the result of 
 his unfailing good humor and many public in- 
 terests. At the age of sixteen he left his father's 
 farm and began to earn his own living in a 
 nail factory, and in 1838 he removed to Hamil- 
 ton county, Ohio, and for a time worked on a 
 near-by canal for a few months. In 1840 he 
 took up government land in Piatt county, Mo., 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and while tilling that became interested in the 
 travelers who were passing his way on the 
 overland trip to the west. With a friend, John 
 Jones, he made arrangements to follow the west- 
 ward emigration in 1846, and, arriving at 
 Bridges, visited some friends there until Oc- 
 tober of the same year. Four men comprised 
 the party which came from Bridges down the 
 Snake river, and they traveled with horses as 
 far as The Dalles. Two Indians brought them 
 down the Columbia river ii; a canoe, and Mr. 
 Murch stayed for a time in Oregon City, soon 
 after going to Washington county, near Hills- 
 boro. For a few months he worked for J. S. 
 Griffen, and in the spring of 1847 went to The 
 Dalles in a canoe, and there joined the First 
 Oregon Regiment of mounted riflemen, for 
 service in the Cayuse war. During the summer 
 he served in various parts of Oregon, partici- 
 pating in two battles at Wells Springs, with 
 headquarters later at Whitman's Station, to 
 protect the emigrants as they came from the 
 east. 
 
 Following his Indian fighting experience Mr. 
 Murch settled on land near Hubbard, Marion 
 county, and in the spring of 1849 ne went to 
 California on a sailing vessel with some com- 
 panions, each man taking his own provisions. 
 He proved an exceptional rather than average 
 miner, for upon returning to Oregon on an- 
 other sailing vessel in the fall of 1849, after a 
 six weeks' trip, he brought with him the en- 
 couraging sum of $4,000. Investing $800 of 
 this money in a freighting boat, he ran it be- 
 tween Oregon City and Portland. He was suc- 
 cessful beyond expectation, and cleared in all 
 $7,000. Next he engaged in a general merchan- 
 dise business in Oregon City with Ben Simpson 
 for a couple of years, and then moved his goods 
 to Corvallis, remaining there for a couple of 
 years. His goods were next taken to Win- 
 chester, southern Oregon, and in the meantime, 
 in 1854, he had taken up three hundred and 
 . twenty acres of land three miles east of Coburg, 
 upon which he settled after finishing up his 
 mercantile business. Sixteen years on this farm 
 accomplished large results, and a valuable farm 
 was developed out of a practically useless prop- 
 erty. Locating in Coburg, in 1870, Mr. Murch 
 has since made this his home, with the exception 
 of five years spent in Eugene to educate his 
 children. From time to time he has added to 
 his farm, and at present owns two thousand 
 five hundred acres of land. His property has 
 been devoted principally to stock-raising, and 
 his improvements and general appointments are 
 up-to-date and superior. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Murch, who was for- 
 merly Barbara A. Cooper, whom he married in 
 1854, died in 1859, leaving a son, Horace, now 
 
 mining in Idaho, an older child having died in 
 infancy. October 26, 1863, Mr. Murch mar- 
 ried Mrs. Mary E. Stone, widow of Edwin 
 Stone, and daughter of Robert Henderson, the 
 latter of whom was born in Kentucky, and set- 
 tled first on a farm in the state of Missouri. 
 Mrs. Murch came to the west with her parents 
 in 1846, and was nearly nine months crossing 
 the plains. They came via the Applegate cut- 
 off and suffered great deprivations, running 
 short of provisions, and having great trouble 
 with the Indians. Mr. Henderson went to Yam- 
 hill county in the spring of 1847, taking up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 near Amity, where he died in 1890, at the age 
 of eighty-two years. He left his claim during 
 the gold excitement in 1849 an d made a few 
 'thousand dollars in the mines of California. 
 By her first marriage Mrs. Murch had one 
 daughter, Mary, wife of Thomas N. Strong, a 
 prominent attorney of Portland. Eight chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Murch, 
 of whom Lucy D. is the wife of F. D. Chamber- 
 lin, an attorney of Portland ; Philura E. is a 
 teacher of French at the Ann Wright Seminary 
 of Tacoma, Wash. ; Jessie E. is a teacher in the 
 public schools of Portland; Herbert E. is now 
 teaching in Yale College; and four children, 
 George, Arthur, Welden and Edward, died 
 within ten days of each other of diphtheria. 
 Mr. Murch has invariably fostered progress in 
 his neighborhood, and has been the friend of 
 education, morality and uprightness. That he 
 appreciates intellectual training is evidenced by 
 the superior advantages which he has given his 
 children, all of whom have realized his am- 
 bitious hopes for them. He enjoys the confi- 
 dence of all with whom he has been associated 
 in whatever capacity, and no pioneer of the 
 early days has more disinterestedly or faithfully 
 contributed to the upbuilding of a prosperous 
 region. 
 
 ROBERT A. JAYNE, M. D., of Spring- 
 field, Lane county, was born in Washing- 
 ton, Iowa, January 27, 1859, the son of 
 Daniel and the grandson of Timothy Jayne, 
 both natives of Pennsylvania, from which state 
 the grandfather served as captain in the Rev- 
 olutionary war. The father came as far west 
 as Iowa in 1855, locating in Washington county, 
 where he engaged in the prosecution of his trade 
 of stonemason. At the breaking out of the 
 Civil war he enlisted in Company H, Twenty- 
 fifth Iowa Infantry, and later became a cor- 
 poral, his company forming a part of General 
 Grant's army. He died at Napoleon, Ark., in 
 April, 1862, at the age of sixty-two years. His 
 wife was in maidenhood Martha Ann Young, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1137 
 
 born in Kentucky, and died in Shedds, Ore., 
 in 1902, when seventy-eight years old. She 
 was the daughter of Alexander Young, also a 
 native of Kentucky, and who, after a residence 
 in Indiana, moved to Washington county, Iowa, 
 in 1849, and took a large claim where he farmed 
 until his death at the age of eighty-three years. 
 Of the two sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Jayne, 
 Dr. Jayne was the older, and his preliminary 
 education was received in the common schools 
 of his native state. In 1882 he entered the 
 Washington Academy, which he attended two 
 and a half years. He then accepted a position 
 as clerk in a store, where he remained until the 
 fall of 1888. Having accumulated sufficient 
 means for his immediate needs he once more 
 took up his studies, entering the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Iowa, from which 
 he was graduated three years' later with the 
 degree of M. D. He came at once to Oregon, 
 and located at Shedds, where he remained until 
 November, 1902, when he moved to Springfield, 
 where he is now engaged in general practice. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Jayne occurred in Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., on July 2, 1895, and united him 
 with Hattie Watkins, a native of that state, 
 and their tw r o children are Earl A. and Robert 
 Wyeth. In fraternal affiliations the doctor be- 
 longs to the Woodmen of the World; Modern 
 Woodmen of America and Knights of the Mac- 
 cabees, being medical examiner for each of 
 them. In politics he casts his ballot with the 
 Republican party, and is active in his efforts for 
 the advancement of the principles which he 
 endorses. For one term, 1896-97, he served as 
 coroner of Linn countv. 
 
 MARION WALLACE. Both in the indus- 
 trial and agricultural lines of work has Marion 
 Wallace contributed his share toward the devel- 
 opment of Oregon and her supremacy as a state, 
 now being located in Natron, Lane county. He 
 is the son of James A. Wallace, who was born 
 in 1821, and emigrated to the northwest in 1852, 
 crossing the plains with ox-teams and one pony, 
 nearly all of which perished upon the journey. 
 In the then embryo state the father then took up 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres and made that his home until his death. 
 His wife was formerly Irene E. Daniels, and 
 she died in 1900, the mother of six children, 
 who are as follows : W. D. ; Marion of this re- 
 view ; J. C. ; Mary E. ; Lucy A. ; and Emma. 
 
 Marion Wallace was born in Warren county. 
 111., in the city of Monmouth, January 1, 1848. 
 and was four years old when the journey was 
 made across the plains. Since that time he has 
 been a constant resident of Lane county, reared 
 to manhood upon the paternal farm and trained 
 
 to an agricultural life. He remained at home 
 until 1875, engaged in farming with his father, 
 when he married Nancy M. Yaughan and 
 located upon another portion of the home place, 
 where he continued successfully following agri- 
 cultural pursuits until 1893. At that date he 
 located in Natron and opened a blacksmith shop, 
 combined with which work he also repairs 
 wagons, and conducts a feed-chopper. He now 
 owns two hundred acres of land in addition to 
 his interests in the town of Natron. In politics 
 he adheres to the principles advocated by the 
 Republican party, but has never cared to hold 
 office. He is a member of the Order of Lions. 
 The children which have blessed the union of 
 himself and wife are as follows : Myron L. ; 
 Clara May, wife of Levi Castleman; Marion G. 
 and Melvin W., who are twins ; James A. ; Dan- 
 iel W. ; Nannie E; and Georgia M. 
 
 JAMES C. BRATTAIN. The example of a 
 successful, prominent and more than ordinarily 
 endowed father is an heritage to be appreciated 
 and emulated. The faculty for so doing is ap- 
 parent in the lives of James C. and F. M. Brat- 
 tain, sons of that honored pioneer, Paul Brattain, 
 around whom centers much of interest and im- 
 portance in the early history of Lane county. At 
 present occupying the donation claim taken up 
 by their sire in 1852, these two, the youngest 
 in a family of ten children, are fulfilling the 
 expectations warranted by their early training 
 and character inheritance, taking a foremost 
 part in politics and social life, and maintaining 
 a standard as progressive farmers not excelled 
 in any part of the Willamette valley. In addi- 
 tion to the home place of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, the brothers own jointly a stock farm of 
 a section on the McKenzie river, and three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres on Fall creek both of 
 w T hich places are given over to extensive stock- 
 raising. Both men are in touch with the prog- 
 ress in all parts of the world, are well informed 
 on current events, and to an exceptional degree 
 enjoy the confidence of an enlightened and ex- 
 acting agricultural community. 
 
 Paul Brattain was born in North Carolina, 
 December 30, 1801, and at an early age went to 
 Tennessee, at the age of sixteen making his way 
 overland and by river to Hancock and Morgan 
 counties, 111., where his forceful personal char- 
 acteristics were first recognized and approved. 
 Taking up a large tract of land, he entered the 
 arena of politics, and in time was elected to the 
 constitutional convention of Illinois, where his 
 opinions were valued and noted. He married 
 Elizabeth Carter, who encouraged and applauded 
 his success, and who lived to share and sym- 
 pathize with the joys as well as the shadows 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of his life. He left his home to participate in 
 the Black Hawk war, and about 1838 moved to 
 Van Buren county, Iowa, where his son, James 
 C, . was born November 14, 1844. Taking up 
 government land near Birmingham, he contin- 
 ued his political career as a member of the con- 
 stitutional convention of Iowa, and at a later 
 period became treasurer of the board of public 
 improvements at Des Moines. This board had 
 to do principally with river improvements, and 
 at times large sums of money were left in the 
 hands of the treasurer. To the intense chagrin 
 of all concerned, the safe of the board was 
 broken open during Mr. Brattain's administra- 
 tion, and several thousand dollars taken out. 
 
 In the spring of 1852 Mr. Brattain followed 
 the example of two of his children who had come 
 to the west in 1849 and 1850, and outfitted with 
 four wagons, fourteen yoke of oxen, and one 
 mule team, his wife and eight children being 
 members of the party. It is not recalled that 
 anything out of the ordinary marred the prog- 
 ress of the overland journey, and in fairly good 
 condition the travelers spent the first winter 
 near Peoria, locating on the donation claim now 
 occupied by the two sons, the following spring. 
 Here, as heretofore, Mr. Brattain caused his in- 
 fluence to be felt, and aside from various politi- 
 cal offices of note, he served as county clerk 
 from 1854 to 1859, an d was finally a member 
 of the constitutional convention of Oregon, 
 making the third state in which he had helped 
 to frame the laws. This was a record of which 
 he was justly proud, for it is given to few men 
 to be thus honored in three distinct parts of the 
 country. Before the war he was devoted to the 
 Democracy, but the wail of the southern slaves 
 seemed to ring in his ears, and moved him to 
 espouse the cause of the north. His death oc- 
 curred August 29, 1882, at the age of four score 
 and one years. With his wife he was a member 
 of the Baptist Church, towards the support of 
 which he generously contributed. John, the 
 oldest of his ten children was a pioneer mer- 
 chant of Baker City, Ore., and died there in 
 1893; Thomas J. is a stockman of Lake county, 
 Oregon; Elizabeth, who married James Elbert, 
 died July 29, 1902, in Lane county; Alfred is 
 a rancher on the McKenzie river; William C. 
 is a resident of Spokane, Wash. ; Mary lives 
 on the home place; Martha married Robert 
 Hadley and died in 1868; Amelia A. is the wife 
 of J. F. Smith, a rancher of Jasper, Lane county ; 
 Francis M., living on the home place with his 
 brothers, and was a member of the legislature of 
 1899. 
 
 WILLIAM O. ZEIGLER. Actively- identi- 
 fied with many of the leading interests of Eugene 
 is William O, Zeigler, an esteemed and respected 
 
 citizen, who is widely known to the traveling 
 public as proprietor of the Hoffman House, one 
 of the best equipped hotels of Lane county. 
 Well educated, enterprising and progressive, he 
 is meeting with unquestioned success in his 
 present occupation, and is numbered among the 
 representative men of the city, alike in busi- 
 ness, educational and political circles. A son of 
 Richard Zeigler, he was born in Lodi, Wis., 
 October J, 1851. His grandfather, Christian 
 Zeigler, was a life-long resident of Pennsylvania, 
 his home farm being near Carlisle. 
 
 Born and reared near Carlisle, Pa., Richard 
 Zeigler located in Indiana when a young man, 
 and resided there until after his marriage. 
 Going then to Wisconsin, he carried on farm- 
 ing near Lodi for nine years, and then returned 
 to Indiana, settling in Lafayette, Tippecanoe 
 county, where he was employed as a tiller of the 
 soil for a number of years. On retiring from 
 active pursuits, in 1892, he came to Oregon, and 
 has since been a resident of Eugene, and is 
 living retired at the age of seventy-six years. 
 He is held in respect as a man of Christian 
 character, and is a member of the" United 
 Brethren Church. He married Deborah Osburn, 
 who was born in Chambersburg, Ind., in 1830. 
 She is the daughter of the Rev. David Osburn, 
 a minister of the Christian Church, who was 
 born in New York state, and died in Lodi, Wis. 
 Of the seven children, five sons and two 
 daughters born of their union, all are living 
 with the exception of one son. 
 
 The oldest child of the parental household, 
 W. O. Zeigler was reared as a farmer's son, 
 living in Lodi, Wis., until nine years old, and 
 afterwards on the home farm in Indiana. On 
 leaving the district school he, attended Roanoke 
 Academy two years, after which he was en- 
 gaged in teaching a number of terms. In order 
 to better fit himself for his professional labors, 
 he then completed the scientific course at the 
 Otterbein University, in Ohio. Subsequently 
 locating in Tippecanoe county, Ind., he taught 
 school near his old home, and at the same time 
 owned and managed a farm of considerable 
 size. In 1889 Mr. Zeigler migrated to Arling- 
 ton, Gilliam county, Ore., where he taught 
 school until appointed by President Harrison 
 postmaster of that city, a position that he re- 
 tained four years. As a teacher he was very 
 popular and successful, both in Indiana and 
 Oregon, his professional career covering a 
 period of fifteen years. 
 
 Coming to Eugene, Lane county, in 1893, Mr. 
 Zeigler made an entire change of occupation, 
 opening a bakery and confectionery store on 
 Willamette street, where he was in business three 
 years. Purchasing the Hotel Eugene in 1896, 
 he conducted it most successfully until 1899, 
 
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 when he became proprietor of the Hoffman 
 House, which is located opposite the First Nat- 
 ional Bank. Under his able management this 
 house stands second to none in the county as 
 a place of public entertainment, and he is recog- 
 nized by its numerous patrons as one of the most 
 genial and popular of hosts. Mr. Zeigler also 
 owns a farm of sixteen and three-fourths acres, 
 lving four miles northwest of Eugene, and this 
 he devotes entirely to the culture of fruits of 
 various kinds, raising and canning all the cher- 
 ries, apples, pears, and prunes used in his hotel. 
 While a resident of Tippecanoe county, Ind., 
 Mr. Zeigler married Miss Jennie Thompson, a 
 native of Illinois, and they have two children, 
 namely : Zella and Wilma. In politics Mr. 
 Zeigler is an uncompromising Republican, and 
 served as a member of the county committee. 
 While living in Arlington, he served as justice 
 of the peace, and, in 1902, was elected a mem- 
 ber of the school board of Eugene for a term of 
 five years, during which time important work 
 is to be done, the board having erected at a cost 
 of $35,000 a new high school building, which 
 is an ornament to the community as well as a 
 practical benefit. He is connected with several 
 fraternal orders, including the Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks : the American Order 
 of United Workmen ; and the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is a prominent member of the 
 United Brethren Church, the secretary of its 
 board of trustees, and was formerly superintend- 
 ent of its Sundav school. 
 
 GEORGE CLINTON THOMPSON. A very 
 genial and popular purveyor to the public of 
 Brownsville is George Clinton Thompson, en- 
 gaged in a general merchandise business under 
 the nrm name of G. C. Thompson & Son. Mr. 
 Thompson is a native of the Hoosier state, and 
 was born near Elkhart, Ind., September 11, 1851. 
 His paternal grandfather, William, was born 
 in the state of Pennsylvania, and served through- 
 out the w r ar of 181 2, afterward removing to 
 Charleston, still later making his home in the 
 pioneer wilderness of Illinois, where his death 
 occurred early in 1830. 
 
 Enoch Thompson, the father of George Clin- 
 ton, was born in Charlestown, S. C, March 12, 
 1808, and was a sturdy little lad of seven when 
 his father moved across country to Illinois in 
 181 5. He helped to clear the farm in Adams 
 county, and eventually learned the trade of car- 
 penter and joiner, at which he was working 
 when the Black Hawk war broke out. After 
 serving with distinction in that conflict he 
 farmed and built with moderate success, and 
 in 1832 moved to Chicago, 111., where he found 
 more ready demand for his skill. August 27, 
 
 1833, he married Mary A. Kinzie, who was born 
 in Virginia, as was also her father, and the next 
 year, in 1834, the young people removed to 
 Galena, 111. The lead mines excitement was then 
 at its height, and he profited to some extent by 
 tnis opportunity, remaining in Galena until re- 
 moving to Elkhart, Ind., in 1848. As hereto- 
 fore, he worked at his trade as carpenter and 
 joiner, and while in the Indiana town George 
 Clinton was born, the seventh in the family of 
 nine children. In 1852 Mr. Thompson moved 
 to Adel, Iowa, and for ten years worked at his 
 trade, in 1862 disposing of his interests and 
 crossing the plains with his family to California. 
 Two years later, in 1864, he came across the 
 mountains to Oregon, locating on a farm near 
 Albany, where he lived for a couple of years. 
 In 1866 he came to Brownsville and engaged 
 in the furniture business, and was thus occupied 
 almost up to the time of his death, July 18, 
 1883, at the age of seventy-six years. He was 
 fairly successful from a financial standpoint, and 
 by nature a mechanic, accurate and painstaking 
 and very skillful. He was a Democrat, and 
 though not an office seeker, served four terms as 
 justice of the peace. 
 
 Following the example of his father, George 
 Clinton Thompson learned a trade in his youth, 
 but instead of that of carpenter and joiner he 
 turned his attention to house-painting, and 
 papering. In 1882 he began clerking in a gen- 
 eral merchandise store, at the same time 
 keeping his eyes open, and mastering every 
 detail of the business. Out of his compar- 
 atively moderate earnings he saved money 
 sufficient to purchase, in 1894, the grocery 
 store of F. McRa, to which he added from 
 time to time, and finally converted into the 
 well equipped general merchandise store owned 
 and managed by him at the present time. He 
 carries a complete line of general commodities 
 required in a thrifty community, and pays par- 
 ticular attention to the individual requests of his 
 customers, ordering such necessities as they 
 desire, and treating all with the greatest courtesy 
 and consideration. 
 
 In Brownsville Mr. Thompson married, Nov- 
 ember 20, 1873, Clara Looney, a native of Lane 
 county, Ore., who has become the mother of 
 five children, two of whom are living. Walter 
 E. Thompson is in the general merchandise store 
 with his father, and Frank H. is at home. The 
 latter is deserving of special mention as a cour- 
 ageous private in the Spanish-American war, 
 and as one of those who underwent the depriva- 
 tions and dangers in the Philippines, where he 
 was shot through the nose and lost his right 
 eve at the famous battle of Malabon. Mr. 
 Thompson is a Democrat in politics, and is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. Affable, 
 
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 conscientious, and possessing excellent business 
 ability, he commands the respect of the business 
 community, and the good will and esteem of a 
 host of friends. 
 
 ALBERT D. HALL. The third generation of 
 the Hall family in Oregon is ably represented 
 by A. D. Hall, one of the progressive and very 
 successful agriculturists of the vicinity of Will- 
 ard. He was born on the old Benjamin F. Hall 
 donation claim near Woodburn, September 6, 
 1857, a son of Benjamin F. and Mary Ann 
 (Johnson) Hall, natives respectively of Mis- 
 souri and Illinois, the former born at Liberty, 
 Mo., October 19, 1826. His mother was born 
 in Tazewell county, 111., July 2, 1829. 
 
 James E. Hall, the founder of the family in 
 the northwest, and the grandfather of A. D., 
 was born in Virginia in 1798, and by trade was 
 a stonemason. He was reared on a farm and 
 educated in the early subscription schools. In 
 his native state he married Cynthia Grooms, 
 who was born in the Old Dominion state in 
 1804. At a very early date these young people 
 removed by horse teams to Missouri, the journey 
 being a long and tiresome one, but they finally 
 found a fertile farm in the wilderness of Clay 
 county, where they made a home and lived in 
 comparative comfort until crossing the plains 
 to Oregon in the spring of 1845. I n tne spring 
 of 1846 they settled at Champoeg, Marion 
 county, where the grandfather took up a dona- 
 tion claim, upon which he lived for many years. 
 He was one of the familiar figures in his neigh- 
 borhood, a good farmer, excellent man, and the 
 personification of industry and frugality. Dur- 
 ing the latter years of his life his wife and him- 
 self lived with their children, he attaining the 
 age of eighty, and she the age of ninety-four 
 years. They raised a family of nine children, 
 to whom they gave every advantage in their 
 power, and whom they taught to lead upright 
 and worthy lives. 
 
 Benjamin F. Hall crossed the plains with 
 his parents in 1845, an d assisted in clearing 
 the pioneer farm near Champoeg. In 1848 he 
 went to California, where he prospected and 
 mined with indifferent success for a few months. 
 Returning to Oregon he took up a claim near 
 Woodburn. In 1853 he married Mary Ann 
 Johnson, who crossed the plains with her parents 
 in 1851, her father, Rev. Neill Johnson, being 
 one of the pioneer and best-known ministers in 
 Oregon. Mr. Hall has up to the present time 
 lived on his Original farm, where he has since 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 From his first voting days he has been a Repub- 
 lican, and has taken a keen interest in the under- 
 takings of his party in this state. The following 
 
 children have been born to himself and wife: 
 A. D. ; Sophrona, wife of G. W. McLaughlin, 
 of Buena Vista, Ore. ; Elmer N., of Buena 
 Vista; Edwin T., of Salem; William W., of 
 Salem; Charles C., of Woodburn; Edith E., 
 the wife of John Haller, of Woodburn; and 
 James J., of Woodburn. 
 
 The youth of A. D. Hall was uneventfully 
 passed on his father's farm, but after his mar- 
 riage in 1886 with Julia S. Smith, a native 
 of Columbia, Mo., and a daughter of Jacob 
 Smith, he located on a farm near Woodburn, 
 which continued to be his home for about fif- 
 teen years. He then bought his present home 
 of two hundred and two acres in the Waldo 
 Hills, twelve miles east of Salem, where he has 
 more than realized his expectations as a general 
 farmer and stock-raiser. For the past fourteen 
 or fifteen years he has interested himself exten- 
 sively in Jersey cattle, and for many years has 
 derived additional income from the management 
 of a threshing-machine during the harvest 
 season. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are the parents of 
 six children: Hubert N., Annie M., Agnes S., 
 Oren, Alice, (deceased), and Alma F. Mr. 
 Hall is affiliated with the Republican party, and 
 has several social connections, among them 
 being the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 in which he has held all of the chairs, and the 
 Grange at Macleay. In religion he is a member 
 of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and 
 contributes liberally towards its general support. 
 Mr. Hall is a broad-minded and well informed 
 agriculturist, and keeps abreast of the times 
 on all topics which appeal to wide-awake and 
 progressive members of the community. 
 
 HON. W. H. HOBSON. The family of 
 which Hon. W. H. Hobson of Stayton is a 
 representative was established on the Pacific 
 coast in 1847, ar >d since 1848 has been closely 
 identified with Oregon. His father, Hadley 
 Hobson, was born in the state of North Caro- 
 lina September 6, 181 1, and was the son of a 
 brick manufacturer. In his youth he learned 
 the brickmaking business under the direction 
 of his father, and was also apprenticed to a 
 mason. Until he reached the age of twenty- 
 four years he remained at home and worked at 
 his trades with his father. Fortified with an 
 abundance of practical experience, he then 
 went to Missouri, locating in Jackson county, 
 where he worked at his trade of brickmaking 
 with his brother, who had preceded him there. 
 Eventually they entered into a partnership for 
 the purpose of conducting a contracting busi- 
 ness, in which their efforts met with success. 
 They erected some of the important buildings 
 of that county and vicinity, including the his- 
 
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 1141 
 
 toric Chapel Hill Seminary, located in Lafay- 
 ette county, Mo. While a resident of Missouri 
 he married Emily S. Speinhauer, a native of 
 South Carolina, whose parents came to the 
 United States from Germany about 1812. 
 
 With his wife and children, and his brothers, 
 George and Alfred, Mr. Hobson crossed the 
 plains in 1847, with an outfit of ox-teams and 
 wagons, bound for Oregon. During the jour- 
 ney they encountered many experiences of an 
 interesting and not always agreeable nature. 
 At times they were subjected to many hard- 
 ships. It had been their original intention to 
 go to Oregon, but they lost their way and en- 
 tered California by mistake. Determined to 
 make the best of the situation, Mr. Hobson 
 at once engaged in gold-mining in that state, 
 to which work he applied himself until the fall 
 of 1848, when, with his family, he started for 
 Oregon by way of the Pacific, arriving at the 
 mouth of the Columbia river after a journey 
 of five weeks. Coming to Marion county he 
 took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres a mile north of the site of Stayton, 
 all of which was wild land, densely covered 
 with timber for the greater part, and the home 
 of game hitherto undisturbed, except by the 
 roving Indian. In a little clearing this hardy 
 and determined pioneer erected a round-log 
 house containing one room. It will surprise 
 people unaccustomed to the hardships of the 
 early days to know that there was not a nail 
 in the entire house. There were puncheon 
 floors, and all the finishings were of the most 
 crude nature ; but the place was a paradise 
 to the little family so far from their old home 
 and so pitiable in their utter loneliness. Their 
 neighbors were remote and their resources 
 most meagre, but they managed to make them- 
 selves comfortable and to transform their wil- 
 derness home into a semblance of order, peace 
 and comfort. 
 
 Soon after seeing his family well established 
 in their home, accompanied by William Waldo, 
 Henry Smith, Rufus Smith and Frederick 
 Taylor, Mr. Hobson returned to the mining 
 district of California, succeeded in gathering 
 enough gold to pay a goodly percentage of the 
 cost of his claim, and returned home. Soon he 
 was free from debt, and from that time for- 
 ward his possessions increased. From time 
 to time he added to his original claim until 
 he owned about fifteen hundred acres of land, 
 most of which was very fertile and easily cul- 
 tivated after the removal of the timber. He 
 engaged in cattle and sheep raising and gen- 
 eral farming on a large scale, and he took an 
 active part in the general improvement of his 
 county, aiding in the building of good roads, 
 the erection of schools and the promotion of 
 
 all worthy enterprises. He was a man of ster- 
 ling traits of character, inherited principally 
 from Quaker ancestry, in the principles of 
 whose religion he was thoroughly and con- 
 scientiously schooled in his youth. The ten 
 children in his family were as follows: Mary 
 Ann, the widow of John Barker, of Heppner, 
 Ore. ; W. H. ; George and Francis M., deceased ; 
 Lemuel, a rancher near Mehama; Amanda, 
 wife of Dr. John Parker, of Salinas, Cal. ; Emily 
 and Amelia, twins, the former of whom is de- 
 ceased, and the latter the wife of Eugene War- 
 ner, of Ukiah, Cal. ; Jeanette, of San Jose, Cal. ; 
 and Hadley, a rancher residing near Mill City, 
 Ore. The noble mother of this large family 
 of children lived to the age of eighty and one- 
 half years, her death occurring at San Jose, 
 Cal., in February, 1894. 
 
 Hon. W. H. Hobson, lawyer, merchant and 
 distinguished public citizen, was barely two 
 years of age when his parents brought him to 
 Oregon, and he grew to early manhood on the 
 claim upon which he spent many years in hard 
 labor. When the duties of home permitted 
 he attended the school conducted in the little 
 log cabin in the neighborhood, his first and 
 best remembered teacher being Samuel Den- 
 ney. By the time he had reached his twen- 
 tieth yeaf the town of Sublimity had been 
 founded. Thither he repaired as the nearest 
 and most promising center of activity, and con- 
 ducted the store owned by his father for a 
 time. Subsequently, in Aumsville, he managed 
 the business of Simpson, Hunt & Co., and then 
 went to Sublimity and started a small grocery 
 store. Upon the expiration of a year he lo- 
 cated in Stayton, where he engaged in the 
 grocery business until 1871. From that time 
 until 1874 he enjoyed a general trade at Stay- 
 ton in partnership with Uriah Whitner. After 
 disposing of this store he and his former part- 
 ner bought another in Aumsville. After dis- 
 posing of this in 1876 the partners built the 
 Gardner grist-mill at Stayton, and in connec- 
 tion therewith operated a general store. Mr. 
 Whitney withdrew from the association in 
 1883, after many years of amicable and satis- 
 factory business, and thereafter Mr. Hobson 
 took as his partners Messrs. Shaw and Simms. 
 The building was afterward enlarged to meet 
 the demands of an increasing trade. In 1888 
 the partners and Lee Brown went to Mill 
 City and organized the Santiam Lumber Com- 
 pany, in connection with which they built a 
 large saw-mill and engaged in a flourishing 
 business. In keeping with the demands of 
 that somewhat isolated section they started a 
 general store and logging railway, and their 
 combined energies resulted' in the establish- 
 ment of a very remunerative industry. In 
 
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 1898 these combined interests were disposed 
 of to the Curtis Lumber Company, after which 
 Mr. Hobson returned to Stayton and resumed 
 the conduct of his merchandising business. In 
 1897 he sold out and established a dry goods 
 business at Salem, continuing the same for four 
 years. Subsequently he started a similar en- 
 terprise at Stayton, which concern he still 
 owns and manages. 
 
 Mr. Hobson's first marriage united him 
 with Ella Gibson, who was a native of Marion 
 county, Ore., and a daughter of Hon. Guyan 
 Gibson. She died January 10, 1878, leaving 
 a daughter, Pearl, now the wife of E. C. Peery, 
 of Scio, Ore. December 12, 1880, he married 
 Annie Thomas, who was born in East Port- 
 land, the daughter of Mrs. Arminda Thomas, 
 of Stayton, Ore. She is the mother of two 
 children, Alta and Everett. 
 
 A stanch supporter of Republican principles, 
 Mr. Hobson has been prominently before the 
 public for several years as a promoter of his 
 party's interests, and has held important offices 
 within the gift of his fellow-townsmen and 
 the citizens of the county. In 1894 he was the 
 nominee of his party for the state senate, was 
 elected, and upon the expiration of his term 
 was re-elected joint senator for Linn and 
 Marion counties, both terms of service giving 
 the greatest satisfaction to all interested. Dur- 
 ing the first session he was a member of the 
 committees on claims, commerce, navigation 
 and federal relations. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hobson is a member of 
 Santiam Lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. M., of Stay- 
 ton, of which he is past master. In the Grand 
 Lodge he has filled nearly all the offices, in- 
 cluding that of Grand Master in 1897-98. He 
 is a member of Multnomah Chapter No. 1, R. 
 A. M., and De Molay Commandery, No. 5. He 
 is also a member of Stayton Lodge No. 64, 
 I. O. O. F., and has passed all the chairs in 
 the grand lodge. 
 
 Mr. Hobson has well interpreted and acted 
 upon the possibilities at hand in the great 
 northwest, and his various commercial enter- 
 prises have contributed, beyond the possibility 
 of estimating, to the general upbuilding of the 
 localities in which he has operated. He is a 
 man of strict integrity. No question as to the 
 motives which have actuated him in any of 
 his undertakings has ever arisen. In his pub- 
 lic life he has always aimed to conserve the 
 best interests of his constituents and the state 
 at large. Probity, broad-mindedness, liberality 
 of views, good fellowship, and a sincere and 
 unselfish desire to assist in the promotion of 
 all enterprises looking to the betterment of the 
 public welfare, are the most pronounced traits 
 in his character, as understood by those who 
 
 know him best. The record of his life, both 
 public and private, has been above reproach. 
 The outline of the principal events in his ca- 
 reer presented here shows how closely he has 
 been identified with the rise and progress of 
 the state of Oregon, and forms, in itself, an in- 
 teresting chapter in the annals of the north- 
 west. 
 
 HENRY AMBLER. Although buying and 
 selling town property and farms is a means of 
 livelihood with Henry Ambler, and a very remu- 
 nerative business, he is at the same time a pro- 
 moter of all-around county interests to a greater 
 extent than perhaps any other man in Philomath. 
 His enthusiastic advocacy of the climate, re- 
 sources, and general advantages of Benton 
 county have led him to noticeable achievement in 
 peopling vacant but productive farms, in placing 
 men in fortune-making positions upon stock- 
 raising properties on main-traveled roads, and in 
 establishing homes in quiet nooks within the 
 jurisdiction of the town. People who would oth- 
 erwise not have settled here have found the as- 
 sistance of this prominent real estate, insurance 
 and loan merchant so valuable and convincing 
 that they are now a part of the great common- 
 wealth of Benton county, one of the garden spots 
 of Oregon. 
 
 In appearance and personality Mr. Ambler 
 suggests the prosperous Englishman, whose 
 mind and abilities have expanded under the ge- 
 nial welcome of his adopted country. He was 
 born in Yorkshire, the most northern and largest 
 county of England, August 2, 1858, his father, 
 Thomas, having been born in the same locality, 
 in 1836. The family name was a very familiar 
 one in Yorkshire for several generations, and 
 was bolstered up by the notable achievements of 
 some of its members, principally the paternal 
 grandfather, Timothy, who was a large paper 
 manufacturer, and amassed quite a fortune in 
 that way. His business was conducted under 
 the firm name of Timothy Ambler & Sons, and 
 he probably knew as much about paper as any 
 man in the north of England. He was a man of 
 high moral character, and died in the faith of the 
 English State or Episcopal Church, at the age 
 of seventy years. Thomas Ambler was trained 
 in paper manufacturing, and after the death of 
 his father undertook the management of the 
 business, with his brother James. He died in 
 1872, while yet a young man, leaving his wife, 
 formerly Susanna Illingworth, a native also of 
 Yorkshire, and two children, a son and daughter, 
 the latter, Emily, being married and a resident 
 of Leeds, England. 
 
 After graduating from the grammar school in 
 Yorkshire, Henry Ambler engaged in the whole- 
 
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 1145 
 
 sale paper business in Keighley, England, and, 
 in 1 88 1. crossed the ocean to the United States. 
 Near Sedalia, Mo., he engaged in farming for 
 about eight years, and, in 1890, came to Oregon, 
 locating on a ranch in the Waldo hills, Marion 
 county. Here he engaged in fruit-raising and 
 general ranching, his principal source of revenue 
 being prunes. Two years later, in 1892, he lo- 
 cated near Philomath and raised fruit upon a 
 forty-acre ranch, which he afterward sold at a 
 profit, and turned his attention to the real estate 
 business. The town had need of so wise and dis- 
 criminating a judge of its various properties, 
 and he at once stepped into a waiting opportu- 
 nity, as much the community's as his own. 
 
 One year before coming to America Mr. Am- 
 bler married Georgia Phillips Graves, a native 
 of Middlesex, England, and daughter of Chris- 
 topher Graves, member of a firm of large ship- 
 builders and owners, engaged with the Aus- 
 tralian trade. The business of Phillips & Graves 
 is still one of the substantial enterprises of Mid- 
 dlesex, the firm offices being located at San Dun- 
 stans House, Shepperton, London. With his 
 wife, Mr. Ambler is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 ROBERT PATTISON. An example of 
 energy and perseverance is presented in the ca- 
 reer of Robert Pattison, who has risen to prom- 
 inence as an agriculturist in Lane county, and 
 is the owner of four hundred and thirty acres 
 of land three and a half miles north of Eugene. 
 This is all cultivated land and valuable, and 
 since acquiring it the owner has turned it to 
 good account, engaging in general farming, 
 stock-raising and dairying. Born in Randolph 
 county. 111.. January 13, 1828, Mr. Pattison 
 is descended from an Irish family long identified 
 with that northern portion of the island known 
 as County Antrim. His father, William, was 
 born in this sea bordering county, with its 
 mountains and bogs. When he was just seven 
 years of age his mother brought him to Amer- 
 ica, his father's death' having occurred in the 
 meantime. Locating in South Carolina, the 
 youth grew to manhood, and gained a fair edu- 
 cation in the public schools, also a general 
 knowledge of farming and stock-raising. About 
 1820 he started for Illinois, and in Randolph 
 county bought a farm, locating thereon with 
 his wife, Mary (Montfort) Pattison, who was 
 born near Columbia, South Carolina, about 
 1800. The gold fever which agitated the coun- 
 try in 1849 found Mr. Pattison as amenable to 
 its influence as any tiller of the soil in his 
 neighborhood. He soon sold his farm and in- 
 vested the money in an outfit to cross the plains. 
 Six children had in the meantime been born 
 
 into his family, and with these and his wife he 
 left home April 4, 1849, arriving at The Dalles, 
 November 3, of the same year. The trip was 
 an exceedingly hard one, deprivation, illness 
 and Indian disturbances rendering the life of 
 the travelers a constant vigil. The family had 
 twelve yoke of oxen when they hopefully turned 
 their faces towards the boundless plains, but at 
 the end of the trip all of their cattle were dead. 
 A raft furnished the means of transportation 
 down the Columbia river to Vancouver, and 
 the first winter was spent in that town, the 
 family moving the following spring to the 
 Puget Sound region, Wash. Locating in 
 Thurston county, Mr. Pattison engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and lumbering, and in 1858 re- 
 moved to a farm on the Mackenzie river. Lane 
 county, Ore., where he died at the age of sev- 
 enty-eight years. He was survived by his wife, 
 who went to live with her son, Charles, in Linn 
 county, and there died at the age of seventy-six 
 years. Of the nine children, eight of whom 
 were sons. Robert and Charles alone survive, 
 the latter being a resident of Oakville, Linn 
 county. 
 
 Robert Pattison had received a common 
 school education in Illinois and Washington, 
 and he came to Lane county before his parents 
 died, purchasing a farm of one hundred acres 
 on the Mackenzie river. Three years later he 
 sold out and bought his present farm of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, three and a half miles 
 northeast of Eugene, to which he has added 
 by subsequent purchase, and now has four hun- 
 dred and thirty acres in Lane county. He mar- 
 ried in 1859 Isabella Eakin, who was born in 
 Ireland in July, 1830, and came to Oregon from 
 Illinois in 1869. Five children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Pattison, of whom W. T. lives 
 on a farm across the river from Eugene ; George 
 is deceased ; John is living on the home farm ; 
 Maggie is the wife of Mark F. Fleming, of 
 Irving; and Belle is at home. Mr. Pattison 
 cast his first vote for James G. Birney in 1849, 
 and has since been a Republican in politics. He 
 is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Eu- 
 gene, and was one of the first to join at the 
 organization of the church in 1861. He is con- 
 nected with the Grange, and is popular in his 
 social, church and business connections. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM A. JOLLY. To the per- 
 son who closely applies himself to any occupation 
 which he has chosen as his life calling there can 
 come only good results — success and a high place 
 in the esteem of those among whom his lot is cast. 
 Mr. Jolly is no exception to this rule, for it has 
 been by industry and strict attention to agricul- 
 
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 tural pursuits only that he has attained to the 
 position that he now enjoys. He owns two hun- 
 dred and thirty acres adjoining Philomath, 
 which was formerly a part of the Abbey donation 
 claim, and here he carries on genral farming and 
 stock-raising. In addition to his farm he also 
 owns his home place of forty acres, located with- 
 in the corporate limits of Philomath. 
 
 William A. Jolly was born in Ripley county, 
 Ind., March 22, 1851, being one of four children 
 born to his parents, who were farmers by occu- 
 pation. He can scarcely remember his father, as 
 the latter died when William A. was a child four 
 years old, and when he was ten years old his 
 mother, too, was taken from ; him. After this 
 last bereavement he was taken into the home of 
 an uncle in Brown county, Ohio, making his 
 home with this relative until he reached the age 
 of twenty-one, in the meantime receiving valu- 
 able instruction in the public schools of the vi- 
 cinity. Upon reaching man's estate, however, he 
 started out in life on his own account, his first 
 venture being his removal to Carroll county, Mo., 
 where he followed farming for four years. Not 
 content with the results of his efforts there, and 
 hearing of the possibilities which awaited the 
 energetic young man in the west, he came hither 
 in 1875, settling in Benton county, at what was 
 then called "Dusty," but has since been changed 
 to the more euphonious name of Bellfountain. 
 After remaining there for about nine years he 
 came to his present farm near Philomath, and at 
 once began the improvement and cultivation of 
 the property which he then purchased, and that 
 his time and efforts have been well expended 
 needs but a glance to decide. Subsequently he 
 purchased his residence in the village of Philo- 
 math,, where he now resides, and which is con- 
 ceded to be one of the most commodious in the 
 vicinity. 
 
 In the year 1876 was celebrated the marriage 
 of William A. Jolly and Miss Nancy Porter, the 
 latter a native of Oregon. Two children blessed 
 this marriage, one of whom died in infancy, 
 while Mary G. is at home with her parents. Mr. 
 Jolly's fitness for public office was recognized 
 when, in 1898, his fellow-citizens elected him to 
 the office of mayor of Philomath, which office he 
 filled for two terms. At present he is a member 
 of the town council and is also serving efficiently 
 as a member of the school board and as county 
 commissioner. Fraternal affairs claim a portion 
 of Mr. Jolly's attention, as is seen by his mem- 
 bership in the organization known as the Wood- 
 men of the World. The family are identified 
 with the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Jolly is 
 serving as trustee. He is also a member of the 
 board of trustees of Philomath College, and at 
 the present time is president of the board. Po- 
 litically, he upholds the tenets of the Republican 
 
 party. A popular man, esteemed for his integ- 
 rity and nobleness of purpose, Mr. Jolly ranks 
 among the best citizens of Philomath, toward 
 whose upbuilding he takes an interested part. 
 
 JACOB WHITAKER. That well-remem- 
 bered pioneer, Jacob Whitaker, Sr., a typical Ger- 
 man, who brought his enthusiasm and reliability 
 to the western coast and made his home among 
 the agricultural possibilities of Benton county, 
 left the heritage of a good name and honorable 
 career to his children, and besides accumulated 
 sufficient means to give them a start in life. Of 
 these children who are maintaining the prestige 
 of their sire, his namesake, Jacob, occupies a 
 worthy place in the community, and as a resident 
 of a portion of the old Whitaker donation claim 
 has long since established a reputation as a con- 
 sistent and successful farmer and stock-raiser. 
 
 Born in Richland county, Ohio, September 16, 
 1837, the younger Jacob was reared on a farm, 
 and received such education as came within reach 
 of his childhood years in the early subscription 
 schools. With the rest of the family he came to 
 Oregon in 1853, his mother having died in the 
 meantime, leaving to the care of his father four 
 children, of whom he was the oldest, and at that 
 time, sixteen years of age. Starting out with 
 four to do future credit to the family name, there 
 were but three when the little party, consisting 
 of six wagons, reached Oregon, one having suc- 
 cumbed to disease on the plains. The father 
 located on the donation claim ten miles from 
 Corvallis, now occupied by his sons; John and 
 Jacob, and there followed his trade of stone- 
 mason and brickmason, adding to these means of 
 livelihood the trade of carpenter. He died in 
 Corvallis, June 9, 1883, honored by all who knew 
 him, a member of the Catholic Church, and a 
 man of high moral character. 
 
 The portion of the old homestead occupied by 
 the present Jacob Whitaker consists of two hun- 
 dred and sixty-seven acres, eighty of which are 
 under cultivation. He carries on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, and has a well-equipped 
 farm, fitted with modern buildings and imple- 
 ments, and in every way adapted to the ideas of 
 a progressive and purposeful farmer. He took 
 possession of his farm directly after his marriage, 
 in 1864, with Nancy Housley, who was born in 
 Ohio, and at present has about completed a new 
 house, built after modern designs, in which his 
 family will have all of the conveniences of the 
 city and the advantages of the country. Of his 
 five children, Eva is the wife of Clifton Gould, of 
 Corvallis ; John and Fannie are at home ; Alice 
 is the wife of Carl Porter, of Corvallis, and Nel- 
 lie is the wife of J. D. Campbell, of Independ- 
 ence, Mr. Whitaker is independent in politics, 
 
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 and has never worked for either his own or his 
 friends' election to office. Like his father and 
 brothers, he is a devoted member of the Roman 
 Catholic Church. A very public-spirited and 
 affable man, he commands the respect of all with 
 whom he has to do, and exerts an influence in 
 keeping with his practical and helpful personal 
 characteristics. 
 
 JUDSON WEED. Although not one of the 
 older commercial enterprises of Philomath, the 
 grocery business of Judson Weed has become an 
 important factor in maintaining the business in- 
 tegrity of the town, representing as it does the 
 business stability and practical ideas of one of 
 its most honored citizens. Born in Jackson 
 county, Ohio, April 14, 1847, ^ r - Weed is a son 
 of Gilbert and Abigail (Patton) Weed, the lat- 
 ter of whom was born in Greenbrier county, W. 
 Ya. On the paternal side Mr. Weed claims a 
 worth}- ancestor in his grandfather, William, a 
 soldier in the war of 1812, and for a portion of 
 the service in the quartermaster's department. 
 The grandfather was born in the state of Con- 
 necticut, and at a very early day located in New 
 York, where his son, Gilbert, was born August 
 20, 1804. The family removed to Gallia county, 
 Ohio, about 181 3, and here he died at the age of 
 eighty-four years. 
 
 In Gallia county, Ohio, Gilbert Weed was 
 reared on a farm, ana in time learned the stone- 
 mason's trade, and also that of the bricklayer. 
 In 1836 he removed to Jackson county, Ohio, 
 where he combined his trades with farming, and 
 where he died in 1888. His wife's father, Will- 
 iam Patton, was born in New York state, and as 
 a young man removed to Virginia, locating in 
 Greenbrier county. He was a farmer during his 
 entire active life, and his career was dignified by 
 worthy military service, directed for the greater 
 part against the Indians. Although his father 
 was fairly successful in life, it became necessary 
 for Judson Weed to provide for himself at a 
 comparatively early age, the farm in Jackson 
 county being hardly adequate for the supporting 
 of sixteen children, twelve sons and four daugh- 
 ters. The tenth of this large family, Judson, 
 worked hard on the home farm, but during the 
 winter time attended the district schools, where 
 he studied arduously, as became a youth who 
 early appreciated the advantages of a practical 
 education. That he might enjoy further advan- 
 tages as a student, he began to work out on the 
 farms surrounding that of his father, and while 
 thus employed the Civil war broke out, throwing 
 the country into a state of turmoil and uncer- 
 tainty. He continued to work until 1864, and 
 then enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and 
 Seventy-second Ohio Infantry, serving four 
 
 months as a private. After his discharge at 
 Gallipolis, Ohio, he resumed his work on the 
 farm, and continued to save money for his edu- 
 cation. During i868-'6o,-'70 he attended the nor- 
 mal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and thereafter en- 
 gaged in teaching until 1875. 
 
 After coming to Oregon, in the latter part of 
 1875, Mr. Weed combined teaching and farming 
 in Columbus county, his farm consisting of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, which he greatlv im- 
 proved and rendered a valuable property. He 
 still owns this farm, and rented it out in 1898, 
 when he came to Philomath to engage in the 
 grocery business. In Columbus county he was 
 prominent in the general affairs of his neighbor- 
 hood, and was. so successful as an educator that 
 he was elected county superintendent of schools 
 in 1878, serving for one term, or two years. He 
 also became much interested in Republican poli- 
 tics, was elected county assessor in 1886, serving 
 for one term; and, in 1888, was elected to the 
 legislature, and re-elected in 1892. While in the 
 legislature he was chairman of the committee on 
 counties. Further honor awaited him in 1894, 
 when he was elected county clerk, and re-elected 
 in 1896, serving up to 1898. 
 
 Since coming to Philomath Mr. Weed has con- 
 tinued his interest in politics, and has not only 
 been mayor of the town for one term, but has 
 served on the school board, and as a member of 
 the council for two terms. In Columbia county, 
 Ore., he married Emma Van Blaracom, who was 
 born in Minnesota, and who is the mother of 
 three children : Oscar, taking the scientific 
 course at the Philomath College ; Gertrude, tak- 
 ing the same course at the college, and Ethel, 
 attending the public schools. In religion Mr. 
 Weed is identified with the Evangelical Associa- 
 tion of North America, at Vernonia, Ore. 
 
 THOMAS K. FAWCETT. The ambitious 
 men of the younger generation, who are destined 
 to carry on the work begun by their sires in the 
 very early days of Oregon, have a worthy repre- 
 sentative in Thomas K. Fawcett, formerlv en- 
 gaged in extensive mining operations, but at 
 present elaborating plans for a large stock-rais- 
 ing enterprise on his farm, two miles west of 
 Bellfountain. A native son of Oregon, he was 
 born at the Myrtle Creek mines, Douglas county, 
 July 26, 1874, a son oi George N. Fawcett, of 
 Portland, residing at No. 353 Grant street. 
 
 Completing his education in the public schools 
 of Portland at the age of sixteen, Thomas K. 
 started out in the world on his own responsibility, 
 naturally drawn to the mining business, which 
 had surrounded his earliest and later years. Suc- 
 cess did not come as readily as anticipated, for 
 he tried his luck in Oregon, Idaho, Montana and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Colorado, before striking the rich claim in Baker 
 county, this state, which netted him a handsome 
 fortune. After operating the claim for a couple 
 of years he disposed of it at a profit and bought 
 other claims in the neighborhood, remaining 
 thereabouts until 1902, and meeting with varying 
 success. He then decided to turn his attention 
 to stock-raising, and bought his present farm of 
 seven hundred and sixty-one acres on the old 
 Corvallis road, and which constitutes a portion 
 of the Samuel Haptonstall, Charles McCoy and 
 Martin L. Charles donation claims. Two hun- 
 dred acres of his property are under cultivation, 
 and a new residence is in process of construction 
 which promises to be one of the most commo- 
 dious and comfortable in the county. This home 
 is destined to become one of the centers of hos- 
 pitality in the neighborhood, for both Mr. and 
 Mrs. Fawcett are possessed of tact and ' cordial- 
 ity, and have the faculty of making and retaining 
 friends. Mrs. Fawcett was formerly Anna C. 
 Kelly, and she was born at Coos Bay, Ore., being 
 a member of a prominent family of that section. 
 One son has been born of this union, Tolbert K. 
 When the Spanish-American war broke out 
 Mr. Fawcett was one of the first among his 
 friends to enlist for service in the Philippines, 
 and as a private in Company G, Second Oregon 
 Infantry, he served fifteen months, and partici- 
 pated in twenty-six engagements, including the 
 battles of Malabon, Pasig and Malinta. For 
 meritorious action he was advanced to the rank 
 of sergeant, and for a part of the service had 
 charge of the military train. While in the orient 
 he made a practical study of the people and pre- 
 vailing conditions, and upon his return interested 
 his friends with accounts of his observations. 
 Mr. Fawcett follows the family tradition and is 
 a stanch Republican, but has never taken an ac- 
 tive interest in office-seeking or holding. He is 
 identified with several of the social organizations 
 in which the county abounds, and is fraternally 
 connected with the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 ROBERT L. HENKLE. One-half mile east 
 of Philomath is located the farm owned and op- 
 erated by Robert L. Henkle, whose fine, up-to- 
 date property at once attracts the notice of the 
 passer-by. His acreage comprises one hundred 
 and sixty acres, upon which he makes a specialty 
 of general farming and stock-raising, sheep 
 claiming the most of his attention. Mr. Henkle 
 was born October 30, 1849, m L ee county, Iowa, 
 the son of Zebadiah Henkle, who was born in old 
 Virginia October 26, 1807. With his parents he 
 removed to Illinois, and later to Iowa. For his 
 life companion he married Miss Mary Wilson, 
 a native of Kentucky, the young couple making 
 their home in Iowa until 1866, when, by ox and 
 
 horse teams, they came across the plains, landing 
 in California about four months from the day of 
 starting. The following year, 1867, they came 
 to Benton county, Ore., purchasing three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres located two and one-half 
 miles south of Philomath, there residing until 
 his death, at the age of sixty-six years. His 
 widow continued to live on the place for several 
 years, but later removed to Independence, Polk 
 county, making her home with her youngest 
 daughter until her death, when seventy-seven 
 years old. 
 
 Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Henkle, three of whom are now deceased, and 
 the names and residences of those living are as 
 follows : Abraham, a resident of Philomath ; 
 George, of Corvallis ; Mary, the wife of Samuel 
 Davis, of Philomath; Eli, of Independence; 
 Sarah, the wife of A. Nelson, of Independence ; 
 Etta, who became the wife of W. H. Walker, 
 also of Independence ; Robert L. ; Amos, a 
 farmer residing north of Philomath, and James, 
 of Prineville. While a resident of Iowa the 
 father served as county commissioner for several 
 years, and was justice of the peace a great many 
 years. Politically, he took an active interest in 
 the welfare of the Democratic party, and in the 
 Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member 
 from early manhood, he could always be de- 
 pended upon to co-operate in all measures which 
 tended toward the betterment of mankind. In 
 this, too, he had the support of his wife, who had 
 been a member of the church from the age of 
 fifteen years. 
 
 Robert L. Henkle was about seventeen years 
 old when his parents removed from Iowa and 
 made their home in the west. His district school 
 education was supplemented by a course in the 
 college at Philomath, after completing which he 
 returned home, remaining with his parents until 
 his twenty-third year. From 1871 until 1874 he 
 worked for the neighboring farmers, and in the 
 year last mentioned was united in marriage with 
 Miss Cynthia Newton, a native of Oregon. 
 Their first home was about one and one-half 
 miles south of Philomath, but three years later 
 they moved to a farm located just east of town, 
 which was the family home for the next four- 
 teen years. Their next purchase was a tract of 
 three hundred and twenty-two acres, formerly a 
 part of the Eliza Liggitt donation claim, one- 
 half mile east of Philomath. Here he owned 
 two hundred and fifty acres, all under cultivation, 
 twelve acres being devoted to hops, but has re- 
 cently sold all but one hundred and sixty-two 
 acres. In addition to carrying on general farm- 
 ing he devotes considerable attention to stock- 
 raising, making a specialty of raising fine grades 
 of sheep. 
 
 Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 
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 Eienkle, of whom the eldest, Ora, is a resident of 
 Portland. The other children are at home with 
 their parents and are named as follows : Roy, 
 Chester, Ada, Mamie, Herman and Esther. Fra- 
 ternally. Mr. Henkle affiliates with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, and politically is a 
 stanch Democrat. 
 
 JOSEPH PARK. For many years the late 
 Joseph Park was prominently identified with the 
 agricultural and mercantile interests of Philo- 
 math, and in his death, which occurred Decem- 
 ber 22, 1902, Benton county lost a valuable and 
 highly esteemed citizen. A man of sterling in- 
 tegrity and sturdy worth, his life record was a 
 praiseworthy one, and his memory will long be 
 cherished by the many who were bound to him 
 by ties of kinship or friendship. One of a family 
 of nine children, he was born in Hamilton 
 county, Ohio, December 12, 1812. 
 
 Acquiring his education in the pioneer schools 
 of Ohio, Joseph Park remained with his parents 
 until he was sixteen years of age. Beginning, 
 then, the battle of life for himself, he found his 
 first occupation in boating, and for a number of 
 years run flatboats down the Wabash, Ohio and 
 Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, in the mean- 
 time making his home in Indiana. In 1852, 
 joining a company of emigrants westward 
 bound, he came with a train of ox teams across 
 the plains to Sacramento, Cal., during the trip 
 of three months having no serious trouble with 
 the Indians. Coming from California to Oregon 
 by water, Mr. Park settled in Benton county, 
 purchasing a farm on Muddy creek, about ten 
 miles south of Corvallis. After living there 
 eight years, he returned to Indiana, going by 
 way of the Isthmus, and on Christmas day, 1861, 
 took unto himself a wife. In the spring of 1862, 
 accompanied by his bride, he again came west, 
 traveling by ox-team train to Nevada, where he 
 was engaged in farming and mining for two 
 years. Continuing his journey toward the west, 
 in 1864, he settled in Oregon, on the land which 
 he had previously bought, and lived on it until 
 1869. Locating then in Topeka, Kans., Mr. 
 Park was there employed in mercantile business 
 for sixteen years. In 1885 he again came to Ore- 
 gon. Purchasing five hundred and thirty acres 
 of land about six miles southwest of Philomath, 
 he made substantial improvements on the place, 
 and brought a large part of the land into a highly 
 productive condition. In 1890, with character- 
 istic enterprise, he established a store of general 
 merchandise in Philomath, the business being 
 conducted by his sons under the firm name of 
 Park Brothers. Taking up his residence in Phil- 
 omath, he lived there until 1902, when he re- 
 turned to his home farm, on which his death oc- 
 
 curred, December 22, 1902, as previously stated. 
 
 On December 25, 1861, Mr. Park married, in 
 Indiana, Mary A. Curtis, who was born in that 
 state in January, 1839. She survives him, and 
 with the assistance of her son, William, is suc- 
 cessfully conducting the homestead farm. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Park became the parents of four chil- 
 dren, namely: William, Joseph A., a child that 
 died in infancy, and Harriet E. A strong Re- 
 publican in politics, Mr. Park always took a 
 warm interest in the welfare of his adopted town 
 and county, and watched with genuine pride its 
 gradual evolution from a wild country to a su- 
 perb agricultural region, whose well cultivated 
 and well stocked ranches indicated its general 
 prosperity. He was a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and for twenty-one years 
 served as chorister. 
 
 William Park, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Park, married Edith Conner, a native of Oregon, 
 and they have five children, namely : Lawrence, 
 Joseph, Mary, Vivian and Theodore. William 
 Park resides on the parental homestead, where 
 he is carrying on general farming and stock- 
 raising in a successful manner. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and a member of the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Joseph A. Park, the second son, resides near 
 Corvallis, and is numbered among the prosperous 
 and esteemed citizens of that locality. He mar- 
 ried Alice Conner, an Oregonian by birth, and 
 they are the parents of four children, namely: 
 Charlie, Ada, Ida and Winnifred. 
 
 JOSIAH H. HERRON. Among the influ- 
 ential young farmers of Benton county none sug- 
 gest careers of greater promise than Josiah H. 
 Herron, owner of a farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land, one hundred of which are 
 under cultivation. Mr. Herron comes of one of 
 the prominent pioneer families of this county, 
 and necessarily feels a great interest in his im- 
 mediate surroundings, for he was born in the 
 house which is now his home, September 13, 
 1870. His father, Robert Herron, an Irish- 
 man, lived to be fifty-five years of age, and 
 served in the Rogue river war. His wife, 
 formerly Mary W. Neil, married for her second 
 husband, James Barclay, whom she survives, and 
 whose farm of three hundred and forty acres she 
 is still occupying. 
 
 Like all of the children in this well regulated 
 home, Josiah H. was taught the value of indus- 
 try, and schooled in every department of farm- 
 ing. At the district school he received a practical 
 education, and remained under the paternal roof 
 until his marriage with Lettie Edwards, who 
 was born in Lane county, and whose father 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams in 1853, settling 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in Benton and afterward removing to Lane 
 county. While engaging in general farming and 
 stock-raising Mr. Herron devotes twenty-five of 
 his three hundred and twenty acres of land to 
 fruit, principally prunes, and for the latter he has 
 erected a dryer, sufficiently large for public dry- 
 ing. His farm is modern in its appointments, 
 and fertile in soil, being well adapted to a va- 
 riety of interests. That the fortunate owner 
 appreciates this fact is evident to all who visit 
 him in the midst of his activities, and note the 
 neat and painstaking appearance of residence, 
 barns and fences. 
 
 Like his brother and father, Mr. Herron is a 
 Democrat, and, though one of the youngest farm- 
 ers in his neighborhood, has been elected to the 
 school board, serving also as school clerk. He is 
 fraternally connected with the Woodmen of the 
 World, at the lodge of which he is a genial and 
 always welcome visitor. Mr. Herron is popular, 
 enterprising, and very affable, enters heartily 
 into the general undertakings of his neighbor- 
 hood, and appreciates his position and responsi- 
 bilities as a member of a growing and cosmo- 
 politan community. 
 
 JOHN A. BUCHANAN. But a few years 
 ago Benton county was called upon to give up 
 by death one of the most honored members of 
 the community, a man who commanded the re- 
 spect and esteem of all with whom he came in 
 contact, by his high moral character and the 
 many sterling qualities which have made him 
 a much-beloved citizen in his adopted state. 
 He was the son of a Scotch emigrant who 
 brought his family to the United States from 
 England, where he had settled some years pre- 
 vious, and where John A. Buchanan was born. 
 In 1854 he accompanied his brother, Robert L., 
 to Oregon, the latter having made a previous 
 trip. This brother now resides south of Cor- 
 vallis. With the strength of character inher- 
 ited from his Scotch ancestors John A. Buch- 
 anan soon found a place for himself in this 
 growing west. After nine years in the mines in 
 Idaho he selected agricultural pursuits for his 
 life occupation, and with industry and perse- 
 verance through the pioneer years of this state 
 ' he labored to become recognized as a succss- 
 ful farmer, in the process of which he acquired 
 the title to many acres of valuable land. At 
 his death he owned eight hundred and forty 
 acres, a part of which was the old Proctor do- 
 nation claim, and upon which he put the best 
 and most substantial of improvements until 
 now it represents one of the most valuable 
 pieces of property in this section of the coun- 
 try. Mr. Buchanan engaged principally in 
 general farming, being, however, much inter- 
 
 ested in wheat-raising, in which he was very 
 successful. Not always a farmer, he owed con- 
 siderable of his success to a fortunate venture 
 in the Idaho mines, and also to other business 
 interests. At the time of his death, which oc- 
 curred very suddenly May 3, 1900, while he 
 was engaged with the performance of some 
 trivial duty, he was serving as county com- 
 missioner in the interests of the Republican 
 party, of which he was a stanch adherent. He 
 was a member of the United Brethren Church. 
 The last resting place of this honorable pioneer 
 is in Bellfountain Cemetery. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Buchanan occurred 
 January 15, 1873, in Douglas county, and 
 united him with the daughter of a pioneer fam- 
 ily, Miss Ruth Gardner, who was born in Illi- 
 nois. Her father, Isaac M. Gardner, was a 
 native of Baltimore, Md., who removed to 
 Ohio at an early day, later following this up 
 with a venture into the Prairie state. In 1853 
 he crossed the plains with his wife and three 
 children, and after seven months of slow plod- 
 ding of the patient oxen they descended from 
 the Cascade mountains into the Willamette 
 Valley, settling at Siulaw, where for seven 
 years Mr. Gardner engaged in farming. Re- 
 moving at this time to a farm on Elk creek, 
 near Drain, Douglas county, he continued in 
 this occupation, making his home at the pres- 
 ent time in this location, being now eighty- 
 four years of age. He has been a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church for many 
 years. His wife, known in maidenhood as 
 Hannah Krewson, was born in Ohio and died 
 in Douglas county, Ore., in 1891. Of the 
 eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Gard- 
 ner eight attained maturity, of whom six are 
 now living. They are as follows : Ruth, the 
 widow of John A. Buchanan ; Susan, now Mrs. 
 M. N. Ensley of Drain ; Lucy, Mrs. Jacob 
 Sawyer of Elkton ; Emma, still a member of 
 her father's home ; Henry, a farmer near 
 Drain ; and Isaac, now a retired farmer of 
 Drain. 
 
 When first married Mrs. Buchanan and her 
 husband lived on his farm, which was lo- 
 cated ten miles south of Corvallis, but since 
 his death she has removed to Corvallis, mak- 
 ing this city her home since 1901, on account 
 of the educational advantages for her chil- 
 dren, of whom there are seven living. The 
 eldest of her children, J. Fred, is engaged in 
 farming on three hundred and twenty acres 
 of land in this county; Alice, a graduate of 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, is the wife 
 of R. C. Herron, of Bruce, Benton county; 
 Ernest is occupied in the stock business in 
 Douglas county; Edith died at the age of sev- 
 enteen years while attending the Oregon Agri- 
 
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 cultural College ; the remaining children, 
 Claude. Mildred, Carrie and Lizzie, are all at 
 home, the former being a graduate of the Ore- 
 gon Agricultural College, and the three 
 younger are attending the public schools. Mrs. 
 Buchanan looks after the interests of the home 
 farm, upon which the family spend the sum- 
 mer months. Like her father, she is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, her polit- 
 ical convictions running parallel with those of 
 her late husband. 
 
 father in the conduct of the home farm. Re- 
 ligiously the family are identified with the 
 Presbyterian Church, to whose maintenance 
 they contribute, and they may always be found 
 in the forefront of all measures tending to 
 benefit mankind or upbuild the community. 
 
 JOSEPH GRAY. The labors which have 
 resulted in the present high state of develop- 
 ment noticeable in Benton county have been 
 largely participated in by Mr. Gray, who is 
 one of the prominent farmers and stock-raisers 
 of the county. A native of Scotland, born June 
 30, 1828, his early life was not unlike that of 
 many another youth of his acquaintance in the 
 home land, but at eighteen years of age he de- 
 termined to learn a trade and begin life in 
 earnest. Choosing the carpenter's trade as the 
 most congenial to his tastes, he at once set 
 about to master it in all its details, and there- 
 after followed it in his native land until 1850, 
 or until he was twenty-two years of age. It 
 was in the year last mentioned that he first 
 ventured from the scenes with which he had 
 hitherto been familiar, going to Australia, and 
 for four years was engaged at his trade in Mel- 
 bourne. 
 
 The year 1851 was memorable in Australian 
 history as the one in which gold was discov- 
 ered in that country, and it is not surprising 
 that Mr. Gray became enthusiastic in search- 
 ing for the yellow dust as did so many thou- 
 sands of others equally ambitious. After fol- 
 lowing the life of the miner for about six years 
 he returned to his native land to visit friends 
 and relatives, remaining but a short .time, how- 
 ever, for in October of the same year, i86o» 
 he landed in California. The following year 
 he came to Oregon, settling in Benton county, 
 where for four years he carried on farming 
 upon rented land. At the expiration of this 
 time, in 1865, he removed to his present farm 
 of three hundred and thirty acres in the vi- 
 cinity of Philomath, which he had purchased 
 in 1862, and here he carries on general farm- 
 ing and raises stock, meeting with good re- 
 turns for the care and labor bestowed. 
 
 It was while a resident of Melbourne, Aus- 
 tralia, that Mr. Gray was united in marriage 
 with Miss Annie Murray, a native of Scot- 
 land. Two children were born to this worthy 
 couple, the eldest of whom, Isabelle, is a 
 teacher in one of the public schools of Fresno, 
 Cal. ; and Alexander M. is interested with his 
 
 ABRAMN. LOCKE. The name of Abram 
 N. Locke is worthy of mention among the 
 early pioneers of Oregon, for at the youthful 
 age of five years he crossed the plains with his 
 parents and became an inhabitant of the coun- 
 try where primitive conditions reigned su- 
 preme, and in the passing years he has added 
 his aims and ambitions to the upbuilding in- 
 fluences that have made the greatness and 
 prosperity of this commonwealth. 
 
 The birth of Abram N. Locke occurred near 
 Keytesville, Chariton county, Mo., September 
 1, 1842, his parents being A. N. and Harriett 
 Sinett, natives respectively of Mississippi and 
 Ohio. When a young man the father settled in 
 Missouri, and there engaged in farming, re- 
 maining until 1847, when he was induced to 
 undertake the journey into the west for the 
 sake of the opportunities offered in the rich 
 and productive lands, the times giving prom- 
 ise of rapid settlement. With his wife and 
 four children he joined an ox train bound for 
 the new settlements over the southern route 
 of the old Oregon and California trail, coming 
 by way of Canonville and Rogue river, and 
 after six months spent in traveling he arrived 
 at his destination. He at once took up a do- 
 nation land claim of five hundred and fifty- 
 four acres five miles north of Corvallis, Ben- 
 ton county, Ore., and in the years which fol- 
 lowed he never had reason to regret his choice 
 of a location. He continued to improve the 
 land until his farm became one of the most 
 valuable in the county. He remained in this 
 location until his death, not too interested in 
 his farming to take an active part in the af- 
 fairs of his community at a time when men 
 of worth and ability were most to be desired. 
 Religiously he was a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church South, and politically he 
 was a Democrat, holding through this influ- 
 ence several important positions, among them 
 being that of probate judge, in which he con- 
 tinued for six years; deputy sheriff for two 
 years ; and sheriff for a like period. Actively 
 interested in all that pertained to the welfare 
 or material growth of his adopted county, Mr. 
 Locke gave liberally of his means toward every 
 public movement, one of his donations being 
 an acre of land to be devoted to the use of a 
 cemetery, which was called by the name of 
 the donor, and is now one of the finest burial 
 
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 grounds in this part of the county. The dona- 
 tion was made in 1855. His wife also died 
 upon the old homestead. Besides our subject, 
 the other children of this pioneer family are 
 as follows : Thomas, who died in Oregon ; 
 William, residing on a part of the old home- 
 stead ; Alonzo, a resident of Linn county, Ore. ; 
 Alfred, also on a part of the home farm ; Laura, 
 deceased; and Jennie, located in Seattle, Wash., 
 is the wife of Samuel Boreland. 
 
 The boyhood of Abram N. Locke was spent 
 upon his father's farm, and interspersed with 
 his usual home duties was an attendance of 
 the public school, his first remembrance of the 
 educational advantages of Oregon being of a 
 little log house where the children of the 
 pioneer settlers gathered for their share in the 
 distribution of knowledge. Later he engaged 
 with his father in farming, where he remained 
 for three years ; after attaining his majority, or 
 nearly so, he went in 1862 on a prospecting 
 trip to the mines located near Boise City, Ida- 
 ho, and the next year, in company with his 
 father and brother William, he took pack 
 trains to that city and for some time was en- 
 gaged in packing in the mines, from which 
 labor he realized a considerable amount. On 
 returning to Oregon he became the possessor 
 of a part of the home place, which he has 
 since continued to own, farming upon it for 
 the principal part of the time. Four years 
 of the time since his purchase he was engaged 
 in the cattle business in Crook county, Ore., 
 after which he sold his interests there and 
 returned to Benton county. He now owns one 
 hundred and ninety acres of the original claim, 
 upon which he has built a residence and made 
 many other improvements, following the ex- 
 ample of his father in his endeavor to make a 
 successful farmer and a good citizen. His spe- 
 cialty in agriculture is the cultivation of grain, 
 most of his land lying in a rich and productive 
 valley. He also owns two handsome residences 
 in Corvallis, to one of which he retired in 1898, 
 where with five acres of land he occupies his 
 time and takes a well earned rest from 
 the active duties of life, enjoying and appre- 
 ciating the changes which have come within 
 his range of vision, one of the greatest being 
 the absence from the hills and forests of the 
 wild animals which he hunted in his boyhood 
 days. 
 
 In Chariton county, Mo., Mr. Locke was 
 united in marriage with Miss Annie Sinnett, 
 a native of that state. Adhering to the con- 
 victions of his father, Mr. Locke is Demo- 
 cratic in his political affiliations, and a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 
 
 Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, having attained the De- 
 
 gree of Honor. 
 
 NELSON P. CRUME. The Brownsville 
 flouring mills, owned and managed by Nelson 
 P. Crume since 1901, is one of the substantial 
 enterprises of the town, and one which is destined 
 to continually enlarge its business. This prophecy 
 is based upon the excellent quality of the flour 
 produced, and which finds a ready market all 
 along the coast. Since coming under the present 
 management the old mills have been completely 
 overhauled, new and modern machinery intro- 
 duced, and a capacity of fifty barrels a day at- 
 tained to. The power is water, and the visitor 
 to the white interior finds a hive of industry, 
 wherein the greatest system and order prevail. 
 
 In Daviess county, Mo., where he was born 
 December 9, 1856, Mr. Crume was reared on the 
 farm of his father, George W. Crume, who had 
 settled there after leaving his native state of 
 Illinois. The father left his home interests to 
 serve in the Civil war, and became a martyr to 
 the cause of the Union. Enlisting as a private 
 in the Twenty-third Missouri Volunteer In- 
 fantry, in 1861, he took part in several of the first 
 battles of the war, but died at Alton of camp 
 fever, contracted while exposed to the rigors 
 of the service, in 1863. His wife, formerly Ma- 
 linda C. Thompson, was born in Kentucky, and 
 some months after the death of her husband, 
 married Lot S. Harris. The latter brought his 
 wife and her children across the plains in 1864, 
 locating on a claim near Scio, which he improved 
 and lived upon until his death, in 1900. He is 
 survived by his wife, who lives with her son, 
 Quincy, near Carlton. 
 
 The oldest of the three sons born to his pa- 
 rents, Nelson P. Crume, was educated in the 
 public schools, and entered the Oregon Agricul- 
 tural College, at Corvallis, in 1875. In 1882 he 
 engaged in farming near Brownsville, purchas- 
 ing one hundred acres of land, which he sold in 
 1890, and thereafter engaged in a general mer- 
 chandise business at Shedds. Eleven years later 
 he sold out and purchased the mills, to the man- 
 agement of which he has since devoted his en- 
 ergies. A native daughter of this vicinity, Sarah 
 Harrison, became the wife of Mr. Crume, since 
 his coming to Brownsville, her father, Robert 
 Harrison, born in Lincolnshire, England, having 
 come to the United States at an early day. Mr. 
 Harrison located first in Michigan, from which 
 state he crossed the plains in 1853 an d settled 
 on his present farm four miles northwest of 
 Brownsville. Six children have been born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Crume : George W., on the home 
 place; Van A., deceased; Nellie; Bessie; Iris; 
 
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 and Sarah. Politically Air. Grume is a Prohi- 
 bitionist, and he is at present serving his first 
 term in the council. He is fraternally connected 
 with the Blue Lodge No. 36, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, of Brownsville, and the Woodmen of the 
 World. A man of high moral character and un- 
 swerving integrity, he finds a religious home in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is 
 a trustee, and towards the support and upbuild- 
 ing oi which he has liberally contributed both 
 time and money for many years. 
 
 LEMUEL DUNCAN SCARBROUGH, M. 
 1). The work which Dr. L. D. Scarbrough has 
 done in the community in which he has made his 
 home for a lengthy period has been varied in 
 nature, but in no instance has its quality suf- 
 fered, as thoroughness has been the doctor's 
 watchword in all lines of business which he has 
 cared to take up. He was born in White Plains, 
 Ala., June 14, 185 1, the son of a farmer of 
 North Carolina, and the descendant of Scotch 
 and English ancestry. The father, Lemuel, 
 lived to the age of fifty-two years, while the 
 mother, Nancy P. (McRae) Scarbrough, at- 
 tained the age of eighty-five years. Of the 
 twelve children born to his parents all attained 
 maturity and the youngest was Lemuel D., 
 of this review, his preliminary education being 
 received in the public schools in the vicinity of 
 his home. Afterward he attended Oxford Col- 
 lege, in the town of Oxford, in his native state, 
 and at the age of twenty-one took up the study 
 of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Ben- 
 jamin S. Evans, of White Plains, graduating 
 from Yanderbilt University, Nashville, Term., 
 in 1875, being one of the first class to graduate 
 from that institution. For a year following his 
 graduation he practiced medicine in Alabama, 
 at the end of which time he came to Oregon 
 and located at Creswell, Lane county, in which 
 vicinity he has since remained, becoming one 
 of the prominent and successful men of the 
 section. Besides carrying on his profession he 
 has been extensively engaged in general fruit 
 farming, owning a ranch of two hundred acres, 
 fifty-five acres of bearing prune and apple trees, 
 one hundred and twenty acres of a hundred and 
 forty-four-acre farm just set to fruit, and twen- 
 ty-three acres adjoining Creswell upon which 
 he has built a comfortable cottage, a substantial 
 barn and other improvements, and has also a 
 fruit dryer, the capacity of which is from five 
 to six hundred bushels. In addition to this he 
 has been engaged since 1882 in the general 
 merchandise business in this town. 
 
 Dr. Scarbrough was first married in 1878 to 
 Emma Redford, a native of Oregon, and of the 
 three children born to them Marvin M. is a 
 
 student in the medical department of Yale 
 University; Eba E. is at home, and the young- 
 est died in infancy. Miss Clara Cochran, who 
 was born in Cottage Grove, Lane county, became 
 his second wife, and their five children, all of 
 whom are at home, are named in order of birth 
 as follows : Emerson, Carlisle, Dewey, Nancy 
 G. and Crystal. In politics a Democrat, Dr. 
 Scarbrough has always taken an interested part 
 in the local affairs of his party and through 
 this influence has held various minor offices in 
 the vicinity. For twelve years he has acted as 
 postmaster of Creswell. Fraternally he belongs 
 to the Masonic order, in which he has passed 
 all the chairs, and is also identified with the 
 Woodmen of the World, having held all the 
 offices in this order, and in which he also acts 
 as examining physician. The Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows also profits by his member- 
 ship. 
 
 JOHN MORLEY. Closely identified with 
 the farming interests of Marion county is John 
 Morley, who is pleasantly located about three 
 miles northeast of Silverton, where he is pros- 
 perously engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, 
 He is numbered among the veteran farmers of 
 the county who have labored with unceasing 
 toil in their chosen vocation, and are now enjoy- 
 ing comfortable competencies, acquired chiefly 
 by their own efforts. Of good old Virginia 
 stock, he was born May 9, 1823, in Jackson 
 county, Ohio, a son of Moses Morley. 
 
 Moses Morley, a native of Virginia, born about 
 1788, removed with his parents, when a small 
 boy, to Ohio, where he lived until after his mar- 
 riage to Catherine Wadkins, a native of Mary- 
 land, and the birth of several of his children. In 
 1850, although then past the prime of manhood, 
 he made an overland trip to Oregon, crossing the 
 plains with ox-teams, and settled near Sublimity, 
 Marion county. Two years later he sent for his 
 wife, who crossed the plains to join him, but 
 their reunion was of brief duration, his death 
 occurring the same year, in 1852. His widow 
 spent her remaining days with their son, John, 
 the subject of this sketch, passing away at the 
 advanced age of eighty-three years. She was 
 the mother of thirteen children, John Morley 
 being the only survivor of the family. 
 
 Obtaining his early education in the district 
 schools, and remaining on the old home farm 
 in Ohio until twenty-one years of age, John Mor- 
 ley then left the parental roof and began the 
 battle of life for himself, working for wages 
 the first three years thereafter. In 1847, follow- 
 ing the tide of immigration westward, he and 
 two boys by the name of Darst started for Ore- 
 gon, crossing the plains with an ox-team, and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 being four months on the road. They crossed 
 the Missouri river at St. Joseph May 5, and 
 reached the Willamette valley September 5. Be- 
 coming a pioneer of Marion county, he took up 
 a claim near Sublimity, about three miles from 
 the town, and after his marriage settled to 
 housekeeping on property still nearer that place, 
 living there about eight years. Removing to 
 Silverton in 1862, Mr. Morley turned his atten- 
 tion to the milling business, operating a grist- 
 mill there for eight years. In 1871 he bought 
 a farm nearly three miles northeast of Silver- 
 ton, after which he purchased the farm which 
 he now own? and occupies. He has one hundred 
 and forty-sjx acres of land, which he devotes to 
 stock-raising and general farming, twelve acres 
 being planted to hops. 
 
 September 20, 1855, Mr. Morley was united 
 in marriage with Senah E. Jones, who was born 
 in Missouri, and from that state crossed the 
 plains in 1852, accompanying her parents, Lewis 
 and Polly Ann (McAlpin) Jones. She passed to 
 the higher life in 1886. To Mrs. Morley sixteen 
 children were born, namely : George W.,who lives 
 near Silverton; Jerome, living at home; Levi, 
 deceased; Nettie, wife of Philip Hicks, resid- 
 ing southwest of Silverton; Joshua M., of Sil- 
 verton; Mary Catharine, wife of John C. War- 
 nock, residing near Silverton; Laura Alice, wife 
 of William S. Jack, of Silverton ; Charles, resid- 
 ing near Silverton; Erne, wife of John Hicks; 
 Iva B., at home ; Rosa, wife of Howard C. Whit- 
 lock ; Ella, wife of Dennis C. McCleary ; John L. ; 
 Roy; Rachel, and Ruth. 
 
 JEREMIAH E. HENKLE. In a beautiful 
 home in Philomath, erected in 1883, Jeremiah E. 
 Henkle is living a practically retired life, the for- 
 tunate possessor of large property interests in 
 town and county, and of the unbounded good 
 will of his fellow townsmen. A resident of Ore- 
 gon since his tenth year, he represents one of the 
 pioneer families of the state, while not far dis- 
 tant, on a farm of three hundred and sixty acres, 
 four miles west of the town, there is living his 
 father, Ichabod, the possessor of a good name in 
 this northwestern country. Ichabod Henkle is 
 ninety-three years of age, is feeble in health, and 
 as the result of a stroke of paralysis four years 
 ago, is deprived of the gift of speech. En- 
 shrouded thus in the shadows of life, and ap- 
 proaching that bourne whence no traveler ever 
 returns, he can contemplate serenely his life- 
 work, interspersed as it has been with more than 
 ordinary accomplishment. He was born in Pen- 
 dleton county, W. Va., October 10, 1810, and, 
 when very young, removed with, his parents to 
 Fayette county, Ohio, in 1839 locating on a farm 
 
 in Lee county, Iowa. In 1849 ne settled on a 
 farm in Appanoose county, Iowa, and there lived 
 with his family, working with his father, Jacob, 
 who was born in West Virginia, and who moved 
 to Ohio, and from there to Iowa with his wife 
 and children. Jacob and his son, Ichabod, were 
 the prime movers in the proposed emigration 
 across the plains in 1853, and Jacob located on 
 the farm where Ichabod is still dreaming his 
 dreams, and waiting. Jacob lived to be seventy- 
 seven years old, his death occurring in 1875. 
 Ichabod developed the true western spirit, was 
 full of push and energy and resource, and saw 
 many ways of promoting the well-being of his 
 adopted state. He was one of the original incor- 
 porators of the Corvallis, Oregon & Yaquina Bay 
 Wagon Road Company, and was a director in the 
 Willamette Valley Coast Railroad, predecessor 
 of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company. He 
 married Mary A. King, who was born in Dela- 
 ware, and who bore him three children, two sons 
 and a daughter, of whom Jeremiah and Jessie 
 only are living, the former being the second 
 child. 
 
 At a very early age Jeremiah E. Henkle started 
 in to perform his share of work on the farm, 
 attending as opportunity offered the public 
 schools of his neighborhood. In 1867 he en- 
 gaged in working a saw-mill on the old farm, 
 and in 1872 came to Philomath, where he was 
 enrolled as one of the first students of the college 
 of this town. However, scarcity of funds pre- 
 vented his attending the college for more than 
 one term, and an opportunity presenting itself to 
 engage in business, he started a general mer- 
 chandise enterprise in partnership with J. L. 
 Shipley. Mr. Shipley dying in 1877, Mr Henkle 
 was left to manage the business alone, which he 
 did uninterruptedly until 1891, when he sold his 
 business and has since been on the retired list. 
 In the meantime his interests had accumulated, 
 and among other things he had purchased eight 
 hundred acres of land, where he engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising, eventually plac- 
 ing thirty acres of his land under hops. He still 
 owns the Henkle saw-mill on the south fork of 
 the Mary river, with its surrounding two hun- 
 dred acres, all of which is rented to his brother. 
 He also owns a farm of four hundred and fifty 
 acres near the town, as well as the store in which 
 the postoffice is located, and a half block adjoin- 
 ing, with its three or four buildings. 
 
 Many interesting events have occurred in the 
 career of Mr. Henkle, who is above all else pub- 
 lic-spirited, and ever on the alert for opportunity. 
 In 1859, 'with his father, Ichabod, he made a trip 
 down the Yaquina river to the bay, a most excit- 
 ing and interesting voyage, for they had to cut 
 their way at every turn. In 1863 they undertook 
 the same journey in a skiff, and, in 1867, Jere- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 miah went by himself over the same route in a 
 steamboat, noting as he went the threat changes 
 which had come over the region in die meantime. 
 In 1S04 he enlisted for the Indian service in 
 Company \, First Oregon Volunteers, and for a 
 year was located at the Vancouver barracks. 
 For a month the regiment was stationed at Fort 
 Yamhill, and then went across the river country 
 after Indians, remaining there for about nine 
 months. He was discharged from the service 
 June 30. 1866, and has always retained in his 
 possession the gun and other equipment which 
 constituted his war regalia. In 1880 he was 
 chosen one of the receivers to make the first trip 
 of ten miles down the Oregon & Pacific Railroad, 
 and to receive the first ten miles that was com- 
 pleted from Toledo to Yaquina City — John 
 Minto. of Marion county, and Robert Cohorn, of 
 Lane county, being the other receivers. A Re- 
 publican in politics, he has taken an active inter- 
 est in his party's undertakings in this county, 
 has served as councilman for ten years, and was 
 postmaster of Philomath for twelve years. It 
 will thus be seen that he has been intimately con- 
 nected with pioneer as well as later enterprises, 
 and has contributed his share towards their up- 
 building. 
 
 In Philomath, Mr. Henkle was united in mar- 
 riage with Lizzie Mason, daughter of George 
 Mason, a native of Illinois, and who crossed the 
 plains in 1853. Locating on a claim on Mary's 
 river, Mr. Mason lived there for many years, 
 but finally moved into the town, where he died 
 at an advanced age. His daughter, Mrs. Henkle, 
 died here in 1876, leaving a son, Otis C, who is 
 now a hardware merchant of Dayton, Wash. In 
 1878 Mr. Henkle married Nancy A. Hunt, who 
 was born in Oak county, Iowa, February 18, 
 1859, an( l whose father, Benjamin J., was born 
 in Fleming county, Ky., November 16, 1821. 
 The Hunts moved to near Des Moines, Iowa, in 
 1847, an d, in 1869, crossed the plains with mule 
 teams, making the trip to Washington territory 
 in three months. Locating on a farm in the ter- 
 ritory Mr. Hunt founded the town of Hunts- 
 ville. and also started that educational institution 
 known as the Huntsville Seminary, located in 
 Columbia county. In 1900 he removed to Day- 
 ton, Wash., where he is living in retirement. He 
 married Margaret Field, born in White county, 
 111., and who also is living. Two children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Henkle, Rodell and 
 Beulah, both of whom are living with their par- 
 ents. Mr. Henkle is a member of the United 
 Brethren Church, the liberal branch, and his wife 
 is active in missionary and Women's Christian 
 Temperance Union work. Mr. Henkle is one of 
 the solid and substantial upbuilders of this part 
 of the state, and while traveling his way has 
 cemented many friendships of a lasting and beau- 
 
 tiful nature. He is one of those western noble- 
 men to whom the coast country owes a great 
 debt of gratitude, and whom it will ever honor 
 for his character and undertakings. 
 
 SEYMOUR CHIPMAN. A widely known 
 and prominent citizen of Corvallis and a veteran 
 of the late Civil war, the brief life record of 
 Seymour Chipman affords an excellent example 
 for young men just entering the field of business 
 activity, well illustrating the virtue of patriot- 
 ism and showing the success to be attained by 
 industry, enterprise and thrift. The representa- 
 tive of an old New England family, he was born 
 June 30, 1833, in Essex, Chittenden county, Vt., 
 a son of John Chipman. On the paternal side 
 he comes of English ancestry, his great grand- 
 father, Jonathan Chipman, having been born and 
 bred in England, where he learned the hatter's 
 trade. Subsequently emigrating to this country, 
 he purchased land in Essex, Vt., and by stren- 
 uous labor cleared a homestead from the wilder- 
 
 ness. 
 
 Thomas Chipman, the grandfather of Sey- 
 mour Chipman, spent his entire life in Essex, 
 Vt., being industriously engaged in farming 
 pursuits. During the war of 1812 he offered 
 his services to his country, and at the memorable 
 battle of Plattsburg was captain of one of the 
 companies in a prominent regiment. He took 
 an active part in town affairs, and was a leading 
 member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 John Chipman was born in Essex, Vt., in 
 1798, and there spent the first half of his long 
 life. Coming into possession of a part of the 
 ancestral homestead, he carried on general farm- 
 ing, and also worked at the carpenter's trade. 
 Removing with his family to Illinois in 1843, ne 
 lived near Rockford for nine years, then took 
 up his residence six miles north of Belvidere. 
 In 1852 he migrated to Iowa, locating in Clayton 
 county, near Strawberry Point, where he owned 
 and operated a saw-mill and a grist-mill. Later, 
 in company with his son, Seymour Chipman, he 
 settled in Pocahontas county, Iowa, and lived 
 there until his death, at the age of eighty-four 
 years. His wife, whose maiden name was Har- 
 riet Hoadley, was born in Vermont, a daughter 
 of Thomas Hoadley. Mr. Hoadley, who was of 
 Welsh descent, was born and reared in Vermont. 
 In 1843 ne removed to Illinois, but after living 
 in the Prairie state a few years he returned to 
 his old home in Vermont, and there spent the 
 remainder of his life, dying at the advanced age 
 of ninetv-seven years. Three boys and four 
 girls were born of the union of John and Har- 
 riet (Hoadley) Chipman, and with the excep- 
 tion of two daughters all are now living. All of 
 
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 the sons served in the late Civil war, LaFayette, 
 now a resident of Pocahontas county, Iowa, hav- 
 ing served in the First Minnesota Heavy Artil- 
 lery, while Horace, who resides in Calhoun 
 county, Iowa, served in the Second Minnesota 
 Infantry. The mother died at a venerable age 
 in Minnesota. 
 
 Seymour Chipman, the oldest son of the par- 
 ental household, was a lad of ten years when 
 he accompanied his parents to Illinois, making 
 the long trip from Vermont by horse-teams. 
 After completing his early education in the dis- 
 trict schools he assisted his father in improving 
 a farm, and during the harvest seasons was em- 
 ployed in threshing. Removing to Clayton 
 county, Iowa, in 1852, he was at first engaged 
 in milling as proprietor of a saw-mill and a 
 grist-mill, and subsequently operated a carding- 
 mill and a woolen-mill. On August 11, 1862, 
 Mr. Chipman enlisted in Company B, Twenty- 
 first Iowa Infantry, and on being mustered into 
 service at Dubuque, Iowa, was elected fifer of 
 the regiment. He took an active part in many 
 important engagements, among the more nota- 
 ble being the battle at Port Gibson, on May 1, 
 1863, and the siege of Vicksburg, which was 
 concluded by the capitulation of that city on 
 July 4, 1863. The following month Mr. Sey- 
 mour was taken seriously ill, and, on his return 
 to the army, was transferred to the Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps, with which he was actively identi- 
 fied until the close of the conflict, serving in the 
 commissary department at Camp McClelland, 
 Davenport, Iowa. On June 28, 1865, he was 
 mustered out of service and returned home. 
 
 Establishing himself in business as a black- 
 smith and carriage manufacturer at Strawberry 
 Point, Mr. Chipman remained there successfully 
 employed until 1881. Going then to Gilmore 
 City, Iowa, he was there engaged in agricul- 
 tural pursuits for four or more years, after which 
 he embarked in the hotel business, which he car- 
 ried on until 1890. Coming then to Oregon, 
 Mr. Chipman located first near Forest Grove, 
 where he purchased a claim, on which he resid- 
 ed about two years. In 1893 he settled at his 
 present home in Corvallis, where he has since 
 exerted a marked influence in advancing the va- 
 rious enterprises inaugurated to develop its re- 
 sources and promote its prosperity. During his 
 active career he has accumulated a competency, 
 being the owner of much valuable property in 
 different parts of Oregon and of a good farm in 
 Greenwood county, Kansas. 
 
 On August 14, 1853, at Strawberry Point, 
 Iowa, Mr. Chipman married Prudence Maxson, 
 who was born in Clark county, Ohio, which was 
 likewise the birthplace of her father, Ephraim 
 Maxson, and the lifelong residence of her grand- 
 father, Jesse Maxson. Ephraim Maxson, a 
 
 farmer by occupation, removed from Ohio to 
 Indiana, thence to Michigan, and finally to Iowa, 
 locating on a farm in Clayton county, where he 
 resided until his death, at the age of fifty-three 
 years. He married Mary Smith, whose father, 
 Peter Smith, died in Michigan. Ten children 
 blessed their union, three of whom are now liv- 
 ing. One son, David Maxson, who in the Civil 
 war was a member of the regiment to which 
 Mr. Chipman belonged, died while in the serv- 
 ice of his country. Another son, Christian Max- 
 son, is now a merchant in Edgewood, Iowa. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Chipman are the parents of five 
 children, namely : Mrs. Eva Moyer, of Gilmore 
 City, Iowa ; Charles, of Corvallis ; Clarence, pro- 
 prietor of a restaurant and bakery in Corvallis; 
 Mrs. Lillian Theresa Simpson, of Portland, 
 Ore. ; and Vidella, wife of F. L. Miller, of Cor- 
 vallis. 
 
 On August 14, 1903, Mr. and Mrs. Chipman 
 celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. Chip- 
 man met his friends at the door and received 
 them with a hearty handshake and word of wel- 
 come. They passed into the parlor, where Mrs. 
 Chipman, as active and light of heart as a 
 girl of sixteen, expressed her pleasure at their 
 presence. Here all registered, and, after par- 
 taking of the contents of the punch bowl, pre- 
 sided over by Mrs. Clarence Chipman, passed 
 out onto the lawn where they were served 
 with lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Chipman were the 
 recipients of many handsome presents. The 
 Mystic Shriners presented him and his wife 
 with a beautiful loving cup. Upon it was in- 
 scribed the names of the donors, S. L. Kline, 
 H. W. Hall, W. E. Yates, S. L. Hayes, Rev. 
 MacLean, S. N. Wilkins, T. H. Crawford, 
 Captain Harding and J. B. Horner. The pre- 
 sentation speech was made by Mr. Crawford. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Chipman made fitting response 
 and each Noble drank to their health from the 
 loving cup. 
 
 Politically Mr. Chipman is a stanch Repub- 
 lican, and while living in Iowa served sixteen 
 years as justice of the peace, and was mayor 
 of Gilmore City at the time of his removal 
 to Oregon. Fraternally he was made a Mason 
 at Strawberry Point, Iowa, in 1862, and is 
 past master of Strawberry Point Lodge, F. & 
 A. M. ; and past high priest of Ferguson Chap- 
 ter, No. 5, R. A. M., of Corvallis, of which 
 he is treasurer; he is a member of Corvallis 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he is past master; 
 a member and thrice illustrious master of Ore- 
 gon Council, No. 2, R. & S. M. ; is deputy 
 Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal 
 and Select Masters of Oregon; and a member 
 of Albany Commandery, K. T., while in June, 
 1903, he became a member of the Mystic Shrine 
 of Oregon. He is a member, and past com- 
 
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 mander, of Ellsworth Post, G. A. R., and in 
 
 IQ02 was junior vice commander of the De- 
 partment oi Oregon. Mrs. Chipman is a prom- 
 inent member of the W. R. C, of which she is 
 an ex-president and of the W. C. T. U. 
 
 JAMES C. REED. As an energetic farmer, 
 lames C. Reed has passed the years since he 
 came to the west, and prosperity has smiled 
 upon him in his patient, uncomplaining toil, 
 ami blessed him with an abundance as a reward 
 for a well spent life. He makes his home upon the 
 land which first became his property, in the 
 early munificence of Oregon's fields, but each 
 passing year has found him able to increase the 
 number of acres until he now has a farm of 
 nine hundred acres, all in one body, upon which 
 is carried on general farming and stock-raising. 
 
 Born October n, 1828, James C. Reed is 
 a native of Knox county, Tenn., where his 
 father was engaged as a farmer, that being the 
 life to which he was reared. He had, however, 
 taken up the saddlery trade and later added 
 that of millwright. In Tennessee he married 
 Elizabeth England, also a native of that state, 
 who died in 1840. Two years later the father 
 removed to Missouri. Four children had been 
 born to them, of whom one other besides James 
 C, is located in the west, George being located 
 in Dilley. Washington county, Ore. The father 
 died when about forty-five years old. After the 
 death of his mother James C. Reed left home, 
 thus early assuming the burden of self-support, 
 but fortunately finding a home with an uncle, 
 with whom he remained until attaining his ma- 
 jority, their home being also changed to Mis- 
 souri soon after he became a member of the 
 household. In the winter of 1849 ne followed 
 logging and rafting along the Mississippi river, 
 and two years later was married, the home of 
 himself and wife being in Missouri until 1853. 
 With the courage and energy of their pioneer 
 forefathers the young people then made the 
 six-months trip to Oregon, the mode of con- 
 veyance being the slow-plodding oxen, and upon 
 their safe arrival Mr. Reed took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty-five acres 
 located in Lane county, ten miles south of Eu- 
 gene and three miles north of Creswell. The 
 passing years have justified the choice of loca- 
 tion, for through the now improved and finely 
 cultivated farm extends the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad, which speaks so eloquently of the 
 changes which time has brought to the pioneer 
 settlers. Two hundred acres of this property 
 is now in active cultivation, this and all the im- 
 provements which have kept pace with the 
 changes going on being the result of the practical 
 
 and well directed efforts of the worthy pos- 
 sessor. 
 
 The wife who shared the trials and troubles 
 of the early life and now enjoys the prosperity, 
 was formerly Miss r-um E. Dillard, a native 
 of Tennessee. She was the daughter of Samuel 
 Dillard, of Kentucky, born there May 12, 1810, 
 and in Tennessee he married Elizabeth Julian, 
 whose birth occurred October 5, 1806. They 
 made their home in that state until 1837, when 
 they removed to Missouri. In addition to the 
 farming interests in which he had always gained 
 a livelihood, Mr. Dillard was a minister of the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and it was 
 both the desire to better his worldly condition 
 and to carry the gospel into the new lands that 
 led to their emigration in 1853, the entire family 
 crossing the plains with ox-teams and settling 
 in the vicinity of Lane county. This continued 
 to be the home of the family until the death of 
 the parents, the father living to be eighty-one 
 years old and the mother fifty-two. Of the 
 five children who were born to them four are 
 now living, namely : Rufus, of Washington ; 
 William, also of Washington ; Sarah, who be- 
 came the wife of Robert Cochran, and is located 
 near Cottage Grove, and Ann Reed. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Dillard was a Democrat, and fra- 
 ternally he was associated with the Masonic 
 order. To Mr. and Mrs. Reed were born the 
 following children : Samuel D., who is at home 
 with his parents; William P., deceased; Robert 
 H., of Harrisburg; George D., also at home; 
 Emma, now Mrs. George Jordan, of Washing- 
 on ; Joseph A., located west of Eugene ; Lena, 
 deceased ; and one who died in infancy. Mr. 
 Reed is a Democrat in his political convictions 
 and through the influence of this party has held 
 various minor offices in this vicinity. 
 
 JOHN M. MOYER. Persistent and pains- 
 taking effort, augmented by strong and forceful 
 personal characteristics, have won for John M. 
 Mover a substantial place among the pioneer 
 manufacturers and farmers of Linn county. Like 
 the majority who came to the coast in the early 
 days, he was not burdened with superfluous be- 
 longings or the wherewithal to purchase the 
 same, and started out empty-handed to hew out 
 his own destiny. His earliest childhood was 
 spent in Schuylkill county. Pa., where he was 
 born August 21, 1829, a son of Gabriel and 
 grandson of Daniel Mover, the latter of whom 
 was born in the east and died at a very early day 
 in Ohio. Gabriel was born in Pennsylvania, and 
 his wife, Hannah Andrews, was of the same 
 state, her death occurring in Ohio in 1888. A 
 fanner and cooper by occupation, Mr. Mover 
 moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, about 1830, 
 
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 later settling on a farm of ninety-one acres of 
 timber land in Mahoning county. A still later 
 place of residence was in Medina county, Ohio, 
 where his death occurred in 1848, after many 
 years of successful farming and work at his 
 trade as a cooper. Of his fifteen children, eight 
 of whom were sons, John M. is the third. 
 
 Of necessity the early education of John Moyer 
 was limited, yet on the Pennsylvania and Ohio 
 farms he gleaned a great deal of practical infor- 
 mation, above all else learning the invaluable 
 lessons of industry and economy. In 1848 he 
 learned the carpenter's trade, and while working 
 thereat became interested in the accounts of rich 
 lands and still richer mines which came from the 
 coast. With G. F. Colbert he began to prepare 
 for the long trip, and the arrangements showed 
 his desire to profit by the experiences of those 
 who had gone before. Instead of ox-teams the 
 partners bought a wagon, three horses and plenty 
 of provisions and grain for their horses ; and 
 succeeded in reaching their destination at Fos- 
 ter's at the end of three months, a remarkably 
 rapid journey, considering the drawbacks which 
 they met on their way. After a couple of weeks 
 on the Clackamas river as the guests of Mr. 
 Arthur, they sold their outfit and started for 
 the Calapooia river, meeting there another genial 
 and hospitable host in the person of Elias L. 
 Walters. Mr. Moyer was pleased with the loca- 
 tion and remained for some time, and afterward 
 worked at his trade at what was then called Cal- 
 apooia postoffice, but which is now known as 
 Brownsville. Almost his first undertaking was 
 to build a house for H. L. Brown, whose daugh- 
 ter, Elizabeth, he married, June 4, 1857. Mr. 
 Brown, after whom Brownsville was named, 
 was born in the east, and crossed the plains to 
 Oregon in 1846. He was a man of leading 
 characteristics, and became very prominent in 
 the little locality, where he conducted the first 
 store, a general merchandise establishment, being 
 the busiest center of activity in the locality. He 
 was a Democrat in politics, and took a prominent 
 part in his party's affairs in Linn county, serv- 
 ing as justice of the peace for many years, and 
 as a member of the legislature for two terms. A 
 man of fine principles and great energy, he was 
 genial, approachable and humane. 
 
 Purchasing a herd of cattle in 1855, Mr. Moyer 
 started for the mines of California the following 
 year, but he returned soon after with illusions 
 dispelled, and with an abiding confidence in 
 slower but surer means of livelihood. In 1857 
 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, soon added sixty more, and began to clear 
 his property, living the while in the most primi- 
 tive manner. His trade proved useful at this 
 stage of his career, for he soon made a comfort- 
 able home for primitive housekeeping. The 
 
 following spring the town of Brownsville was 
 laid out by James Blakeley and others, and Mr. 
 Moyer purchased a few lots, built a house, and 
 removed his family there, soon thereafter engag- 
 ing at his trade. During the Florence gold ex- 
 citement in Idaho in 1862, he thought he saw 
 an opportunity for making money rapidly by 
 packing across the mountains. The severity 
 of the weather, and the deep snows which im- 
 peded the progress of his wagons had not been 
 taken into account, and he became footsore from 
 the almost interminable journeys, and almost 
 lost his sight from the constant glare of the 
 snow. Some weeks later he returned to Browns- 
 ville weary at heart and the loser by $800. Re- 
 covering his health and spirits Mr. Moyer 
 worked at his trade until 1863, when he bought 
 the Brownsville Planing Mills, formerly owned 
 by William Linville, and which he fitted with 
 modern machinery, and worked into a paying and 
 extensive business. These mills passed into the 
 hands of his son in 1875, and to the present time 
 are one of the busy enterprises of the town. In 
 1 861 he became interested in the Brownsville 
 Woolen Mills, known then as the Linn Woolen 
 Mill, which he also rebuilt, and which burned 
 down the following year. In 1875 this mill was 
 involved in litigation, and was sold at auction and 
 passed into the hands of Mr. Moyer, who forth- 
 with organized a stock company, and started the 
 Brownsville Woolen Mills upon a successful 
 career. He was president up to his retirement in 
 1889, and during his administration the mill ex- 
 tended its sphere of usefulness and sent its com- 
 modities into every part of the north and west. 
 After its sale in 1889, Mr. Moyer still continued 
 as its president and a large stockholder, resign- 
 ing from the position in 1896. In 1889 he pur- 
 chased stock in the Portland store on the corner 
 of First and Alder streets. The Brownsville 
 mill was 66x150 feet ground dimensions, was 
 equipped with the most modern machinery, and 
 turned out tweeds, cassimeres, flannels and 
 blankets. In 1888 Mr. Moyer extended his field 
 of usefulness to banking, becoming one of the 
 incorporators of the Bank of Brownsville, of 
 which he was president for many years. In 1890 
 he organized the Bank of Woodburn, of which 
 he was active vice president for some years. 
 
 Independent in political affiliations, Mr. Moyer 
 was the first mayor of Brownsville, and has 
 served for many years as school director. It 
 is but fitting that so early and ambitious a 
 settler should actively participate in its general 
 upbuilding, and this he has done uninterruptedly 
 ever since coming here. In 1881 he planned 
 and built one of the truly beautiful and com- 
 modious residences in the town, which he still 
 occupies, and which has ever been the scene of 
 hospitality and good fellowship. Of his six 
 
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 children, four are deceased, while Edward D. is 
 a resident of Portland, and H. Breckenridge is 
 running the saw-mill near town. Thus is men- 
 tioned all too briefly a man whose far-sighted 
 judgment, shrewd business ability, and unques- 
 tioned integrity has been of signal and lasting 
 use in a progressive and appreciative community. 
 
 ELIAS KEENEY. May 10, 1846, Elias 
 Keeney left Holt county, Mo., with ox-teams, 
 and. after crossing the plains in about the aver- 
 age time, arrived at his destination three miles 
 east of Brownsville, September 14; of the same 
 year. This early pioneer, who represents the 
 prosperous and successful agriculturist of the 
 west, came to this state with almost no money, 
 his worldly possessions consisting of the clothes 
 he wore. An impression of his life and of his 
 use of opportunity among strangers among whom 
 he came without resources, is best gained by 
 visiting his well equipped and modern farm 
 three miles west of Brownsville. This property 
 became his home a year after coming to Oregon, 
 in 1849, an d consists of six hundred and forty 
 acres. Many changes have taken place during 
 these fifty-six years of residence, and from a 
 wilderness in the woods Mr. Keeney has devel- 
 oped a paying and valuable property, and one 
 which has been a source of great satisfaction to 
 its enterprising owner. 
 
 A native of Ray county, Mo., Mr. Keeney 
 was born December 18, 1828, his father, 
 John, and mother, Mary Ramsey (Buckhaulter) 
 Keeney, being natives of Tennessee. The par- 
 ents were early settlers in Ray county, where 
 the father engaged in farming and stock-raising 
 in pre-empted land, and there reared his eight 
 sons and one daughter. He removed to Holt 
 county, Mo., in 1842, but did not long survive 
 his change of location, for his death occurred 
 on his farm in 1845. He was survived by his 
 wife, who came to Oregon on the second trip 
 made by her son, in 1851, and died near 
 Brownsville at the age of eighty-nine years. 
 Among her children were twins, Elias and Ely, 
 who began life upon very unequal footings, for 
 Elias was unusually small, while Ely weighed 
 eleven pounds. As time went on Elias showed 
 the better and stronger constitution, and at the 
 present time is not only much the heavier, but 
 is the largest and strongest in the family. 
 
 Owing to the extremely wild conditions in 
 Holt county, Mo., Elias received a limited edu- 
 cation, for the schoolhouse was remote and the 
 home duties arduous. To his quiet neighbor- 
 hood came the cheering news of gold and fertile 
 lands in the west, and though crossing the plains 
 in 1846 was as yet a most hazardous and unu- 
 sual undertaking, he cheerfully confronted the 
 
 undertaking, although he had practically noth- 
 ing with which to start life in the far west. 
 Once established upon the farm which he now 
 owns, he returned to Missouri in 1850, and 
 there married Margaret Jane Hyatt, who died 
 in Oregon in 1861, leaving four children. Of 
 these, Ely is a resident of Phoenix, Ariz. ; Re- 
 becca is deceased ; Emma is the wife of James 
 McHargue ; and John. 
 
 The year of his marriage Mr. Keeney again 
 started over the plains, bringing with him his 
 wife, his mother, and all of the children with the 
 exception of one brother and two sisters. Set- 
 tling on his claim, he lived there until 1891, and 
 then moved into Eugene to educate his children. 
 In 1900 he went back to the farm, and in 1901 
 located in Brownsville, purchasing a little pro- 
 perty on the south side, where he has erected a 
 comfortable home. Some time after the death 
 of his wife he had married Lucinda Van Winkle, 
 who was born in Tennessee, and who died in 
 Oregon. Nine children were born of this union, 
 the order of their birth being as follows : George 
 W., deceased ; Rhoda, the wife of James Vaugh, 
 a farmer of Halsey, Ore. ; James M., of east 
 Oregon; Edward Elias, deceased; Homer J., 
 of Portland ; Clarky, deceased ; Roy J. ; Uena 
 J., an educator in Shaniko, Wasco county ; and 
 one child, who died in infancy. The third mar- 
 riage of Mr. Keeney, which occurred in 1887, 
 was with Mrs. Matilda Noffsinger, who was born 
 in Missouri, as was also her father, Hiram Lee, 
 a native of Cape Girardeau county. Mr. Noff- 
 singer farmed for many years in Missouri, and 
 crossed the plains in 1863, locating near Cot- 
 tage Grove, Lane county, where he bought 
 land, and where he died in 1883, at the age 
 of eighty-seven years. Four of his children are 
 living: Martin H. ; W. N., of Montana; 
 Thomas H., of Los Angeles, Cal. ; and Ida 
 M., an educator of Eugene, Ore. Mr. Keeney is 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 in which he is an officer, and towards the sup- 
 port of which he is a liberal contributor. He is 
 unquestionably the friend of education, and 
 during his residence on the farm served for 
 many years as school director. He has also 
 served the Republican party as road supervisor 
 for two years, but has never sought official 
 positions or worked for other interests than 
 those of his friends. He has been an interested 
 spectator of the development of his section from 
 a wilderness to the present agricultural and com- 
 mercial prestige, and has contributed his share 
 towards its larger and better growth. In the 
 early days he had many experiences of a more 
 or less unpleasant nature with the Indians, and 
 in the war of 1848 enlisted in Company C, Fourth 
 Regiment, as a private, under command of 
 Captain Maxon. During this war he partici- 
 
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 pated in the battles of De Chutes river, Wells 
 Springs and Two Cannon, the latter conflict 
 lasting three days. He was discharged in Ore- 
 gon City, and thereafter returned to his ranch. 
 He also served in the Rogue river war as a 
 private, and well remembers the great conflict 
 known as the Battle of the Meadows. 
 
 WILLIAM McLEOD. As his name implies, 
 William McLeod is a Scotchman, with a faculty 
 for making the most of every opportunity. He 
 has engaged in several lines of activity since 
 coming to the west and north. At present con- 
 ducting a tannery business in Brownsville, he 
 finds his occupation both successful and con- 
 genial, possibly for the reason that he is thor- 
 oughly conversant with it, and has inaugurated 
 some new departures from the general line of 
 tanning. He makes a specialty of saddle and 
 skirting leather, and handles about one thous- 
 and hides a year. Since 1894 his business has 
 been located in Kirk's addition, and his com- 
 modities have found a ready market in all of the 
 coast towns, as well as in some of the cities of 
 the east. 
 
 For many years the McLeod family was well 
 known in Invernesshire, a maritime and high- 
 land county in Scotland, the largest in the king- 
 dom, and extending across the island from sea 
 to sea. Mountainous, rugged, and well wooded, 
 it is a pastoral county, cattle, sheep, and wool 
 being the principal sources of revenue. Trade 
 is facilitated by the Caledonian canal, extending 
 the whole length of the shire, and the farmers or 
 stockmen fortunate enough to dwell within its 
 boundaries as a rule are prosperous and fairly 
 content. Donald McLeod, the father of Will- 
 iam, was no exception, and for twenty years 
 of his life he roamed over the rich lands of Inver- 
 ness, buying cattle for a stockman of wealth 
 and influence. He was not unmindful of oppor- 
 tunities beyond the sea, however, and, leaving 
 behind the associations of his ancestors, he 
 came to America in 1837, locating in Ontario, 
 Canada, where he engaged in farming. The 
 same year, in October, his son William was 
 born, and was reared to an industrious life, 
 attending the common schools of the county. 
 The paternal farm consisted of one hundred 
 acres of land, and here the father lived and pros- 
 pered, and here his death occurred in 1855, at 
 the age of sixty-seven years. The mother, for- 
 merly, Sybella Forbes, also born in Scotland, 
 died in Canada, leaving two sons and two 
 daughters, two children having died in infancy. 
 
 Four vears after the death of his father, in 
 1859, William, then nineteen years of age, came 
 to California, having heard glowing reports of 
 the mining chances on the coast. In Placer 
 
 county he engaged in gold mining for a couple 
 of years, and in 1861 went to the Puget Sound 
 country, later still making his way to the mines 
 at Orofino, Idaho. In 1862 he located on Sau- 
 vie's Island, in the Columbia river, and turned 
 his attention to tobacco raising, a venture not 
 entirely satisfactory, for we find him in Portland 
 in 1864, engaged in getting out wharf timber 
 and boat material. In 1866 Mr. McLeod came 
 to Brownsville and engaged in the tannery busi- 
 ness with A. E. Ellis, and after a year the entire 
 business was owned by him, and independently 
 conducted until 1877. He then went to Golden- 
 dale, Klickitat county, Wash., and farmed and 
 conducted a tannery, and in the spring of 1882 
 returned to Brownsville, where he re-purchased 
 the tannery he owned before and conducted it 
 for three years in partnership with a well known 
 man of the town. In 1894 he sold out to his 
 partner, and the same year built his present 
 place of business, in the conduct of which he has 
 so well succeeded. 
 
 In Brownsville, Mr. McLeod married Leah 
 A. Riggs, born in Missouri, and who came 
 across the plains with her mother in 1864, 
 shortly after the death of her father, John Riggs. 
 The following children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. McLeod : Mrs. Lizzie Roberts, de- 
 ceased ; Katie, deceased ; and John and Flor- 
 ence, at home. Mr. McLeod is a Republican in 
 political preference, and has been a member of 
 the city council. He is prominent in the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church, is a class leader, and 
 contributes generously towards the support of 
 the church. He is still interested in mines and 
 owns considerable stock in the Calapooia Mill 
 & Mining Company. Possessing excellent busi- 
 ness judgment, tact and consideration for all 
 whom he employs, and possessing unswerving 
 integrity, he holds an enviable position in the 
 business and social world of Brownsville. 
 
 THOMAS H. COOPER. In all save the 
 accident of birth Thomas H. Cooper is a 
 northwesterner, for he was just one year old 
 when his family moved to Oregon, and his 
 life since then has been passed within the 
 boundaries of his adopted state. Born near 
 St. Joseph, Mo., January 9, 1851, he is a son 
 of James Cooper, who was born in Virginia, 
 and who removed with his parents from Vir- 
 ginia to Indiana, and from there to Missouri 
 at a very early day. Here James married Sena 
 A. Evans, and in the spring of 1852 left be- 
 hind him the familiar surroundings and started 
 across the vast expanse of plains intervening 
 between Missouri and the coast, with his fam- 
 ily and a large emigration train.. He had two 
 yoke of oxen and two cows, and ere the jour- 
 

MRS. A. C. BONNEY. 
 
rORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1101 
 
 nev was completed was obliged to use the 
 cows for completing the journey, the oxen 
 having given out under the severe strain. Ar- 
 riving after six months at Oregon City, they 
 spent the first winter on a farm in the vicinity, 
 and for a bushel of wheat Mr. Cooper was 
 obliged to work six days. In the spring of 
 1853 they went as far south as Eugene, looking 
 around for a desirable place to settle, and 
 finally located near Sublimity, Marion county, 
 for two years. In 1855 they came to Benton 
 county and took up three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land in Kings Valley, where the father 
 erected a small cabin, and the family lived in 
 it until i860. He then moved two miles west 
 of Philomath, where he purchased eight hun- 
 dred acres of land and engaged in dairying 
 and the stock business. This property was 
 disposed of in 1869, and he bought three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres two and a half miles 
 from Corvallis, where his death occurred No- 
 vember 2.7, 1891, at the age of sixty-seven 
 years and eight months. He is survived by his 
 wife, who is still living on the farm, and who is 
 the mother of six children, of whom Thomas 
 H. is the oldest ; Nancy A. is the deceased 
 wife of Morris Allen ; Francis Marion is de- 
 ceased; George W. lives in Benton county; 
 Mary F. is the wife of Russell Lowell, and 
 lives with her mother; and Robert is deceased. 
 Thomas H. Cooper was reared on the farm 
 and received his education in the public 
 schools. October 10. 1875, he married Mary 
 L. Scott, daughter of Prior Scott, of Benton 
 county, and herself a native daughter of that 
 county. Soon after his marriage he settled on 
 his present farm, and has been so successful 
 that he has added thereto and now has four 
 hundred and eighty acres. He is engaged prin- 
 cipally in the dairy business, and is at pres- 
 ent milking twenty-five cows, a number of 
 which are Jerseys. A Republican in politics, 
 he has held various important offices within 
 the gift of his fellow-townsmen, and was 
 elected to the legislature of 1895. Four chil- 
 dren have been born to this successful couple, 
 of whom Lewis E. is deceased ; Minnie E. is 
 the wife of E. J. Newton, of Benton county, 
 and they have one daughter, Gladys ; Fred R. is 
 living at home; and George E. is also at 
 home. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are members of 
 the Congregational Church, and are respected 
 and honored members of the community in 
 which they live. 
 
 BRADFORD S. BONNEY. A typical pio- 
 neer of the very early days is Bradford S. Bon- 
 ney, owner of a fine farm of four hundred and 
 twenty-two acres adjoining Woodburn, upon 
 
 which he has lived continuously since 1849. 
 More than any other of whom we have immediate 
 knowledge, Mr. Bonney lives close to the heart 
 of nature, and his association with the early days 
 of Oregon has permitted that rare and fascinat- 
 ing interest in all that pertains to sportsmanship, 
 for which this state has been justly famous. A 
 resident of Oregon since his fifteenth year, Mr. 
 Bonney was born near Sandusky, Ohio, August 
 30, 1825, a son of Truman and Plena (Town- 
 send) Bonney, and grandson of Geris Bonney, 
 the latter of whom was a farmer in Ohio, having 
 moved there from his native state of Vermont. 
 The grandfather was one of the heroes of '76, 
 and for seven weary years lived in tent on the 
 field, fighting in all the great battles of the war 
 for independence. 
 
 Truman Bonney was born on his father's farm 
 in Vermont, April 24, 1796, and as a young man 
 accompanied his parents to Ohio, where he lived 
 on a farm for many years. As a youth he learned 
 the cooper and tanner's trades, which he followed 
 at different stages of his career, in Fulton county, 
 111., where he removed in 1833. His farm of two 
 hundred acres was located twelve miles north of 
 Lewiston, and here he prospered exceedingly. 
 Notwithstanding his success, however, he became 
 dissatisfied w r ith his lot and exhibited the energy 
 inherited from his ancestors. He was one of the 
 first in his neighborhood to think about emigrat- 
 ing to the Pacific coast. In 1845 ne had perfected 
 his arrangements for the momentous trip, which 
 were carried through without any particular mis- 
 hap. Arriving in Sacramento City. Cal., in the 
 fall of 1845, h e remained until 1846. when he came 
 to Oregon and took up six hundred and forty 
 acres of land on French Prairie, Marion county. 
 His death occurred in 1867 in Waconda, Ore. In 
 early life he was a Whig, but later became a Re- 
 publican, upon the organization of the party. His 
 life was peculiar in some respects, for he never 
 saw a railroad in his travels, being invariably 
 ahead of them. He accumulated what was con- 
 sidered a large property in those days, and thus 
 he was able to give his large family, consisting 
 of seven daughters and six sons, a comfortable 
 home. Of the children reared in the pioneer 
 home. Hannah, who is deceased, became the wife 
 of John Sherwood ; George W. is living in Co- 
 lumbia Falls, Mont. ; Mary A. is now Mrs. C. O. 
 Boynton ; Bradford S. is the subject of this ar- 
 ticle ; Alvia is deceased ; Sarah A. is the wife of 
 E. Boynton ; Miriam is the wife of F. Hibbler. of 
 Santa Rosa, Cal. ; Trumann is deceased ; Lydia, 
 formerly wife of Eli C. Cooley, now wife of A. 
 Wood, of Woodburn : Laura, deceased, was mar- 
 ried to James Strong : Charles R. is a resident of 
 Portland ; Wisewell is deceased ; and Reuben, 
 
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 born in Oregon, is now in the saddle and harness 
 business in Portland, Ore. 
 
 As may be imagined, at that early day Mr. 
 Bonney had but limited educational advantages 
 in Illinois. After coming to California and Ore- 
 gon he was too busy framing his future to spend 
 much time attending school. His present broad, 
 general information is therefore all the more 
 creditable, for it suggests a practical application 
 in later years. The farm upon which he now 
 lives was in its natural state with one-third heav- 
 ily timbered in '49, but at present he has about 
 three hundred acres under cultivation. In the 
 early days as now his chief diversion was hunt- 
 ing and fishing, and many interesting stories he 
 can tell of the time when game could be sighted 
 from his cabin door, and when one always had a 
 gun at hand. His record included ten deer in a 
 day, when game was most plentiful. He killed 
 eleven elk during his lifetime. Bear abounded in 
 the region, and many were the skins which he 
 brought in from a chase. At the present time his 
 admiration for nature and her chances is as keen 
 as ever, and he takes frequent trips to the moun- 
 tains and rivers, coming back invariably well 
 laden and well content. So earnest has been Mr. 
 Bonney in cultivating his land that he has had 
 little time for politics, especially as he is inde- 
 pendent, and in voting is guided solely by the 
 personal qualifications of applicants. He is a 
 member and elder in the Christian Church, and 
 has been active in promoting the spiritual welfare 
 of that organization. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Bonney, to whom he was 
 married in 1848, was Alzina C. Dimick, a native 
 also of Ohio, born April 2, 1832, and whose 
 father, A. P. Dimick, was born in the state of 
 Vermont. From Ohio Mr. Dimick went to Boone 
 county, 111., where he resided for about twelve 
 years, then came to Oregon in 1847, crossing the 
 plains with ox teams, and locating on a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, where he 
 died at the age of seventy-eight years. He was 
 quite a politician, and a stanch Republican, filling 
 the office of justice of the peace for the greater 
 part of his life. Ten children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Bonney, four sons and five daughters 
 being alive at the present time. Of these, Augus- 
 tus A. is living in Hood River, eastern Oregon ; 
 George F. is a farmer, three miles east of Wood- 
 burn ; Sarah Ellen is the wife of B. F. Hall, of 
 Salem, Ore. ; Carrie M. is now Mrs. Young, of 
 Woodburn ; Charles T. lives in Woodburn ; John 
 Milton Wisewell also lives there ; Esther P. is the 
 wife of Elmer Hall, of Buena Vista; Laura is 
 the wife of Allen Shaw, of Woodburn ; and Ina 
 D., the youngest daughter, also lives in Wood- 
 burn. After living together forty-nine years the 
 wife and mother died April 2, 1897. The second 
 marriage of Mr. Bonney was solemnized in 
 
 Woodburn December 4, 1898, with Mrs. Agnes 
 Fisher, who was born in Cable county, W. Va., 
 and whose father, Capt. James Flanagan Fisher, 
 was born in Clarksburg, W. Va. Captain Fisher 
 was eight years captain on the Ohio river boats 
 between Pittsburg and New Orleans, and he was 
 afterward pilot for the same length of time. Be- 
 cause of contagious disease he was taken to the 
 pest house in Louisville, where, in a fit of de- 
 lirium, occasioned by high fever, he jumped out 
 of the window and killed himself. Mrs. Fisher 
 had five children by her former husband, of 
 whom all are living. In spite of advancing age 
 Mr. Bonney retains to a remarkable degree his 
 interest in the things around him, and his facul- 
 ties are not perceptibly impaired. His life has 
 been cast in honorable and industrious mold, and 
 his efforts have redounded to the credit of his 
 adopted state. Mr. Bonney has thirty-nine grand- 
 children and five great-grandchildren. 
 
 JOHN W. BLAND. When five years of age 
 John W. Bland became a resident of Oregon, 
 being brought here at that age by his parents, 
 Moses and Martha (Needham) Bland, who were 
 pioneers in 185 1. For a more complete record 
 of their lives refer to the sketch of George H. 
 Bland, which appears upon another page of this 
 work. John W. Bland was born May 4, 1846, 
 in Bartholomew county, Ind., but was reared 
 upon his father's donation claim in Linn county, 
 Ore., remaining upon this farm near Lebanon 
 until he had attained manhood, learning many 
 practical lessons in agriculture under the direc- 
 tion of his father. He also learned the carpen- 
 ter trade, and early began to work at this, which 
 he continued at intervals for many years. He 
 finally located upon the farm where he now lives, 
 near Lebanon, upon the Sodaville road, the 
 dwelling being about three-quarters of a mile 
 from the city. There are one hundred and ninety 
 acres in the place, upon which he is engaged in 
 carrying on general farming, stock-raising and 
 dairying, in all of which he has been successful. 
 
 September 28, 1865, before he was twenty 
 years old, Mr. Bland was united in marriage with 
 Elizabeth J. Powell, and the children born to 
 them are as follows : Lillie, deceased, who mar- 
 ried first Dexter Harris and afterward Charles 
 Blodgett; Mareda P., who married Miss Laura 
 Cornett, and who lives in Linn county; Wesley, 
 also a resident of Linn county ; Saloma, the wife 
 of Homer Osbourne, of Linn county; Carrie 
 the wife of William Calkins ; Lucy, who died 
 in Linn county ; Charles and Mae, at home. In 
 his political relations Mr. Bland affiliates with 
 the Republican party, and, like his father, is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church: 
 Fraternally, he is a member of Lebanon Lodge, 
 
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 No. 4/, I. O. O. F., having belonged to this 
 order for twenty-four years. Mr. Bland has 
 always been interested in all public movements, 
 ami especially along educational lines, in the in- 
 terest of the latter acting as a member of the 
 school board and trustee of the Santiam Acad- 
 emy, which position he held for several years. 
 
 THOMAS JEFFERSON MUNKERS. A 
 worthy representative of a family of Oregon 
 pioneers is found in Thomas Jefferson Munkers, 
 a native son of the great northwest, in which he 
 has proven himself so important a factor, through 
 the display of business sagacity and quick de- 
 cision taking a position of prominence in the 
 affairs of Scio, Linn county. He, with others, 
 established in 1892, a banking business in this 
 city, and as the holder of considerable stock he 
 became the president of the institution, and re- 
 mained so for three years. In 1895 he sold his 
 interest in the business, but in 1902 he bought it 
 back, then converting the bank into a private in- 
 stitution, which is now known as the bank of T. 
 J. Munkers & Co., with individual resources to 
 the amount of $50,000. 
 
 The records of the ancestry of the Munkers 
 family have been preserved for many years, the 
 grandfather, Benjamin, having been born in 
 Georgia, September 17, 1799, and was reared 
 in the state of Tennessee, where he became a 
 farmer. In 1814 he removed to Jackson county, 
 Mo., and from that state he crossed the plains 
 with ox-teams in 1846, via the Piatt river. Five 
 months from the beginning witnessed the end of 
 the journey and Mr. Munkers then took up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 upon which he remained until 1871, when he. 
 came to his son's home, near Scio, where his 
 death occurred at the age of eighty-five years. 
 He was an old school Baptist, and politically was 
 a Democrat. As a man who had met with suc- 
 cess throughout the course of a long life Mr. 
 Munkers was firmly fixed in his ideas and convic- 
 tions, believing in no half-way measures in one's 
 plans or beliefs. His son, Preston, the father 
 of our Mr. Munkers, was born in Jackson county, 
 Mo., November 28, 1820, and came with his 
 father to Oregon and located on a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres adjoining 
 Scio on the north, and lived there until his death, 
 at the age of sixty-nine years and eleven months. 
 Inheriting a progressive spirit he became the 
 owner of eight hundred acres of land, having met 
 with the same success which had characterized 
 the efforts of his father. With a religious and 
 thoughtful temperament, heightened by a physical 
 frame where weakness had early set its seal, 
 Mr. Munkers combined an earnest and helpful 
 
 spirit which was manifested in many acts of pub- 
 lic kindness, and the fulfillment of the duties of 
 a citizen. His death was a loss to the com- 
 munity. He married Nancy Jane Crank, a na- 
 tive of Missouri, having been born there July 
 18, 1830, and dying here April 25, 1858, when 
 only twenty-eight years old. She was the mother 
 of three sons and two daughters, of whom Mary 
 Susan was born April 15, 1847, an d died April 
 21, 1866; Amanda Melvina was born December 
 16, 1849, ar, d died August 18, 1866; John Riley 
 was born April 28, 185 1, and died May 7, of the 
 same year ; William Madison was born March 
 24, 1853, and died December 9, 187 1, in Cali- 
 fornia ; the youngest of the children being 
 Thomas Jefferson, of this review. 
 
 Thomas Jefferson Munkers was born on his 
 father's claim, one-half mile north of Scio, Linn 
 county, Ore., July 24, 1855, and was there reared 
 to manhood. He attended the common school in 
 the vicinity of his home, but the means for acquir- 
 ing knowledge in those early times being neces- 
 sarily limited, he has since acquired his wide 
 fund of information through intelligent contact 
 with the world, and through the medium of well 
 directed lines of reading. When seventeen years 
 of age he engaged in farming upon twenty-five 
 acres of land, which he rented. On account of 
 ill health he went to western Oregon in 1873, 
 and passed much of the time in hunting until 
 his return home in the following year. At that 
 period he took charge of his father's farm, and 
 has since conducted it, now owning eight hun- 
 dred and five acres, devoted entirely to stock- 
 raising, cattle and sheep forming the greater 
 part of the stock. In addition to his banking 
 interests he is manager of this large and produc- 
 tive farm. 
 
 In Washington county. Ore., Mr. Munkers 
 was married to Miss Louise O. McNamer, who 
 was born near Forest Grove, Washington county. 
 She is now the mother of four daughters, namely : 
 Sylvia J. ; Winnifred A. ; Inez C. ; and Opal L., 
 all of whom are at home. As a Democrat, inter- 
 ested in the progress of his city and community, 
 Mr. Munkers has often been called upon to serve 
 in various public offices, among these being that 
 of mayor, which he has ably filled for three 
 years. He is a member of the county central 
 committee, and almost every year acts as dele- 
 gate to the county convention. He was at one 
 time nominated for county commissioner, but 
 on account of his many absorbing duties he re- 
 fused to accept. For two terms he served as 
 road supervisor, and as school director for more 
 than ten years. In 1900 Mr. Munkers donated 
 the land which is now occupied by the flax mill 
 of this city. Fraternally Mr. Munkers has passed 
 all the chairs of the Blue Lodge of Masons, and 
 has also passed all the chairs of the Knights of 
 
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 Pythias. In religion he follows in the steps of 
 his ancestors, being a member of the Missionary 
 Baptist Church, in which he officiates as trustee. 
 
 JUSTUS E. HAMMOND. The substantial 
 and well-to-do citizens of Silverton are well rep- 
 resented by Mr. Hammond, who holds an as- 
 sured position in business, social and political 
 circles, and at the present time is' faithfully 
 serving as recorder of the city of Silverton. He 
 is a man of excellent ability and sound judgment, 
 and the architect of his own fortunes in the high- 
 est sense implied by the term, gaining success 
 in life by his own exertions. 
 
 In old colonial days two brothers surnamed 
 Hammond migrated from their Massachusetts 
 home to the British provinces, locating in Nova 
 Scotia, one of them being the great-grandfather 
 of Justus E. Hammond, on the paternal side. 
 In Nova Scotia, in the town of Cornwallis, lived 
 three brothers, Judah, Simon and Lothrop 
 Hammond, the latter being Mr. Hammond's 
 grandfather, who was born in the year 1765. He 
 was a man of deep religious convictions, a min- 
 ister of the Baptist denomination, and died in 
 1849, in the town of Andover, New Brunswick, 
 preaching to his little flock from the pulpit of 
 his church in the morning and dying in the 
 afternoon of that day. George Franklin Ham- 
 mond, father of Justus E., was born at Kings- 
 clear, New Brunswick, June 2, 1821. In early 
 life he settled in Andover, New Brunswick, 
 where he was engaged in farming and black- 
 smithing until his death, in 1879, at a compara- 
 tively early age. He married Joanna Wright, 
 who was born in New Brunswick, a daughter of 
 Deacon Justus Earl Wright, a successful lumber- 
 man and farmer, and a deacon of the Baptist 
 Church. Seven children blessed their union, two 
 sons and five daughters. 
 
 Justus E. Hammond, the third child of his pa- 
 rents, was born February 16, 1849, m Andover, 
 Victoria county, New Brunswick. He spent his 
 early life on the parental homestead, becoming 
 familiar with the various branches of agriculture 
 and obtaining the rudiments of his education in 
 the district school. At the age of nineteen years 
 he began the battle of life on his own account, 
 going westward to Maine, where he was em- 
 ployed in the lumber camps for awhile. Proceed- 
 ing still farther westward in 1871, he located 
 in Benona, Mich., accepting a position as head 
 sawyer in a lumber mill, of which he was after- 
 ward the manager. Returning to New Bruns- 
 wick in 1876, he visited his friends there for a 
 month, then crossed the continent to Washing- 
 ton, settling near the Sound. Not particularly 
 pleased with the country, however, Mr. Ham- 
 mond came from there to Oregon the following 
 
 spring, 1877, and became a resident of Silver- 
 ton, August 1, of that year, where he has since 
 remained. During the first few ensuing years 
 he worked at various employments, including 
 dairy ranching. In 1888 he bought a drug store 
 which he managed with excellent success for 
 twelve years, when, on account of impaired 
 health, he sold out that business, and has since 
 lived retired from active pursuits until accepting 
 the office of city recorder. During his business 
 career he found time to take up the study of 
 law, which he has continued to the present time. 
 On August 27, 1890, Mr. Hammond mar- 
 ried, in Silverton, Josephine Bodimer, who was 
 born in 1866, in Baden, Germany, but came to 
 this country with her parents when about a year 
 old. She died January 9, 1902, leaving three 
 children, namely: Anna, Josephine and Brock. 
 Mr. Hammond is a member of Silverton Lodge 
 No. 45, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 and is an earnest supporter of the principles of 
 the Republican party, although he takes no con- 
 spicuous part in politics. A man of sterling 
 integrity, he enjoys in a high degree the respect 
 and esteem of his fellow-citizens. 
 
 JOHN D. ARTHURS. From 1865 until 1879 
 the blacksmith shop of the Arthurs Brothers was 
 one of the chief centers of activity in Browns- 
 ville, Ore. All things considered, as much trade 
 came to them as fell to the lot of any other 
 business in the town, its rise from a very small 
 business being steady and substantial, and based 
 upon the excellent work which was done, thus 
 not only maintaining its earlier but adding to 
 its more recent patronage. A stroke of paralysis 
 in 1901 practically ended the business career of 
 the senior partner, John D. Arthurs, although he 
 had ostensibly retired from active participation 
 in its affairs in 1897, intending to devote his re- 
 maining years to his immediate home circle. 
 
 Not the least encouraging item of interest in 
 the life of Mr. Arthurs is the fact that he arrived 
 in Oregon with the small sum of twenty-five 
 cents, with which to begin his business career. 
 He had crossed the plains with ox-teams in 1863, 
 taking four months and a half to encompass the 
 same distance which he thirty-three years later 
 traveled over in three and a half days, sur- 
 rounded by every luxury known to modern trans- 
 portation. He had dreamed of a fortune easily 
 made in the mines of California, but this dream 
 seems not to have been realized, for he soon 
 after found employment in Stockton and then 
 in Visalia, Cal., coming from the latter town to 
 Jacksonville, Ore. Through a friend of his 
 brother, Jerry Martin, he succeeded in finding 
 help, and after six weeks set off for Brownsville, 
 a distance of more than two hundred miles, ac- 
 
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 complishing the distance in six days and a half, 
 in 1865 he started the blacksmith shop with 
 his brother, both men being experts in their line. 
 
 Mr. Arthurs became known for his unswerving 
 integrity, and for the courtesy and consideration 
 which entered into all of his business relations. 
 Many years before his retirement from business 
 he had won the sincere esteem of the entire 
 community, and his retirement, and subsequent 
 severe illness, have called forth many expressions 
 of regret and good will. 
 
 A southerner by birth and early training, Mr. 
 Arthurs was born near Murfreesboro, Tenn., 
 December 10, 1841, and comes of English pa- 
 ternal and Irish maternal ancestry. His paternal 
 great-grandfather came from England and set- 
 tled in North Carolina, where his father, Joseph, 
 was born, and whence he removed at the age of 
 fifteen to near Nashville, Tenn. He married near 
 Murfreesboro, Sarah Bingham, who was born 
 in Tennessee, and died at the age of forty-five 
 years, after rearing five sons and four daughters, 
 of whom John D. was the third child. The ma- 
 ternal great-grandfather, Bingham, came from 
 Ireland at an early day, presumably settling in 
 Tennessee, where William, the maternal grand- 
 father, was born, reared, and where he married 
 and died. Joseph Arthurs served in the Seminole 
 war under General Marion, and he removed to 
 Missouri in 1842, remaining there until enlist- 
 ing in the "last-call" regiment in Missouri in 
 1864. His Civil war experience though brief, 
 was nevertheless fatal, for he contracted small- 
 pox during the service, and died in an isolation 
 hospital far from friends or family, in March, 
 1864. 
 
 After locating in Brownsville, Ore., Mr. Ar- 
 thurs married Sarah Williams, who was born in 
 Rock Island, 111., June 15, 1844, and who is the 
 daughter of C. A. Williams, one of the pioneers 
 of 1845. Mr. Williams was born in New York 
 state, but became a very early settler of the farm- 
 ing district around Kalamazoo, Mich., whence 
 he removed to near Rock Island, 111. Here he 
 became interested in the tales which reached 
 him from the far west, and in 1845 disposed of 
 his interests and with his family crossed the plains 
 to Amity, Yamhill county, Ore. Here he took 
 up a donation claim which proved unsatisfactory, 
 and which he sold in 1846 and took up a claim 
 of a section on the Luckiamute river. To him 
 is given the credit of starting the first sawmill 
 on the Luckiamute, and of improving practically 
 the first claim. In 1850 he removed to near 
 Wells Station, Benton county, and in i860 traded 
 his land for a farm consisting of a section lo- 
 cated west of Brownsville, Linn county, where 
 his land for a farm consisting of a section lo- 
 complished much good in his life, and lived to 
 be seventy-one years, seven months and fifteen 
 
 days old. His wife, formerly Mary Barber, was 
 born in Pennsylvania, and died after the removal 
 of the family to Brownsville. Mr. Arthurs was 
 variously identified with affairs in Brownsville, 
 and in the earlier days held several local offies, 
 including that of councilman for two terms and 
 school director for several years. He was a 
 member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows and the Rebekahs, and his genial manner 
 ever made him a welcome visitor at these lodges. 
 Mr. Arthurs had a pleasant home in Browns- 
 ville, and his years of industry resulted in the 
 acquisition of a liberal competence. He died 
 at his home April 5, 1903, and was laid to rest 
 in the Odd Fellows cemetery, mourned by a large 
 circle of friends and missed by those who knew 
 him best. The Odd Fellows lodge performed 
 the last sad rite over the remains of their brother. 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Arthurs were born two chil- 
 dren : lone W., the wife of James M. Smith, of 
 Little Rock, Wash*; and Warren C, of Browns- 
 ville. 
 
 GEORGE H. BLAND. A well located and 
 substantially established farmer in the neighbor- 
 hood of Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., is George 
 H. Bland, who is intelligently engaged in the 
 cultivation of his farm of one hundred and 
 eighty-five acres. Mr. Bland is the son of Moses 
 and Martha Bland, pioneers of 185 1. The for- 
 mer left his home in Jennings county, Ind., to 
 which state he had removed in a comparatively 
 early day, and started across the plains in Feb- 
 ruary, 185 1, with five yoke of oxen, one cow and 
 a mare, the stock with which to furnish the 
 bountiful acres which were promised him be- 
 yond the Rockies. In September, 185 1, he ar- 
 rived safely with his family in Linn county, in 
 which section he remained until his death in 
 September, 1873, at the age of fifty-four years. 
 He first located on a donation claim of three 
 hundred and five acres one and a half miles west 
 of Lebanon, but later sold this and removed to 
 another farm near Lebanon, where he spent the 
 remainder of his days. Besides the effort which 
 Mr. Bland made to advance the interests of his 
 family, he took great interest in the church work 
 of the community, being an active worker in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife was for- 
 merly Miss Martha Needham, and of this union 
 three children were born, namely : George H., 
 of this review, born in Bartholomew county, 
 Ind., November 9, 1840; Samantha, the wife of 
 A. J. Powell, of Lebanon ; and John W., located 
 near this city. The mother died in July, 1895, 
 aged eighty-seven years. 
 
 George H. Bland was eleven years old when 
 the journey was made into the west, and it was 
 in the common schools of Oregon that the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 greater part of his education was received. Upon 
 attaining manhood he entered heartily into the 
 work of farming. He has been married twice, 
 his first wife being Barbara A. Leedy, the cere- 
 mony performed in May, 1862. One child was 
 born of this union, William A., now located in 
 Colorado. Mrs. Bland died in December, 1864, 
 and in January, 1866, Mr. Bland married Clara 
 M. Powell, and the four children born to them 
 are : Matilda O., who is the wife of John Miler ; 
 Minnie L., the wife of Marion Needham; Sa- 
 mantha R., the wife of D. W. Lawrence ; and 
 Clara P., at home. Mrs. Bland died in April, 
 1897. Like his father, Mr. Bland is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
 which he has served as a class leader for many 
 years. Interested in all public and educational 
 movements, he has served on the school board 
 in his vicinity. Fraternally Mr. Bland is promi- 
 nent among the Odd Fellows, being a mem- 
 ber of Lebanon Lodge No. 47, which he has rep- 
 resented in the Grand Lodge at several differ- 
 ent times. 
 
 SAMUEL HENRY HORTON. The lessons 
 which one gleans from the life of Samuel Henry 
 Horton are forceful and practical ones, and are 
 entirely destitute of the glamour which surrounds 
 the success of many men in the northwest. Noth- 
 ing but a hard hand-to-hand struggle with a not 
 over-indulgent fate has brought him where he is, 
 a representative of the brain and brawn and un- 
 tiring perseverance of the working noblemen of 
 the coast. To-day his sons are among the promi- 
 nent lumber merchants of Lane county, and he, 
 himself, is living in comfort in Corvallis, after 
 many years' association with crude, pioneer and 
 developing forces in the middle north and north- 
 western sections of the country. 
 
 It is supposed that the emigrating Horton an- 
 cestor settled in New Jersey, at least the paternal 
 grandfather, Samuel H., a blacksmith by trade, 
 was born there in Sussex county, and in time re- 
 moved with his family to the vicinity of London, 
 Ontario, Canada. His two brothers, Ezra and 
 John, remained in New Jersey. With Samuel H. 
 to Canada went his son, Peter, the father of 
 Samuel Henry, who also was born in Sussex 
 county, and who in time learned the blacksmith 
 trade in the little shop on the paternal farm, 
 twenty miles south of London. Peter married 
 Elizabeth Ramsey, a native of Canada, and 
 whose grandfather, Henry, was a farmer and 
 large land-owner in Ontario. In the little home 
 near the blacksmith shop Samuel Henry was 
 born April 5, 1834, the sixth of the three sons 
 and five daughters in his father's family, and of 
 whom two sons and one daughter are living. Of 
 the sons who served their country in the Civil 
 
 war, Thomas E. D. served in the Ninth Minne- 
 sota Volunteer Infantry and died in Eastport, 
 Miss. ; Peter Horton removed to the states in 
 1846, when his son Samuel was twelve years old, 
 settling six miles from Rockford, Winnebago 
 county, 111., where he began to vote at the end of 
 the first year, and where he died at an advanced 
 age. 
 
 What schooling Samuel Henry Horton re- 
 ceived up to his twelfth year was gained in the 
 seclusion of his home on the Canadian farm, for 
 the district as yet boasted of no means of edu- 
 cating its youth. He was strong of limb and 
 stout of heart when the family pulled up stakes in 
 Canada and started out with ox-teams for Illi- 
 nois, and after arriving in the wilderness of Win- 
 nebago county it was well that he had a rugged 
 constitution, t It befell him to assist in breaking 
 the hard and unyielding Illinois prairie, which 
 he accomplished with eight yoke of oxen, and 
 after many weary hours of toil with his father 
 and brothers. At the age of eighteen he began 
 to hire out to the surrounding farmers, and 
 about this time became interested in a threshing 
 venture, which he conducted for some years. 
 Threshing, as then conducted, was decidedly 
 primitive, horses being the motive power. 
 Threshing must have proved rather profitable, 
 however, for February 20, 1854, he married, in 
 Rockford, 111., Agnes C. Fertile, a native of St. 
 Lawrence, Ont, and daughter of Louis Fertile, 
 a native of Paris, France. Mr. Fertile was a 
 ship carpenter by trade, and was orphaned in 
 early life, being compelled to earn his living when 
 very young. After coming to the United States 
 he served in the war of 1812, and subsequently 
 lived in Oswego and Rockford, 111., where he 
 died at an advanced age. He married Julia De- 
 rosha, born in Ontario, and daughter of Stephen 
 Derosha, of French descent. Of this union there 
 were born fourteen children, ten daughters and 
 four sons, of whom two daughters and one son 
 are deceased. Three of the sons served in the 
 Civil war, and of these Louis C. became a ser- 
 geant in the Ninth Minnesota Infantry; William 
 was a soldier in the Third Minnesota, and 
 Charles died from freezing, in the campaign 
 against the Kola Indians. The year after his 
 marriage, in 1855, Mr. Horton removed to Roch- 
 ester, Minn., where he entered one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land, which he improved, and 
 where he managed to make a fair living. He be- 
 came well known in his community, and was 
 prospering beyond his expectations, when the 
 breaking out of the Civil war turned men's 
 thoughts from occupations, however peaceful, 
 into channels of carnage and destruction. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Horton enlisted as a private in 
 Company F, Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infan- 
 try, and was mustered in at Fort Snelling. The 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 first fifteen months he was engaged in the Indian 
 campaign along the frontier, and was then sent 
 south to Missouri, remaining there during 
 1863-4. He next participated in the Sturgis 
 raid, as duty sergeant, and was detailed to act as 
 quartermaster sergeant. Everything was cap- 
 tured by the enemy but a mule which Mr. Hor- 
 ton managed to save, and three men who made 
 their escape owing to his assistance, among 
 whom was Captain M. J. Daniels, of Riverside, 
 Cal. Retreating to Memphis, Tenn., he partici- 
 pated in the battle of Tupelo, Miss., and in va- 
 rious skirmishes in different parts of that state, 
 and afterward went after Price in Missouri. 
 Getting back to St. Louis, the regiment was sent 
 to Nashville, Tenn., and in time participated in 
 the famous battle of that town. Owing to wounds 
 received in the right arm, right side and through 
 the back, Mr. Horton was laid up in the hospital 
 until June 13, 1865, when he returned home, 
 after being mustered out in Louisville, Ky. 
 
 After the war Mr. Horton engaged in the ice 
 business in Rochester, Minn., for four years, and 
 in this town was born his oldest son, Henry 
 L.. the first white child born in that vicinity, 
 and who is now forty-eight years old. In the 
 meantime he had become interested in surveying, 
 and as an expert in his line was selected to go to 
 North Dakota to locate a colony, which he suc- 
 ceeded in doing in the northwestern part of the 
 state. Pleased with the locality, he moved there 
 himself, and soon after discovered coal on the 
 Cheyenne, which he proceeded to develop until 
 he had spent about all of his money in that way. 
 Thereafter he turned his attention to freighting 
 for the government, from Breckenridge, but soon 
 returned to Minneapolis in the hope of retrieving 
 his depleted finances. For three years he en- 
 gaged in pickling tripe and pigs' feet, and, in 
 1875, came to Oregon, locating in Harrisburg, 
 Linn county, where he engaged in the butchering 
 business for three years. In 1879 he came to 
 Benton county, and settled on a farm six miles 
 west of Monroe, where he built a water saw-mill 
 on Napoleon creek. This crude mill proved the 
 foundation of the large lumbering business in 
 which his sons are now engaged, and in which 
 Mr. Horton himself made a small fortune. The 
 primitive mill was later transformed into a mod- 
 ern steam mill with a capacity of ten thousand 
 feet of lumber per day. As success came to him 
 he added to his land, and in time had a farm of 
 one hundred and twenty acres, one of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, and one of eighty acres, 
 making in all three hundred and sixty acres. He 
 finally sold his saw-mills and lumber business to 
 his sons, but up to this day retains possession of 
 his ranch, which is rented to responsible parties. 
 
 In September, 1902, Mr. Horton moved into 
 Corvallis, where he intends spending the balance 
 
 of his life. Although advanced in years, and 
 after accomplishing more hard work than falls to 
 the lot of the average or even exceptionally busy 
 man, he is still hale and hearty, and the personi- 
 fication of western enterprise. He is an expert 
 mason and carpenter, and during his residence in 
 Benton county has built some of the finest and 
 largest bridges in the county. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and though devoted to the best 
 interests of his party, has never been officially 
 connected therewith. Fraternally, he is identi- 
 fied with the Masons, and with the Ellsworth 
 Post, G. A. R., of Corvallis. Of the four sons 
 and five daughters born to this honored pioneer 
 and his wife, Henry L. is a farmer and en- 
 gineer in Benton county; Everett Jerome is a 
 lumber merchant in this county; Belle is now 
 Mrs. Enbody of Spokane, Wash.; Julia is now 
 Mrs. Robson, of Walla Walla; Agnes is Mrs. 
 Kelly, of Spokane, Wash. ; Samuel is a lumber 
 manufacturer of Benton county; Adelaide E. is 
 Mrs. Conrad Gerhard; John is a lumber mer- 
 chant, of this county, and Alice is Mrs. Hauck, of 
 Gold Hill, Ore. Everett, Samuel and John com- 
 prise the firm of Horton Brothers Lumber Com- 
 pany, large lumber manufacturers, with mills 
 sixteen miles west of Monroe Junction. 
 
 ELIJAH SKIPTON. The venerable and at 
 the same time successful farmers of Benton 
 county include Elijah Skipton, whose hand has 
 not lost its cunning, or whose judgment has not 
 been impaired by long usage. Since coming to 
 Oregon, first in 1853, many acres of land have 
 been tilled by him, and many harvests gathered 
 into his commodious barns, there to await their 
 utilization as food for man or beast. Even at 
 the present time were Mr. Skipton unable to 
 make his living as a farmer he could turn his at- 
 tention to coopering with reasonable assurance 
 of success, for he learned this trade in Iowa. He 
 was born November 17, 1831, in Monroe county, 
 Ohio. From the age of seventeen "he has looked 
 out for himself, and nothing of any practical 
 value has come to him that has not been earned 
 by his own industry. A fair common school edu- 
 cation was acquired during the winter months of 
 his childhood, but it may be said that he has 
 learned far more from practical experience and 
 keen observation than he ever did from books. 
 
 In 1851 Mr. Skipton removed to Iowa, and, in 
 1853, crossed the plains in an ox-train, being six 
 months on the way. After six months of inves- 
 tigation in Oregon he went to California, and for 
 three years mined and prospected with varying 
 success. Returning to Iowa in 1856 he married 
 Mary Marshall, a native of Ohio, and thereafter 
 farmed for six years, or until returning to Ore- 
 gon, in 1865. This time he thought to improve 
 
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 upon his former traveling equipment, and chose 
 horses and mules rather than oxen, a change 
 which soon demonstrated its advisability. As be- 
 fore, he got through without any serious mishap, 
 and the first winter in Oregon stopped near 
 Philomath, the following spring purchasing one 
 hundred and seventy acres of the James Chism 
 donation claim, two miles south of Philomath. 
 From time to time he added to his land, for he 
 was successful in his adopted state, and at one 
 time owned six hundred acres. This large prop- 
 erty has been divided among his children, and at 
 present he owns but one hundred and ninety-one 
 acres. He has twenty acres in a prune orchard, 
 but otherwise his farm is devoted to general 
 farming and stock-raising. A fair sized two- 
 story frame dwelling makes a comfortable home 
 for his family, and his barns and outbuildings, 
 agricultural implements and fences bespeak the 
 careful, progressive and painstaking agri- 
 culturist. 
 
 A stanch advocate of Democracy, Mr. Skipton 
 has been prominently before the public as an 
 office-holder, having held many positions of trust 
 and responsibility in his county. For two years 
 he served as county commissioner, for nine years 
 as county assessor.' Seven children have been 
 born to himself and wife, of whom Isabelle is the 
 wife of Professor Horner, of Corvallis ; Rufus is 
 farming in this vicinity; Frank is a resident of 
 Albany ; Otis lives near this place ; Virtue is de- 
 ceased, as is also Columbia and Archie. Mr. 
 Skipton has made the most of his opportunities 
 in this northwestern country, and while doing so 
 has won the respect and good will of a host of 
 friends and associates. 
 
 SCHULTZ BROTHERS. No two men 
 living in Albany today are more closely con- 
 nected with its substantial growth than the 
 Schultz Brothers, owners and managers of one 
 of the best meat markets and packing concerns 
 this side of Portland in the Willamette valley. 
 In the make-up of these two men are the social 
 and economic traits which render the firm so 
 admirable an adjunct to any community, and 
 whose conservatism and practicability temper 
 the enthusiasm of less cautious men. However, 
 inheritance rather than birth is responsible for 
 the characteristics noted in the present instance, 
 for both the brothers owe patriotic allegiance 
 to this country, Pennsylvania being their 
 native state. 
 
 Herman R. Schultz, the senior member of the 
 firm, was born in Pittston, Luzerne county, Pa., 
 November 4, 1859, his father, Rudolph, having 
 settled there when he came to America in 185 1. 
 Rudolph Schultz was born on his father's estate 
 (Middle Gulmkau) county of Dantzic, West 
 
 Prussia, Germany, and came to the United States 
 at the age of twenty, equipped with a college 
 education and considerable knowledge of busi- 
 ness. With his brother-in-law, Mr. Stunner, he 
 engaged in a grocery and meat market business 
 at Pittston, Pa. About 1878 Mr. Schultz re- 
 moved to Beverly, W. Va., and engaged in the 
 hotel business, afterward taking up his resi- 
 dence in Omaha, Neb., where he again engaged 
 in the meat business, then removed to Al- 
 bany, Ore., in 1889 and went into the real 
 estate business. He is now living retired in 
 Albany, and having been born May 30, 1831, is 
 past seventy years of age. He is a Republican 
 in politics and is fraternally an Odd Fellow. 
 His wife, Annetta (Himmen) Schultz, came with 
 her father from Germany and located in Pitts- 
 ton, where her father died. Mrs. Schultz died 
 in March, 1902, in Albany, Ore. The second of 
 the five children in his father's family, Herman 
 R. has a sister living in Albany, while his 
 brother William is engaged in the meat business 
 in Woodburn ; his sister, Louise, is now Mrs. 
 Goff of West Virginia ; and his brother Freder- 
 ick is his partner in business. From boyhood 
 up Herman worked at the butcher's trade and 
 at the age of eighteen moved with his father to 
 West Virginia and worked in the hotel for four 
 years. At the age of twenty-two he went to 
 Fort Worth, Tex., but not liking it there came 
 west to Omaha in 1884, and ran a meat market 
 until 1889. He then came to Albany, Ore., and 
 became interested in the real estate business, and 
 among other accomplishments connected there- 
 with laid out the Schultz addition, covering ten 
 acres. In 1891 he became identified with his 
 brother Frederick in their present meat market 
 and packing business, bought this market, and 
 has enlarged and improved it, introducing modern 
 machinery for grinding and preparing meats. 
 The firm has its slaughter house west of the 
 town, and pack bacon and ham, selling at 
 wholesale as well as retail, and it fortunately 
 has at its head two men who thoroughly under- 
 stand their business, and are conscientious and 
 fair in dealing with their constantly increasing 
 trade. 
 
 The extent of Mr. Schultz's responsibili- 
 ties is by no means confined to his meat 
 business, for there is scarcely an advance made 
 in the general upbuilding of the town in which 
 he is not in some way connected. His success 
 has enabled him also to proceed independently, 
 as evinced by his building the Albany Opera 
 House in 1902. This place of entertainment 
 would do credit to much larger and older com- 
 munities, and by experts is pronounced the 
 finest in the valley outside of Portland. The 
 building is 50x100 feet, ground dimensions, and 
 has a seating capacity of eight hundred. Mod- 
 

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 ern in construction and suitable in every way 
 to the purpose for which it was intended the 
 stage is of such size that almost anything out- 
 siile oi grand opera can be produced properly. 
 Mr. Schultz is otherwise a property owner in 
 Albany, and a part of his property has been 
 made through the transference of town and city 
 lands. He is fraternally popular, and is con- 
 nected with the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and the Woodmen of the World. He mar- 
 ried in Omaha. Neb., Belle Daniels, who was 
 born in West Virginia, and who is the mother of 
 three children, Irvin, Mabel and Xeta. 
 
 Frederick Schultz, junior partner in the firm 
 of Schultz Brothers, was born in Pittston, Lu- 
 zerne county, Pa.. April 2, 1866, and with his 
 father afterward removed to West Virginia and 
 Omaha, in both of which towns he was inter- 
 ested in business with his father and brother. 
 Like his brother partner, he early learned the 
 butcher's trade, and for years profited by the 
 business sagacity and ability of his capable and 
 very successful father. In 1889 Mr. Schultz 
 came to Albany and engaged in the meat busi- 
 ness with his brother, William, the latter of 
 whom sold his interest to Herman Schultz in 
 1891. since which Frederick and Herman have 
 amicably and very successfully conducted their 
 affairs. 
 
 In Albany Mr. Schultz married Lucy Gann, 
 who was born in Illinois, and of which union 
 there have been born four children : Earl, Louis, 
 Anna and Helen, the last two being twins. Like 
 his brother, Mr. Schultz is a Republican, and is 
 fraternally associated with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen and Woodmen of the 
 World. A shrewd and practical business man, 
 and a genial and large hearted companion, Mr. 
 Schultz has many friends in Albany who pre- 
 dict a career of unusual financial success. 
 
 ERHARD WOLFARD. One of the most 
 venerable and honored of the retired citizens of 
 Silverton is E. Wolfard. formerly an extensive 
 agriculturist of Marion county, and actively 
 identified with its most substantial upbuilding. 
 Mr. Wolfard was born in Alsace, December 22, 
 18 18, and was just ten years of age when his 
 parents came to the United States. His father 
 followed the art of weaving for many years in 
 France, but after coming to America engaged 
 exclusively in farming. The family were sixty- 
 four days on the water, the sailing vessel meeting 
 with many storms and delaying calms. They 
 settled in Stark county, Ohio, near Canton, and 
 there lived between the years of 1828 and 183^. 
 Their next home was in Scioto county, Ohio, 
 where the mother died in 1835, anf l the father 
 married a second time. He died at the age of 
 sixty-eight years. 
 
 From the public schools E. Wolfard stepped 
 into a carpenter's apprenticeship, and at the same 
 time learned to be a blacksmith. These combined 
 trades he followed for many years in Ohio, in 
 which state, September 14, 1839, he married 
 Aramatha Shope, a native of Ohio, and with 
 whom he continued to live in Scioto county until 
 1853. He then outfitted and started across the 
 plains with ox-teams, being six months on the 
 way, and having a fairly pleasant journey. The 
 Indians were not particularly troublesome, nor 
 were the ranks of the little party disturbed by 
 cholera or other serious illness. The family set- 
 tled about five miles south of Silverton, where 
 Mr. Wolfard bought a squatter's right, which he 
 afterward proved up, and upon which he insti- 
 tuted many fine improvements. On his farm he 
 had a little blacksmith and wagon shop, which he 
 conducted for many years with fair success until 
 moving into Silverton in 1887. For a short time 
 in this town, he engaged in a mercantile business 
 with his son, John, and then bought the ten acres 
 of land comprising his present home, just outside 
 the corporation of Silverton. He erected on his 
 land a modern and comfortable dwelling and 
 other buildings, and is pleasantly located and 
 apparently enjoying the evening of a useful 
 and worthy life. He still owns three hundred and 
 sixteen acres of his original claim, which nets 
 him a handsome income each year. 
 
 In politics Mr. Wolfard is a Republican, and 
 has served as a school director for manv years. 
 Since 1849 he has been identified with the 
 Masons, having been initiated into the order in 
 Western Sun Lodge No. 91, at Wheelersburg, 
 Ohio, and is now a member of Silverton Lodge 
 No. 45, A. F. & A. M. Twelve children have 
 been born to himself and wife, of whom the fol- 
 lowing are living: John M., who married Kate 
 McCalpin, and is now a resident of Silverton ; 
 Mary, living with her parents; Amelia, wife of 
 R. W. Carey, of Salem, the parents of three chil- 
 dren ; Geneva A., wife of Timothy D. Allen, re- 
 siding in this vicinity ; Charles D., who married 
 Sarah Ann Small, the daughter of Isaac Small, 
 of Turner, a pioneer of 1854, and with his family 
 of nine children is living near Silverton ; Eda, 
 wife of John H. Riches, of Marion county. Mrs. 
 Wolfard died July 13, 1866, aged forty -one 
 years, five months and seven days. Mr. Wolfard 
 has realized many of his expectations since com- 
 ing to this country, and the land of his adoption 
 has benefited by his public-spirit and worthy 
 undertakings. 
 
 EDWARD BUXTON. As one of the keen, 
 enterprising manufacturers of Corvallis, and a 
 citizen of sterling worth and character, Mr. 
 Buxton is well deserving of honorable mention 
 in this biographical work. As junior member 
 
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 of the firm of Sheasgreen & Buxton, he is 
 actively identified with one of the largest and 
 best known manufacturing establishments of 
 the kind in Benton county, and indirectly con- 
 nected with the building interests of all parts 
 of the country, the products of the Central 
 Planing Mills and Box Factory, the plant of 
 this firm, being shipped to all sections of the 
 United States, although more especially used 
 in Oregon and the near-by states. 
 
 A native of Washington county, Ore., Ed- 
 ward Buxton was born July 28, 1850, in Forest 
 Grove, a son of the late Henry Buxton. His 
 Grandfather Buxton, who was born and reared 
 in Yorkshire, England, was employed by the 
 Hudson Bay Company to come to Manitoba 
 with the first colony sent over, the ship in 
 which he emigrated being frozen in Hudson 
 Bay throughout the winter. Arriving in Man- 
 itoba, he operated a grist mill near Winnipeg 
 until 1 841, when he came to Oregon, settling 
 on Tualatin Plains, taking up land, which he 
 improved. Later he began farming about a 
 mile west of Forest Grove, still later locating 
 in Forest Grove, where he resided until his 
 death, at the age of seventy-six years. 
 
 Born in Manitoba, Canada, Henry Buxton 
 lived there until twelve years old, when he 
 came with his parents to Oregon, coming with 
 ox carts as far as the. Rocky Mountains, when 
 the country became so rough that the oxen 
 and few horses had to be packed with the 
 goods and many of the party were forced to 
 walk a part of the remaining journey. He as- 
 sisted his father in clearing a homestead, and 
 on reaching man's estate began farming on 
 his own account, buying a right and having it 
 recorded. Continuing in his chosen vocation, 
 he met with both profit and pleasure in his 
 work, carrying on general farming near Forest 
 Grove throughout his life. He married Ro- 
 sanna Wooley, who was borjn in Ohio, a 
 daughter of Jacob Wooley, who crossed the 
 plains in 1845 with his family, and settled on 
 a farm in Tualatin, Ore., where he spent his 
 remaining days. Of the twelve children born 
 of their union, Edward is the oldest child of 
 the six boys and one girl now living. The 
 father and mother both died in Forest Grove 
 several years ago. 
 
 Reared on the home farm, Edward Buxton 
 remained beneath the parental roof until sev- 
 enteen years old, completing his early educa- 
 tion at the Tualatin Academy. Having an 
 aptitude for mechanical pursuits he learned the 
 carpenter's trade in Forest Grove, and was 
 there engaged as a carpenter and builder until 
 1878. The ensuing two years he was em- 
 ployed in the planing mill owned by Adams & 
 Jones, in McMinnville, going from there to 
 
 Portland, Ore., where he remained success- 
 fully engaged as a contractor and builder for 
 ten years. Returning to Forest Grove in 1890, 
 he operated a planing mill there for five years, 
 then located in Corvallis as a contractor and 
 builder. In 1899 Mr. Buxton purchased the 
 interest of James Gray in the Central Planing 
 Mill and Box Factory, as mentioned in the 
 sketch of F. P. Sheasgreen, on another page 
 of this volume, becoming junior member of 
 one of the most enterprising firms of Benton 
 county, and has since carried on a thriving 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Buxton married, while living in Forest 
 Grove, Elizabeth Roderick, a native of Illinois, 
 and into their household four children have 
 been born, namely : George H., a machinist 
 in the Portland Iron Works ; Daisy A., wife 
 of George O. Sloan, proprietor of the Forest 
 Grove Hotel ; Harry E., a carpenter in Corval- 
 lis ; and Minnie, a nurse in the Good Samaritan 
 Hospital, at Portland, Ore. Politically Mr. 
 Buxton is a firm believer in the Republican 
 party, supporting it by all the means within 
 his power, and while a resident of Forest 
 Grove served as city recorder two terms. Fra- 
 ternally he is a member of Holbrook Lodge, 
 No. 30, A. F. & A. M., of Forest Grove; and 
 of the Eastern Star Chapter, of Corvallis. He 
 is also a member of the Native Sons of Ore- 
 gon. 
 
 ROBERT O. LOGGAN, M. D. A very 
 prominent man in medical circles and one 
 who has well earned his position among his 
 professional associates is Dr. Robert O. Log- 
 gan, since 1889 a resident of Oregon, previous 
 to that date being known in the Mississippi 
 valley. His birth occurred in Polk county, 
 Iowa, June 23, 1854, his father being Robert 
 Loggan, of Scotch-Irish descent, a native of 
 Ohio, born in that state October 25, 1820. In 
 addition to the life of a farmer, to which he 
 had been reared, the father devoted his time 
 and attention as much as possible to minis- 
 terial work, being a member of the United 
 Brethren Church. When but twenty years of 
 age he removed to Indiana and located twelve 
 miles south of Terre Haute, where he engaged 
 in farming and religious work. In 1853 he 
 settled in Polk county, Iowa, eighteen miles 
 northwest of Des Moines, on government land, 
 and continued his double vocation, for many 
 years being elder of the church in his locality. 
 In 1886 he retired from the active cares of 
 life, and after traveling through the country, 
 occasionally preaching, for a couple of years, 
 made his home in Philomath until his death, 
 August 16, 1903. He was a Republican in 
 
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 1171 
 
 his political principles and was always a strong 
 abolitionist. 
 
 The wife who shared the early pioneer life 
 of Mr. Loggan was in maidenhood Miss Kath- 
 erine Pickard, born in Vigo county, Ind., the 
 daughter of John A. Pickard, a native of 
 Georgia. In 1817 he removed to Indiana and 
 settled in Vigo county, where he successfully 
 engaged in farming and carpenter work, and 
 where he died in 1863, at the age of eighty- 
 three years, having acquired quite a com- 
 petency. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Loggan were nine in number, being four sons 
 and five daughters, all of whom are living ex- 
 cept two. Mrs. Loggan died July 29, 1903, 
 nearly eighty-four years of age. 
 
 The fifth of his father's family was Robert 
 O. Loggan, and until twenty-one years of age 
 he remained at home, interspersing his duties 
 with attendance at the public schools. Upon 
 attaining his majority he entered Lane Uni- 
 versity, located at Le Compton, Kans., and 
 continued his studies from the fall of 1875 until 
 1881, when he graduated with the degree of 
 B. S. In 1892 the same college conferred upon 
 him the honorary degree of M. S. Upon leav- 
 ing college he began teaching school with a 
 view to studying medicine when financially 
 able. In the fall of 1884 he entered the Ec- 
 lectic Medical Institute, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 from which he was graduated in 1886. Set- 
 tling in Cuba, Republic county, Kans., he soon 
 built up a lucrative practice, remaining, how- 
 ever, but three years before coming to Ore- 
 gon, where his success has been but the out- 
 growth of the energy and intelligence displayed 
 throughout the entire business life of Dr. Log- 
 gan. In addition to a general practice he has 
 become largely interested in the political and 
 social life of the city of Philomath. For three 
 years he has served as mayor, and has been 
 a member of the council for a like number 
 of years ; he has served as school director for 
 eight years, and is at present chairman of 
 the school board, and is also on the county 
 central committee. 
 
 Dr. Loggan was married in Le Compton to 
 Ellen M. Ferris, a native of Indiana, and the 
 daughter of John Ferris, who was born on 
 board the vessel on which his parents were 
 crossing the Atlantic ocean. He was a farmer 
 and spent the last twenty-five years of his life 
 in Le Compton, dying there in 1901. He had 
 served as justice of the peace for many years 
 before his death. Of the union of Dr. and Mrs. 
 Loggan has been born one child, Charles F., 
 who still makes his home with his parents, and 
 is now taking a business course in the college 
 of this city. In his fraternal associations Dr. 
 Loggan is identified with the Independent Or- 
 
 der of Odd Fellows ; the Rebekahs ; and Wood- 
 men of the World, having served as examining 
 physician for the last order. In his profession 
 Dr. Loggan has attained considerable success 
 since coming to the west, having served from 
 1898 to 1901 on the board of pension examiners 
 of this county, and at present he holds the po- 
 sition of secretary of the State Eclectic Med- 
 ical Association, and is a prominent member 
 of the National Eclectic Medical Association. 
 
 CHARLES H. NEWTH, M. D. With that 
 perseverance and dogged determination for 
 which his countrymen are famed, Charles H. 
 Newth has worked out a well directed destiny 
 in the United States, and aside from prose- 
 cuting a successful medical and surgical prac- 
 tice in Philomath, has engaged in other occu- 
 pations of merit in different parts of the coun- 
 try. In his native county of Wiltshire, Eng- 
 land, where he was born January 22, 1857, he 
 received that practical early training accorded 
 the average youth in the inland counties, and 
 by substantial and correct living laid the foun- 
 dation for the good health which has ever been 
 an aid to his progress. His father, Alfred 
 Bethel Newth, was born in Gloucestershire, 
 western England, August 2, 1823, and from his 
 native county removed to Wiltshire, where he 
 farmed and prospered, and where his death 
 occurred at the age of seventy-four years. He 
 was the son of Charles Newth, also born in 
 England, and like himself a farmer by occu- 
 pation. Alfred Newth died about ten years 
 after the death of his wife, formerly Mary 
 Ann Adkins, who was born in Oxfordshire, 
 another inland English county, May 6, 1827. 
 
 The second child and oldest son in the fam- 
 ily of two sons and three daughters, Charles 
 Newth was educated in the common schools 
 of England, and in 1872, when fifteen years 
 of age, his uneventful life was broadened by 
 a rare opportunity. With some cousins he 
 came to the United States, brimful of that 
 enthusiasm and expectancy which finds its ma- 
 ture expression in the successful careers of 
 the noble adopted sons of the western slope. 
 Like the majority, his was an humble begin- 
 ning, for he secured employment in the meat 
 market of his relatives at Harvard, Neb., thus 
 saving a little money, and gaining a start in 
 the new country. After a year he went to 
 work on a farm in the vicinity of Lincoln, 
 Neb., and in 1874 engaged as clerk for Dr. 
 W. H. Dunning, of Waverly, Neb. This posi- 
 tion gave him his real start in life, for while 
 with the doctor he studied medicine, and in- 
 tended to forthwith complete his course at. 
 some well known college. However, his plans 
 
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 were temporarily postponed owing to the ill- 
 ness of his father, on account of which he 
 returned to England, and while there clerked 
 in a drug store at Horncastle, Lincolnshire, 
 for a year. 
 
 Returning to America in 1878, Mr. Newth 
 located in Rooks county, Kans., and home- 
 steaded a claim near Stockton, which he turned 
 to various uses. In time he opened a drug 
 store and postoffice, and, after his native town 
 in England, called the aggregation of interests 
 Minety. His affairs in Kansas prospering, he 
 traded some of his cattle for an eighth interest 
 in the town site of Nicodemus, Graham county, 
 Kans., and this property is still in his posses- 
 sion. In 1886 he carried out his determination 
 to complete his medical studies and entered 
 the Ensworth Medical College at St. Joseph, 
 Mo., from which he was duly graduated in 1889. 
 Thereafter he engaged in practice in Nico- 
 demus until 1891, in which year he migrated 
 to the west, locating in Vernonia, Columbia 
 county, Ore. In 1898 he abandoned a lucrative 
 practice in the northern town and came to 
 Philomath, which has since been his home, 
 and where he has built up a large and re- 
 munerative practice. 
 
 With him from Rooks county, Kans., Dr. 
 Newth brought his wife, formerly Mabel A. 
 Woodward, a native of Iowa, and who died in 
 Philomath in 1902, at the age of forty-three 
 years. Three children were born of this union, 
 Charles W., Winnifred, and Fay. For his 
 second wife Dr. Newth married, in October, 
 1902, Amanda Ruble, also born in Iowa. Dr. 
 Newth is a Republican in political affiliation, 
 and is at present a member of the city council 
 and pension examiner. He is examining phy- 
 sician for the Ancient Order United Work- 
 men and the Modern Woodmen of America, 
 and Degree of Honor. In religion he is asso- 
 ciated with the liberal branch of the United 
 Brethren Church. Skillful in diagnosis and 
 treatment, Dr. Newth commands the confi- 
 dence of the community of Philomath, his 
 public-spirited interest in the general affairs 
 of the town increasing his popularity, and 
 adding to his prestige as one of the foremost 
 citizens of the county. 
 
 JOSEPH DIMMICK. As a pioneer to the 
 western state Joseph Dimmick was like many 
 others, having attained a good age before he 
 ventured into a new land and new conditions, 
 among which he must hew out a pathway for 
 himself and the children for whom he must also 
 win a competence. He was born in Connecticut 
 early in the nineteenth century, and when quite 
 
 young he accompanied his parents to the state 
 of Ohio, where he remained for many years. 
 
 On attaining manhood Mr. Dimmick married 
 Comfort Dean, a native of Virginia, and they 
 lived in Ohio until 1828, when they removed to 
 Illinois, and there remained for twenty-four years, 
 in 1852 being tempted to change their location 
 by the glowing narrations of the brilliant oppor- 
 tunities to be found beyond the Rocky moun- 
 tains. Breaking the ties and associations of 
 many pleasant and profitable years they prepared 
 for the journey across the plains, making the 
 same by means of ox-teams. Beyond the events 
 incident to a trip of this nature in the early days 
 they met with no mishap and arrived safely at 
 their destination, the state of Oregon, the broad, 
 rich lands, rather than the wealth of gold, having 
 attracted them from the comparative affluence 
 of the middle west. Mr. Dimmick at once took 
 up a donation claim, located fourteen miles south 
 of Corvallis, and which William Porter now owns. 
 He here engaged in general farming and re- 
 mained until his death, both himself and wife 
 living to be over fifty years old. 
 
 Of the children born to them Joseph and Ben- 
 jamin are twins, the former now located in Oak- 
 land, Cal., and the latter in Grant's Pass, Joseph- 
 ine county, Ore. ; John and Samuel are in Spo- 
 kane, Wash. ; Athie is now Mrs. Starr, of Cali- 
 fornia ; Elizabeth is Mrs. Starr, of Benton county ; 
 Mary is in eastern Oregon, and Lucinda is now 
 Mrs. Campbell, of Grant's Pass. 
 
 THOMAS D. REEVES. One of the very 
 earliest pioneers in Benton county, Ore., was 
 Thomas D. Reeves, who took up what is claimed 
 to be the first donation claim of land so taken in 
 the county. It is located fifteen miles south- 
 west of Corvallis, and two miles east of Bell- 
 fountain, and consists of six hundred and forty 
 acres. The property is variously occupied at the 
 present date, a part of it having passed into the 
 hands of other parties, James E. Edwards now 
 owning the piece upon which Mr. Reeves first 
 made his home. 
 
 Mr. Reeves was born in Ohio, March 6, 1814, 
 his father being a tanner by trade, to which life 
 the son was reared. He remained at home in 
 Ohio until 1843, at that date preparing to take 
 the long and hazardous journey across the plains. 
 His outfit consisted of the usual articles neces- 
 sary for the trip, the patient, trusty oxen being 
 used to draw the wagons. It was fortunate that 
 they met with no trouble from the Indians, for 
 they were called upon to endure every sort and 
 description of hardship and privation before the 
 end of the journey was reached. After several 
 months the party arrived in Oregon and Mr. 
 Reeves first took up a donation claim on Tualatin 
 
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 plains. Washington county, leaving it shortly, 
 however, to come into Benton county and take 
 up the claim previously mentioned. 
 
 In 1840 Mr. Reeves married Nancy Lloyd, who 
 crossed the plains in 1845, and settled in this 
 vicinity, and on this property they continued to 
 make their home up to the time of their, deaths 
 with the exception of four or five years, he living 
 to he seventy-two and she to be thirty-three. Of 
 the children horn to them Eliza is now the wife of 
 William Barclay, of this vicinity; Louisa is in 
 Dayton, Wash.; and Anna is the wife of Edwin 
 \. Starr. Mr. Reeves carried on general farming 
 and stock-raising, and though interested in his 
 work always found time to take an active part 
 in the affairs of the community. He was al- 
 wavs interested in politics, being a stanch Demo- 
 crat, and was also very philanthropical, giving 
 freely of means which became his through the 
 years of effort, giving' to churches and schools 
 and to anyone in need who called upon him for 
 assistance. He was a justly popular man, an 
 enviable place in the esteem of the people of 
 this county being his, and his death was a loss 
 felt by many. 
 
 SAMUEL R. CLAYPOOL. More than ordi- 
 nary mention is due the family of which Samuel 
 R. Claypool is a typical representative, for al- 
 though this honored pioneer has lived in retire- 
 ment since November, 1902, both himself and his 
 father have materially impressed their business 
 sagacity and sterling worth upon the develop- 
 ment of Linn county. Those fearless men who 
 factd unknown dangers and pressed forward in 
 spite of Indian attacks, inclement weather and 
 dire illness, with a singleness of purpose but 
 dimly understood in these days of selfish ease, 
 will ever receive the credit for planting the germs 
 of modern civilization on the western slope. In 
 1846 the Claypool family were living near St. 
 Joseph, Mo., whither they had removed from 
 Hendricks county, Ind., where Samuel R. had 
 been born August 28, 1836. The father, who 
 reared a family of eleven children, was called 
 David, after a remote ancestor, and his birth oc- 
 curred in Virginia in 1797. His father, Reuben, 
 born in the eastern part of the country, was of 
 Irish descent, and died after establishing his 
 family in Virginia. David Claypool left Virginia 
 in 1 8 18, and with his brother located in Hen- 
 dricks county, Ind., and in 1841 David moved to 
 Andrew county, Mo., on the farm near St. Joseph, 
 bringing with him his wife, Nancy (Rooker) 
 Claypool, who was born in Tennessee, and died 
 on the home place in Oregon in 1861, at the age 
 of fifty-nine years. John Rooker, the maternal 
 grandfather, was born in London, England, and 
 came to the United States long before the col- 
 
 onies revolted against English tyranny. During 
 the Revolutionary war he served as a butcher in 
 the commissary department, and his death oc- 
 curred in Indiana at an advanced age. David 
 Claypool was an ambitious man, and the pros- 
 pects of life in the far west appealed to him with 
 irresistible force. So firmly convinced was he 
 of the wisdom of his decision that he sold his 
 farm in Andrew county, and with his family 
 and entire worldly possessions prepared to cross 
 the plains in 1846. The present town of Mar- 
 quam occupies his first donation claim in the 
 state, but he failed to prove up on this property, 
 and in January, 1848, he took up a claim at the 
 forks of the Santiam river. Lonely and isolated 
 from neighbors or signs of civilization, he cleared 
 his land, but never fully realized its fertility or 
 resourcefulness, for his death occurred in 1857, 
 eleven years after his emigration, at the age of 
 sixty-one years. He was a Democrat in politics 
 and a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and in his general life fulfilled the 
 definition of pioneer, as understood by those who 
 experienced the years of trials and deprivation. 
 
 Ten years of age when he came to Oregon, 
 Samuel R. Claypool had few educational advan- 
 tages in the early days, principally for the rea- 
 son that there were few schools in his neighbor- 
 hood, and also because so large a family neces- 
 sitated active effort on the part of all its mem- 
 bers. Thus it happened that he worked early 
 and late during harvest time, and even dur- 
 ing the bleak winters arose early and looked after 
 the stock, performing such tasks as made the life 
 of pioneer boys at best hard and unsatisfactory. 
 The gold fields of California offered a diversion 
 in 1856, and after mining with moderate suc- 
 cess at Yreka, Siskiyou county, for a couple of 
 years, he returned to Oregon and settled on a 
 farm near his father. After the death of the 
 latter he purchased a portion of the old home- 
 stead, but sold out in 1865 and removed to a 
 farm five miles north of Lebanon. Here he 
 owned three hundred and twenty acres, and for 
 thirty-seven years, or until 1902, he tilled his land 
 and raised varied crops, meeting with ready 
 sales, and accumulating a competency. After 
 disposing of his farm Mr. Claypool purchased 
 his present home in Lebanon, consisting of fifteen 
 acres, and just large enough to keep him from a 
 monotonous leisure. The little home, with its 
 trees, its flowers and genial air of comfort, is 
 presided over by the wife of Mr. Claypool, whom 
 he married at the forks of the Santiam river, 
 and who was formerly America Crabtree of Mis- 
 souri. Isaac Crabtree, the father of Mrs. Clay- 
 pool, was born in the Old Dominion, and in 
 1853 started across the plains with his family, 
 intending to settle in Oregon. Grim death over- 
 came him on the western desert, and he was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 laid to rest in a grave bordering on Green river. 
 Afterward his grief-stricken family pursued 
 their lonely way, and carried out the plans of 
 the father and husband, locating near Mount 
 Angel, Marion county. Of the four children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Claypool, Callie is the 
 wife of Edison Young, a farmer of Linn coun- 
 ty; Annie is living at home; Mary is the wife 
 of John Griggs of this vicinity ; and Vida is the 
 wife of James Munsey of this county. 
 
 Eminently public-spirited, Mr. Claypool has 
 contributed both time and money when demand 
 has been made upon his generosity, and educa- 
 tion, morality, and good government have been 
 materially fostered by his support. His political 
 allegiance has been with the Democratic party, 
 and his many public offices have included that of 
 member of the state legislature in 1902, during 
 which session he served on the committees of 
 health, morals and military affairs. He was 
 elected county commissioner in 1886, and for 
 practically his entire active life he has been 
 either a director or clerk of the school board. 
 Nor has the career of Mr. Claypool been devoid 
 of the excitement and danger incident to the 
 early days, for he served in the Indian war of 
 1856 as a member of Company D, Second Regi- 
 ment, under command of Col. Thomas Cornelius, 
 and for one hundred and six days fought against 
 the Indians. From the early to the later days 
 his life has been marked by sincere devotion to 
 whatever duty came his way, his actions being in- 
 variably governed by high principle, and the 
 utmost consideration for the rights of others. 
 
 AMERICUS TAYLOR McCALLY. Al- 
 though a recent recruit to the mercantile ranks 
 of Halsey, Americus Taylor McCally has already 
 established a paying business, and in connection 
 therewith is building up a satisfactory insurance 
 business, representing the Glenn Falls and Ger- 
 man American companies. Preceded by several 
 years of agricultural and general experience he 
 came here in 1900, his genial manner and ability 
 to adapt himself to new conditions materially 
 contributing to his start in this cosmopolitan 
 community. With him Mr. McCally brought a 
 host of southern traditions, for his ancestors 
 labored long and faithfully on cotton plantations, 
 establishing themselves in the state of Tennessee. 
 Near Knoxville he was born March 5, 1848, 
 his father being a native of the same state, as is 
 also his mother, formerly Clementine Humphreys. 
 Americus was five years of age when his parents 
 came to Oregon in 1853, the family having spent 
 the previous winter in Missouri, as did so many 
 of the early Oregon emigrants. After a com- 
 paratively agreeable journey they arrived in 
 Linn county, where the father took up three 
 
 hundred and sixty acres of land and engaged 
 in stock-raising for six years. The family for- 
 tunes were shifted near Lebanon in 1858, and 
 this continued to be the home until 1896, when 
 the father and mother removed to near Nez 
 Perces, Idaho, where they have since lived. 
 They are making their home with a son, J. M., 
 and the father has attained to seventy-seven 
 years. 
 
 The oldest of the seven sons and four 
 daughters born to his parents, Americus Mc- 
 Cally was educated in the public schools of Ore- 
 gon, and soon after arriving in this state began 
 to take his part in clearing and improving the 
 farm. From 1871 to 1873 he engaged in clerk- 
 ing in Scio, Ore., and in 1878 bought three hun- 
 dred and sixty-five acres of land in the fork 
 of the Santiam river and operated the same, 
 engaged in general farming. In 1886 he en- 
 gaged in a general merchandise business in 
 Jordan, Linn county, and in 1894 settled on a 
 farm near Lebanon, purchasing one hundred and 
 eighty acres. In 1898 he removed to Albany, 
 and, after one year in the grocery business, 
 entered upon his present combined interests as 
 merchant and insurance agent. 
 
 Through his marriage in Linn county with 
 Nancy E. Bryant, five children have been born 
 to Mr. McCally, of whom R. A. is living in 
 eastern Oregon ; I. G. is clerking in his father's 
 store ; Cora E. is engaged in educational work 
 and is living at home ; and Claude and Vena 
 are living at home. Mr. McCally has decided 
 views on all public questions, and has especially 
 made his influence felt as a Prohibitionist. His 
 executive ability has resulted in various posi- 
 tions of honor being tendered him, among them 
 being that of school director, road supervisor 
 and clerk for many years. With his family 
 he finds a religious home in the Christian Church, 
 and its charities and general support are mater- 
 ially benefited by his generous contributions. 
 Tactful and considerate, and with due appre- 
 ciation of the rights and duties of the up-to-date 
 merchant and business man, Mr. McCally com- 
 mands the respect and good will of all who know 
 him. 
 
 DAVID MYERS. One of the best known and 
 most honored of the retired men of Scio is David 
 Myers, a pioneer of 1858, and formerly engaged 
 in carpentering, sawmilling, mining, and farm- 
 ing. In his long business career Mr. Myers ad- 
 hered to the principles of conservatism and re- 
 liability, and it thus happens that many years 
 were consumed in steadily but surely increasing 
 his competency. At the present time he owns 
 five hundred and twenty acres of land, three 
 miles east of Scio, one hundred and sixty acres 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1175 
 
 of timber land six miles east of the town, and 
 eighty acres near Yaquina Bay, Lincoln county. 
 
 The Myers family was established in Medina 
 county, Ohio, by Daniel Myers, the paternal 
 grandfather of David, who was presumably born 
 in Pennsylvania, married there, and reared a 
 large family. Among his children was Gabriel, 
 the father of David, who was born in Lehigh 
 county. Pa., and there married Hannah An- 
 drews, a native of the Quaker state, and who 
 died in Wayne county, Ohio, at the age of eighty- 
 hve years. Gabriel Myers located on a farm in 
 Trumbull county, Ohio, about 1828, and there 
 engaged in coopering, a trade learned in his 
 youth in Pennsylvania, and adhered to nearly all 
 of his active life. After removing to Medina 
 count v. Ohio, in 1845, he farmed and worked 
 at his trade to some extent, but died after several 
 years of retirement at the age of sixty-three 
 years. 
 
 The fifth in a family of fifteen children, eight 
 of whom were sons, David Myers worked very 
 hard in his boyhood days, and naturally found 
 little time for recreation or education. In fact 
 his present knowledge partakes rather of the 
 practical and observative kind, the kind that men 
 acquire while forging to the front, independent 
 of any material help on the part of others. He 
 was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, February 
 16, 1834, and was therefore twenty years of 
 age when he came west to California in 1854, 
 making the journey by way of the Isthmus of 
 Panama. He was moderately successful in the 
 placer mines at Greenwood, Eldorado county, and 
 in 1858 transferred his mining interests to the 
 Sound country in Washington. In November, 
 1858, he located in Portland, Ore., and worked 
 at the carpenter trade, the same year removing 
 to Marion county, where he managed a sawmill 
 near Stayton, on the north Santiam. At the end 
 of a year he began to devote his summers to car- 
 pentering and his winters to the sawmill, and 
 in 1862 located on a farm of two hundred and 
 eighty acres three miles east of Scio, Linn coun- 
 ty, where he farmed and worked at his trade. 
 In 1883 he removed to Scio and engaged in the 
 lumber business, operating in connection there- 
 with a planing and sawmill, from which he de- 
 rived a substantial income until disposing of the 
 same in 1895. In the meantime his health had 
 caused him serious worry and apprehension, and 
 upon locating in Scio he built a fine two-story 
 frame residence, and surrounded himself and 
 family with the comforts and many of the lux- 
 uries of life. The farming property is leased to 
 responsible parties, but Mr. Myers often visits it 
 to look after the repairs. He is constantly under 
 the doctor's care, but otherwise retains the fac- 
 ulties which have accomplished his success, and 
 
 manages to get considerable enjoyment out of 
 life. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Myers, who was formerly 
 Mary P. McDonald, a native of Andrew county, 
 Mo., died in Oregon in 1883, at the age of 
 forty-two years, leaving twelve children : Jeffer- 
 son D. lives in Portland, Ore.; Nathanial Clay 
 and Ida are deceased; Laura B. lives in Port- 
 land, and is engaged as teacher in the public 
 school ; Eva Adella is living at home ; Mary is 
 a trained nurse of Portland; Maud and Myrtle, 
 twins, the former a teacher in Salem, and the 
 latter living at home ; Elizabeth Dora and Flora, 
 twins, are nurses in the North Pacific Sanatorium 
 of Portland ; Edward D., and Lola Hannah, are 
 at home. The family of Mr. Myers is increased 
 by the presence of his grand-daughter, Fay Lor- 
 raine. Politically Mr. Myers was a Democrat 
 for many years, but at present is independent. 
 He has never entered especially into the political 
 undertakings of his neighborhood, but has served 
 as county commissioner from 1884 until 1886. 
 He is fraternally a popular and welcome member 
 of Scio Lodge No. 39, Ancient Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. The history of Linn county would be 
 incomplete without more than passing mention 
 of this popular and influential citizen, and those 
 who are struggling against severe obstacles on 
 the way to success may find in his life many 
 lessons worthy of emulation. 
 
 HENRY G. EVERETT. The success of H. 
 G. Everett as a hardware and agricultural im- 
 plement merchant can hardly be ascribed to the 
 fact that he has no competitors in business in 
 Lebanon, for so well conducted and necessary an 
 adjunct to the town and country well-being must 
 needs hold its own in any community, however 
 large or advanced. Equipped with several years 
 of business experience Mr. Everett came to 
 Lebanon in 1891, and bought a half interest in 
 the hardware business of Neil S. Dalgleish, with 
 whom he has since been associated. Under the 
 combined management of these two competent 
 and resourceful men the enterprise has grown 
 apace, and the stock now carried is valued at 
 $20,000. As the population of the town in- 
 creased, and the surrounding farmers advanced 
 in their methods of conducting their affairs, 
 various commodities have been added to the regu- 
 lation stock, including agricultural implements, 
 carpets and wall paper, paints, oils, window glass 
 and minor builders' materials. 
 
 The founder of the family in America came 
 from England and located in Massachusetts. 
 David Allen Everett, the paternal grandfather 
 of Henry G., was born in Vermont, while his 
 parents were on their way from Massachusetts to 
 
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 Clinton county, N. Y. There Mr. Everett ac- 
 quired a homestead which consisted of two hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, a large farm for New York 
 state, which is still in the possession of the fam- 
 ily, and is now occupied by Harvey Everett, the 
 father of Henry G., who is seventy-five years old, 
 and who was born in the house which is still his 
 home. At present retired, he has for years been 
 one of the successful farmers of his county, and 
 on a large scale has conducted an apiary, which 
 is still a source of substantial revenue. For many 
 years he has been practically alone ; for his wife, 
 formerly Margaret Green, a native of New York, 
 died at the age of fifty-five, leaving three sons 
 and one daughter. John Green, the father of Mrs. 
 Everett, was also of English descent, and is sup- 
 posed to have been born in New York state. 
 He was a farmer by occupation, and lived to 
 an advanced age on the farm to the improvement 
 of which he devoted the best years of his life. 
 
 The oldest of the children in his father's fam- 
 ily, Henry G. Everett worked hard on the pa- 
 ternal farm, in consequence of which his edu- 
 cation was limited. However, the deficiency 
 was not perceptible a few years later, for like 
 the majority of boys with an eye for business, 
 he learned more from observation than books, 
 and having a keen appreciation of the practical 
 and useful in life, learned his lessons from every- 
 day contact with his fellow-men. Leaving the 
 farm, he started a grocery business in Peru, N. 
 Y., in 1885, taking as his partner a schoolmate 
 reared in his own neighborhood, and with whom 
 he continued in amicable partnership until 1888. 
 Disposing of his store, he went to California in 
 1890, and the following year took passage on a 
 north-bound steamer for Portland, from which 
 city he came direct to Lebanon. Since coming 
 here Mr. Everett has married Lulu Westfall, a 
 native of Baker City, Ore., and who became the 
 mother of Eleanor, who is living at home with 
 her parents. Mr. Everett is a Democrat in poli- 
 tics, and has been a member of the city council 
 several terms. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
 Modern Woodmen of America. 
 
 EDWARD C. PEERY. The drug business 
 of Edward C. Peery, while deriving a certain 
 advantage from being the only concern of the 
 kind in Scio, bases its successful operations upon 
 actual merit, and has the reputation of being one 
 of the well managed enterprises in the valley. 
 Mr. Peery, who is popular both in the business 
 and social life of his adopted city, is a native son 
 of Oregon, and was born on a farm four miles 
 south of Dayton, Yamhill county, May 3, 1875. 
 His father, Hiram Peery, a native of Daviess 
 county, Mo., crossed the plains with his parents 
 
 in 1863, at the time being fifteen years of age. 
 The family equipment consisted of the time-hon- 
 ored ox-teams and prairie schooners, and after a 
 six-months' trip the home-seekers arrived in 
 safety at Jordan, in Linn county, where the pa- 
 rents took up a farm, upon which Hiram re- 
 mained until eighteen years of age. He then went 
 to the mines of Idaho and had fair success as a 
 miner, returning to Oregon at the age of twenty- 
 one. In Yamhill county he located a claim near 
 Dayton, but afterward sold it and took up an- 
 other near McMinnville, where, at the age of 
 fifty-five, he is still living. His father, Hiram 
 Wilson Peery, was born in Virginia, and before 
 locating in Missouri lived in Kentucky, his death 
 occurring on the farm near Dayton, Yamhill 
 county, Ore. On the maternal side Edward C. 
 is connected with the Kimsey family, who were 
 early represented in Oregon, locating on a claim 
 in Yamhill county, where his mother, Mary Jane 
 Kimsey, was born. Alvis Kimsey, her father, 
 owned a farm of six hundred and forty acres 
 near Dayton, where his death occurred at the age 
 of forty-five years. There were six children born 
 to Mrs. Peery, of whom three were sons. 
 
 After leaving the public schools of Yamhill 
 county, Edward C. began to earn an independent 
 livelihood as a clerk in a drug store, at Soda- 
 ville, and with the monej' thus earned he entered 
 Mineral Springs College, at Sodaville, in 1892, 
 graduating therefrom in 1896, with the degree of 
 B. S. For the following four years he engaged 
 in educational work in this state, three years as 
 principal of the Moro High School of Sherman 
 county, and during this time, from 1896, he was 
 a partner in the drug business of Peery & Peery, 
 at Scio. In 1902 he became sole owner and man- 
 ager of the store, having registered under the 
 law of 1892. He carries all stock required in a 
 first-class drug business, as well as stationery, 
 and a complete line of toilet articles. 
 
 In Albany, Ore., August 15, 1898, Mr. Peery 
 married Pearl Hobson, who was born in Marion 
 county, and educated in the public schools of 
 her neighborhood. One child has been born of 
 this union, Edris lone, a daughter. Mr. Peery 
 is fraternally connected with the Knights of 
 the Maccabees and the Knights of Pythias. He 
 is a Democrat in politics, and has served as clerk 
 and trustee on the school board, and as justice of 
 the peace for one term. Mr. Peery is prominent 
 socially in Scio, and is the leader of the band 
 of the city, which he organized April 15, 1903. 
 This very popular and entertaining adjunct to the 
 pleasure-giving opportunities enjoyed by the citi- 
 zens is composed of fourteen pieces, and is a com- 
 bination of brass and reed instruments. Under 
 the efficient training of its director and general 
 manager it has attained to a high state of culti- 
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 classical of selections. Mr. Peery has the admir- 
 able and strong characteristics which go to make 
 up the honored and progressive northwestern cit- 
 izen, and his business and himself are appreciated 
 bv the citizens of his community. 
 
 COL. JOHN M. POORMAX. One of the 
 representative men of Marion county is Col. John 
 M. Poorman, cashier of and a chief stockholder 
 in the Bank of Woodburn, and one of the men 
 upon whose shoulders rests a large share of the 
 financial welfare of the city. The family of 
 which he is a representative member was founded 
 in America by his paternal grandfather, Hoffman 
 Poorman. who came from "YYurtemberg, Ger- 
 many, settled in New York, and removed thence 
 to Pennsylvania, in both of which states he en- 
 gaged in farming. 
 
 His son. John M.. St.. father of Colonel 
 Poorman, was born in Chambersburg, Pa., and 
 in his youth was apprenticed to a tanner. 
 Later he farmed in Fairfield county, Ohio, and 
 Sangamon county, 111. In the latter state he 
 became a prominent farmer, and owned a sec- 
 tion of fine land. He devoted his land prin- 
 cipally to stock-raising, raising fine horses and 
 Durham cattle, and during his active life han- 
 dled thousands of dollars' worth of blooded 
 stock. For some years he was connected with 
 the quartermaster's department of the United 
 States army, during the Civil war, and pur- 
 chased horses for the government. His later 
 years were spent in retirement. To the end of 
 his life he was a devoted admirer of fine horses, 
 possessing the keenest appreciation of the 
 beauty and usefulness of this noble animal. 
 In Lancaster, Ohio, he married Martha S. 
 Bush, who was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, 
 and of the seven children born to them, two 
 sons and four daughters grew to maturity, the 
 subject of this review being the youngest son. 
 John M. Poorman. Sr., died at the age of sev- 
 enty-five years. To the end of his life Mr. 
 Poorman recalled his associations with Abra- 
 ham Lincoln as one of the pleasantest features 
 of his career, for his farm in Sangamon county 
 was but ten miles from Springfield, the home 
 of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Poorman belonged to the 
 same hand-ball team as did the martyred presi- 
 dent, and was variously associated with him in 
 the social and business enterprises which en- 
 tered into their respective lives. 
 
 After completing his education in the com- 
 mon schools and the Wesley an University at 
 Bloomington. 111.. Colonel Poorman. who was 
 born in Sangamon county. April 20. 1854. con- 
 tinued to live with his father until emigrating 
 to California in 1 874. There he found employ- 
 
 ment with the Central Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany at Sacramento for three years. In 1877 
 he came to Oregon and secured a position as 
 conductor for the Oregon Railroad & Naviga- 
 tion Company, in time his runs including all 
 the various divisions of the road. Having be- 
 come interested in pharmacy while living in 
 Illinois, and discovering an opening in Wood- 
 burn for a first-class drug store, he established 
 what ultimately proved to be one of the finest 
 of its kind in the Willamette valley. So im- 
 pressed did he become with the business op- 
 portunities afforded by that locality that upon 
 the expiration of two years he established the 
 Bank of Woodburn, of which he has since been 
 cashier. He likewise erected the structure in 
 which the bank is located. This bank ranks as 
 one of the solid financial institutions of the 
 Willamette valley. 
 
 Xor have Colonel Poorman's efforts been 
 confined to the drug and banking business. 
 The cause of education has profited by his 
 stanch support, he having served as school 
 clerk and director for several years. As a Re- 
 publican he has held to the best tenets of his 
 party, has been active in local affairs, and has 
 served as a member of the state central com- 
 mittee. In 1900 he was elected to represent his 
 district in the lower house of the Oregon state 
 legislature by a large majority, and during the 
 term of his service looked w-e'll to the interests 
 of his constituents. He is prominently identi- 
 fied with Hermes Lodge Xo. 56, Knights of 
 Pythias, and in Masonry is a past master of 
 Woodburn Lodge Xo. 106, A. F. & A. M. ; past 
 high priest of Woodburn Royal Arch Chapter 
 Xo. 29, De Molay Commandery Xo. 5 of Salem, 
 Ore. : a thirty-second degree Mason in Consistory 
 of Scottish Rite of Portland, and Al Kader 
 Temple, A. A. O. X. M. S. of Portland, Ore. 
 
 In July, 1903, the National Guard of Oregon 
 was reorganized to conform with "the Dick 
 bill," placing the X'ational Guard on the same 
 basis as the LJnited States army, and he was 
 elected lieutenant-colonel of the Third Infan- 
 try, the only regiment in the state, receiving 
 the unanimous vote of the regiment. He is 
 also a member of French Prairie Camp Xo. 47, 
 W. O. W., and of Mt. Hood Division Xo. 91, 
 Order of Railway Conductors, in which he has 
 served as secretary for nine years. This di- 
 vision is the largest in the northwest, and the 
 mother order. 
 
 As a soldier during the Spanish-American 
 war, Colonel Poorman proved himself a gal- 
 lant, brave and most determined defender of 
 the flag. Upon its organization he was elected 
 captain of Company H, Second Regiment, Ore- 
 gon Xational Guard, and was subsequently 
 chosen lieutenant-colonel of the same regi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ment. At the outbreak of the war Company H 
 of Woodburn and Company E of Hubbard 
 were merged into Company M, which was 
 mustered into the service May 15, 1898, at 
 which time Lieutenant-Colonel Poorman was 
 appointed captain by Governor Lord. This 
 company will go down in history as one of the 
 bravest that sailed from western shores, their 
 enthusiasm increased, no doubt, by their ad- 
 miration and loyalty to their genial com- 
 mander. Company M participated in the bat- 
 tles of Pasig, Malabon, Polo, Marilao, Tay 
 Tay, Morong and others of equal importance, 
 and its captain was one of two bearing the 
 same rank, who was officially complimented 
 by Major Goodale for gallantry and meri- 
 torious service. After the war Captain Poor- 
 man was elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
 Fourth Regiment, Oregon National Guard. 
 
 On October 30, 1879, Colonel Poorman was 
 united in marriage with Miss Lida McMillen, 
 who was born in Multnomah county, Ore., 
 December 25, 1859, a daughter of B. F. McMil- 
 len, who is reviewed at length in another part 
 of this volume. Four sons have been born to 
 Colonel and Mrs. Poorman, one of whom, 
 Tracy Chandler, accompanied his father to the 
 Philippines. Forrest Winfred is a student in 
 the Willamette University, Fred, a student and 
 Kenneth, still at home. 
 
 Colonel Poorman possesses the fundamental 
 traits of character which have ever been re- 
 garded as bulwarks of communities. Forceful, 
 though unostentatious, extending the hand of 
 good-fellowship to all, and entertaining malice 
 towards none, he represents the typical citizen of 
 the great northwest. 
 
 THOMAS MONTEITH. The name Mon- 
 teith is one which the residents of Albany, Linn 
 county, will always remember as that of several 
 of the first men of the city, whose broad liber- 
 ality, enterprise and business ability were the 
 foundation upon which a large part of the place 
 was built. The western half of the city was 
 laid out entirely by Walter and Thomas Mon- 
 teith, the land having been the donation claim of 
 the former. Many of the public buildings of 
 the city also owe to Thomas Monteith a grateful 
 remembrance, since he donated the land which 
 they occupy. Among them are Albany College, 
 of which one brother was trustee for many years 
 and another, the Rev. William Monteith, acted 
 as president for some time ; and also nearly all 
 the churches of the city. The public spirit which 
 animated this family has truly left its impress 
 upon the community, and the effort which they 
 directed along these lines has certainly met with 
 a reward in the industrial, commercial and social 
 
 life in the city they assisted so materially in 
 creating. 
 
 The Monteith family was founded in America 
 by Archibald Monteith, a native of Scotland, 
 from which country he emigrated with his wife, 
 formerly Mary McLain, and settled in New 
 York state as a farmer. Of their family of ten 
 children several found homes in the territory of 
 the far northwest, added to those already named 
 being George and John, both of whom died in 
 Albany. William Monteith died in Idaho, and 
 Walter, who was born in 181 6, died in Albany 
 June 11, 1876. The latter came to Oregon in 
 1847, an d located a claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres. He was in every way a man of 
 affairs up to the time of his death, taking a prom- 
 inent part in all public movements, a leader in 
 every business enterprise. He also served his 
 adopted state as a soldier in the Cayuse war. 
 He is survived by his wife and two sons. 
 
 Thomas Monteith was born near Broadalbin, 
 Fulton county, N. Y., April 23, 1824, and re- 
 mained there until he had entered his teens, when 
 he went to Illinois and resided until 1847. I" 
 that year he joined his brother Walter, and the 
 two crossed the plains with ox-teams, settling 
 in Linn county. He was later attracted to the 
 gold fields of California. After spending a short 
 time there he returned to Oregon and assisted 
 in laying out the western part of Albany, the 
 name given to the city being in memory of the 
 one by that name in their native state. The in- 
 terest of the two brothers continued parallel in 
 a milling and merchant business under the 
 style of Monteith Bros. They built the Mag- 
 nolia mill, in the operation of which they were 
 also financially interested. The Albany City 
 Mills were also built by Mr. Monteith, and 
 were conducted by him for some years, 
 after which he again followed the mercan- 
 tile business. A few years before his death, 
 which occurred July 21, 1889, at the age of sixty- 
 five years, he retired from the active cares of life. 
 He had earnestly labored for the upbuilding of 
 the city, giving freely of his time, money and 
 strength, which has certainly been appreciated 
 by his fellow-townsmen. As a Republican, 
 stanch and earnest, he gave every aid to the ad- 
 vancement of the principles which he considered 
 for the best interests of the community, in mu- 
 nicipal government serving as mayor for one 
 term, and also as city councilman. As a sturdy 
 and faithful pioneer he did active duty in the 
 Cayuse war. In his fraternal relations he affil- 
 iated with the Masons and Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Monteith occurred near 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa, June 29, 1854, and united him 
 with Christine Maria Dunbar, a native of Provi- 
 dence, Ind, She was the daughter of Col. But- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ler Dunbar, who was born in Connecticut, and as 
 a young man settled in Indiana, becoming a use- 
 ful pioneer of the state. He later removed to 
 [owa, locating in Mahaska county, from which 
 section he joined the troops which served in the 
 Black Hawk war, holding the commission of 
 colonel. He married Sarah A. Heaton, who was 
 born in Pennsylvania and died in Iowa. She 
 was the mother of eight children, seven of whom 
 are now living, Mrs. Monteith being the only one 
 located in Oregon. She was the fourth of the 
 children, and was reared in Iowa, where she re- 
 ceived her education in the common schools. Af- 
 ter her marriage she came to Oregon via the 
 isthmus, from New York city, taking the steamer 
 George L. Law, to Panama, and from there to 
 San Francisco on the steamer John L. Stevens. 
 In December, 1854, she arrived in her new home, 
 which was then an embryo town, and she has 
 since watched a city spring up in the wilderness. 
 She now has four children living, of whom Arch- 
 ibald is located in Portland, engaged in insurance 
 work ; Charlotte A. is the wife of J. V. Pipe, of 
 Albany ; Thomas resides in Portland ; and 
 Christine A. is the wife of W. H. Reading, of 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa. One child, Montrose D., died 
 in Albany at the age of twenty-four years. Mrs. 
 Monteith is identified with the auxiliaries of the 
 orders to which her husband belonged, being a 
 member of the Rebekahs, and a charter member 
 of the Eastern Star. She is a member of the 
 First Presbvterian Church. 
 
 ABNER R. HALL. Adjoining Lebanon is 
 a little property of five acres under a high state 
 of cultivation, where various marketable products 
 are raised in the season, and where the owner, 
 Abner R. Hall, spends a peaceful and congenial 
 life. Mr. Hall has some stock, and to facilitate 
 his general farming rents forty-eight acres of 
 land, a large part of which is heavily timbered. 
 
 Mr. Hall's wife was formerly Theresa Whited, 
 a native of Des Moines, Iowa, who came to Ore- 
 gon with her parents in 1874. Of the children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Estella, Elva and 
 Alice, the three youngest, are living at home; 
 Hattie, the oldest daughter, is now Mrs. Michael 
 Kelly, of Jefferson, Ore., and Walter is engaged 
 in ranching in eastern Oregon. 
 
 Near Milan, Sullivan county, Mo., Thomas 
 Hall, the father, owned and managed a farm for 
 many years, and here was born his ,son, Abner 
 R., April 27, 1859. Thomas Hall was born in 
 Kentucky, and after attaining his majority moved 
 to Missouri, where he ran a grist-mill in con- 
 nection with farming, having learned the mill- 
 wright's trade in his youth. In i860 he took 
 his family to Kansas, and afterward lived in 
 both Nebraska and Illinois, From the latter 
 
 state he crossed the plains to Oregon with ox- 
 teams during 1875-6. Abner R. Hall was then 
 sixteen years of age, and the second of the six 
 children born to his mother, Hattie (Inman) 
 Hall, a native of New England, and now living 
 in Jackson county, Ore., aged sixty-eight years. 
 On the way across the plains Mr. Hall halted his 
 oxen at Boise City, Idaho, and added to his de- 
 pleted finances by burning charcoal. The next 
 year he came to Oregon, locating on a claim 
 near Browmsville, where he engaged in stock- 
 raising for several years. The last years of his 
 life were saddened by sickness, but he was a 
 fairly successful man, and bore an honored 
 name in the community. His son Abner lived 
 with him on the home farm until 1887, and then 
 farmed independently near Lebanon, taking up 
 his residence adjoining the town, in 1894. He is 
 a capable farmer and progressive man, devoted 
 to his family, his friends and his adopted state. 
 In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 WILL E. CHANDLER has been a factor in 
 the business life of Lebanon since his arrival 
 there in 1894. The Chandler family is doubly 
 identified with the growth of the town, and the 
 name has become synonymous with fair dealing 
 and progressive methods. Mrs. Chandler who, 
 before her marriage in Lebanon was Clara Read, 
 has a well stocked dry-goods, grocery and gen- 
 eral furnishings store, which is not wanting in 
 generous patronage from both the town and sur- 
 rounding country. With true appreciation of the 
 needs of her sex, she makes a specialty of acces- 
 sories of the toilet. 
 
 Mr. Chandler, who started a tinning and 
 plumbing enterprise when he first located in Leb- 
 anon, and who has since derived a substantial 
 income from this source, has of late transferred 
 his business partially to others, in order to de- 
 vote the greater part of his time to buying and 
 shipping country produce. He is one of the suc- 
 cessful younger business men of the town. He 
 was born in Franklin county. 111., January 18, 
 1866. His father, Samuel L. Chandler, a native 
 of Kentucky, removed at an early day to Frank- 
 lin county, where he owned and managed a 
 farm, and later ran an agricultural implement 
 business in Carbondale, Jackson county. At the 
 present time he is sixty years of age, and is liv- 
 ing retired at the home of his son, Audv L., in 
 Champaign, 111. His wife, Mary (Tate) Chand- 
 ler, was born in Franklin county, and died in 
 Illinois, after rearing four sons and two daugh- 
 ters, of whom Will E. is the third. He received 
 a practical education in the public schools, and 
 gained a fair knowledge of business in his father's 
 implement store. When twenty-two years of 
 age he came to Portland, and for several years 
 
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 lived at Salem and other towns in the Willamette 
 valley, finally locating in Lebanon in 1894. 
 
 A Republican in political preference, Mr. 
 Chandler has been prominently before the public 
 of Linn county for several years, and served as 
 deputy sheriff of the county under James A. Mc- 
 Ferrin. He has been a member of the city council 
 one term, and has held other local offices. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Modern Wood- 
 men of America, the Knights of the Maccabees, 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the 
 Independent Order of Foresters. In all of these 
 orders he is active, and he takes a keen 
 interest in other social organizations. A shrewd 
 and capable buyer, Mr. Chandler is also a con- 
 siderate and conscientious one, and the farmers 
 who dispose of their products to him are in- 
 variably sure of treatment consistent with sound 
 and reliable business ethics. 
 
 EDWIN N. STARR. As a successful farmer 
 Edwin N. Starr is giving his energies and talents 
 toward a cultivation of the broad lands of the 
 state of Oregon, now occupying a part of the old 
 Reeves donation claim, a link between the days of 
 pioneer hardships and the present affluence. Mr. 
 Starr is a native son of the west, his father having 
 been one of the many men who came into the 
 wilderness and by earnestness of purpose laid the 
 foundation for the commonwealth which has 
 arisen on the western slope. 
 
 The father, George M. Starr, was born in Lo- 
 gan county, Ohio, February 18, 1812, and at a 
 very early date removed with <his parents to 
 Illinois. There the father died at seventy years 
 of age, and the mother when George M. was 
 but twelve years old, the two being of Irish and 
 English descent. On completing his education 
 in the public schools of Olney, 111., Mr. Starr 
 learned the tinner's trade from his father, and 
 followed the same for forty years, at that time 
 deciding to remove to the west. In 1852 he 
 started with the customary ox-team for the jour- 
 ney across the plains, the only trouble experienced 
 with the Indians being a hand-to-hand encounter 
 with three of them, in which Mr. Starr came off 
 victor. He was traveling in Captain Bentley's 
 train, which, after six months, arrived safely in 
 Oregon, when he left the company and came 
 directly to Benton county and located near Bell- 
 fountain, where he remained for one winter. In 
 the spring of 1853 ne went to California and fol- 
 lowed mining and prospecting for a year, and on 
 again going north he settled in Monroe and en- 
 gaged in the general merchandise business in 
 partnership with a man named Bellknap, the firm 
 name being Starr & Bellknap. This was the 
 first establishment of the kind in the town and it 
 was continued for several years, when Mr. Starr 
 
 removed to Idaho after about six years' residence 
 in Monroe. In the course of a few years he re- 
 turned to the vicinity of Monroe and spent the 
 remainder of his life in and near the town. He 
 lived to the age of seventy-five years. In Feb- 
 ruary, 1854, he married Elizabeth Dimmick, who 
 was born in Illinois in 1838, and crossed the 
 plains with her parents in 1852, a fuller record 
 of whose life is to be found in the sketch of her 
 father, Joseph Dimmick, which appears on an- 
 other page of this work. Besides Edwin N. 
 Starr they had the following children: Georgi- 
 ana, the wife of I. Bray, of Lane county; Sarah, 
 the wife of O. V. Hurt, of Corvallis ; Oscar and 
 Clarence, both located in Corvallis ; Bert, of Port- 
 land ; and Samuel, of Seattle, Wash. Mr. Starr 
 was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and had been since boyhood. As a citizen of the 
 community he had served in several minor offices, 
 among them being that of justice of the peace. 
 When quite young he served as a bugler under 
 General Price in the Mexican war, being in the 
 three principal battles of this war. Since the death 
 of her husband, Mrs. Starr has made her home 
 with her children, now living with Edwin N. 
 Starr, of this review. 
 
 Edwin N. Starr was born in Monroe, Ore., 
 July 1, 1856, and was there reared to young man- 
 hood. He attended the district schools and re- 
 mained at home until he was eighteen years old, 
 when he started out to make his own way in the 
 world. He followed his early training and 
 worked as a farm hand for some time, his first 
 venture on his own responsibility being on a 
 claim which he had taken up in Lincoln county. 
 He remained there for eight years, at the close 
 of that period coming to the place which he now 
 occupies, previously mentioned as a part of the 
 Reeves donation claim. Through energy and 
 perserverance Mr. Starr has made many improve- 
 ments, in fact, all of those which now make the 
 farm most valuable. He has excellent buildings 
 of all kinds, good commodious barns and out- 
 buildings, and a comfortable dwelling. Out of 
 two hundred and sixty acres he is now cultivat- 
 ing one hundred and thirty, following the meth- 
 ods of his father in carrying on general farming 
 and stock-raising, making a specialty of Short- 
 horn cattle. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Starr occurred March 
 23, 1879, and united him with Anna Reeves, 
 who was born on the place where she now makes 
 her home, the daughter of a pioneer, Thomas D 
 Reeves, a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere 
 in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Starr have three 
 children, named in order of birth as follows : 
 Claude I., Grace E. and Tracy, all of whom are 
 still at home with their parents. Politically Mr. 
 Starr is a Democrat and has served in the inter- 
 est of this party in the capacity of road super- 
 
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 1181 
 
 visor. Fraternally he is a member of the Wood- 
 men of the World. With a good record of ener- 
 getic, persevering labor for his past years, Mr. 
 Starr has made for himself a place in the com- 
 munity, bearing his part in all efforts to im- 
 prove the conditions of his native state, and 
 winning thereby the esteem of his fellow-citi- 
 zens. 
 
 BURTIS W. JOHNSON, who is now serving 
 a second term as postmaster of Corvallis, having 
 rilled the position continuously since January, 
 1898, was born in Ulysses, Potter county, Pa., 
 August 30, 1866, a son of Hon. F. M. and Celia 
 (Burtis) Johnson. The father was born in New 
 York, of an old New England family. The pa- 
 ternal grandfather was a shipbuilder and re- 
 moved from Connecticut to the Empire state. 
 Hon. F. M. Johnson became an attorney and 
 practiced law for a number of years in Pennsyl- 
 vania. Removing to the west he became a resi- 
 dent of Michigan and served with the Third 
 Michigan Cavalry in the Civil war. Later he 
 went to Nebraska, settling in Tekamah, Burt 
 county, where he practiced his profession, being 
 widely recognized as a leading member of the 
 bar of that locality. He also exerted a wide in- 
 fluence in public affairs and twice represented 
 his district in the general assembly, leaving the 
 impress of his individuality upon the legislation 
 enacted during that period. In 1876 he was 
 chairman of the Republican state central com- 
 mittee and continued an active factor in Nebras- 
 ka politics until 1879, when he came to Oregon, 
 locating in Corvallis. Here he practiced Taw 
 until 1899, when he removed to Portland, where 
 he is now engaged in the insurance business. 
 He is a member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public and a man of forceful individuality, whose 
 labors have benefited every community with 
 which he has been connected. His wife was 
 born in Pennsylvania of one of the old families 
 of that state and her death occurred in Nebras- 
 ka. They were the parents of two children, 
 the younger being May, now Mrs. Weigel, of 
 Prineville. 
 
 Having completed his literary education by a 
 high school course Burtis W. Johnson in 1884 
 entered the employ of the Oregon & Pacific 
 Railroad Company, as a member of the survey- 
 ing corps engaged in locating the road. He 
 was afterward with the Oregon Railway & Navi- 
 gation Company in the Walla Walla country, 
 making the survey along the north bank of the 
 Columbia river to Ainsworth. Subsequently 
 Mr. Johnson entered his father's office, in charge 
 of the insurance business, and in 1894 he en- 
 tered the journalistic field, purchasing the Cor- 
 vallis Gazette, of which he became the editor as 
 
 well as proprietor. It was the Republican or- 
 gan of Benton county and he continued its pub- 
 lication until 1898 when he sold it. In the mean- 
 time he had enlarged the paper to an eight col- 
 umn folio, weekly. When he purchased it, the 
 paper was on the decline, but he built up a large 
 circulation, established a good job department, 
 and, at the cost of much hard labor, made the 
 Gazette, one of the best journals published in 
 this part of the state. In the meantime Mr. 
 Johnson had done another important work for 
 Oregon. In the fall of 1891 he had arranged a 
 Benton county exhibit for the exposition in 
 Portland, where it attracted much attention and 
 was highly commended, so much so that C. H. 
 Dodd, then president of the board of immigra- 
 tion, urged Mr. Johnson to take the management 
 and superintendence of the car " Oregon-on- 
 Wheels," which toured the United States in 
 order to make Oregon and her possibilities 
 known throughout the country. For some time 
 Mr. Johnson hesitated, but was finally prevailed 
 upon to accept the position and the result was 
 that a very successful trip was made and its ob- 
 ject was attained. The car was filled with ex- 
 hibits of Oregon's products of different varie- 
 ties, fncluding fruits, grains, minerals and woods. 
 The trip covered fifteen thousand miles, Mr. 
 Johnson starting in 1891 and returning in 1892. 
 He traveled all over different railroads through 
 the principal districts of the east and the trip was 
 a pleasant one, at the same time proving of value 
 to the state. 
 
 In Corvallis Mr. Johnson was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Lillian Hamilton, who was born in 
 Minnesota and was educated in the Oregon Ag- 
 ricultural College. They are members of the 
 Presbyterian Church and Mr. Johnson holds 
 membership relations with the Knights of Pyth- 
 ias, being a past chancellor in the lodge and 
 a member of the finance committee of. the grand 
 lodge. In politics he has always been a stalwart 
 Republican, and in October, 1897, he was ap- 
 pointed by President McKinley to the position 
 of postmaster of Corvallis, although there were 
 eight applicants for the position. In January, 
 1898, he entered upon the duties of the office, 
 and on June 30, 1902, he was reappointed with- 
 out opposition by President Roosevelt. He is 
 one of the leading young men of Corvallis, his 
 life typifying the progressive spirit which has 
 been the dominating element in the upbuilding 
 and rapid development of the northwest. 
 
 IRA F. M. BUTLER. In comparative good 
 health there is living in the town of Monmouth 
 a venerable and honored citizen aged nearly 
 ninety-three years, whose personal characteris- 
 tics, accomplishments, and whole-souled public 
 
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 spiritedness may well serve as an inspiration to 
 the youth of today who is handicapped at the 
 outset of his life by the absence of influence or 
 material resources. Ira F. M. Butler is a 
 pioneer of pioneers, not only because he is an 
 early settler, but because of the extent of his 
 services in connection with the upbuilding of 
 Polk county. Long before the Revolutionary 
 war his emigrating ancestor came from Eng- 
 land, settling among the colonies in the midst of 
 which was fermented the compelling spirit of 
 independence. The paternal great-grandfather, 
 Peter, was born in England. Coming to 
 America he located in Barren county, Ky., in 
 1710, and died there in 1816, at the age of one 
 hundred and six years. The paternal grand- 
 father, John, was born in Virginia, removed 
 with his father to Barren county, Ky., and died 
 near Fairfield, Wayne county, 111., at the age 
 of seventy-five. 
 
 Peter Butler, the father of Ira F. M.J was 
 born in Pulaski county, Ky., March 9, 1789, 
 and in his native state married Rachel Murphy, 
 a native of east Tennessee, and whose father, 
 John Murphy, was born in the same state, and,^ 
 passed his last years in Warren county, Ky. 
 Mr. Butler in time located in Barren county, 
 where was born, May 20, 1812, his son, Ira F. 
 M., the first of a family of ten children, among 
 whom were seven sons and three daughters. 
 Contemporary with his son's birth, Mr. Butler 
 shouldered his musket and served in the war 
 of 18 1 2 as major in General Wayne's regiment, 
 thereafter continuing to farm in his native state 
 until his removal to Illinois in 1829. In Warren 
 county, 111., he bought a farm, the interests of 
 which he gladly entrusted to the care of others 
 while he served in the Black Hawk war, in 
 which momentous struggle he won the rank of 
 major. He became prominent in political and 
 general affairs in Illinois, served in both the leg- 
 islature and state senate, and was the first sheriff 
 of Warren county. In the meantime he listened 
 enthusiastically to the glowing reports of re- 
 turned travelers from the west, and in 1853 out- 
 fitted with mule teams and wagons, and brought 
 his family to Oregon. He was four months on 
 the way, and, contrary to the experience of most 
 of the early emigrants, had a pleasant and safe 
 journey. Arriving in Polk county, he bought 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land near Monmouth, where his death 
 occurred in 1856. 
 
 In his youth Ira F. M. Butler had meager 
 educational chances, and he early appreciated 
 what he was missing in that direction. Accord- 
 ingly, he set about studying by himself during 
 his leisure moments on the farm, and he was 
 one of those who learn much from observation, 
 and from contact with his fellow-men. He de- 
 
 veloped early aptitude for public service, for 
 he was deputy sheriff under his father, and filled 
 the position of sheriff of Warren county, 111., 
 in 1838. For seven years he was circuit clerk 
 in Warren county under Stephen A. Douglas, 
 in the meantime making his home in the town 
 of Monmouth, 111. With his father he planned 
 the trip across the plains, and upon arriving 
 at his destination in Oregon he settled on a claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres near his 
 father on the Luckiamute. This property he 
 sold in 1856, and bought land two miles south- 
 west of Monmouth, consisting of six hundred 
 and eighty acres. In 1856-7 he helped to lay 
 out the town of Monmouth, and, upon being ap- 
 pointed one of a committee of five to give the 
 infant project a name, called it after the thriv- 
 ing community in which he lived and labored in 
 Illinois. 
 
 In his determination to be an upbuilding fac- 
 tor of Monmouth, M ; r. Butler has traversed 
 many avenues of activity, in all of which he 
 has been successful. As a stanch Democrat, he 
 has repeated his Illinois political services, cred- 
 itably and ably representing his coimnunitA 
 ^the^ legislature during the sessions of a8^6fi8^. 
 an^(i862jm 1858, serving as speaker of the 
 house! From 1878 to 1882 he was judge of 
 Polk county, and until within a few years has 
 been justice of the peace since his arrival in 
 the west. From time to time he has been inter- 
 ested in surveying in the county, and was coun- 
 ty surveyor for one term. For eighteen years 
 he lived on the large farm which he still owns, 
 and during that time engaged in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, many improvements be- 
 ing added to his enterprise as his harvests in- 
 creased in size, and large financial gains re- 
 warded his arduous labors. From the primi- 
 tive log house of the early settler he moved into 
 more commodious quarters, and finally, in 1873, 
 took up his permanent residence in a pleasantly 
 located home in Monmouth. Since 1882 he has 
 lived in comparative retirement, having won the 
 esteem and appreciation of a large circle of 
 friends and associates. A member of the Chris- 
 tian church, he was one of the founders of the 
 Christian College at Monmouth, and for many 
 years was president of its board of trustees, re- 
 signing only when the institution was merged 
 into the State Normal School. His financial 
 ability and integrity found vent as one of the 
 organizers of the Polk . county bank at Mon- 
 mouth, of which he was for years one of the 
 largest stockholders. He is a member of 
 Grange No. 258. 
 
 For fifty-three years Mr. Butler enjoyed ari 
 ideal married life with the wife whom he mar- 
 ried in Illinois, November 5, 1835, and who was 
 formerly Mary Ann Davidson, a native of Ken- 
 
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 1183 
 
 tacky, and daughter of Elijah Davidson, born 
 in North Carolina. November 5, 1885, ^ r - an ^ 
 Mrs. Butler celebrated their golden wedding, 
 and the love of friends and relatives found ex- 
 pression in numerous gifts, and in the shower- 
 ing of innumerable good wishes. Three years 
 later, in June. 1888, the faithful wife and mother 
 passed beyond the ken of those to whom she 
 had been a comfort in life, and in the memory 
 of all who knew her she is recalled as possess- 
 ing many lovable and endearing traits of char- 
 acter. Her father removed from North Caro- 
 lina to Illinois, and from there came to Oregon 
 in 1850, locating on a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres near Monmouth, where 
 he attained to the age of four score years. Of 
 the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Butler, 
 Newton H. is deceased ; Paradine is deceased ; 
 Asa D. is a fruit grower in Napa, Cal. ; Cyrus 
 is deceased ; as are also Mary E. and A. P. Two 
 daughters, Margaret and Alice, live with their 
 father. Thus is told the life story of an indus- 
 trious and capable pioneer of this great com- 
 monwealth, who is as great in the sterling quali- 
 ties which bring success as is the state in oppor- 
 tunities of soil and climate. 
 
 WILLIAM A. CRISELL. Three miles east 
 of Butteville and five miles northwest of Aurora, 
 on the Willamette river, is the two hundred and 
 seventy-five acre farm of William A. Crisell, 
 occupied by him since 1868, and one hundred 
 and fifty acres of which are cleared. Fifty acres 
 of this farm consists of beaver-dam land, thrown 
 up by those wonderful little members of the ani- 
 mal world who have served as examples of in- 
 dustry for centuries past. There is an old hop- 
 yard of twenty acres, and a new hop-yard of 
 forty acres, the latter planted in 1902, making 
 in all sixty acres of hops to be garnered by 
 harvesters in the fall. Mr. Crisell is not only 
 an excellent agriculturist, but he has a wide 
 knowledge of mining, to which he has devoted 
 many years of his life. He was born in St. 
 Genevieve county, Mo., in February, 1833, an d 
 was reared on a farm, attending the public 
 schools as opportunity offered. His father 
 dying when the son was seventeen years of age, 
 he determined to leave home and carve out his 
 future in the west, two years later, in 1852, 
 making preparation for the long journey. With 
 three companions he purchased an outfit of five 
 yoke of oxen, one wagon, and two saddle horses, 
 all of which the}' finally succeeded in bringing 
 over the plains. They were four months mak- 
 ing the journey from Missouri to California, 
 and once arrived, Mr. Crisell turned his atten- 
 tion to mining and prospecting in Eldorado 
 county for about ten years. Thereafter he spent 
 
 a number of years mining in Idaho, Washington 
 and other mining centers, and eventually bought 
 an interest in a four-yoke ox-team with which 
 he engaged in freighting between The Dalles 
 and the mining districts for three years. 
 
 In 1868 he came to Oregon and settled on his 
 present farm. The following year, September 
 10, 1869, he was united in marriage with Nancy 
 Bird, who was born in Clackamas county in 
 1849, a daughter of William and Harriett Bird. 
 The union of Mr. Crisell and Nancy Bird has 
 been blessed with three sons : Allen A., Millard 
 N., and Robert. The sons are all farmers, and 
 the two youngest are working with their father. 
 Mr. Crisell is a Democrat in politics, and fra- 
 ternally is associated with the Grange. He is 
 upright and industrious, and richly deserves the 
 success which has come to him. In all the un- 
 dertakings of his community which are calcu- 
 lated to elevate the moral and intellectual 
 standard of the people he has exhibited a keen 
 and unselfish interest. Those who have had the 
 opportunity to gain a knowledge of his character 
 freely accord him a position among the thor- 
 oughly representative farmers of Marion county 
 — a man whose earnest efforts toward the en- 
 lightenment of those with whom he comes in 
 contact in his daily life are highly appreciated. 
 It is with genuine pleasure that the editors of 
 this publication make a permanent record of the 
 high esteem in which Mr. Crisell is held by his 
 fellow-citizens ; and in the years to come the 
 three manly sons in his family unquestionably 
 will review with great pride and satisfaction the 
 history of his career, which has afforded them 
 a source of inspiration in their efforts toward 
 attaining an equally conspicuous position among 
 the leading agriculturists of the Willamette 
 vallev. 
 
 MATHIAS COOLEY. Social and political 
 position in the United States is not dependent 
 on titles or long lines of family ancestry, but 
 is based on a man's own achievements. The 
 subject of this writing owes his success to his 
 individual efforts, and began the battle of life 
 at the early age of fourteen years. From a 
 humble beginning, he has risen to a place of suc- 
 cess and honor, an esteemed resident of his 
 community. Mr. Cooley is now living a retired 
 life on his farm three miles north of Silverton, 
 Marion county, and has the distinction of being 
 one of the pioneer settlers of that section. His 
 life has been an eventful one and he has followed 
 a variety of vocations, being also largely in- 
 strumental in the upbuilding of his community. 
 
 Mr. Cooley was born in Platte county, Mo., 
 August 26, 1837, and is a son of Cornelius and 
 Dolly (White) Cooley, the latter a native of 
 
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 Missouri. Cornelius Cooley was a Kentuckian 
 by birth. He settled in Missouri when a young 
 man, and it was there his marriage took place. 
 Four sons were born to him and his wife. When 
 Mathias was but seven years old, the father died, 
 and, as he had requested, the lad was placed in 
 the care of a family named Wilson. In 1845 
 the Wilsons crossed the plains to the far west 
 and many incidents of the long and perilous 
 journey are still fresh in the mind of Mr. 
 Cooley. Upon leaving Council Bluffs, Iowa, the 
 emigrants' train consisted of one hundred wag- 
 ons, and it required about eight months to make 
 the journey to Oregon. Owing to the scarcity 
 of food, the suffering was intense. For two 
 weeks they lived on dried salmon skins, which 
 they obtained by trading with the Indians, hav- 
 ing barely enough of this poor food to sustain 
 life. They first settled at The Dalles, and Mr. 
 Wilson was so nearly starved that he overtaxed 
 his stomach and died the morning following his 
 arrival at that place. His widow settled on the 
 Tualatin plains near Hillsboro, Washington 
 county, and some time afterward married David 
 Hill, who located in Oregon in 1840. He took 
 up a donation claim where Hillsboro now stands, 
 and gave half of the town site. He died about 
 1850, and his widow continued to reside upon 
 the same farm until her death, having previously 
 espoused a third husband, whose name was 
 Whelock Simmons. 
 
 Mathias Cooley was the recipient of but a 
 meager education, which was obtained in the 
 district schools. When he attained the age of 
 fourteen, he started out to make his own way 
 in the world, working by the month as farm 
 hand until he reached his majority. At the age 
 of twenty-two years, he entered a wagon shop as 
 an apprentice, and completely mastered the 
 double trade of wagonmaker and carpenter. 
 Later he went into business for himself in Wau- 
 conda, and it was there that his marriage took 
 place. Four or five years later the family re- 
 moved to Gervais, and about four years after- 
 ward Mr. Cooley purchased the farm which is 
 still his home. This farm consists of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land, and upon it general 
 farming and stock-raising was carried on until 
 Mr. Cooky's retirement. 
 
 December 23, 1868, Mr. Cooley was joined in 
 matrimony with Willimina Smith, daughter of 
 John W. and Matilda (Elliott) Smith. Mrs. 
 Cooley was born in Wayne county, Ohio, crossed 
 the plains with her family in 1854, and settled 
 in Polk county, Ore. Nine children were born 
 of this union ; namely, Cornelius J. ; M. G. ; Mrs. 
 Lillian Urdan, of Portland ; Matilda M., of Port- 
 land ; Sampson J., of Portland ; Bird Bell ; Jen- 
 nie J. ; Wallace B. ; and Willis. They have a 
 very pleasant and attractive home, which is 
 
 beautifully located. The residence is con- 
 veniently built, the out-buildings substantial, and 
 the surrounding ground well kept. 
 
 Mr. Cooley is a loyal and earnest Republican 
 and has done a great deal of active service for 
 his party. All the members of his family are 
 more or less musically inclined and the fame of 
 Cooky's orchestra is known throughout that, sec- 
 tion. Mr. Cooley himself was at one time one 
 of the leading violinists in the far west. 
 
 WILLIAM WILSON is an enterprising and 
 highly respected citizen of Yamhill county who 
 owns a nice farm on the beautiful Willamette 
 river near Dundee. He also has mining inter- 
 ests, being one of the owners of a gold mine in 
 the Cascade mountains, having a ledge on Wil- 
 son creek. The development and progress of the 
 coast country is a matter which has long been 
 to him of deep interest and he has done every- 
 thing in his power to promote its upbuilding. 
 His residence in Oregon dates from 1876. He 
 was born in Oakland county, Mich., September 
 2 9> ^37 > and is a son of George and Harriet 
 (Soper) Wilson. The father was born in Lin- 
 colnshire, England, and came to the United 
 States in 1812. Espousing the cause of his 
 adopted country in the second war with Eng- 
 land, he did garrison duty during the period of 
 hostilities, but was never called into active serv- 
 ice. He was then but eighteen years of age. He 
 located in Genesee county, N. Y., where he fol- 
 lowed farming for a long period and then re- 
 moved to Oakland county, Mich., where he en- 
 tered a claim of one hundred and sixty acres. 
 After the war with the Indians in that state he 
 sold a part of his land, but devoted his attention 
 to the cultivation of the remainder, and he died 
 in Oakland county when seventy-five years of 
 age. His wife, who was a native of Greece, 
 Genesee county, N. Y., died in Michigan at the 
 age of seventy years. Unto this worthy couple 
 were born six children, two sons and four 
 daughters, of whom five reached years of ma- 
 turity, William being the second in order of 
 birth. 
 
 To the public school system of his native state 
 William Wilson is indebted for the educational 
 privileges which he received and upon the home 
 farm he obtained practical training in agricul- 
 tural work. When twenty years of age he began 
 earning his own living at farm work and at 
 logging, and after the beginning of the Civil 
 war he enlisted for service in the United States 
 army as a member of Company A, Third Wis- 
 consin Cavalr)'. The company was afterward re- 
 organized as Company K, and Mr. Wilson 
 served in the southwest part of Missouri, Ar- 
 kansas and Texas, under Generals Curtis and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Blount. He participated in the battles of Little 
 Blue. Lexington. Mo., and Fayetteville, Ark. 
 He then marched back to Missouri, living on 
 onl\ one-fourth rations for a time. He was in 
 the service for over two years and was mustered 
 out at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
 Mr. Wilson then returned to his home in Wis- 
 consin and in 1866 he purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land in Steele county, Minn., 
 of which he fenced thirty or forty acres and 
 then sold the property. Removing to Michigan, 
 he remained there until the fall of 1867, when 
 he went to Dallas county, Iowa, and purchased 
 one hundred acres of land for which he paid $3 
 per acre. After twenty years he sold this for 
 $20 per acre, thus realizing a good return from 
 his investment. In 1873 he purchased one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres for $16 per acre in the 
 same county, but after three years he disposed of 
 this and in 1876 went to California. Subse- 
 quently he took up his abode in Seattle, Wash., 
 where he engaged in logging and then came to 
 Oregon, but after a year spent in this state he 
 returned to California. A few months later, 
 however, he once more came to Oregon and has 
 resided here continuously since. In 1881 he 
 purchased one hundred acres of land for $10 
 per acre on the banks of the Willamette river. 
 Only a very small part of this had been im- 
 proved at the time, but he now has fifty acres 
 under cultivation. He carries on general farm- 
 ing and he also has eleven acres planted to hops. 
 In Wisconsin in 1862 occurred the marriage 
 of Mr. Wdson and Miss Viola Kennedy, who 
 was born in Hillsdale county, Mich., a daughter 
 of J. B. Kennedy, who was a native of New 
 York and a farmer by occupation. He removed 
 with his parents to Michigan, afterward became 
 a resident of Wisconsin, thence sought a home 
 in the northwest and after residing in Oregon 
 for a time he went to San Diego, Cal., where 
 he died at the age of sixty-nine years. During 
 the greater part of his business career he had 
 carried on agricultural pursuits but in his last 
 years he lived retired. His wife, who bore the 
 maiden name of Emily Belden, was born in Mas- 
 sachusetts, February 28, 1829, and they were 
 married in Michigan. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
 son have been born five children, three sons and 
 two daughters : Joseph, who is engaged in 
 farming in Greer county, Okla. ; William and 
 Warren, who are engaged in the railway busi- 
 ness in eastern Oregon ; and Emily and Zetta, 
 at home. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was converted by the Salvation 
 Army, with which he is now connected, and in 
 his political affiliations he is a Republican. He 
 owns a nice residence on the banks of the river 
 
 a mile and a quarter southeast of Dundee and 
 his farm is a valuable property, forming one of 
 the attractive features of the landscape. 
 
 JOHN MOSER. Among the large landhold- 
 ers and extensive stock raisers and dealers who 
 are represented in this volume, mention may well 
 be made of John Moser, whose finely-improved 
 and well-kept homestead about five miles east of 
 Silverton bears strong evidence of the thrift and 
 enterprise which first established it, and by which 
 it has since been carried on. In common with 
 those of his day and generation, he suffered the 
 hardships of frontier life, but by the aid of strong 
 hands, a courageous heart, and a never-failing 
 energy, he has been able to cope successfully 
 with all difficulties that have beset him, and in 
 the past years of faithful toil has accumulated a 
 comfortable competency. 
 
 Born August 20, 1827, in Owen county, Ind., 
 John Moser is a son of Joseph Moser, one of the 
 early settlers of Marion county. Joseph Moser, 
 a native of North Carolina, accompanied his par- 
 ents to Ohio when he was a small child, and 
 later lived in Indiana for several years. In 1844 
 he removed with his wife and children to Mis- 
 souri, where he remained about eight years. In 
 1852 he joined a party westward bound, and for 
 six months journeyed by ox-team before he 
 reached Marion county, the objective point of 
 his destination. Taking up a claim about six 
 miles from Silverton, between Butte creek and 
 the Abiqua, he was engaged in general farming 
 there and in that vicinity until his death, at the 
 age of about three score and ten years. He mar- 
 ried, while living in Indiana, Isabelle Dunnigan, 
 who was born in Kentucky, and died in Marion 
 county, Ore., at the age of seventy-eight years. 
 Ten children blessed their union, namely : Lu- 
 anda, deceased ; John ; Mary, widow of John 
 Hartman, living near Silverton ; Tobias, de- 
 ceased ; Solomon, residing in eastern Oregon ; 
 Joseph, a resident of Washington ; Elizabeth, 
 widow of John Whitlock, of Silverton ; Harriet, 
 wife of John Stanton, of Clackamas county ; 
 Alonzo, of Oregon Citv ; and William, of the 
 Waldo Hills. 
 
 After completing his studies in the district 
 schools of Indiana, John Moser removed with 
 his parents to Missouri, where he subsequently 
 learned the wagonmaker's trade, which he fol- 
 lowed for a few years. In 1852 he crossed 
 the plains with an ox-team, coming to Oregon 
 with the train that his parents accompanied, and 
 settled in the Waldo Hills, on a half section of 
 land, about two and one-half miles south of Sil- 
 verton. Two years later he removed with his 
 family to Lane county, where he resided two 
 years. In 1855 he worked a few months at min- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 iftg and farming in Jackson county, Ore. In 
 1856 Mr. Moser purchased the farm where he 
 now lives, and where he has since resided. It 
 contained at that time six hundred and forty 
 acres of land, which was in its original wildness. 
 Nothing daunted, however, he began the hercu- 
 lean task of clearing it, and by wise forethought 
 and intense application redeemed a good home- 
 stead property, which he has improved by the 
 erection of substantial buildings, and equipped 
 with the necessary machinery for its cultivation. 
 In carrying on his work he pays attention to 
 general farming and stock-raising, making a 
 specialty in the latter branch of his industry of 
 Norman horses and Hereford cattle. One of his 
 sons owns a portion of the original estate, but he 
 still has in his own possession five hundred and 
 sixty acres of it. 
 
 February 18, 1847, Mr. Moser married Sarah 
 A. Petree, who was born March 29, 1830, in 
 Franklin county, Ind., and died January 8, 1900, 
 on the homestead. Of the children that blessed 
 their union the following is the record : Joseph 
 H, a resident of Silverton ; Isaiah, a resident of 
 Washington county; Margaret E., wife of Isaac 
 Hinkle; Minerva, wife of William Pendell, of 
 Washington; Dr. John F., deceased; Mary, wife 
 of Zack Davenport, living on the home farm ; 
 Sarah, Icebella, both deceased ; Falista, wife of 
 Henry Grazer ; Lemuel, living in California ; Isa- 
 belle, wife of Hiram Hartley ; and Stoneman, 
 residing on a portion of the homestead. Mr. 
 Moser is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and in his political affiliations is a Demo- 
 crat. 
 
 HENRY McGUIRE. Far from peaceful or 
 uneventful has been the career of Henry Mc- 
 Guire, one of the large land owners and success- 
 ful farmers of Yamhill county, and one of the 
 bravest and most experienced Indian fighters 
 which this country has produced. His fighting 
 capacity is not surprising when it is known that 
 remote McGuire ancestors prided themselves 
 upon their prowess on the field of battle, and in 
 all their relations to life were fashioned rather 
 on the martial order. At any rate, they stood 
 out fearlessly in any emergency however great 
 and were also men of large business ability and 
 unswerving integrity. Most authentic records 
 trace the family history to McGuire Island, 
 Fermanagh, Ireland, whence some bearing the 
 name found their way to France. James and 
 Hurley, however, remained in Ireland and be- 
 came the greatest grain merchants of that pic- 
 turesque old town of Limerick. 
 
 A native of Roscommon town and county, Ire- 
 land, Henry McGuire was born October 4, 1846, 
 his father, William, being a native of the same 
 county. William McGuire was a large stock- 
 
 buyer and seller in his early days, but afterward 
 lived in Limerick, where he bought and sold 
 enormous quantities of grain, and was both an 
 exporter and importer. He was an uneducated 
 man, but possessed remarkable financial ability, 
 and died in Belfast in 1900, leaving a comforta- 
 ble competency to his family. His father, Hur- 
 ley McGuire, was also born in Roscommon, and 
 by occupation was a farmer and trader, in time 
 becoming one of the wealthiest men in his sec- 
 tion. In 1798 he fought against the English, 
 and although the balance of the family found a 
 refuge in France, he and his brother James re- 
 mained behind, much to the surprise of their 
 friends, who were unaware of the fact until 
 some years later. William McGuire married 
 Mary Green, born in County Galway, and whose 
 father, James, a merchant tailor, died in Ros- 
 common. Mrs. McGuire was the mother of 
 three sons and three daughters : George, de- 
 ceased, was a judge in Wayne county, Mich.; 
 Mary Ann is living in Michigan; Agnes died in 
 Belfast, Ireland; James is a resident of Port- 
 land; Annie is in Belfast, Ireland; and Henry, 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 A spirit of rebellion characterized the early 
 youth of Mr. McGuire, which was perhaps typi- 
 cal of his future career. At the age of fourteen 
 he unceremoniously took leave of his family and 
 went to Liverpool, where his surplus energy was 
 expended in teaching boxing, and in giving box- 
 ing exhibitions. This kind of life was destined 
 for interruption, for his family saw to it that he 
 returned to his home and applied himself to at- 
 tendance at the common school. In 1862 he en- 
 gaged as a clerk on the Midland & Great West- 
 ern Railway in the construction department, and 
 was later a clerk in the mail department of Ros- 
 common. At the time of the Fenian raid in 1865 
 he came to the United States, and from New 
 York City went to Lowell, Mass., and then back 
 to New York City. Here he enlisted in the 
 United States army, and as a member of Com- 
 pany D was sent to a military training school. 
 Having successfully stood the examination he 
 was offered a commission, but refused, and was 
 then ordered with a band of recruits under Gen- 
 eral Lord to Angel Island, Marin county, Cal. 
 As a member of Company G, Thirty-Second 
 United States Infantry, he went to Arizona, 
 there meeting with an accident while attempting 
 to regain an escaping prisoner, in which he was 
 thrown down a cliff. In Arizona he volunteered 
 to carry the mail from Goodman to Apache 
 Pass, a distance of one hundred and twenty-five 
 miles, the entire trip going and coming taking 
 usually a week. Mr. McGuire gained a great 
 reputation in Arizona for nerve and fearlessness, 
 and his name was known throughout the entire 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1187 
 
 territory. His regiment was finally consoli- 
 dated with Company G of the Twenty-First 
 regiment, but soon after Mr. McGuire was dis- 
 charged therefrom, owing to a case of sunstroke 
 while on a forced march. Although one of the 
 most capable and fearless men in his company, 
 he steadily refused promotion, preferring to re- 
 main in the ranks. Following close upon his 
 disabling sunstroke Mr. McGuire located in 
 Portland and found employment at teaming in 
 the brickyards of that city. Nevertheless, he 
 still continued to have an interest in matters 
 military, and in 1872 distinguished himself by 
 drawing the medal offered by the governor of 
 the state for the best-drilled man in Oregon. 
 In 1873 he volunteered to fight the Modock In- 
 dians, but the services of the company were not 
 accepted owing to the governor's refusal to allow 
 them to leave the state. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. McGuire married in Portland, 
 Mrs. Rosana (Jones) Twohill, a native of In- 
 diana, and whose father, William Jones, was 
 born in Kentucky, and moved from there to In- 
 diana, finally crossing the plains to Oregon in 
 1847. Mr. Jones settled on the William and 
 Nancy (Jones) donation claim in Yamhill 
 county, where himself and wife farmed six hun- 
 dred and forty acres, and where they died at an 
 advanced age. After his marriage Mr. McGuire 
 settled on his wife's farm, and he subsequently 
 bought out two of the Jones heirs, adding still 
 more to his land until at present he owns ninety - 
 one acres one and a half miles northwest of 
 Xewberg. This was long before the town of 
 Xewberg was founded and the McGuires have 
 been interested spectators of its rise. Of the 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. McGuire William 
 is a perfect specimen of physical development, 
 and is unusually strong; then there are Henry, 
 James, George, Robert, and Josephine. The 
 children are all living at home, and all are re- 
 ceiving the best education which it is possible 
 for their parents to give them. Mr. McGuire is 
 a Democrat in politics, and in religion is a mem- 
 ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 GEORGE W. KLUM. For more than half 
 a century George W. Klum occupied a section 
 of land in Linn county, and during that time ef- 
 fected a great and creditable change in property 
 exceedingly wild and unpromising when he first 
 took possession. Like all of the very early set- 
 tlers he had obstacles to overcome ere encour- 
 agement or profit were in sight, and the tim- 
 bered condition of the land necessitated years 
 of arduous and exhausting toil. He belongs to 
 that noble band of men who thought no labor 
 too severe or trying to accomplish their purpose 
 
 in a home-seeking time, and was one of those 
 who took the initiative, making their start 
 across the plains before the journey had become 
 either usual or safe. For several years of his 
 life he lived at Rushville, Rush county, Ind., 
 where he was born May 8, 1825, his parents 
 afterward removing to Illinois and from there 
 to Louisa county, Iowa, where they lived on a 
 farm until crossing the plains with their two 
 sons and two daughters. 
 
 In the meantime, in the spring of 1847, 
 George W. Klum had been united in marriage 
 with Jane Nye, a native of Louisa county, Iowa, 
 and soon after joined with the family in their 
 emigration to the west, taking six months to 
 accomplish the journey. Nothing out of the 
 ordinary happened to this little band of cour- 
 ageous people, and they reached their destina- 
 tion in this county in fairly good health and 
 spirits. In the fall of 1847 Mr. Klum paved 
 the way for future success by locating on a sec- 
 tion of wild land, to the improvement of which 
 he at once applied himself with all of the en- 
 thusiasm and hope of his twenty-four years. 
 His first home was in a little hewed log house of 
 one room, but this his brave wife converted into 
 one of comfort, making the best of her limited 
 facilities for housekeeping. Game was abundant 
 in those days, and the gun of Mr. Klum brought 
 down many a deer and other game that fre- 
 quented the timber. As the ground yielded of 
 its richness, and a market appeared for the 
 products of the settlers, advantages came to the 
 little family, and a larger house supplanted the 
 log one of long ago. Children were added to 
 the cares of the mother, five sons and six daugh- 
 ters, and all were taught the value of industry 
 and the benefit of upright, honorable dives. 
 Surely, in 1902, Mr. Klum had earned the right 
 to lessen his labors somewhat, and to leave to 
 younger and stronger shoulders the work of har- 
 vesting and improving. At this time he moved 
 into Sodaville, where he has since lived in a 
 comfortable and hospitable little home, and is 
 identified with the larger life of the community. 
 He is widely known as an upholder of the prin- 
 ciples of Masonry, of which noble organization 
 he has been a member for more than fifty-five 
 years. He was the first active sheriff of Linn 
 county, serving as a deputy under Jason 
 Wheeler, who was incapacitated from labor by 
 reason of ill health. He had practically nothing 
 when he came to Oregon in 1847, DUt at present 
 he is one of the substantial men of a thrifty 
 community. 
 
 CHARLES K. SPAULDING is one of the 
 most prominent representatives of extensive tim- 
 ber interests in the Willamette valley or the state 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Oregon and belongs to that class of business 
 men who, while promoting individual prosperity, 
 also contribute largely to the upbuilding and im- 
 provement of the localities with which they are 
 connected. Mr. Spaulding is a native of Leaven- 
 worth, Kans., born January 28, 1865. His father, 
 Erastus Spaulding, was born in Milford, N. H., 
 August 14, 1832, and received rather limited 
 educational privileges. He pursued his studies in 
 the common schools until sixteen years of age, 
 when he began work as a farm hand. In his 
 youth he also learned the blacksmith's trade, 
 which he followed for seven years in Westboro, 
 Mass. In 1858 he sought a home in the west 
 that he might enjoy the better business oppor- 
 tunities of new sections of the country, taking 
 up his abode in Leavenworth, Kans. He was 
 a stanch Abolitionist and as this was the period 
 which immediately preceded the Civil war, when 
 public feeling ran very high in Kansas, he gave 
 the weight of his influence to the Abolition move- 
 ment and fearlessly defended his honest convic- 
 tions. He followed blacksmithing and also 
 worked at the mason's trade and engaged in 
 teaming, but during the last six years of his busi- 
 ness career he conducted a saw-mill and met 
 with a merited degree of success in the enter- 
 prise. Cutting a large amount of lumber, he 
 sold this to the government at Ft. Leavenworth 
 during war times. He never enlisted regularly 
 in the army, but was twice drafted and on each 
 occasion sent a substitute. He resided in the 
 Sunflower state during the time of the raids 
 made by Quantrell and his lawless band of bush- 
 whackers, and relates many interesting incidents 
 of occurrences of those times. In 1872 he de- 
 termined to seek his home on the Pacific coast 
 and made his way to San Francisco, Cal., where 
 he joined his brother in the conduct of the Ex- 
 celsior manufacturing plant. He afterward built 
 the second fruit-dryer in the state and was en- 
 gaged in business in that line in Sonoma. In 
 connection with a partner, William Plumber, he 
 invented what was afterward known as the 
 Plumber dryer, and began the manufacture of 
 that device, but because of the great failure in 
 the fruit crop of California they removed from 
 the Golden state to Oregon in the year 1874, 
 locating in Portland, where they established their 
 plant for the manufacture of fruit dryers, and 
 the output found a ready sale upon the market. 
 Three years passed in this way, and then Mr. 
 Spaulding disposed of his interest in the busi- 
 ness and purchased a farm near Pleasantdale, in 
 Yamhill county, Ore. This comprised one hun- 
 dred and thirty acres of well improved land, and 
 on disposing of his manufacturing interests he 
 took up his abode upon his farm, which he con- 
 tinued to cultivate and improve until 1896. In 
 that year he came to Newberg, where he has 
 
 since lived retired in the enjoyment of a well- 
 earned rest, but he still retains possession of the 
 farm, and the rental of the property brings to 
 him a desirable income. 
 
 Erastus Spaulding was united in marriage to 
 Elizabeth Kent, who was born in Canada and is 
 now living with her husband in Newberg. They 
 had three children, of whom one died in infancy, 
 but two sons reached mature years. Frank 
 Spaulding, the brother of our subject, however, 
 is now deceased. 
 
 In the common schools of Portland Charles K. 
 Spaulding pursued his education, having been 
 brought to the Pacific coast when only about 
 nine years of age. He continued his studies 
 until he had gained a good knowledge to serve 
 as the foundation upon which to rear the super- 
 structure of a successful career. When nine- 
 teen years of age he became connected with the 
 logging business, which he has since followed, 
 beginning operations in that line near Dayton, 
 Ore. He had little capital when he embarked 
 in business, the entire sum probably amounting 
 to about $1,000, but he possessed strong resolu- 
 tion and determined energy, and these stood him 
 in stead of greater capital. The splendid forest 
 districts of the state have made Oregon a lucra- 
 tive field for logging and kindred interests and 
 Mr. Spaulding decided to engage in this line of 
 industrial activity. After two years he came to 
 Newberg, Ore., continued in the same business, 
 and in 1890 he went to Washington, where he 
 established a sawmill, operating it for one year. 
 At the end of that time, however, he sold his 
 mill and returned to Newberg, where he or- 
 ganized the Charles K. Spaulding Logging Com- 
 pany, of which he is the president and in which 
 he owns a large interest. This business was 
 incorporated in 1897 with a paid-up capital of 
 $30,000, and the present capital is $150,000, a 
 fact which indicates the almost marvelous in- 
 crease of the business. The company owns a 
 sawmill in Newberg, turning out fifty thousand 
 feet of lumber per day, and also has ten thou- 
 sand acres of timberland whereon a number of 
 crews of men are employed in getting out the 
 timber. These number altogether one hundred 
 and twenty-five workmen, and the property of 
 the company also includes two large river steam- 
 boats. They handle about forty million feet of 
 logs per year, supplying various extensive lumber 
 manufacturing companies situated along the 
 Willamette river. The business has reached 
 mammoth proportions and the successful control 
 of this important and profitable enterprise is 
 largely the work of Mr. Spaulding. He is a 
 man of excellent business ability, of keen sa- 
 gacity, and recognizes quickly every opportunity 
 in the line of his chosen pursuit. He is also 
 a director in the Bank of Newberg, and aside 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1189 
 
 from his timberlands he owns five hundred acres 
 of land ten miles from Newberg, Ore., constitut- 
 ing a splendid ranch on which he raises grain 
 and stock. In Newberg he owns a beautiful 
 residence. 
 
 In Dayton, Ore., was celebrated the marriage 
 of Charles K. Spaulding and Miss Lorah Seese, 
 who was born in Benton, Ind., a daughter of E. 
 Seese, who was a resident of Dayton, Ore. He 
 came to this state at a very early day and con- 
 ducted a lumber yard at McMinnville, while a 
 portion of his time was also given to the super- 
 vision of a ranch. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Spauld- 
 ing have been born four children : Walter, Beu- 
 lah, Clifford and Ila. In his political affiliations 
 Mr. Spaulding is a stalwart Republican, and for 
 two terms he served as city councilman. To him 
 there has come the attainment of a distinguished 
 position in connection with the great material 
 industries of the state, and his efforts have been 
 so discerningly directed along well defined lines 
 that he seems to have realized at any one point 
 of progress the full measure of his possibilities 
 for accomplishment at that point. A man of dis- 
 tinct and forceful individuality, of broad men- 
 tality and most mature judgment, he has left and 
 is leaving his impress upon the industrial world. 
 For years he has been an important factor 
 in the development of the natural resources of 
 the state, in the upbuilding and in the promo- 
 tion of the enterprises which add not alone to 
 his individual prosperity, but also advance the 
 general welfare and prosperity of the city in 
 which he makes his home. 
 
 JOHN A. CONSER. The family to which 
 John A. Conser belongs was very prominent in 
 the early days of Oregon, becoming not only a 
 power in the agricultural world, but being rep- 
 resented in the first territorial legislature, and 
 in the jurisprudence of Marion county. The 
 founder of the family in the northwest was Jacob 
 Conser, the father of John A., and of nine other 
 children who grew to maturity', eight sons and 
 two daughters. This early pioneer was born in 
 Center county, Pa., of poor parents, who fol- 
 lowed the old and often convenient custom of 
 binding out their children at an early age. This 
 was the fate of Jacob, who rebelled at his bond- 
 age, and without bidding farewell to his family or 
 master, left his native state and by devious ways 
 arrived in Illinois. Here he finished his trade 
 and added to it the trade of millwright, proving 
 that he was industrious and ambitious. In time 
 he ran a saw-mill and otherwise engaged in busi- 
 ness in Illinois, and in 1848, with his wife and 
 children, made arrangements to cross the plains 
 to Oregon. Besides household possessions with 
 which to start a home in the far west he had a 
 
 wagon with several yoke of oxen, two cows and 
 two steers. A calamity befell him at the Platte 
 river, where he lost his oxen in a stampede, and 
 was obliged to complete the greater part of his 
 journey with the two steers and two cows. For- 
 tunately he had slight difficulty with the Indians, 
 and his family escaped the physical disorders 
 which made the passage of many of the emi- 
 grants so distressful. Arriving in Linn county 
 Mr. Conser purchased another man's right near 
 Scio, remained thereon until 1849, an d then took 
 up a claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 near Jefferson, Marion county. He also bought 
 the same amount of land, thus making a farm 
 of six hundred and forty acres. In 1853 ne 
 started a saw-mill near Jefferson, and this proved 
 so successful that he erected a flour and grist- 
 mill in 1858, running the grist-mill for several 
 years. He became prominent in politics, and was 
 elected to the first territorial legislature, and was 
 again elected in 1855-6. He served his county 
 with rare good judgment, possessing those re- 
 liable and fundamentally strong traits of char- 
 acter of which the state had particular need at 
 that time. In the early days he was judge of 
 Marion county, and held many other positions 
 of trust to which his Democratic supporters 
 elected him. The Masonic order profited by his 
 membership for many years, and he took many 
 of the higher degrees. He was a man of ster- 
 ling personal worth, unquestioned integrity and 
 large capacity for industry. His farm was de- 
 voted to general farming and stock-raising, and 
 his far-sightedness recognized the advantages of 
 modern improvements, including good buildings, 
 fences and implements. In 1885 he moved into 
 Eugene to get away from the worry and responsi- 
 bility of business, and in retirement his death 
 occurred in 1894, at the age of seventy-five years. 
 He was of a social nature, enjoying a good story 
 or a joke, even at his own expense. 
 
 Seven years of age when he came to Oregon, 
 John A. Conser was reared on the farm near 
 Jefferson, and naturally became interested in 
 his father's grist-mill, entering the same in a 
 humble capacity, where he worked for some 
 years. When his father moved to the farm near 
 Jefferson he accompanied him, and has ever since 
 resided on this fine property. In all he owns six 
 hundred and twenty-nine acres of land, nearly 
 all in the valley, located at Miller station, and six 
 miles from Albany. No finer agricultural prop- 
 ertv is to be found in the county, nor has any at 
 its head a more thoroughly practical and re- 
 sourceful farmer. Prosperity, orderliness, econ- 
 omv, and, above all, s\ r stem, are the things which 
 most impress the visitor to this pleasant home in 
 one of the garden spots of Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Conser was married September 27, 1874, 
 to Miss Jane Jones, a native of Marion county, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Ore., the daughter of Lewis Jones, who came 
 to Oregon in 1852 from Tennessee. He was a 
 farmer, following that occupation until a short 
 time before his death, which occurred at Oak- 
 land, Ore., at about seventy-five years of age. 
 
 Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Conser: Lester Carl, born on the homestead in 
 Linn county, is married to Iva Meeker, daughter 
 of William" Meeker, of Linn county, having one 
 son, and lives on the paternal farm; and Rocky,- 
 also born on the Linn county farm. 
 
 MELVIN MARTIN EDWARDS, who is the 
 owner of a valuable farming property in Yamhill 
 county and has been a resident of Oregon since 
 1880, was born in Sangamon county, 111., on the 
 site of Springfield, April 29, 1832. His paternal 
 grandfather, William Edwards, was a native of 
 New York, whence he went to Charleston, S. 
 C, on a trading expedition, but he lost his 
 money in that venture and moved to North Caro- 
 lina, where he was united in marriage to Miss 
 Elizabeth Justus. He then went to Overton 
 county, Tenn., and afterward to Illinois, where 
 he eventually retired from business cares. He 
 died in the latter state in 1839 and his wife passed 
 away in 1851. Among their children was Amos 
 Edwards, the father of our subject, who was 
 born in North Carolina and was but two years of 
 age when his parents removed to Overton coun- 
 ty, Tenn. When a young man he went to Illi- 
 nois, settling on the present site of the city of 
 Springfield. He helped survey the land and was 
 active in pioneer development of that part of 
 the state. When he and Abraham Lincoln were 
 young men there was a strong friendship formed 
 between them and they were companions in many 
 of the sports and pleasures of youth. Mr. Ed- 
 wards remained a resident of Illinois until about a 
 month prior to his death, when he went to Iowa, 
 passing away near Cumberland, that state, Aug- 
 ust 20, 1876. His wife bore the maiden name of 
 Nancy Hash, and was born in Sparta, Tenn., 
 a daughter of John Hash, who belonged to one 
 of the old and prominent southern families who 
 lived upon plantations and owned large numbers 
 of slaves. At an early day Mr. Hash moved to 
 Illinois, where he died in 1830. 
 
 Melvin Martin Edwards is the eldest of a 
 family of five sons and two daughters, and 
 was educated in the subscription schools, but 
 his advantages in that direction were rather 
 limited. In 1855 he began farming on his own 
 account and also followed basket-making in Ful- 
 ton county. 111. In 1861 he removed to Iowa, 
 becoming one of the pioneer settlers of Cass 
 county, where he purchased two hundred and 
 twenty acres of land, continuing its cultivation 
 
 with success until 1880. On September 20 of 
 that year, he arrived in Oregon and took up his 
 abode at Dundee, renting the place which is 
 now his home. There was no town here at that 
 time, however, and the country all about was 
 wild and unimproved. Mr. Edwards did not 
 make a permanent location here, but roamed over 
 different parts of the country for a time, and 
 in 1901 he returned to Dundee, where he is now 
 located. He has been engaged in railroad con- 
 struction, employed in every department of the 
 work, including that of teaming. Mr. Edwards 
 now owns four acres of land at his present home 
 in Dundee and he also has a stock and dairy 
 ranch of one hundred and sixty acres at San 
 Lake, Tillamook county. This is partially im- 
 proved and returns him a good income. He also 
 has a block of lots in the city. 
 
 On June 19, 1855, in Fulton county, 111., Mr. 
 Edwards wedded Miss Mary E. Bartles, who was 
 born in that county, a daughter of Frederick 
 Bartles, who was born in Bath, Me., and was a 
 distiller and miller. In later years, however, he 
 followed farming. About 1832 he sought a home 
 in what was then the frontier of Illinois and in 
 1866 he went to Iowa, settling upon a tract of 
 land which continued to be his home until his 
 death on August 10, 1870. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
 Edwards have been born twelve children, of 
 whom three died in infancy. Those still living 
 are : Melvin J., a resident of Tillamook county, 
 Ore. ; Nancy M., the wife of A. S. Lane, of 
 Newberg, Ore. ; James William, at home ; Henry 
 Grant, who is living in Polk county; U. Schuy- 
 ler, of Dundee; Roy, of Grass Valley, Ore.; 
 John Sherman, who is serving as city marshal of 
 Dundee ; and Maude D., the wife of Roy Robert- 
 son of Dundee. One daughter, Rosa, passed 
 away at the age of twenty-six years. 
 
 While in Iowa Mr. Edwards was a member 
 of the state militia, and upon its organization in 
 1 86 1 he became fourth sergeant, but saw little 
 active service. In politics he has ever been a 
 stalwart Republican and while in Iowa he served 
 as school director, as county sheriff and as con- 
 stable. He has also been school director and con- 
 stable in Oregon and has ever been interested in 
 the progress and advancement of this state dur- 
 ing the twenty-three years of his residence here. 
 He is now practically living a retired life at his 
 home in Dundee. 
 
 ALBERT HERREN, the popular agent of 
 the Portland Flouring Mills Company and Ore- 
 gon Railway & Navigation Company at Inde- 
 pendence, has been a resident of this thriving 
 little town since 1895, and during these years 
 has been buying wheat of the surrounding farm- 
 ers to ship to Portland. He is probably as good 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 a judge of this commodity as any man in the 
 county, and his enormous purchases for the firm 
 which he represents have had much to do with 
 stimulating wheat-growing in this section. A 
 native son of Oregon, Mr. Herren was born 
 four miles east of Salem, Marion county, Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1853. and is the third of five sons and 
 one daughter. His father. William J. Herren, 
 was born at Greensburg, Ind., and when a small 
 boy removed with his parents to Missouri, from 
 which state in 1845 he came across the plains to 
 Oregon. It is not known that his long journey 
 was characterized by any particular adventure 
 or interest. He traded a horse and his labor for 
 a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 near Salem. This he improved to some ex- 
 tent, and in 1887 located in the town of Salem, 
 where he engaged in the warehouse business. 
 He bought hops and wheat on an extensive scale 
 and was thus engaged up to the time of his 
 death in April. 1891, at the age of sixty-five 
 years. His wife, Evelyn (Hall) Herren, who 
 survives him, was born in Missouri, and is a 
 daughter of James Hall, a pioneer of 1845, wno 
 died on bis ranch near Butteville, Marion county. 
 The education of the public schools fitted Mr. 
 Herren for a general business career, and at the 
 age of seventeen he embarked in a stock-raising 
 enterprise with his brother, David, in eastern 
 Oregon. In the fall of 1876 he sold out his land 
 and stock and located in Salem, soon after tak- 
 ing charge of his father's ranch in that vicinity, 
 and until 1890 engaged extensively in the cattle 
 business on the paternal farm. For a time he 
 was freight agent at Salem, and in 1892 became 
 associated as foreman with the Willamette Val- 
 ley Milling Company. Following this in 1895 
 he engaged in his present business as agent for 
 two well-established Portland firms. The family 
 of Mr. Herren consists of his wife, formerly 
 Mary E. Smith, and two children, Carl and Lela. 
 Mrs. Herren was born on a farm near Turner, 
 Ore., and is a daughter of Simeon Smith, who 
 crossed the plains in 1845. Mr. Smith located 
 on an unimproved farm near Turner, and in 
 those early pioneer days contributed his share . 
 towards the development of his section, his death 
 occurring in 1879. Mr. Herren is a Democrat in 
 national politics, but aside from casting his vote 
 has never identified himself with the political 
 undertakings of his neighborhood. He is an ex- 
 cellent business man, and a public-spirited, sub- 
 stantial citizen. 
 
 WILLIAM EVEREST. An interestingly 
 checkered career has been that of William Ever- 
 est, born many thousand miles from the spot 
 where he now makes his home, his father being 
 
 Richard Everest, who was born in Kent county, 
 England, March 8, 1798. In 1836 his father emi- 
 grated to the United States, coming by way of 
 Quebec, Canada, and locating at Newark, Ohio, 
 where he drove a dray wagon. In 1840 he re- 
 moved to Washington 'county, Iowa, investing 
 in land advantageously located on a small stream 
 called Crooked creek, within one and a half mile 
 of Washington, the county seat. Subsequently 
 he tried his fortunes in the west, crossing the 
 plains in 1847 to Oregon, where he took up a 
 donation claim just east of the town of New- 
 berg. This claim contained six hundred and 
 forty acres, and into the improvement of it he 
 put the strength of his years, undiminished by 
 the wandering life he had led. Here at the age 
 of eighty-four he passed away. The mother of 
 William Everest was Miss Jane Cole, also of 
 English extraction, having been born in Kent 
 county, England, where her marriage to. Rich- 
 ard Everest occurred. At the age of eighty-two 
 years she died in this faraway land which, how- 
 ever, their efforts had made home. Twelve chil- 
 dren were born to them, the youngest of whom 
 was William. 
 
 This son was born in Kent county, England, 
 August 30, 1836. His trip across the plains was 
 made at the age of eleven years, and at thirteen 
 he accompanied his father to California prospect- 
 ing for gold, along the American river, where 
 the gold was first discovered at Sutter's mill. 
 When the two returned, they took back with them 
 $3,000, the result of three months' work. Up 
 to the time he was twenty-one years old he 
 worked on his father's large farm, taking a quar- 
 ter section of the claim and farming it. In 
 1861-62 he was engaged in mining in Boise 
 Basin, Idaho, following this up with a trip to 
 Cariboo, British Columbia, where he worked in 
 the mines in 1863. In 1884 during the mining 
 excitement at Cceur d'Alene, he passed three 
 months in the vicinity, gaining from the time 
 spent there some substantial fruits. 
 
 Since that time Mr. Everest has been indus- 
 triously employed in farming on a part of the 
 old donation claim that belonged to his father. 
 He has made a great success of this work, tak- 
 ing as much interest in it as in the more exciting 
 experiences in mine and camp, it being his boast 
 that more camp-fires have been lighted by his 
 hand than by that of any other man in the state. 
 LTpon his property he has built a homelike little 
 cottage back about one hundred and fifty yards 
 from the main road leading into Newberg. An- 
 other of his improvements has been the setting 
 out of fifteen acres to many kinds of fruit and 
 English walnuts, and he takes great pleasure in 
 showing guests through this Oregon bower of 
 plenty. The gentle wife who shares this quie- 
 
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 PORTRAIT- AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tude was Miss Josie Acheson, whom he mar- 
 ried in 1892, the children of this union being 
 Marguerite Bell and Maud, both at home. In 
 her church affiliations Mrs. Everest is of the 
 Presbyterian faith, while her husband was chris- 
 tened in the Church of England. She was a 
 native of Magnolia, Rock county, Wis., her 
 father, Alexander Acheson, having gone with his 
 parents from Newburgh, Orange county, N. Y., 
 to settle in Wisconsin at an early day. In 1899 
 he also emigrated, going to Oregon and locating 
 at Springbrook, where he bought a farm of 
 twenty-five acres. This he sold and removed 
 to Newberg, then to Tacoma, Wash., November 
 4, 1902, in which latter place he expects to make 
 his home. 
 
 Mr. Everest is independent in politics, giving 
 his vote to the man rather than the party. 
 Among the objects of interest in Mr. Everest's 
 possession is a copy of the tenth paper that was 
 printed on the Pacific coast, called the Oregon 
 City Spectator. 
 
 JOHN H. MORAN. As one who shouldered 
 the responsibilities of life when but twelve years 
 of age, and who by his own energy has worked 
 his way upward to an honored place in the 
 world, John H. Moran of Monmouth is eminently 
 deserving of mention in a history of this charac- 
 ter. Today he is carrying on a real estate busi- 
 ness which grew from a small, unpretentious 
 beginning in 1890, until he now has two offices, 
 tne office in Monmouth being a branch of the 
 main office in Independence. Private affairs 
 have not consumed all of the time and abilities 
 which Mr. Moran has at his disposal, however, 
 as will be seen by a short reference to his public 
 life : His nomination and election to the highest 
 office within the gift of the citizens of Mon- 
 mouth shows the confidence which they placed 
 in him as a public official, and his term as mayor, 
 from 1892 to 1894, was characterized by honesty 
 and fair dealing. From 1894 to 1898 he served 
 as deputy sheriff under H. B. Plummer, and is 
 now filling the office of district constable, to 
 which position he was elected in 1894, and is 
 still creditably filling the office, having been 
 elected to the foregoing offices on the Republi- 
 can ticket. 
 
 John H. Moran was born December 24, 1849, 
 in Essex county, N. Y., whither his parents, 
 Martin and Elizabeth (Fitzmourse) Moran, had 
 located upon coming to the United States from 
 Ireland, their native land, in 1846. The father 
 was a farmer by occupation, and he lost no time 
 in finding a suitable location for carrying on his 
 chosen work. After a residence of six years 
 on his New York farm he moved to northwest- 
 
 ern Missouri in 1852, and for ten years carried 
 on farming operations there. In 1862, with his 
 wife and six children, he started across the 
 plains, with Oregon as his destination, but he 
 was not spared to realize his hopes of life in the 
 west. When they reached the Green River, 
 Wyo., the Cheyenne Indians attacked their train, 
 causing havoc among the cattle which they were 
 taking to their new home in the west. While 
 Mr. Moran was endeavoring to regain his lost 
 property the Indians leveled the fatal arrow that 
 left the little party without a leader, and the 
 date of this sad event, July 18, 1862, is one never 
 to be forgotten by the bereaved family. He 
 was buried on the west fork of the Green river, 
 where stands Mt. Moran. It was with heavy 
 hearts that the remnant of the party resumed 
 the journey, but finally they reached their desti- 
 nation, and locating on a farm in Polk county, 
 near Monmouth, engaged in farming. Mrs. 
 Moran was familiar with life on a farm, as it 
 was amid such surroundings that her early life 
 had been passed on her father's farm in Ireland. 
 She came to this country with her parents prior 
 to her marriage, the family locating in New York 
 state, where her father died about 1897. 
 
 As has been said, when John H. Moran was 
 but twelve years of age he found the respon- 
 sibilities of a much older person resting upon 
 his young shoulders. The death of the father had 
 left John as the eldest of the family to bear the 
 great responsibility which naturally fell to him. 
 He successfully conducted the home farm, carry- 
 ing on general farming and stock-raising until, by 
 carefully saving his earnings, he was enabled to 
 purchase a place of his own. When twenty-one 
 years of age he changed his occupation and sur- 
 roundings, and coming to Monmouth, engaged 
 in the real estate business in a small way, but 
 which has steadily grown until Tie now manages 
 two offices, doing an immense business in the 
 handling of all kinds of property, a specialty 
 being made of farm lands. Mr. Moran enjoys 
 his prosperity alone, as he has never married; 
 and resides in the family home on the corner 
 of Clay and Warren streets. His interest in 
 fraternal societies is limited to the Blue Lodge 
 and Chapter of the Ancient, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, in which he is serving as past master. 
 H. C. Moran, a brother of John H, resides in 
 Salem, Ore., where he is extensively engaged in 
 buying and selling stock. 
 
 IRA C. POWELL. The representative of a 
 prominent pioneer family of Oregon, Ira C. 
 Powell, cashier of the Polk County Bank at 
 Monmouth, was born in Linn county, Ore., 
 November 26, 1865, and is a son of Franklin 
 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1193 
 
 ind Louise J. (Peeler) Powell, a grandson 
 of fohn A. Powell, and great-grandson of Joseph 
 Powell, the latter a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 Oi the father and grandfather extended mention 
 will be found in the sketch of Franklin S. Powell, 
 although it is fitting to say that the original 
 emigration of the family to the west was due to 
 the ambition of the grandsire, John A., one of 
 I lie most earnest and forceful of the early minis- 
 ters of the Christian Church in the west. A 
 man weighing two hundred and twenty pounds, 
 this early preacher had a brain and heart in 
 keeping with his physical proportions, and his 
 influence upon his time and place cannot be 
 over-estimated. Franklin S. Powell was in the 
 prime of a vigorous young manhood when he 
 came across the plains with his parents in 185 1. 
 He now lives in the summer on his large farm, 
 and in the winter in the town of Monmouth. 
 He occupies an enviable position in the com- 
 munity. He is one of the chief upbuilders of the 
 Christian College, and has contributed much 
 time and means to making of this a fitting insti- 
 tution for educating the youth of the land. 
 
 Ira C. Powell is the seventh of the eight chil- 
 dren born to his parents, of whom five sons and 
 one daughter are living. He was educated in 
 the public schools and at Monmouth College, 
 from which latter institution he was graduated 
 in 1887, with the degree of B. S. Beginning 
 with 1890, he became cashier of the Polk County 
 Bank, capitalized for $30,000, and which is one 
 of the solid financial institutions of this and 
 surrounding counties. He is the general man- 
 ager of the bank, and its entire supervision is 
 under his watchful eye. Aside from this respon- 
 sibility, he is treasurer of the State Normal 
 School of Monmouth, and is often called upon 
 to lead in important projects for the general 
 improvement of the town and county. A stanch 
 Republican, Mr. Powell is very active in polit- 
 ical affairs in the town, and served as mayor 
 thereof during T899 an< ^ 1900. In Monmouth 
 in 1894 he was united in marriage with Lena 
 Butler, a native of this town, and daughter of 
 Douglas Butler, of California, who crossed the 
 plains to Oregon in 1852. Two sons are the 
 result of this union. Mr. Powell is fraternally 
 associated with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows of which he is past noble grand, and the 
 Dallas Encampment, and in religion is a member 
 of the Christian Church. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS, M. D. Espe- 
 cial interest attaches to the name and work of 
 Dr. W. H. Davis of Albany, not only because he 
 is one of the best known and most successful 
 
 practitioners of the Willamette valley, but by rea- 
 son of the fact that he comes of a pioneer family 
 distinguished on account of its numerous devotees 
 to the science of medicine and surgery. He is a 
 native son of Oregon, having been born in Silver- 
 ton, Marion county, October 27, i860, a son of 
 Dr. Piatt A. and" Sopha (Wolf) Davis, who 
 crossed the plains in 1852. His father practiced 
 his profession with great success in Marion 
 county for half a century, and at the time of his 
 death, April 7, 1902, at the age of seventy-seven 
 years, was probably the oldest physician in Ore- 
 gon, as well as one of the most widely beloved. 
 (See sketch of the life of Dr. Piatt A. Davis, 
 which appears elsewhere in this work.) 
 
 After receiving his elementary training in the 
 public schools of Silverton, W. H. Davis entered 
 Willamette University, where he continued his 
 classical studies for one year. The vear follow- 
 ing he devoted to a course in the University of 
 Oregon at Eugene. In 1881 he entered the 
 medical department of Willamette University, 
 from which he was graduated with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1883. In 
 April of that year he began practice in Harris- 
 burg under the guidance of his uncle, Dr. H. A. 
 Davis, and there remained for six years. In 
 1889 he located in Albany, where he has since 
 been continuously engaged in his professional 
 labors. His work has been attended by remark- 
 able success. It has been evident since the be- 
 ginning of his career that he inherited much of 
 the rare ability and love for the science exhibited 
 by his father. Not content with the splendid 
 foundation of scientific knowledge with which he 
 was equipped upon the inauguration of his life's 
 work, he has been a constant student, and has 
 taken advantage of every opportunity for broad- 
 ening his knowledge and developing his powers. 
 In 1898 he took a post graduate course in the 
 New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and 
 is now contemplating further special work in 
 this direction. Dr. Davis is engaged in an exten- 
 sive general practice. He is chief surgeon for 
 the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Company, and 
 is identified with the Oregon State Medical So- 
 ciety. 
 
 A Republican in politics. Dr. Davis has found 
 the time to interest himself to a considerable ex- 
 tent in the local undertakings of his party, and as 
 its candidate was elected mayor of Albany in 
 1899. He is now serving his second term in that 
 office. Fraternallv he is identified with St. John's 
 Lodge No. 62, A. F. & A. M., of Albany, in 
 which he is past master; Bailey Chapter, R. A. 
 M., of Albany; Commandery No. 4. K. T., of 
 Albany; and' with the Knights of Pythias and 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Davis occurred April 24, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1888, and united him with Dora Brown, a step- 
 daughter of Dr. J. F. Hendrex, a practicing 
 physician of Harrisburg, Linn county, Ore. 
 
 During the years of his practice in Albany, Dr. 
 Davis has become recognized by his professional 
 contemporaries as one of the most highly quali- 
 fied and successful practitioners in the Willamette 
 valley. He is endowed with splendid personal 
 characteristics, with finely developed mental pow- 
 ers and with entirely harmonious attributes. 
 Genial, cultured, gentle, and possessed of a dis- 
 position which prompts him to take advantage 
 of many opportunities which appeal to the 
 humanitarian, he is the ideal physician. In his 
 views of public affairs he is broad and liberal, 
 with a public spirit which arises to every occa- 
 sion which makes a demand upon it. In all his 
 relations with his fellow men he appears to be 
 actuated by high and unselfish motives, and may 
 always be depended upon to assist in the promo- 
 tion of those enterprises which are calculated to 
 advance the best interests of the community. His 
 position in the esteem of the citizens of Linn 
 county is secure. It is with pleasure that those 
 responsible for the publication of this work make 
 a permanent record of these facts, which for the 
 greater part simply reflect the opinions of those 
 who have watched his career during the years of 
 his residence in Albany. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY PARRISH, M. D. 
 Perhaps no professional calling so aptly illus- 
 trates the swift advance of science during the 
 past quarter of a century as that of medicine, 
 and this particular science has no abler represen- 
 tative among its workers than Dr. Parrish, of 
 ]\Jonmouth, Ore. He is broad in his views, 
 progressive in his methods, and is constantly 
 adding to his medical knowledge by earnest, 
 systematic study. 
 
 Of English ancestry, being the descendant of 
 one of five brothers that emigrated from Eng- 
 land to Canada at an early day, Dr. Parrish was 
 born, February 22, 1848, at Cottage Grove, Chi- 
 cago, 111. His father, John Gould Parrish, was 
 born at Farmersville, Canada West, July 1, 
 1805. Coming to the States in 1841, he pur- 
 chased one hundred and sixty acres of land at 
 Cottage Grove, Chicago, 111., and was there en- 
 gaged in farming several years, working also as a 
 stone mason and as a blacksmith. In 1849, seized 
 with the gold fever, he started for California, 
 being captain of his division of the long train then 
 crossing the plains with ox-teams. At Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa, hearing of the fertility of the 
 beautiful valley of the Willamette, in Oregon, 
 he changed his mind, deciding then to come to 
 this state. Arriving at The Dalles October 11, 
 
 1850, he secured work as a mason being 
 employed by Lieutenant Lindsey, agent for the 
 government, to do the masonry on the barracks 
 at Mill Creek, receiving $5.00 per day for his 
 labor. Leaving there on April 15, 185 1, he went, 
 via the Barlow road, to Portland, Ore., thence 
 to Oregon City, where he was employed in iron- 
 ing the steamer Canemah, then in process of 
 construction. The following autumn, he went 
 to Dayton, Ore., and was there engaged in the 
 hotel business for six months. In 1852, pur- 
 chasing a section of land four and one-half 
 miles south of Dayton, he was there employed in 
 farming for a number of years. In 1858 he 
 bought the Weston farm, two and one-half 
 miles from Dayton Center, and there resided 
 until his death, November 10, 1876. He was a 
 Quaker in his religious belief, and a philan- 
 thropist. He married Margaret Herrington, who 
 was born July 29, 1806, in Canada, and died, 
 June 29, 1882, at Salem, Ore., their union being 
 solemnized March 9, 1823, at Farmersville, 
 Canada West. She was educated in her native 
 town, and during the first fifteen years of her 
 residence in Oregon practiced medicine most suc- 
 cessfully. Of the sixteen children born of their 
 marriage, Dr. Parrish is the only suvivor. 
 
 Coming to Oregon with his parents when a 
 small child, William H. Parrish acquired his 
 rudimentary education in the district schools, 
 hut obtained his first knowledge of medicine from 
 his mother, who was a homeopathist. He subse- 
 quently continued his studies with Dr. L. L. 
 Rowland, of Salem, at the end of two years, 
 in 1882, entering the medical department of 
 Willamette University, from which he was 
 graduated in 1889, with the degree of M. D. 
 Beginning the practice of his profession at 
 Turner, Ore., he remained there until 1892, when 
 he located in Salem. On March 5, 1896, the 
 doctor came to Monmouth, where he has built 
 up an extensive and lucrative practice, being 
 well and widely known as a physician of skill 
 and experience. Still aiming to perfect himself 
 in his professional knowledge, he continued his 
 studies in 1901, at Chicago, 111., being graduated 
 as an osteopathist, afterward taking a course 
 in suggestive therapeutics at Parkers Institute, 
 Chicago. Dr. Parrish makes a specialty of treat- 
 ing chronic diseases and consumption, doing a 
 large mail order business in all parts of the 
 Union. 
 
 While living on the home farm from the age 
 of sixteen years until twenty-one, Dr. Parrish 
 made use of his mechanical and inventive ability 
 by inventing a combined header and thresher, 
 getting out eleven patents, which he sold to L. 
 U. Shippe & Co., of Stockton, Cal. He was 
 nearly fourteen years in completing his inven- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1195 
 
 tions, and spent $31,000. The machines now 
 in use in the northwest are based on his patents. 
 He has taken a course of study in chemistry, 
 mineralogy and assaying, and has given con- 
 siderable time to the study of mining. He has 
 an interest in different mines, including one at 
 Cripple Creek, Col., one at Yerde Grande, Mex., 
 and three in the Thunder Mountain district of 
 Idaho, being a stockholder in the Crown Gold 
 Mining Company. 
 
 On July 26, 1874, in Polk county, Ore., Dr. 
 Parrish married Sarah Angeline Alderman, who 
 was born April 4, 1859, near Monmouth, Ore., 
 a daughter of Orlando Alderman. Her father 
 was born in Ohio, but in early manhood removed 
 to Oregon, coming here as a pioneer in 1847, 
 and locating in Gervais, where he carried on 
 general farming until retiring' from active pur- 
 suits. He is now a resident of Polk county. 
 Five children were born of the union of Dr. 
 and Mrs. Parrish, namely : Ignatius Loyola, 
 born July 25, 1876, died October 27, 1879; 
 Lilla Yelvetta, born October 7, 1878, is the wife 
 of I. H. Van Winkle, an attorney of Salem; 
 Lilly Daisy, born October 4, 1881, died February 
 18. 1893 ; Effie May, born February 7, 1884, 
 died February 15, 1893; and Lady Winnifred, 
 born March 22, 1895, is a pupil in the State 
 Normal School, at Monmouth. Politically Dr. 
 Parrish is a Republican, and fraternally he is a 
 member of the I. O. O. F., and the I. O. F. A. 
 He is a Spiritualist in belief, but attends the 
 Friends Church, while Mrs Parrish belongs to 
 the Christian Church. 
 
 FRANCIS A. PATTERSON a well known 
 and highly esteemed resident of Independence, 
 and a representative of the stock-raising and 
 farming interests of the state, as well as a 
 prominent factor in the political and legislative 
 affairs of Oregon, was born November 1, 1835, 
 in St. Clair county, 111. His great-grandfather 
 came from Scotland to the new world, locating 
 in North Carolina, where his death occurred. 
 His grandfather, Greenberry Patterson, was born 
 in North Carolina and followed the shoemaker's 
 trade in that state and later in Illinois, where 
 he also carried on farming. His death occurred 
 in St. Clair county. 111., in 1852. 
 
 Herbert Patterson, his son, and the father of 
 Francis A., of this review, was born in North 
 Carolina, and with his parents moved to St. 
 Clair county, 111. In 1848 he conducted a gen- 
 eral merchandise store in Freeburg, 111., and in 
 1851 removed to Lebanon, where he engaged in 
 the hotel business. In 1852 he crossed the 
 plains with ox-teams, accompanied by his family. 
 The journey occupied six months, starting April 
 1st and reaching Placerville, Cal., the last of 
 
 September, 1852. At this place he entered the 
 mines and achieved a fair degree of success. In 
 1858 he came to Oregon, locating in Hillsboro, 
 Washington county, where he engaged in 
 the general mercantile business, and there his 
 death occurred in 1886, at the age of seventy- 
 seven years. His wife was before her marriage 
 Jane McClintock, a native of Kentucky, and died 
 in Oregon at the age of eighty-three years. 
 Her father, Joseph McClintock, was a resident 
 of Kentucky, later of Illinois, and conducted a 
 tannery in St. Clair county, at which place his 
 death occurred. Unto Herbert and' Jane (Mc- 
 Clintock) Patterson were born five children, 
 four sons and one daughter. 
 
 Francis A. Patterson was the third child in 
 his father's family. His early education was 
 acquired in the common schools of Illinois and 
 in McKinley College. In 1852 he crossed the 
 plains with his father and entered the mines of 
 California. In 1857 he located in Benton county, 
 Ore., and there engaged in farming. In 1861 
 he removed to Washington county, but returned 
 the same year to Benton county. In 1862 he 
 removed to Polk county, locating near Rick- 
 reall, where he purchased one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land. In 1881 he sold this farm and 
 moved to Independence, purchasing a tract of 
 three hundred and twenty acres of land adjoin- 
 ing the city, and laid out two additions known 
 as Patterson's addition and Patterson's second 
 addition to Independence, situated on the west 
 side of the city. He has a farm of sixty acres 
 two and one-half miles south of Independence, 
 where he raises large numbers of sheep and 
 goats. He owns a nice residence in Independ- 
 ence, which he has rebuilt and remodeled, 
 making it a commodious and pleasant home, in 
 which he is now living retired, enjoying the 
 results of a life well spent. 
 
 Mr. Patterson was elected to the lower house 
 of the Oregon state legislature for the terms 
 of 1880 and 1882, and was appointed by the 
 speaker of the house as clfairman of a committee 
 to receive President Hayes and wife, on their 
 visit to Oregon. During this period he took an 
 active and important part in the legislation 
 which was enacted in the state, and his stanch 
 support of every measure intended for the good 
 of the people, won for him the hearty approval 
 of his constituents. Mr. Patterson was united 
 in marriage in Kings Valley, Benton county, 
 Ore., in 1859, to Caroline Tatum, who was born 
 in Missouri. Her father, Richard Tatum, a 
 native of Tennessee, was a blacksmith by trade. 
 He removed to Illinois and later to Cedar 
 county, Mo. In 1853 ne removed to Oregon, 
 locating at Buena Vista, and later removed to 
 Kings Valley, settling on a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres. Subsequentlv 
 
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 selling this farm he removed to Rickreall, Ore., 
 where he died at the age of sixty-seven years, 
 having been actively engaged in farming for 
 many years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Patter- 
 son have been born ten children : Isaac L., col- 
 lector of customs, of Portland, Ore. ; Henry R., 
 who is acting as weigher in the appraiser's office 
 at Portland ; George S., who is engaged in 
 mining in Sumpter, Ore. ; Frank S., who is 
 proprietor of a hotel at Fassell, Gilliam county, 
 Ore. ; William H., who is engaged in the whole- 
 sale and retail cigar and tobacco business in North 
 Yakima, Ore. ; Pink C, now with W. P. Fuller 
 & Co., of Portland; Narcis, a clerk in a general 
 merchandise store of Leavenworth, Wash. ; 
 Allen D., an employe of the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad office at Portland; Dr. D. C. P., who 
 is a clerk in a drug store at Cottage Grove, 
 Ore. ; and Maude L., who received her educa- 
 tion in the State Normal school of Monmouth, 
 and is now teaching in North Yakima. 
 
 Mr. Patterson is a member of the Blue Lodge 
 and Royal Arch Chapter and De Molay Com- 
 mandery No. 5, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons. In politics he is an active Republican 
 and has served as school director in most of the 
 places where he has resided. He was the pro- 
 moter of the Independence & Monmouth Railway, 
 was its president for three years and held equal 
 shares with the ten original stockholders. "Mr. 
 Patterson has been connected inseparably with 
 the growth and progress of the great state of 
 Oregon since he first took up his residence with- 
 in her borders, and his efforts have resulted both 
 advantageously to him personally and to the 
 state. 
 
 CHARLES MATTISON. Among the many 
 farmers of Polk county who have won rich 
 returns from the soil through the cultivation of 
 hops is Charles Mattison, who was born in 
 Oswego, N. Y., June 7, 1848, the son of Isaac 
 and the grandson of Alfred Mattison, both of 
 the state of New York. The grandfather was 
 a farmer who departed but once from his chosen 
 life work, and that was in response to the 
 call of his country in time of need, and after 
 serving in the war of 18 12 he returned to his 
 farm, the state which gave him birth ultimately 
 receiving his lifeless form. His son, Isaac, the 
 father of Charles Mattison, was born in Oswego 
 county, and in addition to his education along 
 agricultural lines learned the trade of a cooper. 
 In 1865 he broke away from old associations and 
 sought a home in the state of Michigan, locating 
 in Montcalm county, where he bought one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land upon which he 
 engaged in farming. - After seventeen years. 
 
 he again decided to make a change, since a better 
 opportunity was held out to him from the 
 extreme western lands. It was in 1882 that he 
 came to Oregon, settling in Marion county, but 
 in the vicinity of Independence, Polk county, 
 making another purchase of one hundred and 
 sixty acres upon which he remained for some 
 time engaged in the cultivation of the land, later 
 removing to Independence, where he now makes 
 his home, having arrived at the ripe age of 
 eighty years, and feels the pleasure of inactivity 
 worthily earned. His wife was formerly Miss 
 Lovina Parker, a Canadian, whose father, 
 Charles, was a native farmer of that country, 
 and though spending some time in New York 
 eventually settled in Independence where his 
 death occurred. The children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Mattison were as follows : Charles, of this 
 review ; William, of Astoria, Ore. ; Henry, a 
 farmer near Independence; and Richard, of 
 Dallas. 
 
 Reared among the progressive conditions of 
 New York state, it was the privilege of Charles 
 Mattison to attend the public schools, thereby 
 gaining a good foundation for the building of 
 his future plans, while under his father's instruc- 
 tion he acquired a no less important education 
 along the lines of judgment and management 
 in the practical affairs of life. Accompanying 
 his father's family to Michigan in 1865, he 
 entered the lumbering camps of that state the 
 following year where he worked for wages until 
 1874, at that time becoming interested in agri- 
 cultural pursuits. This latter business he con- 
 tinued until 1880 in the same state, but with the 
 prospect which the west afforded for an ambi- 
 tious farmer, he made the trip to Oregon and 
 here, with the exercise of his usual good judg- 
 ment he selected for his purchase a farm of 
 one hundred and forty acres, located in Marion 
 county. Upon this farm he remained until the 
 fall of 1902, the profits of his business being 
 a credit to his management and industry. He 
 has recently purchased property in Independ- 
 ence, where he now makes his home. 
 
 In Michigan occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Mattison to Miss Elnora Wilson, a native of 
 New York, whose father had emigrated to the 
 former state, and engaged in farming up to the 
 time of his death. The marriage has been 
 blessed by the birth of five children, of whom 
 Lovina, the eldest, is now the wife of W. W. 
 Perry, of Independence ; the remaining four 
 children, Jessie, William J., Grover and Bertha 
 being still with their parents. Fraternally Mr. 
 Mattison is associated with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. In his political affili- 
 ation he has departed from the faith in which he 
 was reared, that of the Republican party, and is 
 now independent in his views. 
 
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 LAWRENCE S. PERKINS. The well 
 equipped drug store of Lawrence S. Perkins in 
 Monmouth pursues the even tenor of its way 
 minus competition, for it is the only place in 
 the town where a full line of drugs may be 
 purchased. This advantage, however, does not 
 influence the genial proprietor in the conduct 
 of his business, for he has an up to date and 
 reliable enterprise, similar to those in larger and 
 older centers of activity. Besides a general 
 supply of patent and general drugs he carries 
 a stock of stationery and small notions, his 
 thoughtful appreciation of the needs of his many 
 patrons resulting in a continually increasing 
 trade. 
 
 Mr. Perkins comes from farming ancestors, 
 and he himself gained his first impressions of 
 life from early rising and a by no means indolent 
 life on the farm in Keokuk county, eastern Iowa, 
 where he was born July 6, 1862. His father, 
 Hiram P. Perkins, was born in Vermont, and 
 from his native state removed to Ohio, locating 
 near Mount Vernon. In 1850 he settled on a 
 farm in Keokuk county, Iowa, and after living 
 there for seventeen years located in Benton 
 county, Mo., in 1867. Although possessing but 
 a small farm of thirty acres, he did fairly well, 
 but was not destined to long enjoy the advant- 
 ages of his adopted state, for his death occurred 
 soon after reaching there at the age of sixty-one. 
 He had married Annise Runnels, a native of 
 Vermont, and whose father, Samuel, was also 
 born in the east. Samuel Runnels was an early 
 settler of Iowa, his death occurring at the age 
 of sixty-one on the farm in Iowa to which he 
 came in 1853. Of the four sons born into the 
 Perkins home ail had rugged constitutions, and 
 all were endowed with ability and progress- 
 iveness. 
 
 The youngest of his father's family, the drug- 
 gist of Monmouth attended the public schools 
 with his brothers in Iowa, Missouri and Oregon, 
 and at the age of fourteen embarked upon a 
 career of self-support. For some time he worked 
 on various farms in his neighborhood, and after 
 coming to Oregon in 1885 embarked imme- 
 diately in the drug business in which he is still 
 engaged. In Yamhill county, this state, he was 
 united in marriage with Emma Parsons, a 
 native of Yamhill county. Mr. Perkins is a 
 Republican in political affiliation, and is fra- 
 ternally identified with the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. 
 Thus is told all too briefly the life-story so far of 
 one of the vast army of the northwest who 
 started out in life with physical rather than 
 financial assets, and who, from brain and muscle 
 and common sense have worked out their career 
 along useful and creditable lines. 
 
 ABRAM SAMUEL LOCKE is one of the 
 most prominent druggists of Independence, and 
 the success which he has achieved in his chosen 
 calling is due to his determined energy and his 
 close application to business. He is a native 
 of Oregon, having been born two and one-half 
 miles from Independence, August 6, 1858. His 
 father, Harrison P. Locke, was born near Cum- 
 berland Gap, Va., October 12, 1812, and in an 
 early day removed to Missouri, settling in Char- 
 iton county. In 1845 ne crossed the plains to 
 Oregon and afterwards was in the service of the 
 Hudson Bay Company, on the Columbia river. 
 In 1849 ne went to California and entered the 
 mines. In 1850 he returned to Oregon and in 
 1852 took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres of land. In 1881 he removed to 
 Independence, Ore.', and there his death occurred 
 in 1883. He was a successful business man 
 and ever commanded the respect of all who 
 knew him. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Malissa P. Hardison, was born in Springfield, 
 111., and still survives her husband. They were 
 the parents of fourteen children, eight boys and 
 six girls, A. S. Locke of this review being the 
 fourth in order of birth. The mother of this 
 family is now the wife of James Masterson, 
 who is living retired in Independence. 
 
 A. S. Locke was educated in the common 
 schools of Independence. In 1889 he bought 
 out a drug business in this city and in 1891 
 became a registered druggist. In 1892 he sold 
 his business and removed to San Diego, Cal., 
 on account of his wife's health. In 1894 he 
 returned to Independence and the same year 
 purchased a stock of groceries. On November 
 6, 1896, he bought a drug business and has 
 been successfully conducting the same since. 
 He carries a full and complete line of staple 
 and fancy articles and the neat and attractive 
 appearance of his store has won for him the 
 reputation of being one of the best druggists in 
 this city. Mr. Locke was married in Independ- 
 ence in 1 88 1, to Susan Mary Alexander, who 
 was born in Missouri and who crossed the 
 plains with her parents in 1865. Her father, 
 James Alexander, was born in Kentucky, and is 
 now living retired in this city. His active years 
 were spent in the occupation of farming, in 
 which line of work he was very successful and 
 became well-to-do. 
 
 The home of Mr. and Mrs. Locke has been 
 blessed with one son, Oliver Perle, aged six- 
 teen years, who is still at home with his 
 parents. Mr. Locke is a member of the First 
 Baptist Church of Independence. In his politi- 
 cal views he is a Democrat. He is a prominent 
 member of the Ancient, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, being past master of the Blue Lodge, 
 
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 a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, and Ore- 
 gon Consistory No. i, of Portland Scottish 
 Rite and Al Kader Temple N. M. S. In the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows he is noble 
 grand, and belongs to the Woodmen of the 
 World, and to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He is now acting as school director 
 and is president of the city council. He has an 
 elegant two-story, ten-room residence on Fifth 
 street which is constructed in a modern and 
 beautiful style "of architecture. Mr. Locke is a 
 popular and public spirited gentleman who has 
 at heart the best interests of the community 
 in which he lives, and the high regard of his 
 friends and associates. 
 
 OLIF NELSON. Like many of the sons of 
 other lands who have come to settle in the Will- 
 amette valley Mr. Nelson was drawn to the far 
 west by the hope of broader opportunities for 
 advancement, and in this respect he has not 
 been disappointed, but on the other hand success 
 has attended his efforts and he is now enabled 
 to live in retirement, enjoying to the fullest 
 extent the competency which his years of steady 
 application to business have made possible. As 
 has been intimated, Mr. Nelson is of foreign 
 birth, and was born in Dalarna, Sweden, July 
 27, 1829, a son of Henry and Ann Nelson, 
 both of whom were also born in the same city. 
 With his wife and five children, three daughters 
 and two sons, the father emigrated to the United 
 States in 1846, locating in Henry county, 111., 
 but he was not spared long to enjoy his new 
 home, for his death followed shortly after his 
 arrival. 
 
 At the time of the removal of the family to 
 America Olif was a lad of eighteen years of age. 
 It was well for him that while in his native 
 land he made the most of the opportunities in 
 an educational way, for on account of the death 
 of his father it became necessary for him to 
 turn his attention towards earning his own 
 living, rather than seeking more extended book 
 learning. He apprenticed himself to learn the 
 harness-maker's trade .in Lafayette, 111., and 
 later went to Chicago, 111., ; where he found 
 employment in a retail boot and shoe establish- 
 ment on Ohio street, remaining there for ten 
 years. Going to San Francisco in 1864 he con- 
 tinued to follow the retail boot and shoe busi- 
 ness for seven years, when he again changed his 
 location, and with this came a change of voca- 
 tion also. Going to Wahkiakum county, Wash., 
 in 1 87 1, he took up one hundred and sixty acres 
 of government land, to the cultivation and im- 
 provement of which he at once bent all his 
 energy. After residing there for twenty-two 
 
 years he decided to make another change of 
 location, and the year 1893 marks his advent 
 in Monmouth, Ore., where he hopes to spend the 
 rest of his days. He bought a farm of ten acres 
 one mile northeast of Independence, but three 
 years later sold the tract and went to Chicago, 
 111., to visit the scenes of his yoUnger days, 
 also traveling over the east and north, and 
 among other states visited Wisconsin, Minne- 
 sota, Iowa and Missouri. After one year of rest 
 and travel he returned to his home in Mon- 
 mouth, perfectly contented with his surround- 
 ings, and with no wish that they might be 
 otherwise. 
 
 While a resident of Chicago, 111., Mr. Nelson 
 and Miss Charlotte Larson were united in mar- 
 riage in July, 1848. Mrs. Nelson was a native of 
 Sweden and came to America with her parents, 
 locating in Chicago, 111., where her father, 
 Andrew Larson, was engaged in the maufacture 
 of soda. Both mother and father died in Chi- 
 cago. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Nelson, George, who is interested in salmon 
 fishing in Astoria, Ore., and Ella, a graduate 
 of the state normal school, who is at home with 
 her father, dutifully caring for his comfort in 
 his declining years. Politically Mr. Nelson is 
 independent, and fraternally is associated with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 WILLIAM R. JONES was born near Gas- 
 ton, Yamhill county, September 5, 1849. His 
 family, therefore, antedates those of the gold- 
 seekers of 1849, an d was established here in 1847 
 by Fielding Jones, his father, who was born in 
 the state of Kentucky. The elder Jones married, 
 in Indiana, Elizabeth Freack, and of this union 
 there have been born three children, two older 
 than William R., Susan, deceased, and Mary, the 
 wife of James Cooley, of Marion county, Ore. 
 In 1847 Mr. Jones outfitted and with his wife 
 and two children, crossed the plains, experienc- 
 ing on the way many of the dangers and depri- 
 vations of that early mode of travel, and finding 
 in the new country very many discouragements 
 before settling down to a successful agricultural 
 life. With the advent of the son William, in 1849, 
 the home became one of desolation and grief, 
 for three days after his birth the devoted mother 
 died, and the father was left alone with his chil- 
 dren in the strange northern country. He went 
 to California and engaged in placer mining with 
 varied success. He later came back to Oregon 
 and began farming, to which occupation he de- 
 voted his later years, on property one mile south 
 of Hubbard. He died July 30, 1903, aged eighty- 
 six years. 
 
 The little motherless William was taken to the 
 
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 home of Andrew Schuck, in the neighborhood, 
 and at the age of four years went to live with 
 his father, who, in the meantime, had married 
 again, this time to Martha Killin. At the age of 
 fourteen he went to live with his brother-in-law. 
 James Cooley, and in February, 1865, enlisted in 
 Company B, First Oregon Volunteer Infantry, 
 for a year's service. From Vancouver, Wash., 
 he was sent to Camp Lyons, it being the mis- 
 sion of his regiment to establish a fort at that 
 place. During the service he saw a great deal 
 of Indian warfare, and had many narrow es- 
 capes, his adventures being confined principally 
 to the battles of eastern Oregon. He was 
 wounded July 9, 1865, in a battle on the forks 
 of the Malheur. After his military experiences 
 he returned to Marion county and worked in a 
 saw-mill for about four months, and November 
 8, 1874, married Susan A. Cooley, daughter of 
 Christopher C. Cooley, a native of Christian 
 county, Ky., who was born August 6, 1809, and 
 died November 14, 1885, and his wife, who 
 was born in Tennessee, March 20, 181 1, and 
 died August 21. 1880. The parents of Mr. 
 Cooley moved from Kentucky to Howard county, 
 Mo., in 1812, and there remained until taking 
 up their residence in Clay county, of the same 
 state, in 1824. He entered unimproved land in 
 both counties of Missouri, and while improving 
 it participated in the struggles with the Mormons 
 and Indians, which characterized those early 
 days. In 1845, with his wife and six children, 
 he crossed the plains to Oregon in a party led by 
 Joe Meeks, which party was the first to try the 
 "Meeks' cut," which at first proved not much 
 of a saving of time or energy. The little band 
 was lost for some time, and only after extreme 
 hardship and deprivation arrived at The Dalles. 
 Here more trouble confronted them, and the wo- 
 men and children were sent down the river in 
 the canoes of the Indians, while the- men went 
 over the mountains with the cattle. Arriving in 
 the Willamette valley in the fall of 1845, Mr. 
 Cooley took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres on the French prairie, and there 
 spent his remaining years. Of the eight chil- 
 dren born to Mr. Cooley and wife, James H. was 
 born in 1835, died in 1837 ; Robert F. lives near 
 Woodburn on a portion of the old home place; 
 Martha L., born February 22, 1839, died Novem- 
 ber 17, 1902, was the wife of F. S. Mattison, of 
 Turner, Ore.; Helen M., born February 1, 1841, 
 is the wife of Judge W. C. Hubbard ; Mary I., 
 born October 15. 1844, now deceased, was married 
 to Andrew Meh'in, of Woodburn; Andrew J., 
 born February 20, 1848, is a resident of Portland ; 
 Susan A., born July 13, 1851, is the wife of the 
 subject of this article; Julia A., born July 20, 
 1853, an d is the wife of John Uetz, of Ashland. 
 
 , After his marriage Mr. Jones located on a farm 
 on the French prairie, and after four years re- 
 moved to Clackamas county, where he lived 
 for six years. In 1898 he purchased the farm 
 where he now lives, and which consists of ninety- 
 seven acres, upon which he is engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising. Two children have 
 been born to himself and wife, of whom Roy A., 
 born September 4, 1875, is living in Marion 
 county, is married and has one daughter, Lola 
 May; and Clarence, born February 20, 1878, is 
 living with his parents. Mr. Jones is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and has taken an active part in 
 political affairs in his county. As a stanch advo- 
 cate of education he has materially advanced the 
 cause as a member of the school board, and he 
 has also served acceptably as road supervisor. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Silverton 
 Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Jones enjoys 
 an enviable reputation in his neighborhood, his 
 integrity, public-spiritedness and general worth 
 appealing to the consideration and esteem of hosts 
 of friends and well wishers. 
 
 DAVID JOHNSTON. Among the remaining 
 pioneers representing the very early days of 
 Oregon is David Johnston, who, though crippled 
 and aged, has still not come to useless days. 
 
 The father of David Johnston, John, was also 
 the son of a pioneer, his birth occurring in the 
 western part of Tennessee before the eighteenth 
 century had drawn to a close. He was raised 
 to the life of a farmer, but on attaining manhood 
 he decided to return to the eastern states to gain 
 his livelihood, and acting upon that idea he set- 
 tled in Orange county, N. C, where he spent 
 the remaining years of his life. His death oc- 
 curred there at the age of eighty-four years. 
 He married Nancy Roach, a native of North 
 Carolina, and she, too, departed this life at the 
 age of eighty-four years, and in the same loca- 
 tion as her husband. Of the thirteen children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, eight sons and 
 five daughters, David Johnston was the third, 
 his birth occurring in ' Orange county, N. C, 
 December 12, 1815. Following in the steps of 
 his father, he became a farmer after his educa- 
 tion in the common schools of North Carolina 
 was completed, at twenty-one engaging in the 
 work for himself in his native state, but in 
 1837 removing to the state of his father's birth, 
 settling near Nashville, Tenn. In 1844 Mr- 
 Johnston decided upon making another change, 
 and gathering his worldly goods together he 
 started for Oregon, driving the slow-plodding, 
 patient oxen across the wide plains and many 
 hills that lay between him and the promising 
 coast country. The trip was a rare one for that 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 time, having no horrors of famine or marauding 
 Indians to mar the enjoyment of the scenery 
 and the exhilarating mountain air. After six 
 months of travel the party arrived in Polk coun- 
 ty, Ore., and Mr. Johnston took advantage of the 
 liberal offer of the government and settled upon 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres. The many years that have passed since 
 that time have witnessed great changes, the wild 
 land being successfully converted into a valuable 
 and fruitful farm. Mr. Johnston has since sought 
 a home in Independence, purchasing a residence 
 five miles south of Independence, Ore., in which 
 to pass the evening of his life, while the large 
 farm is leased and managed by his grandson, 
 Fred Hooper. 
 
 With Mr. Johnston on the trip across the con- 
 tinent came his devoted wife, whom he married 
 in Orange county, N. C. She was formerly 
 Arrominto Thorp, a native of Kentucky. Mrs. 
 Johnston's death occurred in the western 
 home. She was the mother of three children, of 
 whom Richard is a sheep rancher at Colfax, 
 Wash. ; Angeline makes her home in Colfax, 
 Wash., the widow of William Tetherow; and 
 William is now deceased. Mr. Johnston was 
 married again to Loretta Webb, who bore him 
 one child : Anne, who married Frank Hooper. 
 She died in Independence. 
 
 Mr. Johnston is a member of the Christian 
 Church. Politically he follows his father's early 
 training and casts his ballot with the Democratic 
 party, his father having been a life-long Demo- 
 crat. 
 
 MARTIN V. KOONTZ. Prominent among 
 the captains of industry who have helped to place 
 Linn county upon its present substantial footing 
 is Martin V. Koontz, owner and manager of a 
 paying general merchandise store in Halsey, es- 
 tablished in 1876. During the intervening years 
 no man in the town has taken a keener or more 
 practical interest in its upbuilding, especially as 
 regards municipal government, he having assist- 
 ed in framing the ordinances, and in protecting 
 them as treasurer of the town for twelve years. 
 
 The rise of Mr. Koontz from comparative pov- 
 erty to his present position should furnish en- 
 couragement to younger men who possess in 
 any measure the characteristics and abilities 
 which have been his stock in trade. Born in 
 Gallia county, Ohio, May 29, 1837, he comes of 
 an old Virginia family, established in Ohio by 
 his paternal grandfather, Martin, a native of 
 the Old Dominion state. The grandfather was 
 a general contractor and bridge-builder in the 
 very early days of Gallia county, and followed 
 his occupation until the loss of a leg compelled 
 retirement from active life. He removed to 
 
 Iowa in 1843, an d to Oregon in 1852, finally 
 locating in Vancouver, Wash., where he died 
 in the spring of 1853, at the age of seventy 
 years. His son, John, the father of Martin V., 
 was born in Gallia county, and was trained for 
 the medical profession, which he practiced for 
 some years. His removal to Wapello county, 
 Iowa, in 1841, placed him among the very first 
 settlers of that region, and he practiced medicine 
 and farmed there until his death in 1850 at the 
 age of forty-one years. His wife, formerly 
 Elizabeth Wood, was born in Virginia, and 
 shortly after the death of her husband crossed 
 the plains to Oregon, locating on a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres in Linn county. Her 
 second husband was J. B. Stinson, who crossed 
 the plains in the early days and died in Polk 
 county. She was the mother of five children, 
 three sons and two daughters. Her death oc- 
 curred at the home of her daughter in Harris- 
 burg. 
 
 The oldest in his father's family, Martin V. 
 Koontz was obliged to leave school at the age 
 of twelve, and devote himself entirely to farm 
 work. At the age of fifteen he accompanied his 
 mother across the plains. What might otherwise 
 have been a pleasant journey was marred by 
 the depredations of the Indians, who encircled 
 their camp one night on the banks of the Platte 
 river and took away six of their seven horses. 
 For the rest of the way to Oregon Martin was 
 obliged to walk, and it was a weary youth that 
 finally reached his destination in Vancouver, 
 Wash. He attended the Santiam Academy for 
 a period of six months, finally qualifying as a 
 teacher. For nine months he taught the little 
 country school, and in 1858 removed to eastern 
 Oregon and engaged in logging near The Dalles, 
 for J. H. Mosier. In 1859 he took up farming, 
 and in i860 went to the mining district on the 
 Frazer river, returning to his farm and remain- 
 ing there until 1865. He then went to west 
 Montana and engaged in a general merchandise 
 business and trading with the Indians and trav- 
 elers during 1867-8, freighting from Umatilla 
 to Silver City, Idaho. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Koontz came to Linn county, 
 via San Francisco, locating in Halsey, where 
 in 1 87 1 he began as a clerk for Jacob Thompson, 
 a general merchant. In 1876 he started his 
 present mercantile business, and now carries a 
 stock valued at $15,000. In addition, he buys 
 and sells large quantities of grain, and for stor- 
 ing the same pending its sale he has two large 
 warehouses in the town. Mr. Koontz married 
 in Halsey, Mary Conkwright, who was born in 
 the state of Michigan, and is the mother of two 
 children, Clyde H., in his father's store; and 
 Edith, living with her parents. Mr. Koontz is 
 energetic and progressive, and as a merchant, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 city treasurer, and politician, has won the con- 
 fidence of the community for which he has pains- 
 takingly labored for many years. Few advance- 
 ments have been suggested or carried to a suc- 
 cessful finish which have not received his hearty 
 support, and in many instances he has taken the 
 initiative, and inspired in others an enthusiasm 
 equal to his own. 
 
 THOMAS SCOTT. Scott's Mills, named 
 for their promoters, Robert Hall and Thomas 
 Scott, are familiar to the residents of Marion 
 county, and constitute a landmark of importance. 
 Built 'by Robert H. Scott about 1866, the mills 
 were jointly conducted by the brothers until 
 1892, when Thomas Scott became the sole owner, 
 and has since had their entire management. The 
 most modern machinery forms the equipment of 
 the mills, the capacity of which is sixty barrels 
 per day, the entire wheat crop of the district 
 being used in the consumption. At one time 
 the brothers were very extensively identified 
 with lumbering, and for carrying on their busi- 
 ness owned two thousand acres of timber land. 
 Both became prominent in the general affairs of 
 their neighborhood, and were accounted among 
 the most substantial and reliable of its upbuild- 
 ers. 
 
 Of sturdy Scotch ancestry, the brothers were 
 natives of Bamff's Mills. Roxburyshire, Scot- 
 land, Thomas Scott being born December 8, 
 1840. He was the son of John Scott, the re- 
 mainder of whose family consisted of Robert H. 
 Adam, a resident of Manitoba ; John, located in 
 upper Canada ; James, deceased, as a soldier in 
 the English army for twenty-one years having 
 served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny ; 
 Jane, a resident of Scotland ; and Betsy, now 
 Mrs. Marshall, also of Scotland. These children 
 profited by educational opportunities as their cir- 
 cumstances permitted. Thomas Scott was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, and in his youth saw 
 a great deal of milling in his native land. At the 
 age of fifteen he started out to make his own 
 living, serving an apprenticeship of three years 
 in a grist mill, receiving in return for long hours 
 and hard work about S30 for the first year. An 
 unfortunate accident in the mills resulted in 
 enforced inactivity for a year or so. but after 
 recovering he went to work with renewed en- 
 erg} - , following his trade until coming to America 
 in 1866. He at once became identified with the 
 mills erected here by his brother, and which at 
 the present time are among the modern and well 
 equipped grist mills of the valley. Mr. Scott 
 has a fine and paying business, and while cater- 
 ing to an extensive and permanent trade has 
 made hosts of friends, and laid by a competency 
 for himself. He is a self-educated and self- 
 made man, his success the result of his own 
 
 efforts, and in the pursuit of his labors he has 
 won the esteem and confidence of his fellow 
 citizens. In political affiliation he is a Democrat, 
 and though never desirous of official recognition 
 he has several times been elected to office, serving 
 as postmaster for about eight years, justice of 
 the peace, and is at present acting as notary 
 public. In all matters of public enterprise he 
 has been a prominent factor and liberal contribu- 
 tor. Mr. Scott is alone in the enjoyment of his 
 prosperity, for he has never married. 
 
 PHILIP M. KIRKLAND. One of the hon- 
 ored pioneer families of Oregon has a capable 
 and typical representative in Philip M. Kirkland, 
 a progressive business man of Independence, 
 engaged in managing his drug store, and in the 
 extensive buying and selling of hops. His 
 father, J. W. Kirkland, of whom extended men- 
 tion is made elsewhere in this work, set his chil- 
 dren an example of fortitude and industry which 
 is not only appreciated but emulated. The son 
 was born in Monroe county, Mo., May 6, 1854, 
 the third in a family of four sons. He was ten 
 years of age when he crossed the plains with his 
 parents, and from 1864 to 1869 lived with the 
 family in Helena, Mont. After removing to Ore- 
 gon in 1869 he lived on the paternal farm, and 
 in 1879 removed to eastern Oregon, where he 
 engaged extensively in the stock and grain bus- 
 iness, purchasing land from time to time till 
 he became the owner of one thousand one hun- 
 dred acres. He also was interested in a drug 
 enterprise at Athena, Umatilla county, Ore., for 
 four years. 
 
 Mr. Kirkland came to Independence and 
 bought the brick building in which his drug store 
 is now located, and, profiting by his former ex- 
 perience, and utilizing his best knowledge as to 
 the requirements along his line, fitted out as 
 fine a store as may be found in Polk county, and 
 which is the largest of its kind in the county. 
 The great hop industry centering around Inde- 
 pendence has furnished an opportunity for Mr. 
 Kirkland, and he has entered heartily into the 
 promotion of this important enterprise. Last 
 year he handled about ten thousand bales of the 
 product at an average price of twenty-five cents 
 per pound. 
 
 In Independence Mr. Kirkland owns a modern 
 cottage fitted with up-to-date conveniences. In 
 1882 he married Emma J. Turner, who was born 
 in Illinois, and who died in Independence in 1901 
 at the age of forty-four years. Mrs. Kirkland 
 was a daughter of Samuel Turner, a native of 
 Maine, and who in early life removed to Illinois. 
 From there he came to Montana, in 1869, and 
 locating in eastern Oregon in 1878, where he en- 
 gaged in farming, his death occurring in 1901, 
 
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 at the age of eighty-five years. Mrs. Kirkland 
 left to the care of her husband one son, Frank M., 
 who is living at home. Mr. Kirkland is a Dem- 
 crat in politics, although he entertains very lib- 
 eral ideas on political questions, believing in vot- 
 ing for the man best qualified to serve the com- 
 munity interests. He is fraternally connected 
 with Lyon Lodge No. 29, Ancient, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, of which he is past master, the 
 Independence Chapter Royal Arch Masons and 
 worthy patron of the order of the Eastern Star; 
 also the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Kirkland 
 has the esteem of all who are associated with him 
 in whatsoever capacity, and his many virtues are 
 generally acknowledged. 
 
 ALBERT I. CRANDALL. One of the 
 younger generation of successful business men of 
 Lebanon is Albert I. Crandall, for several years 
 identified with building interests there, and since 
 1900 the owner and manager of the Lebanon 
 planing mill. He comes of a family well rep- 
 resented in the business of that town, for his 
 father, John N. Crandall, has been engaged in 
 building and contracting there since 1891. John 
 Crandall was born in Ohio, September 13, 1836, 
 and when quite young removed to Van Buren 
 county, Iowa, where he worked at his trade of 
 carpentering, and also managed his farm. In 
 Iowa he married Charlotte Jane Brown, a native 
 of Iowa. They resided on their farm until 1877, 
 when they removed to Smith Center, Kans. This 
 continued to be their home until 1891, the father 
 in the meantime working at his trade with con- 
 siderable success. He has succeeded well in 
 Lebanon, and some of the finest work in his 
 line in the town has been done by him. At 
 present Mr. Crandall is sixty-six years old, while 
 his wife is two years his junior. Their married 
 life has been harmonious and happy, and their 
 children have proved a credit to the practical 
 training and wholesome occupations to which 
 they were reared. 
 
 Albert I. Crandall was born in Van Buren 
 county, Iowa, October 19, 1868, and was edu- 
 cated in the public schools. As a small boy he 
 learned a great deal about tools and woodwork. 
 Working constantly with his father, he became 
 a practical -builder, and at the age of twenty- 
 three, when he came to Oregon, settled down to 
 active work at his trade. Working with his 
 father and brother Lewis until 1900, he purchased 
 the Lebanon planing mill, which is turning out 
 large quantities of general building materials. 
 April 12, 1899, Mr. Crandall married Nettie 
 Amos, a native of Oregon, of which union there 
 has been born a daughter, Hilda A. 
 
 A prominent figure in the politics of Lebanon, 
 Mr. Crandall is stanchly supporting the Repub- 
 
 lican party, in the ranks of which he has held 
 numerous offices. He is a member of the county 
 central committee, and has served as deputy coun- 
 ty recorder and assessor. The spirit of fair 
 play and personal integrity which this rising 
 young politician brings to the interests of his 
 party, pre-supposes a continuation of his popular- 
 ity. Add to this his standing as a business man, 
 and his adopted town has cause to regard as 
 fortunate the association of himself and family 
 with the city of Lebanon. 
 
 MARION PALMER. The son of an early 
 settler in Oregon, Marion Palmer was born 
 April 1, 1855, upon his father's donation claim, 
 known at that time as Lone Butte Hill, the land 
 comprising it being that west of which the town 
 of Mt. Angel now stands. The college of Mt. 
 Angel stands near the spot where he first saw 
 the light. His father, John Henry Palmer, was 
 born November 2, 18 18, in the state of Ken- 
 tucky, but removed early with his parents to 
 Lincoln county, Mo., and the years of his early 
 manhood were principally spent in the latter 
 state. After his school days were over he 
 learned the blacksmith's trade, which he car- 
 ried on in conjunction with his farming, re- 
 maining at home with his parents until his mar- 
 riage with Catherine Graves, a native of Vir- 
 ginia. In 1853 he brought his family to Oregon, 
 crossing the plains with ox-teams and being 
 about six months on the journey. On reaching 
 their destination, he bought a squatter's right to 
 a donation claim located in Marion county, four 
 and one-half miles north of Silverton, this being 
 the scene of the birth of Marion Palmer of 
 this review. 
 
 Mr. Palmer at once began to put improve- 
 ments on the place, which at that time was prin- 
 cipally wild land, but with the touch of civili- 
 zation soon blossomed into the beautiful country 
 that now delights the eye of the traveler. 
 Though necessarily much engrossed with his 
 farming, Mr. Palmer still found time to respond 
 to the demand made upon him by his Demo- 
 cratic brethren, serving for several years as jus- 
 tice of the peace and in other local offices. He 
 was a liberal contributor toward all church 
 movements, though not a member. He died in 
 1894 in his seventy-seventh year, his widow still 
 surviving him, making her home in Lebanon, 
 Linn county, where she removed soon after her 
 husband's death. Twelve children were born 
 of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, being 
 named in the order of their birth as follows: 
 George W., of Washington ; Nixon, who was 
 killed in South Africa by the natives while pros- 
 pecting for gold ; Lucy J., widow of Frank Mad- 
 dock of Washington ; Clarissa, deceased ; 
 
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 1203 
 
 Henry, L., of Washington ; Marion, of this re- 
 view : Brunette, the wife of Monroe Cleaver, 
 of Lebanon, Ore. ; Martha, deceased ; Thomas, 
 located in the vicinity of the old home ; Edwin, 
 of Portland; Herbert, deceased; and Constan- 
 tino B., of Kansas. 
 
 Marion Palmer received his education in the 
 district schools of Oregon, engaging with his 
 father in farming until his marriage March 5. 
 1874. with Miss Josephine Porter, a native of 
 Marion county, and a daughter of Stephen Por- 
 ter. Mr. Porter was born in Illinois, removed 
 with his parents to Missouri in young manhood 
 and in 1848 brought his family with him to Ore- 
 gon. They located on a donation claim which 
 now forms part of the site of the village of 
 Stayton. Ten years later he removed to the 
 farm now occupied by Marion Palmer, where he 
 spent the remainder of his life. He died in 1890. 
 His widow still survives him at the age of 
 eighty-eight years. Mr. Porter was a stanch 
 Republican, and served many years as justice of 
 the peace. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Palmer took up their married 
 life near the old home, where they remained for 
 about six years, removing at the end of that pe- 
 riod to eastern Oregon. In a short time they 
 returned to Marion county, too firmly attached 
 to the home of their childhood to care to go 
 far away to make another. They are now 
 settled upon a farm two and a half miles north- 
 west of Silverton, containing two hundred and 
 sixty-three acres. One hundred and fifty acres 
 are under cultivation, twenty-seven acres of 
 which are devoted to hops. Mr. Palmer is also 
 interested in the raising of stock, and particularly 
 Short-horn cattle, the latter having been a source 
 of considerable profit. The appearance of the 
 farm is greatly enhanced by the excellent build- 
 ings which Mr. Palmer has added to it since he 
 took possession. The home has been enriched 
 by the birth of four children, of whom Stephen 
 Ernest is located in the vicinity, the three daugh- 
 ters, Susan Pearl. Clarissa Lillian and Winona 
 Marion, being still at home with their parents. 
 Like his father, Mr. Palmer has taken a strong 
 interest in the events of the day, and being a 
 stanch Democrat he has held several positions 
 through this influence — clerk of the school dis- 
 trict, constable, and other offices. He is asso- 
 ciated fraternallv with the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 ROBERT ANDERSON RAMPY. An in- 
 teresting and successful career has been that of 
 Robert Anderson Rampy, who now T makes his 
 home in Harrisburg, Linn county, where most 
 of his active life has been passed, and to whom 
 much of the commercial activitv of the citv is 
 
 due. Through failing health Mr. Rampy has sev- 
 eral times withdrawn from active business, but 
 the consciousness of his own ability, the strength 
 of purpose which has animated his entire life 
 has invariably brought him back to add to his 
 success and prestige before retiring permanently. 
 Faithfulness has been the watchword and motto 
 of Mr. Rampy, not only in business but in all the 
 avenues of life, preserving the friendships of 
 youth as carefully as his business interests are 
 guarded. A splendid illustration of this is em- 
 bodied in his journey into the northwest. He 
 was commissioned to drive a wagon for A. J. 
 Wigle, a friend of his boyhood days, and who 
 is now located on a farm eight miles northeast 
 of this city, and from the home of Mr. Wigle's 
 father he drove the team until he brought them 
 to the home of the latter's uncle in Oregon 
 City, their friendship having withstood the 
 strains of those strenuous times and lasting even 
 to this day. 
 
 Mr. 'Rampy was not forced to come west to 
 better himself financially, as he was the son of 
 a successful man of the middle west. His 
 father, Phillip Nicholas Rampy, a native of 
 South Carolina, came in 1824 to Illinois, being 
 then twenty-one years old, his own pluck and en- 
 ergy representing the capital from which he 
 hoped to make a fortune before he should be 
 called upon to lay down the burdens of life. 
 He located first at Kaskaskia, thence removed to 
 Carlton, De Kalb county, in 1828, in the first lo- 
 cation serving in the employ of the state land 
 office and in the latter engaging in the general 
 merchandise business. Mr. Rampy also enjoyed 
 much prominence in public life, being an old- 
 line whig and a politician of more than ordi- 
 nary ability, having improved his native talents 
 through wide and well-directed reading, his edu- 
 cation having been entirely acquired through his 
 own efforts. He served one term each as clerk 
 and recorder of the county, and for eight years 
 was postmaster of Carlton. In 1841 he removed 
 to Payson, Adams county, 111., where he con- 
 tinued his merchandise interests, and in 1849 he 
 became a resident of Liberty, where he taught 
 school for one term, after which he practically 
 retired. He had left behind him, in each place 
 where he had made his home, a record for his 
 shrewd business judgment and the practical 
 manner in which he handled his affairs. He had 
 acquired a splendid business education and was 
 an expert accountant. His death occurred in 
 Carlton at the age of sixty-four years. He 
 married Mary Catherine Davis, also a native of 
 South Carolina, and a distant relative of Jeffer- 
 son Davis, and her death occurred in 1840, in 
 the same location where her husband later died. 
 
 Of the three sons and one daughter born to 
 his parents, Robert Anderson Rampy was the 
 
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 third child, and was born in Carlton, 111., July 
 22, 1832, receiving his education almost entirely 
 in the common schools of his native state. 
 When twenty years old Mr. Rampy felt im- 
 pelled to try his fortunes among the changing 
 scenes of the west, and accordingly he joined 
 a train bound for Oregon, starting in 
 April, 1852, driving the wagon of his friend, 
 A. J. Wigle. There were about sixteen wagons 
 in the train and about seventy-five people, and 
 during the trip over the old Oregon trail, via 
 the Platte river, four were taken ill and died 
 with the cholera, which was so prevalent that 
 year, but Mr. Rampy came through safely, Sep- 
 tember 22 finding him in Oregon City. He first 
 found employment in a logging camp, hauling to 
 the old sawmill on the Clackamas river, and 
 undergoing many hardships and privations, ex- 
 posure implanting the seeds of disease which 
 resulted shortly in a siege of illness. For sev- 
 eral years Mr. Rampy traveled up and down the 
 Pacific coast, the spirit of adventure fed with 
 the excitement and oftentime peril of those jour- 
 neys. In 1855 he decided to locate permanent- 
 ly, then taking up a donation claim of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres five miles east of Harris- 
 burg, Linn county, upon which he spent the en- 
 suing three years. In 1858 he removed to the 
 city and engaged in business, at which he con- 
 tinued intermittently for ten years, spending the 
 principal part of the summers in the mines. 
 After the year 1863 he quit the mines entirely 
 and devoted his time to his other business in- 
 terests, remaining so engaged until 1870. The 
 next year found him a student in the Portland 
 Business College, where he took a course best 
 calculated to aid him in his ambitions, and when 
 he graduated he returned to Harrisburg and 
 became the owner of a drug store which he 
 conducted profitably for several years. A part 
 of that time he was also engaged in handling 
 grain. In 1881 he met with what to many 
 business men would have meant financial ruin 
 in the loss of this business by fire, but undis- 
 mayed by such misfortune he again embarked 
 in the business. In 1882 he was forced to 
 put business aside and seek a renewal of health 
 in the eastern states, traveling through New 
 York and Pennsylvania in his efforts to recover 
 from the effects of nervous prostration, which 
 made a total blank of six years of his life. In 
 1888, however, he was so far recovered as to 
 return to his chosen field of operations, and here 
 he then established the Harrisburg Bank, in the 
 handsome brick building which he had erected 
 on the corner of Second and Smith streets in 
 1887. From January 18, 1888, he conducted the 
 bank until 1892, when he was once more forced 
 to retire on account of ill health. Again opening 
 the bank in 1898, he closed up the business fin- 
 
 ally July 1, 1901. Having withdrawn from busi- 
 ness interests, Mr. Rampy now spends his time 
 looking after his stock raised upon his farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres three miles north- 
 east of this city. In addition to this property he 
 also owns ten town lots and his residence, which 
 occupies three lots. 
 
 Mr. Rampy was married in Lane county, Ore., 
 in 1866, to Miss Sarah E. Johnson, a native of 
 Missouri, who crossed the plains with her parents 
 in 1853 an d located in that county. Of the five 
 children born to them Cecil Orilda is the only 
 one now living, the others being as follows : 
 Phillip Nicholas ; Robert Franklin ; Walter Mil- 
 lard and Clyde Rockwell, the third son, especially, 
 having made for himself in the brief eighteen 
 years of his life a record of manliness and Chris- 
 tian living which has never been forgotten in 
 his birthplace, Harrisburg, where his death oc- 
 curred January 18, 1893. Mr. Rampy is a stanch 
 Republican in politics, and has served in various 
 offices, among them being city treasurer for two 
 terms and as a member of the city council many 
 times. Not only anxious to build up for himself 
 a successful and substantial position among the 
 scenes of his adopted state, but with his best 
 efforts directed toward the betterment of the 
 general conditions of the community, Mr. Rampy 
 has exercised no little influence along these lines. 
 As a patriot he enlisted in the Rogue river war 
 in 1855, serving three months as a private, and 
 the summer following acting as steward in the 
 quartermaster's department of the carpenter's 
 mess in the building of the government barracks. 
 
 JAMES L. ARNOLD. By far the larger 
 number of the residents of the west have come 
 here from the eastern states, and from foreign 
 countries as well, but in Mr. Arnold we find a 
 native son of the west, his birth occurring in 
 Linn county, near Brownsville, April 2, 1857. 
 His parents, Isaac and Precelia Arnold, were na- 
 tives of the middle west, coming from Ohio and 
 Illinois respectively. Prior to their removal to 
 Oregon they had resided in Iowa, but in 1852, 
 with ox-teams and wagons, they began the six- 
 months journey which was to bring them to 
 Oregon, where greater opportunities awaited 
 them. Purchasing a farm near Brownsville, the 
 parents made this their home for about seven 
 years, or until their son was about two years 
 old, when they removed to a farm adjacent to 
 the village of Scio. 
 
 James L. Arnold passed his boyhood and 
 youth upon his father's farm, and attended the 
 district school during the short term when it 
 was in session. His marriage, January 6, 1881, 
 united him with Nancy D. Miller, and for two 
 years they made their home on rented land near 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1205 
 
 Scio. At the end of that time he felt himself in 
 a position to purchase a farm, and invested in a 
 tract of one. hundred and thirty-one acres lo- 
 cated two and one-half miles west of the village 
 of Scio. . By careful management Mr. Arnold 
 was enabled from time to time to extend the 
 limits of his farm by the purchase of adjoining 
 land, and he now has three hundred and thirty 
 acres all in one body and well located. His 
 efforts in the line of improvements have not 
 been without results, as one who is familiar with 
 its appearance at the time he assumed control can 
 see at a glance. In addition to general farming 
 and stock-raising Mr. Arnold finds considerable 
 profit in the dairy business. Besides the farm 
 upon which he resides Mr. Arnold also owns 
 sixty-six acres of his father's old home place four 
 miles east of Scio. 
 
 Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Arnold, to whom they have given the names of 
 Marion I. C. and Ethel L.„G. Private affairs 
 have not consumed all of Mr. Arnold's time and 
 thought, for as road supervisor and as a member 
 of the school board he has given his services for 
 a number of years. He united with the Baptist 
 Church June 24, 1875, at Providence, and later 
 united with Scio Baptist Church, was elected 
 church deacon by that body and served as such, 
 and as superintendent of the Sunday school he 
 wielded an influence which was far-reaching in 
 its scope, his fitness for the office and his tact 
 in handling children, to say nothing of his love 
 for doing good, making this success inevitable. 
 Politically he gives his vote to the Republican 
 candidates. In his business dealings Mr. Arnold 
 has been very successful, the just reward of up- 
 right dealing and faithfulness to duty, and his 
 popularity among his fellow-citizens is of a deep 
 and lasting nature. 
 
 ELIZABETH GOAN. The business enter- 
 prises of Lebanon are by no means confined ex- 
 clusively to the control of men, for there, as 
 elsewhere in the northwest, women have either 
 adopted a practical means of livelihood, or with 
 rare tact and adaptability have stepped into 
 vacancies not originally intended for them. 
 Such a one is Mrs. Elizabeth Goan, who, since 
 the death of her husband, August 8, 1895, has 
 conducted a large and paying undertaking en- 
 terprise. The early life of Mrs. Goan was passed 
 near Martinsburg, Pa., where her birth occurred 
 December 11, 1842. Formerly Elizabeth Gibson. 
 her family was established in Pennsylvania by 
 her paternal grandfather, Hugh Gibson, who was 
 born in Ohio, and with six of his brothers set- 
 tled in the Quaker state at a very early day. His 
 son, John H, the father of Mrs. Goan, was born 
 on the paternal farm near Martinsburg, April 
 
 24, 1816, and in early life learned the carpenter's 
 trade, to which he devoted several years of his 
 life. He married Sarah Rogers, who traced her 
 ancestry to Scotland, but who was born in the 
 north of Ireland, whither had settled her 
 father in the days of religious persecution. She 
 came to America with her father, Andrew, who 
 was a stanch Presbyterian, as have been the mem- 
 bers of the family since earliest recollection. 
 After his marriage Mr. Gibson gave up his trade 
 and settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where un- 
 expected good fortune came to him in the shape 
 of the discovery of oil wells on his land, which 
 he developed with large profit, and became a 
 man of means and influence. He died in 1883, 
 firm in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, in 
 which he had been an active worker, and had for 
 years filled the position of Sunday school super- 
 intendent. He was a man of pronounced char- 
 acteristics, very determined in his manner, and 
 not easily swerved from his point of view. Nine 
 children w T ere reared in a rigorous moral, mental 
 and industrial atmosphere, of whom Mrs. Goan 
 is the third. 
 
 With her brothers and sisters Mrs. Goan at- 
 tended the public schools in Pennsylvania, and 
 after completing her education continued to live 
 at home. A son of the family having removed 
 to Oregon and located on a farm near Lebanon, 
 she and a sister joined him in the spring of 1884, 
 and the same year occurred her marriage with 
 Emanuel Goan, a neighbor of the Gibson family 
 in Pennsylvania, and an old schoolmate of the 
 children. Mr. Goan was born in Armstrong 
 county, Pa., June 8, 1836. Being left practically 
 alone in the world at an early age, he apprenticed 
 to a carpenter after the death of his mother, and 
 devoted his entire life to work of which his trade 
 was the foundation. In 1857 ne located on a farm 
 near Oakland, Cal., where he became an extensive 
 wheat raiser. In 1878 Mr. Goan came to Ore- 
 gon, and after a season of farming near La 
 Comb, on the Farren Ridge, took up his residence 
 in Lebanon, and started an undertaking establish- 
 ment. This was the beginning of a successful 
 business career, and in his undertaking business 
 he found his knowledge of cabinet-making all- 
 important. He also manufactured furniture, and 
 in time branched out even further and became 
 interested in a hardware business. The suc- 
 cess of these three enterprises encouraged him 
 to try yet another western enteprise, and he built 
 and operated a planing mill at Lebanon with sat- 
 isfactory results. From time to time he invested 
 his earnings in real estate, and he became active 
 in social "and other undertakings in the com- 
 munity. He had the traits of character which 
 command attention and win respect, and at the 
 time of his death, August 8, 1895, the general 
 verdict was that a loyal citizen and high-minded 
 
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 pioneer had passed to his rest, leaving behind him 
 a record of which any man might be proud. He 
 was a Republican in politics, and a member of 
 the United Brethren Church. 
 
 Mrs. Goan has one daughter, Viola Dale, who 
 is at present taking the English course at the 
 Albany College. The mother is ambitious for 
 her daughter's future, and it is her intention to 
 supply every advantage suggested by her talents 
 and capacity for advancement. Notwithstand- 
 ing her arduous responsibilities, Mrs. Goan finds 
 time to enjoy society in a general way, and takes 
 a keen interest in the Presbyterian Church, con- 
 tributing generously towards its charities and 
 general support. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD DRUCKS. A prominent 
 mill owner of Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., is 
 John Edward Drucks, who located in that city 
 September 6, 1899, and became the proprietor of 
 his present property, which he has since over- 
 hauled, putting in new and modern machinery, 
 and now, with water as the motive power, he 
 turns out one hundred barrels of flour per day. 
 He has a large trade, California especially receiv- 
 ing much of his product. He also owns a large 
 warehouse and buys all the grain which comes 
 into the city. 
 
 The father of John E. Drucks, Frank Drucks, 
 was born in Austria, November 2, 1822, came to 
 the United States in 1856, locating with his fam- 
 ily at Manitowoc, Wis., where he followed his 
 trade of cooper for one year and a half, after 
 which he removed to a farm which he had pur- 
 chased there. In 1876 he came west, passing 
 through Oregon and settling five miles east of 
 Vancouver, Wash., where he bought Hexter's 
 flour mill, a remainder of the old Hudson Bay 
 possessions. For five years he conducted this 
 business with considerable profit, after which he 
 located in Portland and engaged in the grocery 
 business until 1902. In that year he retired from 
 the active cares of life, and coming to Lebanon, 
 he now makes his home with his son, a sturdy 
 product of a sturdy age and nation. Mr. Drucks 
 married Rosa Wartz, a native of the location in 
 which he first saw the light of day. She died 
 on the farm near Vancouver in 1887, at the age 
 of fifty-six years. 
 
 Of the eleven children, nine sons and two 
 daughters, born to his parents, of whom five are 
 now living, John Edward Drucks is the fourth. 
 He was born in Manitowoc, Wis., October 24, 
 1857, and received his education in the common 
 schools of his native state. He was nineteen 
 years of age when his parents settled in Oregon, 
 and he soon took charge of his father's mill in 
 Washington. In 1879 ne assumed the same po- 
 sition in the Star Mills of McMinnville, Ore., 
 
 where he remained until 1884. In that year he 
 entered the flour business in Sheridan, Ore., 
 where he bought a mill, and in 1885 he located 
 for a short time in Portland. He then carried 
 his milling interests into Washington, there be- 
 coming the owner of a mill at La Camas, which 
 he conducted for two years. At the expiration 
 of this period he located in San Francisco, Cal., 
 there assuming charge of a flour mill until 1888, 
 when he returned to Oregon and purchased a 
 half interest in a hotel at Medford. The next 
 year he leased the property and removed to 
 Portland, where he engaged in the real estate 
 and brokerage business. In 1894 he returned to 
 California and spent one year in Los Angeles, 
 after which he again located in Portland and 
 continued his former occupation until his return 
 to the milling business at Lebanon in 1899. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Drucks occurred in Mc-. 
 Minnville, Ore., in 1881, Anna Sax, a native of 
 Portland, becoming his wife. Of the three chil- 
 dren born to them, two of whom are living, Ed- 
 ward S., who was born in McMinnville in 1883, 
 is studying medicine in the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons in San Francisco ; Lenora, also 
 born in that city, makes her home with her 
 parents ; Zeda, who was born in Medford, Ore., 
 in 1888, died at Vancouver, Wash., at the age 
 of three years and four months. Mr. Drucks 
 has become the owner of a fine residence in 
 Lebanon, in addition to which he owns ninety- 
 four and a half acres of land near Troutdale, and 
 sixteen acres near Portland. In his fraternal 
 relations Mr. Drucks is a member of the Modern 
 Woodmen of America, and politically is a Re- 
 publican. He is at present serving as city coun- 
 cilman, having always taken an active and intel- 
 ligent interest in municipal affairs. He belongs 
 to the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 ALPHEUS MILLER WILSON. Interested 
 in both industrial and municipal affairs of the 
 city Alpheus Miller Wilson holds a prominent 
 place in Lebanon, Linn county, adding to the 
 importance of the former through his connection 
 with one of the leading livery stables, and in 
 the service of the latter acting as mayor of the 
 city. A stanch Republican, he has been chosen 
 to fill his present office for a term of two years. 
 His anxiety to make his administration one of 
 prosperity to all has won for him many friends 
 even among his political opponents. 
 
 Alpheus Miller Wilson was born near Bur- 
 lington, Iowa, October 10, 1849, tne son °f 
 George Washington and Mary Ann (Moore) 
 Wilson, the former born in Virginia and the 
 latter in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Samuel 
 Moore, also a native of that state. The father 
 removed to Iowa in 1848 and crossed the plains 
 
FORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 in 1852, locating first near Dallas, where he 
 bought the squatter's right to one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land, upon which he engaged in 
 farming. In i860 he came to Linn county, and 
 locating near Lebanon, combined the interest of 
 stock-raising with that of farming, becoming 
 the owner of considerable property. He now 
 makes his home near Sodaville, Ore., and is 
 eighty-seven years old. Of the six sons and six 
 daughters which blessed the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Wilson nine are now living, and the second 
 child and oldest son is the subject of this re- 
 view. He was but three years old when the 
 trip was made to Oregon, so he has practically 
 passed his whole life in Oregon. He received a 
 rather limited education in the common schools 
 of the state, the greater part of his information 
 having come to him through observation. When 
 sixteen years old he became an employe on the 
 farm, and as his means increased he felt justified 
 in making a purchase of land, which consisted 
 of seventy-six acres, located near Lebanon. He 
 remained upon this property until 1897, when he 
 came to the city of Lebanon and engaged in the 
 livery business, also purchasing a half interest in 
 a drayage business. 
 
 The wife who shares the pleasant little home 
 which Mr. Wilson has bought in the city, was 
 formerly Mrs. Ellen Jane Gilson, a native of 
 Michigan, and whom he married in this city. 
 Two children have been born to them, Mary 
 Ellen and Albert Francis, both of whom are at 
 home with their parents. Always popular in his 
 party Mr. Wilson served for fifteen years as 
 school director while living on his farm, and for 
 two terms as road supervisor. Fraternally he is 
 a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows. 
 
 J. P. WALLACE, M. D. A more than or- 
 dinary appreciation of the possibilities of med- 
 ical and surgical science, augmented by superior 
 elementary training and continuous research en- 
 titles Dr. Wallace to the enviable place which 
 he occupies in the professional life of Linn 
 county. Dr. Wallace was born in Ander- 
 sonville, Anderson county, Tenn., July 24, 
 1852, of Scotch ancestry. His paternal grand- 
 father, James, was born in Virginia, and 
 eventually became a planter in Anderson county, 
 where he died in 1877, while his father, 
 Brice, born in Anderson county, followed 
 a similar occupation during his active life. The 
 father was a strong Union sympathizer during 
 the Civil war. In 1877 he removed to Oregon, 
 settling on a farm near Lebanon, where he en- 
 gaged in farming for many years. At present 
 he is retired from active life and is living with 
 his children. He is a Roval Arch Mason. A 
 
 Democrat in politics, he served as treasurer of 
 Linn county for one term. With his wife, 
 Nancy J. (Hall) Wallace, he attends the Baptist 
 Church. Mrs. Wallace died near Albany in 1886 
 at the age of fifty-five years. The Hall family 
 are of English ancestry, the members of which 
 settled first in North Carolina, where Obadiah 
 Hall, the father of Mrs. Wallace, was born. He 
 was a planter in Tennessee, and died there at 
 an advanced age, firm in the faith of the Bap- 
 tist Church. 
 
 The impressions most vividly recalled by Dr. 
 Wallace of his childhood in the south are those 
 centered around the period of the Civil war, 
 when his neighborhood was ravaged by the sol- 
 diers, and life became hazardous. During that 
 time the schools were suspended and his edu- 
 cation was retarded. After the war he continued 
 his studies at Jacksboro, Tenn., and afterward 
 engaged in teaching for a couple of terms in a 
 local academy. Following close upon his teach- 
 ing he studied medicine with Dr. Charles D. 
 Russell of Jacksboro, and after a couple of years 
 entered the medical department of the University 
 of Tennessee, from which he was graduated with 
 first honors in the class of 1880. His scholar- 
 ship was distinguished by brilliancy and ex- 
 ceptional merit, in recognition of which he re- 
 ceived the Paul F. Eve and two other gold 
 medals. With this creditable start in life the 
 doctor engaged in practice in Anderson, Tenn., 
 and four years later, in 1884, located in his pres- 
 ent home in Albany, Ore. In order to keep pace 
 with the progress in the profession as understood 
 by the most advanced minds in the country he 
 took a post-graduate course in the New York 
 Post-Graduate Medical School, in 1890. 
 
 That Dr. Wallace has been successful beyond 
 the average practitioner is evidenced by his large 
 land holdings in city and county, and these in- 
 vestments indicate also his faith in the future 
 of his adopted state. He is the owner of the 
 postoffice building in Albany, has built up resi- 
 dence and business property, and owns a farm 
 of four hundred and forty acres in Linn county. 
 While living in Knoxville, Tenn., he was united 
 in marriage with Alice Tullock, born in Camp- 
 bell county, Tenn., and was educated at the 
 Jacksboro Academy. One child has been born 
 of this union, Russell, now attending the Al- 
 bany College, in the class of 1904. Dr. Wal- 
 lace is a member of the State Medical Society 
 and from a professional standpoint has held many 
 positions of trust in the community, including 
 membership on the pension board, a position he 
 held for ten or twelve years, when he resigned. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen 
 of the World, and socially with the Alco Club. 
 The doctor is possessed of strong personal char- 
 acteristics, which render him extremely popular 
 
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 with all classes of people. Genial and optimistic, 
 he is an ideal practitioner, understanding fully 
 the saving grace of tact, humor, and consider- 
 ation. 
 
 WILLIAM M. ALLEN. Living retired in 
 Halsey is a man who has been connected in a 
 most interesting and substantial manner with the 
 early history of this section, and who used to 
 ride over this prairie when scarcely a human 
 habitation indicated the presence of white men. 
 While various avenues of activity have been in- 
 vaded by him with equally good results, his life 
 in the west has been devoted chiefly to buying 
 and selling cattle and lands. He consequently 
 possesses great familiarity with all parts of the 
 county, and is an expert judge of stock. William 
 M. Allen is a pioneer of 1852, and was twenty- 
 two years of age when he crossed the plains with 
 his parents. He was born in Madison, 111., July 
 27, 1830, his father, Alfred, and his mother. 
 Sarah (Jackson) Allen, being natives respective- 
 ly of Kentucky and North Carolina. On the 
 maternal side he comes from a family which has 
 furnished a president of the United States, his 
 mother, who lived between 1767 and 1845, being 
 a cousin of General Andrew Jackson, seventh 
 president of the country. From his native state 
 Alfred Allen moved to Indiana, and from there 
 to Illinois at an early day, where he married, 
 and from where he set out on the westward 
 journey in the spring of 1852. Locating in 
 Mohawk, Lane county, Ore., he took up a claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres, sold the same 
 in 1858 and went to The Dalles, Washington 
 county. In 1862 he located in Linn county, Ore., 
 and bought four Imndred acres of land on the 
 Muddy river, just about the time they were build- 
 ing the railroad through here. His was one of 
 the first houses in the locality and he became 
 one of the best known men hereabouts, evincing 
 at all times a keen interest in the development of 
 farming and other enterprises. His last years 
 were spent in retirement, he and his wife travel- 
 ing their well worn way in harmony and peace, 
 and, as seemed consistent with their united lives, 
 both died in 1875, the wife three days before 
 her husband. 
 
 The fifth of the four sons and two daughters 
 in his father's family, William M. was educated 
 in the public schools of Illinois, and after coming 
 west, took up a donation claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres near Mohawk, Lane county, not 
 far from his father's claim. In 1861 he bought 
 land in Klickitat county, Wash., and the follow- 
 ing year bought and took a drove of cattle to 
 British Columbia, disposed of the same, and 
 afterward came direct to Linn county. Pur- 
 chasing a half section of land near Halsey, he 
 
 raised stock thereon until 1864, then sold it, and 
 followed the occupation of buying and selling 
 stock, driving herds to Washington and eastern 
 Oregon, and supplying markets all over the 
 state. For about ten years he has been retired 
 from active life, having accumulated a compe- 
 tency, a considerable portion of which he loans 
 out. He also owns two ranches in Linn county, 
 aggregating five hundred acres of land. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Allen partook of the 
 romance which has characterized his somewhat 
 adventurous and roving life, for, owing to pa- 
 rental opposition, he deliberately ran away with 
 Emma Zulliforde, daughter of William Zulliforde, 
 and sought the services of Justice of the Peace 
 Paul Clover in the foothills of the Cascade moun- 
 tains. Mr. Zulliforde lived for many years in Illi- 
 nois, where his daughter was born, and from 
 where he crossed the plains in 1852, locating on 
 the ranch near Mohawk where his death oc- 
 curred. Four children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Allen, of whom Arra, the oldest daughter, 
 is the wife of Monroe Miller, a farmer of this 
 vicinity; Benjamin F., Jr., lives at Grant's Pass, 
 Ore. ; W. A. is on his father's farm ; and Lena is 
 at home. 
 
 Mr. Allen was the first commissioner of Crook 
 county, Ore., elected by the people, and he has 
 further promoted the interests of Republicanism 
 in this section, serving both as school director and 
 clerk, and as a member of the city council for 
 many terms. He is a broad-minded and pro- 
 gressive man, inspiring the greatest confidence 
 in all with whom he has to do, and representing 
 in the measure of his solid success the best type 
 of northwestern manhood. 
 
 PETER K. JOHNSON was born in the cen- 
 tral part of Norway, July 24, 1838, the descend- 
 ant of a line of farmers, his father also follow- 
 ing this occupation in conjunction with the car- 
 penter's trade. After his education in the district 
 schools was completed, the son took up the trade 
 of his father, which he followed for several years 
 in Norway. In 1864 he married Miss Sarah 
 Anderson, also a native of that country, and 
 there the young couple began their married life. 
 After two years they decided to try their for- 
 tunes in the faraway western land, of which they 
 had heard so much, and accordingly set sail for 
 the United States in 1866. Upon their arrival 
 they went at once to Illinois. After two years 
 they removed to Clinton Junction, Wis., just 
 across the state line from their former residence, 
 where they passed the ensuing five years, Mr. 
 Johnson working at his trade in Chicago the 
 principal part of the time. 
 
 In 1873 they ventured still farther west, com- 
 ing with hopeful hearts to Oregon, where soon 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1209 
 
 after his arrival Mr. Johnson purchased the 
 farm upon which they now make their home. 
 This farm is located one and a half miles south 
 of Mount Angel. The first piece of land bought 
 contained eighty-six acres, but with the profits 
 of his industry and management he has been 
 enabled to add to the original purchase until he 
 now owns one hundred and twenty acres. Upon 
 this farm Mr. Johnson himself has made all the 
 improvements, including a modern house and 
 good buildings of all kinds, which are the best 
 in the neighborhood. He has also built a double- 
 kiln hop house and storehouse, having twenty- 
 two acres devoted to the cultivation of hops, 
 from which was produced in 1902 twenty thous- 
 and pounds. These he disposed of at a uniform 
 price of twenty-six and a half cents per pound. 
 Seventy acres of his farm are under cultivation. 
 In addition to this he continued to work at his 
 trade from the time of his arrival in Oregon to 
 1890, thus adding greatly to his income. A large 
 family has blessed his marriage, the children be- 
 ing as follows : John, of Portland ; Andrew, de- 
 ceased ; Frank, of Portland ; Edward, residing 
 near Brooks ; Anna, wife of C. Esson, of The 
 Dalles ; Albert, of Portland ; x\llen, at home ; 
 and Sherman, who is attending Portland Dental 
 College. Mr. Johnson has served on the school 
 board and as road supervisor. He has always 
 taken an active part in political matters, being a 
 strong adherent of the policy advocated by the 
 Republican party. Having the courage of his 
 convictions, he has exercised no little influence 
 in the affairs of his neighborhood. 
 
 The mother of Mr. Johnson having died in 
 Norway in 1863, his father came seven years 
 later to the land that held his son's family, set- 
 tling first in Wisconsin, but later going to Min- 
 nesota to pass the remainder of his days. There 
 he died at the age of seventy-nine years. 
 
 THEOBALD KIRSCH. Like all other land 
 in this vicinity the farm belonging to Theobald 
 Kirsch was once a wilderness of unfurrowed 
 fields and unfelled forests, where it now blossoms 
 with harvests and gratifies the eye with the at- 
 tractive, modern buildings that have been erected 
 upon it. These changes are due to the indefatiga- 
 ble energy and management of its thrifty owner, 
 who, animated by proper pride as well as self- 
 interest, has become noted throughout the neigh- 
 borhood as one of the. best farmers of which it 
 boasts. The greatest credit is due Mr. Kirsch 
 for the praiseworthy efforts that have brought 
 him success, for he started in life with nothing to 
 help him even to the first round of the ladder 
 but his own manliness and determination to make 
 something out of his life. That he has succeeded 
 is established bevond a doubt, the broad acres 
 
 of his farm testifying to the affluence that has 
 come to him in the evening of life. 
 
 Theobald Kirsch was born August 10, 1841, 
 in Lorraine, in what was then French territory, 
 but in 1 87 1 passed to Germany, and came to the 
 United States with his parents in 1855, settling 
 in New York, where his father worked at general 
 labor for a few years. At the end of this time 
 enough money had been accumulated to warrant 
 moving into the farming region of Sandusky 
 county, Ohio, where they bought land upon 
 which they lived until 1870. While in this loca- 
 tion Theobald arrived at his twenty-first year, 
 and following his inclinations he enlisted in 
 Company H, Seventy-second Regiment, Ohio 
 Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered into ser- 
 vice at Columbus in October, 1862, and went at 
 once with the regiment to Memphis, where thev 
 did guard duty for some time. Later he was in 
 the memorable siege of Vicksburg. In the bat- 
 tle of Guntown he was taken prisoner, being 
 sent to Andersonville, where he was confined 
 until the close of the war. This was a period of 
 ten months, after which he was sent to Jackson- 
 ville, Fla., and from there to Annapolis, Md., 
 thence to Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio, 
 where he was mustered out of service, having 
 served two years and nine months. Returning 
 to his home near Fremont, Ohio, he remained 
 there for a short time, preceding his parents to 
 Wisconsin by four years, their removal there 
 being made in 1870. The old people later passed 
 away in that state, the father at the age of 
 eighty years, March 1, 1886, the mother dying 
 May 4, 1882, at seventy-two years of age. They 
 were the parents of five children, four of whom 
 are now living, Theobald being the only one in 
 Oregon. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Kirsch came to this county and 
 bought one hundred and ninety-five acres of land, 
 which now forms a part of his home. To that 
 purchase he has added until he now owns four 
 hundred and thirty acres, two hundred and sev- 
 enty-five acres of which are under cultivation. 
 He has fifty-seven acres devoted to hops, from 
 which was produced last year forty thousand 
 pounds. He now rents this part of his farm. By 
 his union in 1866 to Miss Tracy Von Hatten, born 
 January 8, 1849, in Pittsburg, Pa., he became the 
 father of eleven children, six of whom are now 
 living. The second of the children, Rosa, is the 
 only one who is not at home, she having become 
 the wife of H. Butch, of British Columbia, where 
 they have five children. The remaining children 
 are' as follows : Joseph, who is married and on the 
 home place; John, Henry, Frank and Frona, all 
 unmarried ; Mary, deceased, was married to John 
 Camp, and had a son ; Lena, deceased, was mar- 
 ried to Martin Preuneg, and had two children ; 
 Annie, Annie (the second child bearing the 
 
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 name), and George, all died in early childhood. 
 Politically Mr. Kirsch is a Democrat and served 
 at one time as road supervisor. The family are 
 members of the Catholic Church. 
 
 ALBERT G. PRILL, M. D. A physician of 
 Scio, Linn county, Ore., whose future gives 
 promise of an advancement to a high degree of 
 excellence and success in his chosen profession, 
 Dr. Albert G. Prill was born May 5, 1869, in 
 Springville, N. Y., where his father, John 
 Prill, a native of Germany, located many years 
 ago and engaged in farming. Success is a na- 
 tive element in the character of this family, for 
 with nothing to encourage John Prill to believe 
 in the successful future which was before him 
 he began in a strange land and among strange 
 surroundings, and became one of the noticeably 
 successful men of that section of the state, now 
 owning seven hundred and fifty acres of land. 
 He makes his home in Springville, living retired 
 at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife was 
 formerly Mary Tardell, also a native of the 
 Fatherland, and who crossed the ocean with him, 
 anxious to help in the labor for a home and com- 
 petency. As she shared his labor she now enjoys 
 the rest, being seventy-three years old. 
 
 Of their six children, three of whom are liv- 
 ing, Albert G. Prill is the youngest. He was 
 given a good education, after attending the com- 
 mon schools completing in the high school of 
 Springville, from which he was graduated in 
 1886. Intent on entering upon the profession 
 he had chosen he became a student in the med- 
 ical department of Buffalo University in 1887, 
 and after an attendance of three years he was 
 graduated with the degree of M. D. In the same 
 year, 1890, he came to Oregon, and locating in 
 Salem, engaged in a general practice of medi- 
 cine. After nine months in that location he re- 
 moved to Sodaville, Linn county, and remained 
 successfully engaged there until 1896. At that 
 date he came to Scio and has since remained in 
 this location. Not content with the knowledge 
 of medicine gained in his first years in the study, 
 Dr. Prill has since devoted much time to re- 
 search in his efforts to advance in the profes- 
 sion. In 1898 he was graduated from the Na- 
 tional Institute of Pharmacy, of Chicago, 111., 
 and took a three-months course in electro-thera- 
 peutics in Lima, Ohio. In 1900 he attended 
 the New York Clinical School of Medicine, tak- 
 ing a course in surgery, and especially devoting 
 his thought to the amelioration of the ills of 
 womankind. His advance in his profession has 
 been very noticeable, and is certainly appreciated 
 by those among whom he labors. 
 
 Dr. Prill was married in Springville, N. Y., 
 in 1889, to Anna C. Satterlee Bates, a native of 
 
 that state, and the two children born of the union 
 are now deceased, one having died in infancy, 
 and Ariel V. in early childhood. In his fraternal 
 relations Dr. Prill is exceedingly active, be- 
 ing a member of Scio Lodge No. 39, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons ; Leonidas Lodge No. 
 36, Knights of Pythias; Dierdorff Lodge No. 
 54, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and 
 Stewart No. 51, Encampment; Knights of the 
 Maccabees ; Modern Woodmen of America ; 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen ; and Order 
 of Pendo. He is active in all of these, having 
 passed all the chairs with the exception of those 
 of the Masons. He is a member of the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church, and politically casts 
 his vote with the Republican party. In the in- 
 terests of the public he acts as health officer of 
 the city. Dr. Prill owns considerable property 
 in the city, in addition to the handsome little 
 cottage and three acres of land about it. He 
 purchased his office of Dr. E. O. Hyde. 
 
 One of the most engrossing interests of Dr. 
 Prill is that of ornithology, of which he is a 
 profound student, and in his study he has col- 
 lected many and interesting specimens, now own- 
 ing one of the finest private collections of birds 
 in the state. Never content with anything less 
 than the best in whatever line his interests are 
 directed, much is expected of such a man as Dr. 
 Prill in the advancement of all worthy inter- 
 prises, and through him, as a citizen, the future- 
 holds fulfillment for the promises of a strong, 
 earnest and honest manhood. 
 
 EVALINE SHELTON. At present living 
 retired in the town of Jordan, Mrs. Evaline Shel- 
 ton has seen a great deal of pioneer life in the 
 west, and has been in close touch with its agri- 
 cultural development, as have been the wives of 
 all the pioneers. Born in the vicinity of Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., November 1, 1827, she is a daughter 
 of Edward Jones, a native of South Carolina, 
 who in early life removed to Tennessee. Later, 
 Mr. Jones lived on farms in Illinois and Wis- 
 consin, his last years being spent in Andrew 
 county, Mo., where he died at the age of seventy- 
 five years. He was a farmer by occupation, was 
 fairly successful, and was devoted to the Dem- 
 ocratic party. 
 
 On her father's farm in Andrew county. Mo., 
 Mrs. Shelton met and married her husband, Will- 
 iam Shelton, who was born in Virginia, August 
 15, 1820. Before locating in Andrew county, Mr. 
 Shelton lived in Jackson county, Mo., and after 
 his marriage went to housekeeping on his own 
 farm, near that of the Sheltons. Believing that 
 the west held superior opportunities for agri- 
 culturists, he sold his farm in 1853, and out- 
 fitted with ox-teams and prairie schooners, tak- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing with him several head of loose cattle. He 
 was not the first of his family to seek the far 
 west, as in 1847 his father, Herman Shelton, who 
 was born in Virginia, settled on a section of land 
 live miles east of Scio, where he died at the 
 age of seventy-seven years. He was a Demo- 
 crat in politics, and a member and active worker 
 in the Baptist Church. 
 
 In the party of William Shelton was his 
 mother-in-law, Mary (Louder) Jones, who, how- 
 ever, less strong than her companions, succumbed 
 to an attack of cholera and died in Tygh valley, 
 eastern Oregon. The party proceeded after this 
 sad happening much depressed in spirits, and 
 finally arrived in Linn county, where Mr. Shel- 
 ton took up a claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres ten miles east of Scio. This he improved 
 and lived upon, and made into a valuable and pro- 
 ductive property, and here his death occurred 
 July 4, 1902. Like his father he was a Demo- 
 crat, and was a stanch supporter of the Baptist 
 Church: His wife remained on the farm until 
 October, 1902, and then removed to Scio, and 
 later, October 1, 1903, to Jordan, having earned 
 the right to rest for the remainder of her life. 
 Of her eight children, three are living, these be- 
 ing Lucilla. the wife of Henry Phillips, of Jor- 
 dan, Ore.; Andrew J., a conductor on the Cor- 
 vallis & Eastern Railroad : and Mary, who is now 
 Mrs. Pruitt, of Baker City, Ore. 
 
 Mention is due Lee Shelton. brother-in-law 
 of Mrs. Shelton, who is farming in Linn county 
 in a small way, and is a man of fine personal 
 characteristics. He also was born in Missouri, 
 and crossed the plains with his father in 1847, 
 thereafter helping him in the improvement of 
 his farm. 
 
 JACOB M. STARK, mayor of the city of 
 Independence, is one of the most highly respected 
 citizens of the place, as well as the proprietor of 
 its only hotel. He is, to use the expressive 
 western term, a "hustler," and while winning 
 success in the hotel business he is also known as a 
 speculator, whose winnings in this line have 
 been of no small amount. He was born in 
 Washington county, Ky., May 15, 1845. His 
 father, Benjamin Stark, was also a native of the 
 Bluegrass state, and in 1848 removed to Polk 
 county. 111., making his home near Golconda, 
 where he followed farming and died in 1850. 
 In his agricultural pursuits he achieved success. 
 In politics he was a Whig. His death occurred 
 from cholera, at the age of fifty-one years. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Fannie 
 Phelps, was born in Indianapolis. Ind.. and also 
 died of cholera in 1850. as did two sons and 
 one daughter, there being at the time a terrible 
 epidemic of that dread disease. In this family 
 
 there were eleven children, five boys and six 
 girls, J. M. Stark being the tenth child, and he 
 and one sister are the only surviving children. 
 At the age of five years he was thrown upon 
 his own resources. He received no educational 
 privileges, but after drifting here and there for 
 a time he finally, in 1855, found a home with 
 William Claupet, of Jacksonville, 111., who gave 
 him his first instruction in work. When about 
 sixteen years of age, in response to his country's 
 call, on the 8th of August, 1861, he enlisted 
 with Company A, Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, 
 and marched to the front. In 1862 he received 
 an honorable discharge on account of illness and 
 disability. He crossed the plains in the same 
 year, going as far as the present boundaries of 
 Idaho, but very soon returned to Montana. In 
 the fall of 1863 ne began freighting- by teams 
 from Salt Lake to Virginia City, Montana, con- 
 tinuing until 1867, when he went to the vicinity 
 of Springfield, 111., and afterward joined a 
 brother and sister who were at Pawnee, 111. 
 Here he connected himself with the Wabash 
 Railroad Company in construction work, remain- 
 ing with the company for eighteen years. 
 
 During his residence at PaWnee he conducted 
 a general merchandise business and built the 
 Pawnee Stub Railway, which runs from Pawnee 
 due west, eleven miles to Albany, and is con- 
 nected with the Chicago & Alton Railway. He 
 sold his interest in the stub railway on March 
 13, 1890, to the original stockholders. Besides 
 his many other interests he established a paper 
 called the Pawnee Enterprise. In 1891 he suf- 
 fered considerable loss by fire and decided to 
 remove to Oregon. He located at Independence, 
 purchased the Little Palace Hotel property of 
 the Rev. J. R. N. Bell, and successfully engaged 
 in the hotel business. In 1900 he bought a saw- 
 mill business and sold it in December, 1902, to 
 F. A. Douty, of Independence. In 1900 he also 
 purchased the Cottage Hotel and made it his 
 place of residence. Mr. Stark was married at 
 Eagleville, Mo., to Miss Georgia A. Blanken- 
 ship, who was born near Vandalia. 111. Her 
 father, Lewis Blankenship, was a native of Illi- 
 nois, and a farmer by occupation. He removed 
 to Missouri in 1883, and in 1893 located near 
 Independence, Ore. His wife having passed 
 away, he makes his home with his daughter, 
 Mrs. Stark. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Stark were 
 born seven children, four of whom are now liv- 
 ing : Lola, a graduate of Mt. Angel College : 
 Inez and John L., twins, and Aliene. 
 
 During the present year Mr. Stark bought the 
 merchandise stock of F. A. Douty and moved 
 the stock ro Fall City, Polk county, where he 
 conducts a large store. Mr. Stark is a member 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a 
 
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 stanch Republican, always interested in the wel- 
 fare of his party. He was elected mayor in 
 1903. As chief executive of the city, Mr. Stark 
 is winning the encomiums of all. He stands firm- 
 ly on the side of law and order. His success in 
 life has been achieved through his own efforts 
 and well does he deserve to be classed among 
 the most progressive and enterprising men of 
 Oregon. 
 
 HENRY K. LUGGER. Talent, it has been 
 said, can be mastered by man, while genius is 
 the master of man. This is true to a certain 
 extent, for it is the exception to find the man 
 of genius a success in a business way, and a 
 power in the industrial life of a community. 
 It is this which distinguishes Mr. Lugger, the 
 present superintendent of the Albany water- 
 works, for his fine and accurate knowledge of 
 all mechanism has called forth an admiration 
 which has given him credit for more than ordi- 
 nary ability. The position which he now holds 
 was accepted in June, 1902, and even in this 
 brief period of time he has won a position of 
 prominence and esteem in the business life of 
 the city, in keeping with the effort he has put 
 forth toward the advancement of his work. 
 
 The birth of Henry K. Lugger occurred in 
 Westphalia, Germany, his father, Frederick, 
 being also a native of that locality. The latter was 
 a stonemason by trade. In i860 he brought his 
 family to America, on a sailing vessel, and 
 located in New Orleans, La., where he engaged 
 as a contractor and mason until his death. He 
 married Sophia Mueller, also a native of West- 
 phalia, and her death also occurred in New 
 Orleans. Of the three sons and one daughter 
 born to them all attained maturity, of whom 
 three sons are now living. The youngest of this 
 family, and the only one who located on the 
 Pacific coast, was Henry K. Lugger. He was 
 born April 30, 1858, and in New Orleans attended 
 a private school until he was fourteen years 
 old, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade 
 of a machinist. For three years he worked in 
 ship and railroad shops in the city, after which 
 he went to Galveston, Tex., where during the 
 day he worked at his trade and at night attended 
 school, his earnestness of purpose and deter- 
 mination enabling him to make the sacrifice for 
 the sake of future gain. Later he worked at the 
 trade of carpenter in Galveston, after which, 
 in 1 88 1, he removed to Dennison, Ohio, and soon 
 after to Delaware of the same state, where he 
 engaged as a machinist, in the latter city remain- 
 ing for seven years. In 1889 Mn Lugger came 
 to Oregon, locating in Yaquina Bay, as fore- 
 man of the car department in the shops of the 
 pld Oregon Pacific ? and later occupying the 
 
 same position for the Corvallis & Eastern Rail- 
 road. It was from the position of general fore- 
 man of the shops that Mr. Lugger resigned in 
 1899 to engage in the mercantile business in 
 the same city, the firm being known as Lugger 
 & Pruett. After eighteen months he removed 
 to Baker City and bought an interest in the 
 Blue Mountain Iron Works, this firm being 
 Gilbert & Lugger. After a year's time he sold 
 out to Mr. Gilbert, and coming to Albany he 
 accepted his present position, in which he has 
 charge of the water supply. In addition to 
 this work, Mr. Lugger is also experienced as a 
 draughtsman and does much of that work. 
 
 Mr. Lugger was married to Miss Anna Healy, 
 a native of Delaware, Ohio, where the cere- 
 mony was performed. Three daughters have 
 been born to them, namely : Theresa, Catherine 
 and Wilhelmina, the first named being a student 
 of Albany College. In his fraternal relations 
 Mr. Lugger is a member of the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks, of Albany, and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics 
 he is a Republican, believing that the principles 
 of this party are best calculated to advance the 
 prosperity of the country, but in local affairs he 
 measures the man as well as the principles and 
 casts his vote for the man whose administration 
 is governed by patriotism and principle. While 
 at Yaquina Bay Mr. Lugger served as president 
 of the school board for several years, and took 
 a very active part in the work necessary to secure 
 good schools. 
 
 JACOB M. MILLER. Since May, 1875, 
 Jacob M. Miller has identified his fortunes 
 with Marion county, Ore.. That he has suc- 
 ceeded as an agriculturist is evidenced by the 
 fact that he is the owner of a finely improved 
 farm of three hundred acres on the French 
 Prairie, about two hundred acres of which are 
 under cultivation. Although practically retired 
 at the present time, Mr. Miller still maintains 
 an interest in his farm, its buildings, implements, 
 and crops, and he is the intelligent and mature 
 adviser of his son, John H., to whom he has 
 turned over the greater part of the responsibility. 
 
 At the age of fifteen years, Mr. Miller left 
 Baden, Germany, where he was born February 
 24, 1832, and, accompanied by his parents, sailed 
 for the distant shores of America. After thirty 
 days upon the ocean the stanch craft cast anchor 
 in New York harbor, the passengers departing 
 inland in various directions, as inclination dic- 
 tated. The Miller family settled on a farm 
 near Utica, N. Y., and after remaining there 
 for twelve years removed to Jo Daviess county, 
 111., the father having in the meantime turned 
 oyer his business to his sons. In Illinois Jacob 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 M.j and his brother John bought a farm of four 
 hundred and twenty acres, a large farm for the 
 middle west, and lived thereon together until the 
 brother became sole possessor of the prop- 
 erty in 1876, and Jacob M. came west in search 
 of larger opportunities. Of his brother-in-law, 
 Francis Feller, he purchased four hundred and 
 twenty acres on French prairie, four miles 
 from Butteville, in time disposing of all but the 
 three hundred acres which he now owns. 
 
 September 23, 1864, Mr. Miller was united 
 in marriage with Elizabeth Feller, sister of 
 Francis Feller, and of this union there have 
 been born eight children : Mary is the wife of 
 Charles Lemky, assessor of Marion county, and 
 a resident of Salem ; Carrie is the wife of 
 William Scollard, a farmer and hop-raiser near 
 Gervais ; Lizzie is the wife of Andrew Walker, 
 of Milwaukee, Ore. ; Fred is helping to man- 
 age his father's farm ; William is a hop-grower 
 near Woodburn ; John H. is managing the home 
 farm ; Edward is a resident of Portland ; and 
 Minnie is at home. 
 
 For many years Mr. Miller has been a stanch 
 upholder of Democracy. He has filled the offices 
 of school director and road supervisor. He is 
 held in high esteem by those who have been 
 associated with him for years, and he has the 
 good will of a host of warm friends, who appre- 
 ciate his manv fine traits of character. 
 
 CAPT. JAMES BLAKELY. In the lives of 
 the tcunders of the northwest we find peculiarly 
 effective illustrations of those qualities which 
 prepare the way for public prosperity and happi- 
 ness. James Blakely is one of those who has 
 bravely borne his part in the formation epoch of 
 this country, and few there are who are more 
 intelligently or interestingly reminiscent of the 
 days which tried the fibre of men, and either 
 made or ruined them with its parallel hope and 
 discouragement. Out of this period Mr. Blake'ly 
 has emerged strengthened and hopeful, the pos- 
 sessor of a comfortable home earned by the 
 sweat of his brow. An evening spent with this 
 cheery, early settler would convince the most 
 skeptical that the way of the pioneer is thorny, 
 although often an adventurous and exciting one, 
 and that he who wins success without money or 
 influence must needs be the possessor of more 
 than ordinary courage and sagacity. 
 
 This pioneer of 1846 was born in Knox 
 county, Tenn., November 26, 1812, and in spite 
 of the fact that ninety-one years have passed 
 over his head, still has youthful sympathies, and 
 a heart attuned to the joy and expectancy of 
 life. The point of a joke is never lost in the 
 meshes of his wary brain, nor are his exceedingly 
 humorous accounts of the early days without 
 
 interest to his hearers. His service in the Indian 
 wars of the west in 1856 rounds out the third 
 generation of his family to shoulder arms in 
 defense of this country, the first to thus bring 
 honor upon the name being his paternal grand- 
 father, Charles Blakely, who came to America 
 from Ireland as a small boy, locating with his 
 parents in the Old Dominion. The oppressed 
 colonists found in him a ready defender, and 
 he slept and fought in the tents and battlefields 
 of the Revolutionary war. After the war the 
 soldier removed to Tennessee, and died on his 
 farm in Knox county at the age of four score 
 years. His son, Joseph, was born on this old 
 Tennessee farm, and, emulating the martial 
 spirit of his sire, took part in the less famous 
 and lengthy war of 1812. Aside from this his 
 life was spent in Knox county, Tenn., until 1838, 
 in which year he moved to a farm in Platte 
 county, Mo., and engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising. His death took place in Nodaway 
 county, Mo., at the age of seventy-four. His 
 wife, formerly Jensia Browning, was a native 
 daughter of Knox county, Tenn., her father, 
 James Browning, having been born in North 
 Carolina. The maternal family was distinguished 
 for the longevity of its members, and Mrs. 
 Blakely exceeded her husband in the length of 
 her useful life. 
 
 The third of the six sons and six daughters 
 born to his parents, James Blakely worked hard 
 on the home farm, and at irregular intervals 
 attended the remotely located schoolhouse with 
 its puncheon floors and greased paper windows. 
 He grew up a bare-footed boy, but with splendid 
 health, and a superabundance of spirits and 
 vitality. His father profited by his services until 
 he was twenty-two years old, and at that time he 
 hired out to a nearby farmer, as the numerous 
 children at home could easily perform all needed 
 work on the home place. With the courage of 
 the youthful and inexperienced he married early 
 in life, his choice falling on a native daughter 
 of Jefferson county, Tenn., and whose name was 
 Sarah Dick. She was born November 24, 1815, 
 and was three years the junior of her husband. 
 Her death occurred June 14, 1888, at the age of 
 seventy-four years. After his marriage, Mr. 
 Blakely rented a piece of land near the home 
 place, and in 1838 came overland with his father 
 and the rest of the family to Missouri, taking 
 up a government farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres. This did not prove particularly profit- 
 able, so he soon sold out and leased a place 
 for a couple of years. 
 
 To this quiet inland farm came news of awak- 
 ing possibilities in the far west, and to Mr. 
 Blakely this seemed the opportunity for which 
 he had been looking so long. It did not take 
 him long to purchase oxen and otherwise equip 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 for the long journey, and even though emigra- 
 tion to the west was as yet in its infancy he 
 bravely set forth, armed and provisioned against 
 any emergency that might arise. Arriving in 
 this county after a comparatively peaceful and 
 pleasant journey, he took up a donation claim 
 upon a portion of which Brownsville is now 
 located, and built a little one-room house in the 
 wilderness. He soon observed the mercantile 
 chances Which would abound as the country 
 should become better settled, and even the 
 Indians in the neighborhood offered a trade by 
 no means to be despised by an ambitious store- 
 keeper. In this connection he was warmly 
 assisted by his uncle, Hugh L. Brown, who, 
 was one of the sincerest friends, and practically 
 life-long helpmate, which have brightened the 
 existence of Mr. Blakely. Out of extreme 
 appreciation for the character and abilities of 
 his friend, Mr. Blakely named Brownsville in 
 his honor, and with him started up a general 
 store, which became the headquarters for trade 
 arid sociability in the neighborhood. These 
 early days contained material for a highly inter- 
 esting book of narrative, and it is upon this 
 adventurous epoch that Mr. Blakely draws most 
 freely for the entertainment which his friends so 
 much enjoy today. The Indian war coming on, 
 he naturally took a part in the effort to insure 
 protection to settlers and their possessions, and, 
 enlisting in Company D, Second Oregon Regi- 
 ment he served as captain in the Rogue river 
 campaign, being mustered out at the end of three 
 months, on July 4, 1856. 
 
 In connection with his farm Mr. Blakely took 
 a prominent part in the early upbuilding of 
 Brownsville, and later on aided by his mature 
 judgment the more ambitious projects of the 
 citizens. In partnership with another man he 
 built the first flour mill in the town, and he was 
 one of the chief promoters of the Woolen Mills 
 of Brownsville, for many years being a stock 
 owner therein. The greater part of his success 
 has come from stock-raising, in which he has 
 engaged nearly all his life, and from his farm 
 innumerable heads of fine cattle, horses, and 
 hogs have reached the markets. Generous to a 
 fault, Mr. Blakely has retained but a small 
 portion of his large property for his own use, 
 the balance having either been sold or given to 
 his children. In a comfortable and homelike 
 little cottage he is watching the setting sun of 
 a fine and honorable life, surrounded by the love 
 of his children, and the good will of a host of 
 friends. With him lives his grandson, James 
 Blakely Cooley. 
 
 Mr. Blakely has subscribed to the principles 
 of the Democratic party during his entire voting 
 life, and after coming to the west took quite a 
 
 prominent part in local affairs. For two terms 
 he was a member of the city council of Browns- 
 ville, and • for many years he served as school 
 director and road supervisor. He is fraternally 
 connected with the Masons. Of the twelve 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Blakely, Eleanor, 
 the oldest child and daughter is the wife of 
 Kennedy Montgomery, a stockman and rancher 
 of Crook county, Ore. ; Catherine, widow of 
 Jeremiah Lewis; William, a farmer of Pendle- 
 ton, Ore., and ex-sheriff of Pendleton county; 
 Harriet, the wife of G. C. Cooley, a merchant of 
 Brownsville ; Henry, a retired farmer of this 
 place; Caroline, deceased; Margaret, the widow 
 of Mr. Smith, and a resident of Montana; 
 James, a stock-raiser of the Willow valley ; 
 George, engaged in the drug business at The 
 Dalles, and county judge of Wasco county; 
 Joseph, the chief of police of Pendleton, Ore. ; 
 Sarah, the wife of Henry McFarlin, a farmer 
 near Brownsville ; and a daughter deceased in 
 infancy.. Mr. Blakely has certainly been one of 
 the thrifty and resourceful upbuilders of this 
 county, but who, after all, can best tell his story 
 in his own strangely interesting manner. 
 
 WILLIAM WATSON PERCIVAL. The 
 son of a successful pioneer, William Watson 
 Percival has forcibly demonstrated his ability 
 to maintain the honorable name of the family 
 in his relations to the development of Oregon, 
 and has won a place for himself among her 
 prominent citizens by his broad-mindedness and 
 earnest activity in the promotion of all move- 
 ments tending toward the advancement of 
 national or local affairs. His father, William 
 Percival, was born in England, but came to the 
 United States at the age of six years with his 
 parents, who settled in Ohio, but soon after 
 removed to Sheridan county, Mo. This state 
 was one which early responded to the splendid 
 opportunities held out "by the west, and William 
 Percival caught the spirit of unrest that made 
 so many wanderers in those days. In 1852 he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, locating first 
 in Yamhill county, Ore., where he passed the 
 first winter. Later he came to Polk county and 
 bought a donation claim of three hundred and 
 ninety acres, near Monmouth. Upon this farm 
 he lived until 1877, when he removed to Mon- 
 mouth, there living retired until his death in 
 1892, at the age of eighty-two years. He left 
 behind him the record of a worthy life, of strong 
 deeds for the upbuilding of a new country, 
 and an earnest, practical cultivation of the oppor- 
 tunities that lay nearest to hand. In Missouri 
 he married Miss Zelrilda Mulkey, a native of 
 that state. She crossed the plains with her 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 husband, her father, Johnson Mulkey, having 
 removed here some years before. Of the seven 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Percival, Mrs. 
 J. L. Riggs lives in Salem; M. F., in Mon- 
 mouth ; Mrs. M. M. Fryer, in Independence ; 
 Mrs. E. L. Ford is deceased ; William Watson, 
 of this review, makes his home in Independence ; 
 R. M.. of Warner, Idaho ; and Emma, who is 
 now deceased. 
 
 William Watson Percival was born in Polk 
 county, Ore., November 26, 1857. After his 
 education in the common schools was completed 
 he was given the added advantages of a course 
 in the Christian College of Monmouth, which he 
 faithfully improved. At the age of eighteen 
 years he engaged in farming. In 1887 he became 
 interested in live stock, shipping to all points of 
 the state. From a modest beginning he has now 
 grown to be one of the most extensive stockmen 
 of this section of the country and bears the repu- 
 tation of a stockbuyer who thoroughly under- 
 stands his business and makes every move in the 
 work count to his credit. He spares no pains 
 or expense to make the best of his opportunities. 
 In addition to his cattle interests, Mr. Percival 
 owns considerable real estate, a farm of sixty- 
 two acres, twenty-five of which are devoted to 
 hop cultivation, being leased at present. His 
 home in Independence is a handsome little cot- 
 tage at the corner of Sixth and C streets. 
 
 On January 9, 1882, he married Miss Ida M. 
 D'Lashmutt, who was a native of Yamhill county, 
 Ore., and a daughter of E. L. D'Lashmutt. 
 Of the three children born to them, Maude 
 D. is now deceased, Pearl and Carl being 
 still with their parents. Mr. Percival is a 
 firm adherent of the principles of the Re- 
 publican party, and with his strong personal- 
 ity has exercised no little influence in the affairs 
 of the community. He has twice served as a 
 member of the city council, and has also been 
 chairman of the county central committee as 
 well as a member of the state central committee. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 NICHOLAS SPRENGER. Among the sub- 
 stantial and worthy pioneers of Linn county none 
 more thoroughly realized the advantages which 
 they found in the west than did Nicholas 
 Sprenger, merchant, millwright, stock-raiser, and 
 farmer, and one of the organizers of the first 
 Masonic Lodge in Linn county. On the small 
 farm in Germany where he was born November 
 8, 1802. Mr. Sprenger experienced that discon- 
 tent with his surroundings which led him, as a 
 boy of seventeen, to leave his family and friends 
 and embark upon life in a county across the sea, 
 of which he knew naught but by hearsay. In a 
 
 sailing vessel he reached New York, remained 
 there a short time, and then made his way to 
 Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the merchan- 
 dise business. In Philadelphia he met and mar- 
 ried Maria Bird, and soon after removed to Mor- 
 gan county, Ohio, where he learned the mill- 
 wright's trade, and afterward applied himself to 
 grist and woolen milling. 
 
 A large family of children came to gladden the 
 Sprenger home in Ohio, and the milling and 
 merchandising yielded a fair income ; yet the 
 same spirit of ambition which had rebelled at the 
 limitations of the little German farm saw further 
 than millwrighting in Ohio, and, in 1852, the 
 father outfitted with ox-teams for crossing the 
 plains. Many provisions were required for feed- 
 ing so large a family for six months, and an ade- 
 quate supply of clothing increased the load to be 
 hauled by the plodding oxen. Few adventures 
 out of the ordinary disturbed the tranquillity of 
 the travelers, the Indians being fairly peaceful, 
 and the weather all that could be desired. Nev- 
 ertheless, the family pursued their way drearily, 
 after burying one of the daughters, Abigail, who 
 died of cholera. They arrived at Oregon City 
 about October 24, 1852, where the mother and 
 children spent the winter. The father, anxious 
 to locate on a desirable claim, spent his winter 
 looking for fertile land, and selected a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres, mostly 
 prairie lands, one and a half miles north of 
 Shedds. Here he erected a hewed log house, 
 which still stands, brought his family there with 
 the first breath of spring, and settled down to 
 conquer the obstacles which impeded the prog- 
 ress of all the settlers. 
 
 In Oregon Mr. Sprenger devoted his entire 
 time to farming, his useful trade being relegated 
 to the past in the middle west. As time went on 
 he prospered exceedingly, taking a prominent 
 part in the affairs of his township, and exerting 
 his influence for progress and good government. 
 He was prominent in the Masonic order, and as 
 long as he lived took an active interest in Co- 
 rinthian Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Albany, of 
 which he was one of the organizers. He also 
 assisted in the organization of the pioneer Ma- 
 sonic lodge at Oregon City. He was always 
 prominent in church and Sunday-school work, 
 and for many years was a class leader, expound- 
 ing the scriptures with intelligence and enthu- 
 siasm. He was equally interested in educational 
 matters, and not only worked to increase the 
 number of schools, but saw to it that an excellent 
 standard of instruction was maintained. He was 
 a Republican in politics, but never sought official 
 recognition. Good old biblical names were given 
 his three oldest sons, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 
 all of whom are deceased, as is also Charles. 
 Nicholas B. lives in Albany, Ore. ; Henry B. and 
 
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 Thomas live on the old homestead ; Mary Ann 
 is deceased; Maria is the wife of Capt. John W. 
 Cochran, of Hubbard; Sarah is the widow of 
 Major J. J. Fisher, of Oakland, Cal., a veteran 
 of the Civil war. Mr. Sprenger was a large- 
 hearted and humane man, generous to those less 
 fortunate than himself, and willing at all times to 
 promote enterprises and plans calculated to im- 
 prove the neighborhood in which he made his 
 home. His death occurred on the homestead 
 November 8, 1871. The death of his wife oc- 
 curred at Hubbard in July, 1884. 
 
 STEWART MATEER. The city of Eugene 
 is one of those prosperous and promising places 
 which can afford to offer a hearty welcome to 
 the stranger within her gates, confident that his 
 mission will be of mutual benefit, and that close 
 contact with her manifold money- making and 
 social advantages will win him to the ranks of 
 her most enthusiastic advocates and promoters. 
 Stewart Mateer came here in February, 1901, 
 with years of farming and mercantile experience 
 behind him. He purchased a residence, and es- 
 tablished himself as a partner with T. H. Gar- 
 rett, in well equipped real estate offices at 584 
 Willamette street. Both Mr. Mateer and Mr. 
 Garrett come from South Dakota, and are pri- 
 marily representing lands in the northern middle 
 state, having ample facilities for either buying or 
 selling. In addition, they are dealing in Eu- 
 gene and Willamette Valley property, farm, tim- 
 ber, or residence, and they also represent sev- 
 eral reliable fire insurance companies, including 
 the Caledonia Insurance Company of Scotland. 
 
 Mr. Mateer comes of a family possessing large 
 landed estates around Belfast, Ireland. Both 
 his father, Thomas, and his grandfather, Alex- 
 ander, were born in Belfast, and the grandfather 
 especially was very well to do. Thomas Mateer 
 married in Pittsburg, Pa., Sarah J. McMasters, a 
 native of Belfast, and daughter of William Mc- 
 Masters, who early came to America and bought 
 a large tract of land at Reeds Landing, Wab- 
 asha county, Minn. He was a shoemaker by 
 trade, but retired from active life soon after 
 coming to America. Thomas Mateer came to 
 the United States as a young man, and for a 
 time was proprietor of the Eagle Hotel at Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. While there he became interested in 
 the discovery of gold on the coast, and in 1849 
 came to California by way of Panama, and en- 
 gaged in mining in the Sacramento Valley for 
 three years. Returing to the east the same way 
 in 1852, he located in Wabasha county, Minn., 
 bought new land and improved it, and became 
 a successful farmer. In 1883 he removed to 
 South Dakota, and near Pierre, Sully county, 
 stocked a large farm upon which he lived until 
 
 his retirement to Monroe, Jasper county, Iowa, 
 his present home. He is eighty-three years of 
 age. His wife died October 3, 1894. 
 
 In his younger days Stewart Mateer worked 
 hard on the paternal farm where he was born 
 January 8, 1864. In 1883 he accompanied the 
 family from Wabasha county, Minn., to Sully 
 county, South Dakota, where' he in time became 
 an independent land owner, and engaged in 
 stock-raising on a large scale. He had the ad- 
 vantages of the public schools of Minnesota, and 
 in spite of irregularities and interruptions, man- 
 aged to secure a practical business education. In 
 1898 he sold his farm and engaged in a mer- 
 cantile business at Okobojo, Sully county, S. 
 Dak., and at the same time served as postmaster 
 under President McKinley. Resigning from the 
 postmaster ship in December, 1900, he made ar- 
 rangements to represent the vast aggregate of 
 available lands in South Dakota in the far west, 
 and in February, 1901, established his business 
 in Eugene, Ore., as the most likely center of ac- 
 tivity. He has taken a keen interest in the or- 
 ganization of the Eugene Real Estate Exchange, 
 is a charter member thereof, was the first secre- 
 tary, and is now serving as its treasurer. He is a 
 stanch believer in Republican principles, and 
 takes a hearty interest in local and state affairs. 
 Various fraternal organizations profit by his 
 membership, among them the Woodmen of the 
 World, the Modern Woodmen of America, of 
 which he is consul, the Women of Woodcraft, 
 and the Royal Neighbors. The wife of Mr. Ma- 
 teer was formerly Alice Brownlee, and the mar- 
 riage occurred in Okobojo, S. Dak. Miss Brown- 
 lee was educated in Scotland, although she was 
 born in Charleston, 111. One child has been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Mateer, Ruth Marian. 
 
 CHESTER G. COAD, postmaster of Dallas, 
 also ex-county clerk and ex-banker, and one of 
 the most prominent and influential members of 
 pioneer families in Polk county, was born in this 
 county, July 27, 1861, and is the second of 
 the five children born to Samuel and Henrietta 
 (Gilliam) Coad. The Gilliam family, numerous- 
 ly represented in Oregon, and established here 
 by that well remembered pioneer and soldier, 
 General Cornelius Gilliam, whose tragic death 
 threw a pall over military and civilian ranks in 
 the state, is mentioned elsewhere in this work, 
 while Samuel Coad, now retired in Dallas after 
 many years of varied activity, and equal success 
 as an agriculturist, druggist, builder, Indian 
 fighter, and real estate dealer, is also given sepa- 
 rate mention. 
 
 The success of his father placed in the way 
 of Chester G. Coad advantages not enjoyed by 
 the average farm-reared youth, yet in the main 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1217 
 
 he has been the architect of his own fortunes. 
 After leaving the public schools of Dallas he 
 entered La Creole Academy, which institution 
 he left at the age of twenty to learn surveying 
 under deputy United States surveyor W. P. 
 Wright. He was engaged in this pursuit when 
 elected county clerk on the Republican ticket in 
 1888. His service in the latter capacity was 
 eminently satisfactory, and in 1890 he was re- 
 elected by a large majority. Upon the comple- 
 tion of his second term in 1892 he became cashier 
 of the Dallas City Bank, and resigned in 1895 to 
 assume the management of the Rickreall Mills, 
 a position maintained until 1899. This position 
 was also resigned because of his appointment to 
 the position of assistant sergeant-of-arms in the 
 United States senate, which he held during the 
 sessions of 1899, 1900 and 1901. 
 
 March 4, 1901, Mr. Coad was appointed post- 
 master of Dallas by President McKinley, and 
 took the oath of office April 1, 1901. He mar- 
 ried in Dallas Jennie Rowell, who was born on 
 the trip to Oregon in 1862, the daughter of C. 
 G. Rowell, a retired citizen of Dallas. Four 
 children have been born of this union, Claudia, 
 Pauline, Genevieve, and Dorris. Mr. Coad is a 
 member of the Native Sons of Oregon, and is 
 fraternally connected with the Friendship Lodge 
 No. 6, I. O. O. F., of which he is past noble 
 grand ; the Encampment, of which he is past 
 chief patriarch, and the Woodmen of the World. 
 Affable in manner, of acknowledged business and 
 political probity, Mr. Coad has won the esteem 
 of all with whom he has had to do, and particu- 
 larly of his numerous friends and associates in 
 the thriving community of Dallas. 
 
 FRANK PATRICK SHEASGREEN. Stand- 
 ing high among the wide-awake and progressive 
 business men of Corvallis is Mr. Sheasgreen, 
 who is actively identified with the manufactur- 
 ing interests of the city as one of the proprietors 
 of the Central Planing Mills and Box Factory. 
 In his extensive operations, lumber of the best 
 grade only is used, it being brought here from 
 the Cascades by rail, and after passing through 
 the mills or factory is shipped in large quanti- 
 ties to all parts of the Union, including the north, 
 south, east and west. 
 
 Mr. Sheasgreen was born April 11, 1854, at 
 Newcastle, New Brunswick, being the youngest 
 of a family of fourteen children, all of whom 
 grew to years of maturity. His father, Ed- 
 ward Sheasgreen, a native of Donegal, Ireland, 
 learned the shoemaker's trade when a boy, but 
 after his emigration to Newcastle was engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits in that place until his 
 death. His wife, whose maiden name was Ann 
 Collier, was born and reared in Dublin, Ireland, 
 
 removing from there with her parents to New 
 Brunswick prior to her marriage. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm, and receiving 
 the advantages of a good public school educa- 
 tion, Frank P. Sheasgreen remained with his 
 parents until becoming of age. In 1875, deem- 
 ing the prospects for improving his financial 
 condition much better in the west, he went to 
 Minneapolis, Minn., where he* secured employ- 
 ment with the Red River Lumber Company, in 
 the mill managed by T. B. Walker, and while 
 thus engaged learned the trade of a millwright. 
 Four years later, continuing with the same com- 
 pany, he assumed charge of a planing mill in 
 Crookston, Minn., remaining there until 1889. 
 Becoming then associated with the Michigan 
 Lumber Company, he came as shipping agent to 
 Vancouver, with headquarters at Portland, 
 Ore. After the fire in 1890, he located in Cor- 
 vallis, entering the employ of Max Friendly, 
 and after assisting him as a millwright in repair- 
 ing his mill, he was made superintendent first 
 of the planing mill, and later of the whole plant. 
 After the failure of Mr. Friendly, he was em- 
 ployed in Newberg, by the assignee, N. T. 
 Peet, in looking after the interests there of his 
 former employer. Returning to Corvallis in 
 1892, Mr. Sheasgreen, in partnership with Neal 
 Newhouse, purchased the old Hurd mill, and its 
 site, rebuilt it, and for five years operated a 
 planing mill and box factory. In 1897 James 
 Gray, of Minnesota, purchased the interest of 
 the junior partner of the Central Planing Mills, 
 the following year the firm name being Sheas- 
 green & Gray. Mr. Gray then disposed of his 
 interest to Edward Buxton, the present junior 
 member of the firm of Sheasgreen & Buxton, 
 which has since carried on a profitable business 
 in mill work of all kinds, including the manu- 
 facture of doors, windows, mouldings, screens, 
 tables, etc., their plant being one of the finest and 
 best-equipped in this section of the country. 
 
 In Stillwater, Minn., in September, 1882, Mr. 
 Sheasgreen married Miss Mary Buckley, who 
 was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, and 
 of their union eight children have been born, 
 namely : Harriet, employed in the Times office, 
 at Corvallis ; Lauretta ; Walter, yard agent for 
 the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Company, at 
 Blodgett; Mabel; Ernest; Adelaide; Burnetta; 
 and Carmel. Mr. Sheasgreen takes an active 
 interest in all things pertaining to the welfare 
 of the public, never shirking responsible duties, 
 and giving generously both his time and his 
 money toward the establishment of enterprise 
 having for its object the betterment of the com- 
 munity. For the past six years he has been con- 
 nected with the city fire department, serving as 
 foreman for one year, and as chief since 1899. 
 
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 Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, of which he is past master 
 workman, and which he has represented at the 
 grand lodge three different times; .of the Ben- 
 ton Coutaty Citizens' League; and of the Pacific 
 Coast Association of Fire Chiefs. Politically 
 he is a stanch Democrat, and in religion is a 
 Catholic, both he and his wife being members 
 of St. Mary's Church. 
 
 GEN. FRANK REISNER. Personal char- 
 acteristics of a high order, a thorough knowl- 
 edge of a useful trade, patriotism, political sa- 
 gacity, integrity and a clear understanding of 
 the rights and prerogatives of citizenship, have 
 conspired to make the career of Frank Reisner 
 of paramount importance in the community of 
 Eugene. Like that universally beloved hero, 
 John Halifax, General Reisner knew all about 
 the tanning business while his playmates still 
 acknowledged allegiance to their teachers, for 
 in Frankenhausen, where he was born June 24, 
 1839, his father, John Reisner, was a well known 
 tanner for many years. The mother dying in her 
 native land, the ambitious father brought his 
 two sons and daughter to America in 185 1, mak- 
 ing the voyage in a sailing vessel and meeting 
 with the extremes of calm and storm which usu- 
 ally attended the long and tiresome journey be- 
 tween Europe and American shores. Ten miles 
 east of Indianapolis, Ind., the elder Reisner 
 purchased a tannery, and conducted it with the 
 success of former years up to the time of his 
 death. 
 
 Educated in the public schools to a limited 
 extent in both his native and adopted land, 
 Frank Reisner served a regular tanner appren- 
 ticeship when sixteen years of age, and at the 
 end of the required three years worked at his 
 trade in various places in Indiana. An unevent- 
 ful existence was interrupted by the outbreak 
 of the Civil war, and the demand for the services 
 of all able-bodied men. Leaving his trade at 
 Columbus, Ind., he enlisted April 21, 1861, in 
 Company K, Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer In- 
 fantry, and was mustered in for three years. At 
 a later period he veteranized, having served in 
 all four years and five months. Participating 
 in the battles of Rich Mountain, W. Va., Win- 
 chester, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, 
 Fort Fisher and Wilmington, he was wounded 
 at the first siege of Petersburg, June 15, 1864, 
 by a shell piercing his right groin, and was 
 temporarily confined to the hospital. Never- 
 theless, he managed to keep with his regiment, 
 of which he was orderly sergeant, and remained 
 in Goldsburg until September, 1865. He was 
 then ordered to Indianapolis, and was discharged 
 from the service September 20, 1865. 
 
 After his war experience General Reisner 
 worked at his trade in Indianapolis, and at the 
 same time sought to make up for a somewhat 
 defective education by attending night school at 
 the Bryant & Stratton Business College. At a 
 later period he built and managed a tannery at 
 Taylorsville, Ind., and in 1869 removed to La 
 Grange, Iowa, and engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising for three years. Returning to 
 Indianapolis, he worked at his trade for a couple 
 of years, and in 1877 went to California with 
 the expectation of making that state his perma- 
 nent home. At the end of a year he returned to 
 La Grange, disposed of his interests there, and 
 came to Douglas county, Ore., in 1879. Success- 
 ful as a stock-raiser, he remained on a farm until 
 1880, and then came to Eugene, where he was 
 employed by Haines & Company, tanners, for 
 about five years. During this time he did all 
 of the finishing for the firm, and would have re- 
 mained longer had not rheumatism incapacitated 
 him for that kind of work. In order to escape 
 the dampness and general disagreeableness of 
 the tannery, he started a grocery store on Will- 
 amette street, conducting it for several years, 
 and then sold out to become the bookkeeper 
 and cashier for the Ax Billy department store, 
 with which concern he remained for nine years. 
 
 From his first voting days General Reisner 
 has considered it not only the privilege but the 
 duty of every citizen to participate in the politi- 
 cal undertakings of his neighborhood. In past 
 years his special fitness has resulted in his elec- 
 tion to local offices of importance. In 1892 he 
 was elected county treasurer as the nominee 
 of the Republican party, serving one term of 
 two years. In 1902 he was elected city treasurer 
 of Eugene, and re-elected in 1903. In July, 
 1902, he was appointed deputy county treasurer 
 under George F. Craw, but the entire duty of 
 the office has devolved upon his own shoulders, 
 owing to the continued illness of his superior. 
 In 1902 he was also elected clerk of school 
 district No. 4, and thus at the present time his 
 political responsibility is a large and varied one. 
 Fraternally General Reisner enjoys a just popu- 
 larity, and is associated with various orders in 
 which the town and county abounds. At Tay- 
 lorsville, Ind., he was past master of the Ma- 
 sonic lodge, and is now a member of Eugene 
 Lodge, No. 11, A. F. & A. M., and Eugene 
 Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. He is also connected 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 having been formerly a member of the Danville 
 (Ind.) lodge; and of the Knights of Pythias, 
 coining here from the Indianapolis lodge. For 
 the past three years he has been commander of 
 J. W. Geary Post No. 7, G. A. R., and in 1897 
 was elected department commander of the Ore- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 gon Department, Grand Army of the Republic, 
 with the rank of general. This important com- 
 mand was sustained by Mr. Reisner with dignity 
 and great satisfaction for one term, his personal 
 popularity, wide knowledge of army affairs, and 
 prominent connection with the Civil war en- 
 titling him to the grateful appreciation of his 
 brother veterans. In his capacity of commander, 
 General Reisner tendered the services of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic in the absence of 
 the militia, at the breaking out of the Spanish- 
 American war, and in return received a letter of 
 approval from Governor Lord, and also letters 
 from his comrades all over the state expressing 
 their willingness to serve at a moment's notice. 
 It was declared that within twenty-four hours 
 almost the entire combined army of veterans 
 could have been gotten together for service. 
 Some of the comrades, in their enthusiasm to be 
 of service, responded to the appeal with tele- 
 graphic communication, one and all commending 
 the tact and forethought of their genial and 
 highly honored commander. 
 
 The marriage of General Reisner was cele- 
 brated while he was home on a furlough, Jan- 
 uary 15, 1864, at Columbus, Ind., and united him 
 with Clementine McGill, who was born in Bar- 
 tholomew 7 county, Ind. Of this union there is 
 one living child, Nellie, the wife of George 
 Price, of Springfield, Ore. General Reisner is 
 a member of the Lutheran Church. He is so- 
 cially popular, and commands the universal es- 
 teem of all who know him. 
 
 CHARLES C. HUFF. As one of the men 
 who have risen in the world solely on his own 
 merits, Charles C. Huff is entitled to the credit 
 universally conceded men of this character. 
 He has one of the really fine and valuable farms 
 in Benton county, located three miles southwest 
 of Corvallis, and constituting a part of the old 
 Bithers donation claim. His improvements are 
 of the best, residence, barns, outhouses and 
 implements conforming to modern and progres- 
 sive ideas of agricultural science and rural 
 home-making. General farming, stock-raising 
 and dairying combine to furnish a congenial 
 and profitable enterprise, Jersey cattle being 
 raised in large numbers for their rich milk, and 
 other stock contributing to a considerable stock 
 business. 
 
 • As early as 1830 the parents of Mr. Huff 
 came from Germany and settled in Ohio, from 
 where they removed to Marshall county, Ind., 
 where he was born September 5, 1852. He was 
 given a practical training on the home farm, and 
 developed a strong constitution while performing 
 the tasks which to his boyish mind seemed hard 
 
 and exacting. As opportunity offered he at- 
 tended the public schools in the winter time, and 
 gained considerable experience through the sale 
 of the various commodities grown on the Indiana 
 farm. After his marriage with Mary E. Larkin 
 he farmed independently for a time, and in 1880 
 came to Oregon, soon after purchasing a farm 
 in Polk county, which he improved and lived 
 upon until 1892. Disposing of his farm he 
 bought his present farm of one hundred and 
 forty-one acres, which has since been his home, 
 and where he achieved signal success. Four 
 children have been born to himself and wife, of 
 whom Lulu Grace is engaged in educational 
 work at Brownsville ; Lucian Claude is at home ; 
 J. Floyd is at home; as is also Mabel F. Mr. 
 Huff has taken a keen interest in local politics 
 ever since his first voting days, and has ever ad- 
 hered to the principles of the Democratic party. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen 
 of the World. Well informed on current events, 
 in touch with the progress made in his line of 
 occupation in different centers of activity, Mr. 
 Huff is one of the honored and influential mem- 
 bers of the community around Corvallis, and to 
 an enviable extent enjoys the good will and 
 friendship of his fellow agriculturists. 
 
 UEL L. FRAZER. The pride which all 
 thriving and growing communities feel in their 
 capable and cultured young men extends in large 
 measure to Uel L. Frazer, a prominent hardware 
 merchant, of Independence. Aside from consid- 
 erations of a personal nature, Mr. Frazer is en- 
 titled to mention because of his association with 
 one of the pioneer families of Yamhill and Polk 
 counties, and because he is a native son of Ore- 
 gon, having been born near Bethel, Polk county, 
 February 18, 1871. His father, Lucien B. 
 Frazer, was born at Versailles, Ky., and at twen- 
 ty-one years of age, in 1852, crossed the plains 
 with ox teams, locating with his brother, George, 
 at Willamina, Yamhill county. Here he bought 
 a large claim upon which he engaged in stock- 
 raising, an occupation to which he devoted the 
 greater part of his life. He finally sold his orig- 
 inal claim and bought land on Salt Creek, Polk 
 county, still later locating on a farm near Bethel, 
 Polk county, where he secured a large tract and 
 engaged in general farming and dealing in vari- 
 ous kinds of fine stock. At the time of his death 
 in 1900 he was sixty-seven years old, and was 
 survived by his wife, formerly Elizabeth A. 
 Campbell, a native of Iowa, and who is living 
 in Independence. In the Campbells another pio- 
 neer family is represented, for James A. Campbell 
 came west in 1853, crossing the plains with ox- 
 teams, and locating on a claim near Salt Creek, 
 
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 where the balance of his life was spent in success- 
 ful farming and stock-raising. 
 
 The eighth in a family of thirteen children, six 
 sons and seven daughters, the successful hard- 
 ware merchant of Independence was educated 
 primarily in the public schools, afterward at- 
 tending the State Normal, at Monmouth, from 
 which he was graduated in 1892, with the degree 
 of B. S. D. The same year he engaged in the 
 hardware business in Monmouth, and in 1896 
 disposed of his business and engaged in school 
 teaching in McCoy. In 1898 he removed to In- 
 dependence and engaged as a clerk in a hard- 
 ware store, and in 1901, with his partner, L. 
 Rice, bought out the store of which he has since 
 been manager. They carry a general line of 
 hardware, and have a stock valued at about $10,- 
 000. Possessed of shrewd financial ability, and 
 having a keen knowledge of human nature and 
 its requirements, Mr. Frazer has also tact and 
 consideration, traits which materially advance 
 his interests. 
 
 In the fall of 1897 Mr. Frazer was united in 
 marriage with Minnie M. Bunn, a native of the 
 vicinity of North Yamhill, and daughter of John 
 M. Bunn, born in the same section of the state. 
 Mr. Bunn has materially contributed to the 
 agricultural upbuilding of Yamhill county, where 
 he owns a large property, and is successful as a 
 general farmer and stock-raiser. Mr. Frazer 
 is popular socially as well as commercially, and 
 is active as a member of the Knights of Pythias 
 and the Woodmen of the World. He is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and active in local affairs, 
 having at two different times been a delegate 
 to conventions. He is enterprising, public-spirited 
 and honorable, and as such commands the appre- 
 ciation and encouragement of the community. 
 
 WILLIAM T. HOFFMAN. Carrying on an 
 extensive business as one of the largest grain 
 buyers and dealers in Polk county, is Mr. Hoff- 
 man, of Monmouth, president of the Oregon 
 Milling and Warehouse Company. A man of 
 unlimited energy and ambition, he has been an 
 important factor in developing the agricultural 
 resources of this part of the state, attracting 
 favorable attention to the quality and quantity of 
 the grain here raised, and helping to place it in 
 the most remunerative markets. 
 
 A son of the late Dr. Charles Hoffman, he 
 was born July 26, 1869, at Grant, Grayson 
 county, Va. He comes of German ancestry, his 
 paternal grandfather having been an officer in 
 the Prussian army. Charles Hoffman was born 
 in Hanover, Germany, and there reared and edu- 
 cated. At the age of seventeen years, while at- 
 tending a German university, he was forced to 
 leave the institution on account of a student 
 
 rebellion against the King of Prussia, and emi- 
 grated at once to the United States. Having 
 received the degree of M. D. at a German uni- 
 versity, he served as surgeon in the Mexican war, 
 afterward filling the same office in the Confeder- 
 ate army. He traveled extensively throughout 
 the Union, visiting most of the states, finally set- 
 tling permanently in Grant, Va., where his death 
 occurred, in 1897, at the age of seventy-six years. 
 Dr. Hoffman married Sarah Grubb, who was 
 born in Grant, Va., a daughter of William Grubb, 
 a pioneer settler of Grayson county, and one of 
 its most thriving farmers. Five children were 
 born of their union, and of these one daughter 
 has died, and three sons and one daughter sur- 
 vive. 
 
 After receiving his diploma from the Grant 
 High School, in his native town, William T. 
 Hoffman entered Glasgow College, at Glasgow, 
 Ky., and was graduated therefrom, in July, 1888, 
 with the degree of B. S. The following spring 
 he started in life on his own account, on March 
 20, 1889, beginning work in an Idaho mine. A 
 year later he came to Oregon, settling at first in 
 the southern part of the state, where he was 
 employed in a saw-mill for two years. Removing 
 to Monmouth in 1892, Mr. Hoffman attended the 
 State Normal School for a year, when, in 1893, 
 he was graduated with the degree of B. S. D. 
 The ensuing two years he taught school in Amity, 
 Ore., being successful as a teacher. In 1895, 
 in company with E. B. Jamison, he engaged in 
 business as a grain dealer at Airlie, commencing 
 on a modest scale, but as busines increased the 
 firm was merged into the Oregon Mill- 
 ing and Warehouse Company, Mr. Hoff- 
 man being made president, and Mr. Jami- 
 son secretary and treasurer. Additional room 
 being needed, a new warehouse was built 
 at Monmouth in 1896, and put in charge of Mr. 
 Hoffman, the flour mills at Independence being 
 under the management of Mr. Jamison. This 
 company has built up a most profitable manu- 
 facturing and mercantile business, amounting to 
 $100,000 per annum. Although Mr. Hoffman 
 spent a large part of the years of 1900 and 1901 
 in Nome, Alaska, where he has an interest in 
 the Holyoke mines, he has always retained his 
 position with the company and has been an im- 
 portant factor in advancing its interests. 
 
 On March 11, 1902, at Oregon City, Mr. Hoff- 
 man married Miss M. E. Baker. Her father, 
 the late Frank Baker, was born in Virginia, near 
 Abingdon, and during the Civil war was a soldier 
 in the Union Army. Subsequently moving west- 
 ward, he located first in Missouri, living there 
 until 1870, when he came to Oregon City, where 
 he was successfully engaged in farming pursuits 
 until his death. Mr. Hoffman is a warm advocate 
 of the principles of the Republican party, which 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1221 
 
 he supports by voice and, vote, and is active in 
 public affairs, at the present time being city re- 
 corder. Fraternally he is a member of the Wood- 
 men of the World. 
 
 JAMES REID SMITH. A thriving business 
 man of Corvallis, and one of the leading hard- 
 ware merchants, Mr. Smith is a fine representa- 
 tive of the self-made men of Benton county, who 
 have steadily and surely climbed the ladder of 
 success, winning by their own efforts places of 
 importance in financial, fraternal and political 
 circles. Commencing in life with moderate 
 means, he has labored with persistent industry, 
 and by superior management, prudence and 
 shrewd foresight has established a large and con- 
 stantly increasing business, one of the finest in 
 the city, where he is familiarly known and much 
 esteemed. 
 
 A native of Ontario, Mr. Smith was born July 
 8, 1858, in Waterdown, Wentworth county, a 
 son of William Smith. His father was born in 
 Ireland, but emigrated to Waterdown, Ont., 
 where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until his death. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Margaret Reid, was a native of the north 
 of Ireland and a daughter of James Reid, who 
 came from Ireland to America at an early day 
 and located in Ontario, where he improved a 
 farm, on which he spent his remaining days. 
 Xine children were born of their union, six of 
 whom grew to years of maturity, and five are 
 now living, James Reid being the only one to 
 settle in the United States. 
 
 After completing his studies at the district 
 school, James R. Smith served an apprenticeship 
 of three years at the tinsmith's trade in Water- 
 down, going from there to Port Sarnia, after- 
 wards crossing the river into Michigan and set- 
 tling, in 1880, at Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he 
 worked at his trade four years. Coming to Ore- 
 gon in 1884, he spent a short time in Portland, 
 then went to British Columbia. In the fall of 
 that year he returned to Oregon and began work 
 as a tinsmith in Albany. The following spring 
 he located in Corvallis, embarking in the hard- 
 ware business, at the same time continuing his 
 trade, for two years. Selling out his stock in 
 1888, Mr. Smith was employed as a tinsmith for 
 two years in Corvallis, and then in Fairhaven, 
 Wash., for a year. In 1891, returning to Cor- 
 vallis. he bought out J. D. Clark and again estab- 
 lished himself in the mercantile business, becom- 
 ing head of the firm of J. R. Smith & Co., a posi- 
 tion that he has since occupied. This firm car- 
 ries on an extensive plumbing and tinsmithing 
 business, and has an excellent trade in stoves, 
 tinware and agricultural implements of all kinds, 
 including Piano binders, the Deer & Coulton 
 
 farming tools, Old Hickory wagons, and, in fact, 
 everything necessary to stock a farm carried on 
 with the latest and best improved machinery, his 
 highest endeavor being to please his numerous 
 patrons. 
 
 Mr. Smith married in Corvallis Miss Ollie 
 Smith, who was born of pioneer parents in south- 
 ern Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, 
 Grace Smith. Politically Mr. Smith supports the 
 principles of the Republican party, being active 
 in its ranks, and has been for a number of terms 
 one of the county committee and of the county 
 central committee. He was elected as council- 
 man for a period of ten years, but resigned be- 
 fore the expiration of the term. As street com- 
 missioner he rendered the city valuable service, 
 the sewer being put in operation while he was 
 serving in that office. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the Ancient Order United Workmen. 
 
 FRANCIS L. HOLMES. One of the pro- 
 ductive farms for which Benton county is famous 
 is owned and operated by Francis L. Holmes, 
 who came to Oregon in 1886, and who since that 
 time has been deeply interested in the state's wel- 
 fare and has aided in no small measure in her 
 upbuilding. In addition to carrying on general 
 farming and stock-raising on his tract of three 
 hundred and eighty acres, he also owns three 
 hundred and twenty acres of land which is heav- 
 ily timbered. 
 
 It was in Sullivan county, N. Y., near Monti- 
 cello, that Francis L. Holmes first saw the light 
 of day, the day of his birth being April 17, 1840. 
 Such advantages as the locality afforded for an 
 education were not allowed to pass him by, and 
 he diligently improved every opportunity, so 
 that about 1866 he felt qualified to teach school. 
 His first experience in this capacity was in Can- 
 ada, where he remained two years, after which 
 he returned to his former home in New York 
 state, where he also followed the teacher's profes- 
 sion until 1868, when he again went to Canada, 
 this time, however, with a different object in 
 view. Purchasing a tract of timber land, he at 
 once began clearing and improving it, and dur- 
 ing- the eighteen vears in which he made his home 
 there he transformed the wild, unimproved tract 
 into a habitable farm. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Holmes in 1870 united 
 him with Miss Margaret Switzer, and five chil- 
 dren have been born to their marriage, whom 
 they have named as follows : Albert E., Bennett, 
 Frederick W., Jessie F., and Ida A., deceased. 
 Mr. Holmes' qualifications to serve on the school 
 board have not been overlooked, and in calling 
 him to the office of director the citizens have 
 made no mistake, as his many years of good 
 work in that capacity will testify. He has also 
 
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 been overseer of roads for several years, and is a 
 member of the Grange. Politically he does not 
 support either of the great organizations merely 
 for the party's sake, voting rather for the man 
 than the party. The family are identified with 
 the Presbyterian Church, toward the maintenance 
 of which they assist materially. 
 
 JOHNSON M. PORTER, who is manager of 
 the electric light plant of Corvallis, was born in 
 Lane county, Ore., October 24, 1859, a son °^ 
 John A. Porter, a native of Springfield, Ohio. 
 The grandfather, Ebenezer Porter, was a painter 
 by trade and not only followed that pursuit in 
 Springfield but also conducted a hotel there, and 
 his death occurred in that city. He married a 
 Miss Poe, whose father was one of the heroes of 
 the Revolutionary war. John A. Porter also 
 learned the painter's trade, which he followed for 
 some years in the east, and then, in 1849, attract- 
 ed by the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast, 
 he joined an emigrant train which crossed the 
 plains in search of the valuable metal. He did not 
 remain long, however, in California, but came the 
 same year to Oregon and was engaged in general 
 merchandising in Forest Grove. Later he took 
 up his abode in Lane county and engaged in the 
 manufacture of lumber at Lancaster. About 1863 
 he removed to Corvallis, where he followed the 
 painting business throughout the remainder of 
 his active business career. His death occurred 
 here in 1870, and the community mourned the 
 loss of a valued citizen. Mr. Porter had served 
 in the Cayuse Indian war under Colonel Cor- 
 nelius. He had a brother, Robert, who was also 
 one of the pioneer settlers of Oregon, coming 
 here at the same time, and Robert Porter spent 
 his last days in Washington county, this state. 
 The mother of Mr. Porter bore the maiden name 
 of Missouri Mulkey. She was born in Johnson 
 county of the state whose name she bore, and 
 was a daughter of Johnson Mulkey, a native of 
 Kentucky, who removed thence to Missouri. In 
 1845 he crossed the plains to Oregon and ob- 
 tained a donation claim in Benton county. The 
 following year he retraced his steps to the Mis- 
 souri valley, and in 1847 brought his family on 
 the long overland trip to the northwest. By rea- 
 son of his knowledge of the road he was made 
 commander of a party which was known as the 
 Mulkey train. He then located with his family 
 on the donation claim, where he engaged in 
 stock-raising, and at one time engaged in the 
 raising of cattle in eastern Oregon. In fact, he 
 was one of the most prominent stockmen and 
 farmers of the Willamette valley, and his landed 
 possessions comprised several thousand acres in 
 Benton county, extending over a distance of sev- 
 eral miles. He drove cattle to Lewiston, Ore., 
 
 and on one of these trips, made in 1862, was so 
 badly frozen that his death resulted. He passed 
 away at The Dalles, and was there buried. In 
 the family of Mr. and Mrs. Porter were two chil- 
 dren, J. M. and Otis, the latter a resident of Den- 
 ver, Colo. 
 
 Johnson M. Porter was reared in Corvallis and 
 obtained his education in the public schools and 
 the old Agricultural College. In 1881 he went 
 to Pomeroy, Wash., where he was engaged in 
 the hardware and implement business as a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Mulkey Brothers & Porter. He 
 was there successfully connected with the trade 
 until 1885, when he disposed of his interests and 
 returned to Corvallis. Here in 1889, in connec- 
 tion with L. L. Hurd, he established the electric 
 light plant, obtaining a charter and then building 
 the works, which have since been rebuilt and im- 
 proved. In February, 1890, the business was in- 
 corporated under the name of the Corvallis Elec- 
 tric Light & Power Company, and Mr. Porter 
 has since been its manager. 
 
 In Albany, this state, on July 8, 1885, Mr. Por- 
 ter was united in marriage to Miss Flora Rum- 
 baugh, who was born in Van Wert county, Ohio. 
 Her father, William Rumbaugh, was a native of 
 Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Van Wert 
 county, and in 1873 he came to Oregon, settling 
 in Albany, where he became a large land owner. 
 He was also county commissioner for several 
 terms, and was a prominent and influential resi- 
 dent of his community. He married Elizabeth 
 Stratton, who was born in Ohio and was de- 
 scended from an old New England family. His 
 death occurred in Albany in 1896, and his wife 
 passed away in 1898. They were members of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in their 
 family were six children, three sons and three 
 daughters, all of whom reached years of maturity 
 and are living in Oregon. Mrs. Porter was the 
 third of the family and was educated in Albany 
 College. By her marriage she has become the 
 mother of one son, Fred J. Mr. Porter served 
 as police judge of Corvallis for seven years, and 
 socially he is identified with the Woodmen of the 
 World and the Knights of Pythias lodge, and in 
 the latter is a past chancellor. , His entire life 
 having been passed in Oregon, he is widely 
 known and many of those who have been ac- 
 quainted with him from his boyhood are num- 
 bered among his stanchest friends. 
 
 JOHN B. CORNETT. In perusing a record 
 of the career of John B. Cornett we find an excel- 
 lent example for young men just embarking in 
 the active field of life, of what may be accom- 
 plished by a poor man, but one who is honest, 
 prudent and industrious. His advantages in early 
 life were limited indeed, and as he was one of ten 
 
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 1223 
 
 children which comprised the family, his services 
 were essential in the conduct of the home farm. 
 His birth occurred in Howard county, Mo., 
 August 12, 1832, and until seventeen years of 
 age he remained at home with his parents, who 
 were farmers in the latter state. The reports of 
 gold found in California had invaded the quiet 
 precincts of this Missouri farm and in 1850 
 we find John B., the youngest son, bound for 
 that Eldorado in the west. His journey across 
 the plains was devoid of any serious trouble with 
 the Indians, and in due season he reached Cali- 
 fornia. His first field of endeavor was in Eldo- 
 rado county, where for the succeeding fourteen 
 years he followed mining and prospecting. 
 
 It was in the year 1865 that Mr. Cornett first 
 set foot on Oregon soil, coming direct to Linn 
 county, where he purchased a tract of two hun- 
 dred and thirty acres of rich land one and one- 
 half miles east of Shedds, which had formerly 
 formed a part of the Savage donation claim. 
 In 1 87 1 he formed domestic ties and was united 
 in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Savage, who had 
 crossed the plains in the year 185 1. One son, 
 John B., was born to this couple, who is a stock- 
 man in Crook county, Ore., is married and has 
 two children living, Marcia Allen and John 
 Anthony. 
 
 All the improvements which are to be seen 
 today upon Mr. Cornett's farm are the work of 
 his own hands, as when he assumed control of the 
 property it was in its primeval condition. Now 
 the place is embellished with a well appointed 
 residence, and outbuildings adapted for various 
 uses have been erected. One hundred acres have 
 been cleared and are under cultivation, and in 
 carrying on general farming and stock-raising 
 Mr. Cornett is meeting with good success. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cornett are members of the Baptist 
 Church, and politically Mr. Cornett is a Pro- 
 hibitionist. 
 
 JAMES L. HOWARD. At present living 
 retired in a delightful home on the outskirts of 
 Albany, that his children may have better edu- 
 cational advantages than were forthcoming on 
 his farm in Yamhill county, James L. Howard 
 is substantially anchored in the good will and 
 esteem of an appreciative community, which 
 regards him as representative of the self-made 
 and successful agriculturists of the state. In 
 fashioning his career Mr. Howard has surely 
 derived inspiration from an enviable ancestry, 
 many of whom in the early days of the history of 
 the country held positions of honor and trust for 
 the government. His father was a soldier under 
 General Jackson in the war of 1812. and he, as 
 well as his forefathers, was a farmer by occupa- 
 tion, priding himself upon his spirit of prog- 
 
 ress and ability to succeed in the world. For 
 many years he lived on a farm in Tennessee, 
 where James L. was born May 12, 1838, and 
 when the latter was a mere child he was taken 
 by his parents to Iowa, then very much of a 
 wilderness, and reared to maturity with the nine 
 other children in the family. Besides James, 
 two other of the children are living, and of 
 these. Charles is a resident of Washington, and 
 Virginia is the wife of Mr. Birks, of McMinn- 
 ville, Ore. 
 
 For several years after his marriage with 
 Rachel L. Gillespie, James L. Howard lived on 
 the paternal ranch, assuming the management of 
 the same for his parents. Wishing to profit by 
 the superior agricultural opportunities of the 
 northwest, he arranged his affairs accordingly, 
 and in the spring of 1864 crossed the plains with 
 ox-teams, on the way encountering comparatively 
 little trouble with the Indians. The party was on 
 the road about five months, taking up their abode 
 on a farm near McMinnville, where they lived 
 for three years, and in 1867 moving to California, 
 where he engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising for twelve years. About this time he 
 became somewhat dissatisfied with the west, and, 
 returning to Iowa, remained there three or four 
 years. Like the majority who have once lived 
 on the coast, he longed to return, but instead of 
 California, he settled in Oregon, purchasing the 
 farm in Yamhill county upon which he lived 
 until moving to his present home in 1902. He 
 still owns the Yamhill county farm, and it is no 
 exaggeration to say that it is one of the finest 
 pieces of property in the county. Its soil has 
 responded generously to the untiring industry of 
 its owner, and many fine improvements have 
 marked his progress from year to year. The two 
 hundred and seventy-two acres were devoted 
 principally to stock-raising and many fine speci- 
 mens of horses, cattle and sheep found their way 
 from his farm to the stock markets of the county. 
 
 The home of Mr. Howard near Albany consists 
 of ten acres, under fine cultivation, and devoted 
 to fruit-raising. The grounds, resplendent in 
 shrubs and flowers and beautiful trees, and the 
 fine, large rural dwelling, constitute one of the 
 truly delightful and homelike places in this 
 county. The greater part of Mr. Howard's 
 life in the state has been passed in Yamhill 
 county, and it was there that his political services 
 were noticeable, where he held about all of the 
 minor offices within the gift of his fellow-towns- 
 men. Always a stanch Democrat, he is neverthe- 
 less liberal in his tendencies, and believes in 
 voting for principle rather than party. He is a 
 member and active worker in the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, his wife and children being mem- 
 bers of the same organization. Some of his chil- 
 dren are far away from home, Frank, the oldest 
 
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 son, being in the Palouse country; C. N. is in 
 California ; J. A. is in Albany ; R. P. is in Yam- 
 hill county; Edward also is in Yamhill county; 
 Willie is deceased; and Ernest and Ella are at 
 home. 
 
 ADAM WILHELM, SR. Were one asking 
 for the name of a man who more than any other 
 represents the vital and substantial element of 
 Monroe, the answer would unanimously be Adam 
 Wilhelm, as enterprising and resourceful a Teu- 
 ton as ever came from the Rhine country. True, 
 he was but two years of age when his parents 
 brought him to America in 1848, his birth occur- 
 ring December 10, 1846, but through all of the 
 trials of pioneership, the effort to surmount busi- 
 ness and other obstacles, the traits of character 
 which have contributed to the solidity of the Ger- 
 man empire have remained with him, and in 
 transplanted soil have met with the success due 
 unquestioned merit and adaptive ability. 
 
 Leaving the sailing vessel in New York the 
 Wilhelm family proceeded to Wisconsin, and 
 there lived on a farm, in connection with the man- 
 agement of which the father ran a hotel for sev- 
 eral years. Their son, Adam, the only one living 
 of their two children, having started for the west 
 in 1873 and sent back favorable reports of his 
 adopted state, they joined him in 1880, settling 
 at Monroe, Ore., where the father lived to be 
 seventy-seven and the mother seventy-four years 
 of age. Adam was reared on the Wisconsin 
 farm, and married Elizabeth Miller, who was 
 born in France, and with her engaged in inde- 
 pendent farming for three years. Arriving in 
 Portland in 1873 they remained there for a couple 
 of months, afterwards visiting Corvallis, and 
 January 1, 1874, came to Monroe and engaged 
 in the saloon business, at the same time conduct- 
 ing a general merchandise store. This was about 
 the beginning of the practical industry of the 
 town, and his enterprises paid fairly well and put 
 him on a creditable business footing in the com- 
 munity. In 1896 he became interested in mill- 
 ing, erected a mill here, and later put up one at 
 Junction City and Harrisburg, the latter one of 
 the finest in the state of Oregon. In time his mill- 
 ing interests assumed very large proportions, and 
 he built warehouses in each town to house his 
 commodities. As his sons have accomplished 
 their majority he has taken them in business, and 
 the firm of Wilhelm & Sons, general merchants 
 and millers, have an enviable reputation for large 
 bvisiness capacity and diversified usefulness. Bv 
 far the largest merchants in Benton county, their 
 store requires six large rooms, and they are 
 contemplating the immediate erection of a build- 
 ing sufficiently large to contain all their goods 
 under one roof. 
 
 The headquarters of the milling business of 
 Wilhelm & Sons is located at Monroe, and they 
 handle about all of the grain raised in Benton 
 county. The firm own about four thousand acres 
 of land, and are extensive raisers of high-grade 
 stock, this department of their activity being con- 
 ducted with the same thoroughness which charac- 
 terizes their grain and mercantile ventures. There 
 seems to be no limit to their capacity for man- 
 aging successfully important money-making 
 concerns in the west, and their aim seems to be 
 continual enlargement of whatever they have 
 already undertaken. With the exception of nine 
 dwellings in Monroe, Mr. Wilhelm owns every 
 house and building in the place, and no under- 
 taking of any magnitude is ever carried to a suc- 
 cessful finish without his earnest co-operation 
 and practical assistance. Alert and watchful, he 
 has stepped fearlessly and successfully into many 
 waiting niches in the northwest, and has fur- 
 nished a surprising example of what may be ac- 
 complished by sheer force of determination, and 
 without any practical help. "It is well known 
 that Mr. Wilhelm started out in life with meager 
 assets, none of which were convertible into ready 
 cash, and that his present large holdings are 
 evolved from a continuous and unremitting at- 
 tention to business. Of the nine children born 
 to himself and wife, Adam, Matt and Burnett are 
 in business with their father, and all give promise 
 of attaining to their sire's business sagacity and 
 resourcefulness. George is living at home, Law- 
 rence is in Lebanon, Ore., and Mary is also at 
 home. Mr. Wilhelm is a Democrat in politics, 
 and has been postmaster for many years, hold- 
 ing also all of the other local offices within the 
 gift of his fellow townsmen. With his family he 
 is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He 
 is a man of rugged integrity, kindly and sympa- 
 thetic manner, and throughout his busy career he 
 has been able to inspire others with faith in and 
 co-operation with his many interests. The cen- 
 tral and most influential figure in his community 
 he is withal modest and unostentatious, taking his 
 honors with that calm philosophy for which his 
 countrymen are famous, and expecting to always 
 succeed in all his undertakings. 
 
 HUGH BURNS GEARIN. Along the east 
 bank of the Willamette river in Marion county 
 is an enormous farming enterprise which well 
 may be the envy of the smaller agriculturists of 
 the Pacific northwest. It is a model estate, one 
 of the largest and most scientifically developed 
 in the entire Willamette valley, and is owned and 
 operated by Hugh B. Gearin, one of the best- 
 known pioneers of Oregon. It contains sixteen 
 hundred acres of land, fourteen hundred of which 
 are in one body. About eight hundred acres are 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1225 
 
 under cultivation, the remainder being left for 
 the most part in its primeval state of dense for- 
 est, out of which has come so much of the pros- 
 perity of Oregon. Its location is two miles from 
 Champoeg and three miles from St. Paul, one of 
 the most desirable situations, for commercial pur- 
 poses, in the state — a fact that apparently is ap- 
 preciated by the owner in his disposition of the 
 vast property. The mind that is able to master 
 all the details necessary to the operation of such 
 a tract of farming land with a success propor- 
 tionate to its extent is well worthy of a more 
 careful analysis than naturally is accorded the 
 average farm operator. 
 
 Hugh B. Gearin was born near Fort Wayne, 
 Ind., October 9, 1849, a son °f J onn an d Ellen 
 (Burns) Gearin. His father, who was the founder 
 of the family in the northwest, was born in 
 County Kerry, Ireland, in 1808. In his youth he 
 learned the trade of shoemaker, at which he 
 was employed for some years in his native land. 
 In Ireland he married and in the early thirties 
 brought his wife to America. Locating near 
 Fort Wayne, Ind., he abandoned his trade and 
 engaged in farming. In that state his wife died 
 soon after their location there, and he afterward 
 was married to Ellen Burns, also a native of 
 Ireland, whose death occurred in Oregon in 
 1888. 
 
 With an outfit consisting of four yoke of oxen 
 and the necessary outfit, John Gearin and his 
 family started across the plains in 1851, arriving 
 in Marion county after a journey consuming 
 about six months. In the autumn of that year he 
 purchased of a Frenchman named Guardupuis 
 the title to a claim which is now included in the 
 property owned by his son, paying the compara- 
 tively small sum of five hundred dollars to secure 
 the title. The property consisted of a half-sec- 
 tion, the greater part of which was under heavy 
 timber. Here this earnest pioneer erected a small 
 log house and at once settled down to the labor- 
 ious undertaking of making a comfortable home 
 and fortune for his family. How well his am- 
 bitions were realized may be imagined when it 
 is stated that at the time of his death, in Janu- 
 ary, 1893, he was the owner of one thousand 
 acres of rich land skirting the river. His opera- 
 tions consisted of general farming and stock- 
 raising, and during his long term of residence 
 in Marion county his name was associated with 
 all that was honorable and of good report. He 
 was a member of the Roman Catholic Church, a 
 firm friend of good schools and good roads, 
 and took an important part in all movements 
 toward the general upbuilding of his community. 
 He and his wife were survived by two sons : 
 Hugh B., and John M., who has become one of 
 the acknowledged leaders of the bar of Port- 
 land. 
 
 56 
 
 Hugh B. Gearin was educated in the public 
 schools and at the Seminary at Oregon City. 
 He was reared to work upon the farm, and in 
 time mastered all the details of this business 
 under the direction of his father. For many 
 years he operated the farm in partnership with 
 the elder Gearin, succeeding to the ownership 
 and management upon the death of the latter 
 ten years ago. He has increased his possessions 
 during the period of his control of the property, 
 and has taken advantage of every possible mod- 
 ern improvement for facilitating labor, engag- 
 ing in the work scientifically. It evidently has 
 been his ambition — and a most praiseworthy one 
 — to convert his estate into the most attractive 
 and productive in the Willamette valley, and in 
 this effort he is succeeding beyond the most 
 sanguine expectations of his young manhood. 
 
 October 27, 1881, Mr. Gearin was united in 
 marriage with Mary C. Murphy, a native of 
 Marion county, and a daughter of Andrew and 
 Elizabeth (Cosgrove) Murphy. The Murphy 
 family were pioneers of the early fifties, and 
 Hugh Cosgrove, Mrs. Gearin's grandfather, set- 
 tled near by in 1847. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Gearin have become the parents 
 of eight children: Fred M., John A., Irene G., 
 Basil H., Marcella E., Marie L., Cornelius Dewey 
 and Harold J. Fred and John are students in 
 Mount Angel College, and it is the intention of 
 their father to give all the children the best pos- 
 sible educational advantages. 
 
 Mr. Gearin is a liberal-minded and progressive 
 farmer, and his splendid property, his fine per- 
 sonal characteristics and his desire to co-oper- 
 ate conscientiously with the best element of the 
 community in the betterment of the conditions 
 and environments which surround him, insure 
 him the continued regard of all with whom he is 
 associated. The traditions and history connected 
 with the life of his father unquestionably have 
 been a source of great inspiration to him in his 
 undertakings, and his children will be fortified 
 in the beginning of their careers not only with a 
 similar inspiring example, but with the added 
 prestige of a literary education which their fore- 
 fathers found it almost impossible to obtain in 
 the earlier davs of the commonwealth. 
 
 HON. PETER PARKER PALMER. The 
 youth of today, rebelling in the midst of thickly 
 crowding opportunities, but faintly realizes the 
 difference between his own and the obstacles 
 which hedged in the farmer lad in the central 
 states during the middle of the last century. The 
 very act of reaching the west, towards which all 
 youthful and ambitious hearts turned in those 
 davs, entailed an amount of self-sacrifice and suf- 
 fering before which the stoutest heart quails at 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the present time. Yet those boys, many of whom 
 are now old men and towers of strength in their 
 respective communities in the west, evinced Spar- 
 tan courage in carrying their plans to completion, 
 and with clear, far-seeing eyes prophesied, and 
 worked, and realized beyond their fondest ex- 
 pectations. Such a one is Hon. Peter Parker 
 Palmer, who arrived in Oregon in 1850 with 
 very limited means, footsore and weary from his 
 painfully long journey across the plains, but 
 who has since drawn liberally upon the resources 
 of his adopted state, and is now spending his 
 declining years in retirement in Eugene. 
 
 Mr. Palmer, who is ex-representative, ex-in- 
 spector of customs, ex-farmer, and ex-merchant, 
 spent the first years of his life near Georgetown, 
 Sussex county, Del., where he was born October 
 5, 1826. His grandfather, John Palmer, of 
 Scotch descent, is known to have been born in 
 Delaware, and his father, Woolsey H. Palmer, 
 also a native of Delaware, fired with ancestral 
 fervor, played his fife in the war of 1812, at the 
 time being twelve years of age. The filer was 
 the joy of the regiment, and was often carried 
 on the shoulders of those who carried arms and 
 risked their lives in the heat of battle. He was 
 reared on the Delaware farm, and married Edith 
 Goslee, a native daughter of Delaware, who bore 
 him eleven children, of whom Peter is the third 
 in order of birth and the only one to emigrate 
 to the west. Until his twentieth year Peter had 
 about three months schooling each year, and he 
 afterward taught school in his native state for 
 about a year. In 1847 ne removed to Illinois and 
 clerked in a store in Alton until 1850. During 
 the spring of that year he started across the 
 plains with a company of fortune seekers, intend- 
 ing to go to California. Instead, after arriving 
 at Soda Springs the plans of the company were 
 changed, and they came to Oregon. The jour- 
 ney was not unpleasant, although beset with 
 dangers on every hand. The Indians, while not 
 molesting them personally, relieved them of con- 
 siderable of their stock, and few in the party had 
 anything with which to start life in the west. 
 Mr. Palmer secured work in a shingle mill, and 
 afterwards learned the carpenter's trade, and had 
 occasion to rejoice that the pay of the carpenters 
 was $12 a day, for he was obliged to pay $14 
 a week for board, the price of commodities gen- 
 erally being in proportion. 
 
 In February, 1851, Mr. Palmer joined a party 
 of gold-seekers, and with wagons, five yoke of 
 oxen, and twenty-five hundred pounds of pro- 
 visions, crossed the mountains to California. 
 During the summer the party mined at Yreka, 
 Cal., and in the fall of 185 1 returned to Portland 
 with at least some money to show for their pains. 
 Mr. Palmer stopped overnight in Portland and 
 went on to Douglas county, which he had in- 
 
 vestigated before, and been well pleased with its 
 prospects. At Garden Bottom, below Winches- 
 ter, he took up a claim of half a section, which 
 he retained about four years, at the same time 
 teaching school in the neighborhood. He also 
 supplemented his comparatively limited educa- 
 tion by attending the Umpqua Academy for a 
 term. In Wilbur, Ore., he married Mary Slo- 
 cum, who was born in Kentucky, and came to 
 Oregon in 1852, and with whom he started a 
 farming enterprise near the town. He afterward 
 moved to a farm near Elkton, and still later near 
 Gardner, where he was appointed inspector of 
 customs during the Civil war, and held that posi- 
 tion for nine years. During this time he also 
 conducted a general merchandise business. Af- 
 ter disposing of his various' interests he pur- 
 chased the Scottsburg donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres. In connection with 
 stock-raising he conducted a hotel and merchan- 
 dise business in Scottsburg, his hostelry being 
 known as the Palmer House, where travelers 
 were well received, and found ample refreshment 
 for the inner man. In 1900 he disposed of the 
 store and hotel and farm at Scottsburg, and lo- 
 cated in Eugene, where he has since lived in 
 comparative retirement. 
 
 In his younger days Mr. Palmer had a strong 
 leaning towards the Republican party, but of late 
 years has zealously advocated the Prohibition 
 platform. In 1886 he was nominated for the 
 legislature on the Prohibition ticket, and also 
 on the Republican, and elected by a large ma- 
 jority, serving his district with credit and satis- 
 faction. While in the legislature he succeeded 
 in passing the Prohibition amendment, and in 
 other ways forwarded the best interests of the 
 people of Douglas county. For a year he served 
 as county school superintendent in Umpqua coun- 
 ty, and about that time he served four terms as 
 justice of the peace. The wife, who died in 
 February, 1903, bore him eleven children : Wil- 
 liam E., deceased, was married and operated a 
 sawmill in Drains, Ore., and was killed by a fall- 
 ing tree. He left two children, Edward and 
 Ethel ; Minnie and Percy died in early life ; Al- 
 bert C. is engaged in mining in Alaska ; Elmer 
 C. is employed by the Southern Pacific Railway 
 at Ashland, Ore. ; Elsey E. is living in southern 
 California ; Alcyone, the widow of Captain 
 James Hill, resides in Oakland ; Edith became 
 the wife of Capt. Fred Earl and lives in Gard- 
 ner, Ore. ; Gussie, the wife of Dr. W. L. Che- 
 shire, lives in Eugene ; Annie, the wife of Capt. 
 Frank Perrv, lives in San Francisco ; Mamie, 
 Mrs. Francis Schlegel, resides in Portland. 
 
 PETER BASHAW. Few soldiers during the 
 Civil war have paid more dearly for their devo- 
 tion to a noble cause than has Peter Bashaw, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1227 
 
 a retired resident of Newberg, and who perma- 
 nently lost the precious boon of health in the 
 camp and field of the Union army. For the suc- 
 cess which has come to him Mr. Bashaw owes 
 naught save to an innate determination to make 
 the best of discouraging conditions, in the face 
 of which he has reared an interesting family 
 and established a happy and comfortable home. 
 
 The establishment of the Bashaw family is 
 interestingly interwoven with the early history 
 of the country, the emigrating ancestor being 
 the paternal grandfather, who was born in 
 France, and, sharing a kindred interest in the 
 colonies with La Fayette, accompanied that illus- 
 trious soldier on his unselfish mission to the 
 states. From a money standpoint a millionaire, 
 he went to Canada after his return to France, 
 and bought large landed estates in the northern 
 part of the country. From the first he espoused 
 the cause of the United States, and as he had 
 aided them in securing independence from Eng- 
 lish rule, so he helped them also in securing the 
 boundary line east of the St. Lawrence river. 
 His efforts were detected by a spy of the British 
 government, who forthwith reported his misde- 
 meanor, in consequence of which his northern 
 lands were confiscated by the English. While 
 hiding from the British after the disclosure of 
 his part in the boundary question, he was at- 
 tacked by a bear, a portion of his leg torn away, 
 and he was smuggled into the United States by 
 friends, who concealed him between layers of 
 straw on a wagon. 
 
 It is presumed that this adventurous fore- 
 father brought up eventually in Vermont, for 
 here his son, Louis, the father of Peter, was 
 reared, and eventually succeeded to a farm. In 
 1849 Louis located in New York state, where 
 he bought a farm on the highway between Ban- 
 gor and Nicholville, which was a large farm 
 for New York state, consisting of seventy-five 
 acres. In 1868 he took his family to Pepin 
 county, Wis., where he bought eighty acres of 
 land, upon which his death occurred at the age 
 of seventy-eight years. His last years were spent 
 in comparative retirement, his health having been 
 impaired during a two-years service with the 
 Green Bay boys during the war. He married 
 Mary Terrior, who was born near the Vermont 
 line in Canada, and who died in Pepin county, 
 Wis., in 1901. She was the mother of six sons 
 and five daughters, all of whom attained matur- 
 ity, Peter being the fifth. 
 
 The necessity for early assisting with the fam- 
 ilv support interfered sadly with the education 
 of Peter Bashaw, although in later years, when 
 physical work was denied him, he diligently ap- 
 plied himself to overcome this deficiency, and be- 
 came a well informed man. He was born in 
 
 North Allen, Vt., October 1, 1842, and accom- 
 panied his parents to New York state, where he 
 was living when the call to arms agitated the 
 little agricultural community. Forthwith he en- 
 listed in Company I, Sixtieth New York Volun- 
 teer Infantry, and, connected with the army of 
 the Potomac, participated in several important 
 battles of the war. At the battle of the first 
 Bull Run he was shot through the cords of the 
 right leg, and though receiving the best of sur- 
 gical and medical service in the hospitals of New 
 York City and Washington, suffered intensely 
 from the wound for almost two years after his 
 discharge in New York City. His system was 
 also seriously undermined by typhoid fever con- 
 tracted in the service, and for many months he 
 was compelled to walk on crutches. The little 
 place left him by his father was sold to his 
 brother in order to secure funds for medical 
 treatment, and he was thus enabled to secure 
 some benefit. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Bashaw engaged in buying sheep, 
 and after two years thus employed, managed 
 to save a little money. With his brother and 
 father he went to Wisconsin, where he con- 
 tinued to buy sheep, and though his health was 
 very unsatisfactory, he felt justified in coming 
 to Oregon in 1898, hoping much from a change 
 of climate and surroundings. In Newberg he 
 invested in town property, including the Owens 
 cottage and hotel, and also bought the comfort- 
 able home in which his family are housed. Al- 
 though he failed to receive the $100 bounty 
 which should have come to him after the war, 
 he receives a pension of $24 per month. The 
 marriage of Mr. Bashaw and Josephine Manor 
 occurred in Pepin county, Wis. Nine children 
 have been born of the union, the order of their 
 birth being as follows : Oris, living in Wiscon- 
 sin ; Delphane, the wife of Bert Lapian, a farm- 
 er of Dundee, Ore. : Lillie. the wife of William 
 Martin, of Wisconsin ; Arthur, living in New- 
 berg; Mary, the wife of Si. Hammock, of New- 
 berg; Rosa, now Mrs. Jesse Smith of Newberg; 
 Annie Bell. Lena and Vernie, living at home. 
 Mr. Bashaw is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and is a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic. In political affiliation he 
 is a Republican. In the family of Mr. Bashaw 
 lives the mother of Mrs. Bashaw, who was born 
 in Vermont, and before her marriage to John 
 Manor was Amelia Bland. Mrs. Manor is eighty 
 years of age. 
 
 JOHN W. PUGH. A very youthful pioneer 
 of Oregon was John W. Pugh, who became a 
 resident of this state at the age of one year. 
 Upon attaining manhood he was satisfied to lo- 
 
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 cate permanently among the scenes of his child- 
 hood, establishing himself on the farm which he 
 now owns and occupies, two hundred and eighty- 
 five acres, one and a half miles south of Shedds, 
 putting upon it all improvements, which make 
 it one of the finest farms in the vicinity. He is 
 now .carrying on general farming and dairying, 
 for the latter having twenty-six Jersey milch 
 cows. Industry and energy, governed by intel- 
 ligent thought, number him among the success- 
 ful agriculturists of this notably successful sec- 
 tion of the country. Mr. Pugh is not alone in- 
 terested in agricultural pursuits, but has bent 
 every effort toward the advancement of the in- 
 terests of the community, through a wise ad- 
 ministration of public affairs. He is active 
 in the prosecution of church interests, as class 
 leader, trustee and steward, and for nearly 
 twenty-five years superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ex- 
 erting a broad and helpful influence. The posi- 
 tion of Mr. Pugh has been won through quali- 
 ties which have given him the esteem and con- 
 fidence of his neighbors and made him many 
 friends. 
 
 The father of Mr. Pugh, Francis A., was born 
 April 6, 1 82 1, in Kentucky, from which state he 
 removed with his parents to Illinois, where, as 
 a farmer, his father gained a livelihood. The 
 death of the elder man occurred there, caused 
 by a stroke of lightning, after which the mother 
 returned to her people in Kentucky, and the son 
 was left alone. Later he removed to Iowa and 
 there married Ruth Jessup, a native of Indiana, 
 and in 1846 they started across the plains with 
 ox-teams. The Platte river was reached in 
 safety. From there two-wheeled wagons drawn 
 by oxen was to have been the mode of travel, 
 but there the Indians stampeded their cattle, 
 which left them in a very uncomfortable, not to 
 say dangerous, predicament. After much trouble 
 they reached Whitman Station and there secured 
 pack horses with which to continue the inter- 
 rupted journey. One man had been killed, a Mr. 
 Trimble. The remainder of the journey, how- 
 ever, was made in safety, six months after the 
 time of starting finding them in Washington 
 county, Ore. There Mr. Pugh took up a claim 
 upon which they lived for about four years, in 
 the spring of 1850 coming to Linn county, where 
 he became the owner of six hundred and forty 
 acres of land located one and one-half miles 
 southwest of Shedds, which remained the home 
 of the family for twenty-eight years. In 1878 
 they removed to a farm near Athena, Umatilla 
 county, and in 1881 they located near Spokane, 
 Wash., where he carried on general farming and 
 stock-raising, making a very extensive business 
 of the latter. Six years after the death of his 
 wife in 1895, at the age of seventy-two years, 
 
 Mr. Pugh removed to Spokane and there makes 
 his home at the present time retired from active 
 life. A very useful and practical life has been 
 that of Mr. Pugh, his interest in political, edu- 
 cational and religious movements contributing no 
 small part to the advancement of civilization in 
 the pioneer lands, being a pioneer of both Ore- 
 gon and Washington. He is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church and one of its stanch 
 and earnest supporters. Of the children born to 
 himself and wife the eldest is John W., who 
 was born June 18, 1845, m Henry county, Iowa; 
 the remainder of the family being Melissa J., 
 now Mrs. W. M. Stafford, of Washington ; 
 Felix M., of Spokane ; Francis K, also of Spo- 
 kane ; and Sarah G., now Mrs. James Froome, 
 of Waitsburg, Wash. 
 
 The education of John W. Pugh was received 
 in the district schools of Oregon near his home, 
 which he attended until his marriage in 1865 with 
 Frances E. Thompson, a native of Missouri, 
 whose parents crossed the plains in 1852 and 
 settled in Linn county. He then removed to the 
 farm which he now occupies, passing the inter- 
 vening years in earnest, faithful work. The two 
 children born of this union are Mary E., the wife 
 of S. C. Caldwell, of Albany, and George B., 
 of Brownsville. Mrs. Pugh died in 1870 and 
 later Mr. Pugh married Nancy E. Walker, who 
 had crossed the plains with her parents in 1852 
 from her native state of Arkansas. Their nine 
 children are as follows : Estella, the wife of 
 H. B. Taylor, of Seattle; Ernest G., of Seattle; 
 Nellie J., wife of H. B. Satchwell, of Newberg, 
 Ore. ; Charles A., in Linn county ; and Lura, 
 Harvey G., Edith J. and John McKinley, all at 
 home ; and Effie, deceased. Mr. Pugh was again 
 left alone in 1898 by the death of his wife. 
 
 . As a Republican in politics Mr. Pugh served 
 one term as county commissioner, always taking 
 an interest in party work, and in his fraternal 
 relations is a member of Oak Plain Grange and 
 Woodmen of the World, which latter he was 
 the first man in Linn county to join, having been 
 a member in Corvallis. 
 
 HENRY L. BENTS. Though for some time 
 a teacher in the schools of Oregon, Henry L. 
 Bents has returned to the land upon which he 
 was reared and to the pursuit of agriculture, 
 for which his early training fitted him. He is 
 the voungest of the three brothers of the Bents 
 family, whose sketches appear in this work, the 
 sketch of Fred Bents giving the history of the 
 parents and of the removal from Switzerland 
 in 1854 to a settlement on the Kansas farm, 
 which was lost through a defective title, and the 
 consequent trip to Oregon, where the father 
 bought the land which the brothers now possess. 
 
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 1229 
 
 The birth of Henry L. Bents occurred near Kick- 
 apoo, Kans., February 28, 1862, the removal to 
 Oregon taking place the next year. Upon the 
 farm which his father bought he was reared, his 
 early training being along agricultural lines, 
 though his early-displayed love of books led his 
 father to give him the benefit of all the schools 
 within reach, giving him a course in the Oregon 
 State Agricultural College at Corvallis after his 
 studies at Butteville were completed. At the 
 age of eighteen years he began teaching in the 
 public schools, and being an exceptionally fine 
 penman he added much to his income by private 
 classes in this branch. 
 
 Upon the marriage of Mr. Bents, December 
 25, 1887, to Miss Agnes A. Smith, a native of 
 Oregon and the daughter of John F. Smith, he 
 gave up his position in the public schools. Re- 
 turning to the home place, he settled upon the 
 share which belonged to him, and with the same 
 energy and thoroughness which had character- 
 ized his efforts at teaching commenced the im- 
 provement of the farm. He has since built a 
 handsome house, barns, etc., which add much to 
 the general appearance, in addition to the well 
 cultivated fields which testify to his success as a 
 farmer. He is now engaged in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, though making a specialty 
 of hop-growing, having been connected with his 
 brothers in this latter business since 1881. In the 
 last named year the Bents brothers began the 
 cultivation of hops on five acres of land, and 
 they now have seventy acres devoted to that 
 product, from which they realize handsome 
 profits. Henry L. is also engaged in hop-buying 
 on an extensive scale. The location of Mr. 
 Bents' farm is two and a half miles southeast of ' 
 Butteville and about three miles from Aurora. 
 
 Through his personal integrity and the many 
 years' experience in which he has conclusively 
 proved his ability to cope with the adversities of 
 the world, Mr. Bents' has won a wide popularity, 
 and his place in the community is an honorable 
 one. For the past eight years he has served as 
 secretary of the Hop-Growers' Fire Relief As- 
 sociation, and also fills that position in the Farm- 
 ers' Fire Relief Association of Butteville, Ore., 
 the territory of both associations including the 
 entire Willamette valley, Mr. Bents having held 
 the latter position for six years. At the present 
 time these associations carry a business aggre- 
 gating about $2,000,000. In fraternal orders he 
 is prominent, being a member of Champoeg 
 Lodge No. 27, A. F. & A. M., of Butteville, and 
 of Multnomah Chapter No. 2, of Salem, Ore. 
 He also belongs to Butteville Tent No. 22, 
 Knights of the Maccabees. Politically he is not 
 a party man, reserving the right to cast his vote 
 for the candidate whose election he thinks will 
 be productive of most good for the country. 
 
 In his married life Mr. Bents has been blessed 
 by three children: Leita May, Velma lone, and 
 an infant son. 
 
 ALFRED P. OLIVER, one of the prominent 
 business men of Newberg, was born in Franklin 
 county, Vt., in the town of Sheldon, June 20, 
 1858. The family became identified with the 
 Green Mountain state through the emigration 
 thither of D. R. Oliver, the father of Alfred, who 
 was born in New York, but died in Vermont at 
 the age of seventy-three years. He was a man 
 dependent solely upon his own ability -to grasp 
 and utilize opportunities, left an orphan at the 
 age of four years, and, though reared by an 
 uncle, was early brought into contact with the 
 serious and responsible side of life. In his young 
 manhood he married Annie B. Marsh, a native 
 of Sheldon, Vt., whose father, Philo Marsh, 
 was born on a farm in Franklin county, Vt. Mr. 
 Marsh engaged in farming during his entire 
 active life, a vocation which netted him a com- 
 fortable and even affluent living, for he died at 
 the age of seventy-five a comparatively wealthy 
 man. The two sons and only children born to 
 D. R. Oliver have inherited their father's enter- 
 prise and thrift, and of these, Charles A. is a 
 wealthy and influential farmer of Sheldon, Vt. 
 
 Following upon his high school graduation, 
 his thorough training as an agriculturist, and 
 some practical business experience, Alfred P. 
 Oliver removed to Michigan at the age of twenty- 
 three, and for a year engaged as chief clerk for 
 a steamship company. Returning to the east, 
 he worked in a sewing machine factory in Mas- 
 sachusetts for a couple of years, and then in Min- 
 nesota engaged in the real estate business for a 
 year. Following the tide of emigration to Da- 
 kota he had a more or less satisfactory business 
 career, and after another sojourn in Minnesota 
 came to Oregon with J. C. Colcord, a former 
 friend in Massachusetts, and a record of whose 
 life may be found elsewhere in this work. After 
 the first winter in Portland Mr. Oliver came 
 to Newberg, bought a farm in partnership with 
 his friend, and later engaged in the real estate 
 business until 1890. A practical innovation is 
 credited to Mr. Oliver, that of utilizing grub-oak, 
 in which the state abounds, for ax handles. He 
 is at present secretary and treasurer of a com- 
 pany incorporated for $30,000, which is manufac- 
 turing ax handles, and in which he owns over 
 one-half and the controlling interest. It is dem- 
 onstrated that grub-oak, formerly used almost 
 exclusively for firewood, makes a much finer and 
 more durable handle than the eastern hickory. 
 This discovery has resulted in the starting of 
 a large manufactory which is not only able to 
 
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 supply its share of coast trade, but can keep two 
 men representing its wares on the road. 
 
 Mr. Oliver is also interested in mining, and 
 in the Yamhill Coal & Oil Company, of which 
 he is one of the chief promoters. The prospects 
 for this company are very bright, and the prin- 
 cipals entertain great expectations in connection 
 therewith. A farm of six hundred acres in the 
 vicinity of Newberg is one of the valued posses- 
 sions of Mr. Oliver, and he also owns consid- 
 erable town property, including a large business 
 block. He is foremost among all projects for the 
 general improvement of his adopted locality, and 
 bears in the community an enviable reputation 
 for integrity and progressiveness. 
 
 JOSEPH M. ATKINSON. To students of 
 scientific dairying the Spring Hill farm, owned 
 by -Joseph M. and Samuel W. Atkinson, offers 
 superior opportunities for observation and re- 
 search. Not only is this enterprise one of the 
 finest in the state of Oregon, but if compared 
 with those of Switzerland, Holland, or any of 
 the old established dairying centers, would un- 
 doubtedly be found to possess the combined ex- 
 cellencies of all, improved by American ingenu- 
 ity and enterprise. The fact that in no depart- 
 ment of farming is there opportunity for greater 
 care, good judgment, and business sagacity, than 
 in that of dairying and stock-raising, is fully ap- 
 preciated, by the Atkinson Brothers, who have 
 long since passed the experimental stage, and 
 placed their business upon a solid and paying 
 footing. 
 
 The Spring Hill farm consists of three hun- 
 dred and thirty acres, one hundred of which 
 have been placed under the plow, and the bal- 
 ance supplies pasturage for seventy-two head of 
 cattle, comprising Jersey and other high grade 
 cattle, and Mr. Atkinson sells large numbers 
 of blooded stock all over the northwest. A com- 
 fortable income is derived from the sale of 
 Poland-China hogs and bronze turkeys. The 
 dairy barn, designed for that special use by the 
 owners, and containing many innovations here- 
 tofore unthought of, is 80x60 feet in dimen- 
 sions. Three driveways run through the barn, 
 and it has a capacity of one hundred and fifty 
 tons of hay, also a silo of one hundred and 
 twenty-five tons capacity. The sewerage, ven- 
 tilation, heating, and general arrangements are 
 as complete as thorough students of dairying 
 and stock-raising can make them, and the plans 
 were perfected only after years of study along 
 dairying lines. In connection with their farm 
 the Atkinson Brothers maintain a creamery in 
 Newberg, under the management of Samuel At- 
 kinson, the partner of Joseph. The brothers buy 
 up all the milk available from the farmers in 
 
 the vicinity, and market their products in the 
 city of Portland. 
 
 The early history of men successful in worth- 
 while walks of life are not only interesting, but 
 profitable to those of like ambitions. Joseph M. 
 Atkinson comes from sterling farming stock, and 
 was born near St. Joe, Mo., February 21, 1870. 
 His father, Robert, was born in Ireland, and 
 after emigrating to the United States settled in 
 Missouri with his parents, he being at that time 
 but seven years of age. He became an exten- 
 sive farmer and stock-raiser in the Old Bullion 
 state, and in 1870 sold his farm and came to 
 Oregon, settling first two miles west of where 
 his son' now lives. He bought five hundred acres 
 of land, which he partially improved, and upon 
 which he lived for three years, in the meantime 
 disposing of three hundred acres of his land. 
 He finally bought five hundred acres, a portion 
 of which constitutes the Spring Hill farm. Be- 
 fore his death in 1891, at the age of sixty-five, 
 he had sold two hundred acres of his property. 
 While still living in Missouri he married Eliza- 
 beth Clemmons, a native of Missouri, and who 
 died in Oregon in 1894, at the age of sixty-four 
 years. Mrs. Atkinson was a daughter of An- 
 thony Clemmons, a native of England, and a 
 minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. 
 Clemmons was also a farmer, and a very sweet 
 singer, and he lived to the good old age of four 
 score and four years. Twelve children were born 
 to Robert Atkinson and his wife, one of whom 
 died in infancy. 
 
 Joseph M. Atkinson was the sixth of the seven 
 sons born to his parents, and he received his 
 education in the public schools and at the Will- 
 amette Business College, graduating from the 
 latter at the end of the two-years course. In 1888 
 he engaged in the hotel business in Astoria, Ore., 
 for a couple of years, and in 1891 came to New- 
 berg and took charge of the paternal farm. Even- 
 tually Joseph M. and .Samuel bought out the 
 other heirs, and now own three hundred and 
 thirty acres of as fine farm property as can be 
 found anywhere in the state. In Newberg Mr. 
 Atkinson was united in marriage with Ranna E. 
 Carter, a native of Vancouver, Wash., and 
 daughter of W. R. Carter, born in Iowa, and 
 who came to Oregon when a young man, set- 
 tling on the farm adjoining that of the Atkin- 
 sons. One child, Mabel, has been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Atkinson. Mr. Atkinson is a Demo- 
 crat in politics, and is fraternally associated with 
 the Woodmen of the World. His sterling worth 
 as a citizen, his unsurpassed knowledge of dairy- 
 ing and stock-raising, and his public-spiritedness 
 on all occasions calling for co-operation in worthy 
 causes, make him an interesting and substantial 
 addition to the agricultural and business inter- 
 ests of Yamhill county. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1231 
 
 JAMES M. WRIGHT, for many years asso- 
 ciated with important business interests in New- 
 berg, was born in Clinton, 111., December 24, 
 1840, a son of William and Leah (Harp) 
 Wright, and grandson of Thomas Wright. 
 Thomas Wright was born in North Carolina, 
 where had settled his ancestors many years be- 
 fore, and he in time moved to South Carolina, 
 and from there to Kentucky. He became one of 
 the very early settlers of Illinois, settling in that 
 state as early as 18 18, and there improving a 
 farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He was 
 a very successful farmer and had the true pio- 
 neer thrift and industry. He died at the age of 
 eighty-four years. 
 
 William Wright, the father of James M., was 
 born after his father's removal to South Caro- 
 lina, and was eight years of age when the family 
 fortunes were shifted to the Illinois prairie farm. 
 In time he became a large land owner in Illinois 
 and a man of prominence in the community. 
 Although a farmer all his life, he was never too 
 absorbed in personal affairs to take notice of 
 the demands upon his time and ability from out- 
 side sources, and he filled many positions of trust 
 and responsibility. Always interested in poli- 
 tics, he served for a couple of years as county 
 judge, and was a great promoter of the anti- 
 slavery movement. In fact, he was a warm per- 
 sonal friend of the great emancipator, and to the 
 end of his days it was a pleasure to recall that 
 he had swung the ax in company with Abraham 
 Lincoln, and participated in the making of the 
 now historical rails. During the Black Hawk 
 war he served in Lincoln's company and was 
 otherwise in close touch with one of the great- 
 est characters that America has ever known. He 
 died on his Illinois farm at the age of eighty- 
 two years, having been preceded several years 
 by his wife, who was born in East Tennessee, 
 a daughter of Tyra Harp, born in Tennessee, 
 and an early settler on government land in 
 DeWitt county. Of the six sons and four daugh- 
 ters in this family, James M. is the second. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one, September 10, 1861, 
 James M. Wright enlisted for the Civil war in 
 Company L, Fourth Illinois Cavalry, and at once 
 began service under General Grant in the west- 
 ern campaign. He participated in the battles of 
 Fort Henry, Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, 
 Shiloh, Corinth, Hollow Springs and many 
 others, and won the rank of corporal during the 
 service. How narrowly he escaped death may 
 be judged when it is known that two horses 
 were shot under him, one at Shiloh, and one at 
 Pittsburg Landing. He was discharged from 
 the service at La Grange, Tenn., and forthwith 
 returned to Illinois, where he was born, reared, 
 and educated. His father having presented him 
 with a farm, he lived thereon for several years, 
 
 and was also engaged in the real estate business 
 in Champaign, 111., for five years, with the firm 
 of McKinley & Co. This firm did a large busi- 
 ness, and was one of the best known concerns 
 in the county. Mr. Wright also gained further 
 business experience as a general merchant near 
 Danville, 111., a venture no less successful than 
 were his real estate transactions. 
 
 In the meantime Mr. Wright had disposed of 
 his farm in Illinois, and as he had long appre- 
 ciated the superior advantages of the west, in: 
 1888 he decided to practically avail himself of 
 them. Locating in Newberg, he at once became 
 interested in the real estate business, and since 
 that time much valuable town and country prop- 
 erty has passed through his hands. In 1890 Mr. 
 Wright organized the Yamhill Land Company, 
 incorporated for $20,000, of which he was presi- 
 dent and manager, and which started out under 
 the most auspicious circumstances. Owing to 
 the general depression of hard times this busi- 
 ness went the way of many others of equally 
 promising aspect, and closed up with a loss to 
 the promoter of about $50,000. 
 
 Mr. Wright has erected a pleasant residence 
 on the ouskirts of Newberg, where he lives with 
 his wife, Elizabeth A. (Keever) Wright, who 
 was born in Indiana, March 25, 1845, and whose 
 father, John Keever, was born in Ohio. Mr. 
 Keever emigrated to Indiana at an early day, 
 and from there removed to DeWitt county, 111., 
 but finally died in Indiana. Seven children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wright, of whom 
 Oliver C. lives in Sumpter, Ore. ; John K. lives 
 in La Grande ; and Mervia is at home ; Erva, 
 Ira J., and William W. are deceased. Mr. 
 Wright is a Republican in politics, and has been 
 justice of the peace for twenty- five or thirty 
 years. He is a member of the Friends Church. 
 
 WILLIAM C. COOLEY. Interested in both 
 political and business enterprises, the present 
 mayor of Brownsville, William C. Cooley, is a 
 man of prominence, through the exercise of 
 keen, business judgment and quick decision add- 
 ing greatly to the financial prestige of the town. 
 He has always been active in local political 
 movements, and has been twice called upon to 
 serve as mayor of the city of Brownsville by 
 the Democratic party, having previously been a 
 member of the city council for several terms, 
 and a member of the county central committee, 
 in addition to which he has been prominent in 
 the business circles of the city. 
 
 The father of Mr. Cooley, George Cooley, 
 was born near Richmond, Va., July, 1831, and 
 at an early date came with his mother and the 
 remainder of the family as far west as Missouri, 
 where he engaged in farming near Lone jack, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 occasionally acting as clerk in a general mer- 
 chandise establishment. In 1853 he crossed the 
 plains and located near Cottage Grove, Lane 
 county, Ore., taking up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, and the next 
 year he came to Brownsville, leaving his mother 
 and younger members of the family upon the 
 farm, and engaged as a clerk in a general mer- 
 chandise store in this city, his remuneration to 
 be $200 for the first two years, or at the rate of 
 $100 per year. He has since remained in 
 Brownsville, with the exception of a year when 
 he was incapacitated for work on account of a 
 broken leg. On recovering he again sought 
 work in the store, remaining for a short time, 
 after which he sold goods on a commission basis, 
 and later engaged with W. J. Linville, now of 
 San Bernardino, Cal. Some time after Mr. 
 Cooley became a partner in the business Mr. Lin- 
 ville sold his interest to James H. Washburn, 
 and for the ensuing twenty-one years Mr. Cooley 
 remained in this connection, at the close of that 
 time J. D. Irvine taking Mr. Washburn's place. 
 In November, 1894, the entire financial interest 
 became vested in the Cooley family, the father 
 owning three-fourths and the son, William C, 
 the remainder. The father also owns one hun- 
 dred acres of land adjoining the city. He now 
 makes his home in Brownsville, practically re- 
 tired, still giving, however, a little time to his 
 business interests. In his youth he married 
 Harriet Blakely, a native of Tennessee, and 
 daughter of James Blakeley, also of that state, 
 and who gave up his farming and stock-raising 
 interests in the middle west to cross the plains 
 early in the '40s, and settle in Oregon, now mak- 
 ing his home in Brownsville, at the age of nine- 
 ty-two years. To Mr. and Mrs. Cooley were 
 born six children, two sons and four daughters, 
 the oldest of whom is William Currin, who was 
 born December 5, 1859, in Oregon. 
 
 In addition to his preliminary education, re- 
 ceived in the common schools of Oregon, Wil- 
 liam C. Cooley attended the private subscription 
 school of this city. Until 1885 Mr. Cooley re- 
 mained upon the farm, working for his father, 
 at that time being compelled to act as clerk in 
 the store on account of his father again break- 
 ing his leg, the same accident occurring four 
 times. Since that time he has preferred a com- 
 mercial life and has remained here, making an 
 entire success of the venture, being now business 
 manager of the establishment. The stock is 
 valued at $9,000, this business being the largest 
 of its kind in the city. In addition to his com- 
 mercial interests Mr. Cooley owns thirty acres 
 located near the city, twenty-six acres of which 
 is devoted to the cultivation of hops. The cere- 
 mony which united Mr. Cooley with Callie Saw- 
 yer, of Tennessee, was performed in Browns- 
 
 ville, and of the marriage two children have 
 been born, Arthur Carl, a graduate of the Albany 
 Business College, being bookkeeper in a general 
 merchandise establishment at Pendleton, Ore., 
 and Etta Fay, at home with her parents, and is 
 studying music. Fraternally Mr. Cooley is a 
 member of the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Woodmen of the World, and in religion belongs 
 to the Presbyterian Church. Being always in- 
 terested in educational movements, Mr. Cooley 
 has served for some time as school clerk and 
 director. 
 
 JOHN M. WATERS. More than passing in- 
 terest is attached to the career of John M. Wa- 
 ters, a pioneer who came to California in 1849, 
 and from the precarious occupation of mining 
 stepped into the more stable lines of activity rep- 
 resented on the coast, becoming in time one 
 of the most substantial and reliable of the up- 
 builders of Linn county. Born on the banks 
 of Lake Erie, in Ashtabula county, Ohio, Janu- 
 ary 21, 1833, his ancestors were among the early 
 settlers of Rochester, N. Y., and are credited 
 with building the first flouring mill of that city. 
 His parents, William and Rachel (Cox) Wa- 
 ters, were born in Rochester, and some years 
 after their marriage located on a farm bordering 
 on the shores of Lake Erie, in Ashtabula county. 
 In 1838 they removed to Indiana, settling on a 
 farm in Warrick county, near Booneville. In 
 1847 they located on a farm sixteen miles west 
 of Burlington, Henry county, Iowa, and here 
 the mother, who had reared a family of ten sons 
 and one daughter, died, leaving many friends to 
 mourn her loss. 
 
 The news of gold in the west penetrated the 
 quiet agricultural region in which dwelt the 
 Waters family in Iowa, and John M., then six- 
 teen years old, gladly joined his brother and 
 Edward Ford in formulating plans to cross the 
 plains. They had one wagon and an ox team, and 
 the train with which they started was composed 
 of twenty-two wagons. All proved good travel- 
 ers, and the distance between St. Joseph, Mo., 
 and Sacramento, Cal., was covered in the short 
 space of one hundred and five days. Probably 
 no member of the party journeyed westward 
 under more trying circumstances than did John 
 Waters, for early in the journey he broke his 
 leg, which must have received good treatment, 
 for after the third day he was enabled to do his 
 share of walking on improvised crutches. These 
 three boon companions had many trying and 
 many pleasant experiences in the early mining 
 days, but success attended their efforts in a 
 moderate degree, although the accident prevent- 
 ed John M. Waters from doing any actual min- 
 ing around Hangtown. All had a hand, how- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1233 
 
 ever, in discovering the big bar on the Cosmers 
 river, which find afterward yielded thousands to 
 its promoters. Although somewhat disabled 
 John found driving a team between Sacramento 
 and Hangtown comparatively easy work, and 
 this he did for two months, returning then to 
 the mines, where he built the first cabin at Mud 
 Springs in the fall of 1849. Grief invaded this 
 little primitive camp during the cold of the 
 winter, for William Waters died, leaving his 
 brother disconsolate among crude and dismal 
 surroundings. Arousing his courage with the 
 coming of spring, he bought a team of horses 
 and went to the mines at Reddings diggings, 
 where he engaged in teaming and eventually 
 made his way to San Francisco. 
 
 Arriving in Portland via steamer in the win- 
 ter of 1853, Mr. Waters came to Linn county 
 and upon his donation claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres built his home and afterwards 
 helped build the first house in the town of Har- 
 risburg. During 1858 he conducted a farm in 
 Josephine county, and then returned to Harris- 
 burg, where he purchased an interest in an old 
 mill with Jack Hall. For nineteen years this 
 mill ground the greater part of the grain for the 
 surrounding farmers, becoming the most prom- 
 inent center of activity in that section of the 
 county. Mr. Hall stepped out of the business 
 in 1862, his brother-in-law, Asa A. McCulley, 
 purchasing his stock, and continuing the en- 
 terprise as before. In 1877 Mr Waters sold 
 his interest in the mill and transferred his busi- 
 ness ability to the Brownsville Flour Mill, in- 
 creased the capacity by substituting a new proc- 
 ess, and afterward disposed of the same to the 
 Brownsville Woolen Mill. In 1890 Mr. Waters 
 became interested in constructing a one-hun- 
 dred-barrel mill in Seattle, Wash., but not hav- 
 ing sufficient capital to run it, the company 
 was obliged to close down. Since returning to 
 Brownsville he has lived retired, having estab- 
 lished an unexcelled reputation as a miller, and 
 acquired a very comfortable competence. 
 
 In the days of his dawning prosperity near 
 Harrisburg, Mr. Waters married Ellen Moore, 
 of Tennessee, and 'seven children have been 
 born of the union, three of whom are living : 
 Mary Jane, the wife of Mr. Morelock, of Gold 
 Hill, Ore. ; Rachel Ann, now Mrs. Cartwright, 
 of Boise City, Idaho; and John Hamilton, of 
 Emmett, Idaho. Considerable prominence of a 
 political nature has resulted from Mr. Waters' 
 association with the Republican party, to which 
 he has owned allegiance ever since the forma- 
 tion of the party. He has been a member of 
 the town council for many terms, was mayor 
 one term, and served as county commissioner 
 for four years, between 1892 and 1896. His 
 service has been absolutely devoid of anv effort 
 
 to advance personal interests at the expense of 
 the community. He is well known and popular 
 in fraternal circles, being identified with the 
 Masonic fraternity, Blue Lodge, Royal Arch 
 Chapter and Albany Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. With his wife he worships at the 
 Baptist Church, towards the support of which 
 he is a liberal and always gracious contributor. 
 Mr. Waters represents the best of the pioneer 
 element of this community, his claims to recog- 
 nition resting upon solid and substantial traits 
 of character, and upon equally meritorious busi- 
 ness success. 
 
 FRANCIS TILDEN KEYES. Like the 
 links of an unbroken chain leading back across 
 the years is the memory of one of the old settlers 
 of Yamhill county, Ore., as with a continent be- 
 tween, he remembers and speaks of those who 
 lived in the time of his youth, and before. Back 
 in New York state the people of his name were 
 born, living their lives peacefully in the midst 
 of the plentitude of the Empire state until a 
 pioneer was born into the family in the person 
 of the old settler of Yamhill county. The grand- 
 father, Elijah Keyes, of Irish descent, was a 
 merchant tailor by trade ; his son, Marquis De 
 Lafayette, was born in Bloomfield, N. Y., Feb- 
 ruary 10, 1797. The principal part of his life 
 was spent in the double business of tilling the 
 soil and conducting a general merchandise store 
 in Conesus, Livingston county. In i860 he met 
 reverses in his business, and during the remain- 
 ing years of his life he made his home with his 
 children. He died in Livingston county at the 
 age of ninety years, leaving many to mourn the 
 loss of a good and upright man. He was a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 which he had served as deacon for many years. 
 
 His wife was Sarah Chapped, born in Massa- 
 chusetts, the daughter of Edgecomb Chapped, 
 also a native of that state. He was a farmer, 
 and history records him as one of the many 
 farmers of New England who left their plows in 
 the furrow and used their horses to ride to the 
 defense of the country they loved and served. 
 He was a soldier in the war of 1812, doing his 
 duty without thought of reward, save in the 
 success of the cause for which he fought. He 
 was interested in all that gave promise of ulti- 
 mate good for his native land and it was his 
 honor to be one of the founders of the Genesee 
 Wesleyan Seminary, giving largely to the sup- 
 port of this institution. Mr. Chapped died in 
 Lima, N. Y. 
 
 The union of Marquis De Lafayette Keyes 
 and Sarah Chapped was blessed by the birth of 
 ten children, six sons and four daughters, the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 sixth child and fifth son being Francis Tilden, 
 born in Livingston county, N. Y., November 
 30, 1830. In the common schools of New York, 
 Francis T. received a very fair education as 
 learning was estimated in those early days, and 
 at the age of sixteen he secured employment on 
 a farm, where he worked for some years. With 
 a spirit of restlessness certainly not inherited 
 from his immediate ancestors he left New York, 
 April 20, 1853, en route for California by way 
 of Nicaragua, reaching San Francisco May 21 
 of the same year. In common with the greater 
 part of the population of the west, he tried min- 
 ing for about two months, succeeding but in- 
 differently. After this period, leaving for Ore- 
 gon, he located at Independence, Polk county, 
 where he went to work as a farm hand. Two 
 years later, in 1855, he went to Yamhill county, 
 beginning the purchases of land that formed a 
 part of his early planning for the home he ex- 
 pected to make in the west. He bought first one 
 hundred and sixty acres one mile north* of Dun- 
 dee, following this with another of the same 
 amount, also twenty-seven and a half acres. 
 Meeting with nothing but prosperity, it became 
 an easy matter to add to his already broad acres, 
 and at one time he owned nine hundred acres, 
 the greater part of which, however, he soon con- 
 verted into money. From 1855 he had been 
 more or less engaged in milling, running the 
 mill located near his home for eight years, being 
 chief miller. After the misfortune of losing his 
 mill by fire, he superintended the Chehalem mill 
 near Newberg for two years, and since that time 
 has been engaged in farming. 
 
 Mr. Keyes is a Republican in his political 
 affiliations and during several years past has 
 very often been the choice of the people for 
 various offices that are at the disposal of his 
 party, being constable and road supervisor at 
 one time. He has always been interested in all 
 school questions and duties, serving intelligently 
 as school director in his community for some 
 time. He was later appointed a judge of elec- 
 tion, having served 'in that capacity for twelve 
 years, and as clerk six years. 
 
 Mr. Keyes married Miss Mary Corzine, who 
 died May 11, 1887. She was a native of Little 
 Rock, Ark., born July 24, 1841. Her father and 
 mother had emigrated from Arkansas in 1843, 
 settling in Salem, Ore., where the mother died 
 in 1849. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Keyes were, in order of birth : Laura, now Mrs. 
 J. D. Hardwick, of Salem, Ore. ; George Lin- 
 coln, who met with a sad fate, being burned to 
 death; Cornelia, now Mrs. Nicholas Wall, of 
 Dundee, whose husband is a farmer; Frank, liv- 
 ing on the home place ; Clara, who became Mrs. 
 Edwards, and is now deceased ; Grace, wife of 
 
 Joseph Etzwiler, who is engaged in farming 
 near Newberg; May, wife of Elmer McCleery, 
 engaged in farming near Salem. Mr. Keyes now 
 makes his home with the son who is his name- 
 sake. 
 
 JOSEPH H. TEMPLETON. The donation 
 claim upon which William Templeton located in 
 1847 i s now owned by his sons, of whom Joseph 
 is one of the most ambitious and successful of 
 men. He was born in Holt county, Mo., Febru- 
 ary 17, 1842. William Templeton, his father, 
 was born in Rockbridge county, Va., October 
 15, 1809, and at an early day moved with his 
 parents to Henry county, Ind. Here he married 
 Elizabeth M. Ramsey, of which union there 
 were born thirteen children, eleven of whom 
 came across the plains with their parents in 
 1847 from Flolt county, Mo., where they then 
 lived. Two wagons with four yoke of oxen 
 each, a few cows, and plenty of provisions were 
 gathered together for the expedition, the start 
 being made in the early morning. The elder 
 Templeton took up a section of land three miles 
 east of Brownsville, and erected the little log 
 cabin in which the family started housekeeping 
 in the wilds of Oregon, their neighbors remote, 
 and their immediate prospects not particularly 
 encouraging. The father had some strong young 
 sons to help him clear and cultivate his land, 
 and soon there was in working order a 
 little family community, harmoniously working 
 against great odds for the right to enjoy some 
 of the comforts of life in future. The year 
 after his arrival the father tried mining in Cali- 
 fornia for a short time, making his way there by 
 pack horses over the mountains, and returning 
 by steamer from San Francisco to Portland. He 
 was not successful as a miner, and was glad to 
 return to the slower but far more reliable occu- 
 pation of tilling the soil. His death occurred on 
 his home farm, January 19, 1882, and those left 
 behind mourned a faithful husband, devoted 
 father, and worthy man. His wife survived 
 until May 8, 1898, she having been born Febru- 
 ary 13, 1812. Both of these people were prom- 
 inent in their neighborhood, and exerted an in- 
 fluence for good at home, in 1 the church, and in 
 a social way. Both were devoted members of 
 the Presbyterian Church at Brownsville, and 
 helped to organize it, giving generously of their 
 time and means for its continued upbuilding. 
 Mr. Templeton was a stanch Republican, and 
 in the early days served as justice of the peace. 
 
 Five years of age when he came to Oregon, 
 Joseph H. Templeton was reared and early 
 taught to make himself useful around the home 
 farm, for it was the policy of the parents to 
 
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 train the children to habits of thrift and indus- 
 try, and no drones invaded the family circle. As 
 a young man he met and became interested in 
 a young neighbor, Emma Hudelson, and the re- 
 sult of this association culminated in marriage, 
 December 13, 1883. With his wife, Mr. Tem- 
 pleton settled on one hundred and eighty-two 
 acres of the paternal claim, and the industry and 
 good management of the husband, and the help 
 and sympathy of the wife have brought about 
 more than expected good fortune. General 
 farming and stock-raising are engaged in, and 
 ever since 1876 a large hop-yard has been an 
 adjunct to the farm. Mr. Templeton is greatly 
 interested in the cause of education, and has ex- 
 erted a progressive influence as a member of the 
 school board for five years. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church, and, like his 
 father, is active in its charities and general main- 
 tenance. To Mr. and Mrs. Templeton were 
 born two children : Leighton F. ; and Ray- 
 mond D. The wife of Mr. Templeton died 
 October 2, 1892. She was a devout member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, a devoted wife and a 
 kind and loving mother. She was buried in the 
 McHargue Cemetery near Brownsville. She 
 was born April 20, 1862. in Henry county, Ind., 
 where she lived until a short time before her 
 marriage. 
 
 GREENBURY SPLAWN. One of the finest 
 stock farms along the Calapooia river in Linn 
 county is that owned by Greenbury Splawn, who 
 represents one of the early pioneer families of 
 this state, and who was three years of age when 
 he came here in 1850 from Holt county, Mo., 
 where Mr. Splawn was born June 19, 1847. 
 Moses Splawn and his wife, Ann (Riggs) 
 Splawn, natives respectively of Missouri and 
 Kentucky, were married in the former state, 
 and for many years lived there on a farm in 
 Holt county. Several children were born into 
 their family, and the father finally determined 
 to investigate the truth of the glowing reports 
 which came to him from the west. Accordingly, 
 he sold his farm, and with the money outfitted 
 to cross the plains in the spring of 1850, pur- 
 chasing two wagons, each having three yoke of 
 oxen, and taking with him one cow to supply 
 milk for the travelers. All went well at first, 
 and the Indians were not very troublesome, but 
 the dreaded cholera invaded the ranks of the 
 party. The father and oldest son, John, the two 
 mainstays of the wife and younger children, suc- 
 cumbed to the disease, leaving the rest to com- 
 plete the journey alone. Fortunately there was 
 remaining one son about nineteen years of age, 
 and he drove the oxen the rest of the way, and 
 cared for his heart-broken mother and fatherless 
 
 brothers and sisters. Arriving in Linn county, 
 Ore., the wife and son took up a claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres near Holley on the 
 Calipooia, which farm is still in the possession 
 of the family, a portion being occupied by 
 Greenbury Splawn. Here the mother lived to 
 the good old age of eighty-six years, and during 
 her many years in the west she doubtless viewed 
 with pride her splendid property along the river 
 bank, stocked with high-grade cattle, and with 
 its productive soil yielding abundant harvests. 
 
 Reared as are the average farmer lads of the 
 country, Greenbury Splawn was above all else 
 industrious and conscientious, and was so well 
 versed in general agriculture that he assumed 
 the entire management of the farm upon attain- 
 ing his majority. With the exception of two 
 years spent in farming in Lane county, he has 
 since made the old home his own abode, and has 
 not only successfully operated the land left by 
 his mother, but has added thereto, and now 
 owns five hundred and fifteen acres. He is en- 
 gaged in general stock-raising and farming, 
 making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle. One hun- 
 dred and twenty-five acres are under cultivation 
 and the rest devoted to pasturage. 
 
 In establishing a reputation as one of the 
 foremost farmers in his neighborhood, Mr. 
 Splawn has had the assistance of a capable and 
 sympathetic wife, whom he married March 28, 
 1869, and who was formerly Amanda E. Mat- 
 lock. Seven children have come to gladden his 
 home, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 John T. ; Nora ; Effie and Etta, twins ; Frank ; 
 Jesse M. ; and Ida ; all at home. Mr. Splawn 
 is a Democrat in politics, but he has never 
 striven for political preferment. He is progres- 
 sive and public-spirited, and bears an enviable 
 record for good farming and fair dealing. 
 
 ASHER F. HAMILTON. The mercantile 
 business of Asher F. Hamilton of Holley, 
 though a comparatively new undertaking, would 
 seem destined for many years of success, judg- 
 ing from the patronage accorded it during its 
 three years of existence. His father, Silas Ham- 
 ilton, was engaged in farming near Waukegan, 
 111., when Asher F. was born. Silas Hamilton 
 was born in Genesee county, N. Y., was reared 
 on a farm, and as a young man went alone to 
 Illinois, where he lived for several years, mar- 
 ried Anne Ferry, a native of Massachusetts, and 
 then locating in Berlin, Greenlake county, Wis., 
 afterward started the store which gave him his 
 first start in life. He moved to Wisconsin when 
 Asher F. was a small boy, and late in life came 
 to Holley, Ore., where his death occurred Sep- 
 tember 17, 1894, at the age of seventy-six years. 
 
 As a boy A. F. Hamilton worked in his fath- 
 
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 er's store, and in time went to Chicago and took 
 a course at a commercial college. An oppor- 
 tunity to come west in 1866 with Colonel Saw- 
 yer was readily taken up, and he crossed the 
 plains with his employer with ox-teams, remain- 
 ing with him for a year in his California home. 
 He then returned via the Isthmus to his home 
 in Wisconsin, engaged with his father in the 
 mercantile business, and again came to Califor- 
 nia in 1870. Two years later he went again to 
 Wisconsin, returning to the west in 1873, and 
 settling permanently in Oregon. In Linn county 
 he became interested in farming, but soon aban- 
 doned it for a general merchandise business in 
 Sweet Home. Six years later he again resumed 
 farming for two years. He then established a 
 general merchandise business in Holley, four 
 years later returning to the farm, but since the 
 fall of 1900 has conducted his store in Holley. 
 
 March 2, 1873, Mr. Hamilton married Mary 
 .E. Crane, daughter of James Elliott and Rachel 
 (Fike) Crane. Mrs. Hamilton was born in 
 Sacramento, Cal., and was reared in the middle 
 west. She is the mother of eight children : Olive 
 Lulu, wife of Cyrus V. Barr, of Sweet Home, 
 Ore. ; Fannie Rachel, wife of W. R. Mealey of 
 Foster, Ore. ; Charles Asher, married and living 
 with his parents ; William Silas, of Altoona, 
 Wash. ; Ruth May ; Jennie Mabel ; Bessie Pearl ; 
 and James Harley. Mr. Hamilton is a Prohibi- 
 tionist in politics, and has been postmaster of 
 Holley during all the years of his residence 
 there. He has served on the school board both 
 as trustee and clerk, but is not a politician, car- 
 ing little for offices in general. With his wife 
 and family he is a member of the Advent Chris- 
 tian Church of Sweet Home. In all of his un- 
 dertakings in the west Mr. Hamilton has been 
 successful, and has won a reputation for fair 
 dealing and progress, as well as for tact, kindli- 
 ness and geniality. 
 
 FRANCIS MALONE. As one of the pio- 
 neers who came to Oregon without capital, and 
 upon the foundation of grit and determination 
 accumulated a competence through a correct un- 
 derstanding of the chances by which he was 
 surrounded, Francis Malone is entitled to men- 
 tion among the forerunners of civilization in the 
 northwest. His earliest years were spent on a 
 farm near Lone Jack, Tenn., where he* was born 
 October 9, 1834, and whence he removed with 
 his parents at the age of six years to Cass 
 county, Mo. Monotonous and uneventful, his 
 life was passed on a farm until the spring of 
 1852, when he joined a caravan bound for the 
 undeveloped west, of which he had heard much 
 from returning travelers. For nearly six months 
 he tramped beside the slowly plodding oxen, 
 
 glad of the falling darkness which permitted 
 rest for his weary feet. With the dawn the 
 party was up and doing, and he helped to feed 
 and yoke the oxen, and to do such other things 
 as were required of a man working his way 
 across the plains. 
 
 The first winter in Linn county Mr. Malone 
 split rails for a living, and in the spring of 1853 
 went to the mines in southern Oregon, return- 
 ing at the end of a year to Linn county. He 
 then took up a claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres near Holley, where he kept bachelor quar- 
 ters for a couple of years. October 15, 1858, he 
 was united in marriage with Ellen Splawn, 
 daughter of Moses Splawn. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Malone removed to the farm now 
 occupied by his wife and children, and which, 
 at the time of his death, October 15, 1890, con- 
 tained eighteen hundred acres in one body. This 
 enormous farm speaks volumes for the enter- 
 prise and good business management of the 
 owner, for it is unincumbered and valuable 
 land, two miles of it being in the bottoms. He 
 inaugurated many fine improvements, built ex- 
 tensively, and engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. Frugal and industrious, honor- 
 able and thrifty, he saved more than he spent, 
 and thus always kept ahead financially. The 
 great farm is now occupied by his wife and 
 children, among the latter being Nancy, who is 
 the wife of Murray Barrett; Thomas J. married 
 Eliza A. Weddle ; Lizzie, who is the wife of 
 Perry McQuinn ; Sarah, deceased, was the wife 
 of Jerry Keeney; Ida is the wife of P. L. Rob- 
 inet ; and Clara. Mr. Malone served in the In- 
 dian war of 1855-6, and for three months fought 
 the red men on the upper Columbia and in the 
 Walla Walla country. He was a man who made 
 many friends as he went through life, and what 
 is better, retained them for many years. He 
 contributed not a little to the upbuilding of the 
 county in which he lived, and at all times main- 
 tained the best possible agricultural standard 
 His widow has recently been awarded a pension 
 on account of Mr. Malone's service in the In- 
 dian war. 
 
 JAMES AGEE. It was the fortune of 
 James Agee to be born very near the city of 
 St. Joseph, Mo., from which town the emigrants 
 were taking their way into the new lands of the 
 west, and it was therefore a matter of no won- 
 der that the parents early joined the westward 
 trend of civilization. He was born in Dekalb 
 county, Mo., July 17, 1844, the son of Isaac and 
 Cordelia (Thornton) Agee. In the spring of 
 1852 the father gathered together his worldly 
 wealth, and with his wife and eleven children 
 he crossed the plains with two wagons drawn 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 by ox-teams, and several head of cattle and 
 oxen, with which to begin the work of farming 
 in their new home. The journey was ended 
 safely and the first location decided upon was in 
 Yamhill county, between Sheridan and McMinn- 
 vifle, where Mr. Agee took up a claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres. This was the last 
 home of the head of the family, for there he re- 
 mained until his death in 1901, at the advanced 
 age of eighty-nine years. He had proven him- 
 self a sturdy pioneer of the new land, giving his 
 strength and intelligence toward the cultivation 
 of the broad acres of the state, and his influence 
 toward the western growth. Two of his sons, 
 William and Wilson, proved valiant soldiers in 
 the Cayuse war. 
 
 James Agee was eight years old when the 
 journey across the plains was made and he re- 
 mained at home until he was twenty years old, 
 when he began to work for his brother. Three 
 years later he went to Walla Walla, Wash., and 
 remained for one year, when he returned to 
 Yamhill county and bought a farm of four hun- 
 dred acres, and there spent the ensuing ten years 
 of his life. At the expiration of this period he 
 made another purchase of land, embodying six 
 hundred and eighty-six acres, upon which he 
 lived for sixteen years, leaving then and locating 
 near Sodaville, in Linn county, principally on 
 account of ill health. He has since made this 
 his home, now owning forty-six acres adjoining 
 McMinnville, and on his farm of four hundred 
 acres being engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Agee took place in 
 1869 and united him with Miss Fannie Murray, 
 by whom he had ten children, the three now liv- 
 ing being as follows : Rufus P., Wilber and 
 Isaac Newton. His second wife was Mrs. May 
 Murray, the widow of Charles Murray. Mr, 
 and Mrs. Agee have one child, Hubert J. In 
 politics Mr. Agee is a Democrat, and fraternally 
 he is a member of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows of McMinnville, and also belongs 
 to McMinnville Lodge No. 43, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 ROBERT R. TEMPLETON. Although 
 born in Holt county, Mo., October 3, 1846, Rob- 
 ert R. Templeton owes his early training, start 
 in life, and subsequent success to the environ- 
 ment in Oregon to which his parents brought 
 him when a little more than a year old. His 
 entire active life has been spent in the country, 
 in farming, stock-raising, trapping and hunting, 
 and since July, 1900, he has lived on his present 
 farm of three^ hundred and seventeen acres, fif- 
 teen of which are devoted to hops. Mr. Tem- 
 pleton's father, William, was born in Virginia, 
 and his mother, Elizabeth (Ramsey) Templeton, 
 was born in Pennsylvania. The parents moved 
 
 at an early day to Holt county, Mo., and lived 
 on a farm there until crossing the plains to Ore- 
 gon in 1847. The family party was a large one, 
 for there were eleven children, and the prepara- 
 tions for sheltering and feeding all during the 
 long journey were necessarily extensive. They 
 had two wagons, many pairs of oxen, a few 
 cows and one horse, but when they got to Tygh 
 Valley, just before crossing the mountains, they 
 discarded one of the wagons and came the rest 
 of the way with the other.. Mr. Templeton lo- 
 cated a claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 three miles east of Brownsville, along the Cal- 
 lapooya river, the greater part of which was fer- 
 cile and productive, and waited but the industry 
 of man to convert it into a source of great profit. 
 This industry Mr. Templeton possessed in great 
 measure, and he was also a good manager and 
 practical business man. 
 
 Robert R. grew to manhood on the Linn 
 county farm, and when old enough to go to 
 school received his elementary education in a 
 little log school house. At the age of twenty-one 
 he went to eastern Oregon and engaged for a 
 year in trapping and hunting, bringing back 
 with him some particularly fine pelts, and gain- 
 ing material for some exceedingly interesting 
 stories of bear and other large game of that re- 
 gion. Returning, he spent a year and a half in 
 Tacoma, Wash., and then bought a farm with 
 his brother. William, and conducted the same 
 for a year. This farm was located near Halsey 
 and after disposing of it Mr. Templeton en- 
 gaged in the stock business at Pinesville for 
 about nine years, returning then and settling on 
 a part of his father's farm. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Templeton was united in mar- 
 riage with Ollie Montgomery, of which union 
 there have been born five children : Bessie, Ada, 
 Clyde, John and Andrew. The last three named 
 children are deceased. Mr. Templeton's present 
 farm is a portion of the old homestead of which 
 he took possession in July, 1900, is heretofore 
 stated. He has made many fine improvements, 
 and in his manner of conducting his property is 
 abreast of the times, having the latest of agri- 
 cutural implements. Mr. Templeton has taken 
 an intelligent interest in Republican politics, 
 serving as a member of the school board, for 
 many years. Both himself and wife are active 
 members in the Presbyterian Church, and he 
 has been an elder in the church four years. No 
 man in this community bears a better reputation 
 or one more in accord with a wide-awake and 
 progressive agricultural region. 
 
 JOHN OSBURN. One of the thrifty and 
 thriving farmers of Polk county is John Osburn, 
 a well-known citizen of Independence, a town 
 which is fortunate in having been settled by a 
 
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 remarkably enterprising, industrious and intelli- 
 gent class of people. A man of upright princi- 
 ples and good business ability, he has won well 
 deserved success through his own energetic ef- 
 forts and wisely directed toil, and while advanc- 
 ing his own interests has given material assist- 
 ance in developing the resources of his town and 
 county. John Osburn was born in Orange 
 county, Ind., August 25, 1831, and acquired his 
 early education in the old log schoolhouse which 
 constituted the entire educational equipment of 
 that region. Reared to habits of diligence, he 
 commenced when quite young to assist in the 
 care of the home farm, remaining with his par- 
 ents until 1850. Ambitious then to enlarge his 
 field of operations, he joined an emigrant train 
 of three wagons bound for Oregon, paying $100 
 for his fare. During the six months that he was 
 on the way, he walked the greater part of the 
 distance, driving one of the teams. Settling first 
 in Oregon City, he remained there until the 
 spring of 185 1, when he proceeded to Salem. In 
 March, 1852, he went to southern Oregon to 
 engage in mining on Jackson Creek, in Jackson- 
 ville. Soon after he took up a donation claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres on Little Butte, 
 and was engaged in stock-raising and mining 
 for several years, being quite prosperous in 
 both branches of industry. Also, in company 
 with P. P. Prim, he did considerable prospecting 
 in that section of the state. At intervals during 
 his residence there serious trouble with the In- 
 dians arose, and Mr. Osburn took an active part 
 in some of the engagements of those years, serv- 
 ing from August 8, 1853, until November 1, 
 1853, under Capt. J. F. Miller, in the Rogue 
 River war. Subsequently, in the Rogue River 
 war of 1855 and 1856, he served for eight 
 months as second lieutenant of Company G, 
 under Capt. Miles F. Alcorn. 
 
 Disposing of his ranch on the Little Butte in 
 1863, Mr. Osburn went to Idaho, where, for two 
 years he was* employed in mining operations at 
 Florence City and Idaho City. Meeting with 
 but little success there, he left Idaho in 1865, 
 coming to Polk county, Ore., to look after his 
 present farm, or at least one hundred and seven- 
 ty-four acres of it, which he had received in ex- 
 change for a band of bronchos, trading while on 
 the way to Idaho. The land was wild prairie, 
 and this he has since transformed into a finely 
 cultivated, rich and productive farm, adding all 
 the improvements since he came here. He has 
 also bought adjoining land, his estate now con- 
 taining two hundred and fifty acres of land, 
 which is devoted to general farming, stock-rais- 
 ing and dairying. 
 
 In 1867, in Benton county, Ore., Mr. Osburn 
 married Harriet Martin, who was born in Iowa 
 in 1846. Her father, Jacob Martin, was among 
 
 the pioneer settlers of Benton county, removing 
 there with his family in 1847. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Osburn have five children, namely : Orange, a 
 resident of Salem, Ore. ; Mrs. Estella Barker, of 
 Baker City, Ore. ; Ernest, living in Alaska ; 
 R. D. ; and Lettie Huntley, at home. Mr. Os- 
 burn is a member of Oak Grove Grange, and 
 has rendered his town excellent service as road 
 supervisor, school clerk, and school director. In 
 politics he is a stanch Republican, uniformly 
 casting his vote in support of the principles of 
 that party. 
 
 JOHN HOWARD REES. A genial, hearty, 
 whole-souled man is John Howard Rees, who 
 came to Oregon in the spring of 1880. His 
 father, James Rees, was born in Greene county, 
 Tenn., in 1813, and at seventeen years of age, in 
 1830, he and his father, William Rees, a native 
 of Virginia, joined an emigrating train to Il- 
 linois, locating in Vermilion county, where they 
 bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, and 
 here the elder Rees died. Here James married 
 Miss Jemima Dillon, also from Greene county, 
 Tenn., having emigrated in the same train as her 
 husband. Eight children blessed this union, 
 three sons and five daughters, one of whom died 
 in infancy. John H. was the seventh child, born 
 January 29, 1859, in Vermilion county. At her 
 home in the latter county the mother passed 
 away when sixty-six years old, and the bereaved 
 husband went west to pass the remainder of his 
 days with the son, who had settled at Spring- 
 brook, Yamhill county, Ore. Here the father 
 died at the age of seventy-five. 
 
 The education that Mr. Rees had received in 
 the common schools of Illinois and the academy 
 of his native county stood him in good stead, as 
 he used the knowledge thus gained to teach in 
 the public schools, thereby acquiring sufficient 
 means to help him in his western venture. Upon 
 his arrival in Oregon he purchased a farm situ- 
 ated three-quarters of a mile west of Spring- 
 brook, containing one hundred acres, twenty 
 acres of which he has put out in fruit, the re- 
 mainder being utilized for general farming with 
 the exception of thirty acres, which is fine pas- 
 ture land for grazing purposes, as he owns ten 
 cows and carries on quite a scientific dairy busi- 
 ness in conjunction with his farming. He has 
 invested in a cream separator, thereby saving 
 the expense and trouble of carrying his milk to 
 a creamery. This business is very profitable and 
 carried on in the manner in which Mr. Rees 
 prosecutes it, is very pleasant, adding not a little 
 to his income and presenting a pretty pastoral 
 scene with the broad, green meadows and sleek, 
 well kept cattle. 
 
 Mr. Rees was married in Portland to Miss 
 
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 Lucy Hoskins. who had been a resident of Ver- 
 milion Grove, 111., at the time her husband had 
 made his home there, and four children born to 
 them are : Algernon F.. deceased ; Ralph W. : 
 Victor E. ; and Florence ; all those living being 
 at home. Mrs. Rees' father was George Hos- 
 kins. a native of Xorth Carolina, who came to 
 Indiana and Illinois, dividing his years pretty 
 equally between the two places, until he finally 
 settled permanently in Vermilion Grove, 111., 
 where he is now living a retired life. 
 
 Mr. Rees is very active in public life, lending 
 himself to every movement that has for its end 
 the upbuilding of his country or the benefit of 
 his fellow-men. He is a member of the Friends 
 Church, and is fraternally connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World. A Republican as to 
 his political inclinations, he has served as con- 
 stable, and at the present time is a trustee of 
 the Pacific College at Newberg and clerk of the 
 school board, which latter position he has held 
 for fourteen years. He is one of the oldest set- 
 tlers of the later emigration in this community, 
 and he does honor to the state which he has 
 helped to develop. 
 
 RUFUS C. CROSBY. The Crosby family is 
 undoubtedly of English origin. The name is 
 first mentioned in England under the reign of 
 King John, in 1204. The ancestral history in 
 America can be traced back to Samuel Crosby, 
 who came from London, England, to the new 
 world and settled at Charlestown, Mass., in 1635. 
 Phinias Crosby, the great-grandfather of our 
 subject, was usually known as "Parson," being 
 a minister of the Congregational Church. He was 
 born in Hanover, X. H., and always resided in 
 Xew England. Isaac Crosby, the grandfather. 
 was born in X'ew Fane. AT., and in 1820 he went 
 to Massachusetts. He married a Miss Fair, who 
 died when his son, Isaac Xewton, the father of 
 our subject, was but a year old. The" latter was 
 born in Milford, Mass., July 10, 1824, and for 
 many years resided in that place. At various 
 times he devoted his energies to farming and 
 general merchandising and to the coal business, 
 and was long recognized as a leading business 
 man of his native town. He is also a self-made 
 man, for from an early age he depended upon 
 his own resources. He is now living a retired 
 life in Woonsocket, R. I. In public office he has 
 also been quite prominent and has served as as- 
 sessor and in other town offices. He married 
 Maria Farman Howard, who was born in Bethel, 
 Me., in Xovember, 1824. She is descended from 
 the Howards who lived at Howards Grove in 
 Massachusetts. Her great-grandfather was 
 Phinias Howard, and the genealogical history 
 of the family is to be found in the Newberry 
 
 library of Chicago. In 1809 there was a marriage 
 celebrated between a member of the Howard 
 family and the Dustan family, of which Mrs. 
 Rufus C. Crosby is a representative. 
 
 The subject of this review is the eldest of six 
 children, five sons and a daughter, born unto his 
 parents. Of this number the daughter and two 
 sons are yet living. He obtained his literary edu- 
 cation in the public schools and afterward pur- 
 sued a commercial course in Eaton College in 
 Boston, whence he graduated in 1868. He then 
 entered upon his business career in the capacity 
 of a bookkeeper in the employ of a lumber 
 merchant of Milford, Mass., in 1873. I" I 88o he 
 removed to Providence, R. I., and purchased a 
 third interest in the business of A. B. Rice & 
 Company, lumber merchants, with whom he was 
 associated for two years. On the expiration of 
 that period he disposed of his interests on the 
 Atlantic coast and removed to Duluth, Minn., 
 from which place he traveled for a lumber firm 
 for a year. Then going to North Dakota, he 
 purchased railway land, becoming the owner of 
 one hundred and sixty acres, to the cultivation 
 of which he gave his attention for two or three 
 years. The year 1886 witnessed his arrival in 
 Portland, Ore., where he took charge of the 
 lumber business of the firm of Park & Lacey, 
 with whom he was connected for two or three 
 years. He was then a stockholder in the Oregon 
 & California Lumber Company to the extent of 
 $10,000, and after two or three years' connec- 
 tion with that corporation he came to Dundee and 
 made investment in a prune orchard. The culti- 
 vation of prunes has become one of the important 
 industrial interests of the northwest. He has 
 fifty acres of land here, of which twenty acres 
 are devoted to that fruit, and upon his place he 
 has a dryer and all equipments for caring for his 
 prunes and preparing them for shipment. Re- 
 cently he has erected a fine residence and large 
 substantial barn in Dundee. His home is built 
 in modern style of architecture and is one of the 
 most attractive places of the town. Mr. Crosby 
 has always been a lover of fine horses and always 
 keeps a number of excellent specimens. He also 
 has a number of fine carriages and takes great 
 delight in driving over the country. 
 
 In Milford, Mass.. occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Crosby and Mrs. Sarah M. (Dustan) Blakes- 
 lee, who was born in Spartansburg. Pa., a daugh- 
 ter of John H. Dustan, who was a native of New 
 Hampshire and a lineal descendant of Hannah 
 Dustan, who figures in the history of the country. 
 John H. Dustan engaged in business as a mill- 
 wright in Boston and afterward removed to 
 Pennsylvania, where he lived for many years, but 
 in 1892 he came to Oregon, settling in Portland, 
 where he is now engaged in the dairy business. 
 Lnto Mr. and Mrs. Crosbv were born two chil- 
 
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 dren, but they lost their daughter, Madeline, who 
 died in 1891, at the age of nine years. The son, 
 John Newton, is now a freshman in the Hills 
 Military School at Portland. Mrs. Crosby had 
 one child by her first marriage, Ida Lelle, who 
 is now the wife of Dr. A. P. Watson, of Port- 
 land. 
 
 Mr. Crosby belongs to the Royal Arcanum, be- 
 ing a charter member of Oregon Council, which 
 was organized in Portland in 1892. In politics 
 he is a most earnest Republican, who keeps well 
 informed on the issues and questions of the day, 
 and does everything in his power to promote the 
 growth and insure the success of his party. His 
 fine home in Dundee and his prune farm are the 
 visible evidences of his life of industry and care- 
 fully directed labor. The west with its pulsating 
 industrial life is continually drawing to it men 
 of business capacity who come from the older 
 east and find in the opportunities of this section 
 of the country the business advantages which 
 they seek. This Mr. Crosby has done and in his 
 work here he is meeting with well-merited pros- 
 perity. 
 
 CHARLES F. MOORE. One of the most 
 reliable and popular of the pioneer business men 
 of Newberg is Charles F. Moore, engaged for 
 the greater part of his active life in the drug 
 business, and at present the owner and manager 
 of one of the best equipped drug stores in Yam- 
 hill county. Mr. Moore comes from sturdy and 
 enterprising farmer stock, and was born near 
 New Providence, Hardin county, Iowa, Septem- 
 ber 27, 1857, the- ninth of the seven daughters 
 and five sons born to Alfred Moore, a native of 
 Iowa. The elder Moore removed from Indiana 
 to the vicinity of New Providence, Iowa, and 
 there engaged in farming on one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land until his removal to Oregon, 
 in 1877. For a time he lived at Eugene and 
 Woodburn, removing then to Dayton, and from 
 there to Newberg, where he has since been re- 
 tired. He is a broad-minded and liberal man, in 
 touch with happenings the world over, and great- 
 ly interested in the cause of education, which he 
 has done his utmost to promote. 
 
 A common school education and practical home 
 training were the equipments with which Charles 
 F. Moore started out to make his own living. 
 With his brother, Dr. J. B.,a practicing physician, 
 he engaged in the drug business, serving an ap- 
 prenticeship of three years, and thoroughly 
 learning eA'ery department of the business. In 
 1890 he bought out his brother, who now resides 
 in Oregon City, and has since conducted it inde- 
 pendently and with gratifying success. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Moore was formerly Mary E. 
 Patty, who was born in Iowa, a daughter of 
 
 Charles W. Patty, a local minister of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church in Indiana. Of the chil- 
 dren born of this union two are living: Pearl C. 
 and Paul. Mr. Moore is a Republican in political 
 affiliation, and has been postmaster of Newberg 
 for six years, and councilman for two terms. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the 
 World. In religion he is a member of the Society 
 of Friends. 
 
 HENRY J. MINTHORN, M. D. For 
 twenty years Henry J. Minthorn has been 
 a resident of Oregon and at the present time is 
 engaged in the practice of medicine in New- 
 berg. He was born in Ontario, Canada, April 26, 
 1846. His paternal grandfather, John Minthorn, 
 was a native of New York and removed to Can- 
 ada, where he followed the occupation of farm- 
 ing and spent his remaining days. His son, The- 
 odore Minthorn, was born in Ontario^ in 1816, 
 and he, too, carried on agricultural pursuits 
 throughout his active business career. In 1856 
 he came to the United States, locating in Cedar 
 county, Iowa, where he purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land and engaged in farming, 
 devoting his energies to the further cultivation 
 and improvement of his property until his death, 
 which occurred in 1865. His wife bore the 
 maiden name of Mary Wesley and was born in 
 Ontario, Canada, her father being Henry Wes- 
 ley, a native of Pennsylvania. He was also a 
 farmer by occupation and removed from the Key- 
 stone state to the Dominion, where he lived until 
 called to the home beyond. 
 
 Dr. Minthorn of this review was the third 
 child and eldest son in a family of two sons and 
 five daughters. He obtained a common school 
 education and then entered the Western College 
 in Lynn county, Iowa, at the age of fifteen years. 
 A year later he became a student in the Iowa 
 State University, where he remained for a 
 year, and when seventeen years of age 
 he engaged in teaching school for one 
 term, after which he again spent a year 
 in the State University. In 1865, while still a 
 student, he joined a company of college boys en- 
 listing in the United States army as a member 
 of Company D, Forty-fourth Iowa Volunteer In- 
 fantry. The regiment was assigned to the de- 
 partment of the Mississippi, with the Seventeenth 
 Army Corps, under Gen. A. J. Smith and Colonel 
 Henderson, and in November, 1865, Dr. Min- 
 thorn received an honorable discharge. 
 
 When the country no longer needed his services 
 he returned to Iowa and again spent a short 
 period in the State University, after which he 
 entered upon educational work. He spent the 
 year 1866 as a teacher in Polk county, and in 
 
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 1243 
 
 1867 secured a position in the schools of Cedar 
 county, Iowa, where he remained for two years, 
 when in 1869 he went to Michigan, where he fol- 
 lowed his chosen pursuit for a year. He was 
 afterward a teacher in Tennessee for three years 
 and then, having determined to prepare for the 
 practice of medicine, he entered the Miami Medi- 
 cal College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he re- 
 mained for a year. In 1873 he became a student 
 in the medical department of the Iowa State 
 University, in which he was graduated on March 
 4, 1874, with the degree of M. D. After practic- 
 ing for three years in Cedar county, Iowa, he 
 entered the Jefferson Medical College at Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., and the degree of M. D. was again 
 conferred upon him at his graduation with the 
 class of 1877. Through the two succeeding 
 years he practiced with success in Cedar county, 
 Iowa, and then entered the government service in 
 the Indian department as agency physician of the 
 Ponco agency, serving in that capacity for three 
 years. In February, 1882, he was sent to Ore- 
 gon to take charge of the Indian school at Forest 
 Grove and in October, 1884, he was transferred 
 to the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma ter- 
 ritory, where he remained until September, 1885, 
 acting as superintendent at that place. Again 
 coming to Oregon, he located in Newberg, and 
 took charge of the Friends Pacific Academy, 
 which is now the Pacific College. For three 
 years he was connected with that institution, 
 serving as its superintendent, and in 1888 he re- 
 moved to Salem, Ore., becoming an active factor 
 in business affairs of that city as president of the 
 Oregon Land Company and of the Salem Street 
 Railway Company. After six years, however, he 
 returned to Iowa in 1894, locating in Muscatine 
 county, where he successfully engaged in the 
 practice of medicine, served as county physician 
 and also conducted the Muscatine Sanitarium. 
 In 1896 Dr. Minthorn suffered an attack of lung 
 fever and because of this he left Iowa and made 
 his way to William Duncan's Mission, at Met- 
 lakahtla, Alaska, where he continued for two 
 years in the practice of his profession. 
 
 In 1898 Dr. Minthorn again came to Oregon 
 and entered a farm on Prune Ridge near Scott's 
 Mills. He there lived for a year, going thence to 
 Hot Lake, Ore., where he remained for two 
 years and in connection with B. S. Cook he 
 purchased the hot springs, erected a new hotel 
 and bath-house and conducted a sanitarium, 
 where they are located. This venture proved a 
 prosperous one, and the sanitarium was not only 
 conducted with success during two years, but at 
 the end of that time was sold at a good profit. 
 In 1901 the doctor went to California and pur- 
 sued a course of study in the medical department 
 of the Southern California University. He had 
 taken a course on the diseases of children in the 
 
 Post-Graduate Medical College in 1895, and in 
 March, 1902, he came to Newberg, where he has 
 since lived. After two months he went to New- 
 port and built the Newport Beach ocean-water 
 baths, returning then to Newberg and renting the 
 office in which he is now located. He still, how- 
 ever, owns the baths at Newport Beach, which is 
 a fine summer resort. 
 
 Dr. Minthorn was married in Iowa to Miss 
 Laura E. Miles, who was born in Ohio, a daughter 
 of Benjamin Miles, native of North Carolina, 
 who followed the occupation of farming and was 
 superintendent of an Indian school in the Osage 
 Agency of the Indian Territory. Subsequently 
 he removed to Iowa, where he was superintendent 
 of White's Institute for many years. In 1886 he 
 came to Oregon, where he embarked in farming, 
 while at the time of his death he was also pres- 
 ident of the Newberg bank. The home of Dr. 
 and Mrs. Minthorn has been blessed with two 
 children : Gertrude, who is now a student in the 
 junior class of the Newberg College; and Mary, 
 who is a member of the freshman class in the 
 same institution. The family are members of the 
 Friends Church, and the doctor is a stalwart 
 Republican. He has served as postmaster at dif- 
 ferent times and places, and also filled other 
 local offices, and during President Cleveland's 
 first administration he was appointed special 
 agent for the allotment of lands to the Indians, 
 acting in that capacity for four years, during 
 which time he allotted the lands of the Warm 
 Springs Agency, in Oregon. 
 
 Dr. Minthorn has a wide acquaintance through- 
 out this state and possesses many excellent qual- 
 ities of heart and mind which have commended 
 for him the good will and confidence of those 
 with whom he has been associated. He has been 
 successful in his business affairs and his labors, 
 too, have been of benefit to his fellow-men. He 
 was especially loyal as a representative of the 
 government in dealing with the Indians, and in 
 every relation in which he has been found he has 
 ever been faithful and reliable. 
 
 HON. JAMES MONROE SHELLEY, of 
 whose life we propose to give a few salient facts 
 interesting alike to his many friends and neigh- 
 bors in Eugene, Ore., his present residence, is 
 a mill-owner in that section and at the present 
 writing is a prominent member of the legislature 
 of Oregon. He is a splendid example of what 
 a man may do by his own efforts when he has 
 the brain and energy to improve opportunities. 
 Mr. Shelley was born near Fairfield, Iowa, May 
 22, 1843, is a son of Michael and Sena (Mays) 
 Shelley and grandson of George D. Shelley. 
 
 George D. Shelley removed from Kentucky 
 to Jefferson county, Iowa, and engaged in agri- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cultural pursuits. About 1852 he started to 
 cross the plains with his family, but his health 
 gave way and at the crossing of the Snake river 
 he died from the effects of the hardships of the 
 journey. His wife proceeded to the Willamette 
 valley, and her death took place at Pleasant Hill, 
 Ore. 
 
 Michael Shelley, the father of James M. Shel- 
 ley, was a Kentuckian by birth, but accompanied 
 his parents to Iowa, and with his father farmed 
 in Jefferson county. In 1848, in company with 
 his wife and six children, he crossed the great 
 plains with ox-teams to the far west, the trip 
 consuming six months. About the middle of Sep- 
 tember, he arrived in Lane county, Ore., coming 
 by the Barlow route. Having friends who had 
 previously located at Pleasant Hill, the family 
 pursued their course thither, and took up a do- 
 nation claim, amounting to six hundred and forty 
 acres. This claim was partly bottom land and 
 partly hill land, and was surveyed by himself 
 in a crude way by compass and sun. 
 
 Mr. Shelley built a rail house to shelter his 
 family, and this was replaced a little later by a 
 more substantial log house. The following year 
 (1849), h e an d others were smitten with the 
 "gold fever" and determined to go to California, 
 but they became discouraged at Scottsburg and 
 returned to their claims. In 1857 he went north 
 to Monmouth, Polk county, and was so well 
 pleased with that location that in 1861 he sold 
 his farm in Lane county and bought a farm near 
 Independence. This farm contained two hun- 
 dred and thirty acres, and there Mr. Shelley fol- 
 lowed farming until 1868. During that year he 
 traded his farm for cattle in Yakima county, 
 Wash., but this turned out to be a poor invest- 
 ment, as the first winter was so severe that he 
 lost nearly all. A few years later he returned 
 to the Willamette valley. He almost reached 
 the four-score years allotted to man. His de- 
 mise took place in October, 1894, at the home 
 of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Sitton, near Mc- 
 Minnville, Ore. He was a modest, unassuming 
 man and did much real good in his vicinity. He 
 was for many years a member of the Christian 
 Church, and assisted in organizing the first 
 Christian Church at Pleasant Hill. He had 
 previously lost his wife, she having died in 1861. 
 This esteemed couple had a family of nine chil- 
 dren, as follows: Mrs. Mary Sitton, of Yam- 
 hill county ; Henry, who died in 1861 ; Ransom, 
 who was accidentally killed in 1865 by the fall 
 of a log from a house that was being built ; J. 
 M., the subject of this writing; Troy, who re- 
 sides in Hood River valley and is engaged in 
 horticulture; Roswell, a merchant at Hood, 
 river; Ellen E., now Mrs. John Summerville, of 
 Edmonton, province of Alberta, Canada; R. L., 
 who resides in Montesano, Wash.; and Mrs, 
 
 Walter Huston, residing near Harrisburg, Ore. 
 Hon. J. M. Shelley was but five years old when 
 his parents crossed the plains to the Pacific slope. 
 He was reared in the Willamette valley, his 
 primary education being received in district 
 schools. Later he took an advanced course in 
 the Christian College at Monmouth, which he 
 attended until eighteen years of age. Leaving 
 school, he assisted his father on the farm until 
 he reached his majority, and then engaged in 
 merchandising. His career in mercantile life 
 commenced in 1864, when he clerked for a short 
 time at Independence, Ore. The same year he 
 enlisted in the Union army as a member of Com- 
 pany A, First Regiment, Oregon Volunteer In- 
 fantry, being mustered into service at Salem, 
 December 19, of the same year. His regiment 
 was sent to Vancouver over winter and was then 
 sent back to Yamhill county. Mr. Shelley rose 
 to the grade of orderly sergeant. In the fall 
 of 1865, the regiment crossed the new Santiam 
 road over the Cascades and established Camp 
 Pope, Crook county. May 24 of the following 
 year Mr. Shelley left on a furlough. Returning 
 by way of The Dalles he rejoined his company 
 and was mustered out of service at Ft. Yamhill 
 June 30, 1866. Returning home he re-engaged 
 in clerking for several years at Independence, 
 and in 1 871 embarked in business at Harrisburg, 
 having purchased an interest in the general mer- 
 chandise establishment of Smith, Brasfield & 
 Co. In 1878 a branch store was established at 
 Junction City with Mr. Shelley in charge, and 
 he continued to be associated with that firm until 
 1879. I n 1880 he was nominated and elected 
 sheriff of Lane county, located at Eugene, and 
 made an efficient public officer for that term. 
 After a brief period again spent in clerking, in 
 1885, he accepted a position as traveling sales- 
 man in Oregon and Washington for Portland 
 firms, and continued in that line of work for 
 several years. In May, 1897, he purchased an 
 interest in the Eugene Mill & Elevator Company, 
 and his interests are still identified with that mill, 
 which has been changed to Williams & Shelley, 
 each "partner owning a half interest. The firm 
 carries on a large and successful business. Their 
 mill at Eugene has a capacity of fifty barrels per 
 day and is run by water power. They have a 
 large elevator in proximity to the mill and an- 
 other at Coburg, and are among the most ex- 
 tensive grain buyers in that section. 
 
 Mr. Shelley has been married twice. His first 
 wedding took place in 1874, when he was united 
 with Lydia A. Baxter, a Missourian by birth. 
 Some years later, Mr. Shelley was called upon 
 to mourn the loss of his wife, who died at Eu- 
 gene in 1884, leaving two children, Maud E., now 
 a trained nurse in Portland ; and Walter J., a 
 resident of Eugene. On January 26, 1898, he 
 
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 1245 
 
 was joined in marriage with Mrs. Nancy (John- 
 son) Applegate. A short review of Mrs. Shel- 
 ley's life is given in the following sketch. Mr. 
 Shelley has distinguished himself not only as an 
 excellent business man, but as a public-spirited 
 citizen, and for him nothing is more pleasant 
 than the performance of some useful service for 
 the community. He is blessed with exceptional 
 talents and so takes a high place in society and 
 politics. In his religious belief he is an influen- 
 tial member of the Christian Church, which he 
 joined more than forty years ago, and is a mem- 
 ber of the board of deacons. Fraternally, he is 
 allied with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
 Post No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic, having 
 served in official capacities in each. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Shelley was nominated on the 
 Republican ticket and elected to the state legis- 
 lature by a majority of six hundred and fifty 
 votes. He was chosen chairman of the labor and 
 industry committee, and was appointed a mem- 
 ber of the ways and means committee. He has 
 accomplished much good since his election, and 
 has secured the passage of several important bills. 
 He is the author of the Warehouse bill, which 
 became a law after a hard fight, and secured the 
 passage of a bill extending the Australian bal- 
 lot law to cities of two thousand population, and 
 has secured the passage of other bills equally im- 
 portant. Mr. Shelley is a member of the State 
 Pioneer Association and the State Historical So- 
 ciety. He has placed himself in the first rank of 
 the representative men of his section and his rec- 
 ord as a public servant is above reproach. 
 
 MRS. NANCY J. SHELLEY. This estima- 
 ble lady is the beloved wife of Hon. J. M. Shel- 
 ley, of Eugene, Ore., and is one of the most cul- 
 tured and refined ladies in that vicinity. Her 
 maiden name was Nancy Johnson, the daughter 
 of Melchi and Delila (Ware) Johnson, and 
 granddaughter of Samuel and Sarah (Rowland) 
 Johnson. 
 
 The Johnson family originally came from 
 Kentucky, where Melchi Johnson was born in 
 Warren county, April 17, 1807. In early man- 
 hood he left his native state, and, journeying 
 westward, settled for a time in Missouri, but 
 later came to Oregon, where he settled perma- 
 nently, in 1847. He crossed the plains by ox- 
 team. He first went to McMinnsville in Yam- 
 hill county, but soon afterward settled near 
 Amity in the same county and followed agricul- 
 tural pursuits there for an unbroken period of 
 forty years. Late in life he removed to Yon- 
 calla, Douglas county, where the last five years 
 of his life were spent. His death took place 
 July 14, 187.S. at the age of sixty-eight years. 
 
 Mrs. Shelley's mother was a native of Ten- 
 
 nessee, and her birth took place in Maury county, 
 March 10, 1820. On December 28, 1834, while 
 still in her fifteenth year, she was united in mar- 
 riage with Melchi Johnson. She was a daughter 
 of William and Elizabeth (Goodman) Ware, 
 her father being an extensive planter in Tennes- 
 see. Mrs. Johnson survived her husband many 
 years and reached the age of eighty years, and 
 died in Douglas county, Ore., in 1900. Both 
 she and her husband were members of the Chris- 
 tian Church. Of the ten children born to them, 
 nine grew to maturity. Two sons and three 
 daughters are still living. 
 
 Mrs. Shelley was born near McMinnsville, 
 Yamhill county, Ore., April 26, 1850, and is the 
 next to the youngest daughter of her parents. 
 She was reared in her native place and educated 
 in Bethel College in Polk county. January ij, 
 1869, she was united in marriage with Capt. 
 Albert Applegate, who is deceased. Seven chil- 
 dren blessed their union. They are : Mercy, 
 now Mrs. Dudley Holland, of Boise City, Idaho ; 
 Nellie, now Mrs. Arthur Pence, of Oakland, 
 Ore. ; J. Grant, engineer on the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad ; Charles F., a stockman at Yoncalla ; 
 Lulu B., Lucy I. and Albert D. reside with their 
 mother in Eugene. Capt. Albert Applegate was 
 born December 6, 1843, at the old mission at 
 Salem, Ore., and was the son of Charles Apple- 
 gate, whose sketch is also found in this history. 
 Captain Applegate was reared in Douglas 
 county, and for a number of years was engaged 
 in stock-raising and farming in Yoncalla. He 
 was well known throughout that section of the 
 state and gained considerable prominence as a 
 successful stockman. He enlisted in Company 
 K, First Regiment Oregon Volunteers, infantry, 
 and was commissioned first lieutenant of his 
 company, serving valiantly until the close of the 
 Civil war. He was esteemed as a good citizen 
 and his death was deplored. He died at his 
 home in Yoncalla, March iq, 1888. 
 
 Ten years after the death of Captain Apple- 
 gate, his widow contracted a second matrimonial 
 alliance, becoming the wife of Hon. J. M. Shel- 
 ley, of Eugene, Ore. Mrs. .Shelley is promi- 
 nently identified with a number of social organi- 
 zations, and the family unite in worshipping at 
 the Christian Church. She is a member of the 
 Lewis & Clark Ladies Club of Eugene and af- 
 filiates with the Eastern Star ; Women of Wood- 
 craft ; Rebekahs and Native Daughters of Ore- 
 gon. She is both a popular and useful member 
 of society and has many amiable qualities of 
 heart and mind. 
 
 WILLIAM A. TAYLOR. Upon the site of 
 the present modern countrv home of William A. 
 Taylor stood formerly the little log house of two 
 rooms erected by his pioneer father, William 
 
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 Taylor, and in which he, the son, was born Jan- 
 uary 5, 1854. In all directions may be seen evi- 
 dences of the handiwork of this rugged fore- 
 runner of civilization, who traversed the plains 
 in 1845, fearlessly braving dangers before which 
 the stoutest of hearts might well quail. 
 
 William Taylor was born in Virginia, but was 
 reared on a farm in Franklin county, Mo., whither 
 he was taken by his parents when two years of 
 age. When a young man he married Mary A. 
 Smith, daughter of James Smith, and forthwith 
 went to farming on his own responsibility, two 
 children being born to him in Missouri. In the 
 spring of 1845 ne prepared to cross the plains, 
 having heard much of the opportunities awaiting 
 the industrious in the direction of the western 
 sea. On the journey he was accompanied by his 
 wife and two children, his father-in-law, Mr. 
 Smith, and the latter's family, and no particular 
 incident is recorded as interfering with the peace 
 or safety of the hopeful travelers. Mr. Smith 
 brought quite a drove of cattle with him, and the 
 trip was accomplished in six months. At once 
 Mr. Taylor located on a farm now occupied by his 
 son, and which at that time comprised six hun- 
 dred and forty acres of rich timber land, seven 
 miles east of Salem. With his own hands he 
 hewed the logs for the little two-room cabin, and 
 prepared to make those entrusted to his care as 
 comfortable as possible. He was not a man to 
 idly wait for success to come his way, but was 
 rather filled with that vitality and good judgment 
 which impel the best effort. In those days he was 
 strong and wonderfully enthusiastic, and one of 
 his chief pleasures was shouldering a gun and 
 going forth in search of game, in which the dis- 
 trict abounded. As time went by his own im- 
 mediate interests were allied with those of the 
 whole neighborhood, and he was a stanch advo- 
 cate of good roads, good schools, and good poli- 
 tics. Roads in particular he believed necessary 
 to the furtherance of all improvements, and he 
 himself took an active part in laying them out 
 and keeping them in order. Although not an 
 office-seeker, he took a keen interest in Republi- 
 can affairs, but was by no means slavish in his 
 devotion to any one party. In time his land 
 yielded abundant harvests, and cattle grazed in 
 large numbers upon his fertile meadows. He 
 was one of the most thrifty and prosperous of 
 the early settlers, and all regarded him as a 
 man to respect and follow. From 1845 until 
 his death, March n, 1897, at the age of seventy- 
 eight, he lived on the same farm, two years 
 more than half a century being spent among 
 the same surroundings. His first wife dying 
 July 17, 1854, he afterward married Matilda 
 Oswald, of which union there were born six 
 children of whom Horace J. and Amos live at 
 Macleay ; Bertha is the wife of James Wood- 
 
 ruff of Portland ; Josie is the wife of Robert 
 Craig; Alta is the wife of Augustus Bond of 
 The Dalles; and Elden is living with his mother. 
 Of the first marriage were born the following 
 children : Sarah, the deceased wife of Thomas 
 Jefferson, of Singleton, Douglas county, Ore. ; 
 Mary A., widow of Thomas Baker of Oakland, 
 Ore. ; Margaret is the wife of J. Howard Mor- 
 ton, of Douglas county, Ore. ; Marion lives in 
 Marion county, Ore. ; Andrew J. lives in Mill 
 City, Ore.; George died in 1877; and William 
 A., the subject oi this review. 
 
 His mother dying when he was six weeks old, 
 William A. Taylor was reared by his older sis- 
 ters, and later by his step-mother. On the farm 
 which is now his home almost his entire life has 
 been spent. December 19, 1875, he was married 
 to Rosa Hughes, who was born in Iowa, a 
 daughter of John and Hannah Hughes, there- 
 after continuing to live on the old farm, the 
 management of which he undertook for a couple 
 of years. Hoping to benefit by an entire change 
 he removed to Umatilla county, Ore., and 
 engaged in the sheep-raising business on Wil- 
 low creek, living the while in a primitive log 
 house of one room. The sheep business not 
 proving very profitable, he sold his ranch and 
 returned to the old homestead, "soon after pur- 
 chasing of his father the one hundred and sixty 
 acres which has since been his home. Of the 
 eight children which have gladdened this pros- 
 perous western couple 5 Walter is a turnkey at the 
 state penitentiary ; Ada is the wife of Oral Jer- 
 man, a farmer of Howell's Prairie. The other 
 members of the family are Virgil, Earl, Edith, 
 Myrtle, Fay and Alfred. 
 
 Mr. Taylor is engaged in general farming 
 a'nd stock-raising, and his property is as well 
 equipped and improved as any in the county. 
 He is practical and thrifty, having learned from 
 his father the fundamental principles of success- 
 ful agriculture. A Republican in politics, he 
 takes an active interest in the welfare of his 
 party, but aside from his service as a member 
 of the school board, he has neither sought nor 
 held political office. His interest in the cause 
 of education, however, is very keen, and he has 
 devoted no inconsiderable portion of his time 
 to the promotion of that cause in his district. 
 Remembering his own comparatively crude 
 opportunities in this direction — his education 
 having- been obtained in the little schoolhouse 
 which stood on the site of the present town of 
 Macleay — he has earnestly striven to improve 
 the educational opportunities of the present gen- 
 eration. Those who know him best have learned 
 to appreciate his breadth of mind and splendid 
 judgment. His integrity, his unselfishness, and 
 his sincere desire to promote all worthy causes 
 have never been brought into question. 
 
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 JOHN SCHALLER. The blacksmith shop 
 of John Schaller is one of the busiest centers of 
 activity in the town of Willamina, and the genial 
 and successful proprietor is one of its enterpris- 
 ing' and popular citizens. Mr. Schaller is one 
 of the many sons of Switzerland who have trans- 
 ferred their allegiance to this side of the water, 
 and like his countrymen in their own picturesque 
 land, possessed thrift, economy and enterprise. 
 He was born in Canton Bern, Switzerland, Au- 
 gust 4, 1854, and until his sixteenth year lived 
 with his parents, who were farmers and stock- 
 raisers by occupation. 
 
 Arriving on American shores in 1870, Mr. 
 Schaller settled with his parents in Bluffton, 
 Allen county, Ohio, and there lived for six years, 
 as in the old country, engaging in farming. In 
 1876 he crossed the plains to Jackson county, 
 Ore., where he began working at the blacksmith 
 trade, and after completing his apprenticeship 
 located in Howell Prairie, Marion county, for a 
 year. He then lived for a couple of years in 
 Salem, and for two years at the Grande Ronde 
 Reservation, where he worked for the govern- 
 ment. Mr. Schaller had by this time saved quite 
 a little money, and with it started his present 
 business in Willamina, a decision justified by his 
 past and present success. Also he is engaged in 
 making wagons, and for the past ten years has 
 increased his revenue by handling farm imple- 
 ments. 
 
 The family of Mr. Schaller consists of his 
 wife, who was formerly Josephine Pool, and five 
 children, Ernest, Charles, Frank, Roy and 
 Grace. Mr. Schaller is a Democrat in politics, 
 and a stanch supporter of his party. His fitness 
 for office has been recognized by his fellow towns- 
 men, who have elected him to the positions of 
 road supervisor and school director. 
 
 PAUL FUNDMAN. The mercantile pres- 
 tige of Willamina is being maintained in most 
 creditable manner by the Paul Fundman Com- 
 pany, purveyors to the town and county of gro- 
 ceries, boots and shoes, hardware, flour and 
 feed. This busy mercantile establishment is man- 
 aged according to the most approved business 
 methods, and the excellent quality of goods, tact 
 and consideration on the part of the owner, and 
 general air of progressiveness and obligingness, 
 ensure to these worthy people a continuation of 
 their present gratifying success. 
 
 Paul Fundman, head of the company bearing 
 his name, and one of the best known men of this 
 vicinity, is a native of Switzerland, and was born 
 January 10, 1864. He continued to live in his 
 native land until about eighteen years of age, 
 emigrating to America in the fall of 1882, and 
 
 locating at Gervais, Ore., and remaining for one 
 year. He was educated in the public schools 
 of his native land, and at Engelburg College, 
 being thus qualified beyond the average youth 
 for the responsibilities of life. For four years in 
 Oregon Mr. Fundman was identified with the 
 Grande Ronde Indian School, and he thereafter 
 lived on a ranch in Polk county for four years. 
 For the following year he returned to the Indian 
 school, and then engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness in Willamina in which he has since been 
 engaged. For a number of years he was in part- 
 nership with Mr. Kershaw, but the present firm 
 name is already of long standing. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Fundman married Eva Gentry, 
 and one child has been born of this union, Pauline. 
 Mr. Fundman is a Democrat in politics, and for 
 some time was postmaster of Willamina. He is 
 a broad minded and liberal gentleman, and has 
 to the fullest extent the confidence of all who 
 know him. 
 
 MATHEW ACHESON. As an example of 
 what may be accomplished by perseverance and 
 industry, regardless of early set-backs or want of 
 opportunity, Mathew Acheson is entitled to spe- 
 cial mention among the prosperous farmers and 
 developers of Linn county. Educationally, mor- 
 ally, and agriculturally, he takes foremost rank 
 among the native sons of Muskingum county, 
 Ohio, where he was born January 17, 1834, and 
 where the early part of his life was passed. With 
 his family he removed to the state of Iowa in 
 1856, and, his father dying within a year, he 
 went, in 1857, to Monroe county, Iowa, where 
 he engaged in educational work. There he was 
 married, in i860, to Lucinda Crawford, a native 
 of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1864 he removed 
 to Washington county, Iowa, and farmed for 
 three or four years, and afterward engaged in 
 mercantile business in Ainsworth, Iowa, contin- 
 uing the same until 1872. 
 
 Leaving Ainsworth, Iowa, Mr. Acheson came 
 to Oregon, and in Linn county purchased the 
 right to one hundred and sixty acres of land 
 three and a half miles northwest of Shedds, 
 where he lives at the present time, and where he 
 owns two hundred and twenty acres. From the 
 standpoint of products raised he has one of the 
 most diversified farms in the county, fifteen acres 
 being under orchard, of which ten acres are 
 prunes and the balance pears, apples and cherries. 
 He carries on general farming and stock-raising, 
 and has most complete and modern facilities for 
 the prosecution of his many departments. A 
 large frame building, adequate barns and out- 
 houses, good fences and the finest of agricultural 
 implements, complete an equipment which al- 
 most any farmer, however ambitious, might envv. 
 
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 A dryer of seventy bushels' capacity is taxed to 
 its utmost during the busy season. 
 
 Aside from the formality of casting his vote 
 Mr. Acheson has never identified himself with 
 politics. He has always taken an active interest 
 in educational work, and he is one of the fore- 
 most promoters of the United Presbyterian 
 Church, of which he has been an elder for many 
 years. George S. and Jennie B. (Acheson) Gaff, 
 of Albany, the two oldest of the children in the 
 Acheson home, were born in Iowa and accom- 
 panied their parents across the plains. Bertha, 
 Dawson, Wilbur B. and Mathew H. are all grad- 
 uates of Albany College; John L. is a graduate 
 of Princeton University, N. J. ; Irvin Ray is 
 living with his father, and two children, who 
 died, were born in Oregon. Mr. Acheson rep- 
 resents the solid and substantial in work and 
 citizenship, and the county has reason to be 
 proud of his successful and meritorious career. 
 
 FRANK JAMES CO AD. That typical and 
 substantial pioneer, Samuel Coad, has richly en- 
 dowed this part of the state, not only from the 
 standpoint of his own achievements, but because 
 he has transmitted to his sons those fundamental • 
 characteristics everywhere regarded as upbuild- 
 ing and reliable. Integrity is a human attribute 
 which no one has ever questioned in those bear- 
 ing the name of Coad, and Frank James Coad, 
 owner and proprietor of a flourishing sash and 
 door factory and planing mills at Dallas, pos- 
 sesses to an unusual degree this desirable trait. 
 He was born on his father's farm on the Peedee 
 branch of the Luckiamute river, May 2, 1859, 
 and was reared principally in Dallas, where his 
 father conducted a drug store for many years, 
 and where he is now living retired. Like his 
 brother, C. G., another prominent citizen of Dal- 
 las, and the present postmaster, he was educated 
 in, the public schools, and at La Creole Academy, 
 after which he spent the winter of '78-9 in 
 Prineville, Ore., in the drug business. Return- 
 ing to Dallas, he worked at the carpenter's and 
 builder's trade for a year, and thereafter engaged 
 in the livery business with D. N. Burns, under 
 the firm name of Burns & Coad, for eighteen 
 months. After disposing of the livery he was 
 employed for a year in the bridge department 
 of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, 
 at the time they had a lease on the old narrow 
 gauge road. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Coad went into partnership with 
 D. J. Riley in purchasing the old sash and door 
 factory of J. M. Campbell, which at that time 
 was a very small shop built in the old style in the 
 eastern part of the town, and having a six-horse 
 water-power. This plant they improved 
 and fitted with modern machinery, and were so 
 
 successful in their work that a new plant fol- 
 lowed in 1885, located at the end of Mill street, 
 and on an enlarged scale of one hundred and 
 twenty-five horse-power.. The plant has all mod- 
 ern machinery, and is run by both water and 
 steam power, sash, doors, mouldings, and various 
 builders' materials being turned out in large 
 quantities. In the meantime the partners en- 
 gaged in building and contracting in Dallas and 
 vicinity, until 1895, when each department had 
 assumed such large proportions it was deemed 
 advisable to dissolve partnership, Mr. Riley 
 thereafter devoting himself to contracting, and 
 Mr. Coad to the management of the milling in- 
 terests. 
 
 In Dallas, in 1883, Mr. Coad married Jennie 
 Lyons, who was born in Missouri, and who is 
 the mother of one child, Hallie F. For his little 
 family Mr. Coad has built one of the finest and 
 most commodious residences in Dallas, where 
 hospitality is dispensed unstintingly, and the ut- 
 most good fellowship prevails. He has availed 
 himself of other avenues of profit in the vicinity 
 of the town, and has been especially successful 
 as a raiser of Angora goats on a small ranch 
 three miles north of Dallas. He has also been 
 interested in prune culture. As a Republican 
 he has taken an active interest in local affairs, 
 and served one term as a member of the Dallas 
 city council. Mr. Coad was one of the organizers 
 of the Dallas volunteer fire department, as a 
 charter member of the Terror Engine Company, 
 of which he was foreman for several years. He 
 selected the name " Terror " for the company. 
 Mr. Coad is a member of the Board of Trade 
 and the Chamber of Commerce, of the Polk 
 County Mohair Association, the Native Sons of 
 Oregon, and the Muscovites of Portland. Both 
 himself and wife are identified with the Rebek- 
 as, and he is a member and past noble grand 
 of Friendship Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F. ; En- 
 campment No. 20, of which he is past chief patri- 
 arch, and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. 
 
 JACKSON A. BILYEU. With the excep- 
 tion of the first year of his existence, which 
 was spent in Crawford county, Mo., where he 
 was born February 12, 1851, Jackson A. Bilyeu 
 has been a resident of Oregon throughout his 
 entire life, having crossed the plains in 1852, his 
 parents, George W .and Jane (Reed) Bilyeu, 
 seeking then a new home in the wilderness of 
 the northwest. The father and mother were 
 natives respectively of Tennessee and Missouri, 
 to which latter state the father had removed at 
 an early date, becoming a farmer in Crawford 
 county, where he remained until 1852. With the 
 customary ox-teams the family started across 
 
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 the plains, coming by way of the Platte river, 
 over the old Barlow route, and after a journey 
 of six months and ten days the father brought 
 his wife and children into the wide acres of Ore- 
 gon. He first located ten miles east of Scio, 
 taking up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres along the banks of the Thomas 
 creek, and engaged at once in farming. Some 
 time after he bought three hundred and twenty 
 acres, and in that location he passed the thirty- 
 rive most active years of his life. At the close 
 of that period he removed to Jordan valley, and 
 became the owner of a grist mill there, which 
 business he conducted for ten years. In 1890 
 he once more changed his residence, locating 
 then in Scio, Linn county, where he died Feb- 
 ruary 6,. 1898, at the age of eighty-one years. 
 Mrs. Bilyeu, now eighty-two years old, makes 
 her home with a daughter near Halsey. 
 
 Of the eight sons and seven daughters born 
 to his parents Jackson A. Bilyeu is the sixth 
 child. He was trained to an industrious life 
 upon the paternal farm, becoming versed in 
 the different lines of agriculture followed by 
 his father, and also receiving a mental training 
 in the common school in the vicinity of his 
 home. In 1875, when he was twenty-four years 
 old, Mr. Bilyeu engaged in farming for himself, 
 soon making a purchase of one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land, located four miles southwest 
 of Scio, upon which he remained until 1879. In 
 the last-named year he came to Scio and entered 
 into the business life of this city, engaging in 
 the livery and hotel business for several years, 
 after which, in 1883, he again became inter- 
 ested in agricultural pursuits, and thereafter for 
 several years, he bought and sold land, his 
 business sagacity enabling him to do this with 
 profit. He first purchased near Scio two hun- 
 dred and fourteen acres, and after selling it, 
 in 1895 bought a farm of three hundred and 
 fifty acres five miles east of the city. . This was 
 disposed of in 1898, and he has since confined 
 his operations to the city. He is now retired 
 from the laborious duties of a farmer, but still 
 finds much to occupy his time and attention, for, 
 being popular with the Democratic party, of 
 which he is an adherent, he is often called upon 
 to serve in some official capacity. He is at 
 present city marshal, and has also held the 
 positions of deputy sheriff, for six years, con- 
 stable several terms, councilman many times, 
 and also acts as school director at the present 
 time. In addition to loaning money he acts as 
 president of the Scio Creamery Company, keep- 
 ing well in touch with the commercial and indus- 
 trial life of the city, owning property here to 
 the extent of a brick business block and two 
 residences. 
 
 Mr. Bilyeu was married in Linn county, to 
 
 Arena J. Terry, a native of that county, and 
 the children born to them are six in number, 
 and are as follows : C. C. ; Maud, at home ; 
 Nellie, the wife of Lee Gunsaul, of Lebanon, 
 Ore. ; Pearl, deceased, wife of F. Z. Jones ; Eva 
 and Nita, both of whom are at home. Frater- 
 nally Mr. Bilyeu affiliates with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and the Knights of 
 Pythias, and religiously is a member of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 JOHN LARKIN. Few farmers have ap- 
 plied themselves to their chosen occupation 
 more conscientiously than has John Larkin, to 
 whom his fields and meadows and implements 
 and stock afford an unending source of interest 
 and study. Since coming to his present farm 
 near Brownsville in 1887 he has duplicated the 
 success experienced in other parts of the state, 
 and in general farming and stock-raising has 
 realized his expectations to an unusual degree. 
 Mr. Larkin is a native son of Huntingdon 
 county, Pa., and was born June 6, 1829. In 
 1832 his parents moved to Clark county, Ohio, 
 and in 1843 went to Iowa, where the father 
 bought land in Henry county. This farm and 
 household were not unlike the average in the 
 middle west, and, judging from the lives of the 
 children who were trained there, industry and 
 integrity were accounted virtues to be culti- 
 vated and never lost. 
 
 John Larkin worked hard in his youth, accum- 
 ulating useful experience while following the 
 plow and harrow, and as occasion offered studi- 
 ously applying himself at the district school. 
 March 10, 1853, he married Abigail Ritchie, a 
 native of Warren county, 111., and in 1862 sought 
 to better his prospects by removal to the west. 
 In the meantime Mr. Larkin had prospered in 
 farming, and not liking the idea of taking the 
 long overland journey, he came by way of the 
 Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, and from 
 there to Portland on another steamer. Near 
 Brownsville, Ore., he rented a farm for six 
 years, saved his money, and managed to gain 
 quite a financial start. With the proceeds of his 
 farming he bought a farm near Albany, lived 
 thereon four years, and after selling out bought 
 a hundred and sixty acres six miles northeast of 
 Brownsville. For ten years Mr. Larkin farmed 
 and raised stock, was very successful, and after 
 that enjoyed a pleasurable relaxation by travel- 
 ing around the west. During six summers he 
 drove with a team and wagon through Oregon 
 and Washington, in this independent and uncon- 
 ventional manner seeing far more of the points 
 of interest than is possible to the palace car 
 tourist. It was his lasting satisfaction to meet 
 many delightful and interesting people, and to 
 
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 be received with the greatest courtesy by all 
 with whom he had to do. These summers of 
 travel stand forth in his mind with singular 
 clearness and furnish the pleasantest recollec- 
 tions of his life. Since living on his present farm 
 he has taken an active interest in politics, having 
 from early youth espoused the cause of the Re- 
 publican party. He is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church, and in his every-day 
 life lives up to its highest tenets. Mr. Larkin 
 has the good will and confidence of his many 
 neighbors and friends, and his life work is not 
 so absorbing but that he is hospitably and char- 
 itably inclined. 
 
 ZIM HI N SHAW. On the banks of the 
 Luckiamute, in one of the finest locations in 
 Falls City, Zim Hinshaw has erected a modern 
 residence which would be a credit to any city in 
 the state. Here he is enjoying a partial respite 
 from a very strenuous life, although engaged in 
 the real estate business, and in overlooking a 
 variety of personal interests. A native son of 
 Oregon, he was born on the old claim on Mill 
 creek, Douglas precinct, March 28, 185 1, and 
 his entire life has been spent in this county. 
 His father, Isaac, was born in the state of Ohio, 
 removed therefrom to Indiana, and crossed the 
 plains to Oregon in 1845. His journey was ac- 
 complished with the time-honored ox-teams, 
 and consumed the greater part of seven months. 
 Locating in Kings valley he took up a donation 
 claim, but sold the squatter's right and came to 
 Mill creek, near Sheridan, where he took up 
 a claim of six hundred and forty acres. In time 
 he proved up on his land, cleared a considerable 
 part, and died there in 1873, at the age of sixty- 
 seven years. He was a man of great force of 
 character, and some peculiarities, one of which 
 was a decided reluctance to owe any man. He 
 had a great memory, and was a well known poli- 
 tician, although he never went further than a 
 general support of Democracy, steadfastly de- 
 clining to hold office. His father, Elias, was a 
 farmer before him, and lived and died in the 
 east. Isaac was twice married, and was the 
 father of fifteen children, three being born of 
 the first union. Of the twelve children in the 
 last family, and born to Melissa (Buell) Hin- 
 shaw, Zim is the oldest. Mrs. Hinshaw was 
 born in Iowa, a daughter of Elias Buell, who 
 crossed the plains in 1847, settling on Mill cree>k, 
 Polk county. He was a millwright by trade, and 
 ran a saw and grist mill on Mill creek for many 
 years. 
 
 In his youth Zim Hinshaw had but scant op- 
 portunity " for acquiring an education, for the 
 farm demanded the care of all of the children 
 who were old enough to work on it. He lived 
 
 at home until 1883, and that summer bought a 
 quarter interest in the mill, which he afterward 
 conducted for seven years. Then he sold and 
 bought a farm of ninety-five acres two miles 
 north of the old mill, where he farmed for about 
 six years. This venture proved a losing one, 
 for he put much of his land in hops, and lost 
 all that he had and five hundred dollars more. 
 In 1896 he took a homestead on the Siletz river 
 in Polk county, and farmed on the one hundred 
 and sixty acres until February, 1902. He then 
 sold his farm and came to Falls City, where he 
 has since engaged in the real estate business. 
 In the meantime he has invested heavily in town 
 and country property, and among other desirable 
 possessions owns the Falls City Hotel, which he 
 rents ; and the Falls City Saw Mill site, with its 
 forty-foot falls, and horse-power of three hun- 
 dred and fifty-six. He also built a two-story 
 building, in which is a barber shop on the lower 
 floor and his own office on the upper, and he 
 owns quite a number of town lots, and has built 
 a jewelry store 16x30 feet, ground dimensions. 
 His efforts in the state of his birth have there- 
 fore been of the practical and substantial kind, 
 and have resulted in large financial returns. 
 
 In Ballston, Polk county, Ore., Mr. Hinshaw 
 married Mahala E. Syron, a native of the town, 
 and daughter of Peter Syron. Mr. Syron is one 
 of the pioneer blacksmiths of that town, and 
 came to Oregon in 1852. Besides following his 
 trade in Ballston he has overseen the manage- 
 ment of a large farm near by, although his sev- 
 enty-seven years entitle him to rest from active 
 life at the present time. Five children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hinshaw, of whom 
 William is a stock and hay-raiser of Rock 
 creek, Polk county ; Mittie M. is the wife of A. 
 G. Stewart, a stock-rancher of the vicinity of 
 Gaston, Ore. ; Peter was accidentally shot while 
 out hunting, January 4, 1902, and his death re- 
 stilted ; Alta is living at home ; and Charles also 
 is living with his parents. Mr. Hinshaw is in- 
 dependent in politics, and is at present a- member 
 of the city council. He is fraternally identified 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of 
 Falls City ; Sheridan Lodge No. 64, A. F. & 
 A. M. ; and Knights of the Maccabees of Falls 
 City. With his family, he is a member of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 ' ROBERT VITUS. The city wayfarer, weary 
 of the nervous strain incident to extensive bus- 
 iness operations, and longing to step into an at- 
 mosphere of rest and homely usefulness, would 
 realize his desires through a visit to the farm 
 owned by Robert Vitus and his brother August. 
 These enterprising and highly successful men 
 own an ideal stock and grain farm of one thous- 
 
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 and acres three miles northeast of Springfield, 
 which, for general appointments, for scientific 
 and modern management and excellence, has 
 few equals in this part of Oregon. The work 
 of plowing and preparing for the seed six hun- 
 dred acres of land can scarcely be appreciated 
 by the average farmer, yet this is the amount 
 devoted to small grains on the Vitus farm, the 
 rest being used for a large stock-raising enter- 
 prise. None but the finest of stock reach the 
 markets from this farm, and here in their best 
 development may be found registered Cotswold 
 sheep, full-blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle and 
 Poland-China hogs. One sheep alone yielded 
 twenty-one pounds of wool. The brothers en- 
 tertain the greatest liking for their chosen oc- 
 cupation, and to them their fine animals offer 
 a field of study of which they have never neglect- 
 ed to avail themselves. Both are competent 
 judges of fine stock, are men of high character 
 and more than ordinary ability, and their asso- 
 ciation with this county has been productive of a 
 raised standard along agricultural and stock- 
 raising lines. 
 
 Robert Vitus was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 July 19, 1861, and in his younger days had the 
 advantages of the public schools of Springfield, 
 111., and Missouri. With his father and brother 
 he came to Oregon in 1878, and the three carried 
 on business until 1900, when a division was 
 made of their large property, the brothers there- 
 after continuing alone. May 5, 1898, Mr. Vitus 
 was united in marriage with Mary Kimmei, 
 daughter of Peter Kimmei. He and his wife 
 died in Germany, their native land. Three 
 children have been added to the family, Robert 
 August, John and Arthur Wilhelm. In politics 
 Mr. Vitus is a Republican, but he has no po- 
 litical aspirations. The friend of education and 
 advancement, his work and character command 
 the honest admiration of all who know him, 
 and the circle of his friends and well-wishers is 
 a large one. 
 
 SAMUEL M. DOUGLAS. For proof of the 
 statement that Samuel M. Douglas has one of 
 the finest dairy farms in this part of the country 
 one has only to seek out his farm, which lies 
 along the Willamette river in Lane county, not 
 far from Springfield and Eugene. He has spared 
 neither time nor expense in placing his business 
 on a substantial and reliable footing and his 
 reward has come in the success which he has 
 achieved and the reputation he has won as one 
 of the progressive farmers of the Willamette 
 valley. The milk for his dairy is furnished from 
 Jersey cows, which until recently numbered one 
 hundred, although he is reducing them con- 
 
 tinually. He also carries on general farming, 
 and in 1893-94-95 engaged in the manufacture of 
 cheese. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Douglas occurred in Henry 
 county, Iowa, December 1, 1854. He was the 
 son of Thomas Douglas, who was an own cousin 
 of Stephen A. Douglas, while his mother, Lu- 
 anda Hanks, was an own cousin of Abraham 
 Lincoln. When S. M. Douglas was ten years 
 old his parents crossed the plains with ox-teams, 
 and after a journey of five months they arrived 
 safely in California. The father located in 
 Marysville, where his son remained until he 
 was nineteen years old, and then with his father 
 engaged in ranching, continuing in this line of 
 endeavor for seven years. While so engaged he 
 began the work of shearing sheep, etc., and after 
 twelve years of this life he bought his father's 
 ranch in Humboldt county, making that his 
 home for five years, when, in 1887, he came to 
 Oregon and bought his present farm. He first 
 bought seven hundred and eleven acres located 
 two miles east of Springfield, and now has nine 
 hundred and fifty-two acres along the Willam- 
 ette river, six hundred and forty of which is 
 valley land, and rich in the fine grass of this 
 region. He purchased this farm from Stephen 
 Edwards and J. Goodman with the intention of 
 entering the dairy business, and his faith in the 
 value of the location has been justified with the 
 passing years. 
 
 Mr. Douglas was married in September, 1889, 
 to Miss Florence Dale, of Humboldt county, 
 Cal., and the representative of an old and dis- 
 tinguished family. They have one daughter, 
 Sadie, who is now twelve years old. The family 
 home is in Eugene, at the corner of Fifth and 
 Jefferson streets. In his political relations Mr. 
 Douglas is an adherent of the principles of the 
 Democratic party and held the office of school 
 director several years. 
 
 BERT ELLSWORTH EMERICK, A. M., 
 B. D. A man of exceptional ability and of the 
 highest character, refined and scholarly in his 
 tastes, Prof. Bert E. Emerick is eminently quali- 
 fied for the important position he is now filling 
 as president of Philomath College, which is 
 controlled by the liberal faction of the United 
 Brethren Church. This institution, located in 
 Philomath, Benton county, was founded in 1865 
 by the Church of United Brethren in Christ, its 
 aim being to place within the reach of every ear- 
 nest young man and woman the advantages to be 
 obtained by a thorough knowledge of the higher 
 branches of learning, combining a Christian 
 training with the intellectual. A son of the late 
 Warren Emerick, Bert E. Emerick was born 
 
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 near Sumner, Lawrence county, 111., July 7, 
 1869. 
 
 Warren Emerick, a native of New York state, 
 was engaged in the crude oil business in West 
 Virginia as a young man, but afterwards re- 
 moved to Marquette county, Wis., where he 
 worked as a tiller of the soil for a few years. 
 Removing to Lawrence county, 111., in 1865, ne 
 bought two hundred acres of land near Sumner, 
 and was there successfully engaged in agricul- 
 tural pursuits until 1894. Dividing his estate 
 in that year, he settled in Boise City, Idaho, 
 where he was engaged in business with a brother 
 until his death, in 1897, at the age of sixty- 
 seven years. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Marcella Warner, was born in the east, and died 
 in 1874, in Lawrence county, 111., aged thirty- 
 three years. They were the parents of ten 
 children, of whom six sons and three daughters 
 grew to years of maturity, Bert Ellsworth be- 
 ing the eighth child in succession of birth. 
 
 Graduating from the Sumner, 111., high school 
 in 1887, Mr. Emerick subsequently taught school 
 two years. In 1888 he attended the National 
 Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He 
 studied at the American Institute of Phrenology, 
 taking a course that has since proved very bene- 
 ficial to him in many ways, after which he 
 entered college at Westfield, 111., from the col- 
 legiate department of which he was graduated 
 in 1895, receiving the degree of A. B. During 
 one of his summer vacations, that of 1893, Mr. 
 Emerick studied for three months at Moody's 
 Bible Institute. 
 
 Coming to Oregon in 1895 he accepted the 
 position of President of Philomath College, in 
 Philomath. From 1897 until 1899 ne was P as tor 
 of the United Brethren Church in Philomath, 
 at the same time being one of the faculty con- 
 nected with the college. Desirous of continuing 
 his studies, he then went to Dayton, Ohio, where 
 he took a course in theology, in 1902 being 
 graduated from the Union Biblical Seminary 
 with the degree of B. D. Thus further equipped 
 for his work, Mr. Emerick returned to Philo- 
 math, and was immediately elected to his for- 
 mer position as president of Philomath Col- 
 lege, and teacher of languages and ethics. 
 
 On October 15, 1895, Professor Emerick 
 married Sadie M. Armentrout, who came to 
 Oregon in 1895. She was born in Edgar county, 
 111., near the town of Paris, January 22, 1867. 
 Her father, William H. Armentrout, a native of 
 Indiana, removed to Vermilion county, 111., when 
 a young man and there worked as a plasterer 
 and contractor for many years. He is now a 
 resident of Westfield, 111. Professor and Mrs. 
 Emerick have two children, namely: Zanana 
 and Francis. Professor Emerick is a strong 
 
 Prohibitionist in politics, and an active worker 
 in party ranks. 
 
 Philomath College has now, in 1903, one 
 hundred and three pupils enrolled, the number 
 of students increasing each year. During its 
 earlier years of existence its usefulness was 
 somewhat hampered by an indebtedness, but 
 since freed from that encumbrance, in 1901, vari- 
 ous needed improvements have been made, and 
 the scope of its work visibly enlarged. With 
 a superior normal course, classical, scientific and 
 philosophical courses, pupils may be fitted in 
 this institution for any desired position in life. 
 The library, gymnasium, laboratory and museum 
 are well equipped, and made of practical use to 
 each pupil. There are two literary societies, 
 the Philophronean for the young men, and the 
 Zetegathean for the young women, and in addi- 
 tion there are various Christian societies for the 
 benefit of both sexes, and a Bible Normal Union, 
 for those desirous of making special preparation 
 for Christian work. The Board of Trustees is 
 composed of men interested in advancing the 
 educational interests of the county and the state, 
 and the faculty and instructors are men and wo- 
 men of broad culture and talent, keenly alive to 
 the physical, mental and moral needs of the 
 young men and women with whom they are 
 brought in contact. Thus equipped this college 
 is destined to become a strong force in the great 
 northwest, elevating the standard of education 
 and of morals. 
 
 ELIAS STEWART. Claiming just distinc- 
 tion among the fearless and self-sacrificing men 
 who stepped boldly out of the peace and tran- 
 quillity of a settled eastern community, Elias 
 Stewart, who was born in Virginia September 
 11, 1814, was rated as one of those who joined 
 the innumerable caravan in 1852, and left the 
 impress of his strong personality upon agricul- 
 tural and other affairs in Lane county. Of an 
 old Tennessee family long identified with farm- 
 ing and stock-raising around Knoxville, he spent 
 his earliest years on the farm of his father, 
 Brison Stewart, the latter of whom established 
 the family in Missouri at an early day. The 
 elder Stewart spent the remainder of his life 
 on a large Missouri farm, and after his death 
 his son Elias maintained his excellent reputa- 
 tion as a farmer and a man, in time becoming 
 prominently connected with the region around 
 Bolivar, Polk county, Mo. 
 
 In Illinois Mr. Stewart married Eliza Eng- 
 land, who was born in Tennessee, a daughter of 
 John England, also a native of Tennessee. He 
 then removed to Polk county, Mo., and in 1849 
 moved to near Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, 
 
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 and from there, in 1849, started across the 
 plains to California. Arriving in St. Joseph, 
 Mo., later than he expected, and dreading a 
 winter on the western prairies, he tarried in the 
 .Missouri town, and engaged in teaming. May 
 2. 1852, he carried out his western project, and 
 with two wagons, four yoke of oxen to each 
 wagon, his wife and six children, again set 
 forth, this time full of renewed hope in the 
 future, and with grim determination to succeed. 
 Partially his plans were doomed to disappoint- 
 ment, for at the North Platte river, about forty 
 miles west of Fort Laramie, his wife was 
 stricken with cholera, and died. Making a 
 coffin from a wagon board, they paid heed to her 
 last request, that they bury her deep. Disconso- 
 late, the father pursued his way via the Barlow 
 route, arriving at Foster's, in Clackamas county, 
 Ore., August 30, 1852. Not satisfied with the 
 prospects near by, he continued his way to the 
 forks of the Willamette river in Lane county, 
 and there took up a donation claim of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, the land being as yet a 
 stranger to plow or harrow. The building ability 
 of the new arrival soon found expression in a 
 plank house, and the hitherto barren prairie 
 farm was started on an era of usefulness through 
 the persuasive powers of a curry plow with a 
 wooden mold-board. In 1855 Mr. Stewart traded 
 his partially improved farm with C. Mul- 
 ligan for two hundred and fifty acres of land 
 adjoining Eugene on the southwest, subsequent 
 additions increasing the size_ to two hundred and 
 eighty acres, a portion of which is now em- 
 bodied in Stewart's addition to Eugene, on the 
 west. 
 
 Earnest and industrious, and possessed of 
 shrewd business ability, Mr. Stewart made a de- 
 cided success of his life in the west, and for 
 his painstaking efforts he left at the time of his 
 death, April 24, 1898, a valuable and finely 
 improved farm. He was honorable and upright 
 in all of his dealings, and by no means confined 
 his efforts to the limits of his large property. 
 Education, morality and good government were 
 stimulated by his support, and his aid was in- 
 variably forthcoming for enterprises which had 
 for their object the betterment of the com- 
 munity. Of the children who were left mother- 
 less on the plains, Joseph W. lives in Springfield, 
 Lane county. Ore. ; John is a farmer of Lane 
 countv ; Linnie Jane, deceased, was the wife of 
 Mr. P. C. Nolan ; Mary M. is the wife of A. O. 
 Stevens, of Eugene ; Martha A. is the wife of 
 T. G. Hendricks ; and Elizabeth is the wife of 
 Joseph Lucky, of Eugene. 
 
 LOUIS E. BEAN. As a fine representative 
 of the native-born citizens of Lane county, and 
 a descendant of one of the prominent pioneers 
 
 of this section of the state, Louis E. Bean, a ris- 
 ing young attorney of Eugene, is well worthy 
 of honorable notice in this biographical volume. 
 He was born November 21, 1867, m Lane 
 county, Ore., a son of Obadiah Roberts Bean. 
 His grandfather, Robert Bean, was born and 
 reared in Kentucky, but in early life became a 
 pioneer settler of Clay county, Mo., where he 
 was engaged in tilling the soil until his death. 
 He reared a large family of children, several 
 of whom came to Oregon as early settlers, 
 namely : Obadiah R., the father of Louis E. ; 
 Riley, who crossed the plains in 1845, died in 
 Seattle, Wash. ; Napoleon died at McMinnville, 
 Ore. ; David died in Portland, Ore. ; Robert is 
 a resident of Siskiyou county, Cal. ; and Mrs. 
 Susan F. Morris, of Eugene, Ore. 
 
 A native of Liberty, Clay county, Mo., Oba- 
 diah R. Bean was born February 2, 1832, and 
 there reared to agricultural pursuits. In 1850 he 
 made the journey across the plains with ox-teams 
 to California, where he was engaged in mining 
 for a year. Not pleased with the financial re- 
 sults of his labors, he came to Oregon in 185 1, 
 locating first in the Willamette valley, then in 
 the Chehalem valley, in Yamhill county, where 
 he was engaged in farming. In 1854 he set- 
 tled in Lane county, living first at Grand 
 Prairie and then on a farm about three miles 
 from Junction City. In 1879 ne purchased a 
 farm lying near Eugene, but subsequently dis- 
 posed of that property and went to Mapleton, 
 locating at the head of the tide, on the Siuslaw 
 river, where he bought an improved Indian 
 place, on which he was successfully engaged in 
 general farming until his death, in 1890. He 
 was a man of enterprise and influence, taking 
 an active part in political, fraternal and religious 
 matters, serving one term as county commis- 
 sioner, belonging to the Masonic order, and be- 
 ing a member of the Christian Church. On 
 October 21, 1853, in Yamhill county, Obadiah 
 R. Bean married Julia A. Sharp, who was born 
 near Newmarket, Harrison county, Ohio, a 
 daughter of John Sharp. Her grandfather, 
 Peter Sharp, was a native of New Jersey, but 
 removed to Ohio as a pioneer farmer, and there 
 spent the remainder of his life. John Sharp, 
 born in New Jersey, settled in Pennsylvania as 
 a young man, but subsequently lived in Ohio 
 for a few years. In 1849 ne started for Ore- 
 gon, but on reaching Missouri purchased a farm 
 in Jackson county, and resided there three 
 years. On May 5, 1852, with his wife and seven 
 children, six boys and one girl, he started with 
 ox-teams across the plains, taking the Barlow 
 route. Although he was hampered by sickness 
 on the journey, was unfortunate enough to lose 
 one of his teams, and was snowbound for a time, 
 he arrived safely in Oregon City on November 
 
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 I, 1852. Spending the first winter in the Che- 
 halem valley, he took up a ranch in Washington 
 county in the spring, but the land proved worth- 
 less, and he located on a farm at Grand Prairie, 
 Lane county, in the fall of 1853. Subsequently 
 selling out there he removed to Latham, Lane 
 county, where he lived retired until his death, 
 at the age of eighty-one years. He served as 
 county commissioner one term. Mr. Sharp mar- 
 ried Cornelia A. Hesser, who was born in Vir- 
 ginia, and died, at the age of eighty years, in 
 Oregon. Seven children blessed their union, 
 namely : Joseph Sharp, a retired farmer, living 
 at Latham, Ore. ; Julia A., now Mrs. O. R. 
 Bean, who resides with her son, Louis E. Bean, 
 in Eugene ; Addis, a resident of Idaho ; John, a 
 farmer, living near Ellensburg, Wash. ; James, a 
 horticulturist in Saticoy, Cal. ; Jolly, pastor of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church at Walla Walla, 
 Wash. ; and Lewis, an attorney in San Francisco. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Obadiah R. Bean became the 
 parents of eleven children, namely : Robert S., 
 judge of the supreme court of Oregon; James 
 R., an express messenger on the Northern Pa- 
 cific Railroad, running out from Portland ; John 
 W., a prominent physician of Tacoma, Wash. ; 
 Mrs. Emma A. Lucax, of Aberdeen, Wash. ; 
 Joseph H., died in Bakersfield, Cal., in 1897; 
 Edward A., bookkeeper for O. W. Hurd, at 
 Florence, Ore. ; Louis E., the subject of this 
 sketch ; Frederick C, living on the homestead 
 at Mapleton ; Mary died when a year old ; Ches- 
 ter O., a contractor at Aberdeen, Wash. ; and 
 Estelle A., living at home. 
 
 Brought up on a farm in Lane county, Louis 
 E. Bean attended first the district school, then 
 the University of Oregon, subsequently taking 
 a business course at Holmes' Business College, 
 in Portland. The following three years he was 
 connected with the United States Fish Com- 
 mission, having charge of the Mapleton Hatchery 
 Station, on the Siuslaw river. While thus em- 
 ployed he studied law, and after his admission 
 to the bar, in 1898, began the practice of his 
 profession at Eugene. Subsequently accepting 
 the position of receiving clerk at the United 
 States land office in Roseburg, Mr. Bean re- 
 mained there until January, 1902, when he re- 
 signed his position. Since that time he has been 
 actively engaged as a lawyer, in Eugene, mak- 
 ing a specialty of land and mining law, and has 
 built up a large practice in this line, becoming 
 an authority on all questions concerning land 
 titles and deals. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bean is a member of Spencer 
 Butte Lodge, No. 9, I. O. O. F. ; of the Royal 
 Arcanum; and Helmet Lodge, No. 33, Knights 
 of Pythias. Politically he supports the princi- 
 ples of the Republican party. 
 
 MILTON T. AWBREY. The experiences 
 which have been a part of the life of M. T. 
 Awbrey have helped to form the character which 
 has distinguished him as a citizen of this com- 
 munity. For a quarter of a century he has been 
 located in Eugene, Lane county, but preceding 
 that his years were full of changes and vicissi- 
 tudes. He now looks back to the time when 
 Oregon was a wilderness and there was but a 
 promise of what should come after years of un- 
 remitting toil and effort on the part of those 
 who bore the burdens for the sake of the re- 
 ward. Mr. Awbrey has his reward in his own 
 and the country's prosperity, and his declining 
 years are filled with the peace which comes of 
 work well done. 
 
 M. T. Awbrey was the second of his father's 
 family of twelve children, nine of whom at- 
 tained maturity and four of whom are now liv- 
 ing. He was born in Ray county, Mo., October 
 24, 1830, his father being Dr. Thomas Nolan 
 Awbrey. The latter was a native of Virginia, 
 and while a resident of that state served in 
 the war of 181 2. Upon deciding to emigrate 
 to some western state, he first settled in Indiana, 
 after which he removed to Ray county, Mo., 
 and with the practice of medicine combined the 
 interests of a stock business. Being a strong 
 and influential Republican, the leaders of that 
 party induced him to become a candidate for 
 the state legislature, in which he served one 
 term. At the breaking out of the Mexican 
 war he offered his services at once, his patriot- 
 ism being as strong as when he first took up 
 arms for the country. Upon the declaration of 
 peace Dr. Awbrey located in Polk county, Iowa, 
 near the city of Des Moines, where he continued 
 his combined interests, and in 1850 he crossed 
 the plains to Oregon. His first winter here was 
 spent in Clackamas county. In 1852 he took up 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres in the forks of the Willamette river in 
 Lane county, upon which he put valuable im- 
 provements, while engaged in the pioneer prac- 
 tice of medicine and surgery. The usefulness 
 of his life was impaired at a comparatively 
 early age, for he was stricken with paralysis 
 and for twenty years remained an invalid. He 
 died at the age of eighty-three years, his force 
 of character and personality having won for 
 him a position of prominence in the affairs of 
 the state. For one term he represented his party 
 in the state legislature of Oregon. Fraternally 
 he was a Mason. He married Amelia Ann 
 Grubbe, a native of Virginia, who died in Ore- 
 gon in 1900, at the age of ninety-one years. 
 
 Reared to manhood in Missouri, M. T. Aw- 
 brey received a rather limited education in the 
 primitive schools of the state, attending for three 
 
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 months each year a pioneer log schoolhouse. 
 1 le was only seventeen years old at the time of 
 the breaking out of the Mexican war, but the 
 martial spirit was a part of his inheritance, and 
 when his father and older brother, Marshall 
 C, the latter of whom now lives in Crook coun- 
 ty, Ore., and has since seen much fighting in the 
 Indian wars here, decided to enlist, he also be- 
 came a member of the same company. As mem- 
 bers of Gilpin's Battalion they were sent after 
 the Indians in Mexico and Texas, and had sev- 
 eral severe encounters with the savages. They 
 endured much exposure, Mr. Awbrey and two 
 others sleeping out in the snow, as they had to 
 guard a herd of cattle which furnished them 
 beef. Fourteen months were passed in the 
 service, and on his discharge he located with 
 his parents in Iowa. He remained at home until 
 he crossed the plains in 1850, driving a four- 
 horse team, while his father had two wagons, 
 a carriage and some loose stock. The journey 
 occupied six months, and was made over the 
 old Barlow route, their safe arrival occurring 
 October 9, 1850, at Foster. He spent his 
 first winter in Oregon City and Portland, vari- 
 ously employed. In 185 1 he came to Lane 
 county. From this place he went by pack- 
 train to the mines of California, where he en- 
 gaged in placer mining. This employment was 
 continued for one year, with fair returns, after 
 which he came back over the mountains and lo- 
 cated a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres seven miles northwest of Eugene. 
 This was all wild land, which he proceeded to 
 cultivate and improve, and make into a com- 
 fortable home. Six years later he sold it and 
 became the owner of a three hundred and forty- 
 six acre farm near Irving, upon which he en- 
 gaged in the cultivation of grain principally. 
 In 1862 he went to the Salmon river and a year 
 later took a pack-train to Cariboo, British Co- 
 lumbia, in which venture he met with consid- 
 erable success. In 1878 he removed to Eugene, 
 and has since made that city his home. A 
 brother of Mr. Awbrey's, Thomas J., now located 
 in Texas, has also been identified with the 
 early history of the state, taking part in the 
 Indian wars, and being seriously wounded in 
 the Rogue river war. 
 
 Mr. Awbrey , was married in Lane county, 
 August 31, 1856, to Frances Baker. She was 
 born in Pike county, 111., and was fourteen years 
 old when she came to Oregon with her parents, 
 in 1853. Her father and grandfather, both 
 bearing the name of Thomas, were natives of 
 Virginia, and the elder man became an early 
 settler of Kentucky, from which state the son 
 emigrated to Illinois and with ox-teams crossed 
 the plains in 1853. Mr. Baker settled in Lane 
 county, near Irving, where he took up a dona- 
 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 which he improved and farmed until he died, 
 in 1856. His wife was Elizabeth Robison, also 
 a native of Virginia, and she died in Oregon in 
 1876. She was the mother of eleven children, 
 ten of whom came to Oregon and three of 
 whom are now living. The children born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Awbrey are six in number, of 
 whom Oren C. is a dentist in Philadelphia ; 
 Don Thomas, living in Cottage Grove ; Clara 
 B., wife of John Withrow, of Eugene ; Etna 
 E.j a farmer on the old home place ; Violet M., 
 wife of W. J. Coppernoll, of Eugene; and 
 Annie De Rene is still at home. Mrs. Awbrey 
 is a member of the Baptist Church, and Mr. 
 Awbrey adheres to the principles advocated in 
 the platform of the Republican party. 
 
 FRED LEROY KENT. One of the trite 
 sayings of today is that the farmer of the future 
 will live more by his head than his hands, and 
 that with proper education he will make his 
 work far more profitable and enjoyable. Spe- 
 cialists in every branch pertaining to farm life 
 are wisely directing the education of the young, 
 and through the influence of the land grant act 
 of 1862 each state is assured a College of Agri- 
 culture and Mechanical Arts. The college since 
 established in Oregon, at Corvallis, is well 
 equipped, and its corps of instructors is com- 
 posed of men and women amply fitted for the po- 
 sitions they hold. At the head of the dairying 
 department of the Oregon Agricultural College, 
 is Professor Kent, who is also associate profes- 
 sor of agriculture and dairying. 
 
 The lineal descendant of one of three brothers 
 who emigrated from old England to New Eng- 
 land in colonial days, Professor Kent was 
 born, June 25, 1868, at Ellenburg Center, N. Y. 
 His grandfather was a farmer in Clinton county, 
 N. Y., for many years, living the greater 
 part of the time in Ellenburg Center, where 
 his son, S. L. Kent, the professor's father, was 
 born and brought up. S. L. Kent took part in 
 the Civil war, serving as a corporal in the Sev- 
 enteenth New York Infantry. A farmer by 
 birth and breeding, he engaged in agricultural 
 labor in his native state until 1869, when he 
 removed to Calhoun county, Iowa, where, buy- 
 ing a farm of four hundred and eighty acres, 
 near Manson, he has since been prosperously en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising. He 
 is quite prominent in public affairs, being now a 
 county commissioner. He is a Republican in 
 politics, a member of the G. A. R., and belongs 
 to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He mar- 
 ried Fannie M. Bishop, who was born in Clin- 
 ton county, N. Y., a daughter of Thomas Bishop, 
 a life-long resident of New York, and the de- 
 
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 scendant of a New England family. Of the 
 children born of their union, five survive, Fred 
 Leroy, the oldest of these five boys, being the 
 only one to come to the Pacific coast. 
 
 Acquiring his rudimentary education in the 
 district schools of Mjanson, Iowa, he subse- 
 quently attended Taylor Academy, in the same 
 town, after which he taught school three terms. 
 Using the money thus earned to advance his 
 education, he, in March, 1890, entered the Iowa 
 State Agricultural College, at Ames, through 
 which he worked his way by hard labor, acting 
 as bookkeeper for the institution while there, and 
 teaching school in Calhoun county during his va- 
 cations. Receiving the degree of B. Agr. in 
 November, 1893, he remained with the college 
 as dairy instructor until 1895. Accepting then 
 the position of instructor in dairying, since 
 changed to that of professor of agriculture, at 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, an office cre- 
 ated in 1895, he came to Corvallis, and has since 
 filled this chair with great credit to himself, and 
 to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned. 
 Under his supervision, the department of which 
 he has charge has become one of the most im- 
 portant in the college, dairying at the experiment 
 station being reduced to an exact science. He 
 is widely known throughout Oregon, taking an 
 active part in local and state institutes, like- 
 wise being called upon frequently to do institute 
 work in the adjoining state of Washington, and 
 at the Creamery Operators' Association held in 
 San Francisco, Cal., December 26 and 2.7, 1902, 
 read a most interesting and instructive paper on 
 the Use of the Acid Test in Butter-Making. 
 
 Politically Professor Kent is a sound Repub- 
 lican, and fraternally he is a member of Cor- 
 vallis Grange, No. 242 ; of the State Dairy- 
 men's Association, of which he has been secre- 
 tary since 1896; and of Corvallis Lodge, No. 14, 
 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 PROF. EMILE FRANCIS PERNOT. In 
 the curriculum of studies at the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College, at Corvallis, no branch of learn- 
 ing is deemed of more importance to the students 
 and to the general public, than that of bacteri- 
 ology, and no member of the teaching force of 
 that 'well known institution is better fitted for his 
 particular line of work than Prof. E. F. Pernot, 
 who is now filling the chair of that especial 
 science in the college. 
 
 Coming from French ancestors on both sides 
 of the house, Emile F. Pernot was born, August 
 30, 1859, in New York City. His father, A. D. 
 Pernot, was born at Montbeliard, France, a son 
 of Francois Pernot, an expert machinist, who 
 emigrated to this country, and died in New York 
 City. A. D. Pernot also excelled as a machinist, 
 
 serving an apprenticeship in one of the best shops 
 in France. After coming to this country he made 
 practical use of his inventive genius, inventing 
 a machine for turning the shanks on sewing ma- 
 chine needles, and he was also the inventor of 
 machines for making the other parts of the 
 needle, which he was the first to successfully 
 manufacture, making the first needles for Elias 
 Howe, inventor of the sewing machine. He 
 also had the distinction of being the first to in- 
 vent machines in Europe for rifling cannons. 
 About 1866 he removed to Bowling Green, Wood 
 county, Ohio, where he engaged in general farm- 
 ing until about a year prior to his death, which 
 occurred in New York City. He married Emily 
 Boissard, a native of France, and she is now 
 residing in Corvallis, Ore. Of the children born 
 of their union five grew to years of maturity, one 
 of whom, Lucy, died in 1901. Those now living 
 are as follows : Eugene, a horticulturist, living 
 near Corvallis ; Charles, a horticulturist, resid- 
 ing in Corvallis ; Emile F., the subject of this 
 sketch ; and H. S. Pernot, M. D., who was grad- 
 uated from Cincinnati Medical College, and from 
 Bellevue Hospital, N. Y., and is now one of 
 the leading physicians of Corvallis. 
 
 Removing with his parents to Bowling Green, 
 Ohio, when about seven years old, Emile F. 
 Pernot acquired the rudiments of his education 
 in its public schools, remaining there until seven- 
 teen years of age. Going then to Philadelphia 
 in search of work, he subsequently studied 
 bacteriology under Dr. Pearson, an eminent 
 authority in that science. Returning home on a 
 visit some time after, during the early develop- 
 ment of the oil interests in Ohio, he was stricken 
 with the oil fever, and, in company with his 
 brother Charles, was one of the pioneers in de- 
 veloping the oil resources of the Black Swamp, 
 in Wood county, meeting with great success. 
 Leasing and operating the first well sunk in that 
 region, 600 barrels per day of oil was the out- 
 put, and in the second well the daily output was 
 3,000 barrels. 
 
 On account of ill health, Mr. Pernot came to 
 Oregon in 1889, locating in Corvallis as a 
 photographer, and a member of the firm of Per- 
 not Brothers, his brother Eugene being his 
 partner. In 1890 Mr. Pernot was appointed 
 photographer and engraver at the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College, and in 1896 was made professor 
 of bacteriology, a position that he still holds. 
 The office of state bacteriologist being created by 
 the state legislature, Professor Pernot was ap- 
 pointed to the position, for a term of four years, 
 by Governor Geer, and he is also serving as 
 bacteriologist at the experiment station of the 
 college. The professor spent two years in 
 Washington, D. C, in the bureau of animal in- 
 dustry, department of agriculture. Particularly 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1259 
 
 interested in his work, the professor prepares 
 reports and issues bulletins, and is highly spoken 
 of by John R. Mohler, chief of the pathological 
 division, in his reports to headquarters. 
 
 Professor Pernot married, in Corvallis, Miss 
 Edith Coote, daughter of Prof. George Coote, 
 one of the faculty of the Oregon Agricultural 
 College, and they have two children, namely : 
 Ainiee and Mabel. The professor is a Democrat 
 in politics, has been a Knight of Pythias for 
 several years, and is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church, in which he is serving as junior warden. 
 
 SILAS L. SHEDD. Among the early edu- 
 cators of Oregon is to be named S. L. Shedd, 
 who for about ten years after his arrival in this 
 state, taught in the public schools, adding to the 
 income so acquired by also engaging in farming. 
 That his years of perseverance and industry were 
 not unavailing is evidenced by the fact that he 
 is now numbered among the substantial financial 
 people of this community, making one in a 
 long list of men who came to the west empty- 
 handed and amassed a fortune through a right 
 and wise use of the multifold opportunities here 
 presented. Mr. and Mrs. Shedd now make 
 their home in Corvallis, the latter also being a 
 very old settler, having lived in this one house 
 since 1859. 
 
 The ancestors of S. L. Shedd were natives of 
 Xew Hampshire, the grandfather, Silas, of Eng- 
 lish descent, engaging in farming in that state, 
 where his death occurred. The father, William 
 Shedd, was born in Xew Hampshire, and was 
 there reared to the same life which had occu- 
 pied the years of his father. On attaining man- 
 hood he married Abigail Wallace, a native of 
 the same state, and a daughter of Jonas Wallace, 
 who was also a farmer. In 1870 they removed 
 to Oneida, Knox county, 111., where the father 
 died in 1875, while the mother passed away in 
 1894 in McLean county. The children born 
 to them were nine in number, seven of whom are 
 still living, being given in order of birth as 
 follows : Mary Emmeline. now Mrs. Graves, of 
 Evanston, 111. : S. L., of this review ; William 
 W.. a farmer in Fairbury, 111. : Herman, who was 
 killed in the Civil war, being wounded in the bat- 
 tle of Fairoaks as a member of the Second Xew 
 Hampshire Regiment ; Wallace, a farmer in 
 Rensselaer. Ind. : Spaulding, also in that loca- 
 tion : Edwin N., a miner of Lewiston, Cal. : and 
 John G.. a member of the firm of Marshall 
 Field & Co., of Chicago. 
 
 S. L. Shedd was born in Greenfield. N. H.. 
 September 12, 1832, and was reared in that 
 state, receiving through the medium of the com- 
 mon schools a good education which he began to 
 practically utilize at the age of eighteen years, 
 
 engaging then as a teacher. In 1857 ne came 
 to Illinois and in connection with his work as a 
 pedagogue he improved a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres. He left the middle west, com- 
 ing by horse-team to Oregon in 1862, over the 
 old Oregon trail, the journey occupying the 
 months from April 30 to September 7. On ar- 
 riving in Corvallis he at once sought employ- 
 ment as a teacher, continuing for about ten 
 years, and carrying on agricultural pursuits at 
 the same time. His principal occupation now, 
 however, is the handling of real estate and the 
 loaning of money. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Shedd occurred Xov em- 
 ber 12, 1865, in Corvallis, uniting him with Mrs. 
 Precious (Starr) Caton, a native of Licking 
 county, Ohio. She was the daughter of the 
 Rev. J. W. Starr, who was born in Allegany 
 county, Md., the son of James. Her father early 
 removed to Licking county, Ohio, where he en- 
 gaged in farming, in 1839 settling in Van 
 Buren county, Iowa, and from there emigrating 
 in 1848 to Oregon, bringing his wife, three 
 daughters and four sons. He located near Bell- 
 fountain, Benton county, where he took up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 upon which he remained until his death in his 
 seventy-fifth year. He was a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, giving much ma- 
 terial aid in the establishment of a congregation 
 at this place. Mr. Starr had been married twice, 
 his second wife being Eliza A. Lucas, a native of 
 Montgomery county, Md., and a daughter of 
 Amos, who died in that state. Mrs. Starr died 
 in Oregon at the age of eighty-three years. The 
 children born of the first union of Mr. Starr are 
 as follows : Nancy, now Mrs. Belknap, of Read- 
 ing, Cal.; James M. died in Iowa; John W. 
 came to Oregon in 1853 an< ^ resides in Junc- 
 tion, Ore. ; P. M. was a minister in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and died in Brownsville, Linn 
 county, Ore. ; Moses F.. a soldier in an Ohio 
 regiment during the Civil war, was taken pris- 
 oner at the battle of Fitchburg, sent to Ander- 
 sonville prison stockade, and there endured the 
 agonies of slow starvation until his death. Of 
 the second union nine children were born, eight 
 of whom are now living, the eldest being Prec- 
 ious, now Mrs. Shedd : Matilda J., now de- 
 ceased ; Samuel Emery, located in eastern Ore- 
 gon : Milton L., on the old homestead: L. H., 
 in Albany : Eliza, now Mrs. Burlingame. of 
 Yamhill county : S. C, near the old home : A. 
 P., on the old home : and Mary Emmeline, now 
 Mrs. Thorp, also in the vicinity of her child- 
 hood's home. Mrs. Shedd was reared in Iowa, 
 receiving her education in a pioneer log school- 
 house, and in 1848 she made the memorable trip 
 across the plains by ox-teams and two wagons, 
 starting April 12, over the old Barlow trail. 
 
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 They came by Ft. Hall and Laramie, landing 
 in Oregon September 23 of the same year in 
 which they started, being among the first immi- 
 grants to reach Oregon after the Cayuse war. 
 The first husband of Mrs. Shedd was J. H. 
 Caton, a native of Missouri, and a representative 
 of the Kentucky family by that name, who came 
 to Oregon in 1843 m company with the Apple- 
 gates, Whitman and Nesmith. He took up a 
 donation claim near Bellfountain, and in 1859 
 he bought property in Corvallis, to which city 
 he removed. He died in eastern Oregon in 
 1863 while there looking after his cattle interests. 
 Mrs. Shedd and the two living children still 
 own -the three hundred and twenty acres em- 
 bodied in the donation claim. Mrs. Shedd has 
 had six children, four of whom attained ma- 
 turity : Sabina D. and J. W. died in this city; 
 Ida M. is Mrs. Fortson, of Sacramento, Cal. ; 
 and J. L. is on the old donation claim. 
 
 Mr. Shedd was made a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows in 1871, in which 
 he has served as past officer. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Rebekahs, and the Corvallis Grange, 
 in which he is ex-master. His wife is a member 
 of the Rebekahs and has acted as past officer, 
 and also belongs to the Coffee Club, and to the 
 Presbyterian Church. Mr. Shedd is a Repub- 
 lican politically. Several interesting trips have 
 been made back east by Mr. and Mrs. Shedd, 
 her first being in 1856 in company with Mr. Ca- 
 ton, going via Panama and returning the same 
 way the next year. In 1878 Mr. Shedd took the 
 trip, visiting the scenes of his birth and child- 
 hood, and in 1893 the two enjoyed the pleasure 
 of considerable time spent at the World's Fair 
 at Chicago. 
 
 WILLIAM A. BUCHANAN is now serving 
 his fourth term as county treasurer of Benton 
 county, a fact which stands in incontrovertible 
 evidence of his efficiency in the office, his prompt- 
 ness in the discharge of his duties and his loyalty 
 to the trust reposed in him. He is one of the na- 
 tive sons of Benton county, his birth having oc- 
 curred about ten miles south of Corvallis, on the 
 1 8th of October, 1858. He is a son of Robert L. 
 Buchanan, who was born in England of Scotch 
 descent. The paternal grandfather, Andrew, 
 was a native of Scotland, and with his wife came 
 to America from England with his son Robert L. 
 He followed farming throughout almost his en- 
 tire life, and died in Benton county, Ore. Robert 
 L. Buchanan was reared as a farmer lad, but 
 afterward learned the dry goods business. Com- 
 ing to the United States he landed in New York 
 City, where he was connected with the dry goods 
 trade until after the discovery of gold in Cali- 
 fornia, when, in 1849, he joined the argonauts 
 
 who went to the Pacific coast in search of the 
 golden fleece. He was engaged in mining in Cal- 
 ifornia until 1853, when he made an overland trip 
 to Oregon, settling in Benton county, where he 
 secured a claim which he afterward sold. He 
 then purchased a farm, upon a part of which he 
 still resides. In 1855 he returned to England, 
 and was married in that country to Miss Jane 
 Galbraith, a native of that land. She is still 
 living with her husband in this county, and they 
 are now numbered among the honored pioneer 
 settlers. After his marriage he brought his bride, 
 his parents, two brothers and two sisters to the 
 new world. He continued to reside upon his 
 farm, giving to it his care and attention, and in 
 the work of improvement and progress he has 
 been a leader and is now the owner of a valuable 
 property. He belongs to the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church South and is accounted one of the 
 prosperous and leading agriculturists of this sec- 
 tion of Oregon. Unto him and his wife were 
 born the following named : Mary, who is living 
 in Benton county; Mrs. Jane Currin, of Corval- 
 lis ; Mrs. Katie Veach, of Lane county, Ore. ; 
 William, of this review ; Andrew, who is living 
 in New York City, where he is engaged in the 
 drug business ; Robert, who died about thirteen 
 years ago in Benton county ; John, of Benton 
 county, and Arthur, who is living on the old 
 homestead. 
 
 William A. Buchanan obtained his early edu- 
 cation in the district schools and afterward spent 
 two years as a student in the Agricultural Col- 
 lege of Corvallis. He then went to work upon 
 the home farm, where he remained for a year, 
 after which he was married and engaged in farm- 
 ing on his own account, six miles southwest of 
 this city. He there carried on agricultural pur- 
 suits for six years. After he had lived there for 
 five years he lost his right arm by the bursting 
 of a wood-saw. For a year longer he remained 
 upon the farm, and then removed to Linn county, 
 where he continued farming for two years, but 
 he found that his efforts were much hampered 
 by the loss of his right arm, and he determined 
 to abandon agricultural pursuits. Therefore, on 
 October 7, 1892, he took up his abode in Corval- 
 lis, where for a few years he operated a small 
 dairy. In 1894 he was nominated on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket to fill the office of country treasurer, 
 but was defeated by fifty-one votes. In July, 
 1894, he was appointed deputy county recorder 
 and served in that position until 1896, when, in 
 June, he was again nominated by the Democratic 
 party for the position of county treasurer and 
 was elected by a majority of eighteen. In July 
 he entered upon the duties of the office, and, _ in 
 1898, he was renominated and elected by an in- 
 creased majority of eighty. In 1900 he was_ again 
 the party's candidate, and this time was given a 
 
 
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 majority of two hundred and eighty. At the 
 fourth election, in 1902, he received a majority of 
 two hundred and forty. His official service is 
 most commendable, for he has ever been found 
 methodical and accurate in the discharge of his 
 duties, fully meeting the trust reposed in him in 
 every particular. He is now also serving as 
 school clerk of his district, having filled the office 
 continuously since March, 1896, with the excep- 
 tion of two years. 
 
 In Linn county, Ore., Mr. Buchanan was 
 united in marriage to Miss Nettie Willbanks, 
 who was born in Mississippi, a daughter of W. 
 J. Willbanks, now a retired farmer residing in 
 Corvallis. Mr. Buchanan is connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World, and he belongs to the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South, in which he 
 takes a very active part, doing all in his power to 
 promote the cause of Christianity. He is now 
 serving as one of the trustees of the church. Mr. 
 Buchanan deserves great credit for what he has 
 accomplished. After losing his right arm he had 
 to learn to write with his left hand, and says it 
 was the hardest thing which he ever tried to do, 
 but he finally mastered the task to which he set 
 himself, and now is a fine penman, using the 
 Spencerian system. He is well liked and very 
 popular and the circle of his friends is almost 
 co-extensive with the circle of his acquaintance. 
 
 JUDGE HARRISON RITTENHOUSE 
 KINCAID. Prominent among the citizens of 
 Eugene, Lane county, Judge H. R. Kincaid is 
 named as a representative of all that is sub- 
 stantial and progressive in the community, and 
 is given the credit which belongs to one who has 
 been named among the pioneers of a state. He 
 is, and forty years has been, identified with the 
 Oregon State Journal, the oldest weekly news- 
 paper in Oregon owned by one party, and in ad- 
 dition to the duties which the management of 
 this paper entails, has taken an active part in 
 all public affairs, in connection with the advance- 
 ment of his own prosperity aiding in that of the 
 general community, and indeed making his in- 
 fluence felt throughout the entire state. What 
 he is, and what he has done, have become mat- 
 ters which properly belong to the history of the 
 early days, since through his own, and like 
 efforts of others, has come the greatness of Ore- 
 gon. 
 
 The Kincaid family is of Scotch-Irish ances- 
 try, the first American representative locating in 
 Virginia, where the grandfather, Francis, was 
 born, and from which state he brought his fam- 
 ily to Madison county, Ind. As a pioneer he be- 
 came a farmer in that state. His son, Thomas 
 Kincaid, the father of the Judge, was born in 
 Greenbrier county, Va., and was seventeen years 
 
 old when he went with his father to Indiana. 
 In addition to his training as a farmer he learned 
 the trade of a blacksmith, the two forming his 
 means of livelihood throughout his entire life. 
 A beautiful talent which brightened his life and 
 added pleasure to the lives of all with whom 
 he came in contact, was his musical ability, the 
 instrument which he learned to play being the 
 violin. Being a progressive and active man he 
 took great interest in the movements of the day, 
 local and national, and while a resident of In- 
 diana he became captain of a company of state 
 militia. He also performed every duty which 
 came to him as a citizen, upholding the inter- 
 ests of the Republican party, of which he was 
 an adherent; a strong Abolitionist, his convic- 
 tions lay with the principles which dictated the 
 course of action followed by this party, and 
 when the Whigs were merged with the Repub- 
 licans he remained with them, and was a Repub- 
 lican throughout his life. Inheriting the pioneer 
 spirit which had distinguished his ancestors, he 
 early anticipated becoming a part of some newer, 
 western state, deciding first to locate in Texas. 
 While en route to that state he met, in St. Louis, 
 a friend who advised him rather to settle in 
 Iowa, whereupon • he located in Appanoose 
 county, that state, and spent the winter, the 
 rigors of which added to his previous desire to 
 reside in Texas. In April, 1845, ne set out once 
 more for the south, but in Van Buren county 
 he met so many who were returning that he 
 became discouraged, and located instead in St. 
 Francis, Ark., where he passed the winter. 
 After a short sojourn in Memphis he returned 
 to Madison county, Ind.. and remained in his 
 old home until 1853. In that year he brought 
 his family across the plains and settled on a 
 farm three miles southeast of Eugene, Lane 
 county, Ore., thus becoming a pioneer of this 
 western state. He made his home upon that 
 farm until he became an inmate of his son's 
 home, where he died in 1865, at the age of sixty- 
 five years. He married Nancy Chodrick, a na- 
 tive of Butler county, Ohio, and the daughter of 
 Peter Chodrick, who settled in Indiana and made 
 his home in that state for the remainder of his 
 life. Mrs. Kincaid now makes her home in 
 Eugene, at the age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 Of the seven children born to his parents. 
 Judge Kincaid is the oldest, and one of two 
 who are still living. He was born in Madison 
 county, Ind., January 3, 1836, and was reared 
 on his father's farm, his education being derived 
 from an attendance at the district school in the 
 vicinity of his home. He was but seventeen 
 years old when he became a pioneer, as a mem- 
 ber of his father's family crossing the plains 
 with ox-teams, one of which he drove from In- 
 diana to the Willamette valley. The trip was 
 
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 fraught with the usual trials and dangers. Leav- 
 ing Indiana in February they crossed the Mis- 
 sissippi river on the ice, from the city of Bur- 
 lington journeying across Iowa to the Missouri 
 river, which they crossed at a point nine miles 
 below Omaha. Their journey was interrupted 
 for a time, while they waited for the grass to 
 grow to furnish provender for their stock, when 
 they once more set out, taking the Barlow route 
 for Oregon. Not a house occupied the present 
 site of Omaha, nor did they see any on the way, 
 the first signs of habitation being at Foster, 
 twelve miles from Oregon City, where they 
 arrived September 29, 1853, reaching Lane 
 county October 1 1. Judge Kincaid remained at 
 home for about two years, during which time 
 he assisted in the improvement and cultivation 
 of his father's farm during the winters, while 
 the summers found him employed by Isaac and 
 Elias Briggs in digging a mill race at what is 
 now Springfield. In 1855 he bought a pony and 
 miner's outfit and set out for the Rogue river 
 mines. In the placer mines on Althouse creek 
 the Indians became troublesome, and, taking the 
 miners unawares, killed several before the 
 others saw the necessity of preparing for war- 
 fare. They put up a fort in that location and 
 for several weeks were compelled to live on the 
 defensive. Seeing no further chance for mining, 
 Judge Kincaid and his partner started for Cres- 
 cent City, Cal., where they remained until spring, 
 earning their livelihood by chopping cord-wood 
 and splitting rails. In the spring of 1856 Judge 
 Kincaid went on the steamer Goliah as a steer- 
 age passenger to San Francisco, where he was 
 engaged for a few weeks in erecting a plank 
 fence in the city. He then went by steamer to 
 Sacramento, walked from there to Folsom City, 
 and was soon at work in the mines on the Amer- 
 ican river, near Auburn, where he remained 
 until the water dried up. Locating then in 
 Marysville, he worked in the stables of an ex- 
 press company, after which he found employ- 
 ment with Matthew Sparks, upon his ranch on 
 Bear river. Mr. Sparks afterward sold his 
 property and Judge Kincaid went with him to 
 Colusa county, and was there engaged in the 
 making of rails for his employer. The follow- 
 ing summer he engaged in freighting in the 
 mountains. It was the same year that he de- 
 cided to return to Oregon, and leaving his out- 
 fit, valued at about $500, for which he never re- 
 ceived any return, he went to San Francisco, 
 and embarked for Portland. From the latter 
 city he journeyed to Corvallis, and from there 
 walked to Eugene, practically again at the be- 
 ginning of his career. 
 
 The first work which Judge Kincaid did in 
 Oregon was cutting logs, which he hauled to 
 the mijl-race, and had them sawed on shares, 
 
 using the lumber to build his house, he having 
 purchased six acres of land in the southern part 
 of Eugene before going to California. As an- 
 other means of livelihood he also burned char- 
 coal and sold it to the blacksmiths in Eugene. 
 Having accumulated a small amount of money 
 he decided to attend school for one winter. In 
 Columbia College he was a member of a class 
 which boasted many eminent men, among them 
 being C. H. Miller, now Joaquin Miller; the 
 late Judge Watson ; John Miller, D. D. S,' a 
 brother of Joaquin Miller ; Joseph D. Matlock ; 
 Judge J. J. Walton and Jefferson Blevins. At 
 that time B. J. Pengra was conducting the 
 People's Press, and the year being i860, when 
 the entire Union was shaken with the questions 
 which were then assailing it ; much was written 
 on the subject. The Herald, a Democratic 
 paper, and strong for secession, published many 
 articles written by President Ryan, of Columbia 
 College, all appearing under the pen name of 
 Vindex. After much persuasion on the part of 
 friends, Judge Kincaid was induced to answer 
 them through Mr. Pengra's paper, four articles 
 appearing under the name of Anti-Vindex. Presi- 
 dent Ryan ascribed the articles to Mr. Pengra, 
 and in an assault attempted to kill him, after 
 which he escaped to Virginia and entered the 
 Confederate army. The affair broke up Colum- 
 bia College. This was the beginning of the 
 newspaper career of Judge Kincaid, the next 
 summer finding him on the staff of the People's 
 Press, the leading Republican paper of the state. 
 Pengra was nominated for presidential elector, 
 and while engaged in campaigning left the judge 
 to learn printing. The press work and nearly 
 all of the writing was done by Judge Kincaid 
 during the campaign of i860. A short time 
 afterward he gave up this work and for two 
 summers was engaged in packing to Canon City, 
 after which he again became identified with edi- 
 torial work. For a short time he worked on 
 the State Republican, the Union Crusader, and 
 Copperhead Killer, the latter edited by A. C. Ed- 
 munds, who wrote principally upon religious 
 subjects, while the judge wrote upon political 
 issues. A year later the judge and Joel Ware 
 bought this paper, and changed the name to the 
 Oregon State Journal. Beginning March 12, 
 1864, the two were associated for one year, when 
 Mr. Ware sold out to Judge Kincaid, who has 
 since successfully and ably managed the affairs 
 of the paper, holding the tone to the highest 
 possible standard. 
 
 Politically, no man has exercised more influ- 
 ence than Judge Kincaid, for he has proven 
 himself one of the strong and reliable men of 
 his party, and as such has won the commenda- 
 tion of leaders. He has always been a stanch 
 Republican, and in 1896 joined the ranks of the 
 
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 Silver Republicans, in entire sympathy with 
 whom he has since remained. When the Re- 
 publican state convention met in Portland, April 
 ~. 1870, all the nominations were made speedily 
 and by acclamation — except that for state printer, 
 for which Henry L. Pittock, of the Oregcmian, 
 Henry Denlinger, of the Oregon Statesman, and 
 D. M. C. Gault were active candidates. The 
 friends of Judge Kincaid, who was then a clerk 
 in the United States Senate, three thousand 
 miles away, and was not a candidate, used his 
 name. Judge Kincaid was nominated on the fifth 
 ballot, which stood as follows: Kincaid, 109; 
 Denlinger, 76; Pettock, 11. The nomination 
 was then made unanimous and Judge Kincaid 
 returned from Washington to conduct the cam- 
 paign. In 1894 he was elected secretary of state 
 on the Republican ticket, serving from January, 
 1895. to January, 1899. ^ n 1898 the same posi-. 
 tion was virtually his, but he could not endorse 
 the gold standard platform, and could not ac- 
 cept the nomination on that basis ; he cast his 
 lot with the Silver Republican ticket, and was 
 defeated, though he led the ticket. In 1900 he 
 was nominated on the Citizens' ticket for county 
 judge, and overcame a majority of five hundred 
 votes, taking the oath of office in July, 1900, 
 for a term of four years. For eleven years, 
 from 1868 to 1879, Judge Kincaid was in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, where he acted as a clerk in the 
 United States Senate ; he was first in the finance 
 room, later in the executive room, and then in 
 the enrolling room, after which he was indexing 
 clerk until 1879, when a change in the political 
 situation at Washington made it more profitable 
 for him to return to Eugene, again assuming 
 charge of his paper, for which he had written 
 letters and editorials throughout the entire time. 
 This paper is an eight-page quarto, published 
 weekly, and at different times he has been inter- 
 ested in conducting a daily. In addition to the 
 interests above mentioned, the judge has always 
 taken a lively interest in the agricultural pur- 
 suits of the country, devoting- three hundred and 
 twenty acres of the old donation claim to stock- 
 raising. He is also interested in mining. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Kincaid occurred in 
 Macomb county, Mich., September 29, 1873, and 
 united him with Miss Augusta Lockwood, a 
 native of that locality. Her brother, C. M. Lock- 
 wood, was for many years identified with the 
 interests of Oregon, having conducted the stage 
 line between The Dalles and Salt Lake City for 
 some time. His death occurred in Michigan. 
 The one child born to Judge and Mrs. Kincaid 
 is named Webster Lockwood. Among the so- 
 cieties with which Judge Kincaid is connected 
 are the State Pioneer Association, the Oregon 
 Historical Society, the Commercial Club of Eu- 
 gene, and for some time he belonged to the Illi- 
 
 hee Club of Salem and the Multopor Club of 
 Portland. The life of Judge Kincaid has been 
 one that is noticeable even among the many who 
 have proven potent factors in the upbuilding of 
 the west, and to no man is greater credit due 
 for the stanch support which he has given 
 toward the promotion of all worthy movements. 
 He is today numbered among the representative 
 citizens of Oregon, and as such is given a place 
 among the records of her past. 
 
 EDMUND WALLER HARTLEY, one of 
 the representative farmers of Marion county, 
 occupies one of the most picturesquely located 
 country homes within the limits of the county, 
 where he and his family dispense a generous 
 hospitality to friend and stranger alike. His 
 farm, which is located seven miles east of Salem, 
 consists of four hundred acres, most of which 
 is under a high state of cultivation. The original 
 tract, upon which he located in 1865, consisted 
 of three hundred and twenty acres of the most 
 fertile and productive land in the county. Mr. 
 Hartley has also indicated his faith in the future 
 of Oregon by purchasing real estate in Salem. 
 
 Mr. Hartley was born in Hardin county, Ky., 
 February 6, 1825, and is a son of Joseph and 
 Polly (Singleton) Hartley. There he was reared 
 on his father's large farm. When the family 
 removed to Jefferson county, 111., in 1841, he 
 accompanied them, helping to found a new home 
 in a desolate and sparsely inhabited prairie region. 
 In the spring of 1865 he started across the plains 
 with his family, his outfit consisting of three 
 wagons, one drawn by four horses and the other 
 two by oxen. The journey consumed about six 
 months. With rare judgment he located at once 
 upon the farm which has since been a source of 
 pride to him, and which is providing him with a 
 comfortable income. All the improvements upon 
 the property are entirely due to his energy and 
 progressive spirit, and he is regarded as one of 
 the most successful farmers in the county. 
 
 Mr. Hartley was united in marriage with Ann 
 Eliza Whitlow, December 29, 1847. She is a 
 native of Laurel county, Ky., where she was born 
 October 22, 1829. Of this union twelve children 
 have been born. In the order of their birth they 
 are as follows: M. Jane, single, living at home; 
 Emily D., wife of J. L. Cline, of Portland, Ore. ; 
 Charles L., farming eight miles south of Salem; 
 Joseph T., deceased; Elenora S., wife of Levi S. 
 Brower, living near Mill City ; Letitia M., de- 
 ceased ; Hiram A., living seven miles southeast 
 of Silverton ; Edgar, of Salem ; Amanda I., wife 
 of G. D. Bowen, who lives near Silverton ; Ida 
 May, and M. Maggie, at home, and an infant, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Mr. Hartley is an enthusiastic advocate of the 
 
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 best possible educational advantages for the 
 children of the present generation, and for some 
 time has served with fidelity as a member of the 
 school board. He is a member of the old school 
 Baptist Church, and contributes generously of his 
 means towards its support and in behalf of its 
 charities. He is deservedly honored for his bus- 
 iness ability and integrity, as well as for his many 
 estimable personal characteristics. In politics he 
 has always been a Democrat. 
 
 GUS A. HURLEY. The real estate, law and 
 insurance business of Cooper & Hurley, though 
 established but two years ago, has the distinction 
 of being the only enterprise of its kind in Inde- 
 pendence, and has already worked up a trade in 
 keeping with the high character and unquestioned 
 ability of the men directing its affairs. The finan- 
 cial, commercial and agricultural opportunities 
 of Polk county contribute to the principal bus- 
 iness of the firm, and it is their intention to boom 
 these important departments, and thus enhance 
 the value of lands whose sale has been placed in 
 their hands. At their well equipped offices on the 
 east side of Main street, information is forth- 
 coming regarding almost all of the inducements 
 held out to home-seekers. Loans are also ne- 
 gotiated, property rented and collections made. 
 
 Gus A. Hurley, of the firm of Cooper & Hur- 
 ley, is a native son of Oregon, and was born 
 at La Fayette, Yamhill county, June 14, 1877. 
 His father, Andrew, from whom he inherited a 
 liking for law, was born in the state of Maine, 
 and was one of the sterling western pioneers 
 whose successful career was of his own fashion- 
 ing. He removed at an early day to Oshkosh, 
 Wis., and finally became interested in the steam- 
 boat business on the Mississippi river, becoming 
 in 'time an officer on the boats. After crossing 
 the plains in the early '50's, he located at Salem 
 and engaged as a plasterer and mason, in the 
 meantime spending his spare moments in master- 
 ing the intricacies of legal science. About 1873 
 he began to practice his profession, and was thus 
 engaged up to the time of his death in 1895, at the 
 age of fifty-six years. He was an active Re- 
 publican, and, as indicated by his various inter- 
 ests, a man of marked ability and indefatigable 
 energy. He married Almira Smith, who was 
 born in Yamhill county, and is the mother of two 
 children, of whom Gus A. is the oldest. Almira 
 Smith was a daughter of Sidney Smith, without 
 doubt one of the very first to cross the plains 
 to Oregon, for he came with a delegation of 
 home-seekers as early as 1839, locating in the 
 Chehalem valley, where he died at an advanced 
 age. 
 
 From the public schools Gus A. Hurley entered 
 the state normal school at Monmouth, from which 
 
 he was graduated in 1896, and thereafter he 
 studied law under W. H. Holmes, of Salem, Ore. 
 He was admitted to the bar June 12, 1899, and 
 conducted a general law practice until associating 
 himself with Mr. Cooper, under the firm name 
 of Cooper & Hurley. He has a profound knowl- 
 edge of law and general business, his occupation 
 embracing more lines of activity than falls to the 
 lot of the average legal practitioner. He is inter- 
 ested in the building up of Independence, and 
 is secretary of the Independence Improvement 
 Company. He is also fraternally inclined, and 
 is identified with the Masons, the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. Although one of the 
 youngest, he is also one of the most promising 
 of the professional and business men of this 
 county, and his friends and associates predict 
 "for him a career of more than ordinary useful- 
 ness. 
 
 LINUS W. HARGER. When the town 
 of Newberg was but a scattering array 
 of houses Linus W. Harger proved an in- 
 spiration to various lines of activity. He 
 came to the locality in 1872, and, fore- 
 seeing the need of such a structure, erected 
 the first warehouse in the town in 1875, a de- 
 parture appreciated to the full by the sur- 
 rounding farmers, who flocked thither with 
 their products. About the same time Mr. 
 Harger invested in three hundred and twenty- 
 three acres of land, which has since been 
 his home, and where he has extensively culti- 
 vated grain, raised stock, and grown fruit. 
 He has been very successful from a business 
 standpoint, and in his private character has 
 won the esteem of all with whom he has been 
 associated. 
 
 This honored Oregonian pioneer was born 
 in Hampden county, Mass., November 9, 1833, 
 and comes of a family long identified with the 
 pilgrim state. His paternal grandfather, David, 
 was born there, and during the war of 1812 
 left his forge and anvil in a paying little black- 
 smith shop to serve the interests of a stricken 
 country. His son, Leander, the father of 
 Linus," was also born in Massachusetts, and 
 lived for the greater part of his life near West 
 Granville. In later life he removed to East 
 Bridgewater, Mass., and died there at the age 
 of eighty years. He married Marcia Coe, who 
 was born in Massachusetts March 26, 1803, 
 and who is now living at the old home in 
 East Bridgewater, aged one hundred years. 
 Her father, Seth, was born in Massachusetts, 
 and came from ancestors long residents of the 
 snug little country of Wales. 
 
 The oldest son and second child born in his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 father's family, Linus W. Harger was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and at a Massachu- 
 setts Academy, and at the age of eighteen 
 engaged in the butchering business for a year. 
 Afterward he served an apprenticeship to a 
 carpenter, and was then engaged in building 
 and contracting until his thirty-ninth year. In 
 1854 he came to Oregon via Panama and San 
 Francisco, and after three years' residence in 
 Washington county, worked at his trade in 
 different parts of the valley, being engaged 
 by the government at Fort Dalles for about 
 a year. The following two years were spent 
 in travel throughout the middle west, where 
 Mr. Harger looked for a desirable permanent 
 locality, but found none to compare with the 
 state of Oregon. Via the plains he returned 
 in i860, again settling in Washington county, 
 where he bought a hundred and eighty acres 
 of land, which he improved, and in connection 
 with the management of which he* also en- 
 gaged in building and contracting for four 
 years. Mr. Harger then became identified 
 with the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, 
 and as a traveling builder was thus engaged 
 until 1872. Having in the meantime sold his 
 home in Washington county, he located on 
 his present farm in Yamhill county, with the 
 substantial development of which he has since 
 been connected. Aside from building the ware- 
 house which furnished an impetus to trade 
 in general at Newberg, Mr. Harger has been 
 identified with general affairs in his locality, 
 his sound business judgment, sterling integ- 
 rity and caution making his advice invaluable 
 upon all matters affecting the welfare of his 
 fellow-townsmen. 
 
 In Oregon City, Ore., Mr. Harger was 
 united in marriage with Harriett Pambrun, a 
 native of Washington, and whose father, Peter 
 C. Pambrun, was born in France. Mr. Pam- 
 brun was a man of leading characteristics, and 
 besides having an enviable European war rec- 
 ord took an active part in the advancement 
 of affairs in the extreme northwest. At the 
 great battle of Waterloo, he was a non-com- 
 missioned officer, and was wounded and taken 
 prisoner. After being released he became 
 identified with the Hudson Bay Company in 
 British North America, and there had charge 
 of two ports. He was one of the best known 
 pioneers of that region, and his work in con- 
 nection with the Hudson Bay Company was 
 in every way creditable, his management of 
 their trading posts being characterized by 
 business shrewdness and unquestioned integ- 
 rity. Mr. Pambrun was killed by a horse fall- 
 ing with him while out with a party of friends 
 in search of coyotes. Four children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Harger : Helen M., 
 
 Emerite, Theresa Ruth and Catherine, the wife 
 of F. D. Kinney, a farmer near Newberg. Mr. 
 Harger is a Democrat in political affiliation, 
 and is fraternally a charter member of the 
 Masonic lodge at Newberg. With his family 
 he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 ZACHARIAH J. IMUS was born in Co- 
 shocton county, Ohio, July 20, 1849, his father 
 being a native of New York, born in April, 1824. 
 In his youth, and in truth up to the time of 
 his death, the elder Mr. Imus enjoyed moving 
 from place to place, going when a very young 
 man to Michigan, where he remained but a 
 short time, soon returning to Coshocton 
 county, Ohio. Here he built up a little home, 
 leaving it, however, for Illinois, settling in 
 Peoria county. Proceeding to Iowa in 1855, 
 he bought land in Ringgold county, where he 
 acquired quite a reputation for land-trading. 
 At this time the war was being waged in the 
 southern states, and it was evident that it was 
 not near its close. Mr. Imus had not enlisted 
 earlier on account of his family, who were de- 
 pendent on him, but now, seeing his duty, he 
 left his home, joining Company I, Twenty- 
 ninth Iowa infantry, in the spring of 1862, 
 going at once to the front. His fighting days 
 were soon numbered, however, for he con- 
 tracted a disease that brought him to the hos- 
 pital, and there he remained for a year before 
 he was mustered out of service in 1865. His 
 death occurred the same year, when he was in 
 his forty-fifth year. 
 
 The mother was, in maidenhood, Miss Ma- 
 tilda Reed, a native of Maine, and after her 
 husband's death she went to Missouri, where 
 she lived at the time of her death. Eight 
 children were born of this union, the eldest 
 of whom was Zachariah. A year after his 
 father left for the front this lad of fifteen took 
 up the burden of life, making his own way 
 from this time on. For several years he re- 
 mained near his mother, helping her from the 
 meager results of his work. At twenty-two 
 years of age he left Iowa, settling in Osborne 
 county, Kans., where he engaged in farming. 
 He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, 
 putting upon the claim the necessary improve- 
 ments, but in 1 88 1 he left that state, coming to 
 Oregon. Here he bought fifty-two acres near 
 Dundee, Yamhill county, the principal part of 
 the ground being used for the cultivation of 
 hops. The land adjacent to the town, about 
 four and a half acres, was in grass. For ten 
 years this property remained in his possession, 
 but having interested himself in the politics 
 of his adopted city, he soon found other duties 
 
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 that demanded his attention, so sold his hop- 
 farm in 1901. Through Republican influence, 
 he received the appointment of postmaster, 
 November 6, 1898, and has since served as 
 school director, school clerk and road super- 
 visor. 
 
 Mr. Imus was married in Osborne county, 
 Kans., to Miss Hannah Hughes, who was born 
 in White county, Ind. Her father, John 
 Hughes, was a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and 
 during his residence in that city engaged in 
 the manufacture of shoes. In his later life 
 he tried farming, locating in Indiana. He then 
 moved to Nemaha county, Neb., where for 
 three years he ran a hotel in Pawnee City. 
 His next move was into Kansas, where he 
 bought three hundred and twenty acres, and 
 in 1880 came to Oregon, dying here in 1881. 
 The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Imus are, 
 in order of birth, Gertrude, James Elmer, 
 Francis, deceased, Lena, Alvin, deceased, 
 Blanche, Rhoda and Ralph. Gertrude is en- 
 gaged in teaching. 
 
 RICHARD B. LINVILLE, one of the hon- 
 ored residents of Newberg, was born in Clay 
 county, Mo., October 17, 1835, and prior to 
 coming to Oregon in 1891 had an extended 
 business and political career in different parts 
 of the middle west. His grandfather, Richard 
 Linville, was born in North Carolina, and set- 
 tled in Missouri, and in 1846 crossed the plains 
 with ox-teams. On the way his wife was 
 drowned in fording a stream, and alone and 
 disconsolate he pursued his way west, settling 
 in either Polk or Benton counties, where he 
 was successful as a farmer and stock-raiser. 
 John Linville, the father of Richard B., was 
 born in North Carolina, and removed with his 
 father to Missouri. Besides engaging in farm- 
 ing he also preached in the pulpit of the Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian church, and during his 
 comparatively brief life accomplished much 
 good in the world. In later years he was an 
 invalid, and his death occurred in Missouri 
 when his son Richard was eight years of age. 
 His wife, Nancy Jameson, was born in Vir- 
 ginia and died in St. Louis, Mo., leaving five 
 sons and one daughter, of whom Richard B. 
 is the fourth. 
 
 At the age of nineteen Mr. Linville gradu- 
 ated from the high school, and entered an 
 academy in Missouri. He was reared to farm- 
 ing, and led a practically uneventful life up to 
 the breaking out of the Civil war. In Sep- 
 tember, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, of 
 the Fifth Missouri Cavalry, attained to the 
 rank of sergeant major, and after serving for 
 one year obtained permission to organize a 
 
 company for a new regiment. September 30, 
 1862, he was commissioned captain of Com- 
 pany E, Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, which 
 he organized, and was discharged from the ser- 
 vice May 13, 1865. For the greater part he 
 was engaged in bushwhacking in Missouri and 
 Arkansas, and was wounded in the right side, 
 the ball still remaining in that part of his anat- 
 omy. His left side did not escape the atten- 
 tions of the enemy, but the ball failed to reach 
 a vital spot, owing to the fact that he carried 
 a newspaper m his pocket. 
 
 In 1866, in Andrew county, Mo., Mr. Lin- 
 ville entered upon his first political responsi- 
 bility, when he was elected surveyor of the 
 county, and served for two years. He was 
 afterward elected county treasurer and served 
 one term. For the following two years he 
 engaged in the hardware business in Hopkins, 
 Mo., and here, in 1872, was elected surveyor 
 of Nodaway county, serving one term. In 
 1879 ne removed to Kansas, and at Ness City, 
 Ness county, engaged in a general merchan- 
 dise business for twelve years. This stage of 
 his career Mr. Linville recalls as a very pros- 
 perous one, he happening there during a busi- 
 ness "boom," and when men with ability and 
 common sense were appreciated at their true 
 value. Here also he entered the political 
 arena, and was elected probate judge of Noda- 
 way county in 1878, serving for one term. 
 
 In 1891 Mr. Linville became identified with 
 Oregon, locating at Mount Tabor, where he 
 engaged in farming on a small scale. In 1897 
 he removed to Yamhill county, and bought ten 
 acres of land near Newberg, where he con- 
 ducted a fruit ranch with considerable success, 
 but disposed of this property in 1901. He 
 then invested in a large stock of general com- 
 modities and has since engaged in general 
 merchandise business with continued success. 
 Mr. Linville was married while living in Mis- 
 souri to Emma Richardson, a native of that 
 state, and who died in Missouri in 1874, leav- 
 ing four children : Henry R., a graduate of 
 the University of Kansas, and of Harvard 
 University, where he received the degree of 
 A. B. the first year, that of A. M. the second 
 year, and Ph. D. the third year, and who is 
 at present a teacher of biology in a boys' high 
 school in New York City; Minnie, who is the 
 wife of F. G. Shown, a farmer of Grant county, 
 Ore. ; Preston, who is deceased ; and Julia, 
 who is the wife of D. Connell of the vicinity 
 of Portland. For a second wife Mr. Linville 
 married, in Kansas, Mrs. Annie M. Jarrett, 
 whose father, Ely Harmon, was born in the 
 state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Harmon removed 
 from Pennsylvania to Kansas in 1879, locating 
 in Ness county, where he farmed for many 
 
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 years, but is now living retired. One child 
 has been born to Mr. Linville and his present 
 wife: Richard B.. Jr., who is living- with his 
 parents. Mr. Linville has been a stanch Re- 
 publican ever since his voting days, and he is 
 fraternally connected with the Masons and 
 the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 HENRY F. HOLLENBECK. As a partner 
 in the largest real estate firm in Eugene, H. F. 
 Hollenbeck occupies a position in the community 
 commensurate with his varied and extensive 
 business experience, and his recognized capacity 
 for painstaking and conscientious work. From 
 a worthy Teutonic ancestry he derives the con- 
 servatism and thrift which proceeds slowly but 
 surely to its goal, undisturbed by distractions 
 however alluring or promising. He was born 
 on a farm twelve miles from Madison, Jefferson 
 county, Ind., July 31, 1862, his grandfather, 
 Henry Hollenbeck, having established the fam- 
 ily in Scott county, the same state, after his emi- 
 gration from Germany in the early pioneer days. 
 Enoch R. Hollenbeck, the father of H. F., was 
 born on the Scott county farm, and in early life 
 selected the mason's trade as a means of live- 
 lihood. This, combined with general farming, 
 constituted the labor of his active years, and his 
 ability in both directions brought him fair re- 
 turns from a financial standpoint. As a young 
 man he removed to Jefferson county, Ind., and 
 afterward lived four years in Seymour, Ind., re- 
 moving to Lincoln, Neb., in 1882. He came to 
 Eugene, Ore., in 1887, and was soon engaged in 
 a paying contracting business, doing the masonry 
 work for the reservoir and many public buildings, 
 and establishing a reputation for thoroughness 
 and substantiality, so essential to the trade which 
 he dignified with his labor and high character. 
 Through his marriage with Elizabeth Maden, 
 who was born in east Tennessee and died in Eu- 
 gene, Ore., nine children were born, eight of 
 whom are living, H. F. being the second in order 
 of birth. William R., the oldest son, is a drug- 
 gist in Florence, Ore. ; James W. is a business 
 man of Moro, Ore. ; May is the wife of George 
 Tucker, of Oakland, Cal. ; Florence married John 
 Jenkins of Lane county ; Flora, now deceased, 
 became the wife of Mr. R. E. Bristow, of Eu- 
 gene ; Charles and Louis are residents of Los 
 Angeles, Cal. ; and Maggie is now the wife of 
 R. S. Smith. During his boyhood days in Ind- 
 iana H. F. Hollenbeck learned the trade of plas- 
 terer, and at the age of sixteen began to work 
 regularly with his father, the two trades combin- 
 ing most advantageously. He accompanied his 
 father to Lincoln, Neb., where success awaited 
 them, and they secured some of the largest con- 
 tracts in the city, both on private residences and 
 
 public buildings. After coming to Eugene the 
 son worked at his trade for a year, and then en- 
 gaged as a clerk in various mercantile establish- 
 ments for three years, afterward engaging as a 
 partner with C. T. Wandell in Eugene, in the 
 management of the New York Racket Store. 
 Two years later he started a piano and organ 
 business, continuing the same until 1897. He 
 then went to New York City that his wife might 
 perfect her musical education. In 1899 Mr. Hol- 
 lenbeck returned to Eugene, and after acting in 
 the capacity of yard manager of the planing mill 
 operated by his brother-in-law, Mr. George 
 Midgley, managed the Eugene Hotel for a couple 
 of years. In 1902 he became a partner of C. S. 
 Farrow in the real estate business, and now 
 handles some of the most valuable town and coun- 
 try property in Lane county. 
 
 In common with the rest of the community, 
 Mr. Hollenbeck is justly proud of his wife, who 
 is said to be one of the finest musicians on the 
 coast, and is now in charge of the Musical De- 
 partment of the University of Oregon. Mrs. 
 Hollenbeck was formerly Rose M. Midgley, and 
 was born in Springfield, Mo. She was educated 
 at the University of Oregon, making a specialty 
 of music, and later studied for a year under 
 Prof. Epstein of St. Louis. Mrs. Hollenbeck 
 had the advantage of further training under S. 
 P. Mills, Sharwenka, and Gertitoski, of New 
 York, and afterward entered the National Con- 
 servatory of Music, finishing her eastern train- 
 ing under Josefy. No greater recommendations 
 were required for this lady than her enviable 
 position with the university, or the appreciation 
 which is unstintingly shown her by all true 
 lovers of music on the coast. Faultless technique, 
 beautiful expression, and wonderful tone effects, 
 characterize her interpretation of the world's 
 greatest masterpieces, and added to these is that 
 capacity for infinite painstaking which is the 
 greatest joy of the harmony loving mind and 
 heart. Mr. and Mrs. Hollenbeck are members 
 of the Christian church. Mr. Hollenbeck is a 
 member of the Eugene Real Estate Exchange, 
 and is fraternallv identified with the Woodmen 
 of the World. 
 
 VAN DORN McFARLAND. Thirty years 
 of building and contracting in Eugene have 
 established the reputation of Van Dorn McFar- 
 land as one of the foremost in his line in Lane 
 county. To his chosen work Mr. McFarland 
 brings an experience dating from the time when, 
 as an energetic but very youthful devotee of 
 hammer and chisel, he used to search the woods 
 for material to fashion picture frames and other 
 articles comparatively easy of construction. 
 These embryonic undertakings back in Belmont 
 
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 county, Ohio, happened half a century ago, and 
 the youth who was fascinated by the possibilities 
 of putting boards together, and spurred on by 
 his natural mechanical ingenuity, was sixteen 
 years old, having been born in Belmont county, 
 February 23, 1837. 
 
 As the name indicates, Mr. McFarland is of 
 Scotch ancestry, and he inherits that combina- 
 tion of dogged perseverance and adaptiveness 
 which make of the best of his countrymen sub- 
 stantial and practical successes. His father and 
 grandfather, both named William, were born in 
 the state of Pennsylvania, the former in Red- 
 stone, and both became very early settlers of Bel- 
 mont county, Ohio. The grandfather was a far- 
 mer during his active life, and embellished his 
 career with lengthy service during the war of 
 18 12. His death occurred on his farm in Bel- 
 mont county, at an advanced age, his son, Wil- 
 liam, also a farmer, living to the age of sixty- 
 three. The younger William married Lucinda 
 Sutton, who also died in Ohio, and two of whose 
 six children are living, Van Dorn being the 
 youngest, and the only one in Oregon. From 
 the farm Van Dorn McFarland stepped into a 
 carpenter apprenticeship, having worked with 
 tools on his own responsibility ever since he could 
 remember, and gained a great liking for the 
 work. About 1863 he removed to Savannah, 
 111., and worked on the old Western Union Rail- 
 road, and later helped to build every station on 
 the line of the Sabula, Ackley & Dakota Rail- 
 road for seventy miles out of Sabula, Iowa. 
 While thus employed as foreman of a large 
 building force, he was located principally along 
 the Wapso river, Iowa, a very unhealthful dis- 
 trict, with the result that foreman and crew con- 
 tracted malarial fever, and all were glad when the 
 large contract was completed. Mr. McFarland 
 himself, after looking around for a place to re- 
 cuperate, decided upon Eugene, Ore., intending 
 to return east when his cure had been effected. 
 A year in the city not only restored him to 
 health, but inspired him with a wholesome and 
 emphatic appreciation of Eugene as a building 
 and business center. Accordingly, he engaged 
 in his old occupation of building and contracting 
 with such good results that he decided to make 
 this his permanent home. This was in 1873, and 
 ever since he has lived there, in the meantime 
 putting up hundreds of houses and public build- 
 ings, contributing much to the upbuilding of the 
 city. He superintended the construction of the 
 Masonic Temple Building, of the John Klemm, 
 Chrisman, and Matlock buildings, and scores^ of 
 the best and most artistic residences in the city. 
 He is skilled in every detail of his interesting 
 work, and is known not only in the immediate 
 city, but throughout the county. As relaxation 
 from business cares, he _superintends the work on 
 
 his farm of seventy-three acres three and a half 
 miles north of Eugene, taking great interest in 
 the improvement of his property. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. McFarland is one of the pop- 
 ular men in Lane county. While a resident of 
 Ohio he was a member of Belmont Lodge No. 
 16, F. & A. M., was later identified with the 
 Savannah Lodge, and is now a member of Eu- 
 gene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M. He was 
 made a Royal Arch Mason in Eugene, and is a 
 member of Eugene Chapter No. 10, and is a 
 member of the Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 2, K. 
 T. Formerly he was identified with the Council 
 of Corvallis, Ore., but demitted and joined the 
 council of Albany. Mr. McFarland was a char- 
 ter, but now demitted, member of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, of the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, of the Degree of Honor, 
 and the Eastern Star. He was a charter member 
 of the first Knights of Pythias Lodge in Eu- 
 gene, but when the lodge became defunct he 
 withdrew from the order and has never joined 
 the lodge of the present day. In political affilia- 
 tion Mr. McFarland is a Republican. He is a 
 genial and interesting man, devoted to his calling, 
 and invariably in favor of progress. He believes 
 in the gospel of industry, of fair dealing and 
 uprightness, maintains a name above reproach, 
 and worthy of all honor. 
 
 JOSEPH McBEE. A very popular and re- 
 sourceful man was William McBee, who came 
 to Benton county in 1852 and established the 
 family whose very worthy representative is 
 Joseph McBee, a successful farmer near Cor^ 
 vallis. Born in Ohio in 1801, the father moved 
 to Missouri with his parents when he was a boy, 
 and was there reared on a farm, securing such 
 education at the public schools as the times and 
 his arduous home duties permitted. After his 
 marriage with Elizabeth Milligan, of Ohio, he 
 moved onto another farm, where he prospered, 
 but at the same time desired to further improve 
 his condition. The result of his discontent was 
 that he sold his land in 1852, when he started 
 across the plains with ox-teams, accompanied 
 by his wife and children and his mother. On the 
 way the mother died of cholera, but otherwise 
 the journey was an uneventful one, and the home- 
 seekers arrived at their destination less dis- 
 couraged than most emigrants in the early days. 
 The first winter being spent in Marion county, 
 they settled the next spring on a claim seven miles 
 south of Corvallis, Benton county, which claim 
 is still in the possession of his heirs. Mr. Mc- 
 Bee made many improvements on his farm, and 
 in its management exercised business judgment 
 and the greatest frugality. He had an inter- 
 esting personality, and succeeded in making 
 

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 1278 
 
 friends with all with whom he came in contact. 
 Somewhat of a politician, he took a keen interest 
 in the local undertakings of his party, although 
 he never aspired to office. Nine children were 
 horn to himself and wife, of whom W. H. is a 
 fanner near Corvallis ; David lives in Smithville ; 
 and Joseph is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Trained to farming on the paternal ranch, 
 Joseph McBee remained at home until he was 
 twenty-one. and then went to the gold fields on 
 the Salmon river. After mining and prospecting 
 for a short time he returned to Benton county 
 and took up farming, and in 1875 married Fan- 
 nie Irwin, who was born in Corvallis, and with 
 whom he went to housekeeping on a claim eight 
 milts southeast of Corvallis. In 1879 ^ e bought 
 two hundred and seventy-three acres of land 
 constituting a portion of the old J. Gage dona- 
 tion claim, and where he is engaged in stock- 
 raising and general farming. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, and has been a school director 
 for many years. Mrs. McBee, who was a 
 daughter of Richard and Louisa Irwin, the 
 former of whom is deceased, crossed the plains 
 with her parents in 1850, and was reared in 
 Oregon. She was the mother of the following 
 children : Richard C. ; Joseph E. ; Lela ; Leora ; 
 Lizzie ; Georgia : Ida ; and Willie, deceased in 
 infancy. Mrs. McBee died at the home farm 
 May 31, 1903, a devoted wife and a kind and 
 loving mother. Mr. McBee is prominent in his 
 locality, has a fine farm and fine Durham cat- 
 tle, and in all his undertakings evidences thrifty 
 and progressive ideas. 
 
 CHARLES W. WASHBURNE. Occupying 
 a position of importance in the business circles 
 of Junction City, Lane county, Charles W. Wash- 
 burne is rounding out a well spent life, the domi- 
 nant influence of which has been the incidents of 
 a pioneer effort among the primitive conditions 
 of early Oregon. Mr. Washburne came to Ore- 
 gon in 1853, and to no other man is greater 
 credit due for the rapid and substantial upbuild- 
 ing of Lane county; strong in his own integrity, 
 his ambitions and purpose in life, he has given the 
 benefit of all these to the advancement of Ore- 
 gon, and in the evening of his days enjoys both 
 his own prosperity and that of his adopted state. 
 
 The birth of this honorable pioneer occurred in 
 Gallia county, Ohio, September 13, 1824. He 
 was the son of Robert Washburne, who, like his 
 father, Charles Washburne, was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, where he met his death by an attack from 
 the Indians while cutting timber for fuel a short 
 distance from the fort, which was the protection 
 of the settlers during the Revolutionary war. 
 Charles Washburne was a pioneer farmer of Vir- 
 ginia and his descendants followed his example 
 
 by becoming pioneers of the western states. His 
 two sons were Isaac and Robert, the latter mov- 
 ing to Gallia county, Ohio, in 1820, and there 
 engaged in farming until 1827, when he located 
 in Illinois, on a farm eight miles west of Spring- 
 field. He continued in that location for a num- 
 ber of years, participation in the Black Hawk 
 war being an event in life during the time. In 
 1834 he removed to Iowa, making his home in 
 that state throughout the remainder of his life. 
 Eleven miles west of Burlington he entered land 
 and engaged in farming until his death in 1840, 
 meeting with the success which always attends 
 persevering effort. He became a prominent man 
 in his new surroundings and fulfilled his duty as 
 a citizen. Politically he was a Democrat.' A 
 reminder of the Washburne family lies in the 
 name of a branch of Cedar Creek, which is 
 known as Washburne creek, in memory of this 
 Iowa pioneer. The wife of Mr. Washburne was 
 in maidenhood, Eva Roy, who was born in Vir- 
 ginia and died in Illinois, in 1839, being at the 
 time en route to Ohio on a visit to friends. She 
 is buried near Decatur, 111. 
 
 Of the four sons and five daughters which were 
 born to his parents, Charles W. Washburne is 
 the youngest and the only one now living. He 
 received his education in the common schools in 
 the vicinity of his home, where he remained dur- 
 ing the lifetime of his parents, taking upon him- 
 self the management of a farm when he was but 
 sixteen years old. At the time of the gold ex- 
 citement in 1849, h e set out for California and 
 was soon mining on the south bank of the Sac- 
 ramento river. After two years of success he 
 returned to Iowa via the Isthmus of Panama, 
 and after his marriage came to Oregon in 1853, 
 crossing the plains with ox-teams. During this 
 journey his oldest child, Ruth Ellen, was born 
 near Chimney Rock. After six months of travel 
 the train reached Oregon safely, and Mr. Wash- 
 burne at once located a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, one and one-half miles 
 southwest of Junction City. For twenty years 
 he made this his home, and lost no time nor 
 spared no effort to reclaim the land from its bar- 
 ren condition. In 1873 ne purchased of T. A. 
 Milliorn one hundred and sixty acres adjoining 
 the site of Junction City and there engaged in 
 farming and milling, in which he met with the 
 same success which has characterized his agri- 
 cultural pursuits, and in 1891 he purchased the 
 old flour mills at Springfield, Lane county, put- 
 ting in a complete roller process, with a capacity 
 of one hundred and sixty barrels per day. This 
 mill was for some time conducted by Byron and 
 William, the sons of Mr. Washburne. and the 
 property is now owned by himself and his son 
 Bvron. One of the most notable achievements 
 of the business ventures of Mr. Washburne was 
 
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 the part which he took in the organization of the 
 Junction City Hotel Company, becoming vice 
 president and a member of its board of directors, 
 remaining in that capacity up to the present time. 
 In 1893, in company with George Pickett and 
 others, he bought the Commercial Bank, a pri- 
 vate institution of Junction City, at a cost of 
 $50,000, and he became one of the principals in 
 the organization of the Farmers and Merchants 
 Bank, in which he and his sons now own the con- 
 trolling interest, Mr. Washburne being a director, 
 and his son, W. C, acting as cashier. This is 
 the only bank in the northern part of Lane 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Washburne has met with success in all 
 his efforts. His landed property represents a 
 large amount of money. Besides owning busi- 
 ness and residence property in Junction City, he 
 owns four thousand acres of valley land in Lane 
 county, the principal part of which is tillable. 
 Two hundred acres of this adjoins the city, and 
 Mr. Washburne acts as manager of his farming 
 interests, which is principally that of stock-rais- 
 ing, having at present three hundred cattle, 
 horses, sheep and hogs. That which represents 
 the success of Mr. Washburne is the outgrowth 
 of energy, perseverance and determination, for 
 his entire fortune, when he commenced life in 
 the Willamette valley, consisted of thirteen oxen, 
 one horse, six cows, and the farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres. 
 
 Not alone has Mr. Washburne achieved suc- 
 cess, for his wife was to him a veritable help- 
 meet, bravely bearing her share in the trials and 
 troubles which fell to their lot as pioneers. Be- 
 fore her marriage in Iowa, she was Catherine 
 Amanda Stansbury, born in Indiana, the daughter 
 of John Stansbury. He was a native of Mary- 
 land and moved to Iowa, where he remained 
 until 1850, when he spent some time in Califor- 
 nia. After a successful period in the west, he 
 returned to the Mississippi valley, and died in 
 Nebraska, where he had made his home the lat- 
 ter part of his life. Mrs. Washburne died in 
 Junction City April 4, 1894, at the age of fifty- 
 six years. She was the mother of seven daugh- 
 ters and four sons, of whom five sons are de- 
 ceased, two having died in infancy, namely : 
 Thomas Albert and Chester Douglas. George 
 S., deceased, was a graduate of the State Uni- 
 versity, a first-class practical lawyer in Eugene, 
 also serving one term as county judge. Those 
 living are Ruth Ella, who is now the wife of 
 John Wortman, of Portland ; Eva G. is the wife 
 of R. P. Hill, of Colfax, Wash. ; Byron A. is lo- 
 cated in Springfield ; W. C. is cashier and man- 
 ager of the bank and hotel company, and is 
 also mayor of Junction City ; Emma is Mrs. W. 
 E. Butler of this city; Bertha Kate is the wife 
 of E. U. Lee, of Eugene; Fred W. and Letitia 
 S. are still at home. 
 
 In his political convictions Mr. Washburne has 
 always been a stanch Republican, and his was 
 one of the votes which helped make Abraham 
 Lincoln president of the United States. The 
 ability of Mr. Washburne to maintain the re- 
 sponsibilities of public office being so manifest, 
 he has often been called upon to serve his party 
 in various positions, in 1872 upholding the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican constituency in the state 
 legislature for one term. During his period of 
 service he was instrumental in locating the state 
 university at Eugene, and also in laying the foun- 
 dation of the state capitol in Salem, acting as 
 well on various committees. He has always been 
 active in local politics and wields no little influ- 
 ence in political circles in the county and state. 
 
 The pioneer days are gone, and there is little 
 left to recall those times of trial and privation ; 
 but to the younger generation there is still the 
 living link as represented by the few who re- 
 main, while recollection forms a great part of the 
 lives of the latter, as they pass their declining 
 days in the sunshine of Oregon's prosperity. The 
 little log cabin which was once the home of Mr. 
 Washburne has been replaced by a handsome 
 residence, and modern improvements have taken 
 the place of the crude implements and primitive 
 surroundings of those early times. When first 
 a resident of Oregon Mr. Washburne would drive 
 to Brownsville, with his well trained ox-teams, 
 hauling his grain to mill. The trip consumed a 
 week, and on one occasion he drove all night in 
 order to hurry back to his wife and little daugh- 
 ter, left alone in the wilderness of the country. 
 No bridges spanned the streams. The favorite 
 mode of travel was on horseback, and many 
 happy visits were made to friends in various sec- 
 tions of the country, with Mr. Washburne in the 
 saddle, his little daughter before him, and his 
 wife behind. No one, who has known Mr. Wash- 
 burne and listened to his descriptions of the early 
 days, can fail to have some idea, however faint, 
 of that life which laid the foundation for the 
 western commonwealth, and in so doing built up 
 that character which is the nation's stronghold, 
 in times of peace or war. 
 
 WILEY WINKEL. Of Wiley Winkel and 
 his wife it may be said that they have lived 
 longer on one farm than have any of the 
 neighbors in Benton county. Genial and hos- 
 pitable, they are also among the most popular 
 of the early settlers and have continuously striven 
 to add their quota to the general improvement 
 of their locality. Mr. Winkel was twenty years 
 of age when he crossed the plains with his pa- 
 rents in 1848, having been born in Madison 
 county, Ala., July 6, 1828. His father, Isaac, 
 was born in Kentucky in 1802, and was of Ger- 
 
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 man descent. At a very early day he removed to 
 Alabama, and there married Martha Bragg, a 
 native of Alabama, with whom he moved shortly 
 afterward to Missouri. In 1848 he outfitted with 
 ox-teams and wagons and crossed the plains in 
 the train of Captain Miller, and on the way en- 
 countered no serious opposition from the Indi- 
 ans, nor was there serious illness among the 
 homeseekers. Mr. YYinkel came direct to Benton 
 county, where he took up a claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres ten miles south of Cor- 
 vallis, on the old territorial road, which is now 
 occupied by his son, but upon which he himself 
 lived for about a year. Next he located on a 
 farm one mile nortn of Corvallis, which he 
 improved and lived upon until his death in 1874, 
 having been preceded by his wife in 1865. Seven 
 children were born to this couple, of whom the 
 following are living : Wiley ; Gillian A., wife of 
 G. Fisher, of Lane county ; Martha, the widow 
 of Mack Porter, of Benton county ; and Mis- 
 souri, the widow of John Baker, of Junction 
 City. 
 
 Wiley Winkel remained at home and aided his 
 father with the management of the farm for a 
 year after coming to Oregon, and when the 
 older man moved onto his other farm the 
 son proved up on the original claim. In 1851 he 
 married Pamelia Grimsley, who was born in 
 Illinois in 1834, and who crdssed the plains with 
 her family in 1847. The young people went to 
 housekeeping on their present farm, which con- 
 sists of seven hundred acres in one body, three 
 hundred of which are under cultivation. He 
 has since carried on general farming and stock- 
 raising, and has proved himself one of the very 
 capable and resourceful men of the country. 
 His interests have been by no means confined to 
 his immediate neighborhood, but have embraced 
 the political, educational and moral well-being 
 of the county community. He has been especi- 
 ally interested in the undertakings - of the 
 Democratic party, in the principles and issues 
 of which he has unbounded faith. An important 
 factor in his success has been the unfailing sym- 
 pathy and help of his wife, who is a daughter 
 of John Grimsley, who was born in Tennessee, 
 and in Kentucky married Mary Scott. Soon 
 afterward he moved to Illinois, and thence to 
 Iowa, and after crossing the plains in 1847 set- 
 tled on a claim three miles south of Philomath 
 in the foot-hills. Four children were born to 
 himself and wife, of whom Mrs. Winkel is the 
 oldest ; Alameda is the widow of J. Morris, 
 of Big Bend ; Malinda is the widow of M. Win- 
 kel, of Harrisburg: and Mary E. is the wife of 
 A. Palmer, of Arlington, Ore. Mr. Grimsley 
 farmed successfully until a few years before his 
 death, at the age of ninety-four years, he hav- 
 ing moved into the town of Corvallis, where his 
 
 wife also died at the age of eighty-four years. 
 He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and 
 was one of the first settlers of Benton county. 
 Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Winkel, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 Fannie, deceased ; Lawrence, a resident of Junc- 
 tion ; Effie, the wife of R. Irvin, near Corvallis ; 
 Robert M., deceased; Bellvaria, wife of R. Lo- 
 gan, of Linn county, Ore. ; Isaac N., farming a 
 part of the home place; John G., also on a por- 
 tion of the home place ; Percy C, living at home ; 
 and Eugene, who died in infancy. To all who 
 appreciate manly and substantial traits of char- 
 acter, and the value in their midst of conserva- 
 tive and painstaking thought, the wish is sin- 
 cere that Mr. and Mrs. Winkel may have many 
 years yet of successful life, and may be long 
 spared to represent the substantial and influential 
 element in their county. 
 
 JOHN JOHNSTON. Fifty-one years, with 
 their changing scenes and conditions, have passed 
 over the head of John Johnston since he first set- 
 tled on the farm where he now makes his home, 
 the location being in Marion county, Ore., five 
 miles west of Woodburn. He was born in 
 County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1828, and came to the 
 United States in 1835, with his parents, Thomas 
 and Hannah Johnston. The trip was made on a 
 sailing vessel and occupied six weeks. Upon 
 their arrival in New York City they journeyed 
 at once to St. Louis, Mo,, where the father en- 
 gaged in the commission business. 
 
 The education of Mr. Johnston was received 
 in private schools in St. Louis. He remained 
 at home until he was fifteen years old, when he 
 went to work with his brother at Beardstown, 
 111., in a flour-mill. In 1850, in company with 
 two friends, Horace Hill and Dan Riddle, he 
 bought four yoke of oxen, wagon and other 
 necessary equipments, and started from Inde- 
 pendence, Mo., bound for the great northwest. 
 The journey lasted from April to August, at the 
 close of which the young emigrants located in 
 Marion county, Ore. The first year of his resi- 
 dence here Mr. Johnston conducted McKay's 
 Mission Mill, the next finding him in Yreka, 
 Cal., having traveled by pack-horses from Ore- 
 gon to the latter state, where he spent a short 
 time in mining and prospecting. Though meet- 
 ing with gratifying success he preferred life in 
 the state in which he had made his home on first 
 coming to the west. Returning to Oregon in the 
 fall of the same year he passed a part of the sum- 
 mer of 1852 in running a mill on the Santiam 
 river, giving it up to buy, in partnership with 
 William H. West, the right of Mathew Mc- 
 Cormick to four hundred and ninety acres of 
 land located in Marion county. There was a lit- 
 
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 tie log cabin on the claim, wherein the two men, 
 both being bachelors, kept house for four years. 
 At the end of that time Mr. Johnston married 
 Miss Mary Kennedy, who was born in 1842, 
 and from that day to the present their home has 
 been made upon this farm. 
 
 Of the children which blessed the union 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, Ellen, the eldest, is 
 the wife of K. Manning, of Portland; Annie is 
 the wife of Charles Henkle, also of Portland; 
 Thomas is located in Forest Grove ; Robert is in 
 Astoria; Agnes is in Spokane; William is in 
 Sherwood ; John is a hop-grower of Marion 
 county; Joseph and Charles both make their 
 home with their parents ; Eliza is in . Portland ; 
 and Cecilia lives at home. 
 
 Mr. Johnston now owns five hundred and 
 thirty-five acres of land, three hundred and fifty 
 of which is cultivated and pasture land, upon 
 which he is carrying on general farming and 
 stock-raising. Politically he is an adherent of 
 the principles advocated in the platform of the 
 Democratic party, and through this influence has 
 served in various offices in his community. For 
 a period of twenty years he has served as clerk 
 of the school board, and also as road supervisor 
 for a considerable length of time, his personal 
 worth being evidenced in the discharge of the 
 duties which have fallen to his lot as a citizen 
 of this great commonwealth. 
 
 CHARLES BECKE, JR. The agricultural 
 interests of Marion county are well represented 
 by him whose name introduces this review, and 
 it is with pleasure that we present to our readers 
 a brief outline of the qualities and characteristics 
 of Mr. Becke. The province of this history is 
 not so much to enter into the small details of a 
 man's life, as to show forth to the world some- 
 thing of the governing principles which have 
 led to his success. We do not any of us need 
 to be told that the farming class of any country 
 is really its bone and sinew, and that those who 
 cultivate the soil contribute the first and most 
 essential source of wealth in all lands. It is to 
 this class that Mr. Becke belongs, being the 
 owner of a valuable farm of one hundred and 
 ninety-three acres, devoted to general farming, 
 twelve acres being planted to hops, for which he 
 finds a ready sale on the market. The farm is 
 well cultivated and has many improvements upon 
 it, indicating the careful supervision of the 
 owner. 
 
 Mr. Becke was born in the German colony, in 
 Bethel, Shelby county, Mo., February 20, 1854, 
 and is a son of Charles Becke, who was born 
 in Hanover, Germany, in 1820. In 1846 he left 
 his native land, sailing for America, and on 
 arriving in this country he took up his abode 
 
 in Shelby county, Mo., where he was married to 
 Johanna Keil. He remained in Missouri with 
 the Bethel colony until 1867, when he brought 
 his family across the plains and mountains, 
 making his way to the Aurora colony, east of the 
 present site of Aurora. Six months were con- 
 sumed in making this journey, and the family of 
 course were weary and glad to find a permanent 
 place of abode. They remained in the Aurora 
 colony until there was a division of property, in 
 1875, Mr. Becke receiving as his share the farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which he 
 yet makes his home. 
 
 Charles Becke, Jr., was but thirteen years of 
 age when his parents came to Oregon, and in 
 the common schools of this state he received his 
 education. He was one of a family of eleven 
 children, five of whom are now living : Charles, 
 the subject of this sketch; Louisa, the wife of 
 Joseph Erbsland, of Marion county ; Henry, who 
 lives upon his father's farm; Sarah, the wife of 
 George Gooding, a resident of Marion county; 
 and Edward, who resides in Aurora. 
 
 At the age of twenty-five years, Mr. Becke be- 
 gan work for himself on a farm, following this 
 by engaging in carpenter work for the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad and elsewhere. For three years 
 he acted as a clerk in the store of John Giesy. 
 He was persevering and industrious, and these 
 virtues always bring their reward, so that in 
 1 88 1 he had saved enough money to purchase 
 his present farm. He was not satisfied that his 
 land should remain unimproved, but set about 
 to transform it into a valuable farm property 
 which he has succeeded in doing and it now an- 
 nually returns to him a good income and does 
 credit to his industry and care. Three years 
 after the purchase of his home, he took a bride 
 to preside over it, the lady of his choice being 
 Miss Anna Giesy, daughter of John Giesy, the 
 ceremony being performed January 23, 1884. 
 They have three living children : Aurelia Louisa, 
 Ursula Amelia and Alterius Charles. Mr. Becke 
 is a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows and of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, having maintained fraternal relations 
 with these organizations for a number of years. 
 He is a firm believer in the principles of the Re- 
 publican party and always defends what he be- 
 lieves to be right, whether it relates to his own 
 personal actions or to the issues which involve 
 the nation's honor. 
 
 GEN. THOMAS JONES THORP. Though 
 nearly a half century has passed away since the 
 dark cloud of threatened disruption appeared on 
 the country's horizon, and in the interval many 
 events have conspired to make common the in- 
 terests of the then warring sections, there is still 
 
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 a lasting lesson of patriotism and a strengthen- 
 ing of national love in the perusal of the lives of 
 men who offered themselves as sacrifices for a 
 principle the advocacy of which meant a fratri- 
 cidal struggle, fearful in its intensity and sad- 
 dening in the result when viewed through the 
 desolated homes and ruined fields. The army 
 which pitted its strength against Lee's soldiers 
 was not called forth from impulse ; principle and 
 patriotism dominated the actions of these men, 
 foreshadowing the future greatness of our united 
 country. 
 
 A representative of the men of this epoch is 
 Gen. Thomas Jones Thorp, a review of whose 
 life, though brilliant in action and teeming with 
 events, would still be incomplete without its com- 
 panion sketch — a record of the woman who cast 
 in her fortunes with his in the maelstrom of pub- 
 lic upheaval, giving herself with patriotic ardor 
 to every movement that meant service to her 
 country. United as General Thorp and his wife 
 were in the face of the gathering storm and at 
 the head of the mustering forces, the record of 
 their lives is so closely interwoven that that of 
 one is not complete without that of the other. 
 Mrs. Thorp was in maidenhood Mandana Cole- 
 man Major, her birth occurring in Allegany 
 county, N. Y., January 25, 1843, being the 
 daughter of Col. John Major, also a native of that 
 county, and the granddaughter of Stephen Major. 
 The latter was born in the northern part of Ire- 
 land of Scottish parentage, and as a young man 
 he came to New York and settled in Karr val- 
 ley, where he engaged as a merchant tailor, 
 through the practice of his inherited thrift amass- 
 ing a fortune before his death. Her father, John 
 Major, was a colonel of the state militia and a 
 large land-owner, and he married Serena Rath- 
 bone, a native of New York and a descendant of 
 Major Moses Van Campen, a patriot of the Rev- 
 olution. Colonel Major died in the state of his 
 birth. 
 
 Mrs. Thorp was reared under the careful train- 
 ing of a devoted mother, learning housewifely 
 arts in addition to the splendid education received 
 in Alfred University, and, though but seventeen 
 when the storm-cloud began to gather darkly, 
 her inheritance of patriotism and national love 
 responded to the situation, and no mass meeting 
 was complete without her presence and the sing- 
 ing of a national song in her unusually beautiful 
 voice, which helped no little in enlistment. At 
 the close of the first peninsular campaign, when 
 more troops were required to face Lee's advance 
 into the north, President Lincoln called upon the 
 governor of New York to raise and equip two 
 regiments, and this young patriot offered her 
 voice in song once more, the soldiers of the One 
 Hundred and Thirtieth and One Hundred and 
 Thirty-sixth carrying into battle the memory of 
 
 her unselfish efforts, which inspired many to bear 
 with patience and fortitude the trials of a sol- 
 dier's life. The ceremony which united her with 
 her husband in the holy bonds of matrimony was 
 performed at a crucial period of the war and in 
 a most picturesque manner ; it took place at Port- 
 age, on the banks of the Genesee river, in the 
 hollow square formed by the soldiers of the One 
 Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, in which 
 Thomas P. Thorp had just been assigned the po- 
 sition of lieutenant-colonel, and was performed 
 by the Rev. Dr. Joel Wakeman, a chaplain of a 
 company also of that regiment. After her mar- 
 riage Mrs. Thorp proved herself worthy to be 
 called a patriot and to be the wife of a soldier. 
 She followed the regiment throughout its entire 
 service, rendering devoted service in the ranks 
 with the many other noble women of that period 
 who sacrificed all that they held dear to minister 
 to the needs of the sick and wounded in camp 
 and hospital. She joined the regiment of her 
 adoption and remained with it during the siege 
 of Suffolk, Va., enduring with calm heroism the 
 dangers and privations, cheering and encourag- 
 ing the lonely, homesick soldiers, to whom the 
 sight of a woman's pitying face recalled the one 
 waiting and watching for their return. Never 
 in the course of the weary months and the in- 
 creasing perils did Mrs. Thorp suggest to her 
 husband that as he had been several times 
 wounded and a prisoner of war he could con- 
 sistently leave the service, but cheered him in 
 camp and field until the time of peace, when they 
 rode side by side in the Grand Review at Wash- 
 ington in the Second Brigade, First Division of 
 the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, 
 her decoration the full eagle, his the star above 
 the eagle. 
 
 Gen. Thomas Jones Thorp was born in Alle- 
 gany county, N. Y., in 1837, the son of Mont- 
 gomery Thorp, who was born in the state of Con- 
 necticut and died in Michigan, having engaged 
 all his life in farming and milling. Of this fam- 
 ily, General Thorp is not alone in his illustrious 
 record, another brother serving in the army, be- 
 ing the late Capt. Alexander K. Thorp, who was 
 killed in the great cavalry charge at Winchester, 
 Va., September 19, 1864. Senator Simeon M. 
 Thorp, another brother, was also killed during 
 the Civil war, coming to his death in 1863 
 through the sacking of Lawrence, Kans., by the 
 Confederate forces. At the breaking out of the 
 Civil war Thomas Jones Thorp was attending the 
 preparatory department of Alfred University, in- 
 tending to enter Union College and continue his 
 studies, but with the ardor of patriotism he at 
 once enlisted, receiving on the field his diploma 
 in the class of 1861. In response to President 
 Lincoln's call, he enrolled as a private in a com- 
 pany organized in his native county, which was 
 
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 finally assigned to the Eighty-fifth New York 
 Regiment of Infantry in the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, and during the first Peninsular campaign 
 he won honorable distinction as a captain at the 
 battle of Fair Oaks, where he was slightly 
 wounded. At the close of the Seven-Days battle 
 his record won him the commendation of Gov- 
 ernor Morgan of New York, who selected him to 
 fill the position of lieutenant-colonel of the One 
 Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment. The colonel 
 of this regiment had been selected from the reg- 
 ular army, the choice falling upon General Gibbs, 
 who in becoming brigadier-general left a vacancy 
 for Captain Thorp. This regiment bore a repu- 
 tation of containing more than ordinary ability, 
 being composed of the flower of the native-born 
 yeomanry of the counties of Allegany and Wyo- 
 ming, men of erudition and talent, from all pro- 
 fessions, and to hold a commission in this regi- 
 ment naturally gave a man credit for possessing 
 unusual ability and courage, which Colonel Thorp 
 in no wise lacked, for, though crippled from the 
 wound received in the summer, he was out on 
 crutches in September drilling the troops. After 
 the battle of Gettysburg this regiment was trans- 
 ferred to the cavalry corps by an order from the 
 war department, and was thereafter known as 
 the First New York Dragoons. 
 
 During the war General Thorp rendered hon- 
 orable service in every camp of the Army of the 
 Potomac, participating in sixty-four engagements, 
 and was absent from the battlefields only when 
 disabled by wounds or for a short period in 
 which he was a prisoner of war after the battle 
 of the Wilderness, during which time he won a 
 place in the memory of sixteen hundred Union 
 prisoners for the words of cheer and encourage- 
 ment which he spoke to them on the anniversary 
 of the national birthday. He had been taken 
 prisoner at Trevilian Station, after being severe- 
 ly wounded, and was sent to Macon, Ga., but, 
 undaunted by the privations and sufferings which 
 might be his in a southern prison, he delivered on 
 the Fourth of July an oration commemorative of 
 the day, filled with eloquence stirred to life by 
 the years in which he had sacrificed himself for 
 his country. The stirring events of his brief so- 
 journ in a southern prison were detailed in the 
 north, leading up to the following article, which 
 gave to the public a proper estimate of the worth 
 of Colonel Thorp. We quote herewith : " This 
 outburst of patriotic sentiment uttered in the very 
 heart of the Confederacy, and in the very mouth 
 of the cannon guarding the prisoners, was treat- 
 ed by the prison commander as insubordination, 
 but it was characteristic of Colonel Thorp, who 
 in the night jumped from the train going from 
 Savannah to Charleston in his effort to rejoin 
 his command in front of Richmond. The ster- 
 
 ling qualities -which prompted thousands of heroic 
 defenders of the Union and constitutional liberty 
 to stand to the front is also a trait with Colonel 
 Thorp." The promotion of Colonel, Thorp fol- 
 lowed close upon this event. 
 
 At the conclusion of hostilities General Thorp 
 became interested in educational work, being 
 called to an important educational institution in 
 Buffalo, N. Y ., by the eminent Dr. Thomas Loth- 
 rop, then superintendent of public instruction in 
 that city. After several years he turned his at- 
 tention to the subject of applied mechanics, and 
 received several important patents for invention 
 from the government, being located in Chicago, 
 111., having previously been a resident of Cadillac, 
 Mich., where he was interested in the manufac- 
 ture of lumber. While living in the latter city 
 he served two terms as county clerk, his wife as- 
 sisting him as deputy clerk and also acting as 
 register of deeds. In February, 1892, having 
 sold out his interests in Chicago, he located in 
 Forest Grove, Ore., many of his interests being 
 in the west, having conducted a sheep ranch for 
 five years located on Little creek, just out of 
 Flagstaff, Ariz., and adjoining the Navajo reser- 
 vation. For several years he served as principal 
 of various schools in the state, among them being 
 Forest Grove, Woodlawn, Portland, and others. 
 In 1899 he located in Corvallis, Ore., where he 
 now makes his home, looking after his varied 
 interests. 
 
 General Thorp is now a prominent man in mili- 
 tary circles, being a member of the Loyal Legion 
 and the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. 
 Thorp also keeps up her old associations, being 
 a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and is 
 now identified with Ellsworth No. 7, representing 
 in 1897 the state of Oregon to the National Con- 
 vention of the Woman's Relief Corps at Buffalo, 
 and again in 1902 being a delegate to Washing- 
 ton, D. C. She is also prominent in the Woman's 
 Christian Temperance Union. Both the General 
 and Mrs. Thorp are members of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and stanch Republicans politically. Of 
 the four children which blessed this union, Sim- 
 eon died in Michigan ; Annie became Mrs. Sun- 
 derland and died in Buffalo; Bessie Mabel and 
 Montgomery are still at home with their parents. 
 The daughter at home has received a fine educa- 
 tion through the medium of Pacific University of 
 Forest Grove. 
 
 JOHN W. FOSTER. More and more the 
 agriculturist is bringing to bear upon his occu- 
 pation those practical innovations which tend to 
 facilitate labor and increase the joy of living, and 
 in this regard he is leagues ahead of his wearv 
 predecessor, whose interminable hours incapa- 
 
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 citated him for a correct appreciation of his 
 gains, and gave him at best but an occasional 
 glimpse into the more leisurely and congenial 
 walks of life. In illustration of the former state. 
 of being, one need go no further than many of 
 the farmers and stock-raisers in Benton county, 
 universally conceded to be one of the most fertile 
 parts of the state. Among these, John W. poster 
 occupies a prominent place, not only because of 
 personal characteristics of a high order, but 
 because he has one of the most beautiful homes 
 and is one of the most extensive stock-raisers in 
 the county. In the foothills of the coast range, 
 overlooking a serene valley, is this ideal rural 
 home, surrounded by two thousand, three hun- 
 dred acres of land, many acres of which are 
 under cultivation, and the greater part of which 
 is devoted to stock-raising. On this same farm 
 Mr. Foster was born May i, 1859, and during all 
 these years it has been his home, no matter how 
 far he has wandered in quest of diversion or 
 business. 
 
 John Foster, father of John W., was born in 
 Ohio, March 3, 1822, and in 1834 removed with 
 his parents to Missouri. In 1845 the whole fam- 
 ily started across the plains with ox-teams, and 
 though emigration was as yet a novel and rare 
 experience, they encountered little difficulty with 
 the Indians, although some of their cattle passed 
 into their keeping. Six months of travel brought 
 the party to the Tualatin plains, where they 
 spent the winter, the following spring removing 
 to the claim eight miles southwest of Corvallis, 
 where the parents died at an advanced age. John 
 the older did not settle on the claim with his 
 parents, but rather came direct to the claim 
 twelve miles south of Corvallis where his son 
 now lives, and soon after carried to completion 
 a little romance begun on the plains, and which 
 resulted in two hearts deciding to join their life 
 fortunes. Mary Lloyd was an interesting girl 
 on the way to Oregon with her parents, but she 
 did not long survive her marriage, dying while 
 still a young woman. To her husband's care she 
 left three children. Nancy, the oldest, being the 
 widow of James Long of Montana ; William is 
 deceased ; and Jasper T. lives in Prinesville. In 
 time Mr. Foster married Elizabeth Buchanan, 
 who was born in England, and came to Oregon 
 in 1856. and whose father is mentioned at length 
 in another part of this work. Three children 
 were born also of this union : Henrietta is the 
 wife of Charles Lee of Corvallis ; Emma is 
 deceased : and John W. is living on the old claim. 
 
 John Foster prospered exceedingly, and in all 
 his business and other undertakings maintained 
 that high standard which is the truest indication 
 of good sense and progressiveness. He made 
 many improvements on his farm, and became one 
 of the most extensive breeders and manipulators 
 
 of stock interests in Benton county ; shrewd and 
 sagacious, he availed himself of apparent oppor- 
 tunities and created new ones, and had the inter- 
 est of his neighbors and friends at heart. Genial 
 and obliging, he found outstretched hands and 
 welcoming hearts wherever he went, and thus 
 his death at the age of seventy-seven was sadly 
 mourned. From time to time he had added to 
 his land, and finally owned twenty-two hundred 
 acres. Besides his farm he left other property 
 and large money interests, all of which indicated 
 his masterful grasp of chances that came to him. 
 In 1884 he moved to Corvallis, where the 
 remainder of his life was spent in comparative 
 retirement. 
 
 After his parents moved from the old place 
 John W. Foster was left in charge, a responsibil- 
 ity which he was abundantly able to assume 
 because of his superior training on the farm, and 
 a practical education acquired in the public 
 schools, at Bishop Scott's Academy and at the 
 Portland Business College. He married Laura 
 Alexander, who was born in California, and who 
 is the mother of one child, Ada E. Mr. Foster 
 is an extensive raiser of stock, making a spe- 
 cialty of Durham cattle, and he also conducts 
 •general farming enterprises. He is practical and 
 scientific, and has never allowed himself to get 
 into grooves, or rely upon the customs and 
 methods adopted by those engaged in similar 
 occupations. He is a thinker, reasoner and phi- 
 losopher, and while rejoicing in the good fortune 
 which fate and his own industry have brought 
 him, has kept pace with the times along general 
 lines, and is a most companionable and interesting 
 man. He has traveled a great deal for pleasure 
 and information, and is one of the most influen- 
 tial and popular farmers in Benton county. 
 
 JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, retired, now 
 residing at Silverton, Marion county, was born 
 in Lincoln county, Ky., September 13, 1813, and 
 is a son of George and Polly (Hickman) Gil- 
 mour. His father, a native of Kentucky, was a 
 son of James Gilmour, who was born in Ireland 
 and was brought to America in his youth by his 
 parents, who settled in Virginia. George Gil- 
 mour was a friend of Daniel Boone, the famous 
 pioneer of Kentucky, who made his home near 
 that of the Gilmour family. Polly Hickman's 
 maternal grandfather, named Wilson, was a mem- 
 ber of the famous band of free-lances under 
 command of Francis Marion, and participated in 
 the historic battle of Eutaw Springs. 
 
 August 29, 1833, J°hn W. Gilmour married 
 Jane Alexander Bronaugh. and two months later 
 settled in Hancock county, 111. In 1851 he start- 
 ed across the plains for Oregon with his wife 
 and eight children. Six months later the fam- 
 
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 ily arrived in what is now Washington county, 
 locating temporarily near Hillsboro. The fol- 
 lowing year they removed to Linn county, where 
 Mr. Gilmour followed his trade of blacksmith 
 and incidentally engaged in farming. At his 
 shop, four miles west of Lebanon, he made many 
 of the first plows used in Linn county. He be- 
 came a man of considerable influence in the com- 
 munity, and for four years served as justice of 
 the peace. Soon after locating in Linn county 
 the Rogue River Indian war broke out, and for 
 nine months he served as captain of a wagon- 
 train for the government. 
 
 Mr Gilmour's wife was a daughter ot laii- 
 aferro and Jane (Gilmour) Bronaugh, repre- 
 sentatives of old families of Kentucky Mrs. 
 Gilmour died December 9, 1885. To Mr. Ul- 
 mour and wife were born ten children, namely : 
 Mary Jane, deceased; Lucy Eleanor, deceased 
 wife of Andrew Linebarger ; William, deceased ; 
 John, residing in Ellenburg, Wash.; George, 
 deceased; James Alexander, residing in Wash- 
 ington; Nancv Elizabeth, wife of Thomas W. 
 Davenport of Silverton ; George Robert, a farm- 
 er residing near Silverton; Martha Ann, wife of 
 Nathan Kirkendall, of Olympia, Wash.; and 
 Sarah, deceased wife of La Fayette Cassady._ 
 
 The members of the Gilmour family inherit a 
 rare degree of artistic ability, their paternal an- 
 cestors having been gifted as musicians, and the 
 Bronaugh family having exhibited considerable 
 literary talent. This pioneer family has become 
 well known throughout the northwest, and its 
 representatives are respected and admired tor 
 the many fine traits in their character. 
 
 RICHARD IRWIN. In Richard Irwin, the 
 founder of a worthy and influential family in 
 Oregon, and the accumulator of a fortune 
 through his own untiring zeal, the northwest had 
 one of those old-time merchants who thoroughly 
 understood his business and made money where 
 the majority would have failed. Shrewd and 
 sagacious, he stepped into mining and other lo- 
 calities where there was a demand for his goods, 
 did a thriving business, and disposed of them at 
 just the right time, and always with appreciable 
 profit. With a foundation of good will and good 
 morals, and with personal characteristics which 
 make a man popular and of use in the world, it 
 is not surprising that his life was typical of the 
 best in old-time mercantile ventures. 
 
 Born in Ireland, June 11, 181 3, Mr. Irwin lost 
 his father when he was a child, and years after- 
 ward came to America with his mother and sis- 
 ters, locating in New York state in 1832. Hav- 
 ing learned the mercantile business in his native 
 land, he was not slow in finding employment in 
 
 his adopted country, and in time became identi- 
 fied as manager with a concern which sent him 
 to Ohio with a stock of goods. Not finding the 
 new locality satisfactory for store-keeping, he 
 went to Iowa, and there engaged for many years 
 in a general merchandise business. In 1850, in 
 St. Louis, he was united in marriage with Louise 
 Kompp, who was born in Germany, and whose 
 home was then in Iowa. Her people crossed the 
 plains in 1853, settling in Benton county, where 
 the father lived to be seventy-five and the mother 
 eighty years of age. Soon after his marriage 
 Mr. Irwin perfected plans for crossing the plains, 
 and outfitted with horse instead of ox teams, 
 having three teams to each of the two wagons, 
 and besides had a carriage and some loose stock. 
 They joined the Jerome Gossage train, and were 
 six months on the way, experiencing little trou- 
 ble with the Indians. Nevertheless their ranks 
 were lessened by the cholera so prevalent during 
 1850, with which disease Mr. Irwin was thrice 
 afflicted, while his wife was the victim of one 
 attack of the dread disorder. Arriving in Port- 
 land, Mr. Irwin conducted a small store there 
 during the first winter, and in the spring of 185 1 
 came to Corvallis, where he started a store of the 
 same kind. The same fall he took up six hun- 
 dred and forty acres of land on the territorial 
 road, which land is still owned and occupied by 
 his wife and children. To his farm he moved 
 his store, and while conducting it there for ten 
 years made money rapidly and was an important 
 man in his neighborhood. After disposing of 
 this store he farmed for some time, and in 1864 
 opened a mercantile business in Portland, shortly 
 afterward removing his stock to east Oregon 
 during the gold excitement. With the subsiding 
 of the craze he sold out and returned to his farm, 
 where he engaged in farming and stock-raising 
 almost up to the time of his death, at the age of 
 eighty-two years and some months. He had 
 large numbers of Shorthorn cattle, the sale of 
 which netted him a large yearly income. Since 
 his death his widow has undertaken the manage- 
 ment of the farm, and has proved herself an ex- 
 cellent business woman and far-sighted manager. 
 The home is all that a rural residence should be, 
 and the barns, out-houses and general improve- 
 ments indicate the progressive and intelligent 
 agriculturist. Of the five children born into the 
 family, Frances is the wife of Joseph McBee, a 
 farmer of this locality ; Elizabeth is deceased ; 
 James is living at home; Richard is a farmer 
 near Corvallis; and one child died in infancy. 
 Mr. Irwin was a genial and public-spirited man, 
 and everything of an up-building and progressive 
 nature in his neighborhood was sure of his ap- 
 proval and substantial help. For many years he 
 was postmaster of his neighborhood, and he held 
 

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 other important offices, invariably discharging 
 his duties with credit to himself and satisfaction 
 to all concerned. He possessed a fund of com- 
 mon sense, without which success counts for 
 naught, and man) - a man has been helped on a 
 discouraging way by his cheerful council and 
 material help. 
 
 L. X. ROXEY. With the passage of many 
 years there will still be standing the evidence of 
 the substantial and material labor which L. N. 
 Roney has contributed to the growth of the city 
 of Eugene and Lane county. As a contractor 
 and builder he has had charge of the erection 
 of many buildings, public and private, which add 
 to the financial and commercial prestige of the 
 community. Among his most important work 
 has been the erection of the Lane county court 
 house, the two McClung buildings, the First 
 Xational Bank, the Lane County Bank, the Loan 
 & Savings Bank, the Hoffman House, Hotel 
 Smeede, the addition to the Christman building, 
 the Episcopal, Christian and Methodist Episcopal 
 Churches, the Eugene Opera House, and many 
 others of note, including many of the most at- 
 tractive private residences in the city. His first 
 engagement in Lane county was the assistance 
 he gave in the construction of the bridge across 
 the Willamette river at Eugene. In the success- 
 ful completion of every enterprise Mr. Roney 
 has won the confidence of the people of the com- 
 munity, and in the fulfillment of every moral 
 obligation has gained their esteem. 
 
 L. X T . Roney was born in Auglaize county, 
 Ohio, September 2, 1853, tne eleventh child in 
 his father's family of twelve children, eight of 
 whom are now living. His parents were Thomas, 
 a native of New Jersey, and Caroline H. (Lever- 
 ing) Roney, a native of Pennsylvania and a rep- 
 resentative of the old family of Levering's of 
 Maryland. Thomas Roney settled in Ohio in 
 1832. His occupation had been that of a weaver, 
 but in Ohio he engaged in farming. In 1878 he 
 came to Oregon and located in Lost Valley, 
 where. his death occurred in 1885, at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. His wife died at the home 
 of L. X. Roney in 1897, at the age of eighty- 
 four years. Of this large family of children, 
 four brothers served in the Civil war — Henry 
 and William in the Eleventh Ohio Regiment, and 
 John and Charles in the short service. 
 
 In the region of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the scene 
 of his birth, L. X. Roney was reared, the oppor- 
 tunity 7 for educational advancement being so lim- 
 ited that he attended school but little, his wide 
 knowledge of current events and general fund 
 of information being the result of observation in 
 later years. When fourteen years of age he 
 devoted all his energies to farm work, the home 
 59 
 
 farm consisting of one hundred acres which, at. 
 the present time, has seven gas wells upon it. 
 When he was seventeen years of age his father 
 removed to Gallatin, Daviess county, Mo. There 
 he remained at work until he was nineteen years 
 old, when he began an apprenticeship at the car- 
 penter's trade, at which he continued for three 
 years. In 1876 he located in Oregon, having 
 been induced to come west by an aunt, Mrs. Wil- 
 liams, who had crossed the plains in 1853, and 
 was then living in Lane county. He at once 
 began bridge carpentering for A. S. Miller & 
 Sons, finding work in the states of Oregon and 
 Washington until 1882. He then began con- 
 tracting and building in Lane county, and has 
 since built every bridge in Lane county, also 
 operating in other counties, where he has met 
 with uniform success. 
 
 In Boise City, Idaho, June 5, 1889, Mr. Roney 
 was united in marriage with Mrs. Orilla G. 
 (Baker) Humphrey. She was born in Salem, 
 Ore., the daughter of Capt. John Baker, one of 
 the early and successful pioneers of Oregon, who 
 now makes his home in Salem. 
 
 In his political affiliations Mr. Roney is a Re- 
 publican. He was the presiding officer of the 
 first Young Men's Republican Club organized in 
 Eugene, has been an influential delegate to sev- 
 eral county conventions, and for several terms 
 has served as city councilman from the third 
 ward. He was made a Mason in Missouri in 
 1874. He is now a member of Eugene Lodge 
 Xo. 11, A. F. & A. M., in which he is past mas- 
 ter; is past high priest in Eugene Chapter Xo. 
 10, R. A. M. ; in 1897 was grand high priest of 
 the grand chapter of Oregon; is a member of 
 Ivanhoe Commandery Xo. 2, K. T., of Eugene, 
 in which he served as eminent commander in 
 1892 ; and is now deputy grand commander of 
 the grand commandery of Oregon, having been 
 elected to that office in September, 1902, and re- 
 elected in September, 1903. He is also associat- 
 ed with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
 Eagles, and is a charter member of the Eugene 
 Commercial Club. Mr. Roney is a man of high 
 public spirit, and may always be depended upon 
 to assist in the furtherance of all well considered 
 projects which have for their end the promotion 
 of the best interests of Eugene. 
 
 ALFRED E. MOORE. Xot all of the inter- 
 esting homes of Oregon are set down in the midst 
 of broad acres. There are some who prefer 
 rather the modest acres whose every nook can 
 receive the owner's personal attention. To this 
 latter type of home belongs that of Alfred E. 
 Moore, which, when he first purchased the land, 
 was a wild, uncultivated spot, with timber and 
 
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 small brush marring its promise. Today it stands 
 a clean, well-kept farm of twenty acres in the 
 highest form of cultivation, ten acres being in 
 fruit — prunes, apples, etc. — while the rest yields 
 an abundance of farm products, with the added 
 beauty of handsome buildings, giving evidence of 
 the thrift of its owner. 
 
 Alfred E. Moore was born in Hardin county, 
 Iowa, December 31, 1858, and was the sixth in 
 order of birth in a family of ten children. He 
 received his education in the common schools of 
 Iowa, attending also the academy located in New 
 Providence, Iowa. At rather a youthful age he 
 secured employment on a farm, where he re- 
 mained until he was twenty years old. Leaving 
 home at this time be came to Oregon, where he 
 followed up this occupation at Eugene, Lane 
 county. The next year, however, he left Eugene 
 and passed through Woodburn, West Union and 
 Dayton, stepping at each for some time, eager to 
 know the advantages of each, as a possible loca- 
 tion for his future home. When he reached New- 
 berg he went no farther, believing that he had at 
 last found that for which he was in search. Here 
 he bought forty acres of land, a little wilderness, 
 and truly it was wonderful faith that could look 
 through that tangle and picture the fair future 
 of that location. He soon sold twenty acres, 
 wisely deciding that a half well done was worth 
 the whole half done. With ceaseless energy he 
 prosecuted the work of his property, cutting 
 roads where they would give easy access", hew- 
 ing out the trees and grubbing brush until he 
 couid see the light from east to west. Truly this 
 little farm presents a fair picture. 
 
 Mr. Moore and his brother, C. F., built the 
 first home-made evaporator built in Yamhill 
 county, at Dayton, and two years later Mr. Moore 
 and Mr. Snodgrass built the first commercial 
 evaporator at Newberg. 
 
 Mr. Moore married Miss Lizzie Woodward, 
 October 8, 1890, and two children now share the 
 home : Lester and Marion. Mrs. Moore was born 
 in Indiana. Her father, Benjamin, was a native 
 of North Carolina, and at an early day moved 
 to Indiana, settling in Morgan county, where he 
 died. The daughter had gone west to live with 
 a brother in Oregon and it was in this way that 
 she met Mr. Moore. In the Society of Friends 
 Mr. Moore finds his church home, and fra- 
 ternally is connected with the Woodmen of the 
 World. In his political affiliation he is a Repub- 
 lican. For further information regarding the 
 parents of Mr. Moore, refer to the sketch of C. 
 F. Moore upon another page of this work. 
 
 GEORGE WILL. Numbered among the 
 self-educated, self-made and successful farmers 
 of Marion county is George WJH; owner of a 
 
 finely improved farm near Aurora, and for- 
 merly identified with the little colony whose 
 tenure of life was completed in 1884. A native 
 of St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Will was born Decem- 
 ber 21, 1839, and comes of stanch Teutonic an- 
 cestry. His father, John Will, was born in 
 Bavaria, Germany, and in his native country 
 owned quite a large country property, which 
 he disposed of in order to come to America, in 
 1839. With his hard-earned German thalers 
 he bought a farm near Muscatine, Iowa, but, 
 not liking the locality particularly, disposed of 
 it in 1843 an d took up land in the Bethel Col- 
 ony, Shelby county, Mo. Here his death oc- 
 curred at an advanced age, and he left to his 
 children a fair-sized property, and the heritage 
 of a good name. 
 
 At the age of sixteen George Will left the 
 farm of his father and learned the hatter's 
 trade, and at the same time worked in the 
 woolen mills of the Bethel Colony. In August, 
 1 861, at the age of twenty-two, he enlisted in 
 Capt. Henry Will's company, Seventieth Regi- 
 ment, Missouri Militia, and entered active serv- 
 ice as bugler in that company in January, 1863, 
 where he remained until March 10, of the same 
 ■year, when he was mustered out, and again 
 joined the colonists, who were, at that time, 
 agitating the subject of establishing a branch 
 in the far west, Aurora, Ore., being eventually 
 selected as a desirable site. Hither repaired 
 several bands of pilgrims at different times, 
 but the principal train to start across the plains 
 outfitted in 1863, and consisted of forty wagons 
 and eighty men, besides numerous women and 
 children. The men were heavily armed and 
 prepared for any emergency, and Mr. Will, who 
 was one of the travelers, does not recall any 
 serious disturbances, or any particular suffer- 
 ing from Indian attacks, illness or severe 
 weather. After six months the party reached 
 Aurora, and the members dispersed to select 
 their farms, and start their respective indus- 
 tries. 
 
 Locating in Aurora, where his knowledge of 
 woolen mills was an advantage to him, Mr. 
 Will was made foreman of the woolen mills 
 started up by the colony. This position was 
 maintained with credit until the disbanding of 
 the colony, in 1884, at which time every man 
 received his share of land and general profits. 
 
 Mr. Will, very early in life, evinced decided 
 taste in music, and became a member of a brass 
 band at nine years of age. After coming to 
 Aurora he joined the celebrated Aurora Brass 
 Band, first playing a French horn, and later 
 the E flat cornet, which connection he main- 
 tained until forty years of age. 
 
 In 1884 he settled upon the farm where he 
 now lives, and which consists of two hundred 
 
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 and seventy-five acres, devoted to general 
 farming and stock-raising, and to hops, of 
 which there are ten acres at present. To much 
 of his success in life Mr. Will attributes the 
 sympathy and help of a good wife, to whom he 
 was married in 1870, and who was formerly 
 Elizabeth Link. Mrs. Will came across the 
 plains with her parents in 1867, locating in the 
 colony of which her father became a prominent 
 member. Three children have been born into 
 the Will household, of whom Edward H. is 
 assisting his father on the farm ; Clara is the 
 wife of Frank Siegler, of Aurora, and Elmer G. 
 is living at home. 
 
 Mr. Will is a Republican in politics, but has 
 never taken any particular interest in the po- 
 litical undertakings of his neighborhood, his 
 farm duties taking up the greater part of his 
 time. In spite of early disadvantages as to ed- 
 ucation, he is a very well-informed man, hav- 
 ing become a great reader as the years have 
 gone by. He is stanch in his approval of good 
 schools and practical educational training, and 
 has seen to it that his children have profited by . 
 all of the advantages he could give them. He 
 is well known as an upright and enterprising 
 member of the farming community around Au- 
 rora, and his Jersey cattle are among the finest, 
 and his farm among the best improved in the 
 neighborhood. 
 
 EDWARD F. LAMSON. The name of 
 Lamson is not only substantially identified with 
 the present prosperity of Oregon, but in the old 
 pioneer days was represented in judicial, legis- 
 lative and agricultural departments of activity. 
 The farm upon which Edward F. Lamson is con- 
 ducting extensive general and stock-raising en- 
 terprises, and upon which he was born Septem- 
 ber 19, 1850, was taken up by his father, Jere- 
 miah, in 1848, and has since been a prized pos- 
 session of the family. 
 
 Jeremiah Lamson, the establisher of the fam- 
 ily in Oregon, was born in Massachusetts in Jan- 
 uary, 1812, and as a young man located in Bur- 
 lington, Iowa, where he erected the first store in 
 the town, and thereafter was foremost in its 
 many avenues of usefulness. In 1847 ne 
 perfected plans for crossing the plains, and with 
 thirteen yoke of oxen and three wagons well filled 
 with provisions, spent seven months in reaching 
 the desired destination in Oregon. He had little 
 trouble with the Indians, and suffered little from 
 ill health, the journey being a very fortunate and 
 favorable one. In the spring of '48 he took up 
 a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 on the Willamina river, near the town of that 
 name, and there farmed and raised stock almost 
 up to the time of his death in 1888. He took a 
 
 prominent part in political and other affairs in 
 his adopted state, and from the beginning of its 
 establishment was identified with the Republican 
 party. He was a member of the first senate of 
 Oregon, and was several times a member of the 
 legislature, serving also four years as county 
 judge. In his young days he married Flelen 
 Hawks, who bore him four children: R. H., a 
 resident of Portland ; H. W., a rancher of Crook 
 county; Dora, the wife of Dr. W. Everett of 
 Tacoma, Wash. ; and Edward F. The latter 
 died on the old homestead in October, 1888. 
 
 Through his youth Mr. Lamson lived on the 
 donation claim where he was born, and at the age 
 of nineteen took entire charge of its affairs. In 
 1872 he was united in marriage with Helen Ber- 
 gess, of which union there have been born three 
 sons, Roy, Guy and Rex. In addition to the 
 four hundred and eighty acres comprising the 
 home farm Mr. Lamson farms other lands, mak- 
 ing in all twenty-one hundred acres, and he is 
 engaged principally in stock-raising, to which 
 his tract of one thousand acres of bottom land 
 is well adapted. The stock includes sheep and 
 Hereford cattle, and Mr. Lamson is one of the 
 best informed men on stock matters in this coun- 
 ty. He has filled many positions of trust in the 
 community, and as a Republican politician was 
 elected to the legislature in 1898, and again in 
 1900. President Harrison appointed him Indian 
 agent of the Grand Ronde reservation, and he 
 creditably maintained that position four years. 
 The many sterling qualities of Mr. Lamson have 
 won him many friends in Oregon, and he has 
 ever had the sincere respect and liking of all 
 who have been associated with him. 
 
 MRS. MARY W. BARCLAY. Scattered 
 over different parts of Oregon are farms directly 
 under the management of women well schooled 
 in the science of agriculture, whose lives have 
 been passed in taking observations of the methods 
 of others, even while they themselves were not 
 then called upon to exercise their abilities. Such 
 an one is Mrs. Mary W. Barclay, owner of a 
 farm of four hundred acres, twelve miles south 
 of Corvallis, and herself one of the most popular 
 and prominent women in the community. Mrs. 
 Barclay was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, in 
 1841, her father, James Neill, having settled 
 there after coming from Ireland at a very early 
 day. Mr. Neill was a young man at the time of 
 his emigration, and spent some time in Ohio be- 
 fore marrying Mary Stewart, who bore him nine 
 children, and who died in Ohio. At a later 
 period he removed to Illinois, where his death 
 occurred on a farm, to the management of which 
 he devoted several years of his life. 
 
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 educated in the public schools, and her first hus- 
 band was Robert Herron,a native son of Ireland. 
 Mr. Herron first met his future wife when he 
 stopped in Ohio on his way from Ireland to Ore- 
 gon in 1851, the remainder of his journey being 
 by way of the Isthmus and San Francisco. Five 
 miles northeast of Monroe, Ore., he took up a 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres, and in 
 1861 returned to Ohio and married Miss Neill, 
 then just twenty years of age. Together the 
 young people returned to the western ranch and 
 spent their lives together until the death of Mr. 
 Herron, at the age of fifty-five years. He was 
 a prominent man in his neighborhood, and to 
 an otherwise meritorious life added a daring 
 service in the Rogue River war. Six children 
 were born of this union, of whom James lives 
 near his mother ; Cleland is deceased ; Jane is 
 the wife of W. T. Hewitt of California; Josiah 
 lives on the old donation claim; John W. lives 
 in Washington; and Laura M., residing on the 
 home place. 
 
 After her husband's death Mrs. Herron lived 
 on the old place, successfully managed it, and 
 in time became the wife of Mr. James Barclay. 
 Mr. Barclay was born in the state of Missouri, 
 and in 1851 crossed the plains to Oregon, meet- 
 ing with no unusual adventures on the way, and 
 arriving at his destination in good health and 
 spirits. At once he took up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, twelve miles 
 south of Corvallis, and here brought his wife 
 and farmed and raised stock up to the time of 
 his death in 1892. Too much cannot be said of 
 the exemplary life of Mr. Barclay, who was an 
 ambitious, well educated and very popular man, 
 adaptable and successful in all his undertakings. 
 As a veteran of the Mexican war, he drew a 
 pension from the government, and he was also 
 a soldier in the Cayuse war. He was a Demo- 
 crat in politics, but never took an active interest 
 in office-holding. Three children were born to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Barclay, Ross, Leah, and Ger- 
 trude, all of whom are living with their mother. 
 Mrs. Barclay still owns four hundred acres of 
 the two donation claims, and has one of the 
 finest rural homes in this county. Her barns 
 and out-buildings and improvements suggest the 
 up-to-date and prosperous land owner, and no 
 one who entertained an appreciation of the man- 
 ifold advantages of country life could desire a 
 better place in which to pass their declining 
 years. 
 
 WILLIAM A. POTTER. A pioneer, earn- 
 est, energetic and forceful, William A Potter 
 spent many years in the upbuilding of the west- 
 ern civilization before retiring to a quiet life, 
 now making his home in Irving, Lane county. 
 
 He came to Oregon in 1851, and since then has 
 been principally interested in the agricultural 
 life of the country. This representative of a 
 Pennsylvania family is the descendant of Ger- 
 man ancestry and originally spelled the name 
 Pothour. David Pothour was born on the banks 
 of the Juniata river, in Pennsylvania, in 1781, 
 and in Ohio married Anna McCreary, who was 
 born of Irish ancestry. Their son, William A., 
 of this review, was born near the town of Hub- 
 bard, Trumbull county, Ohio, February 7, 1825, 
 into which state the father had removed and 
 there engaged as a farmer. He spent the ex- 
 traordinarily long period of seventy-five years 
 in one location in that state, where his death oc- 
 curred at the age of ninety-six years. They had 
 been blessed with the birth of nine children, of 
 whom William A. was the fifth. His early 
 education was received in the common schools 
 of the state where he was born, attending a little 
 log school-house for his share in the distribu- 
 tion of knowledge. Upon attaining manhood he 
 engaged in the occupation in which his father 
 had gained a livelihood, and in 1845 he started 
 out into the world to seek his own living. That 
 year he located in Grant county, Wis., in the 
 southwest corner of the state, where he en- 
 gaged in lead mining for a period of six years. 
 In 185 1 he outfitted with three yoke of oxen 
 and started for Oregon in company with a train 
 of sixteen wagons. Six months was consumed 
 in the journey, which was ended without any 
 particular incident outside of those which nat- 
 urally accompanied such a trip. Upon his ar- 
 rival in the west he spent the first winter in 
 Milwaukee, Clackamas county. He then took to 
 surveying, and helped survey in various parts 
 of the Willamette valley. In 1853 ne took U P 
 a donation claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 located in Lane county one half mile west of 
 Irving, and there put up the first house which 
 the prairie lands of this county had known 
 In the same year Mr. Potter, with a party, 
 started for the Umpqua mines, but before reach- 
 ing there they heard the Indians were causing 
 the prospectors considerable trouble, so the party 
 changed their course and finally went to the 
 mines at Yreka, Cal., where he mined for little 
 over a year, but not realizing his hopes he re- 
 turned to Lane county in 1854 and that ended 
 his search after the hidden treasures of the 
 earth. In a few years he sold his right for $500 
 and took another claim of a like number of 
 acres, one and a half miles north of the same 
 town, to which he then removed and took up 
 farming and stock-raising. This also was dis- 
 posed of later, and for several years he spent 
 his time in various locations of the county, al- 
 ways, however, engaging in farming. In the 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 upon a modest little piece of two acres, which 
 affords him occupation for his time. At the 
 present time he is the owner of a farm of 
 seventy-four acres one and a half miles south- 
 east of Eugene, which is utilized as a stock- 
 ranch. 
 
 In 1855 ^ r - Potter married Louisa C. Zum- 
 walt, a native of Missouri, who crossed the 
 plains in 1847, and the following children have 
 blessed their union : Clara Jane, wife of B. F. 
 Bond, of Irving; Lewis H., of Eugene; E. O., 
 also of Eugene ; Mary E., wife of Thomas Gray, 
 of Irving ; U. Grant, deceased ; and Anna, wife 
 of R. S. Poole, of Junction City. Democratic in 
 his political views, Mr. Potter has ably filled 
 different school offices. Fraternally he affiliates 
 with Spencer Butte Lodge No. 9, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the 
 United Brethren Church, also of Eugene. 
 
 WILLIAM WYATT. At the age of eighty- 
 seven years William Wyatt may well contem- 
 plate his lifework with serenity and satisfaction, 
 for his plans have been well and substantially 
 iaid, and have not been miscarried by errors in 
 judgment or by want of executive ability. In 
 his way of looking at things and in his con- 
 servative and rather slow rise to prominence in 
 die community he has proved the typical Eng- 
 lishman, a by no means strange fact, for he was 
 born in Birmingham, England, March 24, 
 1816, and received his earliest training under 
 English born parents. The family came to 
 America in 1836, after a voyage of six weeks 
 in a sailing vessel, and located at Norfolk, Va. 
 They also lived in New York state, and at New- 
 burg, on the Hudson, William found employ- 
 ment in a nursery, and also in the powder mills. 
 In Newburg he got quite a start in life, saved 
 some money, and married, April 19, 1838, Mary 
 Theodosia End, who was born in London, Eng- 
 land, March 31, 1823 and came to America with 
 her parents in 1836, locating in Newburg. 
 
 Soon after his marriage Mr. Wyatt removed 
 to Columbus, 111., and after a year settled in 
 Henderson county, the same state, reaching 
 there in the fall of 1839. He was fairly success- 
 ful as a farmer, but was not so well pleased with 
 the locality but what the tidings he heard of the 
 fertility and resource of the west aroused his 
 interest and caused him to view the matter from 
 a practical standpoint. He was one of the first 
 in his neighborhood to actually make the start 
 to the west, and he sold out his property in 
 1847, and on April 25 made the start with his 
 wife and three children. He had four yoke of 
 oxen and a well stocked wagon, and by all ac- 
 counts had a fairly pleasant and uneventful jour- 
 ney, arriving in Oregon in October, 1847. ^ n 
 
 1850 he located on the farm which has since been 
 his home, built a small log cabin with one room, 
 aud started in to clear his land, and prepare it 
 for crops. With little money, but with a stout 
 heart and willing hands, he made the most of 
 decidedly crude conditions, and in time his la- 
 bor was rewarded with success. To his original 
 claim he added as he secured the money neces- 
 sary, until he owned three thousand and nine 
 hundred acres of land, which he has since divid- 
 ed among his children. When one contemplates 
 the vast amount of work accomplished by this 
 zealous pioneer and the calculation, planning and 
 economy practiced ere he had even a small com- 
 petence, one is filled with admiration for his 
 strength of character, wisdom and perseverance. 
 Although his own educational chances were 
 limited, Mr. Wyatt has ever been a stanch ad- 
 vocate of education, and his children have profit- 
 ed by all that he could do for them in this direc- 
 tion. Six sons and five daughters have been born 
 into his family, the order of their birth being 
 as follows: William, deceased in Illinois; Eliza 
 A., the wife of A. J. Williams, of Benton county, 
 Ore.; Ezra, deceased; Martha E., deceased; 
 John, a farmer near Corvallis; Cynthia A., the 
 deceased wife of J. G. Springer, and who died 
 in March} 1902; William A., deceased when 
 young; Virginia C, who died at the age of nine 
 years; M. Eva, living at home; Samuel T., a 
 farmer near Corvallis ; and Franklin, living near 
 the old homestead. Mr. Wyatt has not only been 
 a power in the agricultural world of this county, 
 but he has exerted a vital moral influence among 
 those with whom he has had to do. In 1858 
 he became a convert to the United Brethren 
 Church at a camp meeting at Mary's River 
 church and later became a member of the 
 church at Bethel. He has worked for the ad- 
 vancement of the church during all of these years, 
 and not only holds theories but practices the 
 wholesome lessons which he has learned from 
 his church and bible. His wife is a member of 
 the same church, and both work together, and 
 contribute generously of their means. Mr. 
 Wyatt has been a trustee of Philomath College 
 for over thirty years, and has taken a keen in- 
 terest in this institution. More than ten years 
 since there was a golden wedding at his comfort- 
 able and hospitable home, and scores of friends 
 assembled to extend their best wishes to the ven- 
 erable couple, whose lives have taught many les- 
 sons of humanity and kindliness and goodness. 
 
 JOHN RICKARD. No little credit is due 
 John Rickard for his success in life, for he 
 started out when only a boy of twelve years to 
 make his own way, and has not, since that time, 
 been dependent on other efforts than his own| 
 
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 and is now one of the strongest men financially 
 in this community of Benton county. His home 
 is one of the handsomest in the vicinity, evi- 
 dencing the result of his years of self-denial and 
 toil. 
 
 The birth of John Rickard occurred in Eng- 
 land, December 31, 1832, his parents being Rich- 
 ard and- Rachel Rickard, both natives of the 
 same country. The father having died, Mrs. 
 Rickard married again and came to the United 
 States in 1846, and settled in Brown county, 
 111., where her death occurred. On finding it 
 necessary to make his own way, Mr. Rickard 
 began by hiring out to the farmers in the neigh- 
 borhood, where he engaged in farm work by the 
 month, continuing in Illinois until 1852, when 
 he crossed the plains by ox-teams. The journey 
 occupied five months, and was ended without 
 any molestation from the Indians. On reaching 
 Oregon, he stopped for a short time in Clack- 
 amas county, from there going to Josephine 
 county, where he engaged in mining and pros- 
 pecting for a short time. Not entirely satisfied 
 with his prospects in the south, he ventured into 
 Benton county and engaged in work with a sur- 
 veyor, and in the summer of 1853 he started a 
 brick manufactory near Corvallis, the first brick- 
 yard in Benton county. A short time afterward 
 he engaged in freighting out of Portland, in 
 which he remained for about three years, at the 
 close of that period, in 1856, finding a lucrative 
 business in stock-raising near Corvallis. In 
 1862 he bought a farm situated four miles south 
 of Corvallis, where he remained until 1896, when 
 he bought the farm adjoining, known as the 
 Thomas Norris donation claim, and there he re- 
 sided until October, 1903, when he removed to 
 Corvallis, where he is now living retired. He 
 also owns other farms, located principally in the 
 valley, which bring the number of acres up to 
 thirty-two hundred and fifty, making him one 
 of the largest land owners in the vicinity. 
 
 Mr. Rickard was first united in marriage with 
 Laura Callaway, who was born in Missouri, and 
 of the union two children have been born, 
 George B., located near Philomath, and John 
 Roy, who lives on the home place. His second 
 wife was Ella Riley, a native of Illinois. The 
 home farm is now conducted by Mr. Rickard's 
 two sons. In politics Mr. Rickard is independ- 
 ent of party restrictions, voting for the man 
 whose administration he believes will be most 
 productive of good for the greatest number. 
 
 JOHN WHITAKER. General farming and 
 stock-raising as conducted by John Whitaker 
 amounts to an exact science, carefully studied and 
 constantly improved upon. Old-time methods or 
 
 machinery find no place on this model farm, bur 
 rather every department represented has reached 
 the highest perfection possible under the man- 
 agement of an astute and far-sighted mind, 
 trained by practical experience to avoid what- 
 ever is superfluous or non-practical. Benton 
 county has no more familiar name enrolled 
 among its early settlers than that of Whitaker, 
 and invariably it suggests the substantial and re- 
 liable in character and attainment. John Whit- 
 aker was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, May 
 13, 1843, a son °f Jacob and Mary Ephrenia 
 (Wiederkahr) Whitaker, natives of Germany, 
 and the former born February 2, 1808. 
 
 Special mention is due Jacob Whitaker, the 
 founder of the family in America and Oregon, 
 for he possessed leading and strong characteris- 
 tics, and indelibly impressed his worth upon all 
 who knew him. He was a stonemason and brick- 
 layer by trade in his native land, and soon after 
 his marriage came to the United States, settling 
 in Richland county, Ohio. At a later period he 
 removed to Sandusky county, where he farmed 
 until 1853, an d then sold his land and prepared 
 to emigrate to the northwest. The train in which 
 he brought his four children to the coast con- 
 sisted of but six wagons, and they were on the 
 way about seven months. They found the In- 
 dians peacefully inclined, nor was cholera or 
 other physical disorder prevalent among the little 
 party. However, one of the children was left 
 behind in a little wayside grave upon the plains, 
 a calamity doubly sorrowful to the father, who 
 had buried his wife in Ohio in 1846, and who 
 had since felt that he was almost alone in the 
 world. Coming direct to Benton county, Mr. 
 Whitaker took up a donation claim of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres ten miles south of Corvallis, 
 and just east of the territorial road, where he 
 engaged in farming, carpentering and mason 
 work until a few years before his death, June 9, 
 1883. His many-sided work took him into many 
 parts of the county, and he came to know about 
 all the people of importance within its borders. 
 He was a good workman and a conscientious 
 man and citizen, and won hosts of friends during 
 his residence in the west. He was a member of 
 the Catholic Church, and for many years served 
 as a member of the school board. 
 
 Ten years of age when the trip was made 
 across the plains, John Whitaker was reared on 
 the old donation claim, and educated in the dis- 
 trict schools. After his marriage with Mary E. 
 Zierolf, a native of Ohio, and who came to Ore- 
 gon in 1869, he came to his present farm, ten 
 miles south of Corvallis, and which constitutes 
 a part of the old Whitaker donation claim. Of 
 the seven hundred acres all in one body, three 
 hundred and twenty are under cultivation, and 
 
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 he is engaged in general farming and stock-rais- 
 ing, having some of the finest stock in the state 
 of Oregon. In fact, he has the only registered 
 Oxford Down sheep in the state. His Shorthorns 
 are also registered, and are raised in large num- 
 bers. Forty-five acres are under hops, and a 
 large proportion of the land given over to grain- 
 raising. The residence is a modern one, and the 
 barns are such as delight the heart of a thrifty 
 and ambitious landsman. Mr. Whitaker has been 
 clerk of the school board for twenty-four years 
 and during that time has materially advanced the 
 cause of education in Benton county. He is a 
 very popular, very successful, and very genial 
 man, winning praise because of his aptitude and 
 his unquestioned public-spiritedness. To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Whitaker seven children have been 
 born, all of whom are living : Peter ; Frank, at 
 home ; Casper, of Washington ; Agnes, now Mrs. 
 J. N. McFadden, of Benton county ; Margaret, 
 wife of Roy Rickard, of this county; John O. 
 and Mary Maude, at home. All were born on 
 the home place. 
 
 HON. CHARLES S. MOORE. To the en- 
 ergetic nature and strong mentality of such men 
 as Charles S. Moore, state treasurer of Oregon, 
 is due the success and ever-increasing prosperity 
 of the Republican party in this state, and in the 
 hands of this class of citizens there is every as- 
 surance that the best interests and welfare of the 
 party will be conserved, resulting in a successful 
 culmination of the highest ambitions and ex- 
 pectations entertained by its adherents. Given 
 to the prosecution of active measures in political 
 affairs and possessing the earnest purpose of 
 placing their party beyond the pale of possible 
 diminution of power, the Republican leaders 
 in Oregon are ever advancing, carrying every- 
 thing before them in their irresistible onward 
 march. Certainly one of the most potent factors 
 in the success of the Republican movement in 
 Oregon is Hon. Charles S. Moore, who through- 
 out his life has been a loyal citizen, imbued with 
 patriotism and fearless in defense of his honest 
 convictions. 
 
 Mr. Moore is a native of Marion county, Ore., 
 born near Mount Angel, January 8, 1857. His 
 father, William S. Moore, was born in Belle- 
 ville, 111., while the grandparents were natives 
 of Georgia and belong to old southern families. 
 In 1848 William S. Moore made the long over- 
 land journey to Oregon with his mother, two sis- 
 ters and stepfather, S. Welch, the family 
 settling on French Prairie. The father of 
 Charles S. Moore was a millwright by trade and 
 followed that pursuit in Oregon, Washington 
 and Idaho. He was married at Pacific City, Pa- 
 cific county, Wash., in 1854, and afterward lo- 
 
 cated near Mount Angel, Marion county, Ore., 
 securing a tract of land upon which he followed 
 farming in addition to working at his trade. He 
 assisted in building mills at many points in Ore- 
 gon, including Portland, Salem, Oregon City, 
 Albany, The Dalles and at Klamath Falls, where 
 for ten years he was engaged in the operation 
 of a sawmill. At the expiration of that period 
 he returned to Portland, where he lived retired 
 until his death, which occurred in June, 1899. 
 He had served as county treasurer of Marion 
 county for two years and for four years was 
 county judge of Klamath county, Ore. He wed- 
 ded Octavia Meldrum, who was born in Illinois, 
 a daughter of John Meldrum and a sister of John 
 W. and Henry Meldrum, of Oregon City. When 
 a maiden of nine summers Mrs. Octavia Moore 
 crossed the plains to Oregon City, this being 
 in the year 1845. It was a very early epoch in 
 the development of the northwest and she has 
 therefore been a witness of the greater part of 
 the growth and progress of this section of the 
 country. She is now living in Portland. By her 
 marriage she became the mother of seven chil- 
 dren; Rufus S., who is a lumber merchant of 
 Klamath Falls ; Charles S., of this review ; 
 Mrs. Estella O. Bellinger, of Clarke county, 
 Wash. ; Mrs. Frankie M. Hammond, of Kla- 
 math Falls ; Bertha and Etta E., who are living 
 in Portland ; and Lulu, who died at the age of 
 seven years. 
 
 When Charles S. Moore was about five years 
 of age the family removed to Oregon City and 
 two years later came to Salem, where for ten 
 years he pursued his education in the public 
 schools. He then spent two years in Willamette 
 University, and in 1874 took up his abode at 
 Klamath Agency. During the first year he was 
 in the employ of the government on the Klamath 
 Indian reservation, and afterward became clerk 
 for the post trader at Fort Klamath, serving in 
 that capacity for two years. In connection with 
 his father and George Nurse he built the saw- 
 mill at Klamath Falls in 1877, but after a year 
 he accepted a clerkship in a store at that place, 
 and in 1886 he purchased an interest in the bus- 
 iness under the firm name of Reames, Martin 
 & Co., Mr. Moore becoming manager of the 
 large and ever-increasing business, continuing 
 until elected state treasurer. As the years have 
 passed his business interests have grown to ex- 
 tensive proportions. He has always been inter- 
 ested in lumber manufacturing and in this line 
 of industrial activity is now associated with his 
 brother in the ownership of the plant at Klamath 
 Falls, which is conducted under the firm name 
 and style of C. S. & R. S. Moore. This mill 
 has a capacity of twenty thousand feet of lumber 
 per day and is operated by water power. Mr. 
 Moore is also interested in lands, both grazing 
 
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 and timber, and his investments have been judi- 
 ciously made, connecting him with important bus- 
 iness enterprises which yield an excellent finan- 
 cial return. Upon his selection to the office of 
 state treasurer he resigned his position as man- 
 ager of the store at Klamath Falls, disposing of 
 his interest in" the business. 
 
 Mr. Moore was married in 1884, at Klamath 
 Falls, to Miss Mary Langell, who was born in 
 Jacksonville, Ore., a daughter of Hon. Nathaniel 
 Langell, who came to this state from Ohio about 
 1850 and took up his abode in Jacksonville. He 
 is now a resident of Medford and has been quite 
 prominent in public affairs, serving in 1872 and 
 again in 1897 as a member of the state legisla- 
 ture. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Moore have been 
 born two sons, Charles L. and John M. 
 
 Mr. Moore is a member of the Commercial 
 Club, of Portland, and Illihee Club of Salem, 
 and is also prominent in Masonic circles, having 
 been made a Mason in Klamath Lodge, No. 77, 
 A. F. & A. M., in 1894. He is also a member 
 of Oregon Consistory No. 1, A. & A. S. R., and is 
 likewise connected with Al Kader Temple, N. 
 M. S., and a charter member of the United 
 Workmen of Klamath Falls, of which he is past 
 master. From the time he attained his majority 
 down to the present he has taken an active part 
 in political affairs and has labored earnestly and 
 effectively for the welfare of his party. While 
 in Klamath Falls he served as school director 
 and was a member of and president of the board 
 of trustees of Klamath Falls. He served as 
 county judge of Klamath county from July, 1894, 
 until July, 1898. He has exerted a marked in- 
 fluence in the councils of his party and for ten 
 years was a member of the Republican state 
 central committee, while for twelve years or 
 more he was chairman of the county central 
 committee. At the state convention held 
 in April, 1896, in Portland, he was a member of 
 the platform committee and with seven others 
 out of thirty-two members of the committee 
 made a minority report to place a gold standard 
 plank in the state platform. As early as 1892 
 the silver question had become one of prominence 
 in Oregon, and Mr. Moore recognized that it 
 must be met. He gave to the subject earnest 
 thought and consideration and decided that there 
 was but one safe, sound and enlightened system 
 of finance for the country and that was by the 
 adoption of the gold standard. In 1896 he was 
 elected a delegate to the national Republican con- 
 vention in St. Louis and there gave his support 
 to William McKinley. In that convention he was 
 a member of the platform committee. In 1898 
 he was nominated on the Republican ticket in the 
 convention at Astoria for the office of state treas- 
 urer and was elected by a plurality of ninety-nine 
 hundred and seventy-seven. He took the office 
 
 in January, 1899, succeeding Hon. Phil Mets- 
 chan, and in 1902 at the Republican convention 
 he was re-nominated by acclamation, and was 
 re-elected by an increased majority of fifteen 
 thousand nine hundred and twelve, to serve until 
 January, 1907. No higher endorsement of his 
 faithful service during the first term could bt 
 given. He is widely recognized as one of the 
 political leaders of the northwest, and his life 
 record forms an integral part of the history of 
 the state. 
 
 EDWARD HOLLOWAY. Preceded by 
 twenty-one years of varied experience in differ- 
 ent parts of the northwest, Edward Holloway 
 came to Brownsville in 1902, purchased valuable 
 town and country property, and has since engaged 
 in the real estate and stock business. He owns 
 about eight hundred acres of land in Linn county, 
 all of which is leased out, while he is buying, 
 selling and breeding Clydesdale horses and Span- 
 ish jacks. He is also conducting a model dairy, 
 sending to market the finest of creamery butter. 
 In turning his attention to this line of industry 
 Mr. Holloway is acting upon the inspirations 
 received in his youth, which was fostered dur- 
 ing his boyhood days in Lincolnshire, England, 
 where he was born May 15, 1857. As a child he 
 was familiar with Shorthorn cattle of great 
 weight and noble lineage, with sheep famous for 
 their size and the quality of their wool, and 
 horses whose splendid proportions have made 
 them marketable in all the large cities of the 
 world. As a member of one of the old families 
 of the eastern portion of England, he was trained 
 to model farming, his father, William, being one 
 of the best known farmers and stock men of his 
 neighborhood. The elder Holloway owned a 
 large tract of land, bought, sold and raised fine 
 stock for many years, taking part also in the gen- 
 eral improvement of the country. He was an 
 agitator of good roads, as are the majority of 
 country gentlemen, hence the unrivalled excel- 
 lence of the English country highways. His 
 death occurred in February, 1872, at the age of 
 forty-eight years. His father, John, had been 
 a farmer before him, having been born, reared 
 and married in Lincolnshire. William Holloway 
 married Mary Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Ed- 
 ward Donnington, a large land owner and stock- 
 raiser of Lincolnshire, now deceased. Mrs. Hol- 
 loway, who is still living in England, is the 
 mother of eleven children, six sons and five 
 daughters, Edward being the fourth child. 
 
 Upon emigrating to America in 1871, Edward 
 Holloway, then sixteen years of age, joined his 
 brother on the old Jeff Davis farm in Mississippi, 
 at Davis Mills, which his brother was then man- 
 aging, and where the younger lad gained a fair 
 
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 idea of American agricultural methods. In 
 1875 the latter left his brother and went to 
 Texas, and in Red River county bought a general 
 merchandise business, two years later disposing 
 of the same, and engaging in farming in Gon- 
 zales county. In 1877 he went to Rosebud Land- 
 ing, on the Missouri river, with a bunch of cat- 
 tle for the Indians, and the following year made 
 his way to a farm in the La Movie valley, Nev. 
 From Walla Walla, Wash., which he reached 
 in 1880. he went the following year to eastern 
 Oregon, located on a farm in Umatilla county, 
 and devoted the greater part of four thousand 
 acres to wheat-raising. This proved a very suc- 
 cessful venture, and when he sold out he was a 
 financial gainer by several thousand dollars. In 
 1896 Mr. Holloway located on a farm near Cur- 
 rinsville, Clackamas county, Ore., and conducted 
 a general merchandise store, and the following 
 year bought a home containing ten acres at Mount 
 Tabor. In 1899 he invested in considerable 
 property in the Sunnyside addition, Portland, 
 disposing of the same in 1902 to come to Browns- 
 ville. 
 
 In eastern Oregon Mr. Holloway married 
 Gertrude Elizabeth Saver, daughter of Robert 
 Saver, who, at the time of her birth, was engaged 
 in farming in Nebraska. The father was born 
 in Norfolk, England, and at an early day crossed 
 the sea and located in Chicago, 111., and, after 
 engaging in the real estate business for some 
 time, moved to Nebraska. In 1901 Mr. Hollo- 
 way and his wife visited the former's old home 
 in England, where he became much interested 
 in fine stock. On his return he purchased two 
 thoroughbred Clydesdale stallions and one French 
 Coach stallion. The Clydesdales have both since 
 died, but he is now the owner of a fine English 
 Shire and the only thoroughbred saddle stallion 
 in the state. At present Mr. Saver is liv- 
 ing on a large farm in eastern Oregon. Four 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hollo- 
 way, of whom Walter Lee is deceased ; Daphna 
 May. Roberta and Georgia are living at home. 
 Bertram Peacock has been adopted by these 
 large-hearted people, and is being given the same 
 educational and other advantages enjoyed by 
 the Holloway children. As a stanch Republican 
 Mr. Holloway has upheld the interests of his 
 party in the west, although he was formerlv a 
 Democrat, experiencing a change of heart when 
 the silver question became an issue. Years ago 
 he served as school director and clerk for many 
 terms, and he has also attended many conven- 
 tions, both state and county. He is a man of 
 broad and liberal ideas, and his wanderings in 
 different parts of this northwestern country, his 
 diverse participation in its many industries, has 
 
 resulted in his becoming an enthusiastic advocate 
 of its innumerable advantages as a home-making 
 center. 
 
 MRS. CHARLOTTE E. PENGRA. In man- 
 ner, character and attainment, Mrs. Charlotte E. 
 Pengra represents a family of distinguished an- 
 cestry, around whom tradition clings persistently 
 and fondly, and in whose make-up there is a jus- 
 tifiable and inspiring pride. This pioneer of 1853, 
 whose home in Springfield is the center of cul- 
 ture and social prominence in the town, was born 
 at Panton, Vt., May 1, 1827, and is a daughter 
 of Rev. John and Aseneth (Campbell) Stearns, 
 natives respectively of New Hampshire and Ver- 
 mont. The paternal grandfather, Ebenezer 
 Stearns, was also born in New Hampshire, and 
 during the Revolutionary war he was captured 
 by the Tories, in return for his devotion to the 
 Colonial cause. He lived until July 1, 1823, and 
 represented the fifth generation of his family in 
 America, the emigrating forefather having been 
 one Isaac Stearns, who came from Nayland 
 Parish, Suffolk county, England, in the ship 
 Arabella in 1630, locating at Watertown, near 
 Mount Auburn, Mass. Fellow-passengers with 
 him in the sailing vessel were such well known 
 historical personages as Governor Winthrop and 
 Richard Saltonstall. He was the progenitor of 
 an American family as old as any in the state of 
 New Hampshire, and which is represented in 
 many states of the union. While his father was 
 stacking his musket on the battlefields of the war 
 of 1776, young John Stearns (born April 26, 
 1778) was taken by his mother to Vermont on 
 horseback, and there spent the early part of his 
 life. Soon after his marriage in 1830 he was 
 converted and called to the Baptist ministry, his 
 first charge being in Vermont and later was pas- 
 tor of the Elizabethtown church, Elizabethtown, 
 N. Y, where he preached the gospel for nine 
 years. In 181 7 he was transferred to Sardinia, 
 Brown county, Ohio, and traveled several years 
 as state missionary. Sorrow came to him after 
 his removal' to Illinois, through the death of his 
 wife at the age of sixty-six years, in 1850. With 
 the help of David E., his oldest son, also Rev. 
 M. N., Rev. S. E., and Avery O., an attorney, he 
 outfitted with ox and horse teams for crossing 
 the plains, and after arriving at the Rogue river 
 country, settled on a claim near Phoenix, where 
 his death occurred at the age of ninety-three 
 years, in 1871. That he was a man of remark- 
 able vitality and great will power may be 
 imagined, when it is known that he preached al- 
 most continuously up to the time of his final ill- 
 ness, and at the age of eighty was able to occupy 
 a pulpit at Eugene. Of his twelve children eleven 
 attained maturity, seven of them being sons, only 
 
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 two of whom are living, Mrs. Pengra being the 
 eleventh child. 
 
 Mrs. Pengra was eucated in the common 
 schools of New York and Ohio, and in 1841 en- 
 tered Hampton Falls Academy, of which her 
 older brother was the preceptor. After an aca- 
 demical training of two years she then engaged 
 in educational work, studying at the same time. 
 Moving to Illinois in 1848, in 1849 sne was mar_ 
 ried to B. J. Pengra, in Winnebago county, 111. 
 Mr. Pengra was born in Genessee county, N. Y., 
 February 14, 1823, and after his father's death 
 removed with his mother to Erie county, Pa., re- 
 maining there until after her death. From Illi- 
 nois he crossed the plains in 1853 locating on a 
 claim seven miles east of Springfield, Ore., where 
 he farmed and raised stock for several years. A 
 man of broad education and journalistic ability, 
 he established the first Republican newspaper in 
 the state of Oregon at Eugene in i860, and which 
 was known as the Oregon State Journal. He 
 was a presidential elector at the time of Abra- 
 ham Lincoln's election in i860 and served as 
 surveyor-general during the administration of 
 that martyred president. In 1866 Mr. Pengra 
 moved to the site of Springfield, and with two 
 partners, Stratton and Underwood, purchased 
 the town site of Springfield. He was one of the 
 pioneer developers of the town, opening flour 
 and saw-mills, and purchasing surrounding 
 farm-lands on a large scale. After a number 
 of years of successful operating he bought a 
 large stock ranch where he remained several 
 years, and died at the home of his son near Co- 
 burg, Ore., September 18, 1903, at the age of 
 eighty years. Seven children were born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Pengra, of whom Stella M. is the wife 
 of George W. Larson, of Reading, Cal. ; Avery 
 W. died in infancy; Ella V. is the widow of 
 James Walker, of Hazeldale, Lane county, Ore. ; 
 W. J. and G. B., twins, the former living near 
 Coburg, Ore., and the latter died at the age of 
 ten years ; Bell, the wife of S. T. Black, a farmer 
 of Grass Valley, Sherman county, eastern Ore- 
 gon ; and Anna, the wife of Rev. C. M. Hill, 
 pastor of the Baptist Church at Oakland, Cal. 
 Mrs. Pengra has contributed to local papers and 
 is a woman of superior culture and refinement. 
 She is prominent in the Baptist Church, is a 
 teacher of the bible class in the Sunday school, 
 and has alv/ays given generously to church and 
 charitable organizations. She is living on the 
 old family homestead, in Springfield, which has 
 been the family home since 1866. 
 
 WESLEY HINTON. The pioneers who 
 came to this northwestern country before the in- 
 ducement of gold created discontent with the 
 less-exciting means of livelihood are deserving of 
 
 special credit for the heroic feat of crossing the 
 plains. Their object must have been to establish 
 homes under the most favorable possible condi- 
 tions, and as the home is the foundation of the 
 country, none could gainsay the nobility and dis- 
 interestedness of their motives. The year 1846 
 witnessed many departures from peaceful but not 
 over-productive farms in the east, but at best the 
 occasion of setting out must have been a rare 
 one, and not frequent in any one neighborhood. 
 Rumors of fertile lands and moving caravans 
 reached the uneventful farming locality of Gas- 
 conade county, Mo., where lived R. B. Hinton 
 and his wife Elizabeth (Brammel) Hinton, with 
 their large family of children, among whom was 
 Wesley, born January 10, 1837, and destined to 
 become one of the large agriculturists of Benton 
 county. The father was born in Missouri, but 
 his wife was a native of Virginia, and they had 
 lived together for many years on the Gasconade 
 county farm. Notwithstanding that they were 
 wedded to their surroundings, they gladly set 
 forth into the unknown regions of the plains in 
 
 1846, turning their oxen's faces towards the 
 western sea, and away from all with which they 
 were familiar. Fortunately the little party es- 
 caped many of the terrible adventures. which be- 
 fell some of the early emigrants, and arrived at 
 their destination in Oregon little the worse for 
 their six months on the road. They came by the 
 old Barlow route and spent the first winter near 
 McMinnville, Yamhill county, in the spring of 
 
 1847, taking up a claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres seventeen miles south of Corvallis. This 
 land now lies just at the edge of Monroe, in a 
 prosperous agricultural district, but at that time 
 it was accustomed only to the tramp of Indian 
 feet, and to the occupancy of bear and other game 
 in which the country abounded. Mr. Hinton 
 built a little log cabin of one room in which 
 the family lived for some months, but as his land 
 yielded of its richness he was able to provide 
 them with more modern quarters. He was an 
 energetic and very industrious man, more than 
 ordinarily intelligent, and the crude locality had 
 need of his good judgment in helping to organize 
 its local government. He took an active part in 
 politics, was postmaster for many years, and held 
 all of the local offices in his neighborhood. For 
 one term also he represented his district in the 
 state legislature. His wife dying about i860, he 
 continued to live on his claim for some years, but 
 his last days were spent at the home of his son. 
 Wesley is the oldest of the thirteen children, and 
 the next child living is Martha, widow of John 
 Burnett, of Corvallis ; Thompson D. lives on a 
 farm four miles north of Corvallis ; Columbus 
 lives in Seattle ; Nancy is the wife of Harry Ran^ 
 of Junction City ; Malvina is the wife of H. Fur- 
 
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 geson, of Heppner, Ore. ; and Emma is the wife 
 oi Alexander Lamb, of Elmira, Ore. 
 
 The Yakima war of 1855 was the first happen- 
 ing of importance that broke the monotony of 
 Wesley Hinton's youth, and he gladly enlisted in 
 Company I, under command of Captain Munson, 
 and was mustered in at Portland. They were 
 first sent to The Dalles, and later to Walla Walla, 
 Wash., where transpired the famous battle of 
 Walla Walla, lasting over a period of four days. 
 The company wintered at Walla Walla, and were 
 mustered out in Corvallis in 1856, after five 
 months of service. Returning to his home, Mr. 
 Hinton continued to farm, and December 16, 
 1848, was united in marriage with Sarah Hinton, 
 who was born December 16, 1848, thereafter 
 settling on a part of Mr. Hinton's father's old 
 donation claim. He owns four hundred acres 
 of land, and devotes it principally to stock-rais- 
 ing, Durham cattle, Cotswold sheep and Angora 
 goats bringing in large yearly returns. He has 
 a very nice home just at the outskirts of Monroe, 
 and thus has all of the advantages of the town 
 as well as country. He is public-spirited and 
 enterprising, and his practical interest in the life' 
 and work of others renders him a popular and 
 useful acquisition to a thriving agricultural com- 
 munity. A Democrat in politics, he has always 
 promoted party interests in the county, but has 
 never cared for official honors. As a member of 
 the Masonic fraternity he has passed all of the 
 chairs. With his family he is identified with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. One child has 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hinton, Esther, the 
 wife of C. Rawls, who lives with Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hinton. 
 
 RILEY SHELTON. The family name which 
 heads this review is one that has become well 
 known through the identification of those who 
 bear it with many of the important movements 
 and enterprises which have given to Oregon her 
 prestige among the states of the west. Riley 
 Shelton is a native son, his father being the 
 late Hon. Harvey Shelton, whose life left such 
 a record of service and well doing that he still 
 lives in the hearts of those who came to know 
 him best in the pioneer days. Riley Shelton is 
 now engaged in the real estate business in Scio, 
 Linn county, and having spent the greater part 
 of his life in this vicinity he has come to be 
 known and honored for the many good qualities 
 which have made him a desirable citizen of any 
 community. 
 
 The father, Hon. Harvey Shelton, was born 
 in Patrick county, Va., October 16. 1822, from 
 which state he removed with his parents to Jack- 
 son county. Mo., and later to Buchanan county, 
 of the same state, passing altogether about fifteen 
 
 years in that section. In the spring of 1847 
 they joined the tide of emigration which was set- 
 tling so strongly toward the west, and which was 
 more noticeable in the state of Missouri than 
 in any other of the middle western states, and 
 with ox-teams, crossed the plains to Oregon. 
 Harvey Shelton at once took up a donation claim 
 on Crabtree creek, five miles southeast of Scio, 
 Linn county, which he owned up to the time of 
 his death, August 21, 1893. Tn his religious 
 convictions Mr. Shelton was a member of the 
 Missionary Baptist Church, having become such 
 at the age of eighteen years, and consistently re- 
 tained membership throughout his entire life, car- 
 rying into his every-day practice the principles 
 which he honestly strove to follow. As both a 
 patriot and politician he served his state in the 
 Cayuse war, participating in the hardships and 
 dangers which the pioneers were called upon to 
 endure, and during the years of 1872, '74, '80 
 and '84 he faithfully served not only the Demo- 
 cratic party, with which his convictions lay, but 
 also the people at large, who looked to men of 
 honesty of purpose for the furthering of their 
 interests, as a member of the house of repre- 
 sentatives. Fraternally he was a member of Scio 
 Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, be- 
 ing a charter member of the organization, and 
 had always taken a lively and active interest in 
 the Grange and Farmers Alliance. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Shelton was united in marriage 
 with Miss Caroline Thomas, who was born in 
 Jackson county, Mo., November 18, 1832, and 
 who, while still a child, removed with her parents 
 to Texas. After their return in 1845 to her 
 native state they made that their home until 185 1, 
 when they crossed the plains to Oregon. Her 
 father took up a claim near Scio, and August 
 4, 1852, she became the wife of Harvey Shelton. 
 They resided on their farm until 1884, when 
 they became residents of the town of Scio, where 
 her death occurred December 14, 1901, at the 
 age of sixty-nine years. She also was a member 
 of the Missionary Baptist Church, and had 
 faithfully served as a Christian throughout her 
 entire life. She was a pioneer of the character 
 which constitutes the foundation for the great- 
 ness of nations. She was the mother of nine 
 children, seven of whom are now living, named 
 in order of birth as follows: Mary C, the wife 
 of 0. E. Crume, of Yamhill county ; Riley, of 
 this review ; Henry L., of Scio ; George L., of 
 Ashland, Ore.; Melvin H., of Arlington, Ore.; 
 Isabelle, the wife of Frank Yarbrough, of Ash- 
 land ; and Enoch C, of Scio. 
 
 The oldest son now living of this family is 
 Riley Shelton, who was born five miles south- 
 east of Scio, Linn county, upon his father's claim, 
 February 4, 1858, and was there reared to man- 
 hood, receiving his education from the best 
 
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 sources in this part of the state, after completing 
 the common schools, entering Albany College in 
 1878, where he remained two years. In 1881 he 
 began to seek a livelihood on his own resources, 
 engaging then as employing agent for the Farm- 
 er's Warehouse Company, of Jefferson, Ma- 
 rion county, Ore., and a year later returning to 
 Scio, where he became connected in a mercan- 
 tile establishment with J. C. Johnson, the lat- 
 ter of whom now makes his home in Marion 
 county. In 1885 Mr. Shelton retired from active 
 life, and so remained until 1886, when he again 
 became connected with the general merchandise 
 business with H. A. Johnson, the brother of his 
 former partner, and for two years the new firm 
 enjoyed a successful era of custom, though Mr. 
 Shelton had the misfortune to lose about $10,000 
 by furnishing goods to one of the sub-contractors 
 who was engaged in building the Corvallis & 
 Eastern Railroad. Following his withdrawal 
 from the mercantile life in 1888 he engaged in 
 the real estate business, which has since lucra- 
 tively occupied his time. He now, handles both 
 city and country property. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Shelton occurred in 
 Scio in 1882, Miss Florence D. E. Montgomery 
 becoming his wife. She was born in Oregon, 
 the daughter of Alexander Montgomery, a na- 
 tive of Illinois, his emigration to Oregon having 
 been made in an early day, via the Isthmus of 
 Panama. He first located in Jackson county, 
 where he engaged in mining, and at a later date 
 he became a merchant in Scio, and still later a 
 stock-dealer and farmer in Linn county, in the 
 last-named business being especially successful. 
 He now makes his home near Shedds, Ore., still 
 interested in farming. Of the two children born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Shelton, Oborn Clyde died 
 March 9, 1903, at the age of eighteen years, 
 seven months and three days, and Audie Wave 
 makes her home with her parents. In his political 
 relations a Democrat, Mr. Shelton has served in 
 many important positions in the interests of his 
 party. He has acted as city recorder for two 
 terms, mayor one term, school clerk for six 
 years, and director for one term. As justice of 
 the peace he has served three terms and as coun- 
 cilman three terms, both of which positions he is 
 now creditably occupying. He has also acted 
 as notary public, and during Cleveland's admin- 
 istration he held the position of postmaster from 
 1894. Broad-minded and public-spirited in 
 every way, with keen intelligence and judgment 
 to guide his actions, the official life of Riley Shel- 
 ton has been a credit to the people who have 
 given him their vote, for he has faithfully^ upheld 
 their interests and the welfare of the city and 
 community. Fraternally he affiliates with the 
 Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Rebekahs, 
 having passed the chairs therein, and is also 
 
 active as a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. He belongs to the Missionary 
 Baptist Church, in which he officiates as trustee. 
 
 VERY REV. FATHER THOMAS, prior of 
 Mount Angel, was born at St. Gall, Switzerland, 
 September 18, 1865, and came to the United 
 States in October, 1888. Having qualified in 
 the classics at the Benedictine monasteries of 
 Einsiedeln and Engleberg, Switzerland, he took 
 up and finished philosophy and theology after 
 coming to Mount Angel, and subsequently be- 
 came a teacher of languages and classics in his 
 Alma Mater. He was ordained to the brother- 
 hood August 6, 1893, was made a director of the 
 college, and later a director of the seminary and 
 July 11, 1901, was elected prior. 
 
 The early history of the religious organization 
 over which Father Thomas has been called to 
 preside is mentioned at length in another part of 
 this work, and in connection with the life of 
 Rev. Adelheim Odermatt, the founder of Mount 
 Angel. Since assuming his present responsibil- 
 ity Father Thomas has added what is known as 
 the New College, and which bids fair to be one 
 of the most useful adjuncts to the church in Ore- 
 gon. This addition to the Mount Angel priory 
 is situated on Mount Angel Butte, a small moun- 
 tain commanding a splendid view of the sur- 
 rounding country. The building was started 
 May 10, 1902, and is 210x70 feet, ground dimen- 
 sions, with a central building five stories in 
 height, and wings on either side of four stories 
 each. The new college was opened September 
 15, 1903. The old college and monastery is built 
 on the summit of the butte, and the winding 
 path that leads up to it has fourteen stations, 
 each continuing a picture of Christ during His 
 crucifixion. The view at the top commands 
 Mounts Hood, Jefferson and Adams, also the 
 Cascade range and the state capitol at Salem, as 
 well as the beautiful French Prairie, one of the 
 most fertile agricultural sections of Oregon. 
 
 With the college is connected a printing estab- 
 lishment which turns out three periodicals, of 
 which the St. Joseph Blatt, a weekly German 
 paper, has a circulation of eleven thousand 
 copies; the German monthly, called Armen 
 Seelen Freund, has a circulation of nine thou- 
 sand ; and the English monthly, Mount Angel 
 Magazine, has a circulation of six thousand. 
 The New College is of dark gray stone, and is 
 most imposing from an architectural standpoint. 
 The membership of the college has increased from 
 one hundred to one hundred and sixty-five dur- 
 ing the present administration, and it is supposed 
 that the new building will permit of an attend- 
 ance of two hundred and forty. Its estimated 
 cost is about $80,000. In connection with the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 college there is a separate building 120x60 feet, 
 ground dimensions, which will be used for a 
 gymnasium. 
 
 In 1903 a stone structure, a seminary wing, 
 was added to the building, 88x50 feet dimensions, 
 four stories and basement, containing a dining 
 hall accommodating two hundred and seventy 
 people and comfortable quarters for forty sem- 
 inarians, besides a novitiate for candidates to the 
 Benedictine Order, monastery library for ten 
 thousand volumes, and private rooms for phil- 
 osophers and theologians, and the chapel has been 
 re-arranged, the present building used for the 
 sanctuary, and an auditorium added. By the 
 time this book is completed, Mount Angel will 
 have taken on a new dignity, and will have ad- 
 vanced from a priory to an abbey. 
 
 WILLIAM FAULL. As "great oaks from 
 little acorns grow " so character comes up from 
 the seed sown in the days of hardships and trials, 
 which does not bend or daunt the brave heart, 
 nor dim the eyes of hope. Upon such a char- 
 acter fell the early burdens of William Faull, 
 one of the most prominent men of Dallas, Ore. 
 Growing into manhood without the guidance of 
 a father, whose care he scarcely remembered to 
 have ever had, he formed his own ideas of man- 
 liness and success and his subsequent life has 
 proven them unusually happy ones. 
 
 His father, Richard Faull, a native of Corn- 
 wall, England, emigrated to America with his 
 family in 1847, settling near Hazel Green, in 
 Grant county, Wis., where he engaged in lead 
 mining. But not experiencing from his work 
 the desired returns, he decided to try his for- 
 tunes in the mines of California. Sailing from 
 Xew York in 185 1, he reached Panama, and 
 crossing the isthmus, took passage for San Fran- 
 cisco, which city he was destined never to see, 
 for he died on board the ship, leaving the loved 
 ones back in the Wisconsin country alone. The 
 mother, Elizabeth (Rodgers) Faull, also of Corn- 
 wall, England, continued to live in that state for 
 some time, with her six children about her. 
 Later in life she removed to Lemars, Iowa, where 
 she remained up to the time of her death in 1893. 
 
 William was the fourth of the six children, 
 and was born September 19, 1847, near Benton, 
 LaFayette county, Wis. His education was ob- 
 tained in the district schools, under very great 
 difficulties, as. he was compelled to help in the 
 support of the family at the age of ten years, 
 receiving for his work ten and fifteen cents per 
 day. As he advanced in years his wages in- 
 creased proportionately, and at thirteen he was 
 making $6 per month and later being the proud 
 recipient of $15 for the same length of time. 
 During the war, he received very good returns 
 
 for his work, as men were scarce. When twenty 
 years old he took up his father's occupation, that 
 of coal and lead mining, remaining at it for four 
 years, when he removed to Plymouth county, 
 Iowa, where he took up a homestead claim of 
 eighty acres. After nine years of improving and 
 farming this property, Mr. Faull followed the 
 example of his father which had ended so disas- 
 trously but which has been productive of such 
 good results in his case. Coming west in 1880, 
 he settled in Polk county, Ore., where he carried 
 on farming for four years. At the close of this 
 time, he bought the store of J. B. Chambers in 
 Dallas, and with F. E. Chambers as a partner, 
 he commenced his mercantile life. For one year 
 the two remained together, then Mr. Chambers 
 retired, H. B. Cosper taking his place. This 
 partnership continued for another year, when 
 Mr. Faull bought out the other's interest, taking 
 entire control of the business. With only a 
 small stock at the beginning, he has added to it 
 until it has increased in value ten times over, 
 having put up in 1892, a large, brick building, 
 34x112 feet, and two stories in height. The 
 first floor is devoted to a hardware stock and 
 house furnishings, the second, to farming imple- 
 ments, being also a tin-shop. His business un- 
 questionably leads the hardware interests in Polk 
 county. In 1892 he also built a warehouse for 
 agricultural implements, the building being 35X 
 65 feet. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Faull was married in Wisconsin 
 to Miss M. J. Kinney, born in Lake George, N. 
 Y. Though very much interested in his business 
 he has still found time to be active in politics, 
 being a very strong Republican and a firm advo- 
 cate of the tariff reform. Fraternally, he is a 
 member of Jennings Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. 
 M., and Ains worth Lodge No. 17, R. A. M. 
 
 BAZZEL W. COOPER. When fourteen 
 years of age Bazzel W. Cooper made the jour- 
 ney into the west, the memory of which is indel- 
 ibly impressed upon his mind, he being then old 
 enough to appreciate the trials and dangers, and 
 withal the pleasurable excitement, of such a 
 trip. He was born in Indiana, October 3, 1833, 
 and while still very young his parents removed 
 to Illinois and located near Rushville, Schuyler 
 county, where they made their home until 1847. 
 In that year his father, Samuel Cooper, outfitted 
 with four wagons with four yoke of oxen each, 
 and with his family of six sons and two 
 daughters, he started across the plains in the 
 spring, and seven months later they arrived at 
 The Dalles, Ore. From that city they came down 
 the river on rafts to Oregon City, Clackamas 
 count\ r , in which county they spent their first 
 winter in the west. In the spring of 1848 Mr. 
 
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 Cooper came to Linn county and located a dona- 
 tion claim one and one-half miles from the San- 
 tiam river, three miles from Lebanon, consisting 
 of six hundred and forty acres of land, upon 
 which he erected for the shelter of his family, 
 a hewed log house. In the spring of 1849 ne 
 went with pack horses to the gold fields of Cali- 
 fornia, where he remained for a few months. 
 The death of Mr. Cooper occurred in 1883, when 
 he was seventy-seven years of age. He was a 
 member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years Bazzel W. Cooper 
 decided upon independent action for himself, and 
 going to California he combined the interests of 
 mining and disposing of cattle which he drove 
 from Oregon into the southern state. He con- 
 tinued this latter occupation for two years, meet- 
 ing with a success which is evidenced by the 
 property which he now owns in Linn county. 
 In 1855 he removed to the farm upon which he 
 now lives, and which is located eleven miles south 
 of Albany. He owns six hundred acres alto- 
 gether, one hundred and seventy-nine acres being 
 a part of his father's original claim, and that 
 where he now lives is what he himself took up. 
 He is now lucratively engaged in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Cooper occurred in 1855, 
 and united him with Miss Sarah Humphreys, 
 and the four children who have blessed their 
 union, James Franklin, Thomas B., Josephine, 
 the wife of Richard Anderson, and Samuel C, 
 are all located in the neighborhood of their 
 father's farm. In his political affiliation Mr. 
 Cooper adheres to the principles of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and through this influence has served 
 as county commissioner of Linn county for four 
 years. Fraternally he has been a Mason for over 
 twenty-five years and a member of the Lebanon 
 Lodge, and also belongs to the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen at Albany. 
 
 REV. P. PLACIDUS, O. S. B. Not the least 
 of the agencies that have assisted materially 
 in the development of a new country has been the 
 priesthood of all denominations, but especially 
 those of the Catholic Church. Their names have 
 always been written high in the annals of a new 
 country, as they are among the first to offer 
 themselves to a worthy cause, and there is every 
 indication that their good work will go on, the 
 brightest and best among their faith offered for 
 a life of self-sacrifice. 
 
 One of the most finely educated men of the 
 west, who has given his talents and energies to 
 this cause, devoting his life to this service with 
 the good cheer and courage which characterizes 
 his every action, is Rev. P. Placidus, O. S. B., 
 who was born in Saxony, Germany, June 8, 
 
 1868. He spent the years of his childhood in 
 that country and in Switzerland, in the latter 
 studying in the motherhouse of the Bene- 
 dictine Fathers. In 1882 he came to the United 
 States, going at once to Mt. Angel College, and 
 and remained there for nine years, at the close of 
 which he was ordained. The ensuing year he 
 spent in Washington, completing his education 
 in the Catholic University of America. 
 
 In 1893 Father Placidus was assigned to Mt. 
 Angel College, and after eight years he took 
 charge of the parish of Mt. Angel, which had 
 been established in 1881 by Father Odermat, 
 under Archbishop Seghers. At that time the 
 parish was very small, and it was only the sub- 
 lime faith that goes hand in hand with the work 
 of such men that could predict a future for it 
 like that which he has realized. There are now 
 one hundred and sixty families belonging to the 
 parish, and their liberality has lately been shown 
 by the instalment in the church of a new altar, 
 said to be the finest in the state. The church 
 itself is a frame structure, well built and is pleas- 
 antly located on College street, near the center of 
 the city. 
 
 The duties of Father Placidus are numerous 
 and arduous but he gives to the discharge of 
 each that earnestness and faithfulness which 
 have brought to him his merited success thus 
 early in life. In the Mt. Angel College he is a 
 teacher of physics, chemistry, and instrumental 
 music, the latter duty being an exceedingly pleas- 
 ant one, as his talent for music is exceptional, 
 and he is never so happy as when an avenue is 
 opened by which he can give it expression. He 
 organized the Mt. Angel band, which has twenty 
 instruments, and now serves as director, also 
 taking an interest in the choral and dramatic 
 societies. He is spiritual director of the Catholic 
 Order of Foresters and the Society of St. Joseph, 
 and it was chiefly through his efforts that the 
 building of the latter was completed in 1901. 
 Father Placidus has been instrumental in bring- 
 ing about many improvements in this western 
 city, and his efforts have been highly appreciated 
 by fellow-citizens, his splendid personality bring- 
 ing to his side many stanch friends and true 
 adherents. 
 
 HERMAN W. BARR, doctor of optics, is 
 well known as a leading optician and jeweler of 
 Salem, as a man of good business ability, as a 
 citizen of worth, and a gentleman who in social 
 life commands good will and confidence. A num- 
 ber of years ago he established his present busi- 
 ness and has since been a factor in -this line of 
 trade, so that to-day he is enjoying enviable pros- 
 perity as the direct result of keen enterprise and 
 discrimination in business affairs. A native of 
 
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 DeWitt, Clinton county, Iowa, lie was born July 
 3, 1869, and comes of German ancestry. His 
 father, John G. Barr, was born in the black for- 
 ests of Baden, Germany, and in early life learned 
 the trade of clock and watch-making and was en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of the cuckoo and 
 " grandfather " clocks. Attracted by the oppor- 
 tunities of the new world he came to the United 
 States when seventeen years of age, first locat- 
 ing in Wheeling, W. Ya. He afterward removed 
 to Wapakoneta, Ohio, where he established a 
 jewelry store in 1853. Two years later he went 
 to DeWitt, Iowa, where he was in business for 
 thirty years and was the oldest jeweler of Clin- 
 ton county. In 1885 he came to Salem, where he 
 opened a jewelry store, and here he died Septem- 
 ber 13, 1899, at the age of sixty-seven years. In 
 his business career he ever sustained an unassail- 
 able reputation because of the honorable policy 
 which he inaugurated, and his perseverance and 
 well-directed labor were the means of bringing 
 to him a gratifying competence. He married 
 Miss Louisa Margaret Stenger, who was born in 
 Germany, a daughter of Sebastian Stenger, who 
 was a miller by trade, and on coming from the 
 fatherland to the new world took up his abode 
 in Ohio, where he spent his remaining days. 
 His daughter, Mrs. Barr, is still living at the 
 age of sixty-seven years. In the family of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Barr were thirteen children, of whom 
 ten, seven sons and three daughters, are yet liv- 
 ing, and three of the sons are jewelers, having 
 thus followed in the business footsteps of their 
 father. The family record is as follows : M. 
 ieresa Schoettle is practicing osteopathv in 
 Salem and is represented on another page of this 
 work: John H. is a jewelry manufacturer of 
 Kansas City, Mo. ; Mrs. Carrie F. Petzel is a 
 resident of Salem ; Theodore M. is a tinner and 
 plumber of Salem ; Herman W. is the subject of 
 this review ; George J. is connected with his 
 brother Theodore in business ; Frank J.. is a grad- 
 uate of the American School of Osteopathv in 
 Kirksville, Mo., and is now practicing in Salem; 
 Leo C. is connected with the Barr jewelrv store 
 of this city ; Raymond is a priest of the Bene- 
 dictine Order at Mount Angel ; and Annie M. 
 is also a graduated osteopathist and is engaged 
 in practice in this city. 
 
 Herman W. Barr spent the first sixteen years 
 of his life in the state of his nativitv and pur- 
 sued his education in St. Ambrose College in 
 Davenport, Iowa, until the removal of the family 
 to Oregon in 1885. Here he entered the public 
 schools. In 1886 he became interested in the 
 jewelry business and under the direction of his 
 father became familiar with the trade in its 
 various departments. In 1890 he went to Kan- 
 sas City, Mo., and completed the trade under the 
 direction of his brother and after about a year 
 
 he again joined his father in Salem. In 1893, 
 however, he once more went to Kansas City, 
 working at the jewelry business with his brother 
 and later he was with his father until he went to 
 Chicago, 111., to pursue a course in the Chicago 
 Ophthalmic College. He was graduated from 
 that institution in 1898 with the degree of Doctor 
 of Optics and later completed a course in the 
 South Bend College of Optics. He has studied 
 broadly and deeply in order to master the prin- 
 ciples of the profession and he is to-day one of 
 the most skilled opticians of the northwest. In 
 1899, upon his father's death, he became manager 
 of the Barr Jewelry Store and since that time has 
 largely increased the business, and in order to 
 meet the growing demands of the trade has 
 doubled the stock. The business is twofold what 
 it was when he assumed control of the store and 
 the optical business has increased five hundred 
 per cent. This certainly speaks well for the man- 
 agement, enterprise and progressive methods of 
 Mr. Barr, who is a farsighted, wideawake busi- 
 ness man, carrying forward to successful com- 
 pletion whatever he undertakes and brooking no 
 obstacles that can be overcome by honorable 
 effort. 
 
 In this city was celebrated the marriage of 
 Herman W. Barr and Miss Winifred O. Fennell, 
 who was born in Kansas and they have one child, 
 John G. In social circles of this city they are 
 widely and favorably known and the hospitality 
 of their own home makes it a favorite resort with 
 their many friends. Mr. Barr is connected with 
 the Greater Salem Commercial Club and is serv- 
 ing on some of its important committees. He 
 is also a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. 
 With a nature that could never content itself 
 with mediocrity he has labored for advance in 
 the line of his profession and with equal ardor he 
 took up the work of managing the Barr store 
 and conducting the business which was estab- 
 lished by his father. The consensus of public 
 opinion accords him a prominent place in the 
 ranks of Salem's leading business men of marked 
 ability and strong purpose. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM GALLOWAY. The Gal- 
 loway family came from Scotland, the first of the 
 name to cross the ocean having been the great- 
 grandfather of William Galloway. Next in line 
 of descent was William, a Virginian by birth, a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war and a planter 
 by occupation. The father, Charles, was also 
 born in the Old Dominion, and removed to Ill- 
 inois, from there to Missouri, thence to Iowa 
 county, Wis., where he worked in the lead mines 
 and followed farming. He served in the Black 
 Hawk war under Governor Dodge. In 1852, 
 accompanied by his wife and eight children, he 
 
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 crossed the plains from Wisconsin, the journey 
 with ox-teams consuming seven months. Dur- 
 ing the course of this journey one child died on 
 the plains and a brother-in-law, Capt. J. R. 
 Wiley, died of cholera on the Platte river. 
 
 On making settlement in Yamhill county, Ore., 
 Charles Galloway selected a donation claim near 
 Amity, and on this farm he made his home and 
 engaged in its improvement. Politically he was 
 an old-time Democrat. His death occurred in Sep- 
 tember of 1884, and during the same month his 
 wife, Mary, also passed away. She was a native 
 of Ireland, and daughter of Terrence Heeney, 
 for vears a resident of New York City, where 
 he died. In the family of Charles Galloway 
 there were eleven children, all but two of whom 
 attained mature years. Three sons and three 
 daughters are now living, William being the 
 youngest of the sons. He was born near Dodge- 
 ville. Wis., June 10, 1845, and accompanied the 
 family to Oregon in 1852, after which he attended 
 the public schools and Willamette University. 
 In 1868 he was graduated from the latter insti- 
 tution with the degree of B. S. Following his 
 school course he taught in Yamhill county several 
 years and then began the study of law, later en- 
 gaging in farming. Since 1892 he has been in- 
 terested in horticulture, owning an eighty-acre 
 orchard near McMinnville. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Galloway, in Yamhill 
 county, united him with Emma Baker, of Revo- 
 lutionary ancestry, who was born in Dodge 
 countv, Wis., December 28, 185 1. After the 
 death" of her father, Varranus Baker, her mother 
 and family accompanied her uncle, Thomas M. 
 Bennett, across the plains to Oregon in 1865. 
 She is an active member of the Order of Re- 
 bekas and the Woman's Relief Corps, having 
 been department president of the latter organi- 
 zation in 1901-2, and was also a member of the 
 National Executive Board. Their family consists 
 of three children: Zilpha V., who has been for 
 seven years a clerk in the Oregon City Land Of- 
 fice; Charles V., a graduate of the University of 
 Oregon and at present the youngest member of 
 the state legislature ; and Francis V., a freshman 
 in the State University. 
 
 The Democratic party has had one of its stanch 
 upholders in William Galloway, and he in turn 
 has been honored by it in being selected to occupy 
 positions of trust and honor. In 1874 he was 
 elected to the lower house of the legislature and 
 four years later he was again elected to that posi- 
 tion, where he served as chairman of the com- 
 mittee on ways and means; again in 1880 he was 
 elected to the same office. During all of these 
 terms he was earnest in the support of all meas- 
 ures for the benefit of the people and the de- 
 velopment of the state, which it was his pride 
 to see growing into one of the important common- 
 
 wealths of our nation. From 1890 to 1894 he 
 served as judge of Yamhill county. At the ex- 
 piration of the term he was the candidate on the 
 Democratic ticket for the office of governor, his 
 opponents being Lord, Republican ; and Pierce, 
 Populist: Under President Cleveland, in Febru- 
 ary of 1896, he was appointed receiver of the 
 United States land office at Oregon City, in which 
 he has served under three presidents. On his retire- 
 ment from office, July 16, 1902, he turned his 
 attention to the practice of law in Oregon City, 
 although he still maintains his legal residence at 
 McMinnville, Yamhill county. The district of 
 which he had charge, as receiver, comprises the 
 counties of Linn, Benton, Lincoln, Tillamook, 
 Polk, Marion, Clackamas, Yamhill, Columbia, 
 Clatsop and Multnomah. He has been admitted 
 to practice in the state and federal courts. Mr. 
 Galloway has ever taken an active part in agri- 
 culture ; is a life member of the Oregon Horti- 
 cultural Society being a director for many years, 
 and serving as a member of the State Board of 
 Agriculture from its organization until 1897, 
 having served as president of the board for three 
 terms. He is a life member of the Oregon His- 
 torical Society and president of the Oregon Pio- 
 neer Association. The subject of this sketch has 
 ever taken a great interest in the welfare of our 
 dependent soldiers ; took an active interest in the 
 creating of the Soldiers' Home at Roseberg and 
 served two terms as member of the board, re- 
 luctantly declining reappointment owing to other 
 official duties. He is an enthusiastic Odd Fellow 
 and a member of the United Artisans. 
 
 HENRY L. HAGEY, a native son of Oregon, 
 was born August 8, 1855, of eastern parents, his 
 father, Levi Hagey, having come from Iowa in 
 1847, locating near Dundee, this state. Here 
 he took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres and quickly proved his right to be 
 numbered among the men who were to give to 
 Oregon her statehood, by hewing out a pathway 
 through her dense forests and spreading out like 
 an unrolled map, the broad meadows and fer- 
 tile fields. On this farm he engaged exten- 
 sively in the -raising of poultry, having in his 
 great barnyards the most valuable fowls, and 
 finding in the city of Portland a ready market 
 for his produce. Mr. Hagey is now living in 
 McMinnville, being retired from the active 
 cares of life. His wife, Elizabeth Hagey, who 
 shared the trials and dangers and loneliness 
 of his early life, was also of eastern birth, 
 having come with him on that long, hard jour- 
 ney across the plains, proving herself a loyal 
 helpmeet and a brave pioneer. In their west- 
 ern home she passed away, leaving husband 
 
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 and nine children, four sons and five daugh- 
 ters. Henry L. being next to the youngest. 
 
 In the common schools of Oregon he re- 
 ceived a limited education, attending but little, 
 being prevented by the many difficulties at- 
 tendant upon the educational efforts of the 
 early settlers. He had been well and easily 
 educated, however, in that which lay nearest 
 at hand and he became, under his father's 
 instruction, another of the successful farmers 
 of Oregon. Through his own efforts he 
 bought fifty-eight acres of land, following this 
 purchase with a later one of sixty-five. In 
 addition to this his father gave him fifty-eight 
 acres, making a large farm which he has well 
 improved and cultivated, carrying on at pres- 
 ent general farming. Mr. Hagey married a 
 daughter of Oregon, Miss Bertha A. Brutcher, 
 her father being Sebastian Brutcher, a native 
 of Germany who emigrated many years be- 
 fore, settling on a farm in this state. Mrs. 
 Hagey 's death occurred in 1899. 
 
 Mr. Hagey interests himself in public af- 
 fairs, being a Democrat as to his political in- 
 clinations, and though not aspiring to political 
 honors, still does his duty as a member of his 
 community, serving at the present time as 
 road supervisor. He is fraternally connected 
 with the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 HYNSON SMYTH. Among those who have 
 enriched the prospects of Oregon, and established 
 a lien upon the gratitude of later comers to Lane 
 county is Hynson Smyth, a resume of whose 
 life must necessarily interest not only the well- 
 to-do, but those who are traveling the up-hill 
 and sometimes discouraging path of life. In the 
 rather hard and exacting days of his youth it is 
 doubtful if this honored pioneer saw so far ahead 
 as his present prosperous condition, and there 
 must be a world of satisfaction in the fact that 
 his five hundred acres of prairie and eight hun- 
 dred acres of mountain land are his because he 
 has never been afraid to work, and never resorted 
 to other than legitimate and upright methods of 
 conducting his affairs. 
 
 Of southern ancestry, Mr. Smyth was born in 
 Highland county, Ohio, December 26, 1827, his 
 father, Thomas, having been born in Virginia in 
 1 79 1, and his mother, Hannah (Comegys) in the 
 same state in 1798. The parents were married 
 in Virginia in 181 5 and the following year moved 
 to Highland county, Ohio, which continued to 
 be their home until 1832. Their next home was 
 in St. Charles county. Mo., where the father 
 rented a farm, and passed the remainder of his 
 life, dying in 1833, and his wife died forty-eight 
 hours later. These old people were most happily 
 mated, their married life proving an unusually 
 60 
 
 happy one, and it seemed eminently fitting that 
 when one died the other should so soon follow. 
 They were the parents of tour daughters and 
 three sons, Hynson being next to the youngest. 
 George C, another son, came to Oregon in 1853, 
 bringing with him his wife and family of six 
 children, and settling on a claim in Lane county. 
 While in the Stein mountains in 1878, himself 
 and oldest son were killed by the Indians, leaving 
 two disconsolate families to mourn the loss of 
 a devoted father and promising son. 
 
 Six years old when his father died, Hynson 
 went to live with an uncle until he was twelve 
 years old. He then spent three years in the In- 
 dian territory (now Kansas). In 1846 he went 
 to Grant county. By this time he was a well de- 
 veloped and rugged youth. He then went back 
 to Missouri and in 1850 made the trip across the 
 plains from Lincoln county, Mo., and met with 
 no serious trouble with the Indians. In partner- 
 ship with Alexander Stewart he bought a wagon 
 and three yoke of oxen, and succeeded in accom- 
 plishing the long distance in about six months. 
 After spending the fall in Portland Mr. Smyth 
 moved to Polk county and raised a large crop of 
 grain, which he cut with a cradle and tramped 
 out with horses. This primitive but nevertheless 
 successful undertaking netted him quite a sum 
 of money, and that fall he went to Missouri via 
 the Isthmus of Panama, sailing from San Fran- 
 cisco, and spending forty-eight days on the water 
 before reaching Central America. By water he 
 reached New Orleans after another long trip, 
 and from there came on to Missouri, up the Mis- 
 sissippi river. January 13, 1853 ne was united 
 in marriage with Martha Cranshaw. He then 
 rented a farm for one year in Lincoln county and 
 in the spring of 1854 again started across the 
 plains, this time with a four-horse team. The 
 team proving not as reliable as oxen, Mr. Smyth 
 purchased two yoke of oxen, the stronger animals 
 bearing the strain of continuous travel with more 
 fortitude. Being perfectly familiar with the 
 country, Mr. Smyth was not at a loss to know 
 where to locate, so came at once to his present 
 farm of three hundred and twenty acres, having 
 added to that from time to time until he now 
 owns thirteen hundred acres. Stock-raising and 
 farming have been conducted on a large scale, 
 Mr. Smvth giving preference to the latter depart- 
 ment of farm activity, in which he has been 
 unusually successful. His improvements are 
 modern, his home, barns, outhouses and fences 
 in good condition, and over all is an appearance 
 of solidity and prosperity not surpassed by any 
 who have lent their brain and heart and ability 
 to the upbuilding of this section. Mr. Smyth is 
 a Democrat in politics, and in religion is a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church. Of the eight chil- 
 dren born into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smvth, 
 
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 Susan A. is the wife of Milton Robinson; Mar- 
 garet is the wife of H. B. Dunlap ; George N., 
 Nancy and Hannah are deceased; Thomas J. is 
 at home ; William H., of Lake Creek ; and Martha 
 E. is deceased. All the children grew to years 
 of maturity. Mr. Smyth is one of the very sub- 
 stantial and reliable men of Lane county, and 
 none more than he deserves the respect and con- 
 fidence of a thriving and prosperous county. 
 
 BERNHARD GROTH. Among the families 
 of Dundee, Ore., there is one that knows no rela- 
 tives within a distance of many thousand miles, 
 being emigrants from Germany, leaving all but 
 their immediate loved ones in that faraway land. 
 One of the finest homes and several of the most 
 important industries of Dundee are now repre- 
 sented by this family, and the uninterrupted good 
 fortune that has attended them in their new life 
 has made these years very happy ones. 
 
 Bernhard Groth was born September 21, 1855, 
 in Hamburg, Germany, the son and grandson of 
 two Fritz Groths, the grandfather being a sea- 
 captain, who after many years spent in this life 
 met his death by the wrecking of his ship on the 
 Isle of St. Thomas. The second Fritz, his son, 
 was also born in Hamburg, Germany, and lived 
 there for the sixty-six years of his life, a tanner 
 by trade, ending his years at the age of sixty- 
 six years, a fairly rich man. His wife was 
 Johanna, born in Hamburg, and living at the 
 present time in that city. Five children were 
 born to them, three sons and two daughters, the 
 oldest being Bernhard. 
 
 Bernhard Grotb received his education in the 
 common schools of Germany and at a youthful 
 age he was apprenticed to a machinist to learn 
 that trade. For several years thereafter he 
 worked for the government in the shipyards of 
 Hamburg and Kiel, giving this up in 1882 to seek 
 new employment in the United States. On ar- 
 riving, he went at once with his family to Wis- 
 consin, locating near Ashland, where he took up 
 a homestead claim, putting upon it the necessary 
 improvements. For ten years he held the posi- 
 tion of engineer in a saw-mill, putting to profit 
 the early years of preparation in the fatherland. 
 In 1892, however, with ambition greater than 
 his opportunity, he decided to try his fortunes 
 among the limitless advantages of the west. On 
 arriving in Oregon, Mr. Groth located at Dun- 
 dee, investing in a small place of only three and 
 a half acres, intending to strike out for better 
 profit than those to be found in farming. Upon 
 this land he erected several buildings, one to be 
 used for prune-drying, another as a hardware 
 store, and in conjunction with this he runs a 
 smithy and tinning shop, and his home is an 
 honor to Dundee. He takes a very prominent 
 
 part in the affairs of his adopted city, accepting 
 at the hands of his Democratic brethren various 
 offices, being at one time a member of the city 
 council, and at present holding the position of 
 city treasurer. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Woodmen of the World, and religiously he 
 is a member of the Lutheran Church. 
 
 Mr. Groth was married in Germany to Miss 
 Sophia Bock, who was also a native of that coun- 
 try, her father, Karl Bock, being a successful 
 farmer who passed all the years of his life there. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Groth were born ten children, 
 whose names in order of birth are as follows : 
 Fritz, Karl, Bernhard, Reinhard, Paul, Claus, 
 Martha, Mrs. A. Parrott of Dundee, Ella, Sophia 
 and Hans. 
 
 WERNER BREYMAN. It was a heroic 
 band of pioneers who came to Oregon when 
 this state was yet a wilderness, and, establish- 
 ing their homes in the wild region, undertook 
 the task of making the plain productive, of de- 
 veloping the rich mineral resources of the 
 state, of utilizing its forests and establishing 
 commercial and industrial enterprises. Among 
 those who arrived and settled in Yamhill 
 county, in 1850, was Werner Breyman, who 
 was born and grew to young manhood in Bock- 
 enem, Hanover, Germany. His father, Fritz 
 Breyman, a lieutenant in the Hanoverian army, 
 fought under Wellington and was wounded in 
 the famous battle of Waterloo, receiving a 
 medal in after years for his valorous services. 
 
 In 1846 Werner Breyman came to America 
 with a sister and brother, who were the first 
 of the name to cross the Atlantic. He took up 
 his abode in Milwaukee, Wis., where he was 
 employed as a clerk until 1850, when, attracted 
 by the discovery of gold upon the Pacific coast, 
 he started for this portion of the country, trav- 
 eling with horse and mule teams, accompanied 
 by five young men. Mr. Breyman went to St. 
 Louis, there purchased provisions and pro- 
 ceeded by boat to St. Joseph, Mo., where he 
 remained for four weeks, awaiting the arrival of 
 his comrades. On May 3, 1850, at that point 
 they crossed the Missouri river, proceeded up 
 the Platte river, and thence westward, intending 
 to spend the winter in Oregon and proceed in 
 the spring to California. At Fort Hall they de- 
 cided to leave their wagons and pack what they 
 could across the mountains, leaving the balance, 
 in order to make better time ; but instead of 
 finding this course a help, it proved to be a hind- 
 rance, for they ran out of provisions and were 
 almost starved. They could get neither flour 
 nor bacon at Fort Boise — in fact, could obtain 
 nothing there save dried salmon skin, and on 
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 they were twice attacked by the Indians, but 
 managed to drive them away, and on October 6 
 they arrived in Oregon — and it was in March 
 that Mr. Breyman left his Wisconsin home. 
 
 Locating at Lafayette he began working 
 there for wages. In 185 1 he established the 
 Lafayette House, continuing in the hotel busi- 
 ness for a year. In 1852 he opened a general 
 merchandise store in Lafayette, conducting it 
 for ten years. He later became proprietor, 
 also, of the first store in Amity, and his 
 brother, Eugene, who came to Oregon in 1855, 
 across the Isthmus, became his partner in 1856. 
 The firm name of Breyman Brothers was as- 
 sumed at Amity. In 1864 both stores were dis- 
 posed of, and the brothers, under the firm style 
 of Breyman Brothers, began business as gen- 
 eral merchants in Salem. They built "The 
 White Corner'' building, and called their store 
 the White Corner Store. In 1874 they added to 
 the original building, and have since made 
 other improvements. There now stands on the 
 site a fine two-story structure, 42x90 feet, 
 which is still owned by Breyman Brothers. They 
 sold their stock, however, in 1881, and since 
 that time Werner Breyman has been engaged 
 in the loan and similar business. Many years 
 ago, when much of the land of the state was in 
 its wild condition, he purchased large tracts, 
 improved it and engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising. He made it valuable property, and is 
 still the owner of eight hundred and thirty-five 
 acres near Lafayette, Yamhill county. He also 
 owns farms in Marion county, and he and his 
 brother purchased and laid out the Rosedale 
 addition to Salem, of seventy acres. They also 
 own several other additions, including an addi- 
 tion, Plainfield to Portland, Ore., and one 
 known as Boise Addition to Portland, Ore. 
 Their investments have been carefully and 
 wisely made, and as the land has increased in 
 value, owing to improvement and to the rapid 
 development of the state, the brothers have 
 realized from their property excellent financial 
 returns. 
 
 Werner Breyman was married in Lafayette, 
 Ore., to Miss Isabella Watt, a native of Mis- 
 souri, and a daughter of John AVatt, who came 
 to Oregon in 1848 and located a donation claim, 
 including the present site of Amity. His son, 
 Joseph Watt, established the Salem Woolen 
 mills. Air. and Mrs. Breyman passed through 
 the early hard times in Oregon and have reared 
 a large family. Owing to the careful manage- 
 ment of Mrs. Breyman in matters of the house- 
 hold, and the enterprise of Mr. Breyman in 
 the business world, their united efforts have re- 
 sulted in the acquirement of a handsome prop- 
 erty, numbering them among the substantial 
 citizens of Salem. In 1896 they made a trip to 
 
 Europe, visiting many points of modern and 
 historic interest there, and also paying a visit 
 to his old home town. They went to Italy, 
 Switzerland, Austria, France, the Netherlands 
 and Great Britain, and after a six-months trip 
 abroad, returned by way of London to Amer- 
 ica. Of their children John and Carl died in 
 childhood, and Othelia and Jennie are also de- 
 ceased. The three surviving members of the 
 family are Anna, the wife of Rudolph Prael, of 
 Portland; Elva, the wife of William Brown, of 
 Salem, and Ada, the wife of William Eldredge, 
 who is in the commissary department of the 
 United States army at Manila. 
 
 Since the organization of the Republican 
 party Mr. Breyman has been one of its strong 
 advocates. For one term he served in the 
 Salem city council, while for eight years he 
 was county treasurer of Yamhill county, hav- 
 ing been elected to that office without his so- 
 licitation. He was made a Mason in Lafayette 
 Lodge, A. F. & A .M., in 1853, and is now affil- 
 iated with Salem Lodge No. 4. He also holds 
 membership in the Oregon Pioneer Associa- 
 tion, the Oregon Historical Society, and is the 
 vice-president of the Illihee Club. His long 
 residence and the character and extent of his 
 business interests have made him widely 
 known, while the essential elements of his 
 character are such as to have won him the 
 favor and friendship of many with whom he 
 has been brought in contact. 
 
 JOHN B. DAVID is a contractor and sur- 
 veyor whose labors in the northwest have re- 
 sulted largely in the benefit and development of 
 this portion of the country. There is no other 
 agency so potent in opening up a region and 
 advancing its industrial and commercial pros- 
 perity as railroad building. Railroads have been 
 the means of bringing to communities commodi- 
 ties not produced there,- and of placing the pro- 
 ductions of the locality upon the markets of the 
 world. This is the basis of all business activity 
 and the railroad builders certainly are deserving 
 of the recognition of the public for what they 
 have accomplished. 
 
 Mr. David has been a resident of Oregon since 
 1867 an d is a native of the Mississippi valley, 
 his birth having occurred in Richland county, 
 111., September 5, 1841. His father, Alexander 
 F. David, was born in Center county, Pa., and be- 
 came connected with general mercantile interests 
 in that state. When a young man, however, he 
 removed to Richland county, 111., and in 1847 
 took up his abode in Winnebago, Oshkosh 
 county, Wis. There he engaged in general mer- 
 chandising, becoming an active factor in the busi- 
 ness life of his community. Fie also rendered to 
 
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 his county valuable service in the position of 
 sheriff, and when the country needed the aid of 
 her loyal citizens he offered his services in 1862 
 and became captain of Company B, Third Wis- 
 consin Cavalry, under Colonel Hobart. The regi- 
 ment was assigned to the army of the Missouri 
 and Mr. David proved a loyal officer, inspiring 
 his men to deeds of valor by his own bravery. 
 Following the war he came to the northwest, 
 settling in Clark county, Wash., in 1867. He 
 purchased three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land, ten miles west of Vancouver, and there 
 carried on agricultural pursuits until his death. 
 He masried Rebecca Galesbey, a native of Ken- 
 tucky and a daughter of Aaron Galesbey, who 
 was also born in Kentucky and owned a planta- 
 tion about six miles from Frankfort. He died at 
 the age of seventy-nine years. Unto Mr. and 
 Mrs. David were born seven sons and two daugh- 
 ters. 
 
 John B. David, the eldest of the family, began 
 his education in the public schools and after- 
 ward attended Lawrence University of Wiscon- 
 sin. He, too, was numbered among the defend- 
 ers of the Union during the dark days of the 
 Civil war, enlisting in Company E, Second Wis- 
 consin Infantry, in which he became first duty 
 sergeant. This regiment was assigned to the 
 army of the Potomac and he participated in the 
 first battle of Bull Run, in the bloody battle of 
 Antietam and in the engagements at Freder- 
 icksburg, Second Bull Run, Manassas, Gettys- 
 burg, South Mountain, Gainesville, Blackburn 
 Ford and others. He never missed a roll call 
 until captured at Gettysburg. He was then taken 
 to the Belle Island prison, was afterward two or 
 three months in Andersonville, the whole period 
 of his incarceration covering seventeen months 
 and twenty days. Mr. David had not yet at- 
 tained his majority when he joined the army, 
 but for three years he valiantly aided his country, 
 never failing in the performance of his duty, 
 whether it led him to the lonely picket line or 
 to the firing line. In April, 1864, at Madison, 
 Wis., he was honorably discharged and then re- 
 turned to his home. 
 
 After two years Mr. David came to Oregon, 
 locating in Oregon City in 1867. Here he en- 
 tered the employ of the government as a sur- 
 veyor, and in the same year was engaged in the 
 construction of the Portland railroad. He was 
 also the builder of the Oregon Northern Rail- 
 road from Pendleton to Huntington, Ore., and 
 took the contract for the construction of_ the 
 Palmer cut-off in Washington, He has also done 
 much important work of a similar character, and 
 he took and executed the contract for the build- 
 ing of a dike for the United States government 
 at the mouth of the Columbia river. Mr. David 
 has a thorough understanding of the great sci- 
 
 entific principles which underlie such constructive 
 work, and the labors executed by him and those 
 whom he has employed have given excellent sat- 
 isfaction, for he stands high as a representative 
 of this great department of business. In 1880 he 
 purchased three hundred and forty-seven acres 
 of valuable land, of which one hundred and sixty 
 acres are under cultivation and the remainder 
 is devoted to pasturage or is covered with tim- 
 ber. His farm is pleasantly and conveniently lo- 
 cated two miles north of Spring Brook, Ore., 
 and it is called " David's on the Mountain." It 
 commands a wonderful panoramic view of the 
 valley and the mountains, and is itself situated 
 on the mountain side overlooking the beautiful 
 Chehalem valley. As the roads wind around, 
 making a gradual ascent, the eye looks upon the 
 lovely scenery which cannot be surpassed for 
 diversity, beauty and grandeur. 
 
 Mr. David was married in Oregon City to 
 Miss Juliet Saffarrans, who was born there and 
 is a daughter of Dr. Henry Saffarrans, a native 
 of Kentucky, who removed with his parents to 
 Howard county, Mo., and was there educated. 
 He prepared for the practice of medicine, was 
 graduated with the degree of M. D., and in 1844 
 came to Oregon. He located as Indian agent 
 at The Dalles and was there at the time of the 
 Whitman Massacre, but with his family he made 
 his escape upon a flat-boat down the river to 
 Portland and thence traveled to southern Ore- 
 gon, but on account of the hostility of the In- 
 dians in that portion of the state he returned 
 to Oregon City, where he entered upon the prac- 
 tice of medicine, which he followed with success 
 in that place for ten or twelve years, at the end 
 of which time his life's labors were closed in 
 death. He was not only a skilled physician, but 
 was also a prominent and influential man in his 
 community, and wielded a wide influence in pub- 
 lic affairs. The home of Mr. and Mrs. David 
 has been blessed with five children : Laurena 
 Mabel ; Hallie V., the wife of Frank E. Hobson, 
 a mining engineer of Sumpter, Ore. ; Melvin 
 Henry and Roy Lee, who are managing their 
 father's farm, and which they have developed 
 into a very fine place, and where they have re- 
 cently opened up a good dairy business ; and 
 Onie Isabella. 
 
 Mr. David belongs to Multnomah Lodge No. 
 1, F. & A. M., at Oregon City, and is one of the 
 leading representatives of the Republican party 
 in this locality. He frequently serves as a dele- 
 gate to county, state and national conventions, 
 and was a delegate to the national Republican 
 convention in Cincinnati when Rutherford B. 
 Hayes was nominated for the presidency. Mr. 
 David is a man of fine physique, being six feet 
 and two inches in height and well proportioned. 
 He has a face denoting strong character and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 manly purpose, and during the thirty-six years 
 of his residence in Oregon his labors have been 
 directed towards securing the greatest good to 
 the greatest number. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY DOWNING. That sat- 
 isfaction which a man feels who can stand out- 
 side his doorway and calmly survey a sweeping 
 tract of land, knowing that its cultivation and 
 disposition are entirely within his control, and 
 diat upon its good or bad management depends 
 his subsequent welfare and that of his family, 
 must often occur to William Henry Downing, 
 who is managing two farms in Marion county, 
 aggregating in all between eight and nine hun- 
 dred acres. This fine property is located two 
 and a half miles from Sublimity, and its fertile 
 acres are devoted to general farming in the 
 main, and to extensive stock-raising, Cotswold 
 sheep bringing in the largest yearly revenue. 
 That a great deal can be accomplished on so 
 large an acreage is self-evident, and 1 that Mr. 
 Downing taxes to the utmost the possibilities 
 of the land, getting the best possible results out 
 of it, is acknowledged by all who are familiar 
 with his shrewd business judgment and prac- 
 tical farming methods. 
 
 As a barefooted boy Mr. Downing trudged 
 around the farm upon which he now lives, and 
 during the long winter evenings he used to sit 
 around the fire in the near-by house, where he 
 was born May 7, 1858. More fortunate than 
 most of the youth of his neighborhood, he was 
 not only able to complete his education in the 
 public schools, but at the age of eighteen entered 
 Willamette University, remaining for three years. 
 At the age of twenty-one he purchased a farm 
 of eighty acres adjoining the old homestead, 
 and to this he added at a later period one hun- 
 dred acres, in time bringing his property under 
 a high state of cultivation. He built a fine 
 home, had ample general improvements, mod- 
 ern implements, and all things prized by the 
 enterprising and progressive agriculturist, and 
 remained on his farm until 1892. About this 
 time he thought he would like a change of occu- 
 pation, so moved into Salem and engaged in 
 the real estate business for about four years. 
 During the last two years of his residence there 
 he conducted the Club livery stable, but dis- 
 posed of it on returning to the home farm in 
 1897, thereafter assuming charge of the two 
 properties. 
 
 January 20. 1881, Mr. Downing married Hen- 
 rietta McKinney. of which union there were born 
 two children, Ilene Bernice, deceased at the age 
 of eighteen months, and Elmer, now a student 
 at a private school in Salem. Mrs. Downing 
 died February 20, 1884, and June 30, 1886, Mr. 
 
 Downing married Delia H. Bower. Two chil- 
 dren were born of this union, Mabel Maud and 
 George Preston. February 17, 1900, his second 
 wife was taken from him by death, and March 
 11, 1903, he was united in marriage with Miss 
 Augusta Newton, of Salem, and the daughter 
 of Nathan Newton, now residing in Seattle, 
 Wash. 
 
 Politically Mr. Downing is a Democrat, but 
 aside from the formality of casting his vote he 
 has never identified himself with local or other 
 political undertakings, though he has always done 
 his duty as a citizen by acting as school clerk 
 for three years, previous to which he had served 
 as school director for many years. Fraternally 
 he is a welcome visitor at several lodges in 
 which the county abounds, among them being 
 Santiam Lodge No. 25, Ancient Free and Accept- 
 ed Masons, -of Stayton ; the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, at Salem; Woodmen of the 
 World, of Salem, of which lodge he is a charter 
 member; Modern Woodmen of America, at 
 Salem; and the Grange at Macleay. In all of 
 these lodges he has held high office. In religion 
 he is a member of the Christian Church organ- 
 ized October 18, 1900, in this locality, he being 
 one of the organizers, and is clerk and treasurer 
 of the society which worships in the Rock Point 
 schoolhouse. As a loyal and patriotic citizen he 
 served for three years in Company A, Second 
 Regiment Oregon National Guard, located at 
 Whiteaker, and was discharged as corporal. Pro- 
 gressive and enterprising, Mr. Downing is a na- 
 tive son of whom his country is justly proud. 
 He is possessed of strict integrity, a genial and 
 agreeable personality, and devotion to friends 
 and interests at hand, and one can readily un- 
 derstand his extreme popularity in the neighbor- 
 hood. 
 
 F. M. LEWIS. A worthy representative of 
 a pioneer family whose strong, earnest living 
 has done much for the early growth and up- 
 building of this western state is F. M. Lewis, 
 who was born in Polk county, Ore., upon the 
 location of his present home, this being a part of 
 the old donation claim taken up by his father 
 in 1846. The day upon which he first saw the 
 light of life was February 5, 1847, an d he was one 
 of a family of twelve children, whose parents 
 were David R. Lewis, born near Louisville, 
 Franklin county, Ky., in 181 3, and Mary (Red- 
 den) Lewis, also a native of that state, born in 
 1812. For more information concerning this 
 family refer to the sketch of David W. Lewis, 
 the brother of Mr. Lewis of this review. 
 
 The early education of F. M. Lewis was 
 received in a log schoolhouse, located upon the 
 present site of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 
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 of Lewisville, and when his school days were 
 over he engaged in farming with his father. In 
 1859, when twelve years old, he went into a 
 logging camp, working for his father in his 
 sawmill, which was located in township 9, range 
 6 west. He continued at this work for six 
 years, and at that time sold his interest and 
 returned to agricultural pursuits, now owning 
 one hundred and seventy acres, eighty acres of 
 which are under cultivation, this land being a 
 part of the old donation claim, which he took 
 upon the division of the land. He carries on 
 general farming and the raising of goats and 
 sheep, having registered Angora goats and Cots- 
 wold sheep, and meeting with gratifying suc- 
 cess in this occupation. 
 
 The marriage ceremony which united the for- 
 tunes of F. M. Lewis and Flora McLeod, was 
 performed in 1869. She is a native' of Oregon, 
 having been born May 13, 1850, near Forest 
 Grove, Washington county, where her father, 
 Donald McLeod, had taken up a donation land 
 claim. He had come west in the interests of the 
 Hudson Bay Company, and had been engaged 
 on the Columbia river. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 
 are the parents of one child, Orpha Icadean, 
 who is now the wife of Henry Mattison, located 
 near Independence. Both himself and wife are 
 supporters of the Christian Church at Mon- 
 mouth. Politically Mr. Lewis adheres to the 
 principles advocated in the platform of the 
 Democratic party. He has served as school 
 director for several years. 
 
 RICHARD J. GRANT is recalled as a man 
 of more than ordinary ability and resourceful- 
 ness, of great capacity for painstaking and in- 
 defatigable industry. From a comparatively 
 small beginning he started to farm and raise 
 stock, and at the time of his death, April 24, 
 1 89 1, he left an unincumbered estate of five hun- 
 dred acres. A native of La Fayette county, Mo., 
 he was born December 26, 1825, a son of Rich- 
 ard Grant, who was born in Tennessee, and 
 died in Daviess county, Mo., in 1857, at the 
 age of sixty-five years. He had eleven chil- 
 dren in his family, several of whom were born 
 in Tennessee, and he took his family to La 
 Fayette county, Mo., at a very early day. 
 
 In his youth Mr. Grant had the training at home 
 and in the public schools of the average country- 
 reared boy, and he married, May 17, 1846, 
 Sarah J. Williams, who survives him, and is 
 living on the home farm in Benton county, Ore. 
 Miss Williams was born in Kentucky, December 
 2, 1826, where her father, John A. Williams, 
 owned a large farm in Morgan county, and 
 where he was born January 25, 1805. Mr. Will- 
 iams died on a farm bordering on the Luckia- 
 
 mute river in Polk county, Ore., in 1885. His 
 wife, formerly Nancy B. Jameson, was born in 
 Montgomery county, Ky., March 5, 1806, and 
 died December 5, i860, on the Columbia slough 
 in Multnomah county, Ore. Twelve children 
 were born of this union, eight of whom were 
 daughters, Mrs. Grant being the third child. 
 The latter grew to womanhood on the farm in 
 Daviess county, and there met her future hus- 
 band, whose father's farm was ten miles distant 
 from her home. After the marriage the young 
 people lived with the parents of Mr. Grant, and 
 in 1852 made preparation to cross the plains, 
 making the start April 24, and arriving at The 
 Dalles, October 23, of the same year. At first 
 they had fourteen yoke of oxen, but the hard- 
 ships of the overland trip caused all but two 
 yoke to succumb. Three light-hearted children 
 had been added to the family in Daviess county, 
 Mo., and were members of the home-seeking 
 party, but Nancy Melvina, five months and ten 
 days old, died on Snake river August 22, and 
 was left in a little wayside grave. 
 
 In the fall that he arrived in the west Mr. 
 Grant took up a donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres, the same comprising a portion 
 of the property now occupied by his widow, and 
 proceeded to improve and cultivate it. He took 
 a prominent part in political and other affairs 
 of his county, and was elected to the legislature 
 from Polk county on the Democratic ticket in 
 1868, '70-'78, holding also nearly all the local 
 offices of his township. He was a member of 
 Mono Grange, of Lewisville, and was otherwise 
 identified with social and business concerns in 
 his county. Of his five hundred acres of land, 
 his widow owns three hundred and twenty acres, 
 while the balance is owned by his son, James. 
 Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grant, 
 of whom Mary Ellen, born August 27, 1847, is 
 the wife of T. O. Bevens, of this vicinity ; Nancy 
 M., born March 12, 1849, died on the plains; 
 David A., born January 16, 1851, is deceased, 
 James M., born December 24, 1852, lives with 
 his mother and manages the farm ; and Gilbert 
 M., born October 27, 1859, is deceased. To an 
 exceptional degree Mr. Grant enjoyed the con- 
 fidence of his associates in Polk county, and in 
 all ways he contributed to the stability and well- 
 being of the fertile region he had chosen as the 
 scene of his life's work. 
 
 DAVID W. LEWIS. Prominent both as a 
 representative of two sturdy pioneers of the 
 early days and for his own success in the indus- 
 trial and farming circles of Polk county, David 
 W.. Lewis occupies an enviable place in the 
 esteem of the citizens of this section of the 
 county. The name descended to him from a 
 
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 pioneer father has been perpetuated in its use 
 to designate the town of Lewisville, old settlers 
 recalling die days when no town was known, 
 and when the two Lewises, father and grand- 
 father of David \\\, occupied the east and west 
 sides of the main road passing through the 
 place, each holding and planning to improve a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres. 
 
 The grandfather, John Lewis, was born in 
 Virginia, and on attaining manhood he made 
 his home in Kentucky, where David R., the 
 father of David W. Lewis, was born. David 
 R. there married Mary Redden, also a native of 
 that state, and in 1845, both families outfitted 
 for the trip across the plains, joining with their 
 ox-teams the emigrant train, under the com- 
 mand of Captain English. Six months of the 
 year was taken up by the journey, and on 
 reaching Oregon, the heads of both families 
 took up claims after passing the first winter in 
 Polk count} - . The claims were located on the 
 road which now runs north and south through 
 Lewisville, the grandfather on the we^t side 
 and the father on the east. They at once 
 moved their families on the respective claims 
 and engaged in farming, and there the elder 
 Mr. Lewis died in 1851, having been a resident 
 of the west but six years. His son then bought 
 the adjoining claim. In the early life upon his 
 farm he sawed lumber in the hills, a part of 
 which was brought to the present location of 
 Lewisville and used in the erection of the first 
 house in that town. His death occurred in 
 1895, in Salem, and his wife died in 1897, on the 
 home place. There were five hundred acres left 
 of the original land owned by Mr. Lewis. 
 
 Of the twelve children born to his parents, 
 four sons and eight daughters, David W. was 
 the fifth, and was born in Franklin county, Mo., 
 January 8, 1845, i n the same year being taken 
 from his home in the Mississippi valley to the 
 new home which was to be made among the 
 primitive surroundings of the Pacific slope. His 
 early education was received in the little log 
 schoolhouse near Lewisville, and when the 
 course was completed he was apprenticed to 
 learn the trade of a blacksmith. In the year 
 1866 he went to California and engaged in the 
 prosecution of his trade in Bakerville, Salina 
 county, but returned in 1868 to Polk county, 
 and opened up the same business in Lewisville, 
 where he continued successfully for ten years. 
 At the close of that period he received from his 
 father his present farm, to which he at once 
 removed and prepared to engage once more in 
 the work to which he had early been trained. 
 He now owns two hundred and forty acres, one 
 hundred of which is timberland. He carries on 
 general farming and goat-raising, having from 
 
 seventy-five to one hundred and fifty head at 
 all times. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Lewis occurred in 1870, 
 and united him with Susan Williams, who was 
 born in Polk county, Ore., November 6, 1854. 
 She was the daughter of J. J. Williams, a resi- 
 dent of Dallas, having crossed the plains in 1846 
 and located near Airlie. They are now the 
 parents of the following children : Ida, now the 
 wife of L. R. Grant, of Lewisville ; Nevada, the 
 wife of D. A. Madison, of Dallas ; Claude, at 
 home; Josie, the wife of John Brinkley, of 
 Boise City ; James L., of Pendleton, Ore. ; 
 Percy, of Salem ; . Leota, at home. Politically 
 Mr. Lewis is a Democrat. In religion he is a 
 member of the Christian Church at Monmouth. 
 
 WILLIAM BARCLAY, the father of Mrs. 
 Andrew Rickard, was born in Missouri in 1805, 
 his parents having settled there at a very early 
 day. As the name indicates, the ancestors were 
 Scotch, and in fact the father and mother of 
 William were both born in Scotland, locating first 
 in North Carolina, after immigrating to the 
 United States. 
 
 As a young man William Barclay followed 
 surveying and school teaching, having profited 
 by a common school education. He remained at 
 home until his marriage to Mary Ann Brown, 
 a native of Tennessee, and thereafter located on 
 a farm, where he lived for several years. Of 
 an ambitious nature, and not entirely satisfied 
 with his surroundings, he sold his farm and made 
 arrangements to settle in the far west, purchasing 
 the necessary oxen and wagons. All went well 
 until arriving at South Platte, Col., where Mrs. 
 Barclay sickened and died of cholera, leaving 
 seven children to the care of her sorrowing hus- 
 band. Leaving the best friend they had in the 
 world in a lonely wayside grave, the party pro- 
 ceeded on their way, and without any further 
 misfortune arrived at their destination in Yam- 
 hill county. In the spring of 185 1 Mr. Barclay 
 came to Benton county and took up a donation 
 claim of a half section twelve and a half miles 
 south of Corvallis, where he farmed with consid- 
 erable success until his death, at the age of eighty- 
 three years. His original purchase by no means 
 constituted his entire land holdings, for as his 
 farming and stock-raising interests enlarged more 
 land was required, and he left a large and well 
 equipped estate to his heirs. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Barclay never 
 worked for his own advancement, although he 
 served as justice of the peace for several years, 
 and also was a member of the school board. He 
 was liberal in his tendencies, very progressive 
 in his manner of thought, and possessed a world 
 of tactful consideration for those with whom he 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 had to deal. Naturally he was popular and in- 
 fluential, and in his life work represented the 
 best to be gotten out of farming. Of the chil- 
 dren born to himself and wife, Robert S. is in 
 Lincoln county; Mary E. is the widow of A. 
 Rickard ; James, a farmer in Alsea county ; Mar- 
 garet, the wife of Thomas Hinton, of this vicin- 
 ity ; Winnie, the wife of William Levaugh, of 
 Linn county ; and William, on the old homestead. 
 
 IRVING E. GLEASON. The year 1851 
 marked the advent of Irving E. Gleason in the 
 state of Oregon, and here his life from that time 
 forward has been spent, not idly or indifferently, 
 however, but with the determination to win a 
 foothold in this new western country. He was 
 born in Ripley county, Ind., November 10, 1834, 
 the son of Parson Gleason, who was born in 
 Connecticut in 1799. The latter's parents were 
 farmers bv occupation and their son assisted 
 them in the care of the home farm until reaching 
 his twenty-first year, when he went to Indiana. 
 It was in the latter state that he married Mrs. 
 Bevins, whose maiden name was Mary Ann 
 Smith, a native of Vermont. A few years later 
 the grandparents also went to Indiana, whither 
 their son had gone, but before long they again 
 changed their location, going to Minnesota, and 
 it was there they spent the remainder of their 
 lives, both living to be over eighty years of age. 
 
 Parson Gleason remained a resident of Indi- 
 ana until 1 85 1, when he outfitted for the trip to 
 Oregon. The journey lasted four months, and 
 as compared with the majority of the expeditions 
 made at that time was a very peaceful one, the 
 Indians giving them no trouble whatever. It 
 was near Needy, Clackamas county, that the 
 travelers made settlement, Mr. Gleason taking up 
 a donation claim upon which he and his wife 
 s pent four years, and the remainder of their 
 lives was passed on another farm which they 
 purchased in the same county. Mr. Gleason 
 himself living to reach the advanced age _ of 
 ninety years and six months, and his wife living 
 to be eighty-five years of age. Throughout their 
 lives they had followed general farming and 
 dairying. Of their six children, three are de- 
 ceased, and those living besides Irvin E. are 
 Aaron B. and Amos S., both of whom are resi- 
 dents of Hubbard, Ore. 
 
 At the time of the removal of the parents to 
 Oregon, Irving E. Gleason was seventeen years 
 of age, and in the meantime had acquired a good 
 education in the district schools of Indiana. He 
 remained at home with his parents until he 
 enlisted in Company C, First Oregon Mounted 
 Volunteers for service in the Yakima war in 
 1855, being mustered in at Portland. After a 
 service of forty-two days, during which time he 
 
 participated in one severe fight with the Indians, 
 at Yakima, he was mustered out near The Dalles, 
 and, returning home, remained with his parents 
 and helped them in carrying on the farm until 
 his twenty-first year. At this age, however, he 
 assumed entire charge of his father's donation 
 claim, and a few years later, in 1859, was united 
 in marriage with Miss Melissa Coy, a native of 
 Missouri, who crossed the plains to California 
 in 1850, coming to Oregon in 185 1. The first 
 two years of their married life the young people 
 made their home on the old home place, but at 
 that time they removed to Marion county, mak- 
 ing that their home until 1865. After a res- 
 idence of two years in Yamhill county they moved 
 back to Marion county, remaining until 1887, 
 when they went to Philomath, where for two 
 years Mr. Gleason carried on a general store. 
 Farming was more agreeable to his taste, how- 
 ever, and upon retiring from mercantile life he 
 bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 eight and one-half miles from Philomath in a 
 southerly direction, and not far from Fern, and 
 here is to be seen one of the finest rural residences 
 in the vicinitv. Besides the two-story frame 
 residence, the place is embellished with other 
 good buildings, being up-to-date in every re- 
 spect. Since his first purchase of one hundred 
 and sixty acres in Benton county he has 
 purchased other land from time to time, and now 
 has four hundred and thirty acres of timber land. 
 Mr. Gleason's son conducts a steam sawmill on 
 his father's farm, doing considerable business 
 in this department. 
 
 Seven children were born to Mr. and ■ Mrs. 
 Gleason, the three eldest of whom, Ira I., Mary 
 A. and Marietta, are deceased, as is also Parson, 
 who was next to the youngest, and who was 
 named for his grandfather. Mary Ellen became 
 the wife of John C. Perrin and resides in Bell- 
 fountain ; Isora Eva is the wife of A. Mercer, 
 and they reside in Monroe; Ulysses S. is at 
 home. For six years Mr. Gleason served as 
 justice of the peace in Clackamas and Marion 
 counties. Politically he votes for the candidates 
 of the Republican party, and in religious matters 
 affiliates with the United Brethren Church. Mr. 
 Gleason manifests a keen interest in the public 
 welfare, and may be counted upon to take his 
 part in every worthy enterprise promulgated in 
 the neighborhood. 
 
 JESSE BROWN. Ten miles south of Cor- 
 vailis is the farm of Jesse Brown, a model of 
 agricultural neatness, and the former playground 
 of that well known member of racing society, 
 Pathmark, whose pedigree is of the best, and 
 whose record is 2:11^. Other valuable and 
 reputable thoroughbreds have reached maturity 
 

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 1311 
 
 under the watchful eye of Mr. Brown, who appre- 
 ciates the fine points of a horse as well as any- 
 one in the business, and who also has a warm 
 place in his heart for this best friend of man. 
 Other than horses profit by the comfort and care 
 to be found on the Brown farm, for the owner 
 has a variety of stock, much of it registered and 
 very valuable. General farming is engaged in 
 on an extensive scale, and the majority of the two 
 hundred and fifty acres comprising the farm are 
 under cultivation. Fertile and conveniently lo- 
 cated, this has been the home of the family since 
 1882, and the genial and successful manager and 
 owner has in the meantime acquired an enviable 
 reputation as farmer, stock-raiser and all-around 
 substantial member of the community. 
 
 At a very early day G. W. Brown, the father 
 of Jesse, moved from Bourbon county, Ky., where 
 he was born April 28, 181 7, to Pike county, Mo., 
 where his parents settled on a farm upon which 
 he grew to maturity, and where he was educated 
 in the public schools. In time he married Martha 
 A. Todd, also a native of Bourbon county, and 
 who was born in 1822. A number of children 
 were born in Missouri, among them Jesse, the 
 date of whose birth was December 7, 1843. The 
 parents sold their farm in Pike county and pre- 
 pared to cross the plains in 1850, outfitted with 
 ox-teams and wagons, and with every care for 
 the welfare of the homeseekers. However, they 
 were destined to want for provisions and other- 
 wise suffer the deprivations of the long jaunt, but 
 the government came happily to the rescue, and 
 supplied the necessities of life. They were seven 
 months on the way, most of the family having to 
 walk the entire way, which delay probably ac- 
 counted for their unfortunate condition. Mr. 
 Brown took up a donation claim twelve miles 
 north of Corvallis, on Soap creek, where the 
 father died at the age of seventy-six, the 
 mother having preceded him at the age of forty- 
 six. The following of their twelve children are 
 living: Elizabeth, the widow of James Jones, of 
 Polk county; C. J., of Benton county; Jesse; 
 Walter, of Linn county ; Frank and Joseph, of 
 Polk county ; and Lee, of Wells station. 
 
 After a youth spent in hard work on the pa- 
 ternal farm, Jesse Brown started out on his own 
 responsibility, and located on a farm on Soap 
 creek. To this new home went the wife whom 
 he married January 25, 1866, when he was 
 twenty-three years old, and who was formerly 
 Erne E. Modie, born in Missouri, February 25, 
 1850. The young, people lived on the creek farm 
 for about three years, and then went to southern 
 Oregon, where Mr. Brown engaged in stock- 
 raising with but moderate success for about a 
 year. In 1882 he came to his present farm, as 
 heretofore stated, and has since made this his 
 home, and the field of his successful and varied 
 
 operations. The following children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown: Walter A., of 
 Denver, Col. ; Milton, of Texas ; Frank, living 
 on the home farm; Dolly, at home; Ella; Ida; 
 Gertrude; and Adelia. Mr. Brown is a Democrat 
 in politics, but has never devoted any time to 
 hunting for office. He is a quiet, unostentatious 
 man, fond of his home and loyal to his friends, 
 and never wearies of improving the conditions 
 among - which his lot is cast. 
 
 JAMES ADDISON BUSHNELL. Prosper- 
 ity has followed closely the operations of James 
 A. Bushnell, the result of honest, patient and 
 earnest effort toward the fulfillment of the prom- 
 ise which is the heritage of all men born in this 
 bountiful land, but comes only to those who seek 
 it with an undivided attention. With the excep- 
 tion of but a few months Mr. Bushnell has been 
 a resident of Oregon since 1852. He located 
 first near Junction City, where he remained for 
 many years, when in 1875 he removed into the 
 city and has since been a citizen of inestimable 
 worth, taking an active part in many movements 
 calculated to advance the best interests of the 
 city. Among the more important movements with 
 which he has been connected was the building of 
 the Junction City Hotel, he being now the presi- 
 dent of the company, whose property is valued at 
 $28,000. He is serving as president of the Farm- 
 ers and Merchants Bank, a private institution, 
 with a capital of $50,000 and surplus of $3,000; 
 he built the Junction City Water Works at a 
 cost of $3,000, and now owns them ; and also 
 owns four hundred and fifty acres of farming 
 land located along the river, this being now 
 rented. 
 
 James A. Bushnell was born in Cattaraugus 
 county, N. Y., July 27, 1826, his father being 
 Daniel Bushnell, a native of Middlesex countv, 
 Conn. After his marriage he located, in 1810, in 
 New York, as a pioneer farmer of Cattaraugus 
 county, and later he removed to Pennsylvania. 
 Two years afterward he became a resident of 
 Ohio, continuing his agricultural pursuits in Ash- 
 tabula county. He died in 1844 in Harrison 
 county, Ohio. He was the descendant of an old 
 Connecticut family, his father, who was born 
 there, also following the employment of a farmer. 
 His wife was formerly Ursula Pratt, a native of 
 Saybrook, Conn., and the daughter of Ozias 
 Pratt, a native of the same state. He was a sea- 
 faring man and also conducted a farm, and his 
 death occurred there at quite an advanced age. 
 He was of English extraction. Of the six sons 
 and three daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. Bush- 
 nell, die sixth child was James A. He remained 
 at home with his parents until attaining his ma- 
 joritv, when he learned the cooper's trade, work- 
 
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 ing in Hannibal, Mo. In 1849 ne married and 
 settled on a farm in Adair county, Mo., where 
 he remained three years, at the expiration of this 
 time deciding to join the westward movement 
 with the hope of bettering the condition of his 
 family. Three young men, Timothy Halstead, 
 Alexander Nesbit and Mr. Bushnell, set out for 
 Oregon in the spring of the year, with ox-teams, 
 and on arriving at their destination they went on 
 down to California, spending the first winter in 
 Shasta county, where they engaged in mining. 
 The success of Mr. Bushnell was only moderate, 
 so he decided to return to his home in Missouri. 
 He set sail from San Francisco July 4, 1853, and 
 reached the Missouri valley only to find the home 
 empty and the family gone to meet him in Ore- 
 gon. He thereupon returned to Oregon via the 
 Isthmus and in Springfield, Lane county, he was 
 once more reunited with his loved ones. Mr. 
 Bushnell then took up a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres located six miles south 
 of Junction City, upon which he remained until 
 1868, when he bought another farm of eight hun- 
 dred acres on the west side of the Willamette 
 river, the greater part of this land being still in 
 his possession. In 1875 Mr. Bushnell built a 
 warehouse at Junction City, and entered ex- 
 tensively into the grain business. This he has 
 since continued to carry on, handling the greater 
 part of the grain which came into the city. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Bushnell was formerly Eliza- 
 beth C. Adkins, a native of Adair county, Mo., 
 the ceremony which united them being performed 
 in Adair county. She died in Junction City, in 
 1868, the mother of eight children, the two living 
 being Lucy J., now the wife of William M. Pit- 
 ney, a farmer in this vicinity, and Helen V., wife 
 of C. J. Ehrman, of Menan, Idaho. Mr. Bush- 
 nell was married the second time to Mrs. Sarah 
 E. Page, a native of Indiana, and the two chil- 
 dren are Henry C, of Junction City, and Myrtle 
 G., at home with her parents. As a Prohibition- 
 ist and active for the interests of his party Mr. 
 Bushnell has served for two terms as mayor 
 of Junction City, and as a member of the council 
 for many terms. He has also been the nominee 
 of the Prohibition party for county judge and 
 representative in the state legislature. Alway in- 
 terested in educational movements, he has served 
 as school director many years, and has contrib- 
 uted generously toward all school enterprises. 
 He was one of the founders of the Eugene Di- 
 vinity School, and is now acting as president of 
 its board of regents. The institution is supported 
 by the Christian Church, whose tenets are the 
 religious belief of Mr. Bushnell, in his own con- 
 gregation acting as elder, and it was largely 
 through his efforts that a church building was 
 erected in Junction City. For five years he has 
 been a member of the Oregon Christian Mission- 
 
 ary Convention, and during the past four years 
 has served as vice president of that body. To 
 this, as to all other worthy objects, Mr. Bushnell 
 gives liberally, and a debt of gratitude is owed 
 him by those who would have their city and com- 
 munity one of the first in this section, as to 
 financial and moral supremacy. 
 
 ANDREW RICKARD. By his many friends 
 and associates in Benton county Andrew Rickard 
 is recalled as a very popular and successful man, 
 and one who must have surveyed his sixty-three 
 years of existence with a great deal of satis- 
 faction. The farm now occupied by his widow, 
 three miles southeast of Monroe, and which was 
 occupied by him from i860 to the time of his 
 death, in 1893, is a constant reminder of his prac- 
 tical and businesslike methods, and of the shrewd 
 common sense which was the keynote to a self- 
 made and thoroughly worthy character. 
 
 On his father's farm in North Carolinaj where 
 he was born August 15, 1830, Mr. Rickard 
 was reared among the usual southern surround- 
 ings, and remained at home until his twenty- 
 third year. An opportunity offering to go the 
 far west, he joined a party bound for Oregon 
 with ox-teams and prairie schooners, and on the 
 way fortunately escaped serious trouble with the 
 Indians, cholera or mountain fever, or severe 
 deprivation incident to pioneer travel. His first 
 experience with land was decidedly unsatisfac- 
 tory, for after taking up a claim twelve miles 
 south of Corvallis, Ore., and improving it to 
 some extent, the government claimed and re- 
 deemed it, and he was no better off than when 
 he arrived from the east. In 1855 he made his 
 way to Josephine county, this state, and followed 
 mining and prospecting for five years, returning 
 afterward to Benton county, where, in 1861, he 
 married Mary E. Barclay, a native of Missouri, 
 and daughter of William Barclay, mention of 
 whom is made elsewhere in this work. The year 
 previous to his marriage Mr. Rickard had pur- 
 chased one hundred and sixty acres of the farm 
 now owned by his heirs, three miles southeast of 
 Monroe, and with his wife he settled thereon, 
 beginning at once to transform it into a valuable 
 and productive property. From time to time he 
 added to his land, and the farm at present is 
 composed of four hundred and ten acres. Mrs. 
 Rickard has proved a good manager since her 
 husband's death, and in this is ably assisted by 
 her son, Frank, one of the bright and promising 
 members of a thriving agricultural community. 
 
 Besides Frank, who is the seventh of the eight 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Rickard, there is 
 the eldest son, William, a farmer in Benton coun- 
 ty; Sarah E., the wife of John Conger, of Lane 
 county; Eliza J., the wife of James Traftzer, of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Linn county ; Nellie, the wife of William Drisco, 
 of Lane count}- ; Lucy, the wife of R. H. Hewitt, 
 of this vicinity ; George, living' near his mother ; 
 and Anna, the wife of George Waldron, of Lane 
 county. Air. Richard was a stanch Democrat in 
 political affiliation, and took a keen interest in the 
 political undertakings of his neighborhood. More 
 offices than he cared to fill were tendered him, 
 but he served acceptably as school director and 
 road supervisor. He exerted a moral and pro- 
 gressive influence in the community, and was 
 particularly devoted to advancing the interests 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he 
 was a member from earliest vouth. 
 
 GRANT ADELBERT COVELL, M. E. In 
 the college curriculum of today, no branch of 
 learning is of more consequence than that per- 
 taining to the mechanical arts, and that the 
 science may be of the highest practical benefit 
 to the student, it is absolutely necessary that the 
 head of the department of mechanics shall pos- 
 sess a master mind and intellect. In Prof. Grant 
 A. Covell the Oregon Agricultural College has 
 secured a person worthy in every respect to fill 
 the position which he there holds as professor 
 of mechanics and mechanical engineering, his 
 superior talents and scholarly attainments emi- 
 nently qualifying him for his important work. 
 
 The descendant of one of the earlier New 
 England families, Grant A. Covell was born 
 August 30, 1862, in Bradford county, Pa., a son 
 of Albert Covell. His grandfather, William 
 Covell, was born at Plattsburg, N. Y., but when 
 a young lad removed with his parents to Penn- 
 sylvania, and there spent his remaining years, 
 being a pioneer farmer of Bradford county. 
 Albert Covell has been a life-long resident of 
 Bradford county, Pa., where he is carrying on 
 general farming, including dairying and bee- 
 keeping, with excellent financial results. He is 
 the owner of several valuable farms, and resides 
 near the village of Bigpond. He is a man of 
 prominence, and is actively identified with the 
 Masonic order. He married Lavina Alfred, 
 who was born in Tioga county, Pa., of New 
 England ancestors, and six children have been 
 born of their union, five of whom survive, Grant 
 Adelbert, the special subject of this sketch, 
 being the first-born, and the only son. 
 
 Beginning his studies at the district school. 
 Grant A. Covell remained beneath the parental 
 roof-tree until seventeen years of age, when he 
 became a pupil at the high school in Troy, Pa., 
 from which he was graduated in 1883. Entering 
 Cornell University soon after, he completed the 
 required course of study in four years, receiving 
 his degree of M. E. in 1887, afterward remain- 
 ing there a year as instructor in the machine 
 
 shop. The following year he went to the Uni- 
 versity of Minnesota as an instructor, taking the 
 chair of mechanics and mechanical engineering 
 while Professor Barr was away on leave of ab- 
 sence, at the end of the year being offered a 
 position as instructor under Professor Barr. 
 Before the opening of the term in September, 
 1889, however, Professor Covell received his 
 appointment to the chair of mechanics and 
 mechanical engineering at the Oregon Agricult- 
 ural College, and has since held the position. 
 Under his wise supervision this department has 
 had a phenomenal growth. The mechanical 
 building in process of construction when he 
 came here, is now used as the blacksmith shop 
 and power house. With the means at his com- 
 mand, he fitted it up as best he could. As time 
 went on additions were made, and the shops were 
 fairly well equipped. In 1899 the °W building 
 burned, and the following year, 1900, Mechani- 
 cal Hall was built, a magnificent structure, with 
 finely equipped machine shops on the first floor, 
 where are also various recitation rooms, and 
 Professor Covell's office. In addition to having 
 charge of mechanical engineering, the professor 
 likewise supervises electrical engineering in the 
 college. 
 
 Professor Covell married in Corvallis, Mary 
 Spencer, who was born in England, but came 
 to this country when young, and was educated 
 in Ohio, at the Grand River Institute. Four 
 children have been born of their union, namely : 
 Spencer; Walter; Margaret; and Kenneth. 
 Politically the professor is a Republican, and 
 fraternally he is a member of Corvallis Lodge 
 No. 14, F. & A. M., of which he is past 
 master; and of the Sigma Psi Society at Cor- 
 nell University. Mrs. Covell is a member of the 
 Presbvterian Church. 
 
 ALFRED M. WITHAM. Continuously since 
 the fall of 1849 A. M. Witham has lived on his 
 present farm two miles from Corvallis, which 
 originally consisted of six hundred and forty 
 acres, but has since been enlarged to one thous- 
 and acres. Here he has carried on farming and 
 stock-raising all of these years, and has reared 
 noble and able-bodied sons to follow in his foot- 
 steps, and to share with him the possession of his 
 broad and valuable acres. The farm is all in one 
 body, and is among the valuable properties of 
 Benton county. 
 
 Mr. Witham is one of the very venerable resi- 
 dents of this community, having been born near 
 Liberty, Union county, Ind., September 18, 1821. 
 He was reared on a farm and allowed such edu- 
 cational chances as those early times afforded, 
 and in 1835 removed with his parents to Porter 
 county, of the same state, where he married, in 
 
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 1842, Rosanna Allen. In 1847 he prepared to 
 cross the plains with two wagons each having 
 three yoke of oxen, and four loose cows, and 
 came by way of Fort Hall, his brother, William, 
 also being a member of the party. In October, 
 1847, he landed in Corvallis, and spent the winter 
 in an empty cabin found on a claim four miles 
 south of Corvallis. In the spring of 1848 he 
 located a claim two miles from Philomath and 
 erected a log cabin, made fences, and cleared a 
 portion of the land, but was dissatisfied, so in the 
 spring of 1849 came to his present farm. When 
 he had first come to the county in 1849 tn i s 
 property had a small log house of one room and 
 ten acres plowed, but when he took possession 
 there were some improvements and three hundred 
 acres cleared. In the fall of 1849 he went to 
 California with John Onby and mined on the 
 middle fork of the American river, and when he 
 came back in the fall brought $1,100 with him. 
 This money went towards improvements on his 
 land, and paved the way for his future large 
 operations. At one time he owned eleven hun- 
 dred acres, but now has a thousand, and this 
 comprises all but fifty of the original claim. 
 Thirteen children have been born into his fam- 
 ily, and all have been reared to habits of thrift 
 and industry. Eight attained maturity. Of 
 these, Oliver lives on a farm four miles north of 
 Corvallis; Mary is the wife of D. M. Bradley 
 of Everett, Wash. ; Charles lives on a farm near 
 Monroe, Benton county; Fannie is the wife of 
 D. Baker of Seattle, Wash. ; Henry lives on the 
 home place; Edward is living on part of the 
 home place; Elvin is also helping to work the 
 home farm; and Olive is the wife of J. W. 
 Alkire of Mount Vernon, Wash. Mr. Wjtham 
 is a Republican in politics, and was active in the 
 early days of the state. In 1861-62 he was a 
 member of the legislature, and was re-elected in 
 1868 and 1874. While serving he represented 
 his constituents with great credit and satisfac- 
 faction. placing their needs and aspirations before 
 the body with convincing intelligence. For more 
 than thirty-three years he has been a member of 
 the Masonic order. He is highly respected by all 
 who have ever been associated with him, and 
 though now approaching the twilight of life 
 takes an active interest in the success of his sons, 
 and in all the interests of his home. 
 
 SAMUEL N. HOWARD. Among the sons 
 of Indiana who have made their way to Oregon 
 and have materially added to its development, is 
 Samuel N. Howard, representing the second 
 generation of his family in the west, and 
 the owner of a farm of three hundred acres 
 three miles north of Eugene. The namesake 
 of his father, who was born in Virginia, August 
 
 4, 1792, Mr. Howard is of English descent, and 
 possesses many of the sterling characteristics 
 of his worthy ancestors. The father, Samuel 
 Howard, was a farmer during his entire active 
 life, and as a young man removed to Ohio, and 
 there married Charlotte Yates, who was born 
 in Ohio, of German descent. The family subse- 
 quently removed to Henry county, Ind., where 
 the father bought a large farm, and where Sam- 
 uel N., was born October 26, 1839. Three years 
 later the family moved to Grundy county, Mo., 
 and after two years moved to Polk county, 
 near Des Moines, Iowa, where they lived until 
 1853. The father was ambitious, notwithstand- 
 ing the fact that he had long since passed the 
 half century mark, and in this he was seconded 
 by his children, of whom there were eight, 
 Samuel N. being the fourth, and at that time 
 twelve years of age. Outfitting with nine yoke 
 of oxen and three wagons, the party started for 
 Oregon and was six months on the way, and at 
 the end of their journey were the proud pos- 
 sessors of three yoke of oxen and one cow, two 
 of their wagons having been lost by the way- 
 side. The party was under command of Rev. 
 George Koger, and the travelers had little to 
 record of a disagreeable nature, the Indians 
 having kept to themselves, and the weather 
 having been fairly pleasant. Samuel Howard 
 took up a donation claim. of three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Junction City. His removal 
 to the west was well timed and wise as was 
 demonstrated in the following years, when his 
 crops multiplied, and success came to him. 
 Engaging in a large general farming enterprise, 
 he was obliged to have more than his original 
 purchase of land, and at the time of his death, 
 in May, 1872, owned seven hundred and ten 
 acres. 
 
 At the age of fourteen Samuel N. began to 
 work for wages, and early recognition of his 
 ability as a wage earner greatly encouraged him 
 to do his best. Practical and thrifty, he saved 
 his money and studied whenever opportunity 
 offered, for attendance at the public schools for 
 so busy a boy was at best irregular. He knew 
 that whatever he accomplished in life would be 
 due to his own energy, and he applied himself 
 to becoming a first class farmer, and broad- 
 minded citizen. In the fall of 1861 he went to 
 Wasco county, eastern Oregon, and engaged in 
 a stock business for about six years, during 
 that time continuing to save his money, and lay 
 by for a rainy day. Returning to Lane county, 
 in 1868, he took a drove of cattle across the 
 mountains to California, remained a year, and 
 then permanently took up his residence in Lane ■ 
 county, north of Irving. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Howard bought three hundred 
 
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 and twenty acres of land one mile north of 
 Irving, where he lived and conducted general 
 farming for six years, and then moved to his 
 present farm, three miles north of Eugene. 
 There are few farms in the neighborhood more 
 to be desired than this, for the owner has bent 
 <.very energy to produce the best possible results. 
 He has twenty-five acres of hops, and forty-five 
 acres of fruit, prunes and cherries predominat- 
 ing, to the extent of forty-five hundred trees. 
 The residence on his farm is large and commod- 
 ious, tbe barns modern and large enough for 
 grain and stock, and the general improvements 
 are in keeping with an up-to-date farming en- 
 terprise. A large share of Mr. Howard's suc- 
 cess he attributes to the assistance of a capable 
 and helpful wife, who is a native daughter of 
 Oregon. She was born in Marion county, April 
 14, 1856. Mrs. Howard was before her mar- 
 riage Cinderella Kays, daughter of John and 
 Frances Kays, and she is the mother of six 
 children of whom Emmett, the oldest son, fives 
 on an adjoining farm, while DeWitt C, Dolph, 
 Bessie, Jessie, and Xellie, are living at home. 
 Mr. Howard has subscribed to Republican prin- 
 ciples from the first of his voting days, and he 
 has held the offices of school director and road 
 supervisor. He has led a busy life, and while 
 amassing a competence has never overlooked 
 fair dealing, or consideration for the rights and 
 prerogatives of others. 
 
 CORXELIUS B. STARR. As one of the 
 substantial residents of the vicinity of Monroe, 
 Benton county. Mr. Starr occupies an enviable 
 place in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. 
 Coming to the state when a youth of fifteen years, 
 his life from that time forward has been passed 
 under Oregon skies, and that it has been well 
 and worthily spent a perusal of this short life 
 history will prove. 
 
 Cornelius B. Starr was born in Belmont coun- 
 ty. Ohio. August 11. 1838, but has no recollec- 
 tion of his birthplace, as his parents moved to 
 Iowa when he was only six months old. Moses 
 Starr, his father, was born June 22, 1787. in old 
 Virginia, but in an early day and when quite a 
 young man moved to Ohio, where he engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits. In his wife, who was Eliza- 
 beth Calhoun, also a native of the Old Dominion, 
 he had a wise counselor and true companion, 
 whose nobility of character was proverbial. From 
 1839 until 1853 the parental home was in Iowa, 
 the father following general fanning and also 
 acting in the capacity of sales agent, as his farm 
 duties permitted. The year 1853 was a memor- 
 able one to the Starr family, as it was April 4 of 
 that year that they started on the long and peril- 
 ous journey across the plains, ox and horse-teams 
 
 furnishing the motive power. When they reached 
 The Dalles the father was taken ill, and soon 
 after reaching Clackamas county his death oc- 
 curred. Saddened and bereaved though she was, 
 the mother courageously took his place at the 
 head of the little band and led them on to their 
 destination, and in Benton county, one and one- 
 half miles northwest of Monroe, took up a dona- 
 tion claim of one hundred and sixty acres. With 
 true pioneer instinct she set about to bring order 
 out of chaos, and her success was exemplified in 
 the fine improvements which from time to time 
 were made upon the tract. Her ability as a 
 physician was of an unusual order, and many a 
 sickroom was brightened and cheered by her 
 presence. Of the twelve children born to her, 
 five sons were ministers of the gospel, in this re- 
 spect following in the footsteps of their father, 
 who was a local preacher and class-leader. An- 
 other son, Samuel F., became the first sheriff of 
 Benton county. Mary J. became the wife of 
 James Campbell of Lane county ; Milton C. re- 
 sides in the vicinity of Monroe ; Elizabeth A. is 
 the widow of Jesse Hawley and resides in Grass 
 Valley : and Martin L. resides in Washington. 
 At the time of the father's death he was sixty- 
 six years of age, and the mother seventv-nine at 
 her demise. 
 
 Until twenty-four years of age. Cornelius Starr 
 remained at home, dutifully assisting his mother 
 in the care and maintenance of the farm. At this 
 age. however, he started out in a new line of en- 
 deavor, and in freighting goods to Jacksonville 
 met with considerable success. The Civil war 
 had been in progress for some time, and when no 
 longer able to resist the call for volunteers, he 
 laid aside personal considerations and enlisted as 
 a member of Company A. First Oregon Infantry, 
 and November 30. 1864. was mustered in at 
 Salem. From Vancouver, the first field of ac- 
 tion, the regiment went to Fort Vamhill, and 
 from there to eastern Oregon, thence went into 
 camp. After a service of nineteen months he 
 was mustered out at Fort Yamhill, from there 
 returning to his home and resuming the peaceful 
 life of the farmer. 
 
 The marriage of Cornelius B. Starr and Miss 
 Marv A. Howard was solemnized November 21. 
 1869. She was a native of Illinois and crossed 
 the plains with her parents in 1852. Mrs. Starr 
 is a daughter of Pontius P. and Sarah (Grimm) 
 Howard. The father was born in Wisconsin, 
 and came to Oregon in 1852. He now resides in 
 Washington, where he has lived for the past 
 twenty vears. He was in the Civil war. The 
 mother died May 17. 1901. She was the mother 
 of nine children, seven of whom are still living : 
 Albert of Washington : Alpheus of Benton coun- 
 tv. Mary A., now Mrs. Starr: Adelia. Mrs. Jo- 
 seph Baird; Oren, of Cottage Grove; Sarah E., 
 
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 now Mrs. George Ludwig; Maria, resides in 
 Monroe. On a claim adjoining the home of Mrs. 
 Starr's parents the young people began house- 
 keeping, making it their home for the following 
 eleven years. From there they went to Corvallis, 
 where Mr. Starr was engaged in the livery busi- 
 ness for four years. After a period of six months 
 spent in southern Oregon, he settled on the tract 
 of seven hundred and fifty acres which now 
 forms his home place. The place is embellished 
 with a commodious residence and convenient 
 barns and out-houses and, all in all, is one of the 
 model estates in the country roundabout. While 
 he carries on general farming to a certain extent, 
 Mr. Starr is more particularly interested in stock- 
 raising, his ranch being stocked with Shorthorn 
 and Polled Angus cattle. Four children blessed 
 the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Starr, as follows : 
 John EL, a resident of Junction City, and has one 
 child, Loris B. ; Sylva J., Artie B., and Mamie C, 
 the three latter at home with their parents. The 
 family are identified with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, in which Mr. Starr is serving as 
 trustee. Politically he upholds the tenets and 
 candidates of the Republican party. 
 
 LEVI P. TALLMAN. A youth developed in 
 a practical and kindly home atmosphere, a young 
 manhood tried by the deprivation and danger of 
 a Civil war service, and later years rounded out 
 in useful occupations in the far northwest, is the 
 life story of Levi P. Tallman, now living on a 
 little fruit farm of thirty acres two miles north 
 of Eugene. A pleasant recollection to Mr. Tall- 
 man is the fact that he is indebted solely to 
 his own efforts for his start and subsequent suc- 
 cess in life, and he is a stanch advocate of indus- 
 try and uprightness, aids which have been the 
 principal factors in his advancement. Born in 
 Huron county, Ohio, July 17, 1845, he is a son 
 of Timothy W. and Harriett (Palmer) Tall- 
 man, natives of New York state. The parents 
 were married in their native state, and soon 
 afterward removed to Huron county, Ohio, 
 where the father farmed and worked at his 
 trades as shoemaker and carpenter. He removed 
 with his family to Kent county, Mich., in 1853, 
 after a time settling in Grand Rapids where he 
 was earnestly and successfully plying his trade 
 at the time of his death at the age of seventy- 
 seven years. 
 
 Attaining maturity on the Kent county farm. 
 Levi P. Tallman had acquired a common school 
 education and a thorough knowledge of farm- 
 ing. The Civil war found him anxious and 
 ready to enlist as a private on September 3, 1864, 
 and he became a member of Battery D, First 
 Michigan Light Artillery, under Lieutenant 
 Pickett, and was sent to Tennessee to join the 
 
 command of General Van Cleave. He was not 
 privileged to participate in many of the im- 
 portant battles of the war owing to the lateness 
 of the enlistment, but he was at Stone River, 
 and afterward did garrison duty up to the time 
 of his discharge, July 4, 1865, at Murfreesboro, 
 Tenn. His service was marred by illness which 
 necessitated detention in Hospital No. 2, for 
 three months, after which he returned to Mich- 
 igan, and remained there until October 20, 1866. 
 While in the service Mr. Tallman met many 
 who had ambitions centering in the west, and 
 the continuation of a farming existence in Michi- 
 gan convinced him that he, too, might profit 
 by the chances held out to ambitious and de- 
 serving young men. Boarding a steamer at 
 New York he came to the coast by the way of 
 Panama and San Francisco, taking twenty-three 
 days for the trip, and remaining in San Jose, 
 Cal., for eleven years farming and fruit-raising. 
 Coming to Portland and later to Eugene in the 
 fall of 1877 he engaged in saw-milling for three 
 years on Long Tom creek, just west of the 
 town. In 1873 he married Mary J. Lake, who 
 died February 26, 1880, leaving two children, 
 of whom Lillian is a nurse in Oakland, Cal., 
 and Lewis A. is in Dawson City, Alaska. In 
 1886 Mr. Tallman was united in marriage 
 with Mary E. P. Phillips, a native of Tama 
 county, Iowa. He lived at Hale's Station for 
 six years, and in 1886 moved onto a claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres on the Siuslaw 
 river, where he kept a stage house and public 
 inn, and carried on quite extensive farming 
 operations. He had three hundred and sixty 
 acres of land, raised considerable stock, and 
 prospered exceedingly in his combined occupa- 
 tions. In the spring of 1903 he sold his interests 
 to Eli Bangs, of Eugene, and bought his pres- 
 ent farm of thirty acres two miles north of the 
 town. He is engaged in small farming and 
 fruit-raising, and is most pleasantly located, 
 being surrounded with modern aids for the 
 carrying on of his work, and occupying a com- 
 fortable and hospitable home. Mr. Tallman 
 subscribes himself to Democratic principles and 
 issues, and many local offices have been honored 
 by his services, among them that of school 
 director and school clerk. He has served for 
 twenty-four years as postmaster in different 
 parts of Lane county, a position which argues 
 both popularity and efficient service. Fratern- 
 ally he is connected with the Lodge No. 139, 
 I. O. O. F., at Mapleton, Ore. 
 
 DRURY R. HODGES. Prominent among 
 those to whom Benton county owes her agricult- 
 ural prosperity is Drury R. Hodges, a venerable 
 and highly honored retired resident of Wells 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Station, and a pioneer of 1847. M r - Hodges is 
 one of the many natives of Shelby county, Ind., 
 who have settled in Oregon, and his birth 
 occured September 8, 1825. When nine years 
 of age he removed with his parents to Allen 
 county, Ohio, where he lived until 1839, and then 
 moved to Platte county, Mo., settling on a farm 
 of large dimensions. 
 
 In 1846 an escape from a rather monotonous 
 farming life presented itself to Mr. Hodges, who 
 was in that year engaged as a teamster to haul 
 provisions in a freighting train to the soldiers 
 in Mexico. He had many adventures while on 
 this expedition, and an opportunity to study the 
 people and sights of the southern and then tur- 
 bulent adjoining country. Returning to the 
 paternal farm in Missouri he remained there six 
 months, and April 27, 1847, married Mahala 
 B. Fickle, who was born in LaFayette county, 
 Mo., in August, 1828, and with whom he took 
 a rather unique wedding journey. The month 
 after the wedding the young people carried out 
 a long-thought-of project and crossed the plains 
 with ox-teams, Monroe Hodges, the father of 
 Drury, as well as three brothers and two sisters, 
 accompanying them. Two hired men, two 
 wagons with four ox-teams to each, and four 
 cows, completed quite an imposing cavalcade, 
 and the little party came across with few experi- 
 ences of an unpleasant nature. They were the 
 usual length of time on the way, arriving in 
 Benton county in October, where Monroe 
 Hodges took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres, upon which they all settled. 
 The son erected a little hewed-log house of one 
 room, which in time had a more imposing suc- 
 cessor, but which served as a starting place for 
 quite extensive agricultural and stock-raising 
 operations. About four hundred and fifty acres 
 of the property was open land, a distinct advant- 
 age over many of the farms of the early settlers, 
 the greater part of which was heavily timbered. 
 The father lived long to enjoy his prosperity, 
 his death occurring at the age of eighty-eight 
 years. 
 
 While living on the old donation claim Drury 
 Hodges gained a competence, and made many 
 fine improvements. . Many years of devotion to 
 the farm warranted his retirement from active 
 life in 1892, and he has since "lived in Wells, 
 surrounded by many friends, and the good will 
 of all who know him. Eleven children were 
 born to him on the old claim, nine of whom are 
 living: Catherine is the wife of Cam Vander- 
 pool of Benton county ; Mary E. is the widow 
 of Robert Hughey ; Caroline is the wife of Amos 
 Holman of The Dalles ; Robert is living on 
 the home farm ; Georgie is the wife of Ben 
 Davis of Tacoma ; Commodore P. is on the 
 home farm ; Jackson is a doctor of dental sur- 
 
 gery at Albany; Marcus is on the home place; 
 and Florence is the wife of Sumner Reed of 
 Tacoma. Mr. Hodges and his sons still own 
 the entire donation claim which nets them a 
 comfortable yearly income, besides providing 
 employment for three of the sons. Mr. Hodges 
 is an old time Jackson Democrat, but has never 
 held other ■ than minor offices, preferring to 
 devote all of his time to his farm and home 
 circle. For more than thirty years he has been 
 a member of the Masons, and his religious home 
 is with the Baptist Church. Honorable in all of 
 his dealings, successful and optimistic, Mr. 
 Hodges is an example of what may be accom- 
 plished by perseverance and devotion to duty, 
 by truth to friends, and kindness and consider- 
 ation in his family. 
 
 JOHN WILES. It is an important public 
 duty to honor and perpetuate as far as is pos- 
 sible the memory of an eminent citizen, one 
 who by his blameless and honorable life and 
 successful career reflected credit not only upon 
 the county in which he made his home, but upon 
 the state. Through such memorials as this at 
 hand, the character of his services are kept in 
 remembrance and the importance of those serv- 
 ices acknowledged. His example in whatever 
 field his work may have been done thus stands 
 as an object lesson to those who come after 
 him, and though dead he still speaks. Long 
 after all recollection of his personality shall have 
 faded from the minds of men, the less perishable 
 record may tell the story of his life and com- 
 mend his example for imitation. No man was 
 ever more respected in Benton county or ever 
 more fully enjoyed the confidence of the people 
 than John Wiles, who was one of the pioneers 
 of this portion of the state, having resided in 
 Benton county for nearly fifty-five years at the 
 time of his demise. 
 
 Mr. Wiles was born in Surrey county, N. C, 
 on August 17, 1822, and there remained the 
 first eight years of his life, after which he ac- 
 companied his parents on their removal to 
 Henry county, Ind. He was twenty years of 
 age when the family removed to Missouri, set- 
 tling in Andrew county. There his father died 
 and he was forced upon his own resources. 
 After a year or two he gave his share of the 
 family inheritance to his mother and the other 
 members of the family, while he started west in 
 the hope of gaining a fortune in the country rich 
 in promise, and yet whose resources were as 
 then undeveloped. It was in the year 1847 that 
 Mr. Wiles came to Oregon. He arranged with 
 Frank Writsman to drive an ox-team, and in 
 this way he made the long and arduous journey 
 over the plains to the Sunset state. He was 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 then in very limited financial circumstances and 
 for several months after his arrival he continued 
 to work for Mr. Writsman, receiving a salary of 
 twelve dollars per month. Thus he gained his 
 start, but his was a nature that could never con- 
 tent itself with mediocrity or with a small meas- 
 ure of success if greater prosperity could be ob- 
 tained through energy and honorable effort. In 
 the year 1848, following the discovery of gold 
 in California, he was attracted to that state and 
 spent the summer of that year in the mines, but 
 returned to Benton county in the succeeding 
 winter. When spring again came, however, he 
 once more went to the gold regions, but in the 
 autumn returned to Benton county, where he re- 
 sided then continuously up to the time of his 
 demise. The county was to be congratulated 
 upon gaining a citizen of such worth and capa- 
 bility. He took a deep interest in public meas- 
 ures and withal he was practical in the aid 
 which he rendered to general progress and im- 
 provement. 
 
 In 185 1 Mr. Wiles was married, and reso- 
 lutely undertook the work of providing a home 
 for his bride. They located upon a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres which was 
 joined on the south by the donation claim of 
 Joseph T. Hughart. From time to time he 
 added to that property and he never sold an 
 acre of land unless it was to square off a tract. 
 With characteristic energy he began transform- 
 ing the wild land into productive fields and also 
 to engage in stock-raising, which business he 
 carried on successfully up to the time of his 
 death. He made a specialty of Shorthorn and 
 Polled Angus cattle and owned some very fine 
 specimens of stock. He made his start in life 
 by what he accumulated in the mines. He met 
 with a fair degree of success in his search for 
 gold in California and upon his return he in- 
 vested this in the best grades of cattle that could 
 be secured at that time. To this little herd he 
 added as his means would permit and as the 
 years passed he became one of the most exten- 
 sive and prosperous stock-dealers of his com- 
 munity. He added to his land until his pos- 
 sessions in that direction were very extensive. 
 He made splendid improvements upon his farm 
 by adding good buildings, modern equipments 
 and for many years was recognized as one of 
 the leading representatives of agricultural in- 
 terests in his portion of the state. In the later 
 years of his life he became a director in the 
 First National Bank of Corvallis and he was a 
 punctual attendant at all of the meetings of the 
 board of directors and did all in his power to 
 promote the success of that financial institution. 
 
 On June 8, 185 1, Mr. Wiles was united in 
 marriage to Miss Martha Ann Hughart, who 
 then resided on Soap creek with her father, 
 
 Joseph Hughart, who was born in Kentucky, 
 February 9, 1804, and removed from that state 
 to Calloway county, Mo., in 1828. Mrs. Wiles 
 was born in Calloway county, May 3, 1833, an ^ 
 in 1836 the farmly removed from the place of 
 her nativity to Buchanan county, Mo., where 
 she lived until 1845, when her parents with 
 their family crossed the plains to Oregon, mak- 
 ing the trip by ox-teams in the St. Clair com- 
 pany commanded by Wayman St. Clair, the 
 father of Mrs. J. R. Bryson. After reaching 
 Oregon the Hughart family settled at Philo- 
 math and while living there Mrs. Hughart died, 
 leaving Mrs. Wiles, at the age of thirteen years, 
 to care for a family of five children, one of 
 whom was then an infant. Two years later her 
 sister, Mrs. Greenberry Smith, died, leaving an 
 infant child to the care of Mrs. Wiles, but she 
 nobly took up the task which fell to her lot and 
 made a home for the children of her father's 
 family and also the child of her deceased sister 
 up to the time of her marriage. When the fam- 
 ily had crossed the plains they removed to the 
 old homestead near Wells, Benton county, and 
 there Mrs. Wiles resided continuously until 
 1885, when she became a resident of Corvallis. 
 When she arrived in Benton county the entire 
 district was almost an unbroken wilderness in- 
 habited by the native Indians. The Hugharts 
 and the family of J. C. Avery were among the 
 few families then living in the Willamette val- 
 ley. The heavy household duties which early 
 devolved upon her largely deprived her of the 
 opportunities for enjoying educational and social 
 advantages, but she possessed naturally a broad 
 mind and was a woman of rare qualifications, 
 being possessed of keen business ideas and ex- 
 ceptional financial ability. She and her sister, 
 Mrs. Greenberry Smith, in their childhood days 
 endured many hardships and trials incident to 
 pioneer life and were not a few times exposed 
 to the dangers of such an existence, but they 
 proved themselves worthy to be classed among 
 the honored pioneer women who have done no 
 less than the husbands, brothers and fathers 
 in laying the foundation for this great state. 
 She had marked influence, and her life was one 
 of exceptional usefulness, characterized by self- 
 sacrifice from early girlhood until she passed 
 to the home prepared for the righteous. She 
 was ever unselfish and always regarded the wel- 
 fare and happiness of those around her before 
 she gave attention to her own wants. She found 
 her greatest happiness in ministering to others 
 and realized the truth that " it is more blessed 
 to give than to receive." 
 
 Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wiles were born the fol- 
 lowing children : Mary Josephine, now the wife 
 of W. A. Wells of Corvallis ; Mrs. Bridget Ann 
 Brinkley, • who died near Airlie, Polk county, 
 
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 Ore.; Eliza J., the wife of Thomas Kirkpatrick, 
 of San Francisco: Walter T., who is represented 
 on another page of this book ; Edward F., a 
 farmer and stockman of Wells, Ore. ; Jessie 
 Ellen, who died at the age of nine years ; and 
 Mrs. Lucy G. Yates, of Corvallis. For many 
 years the mother of this family suffered from 
 ill health, but she bore her suffering uncom- 
 plainingly and in her last days she was sur- 
 rounded by her entire family, constituting her 
 husband and five children, who did everything 
 in their power to alleviate her suffering and 
 pain. She realized, however, that the end was 
 near, and had no dread of the future. 
 Her entire life was an exemplification of 
 Christian faith and she knew that a bet- 
 ter home awaited her in the land beyond. 
 She also requested that each of her chil- 
 dren should meet her there, that the family 
 chain should be unbroken, without the loss of a 
 single link. Her life was indeed an eventfvd one 
 for many experiences such as fall to the lot of 
 few women, her cares and responsibilities in 
 youth early developed her beyond her years and 
 made her ever considerate of others. Her friends 
 found her faithful, her family knew her as a de- 
 voted and loving wife and mother and the 
 church a faithful Christian. " Her children rise 
 up and call her blessed," and all who knew her 
 revere her memory. Mrs. Wiles passed away 
 November II. 1895, and Mr. Wiles survived for 
 almost seven years. After his wife's death he 
 spent much of his time in the home of his son 
 Edward, at the homestead, while during his last 
 illness and dea,th he lived with his son, Walter, 
 in Corvallis. making short visits in the homes 
 of his other children from time to time. 
 
 B. F. Irvine, editor and proprietor of the Cor- 
 vallis Times, paid him the following tribute: 
 " Through youth and age, the life of John Wiles 
 shines with many a virtue. He was all he pre- 
 tended to be and more. He breathed evil 
 against no man. His tongue uttered kind words, 
 or no words at all. He was just even to the 
 extent of giving more than was due to satisfy 
 the other party to the bargain. He was sin- 
 cere and steadfast in his devotion to truth, to 
 friends, to the state and to God. Quietly, calm- 
 ly and honorably he wended his way through that 
 labyrinth of acts that constitute a lifework and 
 with that nicety of justice and kindness that it 
 is said, he never made a foe. With an ambition 
 only to be good and useful to himself, his peo- 
 ple and his state, and, wholly free from the 
 shams, insincerities and deceits that often infect 
 human nature, he rounded out a life of quiet 
 beauty that delighted all who came in contact 
 with it. It was a gentle, unostentatious, peace- 
 ful career. It was a career so full of quiet kind- 
 liness that it inspires men with a desire to live 
 
 a life like it. And, if all men lived like he 
 lived, what a place of gentleness, amiability and 
 beauty this world would be ! " 
 
 A further beautiful tribute to his memory 
 was paid by W. A. Wells, whom he knew long 
 and intimately, and who said : 
 
 " Such men as he was are, unfortunately, too 
 scarce in this world of ours. Such men cannot 
 be spared without exciting the deepest regrets 
 and the saddest reflections. Our friend was one 
 by whose deeds and services the world is made 
 better for his having lived in it. He leaves a 
 memory behind him that can be most fondly 
 cherished. His life was one of usefulness, hon- 
 esty, integrity and true morality. His aim was 
 to discharge every duty that devolved upon him, 
 to aid his fellowmen as far as circumstances 
 would allow, and to do injury to none. His life 
 was one of good motives and good deeds. His 
 conduct was squared by the highest principles 
 of right, of justice and of truth. He was a 
 kind, indulgent husband, an affectionate, loving 
 parent ; a warm, devoted friend, amiable in his 
 intercourse with his fellowmen ; respectful of 
 the rights and feelings of others and attentive to 
 all who had claims upon him. He hesitated not 
 to do that which he considered was right and 
 his duty to perform ; he was honest and faithful 
 to his trusts. He was a lover of his race, he 
 emphatically led a good life. He has now passed 
 from our sight, replete with honor, replete with 
 manliness — bearing with him our fondest and 
 kindest memories, our highest esteem and admir- 
 ation. One who leads such a life as our friend 
 has led, has no need to fear death, nor what 
 may possibly follow after it. One who faithfully 
 discharges his duty according to the sphere in 
 life he occupies has no need to recoil at leaving 
 this state of existence. 
 
 " If his notions have been governed by the 
 principles of right and justice towards his fel- 
 lowman, he neither fears to meet him in life nor 
 part with him at the hour of death. He dreads 
 no angry being, no vindictive personage, from 
 whom to expect vengeance and wrath. He is 
 perfectly willing to meet the consequence of a 
 well spent life. Such was our departed friend, 
 honest John Wiles. Adieu, my honored 
 friend." 
 
 FRANK L. CFIAMBERS. That success in 
 mercantile life is within the reach of every young 
 man who earnestly strives to win it. is the be- 
 lief of Frank L. Chambers, one of the best 
 known and most prosperous merchants in the 
 AVillamette valley. While inherited tendencies, 
 influence and friendlv intercession have created 
 an advantage for this upbuilder of Eugene, 
 these aids were unable to continue him in his 
 
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 line of promotion had he not possessed the 
 substantial merit, together with a character which 
 counted no effort too great, nor sacrifice too dear 
 in fulfilling his duties and obligations. A keen 
 appreciation of truthfulness and integrity and a 
 desire to establish credit, have undoubtedly fig- 
 ured prominently in his calculations, and are so 
 firmly rooted in his nature that no better guide 
 for those who seek success is known in this com- 
 munity. 
 
 Many years ago Manlove Chambers, the pa- 
 ternal grandfather of Frank L., left his home in 
 New England after a meritorious service in the 
 war of 1812, and became a merchant in Logan 
 county, Ohio, later continuing his chosen occupa- 
 tion in Quincy, Ohio, where he died at an ad- 
 vanced age. His son, James B., the father of 
 Frank L., followed in his business footsteps, and 
 after clerking in stores in Iowa and Missouri, re- 
 turned to his native Logan county, Ohio, 
 where he started a general merchandise business 
 in Quincy. Afterward he removed to Sedalia 
 and Mound City, Mo., engaging in a merchandise 
 business in both towns, and living in the latter 
 place until coming to Oregon, in 1884. His son, 
 Frank L., was born in Oregon, Holt county, Mo., 
 November 8, 1865, and was therefore nineteen 
 years of age when the family fortunes were 
 shifted to the west. He had received a practical 
 common school education, and the year previous 
 had graduated from the State Normal School 
 at Strasburg, Mo. Beginning with his sixteenth 
 year he clerked in his father's store in Mound 
 City, Mo., and after settling with the family in 
 Dallas, Ore., he clerked for three years in the 
 hardware store started by his father. In 1885 
 he had saved sufficient money to purchase an in- 
 terest in the business, and the following year 
 William Faull bought out the elder Chambers, 
 the son disposing of his share in the business to 
 the new partner in 1887. Removing to Eugene 
 in April, 1887, father and son started a hard- 
 ware store on Willamette street, conducted the 
 same together until August 1, 1890, when the 
 son became sole owner of the enterprise, contin- 
 uing to manage it alone until January 1, 1902, 
 when his brother, Fred E., became his partner. 
 J. B. Chambers lived in retirement in Eugene 
 from 1890 until his death, in 1902, and is sur- 
 vived by his wife formerly Martha Nies, who 
 was born in Peoria, 111., the daughter of Jonathan 
 Nies, a merchant tailor, who followed his trade 
 in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, and who died 
 at Point Townsend, Wash., three years after 
 coming west, in 1886. Mrs. Chambers has the 
 satisfaction of knowing that her three sons have 
 realized her expectations as far as the success 
 of their lives is concerned, her youngest and old- 
 est being prominent merchants, and her second 
 son, Charles N-, an attorney, employed by the 
 
 McCormick division of the International Har- 
 vester Company of America, at Chicago, 111. 
 
 In August, 1890, Frank L. Chambers located 
 near his present store, and in 1896 built the large 
 double store in which is conducted the largest 
 business of the kind in the town, and the largest 
 in the valley outside of Portland. His store has 
 a frontage of fifty feet, a depth of three hun- 
 dred and twenty feet to Olive street, with an L 
 one hundred feet long. Thirty-two thousand feet 
 of floor space is ample for a complete display of 
 hardware of all kinds, and besides, there is a 
 furniture department, requiring 50x80 feet. The 
 stock includes all kinds of hardware, tools, nails, 
 iron, steel, cutlery, builders' hardware, mechanics' 
 tools, blacksmith supplies and agricultural im- 
 plements, the latter including Bain wagons, bug- 
 gies arid carts, Oliver chilled and steel plows, 
 harrows and cultivators, besides Deering har- 
 vesters and Pitts threshers. The firm also carry 
 the Crescent bicycles. Located opposite the 
 Smeede Hotel, no better place could be found, or 
 one more accessible to the general country and 
 city trade. Necessarily this large store gives em- 
 ployment to many people, among whom there is 
 a feeling of co-operation and good fellowship 
 reflecting credit upon the management, and ma- 
 terially enlarging the business. That the interests 
 of Mr. Chambers are by no means self-centered 
 is evident to all who are familiar with his life. 
 There is no public enterprise of merit but may 
 be reasonably certain of his hearty approval and 
 co-operation. He is known as one of the sub- 
 stantial props of the banking system of Lane 
 county, being a director of the First National 
 bank of Eugene, and one of the organizers and a 
 director of the First National Bank at Cottage 
 Grove. He is a director in the Valley Improve- 
 ment company, engaged in operating a ditch for 
 irrigating from the Hood river, in Wasco county, 
 Ore. ; is part owner with T. G. Hendricks in the 
 McKenzie Water Power Company, which pro- 
 poses to develop a five thousand horse-power 
 for that town ; and is a member of the firm of 
 Midgley & Chambers, owners of the canal from 
 the Willamette, which furnishes water power for 
 Eugene. He is the president and one of the or- 
 ganizers of the Eugene Theater Company, which 
 organization is now building a $30,000 opera 
 house. 
 
 In company with D. Bristow, president of the 
 First National Bank of Cottage Grove, Mr. 
 Chambers has perfected plans for the organization 
 of a banking company to be known as the Cham- 
 bers-Bristow Banking Company, which, on Jan- 
 uary 1, 1904, will inaugurate a private banking 
 business in Eugene. This concern will occupy 
 the building now occupied by the Lane County 
 Bank. 
 
 A Republican in politics, it is not surprising 
 
 
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 that Mr. Chambers has had little time for official 
 service. He is fraternally popular, and is identi- 
 fied with Eugene Lodge No. n, A. F. and A. M. ; 
 the Royal Arch Masons, of this town ; Ivanhoe 
 Conunandery No. 2; the Consistory No. 1, of 
 Portland ; and Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. He is 
 a charter member of the Commercial Club of Eu- 
 gene, and is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church. For fifteen years Mr. Chambers 
 has been a member of the Oregon National 
 Guard, and is now quartermaster of the Fourth 
 Regiment. None of whom we have knowledge 
 are more typical of the vital, moving, substantial 
 and versatile spirit of the western slope than this 
 successful merchant. Mr. Chambers was united 
 in marriage, July 29, 1891, with Ida, daughter 
 of Thomas G. Hendricks, who was born in Eu- 
 gene, was graduated from the University of 
 Oregon, and died, April 9, 1900, leaving a 
 daughter, Mary. 
 
 JOHN HARRIS. During his many years of 
 residence in the northwest John Harris was one 
 of the most popular and successful farmers in 
 Benton county. Coming here in June, 1852, he 
 had little in the way of influence or money to start 
 him on the upward path, yet at the time of his 
 death in May, 1890, he left a well improved farm 
 of six hundred acres, and quite a large bank ac- 
 count. That energy and resource were required 
 to bring about this change no one doubts, and in 
 the estimation of his many friends Mr. Harris 
 was the master par excellence of these admirable 
 characteristics. His remote ancestors were un- 
 doubtedly tillers of the soil, yet his immediate 
 connections had to do with military affairs in 
 Europe, his father being attached for many years 
 to the English army. Attaining to the rank of 
 captain, the elder Harris participated in many 
 of the historic battles of his time, and was captain 
 of a regiment at the battle of Waterloo, June 18, 
 181 5. While stationed in Ireland his son John 
 was born, October 12, 1828, and the father was 
 afterward stationed in England, where both 
 himself and wife passed their last days. 
 
 In his youth John Harris learned the turner's 
 trade, and followed the same for a few years in 
 England, coming to the United States in 1850. 
 He came immediately to California, by way of 
 the Horn, seven months being taken up on the 
 trip. Two years later came his wife, formerly 
 Jane Buchanan, whom he had married in St. 
 Johns Church, Liverpool. March 12. 1848. Ar- 
 riving in California. Mr. Harris mined and pros- 
 pected until 1852, and then came alone to Ore- 
 gon, his intention being to investigate the pros- 
 pects of a permanent residence. He was favor- 
 ably impressed with the climate and general in- 
 ducements, and forthwith purchased a squatter's 
 
 right to Uncle Billie Bragg's claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres seven miles southwest of 
 Corvallis. The following year his wife joined 
 him in the new home, and together they started 
 housekeeping under crude but very promising 
 circumstances. From time to time he added to 
 his land, and finally had six hundred acres, a large 
 part of which was under cultivation. His im- 
 provements were the best known at that time, and 
 he made money at general farming and stock- 
 raising, having always fine Durham cattle, and 
 the best of other stock. He took a great interest 
 in politics, although it is not recalled that he 
 desired or worked for official recognition. He 
 was the first master of Grange No. 52, and did 
 much towards furthering the interests of that 
 organization. He died in 1890 at the age of 
 sixty-one, and was survived by his wife until she 
 was seventy-two years old. 
 
 The old Harris farm is now occupied by the 
 only child and daughter of Mf. and Mrs. Harris, 
 Mary, who is the wife of W. F. Whitby, the 
 latter being manager of the property. Mr. Whit- 
 by is an important factor in his neighborhood 
 in Benton county, and is a man of leading char- 
 acteristics. He was born in Canada in November, 
 1859, and came to Oregon in 1878. A practical 
 and scientific farmer, he has introduced many 
 innovations on the old place, and it is now one 
 of the best equipped and most modern properties 
 in the county. He is a Republican in politics, 
 and takes a keen interest in local affairs both 
 political, agricultural and social. Fraternally he 
 is associated with the Masons, the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, the Degree of Honor, and 
 the Grange. Mrs. Whitby, who is the fortunate 
 heiress of her father's large property, is very 
 prominent in local undertakings, and exerts a 
 special influence in the Grange. She held the 
 position of Pomona of the State Grange for six 
 years, and has been secretary of Grange 
 No. 52 for twenty-one years. At the 
 present time and for the past two years 
 she has been master of the Grange in her 
 home district, through her advocacy of its 
 extension has become known throughout this 
 part of the state. Mrs. Whitby is a cultured 
 and verv interesting woman, and has scores of 
 friends in Benton and the surrounding counties. 
 She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and not only regularly attends the service, but 
 contributes generously towards the support of 
 the organization. She is the devoted and always 
 svmpathetic and helpful mother of three children : 
 Isabella H.. John Harris and Harold R., all born 
 on the home farm in Benton county. 
 
 ALVA C. WHITE. Although comparatively 
 speaking a newcomer to Benton county, Alva C. 
 White has already made many steadfast friends. 
 
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 his capacity in this regard being characteristic 
 of the typical frontiersman, whose familiarity 
 with the boundless plains, strange and out-of-the- 
 way places of the west, and human nature, ani- 
 mated by the best as well as the opposite motives, 
 has broadened his sympathies, taught him a fear- 
 less adherence to truth and honesty, and given 
 him a breeziness of manner at once attractive, 
 convincing and sincere. A large and powerfully 
 built man, with strong personal characteristics, 
 Mr. White has been able to weather the depriva- 
 tion, danger and adventure incident to a cattle 
 experience covering many years, in the following 
 of which he has gained a reputation second to 
 none on the coast. 
 
 Claiming distinct ancestral advantages on both 
 sides of his family, Mr. White was born on a 
 farm near Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 
 17, 1847, nis father, Uriah B. White, being a 
 native of Norfolk, Conn., and his mother, Mary 
 (Warren) White, having been born in Tarry- 
 town, N. Y. The Warren family was dis- 
 tinguished during the Revolutionary war through 
 the valiant services of Gen. Joseph Warren, the 
 hero of the battle of Bunker Hill, and a physician 
 of high standing. Uriah B. White possessed lead- 
 ing characteristics, and as a millwright and bridge 
 builder gained a far-reaching reputation. At a 
 very early day he settled on the western reserve, 
 where he engaged in farming and bridge-build- 
 ing, and in 1857 removed to Iowa, where he 
 built the first bridge over the river at Des Moines. 
 His family joining him in 1858, he continued to 
 build bridges in the Iowa city, and at the same 
 time became identified with many of its leading 
 and developing enterprises. With his partner, 
 Dr. N. P. Turner, he secured the charter for the 
 first street railway in the town, which he started 
 in 1867, and managed with great success for 
 several years. The last years of his life were 
 spent "in retirement, and his death occurred at 
 the age of seventy-eight years. His wife also 
 died in Iowa, leaving nine children. 
 
 The oldest in his father's family, Alva C. White 
 attended a select school in both Ohio and Iowa, 
 and at the age of seventeen became identified 
 with the border career which has made up the 
 greater part of his life. Employed by a freighter 
 to drive a team of six mules to Salt Lake City, 
 he remained in that locality and interested him- 
 self in the cattle business, going later to Denver, 
 Colo., then to Black Hawk, where he was em- 
 ployed by the Black Hawk Mining Company. 
 In 1866 he returned to Denver and the Missouri 
 river, making his way on horseback to Des 
 Moines, where he operated a sawmill for a couple 
 of years. On a small scale he took up the cat- 
 tle business in Iowa, became deeper and deeper 
 involved, and soon was feeding and shipping 
 enormous numbers yearly. In 1 872 he went to 
 
 Wyoming and helped to ship the first car load 
 of cattle from that state, the following year en- 
 gaging in cattle ranching on a range forty miles 
 northeast of Cheyenne. During 1874 he shipped 
 horses and mules to California, and in 1876 made 
 considerable money shipping hogs to San Fran- 
 cisco. He afterward disposed of this business 
 and engaged in buying, feeding and selling cattle 
 throughout Wyoming and Colorado, shipping 
 large numbers to Iowa for feeding, and also ship- 
 ping fat stock to the city of Chicago. In 1895 
 he went to eastern Oregon for cattle, and these 
 also were shipped to Iowa, mostly to Dallas 
 county. He has been shipping stock into Chi- 
 cago about ten or twelve times a year, with un- 
 abating success for the last twenty years. No 
 name among stock men is better known than his, 
 identified as it is with the finest and fattest cat- 
 tle to be had anywhere. 
 
 In 1901 Mr. White located in Corvallis, and at 
 once engaged in the stock business on a ranch 
 of three hundred and twenty acres near Blodgett. 
 He is contemplating making this his permanent 
 home, the location being favorable to an over- 
 sight of his many interests, one of the chief of 
 which is mining. Contemporary with his early 
 cattle experiences was his purchase of mining 
 claims in different parts of the west, many of 
 which have yielded him large returns on the in- 
 vestment. At present he owns mining interests 
 in eastern Oregon, and still retains two of the 
 claims which he bought in the early days of 
 Cripple Creek, and which are located adjacent to 
 the Stratton mines. His knowledge of mining 
 is extensive, and has seemed to go hand in hand 
 with that of cattle, although Mr. White has 
 made the larger part of his fortune in the latter 
 business. He is probably as well qualified as any- 
 one to speak of the great cattle industry of the 
 west, his own personal interests having been 
 interwoven with its rapid growth for more years 
 than the average man cares to devote to a roving 
 life. 
 
 Through his marriage with Mary Clegg, a 
 native of Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. White not only 
 found a cultivated and sympathetic wife long 
 identified with educational work, but became as- 
 sociated with one of the prominent and very 
 early families of that part of Iowa. Abraham 
 Clegg, the father of Mrs. White, was born in 
 England, at Butterworth Hall, and came of a 
 fine old English family which dated its ancestry 
 back many generations, and in honor of which 
 Clegg Hall, and many small towns, were named. 
 Abraham Clegg came to America in 1846 and 
 settled in New England, where he married, and 
 from where he removed to Illinois, in 1848. His 
 familv joining him in 1851, he removed the same 
 year to Polk county, Iowa, and there purchased 
 two hundred and sixty acres of land, half of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 which is now within the limits of the city of Des 
 Moines. At the time of purchase the town con- 
 tained less than three hundred inhabitants, and 
 gave little promise of its present stability and 
 size. The Clegg farm was an ideal one, undu- 
 lating prairies and gentle hills producing a land- 
 scape of exceeding beauty and harmony. Fine 
 timber abounded by the acre, and when the plow 
 turned up the rich productive soil, fine harvests 
 were unfailing. Desiring to substantiate for him- 
 self the reports of larger opportunities in the 
 west, Mr. Clegg crossed the plains to California 
 with ox-teams in 1859, and in 1862 returned to 
 his home via the Isthmus of Panama. This was 
 the beginning of extended travel between Iowa 
 and California and Oregon, he having visited 
 the latter country as early as 1869. In the mean- 
 time he has made several trips across the plains, 
 and for the last twelve years has made his home 
 in Eldorado county, southern California, a most 
 interesting and intelligent man, reminiscent of the 
 byways and highways of this western country, 
 and of the early pioneer days of Iowa. Away 
 back in New Hampshire he married Ann Nuttall, 
 who was born in Nuttall, England, and who died 
 in Des Moines, leaving four children. 0£ these, 
 Xerx is living on the old home in Iowa ; Mary 
 is the wife of Mr. White ; and George and Ed- 
 ward are living near the old home in Iowa. Two 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. White, 
 of whom Mary died in 1895 at the age of eight 
 years, and Georgie is living with her parents. 
 Mr. White is a Republican in politics, and fra- 
 ternallv is associated with the Pioneer Lodge 
 Xo. 22, F. & A. M., of Des Moines. With his 
 wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Thus is told all too briefly the life- 
 story of one of the class of men whose fearless 
 daring and hardihood have developed one of the 
 greatest industries known to the west, and which 
 could never be carried forward on so large a 
 scale in any other country in the world. 
 
 PROF. T. J. RISLEY. The cause of edu- 
 cation has few better friends in Oregon than 
 is found in Prof. T. J. Risley, one of the success- 
 ful educators of the state. He has a thorough 
 appreciation of the value of a systematic training 
 in the practical branches of knowledge, and his 
 influence has ever been used for the elevation of 
 the standard of education wherever his services 
 have been given. Born in Clay county, 111., De- 
 cember 24, 1866, Professor Risley is a son of J. 
 M. Risley, a native of New Jersey, who later 
 settled in Clay county, 111., and still later re- 
 moved to Iowa, locating in Blairstown, Benton 
 county. He was subsequently interested in 
 farming and cattle raising in Marion county, 
 Kans., but finally, in 1875, located in Benton 
 
 county, Ore., where he purchased a farm and 
 at once began its cultivation and improvement. 
 His death occurred in eastern Washington. The 
 wife of J. M. Risley was in maidenhood Miss 
 Malinda Israel, a native of the Hoosier state. 
 She is now residing in Palouse, Wash. The pa- 
 ternal family comprised nine children, of whom 
 T. J. was the third in order of birth, and nearly 
 all of his brothers and sisters were interested in 
 educational work. 
 
 Reared upon his father's farm in early life, 
 Professor Risley interspersed attendance at the 
 district school with assisting in the conduct of 
 the home farm, and later attended Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College at Corvallis. After spending 
 one winter in the State Normal at Monmouth, 
 he began his lifework as an instructor at the 
 time being twenty-two years of age. For the 
 past twelve years he has been engaged at his 
 profession in his old district in Benton county 
 and elsewhere, and wherever he has labored, all 
 unite in a hearty endorsement of his ability as 
 an instructor of a superior order. His interest in 
 education is the keener from the fact that no 
 fortuitous circumstances made his educational 
 path an easy one, but on the other hand it was 
 necessary for him to work his own way through 
 school and college. About one mile from Al- 
 bany Professor Risley owns a farm of fifty-six 
 acres of the old claim which his father took up 
 when he came to the state. In addition to carry- 
 ing on general farming and stock-raising, Pro- 
 fessor Risley is giving no little attention to horti- 
 culture and gardening, and is meeting with suc- 
 cess in his endeavors. In order to keep in touch 
 with the latest ideas in agriculture he has allied 
 himself with the Fairmount Grange, of which he 
 is at present serving as chaplain. Politically he 
 is a Republican, stanch and true, and in religion 
 is a member of the Baptist Church of Albany. 
 In 1902 he was nominated for county assessor, 
 but did not win the election, and is now serving 
 as a member of the county central committee. 
 Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen 
 of the World. 
 
 In Benton county Professor Risley was united 
 in marriage with Miss Maggie Hayden, a native 
 daughter of the state, her birth occurring in 
 Benton county. Two children have blessed the 
 marriage of Professor and Mrs. Risley, to whom 
 they have given the names of Wave and Hayden. 
 
 JAMES H. STEWART. Among the pio- 
 neers of 1 85 1 are to be numbered the members 
 of the Stewart family, nearly all of whom had 
 attained maturity at the time of their removal 
 to the west, leaving pleasant homes to aid in the 
 growing civilization and to benefit by the limit- 
 less advantages offered in the new land. Today 
 
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 the Stewart family is represented by but few 
 of those who experienced the trials and priva- 
 tions of that long and dangerous journey, no 
 direct members of the family being now living, 
 James H. Stewart, the remaining brother, having 
 died August 6, 1899, leaving to bear his name a 
 widow and five children. 
 
 The father of James H. Stewart, George 
 Washington Stewart, was born in Scotland, 
 settling at an early date in Virginia from whence 
 he removed to Indiana, rearing his family prin- 
 cipally in that state, though he later made his 
 home in Missouri. While a resident of the 
 Northwest Territory he participated in the Black 
 Hawk war, which resulted in freeing that sec- 
 tion of country from the depredations of the 
 Indians. James H. Stewart was born in Fount- 
 ain county, Ind., June 19, 1825, and on attaining 
 manhood he engaged in farming in Holt county, 
 Mo., marrying, March 11, 1845, Miss Louisa J. 
 Thornton. Her birth occurred August 9, 1821, 
 in Clark county, Ohio, near Springfield, she 
 being the daughter of John and the grand- 
 daughter of Coats Thornton. The latter was a 
 native of England, and on coming to the United 
 States he settled in Virginia, where he reared 
 his family, his son John being born in that state. 
 Later he removed to Ohio from which state 
 John went to Tippecanoe county, Ind., and en- 
 gaged in the prosecution of his trade, which was 
 that of a brickmason. At the age of nineteen 
 years he served in the war of 1812, being with 
 Hull at Detroit. On removing to Missouri he 
 located first in St. Clair county, and later in Holt 
 county, having married- Rebecca Robinson, a 
 native of Kentucky, and daughter of Richard, 
 whose residence was divided between the states 
 of Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Ohio, his death 
 occurring in Missouri, where his wife also died 
 three days later. 
 
 James H. Stewart was reared in Indiana, in 
 which state he remained until 1842, when he re- 
 moved to Missouri, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing. Being located in the state from which so 
 many emigrants were being constantly given to 
 increase the population of the western lands, and 
 through which so many emigrants passed, it was 
 but natural that he, too, should become imbued 
 with the idea of opportunities beyond the Rock- 
 ies. Gathering tosrether his worldly goods, con- 
 sisting of two wagons, ten yoke of cattle, and 
 much loose stock, all standard bred and very 
 valuable, they started April 22, 1851, for Oregon 
 over the old Oregon trail. They were constantly 
 harassed on their journey by the Indians, who 
 attacked them on Bear river, principally with the 
 intent to steal the stock. During the attack Mr. 
 Stewart was wounded in the hip, but succeeded 
 in shooting the Indian that attacked him. One 
 of their number, a Mr. Black, was killed during 
 
 the trouble, and one blooded mare was stolen; 
 later, however, the mare was recovered from a 
 man who had purchased her of the Indians. 
 Upon their arrival here, September 22, 1851, 
 Mr. Stewart took up a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, located two miles 
 north of Corvallis, Benton county, upon which 
 the family remained for many years. In spite 
 of the floods of 1861 which washed away all of 
 his stock with the exception of two heifers and 
 one filly, Mr. Stewart succeeded in building up 
 a modern farm, well equipped and well stocked, 
 being now a very valuable property which Mrs. 
 Stewart still owns. Some time before the death 
 of Mr. Stewart they removed to Corvallis, where 
 they lived a life retired from the active duties 
 which had so long and so successfully occupied 
 them. Politically he and his wife were in accord, 
 both being Republicans. Personally, Mr. Stewart 
 was a man of rare worth and nobility of charac- 
 ter, his religion being a consistent belief in the 
 Golden Rule. During his pioneer days in Ore- 
 gon he made many friends, and when fortune 
 favored him with a comfortable competency, won 
 by his untiring efforts, he held his place in the 
 esteem of the older generations, with an added 
 place in that of the new. His death was a loss 
 to the entire community. 
 
 Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Stewart, Marcellus died in infancy; Henrietta 
 is now Mrs. Randall, of Corvallis, with whom 
 Mrs. Stewart makes her home; Mahala is Mrs. 
 John Stewart of Corvallis ; Jehil is a resident of 
 Salem ; Melissa is the wife of W. H. McMahan 
 of Corvallis ; and La Fayette makes his home 
 in Corvallis. The three last named were born 
 in Oregon. Mrs. Stewart is a member of the 
 Methodist Church. She has five children living, 
 six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. 
 The brothers and sisters of Mrs. James H. 
 Stewart, who crossed the plain in 185 1, were 
 John, Mary, Rebecca and James, of whom the 
 three first-named died in Washington, and the 
 latter in Eugene, Ore. 
 
 WILLIAM GROVES. With one of the most 
 interesting periods of our country's history — that 
 of the mining excitement of the west — William 
 Groves was actively identified. When the Pacific 
 coast was largely settled by men who had come 
 to the west to gain fortunes rapidly, when towns 
 were but collections of miners' shanties and tents, 
 before the era of legislation and of law, and 
 before the introduction of the comforts of civili- 
 zation here, he began his search for the precious 
 metal and for more than half a century has lived 
 upon the coast, making his home at the present 
 time in Corvallis. 
 
 Mr. Groves is a native of Virginia, his birth 
 
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 1325 
 
 having occurred near Batt, January 13, 1832, 
 and when he was two years old his parents re- 
 moved to Ohio. His father, Michael Groves, was 
 also a native of Virginia and a farmer by occu- 
 pation. In 1834 he removed to Ohio, settling 
 first in Pickaway count} - , and later he carried on 
 farming near Batavia, that state, where he died 
 in 1887. He was united in marriage with Eliza 
 Young, who was also born in the Old Dominion 
 and died in the Buckeye state. In their family 
 were seven children, of whom five are living. 
 William is the eldest and the only one that came 
 to the coast. He had two brothers who were 
 in the Civil war. 
 
 William Groves was reared in Ohio and 
 attended a subscription school held in a log 
 building. A few days before the twenty-first an- 
 niversary of his birth — January 13, 1852 — he 
 started for California, going to New York City 
 and then on the steamer Aspinwall sailing for 
 Panama. He crossed the Isthmus and then again 
 embarked for San Francisco, where he arrived 
 forty-five days after leaving New York. He 
 rushed to the mining district on the Yuba river, 
 near Nevada City, where he was engaged in 
 placer mining, and in 1853 went over the moun- 
 tains by pack train, through Jackson county, Ore., 
 to Crescent City, Cal. Later he returned to In- 
 dian creek, California, thence went up the Kla- 
 math river and was mining on the Scott river 
 until 1855. He was subsequently in the midst 
 of. the Orofino excitement, was at Florence and 
 then in the Boise Basin of Idaho, prospecting 
 and mining until 1864, when he came to the 
 Willamette valley, establishing his home in Cor- 
 vallis. 
 
 Here Mr. Groves built a carding mill and 
 woolen factory on Oak creek, a mile and a half 
 from the town, and while conducting his indus- 
 trial interests he also engaged in farming. He 
 carried on the carding business from 1865 until 
 1885 an d then became connected with the water- 
 works company of Corvallis. He has been asso- 
 ciated with it from almost its inception and has 
 been largely instrumental in the upbuilding of 
 the system, which is now a credit to the city. He 
 is acting superintendent of the plant, which has 
 a capacity for pumping a million and a half gal- 
 lons of water per day with a tank capacity of 
 sixty thousand gallons. There is a pressure of 
 thirty-five pounds in the tower, and it is seventy- 
 five feet to the bottom of the tank. The pres- 
 sure can be increased to one hundred pounds. 
 In addition to his labors in this connection, Mr. 
 Groves is still interested in farming and stock- 
 raising. 
 
 In Corvallis Mr. Groves was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Emma Horning, a native of Mis- 
 souri, who came to Corvallis in 1850 with her 
 parents. Her father, Fred A. Horning, was 
 
 born near Berlin, Germany, a son of George G. 
 Horning, who settled in Missouri, where he fol- 
 lowed farming. F. A. Horning was a confect- 
 ioner and followed his trade in Westport, Jackson 
 county, Mo. In 1850 he brought his wife and 
 their daughter to Oregon, making his way over- 
 land with an ox-train, being on the road from 
 the first of May until the first of September. He 
 started for California, but changing his plans 
 came to the Sunset state. Settling near Corval- 
 lis he secured three hundred and tw.enty acres 
 of land, now constituting one of the finest farms 
 in Benton county, and thereon he carried forward 
 the work of cultivation and development until 
 his death in 1891. His wife bore the maiden 
 name of Mary Johnson and was a daughter of 
 Charles Johnson, who was born in Tennessee 
 and came with his father to Missouri at an early 
 age, where he lived till May, 1850, when he came 
 to Oregon, bringing his wife and eight children, 
 five sons and three daughters. His wife and 
 one daughter died on the plains while en route to 
 Oregon. His oldest son, John W., was the first 
 president of the State University, which position 
 he held for eighteen years, when he resigned on 
 account of failing health. Charles Johnson set- 
 tled on three hundred and twenty acres of land, 
 most of which is now included within the College 
 farm. Mr. Horning was much interested in 
 raising the money for the establishment of the 
 college and did much for the furtherance of the 
 movement. His wife died in May, 1868. Mr. 
 Johnson, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Groves, 
 once owned two thousand acres of land on and 
 adjacent to the site of Kansas City, Mo. In the 
 Horning family were eleven children : Emma, 
 now Mrs. Groves ; L. F., who is engaged in 
 farming near Grangeville, Idaho ; J. Robert, a 
 stockman of Lake county, this state ; Mrs. Cyn- 
 thia Krape, of Portland ; Thomas H., of To- 
 ledo, Ore. ; Charles, who is engaged in ranch- 
 ing in eastern Washington ; George, a farmer 
 of Benton county; E. B., a grocer of Corvallis; 
 Alice, who is dean of the women's department 
 of the State Agricultural College at Mesilla 
 Park, N. M. ; Jennie, the wife of C. D. Thomp- 
 son, of Hood River ; and Fred, who was educated 
 in Corvallis College and is now in Nevada. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Groves was 
 celebrated September 24, 1864. and has been 
 blessed with four children : Lillie May ; Jessie, 
 the wife of Professor Kittredge, of Weston, 
 Ore. ; Frank W., who has charge of the general 
 storehouse at the Puget Sound navy yard ; and 
 Edna, who is a teacher. All are graduates of 
 the Oregon Agricultural College. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Groves has long been 
 prominent and several times has been called to 
 offices of public honor and trust. He served for 
 nine vears as citv treasurer and for one term 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 as county treasurer. He was made a Mason in 
 Corvallis Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M., of which 
 he is a past master ; he belongs to the Royal Arch 
 Chapter and is a charter member of the council, 
 while both he and his wife are charter members 
 of the Order of Eastern Star. Mrs. Groves is 
 also a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. In his political views Mr. Groves has 
 always been a Republican and his active co- 
 operation in many measures for the general good 
 indicates his progressive nature and public 
 spirit. 
 
 WILL G. GILSTRAP. The editor of the 
 Eugene Register is not only one of the most 
 commanding figures in western journalism, but 
 also one of the most cosmopolitan of men. Since 
 1892 he has conducted in all its details the most 
 prosperous, and in many respects the most sub- 
 stantial and enterprising newpaper in Lane 
 county, never for an instant losing control of 
 its policy, always the initiator, always the leader. 
 As is well known, his paper is the mouthpiece 
 of the Republican party in this section, and 
 the proprietor has a genius for politics. A bril- 
 liant and forceful writer, he has humor, business 
 sagacity, a penetrating style as a paragrapher, 
 untiring energy and amazing enterprise and 
 keenness in the collection of news. As an expon- 
 ent of moderate, conservative, and well balanced 
 journalism, and of the courtesy which more than 
 aught else indicates an adherence to the world- 
 wide mission of the press, the Eugene Register 
 is deserving of the respect and attention which 
 it commands even among its opponents. 
 
 That Mr. Gilstrap spent many years of his 
 life on a farm has certainly been in his favor, 
 and is undoubtedly responsible for the nearness 
 to nature so apparent in his sympathies. He 
 was born on his father's farm near Pleasanton, 
 Kans., November 4, 1865, and the drudgery of 
 the harvest field was varied by attendance at the 
 district school. In 1882 he was graduated from 
 the Pleasanton high school, and during 1883-84 
 attended the Fort Scott Normal College, where 
 terminated his preliminary search for knowl- 
 edge. His first business experience was acquired 
 as a clerk in a large lumber concern, a position 
 which he relinquished upon removing to Colfax, 
 Wash., in 1888. In the spring of 1889 he 
 moved to Oakesdale, Wash., and established the 
 Oakesdale Sun, in 1890 increasing his responsi- 
 bility by starting the Alliance Advocate, which 
 was later disposed of to the Farmer's Alliance, 
 and used by the latter organization as its official 
 organ. Mr. Gilstrap came to Oregon in 1892, 
 soon afterward succeeding to the editorship of 
 the Eugene Register, a dailv and weekly publi- 
 
 cation, easily ranking as one of the leading Re- 
 publican newspapers in the state. A feature of 
 the paper is that it is connected with the largest 
 job printing plant in Lane county. 
 
 In Oakesdale, Wash., Mr. Gilstrap was mar- 
 ried, October 16, 1891, to Lillian May Finch, 
 who was born in Umatilla county, Ore., a 
 daughter of S. E. Finch. Two children have 
 been born of this union, Cosby Lucile, aged 
 eleven, and Louis Frederick, aged two years. 
 Mr. Gilstrap is a member and trustee of the 
 Eugene Commercial Club, and is fraternally 
 connected with the Knights of Pythias, the 
 Knights of the Maccabees, and the Woodmen of 
 the World. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 MARY A. GARLINGHOUSE. A pictur- 
 esque windmill, flapping its skeleton arms in the 
 breeze, and further indicating its presence by the 
 inevitable dirge which accompanies its industry, 
 would seem to beckon travelers along the high- 
 way to an inspection of the finely improved Gar- 
 linghouse farm over which it is called to preside 
 from its elevated vantage ground. Had this time- 
 honored and very ancient device eyes with which 
 to see, it might view eight hundred and eight 
 acres of land, given over to wheat and other 
 grains, fruit, acres of corn, all the general com- 
 modities with which farmers have to do, and ex- 
 tensive stock-raising operations. One of the most 
 valuable properties in Benton county, it is also 
 one of the best equipped, and it would seem that 
 no improvement evolved by the ingenuity of 
 man, had been omitted from its working equip- 
 ment. 
 
 This model farm has been the property of 
 Mrs. Mary Garlinghouse since 1852, and is now 
 manag'ed by her second husband, William Gar- 
 linghouse, who is one of the successful and 
 popular men in Benton county. Mrs. Garling- 
 house was born in Kentucky, her parents having 
 been farmers in that state for many years. The 
 family moved to Illinois, at an early day, where 
 the daughter married William Coyle, with whom 
 she continued to live in Illinois until 1849. The 
 young couple then started across the plains with 
 ox-teams, were on the road the usual length of 
 time, and arrived in good health and spirits at 
 their destination in Oregon. In Multnomah 
 county they spent the first winter, and in 1852 
 came to Benton county and took up six hundred 
 and forty acres of land one mile northeast of 
 Monroe. Mr. Coyle prospered in the west, made 
 many improvements on his farm, and availed 
 himself of all the suggestions then known to 
 agriculturists. He died at the age of fifty-eight, 
 leaving his widow sole owner of the large farm, 
 upon which she has since lived. One child was 
 
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 born of this union. Malinda F., the widow of 
 L. J. Starr, who is living with her mother. 
 
 In time Airs. Loyle married William Garling- 
 house, who was born in Ohio, and who crossed 
 the plains in 1862, settling in Benton county. 
 At present the farm consists of eight hundred 
 acres, with fine improvements. Mr. Garling- 
 house is the present postmaster of Monroe, and 
 has served several years as a member of the 
 school board. One ought certainly to mention 
 his extensive knowledge of the horse, of which 
 he is a keen and persistent admirer. The noble 
 animal has no stancher friend anywhere, or one 
 who can more eloquently sound his praises. 
 Mrs. Garlinghouse is a typical pioneer woman 
 of the west, strong and resourceful, and capable 
 of winning and retaining the friendship of many. 
 There are no more genial or hospitable people 
 in the neighborhood, for their latch-key is always 
 down and their larder is a tempting one. 
 
 M. SVARVERUD. Eugene has a number of 
 adopted sons claiming Norseland ancestry, but 
 none who stand higher in the public esteem, or 
 are more thoroughly identified with the sub- 
 stantial business life of the city than M. Svar- 
 verud, senior partner and manager of the Eugene 
 Real Estate & Investment Company. 
 
 Mr. Svarverud was eleven years old when he 
 left his ancestral home near Christiania, Norway. 
 where he was born December 11, 1855, an ^ 
 where he had received irregular training at the 
 public schools. He was accompanied by his 
 father, Andrias P., and his mother Eline (Peter- 
 slkken) Svarverud, the latter a daughter of Peter 
 Peterslkken, a farmer near Christiania, and 
 a land owner. The paternal family were moder- 
 ate land owners, and Peter, the grandfather of 
 M. Svarverud had a farm of large size and re- 
 markable fertility. On both sides of the family 
 the members were strict adherents of the Luth- 
 eran Church. Arriving in America on a sailing 
 vessel in 1866, Andrias Svarverud located in Fill- 
 more county, Minn., bought a good-sized farm. 
 and lived there until moving to Ransom county. 
 X. Dak., in 1881. In 1893 Mr. Svarverud retired 
 from active life and moved to Eugene, Ore., and 
 died here in June, 1902, at the age of eighty- 
 three years. He is survived by the wife who 
 shared his rising fortunes, and who is now 
 seventy-four years of age. 
 
 The oldest of the six children born to his par- 
 ents, and one of the four now living, M. Svar- 
 verud was reared on the Minnesota farm, ac- 
 companied the family to North Dakota, and at 
 the age of twenty-one years homesteaded a claim 
 near Fort Ransom. He was one of the first in 
 that region to engage in wheat-raising, and his 
 venture proved successful, netting him sufficient 
 
 money to engage in a practical business enter- 
 prise. He came to Eugene in 1889 and started 
 a hardware and implement store on the corner 
 of West Eighth and Olive streets, and later on 
 moved to Willamette street, where he built up a 
 large business under the firm name of M. Svar- 
 verud & Company. The firm were so successful 
 that they started a branch store at Harrisburg, 
 and later one of the same kind at Independence, 
 operating all three under the same firm name. 
 The Cleveland administration brought the large 
 general and branch houses to a crisis in 1893, 
 the general depression affecting them to such an 
 extent that they were obliged to sell out in order 
 to pay their liabilities. With commendable 
 courage Mr. Svarverud weathered this storm 
 and kept hope burning in his heart, and in 1894 
 started the business since known as the Eugene 
 Real Estate & Investment Company, which was 
 organized in 1897 with R. McMurphy, C. M. 
 Densmore and W. A. Wood as Mr. Svarverud's 
 partners. The firm handle town and country 
 properties, including residence and timber. Many 
 fine properties have passed through their hands, 
 and many important transactions have been car- 
 ried to a successful finish. This partnership con- 
 tinued for about eighteen months, at which time 
 Messrs. McMurphy and Wood withdrew, the 
 business being continued by the other two gentle- 
 men until 1900, when Mr. Densmore withdrew, 
 and the business was continued for a year by Mr. 
 Svarverud, when George Fisher purchased an 
 interest, and in April, 1903, was succeeded by W. 
 W. Calkins. 
 
 Mr. Svarverud's public spirit has found out- 
 let in many avenues of activity in the city, and 
 his sympathies have invariably turned towards 
 the benevolent and charitable as worthy of his 
 personal attention and financial assistance. He 
 is a Republican in politics, but has never taken 
 a more than nominal interest in local affairs. 
 Fraternally he is one of the best known men in 
 Eugene and Lane county, and at present enjoys 
 the distinction of being grand marshal of the 
 Grand Lodge of Oregon, I. O. O. F., as well as 
 past noble grand of the Eugene lodge. He is a 
 member of the Encampment, the Woodmen of the 
 World, and the Knights of the Maccabees. One 
 of the first to agitate the subject of the Eugene 
 Real Estate Exchange, he has been president of 
 the exchange since its organization, and has 
 been the leading and most influential member in 
 promoting its well-being. 
 
 In Ransom county, N. Dak., Mr. Svarverud 
 married Georgiana Marsh, a native of Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., and daughter of George Marsh, 
 an early settler of Barnes county, N. Dak. Five 
 children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Svar- 
 verud : Franklin Evander ; Leland Wray ; George 
 Martin ; Jesse Lawrence, and Frederick Carlton. 
 
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 The old-time expression, that "his word is as 
 good as his bond," applies to Mr. Svarverud, for 
 no man in the community is more readily ac- 
 corded honor and confidence and good will, nor 
 have any a more firmly established reputation 
 for loyalty to business and general community 
 interests. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN KNISELY. Oc- 
 cupying a conspicuous position among the prom- 
 inent educators of the northwest, Prof. A. L. 
 Knisely is recognized as a man of rare ability 
 and talent. As one of the staff of instructors 
 at the Oregon Agricultural College, being pro- 
 fessor of chemistry, he is faithfully performing 
 his part in making this school one of the leading 
 institutions of the kind in the Union, his labors 
 in this direction being duly appreciated by the 
 board of regents, the faculty, the students, and 
 the patrons of the college. Finely educated, and 
 especially prepared for the work in which he is 
 engaged, he is very successful as a teacher, and 
 is favorably known as an expert chemist at the 
 department of agriculture, in Washington, D. C. 
 
 A son of A. J. Knisely, Abraham L. Knisely 
 was born in Chicago, 111., February 19, 1865. 
 His grandfather, Christian Knisely, was born 
 and reared in Meadville, Pa., where he learned 
 the cabinetmaker's trade, which he subsequently 
 followed for awhile in Dayton, Ohio, later re- 
 moving to Chicago, 111., where he spent his last 
 years. A. J. Knisely was born in Meadville, Pa., 
 and was there reared and educated. Subse- 
 quently taking up his residence in Chicago, 111., 
 he was there engaged as a brick manufacturer 
 for a number of years. Removing then to Benton 
 Harbor, Mich., he has since devoted his atten- 
 tion to horticultural pursuits, having a fine fruit 
 /farm of twenty acres. He is a member of the 
 Berrien County Horticultural Society, and its 
 secretary. He married Rebecca Hastings Samp- 
 son, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, of New, 
 England ancestors, and a daughter of William 
 Sampson, formerly a manufacturer of pottery 
 in that city, later a stockholder in the South 
 Branch Dock Company, at Chicago. His death 
 occurred in Cincinnati, where he had resided 
 for many years. Of the children born of their 
 union, two sons and one daughter are living. 
 
 Obtaining his elementary education in the 
 graded schools of Chicago, Abraham L. Knisely 
 went with his parents to Benton Harbor in 1876, 
 and after attending the district school for awhile 
 entered the high school, from which he received 
 his diploma in 1884. The following year he 
 spent on the home farm, then attended the Col- 
 legiate Institute, being graduated from there in 
 1886. Becoming interested in chemistry, Mr. 
 Knisely took a four-years course at the Uni- 
 
 versity of Michigan, from which he was gradu- 
 ated with the class of 1891, receiving the degree 
 of B. S. Subsequently doing post-graduate 
 work in the same university, he had the degree 
 of M. S. in chemistry conferred upon him. After 
 receiving his diploma, in 1891, he went to Gen- 
 eva, N. Y., as assistant chemist at the experi- 
 ment station, and after receiving the master's 
 degree continued there as assistant chemist, also 
 having charge of the dairy products. In 1895 
 he was given a year's leave of absence to attend 
 Cornell University, where he did post-graduate 
 work in agricultural chemistry and horticulture. 
 Resigning his position in Geneva, he subsequently 
 continued his work at Cornell, being employed, 
 also, as assistant chemist in the College of Agri- 
 culture. Since July, 1900, Mr. Knisely has filled 
 the chair of chemistry at the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College, and has been chief chemist at 
 the experiment station. Although he has been 
 here a comparatively short time, he is already 
 well known in scientific circles, and takes an 
 active part in institute work all over the state. 
 
 At Battle Creek, Mich., Professor Knisely 
 married Miss Blanche Briggs, who was born at 
 Albion, Mich., and was graduated from thle 
 University of Michigan, in 1890, with the de- 
 gree of B. L. Two children have been born of 
 their union, Margaret Gould and Malcolm 
 Briggs. In politics the professor is a sound Re- 
 publican. 
 
 ARTHUR BURTON CORDLEY. A man 
 of high intellectual attainments, an earnest 
 worker, especially devoted to the interests of the 
 scientific department, of which he has charge, 
 Professor Cordley is considered an authority 
 on zoology and entomology, and by his constant 
 and conscientious labor, both in his classes and 
 at the experiment station, has won for himself 
 an enviable reputation, and gained an honored 
 position among the able instructors of the Ore- 
 gon Agricultural College, with which he is con- 
 nected. Energetic and ambitious, he has built 
 up the department of which he is now at the head 
 from its foundation, making it one of the most 
 useful in the college, and one of the most popu- 
 lar. Active in local enterprises, he has done 
 much toward advancing the interests of Cor- 
 vallis, and is everywhere held in high esteem, 
 his integrity as a man, and his loyalty as a 
 citizen being unquestioned. . 
 
 A son of the late Charles Cordley, Prof. Arthur 
 B. Cordley was born February 11, 1864, at 
 Pinckney, Livingston county, Mich., which was 
 also the birthplace of his father. His paternal 
 grandfather, James Cordley, was born, reared 
 and married in England. Emigrating to Amer- 
 ica, in 1833, he settled in Michigan, taking up 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1329 
 
 land in Livingston county, near Hamburg Junc- 
 tion, and there improved a homestead, on which 
 he spent his remaining years. Charles Cordley 
 spent his entire life in Michigan, succeeding to 
 the ownership of his parental acres, and being 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits most success- 
 fully. His wife, whose maiden name was Esther 
 Hicks, was a life-long resident of Michigan, al- 
 though she was of Pennsylvania ancestry, her 
 parents having been natives of that state. Of 
 the three children born of their union, Arthur 
 B., the only son, is the only one to come to the 
 Pacific coast, the two daughters still residing in 
 Michigan. 
 
 Laying the foundation for his education in the 
 district school, Arthur B. Cordley labored hard 
 during his vacations on the home farm, continu- 
 ing his agricultural labors until nineteen years 
 of age, when he entered upon his professional 
 career, teaching in a public school for two years. 
 Becoming a student at the Michigan State Agri- 
 cultural College, in Lansing, in the spring of 
 1885, ne was graduated from that institution with 
 the degree of B. S. in 1888. Remaining there 
 the ensuing two years, first as instructor in 
 zoology, and later as assistant entomologist, he 
 then accepted a position in the University of 
 Vermont, at Burlington, becoming instructor in 
 zoology in the College of Agriculture, and as- 
 sistant entomologist at the experiment station. 
 In May, 1891, Professor Cordley went to Wash- 
 ington, D. C, as assistant entomologist in the 
 United States Department of Agriculture, re- 
 maining there until 1893. Returning then to 
 Michigan, he spent two years on the home farm, 
 leaving it in 1895 to take up his present work as 
 professor of zoology and entomology at the 
 Oregon Agricultural College, being, also, ento- 
 mologist and plant pathologist at the experiment 
 station. An earnest student, the professor is con- 
 tinually adding to his scientific "knowledge, in 
 1899 taking a graduate course for that pur- 
 pose at Cornell University. In 1900 he was 
 honored by his alma mater, which conferred upon 
 him the degree of M. S. He has a wide reputa- 
 tion in scientific and literary circles, being a mem- 
 ber of the American Association of Economic 
 Entomologists, a branch of the American Asso- 
 ciation for Advancement of Science. 
 
 At Brookings, S. D., Professor Cordley mar- 
 ried Miss Mary McLouth, a native of Ypsilanti, 
 Mich., a daughter of Prof. Lewis McLouth, Ph. 
 D., for many years one of the faculty of the 
 Michigan State Normal School, later president 
 of the State Agricultural College of South Da- 
 kota, but now a resident of Springfield, Mass., 
 where he organized, and still has charge, of the 
 Intercollegiate Branch of the Home Corre- 
 spondence School. Professor and Mrs. Cordley 
 have one child, Dorothea. Professor Cordley is 
 
 a Republican in politics, a member of the Con- 
 gregational' Church, and belongs to the W. of 
 \\\, and to Corvallis Lodge, No. 14, F. & A. M. 
 
 JAMES WITHYCOMBE. Comprehending 
 and heeding the advice of Sidney Smith, who 
 said, "Whatever you are from nature, keep to 
 it ; never desert your own line of talent, and you 
 will succeed," Mr. Withycombe has unquestion- 
 ably chosen his scientific occupation with great 
 wisdom, and in his earnest studies has become 
 complete master of the particular science in 
 which he is at present interested. Conversant 
 with the various branches of general farming 
 from his earliest youth, he has never missed 
 an opportunity to gain knowledge of anything 
 connected with farm life, and is, therefore, es- 
 pecially fitted for his present position as director 
 of the experiment station of the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College. 
 
 Of English birth and parentage, Mr. Withy- 
 combe was born March 21, 1854, near Plymouth, 
 England, which was the birthplace, also, of his 
 father, Thomas Withycombe, and the life-long 
 residence of his grandfather, Henry Withy- 
 combe, a successful farmer and stock-raiser. 
 Thomas Withycombe emigrated to this country 
 with his family in 1871, and located in Wash- 
 ington county, Ore., buying a part of the Horace 
 Lindsay donation claim, near Farmington, where 
 he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for sev- 
 eral years. On retiring from active labor, he 
 removed to North Yamhill, where he spent his 
 last years. He married Mary Ann Spurr, who 
 was born near Plymouth, England, a daughter 
 of Joseph Spurr, an extensive and prosperous 
 sheep-breeder. Of their union five children were 
 born, namely : John ; Thomas ; James ; Mrs. Mary 
 Burton, of North Yamhill, Ore, ; and Philip, a 
 tile and brick manufacturer at North Yamhill. 
 The mother died on the home farm, near Farm- 
 ington. 
 
 James Withycombe received his rudimentary 
 education in the public schools of his native 
 town, afterwards taking a course of study in the 
 grammar school at Tavistock, England. Com- 
 ing to Oregon when seventeen years of age, he 
 assisted in the care of the home farm, at the 
 same time becoming interested in stock-raising, 
 and studying veterinary surgery, which he sub- 
 sequently practiced successfully a number of years 
 in Portland, Ore. In 1889 he was appointed, by 
 the domestic annual commission, state veterinary 
 of Oregon, a position that he filled most satis- 
 factorily for nine years. During that time he 
 also had charge of a farm in Washington 
 county, near Hillsboro, owning a half section of 
 land, which is still in his possession. In addi- 
 tion to general farming, he paid especial atten- 
 
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 tion to raising stock, including standard-bred 
 horses, Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire- and Cots- 
 wold sheep and Berkshire swine, realizing ex- 
 cellent results. In the fall of 1898 Mr. Withy- 
 combe gave up farming to accept the position 
 of vice director of the experiment station at the 
 Oregon Agricultural College, with which he is 
 still connected officially, having been director of 
 the experiment station since his appointment to 
 the position, in July, 1902. In 1899 this institu- 
 tion conferred upon him the degree of M. Agr., 
 to which he is worthily entitled. In the depart- 
 ment of the college to which he is attached, Dr. 
 Withycombe is attracting much attention, in- 
 teresting the pupils in practical agriculture and 
 horticulture, proving in a clear manner the 
 necessity for a scientific training in these branches 
 if the highest possible success is to be attained. 
 He is widely known in connection with the 
 dairy and farmers' institutes throughout the 
 state, and has a large acquaintance with the 
 leading agriculturists. With them his great am- 
 bition is to have Oregon reach the place to which 
 she is justly entitled among the rich agricultural 
 states of the Union. He is a charter member of 
 Farmington Grange, of Washington county, 
 but at present holds membership with Cor- 
 vallis Grange. For two years he was president 
 of the North Pacific Wool Growers' Association. 
 Dr. Withycombe married, in Washington 
 county, Ore., Miss Isabel Carpenter, a native 
 of Farmington. Four children have been born 
 of their union, namely : Harry, who entered the 
 University of Illinois with the class of 1903 ; 
 Thomas Robert, a graduate of the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College, in the class of 1901 ; Mabel, a 
 graduate of the same class as Thomas R. ; and 
 Earle. The doctor is a strong Republican in 
 politics, and at the convention held in Albany 
 was among the first to advocate the name of T. 
 H. Tongue for member of congress. He is 
 a member of the Christian Church, with which 
 he united in 1874, and in which he has filled dif- 
 ferent offices. 
 
 MRS. SARAH E. MOORE. The Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen of the state of Ore- 
 gon has reason to be proud of Mre. Sarah E. 
 Moore, a prominent organizer of the Degree of 
 Honor of that lodge and a woman whose noble 
 qualities have all been enlisted in the cause she 
 espoused. She was born in Alabama, the 
 daughter of H. L. Wilkins, and the youngest 
 of the children which blessed the union of her 
 parents. In 1877 her father came to Corvallis, 
 Ore., bringing his family to a new home among 
 the newer opportunities of the west, and, then 
 but a young girl, Mrs. Moore continued her 
 studies in the public schools of this city. De- 
 
 cember 27, 1881, she was united in marriage with 
 Medford Moore, thus allying her fortunes with 
 those of a pioneer family of Oregon. Mr. Moore 
 was born in Lebanon, Linn county, Ore., in 
 1854, the son of John W., a native of Mis- 
 souri, who emigrated to the west in 1848 and 
 settled in Linn county, where he engaged in 
 farming. His life is more or less interwoven 
 with the events that formed the history of the 
 early days of Oregon, serving with many other 
 pioneers in the Rogue river war. He is now re- 
 tired from the active cares of life and makes his 
 home in Walla Walla, Wash. Of the five chil- 
 dren born to himself and wife only three are 
 now living. The second of the children was 
 Medford, and after a childhood upon his fath- 
 er's farm he completed his education in the Ore- 
 gon Agricultural College. At the age of eight- 
 een years he went to South America in company 
 with his two brothers, John and Frank, and set- 
 tling in Argentine Republic, they remained there 
 farming for three years. Some time after the 
 death of his brother, Frank, in that country, 
 Medford returned to Oregon and engaged in 
 farming in Benton county, near Wells, for five 
 years, removing at the close of that period to 
 Prineville, Crook county, where he became in- 
 terested in stock-raising. Two years later he 
 ran a stage in eastern Oregon for several years ; 
 then, during Cleveland's administration he was 
 appointed postmaster of Prineville, a position 
 he held from 1893 to 1897. After a period in 
 the harness business in Prineville he was inter- 
 ested in a drug store. In the affairs of the city 
 h,e was always actively interested, at the time 
 of his death, July 9, 1902, holding the position 
 of city treasurer. Fraternally he was identified 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 being past officer in the Prineville lodge ; the 
 Rebekahs ; Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 of which he was past master workman ; and the 
 Degree of Honor. Politically Mr. Moore was a 
 Democrat. 
 
 While in her home in eastern Oregon Mrs. 
 Moore was district deputy of the Degree of 
 Honor of the A. O. U. W, and also field worker, 
 in which positions she has worked all over the 
 state of Oregon. She has established fourteen 
 lodges of the Degree of Honor, and now has her 
 membership with the Degree of Honor of Cor- 
 vallis ; where she removed in August, after the 
 death of her husband, for the better educational 
 advantages offered her son, Guy, who is now a 
 student of the Oregon Agricultural College, of 
 the class of 1904, and Gladys will graduate in 
 the high school, class of 1904. Guy Moore, in 
 his sophomore year, won the prize offered by 
 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 
 an oratorical contest, and in February, 1903, he 
 won through a contest the right to represent his 
 
 
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 college in the state oratorical contest, in the 
 former winning the gold medal and a cash prize 
 of $15, his unusual ability placing him high in 
 scholarly attainments, while in the state contest 
 he won third place, the title of his oration being 
 "Oliver Cromwell, the Man of Action." Mrs. 
 Moore is also a member of the Eastern Star and 
 Rebekahs, in the latter holding the position of 
 vice grand. Politically she holds opinions in 
 accord with those of her husband, though not 
 content to be a follower, for she believes firmly 
 in woman's suffrage and looks forward with 
 confidence to the day when women of intelli- 
 gence and judgment shall be allowed to do their 
 duty to the country which gives them a home, 
 side by side with the man of the same attain- 
 ments. 
 
 ROBERT McCAUSTLAND. As a pioneer 
 of the state of Wisconsin, as a courageous sol- 
 dier during the Civil war, as a farmer for many 
 years in Benton county, Ore., and as a retired 
 and helpful citizen of Corvallis, Robert Mc- 
 Caustland is entitled to mention among the na- 
 tive sons of Ireland who have found in the land 
 beyond the seas a home and abundant oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
 Supposedly during the times of religious perse- 
 cution in Scotland the paternal grandfather Mc- 
 Caustland left his native land and settled in 
 the mountainous County Tyrone, Ireland. Here 
 was born his son, Daniel, the father of Robert, 
 and who became a farmer and linen manufact- 
 urer. The linen industry was conducted on a 
 rather small scale, and was confined to the finer 
 grades of flax cloth, in which the elder Mc- 
 Caustland excelled. He never left his native 
 land, nor did his wife, who also was of Scotch 
 descent, before her marriage Elizabeth McFad- 
 den. whose father, Samuel, came- from Scotland 
 to County Tyrone. Of the nine children in 
 the family all grew to maturity, and three are 
 living. Robert, born in County Tyrone, June 1, 
 1830, being one of the oldest. Three of the 
 sons. James, Thomas and Robert served in the 
 Civil war. 
 
 As a boy in County Tyrone Robert McCaust- 
 land attended the national school irregularly, and 
 from his father learned the trade of linen-weav- 
 ing. He was ambitious and resourceful, and 
 the limitations of his countrymen seemed to his 
 buoyant spirits inexpressibly sad and depress- 
 ing. Accordingly he made arrangements to .come 
 to America when he had reached nineteen years 
 of age. and January 7. 1850. embarked on the 
 sailer Harold at Glasgow. After a voyage of 
 eight weeks and four days the harbor of New- 
 York loomed against the horizon, and filled the 
 hearts of the homeseekers with great joy and 
 
 thankfulness. For about a year Robert remained 
 in New York and worked at whatever he could 
 find to do, and then went to Philadelphia, Pa., 
 where he found employment in a feed store for 
 about five years. In the winter of 1855 he re- 
 moved to Adams county, Wis., twenty-two miles 
 from Kilbourn City. Here he engaged in gen- 
 eral farming for twenty-six years, and during 
 the first years in the pineries experienced all of 
 the deprivations incident to pioneer life. His 
 neighbors were few and far between, and the 
 numberless trees shut in his little habitation, and 
 loneliness reigned supreme. Industry accom- 
 plished much, however, and patches of cleared 
 ground widened into acres of tillable land, and 
 harvests rewarded the autumn expectations. 
 
 The breaking out of the Civil war found Mr. 
 McCaustland in a fairly prosperous condition, 
 an important member of his agricultural com- 
 munity. In November, 1864, he volunteered in 
 Company C, Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer 
 Infantry, and was mustered in at Madison, Wis., 
 afterward joining his regiment at Eastport, 
 Miss. He served up and down in Mississippi 
 and Alabama, and at the battle of Fort Spanish 
 was wounded in the left hand March 28, 1865, 
 by a shell, and was incapacitated for further 
 service. After three months in the hospital he 
 was mustered out in July, 1865, and thereupon 
 returned to his home and farm in Wisconsin. 
 November 14. 1879, ne was united in marriage 
 with Mrs. Mary Hay, who was born in Nor- 
 thumberland, England, a daughter of John Cow- 
 ing, a native of the same part of England. Her 
 grandfather, George Cowing, was a farmer in 
 Northumberland, and her father brought his 
 family to America in 1849, locating in Dane 
 county, Wis. He afterward removed to Adams 
 county, Wis., but finally lived in retirement in 
 Jackson county, Minn., where his death occurred, 
 as did also that of his wife, Elizabeth (David- 
 son) Cowing, a native of Rutledge, England. 
 Eight children were born into the Cowing fam- 
 ily, seven of whom are living. One of the sons, 
 John, served in the Civil war in the Forty- 
 ninth Wisconsin. Mrs. McCaustland was 
 reared in Wisconsin, and for her first husband 
 married Murray Hay, who was born in Herki- 
 mer county, N. Y., and afterward became a 
 merchant in Easton, Ws. Of the four children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Hay. Marion is a mer- 
 chant in Wilbur, Wash. : Libbie is now Mrs. 
 Cadwell. of Minnesota: Jennie is Mrs. Alex- 
 ander, of Wilbur, Wash. ; and Edward is a 
 merchant in Wilbur and also manager of the 
 Big Bend Land Company. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. McCaustland sold his farm in 
 Wisconsin and located in Plymouth county, 
 Iowa, where he lived until 1889, when he dis- 
 posed of his farm and came to Oregon, locating 
 
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 on a farm in the vicinity of Hubbard, at the 
 same time purchasing five acres in the town. 
 He farmed successfully in Marion county and 
 built two residences in Hubbard, both of which 
 are rented, as is also his farm. In 1896 he came 
 to Corvallis and bought a pleasant home where 
 he continued to live comparatively retired from 
 active business life, until November, 1903, when 
 he and his wife removed to Wilbur, Wash., 
 where they intend to take up their permanent 
 residence. His first presidential vote was cast 
 for a Republican candidate, and until about 
 eight years ago he upheld the principles and 
 issues of his chosen party. He then became a 
 student of social and economic conditions, with 
 the result that he is now a firm believer in So- 
 cialism. The only son and child born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. McCaustland, James C, is a graduate 
 of the Oregon Agricultural College, class of 
 1900, and is at present engaged in the mercantile 
 and real estate business with his brothers in 
 Wilbur. 
 
 GEORGE BRELSFORD KEADY. Of- 
 ficially connected with the Oregon Agricultural 
 College, Mr. Keady has entire charge of the 
 printing department of the college and experi- 
 ment station. Familiar with the art preserva- 
 tive from his youth, he learned the printer's 
 trade from his father, becoming expert in every 
 department, from the lowest in the office to the 
 highest, and has made this his life work. 
 
 A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Keady was 
 born, November 23, 1847, m Washington, the 
 birthplace of his father, W. F. Keady, who 
 was of sturdy Scotch ancestry. W. F. Keady 
 was an editor by profession, for several years 
 of his earlier life having charge of the Browns- 
 ville (Pa.) Clipper. Removing, in 1852, with 
 his family to Illinois, he made the journey over- 
 land, walking all the way. Locating in Iroquois 
 county, he had charge of the Middleport Press, 
 now published at Watseka, 111., under the name 
 of the Iroquois Times. Going then to Kankakee, 
 111., he bought an interest in the Kankakee Gar- 
 zette, which he -edited until purchasing the old 
 Kankakee Journal, which he edited and pub- 
 lished, in company with his son, George B. 
 Keady, until 1880. Following the march of 
 civilization westward in that year, he took up 
 his residence in Olympia, Wash., and served as 
 first county clerk of Thurston county after Wash- 
 ington's admission to the 'Union. There he spent 
 his last years, dying at a good old age. His 
 wife, whose maiden name was Martha Patton, 
 was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Illinois. 
 Of the five children born of their union, three 
 are living, one of the sons, W. P., a resident 
 of Portland, Ore., being interested in the Ore- 
 
 gon Water Power and Railway Company, and in 
 mining. 
 
 Brought up in Illinois from the age of five 
 years, George B. Keady attended the public 
 schools until fifteen years of age, when he offered 
 his services to his country. In 1862 he enlisted 
 in Company F, One Hundred and Thirteenth 
 Illinois Infantry, being mustered in at Chicago 
 as a private, but later being made drummer of the 
 company. Joining the Army of the Tennessee 
 with his regiment, he was present at many of 
 the more important engagements of the war, in- 
 cluding those at Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Gun- 
 town and the Tallahatchie and Bolivar raids. 
 Subsequently, while stationed at Memphis, Tenn., 
 he assisted in guarding the Twin Bridges when 
 Forrest made his raid on that city. At the ex- 
 piration of his term of enlistment he was mus- 
 tered out of service, at Memphis, on June 20, 
 1865. 
 
 Returning home, Mr. Keady attended school 
 a year, then entered the employ of his father, 
 working on the Middleport Press, and then on 
 the Kankakee Gazette, learning the printer's 
 trade. Subsequently forming a copartnership 
 with his father, he bought the Kankakee Journal, 
 and changed its name to the Kankakee Times, 
 which was then run as a weekly paper, but is 
 now published daily. Selling out in 1884, Mr. 
 Keady went to Omaha, Neb., where he was as- 
 sociated with the Gibson Miller Printing Com- 
 pany until 1888. Coming then to Portland, 
 Ore., he worked at his trade for the Lewis-Dry- 
 den Printing Company until offered, by Frank 
 Baker, a position in the state printing office, 
 where he remained several years. Leaving the 
 position in 1897, Mr. Keady accepted his present 
 office as manager of the printing department at 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, his office and 
 plant being finely located in Mechanical Hall, 
 one of the handsomest and most imposing build- 
 ings on the campus. The plant has recently been 
 much enlarged and improved, being equipped 
 with the latest and most approved machinery, 
 and furnished with both steam and electrical 
 power. 
 
 While living in Kankakee, 111., Mr. Keady mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Wright, who was born in Indi- 
 ana. Politically Mr. Keady is a Republican, 
 and fraternally he is a member of Corvallis 
 Lodge, No. 14, F. & A. M., and for many years 
 belonged to Whipple Post, G. A. R., of Kanka- 
 kee, 111. Mrs. Keady is a member of the Episco- 
 pal Church and the Eastern Star, of Corvallis. 
 
 PETER RICKARD. One of the ideal farm- 
 ing properties of Benton county is that owned 
 and managed by Peter Ric.kard, located ten 
 miles southwest of Corvallis, and five hundred 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1333 
 
 acres in extent. Three hundred and fifty acres 
 of this property are under cultivation, and the 
 fortunate owner carries on general farming and 
 1 stock-raising, in both of which occupations he 
 has been unusually successful. This farm has 
 one of the finest rural residences in the county, 
 and the barn is one that would delight the heart 
 of a thrift}- farmer who yearly stores away 
 hundreds of tons of hay and bushels of grain, 
 and winters iarge numbers of fine stock. Mr. 
 Rickard sees the pleasant side of farming, and 
 philosophically adapts himself to the strenuous 
 and less agreeable phases of country life. He 
 has the means to conduct his affairs after the 
 most approved and modern methods, and to sur- 
 round himself and family with the luxuries 
 as well as necessities of life. 
 
 The people of Benton county are wont to as- 
 sociate success with the name of Rickard, and 
 in no sense have their expectations fallen short 
 of realization. John Rickard, the father of 
 Peter, and the founder of the family in Oregon, 
 is living on a tract of land nine hundred acres 
 in extent, on the old Territorial road, a portion 
 of his property being in Benton, and the balance 
 just across the line in Lane county. He was 
 born in North Carolina, November 7, 1827, his 
 father, Peter, being a native of the same state. 
 Peter Rickard was reared on a southern plan- 
 tation, and as a youth learned the blacksmith 
 trade, which he followed for many years. He 
 married Susan Kepeey, a native daughter of 
 North Carolina, with whom and his children he 
 removed tc Indiana in 1835, where his death 
 occurred at the age of sixty-eight years. He was 
 survived by his wife, who died at the home of her 
 son, John, in Oregon, at the age of seventy-nine 
 vears. John Rickard was seven years old when 
 he went overland with his family to Indiana, and 
 he lived in the Hoosier state until crossing the 
 plains in 1853. He came here with practically 
 nothing, and his vast estate is wholly the result 
 of his indefatigable perseverance and good man- 
 agement. He has taken an active interest in 
 the upbuilding of his adopted locality, is a Dem- 
 ocrat in politics, and has served on the school 
 board for eighteen years. 
 
 Peter Rickard, the namesake of his grand- 
 father, was reared on his father's large farm, and 
 was educated at the public schools and Corvallis 
 College. After his marriage with Clarinda Fiech- 
 ter. a native of this county, he went to live on 
 a farm on Muddy creek, seven miles south of 
 Philomath, and after three years bought three 
 hundred and twenty acres of his present farm, 
 which constitutes a portion of the old James 
 Foster donation claim. Five children have been 
 born into his family, of whom Thella B., Mark, 
 Leatha and Vena are at home, and Luke, the 
 third child in the family, is deceased. Mr. 
 
 Rickard is a Democrat in politics, as was his 
 father, and he has been prominent in political 
 affairs in the county. His special fitness for 
 office has been recognized by his fellow towns- 
 men, who have elected him sheriff for two terms, 
 and made him commissioner four years. He is 
 fraternally a welcome visitor at the Masonic and 
 Knights of Pythias lodges, and other social or- 
 ganizations in the county profit by his helpful 
 association. Upright in all of his dealings, gen- 
 erous in his contributions to all worthy charities, 
 and humane in his sympathies, he is a typical 
 representative of the cultured and broad-minded 
 agriculturist of the western slope. 
 
 JACOB M. CURRIER. An early pioneer of 
 Inavale, and one of its most respected citizens, 
 Jacob M. Currier has been a resident of this 
 section of the state for upwards of half a cen- 
 tury, and in that time has well performed his 
 part in promoting the advancement and develop- 
 ment of one of the finest agricultural regions 
 of Benton county. A hard-working, persevering 
 man, possessing shrewd common sense, observ- 
 ing and thinking for himself, he toiled as a young 
 man with determined energy, and his labors have 
 been crowned with success. By dint of industry 
 and good management he has acquired a magnifi- 
 cent estate, and is now one of the most extensive 
 and well-to-do agriculturists of his community. 
 Coming from substantial New England ancestry, 
 he was born February 12, 1827, in Orleans coun- 
 ty, Vt. In 1844 his parents, Jacob and Mary 
 (Smith) Currier, removed to Missouri, where the 
 father took up land, and in addition to improving 
 a farm, worked at the carpenter's and stone- 
 mason's trade. Both parents died at the age 
 of fifty-seven years. Of the nine children born 
 of their union, but three survive, namely : Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Foster, of Lake county, wife of James 
 Foster ; Lorena, wife of John White, of New 
 York ; and Jacob M. 
 
 Going with his parents to Missouri in 1844, 
 Jacob M. Currier remained there two years. In 
 1846, accompanied by two sisters, one of whom 
 was married, he came across the plains with ox- 
 teams, the only means of travel and transporta- 
 tion in those days, ere the country was spanned 
 by its present network of railways. The journey 
 required seven months, and one man of the train 
 was killed en route by the Indians. Spending 
 the first winter on the present site of the city 
 of Dallas, in Polk county, Mr. Currier enlisted the 
 next year in the United States service, joining 
 Capt. John Owens' company in the regiment or- 
 ganized December 31, 1847, m East Portland, 
 by Colonel Gilliam. Taking an active part in the 
 Cavuse war, he was in the engagement at De- 
 schutes, on the Columbia river, and at the battle 
 
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 of Wells Spring - . Going then to the old Whitman 
 station, where the massacre had taken place, he 
 helped to bury the dead. At the end of six months 
 he received his honorable discharge at Oregon 
 City. 
 
 Returning to Benton county, Mr. Currier re- 
 mained here a short time, in the fall of 1848 go- 
 ing to California, where he was engaged in pros- 
 pecting and mining until the spring of 1849, when 
 he again took up his residence in Benton county. 
 In 1850 he took up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres, lying about ten miles south- 
 west of Corvallis, in reality buying a squatter's 
 right to the place, and proved up on the same. 
 Marrying very soon afterward, he and his bride 
 began housekeeping in a cabin made of hewed 
 logs. Endowed with true pioneer grit this young 
 couple toiled incessantly, and by their united ef- 
 forts improved a productive farm. The log 
 house was in course of time replaced by a sub- 
 stantial dwelling house, which still stands, and 
 is in a good state of preservation. Barns and 
 other buildings necessary for successfully carry- 
 ing on his work were erected, ,more land was 
 purchased, and in the pursuit of his chosen occu- 
 pation Mr. Currier has amassed a competency. 
 Of his large farm of one thousand, five hundred 
 and sixty acres, he has eight hundred acres in 
 a good state of cultivation, and is carrying on 
 general farming and stock-raising with excellent 
 pecuniary results. 
 
 On August 25, 1850, Mr. Currier married 
 Mariah Foster, who was born in Ohio, and 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 1845. 
 Further history of the Foster family may be 
 found elsewhere in this volume in connection 
 with the sketch of John W. Foster. Four chil- 
 dren were born of that union, namely : William 
 A., living in California; Lorena, wife of John 
 Belknap, of California; Manly C, a resident of 
 Lake county, Ore. ; and Anna, deceased. Mrs. 
 Mariah (Foster) Currier died on the home farm 
 in 1859. Mr. Currier subsequently married Miss 
 Helena S. Buchanan, who came to Oregon with 
 her parents in 1856. An extended history of the 
 Buchanan family may be found on another page 
 of this biographical work in connection with the 
 sketch of William Buchanan. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Currier became the parents of four children, 
 namely: Elizabeth, who lives at home; John 
 B., deceased; Sarah, living at home; and Evaline, 
 wife of R. W. Scott, who has charge of the old 
 Currier homestead. Politically Mr. Currier was 
 formerly a strong Democrat, but is now classed 
 among the Independents, voting for such meas- 
 ures as he deems most beneficial to the com- 
 munity regardless of party restrictions. While 
 Oregon was yet a territory he served as county 
 commissioner of Benton county, and has held 
 various offices of minor importance. Now, and 
 
 for the past twenty years, he has been agricultural 
 reporter for the county of Benton. Fraternally 
 he is a member and past master, of Corvallis 
 Lodge, No. 14, F. & A. M. 
 
 Richard W. Scott, Mr. Currier's son-in-law, 
 was born in Clackamas county, Ore., near Mil- 
 waukee, in 1873. Marrying Miss Evaline Cur- 
 rier in 1900, he has since had charge of the old 
 home farm, which he is managing most success- 
 fully, carrying on general farming on an ex- 
 tensive scale. A young man of energy and 
 progress, possessing good executive and bus- 
 iness ability, he is meeting with good results in 
 his labors, and is sure to succeed in any and all 
 of his undertakings. He is a member of the 
 local Grange, and a Republican in his political 
 views. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER TRACER. In the ex- 
 treme southeastern portion of Benton county, 
 three miles from the thriving city of Monroe, is 
 to be seen one of the most flourishing, up-to-date 
 farms for which the county is famous. Though 
 comparatively a newcomer to this immediate 
 vicinity, Mr. Tracer has every reason to feel 
 satisfied with the results for the time and effort 
 he has expended in bringing about present con- 
 ditions. The tract was formerly a part of the old 
 Lawrence donation claim, and at the time Mr. 
 Tracer purchased it was in a wild condition, 
 but as a result of his indefatigable efforts there 
 are today two hundred and fifty acres of his half 
 section in a fine state of cultivation, and here 
 he carries on general farming and stock-raising. 
 
 Christopher Tracer is a native of Indiana, 
 born in Warrick county, January 14, 1858, the 
 son of Michael and Margaret (Kinneer) Tracer, 
 the former a native of Germany and the latter 
 a native of the Hoosier state, where her entire 
 life was passed. The father was born in 1837, 
 and while still a child came to America with his 
 parents, who settled in Indiana, there making 
 their permanent home. Until his marriage, which 
 united him with Miss Margaret Kinneer, Michael 
 remained at home, giving his father the benefit 
 of his services. Seven children were born of 
 this marriage, of whom Christopher isthe sixth 
 in order of birth, and with the exception of his 
 brother, Ferd, who is a resident of Junction 
 City, Lane county, Ore., all still reside in their 
 native state, Indiana. After the death of his 
 first wife, which occurred in 1868, Mr. Tracer 
 was united with Mrs. Sarah Travser. Three 
 children were born of this union, whose names 
 and residences are as follows: Henry is a resi- 
 dent of Smithfield, Lane county, Ore. ; Samuel 
 makes his home in eastern Oregon; and Kinder 
 'ives in the vicinity of Monroe. Until 1872 the 
 family home was in Indiana, but- in that 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1337 
 
 year the father brought a portion of the 
 family to Oregon, settling in Benton coun- 
 ty, in the vicinity of Bruce. Twenty 
 years later, Mrs. Tracer died, after which Mr. 
 Tracer made his home with his son Christopher, 
 who in the meantime had married and settled 
 in a home of his own. Here the father continued 
 to live until his death in August, 1901, at the 
 age of sixty-three years, having been a helpless 
 invalid for the last seven years of his life. 
 
 A marriage ceremony performed October 5, 
 1880, united the destinies of Christopher Tracer 
 and Julia A. Rickard. the latter a daughter of 
 John Rickard. For three years thereafter the 
 young people made their home in the vicinity 
 of Junction City, Lane county, and after a resi- 
 dence of two years near Bruce, Benton county, 
 they finally took up their abode on the old Rickard 
 homestead, and for the following fifteen years 
 that was the scene of their labors. Their resi- 
 dence on their present farm of three hundred 
 and twenty acres dates from 1900, and if past 
 success is any index of future prosperity it is 
 safe to predict that they will remain indefinitely 
 in their present location. The children born of 
 this marriage were four in number, the eldest of 
 whom, Aaron, is deceased, while the others, 
 Letha Mae, Roy and John, are at home with 
 their parents. Educational matters have a friend 
 and co-worker in Mr. Tracer, and in the capacity 
 of school clerk he is doing all that lies in his 
 power to elevate the standard of education in 
 his vicinity. His religious interests are centered 
 in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with 
 which his family is also identified. Politically 
 Mr. Tracer is a Democrat, and fraternally he 
 holds membership with the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 GIDEON C. MILLETT. Were one inclined 
 to doubt the reliability of glowing stock-raising 
 accounts in Lane county, that doubt would be 
 removed by inspection of the large farm of Gid- 
 eon C. Millett, one of the most extensive and suc- 
 cessful stockmen around Junction City. After 
 talking with this energetic and practical stock- 
 raiser one becomes inspired with his enthusiasm, 
 and his faith in the superiority of Poland-China 
 hogs. Shorthorn cattle and Shropshire sheep, hav- 
 ing been the largest breeder of thoroughbreds in 
 Lane county. It is to the wise selection of these 
 two standard breeds that he owes his surprising 
 good fortune, many years of experience having 
 convinced him that for all-around purposes they 
 are the most to be desired. Until recently Mr. 
 Millett owned sixteen hundred acres of land, but 
 has lately relieved himself of an enormous respon- 
 sibility by disposing of some of it. The farm was 
 purchased on the installment plan, and has much 
 
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 more than paid for itself, the owner estimating 
 that he has put at least $65,000 into it. This is 
 an unusually creditable showing, for at the start 
 of his career he was practically without money 
 or influence, and has accomplished it all through 
 the exercise of strong and forceful intelligence. 
 I«n 1902 he handled sixteen hundred Poland- 
 China hogs and as many Shorthorn cattle. 
 
 In his youth Mr. Millett would have had a 
 precarious existence had not a prosperous farmer 
 in Iowa adopted him after the death of his 
 mother. He was two years old when this catas- 
 trophe overcame him, having been born in 
 Waterloo, Iowa, March 9, 1868. When he was 
 five years old Mr. R. Millett, his foster-father, 
 brought his family to Benton county, Ore., re- 
 mained there until 1875, an d then moved to Junc- 
 tion City, where the lad attended the public 
 schools for a couple of years. Mr. Millett (the 
 elder) purchased the farm now owned by the 
 younger man in 1881, and which at the time 
 consisted of five hundred acres. When Gideon 
 C. was twenty-three years old he took possession 
 of this farm, made arrangements to pay accord- 
 ing to the terms of a. contract, and one of the 
 satisfactions of his life is that he has been able 
 to meet this obligation fairly, and with satisfac- 
 tion to all concerned. He has taken an active 
 part in promoting education, good roads, and 
 general improvements in Lane county, and has 
 always identified himself with Republican poli- 
 tics. Possessed of tact, geniality and other social 
 traits, he is a welcome visitor at the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows' lodge, representing the 
 same at the state grand lodge in 1900. Mr. Mil- 
 lett is also a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and the Rebekahs. He is now 
 perfecting plans to retire from active participa- 
 tion in business and will probably make his home 
 in Eugene. He is the second largest stockholder 
 in the Junction City Hotel Company, of which 
 he is a director, besides owning other property of 
 considerable value. Mr. Millett lives one mile 
 east of Junction City, and in the community is 
 regarded as a man in whom honor, sound busi- 
 ness judgment, and unquestioned success are 
 happily blended. 
 
 JACOB SHILLING. Not far from the vil- 
 lage of Munkers, Linn county, may be seen the 
 well cultivated farm of Jacob Shilling, a tract of 
 one hundred and forty-two acres, formerly a part 
 of the old Riley Thorp donation claim. His 
 residence here dates from the year 1873, since 
 which time he has carried on general farming, 
 although of late he. has resigned the more ardu- 
 ous work to younger hands,, his son doing the 
 practical work, although he still superintends the 
 
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 same. One hundred and fifteen acres are under 
 cultivation, the balance in grubs and an orchard. 
 
 A native of Wayne county, Ohio, born Sep- 
 tember 16, 1835, Jacob Shilling is a son of Jacob 
 and Margaret (Falgon) Shilling, both natives 
 of the Keystone state, the former born in Frank- 
 lin county, July II, 1801, and the latter in Mer- 
 cer county, in 1804. The father was of German 
 descent, the first of the family to emigrate to 
 this country, coming with a colony and making 
 settlement in Pennsylvania. Growing to man- 
 hood in the latter state, he subsequently removed 
 to Ohio, but did not go alone, as in the mean- 
 time he had married Miss Margaret Falgon, 
 who, as his wife, accompanied him. After en- 
 gaging in agriculture in Wayne county, that 
 state, for a few years, in 1839 tne parents re- 
 moved to Putnam county, Ind., which was the 
 scene of the family life for the following twelve 
 years. It was in the latter state, in 185 1, that 
 the father's death occurred, and the same year 
 the mother removed with her children to Marion 
 county, Iowa. She survived her husband twenty- 
 seven years, passing away in Iowa in 1878. 
 
 There were ten children in the family, seven 
 sons and three daughters, and after the father's 
 death the support of the mother and younger 
 children devolved upon the older ones. Jacob 
 was the sixth in order of birth, and at his fath- 
 er's death was about sixteen years of age. His 
 early education was received in the common 
 schools of Indiana and Iowa, but, as early in 
 life it became necessary for him to seek means 
 of self support, he chose the carpenter's trade as 
 promising the most satisfactory remuneration, 
 and at once began to learn it in all its details. 
 In i860 he was united in marriage with Miss 
 Mary E. Burch, a native of Kentucky, born near 
 Glasgow, February 23, 1841. Five children 
 blessed this marriage, as follows : Sophronia, 
 wife of J. T. Funk, of Munkers ; Robert, who 
 died in infancy; C. C, a resident of Heppner, 
 Ore. ; Hezekiah, at home ; and Alfred, also a 
 resident of Heppner. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Shilling abandoned 
 work at his trade and purchased a farm in Ma- 
 rion county, Iowa, which ' he tilled until the 
 year 1871, which, as previously stated, marked 
 his advent in the far west. From Tehama, Cal., 
 which was his first stopping place upon reaching 
 the west, he went by team to Benton county, 
 Ore., but two years later came to Linn county. 
 Pleased with the outlook, he felt sufficient con- 
 fidence in the future of the county to make it his 
 permanent residence, and forthwith purchased 
 the farm on which he now resides. In all local 
 affairs he takes an intelligent interest, and gives 
 his support to the Democratic party. His services 
 jn a public capacity have been made manifest in 
 
 his work as road supervisor and as school di- 
 rector. He affiliates with the First Day Ad- 
 ventists. 
 
 DAVID CHARLES ROSE. One of the 
 most enterprising, energetic and prosperous 
 business men of Corvallis is D. C. Rose, a well 
 known cigar manufacturer, who has been identi- 
 fied with the manufacturing interests of this city 
 for upwards of a score of years. Although of 
 foreign birth, Mr. Rose has as great love for his 
 adopted country and its institutions as for the 
 Fatherland, and in the time of its great peril, 
 during the strenuous times of the Civil war, he 
 fought with the same zeal that fired the patriot- 
 ism of its native-born citizens. 
 
 A native of Wurtemberg, Germany, Mr. Rose 
 was born about three miles from the city of Stutt- 
 gart, in 1842. His father, the late David Rose, 
 emigrated, in 1847, from Wurtemberg to the 
 United States, with his family. He sailed to 
 Galveston, intending to locate in Texas, but find- 
 ing the country too new, he proceeded to New 
 Orleans, thence up the Mississippi and Ohio 
 rivers to Kentucky, settling in Campbell county, 
 and buying a ranch near Newport, on which he 
 resided until his death, prior to the war. Of 
 his union with Anna M. Schindelin, who died 
 in Kentucky, seven children were born, of whom 
 three survive, one being a resident of Kentucky, 
 and the other two of Oregon, D. C. living in 
 Corvallis, and E. W. in Chitwood. 
 
 With but limited school advantages, D. C. 
 Rose was reared on the home plantation near 
 Newport, living there until fifteen years old, 
 when he went to Newport, where he remained 
 until the breaking out of the Civil war. Early 
 in 1861 he joined Taylor's Guards, later enlist- 
 ing in the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry 
 for a term of three months, during which time 
 he was on guard duty most of the entire period. 
 After being mustered out of service, Mr. Rose 
 enlisted in the Fifty-second Ohio Infantry, but 
 as that regiment did not fill up he joined the 
 Seventy-first Ohio Infantry as a private, and 
 with his companions was sent to Paducah, Ky., 
 to join Sherman's army, thence going up the 
 Tennessee river to Pittsburg Landing, at which 
 battle he was shot through the right leg, the 
 ball entering just below the knee. Being inca- 
 pacitated for further duty for a time, he was 
 sent home on a furlough, and being anxious for 
 something to do, he then began learning the trade 
 of a cigarmaker. Being subsequently ordered to 
 report at Camp Dennison, Ohio, he was from 
 there sent to a camp near Columbus, where the 
 officer in charge recommended that he be dis- 
 charged on account of his wound. Completing 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 his trade in December, 1863, Mr. Rose worked 
 at it in Newport for awhile, and then with a 
 friend went to New York city, where his. com- 
 panion soon enlisted as a musician in the band of 
 the Eighteenth regulars, leaving him alone. 
 He, therefore, in 1864, enlisted in the One Hun- 
 dred and Sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, 
 receiving a bounty of $700, but the examining 
 surgeon rejected him ; he tried again, that time 
 being accepted, but losing $200 of his bounty, 
 it costing him that sum to get in. With his regi- 
 ment he went to Winchester, thence to the front 
 at Petersburg, where the peak of his cap was 
 shot off, down through Richmond, and on 
 to Appomattox, being present at the surrender 
 of Lee. He afterwards took part in the grand 
 review at Washington, D. C, and received his 
 honorable discharge at Ogdensburg, N. Y., July 
 5, 1865. 
 
 Returning to Newport, Ky., he remained until 
 1866, when he removed to Lawrenceburg, Ind. 
 Two years later Mr. Rose located in Kansas 
 City, Mo., going from there to Ellsworth county, 
 Kans.. where he was engaged in general farm- 
 ing northeast of the town of Ellsworth for twelve 
 years, working also a part of the time at his 
 trade, in Salina. Disposing of his farm and stock 
 in the fall of 1882, he came to Oregon, establish- 
 ing himself at his trade in Portland, at the same 
 time owning a farm in Cornelius, which he sold 
 in a few months at an advantage. In January, 
 1883, Mr. Rose transferred his residence and 
 business to Corvallis, where he has since been 
 engaged in the manufacture of cigars, for a 
 time having had his brother, E. W. Rose, as a 
 partner. He aims to make good cigars only, 
 among his brands that are most popular being 
 the "Battle Ship Oregon," "Speckled Trout," 
 "Victor Dewev," "Nickle Leader" and "Up to 
 Date." 
 
 Mr. Rose has invested to some extent in real 
 estate, owning a small farm of twenty-five acres, 
 on which is a fine orchard of cherry, pear and 
 prune trees, which yield good crops each season. 
 Politically he is a zealous advocate of the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, and is now serv- 
 ing his second term as a member of the city 
 council. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights 
 of Pythias ; to the Ellsworth Post, No. 19, G. A. 
 R. ; and is one of the board of trustees of the 
 Oregon Fire Relief Association. 
 
 While living in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. Rose 
 formed the acquaintance of Miss Lauretta M. 
 Berry, to whom he was united in marriage soon 
 after the close of the war, their nuptials being 
 celebrated at Hartwick, Vt., in September, 1865. 
 She was born in New Hampshire, and died, at 
 Corvallis, March 2, 1894, leaving five children, 
 namelv : Oliver, a machinist in Portland, Ore. ; 
 Lottie E., of Portland ; George C, a farmer, in 
 
 Condon, Ore. ; Edward, in partnership with his 
 father, is junior member of the firm of D. C. 
 Ross & Son, at Corvallis; and Daisy A. Mr. 
 Rose married for his second wife Mrs. Georgia 
 (Berry) Stevens, of Corvallis, who was born in 
 New Hampshire, a sister of his first wife. 
 
 DANIEL WILLIAM PRICHARD. When 
 Daniel William Prichard undertook to learn the 
 carpenter's trade under Eben Jones in Judson, 
 Minn., more than a quarter of a century ago, 
 he supposedly did not aspire to becoming one 
 of the most expert woodwork instructors on the 
 Pacific coast. Yet such he is today, and as head 
 of the woodwork department of the Oregon 
 Agricultural College, at Corvallis, he moulded 
 the abilities and stimulated the aspirations of 
 many hundred pupils, the membership of the 
 class having increased from thirty, which con- 
 stituted the class in 1894, to about a hundred in 
 1903, when he severed his connection with the 
 college by resigning on September 1. 
 
 As his name implies, Mr. Prichard is of Welsh 
 extraction, and his father, R. E., is the founder 
 of the family in America. The elder Prichard 
 was born in Carmarfon, Wales, and in his native 
 land learned the tailor's trade. Coming to Amer- 
 ica at an early day, he located at Turin, N. Y., 
 where he plied his trade, and where his son, 
 Daniel William, was born October 5, 1856. In 
 1862 he removed to Waukesha, Wis., but, not 
 finding a profitable trade, located the following 
 year in Blue Earth count} - , Minn., where he 
 engaged in farming for a time, but is now living 
 at Sioux Falls, S. D. His wife, formerly Mar- 
 garet Williams, was also born in Wales, a daugh- 
 ter of Daniel Williams, who emigrated to Amer- 
 ica and located on a farm in New York state. 
 Mrs. Prichard, who died in South Dakota, was 
 the mother of five sons and one daughter, all 
 of whom are living, the talented instructor of 
 Corvallis being the second child. One of the 
 sons, Rev. E. R. Prichard, is pastor of the Pres- 
 byterian Church of Aberdeen, Wash. 
 
 For the greater part of his youth Daniel Prich- 
 ard lived on the Minnesota farm, and at the same 
 time attended the public schools of his neigh- 
 borhood. At the age of eighteen he apprenticed 
 to Eben Jones as heretofore stated, and in 1880 
 left a fair business in Judson, Minn., and took 
 up his residence in South Dakota, thereafter 
 contracting and building in Howard, Miner 
 county. He also homesteaded a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres near Howard, and while 
 living there combined farming and building with 
 considerable profit. In 1891 he sold his land 
 and came to Oregon, locating in Corvallis, where 
 he worked at his trade until appointed to the po- 
 sition of head of the department of woodwork 
 
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 in the Oregon Agricultural College. The depart- 
 ment is amply equipped for practical work in the 
 large mechanics' hall, and as an adjunct to one 
 of the greatest developing enterprises of the 
 state of Oregon is unsurpassed. 
 
 The Prichard household consists of Mrs. 
 Prichard, formerly Jennie Jones, a native of 
 New York state, and seven children. Of the 
 children, Minerva, the oldest daughter, is the 
 wife of Mr. Ward, of Oregon City ; Everett is 
 a student at the Oregon Agricultural College ; 
 Mary ; Llewelleyn ; Ella ; Ennis ; and Edwin. 
 Personally, Mr. Prichard is popular in Corvallis 
 and is fraternally associated with the Knights of 
 Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the 
 Lions. He is a Republican in politics, and finds 
 a religious home in the Presbyterian Church, of 
 which he is a deacon. 
 
 MINER M. SWICK. Following upon a ca- 
 reer of particular merit as a builder and con- 
 tractor, lumber merchant and cattle-dealer, Miner 
 M. Swick is engaged in extensive farming enter- 
 prises on the old Stewart donation claim, he be- 
 ing a son-in-law of that well known and well 
 remembered pioneer, John Stewart. Mr. Swick 
 was born in Hillsdale, Mich., a son of Miner M. 
 and Louise Swick, the former being a native of 
 Seneca county, N. Y. ; and grandson of a soldier 
 who was wounded and died in the war of 1812. 
 
 Miner Swick was a very early settler in Hills- 
 dale, Mich., near which town he owned and oper- 
 ated a farm with considerable success. He was 
 an ambitious man, and, convinced of the larger 
 opportunities of the far west, outfitted for cross- 
 ing the plains in 1853. O n this long and per- 
 ilous journey he was accompanied by his wife 
 and four boys, and he arrived in Oregon City 
 September 29, 1853. For three years he lived 
 on the French prairie, or rather made that the 
 headquarters for his family, for he himself spent 
 about eighteen months in the mines in California. 
 Returning at the end of that time he brought 
 with him $1,800, not a bad showing; and with 
 this he bought a farm near Dayton, which con- 
 tinued to be his home for the remainder of his 
 life. His wife, Louise (Latourette) Swick, was 
 born in Tompkins county, N. Y., a daughter of 
 David Latourette, who came from France and 
 practiced his art of weaving in Tompkins county, 
 N. Y. Mrs. Swick died on the old Oregon home, 
 leaving behind her the four boys with whom she 
 had crossed the plains. Of these, Tunis is engaged 
 in the sheep business in Grant county; Miner is 
 the manager of the Stewart farm ; Lyman is en- 
 gaged in mining in Grant county; and Benjamin 
 F. is a practicing physician of Dayton. 
 
 In his youth Miner M. Swick learned the car- 
 penter's trade, and, beginning with 1857, con- 
 
 tracted and built for many years in Corvallis. 
 He then engaged in a planing-mill business, man- 
 ufacturing sash, doors and other builders' sup- 
 plies, and in 1872 located in eastern Oregon, 
 where he engaged in the cattle business for twelve 
 years. Returning to Corvallis he assumed charge 
 of the broad acres left the heirs of John Stewart, 
 and in the managing of which he is showing 
 a keen knowledge of progressive and scientific 
 farming. Mr. Swick possesses fine business abil- 
 ity, and has personal characteristics which in- 
 spire confidence, and retain indefinitely the re- 
 gard and good will of many friends. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN BURNETT. Prominent 
 among those who for many years sustained the 
 prestige of bench and bar in Oregon was Judge 
 John Burnett, a pioneer of '49, and a resident 
 of Corvallis for nearly half a century. This 
 very capable practitioner was born in Pike 
 county, Mo., July 4, 1831, and at an early age 
 lost his father, Capt. Frank Burnett, for many 
 years engaged in the steamboat business on the 
 Mississippi river. Captain Burnett was born in 
 Kentucky, as was also his wife, Jane Johnson, 
 the latter of whom died in Illinois. 
 
 The youth of Judge Burnett was characterized 
 by a hard struggle for existence, for in the ab- 
 sence of his father the family support fell largely 
 on his shoulders. He was the second of a large 
 family of children, and he lived for years on the 
 family farm, engaging then as a clerk in a store 
 and on different steamboats. As may be im- 
 agined, his education was acquired under diffi- 
 culties, for work absorbed his entire attention, 
 and little time remained even for slight recrea- 
 tion. Fortunately he was ambitious and studi- 
 ous, and with his earnings was finally enabled 
 to attend not only the public schools, but to take 
 a course at an academy. In 1849 ne came to the 
 coast by way of the plains, and a year later re- 
 turned east via Panama, the following year again 
 visiting California, where he prospected and 
 mined. In 1858 he had occasion to bring a drove 
 of horses across the mountains to the Willam- 
 ette valley, and after disposing of them looked 
 around him a bit and was most favorably im- 
 pressed with the people and country. Having 
 determined to remain, he engaged in the butch- 
 ering business in Corvallis, and while thus em- 
 ployed improved his spare time in studying law, 
 a consummation long desired and ardently 
 planned for. His guides in the first principles 
 of law were Judge Thayer and Colonel Kelsay, 
 and he was admitted to the bar in i860, there- 
 after devoting h : s life not only to an increasing 
 practice, but to the satisfactory filling of many 
 important responsibilities. 
 
 In 1865 Judge Burnett was elected a presi- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 dential elector on the Democratic ticket, and be- 
 ginning with 1870 he served for four years as 
 judge of Benton county, in 1874 being elected 
 associate justice of the supreme court of the 
 state. His term as judge having expired in 1876, 
 he again resumed practice, and two years later 
 was elected state senator from Benton county, 
 and served as chairman of the judiciary commit- 
 tee in the senate. In 1882 he was appointed 
 judge of the second judicial district by Governor 
 Thayer, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge 
 Watson. In May, 1891, he was elected mayor of 
 Corvallis, serving for two terms, and he was 
 again elected to the same position in October, 
 1899, serving for two years. As chief executive 
 he evinced the same regard for the best interests 
 of his fellow townsmen as characterized his atti- 
 tude towards his clients in private practice, and 
 his services were invariably accompanied by re- 
 forms and practical improvements. 
 
 As relaxation from professional and public 
 cares Judge Burnett engaged in general farm- 
 ing and horticulture, and the farm upon which 
 he expended so much care and study, and where 
 he beguiled so many pleasant hours, is still owned 
 by his wife. It consists of one hundred and ten 
 acres, under fine cultivation, twenty-five acres 
 of which are devoted to prune culture. Although 
 a large and splendidly proportioned man, strong 
 and healthy apparently, the judge readily suc- 
 cumbed to heart disease, superinduced by an at- 
 tack of grip, his death occurring March 1, 1901. 
 He was genial and pleasant in manner, was ap- 
 proachable to all, and was particularly devoted to 
 his family. As a jurist his rulings were equitable 
 and just, and were rarely questioned, it being uni- 
 versally felt that wisdom, common sense and a 
 profound knowledge of law dictated his every 
 decision. 
 
 June 12. 1859, Judge Burnett married Martha 
 Hinton, who was born in Missouri, September 
 28, 1838, and is a daughter of Hon. Roland B. 
 Hinton, a native of Franklin county, Mo. The pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Clayton B. Hinton, the emi- 
 grating member of the family, located in Oregon, 
 married Sarah Richardson, a native of Kentucky, 
 and thereafter engaged in farming in Franklin 
 county, Mo., of which he was an early settler. He 
 was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in 1852 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, locating on a 
 donation claim in Benton county, Ore., where he 
 died in 1855. His son, Hon. Roland B. Hinton, 
 was also a farmer in Franklin county, Mo., and 
 he preceded his father across the plains in 1846, 
 being accompanied by his wife, formerly Eliza- 
 beth Brammel, born on the James river, Vir- 
 ginia, a daughter of Thomas Brammel, who 
 located in Franklin county, Mo., and died on a 
 farm there. Four children were born to Mr. and 
 
 Mrs. Hinton in Missouri, and these were num- 
 bered among the little party that sought a home 
 in the far northwest, and were willing to brave 
 danger and deprivation to accomplish their mis- 
 sion. They were six months on the way, from 
 April to October, and after a year spent in Yam- 
 hill county, Ore., they located on a claim eighteen 
 miles south of Corvallis in Benton county, where 
 Mr. Hinton built a little blacksmith shop, and 
 combined blacksmithing and farming. Here he 
 resided until 1869, when he located in the vicin- 
 ity of Newport, where, after a short time, he was 
 obliged to give up farming owing to impaired 
 eyesight. For the remainder of his life he lived 
 with his son, in time becoming totally blind, a 
 great affliction for so ambitious a man, and one 
 so thoroughly interested in the happenings of 
 the outside world. In a way he was quite a poli- 
 tician, and unswervingly devoted to the Demo- 
 cratic party, many positions of trust and responsi- 
 bility coming to him. For a term he represented 
 his county in the legislature, and he was post- 
 master of Starr's Point for many years, the 
 office now being Monroe. 
 
 Mrs. Burnett was educated in Benton county, 
 primarily in the little log school-house near her 
 home, which employed a teacher for three months 
 during the winter season. Since her husband's 
 death she has continued to reside in this city, 
 where she owns the beautiful home, and also 
 the fine and substantial business block erected by 
 her husband. 
 
 She is a member of the Congregational 
 Church, and is a member of the Eastern Star 
 and the Pioneer Association. Mrs. Burnett 
 is the mother of five children, the order of their 
 birth being as follows : Emma Alice, the de- 
 ceased wife of Mr. H. W. Keesee, who left 
 two children, Archie and John Burnett Keesee; 
 Ida B., wife of Thomas Callahan, who is a grad- 
 uate of the Agricultural College, and is now a 
 teacher of English ; Martha, the wife of R. H. 
 Huston, a hardware merchant of Corvallis, and 
 the mother of one child, Helen ; Brady F., a grad- 
 uate of the Agricultural College, a member of 
 the bar, and at present clerk in the census depart- 
 ment at Washington, D. C. Brady F. Burnett 
 served in the Spanish-American war, and was 
 in the Philippines in Company M, Second Ore- 
 gon Volunteer Infantry, being wounded at the 
 battle of Malabon, March 25, 1899. After re- 
 covering he left the hospital and joined his regi- 
 ment, remaining with it until the general muster- 
 ing out. Bruce Burnett, the youngest son in the 
 family, is engaged in farming in southern Ore- 
 gon. Mrs. Burnett is a woman of great refine- 
 ment, and her man)' sterling and amiable char- 
 acteristics have endeared her to a host of friends. 
 
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 J. H. WILSON is engaged in the practice 
 of law in Corvallis; He was born August 31, 
 1863, in the city which is still his home, and 
 is a son of Bushrod and Priscilla Wilson, whose 
 sketch is given elsewhere. He obtained his 
 education in the public schools, where he pur- 
 sued his studies for a few years and then spent 
 a year in the old Corvallis College. He is, how- 
 ever, largely a self-educated man and while he 
 is today regarded as a gentleman of scholarly 
 attainments and broad intellectuality, he owes 
 this reputation to what he has accomplished for 
 himself. In early life he entered the civil en- 
 gineering department of the Oregon Pacific Rail- 
 road Company and was connected with the con- 
 struction department until the road was com- 
 pleted, covering a period of about five years. 
 He then entered the office of the county clerk, 
 serving as deputy under his father for six years. 
 From his boyhood he was interested in the study 
 of law and he read to a greater or less extent 
 while engaged in railroad work and in his clerical 
 duties in the office of county clerk, his reading 
 being directed by Colonel Kelsay. As the years 
 passed, his knowledge of the principles of juris- 
 prudence was thus broadened and, having been 
 admitted to the bar about October, 1892, he 
 began practice in Corvallis, where he has since 
 maintained his law office. A distinctively repre- 
 sentative clientele is now accorded him, and he 
 has been connected with much of the important 
 litigation tried in the courts of his district dur- 
 ing the past decade. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was married in Corvallis to Miss 
 Effie M. Handy, who was born in Afton, N. Y. 
 Her mother died in the Empire state, but the 
 father, Arden K. Handy, removed with the fam- 
 ily to Oregon and died in this state in 1898. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wilson now have two small children. 
 Mr. Wilson was made a Mason in Corvallis 
 Lodge, No. 14, F. & A. M., of which he is now 
 a past master. He is also a past high priest of 
 Ferguson Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M., and is con- 
 nected with the Eastern Star, Woodmen of the 
 World, and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. In politics he has always been a Repub- 
 lican and he is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, in which he served as elder for twelve 
 years. He prepares his cases with great fairness 
 and precision, has a mind strongly analytical and 
 in argument he is forceful, his deductions fol- 
 lowing in logical sequence. 
 
 THOMAS HENRY CRAWFORD, A. M., 
 has been actively identified with the educational 
 interests of this section of Oregon for fully four 
 decades, and has taken pleasure in witnessing 
 and assisting the development of our school sys- 
 tem from the time when the three " R's" were 
 
 its only essentials until the present high plane 
 of instruction has been reached. Obtaining his 
 knowledge of the higher branches of learning 
 in Oregon, he has since been associated with 
 some of its more important schools and universi- 
 ties as a teacher, and is now connected with the 
 Oregon Agricultural College as head of the 
 department of commerce, and with its official 
 management as clerk and purchasing agent. 
 
 Of substantial Scotch-Irish ancestry, Professor 
 Crawford was born June 24, 1840, at Clarks- 
 burg, Ind., a son of the late Dr. Robert H. Craw- 
 ford. His grandfather, Andrew Crawford, was 
 born in Londonderry, Ireland, a son of Robert 
 Crawford, who emigrated from Londonderry to 
 America in 1770, settling in South Carolina. 
 Andrew, then but a year old, was there reared 
 ■to agricultural pursuits, and when becoming of 
 age, located, as a farmer, in Abbeville District. 
 Robert H. Crawford, the professor's father, was 
 born in South Carolina, in 1808, and there ac- 
 quired his early education. He subsequently 
 attended Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, 
 later being graduated, in 1837, from the Ohio 
 Medical College, at Cincinnati, with the degree 
 of M. D. The ensuing fifteen years he practiced 
 medicine at Clarksburg, Ind., removing from 
 there in 1852 to Oregon, bringing with him his 
 wife and four children, crossing the plains with 
 ox-teams, from St. Joseph, Mo., following the 
 old overland trail, and being seven months on the 
 road. Locating in Linn county, he took up a 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 at the foothills, and there improved a good 
 estate, at the same time practicing medicine. 
 Disposing of his farm in 1870, Dr. Crawford 
 settled in Brownsville, where he continued the 
 practice of his profession until his death, at the 
 age of eighty-two years, in 1890. He was very 
 prominent in public and religious matters, serving 
 as state senator from Linn county from 1866 
 until 1874, and being one of the prime movers 
 in uniting the Associated Presbyterians and the 
 members of the Associate Reform Church 
 into one religious denomination, the organiza- 
 tion being called the United Presbyterian 
 Church. The meeting at which this organiza- 
 tion was completed, was held, about 1854, near 
 the home of Dr. Crawford, his father-in-law, 
 Thomas Henry, being one of the elders at that 
 time. Dr. Crawford married Elizabeth M. 
 Henry, a native of. Kentucky, and a daughter of 
 Thomas Henry, who removed from Pennsylva- 
 nia to Jessamine, Ky., thence to Rush county, 
 Ind., where he engaged in farming for a number 
 of years. In 1852, in the company of which Dr. 
 Crawford was captain, Mr. Henry came to Linn 
 county, Ore., with his family, where he carried 
 on farming until his death, in 1865, aged seventy- 
 
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 seven years. Mrs. Henry, whose maiden name 
 was Margaret Scott, survived him, dying in 
 1870, aged eighty years. Mrs. Crawford died 
 in 1897, aged eighty-two years. Of the union 
 of Dr. and Mrs. Crawford, five children were 
 born, namely : Thomas Henry ; Andrew, who 
 died in 1859; Robert, a prominent horseman, 
 died in 1900, at San Francisco, Cal., while on his 
 way home from the Philippine Islands, where he 
 had been on government service ; Mrs. Lizzie 
 Smith, of Portland, Ore. ; and Mrs. Monrovia 
 Starr, of Benton county. 
 
 Coming with his parents to Oregon in 1852, 
 Thomas H. Crawford here continued his studies 
 in the district school, later, in 1859, entering 
 Willamette University, at Salem, where he 
 worked his way through college, being gradu- 
 ated in 1863, with the degree of A. B. Begin- 
 ning his professional career in Sublimity, Ore., 
 he taught there three years, being afterward 
 principal of the public schools in Salem eighteen 
 months. Going then to the Portland Academy 
 and Female Seminary, he was professor of 
 mathematics for two and one-half years, and 
 then principal of what is now the Atkinson 
 school until 1872. The following four years he 
 was professor of natural science at the Will- 
 amette University. Returning to Portland, he 
 served as principal of the old Central school one 
 year, then as city superintendent of schools for 
 eleven years, after which he had charge of the 
 Park school as principal for six years. From 
 1894 until 1896, Professor Crawford was prin- 
 cipal of the Woodstock schools, and was 
 then connected with the old Portland University 
 for a short time, leaving there in 1897, when he 
 was appointed clerk and purchasing agent at 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, and later took 
 charge of the literary commerce course. 
 
 Professor Crawford married first, at Salem, 
 Ore., in July, 1864, Emily B. Crandall, a native 
 of Wisconsin, who came to Oregon with her 
 parents in 1852, and settled near Silverton. She 
 died in August, 1882. Four children were born 
 of their union, three of whom, Maude, Merton 
 and Pearl, died in Salem in 1875, while the 
 youngest child, Ruby, is now the wife of Henry 
 McConnell, of Salem, and has one child, Ruth 
 McConnell. At Portland, in 1891, Professor 
 Crawford married for his second wife, Miss Eva 
 Grounds, who was born in Oregon, a daughter 
 of Capt. Brazil Grounds, who removed from 
 his native state, North Carolina, to Illinois, 
 thence, in 1845, to Oregon, becoming captain 
 of a steamboat on the Columbia river. 
 
 Professor Crawford is prominently identified 
 with several fraternal organizations, belonging 
 to Willamette Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., of 
 which he is past master ; to Portland Chapter, 
 No. 3, R. A. M. ; to Oregon Commandery No. 
 
 1, K. T. ; to Al Kader Temple, N. M. S. ; to Has- 
 salo Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; to Ellison Encampment, 
 I. O. O. F., No. 1, of Portland; and is a past 
 grand representative for Oregon, having repre- 
 sented his state grand lodge at the sovereign 
 Grand Lodge at Indianapolis, Ind., in 1875. He 
 is also a member of the state and county teachers' 
 association ; and is a member of the State Pio- 
 neer Association; and of the State Historical 
 Association. Politically he is a stanch supporter 
 of the Republican party. 
 
 JOHN RICKARD. No introduction is neces- 
 sary to place the career of John Rickard before 
 the people of Benton county, for his name has 
 been a household word for many years, and car- 
 ries with it an idea of substantiality and worth. 
 Tracing his ancestry back to the very early 
 days of North Carolina, his family was honored 
 by the noble life of his paternal grandfather, who 
 espoused the cause of the down-trodden colonies, 
 and followed the fortunes of the father of his 
 country on most of the great battlefields of the 
 Revolution. His father, Peter, a native of North 
 Carolina, was reared on a plantation, and in his 
 youth learned the blacksmith's trade, to which 
 he devoted many years of his life. He married 
 Susan Kepley, a native daughter of North Caro- 
 lina, and in 1835 took his family to Indiana, 
 where the remaining years of his life were spent. 
 Five of the ten children born into his family 
 are living, Casper and Peter being natives of 
 Junction City, while Crissie is the widow of 
 Henry Beck of Smithfield, and Bettie is the wife 
 of John Beck of Indiana. Peter Rickard was 
 sixty-eight years of age at the time of his death, 
 and was survived by his wife, who subsequently 
 removed from Indiana to Oregon, and died at 
 the home of her son, John, at the age of seventy- 
 nine years. 
 
 While Peter Rickard was still living in North 
 Carolina, his son, John, was born November 7, 
 1827, and was seven years of age when the over- 
 land journey was made to Indiana. As oppor- 
 tunity afforded he attended the little log school- 
 house in the neighborhood of his father's farm, 
 and remained at home until his marriage with 
 Susanna Kime, a native daughter of the Hopsier 
 state. Continuing to farm until 1853, ne out " 
 fitted for crossing the plains in the regulation 
 way, and it is not recorded that he met with any 
 unusual experiences while wending his way 
 towards the setting sun. The first winter in 
 Oregon was spent near Eugene, Lane county, 
 and in the spring of 1854 he came to Benton 
 county and took up a donation claim of two 
 hundred and ninety acres twelve miles south of 
 Corvallis, on the old Territorial road. It is 
 pleasant to note the ease with which he adapted 
 
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 himself to the crude conditions then existing in 
 the county, and how he slowly but surely worked 
 his way to the front among the successful and 
 influential upbuilders of his district. His entire 
 tract consists of nine hundred acres, two hundred 
 and forty of which are over in Lane county, but 
 not separated from the original purchase. That 
 the improvements are modern, the home and sur- 
 roundings in accord with progressive ideas, goes 
 without saying, and indeed the Rickard farm 
 is one of the finest and most valuable in Benton 
 county. Many years of experience have taught 
 Mr. Rickard the most practical methods of con- 
 ducting his general farming and stock-raising, 
 and that his methods are successful is apparent 
 to all who visit his home and accept his hospi- 
 tality. 
 
 A Democrat in political affiliation, Mr. Rickard 
 has been a school director for the past eighteen 
 years, and has materially advanced the cause of 
 education in his neighborhood during that time. 
 He is a member, a regular attendant, and trustee 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and since 
 joining the organization as a young man has 
 contributed many hundreds of dollars towards 
 its support. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Masons. Delphi, the oldest of the children born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Rickard, died on the way across 
 the plains ; Peter is a farmer in Benton county ; 
 Julian is the wife of Christopher Tracer of Mon- 
 roe ; Michael is engaged in farming in Linn 
 county; Catherine is the wife of John Stearns 
 of Linn county; John H. is a farmer of Linn 
 county; Bertha is the wife of Rube Taylor of 
 the vicinity of Bruce ; James, Daniel and Mary 
 B. are deceased. Mr. Rickard is a remarkably 
 upright and sincere man, of strong character and 
 purpose, and of exceptionally fine mental and 
 physical fiber. 
 
 MARGARET COMSTOCK SNELL, M. D. 
 Deeply interested in all branches of domestic 
 science and hygiene, Dr. Snell is doing a much- 
 needed work, through her teachings and lec- 
 tures, in bringing to public notice the fact that 
 much of the sickness and general ill health pre- 
 vailing throughout the country is largely due 
 to the use of improperly prepared food, illy 
 ventilated living apartments, and unsanitary 
 conditions of the dwelling houses, and their 
 environments. By instructing the present gen- 
 eration as to methods to be used in bettering 
 these conditions, the doctor bases her hope for 
 succeeding generations of a people whose physi- 
 cal and mental status shall be far improved, and 
 the average years of life on earth be greatly in- 
 creased. Since 1889 she has been connected with 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, holding the 
 
 chair of household science and hygiene since 
 its establishment. 
 
 Of English ancestry, Margaret C. Snell was 
 born near Livingston, N. Y., a daughter of 
 Richard Snell, and a granddaughter of Will- 
 iam Snell, who emigrated from England to 
 America with his family, and settled in Penn- 
 sylvania, where he spent his remaining days. 
 Richard Snell left Yorkshire, England, his birth- 
 place, when a boy of six years, coming with his 
 parents to the United States. Learning the 
 trade of a civil engineer when a young man, he 
 worked at it first in Canada, afterward assist- 
 ing in the survey of the Erie canal. Subse- 
 quently changing his occupation, he was engaged 
 in farming for a while in New York state, going 
 from there to Ontario, where he continued in 
 the lumber business three years. Removing then 
 to Iowa, he took up land near Oskaloosa, where 
 he improved a good farm. On retiring from 
 active pursuits, he located in Oakland, Cal., 
 living there until his death. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Margaret Comstock, was 
 born in Adrian, Mich., and died in New York 
 state, when a comparatively young woman, 
 having borne her husband eight children. 
 
 Receiving her early education in her native 
 state, Margaret C. Snell, on removing to Iowa, 
 entered Center Grove Academy, after which she 
 spent several years at Grinnell College, in Grin- 
 nell, Iowa. From 1872 until 1875 she taught 
 school in Iowa City, going from there to Benicia, 
 Cal., where three of her sisters had then opened 
 Snell Seminary, in which she was a teacher for 
 three years. The enterprising and energetic sis- 
 ters, in 1878, bought property in Oakland, Cal., 
 and having established a seminary there, she con- 
 tinued with them a number of years. The semi- 
 nary, which has lost none of its former prestige, 
 is now located at Berkeley, Cal. In 1883 Miss 
 Snell, who had previously read medicine, entered 
 the Boston University Medical School, from 
 which she was graduated with the degree of 
 M. D. in 1886. Returning to Oakland, Cal., she 
 practiced medicine there for a year, but being 
 imbued with the idea that the higher and broader 
 function of medical lore was to teach people 
 how to keep well, rather than to cure disease, Dr. 
 Snell gladly accepted the call to the Oregon 
 Agricultural College, in 1888, and came here 
 in 1889, when she opened the department of 
 domestic science and hygiene, of which she has 
 since had full charge. Enterprising and pro- 
 gressive in her methods, she is never afraid to 
 adopt new ideas, keeping abreast with the fore- 
 most hygienists of the day, rendering her par- 
 ticular department one of the most useful and 
 efficient in the institution. Beginning with forty 
 pupils, she has met with great success in her 
 
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 labors , and has now one hundred and fifty 
 students under her charge. In addition to teach- 
 ing, she is widely known as a lecturer throughout 
 the state, her talks on domestic science being 
 interesting and instructive to all. 
 
 Politically Dr. Snell is a Republican, and fra- 
 ternally she belongs to the Grange. She also 
 belongs to the Corvallis Improvement Society, 
 and is a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 DAVID G. McFARLAND. The town of 
 Cottage Grove, Lane county, Ore., has cause to 
 know the name of David G. McFarland, for it is 
 from the donation claim of the father that the 
 son laid out one of the first additions to the 
 city, although previous to his death the father 
 had laid out several city lots, about forty or 
 forty-five acres in the heart of the city being once 
 the property of the family of McFarlands. Four 
 different divisions have subsequently been added, 
 until Mr. McFarland has but two hundred and 
 sixty acres of the original land given to him from 
 the six hundred and forty acres which composed 
 that taken up by James McFarland in 1853. The 
 home farm had been divided between the two 
 brothers, David G. and James Henry. 
 
 The father of Mr. McFarland was James, born 
 February 13, 1807, in North Carolina, and as a 
 young man he located in Cooper county, Mo., 
 from which he emigrated in the spring of 1850, 
 crossing the plains with ox-teams, and after a 
 journey of six months arriving in Linn county. 
 He first located in Albany, and in the spring of 
 1853 he came to the present site of Cottage Grove 
 and took up a claim. Here he died in 1885, at 
 the age of seventy-nine years. He was one of the 
 strong men of the new land, in his political con- 
 victions following the lead of the old Whigs and 
 becoming a stanch and active Republican. His 
 wife was formerly Mary Jones, who was born 
 March 18, 181 1, and died in September, 1872, 
 in this location. She was the mother of eight 
 children, two sons and six daughters, two of the 
 latter being now deceased. 
 
 David G. McFarland was born in Cooper 
 county. Mo., October 23, 1846, the fifth of this 
 family of children, and his education was re- 
 ceived entirely in the schools of Oregon, as he 
 was but four years old when the journey was 
 made across the plains. He worked for his father 
 until 1875, when the land was given to the two 
 sons, who have since had it in their control. The 
 two hundred and sixty acres of Mr. McFarland 
 which adjoin the city on the north are entirely 
 pasture land, and he is now engaged in the rais- 
 ing of cattle, horses, goats and sheep. He is 
 also interested in mining ventures, owning a one- 
 third interest in the Peek-a-boo and the Nevada, 
 both located in the Bohemia mining district, and 
 
 is also a director in the corporation which man- 
 ages the Glendale Mining enterprises. As would 
 be supposed, he is always interested in the ad- 
 vancement of the city, and was one of the pro- 
 moters of the water system sold to the town in 
 1 901. In addition to the property already men- 
 tioned Mr. McFarland has built a handsome resi- 
 dence here in the city and also owns about forty 
 lots, which are quite valuable. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. McFarland is a member of the 
 Masonic Blue Lodge No. 51, of Cottage Grove, 
 and politically he follows the convictions of his 
 father, being a strong Republican, and in the in- 
 terests of his party he has served as school 
 director. 
 
 OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 One of the wisest and most decisive educational 
 movements in the history of our country is that 
 which resulted in the organization of the State 
 Agricultural College. While the Civil war was 
 still in progress, in 1862, congress passed the 
 Morrill act, which gave the impulse to this great 
 educational movement. That act provided land 
 grants for each state that would establish edu- 
 cational institutions according to its provisions, 
 and, practically, all the states of the Union have 
 availed themselves of its provisions. 
 
 Ninety thousand acres of land were appor- 
 tioned to Oregon, and on October 9, 1862, the 
 Oregon Legislative Assembly accepted the pro- 
 visions of the congressional law. Six years 
 later the legislature appointed commissioners to 
 locate the land, and as no state college had 
 then been established voted an annual appropri- 
 ation toward supporting Corvallis College, in 
 Benton county, a school controlled by the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church South. When, in 
 1885, the fund derived from the sale of the land 
 grants became large enough to warrant it in so 
 doing, the state obtained control of the appro- 
 priation, the church willingly relinquishing its 
 claim upon it, a board of regents was appointed, 
 and given full power to establish an agricultural 
 college. 
 
 Selecting thirty-five acres of land in Corvallis, 
 arrangements were soon made for the erection 
 of a suitable building, and in the summer of 
 1887 the corner-stone of the first building of 
 the State Agricultural College was laid by the 
 governor. During that year, congress, by the 
 passage of the Hatch bill, provided for the estab- 
 lishment in each of the states and territories of an 
 agricultural experiment station, an annual sum 
 of $15,000 being allowed for experiment work 
 in Oregon. Three years afterwards, August 30, 
 1890, congress passed the second Morrill act 
 providing that $15,000 should be paid to each land 
 grant college that year, and that amount should 
 
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 be increased by the sum of $1,000 a year for ten 
 years, after that time being $25,000 each year. 
 
 Finely located in the picturesque city of Cor- 
 vallis, and beginning its life under the most 
 favorable auspices, the Agricultural College of 
 Oregon was well patronized from the first, and 
 soon outgrew its original environments. Addi- 
 tional land was appropriated to its use, the 
 grounds now comprising nearly two hundred 
 acres, about forty acres being devoted to the 
 campus, which is artistically laid out, and em- 
 bellished with trees, shrubbery, and beautiful 
 gardens. The grounds for military drill and 
 athletic sports are on an adjacent tract lately 
 added to the original campus. On the college 
 farm of nearly one hundred and fifty acres are 
 all the necessary buildings, tools, machinery and 
 stock for carrying on agricultural labor after the 
 most approved methods, giving to students prac- 
 tical illustrations of each branch of farming. 
 A variety of farm crops, fruit and berries are 
 raised, experiments being given in agriculture, 
 floriculture and horticulture. 
 
 As the college grew, new buildings were de- 
 manded, and many have been added. The offices 
 of the president, registrar and clerk of the col- 
 lege, the library, chapel, and several class-rooms 
 are in the administration building. Near this 
 structure is the assay building, containing labora- 
 tories that are fully equipped for the work of 
 assaying, and studying mineralogy. Near the 
 northwestern corner of the campus is the phar- 
 macy building, two stories in height, with labora-- 
 tories and lecture room on the first floor, and 
 rooms for study on the second floor. The classes 
 in physical culture, and the drill hall for the 
 cadets, may be found in the gymnasium and 
 armory, a large building of wood and stone, 
 70x120 feet. North of the administration build- 
 ing, is the horticultural building, adjoining which 
 are large and well filled greenhouses, containing 
 a large collection of choice plants. 
 
 One of the most notable buildings on the 
 campus is Agricultural Hall, a beautiful stone 
 structure, three stories in height, erected at 
 a cost of $45,000. In this are a large assembly 
 hall, laboratories and class rooms for the depart- 
 ments of agriculture, horticulture, botany, chem- 
 istry, zoology, entomology and bacteriology, and 
 the offices of the director of the experiment 
 station. In Mechanical Hall are the machine 
 shops, printing office, the physical laboratory, 
 several recitation rooms, and the office of the 
 professor of mechanical engineering, these occu- 
 pying the first floor. On the second floor are 
 located the departments of art, mathematics and 
 civil engineering. The power house, a brick 
 building, is equipped with a forty-five horse- 
 power engine, and two electric generators, each 
 of two hundred light capacity, and contains, also, 
 
 the blacksmith shop, with its twenty forges. The 
 heating plant, made of brick and stone, is fur- 
 nished with the most modern approved applian- 
 ces for heating. 
 
 Nothing is omitted that will make student life 
 at the college pleasant and profitable. The phy- 
 sical welfare of the pupils is assured by the offic- 
 ers, Cauthorn Hall, named in honor of Senator 
 Thomas Cauthorn, being devoted to the use of 
 the young men, while Alpha Hall furnishes a 
 home for the young women connected with the 
 institution. Both halls are well lighted and 
 heated, and furnished with modern conveniences. 
 
 The social and intellectual life of the students 
 is on as high a plane as that of any of its sister 
 institutions, the social clubs, literary societies and 
 churches of the city of Corvallis gladly welcom- 
 ing members from the school, and each year a 
 popular course of lectures, and various musical 
 and literary entertainments are free to the pupils. 
 Eight literary societies, four for the young men, 
 and four for the girls, are maintained by the 
 students, and are both enjoyable and profitable. 
 
 Admission of students to either the freshman 
 or the sub-freshman classes is similar to that of 
 like institutions, and admission to special stu- 
 dents is granted under certain specified condi- 
 tions. One of the great thoughts expressed in 
 the congressional legislation that produced this 
 college in Oregon was that its work should be 
 applied to the industries of the people, especial 
 reference being made to the agricultural and 
 mechanical arts. This idea has here been 
 broadly carried out, the students acquiring a 
 technical and practical knowledge of each. 
 
 The college is especially to be congratulated 
 upon its efficient corps of workers and officers. 
 Wisely governed by a board of regents noted for 
 the individual ability and efficiency of each of 
 its members, it is equally fortunate in the selec- 
 tion of its remaining officers, its faculty, and its 
 corps of instructors. Men and women of broad 
 and liberal education, each teacher seems pecu- 
 liarly adapted to his or her especial work. From 
 year to year added improvements are inaugur- 
 ated in each department, new methods are in- 
 troduced as soon as they are proved practicable, 
 in the line of progression this institution stand- 
 ing second to none in the Union. 
 
 JOHN DENNEY. A substantial and pros- 
 perous farmer, and a much-respected citizen of 
 Albany, John Denney has for many years been 
 industriously engaged in the prosecution of a 
 calling upon which the support and wealth of 
 the nation largely depends, and has met with 
 well .deserved success in his undertakings. His 
 large farm contains as rich and productive land 
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 erected a comfortable house, good barns and 
 outbuildings, and has supplied it with all the 
 machinery and equipments required by a first- 
 class, modern agriculturist. A native of Ohio, 
 he was born September 6, 1840, in the town of 
 Athens, where he spent the first twelve years of 
 his life. 
 
 His father, Christian Denney, removed from 
 Ohio to Oregon in 1852, being about six months 
 crossing the plains, with his wife and six chil- 
 dren, making the journey with ox-teams. He 
 brought with him all of his stock, which con- 
 sisted of ten yoke of oxen, seven cows and three 
 horses. Coming direct to Linn county, he 
 located in Lebanon, where his death occurred 
 four weeks later. His widow, whose maiden 
 name was Eliza B. Nickerson, took up a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 ot land about three miles west of Lebanon ; 
 and also bought a squatter's right. Moving 
 upon it with her stock, she improved a consider- 
 able part of the land, placing it in a yielding 
 condition, and there reared her children, giving 
 them especially good educational advantages. 
 She died at Jefferson, Ore., in 1897, aged 
 eighty-four years. Her children, six in number, 
 were as follows : Laura, who married William 
 Ralston ; Sarah, wife of William H. Galtia, of 
 Albany ; Owen N., deceased ; John, the special 
 subject of this sketch; Mahala, wife of Frank 
 Pike, of Sherman county, Ore. ; and Presley 
 M., deceased. Owen N. and Presley Denney 
 were educated at the Santiam Academy, in 
 Lebanon, finishing at the Willamette University, 
 and became lawyers, both being quite prominent. 
 Owen N. served as state senator two terms, and 
 for several years was judge of Wasco county, 
 Ore. He was subsequently consul to China 
 under President Hayes, serving in that capacity 
 five years, after which he was employed by the 
 king of Corea for a period of seven years as 
 advisor for the Corean government. Returning 
 to Oregon, he followed his profession in Port- 
 land until his death, in 1900. Presley M. Den- 
 ney was the youngest child, and engaged in the 
 practice of law at Portland, and in Utah. He 
 served as' prosecuting attorney on the Mountain 
 Meadow massacre trial, and for a number of 
 years was a member of the Utah state senate. 
 
 After completing his early education at the 
 Santiam Academy, John Denney had charge of 
 the home farm until 1864. Enlisting then as a 
 private in Company F, First Oregon Infantry, 
 he served for three years on the frontier, two 
 years of the time being on the Snake river, in 
 Idaho. Returning to the farm, he has resided 
 there the greater part of the time since. In his 
 home ranch he has five hundred and twenty 
 acres of land, and his wife owns a smaller farm 
 containing eighty acres. Practical and pains- 
 
 taking, he has his land under goo'd cultivation, 
 and well furnished with excellent improve- 
 ments, his estate being a credit to his persever- 
 ing energy and good management. In 1881 Mr. 
 Denney received from his brother, Owen, then 
 consul to China, twenty-six Chinese pheasants 
 that arrived here safely out of the thirty shipped, 
 and turned them loose near Peterson Butte, they 
 being the first birds of the kind to be turned 
 loose in Linn county. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Denney married Sarah F. Kester, 
 and they are the parents of two children, namely : 
 Effie S. and Malcolm J. The latter is a well 
 known physician of Portland, Ore. In politics 
 Mr. Denney is a straightforward Republican, and 
 for fourteen years served as school clerk. -He is a 
 member of the Universalist Church, and a pro- 
 moter and supporter of everything calculated to 
 advance the welfare of his community, intellect- 
 ually, socially or morally, and is greatly esteemed 
 for his integrity and ability. 
 
 FREDERICK G. BLUMHART. Born in 
 Wurtemberg, Germany, March 24, 1849, Fred- 
 erick G. Blumhart is the son of an architect and 
 builder who for many years contributed his skill 
 to the modern upbuilding of one of the oldest 
 and most historic cities in the United States. 
 The family came to America when he was a small 
 lad, so small that he barely recalls the long voy- 
 age in a sailing vessel, or the subsequent settling 
 in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., where his father 
 continued to ply his trades. The father lived to 
 be forty-five years old, and is survived by his 
 wife, who today makes her home in the City of 
 Brotherly Love, having attained to an age of 
 seventy-six years. 
 
 That young Frederick G. was an ambitious 
 youngster, and not amenable to control and dis- 
 cipline, was demonstrated when he attained his 
 ninth year, when his family was completely upset 
 by his disappearance from the hearthstone. The 
 first they heard of him he was living in Mary- 
 land, where he lived until twenty-one years old. 
 His next place of residence was in Florida, where 
 he found employment helping to set out some of 
 the first orange trees in the state near Enterprise, 
 and while there he acquired a taste for landscape 
 gardening, at which he afterward worked in 
 New York state. Coming to Oregon when about 
 twenty-eight years of age, he brought with him 
 many memories of the Centennial exposition, 
 where he had found employment for several 
 months, and where he had picked up a great 
 deal of useful information. In this state he 
 worked for a couple of years on farms near 
 Oakville, and in 1880 he came to Corvallis, Ore., 
 and for twenty years worked at ferrying in this 
 town. No more familiar figure is known here- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 abouts, or one more interestingly connected with 
 the work-a-day life of the town. 
 
 Incidentally, while running the ferry, Mr. 
 Blumhart had invested his savings in real estate, 
 thus indicating his faith in the continued pros- 
 perity of this well favored locality. He also owns 
 a farm of two hundred acres near Corvallis, upon 
 which he has made many improvements. It will 
 thus be seen that the ferrying business has 
 its compensations when in the hands of capable 
 and thrifty men, and that the surest and most 
 satisfactory means of investment have been re- 
 sorted to by the popular and successful boat- 
 man. Mr. Blumhart makes his home one and 
 a half miles east of Corvallis, the same being 
 presided over by the wife whom he married in 
 1902, and who was formerly Mrs. Sarah Peggs. 
 By no means entirely given over to his chosen 
 occupation, Mr. Blumhart has taken an active 
 interest in town affairs, particularly Republican 
 politics, and for fifteen years has been a member 
 of the school board. He is a welcome member 
 of the Maccabees Lodge, and is equally at home 
 in various social and church organizations. Re- 
 spected and honored by all with whom he has 
 come in contact during his many years as a 
 ferryman, he is to be congratulated that his lines 
 have fallen in pleasant places, and that many 
 earnest friends strive to brighten his pathway 
 with kindly and sincere attentions. 
 
 JAMES BRUCE. It is doubtful if any pio- 
 neer of the great state of Oregon more emphatic- 
 ally represents the letter and spirit of progress- 
 iveness than does James Bruce, whose prominence 
 as a large land owner and extensive agriculturist 
 is subservient to his invaluable services in 
 connection with the Rogue river war, in which 
 memorable contest he won the rank of major by 
 which he has since been known. A world of 
 romance and adventure is centered in the lives 
 of the greatest of the Indian fighters, not only 
 because of the peculiar daring of which they 
 gave evidence, but because of the vital import- 
 ance of their mission and its bearing upon the 
 later-day development of the west. Organized 
 foes must furnish sufficient risks for the most 
 venturesome, yet how much greater daring was 
 required to deal with ambushed enemies, frenzied 
 by the usurpation of their hunting-grounds and 
 the destruction of that unmolested freedom which 
 practically represented their all. A 'survey of 
 Major Bruce's Indian experiences shows him to 
 have been not only a relentless pursuer of sav- 
 agery and brutality, but a kind and humanitarian 
 adjuster of complications, for he entered into 
 the feelings of the red men, and understood the 
 momentous change which was sweeping them 
 
 from their moorings and placing them within 
 the circumscribed corral of civilization. 
 
 The earliest impressions of Major Bruce are 
 traced to Harrison county, Ind., where he was 
 born November 3, 1827, and where his father 
 was managing a farm. His grandfather re- 
 sembled him in possessing nerve and a liking 
 for border life, for he accompanied Daniel Boone 
 on his second expedition into Indiana, and there- 
 after made his home in Harrison county. James 
 was ten years old when the family moved to 
 Adams county, 111., in 1837, and, his father dying 
 soon afterward, his mother located in New 
 Albany, and in 1875 made her home with him 
 in Oregon, where her death occurred at the age 
 of eight-seven. The oldest of the seven children 
 born to his parents, and also of the four now 
 living, James Bruce has a sister Miriam, the 
 wife of John Sutton of Ballard, Wash. ; a 
 brother, Isaac, of Waterloo, Ore. ; and a sister, 
 Emily, the wife of William Levitt of California. 
 Interspersed with farming James received the 
 average education in the country school near his 
 home, and while yet in his teens apprenticed to 
 a blacksmith, thereafter following his trade for 
 some time. At the age of twenty he began a 
 border career in Texas, and for two years had 
 ample opportunity to watch the maneuvers of the 
 agile Apache Indians, who were constantly men- 
 acing the lives and property of the early settlers. 
 The wonderful war tactics of these Indians were 
 a source of constant surprise to the youth, and 
 their ability to disappear and reappear, concen- 
 trate and move rapidly, thus giving the appear- 
 ance of far greater numbers than they had, and 
 their feat of riding concealed on one side of their 
 horses, were impressions which sunk deep into 
 his responsive and impressionable nature. 
 
 Returning to Quincy, 111., in 1849, Mr - Bruce 
 engaged for a time in the river traffic, and in the 
 spring of 1850, tiring of the monotony following 
 his eventful experiences in Texas, prepared to 
 cross the plains with some of his friends. Start- 
 ing out with horse-teams he found them imprac- 
 ticable, and soon traded his horses for oxen, with 
 which he continued with practically few unusual 
 experiences. After a short time spent in the 
 mines at Placerville, Cal.. he went north to 
 Shasta county and the Reddings diggings, where 
 he mined in distinguished company, his fellow - 
 fortuneseekers including Hon. John Kelly, 
 Thomas Brown and John Milligan. With these 
 companions he made a trip to the famous Scott's 
 bar, where he was overcome with ague, and was 
 obliged to rely upon the thoughtful care _ of his 
 friends. The journey was accomplished with ox- 
 teams, and owing to a scarcity of provisions Mr. 
 Bruce saw a means of adding to his own finances 
 and at the same time improving the condition of 
 the miners. He brought a band of cattle to the 
 
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 mining district and sold the beef at fifty-five cents 
 a pound. With this money he was enabled to 
 start up a ranching business with Dr. Robinson, 
 which he soon afterward disposed of, and assist- 
 ed in establishing Crescent City on the coast. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Bruce came to Jacksonville, on 
 the Rogue river, and there became interested 
 in packing and merchandising, both of which 
 occupations were rendered precarious by the con- 
 stant uprising of the Indians, and their im- 
 placable resistance to the white man's invasion. 
 Instances too numerous to mention of the hair- 
 breadth escapes of this intrepid pioneer could 
 be recounted were space only permitted for their 
 insertion, but it is sufficient to say that he bravely 
 came to the front in the emergency of the hour, 
 and had his share of the hardship, deprivation 
 and danger incident to the long drawn out cam- 
 paign. In an especially hazardous venture the 
 major was destined to realize that gratitude lives 
 even in the hearts of bloodthirsty savages, for in 
 1853, while the war was well under way, with 
 R. B. Metcalf Mr. Bruce was delegated to seek 
 the camp of Chief Joseph, in order to secure his 
 co-operation in calling in the marauding Indians. 
 They found the chief encamped in a natural 
 fortress, his tent indicated by a blue cloth, and, 
 knowing him to be a man of peace, their desire 
 was to reach him before their presence should 
 be discovered by his subordinates. Such was not 
 to be. however, for a howling, hooting mob soon 
 convinced them that their lives were not worth 
 a farthing, and that their doom was approaching 
 resistlessly. At this juncture an Indian boy 
 named Sambo, whose life Mr. Bruce had saved 
 from infuriated miners who were stringing up 
 Indians at Jacksonville, some time previously 
 appeared shouting at the top of his voice that 
 the white man should not be killed. His inter- 
 ference turned the thought of the mob tempor- 
 arily, and in the meantime Chief -Joseph ap- 
 peared on the scene, albeit in an unamiable frame 
 of mind. At first inclined to censure the moder- 
 ation of his braves, he was at length led to hear 
 the story of the white men, and finally consented 
 to visit' General Lane, upon whose suggestion 
 the emissaries had sought the intercession of the 
 chief. Needless to say. the boy Sambo treasured 
 no greater gratitude in his heart than does 
 Major Bruce today, for not only his own but his 
 companion's life was saved, and a terrible 
 slaughter averted. 
 
 "When things had quieted down to some extent 
 the major located on a claim near Table Rock, 
 and in 1854 purchased of the Indians the right 
 to cut hay in Sam's valley, he being under con- 
 tract to supply the government post at Fort 
 Lane. His gift of a horse to his old friend 
 Chief Joseph brought him into considerable 
 trouble, for it aroused the jealousy of Chief Zach, 
 
 who called a council of war, and determined upon 
 the killing of the horse, the burning of the hay, 
 and the expulsion of the white men. Here again 
 the tact and kindliness of Mr. Bruce was brought 
 into play, for he was besought by his friends 
 among the Indians to placate the irate chief, and 
 forthwith took his place in the midst of the delib- 
 erations, within the circle of the council. When 
 it came his turn to show cause why action should 
 not be taken he most eloquently led their minds 
 and hearts into more peaceful channels, telling 
 them that he loved them, and had come to speak 
 to them as brothers, and as having a common 
 father in heaven. Tactfully he referred to pass- 
 ages in the bible substantiating his statements, 
 even explaining why some were white men and 
 others colored, basing the fact upon differences 
 in occupation, and environment, and thus preach- 
 ing the kinship of the world. Needless to say, 
 he was permitted to cut his hay and pursue his 
 way uninterruptedly. 
 
 A different aspect of the matter in 1855 made 
 further intercession of a peaceful nature impos- 
 sible, for after Fields and Cunningham were 
 killed in the Siskiyou mountains, Mr. Bruce 
 formed a battalion of which he was made major, 
 and relentlessly pursued the murderers. He took 
 part in the battle of Hungry Hill and many 
 other battles of an important nature, and in the 
 history of those troublesome times the work of 
 his men stands out in clear outlines, brave, deter- 
 mined, and practically useful. Peace established 
 in the land, he came to Benton county in 1857, 
 and on the Rogue river, north of Table Rock, 
 took up a donation claim upon which he lived 
 until 1862. In 1857 he married Margaret Kin- 
 ney, daughter of Colonel Kinney, of Benton 
 county, and in 1862 removed to Lewiston, where 
 he got out timber for Fort Lapwai. For one 
 season he engaged in the dairy business, and 
 later manipulated stock interests, in time pur- 
 chasing his present farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres ten and a half miles south of Cor- 
 vallis on the old Territorial road. More than 
 ordinary improvements mark the appointments 
 of this ideal home, to which he has added and 
 now has nine hundred acres, devoted to general 
 farming and stock-raising. In many wavs the 
 major has taken the initiative in agricultural 
 directions, and the first Jersey cattle in this 
 vicinity were purchased by him in Philadelphia. 
 Practical and resourceful, he has availed himself 
 of all known aids to scientific farming, and his 
 environment in beauty and productiveness is not 
 exceeded in this part of the state. 
 
 In 1884 Major Bruce lost his first wife, and in 
 1886 he married Miss Elizabeth Mark, with 
 whom, and his daughter, Sarah Catherine, he is 
 passing his declining years. At present a mem- 
 ber of the People's party, he has served both 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Washington and Benton counties in the legisla- 
 ture, and he was an elector on the Douglas 
 ticket in i860. His reputation outside the borders 
 of his adopted county may be judged when it is 
 known that he was one of the judges of agri- 
 cultural implements at the Philadelphia Centen- 
 nial in 1876. He is a charter member of the 
 Oregon Grange, and has actively concerned him- 
 self with its organization and maintenance. Thus 
 is told all too briefly the life-story of one of the 
 stalwart founders of the many-sided structure 
 of the western slope, a man whose personal 
 characteristics have permeated whatever sur- 
 roundings he has temporarily acknowledged, and 
 whose word and influence have been Of inesti- 
 mable value to the great northwest. 
 
 representative of an honored pioneer name is 
 well utilizing the opportunities by which he is 
 surrounded, and in return for meeting in good 
 faith all in his busy and well directed life, he has 
 their good will and esteem, and their hope for 
 continued financial and other good fortune. 
 
 HON. R. S. IRWIN. The agricultural, politi- 
 cal and general prestige established and main- 
 tained for many years by that esteemed pioneer, 
 Richard Irwin, has in no way diminished in the 
 hands of his son, Hon. R. S. Irwin, one of the 
 popular and prominent agriculturists of the 
 vicinity of Corvallis. Born on the old claim nine 
 miles south of the city, he was reared in a prac- 
 tical home atmosphere, and taught the value of 
 a good education, and uncompromising alleg- 
 iance to uprightness and integrity. After leaving 
 the public schools he took a course in the Cor- 
 vallis College, and • thereafter settled down to 
 farming in earnest on the home place. 
 
 After his marriage with Effie Winkle, repre- 
 sentative of another pioneer family, and who was 
 born on her father's donation claim near Cor- 
 vallis, Mr. Irwin continued to keep house on the 
 old place, for five years and then bought his 
 present farm of four hundred and seventy-five 
 acres thirteen miles south of Corvallis, and com- 
 prising a portion of the old Slagle and Perkins 
 donation claim. There were practically few im- 
 provements of a modern nature on the place, 
 and the present appearance of thrift and pro- 
 gressiveness has been brought about through the 
 untiring and practical efforts of the present 
 owner. Two hundred and eighty acres are under 
 cultivation, the land being advantageously laid 
 out, and devoted to general farming, stock and 
 grain raising. Mr. Irwin has one of the finest 
 barns in his neighborhood, and his house is large 
 and commodioiis, and well adapted to the cheer 
 and genuine hospitality so characteristic of the 
 owner and his accomplished wife. 
 
 Three children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Irwin, Fannie, Leanna, and Bessie, all of 
 whom are living at home with their parents. A 
 Democrat in political affiliation, Mr. Irwin is now 
 serving as commissioner of Benton county, 
 having' alreadv held many of the local offices in 
 his township. " Wide awake and enterprising, this 
 
 THOMAS MILTON GATCH, M. A., PH. D. 
 A man of scholarly attainments, keenly alive to 
 the progressive methods of instruction in vogue 
 today, and with the prestige on both sides of 
 the house of a line of ancestors professionally 
 educated, President Gatch has made his influence 
 felt in the educational circles of the Pacific states, 
 and has worthily contributed his full share in 
 maintaining the high standard of the Oregon 
 Agricultural College, with which he is officially 
 connected as president. 
 
 The descendant of a Prussian family that 
 emigrated to the United States in old colonial 
 days, he comes of old Virginia stock, his paternal 
 grandfather, Philip Gatch, and his father, 
 Thomas Gatch, having been born and reared in 
 Virginia. Rev. Philip Gatch was one of the first 
 three ministers ordained in the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church in America, and was afterwards a 
 chaplain in the Revolutionary army, serving 
 under Washington. Subsequently removing to 
 Ohio, he continued his pastoral labors there, and 
 was a member of the first constitutional conven- 
 tion of that state, being a delegate from Cler- 
 mont county. 
 
 Thomas Gatch spent his early life in Powhatan 
 county, Va., the place of his birth, but after 
 removing with his parents to Ohio engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits in Clermont county, remain- 
 ing there until his death. A man of noble char- 
 acter and good business ability, always faithful 
 to the trusts reposed in him, he exerted a wide 
 influence in the management of public affairs, 
 for several terms being a member of the Ohio 
 state legislature, and for a number of years he 
 was an officer in the Ohio militia, holding, a com- 
 mission as general. A strong believer in the 
 religious faith in which he was reared, he was 
 an active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He married Lucinda E. McCormick, 
 who was born in Ohio, a daughter of Rev. Fran- 
 cis McCormick, a native of Virginia, who also 
 served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary war, 
 and afterward established the first Methodist 
 Episcopal class west of the Alleghany mountains, 
 settling as a minister in Ohio, where his later 
 years were spent. Of the nine children born of 
 their union, Thomas Milton Gatch, the special 
 subject of this sketch, is the only survivor. 
 
 A native of Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, 
 Thomas M. Gatch was born January 28, 1833. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and was reared on the home farm. After his 
 graduation from the Milford high school, he 
 entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Dela- 
 ware, Ohio, from which he received the degree 
 of A. B. in 1855, and the degree of A. M. in 
 1858. Going then to California by way of the 
 Isthmus, Mr. Gatch was engaged in mining for 
 a short time in Tuolumne county, but gave up 
 the work to take the chair of mathematics and 
 natural sciences in the University of the Pacific, 
 at Santa Clara, a position that he held until 
 January, 1859. Coming then to the northwest, 
 he established a literary institute at Olympia, 
 Wash., with which he was connected but a brief 
 time when he was urged to become professor of 
 Greek and Latin at the Willamette University, 
 in Salem, Ore. A year later, on the resignation 
 of President Hoyt, Professor Gatch was made 
 president of the university, and continued in 
 that position until 1865, when he resigned and 
 returned to California to become principal of the 
 public schools of Santa Cruz. Coming back 
 to Oregon he served as principal of Portland 
 Academy, at Portland, until 1870. Then, on the 
 resignation of Rev. Nelson Rounds, D. D., in 
 1870, Dr. Gatch succeeded him as president of 
 the Willamette University, taking the office for 
 the second time. His former administration 
 having been unusually successful and popular, 
 he found a cordial and sincere welcome awaiting 
 him, and on tendering his resignation, in 1879, 
 it was after some deliberation regretfully ac- 
 cepted by the board of trustees. 
 
 Going then to Eugene, Dr. Gatch became pro- 
 fessor of English literature at the University of 
 Oregon, afterwards serving as first principal of 
 Wasco Academy, at The Dalles, an office that 
 he resigned to accept the presidency of the Uni- 
 versity of Washington, at Seattle. He remained 
 in that position ten years, during which time 
 important improvements were made, the new 
 college building being erected, and other benefi- 
 cial changes inaugurated. He next filled the 
 chair of political science in the same university 
 for a year, remaining until 1896, when he was 
 elected to his present position as president of the 
 Oregon Agricultural College. Under his judi- 
 cious management this school has made great 
 progress, meeting in a satisfactory degree the 
 needs of the growing boys and girls of the state, 
 and, with its finely equipped buildings, thorough 
 and systematic methods of teaching the various 
 branches of learning necessary to a practical 
 understanding of agricultural and mechanical 
 arts, and with its superior staff of teachers, this 
 college occupies a high rank among similar insti- 
 tutions in the Union, and is one of which Oregon 
 may well be proud. The college grounds com- 
 prise nearly one hundred and eighty-five acres 
 of land, one hundred and forty-five acres of 
 
 which is used for farming purposes, being im- 
 proved with all the buildings, implements and 
 stock to be found on a farm carried on after the 
 most approved modern methods. Nine large 
 buildings have been erected to meet the require- 
 ments of the students, each being fitted up with 
 all the modern appliances needed. 
 
 While a resident of Santa Cruz, Dr. Gatch 
 married Miss Orytha Bennett, who was born in 
 Illinois, and went to California with her parents 
 before the rush of 1849, being there in February, 
 1848, when, in the mill-race at Sutter's Mills, 
 James Marshall discovered gold. Of the five 
 children that blessed their union, three are living, 
 the record of the family being as follows : 
 Claud, a prominent and influential citizen of 
 Salem, Ore., is cashier of the Ladd & Bush 
 Bank ; Claire is the wife of Laban H. Wheeler, 
 Esq., of Seattle ; Leigh and Ruth died in Seattle ; 
 and Grace, a graduate of University of Washing- 
 ton, is at home. 
 
 Dr. Gatch was a member of the first State 
 Board of Examiners in Oregon, and is now a 
 member of the present board. His ability as an 
 educator is recognized in professional circles, and 
 he has been honored by other institutions than 
 his alma mater, having been given the degree of 
 Ph. D. by the DePauw University of Indiana. 
 Politically he is a Republican, and fraternally 
 he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He was 
 made a Mason at Santa Cruz, Cal. ; was master 
 of Salem Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M. ; and re- 
 ceived the thirty-second degree of Scottish 
 Rite Masonry at Seattle. The doctor joined Che- 
 meketa Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F., at Salem, Ore., 
 and has served as grand master and grand patri- 
 arch of Oregon. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. BEEZLEY. The timber 
 industry, which has furnished fortunes to thou- 
 sands who have settled in the west, is appre- 
 ciated by Benjamin F. Beezley, who, at Falls 
 City, is engaged in locating timber, and deal- 
 ing in real estate. He has made a practical 
 study of the timber industry, has examined the 
 forests, and knOAvs where the best may be 
 found, and in this way is of valuable assistance 
 to would-be purchasers. He probably has as ac- 
 curate an idea of the kind and extent of the tim- 
 ber lands of Oregon as any man now engaged 
 in locating claims. So successful was he dur- 
 ing about four years of this kind of work, that 
 in 1902 he associated himself in business with 
 Zimri Hinshaw, and in consequence the busi- 
 ness increased and is becoming widely known. 
 
 Benjamin F. is not the only worthy represen- 
 tative of his family in Falls City, for his father, 
 Edward E., the founder of the name in the 
 west, is engaged in a flourishing nursery busi- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ness. The father was born in the state of Illi- 
 nois, and when a young man removed to Ar- 
 kansas, thence to Missouri, where he married 
 Sarah Cossairt, a native of Jay county, Ind., 
 near the Ohio line. His son, Benjamin F., was 
 born September 3, 1875, where he engaged in 
 the nursery business in Hickory county. In 
 
 1888 he removed to the west and located in 
 Whitman county, Wash., and the following 
 year came to Polk county, Ore. Near Dallas 
 he rented land and started a nursery business, 
 conducting the same with fair success from 
 
 1889 to 1893, when he transferred his business 
 to Falls City. He is still active and devoted to 
 his chosen occupation, for which he possesses 
 special aptitude. To some extent he ships his 
 goods out of the state, and, altogether, con- 
 ducts a fairly successful business. 
 
 The oldest of the three sons born to his par- 
 ents, Benjamin F. was early in life taught self- 
 reliance, and was given a good education that 
 he might better succeed in his life work. His 
 education at Dallas College was of his own 
 provision, for, at the age of fourteen, he hired 
 out as a farm hand, and carefully saved his 
 earnings, that he might gain a knowledge of 
 the higher branches. Eventually, he engaged 
 in teaching for a year, and, in 1900, started the 
 business in which he is still interested. He is 
 a very intelligent and well-posted man, and it 
 is his aim to increase his general knowledge as 
 opportunity shall present itself. In January, 
 1900, he took up a homestead claim of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres on the Siletz river, which 
 he proposed to improve and sell. Three chil- 
 dren have been born into the family of Mr. 
 Beezley, of whom John E. is attending the 
 normal school at Monmouth, Ore., and Jessie 
 is living at home. 
 
 B. F. Beezley is a Republican in politics, 
 and is fraternally prominent, being a member 
 of the Eastern Star, the Blue Lodge, F. & A. 
 M. ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; 
 the Modern Woodmen of America, and the 
 Grange. 
 
 McELVY WOOTEN. In McElvy Wooten, 
 Lane county has an agriculturist identified with 
 her pioneer and present day development, and 
 one in whom is blended practical and progres- 
 sive ideas, and extremely painstaking ways of 
 carrying them out. From earliest youth the 
 heir to responsibility, his mother having died 
 when he was a child, he moved from his native 
 state of Maryland where he was born Decem- 
 ber 11, 1827, with his father and the rest of the 
 family to Tennessee, and from there to Mis- 
 souri, where the father, James Wooten, died in 
 1842. The children kept together on the farm 
 
 until they married or went their respective ways 
 in life, McElvey Wooten starting out at once on 
 a career of independence as a farm hand. He 
 rented a farm in Missouri, but gave it up in 
 the spring of 1850, that he might join the 
 throngs in their search after homes and fortunes 
 in the far west. 
 
 Under the guidance of Major Ball, Mr. 
 Wooten crossed the plains with ox-teams, was 
 on the road for about six months, and during 
 that time encountered little of an unpleasant or 
 dangerous nature. After spending the first win- 
 ter in the Waldo hills in Marion county, he went 
 in 1 85 1 to northern California, and for a year 
 prospected and mined with rather dishearten- 
 ing results. Reared to farming, .he naturally 
 returned to the occupation of his youth, being 
 sure at least of an honest living, and of com- 
 parative immunity from entire failure. Taking 
 up a claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 two miles east of Creswell, on the coast fork of 
 the Willamette river, he started in to improve 
 his land, and was soon comfortably located on 
 land which held great promise, but which had 
 hitherto known little of improvement. He found 
 a wife and companion in Eliza Jane Bunyard, 
 who was born in Missouri, and died on the old 
 donation claim, having borne her husband five 
 children. Of these, all are deceased but James, 
 who occupies and manages the old home. For 
 a second wife Mr. Wooten married Lucy M. 
 Conrad, the widow of D. G. Conrad, who was a 
 pioneer of 1852 and they had nine children, 
 five of whom are living, one of whom is living 
 in Lane county, the wife of T. B. Brown. Mrs. 
 Wooten's father, A. J. Cruzan,' brought her 
 across the plains in 1853, locating on a farm in 
 Lane county. 
 
 As his stock-raising and general farming has 
 increased in extent, Mr. Wooten has found his 
 land inadequate, and so has made more recent 
 purchases, owning at present three hundred and 
 ninety acres, sixty of which are under cultiva- 
 tion. He devotes much thought and study to 
 fine stock, and some of the best which reaches 
 local markets attained perfection while grazing 
 in his meadows. No name in this county car- 
 ries with it greater political weight than does 
 that of Mr. Wooten, whose stanch support of 
 Republicanism, disinterested and altogether 
 worthy services, have ennobled opportunities 
 which often have been turned to base account. 
 The friend and promoter of education, he has 
 served for many years on the school board, his 
 own limited early chances having emphasized in 
 his mind the necessity for a practical common 
 school education. He is fraternally connected 
 with the Masons, and his religious associations 
 are with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dur- 
 

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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing the Civil war Mr. Wooten was a member 
 of the National Guard. He is foremost in ail 
 philanthropic undertakings in his community, 
 giving liberally of his hard-earned means to 
 further the cause of peace and happiness among 
 all classes. His friends are many and stanch, 
 his character is above reproach, and financial 
 success has crowned his years of well directed 
 industrv. 
 
 HON. JOHN WHITE AKER. The position 
 which Hon. John Whiteaker occupied in the po- 
 litical life of the state of Oregon was one of 
 prominence from the formation of the common- 
 wealth, being elected in June, 1858, as governor 
 of the state, it being believed in Oregon that 
 the bill for the admission of Oregon had been 
 passed by Congress. It afterward transpired that 
 the bill did not pass until early in 1859, an & not 
 until official information thereof was received did 
 Mr. Whiteaker assume the duties of the gov- 
 ernor's office, continuing to act as chief executive 
 then until September 10, 1862, the date of the 
 inauguration of his successor. In the years that 
 followed before the death of this honored pioneer 
 he was called upon many times to act in public 
 office, the earnestness with which he adhered to 
 strong convictions, the energy with which he 
 prosecuted his labors, and the unflinching in- 
 tegrity upon which his life work was founded 
 winning for him to an exceptional degree the con- 
 fidence of all who came to know him well 
 throughout his long life of service. His death 
 occurred in Eugene October 2, 1902. 
 
 The American progenitor of the Whiteaker 
 family was the great-grandfather of Governor 
 Whiteaker, who came from Holland before the 
 Revolutionary war. His son James married 
 Jemima Moore, by whom he had four children, 
 namely : John, Sarah, David and Rachel, the 
 first named son being born in Pennsylvania in 
 1786. Earh- in life he settled in Indiana where 
 he married Nancy Smales, a native of Maryland, 
 in time removing to Allen county, Ind., where his 
 death occurred October 14, 1864, at the age of 
 seventy-eight years and eight months. His wife 
 passed away April 24, 1868, when about eighty- 
 two years of age. They were the parents of the 
 following children, all of whom were born in 
 Dearborn county, Ind. : James, born September 
 8, 1812; Eliza, born September 30, 1815, and 
 died in infancy ; Douglas Livingston, born Aug- 
 ust 16, 1817; John, the special subject of this 
 review, born May 4, 1820; and Catherine, born 
 June 18, 1823. The early life of John Whiteaker 
 was spent upon his father's farm in Dearborn 
 county. Ind., his home duties being interspersed 
 with a very brief period of schooling, six months 
 in all. When sixteen years of age he left home 
 
 63 
 
 and for the ensuing ten years was traveling over 
 the western and southern states in the pursuit of 
 a livelihood, being engaged in 1842 in Posey 
 county, Ind., working at the carpenter's trade 
 for a period of three years, during which time 
 he attended school at intervals. In the spring of 
 1845 ne went to Victoria, Knox county, 111., 
 where he followed his trade until the fall of 
 1846, when he went to Putnam county, Mo., and 
 spent the winter. In the spring of the following 
 year he located in Alexandria, Clark county, of 
 the same state, and followed his trade there until 
 July, when he returned to Putnam county and on 
 August 22, 1847, was united in marriage with 
 Nancy Jane Hargrave, the daughter of Thomas 
 and Cecelia (French) Hargrave. He then pur- 
 chased some tools in Lancaster and built the first 
 home for himself and wife, where he remained 
 working at the trade of carpenter and cabinet- 
 maker until the spring of 1849. Attracted then 
 by the prospects held out by the rich mines of 
 California, Mr. Whiteaker left his wife with her 
 parents and sought the gold fields of the western 
 state. He mined along the American river with 
 fair success until the summer of 1851, when he 
 returned to Missouri and with his family set out 
 in the following year for Oregon. Owning his 
 own outfit he crossed the plains in company with 
 John Partin, Thomas Jefferies and several other 
 families from Missouri, he being elected captain 
 of the train which came over the old Oregon 
 trail, reaching Yamhill county October 26, 1852. 
 In the spring of 1853 he moved south to Spencer 
 Butte, Lane county, where he took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres and 
 engaged in farming. Six years later he sold his 
 farm and purchased another near Pleasant Hill, 
 Lane county, where he remained until 1885, en ~ 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 Having been appointed by President Cleveland 
 to the position of collector of internal revenue 
 he then sold his farm and removed to Portland, 
 where he resided during his incumbency of office, 
 in 1889 making his home in Eugene, where he 
 spent the remainder of his life. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Whiteaker were born, four 
 children. Anna makes her home with her mother 
 in Eugene ; another daughter is the wife of 
 D. W. Jarvis, of Portland ; Benjamin is located 
 in Eugene ; and James Emmett is in Idaho. In 
 his political preferment a Democrat, Mr. White- 
 aker was always active in the promotion of the 
 principles he endorsed. While residing at Pleas- 
 ant Hill he was made justice of the peace, this 
 being his first political office. In 1856 he was 
 elected judge of the probate court of Lane 
 county, and in the following spring was elected 
 to the territorial legislature, following which he 
 was elected to the highest office in the gift of the 
 people, that of governor of the state of Oregon, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 serving from March 3, 1859, to September 10, 
 1862. After his retirement to private life he 
 served several terms in the state legislature and 
 senate, being chosen speaker of the former body 
 and president of the latter, and in 1878 he was 
 elected to the Forty-sixth United States Con- 
 gress for two years. Although retired from the 
 active cares of life after his removal to Eugene, 
 Mr. Whiteaker ever lent his influence toward 
 the furtherance of every and all enterprises whose 
 end was the betterment of the city, county or 
 state. He owned about ten blocks in the city 
 which he laid out into lots, forming what is now 
 known as the Whiteaker addition on the south- 
 west. Steadfast in his adherence to principle, 
 faithful in friendship and ever earnest in the ad- 
 vancement of the welfare of his adopted state, he 
 won and retained a large circle of friends and 
 admirers, whose loss through his death can only 
 be partially compensated by the memory of the 
 life which he lived. 
 
 THOMAS J. VAUGHAN. Connected as he 
 was with the earliest history of the state, Thomas 
 J. Vaughan, a resident of Lane county for a 
 half century or more, is familiar with all that 
 has gone before the greatness and prosperity of 
 Oregon. Toward the fulfillment of developed 
 resources he has given the enthusiastic help of 
 youth, the steadier decision of more mature 
 years, and in the evening of his life enjoys the 
 peace and contentment which rewards labor well 
 done. His name is surely enrolled among the 
 useful pioneers of the state, and the honor 
 accorded such is given to him by all who know 
 him. 
 
 Mr. Vaughan was born in Wayne county, W. 
 Va., August 13, 1830. Five years after his 
 birth his parents removed to Illinois and located 
 near Springfield, where they remained six 
 months, then returning to the former state. In 
 1839 they moved across the river into Kentucky 
 and remained for a period of four months, then 
 continuing the journey west until they located 
 in Platte county, Mo., from which state they 
 emigrated toward the more remote lands. In 
 1845 the father was attracted toward the oppor- 
 tunities of Oregon, traveling by pack animals 
 across the plains in the party which had an un- 
 pleasant experience in Meek's cut-off, and on 
 his arrival in the state he went to work in a saw- 
 mill in Salem, where he remained throughout 
 the winter. He returned to the Mississippi val- 
 ley in 1846, and found that his own family did 
 not know him, as he had not cut his hair nor 
 beard in the entire time. Having been favor- 
 ably impressed with the outlook, he outfitted 
 with oxen and three- wagons and necessary sup- 
 plies, and in the spring of 1847 started again 
 
 across the plains with his wife and nine children. 
 Just before leaving he had purchased some cows 
 and two hundred and fifty-eight sheep, and, 
 these were the first blooded sheep brought into 
 the state from the east, some of which were 
 afterwards sold to Benjamin Fields, who pur- 
 chased fifty head of the original flock, but 
 Minto's history of the sheep industry of Oregon 
 makes an error by giving Benjamin Fields the 
 credit of importing these same sheep. During 
 the trip which occupied the time from May 17 
 to September they lost all but one hundred 
 sheep. Mr. Vaughan first located in Marion 
 county, where the family remained for a few 
 months, after which the father took up a dona- 
 tion claim in Linn county, consisting of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres in the neighborhood of 
 West Point. In August, 1848, Mr. Vaughan 
 went to California by pack animals and mined 
 on the American river, and while there helped 
 to hang some men at Hangtown. He was suc- 
 cessful in his venture and came north with 
 $14,000 in gold. Again in 1849 ne an d two 
 sons, Alexander and Thomas, went to California 
 and mined on the Trinit)', and were once more 
 successful. Returning in the fall of the year 
 to Oregon, he remained at home until 1851, 
 when he again tried his fortunes in the Golden 
 . state, in that year being one of the first to dis- 
 cover the Yreka mines. He returned home, and 
 the family continued to live in Linn county until 
 1857, when they removed to Lane county, the 
 father purchasing three hundred and twenty- 
 five acres near Coburg. He continued a resi- 
 dent of that county until his death, which oc- 
 curred near Thurston, November 18, 1888, at 
 the age of eighty years and twenty-seven days. 
 His wife died October 12, 1901, when nearly 
 ninety-one years old. 
 
 Thomas J. Vaughan was seventeen years old 
 when he crossed the plains with his parents, his 
 duty on the trip being to drive the sheep. In 
 1849 ne accompanied his father to California, 
 and June 5, 1850; he was married to Elizabeth 
 S. Sampson, a native of Platte county, Mo., 
 with whose sister and brother-in-law, Luther 
 White, he had crossed the plains in 1847. He 
 then moved to his father's six hundred and forty 
 acre donation claim, where he lived seven years, 
 when he came to his present location and pur- 
 chased a farm of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, upon which he now carries on general 
 farming and stock-raising. Eleven children were 
 born to himself and wife, of whom Phoebe E. 
 is the wife of Mr. Meyers and lives in Wash- 
 ington ; Benjamin F. was postmaster at Hepp- 
 ner, Ore., and he and his wife were both drowned 
 in the Heppner flood ; Oren is a cattleman of Ne- 
 vada; Olive is the wife of Henry Bollin, of 
 Lane county; Martha is the wife of A. Sim- 
 
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 mons; Orella lives in Seattle; Mary J. is the 
 wife of Joseph Klien, of Heaklsburg, Cal. ; Em- 
 ma is the wife of J. W. Shumate, of Walter- 
 ville. Ore. ; Jeremiah is located near his father'* 
 farm; Alta.G. died in 1888; and Lizzie is the 
 wife of P. L. Barber, who is connected with the 
 interests of Air. Vaughan. 
 
 In politics Mr. Vaughan is a Republican, and 
 as such has represented his party in various 
 offices, and was a member of the state legisla- 
 ture in 1897 and a justice of the peace for many 
 years. He was the first chairman of the first 
 convention to organize the Republican party in 
 Lane county, which was held in 1856, and he 
 now has the minutes of that meeting in his pos- 
 session. Out of forty men present he is one of 
 three now living. In fraternal relations he 
 has been an Odd Fellow for forty-three years, 
 and also belongs to the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He is a member of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 JOEL HIRLBURT. After many years of 
 arduous toil in developing a large farm in Ben- 
 ton county, Ore., Joel Hirlburt is now living re- 
 tired in Monroe, one of the highly honored and 
 enterprising members of the community. His 
 farm of three hundred acres, four miles south- 
 east of the town, furnishes interest and relaxa- 
 tion whenever he chooses to visit it, but he has 
 permanently stepped down from his former posi- 
 tion of guide and manager, having turned the 
 responsibility over to younger and more vigorous 
 people. As his success as a general farmer and 
 stock-raiser has increased from year to year he 
 has invested in town property, and now owns 
 some valuable lots inside the limits, which, taken 
 in connection with his farm, make him indeed 
 a large property-owner. 
 
 That Mr. Hirlburt should devote his energies 
 to farming is not to be wondered at, for as far 
 back as he can remember or has heard his fore- 
 fathers engaged in the same thrifty occupation. 
 From Athens county, Ohio, where he was born 
 and spent his earliest years, he removed with 
 his family to Indiana, and from there to Mis- 
 souri, and there married Nancy Casteel, a native 
 of Indiana, and with whom he went to house- 
 keeping on a farm. To his neighborhood came 
 many rumors of gold and fertile lands in the 
 west, to all of which he listened with the enthusi- 
 asm of an ambitious and far-sighted man, deter- 
 mined to make the best of the abilities with which 
 nature had endowed him. Disposing of his Mis- 
 souri interests, he prepared to cross the plains in 
 1863. outfitting with ox-teams, and accomplish- 
 ing his journey with little of the trouble or depri- 
 vation which made of earlier migrations hideous 
 nightmares. The first winter in the west was 
 
 spent on a farm near Salem, Marion county, and 
 in the spring of 1854 he came to Benton county, 
 the same fall moving to Lane county, where he 
 took up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres, on which he built a small log house 
 and prepared to clear his land. He was fairly 
 successful in accomplishing his purpose, but 
 thought he could improve his conditions when, 
 about 1872, he sold his claim and purchased his 
 farm of three hundred acres, four miles south- 
 east of Monroe. This also was in a compara- 
 tively crude state, and ere crops could be put in 
 much work had to be done. On the new claim 
 three children were reared to maturity : Lewis, 
 deceased ; Ellen ; and Arrena, the wife of A. 
 Goodman, of the vicinity of Monroe. 
 
 After the death of his wife, in 1898, Mr. Hirl- 
 burt lived on the home farm for two years, and 
 then moved into Monroe, his principal object be- 
 ing the education of his grandchildren, of whom 
 he is very fond. In no sense has he ever aspired 
 to public recognition of any kind, and has not 
 even taken a decided stand in politics, believing 
 in voting for the man best qualified to serve the 
 community welfare. He is noted for his rugged 
 sincerity, his practical and worthy life, and those 
 sterling traits of character which everywhere win 
 respect and honest appreciation. 
 
 CHARLES M. CRITTENDEN. As the 
 only real estate dealer in the promising little 
 town of Hubbard, Charles M. Crittenden en- 
 joys a distinct advantage, for much valuable 
 town and country property will pass through 
 his hands. Although but a recent addition to 
 the business life of the town, having arrived in 
 1899, he has already impressed his general 
 worth upon the public, who are inclined to co- 
 operate with him in his efforts to spread abroad 
 a knowledge of the many advantages of this 
 well-favored section of the country. He is a 
 justice of the peace, and is further interested in 
 the social side of his adopted town as a mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights 
 of the Maccabees. In political affiliation he is 
 a Republican. 
 
 A native of Martin county, Minn., Mr. Crit- 
 tenden was born March 2, 1870, his father, 
 William, having been born in New York state, 
 May 17, 1837. The elder Crittenden removed 
 to Michigan as a young man, and from there 
 went to Minnesota, where he engaged at his 
 trade as machinist. In 1869 he took up his 
 residence in Martin county, Minn., and in 1873 
 went to Sioux Falls, S. D., where he took up 
 a timber claim of one hundred and sixty acres. 
 While working at his trade he worked this 
 claim, and in 1887 removed to Tuscola county, 
 Mich,, where he bought a ranch of one hundred 
 
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 and sixty acres, upon which he has since lived. 
 His wife, Ella A. (Hackett) Crittenden, was 
 born in Vermont, and came west with her par- 
 ents as a child, settling in Minnesota. She also 
 is living, and is the mother of six children, five 
 sons and one daughter, of whom two died in 
 infancy. 
 
 The oldest child in his father's family, 
 Charles M. Crittenden was educated in the 
 public schools, ending at the normal school of 
 South Dakota. At the age of nineteen he 
 began teaching school in Michigan, continuing 
 this occupation after coming to Oregon, in dif- 
 ferent parts of Clackamas county, and in Hub- 
 bard, to which town he removed in 1899. 
 While teaching he saw an opportunity here 
 for a live, energetic real estate business, and 
 inaugurated his present promising enterprise. 
 Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Crittenden, Mae L., Ruby B. and Jay, aged, re- 
 spectively, nine, seven .and five years. Mr. 
 Crittenden is a man of high ideals, is well 
 posted on current events, and is unquestion- 
 ably destined for a prominent place in the up- 
 building of his adopted town. 
 
 DARIUS G. McCLARAN. Though a com- 
 paratively new comer to his present farm, having 
 settled thereon in 1901, Darius G. McClaran has 
 a firmly established reputation as a general farm- 
 er and stock-raiser, the greater part of his pres- 
 ent competence having been acquired in the latter 
 occupation. His farm of two hundred acres is 
 devoted almost exclusively to high-grade stock. 
 Mr. McClaran is one of the hundreds of men who 
 traveled long and wearily before reaching their 
 destination in the west, and his experience and 
 that of others leads one to wonder how many of 
 the homeseekers of today would be willing to un- 
 dergo the dangers incident to the long journey 
 across the plains. Born in Holmes county, Ohio, 
 March 21, 1845, ne wa s a year old when his 
 parents moved near Bowling Green, Ind., and 
 from there they moved to Guthrie county, Iowa, 
 in 1852. Here Darius developed into a strong 
 and capable young man, attended the near-by 
 district school for a few months each winter, and 
 looked forward to broader opportunities than 
 those by which he was surrounded. In i860 he 
 enlisted in the Northern army, under Captain 
 Tracy, and served until receiving an honorable 
 discharge- 
 Many of their neighbors having departed for 
 the coast, the McClaran family naturally became 
 interested in the project, and finally, in 1868, 
 some of their number followed the example of 
 their more ambitious friends. Besides Darius G., 
 there were two other brothers, James and Rich- 
 ard, and their sister, Eliza McClaran, in the 
 
 party, and they had two wagons and four yoke 
 of oxen to each wagon, besides some loose stock. 
 Their experiences on the plains were greatly 
 modified from those of the earlier emigrants, the 
 Indians having become used to the approach of 
 pale faces, and newly settled towns and villages 
 furnishing stopping places for procuring food 
 and accommodations. Six months after setting 
 out a weary and travel-stained party appeared in 
 Forest Grove, entire strangers, and with but 
 twenty-five cents left of their funds, but Darius 
 secured employment with James Hines, mak- 
 ing rails, where he remained two years. He 
 afterward sought to win a fortune in the mines 
 of Idaho, and after mining and prospecting for 
 a time turned his attention to raising cattle, horses 
 and sheep, on a ranch at Heppner, Ore. This 
 proved so profitable and pleasant an occupation 
 that he continued it for eighteen years, and dur- 
 ing that time accumulated quite a little fortune, 
 becoming prominent in politics and general affairs 
 in his neighborhood. In 1885 he bought four 
 hundred and eighty acres near Brownsville, Linn 
 county, and lived thereon until coming to his 
 present farm in 1901. Mr. McClaran is a Re- 
 publican in politics, and is fraternally connected 
 with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees 
 of Brownsville and Albany respectively. He is 
 progressive and public-spirited, favoring all 
 movements which have for their object the ad- 
 vancement of the agricultural, educational, moral 
 or political standing of the community. 
 
 JOHN E. WYATT. The stable characteristics 
 possessed by that fine and venerable pioneer, Wil- 
 liam Wyatt, are reproduced in some of his fam- 
 ily of children, prominent among whom is John 
 E., an extensive farmer and stock-raiser living 
 two miles west of Corvallis. William Wyatt, of 
 whom extended mention is made elsewhere in 
 this work, reared his children to an appreciation 
 of their duty as citizens and men, educated them 
 practically, and finally started them out upon the 
 highway of life with large farms of their own, 
 thus giving them an advantage over the majority 
 of the young men of the county. John E. Wyatt 
 has taken the gift thus presented, added to it. 
 improved everything that he owns until it is valu- 
 able and profitable, and is conducting as success- 
 ful a farming enterprise as may be found in his 
 neighborhood. His specialty in the stock line is 
 Cotswold sheep and Shorthorn cattle, and upon 
 his grassy pastures may be found the most aris- 
 tocratic and high-priced of these animals. The 
 home farm consists of two hundred and sixty 
 acres, and he also owns two hundred and seventy 
 acres in the hills, and one hundred and sixty 
 further in the mountains. A fine rural residence, 
 convenient and modern barns, and up-to-date 
 
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 genera] equipments, make general farming a 
 much less arduous task than it was a few years 
 ago, and mark the owner as a man of ideas and 
 progressive inclinations. 
 
 A native son of the state, Mr. Wyatt was born 
 on his father's farm three and a half miles south- 
 west of Corvallis, January 26, 1849, and not long 
 afterward was taken to the Solomon King farm, 
 later still to the St. Clair farm, upon all of which 
 the elder Wyatt put in crops and made some 
 improvements. In 1850 his parents located on 
 the donation claim where he was reared, and 
 where he attended school in the neighborhood. 
 Afterward he studied at Philomath College, and 
 at the age of twenty located on the farm which 
 is now his home. In January, 1870, he married 
 Mary M. Hinkle, daughter of Jacob Hinkle, an 
 early settler of this county, and went to house- 
 keeping on his claim, where he has reared seven 
 children: Rozella, wife of A. J. Shipley, of 
 Monmouth ; Milton, at home ; Lizzie, wdfe of 
 Herbert Elliott, of Perrydale ; Minnie, at home ; 
 and Ernest, Elbert and Edna, triplets. Like his 
 father, Mr. Wyatt is a devoted member of the 
 United Brethren Church, and in politics he is a 
 Republican. For many years he has rendered 
 signal service as road supervisor, and he has 
 been a school director for more than twenty 
 years. Genial, accommodating and hospitable, 
 Mr. Wyatt is also an excellent business man and 
 model farmer, and thus added to the social and 
 agricultural prestige of a fertile and prosperous 
 county. 
 
 MRS. AGXES THOMPSON. Among the 
 honored pioneers of this section of the Will- 
 amette valley is to be named Mrs. Agnes 
 Thompson, who gave up home and near rel- 
 atives to bear an uncle and aunt company in 
 their journey across the plains in 1852. The 
 years have brought many changes into her life, 
 as they have into the lives of all pioneers. With 
 a family of children about her and many friends 
 as an heritage of the years, Mrs. Thompson is 
 passing into a pleasant and prosperous old age, 
 a firm memory remaining to recall the early 
 days of privation and dangers to the present 
 generation of the now great and thriving com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 Mrs. Thompson was in maidenhood Agnes 
 Nye, the descendant of a family which origi- 
 nally spelled the name in the French style, being 
 of the same blood as Marshal Xey of the French 
 army, whose loyalty to Xapoleon cost him his 
 life, though not his honor. The first of the 
 native born Americans was John Nye, who was 
 born in North Sewickly, Pa., and spent his life 
 in Wayne county, Ohio, and Kosciusko county, 
 Ind., in the latter purchasing and clearing a 
 
 large tract of land, providing for each of his 
 twelve children a large farm. John Nye was 
 the grandfather of Agnes Nye, her father 
 Michael, being born in Wayne county, Ohio, 
 and removing with his father to Indiana in 
 1835. He was a mason and builder by trade, 
 making his livelihood in the prosecution of this 
 work until his death in 1848, at the age of 
 forty-six years. He was a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church, having officiated for many years as 
 deacon. He was married twice, his first wife 
 being Sophia Clark, who bore him two chil- 
 dren : John, who located in Oregon in 1857 and 
 engaged in farming in Lincoln county, serving 
 with distinction in the Indian w r ars of this 
 country ; and Agnes of this review. His second 
 marriage united him with Elizabeth Kimes, who 
 lived to a good age, dying in Indiana in 1899. 
 She was the mother of eight children, of whom 
 George died in infancy in Kosciusko county, 
 Ind. ; Omar died at the age of twenty-one years 
 in Indiana ; Jasper, who served in Company A, 
 of the Seventy-fourth Indiana Regiment, is 
 county surveyor at Knoxville, Marion county, 
 Iowa; Nancy is Mrs. Disher of North Dakota; 
 Rowan is a farmer in Bourbon, Ind ; Rebecca is 
 the wife of W. S. Yanator, an architect and 
 builder of Warsaw, Ind ; Michael is located in 
 Idaho ; and Mary is the wife of Julius Magnon, 
 of Marshall county, Ind. 
 
 Agnes Nye Thompson was born July 18, 1833, 
 in Indiana and was reared on her father's farm 
 which was located on the banks of the Tippe- 
 canoe river, in the near neighborhood of War- 
 saw. W "hen of sufficient age to partake of the 
 educational advantages offered in their home 
 county she attended a school whose sessions 
 were held in a log house, with puncheon floor 
 and slab benches, and greased paper as a substi- 
 tute for windows. Quill pens were a part of 
 the necessary equipment of a pupil. In 1852 
 she joined her uncle and aunt, William and 
 Rachel Blaine, who, with ox-teams, started 
 March 13 for Oregon, driving from their home 
 in Indiana. Crossing the Missouri river at 
 Council Bluffs, in the path of the many other 
 emigrants of that time, they entered upon the 
 great trail of their journey, fraught with dan- 
 ger, privation and loneliness, their greatest suf- 
 fering being caused from the ravages of the 
 dread disease of cholera. Mrs. Thompson ex- 
 perienced the trials of the disease, but recovered, 
 the only member of the family who died being 
 Mary Ann Blaine, who was buried upon the 
 plains. Upon the arrival of the train in Oregon 
 they settled in Brownsville, Linn county. 
 
 January 1, 1855, Agnes Nye was united in 
 marriage with Robert Mitchell Thompson, the 
 ceremony being performed in Governor Moody's 
 house. The first of the name of Thompson to 
 
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 settle in the United States was James Thomp- 
 son, who, with his brother John, left Scotland 
 and after a brief stay in Antrim, Ireland, 
 settled in Pennsylvania, in the year 1735, the 
 former locating in Juniata county, the latter in 
 Cumberland county. Robert, the son of James, 
 was born in this location, and Robert Mitchell 
 likewise first saw the light of day there. In 
 addition to the training received from his father 
 along agricultural lines, Robert Mitchell Thomp- 
 son learned the trade of a carpenter, and when 
 a young man he went to Illinois where he en- 
 gaged in work of this nature. In 185 1 he crossed 
 the plains by ox-teams, locating in Brownsville, 
 where after several years spent in the prose- 
 cution of his trade, he entered the mercantile 
 business. In 1856 he removed to Corvallis, 
 Benton county, and after a brief engagement 
 at his trade he purchased a farm one mile south 
 of Corvallis, containing one hundred and thirty- 
 six acres and which is now excellently im- 
 proved, being still in the possession of his 
 widow. Later he was interested in general mer- 
 chandise in Corvallis, and also serving as post- 
 master during Grant's administration. In his 
 early days he belonged to the Presbyterian 
 faith, but his wife being a member of the United 
 Evangelical Church he was won to her belief, 
 in which he remained until his death in 1893, at 
 the age of sixty-nine years. Politically Mr. and 
 Mrs. Thompson were in accord, both being 
 stanch Republicans. 
 
 Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Thompson, Newton Addison is a pharmacist, 
 located in Seattle, Wash. ; Laura is the wife of 
 James Booth, of Corvallis ; Mary lives in Cor- 
 vallis ; Estella is the wife of A. F. Peterson ; 
 Emma also makes her home in Corvallis ; 
 George died at the age of eighteen years ; John 
 died at the age of six years ; and Olive Irene 
 is a music teacher, located in Boise City, Idaho. 
 In addition to her country home Mrs. Thompson 
 also owns a residence in the city. She is a 
 prominent member of the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union, and the Woman's Relief 
 Corps. 
 
 DAVID HUGGINS. A large and well fur- 
 nished rural residence, one of the finest barns 
 of which Benton county can boast, well built 
 fences, adequate accommodations for high-grade 
 stock, and running water in every field, are a 
 few of the advantages to be found on the farm 
 of David Huggins, two and a half miles south- 
 west of Bellfountain, and comprising a portion 
 of the McKane donation claim. This prosper- 
 ous farmer and dairyman is a native son of New 
 York, in which state he was born April 24, 
 1834, and where he was reared on a farm. As 
 
 a youth he learned the carpenter's trade, and 
 thus equipped with a trade, a common school edu- 
 cation and a practical familiarity with the pos- 
 sibilities of the soil, he came to California via 
 the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, intending to 
 make a fortune in the mines of the western 
 slope. Fairly successful, he continued to pros- 
 pect and mine for about seven years, and then 
 located in Humboldt county, CaL, and farmed 
 and worked at his trade. Around Eastern, on 
 the John Day's river, he afterward mined for 
 a couple of years, and all in all managed to 
 make considerable headway, saving money for 
 a rainy day. 
 
 Coming to Benton county in 1864, Mr. Hug- 
 gins located on a claim near Monroe, and in 1868 
 enlivened his bachelor quarters by bringing home 
 a wife, who was Sarah, daughter of Rowland 
 Hinton, the latter of whom is mentioned at 
 length in another part of this work. After his 
 marriage, Mr. Huggins continued to live on his 
 original farm until 1882, when he moved to 
 a farm north of Monroe, and in 1889 purchased 
 his present property. The first Mrs. Huggins 
 died near Monroe, having reared a family of 
 seven children, of whom William lives near 
 Monroe; Lee is a resident of Seattle; Laura is 
 the wife of L. Courtwright, of Harrisburg; 
 Clara is the wife of John Jentry, of Monroe; 
 Burk is living in eastern Oregon; Frances is the 
 wife of William Shroder, of the vicinity of 
 Monroe; and Claude lives in Monroe. At the 
 time of his wife's death Mr. Huggins was fol- 
 lowing his trade in Monroe, although he still 
 retained possession of the farm. For a second 
 wife he married Mrs. J. L. Stevens, who was 
 born in Michigan, and who was formerly 
 Jeanette L. Landerking. For her first husband 
 Miss Landerking married Mason Quick, by 
 whom she had two children, one of whom, Wil- 
 liam A., is a conductor on the Northern Pacific 
 Railroad, the other is deceased. By her second 
 husband, John Stevens, she had eight children, 
 only one of whom is now living — Mrs. Millie 
 Aberson. 
 
 Since casting his first presidential vote Mr. 
 Huggins has been a stanch advocate of Democ- 
 racy, but has never aspired to the offices within 
 the gift of his fellow-townsmen. He is fra- 
 ternally popular in the Grange and in the Fra- 
 ternal Union of America, No. 264. Aside from 
 his farming Mr. Huggins has worked at his 
 trade to a considerable extent, and many barns 
 in the country and residences and public build- 
 ings in Monroe and Bellfountain have had the 
 benefit of his skill in construction. Mr. Hug- 
 gins has a herd of a hundred head of Shorthorn 
 cattle, and eighty head of high-bred goats, be- 
 sides a large number of swine. At the present 
 time his splendidly appointed farm is serving 
 
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 a double purpose, that of home for his family, 
 and for the poor of Benton county. As super- 
 intendent of the county poor he has undertaken 
 the boarding of the eleven public charges, re- 
 ceiving a certain sum per week. Needless to 
 sa) they are comfortable and satisfied with their 
 surroundings, and materially profit by associa- 
 tion with so considerate and humane a host. Mr. 
 Huggins is respected and liked by his neighbors 
 in the count}-, with whom he has always main- 
 tained the most friendly and amicable relations. 
 
 RICHARD FARWELL. Though the condi- 
 tions of Oregon were such, in pioneer days, that 
 a common interest made of all men one great 
 brotherhood, the natural tie is one which is only 
 strengthened by the passing years. This seems 
 especially true of the family represented by the 
 bearer of the name which gives title to this 
 biography, Richard Farwell being related to the 
 family bearing the name in Chicago, founders of 
 the mercantile house of that name, and also to 
 Senator Farwell. The name Farwell is here 
 known and honored among the progressive and 
 enterprising agriculturists of Linn county, the 
 one who led his family into the then wilderness 
 being Richard Farwell, Sr., a pioneer of 1852. 
 
 The Farwell family are of eastern birth and 
 lineage, the Oregon pioneer having been born in 
 New Hampshire, March 29, 1822, the son of a" 
 physician, from whose personality the spirit of 
 broadening capabilities must have come, as he 
 himself became an early settler of Illinois, feeling 
 his power strong to aid in the upbuilding of new 
 states. Until 1848 he remained at home with his 
 parents. In that year he married Esther N. 
 Paugh, a native of Pennsylvania, and they went 
 to housekeeping upon a farm where they con- 
 tinued a year. That being the year in which so 
 many men hurried to California in eager hope of 
 being one of the fortunate ones in the gold fields, 
 Mr. Farwell became interested in the prospects 
 and fearlessly undertook the journey across the 
 plains with ox teams, leaving his young wife at 
 the home of his father in Mercer county, 111. 
 Aside from losing a small number of cattle 
 through the depredations of the Indians, the six 
 months' trip was safely accomplished, and at its 
 close he began prospecting and mining, in which 
 he continued for three years. He then returned 
 to Illinois, via the Isthmus of Panama, and in a 
 very short time he was once more on the road, 
 this time accompanied by his wife, bound then 
 with horse and mule teams for the Northwest. 
 They experienced no serious trouble with the 
 Indians while enroute, the journey occupying five 
 months. Upon their arrival they came direct to 
 Linn county, where their home has ever since 
 been located. Mr. Farwell at once took up a 
 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, where the remainder of his life was passed, 
 and where his death occurred November 24, 1899, 
 in his seventy-eighth year. That his life had 
 been one of well merited commendation no one 
 who knew him could deny, and he boasted a large 
 circle of friends among the citizens of Linn 
 county. Besides making a home for himself and 
 family, expending upon its improvement the en- 
 ergy, strength and efforts of a singularly forceful 
 nature, he held helpful hands toward all public 
 movements. Mr. Farwell was greatly interested 
 in politics, being a Democrat, as he believed this 
 party represented principles safeguarding the best 
 interests of the country and of the community. 
 He occupied creditably all the minor offices of 
 the vicinity, and his influence was always exerted 
 for the general welfare of the county. Fra- 
 ternally he was a charter member of the Grange. 
 Though not a member of any church, Mr. Far- 
 well had the reputation of being one of the best 
 men of this section of country, and the good will 
 and esteem of his fellow townsmen was freely 
 accorded him. As a hunter he enjoyed the for- 
 ests of the Oregon which he knew in the very 
 early days, his reputation along these lines being 
 only equaled by that accorded him as citizen, 
 patriot and father. Of his children, Richard C. 
 is located in the vicinity of the old home ; Mary 
 E. is the wife of John Duncan, also of the same 
 vicinity ; Sarah W. is the wife of Walter Wright, 
 of Eugene ; Edward D. makes his home with his 
 mother; Iva M. is the wife of Charles Farrow, of 
 Eugene ; and Hiram J. is located on a part of the 
 old home place. Since the death of Mr. Farwell 
 his widow has carried on the work of the farm 
 with the assistance of her sons, the principal occu- 
 pation now being general farming and stock- 
 raising. 
 
 Richard C. Farwell received his education in 
 the district school in the vicinity of his home, 
 where he remained until he married Grace 
 Matthews, a native of Albany. They now make 
 their home three miles east of Shedds, on a farm 
 of three hundred and twenty acres, which was 
 once a part of the old Northup donation claim. 
 Sixty acres are under cultivation, general farming 
 and stock-raising claiming the activity of this 
 descendant of a worthy pioneer. Three children, 
 all of whom are at home, have been born to him- 
 self and wife, namely : Richard, Esther Ann and 
 Clarence Merle. Mr. Farwell is a member of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and politi- 
 cally casts his vote with the Democratic party. 
 
 Edward D. Farwell, the second son of Richard 
 Farwell, was also educated in the district school. 
 His marriage with Mabel R. McElroy, a native 
 of Illinois, has proved a happy one, and he still 
 lives with' his family upon the home place, de- 
 voting his energies to the carrying on of general 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 farming and stock-raising. He has one child, 
 James Otis. In politics he also is a Democrat, 
 and fraternally he belongs to the Woodmen of 
 the World. 
 
 JESSE HOLLAND SETTLEMIER, the 
 founder of Woodburn, and of the largest nur- 
 sery enterprises in the Willamette valley, was 
 born near Alton, 111., February 5, 1840. 
 George Settlemier, the father of Jesse Hol- 
 land, was born at Cape Girardeau, Girardeau 
 county, Mo., October 11, 1807, and came of a 
 family represented for at least two hundred years 
 in Berks and Bucks counties, Pa. His father, 
 Adam, was born in North Carolina, and was one 
 of the very early settlers of Girardeau county, 
 Mo., where he enjoyed the distinction of owning 
 the first wagon in that part of the country. His 
 son, George, removed to the vicinity of Alton, 
 111., about 1825, and there engaged in farming 
 and stock-raising until 1849. He was a typical 
 frontiersman, and his sturdy traits of character 
 are recalled with pride by his many descendants. 
 Ambitious and adventurous, he was one of the 
 first in his neighborhood to start for the west, 
 when gold was first discovered on the Pacific 
 coast in 1849, an d with his family of ten chil- 
 dren crossed the plains with ox teams, meeting 
 with the usual number of adventures on the way. 
 This journey was ever recalled with infinite sad- 
 ness, however, because his wife, Elizabeth 
 (Ryan) Settlemier, a native of Missouri, and 
 the partner of his early trials in the middle west, 
 was taken with typhoid fever at the mouth of 
 the Feather river, and after days of suffering 
 with the disease was called to the home beyond 
 and buried in a lonely, wayside grave. With 
 varying success Mr. Settlemier remained for a 
 few months in California, then came to Oregon, 
 and in 1850 took up a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres on which Mount 
 Angel is now located, where he lived until 1890. 
 He then retired from active life, removing to 
 Woodburn, where he lived for several years, 
 after which he made his home with one of his 
 daughters, living one mile east of Woodburn, 
 where his death occurred six months later, April 
 26, 1896, at the age of eighty-eight and a half 
 years. 
 
 This early settler was a strong and tireless 
 worker, affable, upright, strictly honest, and full 
 of fine daring and courage. He despised a lie 
 or pretense of any kind. As became a frontiers- 
 man of the old school he was fond of hunting 
 and was a splendid judge of horses and cattle. 
 He was aggressively in favor of free soil, and 
 after joining the Republican party at the first 
 nomination of Abraham Lincoln, held sturdily 
 to its principles and issues. Of the children born 
 to himself and wife Adam is deceased ; Mrs. 
 
 Mary Ann Allen lives in San Francisco ; Wil- 
 liam F. is a farmer on Willow creek, Ore. ; 
 Henry W. lives at Tangent, Ore. ; Jesse Holland 
 is the founder of Woodburn ; Alexander A. is a 
 resident of Montana ; Columbus is deceased ; 
 Martin R. lives at Mount Angel, Ore. ; and 
 George M. lives in Portland. 
 
 That the founder of Woodburn is a man of 
 broad and liberal education is due to no early 
 advantages in that direction. As a youth he had 
 to work hard on the paternal farm, and so little 
 leisure was at his disposal that attending the 
 little school in his neighborhood was more of 
 a recreation than duty. While imbibing this 
 early knowledge he sat on benches made of split 
 fir poles, and the other arrangements of the 
 school were on a similar pioneer scale. His first 
 independent business venture was conducted in 
 Tangent, Linn county, Ore., where he started a 
 nursery business in partnership with his broth- 
 ers, William and Henry, the latter of whom 
 still has charge of the enterprise. Though con- 
 tinuing for many years, none of the brothers suc- 
 ceeded in accumulating a very large amount of 
 money in the nursery business. Mr. Settlemier 
 severed his connection with the business directly 
 after his marriage in 1862. He then acquired a 
 tract of land which had been bought at sheriff's 
 sale, being the donation claim upon a portion of 
 which Woodburn is now located, and which con- 
 sisted at that time of two hundred and fourteen 
 acres. He had a great deal of trouble with this 
 property because of a defective title, but finally 
 overcame all obstacles through the medium of 
 repurchase, having passed both the United States 
 District Court and the Supreme Court at Wash- 
 ington, by which the title was set aside. To the 
 original property he has since added, and now 
 has about seven hundred acres distributed 
 through Marion and Clackamas counties, Ore., 
 and Mason county, Wash. 
 
 In time, after purchasing his first donation 
 claim, Mr. Settlemier erected his present fine 
 dwelling, to take the place of the little log cabin 
 which was a part of the pioneer improvements 
 of the early days. In 1863 he started the nurs- 
 eries which have made his name famous through 
 the entire northwestern country, and which at 
 the present time, under the able management of 
 his son, F. W. Settlemier, have no superior on 
 the Pacific coast. Beginning in a small way, 
 this nursery business increased and flourished 
 beyond his expectations, and at present there are 
 at least fifteen hundred thousand plants, and 
 three hundred acres closely set with all kinds of 
 fruit stock, and the very finest of ornamental 
 and decorative trees and plants. From France 
 and other centers of horticultural activity have 
 been imported many costly and rare plants and 
 trees, and the nurseries supply a trade covering 
 

 
 WILLIAM YERGEN. 
 
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 the entire country west of the Mississippi river, 
 including Mexico and British Columbia. 
 
 Not only did Mr. Settlemier lay out and found 
 the town of Woodburn, but he has been lavish 
 in donating land for many of its most worthy 
 public enterprises. His appreciation of educa- 
 tion has been marked throughout his entire ca- 
 reer, and in this connection he contributed the 
 block of ground upon- which the public school 
 building is located, and has in every way sought 
 to elevate the standard of instruction. It is his 
 pride that he has never voted against a school 
 tax. His other responsibilities include the presi- 
 dency of the Bank of Woodburn, one of the solid 
 financial institutions of this county, and he is a 
 member of the Oregon State Fair Board at the 
 present time. Among his holdings Mr. Settle- 
 mier includes five large brick buildings in Wood- 
 burn, including the Association Building, which 
 is a very fine and modern hall. In early days he ■ 
 purchased at an advantageous price a six-acre 
 tract of land in East Portland, which has since 
 greatly increased in value, and is now included 
 in the best residence district of that city. He 
 has erected thirteen cottages on other property 
 in Portland, the rental of which supplies a sub- 
 stantial source of income. 
 
 Thrice married, Mr. Settlemier 's first wife was 
 Eleanor Elizabeth Cochran, who was born in 
 Iowa in 1848, and died in Oregon in 1879. Her 
 father, James Cochran, was born in Missouri, 
 and died on his donation claim in Oregon in 
 1863. In Portland in 1880 Mr. Settlemier mar- 
 ried Clara S. Gray, who died six weeks after her 
 marriage. The third marriage was contracted 
 at Howell Prairie, and united him with Mary C. 
 Woodworth, who was born in Missouri in 1848, 
 and came to Oregon with her parents in 1850. 
 Her father, Franklin N. Woodworth, a native of 
 Ohio, was a successful farmer in Marion county. 
 Ore., his home being a stopping place for trav- 
 elers en route between Salem and Silverton. Of 
 the eight children born to Mr. Settlemier Mrs. 
 Nettie Beggs lives in Woodburn ; Mrs. Ada 
 Jones. Mrs. Elsie Porter and Mrs. Emma Cleave- 
 land live in Portland: Dell is the wife of S. I. 
 Guiss, a merchant of Woodburn ; F. W. has suc- 
 ceeded to his father's nursery business ; Jessie 
 E. Fleck is next in order of birth ; her husband 
 is the musical director of the Musical Conserv- 
 atory of Utica, N. Y. ; and J. H., Jr., son by the 
 third wife, is living with his parents. 
 
 Mr. Settlemier has been a Republican all his 
 life, but has had too many business responsibil- 
 ities to care for official recognition. He is a 
 member of the Oregon State Board of Agricul- 
 ture, and has been one of the chief promoters of 
 fairs and like enterprises calculated to stimulate 
 an interest in home production. Of imposing 
 and robust physical proportions, he is genial and 
 fraiik. and a typical representative of the foun- 
 
 ders of western commonwealths. Mr. Settle- 
 mier possesses rare business discretion, and has 
 seen and utilized the splendid opportunities by 
 which he has been surrounded. 
 
 WILLIAM YERGEN. Although practically 
 retired from active farming several years before 
 his death, which occurred September 30, 1897, 
 William Yergen was the improver of a large 
 farm in Marion county, upon which he located 
 in 1864, and which is now in the possession of 
 several of his sons. Mr. Yergen was a native of 
 the town of Muhlheim, Germany, and was born 
 in 1825. When six years of age he came with 
 his parents to America on a sailing vessel, land- 
 ing in New York harbor, whence the family 
 went overland to Belleville, St. Clair county, 111., 
 locating on a farm near that town. He p'roved 
 an industrious and capable youth, as well as an 
 ambitious one, and while yet young bade adieu 
 to his family and made his way alone to St. 
 Louis, Mo., where he applied himself to learn- 
 ing the brick mason's trade. Having served a 
 long apprenticeship he worked at his trade in 
 that city until 1852, in the meantime managing 
 to lay up some money, through the exercise of 
 economy and wise investment. 
 
 Though far from the paternal farm, Mr. Yer- 
 gen managed to keep in touch with the rest of 
 his family, and to his brother Augustus he com- 
 municated his desire to make the west his home. 
 Augustus was equally enthusiastic upon the sub- 
 ject, as was also a brother-in-law, John Scheurer, 
 so that all three made the needful preparations 
 for the long journey across the plains. Without 
 any particular adventure they arrived at The 
 Dalles after six months on the .plains, and there 
 abandoned their wagons and came down the river 
 to Marion county. Here Mr. Yergen took up 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land near Aurora 
 upon which he lived' until the spring of 1864, 
 when he gave up farming temporarily and as- 
 sumed control of the brickyard at Salem oper- 
 ated in connection with the building of Wil- 
 lamette University. In the fall of 1864 he lo- 
 cated on the farm now owned by his sons, and 
 which consists of two hundred and fourteen 
 acres. He took great pride in the cultivation of 
 this property, and reared his sons to the cautious 
 and painstaking ways which brought about his 
 ultimate success. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Yergen resulted in 
 the birth of one child, who died in infancy. His 
 marriage March 2, 1862, with Ruth Minier, who 
 died February 19, 1882, resulted in ten children. 
 Of these, Cassius F., a resident of Seaside, Ore., 
 married Helen M. Brown, and they have one 
 son, Cassius F., Jr. : J. Frank, a hop-grower on 
 a portion of the old claim, married Alice Hos- 
 
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 kins, their union being blessed with two children, 
 Walter Bruce, aged five years, and Blanche 
 Elizabeth, aged three years ; Elizabeth is the wife 
 of I. L. Lindsay, residing in the vicinity of Hub- 
 bard ; William A., living on the home place, mar- 
 ried Orpha E. Jack, now the mother of two chil- 
 dren, Boyd McKinley and Mabel Frances; 
 Thurston H. is living on the home place; Emma 
 H. died at the age of sixteen years; Benjamin 
 lives on a farm near Newberg and married Lulu 
 Hopkins, they having one son, Grant, aged two 
 years ; the remainder are Charles A., Ernest G., 
 and Walter, who died in infancy. J. Frank, 
 William, Thurston, Charles and Ernest own the 
 home farm, which at present consists of one hun- 
 dred and eighty-six acres. Of this property 
 forty acres are under hops, and besides the sons 
 have two other hop-yards of seventy acres each. 
 The sons are practical and progressive farmers, 
 and are young men of intelligence, education, 
 and pronounced public spirit. 
 
 REV. PATTERSON C. PARKER, deceased, 
 an Oregon pioneer of 1852, during the many 
 years of his residence in the Willamette valley 
 exerted a moral and religious influence which has 
 had a most beneficent effect in moulding the 
 character of many of the well-known citizens of 
 Oregon. Mr. Parker was born in Tennessee in 
 1809. When, in young manhood, he settled in 
 Indiana, the spot he selected for a farm was in 
 the midst of a wilderness. He at once set about 
 the task of improving the land and establishing a 
 home, and in the course of time built up a large 
 flour and lumber milling business on the White 
 river in Jackson county, Ind. Upon the outbreak 
 of the Mexican war he enlisted in the Third In- 
 diana Volunteers, became first lieutenant of his 
 company, and participated in many important 
 engagements, including the memorable battle of 
 Buena Vista. Upon the conclusion of the war 
 he returned to his home in Indiana. It was not 
 long, however, before he became dissatisfied 
 with his environments in that state, and decided 
 to seek for his family a new home in the Far 
 West. In the fall of 185 1 he outfitted with 
 three wagons and ox-teams, and, accompanied 
 by his wife, four sons and two daughters, started 
 on the long journey westward. The winter fol- 
 lowing was spent in DeWitt county, 111. In 
 March, 1852, the family left DeWitt county and 
 proceeded on their journey, crossing the Mis- 
 souri river at St. Joseph, Mo., May 2. They 
 followed the old Oregon trail from that point, 
 proceeding down the Columbia river, and arriv- 
 ing at the Sandy September 15, 1852. Soon 
 afterward Mr. Parker located in Yamhill county, 
 where he spent one year. In 1853 he located 
 near Oakland, Douglas county. There a large 
 
 and productive ranch came into his possession, 
 and upon it he engaged extensively in stock-rais- 
 ing and general farming. At the same time he 
 exhibited a keen interest in Republican politics. 
 For several terms he served in the Oregon state 
 legislature, becoming the author of a vast amount 
 of legislation which was greatly needed in those 
 days. He also served for some time as judge 
 of Umpqua county, which included what is now 
 Douglas county. 
 
 During the long period of his service in the 
 legislature and on the bench Mr. Parker exerted 
 a strong general influence, and invariably stood 
 as the advocate of such measures only as, in his 
 belief, would result in benefit to the largest pro- 
 portion of the people. But he was probably 
 more widely known by reason of his earnest and 
 persistent efforts toward the consummation of 
 plans for the dissemination of religious thought. 
 ■He was a regularly ordained minister in the 
 United Brethren church, and preached in the 
 same until about four years prior to his death. 
 Chiefly through his instrumentality several 
 churches of that denomination were organized 
 throughout the Willamette valley and elsewhere, 
 and these, for the most part, were substantially 
 endowed from his ample means. Probably none 
 of the early settlers of this section of the state 
 who have passed away was more widely known 
 and revered and beloved than he, for his daily 
 life was doing good. He possessed a most un- 
 selfish spirit, and was a public benefactor and 
 humanitarian in the highest sense of the terms. 
 
 Mr. Parker was united in marriage with Mary 
 Scantling, a native of East Tennessee and a 
 daughter of Samuel Scantling, who died in the 
 latter state. Mrs. Parker died near Oakland, 
 Ore., at the age of seventy-four years. Her 
 husband died at Oakland, Ore., at the age of 
 eighty-one years. They were the parents of six 
 children, four of whom are living, as follows : 
 Marion Parker, M. D., of Clackamas county, 
 Ore. ; Williamson Parker, a resident of Cali- 
 fornia ; Patterson C. Parker, a resident of Oak- 
 land, Ore., and Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly. 
 
 CHARLES L. WEBER. The experience of 
 Charles L. Weber has been somewhat diversified 
 in character, but it has all served to fit him for 
 his present position, for a man who conducts a 
 mercantile establishment cannot have too broad 
 a view of human nature and too close an ac- 
 quaintance with it, to succeed in his work. He 
 is now engaged in conducting one of the most 
 thoroughly equipped and well furnished stores 
 in Creswell, Lane county, having been so em- 
 ployed since 1896. 
 
 Mr. Weber is of German parentage, his father, 
 now a retired resident of Portland, having been 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 born in the Fatherland in 1833, and as a young 
 man crossed the ocean and sought the land of 
 broader opportunities. He was a cabinetmaker 
 by trade, and after landing in the United States 
 in 1851 first settled in Wisconsin, where he com- 
 bined the interests of farming with his trade. 
 Later he removed to Minnesota, and in 1896 
 came to Cottage Grove, Ore., where he made his 
 home until the fall of 1903. The mother died at 
 the age of sixty-two, leaving a family of thir- 
 teen children, of whom Charles L. Weber was 
 the third in order of birth, being born January 
 13, i860, in Juneau county, Wis. When six 
 years old he went to live with his grandparents, 
 with whom he remained until he was thirteen 
 years of age, during this period receiving his 
 education through the medium of the district 
 schools. On returning to the home of his father 
 he remained for two years, when he started out 
 into the world to make his own way, first taking 
 up an apprenticeship with a blacksmith. He 
 continued this employment for several years, 
 when he located a homestead in Polk county, 
 Minn., and at the same time engaged in the grain 
 business, after a period of six years settling once 
 more in the milder south to become occupied as 
 a farmer. In 1894 he came to Oregon and set- 
 tled upon a ranch in the neighborhood of Cres- 
 well, Lane county, remaining until 1896 when 
 he became interested in his present commercial 
 enterprise. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Weber married Flora Ballard, a 
 native of Minnesota, and they have six children, 
 in order of birth as follows : William D., Clif- 
 ford C, Eunice, Myrtle, Homer, and Opal, all 
 of whom are at home. Besides his interest in 
 the store Mr. Weber owns seven acres in his 
 home place. In politics he is a Socialist and 
 fraternally a member of the Woodmen of the 
 World, Camp No. 484, and Creswell Lodge No. 
 112, A. F. and A. M., in the latter acting as 
 treasurer. He is a member of Gilfrey Lodge 
 No. 169, I. O. O. F., and Moss Circle No. 485. 
 
 THOMAS OWEN MAXWELL. An Ore- 
 gon pioneer, coming here as a lad of twelve 
 years, and a representative of one of the oldest 
 and most respected pioneer families of this sec- 
 tion of the state, Thomas O. Maxwell, of Spring- 
 field, is especially worthy of notice in a work of 
 this kind. Crossing the Mississippi and Missouri 
 rivers, and the dreary plains, ne came to Oregon 
 when the country was practically in its virgin 
 wildness, and has since been actively identified 
 with its agricultural, mining, industrial and finan- 
 cial prosperity. As a man and a citizen, he has 
 been honest and upright, and by his earnest in- 
 dustry, intelligence and integrity has accumulated 
 wealth, and attained a place of distinction in polit- 
 
 ical and social circles. A native of Sangamon 
 county, 111., he was born January 23, 1834, near 
 Springfield, a son of the late Ludlow Maxwell, 
 who for more than half a century was a resident 
 of Linn county. 
 
 Born and reared in Greene county, Ohio, Lud- 
 low Maxwell removed to Sangamon county, 111., 
 when a young man, and after tilling the soil in 
 that locality for a few years settled in Des Moines 
 county, Iowa, purchasing a farm eight miles west 
 of Burlington, where he resided twelve years. 
 Coming to Oregon with his family in 1847, he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, and located in 
 Linn county. Eight miles east of Albany he took 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres, from which he improved a comfortable 
 homestead, on which he spent the remainder of 
 his life, dying, in 1899, at the venerable age of 
 ninety-three years. He was always actively in- 
 terested in the maintenance of churches and 
 schools, and a strong advocate of the cause of 
 temperance. Uniting with the Christian Church 
 in early manhood, he continued one of its most 
 faithful members until his death. In politics he 
 was a Republican. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Delilah Marshall, was born in Ohio, and died 
 of heart trouble on the Oregon homestead. Of 
 the eleven children born of their union, nine grew 
 to years of maturity, Thomas O. being the eldest 
 child. 
 
 Coming with his parents to Oregon in 1847, 
 Thomas O. Maxwell, although but a boy, ren- 
 dered material assistance in the pioneer labor of 
 clearing and improving the parental homestead. 
 Going to California in 1856, he worked in the 
 gold mines of Siskiyou county two years, being 
 quite successful, but by subsequent speculation in 
 gold claims lost some of his accumulations. Re- 
 turning to Oregon in 1859, ne operated a sawmill 
 in Linn county six months, and the following ten 
 years was engaged in farming, near Albany, on 
 one hundred acres of land that came into his pos- 
 session after the death of his mother. On Decem- 
 ber 24, 1864, he entered his country's service, en- 
 listing in Company F, First Oregon Infantry, and 
 was employed in detail duty until being mustered 
 out, July 20, 1866, at Vancouver, Wash. Hav- 
 ing traded his farm for property near Cottage 
 Grove, he subsequently took up one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land in the same vicinity, and there 
 resided until 1886. Purchasing real estate in 
 Springfield in the spring of 1887, Mr. Maxwell 
 has since been successfully employed at the car- 
 penter's trade. In his business career he has 
 been fortunate, and in addition to his other prop- 
 erty interests is a stockholder in the Great West- 
 ern Oil and Coal Company, and in the Cascade 
 Coal Company, two safe and substantial organi- 
 zations. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell married first, in Linn county, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Ore., Ruth Powell, who was born in Menard 
 county, 111., and died in Linn county, Ore. She 
 bore her husband four children, namely : one 
 child which died in infancy; Alfred Ludlow, a 
 farmer in Lewiston, Idaho; Amy Ann, wife of 
 Milton Cornelius, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., and 
 Lincoln H. In July, 1898, in Lane county, Ore., 
 Mr. Maxwell married Marguerite Jane Harkins, 
 who was born in Canada, and they own and 
 occupy a cozy home, pleasantly located on the 
 banks of the Willamette. Politically Mr. Max- 
 well is a Republican, and has rendered efficient 
 service in public office, having served as school 
 director a number of years, as councilman three 
 terms, and for one term was mayor of Springfield. 
 He is a member of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, of the Rebekahs, of the local 
 Grange, and of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 and belongs to the Christian Church. 
 
 HENRY H. SMITSON. A meritorious serv- 
 ice during the Civil war, twenty years of lumber- 
 ing in the great state of Oregon, and many years 
 of agricultural activity, are salient items of inter- 
 est in the career of Henry H. Smitson, at present 
 enjoying a well earned immunity from active par- 
 ticipation in the busy cares of life. Born in 
 Johnson county, Ky., October 27, 1844, Mr. 
 Smitson is the fourth child in a family of eight 
 children born to Mathew and Nancy (Williams) 
 Smitson, natives of the Old Dominion. The 
 father died when his son Henry was six years old. 
 The mother, who died in Jackson county, Mo., in 
 1867, at the age of fifty years, was a descendant 
 of an old Maine family, and was a daughter of 
 William Williams, who removed from his native 
 state of Maine to Maryland, later becoming one 
 of the early settlers of Johnson county. 
 
 After an uneventful boyhood Henry H. Smit- 
 son found an outlet for his ambition in the 
 United States Army, in which he enlisted in i860, 
 at the age of seventeen. With headquarters at 
 Fort Leavenworth, Kans., he was employed to 
 drive a team for the commissary department 
 trom Leavenworth to Fort Union, Mexico, and 
 in March, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, 
 Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry, for service in the 
 Civil war. At the battle of Independence he was 
 made prisoner and held for some time, but was 
 finally exchanged, and placed on scout duty until 
 his re-enlistment, September 20, 1862, in Com- 
 pany F, Twenty-Fifth Missouri Infantry. From 
 then until the close of the war he was in the 
 midst of camp and field, participating in most of 
 the history-making battles, including Vicksburg, 
 Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Altoona, 
 and the Atlanta campaign, finally taking part in 
 the review at Washington, after the close of the 
 war. Mustered out "at Washington, and dis- 
 
 charged in May, 1865, at Benton Barracks, St. 
 Louis, Mr. Smitson located in Kansas City, Mo., 
 and soon afterward engaged in the stone and 
 brickmason's trade, which he followed as a means 
 of livelihood until 1875. 
 
 Coming to Oregon by way of the Union Pacific 
 and Central Pacific railroads, Mr. Smitson spent 
 some time in Portland, and then made his way to 
 Springfield, where he has since made his home. 
 While saw milling for twenty years, and later till- 
 ing the soil of his adopted state, he has taken a 
 keen interest in the political and general develop- 
 ment, holding various positions of trust and re- 
 sponsibility. A stanch Republican, he has had 
 the best interests of his party at heart, his devo- 
 tion being rewarded by election to the office of 
 city marshal for thirteen consecutive years. Al- 
 though practically retired, he has the oversight 
 of his farm of eighty acres two miles south of the 
 town, his property being well improved, and 
 given over to stock-raising and general farming. 
 At the meetings of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public Mr. Smitson contributes his share of inter- 
 esting reminiscence, and over many a campfire 
 has told of experiences in camp and field, all of 
 them tinged witn the elements which make these 
 occasions memorable. 
 
 The home life of Mr. Smitson has been a 
 happy one, and the children which have been 
 born into the family have proved themselves 
 worthy of the practical training and unfailing 
 interest by which they have been surrounded. 
 Mrs. Smitson was formerly Mary Eaton, who 
 was born in St. Louis and reared and married in 
 Kansas City, Mo. Her father, Joseph Eaton, 
 was born in the state of Tennessee, and as a 
 young man became one of the early settlers of 
 St. Louis, going at a later day to Jackson county, 
 Mo., where he lived until 1870. His last days 
 were spent at Goshen, Lane county, Ore., where 
 he died at the age of eighty years. Four of the 
 eleven children, John W., Mollie, Luella and 
 Willie, are deceased, while Effie is the wife of 
 George McCaulley, of Springfield; Jennie is at 
 home ; William is deceased ; Nellie is the wife of 
 Wallace Skeels, of Springfield, and Etta, Frank 
 and Jesse are at home. Miss Jennie Smitson 
 owns a grocery store, where for several years 
 she conducted the business. 
 
 ROBERT GRIER VAN VALZAH, M. D. 
 One of the leading physicians of Springfield, Dr. 
 Robert G Van Valzah, is recognized as a man 
 of talent and culture, eminently fitted for the 
 position he has attained in the medical circles 
 of Lane county. A physician by breeding and 
 heredity, his entrance into the professional ranks 
 was but the logical result of his environment. 
 On the paternal side his ancestors for several 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1369 
 
 generations were physicians of wide reputation 
 and marked skill. His great grandfather, Rob- 
 ert Van Yalzah, Sr., M. D., was born and edu- 
 cated in Xew York, but early in life located in 
 Union county, Pa., and was there engaged in 
 the practice of medicine the greater part of his 
 life, dying at Buffalo Roads. Robert Van Val- 
 zah, Jr., M. D.. the next in line of descent, was 
 born in Union county, Pa., and after his gradua- 
 tion built up a successful and lucrative practice 
 in his native county. 
 
 Shepherd Laurie Van Yalzah, father of Dr. 
 Robert G. Yan Yalzah, was born and reared in 
 Mifninburg, Pa. Receiving the degree of M. D. 
 at the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadel- 
 phia, he lived the greater part of his life in 
 Union and Lycoming counties, although his 
 death occurred in Milton, Pa. He married Mary 
 Elizabeth Grier, a daughter of Rev. Isaac Grier, 
 a Presbyterian minister of note who had charge 
 of one church for over fifty years. Her real 
 name was Madden, but having been left father- 
 less when a small child she took the surname of 
 her adopted father, Rev. Isaac Grier. 
 
 The eldest son, and second child, of a family 
 of four children was born October 8, 1863, in 
 Boalsburg, Center county, Pa. Robert Grier 
 Van Yalzah obtained his elementary education 
 in the public schools, afterwards entering the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Balti- 
 more, Md., from which he was graduated with 
 the degree of M. D., in 1885. The following 
 two years Dr. Yan Yalzah was engaged in the 
 practice of his profession in Northumberland^ 
 county. Pa., first in Montandon and then in Wat- 
 sontown. Removing to Hughesville, Pa., in 
 1887, he carried on a successful drug business 
 for five years. In 1892 the doctor came to 
 Oregon, locating in Springfield, where, with the 
 exception of a portion of the year 1895, when 
 he was in Milton, Pa., he has since been en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession. Well 
 educated, skilful and careful, he has gained the 
 confidence of the community to a marked degree, 
 and has built up an extensive and lucrative 
 patronage. Besides his residence, the doctor is 
 the owner of considerable property in Spring- 
 field. He is also interested to some extent in 
 stock-raising, keeping a limited number of 
 Guernsey dairy stock, which he brought from 
 the east. He also raises considerable poultry, 
 making a specialty of White Wyandotte chickens. 
 
 At Sunbury, Pa., Dr. Van Yalzah married 
 Addie Bernice Shannon, who was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Galbraith 
 Shannon, also a native of that state. Her father 
 studied theology after his marriage, was or- 
 dained as a minister of the Lutheran Church, 
 and afterwards preached in Philadelphia for 
 twelve years. He now resides in Norwood, a 
 
 suburb of Philadelphia, and in addition to sup- 
 plying different churches as occasion requires, 
 he was for several years financial secretary of 
 the Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, Pa., 
 of which he was one of the promoters, and for 
 a number of yars one of its board of regents. 
 He is a man of strong personality, with a special 
 talent for church organization, and although 
 sixty-six years of age is as vigorous and active 
 as a man in life's prime. The doctor and Mrs. 
 Yan Valzah are the parents of three children, 
 namely : Shannon Laurie, Robert Clark and 
 Can! Gerald. Politically Dr. Van Valzah is a 
 Socialist, and fraternally he is a member of the 
 Woodmen of the World, and of the Artisans. 
 
 FRANCIS MARION WILKINS. With a 
 heritage of splendid characteristics and an in- 
 spiring example and living precept in the career 
 of his father, Francis Marion Wilkins could not 
 well fail to make of his life a success. For a 
 quarter of a century he has been one of the 
 dominant forces in the commercial activity of 
 the city of Eugene, and has exercised a potent 
 influence in increasing the prestige and advanc- 
 ing the material welfare of the city. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins was born near Marquam, Clacka- 
 mas county. Ore., August 10, 1848, and is the 
 eldest of the four surviving children born to 
 Mitchell and Permelia Ann (Allen) Wilkins, 
 who crossed the plains from Missouri to Oregon 
 in 1847. Both his parents now reside in Eugene. 
 (For early history of the family the reader is 
 referred to the review of the life of Hon. Mit- 
 chell Wilkins, which appears elsewhere in this 
 volume.) In the fall of 1848 Francis M. Wil- 
 kins was taken by his parents to the new home 
 they were about to establish — a donation claim 
 taken up by the father at a point about ten 
 miles northeast of the site of the city of Eugene. 
 There the lad grew to manhood and was reared 
 to agriculture and stock-raising. On account of 
 the remoteness of his home from schools, his 
 earlier educational advantages were somewhat 
 limited. The nearest school, conducted in a 
 small log building, was located three miles from 
 his home, and this he attended until he was 
 qualified to enter the academy at Eugene. Still 
 eager to equip himself for a business career, he 
 continued his studies after the close of his school 
 days in Eugene, entering the Portland Business 
 College. Upon the completion of his two-years 
 course in that institution, he at once embarked 
 upon a business career in Eugene. In 1875 he 
 became a clerk in a drug store, remaining there 
 for two years in the study of pharmacy. In 
 1878 he established a drug business for himself, 
 locating on the east side of Willamette street 
 near Hotel Eugene (now the Smeede), and in 
 
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 1889 he purchased a lot and erected a brick 
 building directly opposite. In the latter location 
 he remained in business until 1899, when he sold 
 out and retired from active life. 
 
 October 27, 1872, Mr. Wilkins was united in 
 marriage to Miss Emma Goltra, a native of Linn 
 county, Ore., and the daughter of Nelson Gol- 
 tra, who was born in New Jersey and crossed the 
 plains with ox-teams in 1853. He first settled 
 at Lebanon, where, as contractor and builder, 
 he erected the Santiam Academy in 1854. In 
 the fall of that year he removed to Corvallis and 
 there constructed and began the operation of a 
 steam sawmill. In this enterprise he was en- 
 gaged until 1858, when he was so injured by the 
 explosion of a boiler that he died three weeks 
 later. Mr. Goltra married Elizabeth Ellison, a 
 native of Illinois, and the daughter of Aaron 
 Ellison. After the death of Mr. Ellison in 
 Illinois his widow came to Oregon via _ Cape 
 Horn, in 1857, and a few years later died in 
 Douglas, Morrow county, Ore. Five children 
 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins, 
 namely: Maude, a graduate of the University 
 of Oregon, now the wife of Herbert Condon, of 
 Seattle, secretary and clerk of the State Uni- 
 versity of Washington ; Frank, who is connected 
 with the Equitable Life Insurance Company at 
 Seattle, Wash.; Nina, a student in the Uni- 
 versitv of Oregon; Lucia and Gladys. 
 
 In politics Mr. Wilkins is a Republican, and 
 though he has never aspired to public office, he 
 is at present serving in the city council from the 
 Fourth ward. In his fraternal relations he is 
 associated with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows and the Encampment ■ connected there- 
 with, in both of which he is a past officer, and 
 with the Woodmen of the World. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
 which he is serving on the official board. He is 
 also a member of the Eugene Commercial Club. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Native Sons 
 of Oregon, and for many years served as presi- 
 dent of Skinner's Cabin in that order. In addi- 
 tion to the many business interests which have 
 engrossed his attention, one of his most praise- 
 worthy acts was the assistance he rendered in 
 the organization of the Eugene Water Company 
 and the construction of the first waterworks, of 
 which he was a director for many years. In the 
 line of his trade he has been for many years a 
 member of the Oregon State Pharmacists' As- 
 sociation, and was sent by that organization as 
 a delegate to the meeting of the National Drug- 
 gists' Association at San Francisco. 
 
 This brief review of the career of one of the 
 best representatives of the native citizens of Ore- 
 gon illustrates what may be accomplished by a 
 young man of energy and determination in a 
 state rich in such opportunities as give Oregon 
 
 her pre-eminence among the western common- 
 wealths. Besides the natural conditions which 
 have contributed to make his life a success, Mr. 
 Wilkins possesses strong personal attributes 
 which have been potential in molding his career. 
 He is a man of integrity of directness of pur- 
 pose, and scrupulous in the extreme in his deal- 
 ings with others. It has been said of both father 
 and son : " His word is as good as his bond." 
 He entertains liberal and broad-minded views of 
 affairs in general, has always exhibited an ad- 
 mirable public spirit, and an inclination to assist 
 in worthy enterprises aside from those in which 
 he may have had a direct personal interest. He 
 is one of the best types of sterling western man- 
 hood and from any viewpoint is entitled to a 
 permanent place in the historical literature of the 
 Willamette valley. 
 
 ANTHONY L. RONEY. The little com- 
 munity of Goshen, noted for its thrift and 
 enterprise, and for the promising as well 
 as already firmly established careers of its citi- 
 zens, lays claim to no more upbuilding commer- 
 cial agency in its midst than the general mer- 
 chandise business of Roney Brothers, advan- 
 tageously located in the town. Few residents 
 greeted the coming of these popular merchants 
 in 1 89 1, and an abundant field was therefore 
 open to them after purchasing their present store 
 from J. W. Matlock. Enlarged from time to 
 time, the store now presents an appearance of 
 a prosperity, being well patronized by residents 
 in town and county who desire first-class arti- 
 cles at moderate prices. 
 
 Anthony L. Roney, the senior member of the 
 firm, and a man around whom centers a great 
 deal of popular interest, was born in Auglaize 
 county, Ohio, October 8, 1847, and comes of an 
 old Pennsylvania family long represented in 
 America. His father, who was born and reared 
 in Pennsylvania, was an expert woolen mill man. 
 After his marriage he moved with his family to 
 Ohio in 1834, lived in Auglaize county until 
 1872, and then moved to Davis county, Mo., 
 which continued to be his home until 1878. 
 Coming to Oregon during that year he bought 
 a farm of one hundred and fifty-six acres near 
 Dexter, and there engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising until his death at the age of seventy- 
 eight years. He was survived by his wife who 
 eventually removed to Eugene, and died at the 
 age of eighty-three. Mr. Roney was a stanch 
 Republican, and at times worked for the politi- 
 cal advancement of his friends. His twelve 
 children received practical common school edu- 
 cations, and in their homes were taught the 
 homely virtues of honesty and industry. Charles, 
 the second son, and Henry are residents of In- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1371 
 
 dianapolis ; Thomas lives in Mississippi ; L. Nel- 
 son resides in Eugene ; Anthony L. ; Charlotte, 
 wife of Thomas Harris, resides in Missouri; and 
 Emily, wife of Rasmus Rasmusson, is a resident 
 of Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Remaining on the home farm until his mar- 
 riage in March, 1881, with Clara Hunsaker, 
 Anthony L. Roney went to housekeeping on a 
 farm near Dexter, and for eight years engaged 
 in farming, stock and grain-raising, with con- 
 siderable success. His next venture was the 
 mercantile business in which he is now engaged, 
 and in which he is in partnership with his 
 brother, L. Nelson Roney. Like his father, Mr. 
 Roney takes an active interest in Republican poli- 
 tics, and for many years has been a member of 
 the school board of Goshen. The Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the 
 Maccabees profit by his membership, and he has 
 passed all of the chairs in the respective lodges. 
 In connection with his store he has been post- 
 master of Goshen for fourteen years, serving the 
 interests of the government and his fellow- 
 townsmen with satisfaction. Mr. Roney has a 
 pleasant home for his small family, which con- 
 sists of himself, wife and son, Raleigh C. 
 
 HON. JOHN KELLY. For many genera- 
 tions the family to which John Kelly, deceased, 
 belonged was identified extensively with woolen 
 manufacturing in Dublin, Ireland, in which city 
 he was born May 3, 1818. Following the ex- 
 ample of his father, he learned every detail of 
 the business, so that when he came alone to 
 America at the age of nineteen years he had at 
 his command a useful and paying trade. He 
 first located in Canada, in time becoming man- 
 ager of small woolen mills, located at Montreal 
 and Quebec, and afterward filled a similar posi- 
 tion in a small town in Vermont. For several 
 years thereafter he followed a seafaring life, 
 sailing in merchantships engaged in the Atlantic 
 trade. Tiring of the sea, he settled in Water- 
 ford, Racine county. Wis., where in partnership 
 with George Hovey he established the Water- 
 ford Woolen Mills. ' 
 
 In the early forties Mr. Kelly left Wisconsin 
 and in Missouri responded to the call for volun- 
 teers to serve in the Mexican war. Enlisting in 
 the Third Missouri Cavalry, he at once engaged 
 in active service, developing especial shrewdness 
 and trustworthiness as a scout. During a com- 
 paratively short service he was called upon to 
 perform many important missions ; and though 
 honorably discharged at Jefferson Barracks, he 
 remained in the service, entering the Quarter- 
 master's department. In this capacity he ac- 
 companied a regiment of cavalry across the 
 plains in 1849, acting as wagon-master, and ar- 
 
 riving in Oregon City in October of that year. 
 In connection with this service he contracted to 
 supply the regiment with beef until March, 1850. 
 
 Soon after his arrival in Oregon he entered 
 into a partnership with three others, one of 
 whom was Gen. Joseph Lane, purchased three 
 hundred head of cattle, and drove them to the 
 Rogue River valley. There General Lane, with 
 the aid of part of the cattle and other persuasive 
 means, succeeded in negotiating a treaty of peace 
 with the Indians of that region, who for two 
 years had been waging war against the white 
 settlers. After the conclusion of the treaty Mr. 
 Kelly and his partners continued their journey 
 southward to Tehama county, Cal., mined with 
 moderate success on Olney creek, and in the 
 spring of 185 1 drove the remaining cattle to a 
 ranch in Scott valley. He soon sold his interest 
 in the ranch, however, and returned to Oregon, 
 taking up a donation claim near Roseburg. His 
 previous experience in the cattle industry stood 
 him in good stead. His property proved to be 
 well adapted to extensive operations, and for 
 about seventeen years he was engaged in stock- 
 raising on a large scale. For a number of years 
 he also conducted a cattle-driving business with 
 Thomas Brown and Martin Angel, annually 
 driving large herds of cattle to Scott's Bar. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Kelly was appointed registrar of 
 the United States land office at Roseburg, and 
 though he nominally resigned from the office in 
 1866 he continued to perform the duties thereof 
 through a deputy until the appointment of his 
 successor in 1868. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Kelly located in Springfield, Lane 
 county, and became interested in a lumber and 
 grist mill, at the same time conducting a large 
 stock farm and a ferry across the Willamette 
 river. From a comparatively small beginning he 
 branched out into a large lumber contracting 
 business with various railroad and other cor- 
 porations, and soon became widely known as an 
 extensive operator. Upon disposing of his lum- 
 ber interests in 1869, he purchased a farm of 
 four hundred acres adjoining Springfield. This 
 property he devoted to stock-raising and general 
 farming, and was thus engaged at the time 
 of his appointment to the post of collector of 
 customs in Portland in 1871. This office he 
 filled with credit to himself and with satisfac- 
 tion to the government during the second ad- 
 ministration of President Grant and the first two 
 years of the administration of President Hayes. 
 Under President Arthur he was appointed one 
 of three commissioners to accept one hundred 
 miles of the track of the Northern Pacific rail- 
 road, and in 1890 was appointed superintendent 
 of the Federal census for Oregon. 
 
 Upon the completion of his service in the cus- 
 toms, Mr. Kelly returned to his farm, which had 
 
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 developed into one of the finest properties in 
 Lane county, and remained there until his re- 
 moval to Eugene in 1900. In the meantime ad- 
 ditional farming lands came into his possession, 
 giving him in all four hundred and forty acres 
 near Springfield, nine hundred acres on Fall 
 creek, and fourteen hundred acres in the Mo- 
 hawk valley. Much of this land was disposed of 
 before his death, on July 15, 1902, but he left 
 a valuable property to his family. 
 
 In LaFayette, Ore., January 30, 1853, Mr. 
 Kelly was united in marriage with Elizabeth 
 Parker, a native of Rockford, Ind., and a 
 daughter of Rev. Patterson C. Parker, a pioneer 
 of 1852. (For further family history, see sketch 
 of Rev. P. C. Parker, which appears elsewhere 
 in this volume.) The following children were 
 born of the union : Mary L., wife of Henry B. 
 Miller, United States consul at Niu Chwang, 
 China ; Theresa M., wife of L. G. Jackson, of 
 Eugene ; John F., vice president of the Booth- 
 Kelly Lumber Company, of Eugene; Marcella 
 S., wife of Judge Tanner, of Portland, Ore.; 
 Abraham L. ; George H., superintendent of the 
 Booth-Kelly Lumber Company; Elizabeth P. 
 and Katharine S., residing with their mother at 
 No. 141 West Sixth street, Eugene, Ore. 
 
 In his fraternal relations Mr. Kelly was identi- 
 fied with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows and the Order of the Eastern Star. The 
 death of Mr. Kelly, though he had attained the 
 great age of eighty-four years, was a distinct loss 
 to the citizenship of Lane county. Though re- 
 tired from active participation in the affairs of 
 the strenuous life of the day, his strong guiding 
 hand had been but so recently felt that he natur- 
 ally left a marked impress upon the trend of 
 events. He was a man of remarkable strength 
 of character, yet of a gracious and benevolent 
 disposition, always desirous of accomplishing 
 what he could for the betterment of mankind and 
 particularly for the advancement of the highest 
 and best interests of the home of his adoption. 
 He left to his family a legacy of an honored 
 name — a private, public and business record to 
 which his descendants may refer with feelings 
 of justifiable gratification and pride. 
 
 FRANK M. FRESH. The well-developed 
 farm now owned by Robert Downing, in Marion 
 county, is the birthplace of another well-known 
 and successful citizen of this community, Frank 
 M. Fresh, who was born July 28, 1861. John 
 Fresh, the father of Frank Fresh, was born in 
 the state of Kentucky, and was reared on the 
 farm of his parents, receiving there a fair com- 
 mon school education. In time he started out on 
 an independent career, locating in Missouri, 
 whence started so many from the fertile lands 
 
 beyond the Rocky mountains. At a very early 
 day he joined a caravan bound for the north- 
 west, and in time became one of the pioneers and 
 upbuilders of Union county, later settling near 
 Macleay, Marion county. Here he took up a large 
 donation claim, improved it to a considerable ex- 
 tent, and died in comparatively comfortable cir- 
 cumstances in 1863. He married Margaret Stan- 
 ton, and two children were born to him, of whom 
 Benjamin is a farmer in Marion county. 
 
 His mother dying when he was two years old, 
 Frank M. Fresh went with his brother Benja- 
 min to live with his maternal grandmother Stan- 
 ton, remaining on her farm until her death at the 
 age of eighty-seven years. His grandmother 
 treated him like a son, and was worthy of all 
 consideration as one of the noble and pioneer 
 women of this state. As a young man Mr. 
 Fresh took possession of his present farm, upon 
 which he has made many fine improvements, and 
 is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 
 January 19, 1902, he was united in marriage 
 with Helen Isenhart, a daughter of Lawrence 
 Isenhart, and a native of Silverton, Ore. Her 
 parents died when she was a child. From a 
 desolated home she passed into the affectionate 
 care of her uncle Stephen, with whom she re- 
 mained until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Fresh 
 are members of the Christian Church, and are 
 young people of promising and reliable traits 
 of character. In addition to his own farm of 
 seventy acres Mr. Fresh farms the property for- 
 merly owned by his grandmother, and thus his 
 responsibility is a large one, which, however, he 
 is thoroughly competent to handle. Mr. Fresh is 
 a practical and thorough farmer, thrifty, eco- 
 nomical, and possesses excellent business judg- 
 ment. 
 
 FRED P. HURST. The electric lighting of 
 the towns of Canby, Barlow, Hubbard, and Au- 
 rora, is due to the enterprise of Fred P. Hurst, 
 who, with his brother, John B., a practical elec- 
 trician, started the Aurora plant in September, 
 1902. The modern electric machine was in- 
 stalled at an expense of $5,000, and the water 
 plant at an expense of $6,000. The dynamo has 
 a sixty-five horse power, and the water plant a 
 one hundred horse power. At present Mr. Hurst 
 is extending his interests, and is planning to 
 light the farming community around Aurora, 
 and also the towns of Butteville and Gervais. 
 In connection with the electric plant he main- 
 tains a cereal mill and feed chopper, erected at 
 an expense of $1,000. The water from Deer 
 and Elk creeks furnishes sufficient power for all 
 needs, and the enterprise has proved a paying 
 and very successful one. 
 
 Mr. Hurst is a native son of Oregon, and was 
 

 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1375 
 
 born near Corvallis, August 21, 1870, the third 
 oldest of five children born to John Daniel and 
 Helen C. (Corlburg) Hurst, the former of 
 whom was born in Rheinstadt, German}', in 1834. 
 The remaining- children of the family are as fol- 
 lows : William S., who is now engaged in the 
 commission business in Hubbard ; John B., who 
 is married and lives in Aurora ; Flora N. de- 
 ceased : and Henry H., of Aurora. Fred P. 
 Hurst was educated in the public schools of 
 Salem and Aurora, and from a youth became 
 familiar with the milling business, in which his 
 father was for many years engaged. In time he 
 became half owner of the mill, and at the time 
 of his father's death, in 1899, assumed entire 
 control. A devastating fire in September, 1901, 
 reduced the mill to ashes, the loss, however, 
 being partly covered by an insurance of $6,000. 
 Thereafter he started the electric light plant, of 
 which mention has already been made, erecting 
 the same on the site of the old mill, and on a 
 portion of the one-hundred and seventy-eight 
 acres comprising his home. This property was 
 bought by Mr. Hurst after his father's death, 
 and he lives with his mother, who \vas born in 
 Sweden, in June, 1837, and who came to the 
 United States in i860, locating in Fairfield, 
 Iowa. In 1863. Mrs. Hurst came across the 
 plains, as a member of the same train in which 
 her husband traveled, and was married soon 
 after reaching Oregon. She is at present sixty- 
 six years of age. 
 
 In politics Mr. Hurst is independent, and he is 
 fraternally popular, being a member of various 
 organizations. He is identified with the Native 
 Sons of Oregon, Hermes Lodge No. 56, K. P. ; 
 the Rathbone Sisters ; Aurora Lodge No. 21, 
 A. O. U. W., and Nesmuck Camp No. 26, W. 
 O. W. In religion he is a member of the First 
 Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hurst is ambitious 
 and progressive, and his effort to improve the 
 general condition of Aurora and its sister towns 
 has met with deserved support and appreciation. 
 He is one of the foremost of the younger gen- 
 eration of business men in this county, and his 
 future participation in important enterprises is 
 assured. 
 
 CLEMENT S. FRANK. Though general ef- 
 forts of a public-spirited nature have character- 
 ized the career of Clement Stoddard Frank, in 
 Eugene, he will be longest remembered as the 
 founder of the New York Racket Store, the first 
 of its kind in the state, and also the first cash 
 store in this town. 
 
 This enterprise, started by Mr. Frank in 1890, 
 and managed by him uninterruptedly until sell- 
 ing out his stock in January. 1903, marks a dis- 
 tinct era of commercial development, and won 
 for the owner and proprietor an enviable business 
 64 
 
 reputation. For the first nine -months of its ex- 
 istence the store was run under the firm name of 
 Frank & Fisk, but upon the assumption of Mr. 
 Fisk's responsibility by Perry Frank, the father 
 of Clement S., the firm name was changed to 
 P. Frank & Son. The present store, at 34, 36 
 and 38 East Ninth street, with its floor space 
 covering 40x110 feet, and its modern furnish- 
 ings, best indicate the progress made during the 
 past few 7 years, being- a decided improvement 
 over the original quarters, which were limited to 
 23x80 feet floor space. The new 7 store, erected 
 in 1895, is still owned by Mr. Frank, but this by 
 no means represents the extent of his town pos- 
 sessions. Besides his own residence on East 
 Ninth street, he has built and owns several resi- 
 dences in different parts of the city, and he is 
 considered one of the financially strong and sub- 
 stantial business men of Lane county. 
 
 Mr. Frank was born in Busti, Chautauqua 
 county, N. Y., November 8, 1847, and before 
 coming to Eugene had acquired considerable ex- 
 perience. His ancestors on both sides of the 
 family furnished incentive to well doing, ranging 
 from commercial ability and rugged honesty on 
 the paternal side, to religious enthusiasm, self- 
 sacrifice, and patriotism on the maternal side. 
 Perry Frank, the father of C. S. Frank, was born 
 in Busti, Chautauqua county, N. Y., September 
 23, 1825, w r as a son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Devendorf) Frank, the former of whom was 
 born in Herkimer county, N. Y., and the latter 
 in Germany. Elizabeth Frank used to relate 
 many interesting happenings of the very early 
 days in New York to her grandchildren, who 
 never tired of hearing how she and her twin sis- 
 ter were captured by the Indians, and for four 
 years held as prisoners, compelled to wander 
 from place to place, and eat and dress as did the 
 red men. 
 
 Her husband was a tanner, currier and shoe- 
 maker, an occupation which he taught his son. 
 Perry, and w r hich he followed for his entire ac- 
 tive life, first in Herkimer and afterwards at 
 Busti, Chautauqua county, N. Y. 
 
 Perry Frank owned a large farm in Chau- 
 tauqua county, and this, combined with his tan- 
 nery and shoe manufacturing, made him a very 
 active man. In 1857 he removed to Henry 
 county, Iow r a, and after engaging in shoe manu- 
 facturing for ten years he also engaged in the 
 grain, grocery and drug business in New Lon- 
 don. He was very successful in his large under- 
 taking, and when he disposed of his business and 
 came to Eugene in 1888, he brought with him 
 sufficient means to live in comfort for the balance 
 of his life. He is Republican in politics, and 
 since 1836, when he was eleven years of age, 
 has been a member of the Baptist Church. 
 Through his marriage with Mary E. Stoddard, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in Busti, N. Y., January 6, 1847, Mr. Frank be- 
 came identified with a family of exceptionally 
 fine history, and equally excellent personal char- 
 acteristics. Mrs. Frank was born in Eden, Erie 
 county, N. Y., November, 19, 1826, a daughter 
 of Rev. Ira C. Stoddard, who was born in Brat- 
 tleboro, Vt., in 1792, and great-granddaughter 
 of Jonathan Stoddard, who was one of General 
 Washington's body-guards in the Revolution 
 war. Rev. I. C. Stoddard was one of the early 
 teachers of New York state, and although an 
 eloquent preacher and large-hearted humani- 
 tarian, supported himself by his efforts as a 
 farmer, refusing remuneration for his services 
 as a minister ot the gospel. He married Char- 
 lotte Joy, also a native of Brattleboro, Vt., and 
 who was born in 1795, a daughter of Elijah H. 
 and Elizabeth (Chase) Joy, and on the maternal 
 side was descended from one of four brothers, 
 William, Elijah, Lewis and Levi, who came to 
 America on the Mayflower, and settled in Massa- 
 chusetts. Rev. Ira C. Stoddard and his wife 
 spent their last years in Busti, N. Y., whither 
 they had removed in 1836, the grandfather dying 
 in 1878, and the grandmother in 1886. 
 
 Mrs. Frank's brother, Rev. Ira J. Stoddard, 
 named for his father, was a missionary to India 
 for twenty years, and is now living retired at 
 Pella, Iowa, being eighty-three years old. He 
 was for many years president of the Baptist Col- 
 lege at Pella. Two of his brothers, Jacob and 
 Hiram, served in the Civil war, Jacob serving in 
 the Ninth Cavalry, Company F, New York, and 
 Hiram, who was a member of the Seventeenth 
 New York Volunteer Infantry, was captured 
 and held in Libby prison for nine months. 
 
 Mrs. Frank is still living, and besides Clement 
 S., the oldest of her children, had a daughter, 
 Arabella Larooka, who died in Iowa in 1874. 
 
 Clement S. Frank was reared in New -York 
 state until 1857, an d then accompanied his pa- 
 rents to Iowa, he being ten years of age at the 
 time. At the age of fourteen he began to learn 
 the shoemaker's trade of his father, and at the 
 same time he was busy acquiring an excellent 
 education, studying at the public schools of New 
 London, at the Mount Pleasant Academy, and 
 at the Burlington Baptist College, attending the 
 latter institution for two years. From the col- 
 lege class-rooms he stepped into a shoe manu- 
 facturing business in Denmark, Iowa, but soon 
 after quit to engage in business with his father, 
 and was thus employed until father and son con- 
 tracted a partnership in the shoe, grocery, drug 
 and grain business in New London. In 1885 he 
 removed to near Ord, Valley county, Neb., and 
 engaged in a stock-raising business for three and 
 a half years, moving from there to Eugene in 
 1888. Like his father, Mr. Frank is a Republi- 
 can, and he is further like his sire in entertaining 
 
 broad and liberal views in regard to office hold- 
 ing. He is prominent fraternally, and, in 1878, 
 became a member of Charity Lodge No. 56 of 
 Odd Fellows of New London, Iowa, and in 1883 
 became a member of Industry Encampment No. 
 18 of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1889 became a 
 member of Spencer Butte Lodge No. 9 of Eu- 
 gene, of which he is past grand, and in 1890 a 
 member of Whimawhala Encampment No. 6, of 
 which he is a past chief patriarch, and is also 
 district deputy. The Rebekas and Woodmen 
 of the World also profit by his membership. 
 
 Edward Ray Frank, son of C. S. Frank, was 
 born in New London, Henry county, Iowa, Sep- 
 tember 6, 1870, Edna May was born in New 
 London, Iowa, January 19, 1874, Libert Joy 
 Frank, son of Edward Ray Frank, was 
 born in Eugene, Ore., October 30, 1896, 
 making four generations of the Frank fam- 
 ily now living in Eugene, Oregon. Mrs. C. S. 
 Frank was formerly Mrs. Lizzie (Mueller) 
 Machaw, a native of New York City, and the 
 mother of one daughter by her first marriage. 
 With his wife, Mr. Frank is a member of the 
 Baptist Church, and is serving at the present as 
 chairman of the board of trustees. 
 
 ALEXANDER THOMPSON, who occupies 
 a farm of two hundred and eighty acres situated 
 about ten miles northeast of Salem, in Marion 
 county, comprising a portion of the old Rice 
 Dunbar donation claim, is descended from an old 
 New Jersey family. He was born near Mendham, 
 N. J., on September 29, 1836, and is a son of 
 George Harris and Tempe Leddel (McCrea) 
 Thompson. George H. Thompson was of Scotch 
 descent, a son of Stephen and a grandson of 
 David Thompson, who served as a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war and fought with Washington 
 at Morristown. It was the father of this Revolu- 
 tionary soldier who immigrated from Scotland 
 to America about the middle of the eighteenth 
 century, locating in New Jersey. George H. 
 Thompson, born in New Jersey October 9, 1803, 
 served two terms as a member of the New Jersey 
 state legislature, and was a man who exerted a 
 great influence in his community. For a long 
 period he served as a ruling elder in the Presby- 
 terian Church, toward the support of which he 
 contributed liberally of his means. His death 
 occurred at Mendham, N. J., in 1883. He was 
 united in marriage September 25, 1830, with 
 Tempe Leddel McCrea, who died August 31, 
 1864, at the age of fifty-six years. She was a 
 daughter of Philip McCrea, a native of New 
 York state. The latter was a nephew of Jane 
 McCrea, whose death at the hands of the British 
 and the Indians of .eastern New York formed 
 one of the most exciting incidents in the colonial 
 history of that section, and resulted in the crea- 
 
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 tion of the popular sentiment and patriotic spirit 
 which made possible the great victory at the bat- 
 tles of Saratoga. 
 
 Mr. Thompson received his education in the 
 common schools of New Jersey. Upon attaining 
 the age of twenty-two years he decided to em- 
 bark upon a self-supporting career. As in the 
 cases of thousands of other young men residing 
 in the east in those days, the alluring tales in 
 circulation regarding the vaunted superiority of 
 western opportunities appealed to him strongly ; 
 and. with a determination to put his fortunes 
 to the hazard in the region west of the Missis- 
 sippi, he started for Missouri. The romance 
 connected with life in that state was dispelled not 
 long after his arrival there, however, and he was 
 glad to return to the state of his nativity, where 
 he continued to reside until 1861. In that year 
 he started for the Pacific coast, traveling by way 
 of the Isthmus of Panama to California. From 
 San Francisco he went direct to Nevada, which 
 was then attracting hordes of venturesome spirits 
 from all parts of the world, and in that territory 
 he was engaged in mining for a year. His ex- 
 perience in the mining fields of the west covered 
 most of the period from 1861 to 1867, and in- 
 cluded work in Montana and Idaho as well as 
 Nevada. In the last-named year Mr. Thompson 
 came to Oregon and purchased the farm on the 
 west slope of the Waldo Hills, where he has since 
 resided. At the time he purchased the property 
 it contained three hundred and eighty acres, one 
 hundred acres of which he ultimately sold. This 
 farm is in a highly cultivated and very productive 
 state, and is devoted to general farming and 
 stock-raising. It is well equipped, and the im- 
 provements are all modern and of a substantial 
 nature. 
 
 Mr. Thompson has been twice married. On 
 April 26, 1 87 1, he was united with Harriett 
 Small, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Henderson 
 and Elizabeth (Burnett) Small. (For history of 
 the Small family the reader is referred to the 
 sketch of Matthew Small.) She died April 24, 
 1874, leaving one daughter, Lida. October 4, 
 1876, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage 
 with Adeline McAlpin, daughter of Robert and 
 Jane (Thomas) McAlpin. She was born in 
 Jackson county. Mo., and crossed the plains to 
 Oregon with her parents in 1852. Of this union 
 five children have been born, namely : Roxanna, 
 wife of Dr. D. J. Clark, of Silverton, Ore. ; Orla, 
 wife of Arthur J. Stimpson, of Portland ; George 
 Harris, at home ; Maud Ethel, at home, and 
 James J., at home. 
 
 Ever since attaining maturitv Mr. Thompson 
 has been a stanch advocate of the principles of 
 the Republican party, and has been actively iden- 
 tified with its operations in Marion countv. His 
 fitness for offices of trust and responsibility has 
 been repeatedly recognized by the party. He was 
 
 at one time a candidate for nomination to the 
 office of sheriff of Marion county, but after an 
 exciting triangular contest in the convention an 
 opposing candidate was nominated. During all 
 but the final ballot he lacked but six votes of the 
 nomination. His interest in the cause of edu- 
 cation is illustrated by the fact that for many 
 years he has served continuously as school direct- 
 or in his district, and for most of that period he 
 has been clerk. He is an active worker in the 
 Congregational Church, to the maintenance and 
 work of which he has always contributed freely 
 of his time and money ; and for ten years he has 
 served as superintendent of the Sunday school 
 connected with that denomination. 
 
 This necessarily brief outline of the life of Al- 
 exander Thompson conveys but a faint idea of his 
 value as a conscientious and high-minded mem- 
 ber of society. Throughout his entire career 
 'he has striven to be guided in his daily walks 
 by the Golden Rule, doing no man an injustice 
 through intention, but exhibiting on all occasions 
 a high-minded, unselfish public spirit and a gen- 
 erosity of heart that will cause his name to be 
 revered by his descendants and the future gen- 
 erations of the neighborhood generally. It is to 
 such men as he that the Willamette valley of to- 
 day owes a debt it can never pay, for in all his 
 undertakings he has been actuated by motives 
 of the highest character, helping to build a foun- 
 dation upon which the future of this common- 
 wealth will rest secure. This, at least, is the 
 estimate placed upon his life and character by 
 those who have known him for more than thirty- 
 five years. It is with genuine pleasure that the 
 publishers of this work preserve for the future 
 generations this record of a complete life, un- 
 sullied by moral taint or personal dishonor at 
 any period of his useful career ; but, on the con- 
 trary, replete with demonstrations of a nobility 
 of character and continuous usefulness that 
 should inspire the young men of the present day 
 to attain the best of which they are capable. 
 
 JAMES M. BROWN. One of the most en- 
 ergetic and far-sighted business men of Silver- 
 ton is J. M. Brown, whose speculations have 
 been so judiciously made that they have brought 
 to him a splendid financial return. He has been 
 a resident of Oregon since 1846 and has taken 
 advantage of its splendid business opportunities 
 as the state has grown and developed. He was 
 born in Lincoln county, Mo., January 6, 1844, 
 and is a son of James Brown, who was born in 
 Kentucky, March 14, 1814. His grandfather, 
 Bartholomew Brown, was a native of North 
 Carolina, whence he crossed the Alleghanies into 
 Kentucky about 1804. The father of the latter 
 came from Wales about the middle of the eight- 
 eenth century, locating at Old Fort, N. C, where 
 
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 he was killed while serving in the Colonial 
 militia. Bartholomew Brown located on the 
 Green river in Kentucky and there engaged in 
 farming until 1830, when he removed to Illinois, 
 settling near Alton. After a short time, how- 
 ever, he went to Missouri, locating in Lincoln 
 county, near Troy, where he died at the age of 
 forty-eight years. A note of interest in his fam- 
 ily is the fact that so far as is known his sons and 
 daughters have attained a greater average of 
 years than any other family in the United States. 
 James Brown accompanied his parents on their 
 removal to Missouri and was reared to manhood 
 on their home farm. After arriving at years of 
 maturity he wedded Lucinda Davis, who was 
 born in Wheeling, Va. In the year 1846 they 
 joined the emigrants who were crossing the 
 plains to gain dominion over the northwest. 
 After a long and tedious journey they arrived at 
 Silverton September 14, 1846, and secured a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, 
 part of which is now included within the north- 
 ern limits of the present city of Silverton. Mr. 
 Brown established the first tannery in Oregon, 
 its site being a half mile north of Silverton. 
 This he conducted from 1847 until 1849, when he 
 closed out the business in order to go to the gold 
 mines of California, where he spent three 
 months, and then returned home with one thou- 
 sand dollars. He next gave his attention to 
 cattle-raising and general farming. He built the 
 Eating House at a cost of two thousand dollars, 
 which stands on the territorial road leading from 
 Portland to California, a half mile north of Sil- 
 verton. This was erected in 1850, and at the 
 time was the leading eating house between Port- 
 land and San Francisco. Mr. Brown was a 
 typical southern man of high principles, gen- 
 erous and extremely hospitable. The circle of 
 his friends was almost co-extensive with the 
 circle of his acquaintances and he commanded 
 the warm esteem of all with whom he was asso- 
 ciated. His wife died in 1872 and he passed 
 away in March, 1887. 
 
 James M. Brown was the third in order of 
 birth of their family of nine children, four sons 
 and five daughters. He obtained a good busi- 
 ness education, and when sixteen years of age he 
 engaged in dealing in cattle and horses, and 
 otherwise specvdating in stock. In his business 
 transactions he was ever successful, and by the 
 time he had reached the age of twenty-three 
 years he had accumulated five thousand dollars. 
 He then determined to engage in general mer- 
 chandising and in 1868 entered into partnership 
 with Messrs. Davenport & Wolfard in a general 
 mercantile and milling business, but in this he 
 was not successful. He then turned his atten- 
 tion to the raising of sheep and prospered in this 
 undertaking. He has throughout his entire life 
 engaged in speculation to a greater or less ex- 
 
 tent. He laid out Brown's addition to Silverton 
 in 1889, and at the same time Brown's addition 
 A. His investments have been made with 
 marked foresight. He recognized with wonder- 
 ful clearness a good opportunity and utilized it. 
 One of his business principles was to place a fair 
 price upon what he had to sell, and when that 
 amount was offered, to sell it. He forms his 
 plans readily, is determined in their execution, 
 and he carries forward to successful completion 
 whatever he undertakes. He owns different 
 tracts of land, comprising altogether about three 
 hundred acres. 
 
 Mr. Brown was married in Portland March 
 27, 1873, to Miss Edna J. Eastham, who was 
 born eight miles north of Silverton November 
 25, 1850, and has been a successful school 
 teacher. Her father, William F. Eastham, was 
 a native of Virginia, and on emigrating west- 
 ward took up his abode in Macoupin county, 111., 
 where he carried on farming. There he was 
 married in March, 1848, to Delilah Ann Cleaver, 
 and in the same year he started for Oregon, in 
 company with his wife's father, Benjamin 
 Cleaver. After residing for about two years at 
 Oregon City he secured a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres eight miles north of Sil- 
 verton, and afterward sold half of this and made 
 his home with Mr. Brown, both he and his wife 
 dying in Silverton. He was born November 23, 
 1823, and died December 30, 1901. His wife 
 was born February 15, 1831, and died January 
 29, 1892. Mr. Eastham was the last survivor, 
 save one, of the jury that convicted the Indians 
 who killed Dr. Whitman. John Lawson East- 
 ham, father of William F., was born in the 
 colony of Fauquier county, Va., in 1776, and 
 died in Macoupin county, 111., in 1862. His 
 wife, Nancy Farrow, was born in Culpepper 
 county, Va., in 1781, and died in Macoupin 
 county, 111., in 1868. 
 
 Benjamin Cleaver, Mrs. Brown's grandfather, 
 was a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Cleaver, 
 and was born in Grayson county, Ky., Septem- 
 ber 6, 1803, where his wife was also born May 
 29, 1808. They were married there December 
 9, 1824. He came to Oregon in 1848, and after 
 spending two years in Oregon City took up a 
 donation claim on the south slope of Mount 
 Angel, where most of the remainder of his life 
 was spent. He 'served as justice of the peace for 
 many years, and was a man of extensive influ- 
 ence in the early days. He died in 1892, and his 
 wife in 1864. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Brown have 
 been born four children : Percy L., Carl M., 
 Florence, and Earl (a twin brother of Carl, now 
 deceased). The eldest son was educated in 
 Willamette University. The younger son has 
 also been a student in that institution andthey 
 are now associated in the conduct of the Silver- 
 ton Water Works. Mr. Brown's daughter was 
 
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 educated in Willamette University and in the 
 Salem Business College. For over thirty years 
 Mr. Brown was a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a stal- 
 wart Prohibitionist. He has always been an op- 
 ponent of oppression or slavery in any form. He 
 was a stanch Abolitionist during the Civil war 
 and is now bitterly opposed to the slavery which 
 enthralls the spirits and operations of men, 
 known as the liquor habit. Mr. Brown practices 
 what he preaches, for he has never taken a drink 
 of whiskey in his life, nor does he use tobacco. 
 His life is clean, his principles honorable, his 
 actions manly and sincere. In the community 
 where he has so long resided he is held in uni- 
 form regard. 
 
 JOHN P. HUMPHREYS. Among the pio- 
 neers who crossed the plains in 1852, and have 
 since been identified with the upbuilding of this 
 wonderful commonwealth, is John P. Hum- 
 phreys, younger brother of William J. Hum- 
 phreys, also a large land owner and extensive 
 stock-raiser of this section. Mr. Humphreys is 
 the representative of a southern family located 
 for many years in Tennessee, in which state he 
 was born January 2, 1832. The two brothers men- 
 tioned were among the most ambitious of a large 
 family of children born to Thomas M. and Jane 
 (Harrison) Humphreys. In their youth they 
 worked hard from morning until night, taking 
 part in the diversions afforded the youth of that 
 neighborhood, and indulging in the dreams of 
 future success, which make up a large part of 
 the existence of an active and healthy boy. The 
 Wilson sisters were born and reared in the same 
 community, and July 21, 1852, a double wedding 
 furnished enjoyment for a great many guests, all 
 of whom partook of a royal feast, and had only 
 good wishes for the happy young people. Mar- 
 garet Moore Wilson became the wife of John P. 
 Humphreys, and she and her husband made up 
 two interesting members of the party which out- 
 fitted and crossed the plains in September, 1852, 
 arriving in due time in Missouri, where the on- 
 coming winter suggested a rest until the follow- 
 ing spring. With renewed strength and spirits 
 they started out again in the spring, and Mr. 
 Humphreys took up a three hundred and twenty- 
 acre claim near Scio, Linn county. A more deso- 
 late or unpromising location could hardly be con- 
 ceived of at the time. However, there was an 
 abundance of timber, and a good water supply, 
 and it was with great hopefulness that the young 
 man hewed logs and built himself and wife a 
 one-room house, 16x16 feet, ground dimensions. 
 This little house continued to be their home until 
 1858, when they moved upon another place, Mr. 
 Humphreys erecting a saw-mill, which he ran 
 
 with considerable success until 1861. The mill 
 was traded that year for land in Linn county, 
 consisting of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 upon which they lived during the winter of 1862 
 The next spring they removed to the Waldo 
 Hills, and in the fall went to Idaho, where he 
 bought a claim. 
 
 After six months of mining in Idaho, Mr. 
 Humphreys was convinced that he was not born 
 to seek a fortune in the mines, and thereupon re- 
 turned to Marion county, where he bought the 
 farm in the Waldo Hills, upon which he lives. 
 He has two hundred and two acres eleven miles 
 east of Salem, and the improvements are all due 
 to his enterprise and unflagging industry. A 
 practical and scientific farmer, that he has suc- 
 ceeded is not to be wondered at in so enterprising 
 and resourceful a man. 
 
 Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Humphreys : Thomas M., a mail clerk in the 
 United States postal service, residing in Wood- 
 burn ; William H., of Marion county ; Mary 
 Minerva, the wife of James Darby ; John A., a 
 resident of Springfield, Ore. ; Charles L., of Mar- 
 ion county; Penelope Jane, wife of C. M. Cart- 
 wright, residing in the vicinity of Monroe ; 
 Oliver, who died at the age of seven, and Joseph 
 Frank, who is managing the home farm. It was 
 here that the latter's birth occurred, April 7, 
 1872. He was united in marriage, September 16, 
 1891, to Minnie L. King, daughter of James T. 
 King, of Marion county, and they have four chil- 
 dren : James Harold, Herbert Rodney, Dolphie 
 Albert and Mary Marguerite, the latter dying at 
 the age of nineteen months. 
 
 Like his brother, John P. Humphreys votes the 
 Republican ticket, and he has taken an active 
 part in local and county political undertakings, 
 having filled a number of offices. He bears an 
 honored name in this county, and is esteemed as 
 one of the successful, reliable and substantial 
 citizens. 
 
 HARVEY A. HINKLE. A good example 
 of what steady effort, constantly directed, can 
 in a short time accomplish, is furnished by the 
 record of Harvey A. Hinkle, the subject of this 
 biography, who, although young in years, is 
 conceded to be one of the most successful hop 
 buyers on the western coast of the United States. 
 Mr. Hinkle is junior member of the commission 
 house of W. S. Hurst & Co., having complete 
 charge of the branch house located at Hubbard, 
 Marion county. 
 
 He was born in Clackamas county, Ore., 
 March 6, 1870, a son of John R. and Elmira 
 (Thomas) Hinkle, and grandson of Alexander 
 and Fannie (Hinkle) Hinkle. More extensive 
 mention of his ancestors is given in the sketch 
 
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 of John Robert Hinkle, the father, and will be 
 found elsewhere in this history. 
 
 Mr. Hinkle is the youngest of two children born 
 to his parents. He has one sister, Eliza, wife of 
 O. L. Darling, of Salem. He obtained the rudi- 
 ments of his education in the public schools of 
 Elliott Prairie, and in 1881 entered Willamette 
 University at Salem, where he took a scientific 
 course. In 1888 he began a business course in 
 the Portland Business College, from which he 
 was graduated February 20, 1889. Returning 
 to Salem, he became a salesman in the mercan- 
 tile establishment of Steiger Brothers, and a few 
 months later we find him similarly associated 
 with Preger Brothers, of Portland. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Hinkle, in company with George 
 M. Fry, opened a general merchandise store at 
 Hubbard, and for three years a successful busi- 
 ness was carried on under the firm name of Fry 
 & Hinkle. In 1893, our subject sold his inter- 
 est to Mr. Fry and began buying hops for a 
 broker in San Francisco. This occupied his at- 
 tention for a number of years, during which he 
 made a remarkable record as a hop buyer. In 
 1899 he made a change and followed a similar 
 business in connection with the Paul G. R. Horst 
 & Lochmund Company, of Salem, who shipped 
 to New York City. Mr. Hinkle remained in 
 their employ until 1902, when he entered the 
 employ of W. S. Hurst & Co., commission mer- 
 chants, owning a half interest in that flourishing 
 business, and, it is needless to say, contributes 
 his part toward its success. 
 
 Mr. Hinkle was united in marriage with Sarah 
 Fry, of Aurora, and they have one child, Lona. 
 In politics Mr. Hinkle is a Republican of the 
 most pronounced type ; he has served two terms 
 as recorder and is now a member of the city 
 council. Aside from other business pursuits he 
 is associated with his- father in raising cattle for 
 the market. He has hosts of friends who predict 
 for him a brilliant future, and he is a worthy 
 member of the Knights of Pythias ; Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, and Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 EDWARD J. FRASIER. Conspicuously 
 identified with the industrial and business growth 
 and prosperity of Lane county is E. J. Frasier, 
 who is a large property owner, and the leading 
 real estate dealer of Eugene. A man of marked 
 intellectual vigor and cultivated tastes, progress- 
 ive in his ideas, and the possessor of rare execu- 
 tive ability, he holds a position of influence in 
 the community, and is contributing his full share 
 towards the advancement of its highest interests. 
 He was born February 28, 1857, at Delhi, Dela- 
 ware county, N. Y., which was also the birth- 
 place of his father, Alexander Frasier. He 
 comes of Scotch ancestry, his paternal grand- 
 
 parents, William and Isabelle (Shaw) Frasier, 
 having both been born and reared in Inverness, 
 Scotland. Emigrating to New York when 
 young, they settled on a farm near Delhi, N. Y., 
 and there spent the remainder of their lives, 
 William Frasier's death occurring at the remark- 
 able age of one. hundred and three years, while 
 his widow attained the age of ninety-five years. 
 The grandfather served in the war of 1812, and 
 several years later took an active part in the 
 Anti-Rent war, when battles were fought with 
 pitchforks. 
 
 Reared to agricultural pursuits, Alexander 
 Frasier was engaged in general farming in 
 Delhi, N. Y., until 1868, when he removed with 
 his family to California, taking his wife and 
 nine children by way of the Isthmus of Panama. 
 Settling at Monterey, he purchased a large 
 ranch, where he engaged in the breeding of 
 Shorthorn cattle, until at one time he had eight 
 thousand head. He also embarked in the dairy 
 business on a large scale, milking eight hundred 
 cows. In the memorable drought of 1876 and 
 1877, which devastated that section of the state, 
 he lost the greater part of his stock. Coming to 
 Salem, Ore., in 1877, he bought a small farm, 
 and was there engaged in horticultural pursuits 
 until his death, which occurred at the age of 
 seventy-six years, at Tacoma, Wash., while he 
 was there on a visit. He married Alice Jane 
 Douglas, who was born in New York city, and 
 died in San Francisco, Cal. Her father, Rev. 
 James A. Douglas, was born in Inverness, Scot- 
 land. He was graduated from the University of 
 Edinburgh, where he subsequently held a pro- 
 fessorship until his emigration to America, when 
 he settled in New York city as a Presbyterian 
 minister. Nine children blessed the union of 
 Alexander and Alice J. (Douglas) Frasier, 
 seven of whom are still living. One son, James 
 A., served in the Civil war as member of a com- 
 pany of the New York Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 The sixth child in the family, E. J. Frasier 
 was eleven years old when he left his native 
 town to come to California. Continuing his 
 studies, he attended first the public schools of 
 Monterey, then of Salinas, after which he was a 
 pupil in the high school of Salem, Ore., and of 
 Healds' Business College, in San Francisco, 
 finally completing his education in the California 
 State Normal School at San Jose. Beginning 
 his professional career at the teacher's desk, he 
 taught one year in Salem, Ore., and was after- 
 wards employed in various places, including 
 Newport, Hubbard and Howells Prairie, in Ore- 
 gon. Then, spending a while in California, he 
 taught there for a short time. Returning to 
 Oregon, he had charge of a school in Marion 
 for a time, but resigned his position there to 
 enter the employ of Hubert Howe Bancroft, who 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 was compiling a history of the Pacific coast 
 states, and while thus engaged Mr. Frasier wrote 
 the history of that part of the state, extending 
 from the city of Salem to Oregon's southern 
 boundary line, spending two years in the work. 
 The ensuing three and one-half years he was 
 head bookkeeper at the State Insane Asylum 
 in Salem, serving under Dr. Carpenter and Dr. 
 Josephi. 
 
 Locating in Eugene in 1889, Mr. Frasier or- 
 ganized the Lane County Land and Loan Com- 
 pany, a real estate and mortgage loan concern, 
 of which he has since been secretary and man- 
 ager. He has likewise been the secretary, since 
 its organization, of the Eugene Real Estate Ex- 
 change, which he was instrumental in forming, 
 and whose constitution and by-laws he drafted. 
 Being appointed by Governor Lord a member of 
 the executive committee of the board of commis- 
 sioners to represent Oregon at the exposition 
 held in Omaha, Neb., in 1898, Mr. Frasier spent 
 about a year of his time in traveling through the 
 state, collecting such exhibits as would best show 
 the various resources and industries of Oregon. 
 That he succeeded well in his arduous labors 
 was proved by the great exhibition of Oregon's 
 arts, industries and manufactures, and the prod- 
 ucts of its soil, mines and sea at the Omaha 
 Exposition, every^ part of the state responding 
 generously with exhibits of its special product. 
 Mr. Frasier is an extensive land holder, owning 
 in Lane county several farms, which he rents. 
 He is also interested in the mines of Myrtle 
 creek district, a mining corporation of which 
 was capitalized at $1,500,000, and which owns 
 two thousand one hundred acres of placer mines 
 at Myrtle Creek, Douglas county. 
 
 In Woodland, Cal., in 1892, Mr. Frasier mar- 
 ried Miss Jenne Stoddard Lee, a native of that 
 town, and they have two children, namely : 
 Brownell Dorris, and Helen Janet Gertrude. Po- 
 litically Mr. Frasier is a strong advocate of the 
 principles of the Republican party, and takes an 
 active interest in local and national affairs. Fra- 
 ternally he belongs to Olive Lodge No. 18, I. O. 
 O. F., of Salem, in which he has held all the 
 offices, and is a past grand representative to the 
 Grand Lodge ; is a charter member of the Valley 
 Lodge No. 18, A. O. U. W. ; and while living in 
 Monterey, Cal., united with the Foresters. In 
 his religious views he is a Presbyterian. 
 
 WILLIAM E. ILER. Closely connected 
 with the events of the pioneer days in Marion 
 county. Ore., is the life of William E. Her, a 
 youthful emigrant to the state of his adoption, 
 within whose range of vision have come great 
 changes during his residence here of over a half 
 century. Fine houses and substantial barns have 
 
 taken the place of the little log cabins and 
 " shacks " which once constituted the conveni- 
 ences of the farm ; towns and cities have sprung 
 up in the wilderness, with their churches and 
 schools and thriving industries ; and even the 
 old fiddle, across whose strings he was wont to 
 scrape the bow to make the music for the country 
 dances, has been displaced by the modern or- 
 chestra ; and only recollection is left to connect 
 the trials and hardships of those early days with 
 the present affluence. 
 
 The birth of William E. Her occurred in Mer- 
 cer county, Mo., April 10, 1845, his parents being 
 James and Maria (Vanalsdale) Her, both of 
 whom were natives of the state of Ohio. From 
 their Missouri home the father started with his 
 family for Oregon in 1847, traveling by ox- 
 team. Upon his arrival at The Dalles he had 
 left but one ox and a cow, so they abandoned 
 their wagon and came by flat boat to Oregon 
 City, where they spent their first winter in the 
 west. Mr. Her was employed during this win- 
 ter in transporting provisions to the soldiers 
 stationed at The Dalles. In the spring of 1848 
 he settled upon a farm owned by a Mr. Hudson, 
 which was located three miles east of Oregon 
 City, and contained three hundred and twenty 
 acres. There he remained but a short time, soon 
 taking up a donation claim in the same neighbor- 
 hood. After a brief experience in a logging camp 
 he again took his family to the Hudson farm, 
 remaining upon the same until 1851, when he 
 took up another claim, located in the vicinity of 
 Butteville, Marion county, consisting of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres. In this location he re- 
 mained until his death, in 1883, at the age of sev- 
 enty-two years. His wife died in 1880, at the age 
 of sixty-seven. Of the five children which blessed 
 the union there is only one now living, that 
 being William E. Her of this review. The second 
 child, Emma R., attained maturity and married 
 Gustavius A. Cone, Sr. Her death occurred in 
 1881. 
 
 William E. Her was five years old at the time 
 of his father's removal to his claim, and there he 
 grew to manhood, reared to an agricultural life. 
 His early education was received in the common 
 schools in the vicinity of his home, which he at- 
 tended in the short intermission between the farm- 
 ing seasons. Owing to his father's ill health he 
 was compelled at the age of fifteen years to take 
 entire charge of the farm, which has never since 
 passed from his control. He now owns 
 one hundred and eighty acres of land, upon which 
 he is engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising, also being interested in the cultivation 
 of hops, in which business he has met with grati- 
 fying success. In 1881 he first gave his atten- 
 tion to the cultivation of this plant, beginning 
 operations with seven acres. In 1888 he had 
 
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 nearly sixty acres devoted to hops, in the year 
 1890 disposing of over thirty thousand pounds, 
 these figures representing a considerable sum of 
 money. He has at the present time but twelve 
 acres in hops. In the stock line he is interested 
 in Poland-China hogs. 
 
 January 10, 1870, Mr. Her was united in 
 marriage with Miss Lulu Stephens. Fraternally 
 he is identified with the Masons, and is serving 
 as treasurer of the local lodge ; he is also a mem- 
 ber of Butteville Lodge No. 59, I. O. O. F, ; 
 the Maccabees, and the Grange. Being one of 
 the pioneer hop-growers of the Willamette val- 
 ley, Mr. Her has been deeply interested in all 
 movements that tend toward the encouragement 
 of the industry. He took an active part in the 
 organization of the Hop-growers' Fire Relief 
 Association, of which he was elected the first 
 president, serving in this office for three years ; 
 subsequently he was elected a member of the 
 board of trustees in the association for the pro- 
 tection of hop-growers in the Willamette val- 
 ley. He is now serving as treasurer of the lat- 
 ter company, which is carrying about $700,000 of 
 insurance. In the Farmers' Relief Fire Insurance 
 Company he was one of the principal organizers, 
 and is now in the directorate. 
 
 It will thus be seen, from this all too brief 
 outline of the principal features in the career of 
 Mr. Iler, that he has been intensely and unself- 
 ishly interested in various movements which have 
 had for an end the safeguarding of the most 
 important interests of the Willamette valley — for 
 it cannot be denied that in an agricultural sec- 
 tion the prime interests are those of the men who 
 cultivate the fields and reap the harvests. In 
 every way a representative of the best citizen- 
 ship of the country, his name will be perpetuated 
 in this record as that of a man whose life has not 
 been lived in vain — who accomplished all that he 
 could for the benefit of his fellow-men, and whose 
 aim was always to make his career one of honor, 
 integrity and utility. That he has accomplished 
 the result aspired to is the outcome of his own 
 unaided efforts, and a distinct and enduring credit 
 to himself alone. 
 
 FREDERICK C. BEAN. The name which 
 heads this sketch has long been associated with 
 the cattle and land interests of Lane county, the 
 business having passed from the father, Obe- 
 diah R., to Frederick C. Bean, the subject of 
 this sketch. The latter is a native of this great 
 commonwealth, having been born in Lane 
 county, four miles north of Junction City, Feb- 
 ruary 10, .1869, the son of one of the very early 
 pioneers, a review of whose life is to be found 
 in the sketch of Louis E. Bean, of Eugene. 
 Upon his father's farm Frederick C. Bean was 
 
 reared until he was thirteen years old, when he 
 accompanied his parents to a home near the 
 city of Eugene, thus receiving the advantage 
 which accrued from an attendance of the excel- 
 lent schools of that city. In April, 1866, his 
 father bought a farm in the vicinity of Maple- 
 ton, locating at the head of the tide on the Sius- 
 law river, and there the elder man spent the 
 remainder of his days successfully engaged in 
 farming, until his death, when the interests 
 passed into the hands of the son. 
 
 After assuming the responsibility of the farm 
 at the death of his father Frederick C. Bean 
 continued to make this farm his home, having 
 now three hundred and twenty acres adjoining 
 the town of Mapleton, and a homestead of one 
 hundred and sixty acres five miles east, but re- 
 sides upon property in Mapleton. He is at the 
 present time engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising upon his fine property and is also 
 agent for Baug's stage line and conducts a sub- 
 land-office, while he acts as United States com- 
 missioner and notary public. He was married 
 in June, 1900, to Laura E. Coleman, who was 
 born fifteen miles southwest of Eugene, Lane 
 county, in 1869. They have two children, Hor- 
 tense and Rupert. Through Republican influ- 
 ence Mr. Bean was appointed postmaster of 
 Mapleton January 14, 1902, having served for 
 twelve years as deputy to his mother, in the 
 later years having assumed entire charge of the 
 office. He also acted as school clerk. In fra- 
 ternal relations Mr. Bean is prominent, being a 
 member of the Masonic lodge at Florence ; in the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Maple- 
 ton, he has passed all the chairs and belongs to 
 the Grand Lodge ; and is likewise identified with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Flor- 
 ence, and the Modern Woodmen of America, of 
 Acme. 
 
 EWING B. JAMISON. Among the more 
 active and enterprising business men of Polk 
 county is Mr. Jamison, who is connected with 
 one of the leading industries of this section of 
 the state, being secretary, treasurer, and gen- 
 eral manager of the Oregon Milling and Ware- 
 house company, which has warehouses at Mon- 
 mouth and Airlie, and mills at Independence. 
 
 A native of Missouri, Mr. Jamison was born 
 September 11, 1868, in Callaway county, a son 
 of Joseph Jamison, and grandson of Ephraim 
 Jamison, who spent the larger part of his life 
 in Missouri. His father was born in Franklin 
 county, Mo., in 1821, and was there reared and 
 educated. A farmer by occupation, he met 
 with success in his operations, and continued 
 a resident of his native state until his death, 
 in 1901, at the advanced age of eighty years. 
 
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 1385 
 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy R. 
 Manpin, died on the home farm, in Missouri, 
 in 1880. Ten children were born of their union, 
 five sons and five daughters. 
 
 The youngest child, Ewing B. Jamison, grew 
 to man's estate on the home farm, attending 
 first the district schools, and later the State 
 Normal school at Kirksville, entering in 1886 
 and graduating in 1889, when he received a 
 state diploma. Mr. Jamison at once came to 
 Oregon, locating in Yamhill county, and for 
 five years thereafter taught school in Amity. 
 Establishing himself as a grain dealer at Amity 
 in 1894, he has since assisted in building up the 
 large business with which he is now identified, 
 and which is incorporated as the Oregon Mill- 
 ing and Warehouse Company, with W. T. 
 Hoffman as president ; M. Tillery, vice-presi- 
 dent, and Mr. Jamison, secretary, treasurer 
 and general manager. This company has three 
 warehouses, all equipped with the latest ap- 
 proved machinery, and all having a good car- 
 rying capacity, the one at Independence being 
 eighty thousand bushels, the one at Airlie forty 
 thousand bushels, and the one at Monmouth 
 sixty thousand bushels. In February, 1902, 
 the company purchased the large milling plant 
 at Independence, fitting it up with the best- 
 known and most modern machinery, and put- 
 ting in steam power. Under the supervision 
 of Mr. Jamison one hundred barrels of flour 
 per day are here manufactured, the sifter 
 process being used, and the brand, "Pride of 
 Oregon," finding ready sale throughout the 
 Union. 
 
 At Portland, in 1893, Mr. Jamison was united 
 in marriage with Miss Alda Pauline Lance- 
 field, a native of Yamhill county. Mrs. Jami- 
 son was born at Amity, Ore., July 5, 1875, and 
 is the daughter of Robert W. Lancefield, a na- 
 tive son, and a granddaughter of Robert James 
 Lancefield, of Kent, England. Her mother, 
 Sarah J. Maddox, was born in Monroe county, 
 Mo., and crossed the plains to Oregon in 
 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Jamison have three chil- 
 dren, namely : Mildred Chastain, Olga and 
 Russell Warren. Although in business in In- 
 dependence, Mr. Jamison resides at Monmouth, 
 where he has an attractive home. 
 
 JAMES WHITFIELD GOWDY. Coming 
 to Cottage Grove in ample time to generously aid 
 in its progress and development, which have been 
 carried on so rapidly and to such a remarkable 
 degree, James W Gowdy has been actively asso- 
 ciated with many of its beneficial enterprises, and 
 is numbered among the solid business men of the 
 place. For several years he was engaged in agri- 
 cultural pursuits, but is now one of the leading 
 
 furniture dealers of this locality. A son of Cal- 
 vin A. Gowdy, he was born June 12, 1839, in 
 White county, near Carmi or Enfield, 111. His 
 grandfather, John Gowdy, spent the earlier part 
 of his life in Tennessee, although he was, prob- 
 ably, a native of North Carolina. Removing 
 from Tennessee to Illinois, he settled in White 
 county, purchasing a farm, on which he spent 
 Ins remaining years. 
 
 Removing from Tennessee, the state of his 
 birth, to White county, 111., Calvin A. Gowdy 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits, near the 
 town of Enfield, until his death, at the age of 
 sixty years. He married Cynthia Jane Miller, 
 who died at a comparatively early age. She bore 
 him seven children, five sons and two daughters, 
 James W. being the fourth child in order of 
 birth. 
 
 After completing his studies in the common 
 schools of his native town, James W. Gowdy as- 
 sisted on the home farm until 1857, when an 
 uncle gave him a tract of land to care for. Pur- 
 chasing forty acres of adjoining land, he carried 
 on general farming a number of years. In 1866 
 he began working in a grist-mill at Enfield, 111., 
 and was afterwards employed in a carding-mill, 
 in which he subsequently bought a half interest. 
 Disposing of this property in 1874, Mr. Gowdy 
 followed the star of empire west, arriving No- 
 vember 12 at the present site of Cottage Grove, 
 which was then a wild tract of land still in its 
 primitive condition. In 1876 he bought a half 
 interest in three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land lying west of the present town, and subse- 
 quently bought the remaining half. He has since 
 made another purchase, and has now five hun- 
 dred acres of fertile and well improved land in 
 his ranch. In 1903 Mr. Gowdy platted three 
 acres of his land, laying out Gowdy's addition 
 to Cottage Grove, which has a most pleasant and 
 advantageous location. He has also divided two 
 hundred acres of his land west of town one and 
 one-half miles into ten-acre tracts, most of 
 which have been sold and the place is now called 
 Gowdyville. While engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits, Mr. Gowdy devoted himself for awhile to 
 sheep-raising and breeding, in 1878, in company 
 with another man, driving them to eastern Ore- 
 gon to the ranges. Of recent years he has rented 
 his farms, and devoted his attention to other 
 industries. For four or more years he carried on 
 a substantial livery business, giving it up in 1903 
 to enter into his present occupation as a furniture 
 dealer. His first partner, U. S. Martin, sold his 
 interest in the firm to his brother, Jesse Martin, 
 with whom Mr. Gowdy is now associated. These 
 gentlemen have already established a large trade 
 in their particular line of goods, their able and 
 systematic business methods winning them signal 
 success. Mr. Gowdy has also valuable mining 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 property, being interested in a group of six 
 mining claims, the Golconda, in the Bohemia dis- 
 trict, and is one of the directors of the company. 
 When he came to Oregon, in 1874, Mr. Gowdy 
 traveled over the Central Pacific railway, being 
 on an emigrant train from Omaha to San Fran- 
 cisco, where he took a boat to Portland, Ore. 
 Returning to Enfield, 111., in 1884, he went over 
 the Northern Pacific railroad in October, return- 
 ing the following "December by way of New 
 Orleans, where he spent two weeks, thence 
 through Texas and Arizona to his home. 
 
 Mr. Gowdy married first, in Lane county > Ore., 
 Helen Small, who died in 1877, in eastern Ore- 
 gon, where Mr. Gowdy had taken her for the 
 benefit of her health. Mr. Gowdy later married 
 at Cottage Grove, Mrs. Anna Jane Van Riper, 
 a native of Iowa, and they have two children 
 living, namely : Virgil Whitfield and Erma 
 Bethel. A stanch Democrat in his political af- 
 filiations,, Mr. Gowdy has served as school direc- 
 tor for many years, and is now serving his sec- 
 ond term in the city council. Fraternally he is a 
 Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Re- 
 bekas, and a Knight of Pythias. He is an active 
 member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 
 in which he has been an elder a number of years. 
 
 WILLIAM M. GREEN. The commercial in- 
 terests of Eugene, Lane county, recognize a 
 valuable representative in the person of W. M. 
 Green, who has conducted a grocery business in 
 that city since 1891. At that date Mr. Green 
 and his father began the business in a small room 
 two doors north of his present location, making 
 at first but a modest showing among the other 
 grocers of the town. Energy and close applica- 
 tion to business have brought marked success to 
 this comparatively young man, who is now locat- 
 ed in a building 26x78 feet in dimensions. Mr. 
 Green now stands high as a merchant of integ- 
 rity, the evidence of which is his wide popularity. 
 
 William M. Green was born in New Auburn, 
 Minn., August 28, i860, his father being Jona- 
 than U. Green, who was born near Worcester, 
 Vt., the son of J. B. Green, also a native of Ver- 
 mont, and a farmer there. The father first 
 learned the trade of a tailor ; but on locating in 
 New Auburn, Minn., in 1857, he engaged as a 
 merchant, continuing in that occupation until 
 1873, and in 1875 he became deputy collector of 
 customs at Moorhead, Minn., and later at Pem- 
 bina, N. Dak., where he remained for four years. 
 In 1883 he returned to farming, settling in 
 Minnesota, and in 1891 he removed to Eugene, 
 Lane county, Ore. Here his death occurred No- 
 vember 9, 1896. In fraternal relations he was 
 a Royal Arch Mason. He married Martha A. 
 Arnold, a native of Pennsylvania, the daughter 
 
 of William Arnold, also of that state, who 
 settled as a farmer in New Auburn, Minn. Mrs. 
 Green now makes her home in Eugene. She is 
 the mother of eight children, five of whom are 
 living. The oldest of this family is W. M. 
 Green, who was reared in Minnesota, and re- 
 ceived a rather limited education in the public 
 schools. He remained at home until attain- 
 ing his majority, meantime spending six years 
 of the period as a clerk in Moorhead and 
 Pembina. He then began farming, conduct- 
 ing a farm near the city of his birth 
 for three years, after which he went to 
 Fargo, N. Dak., where he spent a similar 
 period in a clerkship. In 1891 he came to Ore- 
 gon with his father, and the two opened the 
 business which has since grown to lucrative pro- 
 portions. They started at the foot of the ladder 
 and have now reached a position not to be de- 
 spised in the commercial life of the city. Mr. 
 Green bought his mother's interest in the busi- 
 ness in January, 1903, and now conducts it en- 
 tirely alone. 
 
 In New Auburn, Minn., Mr. Green married 
 Etta J. Kipp, who was born in Delaware county, 
 N. Y., and their two children are Ellen M. and 
 Robert E. As a Republican in politics, Mr. 
 Green has taken an active part in the affairs of 
 the city, having served for one term as a mem- 
 ber of the council from the First ward. He is 
 also a member of the County Republican Cen- 
 tral Committee. Along the lines of his busi- 
 ness he is a member of the Commercial Club. 
 Fraternally he belongs to the Woodmen of the 
 World, in which he acts as banker; Knights of 
 the Maccabees ; was made a member of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Pembina, 
 N. Dak., and is now a member of the Eugene 
 Lodge and past officer. In the Encampment he 
 is past chief patriarch and is now Grand High 
 Priest of the Grand Encampment of Oregon. 
 He is also identified with the Rebekahs. 
 
 ERNEST WILLIAM FISHER. Upon a 
 farm of five hundred acres two miles north of 
 Corvallis, Ernest W. Fisher is conducting a 
 successful general farming and stock-raising 
 enterprise, being one of the very well known 
 farmers of this locality. He came here in 1851, 
 and with the exception of occasional wander- 
 ings into other parts of the northwest, has made 
 this his home, and the scene of his most am- 
 bitious life effort. Mr. Fisher is of German 
 ancestry, and his youth and early manhood were 
 passed in the Fatherland, where he was born 
 May 25, 1825. As was and still is the custom 
 in European countries, he was given the oppor- 
 tunity to learn a trade, and was four years ap- 
 prenticed to a saddler. Having completed his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 138^ 
 
 trade he became a journeyman saddler, travel- 
 ing over the whole of his interesting country, 
 and visiting many a picturesque and quaint old 
 market-place. 
 
 In 1849 -^ r - Fisher came to America in a sail- 
 ing vessel, and after a long voyage landed in 
 New York, where he worked for a time at his 
 trade, and from there visited Philadelphia, St. 
 Louis and other large cities. In 1851 he bought 
 three yoke of oxen and a wagon and started 
 across the plains, and after six months of vary- 
 ing experiences landed at Salem, where his good 
 trade furnished him with a means of support. 
 Becoming interested in mining he spent six 
 months in seeking the hidden treasures of the 
 earth, and after returning to Corvallis in the 
 spring of 1852 began to make saddletrees, cov- 
 ering them with rawhide. This kind of saddle 
 was not entirely satisfactory, and as soon as 
 he could procure leather he began making pack- 
 saddles, and later still manufactured quantities 
 of harness. In 1856 he went to Jacksonville for 
 a year, and then went to Iowa by water and the 
 Isthmus, returning to the west in 1857. Locat- 
 ing in Corvallis in the fall of 1857 he purchased 
 his present farm, but continued to live in Cor- 
 vallis, working at his trade and making much 
 money. In 1870 he abandoned his trade in 
 favor of farming, and it would seem from his 
 success that nature has fitted him for the suc- 
 cessful conduct of at least two occupations. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Fisher was united in marriage 
 with Amelia Diller, of which union there have 
 been born the following children : Annie ; Lena ; 
 Charles ; Emma ; Mollie : Clara ; John ; and 
 Frank, deceased. Mrs. Fisher died at Corvallis 
 in 1 901, a devoted wife and a kind and loving 
 mother. In many ways Mr. Fisher has con- 
 tributed to the well-being of his neighborhood, 
 being always in favor of progressive and up- 
 building enterprises. He is a Democrat in poli- 
 tics, but aside from casting his vote has never 
 identified himself with local affairs of a political 
 nature. He is well known in fraternal circles, 
 and has been identified with the Masonic order 
 since 1857, and has been a Royal Arch Mason 
 for a great many years. L T pright in all of his 
 dealings, a good friend and neighbor, and a most 
 worthy and exemplary man. Mr. Fisher is in- 
 deed an acquisition to the farming community 
 near Corvallis. 
 
 CARROLL C. CALLAWAY. That pride 
 which a native son feels in his surroundings, and 
 that kinship with the soil which inspires him 
 to do his best under any and all circumstances, 
 finds expression in the life of Carroll C. Calla- 
 way, born on his present home farm January 
 18, 1869, and the owner of four hundred acres 
 
 of land two and a half miles from Wells, and 
 seven miles north of Corvallis. From William 
 R. Callaway, his father, Carroll C. inherits sound 
 common sense and good business judgment, for 
 the elder Callaway made a success of his life 
 through the exercise of these same admirable 
 attributes, and instilled them into his children. 
 
 William R. Callaway was born in Delaware, 
 and was eight years of age when his parents 
 moved to Scotland county, Mo., where he was 
 reared on a farm and educated in the public 
 schools. He married Abigail Cecil, with whom 
 he started housekeeping on a farm, and in 1850 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, taking six 
 months for the journey. After spending six 
 months in the Sacramento valley he returned 
 across the plains to Missouri, not overmuch 
 pleased with the prospects which he had found 
 in the west. Shortly after, however, he returned 
 to the west with a drove of mules, disposed of 
 them at a profit, and in due time was among 
 the familiar surroundings of the state of Mis- 
 souri. In 1855 ne disposed of his interests and 
 brought his family to California, but soon after- 
 ward came to Oregon, locating on a farm near 
 Albany, Linn county. Two years later he sold 
 out and came to Benton county, purchasing of 
 Mr. Barnes the farm of six hundred and forty 
 acres, a portion of which is still owned by his 
 son. Here he engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising, was successful in his operations, 
 and amassed quite a little competency. The last 
 year of his life was spent in Corvallis, where 
 his death occurred January 20, 1898, at the age 
 of seventy. He was a member of the Masonic 
 fraternity, and was popular and well liked in 
 his neighborhood. His wife, who died in 1878, 
 bore him fourteen children, all but one of whom 
 attained maturity. Of the four sons and ten 
 daughters, ten are married ' and have homes of 
 their own. 
 
 The elder Callaway was a firm believer in 
 education, although his own youth had been 
 somewhat destitute of advantages in this direc- 
 tion. His children all received better educa- 
 tions than is accorded the average child reared 
 on a farm, this being especially true of Carroll 
 C, who was a studious lad, and made the most 
 of the chances that came to him. From the 
 public schools he passed to the training of the 
 Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis, and 
 at the age of nineteen, in 1800, took charge of 
 the home farm, upon which he has since lived. 
 He married, December 18, 1898, Ida Wells, 
 daughter of J. L. W'ells, of Portland, and of 
 this union there have been born two sons, John 
 and William. Mr. Callaway is a Democrat in 
 political affiliation. He is not an officeseeker, 
 but is nevertheless interested in the local under- 
 takings of his party. Fraternally he is associated 
 
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 with the Artisans. Everything around the farm 
 of Mr. Callaway suggests the progressive and 
 thrifty land-owner and agriculturist, the man 
 in touch with general affairs in the world, and 
 one who desires all that is best and most en- 
 lightened in his home surroundings. 
 
 GEORGE BEAMIS. Beginning at the very 
 bottom rung of the ladder in the state, George 
 Beamis has advanced by slow and laborious 
 stages to the large land ownership, having in 
 the meantime endured about as many setbacks 
 as fell to the lot of the average early settler. 
 From the vicinity of St. Joseph, Mich., where 
 he was born December 18, 1834, he removed 
 when seven years of age with his father's fam- 
 ily to near Muscatine, Iowa, and there lived 
 on a farm of moderate size and productiveness, 
 increasing his strength and usefulness by frugal 
 living and plenty of muscular exercise. Small 
 leisure was his, and less schooling, for there were 
 many in the family, and all were taught to per- 
 form their share towards the general support. 
 
 To the Iowa farm came reports of gold and 
 rich lands in the far west, and it was an unam- 
 bitious youth who could let such a chance slip 
 by him, especially when he saw little prospect of 
 advancement in his immediate surroundings. 
 Barefoot, and with his few worldly possessions 
 tied in a bundle, he joined a west-bound ox- 
 train at the Platte river, April 15, 1852, Job 
 Long being one of the homeseekers with whom 
 he formed a friendship during the long, six- 
 months' journey. If Mr. Bemis had little when 
 he started out he had even less upon arriving 
 at his destination at Wells station, Benton 
 county, Ore., and his diet of boiled wheat dur- 
 ing the following winter would hardly inspire 
 one with much hope for the future. Nothing 
 daunted, he secured a position in the spring with 
 Tom Reed, and after a couple of years began 
 to work for others on the surrounding farms in 
 Benton county, and was thus employed until 
 1862. Always fond of the horse, and having 
 a peculiar influence over this dumb friend of 
 man, he turned his attention to training horses 
 for a livelihood, continuing in that work for 
 several years. When the Rogue River war broke 
 out in all its fury he was herding cattle in that 
 country, and to subdue the Indians fought 
 bravely with other herders in his vicinity. In 
 November, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, 
 First Oregon Infantry, as a private, was mus- 
 tered in at Salem and sent to Vancouver, his 
 entire service being spent there and on the 
 Yamhill reservation. In July, 1866, he was dis- 
 charged after many interesting and exciting ex- 
 periences, and after gaining a keen insight into 
 the ways of the wily and intrepid red man. 
 
 With his farm-hand work, his horse-training 
 and herding, Mr. Beamis managed to get quite 
 a start financially, and finally began renting 
 land. In 1871 he put his earnings into a farm 
 of three hundred and twenty acres, which he 
 improved, lived upon for five years, and finally 
 sold at a fair profit. He then purchased the 
 farm upon which Claus Anthony lives at the 
 present time, which he also cleared and culti- 
 vated, and sold after nine years had passed. 
 His present farm then came into his possession, 
 which consists of three hundred and twenty 
 acres, and which is located ten miles north of 
 Corvallis, and five miles from Albany. He is 
 engaged in general farming, stock and grain- 
 raising, and is making a success of a property 
 which is valued in proportion as it has been 
 worked and improved. At one time he owned 
 the two hundred and forty acres known as the 
 Dan Rainwater place, and which he has since 
 given to his son. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Beamis occurred in 
 1 87 1, and was with May Williamson, who bore 
 him one child, Arthur, who lives in Springfield. 
 His second marriage was with Oni Harvey, and 
 occurred July 20, 1884, the wife being a daugh- 
 ter of David Harvey. Mr. Beamis is identified 
 with the McPherson Post, G. A. R., of Albany, 
 and is politically a believer in the principles and 
 issues of the Republican party. An excellent 
 farmer, honorable man, and genial friend and 
 associate, he commands the regard and respect 
 of his fellow-farmers in Benton county, all of 
 whom wish him a continuation of the success 
 which has been so fairly if dearly won. 
 
 THOMAS B. WILLIAMSON. Seekers 
 after encouragement in an uphill struggle for 
 existence should derive great satisfaction from 
 a survey of the ways and means by which the 
 Williamson family gained a footing in Benton 
 county. Thomas B. Williamson, who is success- 
 fully working a farm of one hundred and five 
 acres not far from Albany, while in many re- 
 spects a self-made man, and one who has over- 
 come many obstacles, has never experienced the 
 deprivations which came to his honored sire, 
 Philip Williamson, who proved himself the per- 
 sonification of endurance and perseverance. 
 
 Born in Tennessee, in 1837, Philip Williamson 
 was a mere lad when his parents took him to 
 Missouri, where he was reared on a farm, and 
 in youth learned the shoemaker's trade. He 
 married Mary Annie Holman, and while still 
 living in Missouri several of their children were 
 born, among them Thomas B., the date of whose 
 birth was August 15, 1857. The first three 
 years of the Civil war the father was a member 
 of the state militia, and owing to the unsettled 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1389 
 
 condition of the state he determined to seek more 
 peaceful surroundings in the west. Disposing 
 of his property and packing such things in a 
 prairie schooner as would be required on the 
 journey across the plains he started forth in 
 April, 18O4. with two wagons, having three 
 voke of oxen each. The crossing was unevent- 
 ful, but, though apparently well supplied with 
 provisions and general necessities, they found 
 their larder diminish with great rapidity, 
 and at the end of the trip had but 
 one wagon and two yoke of oxen left, and 
 but eleven dollars in money. The spirit of good 
 fellowship which was proverbial among the early 
 settlers was especially manifest towards the Will- 
 iamson family, and they were supplied with pro- 
 visions and clothes, and given quite a cheery 
 welcome. Locating just across the river from 
 Salem, on good hay land, Mr. Williamson moved 
 after a year to the Hosford place, and looked 
 after the stock of Mr. Hosford until the fall 
 of 1868. He then came to Benton county and 
 bought one hundred and sixty-three acres of 
 land for $800. improved it, and lived thereon 
 for two years. In 1870 he moved to the farm 
 which is still the home of his widow, and which 
 consists of three hundred and twenty acres of 
 the old Carter donation claim. As his harvests 
 increased and he found a ready market for grain 
 and stock, more land was required to carry on 
 his projects, and so ambitious was he that at one 
 time he owned nine hundred acres of land. This 
 was all rich valley land, and under his care and 
 improving spirit became very valuable. In the 
 earlv days he made the shoes for his wife and 
 children, a not inconsiderable task, for there 
 were ten children in all. Of these, John, the 
 oldest son, lives in Albany, and is a policeman; 
 Martha is the wife of W. D. Prettyman, of 
 Benton county; Dan M. is a farmer of Na- 
 poleon ; Jacob L. is deceased ; Wiley A. is a 
 stock-dealer of Albany: William G. is living 
 with his mother; Emmett is a civil engineer; 
 and Emma is deceased. Mr. Williamson was a 
 Republican in politics, but never actively inter- 
 ested himself in local offices. He was a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and it is 
 said of him that he lived up to his religious 
 beliefs, investing his business dealings and home 
 life with that honor and sincerity of purpose 
 which marks the consistent church member. At 
 the time of his death in 1898 he was sixty-one 
 years old. still a comparatively young man, for 
 he possessed great vitality, and continued to in- 
 terest himself in the things and people around 
 him. His wife is seventy years of age. 
 
 When the family came to Oregon Thomas 
 B. was a little fellow of seven, yet he distinctly 
 recalls the camp life upon the plains, and the 
 weary davs of marching beside the tired oxen. 
 
 He helped to clear the old donation claim, and 
 to make comfortable the large family of chil- 
 dren, all of whom were taught to make them- 
 selves useful around the farm. At twenty-one 
 years of age he bought of his father his present 
 farm of one hundred and five acres, which he 
 has modernized and equipped with needful ma- 
 chinery and buildings. October 12, 1884, he was 
 united in marriage with Maggie Dwyer, who 
 died April 10, 1902, leaving three children: 
 Clyde E., Elmer B. and Pearl F. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Williamson attended the Evangelical Church, 
 towards the support of which Mr. Williamson 
 has generously contributed for many years. Like 
 his father, he stands well in the community, his 
 word and his business integrity having never 
 been questioned. 
 
 SILAS M. YORAN. A representative of 
 an old Dutch family, Silas M. Yoran is a worthy 
 member of the society of Oregon, wherein the 
 citizenship of men of veracity and integrity has 
 been so highly appreciated, since it has meant 
 the moral upbuilding of a new statehood. To 
 the advancement of every worthy movement he 
 has lent a ready and able hand. He is now a 
 resident of Eugene, Lane county, where for a 
 number of years he has engaged in the shoe 
 business, previously having been connected with 
 J. M. Hodson, on the Eugene Register, which 
 was established and operated for six years by 
 the two men. 
 
 Mr. Yoran was born in Herkimer county, N. 
 Y., January 26, 1835, the son of Jacob and the 
 grandson of Jacob Yoran, both owing their na- 
 tivity to the same location. The elder man was 
 a miller by occupation, engaging in his native 
 county in that industry, and he there married 
 Miss Snell. whose five brothers, as well as five 
 members of the Yoran family, took an active part 
 in the Revolution, four of the former being 
 left dead on the field after the battle of Oris- 
 kanv. The second Jacob Yoran, the father of 
 S. M. Yoran, succeeded to the mills and a farm 
 of his father, located on East creek, Herkimer 
 county, and there died at the age of seventy- 
 six years. He married Mary Timmerman, also 
 a native of that locality, and the daughter of 
 John Timmerman. a farmer and a soldier of the 
 Revolution. Both of these families trace their 
 ancestry back to the first settlers of the state of 
 New York, all being of Holland ancestry. 
 
 Of the nine children born to his parents, five 
 of whom are now living, S. M. Yoran is the 
 third, and the only one located upon the Pacific 
 coast. He was reared in his native state and 
 upon the paternal farm, interspersing home 
 duties with an attendance at the public schools 
 in the neighborhood of his home. When twenty 
 
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 years old he went to Iowa, this being 1855, the 
 ensuing four years being passed in various lo- 
 cations in the state, after which he settled at 
 Sand Springs, Delaware county, Iowa, and en- 
 gaged in a mercantile business. He later resided 
 near Monticello, Jones county, where he bought 
 a farm and until 1883 followed his early train- 
 ing. While making his home in that county he 
 served for five years as a member of the board 
 of commissioners, and for two successive terms 
 as a member of the state legislature. In the 
 last-named year Mr. Yoran decided to change 
 his location to the Pacific coast, and settled in 
 Eugene, Lane county, Ore., where he engaged 
 first in the warehouse business for two years, 
 and afterward established, in partnership with 
 J. M. Hodson, the Eugene Register. Three 
 years after the sale of the paper he entered upon 
 his present business, in 1893 taking up this work 
 with his youngest son, Darwin E., who is still 
 with him. 
 
 In Herkimer county, N. Y., in 1859, Miss 
 Maria Markell, also a native of that locality, 
 became the wife of Mr. Yoran, and the follow- 
 ing children have been born to them : Elizabeth 
 M., of Eugene; George O., of Eugene, who is 
 colonel of the Fourth Regiment of the Oregon 
 National Guard; William C, engaged in job 
 printing; Darwin E., who is with his father in 
 the shoe business ; and Louise C, of Eugene. In 
 his political affiliations a Republican, Mr. 
 Yoran has taken every interest in western prog- 
 ress, both municipal and state. In 1896 he was 
 on the Republican ticket as presidential elector, 
 and was elected. In his fraternal relations Mr. 
 Yoran is one of the most prominent Masons in 
 the state, having been made a member in Monti- 
 cello Lodge No. 173. He now belongs to Eu- 
 gene Lodge No. 11, in which he is past master. 
 He was made a Royal Arch Mason in Monti- 
 cello and now holds membership with Eugene 
 Chapter No. 10, in which he is past high priest. 
 He was made a Knight Templar in Monticello 
 Commandery No. 16, K. T., and was there past 
 excellent commander, and is now past com- 
 mander in Ivanhoe Commandery No. 2. In 1893 
 he was grand commander of the Grand Com- 
 mandery of Oregon, and now belongs to the 
 order of the High Priesthood. In June, 1903, 
 he was elected grand master of the Grand Lodge 
 of Oregon at the annual meeting of the Grand 
 Lodge at Portland. Mr. Yoran's wife is a mem- 
 ber of the Congregational Church. 
 
 ALDEN S. HULBURT. A very prominent 
 and influential pioneer family of Oregon is repre- 
 sented by Alden S. Hulburt, owner of a one-hun- 
 dred and sixty-three-acre stock and dairy farm 
 near Albany. This neighborhood is very familiar 
 
 to Mr. Hulburt, for practically his entire life has 
 been passed within a radius of a few miles, his 
 birth having occurred on his father's donation 
 claim eight miles southwest of Albany, October 
 
 2 7> l8 53- 
 
 More than passing mention is due J. F. Hul- 
 burt, the father of Alden S., who came here 
 a poor man, but endowed with more than ordi- 
 nary judgment and perseverance. A millwright 
 by trade, he spent the first years of his life in 
 Canada , and with his people moved to Illinois 
 when he had attained his majority. In Illinois 
 he married Eliza Jane Hite, a native daughter 
 of the state, and thereafter continued to farm 
 until 1853. Having disposed of his Illinois in- 
 terests he purchased the necessary equipment 
 for crossing the plains, and arriving at his destin- 
 ation in Oregon, located on the before-men- 
 tioned claim eight miles southwest of Albany. 
 The family lived for some time in a little log 
 house, but after the land had been partially 
 cleared and crops began to reward the hard toil 
 of the head of the house, a modern structure 
 supplanted the primitive quarters. From the 
 first Mr. Hulburt took an active interest in all 
 local events, was particularly active as a poli- 
 tician, although he refused more than the minor 
 offices of the township. His land proved fertile 
 and profitable, and he had the judgment to wise- 
 ly dispose of it at planting 'time. While engag- 
 ing in general farming, he made a specialty of 
 stock-raising, and besides devoted a good deal 
 of time to buying and selling stock. He lived 
 to be sixty-seven years old, leaving a large and 
 valuable property to his heirs. Twelve chil- 
 dren were born into his family, the order of 
 their birth being as follows : Mark, living in 
 Albany ; Harlan, also of Albany ; Austin and 
 Alden, twins ; Warren, a farmer near Albany ; 
 Frank, a resident of Shedds ; Harriett, living in 
 Pendleton ; Lavina, deceased ; Alice, of Pendle- 
 ton ; Florence, living near Albany ; Ida, a 
 resident of Pendleton; and Wallace J., a farmer 
 near Albany. 
 
 For two years after his marriage in 1878, with 
 Emma Underhill, Alden S. Hulburt continued 
 to live on his father's farm, and then farmed in 
 Benton county for about four years. Next he 
 purchased his present place of one hundred and 
 sixty-three acres, where he has since carried on 
 general farming and stock-raising. He has a 
 model dairy on his farm, and makes a specialty of 
 Jersey cattle. Thorough, practical and possess- 
 ing shrewd business judgment, he makes his 
 land count for all that it is worth, and has 
 amassed quite a competence entirely through 
 his own efforts. From time to time he has been 
 before the public as an officeholder, but has 
 always reluctantly accepted honors conferred by 
 his fellow-townsmen. He has served accept- 
 
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 ably as a member of tbe scbool board for many 
 years, and for a part of that time has been 
 clerk of the board. Fraternally he is a member 
 of the Grange. Five children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Hulburt, of whom Lillie is the 
 wife of A. Westcott, of Tangent; Lotta is the 
 wife of W. Hense, of Washington; and Rollo, 
 Lloyd and Alice A. are living at home. Mr. Hul- 
 burt has a fine farm, well fitted with barns and 
 general improvements, and his many friends 
 and well-wishers hope for a continuation of his 
 substantial and well-earned prosperity. 
 
 CAPT. PLEASANT C. NOLAND. The 
 loyalty and patriotism which Capt. Pleasant C. 
 Xoland has always shown in the time of his 
 country's need are two of his most salient traits, 
 and added to these he has lived a life of quiet, 
 earnest, persevering work which has numbered 
 him among the useful citizens of a pioneer day. 
 When a mere lad he responded to the call for 
 volunteers in the Mexican war and faithfully 
 performed his duty in a company wherein he 
 was the youngest in age, and also occupied 
 that position in relation to the entire brigade. 
 Since locating in Oregon he has acted the part 
 of a patriot artd a loyal citizen in the defense 
 of his country and its incipient civilization, and 
 deservedly won the title by which his fellow 
 citizens now know him. 
 
 In Missouri, the middle western state that gave 
 to the more remote west so many sturdy emi- 
 grants, Capt. Pleasant C. Noland was born Sep- 
 tember 29, 1830. His father was engaged at 
 his trade of stonemason and also in farming in 
 Jackson county, and was also active in politics, 
 giving his support to the Democratic party, and 
 winning for himself a prominent place in the 
 affairs of his community. He engaged heartily 
 in the Mormon war and was one of the treaty 
 commissioners. Owing to a large family, Pleas- 
 ant C. Noland being the fourth in age among 
 ten children, the father was unable to give his 
 son many advantages, but undaunted by the 
 obstacles which he must face he set about the 
 accomplishment of the task himself and received 
 considerable knowledge from an attendance of 
 the district school. He remained at home until 
 he was sixteen years old when he enlisted for 
 service in the Mexican war, first in Captain 
 Craig's company, but on account of his age, be- 
 ing truthfully stated by himself, was rejected, 
 and one week later was accepted by saying he 
 was twenty-one years old, joining Stewart's 
 company, at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1847. This 
 company was detailed to guard duty on the 
 frontier, where this lad served for eighteen 
 months, as brave and uncomplaining as those 
 many years his senior. "The company was mus- 
 
 tered out at Ft. Leavenworth, and Mr. Noland, 
 not then wearing his official title, returned to his 
 home and spent the winter following attending 
 the district school in the vicinity of his home. 
 In May, 1849, f rom the spirit of adventure as well 
 as the more sober reason of a thoughtful man, 
 which he had become through his assumption of 
 early responsibilities, young Noland started for 
 the gold fields of California. He met with no 
 serious trouble from the Indians, and after a 
 journey of a little more than four months he 
 reached his destination and immediately entered 
 upon the life of a miner. He continued so 
 occupied for two years and met with fair re- 
 turns for his labor. In 185 1 he returned to his 
 home in Missouri, via the Isthmus of Panama, 
 spending a like period in the more quiet and 
 less uncertain pursuits of the middle west. In 
 1853 ne again crossed the plains with ox-teams, 
 taking with him his mother, Sarah M. Noland, 
 his brothers and sisters, as he felt the west to 
 hold much greater chances for advancement. 
 While crossing the plains this family left the 
 train of emigrants at Harney lake and were lost 
 in the mountains, where they remained wander- 
 ing about for forty-two days, and very nearly 
 starved before finding their friends again. On 
 arriving in Lane county, Ore., Mr. Noland took 
 up a donation claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres located one mile north of Creswell, bought 
 the squatter's right and proved up on the land, 
 and at once entered upon the improvement and 
 cultivation of it. In the fall of 1854 Mr. No- 
 land's mother died. In 1855 the son enlisted in 
 Company B, Oregon Mounted Volunteers, and 
 he was afterward elected second lieutenant for 
 services in the Rogue River war. He served 
 in this company a little more than five months, 
 and took part in a number of skirmishes. In 
 March, 1856, the company disbanded, and its 
 re-organization was attempted and successfully 
 completed by Captain Noland, who now secured 
 this official title. The company, still bearing its 
 old name, went back again into service and par- 
 ticipated in the battle of Big Meadows and other 
 minor engagements, remaining until July 4, 
 1856. At one time during a skirmish on Rogue 
 river the captain and his men were in a tight 
 place, being surrounded by Indians. Seeing a 
 canoe, he succeeded in getting a load of his 
 men across and landed among the red men and 
 drove them back to the river through the brush, 
 having succeeded in getting behind them through 
 strategic movement. A day later they got among 
 the red men again and the captain succeeded 
 in capturing six squaws and one Indian, and 
 from this man he secured a revolver which he 
 kept for years. He was ably assisted by a brave 
 boy, Benton Kent, who swam the river and se- 
 cured a canoe, and in this manner the captain 
 
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 was able to duplicate his deed of the day previ- 
 ous. None of his men was wounded in either 
 skirmish. The reason for his crossing the river 
 was that three wounded men of another com- 
 pany were at the mercy of the Indians, one of 
 the men being Clay Huston. 
 
 After his discharge Captain Noland returned 
 home, and January I, 1857, was united in mar- 
 riage with Lenna Jane Stewart, a native of Polk 
 county, Mo. They lived on the home place un- 
 til her death, in 1873. They had two children, 
 James E., ex-sheriff and ex-county surveyor, 
 lives in Creswell, and George, an attorney, of 
 Astoria. In 1879 Captain Noland married Mrs. 
 Melissa R. Davidson, who was born in Fayette 
 county, 111., April 30, 1849, and was married in 
 St. Louis, Mo., to Green C. Davidson, and with 
 him came to Oregon in October, 1870. Mr. 
 Davidson died in Salem, Ore., August 15, 1878, 
 leaving two children, John C, a jeweler, of San 
 Francisco, and Minnie, the wife of John P. Hay- 
 den, of "Walla Walla, Wash. Captain Noland 
 and wife have one child, Neva, who is still at 
 home with her parents. The home of this worthy 
 couple then remained upon the farm until 1893, 
 when they located in Creswell, and upon his 
 farm of four hundred and eighty acres the cap- 
 tain now carries on general farming and stock- 
 raising, besides which property he also owns a 
 neat dwelling, a brick building and several lots 
 in the town. His wife is a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church. Fraternally Captain Noland is a 
 member of the Masonic order, and in political 
 convictions he adheres to the Democratic party, 
 having always been active in the advancement 
 of the principles which he endorses. 
 
 JOHN COOLEY. Born January 30, 1837, 
 Jonn Cooley became a pioneer of Oregon prima- 
 rily through the courage and determination of his 
 mother to find the best location for the future ad- 
 vancement of her sons, as with her and his 
 brothers and sisters he crossed the plains in 1853. 
 He was born in Virginia, where his parents had 
 always lived, his father there engaging in farm- 
 ing until his death in 1843, when the mother 
 brought her family as far west as Missouri and 
 there located until coming to Oregon in 1853. 
 In the district school in the vicinity of his home 
 John Cooley received his education, and on at- 
 taining manhood he engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising, to which his early training had in- 
 clined him. He is now employed in this latter 
 business in partnership with his brother, Alex- 
 ander, the two expending their intelligence and 
 practical ideas in an extensive cattle business 
 which has given them broad returns in the mat- 
 ter of profit. 
 
 Mr. Cooley is now living with his nephew 
 upon a part of the old home place near Cottage 
 Grove, Lane county, and which consists of five 
 hundred and fifty acres of land, all in one body. 
 This farm is the result of energetic and purpose- 
 ful work, Mr. Cooley's whole life having been 
 devoted to the cultivation of the lands which Ore- 
 gon held out as inducements to the early settlers. 
 He has found the comforts of life in the homes 
 of his relatives. In politics he is like his brother, 
 also of this vicinity, and whose sketch appears 
 elsewhere in this work, casting his ballot in the 
 interests of the Democratic party, though he has 
 never cared to be officially identified with the 
 movements of the party. 
 
 LEWIS WENTZ. As an infant, Lewis 
 Wentz came to the United States from Germany 
 in 1837, h* s m °ther desiring to improve their 
 prospects by location on more fertile if less his-* 
 toric soil. They settled on a farm near Mans- 
 field, Richland county, Ohio, where Lewis de- 
 veloped into a strong and capable lad, industri- 
 ous withal and frugal, as had been his ancestors. 
 At the age of fifteen he left his home and went 
 to a farm near Cleveland, a year later entering 
 the regular army, and serving until the close of 
 the Civil war. As a private in the western service 
 he was occupied principally in fighting bush- 
 whackers in Missouri, and after the restoration 
 of peace continued to live in Salem, Mo., for a 
 couple of years. 
 
 From Missouri Mr. Wentz entered upon a 
 frontier life in Nevada, where he mined and 
 engaged in various occupations, none of which 
 materially increased his finances. For a year he 
 mined in the Black Hills, and then came to 
 eastern Oregon, and mined with indifferent suc- 
 cess for one season. Locating in Salem, he 
 married in October, 1877, Mrs. Ann Johnston, 
 widow of William Johnston, and daughter of 
 Arnold Potter, the latter of whom was born in 
 the state of New York, and became a very early 
 settler of Illinois. In 1846 his daughter Ann 
 started across the plains with her sister and 
 brother-in-law, spending the first winter at 
 Council Bluffs. Resuming their ox-team jour- 
 ney the following spring, they got as far as Salt 
 Lake City, from where Ann went to live with 
 friends on Bear river, in 1850. Afterward she 
 made her home with friends in Fort Hall, Idaho, 
 and in 1850 married William Johnston, with 
 whom and her baby she came to Oregon on 
 horseback in 1851. From the fort to Salem was 
 a long and wearisome journey, yet the little 
 party arrived in fair condition, and took up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres 
 eight miles south of Salem, where Mr. Johnston 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1393 
 
 prospered, and where his death occurred at an 
 advanced age. Eleven children were born of 
 this union, six sons and five daughters. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Wentz moved to his 
 wife's donation claim, and. in 1893, tiring of 
 farming, located in Salem for a couple of years. 
 He then bought his present farm in Benton 
 county, two and a half miles from Albany, where 
 he is comfortably located, with every prospect 
 of a continuation of his success as a practical 
 and scientific farmer. He is fraternally identi- 
 fied with the Masons, and with the G. A. R. 
 Post of Salem. Mrs. Wentz is a member of the 
 Dunkard Church, and during her entire life in 
 the west has proven herself courageous in time 
 of danger and deprivation, and a tower of 
 strength to all dependent upon her sympathy 
 and care. 
 
 WILLIAM PEACOCK. Success comes only 
 to the industrious and persevering in the ma- 
 jority of instances, and William Peacock, one 
 of the representative agriculturists of Benton 
 county, is thoroughly deserving of the prosperity 
 which he is now enjoying. His experience in life 
 has not been devoid of reverses, yet he has 
 bravely stood the test, and with undaunted en- 
 ergy has adhered to the course which he orig- 
 inally planned. His birth occurred March 8, 
 1845', near Dundee, Scotland, and there it was 
 that the first twenty-two years of his life were 
 spent, attending school and assisting in the dut- 
 ies of the home as his time and strength per- 
 mitted. At this age he determined to begin a 
 business career, and as an initiation in the new 
 line of endeavor began working in a weaving 
 factory in Scotland. Three years later, how- 
 ever, we find him a passenger on a steamship 
 bound for the shores of America, and, landing 
 in Canada, he was variously employed for one 
 year. 
 
 From Canada Mr. Peacock removed to Le- 
 mont, 111., where for six months he was em- 
 ployed in the stone quarries which abound there, 
 thence going to Warren county, in the same 
 state, where for one year he was employed as a 
 farm hand. Gradually working his way west, 
 we next find him conducting a farm in Coffey 
 county, Kans., which he had not purchased, how- 
 ever, as he was not altogether pleased with the 
 surroundings, and six years later he made settle- 
 ment in Benton county, Ore., just across the river 
 from Albany. During the winter and spring 
 following his arrival in the west he engaged in 
 chopping cord-wood, but subsequently bought a 
 farm of seventy-two acres along the Willamette 
 river, two miles from Albany, which he partially 
 cleared, at the same time engaging in chopping 
 cord-wood. After six years of arduous labor 
 
 65 
 
 his accumulations were swept away by the high 
 water of the year 1882, practically everything 
 being carried away. Nothing daunted, how- 
 ever, that same year he came to the farm upon 
 which he now resides, renting it for one year, 
 thereafter purchasing it on time. The tract 
 comprises twenty acres, twelve of which at the 
 time of purchase were devoted to gardening 
 vegetables, and the remainder being timber land, 
 and he has continued this line of agriculture, 
 meeting with good success in so doing. In all 
 the country roundabout no finer or more com- 
 modious residence is to be seen than that owned 
 and occupied by Mr. Peacock and his family. 
 The premises are further embellished by a fine 
 hothouse, where are to be seen many choice 
 specimens of rare plants. Mr. Peacock is a taxi- 
 dermist of no inferior order, and has one hun- 
 dred specimens of birds and animals which he 
 has preserved by means of taxidermy. 
 
 It was in June, 1875, soon after coming to 
 Oregon, that Mr. Peacock and Miss Mary E. 
 Whetstone were united in marriage. Thirteen 
 children were born to them, but two are de- 
 ceased. Mrs. Mary E. Peacock died March 18, 
 1901, and August 21, 1901, Mr. Peacock was 
 married to Mrs. Olive V. Hughes, the widow of 
 Frank Hughes. By her first marriage Mrs. Pea- 
 cock had two children. In no sense of the word 
 can Mr. Peacock be called a politician, and aside 
 from doing his duty at the polls in voting for 
 the best man, regardless of party, takes no inter- 
 est in politics. In the capacity of school director 
 he has been of great assistance in bringing the 
 educational standard of his vicinity up to a 
 high plane of excellence. 
 
 FRANK L. ARMITAGE. To Frank L. Ar- 
 mitage farming is a congenial and absorbing 
 occupation, to be pursued earnestly and prac- 
 tically, and with one's mental faculties alert for 
 improved methods. This singleness of purpose 
 has accomplished great results on his farm of 
 three hundred and twenty-five acres, for all who 
 investigate must admit that progressiveness is 
 apparent in every department of the farm's ac- 
 tivity. A two-fold interest centers around this 
 well appointed and prosperous home, for on it 
 the present owner was born September 14, 1871, 
 and has since passed his life here. He inherits 
 reliable New England traits of character, and 
 Ms father, George H. Armitage, was born in 
 the state of New York January 25, 1824. The 
 older man was reared on a farm in New York, 
 and in 1848 took a steamer in New York city for 
 the Isthmus of Panama, crossing which he re- 
 embarked for San Francisco, intent on making 
 his fortune in the mines. His dream was more 
 or less rudely shaken, for he came to Lane 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 county in 1849 ar, d took up a donation claim of 
 six hundred and forty acres four miles northeast 
 of Eugene. Crude and with no improvements 
 whatever, this possession called for vast exer- 
 tion ere harvests could be gathered or a sem- 
 blance of the home element realized, and to has- 
 ten this happy consummation Mr. Armitage soon 
 after married Sarah J. Stevens, who was born 
 in Tennessee, and who crossed the plains in 
 1847. Mr. Armitage increased in prosperity as 
 the country around him grew and settlers fol- 
 lowed his wise example, and at the time of his 
 death February 12, 1893, at the age of sixty- 
 eight years, he owned a fine and valuable farm. 
 His widow, who is the mother of ten children, 
 lives with those who have located near the home 
 farm, one of these, James A., living three miles 
 east of Springfield. She also spends some time 
 each year with her son, S. C, in Portland, and 
 with her daughter, Mrs. Ella V. Henderson, of 
 Colorado. Mr. Armitage was public-spirited 
 in the extreme, was in favor of education and 
 general advancement, and contributed generously 
 towards churches and charitable organizations. 
 Like the rest of the children in his father's 
 family, Frank L. Armitage was educated first 
 in the public schools, and later had an opportun- 
 ity of attending the University of Oregon. His 
 life has been spent uninterruptedly among the 
 surroundings of his boyhood days, every inch 
 of ground being as familiar to him as the face 
 of an old friend. He married Ada D. Calef, 
 a native daughter of this vicinity, and has since 
 taken an interest in church and social life, his 
 wife and himself being considered one of the 
 most congenial and hospitable young couples in 
 their neighborhood. Mr. Armitage is engaged 
 in general farming and stock-raising, but not- 
 withstanding his very busy life manages to get 
 a great deal of pleasure out of passing events. 
 He is fraternally connected with the Woodmen 
 of the World and the Knights of Pythias, and 
 in political preferment is a Democrat. 
 
 JOHN TOMLINSON. Enterprising and 
 successful, John Tomlinson ranks among the 
 honored and well-to-do farmers of Benton 
 county. Born near Pittsfield, Pike county, 111., 
 November 28, 1840, he was two years old when 
 his parents moved their household possessions 
 onto a farm in Ray county, Mo., where they re- 
 mained until 1857, an d then sold out and pre- 
 pared to cross the plains. In the family party 
 was the father and mother, five sons and two 
 daughters, whose headquarters during four 
 months were to be a great prairie schooner drawn 
 by three yoke of oxen. The trip was made in 
 the short space of four months, and the first 
 stop was made at West Point, Calaveras county, 
 Cal., where they remained for a few months. 
 
 Later the father took up land in the Calaveras 
 valley, where both himself and wife died in 
 1858. 
 
 Seventeen years old when he crossed the 
 plains, John Tomlinson was a strong and rugged 
 youth, capable of looking out for himself in 
 any emergency. In California he secured em- 
 ployment as a farm hand for Alexander Hodges, 
 his brother-in-law, and three years later, in 
 1862, married Almira Gingles, a native of Mer- 
 cer county, 111., and daughter of James Gingles. 
 James Gingles was born in Columbia county, Pa., 
 in 1819, and in Illinois married Sarah Miller, 
 with whom he lived on a farm in Illinois unt;l 
 crossing the plains in 1850. In Benton county 
 he took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres, and from a small beginning worked 
 his way to a position of agricultural and polit- 
 ical prominence in the county. A man of lead- 
 ing characteristics, he was selected to represent 
 his district in the legislature in 1864, 1868 and 
 1876, and for about twenty years was a member 
 of the board of county commissioners of Benton 
 county. His first vote was for a Republican 
 candidate, and during his entire life he was loyal 
 to the principles of his chosen party. His death, 
 on October 16, 1878, removed one of the fore- 
 most developers of this county, one who had 
 taken an active interest in promoting the cause 
 of education, and who assisted in erecting the 
 first school in his neighborhood. He helped to 
 organize the school system, and was one of the 
 organizers of the Grange. From earliest man- 
 hood he had been a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and each Sunday found him 
 in his pew, regardless of inclement weather or 
 personal ill feeling. The church invariably re- 
 ceived substantial help at his hands, and it was 
 said of him that he was a Christian every day 
 of the week as well as on Sunday. The wife, 
 who died February 17, 1853, bore him four 
 children, of whom Andrew and Henry are de- 
 ceased, while Mrs. Tomlinson is the second 
 child and Sarah is the deceased wife of Charles 
 Spencer. 
 
 During the year following his marriage John 
 Tomlinson lived on a rented farm in Benton 
 county, and the following year spent on a farm 
 in Polk county, going then to Linn county 
 where he remained about four years. Since_ lo- 
 cating on his wife's donation claim, inherited 
 from her father, he has been very successful, and. 
 has maintained the excellent condition of a valu- 
 able and productive property. Four sons have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson all of 
 whom inherit the thrift and intelligence of their 
 parents, and are a credit to their respective com- 
 munities. James L. is a successful grocer of Al- 
 bany; William S. is living at home; Fred is in 
 Albanv ; and A. Clyde is iiving with his parents. 
 Mr. Tomlinson is a member of the Baptist 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1395 
 
 Church, with which his wife has been identified 
 since fifteen years of age. Both are highly re- 
 spected members of this community, and have 
 many friends to enjoy their hospitality and ex- 
 change with them the amenities of life. 
 
 HENRY MAXWELL. Prominent among 
 the farmers who have helped to maintain the 
 agricultural prestige of Lane county is Henry 
 Maxwell, whose Scotch-Dutch ancestors have 
 handed down to him the most desirable of their 
 respective national traits, generally conceded to 
 be conservatism, thrift and integrity. John 
 Maxwell, the father of Henry, was born in 
 Brook county, Ya., in May, 1802, and died at 
 the home of his son, Henry, January 18, 1890. 
 His wife, Sarah J. (Hickey) Maxwell, was born 
 in Winchester, Va., in 1813, and died at the 
 home of her son, John, in 1885. The parents 
 were married in Yirginia, and as young and en- 
 thusiastic people moved to a wilderness farm in 
 Piatt countv, Mo., soon after taking up their 
 residence on more desirable land in Holt county, 
 in the same state. A cooper by trade, the elder 
 Maxwell had worked at his trade for many years 
 in the east, and continued it in Holt county, in 
 connection with a large general farming enter- 
 prise. Beginning with the great mining exodus 
 across the plains in 1849, ne thought much of 
 the possibilities beyond the western mountains, 
 and by 1852 had sold his land and perfected ar- 
 rangements to cross the plains. He had two 
 yoke of oxen, and traveled in a large party, 
 reaching his destination in Albany at the end 
 of six months. In the spring of 1853 he took up 
 a claim of three hundred and twenty acres seven 
 miles southwest of Harrisburg, where he lived 
 four years, and then moved to the ferry on the 
 Mill river east of Irving. For twelve years he 
 was a well known ferryman at this point, living 
 in the meantime on a farm purchased in the vicin- 
 ity, and to the improvement of which he and 
 his sons devoted their energies. Finally he sold 
 this farm and went to live with his children, his 
 death and that of his wife occurring as hereto- 
 fore stated. 
 
 Born while his parents were living in Holt 
 county, Mo., March 16, 1847, Henry Maxwell 
 was five years old when he came to Oregon, and 
 his education was principally received in the 
 public schools of Coburg. He continued to live 
 with his parents until 1867, and then bought his 
 farm of three hundred and eleven acres, of which 
 he still owns one hundred and twenty acres. His 
 farm is well equipped with modern implements, 
 and he carries on general farming and some 
 stock-raising. He married in 1867, Marv Hill, 
 who was born in Whiteside county, 111., Decem- 
 ber 15, 1852, a daughter of Jesse Hill, who 
 
 crossed the plains in 1864. Of the nine children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, Sarah is the 
 wife of Henry Bucklem, of Ashland, Ore. ; Ida 
 is the wife of Charles Gray, of Baker City; 
 Elizabeth is the wife of William Pearsons, of 
 Baker City ; Laura is the wife of Henry Godfrey, 
 of Kern county, Cal. ; Ada and Effie live in 
 Baker City ; and George is in business in Baker 
 City. Mr. Maxwell is a Republican in politics, 
 but has never entered the ranks of office-seekers. 
 He is progressive and liberal, and in favor of 
 all measures instituted for the improvement of 
 his town and county. Solid and reliable, up- 
 right in all his dealings, and holding the most 
 agreeable relations with his neighbors in the 
 vicinity, he occupies a popular and financially 
 strong position, honored and respected by all. 
 
 MARTIN WINGARD. His place in life, that 
 of the most useful of all laborers, an intelligent 
 and progressive farmer, Martin Wingard now 
 makes his home upon the farm which he ac- 
 quired in 1863, near Lorane, Lane county. He 
 was born October 2J, 1825, in Stark county, 
 Ohio, the son of Samuel Wingard, who was also 
 a pioneer of Oregon. The father was a native of 
 Pennsylvania, being born in that state in 1801, 
 and on attaining manhood he became a farmer 
 and married in Maryland Miss Mary Bechtel, a 
 native of that state. They settled in Ohio at a 
 very early date, acting the part of pioneers there 
 until their removal in 1839 to Indiana, with the 
 spirit of their own ancestors who first settled 
 America following unconsciously the westward 
 trend of civilization. In 1853 they made the six- 
 months journey across the plains with ox-teams, 
 arriving safely in Oregon, whither the subject 
 of this review had preceded them. Their first 
 winter was spent in Yamhill county. In 1854 
 they removed to Lane county and took up a 
 donation claim located west of Eugene, remain- 
 ing there for a few years, when they came to the 
 present location of their son, Martin, and passed 
 the remainder of their lives, the father living to 
 be eighty and the mother to be ninety-five years 
 old. Besides their oldest son, two daughters of 
 their family are now living. Ellen, who is at 
 home, and Catherine, the wife of P. F. Davis, 
 located in the vicinity of Lorane. After coming 
 to the west the father carried on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, taking a moderate interest 
 in political movements by holding several of the 
 minor offices of the neighborhood. 
 
 In the vicinity of the home of his father, which 
 was first in Ohio and later in Indiana, Martin 
 Wingard received his education in the district 
 schools and until he was twenty-six years old he 
 remained under the parental roof. He then 
 joined the westward movement and crossed the 
 
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 plains in 1851, a journey of seven months plac- 
 ing him in Oregon, when he located in Yamhill 
 county for about a year. The ensuing years, up 
 to 1863, were spent in various locations, a por- 
 tion of the time in California. In 1863 he came 
 to Lane county and bought his farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres which has ever since 
 remained his home, and to the cultivation and 
 improvement of the broad acres he has given 
 every intelligent and practical thought. He has 
 now four hundred acres, upon which he carries 
 on general farming and stock-raising. In politics 
 he is a Democrat and is a member of the Grange. 
 A worthy event in the life of Mr. Wingard was 
 his enlistment in 1855 as a member of Company 
 A, under the command of Captain Harris, for 
 service in the Rogue River war, faithfully con- 
 tinuing for forty-six days, during which his 
 principal engagement was at Table Rock. After 
 serving in the defense of his adopted state he re- 
 turned to his farm and has since devoted his 
 energies to the upbuilding of the agricultural in- 
 terests of the country. 
 
 HENRY MELTON. Many years of success- 
 ful farming in Lane county have placed Henry 
 Melton on a firm financial basis, and caused him 
 to be reasonably satisfied with life in general. 
 While many who have worked for more years 
 than he are still struggling to acquire a compe- 
 tence, he has left behind him cares connected 
 with crops, stock and improvements, and is loan- 
 ing money on good security to those who are 
 temporarily embarrassed. 
 
 Knox county, 111., the present center of educa- 
 tional institutions, and agriculturally one of the 
 garden spots of the middle west, has lent many 
 native sons to the coast, notwithstanding its own 
 inducements. The very early pioneer days of 
 Knox county are inseparably associated with the 
 Meltons, for when the wilderness was dotted by 
 but a few straggling farm houses, and Indians 
 outnumbered whites a hundred to one, the pa- 
 rents,' George W. and Mary Ann (Riley) Mel- 
 ton, came from the east and settled on govern- 
 ment farms with their respective families, their 
 marriage being the first "pale-face" union in 
 Knox county. Ten children were reared on the 
 pioneer farm upon which this couple went to 
 housekeeping, and their first child, a daughter, 
 was the first white child born and reared in the 
 county. A great deal of pioneer interest settled 
 around the Melton home, for the parents were 
 hospitable and kindly people, sharing their good 
 fortune with their neighbors, and keeping their 
 latch string out to whomsoever chanced to pass 
 that way. 
 
 Henry Melton was born on the Knox county 
 farm, June 8, 1839, and by reason of a practical 
 
 home training and average common school edu- 
 cation was able to look out for himself at a com- 
 paratively early age. The Civil war found him 
 assisting with the management of the home prop- 
 erty, and in August, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany E, Eighty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 
 being mustered in at Galesburg, Knox county. 
 The regiment went first to Fort Henry, and from 
 there to Fort Donelson, Tenn., where the soldiers 
 were placed on guard duty. Besides the battle 
 of Fort Donelson, he participated in many skir- 
 mishes, and in all served about fourteen months, 
 being honorably discharged in October, 1863, 
 thereafter returning to his home and continuing 
 his former occupation. 
 
 March 9, 1865, Mr. Melton married Ella M. 
 Cole, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and continued 
 to live in Knox county until coming to Oregon, 
 in 1882. Miss Cole was a successful teacher for 
 six years in Illinois. More fortunate than many, 
 Mr. Melton had saved as well as made money, 
 and therefore was able to start life in the west 
 under very favorable auspices. Purchasing four 
 hundred and sixty-nine acres of land two miles 
 north of Creswell, his operations were of such 
 an extent that he soon required more land, and 
 bought one hundred and forty-four acres ad- 
 joining the village on the south. At present 
 three hundred acres are under the plow, and be- 
 sides this farm he owns twelve acres adjoining 
 Creswell, which constitutes his present home. 
 The farm is rented out and given over to general 
 farming and stock-raising, and is one of the most 
 highly improved in the county. 
 
 Possessing personal characteristics which win 
 esteem and stamp the bearer as influential and 
 popular, Mr. Melton is one of the pillars of the 
 community of Creswell, where he has a host of 
 friends and well-wishers. He is no politician, 
 notwithstanding his stanch allegiance to the Re- 
 publican party. His first wife dying in Oregon, 
 November 16, 1886, Mr. Melton, in 1893, made 
 a journey back to Illinois, where he was married 
 to Katherine Brainard, a native of Oneida county, 
 N. Y., and a daughter of Jeptha and Sarah (Van 
 Wagennen) Brainard, and was reared in Knox 
 county, 111., and taught for over twenty years in 
 the public schools. No children have been born 
 of either union, but a son has been adopted into 
 the family, Edward L., at present a business man 
 of Seattle, Wash. 
 
 JOHN ZINIKER. Those thrifty and reliable 
 traits of character which are the heritage of the 
 children of Switzerland find illustration in the 
 life of John Ziniker, who was born in that coun- 
 try, December 13, 1858, and was reared in one 
 of the hill-side towns which have furnished 
 themes for painters and poets for many genera- 
 
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 tions. One in a family of eight children, his 
 father made his living as a butcher, and had the 
 typical regard for education and advancement 
 which have made of his country one of the most 
 enlightened and practical in the world. His lim- 
 ited resources necessitated the co-operation of his 
 children as soon as they were old enough to 
 assume responsibility, and thus it happened that 
 John, one of the most promising of his sons, was 
 allowed to join his uncle, Albert Ruegger, when 
 he came to America, in 1873. T ne latter had 
 just completed a two-years' service in the Ger- 
 man army, had been present at the battle of 
 Sedan, and contemplated his sojourn in the 
 United States with the hopefulness of one who 
 had led a strenuous life, and longed for more 
 peaceful and kindly conditions. 
 
 Arriving in America, Mr. Ziniker accompanied 
 his uncle's family to Trenton, Ohio, whence they 
 went at the end of a year to Columbus, Neb., and 
 farmed there for nine months. For about two 
 years they afterward lived and farmed in Kansas, 
 going then to Vancouver, Wash., and from there 
 to Lane county, Ore., in 1879. Renting the place 
 upon which he now lives, he aided his uncle in 
 the purchase of it a few years later, and now, in 
 partnership with his aunt, owns the entire farm 
 of seventeen hundred acres. In 1884 Mr. Zini- 
 ker married Vrena Siegerist, a native of Switzer- 
 land, and nine children have been born of this 
 union, the order of their birth being as follows : 
 Rosa ; Freda ; Lillie, deceased ; Laura ; Emma ; 
 John ; Lena ; Albert ; and Frank. Mr. Ziniker 
 has about two hundred acres of land under culti- 
 vation, but his principal source of income is 
 Durham cattle, which are raised in large num- 
 bers, as are also a variety of other kinds of stock. 
 He is one of the substantial and popular men of 
 this vicinity, is well read and takes a keen in- 
 terest in general developments outside of his 
 regular work. Like all who come from Switzer- 
 land, where education is compulsory,' he appre- 
 ciates the value of mental training," and it is his 
 intention to give his children the advantages re- 
 quired if they are to adorn and dignify their 
 respective stations in life. He is fraternally asso- 
 ciated with the Woodmen of the World, and the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in polit- 
 ical affiliation is a Republican. 
 
 ELIAS F. CHAPMAN. In his efforts to 
 gain a substantial financial standing Elias F. 
 Chapman has not neglected the duties which 
 have been his as a citizen, through his associ- 
 ation with the Civil war writing his name high 
 in the annals of our country. In his business 
 affairs he has met with a gratifying success, as 
 a lumber merchant and manufacturer gaining 
 a prominent place in the industrial circles of 
 
 Eugene, Lane county, which has been his home 
 since 1877. 
 
 The Chapman family came originally from 
 Wales, the great grandfather coming from that 
 country and settling in Connecticut, as a citi- 
 zen of that state being numbered among the 
 patriots of the Revolution. The grandfather, 
 Joshua Chapman, was born there and in man- 
 hood removed to Indiana, locating in Kosciusko 
 county, where he followed his trade of wheel- 
 wright. He was one of the early settlers in 
 Iowa, locating near Des Moines in later years, 
 his death occurring near Beatrice, Neb., aged 
 ninety-three years. Like his father he fought 
 for his country, his services being in the war 
 of 1812. The father, Joshua B. Chapman, was 
 a native of Connecticut, and became a wheel- 
 wright in New York state, going from there to 
 Indiana and removing in 1842 to Illinois, and 
 February 1, 1843, to Iowa, where he settled 
 near Des Moines, in the latter location combin- 
 ing the work of his trade with agricultural pur- 
 suits. In 1876 he came to Eugene, Lane county, 
 Ore., locating one and a half mile south of the 
 city, where his death occurred. Politically he was 
 a Republican and in religion affiliated with the 
 Baptist Church. He married Naomi Connett, 
 who was born in Kentucky, the daughter of 
 Nicholas Connett, also of that state, but who 
 spent the last years of his life in Ohio. The 
 mother died in Oregon, having four living 
 children, one having died in childhood, and the 
 other in Oregon after reaching manhood. 
 
 The oldest of his father's family, Elias F. 
 Chapman was born in Kosciusko county, Ind., 
 February 1, 1842, the following year becoming 
 a resident of Iowa, where he grew to manhood. 
 Interspersed with his home duties was an at- 
 tendance of the public schools at Carlisle. When 
 of sufficient age he was apprenticed to learn the 
 wagon and carriage maker's trade and contin- 
 ued so employed for two years. He also worked 
 with his father in the sawmill business, even 
 in his youth giving evidence of his ability along 
 these lines, being then entrusted with the man- 
 agement of the hardwood lumber. At the 
 breaking out of the Civil war he put beyond him 
 his dreams of future success in his business 
 and became a volunteer in Company B, Tenth 
 Iowa Regiment, being mustered in at Iowa City, 
 August 23, 1861. A half-brother, Ephraim 
 Fisher, was also a member of that regiment, and 
 was physically disabled during the war, now 
 making his home in Iowa. Mr. Chapman was 
 sent with his company to Cape Girardeau, Mo., 
 where his first misfortune came in the shape of 
 an attack of measles while in camp. The com- 
 mand wintered at Bird's Point, after which they 
 saw much service, being in the battles of New 
 Madrid, Corinth, during which engagement the 
 
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 concussion of the discharge of a gun in the 
 hands of a comrade burst his right ear drum ; 
 Iuka, the second battle of Corinth, Holly 
 Springs, Mission Ridge, Champion Hill and 
 Black River. After the winter spent at Mem- 
 phis Mr. Chapman experienced the horrors of 
 the siege of Vicksburg, which lasted forty-seven 
 days, and after which, about July 10, he was a 
 member of a band of eighty men who were 
 guarding a train of wagons after surrender, when 
 Gen. Joseph Johnston, with a cavalry brigade, 
 swept down upon them and took them prisoners. 
 They were at once started on the trip to Rich- 
 mond, but Sherman having possession of the 
 railroads they were paroled. Mr. Chapman was 
 sent to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, and six 
 weeks later he was exchanged and sent back to 
 active service. He veteranized at Huntsville, 
 Ala., and took part in the battles at Decatur, 
 Ala., and was then paroled and sent home on a 
 thirty-day furlough, after which he returned to 
 Kingston and participated in the Atlantic cam- 
 paign, marching with Sherman to the sea, and 
 engaging in the battles of Dallas, Buzzard's 
 Roost, Resaca, Snake Creek, Ala., Jonesboro, 
 and Savannah. After entering Savannah he 
 continued north through the Carolinas with the 
 advancing columns, passing through Columbia, 
 S. C, where they had an engagement, then to 
 Bentonville, etc., on the memorable journey. 
 He was in the Grand Review at Washington and 
 carried away with him the memory of the grati- 
 tude and admiration of those who witnessed the 
 magnificent spectacle and realized the mighty 
 work accomplished by those grand columns of 
 men. 
 
 After being mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., 
 August 15, 1865, Mr. Chapman returned to Car- 
 lisle, Iowa, and engaged as a hardware merchant 
 of that city, and also conducted a wagon and 
 carriage works. This was successfully contin- 
 ued until 1876, when he removed to Healdsburg, 
 Gal., and engaged in the same employment. July 
 24, 1877, he came to Eugene. Opening a wagon 
 and carriage works there, he remained so em- 
 ployed for four years, but on account of failing 
 health, disposed of his business interests and 
 removed to San Jose, Cal. There he engaged in 
 the planing-mill business and operated it suc- 
 cessfully for two and a half years, when he 
 returned to Eugene and took up a homestead 
 thirteen miles east of the town, where he built 
 a mill with a capacity of eight thousand feet per 
 day, the motive power being steam. He also 
 improved his farm and engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits, and continued to reside there fifteen 
 years, when he located in Eugene, where he has 
 since made his home. In 1902 he built a new 
 planing-mill in Eugene, located on Willamette 
 street which was opened for business April 1, 
 
 of the same year, with his son Ellis K. as a 
 partner. They have now a large and lucrative 
 business, turning out all kinds of planing-mill 
 work. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Chapman occurred in 
 Carlisle, Iowa, and united him with Miss Sarah 
 Griffin, who was born in Tippecanoe county, Ind. 
 They have one son, Ellis K., who is now in 
 partnership with his father. In fraternal rela- 
 tions Mr. Chapman is prominent, having been 
 made a Mason in Hartford, Iowa. He became 
 a charter member of the lodge at Carlisle, Ore., 
 and is now a member of Eugene Lodge No. 11, 
 A. F. & A. M. He is also a member of Eugene 
 chapter No. 10, R. A. M. He was made an 
 Odd Fellow in Carlisle and acted as noble grand, 
 and is now identified with the lodge at Eugene. 
 As a member of J. W. Geary Post No. 7, G. 
 A. R., he was commander for three terms, in 
 two of which the post gained one hundred and 
 one members, making it the largest post in the 
 state. He also acted as senior aid and chief of 
 staff under Commander Gates. He also holds 
 the position of assistant inspector on the staff of 
 the national commander. In politics he is a 
 stanch and loyal Republican and has always 
 been true to the principles advocated by that 
 party. A work which has made Mr. Chapman's 
 name one to be remembered is his organization 
 of the Iowa Veteran Association in Oregon for 
 the purpose of procuring evidence for soldiers' 
 pensions, and the bringing together the old Iowa 
 soldiers in Oregon. Since the organization he 
 has served as secretary for three years. 
 
 HON. GABRIEL RUSSELL CHRISMAN 
 the chief executive of the city of Eugene, repre- 
 sents the broadest and best citizenship of Ore- 
 gon. Inheriting sterling traits of character, and 
 having the advantage in his youth of a superior 
 home training, he has steadily forged to the 
 front, overcoming obstacles, and supporting, on 
 his way, the institutions which are the glory of 
 the northwest. No name in Lane county carries 
 with it greater weight, or is any nearer to the 
 foundation upon which the municipal super- 
 structure has been reared. 
 
 A native of Andrew county, Mo., Mr. Chris- 
 man was born December 2, 1848, and is one of the 
 eight children born to Hon. Campbell E. and 
 Phoebe (Flannery) Chrisman, natives of Vir- 
 ginia. The older Chrisman moved from Vir- 
 ginia to Missouri about the year 1840, and in 
 the latter state successfully conducted a large 
 farm, becoming one of the prosperous and prom- 
 inent men of his section. Desiring other sur- 
 roundings in which to pass the remainder of his 
 life, and being ambitious to increase his fortune, 
 he disposed of his property in Missouri in 185 1 
 
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 and started across the plains with his wife and 
 seven children. His equipment was beyond the 
 ordinary, and precluded the possibility of want 
 or deprivation during the long journey, which 
 was accomplished in comparative comfort. He 
 had several teams of oxen and a band of loose 
 cattle, the latter serving as the foundation for 
 his great success in the northwest. Crossing 
 the Cascade mountains by the Barlow route, the 
 party arrived in Lane county in October, and 
 spent the first winter near Coburg. As an ex- 
 periment, Mr. Chrisman bought property near 
 ■Cafionville in the spring of 1852, but this invest- 
 ment proving unsatisfactory, and the death of 
 his wife occurring there, he moved the following 
 year to what is now Walker Station, and on the 
 coast fork of the Willamette river took up a 
 donation claim of a section of land. This 
 proved to be the nucleus of large landed pos- 
 sessions, for he demonstrated marked sagacity 
 in business affairs. From time to time he pur- 
 chased valuable properties, and at the height of 
 his prosperity owned several farms. Hundreds 
 of head of stock roamed over his meadows, and 
 large quantities of grain were harvested an- 
 nually. With the proceeds of his enterprise he 
 started a private money loaning business, and 
 finally retired to Cottage Grove, purchased a 
 home in the pleasant part of the town, and spent 
 the remainder of his life there in comfort. He 
 died there June 21, 1885, at the age of seventy- 
 five years. He was a man possessed of a large 
 capacity for well-doing and strong traits of 
 character. As a Republican he took an active 
 interest in local and state undertakings, and 
 served one term in the Oregon state senate, 
 during two regular and one special session. 
 During the Civil war his sympathies were 
 strongly on the side of the Union; and he is 
 said to have been the first man to put up a flag 
 in Lane county after the war. He was of a 
 sociable and genial nature, and found relaxation 
 and pleasure in the Masonic lodge. 
 
 As soon as he was old enough, Gabriel R. 
 Chrisman walked from his father's farm to the 
 school on the south fork of the Willamette. 
 His educational opportunities were bounded by 
 his teacher's limitations. Realizing these, as the 
 years passed, he applied himself to every pass- 
 ing opportunity, learning from observation, 
 books and contact with mankind. In time he 
 became manager of the home farm, and at 
 twenty-six years of age started out on his own 
 responsibility, purchasing land in Lake county 
 and engaging in stock-raising on a large scale. 
 His brand — the letter C in a diamond, on the 
 left flank — was one of the best known in that 
 section of the country. Upon disposing of his 
 farm and brand in 1883, he possessed over one 
 thousand head of cattle. 
 
 Upon settling in Cottage Grove in 1883 Mr. 
 Chrisman invested in town property, but the 
 following year removed to his present home in 
 Eugene. He is the possessor of one of the truly 
 delightful homes of the city, located on the cor- 
 ner of Tenth and Charnelton streets, and sur- 
 rounded by beautifully laid-out grounds. He still 
 retains an interest in farming and stock-raising, 
 having a farm of two hundred and thirty 
 acres located three and a half miles from Junc- 
 tion City, and another farm of six hundred and 
 forty acres near by. 
 
 Since early manhood Mr. Chrisman has 
 espoused the cause of Republicanism, but for 
 many years his political obligations began and 
 ended with the casting of his ballot. He was 
 elected mayor of Eugene in April, 1901, and so 
 well did he conserve the best interests of his 
 fellow-townsmen that he was again elected 
 without opposition, in 1903. He has been dele- 
 gate to many state and county conventions, and 
 was at one time chairman of the Lane county 
 Republican Central Committee. In 1886 he 
 became one of the incorporators of the First 
 National Bank of Eugene, and is at present a 
 director and stock-holder. He was also one of 
 the chief promoters of the Eugene Water Com- 
 pany, serving first as superintendent and after- 
 ward as president of the company. Fraternally 
 he is associated with the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World, 
 and he is a charter member of the Eugene Com- 
 mercial Club. In Cottage Grove, Ore., August 
 31, 1884, he was united in marriage with Mary 
 B. Markley, who was born near Salem, Ore., a 
 daughter of David Markley, a native of Vir- 
 ginia. The latter was one of the early settlers 
 of California, having come to that state with his 
 parents when he was a boy. At a later period 
 he moved to Oregon, and at the present time 
 makes his home at Cottage Grove. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Chrisman have one son, Chester Russell. 
 Mr. Chrisman has ever evinced a deep and prac- 
 tical interest in the welfare of the city of Eugene, 
 and is recognized as one of her most progress- 
 ive and public-spirited citizens. 
 
 BYRON A. WASHBURNE. The milling 
 industry of Springfield, Lane county, is repre- 
 sented by Byron A. Washburne, a native son 
 of Oregon, having been born near Junction City, 
 this county, March 2, 1865. He is the seventh 
 child in a family of six sons and five daughters 
 born to his father, C. W. Washburne, whose 
 sketch appears elsewhere in this work, and his 
 education was received in the common schools 
 of his native state, being more or less limited 
 by the many obstacles which were of a necessity 
 a part of the early life in Oregon. His father 
 
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 being a mill-owner, Byron A. was trained to 
 this life, and at the age of eighteen years he 
 assumed charge of his father's mill at Rickre- 
 all, Polk county, where he continued with success 
 for six years. In 1889 he returned to Junction 
 City and remained for one year, after which he 
 located in Springfield, since making this his 
 home. 
 
 The mill which Mr. Washburne here pur- 
 chased was immediatelv overhauled and is to- 
 -day a modern and up-to-date enterprise, and with 
 water power the mill has a capacity of a hundred 
 barrels per day. The flour, which he disposes 
 of in local markets and ships to various local- 
 ities, is known by the name of "Snow Ball," 
 and the quality equals the purity of color which 
 has won it this brand. Mr. Washburne also 
 owns considerable property in different counties 
 of the state, fifteen hundred acres altogether, in 
 Lane, Gilliam, Lake and Klamath counties, a 
 part of which is farming land, now rented, and 
 the balance is timber. He has also bought a 
 comfortable residence here, a two-story cottage, 
 wherein he now makes his home. 
 
 Mr. Washburne was married in Rickreall, 
 Polk county, to Mary Amanda Clark, who was 
 born in Polk county, the daughter of W. E. 
 Clark, a native of Missouri, who crossed the 
 plains when a young man and became a pioneer 
 of Polk county. For several years he was the 
 only Republican in that county, and he was very 
 active and prominent in political affairs. The 
 two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Washburne 
 are : Helen, aged fourteen, and Claude, aged ten 
 years. In fraternal orders Mr. Washburne is 
 a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen; Woodmen of the World; Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has 
 passed all the chairs, and was a delegate to the 
 Grand Lodge in 1903 ; Ancient Free and Accept- 
 ed Masons; and Native Sons of Oregon. Po- 
 litically he is a Republican, and has always 
 been active in the advancement of the principles 
 endorsed by that party, serving here as a mem- 
 ber of the city council. As vice president of the 
 Farmers and Merchants Bank, at Junction City, 
 he is still connected with the financial interests 
 of that city, wherein he made his home for some 
 time. 
 
 JAMES. A. EBBERT. For forty years James 
 A. Ebbert has been taking the steps forward that 
 have numbered him among the successful men of 
 Lane county. Like many others he came empty- 
 handed to the state of Oregon and is now a large 
 land-owner in Whitman county, Wash., and upon 
 his farm of three hundred and twenty acres in 
 Lane county, Ore., he has been engaged since 
 1859 in hog-raising, the profits of which have 
 
 been greatly increased by his preparation of 
 cured meat, in which form the public is offered 
 his products. 
 
 Mr. Ebbert was born near Uniontown, Pa., 
 March 25, 183 1, and lived there on a farm until 
 twenty years of age, when he went to Van Buren 
 county, Iowa, and spent the time intervening 
 between that and his trip to the west. In the 
 spring of 1852 he came across the plains with 
 four yoke of oxen, and after eighty-four days 
 reached his destination and became a resident of 
 Oregon. In the fall of the same year he went to 
 the Rogue River mines for a short period, and in 
 November he located in Portland, remaining until 
 August, 1853. He then came to Lane county and 
 took up a donation claim of a hundred and sixty 
 acres near Springfield, and after a five-years' 
 residence there he sold the farm for $1,000, and 
 in 1859 bought his present property, which is 
 located three and a half miles northeast of the 
 same city. Since that time he has been exten- 
 sively engaged in the raising of hogs, devoting 
 his energies entirely to this work, and meeting 
 with substantial returns for the intelligent effort 
 put forth. In 1880 he began investing his money 
 in land in Whitman county, Wash., and now 
 owns several thousand acres in that county and 
 one ranch of one hundred and sixty acres in 
 Latah county, Idaho. 
 
 On December 15, 1853, Mr - Ebbert was united 
 in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Brattian, who 
 died July 29, 1902, leaving no family. In his 
 political relations Mr. Ebbert is a life-long Re- 
 publican, having cast his first vote for Abraham 
 Lincoln in i860 at the first presidential election 
 in Oregon, and has voted for every Republican 
 candidate for president since that time. 
 
 ALBERT RUEGGER. The name of Albert 
 Ruegger is associated with one of the finest and 
 largest stock farms in Lane county, although he 
 himself passed to the great majority in 1901, 
 leaving behind him the legacy of a good name 
 and honorable life. An American by adoption 
 and preference, he was born in Switzerland, Au- 
 gust 10, 1842, and to the last recalled with evident 
 yearning and tenderness the days of his youth 
 among the mountains of his picturesque native 
 land. The farm upon which he grew to manhood 
 must have furnished marked contrast in his mind 
 with the one upon which he conducted his latter- 
 day enterprise, for, shut in by snow-clad moun- 
 tains, there were no far reaches for the eye to 
 scan, and but small patches for the cattle to 
 graze on. 
 
 While still in Switzerland Mr. Ruegger mar- 
 ried Rosina Ammann, who was born in Switzer- 
 land, August 28, 1848. The young people con- 
 tinued to live in the same canton, and during the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Franco-Prussian war of 1870 Mr. Ruegger es- 
 poused the cause of his sister country on the 
 north, and fought in the German army against 
 France, serving until the battle of Sedan, which 
 resulted in the overthrow of the third Napoleon. 
 The next year he came to the United States 
 with his family, living for a time in Nebraska, 
 and then in Kansas, moving from there to Mis- 
 souri. In 1875 he journeyed further west to 
 Vancouver, Wash., and two years later came to 
 Lane county, Ore., where the balance of his life 
 was spent. In partnership with his nephew, 
 John Ziniker, he bought a farm of seventeen hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, and Edward Ziniker 
 bought fifty acres of this in 1898. For a resi- 
 dence he built a large frame dwelling, and added 
 barns, out-houses and general improvements, 
 carrying on dairying, cheese-making, general 
 farming and stock-raising. His farm became 
 known as one of the best appointed ones in the 
 county, and the stock which found its way to the 
 markets from his farm was representative of the 
 best that could be raised in Oregon. He took 
 a keen interest in Republican politics, but being 
 a quiet and unostentatious man, never desired or 
 would accept office. 
 
 Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Ruegger 
 has continued to live on the home place, which 
 she manages with the assistance of her children, 
 of whom Edward, Rosa, Ida, Hilda, Ernest and 
 Pauline live at home, the oldest daughter, Emma, 
 being the wife of Edward Ziniker. This farm is 
 unquestionably one of the best conducted and im- 
 proved in this county, and the men who have ac- 
 complished its development are deserving of the 
 greatest credit, evincing, as they have, marked 
 intelligence and thrift. 
 
 WILLIAM KNOTTS. None to a greater 
 extent enjoys the confidence of his fellow-farm- 
 ers around Corvallis than does William Knotts, 
 representative of a very old family in Oregon, 
 and who was born on the farm a portion of 
 which he now owns, October 27, 185 1. His 
 father, William, was born in the east, and there 
 married a Miss Barrett, who bore him one child, 
 a daughter, Justina, now the wife of N. P. 
 Newton, of Philomath. He married, for 
 his second wife, Sylvia Wilsey, with whom 
 he came to Oregon in 1847, crossing the 
 plains with ox-teams, and circumventing every 
 danger known to the early emigrants. The first 
 winter in his adopted state he lived in Wash- 
 ington county, but the following year went to 
 Benton county, where he took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres. More 
 fortunate than most of the early settlers, his 
 land was mostly open prairie, and he therefore 
 put in his first crop much more readily than did 
 
 his neighbors in the timber. For the accommo- 
 dation of his wife and children he erected a rude 
 log house of one room which served all purposes 
 of uving, and had a fair start in the west at the 
 time of his death in 1854, at the age of fifty-five 
 years. J 
 
 William Knotts was the third of the children 
 m his father's family, and he was three years 
 old when his sire died. Besides himself there 
 was Margaret, who became the wife of Arthur 
 Langell, and died in 1888; Sarah A., the wife 
 of James Robinson, of the vicinity of Wrenn • 
 Ihomas, who died in 1866; and May, who died 
 while a child. Because of the father's large 
 property, and the good management which it 
 sustained at the hands of his widow and older 
 sons, the children were able to secure practical 
 educations at the public schools and at Philo- 
 math College. William remained on the main 
 farm until twenty-six years of age, and then 
 came to the portion of the claim which is still 
 his home, and upon which he has made many 
 improvements. It is located three and a half 
 miles north of Corvallis, and has been devoted 
 principally to stock-raising, Red Polled cattle 
 being preferred. General farming also receives 
 attention from the successful owner of this finely 
 improved property, and in all ways he has dem- 
 onstrated a broad-minded and liberal tendency 
 equipping his property with the latest of modern 
 machinery and conducting his enterprises after 
 the most approved plans. He is the owner of 
 three hundred and seventy-four acres of the old 
 donation claim, and besides has one one-hundred 
 and a one hundred and twenty acre tract in the 
 mountains. 
 
 December 23, 1898, Mr. Knotts was united 
 m marriage with Carrie, daughter of Joseph 
 Woods, and of this union there have been born 
 two children, Lizzie and Ethel. To a consider- 
 able extent Mr. Knotts has identified himself 
 with Republican politics in his neighborhood, 
 and his fitness for office was recognized in 1898, 
 when he was elected commissioner of Benton 
 county, serving four years. Mr. Knotts has a 
 fine home, a fine family and an enviable reputa- 
 tion as man and farmer, and as such is a distinct 
 credit to the farming community around Cor- 
 vallis. 
 
 THEODORE O. MARTIN. To the men 
 whom the eastern states have given toward the 
 upbuilding of the west can be traced those qual- 
 ities which have impressed themselves upon the 
 various communities, for rather than the man 
 of adventurous disposition it has been he who 
 felt his ability to cope with the difficulties which 
 attend colonization who has given the impetus 
 to the development of resources and added the 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 great northwest to the coterie of states. Theo- 
 dore O. Martin, born in Oregon May 31, 1856, 
 upon the donation claim which he now occupies, 
 is the son of such a man, the double claim to 
 Oregon's welfare being his nativity and his in- 
 heritance of the pioneer traits which numbered 
 his father among the useful men of the north- 
 west. 
 
 The father, Stephen O. Martin, was born 
 March 6, 1821, in Union county, Ohio, and re- 
 moved to Presque Isle, in Lake Erie, where 
 his father, Charles Martin, had received a land 
 grant from services in the war of 1812, from the 
 results of which service he died, on the island. 
 After the death of the elder man his widow re- 
 moved to Laporte county, Ind., where she reared 
 her family and remained throughout the rest 
 of her life. She had six children, of whom 
 Stephen O. was the second in order of birth. 
 He made his home with his mother until his 
 marriage, December 25, 1842, with Mary Cor- 
 delia Parsons, her birth having occurred^ in Os- 
 wego county, N. Y., March 10, 1824. The 
 young people continued to live in Laporte county 
 until 1844, when they removed to Lake county, 
 Ind., and remained there until the spring of 
 1853, when they outfitted and crossed the plains 
 with ox-teams, accomplishing a journey of six 
 months devoid of trouble beyond the experiences 
 incident to life on the plains in those early times. 
 They arrived in Lane county, Ore., where the 
 husband took up a donation claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, located one-half mile 
 north of Creswell and twelve miles south of 
 Eugene. This remained their home until their 
 death, that of the father occurring at the age 
 of seventy-three years, December 1, 1894, and 
 the mother at seventy years of age, March 23, 
 1894, in their busy and useful life adding to the 
 welfare of the coming state by improving and 
 cultivating the land which had become their 
 home, carrying on general farming and stock- 
 raising, while the husband also made several 
 trips to the mines, which were not devoid of 
 profit. Always active in politics, Mr. Martin 
 occupied the positions of justice of the peace 
 and postmaster, as well as other minor offices 
 which were within the gift of the people in his 
 community, his integrity and high moral char- 
 acter making him a man to be trusted. He was 
 also active in the work of the Christian Church, 
 of which he was a member, while his wife be- 
 longed to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Be- 
 sides Theodore O. Martin, of this review, there 
 are two of the children living : Mrs. Marcia E. 
 Johnson, of Creswell, and John H, who is lo- 
 cated on a part of the home place. 
 
 The entire life of Theodore O. Martin has 
 been spent in Oregon, where he grew to man- 
 hood among the duties of farm life, and received 
 his education in the district schools. Early 
 
 showing an aptitude for business, he opened a 
 drug and grocery store in Creswell with a part- 
 ner by the name of Thomas Belshaw, the firm 
 name being Belshaw & Martin. This was suc- 
 cessfully conducted for four years, at the close 
 of which time he married and went to live on a 
 part of the donation claim of his father, and 
 after the death of his parents located in the old 
 home, now carrying on general farming and 
 stock-raising, being particularly interested in 
 Cotswold sheep. 
 
 May 2, 1880, Margaret J. Veatch became 
 Mr. Martin's wife. She was born in Lane 
 county, Ore., October 29, 1859, the daughter of 
 Sylvester E. Veatch, who was born March 27, 
 1 83 1, in Enfield, White county, 111. Mr. 
 Veatch is a farmer by occupation. He remained 
 in Illinois until 1853, when he started across the 
 plains with ox-teams and traveling in company 
 with S. B. Knox, a native of Kentucky. The 
 first winter in the west was spent in Linn county. 
 In the spring of 1854 he came to Lane county 
 and took up a claim located on Mosby creek, 
 four miles southeast of Cottage Grove, and mar- 
 ried there Maria Elizabeth Knox, a native of 
 Hancock county, 111. They remained upon 
 this claim until 1859, when they located near 
 Cloverdale, and lived there about seven years, 
 and then purchased Mr. Veatch's present prop- 
 erty two miles west of Cottage Grove. Besides 
 Mrs. T. O. Martin, who is the second child of 
 the family, there are the following children : 
 Isaac H. Veatch, of Creswell ; Robert W., of 
 Eugene ; Lucetta, the wife of J. I. Thomas, of 
 Cottage Grove ; Curtis Sylvester, on the home 
 place ; and Dora B., the wife of John Martin, 
 a brother of Theodore O. Martin. The mother 
 died October 28, 1902, at the age of sixty--eight 
 years, while the father still lives and engages 
 in farming and stock-raising. Politically he is 
 a Republican, and an active member of the Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Martin became the parents of 
 one child, Maud M., who died at the age of 
 seventeen years. Mr. Martin is a Prohibitionist 
 in politics and holds membership and is an elder 
 in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 
 PIERSON M. McPHERSON was just a 
 year old when his parents brought him to Port- 
 land, and thirteen years old when he came to 
 Lane county. In the meantime he has attained 
 to prominence as an agriculturist and promoter 
 of the well-being of his neighborhood, living a 
 life devoted to his farm, his family and his many 
 friends. In Moniteau countv. Mo., where he was 
 born, September 14, 185 1, his parents, J. C. 
 and Mary E. (Scott) McPherson, were well- 
 known farmers, who, notwithstanding that they 
 owned a large and paying farm, were on the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1403 
 
 lookout for a chance to improve their prospects. 
 During the winter of 185 1-2 they made prepar- 
 ation to cross the plains in the early spring. 
 They started out in April with two wagons, four 
 yoke of oxen and three cows, the latter being 
 pressed into service after ieaving Fort Hall. 
 Upon arriving in the Willamette valley they had 
 three cows and four steers, the animals having" 
 fared well during the long and tiresome journey. 
 
 The McPherson family lived first on a three- 
 hundred-and-twenty-acre claim near Silverton, 
 Marion county, Ore., and in 1864 removed to 
 near Springfield, Lane county, where the father 
 bought one hundred and twenty acres of land, 
 living thereon until his death, in 1886, at the 
 age of sixty-five years. The wife, who survived 
 him until 1902, dying at the age of seventy- 
 one years, was the mother of thirteen children, 
 eight of whom attained maturity. Both parents 
 were members of the Christian Church, and Mr. 
 McPherson contributed many hundreds of dollars 
 towards its support. He served in the Yakima 
 Indian war, and at all times during his life in 
 the west promoted the cause of education and 
 morality. 
 
 The 'youth of P. M. McPherson, the third 
 child in his father's large family, was spent on 
 the Lane county farm. July 4, 1871, he mar- 
 ried Mary Spencer, thereafter living for a year 
 on the James A. Ebbetts place. He then pur- 
 chased ninety acres of his present farm, to 
 which he has since added, and now owns two 
 hundred and twenty acres, all in the valley, just 
 outside of Springfield. In his meadows roam the 
 finest of Jersey cattle, other stock also bringing 
 in a substantial yearly income. Eight children 
 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McPherson, of 
 whom Chandos is deceased. Those living are : 
 Seth, Walter, Vennie, Dorena, Lula, Adell and 
 Wade. Mr. McPherson cast his first presidential 
 vote for a Democratic president and has never 
 had occasion to change his mind regarding party 
 affiliations. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Woodmen of the World, and in religion 
 he finds a home in the Christian Church. He is 
 a thrifty and practical farmer, entering with 
 zest into his chosen occupation, and getting the 
 best possible results from his fertile and con- 
 venientlv located farm. 
 
 ENOCH P. COLEMAN. That stock-rais- 
 ing is both a congenial and paying occupation 
 to Enoch P. Coleman is not doubted by anv who 
 are privileged to know this genial and highly 
 honored pioneer, whose personality, family and 
 splendidly appointed farm appeal to the trust, 
 confidence and admiration of the community in 
 which he makes his home. Opportunity has 
 never been allowed to slip by Mr. Coleman with- 
 
 out his taking a many-sided view of it, and decid- 
 ing then and there whether it would pay him to 
 embrace it. He has made some money in min- 
 ing, more in the mercantile and freighting bus- 
 iness, and still more in raising high-grade Dur- 
 ham and Hereford cattle. At the present time 
 he owns three thousand acres of land four miles 
 north of Coburg, all of which is adapted to 
 stock, being abundantly watered by snows from 
 the mountains and by natural springs. 
 
 Nathan G. and Mary (Henry) Coleman were 
 born in Pennsylvania, married there, and re- 
 moved to Coles county, 111., in 1841. Their son, 
 Enoch P., was born on their farm near Inde- 
 pendence, March 31, 1842, and was therefore 
 eleven years old when the family removal to 
 the coast took place, in the spring of 1853. The 
 father outfitted with four wagons, requiring 
 twenty yoke of oxen, also a spring-wagon with 
 two yoke, the latter of which was driven all the 
 way across the plains by Enoch P. Coleman. 
 The family possessions also included sixty head 
 of cattle, some of which were thoroughbred 
 Durhams, and which arrived at the end of the 
 journey in much better condition than was ex- 
 pected of them. The father purchased three 
 hundred and twenty acres of land on the old 
 Territorial road, sixteen miles southeast of Eu- 
 gene, and there engaged in farming, grain and 
 stock-raising. So extensive were his operations 
 that more land was eventually required, and at 
 the time of his death, at the age of seventy-eight 
 years, he was the owner of nearly a thousand 
 acres. His wife, who was born in 1800, died in 
 1894, and, notwithstanding her extreme age, 
 enjoyed the best of health until a short time be- 
 fore she died. 
 
 Enoch P. Coleman left the farm at the age of 
 eighteen and became a clerk in a general mer- 
 chandise store for a couple of years. In 1862 
 he started up the Columbia river with pack ani- 
 mals to the Caribou mining district, and with 
 four others engaged in packing goods to the 
 mines, a distance of sixty miles. That this was 
 a paying venture is easily surmised, for he re- 
 ceived thirty cents a pound for packing, and 
 during a week's time packed many hundreds 
 of pounds. Living was high during those times, 
 and the cooks for the miners must have exercised 
 their wits to economize. Flour brought as high 
 as $1.50 a pound, beans being sold at the same 
 exorbitant rate. This dreary region was aban- 
 doned by Mr. Coleman in 1862, his return being 
 accomplished by way of the Frazer river, and 
 from there by skiffs, in company with James 
 McClaren. From Portland to Eugene was by 
 stage route, and Mr. Coleman spent the winter 
 in the latter town. 
 
 In the spring of 1863 Mr. Coleman went to 
 The Dalles and worked for his brother and 
 
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 brother-in-law in their shop, and in the fall of 
 1864 returned to Eugene. In December of the 
 same year he was united in marriage with Mary 
 Walton, sister of Judge J. J. Walton, with whom 
 he afterward engaged in a mercantile business 
 for a couple of years. Disposing of his store 
 interests, he engaged in stock-raising near Har- 
 risburg, Linn county, for about ten years, and 
 then came to his present farm, one of the finest 
 and most valuable in Lane county. Five chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, 
 of whom Frank is deceased; Nellie, born Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1868, and died in 1899, was the wife 
 of Sylvey Stewart, of Portland; Clara is the 
 wife of J. R. Coleman, Jr. ; George is engaged 
 in business with his father ; and Henry is living 
 on the home ranch. In 1902 Mr. Coleman added 
 to his responsibilities by purchasing a meat 
 market in Ooburg, in which his son is interested, 
 and which promises to be a fruitful source of 
 income. He spends his time looking after his 
 market and farm, and is still a very busy and 
 prominent factor in the community. Politically 
 he is a stanch adherent of Democracy, and among 
 other honors conferred upon him by his con- 
 stituents may be mentioned that of state senator 
 during 1882 to 1886, and that of member of the 
 house during 1888. At the age of twenty-two, 
 while living at Eugene, he identified himself 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and has since acknowledged allegiance to this 
 order. 
 
 Mr. Coleman possesses in marked degree the 
 force, good judgment and public spirit of the 
 typical northwestern promoter, and as such is 
 honored and esteemed by a large following of 
 friends and associates. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM ROBINSON. A pioneer 
 of many years ago, and one who has long since 
 passed away, was the Rev. William Robinson, 
 who was born in Shelby county, Ohio, January 
 20, 1789, the son of a strong and hardy pioneer 
 of that then wilderness territory. When a young 
 man he took up the ministry in the Methodist 
 Church, and in his native state married Susannah 
 Cannon, who was born in Kentucky, May 19, 
 1793. They lived in Ohio until 1832, when they 
 removed to Indiana and remained there for a 
 period of five years. Upon again changing their 
 location they settled in Platte county, Mo., and 
 made that their home until 1847, when they out- 
 fitted for the long and dangerous journey across 
 the plains, and with the spirit of their ancestors 
 enrolled their names among those who were to 
 assist in western civilization, though both hus- 
 band and wife were then approaching the even- 
 ing of their lives. The journey with ox-teams 
 occupied six months, . and they were mercifully 
 
 spared any serious trouble with the Indians, en- 
 during with patience and fortitude the hardships 
 and trials incident to their new lives. 
 
 Upon reaching Oregon Mr. Robinson took 
 up a donation claim located on Salt creek, Polk 
 county, and this remained their home for the 
 period of two years. In addition to his minis- 
 terial efforts he worked for the advancement of 
 the country in the cultivation of the broad acres 
 which gave homes to so large a number of peo- 
 ple who came empty-handed, but eager to add 
 their strength to the forward march. After two 
 years Mr. Robinson removed to Oregon City, 
 where he remained for a short time, when he re- 
 turned to his claim. Soon afterward he became 
 an inmate of the homes of his children, on ac- 
 count of his advancing age. His death occurred 
 August 1, 1864, and that of his wife September 
 30, 1870, the two having walked faithfully side 
 by side for many years in the performance of 
 duty. Of the ten children which blessed their 
 union the three now living are Richard C, who 
 is located in Pilot Rock, Umatilla county, Ore. ; 
 Surrenea J., widow of William J. J. Scott, whose 
 sketch is found on another page of this work ; 
 and Matilda Haas, of Arizona. 
 
 HOLLAND McCOLLUM. Born on a farm 
 bordering on Spencer creek, ten miles southwest 
 of Eugene, April 15, 1852, Holland McCollum 
 was educated in a little near-by school-house, 
 and has never wandered far or for any length 
 of time from the old donation claim which has 
 since come into his personal possession. He 
 now owns two hundred acres of the old place, 
 and besides owns the thirty-two acres four miles 
 west of Eugene, upon which he has made his 
 home since 1898. 
 
 Of Scotch descent, Samuel McCollum, the 
 father of Holland, was born in Kentucky, and 
 followed farming and stock-raising during his 
 entire active life. In his native state he married 
 Zilpha Callahan, also a native of the Bourbon 
 state, and who died on the old donation claim 
 in 1897, at the age of eighty-four years. The 
 parents lived in Kentucky until 1850, and then 
 crossed the plains to Oregon with ox-teams, in 
 a train composed of fifty wagons. Captain 
 Bailey had charge of the home and fortune- 
 seekers, and little of incident out of the ordinary 
 marred a pleasant and speedy journey. Mr. 
 McCollum took up six hundred and forty acres 
 of the claim above mentioned, and here inaug- 
 urated farming and stock-raising on a large 
 scale, achieving success from year to year, and 
 laying by a competence for those dependent on 
 his care. His death occurred in 1888, at the 
 age of seventy-eight years, and he left behind 
 him a record of good deeds and more than aver- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1405 
 
 age financial success. Four sons and one daugh- 
 ter were born into the family, Holland being the 
 third of the children. 
 
 After the death of his father, Holland Mc- 
 Collum became possessor of the old place, al- 
 though he had long been independent, begin- 
 ning to collect wages for his work from the time 
 he was twenty-one years old. He married at The 
 Dalles, in 1880, Mathilda Malle, who was born 
 in France, and who is the mother of five chil- 
 dren, Mary, William, Henry, John and Charles. 
 The friend of education, Mr. McCollum has given 
 his children every advantage within his power, 
 and has so trained them in their every-day life, 
 that morally, physically and mentally, they are 
 a credit to their family and themselves. As a 
 general farmer Mr. McCollum is practical and 
 scientific, bringing to his aid modern innova- 
 tions and advanced thought, and at all times 
 feeling a genuine pride in the dignity and utility 
 of his calling. He is a Democrat in political 
 affiliation, and has been a school director for 
 many years. 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM A. CRAIN. Iden- 
 tified with a successful jewelry business at Junc- 
 tion City since 1890, Frederick William A. Crain 
 has many other claims upon the consideration of 
 his fellow-townsmen, representing as he does the 
 highest mental culture, the broadest humanity, 
 and the most unswerving devotion to truth and 
 justice. Born in Tompkins county, N. Y., No- 
 vember 5, 1827, he was reared on a farm which 
 abounded in memories of his patriot grandfather, 
 Elijah, who was born in the seat of conservatism 
 in Connecticut, and removed at a very early day 
 to Tompkins county. This ancestor was a man 
 of remarkably strong and active constitution, 
 and notwithstanding the fact that he lived for 
 seven years on tented field and within sound of 
 the cannon's roar in the Revolutionary war, at- 
 taining to the rank of corporal, he lived to the 
 advanced age of ninety-two years. His son, 
 Alvin, the father of Frederick William, was born 
 in Tompkins county, and in his youth worked in a 
 clock factory, later taking up his residence in Erie 
 county, Pa., where he was variously engaged, 
 principally as a shoe manufacturer. About 1841 
 he removed to Wisconsin, making his home in 
 Minneapolis, Minn., in 1857, and there engaging 
 in contracting and building, work for which he 
 possessed special aptitude. He also aided his 
 son in the management of a store, and in time 
 removed to Brownsville, Minn., whence he came 
 to Eugene, Ore., in 1878. He lived to be sev- 
 enty-six years old. Interesting also is the ma- 
 ternal ancestry of the popular Junction City mer- 
 chant, his mother, Tamson Seaton, being a 
 granddaughter of that Lord Seaton whose an- 
 
 cestral halls and proud lineage were once the 
 pride of Scotland. William Seaton, the father 
 of Mrs. Crain, was banished from his native 
 Scotland because of his participation in its de- 
 fense, and his property confiscated by the state. 
 Seeking an asylum in more tolerant America, he 
 retrieved his fortunes in Tompkins county, N. Y., 
 and died a comparatively wealthy man. 
 
 The oldest of the four sons and three daughters 
 born to his parents, Frederick W. A. Crain was 
 educated primarily in the public schools of Penn- 
 sylvania and Wisconsin, and at the age of seven- 
 teen contracted an illness which incapacitated him 
 for about three years. Recovering he appren- 
 ticed to a jeweler at Baraboo, Wis., in 1848, and 
 later, when his preceptor removed to Illinois, he 
 accompanied him and finished his trade. Re- 
 turning to Baraboo, he engaged in a jewelry 
 business until 1855, an d tnen changed his field 
 of activity to Minneapolis, Minn., whence he re- 
 moved to Brownsville, Minn., in 1862. In 1873 
 Mr. Crain came to Eugene and opened a jewelry 
 store, continuing the same until removing to his 
 present business and residence in Junction City. 
 He has a complete and modern store, and the 
 stock includes such commodities as would nat- 
 urally be required in a cosmopolitan and thriving 
 community. He has invested in real estate to 
 the extent of owning his store, the adjoining 
 property, and his residence property, and his at- 
 titude towards the town of his adoption is that of 
 a citizen who appreciates her possibilities, and 
 rejoices at her prosperity and good fortune. 
 
 In Baraboo, Wis., Mr. Crain married Mary 
 Melissa Lowell, who was born in Ohio, Sep- 
 tember 23, 1839, and whose father, William, 
 came early to the Buckeye state from his native 
 state of New York. Mr. Lowell removed to 
 Parma, Jackson county, Mich., about 1847, an( l 
 there worked at the carpenter's trade, combining 
 the same with farming for many years, his death 
 occurring at his home near Eaton Rapids at the 
 age of eighty-two years. Not having any chil- 
 dren of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Crain have an 
 adopted daughter, Annie, who makes her home 
 with them, having been educated in the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon and the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity, Evanston, 111. Five years she devoted 
 to teaching in Seattle, Wash. Mr. Crain ha's 
 found a large field of usefulness in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and for over thirty years has 
 been a local preacher, his genial and rational 
 optimism and implicit faith in goodness and char- 
 ity, endearing him to hundreds who have been 
 privileged to hear his voice. As a journalist 
 he has contributed to local and other periodicals, 
 and his poetic productions have won him sincere 
 admiration and approbation. One production, 
 with its eloquent plea for freedom and kindness 
 to birds, won a prize for nicety of diction, no- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 bility of sentiment, and correctness of construc- 
 tion, and another, " God Bless our Oregon/' is 
 appended herewith. Mr. Crain has been a stanch 
 Republican for many years, and although in no 
 sense a politician, has served as treasurer of 
 Eugene for six years. His name is engraved on 
 the cornerstone of the University of Oregon, 
 among those of other promoters of this now 
 famous institution of learning, and is also placed 
 in the cornerstone of the Villard section of the 
 university. Far more than the average man, 
 Mr. Crain has touched the rim of higher success 
 in this world, has studied continuously, and filled 
 the storehouse of his mind with treasure from a 
 variety of sources. No one in the community 
 bears a more honored name, nor does any more 
 emphatically typify the high-minded, conserva- 
 tive, and thoroughly reliable business man. 
 
 GOD BLESS OUR OREGON. 
 Oh for that spirit progressive, that brought our fathers 
 
 o'er 
 The lofty mountain heights, where everlasting torrents 
 
 pour, 
 To our lovely Oregon, lying nestled 'mongst the hills, 
 With her verdure-coated valleys and laughing little 
 
 rills. 
 
 Where majestic rivers roll over beds of golden sand, 
 And plunging forward, rush to meet the mighty ocean 
 
 grand, 
 With its laden fleets of commerce, come from every 
 
 clime. 
 To barter for the wealth we take from forest and 
 
 from mine. 
 
 For Nature, with a lavish hand, here spreads its kingly 
 
 store 
 With valleys rich in primal wealth, and hills of golden 
 
 ore. 
 These valleys of our Oregon are rich beyond compare, 
 And wait to greet the toiler with more than lion's 
 
 share. 
 
 While here our lordly mountains rear their crested 
 
 heads on high, 
 And Nature lifts herself to kiss the star-emblazoned 
 
 sky; 
 Where every hillside stands begirt with stalwart timber's 
 
 wealth, 
 And all our coasts are blessed with wondrous cheer of 
 
 wealth. 
 
 Oh for a race progressive, that we may build us here, 
 An empire srrand from all the wealth, each freeman's 
 
 heart to cheer ! 
 God grant it be the very best on all this globe of ours. 
 With busy cities growing, and homes all bright with 
 
 flowers. 
 
 An empire where true manliness may guard each lovely 
 
 home, 
 And where the foul destroyer may never, never come ; 
 And where in other lands is found the beer-house and 
 
 saloon, 
 May the church-house point its spire to Heaven — man's 
 
 greatest boon. 
 
 And may the blighting curse of rum be banished from 
 
 this land; 
 And in its place the school-house and the college ever 
 
 stand. 
 A goodly empire then we'll have, and our sons and 
 
 daughters 
 Shall glean its golden wealth beside these crystal waters. 
 
 And no drones here may then be found, a curse upon the 
 
 soil, 
 Nor may we hear upon the street the oath or drunken 
 
 broil. 
 But grant the Orient come forth the Occident to greet, 
 With branch of palm within each hand, this triumph 
 
 to complete. 
 
 ISAAC WILLIAM BOND. Prosperous, 
 and on good terms with himself and the world 
 at large, Isaac W. Bond is living a somewhat 
 retired life on his farm of three hundred and 
 twenty-five acres northwest of Eugene. His 
 has been a busy existence, crowned with suc- 
 cess because of his industry and good manage- 
 ment, and because of strict adherence to the 
 principles of honesty and consideration for all 
 with whom he has had to do. Born in Shenan- 
 doah county, Virginia, December 19, 1827, he 
 is a son of Joseph and Mary (Eeshelman) Bond, 
 natives of Virginia, and the former of English 
 extraction. The parents were married in the 
 old Dominion, and there six sons and five daugh- 
 ters were born to them, Isaac W. being the 
 fourth child. When he was nine )>ears old, in 
 1836, the family undertook the long journey 
 overland to Indiana, settling in Knox county, 
 where the father died December 31, 1838, at the 
 age of forty-eight years. After his death the 
 family continued together for many years, or 
 until Isaac W. and Allen Bond made arrange- 
 ments to come to Oregon, in 1853. 
 
 Thousands of men now enjoying the ad- 
 vantages of Oregon date their start in life from 
 the time when they buckled on their courage 
 and started forth on the plains between them 
 and the Pacific ocean. Thus it was with Isaac 
 and Allen Bond, who joined a party under Vin- 
 cent McClure, consisting of five wagons, they 
 themselves having three yoke of oxen and three 
 yoke of cows. Making the. start, March 21, 
 1853, they crossed the Wabash river and pro- 
 ceeded with few discomforts until locating near 
 the present farm of Mr. Bond, November 1, 
 1853. The latter was the happy possessor of 
 one cow and one yoke of oxen at the end of his 
 journey, and these served as a nucleus, around 
 which he built up his present large farming in- 
 dustry. Mr. McClure, his brother, and Allen 
 and Isaac Bond camped around the section cor- 
 ner, and afterward held these farms for them- 
 selves, being well content with the richness of 
 the land, and desirability of the location. Mr. 
 Bond from the wild land improved his farm into 
 
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 the present fine property, built a modern home 
 to supplant the one hastily constructed, and put 
 up modern barns, outhouses and fences. His 
 land has yielded well of general farm produce, 
 and at all times he has had fine cattle on his 
 place, deriving a considerable yearly income from 
 their sale. 
 
 So absorbed has he been in his home and 
 church life that Mr. Bond has never taken an 
 active interest in political undertakings, al- 
 though as the friend of education he has served 
 on the school board for twenty years, and as 
 the friend of good roads has been a member of 
 the board of supervisors for three terms. In 
 185 1 he was united in marriage with Hettie Mc- 
 Clure, daughter of the captain of the train in 
 which Mr. Bond came to the west, and who was 
 born in Knox county, Ind., August 19, 1835. 
 Mrs. Bond proved an earnest and sympathetic 
 helpmate, and in the early days of struggle and 
 adversity in the new country stimulated the 
 flagging and ofttimes discouraged hearts of those 
 by whom she was surrounded. Notwithstanding 
 the hard work which she accomplished she 
 reared ten children to be useful men and women, 
 impressing all with the necessity of thrift, 
 economy, industry and integrity. At the time 
 of her death, April 14, 1 901, she left the follow- 
 ing children to mourn her loss: V. S. ; Louise, 
 the wife of Rufus Robinson, of Walton, Lane 
 county ; Allen, living on a farm three miles 
 from the home place; Emma, the wife of Will- 
 iam Wheeler, of Pleasant Hill ; Eliza Catherine, 
 the wife of Halvor Wheeler, of Pleasant Hill ; 
 and Amanda, living at home ; Robert B., living 
 near his father. Joseph W., William L., Mary 
 A., who was the wife of C. H. Withrow, are 
 all deceased. Mr. Bond has always taken an 
 active part in the Christian Church and was 
 a deacon for manv vears. 
 
 PETER JACKSON COX. The owner of a 
 model little farm of thirty acres located two and 
 a half miles west of Silverton, Marion county, 
 is P. J. Cox, a native of this state, having been 
 born on Howell Prairie. December 27, 1846, the 
 son of Gideon S. Cox. The father was born in 
 Indiana in 1804. the son of a farmer, and he 
 grew up into this life, remaining on his father's 
 farm until his marriage with Miss Su- 
 sanna Coffenberry. The young people made 
 their home in Missouri previous to settling in 
 Oregon. They came across the plains by ox- 
 teams in 1846, taking the usual time of six 
 months for the trip, and experiencing no serious 
 trouble with the Indians while on the way. Set- 
 tling in Marion county Mr. Cox took up a dona- 
 tion claim in Howell Prairie, trading it. how- 
 ever, in a short time for that upon which P. J. 
 Cox now lives, his first possessions passing into 
 
 the hands of Al Jerman. Most of the land was 
 prairie, upon which he carried on general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, and with the thrifty habits 
 of the middle west began at once to put improve- 
 ments of all kinds upon his farm. Air. and Airs. 
 Cox reared quite a large family, being named in 
 order of birth, as follows : Marsilia, wife of 
 Wilburn King, both deceased; John T., of 
 Salem ; Jane, wife of Samuel Penter, of Alac- 
 leay ; Jacob, deceased : Alary, deceased, wife of 
 Stephen Jones ; Joseph, deceased ; Diana, wife of 
 Wright Foshay ; Permillia, wife of Peter Bowen ; 
 Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Bowen ; Tabitha, de- 
 ceased ; Julia Ann, widow of the late James Jer- 
 man, of this vicinity ; George W. ; Polk, de- 
 ceased ; P. J., of this review; Margeline. de- 
 ceased, wife of Robert Welch, of Clackamas, 
 Ore. ; and William B., of Marshfield, Ore. The 
 father took quite an active interest in all educa- 
 tional and church movements, and the general 
 esteem in which he was held caused his death to 
 be generally regretted in the community. He 
 died at the age of eighty-four, his wife living to 
 be only sixty-five. 
 
 P. J. Cox received his education in the district 
 school near his home, remaining with his parents 
 until his marriage with Miss Christie Hadley, a 
 native of Canada, daughter of Isaac and Chris- 
 tiana (Harvey) Hadley, and who came to Ore- 
 gon in 1875. The young people went to house- 
 keeping on the place where they now live. With 
 the passing of the years that brought the accu- 
 mulation of the fruits of his industry and man- 
 agement Air. Cox has improved the appearance 
 of his home, putting up a modern house, and 
 neat, attractive buildings for the protection of 
 his stock and implements. His principal crop is 
 hops, twenty acres of his farm being devoted to 
 this cultivation. Four children have been born 
 to Air. and Airs. Cox, all of whom are living : 
 Lettie, of Salem ; Nellie, wife of Harlan O. 
 White, of Salem : Roy, and Ora, still at home 
 with their parents. Politically Mr. Cox is a 
 Republican and has served as school director for 
 several years. Like his father he interests him- 
 self in all church movements, being a member of 
 the Christian Church, in which he officiates as 
 elder. 
 
 OLNEY FRY. At the age of seventy- 
 seven Olney Fry may view with satisfaction his 
 well planned and well adjusted life, about two- 
 thirds of which has been spent in the northwest, 
 and in the pursuit of a competence for which he 
 has worked hard and unceasingly. This honored 
 pioneer was born in Cortland county, N. Y., 
 December 10. 1825, and at the age of eleven 
 moved with his parents to Knox county, 111. 
 In the then unsettled middle west he gained 
 strength of body and mind while helping to 
 
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 develop a fertile farm, in the meantime irregu- 
 larly attending the winter term of school held in 
 a little log house in the neighborhood. 
 
 The father of Olney Fry was born in Rhode 
 Island, as was also his wife, Salina (Bennett) 
 Fry, and the young couple moved to New York 
 at a very early day, settling on a farm in Cortland 
 county. The Illinois farm was disposed of in 
 1849, an d in the spring the whole family started 
 across the plains with ox-teams, after many 
 months of preparation for the momentous under- 
 taking. They had three wagons and many ox- 
 teams, besides loose cattle to furnish meat on 
 the way and start life with in the far west. Upon 
 arriving in Oregon the father bought a saw and 
 grist mill near Howell Prairie, which, however, 
 he sold in July, 1850, and took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres in Linn 
 county. In the course of time he gave up farming 
 and retired to Albany, where his death occurred 
 in 1894, at the age of ninety-two years. Four of 
 his sons fought bravely in the Indian war of 
 
 I855-56- 
 
 When his father sold his grist mill in 1850. 
 Olney Fry went to Salem and began working 
 at the carpenter's trade, having completed which 
 he moved to his father's farm in Linn county 
 and built himself a fine house. That this work 
 is well done is attested by the fact that it is still 
 standing, one of the oldest landmarks in that 
 section. Noticing the dearth of good cattle 
 among the settlers, Mr. Fry returned to the 
 east by way of Panama in the fall of 1852, and 
 after buying up one hundred and fifty head of 
 young cattle started with them across the plains, 
 accompanied by John Davenport. They had 
 many adventures before reaching the end of their 
 journey, but the cattle were in fairly good condi- 
 tion, and few had fallen by the wayside. Again 
 in Oregon, Mr. Fry bought his present farm 
 and started to raise stock, an occupation which 
 he has found both remunerative and congenial. 
 In 1854 he married Mary Foster, and this union 
 has proved a particularly harmonious one. For 
 the greater part of the time since his marriage 
 Mr. Fry has lived on his farm, although he has 
 taken occasional trips to towns in the state, 
 leaving his home in capable hands. He is a mem- 
 ber of the United Presbyterian Church, and fra- 
 ternally is connected with the Grange. 
 
 JOSEPH WILLIAM MORGAN, who is 
 actively identified with the agricultural prosperity 
 of Linn county, is pleasantly located about four 
 miles from Shedds, where he has a choice farm, 
 well improved, with a good house, barns and 
 outbuildings, and everything pertaining to a 
 first-class estate. As an energetic, successful 
 business man, and the descendant of an honored 
 
 pioneer of this part of the state, he is especially 
 worthy of representation in this biographical 
 work. He is among the older of the native-born 
 citizens of the place, and now occupies the home- 
 stead where his birth occurred, August 26, 1851. 
 
 His father, Miller Morgan, was born and 
 brought up in Ohio, and in Burlington, Iowa, 
 married Elizabeth Helmick, a native of Germany. 
 In the spring of 1847 ne started across the plains 
 with one wagon, and three yoke of oxen. 
 Reaching Oregon in the fall, he spent the winter 
 with General McCarver then settled in Polk 
 county, where he resided for one year. In 1849, 
 with ox-teams, he proceeded to California, where 
 he was employed in hauling freight from Sacra- 
 mento to the mining districts for a few months. 
 As cold weather came on, he traded his oxen for 
 five mares, returned to Linn county, Ore., and 
 spent that winter on Oak creek, near Albany. 
 In the spring of 1850 he traded one of his horses 
 for a squatter's right to six hundred and forty 
 acres of land at Peterson's butte, (now known 
 as the Gardiner farm) and in the fall of that 
 year traded the land back to the original owner for 
 two Indian ponies and took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres known as the 
 Saddle Butte ranch, five hundred and fifty acres 
 of it being valley land. On his land, which was 
 six miles northwest of Brownsville, fourteen 
 miles southeast of Albany, and four miles east 
 of Shedds, he erected a log cabin in February, 
 1 85 1, and at once began the improvement of a 
 homestead. A man of indomitable resolution and 
 perseverance, he met with good success in his 
 untiring efforts, clearing an excellent farm 
 whereon he resided until 1898. Removing then 
 to Albany, he lived retired until his death, in 
 March, 1901, aged seventy-five years. Seven 
 children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, 
 namely : James, residing in Lebanon, Ore. ; 
 Thomas Franklin and Orange Z., both deceased ; 
 J. W., the special subject of this sketch; Clara 
 C, wife of George B. McClellan Thompson of 
 Shedds ; Sarah I., wife of Ezra Randolph, of 
 Oregon City ; and Lawrence O., of Shedds. 
 
 Born and reared on the parental homestead, 
 J. W. Morgan acquired a practical education 
 in the district schools, and under his father's 
 training became well versed in the art and 
 science of agriculture. For twenty or more years 
 he lived near Shedds, but in the fall of 1902 
 assumed possession of the old home farm, where 
 he has since resided. He owns three hundred 
 acres of the paternal farm, being a portion of 
 the donation claim which his father cleared, and 
 is carrying on general farming and stock-raising 
 with excellent results. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Morgan married Ann Stimson, 
 who was born in Iowa, daughter of Lewis and 
 Jane (Wilson) Stimson, who located in Linn 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1409 
 
 county in 1852, taking up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres on the Sand 
 Ridge. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have two chil- 
 dren, namely : Lottie E., who was educated at 
 Albany College, and is now teaching school ; 
 and Elza F., living at home. Politically Mr. 
 Morgan is a Democrat, and fraternally is a mem- 
 ber of the Twenty-five Hundred Insurance 
 Company of Albany. 
 
 C. C. HAZLETON. People who comprise 
 the present community of Cottage Grove little 
 realize their indebtedness to the men who came 
 here in the early days, and by their far-reaching 
 achievements, their well laid and later-developed 
 plans on the fertile farm lands, started into per- 
 manent activity an aggregation of varied inter- 
 ests. Royal H. Hazleton, so well known in pio- 
 neer days, so well remembered by those who 
 'lived and labored with him, belonged emphatically 
 to the class mentioned, and none more than he 
 typified the solid and forceful pioneer. 
 
 Born in New York in 1818, Mr. Hazleton was 
 reared and educated there and removed to Mis- 
 souri in 1837 with his parents. As a young man 
 he married Martha Runnels, a native of Mis- 
 souri, and with whom he lived peacefully on a 
 farm until the whole country became agitated 
 over rumors of gold on the coast. He had no 
 faith in mining himself, but the exodus to the 
 west suggested large opportunities in the way 
 of general pioneer undertakings, and he joined 
 a train bound for the other side of the Rocky 
 Mountains in the spring of 1849. Arriving in 
 California after a comparatively pleasant six- 
 months journey, he remained for a time there, 
 returned to Missouri and in 1852 outfitted to 
 cross the plains again, this time for Oregon. 
 He lived in Eugene for a year, in the meantime 
 looking for a desirable place upon which to 
 settle permanently. His choice fell upon a sec- 
 tion of land four miles west of Cottage Grove, 
 and he located on what soon became known as 
 Hazleton's creek. The land being fertile, and 
 admirable for situation, the pioneer settler soon 
 had a semblance of activity upon it. A small 
 house was erected, and soon afterward a barn, 
 other needed improvements following in due or- 
 der, and as the out-going produce permitted of 
 additional expenditure. In his youth Mr. Hazle- 
 ton had prepared for the future by learning the 
 wagonmaker's and woodworker's trades, and he 
 found abundant opportunity to use them, not 
 only on his own, but upon the farms of the sur- 
 rounding settlers. In order to utilize the timber 
 which densely covered many acres of his prop- 
 erty, he built a saw-mill, and later a grist-mill, 
 also a wagonshop, in which repairing was con- 
 ducted for several months in the year. Being 
 
 the first shops of their kind in the neighborhood, 
 people came from far and near to have their 
 wheat ground and their wagons repaired, a great 
 deal of interest being soon centered around the 
 mills and shop. From small beginnings towns 
 have started on their successful way, and it is 
 not surprising people began to settle near, for 
 Mr. Hazleton realized the profit to be gotten 
 out of land sold in town or small farm lots, and 
 he thus became an earnest promoter of his sec- 
 tion. The village grew apace, and was given the 
 name of Slabtown, which it fortunately soon out- 
 grew, and took on a more dignified character 
 under its new name of Cottage Grove. Not con- 
 tent to have merely started the town, Mr. Hazle- 
 ton grew with it, in time conducted one of the 
 first hotels of the village. In partnership with 
 a man named Ward he built and owned Pass 
 Creek Toll Road, which was among the first toll 
 roads in Lane county, and which has the same 
 upbuilding influence always to be attributed to 
 good roads. These various enterprises netted 
 him a large yearly income, some of which he in- 
 vested in mining properties on the Salmon river. 
 He was a successful man, and the fact that he 
 left permanent reminders of himself in all parts 
 of the county insures him a lasting place in its his- 
 tory and progress. He never took an active in- 
 terest in politics other than casting his vote for 
 the Republican party. He was a devoted mem- 
 ber of his church, and during the course of a 
 year he gave away more than will ever be known 
 in unostentatious charity. His death occurred in 
 1886 on the home place. 
 
 Of the twelve children born into his family, 
 Thomas P. is in business in Waitsburg, Wash. ; 
 Francis M. is a business man of Santa Cruz, 
 Cal. ; Harrison H. makes his home in Lake View, 
 Ore. ; John H. is in Baker City ; J; M. lives in 
 Pomeroy, Wash. ; C. C. is a merchant of Cres- 
 well ; and A. L. is in Whatcom, Wash. 
 
 C. C. Hazleton, one of the younger sons of 
 Royal Hazelton, and who inherits the substantial 
 traits of his sire, was born on the donation 
 claim upon which Cottage Grove sprang into 
 existence, June 12, 1858. His father's apprecia- 
 tion of a trade influenced him to thus fortify 
 himself against future want, and he conducted 
 a harness-shop for a short time in Cottage Grove, 
 and later engaged in business in Oakland with 
 his brother, J. M., giving up the same in order 
 to identify himself with the Wells-Fargo Ex- 
 press Company. His reliable and industrious 
 traits were noted by his employers, who ad- 
 vanced him in pay and responsibility, retaining 
 him in their service for a long period of sixteen 
 years. He was the first messenger between 
 Umatilla and Pendleton, acted as agent at Hast- 
 ings, Neb., San Antonio and Corpus Christi, 
 Texas, and Albuquerque, N. M., thus enlarging 
 
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 his horizon by travel and contact with various 
 people. In March, 1890, Mr. Hazleton returned 
 from the south to Oregon and engaged in the 
 general merchandise business in Creswell, con- 
 tinuing the same with much success up to the 
 present time. He has a store supplied with the 
 necessities in demand in the town, and in addi- 
 tion carries a large line of agricultural imple- 
 ments and shelf hardware. He is genial and 
 cordial in his relations with his patrons, and 
 courtesy and consideration may be regarded as 
 among the keynotes of his character. Like all 
 successful merchants, he is public-spirited in the 
 extreme, and gives his support to all measures 
 instituted for the advancement of the general 
 good. 
 
 The Hazleton home is one of the pleasant and 
 hospitable ones in the town and is presided over 
 by Mrs. Hazleton, who was formerly Dora C. 
 Scott, a native daughter of Oregon, and the 
 devoted mother of three interesting children, 
 Danae, Hazel and Nieta. Like his father a 
 Republican, Mr. Hazleton has never sought po- 
 litical preferment, but in his interest in edu- 
 cation has found both pleasure and profit in his 
 capacity as school director. Essentially social 
 in disposition, he is identified fraternally with 
 the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Wood- 
 men of the World. 
 
 ANDREW J. 'ZUMWALT. Faithful to his 
 early training, Andrew J. Zumwalt has followed 
 throughout his entire life the work which he 
 learned under the instruction of his father, earn- 
 ing his livelihood in the pursuit of farming and 
 at the same time dispensing the benefits of what- 
 ever talents wherewith he has been blessed. He 
 has never shirked any public or private duty, but 
 has earnestly endeavored to make himself a 
 worthy and useful citizen of the state to which 
 he came in early manhood. 
 
 As one of a family of eleven children, Andrew 
 J. Zumwalt was born in St. Charles county, Mo., 
 September 2, 1832, and a part of the experiences 
 of boyhood was an attendance at the little log 
 school-house in the neighborhood of his home 
 until he gained a fair education. In the spring of 
 1850, in company with his father, Solomon, his 
 mother, Nancy, and the remainder of the chil- 
 dren, he crossed the plains with two wagons and 
 four yoke of oxen to each, eight head of loose 
 stock and three horses. By fall they had reached 
 Salt Lake City, Utah, and they there spent the 
 winter, March 9, of the following year continu- 
 ing the journey into Oregon, where, in Benton 
 county, the father took up a donation claim, 
 where he remained a year. In 1852 he came into 
 Lane county, and located two miles west of Eu- 
 gene, where he lived until 1872, when he moved 
 
 to a farm of four hundred and fifty acres, on the 
 Mohawk, where he died in 1888, at the age of 
 eighty-one years. Andrew J. Zumwalt also took 
 up a donation claim in 1852, one of one hundred 
 and sixty acres located two and a half miles west 
 of Eugene, and this remained his home until 1859. 
 In the last-named year he removed to Eugene 
 and spent the ensuing two years there, when he 
 purchased in the neighborhood of Irving a farm 
 of a hundred and sixty acres upon which he lived 
 until 1872. He then moved upon the farm which 
 he now occupies and which consists of four hun- 
 dred acres, where he is engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising, being particularly interested in the 
 latter business in Shorthorns. He also owns one 
 hundred and twenty acres near Irving, fifty acres 
 in the Mohawk valley, and one hundred and sixty 
 acres at Oakesdale, Wash. 
 
 Mr. Zumwalt was first married in February, 
 1855, to Miss Margaret Walker, and seven chil- 
 dren were born to them, namely : Albert M. ; 
 Samantha J. ; Mary A. ; John W. ; E. W. ; Alfred, 
 who is deceased ; and one who died in infancy. 
 The wife died November 7, 1873, and Mr. Zum- 
 walt married in April, 1875, Miss Missouri 
 Brown, and their four children are named in 
 order of birth as follows : May, Louisa, Paul 
 and Lynn. In politics Mr. Zumwalt has been 
 prominent and took an active part in the 
 advancement of the Republican principles which 
 he heartily endorsed, but of late years has been 
 independent. He has held various minor offices 
 in his community, among them being constable 
 and justice of the peace, and in 1880 he was 
 chosen to represent his party in the state legisla- 
 ture, where he acquitted himself ably and hon- 
 orably. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he also 
 belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
 Irving. 
 
 ZACHARIAH TAYLOR KINTZLEY. Sep- 
 tember 15, 1890, was the date of the arrival of 
 Z. T. Kintzley in the state of Oregon, and with 
 the exception of one month which was passed at 
 Arlington, eastern Oregon, has made his home 
 in Springfield, Lane county, engaging generally 
 in the business of painting and paperhanging. 
 He was born in Clay county, Ind., October 16, 
 1847, the son of George, a native of Virginia. 
 The latter, when a young man, went to Louis- 
 ville, Ky., and engaged at work as a cabinet- 
 maker, and later located in Indiana, where he. 
 found more lucrative employment in the flour- 
 mill business. He first settled in Putnamville, 
 Putnam county, where he remained until 1854, 
 when he located in Story county, Iowa, there giv- 
 ing up his milling interests to engage in farming 
 on a two-hundred-acre farm. His death occurred 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1411 
 
 there in 1885. He had lived to see the country 
 change from the pioneer conditions which pre- 
 vailed when he first became a resident of that 
 state to the city of Ames, which is the home of 
 the state agricultural college, now located on 
 land adjoining that which formed his property. 
 
 The youngest of his father's children Z. T. 
 Kintzley was reared in the state of Iowa, receiv- 
 ing his education in the common schools. In 
 1863, during the Civil war. when only sixteen 
 years old he enlisted in Company B, Ninth Iowa 
 Cavalry, serving with the Seventh Corps in the 
 western department of the Seventh Army Corps. 
 He participated in many of the notable battles 
 of that momentous struggle and was mustered 
 out in Little Rock, Ark., March 23, 1866, and 
 received his discharge at Davenport, Iowa. He 
 then went back to his home, and shortly removed 
 with his mother to Woodbury county, near Sioux 
 City, Iowa, where he engaged in farming, after 
 which, in 1 88 1, he settled in Sloan City. He 
 was there employed in the cattle business and so 
 continued until his removal to the west nine 
 rears later, locating then in Springfield, where 
 he now lives. Since becoming a resident here 
 he has built a residence which he sold, afterward 
 buying another, and at present he is engaged in 
 putting up a two-story building which is to be 
 used for mercantile enterprises. 
 
 The 'marriage of Mr. Kintzley took place in 
 Iowa, Miss Mary C. Cain becoming his wife. 
 She was born in Wisconsin and died here in 
 1900, at the age of fifty-two years. Their four 
 children are as follows : Ida Frances, deceased ; 
 Alice, now Mrs. Bert Doane, who lives with 
 her father ; Edna Viola, deceased ; and George 
 Milton, also at home. In his fraternal relations 
 Mr. Kintzley belongs to the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, and is a member 
 of Geary Post, Grand Army of the Republic. 
 Politically he is a Republican and in the interests 
 of his party he has served for six years as a 
 member of the city council and has also served 
 as road supervisor for one term. 
 
 CHESTER SKEELS. For nearly thirty 
 years Chester Skeels has watched, and had a 
 part in, the growth and upbuilding of Benton 
 county, Ore., to which locality he came from Ill- 
 inois. He was born August 6, 1833, in Frank- 
 lin county, Ohio, and there his earliest boyhood 
 days were spent. When yet a small boy, how- 
 ever, his parents removed to Delaware county, 
 that state, later going to Union county. 
 
 After his marriage, which occurred in the 
 latter county in 1855. and united him with Miss 
 Margaret Brannan, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, 
 Mr. Skeels moved back to Delaware county, 
 there following the tinner's trade for a short 
 
 time. Not being satisfied with the latter occu- 
 pation, however, he discontinued its prosecution 
 and the same year went to Piatt county, 111., and 
 near Monticello, bought a tract of land which 
 he improved and cultivated, making it his home 
 for twenty years. 
 
 As has been previously intimated, the year 
 1875 marked the arrival of Mr. Skeels and his 
 family in Oregon, and more particularly in Ben- 
 ton county. His farm of seventy-two acres, lo- 
 cated one mile from the city of Albany, while 
 not a large acreage, is so utilized and managed 
 as to produce results which might do credit to 
 a tract of much larger size. Mr. Skeels makes 
 a specialty of raising fruits and vegetables, and 
 in the raising of potatoes is especially success- 
 ful, his close proximity to market being a large 
 factor in his success. 
 
 Of the eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Skeels only five are living, as follows : Harvey ; 
 Hulda, the wife of N. E. Anderson; O. V., the 
 wife of William Peacock ; Alice, who became 
 the wife of Frank Hughson ; and Zua, now Mrs. 
 William Voder. .In politics Mr. Skeels votes 
 for the candidates of the Populist party, but has 
 no inclination or desire to hold public office, as 
 was proven when he refused the office of justice 
 of the peace, to which his fellow-citizens had 
 elected him. 
 
 WILLIAM S. LOCKE. Inseparably asso- 
 ciated with the pioneer families who came to 
 the coast before the incentive of gold lured men 
 from quiet homes into uncertain speculations, 
 is the one to which William S. Locke belongs, 
 himself one of the prosperous farmers and stock- 
 raisers near Corvallis. In the coming of this 
 family to the west in 1847 was rehearsed again 
 the struggles and privations and discourage- 
 ments which tinge the early historv of the plains 
 with sadness, and make present-day travelers in 
 luxurious palace cars gasp in astonishment at 
 the magnitude of the sacrifice and endurance of 
 the ox-train bands. The credit for crossing the 
 plains at that early time can not be given to 
 William S. Locke, for he was born in Sheridan 
 county, Mo., August 30, 1840. and was there- 
 fore but a little lad of seven years. His father, 
 Abraham Locke, was the instigator of the trip, 
 and the buoyant spirit which encouraged the 
 weary and disheartened home-seekers. 
 
 Born in the state of Virginia, Abraham Nel- 
 son Locke removed to Missouri with his parents 
 when eighteen years of age, and there married 
 Harriett Sinnett, who was born in Ohio. Mr. 
 Locke's father was a very early settler of the 
 Sunflower state, and improved several acres of 
 land before his death. Abraham continued to 
 live in Missouri until 1847. anc ^ tnen S °W his 
 
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 interests and prepared to make his home in the 
 far west. With two wagons and three yoke of 
 oxen to each, and with about twenty-five head 
 of loose cattle, he made the start, somewhat re- 
 gretfully leaving behind that of which he was 
 sure, and venturing all upon that which was un- 
 certain and at best hard and laborious. Four 
 children had been born into his family, but they 
 were not old enough to be of much use, and the 
 greater part of the work fell upon his shoulders. 
 A great deal of trouble was experienced with the 
 stock, which wandered away or died of dis- 
 ease, and the little party finally came to Meek's 
 cut-off, that place of terrible memories, and like 
 others similarly placed, were obliged to turn 
 back and find another trail. Their sufferings 
 were intense, and their continual wrestling with 
 insufficient provisions, inclement weather, Indian 
 cruelties and illness among their number, helped 
 to make up an experience from which people 
 might well beg to be delivered. Arriving in 
 Oregon much depressed financially and other- 
 wise, Mr. Locke spent the first winter with his 
 family in Polk county, and in the spring he 
 traded two yoke of oxen for Henry Fuller's 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres. Here he 
 erected a small log cabin and remained during 
 the following winter, and in the spring brought 
 his family to Polk county, leaving them there 
 while he went to the mines of California. Dur- 
 ing the summer in California he worked in the 
 gold mines and at teaming, returning in the 
 fall a sadder and wiser man, and not materially 
 bettered by his short fortune-hunting experience. 
 He then moved his family onto the ranch where 
 his son is now living, and where he made many 
 improvements, as good as were known at that 
 time. His growing success was cut short, how- 
 ever, in 1872, for he was thrown from a wagon 
 by a runaway team, and soon afterward died 
 from the effects of the wounds received. He 
 was sixty-two years of age, and was respected 
 and liked by all who knew him. His faithful 
 and helpful wife survived him until May, 1897, 
 at the time being seventy-six years old. 
 
 As early as his strength permitted William 
 S. was taught to make himself useful around 
 the donation claim, and he remained there until 
 starting out as a school teacher in Lane county, 
 in 1868. At the end of two terms he engaged 
 in stock-raising in Lane county, and in 1877 
 came back to the old homestead, where he has 
 since lived. He owns one hundred and thirty 
 acres in the home farm, besides two hundred 
 acres of pasture land, and a half interest in a 
 farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres. He 
 is engaged in general farming and stock-raising 
 and is very successful in these lines of occupa- 
 tion. Needless to say, he has made many im- 
 provements over those inaugurated by his father 
 
 in the early days, and has a well-equipped and 
 thoroughly modern farming property. He mar- 
 ried, in 1868, Livonia Jenkins, daughter of Rev. 
 Stephen Jenkins, a pioneer of 1846, and three 
 children have been born of this union : Ida, 
 Bertie and Franklin, the last two of whom are 
 deceased. Mr. Locke is prominent in fraternal 
 circles of this county, especially with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he 
 has been a member since 1864. He is a genial 
 and very tactful gentleman, possesses a high 
 sense of honor and an appreciation of the rights 
 and prerogatives of others. 
 
 JAMES PARVIN. The greater part of the 
 growth of Oregon has not been the result of in- 
 spired action, but of slow, steady and patient 
 building, which is found in the greatest degree 
 in the agricultural regions, to the accomplishment 
 of which work is due the substantial upbuilding 
 of the state. Holding a prominent place among 
 these men in Lane county is James Parvin, lo- 
 cated upon his farm in the neighborhood of Dex- 
 ter, and he has given liberally of his means and 
 influence to the upbuilding of the community in 
 which he has lived for so many years. 
 
 James Parvin has passed three score and ten 
 years, having been born May 2, 1831, near the 
 capital of Indiana. His father was a farmer by 
 occupation, and the son was trained to this work 
 while receiving his education in the district school 
 in the vicinity of his home. His mother died 
 when he was one year old. He went out into 
 the world to make his own way when eighteen, 
 and while following his early training he also 
 learned the trade of a T carpenter, his livelihood 
 being gained for several years, however, through 
 working as a farm-hand. In 1853 ne followed 
 the westward trend of progress and set out for 
 Oregon, as driver of an ox-team. After a jour- 
 ney of seven months the destination was safely 
 reached and Mr. Parvin at once took up a dona- 
 tion claim in Lane county, located on Lost creek. 
 In 1855 he took another claim, two and a half 
 miles south of Dexter, where he remained for 
 four years, when he bought one hundred and 
 sixty acres, a part of the John B. Hannah claim, 
 and in the first location which Mr. Hannah had 
 chosen on coming to Oregon. This has since 
 been Mr. Parvin's home, putting into the culti- 
 vation and improvement of the broad acres a 
 practical and intelligent management which has 
 met with rich returns. He now has a farm of six 
 hundred and sixty-seven acres, with a commodi- 
 ous frame dwelling, good barns and out-buildings 
 of all descriptions. In addition to his farming 
 interests, Mr. Parvin has successfully followed 
 the trade which he learned under the difficulties 
 of his early life, becoming a contractor of promi- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1413 
 
 nence, and was also engaged in the mercantile 
 business in Dexter for eleven years, and at that 
 time was also postmaster, and operated a thresh- 
 ing machine for twenty-five years. 
 
 In February, 1854, Mr. Parvin married Sel- 
 enia Parker, who was born in Coshocton county, 
 Ohio, in 1834, and of the children born to them 
 Ida, the wife of William Williams, lives in Dex- 
 ter ; Hosea M. is located in the vicinity of Dex- 
 ter, and Jennie is at home with her parents and 
 conducts the store at Dexter. In politics a Dem- 
 ocrat, Mr. Parvin has held various offices in his 
 neighborhood, never shirking the fulfillment of his 
 duty as a citizen, as is evidenced by the active 
 and prominent part which he has always taken 
 in the advancement of the principles advocated 
 by his party. He is a consistent member of the 
 Christian Church, and gives to his religious 
 duties the same application and energy which has 
 made his life so much of a success. 
 
 JOSEPH M. PARKER. To any man there 
 is a pleasure in the thought that he has built up 
 something that is either a benefit to society in 
 general or adds to the comfort of his own people, 
 and the double object is fulfilled in the improve- 
 ment and intelligent cultivation of a farm, for 
 upon the work of the agriculturist depends the 
 existence of the country at large. In Oregon, the 
 new state which has been built by developing re- 
 sources which only far-sighted vision could di- 
 vine, there are many who have given their entire 
 time to the cultivation of the broad lands and 
 have taken their places in the ranks of farmers, 
 and among these is Joseph M. Parker, located 
 upon his farm which adjoins the postoffice of 
 Dexter, Lane county, and is eighteen miles south- 
 east of Eugene, the county-seat. 
 
 Mr. Parker was born December 19, 1834, in 
 Coshocton county, Ohio, and was the son of 
 James Parker. Mr. Parker received his education 
 in the public schools of Ohio, Illinois and Ore- 
 gon, and after the death of his parents, which 
 occurred in 1847, ne went to live with a brother- 
 in-law, in Illinois, where he had gone with his 
 parents, in 1841. Eleven years later, in 1853, 
 they crossed the plains, a journey which occupied 
 about six months and was remarkably free from 
 trouble with the Indians, and after spending the 
 first winter in Washington county. Ore., they 
 located in Lane county. About 1858 Mr. Parker 
 bought a farm of three hundred and twenty acres 
 in the neighborhood of Trent, upon which he 
 made his home for four years, when he removed 
 to Coast Fork, and passed the ensuing eight 
 years. He then bought a farm of eight hun- 
 dred acres, a part of which he still owns and 
 into the cultivation of which he has put the 
 effort of a number of years, building a frame 
 
 house, good barns and other out-buildings which 
 bespeak the success of its owner. He owns about 
 three hundred acres, upon which he carries on 
 general farming and stock-raising, about eighty 
 acres being in cultivation. For about five years 
 of the time since he has been a resident of this 
 locality Mr. Parker was engaged in the grist- 
 milling business. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Parker occurred in 1858 
 and united him with Miss Caroline R. Rutledge, 
 who was born in Fulton county, 111., in 1842, and 
 crossed the plains with her father, Blasingim 
 Rutledge, in 1853, when they settled in Lane 
 county. He was a farmer, stockman and mer- 
 chant, and was well known in Lane county. He 
 died in 1870, and was born in Tennessee about 
 1816. He was married twice, Elizabeth Hopkins, 
 the mother of Mrs. Parker, being his first wife. 
 She died about 1848. Mr. Rutledge was again 
 married, Sarah Jane Markley becoming his wife, 
 and of this family only two daughters, Mrs. 
 Narcissa Davis and Mrs. Ida Buchanan, are liv- 
 ing. Five children have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Parker, as follows : Cecelia, now the wife 
 of E. B. Hunsaker, of San Francisco; Clement 
 C, located in Lane county; Ellis R., located in 
 Creswell ; and Ferdie and Georgia, at home. In 
 politics Mr. Parker is a Democrat and takes quite 
 an active interest in the movements of his party, 
 the leaders of which have come to depend upon 
 him in his neighborhood, as he has filled all the 
 minor offices in the vicinity, and never shirks his 
 duty as a citizen. 
 
 JAMES PARKER. Yet another of the 
 strong and reliable men who have made telling 
 strokes towards the upbuilding of Lane county 
 is James Parker, who was born in Coshocton 
 county, Ohio, March 19, 1833, and brought his 
 energy and well directed ambition to Oregon in 
 1853. When eight years old he removed with 
 his parents to Fulton county, 111., where his 
 father worked at carpentering and farming, and 
 where he died at the age of sixty-seven years. 
 He was married twice, James being the fourth 
 child of the second family, his mother dying at 
 the age of forty-four years. 
 
 Left an orphan at the age of thirteen, James 
 Parker was glad of any occupation which fur- 
 nished a living, and the first work that presented 
 itself was splitting rails, then he went to learn 
 the carder's trade in the old fashioned carding- 
 mill run by tread power furnished by oxen. 
 Subsequently he learned blacksmithing and the 
 carpenter's trade, for in those days a mechanic 
 was supposed to be a many-sided genius, and 
 able to turn his hand to almost anything in his 
 line. In the early times Mr. Parker found a 
 large field for his work and continued it for 
 
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 several years with good financial results. In 
 the meantime he kept near his family, and in 
 1853, with his brother-in-law, John Stoops, his 
 two sisters, Mrs. Stoops and Selena, now Mrs. 
 James Parvin, and a brother, Joseph Parker, he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams. Under the 
 able leadership of Captain Frazier the party 
 reached their destination without any serious 
 mishap, and Mr. Parker stopped at The Dalles 
 about four months, the rest of the family going 
 on to Lane county and settling on a donation 
 claim in Lost Valley, five miles southeast of 
 Pleasant Hill. Later Mr. Parker and his brother 
 went to Portland and engaged at various kinds 
 of labor, and in the fall of 1854 he came to Lane 
 county and attended the district school while 
 helping during his leisure on the family farm. 
 During the Rogue River war, to which the resi- 
 dents were driven because of the constant depre- 
 dations and want of good faith on the part of the 
 Indians, he was employed for six months as a 
 teamster, afterward returning to Lane county 
 and teaching school for eighteen months. 
 
 October 1, 1857, Mr. Parker married Phoebe 
 E. Rigdon, who was born January 8, 1840, in 
 Fulton county, 111., and came to Oregon in 1852 
 with her parents, and here married and went to 
 housekeeping on a rented farm north of Pleas- 
 ant Hill, soon afterward removing to Lost Val- 
 ley, where they lived for eight years. Their 
 next home was the old Bowen place west of 
 Pleasant Hill, and three years later Mr. Parker 
 bought his present farm of three hundred and 
 twenty-one acres two miles southwest of Pleas- 
 ant Hill, which comprised all of the John Litt- 
 rell donation claim. All of the improvements 
 of a modern nature have been made by the pres- 
 ent owner, who is progressive, and whose theo- 
 ries of farming might well be emulated by the 
 seeker after agricultural success. Jersey cattle, 
 Poland China hogs and Cotswold sheep are 
 here found in their best development, grains con- 
 tribute a considerable part of the yearly income, 
 and general farming and dairying are not omitted 
 from the departments of activity here represent- 
 ed. One hundred and thirty acres are under 
 cultivation. The residence is a comfortable and 
 well appointed one, the barns and out-buildings 
 large and modern, and everything in keeping 
 with the. thrifty owner. 
 
 In addition to farming Mr. Parker has been 
 engaged in milling in Lost Valley for twelve 
 or fifteen years. As a Democrat he has served 
 as road supervisor and school director, also as 
 county commissioner for a term of four years. 
 He and his wife are members of the Pleasant 
 Hill Grange. Eleven children have been born 
 into his family, of whom the following are liv- 
 ing: Luella, wife of William Bundy, of Spring- 
 field; Albert K., of Lost Valley; Hortense, the 
 
 wife of W. E. Holdridge, of Yamhill county ; 
 Clarence A., of Springfield ; Edith, the wife of 
 Dr. Louis Bundy, of Medford, Ore. ; John C, 
 of Springfield ; and James C, Clifton L., Guy 
 W. and Augustus are living at home ; Lucien 
 died, aged thirty-one years. Mr. Parker is in- 
 debted solely to his own energy and perseverance 
 for his rise in life. He has advanced slowly but 
 surely, and in the meantime has never wavered 
 from the essential requisites of honesty, integ- 
 rity and industry.. 
 
 JOHN DUNCAN. By no means an unap- 
 preciated member of the agricultural class, John 
 Duncan is intelligently engaged in the cultiva- 
 tion of his farm of one hundred and thirty-six 
 acres, located one mile north of Shedds, Linn 
 county, a general line of farming connected 
 with stock-raising and dairying being his prin- 
 cipal occupation. This farm was once a part 
 of the old Hogue estate, and a portion of it 
 constituted school lands, and was first occupied 
 by Mr. Duncan in 1877, since which time he has 
 made all the improvements which have made this 
 one of the most valuable farms in this part of 
 the county. 
 
 Mr. Duncan was born April 13, 1845, i n Cole 
 county, Mo., the son of Jubal and Elizabeth 
 (Mercersmith) Duncan, natives respectively of 
 Kentucky and Virginia. The father had re- 
 moved with his parents to Missouri when a 
 mere boy, and had remained at home until his 
 marriage. Two years after his death, which 
 occurred when John was only four years old, 
 Mrs. Duncan became the wife of John Isom, a 
 native of Virginia, with whom she lived in Mis- 
 souri until 1853. At tnat date they outfitted 
 with ox-teams and at the close of a six-months 
 journey, mercifully devoid of trouble with the 
 marauding Indians, they found themselves in 
 Linn county, Ore., eager and ready to make a 
 home in the then wild country. Mr. Isom at 
 once bought the squatter's right to a claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres six miles east 
 of Shedds, on which he proved up and began 
 the improvement necessary to make the farm 
 of service to him. This remained the home of 
 the family until 1878, when they removed to Al- 
 bany, where Mr. Isom had become interested in 
 industrial lines through his purchase of the Red 
 Crown mills located in that city. Until his re- 
 tirement several years later he conducted these 
 mills, after which he made his home with his 
 children. He lived to be seventy-five years old, 
 becoming one of the popular men of the times 
 through the many good qualities which distin- 
 guished his character. He was always much 
 interested in all educational and political move- 
 ments, as a Democrat, serving as county com- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1415 
 
 missioner one term and justice of the peace sev- 
 eral years. His wife still survives him and now 
 makes her home with Mrs. Scott Ward, a 
 daughter. Mrs. Isom was the mother of three 
 children by her first marriage, the only son now 
 living being John Duncan, of this review. The 
 eldest daughter, Mrs. Sarah M. Cleek, lives in 
 Albany. The children of the last marriage are 
 as follows : Frances Ann, now Mrs. Ward, of 
 Albany ; Mary C, now Mrs. Skinner, of Albany ; 
 Cynthia C. Ward, of Albany ; Alice, now Mrs. 
 Pfeiffer, of Albany ; David I., located on Muddy 
 creek ; Virginia L., now Mrs. Lanning, of Ta- 
 coraa, Wash. ; Jefferson D., on the old claim ; 
 John, of Dawson City; and Elizabeth, now Mrs. 
 Woods, a resident of California. 
 
 The education of John Duncan was received 
 through the medium of the district school in the 
 neighborhood of his home in Oregon, where he 
 remained until he had reached his twenty-first 
 year. He then ventured out into the world for 
 himself, in eastern Oregon following mining 
 and prospecting for about a year, when he en- 
 gaged in the stock business there. For three 
 years he continued in that location, at the close 
 of which time he returned to Linn county, in 
 1872 engaging in farming here. Five years later 
 he entered upon the property before mentioned, 
 and where he has met with a pleasant and pros- 
 perous return for well directed effort. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Duncan occurred in 
 1877, and united him with Miss Mary Farwell, 
 who was born in 1854 on her father's old dona- 
 tion claim. (A sketch of her family is found 
 on another page of this work.) The young 
 people went to housekeeping where they now 
 make their home. They have been blessed 
 with the birth of six children, all of whom are 
 living and are named in order of birth as fol- 
 lows : Francis R., of Plainview, married Miss 
 Fannie Rooker in 1902; John E., of Seattle, 
 Wash. ; Philip L., of Seattle ; Charles C. ; Lulu 
 E. and Ray H., the three last named still mak- 
 ing their home with their parents. A Democrat 
 in politics, Mr. Duncan is doing his part in sus- 
 taining good government, now serving as road 
 supervisor, and as school director he has been a 
 servant of the public for a great number of 
 years. He is a member of the Grange and offi- 
 ciates in the same as treasurer. 
 
 JESSE APPLEGATE. Going back to the 
 story of this brave, sturdy pioneer of Oregon, 
 brings to mind the scene often described in the 
 settlement of a new country. The father going 
 out to work, ax on his shoulder, with only prim- 
 itive tools to fell the trees, yet with patience and 
 great effort, the heavy timber was slowly cleared 
 away, leaving the rich soil exposed. Such is the 
 
 history of the Applegate family — a tale of hard- 
 working, honest people, who knew what was 
 right and were as firm as a rock against evil- 
 doing. The descendants of the illustrious family 
 are widely scattered, but wherever met they are 
 known as worthy and eminently respectable 
 people. 
 
 Jesse Applegate was born in Henry county, 
 Ky., July 5, 181 1, and was a son of Daniel and 
 Rachel (Lindsay) Applegate, the former a sol- 
 dier in the Revolutionary war and the latter a 
 daughter of John Lindsay of Kentucky. The 
 family settled near St. Louis, Mo., in 1822, and 
 Jesse Applegate was sent to school in that city. 
 He was assisted in getting an education by Hon. 
 Edward Bates, then a young lawyer, from whom 
 he obtained copying to do — in those days legal 
 papers were copied by hand. This enabled him 
 to assist in paying for his education, and he 
 learned surveying. He clerked in the surveyor 
 general's office at St. Louis and for a time was 
 also a deputy surveyor in the field. 
 
 In 1 83 1 he was joined in marriage with 
 Cynthia Parker, who was a native of Tennessee. 
 The following year they took up a land claim in 
 St. Clair county, Mo., and Mr. Applegate farmed, 
 surveyed, and kept a country store in that vicinity 
 until 1843, when he crossed the plains and 
 mountains and settled in Oregon. The first 
 winter was spent in the old mission buildings, 
 following which he located on Salt creek in Polk 
 county, which was his home until 1849, when he 
 removed to Yoncalla valley and took up a dona- 
 tion claim, upon which he and his wife are now 
 buried. 
 
 Mr. Applegate had no difficulty in receiving 
 the appointment as surveyor of donation claims 
 and surveyed many claims throughout southern 
 Oregon. He was also surveyor for Maj. Ben- 
 jamin Alvord and assisted in locating the Oregon 
 military wagon road. He soon became identified 
 with every movement on foot for the public 
 good and from that time on his life was closely 
 interwoven with the history of the Willamette 
 valley. 
 
 He was a member of the assembly that organ- 
 ized provisional government, and became one of 
 the sureties of the Hudson Bay Company for 
 arms to be furnished the volunteers during the 
 Cayuse war and in addition he from his own farm 
 gave fifteen fat cattle to feed the soldiers in the 
 field. He was leader of the first party, who, in 
 1846, reached Fort Hall by way of the southern 
 route through the Humboldt basin, which soon 
 became an established route, and he piloted the 
 first emigrants over it to Oregon. This route 
 has since been known as Applegate cut-off. He 
 surveyed the public wagon-road through the 
 state, and was one of the pioneer surveyors of 
 the Oregon and California Railroad. In 1856 
 
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 he acted as guide for Major Kearney in a cam- 
 paign against the Rogue River Indians and par- 
 ticipated in the fight when Captain Stewart was 
 kdled. He was one of a commission of three, 
 himself, and Messrs. Amory Holbrook and Ma- 
 jor Rhinearson, who were sent to settle the Fort 
 Colville difficulty in 1866. Mr. Applegate was 
 also a member of the commission appointed to 
 confer with the Modoc Indians and, if possible, 
 induce them to surrender ; when he heard the 
 terms Captain Jack dictated as to the time and 
 manner of meeting, he became convinced that 
 the Indians intended to murder the commission- 
 ers, and he told General Canby that he would not 
 meet Captain Jack on any such terms. Nor did 
 he, but General Canby and Rev. Thomas did so, 
 and were murdered. Mr. Applegate served for a 
 number of years both as justice of the peace and 
 as postmaster of Yoncalla, and in 1872 he went 
 to Modoc county, Cal., and engaged in stock- 
 raising, hoping to earn enough money to pay a 
 great debt he had incurred as security for the 
 secretary of state. But his hopes were not 
 realized, and the winter of 1872, together with 
 the Modoc war, scattered his money and took 
 what little the state surety suit had left him. 
 Thus, reduced in circumstances, but still un- 
 daunted, he began to work for hire at manual 
 labor, for Jesse D. Carr, and continued in his 
 service for several years. He then returned to 
 Oregon, and with his small savings planted a 
 vineyard on the side of Mt. Yoncalla and subse- 
 quently built a house there. In 1881, he lost his 
 beloved wife and for several years thereafter he 
 lived with his children. He died at the home of 
 his son, Alexander, April 22, 1888, and his 
 memory is revered by all who knew him. 
 
 Mr. Applegate and his wife had twelve chil- 
 dren, ten of whom grew to maturity. One child 
 died in Missouri and another was drowned in the 
 Columbia river on the way to Oregon in Novem- 
 ber, 1843. Of their descendants there are living 
 five children of the first generation ; forty-five of 
 the second generation ; forty-seven of the third 
 generation ; and four of the fourth generation. 
 
 JAMES H. BELL was born in Ontario, Octo- 
 ber 29, 1847. His father, John, a carpenter and 
 baker by trade, was born in Edinburg, Scotland, 
 in 1813, and died in Oregon in 1895. Upon emi- 
 grating to Canada as a young man, he located on 
 a large tract of government land, where he 
 farmed and applied his trades for the balance of 
 his life. His wife, Margaret (McCallum) Bell, 
 was also born in Scotland, and still makes her 
 home on the old homestead in Canada. 
 
 James H. Bell was educated in the public 
 schools in his neighborhood. At the age of 
 twenty-two he left home and spent a year in an- 
 
 other part of Canada, and then went to Grand 
 Rapids, Mich., and worked in a store for six 
 months. The following winter was spent in 
 Canada, and, in 1876, he came to Oregon, and 
 found employment with the railroad company at 
 bridge work on the Columbia river. After seven 
 months of this kind of work he returned to Can- 
 ada and sold his farm, returning to Oregon in 
 June of 1877. He was variously employed until 
 October, 1879, when he purchased his present 
 farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres. He is 
 engaged in general farming and prune-raising, 
 and has cleared about sixty acres of his place. 
 
 In 1879, Mr. Bell was united in marriage with 
 Sarah Willis, who was born in Ontario. The 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bell are as fol- 
 lows : Edward E., of Portland; Vanderbilt, at 
 home; Fred, at home; Bennett; Myrtle; Mel- 
 ville; Milner; and Willis C. Mr. Bell is inde- 
 pendent in his political views, and has served as 
 school director for fourteen years, and was school 
 clerk for five years. Fraternally he is identified 
 with the Masons of McMinnville, and with the 
 Order of Washington, of McMinnville, of which 
 latter organization he is president. 
 
 BYRON J. PENGRA. There has recently 
 passed away from the scenes of his early asso- 
 ciations a man whom all of Oregon has come to 
 know in the past fifty years, and to appreciate 
 for the evidence of a masterly ability which had 
 ever characterized his efforts toward the ad- 
 vancement of his own interests or those of his 
 adopted state. Byron J. Pengra was born Feb- 
 ruary 15, 1823, and lived to attain the age of 
 eighty years, seven months and three days, his 
 death occurring at the home of his son, W. J. 
 Pengra, near Coburg, Lane county, September 
 18, 1903. He came to Oregon in 1853 an d set- 
 tled on a claim a few miles east of the present 
 town of Springfield, Lane county, and at once 
 became identified with the political life of the 
 country. 
 
 Mr. Pengra was a Republican, and in 1858 
 was the leader and the most forcible speaker on 
 that side of the legislative campaign, and though 
 the whole ticket was defeated at that time, — the 
 territory being largely Democratic — he retained 
 his influence in the circles of his party, two years 
 later being known as absolute dictator of the 
 Oregon Republicans. He had been editing for 
 about a year the People's Press at Eugene, this 
 paper being then the Republican organ of the 
 state, and at the time of his nomination as presi- 
 dential elector he turned the paper over to Joel 
 Ware in order that he might give his undivided 
 attention to the exciting campaign before Kim. 
 Through his influence Col. Edward D. Baker 
 was induced to come north from California, not 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1417 
 
 only to help canvass Oregon for members of the 
 legislature and for Lincoln, but also to become 
 candidate for United States senator. Through 
 the division of the Democrats, the Republican 
 electors were chosen by a small majority. 
 Though not a member of the legislature, Mr. 
 Pengra went to Salem, where the legislature met, 
 and engineered the election of Colonel Baker and 
 J. W. Nesmith to the senate by uniting the Re- 
 publicans with the Douglas Democrats, and in 
 the next campaign united the two factions under 
 the name of Union Republican party. He car- 
 ried the vote of Oregon to Washington and cast 
 it for Lincoln and Hamlin. The appointment of 
 surveyor-general of Oregon was given to Mr. 
 Pengra through the influence of the senators 
 whose election he had engineered, and this office 
 he held for some years, being located in Eugene. 
 Baker and Nesmith also secured for Mr. Pengra 
 a land grant of several hundred thousand acres, 
 from Eugene to the eastern boundary of the 
 state, for a military wagon-road, which he in- 
 tended should be used for the construction of a 
 railroad at some future time. This was the cher- 
 ished ambition of his life and to its accomplish- 
 ment he gave years of energy and effort, only to 
 fail in the end, his first defeat being through the 
 amendment which Senator Williams made to his 
 railroad bill in the senate, which allowed Ben 
 Holliday to build the road through Jackson and 
 Douglass counties instead of up the Willamette 
 over Pengra's route. Many years later Mr. Pen- 
 gra was enabled to begin the building of the road 
 through the help of C. P. Huntington, who was 
 then warring with Stanford for the control of 
 the Southern Pacific, but with the settlement of 
 the differences between those two men work was 
 discontinued and Mr. Pengra was once more dis- 
 appointed in his ambitious efforts. After that 
 time Mr. Pengra made his home in eastern Ore- 
 gon on the line of the road which had taken all 
 of his energy and been the dream of his life. 
 The failure to accomplish this object was one 
 out of a life of successes, his ability and tenacity 
 bringing about results aimed for in almost all 
 other lines, all of which added to the growth and 
 prosperity of the state wherein he made his 
 home. He did much for the development of 
 Oregon, and will long be remembered as a factor 
 in the pioneer days of the state. 
 
 MRS. JULIA A. KIRK was born in Sanga- 
 mon county. 111., nine miles north of Springfield, 
 September 19, 1834, and was eleven years old 
 when she accompanied her parents across the 
 plains. She was united in marriage with Will- 
 iam Riley Kirk, who was born in Tennessee. 
 His father, Alexander Kirk, had removed from 
 Tennessee, also the state of his birth, when Will- 
 
 iam Riley was but two years of age, locating 
 first in Missouri, and following this up with a 
 trip to Oregon in 1846. The first year of his 
 residence in Oregon was spent in Yamhill county, 
 the next year finding him on a donation claim 
 near Brownsville, Linn county, the land now oc- 
 cupied by the southern part of the city having 
 once been a part of his claim. His death oc- 
 curred in Umatilla county, Ore., after a very 
 successful life spent in the state of his adoption. 
 Upon attaining manhood William Riley Kirk 
 took up a donation claim one and a half miles 
 east of Brownsville, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing until 1870, when he located in the city and 
 became interested in general merchandise. Later 
 he purchased a large interest in the Brownsville 
 Woolen mills, which he served as president for 
 many years. During the financial panic of 1893 
 his business suffered heavily, the total loss of his 
 fortune being averted only by his masterly ef- 
 forts to weather the storm. From that year his 
 health gradually declined and he died September 
 24, 1901. 
 
 Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kirk, 
 Andrew J. and Nathan are engaged in farming 
 near Brownsville; Sarah Jane makes her home 
 with her mother; A. Lincoln lives in Browns- 
 ville; America is now the wife of D. M. Cush- 
 man, a farmer in the vicinity, and Alexander is 
 a resident of Brownsville. Mr. Kirk was a Re- 
 publican in politics, and was associated frater- 
 nally with the Odd Fellows. Both himself and 
 wife were members of the Methodist Church. 
 
 PETER HANSEN was born in Knudsker 
 county, Denmark, November 10, 1857, the son of 
 Follenstein Hansen, a native of the town of 
 Hasle, Clemensker county, of the same country. 
 The mother was, in maidenhood, Christina M. 
 Peterson, who died in 1899 at the age of eighty- 
 one years, having always been a resident of her 
 Danish home. Six children were born of their 
 union, three daughters and three sons, of whom 
 Peter was the fifth. The father had early learned 
 the carpenter's trade, and until his forty-fifth 
 year had engaged in the pursuit of this calling, 
 but at this time he left the town for a farm, fol- 
 lowing this business up to the present time, being 
 now eighty-five years old, and like his wife, sat- 
 isfied to remain in the land of his birth. 
 
 At nineteen years of age Peter Hansen entered 
 the regular army of Denmark, in which he 
 served for fifteen months as a private. His 
 father had been able to give him a good educa- 
 tion by allowing him to attend the public schools, 
 and also the high school for two winters. At 
 twenty-three he left home and the next year he 
 came to the United States, following his brother, 
 who was located in Colorado, where he was en- 
 
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 gaged in mining. For three months the young 
 emigrant remained there, at the close of that time 
 coming on to Portland, Ore., where he secured 
 employment on the dry docks. This enabled 
 him to purchase land upon which to enter into 
 the work for which his early training inclined 
 him, and in 1883 he came to Eola, and in con- 
 nection with his brother bought a farm near Oak 
 Grove, upon which they remained for two years. 
 In 1890 Mr. Hansen bought his present farm of 
 two hundred and five acres, located near Dallas, 
 of the same county. He has one hundred and 
 twenty acres in active cultivation, a commodious 
 residence, hop-house and good barns of all kinds. 
 Mr. Hansen married, October 23, 1902, Miss 
 Kate Fink, the daughter of Dr. Fink, whose 
 sketch appears elsewhere in this work. A Re- 
 publican in his political affiliations he has been 
 selected by that party to fill the office of school 
 director of his district. Mr. Hansen belongs to 
 the Lutheran Church, in which he was reared in 
 his Danish home. 
 
 HENRY CLANFIELD. The paternal ances- 
 tors of Mr. Clanfield have for many years been 
 natives of Berkshire, England, his grandfather 
 being John and his father, Robert Clanfield. The 
 latter is now living in that county, over eighty 
 years of age. He married Miss Mary Howse, 
 born in Oxfordshire, and she died in 1893 at the 
 age of sixty-five years. Nine children were born 
 to them, seven of whom are now living. Henry 
 Clanfield was the eldest, and was born October 
 3, 1845, and his father being a farmer he was 
 reared to that life. His early education was re- 
 ceived in the public schools of England. At the 
 age of twenty-three years he emigrated to the 
 United States, settling in Shelby county, 111., 
 where he engaged in farm work, continuing in 
 the same for four years. Coming to Oregon 
 about 1873 he located near McMinnville, where 
 he was employed by David Logan for two years, 
 at the end of this time going into Marion county 
 and renting a farm in the Waldo hills. After 
 five years' residence on that place he came to 
 Polk county and bought the farm which he now 
 owns, the latter purchase containing two hun- 
 dred and forty-nine acres, in addition to which 
 he has added by purchase one hundred and ten 
 acres, one-half mile east of his home and one 
 hundred and forty-seven acres southwest of Dal- 
 las, at Luckiamute. One hundred and eighty 
 acres is in active cultivation, upon which he is 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising. 
 He has sixty-five acres devoted exclusively to 
 hop-cultivation. 
 
 Mr. Clanfield married, in 1877, Martha 
 Palmer, a native of Minnesota, and they now 
 have six children living, of whom Mary Smith 
 
 lives in Mill Creek ; Hannah Dodson makes her 
 home near Monmouth; George, Bert, Elizabeth 
 and Elona are still at home with their parents. 
 Independent in his political views, Mr. Clan- 
 field has been elected to several offices by the vote 
 of the best men of all beliefs, his integrity and 
 judgment making him an able representative of 
 the people. He has held the positions of road 
 supervisor and school director and clerk. He 
 adheres to the tenets of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 JAMES HENDERSON McFARLAND. 
 Variously engaged since coming to Oregon in 
 1853, James Henderson McFarland has well uti- 
 lized the opportunities that have come within 
 his grasp and is today regarded as one of the 
 large land owners and very substantial men of 
 Lane county. Of an old southern family, he was 
 born in Cooper county, Mo., July 4, 1845, his 
 father, John Ward, and his mother, Lavica Mc- 
 Farland being natives respectively of North 
 Carolina and Texas. John Ward McFarland 
 was born February 20, 1809, and as a young 
 man removed to Illinois, and from there to 
 Cooper county, Mo., where he engaged in farm- 
 ing for several years. His wife dying in Cooper 
 county, leaving to his care three sons, of whom 
 James was the youngest, he thought to improve 
 his prospects by emigration to the west, and ac- 
 cordingly invested a large share of the proceeds 
 of the sale of his farm in oxen and other equip- 
 ment for the long journey. This was in 1853, 
 and the trip was the second undertaken by Mr. 
 McFarland, who had driven a team across coun- 
 try for his brother in 1850. He reached his des- 
 tination on the second trip without any particu- 
 lar incident, and took up a claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres one and a half miles from 
 Cottage Grove, where his death occurred in 1880. 
 He married again in later life, and there were 
 several children of this union, all of whom sur- 
 vived him. 
 
 Left motherless at the age of nine months, 
 James Henderson McFarland was given into the 
 care of his aunts, but rejoined his father ere he 
 set out on his second journey over the plains. 
 He helped to clear the Oregon farm, and made 
 himself generally useful around the home place 
 until 1862, when he took advantage of the Sal- 
 mon River mine excitement in Idaho, going there 
 and remaining on the scene for about a month. 
 Returning home, he worked with his father, and 
 November ir, 1865, married Sophrona Knox, 
 born in Schuyler county, Mo., in 1847 a daugh- 
 ter of Samuel Barton Knox, a native of Ken- 
 tucky. Mr. Knox removed to Illinois at a very 
 early day, and upon coming overland to Oregon 
 in 1853 located on a section of land four miles 
 north of this place. He died at the home of his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1419 
 
 daughter, Mrs. S. E. Veatch, in 1894, at the age 
 of eighty-five years. He was a very successful 
 tanner and general business man, leaving quite 
 a large estate to those dependent on his care. In 
 1867 the elder McFarland turned his property 
 over to his son, he being an invalid for several 
 years before his death. 
 
 From 1865 until 1875 Mr. McFarland varied 
 his home work by running a threshing machine 
 in this county, and thus became familiar with its 
 resources, its people and its possibilities. At 
 times he has made his home in Cottage Grove, 
 and from 1900 until 1902 successfully owned and 
 managed a butcher shop here. He has always 
 been greatly interested in high-grade stock, and 
 in the days of his greatest agricultural prosperity 
 furnished some of the finest horses in this coun- 
 ty. During the Civil war he was a member of 
 Company E, Home Guard Cavalry. He is a Re- 
 publican in political preference, and is a stanch 
 friend of education, although his own chances 
 were limited in the extreme. Six children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. McFarland, four sons 
 and two daughters : Annie Laura is the wife of 
 W. W. Chrisman, of the Row river, Ore. ; 
 Charles Austin living on the home farm ; George 
 Wilbur, also on the home place ; William War- 
 ren, a clerk in Cottage Grove ; John Franklin, 
 engaged in the meat market business in this 
 town ; and Lillie Myrtle, living at home. Mr. 
 McFarland is public spirited, and generously dis- 
 posed towards all enterprises which have for their 
 object the upbuilding of the community. His 
 influence has always been exerted on the side of 
 temperance and morality, and the time-honored 
 association of word and bond is not misapplied 
 in his case. 
 
 DARWIN BRISTOW. The inheritance of 
 an untarnished name is a legacy prized beyond 
 all others, and when accompanied by these traits 
 and characteristics which have kept the purity of 
 the name untouched it is indeed a foundation 
 upon which to build a lifework. Darwin Bris- 
 tow has in all truth followed the standard set 
 by his father, becoming an honored citizen of 
 the county in which his father was a pioneer and 
 in which Darwin Birstow was born. He is suc- 
 cessfully engaged in the mercantile business and 
 is also conducting a banking institution of Cot- 
 tage Grove, Lane county, being now president 
 of the bank which was incorporated in the fall 
 of 1900 as the First National Bank of Cottage 
 Grove. The capital stock is $25,000 with a small 
 surplus, and this has grown from a beginning of 
 $5,000, application to the work wherein talent 
 was so rightfully placed bringing about these sat- 
 isfactory results. The merchandise stock is 
 valued at $25,000, and this also was commenced 
 
 on a small scale, November, 1884, witnessing the 
 mercantile venture of Mr. Bristow and Herbert 
 Eakin, then purchasing the bankrupt stock of 
 Luckey & Noland, and together the two have re- 
 mained until the present day. 
 
 The father of Mr. Bristow, the Hon. William 
 Wilshire Bristow, was born in Kentucky, July 
 18, 1826, but was reared in McDonough county, 
 111., whither his parents removed. In the year 
 1848 he made the journey to Oregon with ox- 
 teams, on his arrival locating on a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres at Pleasant Hill, 
 Lane county, and in the following year he made 
 the trip to California in the hope of finding a 
 fortune in the gold fields. The fall following he 
 returned to his claim and at once began improv- 
 ing and cultivating it, and in the spring of 1850 
 or 1 85 1 he taught the first school in the county. 
 Always interested and active in public move- 
 ments he was often called upon to fill official posi- 
 tions. He served as justice of the peace for many 
 years and also as postmaster. He was a dele- 
 gate to the constitutional convention in 1857 an d 
 the year following was elected one of the first 
 state senators from Lane county, where he was 
 an able representative for the people in assisting 
 in the first legislative movements of the state. 
 Fie was again elected to the state senate in 1870 
 and served until 1874. His death occurred in the 
 latter year, when he was only forty-eight years 
 old. One of the chief interests of the life of Mr. 
 Bristow was the mercantile business with which 
 he became connected in 1865 in Eugene, pur- 
 chasing in that year a one-third interest with 
 the Bristow & Company mercantile firm, which 
 was then composed of his brother Elijah L. Bris- 
 tow and T. B. Hendricks, and with this work he 
 remained until his death. Fraternally Mr. Bris- 
 tow had been a Mason for many years. 
 
 The father of this family was not the first who 
 settled in the west as a pioneer, his own father 
 having preceded his emigration by three years. 
 Elijah Bristow, a native of Virginia, after his 
 emigration to Kentucky, and thence to Illinois, 
 followed this up with the journey across the 
 plains in 1845 an d became the first white settler 
 of Lane county, Ore. He located at Pleasant 
 Hill, and there took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres and built the first house 
 of the county, which is still standing upon the 
 land, and there his death occurred. He had been 
 a leader in his county, giving freely of time and 
 means in his broad-minded efforts to advance the 
 cause of growth and civilization in this western 
 land, being the first to donate land upon which to 
 establish schools. 
 
 Darwin Bristow was born December 21, 1862, 
 at Pleasant Hill, Ore., the youngest child of the 
 three daughters and one son born to his mother, 
 who was formerly Elizabeth Coffey, of Illinois^ 
 
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 and who died quite young in her western home. 
 Darwin Bristow was educated first in the com- 
 mon school near his home, entering the Univer- 
 sity of Oregon in 1880, graduating from the nor- 
 mal course in 1884 with the degree of A. B. 
 During the vacations of summer he became a 
 cow-boy in southeastern Oregon, enjoying a wild, 
 free life which better fitted him for the world 
 of books when school was once more opened. In 
 November, 1884, as before stated, he entered 
 upon a mercantile life, no inconsiderable knowl- 
 edge having been gained through his occasional 
 clerking for T. G. Hendricks, with whom he 
 made his home after his father's death, Mr. Hen- 
 dricks having been appointed administrator of 
 the estate and guardian of the children. In 1892 
 the banking institution was established as a pri- 
 vate affair, and from that has grown the present 
 substantial and remunerative business which 
 adds in no little degree to the financial prestige 
 of the town. Mr. Bristow, in company with F. 
 L. Chambers and others of Eugene, have formed 
 a banking firm under the name of the Chambers- 
 Bristow Banking Company, and during January 
 of 1903 opened the bank at Eugene with a capital 
 stock of $50,000. Mr. Bristow will, however, 
 retain his business interests in Cottage Grove for 
 an indefinite period. 
 
 Mr. Bristow was married in Cottage Grove to 
 Mary L. Medley, a native of Iowa, and the 
 daughter of James N. Medley, who emigrated to 
 Oregon in 1874 and settled in Lane county, and 
 now makes his home in Eugene. The following 
 children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Bristow : Greta E. ; William Wilshire ; Darwin 
 Darrel ; Evelyn ; Dorothy, and Helen. With 
 the exception of Dorothy, who died in early child- 
 hood, the children are all at home. In his polit- 
 ical relations, being a Republican, Mr. Bristow 
 is very active, having served five terms as mayor 
 of this city, in the city council one term, and as 
 city treasurer two terms. He has also been a 
 member to the state convention and of the county 
 central committee for many years past. He is 
 a member of the Christian Church. Fraternally 
 Mr. Bristow is quite prominent among the Ma- 
 sons, having served for two terms as master of 
 Cottage Grove Lodge No. 51, A. F. & A. M., 
 belongs to Eugene Lodge No. 10, R. A. M., 
 Ivanhoe Commandery No. 2, at Eugene ; the 
 Mystic Shrine of Al Kader Temple, of Port- 
 land, and is a past grand patron of the Eastern 
 Star of Oregon. 
 
 TOHN F. KELLY, vice-president of the 
 Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Eugene, was 
 born on a farm near Roseburg, Douglas county, 
 Ore., December 11, 1857, and is a son of John 
 and Elizabeth (Parker) Kelly, both pioneers of 
 
 Oregon. (For early history of the family, see 
 sketches of John Kelly and Rev. P. C. Parker, 
 which appear elsewhere in this volume.) His 
 early environment was such as to stimulate and 
 encourage ambitious tendencies, but he soon 
 learned that while influence and friendly inter- 
 cession may give to a youth of character an op- 
 portunity, it cannot so place him as to continue 
 him in a line of promotion unless he possesses 
 the substantial merit, together with a character 
 which counts no effort too great nor sacrifice 
 too dear in the fulfillment of obligations or the 
 performance of duties. Early in life he realized 
 that the world is moving so rapidly that a man 
 must become a part of his work — otherwise he 
 may expect to see another step in and do it for 
 him. He therefore puts so much force and good 
 cheer into his daily work that the efforts of his 
 associates and subordinates are stimulated by his 
 example. 
 
 The first nine years of Mr. Kelly's life were 
 spent on the home farm. When the University 
 of Oregon was opened to the youth of the state 
 he was a pupil in the public schools of Spring- 
 field, Lane county. Ambitious to equip himself 
 as fully as possible for a successful business ca- 
 reer, he entered the university with the first 
 class, continuing his studies in the classical de- 
 partment for three years. He subsequently at- 
 tended the Portland Business College. Feeling 
 satisfied that this educational foundation would 
 prove sufficiently strong to support any structure 
 he might elect to build upon it, he started forth 
 to make his own way in the world. After devot- 
 ing four years to the railway mail service in 
 Oregon, he served another four years in the reg- 
 istry department of the Portland postoffice under 
 Postmasters Cole and Steel. After resigning 
 this position he went to Ashland, then the south- 
 ern terminus of the Oregon & California Rail- 
 road, and engaged in the forwarding and com- 
 mission business for three years with H. B. 
 Miller & Co. At the same time he conducted a 
 large hardware and implement business in Ash- 
 land, disposing of it just before the extension of 
 the railroad was begun in 1885. Mr. Kelly and 
 Mr. Miller next engaged in a lumber manufac- 
 turing business at Grant's Pass under the style 
 of the Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Company. 
 In this occupation Mr. Kelly felt perfectly at 
 home, for from his earliest boyhood he had fa- 
 miliarized himself with the details of the lumber 
 trade, his father being largely interested in the 
 pineries of the state. The partners continued 
 together for some time, and to their aid came 
 such business men as John C. Carson, George H. 
 Keely, H. C. Kinney and R. A. Booth, as well as 
 many others. They purchased several mills in 
 southern Oregon, built others, and operated 
 them as manufactories of doors, boxes and build- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1421 
 
 ing materials. After the incorporation of the 
 Booth-Kelly Lumber Company in 1895, the con- 
 cern purchased the property of the J. I. Jones 
 Lumber Company at Saginaw, rebuilt and en- 
 larged the mill, and established the main office at 
 Eugene. In 1899 they built the mill at Wend- 
 ling, on the Mohawk river, soon afterward pur- 
 chased the Coburg mill, and in 1902 erected the 
 new mill at Springfield. The Saginaw mill has 
 a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand 
 feet in twenty hours ; the Springfield mill has a 
 capacity of two hundred and fifty thousand feet 
 in twenty hours ; the Wendling mill has a ca- 
 pacity of two hundred and fifty thousand feet in 
 twenty hours, and the Coburg mill has a capac- 
 ity of one hundred and sixty thousand feet in 
 twenty hours. Each of the five mills owned and 
 operated by the company in southern Oregon 
 has a capacity of about forty thousand feet in 
 ten hours. 
 
 The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company has pur- 
 chased large areas of timber lands on the Mc- 
 Kenzie river, owns vast tracts in Lake, Jo- 
 sephine and Klamath counties, and buys the en- 
 tire output of the mills in Tosephine county and 
 other points along the Southern Pacific railroad. 
 It employs more than one thousand men directly, 
 while indirectly it gives employment to fully two 
 thousand five hundred more. It is undoubtedly 
 doing more to turn to practical use the un- 
 equalled timber lands of the northwest than any 
 other human agency in Oregon. Mr. Kelly was 
 the president of the company for seven and a 
 half years. Since assuming the vice-presidency 
 his former place has been taken by F. H. Buck, 
 of Yacaville, Cal. 
 
 Individually. Mr. Kelly is a large property 
 owner. Besides his own home in Eugene he has 
 several farms. He keenly appreciates the ad- 
 vantages surrounding the residents of Eugene, 
 and his vitalizing energy permeates other phases 
 of the state's activity. He is one of the directors 
 of the Roseburg Bank. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican, and fraternally he is connected with 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 Mr. Kelly is recognized as one of the most 
 sagacious business men of Oregon. To enumer- 
 ate the causes which have led to his success one 
 must look to such homely attributes as grit, de- 
 termination, industry and integrity. With these 
 are combined inherent business ability, which 
 has been developed by constant concentration 
 upon the enterprises which he has helped to 
 build up. and the success of which has placed 
 him among the wealthiest captains of industry in 
 the Willamette valley. Thus is an honored pio- 
 neer name more firmly rooted in the strength 
 and great accomplishment of the state of Ore- 
 gon, adding yet another link to a chain upon 
 which obstacles and discouragements have pulled 
 
 in vain, and furnishing additional proof of the 
 world's estimation of noble personal character- 
 istics. 
 
 Mr. Kelly was united in marriage at Newport, 
 Ore., December 18, 1901, with Mrs. Ida (Hof- 
 lein) Patterson, a native of Lane county and a 
 daughter of J. C. Hoflein, of Newport. Mrs. 
 Kelly is the mother of two children by her for- 
 mer marriage, Llovd H. and Flora. 
 
 HUGH S. MONTGOMERY. What is 
 known as South Falls City has been platted and 
 laid out by Hugh S. Montgomery, who came to 
 Oregon in 1889, and bought six hundred acres of 
 land, upon which he farmed for some time. One 
 hundred and sixty acres of this land has been laid 
 aside for the town site, and constitutes the basis 
 of the real-estate business at present being con- 
 ducted by Mr. Montgomery. The great grand- 
 father and grandfather both emigrated from Ire- 
 land to the United States and died in the state of 
 Pennsylvania, the latter having arrived in this 
 country in 1806, settling in Philadelphia, al- 
 though his death occurred in Greenfield. His 
 son, John, came with him from Ireland in 1806, 
 he having been born there December 15, 1795. 
 In time he acquired property of his own and be- 
 came one of the successful farmers of his dis- 
 trict, his age at the time of his death being 
 eighty-nine years. His wife, Elizabeth, was 
 born in Susquehanna county, Pa., and her father, 
 William Robinson, was born in Ireland. He 
 came to America at an early day, and in Pennsyl- 
 vania preached the gospel from the Baptist pul- 
 pits, he having been reared in the faith of the 
 Free Will members of that church. 
 
 The nine children of John Montgomery were 
 reared to industry and economy, and all had to 
 work hard on the paternal farm. Hugh S. was 
 no exception to the rule, although he, as well as 
 the others, profited by educational advantages 
 made possible by their father's success and their 
 own application. Hugh was born in Luzerne 
 county, Pa., April 15, 1827, and was the second 
 oldest in the family. After completing his edu- 
 cation in the public schools he attended Harvard 
 Academy, and at the age of thirty engaged in in- 
 dependent farming in Pennsylvania. He was not 
 so well satisfied with his native state but that he 
 was ambitious of larger opportunities, and in 
 1889 he made arrangements to settle in Oregon, 
 his choice of location resting on Falls City. His 
 first marriage was celebrated in Pennsylvania, 
 and was with Ellen, daughter of Isaac Griggs, 
 who died in Pennsylvania leaving two children, 
 of whom George is deceased : and John is a resi- 
 dent of Falls City. The second marriage of Mr. 
 Montgomery was with Esther Vail, born in 
 Pennsylvania, and daughter of John Vail, of 
 
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 Greenfield, Pa., and a farmer by occupation. 
 Two children were born of this union, Richard 
 and Hugh, both of whom died at the age of nine 
 years. A Prohibitionist in politics, Mr. Mont- 
 gomery has been a member of the town council 
 for two terms, but has never worked for or as- 
 pired to public office. He is a devout member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many 
 years has attended its services and contributed 
 to its support. 
 
 JOHN M. MITCHELL who now makes his 
 home in Independence, Polk county, Ore., traces 
 his ancestry back to the Emerald Isle, his grand- 
 father, Robert Mitchell, having emigrated to the 
 United States early in the eighteenth century, 
 settling in Chester, N. H. He was a sea captain 
 and his life was spent in many lands, his death 
 occurring far from home, among the then prim- 
 itive conditions of Louisiana. His son, Robert 
 was born in Chester, N. H., and, after a resi- 
 dence in Maine, he removed to Minnesota in 
 1864, locating at Clearwater, where he lived re- 
 tired at eighty-two years of age, but returning 
 in 1871 to Maine, he spent the remaining years 
 of his life in the city of Leeds of that state, dying 
 at the ripe old age of ninety-seven years. He 
 was a carpenter and contractor and also served in 
 the war of 1812. His wife was in maidenhood, 
 Miss Sallie Irland, born in Skowhegan, Me., and 
 died in that state. Five children blessed their 
 union, and of the two sons and three daughters 
 the youngest was John M., born in Vienna, Me., 
 September 27, 1822. 
 
 John M. Mitchell learned the trade of his 
 father, adding to that the cabinetmaker's trade. 
 In 1850 he removed to Lowell, Mass., where he 
 engaged in the manufacture of sash and doors, 
 continuing for four years, after which he re- 
 turned to his native state, and settling in Dexter, 
 engaged in the same business. In 1857 ne took 
 the sash and door manufactory to Clearwater, 
 Minn., and in connection with this invested in a 
 grist mill, which yielded him fair returns until 
 his removal to Litchfield, of the same state, 
 where he built the first residence in that town. 
 He made the trip to California in 1869. Locat- 
 ing in Cloverdale, he opened a repair shop for 
 buggies and wagons, but in 1871 he purchased a 
 ranch in Mendocino county, from which he re- 
 turned to Cloverdale and passed another year. 
 From Navarro Ridge, where he engaged for two 
 years in the manufacture of shingles, he came in 
 1879, to Oregon, locating in Independence, Polk 
 county, and engaged in his former business, and, 
 except for a short time spent in a repair shop, 
 continued in the manufacture of sash and doors 
 until 1898, in this year disposing of the substan- 
 tial factory which he and his son-in-law had 
 
 erected in 1889. In 1899 Mr. Mitchell built a 
 creamery which he now rents, having retired 
 from the active cares of life. 
 
 In Kingfield, Me., in 1843, Mr - Mitchell was 
 married to Miss Wealthy Otis, a native of that 
 city, whose father, Thomas, was born in New 
 Hampshire and reared to the life of a farmer, his 
 death occurring in Kingfield, Me., in 1876, at the 
 age of seventy-six years. Of the four children 
 born of the union Lucidia is now deceased ; Flora 
 is now the wife of Clay Spurr, of San Francisco, 
 Cal. ; Walter is deceased, and Nettie is the wife 
 of J. S. Bohannon. As a Republican Mr. 
 Mitchell was called upon in his Minnesota home 
 to serve as school director and road supervisor. 
 He is identified with the Masons, being a mem- 
 ber of the Blue Lodge and the Chapter. 
 
 ISAAC BARCLAY. Lane county, perpetu- 
 ating the name and fame of Gen. Joseph Lane, 
 the "Mariner of the West," has fulfilled the ex- 
 pectations of the pioneers who chose her from 
 the variety of lands represented in Oregon, and 
 thereafter devoted the best years of their lives 
 to the establishment of the prestige she holds 
 among the counties of the state. None has 
 more interestedly and helpfully watched the as- 
 sociation of man and nature in the onward 
 march than Isaac Barclay, and none more hope- 
 fully turned up the first sod, and gathered his 
 first beneficent harvest. To have accomplished 
 much through the efforts of one's hands and 
 brain, and minus financial or other assistance, is 
 one of the things for which Mr. Barclay is truly 
 grateful. He attributes much of his success to 
 the fact that he was obliged to hew out his own 
 fortunes, and that he had to begin to do it early 
 in life. His childhood was spent on a farm in 
 Fulton county, 111., where he was born May 12, 
 1832, and where he laid the foundation for a 
 strong constitution in outdoor labor. His father 
 was moderately successful, and to an otherwise 
 worthy life added meritorious service as a 
 ranger in the Black Hawk war. 
 
 With a very meagre education Mr. Barclay 
 started out to make an independent livelihood in 
 his fourteenth year, working for the surround- 
 ing farmers in Fulton county, at whose homes 
 he heard a great deal about the splendid chances 
 the other side of the Rocky mountains. An un- 
 looked-for opportunity came to him to test the 
 truth of the glowing accounts, and as a driver of 
 an ox-team for Samuel Smith he was enabled to 
 reach the state of which he had heard so much. 
 The train of which he was a member consisted 
 only of seven wagons, yet they had compara- 
 tively little trouble, the Indians being peacefully 
 inclined, and illness passing them by throughout 
 their journey. However, they had a terrible ex- 
 
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 1423 
 
 perience after their provisions gave out, and for 
 four days and nights were without food or water. 
 Coming direct to Lane county, Mr. Barclay took 
 up a claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 live miles northwest of Pleasant Hill, but having 
 no money with which to build or develop his 
 land he went to Douglas county and engaged in 
 general labor for about a year. Frugal and 
 thrifty, he saved nearly all his earnings, an in- 
 centive to do so being found in a winsome 
 maiden by the name of Sarah G. Freeman, who 
 had crossed the plains in his party, having pre- 
 viously moved from her native state of New 
 York to Illinois. Returning with his little hoard 
 Mr. Barclay settled with zest on his claim, and 
 soon after married the girl of his choice, and 
 who proved helpful and courageous as the wife 
 of a poor, but very ambitious man. To them 
 one daughter, Flora Blanche, the wife of Z. S. 
 Smith, on Fall creek, was born, and they have 
 two children living, Eva Pearl and John F. The 
 housekeeping arrangements were crude in the 
 extreme, but sincere regard and the desire to 
 found a real home lighted the way to better 
 things, and after several years of hard work and 
 economy, comforts and even luxuries were 
 added to the home. During 1869 Mr- Barclay 
 left his farm in the hands of his children and 
 went to the mines of Idaho, and also farmed, 
 but finally decided that his Lane county claim 
 was as profitable and pleasant as any home he 
 could hope to find in the northwest. He owns 
 two hundred and fifty acres at the present time, 
 forty of which are under cultivation. Skirting 
 the Willamette, the situation is admirable, the 
 land fertile, and well adapted to the large stock- 
 raising aspirations of the owner. A large and 
 comfortable house, adequate barns and out- 
 houses, and all manner of modern agricultural 
 improvements contribute to the peace and happi- 
 ness of one of the highly honored early settlers 
 of Lane county. 
 
 SILAS M. TITUS. An example of energy, 
 pluck and perseverance is to be found in the life 
 of Silas M. Titus, who came to Oregon in 1852, 
 empty-handed, save for the courage and earnest- 
 ness of purpose which had already led him to 
 become independent, since he had made his own 
 way in the world from the age of eleven years. 
 He was born in Knox county, Ohio, June 6, 
 1828, and is the only one living of a family of 
 twelve children born to his parents, John and 
 Mary (Konkle) Titus, the father dying when 
 Silas was seven years old and the mother when 
 he was eleven. Ten of the children attained 
 maturity, but only one found his way into the 
 broader opportunities of a western life. 
 
 Left alone and penniless, this lad struck 
 
 bravely out into the world, undaunted by the 
 task which lay before him, first finding employ- 
 ment in Numa, Ind., on a farm, while he at- 
 tended school during the winters. He remained 
 there for two years, when he went to Wapello 
 county, Iowa, where he worked as a farm hand 
 for four years. He then began farming on his 
 own resources, raising a crop and feeding hogs, 
 which he drove to Keokuk and sold. Through 
 the glowing reports from the west, Mr. Titus 
 was induced to cast in his lot with the pioneers 
 of Oregon. He joined another man who was 
 outfitting for the trip, furnishing his own pro- 
 visions and one yoke of cattle, and on April 20, 
 1852, they lett Iowa and began the journey. 
 Beyond the events incident to life on the plains 
 the journey was safely completed, their destina- 
 tion being reached October 1 of the same year. 
 Mr. Titus had but one ox left, which he sold for 
 $20. The day after his arrival, with his custom- 
 ary expedition, he entered the employ of Hen- 
 derson Llewellyn, a horticulturist of Milwaukee, 
 Ore., his remuneration to be $50 per month. 
 For two years Mr. Titus remained in this em- 
 ployment, when he went to the mines in south- 
 ern Oregon and worked for $4 per day and his 
 board. In 1855 he went to Eugene, when there 
 were only about a dozen houses there. He was 
 then in the employ of the government, freight- 
 ing provisions to the soldiers of the Rogue River 
 war. Afterward he worked at different occupa- 
 tions until the spring of 1857, when he located 
 a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres at 
 Goshen, Lane county, which he proceeded to 
 improve and cultivate, as it was entirely wild 
 land. He engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising. In 1862 he went to the Salmon river 
 and spent some time prospecting, July 3 of that 
 year finding him with only $1.50. He then went 
 to work at $4 per day, and also conducted a store 
 at night, and when he returned to his home in 
 Lane county, October 1, he had $850. The fol- 
 lowing year he raised another crop, and in the 
 spring of 1864 he had $600 left. Two-thirds of 
 this he invested in cattle and took them to the 
 present site of La Grande, where he engaged in 
 stock-trading for two years. Through good 
 management and business judgment this brought 
 him in $3,000, with which he again returned to 
 the northwestern part of the state, the summer 
 following engaging in teaming in Portland, 
 after which he bought a thresher and located on 
 his farm. Tn the fall he disposed of the thresher 
 and located in Eugene, where he bought a livery 
 stable en Ninth street, and for fourteen years 
 conducted the same with marked success, when 
 he engaged in the hardware business, and so con- 
 tinued for the ensuing two years. He then sold 
 out and became interested in the real estate pos- 
 sibilities of Eugene, and with Col. J. A. Straight 
 
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 as a partner he laid out Glenwood Park addition, 
 three hundred acres cut up into five and ten-acre 
 tracts, with the exception of ten acres which 
 were laid out into city lots. Though in this 
 business a few days less than nine months, he 
 cleared $4,300, and this venture closed his busi- 
 ness career, as he then retired to private life. 
 He owns the lot at the corner of Ninth and Wil- 
 lamette streets, upon which he erected a brick 
 building, the dimensions of which are 60x160 
 feet, and also owns his farm and other property. 
 Mr. Titus was married in Cloverdale, Ore., to 
 Miss Georgetta Pierce, a native of Hamilton, 
 Ohio, and the daughter of Greenberry Pierce. 
 The latter came to Oregon in 1852, having 
 crossed the plains to California in 1849, where 
 he remained for a short time and then returned 
 to Ohio. Two children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Titus, of whom John A. is located on 
 the home farm, and Alice is the wife of John 
 O'Brien, of Albany. Fraternally Mr. Titus be- 
 came an Odd Fellow in 1868, and politically 
 casts his ballot with the Democratic party. 
 
 HENRY L. MITCHEL. An orderly and 
 hospitable home from the gateway of which has 
 come forth worthy sons and daughters to par- 
 ticipate in the moving events of Lane county, 
 was that of James G. Mitchel, a pioneer of 1852, 
 and prominent agriculturally, politically and re- 
 ligiously. The member of the second generation 
 on the coast of whom special mention is here 
 made is Henry L. Mitchel, who inherits the 
 stable traits of his father, and who is the owner 
 of a finely improved farm of one hundred and 
 thirty acres on Pleasant Hill. 
 
 James G. Mitchel was born in Darke county, 
 Ohio, in August, 1818, and at a very early day 
 removed with some of his family to Iowa. His 
 father followed the trade of stonemason, and the 
 son in youth mastered the trade under his sire, 
 working thereat at different periods of his life. 
 He married in Iowa, in 1846, Miranda Shelly, 
 a native of Illinois, and in 1852 sold his farm, 
 and prepared to emigrate to the west. With his 
 wife and children he started out under the most 
 favorable conditions, having plenty of oxen and 
 provisions, and being well prepared for any 
 weather emergency. The Indians proved peace- 
 ful along their path, but illness brought sorrow 
 to the little family, and one of the children was 
 left in a little wayside grave. Upon taking an 
 inventory of their possessions at the end of the 
 journey, one ox and one cow and a limited 
 amount of provisions were found with which to 
 begin life in their new home. The father took 
 up a claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 fifteen miles southeast of Eugene, and here the 
 parents spent the balance of their lives, the 
 
 mother attaining to forty-seven, and the father 
 to seventy-six years. No farm in the neighbor- 
 hood held out such inducements for sociability 
 and hospitality as did that of the Mitchel fam- 
 ily, and neighbors deemed it a privilege to gather 
 under its low ceilings and partake of the abun- 
 dantly supplied larder. The mother, from earli- 
 est girlhood, took a keen interest in church work, 
 contributing to the extent of her means towards 
 all humanitarian and charitable opportunities 
 which appealed to her judgment. 
 
 On this finely improved farm of the pioneer 
 settler his son, Henry L., was born November 
 17, 1 86 1, and like his brothers and sisters was 
 educated primarily in the district schools. He 
 has never wandered far from the scene of his 
 birth and childhood, and now occupies a portion 
 of the old claim, his sister, Jane, occupying the 
 rest of the farm. He moved into his present 
 house immediately after his marriage, in 1887, 
 with Ellen Teeter, who was born in California 
 and reared in Lane county, Ore. They are the 
 parents of four children, three of whom are liv- 
 ing: Raymond, James Gregory, and Anna L. 
 Seventy acres of the farm of Mr. Mitchel are 
 under cultivation, and he carries on general 
 farming and stock-raising, devoting particular 
 attention to the latter. The finest of Cotswold 
 sheep and Jersey cattle roam on his meadows, 
 and bring in a handsome profit to swell the 
 yearly earnings. Mr. Mitchel has always fa- 
 vored the Democratic party, and as a stanch ad- 
 herent thereto has served as a school director for 
 several years. With his wife and children he is 
 a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Mitch- 
 el is progressive, well posted on current events, 
 and alert for all improvement, whether on his 
 farm, in his family, or in the community of 
 which he is an honored and influential member. 
 
 JOHN SHELLEY. That interest and charm 
 which centers around familiar landmarks, and 
 more especially those which represent the up- 
 ward struggle of men who have attained to 
 prominence, will always be felt by those who 
 appreciate stability and personal worth. Trav- 
 elers along the highway which skirts the farm 
 of John Shelley have years ago ceased to ask 
 regarding the author of this prosperity, for the 
 comfortable dwelling, large barns and fine ap- 
 pointments have stood with but few changes for 
 many years. The farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres, located twelve miles east of Eu- 
 gene, has yielded its harvests continuously under 
 the same management since 1852, the owner in 
 the meanwhile having spent but one year away 
 from it. and that near Walla Walla, Wash. Dur- 
 ham cattle, Berkshire hogs, and Cotswold sheep 
 add to the variety of marketable products, and a 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1425 
 
 general farming industry is conducted with 
 equally good results. 
 
 Although no longer a young man Mr. Shelley 
 has the heart and brain and purpose which be- 
 longs to youth, and he can enter heartily into the 
 diversions and interests of those who have seen 
 far fewer years. He was born in Macoupin 
 county, 111., September 7, 1827, his parents, 
 George and Catherine (Gabbert) Shelley, hav- 
 ing been born in Kentucky. Shortly after their 
 marriage the parents' moved to Illinois, and about 
 1834 changed their home to Iowa, remaining 
 there until they located in Oregon. In 1852 the 
 family made arrangements to cross the plains 
 with ox-teams, and although they were singu- 
 larly fortunate in not having encounters with the 
 Indians, cholera invaded their ranks, and to this 
 dread disorder the father succumbed on the 
 Platte river. The family proceeded alone to 
 Lane county, where John Shelley took up the 
 claim which he still owns, the other members of 
 the family living with him for a short time. The 
 mother soon after went on to Grand Ronde, re- 
 maining there for the rest of her life. Of the 
 thirteen children but two are living, and of these 
 Mrs. Polly Robinson lives in Marion county. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Shelley and Margaret 
 Park, the latter a native of Virginia, and whose 
 parents located also in Lane county, occurred in 
 1847, i n Iowa. Thirteen children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Shelley, of whom the fol- 
 lowing are living : Thomas, living in Idaho ; 
 Pascal N., a resident of Lane county ; Caroline, 
 the wife of Mack Fern, of Lane county; Weston 
 P., at home ; Anna became the wife of W. P. 
 Martin and lives at home ; Leona married F. S. 
 Winfrey and resides in Eugene ; Zora, the wife 
 of J. H. West, of Lane county ; and Harry and 
 Ira, at home. Although no politician, in the 
 accepted meaning of that term, Mr. Shelley is 
 interested in the Democratic party, voting, how- 
 ever, as a rule, for the man best qualified to 
 serve the general good. His life has been char- 
 acterized by the greatest regard for honesty and 
 fair dealing, and his friends are numerous in the 
 neighborhood where he makes his home. 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM PRENTICE, M. 
 D. To Dr. F. W. Prentice, of Eugene, medical 
 science is a realm of intricate and interminable 
 avenues, lit with prophetic and alluring lamps, 
 under which the wayfarer travels reverently, in- 
 telligently, and always with uplifted, expectant 
 eyes. Because at a certain mile-post in his jour- 
 ney he is given license to use his knowledge for 
 the benefit of others, the true scientist continues 
 his way without note of any stopping-place, and 
 his life, however long or well ordained, goes out 
 
 67 
 
 with great questions still unsolved, and the illu- 
 minated ways and mysterious shadows still beck- 
 oning. Thus, this scholarly practitioner has 
 evinced something of the spirit of the old master 
 painters, whose indestructible masterpieces 
 breathe an appreciation for their work far be- 
 yond any remuneration which a grateful world 
 might tender them. When to this singleness of 
 purpose is added a wholesome attitude towards 
 the exigencies and comforts of latter-day life, 
 a genial spirit, and harmonious disposition, one 
 is constrained to believe that this town in the 
 far northwest is reaching, through the lives of 
 her adopted sons, the acme of advancement in a 
 noble science. 
 
 Dr. Prentice has had the advantage of the best 
 possible medical and surgical training, and he 
 comes of an ancestry of which much may rea- 
 sonably be expected. Authentic records trace 
 the family history back in the fourteenth cen- 
 tury, when those bearing the name pursued their 
 various vocations in Suffolk, England, from 
 which county later members removed to Essex 
 county. Near Wivenhoe, Essex, Dr. Prentice 
 was born July 1, 1844, his father, George Alex- 
 ander Prentice, being a native of Boxstead, 
 Essex, while his mother, Caroline (Ellis) Pren- 
 tice, a daughter of Henry Ellis, was born in Suf- 
 folk. The elder Prentice came to America in 
 1871, and both himself and wife died on their 
 farm in Caroline county. Md. They had ten 
 children, eight of whom were daughters, Fred- 
 erick W. being the oldest in the family, and the 
 only one to establish a name and home in the 
 northwest. 
 
 The successful career of his brother-in-law, 
 Dr. Charles J. Worts, a surgeon of Essex, had 
 much to do with fashioning the career of Dr. 
 Prentice. After leaving the home farm and 
 being graduated from the Royal Grammar 
 School of Colchester, he began to study under 
 his gifted relative. Subsequently he attended 
 two courses of lectures at the L T niversity of 
 Edinburgh, and in 1871 came to Toronto, Can- 
 ada, the following year removing to Urbana, 
 Champaign county, 111. Here he engaged in a 
 general medical and surgical practice, and at the 
 same time filled the chairs of anatomy, physiol- 
 ogy, pharmacy, and materia medica at the Uni- 
 versity of Illinois at Champaign. In 1877 leave 
 of absence from the universitv was granted him, 
 and he took a course at the Cincinnati College of 
 Medicine and Surgery, being graduated in 1878. 
 Returning to Urbana, he continued to practice 
 and instruct, and finally entered the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Pennsylvania at 
 Philadelphia, being graduated in the class of 
 May, 1887. 
 
 Since coming to - Eugene in the fall of 1887, 
 Dr. Prentice has continued his professional re- 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 searches with unabated enthusiasm, and in 1903 
 took a course at the Illinois College of Electro- 
 Therapeutics in Chicago. He is a great believer 
 in the efficacy of electricity, and his many mod- 
 ern office appliances include a standard static 
 machine with an X-ray attachment. The doctor 
 is fortunately appreciated in his adopted town, 
 his patrons including many families who have 
 depended upon his services for many years, and 
 many who unstintingly credit him with the pres- 
 ervation of their lives under most discouraging 
 and often seemingly hopeless circumstances. His 
 scholarly papers are listened to with greatest at- 
 tention at the meetings of the medical societies 
 in which the county and state abounds, and he 
 is associated as a member with the American 
 Medical Association, the Oregon State Medical 
 Association, and the Lane County Medical So- 
 ciety. Here, as in the state of Illinois, he is a 
 member of the United States Board of Examin- 
 ing Surgeons, and has served as treasurer of the 
 same for- many years. The doctor is a Repub- 
 lican in political affiliation, but the many de- 
 mands upon his time have never permitted more 
 than necessary participation in the affairs of his 
 party. Formerly associated with the Urbana 
 (111.) Masons, he is now a member of Eugene 
 Lodge No 11, A. F. & A. M., and has been trans- 
 ferred from the Urbana Royal Arch Masons, 
 which he joined in 1874, to the chapter in Eu- 
 gene. He is a member of the Eastern Star, as 
 is also Mrs. Prentice, whom he married in Indi- 
 anapolis, Ind., in 1886, and who was formerly 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Burch) Fickle, of Rochester, 
 Ind. Mrs. Prentice is a member of the Epis- 
 copal Church, and is especially active in the 
 Fortnightly Club. The family occupy one of the 
 pleasant and hospitable homes in Eugene, and 
 the doctor and his wife represent the highest 
 social and intellectual life in the northwest. 
 
 JOHN F. BREWER. Were John F. Brewer 
 called upon to give a definition of success at 
 once practical and to the point, he would natu- 
 rally dwell upon those attributes which have 
 been of personal use to him, and which have by 
 long experience not been found ■ wanting. 
 Among these would be clearness and honesty of 
 purpose, and the ability to grasp and use passing 
 opportunities, however small and insignificant 
 they might seem at the time. It is by attention 
 to the details that he has been able to succeed ; 
 by doing all things well ; and by continually 
 striving to keep abreast of the times. 
 
 At a very early day the grandparents of Mr. 
 Brewer removed from their native state of North 
 Carolina to Missouri, where their son, William 
 Brewer, the father of John F.., was born in 1818. 
 The family later moved to Pike county, Ark., 
 
 settled on a farm near Murfreesboro, where the 
 grandfather died. There were seven children in 
 the family, of whom William was the oldest, and 
 the responsibility thus presented was assumed by 
 him with courage and determination. As a 
 young man he clerked in a store, and afterward 
 taught school, developing as time went on de- 
 cided mechanical ability. Given a model, he 
 could duplicate almost anything of a mechanical 
 nature, and this ability proved of great use to 
 him, although he never regularly applied him- 
 self as a mechanic. He married . Margaret I. 
 Scott, a native of Georgia, and continued to live 
 in Arkansas until the western fever inspired him 
 to investigate the reports to which he had list- 
 ened. In 1853 he set out across the plains, ac- 
 companied by his wife and children, among 
 whom was John F., born in Pike county, Ark., 
 May 2, 1844. The mother of Mr. Brewer came 
 to the west in the same train, and they were on 
 the road about seven months, encountering on 
 the way some unpleasant experiences. While 
 near the Green river they were surrounded by 
 Indians, and as a peace offering were obliged to 
 divide their provisions and general properties, 
 resuming the journey with a much lightened 
 burden. Coming to Lane county, Mr. Brewer 
 took up a claim seven miles west of Eugene, 
 improved the same, and lived there until his 
 death at the age of forty-two years. He took 
 an active interest in Republican politics, held a 
 number of minor offices, and was one of the 
 very enthusiastic workers in the United Breth- 
 ren Church, of which he was a member for many 
 years, and class-leader in the Sunday school. 
 The wife who survived him married a second 
 and third time, her last husband being Judge 
 John G. Sparks, collector of internal revenues 
 during the administration of Abraham Lincoln, 
 and a very prominent man of Olympia, Wash. 
 Mrs. Sparks is still a resident of the Sound 
 country, making her home with a daughter at 
 Olympia; and though past four score years, still 
 retains her mental and physical alertness. By 
 her first marriage she had nine children, of whom 
 the following are living: Martha A., widow 
 of William P. Crow, of Freewater, Wash. ; John 
 F., of this review; Mary L., wife of Edward 
 Harris, of Boistfort, Wash. ; Amanda C, the 
 wife of Eben Sherwood, of Satsop, Wash. ; 
 James H., also of Satsop; and Eva S., the wife 
 of C. B. Mann, a druggist of Olympia, Wash. 
 
 From the public schools John F. Brewer re- 
 ceived a part of his education, but his father's 
 training counted for more in his life, and in- 
 variably stimulated to further research along the 
 lines mapped out. At the present time he is an 
 exceptionally well informed man, improving 
 every opportunity to keep himself posted on cur- 
 rent events, and associating with people who, 
 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1427 
 
 like himself, appreciate the higher things of life. 
 From his nineteenth year he has made an inde- 
 pendent living, and in 1865 he went to the Sound 
 country and took up a donation claim. The same 
 vear he married Elvira Axtell, member of one of 
 the earliest families of the Sound country, whose 
 father, Josephus Axtell, built the second house 
 on Mound Prairie. Mrs. Brewer was born in 
 Illinois, and crossed the plains with her family 
 in 1852, going at once to the north, where the 
 Indians were very troublesome, and where they 
 were obliged to live in a fort for a couple of 
 vears for protection. Two of the sons, John C. 
 and Thomas J. Axtell served in the Cayuse In- 
 dian war and had many thrilling experiences. 
 The latter is deceased, and the former lives on 
 part of the old claim. While living at Grand 
 Mound the father served as postmaster for many 
 vears. He also served in the Indian war with 
 his sons. He lived to be seventy-five, and his 
 wife lived to be seventy-three years old. 
 
 Leaving the Sound country in 1883, Mr. 
 Brewer moved to Freewater for a year, and then 
 took up his residence on a farm near Lexington, 
 remaining there until purchasing his present 
 farm of one hundred and sixty acres three miles 
 east of Goshen. He has been successful in all of 
 his undertakings, and the high standard of ex- 
 cellence maintained on his present farm has been 
 duplicated on the properties hitherto owned by 
 him. He raises general produce and stock, his 
 dairy being unexcelled for neatness and good 
 management. As a Republican he has been a 
 delegate to several county conventions. The 
 Grange counts him and his family among its 
 most influential members, and he is holding the 
 secretaryship, to which he has been continuously 
 elected for several years. Nine children have 
 been reared in an atmosphere encouraging in- 
 dustry and study, and of these, the oldest son, 
 U. Grant, is living in Klamath county ; Arthur 
 M. ; Anna, the wife of John H. Clark, and Will- 
 iam H. are in Boise City, Idaho ; Ethel, the wife 
 of Wilson Wilhelm, lives in Goshen ; John H. 
 was killed in the Philippines during the Spanish- 
 American war ; Valentine is in business in Boise 
 City : Rachel and Lucretia are at home ; and Mil- 
 ton died in infancy. Mr. Brewer is a worker 
 and member of the United Brethren Church, 
 contributing generously towards its support, as 
 he does toward that of various organizations in 
 which the countv abounds. 
 
 HENRY CLAY HUMPHREY. Among the 
 citizens of Eugene who were prominently iden- 
 tified with its upbuilding and development for 
 many years, the name of Henry Clay Humphrey 
 stands forth with peculiar distinction. Though 
 always optimistic as to the future of the city, 
 
 he was not a visionary, nor did his plans mis- 
 carry because of lack of foundation or stability 
 of structure. A sagacious, prudent, practical 
 man of business, a banker who mastered every 
 detail of that important business, and a man- 
 ager who possessed the rare faculty of securing 
 the best services on the part of his subordinates, 
 he identified himself with enterprises calculated 
 to develop and place on a substantial basis the 
 county in which he was born and passed his 
 entire life. 
 
 George Humphrey, his father, from whom he 
 inherited his abilities and trend of thought, was 
 born April 1, 1807, in New York state. From 
 there he moved to Canada, where he married 
 Cynthia A. Bristol. At a later period of his life 
 he resided in Illinois, and still later in Iowa, 
 where for many years he combined farming 
 with merchandising. In 1853 ne came overland 
 to Oregon and settled in Lane county, where he 
 established a general store. Eventually he built 
 up a flourishing general trade in Eugene. His 
 children were : Albert ; Emily, wife of A. G. 
 Hovey ; James, Thomas, Caroline, wife of B. H. 
 Roach ; William, Norris and Henry Clay. 
 
 Henry Clay Humphrey was born September 
 18, 1856, near Elmira, Lane county, Ore. His 
 youth was spent on the home farm near Elmira. 
 He attended the public schools of Eugene, later 
 took a course in Columbia College, and finally 
 was graduated from the business college at 
 Salem, Ore., and Heald's Business College at 
 San Francisco. His initial business experience 
 was as a clerk in the banking and brokerage 
 house of A. G. Hovey, of Eugene. In 1882 he 
 organized the Lane County Bank, with which he 
 was identified as president until disposing of his 
 interest therein in 1893. Previous to this, how- 
 ever, he had evidenced his integrity and intrepid 
 character by standing by this institution through- 
 out the financial panic of the early months of 
 1893, awaiting such time as the money could be 
 raised and the creditors paid one hundred cents 
 on the dollar. After severing his connection 
 with the bank, he entered upon a large shipping 
 business, restricting his trade to hops, prunes 
 and other dried fruits, and conducting this en- 
 terprise with marked success, up to the time of 
 his death, which occurred November 15, 1895. 
 
 In the meantime Mr. Humphrey's ambition 
 and energy had found vent in various enter- 
 prises of a public nature. He became one of the 
 organizers of the Eugene Electric Light Com- 
 pany, in which he retained an interest for one 
 year, and other local enterprises received his 
 hearty encouragement and support. He was de- 
 voted to the issues and principles of the Repub- 
 lican party, and fraternally was connected with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, and the 
 
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 Knights of Pythias, being a charter member of 
 the latter organization. 
 
 In erecting the superstructure of his success- 
 ful career, Mr. Humphrey was indebted in a 
 large measure to the practical assistance ren- 
 dered by a cultured and ambitious wife, Eliza- 
 beth Shaw, to whom he was married in San 
 Francisco, Cal., April 19, 1885. She is a daugh- 
 ter of Angus and Elizabeth (Murchison) Shaw, 
 both natives of Scotland, and the former born 
 on the Isle of Skye. Mr. Shaw settled at an 
 early day in Stark county, 111., where Mrs. Hum- 
 phrey was born, and whence he crossed the 
 plains with his wife and children in 1863. He 
 came with horse teams and was six months on 
 the journey, finally settling upon a large, and at 
 present splendidly appointed, farm near Sum- 
 merville, Union county, Ore., where he is known 
 as one of the most extensive grain raisers in 
 that section of the state. His wife, who died in 
 1867, was the mother of five children, of whom 
 Mrs. Humphrey is the only one residing in the 
 Willamette valley. She was reared and prima- 
 rily educated in Union county, and was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Oregon in the class 
 of 1884 with the degree_ of Bachelor of Science. 
 Mrs. Humphrey was engaged in educational 
 work for about three years after her husband's 
 death. Broad-minded and liberal in her tenden- 
 cies, her cultured mind is occupied largely by 
 church work, suffrage and benevolent undertak- 
 ings. She has two daughters, Eda Claire and 
 Hazel Beatrice. 
 
 In closing this brief review of the career of 
 Henrv Clay Humphrey it is but proper to state 
 that his every-day efforts were characterized by 
 the greatest ~ liberality, and he enthusiastically 
 participated in all worthy undertakings calcu- 
 lated to advance the industrial, moral, educa- 
 tional and social well-being of the community. 
 A sane reasoner, a cautious business man, and a 
 gentleman possessed of many admirable per- 
 sonal traits, he inspired the respect, confidence 
 and good will of all with whom he was asso- 
 ciated in whatever capacity, his opinions carry- 
 ing weight because of the sinceritv, earnestness 
 and spirit of good-fellowship which dictated his 
 every action. Cut off in the prime of his active 
 and useful life, his death was a distinct loss to 
 the citv of Eugene, and there is no doubt that, if 
 he had lived to prosecute the plans he had for- 
 mulated, he would easily have attained a position 
 in the commercial circles of the northwest which 
 would have made him the peer of the most emi- 
 nent men of affairs on the Pacific coast. _ His 
 record is so clean, so honorable, so high-minded 
 and unselfish, that his name is entitled to a per- 
 manent and conspicuous place in the chronicles 
 of the builders and developers of the state of 
 Oregon. 
 
 WILLIAM M. RENSHAW. That congenial 
 work means successful work is demonstrated 
 anew in the career of William M. Renshaw, the 
 genial proprietor of the Hotel Smeede at Eu- 
 gene. Of Scotch-Irish ancestry, long identified 
 with the south, he was born in Springfield, Mo., 
 November 7, 1850, his father, W. D. Renshaw, 
 having settled there in 1837. The elder Ren- 
 shaw, who was born near Nashville, Tenn., in 
 1823, had a large farm in the vicinity of Spring- 
 field, Mo., property which he disposed of after 
 acquainting himself with the prospects in the 
 far west. Outfitting with ox-teams and pro- 
 visions he crossed the plains with his wife and 
 two children in 185 1, encompassing the interven- 
 ing distance between Missouri and Portland in 
 six months to a day. He had comparatively lit- 
 tle trouble with the Indians, although some more 
 courageous than others helped themselves to 
 some of his stock. In the spring of 1852 he 
 settled on a donation claim six miles south of 
 Eugene, composed of three hundred and twenty 
 acres of uncultivated land, and there built a 
 small log house and began to prepare for such 
 crops as could be planted on short order. He 
 was quite successful from a financial standpoint, 
 and was popular in his neighborhood, his death, 
 at the age of sixty-five, which took place in 
 1888, being regretted by a large circle of friends 
 and well wishers. He was a Republican from 
 a political standpoint, and in religion was a 
 Presbyterian. In his youth he married Mary J. 
 Walker, born in either Georgia or Tennessee, 
 and who removed with her parents to Greene 
 county, Mo., before coming to Oregon. Mrs. 
 Renshaw was born in 1828 and died in 1887. Of 
 the eight children born into the family, Theo- 
 dore M. is living in Grant's Pass ; W. M. is the 
 subject of this sketch; Hugh A. lives in Lane 
 county ; Elmer L. lives in Eugene ; Samuel I. 
 is in Virginia; Sarah L. is the wife of Charles 
 Mayhew of Eugene ; and Hattie, wife of Jef- 
 ferson Gwin of Salem. 
 
 William M. Renshaw was less than a year old 
 when he came to Oregon, and he practically re- 
 members nothing of his former home, or the 
 incidents leading to the family emigration. He 
 was educated in the public schools and remained 
 on the home farm in Linn county until nineteen 
 years old, when he turned his attention to sur- 
 veying, being employed by the government for 
 five years to survey the public lands. He was 
 associated as surveyor, first with J. H. McClung, 
 then with Mr. Evans, and still later with Messrs. 
 Perkins and General Odell. Having finished his 
 contract for surveying' he engaged in the meat 
 market business for six years, and in 1878 re- 
 moved to Grant county, eastern Oregon, and en- 
 gaged for two years in the cattle business. Re- 
 turning to the Willamette valley in the spring 
 
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 of 18S0, he continued the butchering business 
 for a couple of years, and then engaged in the 
 liquor business for over twenty years. In Sep- 
 tember, 1902, Mr. Renshaw leased the New 
 Smeede Hotel, and opened it to the traveling 
 public September 24, 1902. This is the leading 
 hotel in the city, and compares favorably with 
 the hostelries in much larger and older cities. 
 The proprietor is eminently fitted for the many 
 duties which devolve upon him, and is possessed 
 of the qualities of tact, consideration, courtesy 
 and geniality so necessary in the make-up of the 
 successful hotel man. The hostelry is substan- 
 tially and artistically furnished, has large and 
 airy rooms, and ample accommodation for guests. 
 A Republican in political affiliation, Mr. Ren- 
 shaw has never been an aspirant for public of- 
 fice. He is a member of Eugene Lodge No. 11, 
 A. F. & A. M., Eugene Chapter No. 10, Royal 
 Arch Masons ; the Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks ; and the Ancient Order United 
 Workmen. He married, in 1878, in Eugene, El- 
 eanor Cochran, a native of Lane county, and a 
 daughter of James Cochran, who crossed the 
 plains from Indiana to Oregon in 1853. 
 
 ALLBEE E. WHEELER. Allbee E. Wheel- 
 er's position at the bar and his standing in the 
 community have been earned by conscientious 
 effort, spurred on by ambition. In early life we 
 find him teaching a country school, in order to 
 earn the tuition for a higher general and profes- 
 sional education, and in after-life he stepped into 
 a niche of industry in Eugene, making himself 
 necessary as a thorough student of legal science, 
 as the compiler of the only complete abstract 
 books in Lane county, and as a broad-minded, 
 public-spirited gentleman, in harmony with all 
 that is progressive, substantial and practical. 
 
 Of old New England ancestry, Mr. Wheeler 
 was born on a farm near Barton, Orleans coun- 
 ty, Vt., February 17, 1856, his paternal grand- 
 parents, James and Sarah (Wilson) Wheeler, 
 having established the family there at an early 
 day. His maternal grandparents, Dr. Orson and 
 Fannie (Allbee) Grow, were also well known in 
 Orleans county, where the doctor combined med- 
 ical practice with general farming for many 
 years. Silas and Jane (Grow) Wheeler, the 
 parents of Allbee E. Wheeler, lived on a farm 
 in Orleans county during all of their active lives, 
 but are now living retired in Chicago, 111., the 
 father being eighty-one years of age, in compara- 
 tively good health and spirits. The parents were 
 born in New Hampshire, and Orleans county, 
 Vt., respectively, and had four children, three of 
 whom are living, Allbee E. being the youngest, 
 and the only one in the state of Oregon. 
 
 At the age of thirteen years Allbee E. Wheeler 
 
 left the home farm to attend the public schools 
 of Lyndon Center, Vt., whence he entered the 
 Free Baptist State School, known as the Lyndon 
 Literary Institute, from which he was duly grad- 
 uated in 1874. The year of his graduation he 
 removed to La Salle county, 111., and taught 
 school near the city of La Salle for one term. 
 In January, 1875, he began a four-years course 
 of teaching near Onowa, Monona county, Iowa, 
 during which time he married Lillia J. Herring, 
 a native of Winnebago county, 111., who was 
 born at Durand. Benjamin Herring, the father 
 of Mrs. Wheeler, served all through the Civil 
 war, and afterward removed from Illinois near 
 Onowa, Iowa, where he farmed until his death. 
 Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wheeler, of whom Mabel F. is the wife of Prof. 
 Charles W. Wester, of Dinuba, Cal. ; and Flora 
 J. married Archie W. Livermore of Eugene. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was a successful educator, and 
 by dint of strict economy was enabled to enter 
 the law department of the University of Iowa 
 after completing his teaching. Graduating in 
 the class of 1881, he was admitted to the bar at 
 the same time, and settled down to practice at 
 Onowa, making that his home until locating in 
 Eugene in 1888. At the beginning of his resi- 
 dence here he started to make his abstract books, 
 engaging at the same time in the abstract and 
 title business, and as heretofore mentioned, has 
 the only complete abstract books in the county. 
 He has a comprehensive knowledge of the theory 
 and practice of law, is courteous and faithful to 
 clients, attentive to business, and measures pro- 
 fessional duty and effort by recognition of ob- 
 ligation and ends attainable. Mr. Wheeler is 
 a Republican in politics, and served as council- 
 man of Eugene for one term. He is a member 
 of the Woodmen of the World. He is one of 
 the organizers of the Congregational church of 
 Eugene, and from the beginning has been one of 
 the trustees and among the most active workers. 
 
 HERBERT GORDON. That the dogged 
 perseverance and resourcefulness which we are 
 wont to admire in the early pioneers of the 
 state exists in equal measure in many of the 
 later adopted sons, is proved in innumerable in- 
 stances. It is not necessary to go outside of 
 Eugene for illustrations of this fact, for many 
 of the rising young business men who are forg- 
 ing their way to commercial prominence have 
 been singularly and even discouragingly alone 
 in their aspirations and accomplishments. In 
 this class belongs Herbert Gordon, owner and 
 manager of the largest furniture and house-fur- 
 nishing establishment in the town. 
 
 Mr. Gordon is one of the many sons of Canada 
 who have found their way to the extreme western 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 part of the country, and pursued their various 
 occupations with increasing success. Born near 
 Toronto, August 5, 1873, he is the sixth of the 
 seven children born to his parents, Thomas and 
 Martha (Allen) Gordon, at present living re- 
 tired in Eugene. Thomas Gordon came from 
 London, England, when a child with his parents, 
 and was reared on a farm in Ontario. In time 
 he became a merchant near his father's home, 
 and at the same time arose to political promi- 
 nence in the neighborhood. For fourteen years 
 he was clerk of the circuit court in county Sim- 
 coe, and afterward removed to a new and heavi- 
 ly timbered farm in the Northwest Territory, 
 where he lived for three years. In 1888 he took 
 up his residence on a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres west of Eugene, and after three years 
 of successful management moved into the town 
 which has since been his home. His wife was 
 born in Canada also, and is of Scotch descent. 
 Besides Herbert, there are three other of the 
 seven children living: William Thomas is an 
 undertaker, and James Herbert a teamster of 
 Eugene, and a daughter, Martha Maud, is the 
 wife of Le Roy Milne, of Marcola, Lane 
 county. 
 
 Herbert Gordon was ten years old when he 
 came with his parents to the Northwest Terri- 
 tory, and while there he attended the public 
 schools for three and a half years. In 1888 he 
 came with the family to the farm near Eugene, 
 and though he worked hard during the summer 
 time, managed to complete the course at the 
 Eugene high school. He had little money with 
 which to start in any kind of business, and for 
 some time the future was at best problematical 
 and vague. Finally he bought a wood-saw on 
 credit, and while operating it for five years not 
 only paid off his indebtedness, but amassed 
 quite a sum of money, with a part of which he 
 built a residence on East Eleventh street. In 
 1898 his fortunes looked up considerably, when 
 he purchased a second-hand furniture store from 
 Mr. Cummings for $500, and after closing that 
 out put in a new stock of furniture, starting in 
 under favorable auspices to cater to a diminutive 
 trade. It was not long before his progressive 
 and upright business methods impressed them- 
 selves on the general public, and a correspond- 
 ing increase of business found his quarters al- 
 together inadequate. Accordingly, in 1900, his 
 present store was erected, Nos. 24-6-8 East 
 Ninth street. The building covers 40x160 feet, 
 and has two floors and a gallery. The proprietor 
 aims to cater to the most exclusive as well as 
 cheaper trade, and carries a complete stock of 
 furniture, carpets, stoves, ranges, wallpaper and 
 paints. The store has elevator service, and pa- 
 trons are met by courteous and obliging clerks, 
 conversant with the complete stock, and able to 
 
 furnish valuable suggestions as to combination 
 and relative values. This is one of the most 
 perfectly equipped furniture stores in this part 
 of Oregon, and that it has been brought to its 
 present state of excellence by so young a man 
 argues well for his business judgment and shrewd 
 practical sense. 
 
 Mr. Gordon is popular in business and social 
 circles of Eugene, is a member of the Commer- 
 cial Club, and of the Woodmen of the World. 
 Politically he is identified with the Republican 
 party, and he finds a religious home in the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. In Albany, Ore., May 
 11, 1898, he married Henrietta Harshberger, who 
 was born in Ohio, and who is the mother of 
 two children, Wanda and Dora. 
 
 CHARLES S. FARROW. The pioneer who 
 came to Oregon before the general emigration, 
 and not only hewed his way to success through 
 discouraging obstacles, but reared strong and 
 reliant sons to maintain the honor of his name, 
 and perchance add to his prestige as a manager 
 and business man under later and more favor- 
 able circumstances, filed a twofold lien upon the 
 gratitude of posterity. Such an one was 
 Stephen F. Farrow, whose well known integrity 
 and general worthiness are reflected in the lives 
 of many of his children, more especially his son, 
 Charles S., one of the prominent business men 
 and most successful real estate dealers in Eu- 
 gene. 
 
 The founder of the Farrow family in Oregon 
 was born in Montgomery county, Ky., his father, 
 Isaac, having removed there from his native 
 state of Virginia at a very early day. The grand- 
 father married Catherine French, of Virginia, 
 whose great-grandfather was one of the largest 
 land-owners in the state of Virginia, much of 
 the property being still in the family. Isaac 
 Farrow removed with his family from Kentucky 
 to Illinois while that state was yet a territory, 
 settling first in Macoupin county, and later in 
 Jersey county, where he owned a large farm and 
 where he died at an advanced age. His son, 
 Stephen F. Farrow, continued to live on the pa- 
 ternal farm in Jersey county, and there was mar- 
 ried, January 17, 1844, to Maria Jane Cleaver, 
 who was born in Hardin county, Ky., October 
 16, 1825. Benjamin Cleaver, the father of Mrs. 
 Farrow, as well as her grandfather, Benjamin, 
 were born in Kentucky, and the former removed 
 to Macoupin county in 1828, later settling in 
 Jersey county, where his daughter attained ma- 
 turity, and became established in a home of her 
 own. Mrs. Cleaver, formerly Rachel Tomp- 
 kins, was born in Kentucky, and became the 
 mother of eleven children, many of whom mar- 
 ried in Illinois, but all of whom accompanied 
 
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 1431 
 
 their parents to the west. Thus it will be seen 
 that the Cleaver and Farrow families constituted 
 quite a little community of their own in jersey 
 county, and it seems but natural that all should 
 have been animated by the common impulse to 
 shift their fortunes to the far west. In the 
 meantime a child had been born to Stephen F. 
 Farrow and his wife. Mr. Farrow's equipment 
 for the long journey across the plains in 1848 
 was small compared with that of his father-in- 
 law. The latter had one wagon with four yoke 
 of oxen, besides plenty of loose cattle with which 
 to start business after reaching his destination. 
 The family gathering left Illinois March 27, 
 1848, crossed the Mississippi river at Alton and 
 the Missouri river at St. Joseph, proceeding 
 through the Indian country via the old Oregon 
 trail. On the Platte river in Nebraska territory, 
 a daughter was born to Mrs. Farrow, and the 
 little plains stranger was given the name of Vir- 
 ginia. All went well with the entire party dur- 
 ing the rest of the journey, and they arrived in 
 the Willamette valley by way of the Barlow 
 route in September, 1848, having been about six 
 months on the way. Benjamin Cleaver bade 
 adieu to the train in Marion county, taking up a 
 claim now occupied by the site of Mount Angel, 
 but he afterward moved to Lebanon, where he 
 bought and operated a grist-mill for the remain- 
 der of his active life. He lived to be eighty- 
 eight years old, and died firm in the faith of the 
 Christian Church, of which he had been a mem- 
 ber for many years. The wife who helped him 
 to his ample competence died in Marion county 
 in 1866. 
 
 Stephen F. Farrow settled on a claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres on Butte creek, Clacka- 
 mas county, and made this his home for sixteen 
 years. His first home was a one-room log house, 
 but as his land was cleared, and harvests re- 
 warded his arduous toil, his family profited by 
 his good fortune, and were better housed and 
 clothed. In 1867 the family moved to Linn 
 county, purchasing a farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres near Saddle Butte, where Stephen 
 Farrow died June 22, 1885, at the age of sixty- 
 nine years. He was a Republican in politics, 
 and was a member of the Baptist Church. His 
 wife, who survives him and lives in Eugene, is, 
 by a strange coincidence, the mother of eleven 
 children, she herself being one of eleven. Alice 
 and Virginia, the two older daughters, died at 
 nine and fifteen years of age respectively ; Albert 
 A. is a stockman in Lake county, Ore. ; Laura 
 is living in Eugene : Charles S. is the real estate 
 dealer of Eugene ; Emily was the widow of Or- 
 ange Z. Morgan, an extensive stockman of east- 
 ern Oregon, but is now Mrs. Nye, and resides 
 in Eugene ; William is a stockman in Lake 
 
 county ; Minnie is the wife of M. S. Hubble, of 
 Eugene ; Lillie is the wife of D. B. Troutman, of 
 Tallman, Ore. ; Ralph is a resident of Portland ; 
 and John is a ranchman in Lake county. 
 
 The fourth child in his father's family, Charles 
 S. Farrow was born on the farm skirting Butte 
 creek, Clackamas county, October 27, 1854, and 
 was reared to hard work on the farm. He ac- 
 companied the family to Linn county, after the 
 old farm was sold in 1867, and in both of these 
 places attended the public schools as opportunity 
 offered. After the death of his father the entire 
 management of the farm fell upon his shoulders, 
 and he engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
 making great improvements on the property 
 from year to year. About this time he married 
 Iva M. Farwell, who was born near Shedds, 
 Linn county, a daughter of Richard Farwell, a 
 pioneer of 1852. Of this union there have been 
 born four children, of whom Harry D. is at- 
 tending the business college in Eugene ; Glenn 
 H. and Hazel are attending the high school, and 
 Kenneth, and all reside at home. In 1886 Mr. 
 Farrow moved to a farm on the upper Siuslaw 
 in Lane county, and engaged in stock-raising 
 until coming to Eugene in 1889. 
 
 For three seasons Mr. Farrow was employed 
 as traveling salesman in the Willamette valley 
 for the Piano Company of Chicago, and after- 
 ward clerked for about five years. In 1900 he 
 started the real estate business of C. S. Farrow, 
 later incorporating under the firm name of C. S. 
 Farrow & Company, his partner being H. F. 
 Hollenbeck. The firm occupies an enviable 
 place in the business world of Eugene, and 
 though comparatively young in its activities, has 
 already handled an enormous amount of town 
 and country lands. Unquestionably it has one 
 of the largest enterprises in Lane county, and 
 has the option on all kinds of city, farm and 
 timber lands throughout the county. It has 
 pleasant offices at 506 Willamette street, and 
 both men are genial and kindly in manner, at- 
 tentive and considerate to purchasers, and thor- 
 oughly conversant with every phase of their oc- 
 cupation. Mr. Farrow is a charter member and 
 director of the Eugene Real Estate Exchange. 
 He is a prominent member of the Woodmen of 
 the World and the Women of Woodcraft, and is 
 one of the leaders in the Christian Church, of 
 which he has been an official for twelve years, 
 having been a member of the board of deacons 
 for that period. Mr. Farrow is energetic and 
 progressive, broad in his sympathies, and gen- 
 erous in his judgment of all with whom he 
 comes in contact. In his personal characteris- 
 tics he represents the best type of this com- 
 munity, and as such is honored and esteemed by 
 a large circle of friends and business associates. 
 
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 JEFFERSON D. SPENCER is carrying on 
 an extensive wood and hay business in Eugene, 
 thus becoming a leading factor in the commer- 
 cial life of the city. He will be set down when 
 the history of this county is written as one of 
 the chief developers of its agricultural resources. 
 No tiller of the soil has applied greater intelli- 
 gence and practical good sense to the conduct of 
 large agricultural projects. Keeping well abreast 
 of that army of workers around whom centers 
 the strength of the entire country, he has uncom- 
 plainingly struggled to the front, philosophically 
 regarding the obstacles which confront the toil- 
 ers of earth, and inspiring others with his own 
 contagious good will and enthusiasm. His career 
 may be taken as typical of the man who succeeds 
 in what he sets out to do, and, having succeeded, 
 is not only rich in this world's goods, but rich 
 in amiable and helpful traits of character. 
 
 S. H. Spencer, the father of Jefferson D., was 
 born in St. Charles county, Mo., and when a 
 comparatively young man lost his first wife, who 
 left him a son, John, who died in eastern Oregon. 
 His second wife, Mahala Smith, was born in 
 Missouri, and became the mother of eleven chil- 
 dren, six of whom attained maturity and five 
 are still living. Two of these children were 
 born in the state of Missouri, and with these, 
 and his wife, Mr. Spencer started across the 
 plains in 1854, taking with him, as a nucleus for 
 stock-raising in the west, a large band of cattle. 
 A comparatively pleasant journey rewarded the 
 courage of the travelers, and the father took up 
 a claim on the Mohawk, which, however, proved 
 most unsatisfactory. Later he removed to the 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres three 
 miles northeast of Irving, which is still in the 
 family, and where his death occurred in 1890. 
 His cattle proved of practical worth to him in 
 his new home, and he not only started a large 
 stock business here, but drove a number of them 
 to the mines during the excitement in California, 
 receiving large prices for them, and thus getting 
 quite a start toward competency. Daniel Taylor, 
 his oldest son, died in Heppner in 1883 ; Mary is 
 the wife of L. H. Wheeler and lives on 
 the old place ; Eliza and Jennie and J. D. live in 
 Lane county; and S. S. is teller of the First 
 National Bank in Eugene. 
 
 Following close upon his course at the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon, J. D. Spencer went to Alsea 
 Bay, on the coast, and built the store in which 
 he conducted a general merchandise business 
 four and a half years. Selling out after 
 experiencing fair success, he purchased a farm 
 of four hundred and forty acres one mile west 
 of Irving, all of which was improved land, and 
 upon which he engaged in the grain and hay 
 business on a large scale. Success followed 
 him from year to year, his crops, with few ex- 
 
 ceptions, being uniformly excellent in quality and 
 abundant in quantity. In October, 1902, Mr. 
 Spencer purchased a farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres four miles east of Irving for $8,000, 
 and soon after disposed of two hundred and 
 thirty acres for $7,400, leaving for his own use 
 ninety acres of finely improved land. With his 
 large store of experience in dealing with hay, 
 and a practical knowledge of the wood output 
 of the state, he determined to retire from active 
 farming and engage in a wholesale and retail 
 hay and wood business in Eugene. Thus, in 
 March following the purchase of his last farm, 
 he bought four acres of land on Blair street, 
 and in 1903 erected a barn 60x90 feet ground 
 dimensions, and with forty-foot posts, the peak 
 of the barn being fifty feet above the ground. 
 With a capacity of four hundred cords of wood, 
 and a hay capacity of three hundred and sixty 
 tons, he contemplates doing a large and remu- 
 nerative business. 
 
 Mr. Spencer has kept in touch with the prog- 
 ress of the world in general while superintending 
 his large country interests, and is one of the 
 well informed and practical workers in a prolific 
 field of activity. He has found time to partici- 
 pate in church and social life, and actively to 
 support the cause of Prohibition. He is a mem- 
 ber of the United Brethren Church, and sup- 
 ports the charities conducted by that worthy or- 
 ganization. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Masonic Lodge. He is popular and successful, 
 and has exerted a strong influence for morality 
 and the practical and substantial in business life. 
 He was married, in Portland, to Clara Bond, 
 who was born in the vicinity of Irving, the 
 daughter of Hon. Allen Bond, a pioneer of 
 1849. Mr. Bond was a farmer and merchant 
 during his active life, was prominent in Re- 
 publican politics in the west, and served in the 
 state senate one term. His death occurred in 
 1902. Two children have been born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Spencer, Cecil Bond and Doris Rachael. 
 
 ROBERT D. HAWLEY. The name of 
 Hawley is one that is well known in Lane county 
 as it belongs to efficient and reliable men, who 
 have done no little toward the making of a 
 western state. One of these brothers, Robert 
 D. Hawley, is located on a farm of three hun- 
 dred and eighty acres a mile and a half north of 
 Creswell, upon which he has placed all modern 
 and up-to-date improvements in the way of a 
 handsome dwelling, large barns and outbuild- 
 ings, the whole constituting one of the finest 
 places in this part of the county. 
 
 Mr. Hawley was born on his father's dona- 
 tion claim, located on the Divide, March 8, 1859, 
 and was there reared to manhood's duties and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1433 
 
 responsibilities. For a complete account of the 
 life of his father, Ira Hawley, refer to the sketch 
 of George M., which appears on another page of 
 this work. Robert D. Hawley received his edu- 
 cation through the medium of the district school 
 at Creswell, and when of sufficient age he took 
 up the trade of a carpenter and followed this for 
 several years. Upon attaining his majority he 
 left home and went to the Palouse country, in 
 Idaho, engaging there in the prosecution of his 
 trade for four years, when he returned to Lane 
 county and took up his residence on the property 
 which he now occupies, which is a part of the I. 
 Allen donation claim. In addition to this prop- 
 erty he also owns one hundred and twenty acres 
 of timber land. With the exception of three 
 years which he spent in Creswell following his 
 trade he has since lived here, engaged in the 
 busv activities which are a part of intelligent 
 farming, devoting his time to general farming, 
 stock-raising and dairying, the milk for his dairy 
 being supplied by Jersey cattle. He has placed 
 upon the farm the improvements which have 
 enhanced its general appearance and marketable 
 value, and has under cultivation two hundred 
 acres of land. He also owns and operates a 
 steam threshing outfit which represents quite an 
 outlay of money, but by his management and in- 
 dustry he has made it a paying investment. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hawley took place De- 
 cember 17, 1885, and united him with Miss Mary 
 H. Hillegas, a native of Missouri, who came to 
 Oregon in 1882, and with her parents settled in 
 Lane county. The four children which blessed 
 their union are at home with their parents, being 
 named in order of birth as follows : Hattie, 
 Roberta, Tressa and Hazel. In fraternal orders 
 Mr. Hawley is a member of the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is a member and trustee of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. A Republican in 
 politics, he has always taken an active part in 
 the movements of the party, having been sent as 
 a delegate to all but two conventions since he 
 made his home here. He has held various minor 
 offices of the vicinity and was once a candidate 
 for sheriff, and is a popular man in the estima- 
 tion of the public. 
 
 SAMUEL T. McFALL. A resident of 
 Eugene, Lane county, Samuel T. McFall is en- 
 gaged in looking after his property, which con- 
 sists of a residence in the city and five hundred 
 and forty acres of land located six miles west, 
 where his two sons are employed in a general 
 farming and stock business, raising horses, cat- 
 tle, hogs, etc. Mr. McFall has been a member of 
 Eugene society only since December, 1898, but 
 the sterling worth of his character has already 
 won him many friends. 
 
 The second child of his father's family, S. T. 
 McFall was born in Iroquois county, 111., Febru- 
 ary 14, 1836. His father, S. T. McFall, was 
 born in Kentucky, the representative of an old 
 Virginia family of Scotch descent. He became 
 a farmer in Illinois and in 1843 removed to Ma- 
 haska county, Iowa, where he bought four hun- 
 dred acres of land at $1.25 per acre, and built a 
 log house for the shelter of his family, while he 
 engaged heartily in the improvement and cultiva- 
 tion of his farm. His death occurred there at 
 the age of eighty-three years. His wife was 
 formerly Elizabeth Barbee, a native of Ross 
 county, Ohio, and the daughter of Daniel Bar- 
 bee, of Virginia. Daniel Barbee settled first in 
 Ohio and later removed to Illinois, and thence 
 to Mahaska county, Iowa. He was a patriot in 
 the war of 1812. Mrs. McFall died in Iowa, 
 the mother of seven children, four of whom are 
 now living. 
 
 S. T. McFall was reared on his father's farm 
 in Iowa and educated in a subscription, school, 
 remaining at home until 1859, when he started 
 with ox-teams for Pike's Peak. From that point 
 of interest he traveled throughout the state, vis- 
 iting Central City, Black Hawk, Russell Gulch 
 and other places, nine months being consumed in 
 his prospecting, in which he was fairly success- 
 ful. At the expiration of the time mentioned he 
 returned to his home in Iowa, there remaining 
 until August 18, 1862, when he became a volun- 
 teer in Company H, Thirty-sixth Iowa Regi- 
 ment, being mustered in at Ottumwa. After a 
 time spent at Benton Barracks they were sent to 
 Memphis, and from that time on participated in 
 many engagements, among them being Helena, 
 Ark., Little Rock, Prairie d'Anne, Little Mis- 
 souri, Ark., Camden, and others. At Mark's 
 Mills he participated in an engagement and was 
 there wounded, a one-ounce minie ball passing 
 through his left shoulder and lung, which event- 
 ually caused him much suffering. At the same 
 time he was taken prisoner two miles from the 
 battlefield upon a farm, those wounded being left 
 by the troops perforce. Twenty-five days later 
 parole was secured for them by the Union army, 
 and up to that time they had been without medi- 
 cal attendance and robbed of almost all their 
 clothing. Mr. McFall was taken to a hospital 
 at Little Rock until he was able to return home 
 on a furlough, when he again spent some time 
 in the hospital at Keokuk, his wound remaining 
 open for nine months, during which time his left 
 collar bone was removed. He was mustered out 
 August 12, 1865, his left arm entirely useless. 
 With his war record ended Mr. McFall then en- 
 gaged in farming, becoming the owner of one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land located twenty 
 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he be- 
 came an extensive stockman, having gone to this 
 
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 location from Mahaska county in 1880. He 
 tilled the land and improved it in every possible 
 way, and brought his farm to a high state of cul- 
 tivation and consequent value by the erection of 
 fine buildings, including a handsome residence 
 and commodious barns. In 1891 he removed to 
 Nebraska and purchased three hundred and 
 twenty acres of prairie land, which he proceeded 
 to improve and cultivate while engaging in the 
 business of a stock shipper. This property was 
 disposed of in 1898 and it was then that Mr. 
 McFall came to the northwest and took up his 
 residence in Eugene, Ore., becoming the owner 
 of extensive farming lands and bringing into the 
 work of cultivation the same practical ideas and 
 methods which made his success in the Missis- 
 sippi valley. 
 
 March 18, 1866, Mr. McFall was married in 
 Mahaska county, Iowa, to Miss Isabelle Skid- 
 more, who was born in Columbus, Ohio. She 
 was the daughter of James Skidmore, a native of 
 Franklin county, of that state, and an early set- 
 tler in Iowa, where he engaged in farming for 
 many years. His death occurred in Kansas, near 
 Argonia. His father, George Skidmore, was 
 born in Kentucky and settled in Ohio as a 
 farmer. He served in the War of 1812 and held 
 the commission of captain in the Black Hawk 
 war. The mother of Mrs. McFall was before 
 marriage Eunice Hendricks, a native of Ohio, 
 and the daughter of James Hendricks, of Ken- 
 tucky, and her death also occurred in Kansas. A 
 family of nine children was born to her, five of 
 whom are living, and the second child is Mrs. 
 McFall, who was reared in her native state. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. McFall have been born four chil- 
 dren. One son died in infancy. Of those living 
 the two sons, Norman and Joseph, are conduct- 
 ing the farm, and Cora, the second child, is the 
 wife of A. Herschel Smith, of Eugene. Mr. 
 McFall is a stanch Republican in politics, and is 
 always ready to lend his influence toward the 
 advance of the principles which he considers best 
 for the interests of the country. While in his 
 homes in Iowa and Nebraska he served for many 
 years as justice of the peace. He was made a 
 Mason in Fremont, Iowa, for some time was 
 identified with a lodge at Randolph, Neb., and 
 now holds membership in Eugene Lodge No. 11. 
 As a war veteran he belongs to J. W. Geary Post 
 No. 7, of this city, and in religion is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 HON. J. B. HOPKINS. A career of excep- 
 tional merit, and one from which many practical 
 lessons may be drawn, is that of Hon. J. B. Hop- 
 kins, formerly prominently identified with lum- 
 bering and milling interests in Rice county, 
 Minn., and since 1890 president and general 
 
 manager of the Eugene (Ore.) Lumber Com- 
 pany.- In the records of the Hopkins family in 
 America the name of Joseph appears frequently, 
 the first emigrant having responded to the bibli- 
 cal nomenclature, as did also the paternal grand- 
 father, and the father of Hon. J. B. Hopkins. 
 The grandfather was a trader and farmer, resid- 
 ing for many years in Connecticut, but who 
 eventually became an early settler in Jefferson 
 county, N. Y. His son, Joseph, was born in 
 Bridgeport, Conn., was reared in Jefferson and 
 St. Lawrence counties, N. Y., and there engaged 
 as a farmer and educator, acquiring distinction 
 in the latter capacity. He was one of the found- 
 ers, promoters and teachers of the Gouverneur 
 Wesleyan Seminary, and was a man of public 
 spirit and broad culture. His last years were 
 spent in Minnesota, his wife, formerly Parmelia 
 (Picket) Hopkins, daughter of Justus Picket, 
 having died in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Of 
 the nine children born into the family, seven at- 
 tained maturity, and six are living at the present 
 time. 
 
 Educated in the public schools and at Gouver- 
 neur Wesleyan Seminary, Hon. J. B. Hopkins 
 subsequently took a course at the Albany (N. Y.) 
 Law School, and in 1865 inaugurated a self- 
 supporting career as an insurance agent in St. 
 Joseph, ' Mo. Two years later, in 1867, he re- 
 moved to Morristown, Rice county, Minn., where 
 he bought a farm and engaged in lumbering and 
 milling, gradually making his way to the front 
 among the large lumber merchants of that tim- 
 bered region. Nor were his exertions confined 
 exclusively to lumbering. He also became prom- 
 inent in politics, serving three terms in the state 
 legislature. In November, 1888, Mr. Hopkins 
 came to Oregon, spent a few months in Forest 
 Grove, and then engaged in lumbering in 
 Eugene. In 1890 he organized the Eugene 
 Lumber Company, of which he has since been 
 president, and which company built a mill of 
 twenty-five thousand feet capacity at the north 
 end of Mill street. This structure burned in 
 1900, its burning entailing a severe loss to the 
 company, which, however, at once erected a 
 mill of more modern construction, and with an 
 increased capacity of five thousand. The motive 
 power consists of one thirty-horse-power, and 
 two forty-horse-power engines, the timber being 
 secured from the company's tracts on the 'Wil- 
 lamette river. This company ranks high as a 
 promoter of the splendid timber possibilities of 
 Lane county, and as a large employer of labor 
 materially contributes to the maintenance of the 
 industrial wellbeing in the city and county. The 
 president is one of the practically qualified lum- 
 bermen of which this region boasts, and added 
 to this claim to consideration are personal char- 
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 confidence and claim the respect of his subordi- 
 nates, but retain the lasting regard and good will 
 of a host of friends. 
 
 In St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Mr. Hopkins 
 was united in marriage with Emma Lynd, a na- 
 tive of Jefferson county, N. Y., and the mother 
 of three children, of whom Dwight B. is inter- 
 ested in his father's busines ; Harold L., a grad- 
 uate of the University of Oregon, of Oberlin Col- 
 lege, and Yale University, is a clergyman in Chi- 
 cago, 111. ; and Kate is the wife of Frank H. 
 Porter, of Halsey, Ore. Mr. Hopkins is a 
 Republican in politics, and is a member of the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 WILLIAM NEIS. The finest hop-yard in 
 the Willamette valley is said to be that of Wil- 
 liam Neis, which is located near Springfield, 
 Lane county, and consists of twenty-five acres of 
 finely cultivated land. During some seasons he 
 has raised four hundred bales, the largest crop 
 in the world for the acreage, being about three 
 thousand pounds to the acre, the fine soil so well 
 adapted to this plant, combined with the in- 
 herited talent for this employment, uniting to 
 bring about the best possible results. 
 
 Mr. Neis is not a native of this state, nor yet 
 of the country wherein he has made his home for 
 so many years, having been born in Oberland- 
 stein, Hesse Nassau, the son of Joseph and the 
 grandson of Phillip Neis, both natives of that 
 location. Both followed the life of a horticul- 
 turist and had extensive vineyards, their last 
 days being spent in the location of their birth. 
 The mother was in maidenhood Anna Marn 
 Hensler, born near Ems, and of her six children 
 four are now living, the two in America being 
 Phillip Neis of Portland, and William, of this 
 review. The latter's birth occurred May 24, 
 1836. He was reared in the beautiful city of 
 Oberlandstein, where he attended the public 
 schools, later finishing his education in a private 
 school in Coblentz. When fifteen and a half 
 years old he was apprenticed as a wholesale and 
 retail merchant in Cologne, where he remained 
 for three years, after which he spent a year in 
 Coblentz in steamboating and the commission 
 business. He then entered the army, becoming 
 a soldier in the second regiment of grenadiers 
 and serving at various intervals for six years. 
 His regiment was called into active service in 
 1859 in the war between Austria, Italy and 
 France, and he served on the French frontier until 
 peace was declared, when Emperor Franz Josef 
 gave up Lombardy. He had then attained the 
 distinction of a lieutenancy through his efficiencv 
 as a military man, and having a good education, 
 necessary for the rank. At the close of this war 
 Mr. Neis went to Paris and engaged in business 
 
 there, and from there located in Manshester, 
 England, where he followed the shipping busi- 
 ness. Through the death of his mother he was 
 recalled to his native country, after which he 
 went to London and remained until 1869. At 
 that date he became connected with the Franco- 
 American Mescasche, a newspaper of New York 
 city, with which he remained until 1871, when 
 he started toward the broader opportunities of 
 the western states. Locating in Chicago he en- 
 gaged in the wood and willow ware business, 
 and was making a success of his new business 
 when the great fire of 1871, which devastated 
 that city left him at the beginning of his career. 
 He remained but seven months after his loss, 
 some time after this being spent in traveling 
 about through the country, passing a short time 
 in New Orleans, and again in Boulder county, 
 Colo., prospecting. In 1878 he settled in Cali- 
 fornia, and was employed by his brother, who 
 was a hop merchant in San Francisco, where he 
 remained until 1887. Carrying his interests 
 north Mr. Neis then located in Oregon, purchas- 
 ing forty acres of land in the vicinity of Spring- 
 field, the larger part of which has since been de- 
 voted to the cultivation of- hops. 
 
 Since 1899 Mr. Neis has made his home in 
 Eugene, through his fine education and culture 
 contributing no little to the society of this city. 
 He is a Democrat in politics and adheres to the 
 principles embraced in the platform of that party. 
 
 FRANCIS BERRIAN DUNN. The feeling 
 which attaches to the names of the pioneers of 
 Oregon is one that will outlast time and the 
 crowding of events, for the younger generation 
 realizes in part the unselfish manhood and the 
 wide faith in the possibilities of the west which 
 gave their own lives fulfillment among the pres- 
 ent affluence and prosperity of one of the great- 
 est commonwealths on the Pacific slope. In 
 Eugene the name of Dunn is one remembered as 
 that of a strong, forceful and earnest man, whose 
 career affected no little the development of the 
 city, and whose success contributed to that of 
 others, as he was typical of the unselfish brother- 
 hood of pioneers. Though long since passed 
 away, a deep interest centers around the events 
 of his life. 
 
 Mr. Dunn was born in Elizabeth, 111., Decem- 
 ber 24, 1830, the third son of Jonathan and Irene 
 (Clark) Dunn. His father was a millwright by 
 trade and followed that occupation throughout 
 his life. Both he and his wife died near Law- 
 rence, Kan. The son was reared in Athens, 111., 
 and received his education in the district schools, 
 and when a mere lad become a cabin boy on the 
 Mississippi river, where he learned some of the 
 lessons which afterward proved valuable in his 
 
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 life as a pioneer of a country where conditions 
 were trying and dangerous. Following where 
 his ambitions led him, he crossed the plains with 
 ox-teams in 1853, and upon his safe arrival in 
 Oregon became a clerk in Albany, Linn county, 
 where he remained for a short time. In the fall 
 of the same year he located in Eugene, Lane 
 county, and that city was the scene of his busi- 
 ness activity until the termination of his success- 
 ful career. He first engaged as clerk in the es- 
 tablishment of Joseph Brumley, continuing there 
 for one year, when he opened a merchandise 
 business in Springfield. After an experience of 
 three years he returned to Eugene and built a 
 store and engaged in the general merchandise 
 business, in the course of time building up a large 
 and lucrative custom, through his practical meth- 
 ods and unblemished integrity winning the con- 
 fidence of the people with whom he had to deal. 
 His establishment, which was devoted to the sale 
 of dry goods, became the first in quality, quantity 
 and style, and that it was a successful business 
 venture was evidenced by the amount of prop- 
 erty which he was able to accumulate. He be- 
 came the owner of a number of fine farms, to the 
 improvement and cultivation of which he spared 
 no effort or outlay. In the city he left a re- 
 minder of his business career in the erection of 
 the F. B. Dunn Block, a credit to the commercial 
 interests of Eugene. Besides his mercantile in- 
 terests, Mr. Dunn devoted sometime to hop and 
 wool buying, in which operations he met with 
 the usual success which had characterized his 
 entire life. 
 
 In politics Mr. Dunn was a Republican and 
 served ably and efficiently as mayor of the city 
 for eight years, having the entire confidence of 
 the citizens in his public administrations. Know- 
 ing and appreciating his unusual business sagac- 
 ity and judgment, many came to him for advice., 
 which he freely gave, generously eager for the 
 success of his friends and associates. In Ma- 
 sonic circles he was a Knight Templar, and was 
 prominent in the order. His death occurred July 
 20, 1892, and took from the city a stanch, earnest 
 and helpful supporter, whose influence still lives 
 and leads toward the advancement of western 
 civilization. 
 
 By his marriage Mr. Dunn allied himself with 
 a pioneer family of great prominence in Eugene, 
 Miss Cecelia Christian becoming his wife, De- 
 cember 22, 1855. She was born in Mount Car- 
 roll, 111., and was the daughter of Daniel R. 
 Christian. The Christian family were repre- 
 sented in the state of Maryland, where, in Boons- 
 boro, the father was born, the son of Daniel 
 Christian, a patriot and officer in the War of 
 1 81 2, and grandson of Daniel Christian, a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war. Daniel R. Christian 
 early became a resident of the middle west, where 
 
 he was a pioneer farmer and builder in Mount 
 Carroll, but eager to share in the greater hard- 
 ships and larger rewards of a newer country, he 
 brought his wife and six children across the 
 plains in 1852, the journey being made with the 
 slow-plodding oxen. Upon their safe arrival in 
 Oregon the father took up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, which has since 
 become the Christian addition to the city of 
 Eugene, extending from Eleventh street south. 
 His death occurred at the age of seventy-three 
 years, and the city lost one of its most enterpris- 
 ing members, strong for the advancement of 
 commercial and industrial interests, and strong in 
 the moral life of the community, as he was an 
 active member of the Methodist church. The 
 wife who shared the dangers and toils of his pio- 
 neer life was in maidenhood Catherine Etnyre, a 
 native of Maryland, and the daughter of a shoe- 
 maker, who became an early settler of Illinois. 
 The mother also died in this location. She was 
 the mother of the following children besides Mrs. 
 Dunn : Samuel, located in Spokane, Wash. ; 
 Susan, widow of William Maxwell, of Spring- 
 field ; Sarah, widow of A. S. Patterson, of 
 Eugene ; Etha, of Eugene ; John, who was born 
 on the plains in 1852, now living in Eugene; 
 and William, who died in Eugene. 
 
 Mrs. Dunn was but twelve years old when she 
 came to Oregon, and was educated principally in 
 the public schools of this state. Since her hus- 
 band's death she has made her home in Eugene. 
 She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. She is the mother of seven children, of 
 whom Irene is the wife of C. S. Williams, of 
 Eugene ; Luella is the wife of George A. Dorris, 
 of Springfield ; Laura is the wife of Col. George 
 O. Yoran, of Eugene ; Frank E. is a merchant of 
 Eugene ; Fred S. is a post-graduate of Harvard, 
 having previously graduated from the University 
 of Oregon and Harvard, and is now professor of 
 Latin in the University of Oregon; Edna is the 
 wife of Robert Diggles of Melones, Cal. ; and 
 Amy still makes her home with her mother. 
 
 WILLIAM H. ALEXANDER. Except as 
 his work appeals by its substantial, practical, 
 or artistic nature, one builder is hardly distin- 
 guished from his brother worker in the same 
 field. To be able to give general satisfaction in 
 a given direction, is to hold in one's hand an 
 assured success, no matter how keen the compe- 
 tition, or how large or small the dimensions of 
 one's ambition. The builder of ability under- 
 stands the requirements of a discerning public, 
 and, keeping well jn advance of his time-honored 
 calling, is rarely wanting in material upon which 
 to exercise his skill. Eugene is not behind in 
 being able to produce master craftsmen, men who 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1437 
 
 have contributed to its fundamental growth by 
 housing its people and industries, and estab- 
 lishing the harmonious aggregate for which the 
 city is famed. Of this class of men W. H. Al- 
 exander is essentially a leader, having for the 
 past eighteen years followed the best tenets of 
 construction, making a specialty of artistic and 
 conveniently arranged homes, but also putting 
 up a number of public buildings, including the 
 Risdon and Conser blocks. Among the resi- 
 dences which attest the skill of Mr. Alexander, 
 and materially add to the architectural appear- 
 ance of the city, may be mentioned those of F. 
 E. Dunn, S. B. Eakin, T. G. Hendricks, W. T. 
 Caro, Mrs. Sarah H. Patterson and the 
 Schwarzschilds home. 
 
 A native son of Oregon, Mr. Alexander was 
 born on his father's donation claim near Shedds, 
 July 30, 1857, and is the second of the three 
 children born to Joseph R. and Elizabeth (Net- 
 hall) Alexander, natives of Illinois and Scot- 
 land respectively. Through his marriage in Illi- 
 nois Joseph R. Alexander became identified with 
 a Scottish family of illustrious lineage, for Eliza- 
 beth (Percivalj Nethall, the mother of Mrs. 
 Joseph R. Alexander, was the daughter of a 
 Scotch nobleman. Mr. Nethall was born and 
 reared in England, and became a very early set- 
 tler in Illinois. After his death, his wife mar- 
 ried Joseph Hite, who came to Oregon in 1853, 
 
 itling on a farm in Linn county. Previous to 
 her marriage Mrs. Alexander went by the name 
 of her step-father, and was known as Miss 
 Hite. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander crossed the 
 plains in an ox-train in 1853, an d took up a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres 
 where Shedds Station has since been built. This 
 land the husband improved and lived on for sev- 
 eral years, but finally sold out and lived in Linn 
 countv, engaging in teaming between The Dalles 
 and Grande Ronde valley until his death in 
 1863. For a second husband Mrs. Alexander 
 married Charles A. Davis, a carpenter and builder 
 who located in Eugene in 1870. and is now liv- 
 ing retired in that city. His wife died in 1883, 
 leaving the three children before mentioned, of 
 whom Sarah, the oldest, deceased, was the wife 
 of Mr. Smith, and Nellie, the youngest, is the 
 wife of T. B. Lucky of Eugene. 
 
 Until his thirteenth vear W. H. Alexander 
 lived on the farm and attended the country 
 schools and in 1879 accompanied his mother to 
 Eugene, where he had the advantage of the 
 schools of that city. From a boy he worked with 
 tools, and found diversion in making easily con- 
 structed furniture for the house, and in doing odd 
 jobs around the house for his mother. At the 
 age of twentv he worked at the carpenter's trade 
 under W. T. Campbell, an architect of Eugene, 
 after a year being advanced to the position of 
 
 foreman, which he held for two years. In 1885 
 he began contracting and building in Eugene, 
 and has since made this his home, uninterrupted- 
 ly carrying on a large and remunerative busi- 
 ness. He married, in Eugene, Belle Chapman, 
 who' was born in the east, and came to Oregon 
 as a child. Mr. Alexander is popular socially 
 as well as prominent in the business world, and 
 is fraternally identified with the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Uni- 
 form Rank Knights of Pythias, and the Modern 
 Woodmen of America. In political affiliation 
 he is a Republican, but aside from the formality 
 of casting his vote has never identified himself 
 with party affairs. Mr. Alexander holds high 
 place in the esteem of all who know him, and 
 is regarded as one of the reliable and thoroughly 
 substantial men of Eugene. 
 
 HON. JOHN HENRY McCLUNG. The 
 position which the Hon. J. H. McClung now 
 occupies in the city of Eugene is chiefly the re- 
 sult of his own resourceful and optimistic na- 
 ture. Since his entrance into the affairs of Ore- 
 gon he has taken an active part in many of the 
 enterprises which have especially marked the 
 growth of this largest city in Lane county, 
 where he now lives in retirement. He is a pio- 
 neer of 1856, and through the many years which 
 have passed since then he has directed his best 
 energies to the cultivation of his own native tal- 
 ents, which in their fulfillment have added 
 greatly to the financial importance of the city 
 and county which have been his home so long.. 
 
 Mr. McClung was born in Seneca county, 
 Ohio, September 10, 1837, the son of James L. 
 McClung, who was a native of Seneca county, 
 N. Y. His grandfather, John McClung, was 
 also a native of New York state, and there he 
 died. James L. McClung became a contractor 
 and builder and moved to Laporte county, Ind., 
 where he engaged in the prosecution of his trade 
 until his death, September 11, 1850, at the age 
 of forty-three years. His widow, formerly Cyn- 
 thia L. Parsons, who was born near Oswego, 
 N. Y., afterward married Bell Jennings, of 
 Pennsylvania, and in the fall of 1856 they came 
 by way of the Isthmus of Panama to Oregon, 
 settling in Eugene, where Mr. Jennings engaged 
 in the drug business. Some time before his 
 death, which occurred in Eugene, he retired 
 from active life. Mr. McClung's mother died at 
 the age of seventy-five vears. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her 
 father, R. H. Parsons, a native of New York 
 state, and an early settler of Ohio and Indiana, 
 where he engaged in farming, crossed the plains 
 with ox-teams in 1853 an d settled three miles 
 west of Eugene, and three years later located in 
 
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 that city, where he became a merchant and jus- 
 tice of the peace, which positions he held until 
 his death. 
 
 The only child of his father's family, John H. 
 McClung spent the first eight years of his life 
 in the state of his birth, and afterward located 
 with his parents in Indiana, where he attended 
 the district schools. In the summer of 1855 he 
 went to Kansas with a government corps, in the 
 process of surveying, carrying the chains for 
 over six months, and the year following, when 
 he was nineteen years old, he came to Oregon. 
 He sailed from New York city on the steamer 
 George Law to Aspinwall, and from that city 
 started across the Isthmus of Panama by rail, 
 in the course of the journey the train meeting 
 with a terrible wreck, in which many lives were 
 lost. Mr. McClung came through safely, how- 
 ever, the car in which he was a. passenger com- 
 ing intact through the wreck. From the west- 
 ern side he took passage on the Golden Age, 
 and came via San Francisco and the Columbia 
 river to Portland and thence to Corvallis and 
 Junction City. From there he walked to the 
 home of his grandfather Parsons. He bought 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land located six 
 miles west of Eugene, and at once entered upon 
 the improvement and cultivation of his farm. 
 Upon the arrival of his stepfather, Mr. Jen- 
 nings, a little later, the two assumed charge of 
 four hundred and eighty acres, and farmed for 
 some time. Until the summer of 1858 Mr. Mc- 
 Clung remained so occupied, when he disposed 
 of his agricultural interests and located in Eu- 
 gene. In the winter following Mr. McClung at- 
 tended school in Eugene, finishing his education 
 and in February, 1859, ne an d an uncle, Thomas 
 Belshaw, bought the only drug store then in the 
 city, that conducted by Danforth & Breyman, 
 and engaged in business on Willamette street, 
 near the location of the First National Bank. 
 This partnership continued until the spring of 
 1862, when they sold their combined interests to 
 Mr. Jennings. Messrs. McClung and Belshaw 
 then went to the Salmon river mines in Idaho, 
 traveling by pack horses to their destination; 
 but the summer spent there was utterly without 
 returns, and the following fall found them 
 again in Eugene. Mr. McClung then purchased 
 a half interest in the drug business, the firm 
 name being Jennings & McClung, and this was 
 continued until 1866, when Mr. Jennings was 
 compelled, through failure of health, to locate 
 once more upon a farm. The business was then 
 sold, and Mr. McClung also bought a farm ad- 
 joining that of his step-father, near Creswell, 
 and conducted this farm until the fall of 1868, 
 when he again returned to Eugene and became 
 a copying clerk in the office of the surveyor 
 general, remaining so occupied until the follow- 
 
 ing spring. In partnership with John W. ^ Mel- 
 drum he then obtained a contract to survey and 
 sectionize the land about Trout creek, and later 
 in the fall took other contracts near Prineville. 
 In the fall of that year he returned to Eugene. 
 In the spring of 1870 he took a contract to sur- 
 vey on Squaw creek, and in 1871 he secured the 
 same work with W. B. Pengra for Silver Lake, 
 Lake county, this practically ending his work 
 along these lines, with the exception of a little 
 the next year along the Siuslaw and the Mc- 
 Kenzie rivers. 
 
 In the fall of 1873 Mr - McClung built the 
 residence which he now occupies, completing it 
 in 1874. He has nearly every variety of tree 
 and shrub which grows in Oregon, and in all 
 particulars his home is an evidence of the cul- 
 ture which distinguishes its owner, adding in 
 no small degree to the general appearance of the 
 city. In his political relations a stanch Repub- 
 lican, he was elected by that party, in 1874, to 
 the house of representatives in the state legisla- 
 ture, and two years later was nominated for 
 state senator, but was defeated by Governor 
 Whiteaker, by sixty-eight votes. In June, 1876, 
 the Grange association became very strong in 
 this section and Mr. McClung was elected as 
 superintendent. In this capacity he bought the 
 stock and started a general merchandise store in 
 Eugene, in which he continued for seven years, 
 and at the expressed desire of the company to 
 dispose of its business he and A. J. Johnson 
 bought the stock and continued the business, the 
 firm name being McClung & Johnson. This 
 mercantile venture was successfully continued 
 for eight vears, and at the close of that period 
 Mr. McClung became the sole owner of the 
 business, changing its character to that of a dry 
 goods and clothing establishment. In 1902 he 
 closed out the stock and retired from the active 
 cares which had so long engrossed his attention. 
 
 In 1901 Mr. McClung built on the corner of 
 Willamette and Seventh streets a brick building, 
 the dimensions of which were 70x80 feet, con- 
 taining three stores, and with three entrances. 
 This is known as the McClung Building. In 
 the year following it was supplemented by an- 
 other of like character upon the corner of Wil- 
 lamette and Eighth streets, 55x114 feet in dimen- 
 sions, containing two stores with two entrances 
 on Willamette street, and a store in the rear. 
 Mr. McClung has always been actively inter- 
 ested in municipal government and general busi- 
 ness affairs, serving for a period of ten years as 
 a member of the council and mayor for two 
 years. As school director for many years he 
 has exerted no little influence in educational 
 matters of the city, serving in that capacity 
 when the Patterson and Geary schools were 
 built, and as a member of the board at the pres- 
 
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 ent time is interested in the building of the new 
 high school, which is being erected (1903) at 
 a cost of $25,000. He is a stockholder in the 
 Eugene Water Company, and serves in that cor- 
 poration as a director and treasurer. In 1894 
 he was once more called upon to serve in the 
 legislature, being elected senator from Lane 
 county by a large plurality, and served in the 
 sessions of 1895 and 1897. He was not a can- 
 didate for re-election. 
 
 Miss Kate Henderson, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania, who crossed the plains with her parents, 
 James H. D. and Mary E. (Fisher) Henderson, 
 in 1852, and settled in Yamhill county, became 
 the wife of Mr. McClung in 1863, and has borne 
 him the following- children : Jessie Benton, a 
 graduate of the University of Oregon, and now 
 the wife of Prof. Charles Friedel ; Margaret L., 
 wife of Dr. J. R. Wetherbee, of Portland ; and 
 Ina D., a graduate of the University of Oregon, 
 who makes her home with her parents. Frater- 
 nally Mr. McClung was made a member of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Eugene, 
 and is past noble grand. He also belongs to the 
 Encampment and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He is a member of the Eugene 
 Commercial Club and the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, in which he officiates as chairman of 
 the board of trustees. 
 
 In the work which Mr. McClung has accom- 
 plished, no characteristic is more evident than 
 faithfulness, returning always to that which 
 promises him returns. This is particularly no- 
 ticeable in his political life, his first vote, as a 
 young man, being cast for Lincoln, and each 
 successive vote following for what he deemed 
 the advancement of the best principles of gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 SYRUS V. BARR. Among the able and 
 progressive farmers of Linn county,, the records 
 of whose lives fill an important place in this vol- 
 ume, Syrus V. Barr, living near Sweet Home, 
 occupies a position of prominence. He is a na- 
 tive-born citizen, and the worthy descendant of 
 a representative pioneer of this part of the 
 county. Since the days of his boyhood he has 
 witnessed many changes in this locality, and has 
 contributed his full share toward the develop- 
 ment and growing prosperity of his native town 
 and county, being a generous supporter of all 
 beneficial measures. He was born March 13, 
 1855, on a farm which adjoins his own, it being 
 the homestead of his father, the late Jesse Barr. 
 
 A native of Tennessee, Jesse Barr was born 
 October 18, 1818, near Nashville. When a 
 young man he emigrated to Iowa, and in the 
 spring of 1853, still following the tide of emi- 
 gration westward bound, he crossed the plains, 
 coming to Oregon with his family in a wagon 
 
 driven by four yoke of oxen, and driving a few 
 cows. Spending the winter at Brownsville, he 
 secured work in the spring of 1854 near Craw- 
 fordsville, and while there in the employ of Mr. 
 Finley assisted in building the first saw-mill and 
 grist-mill erected in that locality. In the spring 
 of 1855 he purchased Mr. Darby's right to his 
 donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres of land, lying three miles north of Holley, 
 and three miles west of Sweet Home. The only 
 improvement on the place was a small log house 
 built by Mr. Darby. Moving into the cabin 
 with his family, he set to work with true pioneer 
 grit to clear a farm. Toiling industriously and 
 persistently, he made substantial improvements, 
 and gradually enlarged his operations until he 
 became" one of the most successful farmers and 
 stock-raisers of the neighborhood, continuing in 
 his chosen occupation until his death, January 3, 
 1893. He was a member of the Christian 
 Church, and of Sweet Home Grange, which he 
 helped to organize. Politically he affiliated with 
 the Democratic party. While living in Iowa he 
 married Annie Kirk, who was born near Knox- 
 ville, Tenn., in 1825. She survives him, and is 
 now living on the old homestead. Of the eleven 
 children born of their union, five sons and six 
 daughters, nine are now living, and all are mar- 
 ried. 
 
 Remaining on the home farm until attaining 
 his majority, Syrus V. Barr received such edu- 
 cational advantages as were afforded by the dis- 
 trict schools, and was well trained to habits of 
 industry and thrift by his parents. Beginning 
 life for himself at the age of twenty-one years, 
 he bought four hundred and thirty-six acres of 
 land adjoining the parental farm, and has since 
 carried on general farming with satisfactory pe- 
 cuniary results. He makes a specialty of stock- 
 raising, and has a fine lot of Shorthorn cattle, 
 which he prefers to any other breed. The suc- 
 cess with which he has met in his career has 
 been wrought by persistent energy, well directed 
 toil, and exceptional business ability on his part, 
 and his estate, with its many improvements, is 
 one of the best and most desirable pieces of 
 property in the community. 
 
 In October, 1891, Mr. Barr married Miss 
 Lulu Hamilton, daughter of Asher Hamilton, 
 and into their household two children have been 
 born, namely : Victor and Gertrude. Politically 
 Mr. Barr is identified with the Democratic party, 
 and fraternally he is a member of the Macca- 
 bees, and of Holly Grange. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Barr belong: to the Christian Church. 
 
 WILLIAM J. J. SCOTT. Important among 
 the men who have made their efforts productive 
 of the substantial upbuilding of Oregon and the 
 promotion of worthy and enterprising move- 
 
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 ments was William J. J. Scott, for many years 
 well known in Lane county and various other 
 sections, through the virtues which were his by 
 inheritance as well as personal effort, for he 
 came of an old colonial family who took part in 
 the early struggles of the nation. With the 
 death of Mr. Scott, in 1896, passed away a 
 member of the brave and hardy band of pio- 
 neers which is slowly becoming only a recollec- 
 tion as time goes on and another generation 
 takes up the work so nobly begun. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Scott were residents of 
 Morgan county, 111., where the father, Levi 
 Scott, engaged in farming, and where this son 
 was born October 15, 1824. He was left moth- 
 erless at an early age, but with the self-reliance 
 characteristic of the day he set out into the 
 world to find a place for himself. He learned 
 the trade of a carpenter, which he followed for 
 some time in Illinois. Later he located in Iowa, 
 remaining there until 1846, when he crossed the 
 plains with ox-teams and settled in the valley 
 which was afterward known by his name, near 
 the Umpqua river, where he took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres. He 
 remained in that location until 1850, when he 
 went to Oregon City to work. There he was 
 married and returned to his claim, where the 
 couple went to housekeeping. This home was a 
 log cabin of one room, having a large fireplace 
 upon which the cooking was done. They kept 
 travelers, and Mrs. Dersham, a daughter, has 
 the scales upon which the gold dust was 
 weighed, in which they received pay for their ac- 
 commodation. After a period of six years Mr. 
 Scott came to Lane county and bought a farm 
 two miles west of Creswell, and ten years later 
 located in Eugene, where he engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business in partnership with Frank 
 Dunn, the firm name being Scott & Dunn. After 
 a few years he again returned to his ranch, re- 
 maining for two years, when he bought another 
 farm in the vicinity and lived upon that a short 
 time. Locating in Creswell for a brief period 
 he bought the farm which is now occupied by 
 his widow, located one-half mile west of Cres- 
 well, which he began at once to improve and 
 cultivate. The farm is supplied with a good 
 dwelling-house, substantial barns and other out- 
 buildings, and the land was utilized for stock- 
 raising, his specialty being Shorthorn-Durham 
 cattle. After giving a farm to each of his sons, 
 he still had left about two thousand acres, and 
 over three hundred is still in the possession of 
 Mrs. Scott and managed by her, with the assist- 
 ance of her son, Ripley. The balance was di- 
 vided by Mrs. Scott among her ten children. 
 
 Though not a member of any religious de- 
 nomination, Mr. Scott was a man of strong in- 
 tegrity and truly Christian purposes, and held a 
 
 high place in the estimation of his fellow-citi- 
 zens. Politically he was a Republican, and 
 though he never shirked responsibility as a citi- 
 zen, he did not aspire to official recognition, but 
 held the minor offices in the vicinity as a duty 
 rather than from any desire to become identified 
 with party movements. In educational matters 
 he was greatly interested, and gave much time 
 and thought to the improvement of the institu- 
 tions in his community, being one of the first 
 regents appointed for the University of Oregon, 
 which position he filled from 1873 to l %77- But 
 once did Mr. Scott depart from his agricultural 
 life, and that was in 1849, when he was induced 
 by glowing reports to make the trip to Califor- 
 nia to visit the gold fields. The death of Mr. 
 Scott occurred September 13, 1896, in his sev- 
 enty-second year. 
 
 The wife who shared a large part of the life 
 of Mr. Scott was formerly Surrenea J. Robin- 
 son, who was born December 5, 1828, in Shelby 
 county, Ohio, the daughter of the Rev. William 
 Robinson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in 
 this work. Of this union ten children were born, 
 all of whom are living. Their descendants in- 
 clude twenty-six grandchildren and nineteen 
 great-grandchildren. Of the children Eliza S., 
 the wife of D. B. Trimble, lives in Condon, 
 Ore. ; Mary A., the wife of William C. Brown, 
 lives at Lone Rock ; Matilda J., the wife of R. 
 H. Landers, lives at Methow, Wash. ; William 
 W. lives at Creswell ; John R. is located in this 
 vicinity ; Rose E. married D. S. Brown and re- 
 sides in Condon ; Dora C, the wife of C. C. 
 Hazleton, is in Creswell ; Viola S. and Ripley F. 
 are at home ; and Lillie M., the wife of R. E. 
 Dersham, is located near Creswell. As a relic 
 of the eastern days of their family, they have 
 now in their possession the original copy of the 
 Ulster Gazette, published January 4, 1800, in 
 which is given a full account of Washington's 
 death, and his Memoirs. 
 
 HON. EDWIN O. POTTER, of Eugene, is 
 one of the thoroughly representative men of the 
 younger generation of the Willamette valley. He 
 was born near Irving, Lane county, Ore., August 
 25, i860, and is a son of William A. and Luezy 
 (Zumwalt) Potter. The family was founded in 
 America by a German immigrant, named 
 Pothour, who settled in New Jersey. David Pot- 
 ter, grandfather of Edwin O., of this review, 
 was born in Pennsylvania, and in young man- 
 hood settled in Ohio, where he engaged in farm- 
 ing. His son, William A., was reared in Ohio. 
 While still a young man he removed to Wis- 
 consin, from which state, in 1851, he crossed the 
 plains by ox-train and settled in Lane county, 
 Ore. After several years' residence in various 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 parts of Oregon he finally located permanently 
 at Irving, where he now lives in retirement at 
 the age of seventy-eight years. He is a member 
 of the United Brethren Church, and fraternally 
 is identified with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. His wife, Luezy Zumwalt, was born 
 in Jefferson county, Mo., the daughter of Solo- 
 mon Zumwalt. The latter started for Oregon 
 with his family in the fall of 1850, traveling with 
 ox-teams. Upon arriving at Salt Lake City they 
 decided to remain there through the winter. The 
 following June they resumed the journey and 
 came directly to Lane county, where Mr. Zum- 
 walt took up a donation claim two miles north- 
 west of Eugene. There he resided until his re- 
 tirement from the active cares of life. His death 
 occurred in the Mohawk valley. (For a more 
 detailed account of this family, see sketch of 
 William A. Potter, which appears elsewhere in 
 this volume.) 
 
 The childhood and youth of Judge E. O. Pot- 
 ter were spent upon his father's farm, where he 
 was reared to agriculture. He attended the dis- 
 trict school in his neighborhood, and afterward 
 entered the University of Oregon, from which 
 he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts in 1887. This institution subsequently 
 conferred upon him the Master's degree. Dur- 
 ing the last three years of his university course 
 he taught school a part of the time, the money 
 thus earned being applied toward the payment of 
 his tuition fees. Upon the completion of his 
 classical course he entered the law department 
 of the university, and was graduated therefrom 
 two years later — in 1890 — with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Laws. In June of the same year he 
 was admitted to the bar of Oregon, and immedi- 
 ately entered upon the practice of his profession 
 in Eugene. From 1890 to 1894 he served as 
 deputy district attorney for Lane county. In 
 1896 he was elected county judge and served 
 four years, since which time he has devoted his 
 entire time to the practice of his profession. 
 
 Judge Potter was married in Eugene, October 
 16, 1890, to Emily Bristol, a native of Benton 
 county, Ore., and a daughter of George A. and 
 Polly (Minton) Bristol, both now deceased, the 
 former dying in Benton county and the latter in 
 Lane county. Mrs. Potter was a member of the 
 same class in the University of Oregon as was 
 her husband, and was graduated with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Arts. They have a daughter, 
 named Pauline. 
 
 In his fraternal relations Judge Potter is a 
 member of Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M., 
 in which he is past master ; of Eugene Chapter 
 No. 10, R. A. M., in which he is high priest ; of 
 the Woodmen of the World and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. In the Congrega- 
 tional church, of which he is a member, he is 
 
 serving as chairman of the board of trustees. 
 He is a charter member of the Eugene Commer- 
 cial club, and was a member of its first board of 
 trustees. He was formerly president of the 
 Association of the University of Oregon. As a 
 Republican he has taken an active part in the 
 political affairs of Lane county for several years, 
 and at the present time is chairman of the Re- 
 publican county central committee. 
 
 Though a comparatively young man, Judge 
 Potter has come to be recognized as a man of 
 strong influence in local affairs. He is one of 
 the best types of the self-made men of the hour, 
 is possessed of a strong public spirit, and is ac- 
 tively identified with all worthy movements 
 which have for their end the advancement of the 
 public welfare. Though he has applied himself 
 closely to the duties of his chosen profession, he 
 has shown himself to possess varied talents. He 
 is broad-minded and liberal in his views, a man 
 of unquestioned integrity, and his record thus far 
 leads his friends to the conclusion that future 
 political preferment will be dependent solely upon 
 his own inclinations. 
 
 J. H. SIMMONS. The family of which J. 
 H. Simmons is a representative is one of the 
 earliest to be founded in Oregon, the family 
 having come to this state for the purpose of 
 making a permanent settlement in 1845. F° r 
 nearly sixty years Mr. Simmons has been iden- 
 fied with the Willamette valley, and during that 
 long period has been a witness of the various 
 and romantic steps in the development of the 
 country from a wilderness to one of the most 
 attractive places of residence in the entire Amer- 
 ican commonwealth. 
 
 Mr. Simmons was born in Wayne county, 
 Ind., August 12, 1842, and is a son of Samuel 
 and Mahala (Bunch) Simmons. His father was 
 born in Randolph county, Ind., in the year 
 1807, and was reared to an agricultural life. 
 During the early years of his married life he 
 moved to Michigan with his family, where they 
 remained until 1836. The following nine years 
 were spent in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Mis- 
 souri and Kansas. In the latter state their home 
 was at Leavenworth. In the spring of 1845 
 they joined a wagon train bound for Oregon. 
 After a journey consuming about six months 
 they arrived at their destination, reaching the 
 site of the city of Portland on Christmas day. 
 They had experienced no serious troubles with 
 the Indians en route, but were nearly starved at 
 one time before they could reach a point where 
 thev could replenish their depleted supplies. Mr. 
 Simmons took his family to Washington county, 
 remaining for a time at Forest Grove, but soon 
 removed to what is now known as South Prairie, 
 
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 near Mathieu's Ferry. In the spring of 1846 
 the elder Simmons traded a yoke of oxen for the 
 title to six hundred and forty acres of rich land 
 on Howell's Prairie, in Marion county, two hun- 
 dred acres of which constituted a portion of the 
 historic Laroque farm. At that time there were 
 but four other families living in that vicinity. 
 Mr. Simmons and his wife continued to reside 
 on their farm until a few years before their 
 death, when they removed to Portland, from 
 which city they eventually returned to their orig- 
 inal home. There Mr. Simmons passed away at 
 the age of eighty-two years. His wife's death 
 occurred soon after, at the age of eighty-one 
 years. Mr. Simmons always took a deep interest 
 in politics as a stanch Republican ; and he was 
 also identified with all worthy educational and 
 religious movements. 
 
 Of the children born to this estimable pioneer 
 couple, the four eldest are deceased, namely : 
 William, Asa, Daniel and Mahala. Those sur- 
 viving are : Elizabeth, wife of Eugene Shannon ; 
 J. H., of this review ; and Sylvester C, of Port- 
 land. 
 
 J. H. Simmons spent the years of his child- 
 hood on his father's farm, attending the district 
 school in the winter season and assisting in the 
 work on the farm during the summer. At the 
 age of nineteen years he embarked upon an inde- 
 pendent career, having a confidence in his own 
 ability, which the success of past years has fully 
 justified. Going to California in 1850, he en- 
 gaged at once in mining, carrying with him to 
 Oregon the fruits of eight years' hard labor. In 
 i860 he purchased with this money a farm of 
 two hundred and forty acres, upon which he has 
 since resided. He has eighty acres under culti- 
 vation, with one hundred and sixty acres one 
 and a quarter miles north of Mount Angel, on 
 the Mount Angel and Woodburn road. Upon 
 his farm Mr. Simmons has put the most modern 
 improvements, having a neat residence and good 
 buildings of all kinds. He is at present engaged 
 in general farming and stock-raising, his farm 
 being stocked with a high class of animals. 
 
 Mr. Simmons' marriage united him with Mary 
 Jane Hall, a native of New York state, who 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 1850. They 
 have been the parents of ten children, named in 
 the order of their birth as follows : Elizabeth, 
 wife of M. Settlemier, of Mount Angel; J. D., 
 residing near Monitor, Marion county; Grover, 
 who lives on Howell's Prairie ; William, of Port- 
 land ; L. D., of Sacramento; Redford and Fred- 
 erick, both of Portland ; Davis, who was killed 
 in Tunnel No. 6 ; Ida, wife of Joseph Mack, who 
 resides near Marquam ; and Ola, wife of A. 
 Johnson, of Howell's Prairie. Mrs. Simmons 
 died in 1884, an d Mr. Simmons was afterward 
 married to Mary A, Holmes, a native of In- 
 diana, 
 
 Mr. Simmons is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, with which he has been 
 identified for thirty-five years. His record is 
 that of a substantial, useful and honorable citi- 
 zen. He does not belong to that class of men 
 who place obstacles in the way of beneficial 
 movements, but on the contrary does all in his 
 power to advance the highest interests of his 
 locality and of the county. 
 
 NORMAN L. LEE, M. D. Now a leading 
 physician of Junction City, Lane county, Ore., 
 Norman L. Lee came to Oregon as a boy of ten 
 years, having been born near Mount Vernon, 111., 
 March 29, 1837, while his parents were en route 
 for a settlement in Iowa. He was the third child 
 of five sons and six daughters born to his par- 
 ents, Philester Lee, a native of Ontario, N. Y., 
 and Eliza Ann (Burge) Lee, also of that state. 
 The family is one of splendid ancestry, on the 
 paternal side, three brothers of the name having 
 come from the land across the water in the mid- 
 dle of the seventeenth century, one finding a 
 habitation in New England, another in the south 
 and the other in the west. Josephus Lee, the 
 paternal grandfather, was born in Connecticut, 
 where as a cooper he earned his livelihood. As 
 a patriot he served valiantly in the war of 1812. 
 When he was about eighty-eight years of age 
 he crossed the plains after the death of his wife, 
 and became an inmate of his son's home in Salem, 
 Ore., where he died past the ninety-first year of 
 his age. His son, Philester Lee, the father of 
 Dr. Lee, settled in Ohio, from which state he 
 emigrated in 1837 to Iowa, locating near Keo- 
 sauqua, Van Buren county, and later became a 
 resident of Wapello county, engaging in farm- 
 ing. In 1847 ne brought his family across the 
 plains with ox-teams, six months of the year 
 being occupied in the trip, and after settling 
 them in Portland he went to the California mines 
 at the first report of the discovery of gold. When 
 he returned in 1849 ft was with a reward for his 
 earnest and persevering effort, and with the pro- 
 ceeds of the year's work he opened up a general 
 merchandise business in Salem, Ore., which after 
 one year he sold and took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres near the present 
 site of Sodaville, Linn county, and remained in 
 that neighborhood for the balance of his life, 
 with the exception of only a few years. His 
 death occurred at the age of eighty-four years, at 
 the home of Dr. Lee in Junction City. The 
 mother was the daughter of John Burge, a na- 
 tive of New York, and the representative of a 
 Knickerbocker family. He learned the trade of 
 blacksmith, but spent some of his early life as 
 a teacher. In 1850 he crossed the plains from 
 Iowa, to which state he had previously journeyed 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1443 
 
 from his homo in New York, and on his arrival 
 in Oregon located on a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres near Sodaville, Linn 
 county, where his death occurred. 
 
 Norman L. Lee was educated primarily in the 
 common schools of Oregon, and at the close of 
 his school days he learned the trade of a carpen- 
 ter and continued steadily in this work until he 
 was thirty years old. In 1867 he began the study 
 of medicine under the tutelage of Dr. George 
 Odell, of Lebanon, Ore., and in 1870 he entered 
 the medical department of Willamette Univer- 
 sity and was graduated the following year with 
 the degree of M. D. Entering at once upon 
 general practice in Junction City, Dr. Lee has 
 made a notable success of his work since making 
 this his home, and has taken a leading interest 
 in all movements pertaining to the general wel- 
 fare of the city. He owns a farm of two hun- 
 dred and fifty acres nine miles west of the city, 
 which is partly improved. He also owns property 
 in Junction City where he makes his home. As 
 a Republican in politics he finds time to aid the 
 advancement of the principles which he endorses, 
 having served as postmaster of Junction City 
 during Harrison's administration, and as a mem- 
 ber of the city council and a school director he 
 has faithfully served the public for many years. 
 Dr. Lee was married in 1867 in Linn county, 
 to Miss Amanda M. Griggs, who was born in 
 Illinois, the daughter of A. B. Griggs, also a 
 native of that state. In 1850 he crossed the 
 plains to Oregon, taking up a donation claim. 
 of six > hundred and forty acres near Albany, 
 Linn county, where he engaged as a farmer until 
 his death in April, 1903, at the age of seventy- 
 seven years. The following children have blessed 
 the union of the doctor and Mrs. Lee : Ernest U., 
 county clerk of Lane county, located at Eu- 
 gene: Claude D., a druggist at Eugene: Anna, 
 the wife of Fred Fortmiller. of Portland, Ore. ; 
 Bret W., attending high school at Eugene; Clare 
 A., at home : Abigail and Maud, both of whom 
 died in infancy. One worthy act of Dr. Lee 
 which should not be passed over in a resume of 
 his life was his enlistment in 1863 in Company 
 F, First Oregon Infantry, serving in the com- 
 missary department for nineteen months, prin- 
 cipally east of the mountains. He was mustered 
 out at Ft. Vancouver in 1865. 
 
 WILSON T. LEWIS. As a meat dealer 
 Wilson T. Lewis has experienced several years 
 of success in Buena Vista, Polk county, and 
 Junction City. Lane county, where he is now 
 located. He is an excellent business man, and 
 his efforts have resulted in good to the com- 
 munities in which he has lived, his conscien- 
 tious and painstaking methods not onlv winnine. 
 
 but keeping, a large and appreciative patronage. 
 Mr. Lewis comes of good old southern patriotic 
 stock, his parents, John and Mary (Turner) 
 Lewis, and his paternal grandfather, William, 
 having been born in Kentucky. The grandfather 
 was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and about 1840 
 removed with his family to Platte county, Mo., 
 where he bought a large farm, and continued to 
 live until his emigration to Oregon in 1853. He 
 outfitted with ox-teams and prairie schooners, 
 and his journey was comparatively free from 
 the distressing incidents which marred the prog- 
 ress of earlier travelers. Locating on a claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres near Inde- 
 pendence, Polk county, he removed to Benton 
 county, Ore., in 1870, and died on his farm near 
 Monroe in his eighty-seventh year. 
 
 John Lewis took up a claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres, near Independence, Polk coun- 
 ty, and in 1870 removed to a farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres in Jackson county, at pres- 
 ent making his home on a little place near Med- 
 ford, where he is engaged in the nursery busi- 
 ness. Though eighty-seven years old May 16, 
 1903, he is still hale and hearty, and takes as 
 keen an interest in the products of the soil as 
 he did in the days of his young and vigorous 
 manhood. His father-in-law, Thomas Turner, 
 was born in Kentucky, and at an early day re- 
 moved to Indiana, where his death occurred in 
 1835. Mrs. Lewis, who also is living, is the 
 mother of nine children, five of whom are sons, 
 Wilson T. being the oldest. The children were 
 all educated in the public schools, and all were 
 taught the necessity and dignity of self mainte- 
 nance as soon as their powers were sufficiently 
 developed. Wilson T., as the oldest son, left 
 home in 1864, and engaged in the butcher busi- 
 ness at Buena Vista, in 1873 removing his busi- 
 ness to Junction City, and continuing there 
 until disposing of his shop in 1902. Inspired by 
 former success he re-engaged in business in July. 
 1903, the loss of his shop leaving him practically 
 no occupation, a state of affairs not particularly 
 pleasing to so active and capable a business 
 man. 
 
 Since coming to Junction City, Mr. Lewis has 
 added to its architectural and homelike appear- 
 ance by erecting a comfortable and commodious 
 residence, which is presided over by his wife, 
 formerly Cecelia Florence, who was born seven 
 miles northeast of Portland, and who is the 
 mother of one daughter. Leah, now the wife of 
 R. H. Skaggs, a stationary engineer living with 
 the Lewis family. Mr. Lewis is fraternally 
 prominent, and is identified with Eugene Lodge 
 No. 11, A. F. & A. M.. of Eugene. He is a 
 Democrat in political affiliation, and has served 
 as councilman for a couple of terms. Mr. Lewis 
 is thoroughly honorable in all of his dealings, 
 
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 and he takes a keen interest in all enterprises 
 which have for their object the betterment of 
 the community. 
 
 GEORGE O. KNOWLES. The genial and 
 successful manager of the Meyer & Keyles gen- 
 eral merchandise store is one of the very capa- 
 ble and promising business men of Mapleton, 
 and one of the many sons of Minnesota who owe 
 their start in life to the inspiring surroundings 
 of a prosperous northwestern community. Born 
 in Rice county, Minn., September 27, 1865, he 
 comes of an old New Hampshire family, in 
 which state his parents, Ebenezer C. and Lu- 
 cinda (Atwood) Knowles, were born, reared 
 and married. The parents removed from New 
 Hampshire to Rice county, Minn., in 1855, locat- 
 ing at Hastings, where the father worked at his 
 trade as carpenter, but afterward turned his 
 attention to general farming near Northfield, 
 Minn. For thirty years his intrepid honesty 
 and practical industry redounded to the credit of 
 the neighborhood and during that time he was 
 elected to the state legislature on the Repub- 
 lican ticket, representing in an interested and 
 helpful manner, those who had placed their con- 
 fidence in him. In 1885 he sold his farm and 
 came to Mapleton, Ore., arriving October 8, 
 and at once purchasing some land near the town, 
 where he farmed in a small way up to the time 
 of his death, January 12, 1902, at the age of 
 eighty-two years. His wife, who was born in 
 1822, is still living in Mapleton and she is the 
 mother of eight children, the order of their birth 
 being as follows: John, a resident of Cotton- 
 wood county, Minn. ; Albert P.. of Mapleton ; 
 Frank ; Cora E., wife of W. H. Weatherson, of 
 Florence, Ore. Four of the children are de- 
 ceased. The elder Knowles was well known fra- 
 ternally, and for more than forty years had 
 been connected with the Blue Lodge, A. F. & 
 A. M. 
 
 His father's success permitted of more than 
 the average educational opportunities for his 
 son, George O., who passed from the public 
 schools of Rice county, Minn., to Carleton Col- 
 lege, which he attended two terms. Six months 
 were spent at the State University at Eugene, 
 and he afterward attended the Pacific Business 
 College at San Francisco, remaining there five 
 months. His first business experience was ac- 
 quired in a mercantile business at Seaton, where 
 he devoted seven years to this enterprise. For 
 three years he tempted fortune in the mines 
 of the Bohemia district, and was more fortunate 
 than many, and at present not only owns three 
 claims there, but is possessor of a general mer- 
 chandise store netting a handsome yearly in- 
 come. 
 
 August 4, 1902, Mr. Knowles was united in 
 marriage with Lenora B. Casterline, who was 
 born in Minnesota in 1879, an< ^ came to Oregon 
 in 1887, where she was reared and educated. 
 Mr. Knowles is a Democrat in political affilia- 
 tion. Fraternally he is associated with the Flor- 
 ence Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he is pres- 
 ent worshipful master ; and the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows. 
 
 THOMAS A. MILLIORN. An unusually 
 active and adventurous life has been that of 
 Thomas A. Milliorn, now one of the oldest citi- 
 zens of Junction City, which is built upon a part 
 of the land which formed his donation claim, 
 taken up in 1853, and where for many years his 
 activities have been given for the advancement 
 of the welfare of the city and community. An 
 evidence of the prosperity which has followed 
 the efforts of Mr. Milliorn since coming to Ore- 
 gon lies in the property which he has accumulat- 
 ed, he having built the finest residence in the city, 
 is a stockholder and director and one of the in- 
 corporators of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, 
 owns twenty acres adjoining the town and one 
 hundred and six included in a farm located upon 
 the banks of the Willamette river. 
 
 Mr. Milliorn was born in Campbell county, 
 Va., August 18, 1828, the son of John, also a 
 native of that state and the grandson of Henry. 
 Henry Milliorn was born in Pennsylvania and 
 later in life he wended his way toward the south- 
 ern states, settling first in Virginia, and in 1833 
 locating in Philadelphia, Tenn., where he died 
 when about ninety-six years old. John Milliorn 
 located with his father in East Tennessee, and 
 later located in Philadelphia, thirty miles below 
 Knoxville, Tenn. He was a wheelwright by 
 trade and followed this work until 1843, when he 
 removed to Jackson county, Mo., and located 
 fourteen miles southwest of Independence in the 
 neighborhood of Hart Grove. That remained his 
 home for nine years, when he outfitted with ox- 
 teams and crossed the plains to Oregon, on his 
 arrival locating on a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres one mile west of Junc- 
 tion City, Lane county. The last days of his life 
 were spent in the city which he saw spring into 
 existence in the wilderness, where he lived re- 
 tired until his death in March, 1891, lacking but 
 two months of being eighty-six years old. He 
 was a public-spirited man and never shirked his 
 duty, serving the public in various ways, among 
 them being county commissioner of Lane county. 
 He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church South. He married Mary W. Lee, who 
 was born near Lynchburg, Va., in 181 1, and who 
 died in Lane county, Ore., in 1886. She was 
 the daughter of Shelley Lee, also a native of 
 
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 Virginia, a member of one of the branches of the 
 honored Lee family famous in the history of the 
 Southern Confederacy. On attaining manhood 
 Shelley Lee removed to eastern Tennessee, later 
 to Indiana, again to Tennessee, then to Missouri, 
 and back again to the southern state, where his 
 death occurred at the advanced age of ninety- 
 nine years, having all his life been engaged in 
 tanning. 
 
 Of the four sons and six daughters born to 
 John and Alary W. Milliorn the second child 
 and the oldest son was Thomas A. Milliorn, and 
 in the common schools of Missouri and an acad- 
 emy he received his education. At eighteen years 
 of age he engaged at the trade of a wheelwright 
 in Kansas City, and built the wagon in which he 
 traveled to the mines of California in 1849, oxen 
 being. the mode of conveyance. The journey 
 was accomplished safely, though not without the 
 harrowing experiences which invariably accom- 
 panied the pioneers in their travels. On arriv- 
 ing in California Mr. Milliorn engaged first in 
 mining and later conducted a pack train from 
 Colusa to Trinity. This he continued for two 
 years, and in 1852 he came to Oregon, and lo- 
 cated the claim of his father and built the cabin 
 for him. Following this he became the owner 
 of the claim which constituted the land upon 
 which Junction City was afterward laid out. He 
 later sold ninety acres to Ben Holladay, and much 
 of the remainder was laid out into town lots, 
 though for some time he engaged in general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. After laying out the first 
 addition of the city he followed this with another, 
 with C. W. Washburne to help him, now known 
 as the Milliorn & Washburne Addition. Always 
 public-spirited, as was his father, Mr. Milliorn 
 has done everything possible to advance the in- 
 terests of the city, giving both time and means 
 to its upbuilding. He donated land for the mills 
 and a half of the school block is the gift of his 
 generosity. As a Democrat he has served his 
 party in various offices, among them being school 
 director for one term and notary public for six 
 years. 
 
 During the Rogue River war Mr. Milliorn 
 was with the quartermaster department, hauling 
 supplies to the soldiers in the south. This was 
 continued for four or five months, and in all this 
 time he never met with any trouble from the In- 
 dians, it having been his happy faculty to mingle 
 with them without having to fight them. In 
 1862 he went, in company with his brother-in- 
 law, E. W. Rhea, to British Columbia with 
 cattle, continuing from May until November, and 
 the following year, with his brother James, took 
 forty pack animals over the same road with pro- 
 visions, a distance of fourteen hundred miles. In 
 1864-65 he went with another brother-in-law 
 with a pack train to Boise Basin, Idaho, and in 
 
 1884 went with eighteen men to the Coeur d Alene 
 mines in a skiff. Not satisfied with his share in 
 the dangerous expeditions in the western states 
 he was eager to try his fortunes in the Klondike, 
 and was only dissuaded on account of his ad- 
 vancing age, which might impair his activity in 
 that cold, northern land, though he is still a very 
 active and energetic man, even at the age of 
 seventy-five years. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Milliorn occurred four 
 miles east of Eugene, Lane county, in 1863, an ^ 
 united him with Eliza K. Awbrey, who was born 
 near Grand. river, Daviess county, Mo., and died 
 in January, 1877. She was the daughter of 
 Thomas Awbrey, who, from his native place 
 in Virginia removed to Indiana and later to Mis- 
 souri, from which latter state he crossed the 
 plains to Oregon in 1850. On his arrival he lo- 
 cated near Eugene, Lane county, taking up a 
 donation claim of six hundred and forty acres. 
 His death occurred in Junction City. Of the 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Milliorn, Nina 
 Ann is the wife of D. C. Gore, of Springfield; 
 one died in infancy and the remaining are Cora 
 Lee; Frank B., and James R., deceased. Mr. 
 Milliorn married a second time in 1878, Mary L. 
 Hill, of Iowa, becoming his wife. She was the 
 daughter of William Hill, who came from Iowa 
 to California and to Oregon in 1864. He later 
 returned to California, where his death occurred 
 in 1885. The two children of the second mar- 
 riage are Effie Gertrude and Merle H., both of 
 whom are at home. In addition to the property 
 before mentioned, Mr. Milliorn owns town lots, 
 and also a timber claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, located in township 15, southwest quar- 
 ter, section 20, and range 6 west, and containing 
 nine million feet of lumber. In his fraternal re- 
 lations he is a member of Eugene Lodge No. 
 11, A. F. & A. M., and the Royal Arch Chapter 
 at Corvallis, Ore. 
 
 JOHN WESLEY STARR. Until January 
 1, 1903, one of the foremost business men of 
 Junction City, Lane county, where he had been 
 engaged in a general hardware establishment 
 since 1873, John Wesley Starr now makes his 
 home in that city, retired from the active duties 
 of life. He has built a comfortable residence 
 there and also owns the brick building in which 
 his business was located, and now feels finan- 
 cially able to take the rest earned by his useful 
 life of eighty-two years. 
 
 The Starr family came originally from Mary- 
 land, where the grandfather. James Starr, was 
 born. He died in 1822 in Belmont county, Ohio, 
 whither he had removed about the year 1800. 
 The father, also John Wesley Starr,' was born 
 in Allegany county, Md., April 22, 1794, and 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 with his parents he became a resident of Ohio, 
 crossing the Alleghany mountains in wagons. In 
 1835 he emigrated to Iowa, which movement 
 was followed up with the journey across the 
 plains, which was made in 1848 with ox-teams. 
 He first located in Benton county, Ore., taking 
 up a donation claim of six hundred and forty 
 acres west of Monroe, and there his death oc- 
 curred January 17, 1869, when nearly seventy- 
 five years old. He was a faithful and earnest 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
 in his own locality taught the word of God. His 
 wife was formerly Hanna McWilliams, who 
 was born in County Down, Ireland, July 9, 
 1790, and at the age of four years accompanied 
 her parents to the United States. Her father, 
 George McWilliams, was born in the north of 
 Ireland, and in 1794 located in Washington 
 county, Ohio, where his death occurred. His 
 occupation was that of a tailor. 
 
 Of the five children, four sons and one daugh- 
 ter, born to his parents, John Wesley Starr was 
 the second son, and was born in Guernsey 
 county, Ohio, August 16, 1822. He received his 
 education in the common schools of his native 
 state, and at the age of fifteen years was ap- 
 prenticed to learn the tinner's trade in Bellefon- 
 taine, Logan county. In 1842 he went to the 
 present location of Keosauqua, Iowa, where his 
 father was then living, and two years later he 
 began traveling up and down the Mississippi 
 river in the prosecution of his trade. A perma- 
 nent location was finally selected in 1846, he 
 then becoming a resident of Pleasant View, 
 Schuyler county, 111., and later removing to 
 Rushville in the same county, where he re- 
 mained until 1857. In this last named year he 
 followed his father's family to Oregon, traveling 
 by way of the Isthmus. Upon his arrival in 
 this state he located in Monroe, Benton county, 
 and at once engaged at his trade. He went to 
 Idaho in 1864, and at Boise Basin engaged in 
 mining and also followed his trade until 1865, 
 when he once more settled in Oregon, locating 
 near Monroe on a farm which he operated for 
 four years. At the end of that period he opened 
 a hardware business in Monroe in connection 
 with his trade, and this was continued in 1873 
 in Junction City, the general hardware store 
 following soon after his settlement in this loca- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Starr was married in Illinois to Mary 
 Grigg, a native of Ohio, she having been born 
 there March 28, 1829. She was the daughter 
 of Thomas Grigg, who was born in New York 
 and came to Ohio, where he married. He was 
 a farmer by occupation. In 1839 he removed to 
 Schuyler county, 111., where his death occurred. 
 Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Starr, Or- 
 rin Henry was born in Beardstown, 111., June 26, 
 
 1847, an d now resides in Yoncalla, Ore. ; Philo 
 Thomas was born in Schuyler county, 111., Octo- 
 ber 22, 1849, an d is now practicing osteopathy 
 in Albany, Ore. ; Phillip was born in Schuyler 
 county, May 9, 1852, and is now deceased; Jos- 
 eph Fletcher was born in Schuyler county, 111., 
 August. 19, 1854, and is now practicing oste- 
 opathy at Passaic, N. J. ; Hannah Minerva was 
 born May 2, 1859, in Benton county, Ore., and 
 now lives with her parents ; Charles Wesley was 
 born in Benton county, Ore., May 12, 1866, and 
 now resides in Eugene, Ore. ; Samuel Oscar 
 was born in Benton county, Ore., December 19, 
 1870; and one child died in infancy. Mr. Starr 
 is a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows and Rebekahs, and as a Republican in 
 politics has taken a more or less active part in 
 the affairs of whatever community he has. made 
 his home. In Illinois he served for two years 
 as constable and also as postmaster, and in Mon- 
 roe he held the latter office for a like term of 
 service. For one term he was city recorder of 
 Junction City. 
 
 JOHN W. BAKER. A well known con- 
 tractor and builder of Lane county, John W. 
 Baker is one of the leading men in his line of in- 
 dustry in Cottage Grove, and during the past 
 decade has been prominently identified with its 
 building interests, erecting many of its more im- 
 portant residences. He was born January 10, 
 1846, near Madisonville, Hopkins county, Ky., 
 a son of C. B. Baker. He comes of excellent 
 Virginian stock, his paternal grandfather having 
 been born and reared in old Virginia, afterwards 
 becoming a pioneer of Hopkins county, Ky., 
 where he followed farming until his death. 
 
 Born in Kentucky, C. B. Baker spent the 
 earlier years of his life in the Blue Grass region, 
 being engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1853, 
 joining the train of which Capt. James Biles was 
 the leader, he came to the northwest by way of 
 the Natchez pass, his train being the first to 
 cross the Cascade mountains into the Puget 
 Sound country and the only train to come 
 through the Natchez Pass. Locating in Thurs- 
 ton county, Wash., he took up a donation claim 
 of six hundred and forty acres lying about six- 
 teen miles south of Olympia, and was there suc- 
 cessfully engaged in farming and stock-raising 
 until his death, in June, 1866, at the age of fifty- 
 seven years. He was a man of strong force of 
 character and individuality, and was quite influ- 
 ential in public affairs, serving as a member of 
 the first two territorial legislatures of Washing- 
 ton, being elected on the Democratic ticket. He 
 married Louisa Berry, who was born, lived and 
 died, in Kentucky, her death occurring in early 
 womanhood. She was a daughter of Henry 
 
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 Berry, a life-long resident of Kentucky, but fur- 
 ther history of her family was lost while crossing 
 the plains. She bore her husband three sons and 
 two daughters. The daughters died in Ken- 
 tucky, but all of the sons became residents of 
 Oregon, one of them subsequently dying in Yam- 
 hill county, and one, L. H., is principal of the 
 Lincoln school, at Salem, Ore., the other being 
 John W., the special subject of this brief sketch. 
 
 Crossing the plains with his father in 1853, 
 John W. Baker was educated in the district 
 schools of "Washington territory, and at the age 
 of nineteen years began life for himself as a car- 
 penter, going to The Dalles in 1865, and remain- 
 ing there a year. Locating at Lafayette, Yam- 
 hill county, Ore., in 1866, he worked as a carpen- 
 ter and joiner in that vicinity until 1894. Re- 
 moving then to Lane county, Mr. Baker has since 
 been busily employed at his trade in Cottage 
 Grove, by his persistent energy, strict attention 
 to business, and honorable dealings with his fel- 
 low-men becoming very successful in securing a 
 large patronage. Enterprising, with excellent 
 business tact and keen judgment, he has won his 
 way through life by his own efforts, and in addi- 
 tion to other interests holds stock in the Bohemia 
 mining district. 
 
 In 1868, in Yamhill county, Mr. Baker married 
 Lucretia A. Martin, who was born in Yamhill 
 county, August 9, 1850. Her father, Franklin 
 Martin, a native of Missouri, was born April 15, 
 1827. Crossing the plains with ox-teams in 1846, 
 he took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres near Lafayette, Yamhill county, Ore., 
 and there pursued the peaceful vocation of a 
 farmer until his death, in 1882. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church, an earnest worker 
 in the temperance cause, and was especially in- 
 terested in the establishment of the pioneer 
 schools of this state. Of the union of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Baker nine children have been born, name- 
 ly : Cora, wife of W. S. McFarland, a travel- 
 ing salesman residing in Cottage Grove ; Ed- 
 ward D., a traveling salesman, residing in Port- 
 land, Ore. ; Walter L., a ranchman, living near 
 Cottage Grove ; Franklin, deceased ; Clair B., a 
 freight conductor on the Southern Pacific rail- 
 way; Ralph X., a salesman in Knight's shoe 
 store, in Portland ; Ella Ruby, Allen B. and Ches- 
 ter H. While living in Yamhill county, Mr. 
 Baker served as deptuy sheriff in 1874 and 1875, 
 and was journal clerk in the state senate in 1876 
 and 1878. In 1895, three years after locating in 
 Cottage Grove, he was appointed justice of the 
 peace, and in April, 1903, was appointed state 
 game warden by Gov. George Chamberlain. 
 Politically he is a stanch Democrat, and fra- 
 ternally he is a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Baker is a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church. 
 
 FINGAL HINDS. As is invariably the case 
 with adaptive and versatile people, Fingal Hinds 
 has not confined his activities to any one groove, 
 but has rather reached out and disposed of vari- 
 ous opportunities which have come to him. 
 Another natural conclusion is that the speculative 
 in business endeavor has appealed to him with 
 more or less force, as evidenced by a resume of 
 his life, and by his present occupation, that of 
 dealer in mining properties and real estate at Cot- 
 tage Grove. Mr. Hinds comes from financial 
 and commercial as well as agricultural stock, and 
 his first impressions of life and work were gained 
 on a large sized farm in Barren county, Ky., 
 where his birth occurred March 20, 1849. 
 
 Hiram Hinds, the father of Fingal, was born 
 in Virginia, his family being one of the well 
 known and highly honored ones of the Dominion 
 state. Not lacking in interest and historical mo- 
 ment is the maternal family of Kidd, among the 
 remote ancestors of which there looms the pirati- 
 cal figure of Captain Kidd, who lived between 
 1650 and 1701, and whose gory and picturesque 
 maneuvers upon the high seas, transferred to the 
 pages of fiction, have caused many a youth, con- 
 sumed with the fires of ambition, to bitterly re- 
 gret the passing of the good old days of piracy 
 and loot and hair-raising escapades. A later and 
 more orthodox addition to the family history was 
 Capt. G. W. Kidd, who sought for treasure in 
 the mines of California rather than in the holds 
 of ships, as did his illustrious predecessor, and 
 who, because of his change of business tactics 
 amassed a large fortune, was well known in all of 
 the mining localities of the western state, bore a 
 respected name, and was not assisted to his final 
 reward by the artificial tactics of a disapproving 
 populace. Elvira (Kidd) Hinds was born in 
 Tennessee, where she married Mr. Hinds and 
 later removed to Barren county, Ky. The family 
 fortunes were transferred to California in i860, 
 the journey being made across the plains in the 
 already well established way, and a halt made in 
 Nevada county, where the mines offered fair in- 
 ducements to oncoming fortune-seekers. A 
 banker by early training, Mr. Hinds soon made 
 his financial influence felt in a locality as yet un- 
 organized and in need of conservative worth, and 
 in time assumed charge of the assay department 
 of the Bank of Nevada county, later becoming 
 identified in an important capacity with the Bank 
 of Stockton. He removed to Fort Townsend, 
 Wash., in 1887, and there died at the age of four- 
 score years, the possessor to the last of a fine 
 character, generous impulses, and many friends 
 whose kindly attentions and appreciation had il- 
 luminated his worthy and gracious life. 
 
 The seventh child of the six sons and six 
 daughters born to his parents, Fingal Hinds re- 
 ceived the substantial education accorded all of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the children of a prosperous family, his public 
 school training being supplemented by a three- 
 years course at the Jesuit College at Santa Clara, 
 Cal. His father's success placed a waiting op- 
 portunity in his way, and he entered the Bank of 
 Stockton, first in a minor capacity, but gradually 
 worked his way up to the position of bookkeeper, 
 and after six years to that of assistant cashier, 
 which latter responsibility he maintained for 
 three years. From 1877 until 1879 he was con- 
 nected as manager and one-third owner with the 
 Golden Gate Packet Company, of San Jose, Cal., 
 afterward associating himself with a sawmilling 
 business at Truckee, Cal. Three years later, in 
 1882, he ran a hotel in Fresno for a year, and in 
 August, 1883, removed to Tacoma, Wash., where 
 he found employment as timekeeper and outside 
 manager with the Tacoma Mill Company. Dur- 
 ing 1885 he arrived in the Okanogan mining dis- 
 trict in eastern Washington ; and in the mean- 
 time was joined by his brother, with whom he 
 eventually started a wharf business at Fort 
 Townsend, Mr. Hinds remaining in the mines 
 and the brother superintending the wharf enter- 
 prise. 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that he sank about 
 all that he had in the world in the silver mines 
 of Washington, and that he arrived in Cottage 
 Grove in 1883 with extremely meagre assets, Mr. 
 Hinds still continued to place his faith in mining, 
 operating chiefly in the Bohemian district. He 
 has since dealt extensively in real estate and min- 
 ing properties, has access to claims which are 
 bound to realize large returns, and by his intelli- 
 gent and earnest appreciation of the many resi- 
 dence and business advantages of this county, is 
 not only maintaining but increasing its deserving 
 prestige. Recently he has organized the Glen- 
 wood Mining & Milling Company, incorporated 
 for $1,000,000, and of which he is superintend- 
 ent of mines. Mr. Hinds' personal possessions 
 include valuable claims in the Bohemian district, 
 valuable town and country property, and part in- 
 terests in various enterprises here represented. 
 Fraternally, he is a Mason. Through his mar- 
 riage with Gussie Manning, a native of Toledo, 
 Ohio, one daughter was born to Mr. Hinds, the 
 same being now the wife of C. A. Mason, of 
 Seattle, Wash. The present Mrs. Hinds was 
 formerly Effie Knowlton, born in Cottage Grove, 
 and whose father, P. D. Knowlton, an old-time 
 miner, is now living retired. Mr. Hinds is ener- 
 getic and forceful, quick to see a business advan- 
 tage, but invariably scrupulous in all of his deal- 
 ings. As a promoter of the mining and agricul- 
 tural resources of this county he takes high rank, 
 and a continuation of his present success is the 
 wish of all who are personally aware of his many 
 excellent traits of character. 
 
 GEORGE BRATTAIN. A model general 
 farming, stock-raising and dairying enterprise is 
 being conducted by George Brattain on the old 
 home place located by his father, Jonathan H. 
 Brattain, in 1849. 1'he elder Brattain was born 
 in the eastern part of the country in 1813, and at 
 an early age settled with some of his brothers in 
 Iowa. Here he married Ellen Trimble, a native 
 daughter of Iowa, and with her settled on an av- 
 erage-sized middle-west farm near Fairfield, 
 where his son, George, was born April 19, 1843. 
 When George was three years old, in 1846, the 
 family emigration to Oregon took place, the jour- 
 ney being made with ox-teams, and accomplished 
 without any particular incident. The first win- 
 ter was spent at Whitman's Station, and in the 
 summer of 1847 Mr. Brattain arrived at Oregon 
 City, where he worked in a saw-mill. A year 
 later he came to Linn county, and just across the 
 line in Benton county took up a claim, although 
 he made his home in Linn county. In the spring 
 of 1849 ne > m company with two other men and 
 two women, went in a little canoe down to As- 
 toria, and from there embarked in a sailing ves- 
 sel for California. During the time spent in the 
 mines he was fairly successful, and returned to 
 the home place richer by several hundred dollars. 
 This money was put into a claim the following 
 spring, which claim is the one now occupied by 
 his son George, and located one and a half miles 
 northeast. of Peoria, and twelve miles south of 
 Albany. Mr. Brattain was only forty-six years 
 old at the time of his death. He became very 
 prominent in Linn county, was a member of the 
 constitutional convention, and also represented 
 the county in the state legislature. In the early 
 days he served in both the Black Hawk and Ya- 
 kima wars. His wife, who died at the age of 
 thirty-three, bore him four children, of whom 
 Benjamin resides at Alsea, and Mary and Ed- 
 ward are deceased. 
 
 Until his fourteenth year George Brattain 
 lived on the farm which is still his home, and 
 then ventured forth to make an independent live- 
 lihood,, securing the position of cook for a mule 
 train at Fort Benton. He also engaged in min- 
 ing and prospecting, and for fifteen years made 
 his headquarters in that comparatively wild and 
 unsettled region. Returning to the home farm 
 he assumed the management thereof, and in 1879 
 married Margaret Bear, a native of Kansas, who 
 proved herself a sympathetic and in many ways 
 remarkable woman. Two children, Grant and 
 Clarence, are living with their parents. Mr. 
 Brattain is a Republican and has filled many 
 positions of trust and responsibility in his local- 
 ity, and he was at one time treasurer of Baker 
 county, Ore. He is prominent and popular in his 
 neighborhood, and has the happy faculty of mak- 
 ing and retaining friends. An excellent farmer 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1449 
 
 and practical business man, he is making success 
 of his life, and is a credit to the thrifty com- 
 munity. 
 
 WIXFIELD SCOTT CHRISMAN. As the 
 only place of the kind in Cottage Grove, the 
 Fashion Stables do not have to contend with 
 competition, but it is safe to say that so admir- 
 ably sustained an establishment would naturally 
 receive a liberal patronage, no matter what its 
 competition. W. S. Chrisman and Eli Bangs, 
 proprietors of the stables, have a thorough un- 
 derstanding of their business, and are in touch 
 with the requirements of an exclusive and exact- 
 ing, as well as more cosmopolitan trade. They 
 have all kinds of turnouts, many fine horses, and 
 are also the proprietors of the Cottage Grove and 
 Bohemia stage line, carrying the fast freight, 
 United States mail and passengers. 
 
 Winfield Scott Chrisman, the senior member 
 of the firm, and one of the prominent men of this 
 county, was born in Andrew county, Mo., April 
 19, 1847, tne fourth child of the six sons and two 
 daughters born to his parents. He was four 
 years of age when he came with the rest of the 
 family to Oregon in 185 1, and his education was 
 received in the early subscription school near his 
 home, he having to walk a long way through the 
 snow and sleet of winter to a little log school- 
 house with slab benches and few conveniences. 
 The family located first in Linn county, and then 
 lived a year in Douglas county, at the end of 
 which time they removed to Lane county, in 
 1853, and settling on a claim five miles north of 
 Cottage Grove, near Walker Station. In 1865 
 Mr. Chrisman engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising on his own responsibility, four miles west 
 of Creswell. having four hundred and twenty 
 acres, and this he sold in 1873, purchasing four 
 hundred and eighty acres east of Cottage Grove 
 on Row river. Stock-raising netted him a sub- 
 stantial yearly income until 1878, when, on ac- 
 count of his wife's ill health, he located in Eu- 
 gene and took up the hack and dray business. 
 Three years later, in 1881, he removed to Cottage 
 Grove and became interested in a harness busi- 
 ness, which he operated for three years, and then 
 sold, and, in 1884, he began buying, selling and 
 shipping stock. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Chrisman departed from his 
 former occupations and sought to increase his 
 hoard among the mines in the Bohemia district, 
 and successfully negotiated for the purchase and 
 sale of many valuable claims. Three years later 
 found him managing the Xew York Racket 
 store, of this place, and in 1900 he bought into 
 his present livery business, taking as his partner 
 Eli Bangs, of Eugene, Ore. Aside from his 
 business property, Mr. Chrisman owns valuable 
 
 residence and store property in several parts of 
 Cottage Grove, as well as a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres eleven miles east of the town. 
 He has been prominent in political and other 
 affairs here, and as a Republican has held about 
 all of the offices within the gift of his fellow- 
 townsmen, including that of mayor for one term, 
 member of the council for several terms, marshal 
 for one term, special deputy sheriff for two terms 
 or four years, and constable for several terms. 
 Fraternally, he is connected with the United 
 Artisans. 
 
 In Lane county, Mr. Chrisman married Caro- 
 line Boren, who was born in Illinois in December, 
 1846, and whose father, C. W. Boren, crossed 
 the plains with his family in 1853, locating on a 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres four 
 rmles from Cottage Grove. Mr. Boren was fairly 
 successful in the west as well as the east, and his 
 death occurred while he was on a visit to his old 
 home in Illinois. Five children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Chrisman, of whom Wesley is 
 on the old farm ; Mattie is the wife of J. W. 
 Kirk, of this vicinity ; Clarence Bell and George 
 Austin are deceased, and Hattie Lena is the wife 
 of T. K. Sears, and is living with her father. 
 
 LEVI GEER. To be well known is to be ap- 
 preciated in the case of Levi Geer, for he is one 
 of those thoroughly up-to-date and enterprising 
 men from whose well directed efforts the prom- 
 ises of future greatness in a community become a 
 fulfillment. Not content with anything but the 
 highest positions, it is a natural sequence that 
 he is an addition to any society. He has made 
 his business energy and judgment contribute to 
 the advancement of all upbuilding enterprises, 
 having made of his own life a financial success, 
 ardently desiring to see his adopted state and 
 community profit by his efforts. He now owns 
 nine hundred and fifty acres of land, the im- 
 provements of which have been the result of his 
 own efforts. In 1902 he built a modern hotel on 
 his farm, for the use of the patrons of his springs, 
 known as the Oregon Mineral Springs, which 
 are widely appreciated for their medicinal prop- 
 erties. In the equipment of his property he has 
 spared neither time nor expense, and the swim- 
 ming pool, shower bath, and other conveniences 
 attract many to this pleasant retreat. 
 
 The springs are highly spoken of by all who 
 have tested their curative properties. Physicians 
 who have analyzed the water are a unit in their 
 decision that it is one of the most wonderful 
 springs in this country. Located in a narrow 
 valley on the coast fork of the Willamette, the 
 scenery is as attractive as any on the coast, and 
 all who have paid the place a visit are anxious to 
 go the second time. Mr. Geer has spent a great 
 
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 many hundred dollars in making the improve- 
 ments, and it is safe to say that when the people 
 of Oregon and surrounding states fully realize 
 what a benefit is to be derived from the waters of 
 the springs, they will make it one of the most 
 celebrated health resorts in the Pacific northwest. 
 By the positive cures which have been effected it 
 has been proved beyond any doubt that the use of 
 the waters will cure ninety per cent of such 
 diseases as stomach and kidney troubles and 
 blood troubles of all kinds. Several leading phy- 
 sicians have said it was the greatest blood purifier 
 known to the profession. The springs are within 
 easy reach, as from Cottage Grove to the hotel 
 is only twelve miles, the road running along the 
 river bank most of the distance, and is in fine 
 condition, so that the stage ride is one that can 
 be greatly enjoyed. 
 
 Levi Geer was born in Carroll county, 111., 
 May 6, 1856, and is the son of Samuel Geer, now 
 one of the prominent men of Lane county. Sam- 
 uel Geer was born in 181 7, and on attaining man- 
 hood followed the vocation of a farmer. He 
 married Nancy Hill in Illinois. In 1864 they 
 started across the plains by horse and mule 
 teams, during the. six-months journey experienc- 
 ing several serious encounters with the Indians, 
 at one time having some of their mules stolen by 
 the savages. Upon their arrival in Oregon the 
 father came direct to Lane county, and there pur- 
 chased three hundred and twenty acres located 
 twelve miles south of Cottage Grove, where they 
 lived until 1881. They then located in Idaho, 
 where the father followed farming and stock- 
 raising until 1899, when he returned to Lane 
 county. He is now making his home with his 
 son, Levi Geer, his wife having died in Idaho in 
 1897. Soon after settling in Lane county for the 
 first time, Samuel Geer erected a grist-mill upon 
 the present site of London, the motive power be- 
 ing water, which turned the machinery by an 
 overshot wheel thirty-two feet in diameter. 
 About 1870 he became interested in the construc- 
 tion of a grist-mill at Cottage Grove, and later 
 built one in Cornwall, Idaho. The greater part 
 of his life in the west has been devoted to this 
 work. He is now eighty-six years old, and is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Politically, he is a stanch Republican. 
 
 The greater part of the life of Levi Geer has 
 been passed in Oregon, for he was but eight 
 years old when he crossed the plains with his 
 parents. He received his education in the dis- 
 trict school and remained at home with his par- 
 ents until he married. About 1880 he moved to 
 Idaho, where he lived about ten years. Return- 
 ing to Lane county, he bought the old home place 
 at London, and has since increased the number 
 of acres to nine hundred and fifty, upon which 
 he is engaged in general farming and stock-rais- 
 
 ing. Like his father, he also engaged in milling, 
 his business now being known as the London 
 Timber & Milling Company, in the promotion of 
 which he was one of the principals. He engaged 
 in the mercantile business in London in 1892, in 
 partnership with John Sutherland, the firm name 
 being Sutherland & Geer, a substantial building 
 for the business being erected by Mr. Geer. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Geer united him 
 with Miss Elizabeth Rodgers, a native of Lane 
 county, Ore., and the one child born to them, 
 Clara May, is now the wife of G. L. Moxley, lo- 
 cated in the vicinity of London. After the death 
 of his first wife he married Rosa Maude Powell, 
 also a native of Oregon, and their two children 
 are Joseph and Robert, both of whom are at 
 home. In politics Mr. Geer is independent in his 
 views, giving his vote to the man whom he con- 
 siders best qualified for the position. He is a 
 member of the Grange and the Christian Church. 
 
 ALEXANDER H. POWELL. That farm- 
 ing in Oregon may be pursued with financial sat- 
 isfaction by those who have the combined gifts 
 of industry and thrift, has been demonstrated in 
 the career of Alexander H. Powell, one of the 
 prominent agriculturists living near Cottage 
 Grove, and owner of a four hundred and sixty 
 acre farm. Ever since 1878 Mr. Powell has been 
 a familiar figure in this neighborhood, his work 
 in the field around his home, his team and 
 wagon upon the public highway, and his well 
 known and kindly face lighted with interest and 
 animation in his pew in the Christian Church, 
 have become a part of the life in a community 
 noted for its progress, enlightenment and suc- 
 cessful enterprises. By no means self-centered, 
 Mr. Powell has taken an active interest in educa- 
 tional work, has promoted good roads and social 
 diversions, and besides filling a number of local 
 political offices, has given his support for many 
 years to the Grange. 
 
 From Mason county, 111., where he was born 
 on his father's farm, December 8, 1834, Mr. 
 Powell came to Oregon in 185 1 as a young man 
 just beginning to realize the possibilities of life, 
 and here, as in Illinois, he lived on a farm, de- 
 veloping strength of mind and body in the har- 
 vest field. As was the case with most boys of his 
 age, he welcomed the diversions that circum- 
 stances offered, even the Yakima war, to which 
 the settlers were driven because of their inability 
 to keep stock or dwell in peace in the unsettled 
 country. In 1856 he enlisted in Company D, un- 
 der Captain Suttler, and during his three months 
 of service he had a chance to study the methods 
 of the red men, as compared with those of the 
 enlightened whites. 
 
 Returning to Linn county Mr. Powell bought 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 a farm in partnership with his brother, James 
 Henry Powell, and in 1864 married Alary Ann 
 McKnight, who was horn in Iowa and crossed 
 the plains in 1860. Not entirely satisfied with 
 his farm, Mr. Powell disposed of it in 1878 and 
 bought his present farm, eight miles south of 
 Lottage Grove, comprising a part of the old Wil- 
 son donation claim. The improvements are all 
 due to his enterprise and progressiveness, his 
 dwelling, barns and outhouses being both com- 
 fortable and modern. Five children have been 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Powell, of whom Sarah 
 M., the oldest daughter, is the wife of Lincoln 
 Taylor and lives in Cottage Grove; Alfred occu- 
 pies a part of the home place ; Clarinda B. mar- 
 ried Henry Taylor and lives in Washington ; 
 Winona F. became the wife of Alexander Small, 
 and lives in the vicinity of London, and Lester 
 W. is a telegraph operator on the Southern 
 Pacific at Turner. Mr. Powell is one of the sub- 
 stantial men of Lane county, and his moderate 
 and painstaking life may well serve as an ex- 
 ample in this age of progress to the rising gener- 
 ation that are to carry out the lifework of the 
 pioneer settlers. 
 
 EUGENE P. WAITE. Following close upon 
 a milling experience of many years, Eugene P. 
 Waite purchased his present farm of one hun- 
 dred and fifty-six acres in March, 1901, and has 
 already established himself among the progres- 
 sive and successful tillers of the soil and raisers 
 of stock in Lane county. Born in Vernon county, 
 Wis., December 17, 1852, he comes of an old 
 Green Mountain state family, his father having 
 been born in Windham count}', Yt., December 
 8. 1827. His mother, Olive (Parker) Waite, 
 was a native of the same place, and born Oc- 
 tober 13, 1827. Married in Vermont, the par- 
 ents removed to Vernon county, Wis., in 1852, 
 where the father farmed and logged for many 
 years, establishing a name for himself as a 
 competent farmer and business man. With his 
 family he came to Lane county in 1889, took up 
 his abode at Acme, in the Siuslaw valley, and 
 turned his attention to milling and logging, the 
 large possibilities of which he has since demon- 
 strated to his entire satisfaction. Aside from 
 Eugene, who is the oldest of the children, there 
 is Mary, the wife of C. C. Cushman. of Acme : 
 Arabel, the wife of H. J. Webb, of Santa Rosa. 
 Cal. ; and Anderson, living in Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Educated in the public schools of Monroe 
 county. Wis.. Eugene Waite was reared to farm- 
 ing and logging, and in 1878 married Addie Bor- 
 ing, who was born in Monroe county, Wis.. Au- 
 gust 16, 1859. Three children have been born 
 of this union, of whom Mary is the wife of 
 George Chamberlain, of Talent, Ore., while War- 
 
 ner and Wayne are living with their parents. 
 Mr. Waite was thirty-seven years of age when he 
 came to Eugene, and he was well equipped with 
 business experience, possessing also great faith 
 in the future of his adopted locality, the inter- 
 ests of which he at once espoused. From his 
 twenty-fifth year he began to mill on his own 
 responsibility, and finally became identified with 
 the old Siuslaw Milling Company, which failed 
 in 1899. Thereafter he continued in the mill 
 until 1 901, and then purchased his present home, 
 to the improvement of which he intends devoting 
 his future. Mr. Waite is not officially inclined, 
 although he is a stanch supporter of the Repub- 
 lican party. The friend of education, he has 
 served several years as a member of the school 
 board, a part of that time as school clerk. Mr. 
 Waite has the confidence of the community in 
 which he lives, and where he is esteemed for his 
 business sagacity, his good name, and his loyalty 
 to friends and interests. 
 
 JAMES A. McLEOD. At present one of the 
 business men of Acme, and interested in the de- 
 velopment of his thriving little town, James A. 
 McLeod has spent many years in logging and 
 farming in the northwest, and has familiarized 
 himself with its multitudinous resources. Deriv- 
 ing from a remotely traced Scottish ancestry the 
 substantial traits of the land of health, plain 
 living, and high thinking, he was born in Vaughn 
 township, York county, eleven miles from To- 
 ronto, Canada, February 21, 1850, and was there 
 educated in the common schools and reared on 
 a farm. His father, James McLeod, the one who 
 founded the family in Canada, was born in Elgin, 
 Morayshire, one hundred and eighteen miles 
 from Edinburgh, on the Lossie, Scotland, March 
 2, 1809, and came to America at an early day. 
 He married Sarah Fisher, a native daughter of 
 Canada, and who was born in 1818. The parents 
 died in Canada, March 2, 1901, and 1890 respect- 
 ive!}', after rearing a family of seven children, 
 of whom James A. is the fifth. 
 
 Leaving his Canadian home in 1871, James 
 A. McLeod went to Bay City, Mich., and en- 
 gaged in logging for about three years, and, hav- 
 ing become familiar with the occupation, trans- 
 ferred his opportunities to the Pacific coast in 
 1875, locating on Puget Sound in Washington 
 for a couple of years. In 1877 he went to the 
 logging camps along the Umpqua, and in 1879 
 came to the Siuslaw river and took up a donation 
 claim of one hundred and fifty-three acres five 
 miles east of Acme. Having few improvements 
 at the time, he set to work to till and clear his 
 land, and made of it a valuable and paying prop- 
 erty. In addition to general farming and some 
 stock-raising he realized quite an income from 
 
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 fishing every fall, and also to an extent engaged 
 in lumbering. He is also county scaler for the 
 four saw-mills on the Siuslaw river. Leaving 
 his farm in 1901, he came to Acme, and is now 
 one of the reliable business men of this place, 
 taking an interest in its social and general affairs, 
 and contributing of his time and means when- 
 ever a demand is made upon his resources. He 
 still owns two hundred and eighty-five acres of 
 land in the Siuslaw valley. 
 
 A Republican in political affiliation, Mr. Mc- 
 Leod has served as school director and road sup- 
 ervisor, and he is fraternally connected with the 
 Masons of Florence. More than ordinary in- 
 terest attaches to the marriage ceremony which 
 united Mr. McLeod and Mary E. Hadsell, in 
 1882, for the couple were the first white people 
 to be married on the Siuslaw river, and the first 
 to go to housekeeping in other than an Indian 
 wigwam. Mrs. McLeod was born in Linn county, 
 Kans., February 16, 1863, and came to Oregon 
 with her parents in 1875. Three children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, Archie, 
 May B., and Jennie V. 
 
 JAMES HEMENWAY. Among Lane 
 county's substantial and enterprising business 
 men, whose names are scattered throughout the 
 pages of this volume, no one is more worthy of 
 mention that James Hemenway, who, as a mem- 
 ber of the Garman & Hemenway Company, is 
 carrying on an extensive and lucrative mercan- 
 tile business at Cottage Grove. A native of On- 
 tario, Canada, he was born July 3, 1854, at 
 Bishop's Mill, Grenville county, which was like- 
 wise the birthplace of his father, William Hem- 
 enway. He comes of English ancestry, his im- 
 migrant ancestor having come from Yorkshire, 
 England, to Massachusetts, in 1632, settling in 
 Framingham with his four children, two sons 
 and two daughters. His descendants lived in 
 Massachusetts for many generations, and many 
 of them attained prominence in literary circles. 
 One of his descendants, Samuel Hemenway, 
 great grandfather of James, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war. He subsequently removed 
 to New Hampshire from Framingham, thence to 
 Vermont, settling on Lake Champlain, where 
 he spent his remaining years. His son, Almond, 
 was next in line of descent. Almond Hemen- 
 way was born and educated in Framingham, 
 Mass., and afterwards lived in New Hampshire 
 and Vermont. After the death of his father he 
 removed to Grenville county, Ontario, settling 
 at Bishop's Mills, where he was for many years 
 one of the leading builders and contractors. He 
 married after going there, and in that town reared 
 his children. William Hemenway lived in his 
 native town until after his marriage. In 1854 
 
 he came to the United States, locating in Dane 
 county, Wis., at Black Earth, where he was em- 
 ployed as a tiller of the soil until 1870. Remov- 
 ing in that year to Ottawa county, Kans., he 
 purchased three hundred and twenty acres of 
 land in Minneapolis, and for twenty years was 
 numbered among the extensive and prosperous 
 farmers and stock-raisers of that locality. Com- 
 ing to Oregon in 1890, he located at Cottage 
 Grove, where he is now living retired from ac- 
 tive pursuits, having faithfully performed his 
 share of labor during his seventy-one years of 
 earthly existence. He married Katherine Mc- 
 Cord, who was born in county Derry, Ireland, 
 of Scotch ancestors. Her father, James McCord, 
 was born in Scotland, but as a young man had 
 charge of a lord's estate in Ireland. Emigrating 
 from there to Canada, he settled at Bishop's 
 Mills, where he became a large landholder, and a 
 citizen of prominence, living there until his 
 death, at the age of four-score years. He was 
 a Presbyterian in religion, and an active member 
 of the church. 
 
 The oldest of a family of six children, of 
 whom three sons are living, James Hemenway 
 was educated in the common schools of Wiscon- 
 sin and Kansas. Engaging in agricultural pur- 
 suits as a young man, he carried on farming and 
 stock-raising in Ottawa county, Kans., until 
 1888. Emigrating then to Oregon, Mr. Hemen- 
 way opened a livery, sale and feed stable at Cot- 
 tage Grove, and managed it successfully the 
 ensuing ten years, building up a large and profit- 
 able patronage. In 1898 he embarked in the 
 real estate, insurance and brokerage business, 
 continuing for a year. In 1899, he and his son, 
 W. A. Hemenway formed a partnership with 
 W. D. Garman, and established a mercantile 
 business at Cottage Grove under the name of 
 the Garman-Hemenway Company, which was in- 
 corporated with a capital of $20,000. Meeting 
 with almost unprecedented success in its venture, 
 this firm has now one of the best-stocked de- 
 partment stores in the county and is carrying 
 on a very large business, in 1903 increasing its 
 capital to $40,000 and establishing branch stores 
 at Grant's Pass and Scio, W. A. Hemenway 
 being manager of the store at Grant's Pass. Mr. 
 Hemenway has other financial interests, also, 
 owning "Happy Jack," an undeveloped mining 
 claim, and having extensive mining interests in 
 the Bohemia district. He owns business prop- 
 erty having a frontage of thirty feet on Main 
 street, and has erected a fine residence in Cot- 
 tage Grove. 
 
 Mr. Hemenway married, in Minneapolis, 
 Kans., Eva Comfort, a native of Ohio. Her 
 father, William Comfort, was born in New 
 York state, but early in life removed to Iowa, 
 and afterward settled in Minneapolis, Kans., 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1453 
 
 where he is now actively employed in farming. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hemenway have two children, 
 namely : W. A., of the Garman-Hemenway 
 Company ; and Hazel, living at home. An active 
 Republican in politics, Mr. Hemenway served as 
 councilman seven years, and, in 1901, was elect- 
 ed to the state legislature for one term, while 
 there serving as chairman of the committee on 
 labor and industries. He is quite prominent in 
 a number of fraternal organizations, belonging 
 to Eugene Lodge, Benevolent and Protective 
 Order of Elks ; to Cottage Grove Lodge, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has 
 passed all the chairs ; to the Rebekahs ; to Cot- 
 tage Grove Lodge, K. of P. ; and to Cottage 
 Grove Lod°:e of Foresters. 
 
 MAJOR FRANK E. EDWARDS, B. M. E. 
 Conspicuous among the residents of Benton 
 county worthy of representation in this bio- 
 graphical volume is Major Frank E. Edwards, 
 a native-born citizen, a veteran of the Spanish 
 war, and an alumnus of the Oregon Agricultural 
 College, with which he is now officially con- 
 nected, being commandant and professor of mili- 
 tary science and tactics, and also assistant pro- 
 fessor of chemistry. 
 
 Born September 13, 1875, in Lane county, near 
 Springfield, Ore., Frank E. Edwards is a son 
 of Webley J. Edwards. He comes of substan- 
 tial New England ancestry, the earliest of his 
 progenitors of whom he has any definite knowl- 
 edge having emigrated from one of the New 
 England states to New York city, where the 
 family owned a large tract of land. The great- 
 grandfather, Webley Edwards, of New England 
 birth, served as an officer in the Revolutionary 
 army, being captain of a company. The major's 
 grandfather, T. D. Edwards, was reared and 
 educated in Indiana, but later removed to Ohio, 
 where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until 1854. Coming then to Oregon across the 
 plains, with ox-teams, bringing with him his 
 family, his son, Webley J., being then an infant 
 of six months, he located near Springfield on 
 a donation claim in Lane county, where he 
 cleared and improved a homestead. On retiring 
 from active pursuits, he removed to Eugene, 
 Ore., where his death occurred in 1895. 
 
 Webley J. Edwards was born in Ohio, but 
 was brought up on the old home farm in Ore- 
 gon, where he has since resided. A prominent 
 farmer and stockman, he first started in business 
 in Lane county, going from there to Lake county, 
 where he followed ranching and general farming 
 with signal success for three years. Returning 
 then to the valley, he continued in his chosen 
 vocation until his removal to Mayville, Gilliam 
 county, his present place of residence. He mar- 
 
 ried Jane Gross, who was born in Iowa, a daugh- 
 ter of Andrew Gross, a native of Germany, who 
 emigrated to America, settling in Iowa, where he 
 carried on agricultural work until 1856, when he 
 came with his family to Lane county, Ore. He 
 is now prosperously engaged in general farming 
 in Brownsville, Linn county. Four children 
 were born of their union, namely : Frank, the 
 special subject of this sketch; Frederick, a 
 graduate of the University of Oregon, and of 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, is engaged in 
 business as a stock-raiser and dealer in Gilliam 
 county ; Hubert, residing on the home farm ; 
 and Velma, living with her parents. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm, and educated 
 in the district schools of Lane and Gilliam coun- 
 ties, Frank E. Edwards entered the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College in 1891, and was graduated in 
 1895, with the degree of B. M. E. While in his 
 sophomore year, he was president of the Web- 
 sterian Society, and in 1896, while he was tak- 
 ing a post-graduate course, he served as captain 
 of a company of cadets. From 1896 until 1898, 
 he was connected with the college as instructor 
 in chemistry, resigning his position to enlist, as 
 a private, in Company M, Second Oregon In- 
 fantry. Being mustered into service on July 2, 
 1898, he went with his regiment to San Fran- 
 cisco, thence to Manila, arriving there on 
 Thanksgiving day, 1898. He was subsequently 
 made corporal of his company, and as a part of 
 Wheaton's Flying Brigade, on March 25, 1899, 
 took part in the battles of Tondo and Malabon, 
 and the following day, March 26, was severely 
 wounded at the battle of Polo, being shot 
 through both legs, below the thigh. He was in- 
 capacitated for further military duty, but re- 
 turned, on crutches, with his company to Cali- 
 fornia, then to Oregon, where he was mustered 
 out of service on August 7, 1899. A month 
 later, Mr. Edwards accepted the position of com- 
 mandant of cadets, and professor of military sci- 
 ence and tactics at his alma mater. In 1900 he 
 was made instructor in chemistry, and assistant 
 in the chemical department of the Agricultural' 
 Experiment Station. In June of that year he 
 was appointed to the staff of Gen. Charles F. 
 Beebe as brigade signal officer, with rank of 
 major, an office that he filled until the reorganiza- 
 tion, in 1903, when, on the resignation of Gen- 
 eral Beebe, he was given command of the bri- 
 gade signal corps. 
 
 Major Edwards married, in Corvallis, Miss 
 Helen Elgin, who was born in Monroe county, 
 Ore., and was educated at the State Normal 
 School in Monmouth, Ore. Major and Mrs. Ed- 
 wards have one child, Webley Elgin Edwards. 
 Major Edwards is a stanch Republican in his 
 political affiliations, and an active member of the 
 Christian Church, being one of the board of dea- 
 
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 cons and superintendent of the Sunday school 
 connected with it. He is identified with several 
 fraternal organizations, belonging to Corvallis 
 Grange, No. 242; to Edward C. Young Camp 
 of the Spanish American War Veterans, of 
 which he is past commander ; to the Knights of 
 Pythias ; and is ex-president of the Alumni Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 ROBERT E. CAMPBELL. One of the high- 
 ly treasured possessions of Robert E. Campbell 
 is the log house which he constructed in the 
 height of his enthusiasm for his adopted state 
 in 1852, and which still weathers the heat of 
 summer and the cold of winter as stanch as it 
 did when a little household gathered beneath its 
 timbers, and earnestly laid their plans for the 
 future. Strange to relate, the roof, which us- 
 ually has the shortest life, has never known a 
 successor, but with its supports remains an ex- 
 ample of handiwork which has proved substan- 
 tial in the extreme, and useful beyond compare. 
 Not far from the pioneer house, which was 17x24 
 feet in dimensions, and contained two rooms, is 
 the more modern structure now occupied by Mr. 
 Campbell, and which is one of the really fine 
 rural homes in which a prosperous country 
 abounds. The contrasts thus presented are 
 borne out in the life of the owner, to whom 
 naught has come save through the exertions of 
 his hands and brain, and to the retention of 
 which he owes frugality, good judgment and 
 untiring industry. In LaFayette county, Mo., 
 where he was born September 4, 1830, Mr. 
 Campbell married, in 1849, Ruth Campbell, one 
 child being born to them on the farm upon 
 which they settled. With his cousin, Alexander 
 Kinb, Mr. Campbell purchased a team of four 
 yoke of oxen, and two cows, and started across 
 the plains in a wagon, leaving home in April, 
 and arriving in Lane county, Ore., in October, 
 185 1. Sometime during the following winter he 
 located a claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres a mile from Springfield and two miles from 
 Eugene on the Willamette river, the following 
 year moving to his present home where he erect- 
 ed the log house above mentioned. In 1876 he 
 removed to this part of the donation claim, and 
 with the exception of intervals spent in other 
 parts of the state, has made this his place of 
 residence. For nine months Mr. Campbell lived 
 in Wasco county, and during the summer of 
 1854 he mined in Jackson county, this state. In 
 1852 he hauled goods from Portland to Spring- 
 field, and in 1859 he and his cousin built a flat- 
 boat and took thirty-five tons of flour to Port- 
 land, receiving in payment $2.75 per barrel. His 
 farm is mostly prairie land, and all of the im- 
 provements are due to his enterprise and pro- 
 
 gressiveness. General farming, stock and grain- 
 raising are engaged in on an extensive, scale, 
 and in all of these departments Mr. Campbell has 
 achieved success, having made a practical and 
 scientific study of the occupation to which his 
 life has been devoted. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Campbell died in 1858, 
 leaving two children, of whom Harvey, who 
 crossed the plains with them in 1851, died in 
 1895, and Eliza is the wife of Mr. Anderson, and 
 lives on the home place. For a second wife Mr. 
 Campbell married in the fall of 1859, Martha 
 Delgell, who died in 1865, her only child having 
 died in infancy. The present Mrs. Campbell, 
 married in 1867, was formerly Rebecca Hutchin- 
 son, and is the mother of two sons, George E. 
 and Emmet E., both of whom live on the home 
 place. Mr. Campbell is a Democrat, but being 
 a quiet and unostentatious man, has never identi- 
 fied himself with office-seeking. Possessing 
 shrewd business judgment, honesty of purpose, 
 and a kindly interest in the success of his fellow 
 agriculturists, Mr. Campbell is justly popular in 
 his neighborhood, towards the development of 
 which he has so earnestly striven. 
 
 OSCAR P. ADAMS. A pioneer resident of 
 Cottage Grove, with whom one might profitably 
 while away many a winter evening, is Oscar 
 P. Adams, whose most emphatic recollections are 
 centered around the very early days of Oregon, 
 and around the mines in this and some of the 
 surrounding states. Probably no one in this 
 county possesses greater familiarity with the 
 ore output of the best known mining localities 
 throughout the west, or has more accurately 
 gauged the agricultural and general possibilities 
 of a well favored and very productive region. A 
 distant relative in a family which has provided 
 a president to the United States, and which was 
 represented on the battlefields of the Revolution 
 by his paternal grandfather, Mr. Adams was 
 born in Tioga county. Pa., July 30, 1828, a son 
 of Isaac and Sophronia Lydia (Porter*) Adams, 
 natives respectively of New York and Vermont. 
 Isaac Adams was born December 15, 1803, and 
 in the early '30s left his native state and went 
 to Michigan, locating in Tecumseh, Lenawee 
 county. This part of Michigan was a wilder- 
 ness at that time, and the new arrival found no 
 neighbors or even evidence of any previous set- 
 tlers. He became prominent in his locality as 
 it was built up and agricultural and other indus- 
 tries were started, and he became a member of 
 the local militia, attaining to the rank of cap- 
 tain. He was a farmer all his active life, and 
 died in his adopted state in 1873, his wife hav- 
 ing preceded him in 1844, a t the age of forty 
 years. The Porter family was an old Vermont 
 
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 one, and John Porter, the father of Mrs. Adams, 
 was a soldier in the war of 1812. Ten children 
 wore born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, four of whom 
 were sons, Oscar P. being the oldest. By a for- 
 mer marriage Mr. Adams had one son, J. C. 
 Adams. 
 
 On the wilderness farm in Michigan, Oscar 
 P. Adams grew to manhood, and in the public 
 schools succeeded in getting as far as algebra, 
 and other studies accordingly. He developed 
 a great deal of physical strength while felling 
 trees, and in time apprenticed to a machinist and 
 wood-turner, trades which he applied for some 
 years in the timber district. In this way he 
 saved quite a little money, and $50 of this was 
 paid to John H. Stevens for the privilege of 
 accompanying him across the plains in 1854, but 
 in addition he was required to perform various 
 services during the progress of the journey. 
 Starting out May 4, they went via the Barlow 
 route and arrived at Foster September 6, Mr. 
 Adams soon after finding employment in a saw- 
 mill. After a month in the mill he made his 
 way to the mines in Josephine county, and in 
 1855 enlisted for government service as head 
 packer during the Indian war, as he had no gun 
 with which to operate as a soldier. Thirty days 
 sufficed for this kind of work, and during that 
 time he made dangerous expeditions with flour 
 from the Bear Creek mill to the quartermaster, 
 wherever located. Again he worked in the mines 
 of Josephine county, and for many years spent 
 portions of each year in mining in some one of 
 the well known regions hereabouts. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Adams bought three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land around and including the 
 present site of Cottage Grove, in time dispos- 
 ing of the town site at $10 to $12 an acre. He 
 still has one hundred and twenty-four acres of 
 the original purchase left, and has engaged in 
 farming, stock-raising and mining ever since he 
 bought it. At present his farm is rented, al- 
 though he oversees it, as he also does his several 
 mining claims in the western part of the state, 
 principally the Bohemia district. In the mean- 
 time he has been variously interested in business 
 in different parts of the state, and in 1864 spent 
 the year in Portland, where he engaged in truck- 
 driving. In this town he married Elizabeth 
 Saylor, who crossed the plains with her people 
 in 1853, an d w ho died in Cottage Grove in 1870, 
 leaving the following daughters : Lovica 
 Helen, now Mrs. Charles Vilas, of Portland ; 
 Mary C, the wife of Frank McFarland, and 
 living with her father; Sophronia L., now Mrs. 
 Charles Van Buren, of Astoria. Ore. : Theo- 
 dosia L., the wife of C. F. Cathcart, of Rose- 
 burg, Ore. ; and Hattie E., now Mrs. Wilbur 
 McFarland, of Cottage Grove. The second wife 
 of Mr. Adams was formerly Minerva Crom- 
 
 well, who was born in Georgia, and who for 
 nine years has been an invalid, suffering from 
 a paralytic stroke. Mr. Adams has been a stu- 
 dent all his life, and his life deductions are in- 
 teresting and original in the extreme. Few men 
 are better posted on current events, nor have 
 man}- a larger fund of general useful informa- 
 tion. He is a Republican in political preference, 
 and finds a religious home in the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 S. N. WILKINS. Among the prosperous 
 business men of Benton county, Ore., who have 
 succeeded in life mainly on account of their ener- 
 gy, perseverance and economy, is the subject of 
 this biographical sketch, S. N. Wilkins, of Cor- 
 vallis, who is too well known throughout Ben- 
 ton and adjoining counties to need an extended 
 introduction to the readers of this volume. Mr. 
 Wilkins is now serving his second term as county 
 coroner of Benton county, having been elected 
 first on the Democratic ticket and afterwards as 
 a candidate on the Republican ticket. He is a 
 man of much natural ability and his experience 
 proves that he can turn his hand to almost any- 
 thing and make a success of it. He has been 
 identified with the substantial improvements of 
 Corvallis, having built three elegant homes which 
 have at each move been surpassed by better ones, 
 until the present house was erected on the cor- 
 ner of Third and Madison streets in 1902. The 
 first was built in 1885, and the second in 1892. 
 The foundation of his present splendid business 
 was formed in 1885, when he put into a corner 
 of his paint shop a small stock of wall paper, 
 and to this a year later added a stock of paints, 
 to which was soon added other lines — picture- 
 molding, artist material, and stationery. The 
 business had now grown to an extent that com- 
 pelled him to give up a very profitable business 
 — contractor in painting and paperhanging — and 
 devote his entire time to his store, which had 
 grown to require larger quarters, which were 
 supplied by E. W. Fisher, in 1889. In 1890 
 he formed a partnership with Bond Brothers and 
 to the already splendid business they added a line 
 of "New York Racket goods." After a year 
 with this firm Mr. Wilkins sold his interest and 
 accepted a position with The Northwest Fire In- 
 surance Company of Portland, Ore. Beginning 
 at the bottom of the ladder July 1, 1891, he forced 
 his wav to second in his line within a year, and 
 in August, 1892, left his lucrative position with 
 this company and purchased the stock and busi- 
 ness of the late Philip Weber, and during this 
 and the succeeding year did a business in line 
 with the "boom times," and with many others 
 found himself at the starting point again in 1894, 
 but, belonging to a stock who do not readily ac- 
 
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 cept defeat, rallied his forces and, in April, 1895, 
 organized the Corvallis Furniture Company and 
 purchased the stock of furniture and undertaking 
 goods of the estate of J. A. Knight, where this 
 business had been conducted for thirty-seven 
 years, and had not been a profitable business. 
 Mr. Wilkins, as manager and undertaker, put it 
 on a paying basis, and in 1897 he bought the 
 stock of undertaking goods of his only competi- 
 tor — L. Welker & Co. He continued the busi L 
 ness at the old stand where prosperity followed 
 until 1899, when he absorbed all the stock of the 
 Corvallis Furniture Company, the latter going 
 out of business. In 1901 Mr. Wilkins sold his 
 stock of furniture to J. D. Mann & Co., and 
 moved his undertaking business to his present 
 elegant quarters, which had just been completed, 
 and which are situated on Madison street nextto 
 the elegant city hall, and on the same lots with 
 his residence. In these new quarters Mr. Wil- 
 kins has office, chapel, workroom, storeroom and 
 morgue, constructed on the latest and best sani- 
 tary plans, and it is conceded that his place is 
 the best outside of Portland, and is several years 
 in advance of the town. Since moving to these 
 new quarters Mr. Wilkins devotes his entire time 
 to his undertaking business. He has one fine 
 funeral car and a small hearse, the latter of 
 which was built in this town by the pioneers, L. 
 L. Horning and J. T. Phillips, in the early seven- 
 ties, and was one of the first in the valley. Mr. 
 Wilkins believes in keeping abreast of the times 
 in his profession. He has taken four different 
 courses of lectures on embalming and sanitation, 
 and is now taking a special course in anatomy 
 at the Oregon Agricultural College, and has his 
 plans made for a trip east, where he will com- 
 plete the work begun more than eight years ago. 
 As a funeral director, undertaker and em- 
 baker, he ranks second to few in the state, and 
 his place and the methods of conducting it are a 
 source of much admiration by his friends. 
 
 The Wilkins family originally came from Eng- 
 land, and the American branch first settled in 
 New England, of Puritan stock. They finally 
 became scattered, one member going south and 
 establishing that branch to which our subject 
 belongs. Mr. Wilkins was born near Eufaula, 
 Barbour county, Ala., November 4, 1851, and is 
 the fourth son of H. L. Wilkins ,who was also 
 a fourth son. His paternal grandfather, Wil- 
 liam Wilkins, was born in the state of Georgia 
 February 5, 1785, was a pioneer of Alabama, 
 where he reared a family of twelve children — • 
 nine sons and five daughters. In 1856, with his 
 sons, daughters and their families, he came west 
 and settled in the western part of this state, near 
 Mobile, Ala., where he resided until 1870, com- 
 ing with his son, H. L. Wilkins, to north Missis- 
 
 sippi, where he died at the advanced age of 
 eighty-seven years. 
 
 H. L. Wilkins, the father of S. N. Wilkins, 
 was born in Georgia April 2"], 1821. He was 
 reared in eastern Alabama, where he was mar- 
 ried to Sarah M. Jones, May 2, 1841, and fifteen 
 years later, with other members of his family, 
 came to the western border of the state and 
 settled in Choctaw county, where he resided un- 
 til 1867. In 1861 he, with his eldest son, who 
 was only eighteen years old, responded to his 
 country's call and with the Twenty-third Ala- 
 bama Regiment, saw four years of service and 
 took part in the struggles at Lookout Mountain, 
 Mission Ridge, Atlanta and many other places, 
 and for forty-four days lay in the trenches under 
 a tropical sun at Vicksburg, living part of the 
 time on "mule" beef, and a short ration at that, 
 with a tornado, of shot and shell that tried men's 
 souls and broke their constitutions, so that, when 
 he returned from the war, he not only found 
 his health much impaired, but his wealth had 
 been wasted by the ravages of war. After two 
 years enough was rescued from the wreck to 
 enable him to take his family to the more fer- 
 tile fields of north Mississippi, where he built 
 up a comfortable home and regained much of 
 his former losses. After a residence in Panola 
 county, Miss., of ten years he, with his remain- 
 ing family, came to Oregon to join S. N. Wil- 
 kins and other sons who had preceded him to 
 Corvallis, Benton county. Here he spent the 
 remaining days of his activity, being prominently 
 identified with many substantial improvements in 
 Corvallis. His last few years were spent in re- 
 tirement, principally at Roseburg with a son, 
 where he died January 27, 1902, at the age of 
 eighty years. His wife had preceded him fifteen 
 years. His life had been one of action. He not 
 only reared a family of ten children of his own, 
 but raised four orphan girls. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic fraternity for more than 
 forty years, and the latch-string of his door was 
 always on the outside for his friends and he 
 was never known to turn a fellow-man away 
 empty-handed, when he had the ability to help 
 him. 
 
 In his youth S.-N. Wilkins attended subscrip- 
 tion schools for three months of the year from 
 the age of six to ten years, when the war put a 
 stop to schools and he, with others both older 
 and younger, had to "scratch for a living," and 
 at the close of the war, schools, with everything 
 else, were demoralized, and it was 1867 before 
 even a short three-months school could be main- 
 tained, and at the age of sixteen he began his 
 attendance, which was kept up with the irregu- 
 larity of the subscription school of an unsettled 
 country. In 1870 he went to the far western 
 wilds of Texas, encountering many adventures, 
 
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 one of which was when, on his return trip by 
 way of Galveston, he escaped a yellow fever 
 quarantine by just one day. Returning to Bates- 
 ville. Miss., the next three years were spent in 
 learning the carpenter's trade, and in February, 
 1874, he left his southern home for Oregon, 
 where he arrived in company with the Apple- 
 white-Davis- Willbanks party April 1. 1874. The 
 first two years were spent at carpenter work, and 
 on the farm when this work could not be had to 
 do, and in 1876 he began a course in the Oregon 
 Agricultural College which was continued 
 through 1877. At the conclusion of this, Octo- 
 ber 9. 1878. he met and formed a matrimonial 
 alliance with a native daughter. Miss Mary A. 
 Moore. Mr. Moore, her father, was a native 
 of Tennessee and drove an ox-team to Oregon 
 in 1851. Here he was joined in marriage with 
 Miss Rachel A. Robinette, February 15, 1852. 
 Mr. Robinette was a native of Missouri and a 
 pioneer of 1849, an< ^ was one of the first settlers 
 about Lebanon, Linn county. Ore. After his 
 marriage Mr. Moore settled on a donation claim 
 near Lebanon, where he resided many years, 
 transferring his residence to the vicinity of Irv- 
 ing. Lane county, and to Corvallis in 1870, for 
 school privileges. Here he remained until 1888. 
 when he moved to The Dalles. Ore., where he 
 now resides. He is a member of the Masonic 
 order in all its branches, and is as spry as the 
 average man of sixty, while he is past seventy- 
 five years of age. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins went to Yakima 
 City, where they resided for two years. During 
 this time Mr. Wilkins served an apprenticeship 
 under W. E. Thornton, to learn the trade of 
 painting and paperhanging, and on his return to 
 Corvallis in 1883 opened a shop where success 
 crowned his efforts as above stated. 
 
 One incident in the career of this man of ac- 
 tion occurred in 1885. when he procured the 
 ground for a home. but. not being able to get 
 others to build for him. nor could he leave the 
 work that was pressing him daily, the necessity 
 became urgent and the house of six rooms was 
 built from basement to roof and interior all 
 finished without taking an hour from the regular 
 time — all the work being done before and after 
 hours. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins is prominently identified with the 
 fraternal and beneficiary lodges of Oregon. He 
 is a member of the Corvallis Lodge Xo. 14. A. 
 F. & A. M. : Ferguson Chapter Xo. 5. R. A. M. ; 
 Oregon Council Xo. 2, and Temple Commanderv 
 No. 3, K. T.. of Albany ; and Al Kader Temple 
 of the Mystic Shrine, of Portland: all the 
 branches of the Odd Fellows: the Woodmen of 
 the World : the Knights of Maccabees : the 
 Artisans : and the Independent Order of Lions. 
 Mrs. Wilkins belongs to all the auxiliary orders 
 
 6g 
 
 — Eastern Star, Rebekahs, Ladies of the Macca- 
 bees, W. O. W. Circle, the D. of H., the Lions, 
 and the leading social organization of the city — 
 the Fireman's Coffee Club. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
 kins have two children — one daughter and one 
 son. The daughter, Lola M., is now the wife of 
 Albert Lee Wigle, who resides at Prineville, 
 Crook county, Ore. Harold, the only son, now 
 sixteen years old, is a student at the Oregon 
 Agricultural College and a member of the Cadet 
 Band. 
 
 HARRY F. WYXXE. A native of Oregon, 
 and the son of one of the most prominent pio- 
 neer physicians of this state, Harry F. Wynne, 
 of Cottage Grove, Lane county, is well worthy 
 of representation in this biographical volume. 
 Industrious and enterprising, he has never been 
 content to lead a life of idleness, but as a young 
 man developed his native mechanical talent by 
 a constant exercise of his skill in that direction, 
 and is now giving proof of his mercantile ability 
 as one of the active merchants of Cottage Grove, 
 where, in partnership with his mother, Mrs. 
 Sarah E. Wynne, he is carrying on a substantial 
 hardware business. He was born July 2J, 1866, 
 at Union, Ore., a son of the late Dr. Armand L. 
 "Wynne. He comes of Yirginian ancestry, his 
 paternal grandfather, John Wynne, a successful 
 planter and a prominent member of the Quaker 
 Church, having been a life-long resident of the 
 Old Dominion. 
 
 Armand L. Wynne, M. D., was born in Taze- 
 well county, Ya.. and there acquired his pre- 
 liminary education. Deciding upon a profes- 
 sional career, he was graduated from the Phila- 
 delphia Medical College, in Pennsylvania, and 
 afterwards received the degree of M. D. at the 
 St. Louis Medical College, in St. Louis, Mo. 
 After practicing medicine for a time in Trenton, 
 Mo., Dr. Wynne came to Oregon, locating in 
 Union in 1864. Two years later he removed to 
 the Willamette valley, locating in Eugene, where 
 he built up an extensive practice. Settling at 
 Cottage Grove in 1870, the doctor continued the 
 practice of his profession in this locality until 
 his death, in October. 1882. when but fifty-five 
 years of age. Xoted for his skill and medical 
 knowledge, he won an extensive and lucrative 
 patronage, and was one of the leading physicians 
 of this part of Lane county. His wife, whose 
 maiden name of Sarah Ellen Perkins, was born 
 in Kentucky. She survives him, and is now in 
 business with her son. Harry F., as above stated. 
 
 After completing his studies in the public 
 schools. Harry F. Wynne learned the trade of a 
 steam eneineer on the Xorthern Pacific railway, 
 working on the road for six years. The follow- 
 ing six years he was employed as a stationary 
 
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 engineer, working in different places in Wash- 
 ington, California and Idaho. Returning to Cot- 
 tage Grove in 1895, Mr. Wynne operated a steam 
 engine for Booth & Kelley for a while, and then 
 assumed charge of a quartz mill in the Bohemia 
 district, working for Hellma & Music. Return- 
 ing to the employ of Booth & Kelley, he worked 
 in the company's saw-mill, at Saginaw, Ore., 
 until 1900. Coming to Cottage Grove with the 
 hardware firm of Griffin & Veatch in 1900, Mr. 
 Wynne soon after embarked in the hardware 
 business on his own account, forming a partner- 
 ship with his mother. He carries a full line of 
 hardware, having a stock valued at $2,500, and 
 also handles agricultural tools and implements 
 of all descriptions, having a large trade in this 
 line as well as in his regular line of goods. 
 
 Mr. Wynne married, in Salem, Ore., Alice 
 Veatch, a native of LaGrande, Ore. Politically 
 Mr. Wynne is an earnest supporter of the prin- 
 ciples of the Democratic party, and fraternally 
 he is a member of the Woodmen of the World, 
 and belongs to Cottage Grove Blue Lodge, No. 
 52, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 MRS. MARY A. CANAN. Among the 
 varied biographies contained in this volume, we 
 are pleased to give a short sketch of Mrs. Mary 
 A. Canan, who owns and conducts in a manner 
 above reproach, the Occidental Hotel, which is 
 considered one of the best in Corvallis. This 
 hotel is a large, three-story structure, with pleas- 
 ant and convenient rooms. The spacious and 
 attractive dining-hall, with well filled tables, is 
 a delight to the guests, whose wants are antici- 
 pated by their genial hostess. An addition, 
 75x100 feet, three stories high, has recently been 
 added and the place is well patronized. 
 
 Mrs. Canan has been a resident of the western 
 coast since 1865. She was born at Culpeper 
 Court House, Va., and is a daughter of Jesse 
 and Mary (Redley) McKenney. Her father 
 was of Scotch descent, was born in the vicinity 
 of Richmond, Va., and followed hotel-keeping. 
 Later he removed to Brown county, Ohio, settling 
 permanently at Georgetown, where he spent his 
 closing years. Her mother was a native of Bal- 
 timore, and died in Ohio. Four children blessed 
 their union, three being still living. Mrs. Canan 
 was reared in Hillsboro, Ohio., where her mother 
 moved after the death of her husband, and it 
 was there that Mrs. Canan was educated. She 
 has been married twice, her first union taking 
 place at Hillsboro, where she wedded William 
 Glascock. The latter was a Virginian by birth 
 and was engaged for many years in mercantile 
 business. In 1865 he went to California, via 
 Panama route, and located at Healdsburg, So- 
 noma county, where he died. Some time after 
 
 the death of her husband, Mrs. Glascock be- 
 came the wife of W. C. Canan, a Pennsylvanian 
 by birth, and one of the early gold-seekers, hav- 
 ing crossed the plains in the customary way. 
 After this marriage, Mr. Canan engaged in the 
 drug business at Healdsburg, and was also a local 
 banker until 1882 when he removed to Corval- 
 lis, Ore., and purchased the Occidental Hotel. 
 He died in 1891, aged sixty-nine years. He was 
 a member of the Masonic fraternity and in his 
 political views he was a Republican. 
 
 Mrs. Canan has carried on the hotel business 
 ever since the death of her husband and has met 
 with success. She has remodeled it, and in addi- 
 tion owns a fine business block in Corvallis. She 
 is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and also belongs to the Eastern Star. 
 
 JOSEPH S. AMES. When a lad of eleven 
 years of age, Joseph S. Ames crossed the plains 
 to California, the trip being made in three wag- 
 ons, drawn by nine yoke of oxen. The start 
 was made April 6, 1851, and six months later 
 they arrived at the Sierra mountains. October 6 
 they began the journey across the mountains, 
 and the first winter was spent at Diamond 
 Springs, forty miles east of Sacramento. By 
 way of the water route they reached Portland in 
 July, 1852, and from there proceeded to Linn 
 county. A few months later the father took up 
 a donation claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres near Sweet Home, his farm lying one-half 
 mile west of the present postoffice. Lowell Ames, 
 the father of Joseph S., was a native of Cuya- 
 hoga county, Ohio, and all his life had followed 
 farming. He passed away March 8, 1864, at his 
 home in Sweet Home, when in his sixty-fifth 
 year. His wife, prior to their marriage known 
 as Miss Anna Kessler, was born in Pennsylvania, 
 and died in Sweet Home in 1872, in her seventy- 
 first year. Their marriage was solemnized in 
 Ohio and shortly afterward the young people re- 
 moved to Illinois, locating at first in Kane 
 county, but finally settled in Peoria. It was from 
 the latter place that the family took up the long 
 march across the plains. 
 
 The parental family comprised eight children, 
 all of whom were boys with one exception, and 
 Joseph S., born in Kane county, 111., January 16, 
 1840, was the youngest of the family. His edu- 
 cation was received in the common schools of 
 Illinois and as soon as years and strength per- 
 mitted gave a helping hand in the farm duties. 
 His services were given to his father until his 
 death, when he engaged in farming on his own 
 account and has followed this calling ever since. 
 His fine farm of four hundred acres, which lies 
 adjacent to the village of Sweet Home, is a 
 model farm and is embellished with commodious 
 
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 and convenient buildings. The family residence 
 is located in town. While Mr. Ames carries on 
 general farming to a certain extent, he makes a 
 specialty of stock-raising, and in the raising of 
 Merino sheep has no superior in the county. As 
 road supervisor Mr. Ames has been instrumental 
 in bettering the condition of the roads in his dis- 
 trict. In all local affairs he takes an intelligent 
 interest, and in politics is a Republican. In his 
 religious belief he is allied with the Latter Day 
 Saints. 
 
 JOHN K. McCORMACK is a native of 
 Dixon county, Tenn., born February 19, 1827, 
 and, in 183 1, accompanied his parents to near 
 Jacksonville, 111., where he was reared, educated 
 and grew to manhood. His father's property 
 was in a fertile section of Illinois and furnished 
 a fair income, yet the young man saw little pros- 
 pect of forging to the front with anything like 
 the rapidity that he desired, and therefore re- 
 turning travelers from the west found him a 
 willing listener. These reports were communi- 
 cated to three other young men of his neighbor- 
 hood, and the party proceeded to outfit for the 
 long journey across the plains, purchasing a 
 wagon and four yoke of oxen, and such pro- 
 visions as they could cook in their camp equip- 
 ment. They were six months on the way. The 
 first winter in Oregon Mr. McCormack found 
 work in La Fayette, and in the spring of 1852 
 he went to the mines of Jacksonville, in the fall 
 returning and taking up a claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres in Benton county. Here he 
 farmed with considerable success for five years, 
 and then moved into the Alsea valley, taking up 
 a homestead upon which he erected a pleasant 
 residence, good barns, out-houses and fences. In 
 1887 ne came to his present farm, which also is 
 highly improved, and through his industry has 
 been rendered one of the very desirable and pay- 
 ing properties in the neighborhood. He is en- 
 gaged in general farming, hop and stock-raising. 
 
 November 30, 1857, Mr. McCormack was 
 united in marriage with Lucinda Mason, and 
 their happy married life has been blessed with 
 six children, namely : Emma, deceased ; Laura, 
 Hardy, Ira, Ella J. and Fred. Mr. McCormack 
 enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who 
 know him. 
 
 JOSHUA M. MARTIN. In 1901 the Eu- 
 gene brick manufactory became the personal 
 property of Joshua M. Martin, who has been 
 identified with various interests in the northwest 
 ever since 1883. He was born in Andrew county, 
 Mo., July 26, 1863, his parents, Jesse B. and 
 Julia A. (Yates) Martin, being natives of the 
 
 same state, the former born in Buchanan county, 
 January 30, 1837, and the latter born in Andrew 
 county, June 26, 1838. The parents continued 
 to farm in their native state until locating in 
 Lane county, March 8, 1902, and they have since 
 lived on a farm adjoining that of their son near 
 Eugene, where they are retired from the active 
 cares of life. Seven children, six of whom are 
 sons, have been born to them, and' of these, 
 Joshua M. is the oldest. In the spring of 1883 he 
 came to Oregon, and for seven years was the 
 valued assistant of a farmer near Irving. After- 
 ward he rented a farm and engaged in stock and 
 grain-raising from 1889 until 1900, in which 
 year he moved to Eugene, soon after purchasing 
 the brick industry with which his name has since 
 been connected. Aside from the ground owned 
 for the brick manufactory, Mr. Martin is inter- 
 ested in his father's farm, and with him engages 
 in a general farming industry 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Martin was united in marriage 
 with Laura Montgomery, who was born in 
 Macon county, Mo., April 28, 1862, and who 
 crossed the plains with her people in 1865. Of 
 this union there has been born one son, Albert, 
 now deceased. Ever since casting his first presi- 
 dential vote Mr. Martin has adhered to Demo- 
 cratic principles, and in this capacity has served 
 with credit as school clerk and director, and road 
 supervisor. He is fraternally identified with the 
 Woodmen of the World and the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen of Eugene, and the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, ot which latter 
 organization he has passed all of the chairs. 
 
 H. W. HATCH, who is head miller of the 
 Salem Flouring-mill Company, was born in Con- 
 neaut, Ohio, February 25, 1855, and since 1886 
 has been a resident of the Sunset state. His 
 father, Alpheus Hatch, was born near Chelsea, 
 Vt., which was also the birthplace of the grand- 
 father, Rufus Hatch. The latter was a farmer 
 bv occupation and at an early day in the devel- 
 opment of Ohio removed to the Buckeye state. 
 There Rufus Hatch was reared and in course of 
 time became extensively identified with agricul- 
 tural interests and at one time he was also en- 
 gaged in the milling business. In 1871 he went 
 on a business trip to Kansas and died in Cedar- 
 ville, that state. His widow, who bore the 
 maiden name of Harriet Babbitt, was born in 
 Pennsylvania and is a resident of Portland. 
 Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hatch: Mrs. Edith Stimson, of Portland; H. 
 W., of this review; and A. J., who is living in 
 Oklahoma. 
 
 Upon the home farm in Ohio H. W. Hatch 
 spent the days of his youth and attended private 
 schools there. Between the years 1865 and 1871 
 
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 he lived in Lowell, Mich., where he attended 
 school, and during the periods of vacation he 
 was employed in his uncle's flouring mill, so that 
 he early gained practical experience of the busi- 
 ness which he has made his lifework. In 1871 
 he returned to the old home in Ohio, and was 
 there apprenticed to the miller's trade in a mill 
 having a capacity of three hundred barrels of 
 flour per day. He occupied that position for 
 three years and then removed to Cedarville, 
 Smith county, Kans., where he carried on farm- 
 ing for two years, returning to Ohio in 1876. 
 He there worked at the miller's trade until 1877, 
 when he went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania 
 and secured a position as tool dresser, acting in 
 that capacity until 1880 — the year of his removal 
 to Mankato, Minn. Accepting a position as 
 miller with the firm of R. D. Hubbard & Com- 
 pany, in their large roller mill, he there remained 
 until 1886, when, attracted by the business op- 
 portunities of the growing northwest he came to 
 Oregon and obtained employment in the Port- 
 land Flouring Mill. After eighteen months he 
 was sent to Salem as head miller of the Salem 
 Flouring Mill and has acted in this capacity con- 
 tinuously since the spring of 1888. He has the 
 entire confidence of those whom he represents, 
 and as manager of the business has made it a 
 profitable enterprise and has largely increased its 
 scope. In 1899 the mill was destroyed by fire, 
 but in the fall of 1901 was rebuilt and is today 
 fitted with the latest improved machinery and 
 has a capacity of three hundred and fifty barrels 
 of flour. Mr. Hatch has a thorough and prac- 
 tical understanding of the business in every de- 
 partment, including the working of the ma- 
 chinery and the manufacture of flour, and is thus 
 capable of controlling the labors of those who 
 serve under him. The output of the plant is of 
 excellent quality and therefore finds a ready sale 
 upon the market. 
 
 Mr. Hatch was married in Mankato, Minn., to 
 Miss L. Wood, who was born in Lowell, Mich., 
 and they now have one son, Harold Wood, and 
 an adopted daughter, Murah. Mrs. Hatch is 
 connected with the Christian Science Church and 
 is prominent therein. Mr. Hatch gives his po- 
 litical support to the Republican party, and while 
 keeping well informed on the questions and 
 issues of the day he has never been an aspirant 
 for office, preferring to devote his energies to his 
 business affairs, which he capably conducts. 
 
 bound for the mines of California. He was 
 fairly successful, and with his little hoard came 
 to Oregon in 185 1, locating on the farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres now occupied by his 
 son. He married Nancy Shields, member of an 
 early family here, and reared a family of ten 
 children, four sons and six daughters. He natu- 
 rally suffered from the depredations of the In- 
 dians in the early days, and as naturally joined 
 the defense instituted for the protection of the 
 life and property of the settlers, serving in the 
 war for several months. His death occurred in 
 1875, at the age of forty-nine years, and nine of 
 his children are living at the present time. These 
 are: Amanda, the wife of Greenbury Splawn; 
 Sarah A., widow of Gideon Hodson ; Evaline, 
 wife of Timothy Riggs ; John I. ; A. J., near 
 Holley; Artilla, the wife of Henry H. Chance; 
 William T. ; Mary J., wife of Andrew Shanks ; 
 and Eliza P. 
 
 When his father died John I. Matlock was 
 seventeen years old, and as the oldest son in the 
 family the management of the farm fell upon his 
 shoulders. His first wife, Annie (Johnson) Mat- 
 lock, died in 1887, leaving one child, Minnie, 
 now living in Albany. For a second wife he 
 married, October 12, 1891, Olive Pendleton, who 
 is the mother of four children : Henry ; Ray, 
 deceased ; Bryan, deceased ; and Vina. Mr. Mat- 
 lock still owns one hundred and sixty acres of 
 the original claim, and is engaged in stock-rais- 
 ing and general farming. He is a member and 
 overseer of the Grange, and is connected with 
 the Christian Church. 
 
 JOHN I. MATLOCK. The entire life of 
 John I. Matlock has been spent upon the farm, 
 one and a half miles from Holley, where he was 
 born June 20, 1858. His father, William, who 
 was born in Missouri, contracted the gold fever 
 in 1849, and as a young man joined a party 
 
 GEORGE R. MILLER. From British Co- 
 lumbia to Mexico, and in thirty states and terri- 
 tories in the Union, George R. Miller is known 
 as a shrewd and successful horse dealer. Prac- 
 tically his entire business life has been spent in 
 studying the merits of the horse, and he has be- 
 come an authority on all points concerning this 
 noble animal. Mr. Miller received his start in 
 life while associated with the W. W. Wallace 
 circus, and, like all concerns of the kind, it prided 
 itself on the excellence of its thoroughbreds. At- 
 taining the position of horse-buyer for the cir- 
 cus, Mr. Miller naturally came to an appreciation 
 of the best horses, and, having acquired a high 
 grade standard, he has never allowed it to de- 
 teriorate. Leaving the circus, he devoted several 
 years to breaking, training, buying and selling 
 horses, and in this capacity visited the states and 
 territories above mentioned. He came to Ore- 
 gon in 1884, and engaged in the horse business 
 in Albany, and, in 1887, took a herd of horses 
 back over the mountains, in order to ship them 
 to Muncie, Ind. This trip took four months, 
 
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 and upon returning, Mr. Miller started an even 
 larger business, making his headquarters on the 
 corner of East Front and Chicago streets, Al- 
 bany, where he has his office and stables. He 
 visits points all along the coast, and inland sta- 
 tions from British Columbia to Mexico, wher- 
 ever good horses are to be had, or are in de- 
 mand. He leads a varied and interesting life, 
 meeting people of all classes, all of whom find 
 him a courteous, agreeable and thoroughly hon- 
 orable gentleman. 
 
 Previous to his circus experience Mr. Miller 
 had been connected with his father, Henry P. 
 Miller, who was an extensive business man of 
 Muncie, Ind. Father and son were born near 
 YVilliamsport, Lycoming county, Pa., the latter 
 July 7, 1854. The elder Miller was for many 
 years engaged in the lumber business on the Sus- 
 quehanna, and, in 1855, when his son was a year 
 old, he took his family to Muncie, Ind., where 
 he became interested in a lime manufacturing 
 plant. Later, he turned his attention to pump 
 manufacturing, and, in 1884, removed to Ore- 
 gon. However, his devotion to the middle west 
 led him to again take up his residence in Muncie, 
 in 1895, and his death occurred in that city two 
 years later. He was survived by his wife, for- 
 merly Mary Grover, also born in Lycoming 
 county, Pa., and still living in Muncie. Nine of 
 the ten children in the family attained maturity, 
 and eight are living, George R. being the ninth 
 child. The children were educated in Lycoming 
 county and Muncie, Ind., George R. receiving a 
 practical training in the public schools ere en- 
 gaging with his father in business. He attended 
 principally to the jobbing department, but from 
 the first evinced a keen interest in everything 
 pertaining to horses. 
 
 While living in Muncie Mr. Miller married 
 Rose Leslie, who was born in Winchester, Ind., 
 and who has accompanied her husband- on many 
 of his expeditions. The family are members of 
 the Christian Church, in which Mr. Miller is a 
 deacon and active worker. Fraternally he is con- 
 nected with the Foresters of America. 
 
 C. H. BREWER. M. D., was born in Sioux 
 City, Iowa, the son of Dr. Brewer, and with only 
 a small part of his education acquired in that 
 city. His father emigrated to Oregon, and after 
 his location in Salem, Marion county, proceeded 
 to build up a lucrative practice. C. H. was but 
 twelve years of age at the time of the removal to 
 the western state and soon after arriving here he 
 entered upon his course of education, the scene of 
 his early school days being Mount Angel Col- 
 lege. Lpon the completion of his course there 
 he entered the state university at Eugene and 
 later the medical college at Salem, where he was 
 
 graduated in the class of 1898. Locating in Sil- 
 verton, Marion county, he at once commenced 
 the practice of medicine for which he had been 
 preparing so many years. After two years' time 
 he came to Stayton, believing this city to be a 
 better location for his business. In 1902 he 
 bought the drug store which he is now conduct- 
 ing in a business-like manner, and from which 
 he realizes considerable profit. In his political 
 affiliations Dr. Brewer casts his ballot with the 
 Republican party. 
 
 EDWARD GOINS, SR., was born December 
 12, 1842, in Chatham county, N. C, a son of 
 William Goins. He comes of patriotic stock, his 
 paternal great-grandfather having fought in the 
 Revolutionary war. His grandfather, Edward 
 Goins, of North Carolina, served in the war of 
 1812; he was a man of culture and a noted 
 teacher and educator. 
 
 William Goins, a life-long resident of North 
 Carolina, was a miller by occupation. He mar- 
 ried Kissie Sinkler, who was born in North 
 Carolina, of pure Scotch ancestry, her father, 
 Duncan Sinkler, having emigrated from Scot- 
 land to North Carolina, where he pursued the 
 vocation of a farmer. Thirteen children were 
 born of their union, twelve of whom grew to 
 years of maturity, and three are now living, Ed- 
 ward being the only one on the Pacific coast. 
 The mother died in Indiana. 
 
 The third child in order of birth, Edward 
 Goins, Sr., had very limited school advantages, 
 but early acquired a knowledge of agriculture, 
 and of milling, receiving instruction in both 
 branches of industry from his father. When the 
 Civil war broke out he enlisted for twelve months 
 in the Confederate army, becoming a member of 
 Company H, Thirteenth North Carolina In- 
 fantry. Just before the year of enlistment was 
 up he was given the opportunity to re-enlist for 
 three years, or until the war closed, and receive 
 a bounty, or be conscripted. He naturally re- 
 enlisted, joining the same company and the same 
 regiment. He participated in many of the prom- 
 inent battles, among others the Seven-days bat- 
 tles ; Fair Oaks ; Chancellorsville ; Wilderness ; 
 South Mountain ; Antietam ; Gettysburg ; Fred- 
 ericksburg, continuing until the surrender of 
 Lee. Returning then to North Carolina, Mr. 
 Goins remained at home until the fall of 1865, 
 when he went to Wilkesbarre, Pa., where he was 
 employed in the Audenreid mines for eighteen 
 months. Going back to his native place, he 
 worked a year at the cooper's trade, when, be- 
 coming dissatisfied, he induced his mother to re- 
 move with her family to Brazil, Ind., where he 
 remained three years, working in the coal mines 
 of that region. Going from there to Burlington, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Kans., Mr. Goins established himself in the mill- 
 ing business, for several years thereafter run- 
 ning" a burr water-mill on the Neosho river. 
 Starting for Oregon on April 19, 1874, he came 
 directly to Albany, and since that time has been 
 a resident of Linn county. At once entering the 
 employ of Beach & Monteith, millers, he worked 
 for that firm five years. Purchasing, in 1879, a 
 one-third interest in the old warehouse, he re- 
 modeled it, turning it into a flour-mill, and 
 under the name of the Red Crown Mill managed 
 it for seven years. Disposing of his interest in 
 the plant, he then purchased a mill in Scio, and 
 having put in modern equipment ran it by the 
 roller process three years, when it was burned. 
 Mr. Goins immediately replaced it with a new 
 mill, into which he introduced modern ma- 
 chinery, and for four years operated that most 
 successfully. Selling out his interests in Scio, 
 he returned to Albany, and for two years ran 
 the Red Crown mill, which he leased. Then, in 
 company with C. C. Hogue, he rented the old 
 Magnolia mill, which he enlarged and remod- 
 eled, putting in machinery of the most approved 
 modern manufacture, and has since carried on an 
 extensive and lucrative business. In his plant, 
 which has a capacity of one hundred barrels of 
 flour daily, he manufactures a standard brand of 
 flour, the "Magnolia," and also makes large 
 quantities of bran and feed. 
 
 Mr. Goins married first, in Indiana, Jane 
 Wicker, who was born in North Carolina, and 
 died in Albany, Ore. She bore him three chil- 
 dren, namely : Annie, who died in Albany ; 
 Samuel, a resident of Portland, Ore. ; and John, 
 who is connected with the Magnolia mills. Mr. 
 Goins married second, in Albany, Clara Butcher, 
 a native of Linn county, and of this union three 
 children have been born, namely : Lizzie, de- 
 ceased ; Archie ; and Edward, Jr. Politically he 
 is a stanch supporter of the principles promul- 
 gated by the Republican party, and takes a keen 
 interest in the welfare of town and county. He 
 served as councilman in Albany until his re- 
 moval to Scio, when he resigned, and while re- 
 siding in that city was a member of the common 
 council several terms. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the A. O. U. W. He is an active member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he 
 is a class leader, and is also one of its board of 
 trustees. 
 
 I. B. BEAM has been a citizen of Albany 
 since 1875, and during all the intervening years 
 has been engaged in the grain business. He was 
 connected with the Magnolia mill for eighteen 
 years, where he gradually mastered the business, 
 and finally succeeded to the responsible position 
 of manager. After severing his connection with 
 
 the Magnolia mills in 1893, Mr. Beam engaged 
 in his present business with G. W. Simpson, with 
 whose efficient help a large and remunerative en- 
 terprise has been firmly established. To store 
 their commodities, the firm have two warehouses 
 in Albany on the railroad and river, with a com- 
 bined capacity of fifty thousand bushels, and 
 have besides erected a warehouse of thirty thou- 
 sand bushels at Scio, and houses at Stayton and 
 Aumsville, with- capacities respectively of twenty- 
 five and fifteen thousand bushels. Formerly 
 they owned the fifteen-thousand-bushel ware- 
 house at Shaw, but disposed of it some time 
 since. They ship grain, potatoes and hay to San 
 Francisco, Portland, and points all along the 
 coast, and also fill government contracts for the 
 Philippines. Mr. Simpson attends to the Port- 
 land part of the business, and therefore spends 
 much of his time in the latter city. 
 
 Of German descent, the Beam family was hon- 
 ored by the services of the paternal grandfather 
 of I. B. in the Revolutionary war, and this colo- 
 nial soldier afterward returned to his home in 
 New England, whence he eventually removed 
 with his family to Ohio. This trip was under- 
 taken overland with horse teams, and the grand- 
 father took up government land in Knox county, 
 near Mount Vernon, where his son, Asa, the 
 father of I. B., was born. Asa was reared on 
 the farm, and in his native state married Jemima 
 Hague, who was born in Maryland, and was of 
 German descent. Several children were born to 
 the parents in Ohio, and, in 1850, Asa Beam 
 disposed of his farm and took his family with 
 teams to McLean county, 111., locating on crude 
 land near Hudson. Here the balance of the large 
 family of children were born, eleven in all, nine 
 of whom attained maturity, and two of whom 
 are living, I. B. and Asa, the latter being a mer- 
 chant in Albany. 
 
 In 1863 I. B. Beam enlisted in the Fourth Illi- 
 nois Cavalry, Company G, and was mustered in 
 at Springfield. He was attached to the Army of 
 the Mississippi, in the fall of 1864, but was 
 shortly discharged from the service on account 
 of physical disability. In 1865 he went to Shelby 
 county, and afterward to Carroll county, Mo., 
 then returning to Illinois, where he engaged in 
 farming until he was twenty-two. He then en- 
 tered mercantile ranks as a clerk in a warehouse 
 concern in Hudson, 111., and, in 1875, came to 
 Albany, Ore., which has since been his home. 
 
 In Illinois Mr. Beam was united in marriage 
 with Emma J. Groves, who was born in Mc- 
 Donough county, 111., and whose father served 
 in an Illinois regiment during the Civil war. 
 Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Beam, of whom Orrin is a medical student in 
 San Jose, Cal. ; Delbert is clerking in Portland, 
 Ore. ; and Bessie and Lloyd are at home. Mr. 
 
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 Beam is a Republican, and is a member of the 
 McPherson Post. G. A. R., of Albany. In re- 
 ligion he is a Baptist. 
 
 WILLIAM BEXTS was born in Kansas, 
 February 28, i860, the son of Henry and Anna 
 (Bosshard) Bents, both natives of Switzerland, 
 whose emigration to the United States took place 
 in 1854. (For further information regarding 
 the parents refer to the sketch of Fred Bents, 
 the eldest son of this family, whose sketch ap- 
 pears elsewhere in this work.) When William 
 Bents was but three years old his father removed 
 to Oregon, crossing the plains by ox-teams and 
 settling in Marion county, near Butteville, 
 where he purchased a farm from John Shyrer, 
 who proved a friend to the emigrant family dur- 
 ing the years in which the father was struggling 
 for a foothold in this western land. 
 
 The education of Mr. Bents was received in 
 the common schools of Oregon, which he at- 
 tended intermittently until he commenced work 
 for himself. He was reared on the old home 
 place, and after his marriage, January 1, 1894, 
 to Miss Annie M. Hopp, began housekeeping 
 there in a modern house, having built the same 
 in 1892. Mr. Bents now owns one-third of the 
 original land composing the three hundred and 
 six acres which his father purchased in 1864. 
 Upon this property he is now engaged in general 
 farming, in which he takes an intelligent and 
 practical interest. In connection with his broth- 
 ers, Fred and Henry L., he is interested in hop- 
 cultivation, and like them has made an unques- 
 tionable success of the business. He has four- 
 teen acres devoted to this plant. 
 
 Mr. Bents is a Republican and serves his coun- 
 try whenever called upon. At present he is road 
 supervisor of his township. 
 
 REV. FELIX BUCHER. A commanding 
 personality in the religious and intellectual world 
 embraced in Benton, Lincoln, and the surround- 
 ing counties of Oregon, is Father Felix Bucher, 
 who came as a missionary to this state in 1893, 
 and has since devoted the resources of a cultured 
 mind and great heart to the uplifting of the In- 
 dian, and the maintenance of peace and good will 
 among various congregations of worshippers. 
 
 In Dillingen, a village of Bavaria, province of 
 Schwaben and X'euburg, Germany. Father Bu- 
 cher was born September 23, 1862. Augsburg, 
 the capital of that province, which claims great 
 antiquity, the Emperor Augustus having estab- 
 lished a colony there as early as 12 B. C., later 
 took a prominent place in the history of religious 
 disturbances, and today numbers among its 
 claims to distinction its large trade in printing, 
 
 engraving and bookbinding, its splendid picture 
 gallery, its gymnasiums and schools, and its 
 office of the Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading 
 journal of Germany, established there in 1796. 
 Into this historic atmosphere, where Holbein, the 
 elder, was born, and where he painted, and where 
 the wines of Switzerland and Italy are sent forth 
 into every quarter of the globe, Xavier Bucher, 
 the father of Felix, was born, in the same village 
 of Dillingen ; and for the greater part of his ac- 
 tive life conducted a mercantile enterprise. He 
 was of German and French descent. His wife, 
 Crescentia (Wachter) Bucher, was a native of 
 Augsburg, and was the mother of seven chil- 
 dren, three of whom are living, Father Felix 
 being the only one in America, and the youngest 
 in the family. 
 
 It is evident that Rev. Bucher never enter- 
 tained a thought of life outside the priesthood, 
 for at the early age of fourteen he left his home 
 in Dillingen and took up his abode in the mother 
 house in the Palazzo Moroni, in Rome. This old 
 palace, occupied now by the Society of the Di- 
 vine Savior, was owned three hundred years ago 
 by Cardinal Moroni, and has since borne his 
 name. Here Rev. Bucher was prepared for his 
 chosen calling among the most favorable and in- 
 spiring conditions in the world, and was eventu- 
 ally ordained in the great church of St. John of 
 Lateran, the mother church of the whole Catho- 
 lic world, September 19, 1891. For a year after 
 his ordination he remained in the Palazzo and 
 then undertook the long journey to Vancouver, 
 Wash., where he remained for a short time. 
 From there he came to Oregon as a missionary 
 of the church, spending one year at The Dalles 
 as pastor of St. Peters, and the next year was 
 located at Xewport, as pastor of the church 
 there. In connection with the latter charge he 
 visited the Siletz Indian Mission in Lincoln 
 county, which very worthy enterprise has been 
 attended once or twice a year for some years by 
 Father Crcckert, of Grande Ronde, one of the 
 most sacrificing and helpful of the early Indian 
 workers, and who had spent forty years in trying 
 to improve the condition of the red men. While 
 at X'ewport Father Bucher became somewhat fa- 
 miliar with the work at this mission, and in 1897 
 took up his residence on the reservation, the 
 church and parsonage of which was donated by 
 Mother Catherine Drexel, of Philadelphia, and 
 consecrated by Archbishop Cross. Ever since, 
 Father Bucher has ministered to the spiritual 
 needs of a large and increasing congregation, for 
 the responsibilities of which he is eminently 
 fitted, having learned the Chinook language suf- 
 ficiently well to be able to converse and preach 
 therein. He also holds services at other churches 
 and missions, and in January, 1903, assumed 
 charge of St. Mary's Church at Corvallis. A 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 scholar, linguist and man of practical and hu- 
 manitarian ideas, Father Bucher exerts a won- 
 derful influence upon the lives of those by whom 
 he is surrounded, leading them always up to 
 greater heights, and into broader and more useful 
 fields of activity. He is devoted to his work, to 
 the country in which his lines are cast, and to 
 the people who look to him as their guide in the 
 every-day affairs of life. Surely the people of 
 his far-off native town in Germany should be 
 proud of its native son, who has traveled so far, 
 so well, and so fearlessly to a splendid and re- 
 sourceful destiny. 
 
 WILLIAM WILLIS OGLESBY, M. D. 
 The president of the Golden Slipper Mining 
 Company, Dr. W. W. Oglesby, is a man of many 
 and rare talents, and these have led him into 
 many pursuits wherein he has found much pleas- 
 ure and considerable profit, for he unites with a 
 singularly forceful character the temperament of 
 a man of letters. Since his advent into the west 
 he has found much to interest him in the moun- 
 tain peaks of his adopted state, and has ascended 
 nearly all the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade 
 range. He was the first man who reached the 
 crest of Mount Jefferson, ascending this moun- 
 tain in 1886, having ascended Mount Hood in 
 1869, the Three Sisters in 1865, Diamond Peak 
 in 1858 and Mount Shasta in 1856. While in- 
 terested in climbing he has branched out into 
 hunting and a study of the formations and 
 growths of this wonderful land, which have 
 added no little to his information. Dr.- Oglesby 
 is also a famous Indian fighter, having been 
 forced to this form of war while crossing the 
 plains in 1853, and again in the Bannock war in 
 Umatilla county, Ore., in 1878, he served three 
 months as captain of Company G, commanding 
 at the battle of Willow Springs, which was the 
 scene of the fiercest Indian fighting on the coast. 
 With shrewd business sagacity Dr. Oglesby has 
 also devoted much time in his rambling over the 
 mountains to a search for that which makes the 
 onward march of the world possible, and he has 
 met with rare success, having been the fortunate 
 discoverer of two remunerative mines in south- 
 ern Oregon. The first was the Bohemian mines, 
 which he discovered in 1858, but the one of 
 which he is now president, the Golden Slipper, 
 was discovered in 1898. This has since devel- 
 oped into a good paying property, the company 
 having now a capital of $1,000,000, divided into 
 ten million shares, of the par value of ten cents 
 per share, fully paid up and non-assessable. The 
 property of this corporation consists of what is 
 known as the Golden Slipper group of mining 
 claims, located on the eastern slope of Grouse 
 mountain, in the Bohemia mining district, Doug- 
 
 las county, Ore., only a short distance from 
 mines famous throughout that section of the 
 country, and there is every prospect of turning 
 out a fortune from this property. Much credit 
 is due Dr. Oglesby for his share in the business, 
 as with several others he succeeded in the pro- 
 motion of the company. 
 
 Dr. Oglesby was the fourth son in a family of 
 six sons and eight daughters, his birth occurring 
 May 3, 1837, in Adams county, 111. He was the 
 son of William Oglesby, a native of South Caro- 
 lina, who come from Virginia with his parents 
 to the Prairie state when only a young lad. Ex- 
 Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, was' an uncle of 
 the family. The preliminary education of Dr. 
 Oglesby was received in the common schools of 
 Missouri and Oregon. Anxious to gain a thor- 
 ough knowledge of books he never ceased his 
 application to his studies. In 1868 he began the 
 study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. 
 Johnson, of Corvallis, and in 1869 he took a 
 course in Toltin Medical College, of San Fran- 
 cisco, after which he practiced his profession in 
 California for four years, every step forward 
 being the result of earnest, patient effort on his 
 own part. In 1875 he came to Oregon and at- 
 tended two courses of lectures in Willamette 
 University, and two years later was graduated 
 with the degree of M. D. He then engaged in 
 general practice in Weston, Ore., where he re- 
 mained for three years, and then located in Fossil 
 for a period of ten years, after which he removed 
 in 1889 to Cottage Grove. Four years later he 
 became a resident of Junction City, Lane county, 
 and engaged in the general practice of his pro- 
 fession, later becoming interested in the Golden 
 Slipper mining proposition. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Oglesby first united him 
 with Sarah Jane Morrison, a native of Tennes- 
 see, and took place in Benton county, Ore. She 
 was the daughter of Rev. J. P. Morrison, who 
 was born in Tennessee, and after a residence 
 in Missouri came to Oregon in 1862, locat- 
 ing in Benton county. Nine years later he 
 removed to California, where his death oc- 
 curred at the age of eighty-four years. 
 Mrs. Oglesby died in Corvallis, in 1867, 
 when still quite young, and the doctor married 
 in 1871, a sister of his first wife, Nancy C, a 
 native of Missouri. The one child born of the 
 first union was Anna, who is still at home with 
 her father. In addition to his many other in- 
 terests Dr. Oglesby took up and mastered the 
 study of telegraphy and held many positions as 
 an operator. He has also been connected with 
 newspaper work for about fifteen years, in Cot- 
 tage Grove, and was a delegate to New Orleans 
 and to the Pan-American Exposition for the 
 Press Association. He has also written some 
 verse, which certainly has shown his power with 
 
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 the pen. In his fraternal relations Dr. Oglesb) 
 holds a prominent place, being a member of the 
 Blue Lodge and the Chapter, A. F. & A. M., of 
 Eugene, Ore. : Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, of Eugene ; Knights of Pythias, of Junc- 
 tion City : Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and the Encampment ; and is an honorary mem- 
 ber of the Woodmen of the World, in which he 
 acted as physician for some time. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 Politically Dr. Oglesby has always been a stanch 
 adherent of the principles of the Democratic 
 party, and served as mayor of Cottage Grove for 
 two years, and also of Junction City. He was a 
 candidate for the state legislature in 1896, but 
 was defeated, and in the year in which William 
 Jennings Bryan was first candidate for the presi- 
 dencv he was one of the state electors. 
 
 ROBERT M. CRAWFORD was born in Bel- 
 fast, Ireland, December 25, 1824, and was reared 
 on a small tenant farm which at best could fur- 
 nish but scant livelihood for the family of fifteen 
 children. His paternal grandfather, James, was 
 born near Glasgow, Scotland, and as a young 
 man established the family on the farm at Craw- 
 fordsburn, near Belfast. On this same farm 
 John Crawford, the father of Robert, was born, 
 and he also was a farmer. John Crawford mar- 
 ried Eliza Johnson, born in County Antrim. Ire- 
 land. At present but two of this family are liv- 
 ing, Thomas having been killed in Albany in 
 1856,: William died here in 1890. and John died 
 in 1900. 
 
 Limited facilities for acquiring an education, 
 together with scant opportunity for earning a 
 livelihood, handicapped the early life of the 
 Crawford children. To support himself Robert 
 learned the miller's trade, at which he worked 
 from 1842 until 1848. when he came to the 
 United States, making his way from Xew York 
 city overland to Lexington, Mo. Here he 
 worked at his trade until 1849, an d then joined 
 a caravan bound for the western coast, his 
 brother John accompanying him. and James 
 Waddell. They came via the old California trail 
 and were over five months on the way, finally 
 arriving in San Francisco, where the brothers 
 stopped with old Captain Woodward in the his- 
 toric W natcheer Hotel. Two weeks later they 
 started for Xicolaus, Sutter county, and still later 
 made their way to the Yuba Dam, mining at the 
 latter place about four weeks, and going then to 
 the Grass Valley mining district. These expe- 
 ditions were not without their dangers and ex- 
 citing adventures, for the Indians still resented 
 the intrusion of the pale faces, and made their 
 progress at best hazardous and uncertain. This 
 was especially true when Mr. Crawford went to 
 
 Humboldt Bay in March, 1850, and later to the 
 Salmon river district and Scott's Bar. After a 
 time he returned to Butte City, now Eureka, 
 Cal., and engaged in both mining and merchan- 
 dising, in 185 1 joining his brother in Oregon 
 City. 
 
 To Mr. Crawford is due the credit of having 
 ground the first flour in Linn county. He pur- 
 chased the mill and site of the Magnolia Mills, 
 started and managed them for ten years, finally 
 disposing of the property to Jim Foster. Later 
 on he re-purchased the mill with his other 
 brother, when Mr. Foster failed, and conducted 
 it for many years, or until it was purchased by 
 Colonel Hoag. Owing to ill health Mr. Craw- 
 ford left this part of the country and sought a 
 change of climate and surroundings in Boise 
 City and Walla Walla, in both of which towns 
 he started mills, and in the former of which he 
 made his home for thirty years. In Idaho he 
 was especially prominent in political affairs, and 
 also took an active part in subduing the Indians, 
 whose language he learned, and whose interests 
 he studied and forwarded. He took part in 
 three of the Rogue river wars, and was promi- 
 nent in forming treaties and directly treated with 
 the aggrieved red men. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Crawford and his brother, Wil- 
 iam, came to Albany to take charge of their af- 
 fairs, and he has since continued to be a resident 
 of this city. He is a Democrat, and a member 
 of the St. John Lodge Xo. 62, F. and A. M., and 
 is also identified with the Bayley Chapter, R. A. 
 M., and with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows. The death of his brother John fell heavily 
 upon the heart of this honored pioneer, for John 
 and he were associated in many of the important 
 undertakings of their lives, and were the closest 
 of friends and boon companions. Thev crossed 
 the plains together, sitting many evenings over 
 cheery camp-fires, and planning for the future 
 with the enthusiasm of youth as yet untried, and 
 therefore hopeful. They mined and milled to- 
 gether, and together built the canal in Albany, 
 besides owning many large properties upon 
 which they engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
 ing. Mr. Crawford is at present a very large 
 owner of country and town land, his possessions 
 being located mostly in Linn county in the Wil- 
 lamette valley, and in the heavily timbered por- 
 tions of the north. True to the land of his birth, 
 he has visited his friends in Ireland on half a 
 dozen occasions, coming back always with re- 
 newed appreciation of the many advantages 
 awaiting him in the northwest. 
 
 JOHX W. McKIXXEY is a native son of 
 the west, and was born on his father's farm near 
 Marion village, this county, December 21, 1855. 
 
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 His father, William W. McKinney, was born in 
 Missouri, and came to Oregon in the early pio- 
 neer days, thereafter establishing himself among 
 the successful agriculturists of his vicinity. 
 When John W. was five years of age the family 
 fortunes were shifted to four miles east of 
 Turner, where the father died, and where the 
 son grew to manhood, remaining with his mother 
 until the fall of 1879. While still on the home 
 farm he attended the public schools and Wil- 
 lamette University, the latter of which he re- 
 turned to several times, and finally graduated 
 therefrom in June, 1879. For the following four 
 years he rented the home place, and in the fall 
 of 1883 removed to the farm upon which he still 
 lives, bringing with him his wife, formerly Edna 
 T. Smith, whom he married February 28, 1883. 
 At the present time Mr. McKinney owns three 
 hundred and twelve acres of land, upon which 
 he has built a fine house, and fitted with all mod- 
 ern improvements. Since 1888 the greater part 
 of his land has been devoted to stock-raising, 
 Hereford cattle, Berkshire hogs, and Leicester 
 sheep being among the most profitable stock. He 
 has forty head of registered Hereford cattle, and 
 all his stock is the best procurable. The farm is 
 called the Rockwell ranch, and is located one and 
 a half miles southwest of Turner. 
 
 No children were born of the first marriage of 
 Mr. McKinney, his wife dying February 3, 1893, 
 The present Mrs. McKinney, whom he married 
 November 21, 1897, was Miss Minnie Colwell, 
 of Salem. One child, Althea Lee, has blessed 
 this union. Mr. McKinney enjoys an enviable 
 reputation in Marion county, and he has many 
 friends among the representative families that 
 live here. 
 
 HON. H. B. NICHOLS. One of the most 
 interesting lives to be found among the early 
 settlers in the western states is that of the Hon. 
 H. B. Nichols who, though in his eighty-third 
 year, still enjoys the good health and activity 
 of a man many years his junior. A student 
 from his earliest youth Mr. Nichols has broad- 
 ened the current of his mental attainments by 
 close and intimate associations with the busi- 
 ness affairs of both the eastern and western sec- 
 tions of the country, and through contact with 
 many and varied nationalities he has become a 
 keen, shrewd judge of human nature, but tem- 
 pers the reading with a kindly personality which 
 has won him many friends. 
 
 The family of H. B. Nichols is of New Eng- 
 land birth, his father being a native of Middle- 
 town, Conn., where he died at the age of seven- 
 ty-seven years. For a great many years he 
 followed the business of hat manufacturing in 
 Colchester, Conn., where he was very promi- 
 
 nent in industrial circles. Henry Brainard 
 Nichols was born January 15, 1821, in Lyme, 
 Conn., and received his preliminary education in 
 the public schools of that town, and at Brainard 
 Academy, Haddam, Conn., later attending Wes- 
 leyan University in the city of his father's birth. 
 On account of ill health he left his home when 
 quite young and entered upon a course of travel- 
 ing, taking sea voyages for twenty-two months, 
 during which time he visited the most interest- 
 ing parts of the globe, gaining most valuable 
 knowledge from his association with the various 
 peoples. On returning to his home he went to 
 Iowa, in company with his brother-in-law, Dr. 
 Dayton, intending to take up the study of medi- 
 cine ; but, finding the country well supplied 
 with such professional men, he organized, in- 
 stead, a select school in Muscatine, conducting 
 the same for five years. Later in life many 
 prominent men of the state of Iowa recalled the 
 time when they attended the school conducted 
 by Mr. Nichols. Having seen enough of the 
 world, to make' him interested in all geographical 
 questions, Mr. Nichols became an emigrant to 
 help change the conditions of the western terri- 
 tory, in 1852 crossing the plains with ox-teams 
 with the intention of settling in Oregon. After 
 a journey of five months he reached his destina- 
 tion, and at once became a resident of Umpqua 
 valley, later taking up a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres about six miles west 
 of Monroe, Benton county, where he has since 
 made his home. In addition to his general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising Mr. Nichols has taught 
 school in Oregon, commencing his pedagogical 
 work the first winter which he spent here. Be- 
 ing one of the most intelligent and best in- 
 formed men of the early days, he has always 
 taken an active part in all public affairs, being 
 often called upon in the matter of law contracts, 
 etc. In 1857 he was a member of the constitu- 
 tional convention, a member of the last terri- 
 torial legislature and served one term in the 
 state legislature, where he ably represented 
 those who had honored him with their support. 
 Through his early association with educational 
 matters he has always been interested in all that 
 pertained to the advancement of knowledge, for 
 thirty years serving as school clerk in this vi- 
 cinity. Mr. Nichols now owns twelve hundred 
 acres of land, a part of which is rented, though 
 he continues the management of the remainder. 
 While a resident of Muscatine, Iowa, Mr. 
 Nichols married Martha Overman, a native of 
 Ohio, and through their many years of married 
 life she was a faithful helper toward wealth and 
 success in the western venture. She died in 
 1883, leaving three children, all of whom were 
 graduates of Willamette University. The old- 
 est, Alfred C, is now deceased ; R. J. is the 
 
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 librarian for the Oregon Agricultural College at 
 Corvallis, Ore. ; and Caroline is the wife of Jud- 
 son Reeves, of Salem. Fraternally Mr. Nichols 
 affiliates with the Grange, having helped to es- 
 tablish that organization in this vicinity, and 
 was the first secretary of the same, and later 
 served as master. Politically he is a Republican 
 and has always been so since the formation of 
 that party, but previously was a Whig, and gave 
 his first presidential vote to Henry Clay, in 1844, 
 while a student at the Wesleyan University, 
 Middletown, Conn. As a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, Mr. Nichols has been 
 faithful for fiftv vears. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON PHILLIPS was 
 born in Guilford county, N. C, October 24, 1838, 
 the son of David and Sarah (Sullinger) Phillips, 
 born respectively August 24 and 27, 1797, and 
 both natives of North Carolina. In 1838 Mr. 
 Phillips brought his family to Ray county, Mo., 
 and there engaged in farming, until his removal 
 in 1843 to Texas, where, near Paris, he continued 
 to follow this occupation. Three years later he 
 again made his home in Missouri, in Andrew 
 county engaging in farming, and in 1852 he out- 
 fitted with ox-teams and crossed the plains via 
 the Platte river, after six months' travel arriving 
 safely in Salem, Ore., where he spent the first 
 winter. In March, 1853, h e came to Linn 
 county, and took up a donation claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres located six miles 
 northeast of Scio, where he remained for twenty- 
 two years. Later himself and wife made their 
 home with G. W., of this review, where Mr. 
 Phillips' death occurred at the age of eighty-four 
 years. Mrs. Phillips died here in 1889, surviv- 
 ing her husband seven years. She was the 
 mother of three sons and six daughters, of whom 
 G. W. is the youngest. 
 
 G. W. Phillips was reared upon his father's 
 farm, receiving a rather limited education in the 
 common schools. When twenty years old he 
 took charge of the paternal farm and conducted 
 the same for many years. At that date there 
 were nine hundred acres of land in the one tract 
 on the location northeast of this place, and since 
 that time Mr. Phillips has dealt extensively in 
 land, owning at one time more than did any other 
 farmer in the countv. He later disposed of 
 much of this, and coming to Scio bought a tract 
 containing three hundred and fifty acres, but now 
 owns but two hundred and twenty acres, this 
 property converted into cash going into the busi- 
 ness life of Scio. In 1894 he became the owner 
 of the flour mills of the city, and has since fur- 
 nished them with the most complete and up-to- 
 date equipment, the mill being run by water 
 power, the latter being entirely in the control of 
 
 Mr. Phillips. The capacity of the mill is one 
 hundred and twenty barrels of flour per day. In 
 1897 he purchased considerable stock in the bank 
 here, taking out a third interest in the business, 
 and acted as one of the directors of the same 
 until 1900. Mr. Phillips is also the owner of a 
 local railroad, which runs from Scio to West 
 Scio, a distance of three miles. 
 
 In Linn county, Ore., Mr. Phillips was united 
 in marriage with Miss Martha Tarply, who was 
 born in Missouri, December 13, 1841. Of their 
 five children William Monroe is located in West 
 Scio ; Saide is the wife of George Coffey, a farm- 
 er in this vicinity ; Emma is the wife of Grant 
 Davids, of Silverton, Ore. ; Ida is the wife of J. 
 A. Warwick,- and makes her home in this city, 
 and George W. is in Salem. As a member of the 
 Knights of the Maccabees Mr. Phillips carries a 
 life insurance policy for $3,000. In his political 
 convictions he was once a Democrat, but now 
 casts his ballot with the Republican party. He 
 has served as county commissioner for two 
 years, and as school director and road super- 
 visor for many terms. 
 
 PROF. WILLIAM M. MILLER. A native 
 of Oregon, William M. Miller was born near 
 McMinnville, Yamhill county, December 3, 1862, 
 a son of A. M. Miller. His grandfather, the late 
 Richard N. Miller, was born in old Virginia, but 
 for several years resided in Cole county, Mo., 
 where he was a citizen of influence, and for a 
 number of terms served as sheriff of the county* 
 Coming across the plains to Oregon in 1847, t^e 
 year of the great Mormon emigration, he took 
 up a donation claim, from which he improved a 
 good farm. He spent one season in the Califor- 
 nia mines, and was afterwards engaged in the 
 stock business in eastern Oregon. A man of a 
 deeply religious nature, he was ordained as a 
 minister in the Baptist Church after coming to 
 this state, and for a number of years was a local 
 preacher. He spent his last days in Marion 
 county. 
 
 Coming to Oregon with his father when 
 twenty-two years of age, A. M. Miller assisted 
 in the pioneer labor of improving a homestead 
 for two years. In 1849, on the discovery of gold 
 in California, he went with the first wagon-train 
 to the mines, Eugene Skinner and Colonel Lee 
 being members of the same party. After spend- 
 ing three years as a miner, he returned to Ore- 
 gon, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, 
 first in Yamhill county, then in Linn county, 
 near Scio. Removing to Lane county in 1870, 
 he bought the old Samuel Baughman donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres, lying 
 just above Pleasant Hill, where he improved a 
 farm, which he managed until his death, in 1902, 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 at the age of seventy-eight years. He was 
 identified with the Democratic party, and was a 
 deacon in the Baptist Church. He married 
 Sarah Jane Hutchinson, who was born in Mis- 
 souri, and came to Oregon with her aunt, Mrs. 
 Tandy, in the Horton train, in 1850. She sur- 
 vives him, and resides on the home farm. Of 
 the eleven children born of their union, ten grew 
 to years of maturity, and eight are living, name- 
 ly : Mrs. Nancy Hamilton, of Eugene ; Mrs. Ger- 
 trude Wilhelm, residing near Florence, Lane 
 county ; Mrs. Belle McCall, of Silver Lake, Ore. ; 
 R. N., a stockman of Okanogan county, Wash. ; 
 William M., the special subject of this sketch; 
 J. R., of Silver Lake, Ore. ; A. T., a farmer at 
 Pleasant Hill, Lane county ; and D. J., also a 
 farmer. 
 
 A resident of Lane county since seven years 
 of age, William M. Miller obtained the rudi- 
 ments of his education in the district schools, at 
 the same time being well trained in the art and 
 science of agriculture on the parental homestead. 
 He subsequently pursued his studies at the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon for three years, and after 
 teaching in the county schools for another three 
 years again entered that university, this time re- 
 maining two years, giving up his studies while 
 in the senior class to go to Montana. At the 
 end of six months he returned to Oregon, where 
 he resumed his professional labors, teaching first 
 in Wasco county, then in the valley. Subse- 
 quently becoming principal of the Lonerock 
 school, in Gilliam county, he remained there un- 
 til 1892, when he accepted the principalship of 
 the Creswell School, in Lane county. In 1898 
 Mr. Miller was elected county superintendent of 
 the Lane county schools on the Democratic ticket, 
 for a term of two years, receiving a majority of 
 one hundred and five votes. In 1900 he was re- 
 elected for a term of four years, receiving a ma- 
 jority of ninety-one of the votes cast, the ma- 
 jority showing his great popularity, as the Re- 
 publican ticket was elected by a majority of four 
 hundred votes. 
 
 Since assuming his present position, Mr. Mil- 
 ler has been constantly adding to the efficiency 
 of the schools of the county, among other things 
 introducing the state course of study into the 
 schools, and a system of public school examina- 
 tions into the eight grades, the papers being 
 graded by the superintendent himself. He has 
 now full control of one hundred and seventy- 
 five school districts, the last legislature having, 
 through his efforts, so changed the district 
 boundaries that seven of the Douglas county dis- 
 tricts are now under his supervision. In these 
 districts there are two hundred and twenty-one 
 teachers, for whose benefit he has established 
 summer institutes and local meetings, holding 
 from four to ten each year. His superintend- 
 
 ency covers the greatest length of territory of 
 any county in the state, being two hundred miles 
 from one extreme to the other by the nearest 
 traveled road, and stands No. 1 in regard to 
 districts, although it is the third in regard to 
 school population. 
 
 Mr. Miller married, in Eugene, Ore., Clara B. 
 Fowler, who was born at Peters, Cal., and they 
 have two children, namely : W. Kent and E. 
 Maude. Fraternally Mr. Miller belongs to 
 many of the leading organizations of this local- 
 ity, being a member of Creswell Lodge, A. F. & 
 A. M. ; of Eugene Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. ; 
 of the Woodmen of the World; of the Modern 
 Woodmen of America ; and of the Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks. He is a promi- 
 nent member of the State Teachers Association, 
 in which he takes an intelligent interest, and be- 
 longs to the Baptist Church. Politically he is 
 a stanch Democrat. 
 
 PHY SIMPSON is a native son of Oregon, 
 having been born at Lewisville, Polk county, 
 September 18, 1868. His ancestry is directly 
 southern, his parents being natives of Arkansas, 
 his grandparents of Tennessee, the sketch of his 
 father, which appears elsewhere in this work, 
 giving a detailed account of their lives. Five 
 children of his father's family attained maturity, 
 of whom Phy was the third, and when his school 
 days were over he entered into the same business 
 which had occupied his father's attention for so 
 many years. In 1893 ne bought a one-third in- 
 terest in the saw-mills located at Independence, 
 the two others comprising the firm being F. A. 
 Douty and his brother, David Simpson, a farmer 
 near Pedee. Their combined interests were then 
 known as the Independence Lumbering Com- 
 pany. They now have two camps occupying the 
 attention of twenty men, while Mr. Simpson 
 alone owns between four and five thousand acres 
 of lumber land on the Luckiamute, and his share 
 of the equipment consists of twenty head of cat- 
 tle, ten horses and a donkey engine. The output 
 for the year is in the neighborhood of four mil- 
 lion feet of lumber. In Airlie, Polk county, Mr. 
 Simpson has built a handsome residence, wherein 
 he now makes his home with his wife, a native of 
 Polk county. The one child born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Simpson is Eldon. Mr. Simpson is a Dem- 
 ocrat in his political affiliations, and fraternally 
 belonsrs to the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 THOMAS B. SPRENGER. It is doubtless 
 owing to the industrious and persevering man- 
 ner with which Thomas B. Sprenger has ad- 
 hered to the pursuits of agriculture that he has 
 risen to such a substantial position in the farm- 
 
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 ing affairs of Linn county. Two years after his 
 birth, which occurred October 25, 1850, his par- 
 ents. Nicholas and Maria (Bird) Sprenger, na- 
 tives of Germany and Pennsylvania, respectively, 
 removed from Morgan county, Ohio, and settled 
 in Linn county. Ore., and from that time, which 
 is practically his whole life, Thomas B. Sprenger 
 has made his home continuously in this region. 
 
 Thomas B. Sprenger spent his youth much 
 the same as do most farmers' sons, attending 
 the district schools in the winter season and giv- 
 ing a helping hand in the multifarious duties that 
 fall to the farmer's lot. Until 1875 he remained 
 under the parental roof, but in that year he mar- 
 ried Miss Elizabeth J. May, a native of Iowa, 
 who, in 1865, had crossed the plains with her 
 father, James May. The latter settled upon a 
 farm located northeast of Peoria, which he con- 
 ducted for a time, but finally abandoned it and 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits in the village of 
 Shedds. The young people made their first home 
 in the house which the elder Mr. Sprenger 
 erected upon first coming to Oregon, but in time 
 this rude affair was superseded by a more com- 
 modious and up-to-date residence, in which the 
 family now reside. A fine set of outbuildings is 
 in keeping with the other modern improvements 
 which Mr. Sprenger has introduced since his 
 occupancy of the present homestead. While he 
 carries on general farming, he also carries on a 
 dairy business, which adds no inconsiderable 
 amount to his yearly income. The products of 
 his dairy are supplied from a fine grade of Jer- 
 sey cattle. 
 
 Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sprenger, as follows : Zaida, who married O. L. 
 Carey, a confectioner of Lebanon ; Winnie, the 
 wife of James Fisher, superintendent of the poor 
 farm ; Wallace, a farmer in Linn county ; Mabel, 
 the wife of R. HofHeck, who also resides in the 
 county ; and Clayton, Arzelia, Thelma, Ethel and 
 Thomas, the latter five of whom are still at home 
 with their parents. Mr. Sprenger is a member 
 of the Grange, which he is at present serving in 
 the capacity of assistant steward. In political 
 affairs he upholds the man rather than the party, 
 and is thus bound to neither party. 
 
 THOMAS W. POTTER. To Thomas W. 
 Potter is due the distinction of being the only 
 successful superintendent of the Chemawa In- 
 dian School at Salem. At the time of his as- 
 sumption of authority, in 1895, the school was in 
 a demoralized condition, the attendance num- 
 bered but two hundred, and all semblance of sys- 
 tem or order had disappeared during the admin- 
 istration of seven superintendents. At the pres- 
 ent time the school enrollment is nearly eight 
 hundred. To accommodate the increased attend- 
 
 ance eight or ten buildings have been erected, 
 and the promoters have under immediate consid- 
 eration a large and modernly equipped structure 
 to cost $25,000. All trades are taught in the in- 
 stitution, and the little community, with its mul- 
 tiplicity of interests, its air of industry, cleanli- 
 ness, high moral tone, and general good fellow- 
 ship, presents a spectacle of enlightened interest 
 in the future of the red man cheering alike to 
 the humanitarian, the statistician, and the stu- 
 dent of sociology. Many graduates of the school 
 are serving as teachers, housekeepers, cooks, 
 governesses, seamstresses, bookkeepers, and kin- 
 dred occupations, and many have developed suf- 
 ficient means and independence to operate shops 
 and farms of their own. 
 
 Mr. Potter was born in Ontario, Canada, De- 
 cember 28, 1863. From his father, who was a 
 minister in the Methodist Church, he inherited 
 an appreciation of education, liberality of 
 thought, and humanitarianism, and so well did 
 he apply himself as a student, that he had gradu- 
 ated at both the Hamilton Collegiate Institute 
 and the Toronto Normal School before he was 
 eighteen years of age. After a year of teaching 
 in Canada he went to Texas and taught mathe- 
 matics at Fort Worth University for a year, and 
 experienced the novelty of cow-boy life on the 
 plains of Texas and Indian territory for a couple 
 of years. Thereafter he engaged in educational 
 work at the Cheyenne school, and when Col. D. 
 B. Dyer was agent of the Cheyennes and Arapa- 
 hoes, he received his first regular appointment as 
 a teacher in the Cheyenne school, in 1884, and 
 has ever since been identified with the work of 
 bettering the condition of the Indian. After 
 leaving the Cheyenne school he taught for a year 
 in the Arapahoe school, from 1886 until 1887 m 
 the Kiowa and Comanche agency; from 1887 
 until 1889 was sub-agent at Cantonment, Okla. ; 
 for one year a teacher at the Carlisle Indian 
 School ; for one year a teacher at Fort Totten, 
 N. D. ; and from 1893 until 1895, was superin- 
 tendent and acting agent of the Eastern Chero- 
 kees, N. C. 
 
 As a relaxation from his responsibility Mr. 
 Potter is interested in stock-raising, with which 
 his early experience as a cow-boy made him 
 very familiar. He is the owner of a profitable 
 and large cattle ranch and farm in the Indian 
 territory. 
 
 L. S. MORIN. At the base of the mountains, 
 in the vicinity of Dayton, is the farm occupied 
 for two years more than half a century by Mrs. 
 Addison Darr, one of the best known women in 
 Yamhill county. This property, well tilled, pro- 
 ductive, and finely equipped, is necessarily asso- 
 ciated with its original owner, L. S. Morin, than 
 
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 whom no more honored early settler braved the 
 dangers of the plains in '44. 
 
 Mr. Morin, the first husband of Mrs. Dan;, 
 was born in the state of Kentucky in 1819, his 
 father being a very prominent politician of the 
 Blue Grass region. The latter, who died in Cali- 
 fornia at the age of ninety-five years, was the 
 father of four children, none of whom is living 
 at the present time. The son, L. S., remained in 
 the home in Kentucky until 1844, and that year 
 joined a train consisting of sixty or seventy wag- 
 ons, under command of Captain Ford. Mr. 
 Morin was accompanied by his step-brother, and 
 was equipped with provisions and ox-teams, and 
 on the journey encountered many experiences of 
 a decidedly unpleasant nature. However, the 
 party arrived in safety at the end of their long 
 trip, Mr. Morin going direct to Yamhill county, 
 where he took up a donation claim consisting of 
 a section of land, on what is now known as the 
 Salem and LaFayette road, five miles north of 
 Hopewell. Plere he erected a small log cabin, 
 and during 1847-8 was absent in the mining re- 
 gions of California, returning to his claim in '49. 
 His marriage at that time with Eleanor Chris- 
 man was the outgrowth of a romantic attachment 
 begun on the plains, Joel and Mary Chrisman, 
 the parents of Mrs. Morin, being members of 
 that band of home seekers. Mrs. Morin was 
 born in Virginia, November 4, 1826. 
 
 Having became firmly established on the dona- 
 tion claim, Mr. Morin took another trip down 
 into California, but not experiencing success, 
 soon afterward came back and resumed general 
 farming operations on his farm. He was not 
 destined to long enjoy the advantages by which 
 he was surrounded, for his death occurred in 
 1856, while still in the prime of his manhood and 
 greatest usefulness. Three children were born 
 to himself and wife, of whom Josiah and John 
 are still living with their mother, and Laban S. 
 is a resident of McMinnville. 
 
 After the death of her husband Mrs. Morin 
 continued to live on the home place, and in i860 
 was united, in marriage with Addison Darr, who 
 was born and reared in Ohio, and who crossed 
 the plains in 1852. Two children were born of 
 this union, of whom Addison is living in Day- 
 ton, and Ella is the wife of a farmer of this 
 neighborhood. In 1888 Mr. Darr died, and since 
 then his widow has lived on the same place, 
 enjoying the same enviable reputation for hospi- 
 tality which has characterized her whole life in 
 Oregon. She is prominent in the Christian 
 Church, which she joined as a young woman, 
 and her influence has ever been exerted along 
 educational and general improvement lines. 
 
 J. S. Morin, the oldest son in the family, and 
 one of the prominent farmers in this county, is 
 unmarried, and has passed his whole life with his 
 
 mother. He is enterprising and progressive, and 
 a model farmer and manager. A Democrat in 
 politics, he has never aspired to official recogni- 
 tion, but has honestly cast his vote for the man 
 rather than his political inclinations. Mr. Morin 
 is a welcome member of the Masonic fraternity, 
 in which he has passed all of the chairs but that 
 of treasurer, and he is also identified with the 
 Eastern Star. 
 
 BRUNO G. BOEDIGHEIMER, who is the 
 proprietor of the Club stables of Salem and a 
 most successful liveryman, was born in Ottertail 
 county, Minn., January 15, 1867. His father, 
 who was also named Bruno, was born on the 
 Rhine in Germany. The grandfather, who fol- 
 lowed building there for some time, brought the 
 family to America when his son, Bruno, was 
 about five years of age. He located in Medina 
 county, Ohio, where he followed carpentering 
 and building, and his death occurred in that 
 state. Bruno Boedigheimer, Sr., was reared in 
 Ohio, learned the carpenter's trade in his youth 
 and followed that pursuit in the Buckeye state 
 until the fall of 1866, when he removed to Min- 
 nesota, settling in Ottertail county, where he 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, to which he added by purchase until his 
 farm comprised three hundred and twenty acres. 
 This he placed under a very high state of culti- 
 vation, became a prominent and prosperous 
 farmer of that locality and eventually his landed 
 possessions there aggregated one thousand acres. 
 In 1882 he came to Oregon and for a year fol- 
 lowed farming in Linn county, after which he 
 purchased a farm near Stayton, there engaging 
 in agricultural pursuits until his death, which oc- 
 curred in November, 1902, when he was seventy- 
 eight years of age. He was of the Catholic 
 faith. His widow still resides on the old home 
 place. She bore the maiden name of Mary Bau- 
 haus and was born in Holland, on the German 
 border. Her father died in the old country and 
 when eighteen years of age Mrs. Boedigheimer 
 came with her mother to America and was mar- 
 ried in Medina county, Ohio. By this union 
 there were seven sons and two daughters, of 
 whom five sons and one daughter are yet living. 
 The family record is as follows : Frank died in 
 Salem, in 1901 ; Joseph and William follow farm- 
 ing in Minnesota ; Simon is living at the old 
 home in Sublimity, Ore. ; Bruno is next in order 
 of birth ; John and Enos are engaged in farming 
 at Sublimity ; Aurelia is a sister in St. Mary's 
 convent ; and Julia died in Minnesota. 
 
 Farm work early became familiar to Bruno 
 Boedigheimer. He attended the public schools 
 until ten years of age, after which his attention 
 was entirely occupied with the labors of the 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 fields, as he assisted his father in the improve- 
 ment of the home farm in Minnesota and after- 
 ward in Oregon. He remained under the pa- 
 rental roof until he attained his majority, when 
 he started out upon an independent business ca- 
 reer, carrying on general farming on his father's 
 land. "While residing upon the old home place 
 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres ad- 
 joining and to the development and improvement 
 of that place he devoted his energies with excel- 
 lent success. In 1900 he purchased the Club 
 livery stables from L. Miller, on Liberty and 
 Ferry streets, and here has the largest barn in 
 the city. He still superintends his farm and a 
 part of his father's place, his business ability 
 being manifest in the successful conduct of both 
 departments of his business. 
 
 Mr. Boedigheimer was united in marriage in 
 Sublimity to Miss Kate Fessler, who was born 
 in Minnesota. They have seven children : 
 Henry, George, Tillie, Mary, Julia, Aggie and 
 William. In his political views Mr. Boedig- 
 heimer is an earnest Democrat, but has never 
 had either time nor desire to seek public office, 
 his 'attention being fully occupied by his business 
 interests. 
 
 EDWIN N. SHEDD comes of an old New 
 England familv, the forefathers having been na- 
 tives of New Hampshire, where his grandfather, 
 Silas Shedd. was born of English parentage. 
 The father, William, was also born and reared 
 in that state, later making his home in Illinois, 
 where several of his children now live. For fur- 
 ther information regarding his life refer to the 
 sketch of S. L. Shedd, which appears on another 
 paee of this work. 
 
 Edwin N. Shedd was born in Alstead, Che- 
 shire county, N. H., March 5, 1848, and was 
 reared on his father's farm, attending the com- 
 mon schools of the state until his removal in 
 1867 to Illinois, where, for two vears. he re- 
 mained in Knox county. In 1869 he decided to 
 trv his fortunes in the west, g"oing first from his 
 home in the middle west to New York city, 
 where he took steamer to Panama, thence to San 
 Francisco, landing- at the last-named place in 
 March of the same vear. Determined upon the 
 life of a miner, he at once sought work of this 
 nature, minine in both Trinitv and Humboldt 
 countv. Cal. In September of the same year he 
 came to Corvallis, Ore., and eng-agred in a saw- 
 mill, findine this employment lucrative for five 
 vears, when he changed his location to Gardiner, 
 Douglas countv. and continuing there until 1876, 
 when he returned east to visit the Centennial Ex- 
 position. Thence he went to New Hampshire, 
 enjovinp- a visit among- the scenes of his child- 
 hood. On his return to California he stopped in 
 
 Illinois. On his second arrival in the west he 
 mined for a time at Weaverville, Trinity county, 
 and later settled in Lewiston, where he engaged 
 in prospecting and placer mining for nearly 
 twenty-seven years, during which time he met 
 with a gratifying success in his chosen work. 
 
 In December, 1902, he returned to Corvallis, 
 Benton county, Ore., where his brother, S. L., 
 makes his home, and has since continued to live 
 with him. Fraternally Mr. Shedd belongs to the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows having been 
 made a member November 29, 1870, of Barnum 
 Lodge, No. 7, of which he was noble grand in 
 1873. He is still a member here. He also be- 
 longs to the Encampment in Albany, and to the 
 Rebekahs. He belongs to the American Protec- 
 tive Association and politically is a Republican. 
 
 S. N. LILLY was born December 18, 1830, in 
 Oneida county, N. Y., the son of a farmer, who 
 died when S. N. was quite young. The mother 
 later married again, and at the age of fourteen 
 years S. N. Lilly left the home roof to make his 
 own way in the world. With an older brother he 
 started toward the west, stopping for about seven 
 years in the state of Illinois, at the close of which 
 period he came to Oregon, crossing the plains by 
 ox-teams, six months of the year being taken up 
 in the journey. Beyond the hardships and pri- 
 vations incident to life on the plains they came 
 through without any trouble, arriving safely in 
 Benton county, Ore., where they settled near 
 Philomath, and there Mr. Lilly bought a farm 
 and remained two years. At the close of that 
 time he traded this place for one located in 
 King's valley, making the latter his home for 
 fifteen years, when he also traded that farm for 
 the one where he now lives. His present posses- 
 sion consists of four hundred acres, two hundred 
 and fifty acres, of which are under cultivation. 
 The land adjoins Corvallis on the south, and he 
 is now engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising, being also interested in hops- and fruit, 
 forty and fifteen acres, respectively, being de- 
 voted to their cultivation. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Lilly was united in marriage with 
 Miss Lucinda A. Hardie, a native of Illinois, who 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 1852, and 
 of the union nine children were born, named in 
 order of birth as follows : Sidi, deceased ; Les- 
 lie, located in Roseburg; Ora, the wife of W. C. 
 Corbett, of Corvallis ; Clara, the wife of W. W. 
 Hall, of Salem ; Frank, located in Lagrande, 
 Ore. ; Hettie, at home : Mary, the wife of Will- 
 liam Carver, of Minnesota ; Arthur and Ruth, 
 also at home with their father. In 1893 Mrs. 
 Lilly died. Mr. Lilly takes an active part in 
 politics, being an adherent of the Republican 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 party. Fraternally he is a Mason, and he also 
 belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 An interesting event in the life of Mr. Lilly 
 was his enlistment under Captain Miller for 
 services in the Cayuse war, and during his six- 
 months service he took part in the engagement at 
 Grande Ronde, where he suffered a wound and 
 a broken arm. He was mustered out at The 
 Dalles. 
 
 ARMAND L. WYNNE, M. D. During the 
 last twenty years of his life, Dr. A. L. Wynne 
 was connected with a medical and surgical prac- 
 tice in Cottage Grove which not only placed him 
 on a par with the most eminent and learned in 
 the profession in Lane county, but which estab- 
 lished his right to the title of one of nature's 
 noblemen, well planned, well developed, extreme- 
 ly cultured, humane and optimistic. The death 
 of Dr. Wynne in 1883, at the age of fifty-four, 
 and at the zenith of his power and usefulness, 
 was a great shock to the community, the deepest 
 regret being felt that so brilliant and forceful 
 a man should succumb to work entailed by his 
 supreme allegiance to a fascinating and exhaus- 
 tive science. 
 
 Dr. Wynne was born in old Virginia, his 
 father, Jobn, being a native of the same state, 
 and owner of a large plantation, still associated 
 with a family which was numbered among the 
 old aristocracy of an historic time. No less a 
 distinguished center was the large farm in Dav- 
 iess county, Mo., upon which John Wynne 
 settled at an early day, taking with him into the 
 practical wilderness the manners and graceful 
 hospitality of the southern gentleman of culture 
 and wealth. According to the light of his early 
 and subsequent training he saw no error in 
 maintaining a large retinue of slaves in both 
 Virginia and Missouri, and his entire life was 
 passed in an atmosphere suggestive of the feud- 
 al, the leisurely and the hospitable. His son, 
 A. L., was educated in Virginia, Philadelphia and 
 St. Louis, Mo., and from earliest childhood 
 evinced a liking for science, anatomy and medi- 
 cine. He crossed the plains in 1864, more to 
 see the country than from motives of economy, 
 and located first at Grande Ronde valley, engag- 
 ing in a professional practice for which he had 
 specially qualified in Philadelphia. Soon after- 
 ward he located in Cottage Grove, and that his 
 prescriptions are still valued to the extent of 
 being used by the drug stores in Cottage Grove 
 argues well for his skill in diagnosis and treat- 
 ment. A student always, and with a receptive, 
 inquiring brain, he never tired of investigating 
 the unexplored regions of medical and surgical 
 science, with the result that few were more thor- 
 oughly in touch with every phase of the broad 
 
 subject. He was well known in the social life 
 of the county, and was identified with the Ma- 
 sons and Odd Fellows, and with various pro- 
 fessional associations. In politics he was a 
 Democrat, and his religious home was in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of which 
 he was a member and active worker for many 
 years. 
 
 In Grundy county, Mo., in 1863, Dr. Wynne 
 was united in marriage with Sarah Ellen Per- 
 kins, who was born in Garrard county, Ky., 
 February 10, 1844, a daughter of Joseph and 
 Mary Ellen (Thomas) Perkins, natives of Ken- 
 tucky. At a very early day the grandfather, Ed- 
 mond Perkins, established himself on a large 
 plantation in Kentucky, where several of his chil- 
 dren were born, and where he attained to great 
 prominence in his neighborhood. He owned 
 many slaves, and prospered exceedingly, his last 
 days being spent among the opulence and plenty 
 of his southern home. His son, Joseph, removed 
 to Grundy county, Mo., with his wife in 1850, 
 and there engaged in farming for several years, 
 or until crossing the plains in 1864. He took 
 up a claim in Baker county, later removing to 
 the Willamette valley, while his death occurred 
 in Cottage Grove, at an advanced age. His 
 daughter, Sarah Ellen, was the fourth of the 
 two daughters and five sons born into his fam- 
 ily, and her life was quietly passed on the home 
 farm until her marriage with Dr. Wynne. 
 
 For thirty-four years Mrs. Wynne has lived 
 in the same house, sacred from its association 
 with her comrade husband, and which was the 
 first house to be built on this side of the town. 
 She is happy in the thought that five of her six 
 children have been spared to bear her occasional 
 company, the oldest of these being Harry F. 
 Wynne, of whom extended mention is made else- 
 where in this work. Olivia, the oldest daughter, 
 is the wife of Herbert Eakin, owner and pro- 
 prietor of a store and banking establishment of 
 Cottage Grove ; Mabel is now Mrs. Merryman, 
 of Spokane, Wash. ; Orpah is the wife of James 
 Benson, a druggist of Cottage Grove ; Armand 
 L. lives with his mother ; and Joseph is de- 
 ceased. 
 
 JOHN H. CLELEN was born in March, 
 1842, in Adams county, III., a son of Robert 
 Clelen, an early settler and pioneer farmer in 
 Illinois, who, with his wife and two children, in 
 1847, set out f° r tne west w ^h ox-teams, taking 
 the old Barlow route. When the little party had 
 nearly reached their journey's end the hopes that 
 had buoyed them on during the previous months 
 were saddened by the death of the wife and 
 mother, who, when they had reached Molalla 
 creek, was taken with measles. After burying 
 
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 1473 
 
 their dead the father again took up the march, 
 and on the forks of the Santiam river took up a 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres of rich 
 bottom land, which he improved, and upon which 
 he erected a log house. The year 1849, which is 
 famous in history as the year of the discovery 
 of gold in California, found Mr. Clelen making 
 his way over the mountains to the gold fields. 
 Two years later he returned to Portland by 
 steamer, and from there went back to his farm. 
 The uprising of the Yakima Indians, in 1855-56, 
 called for the assistance of all the settlers in the 
 vicinity, and Mr. Clelen took an important part 
 in quelling the disturbances. In 1863 ne again 
 went to the Golden state, and after remaining in 
 Contra Costa count}- for a time, went to Russian 
 River, thence to Texas, where he engaged in 
 farming, and where his death occurred in 1871. 
 
 The parental family comprised two children, 
 of whom William died when he reached his fif- 
 teenth year. John H. Clelen assisted his father 
 in the management and care of the farm insofar 
 as his strength permitted, and in the meantime 
 gleaned a limited knowledge of the rudimentary 
 studies in the district school. He accompanied 
 his father on his second trip to California, in 
 1863, but the following year returned to Oregon, 
 and has made his home here ever since. For two 
 years he was employed in a saw-mill, but after 
 his marriage settled on a farm in Linn county. 
 Two vears later, however, he established himself 
 in the teaming business in Albany, at that time 
 hauling • goods from Portland, but later he en- 
 gaged in the dray and truck business, following 
 this for nine years. At the expiration of this 
 time he purchased a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres near Plainview, Linn county, which 
 is now rented to tenants, as is also another farm 
 of the same size which he owns, located near 
 Sodaville, also in this county. 
 
 The marriage of John H. Clelen and Miss Me- 
 linda Young was celebrated in Albany, Ore., 
 Mrs. Clelen being a native of Illinois. She was 
 the only daughter of George W. Young, who 
 came to Oregon in 1851 and lent his aid in the 
 development of the state. He is still living, at 
 the age of seventy-three years. Three children 
 were born to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clelen : Otto, 
 who is an engineer in Albany ; Benjamin, also in 
 business here ; and Edna, now Mrs. Rowlings, 
 also a resident of Albany. The Democratic party 
 claims Mr. Clelen as one of its adherents, and he 
 has served as a member of the citv committee. 
 
 CATHERINE A. PERKINS was born on a 
 claim almost within sight of Cottage Grove, Oc- 
 tober 25, 1855. John Cochran, the father of 
 Mrs. Perkins, was born in Kentucky, and from 
 his native state removed to Missouri, from where 
 
 he brought his family across the plains in 1850. 
 In his young manhood he married Lettie Kelly, 
 a native of Tennessee, and who bore him seven 
 children, two of whom were sons, and five of 
 whom accompanied their parents on the west- 
 ward trip. Mr. Cochran selected Lane county 
 as a desirable and promising farming commu- 
 nity, and near Cottage Grove took up a donation 
 claim of a quarter of a section, where he farmed 
 and raised stock with considerable success. 
 While attending court in Eugene as a juryman, 
 he contracted a fever from which he died in 
 1858, at the early age of forty-one years. The 
 wife, who survived him, and who eventually died 
 in Cottage Grove, married for her second hus- 
 band Samuel Dillard. 
 
 Educated in the public schools of this county, 
 Mrs. Perkins developed a charming personality, 
 and at seventeen years of age she became en- 
 gaged to M. C. Connelly, a railroad employe 
 and a young man of excellent character and 
 business ability. Mr. Connelly was born in Liv- 
 erpool, England, and came to the United States, 
 settling in the west, where he was engaged prin- 
 cipally as superintendent of grading for the Ore- 
 gon & California, now the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road. His married life was short-lived, for he 
 was killed by the explosion of giant powder on 
 a boat while blasting rock five miles above Uma- 
 tilla, on the Columbia river, in 1876, at the age 
 of thirty-one years. At the time he had advanced 
 to the position of superintendent of construction, 
 and his career contained great promise. He left 
 one son, Arthur V., who is living in Cottage 
 Grove, but who is employed as brakeman on the 
 Oregon & Southeastern Railroad. 
 
 In 1877 Mrs. Connelly was united in mar- 
 riage with Joseph H. Perkins, a native of Mis- 
 souri, and who came across the plains with his 
 parents in 1864, settling first in Baker and after- 
 ward in Lane county. Mr. Perkins' father, 
 Joseph D. Perkins, was born in Kentucky, and 
 from there removed to Missouri, living there on 
 a farm for several years, or until coming to the 
 west. The son came into the possession of a 
 farm, upon a portion of which the town of Cot- 
 tasrc Grove has since been built, and where he 
 conducted a thriving general farming business for 
 mahv vears, later running a dairy. Besides the 
 town site of Cottage Grove he disposed of con- 
 siderable more of his land, retaining for his per- 
 sonal use one hundred and fifty acres on the east. 
 His death occurred March 4, 1902, at the age of 
 fifty years, and he left behind him the legacy of a 
 good name, and of a life well and profitably 
 spent. He was a Democrat in politics, and was 
 fraternally a member of the Masonic order. 
 With his wife he attended the Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian Church. 
 
 A few vears before his death Mr. Perkins 
 
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 erected the commodious residence in Cottage 
 Grove now occupied by his widow. She still 
 owns and rents one hundred and thirty acres 
 of the property, to the improvement of which 
 her husband devoted his mature and most worthy 
 energies. Two daughters contribute to the hap- 
 piness of her life, of whom Neva, the oldest, is 
 a student in the junior class at the state 
 university at Eugene, and Leah is living at home. 
 Mrs. Perkins still retains the vivacity and mental 
 charm which rendered her girlhood an interest- 
 ing one, and she has many friends throughout 
 the town and county. 
 
 J. H. S AVERY was born in Floyd county, 
 Ind., October 23, 1832, the descendant of a line 
 of southern people. The father, G. B., was born 
 near Lynchburg, Ky., December 24, 1804, the 
 son of Henry and Agnes (Edwards) Savery. 
 When a young man G. B. Savery removed to 
 Floyd county, Ind., and there met and married 
 a daughter of Kentucky, Catherine Sears, born 
 October 16, 1808. Her parents had recently re- 
 moved to Indiana, as presenting more opportuni- 
 ties than the state which they had left. From 
 Indiana Mr. Savery took -his family to Illinois, 
 in 1838. In 1846 they again removed, seeking 
 now a desirable location in Iowa, living in both 
 Wapello and Jefferson counties. At length Mr. 
 Savery gathered together his worldly goods in 
 seven wagons drawn by seven yoke of oxen, and 
 joined an emigrant train bound for Oregon, 
 under the command of William Carter. The 
 journey was begun April 23, 1853, and ended 
 October 23, of the same year. The members of 
 the emigrant train parted company in Perrydale, 
 Polk county, Ore., Mr. Savery, his wife and son, 
 J. H. Savery, of this review, going to a location 
 a little farther north, where the father took up 
 a donation claim consisting of three hundred and 
 twenty acres, of which three hundred and twelve 
 are still owned by the son. This farm was lo- 
 cated near Ballston, a convenient market. The 
 father and mother passed their years in this 
 home until their death, after which it passed into 
 the hands of their son, J. H. Savery, as he was 
 the only child born to their union. Here Mr. Sav- 
 ery now lives, giving his time and thought to the 
 painstaking cultivation of his property, one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres being in active cultivation. 
 He is at present engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. 
 
 April 12, 1870, Mr. Savery married Hulda Jane 
 Kimsey, who was born two and a half miles 
 north of Dallas, December 14, 185 1. Her father. 
 John F. Kimsey, was a native of Alabama who 
 crossed the plains in 1847. Five children have 
 been born to Mr. and Mrs. Savery, all but one 
 of whom are living. They are as follows : Ora, 
 Ralph, John T., Henry and Tracy. Mr. Savery 
 
 has served in several minor offices, having been 
 supervisor and school director for some time. 
 Fraternally, he is a member of the Grange of 
 Salt Creek, in which he is past master. He is a 
 Socialist in his political affiliations. 
 
 M. A. WADE was born March 16, 1830, near 
 Lincolnville, Me., and his ancestors, as far back 
 as record goes, were toilers of the sea or builders 
 of sea craft. The paternal great-grandfather, a 
 ship carpenter by trade, was a native of Scotland, 
 and a sailor, and for many years came and went 
 among the islands and shoals comprising the 
 Scottish coast. His son, the paternal grand- 
 father, also born in Scotland, followed in the 
 footsteps of his sire, built many ships, and was 
 engaged principally in foreign trade. He came to 
 America when a comparatively young man, set- 
 tled in Maine, and readily adapted himself to the 
 marine affairs of that state. He was particularly 
 active during the war of 1812, and though he 
 never enlisted, possessed pronounced sympathy 
 for the Americans, and helped them in every way 
 in his power. He must have been somewhat of 
 a strategist, for he resorted to the expediency of 
 sinking an English vessel of which he was pilot, 
 and which had on board supplies for the English 
 soldiers in the Maine forts. He made his home 
 for many years in Lincolnville, Me., where was 
 boan his son, Alfred, the father of M. A., Sep- 
 tember 22, 1798. 
 
 A sea-faring life seems not to have appealed 
 to Alfred Wade, for he lived quietly in his home 
 in Maine until twenty-one years old. He then 
 started out to make his living by land occupa- 
 tions, and in his native state married Sarah Gil- 
 key, a native of Massachusetts, and with whom 
 he continued to live in Maine until 1858. He then 
 brought his family to Oregon via the Isthmus of 
 Panama, San Francisco and Portland, and set- 
 tled at Parkersville, Ore., where he conducted a 
 hotel for two years. He was quite successful, 
 and from Parkersville removed to Salem, where 
 he had another hotel which he conducted until 
 a short time before his death at the age of sev- 
 enty-eight years. His wife, who lived to be 
 ninety-three years old, bore him four children, 
 of whom Sarah G. is the widow of Mr. Minor, 
 of Tacoma, Wash. ; W. L. is living in Salem ; 
 M. A., and an infant, deceased. The parents 
 were members of the Baptist Church. 
 
 Owing to an accident which impaired his 
 father's usefulness, M. A. Wade was obliged to 
 assist with the family support at a comparatively 
 early age. At the age of fourteen he put to sea, 
 which he followed in various capacities until 
 twenty-two years old. He became a mate at the 
 ag-e of nineteen, and rapidly rose to the front. 
 After giving up the sea he learned the trade of 
 machinist and after serving an apprenticeship of 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1475 
 
 three years conducted an excavator for several 
 months. In 1855 he came to California via the 
 Isthmus, and for two years followed mining and 
 prospecting with varying results. He then came 
 to Oregon and bought a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty-five acres two and a half miles south- 
 east of Gervais. to which he has since added, and 
 now has three hundred and six acres. His farm 
 is well improved, man}- acres are under cultiva- 
 tion, and he is engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. Fifteen acres are devoted to 
 hops, and in 1903 Mr. Wade raised fifteen thou- 
 sand pounds. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Wade married Jane Webb, a na- 
 tive of Indiana, who crossed the plains with her 
 parents in 1847. Mrs - Wade is the mother of 
 seven children, of whom Mary S., Ida, and 
 Frank are living at home. Mr. Webb has always 
 taken an active interest in Republican politics, 
 and has held several offices of trust within the 
 gift of his fellow-townsmen. He is interested 
 in promoting the cause of education, and has 
 been a member of the school board for several 
 years. For several years he was postmaster of 
 Parkersville. 
 
 HENRY A. SKEELS. One of the solid, 
 progressive, and able business men of Spring- 
 field, Lane county, is Henry A. Skeels, who, 
 although a comparative!}' new resident of this 
 place, is prominently identified with its leading 
 interests, and is conspicuous in the management 
 of its public affairs, being at the present time 
 mayor of this thriving little city. A native of 
 Illinois, he was born February 16, 1849, in Iro- 
 quois county, a son of Nelson Skeels, and the 
 descendant of a well known New England 
 family. 
 
 Reuben Skeels, grandfather of Henry A., was 
 born and bred in Vermont, growing to a sturdy 
 manhood among its green hills. He served for 
 a brief time in the war of 181 2, and afterwards 
 removed to Ohio, becoming a pioneer farmer of 
 Columbus. Going from there to Iroquois county, 
 111., in 1837, he took up a tract of land from the 
 government, and again engaged in the pioneer 
 labor of improving a homestead, living and la- 
 boring as a general farmer until his death, at the 
 age of seventy-four years. Deeply religious by 
 nature and training, he was a valued and active 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 was one of the organizers of the church of that 
 denomination at Onarga, 111., in which he was 
 the first deacon. As one of the seven men, four 
 of them being named Skeels, that were instru- 
 mental in the establishment of this church, his 
 name appears on its records, and the fact that 
 the first meeting of its first congregation was 
 held in his house is written in its annals. 
 
 Removing from Ohio, the state of his birth, to 
 Illinois when a lad of sixteen years, Nelson 
 Skeels subsequently lived in Iroquois county 
 until 1865, when he removed with his family to 
 Montana. Locating in Boulder valley, near 
 Helena, he carried on stock-raising and dairying 
 for five years, meeting with fair success. He 
 was subsequently engaged in the same industry 
 at Bozeman, Mont., until the fall of 1873, when 
 he settled near Walla Walla, Wash., where he 
 was employed in stock-raising and general farm- 
 ing for five years. In 1878 he located near Pa- 
 louse, Whitman county, and there continued in 
 his chosen vocation until his death, at the age of 
 sixty- four years. He married Lucinda A. Fargo, 
 who was born June 21, 1823, in West Virginia. 
 Her father v/as born in Vermont, but removed 
 to West Virginia as a young man, locating on 
 the Conaway river, near Mount Pleasant, where 
 he remained, a successful farmer and a citizen 
 of prominence, until his death. He was of 
 French ancestry, being descended from one of 
 two brothers that came from France to America 
 in colonial times. One brother, the ancestor of 
 Mrs. Skeels, located in Vermont, while the other 
 brother settled in Canada. Of the union of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Nelson Skeels, seven sons and four 
 daughters were born, and of these four sons and 
 one daughter are now living. 
 
 The eldest child of his parents, Henry A. 
 Skeels obtained his early education in the com- 
 mon schools of Illinois, afterwards assisting his 
 father in farming and stock-raising until 1871. 
 In that year he established himself in business as 
 a butcher at Bozeman, Mont., being in partner- 
 ship with his father, however, and continuing 
 thus associated until the death of the father. In 
 1894 Mr. Skeels located at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 
 where he was employed in getting out timber for 
 the mines, and also in running a general store 
 for four years. Coming to Springfield, Ore., in 
 1898, he "leased the old saw-mill, which he oper- 
 ated successfully until the fall of 1901, when he 
 sold out to the Booth-Kelley Company. Pur- 
 chasing a store of general merchandise, he man- 
 aged it profitably for a year, when, in 1902, he 
 traded it for a fruit ranch in California. This 
 ranch, advantageously located in the Santa Clara 
 valley, contains thirty-five acres of land, and is 
 devoted chiefly to the raising of prunes, apricots 
 and cherries. Mr. Skeels has likewise valuable 
 property in Springfield, owning houses and lots, 
 and is a man of wealth as well as of political and 
 social position. 
 
 At Walla Walla, Wash., Mr. Skeels married 
 Elmyra Oglesby, a native of Illinois, and they 
 have six children living, namely: Nelson A., 
 George W., Laura, wife of I. L. Smith ; Harry 
 A., Isaac L. and John Robert, all residents of 
 Springfield. For two years prior to his election 
 
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 as mayor of the city, Mr. Skeels served as a 
 member of the city council. In his political affil- 
 iations he is a Republican, and fraternally is a 
 Mason. 
 
 W. O. HECKART. A leading contractor and 
 builder of Corvallis, Benton county, is W. O. 
 Heckart, who stands high in the estimation of 
 the people with whom he has so long been asso- 
 ciated, his prominent and influential position 
 having been won through a successful prosecu- 
 tion of his work. He was born near Ottumwa, 
 Wapello county, Iowa, February 5, i860, the son 
 of Michael Heckart, a native of Pennsylvania, 
 his birth having occurred in the neighborhood of 
 Harrisburg, Dauphin county. He was the rep- 
 resentative of an old Pennsylvania family, an an- 
 cestor having settled in that state early in the 
 eighteenth century, whose descendants served in 
 the Revolutionary war, while the grandfather of 
 our subject, W. O. Heckart, participated in the 
 war of 1812. This ancestor subsequently re- 
 moved from a farm in Pennsylvania to Missouri, 
 Michael Heckart, who was then only sixteen 
 years old, accompanying his parents to the latter 
 state, where he grew to manhood and learned 
 the trade of a carpenter. Subsequently, he en- 
 tered land in Wapello county, Iowa, and im- 
 proved and cultivated the same in conjunction 
 with his trade, the first Presbyterian Church of 
 Ottumwa being the work of his hands. He re- 
 mained a consistent member of this faith until 
 his death, while in politics he adhered to the 
 principles promulgated by the Democratic party. 
 He married Mary Mayer, who was born in Ohio 
 and died in Iowa. Of the eleven children which 
 blessed this union ten attained maturity and nine 
 are now living, another son, Charles L., also a 
 carpenter, being located in Corvallis. 
 
 W. O. Heckart was the fourth child in his 
 father's family, and was reared in Iowa, on a 
 farm eight miles south of Ottumwa, where he 
 attended the public schools and acquired a com- 
 mon school education. He was early bred to the 
 use of carpenter's tools, learning the trade when 
 a mere lad. At sixteen he entered actively into 
 the work, remaining so engaged until 1883, when 
 he went to Holt county, Neb., and took up a tree 
 claim and proceeded to improve it for the period 
 of six years. In addition to the farming inter- 
 ests with which he was engaged during these 
 years he also engaged in contracting and build- 
 ing in Holt county. In 1889 he sold his property 
 and located in Corvallis, Benton county, Ore., 
 where he has since remained, becoming a promi- 
 nent figure in the industrial life of the place. 
 Among the buildings which he has erected in 
 this county are the Masonic Temple, Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South, and Christian Church 
 
 of Corvallis, and the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South, of South Corvallis ; the Method- 
 ist Episcopal Church of Harrisburg; many of 
 the largest and finest residences in this city, as 
 well as the court house of Toledo, Lincoln 
 county, the government hospital in the Siletz In- 
 dian Reservation, the Beckwith building in Eu- 
 gene and also several residences in that city, 
 among them being the Patterson and Kaufman 
 residences. 
 
 Mr. Heckart was married to Miss Carrie 
 Hawk, a native of Wapello county, Iowa, his 
 own residence being built at the corner of Fifth 
 and Monroe streets. In political circles Mr. 
 Heckart has been prominent since his arrival in 
 this locality ; a strong Democrat, he has been 
 chosen at different times to represent those of 
 like convictions, from 1900 to 1903 serving as a 
 member of the city council from the second ward 
 and acting on several important committees. In 
 1902 he was a candidate for state senator, and 
 though he never canvassed the county, in a dis- 
 trict two hundred and nineteen Republican he 
 was defeated by only one hundred and nineteen 
 votes. Fraternally he is identified with the Mod- 
 ern Woodmen of America and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and religiously is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he 
 officiates as elder and trustee. 
 
 JOHN CURRIN was born in Grayson county, 
 Va., March 2, 1816, the son of a farmer who 
 was in turn the descendant of an Irish family. 
 The father was always active in politics and even 
 in the midst of his agricultural pursuits found 
 time to serve his party as member of the state 
 legislature for eighteen years, where he was an 
 efficient and honorable representative, and at- 
 tained a wide degree of popularity. He had 
 eight children, and died when John was about 
 three years old, the latter, however, remaining in 
 his home until he was twenty years old,; during 
 which time he received his education through 
 the medium of the public schools. About that 
 time he was appointed deputy sheriff of Carroll 
 county, Va., and served satisfactorily for three 
 years, when he emigrated to the state of Mis- 
 souri and engaged in farming. In that state he 
 was married and lived until 1853, when they 
 started across the plains with ox-teams, and, 
 after six months journey, they arrived at their 
 destination. Coming direct to Lane county Mr. 
 Currin took up a donation land claim of three 
 hundred and twenty acres, located five miles east 
 of Cottage Grove and along the banks of the 
 Row river. A long and prosperous life has since 
 been his and his daily duties have been those 
 which advanced the importance of the real estate 
 in the section chosen for his home, the excellent 
 
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 cultivation of a farm which now numbers eight 
 hundred acres bespeaking his thrift and indus- 
 try, and the substantial and handsome buildings 
 being a credit to his taste. With his son, Felix, 
 the only one of seven children now living, he is 
 carrying on general farming and stock-raising - , 
 being particularly interested in Durham cattle. 
 
 Mrs. Currin, formerly Margaret Swift, a na- 
 tive of Kentucky, is still living and enjoying the 
 prosperity which the years have brought herself 
 and husband, though she is now eighty-four 
 years old. Both of these honored citizens are 
 members of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, and in politics Mr. Currin adheres to 
 the principles of the Democratic party. Frater- 
 nally he belongs to the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. 
 
 JAMES SCOTT McMURRY is engaged in 
 hay growing and general farming on a portion 
 of the old claim which has been in possession of 
 his family since 185 1. Almost within sight of 
 the lights of the city of Eugene, Mr. McMurry 
 has the advantages of both town and country, 
 and his every day life is passed upon one of the 
 most fertile and well equipped farms in this vi- 
 cinity. Mr. McMurry was a small child when 
 brought to his present home, for he was born 
 near Quincy, Adams county, 111., July 22, 1848, 
 and reached here in September, 185 1. 
 
 Hon. Fieldin McMurry, the father of James 
 Scott, was born in Kentucky, where his paternal 
 grandfather, James, had settled after his emigra- 
 tion from Scotland. James McMurry spent his 
 last years in Kentucky, and after his death his 
 son Fieldin removed to Adams county, 111., 
 where he married Harriett Riggs, a native 
 daughter of Illinois, whose father, Scott Riggs, 
 was a farmer and early settler of the state. With 
 his wife Fieldin McMurry set up housekeeping 
 on the farm he had purchased near Quincy, and 
 there four of their children were born, all of 
 whom accompanied their parents across the 
 plains in! 1851. The family equipment consisted 
 of three: wagons and several ox-teams, and the 
 journey: was accomplished without any serious 
 drawbacks to the health or convenience of the 
 travelers. The father purchased the Culver do- 
 nation claim of three hundred and twenty acres, 
 erected first a small log and later a more modern 
 residence, his last home being just east of where 
 the university of Oregon has since been built. 
 He was the first treasurer of Lane county, and 
 was also a member of the territorial legislature 
 which met at Corvallis. Formerly a Whig, he 
 was equally stanch as a Republican, and in his 
 religious views adhered to the Methodist Epis- 
 copal creed. Besides James Scott, who was the 
 fourth of his children, there were Milton, now 
 
 living in Eugene; Mrs. Louisa Hubbard, Mary 
 and Zadoc, who died in Eugene ; and Emma, 
 Mrs. Archambeau, of Portland. 
 
 Besides the country schools James Scott had 
 the advantage of two years' attendance at the 
 Christian College at Monmouth, and after his 
 father's death, in i860, he remained at home and 
 helped his mother with the management of the 
 farm. In 1873 he married Emma Murphy, 
 daughter of John E. Murphy, a prominent man 
 of Polk county, and thereafter went to house- 
 keeping on a farm half a mile from Monmouth, 
 Polk county, and consisting of one hundred and 
 sixty acres. Here he engaged principally in 
 grain farming until 1879, m which year he came 
 into possession of his share of the old farm, 
 located in the southwestern part. His father had 
 sold off ten acres for the Masonic cemetery, two 
 years before his death, but otherwise retained 
 his property intact. Mr. McMurry has about 
 fifty acres in hay, and the balance is devoted to 
 grain and general farming, also to a fine fruit 
 orchard and large garden. In 1901 he built a 
 prune dryer at Thurston, and now derives a sub- 
 stantial income from drying and shipping prunes 
 for the surrounding horticulturists. 
 
 Like his father Mr. McMurry subscribes to 
 Republican principles, and is a member of the 
 Christian Church, in which he has served as 
 deacon for many years, and is also identified with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Eight 
 children were born into the McMurry family, of 
 whom the three eldest are deceased. The oldest 
 daughter, Daisy, Mrs. Love, is making her home 
 in Corvallis, while Ralph and Frank became sol- 
 diers in the Spanish-American war, serving in 
 the Philippine Islands in Company C, Second 
 Oregon Volunteer Infantry. At the present time 
 Ralph is living in Washington, but Frank is still 
 in the Philippines. Myrtle, Nellie, Elsie, Glenn 
 and Edna are still living: on the home farm. 
 
 NATHANIEL W. WHITE. A director in 
 the First National Bank of Cottage Grove, the 
 owner of twelve hundred and fifty acres of land 
 near the town, and the possessor to a gratifying 
 extent of the confidence and good will of the 
 community, Nathaniel W. White is firmly estab- 
 lished in this history-making period of Lane 
 county's supremacy, and deserves to rank among 
 its most practical and helpful financiers and ag- 
 riculturists. He was born in the house which is 
 still his home, March 21, 1863, and with the ex- 
 ception of a year spent in the neighborhood, has 
 found shelter under the same roof ever since. 
 The name of his father, Daniel B. White, is en- 
 rolled with those of the noble pioneers of 1853, 
 who were lost on the trackless plains, and in con- 
 sequence suffered untold deprivations, reaching 
 
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 their destination only after running the gamut of 
 illness, Indian outbreaks and scarcity of pro- 
 visions. Daniel B. White was born in Indiana in 
 1815, and for some years after his marriage with 
 Mary J. Stoms, continued to live in the Hoosier 
 state until his removal to Iowa in 1852. His 
 expectations in Iowa were not realized, conse- 
 quently he decided to remove farther west. 
 Owing to the trouble which he encountered in 
 crossing the plains in 1853 ne was seven months 
 in reaching his destination and finally settled on 
 a claim four miles south of Cottage Grove. In 
 1872 he suffered a stroke of paralysis, in conse- 
 quence of which he soon afterward died, at the 
 age of seventy-six. His widow is still living, at 
 the age of eighty-one years. Besides Nathaniel 
 W., who is the youngest of the children, J. P. 
 lives in California, and Mrs. Phoebe J. Sharp. 
 
 The principal improvements on the White 
 farm have been made by the present owner, 
 Nathaniel W., who is one of the most scientific 
 of the agriculturists in his neighborhood. Add- 
 ing to the original property from time to time, 
 he has accumulated twelve hundred and fifty 
 acres, a large share of which is devoted to stock 
 raising, Herefords and Durhams being the pre- 
 ferred breeds. He married Abbie J. Powell, a 
 native daughter of Oregon, and has four chil- 
 dren, Laura A., Alfred M., Inez B., and Harold 
 W. Mr. White is a stanch > Republican, and has 
 held all of the important local offices in his dis- 
 trict. He is fraternally a Woodman of the 
 World, and in his religious views adheres to the 
 doctrine of the Christian Church, in which or- 
 ganization he is clerk. His association with the 
 First National Bank of Cottage Grove has con- 
 tinued for several years, and he is also identified 
 with other undertakings of a business and social 
 nature. 
 
 JAMES ISAAC JONES. A man of remark- 
 able business energy, foresight and sagacity, 
 James Isaac Jones, of Cottage Grove, occupies a 
 position of eminence in the financial, agricul- 
 tural, political and social life of Lane county. 
 During his active career he has been conspicu- 
 ously identified with many of the leading indus- 
 tries of this section of the state, and in his oper- 
 ations has invariably met with success. A son 
 of C. H. Jones, he was born December 1, 1866, 
 in Macon, Macon county, Mo., of Virginian an- 
 cestry. Isaac W. Jones, the grandfather of James 
 Isaac, was born in Virginia, of colonial stock. 
 Going to Tennessee as a pioneer, he worked at 
 his trade of an iron forger until 1850, when he 
 followed the march of civilization westward to 
 Missouri. In Macon county, near the city of 
 Macon, he carried on general farming until his 
 death, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. 
 
 He died in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South, in which he did much active 
 work, being a local preacher. 
 
 Born in Tennessee, C. H. Jones accompanied 
 his parents to Missouri, and with the exception 
 of a year spent in Indiana, lived in that state 
 until 1883. On account of failing health, he 
 then migrated to Oregon, locating at Cottage 
 Grove as a carpenter, and still resides here, liv- 
 ing rather retired from active pursuits. He mar- 
 ried Louisa Harriet Gentry, who was born in 
 Indiana, near Bloomington, where her father, 
 James Gentry, a farmer, was born, lived, and 
 died. Six children were born of their union, 
 James Isaac, the third child, being the only son. 
 
 Completing his education in the public schools 
 of Oregon, James Isaac Jones embarked in busi- 
 ness on his own account, in 1889, as a butcher, 
 borrowing $50 for the purpose. At the end of 
 two years he sold out, having paid off his indebt- 
 edness, and cleared $600 in that time. In 189 1 
 he bought a saw-mill on the Coast Fork Willam- 
 ette river, and in a short time had so enlarged 
 his business that he had to increase the capacity 
 of the mill from six thousand to ten thousand 
 feet per day, later increasing it to thirty-three 
 thousand feet per day. With characteristic en- 
 terprise he built a lumber plant at what is now 
 Saginaw, in Lane county, thus establishing the 
 town, which he named, and assisted in building. 
 The mill has a capacity of sixty-five thousand 
 feet per day, and the flume is five miles, nine 
 hundred feet long, and one thousand six hundred 
 and sixty feet high at the summit. The plant, 
 which is one of the largest in the county, has 
 planing mills and dryers connected with it. In 
 1898 Mr. Jones sold out his lumber interests, 
 and later bought four hundred and twenty acres 
 of land adjoining Cottage Grove on the south- 
 east, the farm being known as the old Shields 
 donation claim, and subsequently laid off the J. 
 I. Jones addition to the town. 
 
 Embarking in enterprises of a different nature 
 in 1899, Mr. Jones purchased three different 
 groups of mining claims in the Bohemia district, 
 buying a part of the Music and Oregon claim, 
 a part of the Colorado group, and a part of the 
 Winchester group. In 1900 he sold his share in 
 the first three groups, but still retains the Win- 
 chester, which he is developing, obtaining a fine 
 grade of lead ore. In his mining ventures he 
 met with much success, and also made money in 
 land speculations, having, in 1900, in company 
 with J. W. Cook, of Portland, purchased ten 
 thousand acres of railway land, and two thou- 
 sand acres of school script lands, all of which he 
 has since sold at an advantageous price. In 
 1901 he bought the Major Chrisman ranch of 
 seven hundred and fifty-four acres, at Saginaw, 
 where he is carrying on an extensive dairy and 
 
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 creamery business, keeping one hundred and 
 seventy-rive head of cattle. He is also the owner 
 of four hundred and twenty acres of good timber 
 land in Lane county. In 1900 Mr. Jones estab- 
 lished himself in the hardware business in Cot- 
 tage Grove, continuing for a year as head of the 
 firm of Jones & Phillips. 
 
 Mr. Jones married, at Cottage Grove, Lillie 
 Lewis, who was born in Lane county, a daughter 
 of J. B. Lewis, a general merchant of this place. 
 She died a year after their marriage. Mr. Jones 
 married second, in Eugene, Ore., Gertrude H. 
 Roberts, who was born in Iowa, the birthplace of 
 her father, John Roberts, a farmer, who is now 
 living retired from active pursuits, in Eugene. 
 Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Jones, namely : Oscar I., deceased ; Franklin 
 Carl ; Robert Lester ; and Marie. In politics 
 Mr. Jones is a Republican. He has served as 
 precinct commissioner, for one term was mayor 
 of the city, and is now serving his second term 
 as councilman. He is prominent in fraternal 
 organizations, belonging to the Blue Lodge, of 
 Cottage Grove ; to Eugene Chapter, R. A. M. ; 
 to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; to 
 the Knights of Pythias ; and to the Artisans. 
 He is an active member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, of which he is steward and trus- 
 tee, and superintendent of the Sunday school, 
 having held the latter position the past four 
 vears. 
 
 GABRIEL MILLER is the son of Malcolm 
 Miller, who was born in Scotland, and when 
 twenty-six years old emigrated to America, set- 
 tling first in Nova Scotia, where he engaged as 
 a coal miner. In 1843 ne removed to Tioga 
 county, Pa., from which location he removed to 
 Beardstown, 111., and there continued as a miner. 
 In the spring of 1850 the family made the six- 
 months trip to Oregon with ox-teams, the first 
 winter here being spent at Salem and the next 
 spring finding them located upon a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres two miles 
 north of Scio. There Mr. Miller engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising until his death. He 
 married Jenetta Anderson, who was born at The 
 Shaws, Scotland, her death occurring about six 
 years after that of her husband. 
 
 The birth of Gabriel Miller occurred in Nova 
 Scotia, March 24, 1841, and he became a resident 
 of the United States when only two years old, 
 and of Oregon at the age of nine years. His 
 education was principally received through the 
 medium of the district schools of Linn county. 
 When twenty years old he left home and, going 
 to the mines of Boise City and Salmon river, he 
 remained there for three years, after which he re- 
 turned to Linn county and took a homestead, 
 
 upon sixty-four acres of which he now makes 
 his home. Mr. Miller was married twice, the 
 result of the first union being one daughter, 
 Anna. After the death of his first wife he mar- 
 ried A. N. Titus, their children being Ezra, de- 
 ceased ; Eugene and Frank, both at home with 
 their parents. In his political views Mr. Miller 
 is independent. 
 
 WAGNER BROTHERS. Within the re- 
 markably short period of twelve years Wagner 
 Brothers, Fred and William, have built up one 
 of the finest general repair, blacksmithing, 
 wagon and carriagemaking, and agricultural im- 
 plement enterprises in the state of Oregon. Fred 
 J., the senior member of the firm, was born near 
 Oshkosh, Wis., June 17, 1863, while William 
 was born in the same place August 9, 1867. 
 
 As the name implies the brothers are of Ger- 
 man ancestry, their father J. C, and their grand- 
 father, Christ, having been born in Berlin, Ger- 
 many. The grandfather brought his family to 
 America, settling in Dodge county, Wis., where 
 he engaged in farming and where he died. He 
 had five sons, and four of them served in the 
 Civil war, one of them giving up his life for the 
 cause. J. C. Wagner is recalled as a many-sided 
 genius. For many years he engaged in the mer- 
 chandise business in Oshkosh, Wis., and in 1879 
 he removed to Kensington, Smith county, Kans., 
 where he farmed and raised stock. After remov- 
 ing to Oregon, in 1889, he lived in retirement, 
 and his death occurred in the office of his pros- 
 perous sons, March 8, 1900, of heart failure, he 
 being at the time sixty-seven years of age. He 
 married Mary Raisler, who also was born in 
 Germany, a daughter of Carl Andrew Raisler, 
 who brought his family to Wisconsin, settling on 
 the farm upon which he died in Waupaca county. 
 Mrs. Wagner, who is still living, is the mother of 
 five children, and besides Fred J. and William J., 
 the two older sons, there is a daughter, Clara, 
 now Mrs. Reed, of Dallas ; Henry A., living in 
 Dallas ; and Theodore A., superintendent of the 
 electrict light plant in Dallas. 
 
 The Wagner brothers were reared partially in 
 Wisconsin, and were both young when the father 
 removed to Kansas in 1879. As boys they were 
 interested in machinery. At the age of eighteen 
 Fred apprenticed to learn the wagon and car- 
 riagemaking trade at Kerwin, Kans., and after 
 serving for three years formed a partnership 
 with his brother William. This was in 1884, 
 and they started a little shop in Germantown, 
 Smith county, Kans., which they conducted until 
 1887. They then removed to Agra, Phillips 
 county, and during the two-years residence there 
 determined to cast in their fortunes with the far 
 west. In order to see the country and select a 
 
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 suitable location, they outfitted for driving the 
 entire way, taking their way through Nebraska, 
 Wyoming, Idaho, and Washington, where they 
 stayed some time in Spokane. After visiting 
 several places in Oregon they rented a shop in 
 Dallas in May, 1891, and inaugurated a general 
 repair and blacksmithing business, which proved 
 so successful that larger quarters were an im 1 
 perative necessity, and by 1899 they were obliged 
 to build. The present building is 40x60 feet in 
 ground dimensions, and has two stories, the shop 
 being on the first floor. The second floor is de- 
 voted to woodwork and painting and carriage- 
 trimming. The motive power is an eight-horse- 
 power engine. They have also a warehouse 
 26x44 feet, ground dimensions. A large amount 
 of space is given up to agricultural implements, 
 of which they carry a large variety. 
 
 Since coming to Dallas Fred J. Wagner has 
 married Addie Elliott, a native of Canada, now 
 the mother of one child, Vera. Mr. Wagner is a 
 Prohibitionist in politics, and is fraternally con- 
 nected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows ; the Encampment ; the Rebekahs ; the Fra- 
 ternal Union, of which he is past grand ; and the 
 United Artisans. He is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. William J. Wagner 
 married Mattie Mcintosh, a native of Kentucky, 
 and they have one child, Albert. Mr. Wagner 
 also is an Odd Fellow, and past noble grand ; a 
 member of the Encampment ; the Rebekahs ; and 
 the Fraternal Union. He is a member of the Lu- 
 theran Church, and in political affiliation is a 
 Socialist. 
 
 GEORGE T. HALL. That the man who suc- 
 ceeds in mercantile ranks is endowed with a 
 variety of well developed capabilities, that he has 
 traveled a long way in pursuit of the knowledge 
 required for the conduct of his business, and that 
 nine times out of ten he has adhered to the 
 fundamental principles of good judgment and 
 integrity, is a conclusion endorsed by world-wide 
 students of finance. The career of George T. 
 Hall is herewith cited in illustration of the fore- 
 going, a career worthy and meritorious in the 
 extreme, and one which is interwoven with the 
 upbuilding of Eugene since 1889. 
 
 Mr. Hall comes of a family which enjoys the 
 distinction of being one of the first to settle in 
 northern New York, and which bent its energies 
 to the development of the agricultural and gen- 
 eral resources of that state. The pioneer was 
 the paternal grandfather, Thomas Hall, who was 
 born in New Hampshire, and who spent nearly 
 all of his active life in Franklin county, N. Y., 
 the exception being a few years spent in Quebec, 
 where Truman Hall, the father of George T., 
 was born. Truman Hall became a prominent 
 
 business man of Chateaugay, N. Y., where he 
 engaged in manufacturing wagons until a few 
 years before his death, and where his son, George 
 T., was born February 15, 1844. Franklin 
 county, N. Y., was for years the home of the 
 Child family, into which Truman Hall married, 
 his wife, Caroline, being a native of that county, 
 a daughter of Jacob Child, who was born in his- 
 toric Pomfret, Vt., and one of the pioneers of 
 Franklin county. Mr. Child had many claims 
 upon the consideration of his friends and neigh- 
 bors in Franklin county, not the least of which 
 was a valiant service in the war of 1812, and a 
 reflected glory from the life of his father, who 
 stacked his musket upon many of the battlefields 
 of the Revolution. The younger Child availed 
 himself of the forest advantages of Franklin 
 county, and from a small beginning worked up 
 a large lumber and saw-milling business, inci- 
 dentally engaging in farming, and filling political 
 offices, among them that of provost marshal on 
 the frontier during the war of 1812. He was 
 of English descent, and a man of strong char- 
 acter and sterling worth. 
 
 Following close upon his completion of the 
 course at Malone Academy, at Malone, Franklin 
 county, N. Y., George T. Hall began his mercan- 
 tile career as a clerk in a store, and, when he had 
 secured the experience of five years to back him, 
 started a merchandise store in his native town of 
 Chateaugay, continuing therein between 1865 
 and 1889. During this time he became an im- 
 portant factor in that village, participating in its 
 political and other undertakings, and serving for 
 two terms as a member of its board of trustees. 
 Desiring a change, and feeling that twenty-four 
 years in the same line of business in the same 
 locality had its drawbacks, he sold out and lo- 
 cated in Eugene, Ore., in 1889, engaging in the 
 grocery business at his present location, and 
 under the firm name of Smith & Hall, for about 
 three years. He then disposed of his interest to 
 Mr. Smith, and eighteen months later started in 
 the same place the mercantile concern of George 
 T. Hall & Son. This store fills the requirements 
 of a thriving and cosmopolitan community, and 
 in its remodeled state, its modern furnishings, 
 and exhaustive stock of general commodities, 
 typifies the model and well managed general 
 catering enterprise. An adjunct to the business 
 is the largest warehouse in the town, located near 
 the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The ware- 
 house is also put to general use, and Mr. Hall 
 derives a substantial income from wool, hop, and 
 mohair speculations, extending his business inter- 
 ests also to the timber lands, of which he owns 
 large tracts, and to the cultivation of hops, of 
 which he owns several acres. 
 
 In Plattsburg, N. Y., Mr. Hall was united in 
 marriage with Sarah A. Cook, who was born at 
 
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 Point Rush. Clinton county. X. Y.. and who is 
 the mother of two children. Of these, Carrie S., 
 a graduate of an eastern institution, has been 
 engaged in teaching in the public schools of 
 Eugene for many years ; and George T., Jr., a 
 graduate of both the high school and university, 
 is in business with his father. Becoming allied 
 with the Masons in Chateaugay. N. Y., Mr. Hall 
 is now a member of Eugene Lodge Xo. 1 1 ; the 
 Royal Arch Chapter Xo. 10 : the Ivanhoe Com- 
 mandery No. 2. Knights Templar, and Al Kader 
 Temple, X. M. S. Politically he is a Repub- 
 lican, and is an ex-member of the state central 
 committee. Mr. Hall brings to the conduct of 
 his firmly established business a wide knowledge 
 of general affairs, which finds vent in a keen in- 
 terest in charitable and benevolent opportunities, 
 and in the highest social and economic life of 
 his citv. 
 
 JAMES HOFFMAX. The life of the pioneer 
 of this great northwest was often filled with un- 
 known peril. In journeying thither he almost 
 invariably traversed the intervening plain and 
 desert with ox-teams, the slowest possible mode 
 of locomotion, being many months on the road. 
 Oftentimes dangers from hostile Indians, wild 
 animals and troublesome insects were encoun- 
 tered, and illness overtook the weary traveler. 
 Although a boy of but nine years when he came 
 to Oregon, James Hoffman, one of the most 
 prosperous residents of Eugene, and the owner 
 of the Hoffman House, has a vivid realization of 
 the trials and tribulations that beset the original 
 settlers of this section of the state. A native of 
 Sangamon county, 111., he was born December 
 21, 1842, about eight miles north of the city of 
 Springfield, a son of William Hoffman. 
 
 Born and reared in Pennsylvania, William 
 Hoffman removed to Sangamon county, 111., in 
 1832, and was there engaged in general farming 
 for nearly twenty years. On April 1, 1851, ac- 
 companied by his wife and ten children, he started 
 for Oregon, but, being taken ill with mountain 
 fever, died at Big Sandy, and was buried there. 
 His widow, whose maiden name was Martha 
 Drake, was a native of Ohio. A woman of 
 energy, determination and decision, she con- 
 tinued the journey westward with her children. 
 The train with which she traveled consisted of 
 six wagons, each drawn by six yoke of oxen a 
 fine band of horses, twenty-five mares and two 
 stallions, and one hundred cows, four of the 
 horses belonging to the Hoffman family. The 
 day after the train passed Fort Hall it came in 
 contact with the Indians, who stole seventv-five 
 horses, and killed an old lady, Mrs. Clark, and 
 her son. and wounded a Miss Clark and a Mr. 
 Sperry. About fifty men of the company gave 
 
 chase, following the savages over the desert for 
 two days. Finding the enemy strongly en- 
 trenched in the valley, a skirmish ensued, but as 
 several of the men from the train were killed in 
 the encounter the chase was given up, and the 
 journey continued. The party arrived in Oregon 
 in September, 1851, with but two wagons, ten 
 yoke of oxen, and ten head of loose cattle, the 
 others having been lost in the Indian stampede, 
 or through the carelessness of the train leaders, 
 Airs. Hoffman losing every one of her horses. 
 
 Locating with her family in Corvallis, Ore., 
 Mrs. Hoffman engaged in the hotel business for 
 ten years, being quite successful. Subsequently 
 marrying L. A. Clark, she settled on a farm 
 about twelve miles south of Corvallis, on the 
 Long Tom. She afterward lived in Linn county 
 ten years, then removed to Junction City, Lane 
 county, where she resided until her death, at the 
 age of seventy-three years. She reared ten chil- 
 dren, namely: Mrs. Sarah Bundy, who died in 
 Benton county, Ore. ; Mrs. Jane Roberts, who 
 died in the same county; Mrs. Mary Alfred, of 
 Baker City, Ore. ; Xancy, wife of E'. M. White, 
 of Portland ; Lucy F., who married R. C. George, 
 died in Baker county; Mrs. Martha Esterbrook, 
 who died in Baker county; Mrs. Fannie Wat- 
 kins, of Douglas county ; James, the especial sub- 
 ject of this sketch; Henry, resident of Eugene; 
 and Thomas, a stockman and miner, living in 
 Baker county. 
 
 AYhile in his ninth year, James Hoffman started 
 for Oregon with his parents, crossing the river 
 at Council Bluffs. Arriving in Corvallis with 
 his widowed mother and her family in Septem- 
 ber, 185 1, he attended the district school for a 
 short time. Going with two of his brothers, in 
 1852, to get horses at the farm of H. C. Owens, 
 in Lane county, he came through the present site 
 of the city of Eugene, which at that time was a 
 tract of wild land covered " with tall grass and 
 oak trees, the cabin and store of Eugene Skinner 
 being hidden by the butte. From 1859 unt il 
 1873 Mr. Hoffman was successfully engaged in 
 mining pursuits, being employed at various 
 mines, including those at Orofino. Florence, 
 Baker City, Boise Basin, John Day. South Boise, 
 Idaho City, Oyhee, Clear Water, Buffalo Hump, 
 Salmon river, Warren's Diggings, and many 
 others, making most of the trips from mine to 
 mine on foot, or with pack horses, occasionally 
 having trouble with the Indians. Having in- 
 vested a part of his savings in a ranch of three 
 thousand acres, in Linn county, Mr. Hoffman re- 
 turned to the valley in 1872. and embarked in 
 business as a stock-raiser, his large farm lving 
 about ten miles east of Harrisburg. Selling out 
 at the end of seven years to Joseph Keel and B. 
 Goldsmith, he bought a section of land, and for 
 three years was engaged in farming on an ex- 
 
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 tensive scale, raising large quantities of grain. 
 Removing to Junction City in 1883, he operated 
 his farms in Linn and Lane counties for about 
 twelve years, and while there invested heavily in 
 Eugene property, in 1886 building the Hoffman 
 House, which is 40x116 feet, three stories in 
 height. Taking up his residence in Eugene in 
 1895, Mr. Hoffman has since devoted his time 
 and attention to the management of his various 
 interests, which keeps him busily employed. He 
 owns different farms, aggregating about one 
 thousand acres, has a large extent of timber land, 
 and possesses valuable property in Eugene, hav- 
 ing in his active career accumulated much wealth, 
 and gained a position of prominence among the 
 respected and esteemed citizens of Lane county. 
 Mr. Hoffman married, in Lane county, 
 Eugenia Milliorn, who was born in Missouri, 
 and came with her parents to this county in 1853, 
 locating on the present site of Junction City. 
 Her father kept Milliorn station, on the overland 
 stage route, for twenty or more years, it being a 
 celebrated stopping place for travelers in pioneer 
 days. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have one child 
 only, Edith, who was graduated from the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon. Politically Mr. Hoffman is 
 a sound Republican, and fraternally he is a 
 Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. He takes great in- 
 terest in the early history of the state, and be- 
 longs to the State Pioneers' Association and the 
 Lane County Historical Society. 
 
 LAWRENCE T. HARRIS was born in Al- 
 bany, Linn county, Ore., September 13, 1873. 
 In his native town Lawrence Thomas Harris 
 lived until his tenth birthday, when he removed 
 to Eugene with his parents, receiving a prelim- 
 inary training in the public schools of the two 
 cities, after which, in 1889, he entered the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon. Four years later he was grad- 
 uated from that institution with the degree of 
 A.B. and in 1896 the degree of A.M. was con- 
 ferred upon him. In the same year he was grad- 
 uated from the law department with the degree 
 of LL.B., and at once began a practice in Eugene 
 which was successfully continued for four years. 
 In the meantime he had grown in favor with the 
 leaders of the Republican party, of which he is 
 a stanch adherent, and in 1900 he was nominated 
 by that party as one of the representatives from 
 Lane county for the state legislature, and his 
 election followed. While a member of this ses- 
 sion he served on various important committees, 
 among them being the committee on elections, of 
 which he was chairman, ways and means com- 
 mittees, and others. At the expiration of his 
 term, 1902. he was renominated and elected by 
 an increased majority of five hundred, and in 
 
 this 1 session he was elected speaker of the house. 
 Mr. Harris is also very prominent in local affairs, 
 and is a member of the state Republican central 
 committee. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Harris affiliates with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Native 
 Sons, Woodmen of the World, Knights of 
 Pythias and Masons. 
 
 WILLIAM J. ROYSE. The man of affairs, 
 the liberal, enterprising and very successful 
 manipulator of the business forces of the north- 
 west, is represented by W. J. Royse, senior part- 
 ner of the firm of Royse & Peterson, manufac- 
 turers of excelsior at Eugene. The youth strug- 
 gling with adverse circumstances, and deriving 
 little encouragement from any source save those 
 within himself, might find much of value from 
 talking with this practical and self-reliant manu- 
 facturer, and perchance might thereafter find the 
 royal road to success less obscure. From the first 
 of his independent life Mr. Royse has not waited 
 for opportunity, but has gone to meet it, and 
 while catching up with it has put in his time 
 vigorously prosecuting such work as he found 
 to do. 
 
 Born in Hancock county, 111., January 6, 1862, 
 he is the son of John N. and Jane (Stevens) 
 Royse, natives respectively of Illinois and Ten- 
 nessee ; and grandson of John Royse, born in 
 Indiana, and an early settler of Hancock county, 
 111. The parents are living retired at present in 
 a pleasant home in Watsonville, Cal., and the 
 father doubtless often thinks with pride of his 
 honorable life, which in the early days contained 
 much of adventure and struggle. As a young 
 man he joined an expedition bound for the coast, 
 crossing the plains in 1849, and three or four 
 years later, after mining with moderate success 
 in California, returned to his home in Illinois by 
 way of the Isthmus of Panama. He bought a 
 large farm, stocked and improved it, and en- 
 gaged in farming for several years. As in the 
 case with the majority who have once, temporar- 
 ily even, lived under the skies of the west, and 
 felt the freedom engendered by close proximity 
 to the ocean and mountains, his mind reverted 
 frequently to the days of '49, and he finally yielded 
 to the allurements of memory and again sought 
 the coast country. This second expedition was 
 undertaken in 1864 with horse, rather than ox- 
 teams, and he had the solace of the companion- 
 ship of his wife and two children, of whom 
 W. J. Royse is the eldest, and was then but two 
 years old. For a few weeks he tarried in Los 
 Angeles, and in 1865 went to Santa Cruz county, 
 farmed for many years, and then retired to Wat- 
 sonville, Cal. 
 
 Although reared and educated in Watsonville, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1483 
 
 Cal., W. J. Royse went to the country for his 
 first business experience, at the age of twenty- 
 one occupying a farm near the city, where he 
 engaged in beet culture on an extensive scale. 
 At the same time he represented as agent the 
 paper mills of O'Neill Brothers & Callahan of 
 Santa Cruz county, but in 1890 withdrew' from 
 these combined industries, and for four years 
 represented the same company in Oregon, com- 
 ing to Lebanon to assist in the installation of 
 their plant. He had full charge of their straw 
 business in this state, and did not enter his pres- 
 ent business until 1894, when he bought an in- 
 terest in the excelsior mill of O'Neill Brothers 
 & Peterson, since which time the firm has been 
 known by the name of Royse & Peterson. The 
 excelsior plant, minutely described in the record 
 of the life of Mr. Peterson, is one of the stable 
 and upbuilding agencies of Eugene, and bears 
 the stamp of the high character of the men di- 
 recting its affairs. Mr. Royse has erected a com- 
 fortable residence on the corner of Sixth and 
 High streets, and with the assistance of his wife, 
 formerly Ella Stroud, of Linn county, extends 
 good fellowship and hospitality to a large circle 
 of friends. In political affiliation Mr. Royse is 
 a Democrat. 
 
 ELLEN JEANNETTE CHAMBERLIN. 
 A. M. In the educational and literary circles of 
 the great northwest, no name stands higher than 
 that of Miss Chamberlin, one of the faculty of 
 the Oregon Agricultural College, holding the po- 
 sition of dean of women, and, also, that of pro- 
 fessor of German, and instructor in English. Ob- 
 taining a substantial education by years of study, 
 and by travel in our own and foreign countries, 
 she is highly cultured and accomplished, and 
 fully equipped for her present high office in the 
 institution with which she is connected. 
 
 A daughter of the late Joseph Chamberlin, 
 Ellen J. Chamberlin was born in Romeo, Mich., 
 of pioneer ancestry. Her father, Joseph Cham- 
 berlin, a native of Lima, N. Y.. was reared on 
 the pioneer homestead in Michigan, receiving his 
 elementary education in the district schools, and 
 completing it at Albion College, in Albion. Mich., 
 subsequently being a teacher in that institution 
 for a number of years. In 1855, being strongly 
 impressed with the necessity of civilizing the In- 
 dian through Christianity, he came as an inde- 
 pendent missionary to Oregon, crossing the 
 plains, and beginning his work on the Grand 
 Ronde Reservation. Meeting with such success 
 that he was encouraged to continue his labors in 
 the same field, he returned, in 1856, to Michigan 
 for his family, which he brought here in 1857, 
 making both trips by way of Panama, and re- 
 mained on that reservation five years more, being 
 
 there at the time that General Sheridan and Cap- 
 tain Russell were stationed there with their 
 troops. He was ambitious in his missionary 
 work of ameliorating the conditions of the In- 
 dians, in whose behalf he went to Washington, 
 D. C.j in 1859, to interview the president. 
 Through his efforts, plans for investigating the 
 injustice often done to the red man, and means 
 for converting them to Christianity, were estab- - 
 fished, his work meeting with due appreciation. 
 He continued his labors on the reservation until 
 1862, when he removed to Salem, Ore., that he 
 might educate his children at the Willamette 
 University, and remained a resident of that city 
 until his death, in 1887. A man of high personal 
 worth, deeply religious, charitable and benevo- 
 lent, he w r as held in great respect throughout the 
 community. 
 
 Joseph Chamberlin married Olive Warren, 
 who was born in Covington, N. Y., and died in 
 1874, at Salem, Ore. She came of Revolutionary 
 stock, being a lineal descendant of Dr. Joseph 
 Warren, who lost his life at the battle of Bunker 
 Hill, and a daughter, also, of one who suffered 
 for his country, her father, Abel Warren, who 
 fought in the war of 181 2, having received a 
 wound at the battle of Lundy's Lane that caused 
 his death a few years later. Eight children were 
 born of their union, namely : Martin L., late 
 clerk of the state land board, at Salem ; Mary L., 
 wife of O. A. Waller, of Salem; Ellen Jeannette, 
 the special subject of this sketch; Lydia, now 
 Mrs. Crockett, of Seattle, Wash. ; Sarah, now 
 Mrs. C. B. Moores, of Oregon City ; Olive, wife 
 of Judge Belt, of Spokane, Wash. ; Leonore, 
 wife of Charles Weller, of Salem; and Julia, wife 
 of J. L. Shultz, of Portland, Ore. All of the 
 children were educated at Willamette Univer- 
 sity. 
 
 After receiving the degree of B. S. at the 
 Willamette University, in 1868, Miss Chamber- 
 lin immediately began her professional career, 
 teaching first in a private school, after which she 
 was an instructor in the academical department 
 of her alma mater for nine years. The following 
 three years she taught in a public school in Port- 
 land, going from there to The Dalles Academy, 
 where she taught for five years under Dr. Gatch, 
 going then with him to the University of Wash- 
 ington, at Seattle, where she held the chair of 
 literature for ten years. Meanwhile she spent a 
 year abroad, in i89i-'92, perfecting herself in 
 German in Berlin, and visiting the principal 
 points of interest in Great Britain and on the 
 continent, including the celebrated universities, 
 the Alps, Coliseum. Catacombs, Vatican, etc. In 
 1897, Miss Chamberlin accepted a position at the 
 State Normal School, in Monmouth, Ore., re- 
 maining there until 1899, when she came to Cor- 
 vallis. Miss Chamberlin has met with undoubted 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 success as a teacher, and is everywhere recog- 
 nized as a woman of talent and culture. She re- 
 sides at the corner of Faculty Row and Apple- 
 Bloom way, where she has erected a comfortable 
 and conveniently arranged cottage. 
 
 THOMAS BARBRE was born April i, 1829, 
 i'n Washington county, Vt, and when six months 
 old his mother died, and when ten he was also 
 bereft of the care of his father. For three years 
 following this last event he lived with his brother, 
 and then found a comfortable home, with a kind 
 family, where he remained until he had reached 
 his majority, receiving his education in the sub- 
 scription schools common to the day. On leav- 
 ing the home which had been his for so many 
 years Mr. Barbre came as far west as Iowa, and 
 there engaged as a teacher for a period of two 
 years, at the end of which time he started across 
 the plains as the driver of an ox-team, every foot 
 of the distance between the Mississippi valley 
 and the northwest being traveled on foot. On 
 his arrival in Oregon he spent about a year in 
 Marion county, located near Salem, and in 1853 
 he came to Lane county and took up a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres in Lost 
 valley and one mile south of Dexter. This has 
 remained his home since, with the exception of 
 two and a half years, which he spent upon a farm 
 north of Eugene, having purchased land in that 
 vicinity, and owning at the present time three 
 hundred and eleven acres, seventy-five of which 
 are under cultivation, and is carrying on general 
 farming and stock-raising, in the latter business 
 having a number of Hereford cattle. 
 
 Mr. Barbre and wife are the parents of the 
 following children : Irvin, located in this vicin- 
 ity ; Minnie, now Mrs. Voegli, of southern Ore- 
 gon ; Lurilla, now Mrs. Hanna, of Baker City ; 
 Alma, now Mrs. Handsaker, of Eugene ; Clyde, 
 Mrs. Jinks, of Butte, Mont. ; and Earl, at home 
 with his parents. Mr. Barbre is a Republican, 
 and in religion belongs to the Christian Church, 
 in which he has always manifested great interest 
 and activity. 
 
 JAMES T. KIRK. In 1865 James T. Kirk 
 arrived in Oregon, having crossed the plains 
 as captain of a train of one hundred and nine 
 wagons. They had come via the Piatt river, 
 over the old Barlow route and across the Cas- 
 cade mountains, the journey occupying six 
 months. Upon their arrival in Oregon they 
 scattered to various locations, anxious and hope- 
 ful of finding a home in the land which had 
 come to be a Mecca for many of the farmers of 
 the Mississippi valley, the spirit of restlessness 
 probably being due to the fact that they were 
 
 the sons of pioneers who had early settled in 
 their homes and grown a part of the country 
 which they helped to make. It was so with Mr. 
 Kirk, for both his father and grandfather were 
 pioneers, one east and the other a short distance 
 west of the Mississippi river. The grandfather, 
 James Kirk, was a native of Virginia, and at an 
 early date he came across the mountains into 
 Kentucky, walking with his gun on his shoulder 
 beside the horse which carried his wife to assist 
 him in the making of a home in the new lands 
 of the valley. He located near Lebanon, where 
 the remainder of his life was passed. He was a 
 patriot as well as a pioneer in the cause of bis 
 country, having served in the Revolution. His 
 son, Jesse Kirk, the father of James T. Kirk, 
 was born in Kentucky, and in 1830 he left his 
 native state and settled in Illinois, where he re- 
 mained eighteen months, after which, in the lat- 
 ter half of 1 83 1, he went to Randolph county, 
 Mo. He later became a resident of Adair coun- 
 ty, in which he spent the remainder of his life, 
 the principal city of that county, Kirksville, being 
 a standing monument of the influence which he 
 exerted as its first settler. His death occurred 
 four miles east of that city, August 31, 1846, at 
 the age of eighty years. He married Frances 
 Gray, a native of Tennessee, who died near Junc- 
 tion City October 30, 1867, the mother of five 
 children, four sons and one daughter, of whom 
 the oldest was James T., born near Lebanon, 
 Ky., October 1, 1820. 
 
 His position in the family necessitating more 
 or less attention to the wants of the other and 
 younger members, James T. Kirk was prevented 
 from obtaining anything but a very limited edu- 
 cation in the primitive schools of Kentucky, and 
 his years were well occupied for others until he 
 was twenty years old, when he married and went 
 to farming for himself. He located dn Missouri, 
 whither he had removed with his parents when 
 he was only eleven years old, and there remained 
 until 1865, when with a large number of others 
 he sought a home in the west. In October, 1866, 
 they located five miles southwest of Junction City, 
 Lane county, where he bought three hundred 
 and fifty-five acres, upon which he remained un- 
 til 1876, when he came to Junction City and 
 became the owner of forty acres in the near vicin- 
 ity, where he put in a small hopyard and later 
 gave this property to his youngest son. His farm 
 is now rented and he is living retired, having met 
 with very satisfactory results from his efforts 
 in Oregon, accumulating considerable property. 
 In addition to that already named he owns 
 eighty acres eight miles west of Monroe, Ben- 
 ton county, a blacksmith shop, several lots in the 
 business part of the city and his own residence. 
 
 Mr. Kirk was married March 2, 1841, in Mis- 
 souri, to Virginia Adkins, who was born in 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Howard county, Mo., ami died in Oregon in 
 January, 1866. She was the daughter of James 
 Adkins, a native of Virginia, who located in 
 Howard county, Mo., and later removed to Adair 
 county, near the present site of the city of Kirks- 
 ville, where his death occurred. Of the children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Kirk, Jesse F. is located 
 111 this vicinity as a farmer; James C, is near 
 Heppner. Ore. ; William A. is deceased ; Frances 
 Elizabeth is also deceased ; John T. died in in- 
 fancy : Rev. Charles E., is in Phoenix, Ariz. ; 
 Thomas J. is also in this vicinity ; and Joseph H. 
 also died in infancy. January 1, 1868, Mr. Kirk 
 married Nancy A. McClure, who was born in 
 Bruceville. Ind.. the daughter of AVilliam Mc- 
 Clure, who was born in a southern state and died 
 in Indiana, after a useful life as a farmer. No 
 children blessed the second union, and after the 
 death of his wife, which occurred August 9, 
 1900. Ida Adkins, the niece of his first wife, took 
 charge of the household and has since cared for 
 Mr. Kirk. As a Democrat Mr. Kirk has served 
 for one term as a member of the city council. 
 Fraternally he is a Master Mason, and also be- 
 longs to the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 J. I. PHILIPPE Pursuing their calm and 
 uneventful lives in the midst of the many-sided 
 activity of Eugene are men content to be onlook- 
 ers only, who walk with leisurely and ofttimes 
 halting steps her busy thoroughfares, and who 
 gladly return to the peace of quiet homes, re- 
 mote from heated and surging ambitions, and the 
 mad struggle for gold which in other days looked 
 so alluring. To them the occasion has passed, 
 but in going it has been well utilized by these 
 agricultural toilers, whose present thrift argues 
 well for an earlier appreciation of the giant op- 
 portunities which beckoned them to the coast, 
 and caused them to stake their all on the means 
 to accomplish the long journey. No class of 
 citizens enjoys to greater extent the esteem of 
 the thoughtful rising generation than those tillers 
 of the soil, who have laid aside their worn im- 
 plements, and with hearts and minds mellowed 
 into harmony with their surroundings, earn- 
 around with them an impression of rest and 
 peace. Among the erstwhile farmers who are 
 now profiting by the advantages of Eugene mav 
 be mentioned J. I. Philippi. who came here in 
 1902, after improving some of the finest and 
 most paying properties in Lane countv. 
 
 The oldest in a family of nine children, seven 
 of whom are living, Mr. Philippi was born in 
 Somerset county. Pa.. September 24. 1839. ms 
 parents, David and Marv (McMillan) Philippi. 
 being natives of the same county and state, as 
 was also his paternal grandfather. John Philippi. 
 The grandfather McMillan came from the north 
 
 of Ireland and settled in Somerset county, Pa., 
 where he died on his farm at the age of ninety- 
 nine years. David Philippi and his wife spent 
 their entire married life in the east and middle 
 west, removing to Iowa about 1857, where the 
 husband bought a farm, and where he died in 
 1866. He is survived by his wife, who lives in 
 Eugene, Ore., and who is four score and three 
 years old. Among the heroes of the Civil war 
 were two of the sons of David Philippi, both 
 being members of the Thirty-second Iowa In- 
 fantry, and one of whom, John, was killed at 
 the battle of Sabine Cross Roads. His brother, 
 Maple, was wounded in the same memorable 
 battle, but recovered in due time and is now liv- 
 ing in the state of Minnesota. 
 
 In his youth J. I. Philippi had the advantages 
 of the public schools in both Pennsylvania and 
 Iowa, being seventeen years of age when he re- 
 moved with his parents to the latter state. True, 
 the schools were of the pioneer kind and but ir- 
 regularly attended, but he was of a studious turn 
 of mind, and instinctively grasped the impor- 
 tance of acquiring all possible general knowl- 
 edge. At the age of twenty-one he began to 
 clerk in a general store in Clarksville, Iowa, and 
 finally became interested in a mercantile business 
 of his own under the firm name of Newman & 
 Philippi. Mr. Newman, who afterward became 
 Mr. Philippi's father-in-law, proved a capable 
 and thoroughly reliable man, and the partners 
 were destined to spend many years of their busi- 
 ness life together. The marriage of Mary New- 
 man and Air. Philippi occurred in 1862, and in 
 1869 the partners sold out their business, and 
 crossed the plains to Oregon with horse teams. 
 The long journey was accomplished without am' 
 serious mishaps, and was memorable because of 
 the fact that for a part of the way they traveled 
 with the noted Kit Carson. Mr. Philippi located 
 a claim near Hillsboro, Washington count}-, for 
 a year, and then bought and managed a tanyard 
 with Mr. Newman for a year. In 1871 Mr. 
 Philippi and Mr. Newman bought a farm of six 
 hundred and forty acres five miles north of Al- 
 bany, which they conducted with considerable 
 success until 1883, when Mr. Philippi sold his 
 interest and invested in three hundred and twenty 
 acres near Coburg, in Lane county, where he 
 engaged in general farming and stock-raising 
 until 1902. He was very successful, his crops 
 being invariably large and of good quality, and 
 his stock bringing the highest market prices. In 
 1902 he removed to Eugene, where he lives, hav- 
 ing retired from active pursuits. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Philippi was married to Miss 
 Mary Newman, daughter of his partner, Henrv 
 Newman, who died in Linn county. Ore., in 
 1889. Mrs. Newman was born in Adams county. 
 Ohio. Politically Mr. Philippi is a Democrat, but 
 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 aside from assisting his office-seeking friends, 
 has never taken a very active interest in party 
 affairs. He is a well informed and studious man, 
 and while on the farm invariably supplied him- 
 self and family with current literature, thus en- 
 couraging habits of thought and research in the 
 minds of those around him. He has reared wisely 
 and well a large family, and eight of his fourteen 
 children are living. Of these, Henry and Barton 
 live in Eugene ; George lives at Sweet Home ; 
 Charles is a resident of Flora, Ore. ; Walter lives 
 on a farm in Linn county ; Alice is now Mrs. 
 Meyer, of Linn county ; Emma is the wife of 
 Percy Long of Eugene ; and Lizzie lives with 
 her parents. Genial in his intercourse with 
 friends and associates, firm in his adherence to 
 fair dealing and integrity, Mr. Philippi com- 
 mands the respect and good will of all who know 
 him. 
 
 HARVEY C. VEATCH. Throughout the 
 length and breadth of Lane county, Harvey C. 
 Veatch, or "Burne Veatch," as he is familiarly 
 known, is regarded as a typical pioneer, resource- 
 ful, brave and industrious, true to his friends 
 and to the best interests of a flourishing agricul- 
 tural community. Since his retirement from ac- 
 tive life in 1894, Cottage Grove has profited by 
 his citizenship, and a popular store, that of 
 Veatch & Lewis, bas enabled him to enjoy a 
 satisfactory income through his investment in 
 its interests, which are looked after by his son, 
 O. O. Veatch. He has erected a pleasant and 
 commodious residence, and besides owns four 
 other buildings, some of them rented to busi- 
 ness firms. Incidentally Mr. Veatch loans money 
 on real estate and other security, and takes a 
 practical and helpful interest in the general 
 affairs of the town. 
 
 The early ancestors of Mr. Veatch pursued 
 their various occupations in the picturesque 
 country of Wales, the first to emigrate to Amer- 
 ica being three brothers, Elias, Nathan and 
 James, who settled in North Carolina and Ala- 
 bama. James, the paternal great-grandfather of 
 Harvey C, married a Miss Raynor in 1751, re- 
 moved with her to North Carolina, where his 
 death occurred in 1780. He was the father of 
 eight children, of whom the following served in 
 the Revolutionary war : Walter, Isaac, James, 
 Amos and Charles. Elias, the paternal grand- 
 father, removed at an early day to Illinois, his 
 death occurring there in 1820. His son, Isaac, 
 the father of Harvey C. was born in North 
 Carolina, August 25, 1786. Isaac went to 
 Georgia on business, and there married Mary 
 Miller, and soon after located in Tennessee, in 
 time joining- his father in the far-off state of 
 Illinois. Near Enfield, White county, he com- 
 
 bined agricultural pursuits with the running of 
 a grist-mill, applying also his trade of cabinet- 
 maker as opportunity offered. About 1881 he 
 came west to spend the remainder of his life 
 with his children, and two years later, in 1882, 
 his death occurred at the home of his son, Har- 
 vey C, at the age of ninety-three years. He 
 was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln, and 
 in his religious affiliations was a Presbyterian. 
 In his family were twelve sons and four daugh- 
 ters, three of whom are living at the present 
 time, Robert M., Harvey C. and Sylvester E. 
 Isaac Veatch served in the war of 1812, and 
 always took an active interest in political and 
 other undertakings of his neighborhood. 
 
 Born in White county, 111., near Enfield, No- 
 vember 10, 1828, Harvey C. Veatch had about 
 the same educational chances as had his fifteen 
 brothers and sisters, the extent being a little log 
 school-house with slab benches. About 1845 he 
 removed with his parents to Davis county, Iowa, 
 settling on a farm eight miles southwest of 
 Bloomfield and here in 1853 an opportunity pre- 
 sented itself to cross the plains in an emigrant 
 train, as driver and general helper for Samuel 
 B. Knox, his future father-in-law. The train 
 encountered some very annoying experiences, al- 
 though the members were very careful and al- 
 ways maintained a strict guard day and night. 
 At Elkhorn, Neb., the Indians stampeded the 
 cattle, and on another occasion, while hunting 
 on AVolf Creek, Nev., Mr. Veatch and Mr. Knox 
 were surrounded and surprised by a large num- 
 ber of Indians, barely escaping with their lives. 
 In July, 1854, Mr. Veatch located a claim of two 
 hundred and seventy acres one and a half miles 
 below Cottage Grove, and for forty years this 
 continued to be his home, the field of the most 
 successful and far-reaching effort of his life. 
 Later, by purchase, three hundred and twenty 
 acres of the Thos. L. Knox donation claim was 
 added to his holdings. 
 
 The romance begun on the plains with the 
 daughter of his friend and employer continued 
 after the respective settlements were made in 
 Oregon, and the wedding of Mr. Veatch and Mar- 
 garet Jane Knox was solemnized December 24, 
 1854, near Cottage Grove. Miss Knox was born 
 in Hancock county, 111., July 2J, 183 1, a daugh- 
 ter of Samuel B. Knox, who was born in Ken- 
 tucky in 1810. Mr. Knox was married in his 
 native state, removed to Hancock county. 111., 
 at a very early day, and in 1841 located -with his 
 familv in Schuyler county. Mo. He was a nat- 
 ural money-maker, shrewd at driving a bargain, 
 vet generous and honorable withal, and he was 
 just the kind of man to succeed well in the state 
 to which he came in 1853. He brought with him 
 considerable live stock, and at the end of the 
 journey had one hundred cows, valued at $100 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 each, with which he started a stock business on 
 his donation claim near Cottage Grove. More 
 land was added to his original purchase, and at 
 the time of his death, at the age of eighty-two 
 years, he owned more than two thousand acres. 
 Like all of the arrivals of the early '50s, Mr. 
 Veatch had a great deal of trouble with the In- 
 dians, so much that it was impossible to peace- 
 fully pursue his agricultural vocation. The 
 Rogue River war coming on, he enlisted, Octo- 
 ber 20, 1855, in Company B., under Captain La- 
 ban Buoy, and participated in the battle of Cow 
 Creek Canyon, and assisted in removing the 
 dead from the battlefield of Hungry Hill. He 
 saw much of the grim and grewsome warfare of 
 the murderous red men during his three months 
 and ten days' service, and his discharge, at Dil- 
 lard Station, Douglas county, terminated an ex- 
 perience which it will ever be painful to recall. 
 In his home neighborhood Mr. Veatch became 
 prominent as a promoter of education and 
 morality, serving for nearly twenty-two years 
 on the school board, also as county commissioner 
 on the Democratic ticket for one term in 1870. 
 He was one of the founders of the Cumberland 
 Presbyterian Church in 1855, the first of that 
 denomination in this county, and for nearly half 
 a century he has been an elder of the church, 
 helping its cause financially and by personal ac- 
 tivity. Since coming to Cottage Grove in 1894, 
 he has been city treasurer for one term, and has 
 with equal enthusiasm lent his mature interest 
 to the town's educational and moral and busi- 
 ness welfare. The store in which he has in- 
 vested is managed by his son, and proves a con- 
 siderable source of income, as do other enter- 
 prises which Mr. Veatch has found worthy of 
 his investment. Eight children have been born 
 to himself and wife, of whom Samuel P. lives in 
 Portland, and is a passenger conductor on the 
 Southern Pacific railroad ; Oliver O. is a mer- 
 chant of Cottage Grove ; Rosetta is now Mrs. G. 
 C. Miller, of Walla Walla, Wash.; Posey S. is 
 deceased ; Harriett Elizabeth is the wife of Rev. 
 W. V. McGee, of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, of Long View, Tex. ; Mary Sophina is 
 the wife of Robert Mosby, of Lake View, Ore. ; 
 Eva is the wife of E. S. Halderman, a resident 
 of this town, but a miner of the Bohemia Mining 
 District ; and Robert E. is a freight conductor on 
 the Southern Pacific railroad. 
 
 OSCAR W. HURD. When Oscar W. Hurd 
 came to Oregon and located on the Siuslaw river 
 in 1883, bringing with him the first small stock 
 of general merchandise which, had ever invaded 
 that part of the country, his customers were 
 composed largely of Indians, and in return for 
 his wares he received treasures dear to the heart 
 
 of the red men. Yet in this crude and ill- 
 arranged mercantile establishment, with its lim- 
 ited assortment of necessities, and its surround- 
 ing desolation, there was a prophecy scarcely an- 
 ticipated by even the hopeful proprietor himself. 
 That the distance traveled by this moderately en- 
 dowed storekeeper has been a long one, and that 
 exceptional abilities lurked beneath his modest ex- 
 terior, has been demonstrated unmistakably dur- 
 ing the intervening years. This merchant prince, 
 whose operations are not exceeded in extent 
 by anyone along the coast of Oregon, whose 
 merchant vessels ply the waters of bay and river, 
 whose four thousand acres of timber land are 
 being denuded and its trees utilized in a saw- 
 mill of his own with a capacity of fifty thousand 
 feet per day, and whose manifold interests in- 
 clude the ownership and management of the 
 Hurd Lumber & Navigation Company, the O. 
 W. Hurd mercantile business, the Florence Drug 
 Store, the Florence Creamery, and the O. W. 
 Hurd Packing Company, has placed this part 
 of Oregon under lasting obligation to his gen- 
 ius for organization, to his extraordinary finan- 
 cial acumen, and his sterling qualities as man 
 and citizen. 
 
 The early life and training of Mr. Hurd pre- 
 pared him for the world of labor into which his 
 ambition was to lead him. Industry was one of 
 the first requisites of the rising generation 
 around Penobscot county, Maine, where he was 
 born December 16, 1853, and the eight children 
 of Philander S. and Martha (King) Hurd, were 
 no exception to the rule. Very early ancestors 
 had settled in the northern country on their ar- 
 rival from England in 1600, and the paternal 
 great-grandfather followed the martial fortunes 
 of Washington during the Revolutionary war. 
 The grandfather, Jonathan Hurd, a stock-drover 
 by occupation, settled on the large farm in Maine 
 upon which was born his son, Philander S. 
 Hurd, and the latter still occupies this highly 
 treasured land possession. The maternal family 
 of King also claims English ancestry, and was 
 established in Maine at a very early day, the 
 grandfather, Rice King, having been born there. 
 Mrs. Hurd was born and reared in Bradford 
 township, and at the age of seventy is the sym- 
 pathetic and helpful companion of the husband 
 with whom she has passed so many vears of her 
 life. 
 
 The oldest in a family of five sons and three 
 daughters, Oscar W. Hurd remained at home 
 until attaining his majority, and in the mean- 
 time had acquired a fair common school educa- 
 tion. He was not richly endowed with this 
 world's goods, but he had saved his earnings, 
 and was able to come to the west by way of the 
 Central Pacific railroad in 1874, and to still have 
 a little left for possible needs. At Punta Arena, 
 
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 Cal., he worked his way up in a shingle factory, 
 beginning as a filer, and ending as the manager 
 of the concern. Later he embarked in the whole- 
 sale and retail butcher business in which he was 
 very successful, selling his business in 1883. He 
 came to Oregon with a stock of general mer- 
 chandise, having heard of the opening on the 
 Siuslaw river, and having made up his mind to 
 grow up with the country. Ever since he has 
 been a merchant, enlarging his capacity with his 
 trade, and with this for a foundation, has 
 branched out into a multiplicity of interests. 
 The Mary Hall, the first steamboat on the river, 
 was purchased and started upon its long era of 
 usefulness by Mr. Hurd, and the whistle of this 
 pioneer craft was the first to wake the echoes of 
 the dense timber lands. At the present time 
 he owns the steamer Mink, the Marguerite, and 
 the tug boat Roscoe, launched May 15, 1903, and 
 named after the son of the owner. Above Flor- 
 ence, Mr. Hurd has a creamery in operation,, 
 which has a capacity for caring for milk from 
 five hundred cows. Another enterprise of equal 
 importance from an employment and money- 
 making standpoint is the O. W. Hurd Packing 
 Company, of which he is president and sole 
 owner, and which has a capacity of fifteen thou- 
 sand cases of salmon per season. His four thou- 
 sand acres of timber and river land is all in 
 this vicinity, and the saw-mill, but recently 
 erected in Florence, is aiding to carry on one 
 of the most extensive logging business in this 
 part of the state. No similar enterprises in the 
 northwest are more substantially and reliably 
 founded, or more praiseworthily maintained 
 than the five of which Mr. Hurd is the instigator 
 and promoter. He has given minute attention to 
 the details of each branch of his many-sided busi- 
 ness, and the latest in machinery and method 
 have been adopted regardless of outlay or in- 
 convenience. And thus Mr. Hurd enjoys the 
 additional prestige due large and successful em- 
 ployers of labor, and in this respect his name is 
 associated with the greatest system, kindness and 
 consideration. On his journey to western suc- 
 cess he has dealt with all classes of people, and 
 though like all strong and forceful and influen- 
 tial men, enemies may have risen up in his 
 path, it is safe to say that not a man, woman 
 or child in this coast country regards as other 
 than absolutely trustworthy, the name, character, 
 or good will of this captain of industry. 
 
 Politics has played a small part in the life of 
 Mr. Hurd. He votes the Republican ticket and 
 upholds Republican institutions, but aside from 
 minor local offices, such as town trustee and 
 councilman, his time has been devoted exclusive- 
 ly to his business and home. His fraternal asso- 
 ciations are with the Masons of Florence, in 
 which organization he has attained high rank, 
 
 and is a member of the grand lodge. With his 
 wife he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and at present is serving as its treasurer. In 
 1887 Mr. Hurd married, in Eugene, Lily M. 
 Cox, who was born in January, 1862, a daughter 
 of Capt. W. A. Cox. Captain Cox spent many 
 years of his life on the high seas and in the 
 coast trade, but is now retired from active serv- 
 ice, making his home on the Pacific shore. Mar- 
 guerite, Roscoe and Hester, the three children of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hurd, are living at home. Too 
 much cannot be said of the worth and example 
 of men cast in heroic mould, whether their field 
 of activity be in the commercial, professional, 
 industrial or religious world. Any ambitious 
 young man might profit by the lessons taught in 
 the life of Mr. Hurd. Sober and industrious, 
 persevering always in the direction which his 
 better judgment dictates, he has carved out a 
 competency from the new but intrinsically great 
 commonwealth of Oregon, and no one of her 
 citizens, of which she boasts the proudest and 
 best in the world, can excel him in stability and 
 moral worth. 
 
 WILLIAM M. RITNEY. The first six years 
 of the life of this honored farmer were spent in 
 Howard county, Mo., where he was born De- 
 cember 19, 1848, the fourth child of the four 
 sons and three daughters of John and Elizabeth 
 (Way land) Ritney, natives respectively of Knox 
 county, Ohio, and Virginia, and the latter of 
 whom met a tragic death. John Ritney removed 
 with his parents from Ohio to Howard county, 
 Mo., at a very early day, and there learned the 
 millwright's trade, which he continued to follow 
 as long as he remained in the middle west. In 
 1853 he outfitted with ox-teams and crossed the 
 country with comparatively few happenings of 
 an unpleasant nature. For two years he lived in 
 Salem, and then came to Lane county and took 
 up a claim of three hundred and twenty 
 acres near Junction City, which land is now oc- 
 cupied by his son, William M. Here he made 
 some headway in clearing his land, but died soon 
 after becoming established in the west, February 
 6, 1865, at the age of fifty-six years. 
 
 At the age of sixteen years William M. Rit- 
 ney engaged in independent farming and stock- 
 raising on his father's farm, to which he has 
 added, until he now owns four hundred and 
 eight acres. The farm is advantageously lo- 
 cated near the town, so that the family have the 
 advantages of both town and country. Mr. Rit- 
 nev has always taken a keen interest in the edu- 
 cational advancement of the county, and between 
 1870 and 1880 was a teacher in the schools of 
 the district. He has since been a member and 
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 and has held other offices within the gift of his 
 fellow-townsmen, including that of city recorder 
 for six years. He is fraternally connected with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is 
 a welcome visitor of the lodge of that organiza- 
 tion. Mr. Ritney has been particularly prominent 
 in Presbyterian Church affairs, especially pro- 
 moting the interests of the Sunday schools of his 
 district, both at Eugene and Junction City. In 
 the former city he was the foremost worker in 
 the church for nearly thirty years, and for many 
 years he has been superintendent of the Sunday 
 school in Junction City, for nine years filling the 
 position of secretary of the Sunday schools of 
 the county. 
 
 For his first wife Mr. Ritney married, in Eu- 
 gene, Josephine Goltra, who was born in Doug- 
 las county, and died in Eugene in 1877, leaving 
 one child, Royal W., engaged in gold-mining in 
 Baker City, Ore. The present Mrs. Ritney was 
 formerly Lucy J. Bushnell, a native of Lane 
 county, Ore., and who is the mother of six chil- 
 dren. 
 
 EDWARD P. REDFORD. Among the en- 
 terprising and successful farmers to whom Lane 
 county owes so much for her present advanced 
 position, Edward P. Redford deserves more than 
 passing mention. Inheriting from a thrifty and 
 successful father an appreciation of the possi- 
 bilities of his useful occupation, he has pro- 
 gressed, as study and research have broadened 
 his mind and placed him in touch with the best 
 to be obtained in his line. Fie was born in Bar- 
 ren county, Ky., August 10, 1829. His father 
 moved his family to Missouri about 1848, this 
 being the third state in which he had owned land, 
 his farm in his native state, Virginia, being the 
 largest. There were fifteen children in the fam- 
 ily, and Edward P., who was the fourth in order 
 of birth, led an uneventful youth, attending the 
 district schools irregularly, and working hard 
 during the summer season. Like many other 
 strong and ambitious young men he was on the 
 alert for improving his opportunities, and was 
 willing to take great risks in order to place him- 
 self in a better position. The tales of mining 
 and farming which reached him from the west, 
 fell upon attentive and hopeful ears, and April 
 24, 1850, he started out with ox teams to seek 
 his fortune in the far west. Arriving in Cali- 
 fornia at the end of five months, he mined and 
 prospected for a year, but was not favorably im- 
 pressed with the uncertainty and rough life in- 
 cident to mining, nor was he sufficiently success- 
 ful to warrant a continuation of the struggle. 
 For a time he engaged in teaming. In Novem- 
 ber, 1852, he arrived in Portland, Ore., and has 
 since been a resident of the state. 
 
 In the spring of 1853 Mr. Redford moved to 
 Benton county, making his home near Corvallis, 
 until February, 1853, when he took up a dona- 
 tion claim in Lane county. His marriage with 
 Sarah M. Cochran occurred January 14, 1855. 
 Mrs. Redford was born in Missouri, and came 
 across the plains with her parents in 1852, locat- 
 ing on a farm in Lane count)-. After his mar- 
 riage Mr. Redford took up a claim three miles 
 northeast of Cottage Grove. In 1861 he re- 
 moved near Coburg, and in 1863 to his present 
 place, three and one-half miles northeast of Cot- 
 tag-e Grove. This farm consisted of two hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, being on the angles of 
 sections 9, 10, 15 and 16, township 20, range 3 
 west. At present he owns one hundred and fifty- 
 six acres, upon which he has made all modern 
 improvements, and carries on general farming 
 and stock-raising. For about seventeen years 
 he operated harvesting machines around the 
 country, and in this way materially increased his 
 yearly allowance, many of the settlers being un- 
 able at that time to own the necessary machinery 
 with which to gather in their grain. 
 
 Of the first marriage of Mr. Redford nine 
 children were born, the only survivors being 
 John M., of Creswell ; James E., of Arena; Eliz- 
 abeth, Mrs. Armstrong, of California ; and Ida 
 B., Mrs. Stocks, of the vicinity of Saginaw. 
 Mrs. Redford died February 27, 1875. F° r ms 
 second wife Mr. Redford married Mrs. Minerva 
 Birch, who was born in Missouri and died in 
 Oregon in 1897. F° r a third wife he married 
 Mrs. Harriet E. Hymas, a native of Missouri. 
 In politics a Democrat, Mr. Redford has taken 
 an 'active interest in county politics, and has held 
 all minor offices of the vicinity. He is a mem- 
 ber and elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church. During his life in the west Mr. Red- 
 ford has been identified with the development of 
 the state, and during the Rogue river war gladly 
 left his farm to espouse the cause of the settlers 
 against the Indians. Enlisting under Captain 
 Buoy, in Company B, he served for three months 
 during the latter part of 1855 and the beginning 
 of 1856, participating in many of the important 
 battles, and subjecting himself to great clanger. 
 Mr. Redford commands the respect and good 
 will of all with whom he has been associated, 
 and as an agriculturist, soldier, and citizen, has 
 done his part in the upbuilding of his adopted 
 state. 
 
 FRANK W. OSBURN, the cashier of the 
 Eugene Loan & Savings Bank, is one of the 
 strong and influential men of the city in which 
 the greater part of his life has been spent. Since 
 he came to Oregon at the age of thirteen his 
 every step to progress has been watched by that 
 
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 pioneer and earlier element which zealously 
 guards its prestige, and which nevertheless saw 
 in the energetic and capable boy the promising 
 material from which their sturdy successors were 
 to come. That he has realized the expectations 
 of those in a position to judge is due as much to 
 his masterful handling of opportunity, as to the 
 example of a practical and capable father, with 
 whose drug business he was identified first as 
 clerk and later as partner for many years. 
 
 Mr. Osburn was born at Saegerstown, near 
 Meadville, Crawford county, Pa., January 24, 
 1853, his father, William, and his grandfather, 
 Robert Osburn, being natives of the same state. 
 With patriotic fervor the grandsire fought for 
 his country in the war of 18 12, and died in the 
 state of his birth in 1863. He was of English 
 descent. His son William followed his example 
 and became a land owner and stockman in Penn- 
 sylvania, in which state he married Rebecca 
 Deeter, born in the eastern part of the Quaker 
 state, and a daughter of Michael Deeter, who was 
 an early settler in the vicinity of Saegerstown. 
 As the name implies, the maternal family claims 
 German ancestry. Six children were born to 
 William Osburn and his wife in Pennsylvania, 
 Frank W. being the third. Ralph S., the oldest 
 son, died in Reno, Nev. ; Robert M. was living 
 in Mexico when last heard of; Adela E. is now 
 Mrs. Moore of San Diego, Cal. ; Mrs. Agnes E. 
 Harding is a resident of Eugene; and Mrs. 
 Augusta McDonald lives at Grant's Pass, Ore. 
 William Osburn brought his wife and six chil- 
 dren to Eugene in 1866, by way of Panama, San 
 Francisco, Portland and Albany, and for many 
 years engaged in the drug busines on Willamette 
 street. His death occurred in 1890, and he was 
 survived by his wife until 1895. He was a 
 Democrat in politics, and was fraternally con- 
 nected with the Masons. 
 
 After coming to Eugene, Frank W. Osburn 
 continued the public school education begun in 
 Saegerstown, and in 1872 left the schoolroom to 
 enter his father's drug business, which he learned 
 from the bottom. In 1872 he became a partner 
 in the concern under the firm name of Osburn 
 & Company, and after the death of his father in 
 1890 he took into partnership Mr. Delano, the 
 firm name being changed to Osburn & Delano. 
 Owing to the pressure of other business matters, 
 Mr. Osburn disposed of his interest in the drug 
 business to his partner in 1899. In the mean- 
 time, in 1890, he had become interested in what 
 is now the Eugene Loan & Savings Bank, which 
 was organized as the Bank of Oregon, and be- 
 came the Eugene National Bank in 1891. Mr. 
 Osburn was one of the organizers and directors 
 of the original bank, became the bookkeeper in 
 1891, and in 1892 assumed his present position of 
 cashier. He is also interested as director and 
 
 treasurer in the Lane County Electric Company. 
 He has been a special factor in educational ad- 
 vancement in Eugene, is now serving his second 
 term on the school board, and is a member of 
 the building committee overseeing the erection 
 of the new high school building. Always a 
 stanch Democrat, he served as postmaster of 
 Eugene under. Cleveland from 1886 until 1890, 
 but is not seeking further honors of a political 
 nature. He is past master of Eugene Lodge No. 
 11, A. F. and A. M. ; past high priest of Eugene 
 Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. ; past eminent com- 
 mander of Ivanhoe Commandery No. 2, Knights 
 Templar ; a member of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen ; and the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks. In 1881 Mr. Osburn married in 
 Walla Walla, Wash., Addie Bristol, born in Lane 
 county, Ore., and daughter of George and Paul- 
 ine (Minton) Bristol, well known pioneers of 
 Oregon. Frank W. Osburn, Jr., the only son of 
 this union, is a graduate of the Annapolis Naval 
 Academy, class of 1902, and is now junior officer 
 on the gunboat Vicksburg with the Asiatic squad- 
 ron in China. Mrs. Osburn is a member of the 
 Congregational church. 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM HARRIS, M. D. The 
 sturdy qualities which distinguish the pioneer 
 have been transmitted to the son, for since his 
 fourteenth year John W. Harris has worked his 
 own way in the pursuit of an education and a 
 profession for which he felt his ability, attending 
 the best of schools and attaining the degree which 
 permitted him to begin the practice of medicine. 
 He is the son of J. M. Harris, was born near 
 Russellville, Ind., March 2, 1856, and was next 
 to the youngest of his father's family. He lived 
 in his native state until he was three years old, 
 when his parents located in Illinois, near the 
 town of Quincy, and there remained for six 
 years, when they crossed the plains with four- 
 horse teams. The journey occupied six months. 
 Upon their arrival in the west the father settled 
 six miles east of Albany, Linn county, where 
 they remained for four years. In 1871 he located 
 near Cottage Grove. (For a more complete ac- 
 count of the father's life, refer to his sketch, 
 which appears on another page of this work.) 
 
 John W. Harris remained at home until at- 
 taining his majority, receiving his education in 
 the public schools and Monmouth College, and 
 beginning to teach when but seventeen years old. 
 This occupation was continued in connection 
 with his studies for several years, the income 
 therefrom enabling him to continue his work. 
 The first year in which he undertook the study 
 of medicine he was under the tutelage of his 
 brother. Dr. T. W. Harris of Eugene, after which 
 he entered the medical department of the Uni- 
 
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 versity of California, remaining one year. He 
 then became a student in the medical depart- 
 ment of Willamette University, from which he 
 was graduated in 1884 with the degree of M. D. 
 Taking up the practice of his profession, Dr. 
 Harris located in Cottage Grove, where he re- 
 mained until 1888, when he removed to Eugene, 
 in which city he has since been engaged in the 
 practice of medicine and surgery. The uniform 
 judgment which has brought him success has 
 made him a prominent physician and has built up 
 for him a substantial and lucrative practice. For 
 the past eight years he has been secretary of the 
 Lane County Medical Society, and is now serv- 
 ing as medical examiner for several old line in- 
 surance companies. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Harris occurred in Cot- 
 tage Grove June 6, 1877, ar >d united him with 
 Miss Mary R. Shortridge, a native of that city, 
 and the daughter of James H. Shortridge, who 
 became a farmer in that neighborhood as a pio- 
 neer of 1852. The four children who have 
 blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Harris are as 
 follows : Madison Curtis, a graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Oregon, who is now attending North- 
 western University of Chicago, class of 1904, as 
 a student in the dental department ; Edith M., 
 wife of Louis Martin of Portland ; Edna L. and 
 George H. Mrs. Harris is a member of the 
 Christian Church. In fraternal associations Dr. 
 Harris is an Odd Fellow, in which, lodge he is 
 past officer, and he belongs to the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, acting as medical examiner 
 for that order. In politics a stanch Republican, 
 he has often been called upon to serve in the in- 
 terests of the party, for six years having acted 
 as coroner of Lane countv. 
 
 COL. GEORGE O. YORAN. As a journal- 
 ist and soldier, Col. George O. Yoran constitutes 
 a very popular and agreeable adjunct to the lat- 
 ter-dav cosmopolitan life of Eugene. Represent- 
 ing one of the best-known families of this state, 
 his immediate connections are dealt with else- 
 where in this work, and perhaps furnish a key 
 to the moulding influences of his life. Pride of 
 birth, - and an ancestry numbering among its 
 members men who shouldered their muskets on 
 the battlefields of the Revolutionary war, are 
 reflected in his career. His birth occurred at 
 Sand Spring, Delaware county, Iowa, and he 
 was reared principally in Jones county, of the 
 same state. After graduating from the high 
 school of Monticello, lo'wa, he applied himself to 
 learning the printer's trade, plying the same after 
 coming to Eugene in 1883. For a time he was 
 associated with the West Shore Magazine in 
 Portland, and upon returning to Eugene joined 
 
 his brother. W. C. Yoran, in the publication of 
 the Eugene Register until its sale in 1896. 
 
 Colonel Yoran's initial military experience be- 
 gan in 1887, when he became a member of Com- 
 pany C, First Regiment of Infantry, Oregon Na- 
 tional Guards, and from the position of private 
 was rapidly advanced to the rank of sergeant and 
 second lieutenant. Resigning his commission in 
 November, 1889, he was elected first lieutenant 
 of Company C in the spring of 1890, a few 
 months later being promoted to the captaincy of 
 the same company, and in 1893 was elected major 
 of the Second Regiment of Infantry, Oregon Na- 
 tional Guards, the following year being given 
 full command of the regiment. In 1894 he was 
 elected and commissioned colonel of the regi- 
 ment, and at the breaking out of the Spanish- 
 American war was appointed and commissioned 
 lieutenant-colonel of the Second Regiment by 
 Governor Lord. With his command he accom- 
 panied the regiment to the Philippine Islands, re- 
 mained during the entire campaign, and after 
 returning to the United States was honorably dis- 
 charged in August, 1899. Upon the re-organiza- 
 tion of the Oregon National Guards in May, 
 1900, the Fourth regiment was organized, and 
 Colonel Yoran was elected its colonel May 15, 
 1900. He is a typical military man, enthusiastic 
 in his appreciation of law and order, and enter- 
 tains corresponding pride in the organizations 
 with which he has been connected. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Spanish- American War Veterans' As- 
 sociation. Fraternally he is connected' with 
 Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. and A. M., of 
 which he was master in 1903, and Eugene Chap- 
 ter No. 10, R. A. M., of which he is captain of 
 the host. A Republican in politics, he has never 
 aspired to official recognition. His wife, who 
 was formerly Laura Dunn, a native of Eugene, 
 is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, and the mother of two interesting chil- 
 dren, George Francis and Ada Gertrude. Mrs. 
 Yoran is a daughter of the late F. B. Dunn. 
 
 WALDO L. CHESHIRE, M. D. Oregon 
 has her share of men of brilliant intellectual at- 
 tainments and character, and among these none 
 are more prominent than those of the medical 
 profession, one of whom is Waldo L. Cheshire, 
 who, though still young in years, is a man of wide 
 experience. He is serving as president of the 
 Lane County Medical Society, and also holds 
 the position of medical examiner for various of 
 the fraternal orders, and for two years he served 
 as county coroner, from 1898 to 1900, as well 
 as carrying on a general practice of medicine 
 and surgery. 
 
 Dr. Cheshire was born in Umatilla countv, 
 
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 Ore., July 1 1, 1864, his father being W. P. Ches- 
 hire, a native of Tennessee, and the grandfather 
 Edmund Cheshire, who removed to Missouri, 
 where he died. W. P. Cheshire was reared in 
 Missouri until he was fifteen years of age, when 
 he crossed the plains in an ox-train in 1854, com- 
 ing first to the Willamette valley, where he 
 worked for various people and was also em- 
 ployed in the mines of Southern Oregon. In 
 1855-56 he enlisted for service in the Rogue 
 River Indian war, and afterward returned to 
 the valley. For a short period he was a resi- 
 dent of Walla Walla, Wash., and then became 
 a farmer and stockman in Umatilla county. With 
 the exception of a year which was spent in San 
 Francisco, he has passed the remaining years in 
 Lane county, engaged in farming and hop-rais- 
 ing, having been engaged in the latter industry 
 for fifteen years. He now makes his home in 
 Eugene. In his fraternal relations he is a mem- 
 ber of Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M. ; 
 Eugene Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. ; Ivanhoe 
 Commandery No. 2, K. T., and Al Kader Tem- 
 ple, N. M. S., and is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church. He married Susan F. Baskett, a na- 
 tive of Lane county, Ore., and the daughter of 
 Richard Dudley Baskett, who came with his 
 wife across the plains and became a pioneer of 
 the Willamette valley. He died in the spring 
 of 1902, near Portland, his wife having died 
 many years earlier, when she was but thirty- 
 four years of age. 
 
 Of the six children born to his parents, Wal- 
 do L. Cheshire, the eldest, was reared in Lane 
 county, from the age of five years. He attended 
 the district school in an effort to gain a pre- 
 liminary education, and afterward entered the 
 University of Oregon. He withdrew from this 
 work in his junior year, anxious to take up the 
 study of medicine, which he did alone for two 
 years, when he became a student at the Cooper 
 Medical College, San Francisco, from which he 
 was graduated in 1896 with the degree of M. D. 
 He then began practicing in Oakland, Cal., 
 where he met with fair success, and after one 
 year he came to Eugene, and has since made 
 this his home. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Cheshire occurred in 
 Douglas county, Ore., Augusta May Palmer, 
 a native of that county, becoming his wife. Her 
 father was the Hon. P. P. Palmer, a prominent 
 and successful farmer of that section. Dr. 
 Cheshire was made a Mason in Eugene Lodge 
 No. 11, A. F. & A. M., is a member of K. of P. 
 Uniformed Rank ; Woodmen of the World ; 
 Modern Woodmen of America ; Royal Arcanum ; 
 Foresters, and United Artisans, in all of these 
 serving as medical examiner. He is also a 
 member of the Native Sons of Oregon. The 
 doctor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 
 Church, and in politics is a Democrat. Dr. 
 Cheshire served for several years in the Oregon 
 National Guard, and since July, 1898, he has 
 been special examiner for Companies A and C, 
 Fourth Regiment, and also of the Fourth Regi- 
 ment Band. 
 
 RICHARD T. A. ROBINSON. A Canadian 
 by birth, Richard T. A. Robinson combines the 
 good qualities which distinguish those northern- 
 born people with the energy and open hearted- 
 ness of the Oregonians, for much of his life has 
 been spent here, and it is here that he has earned 
 his competence. He now owns two hundred 
 and seventeen acres located in the vicinity of 
 Junction City, Lane county, and is busily engaged 
 in general farming and stock-raising, in the latter 
 work finding profit in Cotswold sheep and 
 Poland-China hogs. 
 
 Mr. Robinson was born in Mascouche, Canada, 
 February 16, 1869, and when only nine years old 
 he came to Oregon with his parents, Richard A. 
 and Jane Ann (Alexander) Robinson, who 
 located upon the farm where the son now makes 
 his home, and engaged in the work of cultivation 
 and improvement. This, however, remained their 
 home for but a short time, as the mother died the 
 year following and the father then took his chil- 
 dren back to New York state to find a home. 
 They remained in the latter location until the 
 death of the father by a stroke of lightning, Au- 
 gust 1, 1883, and then Richard T. A. returned to 
 Oregon to make his home with R. L. Robinson, 
 his uncle, who had come west to the gold fields 
 of California in the early fifties, and from that 
 location had settled in this state, where he had 
 since remained. From 1886 to the day of his 
 uncle's death, May 6, 1894, he made his home 
 with the latter, who owned a farm of eight hun- 
 dred and twenty-two acres. October 24, 1894, 
 he married Jennie M. Spencer, and they now 
 have one child, Jennie M. A practical and in- 
 telligent farmer, Mr. Robinson has met with suc- 
 cessful returns from his work and has added no 
 little to the prestige of this class of men in the 
 northwest. In religion he is a member of the 
 United Brethren Church, and politically casts 
 his ballot with the Democratic party. 
 
 JESSE SOVERNS. In the energetic and 
 practical pursuit of agriculture Jesse Soverns is 
 putting in his years and following the early train- 
 ing which he received from his father, George 
 Soverns, one of the pioneers of 1852. The latter 
 was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, December 
 4, 1826, his father being Jesse Soverns, a native 
 of Virginia, but who had been taken to Ohio 
 when quite young, there growing to manhood's 
 
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 estate. He married Eliza Bailey, and in 1832 
 they removed to Indiana and in 1837 located in 
 Tazewell count}-, 111., where they followed farm- 
 ing for a livelihood. 
 
 Upon attaining manhood George Soverns mar- 
 ried Fanny Holton and in 1852 he crossed the 
 plains with his parents, his wife and child, a jour- 
 ney which was long recalled by the misfortunes 
 that followed them. The wife and child died 
 upon the journey, and the mother met with an 
 accident which caused her death soon after reach- 
 ing Portland, and each family was thus bereft of 
 the faithful care of the mother. The grandfather 
 located near the present site of Junction City and 
 the younger man sought a livelihood in what- 
 ever he found to do, cutting wood, harvesting, 
 etc. During the Rogue River war he engaged as 
 teamster of his company, which was under the 
 command of Capt. J. D. Matlock. In 1856 he 
 located permanently in Lane county, becoming 
 the owner of four hundred and twenty-six acres 
 in the neighborhood of Junction City, and there 
 engaged in the cultivation of his land, and espe- 
 cially dealt in stock. Later he added to his 
 property by a purchase of six hundred and forty- 
 six acres in this county and extended his cattle 
 interests to a considerable degree. For two years 
 he located in Eugene on account of the excellent 
 schools which he wished his children to attend, 
 then spent a year again on the farm, in 1879 
 locating permanently in Eugene, where he lived 
 until his death in July, igoo. 
 
 The second wife of Mr. Soverns was Mrs. 
 Elizabeth (Blachley) Tylor, a widow with one 
 daughter, Jane, who married Bernum S. Hyland. 
 The three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Soverns 
 are as follows : Jesse, of this review, who was 
 born on the farm where he now lives, May 28, 
 1859; Hulda, deceased; and Fannie, wife of Al- 
 bert Jackson. The respect and esteem of all who 
 knew him was the tribute paid to the worthy life 
 which Mr. Soverns had lived. 
 
 Jesse Soverns was reared upon his father's 
 farm, receiving his education in the University 
 of Oregon, after which he attended the De 
 France & White Commercial College of Portland, 
 his course extending over a period of three years, 
 the wisdom of his father foreseeing the value of 
 a good education in the prosecution of agricul- 
 tural pursuits. When twenty years old he as- 
 sumed charge of the home farm and October 8, 
 1879, was married to Evaline C. Behrens, who 
 was also born in Lane county, and was the daugh- 
 ter of Lewis Behrens, and they now have two 
 children, George L., a merchant at Prosser, 
 Wash., and Lewis, attending the high school of 
 Eugene. Mr. Soverns now owns five hundred 
 and seventy-five acres, all of which is in one 
 piece, and engages in general farming and stock- 
 raising, Cotswold sheep being his principal in- 
 
 terest. In politics a Republican, he has proven 
 his loyalty to the party and has served for twenty 
 years as school clerk of District No. 38. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 fraternally he affiliates with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, at Junction City. 
 
 ISAAC N. EDWARDS. The usefulness of 
 a man's life is not determined by his environ- 
 ment, but by the character which prompts his 
 actions and indicates his motives, and it often 
 happens that the life of an agriculturist is more 
 conducive to broad-minded thought than that of 
 almost any other occupation. Especially is this 
 true in Oregon, and one of this class is Isaac N. 
 Edwards, a resident of Lane county, whose voice 
 has been heard on the side of progress for many 
 years and whose utterances have been appreci- 
 ated by those who have the welfare of the state 
 and community at heart. Though his principal 
 interests have always lain in the cultivation of 
 the soil, he was chosen to the state legislature 
 for the sessions of i902-'o3 as a representative 
 of the Republican party, the principles of which 
 he has always supported. 
 
 The Edwards family is also represented in 
 Oregon by the father, James E., now making his 
 home near Monroe, Benton county, in his eighty- 
 seventh year, his presence among the citizens a 
 constant reminder of the pioneer days of the 
 state, for he crossed the plains in 1853. He was 
 born in Pennsylvania, and in Ohio married Mary 
 Longsworth, also a native of the same state, and 
 in the spring of '53 he outfitted with two wagons 
 and seven yoke of oxen, and with his wife and 
 four children set out upon the journey which 
 meant a pilgrimage like unto that of the Israelites 
 of old. Seven months were spent upon the plains 
 amid the trials and dangers which beset the early 
 traveler, and at the conclusion of their journey 
 the father located in the Alsea country, Benton 
 county, where he took up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres. Upon this 
 property the family remained for four years, 
 when they removed near their present location, 
 becoming the owner of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, and later moving to their present home 
 near Monroe, Benton county. The mother died 
 in 1887. Mr. Edwards is a member of the 
 United Brethren Church, having crossed in the 
 train which was largely composed of a colony of 
 that faith. As a citizen he has always been in- 
 fluential in his neighborhood and has taken a 
 lively interest in public affairs, the position of 
 county commissioner of Benton county being his 
 for fourteen years. 
 
 The birth of Isaac N. Edwards occurred in 
 Guernsey county, Ohio, November 5, 1845, ar *d 
 he was thus eight years old when the journey 
 
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 was made to the west. He was trained to the life 
 of a farmer under the careful supervision of his 
 father, but almost before entering manhood he 
 left home to become a volunteer in Company A, 
 First Regiment of Oregon Infantry, under the 
 command of Capt. Charles La Follett, and was 
 detailed to Indian service in the same year 
 (1864). He was first stationed at Vancouver 
 and was then removed to Fort Yamhill. His 
 company was then divided and he went with 
 Captain La Follett and forty men to the De 
 Chutes country, where he participated in build- 
 ing Camp Polk, where they remained from Oc- 
 tober, 1864, to May, 1865, when the company re- 
 turned to Fort Yamhill and was mustered out of 
 service in July, 1865. He then returned to his 
 home and at twenty-two he married, and bought 
 one hundred and twenty acres in Benton county, 
 that being the home of his family for two years. 
 On locating in Lane county he purchased a farm 
 of three hundred and twenty acres two miles 
 southeast of Junction City and engaged in prac- 
 tical farming for a period of sixteen years, in 
 1885 removing to his present property, which 
 consists of one hundred and seventy-eight acres. 
 Here he carries on general farming and stock- 
 raising and lives the comfortable and pleasant 
 life of a prosperous farmer. He still owns the 
 farm which was his home for so many years. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Edwards was in maidenhood 
 Mary Gilbert, daughter of L. D. and Hannah 
 (Belknap) Gilbert, pioneers of 1847, an d by 
 their union were born the following children: 
 Orville, deceased; Loren ; Lettie, the wife of 
 Josiah H. Herron, of Benton county; Clifford; 
 Ernest, at home; Leona, wife of Jesse Flint; 
 Chester and Mary, at home. In the interests of 
 the Republican party, the principles of which he 
 endorses, Mr. Edwards has done considerable 
 campaigning in a local way, in. which capacity 
 his services are thoroughly appreciated. In re- 
 ligion he was once a member of the United 
 Brethren Church, but in the past few years has 
 been identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
 faith, of which his wife is also an adherent. The 
 church is built opposite his home, and he and 
 • his wife were the promoters of the church organ- 
 ization. He now serves as class leader, trustee 
 and steward, while Mrs. Edwards is a teacher in 
 the Sunday school. 
 
 CHARLES APPLEGATE. If all the events 
 and experiences of this pioneer could be chron- 
 icled, they would make interesting reading for 
 the occupants of the happy homes that now dot 
 the country which he found a wilderness and 
 inhabited by little else than savages and wild 
 beasts. Suffice it to say that now his labors are 
 ended, let the thronging thousands who shall 
 
 enjoy this beautiful land remember that his 
 strong arms helped to subdue this far-western 
 wilderness and prepared it for civilization. 
 
 Charles Applegate was one of three brothers, 
 Charles, Lindsay and Jesse Applegate, who 
 played such an important part in the early history 
 of Oregon. He was born in Henry county, Ky., 
 January 24, 1806, and died at Yoncalla, Douglas 
 county, Ore., on August 9, 1879. When fifteen 
 years of age Mr. Applegate moved to St. Louis 
 county, Mo., and a number of years later, in 
 1829, was joined in marriage with Malinda Mil- 
 ler. With her and a small company of emi- 
 grants, he started for Oregon on May 15, 1843, 
 and thus became one of the very early settlers. 
 They settled in the Willamette valley in Polk 
 county, and remained there until 1850, but at 
 that date removed to the vicinity of the present 
 city of Yoncalla, where he became an essential 
 figure in business affairs, continuing so until his 
 death. 
 
 Mr. Applegate was a very successful stock- 
 man, and was especially a large sheep-raiser, and 
 thus became very wealthy. He had a beautiful 
 home on his large ranch, and was most liberal 
 and hospitable to the emigrants and early settlers. 
 His doors were always open to the weary trav- 
 elers and they were glad to partake of his gen- 
 erous hospitality, and many of the early emi- 
 grants still remember him with great kindliness. 
 His whole life was a blameless one and he ac- 
 complished much good. He and his wife reared 
 an exceptionally large family of fifteen children. 
 
 JOHN J. SPALINGER. When John J. 
 Spalinger stepped from the gang plank of a sail- 
 ing vessel in New York in 1856, he had $1.50 
 in his pocket, and a wealth of hope and good 
 will in his heart. In his native Switzerland, 
 where he was born in 1839, he had been reared 
 to hard work and frugal living, and his scanty 
 hoard seemed therefore more or less familiar, and 
 not so discouraging as it might seem to some. 
 By working his way he managed to reach Cook 
 county, 111., at a time when harvests were being 
 gathered, and there was need for strong and 
 willing men. For a few months he worked on 
 farms for thirteen dollars a month, and then went 
 to Des Moines, Iowa, where he found employ- 
 ment in a saw-mill. From Des Moines he made 
 his way to Council Bluffs, and after working as 
 a laborer for six months, returned to Des Moines, 
 remaining there a few months. 
 
 In his effort to find a desirable permanent loca- 
 tion Mr. Spalinger visited St. Louis, and finally 
 reached Illinois, still later moving to Jasper 
 county, Iowa. Here he was married, in 1863, 
 to Elizabeth Owens, with whom he went to 
 housekeeping on a farm he had purchased, and 
 
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 which consisted of forty acres. To this he added 
 from time to time, and finally accumulated a 
 large property. In 1875 he came with his family 
 to Oregon, and for a year lived on rented land 
 in Linn county, soon after purchasing three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of land. Thirty acres of 
 this land was cleared, but at present nearly two 
 hundred acres are available for general crops. 
 Many fine improvements have followed in the 
 wake of large harvests, and the general appear- 
 ance of the farm is characteristic of the enter- 
 prise and order of the successful owner. It is 
 three miles west of Jefferson, and is well watered, 
 fenced and has a comfortable house. 
 
 The first wife of Mr. Spalinger died in 1885, 
 leaving eight children : William, deceased ; 
 George ; Frank ; Oscar ; Edward ; Emma ; Callie ; 
 and Sadie, deceased. In 1895 he was united in 
 marriage with Mrs. Fannie Smith, daughter of 
 Marshall Dudley and Chloe (Baldwin) Car- 
 penter. Mrs. Spalinger was born in Iowa, and 
 has resided in Oregon since 1888. By her mar- 
 riage with George Frederick Smith she had two 
 children, Clara Dell and Jessie May, both of 
 whom are living. In politics Mr. Spalinger is 
 Independent, believing in voting for the man best 
 qualified to serve the public interests. He is en- 
 terprising and progressive, and a typical repre- 
 sentative of his resourceful nation. 
 
 SAMUEL DOKE HOLT. The conditions 
 prevalent in Oregon in the early days, though 
 bespeaking desolation, loneliness and danger, 
 were such as to finely develop the character of 
 the men who became pioneers. Empty-handed 
 they came into the wilderness and began the up- 
 building of a primitive civilization, courage, hon- 
 esty and earnestness of purpose becoming the 
 foundation of this western commonwealth ; ad- 
 vancing steadily with the march of progress un- 
 hindered by tradition of pioneer days ; working 
 patiently and perseveringly toward a common 
 end. It is not a matter of wonder that the pres- 
 ent generation pauses to look upon the record of 
 such lives as those which gave to Oregon the 
 strength and purpose of manhood, in both youth 
 and maturity, holding in grateful remembrance 
 the pioneers of the state. 
 
 Occupying a prominent place among the pio- 
 neers is the name of Samuel Doke Holt, who 
 but recently passed from the scenes of his life- 
 long labors. He came to Oregon in 1852 and 
 settled in Lane county, where he was identified 
 with agricultural and stock interests for many 
 years, becoming a power financially and exerting 
 a wide and lasting influence by the example of a 
 Christian character, by which he is so well re- 
 membered today. He was born in east Ten- 
 nessee, near Greenville, the son of Barrett Holt. 
 
 The father was born near Richmond, Va., and on 
 attaining manhood removed to Tennessee and 
 thence to Missouri. The boyhood of Samuel D. 
 Holt was spent upon a mountainous farm in 
 Tennessee, but when fifteen years old he settled 
 in Andrew county, Mo., where he entered the 
 quartermaster's department of the United States 
 army and served throughout the Mexican war 
 and for about a year prior thereto. In the sum- 
 mer of 1848 he drove eight yoke of oxen, assist- 
 ing in the building of Fort Kearney on the Platte 
 river. After the close of the war he decided to 
 try his fortunes in the west, and accordingly 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, in August of 
 the same year commencing mining operations on 
 the middle fork of the American river. This 
 sojourn in California proved profitable, and on 
 his return to Missouri in January, 185 1, via the 
 Isthmus of Panama, he purchased a farm and 
 decided to remain content in the middle west. 
 The following year, however, he outfitted with 
 three wagons and a number of loose stock and 
 again crossed the plains, his destination being the 
 great northwest. He was accompanied by his 
 two brothers, Benjamin and James E., the former 
 of whom died in Harrisburg, Ore., in 1900, while 
 the latter, after many years' identification with 
 this state, became a resident of San Jose, Cal., 
 where he now resides. 
 
 Mr. Holt arrived in Oregon August 29, 1852, 
 and immediately took up a donation claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres in the neighborhood of 
 West Point, Lane county, and engaged in farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. He met with the success 
 which follows earnest effort and practical appli- 
 cation of knowledge, and before the passage of 
 many years he was numbered among the repre- 
 sentative citizens of his community. In partner- 
 ship with his brother, James E., be became the 
 owner of about three thousand acres of land, 
 which was devoted to an extensive cultivation of 
 cattle and sheep. After many years a large part 
 of this land was disposed of and the partnership 
 of the brothers dissolved. At this time Mr. Holt 
 owned about six hundred acres of land, known 
 as the Joe Smith donation claim, located three 
 miles north of Coburg. About twenty years 
 prior to his death he removed to Eugene, from 
 which city he superintended the management of 
 his agricultural interests. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Holt united him with a 
 native daughter of the west, Miss Angeline 
 Wilkins, who was born near West Point, Lane 
 county, in 1849. The ceremony was performed 
 March 10, 1868, at the home of her father, 
 Mitchell Wilkins, a pioneer of 1847. Two chil- 
 dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Holt, namely : 
 Aileen, who died at the age of six months, and 
 Linna. The latter, after graduating from the 
 Eugene high school, attended the University of 
 
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 Oregon, from which institution she was gradu- 
 ated in 1 89 1. She married Albert Gaylord, of 
 Pasadena, Cal., in which city her death occurred 
 in 1898. 
 
 With the death of Mr. Holt, which occurred 
 July 19, 1901, there passed away one of the truly 
 worthy men of Eugene. Not alone eminent in the 
 practical demonstration of his financial ability, 
 but occupying a place high in the esteem of his 
 fellow-men, Mr. Holt attracted to himself that 
 regard which is the portion of one of his moral 
 worth. No man stood higher in Eugene and no 
 man more deserved the esteem and confidence of 
 his associates. A Christian beyond the mere 
 naming, he belonged to the Cumberland Presby- 
 terian Church, having been converted when a 
 mere lad at a camp meeting near his old home in 
 Greenville, Tenn. In the face of many tempta- 
 tions incident to the wandering life he led and 
 the trials and dangers of his pioneer venture, he 
 remained true to his profession of faith. In the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church of this city, of 
 which his wife is also a member, he served for 
 many years on the official board, and was one 
 of the strong lights of the congregation, an evi- 
 dence of the love which he bore those who la- 
 bored for the cause being manifested in his be- 
 quest of $1,000 to be used by the board of min- 
 isterial relief. In his political convictions Mr. 
 Holt was a Democrat, though he was never radi- 
 cal in his ideas or professions. In his fraternal 
 relations he was identified with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, while his wife belongs 
 to the Native Daughters of Eugene. Generous 
 to a fault, broad-minded and public-spirited, Mr. 
 Holt always contributed to every enterprise which 
 came within his reach, having been particularly 
 interested in the success of the University of 
 Oregon. Both he and his brother James gave 
 liberally to that institution, as much as $1,500 
 at a time going to increase the financial standing 
 of this college. In addition to the many acts 
 which the world could witness, Mr. Holt lived 
 an earnest, forceful life, whose influence will 
 outlast the passage of time and effectually insure 
 him a place in the hearts of the younger gener- 
 ation. 
 
 FRANK A. HACKLEMAN. A native of 
 Albany, Frank A. Hackleman was born March 
 14, 1865. After obtaining his knowledge of 
 books in the Albany public schools, he became 
 familiar as a boy with the care of stock, spend- 
 ing much of his time with his father on the 
 ranch. When about twenty years old he started 
 in business for himself as a cattle raiser and 
 dealer, at the same time making a specialty of 
 breeding horses. For marking cattle, his father 
 had the letter branded on the right side of 
 
 the animal, and Mr. Hackleman uses the same 
 letter, but brands it on the left side. In brand- 
 ing horses the father uses the letter H, placing 
 it on the shoulder, and Mr. Hackleman brands 
 H with a bar across the top on the shoulder. 
 Their ranch, known as the Q ranch, has a fine 
 location for grazing purposes, being situated just 
 on the edge of the Great Desert. Mr. Hackle- 
 man's ranch consists of three hundred and twenty 
 acres of good farming land, with an extensive 
 range for his cattle and horses near by. In his 
 large herd of stock, he has many high grade 
 Shorthorn cattle, and among his horses are some 
 of the best Clydes and Percherons to be found in 
 this locality. He sells some to the home mar- 
 ket, but ships the greater part of those he raises, 
 in the year 1902 two train-loads of horses having 
 been shipped from the Q ranch to Omaha, Neb., 
 where good draft horses are in special demand. 
 Mr. Hackleman married first Martha J. 
 Stroud,, who was born and reared in Albany. 
 At her death she left two children, Elmira and 
 Pansey. He then married Miss Lena Cox, also 
 a native of Albany, and they are the parents of 
 three children, namely : Hazel, Elenore and 
 Dorothea. Politically Mr. Hackleman is a Demo- 
 crat. He resides in Albany, being numbered 
 among its foremost citizens, but, with his fam- 
 ily, spends the summer seasons on his pleasant 
 ranch, where he has a beautiful country home. 
 
 MAJOR JOHNSON is a son of Philip T. 
 Johnson, and was born January 25, 1844, in 
 Boone county, Mo. A native of Kentucky, 
 Philip T. Johnson became an early settler of 
 Boone county, Mo., but subsequently removed 
 to Sullivan county, where his last years were 
 spent. He served in the Civil war, enlisting in 
 1 86 1 in the Twenty- third Missouri Infantry, and 
 remaining with his company until he became 
 so crippled that he was honorably discharged on 
 account of physical disability. He married 
 Sarah Hazard, a daughter of Harper Hazard, 
 an early settler of Boone county, Mo., and a 
 prominent member of the Baptist Church. She 
 died in Missouri. Nine children were born of 
 their union, eight boys and one girl. Four of 
 the sons were in the Civil war, Henry D. serv- 
 ing as captain of a company in a Missouri regi- 
 ment ; D. F., Col. R. and Major being in the 
 regiment with their father. Another son, Albert, 
 was a member of the Missouri state militia for 
 a year. Three sons still survive, Col. R. and Al- 
 bert, of Missouri, and Major, the special sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 The eighth in a family of nine children, Major 
 Johnson was brought up on a farm, and educat- 
 ed in the district school. At the age of seven- 
 teen, in August, 1861, he enlisted in Company 
 
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 A, Twenty-third Missouri Infantry, and was 
 mustered in at Benton Barracks, St. Louis. In 
 April, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh, the colonel 
 of his regiment was killed, and he, with many 
 of his comrades, was captured. The following 
 six and one-half months, Mr. Johnson was con- 
 fined in different southern prisons, the last one 
 heing Libby Prison, where he remained until ex- 
 changed. After recuperating, he rejoined his 
 regiment in Missouri, and afterwards did duty 
 in Tennessee from the fall of 1863 until the 
 spring of 1864. At that time, as a member of 
 the Fourteenth Army Corps, under General 
 Thomas, he participated in the various pitched 
 battles and minor engagements of the Georgia 
 campaign. In the meantime Mr. Johnson's eyes, 
 which had seriously troubled him from the time 
 of his captivity, grew so much worse that at 
 the siege of Atlanta he was unable to distinguish 
 objects. As his time of service had expired, he 
 was there mustered out, and honorably dis- 
 charged. Returning to Missouri, he placed him- 
 self under treatment, but received no help, his 
 eyes continually growing worse, and since 1877 
 he has been totally blind. Notwithstanding his 
 great affliction, Mr. Johnson has never lost cour- 
 age, but has labored persistently and willingly, 
 confining his attention to the tilling of the soil 
 chiefly. Emigrating to Oregon in January, 1876, 
 he located first in Independence, where his 
 brother, Philip T. Johnson, resided. He subse- 
 quently spent a short time in Polk county, then 
 removed to Albany in 1880, in 1881 going to 
 Benton county, where he purchased one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land on the Lebanon hillside. 
 Two years later he traded that farm for another, 
 and has since acquired other landed property, 
 owning three farms in Linn county, one very 
 fine one being located near Peoria. Since 1899, 
 he has been a resident of Albany, and occupies 
 a position of prominence among its esteemed and 
 influential citizens. 
 
 On August 13, 1865, Mr. Johnson married, in 
 Sullivan county. Mo., Mary M. Russell, who 
 was born in Loudoun county, Va., the birthplace 
 of her father, Jonathan Russell. Her grand- 
 father, James Russell, was a native of Virginia, 
 and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was of 
 Irish parentage, his family having emigrated 
 from the north of Ireland to Virginia. Jona- 
 than Russell began life as a farmer in Virginia, 
 but afterwards became an early settler of Sulli- 
 van county, Mo., removing there in 1857. He 
 improved a good farm, and for a number of 
 years served in the state militia. He married for 
 his first wife Elizabeth Edwards, who was born 
 in Loudoun county, Va., a daughter of Joseph 
 Edwards, a planter. She died in Missouri, leav- 
 ing five children, one of whom resides in Mis- 
 souri, one in Arkansas, and three in Oregon, 
 
 namely : Mary M., now Mrs. Johnson ; Mrs. 
 Emma Crosby, of Albany; and James J., of Mon- 
 mouth. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents 
 of four children, namely : Mrs. Emma C. 
 Knight, of Linn county; Mrs. Amanda M. Bain, 
 of Linn county; James A., a barber in Albany; 
 and Dr. John P., a dentist in Roseberg, Ore. 
 Although not an active politician, Mr. Johnson 
 supports the principles of the Republican party. 
 
 THOMAS COLLINSON was born in county 
 Durham, England, in 1822, and there spent 
 twenty years of his life. His family is a very 
 old one in England, and is noted for the strain 
 of longevity which encourages with the possibility 
 of long life all who bear the name. Joshua Col- 
 linson, the father of Thomas, was a soldier in 
 the English army, and served under Wellington 
 at the famous battle of Waterloo. He also was 
 born in county Durham, and lived to be more 
 than ninety years old. 
 
 Thomas Collinson's first self-made money was 
 the result of labor in the lead mines. In 1844 
 he emigrated to America, and being familiar 
 with mining, took his way to coal mines of 
 Pennsylvania, where he worked for about seven 
 years. In 185 1 he came west to San Francisco 
 by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and in Grass 
 valiey, California, engaged in mining for many 
 years, experiencing the average success which 
 visited the seeker after wealth in the early days. 
 In 1858 he went to the Caribou mining region 
 on horseback, wearily riding over mountainous 
 roads for seventy-eight days, and at his destina- 
 tion sunk the first hole in that now famous 
 region. That he was fairly successful as a miner 
 is readily believed, for upon coming to Oregon 
 in i860 he had the means with which to purchase 
 two hundred and seventy-five acres of land, the 
 same being his present farm. At that time the 
 property had but few improvements, and the 
 general air of prosperity prevailing at the pres- 
 ent time is entirely due to the exertions of the 
 present owner. A comfortable rural residence, 
 good barns and outhouses, and modern agricul- 
 tural implements facilitate a very successful and 
 paying farming and stock-raising enterprise. Of 
 the nine children born to Mr. Collinson and his 
 wife, Sarah (Booth) Collinson, six are living: 
 Thomas, Alice, Ann D., Joseph, William and 
 Benjamin. Mr. Collinson is one of the most 
 honored of the venerable citizens of this neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 DAVID FROMAN was five years of age 
 when his honored father, Jacob Froman, died 
 on the farm in Durbin county, Ind., on which 
 farm he himself was born September 7, 1821, 
 
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 the youngest of the seven children born to his 
 mother, Margaret (Dawson) Froman, and the 
 only one living. The mother died in Illinois in 
 1848. She was born in Kentucky, as was also 
 her husband, and both came from old families in 
 the Bourbon state. 
 
 As a small lad David removed with his mother 
 to Illinois, and in 1830 settled on a farm one and 
 a half miles from Danville, Vermilion county, 
 then in the heart of a vast wilderness. The sur- 
 roundings were very primitive and the neighbors 
 far apart, the mother was very poor, and with 
 difficulty found food and clothes for her chil- 
 dren. This mother was a Spartan, and a won- 
 derful worker, and she taught her boys the 
 value of industry, forcing them to perform their 
 share towards the family maintenance. In time 
 two of the elder sons managed the farm, which 
 was a large and productive one, and David 
 worked for them, eventually receiving good 
 wages for his toil. He was in a fair way to 
 succeed, and felt justified in sharing his pros- 
 pects with another, and married, August 12, 
 1 841, in Vermilion county, Nancy A. Henderson, 
 a native • of Coshocton county, Ohio, who came 
 to Illinois with her parents. The young people 
 began farming in Vermilion county, and Mr. 
 Froman engaged also in trading in New Orleans. 
 
 For some time Mr. Froman had been suffer- 
 ing from an annoying bronchial trouble, and his 
 physician advised a complete change of climate, 
 intimating that Oregon might be beneficial. Ac- 
 cordingly he disposed of his interests in Vermil- 
 ion county and outfitted for the long journey 
 across the plains, departing from home March 
 24, 1 85 1. They had two wagons, with four yoke 
 of oxen to each wagon, besides some horses and 
 loose stock. They came via the old Oregon trail, 
 and on the way the Indians relieved them of the 
 care of some of their horses and cows, but other- 
 wise the journey was fairly pleasant and unevent- 
 ful. Locating in Linn county, Mr. Froman took 
 up three hundred and twenty acres of land four 
 miles southeast of Albany, built a cabin in the 
 midst of the timbered wildness, and began to 
 clear in order to plant the first crops. At best 
 this was a laborious task, but he worked dili- 
 gently, and soon had wheat in the ground, and 
 a place erected to cover his stock. With a neigh- 
 bor he bought a threshing machine, the first in 
 that locality, the object being to thresh their own 
 grain, but they afterward sent a man out with it 
 to thresh for the other farmers in the district. 
 During the first year the great lumbering 
 machine nearly paid for itself, and this, added to 
 the sale of the general farm commodities, 
 brought a competence to Mr. Froman, and 
 greatly encouraged him in his adopted state. 
 
 About 1859 Mr. Froman sold his land and his 
 interest in the threshing machine and came to 
 
 live in Albany which has since been his home. 
 For the greater part he has engaged in the brok- 
 erage and money-loaning business, and has 
 amassed a neat little fortune in this way. He 
 lives in a comfortable home with his wife, and 
 is popular and much beloved by all who know 
 him. He is a Republican politically, formerly 
 being an old-time Whig, and he has held a num- 
 ber of important offices in the town, including 
 that of mayor for two terms and councilman for 
 several years. Fraternally he is prominent and 
 well known, and is identified with the Corinthian 
 Lodge, F. and A. M., of which he is past master; 
 the Royal Arch Masons ; and the Grand Lodge 
 of Oregon, of which he is past grand warden. 
 Mr. Froman had two brothers and a sister who 
 came to Oregon, and of these, Thomas John and 
 Mrs. Wilson, died in Linn county. Mrs. Fro- 
 man is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Mr. Froman is charitable and public- 
 spirited, and few efforts to improve the town 
 have failed to receive his substantial support and 
 co-operation. The soul of integrity, he carries 
 with him a helpful and optimistic nature, and 
 one which sees principally good and merit in his 
 fellow-men. 
 
 WILLIAM C. SPENCER. The spring of 
 1847 witnessed the departure of many immi- 
 grants from their homes in the middle west to 
 cast their lot amid the untried conditions beyond 
 the Rocky mountains, and of these it is doubtful 
 if any started forth with more glowing hopes, 
 and greater faith in success, than William C. 
 Spencer. Born in the farming region around St. 
 Charles, Mo., October 1, 1823, Mr. Spencer has 
 already lived to the biblical allotment of years, 
 yet still finds pleasure and profit in farming and 
 stock-raising, interests drawn around him by an 
 inquiring mind and youthful heart. His boy- 
 hood days on the Missouri farm were crowded 
 with duties, and he walked three and a half 
 miles to the nearest school-house. There were 
 fifteen children in the family, five dying at birth, 
 nine sons and .five daughters. The mother died 
 in 1837, and the father in 1841, after which the 
 farm was managed by the combined efforts of 
 the children, several of whom had already at- 
 tained maturity. 
 
 During the winter of 1846-7 William C. made 
 preparations to emigrate to the far west. Start- 
 ing out April 11, 1847, ne drove during the 
 entire journey, and arrived near Dayton, Ore., in 
 October, little the worse for the days and months 
 of strenuous activity and consequent deprivation. 
 In the spring of 1848 William C. went to Polk 
 county and took up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres four miles from Springfield 
 on the banks of the McKenzie river, where he 
 
 
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 erected a round-log house 14x16 feet dimen- 
 sions, and very crude and uninviting in every 
 particular. Afterward, when some of the land 
 had been cleared, and crops realized, a better 
 house afforded shelter for his family, and he 
 remained there in comparative comfort until 
 1857. Between 1857 and 1887 Mr. Spencer lived 
 in Santa Clara county, Cal., after which he re- 
 turned to the section farm on the McKenzie, and 
 worked the same in its entirety until 1903. Dur- 
 ing the preceding year he disposed of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, finding that with in- 
 creasing age this is about all that he can attend 
 to with any degree of satisfaction. 
 
 The year after coming to Oregon, in 1848, 
 Mr. Spencer married Julia Scott, who died in 
 1865 leaving five children, of whom Mary E. 
 is now Mrs. Cowan ; Maria T. is the wife of 
 James Carlyon. of California ; and Manan, Anna 
 E., and William H. are deceased. Mr. Spencer 
 has lived an upright and highly useful life, and 
 his right to a place among the most industrious 
 and worthy of the pioneers of '47 is unques- 
 tioned. 
 
 WILLIAM W. SHORTRIDGE. Identified 
 with the agricultural interests of Lane county 
 William W. Shortridge has also taken a broad 
 view of other pursuits, having served for four- 
 teen years as postmaster of Wallace. He was 
 born in Muscatine, Iowa, March 31, 1836, the 
 son of Samuel B. S. Shortridge, a pioneer of 
 1852, who was born in Bourbon county, Ky., in 
 1798, a relative of Daniel Boone. At a very 
 early age he accompanied his parents to Indi- 
 ana, where they made their home for many 
 years. He early learned the trade of a black- 
 smith and followed this in addition to farming. 
 In his young manhood he married Emily A. 
 Heath, also a native of Kentucky, and after 
 locations in Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, they 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams and came direct 
 to Lane county, where he took up a donation 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres, located 
 seven miles south of Cottage Grove, which he 
 improved and cultivated until 1858, when he 
 took up his residence with J. H. Shortridge, 
 where he lived the balance of his life. Besides 
 William W., of this review, he had five children, 
 of whom James H. is a resident of Lane county, 
 and Caroline D. became the wife of Hiram Stew- 
 art, of Goshen, the others being deceased. The 
 mother died in Iowa. Samuel B. S. Shortridge 
 was alwavs active in politics and also as a mem- 
 ber of the Church of Christ. 
 
 William W. Shortridge grew to the age of 
 sixteen years in his home in the middle west, 
 receiving his education in the district schools, 
 and after the journey west he remained at home 
 
 until he married and located on Coast Fork, six 
 miles south of Cottage Grove, where he lived 
 three years. He then removed to Pass Creek 
 near Divide and remained for a period of two 
 years, when he bought one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land eleven miles south of Cottage 
 Grove, upon which he has since made his home. 
 The improvement and cultivation of these broad, 
 rich acres have been the pleasure and profit of 
 Mr. Shortridge in the passing years, and he has 
 bent every effort toward bringing his farm to 
 a high state of perfection. He has a comfort- 
 able home, one of the best south of Cottage 
 Grove, and has also erected other buildings 
 which go to improve the value and facilitate the 
 operation of the farm. In 1883 Mr. Shortridge 
 built a saw-mill on his place and has since con- 
 ducted it with success. He now has two hun- 
 dred acres of land, eighty of which are under 
 cultivation, carrying on general farming and 
 stock-raising. In the midst of his pursuits Mr. 
 Shortridge, like many others, was called upon to 
 defend his home and adopted state against the 
 depredations of the savages in the Rogue River 
 war, enlisting February 13, 1856, in Company 
 A, under the command of Captain Ladshaw. 
 During his service of four months and nineteen 
 days he participated in the battles at Cow creek 
 and Big Meadow, and many minor engagements. 
 Upon his discharge he returned to his work on 
 the farm. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Shortridge united him 
 with Miss Ellen Jane Kyes, a native of Illinois, 
 and to them have been born eleven children, all 
 of whom are now living and named in order of 
 birth are as follows : William C. ; Silas S. ; Saman- 
 tha J., the wife of William Brown; A. W- ; 
 Gilbert L. ; Samuel P. ; Emily L., the wife of 
 Edward Adams ; Lillie S. married George Suther- 
 land ; Lucy Ann married Lyman Adams ; Carrie 
 F. ; and Lester A. The two last named still 
 make their home with their parents, while the 
 others reside in the vicinity. In political prefer- 
 ence Mr. Shortridge is a Populist and has al- 
 ways taken an active part in public affairs, hold- 
 ing at various times the minor offices of this 
 vicinity. 
 
 NIMROD PRICE, since 1852, has been iden- 
 tified with the agricultural interests of this part 
 of the county. He was born in Jefferson county, 
 Ky., September 8, 1822, but his parents moved 
 from the south when their son Nimrod was a 
 child of six years of age, settling in Indiana. 
 After making their home in the Hoosier state for 
 two years the family located near Danville, Ver- 
 milion county, 111., in 1830. 
 
 Nimrod Price received his early education and 
 training in Illinois, and soon after reaching his 
 
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 majority was united in marriage with Miss 
 America Froman, October 22, 1846, marking the 
 date of this event. The young people made their 
 home in Illinois for about five years, and, in 
 1 85 1, filled with a desire to found a home in the 
 new west, they started on the long journey across 
 the plains with the greater part of their belong- 
 ings packed in one wagon, drawn by four yoke 
 of oxen. Eight head of loose cattle and two 
 horses also formed a part of their equipment. 
 The journey began March 24, 185 1, and it was 
 not until September 11 following that they 
 finally reached their destination in Marion 
 county. In the spring of 1852 Mr. Price came to 
 Linn county and took up a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, the same prop- 
 erty upon which he at present makes his home. 
 With the exception of two winters, when he was 
 in Albany, this has been his home ever since, 
 settling here over half a century ago, and in the 
 meantime he has developed one of the finest farm 
 properties in Linn county. 
 
 To Nimrod and America (Froman) Price 
 were born twelve children, whose names and 
 whereabouts are given as follows : Curtis re- 
 sides in Jackson county, Ore. ; S. Price is a resi- 
 dent of Crook county; Clara became the wife of 
 Judge Charles E. Walverton, of Albany; Bruce 
 is a stockman in Crook county ; Annie is the 
 wife of Charles C. LaFollette and resides in Cali- 
 fornia ; Kate, Mrs. Horace Powell, also resides 
 in California ; Clark, the youngest of the family 
 living, has assumed charge of the home place. 
 The children deceased are named as follows : 
 Albertine, Sydney, John M., Russell, and Fred. 
 In 1848, before coming to the west, Mr. Price 
 joined the Masonic fraternity, and is now identi- 
 fied with the lodge at Salem of which he is the 
 only charter member living. Mr. Price also has 
 the distinction of being one of the seven charter 
 members of the Masonic lodge at Albany. 
 
 ELI FRANKLIN WYATT. A native of Ed- 
 gar county, 111., Mr. Wyatt was born August 5, 
 1828, the old paternal farm being at present ad- 
 jacent to the town of Chrisman. His father, Col. 
 William Wyatt, was born in Ireland, and came 
 to America with the paternal grandfather, Jas- 
 per, when he was three years old, settling in 
 Virginia. Col. William Wyatt removed to Ed- 
 gar county, 111-, about 1818, and from there en- 
 listed in the Black Hawk war, for meritorious 
 service receiving the rank by which he was after- 
 ward known. His death occurred in his adopted 
 state in September, 1847, of typhoid fever. His 
 wife, formerly Elizabeth Morgan, born in Vir- 
 ginia, and daughter of John Morgan of Welsh 
 descent, survived him until eighty-four years of 
 age. A large family of children, fourteen in 
 
 number, were born to this couple, five of whom 
 are living, Eli Franklin being the eighth in the 
 family. Of the children, the oldest son, Shelby, 
 is living to a truly remarkable age, and now, 
 when one hundred and three years old, is hale 
 and hearty and interested in all that happens on 
 the old homestead in Shelby county, 111. An- 
 other son, Ananias, came to California in 1853, 
 later settled in Oregon, and finally died in Boise 
 City, Idaho, in 1893. 
 
 The support of so large a family naturally 
 taxed the resources of the Edgar county farm 
 notwithstanding the fact that the boys were all 
 trained to make themselves useful, and diligently 
 performed their respective tasks. At the age 
 of thirteen Eli Franklin relieved the family of 
 his support by going to live with a brother-in- 
 law in Green county, Wis., and after a year he 
 made his way to the lead mines of Galena, 111., 
 where he worked for a couple of years. He 
 next went to Monona county, Iowa, and while 
 there made preparation to cross the plains to 
 California. Getting as far as St. Joe, Mo., he 
 was obliged to turn back, owing to illness, and 
 thereafter went to his old home and remained 
 there until 1853. He crossed the plains during 
 that year with the Summervilles, starting April 
 9, and arriving in Oregon September 15, and 
 bought a claim of one hundred and sixty acres 
 four miles east of Harrisburg. The following 
 year, in 1854, he went to California to engage 
 in mining, but seems not to have been success- 
 ful, for he soon returned and started improving 
 his ranch. Later he visited with more success 
 the mines of Eureka, and Shasta county, and 
 finally located permanently on his farm, where 
 he engaged extensively in the stock business, 
 raising principally F. B. Shorthorns, and Cots- 
 wold and Shropshire sheep. As his enterprises 
 grew in magnittide more land was required, and 
 at one time he owned ten hundred and forty 
 acres in one body. From time to time he dis- 
 posed of this large holding, until he had but 
 four hundred and forty acres left, that being 
 disposed of in 1902. At the height of his stock- 
 raising enterprise he had as many as two thou- 
 sand sheep roaming on his meadows. He was 
 a good manager and excellent business man, and 
 had the good sense to realize that the best stock 
 brought the best prices. Consequently, the fin- 
 est breeds on the market were sold from the 
 Wyatt farm, and had an unexcelled reputation 
 throughout this and the adjoining states. 
 
 For the last twenty-five years Mr. Wyatt has 
 spent a great deal of his time in Harrisburg, and 
 four years in Eugene, and in 1902 he located 
 permanently in Albany. He is enjoying life in 
 comfort, feeling that his unceasing toil for many 
 years entitles him to a respite from business 
 cares. A stanch Republican in politics, he has 
 
 
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 never aspired to office, but his interest in edu- 
 cation has led him to serve as a member of the 
 school board. He is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and was a trustee and one 
 of the organizers and promoters of the church 
 in Harrisburg. In Linn county, Ore., Mr. 
 Wyatt married his first wife, Martha Froman, 
 who was born in Illinois, and who bore him six 
 children : Thomas, a graduate of the University 
 of Oregon, and at present engaged in mining in 
 east Oregon : J. Russell, an attorney at law in Al- 
 bany ; Lillie. a graduate of the University of Ore- 
 gon, and now the wife of John Barns, of Port- 
 land ; Rosa died in Eugene : James, living in San 
 Francisco ; and May, died in Eugene. The sec- 
 ond marriage of Mr. Wyatt took place in Eugene 
 in 1886, and was with Mrs. Mary (Evans) Cart- 
 wright, born in Edgar county. 111., and daugh- 
 ter of William Evans, who was a farmer in Ed- 
 gar county. Mr. Evans removed to Nebraska 
 in 1854, settling six miles from Nemaha, Nemaha 
 county, of which locality he was the first white 
 resident. April 16, i860, he started across the 
 plains, arriving at his destination in Lane county, 
 Ore., where he farmed for some years, and 
 whence he removed to Red Bluffs, Cal., where 
 his death occurred. He married Leah Oxshire, 
 who was born in Tennessee, died in Oregon, and 
 who was the mother of eleven children, nine of 
 whom attained maturity, and three of whom are 
 still living, all being residents of Oregon. Mrs. 
 Wvatt was nine years of age when she crossed 
 the plains with her parents, and she was reared 
 on a farm, and finally married James Cartwright, 
 who was born in Texas. Of this union there 
 were born two children, of whom Carrie is mar- 
 ried and lives in Tacoma, Wash. ; and John E., 
 formerlv the editor of the Harrisburg Review, 
 died in Harrisburg. To Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt has 
 been born one child. Earl Franklin. 
 
 ROBERT VEAL. A native of Pennsylva- 
 nia, Robert Veal was born December 11, 1840, 
 in Pottsville. His father, also named Robert 
 Veal, was born in London, England, and when 
 a young man emigrated to this country, locating 
 in Pottsville. Pa., where his death occurred in 
 the summer of 1841. He married Sarah Jenk- 
 ins, also a native of England, and she, too, died 
 in Pottsville, Pa. 
 
 Reared and educated in his native town, Rob- 
 ert Veal attended the public schools until fifteen 
 years old. after which he served an apprentice- 
 ship of four years at the machinist's trade. 
 Going then to Columbus, Ohio, he worked at his 
 trade until 1862. when he enlisted in Company 
 H. One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Infan- 
 try, which was assigned to the Army of the 
 
 Tennessee. He was subsequently with his regi- 
 ment in Chattanooga, in the Georgia campaign, 
 and while there was taken sick, at Atlanta, and 
 sent home to recruit. He was afterwards 
 transferred to the reserve corps of veterans and 
 served with different companies until the close 
 of the w r ar, when he was mustered out in Indian- 
 apolis, Ind. Remaining in that city, Mr. Veal 
 worked as a machinist for Chandler & Taylor 
 for two years, then removed to Hendricks 
 county, Ind., where he was engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of oak, walnut and ash lumber for a 
 number of years. Going to Kansas in 1868, he 
 lived in Chetopa fifteen months, then returned 
 to Hendricks county, where he remained five 
 years. Again taking up his residence in Che- 
 topa. Kans., in 1875, Mr. Veal was there in the 
 employ of B. S. Edwards & Co., flour manufac- 
 turers, for nine years, being engineer and gen- 
 eral repairer of machinery in their mills. 
 
 Emigrating to Oregon in 1884, Mr. Veal lo- 
 cated first in Stayton, where he was engaged in 
 the manufacture of lumber for a year. Dispos- 
 ing then of his mill in that place, he carried on 
 a retail lumber business at Woodburn for six 
 months, and then returned to Stayton. Purchas- 
 ing a small chair factory from Mr. NefT, he oper- 
 ated it alone for a short time, and then formed a 
 partnership with his two sons under the present 
 firm name of R. Veal & Sons. In April, 1888, 
 this firm transferred its business to Albany, and 
 built a new factory, which was burned in Octo- 
 ber, 1901. With characteristic enterprise, Mr. 
 Veal immediately rebuilt his plant, enlarging it 
 seven-fold, and in April, 1902, the firm was 
 again ready for business. Their factory is lo- 
 cated on Main street, not far from their saw- 
 mill, which is specially well equipped. The main 
 factory is 80x240 feet; their warehouse is 50x150 
 feet ; the finishing room is 50x100 feet ; and the 
 dry kiln is 20x70 feet. The boiler-room is fitted 
 with the latest improvements, and a blacksmith's 
 shop forms a part of the plant. This firm manu- 
 factures from native lumber all kinds of chairs, 
 shipping them to all the coast ports, carrying on 
 one of the largest retail and wholesale trades of 
 any firm in the valley. It has also its own fire 
 protection, having a tower eighty-nine feet high, 
 a tank with a capacity of fifteen thousand gal- 
 lons, giving a pressure of forty pounds, while 
 pipes are laid to every building, and ample hose 
 is provided for any emergency. 
 
 On November 5, 1867, in Hendricks county, 
 Ind., Mr. Veal married Miss Maggie Barker, 
 who was born in Plainfield, Ind.. a daughter of 
 Tohn Barker. The immigrant ancestor of the 
 Barker family from which she was descended, 
 emigrated from Holland to the United States, 
 and settled in North Carolina prior to the Revo- 
 lution. Her grandfather, Daniel Barker, left the 
 
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 south on account of slavery, and located with his 
 family in Indiana, where he followed his trade 
 of a blacksmith. John Barker was born on the 
 homestead in North Carolina, but moved with 
 his parents to Indiana, where he was engaged 
 as a blacksmith, following the occupation to 
 which he was reared. He married Mary Rea- 
 gan, who was born on the Little Miami river, a 
 daughter of Ruell Reagan, a native of South 
 Carolina, born of Quaker parents. He was a 
 farmer, and settled first in Ohio, subsequently 
 removing to Indiana. Of the union of John and 
 Mary (Reagan) Barker seven children were 
 born, Maggie, now Mrs. Veal, being the only one 
 now living. The mother, who came to Oregon, 
 died in Albany. Mr. and Mrs. Veal are the par- 
 ents of three children, namely : Frederick C., a 
 prominent business man of Albany, is a member 
 of the firm of R. Veal & Sons, and its manager ; 
 Harry Otis died, in Kansas, at the age of seven 
 months ; and Robert A. B., a member of the firm, 
 and the bookkeeper, is an ex-councilman of Al- 
 bany. Politically Mr. Veal is true to the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, which he invari- 
 ably supports by voice and vote. Mrs. Veal is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 pursuits with Mr. Vaughan. In political con- 
 victions Mr. Vaughan adheres to the principles 
 advocated in the platform of the Republican 
 party, and fraternally affiliates with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 JOHN Q. VAUGHAN. In 1863 John Q. 
 Vaughan bought his present property which con- 
 sists of one hundred and seventeen acres located 
 in the neighborhood of Coburg, Lane county, and 
 since that time he has been energetically en- 
 gaged in its improvement and cultivation, eighty 
 acres of which are cultivated. He was born in 
 Missouri, January 30, 1840, and came to Oregon 
 in 1847 i n company with his parents, who were 
 seeking a home among the broader opportunities 
 of the western states. He remained with his 
 father until 1858, when he went to the mines 
 in the hope of finding the fortune which awaited 
 the miner. He continued in the same mines for 
 a year, and in 1861 he went to Idaho, still con- 
 fident of his ability to succeed, and time justified 
 the faith in himself, for after a winter spent 
 in the neighborhood of Salmon river, during 
 which he experienced hardships and privations 
 which proved his courage, he returned to Ore- 
 gon with $6,000 as the result of his persever- 
 ing work. January, 1862, found him once more 
 located on the home place, and there he re- 
 mained until 1870, when he married and went 
 to the farm which he had purchased seven years 
 earlier. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Vaughan was formerly Miss 
 Flora Canterbury, and she died in 1895, the 
 mother of four children, of whom Wilber is 
 located in Coburg ; Oma is the wife of L. P. 
 Protzman ; Eulia is the wife of A. C. Wheeler ; 
 Strahan St. Clair, who is engaged in agricultural 
 
 MELVIN TAYLOR is now located on a little 
 farm of sixty-six acres which is a very small 
 part of what he once owned in various sections 
 of the northwest, in a home in the vicinity of 
 Coburg, Lane county, in which location he has 
 lived since 1873. 
 
 The parents of Mr. Taylor, John and Eliza- 
 beth (Murphy) Taylor, were both natives of 
 Virginia, and it was in that state that they were 
 married and from which they emigrated. They 
 first located in St. Charles county, Mo., and later 
 removed to Franklin county, where they made 
 their home until the spring of 1847, when they 
 started across the plains, having three wagons, 
 nine yoke of oxen and a few cows to carry them 
 safely through and start them as agriculturists 
 in that remote west, of which they had heard so 
 much. Four children crossed with the parents 
 on the six-months journey, and at its close the 
 father located near Aumsville, Marion county, 
 where he took up a donation claim of six hun- 
 dred and forty acres, and made that his home 
 until he removed to Aumsville, where he died 
 October 26, 1870, at the age of seventy-six years. 
 His wife died in February, 1874, at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. Of their seven sons and 
 two daughters two are now living, George W., 
 of Halsey, and Melvin, who was born in Frank- 
 lin county, Mo., January 22, 1829. 
 
 Mr. Taylor was eighteen years of age when he 
 came to Oregon, and he remained at home until 
 1852, in that year visiting the mines of Jackson- 
 ville. He was married also in that year and 
 began farming on his place near Sublimity, the 
 cleared land being the result of his own effort. 
 He proceeded to improve and cultivate the land 
 and made a nice little farm, upon which he re- 
 mained for seventeen years, when he removd to 
 Pitt valley, Shasta county, Cal., and spent a 
 year. In 1870 he returned to Oregon and lo- 
 cated near Harrisburg, Linn county, and in the 
 fall of that year removed to near West Point for 
 the period of a year. Locating in the Palouse 
 country. Wash., in 1871, he and a son took up 
 land and in the spring of '72 removed to Walla 
 Walla, and in the fall of that year the family 
 were taken north. Their stay was short, how- 
 ever, for, in 1873, tne y were back in Lane county, 
 and Mr. Taylor bought two hundred and eight- 
 een acres located three miles from Coburg, and 
 this remained their home for nearly a quarter of 
 a century. In the fall of 1897 he sold out and 
 
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 wont to British Columbia on a visit to a daugh- 
 ter, returning in 1898 to his present home. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Taylor was, in maidenhood, 
 Serena McDonald, and much of their life was 
 passed together. For twenty-four years Mr. 
 Taylor has been a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics he is a 
 Democrat. 
 
 ISHAM N. HEMBREE. A meritorious ser- 
 vice during the Civil war, the office of commis- 
 sioner of Lane county worthily maintained, and 
 agricultural and stock-raising undertakings of 
 a practical and successful nature, have con- 
 tributed to the broadening and all-around use- 
 fulness of the life of Isham N. Hembree. Mr. 
 Hembree owns a farm of three hundred and 
 twenty acres twelve miles northwest of Eugene, 
 where he carries on extensive stock-raising, his 
 improvements being modern and labor-saving, 
 and his residences and buildings on a par with 
 the ideas of enterprise and progress. 
 
 Mr. Hembree is a farmer by inheritance, 
 training and preference, and because of the lat- 
 ter fact especially makes a success of his chosen 
 occupation. He enjoys everything pertaining 
 to the country, the industry, people, fresh air, 
 and healthful living. In Dade county, Mo., 
 where he was born August 24, 1838, his parents 
 owned a good-sized farm, where he was trained 
 to make himself useful, and attended the pub- 
 lic schools during the winter season. His 
 father dying when he was four years old, at the 
 age of sixteen he started to earn his living on 
 the farms of the surrounding families in Dade 
 county, and was thus employed by the month 
 at the breaking out of the Civil war. It is 
 doubtful if the call to arms received such ardent 
 response from any class of people as it did from 
 the toilers in the fields of the country, the ar- 
 duous toil from one end of the year to the other 
 bringing in its train a longing for diversion or 
 change, even at the risk of life. In 1861 Mr. 
 Hembree enlisted in the Confederate army in 
 ■Missouri, and in 1862 re-enlisted in the Mis- 
 souri Cavalry, as a private in the Trans-Miss- 
 issippi Department. Participating in the battles 
 of Wilson Creek, Pilot Knob, Little Rock, 
 Springfield, and many others of a momentous 
 nature, he was wounded in his first battle, 
 thus carrying through the remainder of his ser- 
 vice a correct idea of the grim and terrible side 
 of warfare. After the surrender at Shreveport, 
 La., he continued to live in Louisiana for a 
 couple of years, and this ended his experiences 
 in the south, the only bright memory of that 
 time being of the fact that he won the rank of 
 first lieutenant of Company I, Sixth Missouri 
 Cavalry, thus establishing his claim of valor and 
 
 disinterested devotion to the cause he then 
 deemed just. 
 
 Returning to Missouri in 1867, Mr. Hembree 
 engaged in farming until 1872, and then came 
 to Oregon, selecting Lane county as a fertile 
 and promising locality. For the first five years 
 he rented land, and with the proceeds of the 
 enterprise saved sufficient to make a trip to Mis- 
 souri in 1877, and upon his return in 1880 to 
 purchase his present farm. The next year, in 
 1 88 1, he married Tena Gibson, of which union 
 there have been born four children : Linna S. ; 
 Louie ; Eugenia ; and Itha. While not a politi- 
 cian in the generally accepted sense, Mr. Hem- 
 bree has held a few local offices, and has served 
 as a county commissioner for a year and a half, 
 appointed thereto to fill an unexpired term. He 
 is essentially a religious man, and is a member 
 and active worker in the Fern Ridge Christian 
 Church. 
 
 AMOS WILKINS. Want of ambition, or 
 ability to forge to the front under even trying cir- 
 cumstances, are failings which can never be laid 
 at the door of Amos Wilkins. To his neighbors 
 near Coburg, he represents the type of farmer 
 and stock-raiser who would do credit to any 
 community in the country, and who is just such 
 a man as is needed to carry on the work of devel- 
 oping Oregon. Mr. Wilkins has the advantage 
 of being a native son, and he was born on his 
 father's donation claim not far from where he 
 now lives, April 13, 1853. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins was fortunate in having educa- 
 tional opportunities beyond the reach, of the 
 average farm-reared youth, and after completing 
 the training of the public schools he attended the 
 Monmouth Normal College and De France & 
 White Business College at Portland. An apt 
 student, he made the most of these chances, a 
 statement borne out in his conversation and wide 
 range of information. Thirty-one years had 
 passed over his head when his marriage occurred 
 July 4, 1884, with Varian V. Babb, a native 
 daughter of Oregon, and one of the children in 
 the family of A. J. Babb, an early settler of this 
 state. Soon after the ceremony the young people 
 located on their present farm, which at that 
 time had some improvements, since added to 
 materially by the present owners. Two and a 
 half miles north of Coburg. the farm consists of 
 six hundred acres, and is devoted to high-grade 
 stock, including Durham and Hereford cattle, 
 thoroughbred driving horses, and Duroc hogs. 
 Nor does this represent the extent of Mr. Wil- 
 kins' possessions in the state, for with his 
 brother, Jasper, he has purchased a ranch of 
 two thousand four hundred acres in Linn 
 county, and this also is the scene of a large 
 
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 stock-raising industry. Like the typical stock- 
 man, wherever found, Mr. Wilkins has a warm 
 place in his heart for a good horse, and he is 
 perhaps one of the best judges of this noble 
 beast to be found in the county. He has the 
 best possible facilities for caring for his stock, 
 and the latter being of superior grade, he nec- 
 essarily commands large prices in the markets, 
 The Wilkins' home is cheery and bright, and 
 education and refinement are noticeable in the 
 children, Welby M., Juanita B., and Warren. 
 The genial head of the house is popular and 
 successful from a " business and social stand- 
 point, and is a welcome visitor at Coburg Lodge 
 No. 263, of the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 DR. J. F. W. SAUBERT. The river indus- 
 tries of Oregon, without which this state had 
 proceeded laboriously towards an infinitely post- 
 poned prosperity, might, in their incipiency, fur- 
 nish the theme for many a life-story, as they 
 have supplied the foundation for many a for- 
 tune. The opening up of the waterways of the 
 northwest, the rousing from singing idleness and 
 loitering between timbered banks, to a semb- 
 lance of usefulness and activity, might well be 
 considered the first step towards anything of 
 moment in the industrial world in the state. The 
 Siuslaw, now a hive of industry, has its pioneer 
 sojourners, its practical economists who turned 
 its motive power to latter-day account, and revo- 
 lutionized the wooded stillness along its course. 
 Of these, none have arisen in time of need with 
 surer or keener insight that Dr. J. F. W. Sau- 
 bert, projector of the first saw-mill on the banks 
 of the Siuslaw, also of the first general mer- 
 chandise store, and of Acme, promising and 
 thrifty among her sister towns of Lane county. 
 
 The traits of character which have enabled 
 Dr. Saubert to accomplish his ends unaided are 
 unquestionably those of the high-class German 
 people, and which are welcomed as fundament- 
 ally strong and resourceful in any country in the 
 world. Born in Bavaria, Germany, February 26, 
 1835, he comes of a long-lived family on the 
 paternal side, his grandfather, Saubert, and his 
 father, Carl, both born in Bavaria, living to the 
 ages of ninety and eighty respectively. His wife 
 dying when his son, J. F. W., was five years 
 of age, Carl Saubert continued to farm in Ba- 
 varia until 1844, and after his marriage with 
 Christine Glassell. brought his family to Amer- 
 ica, locating on new land in Jefferson county. 
 Wis. Since his death in 1896, his wife has con- 
 tinued to live on the old place in Wisconsin. 
 The three children in the family, of whom Dr 
 Saubert is the oldest, were primarily educates 
 in the public schools. The latter received his 
 professional training in Wisconsin and at the 
 
 Chicago Homeopathic College in Chicago. He 
 has always treasured a kindly feeling for his 
 preceptor, Dr. Hart, of Ontario, Wis., under 
 whose efficient and kindly guidance he laid the 
 solid foundation for his subsequent extensive re- 
 searches. Graduating at an unusually early age, 
 and in such manner as to indicate more than 
 average scholarship, he began to practice medi- 
 cine in Wisconsin, and removed to the less tried 
 conditions of Roseburg, Douglas county, Ore., 
 in 1878. Without money or influence, he began 
 in a small way to make his professional influ- 
 ence felt, and gradually became known as a 
 humane, kindly and successful practitioner, main- 
 taining the highest standards of a profession 
 which furnished such splendid outlet for his 
 creditable ambition. For eight years he minis- 
 tered to the sick in the community, becoming a 
 necessity in many* homes, and the stanch friend 
 and wise counsellor of those who placed their 
 faith in him. 
 
 Regretted by a large following in Roseburg, 
 Dr. Saubert came to the Siuslaw river, and more 
 than any other in this section had to do with 
 the founding of the town of Acme, which he 
 named and promoted with his many undertak- 
 ings. Purchasing a large tract of timber land 
 he engaged in logging and lumbering, erected 
 the first saw-mill which awoke the echoes in 
 the timber land, and materially changed the char- 
 acter of the entire surrounding country. This 
 first structure outliving its usefulness, and fall- 
 ing behind in the race for improvement, a new 
 mill was erected in 1897, steam machinery being 
 placed in it in 1901. Nothing busier or noisier 
 dots the landscape for many miles around than 
 this mill, which works the year around at manu- 
 facturing general mill supplies, and which has 
 a capacity of from twenty-five to thirty-five 
 thousand feet per day. Up the river is the mill's 
 logging crew, which operated on different sec- 
 tions of the mill-owner's tract of fifteen hundred 
 acres. As in all milling localities, the general 
 merchandise store, with its incentive to friendly 
 intercourse and sociability, is a necessity, and to 
 this Dr. Saubert gave his attention when he first 
 arrived. The mill and store and continuous 
 practice are monuments to the untiring energy 
 and resource of one of the most honored pio- 
 neers of Lane county, and it is not strange that 
 his name is a household word, carrying with it 
 an impression of rugged simplicity, substantiality 
 and worth. In connection with the store he has 
 served as postmaster for thirteen years, and 
 though independent in politics, has filled also the 
 offices of school trustee and clerk. Various fra- 
 ternal organizations profit by his membership, 
 including the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, in both of which he has passed all of the 
 
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 chairs. He became a charter member of the Odd 
 Fellows at Viola, Wis. 
 
 In Wisconsin Dr. Saubert was united in mar- 
 riage with Anna Dejean, of which union there 
 were born four sons, of whom George lives in 
 Spokane, Wash., and Charles, Thomas and 
 Frank are residents of Acme, the last two being 
 members of the mercantile firm of M. E. Sau- 
 bert & Co. A second marriage was contracted 
 by Dr. Saubert in Roseburg in 1879, Mary Tay- 
 lor being a native of Illinois, and an early comer 
 to the state of Oregon. Four children have 
 been born of this union, of whom Irma is the 
 wife of Grant Earhart, of Acme, and Ray, Roy 
 and Lloyd are living in the same town. As one 
 of the stalwart founders of a flourishing com- 
 munity, as a man who has accomplished more 
 good through his professional and humanitarian 
 services than will ever be known, and as an 
 example of inflexible integrity, public spirited- 
 ness and keen insight into the needs of commun- 
 ities, Dr. Saubert deserves to rank with the 
 adopted sons of whom Oregon is and will con- 
 tinue to be proud. 
 
 JOHN SUTHERLAND. The talents of 
 John Sutherland have been so varied in char- 
 acter that more than one occupation has felt the 
 impetus of his strong and practical ideas, the ful- 
 fillment of which has benefited more than one 
 community, for he has been a pioneer in several 
 of the western states. He was born in Newton 
 county, Mo., December 27, 1846, the descendant 
 of a line of ancestry which had been prominent 
 in the advancement of the country's interests. 
 His grandfather was a captain of a battalion of 
 artillery in the war of 1812, in which he served 
 his country efficiently. His son, the father of 
 John Sutherland, was born and reared to the life 
 of a farmer in Dutchess county, N. Y., and re- 
 mained there until attaining manhood, when he 
 removed to Indiana. In the latter state he mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Copple, and in 1844 they removed 
 to Missouri, where he followed the trade of a 
 cooper. The father lived to be sixty-four years 
 of age while the mother died at fifty-four. 
 
 John Sutherland was one of nine children 
 born to his parents, and he remained at home 
 until attaining manhood. Besides the education 
 which he received in the common schools of the 
 state, he learned the trade of engineer, wdiich he 
 followed successfully for about ten years, about 
 1872 leaving his location in Missouri and remov- 
 ing to Tehama county, Cal. This was his home 
 for a year. He then located in Modoc county, 
 and in 1874 went to Prescott. Ariz., where he re- 
 mained two years. A like period was spent in 
 Maricopa county, of that territory. In 1878 he 
 located in Idaho and passed the ensuing six 
 
 years. While on the route back to California he 
 stopped for a short time in Jackson county, Ore. 
 Six years were passed in California. In 1891 he 
 came to Brownsville, Linn county, and the same 
 winter purchased a ranch of eighty-six acres 
 near London, Lane county, which he still con- 
 ducts. In 1898 he established the first store in 
 this place, which he has successfully conducted 
 since then in partnership with Mr. Geer, the firm 
 name being Sutherland & Geer. It was through 
 his influence that a postmaster was appointed 
 here, which position he fills acceptably. In ad- 
 dition to the work which he now carries on, he 
 has been an ordained minister in the Church of 
 Christ for twenty years and fills the pastorate in 
 London. In Fort Scott, Kans., he learned the 
 trade of a wagonmaker. Having a talent for 
 music, he cultivated it, and taught for several 
 years. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Sutherland occurred in 
 1867, and united him with Nancy J. Bowring, a 
 native of Kentucky, a member of an efficient 
 family, two of her brothers being school teachers 
 and two ministers of the gospel. Twelve chil- 
 dren have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sutherland, of whom Martha Alice became the 
 wife of J. L. Henderson, and lives in California ; 
 William L. also resides in that state ; Nora mar- 
 ried L. J. Henderson, and is located in this vi- 
 cinity; George F. is also in this vicinity ; John A. 
 is in California ; Maggie M. married J. W. Doak 
 and makes her home near that of her parents ; 
 Rose D., who became the wife of H. B. McBee, 
 also lives near ; Emma lives with her parents and 
 acts as assistant postmaster, and Amanda M. E., 
 James G., Charles H. and Bessie are also at 
 home. In religious matters Mr. Sutherland is 
 associated with the Church of Christ. In politics 
 he is a Prohibitionist, through the influence of 
 which he has served as justice of the peace and 
 a member of the school board. 
 
 JAMES H. SHORTRIDGE. There are few 
 self-made men who are obliged to start upon 
 their independent careers as early as ten years of 
 age, yet such was the case with James H. Short- 
 ridge, whose place among the state builders of 
 the west is undisputed, and is based upon a well 
 directed and successful life. From time imme- 
 morial an interest has centered around the black- 
 smith. Mr. Shortridge is a master workman, 
 his little shop on his farm six miles south of Cot- 
 tage Grove, being a very busy place. He took 
 up his present farm in 1853, and at that time had 
 three hundred and twenty acres. 
 
 The better to trace the career of Mr. Short- 
 ridge, it is necessary to go back to the farm in 
 Tippecanoe county. Ind., where he was born July 
 18, 1831, and which had been taken up by his 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 grandfather as government land at a very early 
 day. With the grandparents on their overland 
 journey to Indiana went their son, Samuel B., 
 who was born on the home farm in Bourbon 
 county, Ky., in 1798, and who while yet a boy 
 was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and followed 
 the trade in connection with farming for the 
 greater part of his life. He was a relative of 
 Daniel Boone, the great American explorer and 
 colonizer, and used to hunt with his illustrious 
 kinsman, for he was twenty-two years old before 
 the latter's death. Mr. Shortridge married Em- 
 ily A. Heath, a native of Kentucky, and from 
 Indiana moved to Iowa, thence to Illinois. His 
 son, James H., having preceded him to the west 
 in 185 1, he set out the following spring with ox 
 teams, and accomplished the long distance in 
 safety and comparative comfort. He came at 
 once to Lane county, Ore., and took up a claim 
 seven miles south of Cottage Grove, upon which 
 he lived a few years, after which he made his 
 home with his son, James H., until his death. 
 He was quite an active politician, and was a firm 
 believer in good schools, good roads and good 
 local government. He took a keen interest in 
 church affairs, and in this was seconded by the 
 wife whom he married in his youth, and who 
 died before he came to the west. Three of his 
 seven children are living, James H. being the old- 
 est. William W. lives near the old place, and 
 Mrs. Caroline D. Stewart is a resident of 
 Goshen. 
 
 Beginning with his tenth year James H. Short- 
 ridge worked in a nursery, and after some years 
 returned home and learned the blacksmith trade 
 of his father. From Millersburg, 111., he started 
 across the plains March 13, 185 1, and five months 
 later, after a comparatively pleasant journey, 
 reached Lane county, Ore., and took up a claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres six miles 
 south of Cottage Grove. March 13, 1853, ne 
 married Amelia S. Adams, who was born in In- 
 diana, and crossed the plains in 1852. Mrs. 
 Shortridge entered with zest into the making of 
 a home in the comparative wilderness, and the 
 little house took on a semblance of genuine com- 
 fort and cheer. Naturally, Mr. Shortridge 
 wished to make use of his trade, and erected a 
 shop on the farm, it being the first, and for many 
 years the only one in the neighborhood. For 
 many years the entire ranch was used for farm- 
 ing and stock-raising, the genial owner respond- 
 ing to calls at his shop and gaining a reputation 
 for expert workmanship. Twice fire has caused 
 Mr. Shortridge great loss. First his barn and all 
 its contents were destroyed, including grain, 
 lumber and farming implements. About ten 
 years later his home was burned, while in June, 
 1858, their four-year-old baby girl was burned 
 to death. These great losses have made it neces^ 
 
 sary for Mr. Shortridge to sell a portion of his 
 farm, so that he now owns one hundred and fifty- 
 nine acres, eighty being under cultivation. 
 
 Republican politics have profited by the sup- 
 port of Mr. Shortridge, who has held many posi- ' 
 tions of trust in the community, and has invari- 
 ably labored for the best interests of those who 
 placed him in power. For several terms he served 
 as deputy sheriff, and during a part of that 
 time his responsibilities were .arduous and exact- 
 ing. He is a member of the Christian Church, 
 supporting the same with his attendance and 
 financial help. Seven children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Shortridge, four of whom are 
 living: Franklin B., of California; Rosetta be- 
 came the wife of J. W. Harris, of Eugene ; 
 Alice married first, J. P. Langdon, and for her 
 second husband married John Weeden, of Ne- 
 braska ; and Olive S. married first, F. M. Jones, 
 of Portland, and after his death became the wife 
 of S. M. Lacey, of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Shortridge have eleven grandchildren and one 
 great grandchild. 
 
 WILLIAM HAMILTON was born in Jeffer- 
 son county, Ind., January 10, 1836, and is the 
 fourth child of the three sons and two daughters 
 born to Forgus and Matilda (Wood) Hamilton, 
 natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Vir- 
 ginia. The family was established in Pennsyl- 
 vania by the paternal grandfather, who came 
 from Ireland at a very early day. From Penn- 
 sylvania Forgus Hamilton moved to Ohio, and 
 from there to Jefferson county, Ind., his death 
 occurring in Jennings county, Ind. Limited 
 educational opportunities did not dwarf the early 
 ambitions of William Hamilton, who learned 
 more from observation and practical experience, 
 than do most in many years of application to 
 books. In 185 1 he crossed the plains in a cara- 
 van train bound for Oregon, and for ten years 
 mined and prospected in Jackson and Josephine 
 counties, in the spring of 1861 making his way 
 to the Orofino mines in Idaho. In the fall of the 
 same year he went to southern Oregon, but 
 spent the winter of 1861-2 in the Salmon river 
 basin in the mines of Florence, Idaho. In 1864 
 he bought pack-animals and engaged in packing 
 from Lewiston to the Salmon river district and 
 Elk City, and afterward to Walla Walla and the 
 Boise Basin. In 1864 he returned from this pio- 
 neer experience to the Willamette valley, after- 
 ward visiting the mines in the summer of 1865, 
 since which time Lane county has been his home. 
 His first farm here bordered on Lake creek, 
 twenty-five miles west of Junction City, and con- 
 sisted of one hundred and sixty acres of land 
 which he lost. He later took up one hundred 
 and twentv-nine acres near his original farm, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1507 
 
 and in 1872 bought forty acres of land from the 
 railroad company. All of this land has since 
 been disposed of, Mr. Hamilton having lived on 
 a portion of it until about two years ago. He 
 then came to Junction City, and has since put in 
 his time attending to his town property, and his 
 mining interests in California and southern Ore- 
 gon. In 1855 he enlisted in the Harris Company 
 under Col. John Ross, and later served in the 
 Second Oregon Regiment, participating in the 
 battle of Hungry Hill, and in that of Cabins, 
 with the Applegates, the latter of whom were 
 renowned for hard and desperate fighting. He 
 was discharged from the service in the Rogue 
 River valley in 1866, and thereafter returned to 
 his farm. In 1854 he was shot by an Indian 
 while he was hunting for elk, but was fortunate 
 enough to kill three out of the five Indians com- 
 prising the band. In political affiliation Mr. 
 Hamilton is a Lincoln Republican, a Jeffersonian 
 Democrat, and a silver man to the core. 
 
 JUDGE FELIX G. EBY. A native of Lane 
 county, Judge Eby was born near Eugene, Au- 
 gust 11, 1865, a son of David Eby. On the pa- 
 ternal side he comes of thrifty German stock, 
 his granfather, Samuel Eby, having been born, 
 bred and educated in Germany. Emigrating to 
 the United States, he spent his first winter in 
 this country in Pennsylvania, working as a mill- 
 wright. The following spring he moved to Illi- 
 nois, where he was engaged in milling several 
 years, and also became actively interested in the 
 Moline Plow works. Removing from Illinois to 
 Topeka, Kans., he engaged in milling and specu- 
 lating, being very successful in his operations. 
 He died in that city, in 1893. at the venerable 
 age of ninety-six years. 
 
 Born near Springfield. Ill, David Eby spent 
 a part of his early life in Kansas, where he 
 learned the cooper's trade. Crossing "the plains 
 in 1851. he followed his trade in Astoria, Ore., 
 for two years. Going to Portland, Ore., in 1853, 
 he was emploved in the manufacture of barrels 
 for about six months, and was then a resident of 
 Oregon City for a year. Locating in Linn county 
 in 1855. ne took U P a donation claim of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres near Harrisburg, and set- 
 tled with his bride on the farm which he im- 
 proved, living there until 1864. Purchasing 
 land then in Lane county, he carried on general 
 farming for five years in that locality, in 1869 
 removing to eastern Oregon, where he was en- 
 gaged in stock-raising two years, the present 
 town of Prescott being located on the land that 
 he then owned. Returning to Lane county in 
 1 87 1. he carried on farming near Coburg for two 
 vears, when he sold his farm and settled in Har- 
 risburg, where he worked for a year at his trade. 
 
 Then buying three hundred and sixty acres of 
 land a short distance from that place, he worked 
 as a farmer until 1885, when he purchased a 
 ranch near Goshen, Lane county, where he re- 
 sided until 1897. He disposed of his property in 
 that year, and has since lived in different places 
 in the valley, making his home with his children. 
 He is an active member of the Christian Church, 
 in which he is deacon, and since the formation of 
 the state grange of Oregon has been chaplain of 
 the organization. He married Elizabeth Barger, 
 who was born in Missouri. Her father, Preston 
 Barger, was born in one of the eastern states, 
 probably Pennsylvania. In early manhood he 
 lived in Illinois, removing from there to Mis- 
 souri, and then, a few years after his marriage, 
 coming to Oregon, crossing the plains in 1851. 
 Locating in Linn county, he took up three hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land, on which he and his 
 wife spent their remaining years, he dying at 
 the advanced age of ninety years, and she when 
 eighty-nine. 
 
 The eldest child of a family of four sons and 
 three daughters, Felix G. Eby attended first the 
 district schools of Oregon, subsequently entering 
 the Portland Business College, from which he 
 was graduated in 1884. From 1885 until 1888 
 he taught school in Linn county, being quite suc- 
 cessful as a teacher. In 1893 he began reading 
 law with A. C. Huff, at Woodburn. and also en- 
 gaged in insurance and real estate speculations. 
 Passing the examination of the state board of 
 examiners in November. 1896. he began the 
 practice of law in Woodburn, continuing there 
 four years thereafter. Coming to Cottage Grove 
 in May, 1900, Judge Eby formed a partnership 
 with J. C. Johnson, and has since been actively 
 and successfully engaged in his professional la- 
 bors. He is especially interested in mining prop- 
 erties in the Bohemia district, having been one 
 of the incorporators and promoters of the Le 
 Roy Mining Company, of which he was for- 
 merly secretary and treasurer, and of the Hia- 
 watha Mining and Milling Company, in which 
 he is a director. Being elected city attorney in 
 1900, he served until the office was abolished, in 
 1902. Politically Judge Eby is a stanch adherent 
 of the Republican party, supporting its principles 
 at all times and places. Fraternally he was made 
 a Mason, in 1890. at Gervais, Marion county, 
 joining Fidelity Lodge Xo. 54. A. F. & A. M., 
 and is now past master of his lodge. He is also 
 a member of the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 JOSEPH P. TAYLOR. A well known figure 
 both in the earlier and later stages of Lane 
 county development is Joseph P. Taylor, whose 
 wise use of five hundred acres of fertile land 
 have' brought him a competence and whose en- 
 
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 terprise and public-spiritedness have made him 
 popular and influential. Mr. Taylor comes of 
 an old New Jersey family, in which state he was 
 born July 27, 1830, the same state witnessing the 
 birth of his father, Henry W. Taylor, in Septem- 
 ber, 1808. While yet a youth the father learned 
 the blacksmith trade, and followed the same for 
 many years in his native state. Of a religious 
 and humanitarian nature, he early espoused the 
 cause of the Christian church, and almost up to 
 the end of his life devoted a large share of his 
 time to preaching in local pulpits. Until his 
 marriage with Charlotte Peterson he continued 
 to live on his father's farm, and afterward 
 worked at his trade and farmed on his own re- 
 sponsibility. In 1830 he removed with his family 
 to Philadelphia, and there and at other points in 
 the Quaker state found employment at his trade 
 for about three years. For eight years he lived 
 in Highland county, Ohio, and later, while living 
 in Missouri, he finally decided to emigrate to the 
 far west. With ox-teams and prairie schooners 
 he started under the most favorable circum- 
 stances, journeying day after day with little hap- 
 pening out of the usual, and making considerable 
 progress. While his face was turned towards 
 the setting sun near which was the supposed ful- 
 fillment of the hopes which had inspired his emi- 
 gration, his heart was burdened by a grievous 
 sorrow, for the cholera had invaded the ranks of 
 the little train, and two of his children fell vic- 
 tims of the dread disease. Much depressed and 
 disheartened, he continued his sorrowful way, 
 and finally took up a claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres four miles south of Cottage Grove. 
 There were no improvements on the place, but 
 the good management and industry of the new- 
 comer worked wonders, and he in time reaped 
 a fair reward for his labors. In the meantime 
 the spirit of goodness which had led him into 
 the pulpits of the middle west prompted innumer- 
 able acts of kindness in his adopted county, and 
 for many years he was known as one of the 
 most zealous of early day preachers. Joseph P. 
 is the oldest in the family of ten children, Jerry 
 and Alexander live in the neighborhood, Mrs. 
 Jane Garoutte resides on the old donation claim, 
 and Mrs. Mary Frances White makes her home 
 in Monmouth, Polk county, Ore. 
 
 With the example of his father's fine and use- 
 ful life before him Joseph Taylor approached 
 manhood with a due appreciation of his duties 
 and responsibilities as a free American citizen. 
 The opportunity to test his mettle was forthcom- 
 ing in 1855, for the Indians had rendered unbear- 
 able the life of the settlers, and it seemed the 
 duty of all able-bodied people to help quell the 
 disturbance. Enlisting for service as a private, 
 he took part in the battles of Cow Creek, Big 
 Meadows and other battles and skirmishes, and 
 
 for meritorious work was promoted to the quar- 
 termaster's department. In all he served five 
 months, and during that time had many hair- 
 breadth escapes and exciting adventures. After 
 his discharge he continued to live at home until 
 1858, the year of his marriage with Mary A. 
 Small, a native of Tennessee, and who crossed 
 the plains in 1853, her people locating near the 
 Taylor farm. Taking up a claim of one hundred 
 and sixty acres south of Cottage Grove, he has 
 continued to make that his home up to the pres- 
 ent time, and to his original purchase has added 
 and now owns more than five hundred acres. 
 His farm has modern and practical improve- 
 ments, and he raises produce, grain and stock. 
 
 It is fitting that the son of so kindly and good 
 a father should follow in his footsteps, and in 
 this connection Mr. Taylor fulfills popular ex- 
 pectations. He is fair and honorable in all of 
 his dealings, and possessed of more than ordinary 
 interest in, and regard for, his fellow-men. He 
 also is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, and for a great many years has been class 
 leader and steward. Politically he is a Prohibi- 
 tionist, and this idea of temperance is by no means 
 confined to intoxicants, but permeates every- 
 phase of his life, impressing all with his sobriety. 
 Of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Tay- 
 lor, Lincoln is a resident of Cottage Grove ; Ida 
 C. and Rebecca are living at home ; Harvey has 
 a farm near the home place ; and Lillie J. is 
 making her home in Portland. Many positions 
 of trust and responsibility have been tendered 
 Mr. Taylor by his fellow-townsmen, and he has 
 held several of the local minor offices, including 
 'that of school director for fifteen consecutive 
 vears. 
 
 CROW BROTHERS. Two brothers of a 
 family of Oregon, prominent in agricultural cir- 
 cles are William N. and John Hardy Crow, both 
 of whom are located upon the donation claim 
 which their father, John Crow, took up in 1853, 
 and made his home until his death. John Crow 
 was born August 20, 1796, in the state of Ken- 
 tucky, and he there learned the trades of a black- 
 smith and gunsmith, and also engaged in farming. 
 When only a boy he came with his parents to Mis- 
 souri, where their home remained for many years, 
 and while living there he enlisted as a private in 
 the Missouri Militia, for service in the War of 
 1 812. His term of service ending after six months 
 he returned to his home and there married, Aug- 
 ust 8, 1824, Mary Kent, who was born August 
 12, 1810, also a native of Kentucky. The young 
 people made their home in Missouri until 1836, 
 when they removed to Iowa and remained for 
 sixteen years, outfitting in 1852 with ox-teams 
 and necessary supplies for the long and weari- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1509 
 
 some trip across the plains. After six months 
 they arrived safely at their destination, having 
 mercifully been spared the depredations of the 
 Indians. The first winter was spent in Multno- 
 mah county, and in the spring of the following 
 year they came into Lane county and the father 
 took up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres located eight and a half miles north- 
 west of Cottage Grove, and there engaged in 
 farming and the prosecution of his trades until 
 his death, at the age of seventy-three years. He 
 was a man interested in both political and re- 
 ligious matters, being a Republican and filling 
 various of the minor offices of the vicinity, and 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 In the pursuit of his trade he established the first 
 blacksmidi shop in this vicinity. His wife lived 
 to the age of ninety years, dying in Eebruary, 
 1 90 1. She was the mother of twelve children, 
 of whom the following are now living: Richard, 
 of Siuslaw; B. F., located five miles west of Cot- 
 tage Grove ; William N., of this review ; Lucy 
 E., who married William Thompson, who is now 
 deceased ; John Hardy, also of this review ; 
 Laura S., became the wife of Fred W. Folson, 
 of Junction City, and Mary A., the wife of San- 
 ford Brown, of California. 
 
 William N. Crow was born in Iowa, April 28, 
 1840, and received his education in the district 
 school in the vicinity of his home, and later at- 
 tended the public school of Eugene and took a 
 course at a commercial college in Portland, all 
 his earlier tastes having inclined him to mental 
 labor rather than physical. On completing his 
 work of preparation he began to teach in the 
 public schools of his adopted state, and continued 
 so occupied until his marriage with Miss Lillie 
 A. Harris, a native of Minnesota, when he went 
 to live on a part of the paternal farm, where he 
 put up comfortable and modern buildings and 
 made other improvements which have enhanced 
 the value of the property. He now owns about 
 four hundred acres of land, with about forty-five 
 acres under cultivation, and is engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, having among his cat- 
 tle the famous Shorthorns. In addition to his 
 farming interests he has always engaged in the 
 prosecution of the trades of blacksmith, wagon- 
 maker and carpenter, which have added no little 
 to his income. The first postoffice of Lorane was 
 established in the home of Mr. Crow and he thus 
 served as postmaster and has also filled various 
 minor positions in the vicinity, among them being 
 justice of the peace. Politically he casts his 
 ballot with the Republican party, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Grange. They have four children, all 
 of whom are at home : Elza H. ; Elmer R. ; Oral 
 E. and Pearl M. 
 
 John Hardy Crow was born in Van Buren 
 county, Iowa, April 20, 1845, an d received his 
 
 education in the district and high school, the 
 latter of Eugene, and after that he remained at 
 home until his marriage, January 1, 1871, with 
 Miss Martha L. Landrith, who was born Janu- 
 ary 28, 1852, in Missouri, and crossed the plains 
 the following year with her parents, who settled 
 in Lane county. Mr. Crow went to housekeep- 
 ing on a part of the home place and has since 
 made this his permanent residence, with the ex- 
 ception of five years, which he passed upon a 
 homestead. He has here improved and culti- 
 vated the land, of which he owns one hundred 
 and ninety-five acres and has twenty-five acres 
 in active cultivation. He is at present engaged 
 in the intelligent and practical interests of gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising, but also has time 
 for the public affairs of the community, as he 
 has always been active in politics, filling the 
 minor offices and during the Civil war acting as 
 a member of the home guard. He is a member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he 
 officiates as class leader and steward. Of the 
 eleven children born to himself and wife the fol- 
 lowing are living and making their home with 
 their parents : Joseph W. ; George Garfield ; 
 Adelia M. ; Riley T. ; and Pearne J. H. 
 
 GEORGE O. WALKER. More than any 
 other class of people in the country, the young 
 and intelligent farmer, keen of wit, resourceful, 
 and with a proper appreciation of the possibilities 
 of his occupation, is depended on to maintain the 
 financial prestige of this great country. His 
 success or failure is the pulse upon which all de- 
 partments of activity keep an anxious finger. 
 The reports from his granaries control the mak- 
 ing or marring of fortunes, and his every trans- 
 action carries significance to the remotest corners 
 of the earth. How necessary, therefore, that the 
 man who manages tracts of land and turns them 
 to account, should be well educated, systematic, 
 thrifty, and above all else find in his work that 
 enjoyment and satisfaction without which labor 
 were nearly always in vain. A fitting representa- 
 tive of this latter-day class of agriculturists is 
 George O. Walker, who, profiting by the success 
 of his sire, has turned his energies to such good 
 account that he is one of the foremost of the 
 stock-raisers in Lane county. 
 
 On the farm where he is still living Mr. 
 Walker was born January 17, 1874, and he was 
 educated in the public schools and at the Drain 
 Normal school. Subsequently he engaged in 
 teaching for several years, but still regarded the 
 old claim as his home, to which he returned dur- 
 ing the summer. After his marriage with Dollie 
 Morningstar, a native of Illinois, Mr. Walker 
 moved from the farm into the village which had 
 sprung up on a portion of it, and in 1899 started 
 
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 a general merchandise business, continuing the 
 same up to the present time. Although taking 
 no particular interest in politics, Mr. Walker has 
 held a number of local positions, and in 1900 was 
 appointed postmaster of Walker. By no means 
 devoted to one idea or place, Mr. Walker has 
 branched out in business in Anlauf, Douglas 
 county, where he has a small store, and also con- 
 ducts a sawmill. These two occupations would 
 seem to be sufficient for the average young man, 
 however ambitious or capable, yet Mr. Walker 
 keeps in touch with the labor of his youth, and, 
 on his farm of five hundred acres adjoining the 
 town, conducts a general farming and stock- 
 raising industry. The same thoroughness which 
 characterizes the merchant is noticeable also in 
 the work of the farmer, for a better conducted 
 or more modern farm it would be difficult to find 
 in this county noted for its splendid farming 
 properties. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have five chil- 
 dren : Icie, Valta, Echo, Gale, and Ansel. The 
 family are members of the Primitive Baptist 
 church, and are socially well known and popu- 
 lar. Thus it will be seen that though young in 
 years, Mr. Walker has already established him- 
 self among the substantial and permanent up- 
 building agencies of Lane county, and as such 
 he enjoys a prestige independent from that which 
 is his by virtue of the foundation laid for him 
 bv his father. 
 
 GEORGE W. McREYNOLDS. A little more 
 than a score of years has witnessed the efforts of 
 George W. McReynolds to make for himself a 
 substantial and honorable position in Oregon, 
 whither he came in 1882, and that he has suc- 
 ceeded is evidenced by his four-hundred-acre 
 farm, comfortable home, good outbuildings of all 
 kinds, and his large herd of stock, in which the 
 Shorthorns are noticeable. The greater part of 
 his life had been spent in the middle west. While 
 a resident of the Mississippi valley he had the 
 opportunity of serving his country in the great 
 struggle between the North and South, though 
 he was then scarcely more than a youth. 
 
 A native of Davis county, Ind., George W. 
 McReynolds was born April 18, 1843, tne son °f 
 Joseph McReynolds, a blacksmith who had emi- 
 grated from his birthplace in West Virginia 
 about 1825 and settled in Indiana. He there mar- 
 ried Miss Sophronia Rainey and remained until 
 1858, when he located in Iowa and in 1865 he 
 removed to Kansas, where his death occurred at 
 the age of sixty-two years, while his wife lived to 
 be eighty-five. George W. McReynolds was one 
 of eleven children, and remained at home and re- 
 ceived his education in the district schools of 
 Iowa, until he arrived at manhood. In 1863 he 
 enlisted in Company C, Eighteenth Regiment Of 
 
 Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was first sent with 
 his company to Fort Smith, Ark., in that state 
 giving the greater part of his service. He was 
 a member of the Shreveport expedition and en- 
 gaged in various duties until his honorable dis- 
 charge at Little Rock in August, 1865, when he 
 returned to Iowa and later followed his parents 
 into Kansas. He married in Kansas, in 1868, 
 and lived there for fourteen years, when he came 
 to Oregon and bought two hundred and forty 
 acres, which was a part of the Sheppard claim, 
 located six miles south of Cottage Grove, Lane 
 county. At the same time he homesteaded a hun- 
 dred and sixty acres and at once began the im- 
 provement and cultivation of his large farm. He 
 has since built his house, barns, and other build- 
 ings and has devoted his land principally to 
 stock-raising, having one of the largest stock 
 farms in the vicinity, though he carries on gen- 
 eral farming also. 
 
 The wife of Mr. McReynolds was formerly 
 Anna Lynch, a native of Indiana, and of their 
 union have been born two children. Ernest is 
 located in the vicinity of his father's farm, and 
 Eva is the wife of E. S. Ellis, of Leland, Joseph- 
 ine county, Ore. In political preference Mr. Mc- 
 Reynolds has always been a Republican and has 
 taken an active interest in the advancement of 
 the principles of his party. Faithful in the per- 
 formance of his duty as a citizen he has ac- 
 cepted many of the minor offices of the neighbor- 
 hood and filled them acceptably. As an honored 
 soldier he is a member of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic. 
 
 COL. CHARLES H. HOLDEN, the United 
 States land commissioner at Florence, is a man 
 of more than ordinarily substantial endowments, 
 developed by years of practical experience in 
 government and professional service. He has the 
 reputation of being one of the most conserva- 
 tive students of legal science in Lane county, 
 and though at present not practicing to any 
 extent, wields an influence in maintaining a high 
 standard of excellence among practitioners. A 
 resident of Oregon since 1891, Mr. Holden ar- 
 rived in the state with many honors upon his 
 head, and a career behind him which more than 
 justified relaxation from active life. For a time 
 he lived in the city of Portland, Oregon's 
 chief city, and for several years traveled 
 extensively on the coast, visiting the gar- 
 den spots of California, basking in the charm 
 of reminiscence surrounding the historical old 
 landmarks, and making an exhaustive study of 
 the people and resources of the west. Arriving 
 in Florence July 3, 1894, he stepped into re- 
 newed activity as United States land commis- 
 sioner, notary public, justice of the peace, and 
 
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 has since identified himself with the business, 
 professional and social life of the community. A 
 delightful home across the river in South Flor- 
 ence is expressive of the character and personal- 
 ity of Colonel Holden, its trees and shrubbery, 
 artistic vistas, and evident collaboration with the 
 hospitable and beautiful and gracious things of 
 life, speaking most eloquently of geniality and 
 success. 
 
 In his younger days Colonel Holden became 
 familiar with the early hours and hard work on a 
 Kent county (Mich.) farm, to which his parents, 
 Josiah R. and Joanna R. (Danforth) Holden, 
 removed when he was twelve years of age. He 
 was born in Grafton county, N. H., April 18, 
 1832, and at the tender age of two months his 
 parents emigrated to the then far west. 
 On both sides of his family he inherits 
 longevity, for his father lived to be ninety, and 
 his mother ninety-one years of age. In Kent 
 county, Mich., the father engaged in his old- 
 time occupation of farming, the advantage of 
 large tracts of timber on his farm leading him 
 also into lumbering and milling. Three sons 
 and one daughter were reared on this farm, all 
 being educated in the public schools. Charles 
 H., the second of the children, was one of the 
 most studious, and in boyhood days evidenced a 
 tendency to extend his activities beyond the bor- 
 ders of the paternal farm. At the age of nine- 
 teen he supplemented his common school train- 
 ing by entering the Plainfield Academy, pre- 
 paratory to graduation from Knox College, with 
 the degree of A. B. 
 
 Admitted to the bar in 1857, the following 
 year Colonel Holden was elected district attor- 
 ney for the Grand Traverse district, then em- 
 bracing five counties, which position he held un- 
 til the breaking out of the Civil war, when he was 
 one of the first in the town to interest himself in 
 forming a company. The outgrowth of his effort 
 in this direction was Company A, Twenty-Sixth 
 Michigan Volunteer Infantry, of which he be- 
 came first , lieutenant, joining the Second army 
 corps under General Hancock. During his serv- 
 ice he was promoted three times for gallant and 
 meritorious service, and at one time held the 
 rank of lieutenant-colonel on the staff, of 
 General Canby. Colonel Holden rendered dis- 
 tinguished service in the Union cause, par- 
 ticipating in the principal battles of the 
 war, including those on the way to Gettys- 
 burg and many of the engagements before Rich- 
 mond and Petersburg. When peace was re- 
 stored Colonel Holden continued to live in 
 Washington, and during 1865 and 1866 reviewed 
 his studies at the Columbia Law School. For 
 ten years he was subsequently connected with 
 the treasury department in Washington, princi- 
 pally in the loan branch and auditor's depart- 
 
 ments. He was the last president of the. last 
 city council of Washington, D. C, receiving the 
 gavel, and distinguishing himself by efficient par- 
 liamentary service. 
 
 Returning to Reed City, Mich., in 1879, 
 Colonel Holden resumed the practice of law, 
 and for twelve years was one of the foremost 
 practitioners in that judicial circuit. His health 
 becoming impaired, and desiring a complete 
 change, he came to Portland, as heretofore 
 stated, and has never regretted his decision to 
 emigrate to the west. He is fraternally prom- 
 inent, and is connected with the Blue Lodge 
 Chapter and Knights Templar, F. &. A. M., 
 the Independent Order of Foresters and the 
 Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic of General Lyons 
 Post No. 58, of Florence, Ore. Colonel Holden 
 is a Republican in politics, having cast his first 
 presidential vote for a Republican candidate. He 
 is genial and popular, and represents in his life 
 and character the reliable, conservative and solid 
 business man and lawyer. 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH JANE MOIST. While 
 the vanguard of civilization in the west was com- 
 posed primarily of men, there were very early 
 established homes presided over by women, whose 
 courage failed not on the plains or in the midst 
 of the desolation and deprivation of the settler's 
 camps, and whose high-mindedness and morality 
 harmonized the discordant elements wrangling 
 for supremacy and power. To this class of 
 women belongs Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Moist, whose 
 family traversed the plains in 1847, an d who, 
 after rearing a large family, and performing her 
 share towards the accumulating of a competence, 
 is living retired in Albany. 
 
 The ancestry and immediate family historv 
 of Mrs. Moist is spoken of at length in the bio- 
 graphy of her brother, William Ralston. She 
 was born in Rockville, Parke county, Ind., where 
 her father, Jeremiah Ralston, owned a large farm 
 and carried on extensive farming and stock- 
 raising. Elizabeth Jane Ralston was eight years 
 of age when the family moved to Burlington, 
 Iowa. She was educated in the public schools 
 of that state, and grew to a gracious and, inter- 
 esting young womanhood in a refined home 
 atmosphere. Jeremiah Ralston was ambitious 
 and resourceful, and was one of the first farmers 
 in his neighborhood to seriously consider the 
 proposition of migrating to the west. So strongly 
 convinced was he of the desirability of such a 
 course that he sold his farm and invested in oxen 
 and other requirements for the perilous journey. 
 This was in 1847, an< ^ his daughter then eighteen, 
 was one of the most enthusiastic of the party. 
 Six months of travel brought them to the desired 
 
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 destination in Lebanon, Ore., and two years 
 later, in Lebanon, July 31, 1849, sne was united 
 in marriage with Joseph Moist, with whom she 
 lived nearly half a century, until his death on his 
 finely improved farm near Albany, March 13, 
 1893.. at the age of seventy years. 
 
 Joseph Moist was born near Pittsburg, Pa., 
 1823, and at an early day removed to Burlington, 
 Iowa, where he followed his trade of blacksmith. 
 He was a brave and adventurous man, for in 
 1845, when the journey across the plains was a 
 rare occurrence, and untold dangers beset the 
 path of courageous emigrants, he set out with 
 his partner with ox-teams and a wagon and 
 accomplished the journey from Iowa to Oregon 
 with comparative ease. Oregon City was then a 
 small aggregation of houses, with few business 
 interests to enliven its prospects, and he estab- 
 lished a much-needed blacksmith shop, conduct- 
 ing the same with considerable success. In 1846 
 he took up a donation claim of six hundred and 
 forty acres three miles north of Lebanon, Linn 
 county, and upon this he inaugurated improve- 
 ments, building a dwelling and barn. He built 
 and conducted the first blacksmith shop in Linn 
 county in 1850. The years 1848 and 1849 he 
 spent in the mines of California. After return- 
 ing, he continued to conduct his farm and shop, 
 although he eventually gave up the latter, devot- 
 ing all of his time to farming. In 1862 he went 
 to the mines of Lewiston, Idaho, returning some- 
 what richer than when he started out. His 
 farm property yielded large returns, and between 
 general farm produce and fine cattle and horses, 
 his fortune increased at a greater ratio than that 
 of the majority of the settlers. In 1877 he felt 
 entitled to a partial rest from his labors, and so 
 built a home in Albany, where he lived with his 
 family during the winter season, spending his 
 summers on the farm. Thus his remaining years 
 were spent, and at the age of seventy, shortly 
 before his death, he retained his faculties, and 
 maintained his interest in the general happenings 
 of the day. Four sons were reared to maturity 
 on the farm, and of these Charles Franklin is a 
 retired farmer living in Lebanon ; William Fred- 
 erick and John Horace are in the livery busi- 
 ness in Lebanon and Ashland; and Jay died 
 while a junior at Albany College, at the age of 
 twenty. 
 
 Mr. Moist was a public-spirited and large- 
 hearted man, and his influence for progress was 
 felt in religious, educational and business circles 
 of the county. He was a self-made man in every 
 respect. He was a Democrat in political affili- 
 ation, and was fraternally associated with the 
 Masons at Lebanon. 
 
 Since her husband's death Mrs. Moist has 
 rented her farm and made her home in Albany. 
 She is a devoted member, of the United Presby- 
 
 terian Church, and is known for her fine womanly 
 qualities, and her ability to make and retain 
 friends. For, many years she was a member of 
 the Eastern Star at Lebanon. 
 
 JOHN E. P. WITHERS. To liken the char- 
 acter of some of the pioneers of Oregon to the 
 forest trees native to the state is in all ways 
 appropriate, for it has become an accepted fact 
 that the pine of the western wood furnishes the 
 most durable lumber for the building of the ships 
 which must breast the tumult of the deep and 
 withstand its storms, and as citizens of an em- 
 bryo state these men have in the past proven the 
 sturdiness and strength of their manhood, many 
 of them still remaining as parts of the great 
 whole which gave to the Union another com- 
 monwealth. Occupying such a place in the 
 minds of those who recall the days by actual ex- 
 perience is John E. P. Withers, who has with- 
 stood the storms of trial and adversity, has 
 made his own success and helped to make that 
 of the state, and in the evening of his days en- 
 joys the satisfaction of accomplishment. 
 
 Mr. Withers was born in Kentucky, January 
 21, 1830, and when three years old his parents 
 removed to McLean county, 111., where he spent 
 the intervening years until his majority. In 
 1 85 1 he set out for the west, crossing the plains 
 with ox-teams, and on his safe arrival located in 
 the gold fields of California, where he remained 
 for but a brief time, returning in the same win- 
 ter to his Illinois home, this trip being made by 
 water. Undaunted by his first failure to find 
 satisfaction on the Pacific coast he again under- 
 took the journey in 1853, and after six months 
 reached Oregon, which was his destination, tak- 
 ing up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres in the neighborhood of Corvallis, 
 Benton county. This remained his home for six 
 years when he went to Douglas county and en- 
 gaged in the stock business for a like period. On 
 again locating farther north he selected Lane 
 county for his future home. He first bought a 
 farm of one hundred and thirty acres near Eu- 
 gene, where he lived until 1901, successfully en- 
 gaged in general farming and stock-raising. In 
 the last named year he traded a farm of seven 
 hundred acres for the one which he now occu- 
 pies, which consists of one hundred and seventy- 
 five acres, in the vicinity of Springfield. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Withers occurred in Au- 
 gust, 1854, Miss Margaret Gillispie, of LaFay- 
 ette county, Mo., becoming his wife. She had 
 come to Oregon with her parents in 1852, and 
 her father had purchased the right to three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres of land in the neighbor- 
 hood of Eugene, which he farmed in connection 
 with his duties as a minister of the Cumberland 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1513 
 
 Presbyterian Church. The family of children 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Withers were as follows: 
 Mary, now Mrs. W. M. Vanduzen; Mabel, now 
 Mrs. Bogart, of this county; William W., who 
 was killed February 5, 1903, while performing 
 his duty as sheriff of Lane county, and whose 
 sketch appears elsewhere in this volume ; Alice, 
 now Mrs. Hawley, of San Diego, Cal. ; Price, 
 of Harney, Ore. ; Anna, now Mrs. Emery, of 
 Douglas county ; Emma, now Mrs. Cornelian, of 
 Helena, Mont. ; and Jessie, who is Mrs. Ed- 
 monston, of Thurston, Ore. As an influential 
 and able man of the Democratic party, Mr. 
 Wnhers was elected to the state legislature in 
 1866, where he able represented his constitu- 
 ency. Both himself and wife are members of the 
 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 
 NOAH BUOY. To the Buoy family oppor- 
 tunities existed but for them to improve, and 
 that they have done so is evidenced by the active 
 part which they have taken in every movement 
 pertaining to the growth of the country while 
 maintaining their own positions as pioneers and 
 seekers after fortunes so bountifully held out in 
 this western state. Upon many of the important 
 documents of the state appear the names of 
 Laban Buoy, and those of his three sons, H. N., 
 John and James as four among the pioneers who 
 organized the Republican party in Oregon, as 
 well as being connected with many other prom- 
 inent movements in the early history of the com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 A representative of this family is named in 
 the person of Noah Buoy, who was born in Dan- 
 ville, 111., August 22, 1837, the son of Laban, 
 who was born in Bourbon county, Ky., October 
 8, 1802. The elder man was the son of a farmer 
 and was thus early inured to habits of _ thrift and 
 industry which insured his usefulness as a citi- 
 zen of a new country when combined with the 
 spirit which had animated his own sire when he 
 left the more settled conditions of the colonial 
 states and took up his abode in " the dark and 
 bloody ground " famous in the annals of the mid- 
 dle west. He remained at home until his mar- 
 riage in 1820 with Jane Blackburn, who was 
 born on the east coast of Maryland in 1801, and 
 shortly afterward they removed to Indiana, 
 where he engaged in farming and the trade of a 
 carpenter. After a residence there of a few 
 years they located in Illinois in 1823, and during 
 his residence in that state he served in the Black 
 Hawk war in the capacity of scout and spy, a 
 dangerous and important post in which he 
 proved of invaluable service. While living in 
 Illinois his people joined him and made that 
 state their home until their death. For thirty 
 
 years Mr. Buoy remained in the Prairie state 
 giving his aid toward the advancement of civiliza- 
 tion and development of resources, but April 15, 
 z 853, he crossed the plains with horse and mule 
 teams and reached Oregon City, August 9, of 
 the same year. Coming on to Lane county, he 
 bought the squatter's right to six hundred and 
 forty acres located a half mile south of Creswell, 
 and upon this property he devoted his time and 
 energy in cultivation and improvement, remain- 
 ing so employed until his death. Not long after 
 his arrival in Oregon the Rogue river Indians 
 caused the trouble which resulted again in war 
 and Mr. Buoy was authorized to raise a com- 
 pany, of which he became captain, leading his 
 men at once to the seat of war. The most serious 
 of the engagements was at Looking Glass prairie, 
 though he continued in the service throughout 
 the entire war, receiving the commendation of 
 all who appreciated the great danger and dif- 
 ficulty through which he passed. He was also 
 influential in all public affairs for the spirit 
 which animated him was thoroughly appreciated 
 by his fellow-citizens and they felt their interests 
 safe when in his hands. He held various of the 
 minor offices in his neighborhood, among them 
 being county commissioner in which he served 
 for one term, and he it was who assisted in the 
 organization of the Republican party. He had 
 been a member of the Presbyterian church since 
 boyhood. He and his wife both died at the age 
 of seventy-four, and of the children which 
 blessed their union the following are now living : 
 James, located in Portland ; Thomas, also of that 
 city; Noah, of this review; William, of Jasper, 
 Ore. ; Jane Knox, of Prineville ; and Evaline Car- 
 ter, of Junction City. 
 
 Noah Buoy received his education in the vicin- 
 ity of his father's farm where he grew to man- 
 hood, and was then allowed to attend the graded 
 schools of Albany. When a young man he took 
 up the trade of a brick mason, being the first man 
 to make bricks in this county. He was only 
 fifteen years old when he set out to make his 
 own way in the world, and his inheritance of 
 self-reliance and independence brought about the 
 results which follow application and energy. 
 After his marriage, April 15, 1863, with Susan 
 Mary Hughes, the daughter of a blacksmith of 
 Creswell, and who crossed the plains from her 
 native state of Missouri as a member of the same 
 train in which her husband traveled, he located 
 upon a part of his father's claim and has lived 
 all his life in this vicinity. In 1880 he removed 
 to a farm of two hundred and twenty-six acres 
 located two miles south of Creswell and is now 
 engaged in the cultivation of one hundred acres 
 which are tillable, and stock-raising, devoting 
 much atetntion to Shorthorn and Hereford cat- 
 tle. In addition to his farming interests he has 
 
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 always worked at his trade and the combined in- 
 terests were productive of wide returns. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Buoy have been born three 
 children, of whom John W. is located in Harney 
 county and George L. and Burton H. still make 
 their home with their parents. In politics Mr. 
 Buoy is a Republican, and takes an active part 
 in the promotion of the principles which he en- 
 dorses. 
 
 JOHN F. WALKER. The founders of towns 
 must ever occupy a special place in the history 
 of the world, more especially when their names 
 are associated therewith for all time, a mutually 
 beneficial distinction being thus conferred. The 
 town of Walker, a thrifty and promising aggre- 
 gation of interests, owes its start to that honored 
 pioneer, John F. Walker, upon whose farm there 
 sprang into existence the inevitable store, the 
 blacksmith shop and postoffice which, with slight 
 modifications, have usually served as the nucleus 
 for thriving towns. Behind him Mr. Walker has 
 the backing of characteristics drawn from a fine 
 old southern ancestry, traits fostered on the pa- 
 ternal farm in Bedford county, Va., where he 
 was born January n, 1827. His father, Robert 
 M. Walker, was also born in the Old Dominion 
 February 6, 1804, and it is presumed that his 
 father, the paternal great-grandfather, was either 
 born there or established his family there at a 
 very early day. 
 
 John F. Walker was never at a loss for com- 
 panionship and sympathy in his childish en- 
 thusiasms, for he had thirteen brothers and sis- 
 ters, many of whom started out to earn their own 
 living at an early age. He was twenty when he 
 learned the tanner's trade, which he followed for 
 a few years. In 1847 ne went to Missouri and 
 farmed for three years. While thus employed 
 he contracted the western fever, and in the spring 
 of 1850 started for California with mule teams, 
 being on the road about three months. In the 
 latter state he tried his hand at mining, but 
 not experiencing great success turned his atten- 
 tion to carpentering, of which there was great 
 need at that time. In 1852 he came to Oregon 
 and spent the first winter in the mines of Jack- 
 son county, the following spring taking up a 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres four miles 
 southeast of Cottage Grove. This acquisition 
 suggested the establishment of a home, and 
 February 1, 1855, Mr. Walker married Mary J. 
 Chrisman, who was born in Jackson county, Mo., 
 February 16, 1839, and whose father, C. E. 
 Chrisman, is mentioned elsewhere in this work. 
 Mrs. Walker crossed the plains with her people 
 in 1 85 1, and settled in Lane county in 1853. 
 
 Under the most promising conditions Mr. and 
 Mrs. Walker went to housekeeping on the newly 
 
 acquired claim, and this continued to be their 
 home until certain distasteful features connected 
 with it led Mr. Walker to sell, and purchase a 
 farm one mile east o'f Creswell. A year later he 
 came into possession of the farm of five hundred 
 and seventy acres upon which he now lives, and 
 upon a part of which the village of Walker has 
 since been built. This farm is four miles north 
 of Cottage Grove, and few farms are so well 
 improved, or unstintingly supplied with modern 
 implements, outhouses and general aids to a large 
 general farming and stock-raising industry. In 
 the meantime, he has added to his land and now 
 has about seventeen hundred acres, a fair show- 
 ing for a man who started out in life with physi- 
 cal rather than financial assets, and who has over- 
 come many obstacles placed in the way of his suc- 
 cess. At present Mr. Walker is living a retired 
 life, although he still maintains an interest in 
 everything connected with the farm. The fam- 
 ily live in an old-fashioned frame dwelling, large 
 and comfortable and roomy, and to which the 
 numerous friends are wont to repair with great 
 frequency. Of the seven children born into the 
 family, Mrs. Mary A. Walden lives in Washing- 
 ton; R. E., has a farm in this vicinity; J. W. 
 resides in Alsea, Ore. ; Mrs. Martha Wiseman 
 makes her home in Eugene; and George O. is 
 a merchant of Walker. A Republican since the 
 establishment of the party, Mr. Walker has been 
 called upon to fill many offices of trust in this 
 county, including that of county commissioner, 
 school director, and road supervisor. He is a 
 deacon in the Baptist church, and has always 
 contributed, as his- means permitted, to its sup- 
 port. He is a kind-hearted, broad-minded, and 
 exceedingly liberal man, in touch with current 
 events, and interestingly reminiscent of the early 
 days of Oregon. With his wife he is justly es- 
 teemed for interesting and fine traits of character, 
 and in consequence is surrounded in his declin- 
 ing years by pleasant and harmonious associates. 
 
 JAMES CATLIN JOHNSON. The thriving 
 city of Cottage Grove, Lane county, has a full 
 quota of live, energetic and brainy business men, 
 among whom is James C. Johnson, a young law- 
 yer of talent and ability. A son of the late Wil- 
 liam Henry Johnson, he was born May 12, 1872, 
 in Waseca county, Minn. His paternal grand- 
 father, James C. Johnson, who was born in 1808, 
 in New York state, was one of the earliest set- 
 tlers of Chicago, 111. Going there when the now 
 magnificent city was but a rude hamlet, he en- 
 gaged in trading, selling supplies to the Indian 
 trading post, and to the trappers of that locality. 
 Removing to Winnebago county, Wis., he con- 
 tinued as a trader for many years, becoming 
 widely known throughout the northwestern terri- 
 
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 tory. He spent his last years in Minnesota, dying 
 at an advanced age in Waseca county. 
 
 A native of Wisconsin, William Henry John- 
 son went with his parents to Minnesota, and 
 lived there until after his marriage. In 1861 he 
 enlisted in Company A, First Minnesota Infan- 
 try, and served as a bugler, holding the rank of 
 first sergeant. After the war he was for awhile 
 an engineer on a Mississippi river steamboat, 
 and was subsequently a locomotive engineer. 
 Taking up the study of law, he was admitted to 
 the bar soon after attaining his majority, and 
 began the practice of his profession at Duluth, 
 Minn., continuing there until 1890. Coming then 
 to Oregon, he continued his professional labors 
 in Portland for a year, when, in 1891, he settled 
 in Woodburn, Marion county, where he was in 
 active practice until his death, in 1894, at the 
 early age of forty-seven years. He was quite 
 prominent in public affairs, serving in the Min- 
 nesota Legislature in 1882 and 1883, and as clerk 
 of the court for a number of terms while a resi- 
 dent of Duluth, Minn. He married Elizabeth 
 Reed, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died 
 in Minneapolis, Minn. Her father, Walter Reed, 
 was for many years one of the leading farmers 
 of Waseca county, Minn., but after his retire- 
 ment from active pursuits he settled in Morris- 
 town, Minn., where he spent his declining years. 
 
 The only child of his parents, James C. John- 
 son received his elementary education in the 
 common schools of his native county, afterward 
 taking a course at the Parsons' Business Col- 
 lege in Duluth, Minn., where he was graduated 
 in 1887. Subsequently entering his father's of- 
 fice, he read law under his instruction, and in 
 June. 1895, the year following his father's death, 
 he passed the examination of the supreme court, 
 and began the practice of law in Woodburn, 
 where he remained five years. Enlisting in Com- 
 pany M, Second Oregon United States Volun- 
 teers, Mr. Johnson went with his regiment to 
 the Philippine Islands, where he took part in 
 many active engagements, serving as sergeant of 
 his company from muster-in to muster-out, and 
 while at the front engaged in the following bat- 
 tles : Guam, June 21, 1898; Manila, August 13, 
 1898; battle of Tondo, February 23, 1899; and 
 in the engagements in the Pasig valley between 
 March 12, 1899, and March 20, 1899; at Mala- 
 bon, March 25 ; at Polo, March 26 ; at Marilao, 
 April 1 1 ; at Tay Tay, June 3 and June 4 ; at 
 Antipolo, June 4 ; at Teresa, June 5 ; and at 
 Morong on the same date. Serving from May 
 16, 1898, until August 7, 1899, Mr. Johnson was 
 mustered out of service with a record for bravery 
 and fidelity that he may well be proud of. 
 
 Returning to Oregon, Mr. Johnson resided in 
 Woodburn until May, 1900, when he transferred 
 his residence and business to Cottage Grove, 
 
 where he opened a law office, and has since built 
 up an extensive and lucrative practice in his 
 chosen profession. Mr. Johnson has established 
 a record for the trial of cases in the Supreme 
 court that speaks well of his ability. He has 
 other business interests, being one of the original 
 incorporators of the LeRoy Mining Company, 
 and of the Hiawatha Mining Company, of which 
 he is now secretary and treasurer. Both of these 
 properties are located in the Bohemian mining 
 district. 
 
 At Woodburn, Ore., Mr. Johnson married 
 Marguerite Ponti, who was born in Italy, and 
 came with her parents to Watsonville, Cal., and 
 from there to Woodburn with an older sister. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child, Laura 
 Marguerite. Mr. Johnson is an independent 
 thinker, especially in political matters, voting 
 with the courage of his convictions. Frater- 
 nally he is a Knight of Pythias, and a Knight 
 of the Maccabees. In religion he is an Episco- 
 palian. Although not an office-seeker, he served 
 as municipal judge of Woodburn. 
 
 JERRY TAYLOR. As a reminder of his 
 participation in the strife incident to settling this 
 great northwestern country, and preparing the 
 way for peaceful homes for men, women and chil- 
 dren, Jerry Taylor, who has never quailed in the 
 face of danger, carries upon his person, a wound 
 that will probably trouble him to the end of his 
 days. Too much cannot be said of the pioneers 
 who came across the plains in the early days of 
 Oregon's infancy, and by their dauntless courage 
 overcame a hostile foe, and dwelt in small and 
 uncomfortable houses, suffering isolation, and 
 often the pangs of hunger. That the majority 
 have proven equal to the character and physical 
 test is the glory of the state, and none who come 
 after are deserving of greater appreciation and 
 honor. 
 
 Mr. Taylor is a pioneer of 1852, having crossed 
 the plains with his father, Henry W. Taylor, and 
 the other members of his large family. Of Henry 
 Taylor much is said in another part of this work, 
 but it is fitting to refer to him as one of the 
 noblest and most helpful of the western sojourn- 
 ers of his time, his influence as an agriculturist, 
 a politician, and a local preacher, equaling that 
 of any of his contemporaries. He lived for some 
 years in different parts of Pennsylvania, and at 
 Pittsburg his son Jerry was born, October 13, 
 1832. The latter was educated primarily in the 
 public schools, and under the training of his sire 
 became a practical and successful farmer. On 
 his own responsibility he took up a claim of one 
 hundred and sixty acres eight miles south of 
 Cottage Grove, Ore. In 1854 he left his ranch 
 and spent several months in the mines of Cali- 
 
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 fornia. In 1855 he enlisted for service in the 
 Rogue River war in Company B, Captain Buoy, 
 commander, and took part in several of the terri- 
 ble conflicts which marked that era of bloodshed 
 and submission. He took an active part in the 
 battle of Little Meadows, and at Big Bend, on 
 Cow Creek, he received the wound from the 
 effects of which he is still suffering. Twenty of 
 the one hundred and twenty days' enlistment 
 were spent in the hospital. 
 
 Returning to Lane county, Mr. Taylor at- 
 tended the old Columbia college at Eugene, and 
 for several years thereafter he was engaged in 
 school teaching in Lane county. He had married 
 in i860, Rachel E. Jones, who was born in Mis- 
 souri, and crossed the plains with her people in 
 1846. The farm owned by Mr. Taylor owes its 
 development entirely to his energy and enter- 
 prise, and the fine improvements indicate a mind 
 in touch with scientific and modern thought. The 
 preferred stock is Shorthorn cattle, that asset of 
 the conservative and cautious agriculturist, and 
 in addition to stock-raising, grain and general 
 farm produce contribute to a gratifying yearly 
 income. Elizabeth A., the oldest daughter of Mr. 
 Taylor, is the wife of Mr. Lestoe and lives in 
 Portland; William H. is a resident of Washing- 
 ton; George R. lives on the home farm; Em- 
 maranda married Alfred Powell and lives in this 
 vicinity; and John N. is employed in the lumber 
 camps. Mr. Taylor is a Free Thinker and in 
 political matters casts his vote for the men whom 
 he thinks best qualified to fill the position, re- 
 gardless of party lines. He has held many of the 
 local offices, all of which have come to him un- 
 solicited, and has established a reputation as a 
 promoter of peace and prosperity, as well as 
 agricultural, political and educational excellence. 
 
 ABRAHAM HACKLEMAN. The birth of 
 Abraham Hackleman occurred near Rushville, 
 Ind., July 29, 1829, his parents being Abner and 
 Elizabeth (Lines) Hackleman, the latter a native 
 of North Carolina. The father was one of the 
 earliest settlers of Rush county, Ind., and later 
 was in the vanguard of emigration to Des 
 Moines county, Iowa, where he engaged near 
 Burlington as a farmer. In 1845 ne likewise be- 
 came an emigrant to Oregon, crossing the plains 
 with the customary ox-teams, remaining, how- 
 ever, but one year, when he returned to Iowa by 
 pack horses, his death occurring in the fall of 
 the same year. Of the five children born to 
 himself and wife, four came to Oregon, the three 
 besides Abraham being John, who came in 1852, 
 and died in Albany ; Margaret, who is now Mrs. 
 Culver, of Eugene, Ore.; and Mrs. Estes, of 
 Baker City. The mother also came across the 
 
 plains in 1852, and her death occurred in Baker 
 City. 
 
 Abraham Hackleman was reared principally 
 in Iowa, having removed there at the age of four 
 years, and remained until he was eighteen. At 
 that age, in the year 1847, ^ e furnished a yoke 
 of oxen and crossed the plains with a Mr. Burk- 
 hart, leaving in April and taking the Barlow 
 route over the old Oregon trail, having crossed 
 the Missouri river at St. Joseph. After his ar- 
 rival in Oregon City Mr. Hackleman came, in 
 September of the same year, to the present site 
 of Albany, where his father had located a dona- 
 tion claim. He re-located the claim and at once 
 erected a log house, this being the first in this 
 vicinity. The next year found him en route for 
 the mines of California, his trip across the moun- 
 tains made exciting and dangerous by many en- 
 counters with the Indians. The fall of the same 
 year he returned to Oregon by water with sub- 
 stantial fruits of his short time of labor. In the 
 spring of the next year he again made the jour- 
 ney south, but had the misfortune to be ill much 
 of the time spent there, and after his return in 
 the fall of '49, he engaged at once in farming and 
 has since remained one of the representative 
 farmers of the community. In 1850 he laid off 
 seventy acres of land in the eastern part of what 
 is now Albany, and which was known as Hackle- 
 man's first addition, following this later with 
 three more additions, including in all more than 
 a hundred acres, which take in the portion of 
 the city up to Baker street and the Southern 
 Pacific depot. In addition to his property here 
 he owns two other farms in the valley, and also 
 three thousand acres of land comprising a ranch 
 east of the mountains in Crook county, which 
 has always been devoted to the raising of horses 
 and cattle, the land being principally useful for 
 hay and grazing. He has sold as many as nine 
 hundred horses in one season, a very large num- 
 ber even in this country of large productions. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hackleman occurred in 
 Linn county, Ore., Miss Elenore Davis becoming 
 his wife. Miss Davis crossed the plains in 1847, 
 with her father, Truit Davis, of Missouri, who 
 took up a donation claim two and a half miles 
 out of the city. Mrs. Hackleman died in the 
 Rogue river valley, while on a visit to that vicin- 
 ity. She was the mother of five children, of 
 whom Pauline is Mrs. Price, of Rogue river 
 valley; Thurston is an attorney in Albany, and 
 also engages in farming; Denver is a farmer lo- 
 cated two miles out of Albany ; Josephine became 
 Mrs. Irvine and died in Albany; and Frank A. 
 is a stockman here. Some time after the death 
 of his wife Mr. Hackleman married in Albany 
 Mrs. Vira (Anthrom) McKinnon, who had come 
 from California to Oregon. In his political affili- 
 ations Mr. Hackleman belongs to the Democratic 
 
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 party, and through that influence he has held 
 various offices, having been county commissioner 
 and a member of the city council. Always active 
 in every public movement which promised an 
 advancement of the interests of the state or 
 community. Mr. Hackleman has assisted in sev- 
 eral very notable enterprises, among them being 
 the building of the military road across the moun- 
 tains, and which he has served at different times 
 as director and president, maintaining each posi- 
 tion creditably for several years. He was also 
 interested in the old Oregon & Pacific Railroad, 
 and for four years served as director of the 
 same. Mr. Hackleman is a member of the 
 Christian Church, and certainly lives up to the 
 tenets of his religion in his patient and contented 
 philosophy, which has endeared him to the 
 hearts of many who have enjoyed his friendship. 
 
 WILLIAM H. SMALL. The well known 
 fact that towns and cities partake, as a whole, 
 of the characteristics of the people comprising 
 them, finds no less emphatic expression in coun- 
 try communities, where distinguishing features 
 are fewer and therefore more pronounced. As 
 illustrating this thought it is a pleasure to call 
 attention to the career of William H. Small, so 
 long identified with Lane county, and whose as- 
 pirations, ambitions, hopes and example, may be 
 taken as typical of all that is worthy and of good 
 report. Mr. Small is a prominent man in his 
 neighborhood, not only as a successful farmer 
 and stock-raiser, but because he has taught peo- 
 ple that his word, his work, and himself are 
 thoroughly to be depended upon; that his judg- 
 ment is good, and that a generous regard for the 
 rights and prerogatives of others underlies his 
 most ambitious undertakings. 
 
 In Pettis county, Mo., where he was born 
 February 17, 1837, Mr- Small was reared in an 
 atmosphere of refinement and comparative af- 
 fluence, for his father, Henry Small, was a large 
 land owner and stock-dealer, and prominent in 
 political, educational and social life. Henry 
 Small was born in Tennessee in 181 2, and at a 
 very early day removed with his parents to Mis- 
 souri, where he was reared, educated, and finally 
 embarked upon an independent agricultural life. 
 In 1835 he was united in marriage with Nancy 
 Mosby, born in Kentucky, and of this union sev- 
 eral children were born in Missouri. William 
 H. was thirteen years of age when the family 
 migration to Oregon took place in 1850, and in 
 innumerable ways he made himself useful on the 
 long and tiresome journey. They were on the 
 road about six months, and on the way had sev- 
 enteen horses and mules stolen by the Indians. 
 Otherwise their journey was uneventful. They 
 settled on a claim in Linn county, near Browns- 
 
 ville, for a couple of years, moving then to an- 
 other claim upon a portion of which Cottage 
 Grove now stands. The father lived to be sixty- 
 three and the mother eighty-eight years old. | 
 They were people of refinement, large of heart 
 and strong of purpose, nobly filling their obliga- 
 tions in an enlightened and progressive com- 
 munity. 
 
 With the exception of his sister, Mrs.' Susan 
 Ann Julian, of California, William Small is the 
 only remaining child of the six born to his 
 parents. Of a studious turn of mind, he im- 
 proved the educational chances that presented 
 themselves by attending the district schools dur- 
 ing the winter, devoting his summers to assisting 
 his father around the home farm. In 1861 he 
 married Martha Ann Cooley, and their first home 
 was on a claim adjoining the land where London 
 has since been built. In 1878 Mr. Small pur- 
 chased his present farm of four hundred and 
 twenty-four acres, nine miles south of Cottage 
 Grove, upon which he has made extensive im- 
 provements, and converted into one of the best 
 farming properties in the county. He raises 
 Cotswold sheep, Durham cattle and Poland- 
 China hogs, besides grain and general farm pro- 
 duce. He is a Democrat in politics, and has held 
 all of the minor offices, being particularly active 
 as a member of the school board. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Grange, and has done 
 much to promote the well-being of this helpful 
 organization. His children are John T. and 
 Henry, living on the old place; George A., en- 
 gaged in farming on the home place; Robert C, 
 farming near his father; and Nancy C, living 
 with her parents. 
 
 FRANKLIN J. CHAMBERS. A native son 
 of Oregon, Franklin J. Chambers was born in 
 King's valley, Benton county, February 15, 1853, 
 the son of Rowland and Louisa (King) Cham- 
 bers, who came to Oregon in 1845, m company 
 with Nehemiah King. In the spring of 1846 he 
 came to King's valley and took up a donation 
 claim of six hundred and forty acres, upon which 
 he continued to make his home until his death in 
 1870, at the age of fifty-seven years. He married 
 Louisa King, the daughter of Nehemiah King, 
 and upon her death he married her sister. He 
 was the father of the following children : Mar- 
 garet Bagsley and James Chambers, both dead ; 
 Sarah, who lives at Dayton, Ore., the wife of Mr. 
 Watson ; William, who lives at Pullman, Wash. ; 
 Jackson, conducting a hotel at Canyon City, 
 Grant county, Ore. ; John located in King's val- 
 ley ; Franklin J., the subject of this review; 
 Henry, in Pullman, Wash. ; Ordelia, at Olex, 
 Ore. ; Samuel, in Pullman, Wash. ; Lydia, the 
 wife of H. T. Maxfield, of King's valley ; Re- 
 
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 becca, the wife of A.- B. Alexander, of Corvallis, 
 Ore. ; Julia, the wife of L. G. Price, of King's 
 valley ; and Lincoln, also of King's valley ; Annie 
 and Alice, who died several years ago. Mrs. 
 Louisa Chambers died December 3, 1889, aged 
 sixty-three years. 
 
 Franklin J. Chambers was reared to manhood 
 upon the paternal farm, receiving his education 
 through the medium of the common schools in 
 the vicinity of his home. Following close upon 
 his twenty-first birthday he located on the farm 
 where he now lives, having made this his home 
 ever since. He has been very successful in his 
 work, and has inherited much property, now 
 owning three hundred and fifty acres of the home 
 farm, and altogether seven hundred and fifty-five 
 acres in King's valley, and a stock ranch in 
 Polk county, consisting of fourteen hundred and 
 eighty acres, upon which he raises cattle, horses, 
 sheep, goats, etc. 
 
 Mr. Chambers was married in 1874 to Miss 
 Emma Maxfield and they have made this their 
 home ever since. In his political affiliations Mr. 
 Chambers adheres to the principles of the Re- 
 publican party, and through this influence he has 
 held the position of county commissioner for 
 eight years. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding 
 membership in King's Valley Lodge, No. 44, of 
 Corvallis, Ore., in which he has passed all the 
 chairs but one, also belongs to the Encampment. 
 Religiously he is a member of the United Evan- 
 gelical Church. 
 
 B. S. KELSAY, one of the best known ranch- 
 ers on the Pacific coast, is a native son of Ore- 
 gon. His birth occurred on a farm near Cres- 
 well, Lane county, March 10, 1862, and he is 
 the oldest of the ten children born to Burton and 
 Euphrasia Ann (Gillis) Kelsay, natives of 
 Wayne county, Ky., and Warren county, Mo., 
 respectively. After many years of exceptional 
 country activity, Burton Kelsay and his wife are 
 living retired in Fossil, Ore., and have the satis- 
 faction of knowing that eight of their thirteen 
 children are living and in good circumstances, all 
 but B. S. being residents of eastern Oregon. Bur- 
 ton Kelsay was born September 15, 1833, and 
 while in his teens removed from Kentucky to 
 Missouri, where he married the daughter of 
 George Gillis, now deceased. At the age of nine- 
 teen, in 1853, he started across the plains with 
 ox-teams and wagons, and after a six months 
 trip took up a donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres two miles southeast of Cres- 
 well. A few years later he sold this property to 
 Mrs. Fannie Eaton, and took his family to Lake 
 county, Cal., engaging in general farming for 
 eight years. Kelsayville, Cal., was named in 
 
 honor of his cousin. Returning to Lane county, 
 he fanned again in the vicinity of Creswell, and 
 in the spring of 1878 removed to Umatilla coun- 
 ty, where he engaged in the sheep business with 
 great success. Feeling somewhat the infirmities 
 of approaching age, he retired to Fossil, Ore., 
 taking with him ample means to live in comfort 
 and even luxury for the remainder of his days. 
 
 B. S. Kelsay was four years old when the fam- 
 ily removal to California took place, and twelve 
 when his parents returned and placed him in 
 the public schools of Lane county. Accompany- 
 ing the family to Umatilla county he remained 
 at home until the spring preceding his majority 
 when he went to Sherman county with his 
 brother, L. C, and engaged in a large sheep- 
 raising industry. The brothers were destined 
 for success as sheep raisers, and their brand, 
 three perpendicular lines with the bar across the 
 top, became a familiar one to the surrounding 
 rangers. After a few years the brothers divided 
 their profits, B. S. continuing on the same 
 ranch, which is known far and near as the Jack 
 Knife sheep ranch. At times he had as high as 
 twenty thousand sheep at a time. In 1898 Mr. 
 Kelsay located his family in Creswell, purchased 
 back the old place from Mrs. Eaton, and also 
 bought an adjoining farm, having at the present 
 time twelve hundred acres in one body. This 
 farm is located east of Creswell and on the banks 
 of the Willamette river, and is devoted to cattle, 
 sheep, Angora goat, horse and hog-raising. 
 This is one of the finest stock farms in Lane 
 county, being well equipped with buildings for 
 the care of the stock, and with modern agricul- 
 tural implements for general farming. In addi- 
 tion, Mr. Kelsay owns about four hundred and 
 forty acres in the Sherman county ranch, and 
 has two hundred acres in wheat. 
 
 Mr. Kelsay purchased twenty acres of land in 
 Eugene, between Fifteenth and Seventeenth and 
 Hilliard and High streets, and laid the same out 
 in fifty-two lots in 1902. This addition has built 
 up faster than any addition in the city, and is all 
 sold at present with the exception of the two 
 lots occupied by Mr. Kelsay. An inducement to 
 purchasers has been a deep well dug by the pro- 
 moter, operated by a gasoline engine, and with 
 a tank capacity of thirty-six thousand gallons. For 
 the first three years after the first purchase, own- 
 ers are privileged to use the water gratis, provid- 
 ing they do their own piping to their homes. 
 Needless to say, all have been glad to avail them- 
 selves of this advantage, with the result that the 
 addition is one of the best watered and most 
 modern in this part of the state. 
 
 In Grant county, Ore., Mr. Kelsay was united 
 in marriage with Eliza C. Gilchrist, who was 
 born near Scio, Ore., a daughter of William 
 Gilchrist, a pioneer of 1850. Seven children 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kelsay : Earl, 
 Nona, Burt, Hazel, Charles, Ethel and Una. In 
 politics Mr. Kelsay is a stanch Republican. He 
 is a member of the Christian Church, and is 
 fraternally identified with the Woodmen of the 
 World ; the Woodmen Circle ; and the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Grass Valley. 
 
 JOSEPH G. POWELL. The science of 
 agriculture in Lane county has been materially 
 advanced by the efforts of Joseph G. Powell, 
 who represents a pioneer name of dignity and 
 distinction, and has built up a reputation of 
 which any man might well be proud. Much may 
 be attributed to the fact that Mr. Powell was 
 reared in an atmosphere where the upright and 
 honorable were fostered and encouraged. His 
 father, Alfred Powell, was a minister of the gos- 
 pel his entire active life, and in that capacity ac- 
 complished an untold amount of good in Lane 
 county. This pioneer of 1851 was born in Ohio, 
 July 10, 1810, and while Illinois was yet a terri- 
 tory, moved there with his parents, settling on a 
 farm in Menard county, which had been the rov- 
 ing place of the red man. From earliest youth 
 Alfred Powell was religiously inclined, and when 
 about twenty years of age he entered the minis- 
 try which, combined with farming, constituted 
 his lifework. In 1833 ne married Sarah Bracken, 
 who was born in Illinois, and of this union there 
 were born two children, of whom James H. is 
 deceased, and Alexander H. lives in the vicinity 
 of Cottage Grove. His wife dying in January, 
 1837, Mr. Powell married for a second wife, 
 Hannah Goble Sherell, who had removed several 
 years before from her native state of Ohio, to 
 Illinois. Of this union five children were born, 
 Mrs. Lucinda J. Davis and Joseph G., the latter 
 born June 1, 1841, being the only survivors. 
 With his little family Rev. Powell crossed the 
 plains in 1851, and after a six-months journey 
 he arrived in Linn county, taking up a claim 
 seven miles southeast of Albany. A few years 
 before his death at the age of seventy-one he 
 went to live with his children in Albany, his 
 latter days being. spent in peace and retirement 
 and surrounded by loved ones. His was an in- 
 teresting and self-sacrificing life, his ambition to 
 do good leading him into remote parts of the 
 state, and placing him in immediate touch with 
 all phases of existence. He was not one of the 
 solemn, religious enthusiasts, but won souls with 
 his brightness and kindliness, his happy faculty 
 of looking on the best side of things, and his 
 intense sympathy with the temptations and as- 
 pirations of his fellow-men. In his younger days 
 he served in the Black Hawk war, and for 
 meritorious service was elevated from private to 
 the rank of a commissioned officer. 
 
 Joseph G. Powell was reared to farming, and 
 he continued to live on the old place after his 
 marriage to Melissa A. Ramsey in 1862. In 1887 
 he purchased his present farm of two hundred 
 and sixty-two acres, eight miles south of Cottage 
 Grove, and which is a part of the old Rogers 
 donation claim. He has added to his farm as 
 his interests increased, and now has three hun- 
 dred and eighty-two acres. Besides general 
 stock, he raises Merino and Southdown sheep. 
 The improvements are modern, the dwelling 
 large and commodious, and barns and outhouses 
 well constructed. To Mr. Powell farming is an 
 occupation which demands study and continual 
 advancement, and he is to be numbered among 
 the influential and progressive men who are help- 
 ing to maintain a high standard. Nine children 
 have been born to himself and wife, of whom 
 Emily, the wife of Stephen Overholser, lives in 
 Washington; Nancy Overholser lives in London, 
 Ore.; Charles is at home; Maude married Levi 
 Geer and lives in Lane county; Ida married 
 Ernest McReynolds and lives at Divide, Ore.; 
 George A. lives at home; Robert B. ; Edwin W. 
 and James H. Although never seeking office, 
 Mr. Powell has held several of the local offices, 
 and he is fraternally associated with the Grange, 
 having held all of the offices in that organization. 
 In the Christian Church, of which he has been a 
 member since early manhood, he has always been 
 a cheerful and earnest worker, contributing gen- 
 erously towards its charities and general main- 
 tenance. 
 
 ALEXANDER COOLEY. It is an easy 
 matter to find the source of the strength of char- 
 acter and solidity of manhood which distin- 
 guishes Alexander Cooley, when one reflects that 
 his mother was one of the few women who sought 
 the west almost entirely upon her own responsi- 
 bility, as none of her children had then attained 
 maturity. Left a widow in 1843, ar >d with a fam- 
 ily to support, Mrs. Cooley gathered together her 
 worldly goods and removed to Missouri as a 
 better location than that of her Virginia home, 
 and prepared to rear her children among the 
 broader opportunities of the middle west. In- 
 duced at a later period to look favorably upon the 
 advantages accruing from the long and dan- 
 gerous journey which would take them over the 
 remainder of the continent and into the great 
 northwest, the family outfitted in 1853 and started 
 across the plains with ox-teams. At the close 
 of an unusually short journey, occupying but five 
 months, they arrived safely in Lane county, Ore., 
 and at once located on a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres one mile southeast of Cottage 
 Grove, upon which the mother died at the age 
 of seventy-six years. This was a part of the 
 
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 G. C. Cooley donation claim and its improve- 
 ment and cultivation at once became the most ab- 
 sorbing interest for the young pioneers, and to 
 the energy of the sons of this mother is due the 
 greatly increased value of the property, the home 
 site being one of the desirable ones in the vicin- 
 ity, and the buildings a credit to a practical and 
 progressive farmer. 
 
 Alexander Cooley was born in Grayson 
 county, Va., January 10, 1835, and through the 
 early death of his father, a farmer, he felt the 
 necessity of assuming burdens which would not 
 otherwise have been his. He remained with his 
 mother throughout her residence in the middle 
 west and the later one in Oregon, and through 
 her management and ability he was enabled to 
 gain a good education in the district schools in 
 the neighborhood of their home. In 1865 he 
 married Eliza Shields, a native of Indiana, who 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 185 1. Her 
 death occurred in 1877, leaving a family of four 
 children, of whom George is located in Paisley, 
 Ore.; J. R. and Currin are both located on the 
 home place ; and Juda, the wife of V. D. White, 
 is living in the vicinity of her childhood's home. 
 At the present time Mr. Cooley owns two hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land and carries on gen- 
 eral farming and the raising of Cotswold sheep, 
 Durham cattle and other stock. As a Democrat 
 in politics he has never taken an active interest 
 in political movements, though he has mani- 
 fested his willingness to do his duty as a citizen 
 through the faithful discharge of duties em- 
 bodied in the various minor offices of the vicinity 
 pressed upon him, and is in all ways public-spir- 
 ited and interested in the welfare of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 HON. ROBERT M. VEATCH. A man of 
 inestimable worth for the good which he has 
 accomplished in more than one avenue in a life of 
 sixty years is the Hon. Robert M. Veatch, whose 
 name is well known throughout the entire state, 
 and especially in Lane county, where he has 
 made his home since 1865. Besides taking an 
 active and engrossing part in all public affairs of 
 his community and state, he has had the entire 
 care of a family of three children, having lost 
 his wife February 28, 1885, through her attend- 
 ance upon him when he had the measles while 
 in the state legislature. With a judgment and 
 devotion seldom found outside of maternity, the 
 father took up the double burden of widowhood 
 and the caring for his children, and has now 
 given to the state two honorable sons and a 
 daughter as citizens of the commonwealth which 
 he himself helped to form. Every credit is due 
 Mr. Veatch for the strong, sturdy strokes which 
 he has given toward the upbuilding and growth 
 
 of the country, for the exemplary life which he 
 has lived as a member of the community, and 
 the respect and esteem of all men is given him. 
 
 The Veatch family traces its lineage back to 
 the early history of the country when three 
 brothers, Elias, Nathan and James, came from 
 Wales, their native land, and became settlers in 
 Alabama and North Carolina. The last named 
 was the great-grandfather of Robert M. Veatch, 
 and he was here married to Miss Rayner, in 1751, 
 and removed then to North Carolina and later 
 to South Carolina. He died in 1780, the father 
 of eight children, the following sons serving in 
 the Revolutionary war : Walter, Isaac, Elias, 
 James, Amos, and Charles. Elias was born in 
 North Carolina and served as a private in the 
 Revolutionary war. As a farmer he removed to 
 Illinois in 1820 and there his death occurred. 
 His son, Isaac, was born in North Carolina, 
 August 25, 1786, and when a young man he went 
 to Georgia on business and there married, and 
 after returning to his home he decided to locate 
 in Tennessee, which move was afterward fol- 
 lowed by one which took them into Illinois, 
 whither the father had settled. He located near 
 the present site of Enfield, White county, earn- 
 ing his livelihood by the combined interests of 
 farming and the running of a grist mill, and 
 being also a cabinet-maker by trade. Late in 
 life he came west to spend the remaining years 
 of his life with his five sons in Oregon, making 
 the trip about 1881 and dying in 1882 at the 
 age of ninety-six years. In politics he was a 
 strong Douglas man and also a great admirer of 
 Lincoln, while in religion he was a very active 
 member of the Presbyterian church. His wife 
 was formerly Mary Miller, of Georgia, and she 
 died in Davis county, Iowa, where the family 
 passed a short time, afterward returning to 
 Illinois. 
 
 Of twelve sons and four daughters born to 
 his parents Robert M. Veatch was the youngest, 
 and was born in White county, 111., June 5, 1843. 
 He was but two and a half years old when his 
 mother died, and he therefore grew up without 
 her care. He received his education in the com- 
 mon schools of Iowa and Missouri, his teacher 
 in the latter state being Senator Pfeffer, of Kan- 
 sas. In 1864 he made the six-months journey 
 across the plains with ox-teams, locating in Te- 
 hama county, near Red Bluff, Cal., and the year 
 following found him a resident of Lane county, 
 Ore. He first made his home with a brother who 
 lived near Cottage Grove, and in 1866 he 
 entered the Eugene Academy, where he remained 
 for one year, after which he spent a like period 
 in the Willamette University, and in 1868 he en- 
 tered the Oregon Agricultural College and was 
 a member of the first class that graduated from 
 that college, having then the degree of A.B. Mr. 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1521 
 
 Veatch then engaged in teaching, remaining for 
 a period of seven years in a place near this city, 
 and in 1876 he was able financially to purchase 
 a farm of four hundred and forty acres located 
 five miles east of Cottage Grove where he passed 
 the ensuing nine years. In 1884 he removed to 
 Cottage Grove in order to give his children the 
 added advantages of the city schools, and has 
 since made this his home. He has recently built 
 a fine residence here. 
 
 In politics a Democrat, he has been faithful to 
 the principles of his party and an able repre- 
 sentative in whatever position the people have 
 chosen to place him. These have been positions 
 of trust and honor and their interests have been 
 carefully guarded. Mr. Yeatch has twice been 
 a candidate for Congress, his first campaign 
 being against Binger Hermann, when he reduced 
 the normal Republican majority about two 
 thousand votes. The second time he was de- 
 feated by the late Thomas Tongue, but cut down 
 the usual Republican vote nearly four thousand. 
 In 1872 Mr. Yeatch was first a candidate for the 
 legislature and was defeated by the very small 
 number of seven votes. Not until 1882 did he 
 again seek political honors, and he was then 
 elected to the lower house, following this up with 
 re-election in 1884, and in 1886 being chosen to 
 occupy a seat among the senators. Four years 
 later he was again elected to the senate, and in 
 1892 he was appointed to the register of the 
 Roseburg land office, where he served four years 
 and three months. In 1900 he was a delegate to 
 the Kansas City Democratic convention. In local 
 politics he is now serving his second term as 
 mayor of the city, under which administration 
 the city has felt the hand of official capability. 
 A new water system has been put in and a sew- 
 erage system is shortly to follow. The water 
 rates have been reduced to the very lowest figures 
 for the benefit of the greater number of people, 
 the entire municipal system now established on a 
 paying basis, and a credit to the city which boasts 
 such splendid government. 
 
 The various business interests which occupy 
 his attention are the presidency of the corpora- 
 tion which has grown from the hardware busi- 
 ness of his son, and the position of treasurer of 
 the Grisley group of mines in the Bohemia dis- 
 trict, besides which he is a member of the board 
 of regents of the Drain Normal School, which 
 position he has ably maintained for the past six 
 years, always being active in educational work. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Yeatch was formerly Sur- 
 phina Currin, who was born in Missouri, Octo- 
 ber 4, 1845, ar >d the marriage ceremony was per- 
 formed near Cottage Grove. She was the daugh- 
 ter of John Currin. a native of Virginia, who 
 came to Missouri in an early day and located in 
 Jackson county. He crossed the plains in 1853, 
 
 locating in Lane county, and he now makes his 
 home upon his donation claim of three hundred 
 and twenty acres five miles east of Cottage 
 Grove. The three children born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Veatch are Henry H., a hardware mer- 
 chant in Cottage Grove ; Ermine E., at home ; 
 and John C, a student in his freshman year at 
 the state university at Eugene. Mrs. Veatch died 
 in Salem. In his fraternal relations Mr. Veatch 
 is a Master Mason, and is a charter member here 
 of the Kniehts of Pvthias. 
 
 PHILIP E. JACKSON. Since coming to 
 Oregon in 1890 Philip E. Jackson has become 
 the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of 
 land, located two and a half miles east of Maple- 
 ton, Lane county, upon which he has placed all 
 of the improvements which have made it a valu- 
 able property. One hundred and twenty acres 
 was embodied in a homestead, while the remain- 
 der has been acquired by purchase, the whole 
 being now utilized in general farming and stock- 
 raising, while he also carries on some logging - . 
 In the thirteen years of his residence here Mr. 
 Jackson and his sons have killed nearly a hun- 
 dred bears in the neighborhood of his farm, 
 eight being shot in the fall of 1902. 
 
 In Ontario county, N. Y., Mr. Jackson was 
 born December 23, 1840, the son of Philetus, 
 born in that state in 181 5, and Mary J. (Bel- 
 lows) Jackson, the date of her birth being Au- 
 gust 18, 1819. Of the two living children of 
 this family Philip E. is the youngest child. His 
 early education was received in the common 
 schools of Illinois, where his parents had re- 
 moved when he was a mere lad. The father 
 engaged in farming in Cook county, where he 
 remained until 1859, when he removed to Minne- 
 sota and took up a homestead in Brown county. 
 In 1862 he was shot and killed by the Indians, 
 and the burden of his own and his mother's 
 support fell upon the shoulders of Philip. In 
 the fall of the same year he went to Nicollet 
 county and later located in Crawford county. 
 Wis., where he remained until the spring of 
 1865. He then returned to the old place in 
 Brown county, Minn., and made his home in 
 Minnesota for twenty-five years. At that date 
 he crossed the continent and located upon his 
 present property, where he has since remained, 
 making a comfortable home in this western state. 
 
 Mr. Jackson was married in 1868 to Mary H. 
 Henton, born in Wisconsin in 1849, anc ^ Iour 
 children were born to them, of whom Mary and 
 Silas are deceased, and James and Andrew are 
 at home. The mother of Mr. Jackson has always 
 made her home with this son. In politics Mr. 
 Jackson does not adhere strictly to the prin- 
 ciples of any party but reserves the right to 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 cast his vote for the man whom he thinks best 
 fitted to fill the position, believing this to be the 
 means toward securing good government. Pub- 
 lic-spirited and interested in the welfare of the 
 community he shirks no duty which becomes 
 his as a citizen, now acting as school director for 
 the district in the vicinity of his home. In fra- 
 ternal relations he affiliates with the Masons of 
 Florence and the Odd Fellows of Mapleton, be- 
 longing also to the auxiliaries, the Eastern Star 
 and the Rebekahs. 
 
 ELMER E. LAWRENCE owes his nativity 
 to the great Prairie State, having been born in 
 Knoxville, 111., April 4, 1862, of parents in 
 moderate circumstances, who, when he was nine 
 years old, removed to Ottawa, Kans., making 
 this their home for many years. At the age of 
 sixteen with a common school education, he 
 entered Bodworth College and with patience and 
 perseverance born of ambition, he worked his 
 way through the entire curriculum, also attend- 
 ing the state normal. In 1886 he left Kansas, 
 making his way direct to Oregon,- going at once 
 to Portland, where he was employed for ten 
 years in the hotel business. In 1896 Mr. Law- 
 rence invested the proceeds of his thrift and 
 economy in a ranch, seven miles northwest of 
 Sheridan, the place containing six hundred and 
 eighty acres, where he engaged extensively in 
 the raising of cattle, in which occupation he met 
 with the uniform success which had attended all 
 his previous efforts. Quite recently he sold his 
 improved ranch and resides in Sheridan for the 
 present, where he experiences the joys of a re- 
 tired life with his little nine-year-old daughter, 
 Mildred, and his wife, who was Miss Claudia 
 Tawney, of Portland, whom he married January 
 4, 1888. Mr. Lawrence is a Republican and be- 
 lieves thoroughly in the principles of his party. 
 
 L. S. LOGAN was the only child born of the 
 union of his father, Thomas J., with Phoebe 
 Tuttle, a native of Iowa, and his birth occurred 
 in Pleasantville, Marion county, Iowa, Novem- 
 ber 10, 1858. His father was a native of Indi- 
 ana, in which state he was reared, and later re- 
 moved with his parents to Marion county, Iowa. 
 After his marriage in that state he engaged in 
 farming for a time, and was attracted to the 
 gold fields of California in 1862. He failed to 
 make a fortune in the mines, and so returned to 
 Iowa, where he once more engaged in farming. 
 His wife having died in 1859 he made the trip 
 across the plains again in 1862, with wagon and 
 mule-teams, his fcmr-year-old son accompanying 
 him. The trip was accomplished in less than 
 four months, and Mr. Logan first located in 
 
 Umatilla count)', there selling his stock to the 
 Overland Stage Company and for a year attend- 
 ing the stage station. In the spring of 1863 he 
 settled in Benton county, purchasing a farm 
 five miles south of Corvallis, and engaged in 
 farming until 1869, when he went to what is now 
 Crook county, then known as Wasco, with a 
 bunch of cattle for the Baker boys. In 1870 he 
 traded his farm for an interest in the cattle busi- 
 ness, establishing a ranch three miles south of 
 Prineville, and in 1873 he removed to the south- 
 ern part of that county, on a homestead estab- 
 lishing a ranch, where he began to deal extensive- 
 ly in cattle and horses. This he continued for 
 many years, and later died on his farm near 
 Prineville, in his sixty-eighth year. In the pub- 
 lic affairs of the community he was always in- 
 terested. Fraternally he was a Master Mason. 
 
 From the age of four years L. S. Logan was 
 reared on his father's farm in Benton county, 
 attending the district school in the pursuit of an 
 education, and when twelve years old he re- 
 moved to eastern Oregon in company with his 
 father, where for many years his home con- 
 tinued to be. For some time he attended school 
 in Prineville, but with a decided talent for the 
 business which occupied his father he early be- 
 came interested, and at the age of fifteen years 
 he took charge of the stock while his father 
 looked after the farm. To give him a better 
 idea of the value of the work he was allowed to 
 have a few head of cattle for his own, and he 
 continued so successfully that he was made a 
 partner at the age of seventeen years. In 1891 
 he was able financially to buy out his father's 
 interest and from that time on has conducted the 
 business alone. He has since become the owner 
 of other ranches, now owning two on Hampton 
 Buttes, known as Butte or Barbed Wire ranch, 
 and this being in the southern part of Crook 
 county and just on the edge of the desert he 
 has a wide range for his stock. He also owns 
 the old home ranch on Camp creek, a tributary 
 of Crooked river, eleven hundred acres known 
 as the Ninety-six ranch, as the brand which Mr. 
 Logan has always used is the combination ninety- 
 six, which was originally brought by the Bakers 
 from the Cherokee nation, in Indian Territory. 
 Mr. Logan is now dealing in cattle only, until ten 
 vears ago, however, having been one of the most 
 extensive horse dealers in that part of Oregon, 
 once having about three thousand head. He 
 now has about six hundred head. In 1897 he 
 located in Eugene and now owns two farms in 
 the valley near Irving, one of three hundred 
 acres and the other of three hundred and twenty, 
 both of which are rented. 
 
 Mr. Logan was married in Prineville to Miss 
 Minnie Maud Milliorn. born in Junction City, 
 Lane county, Ore., the daughter of William Mil- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Horn, a pioneer of the state. Three children were 
 born to them, two of whom are living, namely : 
 Otis, located on the ranch in Crook county, and 
 Wanda. Fay is deceased. In fraternal orders 
 Mr. Logan is quite prominent, having been made 
 a Mason in Prineville, where he served as past 
 master, and he now belongs to Eugene Lodge 
 Xo. ii, A. F. & A. M. He was made a member 
 of the chapter in this city and also a Knight 
 Templar in Ivanhoe Commandery No. 2, and 
 belongs to Al Kader, N. M. S. In religion he 
 is a Baptist, and politically is a Democrat. 
 
 JAMES W. McDOWELL. Many interest- 
 ing events center around the family of which 
 James W. McDowell is a member. His grand- 
 father, William, was a man of brain and brawn 
 and met a gallant death during the Black Hawk 
 war, for when his body was picked up from 
 the battlefield at Pilot House, it was found to 
 be riddled with nine bullets. The grandfather 
 was founder of this branch of the McDowell 
 family in America, and he came from Scotland 
 at an early day with six of his brothers. 
 
 David "McDowell, the father of James W., 
 was born in Beaver county. Pa., May 20, 1810, 
 and when a young man left home and went to 
 Ohio, where he married Malinda Marvin, a 
 native of Brown county, Ohio, and who died 
 August 11, 1882. at the age of sixty years. 
 David McDowell led a varied and rather event- 
 ful life, many years of it being spent as a cook 
 and watchman on the Ohio and Mississippi 
 rivers. When his son, James, was seven years 
 old he moved to Walnut Hill, Marion county, 
 111., and there devoted his energies to river work 
 until 1848. In 1853 ne outfitted with ox-teams 
 and brought his family to the west starting from 
 Illinois March 15, 1853, an d arriving at Fosters, 
 Clackamas county, September 20, 1853. The 
 same fall he came to Linn county and located a 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres near 
 Plainview, but soon after traded it for a place 
 the same size three miles northeast of Browns- 
 ville, where he made his home until 1892. He 
 was exceedingly prosperous, utilized his property 
 to the best possible advantage, and by frequent 
 additions accumulated at one time eighteen hun- 
 dred acres. His death occurred in Idaho in 
 March, 1899. He had eight children, five of 
 whom were sons. James W. McDowell was 
 born near Aberdeen, Brown county, Ohio, Sep- 
 tember 20. 1840. and in the public schools of 
 Illinois and Linn county received a practical 
 education, and he was fortunate in having a 
 father who had many business interests and 
 who was a large employer of labor. Consid- 
 erable of the fortune of the elder McDowell 
 was made in the saw-milling business, to which 
 
 his timbered land lent itself most readily. The 
 son became interested in his father's mill near 
 Brownsville, and, having gained a fair start, and 
 a complete knowledge of the business, he inde- 
 pendently erected a mill near Crawfordsville. 
 This proved such a successful venture that he 
 built another mill near Holly on the Calapooia, 
 with which he was identified as manager and 
 owner until 1892. For the following seven years 
 Mr. McDowell lived in Brownsville, and in 1899 
 he purchased his present farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres, three miles southeast of Holly. 
 He is engaged in stock-raising and general farm- 
 ing, and has a farm containing many fine im- 
 provements, and modern facilities for conduct- 
 ing approved and up-to-date agriculture. Mr. 
 McDowell married in Brownsville in 1878, Sarah 
 A. Barnard, born on the Santiam river in Linn 
 county, May 31, 1861. Four children have been 
 born of this union, K. D., Henry, Pearl and Wil- 
 liam. Independent in politics, Mr. McDowell 
 has never been a candidate for office, although 
 he has acceptably served as a member of the 
 school board for a couple of terms. 
 
 MRS. MALVINA J. HAYS. As one of 
 the well known residents of Junction City Mrs 
 Malvina J. Hays enjoys the esteem of a host of 
 friends and well wishers, and her place among 
 the brave pioneer women who dauntlessly faced 
 privation and danger, and by the usefulness and 
 kindliness of their lives paved the way for better 
 things, is unchallenged. Born in Ohio, March 
 29, 1836, Mrs. Hays is a daughter of John and 
 Elizabeth (Wayland) Pitney-, natives respective- 
 ly of Ohio and Virginia. In 1840 Mr. Pitney 
 removed with his family to Howard county, Mo., 
 where he followed his trade as machinist, and 
 also engaged in the manufacture of chairs and 
 furniture. He came to Oregon in 1853, locating 
 on a claim near Junction City, Lane county, 
 where he died at the age of fifty-six years. His 
 wife survived him until sixty-four years old, her 
 death being occasioned by a most distressing ac- 
 cident in a warehouse where she was caught in 
 a pinion and crushed to death while in the act 
 of shaking hands with a friend. 
 
 Mrs. Hays was the oldest of the four daughters 
 and three sons born to her parents. In 1857 she 
 was united in marriage with Andrew J. Hays, 
 who was born in Virginia, and came to Missouri 
 at an early day with his father, John Hays. Mr. 
 Hays crossed the plains in 1850, and for two 
 years engaged in mining in California, locating 
 in Lane county in 1852. In 1857 he again visited 
 California, but instead of mining, followed his 
 trade of gunsmith, an occupation for which there 
 was great need in the frontier days of the west. 
 In 1859 he returned to Oregon and located a 
 
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 farm of one hundred acres near Harrisburg, 
 farmed there until 1873, and then went to 
 Yaquina Bay for his health, and died there in 
 1875. Subsequently his widow located on a 
 farm near Junction City, where she engaged in 
 farming until 1883, and then built the residence 
 which she now occupies in the town. Mr. Hays 
 was a Democrat in political affiliation, was a 
 member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
 and was identified with the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. Seven children were born into 
 the Hays household, of whom the oldest son, 
 Charles C, is living in Smithfield ; Ida is the 
 wife of William Weaver, of Portland, Ore. ; 
 John lives in Junction City ; George is also a resi- 
 dent of this place; Delia is the wife of Elmer 
 Harrington, of Lake Creek, Ore. ; Ella is the 
 wife of Albert Weaver, of Vancouver, Wash. ; 
 and Rice is deceased. Mr. Hays participated in 
 the Mexican war as a member of Company B, 
 under the command of General Walton, enlisting 
 at Lexington, Mo., and serving two years. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. KEENEY. Inseparably 
 associated with the upbuilding of Lane county is 
 the honorable career of Andrew J. Keeney, who, 
 in addition to establishing a large farming en- 
 terprise near Goshen, gave to the state of his 
 adoption children who maintain his good name, 
 and keep in constant mind his worthy and up- 
 right life. Of these, none are more truly repre- 
 sentative of northwestern force and enterprise 
 than Benjamin F. Keeney, who occupies part of 
 the original claim purchased by his sire, and 
 where Benjamin F. was born October 14, 1865. 
 
 Andrew J. Keeney was born in Holt county, 
 Mo., and was the son of a blacksmith who had 
 early settled in the middle west. Remaining on 
 the home farm until his marriage with a Miss 
 Mulholland his life was shortly after saddened 
 by the death of his wife, to whom he was de- 
 votedly attached. In time he married Mrs. 
 Hannah Cooper, who bore him three sons, of 
 whom James M. lives in Eugene, Ore. ; William 
 D. is a resident of Caldwell, Idaho; and John B. 
 lives in Olex, Ore. For a third wife Mr. Keeney 
 married Mrs. Amanda J. Matthews, the follow- 
 ing children being born of this union : Mrs. 
 Martha E. Handsaker, of Tacoma, Wash. ; Ben- 
 jamin F., of Goshen, Ore. ; Andrew A., of Mas- 
 sena, N. Y. ; and Thomas P., of Hong Kong, 
 China. Mr. Keeney was ambitious and far- 
 sighted, and was naturally impressed with the 
 favorable reports he heard of the far west, to 
 which he finally decided to remove his family. 
 Crossing the plains with ox-teams, he mined for 
 a few months in California, coming then to Ore- 
 gon, his choice of residence being Lane county, 
 at that time beginning to. assert its independence 
 
 as an agricultural and stock-raising section. Lo- 
 cating on the farm, a part of which is now owned 
 and occupied by his son Benjamin, he laid the 
 foundation for the present splendidly appointed 
 farm which has become the pride of the owner 
 and the neighborhood. To his original purchase 
 he added from time to time, and at the time of 
 his death, during the '90s, at the age of seventy- 
 five years, was the owner of six hundred acres, 
 the greater part of it valuable land. He raised 
 large numbers of fine stock, as well as fruit, 
 grains, hops and dairy products, amassing con- 
 siderable wealth as his harvests increased in ex- 
 tent and variety. He was no politician, but was 
 vitally interested in his church, to the mainte- 
 nance of which he gave liberally, as he did also 
 to all worthy local charities. His life and effort 
 were such that his name became associated with 
 all that was noble and of good import. 
 
 From the district schools Benjamin Keeney 
 went to Monmouth College, where his apt mind 
 and powers of concentration accomplished far 
 more in a given time than does the average 
 student. For several terms he applied his knowl- 
 edge as an educator, remaining in the meantime 
 on the home farm, where he worked in the har- 
 vest fields during the summer. After his mar- 
 riage with Martha Cummings he went to house- 
 keeping on a part of the old claim. To himself 
 and wife were born two children, Hugh C. and 
 Hobart S. His second marriage occurred in 
 1902, with Charity A. Taliafero, a native of 
 North Carolina. It were difficult to find a more 
 perfectly appointed farm than that purchased 
 in the early days by the elder Keeney, his son 
 having added those aids to modern agriculture 
 which rob the occupation of its hard and dis- 
 couraging aspect, and in their place substitute 
 the possibility of an easily acquired competence. 
 Poultry-raising is a department of activity to 
 which Mr. Keeney has devoted considerable 
 study, and is one of the best authorities on poul- 
 try to be found in the state. With practical re- 
 sults he has raised Barred Plymouth Rocks, this 
 fine breed reaching its highest excellence under 
 his scientific treatment. In this connection he is 
 a member and secretary of the Willamette Poul- 
 try Association, with headquarters at Eugene, 
 and member of the State Poultry Association. 
 A stanch adherent of Republicanism, Mr. 
 Keeney has been prominently identified with 
 official undertakings in the county, having served 
 as constable, justice of the peace, deputy sheriff, 
 deputy clerk, school clerk for thirteen years, 
 deputy assessor for eight years and notary pub- 
 lic. He is a welcome member at numerous fra- 
 ternal gatherings, including the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Macca- 
 bees, and the Woodmen of the'World. Possess- 
 ing marked financial and executive ability, genial- 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ity of manner, and the power to transfer his 
 ideas and enthusiasm to others with whom he 
 is associated, Mr. Keeney is deservedly popular 
 and influential, and a leader in all forward move- 
 ments of his native county. 
 
 HON. LARK BILYEU. Now a leader of 
 the Lane county bar and a general practitioner 
 throughout the courts of the state, the Hon. 
 Lark Bilyeu has attained the success which 
 marks the members of this family since their 
 residence in Oregon. He was born in Miller 
 county, Mo., May 24, 1852, the son of Joseph 
 Bilyeu, a native of Tennessee, and the descend- 
 ant of an old southern family of French-Hugue- 
 not extraction. (For a more complete record of 
 the life and character of the pioneer, refer to the 
 life of the Hon. W. R. Bilyeu, which appears on 
 another page of this work.) When Mr. Bilyeu 
 was a child his parents removed to Putnam 
 county, Mo., and after a short time there they 
 outfitted for the trip across the plains, coming 
 by horse-teams to Oregon in 1862. On their 
 arrival the father first settled for a few years in 
 Polk county, after which he located on a farm 
 near Scio, Linn county, where Lark Bilyeu 
 grew to the age of seventeen years, interspersing 
 his home duties with an attendance of the public 
 schools. When seventeen years old he entered 
 Pacific University, devoting his time entirely to 
 the classical course until his senior year, when 
 he was paid the honor of being elected to the 
 office of superintendent of public schools of Linn 
 county. This position was ably maintained for 
 one term, or a period of two } r ears, during which 
 time he was pursuing the study of law under the 
 instruction of Judge Strahan, of Albany. At 
 the expiration of his service in office, in 1877, 
 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice 
 in partnership with Judge Strahan. July 3, 
 1882, he established an office in Eugene and con- 
 tinued practice in both offices until Mr. Strahan 
 was elected judge of the supreme court, since 
 which he has maintained an office alone in Eu- 
 gene. 
 
 In addition to the claims made upon Mr. Bil- 
 yeu's time in the practice of his profession, he 
 has found time and energy to engage in the cul- 
 tivation of fruit, having put to prunes and cher- 
 ries a field of thirty acres, besides which he 
 owns considerable timber land and a farm in the 
 vicinity. Politically he is a Democrat, and with 
 his keen, earnest, thoughtful mind he has proven 
 of much benefit to his party as a representative 
 in the state legislature, to which he was elected 
 in 1884, and re-elected in 1886 and 1896. He 
 was also instrumental in the passage of the bill 
 for an appropriation of $30,000 for the erection 
 of a hall for the University of Oregon, besides 
 
 exerting much helpful influence toward the bet- 
 terment of local affairs. He has also served as 
 chairman of the Lane county Democratic central 
 committee and has been a member of the state 
 committee. He is now serving as councilman. 
 
 In Albany, Mr. Bilyeu was united in marriage 
 with Margaret R. Irvine, a native of Linn 
 county, and the daughter of Robert A. Irvine, 
 an early settler of that county, where he en- 
 gaged in farming and later served as sheriff of 
 the county. One son, Coke, has blessed the 
 union. In his fraternal affiliations Mr. Bilyeu 
 is a member of Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & 
 A. M. ; Eugene Chapter No. 10, Royal Arch 
 Masons, and Ivanhoe Commandery, K. T., No. 
 2. He is also identified with the Knights of the 
 Maccabees and the Royal Arcanum. He is a 
 member of the Christian Church. 
 
 JABEZ HICKSON AKERS. When Jabez 
 Hickson Akers came to Oregon, in 1874, he 
 bought half a block of ground at Junction City, 
 and has since made his home in the residence 
 erected thereon. Until 1897 he engaged in farm- 
 ing on sixty-seven acres of land northwest of 
 the city, but has since rented his land and is now 
 living a comparatively retired life. Mr. Akers 
 is the representative of an old New England 
 family, established in New Jersey by his pater- 
 nal great-grandfather, and in Pennsylvania by 
 his grandfather, Uriah. His father, Jesse, was 
 born in Pennsylvania, as was also his mother, 
 Rachel (Hickson) Akers. On both sides of the 
 family are memoirs and records of the very 
 early days of the Keystone state, the Hickson 
 family dating its residence there to the time 
 when the settlers were obliged to build block- 
 houses in which to live for protection. Timothy 
 Hickson was one of the earliest emigrants, and 
 his agricultural footsteps were followed by his 
 descendants, many of whom to-day till the well 
 worn farms of Pennsylvania. Jesse Akers 
 farmed for many years in Pennsylvania, and 
 took all his family excepting his son, J. H, to 
 Iowa in 1865, settling in Buchanan county, but 
 later returning to his native state, where he 
 lived near the old home place until his death at 
 the age of about fifty years. He was prominent 
 in the general affairs of his neighborhood, and 
 among other political offices held that of justice 
 of the peace for several years. There were five 
 children in his family, three of whom were sons, 
 Jesse being a resident of Pennsylvania, and 
 Timothy having died in Altoona in the summer 
 of 1903. 
 
 The necessity for hard work in his youth in- 
 terfered somewhat with the education of Jabez 
 H. Akers, yet in after years he applied himself 
 to making up for early deficiency, and became a 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 well informed man. When about twenty-five 
 years of age he engaged in independent farming 
 in his native state, and, in 1854, located in Bu- 
 chanan county, near Independence, Iowa, pur- 
 chasing one hundred and sixty acres of land. 
 In 1874, as heretofore stated, he came to this 
 state, bringing with him his wife, whom he 
 married in Pennsylvania, and who was formerly 
 Beulah Wink, daughter of Jacob Wink, the lat- 
 ter the owner of a two-hundred-acre farm. 
 Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Akers, two of whom are living : Lucinda, wife 
 of William Edwards, of Drain, Ore. ; and Te- 
 resa, wife of George A. Young, of Snohomish, 
 Wash. Mr. Akers is a Republican in politics, 
 and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He is a man of sterling characteristics, 
 of sound business judgment, and above all a man 
 of whom his many friends and associates speak 
 in the highest possible terms. 
 
 JUDGE CHARLES E. MOOR. Among the 
 earlier members of the bench in Oregon may be 
 mentioned Judge. Charles E. Moor, who in more 
 recent years has served in the state legislature, 
 and who almost continuously since 1866 has lived 
 on his present large farm near Corvallis. For 
 the first six years of his life Judge Moor lived 
 in Salem, N. Y., where he was born April 13, 
 1823, and where his father, John Moor, was also 
 born. The elder Moor married May Davis, a na- 
 tive of Vermont, and settled in the Green Moun- 
 tain state when his son was six years of age. 
 Here the youth grew to manhood on a farm, and 
 received his education in the public schools and 
 at a .neighboring academy. 
 
 Judge Moor's career of self-support began 
 with his eighteenth year, when he entered the 
 woolen mills, and at the end of three years 
 found employment in the cotton mills of Lowell, 
 Mass. In 1851 he decided to go west and seek 
 a more rapid means of promotion, so boarded a 
 steamer called the Empire City at New York, 
 fellow-passengers with him being Chief Justice 
 Nelson and Surveyor General Preston, as well as 
 other United States officers of prominence. 
 From the Isthmus of Panama the travelers came 
 to San Francisco on the trial trip of the Colum- 
 bus, just out of the docks, and upon reaching his 
 destination Mr. Moor went at once to Oregon, 
 locating in Milwaukee. From there he walked 
 all of the distance to Oregon City, and after 
 spending a couple of months there went up the 
 river to Polk county. Here he engaged in school 
 teaching at Bridgeport for several years, and in 
 the meantime purchased a man's right to a claim 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which he 
 lived until 1862. In 1857 he married Marjory 
 J. Johnson, and continued to teach and farm in- 
 
 termittently until elected county judge in 1862. 
 During his four years of service he lived in Dal- 
 las most of the time, and after finishing his term 
 moved to the farm where he now lives, and 
 which consists of three hundred acres, five miles 
 north of Corvallis on the Southern Pacific rail- 
 road. Here he has engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising, and has made many fine improve- 
 ments, owning one of the really fine and valuable 
 properties in Benton county. 
 
 Always a stanch Republican, Mr. Moor was 
 elected to the legislature in 1891, and during his 
 term of service acceptably represented his dis- 
 trict, proving himself an astute and forceful up- 
 holder of the best interests of those who had 
 honored him with their trust. Judge Moor has 
 been identified with the Odd Fellows for sixty 
 years. He is a stanch advocate of higher edu- 
 cation, and has given his children every advan- 
 tage in his power. Arthur J., the oldest son, is 
 a rancher near Sprague, eastern Washington ; 
 John died while young; Hiram, deceased in 
 1902, was educated at the Oregon Agricultural 
 College at Corvallis, and subsequently practiced 
 law at Stephenson, Wash. ; and Percis J., the 
 wife of George Lindeman, living on the home 
 farm. Judge Moor is one of the substantial and 
 highly honored members of the community of 
 Benton county, and his participation in many of 
 its affairs has been a highly creditable and help- 
 ful one. 
 
 FRANK KNOWLES. Although not one of 
 the earliest settlers of Lane county, Frank 
 Knowles possesses many pioneer characteristics, 
 not the least of which is perseverance and indus- 
 try, and can adapt himself to all circumstances. 
 The farm of one hundred and seventy acres 
 discernible through the trees on the opposite side 
 of the river from Mapleton, is a fair sample of 
 agricultural excellence as developed in this part 
 of the county, and the genial and successful 
 owner has every reason to be proud of his 
 achievements. About thirty acres of river bot- 
 tom land have been cleared and are under cul- 
 tivation, and besides general farming and stock- 
 raising, Mr. Knowles utilizes his heavily tim- 
 bered land for logging purposes, during the win- 
 ter season. 
 
 A native of the vicinity of Danborough, N. 
 H., Mr. Knowles was born November 2, 1854, 
 a son -of E. C. and Lucinda (Atwood) Knowles, 
 with whom he removed to Hastings, Minn., when 
 he was three years old. Here the father em- 
 ployed his time in farming and the carpenter's 
 trade, two years later removing to Rice county, 
 Minn., where he remained until coming to Ore- 
 gon in 1885. Frank Knowles was educated 
 principally in Rice county, Minn., and with his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1527 
 
 father learned carpentering and general farm- 
 ing, developing into a strong and ragged youth. 
 In 1870 he came to California, and from Novem- 
 ber. 1876, until May, 1878, lived at Chico, and 
 worked at the carpenter's trade. At San Fran- 
 cisco he boarded the steamer Empire City and 
 came to Coos Bay and from there made his way 
 to the Siuslaw river, still later coming to his 
 present farm which he reached June 9, 1878. 
 Purchasing a squatter's right to an unsurveyed 
 tract of one hundred and forty-two acres, he in 
 time added to his land, and the present farm is 
 the result. 
 
 Independent in politics, Mr. Knowles has been 
 a member of the school board for three years, 
 and road supervisor for two years. He is a 
 member and past master of the Grange. In 
 January, 1878, he married, in Marysville, Cal., 
 Elizabeth B. Morton, a native of Nova Scotia, 
 born March 1, 1856. Of this union five chil- 
 dren are living, of whom Mabel is the wife of 
 Joseph S lemons and lives on a farm adjoining 
 that of her father, while Rosa and Ruth are liv- 
 ing: at home. 
 
 S.WEET BROTHERS. Three young men, 
 of practical, clear-cut methods and forceful 
 characteristics, are left to represent the name of 
 Sweet, which was that of one of the early pio- 
 neers of Oregon, and for many years a resident 
 of Lane county. The sons, Wallace G., Cecil 
 Z. and Marion J., now own three hundred and 
 twenty acres of land in the neighborhood of 
 Point Terrace, Lane county, upon which they 
 have put all the improvements and the intelligent 
 cultivation which have placed their property in 
 the front rank of land-owners in this section of 
 the valley. They are now engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, and also exert their 
 energies in the fisheries during the fall of the 
 year, and carry on some logging, all eager to fin- 
 ish honorably and profitably the work which 
 their father undertook as a pioneer. 
 
 The father, Z. T. Sweet, is well remembered 
 among the old pioneer element of the country, 
 for he took part in many of the movements 
 which voiced the sentiment of the citizens and 
 advanced the cause of civilization in the west, 
 being the first man in Lane county to raise the 
 flag of the country, for which they were willing 
 to undergo all the hardships and privations in- 
 cident to the settlement of a new state, and he 
 also raised the first flag in the state of Wash- 
 ington. Mr. Sweet was born in Pittsburg, Pa., 
 November 2, 181 5, and when a young man he 
 started toward the western states, becoming a 
 house-builder and contractor in Ohio. From 
 that state he emigrated to Knox county, 111., and 
 there met and married Maria Stephens, who was 
 
 born near Montreal, Canada, September 12, 1819, 
 a representative of a Scotch-Irish family, a 
 member of which served in the war of 1812 and 
 participated in the battle of Lundy's Lane. The 
 young people remained in Illinois until 1845, 
 when they outfitted for the trip across the plains, 
 having three yoke of oxen and necessary sup- 
 plies. They joined a train composed of one hun- 
 dred wagons and set out upon the journey which 
 was destined to be full of danger and hardship, 
 and fraught with the perils incident to such an 
 undertaking. Undertaking to shorten the jour- 
 ney by Meek's cut-off, they passed through 
 many perils and nearly starved to death before 
 reaching their destination. They were six 
 months in reaching Oregon, and only seven of 
 the wagons remained together. The first winter 
 in the west was spent in Oregon City and they 
 continued to make that their home until the fall 
 of 1848, when the father went to California and 
 became interested in the future of that fair state. 
 In the spring of the following year the family 
 removed to the south and the father continued 
 to engage in mining until the spring of 1850, 
 when he returned to Portland, having met with 
 gratifying success in his venture. The same 
 year he located a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres two miles east of Eugene, Lane 
 county, and engaged in the less strenuous life 
 of a farmer until 1857. Disposing of his prop- 
 erty he once more removed to California, pur- 
 chasing a farm in Sonoma county, where he 
 remained for two years, becoming a resident of 
 Eugene at the expiration of that time," where he 
 engaged in mercantile business. In the fall of 
 1859 he returned to California, and three years 
 later returned to Oregon and went to the Salmon 
 river mines, his family being left in the city of 
 Eugene. After five months he went to Grande 
 Ronde and remained for two years. 
 
 Upon again locating in Eugene Mr. Sweet re- 
 mained until 1866, when he removed to Yaquina 
 Bay, and made that the home of the family for 
 a year, and then became residents of Davisville, 
 Cal. In the fall of 1869 the family returned to 
 Illinois on a visit, where they remained for five 
 years, at the end of which time they again settled 
 in their last home. In the fall of 1875 they re- 
 turned to Eugene, and remained until in No- 
 vember, 1878, when Mr. Sweet took up one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land located five 
 miles southwest of Mapleton, of this county, 
 upon which his death occurred, in September, 
 1892, the mother also dying here. Of the four 
 sons born to them, the oldest is Wallace G., who 
 was born in Knox county, 111., October 14, 1843, 
 and received his education in the public schools 
 of Eugene ; he remained with his parents 
 throughout their life and since their death has 
 made his home upon this place. The second son 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was William, the first white child born in Sacra- 
 mento, Cal. ; the third son is Cecil Z., who was 
 born in Lane county, Ore., two miles east of 
 Eugene, January 20, 1854, his education being 
 also received in the schools of that city ; the 
 youngest son was Marion J., who was born at 
 Petaluma, Sonoma county, Cal., in i860, his 
 education being received' through the medium 
 of the schools of Illinois while his parents were 
 visiting old scenes. He affiliates with the Wood- 
 men, holding membership with the lodge at 
 Acme. Politically they are in accord, all stanch 
 adherents of the principles of the Democratic 
 party, Marion J. Sweet having served as road 
 supervisor in the interests of the party. 
 
 ELI BANGS was born February 15, 185 1, in 
 Hillsdale county, Mich., near the city of Hills- 
 dale, where his father, Smith Bangs had settled 
 as a pioneer farmer. The father subsequently 
 lived in Minnesota for a few years, and then re- 
 moved to Page county, Iowa, where he was en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. 
 His wife was born in New York state, and died 
 in the fall of 1852. She bore her husband six 
 children, five of whom are living, and one of 
 them, H. M. Bangs, served in the Civil war as 
 member of an Iowa regiment. 
 
 Being left motherless when but eighteen 
 months of age, Eli Bangs was bound out 
 to a Michigan farmer when a small boy and 
 was forced to work hard, with no school ad- 
 vantages. * At the age of eleven years he struck 
 out for himself, going to Page county, where 
 he worked on his brother's farm for three years. 
 From 1865 until i868 ; he was in the employ of 
 freighters on the plains, running a mule train 
 from Nebraska City to Julesburg, Colo., mak- 
 ing several trips each year. The Indians were 
 at that time very troublesome, but he had no 
 serious encounter with them, although he was 
 but two days behind the massacre at O'Fallon's 
 Bluff. The ensuing two years he was employed 
 in breaking prairie, under contract, in Page 
 county, Iowa. Going to Ottawa, Franklin 
 county, Kans., in 1870, Mr. Bangs engaged in 
 teaming in that locality for a few years, and 
 then drove a stage from that city to Osage City, 
 la. In connection with his stage route, he sub- 
 sequently started a livery, and also carried on a 
 large business in buying and shipping horses and 
 mules to the St. Louis and Kansas City mar- 
 kets. 
 
 Disposing of his interests in Ottawa in 1884, 
 Mr. Bangs located in East Portland, Ore., where, 
 on May 15, 1884, he opened a livery. On Sep- 
 tember 1, of that year, he moved his stock to 
 Eugene, Ore., establishing his business in a small 
 barn about three blocks east of his present site. 
 
 On November 1, 1884, he purchased the barn 
 at the corner of Willamette and Ninth streets, 
 where he remained until 1886. Buying then one- 
 fourth of the block at the corner of Ninth and 
 Olive streets, he erected his present large barn, 
 160x160 feet, and has since carried on a very 
 extensive and lucrative business. In the busy 
 season he keeps about one hundred horses, and 
 employs twenty hands to assist him. His large 
 feed and sale stable is without doubt the most 
 commodious livery barn in the Willamette val- 
 ley, if not in the state of Oregon. He is also in- 
 terested- in a livery business at Cottage Grove, 
 being in partnership with Scott Chrisman as 
 junior member of the firm of Chrisman & 
 Bangs, which in addition to its large livery busi- 
 ness owns and operates a stage route from Cot- 
 tage Grove to the Bohemia mines, a distance of 
 forty-five miles. Mr. Bangs also owns consid- 
 erable timber land, and is proprietor of Bangs 
 Park, which contains eighty-four acres of land, 
 lying about one-half mile from Eugene, where 
 he has a five-eighths-mile track, used for racing 
 and driving purposes. He is largely engaged in 
 buying and selling horses, dealing in draft and 
 carriage horses, shipping them to the coast mar- 
 kets. 
 
 Mrs. Bangs, whose maiden name was Irene 
 Wilson, was born in Ohio. By his first mar- 
 riage, Mr. Bangs had five children, namely : 
 Edward, who resides in Washington ; Alphia, 
 who died in Colorado ; Fred, engaged in busi- 
 ness with his father ; Mrs. Addie Dullard, of Eu- 
 gene ; and Abraham, in business with his father. 
 Mr. Bangs is a member of Eugene Lodge No. 
 11, A. F. & A. M.; of Eugene Chapter, R. A. 
 M. ; of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks ; and of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. He is active in local affairs, and has 
 served one term as councilman, representing the 
 second ward, being elected on the Republican 
 ticket, which he stanchly supports by voice and 
 vote. He is one of the leading members of the 
 Eugene Driving Park Association. 
 
 H. WESLEY SMITH. Boasting a sire 
 among the pioneers of the very early days of 
 Oregon, and himself a native of this state, H. 
 Wesley Smith has endeavored throughout his 
 life to be a worthy citizen of the state. His 
 father, Henry Smith, was born during a west- 
 ward journey of his parents, who were traveling 
 from Virginia to Tennessee in 1818, his first 
 resting place in the world being a strip of green 
 grass by the roadside among the Tennessee hills, 
 though his later years were spent in the more 
 prosaic places of life, growing to manhood on 
 his father's farm, where he gained his livelihood 
 from tilling the soil. The principal part of his 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1529 
 
 young manhood was spent on a Virginia farm, 
 and it was there he met and married Miss Susan 
 T. Wright. In 1840 they joined an emigrant 
 train bound for Oregon, and after several 
 months' journey had the great misfortune to 
 lose all their wagons through a fire started by the 
 Indians; hut. nothing daunted, they continued 
 their way on foot, the oxen being used to convey 
 the stores saved from the depredations of the 
 savages. With seven months of travel across the 
 wide, desolate plains, Mr. Smith, his wife and 
 three children found themselves in the unsettled 
 land that must claim so many years of labor be- 
 fore the fields would yield their harvests and the 
 cities grow to consume their products. Upon 
 the present site of the little town of Aumsville 
 Mr. Smith took up six hundred and forty acres 
 included in a donation claim, and here he spent 
 the remainder of his life, his death occurring 
 February 10, 1885, an event which left general 
 regret in the community. As a pioneer he had 
 been successful in cutting his route through the 
 long distances that separated him from the goal 
 of his ambitions ; as a farmer he had improved 
 the claim which he had made his on his arrival 
 in Oregon and had added to the original number 
 of acres until they amounted to thirteen hun- 
 dred at the time of his death ; as a citizen he 
 thought no time spent in the service of the pub- 
 lic lost, giving freely of all the blessings which 
 had come into his life. He was largely instru- 
 mental in the laying out of the roads through 
 this section of country, and to his influence and 
 intelligent interest many of the districts owe 
 much in the organization of the public schools. 
 As a Republican be ably represented his party 
 in the state legislature in 1880. In all his actions 
 Mr. Smith was actuated by motives deeper than 
 mere worldly desires, his attitude toward all 
 with whom he came in contact being dictated by 
 principles founded upon the religion which was 
 the moving spring of his life. He was a con- 
 sistent member of the Christian Church, being 
 active in the erection of the first church of this 
 denomination in the localitv. 
 
 F. B. BELLMAN is the representative of an 
 eastern family, his father, John, having been 
 born in Pennsylvania, where his grandfather was 
 a farmer, and his mother, Carrie Seeley, was a 
 native of Utica, N. Y. The father settled in 
 Wisconsin in 1835, where he engaged as a 
 farmer and followed his trade of painter, the 
 home of the family remaining for many years in 
 that state, where the death of both father and 
 mother occurred. Of the five children born to 
 them four are living, the third being F. B.. who 
 was born in Washington county, Wis., Novem- 
 ber 8, 1858, and was reared to manhood in his 
 
 native state. When nine years old he was sent 
 to the public schools of Oshkosh, and when four- 
 teen was apprenticed to learn the trade of a brick- 
 mason, where he remained for four years, then 
 taking up the work in various parts of the state. 
 In the fall of 1880 he came as far west as Mon- 
 tana and remained there for a year, when he re- 
 turned to Wisconsin and continued in the prose- 
 cution of his trade there until 1885, when he 
 came to Eugene and has since made this his 
 home. As a mason he has built the foundations 
 of a large number of buildings in Eugene, among 
 the more important being the court house ; First 
 National Bank ; Eugene Loan and Savings Bank ; 
 the two McClung buildings ; the armory ; Ris- 
 don block; Snyder block; R. M. Day building; 
 the Odd Fellows Hall ; addition to Hotel Smeede ; 
 Preston building ; Looney block ; Consor block ; 
 Chesny block ; Titus block ; addition to the 
 Chrisman building ; opera house ; Beckwith 
 building ; Chambers, Wilkins, Coleman, Hod- 
 sons, Marx, F. B. Dunn, Saunders, Frank, Mc- 
 Clarens and Shelton buildings ; mechanical hall 
 of the University of Oregon ; the county court 
 house of Polk county; the Aken Bristow build- 
 ing ; Kern and Veatch buildings in the grounds ; 
 and in Oakland, Ore., put up the E. J. Young 
 building and the Mrs. Thomas Hotel, and also 
 superintended the brick work in the new addition 
 to the Salem Asylum, and others too numerous 
 to mention. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bellman took place in 
 Grand Rapids in 1883 and united him with Miss 
 Nellie A. Stevens, a native of Taylor, Wis., and 
 the daughter of Alonzo Stevens, an emigrant 
 from the east to that state, where he engaged 
 as a farmer, also serving his country as a sol- 
 dier in the Third Wisconsin Regiment. His 
 wife was Susan Woodhall, a native of Wiscon- 
 sin, in which state her death occurred. Of the 
 four children which blessed their union all are 
 now living, Mrs. Bellman being the youngest. 
 She is the mother of three children, namely : 
 Lloyd, Frank and Lena. Mr. Bellman was made 
 a Mason in Eugene Lodge No. 11 and has been 
 raised to the degree of Royal Arch Mason, and 
 also belongs to Ivanhoe Commandery No. 3. He 
 also affiliates with the Woodmen of the World 
 and is a charter member of the Commercial Club 
 here. Politically he casts his ballot with the 
 Republican party. 
 
 THOMAS W. HARRIS, M. D., of Eugene, 
 comes of an ancient honored and distinguished 
 southern family, which for many years has num- 
 bered among its members men of rare intelli- 
 gence and personal worth. One of these is 
 Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, who was a 
 cousin of Dr. Harris' father. Three brothers of 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 this family came originally from England. One 
 of them located in Massachusetts, and two of 
 them sought homes in the southern states. The 
 ancestor of the one with whom we are concerned 
 was his grandfather, Saul Harris, who served in 
 the Revolutionary war with the rank of captain. 
 In colonial days he had married a woman of 
 German extraction. Their son, John Moses Har- 
 ris, was born near Stanford, Ky., April i, 1803. 
 With no advantages in the way of education this 
 young man set out with a determination to ob- 
 tain such knowledge as the study of books would 
 confer upon him. He became a minister in the 
 Christian Church in Indiana, and subsequently 
 removed to Adams county, 111. Thence in 1865 
 he crossed the plains with ox and horse-teams, 
 taking his family to Linn county, Ore., where 
 he continued his calling, serving as state evan- 
 gelist for the Christian Church for many years. 
 The death of this good man occurred near Eu- 
 gene in 1882, when he was seventy-eight years 
 of age. His wife was formerly Jane Wilson, a 
 native of Kentucky. She was the daughter of 
 Thomas Wilson, also a native of that state, who 
 settled in Indiana as a pioneer farmer and died 
 there. He was a descendant of Scotch-Irish an- 
 cestry. Mrs. Harris was the mother of ten chil- 
 dren, eight of whom came to Oregon, and six of 
 whom are living. 
 
 The third child in this family was Thomas W. 
 Harris, who was born near Russellville, Putnam 
 county, Ind., December 27, 1849. He resided in 
 his native state until 1854, when he removed 
 with his parents to Minnesota, and a year later 
 to Adams county, 111., where he attended the 
 public schools. When the trip across the plains 
 was made he did a man's work daily, though but 
 sixteen years of age at the time, driving through- 
 out the journey of five months. The party 
 arrived in Portland on September 11, 1865. His 
 father being in complete accord with his desire 
 to obtain an education, young Harris attended 
 the public schools of Linn county, after which 
 he took a two-years course at Albany College. 
 He then spent one year at the Christian College 
 at Monmouth, Ore., following this by teaching 
 in the schools of Linn county for two or three 
 years. In 1869 he took up the study of medi- 
 cine under the instruction of Dr. Shelton of 
 Salem, and in 1870 entered the Ohio Medical 
 College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was 
 graduated two years later with the degree of 
 doctor of medicine. After three years of prac- 
 tice in Albany, he entered the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of California, and in 
 1875 was graduated therefrom with the degree 
 of doctor of medicine. Returning to Oregon he 
 again engaged in practice in Albany. In 1878 
 he located in Eugene, entering into partnership 
 with Dr. Shelton, with whom he remained for 
 
 two and a half years, after which he disposed 
 of his interests there and again became a resi- 
 dent of Albany. April 17, 1884, again found 
 him a resident of Eugene, where he bought the 
 practice of Dr. Shelton, the latter retiring at 
 this time. For nearly a score of years Dr. Har- 
 ris has practiced continuously in Eugene, and 
 he now enjoys the largest clientele in Lane 
 county. 
 
 A man of varied talents, Dr. Harris has taken 
 great interest in various affairs other than those 
 pertaining to his profession. For several years 
 he has raised standard-bred horses, some fine 
 trotters with splendid records having come from 
 his barns. He still owns a few of these horses 
 which he retains for his own use. He is also 
 interested in timber lands, owning about three 
 thousand acres. Though a strong, earnest, con- 
 scientious Republican, Dr. Harris has never 
 sought and seldom accepted political honors. For 
 one term he served as mayor, but declined a re- 
 nomination. He has been chairman of the Re- 
 publican county central committee, and on three 
 different occasions he has served as chairman of 
 the first district congressional Republican com- 
 mittee, still holding that position. He conducted 
 the last campaign of Representative Thomas H. 
 Tongue, one evidence of his work being an in- 
 crease of four thousand votes in the majority 
 of the Republican candidate. He also conducted 
 the campaign of the Hon. Binger Hermann in 
 1903. Vitally interested in the commercial and 
 industrial life of the city, he is now acting as 
 president of the Eugene City Water Company, 
 which is being constantly enlarged and improved 
 to meet the increasing demand. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Harris occurred in Polk 
 county, Ore., October 24, 1872, and united him 
 with Laura Cattron, a native of Yamhill county, 
 Ore., and they have two children. The eldest of 
 these, Lawrence Thomas Harris, a practicing at- 
 torney of Eugene, was speaker of the house of 
 representatives of the Oregon state legislature 
 in 1903. A sketch of his life is given on another 
 page of this work. The younger child is a 
 daughter, Agnes. Dr. Harris is prominent in 
 Masonic circles, and was made a member of this 
 order in 1887. He is identified with Eugene 
 Lodge No. 11, A. F. & A. M. 
 
 GEORGE A. HOUCK. An extensive land 
 owner and stockman of this section of the Wil- 
 lamette valley is George A. Houck, who makes 
 his home in Eugene, Lane county, his ranch 
 lying in both Lane and Benton counties. He is 
 much interested in the raising of Angora goats, 
 having the largest herd in the state, numbering 
 sixteen hundred, of an exceptionally fine breed, 
 having been brought from stock of Turkish and 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1531 
 
 African blood. He is the principal breeder in 
 Oregon, and has also standard bred horses, 
 Shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep, as his in- 
 terest in stock is exceptionally far-reaching and 
 his desire to elevate the standard an absorbing 
 one. 
 
 The Honck family came originally from 
 (Germany, the spelling of the name having been 
 changed by the grandfather. The great-grand- 
 father came to America and settled at Philadel- 
 phia with his nine sons, of whom one became a 
 settler of Ohio, his son, George W., born in 
 Philadelphia, Pa., in 1831, being the father of 
 the Mr. Honck of this review. He learned the 
 trade of a shoemaker and gained a livelihood in 
 Ohio for several years, until he was attracted, in 
 1852, to the gold fields of California. He made 
 the trip west by way of the Isthmus, and upon 
 his arrival located at Weaverville, where he en- 
 gaged in mining. In 1856 he again made the 
 journey to California, this time crossing the 
 mountains, and finally he located in Benton 
 county, Ore., where he became the owner of a 
 large stock farm. About 1870 he converted 
 everything into cattle and removed to southern 
 Oregon, after which he sold out and returned to 
 Ohio with his family. Though the west pre- 
 sented a herculean task in the clearance and cul- 
 tivation of its broad fields, and the dangers and 
 privations which were a part of the life of a pio- 
 neer. Mr. Houck was again anxious to become 
 a citizen in the new country, so the journey was 
 again made. He then located in Corvallis and 
 engfaeed in the livery business, and became a 
 very prominent man in the upbuilding of the 
 city. In the days of the construction of the Ore- 
 gon Pacific Railroad he did much toward the 
 furtherance of their plans and the securing of 
 land. About this time he also bought large 
 tracts of land in southern Benton and northern 
 Lane counties, principally in the native condition, 
 and this remains in the family estate to the 
 present time. Mr. Houck died in Monroe. Ben- 
 ton county, in 1895, when sixty-six years old. 
 He served one term as county commissioner, 
 during which the courthouse was erected. In 
 religion he was a member of the Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Houck married Delila Young, a native of 
 Missouri, and the daughter of Harvey Young, 
 who was born in North Carolina. He lived in 
 a number of the states of the Mississippi valley, 
 after settling in Kentucky, removing to Indiana 
 and later to Missouri, where he was one of the 
 frontiersmen. In 1847 he started across the 
 plains with his family, leaving St. Joe in May of 
 that year, and not arriving on the present site 
 of Portland until December 25. 1847. There 
 was a very large number of ox-teams in the 
 train, but it was badly managed, for so much 
 
 time was lost that their provisions ran very low 
 before their arrival, and in fact would have run 
 out altogether if one of their number had not 
 gone ahead and organized a rescue party which 
 met them with sufficient supplies to last until 
 they could reach the settlements in Oregon. 
 There were only ten pounds of flour when the 
 rescue party met them. Mr. Young had but one 
 cow and a little wagon upon his arrival, and had 
 met with the misfortune of having one of his 
 children killed on the plains, being run over by 
 a wagon. After locating in various parts of the 
 Willamette valley Mr. Young went to eastern 
 Oregon and thence to Montana, where he en- 
 gaged as a farmer and stockman. His death 
 occurred in that state near Bozeman, when he 
 was over eighty years old. Mrs. Houck now re- 
 sides in Gold Hill, Ore., the mother of six chil- 
 dren, of whom three are living, namely : Jesse 
 J., George A. and Ambrose, the first and last 
 named being engaged as millers at. Gold Hill, in 
 which business George A. is also interested. 
 
 George A. Houck was born near Corvallis, 
 Benton county, Ore., January, 1868, and was 
 reared to manhood in that location. His educa- 
 tion was received principally through the me- 
 dium of the public schools of Corvallis, and 
 when the common course was completed he was 
 sent to Notre Dame University, in Indiana, in 
 1883, taking up the work and graduating in 
 1888, with the degree of C. E. On his return to 
 his western home he took up the work of the 
 various farms which constituted the property of 
 his father, aiming to bring them to a higher state 
 of cultivation than had hitherto been reached. 
 He became the possessor of two thousand acres 
 of land, then devoted principally to pasturage, 
 and of this he has cleared and broken five hun- 
 dred acres, the balance being in tame grass. He 
 has three thousand head of stock, over half being 
 Angora goats in which he has always taken a 
 special interest. He has arranged his ranch into 
 four different sections which necessitated the 
 erection of four sets of buildings,- which has nec- 
 essarily enhanced the value of his property. 
 Much of the land is adapted to the cultivation 
 of fruit and he intends cutting it up into smaller 
 ranches at no distant period. The land extends 
 two miles from Monroe, while the home ranch 
 is within a mile of that city. In addition to this 
 land Mr. Houck also owns eleven hundred acres 
 of timber. In 1898 he removed from his ranch 
 and located in Eugene, where he now makes his 
 home. 
 
 In Indiana Mr. Houck was married to Mary 
 Sweeney, who was born in Fort Wayne, of that 
 state, and they now have four children, named in 
 order of birth as follows : Frances, Agnes, 
 Edwin and James. Fraternally Mr. Houck af- 
 
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 filiates with the Woodmen of the World. In his 
 political relations he is a Democrat, and in re- 
 ligion belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 WILLIAM KYLE. Upon his arrival here in 
 1884, William Kyle started a canning industry 
 known as the Florence Canning Company, which 
 knew an uninterrupted era of prosperity until it 
 was consumed by fire in 1901. Almost contem- 
 porary with the starting of the canning factory 
 was the establishment of a general merchandise 
 store, in which he was joined by Mr. Myer in 
 1887, since continuing the business with marked 
 success. The business responsibility of the part- 
 ners was increased in 1890 by the purchase of the 
 steamers Lillian and Roberts, with which they 
 started an ocean trade between this place and 
 San Francisco. The boats proved so profitable 
 that they were induced to add to their resources 
 by building the schooner Bella, in 1897, and the 
 boats now ply the waters with their cargoes and 
 passengers. Yet another concern, the success of 
 which is directly traceable to the combined ef- 
 forts of these sterling business men, is the Flor- 
 ence Lumber Company, inaugurated in 1899, 
 with a capacity of thirty thousand feet, and of 
 which Messrs. Kyle and Myer are sole owners. 
 For the conduct of their business the firm own 
 three thousand acres of timber and river land. 
 
 Born in Scotland, May 22, 1858, William 
 Kyle's earliest years were passed among com- 
 mercial rather than agricultural surroundings, 
 for his father, John Kyle, was a woolen manu- 
 facturer, and followed that occupation during 
 his entire active life. The father was born in 
 Scotland in July, 1828, and died in London in 
 1885, while his wife, Isabelle (Millree) Kyle, 
 born in Scotland in 1829, died in her native land 
 in 1870. William, who was the fourth of the 
 nine children, boarded an English vessel called 
 Glasgow, bound for the south seas and San 
 Francisco. In this trip he touched at New Zea- 
 land and Australia, and eventually arrived at 
 San Francisco. Starting out again on another 
 vessel as cabin boy, he arrived at Astoria, Ore., 
 when he was fifteen years old, and for the fol- 
 lowing three years interested himself in fishing 
 for the people of that town, and he gradually 
 worked his way in land ventures, eventually suc- 
 ceeding to a position with the Seaside Packing 
 Company, with which he was identified four 
 years, a part of the time as general manager. 
 Severing his connection with this enterprise he 
 went to the Umpqua district and conducted the 
 Gardiner Packing Company's plant for two 
 years, then disposing of his interest and coming 
 to Florence in 1884 as heretofore stated. 
 
 Mr. Kyle has been a stanch supporter of the 
 Republican party, and in more recent years has 
 
 been active in local and state politics, attending 
 county and other conventions, and filling many 
 positions of trust and responsibility. Ever since 
 1887 he has been postmaster of Florence, and he 
 has served as councilman and school director. 
 Fraternally he is one of the most popular men 
 of the town, being a member of the Grand Lodge 
 of Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, of which he is recorder. In 
 1882 Mr. Kyle married Christina Bovang, who 
 was born in Sweden, and who is the mother of 
 four children, William, David, Edwin and Isa- 
 ella. 
 
 WILLIAM W. NEELY. The sturdy quali- 
 ties of the Neely family are a direct inheritance 
 from a Scotch-Irish ancestry. The father, Ed- 
 ward Neely, was born in Washington county, 
 Ky., October 25, 1795, and died July 9, 1881, 
 and the mother, Ruth (Miller) Neely, was born 
 in Simpson county, Ky., in 1808, and died in 
 May, 1890. The two were united in marriage in 
 their native state and afterward went to Illinois, 
 where they located near Quincy, the father en- 
 gaging in the prosecution of his trade, which 
 was that of cabinetmaker, and also farmed. In 
 1836 they removed to Cedar county, Mo., and re- 
 mained there eighteen years, when they outfitted 
 for the journey across the plains, which they 
 crossed in 1854, locating on a donation claim of 
 three hundred and twenty acres ten miles west 
 of Eugene, Lane county, along the banks of 
 Coyote creek. This remained the home of the 
 family until the father's death. 
 
 Of the eleven children born to his parents, 
 William W. Neely was the eighth in order of 
 birth, his natal day being December 22, 1842, 
 and the first scenes of his childhood being in 
 Cedar county, Mo. He accompanied his parents 
 to Oregon and attended the common schools of 
 Lane county in pursuit of an education. When 
 fifteen years old he began one of his first busi- 
 ness experiences, being a trip into northern Cali- 
 fornia, when he drove a herd of cattle. When 
 of sufficient age he took a homestead near Hale 
 and made that his home for about eight years, 
 and at the close of that time he removed to Jo- 
 sephine county and located a pre-emption claim 
 of one hundred and eighty acres, upon which he 
 remained for nine years. Returning then to 
 Lane county he bought property above Mapleton 
 and located along the Siuslaw river, and made 
 that his home for fifteen years, when he disposed 
 of that possession and located upon his present 
 farm, where be has since lived. Besides farming 
 he occupies his time in the fall in fishing, and 
 also engages in logging. 
 
 In Lane county, in 1870, Mr. Neely was united 
 in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Fountain, who 
 
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 was born in Boone county, Mo., February 18, 
 1853. and of the seven children born to them 
 three are now living, namely : Thomas J., at 
 home; Mary L., the wife of Ludwig Christen- 
 son, of Florence, Ore. ; and Luella, the wife of 
 F. C. Peil, of Monroe, Benton county. In his 
 fraternal relations Mr. Neely is a Mason, hold- 
 ing membership with the lodge at Florence and 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Ma- 
 pleton. also being identified with the Eastern 
 Star and Rebekahs. In politics he is independ- 
 ent in his views, voting for the best men for of- 
 ficial positions, and is serving at the present as 
 road supervisor and school director. 
 
 JAMES W. WHITE. Among the enterpris- 
 ing, prosperous and popular business men of 
 Lane county is James W. White, who is carry- 
 ing on a substantial trade in groceries, grain and 
 feed, at Eugene. Although a mere youth when 
 the Civil war broke out, fired with a patriotic 
 enthusiasm he enlisted, and took an active part 
 in many important engagements, leaving the 
 field at the close of the conflict with an excellent 
 record as a soldier. He was born in Vinton, 
 Iowa, July 24, 1846, a son of Gideon Blackburn 
 W nite. His paternal grandfather, John White, 
 was born, reared and married in Kentucky, but 
 afterward removed to Edgar county, 111., where 
 he engaged in agricultural pursuits until his 
 death. 
 
 A native of Kentucky, Gideon B. White re- 
 moved with his parents to Illinois, thence to 
 Iowa, where he settled as a farmer in Marion 
 county. Subsequently settling in Chautauqua 
 county, Kans., he there spent his remaining 
 vears. He married Sarah Hollenbeck, who was 
 born in Kentucky, but was reared in Edgar 
 county, 111., where her father, J. C. Hollenbeck, 
 was for many years a well known miller. Of 
 the fourteen children born of their union, ten 
 grew to years of maturity, and four of the sons 
 served in the Civil war, namely : Lawrence, 
 who served in the First Minnesota Sharpshoot- 
 ers, was killed in the Seven-days' Battles ; Jona- 
 than, who was a corporal in the First Iowa In- 
 fantry, and is now a resident of Oklahoma; 
 William, now living in Chautauqua county, 
 Kans., served in the Twenty-ninth Infantrv; 
 and J. W., the special subject of this sketch. 
 
 The youngest child of the household, J. W. 
 White was brought up on the home farm in 
 Iowa, and obtained his education in the district 
 school. In the fall of 1861, when fifteen years 
 of age. he enlisted in the Thirteenth United 
 States Regulars, but the recruiting officer re- 
 fused to accept him without his parents' consent. 
 He subsequently enlisted in the Seventeenth 
 Iowa Infantry, in the camp at Keokuk, and was 
 
 mustered in March 13, 1862, at Keokuk. He 
 saw hard service both in camp and field, among 
 the engagements in which he took part being the 
 following : Corinth, ; Iuka ; Holly Springs ; 
 Black River Bridge; Vicksburg; Champion 
 Hills ; Jackson, Miss. ; Missionary Ridge ; Dal- 
 las ; Resaca ; Snake Creek ; Peach Tree ; Buzzard 
 Roost; Kenesaw; and Tilton. While at Hunts- 
 ville, Ala., in 1864, he veteranized, and on Oc- 
 tober 13, of that year, he, with his regiment, 
 was captured and confined in Million prison. 
 Having a sum of money secreted about his per- 
 son, Mr. White succeeded in buying the liberty 
 of himself and the orderly sergeant of his com- 
 pany, giving $50 apiece for their parole, and re- 
 turned home on a furlough. Being exchanged 
 in the spring of 1865, just before the close, of 
 the war, he rejoined the few survivors of his 
 regiment at New Orleans. Subsequently going 
 to Washington, he took part in the grand re- 
 view, then proceeded to Louisville, Ky., thence 
 by train to Davenport, Iowa, where, in the sum- 
 mer of 1865, he was mustered out of service. 
 Returning at once to the parental homestead, 
 Mr. White remained there a while, and then 
 began farming on his own account. Removing 
 to Fredonia, Wilson county, Kans., in the spring 
 of 1867, he entered one hundred and sixty acres 
 of land, on which he erected a good set of build- 
 ings, and commenced the improvement of a farm, 
 for a number of years being one of the leading 
 farmers and stock-raisers of that locality. Dis- 
 posing of his Kansas property in 1892, Mr. 
 White settled in Eugene, Ore., where he has 
 since been extensively and profitably engaged in 
 the grocery and feed business, being favorably 
 located on Willamette street. 
 
 In Wilson county, Kans., Mr. White married 
 Miss Esther Ann Vaughn, a native of Kentucky. 
 She died in April, 1899, in Eugene, leaving eight 
 children, namely: William, of San Francisco, 
 Cal. ; Mrs. May Moffitt, of Bremerton, Wash.; 
 Mrs. Minnie Croner, of Eugene; and James, 
 Edna, Vineta, Velma and Lawrence, living at 
 home. Politically Mr. White supports the prin- 
 ciples of the Republican party, and for four 
 years represented the third ward in the city 
 council. Fraternally he is a member of the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the 
 Artisans. He is likewise a member and quar- 
 termaster of the J. W. Geary Post, No. 7, G. 
 A. R. He belongs to the Christian Church, of 
 which he is an active member, and one of the 
 deacons. 
 
 MARK HULBURT was born in Whiteside 
 county, 111.. October 18, 1847, ms parents being 
 J. F. and Eliza Jane Hulburt, natives respect- 
 ively of Vermont and Illinois. The father be- 
 
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 came an early settler in the Prairie state, and 
 though a miller by trade he engaged as a farmer 
 there until 1853, when, with ox and cow-teams 
 and the family carriage, be brought his wife and 
 six children across the plains. The journey oc- 
 cupied six months, and at its close they settled 
 in Linn county, Ore., taking up a donation land 
 claim located six miles southeast of Albany. 
 Until his death, in 1872, he engaged in improv- 
 ing and cultivating the broad acres, which meant 
 a prosperous and pleasant home for himself and 
 family. The death of his wife had occurred ten 
 years earlier. They were the parents of twelve 
 children, all of whom attained maturity. Named 
 in order of birth they are as follows : Harriet 
 Jane, now Mrs. Maple, who makes her home in 
 Pendleton ; Lovina, who became Mrs. Brewer, 
 and was accidentally killed by explosion in 1902 ; 
 Mark, of this review ; Harlan, in the real estate 
 business in Albany ; Alice M., now Mrs. Turner, 
 of Pendleton ; Florence, now Mrs. Dow, of Linn 
 county ; Ida, Mrs. Cullon, also of Linn county ; 
 Austin and Alden, twins ; Wallace, Warren and 
 Frank, the five last named being farmers in Linn 
 county. 
 
 When twenty-one years of age Mark Hulburt 
 left home and put in practice the splendid train- 
 ing which he had received from his father, on 
 the home farm, becoming then a stock dealer, 
 buying and shipping stock. In 1870 he went to 
 eastern Oregon and engaged in the stock busi- 
 ness in that locality, establishing a ranch on Hay 
 creek, Wasco county, where he raised cattle and 
 horses for ten years, shipping them to all parts 
 of the country. At the end of that time he re- 
 turned to the Willamette valley, and became the 
 owner of the property upon which he now car- 
 ries on the same business. In 1893 he removed 
 to the city of Albany, from which location he 
 superintends the work of his ranch. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hulburt occurred in 
 Linn county, Miss Sarah J. Turner becoming his 
 wife. She was born in Missouri and came to 
 Oregon with her parents. The one son of their 
 union is Riley E., who is one of the successful 
 business men of Albany, being engaged in a 
 hardware establishment in that location. In his 
 political convictions Mr. Hulburt casts his vote 
 with the Republican party. 
 
 OLE MYRIND was born in Trondhjem, Nor- 
 way, January 18. 1857. He was the son of An- 
 grim Myrind, a native of the same location, 
 whose occupation throughout his life was that of 
 a shoemaker. He died in his native land in 1898, 
 at the age of eighty-seven years, his wife, also a 
 native of Norway, having passed away in 1869, 
 when fifty-one years old. 
 
 Of the four sons and one daughter which were 
 
 born to his parents Ole Myrind was the young- 
 est in age, and his education was received in the 
 common schools of his native country. When 
 of a sufficient age he was apprenticed to learn 
 the trade of a shoemaker, serving for three years 
 before taking up the business for himself. Until 
 1888 he remained in Norway, when he took pas- 
 sage in a ship bound for Boston. Upon his safe 
 arrival he went at once toward the farming 
 lands of the country, locating first in Mitchell 
 county, Kans., where he engaged as a farm hand, 
 in the fall of the same year proceeding to Ne- 
 braska. In the latter state he became employed 
 in a rock quarry at Bennett, Lancaster county, 
 where he remained until the following year, 
 when he went to Colfax, Wash., and worked on 
 the construction of railroads. Until February, 
 1900, he continued in that work, and he then 
 came to Portland, Ore., and engaged in fishing 
 in the Columbia river, located at Astoria for two 
 years. In 1892 he came into the Siuslaw valley 
 and bought the right to eighty acres of land lo- 
 cated two miles east of Mapleton, and has since 
 been engaged in general farming and stock- 
 raising. Meeting with success in his work he 
 has added eighty acres to the original purchase 
 and has now one hundred and sixty acres. He 
 has made all improvements upon the farm, erect- 
 ing dwelling, barns and outbuildings, etc. An- 
 other source of income beyond the profits of his 
 farm is his fishing 'in the Siuslaw river each fall. 
 In politics Mr. Myrind adheres to the prin- 
 ciples advocated in the platform of the Repub- 
 lican party, and socially belongs to the Grange of 
 Mapleton. 
 
 J. B. TILLOTSON. The painstaking and 
 conservative element in Mr. Tillotson's make-up 
 is undoubtedly inherited from his English ances- 
 tors, who were represented at a very early day 
 in America. Bartlett Tillotson, the paternal 
 grandfather of J. B., was born in Virginia, and 
 at an early day removed with his ' family to a 
 plantation near Dalton, Stokes county, N. C, 
 where he farmed and worked at his trade of 
 manufacturing cooper. His son, John, born near 
 Lynchburg, Va., was a planter in Stokes county, 
 and there married a native daughter, Parthena 
 Powell King, daughter of William King, also a 
 planter and a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 
 The third oldest, and the only one on the coast 
 of his father's six children, J. B. Tillotson was 
 born near Dalton, Stokes county, N. C, January 
 13, 1862, and lived at home until he became of 
 age. He attended the public schools as oppor- 
 tunity offered, and as early as twelve years of 
 age began to work at carpentering under his 
 uncle, becoming in time a practical and expe- 
 rienced carpenter. As soon as he left home he 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 purchased a farm near Walnut Cove, Stokes 
 county, and not only engaged in farming, but 
 devoted considerable time to teaming and con- 
 tracting. In 1890 he, came to Oregon and settkd 
 first in Corvallis, and the first year worked at 
 bridge carpentering, afterward engaging in gen- 
 eral trade work in Albany. This town has been 
 his headquarters ever since, although he has re- 
 moved his family to Portland, a more central 
 location for his constantly extending business. 
 From the first bridge construction has appealed 
 to his abilities as particularly congenial and sat- 
 isfying, and considering the number of years 
 which he has devoted to this class of engineer- 
 ing, the amount of work accomplished has been 
 remarkable. Among the many bridges con- 
 structed by Mr. Tillotson, mention may be made 
 of those which span the Santiam at Jefferson, 
 and Stayton, of new bridges over the same river 
 at Mill City, McDowell, the Rocky Point bridge 
 across the South Santiam near Foster, the 
 Waterloo bridge, rebuilt the bridge at Roseburg 
 over the South Umpqua, and rebuilt the bridge 
 at Sandy on the Base Line Road, and the draw- 
 bridge at Skamokawa, Wash. 
 
 The absorbing nature of the work of Mr. Til- 
 lotson has never permitted him to actively par- 
 ticipate in political or social undertakings to any 
 extent, although he has been very active in 
 church work, having for many years been a 
 member of the Christian Church, and one of the 
 board of deacons. He is fraternally connected 
 with the Foresters of America, the Knights of 
 the Maccabees and the Order of Pendo. He 
 married in North Carolina, Martha J. Smith, a 
 neighbor and .native daughter, and the mother of 
 two children, Martha Fay and Greta Frances. 
 
 WILLIAM C. WASHBURNE. In keeping 
 with the reputation for resourcefulness and busi- 
 ness sagacity established by his honored pioneer 
 father, William C. Washburne, the present 
 mayor of Junction City, is variously identified 
 with the substantial affairs of Lane county, 
 being cashier of the Farmers & Merchants' Bank 
 at Junction City, secretary and treasurer of the 
 Junction City Hotel Company, and owner and 
 leaser of large tracts of stock-raising and timber 
 land in Lane and the adjoining counties. A na- 
 tive son of Lane county, he was born on the old 
 donation claim near Junction City, September 
 21, 1867, and is the eighth child of the large 
 family of children born to Charles W. and Cath- 
 erine A. (Stansbury) Washburne, grandson of 
 Robert and Eva (Roy) Washburne, and great- 
 grandson of Charles Washburne, the latter of 
 whom was killed by the Indians near Clarks- 
 burg, Virginia, during the Revolutionary war. 
 The grandfather, Robert, established the family 
 
 in Ohio about 1822, later living in Illinois and 
 Des Moines county, Iowa, in which latter state 
 himself and wife passed their last days. Their 
 son, Charles, remained at home until their death, 
 afterward engaging in farming on the home 
 farm until the gold excitement swept over the 
 land, in 1849. With a company of seventy he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, and after a 
 few months of mining at Coloma, Cal., and 
 Georgetown, he went to San Francisco, em- 
 barked on a sailing vessel, and returned to his 
 home in Iowa via the Isthmus of Panama. 
 
 After his marriage, in 185 1, Mr. Washburne 
 settled down to farming in Henry county, Iowa, 
 and in the meantime experienced the discontent 
 which usually visited the lives of returned trav- 
 elers from the west, and, in 1853, he sold his 
 farm and outfitted with ox-teams and wagons, 
 preparing to cross the plains to Oregon. He 
 had two wagons, eight yoke of oxen and some 
 loose cattle, and their journey was uneventful, 
 save for the birth of their first child, Ruth Ellen, 
 on the plains near Chimney Rock. One and a 
 half miles southwest of Junction City Mr. Wash- 
 burne located his claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres, where he built a log cabin just in 
 time to shelter those dear to him from the driv- 
 ing winter rains. Many of the animals with 
 which he had started out survived the ordeal of 
 the plains, and with these he began a stock- 
 raising business, increasing the same from year 
 to year, until he was one of the most extensive 
 stock-raisers in Lane county. Additional lands 
 were necessarily required for the accommoda- 
 tion of stock and farming, and in time he had 
 six hundred acres in Lane county, and large 
 landed property interests in Washington. A 
 large portion of these lands are still in his pos- 
 session. In 1891 he purchased the mill property 
 at Springfield, placed in it a complete roller 
 process with a capacity of one hundred and fifty 
 barrels per day, and eventually handed over the 
 management of the mill to his sons, Byron and 
 William. He made an addition to Junction City 
 in 1891 and he was one of the organizers of the 
 Junction City Hotel Company, of which he was 
 president for many years. As a Republican he 
 has activelv advanced the interests of his party 
 in this county, and represented it in the state 
 legislature in 1872. An energetic and masterful 
 personality, he has greatly influenced all depart- 
 ments of activity in this section, and stands to- 
 dav as a representative of all that is admirable 
 and progressive in northwestern citizenship. 
 
 The pronounced good fortune of his father 
 permitted of superior educational opportunities 
 for his children, and William C, like the rest, 
 availed himself to the utmost of his chances. 
 From the public schools he went to the State 
 University in 1890. taking a two-years course in 
 
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 English, and afterward graduating from the 
 Portland Business College, having taken the 
 banking- and general business course. There- 
 after he entered his father's Springfield mill as 
 manager and bookkeeper, and in 1893 became 
 identified with the local bank, known as the 
 Farmers and Merchants' Bank, incorporated 
 under the state laws with a capital stock of 
 $35,000. This is a solid and paying institution, 
 the directors being such well known men as J. 
 A, Bushnell, C. W. Washburne and J. P. Milli- 
 orn, with Mr. William Washburne as cashier, 
 and G. F. Shipworth as assistant cashier. Mr. 
 Washburne is identified with extensive stock in- 
 terests in the count} 7 , and for the purpose leases 
 at least eight hundred acres of land, upon which 
 he has about six hundred sheep and two hundred 
 head of cattle. He also owns a one hundred and 
 sixty acre tract of timber land, and two hundred 
 acres of farming and grazing land, besides con- 
 siderable property in Junction City. As a Re- 
 publican, he has taken an active interest in local 
 affairs, and besides his present term as mayor, 
 has served six years in the city council, filling 
 also other positions of trust and responsibility. 
 He is fraternally one of the best known men of 
 the younger generation, being identified with 
 the Masonic order (demitted), Eugene Chapter 
 No. 10, Royal Arch Masons ; the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, No. 357, of Eugene, 
 and the Woodmen of the World ; Oasis Lodge 
 No. 41, I. O. O. F., of Junction City, of which 
 he is financial secretary. Mr. Washburne is 
 popular and influential in his native county and 
 state, and to an exceptional degree enjoys the 
 good will and confidence of the many people 
 with whom he is thrown in contact. Mr. Wash- 
 burne acts as his father's business manager, 
 which brings him in close relation with the busi- 
 ness men of Washington and Oregon. 
 
 CAPT. CHARLES LA FOLLETT was born 
 September 21, 1829, on a farm in Putnam county, 
 Ind. At the age of sixteen he left home and 
 attended a writing school, thereafter teaching 
 permanship during one winter. Another winter 
 was devoted to the study of phrenology, and 
 after that for three years he traveled around, lec- 
 turing on phrenology during the summer and 
 studving during the winter time. In a company 
 of one hundred and forty-four well armed men 
 Mr. La Follett started across the plains from 
 Missouri in 1849, hi s equipment consisting of five 
 voke of oxen and a two-horse wagon. He was 
 made wagon-master and sergeant of the train, 
 and had his hands full trying to conceal his uncle, 
 Walter Henton, who was one of the party, and 
 whom the Mormons sought to capture in retalia- 
 tion for his having; been one of the sixteen men to 
 
 kill Joe Smith. Provisions ran short during the 
 journey, and many adventures r enlivened what 
 would otherwise have been a very weary and 
 monotonous march. In Oregon Mr. La Follett 
 found the Indians so troublesome that he went 
 to Santa Clara county, Cal., and there taught an 
 early subscription school, and in 1852 he went 
 with a Mr. Snelling into the Redwood timber 
 district and had charge of from fifty to seventy- 
 five men engaged in getting out timber. This 
 proved a profitable venture, and at the end of 
 eighteen months his available assets consisted 
 of $20,000, $10,000 of which was lost in an onion- 
 raising undertaking and the balance being lost 
 on a claim in Redwood City. He reached Port- 
 land in 1853. At the home of Dr. McBride, near 
 North Yamhill, he got up a subscription school, 
 and during the next season attended the Pacific 
 University. For several years following he 
 traveled through California and Oregon lecturing 
 on phrenology in the summer and teaching in 
 the winter, and to intensify the interests of his 
 lectures invested in a picture machine, then a 
 great novelty in the west. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. La Follett married Mary A. 
 Snodgrass and the following year began the 
 study of law, being admitted to the bar in 1858. 
 His initial practice was conducted in Dallas, 
 where he became prominent in politics, and in 
 1863 was elected to the legislature. During the 
 session he gave substantial evidence of his be- 
 lief in Prohibition by drawing up and securing 
 the passage of a law prohibiting minors visiting 
 saloons, a matter which lay very near to the 
 heart of Mr. La Follett. He served in the legis- 
 lature three terms, and during -the last term 
 Governor Gibbs appointed him to a lieutenancy 
 in the army, that he might raise a company in 
 Linn and Benton counties for the suppression 
 of the Indians. To further this good work a 
 band was hired at an outlay of $50 a day, in- 
 numerable meetings held at which collections 
 were taken up, and at the end of the campaign 
 one hundred and three men had enlisted. Lieu- 
 tenant La Follett was mustered in as captain of 
 Companv A, First Oregon Infantry, at Salem, 
 and went with his company to Vancouver, where 
 it was stationed until the following summer. He 
 then went to Fort Yamhill and took possession 
 of the house of Philip Sheridan, just as the dis- 
 tinguished soldier took his departure. The regi- 
 ment was ordered to leave in September, and the 
 captain, with Lieutenant Shipley and one hun- 
 dred and ten men, acted as guard to control the 
 Indians. During the Snake River war this same 
 band crossed the mountains to the Crooked River 
 country, and there carried their provisions in 
 wagons over the lava beds, and soon afterward 
 built a fort to keep the Indians out of the region. 
 What was known as Camp Pope, on Squaw 
 
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 creek, was the outgrowth of this expedition, and 
 here they remained during the winter, and in the 
 spring Captain La Follett and Superintendent 
 Huntington made a treaty with the Warm 
 Spring Indians, which resulted in the soldiers 
 leaving camp in July, and returning to Fort 
 Yamhill. The soldiers all entertained the sin- 
 cerest admiration for the bravery and able leader- 
 ship of their captain, and before the soldiers were 
 discharged the mothers of the boys sent to San 
 Francisco and got a flag to present to him, 
 which emblem of appreciation was unhappily lost 
 on the ship Jonathan, which sank on the wa) - to 
 Portland. Another flag was later secured, and 
 this remains one of the treasured possessions of 
 the fearless and high-minded leader. 
 
 Soon after the war Captain La Follett was a 
 candidate for the senate but was defeated, and 
 in 1870 he was appointed Indian agent of the 
 Grande Ronde Agency, maintaining the position 
 for four years. On account of his wife's ill 
 health he moved onto a farm in the mountains 
 near Grande Ronde and for fourteen years en- 
 gaged successfully in general farming and stock- 
 raising. He then located in Sheridan and en- 
 gaged in the practice of law, and in 1888 took 
 up his residence in Portland, remaining in the 
 northern city until 1899. In the meantime he 
 had been elected to the legislature from Yam- 
 hill county. Since 1899 he has lived retired in 
 Sheridan. Five children have been born into 
 the La Follett family, of whom W. G. A., the 
 oldest son, lives in Sheridan : C. B. is a merchant 
 of this town ; Edith is the wife of H. C. Foster, 
 treasurer of Yamhill county ; Ollie is the wife 
 of J. Soppenfield, of the vicinity of Salem ; and 
 Hettie lives in Seattle, Wash. Captain La Fol- 
 lett is identified with the Donelson Post, G. A. 
 R., of Sheridan, and is active in the undertakings 
 of the post, at one time having served as com- 
 mander. 
 
 ARCHIE J. JOHNSON. To a greater or 
 less degree a man . is measured by the success 
 which he achieves in his undertakings, the circle 
 of his influence widening in proportion to the 
 height which he attains among his associates, his 
 words carrying weight as his actions have pre- 
 viously proven his ability to command respect 
 and confidence. It is no discredit to the other 
 sections of the Union that the great northwest 
 should, so early in its infancy, have reason to 
 name with pride a large percentage of its citi- 
 zens as those who have risen to more than local 
 prominence, whose hands have upheld the west- 
 ern states through the trying period of growth 
 and consequent power, for they are natives or 
 sons of natives of the middle and eastern states 
 which have perforce passed on some of their 
 
 brightest and most enterprising men to aid in 
 the advancement of civilization of the Pacific 
 slope. Among these men none hold, or more 
 merit a higher position of both local and state 
 prominence, than Archie J. Johnson, the son and 
 grandson of pioneers, and the representative of 
 a New York family which has made its way with 
 true pioneer instinct to a locality where men of 
 ability and earnestness of purpose are required 
 to cement the union of a then remote territory, 
 and develop the possbilities which nature has so 
 plentifully bestowed upon it. That these three, 
 father, son and native son, have faithfully ful- 
 filled their duties as citizens, a brief biographical 
 resume will quickly show, and it will be inter- 
 esting reading to those who have watched the 
 beginning, growth and triumphal lead in the van 
 of progress of this western commonwealth. 
 
 The grandfather, Hiram Alvah Johnson, was 
 born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., on February 
 18, 1819, and after his emigration to the middle 
 west, he remained in Illinois until 1848, when he 
 crossed the plains with ox-teams, and at once 
 took up a donation claim near Jefferson, Marion 
 county, Ore. For twenty-eight years he made 
 his home upon this farm of six hundred and 
 forty acres, and in the town of Jefferson, where 
 he was engaged in a general merchandise busi- 
 ness, and at the close of that period he removed 
 to Salem, and made his home there until his 
 death, in February, 1896, at the age of seventy- 
 seven years. He was a man of strong independ- 
 ent ideas, and as such he influenced more or less 
 the affairs of the community in which he re- 
 sided. He was a Republican in politics, and for 
 twelve years he served as justice of the peace in 
 Salem. He was a member of the Christian 
 Church, and into this work he carried the same 
 traits dominant in his political and social life. 
 His son, John Charles, the father of Archie J. 
 Johnson, was a native of Illinois, being born on 
 May 29, 1842, and he came with his father into 
 the west, living upon the latter 's farm until 1869, 
 when he bought property located three miles 
 north of Scio, Linn county, consisting of a thou- 
 sand acres. There he successfully engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising until 1874, when he 
 decided to venture into the commercial life of 
 the city of Scio, engaging in a general mercan- 
 tile business with one J. M. Brown, with whom 
 he remained for one year. The firm was after- 
 ward known as Johnson Brothers for four years, 
 after which John C. Johnson sold out and lived 
 retired for a couple of years, when he again be- 
 came connected with the general merchandise 
 business of the same city, his partner being Riley 
 Shelton. This connection occupied another four 
 years, and for a like period after that he lived 
 retired, in 1889 engaging for one year with his 
 son, Archie J., of this review, and then selling 
 
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 his interest in the business to Ross E. Hibler. 
 He then removed to Salem, whe^e he now makes 
 his home, though each summer finds him with 
 his family upon his two-hundred-and-forty-acre 
 farm near Stayton, Marion county. 
 
 In 1864 John Charles Johnson married Vio- 
 letta Gunsaules, a native of Indiana, who was 
 born in 1846, the daughter of Manuel Gunsau- 
 les, who was a native of Pennsylvania, moving 
 first to Ohio and later, at the age of fifteen, to 
 Illinois, and came across the plains to Oregon in 
 1853, locating one and a half miles east of Jef- 
 ferson, Marion county, where he died in 1878, 
 at the age of sixty-four. Of the four sons and 
 three daughters which blessed the union of J. C. 
 Johnson and Violetta Gunsaules five children are 
 now living, the second being Archie J. Johnson, 
 who was born three miles northwest of Jeffer- 
 son, September 18, 1867. He received a pre- 
 liminary education in the common schools, and 
 upon the completion of the course he entered, in 
 the spring of 1885, the Portland Business Col- 
 lege and made a phenomenal record in his stud- 
 ies, graduating in December of the same year, in 
 less time than any preceding scholar. He had 
 also developed early a decided talent for busi- 
 ness, at the age of fourteen years acting as clerk 
 in a general merchandise establishment at Scio, 
 for the ensuing year and a half continuing to 
 hold the position, in connection with which he 
 attended school as occasion offered. At sixteen 
 years of age he took the position of bookkeeper 
 and head salesman for Johnson & Shelton, and 
 maintained the same creditably until 1887. He 
 then became timekeeper for the Oregon Pacific 
 Railway, but gave this up and re-entered for a 
 short time the mercantile life in Scio, from 
 which he removed to Seattle, Wash., in the 
 spring of 1888, and engaged in the real estate 
 business. The next year found him again a resi- 
 dent of Scio, and in connection with his father, 
 herein previously mentioned, he engaged in the 
 general merchandise business, and later contin- 
 ued with Mr. Hibler, who is now the owner of 
 the store. In 1891 he sold out his interests in 
 the business, and in January, 1892, he removed 
 to Salem, where he lived until November of the 
 same year, but seemingly not satisfied to live any 
 place but in the city where he had spent his boy- 
 hood days and had met with success in all his 
 business dealings, he returned to Scio, and with 
 T. J. Munkers purchased the controlling interest 
 in the bank of Scio, and at once assumed the ac- 
 tive management of it. In 1894 he bought Mr. 
 Munkers' interest, and he then became president 
 and conducted the business until the fall of 1900, 
 his brother C. V. having assumed the cashier- 
 ship with him in 1896. In 1900 he sold out and 
 engaged in stock-raising, having bought four 
 thousand one hundred and sixty acres of land in 
 
 Benton and Polk counties, and began the stock 
 business on extensive plans, in connection with 
 his brother (C. V. Johnson) and brother-in-law 
 (J. C. Simpson), making a specialty of regis- 
 tered stock. They now have a fine herd of 
 Shorthorn and a few choice Hereford cattle, 
 along with their other grade cattle, sheep and 
 goats. In partnership with Ross E. Hibler he 
 is extensively engaged in buying mohair and 
 wool throughout the Willamette valley, a far- 
 reaching business in this state. Mr. Johnson has 
 certainly made a success of his business interests 
 in the city of Scio and elsewhere, and his con- 
 nection with the various commercial and indus- 
 trial enterprises of this city, his chief prominence 
 in the latter being in the flouring mill business, 
 having purchased a one-half interest in 1895 in 
 the fine flouring mill located there, and disposed 
 of the same in 1900, working up a large export 
 business in flour during this period, and has 
 been of much benefit to the business affairs 
 there, and he is rightly named as one of the prin- 
 cipals in the prominent work of the community. 
 Mr. Johnson was married in January, 1888, to 
 Miss Linnie Young, a native of Minnesota, and 
 they are now the parents of the following chil- 
 dren : Cleo L. ; Zeta A. ; Elmo E. ; Darrel D. 
 an Orlo O., all of whom are at home. Frater- 
 nally Mr. Johnson is a member of the Encamp- 
 ment, subordinate and Rebekah lodges of the 
 I. O. O. F., and the Modern Woodmen of 
 America. He belongs to the Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian Church. Even among the busy hours 
 of his business life Mr. Johnson has found time 
 to take an active interest in all public and polit- 
 ical movements, as an ardent Republican, serv- 
 ing his party in various positions of trust and 
 honor. In June, 1894, he was elected to the 
 state senate to represent Linn county for four 
 years, carrying by a large majority a previously 
 Democratic county. In this position he became 
 a prominent factor in the affairs of the state, 
 serving on various important committees. He 
 was the promoter of the bill at the 1897 session 
 to tax foreign companies when carrying on busi- 
 ness in the state, but which could not be consid- 
 ered on account of the failure in the organization 
 of the house during the entire session. He has 
 also been a member of the state central commit- 
 tee, for years a member of the county central 
 committee of his party and has served several 
 terms as councilman of the city of Scio and as 
 its mayor, was a school director for two terms, 
 was chairman of the board when the Scio school 
 building was erected, he being one of the pro- 
 moters of the project. The chief business in- 
 terest of Mr. Johnson at the present time is the 
 position to which he was appointed in March 
 1899, that of national bank examiner, for the 
 northwest district, including the states of Ore- 
 
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 gon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho, and up 
 to April I, 1902, including Wyoming. This po- 
 sition he has since held with the same success 
 which has characterized all his efforts, and which 
 win for him the respect of all who appreciate the 
 business sagacity and untiring energy of their 
 fellow townsman. He is a very busy man, for 
 all his time not given to his official duties is 
 taken up with his large personal interests. Mr. 
 Johnson is esteemed among his associates for an 
 exceptionally pleasing personality and intrinsic 
 worth of character, which has made him a valu- 
 able citizen to all communities in which he has in 
 the past resided, and especially to the town 
 wherein most of his life has been passed, that of 
 Scio, Linn county. In July, 1903, Mr. Johnson 
 removed to Corvallis, where he has taken up his 
 permanent residence, being" near his farm and 
 live-stock interests and is at home in this beau- 
 tiful college city on the banks of the Willamette 
 river. 
 
 CAPT. THOMAS A. STEEAR. A sea-far- 
 ing life is one that has many fascinations even 
 amid its dangers, and generally, when one finds 
 occupation in such work the attractions far out- 
 weigh the advantages of a home and the peace- 
 ful pursuits on land, and it is impossible to be 
 satisfied with any other employment. The ex- 
 ception to the general rule is to be found in the 
 person of Capt. Thomas A. Steear, who has set- 
 tled down into a peaceful, contented land life 
 after fourteen years' experience on the sea, sat- 
 isfied to engage in agricultural pursuits for the 
 remainder of his years, his home now located on 
 a farm of ninety-five acres three miles southwest 
 of Mapleton, Lane county. 
 
 Captain Steear was born in Orange county, 
 X. Y.. May 4, 1837, next to the youngest in age 
 of the seven children born to his parents, both 
 of whom were natives of New Hampshire, and 
 the death of both occurring in New York state. 
 The father, John Steear, being a farmer, this 
 son interspersed his home duties with an attend- 
 ance of the common schools of his native state 
 until he had reached the age of thirteen years, 
 when he left home and became a messenger boy 
 aboard a merchantman, which sailed from the 
 city of New York. After three years in this 
 service he went into the L T nited States navy as 
 a sailor on a gunner, and served in the Crimean 
 war under the French government on a Umited 
 States vessel chartered by the French. While in 
 the United States navy he was on the Naugatuck 
 and witnessed the sinking of the Cumberland 
 and Congress by the Merrimack at Hampton 
 Roads, which he considers the great event of his 
 life. He also participated as a soldier in the 
 battle of Sand Creek with the Comanche and 
 
 Arapahoe Indians, at which battle over eight 
 hundred Indians were killed. The captain has 
 been steamboating on the Sinslaw river for 
 about fifteen years, periodically, in connection 
 with his farm and stock-raising. Various inci- 
 dents came into the life of the captain as he trav- 
 eled into different locations of the world in the 
 capacity of a sailor, but after fourteen years in 
 the service he left the sea and first located in 
 Colorado, in the vicinity of Denver, engaging in 
 the cattle business. This employment was con- 
 tinued successfully for many years, and, in 1887, 
 he came to the Siuslaw valley and bought the 
 right to his farm of one hundred and thirty-five, 
 acres of land, afterward becoming the owner of 
 the ninety-five acres which is now his home. 
 
 The marriage of Captain Steear occurred in 
 Colorado, in 1878, and united him with Miss 
 Mary A. Campbell, a native of Illinois, and of 
 the children born to them John is located on the 
 adjoining farm; Susan and Amadella are at 
 home. As a Democrat in his political affiliations 
 Captain Steear is actively interested in advanc- 
 ing the principles of his party, and has served as 
 school director since he first located in the valley. 
 Fraternally he is a Mason and is past warden of 
 the lodge in which he holds membership. 
 
 REV. PETER BEUTGEN, B. S. T. The 
 position as pastor of the Purification Church. 
 Engene, belongs to the Rev. Peter Beutgen, B. 
 S. T., to which he was appointed in 1901, ac- 
 ceptably filling the post to the present time. He 
 is one of the cultured and well read men of the 
 Catholic faith in this part of the United States 
 and does much to advance the cause of the re- 
 ligion to which he has devoted the energies and 
 talents of his life. 
 
 The Rev. Peter Beutgen was born at Tecum- 
 seh, Mich., in the neighborhood of Detroit, Oc- 
 tober 7, 1864. His father, Nicholas Beutgen, 
 was born on the Rhine, Germany, and he came 
 to Kent county, Canada, where he was employed 
 as a baker. After locating near Detroit, Mich., 
 he removed to that city and continued to follow 
 his trade until 1875. At that date he located in 
 Portland, Ore., and after a number of years 
 spent in the prosecution of his trade he became 
 an assistant to the city engineer and superin- 
 tendent of streets, with whom he remained ten 
 years, his death occurring there in 1896. He 
 married Mary McNally. a native of Ireland, and 
 she died in Portland in 1902. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Beutgen were born four sons and four daugh- 
 ters, the sons besides our subject being as fol- 
 lows : John, a merchant of Los Angeles. Cal. : 
 Nicholas, a merchant of Portland ; and Fran- 
 cis, a contractor of New York City. 
 
 When eleven years old the Rev. Peter Beutgen 
 
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 became a resident of Portland, removing at that 
 time with his parents to that city. When four- 
 teen years old he entered St. Hyacinth's College 
 in the city of that name in Canada, where he 
 completed the classics in seven years. After a 
 course of three years in another university he 
 spent the ensuing three years at Mount Angel 
 College, engaged in teaching and a farther con- 
 tinuance of his studies. He also engaged in 
 mission work in this state for some time. At 
 Mount Angel he was ordained a priest in 1890, 
 by Bishop Gross, who sent him to Coos Bay, 
 where he organized the church, and later built 
 St. Monica's at Marshfield and St. Mary's, Star 
 of the Sea, at Cape Blanco, this being now the 
 most westerly church in the United States, and 
 both now having large congregations. The Rev. 
 Peter Beutgen entered mission work extensively, 
 remaining so employed for three or four years, 
 when he became a student at the Catholic Uni- 
 versity at Washington, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1898, with the degree of B. S. T. He 
 then returned to Oregon and was first appointed 
 pastor of Baker City, where he remained a year, 
 during which time he traveled on horseback to 
 the missions. During his pastorate of two years 
 at Roseburg he kept up his interest in the mis- 
 sions, and at the close of this period he received 
 his present appointment, a congregation which 
 was established about twelve years ago and now 
 numbers three hundred. He belongs to the 
 Catholic Knights of America, in which he offi- 
 ciates as chaplain. 
 
 G. W. GRIFFIN. A young man of decided 
 push and energy, G. W. Griffin has already 
 achieved a substantial position in the business 
 circles of Eugene as manager of the Griffin 
 Hardware Company, one of the leading firms of 
 its kind in Lane county, and has gained in a 
 marked degree the esteem and confidence of the 
 community. A son of the late G. P. Griffin, he 
 was born December 29, 1870, in Earlville, N. Y. 
 
 A native of New York state, G. P. Griffin was 
 first engaged in business for himself as a mer- 
 chant in the town of Earlville, and was after- 
 ward identified with the mercantile interests of 
 Rockford, 111., and of Manchester, Iowa, while 
 in the latter place being also engaged in the 
 stock-raising business in Wyoming and Mon- 
 tana. Going to Nevada in i860, he worked as 
 a millwright, building five large quartz-mills. 
 Returning to Earlville, N. Y., in 1867 he again 
 engaged in business. Coming to Oregon in 
 1888, he located at Eugene as a hardware mer- 
 chant, and five years later, in 1893, organized the 
 Griffin Hardware Company, becoming its presi- 
 dent, a position that he retained until his death, 
 in 1897. He was a man of good business ability, 
 
 quick to seize advantageous opportunities, and 
 was successful in his undertakings. Politically 
 he was an earnest supporter of the principles 
 of the Republican party. In 1859 he married 
 Mary A. Spraker, who was born in New York 
 state, and now resides in Eugene. Since the 
 death of her husband she has succeeded him as 
 president of the Griffin Hardware Company. Of 
 the six children born of their union, the follow- 
 ing are living : Drew, a member of the Griffin 
 Hardware Company ; G. W., the special sub- 
 ject of this sketch; and Lizzie, wife of R. S. 
 Bryson, of Pendleton, Ore. Charles W., for- 
 merly a member of the firm, was drowned in 
 the Willamette river the night of July 20, 1903. 
 
 Although born in New York state, G. W. 
 Griffin was reared in Illinois and Iowa, receiv- 
 ing a practical education in the public schools of 
 those states. After coming with his parents to 
 Eugene, he studied for a year at the University 
 of Oregon, and was subsequently a clerk in his 
 father's hardware store. On the incorporation 
 of the Griffin Hardware Company, in January, 
 1893, he was made secretary of the company, 
 and since the death of his father has served as 
 manager of the entire business. This firm has 
 a two-story building, 29x190 feet, well stocked 
 with hardware of every description, logger's 
 and miner's supplies, stoves, tinware and agri- 
 cultural implements and tools of all kinds, carry- 
 ing a complete assortment of the various goods 
 found in a first class store of its kind. The com- 
 pany also owns a large implement warehouse, 
 and two large storage buildings. 
 
 Taking an active interest in promoting the wel- 
 fare of Eugene, Mr. Griffin has not shirked the 
 duties of public office, but served as city treas- 
 urer in 1897, and from 1900 until 1902 as county 
 coroner, and is now a member of the city coun- 
 cil, representing the third ward. He is a stanch 
 Republican in his political affiliations. He is 
 prominently identified by membership with sev- 
 eral of the leading organizations of the county, 
 belonging to Eugene Lodge No. 11, A. F. & 
 A. M.; to Eugene Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. ; 
 and to the Knights of Pythias lodge, which he 
 has served three times as chancellor commander, 
 for the past six years being a member of the 
 grand lodge. He also belongs to the Uniformed 
 Rank K. of P. ; the Royal Arcanum ; and the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is 
 a charter member of the Commercial Club of 
 Eugene and a member of its board of trustees. 
 
 ALEXANDER SMITH. The son of one of 
 the largest land owners in the Willamette valley, 
 Alexander Smith was always interested in the 
 accumulation of landed property and the culti- 
 vation of the soil, an occupation which he fol- 
 
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 lowed up to the time of his death, being also 
 largely and profitably interested in dealing in 
 stock. His ancestry is traced back to the state 
 of Virginia, where his grandfather, George, 
 settled upon coming to this country from his 
 birthplace in Ireland. Some time later he re- 
 moved to Indiana, where he became a large land 
 owner near South Bend. Greenberry Smith, the 
 father of Alexander, was born in Virginia and 
 accompanied his parents to Indiana, and on at- 
 taining manhood left home, going to Clay 
 county. Mo., where he engaged in fanning, giv- 
 ing this up in 1845 to undertake the journey 
 across the plains. His brother, Alexander, had 
 joined him, and together the two started with a 
 herd of cattle, a part of which they took 
 through safely to Oregon whither they were 
 journeying, the amount of time occupied by the 
 trip being six months. In Benton county Mr. 
 Smith took up a donation claim of six hundred 
 and forty acres, located upon Soap creek twelve 
 miles north of what is now the town of Corvallis 
 though at that time there was but one house 
 here. He early became a model farmer of this 
 section, putting improvements upon his claim in 
 the way of buildings and added cultivation. 
 He also became largely interested in the 
 stock business, principally in eastern Oregon, 
 where he went in the year 1862, locat- 
 ing in what is now Gilliam county, though 
 it then formed a part of Wasco county. For fif- 
 teen years he remained in this business and con- 
 tinued to add to his land until he owned about 
 eight thousand acres in Polk and Benton coun- 
 ties though the amount aggregated over ten 
 thousand at the time of his death. At one time 
 he added to his profits by conducting a general 
 store at his ranch, though he continued this for 
 but a few years. The last of his days were spent 
 in retirement in Corvallis where his death oc- 
 curred in 1886, at the age of sixty-seven years. 
 Fraternally he was a" member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. Only once in his life 
 had Mr. Smith been enticed away from his 
 chosen work, and that was for a journey in 1849 
 to the mines of California, where he remained 
 but eighteen months. Mr. Smith had been mar- 
 ried twice, his first union being with Miss Eliza 
 Hughart, a native of Missouri, and daughter of 
 Joseph Hughart who came to Oregon in 1845 
 locating in Benton county. She was the mother 
 of one child, Alexander Smith of this review, 
 her death occurring when he was but three 
 months old. Mr. Smith later married for a sec- 
 ond wife, Elizabeth Baker, who was born in the 
 eastern part of Tennessee, the daughter of John 
 Baker, a pioneer of 1846. She died in 1902 in 
 Corvallis, to which city her husband had removed 
 the family. She left one child, John Smith, who 
 
 is now one of the wealthy men of Benton county 
 and makes his home in Corvallis. 
 
 Alexander Smith was born on the donation 
 claim taken up by his father, December 10, 1848, 
 and was reared to manhood on this farm. He 
 was given the best of advantages in the educa- 
 tional line, after his early education was com- 
 pleted in the public schools being sent to Van- 
 couver College. Following the example of his 
 father he spent ten years engaged in the stock 
 business in the original location selected by his 
 father, after that bending his best efforts to the 
 successful cultivation of his large farm which 
 was located two and a half miles south of Cor- 
 vallis. His death occurred in 1890, a loss to the 
 community of a large-hearted, whole-souled 
 man, who had ever been ready to assist all who 
 called upon him in the hour of need. Politically 
 Mr. Smith voted with the Democratic party. 
 
 By his marriage June 2, 1871, with Miss Anna 
 Callaway, Alexander Smith allied himself with 
 not only a very prominent family of Oregon but 
 one which traces its ancestry on the maternal side 
 to the nobility of England. Her father, Hon. 
 William Richard Callaway, was born in Tennes- 
 see, the son of William, one of the pioneers of 
 Missouri, and a large land owner in Scotland 
 county of that state. Tiring of farming, the son, 
 William R., went to Fillmore, Andrew county, 
 where he engaged for some time in a mercantile 
 business, later, however, returning to the old farm 
 in Scotland county. In 1865 he decided to make a 
 change of home, not from necessity, but from 
 the desire to give his strength and energy to 
 the upbuilding of a commonwealth beyond the 
 Rockies. The trip was made across the plains, 
 in company with a large party all well armed and 
 well equipped, the wagons drawn by horses. Mr. 
 Callaway had four wagons, two teams allowed 
 for each, besides quite a number of loose horses. 
 After a six-months trip the party arrived at 
 their destination, Mr. Callaway locating first in 
 Linn county, but soon removed to Benton county, 
 purchasing property advantageously located on 
 Soap creek, where he built a house and other 
 improvements and engaged extensively in gen- 
 eral farming. Adding to his property from time 
 to time he finally owned over one thousand 
 acres, the station Callaway, on the Southern 
 Pacific railroad, being upon this land. Mr. Calla- 
 way's last year was spent in Corvallis whither he 
 had removed, intending to pass the remaining 
 years of his life in retirement. His death oc- 
 curred in 1895, at the age of seventy-two years. 
 He had always been a very prominent man in 
 this section of the country through the influence 
 of the many good qualities which distinguished 
 him, and as the choice of the people he was an 
 able representative in the state legislature for 
 one term. In his fraternal associations he affili- 
 
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 ated with the Masons. Mr. Callaway married 
 Miss Abigail Cecil, who was born in Tennessee, 
 a descendant of Lord Cecil of England, her im- 
 mediate ancestor being Samuel Cecil, whose 
 birth occurred in Tennessee, his home on attain- 
 ing manhood being in Kentucky and Missouri 
 until 1864, when he came to California. After a 
 year spent in that location he came to Oregon, 
 remaining, however, but a short time before re- 
 turning to California and engaging in farming 
 until his death in Yolo county. Mrs. Callaway 
 died before the removal to Corvallis. On 
 the death of her husband, Mrs. Smith removed 
 to Corvallis, where she now makes her home, a 
 welcome addition to the cultured society of this 
 city. She owns three hundred acres of the old 
 homestead upon which she was reared, in addi- 
 tion to much other property left in her charge 
 at the death of her husband. She is the mother 
 of two children, of whom Eliza is now the wife 
 of J. W. Hayes, a farmer of Benton county, liv- 
 ing in Corvallis, and Clarence, who makes his 
 home with his mother. 
 
 JAMES F. ROBINSON. As the manager 
 of the Lane County Electric Company, James 
 F. Robinson is establishing for himself an en- 
 viable reputation in regard to his executive 
 ability and mechanical knowledge, after a very 
 successful career in various other lines in the 
 city. Previous to the organization of this com- 
 pany, in which Mr. Robinson acted as one of the 
 principals, he served in the same capacity in the 
 one established in 1890 and which was known 
 as the Eugene Electric Company. He then super- 
 intended the construction of the plant and after- 
 wards rebuilt it, and the company is now putting 
 up a fine plant in Springfield, which has a capac- 
 ity of six hundred horse power, the engines to 
 supply both Springfield and Eugene with power 
 and light. Since the organization Mr. Robinson 
 has served as a director. 
 
 Mr. Robinson was born in Henry county, Iowa, 
 near Mt. Pleasant, December 2, 1846, the young- 
 est of the three children born into the family of 
 his parents and the only one who attained ma- 
 turity. His father was James Robinson, a native 
 of Ross county, Ohio, the grandfather being 
 Josiah Robinson. The latter was born in Vir- 
 ginia and became a settler in Ross county on 
 the north fork of the Scioto river, where he en- 
 gaged as a farmer until his death. Religiously 
 he was a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 The father also became a farmer in Ohio and 
 later removed to Iowa, where his death occurred 
 in October, 1846. His wife was formerly Cather- 
 ine Macauley, born in New York state, the daugh- 
 ter of James Macauley, who came from Inver- 
 ness, Scotland, and became a resident of New 
 
 York and later settled in Ohio and from there 
 removed to Iowa. In 1849 ne crossed the plains 
 to California, enduring safely all the hardships 
 and dangers of the trip only to experience death 
 in a mine in an Illinois town. Mrs. Robinson 
 married a second time, a man named Bradford, 
 and later she died in Macon county, Mo. 
 
 On the farm in Iowa Mr. Robinson attained 
 the age of eleven years, when his mother removed 
 to Macon county, Mo., where he received a pre- 
 liminary education in the public schools, after 
 which he returned to Ohio, and attended Bryan 
 Academy in Chillicothe. Later he was graduated 
 from South Salem Academy, after which he re- 
 turned to his home in Missouri, and remained 
 until after the close of the war, when he again 
 went to Chillicothe and worked on his grand- 
 father's farm for two years. On locating once 
 more in Macon county he engaged as clerk in 
 a hardware store. In 1872 he crossed the con- 
 tinent and coming by way of San Francisco lo- 
 cated in Eugene, Lane county, Ore., which has 
 since been his home. On his arrival here Mr. 
 Robinson first entered the hardware business, 
 establishing the first hardware store south of 
 Albany and successfully conducted it until 1888, 
 under the firm name of Robinson & Church. At 
 that date they sold out and dissolved partnership. 
 Mr. Robinson then became interested in the or- 
 ganization of the water works here, superintend- 
 ing the construction, and when finished he be- 
 came superintendent of the company, in which 
 he was a director. This employment continued 
 for two years, when he resigned to accept his 
 present position in which he has won much com- 
 mendation for his excellent management. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Robinson occurred 
 in Macon county, Mo., Miss Jennie Hughes, of 
 Wisconsin, becoming his wife. She died in San 
 Francisco, leaving one daughter, Stella, who is a 
 graduate of University of Oregon. His second 
 marriage united him with Nannie Hughes, also 
 of Wisconsin, the ceremony being performed in 
 Eugene, and they are the parents of two children, 
 Ralph D. and Emma Helene. In his fraternal 
 relations Mr. Robinson is one of the prominent 
 men of the state, having filled the most impor- 
 tant offices of Masonry. He was made a member 
 of this order in Macon Lodge No. 106, and now 
 belongs to Eugene Lodge No. 1 1, A. F. & A. 
 M., in which he is past master. He entered the 
 Grand Lodge as an officer and worked up to the 
 grand master of Grand Lodge of Oregon, in 
 which he served one term, and in 1898 he was 
 elected grand secretary of grand lodge and has 
 been re-elected each year. He was made a Royal 
 Arch Mason in Macon county and is now a 
 member of Eugene Chapter, No. 10, R. A. M. 
 He served as high priest, and was grand high 
 priest of the Grand Chapter of Oregon two terms 
 
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 in succession, and since 1896 he has acted as 
 grand secretary of the Grand Chapter of Oregon. 
 1 le was raised to Knights Templar degree in 
 Emanuel Commandery No. 7, of Macon, Mo., 
 and is now a member of Ivanhoe Commandery 
 No. 2, in which he is past eminent commander. 
 Mr. Robinson organized the first commandery 
 in Oregon, that being Oregon Commandery No. 
 1 in Portland, and there acted as eminent com- 
 mander for two terms, and also organized the 
 Grand Commandery of Oregon, acting as the 
 first grand commander. He is at the present 
 time grand recorder of the Grand Commandery 
 of Oregon, having held the post since 1895, and 
 is a member of Oregon Consistory No. 1, Al 
 Kader Temple, N. M. S., and is grand recorder 
 of the order of High Priesthood. In his polit- 
 ical principles Mr. Robinson is a stanch Repub- 
 lican and has served his party in various ways. 
 His wife is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 HON. JOSEPH DE WITT MATLOCK. A 
 pioneer whose life has been marked by the course 
 of events in the great Northwest, whose shrewd 
 business instinct and quick decision have enabled 
 him to see and profit by the opportunities which 
 have been the foundation of statehood, is the 
 Hon. J. D. Matlock, now a resident of Eugene, 
 Lane county, Ore., where he lives retired from 
 the duties which have so long engrossed his at- 
 tention. He has been greatly interested in the 
 growth of this city, both commercially and politi- 
 cally, but his energies have not been expended 
 here alone, as for some time he carried on a 
 profitable mercantile enterprise in Alaskan fields, 
 having but recently returned from the north. A 
 brief reading of his life will be interesting for 
 those who have experienced pioneer life in this 
 section of the country, and also for those who 
 have watched the growth of this western com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 Joseph De Witt Matlock was born in Benton 
 county.. Tenn., March 8, 1839, the son of Edward 
 Lane Matlock, a farmer in that locality, who 
 emigrated from his native state of Georgia. In 
 the fall of 1839 the father removed to Dade 
 county, Mo., where he served one term as county 
 judge, and continued in his occupation of farm- 
 ing, until his emigration to Oregon in 1853, 
 where he settled near Goshen, Lane county, on a 
 donation claim of two hundred and ninety-six 
 acres, to the improvement and cultivation of 
 which he devoted the years until 1862. In the 
 last-named year he went to the Florence mines, 
 and the following year to the Boise Basin mines, 
 in the latter becoming ill of lung fever and dying 
 July 1. 1863, at the age of forty-six years, having 
 been born April 18, 1817. He had faithfully 
 
 served as wagonmaster in the Rogue River In- 
 dian war, in 1855-56. His wife was formerly 
 Susan C. Fry, a native of North Carolina, born 
 December 3, 181 5, and died at Heppner, Ore., 
 May 11, 1896. She was the mother of seven 
 sons and one daughter, named in order of birth, 
 as follows : Caswell John, a rancher in Morrow 
 county, Ore., who served in the Rogue River 
 Indian war ; J. D., of this review ; James W., ex- 
 sheriff of Morrow county, now residing in 
 Heppner ; Edward Lane, who died in Heppner 
 while sheriff of the county; Wm. F., a capitalist 
 of Pendleton, Ore., who served as state senator 
 two terms and as major general of the Oregon 
 National Guards ; Thomas J., a rancher in Hepp- 
 ner; Benjamin F., who died in Morrow county; 
 and Sarah, who married Lee Greenwood and 
 died in Eugene, Ore. 
 
 The education of J. D. Matlock was received 
 in Dade county, Mo., but was rather limited, 
 though his father, as one of the most public-spir- 
 ited men of that community, had borne one-half 
 of the expense of the school in their district. He 
 was fourteen years old when the journey was 
 made across the plains, the little company start- 
 ing in April, 1853, with ox-teams and quite a 
 large number of loose cattle, which this lad was 
 compelled to drive, walking the entire distance. 
 His father had, besides, six or seven wagons. 
 With no unusual occurrence the party followed 
 the old Oregon trail until they reached Fort 
 Boise, and from there they followed Meek's cut- 
 off, which led along the Malheur river to the big 
 lakes, two weeks being consumed in coming 
 around them, and also crossed the desert, where 
 their supply of water was exhausted. They then 
 crossed the Des Chutes river and came in on 
 what is now the Military road, crossing the Wil- 
 lamette river nineteen different times before they 
 arrived at Butte Disappointment, October 26, 
 1853. Mr. Matlock, as a boy, went upon his 
 father's farm and there remained for several 
 years. His desultory education was finished here, 
 first with an attendance at the common school 
 at Goshen, the Eugene high school, and he then 
 entered Columbia College, which was burned, 
 and he then entered the Cornelius high school, 
 where he completed his education. In 1862 he 
 went to the Florence mines, where he met with 
 fair success, after which he returned to Lane 
 county. There he was married, in the fall of 
 1862, to Elizabeth E. Rutledge, who was born 
 November 9. 1844, in Illinois, and who came to 
 Oregon in 1853. Mr. Matlock then located on a 
 farm seven miles southeast of Eugene, where 
 he bought one hundred and sixty acres, upon 
 which he farmed until his wife died in 1864. He 
 then commenced teaching school, which occupa- 
 tion was continued for two years, during which 
 time he was elected county superintendent of 
 
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 public instruction, holding this position for one 
 term. He then engaged in pork-packing and the 
 general merchandise business in Pleasant Hill, 
 Lane county, in which he remained for about 
 twenty months, after which he again located on a 
 farm, selecting eight hundred and fifty acres in 
 the vicinity of Pleasant Hill, where he engaged 
 in farming and stock-raising for fifteen years. 
 He met with a most pleasing success in this work, 
 and at the close of the fifteen years he had ac- 
 cumulated a comfortable competency, where- 
 upon he sold his property and removed to Eu- 
 gene, becoming the owner of the merchandise 
 stock of T. G. Hendricks in 1884-. Two years 
 later he erected on the corner of Willamette and 
 Eighth streets a handsome three-story building, 
 to which his constantly increasing business was 
 removed, and he here carried on the work until 
 1896, when he sold out and prepared to go to 
 Alaska. January, 1898, found him en route for 
 the north, going first to Skagway and then en- 
 gaging in business at Lake Bennett, British 
 Columbia, where he continued successfully for 
 two years. He then sold out and prepared to 
 move his stock to Dawson, taking it down the 
 Yukon river on flat-boats. While en route he 
 lost about $2,000 through the sinking of a boat 
 during a storm, for, though he succeeded in rais- 
 ing it, the stock was almost worthless. In Daw- 
 son he once more opened up a general merchan- 
 dise business, but remained only eighteen months, 
 when he closed out the stock and returned to 
 Eugene coming down the Yukon river to St. 
 Michaels, thence to Nome. Mr. Matlock now 
 owns five hundred acres located five miles from 
 Eugene, which is devoted to the raising of stock, 
 this land now being rented. For many years he 
 was interested in the Eugene Lumber Company, 
 acting as director for the company, and has but 
 recently disposed of his interest in the business. 
 
 Notwithstanding his engrossing business in- 
 terests, Mr. Matlock has always taken an active 
 part in public affairs, being broad-minded and 
 earnest in his efforts for the best interests of the 
 community. In 1874 he was elected to the state 
 legislature on the Democratic ticket, of which 
 party he is an adherent. For one term he was 
 mayor of Eugene, and was councilman for a 
 period of ten years, now holding that office as a 
 representative of South Eugene, from the Second 
 ward. He is also chairman of the street com- 
 missioners and a member of the health commis- 
 sion. He is chairman of the Lane county Demo- 
 cratic central committee and a member of the 
 First Congressional District Democratic com- 
 mittee. 
 
 The second marriage of Mr. Matlock united 
 him with Louisa Rutledge, who was born April 
 1, 1852, in Illinois, and is a half-sister of his 
 first wife. Her death occurred in Eugene, July 
 
 17, 1891, after which he married Mrs. Sarah 
 Durant, the widow of William Durant. She was 
 born in Indiana, August 15, 1843, and came to 
 Oregon in 1874. Her father was Samuel Lowe, 
 a native of Ireland, who came to a farm near 
 Omaha, Neb., and when retired made his home 
 near that city until his death. The first husband 
 of Mrs. Matlock was a merchant in Eugene, who 
 died in 1887. Of the six children born of their 
 union five are now deceased, one daughter, Jen- 
 nie, who married Robert M. Pratt, living in Eu- 
 gene. Mr. Matlock is the father of twelve chil- 
 dren : Elizabeth C. is the wife of S. C. Smith, 
 of Eugene ; Edis De Witt and Caswell C. are 
 merchants in Eugene; Lulu S. died in Eugene; 
 Louisa C. is the wife of George Randebusch, of 
 Los Angeles, Cal. ; Bertha M. is the wife of E. 
 E. Emmons, of Dawson, British Columbia ; Mary 
 M. died in Eugene; Joseph Fry is attending the 
 Naval Training School; Frankie and William 
 are deceased; Eugene is at home; and Hazel is 
 deceased. In his fraternal relations Mr. Matlock 
 was made a Mason in Eugene Lodge No. 11, 
 A. F. & A. M., and is also a member of Eugene 
 Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. ; Ivanhoe Commandery 
 No. 2, K. T., and the Consistory No. 1, having 
 taken the thirty-second degree; and Al Kader 
 Temple, N. M. S. He was made a member of 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Eu- 
 gene, in which he is past noble grand, and also 
 belongs to the Encampment. He is a member of 
 the Christian Church. 
 
 HUGH M. FINLEY. The fruit-raising pos- 
 sibilities of Benton county, and more especially 
 of the region around Bruce, have tempted many 
 to engage in this always interesting occupation 
 to the credit of themselves and of the whole 
 neighborhood. Among these may be mentioned 
 Hugh M. Finley, owner of a farm of two hun- 
 dred acres on the Willamette river, and about 
 six miles northeast of Monroe. The majority 
 of the improvements on this paying property are 
 traceable to the enterprise and progressiveness 
 of the present owner, who has lived here since 
 1876 and is an integral part of the prosperous 
 community. , He is one of the largest fruit grow- 
 ers in the vicinity, having a prune orchard alone 
 which is thirty-five acres in extent. Besides this 
 he has a grain warehouse capable of storing his 
 own and his neighbors' commodities. 
 
 Born in Saline county, Mo., January 27, 1847, 
 Mr. Finley is a son of James W. and Margaret 
 (Campbell) Finley, natives respectively of Ken- 
 tucky and North Carolina, and the former born 
 in 1820. At a very early date James W. Finley 
 moved with his parents from Kentucky to Mis- 
 souri, where he married, and lived on a farm 
 until 1852. In the meantime seven children had 
 
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 been born into his family, of whom William A. 
 is now a resident of California ; Newton also 
 lives in California ; Sarah Emery is a resident of 
 California; J. P. lives in Portland; Anna Em- 
 bree lives in Polk county, Ore. ; James B. is in 
 Nevada; and Hugh M. is the subject of this ar- 
 ticle. With his seven children and wife Mr. 
 Finley crossed the plains in 1852 with ox and 
 mule teams, the journey consuming about six 
 months. Coming direct to California, he took up 
 a claim in Santa Clara county, and soon after- 
 ward the mother died. Mr. Finley subsequently 
 married again, and lived to be fifty-six years old. 
 At the age of twenty Hugh M. Finley came 
 from California and located in Corvallis, where 
 he supplemented his common school education 
 by further training at the Oregon Agricultural 
 College, from which he was duly graduated. 
 Thereafter he engaged in educational work, and, 
 in 1872, married Emma Canthorn, a native of 
 Missouri. For five years Mr. Finley was en- 
 gaged in teaching. In 1876 he bought his pres- 
 ent farm of two hundred acres on the Willam- 
 ette river, where he has reared his four children, 
 of whom Ross C. is in Portland, Edna and Ada 
 are in Corvallis, and Percy is at home. Mr. 
 Finley is a Democrat in politics, and is frater- 
 nally associated with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. He is popular and well liked 
 and is one of the cultured, broad-minded and 
 very successful men of his neighborhood. 
 
 HON. LINDSAY APPLEGATE. Few pio- 
 neers of history who participated in the multi- 
 tudes of disasters and hardships attending those 
 emigrating to a new, unsettled country have had 
 more thrilling experiences than those of Lindsay 
 Applegate, who, with his brother Charles and 
 Jesse Applegate, stand so conspicuously in the 
 early history of Oregon. 
 
 Lindsay Applegate was born September 18, 
 1808, in Henry county, Ky., and lived in his na- 
 tive state until 1820, when the family removed 
 to St. Louis county, Mo. There the educational 
 advantages were yet in very poor condition and 
 the education he received until his fifteenth vear 
 was by no means complete. With some young 
 comrades he enlisted under General Ashley of 
 St. Louis, in a trapping expedition over the 
 Rocky mountains. This expedition was divided ; 
 one division taking a train of pack mules was to 
 travel overland and the other, of which Lindsay 
 Applegate was a member, with heavy baggage 
 started to ascend the Missouri river. When the 
 river party had reached Pawneetown, they were 
 attacked by the Indians, defeated, and sought 
 refuge at Conned Bluffs. At this place young 
 Applegate and several others were taken ill, which 
 necessitated their return to St. Louis. From 
 
 there he returned to his home, but his restless 
 spirit longed for a more adventuresome life than 
 was there afforded him, and he followed trading 
 on the Mississippi river. After awhile, he dis- 
 continued this to work in the newly discovered 
 lead mines of Galena, 111., and later served as 
 volunteer in the Black Hawk war under General 
 Whitesides. 
 
 In 1 83 1, Mr. Applegate was joined in mar- 
 riage with Elizabeth Miller in Cole county, Mo. ; 
 not long afterward he removed to southwestern 
 Missouri, where he erected the first saw-mill 
 built in that section of the state. In company 
 with his wife and brothers and a small company 
 of emigrants he crossed the plains to Oregon 
 in 1843 an d soon became known as one of the 
 pioneer settlers of Polk county. In 1844 he 
 served as a member of the First Volunteer Com- 
 pany organized to protect the new settlements 
 from the Indians. In 1846 he was one of the 
 fifteen who discovered the south road from the 
 Willamette valley to Fort Hall. Two years later 
 he made a trip by land to the newly discovered 
 mines of 'California, but the same year returned 
 by water. He raised a company of soldiers in 
 1850 and went in pursuit of the deserting regu- 
 lars from Oregon City and captured them. The 
 same year he went south to the Umpqua river, 
 there to serve as special Indian agent under Gen- 
 eral Palmer. Lindsay Applegate also raised a 
 detachment of Mounted Oregon Volunteers and 
 was soon mustered into the United States service 
 in the war against the Rogue River Indians. 
 August 22, 1853, the y marched from Winchester 
 to Fort Alden, near Table Rock, then the head- 
 quarters of Governor Lane, and served until Sep- 
 tember 7, 1853, when Mr. Applegate was made 
 captain of the company. When the treaty be- 
 tween the Indians and Governor Lane was signed 
 at Table Rock, Captain Applegate was also 
 present. 
 
 In 1859, he took possession of the Toll House 
 in the Siskiyou mountains, Jackson county, and 
 there attended to the toll road from that place to 
 the California state line, which was then on his 
 land. Two years later, as captain of the Rogue 
 river volunteers, he traveled east of the Siskiyou 
 mountains, protecting the emigrants into Oregon 
 from the Indians. In 1864 he served as in- 
 terpreter at the Klamath-Modoc treaty and in the 
 ensuing year was appointed sub-agent, serving 
 at Klamath until 1869, when a military agent 
 took the place and he was removed. As a proof 
 of Captain Applegate's honesty while acting as 
 Indian agent we quote from his final discharge 
 and settlement : ' Your account for disburse- 
 ments in the Indian services from January 1, 
 1868, till January 1, 1869, has been adjusted and 
 a balance found due you of $42.01, differing that 
 amount from your last account as explained in 
 
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 the accompanying settlement. (Signed) E. B. 
 French, Auditor." 
 
 There are those who believe that had Lindsay 
 Applegate remained in charge of the Lake In- 
 dians all would have gone well, and that one 
 bloody drama of the Modoc war would never 
 have been played. Mr. Applegate represented 
 Jackson county in the Oregon legislature in 1862 
 and acted under Superintendent Rector as spe- 
 cial Indian agent for southern Oregon. He died 
 at his old home in Ashland, Jackson county, Ore., 
 one of those restless strong spirits which help 
 hew out the way for civilization in the wilder- 
 ness, and who are nevertheless willing to aid 
 liberally in promoting the refining influences of 
 an adA^ancing people. 
 
 Among his children were three of special men- 
 tion, as follows : Lucien B. Applegate, who was 
 surveyor general of Oregon and Indian agent at 
 Klamath Falls ; Capt. Ivan Applegate, who 
 served in the Modoc Indian war, and Capt. Oliver 
 C. Applegate, who is now Indian agent at Kla- 
 math Falls and also served in the Modoc war. 
 
 HENRY SHEAK. The position which 
 Henry Sheak has occupied in the professional 
 line in Oregon has been one of no little im- 
 portance, for many students have gone from his 
 instruction into the business world either to add 
 to its prestige by a life in keeping with their 
 work or to a failure which would reflect upon 
 their preceptor. That success has attended Mr. 
 Sheak is attested by the many who have profited 
 by his capable instruction in their own successes, 
 strong commendations from the citizens of all 
 communities where he has made his home being 
 the tribute paid to his qualifications and special 
 fitness for the work which has engrossed his at- 
 tention for so many years. 
 
 To the citizens of the Willamette valley Mr. 
 Sheak needs no introduction, for he is well and 
 favorably known. He was born near Canal Ful- 
 ton, Ohio, June 19, 1843. His great-grand- 
 parents were Hollanders and immigrated to this 
 country with an infant son, christened Christian, 
 and settled in Connecticut, but both parents died 
 when Christian was so young that he never 
 learned the German language. Christian Sheak 
 grew up and married Mary Kirkham, a Yankee 
 girl of English ancestry. The issue was three 
 children, Mary, Ezekiel and Almira. They re- 
 moved to Troy, N. Y., where Ezekiel, the 
 grandfather of Henry Sheak, grew up, attended 
 the public schools, working on the farm, clerk- 
 ing in a grocen r , learning the harnessmaking 
 trade and that of shoemaking, teaching school, 
 becoming captain of a battery in the state militia 
 and at thirty-nine marrying Olive Young, a 
 young widow with two boys, George and Hamil- 
 
 ton. James Devoe, her grandfather, came to 
 this country with LaFayette and she attended a 
 reception given LaFayette on his last visit to 
 this country. Mrs. Sheak's mother's maiden 
 name was Irene Root, and her people came from 
 England in early colonial times, many of her 
 relatives participating in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 The marriage of Ezekiel Sheak occurred 
 about 1835 at the home of the bride's parents 
 at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. On October 28, 
 1837, tne fi rs t child was born and named James. 
 The following year Mr. Sheak with his father's 
 family and one step-son, Hamilton, removed to 
 Canal Fulton, Ohio, and purchased a tract of 
 timber land near there, and the work of carving 
 out a home on the frontier commenced. The 
 parents were aged and feeble, but Ezekiel was 
 in his prime, athletic, six feet and one inch in 
 stature and weighed one hundred and ninety 
 pounds. Log houses were built and the heavy 
 forests were rapidly converted into orchards and 
 into fields of grain. Here three more sons were 
 born to Ezekiel Sheak and wife, John, Henry 
 and Charles. 
 
 In 1846 the parents both died and Ezekiel 
 gave all of his share of the estate, which had 
 been held in common, to his maiden sister, Al- 
 mira, and moved on a farm near Massillon, 
 Ohio. Here he provided a good home for his 
 family and educated his children in the public 
 schools, until 1855, when he was taken down 
 with lung fever and soon died. A series of mis- 
 fortunes had left the family destitute, and the 
 mother, paralyzed with grief, was left in a piti- 
 able condition. Henry, at the tender age of 
 eleven, with tearful eyes and a heavy heart, 
 turned from all the endearments of home and 
 found a home among strangers. The family with 
 whom he found a refuge was Dutch, and Henry 
 soon learned to talk the language. They clad him 
 with a suit of clothes of a boy much larger than 
 he, who had died, and his uncouth appearance 
 was very mortifying to him, but his extreme 
 timidity kept him from revealing his embarrass- 
 ment. In early springtime his feet were wet for 
 weeks at a time, and many times he found his 
 stockings frozen in the morning, and he had a 
 hard time to get them on, to say nothing about 
 his discomfort after they were on. Here a good 
 part of two years was spent. Meanwhile the 
 mother and two older brothers had bought eight 
 acres of land and put up a house, and Henry 
 returned home to work in summer and attend 
 school in winter. His ambition was to get an 
 education, and his mother had promised to let 
 him attend the high school of Massillon as soon 
 as the place was paid for. About the time this 
 was accomplished Henry was greatly agitated 
 over the news and pictures in Harper's Weekly, 
 of the preparations the south was making for 
 
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 war. When the news came that Sumter had 
 been fired upon he was so excited that for two 
 nights he could not sleep at all, and he made his 
 bed on the floor and practiced the most abste- 
 mious habits of living in order to inure himself 
 to the hardships of soldier life. On April 21, 
 i860, when he was but seventeen years of age, he 
 enlisted, but was disappointed by not being called 
 into the field. Nearly all of his neighbors were 
 in sympathy with the south, so he bought a 
 soldier cap and wore it to show which cause he 
 espoused. In September of the same year both 
 he and his brother James enlisted in the Nine- 
 teenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the 
 camp of rendezvous at Alliance, Ohio. The 
 regiment was soon sent into Kentucky and the 
 winter campaign was very severe, what with 
 marching through rain, sleet and mud, living on 
 mush made of unsifted corn meal without salt, 
 half burned and half uncooked, carrying that in 
 the haversack and eating it cold, but straight for 
 dinner, often having to wring out the wet blan- 
 kets after the night's rest and carry the enor- 
 mous load of wet blankets and wet clothes all 
 day, trudging through the slush all day and 
 crawl under wet blankets at night and lie in mud 
 and water. After several weeks of this expe- 
 rience Henry was picked up in a fence corner 
 one day and taken in an ambulance to an ex- 
 temporized hospital and laid on the bare floor, 
 where he lay half unconscious for two days, 
 when his case was diagnosed and he placed on 
 a mat of straw and given something to eat. 
 After several weeks he was able to walk, and 
 wanted to go to his regiment, but being refused, 
 he and a comrade who had lost his speech ran 
 away from the hospital and for several weeks 
 marched alone through the storms of winter, de- 
 pending upon the mercy of guerillas for their 
 lives and the hospitality of the people for food 
 and shelter, when they finally reached Bowling 
 Green, Ky., and took the cars and met their 
 regiment at Nashville and were soon en route 
 for Shiloh. After this severe battle the Corinth 
 campaign commenced, and after that city was 
 evacuated the army marched through northern 
 Mississippi and Alabama to Battle-Creek. Tenn. 
 Here the army camped, and for two weeks lived 
 on fresh pork, foraged without permission, and 
 cooked and eaten without salt or crackers or 
 any condiment whatever. Then Mr. Sheak was 
 taken down with chronic diarrhea and taken to 
 the hospital at Nashville, and only recovered in 
 time to return to his regiment just before the 
 battle of Stone River. After this sanguinary 
 battle Mr. Sheak was on the top of a train which 
 ran off the track, and he was thrown down an 
 embankment of about thirty feet and was in- 
 jured internally, on account of which he was 
 sent to Nashville, and from there to Louisville 
 
 and thence to Camp Dennison, and recovered in 
 time to return to his regiment just before the 
 battle of Chickamauga. After this disastrous 
 conflict the army was shut up and besieged at 
 Chattanooga and the army became so famished 
 that Mr. Sheak said he often was tempted to 
 gnaw the flesh from his own arms. The battle 
 of Missionary Ridge relieved the siege, and 
 part of the army was sent to relieve the army 
 besieged at Knoxville. The army was without 
 rations and but partially clothed, but they 
 parched corn and wrapped their feet in rags and 
 marched over the frozen ground, leaving the 
 snow stained with blood. Under these circum- 
 stances the time for which the regiment had 
 enlisted had expired and the men were asked to 
 re-enlist and Mr. Sheak, with all of his company, 
 with the exception of two, again entered the 
 service of their country for three years, or dur- 
 ing the war. This term of service commenced 
 January 1, 1864, an d Mr. Sheak was promoted 
 to corporal. 
 
 A furlough of thirty days was joyously spent 
 with friends, after which the regiment returned 
 to east Tennessee and soon started on the At- 
 lanta campaign, when they were under fire night 
 and day for one hundred and four days continu- 
 ously, and the army slept with their accoutre- 
 ments on, with the exception of three days. Mr. 
 Sheak had many bullet-holes shot in his cloth- 
 ing from time to time, one bullet going through 
 the crown of his hat and grazing his scalp; and 
 in the last battle of the campaign, the battle of 
 Lovejoy, he had eighteen bullet-holes shot in his 
 clothing, and every commissioned officer in the 
 regiment was either killed or wounded. 
 
 Assistant Inspector Gen. R. L. Walker certi- 
 fies as follows : "This is to certify that Henry 
 Sheak, corporal Co. I, One Hundred and Nine- 
 tieth V. V. I., was a member of my company 
 and participated in the following named battles : 
 Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, 
 Mission Ridge, Newhope Church, Pine Knob, 
 Kenesaw, Ferry Road Camp Ground, Peach- 
 tree Creek, Atlanta, Lovejoy, Columbia, Frank- 
 lin and Nashville. Since May 17 last he has 
 held a clerkship in this office and by good con- 
 duct as a soldier on the field and by ability, 
 faithfulness and integrity in this office he has 
 won for himself the esteem of both officers and 
 men. [Signed] R. Ludlo Walker, Acting As- 
 sistant Inspector General, and formerly Captain 
 Company I, Nineteenth Ohio Veteran Volunteer 
 Infantry. 
 
 "San Antonio, Texas, September 29, 1865." 
 
 From the office of the inspector general he 
 was promoted to the office of the assistant pay- 
 master general, and from that to the office of the 
 assistant adjutant general, which position he 
 held until summoned by his regimental officers 
 
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 to assist in mustering the regiment out of serv- 
 ice, which occurred November 28, 1865. 
 
 On returning home, Mr. Sheak spent the first 
 winter in the high school of Massillon, Ohio ; 
 then spent one term in the literary department 
 of Oberlin College, and then being offered the 
 position of bookkeeper in the First National 
 Bank of Massillon he prepared himself for the 
 position by taking a course in the Business In- 
 stitute of Oberlin, graduating therefrom, but on 
 returning home to take the position in the bank 
 he found that the position had been given to a 
 brother of the president of the bank the day 
 before he reached home. Mr. Sheak having 
 overtaxed himself taking his commercial course, 
 he found himself broken in health and decided on 
 a change of work and purchased a tract of land 
 in the vicinity of Frankfort, Mich., and put it 
 out to fruit ; but, while visiting a brother in 
 Iowa, he was given the principalship of the 
 commercial department of Western College, and 
 he also matriculated as a student in the literary 
 department and graduated therefrom in 1873. 
 During a period of eighteen months prior to his 
 graduation he held the office of official court re- 
 porter of the eighth judicial district of Iowa. 
 In the winter of 1872 he was taken down with 
 typhoid fever and for several days was not ex- 
 pected to live. This sickness left him ever after 
 a sufferer from indigestion and consequent 
 weakness. Through exposures during his army 
 life he lost the use of one ear and contracted 
 rheumatism, both of which have seriously crip- 
 pled him in his life-work. 
 
 Soon after his graduation from Western Col- 
 lege he took the ague, and as soon as he recov- 
 ered sufficiently to be able to travel he, in com- 
 pany with his college chum, Prof. R. E. Will- 
 iams, president-elect of Philomath College, came 
 to Oregon and took a position with President 
 Williams in the faculty of that college. The 
 next year he went to Portland and engaged in 
 teaching stenography, and did reporting for the 
 newspapers. President Williams becoming sick, 
 begged Professor Sheak to return to Philomath 
 and take a position with him in the college fac- 
 ulty, and to take his place during his sickness, 
 and begged it for friendship's sake. Mr. Sheak 
 accepted the invitation, and from that time to 
 1902 occupied a professorship in Philomath Col- 
 lege, being continuously principal of the com- 
 mercial department and part of the time teach- 
 ing mathematics, part of the time the natural 
 sciences, the physical, ethics and psychology. 
 Nearly all of this time he was a member of the 
 board of trustees and of the executive board, 
 and secretary of both, and for three years the 
 agent and treasurer. 
 
 On September 5, 1878, Professor Sheak was 
 married to Miss Ida A. Castle, the daughter of 
 
 Bishop Nicholas Castle, D. D. Two children 
 were born of this union, Gertrude Almeda, who, 
 after reaching her senior year in college, com- 
 pleted a course of music in the conservatory of 
 music at Philomath and then took courses at the 
 Willamette University and the conservatory of 
 music at Denver, Col., and was principal of the 
 conservatory of music at Philomath College for 
 two years. In 1900 Miss Sheak was united in 
 marriage to Prof. W. G. Fisher, who occupied 
 the chair of languages in Philomath College. 
 Two years later the professor accepted the pas- 
 torate of the First U. B. Church of Portland, 
 where they now reside. The second daughter, 
 Edith Lenora, was born May 18, 1886, and at 
 this writing is a sophomore in Philomath Col- 
 lege and a student of music. 
 
 Aside from Mr. Sheak's college work he was 
 statistical secretary of the State S. S. Associa- 
 tion for five years ; wrote the first charter for 
 the city of Philomath and secured its passage in 
 the legislature, and has been either mayor or 
 councilman of the city government almost con- 
 tiuously for eighteen years. Three times he was 
 nominated for county superintendent of public 
 instruction by the leading political parties, but 
 declined the nominations. 
 
 In political preference Mr. Sheak is a Prohi- 
 bitionist, and during his residence in the west 
 has done much to advance the cause which he 
 espouses. In his religious convictions he affili- 
 ates with the United Brethren Church. Broad- 
 minded and progressive, Mr. Sheak has proven 
 himself a desirable- citizen, lending his influence 
 toward the promotion of all enterprises which 
 have for their end the general welfare of the 
 community, and seeking in every way to fulfill 
 the law of earnest, practical living. 
 
 W. D. WALLACE. Frugal and thrifty by 
 inheritance, W. D. Wallace, a farmer of Lane 
 county, located in the vicinity of Jasper, has 
 added to his native qualities those which come 
 from an early contact with the world when 
 viewed from the standpoint of a pioneer, for he 
 was only eight years old when his parents emi- 
 grated to the west and the hardships and priva- 
 tions which followed the movement became a 
 part of his life. He was born in IoWa, Novem- 
 ber 21, 1844, the son of James A. Wallace, born 
 in 1821, and married in Illinois to Miss Irene C. 
 Daniels, after which the young couple located in 
 Iowa a short time and then moved back to Illi- 
 nois, and remained until 1852. They then start- 
 ed across the plains with ox-teams, nearly all 
 of which died on the journey. Reaching Bar- 
 low's Gate Mr. Wallace succeeded in trading the 
 wagon for a pony and placed his wife and two 
 younger children on its back, himself and an- 
 
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 other child on one of the remaining oxen and 
 packed their provisions on another ox and a 
 cow. when they proceeded over the mountains. 
 When they finally got to Foster Mr. Wallace 
 again made an exchange, this time securing a 
 wagon in trade for the pony, and hitching the 
 cattle, a yoke of oxen and two cows, to the 
 wagon, proceeded to the Willamette valley, 
 eventually locating at Jasper, where the father 
 took up a donation claim of three hundred and 
 twenty acres in Lane county and made that his 
 home until his death, in 1868. Their first gar- 
 den was cultivated by hitching one ox to a rude 
 plow, using ropes for tugs, and while the elder 
 man held the plow, W. D., then a lad of thir- 
 teen years, guided the ox. The death of his 
 wife occurred in 1899. Of their six children W. 
 D. was the first in order of birth, those follow- 
 ing being Marion and J. C, located in this vi- 
 cinity : Mary E. ; Lucy A. and Emma. 
 
 W. D. Wallace remained at home until he was 
 twenty-four years old, engaging in the duties 
 which fell to his lot as the son of a pioneer 
 farmer and fitting himself for successful work. 
 After his marriage in 1868 he went to work for 
 himself, and now owns six hundred and forty 
 acres of land, of which two hundred is a part of 
 the old claim of his father. He carries on stock- 
 raising, having cattle, sheep, horses and goats, 
 and is meeting with the success which attends 
 energy- and application when guided by intelli- 
 gent and practical ideas. His wife was, in maid- 
 enhood, Lucinda M. Drury, a native of Mis- 
 souri, who came west in 1853. The following 
 children have blessed their union : Robert, at 
 home ; Chester, near his childhood's home ; 
 Charles, at home ; John T. ; Fred ; Benjamin H. ; 
 Caroline S. ; Irene M. ; Nora A., and Mary B. 
 Mr. Wallace is a member of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 WILLIAM H. WEATHERSON. The 
 West, an important factor in moulding public 
 opinion in Lane county, and published at Flor- 
 ence by William H. Weatherson, is fortunately 
 under the supervision of a wide-awake and pro- 
 gressive promoter of western enterprises who is 
 keenly alive to his responsibility as a journalist. 
 This small periodical abounds in newsy and in- 
 teresting information, and though not partisan, 
 has a mind of its own, which is expressed fear- 
 lessly and to the point, and always with due re- 
 gard for the best interests of the community. 
 The genial editor has the faculty of maintaining 
 friendlv relations with people in and out of his 
 paper, and has never succeeded in making ene- 
 mies. Many years of educational work, and 
 continuous research along general lines, has 
 fitted Mr. Weatherson for a newspaper career of 
 
 great promise. Born in St. Lawrence county, 
 N. Y., June 2, 1858, he is of Scotch ancestry, 
 his grandfather, William, who was born in 1776 
 and died in 1856, having established the family 
 name in New York. Edkin Weatherson, the 
 father of William, was born in St. Lawrence 
 county, N. Y., January 12, 1832, as was also his 
 wife, formerly Alice Cowan, whose natal day 
 was July 16, 1836. The parents were married 
 in New York and moved to Rice county, Minn., 
 when William was eight years of age. Here the 
 family located on the farm which is still the 
 home of the parents, and where the father has 
 for vears been known as one of the foremost 
 farmers of his neighborhood. 
 
 The oldest of the nine children born to his 
 parents, Mr. Weatherson improved his early op- 
 portunities at the district school, and when six- 
 teen years of age began to teach during the 
 winter, spending his summers in the harvest- 
 fields of the home farm. Upon removing to 
 Oregon, in 1886, he located on the Siuslaw, and 
 for ten years engaged in teaching at different 
 points along the river, afterward taking up a 
 donation claim of one hundred and twenty acres 
 four miles east of Mapleton. In September, 
 1896, he came to Florence and became owner 
 and manager of The West, and in connection 
 therewith has established a real estate business, 
 handling both town and country property. Mr. 
 Weatherson still owns his farm in the vicinity of 
 the town of Mapleton, and four lots in Florence. 
 He is one of the most progressive and cultured 
 of the citizens who are maintaining a high 
 standard of municipal well-being, and is prac- 
 tically connected with the social, economic, edu- 
 cational, and political advancement. A Repub- 
 lican in politics, he is a school director and presi- 
 dent of the city council, and he is fraternally 
 connected with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, of which he has passed all of the chairs 
 and attended the Grand Lodge ; and the Modern 
 Woodmen of America, of which he is clerk. 
 With his wife and children he is a member of 
 the Presbvterian Church. Mr. Weatherson mar- 
 ried, in 1887, Cora E. Knowles, who was born 
 in Rice county, Minn.. May 30, 1862, and who 
 is the mother of six children : Alice E. Hazel L., 
 Agnes E., Edkin E., Dora H., and Hattie A. 
 
 JAMES H. HAWLEY. Oregon's progress 
 has been marked chiefly by the development of 
 her agricultural interests. From the practical 
 duties and helpful discipline of farm life have 
 come many of the men to whom our nation owes 
 her supremacy, and for strong, helpful and vig- 
 orous manhood we still depend upon the sons of 
 farmers. Within the borders of Oregon are 
 always to be found those who are capable of 
 
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 assuming the responsibilities and duties of citi- 
 zens, these being chiefly the sons of those sturdy 
 and faithful pioneers who braved the dangers 
 and privations of the wilderness while they 
 worked for that which their children enjoy to- 
 day. 
 
 It is the pride of James H. Hawley, of this re- 
 view, that he is both the son of such a man and 
 a native citizen of such a state as Oregon. His 
 father, Ira Hawley, was born in the state of 
 New York, May 16, 1817, and following the 
 occupation of his father he engaged in farming 
 from his earliest youth. When seventeen years 
 old he started out into the world to make his own 
 way, in Illinois working as a farm hand for the 
 period of four years. Through the practice of 
 industry and economy he was enabled at the end 
 of that time to purchase a farm, upon which he 
 made his home until 1849. He then crossed the 
 plains on a Cayuse pony, being occupied for 
 about a year in the gold fields of California, 
 after which he returned to his home in Illinois 
 by the way of the Isthmus. In the spring of 
 1852 he once more crossed the plains, bringing 
 with him into the west his family, with whom 
 he settled in Lane county, Ore., upon a donation 
 claim of three hundred and twenty acres, located 
 on the divide between Douglas and Lane coun- 
 ties. The energy and ambition which had char- 
 acterized his life in the middle west also proved 
 dominant traits in his new location, and in the 
 years which followed brought him large returns 
 for his efforts. In addition to general farming 
 he engaged in stock-dealing, the proceeds of his 
 work being invested in real estate, he becoming 
 in time the owner of a large amount of property, 
 amounting' to four thousand acres. This he di- 
 vided among his children a few years before his 
 death. For many years his home was known as 
 the Mountain House, the last hostlery on this 
 side of the mountains. He lived to be over 
 eighty years old, while his wife, who was for- 
 merly Elvira Riley, a native of Indiana, died at 
 the age of seventy-six. Of the children born to 
 them the oldest son is located near Moscow, 
 Idaho; William B. is in Lorane; George M. 
 lives near Cottage Grove, Ore. ; James H, of 
 this review, and Robert located in this vicinity. 
 
 James H. Hawley was born upon the farm 
 where he now lives, this being the donation claim 
 which his father first took up in Oregon, his 
 natal day being September 17, 1862. On this 
 farm, located four miles south of Cottage Grove 
 and on the divide between Lane and Douglas 
 counties, he was reared to a useful manhood. 
 With the progressive spirit which marked the 
 natives of New York state, the father spared no 
 effort nor expense in the education of his chil- 
 dren, his son, James H. Hawley, receiving a 
 course in the University of Oregon. On com- 
 
 pleting his education James H. Hawley returned 
 to the parental roof and engaged with his father 
 in the home duties until his marriage, in 1886, 
 with Miss Hulda Alice Withers, a native of Ore- 
 gon. She was the daughter of J. E. P. Withers, 
 one of the most substantial and upright pioneers 
 of the early days. The young people began their 
 married life on the home place, and with the 
 exception of four years spent in California this 
 has ever since remained their home. Mr. Haw- 
 ley now owns about eighteen hundred acres of 
 land, almost all of which is in one body, besides 
 additional property in Cottage Grove, and is an 
 extensive stock dealer. He has one hundred and 
 fifty head of cattle ; nine hundred head of goats ; 
 two hundred head of sheep, and fifteen head of 
 horses and mules. 
 
 Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hawley ; L. Homer and Alsea Hazel, who 
 add to the happiness of the household. Mr. 
 Hawley is a Republican in politics, but has never 
 taken an active interest in the movements of his 
 party, nor has he ever cared for official recogni- 
 tion. In fraternal relations he affiliates with the 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 HON. MITCHELL WILKINS. The name 
 of Wilkins is one which will always attract the 
 attention of the student of the history of Ore- 
 gon, for it was borne by one of the early settlers 
 of the state, one whose high character and con- 
 scientious efforts have left their impress upon 
 the progress of events. This pioneer, the Hon. 
 Mitchell Wilkins, was born in Orange county, 
 N. C. His father, who was descended from a 
 Scotch family of the colonial period, died in 
 North Carolina when the son was but nine 
 years of age. Early in life Mitchell Wilkins 
 started out in the world to seek his own live- 
 lihood, for several years engaging in boating 
 and boat-building on the Mississippi river. He 
 afterward settled in Andrew county, Mo., near 
 St. Joseph, which was then little more than a 
 pioneer camp on the outskirts of civilization. 
 He performed the first carpenter work of any 
 note in that embryo town, erecting the first sub- 
 stantial buildings there. 
 
 In 1847 Mr. Wilkins and his wife became 
 members of a party of seven hundred people 
 who started overland from St. Joseph for the 
 far west, a long trip fraught with many clangers 
 and privations in those days. Mr. Wilkins met 
 with his full share of trouble and losses. While 
 crossing the plains he lost his team, this necessi- 
 tating the abandonment of the wagon in the 
 Rocky mountains ; and the journey to the Wil- 
 lamette valley was completed with one horse, 
 one ox and two cows. Mr. Wilkins and his 
 young wife, their hopes and ambitions high 
 
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 1551 
 
 despite the drawbacks with which Fate had 
 handicapped them, walked all the way across the 
 mountains, following the old Barlow route, and 
 reached their destination in safety. They spent 
 the winter of 1847-8 near what is now Mar- 
 quam, Clackamas county, where Mr. Wilkins 
 erected a small log cabin. In the spring of 
 1848 they resumed their journey toward the 
 south. Arriving in what is now Lane county, 
 Mr. YVilkins took up a donation claim of six 
 hundred and forty acres located ten miles north- 
 east of the site of the city of Eugene. Here he 
 set about the work of erecting a temporary log 
 cabin, into which he moved his family in the 
 fall of that year. During the following year he 
 constructed a more substantial house of hewed 
 logs, and a few years later was enabled to erect 
 a frame house of a more pretentious character. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins had barely become established in 
 his pioneer home in the wilderness before the 
 news of the discovery of gold in California be- 
 gan to attract the attention of the inhabitants of 
 the western frontier. In the hope of bettering 
 his financial condition he started for the Eldorado 
 on horseback in the fall of 1849. He arrived 
 in the Sacramento valley without incident of 
 note, and at once engaged in placer mining on 
 a small scale : but after fourteen days he and the 
 party associated with him in the work were 
 driven out by the snow and the depredations of 
 the Indians, and Mr. Wilkins returned to his 
 home in Oregon. 
 
 From that year until the time of his retire- 
 ment from the active responsibilities of life, Mr. 
 Wilkins devoted his energies to stock-raising, in 
 which he met with most gratifying success. 
 From time to time he made purchases of land 
 adjoining his original claim until he is now the 
 owner of three thousand acres, located prin- 
 cipally in the foothills, which he has improved 
 and fitted up in every way necessary to make it 
 a model stock ranch. He has always raised stock 
 of the finest breeds, including Devons, Durhams 
 and Polled-Angus cattle. He is now eighty- 
 four years of age and makes his home in Eu- 
 gene, having retired from active cares, princi- 
 pally by reason of a paralytic stroke experienced 
 in 1893. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins has not been selfishly interested 
 in his work toward success in this generous 
 region, but has cheerfully and capably aided in 
 the promotion of all worthy causes whose ten- 
 dencv has been to advance the welfare of the 
 people at large. In politics he has been a Re- 
 publican since the Civil war, serving in 1862 as 
 a member of the Oregon state legislature. For 
 some time prior thereto Mr. Wilkins had taken 
 a prominent part in the political undertakings 
 of the county and state. During the historical 
 triangular fight for the governorship of the 
 
 state, he was nominated for the office on the In- 
 dependent ticket, but was not able to overcome 
 the Republican majority. He has always ex- 
 hibited a deep and abiding interest in the gen- 
 eral welfare of agricultural interests in Oregon. 
 He became one of the chief organizers of the 
 State Agricultural Society, and for many years 
 served as its president. In 1876 he visited the 
 Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia as com- 
 missioner from Oregon, acted in the same 
 capacity at the New Orleans Exposition in 1884 
 and the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 
 1893. It was in the fall after his return from 
 Chicago that he was stricken with paralysis. 
 
 Mr. Wilkins was united in marriage with 
 Permelia Ann Allen, a native of Missouri, and 
 a daughter of Robert Allen, who crossed the 
 plains in 1847 m tne same train with which his 
 daughter and son-in-law were connected. His 
 wife had died in Missouri. Mrs. Wilkins is still 
 living at the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wilkins have been the parents of seven 
 children, four of whom are now living : Fran- 
 cis Marion, a retired druggist of Eugene ; Jas- 
 per and Amos, who are located on the ranch ; 
 and Angeline, widow of Samuel D. Holt, of Eu- 
 gene. 
 
 Personally Mr. Wilkins belongs to the highest 
 type of the pioneer citizen and self-made man. 
 His success in life has been due solely to his 
 own efforts. The characteristics which have 
 contributed most to his success, as shown by the 
 record of his life, have been his indomitable 
 energy and perseverance, his integrity in all 
 business transactions, and the liberal, broad- 
 minded manner in which he has conducted all 
 his operations. His record in public and private 
 life has been above reproach, free from all sus- 
 picion of dishonor. Honesty, courage, enter- 
 prise and fairness toward his fellow-men have 
 endeared him closely to all who have been 
 favored with his friendship. Now, in the twi- 
 light of a long and useful career, he and his 
 estimable wife are surrounded by their friends 
 and all the comforts due those honored men and 
 women who have passed the allotted span of 
 life. The clean, noble records they will leave 
 behind them should prove a source of inspira- 
 tion to future generations, and of gratification 
 and pride to their own descendants. 
 
 GEORGE M. HAWLEY. In the vicinity of 
 Cottage Grove, Lane county, is located the home 
 of George M. Hawley, one of the progressive 
 and up-to-date farmers of this region. He is a 
 native son of the state, having been born on 
 the Divide. Ore., September 9, 1857. the son of 
 Ira Hawley. The latter was born in New York 
 state, May 16, 181 7, and his father being a 
 
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 farmer by occupation he was early trained to that 
 life. When seventeen years old he started out 
 into the world to make his own way, going first 
 to the state of Illinois, where he engaged as a 
 farm hand, working by the month. This was 
 continued steadily until he had attained his ma- 
 jority and with the proceeds of his four years' 
 work he bought a farm, where he engaged in 
 farming for himself. He was married about 
 this time to Elvira Riley, a native of Indiana. 
 Mr. Hawley remained in Illinois until 1849, 
 when he crossed the plains on a Cayuse pony 
 into the gold fields of California. There he mined 
 for about a year, when he returned to Illinois 
 by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and in the 
 spring of 1852 returned west, direct to Lane 
 county, Ore., where he took up a donation claim 
 of three hundred and twenty acres located on 
 the divide between Douglas and Lane counties. 
 This remained his home for many years, and in 
 the prosecution of stock dealing and farming he 
 gradually accumulated a large amount of prop- 
 erty, none of which he was ever known to sell. 
 He became one of the very successful men of 
 the county and was one of the principal stock 
 dealers in this section, his estate amounting to 
 four thousand acres, which he divided among his 
 children a few years before his death. He lived 
 to be over eighty years old, his wife dying at 
 seventy-six. The two acquired fame as keepers 
 of what was known as the Mountain House, the 
 last stopping place on this side of the mountains. 
 Of the children born to them the oldest son is 
 located near Moscow, Idaho; William R. is in 
 Lorane; George M., of this review is located 
 near Cottage Grove; Robert is located in this 
 vicinity; and James H., whose sketch appears, 
 elsewhere in this volume. 
 
 George M. Hawley was reared on his father's 
 farm and received his education in the district 
 schools. He remained at home until attaining 
 his majority, and he then came to the farm 
 which he now occupies, then having three hun- 
 dred and seventy-five acres two miles north of 
 Creswell, and three hundred and forty embodied 
 in a stock ranch two miles west. For six years 
 he lived alone upon this farm and then married 
 Mary C. Adams, a native of Cottage Grove, and 
 the two children born to them are Herbert and 
 George F., both residents of Cottage Grove. Mr. 
 Hawley now has seven hundred and fifteen acres 
 of land, two hundred and fifty of which are till- 
 able, and he is now carrying on general farming 
 and stock-raising, in the latter business pre- 
 ferring Durham cattle, Cotswold sheep and An- 
 gora goats. Mr. Hawley has a neat dwelling 
 and substantial outbuildings to add to the gen- 
 eral appearance of his property. 
 
 For a second wife Mr. Hawley married Min- 
 nie Ozment, a native of Lorane. Mr. Hawley 
 
 is prominent in fraternal orders, being a member 
 of the Independent Order of Odd Follows, An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, Woodmen of 
 the World, and various of the auxiliaries, among 
 them the Rebekahs, etc. Politically he is a Re- 
 publican and has held various offices in the vi- 
 cinity, and always takes an active and intelligent 
 part in the affairs of the community, and is one 
 of the trustees of the First National Bank of 
 Cottage Grove. 
 
 WILLIAM LEWIS McFARLAND. At an 
 early day the paternal grandfather of W. L. Mc- 
 Farland, William McFarland, came from Scot- 
 land and established his family in Ohio, settling 
 on a farm in the vicinity of St. Clairsville, where 
 he reared a large family of children. Among the 
 sons born in Ohio was Elijah, the father of Will- 
 iam Lewis, who eventually succeeded to the old 
 farm, and died there at the age of sixty-nine 
 years. He married Jane Gable, a native of Ger- 
 many, whose father, Peter Gable, was one of the 
 very early settlers of Ohio. Mrs. McFarland 
 survives her husband, and at the present time is 
 seventy years of age. Of her twelve children 
 nine are married and have homes of their own. 
 Of these, William Lewis, the third oldest, was 
 born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, September -20, i860, 
 and with his brother, James, a blacksmith living 
 in Junction City, Ore., are the only members of 
 the family on the coast. 
 
 For two years and nine months W. L. McFar- 
 land served an apprenticeship with Martin 
 Brothers, blacksmiths, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. 
 Afterward he worked at Bellaire, Ohio, in the 
 Baltimore & Ohio shops, and with the same rail- 
 road company was later employed in different 
 shops between Bellaire and Chicago. The last 
 of the five years with this company he was fore- 
 man of the shops in Chicago. Not less success- 
 ful was a trip down the Mississippi valley as a 
 journeyman, after which he returned to Ohio 
 and ran a blacksmith shop of his own until 1885. 
 Desiring an all around change, and having heard 
 much about the climate and other advantages of 
 Oregon, he sold out and came to Eugene, where 
 he started a business of his own in 1886, in part- 
 nership with Mr. McMurry. Six months later 
 the entire business passed into the hands of Mr. 
 McFarland, who is still doing business on the 
 corner of Eighth and Olive streets, one of the 
 oldest blacksmith sites in Eugene. 
 
 Besides the property occupied by his black- 
 smith shop, 54x80 feet, he owns a large lot on 
 west Eighth street, where he built a large build- 
 ing containing two stores and apartments, in 
 1903. This building covers sixty square feet of 
 ground, and is modern in construction and equip- 
 
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 ment. He also owns a building, 60x120 feet, in 
 Springfield, this state. 
 
 While living in Bellaire, Ohio, December 23, 
 1883, Mr. McFarland married Mary Rampe, 
 who was born in London, England, a daughter 
 of Herman Rampe, who was born and died in 
 Germany. Mrs. McFarland was left an orphan 
 at an early age, and when nine years old came to 
 America with a friend, making her home in St. 
 Louis. She is the mother of six children : Jen- 
 nie, Lucy, Edith, Mary V., Hazel and William. 
 Although never inclined to participate actively in 
 Republican politics, Mr. McFarland is a stanch 
 upholder of his party. Fraternally he affiliates 
 with the Modern Woodmen of America, the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and 
 Knights of the Maccabees, being a past officer of 
 the latter organization. 
 
 JAMES POLK MILLIORN. The old Mil- 
 Horn place in Junction City, built so many years 
 ago by that honored pioneer, T. A. Milliorn, has 
 been occupied and owned by his son, James Polk, 
 since 1875, the latter interestingly and substan- 
 tially identified with Oregon since his twelfth 
 year. Born near Knoxville, Tenn., August 30, 
 1840, he vividly recalls every particular of the 
 overland trip in 1852, and his participation in 
 what was indeed a momentous crisis for the 
 family. The driving of loose stock and the rid- 
 ing of horses fell to his lot, and the train came 
 by way of the Platte river, escaping attacks of 
 a serious nature on the part of the Indians, and 
 being rather fortunate until arriving at Pacific 
 Spring. Here the dread cholera invaded their 
 ranks, his mother being seriously ill with it, and 
 his sister and three other members of the party 
 succumbing to the disorder. Starting in April, 
 the train arrived at the Cascades in November, 
 and there they lost all of the stock which had 
 survived the long journey across the plains. 
 From the low r er Cascade to the mouth of the 
 Sandy the father and mother came on a flat boat, 
 and James got onto the old Clinton which was 
 lying on some rocks in the Columbia river, and 
 though there were people on board who were 
 more fortunate than himself in the way of clothes 
 and provisions, he did not succeed in getting 
 them to help him with even a blanket in which to 
 sleep. He was very hungry also, and when he 
 reached Sandy he was reduced to such a state 
 that he was glad to give 25 cents for a turnip 
 with which to stay the pangs of hunger, for he 
 had then been twenty-four hours with nothing 
 to eat. The family spent the first winter on a 
 claim six miles east of Portland, and in Febru- 
 ary. 1853, came to Lane county, settling on three 
 hundred and twenty acres three-quarters of a 
 mile west of Junction City. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Milliorn went to Washington 
 with James Patterson, driving beef-cattle to a 
 point above Seattle, and finally made his way to 
 the Snoqualmie river, with an Indian for a guide. 
 The same year he went to the Rogue river in 
 Jackson county and was variously employed at 
 farming, mining, repairing wagons, sawing logs, 
 and running a cooper shop, and the following 
 year came back to his father's place in Lane 
 county. In 1862 he engaged in mining in the 
 Florence district. Idaho, on Baboon Gulch, and 
 when he returned was the richer by several hun- 
 dreds of dollars. In 1863 lle changed his field 
 of mining operations to the Caribou district, 
 going there overland with a pack train and with 
 a cargo of bacon. The way was dangerous, as 
 is well known, and in some places it was neces- 
 sary to tie the horses together by their tails and 
 let them slide down deep declines. In the fall 
 he came to Canyon City with sheep, and in 1864 
 went to the Boise Basin via the Columbia trail 
 with sheep, encountering many interesting ex- 
 periences while in the wild and desolate places of 
 the great northwest. 
 
 In January, 1865, Mr. Milliorn married Kittie 
 Mulholland, who was born in Missouri, and 
 crossed the plains with her parents in 1853, lo- 
 cating at Pleasant Hill, this county. Immediate- 
 ly after his marriage he engaged in a general 
 merchandise business ten miles below Corvallis, 
 in partnership with W. G. Pickett, now deceased, 
 and for whose estate Mr. Milliorn has been ap- 
 pointed administrator. The mercantile business 
 was disposed of in 1865, and in 1869 he went on 
 a farm of three hundred and twenty acres four 
 miles south of Junction City, remaining there 
 until purchasing the old homestead in Junction 
 City in 1875. Three children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Milliorn, of whom H. M. is 
 engaged in the merchandise business in this 
 town ; W. G. is a farmer ; and J. E. is in partner- 
 ship with his merchant brother. Mr. Milliorn is 
 a Democrat in political affiliation, and he has 
 been a member of the council many terms. Mr. 
 Milliorn contributed his share towards the sup- 
 pression of the Indian in the early davs. He was 
 sixteen vears of age when he enlisted in the 
 Rogue river war in 1855-6, and at the time was 
 the youngest man in the war. He went in the 
 capacity of wagon-master, but was finally de- 
 tailed to build bridges on Eels creek. 
 
 ROBERT HARRISON was born in Lincoln- 
 shire, England, in 1828. He crossed the ocean 
 in 1848 and after looking around a little in New 
 York citv made his way to St. Joseph county, 
 Mich., where he worked on farms until the spring 
 of 1852. His two brothers, who had also come to 
 
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 America, became interested in crossing the 
 plains and trying their luck in the northwest, 
 and Robert joined them in their preparations, 
 and hopefully looked forward to making the long 
 journey. The brothers had six yoke of oxen be- 
 sides three cows, and they came across without 
 any particular difficulty, either with the Indians 
 or with the illnesses which often afflicted the 
 travelers. During the first winter in Oregon Mr. 
 Harrison stayed with one of his brothers in Linn 
 county, and in 1852 he went to the mines of 
 Eureka, Cal., but was not a successful miner, 
 and soon returned to the slower means of liveli- 
 hood offered in the fertile Willamette valley. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Harrison married Mrs. Tennes- 
 see Hannah, and soon after bought the eighty 
 acres which comprise his present farm. Con- 
 tinuously ever since he has made every effort to 
 improve his property, and at present has a pleas- 
 ant and comfortable residence, good barns, 
 fences and outhouses, as well as many of the 
 latest agricultural implements. As his stock- 
 raising and general farming enterprise increased, 
 more land was required, and at one time he 
 owned twelve hundred acres. A generous and 
 helpful father, he has divided all but his present 
 eighty acres among his five sons and three daugh- 
 ters, all of whom are doing well, and who are 
 proving a credit to their practical and kindly 
 home teachings. For the greater part Mr. Har- 
 rison has devoted his land to stock-raising, in 
 which he has been very successful. 
 
 MAJOR FRANK E. EDWARDS. Con- 
 spicuous among the residents of Benton county 
 worthy of representation in this biographical 
 volume is Major Frank E. Edwards, a native- 
 born citizen, a veteran of the Spanish war, and 
 an alumnus of the Oregon Agricultural College, 
 with which he is now officially connected, being 
 commandant, and professor of military science 
 and tactics, and, also, assistant professor of 
 chemistry. A man of scholarly attainments, a 
 thorough-going soldier, and a most successful 
 teacher, he is held in high esteem by the stu- 
 dents, his associates, and the board of regents, 
 and is one of the most popular members of the 
 faculty of the institution. 
 
 Born September 13, 1875, in Lane county, near 
 Springfield, Ore., he is a son of Webley J. Ed- 
 wards. He comes of substantial New England 
 ancestry, the earliest of his progenitors of whom 
 he has any definite knowledge having emigrated 
 from one of the New England states to New 
 York city, where they owned a large tract of 
 land. His great-great-grandfather, Webley Ed- 
 wards, of New England birth, served as an offi- 
 cer in the Revolutionary army, being captain of 
 a company. His great-grandfather was engaged 
 in steamboating on the Ohio, residing in Indiana. 
 
 The major's grandfather, T. D. Edwards, was 
 reared and educated in Indiana, but later re- 
 moved to Ohio, where he was engaged in agri- 
 cultural pursuits until 1854. Coming then to 
 Oregon across the plains, with ox teams, bring- 
 ing with him his family, his son, Webley J., be- 
 ing then an infant of six months, he located near 
 Springfield, on a donation claim, in Lane county, 
 where he cleared and improved a homestead. On 
 retiring from active pursuits, he removed to Eu- 
 gene, Ore., where his death occurred, in 1895. 
 
 'Webley J. Edwards was born in Ohio, but 
 was brought up on the old home farm in Oregon, 
 where he has since resided. A prominent farmer 
 and stockman, he first started in business in Lane 
 county, going from there to Lake county, where 
 he followed ranching and general farming with 
 signal success for three years. Returning then 
 to the valley, he continued in his chosen vocation 
 until his removal to Mayville, Gilliam county, 
 his present place of residence. He married Jane 
 Gross, who was born in Iowa, a daughter of An- 
 drew Gross, a native of Germany, who emigrat- 
 ed to America, settling in Iowa, where he carried 
 on agricultural work until 1856, when he came 
 with his family to Linn county, Ore. He is now 
 prosperously engaged in general farming in 
 Brownsville, Linn county. Four children were 
 born of their union, namely : Frank, the special 
 subject of this sketch; Fred A., a graduate 
 of the University of Oregon, and of the Oregon 
 Agricultural College, is engaged in business as 
 a stock-raiser and dealer in Gilliam county; 
 Stephen Hubert, residing on the home farm ; and 
 Velma, living with her parents. 
 
 Brought up on the home farm, and educated 
 in the district schools of Lane and Gilliam coun- 
 ties, Frank E. Edwards entered the Oregon Agri- 
 cultural College in 1891, and was graduated, in 
 1895, with the degree of B. M. E. In 1896, 
 while he was taking a post graduate course, he 
 served as captain of a company of cadets. From 
 1896 until 1898 he was connected with the col- 
 lege as instructor in chemistry, resigning his 
 position to enlist, as a private, in Company M, 
 Second Oregon Infantry. Being mustered into 
 service on July 2, 1898, he went with his regi- 
 ment to San Francisco, thence to Manila, arriv- 
 ing there on Thanksgiving day, 1898. He was 
 subsequently made corporal of his company, and 
 as a part of Wheaton's Flying Brigade, on March 
 25, 1899, took part in the battles of Tondo Feb- 
 ruary 26, Pasig March 14, and Malaban March 
 25, and the following day, March 26, was se- 
 verely wounded at the battle of Polo, being shot 
 through both legs, at the thighs. He was in- 
 capacitated for further military duty but re- 
 turned, on crutches, with his company to Cali- 
 fornia, then to Oregon, where he was mustered 
 out of service on August 7, 1899. A month 
 later, Mr. Edwards accepted the position of com- 
 
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 mandant of cadets, and professor of military sci- 
 ence and tactics at his alma mater. In 1900 he 
 was made instructor in chemistry, and assistant 
 in the chemical department of the Agricultural 
 Experiment Station. In June of that year he 
 was appointed to the staff of Gen. Charles F. 
 Beebe as brigade signal officer, with rank of ma- 
 jor, an office that he filled until the reorganization 
 of the O. N. G., in 1903, when, on die resigna- 
 tion of General Beebe, he resigned. 
 
 Major Edwards married, in Corvallis, Septem- 
 ber 29, 1900, Miss Helen Elgin, who was born 
 in Marion county, Ore., and was educated at 
 the State Normal School in Monmouth, Ore. 
 Major and Mrs. Edwards have one child, Web- 
 ley Elgin Edwards. Major Edwards is a stanch 
 Republican in his political affiliations, and an 
 active member of the Christian Church, being 
 one of the board of deacons, and president of the 
 Sunday school connected with it. He is identi- 
 fied with several fraternal organizations, belong- 
 ing to Corvallis Grange No. 242 ; to Edward C. 
 Young Camp of the Spanish American War Vet- 
 erans, of which he is past commander ; to the 
 Knights of Pythias ; and is ex-president of the 
 Alumni Association. 
 
 W. O. HECKART. To no class of men in 
 the world are growing communities more in- 
 debted than to their contractors and builders, 
 artisans whose ingenuity enables them to ap- 
 propriately house families, institutions and busi- 
 ness enterprises, and whose busy brains are cease- 
 lessly striving not only to overcome competition, 
 but to make their respective communities the 
 equal architecturally, if not the superior, of those 
 by which they are surrounded. The enormous 
 responsibility of the builder, his relations to life 
 and death and safety, his satisfaction in well do- 
 ing, and his ignominy in failure, all conspire to 
 make of him an important and leading factor, 
 especially when it is recalled that it is his work 
 upon which the reputation of a city is primarily 
 based. Corvallis has her builders in whom in- 
 tense pride is felt, and of these none takes higher 
 rank than W. O. Heckart, the constructor of her 
 principal residences, business blocks and churches 
 and also builder of many of the important struc- 
 tures in near-by towns. The Masonic Temple, 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South, the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church South of South Corvallis, the Chris- 
 tian Church, and many of the finest and largest 
 residences in this town, the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church of Harrisburg, Ore., the Court House 
 in Toledo, Lincoln county, the Government Hos- 
 pital on the Silitz Indian Reservation, and the 
 Calkins, Patterson, Beckwith, and other resi- 
 dences and buildings in Eugene, are the result 
 of a general demand for the excellent work 
 of Mr. Heckart, and in fact he does not 
 
 recall a time when he was not familiar with 
 the workman's bench. His ancestors were 
 equally handy with fire-arms, and the emi- 
 grant who established the family in Penn- 
 sylvania some time during 1700, furnished 
 a son for the Colonial army of 1776. He in 
 turn reared a lad who carried a musket in the 
 war of 1 81 2, which patriot was the paternal 
 grandfather of the builder of Corvallis. The 
 soldier married in Pennsylvania, and while 
 living on a farm near Harrisburg, Dauphin 
 county, his son, Michael, the father of W. 
 O. Heckart, was born. When the latter 
 was sixteen years old the family removed 
 to Missouri, where the grandfather died, and 
 where Michael married Mary Moyer, a na- 
 tive of Ohio. Soon afterward, in 185 1, Mi- 
 chael pre-eempted land in Wapello county, 
 Iowa, where his wife died, and where he built 
 up quite a large farming and carpentering busi- 
 ness. He erected the first Presbyterian church 
 in Ottumwa, and was very successful as a build- 
 er for the balance of his life. A Democrat in 
 politics, he was public spirited and progressive, 
 and gave his ten children a practical education, 
 fitting them also to care for themselves in a busi- 
 ness way. Ten of these children attained ma- 
 turity, and nine are living at the present time, 
 two being in Corvallis, W. O. and Charles L., 
 the latter a carpenter. 
 
 The fourth youngest in his father's family, 
 Mr. Heckart was born in Wapello county, Iowa, 
 February 5, i860, and was reared on a farm eight 
 miles south of Ottumwa. Having gained a prac- 
 tical knowledge of the carpenter's trade he went 
 into actual business with his oldest brother at 
 the age of sixteen, and in 1883 removed to Holt 
 county, Neb., where he took up a homestead 
 and tree claim, improved the same, and lived 
 thereon for six years. In the meantime he had 
 alternated farming with contracting and build- 
 ing, and when he located in Corvallis in 1889, 
 he was well qualified to undertake the large 
 business which soon came his way, and from 
 1900 until 1903 served as city councilman of 
 the Second Ward, representing his ward on 
 several important committees, and thoroughly 
 fulfilling the expectations of those who had 
 placed him in power. In 1902 he was a candi- 
 date for state senator, being defeated only by 
 one hundred and nineteen votes, his defeat due 
 no doubt to the fact that he never canvassed the 
 county. With his wife, whom he married in 
 Iowa, and who was formerly Carrie Howk, a 
 native daughter, he lives in a comfortable and 
 modern residence on the corner of Fifth and 
 Monroe streets. He is fraternally associated 
 with the Modern Woodmen of America and 
 with the Ancient Order United Workmen. In 
 religion he is an elder and trustee of the First 
 Presbvterian Church. 
 
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 JOSEPH P. TAYLOR. A well known figure 
 both in the earlier and later stages of Lane 
 county development is Joseph P. Taylor, whose 
 wise use of five hundred acres of fertile land has 
 brought him a competence and whose enterprise 
 and public-spiritedness have made him popular 
 and influential. Mr. Taylor comes of an old 
 New Jersey family, in which state he was born 
 July 27, 1830, the same state witnessing the 
 birth of his father, Henry W. Taylor, in Sep- 
 tember, 1808. While yet a youth the father 
 learned the blacksmith trade, and followed the 
 same for many years in his native state. Of a 
 religious and humanitarian nature, he early es- 
 poused the cause of the Christian Church, and 
 almost up to the end of his life devoted a large 
 share of his time to preaching in local pulpits. 
 Until his marriage with Charlotte Peterson he 
 continued to live on his father's farm, and after- 
 ward worked at his trade and farmed on his 
 own responsibility. In 1830 he removed with his 
 family to Philadelphia, and there and at other 
 points in the Quaker state found employment 
 at his trade for about three years. For eight 
 years he lived in Highland county. Ohio, and 
 later, while living in southwestern Missouri, he 
 decided to emigrate to the far west, starting 
 April 19, 1852. The country there was not one- 
 tenth occupied, and nine-tenths of the land was 
 covered with its natural growth. There were 
 three families composing the train, with six 
 wagons, one of which was used to haul feed for 
 stock on the first of the trip, as the grass was 
 young and short. Just before they reached the 
 Kaw (Kansas) river they encountered one of 
 the most fearful hail storms that they had ever 
 witnessed. Gulches that had been dry became 
 filled with rushing torrents of water and ice 
 twenty feet deep and the hail piled up to the 
 wagon hubs on the face of a gradual slope. 
 But they soon were able to move on ; between the 
 Blue river and the Platte their road merged 
 with that over which the St. Louis travel came. 
 The next morning they saw camps in quarantine 
 with the smallpox, but which was soon checked ; 
 however, the cholera proceeded, which was then 
 raging in St. Louis. The travel here and on the 
 south side of the Platte became so dense that dur- 
 ing the mornings there was a line of wagons, 
 seven abreast, many of the drivers urging their 
 teams to get in the lead. On the north of the 
 river they could see a line of wagons equal to 
 their own, moving along the trail. After they 
 crossed the South Platte, in what was then 
 known as the Hollow, the cholera reached a 
 crisis and produced a terribly melancholy season. 
 Every living thing seemed to feel it, but the 
 little train in which Mr. Taylor's family traveled 
 escaped serious sickness. There were many 
 graves filled there by the cholera victims in 
 
 1850. As they passed on they noticed now and 
 then a new marble tombstone put up by pass- 
 ing friends, over the graves of some who had 
 died before. The train passed on with the com- 
 mon humdrum of camp life, up the Platte and 
 Sweetwater rivers, across the Rocky mountains 
 and Green river, also the Salt Lake basin and 
 down the Snake river past the Salmon Falls. 
 When the grass became short the train con- 
 cluded to cross the Snake river. Some young 
 men thereupon undertook to make a boat. They 
 secured some wagon-boxes and soon had a 
 square-end boat, and began to carry the people 
 and their effects over the river, while the stock 
 was made to swim the rushing torrent. While 
 the boat was under construction there accumu- 
 lated quite an encampment. And as the goods 
 were taken out of the wagons the germs of the 
 cholera were stirred up and the plague broke 
 out afresh. The Taylor family was among the 
 first to cross, but there were graves being dug 
 when they left the next morning. They moved 
 eleven miles that day to a meadow where was 
 plenty of good water. Here they found travelers 
 already encamped, and they were digging a 
 grave for one of their number. A little boy in 
 the Taylor train, a son of Harry Hazleton, sick- 
 ened and died that night. The next morning 
 before they left camp there were thirteen newly 
 made graves. Every camping place from that 
 on to the second crossing of Snake river was 
 a graveyard. Mr. Taylor's youngest brother 
 was buried near Boise river, where Boise City 
 now stands. The train re-crossed the Snake 
 river at old Fort Boise. Another brother sick- 
 ened here and died in two days. Here they had 
 their first view of the Grande Ronde valley, 
 which Mr. Taylor remembers as one of the most 
 beautiful valleys on earth. 
 
 The train here met a great many Oregonians 
 who came out from the Willamette valley to 
 meet their friends. From them was learned 
 the high price of food in the settlement, and as 
 there were many emigrants who had run short 
 of provisions, and Mr. Taylor had a supply for 
 the winter he sold his surplus to those who 
 needed it for just what he learned that he could 
 replace it for. He sold one hundred pounds af 
 homemade pressed tobacco at fifty cents per 
 plug (three plugs to the pound) in a little while. 
 The parents came very near dying with the 
 cholera on Willow creek, but recovered, and that 
 was the last they saw of the dreaded enemy. 
 The little band crossed the Cascades through 
 some of the tallest trees in the world and ar- 
 rived at Foster September 19, 1852, just five 
 months from the time they left the home in 
 Missouri. Thus they crossed the plains with 
 their little train with just nine men able to bear 
 arms without placing a guard for a single 
 
 
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 night. Of ninety head of stock only two died, 
 and two or three became foot-sore. 
 
 Joseph P. is the oldest in the family of ten 
 children. Jerry and Alexander live in the neigh- 
 borhood, Mrs. Jane Garoutte resides on the old 
 donation claim, and Mrs. Mary Frances White 
 makes her home in Monmouth, Polk county, 
 Ore. With the example of his father's fine and 
 useful life before him Joseph Taylor approached 
 manhood with a due appreciation of his duties 
 and responsibilities as a free American citizen. 
 The opportunity to test his mettle was forth- 
 coming in 1855, for the Indians had rendered 
 unbearable the life of the settlers, and it seemed 
 the duty of all able-bodied people to help quell 
 the disturbance. Enlisting for service as a pri- 
 vate, he took part in the battles of Cow Creek, 
 and Big Meadows. 
 
 Mr. Taylor says : "After the two days' fight 
 at Big Meadows the volunteers established a 
 post and built a stockade and a double log-house 
 for quartermaster and commissary stores. There 
 being no quartermaster to take charge of the 
 stores, the major of the northern battalion ap- 
 pointed me quartermaster for the post. This 
 was irregular, the legislature not having pro- 
 vided for such a quartermaster. My captain 
 gave me a discharge. This was also irregular, 
 as I should only have been reported on extra 
 duty with my rank. So, although the general 
 government acknowledged my services and paid 
 me the wages of a regular, the state of Ore- 
 gon rejected my claim as quartermaster on ac- 
 count of irregularities. Although thousands of 
 dollars worth of goods were placed in my care 
 and passed through my hands, and I performed 
 the hardest service that I ever did on any ac- 
 count, it was disallowed, and although I hunted 
 Indians on foot while my horse ran on the grass, 
 I have never received a cent from the state of 
 Oregon. Over forty years have passed since 
 I did this service." 
 
 After his discharge Mr. Taylor continued to 
 live at home until 1858, the year of his mar- 
 riage with Mary A. Small, a native of Tennes- 
 see, who crossed the plains in 1853, ner peop 1 e 
 locating near the Taylor farm. Taking up a 
 claim of one hundred and sixty acres south of 
 Cottage Grove he has continued to make that his 
 home up to the present time, and to his original 
 purchase has added and now owns more than 
 five hundred acres. His farm has modern and 
 practical improvements, and he raises produce, 
 grain and stock. 
 
 It is fitting that the son of so kindly and good 
 a father should follow in his footsteps, and in 
 this connection Mr. Taylor fulfills popular ex- 
 pectations. He is fair and honorable in all of his 
 dealings and possessed of more than ordinary 
 interest in and regard for his fellow-men. He 
 
 also is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and for a great many years has been 
 class leader and steward. Politically he is a 
 Prohibitionist, and this idea of temperance is 
 by no means confined to intoxicants, but perme- 
 ates every phase of his life, impressing all with 
 his sobriety. Of the nine children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Taylor, Lincoln is a resident of Cot- 
 tage Grove ; Ida C. and Rebecca are living at 
 home ; Harvey has a farm near the home place ; 
 and Lillie J. is making her home in Portland. 
 Many positions of trust and responsibility have 
 been tendered Mr. Taylor by his fellow towns- 
 men, and he has held several of the local minor 
 offices, including that of school director, for 
 fifteen consecutive years. 
 
 FELIX G. EBY. A worthy representative of 
 the legal fraternity of Oregon, F. G. Eby, a well- 
 known and esteemed citizen, has made the most 
 of his opportunities, and in the course of his 
 active career has steadily climbed the hill of 
 progress and success. He is a self-made man 
 in the broadest sense implied by the term, his 
 life experiences furnishing an excellent example 
 to the young men of this day and generation of 
 what may be accomplished by persistent indus- 
 try, enterprise and good judgment. A native of 
 Lane county, he was born near Eugene, Au- 
 gust 11, 1865, a son °f David Eby. On the 
 paternal side he comes of thrifty German stock, 
 his grandfather, Samuel Eby, having been born, 
 bred and edticated in Germany. Emigrating to 
 the United States he spent his first winter in 
 this country in Pennsylvania, working as a mill- 
 wright. The following spring he moved to Il- 
 linois, where he was engaged in milling several 
 years, and also became actively interested in the 
 Moline Plow works. Removing from Illinois to 
 Topeka, Kans., he engaged in milling and spec- 
 ulating, being very successful in his operations. 
 He died in that city, in 1893, at the venerable 
 age of ninety-six years. 
 
 Born near Springfield, 111., June 13, 1826, 
 David Eby, father of F. G. Eby, spent a part of 
 his early life there where he learned the cooper's 
 trade. Crossing the plains in 185 1, he followed 
 his trade in Astoria, Ore., for two years. 
 Going to Portland, Ore., in 1853, he was em- 
 ployed in the manufacture of barrels for a year, 
 and was then a resident of Oregon City for a 
 year. Locating in Linn county in 1855 he took 
 up a donation claim of one hundred and sixty 
 acres near Harrisburg, and settled with his bride, 
 Elizabeth Barger, a native of Missouri and the 
 daughter of Preston Barger, on the farm which 
 he improved, living there until 1864. Purchas- 
 ing land then in Lane county, he carried on 
 
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 general farming for five years in that locality, 
 in 1869 removing to eastern Oregon, where he 
 was engaged in stock-raising two years, the 
 present town of Prescott being located on the 
 land that he then owned. Returning to Lane 
 county in 1871 he carried on farming near Co- 
 burg for two years, when he sold his farm, and 
 settled in Harrisburg, where he worked for a 
 year at his trade. Then buying three hundred 
 and sixty acres of land a short distance from 
 that place, he worked at farming until 1885, 
 when he purchased a ranch near Goshen, Lane 
 county, where he resided until 1897. Disposing 
 of all his real estate in that year, he has since 
 lived in different places in the valley, making his 
 home with his children, since the death of his 
 wife in August, 1900, looking after his finan- 
 cial interests, and enjoying himself. He is an 
 active member of the Christian Church, in which 
 he is deacon, and since the formation of the 
 State Grange of Oregon has been chaplain of 
 the organization. Mrs. Eby's father, Preston 
 Barger, was born in the state of Ohio and was 
 also of German descent. In early manhood he 
 lived in Illinois, removing from there to Mis- 
 souri, and then, a few years after his marriage, 
 coming to Oregon, crossing the plains in 185 1. 
 Locating in Linn county, he took up three hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land, on which he and 
 his good wife spent their remaining years, he 
 dying at the advanced age of ninety years, and 
 she in her eighty-ninth year. 
 
 The eldest child of a family of four boys and 
 three girls, F. G. Eby attended first the dis- 
 trict schools of Oregon, subsequently entering 
 the Portland Business College, from which he 
 was graduated in 1884. From 1885 unt il J 888 
 he taught school in Linn county, being quite 
 successful as a teacher. In 1893 he began read- 
 ing law at Woodburn, and also engaged in in- 
 surance and real estate speculations. Passing 
 the examination of the State Board of Exam- 
 iners in 1896, he began the practice of law in 
 Woodburn, continuing there four years there- 
 after. Moving to Cottage Grove in May, 1900, 
 "Judge Eby," so called on account of his sound 
 reasonings on legal and other questions, formed 
 a partnership with J. C. Johnson, and has since 
 been actively and successfully engaged in his 
 professional labors. He is especially interested 
 in mining properties in the Bohemia district, 
 having been one of the incorporators and pro- 
 moters of the Le Roy Mining Company, of 
 which he was formerly secretary and treasurer, 
 and of the Hiawatha Mining Company, in which 
 he is a director. Being elected city attorney of 
 Cottage Grove in 1900, he served until the office 
 was abolished in 1902. He was elected and 
 
 served two terms as city attorney of Wood- 
 burn. 
 
 Politically Judge Eby is a stanch adherent of 
 the Republican party, supporting its principles 
 at all times and places. Being a fluent speaker, 
 his services are in great demand in political cam- 
 paigns. Fraternally he was made a Mason in 
 1890, at Gervais, Marion county, joining Fidelity 
 Lodge, No. 54, A. F. & A. M, of which he is 
 past master; he is also a member of the Wood- 
 men of the World and of the Foresters of 
 America. October 28, 1903, he was married to 
 Miss Tola Shull, an accomplished and highly 
 esteemed young lady of Walla Walla, and since 
 that time has resided at No. 660 Broadway, 
 Portland. Mr. Eby has offices in the Chamber 
 of Commerce, having identified himself with the 
 business interests of Portland. 
 
 EDWARD P. REDFORD. Among the en- 
 terprising and successful farmers to whom Lane 
 county owes so much for her present advanced 
 position, Edward P. Redford deserves more than 
 passing mention. Inheriting from thrifty and 
 successful farmers an appreciation of the possi- 
 bilities of his useful occupation, he has pro- 
 gressed as study and research have broadened his 
 mind and placed him in touch with the best to be 
 obtained in his field. Born in Barren county, 
 Ky., August 10, 1829, he is the son of a father 
 who moved his family to Missouri about 1848, 
 this being the third state in which he had owned 
 farms, that in his native state of Virginia being 
 the largest. There were fifteen children in the 
 family, and Edward P., who was the fourth, led 
 an uneventful life as a youth, attending the dis- 
 trict schools irregularly, and working hard dur- 
 ing the summer season. Like any other strong 
 and resourceful young man, he was on the look- 
 out for improving his prospects, and was willing 
 to take great risks in order to place himself in a 
 better position. The tales of mining and farm- 
 ing which reached him from the west fell upon 
 attentive ears, and April 24, 1850, he started out 
 with ox-teams to make his fortune in the far 
 west. Arriving in California at the end of five 
 months, he mined and prospected for a year, but 
 was not favorably impressed with the uncer- 
 tainty and rough life incident to mining, nor was 
 he sufficiently successful to warrant a continua- 
 tion of the struggle. For a time he engaged in 
 teaming, and in November, 1852, landed in Port- 
 land, Ore., of which state he has since been a 
 resident. 
 
 In the spring of 1853 Mr Redford moved to 
 near Eugene, and in February, 1853, to °k up a 
 donation claim in Lane county. His marriage 
 with Sarah M. Cochran occurred January 14, 
 1855, Mrs. Redford being a native of Missouri, 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1559 
 
 and she came across the plains with her parents 
 in 1852, locating on a farm in Lane county. 
 Alter his marriage Mr. Redford took up a claim 
 three miles northeast of Cottage Grove, mov- 
 ing in 1861 to near Coburg, and in 1863 to ms 
 present place, three miles northeast of Cottage 
 Grove. This farm consisted of two hundred and 
 twenty acres, being on the angles of sections 
 9, 10, 15 and 16, township 20, range 3 west. At 
 present he owns one hundred and fifty-six acres, 
 upon which he has made all modern improve- 
 ments, and carries on general farming and stock- 
 raising. For about seventeen years he conducted 
 harvesting machines around the country, and in 
 this way materially increased his yearly allow- 
 ance, many of the settlers being unable at that 
 time to own the necessary machinery for the 
 conduct of their farms. 
 
 Of the first marriage of Mr. Redford nine 
 children were born: John M., of Creswell; 
 James E., of Arena ; Mrs. Elizabeth Armstrong, 
 of California; and Mrs. Ida B. Stocks, of this 
 vicinity, being the only survivors. Mrs. Red- 
 ford died February 27, 1875. For a second wife 
 Mr. Redford married Mrs. Harriett E. Hymas, 
 a native of Missouri. In politics a Democrat, 
 Mr. Redford has taken an active interest in 
 county politics, although he has never been will- 
 ing to have his name put in nomination for of- 
 fice. He is a member and elder in the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church. During his life in 
 the west Mr. Redford has identified himself with 
 its unpleasant as well as agreeable phases of de- 
 velopment, and during the Rogue River war 
 gladly left his farm to espouse the cause of the 
 settlers against the troublesome Indians. Enlist- 
 ing under Captain Buoy, in Company B, he 
 served for three months during the latter part of 
 1855 and the beginning of 1856, participating in 
 many of the important battles. Mr. Redford 
 commands the respect and good will of all with 
 whom he has been associated in whatsoever ca- 
 capity, and as an agriculturist, soldier and gen- 
 eral citizen, has done his part in the upbuilding 
 of his adopted state. 
 
 U. G. BERRY. The general merchandise 
 store owned and managed by U. G. Berry is one 
 of the successful business concerns of Peoria. 
 Formerly the property of L. H. Ahrbecker, it 
 came under the present control in 1896, and has 
 since been enlarged both as to building and 
 stock. A large trade is conscientiously cared 
 for, the general line of commodities being of ex- 
 cellent quality and at moderate prices. For five 
 years Mr. Berry has been the postmaster of the 
 town, a part of the store being arranged for the 
 accommodation of the mails. 
 
 Mr. Berry comes from a family from which 
 
 one would expect only upright and capable men, 
 for his youth was surrounded by the noblest 
 and most worthy influences, and he was reared 
 to appreciate the value of industry and a good 
 name. His father, J. L. Berry, of German de- 
 scent, was born in Richmond county, 111., and 
 in early manhood devoted himself to a course 
 of study at the United Brethren College in his 
 native state. During his entire life he com- 
 bined farming, preaching and general ministra- 
 tions, at an early day removing to Minnesota, 
 where he made his home for several years. He 
 married Susan Reaves, who bore him seven 
 children, four sons and three daughters, of whom 
 U. G, the oldest, was born in Minnesota May 7, 
 1869. I n I 88i the family fortunes were shifted 
 from Minnesota to Wasco county, Ore., on the 
 Hood river, and here the father took up a claim. 
 At the same time U. G. attended Philomath Col- 
 lege for a few months. The father did not long 
 survive the change of climate and general sur- 
 roundings, for his death occurred in Philomath 
 in 1885, at the age of forty-seven years. 
 
 After his father's death the oldest son in the 
 family naturally assumed control of the farm, 
 which greatly improved with the passing years, 
 and proved both valuable and productive. Not 
 wishing to remain longer in the country, the 
 family decided to sell the property in 1890, and 
 move to Corvallis, where U. G. Berry engaged 
 in the transfer business with the City Dray Com- 
 pany. In time he succeeded to the entire owner- 
 ship of the business, and at the end of six years 
 he moved to Peoria, and bought his present 
 store of Mr. Ahrbecker. At Corvallis he was 
 married in 1891 to Anna Ridenaur, who was 
 born in Benton county, October 28, 1871, a 
 daughter of William Ridenaur, who is still liv- 
 ing, retired, in Lincoln county. Two children 
 have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Berry: Glenn 
 and Lucile. Aside from the office of postmaster, 
 Mr. Berry has held several elective offices, among 
 them that of school director and clerk for six 
 years. He is one of the stanch Republicans of 
 this town, and has never swerved from party 
 allegiance since casting his first presidential 
 vote. He is popular fraternally, and is connected 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Berry is genial 
 and large-hearted, generous in his contributions 
 to local enterprises of a charitable or upbuilding 
 nature, and fair in his judgment of his friends 
 and the world at large. 
 
 WILLIAM HAMILTON. In the compara- 
 tively brief space allowed one can scarcely do 
 justice to the many interesting features of the 
 life of William Hamilton, a pioneer of pioneers, 
 whose memory of Indians and general border ex- 
 
1560 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 periences would furnish many a theme for the 
 novelist or playwright. Mr. Hamilton was born 
 in Jefferson county, Ind., January 10, 1836, and 
 is the third youngest of the three sons and two 
 daughters born to Forgus and Matilda (Woods) 
 Hamilton, natives respectively of Pennsylvania 
 and Virginia. The family was established in 
 Pennsylvania by the paternal grandfather, who 
 came from Ireland at a very early day, and 
 farmed for the remainder of his life. From 
 Pennsylvania Forgus Hamilton moved to Ohio, 
 and from there to Jefferson county, Ind. His 
 death occurred in Jennings county, Ind., his 
 wife surviving him for a number of years. 
 
 Limited educational opportunities did not 
 dwarf the early ambitions of William Hamilton, 
 who learned more from observation and practical 
 experience than do most men in many years of 
 application to books. In 185 1 he crossed the 
 plains in a caravan bound for Oregon. For ten 
 years he mined and prospected in northern Cali- 
 fornia, and in the spring of 1861 made his way 
 to the Orofino mines in Idaho. He spent the 
 winter of 1861-2 in the Salmon river basin and 
 at the Florence and Idaho mines. In 1862 he 
 bought animals and engaged in packing from 
 Lewiston to the Salmon river district and Elk 
 City, and afterward from Walla Walla to the 
 Boise Basin. In 1864 he returned from this 
 pioneer experience to the Willamette valley, 
 afterward visiting the mines, but in 1865 settled 
 in Lane county, which has since been his home. 
 His first farm in this county was on Lake creek, 
 twenty-five miles west of Junction City, and con- 
 sisted of one hundred and sixty acres of land, 
 which he lost because of a defective title. He 
 later took up one hundred and twenty-nine acres 
 near his original farm, and in 1872 bought forty 
 acres of land from the railroad company, located 
 in section 17. All of this land has since been 
 disposed of, Mr. Hamilton having lived on a 
 portion of it until about two years ago, and sub- 
 sequently moved to Junction City. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton has never married, but this does 
 not indicate that his life has been self-centered, 
 or that the large profits from his various enter- 
 prises have not passed into useful channels. He 
 is humanitarian in the extreme, giving liberally 
 to the worthy causes represented in his neigh- 
 borhood and county, and proving a friend indeed 
 to many less fortunate than himself. In his early 
 conflicts with the Indians he was not unmindful 
 of the things due the deposed monarchs of the 
 plains, and often made friends with the most 
 troublesome of the leaders. In 1855 he enlisted 
 in the Harris Company under Col. John Ross, 
 and later served in the Second Oregon mounted 
 volunteers, participating in the battle of Hungry 
 Hill, and in that of the Cabins with the Apple- 
 gates, the latter of whom were renowned for 
 
 hard and desperate fighting. He was discharged 
 from the service in the Rogue River valley, and 
 thereafter returned to the mines to undergo for 
 many years the deprivations and dangers which 
 beset all who tried to make their way in the 
 early days. He is probably more familiar with 
 the trails and out-of-the-way places in this north- 
 western country than any other man now living 
 in Junction City, and it was this very knowledge 
 of the country that caused him to be selected as 
 guide to lead from the hills the army that after- 
 ward went to Grave Creek. In political affilia- 
 tion Mr. Hamilton is a Lincoln Republican, a 
 Jeffersonian Democrat and a silver man to the 
 core. He is at present employing his leisure in 
 writing a complete history of his life, and his 
 facile pen will undoubtedly lend itself to graphic 
 descriptions utterly impossible on the part of even 
 his most intimate and well-informed friends. 
 Mr. Hamilton is appreciated for his many ad- 
 mirable traits of character, for his goodness of 
 heart and his intense public spirit, and his friends 
 throughout the northwest are legion. 
 
 JAMES ISAAC JONES. A man of remark- 
 able business energy, foresight and sagacity, 
 James Isaac Jones, of Cottage Grove, occupies 
 a position of eminence in the financial, agricul- 
 tural, political and social life of Lane county. 
 During his active career he has been conspicu- 
 ously identified with many of the leading indus- 
 tries of this section of the state, and in his oper- 
 ations has invariably met with success, fortune 
 smiling upon his every venture. A son of C. 
 H. Jones, he was born December 1, 1866, in 
 Macon City, Macon county, Mo., of Virginian 
 ancestry. 
 
 Isaac W. Jones, the grandfather of James 
 Isaac, was born in Virginia, of colonial stock. 
 Going to Tennessee as a pioneer, he worked at 
 his trade of an iron-forger until 1850, when he 
 followed the march of civilization westward to 
 Missouri. Purchasing land in Macon county, 
 near the city of Macon, he carried on general 
 farming until his death, at the advanced age of 
 eighty-six years. A model citizen, and a man 
 of true Christian character, he was a faithful 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South, in which he did much active work, being 
 a local preacher. 
 
 Born in Tennessee, C. H. Jones accompanied 
 his parents to Missouri, and with the exception 
 of a year spent in Indiana, lived in that state 
 until 1883. On account of failing health he then 
 emigrated to Oregon, locating at Cottage Grove 
 as a carpenter, and still resides here, living 
 rather retired from active pursuits. He married 
 Louisa Harriet Gentry, who was born in Indi- 
 ana, near Bloomington, where her father, James 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1561 
 
 Gentry, was born, lived and died. Six children 
 were born of their union, James Isaac, the third 
 child in succession of birth, being the only son. 
 
 Completing his education in the public schools 
 of Oregon, James Isaac Jones embarked in bus- 
 iness on his own account in 1889, as a butcher, 
 borrowing $50 for the purpose. At the end 
 of two years he sold out, having paid off his in- 
 debtedness and cleared $600 in that time. In 
 1891 he bought a saw-mill on the Coast Fork 
 river, and in a short time had so enlarged his 
 business that he had to increase the capacity of 
 the mill from six thousand feet per day to ten 
 thousand feet per day, later increasing it to 
 thirty-three thousand feet per day. With char- 
 acteristic enterprise he built a lumber plant at 
 what is now Saginaw, in Lane county, thus es- 
 tablishing the town, which he named, and as- 
 sisted in building. The mill has a capacity of 
 sixty-five thousand feet per day, and the flume 
 is five miles, nine hundred feet long and one 
 thousand six hundred and sixty feet high at the 
 summit. The plant, which is one of the largest 
 in the county, has planing-mills and dryers con- 
 nected with it. In 1898 Mr. Jones sold out his 
 lumber interests, and the following year bought 
 four hundred and twenty acres of land adjoin- 
 ing Cottage Grove on the southeast, the farm 
 being known as the old Shields donation claim, 
 and subsequently laid off the J. I. Jones addi- 
 tion to the town. 
 
 Embarking in enterprises of a different nature 
 in 1899, Mr. Jones purchased three different 
 groups of mining claims in the Bohemia dis- 
 trict, buying a part of the Music and Oregon 
 and Colorado groups, and all of the Winchester 
 group. In 1900 he sold his share in the first 
 two groups, but still retains the Winchester r 
 which he is developing, obtaining a fine grade of 
 lead ore. In his mining ventures he met with 
 much success, and also made money in land spec- 
 ulations, having, in 1900, in company with "J. 
 W. Cook, of Portland, purchased ten thousand 
 acres of railway land and two thousand acres of 
 school script land, all of which he has since sold 
 at an advantageous price. In 1901 he bought 
 the Major Chrisman ranch of seven hundred 
 and fifty-four acres, at Saginaw, where he is 
 carrying on an extensive dairy and creamery 
 business, keeping one hundred and seventy-five 
 head of cattle. He is also the owner of four 
 hundred and twenty acres of good timber land in 
 Lane county. In 1900 Mr. Jones established 
 himself in the hardware business in Cottage 
 Grove, continuing for a year as head of the firm 
 of Jones & Phillips. 
 
 Mr. Jones married, at Cottage Grove, Lillie 
 Lewis, who was born near Junction City, a 
 daughter of J. B. Lewis, a general merchant of 
 this place. She died a year after their marriage. 
 
 Mr. Jones married a second time, in Eugene, 
 Ore., Gertrude H. Roberts, who was born in 
 Iowa, the birthplace of her father, John Roberts, 
 a farmer, who is now living retired from active 
 pursuits in Eugene. Four children have blessed 
 the union of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, namely : Oscar 
 I., deceased; Frankie Carl; Robert Lester; and 
 Maria. 1 In politics Mr. Jones is a Republican, 
 and has always taken a cordial interest in the suc- 
 cess of his party. He has served as precinct 
 committeeman, for one term was mayor of the 
 city, and is now serving his second term as coun- 
 cilman. He is prominent in fraternal organiza- 
 tions, belonging to Cottage Grove Lodge, A. F. 
 & A. M. ; to Eugene Chapter, R. A. M. ; to the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows; to the 
 Knights of Pythias ; and to the Artisans. He is 
 an active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, of which he is steward and trustee, and 
 superintendent of the Sunday school, having held 
 the latter position the past four years. 
 
 JAMES SCOTT McMURRY. On Alder 
 street, near the Masonic cemetery, James Scott 
 McMurry is engaged in hay growing and gen- 
 eral farming on a portion of the old claim which 
 has been a treasured possession of his family 
 since 1851. Within sight of the lights of the 
 city of Eugene, Mr. McMurry has the advantage 
 of both city and country, and his every day life 
 is passed upon one of the most fertile and well 
 equipped farms in this vicinity. Mr. McMurry 
 was three years and three months old when his 
 feet first trod the soil of the unimproved farm, 
 for he was born near Quincy, Adams county, 
 111., July 22, 1848, and reached here in Septem- 
 ber, 185 1. 
 
 Fieldin McMurry, the father of James Scott 
 McMurry, was born in Kentucky, whence had 
 settled his paternal grandfather, James Mc- 
 Murry, after his emigration from Scotland. 
 James McMurry spent his last years in the 
 Bourbon state ; after his death his son, Fieldin, 
 removed to Adams county, 111., where he married 
 Harriett Riggs, a native of that state, whose 
 father, Scott Riggs, was a farmer and early set- 
 tler there. With his wife Fieldin McMurry be- 
 gan housekeeping on the farm he had purchased 
 near Quincy, and there four of their children 
 were born, all of whom accompanied their pa- 
 rents across the plains in 185 1. The family 
 equipment consisted of three wagons and several 
 ox-teams, and the journey was accomplished 
 without any serious drawbacks to the health or 
 convenience of the travelers. The father pur- 
 chased the Culver donation claim of three hun- 
 dred and twenty acres, erected a small log house 
 and later built a more modern residence, his last 
 home being just east of where the University 
 
1562 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of Oregon has since been built. He became 
 a prominent man in this locality, and was hon- 
 ored by his election to offices of trust and re- 
 sponsibility. He was the first treasurer of Lane 
 county, and was also a member of the territorial 
 legislature which met at Corvallis. Formerly 
 a Whig, he was equally stanch as a Republican, 
 and a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Besides James Scott, who was the 
 fourth child, there was Milton, now living in 
 Eugene; Louisa Hubbard, Mary and Zodac, 
 who died in Eugene ; and Emma, Mrs. Arch- 
 ambeau, of Portland. 
 
 After his father's death, in i860, J. S. Mc- 
 Murry remained at home and helped his mother 
 with the management of the farm. Besides the 
 country schools he attended Christian College, at 
 Monmouth, in 1871-72. At the age of twenty- 
 five, in 1873, he married Emma Murphy, daugh- 
 ter of John E. Murphy, a prominent resident of 
 Polk county, and thereafter went to housekeep- 
 ing on a farm half a mile from Monmouth, Polk 
 county, consisting of one hundred and sixty 
 acres. Here he engaged principally in grain 
 farming until 1879, during which year he came 
 into his inheritance of one hundred acres of the 
 old farm. His father had sold off ten acres for 
 the Masonic cemetery four years before his 
 death, but otherwise retained his property intact. 
 Mr. McMurry has about fifty acres in hay, 
 and the balance is devoted to grain and general 
 farming, also to a fine fruit orchard and large 
 garden. In 1901 he built a prune dryer at Thurs- 
 ton, and now derives a substantial income from 
 drying and shipping prunes for the surrounding 
 horticulturists. 
 
 Like his father, Mr. McMurry is a Republican, 
 although he has no thought of participating in 
 the official affairs of his district. He is essen- 
 tially a man of domestic habits, devoted to his 
 farm and family. For many years he has been 
 a member of the Christian Church, in which he 
 faithfully performs his duties as deacon. He is 
 a member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. Eight children have been born into the 
 McMurry family. The oldest daughter, Daisy, 
 is the wife of Mr. Love, and is making her home 
 in Canyonville; Ralph and Frank became sol- 
 diers in the Spanish-American war, serving in 
 the Philippine Islands in Company C, Second 
 Oregon Volunteer Infantry; Myrtle, Nellie, 
 Elsie, Glenn and Edna are living at home. Mr. 
 McMurry is a practical and energetic farmer, 
 progressive and public spirited, and no one in 
 the community bears a better reputation for sin- 
 cerity of purpose and business integrity. 
 
 GEORGE M. HAWLEY. The faith which 
 peopled and developed the resources of Oregon 
 also gave rise to a spirit of independence which 
 
 characterized those who cast their lot in the early 
 days as pioneers, and without this the west must 
 have lacked that which has so quickly lifted to 
 importance its commercial and industrial inter- 
 ests. Many of the present prominent citizens of 
 the state are the sons of those adventurous spirits, 
 and their inheritance of courage, energy and per- 
 severance has early insured their success in the 
 various lines of business adapted to this section 
 of the country, of which none holds a higher 
 place than the cultivation of the soil, in which 
 many of the most talented men of the state are 
 engaged. 
 
 In the vicinity of Creswell, Lane county, is lo- 
 cated the home of George M. Hawley, one of the 
 progressive and up-to-date farmers of this region. 
 He is a native son of the state, having been born 
 on the Divide, Ore., September 9, 1857, the son 
 of Ira Hawley. The latter was born in York 
 county, N. Y., May 16, 1817, and his father 
 being a farmer by occupation he was early trained 
 to that life. When seventeen years old he started 
 out into the world to make his own way, going 
 first to the state of Illinois, Knox county, where 
 he engaged as a farm hand, working by the 
 month. This was continued steadily until he had 
 attained his majority — a perseverance uncommon 
 in so young a man, — and with the proceeds of his 
 four years' work he bought a farm, where he en- 
 gaged in farming for himself. He was married 
 about this time to Elvira Riley, a native of Indi- 
 ana, and he remained in Illinois until 1849, when 
 he was attracted by the glowing reports to cross 
 the plains on a Cayuse pony into the gold fields 
 of California. There he mined for about a year, 
 when he returned to Illinois by way of the Isth- 
 mus of Panama, and in the spring of 1852 he 
 crossed the plains with his family, coming direct 
 to Lane county, Ore., where he took up a dona- 
 tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres lo- 
 cated on the Divide between Douglas and Lane 
 counties. This remained his home for many 
 years, and in the prosecution of stock dealing and 
 farming he gradually accumulated a large amount 
 of property, none of which he was ever known to 
 sell. He became one of the very successful men 
 of the county and was one of the principal stock 
 dealers in this section, his estate amounting to 
 four thousand acres, which he divided among his 
 children a few years before his death. He lived 
 to be over eighty years old, while his wife died 
 at seventy-six. The two acquired fame as the 
 keepers of what was known as the " Mountain 
 House," the last stopping place on this side of the 
 Calipooes mountains. Of the children born to 
 them, Niram is located near Moscow, Idaho; 
 William B. is in Lorane, Ore. ; George M. is the 
 subject of this review; Robert D. is located in the 
 vicinity of Creswell ; and James owns the old 
 homestead on the Divide 
 
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1563 
 
 George M. Hawley was reared on his father's 
 farm and received his education in the district 
 schools of Cottage Grove. He remained at home 
 until attaining his majority, and he then came to 
 the farm which he now occupies, then having three 
 hundred and seventy-five acres one and one-half 
 miles north of Creswell, and three hundred and 
 twenty embodied in a stock ranch eight miles 
 west. For six years he lived alone upon this 
 farm and then married Mary C. Adams, a native 
 of Cottage Grove, and the two children born to 
 them are Herbert and George Frances. He now 
 has six hundred and ninety-five acres of land, two 
 hundred and fifty of which are under cultivation, 
 and is carrying on g-eneral farming and stock- 
 raising, his greatest industry being tbe raising of 
 
 Durham cattle, Cotswold sheep, Angora goats. 
 A neat dwelling and substantial outbuildings add 
 to the general appearance of his property. 
 
 March 31, 1894, Mr. Hawley married for a 
 second wife Minnie M. Ozment, a native of Lo- 
 rane. Mr. Hawley is prominent in fraternal 
 orders, being a member of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, Daughters of Rebekah, Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and Woodmen of the 
 World. Politically he is a Republican and has 
 held various offices in the vicinitv. and alwavs 
 takes an active and intelligent part in tbe affairs 
 of the community. One of the most important 
 business positions which he has held is that of 
 one of the trustees of the First National Bank of 
 Cottage Grove. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 Abrams, Lewis 981 
 
 Acheson, Mathew 1247 
 
 Ackerman, Hon. J. H 995 
 
 Adams, Oliver H 705 
 
 Adams, Oscar P 1454 
 
 Addison, Robert 465 
 
 Adkins, Sampson D 1064 
 
 Agee, James 1236 
 
 Ainsworth, George J 80 
 
 Ainsworth, Capt. J. C 158 
 
 Ainsworth, J. C 159 
 
 Akers, Jabez H 1525 
 
 Alderman, Edwin A 757 
 
 Alexander, William H 1436 
 
 Allen, Frank E 257 
 
 Allen, Henry 551 
 
 Allen, Nelson H 432 
 
 Allen, Timothy D 872 
 
 Allen, William M 1208 
 
 Ambler, Henry 1142 
 
 Ambler, Thomas L 900 
 
 Ames, Joseph S 1458 
 
 Ames, Samuel 827 
 
 Amstutz, Jacob 876 
 
 Andersen, Peter C 485 
 
 Apperson, Capt. J. T 279 
 
 Applegate, Charles 1494 
 
 Applegate, Jesse 141 5 
 
 Applegate, Lindsay 1545 
 
 Armitage, Frank L 1393 
 
 Arnold, James L 1204 
 
 Arthur, A. F 559 
 
 Arthurs, John D 1 164 
 
 Atkinson, Joseph M 1230 
 
 Atwater, James L 910 
 
 Avery, J. C 869 
 
 Avery, Punderson 919 
 
 Awbrey, Milton T 1256 
 
 B 
 
 Babcock, William P 576 
 
 Bailey, Eli j ah 783 
 
 Baker, John W.. 1446 
 
 Baker, William E 372 
 
 Bangs, Eli 1528 
 
 Barbre, Thomas 1484 
 
 Barclay, Isaac 1422 
 
 Barclay, Mrs. Mary W 1285 
 
 Barclay, William 1309 
 
 Barclay, William D 964 
 
 Barlow, William 137 
 
 Barnard. Guilford 948 
 
 Barnes. Mrs. Martha 1079 
 
 Barr, Syrus V 1439 
 
 Barr, Herman W 1298 
 
 Bashaw, Peter 1226 
 
 Baskett. Catherine S 788 
 
 Bates, Hon. G. W 170 
 
 Bates, P. A 720 
 
 Bausch, Mrs. Rosalia 1094 
 
 Baxter, Samuel R 649 
 
 Beam, I. B 1462 
 
 Beamis. George 1388 
 
 Bean, Frederick C 1382 
 
 Bean, Louis E 1255 
 
 Beard, Josephus J 1051 
 
 Beardsley, James 477 
 
 Becke, Charles, Jr 1276 
 
 Beck, Mrs. Margarite 899 
 
 Bedwell, H. F 614 
 
 Beebe, Gen. C. F 154 
 
 Beezley, Benjamin F 1351 
 
 Bell, Edward 871 
 
 Bell, James H 1416 
 
 Bell, John C 133 
 
 Bellman, F. B 1529 
 
 Belt, Charles F 347 
 
 Bennett, Levi 533 
 
 Bents, Fred 743 
 
 Bents, Henry L 1228 
 
 Bents, William 1463 
 
 Berry, U. G 1559 
 
 Berry, Henry M 822 
 
 Beutgen, Rev. Peter 1539 
 
 Bewley, James F 267 
 
 Bewley, Roswell L 268 
 
 Bible, A. S 570 
 
 Bickel, Fred 157 
 
 Bickers, Horace E 309 
 
 Biddle, Edward 407 
 
 Bilyeu, Jackson A 1248 
 
 Bilyeu, Hon. Lark. 1525 
 
 Bilyeu, Hon. William R 898 
 
 Bishop, Charles P 353 
 
 Black, Charles W 238 
 
 Blackburn, Addison P 737 
 
 Blakely, Capt. James 1213 
 
 Blakeslee, Charles L 841 
 
 Bland, George H 1165 
 
 Bland, John W 1162 
 
 Blanton, John 788 
 
 Blevins, Hon. Alfred 1058 
 
 Blevins, Andrew J 1057 
 
 Blumhart, Frederick G 1347 
 
 Boardman, Prof. H. L 640 
 
 Bodine, Daniel H 870 
 
 Boedigheimer, Bruno G 1470 
 
 Bogue, William 842 
 
 Boise, Hon. Reuben P 209 
 
 Bomhoff, Dedrick H 341 
 
 Bond, Albert B 1000 
 
 Bond, Isaac W 1406 
 
 Bond, Samuel Lincoln 1063 
 
 Bonham, Hon. Benjamin F... 241 
 
 Bonney, Bradford S 1161 
 
 Bonney, T. L 553 
 
 Boyle, Mrs. Josephine 364 
 
 Boynton, Charles 339 
 
 Brandeberry. Jason N 402 
 
 Branson, Eli T 643 
 
 Brattain, George 1448 
 
 Brattain, James C 1137 
 
 Brewer, C. H., M.D 1461 
 
 Brewer, John F 1426 
 
 Breyman, Werner 1304 
 
 Bridgefarmer. Alanson 1059 
 
 Bridges, B. F 800 
 
 Brinkley, Henry H 750 
 
 Bristow, Darwin 1419 
 
 Bristow, Henry T 946 
 
 Bronaugh, Earl C, Jr 286 
 
 Bronaugh, Earl C 287 
 
 Brooks, Frank M., M.D 357 
 
 Brown, James H 578 
 
 Brown, James M 1377 
 
 Brown, Jesse 1310 
 
 Brown, L. W., M.D 1096 
 
 Brown, Gen. Martin V 1032 
 
 Brown, W. R 528 
 
 Browne, Samuel C, M.D 961 
 
 Brownell, Albert io=;2 
 
 Brownell, Hon. G. C 89 
 
 Bruce, James 1348 
 
 Bryant, George K 671 
 
 Buchanan, James S 749 
 
 Buchanan, John A 1150 
 
 Buchanan, William A 1260 
 
 Bucher, Rev. Felix 1463 
 
 Buckingham, Augustus H 210 
 
 Buoy, Noah 1513 
 
 Burch, Charles H 502 
 
 Burkhart, George W 449 
 
 Burnett, Judge John 1340 
 
 Burnett, M. P 976 
 
 Burns, H. C 620 
 
 Burton, Alvin A 906 
 
 Busey, David S 812 
 
 Bush, Hon. Asahel 27 
 
 Bushnell, James A 131 1 
 
 Buskey, Frank 947 
 
 Bussard, Dory. 382 
 
 Buterick, Harrison 365 
 
 Butler, Ira F. M 1181 
 
 Butt, Clarence 987 
 
 Buxton, Edward 1 169 
 
 Byerley, Absalom 552 
 
 Byrd, Lorenzo A 903 
 
 Byrd, William H., M.D 297 
 
 Calbreath, Hon. John F 534 
 
 Caldwell, Valentine H 1070 
 
 Calhoon, Mrs. Rebecca........ 528 
 
 Callaway, Carroll C 1387 
 
 Callison, Robert 1093 
 
 Cameron, James M 841 
 
 Campbell, Albert 871 
 
 Campbell, Frank 688 
 
 Campbell, Robert E 1454 
 
 Campbell, William 672 
 
 Canan, Mrs. Mary A 1458 
 
 Cannon, Sylvester 659 
 
 Canter, Marshall W 811 
 
 Caples, Hon. J. F 291 
 
 Cartwright, Richard, M.D 952 
 
 Cary, George T 715 
 
 Cathey, B. A, M.D 1011 
 
1566 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Chamberlain, Hon. George E. . . 37 
 
 Chamberlin, Enoch 843 
 
 Chamberlin, Miss Ellen J 1483 
 
 Chambers, Franklin J 1517 
 
 Chambers, Frank L 1319 
 
 Chambers, Mathew C 926 
 
 Chandler, A. C 630 
 
 Chandler, Will E 1179 
 
 Chapin, Milton S 700 
 
 Chapman, Elias F 1397 
 
 Charlton, James K 504 
 
 Cheshire, Waldo L., M.D 1491 
 
 Chipman, Seymour 11 55 
 
 Chrisman, Hon. Gabriel R....1398 
 
 Chrisman, Winfield S 1449 
 
 Christenson, Nels C 564 
 
 Church, John C 1090 
 
 Churchill, L. Arthur 817 
 
 Chute, Abraham L 748 
 
 Claggett, William D 893 
 
 Clanfield, Henry 1418 
 
 Clark, Newton 95 
 
 Clark, Capt. Peter F 327 
 
 Claxton, Richard 444 
 
 Claypool, Samuel R 1173 
 
 Geek, Henry A 262 
 
 Cleland, Hon. J. B 29 
 
 Cleland, William A 30 
 
 Clelen, John H 1472 
 
 Cline, George W 1048 
 
 Clough, A. M 915 
 
 Clough, Harry B., M.D 996 
 
 Coad, Chester G 1216 
 
 Coad, Frank J 1248 
 
 Coad, Samuel 520 
 
 Cochran, George W 1065 
 
 Cochran, William T 1022 
 
 Cockrell, Thomas 448 
 
 Colbath, Benjamin B 346 
 
 Coleman, Enoch P 1403 
 
 Coleman, James 669 
 
 Coleman, William T 485 
 
 Collins, J. J 390 
 
 Collins, Judge J. L 1126 
 
 Collinson, Thomas 1497 
 
 Colwell, John J 312 
 
 Comegys, Presley 925 
 
 Comley, Jennings B 804 
 
 Compton, James W 838 
 
 Cone, Anson S 393 
 
 Cone, Gustavus A 211 
 
 Conner, Job 297 
 
 Conner, Roswell L 676 
 
 Conser, John A 1189 
 
 Cook, Mrs. E. A 619 
 
 Cook, Francis M 438 
 
 Cook, John F 618 
 
 Cook, John F., M.D 569 
 
 Cooley, Alexander 1519 
 
 Cooley, John 1392 
 
 Cooley, Mathias 1 183 
 
 Cooley, William C 1231 
 
 Coolidge, Ai 387 
 
 Coon, Washington L 1077 
 
 Cooper, Bazzel W 1297 
 
 Cooper, Col. Jacob C 692 
 
 Cooper, John R 1001 
 
 Cooper, Thomas H 1 160 
 
 Coote, Prof. George 1 097 
 
 Coovert, Abram 710 
 
 Coovert, John W 626 
 
 Corbett, Hon. H. W 21 
 
 Cordley, Arthur B 1328 
 
 Cornelius, Absalom H 539 
 
 Cornelius, Green B 414 
 
 Cornett, John B 1222 
 
 Coshow, Oliver P 821 
 
 Covell, Grant A 1313 
 
 Cowls, Hon. J. W 261 
 
 Cox, Edwin G 928 
 
 Cox, Peter J 1407 
 
 Cox, Smith 928 
 
 Coyle, Alexander 781 
 
 Cozine, Pleasant 677 
 
 Craig, Capt. David 399 
 
 Crain, Frederick W. A 1405 
 
 Crandall, Albert 1 1202 
 
 Craw, George F 853 
 
 Crawford, John 641 
 
 Crawford, Robert M 1465 
 
 Crawford, Thomas H 1342 
 
 Crees, William 1085 
 
 Cressy, W. E 902 
 
 Crisell, William A 1 183 
 
 Crittenden, Charles M 1357 
 
 Croisan, Hon. Edward M 1023 
 
 Cronise, Harry H 844 
 
 Crosby, Rufus C 1239 
 
 Crow, J. Hardy 1508 
 
 Crow, William N 1508 
 
 Crowder, Salmon W 665 
 
 Crowley, James M., M.D 727 
 
 Crume, Nelson P 1152 
 
 Cummings, Thomas B 1002 
 
 Cummings, William L 989 
 
 Currier, Jacob M 1333 
 
 Currin, John 1476 
 
 Currin, William H 848 
 
 Cusick, Hon. W. A, M.D 584 
 
 Cusiter, George 932 
 
 D 
 
 Daly, Hon. John J 478 
 
 Damon, Lyman 729 
 
 Daniel, Samuel M 728 
 
 Dannals, James 318 
 
 Dannals, O. P 251 
 
 Dannals, Reuben 294 
 
 Darst, Paul 321 
 
 Davenport, Homer C 934 
 
 Davenport, Hon. Timothy W.942 
 
 David, John B 1305 
 
 Davidson William M 737 
 
 Davis, Piatt A 235 
 
 Davis, James B 926 
 
 Davis, John N 459 
 
 Davis, L. T 363 
 
 Davis, Hon. W. H., M.D 1193 
 
 Dawson, Hon. Sylvander A. . 666 
 
 Dekum, Adolph A 96 
 
 De Guire, Charles F 931 
 
 Denney, John 1346 
 
 Dentel, Godfrey 929 
 
 Derby, James R ." 630 
 
 Dickinson, John 729 
 
 Dimick, George W. . . . .' 1053 
 
 Dimmick, Joseph 1172 
 
 D'Lashmutt, E. L 525 
 
 Dodge, Francis M 993 
 
 Dolph, Cyrus A 178 
 
 Dolph, Hon. Joseph N 180 
 
 Donaca, William B 815 
 
 Dosch, Col. H. E 285 
 
 Douglas, Samuel M 1253 
 
 Downing, William H 1307 
 
 Drucks, John E 1206 
 
 Duncan, John 1414 
 
 Dunn, Francis B 1435 
 
 Durst, Balthasar 781 
 
 Earhart, George F 654 
 
 Earhart, Rockey P 115 
 
 Eberhard, George 1 129 
 
 Ebbert, James A 1400 
 
 Eby, Felix G 1557 
 
 Edwards, Major Frank E 1554 
 
 Edwards, Isaac N 1493 
 
 Edwards, James E 954 
 
 Edwards, Jesse 303 
 
 Edwards, Melvin M 1190 
 
 Ek, Magnus 212 
 
 Eldridge, Kersey C 856 
 
 Elkins, James 881 
 
 Elkins, Luther 881 
 
 Ellis, John 474 
 
 Ellis, Maj. Matthew H., M.D.. 894 
 
 Ellis, Hon. Mitchell M 683 
 
 Ellis, William R 578 
 
 Elmore, William P 605 
 
 Embree, Thomas V. B., M.D.. . 413 
 
 Emerick, Prof. Bert E 1253 
 
 Emmens, Mrs. Eliza G 532 
 
 English, John 878 
 
 English, Levin N 370 
 
 Erbsland, Joseph 1043 
 
 Esson, Alexander 542 
 
 Evans, William G 784 
 
 Everding, Henry 67 
 
 Everest, William 1 191 
 
 Everett, Henry G 1175 
 
 Failing, Edward 48 
 
 Failing, Henry 33 
 
 Failing, James F 48 
 
 Failing, Hon. Josiah 47 
 
 Farra, George R., M.D 743 
 
 Farrow, Charles S 1430 
 
 Farwell, Edward D 1361 
 
 Farwell, Richard 1361 
 
 Farwell, Richard C 1361 
 
 Faull, William 1297 
 
 Fawcett, Thomas K 1147 
 
 Feller, Francis 1117 
 
 Feller, Peter 483 
 
 Fendall, Philip R 655 
 
 Fendall, Riley Y 57« 
 
 Fenton, James D 41 
 
 Fenton, William D 41 
 
 Fields, Frank S 134 
 
 Fink, Victor, M.D 468 
 
 Finley, Hugh M 1544 
 
 Finn, John J 797 
 
 Finseth, Peter A 310 
 
 Finzer r . Elmer W 796 
 
 Finzer, Capt. William E 859 
 
 Fischer, Henry F 837 
 
 Fischer, Louis H 958 
 
 Fisher, Ernest W 1386 
 
 Fisher, William J 1078 
 
 Fisk, Fred 1096 
 
 Flanders, Capt. G. H 116 
 
INDEX. 
 
 1567 
 
 Fleischner, I. N 44 
 
 Flickinger, Henry 731 
 
 Flinn, Judge L 650 
 
 Ford. August R 638 
 
 Ford, John T 664 
 
 Foster, H. Z 707 
 
 Foster, John W 1278 
 
 Frank, Clement S 1375 
 
 Frasier, Edward J 1380 
 
 Frazer. Arthur L 96 
 
 Frazer, Uel L 1219 
 
 Frazer, George N 917 
 
 Frazier, William 163 
 
 Fresh, Frank M 1372 
 
 Froman, David 1497 
 
 Froman, Strauder 466 
 
 Fruit. Martin P 731 
 
 Fry, George M 806 
 
 Fry, John 864 
 
 Fry, Olney 1407 
 
 Fry, R. William 217 
 
 Fry, William 795 
 
 Fryer, J. T 720 
 
 Fuller, James N. B 913 
 
 Fullerton, C. P 1129 
 
 Fulton, Hon. C. W 90 
 
 Fundman, Paul 1247 
 
 Galbraith, Joseph P 412 
 
 Galloway, Hon. Charles V 601 
 
 Galloway, Hon. William 1299 
 
 Gant, Reuben 944 
 
 Gardner, Abner D 984 
 
 Gardner Brothers 735 
 
 Gardner, Winfield S 738 
 
 Garlinghouse, Mary A 1326 
 
 Gatch, Thomas M 1350 
 
 Gaulet, Mathias 776 
 
 Gearin, Hugh B 1224 
 
 Geary, Edward R 128 
 
 Gee, Henry 639 
 
 Geer, Levi 1449 
 
 Geer, Hon." T-^eodore T 199 
 
 Geisendorfer, John 575 
 
 Geldard, William 471 
 
 George, Hon. M. C 53 
 
 Gerhard, Conrad A 850 
 
 Gibson. D. W 877 
 
 Giesy, Benjamin F., M.D 909^ 
 
 Giesy, Jacob 805 
 
 Gill, Matthew C 1036 
 
 Gilliam, Gen. Cornelius 526 
 
 Gillis, Col. A. B., M.D 503 
 
 Gilmour, John W 1279 
 
 Gilstrap, Will G 1326 
 
 Glass, John H 764 
 
 GlasSj Robert 951 
 
 Gleason, Amos S 741 
 
 G'eason, Irving E 1310 
 
 Glenn, Robert 437 
 
 Glover, C. P 927 
 
 Glover. F. M ^]2^ 
 
 Gcan, Mrs. Elizabeth 1205 
 
 Gofif, Eugenio E 324 
 
 Goins, Edward, Sr 1461 
 
 Goltra, William 395 
 
 Gooch, George M 243 
 
 Goodall, Oliver P...: 828 
 
 Gooding, Nicholas 963 
 
 Gordon, Herbert 1429 
 
 Goucher, E. E., M.D 590 
 
 Gouley, Philip P 985 
 
 Gowdy, J. T 687 
 
 Go wdy, James W 1385 
 
 Graham. John J 548 
 
 Grant, Richard J 1308 
 
 Grant, William 521 
 
 Grauer, Jacob 701. 
 
 Graves, Col. J. B 262 
 
 Graves, Thomas J 563 
 
 Gray, Joseph 1 151 
 
 Green, William M 1386 
 
 Greer, George H 381 
 
 Grierson, David W 776 
 
 Griffin. G. W 1540 
 
 Grigsby, James A 730 
 
 Grimes, J. H 306 
 
 Groth, Bernhard 1304 
 
 Grover, La Fayette 1046 
 
 Groves, William 1324 
 
 H 
 
 Hackleman, Abraham 1516 
 
 Hackleman, Frank A 1496 
 
 Flager, William 883 
 
 Hagey, Henry L 1300 
 
 Hagey, Levi 661 
 
 Hall, Abner R 1179 
 
 Hall, Albert D 1140 
 
 Hall, George T 1480 
 
 Hall, Lafayette F 918 
 
 Hall, W. W 323 
 
 Hamilton, Asher F 1235 
 
 Hamilton, Joseph E 751 
 
 Hamilton, William 1559 
 
 Hammond, Justus E 1 164 
 
 Hampton, John D 901 
 
 Hand. William R 264 
 
 Hansen, Peter 1417 
 
 Harger, Linus W 1266 
 
 Harris, John 1321 
 
 Harris, John W., M.D 1490 
 
 Harris, Nancy W 492 
 
 Harris, Lawrence T 1482 
 
 Harris, T. W., M.D 1529 
 
 FTarrison. Robert 1553 
 
 Hart, Julius N 420 
 
 Hartley, Edmund W 1265 
 
 Hartman, Hon. C. D 490 
 
 Hastings, John C 817 
 
 Hastings. Reuben A 887 
 
 Hatch, H. W 1459 
 
 Hawkins. Edward H 1051 
 
 Hawley. George M 1562 
 
 Flawley, James H 1549 
 
 Hawley. John H 447 
 
 Hawley, Robert D 1432 
 
 Hayes, James 875 
 
 Hays, Mrs. Malvina J 1523 
 
 Hayter, Oscar 242 
 
 Hayter, Thomas J 242 
 
 Hazleton, C. C 1409 
 
 Heckart, W. 1555 
 
 Helmick. James 375 
 
 Helmick. Mrs. Sarah 697 
 
 Hembree. Isham N 1503 
 
 Hemenway, James 1452 
 
 Hendershott. George W 624 
 
 Henderson, James P. G 939 
 
 Henderson, William B 1070 
 
 Hendrick, Hon. Marion B 558 
 
 Hendricks, Hon. Thomas G... 195 
 Hendricson, William F 1042 
 
 Henkie, Jeremiah E 11 54 
 
 Henkle, Robert L 1148 
 
 Henry, Dudley G 713 
 
 Herren, Albert 1190 
 
 Herren, Edward C 848 
 
 Herren, Levi M 905 
 
 Herron, Hugh 1021 
 
 Herron, James M 963 
 
 Herron, Josiah H 1 149 
 
 Hewitt, Hon. H. H 400 
 
 Hibbard, Trenton R 424 
 
 Hicks, Charles F 911 
 
 Hicks. Philip T 911 
 
 Hill, John J 798 
 
 Hill, Col. J. Linsey 617 
 
 Hilleary, William M 496 
 
 Hillman, Samuel T 826 
 
 Hiltibrand, James 855 
 
 Hinds, Fingal 1447 
 
 Flinkle, Harvey A 1379 
 
 Hinkle, John R 436 
 
 Hinshaw, Zim 1250 
 
 Hinton, Thompson D 964 
 
 Hinton, Wesley T294 
 
 Hirlburt, Joel ^57 
 
 Hirsch, Edward 495 
 
 Hirsch, Hon. Solomon 164 
 
 Hoag, C. H 7S 8 
 
 Hobart, Scott T 1060 
 
 Hobson, Hon. W. H 1 140 
 
 Hodes, August IO i 4 
 
 Hodges, Drury R I3I 6 
 
 Hodson, John M 169 
 
 Hodson, Julius C 930 
 
 Hoffman, James 1481 
 
 Hoffman, William T 1220 
 
 Holden, Col. Charles H 1510 
 
 Hollenbeck, Henry F 1269 
 
 Holloway, Edward 1290 
 
 Holman, John B 406 
 
 Holmes, Francis L 1221 
 
 Holt, Samuel D 1495 
 
 Hopkins, Hon. J. B 1434 
 
 Hopkins, Thomas G 317 
 
 H orton, Samuel H 1 166 
 
 Hoskins, J. L 708 
 
 Hosmer, J. Earl 915 
 
 Houck, George A 1530 
 
 Houck, James 691 
 
 Houck, W. S 607 
 
 Houston, Newton 897 
 
 Howard, James A 360 
 
 Howard, James L 1223 
 
 Howard, Samuel N 1314 
 
 Howd, Capt. Julius 988 
 
 Howe, Thomas 311 
 
 Hoyt, Capt. Richard no 
 
 Hubbard, Judge W. C 345 
 
 Huddleston, Mrs. Samantha A. 1089 
 
 Hudson, Albert D 1067 
 
 Hudson. William 1067 
 
 Huff, Charles C 1219 
 
 Huggins. David 1360 
 
 Hughes. James S 599 
 
 Hughes, John 333 
 
 Hulburt, Alden S 1390 
 
 Hulburt. Mark 1533 
 
 Hume, Peter 623 
 
 Humphrey, Henry Clay 1427 
 
 Humphreys, John P 1379 
 
 Humphreys, Hon. N. B 450 
 
 Humphreys, William J 941 
 
 Hunt, Jeptha T 222 
 
1568 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hunt, John A 507 
 
 Hunt, Mary E 990 
 
 Hunt, Capt. M. W 975 
 
 Hurd, Oscar W 1487 
 
 Hurley, Gus A 1266 
 
 Hurst, Frederick J. J 560 
 
 Hurst, Fred P 1372 
 
 Hurst, William S 1 107 
 
 Huston, Hon. Samuel B 125 
 
 Huston, Walter 744 
 
 Huston, Worth 237 
 
 Hutchinson, Joseph S 92 
 
 Hutt, Lewis S 612 
 
 I 
 
 Her, William E 1381 
 
 Imus, Zachariah J 1267 
 
 Inman, Hon. R. D 147 
 
 Ireland, Theron A 914 
 
 Ireland, William P 766 
 
 Irvine, Robert A 139 
 
 Irvine, Rev. Samuel G 508 
 
 Irwin, Richard 1280 
 
 Irwin, R. S 1350 
 
 Isom, Jefferson D 969 
 
 J 
 
 Jackson, Carl H : . . . 144 
 
 Jackson, Col. James 67 
 
 Jackson, Philip E 1521 
 
 Jackson, Wesley 143 
 
 Jackson, William C 886 
 
 Jackson, Prof. William L 816 
 
 James, John T 913 
 
 Jamison, Ewing B 1382 
 
 Jayne, Robert A., M.D 1136 
 
 Jeffries, Theodore 783 
 
 Jennings, Hon. A. C 1078 
 
 Jerman, William J 489 
 
 Johnson, Archie J 1 537 
 
 Johnson, Burtis W 1181 
 
 Johnson, George R 608 
 
 Johnson, James C 1514 
 
 Johnson, John L 1029 
 
 Johnson, Major 1496 
 
 Johnson, Peter K 1208 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. Phoebe A 888 
 
 Johnston, David 1 199 
 
 Johnston, David H 962 
 
 Johnston, John 1275 
 
 Jolly, Hon. William A.. 1145 
 
 Jones, George W 681 
 
 Jones, Herman H 114 
 
 Jones, James Isaac 1560 
 
 Jones, John H 113 
 
 Jones, Joseph A 927 
 
 Jones, Thomas A 354 
 
 Jones, William R 1198 
 
 Judah, Neely J 491 
 
 K 
 
 Kamm, Mrs. C. A 85 
 
 Kamra, Jacob 83 
 
 Kauffman, B. F 721 
 
 Kaupisch, H. W 878 
 
 Kay, Hon. Thomas B 587 
 
 Keady, George B 1332 
 
 Kcebler, Joseph R 1037 
 
 Keeney, Benjamin F 1524 
 
 Keeney, Elias 1159 
 
 Kellogg, Capt. Charles H.... 104 
 
 Kellogg, Capt. Orrin 103 
 
 Kellogg, Capt. Joseph 101 
 
 Kelly, Hon. John 1371 
 
 Kelly, John F 1420 
 
 Kelsay, B. S 1518 
 
 Kelsay, Col. John 759 
 
 Kennedy, Barney 947 
 
 Kent, Fred L 1257 
 
 Keyes, Francis T 1233 
 
 Kiefer, Charles 4.37 
 
 Kimsey, Alvis 708 
 
 Kincaid, Harrison R 1263 
 
 King, Solomon 1087 
 
 Kingery, D. B 662 
 
 Kinney, Marshall J 121 
 
 Kinney, Robert C 120 
 
 Kinney, Mrs. N. W 121 
 
 Kintzley, Zachariah T 1410 
 
 Kirk, James T 1484 
 
 Kirk, Julia A 1417 
 
 Kirkland, Justinian W 453 
 
 Kirkland, Philip M 1201 
 
 Kirkpatrick, E. C 872 
 
 Kirsch, Theobald 1209 
 
 Kitchen, John M., M.D 348 
 
 Klinger, Maurice 358 
 
 Klum. George W 1187 
 
 Knapp, Richard B 144 
 
 Knight, George W 916 
 
 Knight, John 787 
 
 Knisely, Abraham L 1328 
 
 Knotts, William 1401 
 
 Knowles, Frank 1526 
 
 Knowles, George 1444 
 
 Koontz, Martin V 1200 
 
 Koppe, Emil 1063 
 
 Kruger, William C 1006 
 
 Kyle, William L T532 
 
 Lachmund, Louis 6G3 
 
 Ladd, Charles E 86 
 
 Ladd, William S 73 
 
 La Follett, Capt. Charles ...1536 
 Lamberson, John A., M.D... 1066 
 
 Lamson, Edward F 1285 
 
 Lane. Andrew V 1037 
 
 Larkin, John 1249 
 
 Larkin, John S 1007 
 
 Lassell, Lorenzo H 1031 
 
 Laughlin, Bedford H 221 
 
 Laughlin, Hon. Lee 315 
 
 Laughlin, William 221 
 
 Lawrence, Elmer E 1522 
 
 Lawrence, Gary E 887 
 
 Layson, J. B 686 
 
 Lee, Charles H., M.D 205 
 
 Lee, Norman L., M.D 1442 
 
 Lee, Reuben 441 
 
 Leese, Thomas 970 
 
 Leet, Oliver E 330 
 
 Leighton, Ariel H 571 
 
 Leonard, Abel A 629 
 
 Leonard, Benjamin A 405 
 
 Levens, Isaac 703 
 
 Lewis, Abner 994 
 
 Lewis, Abraham B. B 980 
 
 Lewis, David W 1308 
 
 Lewis, F. M 1307 
 
 Lewis, John M 177 
 
 Lewis, Miles 725 
 
 Lewis, Wilson T 1443 
 
 Lichty, John 997 
 
 Lilly, S. N 1471 
 
 Lines, John H 318 
 
 Link, Franklin A 1038 
 
 Linville, Richard B 1268 
 
 Livingston, Silas 330 
 
 Locke, Abram S 1 T97 
 
 Locke, Abram N 1151 
 
 Locke, Alfred R 1 100 
 
 Locke, William S 1411 
 
 Loe, Joseph 825 
 
 Logan, L. S 1522 
 
 Loggan, Robert O., M.D 1170 
 
 Lombard, James L 1086 
 
 Long, Charlie 1076 
 
 Looney, Jesse W 1005 
 
 Lorence, M 465 
 
 Loughary, U. Scott 666 
 
 Lucas, Mrs. Elizabeth F 435 
 
 Lucas, Ferris A 329 
 
 Lugger, Henry K 12:2 
 
 Luper, Charity J 806 
 
 M 
 
 McBee, Joseph ■. . . . 1270 
 
 McCain, James 572 
 
 McCall, R. W 716 
 
 McCally, Americus T 11 74 
 
 McCartney, John M 749 
 
 McCaustland, Robert 1331 
 
 McChesney, John 48.3 
 
 McClaran," D. G 1358 
 
 McClung, Hon. John H 1437 
 
 McCollum Brothers 1057 
 
 McCollum, Holland 1404 
 
 McCormack, John K 1459 
 
 McCormick, Charles P 940 
 
 McCraken, Hon. John tS6 
 
 McCrea, John C 912 
 
 McCrosky, Manford 400 
 
 McCrow, John 569 
 
 McCully, David Stg 
 
 McDonald, Montgomery M... 714 
 
 McDowell, James W 1523 
 
 McFall, Samuel T 1433 
 
 McFarland, David G 1345 
 
 McFarland, James H 1418 
 
 McFarland, Van Dorn 1269 
 
 McFarland, William L 1552 
 
 McGrew, Edwin 929 
 
 McGuire, Henry 1186 
 
 McKay, James 611 
 
 McKay, John N 888 
 
 McKay, William R 769 
 
 McKillop, Abraham 328 
 
 McKinley, Merritt 571 
 
 McKinney, Jesse L 810 
 
 McKinney, John W 1465 
 
 McLane, Weston 760 
 
 McLeod, James A 1451 
 
 McLeod, William 1160 
 
 McLoughlin, Dr. John 1075 
 
 McMillen, Capt. J. H 107 
 
 McMurphey, Robert n 15 
 
 McMurry, James S 1561 
 
 McNary, Lawrence A 98 
 
 McPherson, Edward A 317 
 
 McPherson, Pierson M 1402 
 
 McPherson, William A 1108 
 
INDEX. 
 
 1569 
 
 McReynolds, George W 1510 
 
 Mackenzie, K. A. J., M.D 282 
 
 Mackey, Thomas C, M.D....1026 
 
 Macy, W. T 698 
 
 Magness, A. P 670 
 
 Magness, Robert N 648 
 
 Mallory, Rufus 97 
 
 Malone, Francis 1236 
 
 Maloney, Hon. Hundley S 698 
 
 Marshall, Lewellyn C 462 
 
 Marshall, Preston B 299 
 
 Martin, James 206 
 
 Martin, James W 531 
 
 Martin, Joshua M 1459 
 
 Martin, Manly 827 
 
 Martin, Theodore 1401 
 
 Mascher, L. F 973 
 
 Masters, William 275 
 
 Mateer, Stewart 1216 
 
 Matlock, John 1 1460 
 
 Matlock, Hon. Joseph D 1543 
 
 Matthieu, Francois X 215 
 
 Mattison, Charles H9 ( 5 
 
 Maxwell, Henry 1395 
 
 Maxwell, Thomas 1367 
 
 Mayer, Jacob 54 
 
 Mayer, Joseph 840 
 
 Meeker, Edward 9 2 4 
 
 Meeker, Isaac 922 
 
 Meiring, Henry 7%7 
 
 Meldrum, Hon. J. W 119 
 
 Melton, Henry 1396 
 
 Merchant, William 644 
 
 Mess, Peter W 298 
 
 Metayer, Rev. Louis 264 
 
 Metschan, Hon. Phil 273 
 
 Meyer, Conrad 430 
 
 Meyer, Frank E 244 
 
 Michaux, J. C, M.D 705 
 
 Mickel, Nicholas 1052 
 
 Miles, Benjamin C 904 
 
 Miles, Thomas E 1077 
 
 Miley, William 773 
 
 Miller, Arthur C 1086 
 
 Miller, A. Monroe 455 
 
 Miller, Charles 9S6 
 
 Miller, Frank J 977 
 
 Miller, Frank M 924 
 
 Miller, Gabriel 1479 
 
 Miller, George R 1400 
 
 Miller, Henry J 796 
 
 Miller, Jacob G 9°5 
 
 Miller, Jacob M 12x2 
 
 Miller, James W 1045 
 
 Miller, Merritt 631 
 
 Miller, Mart V 923 
 
 Miller, Thomas F 1043 
 
 Miller, William 229 
 
 Miller, Prof. William M 1467 
 
 Millett, Gideon C 1337 
 
 Milliorn, James P 1553 
 
 Milliorn, Thomas A 1444 
 
 Minthorn, Henry J., M.D 1240 
 
 Minto, John 247 
 
 Mitchel, Henry L 1424 
 
 Mitchell, Charles 710 
 
 Mitchell, John H 77 
 
 Mitchell, John M 1422 
 
 Moisan, Francis X 789 
 
 Moist, Charles F 839 
 
 Moist, Mrs. Elizabeth J 1511 
 
 Montague, Charles B 983 
 
 Monteith, Thomas 1178 
 
 Montgomery, Hugh S 1421 
 
 Moody, Hon. Zenas F 376 
 
 Moor, Charles E 1526 
 
 Moore, Alfred E 1283 
 
 Moore, Charles F 1240 
 
 Moore, Hon. Charles S 1289 
 
 Moore, Jonah W 647 
 
 Moore, Mrs. Sarah E 1330 
 
 Moran, John H 1 192 
 
 Morcom, Elisha P' 908 
 
 Moreland, Hon. J. C 49 
 
 Morgan, Joseph W 1408 
 
 Morgareidge, G. C 722 
 
 Morin, L. S 1469 
 
 Morley, John 1 153 
 
 Morris, Eliam S 825 
 
 Morris, Francis A 1007 
 
 Morris, John 336 
 
 Morrison, George 671 
 
 Moser, John 1 185 
 
 Moses, Victor P 982 
 
 Moyer, John M 1157 
 
 Mulkey, Rev. I. N 772 
 
 Mulkey, James H 771 
 
 Munkers, Stirling P 252 
 
 Munkers, Thomas J 1163 
 
 Murch, George H 1135 
 
 Murphey, William H 862 
 
 Murphy, Henderson W 753 
 
 Myers, David .1*74 
 
 Myrind, Ole 1534 
 
 N 
 
 Nachtigall, David 269 
 
 Neely, William W 1532 
 
 Neis, William 1435 
 
 Nelson, Hon. Josiah C 999 
 
 Nelson, Olif 1198 
 
 Nesmith, Hon. J. W 292 
 
 Newell, John 595 
 
 Newport, N. M 225 
 
 Newth, Charles H., M.D 1171 
 
 Newton, Norris P 957 
 
 Nichols, Hon. Henry B 1466 
 
 Nickell, W. W 650 
 
 Nolan, Joseph M 760 
 
 Noland, Capt. Pleasant C 1391 
 
 Northup, Prof. Emmanuel .... 554 
 Norton, Wiley 899 
 
 Obye, Christian 613 
 
 Odell, Dr. George W 725 
 
 Odell, Gen. W. H 351 
 
 Odermatt, Rev. Adelhelm .... 429 
 
 Oglesby, William W 1464 
 
 Olds, George W 685 
 
 Olds, James H 594 
 
 Oliver, Alfred P 1229 
 
 Olvis, Charles 406 
 
 Oregon Agricultural College. .1345 
 
 Ormsby, Capt. S. B 884 
 
 Orr, Samuel 778 
 
 Osburn, Frank W 1489 
 
 Osburn, John 1237 
 
 Osfield, Henry J 342 
 
 Owen, William E 839 
 
 Palmer, Judge Hiram M, 484 
 
 Palmer, Marion 1202 
 
 Palmer, Hon. Peter P 1225 
 
 Park, Joseph 1149 
 
 Parker, James 1413 
 
 Parker, Joseph M 1413 
 
 Parker, Moses 742 
 
 Parker, Patterson C 1366 
 
 Parrish, Henry E 1098 
 
 Parrish, Rev. Josiah L 383 
 
 Parrish, William H., M.D 1194 
 
 Parsons, John D 864 
 
 Parvin, James 1412 
 
 Patrick, Christopher C 638 
 
 Patterson, A. W, M.D 1105 
 
 Patterson, Francis A 1195 
 
 Pattison, Charles 1098 
 
 Pattison, Robert 1 145 
 
 Payne, Caleb J 642 
 
 Peacock, William 1393 
 
 Pease, Capt. G. A 281 
 
 Peery, Edward C 1176 
 
 Peery, M. S 648 
 
 Pengra, Byron J 1416 
 
 Pengra, Mrs. Charlotte E....1293 
 
 Penland, Elias B 431 
 
 Penington, Hon. Stewart M... 541 
 
 Pennoyer, Hon. Sylvester 1046 
 
 Percival, William W 1214 
 
 Perkins, A. G 474 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. Catherine A.... 1473 
 
 Perkins, John 613 
 
 Perkins, Joseph B 601 
 
 Perkins, Lawrence S 1 197 
 
 Pernot, Prof. Emile F 1258 
 
 Peterson, Charles 1119 
 
 Peterson, Adolph F 1130 
 
 Pfandhoefer, Louis H., M.D... 312 
 
 Phile, Philip 1009 
 
 Philippi, J. I I4 8 5 
 
 Fhillips, George W 1467 
 
 Phillips, Richard W 596 
 
 Fhilpott, Thomas J 10S8 
 
 Pierce, E. A., M.D 366 
 
 Pironi, Joseph im 
 
 Placidus, Rev. P 1298 
 
 Plimpton, William W 276 
 
 Pohle, Herman 566 
 
 Poling, Charles C 418 
 
 Pooler, Lewis C 417 
 
 Poorman, John M 1177 
 
 Porter, Ai 752 
 
 Porter, Edward S 460 
 
 Porter, Henry C : 480 
 
 Porter, John 251 
 
 Porter, Johnson M 1222 
 
 Porter, William M 754 
 
 Potter, Judge E. 1440 
 
 Potter, Lester 656 
 
 Potter, Sylvester 582 
 
 Potter, Thomas W 1469 
 
 Potter, William A 1286 
 
 Powell, Alexander H 1450 
 
 Powell, Ira C 1192 
 
 Powell, Joseph G 1519 
 
 Powell, Franklin S 793 
 
 Powers, Ira F., Sr 91 
 
 Powers, William M 42? 
 
 Pratt, Prof. I. W 23 
 
 Prentice, Frederick W., M. D. .1425 
 
 Preston, William 1089 
 
 Price, Nimrod 1499 
 
1570 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Price, Sarah C. 910 
 
 Prichard, Daniel W 1339 
 
 Prill, Albert G., M.D 1210 
 
 Propst, Franklin 992 
 
 Propst, John W 922 
 
 Pugh, Jesse W 719 
 
 Pugh, John W 1227 
 
 Q 
 
 Quimby, Lot P. W 185 
 
 R 
 
 Radir, Adam 948 
 
 Ralston, William 256 
 
 Rampy, Robert A 1203 
 
 Ranson, John W., M.D 973 
 
 Read, Columbia 970 
 
 Redford, Edward P 1558 
 
 Redmond, John 735 
 
 Reed, James C H57 
 
 Rees, John H 1238 
 
 Reeves, Thomas D 1 172 
 
 Reid, James 533 
 
 Reisner, Frank 1218 
 
 Remington, Eugene L 516 
 
 Remington, E. S 305 
 
 Renshaw, William M 1428 
 
 Rhodes, Hon. Benjamin F. ... 704 
 
 Richardson, Albion J 423 
 
 Richardson, Hon. J. A., M.D..1044 
 
 Richardson, John W 1001 
 
 Richardson, W. Y 359 
 
 Riches, Thomas W 306 
 
 Richter, Johnson E 862 
 
 Rickard, Andrew 1312 
 
 Rickard, John 1343 
 
 Rickard, John 1287 
 
 Rickard, Peter 1332 
 
 Rider, Oren D 771 
 
 Rigdon, Stephen 1073 
 
 Rigler, Frank 174 
 
 Riley, Peter 510 
 
 Risley, Prof T J 1323 
 
 Ritner, Lewis 931 
 
 Ritney, William M 1488 
 
 Robe, Rev. Robert 593 
 
 Roberts, Henry M 833 
 
 Roberts, Samuel 607 
 
 Robinson, James F 1542 
 
 Robinson, Reuben F 109 
 
 Robinson, Richard T. A 1492 
 
 Robinson, Rev. William 1404 
 
 Roland, John W 486 
 
 Roney, Anthony L 1370 
 
 Roney, L. N 1283 
 
 Root, Lorenzo 58T 
 
 Rose, David C 1338 
 
 Ross, Duncan 726 
 
 Ross, Joseph T 840 
 
 Rowe, H. S 59 
 
 Rowell, William W 270 
 
 Royse, William J 1482 
 
 Rudd, Z. H 394 
 
 Ruegger, Albert 1400 
 
 Ruettner, Peter 449 
 
 Russell, William M 660 
 
 Ryan, Joseph J 1030 
 
 Sabin, James C 11 12 
 
 Sappingfield, John 498 
 
 Sargeant, Walter J 688 
 
 Saubert, J. F. W 1504 
 
 Savage, William 656 
 
 Savery, J. H 1474 
 
 Scarbrough, Lemuel D., M. D.1153 
 
 Schaller, John 1247 
 
 Scheurer, William Riley 847 
 
 Schoettle, Mrs. Mary T 577 
 
 Scholl, Lawrence M 803 
 
 Schultz Brothers 1 168 
 
 Schwab, Frederick 316 
 
 Scott, Mrs. Ann 637 
 
 Scott, Charles 257 
 
 Scott, Harvey W 71 
 
 Scott, John J 388 
 
 Scott, Judge John H 865 
 
 Scott, Joseph F 576 
 
 Scott, Madison 454 
 
 Scott, Robert H 653 
 
 Scott, Thomas 1201 
 
 Scott, William J. J 1439 
 
 Scrafford, Marshall 860 
 
 Scroggin, Pleasant M 809 
 
 Scroggin, Stephen L 583 
 
 Seavey, Alexander 909 
 
 Seely. Edwin R 819 
 
 Seely, E. J 396 
 
 Sellwood, Rev. J. W 191 
 
 Settlemier, Frank W 602 
 
 Settlemier, Jesse H 1362 
 
 Settlemier, Martin R 310 
 
 Shadden, Amon 763 
 
 Shanks, J. B 1010 
 
 Sharon, E. E 56 
 
 Shaver, George W 183 
 
 Shaver, Capt. J. W 184 
 
 Shaw, John A 1006 
 
 Sheak, Henry 1540 
 
 Sheasgreen, Frank P 121 7 
 
 Shedd, Edwin N 1471 
 
 Shedd, Silas L ". 1259 
 
 Shelley, John 1424 
 
 Shelley, Hon. James M 1243 
 
 Shelley, Mrs. Nancy J 1245 
 
 Shelton, Evaline 1210 
 
 Shelton, James 442 
 
 Shelton, Riley 1295 
 
 Shepherd, William 757 
 
 Sherer, William M 957 
 
 Shilling, Jacob 1337 
 
 Shisler, Richard C 811 
 
 Shortridge, James H 1505 
 
 Shortridge, William W 1499 
 
 Sigler, B. D 293 
 
 Srmeral, Wilton L 945 
 
 Simkins, Hiram 694 
 
 Simmons, J. H 1441 
 
 Simpson, Arthur L 467 
 
 Simpson, George F 268 
 
 Simpson, Henderson 732 
 
 Simpson, Isaac M 921 
 
 Simpson, James 1008 
 
 Simpson, Phy 1468 
 
 Sims, Thomas H 217 
 
 Skaif e, Michael 959 
 
 Skaife, Thomas 959 
 
 Skeels, Chester 141 1 
 
 Skeels, Henry A 1475 
 
 Skipton, Elijah 1167 
 
 Skipton, Frank 328 
 
 Sladen, Capt. J. A 160 
 
 Sloan, Enoch D 1068 
 
 Small, Matthew 255 
 
 Small, William H. 1517 
 
 Smith, Alexander 1540 
 
 Smith, Alfred. . .* 660 
 
 Smith, Amedee M 189 
 
 Smith, Amedee M., Jr 191 
 
 Smith, David 525 
 
 Smith, Delavan S 920 
 
 Smith, Ephraim L. 1135 , 
 
 Smith, Frank M 420 
 
 Smith, George C 794 
 
 Smith, Henry S 770 
 
 Smith, H. Wesley 1528 
 
 Smith, Hon. Irvin L 231 
 
 Smith, James R 1221 
 
 Smith, Jesse H 1120 
 
 Smith, John B 336 
 
 Smith, John D 527 
 
 Smith, John R ' 1069 
 
 Smith, Milton W. 173 
 
 Smith, Robert A 1 100 
 
 Smith, Sidney 443 
 
 Smith, William F 1029 
 
 Smith, Capt. W. H 104 
 
 Smitson, Henry H 1368 
 
 Smyth, Hynson 1303 
 
 Snell, Miss Margaret C, M.D. 1344 
 
 Snyder, Henry A 799 
 
 Somers, Clarence F 11 16 
 
 Soverns, Jesse 1492 
 
 Sox, Edward F 540 
 
 Spalinger, John J 1494 
 
 Spaulding, Charles K 1187 
 
 Spaulding, Erastus 389 
 
 Spencer, Jefferson D 1432 
 
 Spencer, William C 1498 
 
 Spink, Perry W 547 
 
 Splawn, Greenbury 1235 
 
 Spores, James M 1 125 
 
 Sprenger, Henry B 1064 
 
 Sprenger, Nicholas 1215 
 
 Sprenger, Thomas B 1468 
 
 Stafford, James M 1120 
 
 Stanard, Alphonso W 736 
 
 Stansbery, John E 43 
 
 Stark, August, M.D 237 
 
 Stark, Jacob M 1211 
 
 Starr, Asbury P 974 
 
 Starr, Prof. Charles L 955 
 
 Starr, Cornelius B 1315 
 
 Starr, Edwin N 1180 
 
 Starr, Hiram H 1054 
 
 Starr, Isaac W. ; M.D 834 
 
 Starr, John W 1445 
 
 Steear, Capt. Thomas A 1539 
 
 Steele, Samuel N 866 
 
 Steelhammer, Andrew G 960 
 
 Stephens, . Smith 596 
 
 Stevens, Isaac 49° 
 
 Stewart, Elias 1254 - 
 
 Stewart, Henry 1047 _ 
 
 Stewart, James H ..1323 _ 
 
 Stewart, John 891 - 
 
 Stewart, Joseph W 1095 - 
 
 Stewart, Mathias W 775 - 
 
 Stolle, Hermann 951 
 
 Stolz, Gideon 565 
 
 Storts, Grear 1032 
 
 Stott, Fielding D 722 
 
 Stouffer, Daniel P 478 
 
 Stratton, Charles C 513 
 
INDEX. 
 
 1571 
 
 Strong. Charles J 782 
 
 Stump. Mrs. Catherine E 715 
 
 Sully. Frank 606 
 
 Summers. Gen. Owen 151 
 
 Sunderland, Milton 42 
 
 Sutherland, John 1505 
 
 Stiver, Green B . . . : 863 
 
 Saver, Marshall N 861 
 
 Svarverud, M 1327 
 
 Swan, Lewis P 1026 
 
 Sweek. Hon. Alexander 60 
 
 Sweet Brothers 1527 
 
 Swick, Miner M 1340 
 
 Sylvester, Mrs. Anne B 950 
 
 Tallman, Levi P 1316 
 
 Taylor, Jerry 1515 
 
 Taylor, Joseph P 1556 
 
 Tavlor, Melvin 1502 
 
 Taylor, Walter K 820 
 
 Taylor, William A. . : 1245 
 
 Teal, John B 258 
 
 Templeton, Joseph H 1234 
 
 Templeton. Robert R 1237 
 
 Thomas, Rev. Father 1296 
 
 Thompson, Mrs. Agnes 1359 
 
 Thompson, Alexander 1376 
 
 Thompson, George C 1 139 
 
 Thompson, Merritt L 304 
 
 Thomson. George 545 
 
 Thorp, Thomas J 1276 
 
 Tillotson. J. B 1534 
 
 Titus, Silas M 1423 
 
 Tobey, Edgar 949 
 
 Tomlinson, John 1394 
 
 Tomlinson, Sidney 340 
 
 Tooze, Walter L 777 
 
 Towle, George 1003 
 
 Townsend, Washington R 769 
 
 Tracer, Christopher 1334 
 
 Train. Samuel S 54*5 
 
 Travis, Lee M 1021 
 
 Turner, Mrs. Mahala F 978 
 
 Turner, William McD 820 
 
 U 
 
 Upmeyer, Edward E 1099 
 
 Vance, William L 461 
 
 Vandran, Christopher A 299 
 
 Van Orsdel, J. G 236 
 
 Van Valzah, Robert G., M.D.1368 
 
 Van Wessenhove, Frank 961 
 
 Van Winkle, James S 907 
 
 Vaughan, John Q 1502 
 
 Vaughan. Thomas J 1356 
 
 Veal, Robert 1501 
 
 Veatch. Harvey C i486 
 
 Veatch, Robert M 1520 
 
 Vinton, George W. L 795 
 
 Vitus, Augustus J. F 1110 
 
 Vitus, Augustus J. F., Jr 1122 
 
 Vitus, Bruno C 1122 
 
 Vitus, Robert 1250 
 
 W 
 
 Wade, M. A 1474 
 
 Wagner Brothers 1479 
 
 Wait, Charles N 131 
 
 Waite, Eugene P 1451 
 
 Waldo, Hon. William 472 
 
 Walker, Albert S 1121 
 
 Walker, E P 747 
 
 Walker, George O 1509 
 
 Walker, Harvey 803 
 
 Walker, John F 1514 
 
 Walker, William W 1004 
 
 Wallace, Collin A 991 
 
 Wallace, J. P., M.D 1207 
 
 Wallace, Marion 1137 
 
 Wallace, W. D 1548 
 
 Walling, John 263 
 
 Wallis, Mrs. Emaline 1116 
 
 Walton, Hon. Joshua J 1019 
 
 Washburne, Byron A 1399 
 
 Washburne, Charles W 1273 
 
 Washburne, William C 1535 
 
 Waters, John 953 
 
 Waters, John M 1232 
 
 Watkins, Arthur H 300 
 
 Watson, John M 371 
 
 Watters, Judge Virgil E 1131 
 
 Weatherson, William H 1549 
 
 Weaver, Samuel W., M.D 369 
 
 Weber, Charles L 1366 
 
 Weed, Judson 1 147 
 
 -Wells, Dr. B. D 365 
 
 -Wells, William L 831 
 
 Wengenroth, William A 797 
 
 Wentz, Lewis 1392 
 
 Wess, William 716 
 
 Whalley, Hon. John W 61 
 
 Wheeler, Allbee E 1429 
 
 Wheeler, Hon. Jason 203 
 
 Wheeler, Jedediah 1041 
 
 Whitaker, Jacob 1 146 
 
 Whitaker, John . :• 1288 
 
 White, Alva C 1321 
 
 White, John R 933 
 
 White, James W 1533 
 
 White, Luther 854 
 
 White, Marion J 933 
 
 White, Nathaniel W 1477 
 
 Whiteaker, Hon. John 1355 
 
 Whitney, Uriah 501 
 
 Wiesner. Bartholomew 892 
 
 Wiles, John 1317 
 
 Wiles, Walter T 1118 
 
 Wilhelm, Adam, Sr 1224 
 
 Wilkins, Amos 1503 
 
 Wilkins. Francis M 1369 
 
 Wilkins, Hon. Mitchell 1550 
 
 Wilkins, S. N 1455 
 
 Will, Frederick W 798 
 
 Will, George 1284 
 
 Willbanks, W. J 956 
 
 Williams, Hon. G. H 65 
 
 Williams, Thomas 954 
 
 Williams, William E 818 
 
 Williamson, Thomas B 1388 
 
 Wilson, Alfred 1083 
 
 Wilson, Alpheus M 1206 
 
 Wilson, Bushrod W 971 
 
 Wilson, James P 1084 
 
 Wilson, J. H 1342 
 
 Wilson, William 1 184 
 
 Windsor, Benjamin 681 
 
 Winegar, Jay E 828 
 
 Wingard, Martin 1395 
 
 Winkel, Wiley 1274 
 
 Winslow, Hezekiah H 998 
 
 Winslow, Paris R 389 
 
 Winstanley, James 832 
 
 Witham, Alfred M 1313 
 
 Withers, John E. P 1512 
 
 Withers, William W 1035 
 
 Withycombe, James 1329 
 
 Wolf, Adolf 411 
 
 Wolfard, Erhard 1169 
 
 Wolfer, George J 684 
 
 Wood, Edmund 654 
 
 Wood, John T 625 
 
 Woodcock, Absalom C 1107 
 
 Woodcock, Martin 1013 
 
 Woodcock, Milton S 1015 
 
 Woolworth, R. M 713 
 
 Wooten, McElvy 1352 
 
 Workinger, Gilbert L 1047 
 
 Worth, J. Q. A 127 
 
 .^Wortman, Hon. Jacob 589 
 
 Wright, James M 1231 - 
 
 Wrightman, Andrew E., M. D.1074 
 
 Writsman, John W 1080 
 
 Wyatt, Eli F 1500 
 
 Wyatt, John E 1358 
 
 Wyatt. William 1287 
 
 Wynne, Armand L., M. D 1472 
 
 Wynne, Harry F 1457 
 
 Y 
 
 Yannke, Charles W 809 
 
 Yergen, Adelbert 856 
 
 Yergen, Augustus 557 
 
 Yergen, William 1365 
 
 Yocom, Franklin 831 
 
 Yoder, Daniel J 812 
 
 Yoran, Col. George O 1491 
 
 Yoran, Silas M 1389 
 
 York, Francis M 632 
 
 York, John W 274 
 
 Young, George W 790 
 
 Z 
 
 Zeigler, William 1138 
 
 Zierolf, Casper 979 
 
 Ziniker. John 1396 
 
 Zumwalt, Andrew J 1410 
 

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