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GREAT CITY OF THE PACIFIC
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VOLUME III
CHICAGO — PORTLAND
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DONALD MACLEAY
BIOGRAPHICAL
DONALD MACLEAY.
Donald Macleay, merchant, financier, philanthropist and honored citizen, was
born at Leckmelm, Ross-shire, Scotland, in August, 1834. He was educated
under a private tutor and in the academy of his native town. At sixteen years
of age, owing to a financial reverse to the family fortune, he went with his parents
to Canada, settling on a farm near Melbourne, province of Quebec. Mr. Macleay
began his business career at twenty years of age when he entered into a partner-
ship with George K. Foster, a merchant of Richmond, a man of excellent business
capacity, who had much to do with molding the character of his young partner.
In 1859 Mr. Macleay went to California, where he met William Corbitt, with
whom he engaged in the wholesole grocery, shipping and commission business in
Portland in 1866 under the firm name of Corbitt & Macleay. Their efforts were
rewarded by almost immediate success, the business growing so rapidly that by
1870 they had become one of the leading firms of the northwest. With one excep-
tion, they were the first exporters of wheat from Oregon to England, sending the
first cargo on the Adeline Elwood in 1870. They were also among the first to
perceive the future of the salmon trade and in 1873, together with J. G. Megler,
engaged in the packing of salmon on the Columbia river at Brookfield and later at
Astoria and were the pioneer exporters of Oregon salmon. In 1872 the firm began
an extensive trade with China, Australia and the Sandwich islands, purchasing
several vessels to accommodate this trade, the venture proving grai'ifyingly pro-
fitable. With absolute faith in Portland's future, Mr. Macleay early began invest-
ing his surplus earnings in city real estate and the enormous increase in values in
recent years amply demonstrates the soundness of his judgment.
Mr. Macleay was always a progressive, public-spirited citizen, and if great
success came to him he was always generous with his time and means in aiding
any enterprise that spelled prosperity for his adopted city or state. Through his
efforts millions of foreign capital were invested in Oregon. He served for many
years as local president of the Oregon & Washington Mortgage Savings Bank of
Dundee, Scotland, likewise as director and chairman of the local board of the
Dundee Mortgage & Trust Investment Company, of Scotland.
The work incident to the development and continuance of the business which
the firm of Corbitt & Macleay represented comprised but a small part of Mr.
Macleay's activities. He was interested as stockholder and director in a score of
important enterprises which owed their success in no small degree to the stimulus
of his business genius, and his conservatism and strength were a controlling ele-
ment in the security and integrity of many of the city's financial operators and
institutions.
He served as director in the Oregon & California Railway Company ; the Port-
land & Coast Steamship Company ; the Portland Telephone & Electric Light Com-
pany ; the Anglo-American Packing Company ; the Portland Cordage Company ;
the North Pacific Industrial Association; the Portland Mariners Home; the Salerrv
Flouring Mills Company ; was for a time vice president of the Oregon & Cali-
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fornia Railway Company ; and various other corporations received the benefit of
his acumen and experience. He retired from the wholesale mercantile business in
1892, prior to which he was largely instrumental in the organization of the United
States National Bank, of which he was president for several years and guided it
safely through the financial panic of 1893, which brought disaster to so many
banks and other financial institutions of the country. About a year later he was
obliged to relinquish the presidency to go abroad on account of failing health.
The city of Portland was in countless ways enriched by his exertions in its
behalf. Whatever tended to the upbuilding of its institutions whether commer-
cial, social, educational, religious or charitable, always found in him ready sup-
port and encouragement. He was elected president of the Board of Trade in 1881
and was reelected by acclamation for many succeeding years, during which time
he was largely instrumental in inducing the United States government to build
the jetty system at Columbia river bar.
His position on any question of public policy was never one of hesitancy or
doubt. His business, social, private and public life were above reproach, and his
honesty of the character that needed no profession but made itself felt upon all
with whom he came in contact. Though essentially a man of business, he took
great pleasure in the social side of life. He was for a number of years president
of the British Benevolent and St. Andrews Societies of Portland, to both of
which he contributed liberally. He was one of the founders and charter members
and for a time president of the Arlington Club. The Clan Macleay was named
after him. He was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Macleay was married March, 1869, to Martha, daughter of John Mac-
culloch of Compton, Canada. She was a devoted Christian, a woman of cultivated
mind, whose kindness, charity and benevolence endeared her to all who knew her.
She died November 22, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Macleay became the parents of four
children : Barbara Martha, Edith Macculloch, Mabel Isabel and Roderick Lach-
lan. They were throughout their residence in Portland members of the First Pres-
byterian Church.
Donald Macleay died July 26, 1897. He had the satisfaction of living to see
the place which he had found a mere struggling frontier town grow to a splendid
city of one hundred thousand people and of feeling that he had contributed largely
to that growth. He was a man of sound judgment, clear perception and indus-
trious habits, but underneath and as a basis on which these qualities rested and
which furnished the chief cause of his success, was his sterling integrity, fidelity
to principle and tenacious adherence to them in every-day life. In all his relations
he was at once honest and honorable. Remarkably successful in the accumulation
of wealth, one of his greatest pleasures was to fill the hand of charity when ever
extended in a worthy cause, and he was a most active factor in the establishment
of the charitable, educational and religious institutions of the city. An enthusiastic
advocate of the city's park system he gave Macleay park, a tract of one hundred
and seven acres of land as an addition to the park system of the city. No man
in Portland enjoyed a higher respect or held deeper regard from his fellow citi-
zens. Few men have lived and died in Portland whose loss was felt more acutely
or whose death more sincerely was mourned.
JOHN S. SEED.
John S. Seed, a general contractor in brick, stone and steel construction, is
one of the pioneers in this field of building operations in Portland, where he
has resided for about thirty years, arriving in 1879. For the first two years he
worked as a journeyman and then began contracting on his own account. The
years have marked his continuous progress and he has long been regarded as
one of the foremost representatives of building construction in the city. His
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birth occurred in Bloomington, Illinois, September 20, 1858, his parents being
John and Mary Jane Seed, the former a machinist by trade. The son pursued
his education in the pubHc schools of Peoria, Illinois, for when he was quite
young the family left Bloomington. Later he went to Wilmington, Delaware,
and it was there that he learned the builder's trade. He continued his resi-
dence on the Atlantic coast until 1879, when he came to Portland, at which
time there were no railroads in the city. He, therefore, made his way to New
York and sailed for the isthmus of Panama, which he crossed by rail, embark-
ing from the western coast for San Francisco, from which point he proceeded
by boat to Portland. It was chance that kept him from becoming a passenger
on the Great Republic, which on that voyage was wrecked at the mouth of the
Columbia river. For two years after reaching this city Mr, Seed worked as a
journeyman, being first employed on a building at the northeast corner of Front
and Ash streets. Later he was engaged on the construction of a building at
the southwest corner of Front and Davis streets and he also built the Lincoln
high school and the Labbe building, the latter being one of the old landmarks
of the city — a three story brick building, situated on the northwest corner of
First and Pine streets. The last two were erected in 1883 and Mr. Seed was at
that time in partnership with Thomas Mann, one of the old time pioneer con-
tractors of Portland, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this
work. Later important contracts were awarded Mr. Seed and he thus became
an active factor in the building operations of the city. He was the builder
of the first Presbyterian church and many other prominent and substantial
structures of Portland stand as evidences of his skill and ability in his chosen
field of labor. At different times he has been associated with various partners
and in these connections has been awarded contracts on the building of the
Myer & Frank block, at the corner of Sixth and Washington streets, and the
Steams and the Mohawk buildings. He was alone in business when he secured
the contract for the erection of the Lewis building on Park and Morrison
streets. He also erected the Failing building and during the time he was as-
sociated with John Bingham he erected the first pressed brick block that wab
ever built in Portland. This was the Smith Kearney building, on First be-
tween Alder and Morrison streets. The brick was brought from Philadelphia,
at a cost of one hundred dollars per thousand and it is still standing, a fact
which indicates the substantial nature of its construction. He also built the
approach to the state house at Salem and the stockade or wall around the state
penitentiary, being at that time in partnership with Mr. Bingham. As the
years passed, his fame as a skilled and reliable builder spread abroad and his
services were sought in various sections of the northwest. He was awarded
the contract for the building of the state capitol at Boise City, Idaho, and he
did the brick work on the Young Men's Christian Association in Portland. He
is now building a six story apartment house, fifty-four by one hundred feet, for
the Reed Institute, the rental from the apartments being a source of substan-
tial income to the institution.
Mr. Seed v/as married in 1880 to Miss Mary Irving, and they had one
child, John, who was a student in the Chicago School of Art and later attended
Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, California, while at the present time
he is connected with the Journal as an artist.
In 1904 Mr. Seed wedded Mrs. Helen Jennings, a daughter of Captain G.
A. Gore, who was an old river captain and commanded the Northern Pacific
transfer boat at Kalama. He was the first man to bring a steamer over the
rapids at the Cascades. By her former marriage Mrs. Seed had a son, D. V.
Jennings.
Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Seed has given
his political support to the reoublican party, and the questions and issues of
the day find in him an interested student. He belongs to the Knights of
Pythias fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has at-
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tained high rank in Masonry, holding membership in the lodge, chapter and
commandery and in Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His interest in
the order is indicated in the progress he has made through the different degrees
and in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. His success in
business is perhaps largely attributable to the fact that throughout his life he
has continued in the line in which he embarked as a young tradesman. The
exercise of activity is keeping him alert and he is ever interested in all that
pertains to building operations, employing the most progressive and modern
ideas in the construction of the buildings of Portland and elsewhere that stand
as monuments to his skill, proficiency and business integrity.
JOSEPH M. HEALY.
Joseph M. Healy, of Portland, whose attention is now given only to the
supervision of his invested interests, was born in Vancouver, Washington, on
the 6th of February, 1868, a son of the late Patrick and Cecelia Healy. After
completing his education in St. James College of his native city, he entered
business life as a clerk and remained in the employ of others until 1898. In the
meantime he had been gaining valuable experience, possessing an observing
eye and drawing from each new duty and experience the lesson which it con-
tained. He thus came well equipped to his new undertaking — the conduct of a
real-estate and brokerage business. He had thoroughly informed himself con-
cerning property values in Portland and his knowledge thereof was supplemented
by incorruptible integrity and keen business acumen. Moreover, he had faith in
Portland property as a safe and remunerative investment so that he had no dif-
ficulty in convincing others of its worth. He met with notable success from the
very inception of his business, handled extensive realty interests and important
commercial paper, and negotiated property transfers on such an extensive scale
that after twelve years of close application to and capable management of his
business he was able to retire.
Mr. Healy built the first steel construction building on the east side of the
Willamette, being the four story building on the southwest corner of Grand
avenue and East Morrison street, which still bears his name. He was also one
of the original builders of the United Railways which is now being developed by
the Hill system of interurban railways. He is one of the directors of the Mer-
chants National Bank of this city, and maintains an office in the Board of Trade
building for the direction of his personal interests.
Mr. Healy is an interested and active worker in the Catholic church and
holds membership with the Knights of Columbus and Catholic Order of Fores-
ters, and is also a member of the Arlington and Commercial Clubs.
J. C. AINSWORTH.
J. C. Ainsworth, of Portland, financier and business promoter, who is iden-
tified with many corporate interests, has contributed materially to the develop-
ment and upbuilding of the Pacific country. Portland is proud to number him
among her native sons. He was born in this city, January 4, 1870, of the mar-
riage of Captain J. C. and Fannie (Babbitt) Ainsworth, and completed his edu-
cation in the University of California, from which institution he was graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1891. He afterward pursued a spe-
cial course in electrical engineering in the same institution. His early busi-
ness training was received in the Central Bank of Oakland, California, which
his father had previously established, and in 1894 he entered banking circles
JOSE PIT M. HEAIA'
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in Portland, Oregon, becoming identified with the Ainsworth National Bank,
of which he was chosen president. The bank was capitalized for one hundred
thousand dollars and as its chief directing force he maintained a safe conserva-
tive policy that made it one of the strongest moneyed concerns on the coast.
In 1902 he merged the Ainsworth Bank with the United States Bank under the
name of the latter, which was then capitalized for two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars, while later the capital stock was increased to three hundred thou-
sand dollars. He yet remains president of this bank, which now has a capital
and surplus of over one million eight hundred thousand and deposits of some
eleven millions and which has always been kept abreast with the most modern
and progressive financial policy commensurate with the best interests of the
institution.
A man of resourceful business ability, Mr. Ainsworth has improved his
opportunity for judicious investment in many other important business enter-
prises and his efforts have constituted a valuable element in the successful con-
trol of various corporations of the west. He was instrumental in organizing
the Fidelity Trust Company Bank of Tacoma, capitalized for five hundred
thousand dollars, and in 1902 he succeeded Colonel C. W. Griggs as president
of the company. He is also the president of the Oregon Telephone & Telegraph
Company with a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars and is assistant
secretary and treasurer of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company,
which has a capital of fifteen million dollars, while its lines extend from Mexico
to Alaska. His keen business discernment has led to his cooperation being
sought in the upbuilding of many of the important business projects of the
coast. He is now treasurer of the Portland Railway Company and his name
is on the directorate of the Portland Hotel Company, the Portland General
Electric Company, the Portland Street Railway Company, the Pacific States
Telephone & Telegraph Company, the Los vAngeles & Redondo Railway Com-
pany, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company and many others.
On the 26th of June, 1901, in Portland, Mr. Ainsworth was married to Miss
Alice Heitshu, who is a native of California, and, moving in the highest social
circles, their home is the scene of many delightful social functions. Mr. Ains-
worth holds membership in the Presbyterian church and the Arlington Qub, of
which he was formerly president, and his political allegiance is given to the re-
publican party. While he is numbered among the most successful men of the
northwest, he has never regarded the pursuit of wealth as the sole end and aim
of life but has found time and opportunity for activity in other lines which
touch the general interests of society, cooperating in many movements for the
public good and upholding at all times those interests which are in Portland a
matter of civic virtue and of civic pride.
JAMES BYBEE.
James Bybee, eighty-three years of age, is still giving personal supervision
to the conduct of his farm of one hundred acres in Clarke county. His has;
been a well spent life and frontier experiences of every kind are familiar to
him, for he dates his residence upon the Pacific coast from 1850. A native of
Kentucky, Mr. Bybee was born in 1827 and was reared in Monroe county, Mis-
souri, where he lived upon a farm until 1850. He then joined the emigrants
who were making their way to California in an almost endless wagon train
across the plains. He journeyed with mule teams and pack horses and after
reaching his destination remained until November on the middle fork of the
American river, engaged in mining. On account of the illness of his brother,
William Bybee, he came to Oregon, the trip being made by sailing vessel to
Astoria, from which point they proceeded up the Columbia in a small boat to
Portland.
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Indolence and idleness have ever been utterly at variance with the nature
of James Bybee and he at once sought opportunity for the exercise of industry
and diligence — his dominant qualities. He rented land on Sauvies Island, where
he and his brother raised potatoes, which they shipped to California. So few
people were then engaged in farming that all grain and market products brought
a high price and the brothers made two thousand dollars a piece that year.
James Bybee afterward lived upon a farm at the mouth of the Willamette,
where he took up a claim and engaged in the dairy business. He then went to
Jacksonville, Oregon, on a mining trip but remained only a short time and in
1862 proceeded to eastern Oregon, settling at Auburn on Powder river. There
he conducted a store and did freighting but after six months he sold out there
and returned to his farm, upon which he remained until 1868, when he removed
to Clarke county, Washington, trading his claim for three hundred and twenty
acres of land in Clarke county. This was mostly covered with timber but he
cleared one hundred acres and at the same time continued general farming as
the land was prepared for the plow. Prospering in his undertakings, he also
added to his holdings, purchasing another tract of two hundred and thirty acres.
Plowever, he has since sold all of his land save one hundred acres upon which
he resides and which constitutes one of the valuable properties of this locality.
He has eight acres of fruit upon his place and other good improvements but
expects soon to leave the farm, for he is building a residence in Vancouver
which he intends to occupy.
In 1855 Mr. Bybee was married to Miss Eudora Sturgis, of IlHnois, and of
the nine children born to them seven are yet living: Gay, a resident of Van-
couver; Mrs. Carrie Westfall, of Idaho; William, who is located in Sacramento,
California ; Mrs. Minnie Matchett, of Portland ; Mrs. Addie Seward, also of
Portland ; Mrs. Eudora Snorer, at home ; and Charles, of Vancouver. The wife
and mother died in 1894 and in 1900 Mr. Bybee married Mrs. Ellen Day, of
Portland, a native of Indiana. His home is situated ten miles from Vancouver,
on the middle road, and two and a half miles from Fisher's Landing. His has
been a busy, active and useful life and his success is attributable entirely to his
own labors and his recognition and utilization of opportunities.
AMES-HARRIS-NEVILLE COMPANY.
Every successful business enterprise adds to the stability, material develop-
ment and financial standing of a city. The house of Ames-Harris-Neville Com-
pany, has long been known in Portland in connection with the manufacture of
burlap, cotton bags, twine, rope, etc. The business was established about i860
in San Francisco, California, by E. Detrick & Company, and was conducted
under the name until 1883, when partnership relations were entered into and the
style of Ames & Detrick was assumed, owing to the admission of J. P. Ames, of
Oakland, as a partner. Business was conducted at San Francisco until 1884,
when they established a branch in Portland. They continued to operate under
the name of Ames & Detrick until 1893, when the Detrick interests withdrew
and the firm became Ames & Harris, E. F. Harris, now deceased, purchasing
an interest in the business at that time. The headquarters of the firm have
always been in San Francisco, California. In 1898 the firm of Ames & Harris
was incorporated, and the corporation was conducted until 1906, when they pur-
chased the business of Neville & Company, of San Francisco, and the Neville
Bag Company, of Portland, who had been one of their chief competitors. The
merged interests were then incorporated under the present style of the Ames-
Harris-Neville Company.
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The present ofificers of the corporation are: J. H. Ames, of San Francisco,
president and treasurer ; Everett Ames, a brother of J. H. Ames, first vice presi-
dent and manager of the Portland branch; L. W. Harris, of San Francisco,
second vice president; John J. Valentine, of San Francisco, secretary. The
capital stock is about five hundred thousand dollars. At the Portland branch
from one hundred and fifty to two hundred hands are employed in the factory
and office, which is located at Fifth and Davis streets.
DAVID S. STEARNS.
David S. Stearns, engaged in the real-estate business in Portland, is numbered
among Oregon's native sons, for his parents were among the earliest settlers of
the state. He was born in Medford in 1857 and following the removal of the
family to Portland he continued his education in the old Central high school,
situated on the present site of Hotel Portland. He afterward learned the trade
of iron molding with John Nation, who had a stove foundry on the present site
of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Mill. He continued in that business until about
1882, when he turned his attention to the cigar business, which he conducted for
two years. He was afterward engaged in the newspaper business as route agent
and later as advertising solicitor but in 1887 turned his attention to the real-
estate field, in which he has since operated with the exception of about a year,
when he filled the office of city assessor by appointment of the late Mayor Mason.
He is thoroughly informed concerning property values and has negotiated many
important realty transfers, having secured a large clientage in this line.
On the 17th of February, 1884, Mr. Stearns was united in marriage to Miss
Mattie A. Wilkinson, a daughter of Isaiah Wilkinson, a veteran of the Civil
war, who died at Evansville, Indiana, from illness contracted while in the army.
Her mother's people were early pioneers of Oregon. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Stearns
has been born a son, David Lloyd, now attending the Hawthorne school. Mrs.
Stearns is a member of the Taylor Street Methodist church and is much inter-
ested in its work. Mr. Stearns is a son of the Rev. Samuel E. Stearns, long a
prominent home missionary of the northwest and is a twin brother of Gustavus
Stearns. They are the oldest living twins born in Oregon. Both David S. Stearns
and his wife have a wide acquaintance in Portland and the friendship of the
great majority who know them is cordially extended.
GEORGE A. WHIPPLE.
Prominent among those who are extensively and successfully engaged in
farming in the vicinity of Vancouver George A. Whipple is numbered. He was
born November 16, 1854, on the donation claim at Ridgefield which his father
secured on coming to the northwest. He is a son of S. R. Whipple, a prom-
inent pioneer resident of this section. He was born in Oswego county. New
York, in 1823, and there resided until twenty-one years of age, when he went
to Wisconsin. Subsequently he became a resident of Illinois, settling at Ba-
tavia, Kane county, where he engaged in farming, developing his fields there
until 1852, when he joined the emigrants who in an almost endless wagon
train were crossing the plains, the slow plodding oxen carrying their provisions
and household efifects on the long journey over the prairie toward the mountains
and the fertile valleys of the Pacific coast country. S. R. Whipple made his
way direct to Vancouver and took up a donation land claim twelve miles from
that city at Ridgefield. There he lived until 1862, when he returned to Van-
couver and lived retired until 1905. In that year he went to Los Angeles, Cali-
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fornia, where his death occurred in February, 1907, when he had reached the
age of eighty-four years. He had been married in IlHnois in 1849 to Miss
Charlotte Louisa A. Lambert, the wedding being celebrated at the home of Gov-
ernor Bross. The death of Mrs. Whipple occurred in Vancouver in 1884. In
their family were three children, of whom all survive, namely : Dr. Ella Whip-
ple Marsh, who is living at Long Beach, California; Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth
Brown, of Los Angeles, California; and George A., of Vancouver.
The last named, as previously stated, was born upon his father's claim at
Ridgefield and was there reared to the age of eight years, when he accom-
panied his parents to Vancouver, where he continued until he attained his ma-
jority. During that period he attended the Vancouver Seminary from which
he was graduated with the class of 1873. He was also a student in the Willa-
mette University and taught school for several years. In 1877 he purchased
two hundred and eight acres of land ten miles northeast of Vancouver about
five miles north of Fisher's Landing. Since that time he has purchased an ad-
ditional tract of two hundred acres and, having sold only fifteen acres, is still
the owner of a valuable farm of three hundred and ninty-three acres. This
was an unbroken wilderness when it came into his possession, destitute entirely
of improvements, and the excellent appearance of the place indicates his well
spent life and practical industry. He has cleared one hundred and fifty acres
for the plow and one hundred acres for pasture land, has brought his fields un-
der a high state of cultivation, has put good stock upon the place and has erected
substantial buildings, including the three fine residences occupied by his two
sons and himself. He raises grain and hay and has five acres planted to or-
chard and is also successfully engaged in the dairy business.
The year after making his first purchase — 1878 — Mr. Whipple was married
to Miss Clara Nevada Marsh, a daughter of Samuel P. Marsh, of Vancouver,
who was a pioneer here and prominent in the early days of development and
progress on the coast. They have four children: L. Marie, who is a teacher
and resides at home ; George Eugene and Lloyd G., who are associated with
their father in business; and Charlotte Ruth, who is teaching music. The chil-
dren have all been provided with excellent educational privileges and are gradu-
ates of the Willamette University at Salem, Oregon. The family is a prominent
and cultured one of Clarke county, having a wide and favorable acquaintance in
this locality, and their home is justly celebrated for its warm-hearted and
cordial hospitality. Since 1852 the name of Whipple has been an honored one
in this locality and has in large measure represented unfaltering activity and
enterprise in the agricultural development of Clarke county.
CAPTAIN 'WILLIAM H. SMITH.
Captain WiUiam H. Smith, a retired steamboat man of Portland, identified
with transportation interests on the Willamette and Columbia rivers since 1854,
was born in London, England, June 16, 1831, his parents being Richard and
Elizabeth Smith, both of whom died in England, where the father had carried on
business as a wine merchant. Captain Smith attended school in the world's
metropolis but at an early age found it necessary to provide for his own sup-
port, and worked at whatever he could get that would yield him a living. He
saw no chance for advancement, however, and determined to go to sea_, so atthe
age of fourteen years he became an apprentice on the bark Simler, a ship of _ eight
hundred tons bound for Bombay, Calcutta. Abuse and hardships met him in
that connection, however, and when he again reached London fifteen months
later he left the Simler and shipped on the Blond as an ordinary seaman. In
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this way he made a trip to Sidney, AustraHa, and was also connected with the
coast trade between Sidney and Newcastle as a sailor. The return voyage to
London was made on an old wooden ship, the Solsett. At that time he deter-
mined to ship as an American seaman, and through the influence of a Mr. Mas-
sey, of London, he secured a position on the Margaret Evans, a fine ship of two
thousand tons, on which he crossed the Atlantic to New York as an ordinary
seaman. He afterward made a voyage from New York to New Orleans on
another American vessel and subsequently sailed to Harve in the English chan-
nel, returning thence to Boston, Massachusetts. In that city he found his uncle,
Thomas Smith, and family, who were then arranging to go to Oregon and asked
Captain Smith to accompany them. He did not think it wise to go at the time
but promised to meet them there later. Two more years were devoted to a sea-
man's life, during which he made a trip to the Spanish Main and to England.
Gradually he had worked his way upward on shipboard, becoming acquainted
with every duty that falls to the lot of the seaman. In fact his ability excited
that of many others on shipboard and accordingly he was offered the position of
third mate, but desire to try his fortune in Oregon prevented him from accepting.
When the Clipper ship Searine weighed anchor in the harbor of New York
in 1853, bound on the long voyage to California, he was among the crew, but at
the end of the trip, which consumed ninety-six days, he left that ship at San
Francisco and engaged as watchman on the Columbia, a steamship. In January,
1854, he arrived in Oregon and hunted up his uncle with whom he lived at
Chanapoeg until the following spring. His training and preference, however,
made him a seaman, and with the opening of navigation he engaged on the Enter-
prise, a good steamboat on the Willamette river. He has followed the river
almost continuously since on many different boats and is well known to all the
old river men. At one time he purchased a farm near Chanapoeg but later sold
it and purchased another tract of land on the French prairie. He was very suc-
cessful in raising crops, but there was no market for the product at that time
and, abandoning agricultural life, he returned to the river. He is now in pos-
session of a very fine watch which was presented to him by the citizens of Port-
land for faithful services which he rendered in helping to raise the United States
ship Charleston, the time piece being presented him on the 20th of May, 1892.
At Oregon City, in June, 1855, Captain Smith was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Ann Weston, who was born at Little Rock, Arkansas, and came to
Oregon with her parents in 1853, the journey being made across the plains with
ox teams. They traveled for six months ere reaching Marion county, Oregon,
where they located. Thus Captain and Mrs. Smith both have long been residents
of this state and are numbered among its honored and worthy pioneer settlers.
Their family numbered twelve children, but the two eldest, Emily and Richard,
died in childhood. The otheirs are as follows : Augusta F., who married Frank
Rittenour, of Portland, by whom she has four children, Fred, Harry, Lulu and
George ; Anna, the wife of B. F. Hedges, of Portland, by whom she has one son,
B. T. ; Ephraim D., who married Rose Luke and resides in Portland ; Mary, who
wedded C. H. Hawks, and has one child, Raymond; William E., of Astoria, who
married Nannie Holt and has two children, Clyde and Emery ; Alfred, who mar-
ried Rose Bernier, both of whom are now deceased, their two children, Chester
and Alfred, residing with the subject; Hattie B. and Edith J., both at home;
Kathrine M., who wedded E. C. Dick, of Portland, and has five children, Don-
ald, Ellenor, Franklyn, Charles and Colman ; and Edward L., who married Ellen
Fichner, and with their three children, Dorothy, Edward and Mildred, reside in
Portland.
Captain Smith is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a firm believer
in the spirit and principles of that organization. His active service as a river-
man, however, has prevented him from taking active part in fraternal or polit-
ical interests. He is well known among those who have in any way been con-
nected with the shipping interests of this section, and has lived to see remark-
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able changes in navigation from the early days when saiHng vessels brought
passengers around the Horn to the Pacific coast. He can relate many interest-
ing incidents of the early days and no one rejoices more keenly in the progress
that has been made as the years have gone by than does Captain Smith.
ROBERT BRUCE WILSON, M. D.
Robert Bruce Wilson, eminent physician and surgeon, honored pioneer, edu-
cator and prominent factor in Portland's early development, was a native of
Portsmouth, Virginia, born June 12, 1828. His early education was gained in
the schools of his native city. He studied medicine at the University of Virginia
and after graduation supplemented his college course by service in the hospitals
of Philadelphia.
In 1849 he was attracted to California by the gold excitement of that year.
Settling in San Francisco, he engaged in practice for about six months, when
he accepted the position of ship surgeon on the steamer. Gold Hunter, plying
between San Francisco and the Columbia river. In December, 1850, he came to
Portland and, being impressed with its future possibilities, decided to locate here
permanently.
From the date of his arrival. Dr. Wilson labored most industriously in his
profession, built up a large practice in Portland and gained as well an enviable
reputation throughout the state and the northwest. He was the first physician
of distinguished ability and education to settle in and grow up with the city.
Personally he was a fine type of the cultured southern gentleman. He was
for many years looked upon as the dean of the medical fraternity and was a
potent factor in the social and civic life of early Portland. His activities cov-
ered a period of thirty-seven consecutive years with the exception of three years,
which he spent in an extended tour of travel and research in Great Britain and
Europe.
Dr. Wilson married in 1854, Miss Caroline E. Couch, the eldest daughter of
Captain John H. Couch, and they became the parents of seven children, three
sons and four daughters : Dr. Holt C. and Dr. George F., prominent Portland
physicians, Mary Carrie, wife of Walter J. Burns; Virginia; Clementine; Maria
Louise ; and Robert Bruce.
Dr. Wilson died August 6, 1887. His was the satisfaction of having lived
to see Portland grow from the struggling frontier village as he found it to a
prosperous and beautiful modern city and to feel a just pride in having con-
tributed in no small degree to its transformation. The loss of few of the city's
pioneers has been more acutely felt or more sincerely regretted.
MAJOR ALFRED F. SEARS.
To a great majority business activity indicates the concentration of effort
in a single place. The profession to which Major Alfred F. Sears turned his
attention, however, called him to various sections not only of the United States
but also of Mexico and various South American countries. As a civil engineer
his labors were of inestimable value in promoting railway and business projects
that have been of the utmost worth in developing the different sections in which
he has labored. He has come to an honored old age, for he has traveled life's
journey for eighty-four years — years in which mental development has been a
continuous force in his life, the precious prize of keen intellect remaining his
to the present day. Advanced scientific attainments have gained him prominence
in his chosen field of labor, and with a mind receptive and retentive, he has
DR. R. B. WILSON
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also gleaned in his travels knowledge of far-reaching purport and interest con-
cerning the lands he has visited and the peoples among whom he has lived. He
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, November lO, 1826, and is descended from
Pilgrim Revolutionary stock. His great-grandfather, Zachariah Sears, of Yar-
mouth, Cape Cod, was a lieutenant of militia in 1776, although then seventy-
two years of age. His grandfather, Joseph Henry Sears, when but fourteen
years of age, joined the regiment commanded by Colonel Nat Freeman, of Yar-
mouth, and served with the American troops in Rhode Island. His father, Ze-
bina Sears, inherited the family passion for liberty and in 1816 commanded the
brigantine Neptune, a cruiser in the service of the states of La Plata, then en-
gaged in their war for independence from Spain. He made three successful
voyages between New Orleans and Buenos Aires with men, arms and ammuni-
tion for the patriots, but was finally captured by a Spanish frigate whicTi he
fought until his own ship was sunk. He was taken to Spain for trial and sent
for life to the penal colony of Melilla, on the coast of Morocco, from which he
at length made his escape by aid of brother Masons, and eventually reached
Boston.
Major Alfred F. Sears, the fourth in a family of seven children, pursued his
education in the public schools of his native city, where he won a FrankHn
medal for scholarship on graduation from the Winthrop school in 1841. He then
entered the English High school and was graduated with the class of 1844. The
following year was spent in a mercantile counting house, and another year in an
architect's office, but preferring outdoor life he took up civil engineering, for
which he was well adapted. He had pursued a special course in mathematics
from Master Sherwin, of the high school, and this proved a good foundation for
further preparation for his chosen profession.
On the 8th of June, 1846, he, entered upon active business connection with
the profession at the Boston water-works', iirfder the distinguished civil engineer,
E. S. Chesbrogh. He was afterward connected with the Cheshire Railroad of
New Hampshire and subsequently became resident engineer of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, under the late Benjamin H. Latrobe.
At the outbreak of the Civil war Major Sears was acting as surveyor of
Newark, New Jersey. He resigned in June of that year to raise a company
which was afterward enrolled as Company E, First New York Volunteer Engin-
eers, and in October was sent to Hilton Head, in the expeditionary corps for the
capture of Forts Beauregard and Walker. After about a year Captain Sears
was stationed with his company at Hilton Head in hard service and also in the
initial work of investing Fort Pulaski. In that connection he located and built
the battery in the rear of Pulaski on Jones island in the Savannah river, known
as Fort Vulcan, thereby cutting off all communication by steamer between >the
fort and the city of Savannah. He also destroyed three-quarters of a mile of
telegraph line between these points. He was next sent to Florida on important
service and following his return rejoined his company. After the battle of James
island on the i6th of June, 1862, he was ordered to Fort Clinch, Florida, to pre-
pare the fort for defense against land attacks. Shortly afterward he came north
to confer with General Totten, the chief engineer of the army, and during the
visit, in October, 1862, through special dispensation of the grand lodge he was
made a Mason in Kane Lodge of New York city. A week later he returned to
Florida where he remained until December, 1865 — six months after the muster-
out of his regiment — when he returned to Newark, New Jersey, having in the
meantime been promoted to the rank of major. He was the only volunteer officer
of engineers who was permitted to report directly to the chief engineer of the
army at Washington.
Following his return to the north, Major Sears was employed as assistant
engineer of the Newark (New Jersey) water works, being engaged chiefly in
building the Belleville reservoir. Shortly afterward he was elected chief en-
gineer of the Newark & New York Railroad, located that line and also de-
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signed and located the first elevated railroad in the United States, passing
over the New Jersey Railroad and to the city limits, over twenty blocks. When
that road passed into the hands of the New York Central Railroad he was su-
perceded by the chief engineer of that line. Many of the positions to which he
has been called in later years have come to him by reason of his power as a
linguist, for he is versed in Italian, Portuguese, French and Spanish. He was
engaged by an American company to visit Costa Rica where he made prelimin-
ary surveys across the continent from the Gulf of Nicoya to Puerto Limon on
the Carribean sea, and on his return to the United States was selected as the
chief engineer of a railroad in Central New York which he left in 1869 to take
charge of the Atlantic division of the Costa Rica Railroad from Puerto Limon
to the division line between the oceans. In the following year the Costa Rican
government became bankrupt and Major Sears was invited by the late Henry
Meiggs, railway king of South America, to visit Peru where he made a con-
tract with the Peruvian government by which he entered the national corps of
engineers of which he was a member until 1879. He lived in Peru for seven
years, during which period he was appointed inspector of railroads for the gov-
ernment in the north of the republic. He was also chief engineer of the irri-
gation commission for devising a system of water works and sewerage for the
cities of Callao, Paita and Piura. Finally he became chief engineer of the Chim-
bote, Huaraz and Reouay Railroad, where he remained until the war with
Chili had bankrupted Peru.
As his son had settled in Portland, Major Sears, came to Oregon in 1879.
Upon his arrival here he was appointed umpire engineer of the Oregonian rail-
way which was then being constructed for a Scotch company of Dundee. Be-
cause of his familiarity with the Spanish language, however, he was soon in-
vited to Mexico to become assistant general manager of the Mexican Central
Railroad Company, from which position he was called a year later by the Mexi-
can government to take charge as general manager of the Tehuantepec Inter-
oceanic Railway. After three months' work, finding the government bankrupt
and having received only one month's pay, he became disgusted and returned to
Portland, where he has since resided, although frequently visiting the east,
Europe and South America.
On again taking up his abode in Portland Major Sears began the practice
of his profession here and also soon became a prolific periodical writer and
lecturer, appearing several times before the University of the City of New
York, the American National Geographical Association of New York, the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Long Island Historical So-
ciety, while on many occasions he has delivered lectures and addresses in Port-
land. In 1 88 1 he lectured in Portland on the Iron and Railroads of the World,
giving an account of an iron street-car he had built in New York in 1856 for
the Sixth avenue line and a sixty-passenger car for a New Jersey line to Hack-
ensack, and he said at that time that iron street passenger cars had been in
successful use on English roads in India and "they will be in use eventually the
world over."
In 1 88 1 he presented to the people of Portland, in the columns of the Ore-
gonian, The Law of Commercial Geography, which has since created discus-
sions in the commercial and scientific worlds, and has been presented in lec-
tures and papers to the geographical societies of the country and the American
Society of Civil Engineers, exciting antagonism until it has become accepted as
immutable law in the world's economy, namely : It being understood that com-
merce does not consist in shipping freight from a port, but is simply tlie ex-
change of a country's productions for the supplies of the producer, "the com-
mercial metropolis of a region will be that point nearest the producer which can
be reached by a deep sea ship,"
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On the 4th of November, 1900, he published in the Oregonian a letter drawn
out by the visit of Mr. Mellen, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in
which he delivered himself on notions antagonizing his position; the letter con-
cluded with this prophecy: "The Northern Pacific Railroad will be forced into
Portland by the most direct route possible. This is simply its helpless fate, on
which Portland may sleep. The law of commerce, as I have stated it, is the
inexorable, immutable law without exception in the world's economy." In a
communication published in the Oregonian on the 12th of May, 1883, he sug-
gested to the port of Portland board as follows : "I can think of no port so
analogous in conditions to Portland as that of Glasgow, Scotland." After stat-
ing the conditions the letter continued: "If our river is to be kept open it
must be done by a board like the Clyde trust, working in the interest of Port-
land and with her money." Shortly after this he was called to Mexico, but
Ellis G. Hughes, who was associated in the Oregonian Railroad Company as
attorney, of which Mr. Sears was engineer, took up the matter, visited the legis-
lature and secured the charter for the present organization. This was the
origin of the port of Portland commissioners.
In 1889 Major Sears, while engaged as chief engineer of the first electric
railway built in the northwest, was urged by the people of Peru to return to the
region where he had made irrigation surveys and plans, a very promising con-
cession being made him. He was also called by capitalists to England where a
syndicate for the work was formed, but the plans were upset by the failure of
the house of Barring Brothers, due to the repudiation by Argentina of her bonds
held in England. He then recovered his concession from the English company
and tried to organize a company in New York. He had just succeeded when,
in August, 1894, the revolution broke out in Peru and the project was aban-
doned. At the request of eastern capitalists he again secured the concession
in 1898 for a party who agreed to put up the necessary guarantee bond but who
failed of execution. In the meantime he had expended all of his means in his
devotion to an idea, suffering heavy losses in his confidence in unworthy men.
He has since lived a retired life in Portland except for some activity in civic
affairs.
On the 29th of January, 1850, Mr. Sears was married to Miss Augusta
Bassett, the youngest daughter of Paschall Bassett, of Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts, and descended on both sides from Puritan ancestry. Her mother traced
her ancestry directly to Mary Chilton, who was the first woman to land from
the Mayflower. Unto Major Sears and his wife were born three children, of
whom one reached maturity, Alfred F., Jr., who became a prominent lawyer and
was on the bench in Oregon when he died, in 1907.
Major Sears is an honored member of various societies. He belongs to the
Sons of the American Revolution, the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the
Republic, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Association of
Civil Engineers of Peru and is a corresponding member of the Geographical
Society of Lima, Peru.
One who knows Major Sears well has written of him: "He is essentially a
polite man, a gentleman in all that the term implies. The real gentleman must
possess a kindly nature, a heart bent upon goodness. The manners of Major
Sears would adorn any station. I have seen him when general manager of a
railroad go the entire length of a railway car to assist a poor Indian peasant
woman in raising a car window with which she was struggling. This illus-
trates the quality of his nature. He is void of selfishness and has in an unusual
degree the quality of thoughtfulness for others. He is inclined to diffidence
and has been accused of supersensitiveness, yet is not slow to strenuously resist
what he deems encroachment upon his rights or those of others in whom he is
interested. One of his strongly marked qualities is his ability to win the confi-
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dence and the admiration of the humbler classes of both men and women, this
frequently taking the form of an expression of admiration for intellectual pre-
dominance.
"Passing to a consideration of intellectual qualities, it may be said that
Major Sears is especially developed on the side of perception. Had he held
office in a parliamentary body he would have been distinguished, nay almost in-
vincible in debate. He has cultivated an exceptionally pure rhetorical style,
unique and forceful, rarely surpassed in beauty by men whose life is not de-
voted to literature. He has been throughout his life a student, more in the
lines of science, sociology, philosophy and some branches of politics than in
other fields of learning. His temperament is essentially radical, or more cor-
rectly, non-conservative. As might be deduced from the few traits delineated
above, he has the very structure of the reformer and the philanthropist. The
term philanthropist is used here with full appreciation of its meaning. He has
been such in both theory and action. If the evidences of his work are not more
numerous it is because of the conflicting demands of an exacting and laborious
profession and business life which have prevented a constant abiding in one
community. He may be said, in truth, through life to have loved his brother
man."
WILLIAM P. JONES.
There is a fascination in the story of those who crossed the plains long be-
fore the building of railroads, when Omaha and Kansas City practically repre-
sented the outposts of civilization, beyond which there were vast stretches of
plain and desert and the high mountain ranges of the Rockies. The story is
one of hardships, endurance and courage. William P. Jones was among the
number who made the long trip from the Mississippi valley to California by
wagon in 1850. He was born in North Wales in 1822, his parents being John
and Margaret Jones. The father was a carpenter and came to America with
his family when the son was but a young lad. They located in New York state
in 1832 and later removed to Illinois, while subsequently the family home was
established in Iowa, where the parents died, the father in 1855 ^"d the mother
in 1854.
William P. Jones was nine years of age when he made the voyage across the
Atlantic. His education was largely acquired in the schools of Joliet, Illinois,
and he afterward learned the carpenter's trade, working with his father and also
farming. His father owned a farm in Des Moines county, Iowa, and William
P. Jones aided in its cultivation while engaged in carpenter work. He was mar-
ried on the 14th of September, 1846, near Burlington, Iowa, to Miss Elizabeth
Evans, a daughter of Thomas T. and Mary Evans. She was born in the
southern part of Wales, August 2, 1827, and in 1832 was brought to America
by her parents, who located first at Utica, New York, and three years later
removed to Portage county, Ohio, where Mrs. Jones attended school and resided
until she reached young womanhood. Her father was a weaver by trade. He
removed from Ohio, to Iowa, and both he and his wife died in Des Moines of
cholera in 1845.
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jones resided in Iowa until 1850,
when, attracted by the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast, he started for Cali-
fornia on the 9th of April, there being five men, two women and two children
in the party, with one wagon having four yoke of oxen and another wagon with
two horses and mules. The difficulties and hardships which they experienced
were those which display endurance, strength and courage. The frost was just
out of the ground so that the prairie mud was very deep and the wagons fre-
quently became stalled. They found, too, that parties ahead of them had bought
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up everything in the way of feed and one place where they got a little corn they
had to pay three dollars per bushel for it. When a month had passed they
found themselves on the western border of Iowa, reaching Council Bluffs May
13. There they found many selling their outfits and returning home, while
others were trading their horses for oxen, or oxen for horses. The little Iowa
party joined a train of five wagons from Lewis county, Missouri, and on the
14th of May crossed the river. Two days later it camped within two miles of
a Sioux Indian city and soon the chief and six warriors paid a friendly visit.
They were given supper and a tent to sleep in and in the morning it was found
that the warriors had disappeared with their blankets and other things. On the
19th of May they encountered storms so severe that they could not put up their
tents. On the following day a storm forced them to break camp and take their
wagons to higher ground. All along the way they found it difficult to obtain pro-
visions but on the 26th of May one of the party killed a buffalo and the camp
was thus supplied with meat. From that time forward for a month or more
they had plenty of buffalo and antelope meat, for those animals were to be found
in large herds on the open plains. The journey was not without its amusing in-
cidents. The company had much merriment over a visit of a Sioux to their
camp. The warriors looked with admiration at one of the white men who was
six feet, seven inches in height. They offered several buffalo robes and several
pairs of moccasins for him and offered him three ponies and two squaws if he
would live with them and swear allegiance to the Sioux nation. It was a long
time before his party ceased to joke him over the trade. In June they had a
few days' travel where grass and water were plenty and the road was good but
when they reached the north fork of the Platte they had to make a boat by lash-
ing two wagons together that they might make their way across and practically
an entire day was thus lost. As they reached the Black Hills of Wyoming the
road became crooked and hilly and one place they had to let the wagons down
with ropes. They found that the Mormons had ferries on all the rivers and
charged exorbitant prices for ferrying the emigrants over. In fact they felled
trees on what was the right road and put up posters indicating "good road and
good ferry," in another direction so as to make the emigrants pay for being
ferried over. As the company proceeded westward they would sometimes leave
a wagon in order to save their teams and as a general thing would burn these
wagons so the Mormons could not be benefited by them. At length they found
themselves in the alkali country and it was almost impossible after traveling all
day in the hot sand to keep the cattle from drinking out of the alkali pools. The
consequences were that they died by the score. Then, too, the alkali seemed to
make the oxen's feet tender. After leaving the alkali country they traveled for
one hundred and fifty miles along the Sweet Water, a branch of the Platte and
had to cross and recross the stream several times. As they neared the South
Pass of the Rocky mountains the road became very rough and sometimes on a
mountain spur the snow would be ten feet deep, while down in the valley it
would be very hot. Sudden storms came up, too, sometimes three or four in a
day. On the 28th of June they reached the summit or South Pass — a gap in the
mountains about eighteen feet wide. There the Mormons had posted a placard
saying that they would take all letters east at twenty-five cents per letter. It is
probable, however, they destroyed all mail, at least Mr. Jones' letter never reached
its destination. Crossing the summit, the party started for the head waters of
the Humboldt river across one hundred and seventy-five miles of alkali desert.
When it was possible they would carry a little grass and water for the stock.
The roads were rough, cattle gave out, companies separated and everything was
left behind except provisions, that the people might hasten on their journey. On
the 3d of July the party with which Mr. Jones traveled crossed the Green river,
paying a toll of seven dollars per wagon. Several men in the train became ill
with mountain fever and a week's rest was spent at Soda Springs. Thirty more
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miles of desert brought them to the head waters of the Humboldt, which they
followed for two hundred miles, the little creek broadening out into a wide
river and then again getting smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared in
the sandy desert called the "sink of the Humboldt river." Here, however, was
plenty of water and grass for the animals and after two days' rest there the
party started on another stretch of seventy-five miles of alkali desert. Their
greatest difficulty was to take water along. As Mr. Jones had no water keg he
tied the wristbands of his rubber coat sleeves, filled the garment with water,
carrying two bucketsful. On that part of the trip the party became lost, wander-
ing from the right road. They had only provisions enough to last four days.
After traveling thirty hours they came across the desert, and the next day met
a solitary Indian who told them by signs that it was eight days' journey to the
gold mines. They had only two days' provisions and were in the heavily
timbered country of the Sierra Nevadas. There was no game to be had
and the country was full of the Snake Indians. The outlook was discourag-
ing but they pushed on and on the 25th of August found they had provisions for
only a supper and breakfast left. The next morning when they were eating their
last meal a solitary Norwegian came to them begging for a spoonful of flour to
make soup with the tripe of a dead ox. He, too, had started on the wrong trail
of the desert. He said that two men with oxen had passed him the day before.
This unexpected news brought courage and the party hastened on, overtaking
the men late in the afternoon. Stating their condition, Mr. Jones and his party
said that they must have an ox for food, that they would give a horse or seventy-
five dollars for it and would help the men along their way. After demurring,
they accepted the money and the ox was soon cut up in thin strips and hung on
poles around a big fire for the meat to dry. They also cooked portions of it and
visited until midnight. The remainder of the animal served as food during the
succeeding four days, when they traveled over rough country in the Sierras at
an elevation of seven thousand feet. Again their food was almost gone and the
situation looked serious but on the ist of September they met two traders with
flour coming out to meet the emigrants. They paid a dollar per pound for flour
and they secured another meal. The next day they arrived at the mines after
traveling from the 9th of April until the 23d of September.
Mr. Jones at once began work in the mines, sleeping the first night under
a large oak tree. For seventeen years thereafter he followed mining, always in
California, He was also engaged in the lumber and sawmill business in Nevada
county, California, for about seven years and in 1869 came to Portland, arriv-
ing in this city on the 22d of October. The removal was made that he might give
his children better educational advantages, and he also had a brother, Joseph F.,
who was and is still a resident of Portland. Mrs. Jones, when her husband left
for California, remained in Iowa but in 1853 joined him on the coast. Remov-
ing to Portland, they established their home at the corner of Sixth and Colum-
bia streets, there remaining until 1891, when Mr. Jones erected the fine resi-
dence at the corner of Hawthorne and Glenn streets, where his widow now re-
sides.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jones were born seven children: Anna V., who died at
the age of ten years ; Joseph, who died in childhood ; William H. ; Josephine,
who died in childhood ; Jennie E., who was a capable teacher in the Portland
schools but died in 1892, at the age of thirty-three years; Benjamin T., of Seat-
tle, who married Mrs. Peet; and Thomas L., who is engaged in the insurance
business in Portland.
After coming to Portland Mr. Jones was for a long period in public office,
serving as road supervisor and tax collector until his death, which occurred April
5, 1895, when he had reached the age of seventy-two years, eleven months and
twenty-three days. In politics he was a stalwart republican, active in the ranks
of the party and doing all in his power to promote its success. He held mem-
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bership in the Masonic lodge and in the First Congregational church — relations
which indicate the nature of his interests and the principles which governed his
conduct. His was indeed an honorable, upright life, and his many sterling traits
of character won him high regard and lasting friendships.
SAMUEL E. STEARNS.
We are apt to think mainly of the representatives of trade, commercial
and professional interests as the builders of the state, together with those who
frame the laws, and yet largely underlying the labors in all those lines is the
motive force of the recognition of moral and religious obligations. And while
less tangible, the work of those who have been teachers in the latter field is of
inestimable value to the race and to the country. It was largely in the branch
of home missionary service that Samuel E. Stearns labored and his influence
•was far-reaching and beneficial. He was born in Vermont, in 1813. He mar-
ried Susan T. Whitaker, who is numbered among Oregon's pioneer women of
1853, in which year she came by the ox team route across the country from
Rockford, Illinois, traveling for six months and five days. She was born in 1826
and is a daughter of Judge Israel and Lucinda (Schaler) Whitaker, the latter
a daughter of Major Schaler, an officer of the American army in the Revolu-
tionary war. Mrs. Stearns was born in Clermont county, Ohio, and spent
her girlhood days at home with her parents until the 12th of November, 1844,
when she gave her hand in marriage to Samuel E. Stearns. They began their
domestic life in Ohio, where they remained for about nine years. Mr. Stearns
was a school teacher and Baptist minister and was thus identified with the in-
tellectual and moral progress of the community in which he lived. About 1852,
however, he decided to come to Oregon and the following year started on the
long and arduous journey across prairie, desert, mountain and stream for the
Pacific coast. He brought with him his wife and two children, Louisa and Ed-
win Avery, and was also accompanied by his father, his two brothers, David
and Avery P., and his sisters, (Mrs. Valina Williams and Mrs. Charlotte Emily
Pengra and their families. It was in 1852 that Mr. and Mrs. Stearns left Ohio,
journeying as far as Rockford, Illinois, where his brothers and sisters lived and
from that point they all started for the northwest. The only members of the
party at the outset were the relatives previously mentioned and those whom they
hired to help them on the journey. They traveled as far as Laramie, Wyoming
on the Platte river and by this time the Indians were proving so troublesome
that they joined other emigrants for protection, thus forming a considerable
train. They came on to the coast by the Yreka route through the Klamath
country, Captain Hannibal acting as escort.
On reaching southern Oregon Mr. Stearns and his family settled in the
Rogue river valley, where he took up a donation claim of three hundred and
twenty acres that includes the present site of the town of Medford. They re-
mained upon that place for about four years, at the end of which time Mr.
Stearns entered actively upon the work of a traveling missionary and so con-
tinued until his death, which occurred in Idaho on the 29th of December, 1891.
His life work was a potent element in the moral development of the community.
He was an earnest and eloquent speaker and the permeating truth of his utter-
ances proved an influencing force in the lives of many with whom he came in
contact. In his family were nine children, six of whom are living, while one
died in infancy and Edwin, a machinist, died in 1904, at the age of fifty-two
years. He was port engineer for the Northern Navigation Company. The liv-
ing members of the family are: Louisa, the wife of Charles A. Stewart, of
Clon, Oregon, who is living retired ; Anna M., who is the widow of J. Frank
Niles and is living in Walla Walla, Washington; Joseph O., an attorney of Port-
land ; David S., who is engaged in the real-estate business in Portland ; Gustavus
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M., who is a twin brother of David and is mining in Yukon ; and Andi'ew J.,
who is engaged in the printing business in Dakota. Following the death of her
first husband Mrs. Stearns gave her hand in marriage to Jacob McDuffee and
they are now pleasantly located in an attractive home in Portland.
Jacob McDufifee was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, June 30, 1822, a
son of James and Hannah (Ham) McDuffee, who were also natives of the old
Granite state. The family was founded in America during an early epoch in
the colonization of the new world and the great-grandfather of Jacob McDuffee
took up land in New Hampshire which is still in possession of the family. The
McDuffees are noted for longevity. James McDuffee passed av/ay at the age of
seventy-two years and was the youngest of his father's household at the time
of his death. He had a sister who lived to the very advanced age of ninety-
nine years.
The youthful days of Jacob McDuffee were spent under the parental roof.
He acquired his education in the schools of New Hampshire and there learned
the trade of a builder. He was twenty-four years of age when his parents re-
moved to Massachusetts and from that time until he came to Oregon in 1896 he
retained his residence in the old Bay state. He began taking contracts when but
nineteen years of age and after removing to Massachusetts carried on a con-
tracting business in Boston for a number of years, during which period he
erected many schoolhouses, churches and other prominent buildings of the city.
In 1844 ^^^- McDuffee was united in marriage to Miss Martha B. Hopkinson,
a daughter of Moses Hopkinson, of Gorham, Massachusetts, and they became
the parents of seven children, of whom six are yet living, namely : C. S., now a
traveling salesman living in Portland; William O., a contractor and builder of
Boston, Massachusetts; Everett H., a salesman of Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Qara, the wife of W. P. Lang, of Tilton, New Hampshire; Ella A., the wife of
James M. Hayes, of Dover, New Hampshire ; and Cora B., the wife of G. W.
Beach, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. One son, J. Frank, died in 1867, when but
thirteen years of age. The wife and mother of these children departed this life
in 1891.
Mr. McDuffee continued his residence in New England until 1896, when he
came to Oregon, where he has since made his home. Here he engaged in con-
tracting to some degree but not extensively and about two years ago retired,
since which time he has enjoyed a rest to which his former labors well entitle
him. His political views have long been in accord with the principles of the re-
publican party and to it he has given stalwart support but has never sought or
desired office. The nature of his interests and his principles are indicated in
the fact that he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Sons
of Temperance and the Methodist church. His life has indeed been an honorable
and upright one and his sterling worth commends him to the confidence and good
will of all who know him.
On the 5th of August, 1896, Mr. McDuffee was again married, his second
union being with Mrs. Susan T. (Whitaker) Stearns.
WILLIAM C. HOLMAN.
A member of the Holman family needs no introduction to Portland's citizens,
for the family has long been a prominent and honored one in this city since
Captain Charles Holman became identified with the pioneer development of this
section of the state. Both he and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary
E. Huntington, are now deceased. Extended mention, however, is made of
them on another page of this volume. William C. Holman was born December
28, 1870, in Portland, where he was reared and in the early period of his man-
hood was for several years engaged in the implement business at the corner of
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Front and Salmon streets. On withdrawing from that held of endeavor he be-
came interested in the Portland Artificial Ice & Cold Storage Company, of which
he is now the president and manager. This is the pioneer industry of the kind
established in Portland and the second oldest artificial ice plant in America. He
has been president and manager since 1906 and under his capable direction an
extensive business is carried on along substantial lines. His fellow officers are
Dr. A. S. Nichols, vice president, and W. E. Harris, secretary ; and the officers,
together with O. M. Rankin and W. H. Harris, constitute the board of directors.
The ice plant occupies two large buildings, one at the corner of Eighteenth and
Thurman streets and the other at the corner of Eighteenth and Upsher streets.
The plant is thoroughly equipped and the product is unexcelled for purity and
excellence. The artificial ice industry is one of almost incalculable value to
districts where climatic conditions preclude the possibility of securing natural
ice. A liberal patronage is now accorded the company in Portland and the busi-
ness is managed along progressive lines and in keeping with the strictest com-
mercial ethics.
ARTHUR ANDREWS.
Arthur Andrews is a retired farmer and stockman now living in Portland.
He dates his residence in Oregon from 1864, the limitless possibilities of the west
attracting him from his home east of the Mississippi. He was born in Ash-
tabula county, Ohio, on the 9th of November, 1837, his parents being Ebenezer
and Jemima (Kelsey) Andrews, who were early settlers of that county, to which
they removed from the state of New York. The father was a carpenter and
millwright and continued his residence in Ohio until his death. The mother
afterward came to Oregon in 1884 and spent her last years in this state.
Arthur Andrews was a pupil in the district schools of his native county and
afterward of the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio. When his educa-
tion was completed he turned his attention to farming, working as a farm hand
by the month for two years, and then purchased land in Ashtabula county upon
which he resided for three years. He sold his property in the Buckeye state
preparatory to removing to Oregon, the trip to the northwest being made by the
water route from New York and across the isthmus of Panama, thence up the
Pacific coast. His brother, Harrison, who started with him to the northwest,
died at sea and was buried in the Pacific. It required about six weeks to make
the trip. He located at first at Brownsville, in Linn county, Oregon, v/here he
worked for a time in the woolen mills, after which he removed to Polk county
and bought an interest in the stock business in connection with Judge Boise.
There he remained for four years, after which he returned to Linn county,
where he purchased land, making his home thereon for some time. Afterward
he disposed of that property and bought a ranch in Yamhill county, upon which
he lived for fifteen years. On selling out there he went to Morrow county,
where he purchased and also entered land, adding continuously to his posses-
sions until at one time he owned three thousand acres. He has since sold a por-
tion of this but still retains possession of twenty-one hundred and sixty acres.
While on the ranch he made a specialty of sheep-raising. He was extensively
engaged in farming and stock-raising there until 1909, when he retired from
active life and removed to Portland, where he is now enjoying the fruits of his
former toil in well earned repose. While living in Morrow county he served as
sheriff, having been elected to that office on the republican ticket.
On the 1st of February, 1859, Mr. Andrews was married in Ashtabula
county, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth Gaut, a daughter of John and Hannah Susan
(Moore) Gaut, of that county. Unto them have been born eight children: Carle-
ton, who died at the age of sixteen months ; Eben H., who wedded Mary Kin-
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gery and is living in Morrow county ; Mary A., of Portland ; W. A., a resident
of Albany, Oregon ; O. J., who married Rosie Height and died at the age of
twenty-five years ; O. S., of Portland, who married Anna Armstrong and has
five children — Eva, Loree, Arthur, Edward and Helen; Edith A., the wife of
I. L. Howard, of Morrow county, who has two children, Edna A. and James A. ;
Lillian P., the wife of L. L. Putnam, of Portland, and the mother of three chil-
dren— Eldred, Frances A. and Edith E.
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being connected with
the blue lodge at McMinnville, Oregon, and to the Royal Arch Chapter at Hepp-
ner, while both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star. In religious
faith Mrs. Andrews is a Methodist. Mr. Andrews is numbered among the early
settlers of Oregon and for forty-five consecutive years has been a reader of the
Oregonian. He has been widely interested in the development and welfare of this
part of the state and his influence has always been found on the side of progress.
Moreover his record proves the excellent business opportunities that are offered
in the northwest, for he came to Oregon with but limited capital and by judicious
investment and capable business ability became one. of the most extensive farm-
ers and stock-raisers of this section. His holdings are yet large and return to
him a splendid annual income, enabling him to enjoy the rest to which his for-
mer labor justly entitles him.
MAURICE B. WAKEMAN.
Few men on the Pacific coast can look back on a more varied career than
the one whose name introduces this review. A "Yankee" boy, he early came
into live contact with the world and his experiences need no artistic coloring to
give them interest. About every honorable occupation has, at one time or an-
other, occupied his attention, and it was not until the tempest-tossed vessel an-
chored in the peaceful harbor of Portland that the skies cleared and a final
haven was reached.
Maurice B. Wakeman was born at Green's Farms, Fairfield county, Con-
necticut, February 21, 1845, a son of Henry B. and Esther N. (Jennings) Wake-
man. His father, who was a farmer, lived and died in Connecticut. The son
spent his boyhood on the farm and was educated in the country school, later
teaching in winter and farming in summer. The spirit of adventure in the
New England lad was fanned almost into a fiame by the Civil war, but he was
too young to enter the service and it did not find expression until he reached the
age of twenty-one.
Then the monotonous farm life of New England became no longer bearable
and one day he bade farewell to old scenes and started toward the Pacific coast.
Arriving in California, he took up farming on a tract of six hundred and forty
acres in the region south of Sacramento. There he remained two years, both
of which were dry, and at the end of the second season he found himself en-
tirely without funds. San Francisco was now his objective point. After sev-
eral months of great uncertainty he was put to work taking the school census.
Having slightly recouped his finances, he returned to the valley near Sacramento
and there worked as teamster and in a lumber yard. Again he visited San Fran-
cisco and again the school census furnished employment. His next experience
was in the mines at Eureka, Nevada, where he was soon advanced to the posi-
tion of superintendent, remaining there one and a half years. After a short ex-
perience in the quicksilver mines of California, he for the first time experienced
the pangs of homesickness and once more he gathered with the family circle in
Connecticut. But the scene was changed. The farms were smaller, the houses
did not appear so large and the proportion on all sides had shrunken. The great
world had widened his vision and he soon learned that he needed a broader land-
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scape. However, he was identified for a short time with a fruit commission
firm in New York city and was thinking seriously of going into partnership with
his employer when the latter went insane. A Colorado sheep ranch next oc-
cupied his attention. The ranch was on the great plains thirty-five miles from
Denver, and here fortune began to smile. He continued in the business for
eight years, and at one time owned nineteen sheep ranches and was on the high
road to prosperity, but on account of continued cold weather and snow hun-
dreds of sheep died of thirst and starvation and the ranchman was glad to close
out his diminished herd and go into the mountains as a prospector.
In 1881 Mr. Wakeman arrived at Portland. Here he began as clerk for the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, continuing for six months, when he
was placed in charge of the commissary department which supplied food for
fifteen hundred men who were employed in the construction of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. After retiring from that position he became identified with
the Oregon Transfer Company at Portland as clerk and continued with the
company fifteen years, the last eight years acting as superintendent. Associat-
ing with A. P. Morse, he organized the Wakeman & Morse Transfer Company,
with headquarters at Portland, the first barns being the old street car barns at
Hoyt and Glisan streets. These bams being destroyed by fire, the Oregon
Transfer barns were used until a large brick stable was erected at the corner
of Twelfth and Everett streets. In 1906 the business was disposed of to the
Oregon Auto Despatch Company. Mr. Wakeman is now secretary of the
Western Lime & Plaster Company with offices in the Chamber of Commerce
building.
Mr. Wakeman was married while in Colorado to Miss Emma J. Adams, a
native of Westport, Connecticut, who was a woman of unusual business ability
and a true friend of mankind. She was for twenty years superintendent of the
Good Samaritan Hospital, where she accomplished a noble work for suffering
humanity. Her earthly career ended in April, 1907.
Mr. Wakeman is a Scottish Rite Mason and has attained the thirty-second
degree in the order. He is also a member of the Shrine. He has passed through
experiences during a checkered career which would have daunted a less fear-
les man, but he has been upheld through many vicissitudes by faith in himself
and in a power that rules for the best, even when the skies seem most overcast.
It is the indomitable spirit of New England, and wherever it is found there is
also to be found patience, fortitude and an unconquerable sense of ultimate
victory. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal church and for a time served
as vestryman. In politics he has been a lifelong republican and socially is a
member of the Commercial Club. Motoring and travel constitute his chief
sources of recreation and he finds great pleasure in flowers, being an enthusi-
astic rose grower and largely responsible for the ornamentation of the grounds
of the Good Samaritan Hospital. His home address is No. 770 Northrup street.
CHARLES HEGELE.
Charles Hegele is now numbered among Portland's capitalists and retired
business men. Taking up his permanent abode in this city in 1868, he was long
closely associated with its commercial interests and, with a nature that could not
be content with mediocrity, he has overcome all difficulties and obstacles and
reached a position among the most successful business men of this locality, not-
withstanding the fact that he started in life on coming to America in a most
humble capacity. A native of the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, he was
born November 8, 1835, of the marriage of Christoph Frederick and Francisca
Hegele. His mother died in his infancy. His father, who engaged in school
teaching until his later years, passed away in Germany at the age of eighty-one.
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Charles Hegele was reared in his native land and, in accordance with the
educational laws of that country, attended school until fourteen years of age,
when he was apprenticed to the mercantile business, serving for a term of four
years. It was evident that union labor laws were not then in force, for he
worked from six o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night and not only
received no pay for his services but had to give to his employer compensation
for the instruction which he received in business methods. His apprenticeship
concluded, he accepted a position as a clerk in Germany at a salary of eighty
florins per year, but the ambitious nature of the young man could not be con-
tent with such a condition and he resolved to test the truth of the reports
which he heard concerning favorable business opportunities in the new world.
At eighteen years of age, therefore, he crossed the Atlantic to Atmerica and for
five years was a resident of New York city. He began there by doing general
work on a railroad with pick and shovel at a dollar per day but later secured a
position in an establishment that made maps, school books, etc., doing work for
Harper Brothers. His initiation into western life came in 1859, when he started
for California, where he spent the following three years until 1862. While
en route to British Columbia, the steamer on which he was a passenger stopped
for twenty-four hours in Portland and he spent the day in going over the city,
with the prospects of which he was much pleased. He continued on his way
to British Columbia, however, and remained in that country until May, 1868,
when he returned to Portland and was closely identified with its business in-
terests until 1901.
Gradually he made advancement toward the goal of success, making each
effort count for the utmost possible, his diligence being the determining factor
in the prosperity which he ultimately attained. He was one of the first to en-
gage in the confectionery business in Portland, becoming a member of the firm
of Alisky & Hegele. This partnership was maintained until 1882, when Mr.
Hegele retired from the confectionery business and made a visit to his birth-
place in Germany, spending four months in the fatherland. He then returned
to Portland and purchased the Jackson crockery store, carrying on the trade in
that line until 1901. His first location was at the northeast corner of Front
and Pine streets but the following year — 1884 — he removed to the Kamm build-
ing at the northwest corner of Front and Pine streets, becoming the first tenant.
He continued at that location until he sold out to the firm of Prael, Hegele &
Company, who are now conducting the business as wholesale dealers in crockery
at the corner of Thirteenth and Hoyt streets. His commercial interests by no
means comprised the extent of his undertakings. He became one of the stock-
holders of the St. Charles Hotel, the first brick hotel in Portland, and was one of
the first to subscribe to the stock for the Portland Hotel. In fact he became
a prominent stockholder in many enterprises for the advancement of Portland
while he was in active business. He is still the owner of a large dairy farm of
three hundred and sixty-two acres at Scappoose, Columbia county, Oregon,
whereon was conducted the first creamery in that county. The business is still
continued and supplies butter to Hotel Portland. They make the finest butter
in the state, keeping a splendid herd of cows and using every modern facility
for the manufacture of the product. At a cost of six thousand dollars they
erected on the farm the finest barn in this part of the state. The farm is now
operated by a brother, G. A. Hegele. Mr. Hegele of this review owns consid-
erable Portland realty, including the property at Nos. 145 and 147 First street.
He also owns a quarter of the block at Fourteenth and Morrison streets and his
wise investments have brought him substantial returns.
Mr. Hegele was married in San Francisco, in 1876, to Miss Augusta Hilde-
brand, who was born in New Jersey but became a resident of San Francisco
about 1854-5. Two children have been born unjo them: Dr. Herbert W.
Hegele, who is a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago and is nov/ prac-
ticing in Portland ; and Hilda E.
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Since 1863 Mr. Hegele has been a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and he also belongs to tlie German Aid Society and the Chamber
of Commerce. For many years he has been a member of the Multnomah Club.
Since 1901 he has given his attention merely to the supervision of his invest-
ments., taking no active part in business management. Those who know him
accord him rank among the most enlightened, useful and public-spirited citi-
zens of the state — one who in his integrity, broad mindedness .&nd resourceful-
nes has met the demands of our splendid western citizenship. He is recognized
as a man of personal worth who has shown indefatigable industry and perse-
verance in the face of obstacles that would have seemed insurmountable to
many others. He has ever been actuated by a determination to accomplish what
he could toward the attainment of success by honesty and industry alone.
JOSEPH POLIVKA.
Joseph Polivka, engaged in business under the name of Joseph Polivka &
Company, dealers and importers of fine woolens, occupies a suite of rooms,
with office at No. 206 Corbett building. He has been a resident of Portland
since 1880 and since 1883 has engaged in business on his own account. As the
name indicates, he is of Bohemian nativity, his birth having occurred in Bo-
hemia on the 1st of April, 1850. His father, Frank Joseph Polivka, operated a
sawmill in that country. The son was reared in his native land to the age of
ten years, when, owing to the death of both his parents, he was thrown upon
his own resources and has since made his way in the world unaided. Leaving
his native country, he went to Vienna, Austria, where for six years he worked
as a tailor's apprentice, receiving in compensation his board and clothing. After
completing his trade he was employed as a journeyman in some of the principal
cities of Europe, remaining in Berlin, Germany, from 1874 until 1880.
Seeking still broader opportunities, which he thought to find in the new
world — and in this hope he was not disappointed. Mr. Polivka sailed for
America in the spring of 1880, landing at New York, where he remained for
three months. On the expiration of that period he came to Portland, and soon
secured a position as cutter for Mr. Newmeyer, then a prominent tailor of the
city. He continued in the employ of others for three years and in 1883 started
in business on his own account. In the intervening period of twenty-seven
years he has built up a good business, being now one of the leading tailors of
the northwest, making large importations of fine woolens, while the work of the
tailoring department is unsurpassed in style as well as in texture. He has indeed
the only exclusive tailoring establishment of the city and caters only to the highest
class trade. The magnitude of his business at the present time indicates his high
standing in his chosen field and his business ability. He has surrounded himself
with an able corps of assistants, all thoroughly trained in the work which they
perform and the name of Polivka has become a synonym of excellence in the
tailoring line in Portland. While he devotes his attention exclusively to the
trade he has made extensive investments in stock in many private business
concerns and corporations and is recognized as a man of sound judgment, keen
discrimination and unfaltering enterprise.
Mr. Polivka was married in this city to Miss Annie Meyer, formerly of
Stuttgart, Germany, who is a daughter of George T. and Helen Meyer, of Stutt-
gart. Her father served for many years as secretary to the Prince of Weimar.
Mr. and Mrs, Polivka have two children, Martha Eloise and Gertrude Anton.
Prominent in Masonic circles, Mr. Polivka has attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Rite and has been a member of the Mystic Shrine since
first crossing the sands of the desert on the 4th of February, 1899. For eleven
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years he has served continuously as treasurer of Columbia Lodge, No. 114, A.
F. & A. M., and is regarded as one of the most exemplary members of the
craft. His life is in harmony with its teachings and its principles and his so-
cial prominence as well as his business ability ranks him with the foremost
residents of the Rose city.
LOUIS C. YOUNG.
Louis C. Young, .who is engaged in farming and dairying, is numbered among
the native sons of Clarke county, Washington, his birth having occurred upon
a farm about ten miles east of Vancouver, October 7, 1872. His father was
George Henry Young, of Vancouver, who at an early day secured a tract of
land and developed a farm upon which he reared his family. The public schools
afforded Louis C. Young his educational privileges and his business training
was received on the old homestead, where he early became familiar with the
best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He was eight years
of age when his parents removed to a farm which the father owned about two
miles east of Vancouver, having purchased that place in order to be near the city
and thus provide his children with better educational privileges. After mastering
the work of the public school Louis C. Young became a student in St. James
College, of Vancouver, and in the school of experience he has also learned
many valuable and practical lessons.
When seventeen years of age he assumed the management of the old home
farm of two hundred and sixty-four acres, and has since conducted this place,
of which one hundred and fifty acres are cleared. This tract is devoted largely
to the raising of hay and to dairying. In connection with his father he cleared
the place and put the improvements upon it, and its excellent appearance indi-
cates an active and well spent life that has brought him substantial returns, for
he is now numbered among the prosperous farmers of the community.
WILLIAM HUGHES.
William Hughes, a retired stockman of Portland, still, however, the owner
of considerable live stock which he pastures in Morrow county, was born in
Tipperary, Ireland, on the 25th of August, 1849, a son of William and Mary
(Gartie) Hughes. The father was overseer and agent of a gentleman's estate
in Ireland and both he and his wife spent their lives in that country. Their fam-
ily numbered eight children.
William Hughes acquired his early education in the place where he was bom
and in Wardford, Ireland, whither his parents removed in his childhood days.
When his school days were over he went to sea and in that way visited almost
every section of the civilized world. He entered the service as an apprentice
and becanre an able seaman. On leaving the sea in 1869 he returned to his home,
remaining in Ireland for about a year, after which he started for the Pacific
coast, crossing the continent on the Union Pacific Railroad to San Francisco in
1870. He located first in Merced county where he was employed by the month
on a ranch for a few years. He subsequently rented land in the same county,
and continued its cultivation until 1877. That year witnessed his arrival in
Oregon, at which time he took up his abode in that section of Umatilla county
which is now Morrow county. The Indians were very numerous at the time
and were displaying marked hostility toward the white men, so that some of
the settlers left that country. One of these was Sam Donaldson and Mr.
Hughes purchased his farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He then took up
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the business of sheep-raising, in which he has since engaged, carrying on an
industry extensive and successful. In 1901 he removed to Portland but still
has his sheep interests in Morrow county. To his original farm he added by
purchase and entry from time to time until he had over four thousand acres,
but has since sold all of his land.
Returning to Ireland in 1880, Mr. Hughes was married there on the 4th of
February, of that year, to Miss Kathleen Frances Smith, a daughter of George
and Fannie (Lee) Smith, of the Emerald isle. He at once started with his
bride for Oregon and during their residence here eight children have come to
bless their union, of whom four survive: William G., of Portland; Percy, a
farmer of Heppner, who wedded Mabel Ayres, and has two children, Anita and
William, Edwin, Isabel and Helena, both at home.
Mr. Hughes belongs to the Masonic lodge at Heppner and he and his family
are members of the Episcopal church. His political allegiance is given to the
republican party and he was appointed by Governor Pennoyer a member of the
state board of equalization. Other than this he has never held office, prefer-
ring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs which he carefully
conducted up to the time of his retirement. Now he gives his attention merely
to the supervision of his real estate, having made considerable investment in
Portland property. His residence in Oregon now covers a third of a century
and, widely known, he is also held in high regard.
CYRUS W. SEDGWICK.
Cyrus W. Sedgwick, a representative of the farming interests of Clarke
county, has prospered in his undertaking, although he has twice suffered severe
losses by fire. His holdings today embrace property in Vancouver as well as his
farm, and his realty is the visible evidence of his life of well directed energy
and thrift. He was born in Oneida county. New York, March 10, 1845, ^^^
is a son of Charles S. and Jane (Knowlton) Sedgwipk, the former a native of
Massachusetts and the latter of England. The son Cyrus was only four years
of age when his parents left the Empire state for Illinois, settling near Chicago,
where the father engaged in farming through a period of eighteen years. This
brought Cyrus W. Sedgwick to the age of twenty-one years. He then started
westward, proceeding as far as Manchester, Iowa, where he remained for
three years, and in 1869 resumed his journey toward the setting sun, arriving
ultimately in San Francisco. He was there employed by the street car company
for five years, and afterward was in the employ of Miller & Lux, cattle men of
California, in whose service he remained for about seven years.
In the fall of 1878 Mr. Sedgwick arrived in Clarke county, Washington,
and homesteaded eighty acres of land eight miles east of Vancouver on the
Salacci and Fisher's Landing road. This tract was mostly timber land of
which he cleared forty acres, making all of the improvements, doing all the
fencing and otherwise carrying forward the work of development until this
is today one of the valuable farm properties of the district. Twice Mr. Sedg-
wick has had his place destroyed by fire, but with characteristic energy has re-
built and his farm is now equipped with all modern improvements and acces-
sories. He also owns property in Vancouver, having built a business block in
connection with his daughter, and he also owns six houses there. As his finan-
cial resources have increased he has thus made judicial investment in realty
and is deriving therefrom a substantial annual income.
On the 17th of May, 1870, Mr. Sedgwick was married to Miss Lydia Ann
Odell, who was born in New York state and reared in Wisconsin, but at the
time of her marriage was living in Manchester, Iowa. They now have one
child : Dr. Isabelle Sedgwick, of Vancouver, who, having pursued her early
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education in the public schools, later attended the Forest Grove Academy and
Willamette University. Subsequently she became a student in the medical de-
partment of the University of Oregon in Portland, and later continued her pro-
fessional education in Chicago, taking post-graduate courses there. She has
since practiced in Vancouver and is meeting with good success there.
While many came to the Pacific coast prior to Mr. Sedgwick's arrival, he
has yet lived long enough in this section of the country to be largely familiar
with the history of its development and in Clarke county his labors have con-
stituted an important factor in the work of general progress and improvement,
while at the same time they have brought to him a substantial reward for his
labors.
JOHN WILSON.
John Wilson, pioneer merchant, founder of Portland's largest retail mercan-
tile institution, scholar, book-lover, legislator, philanthropist, was a native of
Ardee, County Louth, Ireland, where he was born June lo, 1826, the son of
John and Joyscelind (Wynne) Wilson. His grandfather was John Wilson,
whose ancestors were Scotch Presbyterians, who emigrated to Ireland early in
the seventeenth century. The mother was the daughter of Robert Wynne, whose
family were extensive English landowners.
John Wilson enjoyed the privilege of a thorough educational training, his
early plans being to enter the ministry. However, he determined on coming to
America, arriving in California by way of Cape Horn in 1848. He soon went
to the mines on the Tuolumne and Sacramento rivers, where he remained but a
short time. Not meeting with success, he returned to San Francisco, where he
was obliged to work for a time as a day laborer. Deciding to come to Oregon
he took passage on the Ann Smith, arriving at the mouth of the Columbia river
on the last day of the year but on account of severe weather was not able to
cross the bar until January 5. Landing at Coffin Rock, he made his way on
foot to Milton, where he found employment in a sawmill, where he continued for
the following year and a half.
In June, 1850, Mr. Wilson first came to Portland to purchase clothing but
soon returned to Milton, where he was employed as clerk in a general mer-
chandise store, selling goods, delivering lumber to the ships and looking after
his employer's sawmill. He next went to St. Helens, where he clerked for a
time, taking up his residence permanently in Portland in 1853. His first position
was in the office of the Oregonian, where he kept the books, made out bills and
attended to collections. He next entered the employ of Allen & Lewis, where he
remained from 1854 to 1856. In the latter year he made his first independent
business venture by purchasing the general store of Robert & Finley McLaren,
which enterprise he conducted until 1858, when he entered into partnership
with Wakefield & Company, under the firm name of Wilson, Wakefield & Com-
pany, they occupying the first store built on First street.
Mr. Wilson later purchased the Wakefield interests and continued the busi-
ness alone. In 1870 he erected the first store on Third street south of Morrison,
and two years later built a larger store a block north on the same street, where
he continued until 1878, when he sold the business to Olds & King, founders of
the present house of Olds, Wortman & King. Always an optimist as to Port-
land's future, he had early invested in real estate, and after his retirement from
mercantile interests devoted his time largely to the management and improve-
ment of his realty holdings, building various business structures on his properties.
Mr. Wilson was a republican from the time the party was organized and
took an active interest in Oregon politics. He was elected to the state legislature
in 1887, served on many important committees and took an especially active part
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in legislation looking to the improvement of the public schools. Deeply inter-
ested in educational matters during his long service as school director, he left a
lasting impress of his personality and did by his careful and intelligent labor
much to bring them to their present high standard of efficiency.
In 1 86 1 Mr. Wilson married Elizabeth Temperance Parker, a native of
Michigan. They became the parents of five children: John P.; Lida J., the wife
of William L. Jones ; Robert W. ; Alice M., the wife of Edward Caswell ; and
George W. Among his associates John Wilson was considered a man of the
best qualities in every sense of the word. Of the highest order of intellectual
attainment, a man of classical education and splendid culture. During his en-
tire life he was a great student and his mind was a veritable storehouse of learn-
ing in every field of knowledge ; unswerving integrity was the keynote of his
every day life. Of an unpretentious and retiring nature, he was most consid-
erate to all, and quietly and without eflfort won the confidence and enduring
friendship of those with whom he came in contact. With his intimate friends
he disclosed more of the nobility of his nature but even there his innate modesty
and his dislike of anything savoring of display had a tendency to hold in check
his rich conversational powers that never failed to delight and interest those for-
tunate enough to be his hearers.
He was one of the type of men whom the world at large never knows inti-
m,ately, one who does a great deal of thinking and a great deal of good, con-
tributing to scores of charitable objects in an unostentatious way. To his em-
ployes during his active business career he was a constant source of inspiration
and to his careful training many of them owe their after business success. A
great lover and enthusiastic collector of books, he gathered together the finest
private library in Oregon, which he gave to the city's public library.
His death occurred September 15, 1900. He lived to see the struggling vil-
lage as he found it, grow to a splendid modern city of one hundred thousand
people and had the satisfaction of knowing that he had contributed in no small
degree to the transformation. His strict integrity, high ideals and sound com-
mon sense were ever strong forces in the physical, moral and intellectual ad-
vancement of the city. Few men were more widely known, none more highly
respected, and the death of none has been more acutely felt or more sincerely
mourned. Crowned with the honors of seventy-four years and a record of nearly
a half century's residence here, he was freely accorded a place in the list of
Portland's grand old men.
FREEMAN H. PERKINS.
In the northwest the spirit of activity is rife. There is opportunity to dare
and to do. The natural resources of the country have by no means been utilized,
and there comes to the individual the thrill of success as he improves his oppor-
tunity and accomplishes a work that not only promotes his individual interests,
but also adds to the sum total of development and progress in this region. The
work of Freeman H. Perkins was of this character. During much of the period
of his residence in the northwest he was connected with the lumber industry as
the operator of a sawmill. His birth occurred in Allegany county. New York,
on the 4th of November, 1835, and when quite young he lost his father. He
attended school in Allegany county, his mother being his teacher, for follow-
ing the death of her husband Mrs. Perkins took up that method of providing
for the support of herself and children.
In his early days Freeman H. Perkins became acquainted with the business
of running a sawmill, for his father had owned such a mill, and thus in early
life the son gained practical working knowledge of its operation. He followed
the lumber business throughout his entire life and when but twenty years of
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age changed the scene of his activities from New York to Wisconsin, locating
on the Eau Claire river, where he owned and conducted a sawmill. There he
resided until 1870, when he came to Portland, arriving in this city on the loth of
December. He came to the northwest for the purpose of engaging in the lum-
ber business, and after remaining in Portland for a short time built a sawmill
on Lewis river in Clarke county, and took up his abode at that place. There he
remained for five years, at the end of which time he sold out and removed to a
point below the Cowlitz river, where he had a floating mill. In 1878 he returned
to Portland and opened a planing mill on First street at the corner of Clay, con-
ducting the industry for about three years, when his lease on the property ex-
pired and he removed to the east side, there building a mill which he afterward
sold to James McClure. Having disposed of his interests in Portland, Mr. Per-
kins went to Alaska and engaged in the lumber business, and while there passed
away
He had been married in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on the lOth of February,
1858, to Miss Amanda M. Bills, a daughter of Erastus and Roxie Bills. She
was bom in Canada and by her marriage became the mother for four children.
Curtis H., the eldest, married Martha Matson and at his death, which occurred
February 18, 1890, when he was twenty-nine years of age, left three children,
Charles Edgar, Lucy M. and Nellie C. Clara E. is the wife of /Wait Lancaster,
of Oregon, and they have three children : Otis Walter, Roy P. and Tessie, and of
these Roy is married and has a daughter Corrinna — a great-grandchild of Mrs.
Perkins. Qiester P., living in Portland, married Bertha Kincaid and they have
two children, Gladys and Lloyd. Cora May became the wife of Dr. Willard A.
Roberts, and died January 11, 1900.
Mr. Perkins was a great lover of home and found his happiness in providing
for the welfare and comfort of his wife and children. He was a very temper-
ate man, never using tobacco nor intoxicants, and his life was at all times
actuated by high and honorable principles which gained for him the respect of
his fellowmen and made him a character worthy of emulation.
JOHN S. KOCHER.
The construction interests of Portland find a worthy and well known repre-
sentative in John S. Kocher, who since 1879 has lived in this city where he is
now engaged successfully in business as a contractor in brickmason work and
plastering. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 6, 1852, the son of
John and Elizabeth Kocher. The father was a carpenter by trade and a vet-
eran of the Civil war, who after the outbreak of hostilities, put aside all busi-
ness and personal considerations in order to espouse the cause of the Union and
aid in the supremacy of the national government. He died on the 19th of May,
1879, at Newark, New Jersey.
John S. Kocher, who was one of a family of six children, acquired his edu-
cation in the schools of his native city and afterward learned the trades of a
brick and stonemason and plasterer under the direction of John M. Jacobus,
with whom he served a four years' apprenticeship. He became a proficient work-
man and when about twenty-three years of age left home to seek business oppor-
tunities in the west, taking up his abode in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1875.
He worked as a journeyman there for about eighteen months and then con-
tinued on his westward way until he reached Napa, California, where he also
remained for a year and a half, working at his trade. Portland seemed to him,
however, a more advantageous field and in 1879 he came to this city which had
entered upon an era of substantial and rapid growth. He at once began con-
tracting and has since been closely identified with industrial activity here. In
association with M. E. Freeman he had the contract for the Dekum building,
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and also the Hibernian building on Sixth and Washington streets. The partner-
ship with Mr. Freeman continued for about twenty years, during which period-
they made substantial progress reaching a position among the foremost con-
tractors in their line in the city. Mr. Kocher also erected the buildings at the
northeast corner of Grand avenue and Stark street and the southwest corner of
Union avenue and Burnside, and in 1881 had the plastering contract for the state
asylum at Salem. He has done considerable work at The Dalles at intervals
through the past twenty-five years for French & Company, and has also been
awarded many contracts for work at Pendleton, Oregon. In 1896 he went to
The Dalles, where he erected the high school building and also the large brick
block for Max Vogt. He likewise built a three story structure for Robert Mays,
who was a well known pioneer settler of eastern Oregon. The water works at
Shaniko, Oregon, are a monument to his enterprise and ability in his chosen
field of labor. While he was operating quite extensively at The Dalles he main-
tained his residence there for six years or until 1902, when he returned to Port-
land, where he has since carried on a general contracting business.
In 1901 Mr. Kocher was married to Mrs. Adelaide Shown, a daughter of
Claude Fety and a native of New York. Mr. Kocher has pleasant membership
relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, and his political endorsement is given to the republican
party, which he has supported since age conferred upon him the right of fran-
chise. His nature is social, his manner genial, and during the period of his resi-
dence in Portland he has gained many warm friends.
ADOLPH BURCKHARDT.
Adolph Burckhardt, who at the time of his death was actively connected with
the Union Meat Company of Portland, controlling an extensive business, was
bom at Giessen, Germany, July 30, 1839. His parents were Sebastian and
Minnie Burckhardt, and the father was engaged in the hardware business at the
time of his death. Both he and his wife passed away when their son Adolph
was very young. The boy, thus left an orphan, attended school in his native
town until he came to America, crossing the Atlantic when still but a youth. He
landed at New York and thence went to New Britain, Connecticut, where he
had brothers living. He remained in the east for about a year, after which he
came to Portland, influenced in his choice of a destination by the fact that his
brother, C. A. Burckhardt, was a resident here. Adolph Burckhardt made the
journey by the water route and the isthmus of Panama, and reached Oregon
on the 24th of March, 1863. Here he began work at his trade, securing em-
ployment with Mr. Gantz, who was in the meat business, but after a little time
Mr. Burckhardt opened a meat market on his own account. His first location
was at the corner of First and Ash streets, but subsequently he joined Mr. May
in the wholesale meat business. With the growth of the city and the develop-
ment of the possibilities of trade they had opportunity for an enlarged scope and
joined Mr. Spaulding and Mr. Papworth in organizing the American Dressed
Meat Company. Later they organized the Union Meat Company, admitting the
O'Shea brothers to an interest in the business. Mr. Burckhardt was connected
therewith up to the time of his death, holding the office of treasurer of the com-
pany and also that of director. The business has been developed along substan-
tial lines and has enjoyed a rapid growth, becoming one of the important indus-
tries of this character on the coast.
On the i2th of August, 1866, in Portland, occurred the marriage of Mr.
Burckhardt and Miss Amelia Logus, a daughter of Christopher and Judith Logus,
who were natives of Germany, where they spent their entire lives, the father
being there engaged in the meat business. Mrs. Burckhardt was born in Ger-
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many and in the year 1864 came to the United States, making her way at once
to Portland, where she had two brothers and a sister Hving. The latter is Mrs.
Henrietta Wentz, still a resident of Portland. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Burckhardt
were born five children : Charles A., of this city, who wedded Anna Williams and
has one daughter, Nan ; Bertha, the wife of J. C. Meussdorffer, of San Fran-
cisco ; F. O., who married Louise Lowe and lives in Portland ; Lena A. and Anna
H., both at home.
Mr. Burckhardt was called to his final rest on the i8th of November, 1905,
and his remains were interred in Lone Fir cemetery. He was a member of the
Odd Fellows society, was piesident of the Benevolent Fire Insurance Company,
president of the German Aid Society and a member of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen and of the German Reformed church.
His life was an active one. He studied how to make the best use of every
moment and as the year passed by he accomplished substantial results in busi-
ness, nor was he unmindful of his duties and obligations to his fellowmen.. He
certainly deserves much credit for what he accomplished for he came to the
United States empty-handed and was obliged to depend upon his own labor for
whatever he obtained. His life record proves that energy constitutes the key
that unlocks the portals of success and his life history also illustrates the fact
that prosperity and an honored name may be won simultaneously.
REV. JOHN FLINN.
Rev. John Flinn, a retired Methodist minister living in Portland, has been
a resident of the Pacific northwest for over sixty years — years in which he has
made valuable contribution to the growth and progress of this section, not to
that growth which marks the material development but to that which uplifts
man in a recognition that character-building is worth more than aught else. Be-
lieving with Lincoln that "There is something better than making a living —
making a life," — he has put forth earnest and effective effort to awaken in his
fellowmen a desire for that which is uplifting and has permanent value. A
native of Ireland, he was born in Queens county, March 26, 1817, his parents
being Timothy and Mary (Patterson) Flinn, both of whom spent their entire
lives in Queens county and were members of the Church of England. The
father was a farmer by occupation and engaged in the cultivation of a rented
farm of one hundred and ten acres.
Rev. John Flinn was the third in a family of eight children, four sons and
four daughters. He attended school in Queens county and also the high school
which was conducted by the Quakers. He afterward spent three years as an
apprentice to a wholesale and retail dry-goods merchant, and when twenty-
three years of age started for America, landing at New York. This was for
him the termination of a voyage of about thirty days, during which a terrific
storm had been encountered, and on its next voyage the Garrick, the ship on
which he sailed, was lost. He had no friends or relatives in this country but
regarded America as the land of opportunity and after a brief period spent in
New York went to St. Johns, New Brunswick. He had been a resident there
for only a brief period when he attended a class meeting of the Methodist
church and about the same time met a Mr. Sammon, who told Mr. Flinn that
he ought to be a preacher. He had never seen Mr. Sammon before. Soon
afterward he was asked by Rev. Samuel D. Rice, who later became a bishop,
to fill the place of a preacher who had been taken ill. The church was at St.
Andrews, about sixty miles from St. Johns. Mr. Flinn said that he would do
the best he could and the Rev. Rice then took him in his sleigh to St. Andrews
and found a boarding place for him with Mrs. Johnson. Rev. Rice then re-
turned home and on the next Sianday Mr. Flinn preached his first sermon be-
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fore a large congregation of educated people. This was in 1840. That he had
a message to deliver and delivered it well is indicated by the fact that he re-
mained as minister at St. Andrews all that winter and the next year obtained
an appointment through the conference, being given a church on the St. Johns
river, while later he served as minister in a number of places in that confer-
ence. But the climate of New Brunswick was exceedingly cold in winter and
in traveling around Mr. Flinn was exposed to much of the severe weather. Ac-
cordingly for four years he was connected with a wholesale and retail dry-
goods store at St. Johns until 1848.
In that year Mr. Flinn went to Portland, Maine, where he met a friend.
Rev. William McDonald, who suggested that Mr. Flinn leave business and re-
turn to the ministry. He did so and joined the Maine conference, of which
he was a member until 1849. He was then ordained a deacon by Bishop Mor-
ris and the same spring volunteered as a missionary to Oregon with Dr. Ban-
nister, the Rev. F. S. Hoyt, D. D., who later, became the president of the Wil-
lamette University, and others. They left New York for Oregon in Septem-
ber, 1850, went by steamer, the Arabia, crossed the isthmus of Panama and then
boarded a ship called the Oregon. This ship carried the news to San Fran-
cisco that California had been admitted to the Union as a state. They entered
the harbor with all flags flying and there was great excitement in the city. Mr.
Flinn had crossed the isthmus on foot and had an attack of Panama fever.
This forced him to remain in San Francisco for a few days, after which he
again boarded the Oregon which bore him safely to Astoria, where he arrived
about thirty days after leaving New York. There was a great crowd of miners
at Astoria returning from California with gold, and as no room or bed could
be secured Mr. Flinn had to sleep under a table in the hotel. The next day he
started for Portland on the steamboat Columbia with one hundred and three
passengers. They left on Friday at 4 P. M. and did not reach their destination
until Saturday at 10 P. M. Mr. Flinn had only one meal on that boat but con-
sidered himself very lucky to get that because the dining room accommodations
were entirely inadequate to the great crowd. The passengers were landed near
Taylor street and Mr. Flinn had now reached the end of his journey, which
had cost him four hundred and twenty dollars. The passage from New York
to San Francisco was three hundred, from San Francisco to Astoria one hun-
dred, and twenty from Astoria to Portland. Mr. Flinn took his baggage and
made his way to the home of Rev. James H. Wilbur, who was building the first
Methodist church at Third and Taylor streets. A part of the family had re-
tired for the night, but Mrs. Wilbur arose and prepared supper for Mr. Flinn
and his two companions. They remained there all night and were up early the
next morning, Sunday. Mr. Flinn went to the door and looked out upon the
woods, for the forest was all around him. There was only one store and that
was kept by Joseph Smith. The town contained about two hundred and fifty
people and Mr. Flinn felt very lonely to see nothing around but the unbroken
wilderness. The great pine or fir trees towered above him and he said that the
soughing of the wind often had a homesick sound. That forenoon at 11
o'clock, Mr. Flinn and the party that came with him, together with Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur, went to a small schoolhouse where services were to be held. The
Rev. Mr. Lyman, a Congregational minister, who was engaged in building a
church, was the preacher. The congregation were all sitting around the sides
of the room, there being no benches in the center of the floor. Just as the min-
ister reached an important part of his sermon there was a terrible noise and
the center of the floor started to rise. Hogs had gotten under it and had become
engaged in a fight and in their struggle they raised the loosely joined boards
of the floor. Thomas Drier, who later founded the Oregonian, was present at
the service and his sense of humor soon got beyond control. At length how-
ever, the hogs quieted down and the meeting proceeded. That evening the
Rev. Joseph H. Wilbur addressed the congregation and on the next Sunday
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Mr. Flinn delivered his sermon. He remained in Portland with Mr. Wilbur as
assistant or second preacher and the work of moral reclamation was earnestly
prosecuted. Rev. Wilbur was a most earnest and zealous worker and built the
first Methodist Episcopal church in Portland. He would go out among the
gamblers and others every Saturday to collect money to pay the men working
on the church, and his influence was such that he never failed to gain a ready
response, for men of every class respected him and admired him for his earnest-
ness.
Rev. Flinn devoted his time to preaching and Christian work. He was
then appointed to the Yamhill circuit and, starting on foot in mid-winter,
walked to Oregon City, where he spent the night with the Rev. James O. Ray-
nor, a Methodist minister. The next morning, Christmas day, he resumed his
journey, proceeding as far as the old Methodist mission nine miles from Salem.
There he partook of Christmas supper, with Mr. Beers, who had charge of
the mission, and after being there entertained for the night, he started on the
following day for Salem. Sunday was passed at the home of the Rev. Will-
iam Roberts. Rev. Flinn purchased a horse in Salem and started on his cir-
cuit, which embraced three counties, Yamhill, Polk and Multnomah. He re-
mained on that circuit for about two years and has continued in Oregon and
Washington in the work of the gospel ministry. Indeed he has traveled all
over this section of the country from Walla Walla to Jacksonville and from
LeGrand to Yakima. He was presiding elder for about five years and on his
trips encountered many hardships and difficulties, for the roads were often in
poor condition and at one time he and his horse were compelled to swim the
Columbia. He was for forty-seven years engaged in circuit work with pas-
torates at various places, and his labors were resultant factors in the material
progress of the state.
On the I2th of August, 1856, Mr. Flinn was united in marriage at Umpqua
Academy by the Rev. J. H. Wilbur, to Miss Mary E. Royal, a native of Bloom-
ington, Illinois, and a daughter of Rev. William and Barbara Royal, who were
pioneer people of Oregon, her father building the first Methodist church on the
east side. Unto Rev. and Mrs. Flinn were born eight children, six of whom are
still living and five are married.
Rev. Flinn is now ninety-three years of age and is enjoying good health and
unimpaired mental powers. His journeys over the state, in connection with
his work in the church, have made him one of the most widely known men of
this section, and few if any are more familiar with the history of Oregon and
her development. He has always had the "saving sense of humor," which has
helped him over many a hard place in the pioneer times when long and difficult
trips were to be made and few of the comforts of life were to be secured. His
earnest devotion to his work is manifest in the excellent results which followed
his services as he proclaimed the truths of the gospel, and his life has indeed
been a strong element for good — a factor in the higher civilization which is
making the world better year by year.
FRANK S. HALLOCK.
Frank S. Hallock, a general building contractor of Portland, who learned
his trade and has always followed it in this city, was born in Fredonia, Kansas,
May 12, 1879. He was but four years of age when his parents, Alonzo and
Sarah (Armstrong) Hallock, who were natives of Iowa, left their home in
Kansas and started on the long and arduous journey across the plains to Oregon.
They traveled in wagons drawn by mules. Prairies, arid plains and mountains
were at length crossed, and the family arrived in eastern Oregon, establishing
their home in Arlington, where they remained for seven years. The father was
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a farmer by occupation, and continued to engage in general agricultural pur-
suits until about twenty years ago, when he came to Portland and took up the
business of grading and general contract work. It was about 1890 that Frank
S. Hallock became a resident of Portland, and in the public schools of this city
his education was largely acquired. He afterward began learning the builders
trade in this city, and since starting in business as a contractor on his own
account he has made gratifying and substantial progress, being numbered now
among the successful men in his line in Portland. He has erected many of the
fine residences on the east side and also large apartment buildings, including the
Watson at the corner of Everett and Twenty-second streets. He was likewise
the builder of the Lewis block, a concrete and brick structure at Monta Villa,
also the theatre in Monta Villa, and the homes of W. B. Buell, N. W. Bowlan
and C. N. Prood. These buildings indicated his progressive ideas and modern
methods. He is an interested and constant student of all that bears upon his
chosen life work, and his buildings show attractive styles of architecture which
combine convenience, utility and beauty.
In 1898 Mr. Hallock was married to Miss Bertha L. Rogers, a daughter
of G. W., and Rochalette Rogers, who were early settlers of Yamhill county,
having made their way to Oregon during the pioneer period in the development
of this state. Unto A'Ir. and Mrs. Hallock have been born two children: Vernon,
eight years of age, now attending school ; and Bertha Grace, five years of age.
Mrs. Hallock belongs to the Adventist church, Mr. Hallock holds mem-
bership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and at election proves
his advocacy of republican principles by the support of the candidates of that
party. Almost his entire life has been spent in Oregon, and during the period
of his residence in Portland he has largely been connected with industrial in-
terests which have given impetus to the growth and improvement of the city.
ADAM H. BISCAR.
Among Portland's retired citizens Adam H. Biscar is numbered. Through
an active life he was connected with the wire industry and with farming, and
his close application thereto and good business ability brought him the capital
that now enables him to rest from labor. A native of Austria-Hungary, he was
born June 7, 1854, unto Henry and Mary Biscar, both of whom spent their
entire lives in Hungary, where the father engaged in horticultural pursuits.
The son attended the public schools there and after completing his education
learned the trade of wire-making in Germany. In 1875 ^^ came alone to Amer-
ica, landing at Baltimore, where he was employed for three months. On the
expiration of that period he removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he en-
gaged in peddling tinware for two weeks. From that point he proceeded to
New Orleans, spending three years in the Crescent city, after which he lived
for a brief period in St. Louis and later made his way to San Francisco, Cali-
fornia. During all this time he was connected with the wire-making industry.
He resided in San Francisco for nine years, and twenty-one years ago came
to Portland. For two years he resided upon a farm in Oregon, taking up a
homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in Washington county, which he still
owns. Most of the time, however, he has followed the wire-making business in
Portland and to his thorough knowledge of the trade and expert workmanship
may be attributed the success which he has reached. He has ever led a busy
life, and his prosperity is the merited reward of his labor.
In 1881 Mr. Biscar was united in marriage to Miss Mardie Kettler, who
died in San Francisco in 1886. Their only child, a son, died when about three
months old, and the mother passed away three months later. On the 6th of
September, 1887, in San Francisco, Mr. Biscar married Miss Anna Mastreet,
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who was also a native of Austria-Hungary, and came to America, August 20,
1886. Both Mr. and Mrs. Biscar are members of the Catholic church. He has
never had cause to regret his determination to come to the United States, for
he was prompted to emigrate by the hope of enjoying better business opportuni-
ties in the new world. These he has found here where higher wages are paid
for labor, and as the years have gone by his industry has brought him a sub-
stantial competence.
WILLIAM WICK COTTON.
Portland, as the metropolis of a wonderfully productive and flourishing
region in an ideal location on the Pacific coast for commercial purposes, has
attracted many important interests and is a railroad center of constantly grow-
ing importance. Here the great railways maintain their headquarters and here
are to be found transportation, traffic and legal officials whose jurisdiction ex-
tends over a wide territory and who are given large powers in expediting the
business of the various roads. Among the men closely identified with the
legal department of great lines is William W. Cotton, who is attorney and sec-
cretary of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. For many years
he has been a prominent factor in railway litigation of the northwest and by
his energy and efficiency has attained recognition which is accorded only through
years of faithful and capable service.
Mr. Cotton is a native of Iowa and was born at Lyons, December 13, 1859.
He is a son of Aylefif R. and Laura Cotton. He received his preliminary educa-
tion from his mother after which he graduated from the Pennsylvania State
Normal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, and matriculated in the law school
of Columbia University, New York, from which he was graduated in 1882. He
was an apt student and after several years of practical application of the les-
sons which he had learned under some of the greatest instructors of the coun-
try, he became, in 1888, assistant to the general solicitor of the Union Pacific
Railway Company, at Omaha, Nebraska. In 1889 he came to Portland as gen-
eral attorney for the Portland Division of the Union Pacific Railway Company
and when the line passed into the control of the Oregon Railroad and Naviga-
tion Company, he became connected with the latter organization. He early
gained recognition on the Pacific coast as a brilliant lawyer and in 1901 he was
appointed as an associate of Judge C. B. Bellinger, of the United States Dis-
trict Court, to prepare a new edition of the laws and codes of Oregon, which
duty he discharged with marked ability and fidelity.
On August 29, 1888, Mr. Cotton was happily married, the lady of his choice
being Miss Fannie C. Collingwood, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Cotton
has been actively connected with corporation litigation ever since he began his
professional career and is known as a lawyer of strong personality who is
always able to present a reason for any legal proposition he advances and
who never gives up a cause until the court of last resort has rendered a final
decree. He is a clear and logical thinker and a good speaker and has a knowl-
edge of law possessed only by those who burn the "midnight oil" and who
spare no labor or pains in the quest of law or authorities covering the point
at issue. In certain departments of the law Mr. Cotton is regarded as a specialist.
He is one of the best informed lawyers of the state as to the statutes, state or
federal, relating to railway corporations. From intimate connection with the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, he has gained an amount of informa-
tion pertaining to those lines that is of great benefit to the companies he rep-
resents.
Mr. Cotton is well known in club circles and is a member of the principal
clubs of the city, including the Arlington, Commercial, University and Waverly
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Golf Clubs. In politics he is in sympathy with the republican party but he has
not figured prominently in political affairs, as his attention is mainly devoted
to intricate legal problems that require a great deal of time and attention. He
is a gentleman of pleasing manner and of wide information on public ques-
tions, especially those affecting the Pacific coast, and from the time of his
arrival in Portland has heartily responded in advancing any interest than re-
dounded to the benefit of Portland or the Columbia river region.
P. B. SINNOTT.
It seems a far distant period from the present back to the time of the boy-
hood of P. B. Sinnott, who is now eighty-one years of age. And indeed through
this period many important chapters of history have been written and in the
northwest Mr. Sinnott has taken an active and helpful part in shaping the
records of this region. His birth occurred in Wexford county, Ireland, May
29, 1829, his parents being Nicholas and Mary Sinnott, who spent their entire
lives on the Emerald isle. In that country P. B. Sinnott attended school and it
was his intention to enter St. Peter's College but events shaped his life other-
wise.
He left Ireland in 1848 when nineteen years of age, crossing the Atlantic to
New York, where he arrived after a voyage of six weeks and two days. He
secured a position in the wholesale grocery store of Stillwell, Brown & Com-
pany, of New York, at a salary of ten dollars per month and board, but had
been in their employ for only a short time when two Chicago men went there
to buy goods. They offered Mr. Sinnott a position at higher wages and he ac-
companied them to the middle west, the trip being made by way of the Great
Lakes. However, after reaching Chicago he did not see much opportunity for
advancement there and wrote to a steamship company in New York to get
information concerning their rates to California. He found that he had enough
money to make the trip and accordingly he journeyed by way of the Panama
route. He was twenty-eight days in reaching his destination. Landing at San
Francisco he went up the river to Sacramento, and soon afterward began mining
in that vicinity, remaining there until 1861. Unlike others, he met with good
success in his search for the precious metal. He then took a trip to the east
where he met his brother, N. B. Sinnott, who was then a clerk in a hotel in
Peoria, Illinois. His brother returned with P. B. Sinnott to the coast and they
purchased the Columbia Hotel at the corner of Washington and Front streets,
in Portland, conducting the hotel with success until the building was torn down.
At that time P. B. Sinnott was offered the position of Indian agent for this
section and for sixteen years thereafter filled the same most acceptably, being
appointed four times. He had previously had practical experience with Indians
for he had taken part in the Rogue River war. He was at that time engaged in
mining but to defend his life and his interests was compelled to fight, and in
fact was forced to leave the district, owing to the hostility of the redmen. In
his position as Indian agent he discharged his duties capably, promptly and effi-
ciently, and on his retirement from that office occupied a position as deputy in
the United States marshal office for four years. He then turned his attention
to the real-estate business which he followed with success, and he is still the
owner of considerable property here which is the visible evidence of his life of
enterprise, his judicious investment and his sound judgment in business affairs.
On the 28th of August, 1864, in Portland, P. B. Sinnott was united in mar-
riage to Miss Bridget Moran, whose parents died in Ireland. Mrs. Sinnott
came to the United States when about eighteen years of age and by her mar-
riage became the mother of five children : Nicholas, now deceased ; James,
an attorney, who was graduated from St. Mary's College at San Francisco and
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has now passed away ; William D., formerly an attorney but now a real-estate
man, who married Mollie Murphy ; Frank, who is in partnership with his brother
William and married Anna Wertz, by whom he has three children, Francis,
Flavia and Robert P. ; and Mary F., who is the widow of John T. McDonald
and has four children, Joseph M., Edward, Meriam L. and Flavia. Mr. Sinnott
gave his children excellent educational opportunities, all having graduated from
St. Mary's College at San Francisco.
Mrs. Sinnott was born in county Donegal, Ireland, and came to Portland a
half century ago by water. Mr. Sinnott was one of the early members of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians and he and his family are all communicants of
the Catholic church. His political allegiance is given to the republican party.
Few men of his years keep so closely in touch with the spirit of the times and
the questions and issues of the day as does Mr. Sinnott — a well preserved man
of eighty years, whose life has been an active and useful one. His public serv-
ice has been characterized by the utmost loyalty and his business affairs have at
all times been conducted with absolute regard for the rights of others.
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY.
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER.
The ancestral Bible of the Scott family records that I was born October
22, 1834. My honored father, John Tucker Scott, born in Kentucky, in 1809,
of Scotch-Irish and English parentage, and my beloved mother, Ann Roelof-
son, born in 181 1, of German, French and English stock, imparted to their old-
fashioned Illinois family of a dozen sons and daughters, the combined rugged-
ness and elasticity of physique and temperament which the hardships and pri-
vations of pioneer life strengthened in a marked degree in some of us, and
so weakened the constitutions of others that half of us died in infancy or
youth, and the remainder lived, or are living, to a ripe old age.
Of this family the writer hereof was the third, born in a humble border
cabin home, on the fourth anniversary of a (not in those days unusually) fruit-
ful marriage; although my mother once informed me, in after years, that my
father was cross, and she herself had wept bitterly, because I was a girl. Their
first born, a boy, had died in infancy, bringing them their first great sorrow ;
and the second, being a daughter, was a serious disappointment to both parents,
while I, who had the temerity to follow her as to sex, was a grievance, almost
too burdensome to be borne.
The first home of my grandfather Scott, bearing any semblance to preten-
sion, was built during my first year of bodily existence ; and my grandmother
Roelofson, having broken her leg in a fall and in the absence of proper surgery,
being a cripple ever after, the household burdens of two ancestral border
homes fell upon my faithful mother, who once told me sadly, that I sat on the
floor during my first summer, complaining and neglected, soothed only by a
piece of bacon, attached by a string to a bed-post, or a loom stanchion, until I
would fall asleep from exhaustion, a prey to numerous house flies.
My first task, as I remember it, was washing dishes while standing on a
chair to reach the table ; my next was a seemingly overwhelming job of paring,
quartering, coring and stringing apples, in long festoons for drying. Then fol-
lowed the sleep-urging monotony of picking wool by hand ; and after this
came the spinning wheel, of which my elder sister and I became expert manipu-
lators.
In the springtime, as I grew older, came always the work of the maple
sugar camp, and after that, corn planting ; then followed hoeing corn and po-
tatoes. Milking the cows morning and evening was a regular duty, and I often
wielded the dasher of an old-fashioned churn, while always, in emergencies,
it fell to my lot to assist my late lamented brother, Harvey W. Scott, to chop.
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUXIWAY
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gather and drag the dead limbs that fell annually from the great maple, hickory
and Walnut trees in the beautiful forest which my grandmother Scott had
christened Pleasant Grove, a title it carries to this day.
As the years sped on I grew rapidly into a tall, spindling and awkward child,
and was often ill on account of performing tasks for which my rapid growth
ought to have excused an undeveloped daughter. It was at this time, and for
long afterwards, the general belief among grown-ups, that no child was in
danger or injury from overwork, an almost fatal misconception of a fact in
my case, as the re-sodding of a blue grass lawn at the age of nine, after a hard
winter, gave me a chronic weakness of the spine which will never cease to ache
till after I leave the body for good and all.
Having become an overgrown though weakly young girl, I was unable to
receive even the meager advantages for schooling that were accorded to the
more rugged members of our household ; and such learning as I got consisted
chiefly of a five months' term in an apology for an academy in Stout's Grove,
a rustic village in the heart of Illinois near what is now the town of Danvers.
Early in the spring of 1852, my father, having caught the "Oregon fever,"
sold his possessions in Illinois and started with his family and a long line of
covered wagons, drawn by teams of oxen, to this land of the setting sun. The
limits of this narrative preclude further details of that perilous journey, fur-
ther than to say that of the many who perished by the wayside in that event-
ful year, lingers longest and tenderest the memory of our faithful, gentle and
self-sacrificing mother, whom we laid away, for the eternal sleep of the body,
in the solemn fastnesses of the Black Hills, then known as a mighty section of
"Mandan District," which is now a part of the great sovereign state of Wyom-
ing. The silent snows of many winters have rested long upon the sacred spot
wherein we laid her precious dust, but I cannot write any more about it now;
nor can I hardly see, through tears, to read what has been written.
After completing our journey of six tedious months across the almost un-
tracked continent, the still large remnant of my father's family settled for the
winter of 1852-3 in the village of La Fayette, Oregon territory, at that time the
county seat of Yamhill county, where, after the lapse of several months, through
most of which I was employed in teaching a district school in a Polk county
village, bearing the ambitious title of Cincinnati, since changed to Eola. Here
surrounded by a beautiful, undulating valley, a few miles west of Salem, Ore-
gon's thriving capital city, though still a child in my "teens," I met my matri-
monial fate in the person of an honest young rancher and stockman, Mr. Ben
C. Duniway, who conveyed me to his donation land claim in the wilds of Clack-
amas county, a dozen miles from Oregon City, where I spent four years of
a difficult struggle with the (to me) uncongenial hardships of a back-woods
farm. My husband, who had been a bachelor before taking me to his ranch,
was the envied center of a group of about a dozen unmarried fellow ranch-
men ; and nothing delighted him more than to mobilize them at meal time at our
cabin home in the wilderness, where it fell to my lot, whether the babies or I
were well or ill, to feed the crowd to repletion, as is the habit of most wives
and mothers of the frontier settlements unto this day.
Passmg over the four years of farm life spent in Clackamas county and
five years in Yamhill county, which had made me a physical wreck while yet
in my "twenties," I was, as I now believe, providentially relieved by the re-
sults of a security debt, incurred by my husband, but for which I should doubt-
less, have long ago succumbed, as my dear mother and one sweet sister had
done, to hardships unimagined by women of other and more modern modes of
home-keeping, which many younger women of today enjoy, who little heed the
changes that time and advancing civilization have wrought to their relief,
through public efforts like mine, else none could be found who would seek to
hinder the service of love for all humanity which alone nerved me to endure
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the martrydom of ridicule, misrepresentation and even ostracism of which I was
the victim in the early years of my lonely struggle for the equal rights for the
mothers of the race which has since become a world-wide movement.
I was not a willing convert to belief in equal rights for women. Blessed
with a kind father and a sober, upright husband, I grew up from childhood
imbued with the teaching that it was a woman's lot to engage in a lifetime of
unpaid servitude and personal sacrifice; and, whether occupied with the wash
tub, the churn dash, the cook stove, the kitchen sink, the mop handle, my own
often infirmities or those of the ailing baby or older children, I schooled myself
to imagine that I was filling my Heaven-appointed sphere, for which final recom-
pense awaited me in the land of souls.
As all history when once recorded, becomes practically a repetition of sa-
lient facts, I will now chronicle some reminiscences from my chapter in Mary
Osborn Douthit's remarkable book, "The Souvenir of Western Women," which
has not been circulated generally because the lady's untimely death ended her
earthly career on the threshold of its literary usefulness.
Like the man or woman of ante-bellum days who was ready at all times to
assist a runaway slave to gain his freedom, but failed to comprehend the causes
underlying his predicament, I for many years contented myself with the be-
stowal of unstinted sympathy upon women who were not in a position to speak
in their own defense. But as the years went on, and I grew in wisdom, I could
not help realizing that the women whose husbands would sell our butter and
eggs, pigs, chickens and dried berries, to assist in the payment of taxes, in the
distribution of which we had no voice, were being "taxed without representa-
tion and governed without consent." After leaving the farm and becoming a
school teacher — a change made necessary by an accident that befell my good
husband in the early '60s — we settled in the town of La Fayette, where for three
consecutive years (or until I became a tolerable scholar myself) I gave up the
double occupation of teacher and boarding-house keeper, and we removed to
Albany-on-the-Willamette. Here, after another year only of teaching (with-
out the boarders) I embarked in trade. Prior to that time I had been brought
into contact chiefly with the women of the farms. As it was during the six
strenuous years that I spent in trade that I learned the absolute need of wom-
an's full and free enfranchisement, I will, by way of illustration, relate as
briefly as possible a few of the incidents that gradually awakened my under-
standing.
One day, late in the '60s, while I was busy in the work-room of my little
store, engaged in making some fashionable millinery for an estimable woman,
who, having married or inherited a competence, thought all other women ought
to be content with their lot, a faded little over-worked mother of half a dozen
children came to me in sore distress, saying that her husband had sold their
household stufi: and departed for parts unknown. Then she told me of a family
about to leave the town who would sell her a lot of furniture and rent her their
house at a reasonable figure. "If I could borrow the money in a lump sum,"
she said, "I could repay it in installments." "Then," she added, between sobs,
"I could keep my children together, with the aid of a few boarders." After
she had left the store, and while I was inwardly fuming over my inability to
assist her, a well-to-do and charitable man dropped in on a little errand, to
whom I related her story. "Fll loan her the money," he said heartily. "She
t:an give me a chattel mortgage on the furniture." I gladly arranged a meet-
ing between the parties ; the exchange was made, and all was going well with
the weary woman, when, one day, the husband returned as suddenly as he had
departed, and, by repudiating the wife's note and mortgage, the sovereign citi-
zen and law-making husband nullified the transaction and maintained the maj-
esty of the law. It is needless to add that my philanthropic friend lost his
money and became a forceful advocate of equal rights for women ever after.
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Another and later case was that of a woman in another county, whom I
had long supplied with millinery and notions, on sixty days' credit, to sup-
port a little shop, in which she managed to earn an honorable livelihood for
her growing family. Her husband, a well meaning but irresponsible fellow,
noted chiefly for poverty and children, was only one of the "unlucky" heads
of families everybody knows, whose wife must make the living — if there is
any. One springtime, after I had concluded that this man's faithful and thrifty
spouse had become sufficiently established to warrant the risk, I sold her a fine
stock of millinery on credit. Her business opened with unusual promise, when,
one day a stranger to her, who held a judgment against her husband on an old
note and mortgage (given prior to their marriage without her knowledge and
renewed annually), came into the town, employed an attorney, attached her
stock and closed her business. That was more than forty years ago, and I
still hold the woman's note for that stock of millinery.
Prior to the year 1872 there was no married woman in all the great domain
of the Pacific northwest (except the comparatively few who held claims tmder
the brief existence of the donation land law) who possessed a right, after mar-
riage, even to the bridal trousseau her father had given her as a dot. As the
laws recognized the husband and wife as "one," and the husband was that
"one," the wife was legally "dead," and was supposed, as a matter of course,
to have no further need for clothes.
For the foregoing reasons and many others for which the limits of this
chapter have no space, I was at last aroused to the necessity of demanding the
ballot for woman ; and, although at this writing the final victory remains to
be won, so many concessions have been made, all trending in one direction,
toward the objective goal, that it would be indeed an obtuse man or woman
who would doubt our ultimate and complete success.
The first law enacted by the Oregon state legislature recognizing the legal
existence of married women called "The Married Woman's Sole Trader's
Bill," was passed in the year 1872. This law enabled women needing its pro-
visions to register themselves as "sole traders" in the office of their county
clerk, thus protecting their personal earnings, outside of the mutual living ex-
penses of the family, from dissipation by the husband's creditors.
A law enabling women to vote for school trustees and for funds and ap-
propriations for public school purposes, "if they have property in the district
on which they or their husbands pay a tax," was enacted in 1878. They were
also empowered to fill the offices of state and county superintendents of schools,
but the law was contested in 1896 by a defeated candidate and declared uncon-
stitutional by the supreme court.
Public sentiment now encourages the employment of women as court sten-
ographers, as clerks in both houses of the legislature, on legislative committees
and in various other subordinate offices. They may serve as notaries public,
and no profession or occupation is legally forbidden to them. All the large
non-sectarian institutions of learning are open alike to both sexes.
n either the husband or wife die intestate and there are no descendants
living, all of the real and personal property goes to the survivor, li there are
children living, the widow receives one-half of the husband's real estate and
one-half of his personal property; but the widower takes a life interest in all
of the wife's real estate, whether there are children or not, and all of the per-
sonal property absolutely, if there are no living descendants — half if there be
any. All laws have been repealed which recognize civil disabilities against the
wife which are not recognized against the husband except the fundamental
right of voting and helping to make the laws which she is taxed to maintain,
and to which, equally with man, she is held amenable.
Of the growth of public sentiment regarding the ultimate extension of this
right to women, it is significant to note that when a constitutional amendment
to enfranchise woman was taken in 1884, the vote was, ayes, 11,223; noes, 28,-
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176. And, although the population was more than doubled when the amend-
ment was resubmitted in 1900, the vote throughout the state stood, ayes, 26,-
265 ; noes, 28,402. It will thus be seen that although the "no" vote was only-
augmented in sixteen years by 226, the affirmative vote was increased by 15,042.
One county gave a majority for the amendment in 1884. The vote in 1900
gave us two-thirds of the counties of the state. One county was lost by a tie,
one by a majority of one, and one by a majority of thirty-one.
With the advent of the Lewis and Clarke Exposition in 1905, came for the
first time into Oregon the officers and organizers of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, who held a convention in Portland in June of
that year; and finding here a (to them) unprecedented array of public senti-
ment favoring the suffrage movement, and erroneously attributing its popular-
ity to themselves, managed by a clever ruse to remain till after the June elec-
tion of 1906, for which five years of steady local effort had paved the way
leading to an initiative petition to secure, for the third time in the history of
our movement, the submission of a constitutional amendment to a referendum
vote of the electorate of the state ; and, though we had been sure of at least
thirty-six thousand votes for the affirmative before our national friends had
entered Oregon at all, and although there was no lack of logic, brilliancy or
wit among our imported co-workers, they made the mistake they had often
previously made in other state suffrage campaigns, of enlisting a little organi-
zation of well-meaning women of one political idea, who got up meetings for
them all over the state, under a prohibition coloring, to which the business men
of the state have ever since falsely accused the suffragists of pandering under
a thin disguise.
Eastern and southern women do not understand the liberty-loving spirit of
our western border; and their control of our campaign of 1906 brought to
us our first organized opposition to our cause, that, owing to the rapid increase
of negative votes from older states which followed the Lewis and Clarke Expo-
sition, would seem hopeless but for the fact that our affirmative vote has prac-
tically held its own through two subsequent elections, while the overwhelming
vote of 1910 for the reenfranchisement of the women of Washington, who had
been voters in territorial days, has reassured our weary workers and brought
us out of the ambush that kept us silent and defenseless through our electoral
campaign of 1908 and 1910, which men voted down.
Our initiative petitions are ready for the submission of our equal suffrage
amendment to the voters of 1912; and we, having emerged from seclusion, are
pressing forward in the open, in the serene belief that our fathers, husbands,
brothers and sons will proudly emulate the chivalrous voters oi Wyoming,
Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Washington, who have extended the full privileges
of the elective franchise to their best and truest friends, the women within their
borders. Our shibboleth for 1912 is Votes for Women, our motto for the cam-
paign is Make Oregon Free.
(Editor's Note.)
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, affectionately known in later years throughout
the Pacific northwest as "Oregon's Grand Old Woman," having omitted in her
autobiographical sketch, as chronicled in these pages, all mention of the dis-
tinguished honors accorded to her during the varying vicissitudes of her long
and busy life, it falls to the pleasant lot of a friend to chronicle some of the
more significant incidents of her public and private history, which have made her
name a household word in thousands of homes.
Mrs. Duniway first came into prominence in 1859 through the publication of
a little book entitled "Captain Gray's Company, or Crossing the Plains and
Living in Oregon." "The book was never worthy of the public attention it
received, and I have always wondered at its sale," said the motherly old lady
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in a recent interview. "It was rank presumption that induced me to write it. I
was an illiterate border child- wife, the overworked mother of little children,
surrounded by the crudest possible pioneer conditions, through which I began
grasping blindly at unknown literary straws. I outgrew the work long before
it reached the public eye and would have supressed it in its infancy if I could;
but it went rapidly through two editions before it was allowed to die. It builded
for me better than I knew, however, since it helped to open many devious ways
to opportunities for education and advancement through which I have struggled
upward for more than half a century."
After leaving the Yamhill county ranch, now the famous apple orchard
founded by Millard Lownsdale, Mrs. Duniway began teaching a private school
in the village of La Fayette, but its patronage being insufficient for the support
of her invalid husband and growing family, she prepared a dormitory in her
home and readily filled it with young lady boarders. In order to properly feed
and care for these boarders and her own household, in a community where hired
domestic help was not attainable, Mrs. Duniway would arise regularly at four
o'clock A. M. in winter and at three o'clock in summer to complete her work in
the home before nine o'clock and school time.
Selling out her school in La Fayette, we next find Mrs. Duniway teaching a
private school in Linn county, in the town of Albany, from which she emerged
into the millinery business, which she managed successfully for six years. Then,
selling out at a profit, she startled the country by moving to Portland, where, in
the spring of 1871, she bought a printing office and established a weekly news-
paper— The New Northwest, which at once attracted many readers. The
country was new, the people were liberal and prosperous; and her advocacy of
equal political rights for women meeting with unexpected favor in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, she soon found herself regularly employed in the lecture
field, where she has ranked for forty years among the most able women speakers
of the world.
"I ought to have been among the richest women of America," she remarked
reflectively, "but my husband, having once pauperized himself by becoming
surety for an ambitious friend, went to the other extreme and refused to put his
signature to my papers; and I, being his wife, was legally dead and couldn't
buy property in Portland while it was cheap. But its all right," she added, with
a smile. "If I had accumulated riches I might have been an anti-suffragist."
Her address before the constitutional convention in Boise, Idaho, July 16,
1889, was a masterly analyzation of the prohibition problem and resulted in
securing a pledge from the leading state officials and other business men of
Idaho to submit the question of equal suffrage to a vote at the first election
following the territory's admission to statehood, and was an important factor
in making Idaho women free.
The celebration of Oregon's fortieth year of admission to statehood was held
on the 14th of February, 1899, in the house of representatives at Salem, where,
before the joint assembly of the state legislature and a vast audience of visitors,
among the most famous speakers of the state, Mrs. Duniway was accorded the
valedictory, or place of honor on the programme, and achieved high distinction.
One of her most logical speeches on the progress of all women toward
ultimate equality of rights was made at the unveiling of the statue of Sacajawea
at the Lewis and Clarke Exposition in the summer of 1905 and was followed by
the extension of an invitation to her from President H. W. Goode, to accept
the date of October 6th as Abigail Scott Duniway Day — the first reception of its
kind ever extended to any woman outside of royalty by the official head of any
international fair.
In January of 1910, Mrs. Duniway was made a duly accredited delegate by
Governor F. W. Benson, of Oregon, to the Conservation Congress of Governers,
held in Washington, D. C, where she made an impassioned plea for national
recognition of equal rights for women and was accorded much consideration by
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distinguished men who marveled at the logic and eloquence of this elderly woman
of the border.
Mrs. Duniway's descriptive poems rank high. Oregon, Land of Promise and
her Centeninal Ode, the latter in commemoration of opening day at the Lewis
and Clarke Exposition, being considered among her best. Numerous works of
fiction appeared as serial stories in her New Northwest during the sixteen years
of its publication, which their author says will be offered to the public in book
form if she can ever command the time for their proper revision. Her latest
book, From the West to the West, brought out by A. C. McClurg & Company,
of Chicago, in 1905, still enjoys a steady sale.
Of her family of six children, her only daughter, Mrs. Clara Duniway
Stearns, a beautiful and accomplished woman, died in January, 1886. Of her
five sons, Willis S. is Oregon's state printer, Hubert R. is a wholesale lumber
dealer in New York ; Wilkie C. is superintendent of The Portland Evening
Telegram ; Clyde A. is president of the State University of Montana ; and Ralph
R. is a prominent attorney of Portland. Her husband, Mr. Ben C. Duniway,
passed away in August, 1896, beloved and honored by a large circle of relatives
and friends. "My children are my highest achievement and principal asset,"
said Mrs. Duniway, with another of her motherly smiles, as the compiler of these
chronicles ended a most interesting interview.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER GORDON.
William Alexander Gordon, well known in the grain shipping business on
the Pacific coast, was born April 29, 1864, at Woodstock, province of Ontario,
Canada. He comes of Scotch lineage and is the son of the Rev. David B. Gor-
don, a Presbyterian minister, and the grandson of William Gordon, a well
known pioneer of Canada, who lived at Bayside, Whitby. His n>other was a
daughter of Alexander Bain, of Forres, Scotland, also prominent during his
life in business and literary circles.
Though when a boy rather inclined toward a literary career, Mr. Gordon
left school at sixteen to take a clerkship in a bank at Nevada, Iowa, but con-
tinued his studies in Latin, Greek and higher mathematics under a private tutor
after banking hours for a period of three years. During this time also he became
imbued with a desire to visit the Pacific coast. This idea was fostered by tales
told him by his employer who had pioneered along the coast ivi the early '70s.
In 1882 Mr. Gordon started for the west. Arriving in San Francisco, he found
employment with the publishing house of A. L. Bancroft & Company, leaving
them, however, a few months later for Portland, where he secured a position
as accountant with the firm of McCraken & Mason, with whom he remained
until that firm retired from business. Later he became connected with the well
known firm of Allen & Lewis, filling the positions of bookkeeper and cashier
and remaining with the firm some twelve years, gaining a broad and comprehen-
sive experience that has served him in good stead in after years.
In 1898 Mr. Gordon embarked in business on his own account and was asso-
ciated for several years with the late Henry F. Allen, the well known capitalist
of San Francisco, and afterward with C. Lombardi, who still retains an in-
terest in the corporation of The W. A. Gordon Company, of which Mr. Gordon
is the president, and which is counted one of the conservative and substantial
concerns in Portland. A branch of the company in San Francisco also tran-
sacts an extensive business.
Mr. Gordon is happily married. His wife was a Miss Garner, whose family
were originally from Bourbon county, Kentucky, and related to the Peytons
and Mitchells of that section. Her mother's family name was Wayne and she is
a direct descendant of General Anthony Wayne of Revolutionary fame. Three
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children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon: Ethel Margaret, William
Bain and Edward Wayne. Their education has received careful attention, the
elder son being now in his junior year at AlcGill, Montreal.
Mr. Gordon is classed a republican in politics, though inclined to vote for the
candidate regardless of party affiliation. He has been a member of the Arling-
ton Club since 1897 and has served as one of its directors and its secretary.
He has those qualities which make for personal popularity as well as for busi-
ness success. Laying the foundation of his advancement in a through and lib-
eral education, he has made continuous progress, early learning to correctly
value life's contacts and its experiences, while at no time has he feared to ven-
ture where favoring opportunity has led the way. He is a tireless reader and
student and keeps well posted in literary, political and scientific matters. He
is charitably inclined, though in a quiet way, and contributes to many worthy
objects.
He is fond of out-door sports and is never more happy than when fol-
lowing some mountain fed stream with a fishing rod in his hand. He is a mem-
ber of several mountain climbing and outing clubs.
The Gordons live in a beautiful home on Montgomery Drive, Portland
Heights, from which an extensive view of canyon, city and river is had and
which is considered one of the loveliest points in that part of the city.
JOHN KING.
John King is regarded as one of the exemplary citizens of Qarke county,
Washington, whose well spent life has gained him the respect and esteem of
all with whom \\e has been brought in contact. When the government owned
much of the land in this district he took up a claim and is now giving his atten-
tion to its development. He was born in Fayette county, Ohio, on a farm on
Compton's creek, March 26, 1835, and was but six years of age when his par-
ents removed to Lee county, Iowa, where the father engaged in farming. John
King continued in that locality until eighteen years of age, and then, attracted
by the favorable reports which he heard concerning the opportunities of the
northwest, he started for Oregon on the 2d of April, 1853, with an ox team,
joining a wagon train of one hundred and twenty-five wagons. They proceeded
westward to the Missouri river, which they crossed at St. Joseph on the 2d of
May, and at that point practically left behind them the outposts of eastern
civilization. Then came the long and wearisome trip over the prairies, the
plains and onward to the mountains, until they reached Portland, Oregon, on
the 26th of October. Mr. King, however, stopped for a time at Deschutes,
Oregon, where he operated a ferry boat across the Deschutes river for eighteen
days. He then came on to Portland and secured employment in a saw mill
owned by W. P. Abrams & Company. Two months later he went to Benton
county, Oregon, in the Willamette valley, where he continued until the fall of
1856, when he returned to Portland. So wild was the northwest and so treacher-
ous were the Indians that there was constant need for military surveillance,
and in October, 1855, Mr. King enlisted as a member of Company I, of the
Oregon Volunteer Infantry under Captain L. B. Munson, of CorvalHs, the
regiment being commanded by Colonel Kelley. He served in the battle of
Walla Walla at Whitman Station for four days and nights, and saw active serv-
ice until the following April, when he was honorably discharged in Portland.
For a time he was employed in Portland and then went out to fight the Indians
at the Cascades with a number from Portland, the Indians having massacred
white settlers at the point indicated. After but little service there he assisted
in getting boats over the rapids for ten days, and then returned to the Willamette
valley, where he spent the fall. He was afterward married and resided in the
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vicinity of Portland for two years, but in 1859 came to Vancouver, where he
took charge of the engine in a sawmill owned by his father-in-law, Louis Love.
For over four years he was thus engaged, at the end of which time he began
farming on the Love ranch known as the Taylor place on the river road. Two
years were devoted to agricultural pursuits and the following year was spent in
Washougal. Subsequently he took a homestead, which is now the Stamp place,
on La Camas Lake, but relinquished that to the government after five years and
on account of the illness of his wife removed down on the Columbia river to
the Love ranch and worked in a saw and flourmill. He afterward returned
to Vancouver, where he entered the employ of the Oregon & California Rail-
road, with which he was connected for two years, when he went to Columbia
City, where he built a sawmill. A year later, however, he removed to Buena
Vista, where he operated a saw mill, after which he engaged in various lines
of work until 1888, when he settled upon the ranch which he now owns. He
took this up as a claim from the government — one hundred and sixty acres. It
was mostly covered with timber and he has cleared seven acres. He has put
all good improvements on the farm, has fenced the place and is now devoting his
energies to the cultivation of the fields.
On the 26th of October, 1856, Mr. King was married to Miss Melinda J.
Love, of Portland, the wedding being celebrated at her home, then on Clay and
Front streets, in the Rose city. They became the parents of six children, but
only one is now living, William D., of Portland. Mr. King has reached the ad-
vanced age of seventy-five years. He is a member of the Pioneer Society, hav-
ing been a resident of Oregon since 1853. His entire life has been characterized
by high principles and manly conduct. He has never played cards nor drank
liquor of any kind, and has always held firmly to a course that he has believed
to be right, thus commanding the entire confidence and good will of his fellow-
men.
JESSE C. HESS.
Jesse C. Hess, who is engaged in the conduct of a garage and automobile
repair business in Portland as a member of the firm of Hess & O'Brien, was
born in Wheatland, Oregon, December 29, 1882, a son of David and Sarah C.
Hess, who are now residents of Montavilla. His youthful days were spent in
his parents home and his preliminary educational advantages were supplemented
by a course of study in Mount Angel College. He turned from his books to
take up the machinist's trade, which he learned in Portland, having thorough
training and practical experience in that line. After learning the trade he es-
tablished a bicycle and machine shop on his own account, conducting a suc-
cessful business in that line until 1908, when he sold out. He was located at
No. 307 Stark street. On disposing of his interests he went to the mountains,
but after a brief time returned to Portland and was engaged with the Foster
Kleister Company for a short time. He then established his present business,
opening a garage and automobile repair shop on the 5th of July, 1909. The
business was incorporated on the 5th of November of the same year under the
name of Hess & O'Brien, for Mr. Hess had admitted R. D. O'Brien to a part-
nership in the undertaking. At one time George F. Brice was also interested in
the business but sold out to Messrs. Collins and Younger, who are now stock-
holders of the corporation, while Mr. Hess purchased the interest of his orig-
inal partner, Mr. O'Brien. He is the secretary and treasurer of the company,
While L. Collins fills the position of president and G. E. Younger is vice presi-
dent. On the 1st of June the business was removed to a building erected
especially for this company. It is one hundred feet square, situated at the
corner of Davis street and Union avenue, and they also occupy the old building
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of two stories, fifty by seventy feet, both being needed for the conduct of their
constantly growing enterprise.
On the i8th of February, 1905, Mr. Hess was united in marriage to Miss
Harriet Lavene Madden, a native of Portland. While the young man is making
substantial progress in the field in which he now labors, his energy and determina-
tion— his salient characteristics — promise well for success in the future.
DENNIS S. MURPHY.
Few men have had the experiences by sea and land which have fallen to the
lot of Dennis S. Murphy. Starting as a cabin boy in a government war ship
on the Atlantic, he visited the principal ports of the great ocean and after years
of labor, involving many hardships and adventures, he found a safe harbor on
the Pacific coast. Here he is now living retired, surrounded by the comforts of
an elegant home and daily greeted by friends with whom he can exchange
reminiscences of earlier times. The story of these early years of Mr. Murphy's
life is more interesting than any tale drawn from the imagination, and presents
most strikingly the career of the sailor as it was exemplified before the period
of the Civil war, and before the fast modern steamship began to plow the ocean.
Dennis S. Murphy was born in County Cork, Ireland, December 23, 1835.
He is a son of John and Mary Murphy. His father was engaged in the ship-
ping business in the old country and there he died in 1846, while the subject of
this sketch was quite young. At eleven years of age Dennis Murphy came to
America with his mother in a sailing ship, landing at Boston after a voyage
of seven weeks. The family resided in Boston until 1849, when Mrs. Murphy
moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts. The son was educated in the public schools,
but in order to assist in the support of his mother, left school to work in a
woolen factory at Lawrence. At seventeen years of age the call of the sea drew
him from the spindle and the loom and in the port of Charlestown, Massachusetts,
he joined the battleship Ohio and was enrolled as cabin boy, continuing under
Captain Long for about six months. In 1853 he went to sea from Boston on
the ship Sarah, on a trading trip to the western coast of South America. In
April, 1854, he joined the Merrimac as ordinary seaman on a voyage across the
Atlantic with a load of lumber, the ship next going to one of the German ports
and picking up a lot emigrants for New York. His next experience was as
ordinary seaman on a passenger ship, the Mercury, which made a round trip
to France. Upon returning he shipped on the R. A. DeGamble for St. Marks,
Florida, where a load of cotton destined for the New York market was taken
on board. At New York he transferred his allegiance to the Lovett Peacock,
bound for Savannah, Georgia, from which port the young sailor went to the
West Indies with the Emma Chase. Returning to New York he visited the port
of Havana, on the bark Albertina, and returned with a cargo of sugar, rum,
molasses, etc. A trip to Nova Scotia followed with the bark Byron, which,
loaded with lumber, was immediately followed by a voyage on the Demarara to
British Guiana, on the northern coast of South America, and to Turk Island,
for a load of salt which was conveyed to Providence, Rhode Island. Still desirous
of further experience at sea, the now thoroughly experienced sailor joined the
ship Hadie for Shanghai and Hongkong, China, then embarking with the N. B.
Palmer, of New York, for Siam, where the ship was loaded with rice for Hong-
kong. From this port he shipped with the Mary Wenholt, landing for the first
time in San Francisco in 1857. Here he began to feel at home. Entering the
coast trade, he made three trips to Panama and continued on the coast vessels
until 1862. He then became connected with the Oregon Steam Navigation Com-
pany, continuing with this company and with Oregon Railway & Navigation Com-
pany, its successor, until September, 1908, when he retired from active affairs.
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Since 1880 he has made his home in Portland and few business or sea-faring
men of the northwest have a wider circle of friends and acquaintances. In the
course of his long career he has passed through many vicissitudes and has been
personally acquainted with many of the prominent characters of the coast, who
have now passed from the state. As the shadows of evening draw near- the
veteran of six decades in many seas and lands looks back with few regrets as
his life has been in an important degree governed by the wise teachings of a
mother whose chief regard was for the comfort and welfare of her children.
Mr. Murphy was united in marriage at The Dalles, Oregon, April 27, 1874,
to Miss May Croden Horsley, a daughter of Joseph and Isabella (Wright)
Horsley. Eleven children came as a result of the marriage : Mary Isabella,
now Mrs. W. P. Sinnatt, of Portland; John F., who died at the age of nine
years; Ralph, of Portland, who married Lulu Thomas, the couple having one
child, Herold; Edward M., of Burke, Idaho, married to Esther Larson, one
child, Mary E., having been born to them; Anna C. ; Maude E. ; Edna C. ; Flor-
ence W. ; Chester M.; and Julia A., all of whom are at home; and one who
passed away in infancy.
Mrs. Murphy is a native of Stockton, California. Her father came to Cali-
fornia in 1849 ^"d was a mining man. He joined the Union army in 1862 and
saw service against the Indians in New Mexico. He died in 1862 at Stockton,
California. Mrs. Murphy came to Oregon the same year with her mother, and
here met her future husband. She was born and reared in the fold of the
Roman Catholic church and has always adhered, as has her husband, to its
tenets. Although the educational advantages of Mr. Murphy in his youth were
limited, he has learned many lessons in the greater school of experience, and
in the course of a long life of contact with all classes of men had deeply im-
pressed upon his mind the advantages of sobriety, industry and economy, and of
square dealing in all business transactions, public or private. In his own life
as a citizen and head of a large family he has illustrated the practical principles
that make civilized society possible and at the age of seventy-five is one of the
honored members of a community where for thirty years he has lived and
worked and cheerfully borne his share of the burdens. He now enjoys, in the
evening of a busy life, a well earned rest.
HIRAM TERWILLIGER.
Among the pioneer families of Oregon the name of Terwilliger will always
occupy a prominent place. James Terwilliger arrived in Oregon from a home
in Illinois, nearly two thousand miles away, by overland trail, in 1845, ^"^ built
the first house in Portland. Terwilliger Park, one of the beautiful breathing
spots of Portland, is a gift from the family and its members have been actively
connected, since the early occupancy by white settlers of the Willamette val-
ley, with the movements which have resulted in the gratifying development
witnessed today.
Hiram Terwilliger, whose name stands at the head of this review, is a
well known ranchman and miner, now living retired and spending the closing
days of a long and active career amid the scenes with which his father was
familiar for many years. He was born at Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, March
6, 1840, a son of James and Sophronia (Hurd) Terwilliger. Both families
were of Holland Dutch descent, the Terwilligers, as shown by the colonial rec-
ords, being among the first settlers of New York. The great-grandmother of
Hiram Terwilliger on his father's side was owner of a large tract of land on
the site where New York city now stands. James Terwilliger was a black-
smith of Knox county, Ohio. In 1841 he joined a movement that was then at-
tracting a great deal of attention and turning his face westward, removed to
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Hancock county, Illinois, on the Mississippi river, which had already attracted
the favorable notice of the Mormon leader, Joseph Smith. Here many of the
Latter Day Saints were gathering and at Naiivoo they erected a temple and
aroused great antagonism on the part of many of their neighbors. James Ter-
williger built a blacksmith shop, at a crossroads, where he also took up land for
a farm. The Mormons continuing to arrive from eastern states and from
Europe, he yielded to their solicitations and, selling his farm, decided to ac-
company them to the new northwest. This was before the time of the gold
excitement, and when farming, fur trading and merchandising were about the
only occupations known in the great regions between the Mississippi river and
the Pacific coast. Mr. Terwilliger started for his new home with a team of
four oxen drawing an emigrant wagon in which were his wife and four chil-
dren, and a few of the most urgent necessities of pioneer life, among them his
ax, gun and ammunition. The trip required six months, from April to Oc-
tober, but proved too severe for Mrs. Terwilliger, who yielded to the hardships
and died before the caravan reached the end of its journey. Her husband, be-
ing left with four children, bravely took up the responsibility. Arriving in the
valley where Portland now stands, October 3, 1845, he at once proceeded to
the erection of a log cabin at what is now the corner of First and Morrison
streets. He also built a blacksmith shop and resumed work at his trade amid
new surroundings, being the first blacksmith in Portland. In 1847 Mr. Ter-
williger was married to Mrs. Palinda Green, and in 1850 the family home was
established in South Portland. He secured a tract of six hundred and forty
acres of land, now within the boundaries of Portland, which afterward became
a donation claim, eighty-one acres being still in possession of our subject, who
resides thereon. This land became very valuable as the city grew, and por-
tions from time to time were sold off for residence purposes. Mr. Terwilliger
was one of the leaders in the early days and was actively connected with public
affairs. He served as colonel of the state militia and gained the respect of
his associates who were among the substantial citizens of Portland. His earthly
career terminated in 1890, when he had reached the advanced age of four score
and four years. The tract of land now known as Terwilliger Park was orig-
inally donated to the city as a cemetery but was later dedicated to its present
use and is a permanent monument to a man who was one of the first to discern
the possibilities of this site as the location of a growing city.
Hiram Terwilliger was five years of age when he crossed the plains and
his eye first rested upon the beautiful Willamette valley. He has witnessed the
transformation of a wilderness into a modern city, possessing all the comforts,
conveniences and elegancies of the twentieth century, and in this transforma-
tion he has assisted. He was educated in the early schools of Portland and at
Forest Grove, when, in 1849, nearly all the able-bodied men hurried to Cali-
fornia in quest of golden treasure, the children being gathered at Forest Grove
where school advantages were not interrupted. In 1862 Mr. Terwilliger went
to the mines of Idaho and later, for four years, worked in a logging camp in
Oregon. Attracted to the water, he followed the sea for three years, operating
along the coast. For a year and a half, in 1869 and 1870, he conducted a feed
and grocery store in Portland but became interested in the dairy business in
Tillamook county, where he continued for four years. He has since resided in
Portland and has extensively engaged in ranching and mining. His home oc-
cupies a beautifully improved site of one and a half acres, and he is also the
owner of seventy-five acres of land in Portland and an interest at the corner of
First street and Morrison, where his father originally settled.
Mr. Terwilliger was united in marriage at Tillamook, Oregon, July 12, 1869,
to Aliss Mary Edwards, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret Edwards, who
crossed the plains in 1862 and settled at Tillamook. Mrs. Terwilliger is a na-
tive of Keokuk, Iowa. Four children were born of this union : James, of Port-
land; Joseph, also of Portland, who married Elizabeth Barrett; Charlotte, now
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Mrs. Frank Butz, of this city, who has two daughters, Latha and Ethel; and
Virtue, the wife of Edward Rogers, of Portland, by whom she has three chil-
dren, Ruth, George and Mildred.
Mr. Terwilliger, like his father before him, has experienced many of the
joys and sorrows of life and gained many lessons which are only to be learned
by actual contact with men and affairs. He years ago attained prominence and
prosperity and is recognized as a worthy representative of a name which has
been borne by many useful and conscientious men and women and is honored
not only on the Pacific coast but equally so on the coast of the Atlantic. He af-
filiates with the republican party but has never cared for public office.
HENRY WAGNER.
Henry Wagner has been a representative of the farming interests of Clarke
county, Washington, since 1883, and since 1877 has resided in the Columbia
river valley, his parents taking their family to the city of Portland in that year.
He was born in Germany on the 13th of April, 1864, and when three years of
age came to the United States with his father and mother, Henry and Wilhelmina
(Reese) Wagner, who at that time settled in Chicago.
At the usual age their son Henry became a pupil in the public schools, which
he attended until thirteen years of age, when, in 1877, the parents sought a
home in the Pacific northwest, becoming residents of Portland. There the father
died in 1895 but the mother is now living upon the farm with her two sons,
Henry and William, who are cultivating the farm together. The latter was
born in Chicago and since coming to the west the two brothers have had identical
business interests. The family lived in Portland for two years after their ar-
rival in Oregon and then removed to The Dalles, where Henry Wagner grew to
young manhood. In March, 1883, when but twenty years of age, he came to
Clarke county, settling on a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres eight miles
east of Vancouver, which the family purchased at that time. It was all timber
land but the brothers cleared and improved it and now have forty-five acres
under cultivation. The soil is very rich and productive and responds readily to
the care and labor bestowed upon it. In 1900 they erected a fine modern resi-
dence, containing ten rooms. They have fenced their place and have thus di-
vided it into fields of convenient size, and all modern equipments are found,
indicating their progressive spirit. They are engaged in general farming and
make a specialty of the raising of grain and potatoes, and are also carrying on
a dairy business while a considerable income is obtained from cutting and haul-
ing wood. Henry Wagner is an energetic man, whose life has been characterized
by unremitting industry and close application, and thus he has carved out for
himself the path to success.
WALLACE W. PATTERSON.
Wallace W. Patterson, who is engaged in a general plastering business, in
which connection important contracts are awarded him, so that he has achieved
a substantial and gratifying measure of success, was born in South Haven
Michigan, May 25, 1864. The first six years of his life were there spent, after
which his parents, Moses and Mary Elizabeth Patterson, removed with their
family to Wood county, Ohio, where he remained until about seventeen years of
age and then came to Portland with his mother and older brother, Frederick. This
was in 1882.^ His education had been acquired in the public schools of Wood
county, his time being largely devoted to his studies until his left for the far
west.
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After reaching Portland Mr. Patterson began learning the plasterer's trade
with Napoleon Kennedy, who was one of the pioneer plastering contractors
of Portland. He worked as a journeyman for some time and gained an expert
knowledge of and skill in the business. About eighteen years ago he formed
a partnership with Michael Harris, of whom mention is made on another page
of this volume, and for twelve years they were associated in business, during
which time various important contracts in their line were awarded them. On
the expiration of that period the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Patterson
has since been alone. He does a general line of plastering and has been en-
gaged in this way on the interior finishing of many of the business houses,
private residences, and apartment houses. It is said that he has plastered more
apartment houses than any man in this city, including all those erected by W. L.
Morgan, who stands first among the builders of apartments in Portland. Mr.
Patterson's business has long since reached extensive and profitable proportions,
indeed, there are few who equal him in the amount of business in his line, and
as success has rewarded him he has made judicious investments in property,
being now the owner of considerable valuable real estate in this city.
On the 2d of August, 1890, Mr. Patterson was united in marriage to Miss
Anna B. Inman, a daughter of L. F. Inman, a native of New York. They be-
came the parents of five children : Flora, who is now attending the Portland
high school ; Claude, Edith and Frederick, who are all in school ; and Donald.
The wife and mother died on the 26th of October, 1909, and her death was a
deep blow to many friends as well as to the immediate members of the family.
Mr. Patterson has always voted with the republican party and yet has never
been a politician in the sense of office seeking, preferring to give his undivided
time and attention to his business afi^airs which, capably conducted, have brought
him to a prominent position on the plane of affluence. In manner he is quiet
and unpretentious, but his genuine worth and thorough reliability are recognized
by all who have had business dealings with him.
WILLIAM L. MALLORY.
William L. Mallory, proprietor of the Oregon Live Stock Exchange and
Burnside Stables, was born on a farm in Allegany county. New York, January
4, 1857, and in the year 1868 came with his parents to the northwest. His father,
Augustus Mallory, who died January 29, 1906, in Jeiiferson, Oregon, was one
of the early residents of Morrow county, this state. He removed from Marion
county to Morrow county in the summer of 1870, after a two years' residence
in the former county following his arrival in the northwest after his emigra-
tion from Pennsylvania. He had lived in the Keystone state for four years,
previous to which time he had been a resident of New York. He was engaged
in the live-stock business in Morrow county for five years, after which he re-
moved to Heppner. He served as justice of the peace in the town for many
years and subsequently was county judge of Morrow county. He took an active
part in the public life of the community and was regarded as one of the leading
and influential citizens. He was born in Connecticut and when a young man
removed to the state of New York. There he married Miss Mary Jane Bur-
rows, who died July 4, 1902.
William L. Mallory was largely reared upon his father's farm in Morrow
county, Oregon, and following the removal of his father's family to Heppner
operated the farm for several years. Subsequently he conducted a sawmill in
Morrow county for fifteen years and later took up his abode upon a farm at
lone. Morrow county, situated on Willow creek. He there owned two hun-
dred and forty acres of rich and productive land and continued its cultivation
from 1903 until 1907, when he sold the property and came to Portland. Here
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he purchased the Burnside Stables and the Oregon Live Stock Exchange and
has since conducted a hvery business in this city.
In 1881 Mr. Mallory was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Yerkes,
who was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, but was reared in Ohio, com-
ing first to Oregon when a young lady of seventeen years. Unto Mr. and Mrs.
Mallory have been born six children : Edna Frances, the wife of J. B. Cronin,
of lone; Augustus M., who is now deputy sheriff of Morrow county; Lester
William, who is agent for the Oregon Electric Company at Wilsonville, Oregon ;
Henry Y., who is bookkeeper for the Pacific States Telephone Company in
Portland ; Cassius C, who is with the Spokane, Seattle & Portland Railroad
Company ; and Margaret.
FRANZ NIEBUR.
For practically fifty years Franz Niebur was a citizen of Oregon and during
a large part of that time was a well known resident of Portland. He was an
honest, industrious and persevering man, a splendid type of the stout-hearted
sons of the German fatherland who have assisted so ably in building up the
American republic and establishing it upon an enduring foundation. Attracted
by free institutions, inspired by high ideals and by the advantages of a new
country, no distances have been too great, no difficulties too severe, to daunt
the brave spirits whose ancestors turned back the tide of Roman conquest and
whose descendants are among the noblest names in America today.
Mr. Niebur was born in Germany, March 26, 1826. He received the rudi-
ments of education in the public schools of his native land which are the models
upon which the public school system of the United States has been cast. His
father was a blacksmith and carpenter, and the son was early put to work at
these trades and also at that of wagon-maker. The family came to America and
traveled as far as Missouri, which was then the "far west," and marked the
boundary beyond which was "the great American desert" and the vast mountain
ranges which up to that time had been traversed only by Indians and hardy ad-
venturers. The young mechanic first followed his trade in Missouri but soon
moved back across the Mississippi river to Germantown, Illinois, where people
were more numerous and the demand for wagons gave assurance of steady em-
ployment. At Germantown he met Miss Caroline Koch, also a native of Ger-
many, whose father died there and whose mother started for America when
the daughter was seventeen years of age. Death again visited the family, and
during the trip across the ocean the mother was called away. The twice stricken
daughter came on to Illinois, where a sister had already found a home, and there
she met the young man who became her husband after she had attained the
age of eighteen years. Two years later they moved to Missouri and lived in
that state until 1853, when they joined a wagon train which was bound for the
northwest. Mr. Niebur had a good outfit for those days — a horse, three yokes
of oxen and a covered wagon, which were well provided with necessities for
the journey. The trip required from March to October. At The Dalles, Mr.
Niebur left the live stock and he and his wife completed the journey to Port-
land in a boat. Here he found employment principally at his trade during the
winter, and built a house for Captain Couch and also for Captain Flanders. In
the spring he bought the rights in three hundred and twenty acres of land in
Multnomah county which had been located by a previous arrival, paying one
hundred dollars for the land and a small cabin which stood on the property.
In order to secure title to the property, continuous residence for four years was
necessary, and Mrs. Niebur made her home in the little cabin while her husband
worked at his trade in Portland, visiting his wife as opportunity presented. This
was one of the incidents of pioneer life. After ten years, having secured a
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good herd of cattle and placed the farm on a good paying basis, Mr,
and Mrs. Niebur moved to Portland where they permanently located. Their
home was originally in a forest which has since disappeared and the spot on
which the cabin stood is where the residence of Mr. Niebur now stands at
331 Madison street. The farm is still owned by the family. Mr. Niebur worked
at his trade and built up a profitable business of which he was the head, retiring
from active life a few years before he died to take a needed rest. He departed
this life February 25, 1902, and his remains repose in Mount Calvary cemetery.
One child, Carrie, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Niebur. She is the wife of R.
H. Fay. They live at the old homestead and are the parents of six children :
Maggie, deceased ; Frank, a resident of Portland ; Mrs. Lillian Burrell, of Port-
land, who is the mother of two children, Fay and Richard ; Edward, also of this
city, who married Emma Stark, now deceased, by who he had two children,
Cyril and Helen; Alice, now Mrs. H. J. McLean, of Salt Lake City; and Mrs.
Alma Fay, of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Franz Niebur, as representative pioneers, always occupied an
honorable place among the brave band that developed the resources of Western
Oregon. Mr. Niebur was a member of the Roman Catholic church and a con-
sistent follower of its tenets. He was a member of the Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment of Portland in the early days and was ever found at the post of duty. Mrs.
Niebur in the evening of her life is the center of loving attentions from a
generation that has not known the dangers through which she passed, but which
has profited by her kindly monition and most of all by the example of a life
which was early tried in the school of affliction and the fruitage of which is
now beheld in that most desirable of all earthly attributes, a beautiful and un-
selfish character.
ALEXANDER DAVID.
Alexander David was one of the early settlers of the Columbia river valley,
having crossed the plains in 1868. He was a native of Illinois, born in 1820,
only two years after the admission of that state into the Union. He continued
to reside in the Mississippi valley until 1868, when the reports which he heard
concerning the opportunities of the northwest determined him to cross the
plains and seek the advantages that he might here secure. He located on land
twelve miles from Vancouver, homesteading one hundred and sixty acres which
were covered with a native forest grove. He cleared away much of the timber,
grubbed up the stumps and prepared the land for the plow. Thereafter year
after year he continued the work of the farm until his death, which occurred
in 1902. He was survived by five children, and three of the number are yet
living, Frank and Cora being residents of Portland.
Albert David, the second of the survivors, was born in Wisconsin, Novem-
ber 12, i860. As previously stated, the father came to Washington in 1868, and
the following year the family joined him, having made the trip by way of the
isthmus of Panama. Albert David was at that time a lad of nine years and
the voyage was a very wonderful one to him. He was reared upon the claim
which his father had secured and the public schools afforded him his educational
privileges. He afterward engaged in farming with his father, remaining as his
active assistant until the latter's death, since which time he has carried on farm-
ing alone. The place comprises one hundred and sixty-one acres of the original
homestead, of which about sixty acres have been cleared. He carries on general
farming and his labors bring forth good harvests for the land is rich and his
methdos are practical.
In March, 1886, Mr. David was united in marriage to Miss Mary Snider, of
Clarke county, and they have five children: Stella, now Mrs. Herman Stutz,
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of Vancouver; Rosie, now the wife of Orvis Wright, of Vancouver; William,
Nellie and Birch, all at home. Mr. David, while giving his attention largely
to his farming interests, yet finds time and opportunity to support the measures
and movements instituted for the benefit of the section in which he lives. The
cause of education finds in him a warm friend and he is now serving as school
director. He has a wide acquaintance in this county where almost his entire
life has been passed, and that his circle of friends is almost coextensive with
the circle of his acquaintance indicates that his record has at all times been
upright and honorable.
THOMAS BURKE.
The year 1852 witnessed the arrival of a larger number of settlers in the
northwest than did any other year in pioneer times, and among the number were
those who bore a very active and helpful part in shaping the history of Oregon
and developing the splendid natural resources of this section of the country.
Thomas Burke was one who in that year became a resident of Portland.
He was a native of Ireland, born in Dingle, County Kerry, October 25, 1818,
and was a son of Tobias and Bridget (McEgan) Burke, who spent their entire
lives on the Emerald isle, where they passed away many years ago. Thomas
Burke acquired his education in his native country and when a young man came
to America in the year 1845 ^^^ '^^as admitted to citizenship August 2, 1850.
He did not remain long on the seacoast but made his way at once into the
interior of the country, settling at St. Louis, Misouri, where he turned his
attention to steamboating on the Mississippi river. He followed that pursuit
until he started for the far west.
He was married in 185 1 in St. Louis to Miss Mary A. Devlin, who was born
March 17, 1827, in County Derry, Ireland, and in the latter part of March, 1852,
they started for the plains of the northwest. Mr. Burke had heard favorable
reports concerning this country and its opportunities and he resolved to seek
his fortune therefore on the Pacific coast. He reached Oregon after a trip of
six months over the prairies of the Mississippi valley, the arid plains farther west
and the high mountain ranges of the Rockies and the Cascades. The trip was a
long and wearisome one, for the slow plodding oxen covered only a few miles
each day. At length the entire distance was traversed and coming to the little
city of Portland, Mr. Burke on the 31st of December, 1852, purchased two lots
on the corner of Salmon and Seventh streets, where the family took up their
abode in the spring of 1853. -^^ was employed by various concerns for several
years after his arrival.
In the winter of 1855-6 the Columbia river being frozen over, Mr. Burke
carried the mail on foot from Portland to The Dalles and return. This was a
thrilling experience, for he encountered many dangers. He was chosen for
this position on account of his upright character. With the money earned from
this he bought two lots on the corner of Seventh and Main streets, giving him
ownership of a half a block. These w^ere purchased, according to the deeds, in
February, 1856. The ownership still rests with his heirs.
Mr, Burke was long connected with the police department of Portland. He
was appointed in 1870, remaining in that position for seven years wearing star
No. I. His official record was at all times creditable. He stood as a defender
of law and order, which must ever predominate in a community if it is to be a
desirable place of residence. He was ever most loyal to the duties that devolved
upon him and his faithfulness won him advancement in the ranks of the depart-
ment. During the period of incumbency as an officer he was never late but once
and that was due to a faulty alarm clock.
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Seven children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Burke, of whom two died in
infancy. A son, John Burke, who was born February 7, 1852, in St. Louis,
Missouri, died July 7, 1907. He was brought as a babe in arms across the
plains to Portland by his parents and began life as a newsboy, selling the
Oregonian and other papers. He afterward learned the plumbing trade and
was in that business for many years, but at length gave up that line to engage in
the street contracting business. He retired in 1897, spending the succeeding
ten years in the enjoyment of well earned rest. He was one of the leading
members of the volunteer fire department and was also active in politics but was
never an aspirant for office. He gained considerable prosperity through his
well directed business afifairs and was a man of affluence at one time in his career.
The next child was Margaret E. Burke, who was born March 15, 1854, in Port-
land, and is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy. She is now the wife of Elisha
F. Humason, of Spokane, Washington. They were married November 24, 1878,
and are the parents of seven children, all of whom are living. Henry Burke,
the next member of the family, born in Portland, November 17, 1857, is a lather
by trad-e and resides with his sister at No. 334 Salmon street. Mary A. Burke,
was born in Portland, November 2, 1861, and now resides at the old family home.
[Agnes J., born August 30, 1865, died May 9, 1900. All of the children were
born and reared at the corner of Seventh and Salmon steets, with the exception
of John, the eldest child. All were given good public-school educations and
afterward had the benefit of convent instruction.
In his political views Mr. Burke was always an earnest democrat, loyal to
the party and its principles. His religious faith was with the Roman Catholic
church. He was widely and favorably known iti Portland, having many warm
friends here. He was never identified with any clubs or societies with the
exception of the United Irishmen, a prominent organization. One of the rules
of his honorable life was never to speak ill of anyone. .He had a host of friends
that loved him for his open, frank, genial nature. He was above all quiet and
unassuming and always was a most hospitable host. His death occurred May
10, 1879.
His wiie survived him until October i, 1886, and passed away at the age of
sixty years. She will long be remembered for her wit and humor. She was a
quick, shrewd observer and was known all over Portland in this connection.
Moreover, she was a very charitable woman and always ready to assist in times
of sickness and death. As the head of the family she practiced close economy.
At her death one of the local papers said : "Mrs. Burke was one of the pioneer
residents of Portland and the news of her demise deeply moved the heart of
many an old resident who had learned to love and respect her for her amiable
and noble traits of character." In 1852 she crossed the plains with her husband
and infant son, reaching Oregon after a journey of six months over arid wastes
and rugged mountains. Portland was but a little pioneer settlement at the time
and Mr. and Mrs. Burke built a home on the present corner of Seventh and
Salmon streets, then on the fringe of a thick forest. There Mrs. Burke resided
up to the time of her death and she always cherished a tender regard for the
locality. During all her years of residence she took a deep interest in everything
pertaining to the welfare of the city. She was bright, quick-witted and intelli-
gent, and her ready but kindly powers of repartee were widely known. She had
a kind and generous heart and was ever ready to assist the poor and distressed
without any show or ostentation. She was a devout and earnest Catholic and
was especially active in collecting for Catholic charities. She had also a sincere
love for the land of her birth and took a lively interest in everything aflfecting
the condition of Ireland. She passed quietly away, the last sleep stealing over
her senses as gradually as the somber shadows of night steal over the light of
day, and when death closed her eyes with his icy touch she left behind the
memories that always shed a halo around a good and noble character. The
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entire family have always been active in the affairs of the Roman Catholic
church and have always been identified with the growth and development of
Portland, in which every member of the household has taken a helpful and
active interest.
JACOB T. HUNSAKER.
With those "first things" which mark the beginnings of history, which are
in fact the vanguard of an advancing civilization, Jacob T. Hunsaker was closely
connected, for he became a resident of this section of the country in 1846. Port-
land practically had no existence at that time but Oregon City had its little
band of enterprising residents and a few venturesome spirits were located in
the Columbia and Willamette river valleys, yet on the whole this section was
a great unclaimed, unsettled and unimproved district. Mr. Hunsaker was of
Swiss ancestry and was born in southern Illinois, July 20, 1818.
On the 7th of December, 1837, he was married to Miss Emily Margaret Col-
lings of the old Collings family of Kentucky. Her mother was a representative
of the Burdett family of Virginia and both her paternal and maternal grand-
fathers were soldiers of the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Hunsaker was born near
Louisville, Kentucky, October 3, 1820, and ere the start was made for the north-
west, she had become the mother of five children. A belief that superior ad-
vantages might be enjoyed in that section of the country led the family in 1846
to bid farewell — a tearful one it was — to friends and relatives in Illinois and
start upon the long, wearisome march to Oregon, Mrs. Hunsaker driving a
team hitched to a light wagon, in which were the children, while the bedding
and cooking outfit were also packed therein. The parents being anxious to get
through and establish their home, left their ox team and wagon in charge of
their man and pushed on ahead of the train over the Barlow road. They were
the first to come thus directly over past Oregon City to the Molalla prairie,
where Mr. Hunsaker soon put in a crop. He also aided in building the school-
house in that district and thus planted the seeds of educational progress there.
Another child was born to them while the parents were living in that district.
Later Mr. Hunsaker went down the Columbia river to look up a site for a
sawmill which he finally located at a point on Milton creek, near where the town
of St. Helen's now stands. When the mill was completed he removed his
family to that location. It was a needed industry and he found immediate
market for the product of the mill. Ships coming from California bought his
lumber and so eager were they that they would have torn down the mill to
secure more had they been permitted. When they left not a loose stick or slab
could be found anywhere. Mr. Hunsaker received a splendid price for the
lumber and a few months later also disposed of his mill at a high figure. His
purpose in selling out was to go to a district where educational opportunities
could be secured for the children. A huge raft was built by lashing together
piles of lumber and lumber was also piled on all sides for protection. On this
the family embarked and with sail and oar worked their way to Oregon City,
where schools had been established. The three older girls were placed in the
Sisters School and the son became a pupil of Mary Johnson, who had been
placed in charge of the school in the first Baptist church built west of the Rocky
Mountains — a school from which has been developed the present McMinnville
College. Soon Mr. Hunsaker built another sawmill, which he erected on the
Washougal river near the present site of LaCamas. A terrible forest fire drove
them from their Washougal mill and, in October, 1849, they returned to Oregon
City, where they purchased a place near the Clackamas river, where the family
home was maintained through the succeeding forty years. While there residing
six more children were added to the family and there the two oldest, Horton
and Josephine, died in 1853.
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While Mr. Hunsaker devoted much attention to his business interests and
met with substantial success therein, he was also connected with many of the
early events which have left their impress upon the pages of history. He was
one of the jury impaneled to try the Indians who participated in the famous
Whitman massacre and hung the jury for sometime, believing that there was
not sufficient evidence to convict a certain Indian. His political support was
given to the whig party until its dissolution and he acted as chairman of the
meeting at which the republican party of this district was organized in Oregon
City. However, he never took a prominent part in politics.
In 1874 the family were called upon to mourn the loss of wife and mother,
who died very suddenly on the 14th of January. She had many noble, heroic,
self-sacrificing quaHties and at the burial services Dr. Achinson said of her:
" 'She hath done what she could.' Only for her help and hearty cooperation,
her cheer and encouraging words, I should have been utterly discouraged in
the attempt to raise means for the building of the Young Ladies' Seminary."
All who knew her expressed the same opinion of her splendid qualities. After
the death of his first wife, Mr. Hunsaker was never satisfied with the old home
and thereafter removed to a farm which he purchased near Woodburn, there
passing away on the 20th of August, 1889.
They reared a large family and several of their children have taken an
active part in the public life and business development of this section of the
country. The oldest of their living children is Marianne, who became the
wife of A. C. Edmunds, a Universalist minister from California, whose grand-
father and uncles were soldiers of the war for Independence. He died in 1878.
Their only daughter, Emily Coryell, became the wife of I. C. Sanford, who
was descended in both the paternal and maternal lines from those who fought
with the American army in the Revolutionary war. At the present time, Mr.
and Mrs. Sanford are living in Portland and have tv^^o children, Dorothy and
Harold. Mrs. Edmunds married a second time, becoming the wife of J. F.
D'Arcy, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and a lawyer by profession. She
had one son by this marriage, Francis, who is a graduate of the law depart-
ment of the University of Oregon and is now living with his mother in Portland,
Araminta Hunsaker became the wife of Theodore Burminster, a German by
birth and at that time a young law student. She met a sad and tragic death near
Boise, Idaho. She had one son, Frank Theodore, who lives in Salt Lake City,
and has a large family of children.
Jacob Hunsaker married Lizzie V., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cham-
bers, of Chambers Prairie, who were pioneers of Oregon and Washington. They
have four children : Lloyd, residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico ; Hallie, Cassie
and Margaret, all living in Everett, where the family have made their home for
a number of years.
Sarah Hunsaker, the first child born after the arrival of the family in Oregon,
was married to J. Tompkins, the eldest son of D. D. Tompkins, a pioneer of
1847, whose ancestors were represented in the Revolutionary war. They have
six children : Daniel D., Jacob, Forbes Barclay and Morton, all of whom are
married; and Emily and Verna, who are living with their parents near Salem,
Oregon.
Lycurgus Hunsaker, who was born in 1849, soon after the family settled on
the home place near the Clackamas, married Lilly, a daughter of Mr. Learn,
an Oregon pioneer.
Nancy Katherine became the wife of H. B. Nicholas, an attorney and a son
of Peter Marks Nicholas, a member of the old Virginia family of that name, whose
mother was a niece of President Thomas Jefferson. The eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Nicholas is Byron Randolph Nicholas, who married Nancy Voorhies,
of Kentucky, and they have one son, John Voorhies III. Their only daughter,
Beulah, is the wife of Francis Phillips Hallinan. Two other sons, Wilson Cary
and Robert Winn, are living with their parents in Portland.
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Caroline Hunsaker married Frank E. Arnold, a native of Boston, and a
representative of an old colonial family. For a number of years they have
resided in Portland and have seven children, Ruth, Carolyn Kellogg, Emmons,
Alice Frances, Sam and Josie. All are still at home w^ith the exception of Ruth,
who is now the wife of Dr. Wardell, of Seattle.
Alice Hunsaker is the wife of Charles Oster, a farmer of eastern Oregon,
and they have three children, Winnefred, Margaret and Charles Jacob, all living
at home near Heppner.
Emily Jane Hunsaker is the wife of Ernest P. Waite, of Maine, whose fore-
fathers for many years have been sea captains. Mr. and Mrs. Waite are now
living in Eureka, California.
John Hunsaker, the youngest member of the family, is unmarried and lives
in California.
CHARLES A. WILLIAMS.
Charles A. Williams is now living retired in Gladstone. A native of Ver-
mont, he was born in Orange county on the 28th of August, 1844, and repre-
sents one of the old New England families founded in America during colonial
days. His grandfather, Asahel Williams, served in the Continental line all
during the Revolutionary war. He was captured at the battle of Long Island,
New York, and was held as a prisoner of war for about eight months. He
lived for some time, however, to enjoy the fruits of liberty which his efforts had
aided in bringing to the colonies dying in 1840. The parents of Charles A.
Williams were Asahel and Louise (Johnson) Williams, and in their home he
spent his youthful days, pursuing his education in the public schools. A few
days before the twentieth anniversary of his birth he enlisted for service in
the Civil war, being enrolled at Springfield, Vermont, on the loth day of August,
1864, as a private of Company I, Ninth Vermont Volunteer Infantry. The
company was commanded by Captain Eugene Viele and the regiment by Colonel
Edward H. Ripley. He joined this command before the battle at Chapins
Farm, in which he participated. He was also in the battle of Williamsburg
Road, was present at the fall of Richmond and was in a number of minor en-
gagements and skirmishes. He remained with the command until after the fall
of the Confederacy, and was honorably discharged on the 13th day of June,
1865, under general orders of the war department.
Following the close of hostilities Mr. Williams went to Massachusetts, where
he remained for a short time, and then returned to his parents home in Ver-
mont, living with them up to the time of his marriage, which was celebrated
in Franklin, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, on the 21st of October, 1875,
the lady of his choice being Miss Laura A. Haynes, a daughter of Clark and
Mary A. Haynes, who were natives of the Old Granite state and were descended
from Puritan ancestry. Her brother, Ervin W. Haynes, served during the Civil
war with the First New Hampshire Infantry and with the Second United States
Sharpshooters.
At the time of his marriage Mr. Williams was employed by the Howe Scale
Company at Brandon, Vermont, where he remained until 1878, when he went
to Kansas and secured a homestead claim which he occupied and cultivated for
five years. In 1883, however, he returned to New Hampshire and was there
employed in the woolen mills. In 1888 he went to the territory of Washington,
settling at Sidney, now Port Orchard. There he engaged in the lumber busi-
ness until the fall of 1890, when he became a resident of Oregon City, where
he lived until 1893. During that period he was employed in the woolen mills.
Seventeen years ago he came to Gladstone, where he has since made his home,
and at the present time he is living retired.
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In 1907 Mr. Williams was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who
died on the 12th of December. She was a consistent member of the Methodist
church and was also an active and honored member of Lincoln-Garfield Corps,
No. 19, W. R. C, and of the United Artisans. Her many good traits of heart
and mind won her the esteem and love of all who know her, so that her death
was deeply regretted by many friends as well as her immediate family. She
left two sons, William A. and Clark H., who are still residing with their father.
Mr. Williams maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through
his membership in Sumner Post, No. 12, G. A. R. He has filled all the offices
in other posts and was commander of Meade Post, No. 2, at Oregon City. He
was assistant adjutant general and assistant quartermaster general of the depart-
ment of Oregon for 1909, serving for three terms in that position. He has also
been aid-de-camp to the department commander of Oregon and his ancestry is
indicated by the fact that he is a member of the Pilgrim Fathers' Society. His
political allegiance has always been given to the republican party which stood as
the defense of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war and has always
been the party of reform and progress. His religious faith is that of the Meth-
odist church and his life has been in consistent harmony therewith. In matters
of citizenship he is as true and loyal to his country today as when he followed
the old flag upon the battle fields of the south.
RICHARD L. ZELLER.
Richard L. Zeller, an architect and builder, well known in Portland as a
member of the firm of Stokes & Zeller, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio,
March 23, 1859. His parents were Adam and Susan Zeller, the former a native
of Pennsylvania and the latter of Indiana. The father was a millwright and
builder and his son Richard L. early became his assistant. The family remained
residents of Montgomery county, Ohio, until 187 1, when they removed to St.
Elmo, Fayette county, Illinois, where they resided until 1879.
Richard L. Zeller was a lad of twelve years at the time the family home
was established in Illinois, and there in the public schools he continued his educa-
tion which had been begun in the public schools of Ohio. When about eighteen
years of age he began learning the trade of a builder and in the years which
have since come and gone has established himself in a prominent position as an
architect and contractor. He remained in Illinois until the fall of 1879, when
he went to Texas where he carried on business for about a year. In 1880, how-
ever, he returned to Illinois, where he spent another year, and then again sought
a home in the southwest, making his way to New Mexico, where he remained
from 1 88 1 until the spring of 1883.
It was on the latter date that Mr. Zeller came to Portland, having made his
home here continuously since April, 1883. He has been engaged in building
operations and throughout the entire period has been a partner of William R.
Stokes, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. One of the first
buildings which they erected was the old Williams avenue schoolhouse which
has recently been torn down to make way for a business block. A quarter of
a century or more ago they erected the Ladd residence in Laurelhurst, and they
have always specialized in the building of residences and apartment houses, hav-
ing taken the contracts for the erection of some of Portland's finest homes. They
have also done work in various other parts of the state, were the builders of the
Soldiers Home at Roseburg and have erected schoolhouses and other buildings
in Baker City, Pendleton, Heppner, Oregon City and Astoria. Their contracts
are numerous and their execution makes constant demand upon the time and
energies of Mr. Zeller, whose success has been the legitimate outcome of his
earnest and well directed efiforts.
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In 1909 occurred the marriage of Richard L. Zeller and Mrs. Martha A.
Webb, a daughter of Mrs. Barbara Hart. Mrs. Zeller is a native of the state of
New York and is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Zeller votes with the
republican party which he has supported continuously since age conferred upon
him the right of franchise. After living at various places in the middle west and
in the southwest, he feels fully contented to make his home upon the Pacific
coast, being appreciative of the opportunities of this great and growing western
country whose natural resources have not yet been exhausted and whose ad-
vantages are seemingly limitless.
HON. PETER HOBKIRK.
Hon. Peter Hobkirk was a resident of Portland for thirty-one years. The
memories of youth took him back to Scotland, those of early manhood to Eng-
land and Ireland. Thus he became largely familiar with different sections of
Great Britain. He was born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, on the i6th
of March, 1841, a son of Peter and Katherine (Robertson) Hobkirk, his father
having been one of the employes in a woolen mill. He remained a resident of the
land of hills and heather, of mountain crag and plain until he had attained his
majority. He then went to Edinburgh, where he remained for three months,
next residing in Liverpool for more than a year, after which he located in
Dublin. From that city he proceeded to London, where he worked for about
four months and from there embarked for New York. He had learned the car-
penter's trade in Scotland and followed it in all the different places he lived while
in Great Britain.
It was in 1864 that Peter Hobkirk crossed the Atlantic to America, reaching
New York on the 3d of August. Going at once to Massachusetts, he settled in Berk-
shire county, near Lenox, but in the following January left there for New York
city and on the 20th of January embarked for California. He continued a resi-
dent of San Francisco until 1879, following the carpenter's trade throughout
that period of fifteen years, after which he made his way northward to Oregon
and was connected with building operations here until 1881. He next located in
Tacoma, Washington, where he remained for eight months, after which he re-
turned to Salem, where he continued until 1884. During that period he worked
at the insane asylum and upon other important buildings of the city. In April,
1884, he went to Spokane, where he resided until the following November and
then took up his abode in Portland, where he has since resided. During a
part of the time he had worked at his trade in the employ of others and during
the remainder of the period had followed contracting. In 1885 he formed
a partnership with John McKenzie, which continued for about ten years. He
was the builder of the large Exposition building on Washington street that was
destroyed by fire in July, 1910. He was also the builder of the Worcester, the
predecessor of the building of that name, that is today one of the substantial
blocks of Portland. This he erected for Mr. Corbett. He also erected the Hill
House for Mr. Ladd on Twelfth and Morrison streets and also the Hill House
for H. H. Northrop at Twelfth and Jefferson streets. He had the contract for
the wood work of the Congregational church, also of the Sherlock block, and
erected a number of schoolhouses. Up to the time of his death, which occurred
January 7, 191 1, he was still actively engaged in contracting and building and he
also derived a substantial income from several valuable properties which he
owned in South Portland. He was president of the Alaska Coal Oil Company,
operating wells at Katala, Alaska, and was interested in various mining prop-
erties.
On the 1st of July, 1869, Mr. Hobkirk was married to Miss Maria Warner,
a native of Montreal, Canada, and a daughter of Robert and Hannah (Dawson)
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Warner, who were of English birth. Mr. and Mrs. Hobkirk became the parents
of five children, of whom Eva Swanston died at the age of eleven months. The
others are: Hannah M., the wife of D. L. Povey; Lillian E. ; Flora S., the wife
of Nicholas F. Sullivan, of Walla Walla, Washington ; and Frederick P., a metal
worker living in Portland.
Mr. Hobkirk was a member of the Episcopal church and his wife of the
Presbyterian church. After becoming a naturalized American citizen he gave
his political support to the republican party and in 1898 became a member of the
state legislature, serving for a term of two years. During an extra session of
the legislature, called for the purpose of electing the United States senator in
1898, Joseph Simon, was chosen for the position. He was a York and Scottish
Rite Mason, having attained the Knights Templar and thirty-second degrees.
He also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
and he met in fraternal intercourse with the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. His chief recreation was hunting and fishing. His success was undoubtedly
attributable in large measure to the fact that he always continued in the line of
business in which he embarked as a young tradesman. His early training was
thorough and practical and thus he developed ability which carried him into im-
portant relations with the business, making him one of the successful representa-
tives of his line in Portland. In matters of citizenship he was deeply interested
and though his office holding was confined to a term in the legislature and one
term of two years in the city council by reason of the extent and importance of
his business affairs, he was always ready to assist any measure or movement
which he deemed of real benefit to the community.
ASA A. McCULLY.
It is an old saying that "The boy is father to the man." It is nevertheless
true that youth usually determines the character of age. Asa A. McCuUy early
displayed qualities which marked his entire life. His laudable ambition and
desire for improvement were shown in the earnest efforts which he put forth
to secure an education when the opportunities of attending school were largely
denied him. Throughout his entire life he never waited, Micawber-like, for
something to turn up, but made his opportunity and utilized it to the fullest ad-
vantage. At the same time he always recognized the rights of others and his
obligations to his fellowmen.
In far off New Brunswick Asa A. McCully was born, being a native of the
city of St. Johns. His life history had its beginning on the 31st of January,
1818, and was ended August 12, 1886. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McCully,
were of Scotch-Irish lineage and during the early childhood of their son Asa
removed to Ohio, settling in Henry county. Soon afterward, however, they
traveled still farther westward, taking up their abode at Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
where they lived for many years. The father engaged in farming in that locality
up to the time of his death, and was numbered among the respected and valued
citizens of the community.
Asa A. McCully was a pupil in the various schools which he was able to at-
tend as his father removed from place to place. His educational privileges,
however, were somewhat limited, yet he became a thoroughly well informed
man by private reading, study and investigation. By experience, too, he learned
many valuable lessons of life. He became a practical man of affairs. In con-
nection with his brother David, he opened a store at Mount Pleasant which they
conducted until 1852, when they came to Oregon. In 1849, however, Asa A.
McCully had made the trip to California, attracted by the gold discoveries, and
for about a year remained in the mines. He did not meet with the success that
he had anticipated, however, and accordingly returned to Mount Pleasant, but
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having decided to locate permanently in the west, he disposed of his business
interests in Iowa and came by the ox team route over the plains to the Pacific
northwest. He was accompanied by his brother David and his family, also by
Dr. John Samuel and William H. McCully, all of whom were married with
the exception of William. It required about five months to reach Oregon, for
the slow plodding oxen, drawing their heavily ladened wagons, covered only a
few miles each day. In August, 1852, they located in Linn county, each of the
brothers taking up claims of six hundred and forty acres. There they founded
the town now called Harrisburg, although it was originally named Thurston in
honor of Senator Thurston. The land was all prairie and upon his place Asa
A. McCully built a log cabin. In 1853 ^^ returned to Iowa to get a drove of
cattle. On the return trip he was elected captain of the wagon train, leaving St.
Joseph, Missouri, with a large party. The trip was one of hardships, but
eventually they reached Harrisburg and Mr. McCully pastured his cattle upon
his claim. He served as the first postmaster of the town and in connection with
his brother David conducted the first mercantile establishment there. In 1863,
however, he removed to Salem, Oregon, with his family, in order to give his
children better educational privileges. He conducted a store in Salem and was
also connected with the Peoples Transportation Company, being one of its
largest stockholders and its president for a number of years. He extended his
business activities to other fields and became president of the Capital National
Bank. His judgment was sound, his enterprise unfaltering, and his successfully
executed plans were wisely carried out, bringing substantial success. He con-
tinued in business in Salem until his death, which was occasioned by the kick of
a horse while he was on his farm in Yamhill county, on the 12th of August,
1886. His remains were taken back to Salem for interment.
On the 5th of September, 1848, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Mr. McCully had
been married to Miss Hannah K. Waters, a daughter of William Waters. Mrs.
McCully was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, April 25, 1828, and passed away on the
1st of "August, 1905, her grave being made by her husband's side in Salem,
Oregon. She was the mother of four children. Alice M., the eldest, became
the wife of William B. Crane, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 26,
1835. He came west during the war and located in Portland, but afterward
went to Idaho, where he followed mining. Subsequently he became a resident
of San Francisco, where he was agent for the New York Life Insurance Com-
pany, remaining there until his death, which occurred in 1878, his remains be-
ing brought back to Salem, Oregon, for interment. On the 8th of December,
1871, in Portland, he had wedded Alice M. McCully and they became the par-
ents of three children, of whom Dr. Clarence Crane, of Boston, is the eldest.
He married Miss Stella Howard and they have two children, Calista and Will-
iam. Dr. Crane is a graduate of the Boston University of Medicine and is
surgeon in a hospital of that city. Ethel L. Crane became the wife of P. P.
Dabney, of Portland, and they have a daughter, Alice M. William B. Crane,
of Portland, married LilHan Lewis and they have two children, Walton B. and
Ethel L. Linnie M. McCully, who was born in Oregon, was married at Salem,
November 8, 1877, to Allen B. Crossman, of Portland, who was born in Harris-
burg, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1846. Coming west in 1863, he located at Salem,
where he engaged in merchandising for a number of years, but is now engaged
in the timber land business in Portland. He served as postmaster in Salem and
filled the same position in Portland for five years. Unto him and his wife have
been born three children. Alice L. is the wife of William W. Harder and they
have an adopted daughter Helen. Lillian, of New York city, is an opera singer,
and Allen B. died at the age of nineteen years. John D. McCully is the owner
of a large, fine apple ranch at Hood River, Oregon. He married Lillian Patten,
whose father was a pioneer settler of this state, and they have two children,
Eula F. and Russell A. A. L. McCully, the youngest of the family, is in the
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railway mail service. He married Ella Dearborn and they have one child,
Sarah.
Mr. McCully was a citizen of considerable prominence in Salem, not only
by reason of the extent and importance of his business interests but also by
reason of his activity in republican circles and his stalwart support of what he
believed to be for the best interests of the community. He was serving as a
member of the city council of Salem at the time of his death, and about 1863
he was sent as a representative from Linn county to the state legislature. He
was a warm personal admirer of Abraham Lincoln and was ever a stalwart
advocate of republican principles. His fraternal relations were with the Masons
and he was an exemplary member of the craft, which is based upon a belief in
the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Oregon has reason to rec-
ognize the worth of his work, for at all times his labors were an element in
public progress as well as a source of individual success.
JOHN MATTHIESEN.
John Matthiesen, proprietor of the Hotel Matthiesen at the corner of Madi-
son and Front streets in Portland, has been conducting this hotel since 1905,
but long prior to that date became a factor in the hotel life of the city, having
previously been proprietor of the Hotel Zur Rheinpfaltz at the southwest cor-
ner of Front and Madison streets. As the name indicates, he is of German
lineage. He was born in the northern part of Germany February 3d, 1857, ^^^
was there reared to the age of sixteen years when he came to America, settling
first in Clinton, Iowa, where he took up farming. He made the journey to the
new world with his brother Thomas, who remained a resident of Iowa, but in
1878 John Matthiesen continued his westward journey to San Francisco. There
having become a cook, he followed this work continuously until he arrived in
Oregon, where he took up a homestead on the Tualitin river, eighteen miles
from Portland.
He devoted the succeeding two years to farming when his funds became
exhausted, and writing to his brother Thomas, the latter came from Iowa and
purchased the claim. John Matthiesen then removed to Portland and worked
in different hotels until 1887, when he established the old Hotel Rheinpfaltz at
the corner of Front and Main streets. This was a little two story brick struc-
ture, adequate however, to the demands of a city which in size and population
bore little resemblance to the Portland of today. In 1890 he removed to the
northwest corner of Front and Madison streets and in 1895 established the
Hotel Matthiesen. He also owns the Harrison Hotel at the corner of Front
and Harrison, which he leases. Success has attended his efforts during his
residence in Portland, and has resulted from his close application, his unfalter-
ing energy and his determination. As the years have passed he has steadily
progressed toward the goal of prosperity. In 1891 he returned to the father-
land for a visit, accompanied by his family, and spent five months in Europe,
not only visiting his birthplace and the scenes of his youth, but also many
points of interest in the old world.
Mr. Matthiesen was married in Portland in 1883 to Miss Albina Hoehler,
and unto them were born two children, Edward and William. The wife and
mother died in 1895, and in 1898 Mr. Matthiesen married Miss Meta Winters.
They have one son, Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Matthiesen and his son Edward
have recently returned from a motor trip in Europe. Mr. Matthiesen is an
enthusiast on the subject of motoring, and is the owner of three high grade cars.
He and his wife and son William are all members of the Portland Automobile
Club and Mr. Matthiesen also belongs to the Arion Singing Society, to the
German Aid Society and the Knights of Pythias fraternity — associations which
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indicate much of the nature of his interests. He is never neglectful^ of the
duties of citizenship and cooperates heartily in the movements of the Chamber
of Commerce for the benefit and upbuilding of Portland. His political allegi-
ance is given to the republican party. He has been honored with offices in sev-
eral of the societies to which he belongs and is a citizen of whom Portland is
proud because of what he has accomplished.
His life has been characterized by steady advancement. His youth was
passed amid most unfavorable circumstances. The financial conditions at home
were those of poverty and at the age of nine years he faced the necessity of
providing for his own support. His educational opportunities were limited to
one or two months' attendance at the district schools during the winter seasons,
but after he was nine or ten years of age this privilege was denied him, owing
to the necessities of the case. He worked upon farms in the neighborhood of
his home and the last year of his service in Germany brought him only six dol-
lars and a suit of clothes. It is no wonder then that he desired the opportun-
ities of the new world and was buoyed up with the hope that he might find bet-
ter conditions in this country. While success is not to be had for the asking in
America, he early learned that "labor is king" in this country, and closely ap-
plying himself to whatever task came to his hand he has gradually climbed the
ladder of success until he now stands among Portland's men of affluence.
JAMES THOMAS BARRON.
James Thomas Barron, president and general manager of the Thlinket Pack-
ing Company, has been actively associated with Portland's commercial interests
continuously since 1887. He was born at Cleveland, Ohio, July 8, 1858. His
father, James Barron, born in 1828, was a native of Clonmel, County Tipperary,
Ireland, and came to America when six years of age. After entering business
life he owned and operated for a time boats on the Erie canal and also engaged
in the ship chandler business at Cleveland, Ohio. In the early '60s he came to
the Pacific coast, locating in San Francisco, where he was identified with the
steamship and warehouse business for many years as owner of steamships and
an extensive system of warehouses, and was prominent in transportation inter-
ests. He was married in Detroit, Michigan, in 1852, to Agnes Myler, a daughter
of Andrew Myler. She was a native of County Wexford, Ireland, where she
was born in 1834, coming to America when but three years of age. Mr. and
Mrs. Barron became the parents of eight children, two sons and six daughters,
seven of whom survive. The father died in San Francisco, November 28, 1890,
while the mother survived him twenty years, her death occurring February, 1910.
James Thomas Barron was educated in the public schools of San Francisco,
and St. Mary's and Santa Clara Colleges. After leaving school he began as an
accountant with a San Francisco mercantile establishment, where he remained
for a short time, when he went to Santa Barbara to engage on his own account
in the apiary business and later became largely interested in real estate.
In 1887, on coming to Portland, he accepted a position as accountant with
Park & Lacy, dealers in machinery, and continued in that connection for two
years. He was next appointed chief clerk of the thirteenth light house district,
serving in that capacity until his resignation in 1893 to accept the dual office of
cashier and secretary of the newly organized Hibernia Savings Bank, and he was
largely instrumental in bringing it safely through the financial panic of that
time. The following seven years were devoted to the interests of this institu-
tion, which was developed during the period into one of Portland's soundest
financial organizations.
In 1899 Mr. Barron began in the salmon packing business, organizing the
Thlinket Packing Company, of which he became president and general manager
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and of which he is the chief owner. The company operates in Alaska and has
become the largest independent operator in Alaskan waters, the annual pack
aggregating about one hundred and twenty thousand cases, representing a total
value of over one-half million of dollars. Mr. Barron spends a large part of
each season in Alaska, giving the business his personal supervision, and the com-
pany's splendid success is due largely to his executive ability and energetic
management. Portland receives the direct benefit of over two hundred thousand
dollars worth of business annually, largely for labor, supplies, etc.
Mr. Barron is still largely interested as a stockholder in the Hibernia Sav-
ings Bank. Politically, he is a democrat where national issues are involved but
locally gives his support to the individual he deems best equipped to conserve
the city's interests. He is a member of Dominican Catholic church, is a mem-
ber of the Knights of Columbus, the United Artisans, the Arlington Club and
the Commercial Club, taking an especially active interest in the projects of the
latter organization for the development of Portland's commercial interests.
In July, 1890, Mr. Barron was united in marriage to Elizabeth Nixon, and
they have two children, Anna Maria and Robert J. The family residence is at
634 Wasco street. Mrs. Barron is the daughter of Robert and Anna (Hogan)
Nixon, both natives of Ireland, who came to America in childhood and were
married in Massachusetts. Robert Nixon was killed while serving with a New
Hampshire Volunteer Regiment in the Civil war. Mrs. Nixon still survives and
resides with Mr. Barron in Portland.
Genial, generous, prosperous Mr. Barron has through sheer ability achieved
a most gratifying success and has earned a most enviable place in both the busi-
ness and social circles of the metropolis of the northwest.
OTTO KLEEMANN.
Otto Kleemann, an architect and builder, whose training came to him through
the instruction of men prominent in the profession in Germany, and who, in
his business career has given ample proof of his own skill and ability, has been
a resident of Portland since September, 1880, at which time he left California to
become a resident of Oregon. He was born in Ostrowo, Germany, March 13,
1855, and pursued his education in common schools there, while later he attended
a technical school at Holzminden, and also a college in his native town. He
received his diploma in recognition of the highest standing in scholarship made
by any student in the college in twenty-five years. He began his education when
not quite four and one half years of age, and had completed his school life
when sixteen years of age. He then came to America, crossing the Atlantic in
September, 1871, and making his way to San Francisco by way of the isthmus
of Panama. He was unacquainted with the language and customs of the Ameri-
can people and at first it was difficult to get steady work, but later was employed
by several architects and spent nine years in California.
On the expiration of that period Mr. Kleemann came to Portland, arriving
here in September, 1880, at which time he became a draftsman in the employ of
the firm of Clark & Upton, with whom he remained for several months. He
was afterward employed by Justus Krumbein, an architect, with whom he con-
tinued for several months, when in his professional capacity he became con-
nected with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, continuing there-
with for thirteen months. During that time he was associated with the work
of building their shops at Albina, and later he embarked in business on his own
account. This was the year 1882, and through the intervening period to the
present time his has been a very busy and useful life, for he rapidly worked his
way upward in his profession. He has done much railroad work, even after
leaving the employ of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, and al-
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though not a Catholic in reHgious faith, he has been awarded the contract for
erecting nearly all of the Catholic churches that have been built in Portland since
his arrival. He has also put up many fine residences, which are a monument to
his skill, ability and progressive spirit. He erected the monastery at Mt. Angel,
has also built many convents, and has done much important work for the different
Catholic organizations, his promptness in executing contracts and the reliability
of his workmanship bringing to him the extensive patronage which is accorded
him.
In 1877 Mr. Kleemann was married in San Francisco to Miss Anna Gehlich,
and they now have two living children, Hugh, a mechanical draftsman in the
electrical engineering department of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
and Qara, the wife of Peter L. Cover, by whom she has one child, Carl. The
son is also married. Mr. and Mrs. Kleemann lost another son, William, who
was drowned at Newport while bathing in the Pacific Ocean in 1904, when
twenty-three years of age.
Mr. Kleemann is the grand adjutant of the Indian War Veterans of the
North Pacific Coast, and has occupied the position continuously since 1895. He
is also regent of Multnomah Council No. 1481 Royal Arcanum ; is president of
the Consolidation of German Speaking Societies of Oregon; is a life member
of the German Aid Society; and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is
interested in different organizations which have for their object the benefit of
mankind, and thus has become identified with societies which recognize the
truth of universal brotherhood. His life record has been a credit to the land of
his birth and the land of his adoption. He feels that he made no mistake in com-
ing to America in early manhood, for he here found the business opportunities
which he sought, and which in time have brought him to a prominent position
in professional circles. His ability enables him to speak with authority upon
many subjects connected with the profession of architecture.
CARL GRITZMACHER.
Carl Gritzmacher has been a resident of Portland for over forty years and
although formerly closely identified with business affairs and public interests,
is now living retired. He was born in Prussia, Germany, near Berlin, on the
15th of January, 1848, and is a son of August and Henrietta Gritzmacher.
The mother died in Germany and the father spent his last years in Illinois
where he had carried on business as a contractor.
Carl Gritzmacher began his education in the schools of Germany, but when
eleven years of age came to the United States with his father, brothers and
sisters. They landed at New York and at once resumed their westward jour-
ney with Chicago as their destination and the father there took up the busi-
ness of contracting and building. He was influenced in his choice of a location
by the fact that his brother Carl was residing there. Later the family removed
to a farm in the southern part of Illinois where the death of August Gritz-
macher occurred about a year later.
Carl Gritzmacher returned to Chicago after his father's death. During his
residence there he had attended school and later had learned the carpenter's
trade under his father's instruction. He remained a resident of Chicago until
1869 and then came to the west, remaining on Puget Sound for one summer,
while the year 1870 witnessed his arrival in Portland. General Solomon, who
was appointed Governor of Washington territory by President Grant, was a
friend of Mr. Gritzmacher and induced him and a number of other young men
to come to the west. All located in Washington with the exception of Mr.
Gritzmacher and Peter Hagner. After coming to Portland the former fol-
lowed carpentering and finally became a contractor, remaining in the employ
of others, however, for two years. He has been connected with the erection of
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many prominent buildings here. He worked on the Central schoolhouse, the
first large schoolhouse of the city, he and Mr. Hatfield taking a subcontract
from the regular contractor.
In 1874 he accepted a position on the police force and was a member of the
force at intervals for about twenty-seven years. He held every office in con-
nection with the department, including that of captain of detectives, and was
advanced from the position of captain of police to chief of police by Mayor
Lane in 1905. He assumed office about the time the Lewis & Clark Exposi-
tion was opened and continued to act in that capacity until July, 1909, his serv-
ices being entirely satisfactory. At the time of the exposition when large
crowds were in the city he managed the public interests in a most capable way,
directing the labors of his subordinates so that accidents were avoided, lawless-
ness and crime largely diminished, while courteous attention was always given
to the requests of visitors for information. Mr. Gritzmacher has been a sturdy
republican since attaining his majority but has served more frequently under
the democratic administration than the republican, a fact which indicates the
confidence reposed in him and his fidelity to the public trust.
On the 4th of January, 1874, in this city, Mr. Gritzmacher was married to
Miss Mary Pape, a daughter of Bernard and Dorothy Pape, who came to Port-
land from Illinois in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Gritzmacher are now the parents of
two sons, August B., who is engaged in the lumber business in Portland, and
Charles H., who is in the railroad service.
Mr. Gritzmacher is a member of the German Aid Society and was one of
the charter members of the Turners. He was also connected with several other
German organizations but has discontinued his connection with most of these.
He purchased his present home, at the corner of Taylor and Tenth streets, in
1877 and has occupied it since 1878, building a fine house which is celebrated
for its hospitality cordially extended to the many friends of the family.
GEORGE HENRY YOUNG.
George Henry Young is the owner of valuable farming property near Van-
couver, and his life is indicative of the opportunities that are afiforded in
America to the sons of Germany and of other European lands ; young men
whose enterprise and courage enables them to meet conditions in a country with
whose language and customs they are unfamiliar. He was born in the province
of Hesse, Germany, December 7, 1833, and has therefore reached the age of
seventy-seven years. His youthful days were spent upon a farm and in June,
1864, he came to the United States. He had previously heard of the west and
its almost limitless opportunities, and he made his way direct to Vancouver,
where he arrived on the 12th of July, proceeding by boat from Panama. Here
he was met by his brother Antone, who had sent for him. This brother was
one of the pioneers of the district and continued his residence here until his
death in 1905. He was the owner of a brewery and had admitted George H.
Young to a partnership. They operated the brewery together for some time,
built additions thereto and conducted a successful business until 1871, when
George H. Young sold out to his brother.
Returning to Germany he was there married to Miss Katherine Young in
December, 1871, and with his bride returned to Clarke county where he took up
farming on the Lakamas river, residing there until 1882. In that year he pur-
chased one hundred and ninety-one acres on the Burnt Bridge road known as
the Lewis F. Durgin donation claim. He still owns the other ranch of two
hundred and sixty acres on the Lakamas which he cleared and improved and
has also put all the improvements upon the Durgin ranch, clearing fifty acres
of this. He now has a well developed property, ten acres being in prunes, while
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he is also engaged quite largely in raising hay and grain, and is likewise suc-
cessfully conducting a dairy business. Since 1890 his son and daughter have
been in charge of the Lakamas ranch. His farming interests are most capably
managed and he is now one of the prosperous agriculturists of the country,
his holdings being extensive, and his well developed and carefully cultivated
properties are returning to him a substantial income. Since coming here he
has helped to clear seventy acres of land from the forest and stumps, convert-
ing it into cultivable fields, and thus has contributed largely to the progress
made along agricultural lines.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Young were born eleven children, of whom seven are
yet living: Louis C, operating the Lakamas ranch; Lizzie, a teacher of
Qarke county ; Betta, with her brother Louis on her father's ranch ; Henry,
who married Altha Brown and is employed by the Deschutes Railroad at
Clarke Station ; Katherine, Gustave and May, all yet at home. The wife and
mother died in May, 1908, her death being deeply regretted by many friends
as well as her immediate family.
Mr. Young has served as school director of his district and has ever borne
a helpful part in the work of general progress and improvement. He has aided
in laying out the roads and in doing all of the work that is so necessary in the
settlement of a new country where all of those things recognized as public util-
ities must be put in by the early settlers. While he has reached the age of
seventy-seven years he is still an active man, giving personal supervision to his
farming interests, and his has been a well spent life, his activity and enterprise
being the source of his present success.
SAMUEL D. FRANCIS.
The great state of Oregon is a monument to the pioneer settlers and those
who in later years have been active factors in its development. No period of
early times witnessed the arrival of so many emigrants to the northwest as did
the year 1852. It was then that S. D. Francis crossed the plains. He was bom
in Massachusetts in 1814, but left the. old Bay state when about fourteen years
of age and went with his parents to Vermont. He attended school in both
states and when still in his minority engaged in the dry-goods business, owning
a share in a store in the Green Mountain state.
While still residing there Mr. Francis was united in marriage to Miss Eliza-
beth Stevens, who was born in Barnard, Vermont, in 1819. They began their
domestic life in that state and remained there until 1846, when they removed
to Illinois, settling about a mile from Geneva, on the Fox river. Mr. Francis
purchased a farm there, hoping that the outdoor life would prove beneficial to
his health, the impaired condition of which was the cause of his removal from
New England. Not long afterward, in 1852, Mr. Francis came over the plains
to Oregon and settled near Oregon City, where he established a nursery. He
was also connected with Abernethy's wholesale dry-goods store at Oregon City
in the capacity of bookkeeper and later he was appointed to the position of
postmaster there. He also opened a business of his own in Oregon City, but
as Portland grew and eclipsed the former town he sought the opportunities here
offered and opened a grocery store on Third street, at the corner of Taylor.
After conducting the business for a time his health again failed and he removed
to Mount Tabor about fifty years ago, purchasing the Dr. Nelson place. After
taking up his abode there he retired from active business life. He remained a
resident of that locality up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1892,
his remains being interred in Lone Fir cemetery. His wife survived him for
about eleven years, passing away in 1903.
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In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Francis were eight children: Albion L.,
now deceased ; Marion, who became the wife of Rodney Tompkins ; Henrietta,
who married James A. Smith, but both are now deceased; Clarence A., who
has passed away; Ida, the wife of William Woodruff, of Mount Tabor; Es-
taven, of southern Oregon ; Alcion, of Portland ; and Dora, the widow of Judge
Arthur Frazer. Mr. and Mrs, Francis were long earnest and devoted members
of the Methodist church, reared their family in that faith and their children
have become identified with the same denomination. Mr. Francis took a very
active part in church work and was, indeed, a consistent Christian man.
We are indet)ted to Mrs. Tompkins, the eldest daughter, for the record of
her esteemed parents, who were long numbered among the worthy pioneer peo-
ple of this locality. Mrs. Tompkins largely spent her girlhood in Oregon and
in Portland became the wife of Rodney Tompkins, who was born in Lima,
Ohio, on the 27th of June, 1845. His parents were Daniel D. and EHzabeth
(Dutton) Tompkins, early settlers of Lima, who came to Oregon over the
plains with ox teams in 1847. They settled at Oregon City and Mr. Tompkins
established a nursery near there. Both he and his wife died in that locality.
Rodney Tompkins attended school at Oregon City and afterward worked on
his father's fruit farm. About 1870 he took up his abode in Portland, where
he engaged in the newspaper business for a number of years, but at the pres-
ent time he is employed by the city. It was on the i6th of November, 1876,
that he wedded Marion Francis and unto them have been born two children,
Lloyd F. and Elizabeth. The former married Bessie Howlenstein and has three
children, Marion, Ewing and Rodney. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins are rep-
resentatives of old pioneer families and are well known in this part of the
state, where practically their entire lives have been passed.
SAMUEL M. MEARS.
Varied and important are the business enterprises which claim the atten-
tion and profit by the cooperation of Samuel M. Mears, and his life history is
such as serves as an inspiration to those whose progress in the business life
must depend upon their own efforts, for it has been through the simple weight
of his character and ability that Mr. Mears has reached his present prominent
position in commercial and financial circles. He is now the president of the
Portland Cordage Company, and is identified with many other business con-
cerns which are factors in the business development and consequent growth and
prosperity of the city.
A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Mears was born in Madison, June i, 1856, and
was there reared and educated supplementing his early school training by study
in the University of Wisconsin, which he left at the age of seventeen years to
become a factor in the business world and work his way upward by his own ex-
ertions and close application.
Mr. Mears was still but a boy in years when he went to San Francisco,
where he entered the office of the West Coast Furniture Company, spending
four years in their employ. On the expiration of that period he came to Port-
land where he has lived continuously since 1878. For about a year he was as-
sociated with the Frank Brothers Implement Company and then entered the
Ladd and Tilton Bank as exchange clerk. His ability soon won him recog-
nition and he was promoted to the position of bookkeeper. Constantly seeking
broader opportunities, he left the bank and entered the service of the United
Carriage Company, of which he is now the president. After two years he be-
came connected with the Portland Flouring Mill Company as manager of their
mill at Dayton, Washington, and subsequently assumed charge of the Tacoma
mill. Extending his efforts to other fields from time to time, in 1892 he be-
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came connected with the Portland Cordage Company, which was organized in
1887 by W. B. Ayer, W. L. Ladd, Henry Faihng and H. W. Corbett. This
company is engaged in the manufacture of rope, twine, cordage, etc., and em-
ploys one hundred and fifty men in the Portland factory. They have also es-
tablished a large branch in Seattle, Washington, where employment is afforded
about seventy workmen. In 1896 Mr. Mears was chosen president of this
company, and has since bent his energies to administrative direction and exec-
utive control. His carefully formulated plans are promptly executed and re-
sult in successful management. The interests already mentioned, however, do
not comprise the extent of his business activities, for he is now president of the
Linnton Realty Company of Portland, president of the Columbia Manufactur-
ing Works, president of the United Carriage Company, and a director of the
Equitable Savings and Trust Company.
Mr. Mears was married in Portland in 1883 to Miss Laura Violet Savier,
a daughter of Thomas Savier, one of Portland's pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Mears
are the parents of five children: Henry, Arthur, Maxwell, Margaret and Vir-
ginia. The family is prominent in social circles of the city, and Mr. Mears is
to some extent a leader in political activity and in 1906 was elected to the state
legislature. His time and energies, however, are largely occupied with his
business affairs.
Not by leaps and bounds has he reached his present position, but by that
steady progression which indicates the wise use of every moment and the in-
telligent direction of effort. Moreover, in his later years, since he has come to
positfons of active management, he has displayed marked ability in coordinat-
ing forces and bringing seemingly diverse arrangements into a harmonious
whole. His attitude is never that of an overbearing task master — he believes
in the equitable adjustment of interest between employer and employee, and in
the past years has conducted his business affairs in a manner that has been
just to those who represent him, and at the same time has brought him the sub-
stantial and merited rewards of his labor and his business ability.
REV. GEORGE H. ATKINSON, D. D.
In the middle of the nineteenth century there came into Oregon from the
east many people who as builders of the state have left their impress indelibly
upon its history. Not all who came sought personal benefit from the utilization
of the natural resources here afforded. They did not seek to make their own
the rich mineral deposits, the fine forests and the productive lands, capable of
high cultivation in both cereals and fruit; there were those who were actuated
by the high purpose of bringing the Christian religion to the native sons — the race
of red men who had long dominated the region — also to the early pioneers
among the white race who were here building the commonwealth which is today
the great state of Oregon. To this latter class belonged Dr. George H. Atkinson
and while others cultivated the fields, he planted the seed in the hearts of men
that bore fruit in good deeds, kindly actions and generous purposes.
A native of Massachusetts, he was born in Newburyport, on the lOth of May,
1819. After the period of early youth was passed he divided his time between
the work of the farm and school teaching, being thus engaged until 1839. A
young man of twenty, he then entered Dartmouth College and while pursuing
his college course spent a portion of each year in teaching in order to defray his
expenses. His literary course was made the foundation of special training for
the ministry. He was for three years a student in the Andover Theological
Seminary of Massachusetts, being graduated therefrom in 1846. Earnest, zeal-
ous and conscientious, he was ready to accept any call which would give him
enlarged opportunities in the field of Christian service. Following his graduation
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he was appointed to do missionary work in the Zulu country of South Africa
by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Upon the
urgent sohcitation of the American Home Missionary Society his destination was
changed to Oregon and after waiting for one year, which was spent in the
Andover Seminary in making special preparation for Bible, school and tract
work in Oregon — there being no opportunity to engage passage sooner — he left
Boston on the ship Samoset, October 24, 1847. In February, 1848, he reached
the Sandwich islands and after remaining at Honolulu for three months to
secure a vessel bound for Oregon, he embarked upon the British vessel Cowlitz,
a ship belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, and crossed the Columbia bar
on the I2th of June, 1848.
At that time it was believed that Oregon City would be the metropolis of this
portion of the country and taking up his abode there, Dr. Atkinson remained foi
fifteen years as pastor of the Congregational church at that place. During that
period he was instrumental in securing the erection of a house of worship and
also the Clackamas Female Seminary, which he provided with its corps of
teachers. He also brought about the plans of the academy and college at Forest
Grove and arranged that the work should be accomplished through the associa-
tion of the Congregational church, which had been formed with reference to
that work. This institution was incorporated by the first Oregon legislature in
1849, and in 1852 Dr. Atkinson returned to New York and secured its adoption
by the American College & Educational Society, thus obtaining the first funds
to defray the expenses of teaching. At that time he purchased public-school
books to the value of two thousand dollars and brought them to the territory and
procured the establishment of a public-school system in 1849 by the state legis-
lature, Governor Lane strongly recommending the measure in his first message.
Dr. Atkinson was made the first school superintendent of Clackamas county and
held the same position in Multnomah county for two terms following his
removal to Portland in 1863. His efforts were extremely potent in building up
the public-school system of this city. His was the pioneer movement in educa-
tional work in this section of the state and his labors were along practical and
resultant lines.
On his removal to Portland Dr. Atkinson accepted the pastorate of the First
Congregational church of Portland and remained in charge for nine years. In
1872 he was employed as home missionary, being made superintendent of Oregon
and Washington by the Home Missionary Society in 1880, in charge of the
home missionary work of the Congregational churches for the state of Oregon
and the territory of Washington. He never ceased from his labors, never grew
weary of well-doing, but sought continually broadening opportunities whereby
his labors might benefit his fellowmen along the lines of intellectual and moral
progress.
Dr. Atkinson was married in 1846 to Miss Nancy Bates, the wedding being
celebrated in Springfield, Vermont. Unto them were born six children: Sophia
B., now deceased ; Dr. George H. Atkinson, who was a physician and surgeon
of Brooklyn, New York, until his death, on the 27th of December, 1884; Anna
Sophia B., the wife of Frank M. Warren, of Portland; Edward M., a practicing
lawyer of New York city; and Sarah Frances and Charles William, both of
whom are now deceased.
Dr. Atkinson continued a resident of Portland from 1863 until his death,
which occurred on the 25th of February, 1889, at his home at No. 195 Salmon
street. He had always been an earnest champ'on of Oregon and his enthusiasm
concerning the state and its opportunities was contagious. During his frequent
trips to the east he delivered many lectures concerning Oregon and also fre-
quently contributed descriptive matter to the press. He was a believer in the
northwest and its splendid opportunities and, feeling that Christian progress
should go hand and hand with material development, he labored untiringly to
promote the influence of higher living among the people of the state. He
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brought with him to this country in 1848 a metal or tin tube, with which for
years he measured as accurately as possible, the rain fall of the Willamette
valley, these being the first records kept. In 1862, through the courtesy of
Captain J. C. Ainsworth, he visited Lewiston and Tapwaii stations, the latter
on the banks of the Clearwater, where Father Spalding was laboring with the
friendly Nez Perce tribe of Indians at the time of the Whitman massacre. It
was here the first printing press in Oregon was used. While here Dr. Atkinson
preached to a remnant of the tribe, who with their intelligent chief, Langer,
still lived at Tapwaii. In making the journey from Lewiston to Walla Walla
behind a mule team, he noticed moisture in this barren, sage-brush country as
the mules lifted their hoofs, and from that time he talked, wrote and prophesied
the great future of eastern Oregon and Washington as a wheat country, to be
brought about first he believed by dry farming. So anxious was he to have the
flora of Oregon described in some botanical work, that in October, 1865, he
persuaded Professor Alphonso Wood, author of Wood's Botany, to return with
him to Oregon and study as far as possible the flora of the country. Together
they made the ascent of Mount Hood from the point later known as govern-
ment camp.
On the occasion of a public address at the dedication of the Congregational
church in Tacoma, Washington, Edwin Eells said: "This tale of the historic
beginning of Congregationalism would be far from complete if reference was
not made to the first home missionary superintendent, the honored, reverend
and much beloved Rev. George H. Atkinson, D. D. Indefatigable, earnest, kindly
disposed, universally respected and beloved, he won the hearts of all. He
stimulated the young and feeble organizations, gave hope and comfort to the
discouraged, and in short made things go and go right. His travels over the
territory were not in palace cars nor palatial steamboats but more often than
any other way on the hurricane deck of the subdued cayuse pony or in the bot-
tom of the highly scented canoe. His lodgings were not generally in the soft
and comfortable bed of the hotel, but by the fireside of the humble pioneer he
sat and conversed and went to rest in the same kind of straw-filled tick that the
family had to use. But he was a true, polished Christian gentleman. Rarely is
there found in the same person the courteous manner, the gentlemanly bearing,
the genial temperament and the loving sympathy, combined with the indefatigable
zeal, the indomitable perseverance and the heroic courage that won the respect,
love and esteem of every one and gained the success that commanded the admira-
tion of the entire community. Truly he was the apostle of Congregationalism
in this state. His name will long be revered by all who knew him. His faith
in the future was unbounded and his piety deeply sincere. He was the first
home missionary sent out to this coast, arriving in Oregon City in 1848, and for
a full generation was the mainstay of all the beginnings of Congregationalism
both in Oregon and in Washington. When he passed away the denomination
was desolate for he had excelled them all."
JOHN EDRION FLYNN.
The width of the continent separates John Edrion Flynn from his birth
place, for he is a native of Connecticut and his natal year was 1850. His par-
ents, John and Mary (Lynch) Flynn, removed from New Jersey to New York,
subsequently becoming residents of Connecticut, during which period their son
John was born, and later went to Massachusetts. Afterward they left the
east and in 1856 became residents of Illinois, where they remained until 1859,
when they went to Missouri.
Up to that time John Edrion Flynn had accompanied his parents on their
various removals, but while they were in Missouri he left home and in 1878,
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went to Colorado, settling at Leadville, where he followed mining for four years.
He was also for a time in Silver City, New Mexico, where he acted as jailer of
the Grant county jail and also as deputy sheriff. He then returned to Missouri
and was married, after which he engaged in raising cattle and hogs. But the
cholera broke out among his stock and so many died that he suffered greatly
financially. In order to retrieve his lost possessions he sought the opportunities
of the northwest, coming to Clarke county, Washington, in 1889. Here he
located on railroad land, purchasing the title to it and continuing to occupy the
place for fifteen years, or until he sold out. He then rented two hundred and
forty acres of land at Grass Valley for three years, after which he leased about
three hundred and twenty acres of the James Vernon ranch, twelve and a half
miles east of Vancouver. He has since lived upon this place and is busily occupied
with the duties of the farm, carefully conducting his interests in this connection.
In 1907 he bought forty acres of land at Fern Prairie, which he rents to mem-
bers of the family.
In 1883 Mr. Flynn was united in marriage to Miss Rosie L. Wilson, of Mis-
souri, and they have nine children, Orion, Cassius, John Edward, Margaret Jane,
Donald McKinzie, Rose Amy, Theodore, Ivy and Mary Hannah, all yet at
home.
JAMES WILLIAM McKNIGHT.
James William McKnight, a retired farmer of Portland, was born in Beards-
town, Illinois, May 31, 1832. In that year the Black Hawk war was
waged in his native state and forever set at rest the question of the supremacy
of the white race over the broad prairies of Illinois. His parents were David
and Matilda (Skidmore) McKnight, both of whom died in Iowa in the year
1847. The father was a millwright by trade and about 1837 removed with his
family to Iowa. James W. McKnight attended school in Burlington, Iowa, and
after completing his education began work as a farm hand at a wage of ten
dollars per month. Later he was paid eleven dollars per month, which was con-
sidered a good salary at that time. In the winter, when the work of the fields
was over, he engaged in cutting wood and was thus employed for about four
years. From time to time stories came to the middle west concerning the op-
portunities of the Pacific coast country and, attracted by tales of the advantages
to be enjoyed on the western border of the country, Mr. McKnight started
over the plains on the 15th of April, 1852. Seven days before he was married
and the bridal trip of the young couple consisted of the long journey to Oregon
in a canvas covered wagon drawn by oxen. They left their home, about nine
miles north of Burlington, and traveled for six months in a train composed of
twelve wagons under command of Captain Campbell Settle. They had some
exciting experiences while on the way and there was considerable sickness
among the party. They had to ford rivers and were constantly on the watch
against possible Indian attacks. However, they finally reached The Dalles in
safety on the nth of September and proceeded down the Columbia to the
mouth of the Sandy river, where they took the teams again and traveled by
wagon to Linn county. Mr. McKnight took up a donation land claim, about
four and a half miles west of Lebanon, securing three hundred and twenty acres
of land. On that place he built a clapboard shanty, in which he and his wife
spent the first winter. The little building had no floor and they lived in truly
primitive style, but were encouraged by the hope of having things better soon.
The original furnishing of the cabin home was also of a most crude character.
A box served as a chair for his wife, while he sat upon a bran sack. The table
was a tool chest that an old friend had given him. They had a skillet and a few
cooking utensils and Mrs. McKnight had a gift of a hen and some little chickens.
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They owned neither horses nor wagons when they went upon the farm and
Mr. McKnight's cash capital consisted of about a dollar and sixty-five cents.
This sum he was compelled to pay for nails with which to build the house,
which was about sixteen feet square. The fireplace was made of mud and
sticks. As soon as the house was completed he began making rails, having to
go about four and a half miles to the timber in order to cut the trees. He
worked for other people for four years, for he had no money with which to
carry on the farm work on his own place or to provide for the household ex-
penses before the farm became a source of revenue. The nearest neighbor was
then about a half mile away. After living upon the claim for four years he
became interested in the sawmill business, being associated with four other men
in the operation of an old-fashioned sawmill run by water power. He con-
tinued in that business for two seasons and made about fifteen hundred dol-
lars. He then returned to the farm, upon which he built a small box house.
Unlike his original cabin, this contained a plank floor. He occupied that house
until about 1885 and during that period carried on general agricultural pur-
suits in the summer, while in the winter seasons he operated the sawmill. After
his boys were old enough to be of assistance to him he began raising wheat
and engaged in that business extensively, producing about four thousand bushels
annually. The farm thus became profitable and year by year his financial re-
sources increased, so that the hardships and privations of early life here were
utterly done away with and modern comforts were introduced into the home.
About 1886 Mr. McKnight removed to The Dalles, where he lived retired
for three years because of his health. He also sent his children to school there.
In 1890 he became a resident of Portland, taking up his abode in the Stephens
addition, where he made his home for ten years. Later he built his present fine
residence at No. 715 East Ash street and in addition to this property he still
owns his original donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres.
As previously stated, before he started for the northwest Mr. McKnight
was married. It was on the 7th of April, 1852, in Burlington, Iowa, that he
wedded Miss Clarinda M. Wilson, a daughter of J. B. Wilson. She was born
in Indiana, September 11, 1834. She shared with her husband in all the hard-
ships of pioneer life and proved of much assistance to him in the work of the
early days. She died April 15, 1910, on the fifty-eighth anniversary of the
day on which they left Iowa for the northwest. Her remains were interred in
Sandy Ridge cemetery in Linn county. She was the mother of seven children :
James A., deceased; Frank E., of Vale; George W., who is engaged in the
sheep business with his brother Frank at Vale; David B., who is assessor of
Linn county ; Ida ; Roma J. ; and Winnie ; all at home.
In politics Mr. McKnight has ever been a republican but aside from casting
his vote in support of the candidates of the party has never taken any active
interest in political matters. He is a member of the Pioneer Society. His life
for many years was a most busy one, in which there were, indeed, few idle
hours. He worked hard and persistently to gain a start and provide for his
family and he deserves the success which is now his.
CALVIN S. WHITE, M. D.
Dr. Calvin S. White, secretary of the state board of health, with offices in
the Dekum building in Portland, has practiced his profession in Oregon since
1893. and has made his home in the Rose City since 1905. He was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1868, and is a son of Joseph White, a carriage-
manufacturer, who later removed with his family to a farm in Lancaster
county, Penns)dvania. There Dr. White was reared, meeting with the usual
experiences that fall to the lot of the farm lad. He supplemented his early
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education acquired in the common schools by study in the FrankHn-Marshall
College and then prepared for a professional career by a course in the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891.
Dr. White believed that the northwest offered a good field for the profes-
sional labor of a young man, and made his way to Tacoma, Washington, where
he opened an office in 1892. Afterward he came to Portland, where he was
associated with Dr. Andrew Smith for a year, at the end of which time he re-
moved to Gervais, Marion county, Oregon, where he practiced medicine until
1905. He has since been located permanently in Portland, opening an office
in the Dekum building. Here he has become well established in his profes-
sion, being recognized as one of the leaders of the medical fraternity in this
city. His ability is attested by the excellent results which follow his labors
and his brethren of the medical profession also bear evidence to his skill arid
ability. He is now secretary of the state medical society and of the Oregon
State board of health — further proofs of his standing in his chosen calling.
He belongs to the different medical societies and keeps in touch with the ad-
vanced thought of the profession. While he does not quickly discard the old
and time-tried methods, the value of which has stood the test of years, he is
quick to adopt any new ideas which his judgment suggest as of real worth in
the practice of medicine and surgery.
JOSEPH T. ENNIS.
Joseph T. Ennis has justly won the proud American title of "self-made
man" and, moreover, his labors have contributed materially to the improvement
and development of the city. He has operated largely in recent years as a spec-
ulative builder, in which connection he has transformed unsightly vacancies
into beautiful residence districts and is now engaged in this work as a member
of The Harbke-Ennis Building and Investment Company. He has always lived
upon the Pacific coast and the spirit of undaunted enterprise characteristic of
the far west finds exemplification in his life.
Mr. Ennis is a native of San Francisco, born December 13, 1872. His par-
ents were Nicholas and Katherine (Cunningham) Ennis, the former a native
of Nova Scotia and the latter of Ireland. The father learned and followed the
wagon maker's trade and after living for some time in San Francisco removed
about 1879 to the territory of Washington, locating at the town of La Center.
The family alternated their time between Washington and Portland until about
1903, when Joseph T. Ennis took up his permanent abode in this city. His
parents are also living here.
In the schools of Washington Joseph T. Ennis was educated and when but
fifteen years of age began learning the carpenter's trade. About 1905 he be-
came a contractor but before this had considerable experience as journeyman.
He came to Portland in 1903 to work on the buildings of the Lewis & Clark Ex-
position which were then in process of erection. This was the last work he
ever did as journeyman. Becoming quite well known in Portland, he felt that
his acquaintance was sufficient to justify him embarking in business on his own
account and that his skill would enable him to retain a good patronage. He
has largely been engaged on the building of dwelling houses in the Vernon Ad-
dition. He has done most of his operations in building and selHng houses, hav-
ing erected seventy-two there in the last three years. He buys the lots and
erects houses for sale, making them thoroughly modern in design, architecture,
style and equipment. His business partner in this enterprise is J. A. Harbke,
and the company was incorporated under the name of The Harbke-Ennis Build-
ing and Investment Company, with a capital of ten thousand dollars, and their
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efforts in this connection are proving a valuable element in the improvement
of the section of the city in which they are operating.
In 1893 Mr. Ennis was married to Miss Hattie Reed, and unto them was
born a son, Leslie, now sixteen years of age. In 1907 Mr. Ennis was again
married, his second union being with Hermenia Luginbuhl, a daughter of John
and Josephine Luginbuhl. Mrs. Ennis is a native of Ohio and by a former mar-
riage had a son, Myron, sixteen years of age, who is living with her and Mr.
Ennis.
The mother is a member of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Ennis holds
membership with the Woodmen of the World and the Moose. In politics he
is an independent democrat, for while he usually supports the party, he does
not hold to blind party leading, but casts his ballot where his judgment dic-
tates, voting for the candidates whom he thinks best qualified for office. In his
business affairs he has displayed an initiative spirit and the power of organiza-
tion, as well as of marked executive ability in controlling the efforts of those
who work for him. What he undertakes he accomplishes, allowing no obstacles
or difficulties to brook his path, if they can be overcome by persistency of pur-
pose and honorable effort.
OLIVER J. GROCE.
Oliver J. Groce, who died in Portland, June 9, 1906, was born in Clarion
county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1855. His father, Jacob Groce, was a farmer
by occupation and was of German descent, being numbered among the residents
of the Keystone state known as Pennsylvania Dutch. A removal to the middle
west when Oliver J. Groce was very young enabled him to pursue his studies
mostly in Emmet county, Iowa. His father took up a homestead there and
carried on general farming for a number of years, or until he came to Oregon
in 1875. Portland was his destination, and after arriving in this city he located
upon the east side and engaged in the dairy business.
Oliver J. Groce was a young man of twenty years at the time the family
came to the northwest. He was at first employed in Widdler's sawmill but soon
afterward turned his attention to the retail grocery business, establishing and
conducting a store at the corner of Seventeenth and Quimby streets. He was
very successful from the outset and was continuously accorded a liberal patronage
up to the time his health failed in 1905, when he sold out. Hoping to benefit
by change of climate, he went to California but the hoped-for improvement did
not come and he passed away on the 9th of June, 1906, his remains being interred
in Lone Fir cemetery beside those of his first wife.
Mr. Groce was married twice. His first wife was Orra Alida Barber, whom
he wedded in Portland. She was born in Delavan, Wisconsin, September 9,
1857, and died when twenty-eight years of age, leaving two children: Ernest
C, now deceased ; and Julia M., the wife of Dr. Floyd Bird, who is coroner at
Kelso, Cowlitz county, Washington. In Portland, March 4, 1887, Mr. Groce
married Mrs. Anna Bennett, a sister of his first wife. She was born in Edgerton,
Wisconsin, August 22, 1859, her parents being Welcome and Polly (Matteson)
Barber. Her father was the youngest of a family of thirteen children and was
named Welcome. He was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, July 22, 1825, and
was descended from one of the Mayflower passengers. He was married May 3,
1847, to Polly Matteson, a daughter of Peleg and Mary (James) Matteson.
The mother was born at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, August 16, 1822.
Welcome Barber left Rhode Island in 1854 and afterward lived at Delavan and
Edgerton, Wisconsin, where he was employed in farming and brickmaking until
1863, when he went to Iowa, reaching his destination after traveling for five
weeks in a prairie schooner. He arrived in June following the passage of the
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homestead act and took up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres, and soon
afterward secured another claim of one hundred and sixty acres by means of a
soldier's land warrant which had been given his father for service in the war of
1812. During the fourteen years of his residence in Iowa Mr. Barber was
engaged in the grain and stock business, but the grasshoppers so destroyed the
crops that he left that state and started for the far west, settling in Mount
Pleasant, Washington, about fifty miles from Portland. He made the trip to the
coast by way of San Francisco and for a number of years thereafter was a very
successful farmer. He died at Mount Pleasant at the age of seventy years,
nine months and nine days, and his wife passed away June 21, 1894. Their
graves were made side by side in the Mount Pleasant cemetery, on land which
he donated to the public for burial purposes. Their daughter, Anna, was
married twice, her first husband being Marion Francis Bennett, who was born
March 3, 1850, and died October 2, 1883. She was only nineteen years of age
when first married, and she had one child by that union, Marion Clyde, who died
February 2, 1906, when twenty-five years of age, and was buried in Lone Fir
cemetery beside his father. Mr. Bennett was engaged in the stock and timber
business, owning a ranch at Carrolton, Washington. His father in pioneer times
lived at Carrolton, where he boarded the men who were employed on the con-
struction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Following the death of her first
husband in 1883, Mrs. Bennett gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Groce on the
4th of March, 1887, and unto them were born two children : Oliver J., who was
born December 25, 1889; and John F., born August 11, 1894. All of the children
of the Groce family have been provided with liberal educational advantages and
are graduates of the Portland schools. ,,. •; ■;;;:;-;;.'
Mr. Groce was a member of the Masonic fraternity and his funeral services
were conducted by that order. He also belonged to the Ancient Order of United
Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Modern Brotherhood.
His religious faith was that of the Methodist denomination, although he did
not hold membership in the church. He gave his political allegiance to the
republican party, was an active worker in its ranks and was much interested in
its success. He was also a strong temperance man and did everything in his
power to oppose the use of intoxicants. As the years passed by he prospered and
became the owner of considerable property, having fifteen houses which he
rented. He was thus able to leave his family a very comfortable estate. In
business affairs he displayed a keen discernment, and his wise investments made
him one of the substantial men of the city. In all business affairs he was
thoroughly reliable, never taking advantage of another in any transaction, and his
name thus became a recognized synonym of trustworthiness and reliability.
ANDREW J. WATSON.
Andrew J. Watson, coming to Portland as a youth of fourteen years, was
identified with the early butchering interests of this city and for a long period
was actively associated with business here, his life record proving that vim
and vigor will eventually win victory. A native of England, Mr. Watson was
born in Sussex, April 15, 1835. His father, John Watson, a carpenter of that
country, spent his entire life there, and the mother also remained in England
until her demise. Their son Andrew was a pupil in the public schools for a lim-
ited period, but at the early age of eight years left home and lived with another
family until fourteen years of age, when he came to America, settling at
Chicago, where he had a brother, Alexander. He worked with his brother, who
was a railroad man, and. realizing the deficiency of his own education, attended
night school, thus qualifying for broader and more responsible duties than he
could otherwise have performed. About 1849 he came to the Pacific coast,
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making the journey over the plains with ox teams, being influenced in this
step by the fact that he had a brother who was engaged in the hotel business
in Portland. It was a tiny little town but the hotel found its support from the
people who traded here, all goods being brought in by vessel and sent out in
the same manner. The whole town had but few streets near the river front
and some of the districts, which are now most thickly populated, were covered
with a dense forest growth. Mr. Watson entered the employ of Captain Ank-
eny in a butcher shop and learned the trade. Later he went to Montana and in
connection with Captain Ahkeny opened a shop at Helena, which was then a
small mining town. He remained there for a number of years, at the end of
which time he desolved partnership and engaged in business alone. He sent
mules with packs into the mines, carrying supplies, and found a ready sale
for the products. Later he sold out and returned to Portland. Prior to that
time, however, he purchased a large tract of land in North Portland that has
since been subdivided and laid out as Watson's addition. He was married
shortly after returning here, built a house upon his land and took up his abode
there. He had an extensive tract five acres of which he reserved for a home
for himself. It was covered with timber but in time became very valuable as
the district was settled. Again he became connected with Captain Ankeny in
business. They built the Central market and carried on the enterprise together
for a number of years, but at length dissolved partnership, Captain Ankeny
continuing the business while Mr. Watson took charge of his estate. Upon his
land he built a store which he conducted for five years, when he sold it to his
brother-in-law, who in time disposed of the stock to Mrs. Watson, who still
owns the building and other land.
Mrs. Watson bore the maiden name of Ona Eddy and was born in New
York, as were her parents, William L. and Mary (Sheldon) Eddy. In 1870
Mrs. Watson came to Oregon with her brother, Pitt A. Eddy, a grocer of
Portland, her parents having both passed away in the Empire state before she
came to the west. The marriage was celebrated on the 2d of April, 1872, and
Mrs. Watson has continuously resided in Portland, not only through the period
of her married life but also for two years before, her residence here covering
forty years. Unto Mr. and Mrs, Watson were born five children: Grace L.,
the wife of Dr. Arthur Vial of Portland, by whom she has three children,
Louise, Marie and Robert; Dr. Alfred P. Watson, a dentist of Portland, who
married Lelle Crosby; Ona R., the wife of J. H. Peterson, a real-estate man of
Portland ; Jane, who died in childhood ; and one who died in infancy.
The death of the husband and father occurred November 23, 1884, and his
remains were interred in Lone Fir cemetery. He was a member of the Episco-
pal church and a man of upright life, who was found ever reliable in business,
progressive in citizenship and loyal to the ties of home and friendship. He
deserved much credit for what he accomplished for he was practically dependent
upon his own resources from the age of eight years, providing in large measure
for his education as well as his self-support. His history proves that diligence
and determination will come ofif conqueror in the strife with difficulties and
hardships.
A. B. HALLOCK.
When Oregon City was a place of much more prominence than Portland, A.
B. Hallock came to the northwest. He cast in his lot with the little village that
stood on the west bank of the Willamette, and soon proved his worth as a factor
in the business interests of the town. He became actively connected with the
growth of the city as a surveyor and builder and retained his residence here
for a quarter of a century, while within one of Portland's beautiful cemeteries
his earthly remains now rest.
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Mr. Hallock was born in Utica, New York, in 1826, a son of Dr. A. B. Hal-
lock, who was a representative of an old Quaker family. After attending the
schools of Utica for several years the son entered business circles as an ap-
prentice to the cabinet-maker's trade and became a fine mechanic and also an
expert draftsman, civil engineer and surveyor. The great unsettled west
seemed to promise him opportunities along the line of his business, and in the
year 1849 he made his way to the Pacific coast, over the water route and across
the isthmus of Panama. He journeyed alone and when he reached Oregon
proceeded at once to Oregon City, where he secured employment at his trade.
Later he turned his attention to building and contracting and to him is due the
distinction of having erected the first brick building on First street, Portland,
its location being near Pine. Later he erected the Ladd & Tilton Bank build-
ing and a number of other early prominent business blocks of the city. More-
over in matters of public interest he took an active and helpful part and his
labors were of distinct value to the city in many ways. He was a member of
the early volunteer fire department and his foster daughter, Mrs. Cotter, has a
fine silver trumpet made of fifty hammered silver dollars which was presented
to him by the Multnomah Engine Company, April 2, 1862, after he had ef-
ficiently acted as foreman of that company for five years. In addition to his
other work in Portland he was one of the early surveyors of the city and laid
out the Couch addition.
In 1874 Mr. Hallock removed to Tillamook, where he lived retired. He
purchased forty acres of land there, owning the present site of Ocean Park,
now one of the attractive summer resorts on the sea coast. He resided there
up to the time of his death, which occurred October 28, 1889, his remains being
then brought back to Portland, for interment in Lone Fir cemetery. He had
been reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, but never joined
any church. His life, however, was actuated by high moral principles and he
was in sympathy with all movements for the betterment of mankind. He pos-
sessed a fine voice and sang in a number of churches. His political support
was given to the democracy but he would never hold office except when he
was a member of the city council for a few years. However, he always took
an active part in politics and in fact was ever interested in all that pertained to
the welfare and upbuilding of the community, cooperating in various projects
for the material, intellectual, political, social and moral advancement of this
city.
In 1856 Mr. Hallock was married to Miss Mary T. Bliss, who was born
in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1830, and when young went to Massachusetts
to live. In 1855 she came to Portland where her sister, Mrs. Leland, was then
residing. She died in 1863 and the two children of that marriage are both
deceased. The son Edward reached the age of fifty years, passing away in
1907, while the daughter Bessie died in infancy. They also had an adopted
daughter, Annette B., who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, and in 1852 came
to the west, settling in Portland. The trip over the plains had consumed all of
the time between the ist of June and November. Here she became the wife of
John Cotter, who was born at Whitehall, New York, on the 17th of March,
1838. Lie came to the west when twenty-one years of age, making his way to
the mines. He was a barber by trade, following that pursuit in Portland. It
was in this city that they were married, March 31, 1868, and for twenty years
they traveled life's journey happily together, but the death of Mr. Cotter oc-
curred on the 7th of December, 1888, his remains being interred in Lone Fir
cemetery. He, too, was a member of the volunteer fire department, No. i,
and be belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Unto Mr. and
Mrs. Cotter were born six children : Lillian, who is the wife of Mortimer
Lawler, of Boston, Massachusetts, and has one son, Howard ; Harry A., of
Spoknne. Washington; John F., of Seattle; Esther, the wife of Arthur B. Lo-
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der, of Chicago; Louise, at home; and one died in infancy. With the excep-
tion of a period of six months spent in IndianapoHs, Mrs. Cotter has resided
continuously in Portland since she came across the plains more than a half
century ago, and has been an interested witness of its growth as it has been
transformed from a small and enterprising town to the beautiful Rose City of
the present day.
PRESTON WILSON GILLETTE.
There are those who have sung the praises and written of the glories of the
northwest, its splendid forests and majestic rivers. No stronger tribute, how-
ever, has been given than that of the pioneers who in their work of building an
empire in this section of the country testified to their appreciation of nature's
beauties and her bounty. It was they who in reality were the heralds of this
land, proclaiming her riches and her advantages in the establishment of their
homes here and their utilization of the opportunities offered. Prominent among
this number was Preston Wilson Gillette, who on the 2d of June, 1825, was born
in Rome township, Lawrence county, Ohio. His ancestral history proclaims the
fact that at the time of the persecution of the Huguenots in France in the
sixteenth century four brothers of the name emigrated to the colony of Connecti-
cut and according to all information now available it is believed that all the
Gillette families in the United States came from that stock.
Captain Horatio Nelson Gillette, father of Preston Wilson Gillette, was born in
Connecticut, January 5, 1799, and moved with his father to Ohio in 1816. Mr.
Gillette said of his father: "He started for himself early in life as a boatman
on the Ohio river. He first ran on keelboats before steamboats were introduced
upon the river. He thoroughly learned the channels of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers and when steamboats came he was one of the best steamboat pilots on the
rivers, and afterward was captain of steamers until he grew tired of the river
and remained at home, devoting the remainder of his life to farming. He was a
scientific and experimental farmer. He was a noted fruit grower and horticul-
turist. He was the first to graft and introduce the famous 'Rome Beauty'
apple, which is now so extensively grown throughout the west. There are more
'Rome Beauty' apples grown and sold in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys
than all other sorts combined. He was considered by all who knew him as one
of the most useful and intelligent as well as best of citizens. The whole com-
munity was benefited by his practical and experimental knowledge. He was a
sterling man, his character was without a blemish and above the reach of
suspicion. His integrity was without reproach." In connection with a
number of other leading citizens of his district he organized the first
agricultural society of Lawrence county, Ohio, in 1847, ^^id was elected
its first president. The organization is still in existence under the name
of the Lawrence County Agricultural Society. Not only in connection with
navigation and horticultural interests was Captain Gillette well known, but in
public life as well he figured prominently, and was a member of the convention
that assembled at Columbus, Ohio, in 1850 and framed the present constitution
of Ohio. He died in Lawrence county, June 24, 1881. His wife, Sarah B.
Wilson, was born in Virginia, November 21, 1804, and died in Lawrence county,
Ohio, November 25, 1840. Preston W. Gillette had six sisters and one brother.
Henry Clay Gillette, the only brother, enlisted in the Union army and after
serving for two and a half years contracted consumption from exposure and died
a few months later.
Preston W. Gillette was educated in the common schools of his native town-
ship, which he attended three, six or nine months in the year as opportunity
ofl'ered, spending the remainder of the time in the cultivation of his father's
farm. Subsequently he continued his studies at Clermont Academy. In his
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diary in later years he wrote : "When I was a boy of twelve or fourteen years
I heard my father reading a glowing letter from Astoria, Oregon, published in
the New York Express describing the mild, beautiful and healthful climate, the
elegant scenery, the great Columbia, the tall fir trees, the unsurpassed fertility
of the soil and the brilliant and promising future of the wonderful country, and
although but a boy this fired my brain and set me wild to go to Oregon. I tell
this to illustrate how small a thing frames the destiny of a life and to illustrate
what creatures of circumstances we are." Mr. Gillette never forgot this descrip-
tion and for a number of years there lay dormant in him the desire to make
Oregon his home until he had opportunity for the fulfillment of his hope.
In the autumn of 1851, having determined to become a member of the bar,
he went to Burlington, the county seat of Lawrence county, Ohio, and began
reading law in the office of Colonel Elias Nigh, an attorney of that place. In
the following February he read in a newspaper an account of an expedition fit-
ting out for Oregon called the "Presbyterian colony," and extending an invitation
to all persons of "good moral character" who desired to emigrate to that distant
territory to join them. Mr. Gillette acted at once upon this invitation and
immediately wrote to his father informing him of his determination to go to
Oregon, and also to the Rev. A. J. Hannah, who was the prime mover in this
enterprise. In a few days he received a very cordial letter from Mr. Hannah
urging him to join the colony and appointing a meeting with him in Cincinnati
on the 1 2th of March following. Mr. Gillette then closed his law books and
returned home to make his preparations for the long trip to the west. His diary
account of this is as follows: "On the i6th day of March, 1852, our party,
consisting of Mr. Hannah and twelve or fifteen persons, took passage from
Cincinnati on a comfortable steamer to St. Louis, Missouri. It was an elegant
trip down the beautiful Ohio to its mouth and up the turbulent Mississippi to
St. Louis. I enjoyed every moment of it as only a young, healthy, ambitious
man could when just beginning the first grand enterprise of his life. I was full
of hope, health and ambition ; I had cut loose from every friend and acquaintance
and was just entering upon a new life, alone in the world, but I enjoyed it and
felt more like a man than I ever had before. I liked my seeming freedom and
independence. It aroused in me a self-reliance that I never before felt or con-
ceived of. Our train consisted of twenty-two wagons with about sixty-five
people, and we arrived in Oregon on the 15th of September, one hundred and
thirty-four days from the date we started."
On the 18th of February, 1853, ^^- Gillette walked from Newsom's mill in
Marion county to Oregon City, and took passage on the little steamer Eagle to
Portland, the fare at that time being three dollars. As a passenger on the
steamer Lot Whitcomb, J. C. Ainsworth, captain, he went from Portland to
Astoria, then containing less than a score of buildings. He concluded to settle
in Clatsop county and purchased a place on the Lewis and Clark river six miles
south of the town site. In May, 1853, he received three boxes of fruit trees,
seeds and ornamental shrubbery from his father in Lawrence county, Ohio,
which was the first importation of ornamental shrubbery in the territory. The
box contained thirty or forty varieties of the best apples, several of which were
not to be found on the coast, besides a general assortment of ornamental shrubs.
There were also a number of varieties of roses and up to that time the Mission
rose was the only one known in Oregon. From this stock has sprung a large
proportion of the roses, shrubbery and other flowers and fruit which bloom and
bear in such wonderful luxuriance in Oregon and adjacent states. The express
upon the three small boxes in which the stock was packed amounted to one
hundred and fifty dollars. In writing of this importation in his diary Mr.
Gillette said : "It has always been a source of great pleasure to me to see where-
ever I go on the coast, from Victoria to San Francisco, the ofifshoots of my
importation. There is scarcely a yard or garden in Oregon, Washington or
British Columbia or northern California in which there cannot be found some-
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thing that sprang from the little stock first planted in my garden on the east
bank of the Lewis and Clark river in Clatsop county. It makes me feel and
realize that I have been of some use and have added to the comfort and pleasure
of thousands of my fellowmen."
In August, 1866, Mr. Gillette was appointed an "aid to the revenue," and
stationed at Yaquina bay to report the departure and arrival of sea-going ves-
sels and watch for smugglers. He wrote: "The only vessels that ever visited
the port were two small oyster schooners, so I really had nothing to do." In
1867 he sold his property on the Lewis and Clark river and removed to Portland,
where as traveling agent and correspondent he entered the services of the Ore-
gonian and began traveling over the state. In 1868 he was made collector and
general business agent for the Oregonian, and so continued until 1872, when he
severed his connection with the paper to engage in the real-estate business. In
that field he was exceedingly prosperous. In 1873, because there were so many
letters of inquiry from eastern states, Mr. Gillette procured money by sub-
scription and employed W. L. Adams to write a pamphlet entitled "Oregon As
It Is." In connection with the real-estate firm of which he was a member he
published ten thousand copies and sent them through the eastern and western
states. He wrote hundreds of letters in answer to inquiries ; he also requested
that the letters sent to the railroad offices be given him, and spent much time
and considerable money in answering them. Thus in exploiting the advantages
of this district he did much for Oregon's upbuilding and many there are who
name him as the influencing factor in bringing them to the northwest. He made
his business his constant study and his judgment of real-estate values was
always in demand. He was constantly receiving letters from brokers asking
his opinion on values. He negotiated deals for General Sheridan and other well
known men and conducted an extensive and profitable real-estate business in
Portland.
Mr. Gillette was reared in the faith of the whig party, of which his father
was an advocate, and later on the organization of the republican party both
he and his father joined its ranks. Aside from his service as a revenue officer
he was in 1862 elected to the Oregon legislature from Clatsop county without
opposition, receiving every vote cast in his district. In 1864 he was appointed
collector of customs at Astoria and in the same year was elected to represent
the three counties of Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook in the legislature. While
in the house he was the author of several important measures. Chief among
these w^ere the bills framed by him which regulated pilotage at the mouth of
the Columbia, resulting in the introduction of steam tugs to supersede the old
schooners and establishing pilot rates. In later years, speaking of his connec-
tion with these legislative enactments, he said : "I was so determined to have
the steam pilot tug system established on the Columbia river that I went in per-
son on horseback from the river to Olympia, through snow storms and rain, and
remained until my bill was passed by the Washington legislature and signed by
the governor." The measure was passed in less than two weeks and became a
law of both Oregon and Washington.
In 1888 Mr. Gillette was united in marriage to Miss Mary MacCabe, of
Portland, Oregon. Their only child, a son, Preston W. Gillette, Jr., was born in
Portland in January, 1893. Mrs. Gillette's parents w^ere natives of Kentucky
and on removing to California about 1853, they took with them three negro
slaves to the land of freedom that they might not be sold to strangers. In 1862
Mr. MacCabe removed with his family to Jackson county, Oregon, where he
died in 1867, and the following year his wife passed away, leaving a family
of six young children, all of whom are still living with the exception of one.
Mr. Gillette never associated with secret or other societies, nor was he a
member of any church. His views on religion were broad, liberal and chari-
table. His love of nature amounted to worship ; the trees, the woods, the moun-
tains and skies w^ere a continual delight to him and although his eyesight from
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boyhood was very deficient, no new variety of plant or tree ever escaped his
notice or was passed by until he had learned it thoroughly. He was a great reader
and possessed a remarkable memory. His taste in literature led him to select
only the best and when he read he did so understandingly. It is difficult to put
into words the character of such a man as Mr. Gillette, but all who knew him
recognized his absolute honesty, his abhorrence of anything false or superficial
and his perfect trustworthiness. Throughout life his aims were toward the
ideal. He was fearless in the discharge of duty and never disappointing in
promise, while scheming, sharp practice and deceit were utterly foreign to his
nature. He was by birth, practice and preference a gentleman, who always at-
tended strictly to his own business ; he was careful, methodical and economical
without being parsimonious. His long, industrious, frugal life was an open
book, in which no one could find a single page on which there was anything that
was not honorable, sincere and uplifting. In his family he was generous and
free, a devoted husband and loving father. If there was any trait in his nature
stronger than his love of nature and home, it was his loyalty. He was intensely
loyal — to his city, his friends, his party, and above all to his country. There
are many acts in his life which are tangible assets in the development of Oregon,
while in other respects the worth of his labors is immeasurable for who can de-
termine how far-reaching was the influence of the history of Oregon's resources
which he sent out or the letters of inquiry which he answered? He realized
that nature had done much for man in the northwest and that man might do
much for himself. His contributions to civilization on the Pacific coast were
large and his name is indelibly inscribed upon the keystone of Oregon's arch of
fame.
FRANCIS M. De LONG.
Francis M. De Long, who for many years was identified with farming in-
terests in Clarke county, Washington, continuing actively in business up to the
time of his death, which occurred October 9, 1909, was numbered among those
citizens who, while carefully conducting individual interests, were ever mind-
ful of the duties and obligations which they owe to the general public. A na-
tive of Indiana, he was born March 5, 1841. His youthful days were spent in
the middle west and he had just reached his majority when he responded to the
country's call for aid in the Civil war. He had in the meantime removed from
Indiana to Illinois, and in the latter state he enlisted as a member of Com-
pany E, Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry under the command of Captain
M. Kenyon. With that regiment he went to the front and participated in a
number of hotly contested engagements during the three years of his connec-
tion with the army. He never faltered in the performance of duty, whether
on the firing line or on the lonely picket line, and at the expiration of his three
years' term was honorably discharged at White River, Arkansas.
He then returned to his home in Illinois and later went to Missouri. Sub-
sequently he became a resident of Riverton, Nebraska, where he lived for sev-
enteen years, owning a section of land in that locality, but the west had fof
him an irresistible attraction and he continued toward the setting sun, at his
next removal having Salt Lake City as his destination. When he became a
resident of St. Anthony, Idaho, he engaged in the hotel business, building the
first hotel there at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. His daughter was also the
first female child born in that town. There were only two houses when he went
there and he aided materially in the upbuilding and improvement of the place.
After conducting his hotel for six months he went out on a farm and carried
on general agricultural pursuits there until his removal to Qarke county, Wash-
ington, in December, 1892. Here he purchased one hundred and seventy-nine
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acres of land at Sifton, which is a part of the Richardson donation claim. This
lies at the edge of the new town of Sifton and Mr. De Long continued its
cultivation until his life's labors were ended. He carefully and systematically
carried on farm work and his practical and progressive methods resulted in
bringing him good returns. Prior to his death, however, he sold eighty-five
acres of land. His farm was devoted to the production of hay and grain and
since the death of Mr. De Long his widow has conducted the ranch, which now
comprises ninety-four acres. Of this seventy-four acres have been cleared
and put under cultivation, while the rest is in timber.
It was on the 17th of June, 1888, that Mr. De Long was united in marriage
to Miss Qara Newton, of Clermont county, Ohio, a daughter of Asa and Ann
(Whiting) Newton. They became parents of two children, Lloyd and Lulu,
both at home with their mother. By a former marriage Mr. De Long had five
children, of whom one is living, Charles, who makes his home near Vancouver.
Mr. De Long held membership with Lew Wallace Post, No. 115, G. A. R., of
Orchards, and thus maintained pleasant relations with his old army comrades.
Plis life record covered sixty-eight years and was a period of activity and use-
fulness, crowned with a desirable measure of success. He was devoted to the
welfare of his family and was faithful to his friends, and in matters of citizen-
ship he also displayed an enterprising and progressive spirit.
CHARLES W. POPE.
Long years have passed since Charles W. Pope was numbered among the
active business men of the Willamette valley. He is remembered, however, by
many of the earlier settlers, for he was a man of strong individuality and
marked characteristics and became widely known as a successful hardware mer-
chant of Oregon City. A native of the American metropolis, Charles W. Pope
was born in New York city on the 26th of September, 1833, and came of Eng-
lish ancestry. His father, Charles Pope, was a native of England and follow-
ing his arrival in the new world was married to Miss Sarah Archer, a native
of New York. He continued his residence in the Empire state until he started
for the west on one of the Abernathy ships which sailed around the Horn in
1852. His destination was Oregon City, then a place of considerably more
importance than Portland. There he opened a general store and spent the
greater part of his remaining days in that place, although for a brief period he
was a resident of Portland. However, he returned to Oregon City and in that
picturesque town, situated at the falls of the Willamette, both he and his wife
spent the remainder of their days.
Charles W. Pope, the eldest of their seven children, attended the public
schools of New York and was a youth of eighteen years when he accompanied
his parents to Oregon. His initial connection with business life in this city
was as assistant in his father's store, but later he took up river work, becom-
ing purser of one of the steamboats on the Willamette. However, he again
turned his attention to commercial pursuits, purchasing a store of Mr. Mill-
wayne, one of the oldest hardware merchants of Oregon. From that time until
his demise Mr. Pope was engaged in the hardware business in Oregon City
where he carried a large line of goods and built up a substantial trade. The
store is still owned by his widow and is conducted under the firm style of
Pope & Company.
Mr. Pope was married on the 14th of May, 1862, at Oregon City, to Miss
Harriet E. Pease, who was born in the state of New York and was a daughter
of Norman and Harriet (McAlHster) Pease, the former a native of Ohio and
the latter of the Empire state. Mr. Pease died when his daughter, Mrs. Pope,
was very young and her mother came to the west in 1862, spending her last
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days in Portland. Mrs. Pope made her way westward in 1861 to visit her
brother, Captain George Pease, who was a pioneer settler here and became ac-
quainted with Mr. Pope who sought her hand in marriage. They became the
parents of four children : Ada, who is the widow of John H. Picket, and has
two children, Frances and Katharine; Mary, the deceased wife of John H.
Hemenway; Charles B., who has also departed this life; and Charles W., of
Oregon City, who has charge of his mother's business there.
In the year 1877 the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the hus-
band and father who on the 22d of March of that year was drowned in the
Clackamas river. His body was recovered and was laid to rest in the Oregon
City cemetery. He was a republican in his political views but would never con-
sent to hold office, feeling that his business afifairs claimed his entire time and
attention. Fie enjoyed social relations with his fellowmen and held member-
ship with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Oregon City. His religious
faith was evidenced in his membership in the Methodist church which found
him loyal and devoted to its interests and upbuilding. About 1880 Mrs. Pope
removed from Oregon City to Portland where she has since made her home
and here she has many warm friends.
H. W. DAVIS.
It has been said that there is always an element of lawlessness in a new com-
munity before government becomes organized and law holds sway. But if this
is true it is nevertheless as true that the majority of citizens in a new com-
munity stand for law and order, for truth and progress, else the community
would cease to enjoy growth and advancement. There would be nothing that
would attract other settlers. H. W. Davis was of that class who ever upheld
the legal and political status of Portland and advocated its intellectual, social
and moral advancement and thus from early pioneer times until his death he
was numbered among Portland's citizens of substantial worth.
A native of Virginia, Mr. Davis was born on the lOth of February, 1813.
The environment of his youth was that of the frontier and he enjoyed such
educational advantages as the schools of that day afforded. After putting aside
his text-books he learned the machinist's trade and became a well qualified
workman, following that pursuit up to the time of his marriage. While still
living in the east he was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Wilkenson, who was
born in Virginia, and remained a resident of that state until after the time of
her marriage. She was born February 5, 1803. They began their domestic
life in the place of their nativity, and six children had been born ere their re-
moval to the west. At length, however, they decided to seek a home on the
Pacific coast and traveled over the plains with ox teams, being six months on
the way. It was a long and arduous trip, the story of which has never been
adequately told, for only those who have had such experiences can realize the
hardships of journeying over the prairies and across the desert and then climb-
ing the mountains to descend again on the other side of the slope to the valleys
of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. At length, however, the party reached
Portland and Mr. Davis opened a machine shop in connection with David Mc-
Masters at the corner of Third and Yamhill streets, where the old Baker Theater
was later situated. Mr. Davis continued in that business for many years, secur-
ing a growing patronage as the city developed but eventually sold out. His later
years were largely devoted to office holding. He was elected justice of the
peace and filled that position for over twenty years, his incumbency winning
him the title of Judge Davis. His decisions were strictly fair and impartial
for he carefully weighed the evidence in the case and correctly applied thereto
the law which had reference to the points in litigation.
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Unto Mr. and Mrs. Davis were born twelve children : Cordelia, who be-
came the wife of William Braden ; Sarah M., the wife of John Marshall, of
Portland ; Eva, who married George Lawson but both are now deceased ; Anna,
the wife of Lewis Fuller, of Portland; Mrs. Hattie Forsyth; Charles; Herman;
Park ; Mrs. Ailice Foss ; Winfield and Irene, all of whom have departed this
life ; and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Davis was called to her final rest on
the 6th of February, 1853, at the age of fifty years, and the death of Mr. Davis
occurred January 18, 1891, when he had reached the age of seventy-seven years,
eleven months and eight days. He became one of the charter members of
Samaritan Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., in which he held all of the offices and was
likewise a member of the encampment. His political support was unfalteringly
given to the men and measures of the republican party, for he deemed its prin-
ciples a valuable element in good government. His religious faith was that of
the Methodist church and he was always loyal to its teachings. For many years
he lived in Portland and the city recognized in him one who did not seek to
figure prominently before the public but he nevertheless displayed throughout
his life the sterling qualities of good citizenship, of unfaltering trustworthiness
and of marked devotion to duty.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM IRVING.
A considerable portion of the site of East Portland covers the donation land
claim of six hundred and forty acres which Captain William Irving secured in
185 1. The former owner, David Sheldon, had occupied the place but six
months and had cleared about two acres of land. A small frame house stood
upon the tract and it became the early home of Captain William Irving at a
period when the remainder of the city of East Portland was largely covered with
its native growth of pine forest. His title is an indication of his long connection
with the shipping and river interests of the northwest. He was born in Annam,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1816, and at a very early age went to sea, reaching
many of the leading ports of the world while still a young man. In the early
'40s he was mate on the brig Tuscany, which sailed between New York and
English ports, at which time Richard Hoyt was captain of the brig and Richard
Williams was steward. The three men were later destined to play an important
part in the establishment of steam navigation on the Willamette and Columbia
rivers.
Captain Irving came to Oregon in 1849 as master and part owner of the brig
Success, with which he entered the coasting trade. He laid the foundation of
his fortune in the purchase of a donation claim on the east side of the Willa-
mette, a tract that became very valuable as the growth of the city extended in
that direction. His first steamboat venture was in commanding the little Eagle,
which he brought up on the deck of the bark Success and placed on the Portland
and Oregon City route. After selling that boat to Wells & Williams he bought
the Express and in association with others also owned a number of the other
early boats that were seen upon the waters of the Willamette and Columbia.
He disposed of his steamboat interests in Oregon, however, about 1858, and
went to British Columbia, where he joined his old partner, Alexander S. Mur-
ray, and the Jamison brothers, there building the first steamer constructed
in British Columbia, called the Governor Douglas. Later he built the Colonel
Moodey, with which he made the first successful trip to Yale in 1861. The
following year he sold his interest in both boats and built the Reliance, which
he commanded until 1866. He then built the Onward. He had great opposition
almost from the time of his arrival on the Fraser river, but he persevered in his
efforts of operating his boats on that stream and in each business contest emerged
victorious. At the time of his death he stood at the head of his profession, ad-
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mired even by his business rivals and revered by a host of friends who regarded
his death as an irreparable loss.
In September, 185 1, Captain Irving was married to Miss Elizabeth Dickson,
a daughter of James and Susan Dickson, pioneer residents of Oregon. Mrs.
Irving was born in Shelby county, Indiana, and in 1850 came across the plains
with her parents, remaining in the Waldo hills until 1853, when they took up
a donation claim near Roseburg, where they died. Captain and Mrs. Irving
began their domestic life upon the donation claim which he secured on the
eastern bank of the Willamette and there remained for nine years, or until i860,
when they removed to British Columbia, Mr. Shaver, a brother-in-law of Mrs.
Irving, taking charge of the place until she returned. In 1884 the present fine
residence was built. Unto Captain and Mrs. Irving there were born five chil-
dren. Mary is the wife of Thomas S. Briggs, of British Columbia, and they
have nine children, William I., Henry C, John, Barrett, Thomas L., Naoma,
Emanuel, Stanley and Errol. John, the only son of the family, now living at
Victoria, British Columbia, married Jennie Monroe, a daughter of Alexander
Monroe, one of the early Hudson Bay men, and they have three children, Eliza-
beth J., William A. and Genevieve. Susan is the widow of G. M. Cox and has
three children, Susan, Britonarte and Mary. Elizabeth is the wife of Captain
Ernest W. Spencer, of Portland, and has two sons, Walter and Charles Roy.
Nellie is the wife of W. S. Chandler, of San Francisco, and they have four chil-
dren, Ernest I., William G., Helen S. and Benjamin.
The death of Captain Irving occurred at New Westminster, British Colum-
bia, August 28, 1872. He was a member of St. Andrews Society and a man of
sterling personal worth. One who knew him long and well said of him at the
time of his death : "His purse was always at the disposal of any one in need, and
his generosity was unrestricted by class, faith or nationality. He knew no dis-
tinction in his bounty, and he never allowed a former injury to interfere with a
present occasion for timely aid. He was a gentleman in the true sense of the
term." '
WILLIAM S. FAILING.
William S. Failing, now living retired in Portland, was born in JeflPerson
county, New York, November 5, 1838, and has therefore passed the seventy-
second milestone on life's journey. His parents were Sylvester and Charlotte
(Kellogg) Failing. He lived in the Empire state until about i860 when he de-
termined to leave the AMantic coast and try his fortune by the side of the Pa-
cific. Oregon was his destination but he traveled westward to California, mak-
ing the journey partly by boat across the isthmus, where he again embarked
for San Francisco. He tarried in California for a few months and in 1861 came
to Oregon, where he engaged in the nursery business for a number of years.
He also served as inspector in the custom-house and his life was characterized
by activity, diligence and perseverance until he retired, having attained to ad-
vanced years.
On the 3d of January, 1866, Mr. Failing was united in marriage to Miss
Helen M. Hathaway. She is a native of Wood county, Ohio, and came with
her parents to Oregon in 185 1. They made the long trip across the plains and
over stretches of hot sand with ox teams and at length settled in Milwaukie,
Oregon, where her father followed carpentering. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Failing
have been born nine children: Elizabeth, the wife of G. T. Hunt, of Estacada,
Oregon ; Oliver W., living in Portland ; Mary Jane, the wife of G. F. Peterson,
of this city; Helen, the wife of W. E. Burch, a resident of Oakland, California;
Cornelia F., the wife of WilHam R. Minsinger; Mildred, the wife of G. C.
Powers, of Portland ; Stella, Junia and Grace, all at home. Mrs. Failing is a
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member of the Episcopal church. The family has long been prominent in
this city, having many friends among the older settlers and also among the
more recent arrivals.
Mr. Failing is a charter member of Industry Lodge, A. O. U. W. For half
a century he has lived in Oregon and has been a witness of much of its growth
and development. He was one of the discoverers of the John Day mine and
in other connections he has been closely associated with events which have marked
the progress and advancement of this section of the state.
R. L. GILLESPIE, M. D.
The hospital is a comparatively old institution; the sanitarium with its mod-
ern equipment is comparatively recent. This institution meets every demand of
the present day for the adequate care of the sick as well as for surgical attend-
ance. It is becoming more and more an indispensable element in every com-
munity, providing, as it does, opportunity for scientific and sanitary equipment,
as accessories to health, which cannot be obtained in the home.
R. L. Gillespie, physician and surgeon, is rapidly becoming widely known
throughout the northwest as the president and superintendent of the Crystal
Springs and the Mount Tabor Sanitariums, which, situated on Mount Tabor
Heiglits in Portland, cover thirty acres of ground. He has conducted these institu-
tions as superintendent and chief medical director since 1899 and, while he has
gathered about him an able corps of assistants, the success of these institu-
tions is chiefly attributable to his business ability and professional skill. Dr.
Gillespie is, morever, entitled to special mention in this volume as one of the
Oregon pioneers of 1859. He was born on a farm in McComb county, Michigan,
in 1855, a son of Robert L, and Mary Ann (Bidwell) Gillespie. His father, a
typical pioneer of the northwest, was a Scotchman by birth and was educated
in the land of hills and heather. As a young man he became officially connected
with the English government and with his wife had made three trips around
the world before the birth of Dr. Gillespie. He stood six feet and two inches
in height and weighed about two hundred and forty pounds. He was well
proportioned, a man of striking appearance and of equally strong and com-
mendable characteristics. He possessed a somewhat adventurous turn of mind
and at one time, acting for the English government, had charge of the arsenal
at Hong Kong, China, with the title of high sheriff. A desire to see still more
of the world led him to the northwest in 1859, in which year he crossed the
plains from Michigan, where he had previously lived upon a farm, in Oregon,
making his way to Oregon City, which was then a more important town than
Portland. After a brief period, however, he removed with his family to Marys-
ville, now Corvallis, Oregon, and later became a resident of northern Idaho.
He served as sheriff of one of the counties in that part of the state during the
memorable winter of 1861-2, the severity of the climate being such as to make
the position a very arduous one. In the spring of 1862 the family went down
the Clear river in Idaho on a raft, resting for a time at Lewiston, whence they
proceeded by wagon to The Dalles, from which point the journey was con-
tinued by boat to Portland. In 1864 the Gillespies became residents of Boise
City, Idaho, where the father and mother took up their permanent abode. Mr.
Gillespie having previously studied law, successfully engaged in practice there
and became a man of great prominence in Boise City. He served as probate
judge for a number of years and was a man of marked influence in the com-
munity, his abilities well fitting him for leadership. He died in 1872 at the
age of forty-six years, his remains being interred in the Odd Fellows cemetery
there. Mrs. Gillespie still makes her home in Boise City and has reached the
remarkable old age of ninety-one years.
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Dr. Gillespie, his father's namesake, was but a small lad when the family
made the long and arduous journey across the plains and was still but a boy
when they finally settled in Boise City. In the meantime, in the various re-
movals, he had met all of the experiences of life upon the frontier, and memory
brings to his mind many vivid pictures of the districts in which the family lived
and the phases of life there exhibited. He supplemented his previous education
by study in St. Michael's College, an Episcopal school of Boise City, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1870. He then turned his attention
to stock-raising upon the range in Idaho and several years passed in that way.
In 1873, when a youth of eighteen years, he returned to Portland and seem-
ingly having inherited some of his father's adventurous spirit, he shipped as a
cabin boy on the sailing vessel, Jane A. Falkenberg for the Sandwich Islands.
He again came to Portland on the return trip of that vessel and then went to
his parents' home in Boise City, but in 1883 returned to Portland and resumed
his studies, matriculating in the Willamette University, in which he prepared
for the practice of medicine. The M. D. degree was conferred upon him by
his graduation in 1886 and he at once opened an office in this city. He is today
one of the distinguished physicians and surgeons of the northwest and has sev-
eral times, in addition to a growing and extensive private practice, served Port-
land as city physician. In 1886 he did further professional work in the New
York Post Graduate School of New York city. He is now bending his energies
toward the development of the sanitariums of which he has charge and his
labors in this direction are actuated by a broad humanitarian spirit, as well
as a laudable desire for success. He has been president as well as superintendent
and chief medical director of the Crystal Springs and Mount Tabor Sanitariums
since 1899. The other officials of these institutions are Henry M. Tuttle, sec-
retary, and Dr. H. Waldo Coe, treasurer. These sanitariums were established
in 1894 on Division street in Portland by Dr. Coe and in 1898 were removed to
their present location, which is largely ideal, — thirty acres of ground secured
high on Mount Tabor Heights at the edge of the city with pure country air and
beautiful surroundings. They are devoted chiefly to the treatment of nervous
diseases. The sanitariums are composed of a group of twenty separate build-
ings, five of which are known as the main buildings and contain from seventeen
to thirty-seven rooms each. The other buildings are mostly small private cot-
tages for isolation cases. In addition to his work in connection with the Crystal
Springs and Mount Tabor Sanitariums, Dr. Gillespie has charge of the Morning-
side Asylum situated near by. This asylum, which belongs to the United States
government, is used for the care of insane patients from Alaska. Under the
direction of Dr. Gillespie are seventy-four employes and in planning their work
and managing the institutions he displays notable business sagacity and ability
as well as remarkable professional skill.
Dr. Gillespie was married in 1875 to Miss Philomena Gratton, a daughter
of Felix Gratton, an early pioneer of French Prairie, Oregon, of Canadian
birth. The Doctor and his wife have two children : Pearl A., the wife of C.
R. Watson, of Portland ; and Lucia A., the wife of Dr. Joseph A. Applewhite,
who is first assistant to Dr. Gillespie. Dr. Applewhite is a graduate of Millsaps
College, Mississippi, and of Oregon University, in which he pursued his medical
course.
Dr. Gillespie is very prominent in Masonry. He belongs to Washington
Lodge, No. 6, F. & A. M. He holds membership in Oregon Consistory, No. i,
and with Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise connected with
Portland lodge of Elks and with the Episcopal church. His interests are broad
and make him a valued citizen, for his support is given to various measures
calculated to benefit and upbuild the community. However, his profession claims
the greater part of his time and in his chosen calling he has made continuous
advancement owing to his wide reading, his thorough experience and his con-
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nection with the different medical societies. He belongs to the Portland Medical
Society the Multnomah County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical As-
sociation the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Society
and the National Association for the Study of Epileptics. The work that he
has done and is doing is of distinct value to Portland and her citizens and the
years have established his right to rank with those men whose work is a credit
and honor to the profession.
BENJAMIN F. SNUFFIN.
When Oregon was an "Indian country," long before the hostility of the savages
had ceased to be manifest against the invasion of the white settlers, Benjamin
F. Snufhn became a resident of this state and to the time of his death was con-
nected with the development and substantial growth of Oregon.
His birth occurred March 4, 1830, upon a little farm in the midst of the
undeveloped forest region of Champaign county, Ohio. His parents were Joseph
and Martha Snuffin, who came of Quaker ancestry and were numbered among
the pioneer settlers of that part of Ohio in which their son Benjamin was born.
The public-school system had not been inaugurated in this district and the boy
attended a school conducted on the subscription plan, the little "temple of learn-
ing" being built of logs. The course of instruction was limited and his oppor-
tunity for attending was often curtailed by the necessity of assisting his father
in the development of the home farm. He remained under the parental roof
until eighteen years of age and when he left Ohio took up his abode in Andrews
county, Missouri, where he remained until the spring of 185 1. He was there em-
ployed at farm labor for a brief period but the gold discovery proved to him
an alluring field and he joined a wagon train of twenty wagons each drawn
by three or four oxen. As they slowly wended their way over prairie, plain and
mountain to the west they encountered hardships and difficulties, such as only
a vivid imagination can portray to the traveler of the present day who speeds
over the country in a Pullman car. Six months had been checked off on the
calendar ere the party reached their destination. Mr. Snuffin at once engaged in
mining and prospecting on Rogue river but seven months convinced him that
wealth was not to be obtained so easily as he had hoped and anticipated. He
therefore turned his attention to the operation of a sawmill on the Clackamas
river and devoted fifteen years to that business. At length he disposed of the
mill in 1872 in order that he might go to Mendocino county, California, and in-
vestigate the prospects there. He was not pleased with the outlook, however,
and returned to Mount Tabor, Oregon. He then purchased forty acres of par-
tially timbered land and devoted the ensuing four years to its cultivation and
improvement. Later removed to East Portland, where he followed teaming for
three years after which he purchased eight acres and took up the business of
raising fruit. In this he was so successful that he invested more and more largely
in city realty and in country property, becoming owner of the Stephens addition
and five residences, together with other property, which in course of years,
brought him to a position among the men of affluence in Portland.
In 1862 Mr. Snuffin was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Pierce, who
was born in Benton county, Iowa, a daughter of Franklin and Matilda (Hollen-
beck) Pierce. Her father was a farmer and miller, who in 1852 started for the
plains with ox teams, bringing his family to Oregon, where he arrived on the
1st of November, after traveling for six months over prairie and arid plain
and through the mountain passes until the valleys of the Pacific slope were
reached. The family remained in Portland through the following winter and
as times were very hard the children sold pies which the mother made and split
and sold pitch wood in order to meet the necessary expenses. In the spring Mr.
Pierce took up a donation claim on Clackamas river in Clackamas county, now
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Estacada, securing three hundred and twenty acres of rich land, on which he
built a long house. There were no improvements upon the place, however,
when it came into his possession and much timber had to be cleared away before
the fields could be cultivated. There were at that time three children in the
family and four others were added to the household while they occupied the
farm. Sarah, the eldest of the family, is the widow of John Palmateer. Mary
E. is the widow of Mr. Snuffin. Eliza is the deceased wife of Oren Price.
Martha J. married Robert Bruce, who has passed away. Maria J., twin sister
of Martha, became the wife of William Livermore but is now deceased. The
sixth member of the family died in infancy, and Margaret, the youngest, be-
came the wife of James Barger. The father lived upon the old home place
until a few years prior to his death, when he purchased property in Portland at
the corner of Eleventh and Stephens streets and retired from active business.
There both he and his wife spent their remaining days in well earned rest.
She was a most active and devoted member of the Methodist church for more
than a half century. The second daughter, Mary E., was but a young girl when
she accompanied her parents to Oregon and here on the i8th of January, 1862,
she gave he hand in marriage to Benjamin F. Snuffin. Their union was blessed
with seven children. Martha became the wife of Henry Odell and died at the
age of twenty-four years, leaving three children: Nellie M., the wife of John
Crook; Luella S., the wife of Felix Dell Snyder; and David B. William A.,
the second of the family, is in California. Franklin O., who married Emma L.
Ginty, is living in Lynn Park, Oregon. Walter P., who wedded Catherine M.
Palmateer, resides at Estacada, Oregon. James E. is at home. John Fred, of
Portland, married Cora A. Adams and has three children, Alma E., Benjamin
and Mary E. Sadie E., the youngest of the family, is the wife of Albert Colhns.
The death of Mr. Snuffin occurred October 22, 1904, and his grave was made
in Lone Fir cemetery. He was always an earnest republican and took an active
interest in the success and growth of his party. In pioneer days he proved his
courage by active service in the Indian war in 1856 and was wounded while on
duty. He maintained a deep interest in the upbuilding and welfare of his adopted
county and state and was a man in whose business integrity unquestioned con-
fidence was placed. The period of his residence here covered fifty-three years
and as he watched the development of Oregon from a largely unsettled wilder-
ness into one of the populous, prosperous and growing states of the northwest
he felt great pride in what was accomplished and the district became very dear
to him. It was not only his home but he had also been identified with its prog-
ress and upbuilding and the events which were to others matters of history were
to him matters of observation or personal experience.
CHARLES F. ADAMS.
Charles F. Adams, connected with the Savings Security & Trust Company
of Portland since its organization, has been its president and first executive
official since 1903. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he was bom March 8,
1862, unto Orson and Annie L. (Fisher) Adams. Liberal educational advan-
tages were provided him. After completing a preparatory course in the Phillips
Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, he entered Yale and was graduated
with the class of 1881 as a civil engineer. In 1883 he came to the coast and
was clerk in the land office at Walla Walla until 1885 when he entered the First
National Bank of Colfax, Washington, as cashier. Coming to Portland, he
aided in the organization of the Security Savings & Trust Company, of which
he continued as cashier until the death of H. W. Corbett in 1903 when he be-
came president.
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Mr. Adams was married in 1901 to Mary C. Eichbaum, the daughter of
Fred Eichbaum. They have two children, C. F., and Ann, aged respectively
five and three years. Mr. Adams is a well known advocate of republican prin-
ciples and is a thirty-second degree Mason of the Scottish Rite.
CAPTAIN JOHN H. WOLFE.
In the period when Portland's formative history was in the making, when
men of determination as well as of enterprise were planning the policy of the
city's growth and development, Captain John H. Wolfe came to Oregon and
was for years thereafter one of the best known and perhaps without exception
the most prominent of the river captains who in controlling navigation on the
Columbia did so much to advance the growth of this section of the country.
A native of Germany, he was born in 1824 and was therefore but twenty-
eight years of age when he arrived in Oregon as a passenger on the schooner
Emhous in 1852. Leaving that vessel soon after his arrival, he commenced
steamboating on the old Multnomah with Captain Richard Hoyt, Sr. Quick to
learn and a general favorite with every one, the young man was soon advanced,
his ability and fidelity wining him successive promotions until he became cap-
tain of the Belle. From time to time larger responsibilities were given into
his keeping as he rose steadily in the service until he was in command of the
best steamers owned by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. At various
times during his long career he handled successfully every steamer belonging
to that corporation with the exception of the Willamette river boats. A con-
temporary biographer has said of him : "Captain Wolfe was a thorough steam-
boat man in every respect and no night was too dark and no fog too thick to
baffle his skill." He continued in active service until a few weeks prior to his
death, and had completed a third of a century's service on river steamboats at
the time of his retirement. He passed away in Portland, October 14, 1885, and
in the Evening Telegram of the following day there appeared an article from
the pen of T. B. Merry as follows :
"The loss of a pioneer like Captain John H. Wolfe is no ordinary bereave-
ment; and while the grief of personal friends like myself is selfish compared
with that of his stricken family, yet a few words may not be altogether amiss
at this moment. Captain Wolfe's services to the Oregon Steam Navigation
Company and their successors in law mark a period of thirty-two years of the
most prosperous steamboating ever done on this coast, and much of its success
depended upon the sobriety, courage and reliability of employes. No man in
their employ ever possessed these three requisites in a higher degree than Cap-
tain Wolfe. A man of limited advantages in earlier life, contact with the great
world had given him a polish which united reality with an innate dignity which
was the outgrowth of his candid and manly nature. No commander ever had
a finer sense of justice nor maintained a better degree of discipline; and while
his austere nature brooked no familiarity on the part of his subordinate officers,
yet he maintained over them such an ascendency by treating them with the great-
est urbanity as led them to regard him as an elder brother. No one but a man
who had served under him could accurately judge of his qualifications as a pilot.
Up to the time I went to work on the same boat with him I knew him as a neat
handler of boats and especially good in heavily loaded trips when it required
fine judgment in landing. But after I got alongside of him I began to see the
work in which he surpassed all his contemporaries — close work in a dense fog.
Just below Vancouver there is a very crooked channel in low water and another
just like it just below Fisher's Landing. In October and November these chan-
nels seldom exceed nine feet of water and if a boat heavily loaded were to once
get outside of them, she would require some costly literage before she could be
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gotten off. I have stood beside him of a foggy morning, many a time when he
could not get close enough to either bank to get a point of departure, and how
he got through there with big boats like the Wild West and Reed, with only
once grounding in the seventeen years that I knew him, is one of the mysteries
that he carried away with him when he rang his 'quitting bell' on earth and
passed into the presence of Him who commands the universe. Now I wish to
suggest that, if it can be possibly arranged, the funeral of this worthy man and
exemplary officer may be deferred till Sunday next, as there are on that day
twice as many steamboat men in the city as on any other day of the week. And
there are a few who could not spare the time except on Sunday who would like
to be enabled to pay their parting tribute of respect to one who, through storm
and darkness for nearly forty years watched in patient silence, that others might
sleep in peace."
The memory of Captain Wolfe is enshrined in the hearts of many who knew
him. Those who came in contact with him — and these included thousands of
Portland people and visitors to this section of the country — found him ever a
genial, kind-hearted gentleman, always courteous and obliging. It may well be
said of him that he was never too busy to be courteous or too courteous to be
busy. Duty to his ship and the company which he represented was ever a pre-
eminent characteristic in his life and yet when the exigencies of the moment
did not demand his absolutely undivided attention to his ship, the passengers
found him ever willing to reply to their querries or promote their comfort in
any way possible. His life experiences made him a broadminded man and one
for whom his friends — and they were many — entertained the strongest affection
and highest regard. He passed away on the 14th of October, 1885.
Captain Wolfe was married in Portland in July, 1857, to Philipina Saling,
who died in December, 1897, and to them were born four children: Sophie,
now the wife of John Klosterman ; a son who died at the age of fifteen months ;
Clara E., who died in 1897 ; and Mary C, the wife of F. J. Alex Mayer.
ALLEN FRANCIS.
The Francis family, now represented in Portland by Mrs. Walter E. Dyer,
a daughter of him whose name introduces this review, has since the middle por-
tion of the nineteenth century been connected with the history of this city and
the northwest. The ancestral record brings us "from eastern rock to sunset
wave." Connecticut was the original American home of the family, representa-
tives of the name residing there as early as 1632. At a later period their
descendants were prominent in the middle west as residents of Springfield, Illi-
nois. Simeon Francis, Sr., was married May 24. 1793, in Connecticut, their
native state, to Miss Mary A. Steele. They remained residents of New England
until the death of Mrs. Francis on the i8th of September, 1822. Mr. Francis
passed away September 7, 1823, and they were survived by a family of seven
sons .and two daughters, who assembled at the family homestead in Wethers-
field, Connecticut, in the spring of 1829 and decided to sell their property in
New England and seek homes in the west.
Of this family, Simeon Francis, Jr., was born in Wethersfield, May 14,
1796, and in early life learned the printer's trade in New Haven, Connecticut.
Later he became junior partner of the firm of Clapp & Francis and engaged in
newspaper publication at New London, Connecticut, in 1824. While there
residing he was married. Soon afterward he disposed of his business interests
in New London and removed to Buffalo, New York, where as a member of the
firm of Lazwell & Francis he published the Buffalo Emporium. About that
time the excitement concerning the disappearance of one Morgan, who is said
to have exposed the secrets of Masonry, occurred. It was believed that the
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Masons put an end to Morgan (which, however, was never proven) and great
opposition to Masonry arose. Both Mr. Lazwell and Mr. Francis were Masons
and at this period their business so declined that they were obHged to discontinue
the pubhcation of their paper in 1828. The middle west seemed to offer a more
attractive field and in 1831 Simeon Francis and his wife removed to Springfield,
Illinois, accompanied by Ann Douglas, a niece of Mrs. Francis, who in 1836
became the wife of Captain George Barrell and lived in Springfield. In 1840
President William Henry Harrison appointed Mr. Francis, Indian agent for
Oregon, but after making the necessary preparations for the trip he resigned.
Pie had previously been engaged in the publication of the State Journal of Spring-
field, Illinois, but, selling out his paper, turned his attention to merchandising.
He was very prominent in the affairs of Springfield at that day and for several
years was secretary of the State Agricultural Society. But the west called him
and, disposing of his interests in Springfield in 1859, he came to Portland.
Here he edited the Oregon Farmer and had large influence in promoting the
agricultural development of the state not only through the columns of that paper
but also as president of the Oregon State Agricultural Society. He was for one
year connected with the Oregonian and in 1862 was appointed paymaster in the
United States army, with residence at Vancouver, Washington, by President
Lincoln, with whom he had been on terms of warm personal friendship during
his residence in Springfield. He filled that office until 1870, when he was re-
tired on half pay and returned to Portland, where his death occurred October
25, 1872.
Allen Francis, brother of Simeon Francis and father of Mrs. Dyer, was born
in Wethersfield, Connecticut, April 12, 181 5, and resided in St. Louis until
the death of his brother Edwin in 1834, when he and two sisters removed to
Springfield, Illinois. He there secured a position in the printing office of the
State Journal and later became a partner in the ownership of that paper.
While a resident of Springfield, Mr. Francis was married on Christmas
day of 1838 to Cecelia B. Duncan, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and they
became the parents of six children. Cecelia F. was married in Oregon to Herman
Hofferkamp. Marietta was married in Vancouver, British Columbia, to David
A. Edgar, of Staten Island, New York. Hulda G, first becaine the wife of
Byron Z. Holmes and since his death has married Walter E. Dyer. Eliza E.
is the wife of William F. Gillihan, of Portland. Allen Bunn, who was born
in Springfield in 1849, came with his father to the Pacific coast. Later he was
made agent for a fur company in San Francisco and was stationed at Fort
Constantine, Alaska, where he never saw a white woman or heard his native
language for more than eighteen months. Edwin H., the youngest of the fam-
ily, went to Alaska soon after the purchase of that country by the United States,
was appointed deputy collector at Sitka and clerk of the city council. About
twenty years before his death, which occurred March 25, 1902, he entered the
government service as Alaska pilot for the coast survey steamers and for four
years prior to his death spent the winter months in the local office of the coast
and geodetic survey with the exception of 1901, when he was detailed to go
to the head office of the coast survey at Washington to aid in the compilation
of the Coast Pilot, issued by the government. His work in this connection was
especially valuable to the government and the officers of the survey fitly recog-
nized his abilities.
During his residence in Springfield, Illinois, Allen Francis became a promi-
nent factor in the public life of that city and for a number of years aided in
shaping its municipal policy as a member of the city council. In October, 1861,
President Lincoln appointed him consul to Victoria, British Columbia, and he
left for that point in February, 1862. He filled the position until 1871, when
he resigned and with his sons engaged in fur trading with the Indians on the
north Pacific coast. On the 21st of July, 1877, he was again commissioned consul
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to Victoria by President Hayes and on the 5th of May, 1884, he was commis-
sioned by President Harrison to Port Stanley and St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada,
He advised the purchase of Alaska by the government and it was from him that
Secretary Seward gained most of the knowledge of Alaska and its resources,
which eventually convinced him of the wisdom and necessity of purchasing that
territory from Russia. In a correspondence extending over many months Mr.
Francis gave the secretary all the information then obtainable regarding Alaska.
It is said that President Lincoln advised Mr. Seward at the beginning to write
to Mr. Francis regarding the proposed purchase before he fully determined
what policy to pursue. Later, in 1869, when Secretary Seward visited the
district he spent ten days at the Francis home at Victoria and left there for
the north on the steamer Active of the government service. His son, Edwin H.
Francis, who after the purchase had been made a deputy in the office of the
collector of customs at Sitka, accompanied Secretary Seward on a trip all through
the Indian country of Alaska and came to know him very well. He was a worthy
representative of the interests of the government in the northwest, his under-
standing of the political situation, his ready tact and keen insight enabling him
to do splendid diplomatic service.
ALBERTUS H. METCALF.
■Albertus H. Metcalf who is engaged in the gravel business, owning an ex-
tensive pit on the Sandy road, was born July 5, 1858, in Denmark, Lewis county,
New York. He was four years of age when his parents, Edward and Mary
(Thorp) Metcalf removed to Jefferson county. New York, where the succeed-
ing fourteen years of his life were passed. At the usual age he entered the public
schools pursuing his early studies in the district schools near his father's home;
while later he entered the Leland and Grey Seminary at Townsend, Vermont.
Liberal educational advantages well qualified him for the practical and responsi-
ble duties which later came to him in his business life.
The year 1877 witnessed Mr. Metcalf's arrival in the northwest. He made
his way to Walla Walla, Washington, influenced in his choice of destination
by the fact that he had a brother living there. While there he engaged in
plastering contracting for three years. He afterward worked in the wholesale
grocery house of Plants & McKay, and later engaged in the general merchandising
business at Milton, Umatilla county, Washington, as Metcalf & Plants for two
years. He then engaged in the livery business for six months. In the year
1888 he came to Portland, where he established a transfer business under the
name of The East Portland Transfer Company, in partnership with Albert
Smith. They ran a bus line for two years at the end of which time the partner-
ship was dissolved and Mr. Metcalf started in business alone. He was identified
with transfer interests until he turned his attention to the gravel business, which
now claims his undivided attention and energies. He has an extensive pit
located on Sandy road, where he is taking out about twenty-five hundred cubic
yards of gravel per month. He has built up a large business and his patronage
is steadily increasing. His business affairs have been wisely and carefully con-
ducted, bringing to him substantial success and, investing in real estate, he is
now interested in platting the Merlow addition to Portland.
In November, 1883, Mr. Metcalf was married in Walla Walla to Miss Sarah
Elam, a daughter of Jesse and Margaret (Kimball) Elam, who came from
Texas to Oregon about 1867, and were, therefore, numbered among the early
settlers of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf have become parents of four chil-
dren: Edward Jesse; Cecil Elam; Hazel, the wife of Glenn C. Magoon ; and
Gladys. The family is prominent socially in Portland and the Metcalf home is
a most hospitable one.
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Mr. Metcalf is a prominent member of Multnomah Camp, No. 'j'] W. O. W.,
and also of the Willamette Motor Boat Club, which indicates one of his chief
sources of recreation. In politics he is an independent republican, and while
keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day, he is more inter-
ested in business affairs than in politics, and his activities, therefore, center
upon the conduct of his commercial interests.
JOHN BURKE.
In the death of John Burke on the 7th of July, 1907, Portland recorded the
passing of one more of her pioneer residents, for during fifty-four years he had
lived almost continuously at the family home at No. 334 Salmon street. He
came here as an infant in arms and in his boyhood was known to his playmates
and people of older age as "Johnny." This name clung to him throughout all
the ensuing years and was an indication of that close companionship which is at
once the expression of long acquaintance and affection. It was in 1852 that his
parents, Thomas and Mary Burke, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this
volume, started across the plains for the Pacific coast, as passengers in one of the
old time ox trains. They brought with them their infant son who was just six
weeks old when they started, his birth having occurred in 3t. Louis, February 7,
1852, but he had completed his first half year ere they reached their destination, as
it required six months to make the trip. When his father, after completing the last
part of the journey from The Dalles down the Columbia river on a log raft, built a
house where Seventh and Salmon streets now intersect, the baby was just a
year old. On their first night in Portland the Burkes camped on the present
site of the Odd Fellows Hall on First and Alder streets.
Portland was then a little town that had made but small progress along
any business lines. John Burke began his education in a Catholic institution
but later attended the public schools. At that time newspapers were few and
John Burke became one of the first newsboys and did his first work by sell-
ing the Oregonian at twenty-five cents per copy. As the years passed he care-
fully saved his earnings and later learned the plumber's trade with the firm
of Donnerberg & Barrett, while subsequently he became associated in busi-
nesse with Thomas Varwig, both in Astoria and Portland. Mr. Burke was
one of the promoters of the old Jefferson street ferry that operated long before
the plans of building the Madison street bridge were formulated. When Port-
land began to take on the proportions and activities of a metropolitan center
Mr. Burke was one of the promoters of the East Portland water-works and in
1889 in connection with W. S. Chapman he began a contracting business un-
der the name of the American Bridge & Contract Company.
For seven or eight years prior to his death, however, he devoted his time to
the care of his roses, in the culture of which he was very enthusiastic. He could
always be seen with a fresh bud in his buttonhole and he took genuine delight
in supplying tourists with the flowers and in expatiating to visitors upon the
attractiveness and advantages of this city. Mr. Burke was an active member
of the old volunteer fire department and during nearly a score of years never
failed to answer the alarm, lending his ready aid to the arduous and sometimes
dangerous task of quenching the flames. When the paid department was or-
ganized he was given an exempt certificate, of which he was very proud. He
enjoyed the memories of the old days and never tired of telling about the good
old times spent with the volunteer department. For a number of years Mr.
Burke was also connected with the theatrical business, and as advance agent
for aggregations sent out by J. P. Howe and other theater managers during
the early '80s, he became well known in all cities along the Pacific coast. He
was an esteemed member of the Oregon Pioneer Association and never missed
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one of its annual reunions until prevented by ill health during the closing year
of his life. His memory of early days and events was exceptionally good and
he took great pleasure in talking over these events with his old time friends,
and later arrivals always found his historical information to be correct.
He was of the Roman Catholic faith and when death claimed him his re-
mains were interred in St. Mary's cemetery in the family plot. He knew no
other home than Portland and although he made friends wherever he went his
heart turned again to the city of his residence. It is said that "roses and the
Rose City were the two things in which he most delighted." The tender sen-
timents in his nature which found expression in his love of flowers constituted
an even balance to the strong, manly qualities which won him the admiration
and regard of his fellowmen.
R. C. COFFEY, M. D.
Dr. R. C. CofTey, an eminent surgeon of the northwest who has followed his
profession in Portland since March, 1900, having now well equipped offices in
the Corbett building, is a graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine of the
class of 1892. A native of North Carolina, he is a representative of one of the
old southern families. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work,
in early manhood, he supplemented his literary course by study in the Kentucky
School of Medicine at Louisville, and was graduated in 1892, after which he
sought the opportunities of the northwest, locating for practice in Moscow, Idaho,
where he remained for five years. He then removed to Colfax, Washington,
where he spent two years and afterward came to Portland, where he has prac-
ticed through a decade, giving his attention exclusively to surgery. He is fast
becoming a recognized authority on this subject. A master of the construction
and functions of the component parts of the human body, of the changes induced
in them by the onslaughts of disease, of the defects cast upon them as a legacy
by progenitors, of the vital capacity remaining in them throughout all vicissitudes
of existence. Dr. Coffey is well equipped for the onerous and responsible duties
that devolve upon him as a surgeon and his work has received the endorsement
not only of the general public but also of the profession.
He is an ex-president of the Idaho State Medical Society, an ex-secretary
of the Washington State Medical Society and in 1908 was honored with election
to the presidency of the Oregon State Medical Society. He is also a member of
the Western Surgical Association and Southern Surgical Association, and thus
keeps in close touch with the advancement that is being made by the profession
as research and investigation broaden knowledge and bring to light the hitherto
hidden truths of science.
Dr. Coffey married Miss Clarissa Ellen Coffey, and they have three chil-
dren. Jay R., Wilson Boone and Robert Mayo. The Doctor belongs to the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Royal Arcanum. Of him it
has been said "he is wise in human nature, wise in the laws of general science,
wise in social amenities."
WILDER W. PARKER.
Wilder W. Parker was born in Washington, Vermont, October 19, 1824.
He was the second son of Eben and Laura Flanders Parker, thrifty New
Englanders who indelibly implanted in their children habits of industry, economy
and love and loyalty to the commonwealth.
After gaining all the learning the village school — in winter sessions only — •
could pive him, while at the same time, from seven years up, working regularly
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on the paternal farm (he, at eight with a brother aged nine, planted, cultivated
and harvested four hundred bushels of potatoes unaided, one summer), and
teaching school to earn his way later, Mr. Parker left home to continue his
education at Norwich University, Vermont. There was also a military school
adjacent, at Dartmouth, at which he took a three years' course, in addition to
his regular college studies. His father, though well-to-do, declining to provide
for more than a district school education — which he considered sufficient — he
and an elder brother worked their way through Norwich University, living on
the very plainest fare, earning books, food, rent and clothing by sawing wood
and literally "sleeping on a board" for three years, that being a part of the
military training of those days. At the end of the course, there being no war
in even remote prospect, Mr. Parker decided not to continue in the military
profession, and as he was tendered an excellent position as a civil engineer (a
branch in which he excelled) in the copper mines of Lake Superior, he accepted
it, and spent the two following years in Northern Michigan, where, according
to his record (and he was an expert accountant), thirty-six feet of snow fell
in one winter. Of course, it did not all lie on the ground at one time, but he
kept the record on the trunk of a tree, as it alternately melted or fell. Returning
to New England in 1846 the western fever seized him, and at the age of twenty-
four years, he engaged passage at New York on the "Panama," the first steamer
that ever went from the Atlantic side around Cape Horn to the Pacific Coast,
arriving in San Francisco in October, 1848, the same month of the same year
in v/hich his then unknown future wife arrived in Oregon.
On landing at San Francisco, then but a village of tents on a sandy beach,
though there were already five thousand inhabitants — all having arrived since
the discovery of gold in California but two months previous — he rolled out
of the hold of the steamship his only possession in the world (beside a small
trunk of clothing), a half barrel of hardware, consisting of knives, saws, ham-
mers, shovels, axes, frying pans and like useful articles in a new country, in
which, with true Yankee foresight, he had invested his last fifty dollars, after
securing his steamer ticket. (By the way, the "Panama" had but two pas-
sengers booked when she left New York, but after she rounded the Horn, men
crowded aboard all the way up the coast, having just heard of the gold discovery,
till she was crowded almost to suffocation on reaching San Francisco.) These
articles of hardware Mr. Parker "auctioned" off on the beach, realizing from
the sale over six hundred dollars.
With this capital he engaged in hotel keeping; his first hotel being all of
cloth excepting the necessary wooden corner supports. Men thronged from
all quarters to the mines, and his business (for so small a capital) was immense.
He paid his cook six hundred dollars per month, and his baker four hundred
dollars. "Saleratus" was sixteen dollars per pound, and other foods corre-
spondingly high, yet in one year he had cleared twenty thousand dollars. This
he put into a better hotel, and soon after lost it all in one night by fire, save one
thousand dollars in the bank. Mr. Parker was one of that famous "vigilance"
committee, organized by the law-abiding citizens, in the absence of legally au-
thorized courts, to deal with criminals and stamp out crime, which was becom-
ing rampant. After a few murderous thieves and thugs were summarily strung
up to the lamp post nearest the locality of the crimes by this committee, law,
order and comparative safety were restored. He was also later a member of the
first common council of San Francisco, under Mayor Selby.
And now, at the age of twenty-eight, Mr. Parker sailed on a coasting vessel
for Astoria to engage in the lumber business. Here he cast in his lot, and re-
mained, indentifying himself with, and laboring for, the best interests of his
chosen home city up to his death, forty-seven years later. He was always pub-
lic spirited, giving much time and thought to the welfare of his city, state and
indeed that of his whole country. He was active in establishing and supporting
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schools, libraries, churches and all movements for the public benefit. He served
as a member of the Oregon legislature, as mayor and postmaster of Astoria,
and was twelve years deputy collector at that post; serving so ably in that
capacity that after holding the position four years under the collector who
first appointed him, he was retained eight more years by the two succeeding col-
lectors.
He was mainly instrumental in securing the splendid system of waterworks
of which Astoria is so justly proud, and his name is carved on the stone build-
ing at the entrance of the great city reservoir, in recognition by his fellow citizens
of his long, arduous and gratuitous efforts on this behalf. He was married in
July, 1863, to Inez E. Adams, daughter of Hon. W. L. Adams, then collector
of customs at Astoria. No children were born of this union, but their adopted
daughter Harriet Stafford (nee Burning) has been to them all an own child
could possibly be.
Mr. Parker was a stanch believer in equal rights, and he put these views in
full practice in his home, thus showing himself possessed, of, at least one fine at-
tribute of the ideal husband.
He was even tempered and genial in his home, as well as pubHc life ; was
also temperate and pure in his daily life, using neither tobacco nor intoxicants,
and even avoiding all highly seasoned foods.
Though not a citizen of Portland, he fully recognized her commercial im-
portance and foresaw her great future, sometimes remarking that he had missed
it in not settling there on his first arrival in Oregon. The older Portland pio-
neers and prominent citizens of the city were his personal friends, and he took
great pride in her development, considering himself a citizen of the whole state,
the interests of which he helped so materially to upbuild.
Mr. Parker died at his home in Astoria, January 9, 1899. His widow
survives him at this date.
He deserves to be remembered as a worthy pioneer in the founding of the
great and beautiful commonwealth of Oregon.
JOHN MAIR.
John Mair, now living retired in Portland, was born in Montreal, Canada,
July 16, 1843. His parents were Alexander and Elizabeth (Levitt) Mair, the
former of Scotch descent and the latter of English lineage. The father was a
machinist and followed that pursuit in Canada until his death. His wife also
died in that country.
John Mair attended school at Kingston, Ontario, and later had the benefit
of instruction in Queens College and also in a boarding school. His first work
was on a farm and thus he was employed for one year. He then began learn-
ing the machinist's trade in Kingston in a shop devoted to the repair of ship
machinery. He served an apprenticeship of four and a half years, during which
period he gained comprehensive and expert knowledge of the business, pos-
sessing considerable natural ability in that direction. He afterward went to
New York city where he worked for six years, and at the end of that time estab-
lished himself on the Pacific coast, going first to San Francisco, where he re-
mained for about six months. He obtained a position in a shop there but a
strike occurred and he then went up into the Redwoods, securing a position to
operate a sawmill. He remained, however, for only a brief period and in No-
vember, 1869, came to Portland, where he had relatives living. Here he secured
work independently when he and several of the Honeyman family leased the
Snyder foundry, which they operated for a short time, but they did not find this
a paying investment, as there was not much work of this character to be done
in Portland at that day. Mr. Mair then secured a position as machinist in the
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Oregon Iron Works, being connected with that company until 1873, when he
went to the Willamette Iron Works where his ability won him promotion to the
position of foreman, after he had been associated with the company for only
six months. A few years later he was promoted to the superintendency and was
thus in actual charge of the practical workings of the plant until he resigned
about 190 1. Since that time he has largely lived retired, although he has worked
to a limited extent at his trade and inspected lumber for the government for a
few years.
On the 31st of December, 1877, Mr. Mair was united in marriage to Miss
Harriet L. Gates, a daughter of John Gates, who is mentioned elsewhere in this
volume. They became parents of two children : George, who married Cora
Frankhn, and is living in Portland; and Edith, at home. Mr. Mair resided on
Eleventh between Jefferson and Columbia streets for about thirty-two years,
but in November, 1909, erected a fine residence on East Couch street, where
he now makes his home.
He belongs to Samaritan Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., and his high standing
among the brothers of the fraternity and the warm regard entertained for him
is indicated by the fact that they have elected him to fill all of the different chairs
in the order. He may truly be called a self-made man. His has been an active
life, marked by steady advancement from the day when he began to earn his
livelihood as a farm hand. He has never depended upon speculation, influence
or outside aid to secure him promotion, but has placed his dependence upon
earnest effort and in America, where "labor is king," has made substantial prog-
ress through his industry and determination, being now in a financial position
that enables him to live retired.
OWEN MULLIGAN.
Owen Mulligan, eighty-three years of age, is living retired. In the sunset
period of life there has come to him opportunity for rest from labor, which so
largely occupied his time through many years of his life. It is fitting that his
long period of industry should be crowned with repose and that the regard and
esteem of his fellowmen should be freely given him, for his record has at all
times been an honorable and upright one. He was born in Ireland on the 8th
of November, 1827, and there remained through the first nineteen years of his
life, acquiring his education in the public schools and receiving also practical
training that resulted in habits of industry, perseverance and determination. Pie
then came to America and for four years was a resident of Boston, during which
time he was employed as a gardener. In 1854 he arrived in California, making
his way to the mines of Tuolumne county, where he remained for five years.
On the expiration of that period he went to San Francisco, where he worked
for six years and in 1868 came to Vancouver, since which time he has been iden-
tified with the agricultural development of this section of the country. He
first purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land on the Fourth Plain road
about three and a half miles from Vancouver, after which he began clearing
the place, fencing the fields and adding modern improvements and equipments.
The tract was known as the old Hudson Bay farm and he continued its cultiva-
tion until 1885, when he purchased two hundred and forty acres of bottom land
near the Columbia river. He afterward bought another tract of two hundred
and eleven acres near Vancouver but occupied the river farm until 1904. He
sold twenty acres of the ranch on the Fourth Plain road and gave the remainder
to his son, Thomas Mulligan, who now owns and cultivates it. Mr. Mulligan
rents his river ranch and the one near Vancouver, also another that he owns
on Vancouver Lake, comprising two hundred and seventy-three acres. The
last is operated by his son Hugh. The father is living retired and his rest is
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certainly well merited, for his has been an active and useful life. When deter-
mination, perseverance and industry are arrayed against obstacles, poverty and
trials the result is almost absolutely certain, for the former qualities are invincible
— they know no defeat. It has been through the possession of those qualities
that Mr. Mulligan has worked his way upward, reaching a position of creditable
affluence.
In 1864 Mr. MulHgan was united in marriage to Miss Susan Daugherty, a
native of Ireland, who was then residing in San Francisco. They have become
the parents of seven children, of whom six are now living, namely : Thomas,
Hugh and Owen, Jr., all of whom are residents of Vancouver; Susan, living in
Portland; Nellie, the wife of a Mr. McGee, of Tacoma, Washington; and Joseph,
who makes his home in Vancouver.
Mr. Mulligan is a member of the Catholic church. He lives with his son
at No. 814 Columbia street in Vancouver and he also owns considerable other
property in the town, including two business blocks and fourteen residences,
which he rents. He is a stockholder in the United States National Bank of
Vancouver. That he is a man of excellent business ability and sound judgment
is shov/n in the judicious investments which he has made as the years have gone
by, becoming thus the owner of extensive realty holdings, including both city
and farm property. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to
come to America, for he has here found the opportunities which he sought and
which are always open to ambitious, determined young men. His life may well
serve as a source of inspiration and an example to others who are forced to
start out as he did — empty handed.
WILHELM E. NOA.
Wilhelm E. Noa is the owner of an excellent property of seventy-four acres
near Vancouver and has established a good reputation as an orchardist as well
as a general farmer and mechanic. He was born in Helford, Germany, in
1858 and spent his youthful days there. In early Hfe he learned the blacksmith's
trade and worked in shops in that locality. He afterward followed the sea for
six years, during which period he visited all parts of the world, gaining a com-
prehensive knowledge of different lands and their peoples. As he thus went
from place to place he heard much concerning America and its opportunities and
this led him to determine to try his fortune in the United States, where he
arrived in 1881. He located first near Toledo, Ohio, where he worked upon a
farm for a year, after which he made his way to Nebraska, where his father was
living. He spent two years in that state and subsequently went to Colorado,
where he engaged in mining and also followed tool sharpening for three years.
The expiration of that period saw his arrival in Portland, where he worked
at his trade for two months, after which he came to Clarke county, where he
has since lived. He expected to obtain work in a quarry as a tool sharpener
but not finding employment in that line, he turned his attention to farming and
in 1892 purchased fourteen acres of land from Joseph Cordes. This he cleared,
built his home thereon and has since continued the cultivation of the fields.
He also purchased, with Robert Livingstone, of Portland, about sixty acres
adjoining his original tract. He now has twenty acres planted to orchards and
twenty acres in grain, while the remainder is covered with timber. He has also
conducted a blacksmith shop since locating on this place and still works at his
trade in the shop which he has built here. He helped set out most of the orchards
in this vicinity and his labors have thereby been a factor in the substantial de-
velopment and material improvement of this section.
In 1887 Mr. Noa was united in marriage to Miss Otille Bayor, a native of
Germany, and they now have one child, Martha, the wife of Elmer Bennet, of
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Vancouver. Mr. Noa belongs to the United Artisans at Fisher's Landing. He
has compartively Httle time for fraternal and social interests, however, for his
attention is demanded by his agricultural and horticultural interests and his close
application and careful management are making his farm profitable.
LOUIS JAGGAR.
Louis Jaggar, deceased, was a representative of one of the old and prominent
pioneer families of the Willamette valley. He was born at New Brighton, Penn-
sylvania, December 22, 1852, a son of Benjamin and Anna W. (Rigley) Jaggar,
of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work. The father died in 1905 but
the mother is still living at the age of seventy-nine years, her home being in
Oregon City.
Louis Jaggar was the eldest of four children and was less than a year old
when his parents removed to Bentonsport, Iowa. He was a lad of seven years
when the family home was established at Liberty, Missouri, and there he pur-
sued his education through a period of six years. In 1865 the family returned
to the east and he continued his education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for
about a year, when he accompanied his parents to New Lisbon, Ohio. He was
a young man of about twenty years at the time the family came to Oregon and
took up their abode upon a farm six miles east of Oregon City, which the father
secured. He earned his first wages by driving a delivery wagon for a store and
later on worked on a truck farrh, his father owning a small tract of land. Sub-
sequently he took up the study of bookkeeping, and after the emigration to the
northwest he entered the employ of Jacob Brothers, proprietors of a large woolen
factory at Oregon City. Afterward his father purchased a business block in
Oregon City and Louis Jaggar there opened a grocery store, which he conducted
successfully until about 1883, when he came to Portland. He continued a resi-
dent of the Rose City until his death, and for a few years after his arrival here
was employed as bookkeeper by Henry Everding. Ambitious to engage in busi-
ness on his own account, he opened a commission house on Front street and con-
tinued in that line up to the time of his demise, becoming one of the successful,
enterprising and progressive commission merchants of the city.
On the 22d of March, 1879, in Oregon City, Mr. Jaggar was united in mar-
riage to Miss Mary E. Howell, who was born near Oregon City and is a daugh-
ter of Joseph and Mary Virginia Howell, who were pioneer settlers of this state.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jaggar were born six children : Benjamin J., now of Port-
land; Samuel who married Minnie Newberg and has one child, Erving; Myrtle
the wife of C. R. Fones and the mother of one son, Robert ; Bessie the wife of
Elmer Maxin and the mother of one daughter, Lucille ; Henry, at home ; and
Mary E., deceased. The family residence is at No. 574 East Couch street in
Portland. The death of the husband and father occurred July 11, 1910, and in
his demise Portland lost a representative business man and loyal citizen, his asso-
ciates a faithful friend and his family a devoted husband and father.
REV. THOMAS M. RAMSDELL.
Rev. Thomas M. Ramsdell, who for long years was connected with the active
work of the Methodist ministry but is now living retired in Portland, came to
Oregon in 1844 arid in 1848 took his place among those whose public utterances
were factors in the moral development and progress of the northwest. He was
born in Rutland. Vermont, October 17, 182 1, a son of Thomas Manley and
Cynthia (Crary) Ramsdell, both of whom were of Scotch descent. The father
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was a carpenter by trade and served as colonel of one of the regiments which
advocated the revolutionary cause of the Canadian government in 1838-9. Both
he and his wife died in the east at an advanced age. They were representatives
of old American families and it was the father's belief in political liberty that
prompted him to aid the Canadians in their attempt to secure independence.
Thomas M. Ramsdell is the eldest of four children and the only one now
living. He pursued his education in the schools of Potsdam, New York, and
when about fourteen years of age went to Ohio with his grandparents. He
afterward became a student in the Granville College, a Baptist institution of that
place, but his health failed before his class was graduated and, hoping to benefit
by the climate, he went to Missouri. For a year he remained in that state but
did not like the location and therefore joined a company starting for Oregon
in 1844. He made the long journey across the plains with ox teams, being with
the first train to leave St. Joe, Missouri, in the spring of that year. The train
consisted of one hundred and fifty wagons, and while en route they did not see
a white settlement until they arrived in the Willamette valley. It required be-
tween six and seven months to make the trip and they had a little trouble with
the Indians, but this was scarcely more than a momentary annoyance. Mr.
Ramsdell and three companions made their way down the Columbia river valley,
driving cattle while others of the party proceeded down by boat. They then
went to the Tualitin plains where Jacob Hoover, one of Mr. Ramsdell's com-
panions, settled. From that point Mr. Ramsdell proceeded to French prairie,
where he spent the winter, and during that time built a barn for Mr. Lavie,
this being the first "Yankee" barn in Oregon. He afterward proceeded to the
Methodist mission at Salem, Oregon, and while there joined the first military
organization on the Pacific coast, called the Oregon Rangers. With that com-
mand he participated in an engagement with the Indians six miles south of
Salem at what is now known as Battle Creek. His company was broken up
during the Cayuse war of 1847-48, Captain Bennett being killed in battle. Mr.
Ramsdell did not participate in that engagement, however, for he had just been
married and was absent from the company. Later he was elected justice of
the peace on the Santiam river near Jeflferson, being the democratic candidate
for the position, which he held for about two years. He next settled near Jef-
ferson, and in 1848 was nominated for the legislature, but as he desired to
enter the ministry he declined the candidacy. In 1849 he went to California
during the gold excitement and followed mining for about six months, after
which he speculated in town property at Santa Clara, where he was located in
1850.
In that year Mr. Ramsdell returned to Oregon and again established his
home at Jefferson, entering a tract of land across the river. About 1854 he
removed to Salem, where he engaged in preaching, but soon afterward was
sent to the west side of the Willamette valley to a settlement called Gillem. It
was a part of the circuit near Dallas, and at that point Mr. Ramsdell remained
until 1862. He then went east of the mountains to work at the carpenter's
trade, being employed as boss carpenter by the Oregon Steam Navigation Com-
pany until 1866. In that year he located at Yaquina, where he followed car-
pentering and also engaged in preaching, for the settlement was too small to
pay the salary of a minister for the full time. He continued to preach until
about 1883, during which time he labored in behalf of the church in different
localities, but always in the vicinity of Jefferson. He then retired from the active
work of the ministry. In 1894 his wife died and he has since made his home
with his children.
It was on the 28th of July, 1847, that Mr. Ramsdell was married to Miss
Lorella Colwell, who was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, October 16, 1829,
and passed away on the 21st of October, 1894, her grave being made in the
Jefferson cemetery. In their family were twelve children. Mary E. became
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the wife of Cyrus Dixon, of Corvallis, Oregon, and they have two children:
Cyrus, who married Laura Colwell ; and Lulu, the wife of Frank Knight, by
whom she has two children, Herbert and Edna. David Ramsdell, the second
member of the family, now living in Elk City, Oregon, married Clarinda Kibbey,
and they have six children : Clarence, of Portland, who married Maggie Hoff-
man and has two sons, Roy and George ; Mrs. Aurelia King, who has one son ;
John, who married Vernie Parks and has one child; Audrey ; Arthur and
Frank. Margaret, the third member of the family, became the wife of Cyrus
E. Carr and died, leaving four children: Mrs. Lillie Crutchfield, who has
three children, Vera, Mamie and Josephine; Myrtle, who is the wife of Robert
Burch and has five children — Clara, Lois, Margaret, Jamie and Roberta; Mrs.
Gertrude VanVoris ; and Benjamin. Adelia married Nort Michael, now deceased.
By a former marriage she had four children: Manley, who is married and
has one child; Mrs. Maggie Spilman, who has five children; Mrs. Maud Weist,
who has three children; and ColHns, who is married and has one child. Lillie
became the wife of Samuel King, of Corvallis, Oregon, and died, leaving two
children : Lazzarus, who married Ella Le Sieur and has one child, Ester ; and
Mrs. Martha Francisco. Thomas M., the sixth member of the Ramsdell family,
now a resident of Corvallis, married Malinda Eddleman and has eleven chil-
dren: Fred, who married Bertha Bell and has one child; Mrs. Effie Norton,
who has three children; Thomas M., who is married; Mrs. Lorilla Whitlatch,
who has one child ; Guy, who is married ; Winnef red ; and others whose names
are not known. Callohill, of Dallas, married Melvina King and has five chil-
dren : Sebert ; Lawrence, who is married and has one child ; Claud ; Edith ;
and Myrtle. Anna, the eighth member of the family of Mr. Ramsdell, is the
wife of Sivert Anderson, of Portland. John, of Portland, married Ida Steven-
son, and has six children, Ona, Tera, LilHan, Allegra, Andrew and Robert.
Fannie, who married William Tatum, died, leaving one child, Aileen. Ona
married Guy Phelps and died, leaving a daughter, Naomi. The other member
of the family, Agnes, died at the age of three years.
Mr. Ramsdell is a member of Camp No. 2, Indian War Veterans, is the
only living member of the first military company of Oregon, and is an active
member of the Pioneer Society. He is a well preserved man and although he
has reached the age of eighty-nine years, looks twenty years younger. Events
of Oregon's history which are to others matters of record are to him matters
of personal knowledge or experience. Few there are who can claim resi-
dence in the state covering a period of sixty-six years. Throughout two-thirds
of a century, however, Mr. Ramsdell has lived in this part of the country and
his memory is a connecting link between the primitive past with all of its hard-
ships and trials, and the progressive present with its advantages of a modern and
advanced civilization.
ROSENBLATT.
The name of Rosenblatt has long figured in connection with the clothing
trade of Portland, where it has become recognized as a synonym for progressive
methods and reliability in all trade transactions. As senior partner of this
enterprise Samuel Rosenblatt has formulated and executed many valuable plans
for the extension of the trade, and with ready adaptability has recognized and
improved every opportunity that has been presented. His record is a credit to
Portland, the city of his nativity, his birth having here occurred in 1865. His
parents were Meyer and Lena (Stepbacher) Rosenblatt, who were numbered
among the early settlers of Oregon. The father engaged in general merchandising
in Eugene in pioneer times, continuing his residence there until 1872, when
Tie came to Portland and established a clothing business on Front street. The
new enterprise prospered from the beginning, and as his trade brought to him
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financial returns he found it possible to purchase a building of his own at No.
147 Front street, between Morrison and Alden. He removed his business thereto
and continued active in its engagement until 1886, when he retired from busi-
ness life to enjoy a well earned rest. He passed away in Portland, in 1887,
and his wife was called to her final home ten years later.
The two sons, Samuel and Louis Rosenblatt, are now partners in the cloth-
ing business which is conducted under the firm style of Samuel Rosenblatt &
Company. The former was born in Portland in 1865 and the latter in Eugene,
Oregon, in 1869. They were both reared in this city, however, and were pupils
in the public schools. They have been connected with the clothing trade through-
out the entire period of their association with business affairs. The present
house was established at No. 249 First street by Samuel Rosenblatt, the senior
partner of the firm. He was joined almost immediately by his brother, Louis
Rosenblatt, and they have since been associated in the conduct of the busi-
ness. They remained on First street for ten years, and removed to their pres-
ent location in March, 1898. They are part owners of the Silverfield building
at the corner of Fourth and Morrison streets, and have become recognized as
leading clothing merchants, not only of this city but of the northwest. Thor-
oughly familiar with every phase of the trade, they keep in touch with not only
the best line of manufactured goods, but also the latest styles and are thus able
to supply their patrons with all that is most modern and attractive in the line of
men's wearing apparel.
Samuel Rosenblatt was married in February, 1894, to Miss Ida Hofifheimer,
and unto them have been born two children. Louis Rosenblatt was joined in
wedlock to Miss Sarah Marx, and they have one child. He is a member of the
Knights of Pythias fraternity and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and Samuel Rosenblatt is a charter member of the Woodmen of the World.
Both are interested in matters relative to the city's welfare and upbuilding, but
have never been active in the field of public life, preferring to concentrate their
energies upon commercial pursuits, knowing that in this age of close competition
the most successful man is he who gives undivided attention to his business
affairs. Both brothers are energetic and determined and are constantly seeking
out new methods for the promotion of their business, which has long since been
recognized as one of the leading clothing houses of the city.
MRS. ELLEN C. DARR.
Mrs. Ellen C. Darr has been a resident of Portland for forty-eight years.
She was born in Laporte county, Indiana, January 18, 1836, a daughter of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Bailey) Leabo. The mother, who was born and reared
in Kentucky, died in 1852. The father was a native of Virginia, born September
18, 1795, but his youthful days were spent in Kentucky and he was married in
Indiana. He was a carpenter and farmer, devoting his life, as wisdom seemed
to dictate, to those two pursuits. He came to Oregon in 1847 with "old Father
Mitchell" over the plains and took part in the Cayuse Indian war. Again he
m-ade the journey over the plains on a return trip to Iowa with Meek and
Everett, after a brief period spent on the coast but in 1852 again went to Cali-
fornia, where he engaged in mining gold. He was accompanied by his son, who
died in the mining regions, after which the father went back to Iowa in 1853.
The work of progress had been carried on in a marked degree ere he returned
in 1862, at which time he was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Darr, and her
husband. This time he became a permanent resident of the Pacific coast coun-
try, remaining here until his death, which occurred at McMinnville, Oregon, in
1880. Few men could speak with more authority concerning travel across the
plains, for he made five trips ere the building of railroads to the coast and knew
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all of the experiences of the long" and wearisome journeys, when plodding oxen
drew the heavily laden wagons over roads that were little more than a trail.
He was the father of ten children but only two are now living, Mrs. Darr and
her brother, Augustus C, who is located at Ritzville, Washington.
Mrs. Darr attended school in Linn county, Iowa, and lived at home until
she was married at the age of seventeen years to Hiram L. Darr, the wedding
being celebrated at Rock Island, IlHnois, on the 20th of January, 1853. They
began housekeeping in Linn county and there resided until i860, when they
removed to Fremont county, Iowa, where they remained until 1862. In
that year they started across the plains to Oregon, leaving their old home on
the 19th of May and reaching Portland on the 30th of September. They were
then parents of three children, who accompanied them on the trip. Mrs. Darr
walked all the way across the plains until they reached The Dalles, doing this
because the roads were so rough and the teams were compelled to go so slowly
that she preferred to walk rather than to ride in the jolting wagon save when
crossing a stream. On reaching Oregon the family spent the first winter about
six miles south of Portland and then removed to the city, living on Hall at the
corner of Fourth street.
Mr. Darr was a locksmith by trade and had a shop on Washington street be-
tween Third and Fourth. Wisely investing in land, he accumulated considerable
property, having real estate to the value of over two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars before he died. His mind, however, failed him and because of
this he lost much of his property. He was born at Darrtown, Butler county, Ohio,
July 9, 1 83 1, and was a son of Abraham F. and Eliza (Couch) Darr. He at-
tended school at Darrtown, which was named in honor of his grandfather. In
his younger days he followed farming but learned the locksmith's trade after
coming to the northwest. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity and gave his
political support to the republican party. He died March 28, 1894, leaving six
children who reached mature years, while others died in infancy. Those who
lived to adult age are : Alice, the wife of William E. Beauchamp, of Washing-
ton, and the mother of two children — Bessie, the wife of W. W. Johnson, by
whom she has three children, Eleanor A., Robert W. and Wanda, and Mrs. Eva
Payette, who has one child, Edward ; William, living in Portland ; Hena, of
California; Emma H., who became the wife of George Taylor, but both are
now deceased, their surviving children being George K. and Irene ; Edward L.,
of California, who married Miss Cooper ; and Oakley, who has departed this
life.
For seventeen years Mrs. Darr has resided on the east side of Portland
and she holds membership in the Methodist church of Sunnyside. For forty-
eight years she has resided upon the Pacific coast and can relate many interest-
ing incidents of the early days when Oregon was in its formative period.
THOMAS MULLIGAN.
Thomas Mulligan has always resided upon the Pacific coast and the spirit
of marked enterprise and development which has ever characterized this region
has been manifest in his life from early youth. He was born in San Francisco,
California, in 1865, but was only three years of age when his father's family
removed to Clarke county, Washington, so that he was here reared and educated,
pursuing his studies in the public schools. The family lived upon a ranch and
Thornas Mulligan early became familiar with the arduous task of clearing, de-
veloping and improving the property, assisting his father until he started out
in life on his own account. In 1889, when twenty-four years of age, he began
farming independently upon his father's old place on the Fourth Plain road
and has since given his time and energies to its further cultivation and improve-
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ment. The ranch originally contained four hundred and twenty acres but a
few small tracts have been sold and it now comprises three hundred and seventy-
five acres. Mr. Mulligan also has one hundred and sixty acres near Proebstel,
which he leases. The home property, which was given him by his father, is
splendidly developed, for his methods are practical, progressive and resultant.
He has made a close study of the best way of keeping the soil in good condi-
tion, and in raising such farm products as are best adapted to the climate he
has made his farm a source of gratifying profit.
Mr. Mulligan was married in 1889 to Miss Margaret McDonald, of Van-
couver, and they now have two daughters, May and Susan, the former the
wife of Michael Geoghan. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan are well known in
the southern part of the county and have an extensive circle of warm friends.
Mr. Mulligan has lived continuously in this section for forty-two years and has
therefore witnessed much of its development.
RICHARD H. AVANN.
For a considerable period after the tide of emigration was turning toward
the northwest comparatively little was done along agricultural and horticul-
tural lines. This was due largely to the fact that much of the land was cov-
ered with a dense forest, giving ample opportunity for the development of the
lumber industry and precluding the possibility of cultivating the soil. In recent
years, however, attention has been concentrated to a greater and greater degree
upon the possibilities of raising grain and fruit in this section and among the
number who are thus successfully engaged is Richard H. Avann, well known in
this connection in Clarke county. He was born in Brecksville, Ohio, December
10, 1858, and was reared to farm life, his attention in youth being divided be-
tween the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the
work of the fields. When he had put aside his text-books his time was given
entirely to assisting his father on the farm until the fall of 1877. In September,
before he attained the age of twenty years, he made his way to the northwest,
settling in Clarke county, where he was employed in different ways until 1884,
when he began dealing in wood in Portland. There he remained for eight years,
after which he returned to Clarke county and engaged in farming and in the
wood business, contracting to supply wood on an extensive scale. He afterward
purchased eighty acres of land on the Orchard road, three miles from Van-
couver, and cultivated it in addition to his other farm. He had cleared alto-
gether one hundred and fifty-five acres of land when he sold out. He also
drained fifty-five acres by ditching and tiling and placed all of the improvements
upon his property, including the planting of a fourteen-acre orchard of prunes
and apples. He put all the fences and the buildings upon his farm and its ex-
cellent and attractive appearance indicated his extremely active and useful life.
In 1900 he purchased one hundred acres adjoining his original property but
on the opposite side of the Orchard road. This he also cleared and improved
and continued its cultivation until September, 1909, when he sold to the Van-
couver Realty Association, which has subdivided it and made it an addition to
Vancouver, situated on the Vancouver & Orchard Electric Line.
In 1880, Mr. Avann was married to Miss Mary J. Jamison, of Vancouver,
a native of Independence, Ohio, and a daughter of Hamilton Jamison of that
city. Their marriage has been blessed with two children, Frances A. and Jessie
J. The former is the wife of W. W. Turney, of Cleveland, Ohio, where they
reside, and the younger daughter is yet at home.
Mr. Avann belongs to the Odd Fellows lodge at Vancouver and also to
Harmony Lodge, A. O. U. W. He is loyal to the teachings of these organiza-
tions and enjoys the social relations afforded there. His has been a well spent
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life and in business affairs he has displayed keen discernment and unfaltering
energy, bringing him at last a creditable measure of success that now enables
him to live practically retired. He occupies a pleasant home at Twenty-first
and Main streets in Vancouver and is widely and favorably known in the south-
ern part of the county.
WILLIAM A. DALY.
The life history of William A. Daly, if written in detail, would present many
chapters as interesting and thrilling as any tale of fiction. Life on a whaling
vessel brought him unusual experiences in his youthful days, and he was a fron-
tiersman in Oregon when the entire northwest was largely an undeveloped and
unsettled country. He sought for gold in the early mining days, was connected
with newspaper publication in Portland when this city was a village, and later was
identified with various business projects, continuing through the period of his
residence here in touch with the progressive spirit which has brought about
modern progress and growth here.
A native of Ireland, William A. Daly was bom in Westport, County Mayo,
July 30, 1836. His father, the Rev. J. L. Daly, was an Episcopalian minister in
Oregon, who married Eliza F. Browne, and some years afterward went to
Australia, accompanied by his family, his son William A. being at that time only
three years of age.
The father settled at Sydney and remained for a considerable period in Aus-
tralia, during which time he was engaged in teaching school. The residents of
that country had recognized his ability and intellectual strength, and persuaded
him to take up the profession of teaching. In 185 1 he left that country, stopping
at Honolulu, where he taught school for a time. From there he came to Oregon,
settling at Butteville, where he took up a donation claim. His wife and son
William did not make the trip with the father, for William A. was then infatuated
with the sea and felt that his greatest happiness would be in becoming a sailor.
He therefore shipped on a whaling vessel, his mother having previously started
for Oregon, and he finally reached New Bedford, Massachusetts. While there
he learned that his brother John had been killed by the explosion of a steam boiler
on a ship in Oregon, and he at once started for the northwest, arriving in Port-
land in August, 1855. He made the trip by water and soon after secured a posi-
tion in the office of the weekly newspaper which was then being published on
Morrison street near First. He worked on the paper as printer and compositor
for many years, when in connection with George Himes he established a
job printing office. They conducted business together successfully for some time,
after which Mr. Himes purchased Mr. Daly's interest. The latter, who was a
democrat in politics, then established a paper called the Daily Advertiser. This
was during the period of the Civil war, and the paper was suppressed by the
government.
Mr. Daly then went to the mines in Idaho and devoted about four years to
mining, but his health becoming greatly impaired during that time, he returned
to Portland, where he followed various business projects. He was, however,
largely an invalid for about thirty years, and his eyesight became very badly
impaired. Notwithstanding, he worked constantly and for a number of years
conducted a brokerage business in partnership with his son Fred A. Daly. On
going to Idaho, he walked all the way from The Dalles, and that was the begin-
ning of his ill health. The strenuous exertion was more than he could endure,
and he never fully recovered therefrom.
It was on the 17th of December, 1857, in Portland, then a part of Washington
county, that Mr. Daly was united in marriage to Miss Priscilla M. Gray, a
daughter of Robert and Mary (Hannah) Gray. Her father was born in Cin-
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cinnati, and her mother in Scotland, and they were married in Knoxville, Illinois.
The latter died in Peoria, Illnois, in 185 1, and Mr. Gray afterward married again
and came to Oregon, making the long journey over the plains. He left his Illinois
home in March and arrived at The Dalles on the 20th of September, 1853.
There he tarried for a month's rest, after whch he made his way to the Cascades
by flatboat and then walked to the Lower Cascades, where he took another boat,
proceeding thus to Portland. He was accompanied by his family and settled at
Mount Tabor, where he took up a half section of land, which was a donation
claim. Upon this place he built a log cabin and began life in true frontier style.
There were many wolves around, and they frequently made the night hideous
with their howling. The entire countryside was covered with a dense forest
growth, but Mr. Gray at once began to clear his land and cultivated his fields
as the place was prepared for the plow. After four years he sold one hundred
acres of his claim for five dollars per acre. He afterward lived in different
parts of the state, spending his last days in Corvallis, Oregon.
Mr. Daly was a Mason, holding membership in Harmony Lodge. He became
a member of the craft when twenty-one years of age and was always most loyal
to its principles. He traveled extensively all over the world but preferred Port-
land as a place of residence and here continued to make his home until his death,
which occurred September 2, 1893, ^^i^ remains being interred in Riverview
Cemetery .
Mrs. Daly has lived in Portland from the age of thirteen years. She is a
member of the Episcopal church and of the Pioneer Society and has a large
circle of warm friends, whose kindly regard indicates her many admirable
qualities.
WILLIAM BRADEN.
When America was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great
Britain, ancestors of William Braden became residents of America, and when
the colonists attempted to throw ofif the yoke of British oppression, the family
was represented in the continental army. William Braden, Sr., the father of
him whose name introduces this review, was born in Canada and in 1798 be-
came a resident of Ulster county, New York, where he was residing when the
war with England occurred. He enlisted for active service in that conflict and
lived for many years to see America grow in strength and power, taking her
place among the foremost nations of the world. He died in 1881, at the very
venerable age of one hundred and two years. He was of Scotch descent, while
his wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane Lane, and was a native of New
Hampshire, was of English lineage. She, too, reached a notable old age, being
ninety-nine years at the time of her death. She was a niece of Hezekiah Lane,
who served as an American spy in the Revolutionary war, carrying dispatches
for General Washington and thus rendering signal aid to the cause of independ-
ence. The political allegiance of the family was given to the whig party in
early years, while later representatives of the name espoused the cause of the
republican party. Of the family of William Braden, Sr., all are now deceased
with the exception of Mrs. Susan E. Seely, whose home is in Strasburg, Penn-
sylvania.
The birth of William Braden, whose name introduces this record, occurred
in the town of Ellenville, Ulster county, New York, June 28, 1831. He de-
voted his time between the ages of six and sixteen years to the acquirement of
an education in the public schools and then entered the State Normal School
at Monticello, New York, pursuing an elective course in preparation for the
work which he desired to follow. For two years he was an apprentice to the
carpenter's trade at Ellenville, and then started for California in 1849, attracted
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by the gold discoveries of the previous year. In a sailing vessel he rounded
Cape Horn and after a voyage of one hundred and sixty-nine days reached
San Francisco on the 7th of July, 1849. There Mr. Braden and other young
men of the party purchased outfits and at once sought employment in the mines.
He devoted six years to that work and at the end of that time engaged in steam-
boat building. His work in that connection had brought him to Portland, be-
ing sent to this city to aid in the construction of Mountain Buck, a famous
steamer of an early day. On its completion he entered the employ of the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Company as head carpenter in the shipbuilding depart-
•ment. From that time until his death he was closely associated with the prog-
ress and upbuilding of the northwest. He made a trip to the Fraser river in
1857 and continued in boat building there until 1864, when he began contracting
on his own account. He confined his operations strictly to Portland and in
the government service built barracks at Cape Disappointment. He became
recognized as one of the foremost contractors of his day and a liberal patronage
was accorded him. In later life his attention was given to public service. He
was in the city engineer's office for thirty-three years and no higher testimonial
of his official capability and trustworthiness can be given than the fact that he
was so long connected with the office. He was also elected superintendent of
streets in 1877. He did not seek the position, it coming to him as a recognition
of his personal worth and business ability. After five years in that position
he retired but soon afterward reentered the office as deputy and there remained
until his demise.
On the i6th of August, i860, Mr. Braden was united in marriage to Miss
Cordelia Davis, who was born in Indiana, in 1840, and in 1852 came to Oregon
with her father, H. W. Davis, who at one time was Portland's postmaster.
Five children blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Braden but one of the
number died in infancy. Minnie became the wife of W. F. Matthews, former
United States marshal of Portland and now a resident of San Francisco. Frank
married Eva Fernau and engaged in business in Seattle until the death of his
wife in 1906. They had one son, Earl. Cora, the next of the family, is the
wife of William Howes, of Portland, and has one child, Florence. Mr. Howes
is connected with the Plumauer-Frank Drug Company. Bessie L. is the wife
of Maurice Whitehead, who is connected with the Pacific Fruit Express Com-
pany and they have one child, Dorothy D. Mrs. Braden now makes her home
with her daughter Mrs. Whitehead. All of the children are graduates of the
high school.
In his last years Mr. Braden was the oldest living member of Samaritan
Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F. He ever enjoyed the fullest respect and confidence
of his brethren of the fraternity and was sent east to buy the pine clock which
is now in the tower of their famous temple. He filled all of the offices in the
local lodge and also in Ellison encampment, which he joined in i860. He was
sent as a delegate to the grand lodge and for over twenty years served as one
of the directors of Odd Fellows hall. He likewise became a member of Oregon
Lodge, No. I, K. P., and served as keeper of records and seals for twenty-eight
years. He was likewise a Mason and a charter member of Mystic Lodge, and
in his different fraternal connections displayed the sterling principles upon which
the orders are based. His political allegiance was always given to the republican
party and while he continued for a number of years in public office he could
never be called a politician in the usually accepted sense of the term. However,
he was interested in all that pertained to the public welfare, cooperated in vari-
ous measures and movements which had for their object the general good. He
died February 9, 1909, when in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
For six decades Mr. Braden had resided upon the Pacific coast and the
early development of this part of the country was well known to him not as a
matter of history but because he was a witness of, or participant in, many of the
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events which have shaped the annals of the northwest. He arrived in Portland
on the 14th of March, 1857, when the land hereabouts was a forest wilder-
ness and on the ist of July, 1884, he built his first home at what is now No. 288
Clay street. The natural forest growth surrounded him and the nearest resi-
dence was two blocks distant. As a contractor and through his connection with
the city engineer's office he contributed in large and substantial measure to the
upbuilding of Portland and is numbered among those to whom the city of the
present day stands as a monument.
HORATIO NELSON PRICE.
Horatio Nelson Price is a self-made man who has worked his way upward
by means of industry, unfaltering determination and indefatigable energy. His
work has not only contributed to his own success but has also constituted an
element in the progress and development of the communities in which he has
lived and he is at all times actuated by a public-spirited devotion to the gen-
eral good. A native of New Brunswick, he was born in the town of Woodstock,
September 8, 1855, and spent his youthful days there, acquiring his education
in the public schools and also in the provincial military school at Fredericton,
New Brunswick, from which he was graduated on the completion of the reg-
ular course. Through the periods of vacation he assisted in the cultivation of
the home farm and following his graduation he returned to the farm and aided
his father, who was engaged in both general farming and in the lumber busi-
ness. Horatio N. Price also became a member of the militia of Canada and
continued his residence in that country until about twenty-five years of age,
when the constantly broadening opportunities of the west attracted him. Prompted
by laudable ambition, he made his way to Clarke county, Washington, in the
spring of 1880 and for one season worked on a farm. Then in connection with
his brother he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of the John Calder dona-
tion claim on Fourth Plain. Of this they cleared seventy acres, the brother
remaining upon the farm, while Horatio N. Price entered the employ of the
railway department of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company for one
season. He was afterward employed by J. B. Montgomery, a contractor of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, who was conducting a general mercantile store
at Skamokawa and placed Mr. Price in charge of the store. While thus en-
gaged he was appointed postmaster of the town by President Cleveland and
continued to fill the position for twelve years. In 1891 he was again called to
office by appointment as state land cruiser for the southwestern district of
Washington, in which position he continued for six years, capably and efficiently
discharging his duties. In January, 1902, he returned to Clarke county after
resigning his position as postmaster of Skamokawa. Here he purchased one
hundred and ninety-two acres of land, which was also a part of the John Calder
donation claim, paying thirty-seven dollars per acre. He then bent his energies
to the development and improvement of the place, successfully carrying on
farming until April, 1909. The town site of Sifton is on this ranch and Mr.
Price retained ten acres of the site, which he hopes to hold until advancing
prices make it profitable for him to sell. In 1909 he bought a tract of twenty-
one acres that has been set out in prunes and apples, and is well known as an
orchardist, conducting a successful business in that connection. He has like-
wise dealt in timber lands but has now disposed of much of his timber. He is
still interested in the one hundred and sixty acre tract which he and his brother,
L. W. Price, purchased when they came to this county. While he personally
superintends the cultivation of his farm, he is also connected with the timber
interests in that he represents several large concerns as a timber cruiser. He
is an excellent judge of the value of standing timber and is thus qualified to
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undertake important work of this character. Throughout his life he has been
actuated by a spirit of undaunted enterprise and progress and his entire busi-
ness hfe has been characterized by a steady advancement. His labors, too,
have largely been of a character that have contributed to the welfare of the
community. He was one of those who were instrumental in securing the build-
insf of an electric line between Sifton and Vancouver and he is now one of its
stockholders.
Mr. Price was married on the ist of December, 1887, to Miss Lillie Groves,
of Portland, a daughter of John H. Groves, and they now have two children,
Hugh Dwight and Elise, both at home. Mr. Price belongs to Orchard Lodge,
L O. O. F., of which he is a charter member and he likewise became a charter
member of Kelso Lodge of the Knights of the Maccabees at Skamokawa. At-
tractive social qualities have won him many friends and he enjoys the com-
panionship of those whom he meets in fraternal organizations and otherwise.
He is preeminently a business man, alert, active and enterprising, and is meet-
ing with success through his operations in timber, through his development and
cultivation of his land and also as an orchardist, making a specialty in the cul-
tivation of prunes.
WILLIAM JAMES VAN SCHUYVER.
William J. Van Schuyver, whose death on January 7, 1909, was the oc-
casion of sincere regret on the part of many friends and acquaintances, was a
native of Ohio, and, as his name indicates, was of Holland Dutch descent. He
was born in Cleveland, July 7, 1835, and was the son of William and Mary
(Craw) Van Schuyver. He received his education in the public schools but
did not possess the advantages of high-school training, as he was put to work
when a boy in a bank at Fort Wayne, Indiana. In the same bank was em-
ployed Hugh McCulloch, who later became prominently known in financial
circles as secretary of the treasury under the administration of President An-
drew Johnson. At twenty-five years of age Mr. Van Schuyver decided that
more favorable opportunities for young men lay to the westward, and he came
to the Pacific coast, arriving in i860, just before the outbreak of the Civil war.
He made the trip by water, the Pacific railroad being then only in the pros-
pective stage and not materializing until seven or eight years later.
The hardy young adventurer was first attracted by the stories of great
wealth in the mines and for several years he labored faithfully in the hope
of becoming independent as a miner, but like thousands of others he learned
that it is often a long and toilsome journey to wealth through gold mining. He
was naturally gifted with business sagacity and decided to turn his attention
to bookkeeping, a business he had thoroughly mastered during the earlier part
of his life. He accordingly became connected with the firm of Ladd, Reed &
Company, of Portland, later going to eastern Oregon in the interest of R. R.
Thompson, Captain Ainsworth and others who were in the steamboat trans-
portation business. Being an apt pupil, Mr. Van Schuyver decided at last that
he could conduct business on his own account, and associating with Levi Mil-
lard, he organized the firm of Millard & Van Schuyver, wholesale dealers in
wines, etc. The firm bought out Ladd, Reed & Company and began business
on First street near Oak. The firm became one of the leading whole-
sale houses in its line on the Pacific coast, continuing under the same title until
the death of Mr. Millard, when Mr. Van Schuyver took over the business and
changed the name to Van Schuyver & Company. A new location for the busi-
ness was selected on Second street, and there he continued in charge until he
too was called away. The business has since been in charge of his only son,
William O. Van Schuyver, as manager.
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Mr. Van Schuyver was united in marriage at San Francisco, October 28,
1865, to Miss Harriett Angell, a daughter of Orange Allen and Mary C. (Dun-
lap) Angell. Three children, who are now living in Portland, were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Van Schuyver: William O., who succeeded his father in busi-
ness and was married to Helen J. Shortell, two children having been born to
them, William James and Catherine Jocene; Mary C, now Mrs. Dr. A. E.
Mackay ; and Helen, living at home.
Mr. Van Schuyver was a man of generous social nature and was a mem-
ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Portland. He was se-
lected to fill the responsible position of president of the building committee
during the time the beautiful new home of the order was in course of erection.
This is evidence of the confidence which he inspired in his associates, and in
all his busines transactions he was known as one who gave and expected in re-
turn the "square deal." His widow and children will always remember him
as one whose chief virtues were exhibited at his own fireside, surrounded by
those whom he held most dear. In politics he was a republican.
LOUIS BUCK.
Louis Buck, physician and surgeon, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in
1869, and in the city of his nativity spent his early youth and acquired his
primary education. He became a resident of Portland, however, in 1885, and
here completed his literary studies. He early resolved to make the practice of
medicine his life work and to this end entered the medical department of the
University of Oregon as a member of the class of 1897. He mastered the vari-
ous branches that constituted the curriculum of that institution and since his
graduation has taken special post-graduate work in the medical department of
the University of California at San Francisco. He has always been an inter-
ested student of the profession, reading broadly and keeping in touch with the
discoveries which are constantly being brought to light through the research
and investigation of different members of the profession.
Dr. Buck was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Wagner, of San Francisco,
and they have one son, Ronald. A social genial nature makes him popular in
the various fraternal organizations with which he is identified, including the
Masons, Elks, Foresters, Red Men and Moose lodges. While he greatly en-
joys the companionship of his friends, he never allows outside interests to inter-
fere with the faithful performance of his professional duties and he keeps in
touch with the onward march of the profession through his membership in
the Portland City Medical Society, the Multnomah County Medical Society and
the Oregon State Medical Association.
EDWARD HUGHES.
There are no exciting or unusual chapters in the life of Edward Hughes,
but his history illustrates clearly the value and power of close and unremitting
industry, guided by sound judgment. Moreover the record proves the worth
of integrity and reliability as factors in business life, for upon those qualities
as a foundation Mr. Hughes built his success. He was born in Woodstock,
Illinois, July 27, 1850. His parents were Patrick and Elizabeth Hughes, both
of whom were natives of Ireland. The father followed the occupation of farm-
ing for many years and both he and his wife died in the middle west.
Reared under the parental roof, Edward Hughes was trained to habits of
industry and perseverance, and his mental training was received in the schools
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of Woodstock. Later he engaged in teaching school and proved a capable in-
structor, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he had
acquired. He turned from a professional career to merchandising, however,
and engaged in the implement business at Cresco, Iowa, with his brother James.
They were in partnership for about ten years and developed a business of con-
siderable proportions. But the opportunities of the northwest attracted Edward
Hughes, who read with interest accounts of Portland and this section of the
country, its natural advantages and its opportunities. Accordingly, in 1882 he
sold his interest in the store to his brother and started for the Willamette valley.
Reaching Portland, he accepted the position of manager with the firm of Russell
& Company, who established a branch house for the sale of farm implements.
Mr. Hughes' previous experience in this line well qualified him for the duties
that devolved upon him in this connection. He remained with the company
for nine years, and during that period built up a large business, but wishing to
have the more direct benefit of his own labors, he resigned his position and
opened a store on his own account at the corner of First and Taylor streets,
where he dealt in farm machinery, conducting both a wholesale and retail trade.
Subsequently he removed to Madison and Front streets and was there located
at the time of his death, which was occasioned by a street car accident on the
6th of November, 1902.
On the 28th of November, 1878, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hughes
and Miss Julia Mullen, a daughter of Martin and Mary Mullen. They were
natives of Ireland but in childhood days came to America and were married
in this country. Mrs. Hughes was born at Hartford, Washington county, New
York, her father following the occupation of farming in that part of the state.
By her marriage she became the mother of five children. Chester C. is now
connected with the railway department of the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company at Spokane. He married Miss Elizabeth Skinner, of Washington,
and they have one daughter, Loie Anna. Raleigh E., a graduate of the naval
department at Annapolis of the class of 1906, is now a member of the United
States navy and stationed in China. Leon S. is connected with the Barber
Asphalt Company, of Portland. Julia Pauline and Julien Martin were twins.
The former, however, died at the age of two and a half years. The son is a
graduate of Hill's Military Academy, and is now a student at Leland Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California. All of the children have been provided with
excellent educational advantages.
In his political views Mr. Hughes was a stalwart republican, believing firmly
in the principles of the party and their adaptation to the needs of good gov-
ernment. The demands of his business, however, always prevented him from
holding office. He belonged to the Masonic and to the Odd Fellows lodges,
and his remains were interred in the Masonic cemetery. He enjoyed the high-
est regard of his fellows of that fraternity for his life exemplified its beneficient
spirit and its principles concerning the brotherhood of mankind. In business
and social circles he was alike popular and honored and fraternally all who
knew him entertained for him high regard.
WILLIAM H. WOODCOCK.
William H. Woodcock is one of the revered patriarchs of Portland, having
passed the eighty-fifth milestone on life's journey. He was born in Searsmont,
Maine, August 9, 1825, a son of Theodore and Rebecca (Packard) Woodcock.
The latter's father, Malabar Packard, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war
and one of the first settlers of Union, Maine. Theodore Woodcock followed
the occupation of farming and both he and his wife continued residents of the
Pine Tree state until called to their final home.
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William H. Woodcock v\^as a pupil in the district schools of Searsmont and
after his school days were over devoted his attention to the work of the home
farm. He carried on general farming pursuits for about forty years and lived
upon the old home place on which his father had settled when it was a tract
of wild land of three hundred and twenty acres. William H. Woodcock gave
his attention to its further development and improvement and converted it into
productive fields. His business activities, however, were interrupted at the
time of the Civil war for in August, 1862, he responded to his country's call
for troops, enlisting as a member of Company B, Twenty-sixth Maine Volun-
teer Infantry, under Captain Charles Baker. He joined the army for nine
months' service and was mustered out in 1863. He participated in the battle
of Irish Bend on the 19th of April, of Port Hudson on the 14th of June and in
the siege of Port Hudson which lasted for forty days. On the 17th of August,
1863, he was mustered out at Bangor, Maine.
At the close of his military service Mr. Woodcock returned to the farm.
In September, 1854, he was married in Searsmont, Maine, to Miss Sarah H.
Morrell and unto them were born three children : Ambrose, who died in
Arizona at the age of fifty years, leaving a widow and two children, Benja-
min and Olive ; Charles, who is now one of the proprietors of the Standard
Box Factory of Portland and a representative business man of the city, mar-
ried Emma Brown and has four children, Arthur, Edith, Helen and Clarke;
Frederick, also of Portland, married Miss Alice Davie and has two daughters,
Naomi and Ruth. The wife and mother passed away in 1866 and Mr. Wood-
cock afterward married Fannie Wilson, the wedding being celebrated at River-
side, Maine.
About twenty years ago Mr. Woodcock came to Portland, where he pur-
chased an interest in a grocery store. The venture, however, was not success-
ful and the business was closed out. He is now living retired. While in Maine
he served as a member of the state legislature and took an active part in poli-
tics, giving stalwart support to the republican party, of which he has always
been an earnest supporter. Since 1866 he has been a member of the Masonic
fraternity.
PETER J. FLYNN.
Peter J. Flynn, who during the years of his residence in Portland ever bore
the reputation for strict business integrity and for high moral worth, was a
resident of this city for thirty-two years. He was born in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, on the 19th of April, 185 1, and was a son of James L. and Jean
(Donelly) Flynn, the former of Irish and the latter of Scotch descent. His
parents both died in the east. They removed, however, from Pennsylvania
during the boyhood of their son Peter, taking up their abode in Steubenville,
Ohio. The father was a stone contractor and built a number of the early rail-
road bridges in the east. Subsequently they removed to Youngstown, Ohio,
where Peter Flynn attended school, and when he had mastered the branches
of learning taught in the public schools he began learning the stone and brick
mason's trade, becoming a thorough workman in that line. The year 1878
witnessed his arrival in Portland and in this city he followed contracting and
built up a business of large proportion's. He was in partnership with James
McBride and Alfred Bingham at dififerent times and many important contracts
were awarded him. He was the builder of the Union depot and other fine
structures of the city and he bore a most enviable reputation because of his
promptness and fidelity in executing every contract. He ever fully lived up to
the terms of his agreement and in any business transaction would rather have
sufifered himself than have deprived another. At one time he made a trip to
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South Africa, expecting to locate there, but did not like the country and accord-
ingly returned. He continued in business here until about four years prior
to his death, and from time to time, as his financial resources increased, he in-
vested in real estate, the value of which greatly increased with the rapid growth
of the city, so that at his death he left to his family a goodly competence in-
vested in property.
Portland is indebted to Mr. Flynn for a large number of the beautiful holly
trees which are a source of interest to every tourist upon the coast. He had
great love and admiration for the holly and set out many trees in Portland for
his friends. There is one particularly beautiful tree at the corner of Twenty-
first and Irving streets which he planted when he bought some land there in
1884. He erected a residence there and made his home at that corner until he
died. The tree, which is a very large, shapely and beautiful one, is still stand-
ing. He never joined any lodges or took active part in politics, preferring the
quiet and rest of home life and the companionship of his books. He was par-
ticularly interested in the study of history and had wide and comprehensive
knowledge upon that subject. He held membership in the Catholic church and
when death called him was laid to rest in Mount Calvary cemetery.
Mr. Flynn was united in marriage on the 22d of June, 1882, to Miss Lizzie
Beutgen, a daughter of Nicholas and May Beutgen, the former a native of Ger-
many and the latter of Scotland. Mrs. Flynn was born in Canada and in 1878
came to Portland with her parents, who died in this city. Mrs. Flynn has been
a member of St. Ann's Society since 1882 and she is now serving as its presi-
dent. She has taken an active part in various lines of church work and her
efforts in that connection have been far-reaching and beneficial.
Mr. Flynn passed away at St. Vincent Hospital on the night of Febntary
6, 1908. The Oregonian of the following day spoke of him as "One of the best
known contractors of the Pacific northwest. . . . He was widely and
popularly known in Portland, where he bore an enviable reputation for strict
business and moral integrity. He leaves many friends in both business and
social circles." He regarded friendship as something to be cherished and not
to be held lightly, and his friends could always count upon his loyalty and
fidelity.
JAMES CODY.
James Cody is entitled to mention in connection with the substantial devel-
opment and progress of the northwest, where he has now lived for twenty-one
years. He drove the first spike in the construction of the Vancouver, Klickitat
& Yakima Railroad and in later years has given his attention entirely to farm-
ing interests, which he now succesfully conducts. He was born in the city of
Rochester, New York, on the 15th of July, 1845, but when he was two years
old his parents removed to Canada, settling in the vicinity of Montreal, where
he was reared upon a farm to the age of twenty-two years. He then went to
Osceola county, Michigan, where he resided until 1889, when he came to the
northwest, settling in Clarke county, Washington. Here he began working
for Patrick Dunnigan, a railroad contractor, in which connection he drove the
first spike on the building of the Vancouver, Klickitat & Yakima Railroad,
which was the first railroad on the north side of the Columbia river. He was
thus employed for five months, after which he came to his present home, set-
tling on the ranch which he now owns. It is a tract of eighty acres which was
formerly railroad land, obtaining his patent to this in 1902. He had lived
upon it in all the intei^vening years but his title thereto was disputed by the
railroad company. However, in the contest he came out victorious. He has
cleared a portion of the land and has put all of the improvements upon the
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place, including the substantial buildings which are now here found and the
well-kept fences which bound the farm and divide it into fields of convenient
size. He is leading a very busy life, engaged in the raising of hay, grain and
potatoes.
On the 13th of October, 1880, Mr. Cody was united in marriage to Miss
Ellen Collins, of Michigan, and unto them have been born nine children, of
whom the following are living: Anna, the wife of Allen Linton; Abbey, who
gave her hand in marriage to Abraham Curtin ; Arthur ; Allen ; and Ella, the
wife of J. O'Herrin, of Spokane.
Mr. Cody belongs to the United Artisans society at Orchard. While his
time is largely occupied with the effort to promote his own success along legi-
timate business lines, he yet finds time to cooperate in public affairs and has
assisted not a little in the building and improvement of the roads in this lo-
cality. He is greatly interested in the welfare and progress of the community
and has firm faith in the future of this district.
JACOB FLEISCHNER.
The years numbered more than half a century in which Jacob Fleischner
was a resident of Portland. His name was enrolled with the Oregon pioneers
of 1852. Mention of that year alone, to any who are at all familiar with the
history of the northwest, brings up a picture that can never be effaced from the
minds of those who were actors in the events which in that year marked the
progress of civilization from the east to the west. The white-covered wagons
traveled toward the setting sun, disease went with them as a companion and
many a new-made grave was found along the wayside. At times the road was
little more than an Indian trail. There was always the possibility of an Indian
attack. It was in that year that Jacob Fleischner came to the northwest, and in
all the years which were added to the cycle of the centuries until his death he
maintained the closest companionship and the most kindly regard with and for
the other early settlers to whom the tale of pioneer life was a familiar one because
of their experience in all that constituted life on the frontier. While many of
his warmest friends were among the early settlers, each day almost added to
the number, for the circle of his friends increased as the circle of his acquaint-
ance widened, and the deepest regret was felt at his passing, when on the 15th
of April, 1910, he was called to his final rest.
Mr. Fleischner was born in Bohemia, July 15, 1833. The schools of that
country offered him his educational privileges and his home training was such
as developed in him habits of industry, integrity and reliability. He was nine-
teen years of age when he accompanied his brother Louis Fleischner, long a
prominent merchant of Portland and a distinguished resident of Oregon, to
the United States. For a time he resided in Philadelphia, after which he re-
mioved westward to Drakeville, Iowa, where he began business as a merchant.
The far west att^dcted him, however, and, equipping a wagon drawn by oxen,
he joined a tra'n that wended its weary way over the open prairies, the hot
sands of the desert and through the mountain passes to Oregon. Cholera broke
out en route and much suffering was endured. At length, however, Mr. Fleisch-
ner reached Oregon in safety and took up his abode at Albany, where for many
years he engaged in business. He afterward removed to Portland and his first
home here is now one of the old landmarks of the city — a house standing on
Fourth between Yamhill and Taylor streets. For a long period prior to his
death, however, he occupied the well known Fleischner residence at Seventh
and Main streets, and it was there that he passed away. He was a man of re-
markable determination, to whom an obstacle or difficulty seemed but as an
impetus '.or renewed effort, and his boundless energy carried him to the goal
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of success in whatever he undertook. In his later years he engaged in the
real-estate business, maintaining an office in the Labbe building.
Mr. Fleischner was married, in 1858, to Miss Fannie Nadler, and unto them
were born two sons and four daughters, and all but one, Minnie, who died in
1894, survive the father, namely: I. N. and Marcus Fleischner, who are con-
nected with the extensive wholesale house of Fleischner, Mayer & Company of
Portland; Mrs. Hattie Blumauer, of this city; and Mrs. G. H. Davis, of San
Francisco; and Mrs. Rudolph Goldsmith, of Portland.
No greater devotion to family ties was ever shown than by Mr. Fleischner,
who found his greatest happiness in promoting the welfare and interests of
his wife and children ; his greatest sorrow came to him in the death of his wife
three years prior to his demise. His love of children was always one of his
most marked characteristics. The children instinctively placed confidence in
him and came to him with their little tales of sorrow or of joy. In his office
he kept a veritable aviary of wild and tame birds, which were of the greatest
interest to his little visitors, and only a short time prior to his death he pre-
sented his collection to the city park. He was a lover of nature in every phase,
the birds, the trees, the water and the sky all appealing to him with their beauty
and with their song. He was a prominent member of the Oregon Pioneers As-
sociation, never failing to attend its meetings until ill health forced his absence,
and when, two years prior to his death, the association was holding its con-
vention he insisted on wearing his pioneer ribbon although ill in bed. His
character was one of conspicuous individuality and he never permitted his
business cares to affect his disposition, which was one of marked sweetness.
His charitable disposition was again and again manifest and he was, moreover,
a valued and popular member of the B'nai B'rith, the Concordia Club, the Ma-
sonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows lodge and other institutions which gave
expression to his social nature and kindly disposition. At the age of seventy-
seven years he passed away, on the 15th of April, 1910, and a life record of
great usefulness, covering fifty-eight years of active devotion to Oregon, was
thus ended.
MICHAEL G. MUNLY.
Michael G. Munly ranks not only as one of the leading lawyers of the Port-
land bar but as a man of influence in molding opinion concerning public and munic-
ipal problems which have ever been of deep interest and importance. He is a
practical theorist, for while he works toward high ideals he utilizes the means
that lie close at hand for their accomplishment.
Born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of September, 1854, he was a
son of Michael and Bridget (McHale) Munly. His educational privileges were
extremely limited as his school life in both public and private institutions did not
compass an aggregate period of more than three years. His x-eading and research,
however, have carried him beyond many college-bred men and L'-oad general learn-
ing constitutes for him a firm foundaton for his professional kn.^wledge.
Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, in 1882 Mr. Munly was
admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. While he soon afterward enteied upon prac-
tice, he did not devote his time exclusively thereto, for from 1886 imtil 1890 he
was also editor of the Catholic Sentinel. In the meantime, howe /er, he was
building a solid reputation for force and capability in the practice cf law. He
was deputy city attorney for one year in Portland, and in 1892 was appointed by
Governor Pennoyer judge of the circuit court, making a creditable record on the
bench during his two years' service. In the election of 1894, owing to the activity
of the American Protective Association, he was defeated. Since that time he
has devoted his attention to his private law practice, which is now very extensive.
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He has been a resident of Portland continuously since July, 1882, and has won
for himself very favorable criticism for the careful and systematic methods he has
followed in his law practice. He has remarkable powers of concentration and
application, and his retentive mind has often excited the surprise of his professional
colleagues. In the discussion of legal matters before the court his comprehensive
knowledge of the law is manifest and his application of legal principles demon-
strates the wide range of his professional acquirement. The utmost care char-
acterizes his preparation of a case and has made him one of the most successful
attorneys in Portland.
In 1909 Judge Munly was nominated for mayor on the democratic ticket but
was defeated. This indicated his high standing in the party and the honor
accorded him by those prominent in its ranks. He also has considerable outside
interests which claim his attention. He is connected with the salmon packing
industry of Alaska and is considered an authority on the natural history of Pacific
salmons and has furnished some contributions to magazines on that subject.
Judge Munly was married in 1890 to Miss Mary Nixon, of Portland, and has
three children, Robert N., Raymond M., and Anna Munly. His religious faith
is evidenced in his membership in the Holy Rosary church and also in his con-
nection with the Knights of Columbus. He belongs to the Commercial Club and
is a member of the Portland Press Club and the Oregon Historical Society, and
takes active interest in those projects instituted for the development of the city.
He is a close student of public and municipal problems, and is president of one
of the city improvement clubs which have done much for the civic betterment of
Portland. He is a firm advocate of many of the measures to which the public
conscience is being awakened with the result that effective work is being done
along the lines of general reform and improvement. On all sociological and
economic problems he keeps abreast with the best thinking men of the age and his
ideas have influenced a considerable following.
BERNARD GOLDSMITH.
Bernard Goldsmith deserves to be especially remembered and honored by
reason of his advocacy of a well developed park system in Portland and it was
under his administration as mayor that City Park was purchased. A native of
Germany, he was born November 20, 1832, in Munich, a son of Abraham and
Esther Goldsmith. His elementary education was acquired in his native coun-
try and at the age of seventeen years he came alone to America. After a short
period passed in New York city he made his way to San Francisco by way of
the Panama route and subsequently removed to Crescent City, California, and
also lived for a short time in southern California. He came to Portland about
i860. He had been engaged in general merchandising at Crescent City and
had also bought gold dust there. On coming to Portland he took up the business
of assaying gold and later turned his attention to the wholesale dry-goods busi-
ness, which claimed his time and energies for a period. Subsequently, however,
he became interested in steamboating on the Willamette and Columbia rivers
and he was the prime mover and the head of the company which built the locks
at Oregon City. During the later years of his life he gave his attention to
numerous and various financial interests, which, capably managed, brought him
substantial success and at the same time proved factors in the progress and
material upbuilding of this section of the state.
Mr. Goldsmith was married in March, 1863, to Miss Emma Frohman, a native
of Munich, Bavaria. They became parents of seven children, of whom five are
living: J. S., a wholesale grocer of Seattle; Louis J., financial agent of Port-
land; M. M., a manufacturer of Seattle; May B., also of that city; and Alfred
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S who is engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Seattle. The mother
passed away December 14, 1891, and the father's death occurred July 22, 1901.
Mr. Goldsmith was always reckoned as a most public-spirited citizen, inter-
ested in everything that pertained to the general welfare, to progress and
improvement. He was a member of the Jewish church and was always active
in the ranks of the democratic party. He was strongly opposed to slavery and
was a stalwart advocate of any measure which he believed to be right. In 1868
he was elected mayor of Portland on the Union republican ticket. He foresaw
the wisdom of purchasing property for parks when it could be obtained at rea-
sonable rates, knowing that with the growth of the city there would be a demand
for these public playgrounds and places of amusement and adornment. During
his administration and largely through his influence City Park was purchased
and in this connection as well as in other ways his name will long be known
and honored.
JACOB GANSNEDER.
Jacob Gansneder, now deceased, who was well known in connection with the
restaurant and hotel interests of Portland, was a native of Germany, born at
Oberellenbach, Bavaria, on the 2d of June, 187 1. His parents were Jacob and
Teresa (Riedl) Gansneder, the mother having died in Germany where the father
is still living. The latter was a farmer and stock man. Following those pur-
suits to provide for his family of twelve children, of whom Jacob was fourth
in order of birth. He attended school in the county of Mallersdorf, Bavaria,
and came alone to America when sixteen years of age. The spirit of adventure
and hope of improving his financial condition led him to sail for New York
when but a boy in years, and from the eastern metropolis he made his way to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he joined his older brother. He spent two years
in that city and began learning the machinist's trade while there. He next
made his way to Portland, for his brother, Anton Frederick Gansneder, had
removed to the west about a year before. On reaching this state Jacob Gans-
neder became connected with restaurant and hotel interests, for some years
occupying the position of chef. He was first connected in that capacity with
the Model Restaurant and subsequently with Hotel Portland and later with the
Louvre, one of the most popular and leading cafes of the city. In 1906 he
opened Bismark Restaurant at No. 209 Morrison street, conducting it success-
fully until his death, and making it one of the best establishments in his line in
the city. In the meantime his brother Frank had come to Portland about 1894
and worked with Mr. Gansneder and in 1906 started in business with him. He
is now the proprietor of the Bismark Restaurant which is kept up to the high
standard on which it was established by the two brothers. Through the capable
conduct of this undertaking, Jacob Gansneder won a creditable measure of
success, enabling him to leave his family in comfortable financial circumstances.
It was on the 25th of June, 1896, in Portland, that Mr. Gansneder was united
in marriage to Miss Mary Platz, a daughter of John and Frances (Schneider)
Platz, who on leaving Germany in 1884 became residents of Milwaukee, Wis-
consin. Five years later they removed westward with their family and make
their home in Portland throughout their remaining days. Mr. Platz passed
away in 1891 and his wife survived until July i, 1910. They had become the
parents of seven children, namely: Mary, who became the wife of our subject;
Frances, who wedded E. A. Ebersole, a shoe manufacturer of Portland ; Louis,
engaged in the hotel business in this city ; Henry G., a cement contractor of this
city; Katharine, the wife of H. M. Lescher, who is engaged in the bakery busi-
ness in Seattle, Washington ; Anna, who wedded Dr. H. V. Guiberson. of Kent,
Washington ; and Rose Teresa, who passed away in 1900. Mrs. Gansneder was
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born in Furth-in-wald, Germany, and accompanied her father and mother when
they sailed for the United States and again when they traveled across the con-
tinent to the Rose City. By her marriage she became the mother of five chil-
dren: Francis A., M. Irene, Jacob F., Romuald Paschalus and Rosemary, all yet
with their mother.
The death of Mr. Gansneder occurred August 22, 1910, and to Mount Calvary
cemetery his remains were assigned. He always voted the republican ticket
after becoming an American citizen, but never took an active part in politics.
He held membership with the Catholic church and with St. Joseph's Society and
in fraternal relations was connected with the Woodmen of the World and the
Eagles. He was an ambitious, energetic business man who constantly sought
and improved opportunities and was, moreover, of a social, genial nature, hav-
ing many friends in Portland, particularly among his fellow countrymen. He
was particularly adapted to his line of business and made a great success of
it. Special attention is called to the fact that he came to this country without
any educational qualifications, without money and without friends, and he never-
theless became a prominent factor in social and business circles. His life is a
shining example of the truly self-made man.
JOSEPH DENNIS CREMEN.
Among those who became residents of Portland when the city contained only
a few business houses on Front street, with a few surrounding pioneer homes,
was Joseph Dennis Cremen. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, about 1827,
and was educated by the Christian Brothers of that place. Cork has always been
a center of learnng and his instruction was liberal and thorough. Though many
years have gone by since he was called to his final rest, those who knew him
remember him as a well educated man, and further evidence of this is found in
his beautiful and symmetrical handwriting as seen in his memoirs. At a day when
the course of education in many American communities extended little beyond
reading, writing and arithmetic, he was a student of grammar, one of his old
text-books being still in existence, the little volume defining itself as "The Art
of Learning to Speak English With Propriety." Old volumes of Byron and
Moore indicated his literary taste and Plutarch, his knowledge of those whose
lives throughout the ages have left their impress upon the pages of history.
Crossing the Atlantic in early manhood, he was a resident of New York in 1848.
The west, however, attracted him. The news of the discovery of gold had been
received and he realized that it meant not only the development of mining but of
other business interests which must spring up to meet the demands of the large
influx of emigrants to the western coast.
Accordingly he determined to try his fortune in California and on the 5th of
March, 1849, sailed on the steamship Lewis around the born. While en route the
vessel was shipwrecked. Although full steam was on, it made no headway
against the strong winds, and another three minutes would have dashed it against
the rock, when the captain discovered the situation, put the wheel to and turned
the boat. The trouble occurred on the 2d of May, and only the crew but the
passengers made their way to the land where they secured wood and water. The
moss was so thick upon the ground as to render it spon.tjy and the men stood upon
the branches of trees to cut the wood. Members of the crew also secured wild
geese and ducks which furnished a welcome addition to the cuisine.
On the morning of the 7th of July, about six o'clock, Mr. Cremen landed at
San Francisco. It was largely a city of tents and rude cabins built upon the sand
hills. After a short time he turned his attention to the grocery business, which
he followed in that city for several years, after which he brought the stock of
goods to Portland.
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In 1861 Mr. Cremen was united in marriage to Miss Mary McGettigan, or
Gatens, for so the name came to be spelled, the Irish form being dropped after
the establishment of the family in America. Mrs. Cremen was born in St.
Johns, New Brunswick, October 30, 1839, and came to California in 1857. Mrs.
Cremen still has in her possession an interesting paper attesting the election of her
husband to membership in Multnomah Fire Company, No. 2, a volunteer organiza-
tion of which men who are recognized as among the most prominent and wealthy
residents of the city were also members. He was likewise the first secretary of
the Portland Hibernian Society, in which any man of Irish birth was entitled to
membership. This was about 1859. He was also the secretary of the Washing-
ton Guards, the first military company organized in Portland. Thus associated
with events of pioneer history, he well deserves representation in the annals of
this city.
WILLIAM DAVID FENTON.
William David Fenton, one of the foremost corporation lawyers of the Pacific
northwest, ^hose success and leadership not only at the bar but in other walks of
life are due largely to his fearless expression of his honest conviction, which has
ever been one of his strong and sterling characteristics, has been a resident of
Oregon for forty-five years, arriving in Yamhill county when a youth of twelve.
His birth occurred upon a farm in Scotland county, Missouri, June 29, 1853, his
parents being James Davis and Margaret Ann (Pinkerton) Fenton. He comes
of Welsh and English ancestry on the paternal side, the family having been
established in America about 1790. The Pinkertons, however, trace their Ameri-
can ancestry back to 1746, when representatives of the name came from Scotland
to the new world and settled in North Carolina. James Davis Fenton was a
farmer by occupation and followed that pursuit in Scotland county, Missouri,
until, attracted by the favorable reports which he heard concerning the north-
west, he brought his family across the plains from Missouri to Oregon, traveling
according to the primitive manner of the times and establishing his home in Yam-
hill county, in what was still a pioneer district, where the hardships and difficul-
ties of frontier life must be encountered in the eft'ort to develop a farm from
land hitherto uncultivated.
William David Fenton, then a lad of twelve summers, bore his part in the
arduous tasks of the farm but was not deprived of educational privileges which
fitted him for labors of a wider scope. He had the opportunity of attending the
Baptist College at McMinnville and afterward continued his studies in the Chris-
tian College at Monmouth, Oregon, where he was graduated in 1872. He was
then a youth of nineteen years. Directing his labors into those channels which
demand strong intellectuality, close application and keen analysis, Mr. Fenton
prepared for the bar as a law student in Salem, Oregon, and in December, 1875,
was admitted to practce. It was not until two years had passed, however, that
he opened an office in Lafayette, Yamhill county, and entered upon the active
work of his profession as a member of the firm of McCain & Fenton. They
enjoyed a successful practice for three years and the partnership was then dis-
solved, Mr. Fenton being joined by a younger brother, with whom he was associ-
ated until 1885, when he went to Portland, attracted by the opportunities of the
growing city. The death of his father in the following year, however, occasioned
his return to Lafayette, where he remained from 1886 until 1889. In the latter
year he opened a law office in Seattle but in June, 1890, returned to Portland,
where he has since continued in the practice of law, winning a place in the fore-
most ranks of the corporation lawyers of this city. In June, 1891, he became
counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Oregon and a member of the law
firm of Bronaugh, McArthur, Fenton & Bronaugh, an association that was main-
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tained until the death of the senior partner in 1897, at which time the firm of
Fenton, Bronaugh & Muir was organized. The withdrawal of Mr. Bronaugh in
1900 left the firm Fenton & Muir and in 1901 Mr. Fenton entered upon an
independent practice, in which connection a large clientage has been accorded
him. While he continued in the general practice of law, he has largely concen-
trated his efiforts upon corporation law, in which field he is largely regarded as
an authority in the northwest. While acting as counsel for the Southern Pacific
lines in Oregon, he also represents in legal capacity the Amercan Steel & Wire
Company, the Standard Oil Company, the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, the
Equitable Assurance Society of New York and various other corporations, all
of which find him adequate in mastering the intricate problems of corporation
law.
While his law practice occupies the major portion of his attention, Mr. Fen-
ton is nevertheless recognized as one of the political leaders of Portland, giving
his allegiance to the democratic party until 1896, when his opposition to the
silver plank in its platform led him to throw the weight of his influence in favor
of the gold standard policy, since which time he has labored effectively in the
interests of the republican party. He was elected as a democrat to the state
legislature from Yamhill county in 1876 and was the nominee of his party for
congress in 1882, in which year he was defeated by a small majority. Two years
later he was made a Cleveland elector, but his ambition is not in the line of office-
holding, his practice being too extensive and of too important a character to per-
mit of greater activity in political circles.
On the i6th of October, 1879, Mr. Fenton was united in marriage to Miss
Katherine Lucas, of Monmouth county, Oregon. Their family numbers four
children, namely: Dr. Ralph Albert Fenton, of Portland, and Dr. Horace B.
Fenton, also of Portland, both graduates of the University of Oregon, the former
taking his medical course at North Western in Chicago, the latter, at Johns Hop-
kins; Kenneth L. Fenton, a graduate of Yale in 1910 and a member of his fath-
er's legal staff; and William David, Jr., a lad of fifteen years.
The qualities which have gained Mr. Fenton's preeminence in the practice of
law also make him a valued member of the different societies with which he is
connected. In Masonry he has attained high rank, having taken the degrees of
the consistory and the Mystic Shrine and one of the few thirty-third degree'
Masons in Oregon. He also belongs to the Arlington Club of Portland and is a
member of the Oregon Bar Association. A man of wide reading, thoroughly
versed concerning the significant and vital questions of the day, his comprehen-
sive understanding and his strong and forceful personality have made his labors
an effective factor in all those fields to which he has directed his activity, and
especially in the solution of those intricate problems upon which careful analysis
must be brought to bear.
MATHIAS SPURGEON.
Vancouver is the home of many men who are living retired — men whose
business ability has carried them from a humble financial position to a place of
affluence, now enabling them to rest from further labor. Such is the history of
Mathias Spurgeon, who has reached the age of seventy-two years, and is en-
joying the fruits of his former toil in a pleasant home in Vancouver. He was
born in Iowa, April 22, 1838, and was reared there to the age of fourteen years.
During that period he had had the privilege of attending school for only one
winter. Both of his parents being dead, he sought the opportunities of the
Pacific northwest, making his way first to Oregon territory and then crossing
the river to Vancouver in November, 1852. The journey westward was made
over the old Oregon trail with ox teams and a covered wagon. There were five
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families in the party and they traveled after the slow and tedious manner of
the times, experiencing hardships and privations by want of pasturage and
water for the stock. After reaching his destination, Mr. Spurgeon went to live
with William Dillon, a pioneer settler, under whom he worked until twenty-
one years of age. He then made his way to the mountains and engaged in
mining for a year, but was very unsuccessful. Subsequently he engaged in
driving team for a year and thus made back the money he had lost in his mining
venture. He afterward rented land which he cultivated for three years, during
which period he saved enough to enable him to purchase the property, which
consisted of one hundred and sixty acres. He still owns that place and one
hundred acres that he purchased later, making a total of two hundred and sixty
acres which return to him a good annual income. He continued to carry on
farming and stock raising until 1905, and annually harvested good crops, while
his stock also found a ready sale on the market. With advancing years he de-
cided to put aside the more active duties of the farm and, renting his place,
removed to Vancouver, where he built a home and lives retired. In the mean-
time, he had bought and sold much land in this vicinity, and had realized good
returns from his investments.
On the 2 1 St of October, 1877, Mr. Spurgeon was married to Miss Olive
Dillon, who was born in Oregon and is a daughter of Jeremiah and Roxie Dil-
lon, early pioneer settlers of this locality. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon have
been born the following named sons and daughters: Mrs. C. W. Nickols, of
Vancouver; Mrs. H. Brooks, who has two children: Dean and Dale; John,
who is engaged in fruit-raising in Vancouver; Mathias O., who is married
and has one child, Olive Alice, and is the proprietor of a confectionery store
in the same city ; and Leo and Gerald, at home.
Mr. Spurgeon is a member of the Grange of Vancouver. He has never
regretted his determination to seek the opportunities of the northwest. His
early youth was a period of earnest, unremitting toil, and in fact on the guide
posts of his life he has always found the word labor. What he has undertaken
he has carried forward to success, and it is this which now numbers him among
the substantial pioneer residents of his adopted city.
SAMUEL SHERLOCK.
The life history of Samuel Sherlock was the creditable record of a self-
made man who, empty handed, faced the world at the outset of his business ca-
reer but by skill at his trade, determination and close application worked his way
upward, becoming in the course of years a leading wholesale harness manufac-
turer of Portland. He was born at New Ross, Ireland, about 1820 and his
youthful days were spent amid the surroundings of town life in the community
where his parents maintained their home. His education was acquired in the
Erasmus Smith foundation schools and there he learned the harness maker's
trade. The reports which reached him concerning the opportunities and advan-
tages of the new world led him to seek a home in America and for a time he
worked at New Haven, Connecticut, and at Newark, New Jersey. Owing to
the fact that his brother William was a resident of Portland, he came to this
city in the '50s by the water route and the isthmus of Panama, and his first work
in this city was in making two side saddles. He was employed for a time by
others but eventually established a harness shop of his own in connection with
William Sherlock and Charles Bacon, who became the founders of what is now
the George Lawrence Wholesale Saddlery Company. Mr. Sherlock continued
to engage in the wholesale harness business until his death, which occurred on
the 15th of July, 1876. While riding his horse one day he was thrown and the in-
juries sustained resulted in his death several days later, to the deep regret of
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many friends who had learned to know and esteem him during the years of his
residence in Portland.
Mr. Sherlock was a member of the Episcopal church and in politics was a
republican. He held membership with the old guard fire department and was
interested and active in support of many measures and movements which were
elements in the city's early development and substantial progress. In business
he was successful and died the possessor of a comfortable competence, although
he came to Portland empty-handed.
JOSEPH A. FRIZZELL.
Oregon is coming more and more to recognize the great debt which she owes
to her pioneer settlers, those whose courage and determination enabled them to
make the long and difficult journey across the plains and bear the hardships,
privations and trials of pioneer life when this state was still a sparsely settled
region. Among the early settlers was Joseph A. Frizzell, who arrived in Oregon
in 1852. He was for many years engaged in stock-raising but spent his last days
days in Portland. His birth occurred near Springfield, Missouri, March 9,
1843, his parents being Porter and Lilly (Porter) Frizzell. The father was
a stockman and came to Oregon with his family in 1852, traveling by slow stages
over the plains, his wagon drawn by oxen. It was a memorable year among the
emigrants for cholera broke out all along the route and many died, so that the
way was marked by new made graves almost from the Mississippi valley to the
seaside. Porter Frizzell was the last victim of that dread disease, to which he
succumbed after arriving in Oregon, his remains being interred in Sherman
county. The mother succeeded in making her way with her large family of
small children into the Willamette valley and settled near Bethel, in Polk
county, where the sons and daughters were reared. The three brothers of our
subject, William, Jason P. and George L., are living and one of the sisters, Mrs.
H. M. McNary, is a resident of Portland, but another sister, Mrs. Alexander
Holmes, has passed away.
Joseph A. Frizzell was the fourth in order of birth in this family. A location
was made in Polk county, nine miles west of Salem, near the little town of
Bethel, the mother taking up a donation claim in what was a wild and unset-
tled country. One of her relatives entered an adjoining claim and assisted her
through the first year, but for a considerable period she and her family had a
hard time. The eldest of the children was but sixteen and the youngest only
two years of age. Joseph A. Frizzell and his older brother worked out break-
ing prairie with ox teams in order to obtain ready money with which to provide
for the support of the family. The two elder boys made all of the rails to fence
the place. As time passed one, however, things became easier, the prairie land
was converted into productive fields and brought forth rich crops and the farm
which is now a valuable property is still in possession of the youngest brother.
The educational advantages of Joseph A. Frizzell were necessarily very
limited, but he became a practical business man, learning many valuable les-
sons in the school of experience, while reading and observation also broadened
his knowledge. He remained upon the old homestead until about eighteen years
of age. when he began mining at Florence, Nevada, following that pursuit for
about two years. He then engaged with his brother William in teaming and
freighting from The Dalles to Boise City, Idaho, carrying on that business for
about three years, at the end of which time Joseph A. Frizzell purchased some
sheep and settled upon a ranch in the wild country of Washington. The Indians
were numerous but the white settlers were few. He devoted his attention to
sheep for a few years and then turned his attention to cattle raising. Removing
from Washington to Wheeler county, Oregon, he was thereafterward connected
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with the live-stock business in that locality up to the time of his death. He
made his home upon his Wheeler county ranch until 1905, when the family went
to Portland. Because of his live-stock, which he could not dispose of, he had
to remain there for a time, and then joined his family in Portland, where he
passed away on the 14th of May, 1910, his remains being interred in the Rose
City Park cemetery.
It was on the 17th of October, 1872, in Salem, that Mr. Frizzell was united
in marriage to Miss Polly A. Starbuck, a daughter of Elisha and Susan (Pierson)
Starbuck, both of whom were natives of Hamilton county, Ohio. They came
from Iowa to Oregon in 1863, crossing the plains and taking up their abode in
Polk county, about four miles from Salem. The mother is now deceased, but
the father is still living at the venerable age of ninety-two years. Unto Mr. and
Mrs. Frizzell were born four children: Merritt L., a stockman of Condon,
Oregon, who married Margaret Hardie and has five children, Ada, Riley, Frank,
Jessie and Lester; Grace, the wife of Edward D. Payne, of Portland; Jessie,
the wife of Edwin L. Steinhoff; and Blanch, who died in infancy.
Mr. Frizzell was a most considerate husband and father, who sought suc-
cess that it might enable him to provide liberally for his family and give to them
the comforts which make life worth living. During his residence in Wheeler
county, his fellow townsmen, appreciating his worth and ability, called hirn to
office, electing him to the position of county commissioner upon the republican
ticket. It was said of him: "He was a good neighbor, always willing to help
the needy, was a kind father and a friend to all." He took a deep interest in the
history of the early days and at one time served as president of the Wheeler
County Pioneer Society. When he removed to eastern Oregon the section in
which he settled was an entirely undeveloped region and he took an active and
helpful part in planting the seeds of civilization there. His life was, indeed, one
of usefulness and his worth won him the strong and enduring attachment of
family and friends.
JOHN BARRETT.
Attracted to the Pacific coast with the hope of gaining a fortune in the mines,
John Barrett met with but poor success in his search for the precious metal and
turned his attention to the plumbing business, which trade he had previously fol-
lowed in the east. Here he found an occupation in which his labors counted as
tangible factors in the attainment of a most desirable result and in the passing
years he became the foremost representative of this line of business in the
Pacific northwest. In the sea-coast city of Liverpool, England, with its im-
mense shipping interests, John Barrett was born on the 13th of April, 1831. His
parents, John and Catherine (Rooney) Barrett, were both of Irish descent and
birth, but died in England. At the usual age their son John was sent to school
and gave much of his attention to his lessons in Liverpool until seventeen years
of age, when a spirit of adventure and desire to see the world caused him to
run away from home in company with a young friend who later died in California.
They sailed for New York and arrived in Williamsburg, on Long Island, which
has since been annexed to New York city. He there learned the plumber's
trade and became a very fine workman. His friend went to California about
two and a half years after they landed in the United States, but Mr. Barrett
continued to work at his trade in the east until about 1855, when he went to
South Carolina, joining a brother Edward, who was captain of a packet ship.
Later Edward Barrett died from the yellow fever and John Barrett also con-
tracted the fever from nursing his brother, but recovered. He then returned to
New York where he remained until 1861, when he started for the Pacific coast,
making his way by the water route to Panama and, crossing the isthmus, he
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embarked on the western coast for San Francisco. Soon after reaching that
city he and a number of men went to the Fraser river mines. He followed
mining for a short time but with poor success and made his way to Portland, where
he met a number of men bound for the Idaho mines. He bought about one
thousand dollars worth of supplies and went with them. He followed mining
that season — this was about the year 1862 — but again he had bad luck and re-
turned to Portland, where for one winter he engaged in clerking for the old
Howard Hotel. In the spring he entered the employ of C. H. Meyer & Com-
pany, plumbers, with whom he continued until 1867, when he formed a partner-
ship with John Donnerberg, a fellow workm.an in the employ of Meyer & Com-
pany. They opened a plumbing shop on First street near Yamhill, and there
engaged in business together for about four years. At that time they dissolved
partnership and Mr. Barrett established an independent business on First street.
He was numbered among the leading plumbers of the city until 1893, when he
sold out to Crane & Company. In fact he had built up a very extensive business,
the largest in the Pacific northwest. He had a contract for all the plumbing work
for the old Oregon Steam Navigation Company and he was also one of the first
men to be identified with the great sewer system of Portland. His expert work-
manship was the source of his success and as his trade increased so that he
found it necessary to employ others, he was always careful to secure the serv-
ices of those who could do satisfactory work. Moreover he was interested in
a number of other business projects of Portland in the early days but in the
widespread financial panic of 1893 he lost quite heavily.
Throughout the period of his residence in Portland Mr. Barrett took an
active and helpful part in promoting those projects which wrought for public
progress and improvement. He was a very prominent member of the old volun-
teer fire department, No. 2, joining this soon after his arrival in Portland. He
had previously been a member of the fire department of New York city. In
politics he was a stalwart republican but would never hold office, preferring to
do his public duty as a private citizen. His religious faith was that of the
Catholic church and he was a most zealous advocate of the cause.
With the beginning of the year 1865 Mr. Barrett established a home of his own
by his marriage on the ist of January, in the old St. Mary's Catholic church of Port-
land, to Miss Margaret O'Connor, a daughter of Thomas G. and Alice (Slattery)
O'Connor, both of whom were of Irish lineage. The mother died at Denison,
Iowa, where they were the first white family to locate. Mrs. Barrett was born
at Lebanon Springs, New York, and on the 12th of March, 1863, arrived in
Portland in company with her father and two brothers, Michael and John. The
former is now a merchant of Olympia, Washington, while the latter, who was
associated in business with Mr. Barrett for a number of years, is deceased. Her
father served as deputy under Marshall Hoyt and was killed while on duty.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barrett were born seven children: John F., of Portland,
who married Julia Beason and has four children, John F., Joseph G., Elizabeth
and Katherine, the last two being twins ; Katherine A., the wife of Thomas H.
McAllis, of Portland, by whom she has one son, John B. ; Thomas W., who
graduated from the medical department of the Columbia College of New York
and was for six years a successful physician of Portland, whose career was
terminated by death ; Joseph M., of this city ; Edward D., of Portland, who
wedded Elizabeth Elliott ; Inez, at home ; and Rodney G., who died in infancy.
The family are all members of the Catholic church and Mrs. Barrett belongs to
the Ladies' Aid Society and the Altar Society. She was also one of the charter
members of St. AInn's Society. After disposing of his plumbing business in
1893 Mr. Barrett lived retired until his death, which occurred September 12,
1910, his remains being interred in Riverview cemetery. He left considerable
real estate for as the years passed and his financial resources increased he had
made judicious investments in property. The spirit of enterprise and progress
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actuated him at all times and was manifest not only in his business affairs but
also in his connection with Portland as a citizen and as a supporter of measures
that tended to promote the political, intellectual, social and moral progress of
the community.
W. H. H. MORGAN.
W. H. H. Morgan, residing in Portland and engaged in the live stock business,
was born December 8, 1840, in Ohio, a son of Edward and Mary (Shirley)
Morgan. The father was born in London and the mother, a native of Virginia,
was of German descent. They were among the early settlers of Ohio and in
his native land Edward Morgan learned and followed the shoemaker's trade.
He was married in that country and with his wife and three children came to
the United States when about thirty years of age. Subsequently he lost his first
wife and wedded Mary Shirley. In Ohio he followed the occupation of farming
and thus provided for his family, which numbered altogether twenty-two chil-
dren, born of the two marriages.
After living in the Buckeye state Edward Morgan removed to Iowa, where
he resided for two years. In 1845 he started across the plains with ox teams to
the far west, traveling with a large wagon train which slowly wended its way
toward the Pacific coast, six months elapsing before the end of the journey.
Mr. Morgan at length reached Linnton, Oregon, which lies just across the river
from St. Johns and within a few miles of Portland. There was only one log
cabin on the present site of Portland at that time. Mr. Morgan located in the
center of Sauvie's island, where he took up six hundred and forty acres of land
as a donation claim. Later, however, he sold that property and in 1850 removed
to the farm which is now owned by his son, W. H. H. Morgan. At that time
he secured six hundred and forty acres of land, for which he paid one hundred
dollars. This place is fourteen miles north of Portland. At that time there
were comparatively few white men in this section and most of them had squaw
wives. Mr. Morgan built a house of hewed cottonwood logs. In the family at
that time there were the parents and seven children. They had two yoke of
cattle and one cow. The log cabin remained the home of the family for about
eight years, after which Edward Morgan built a frame dwelling, purchasing
the lumber from Mr. Wells at Milwaukie. Later his son, whose name introduces
this review, erected a fine residence upon the farm. The father died in 1872 at
the ripe old age of eighty-four years, and the mother passed away in 1875 at
the age of sixty-six years. In politics he was a very strong abolitionist in ante
helium days and when the republican party was formed to prevent the further
extension of slavery into the north he joined its ranks. However, he would
never consent to hold office but in other ways did all he could to promote the
success of his party and secure the adoption of its principles. He was a lifelong
and devoted member of the Baptist church and always lived in consistent
harmony with his professions. He always followed farming after coming to
Oregon but at length sold his place about fourteen miles from Portland and
removed to Clackamas county, while later he became a resident of Washington
county. A daughter of the family, Mrs. Julia Ann Freeman, is now living in
Portland, while another daughter, Mrs. Katherine Dunn, lives on Sauvie's island
and still another one, Mrs. Lucinda Boynton, is living in the Willamette valley.
A son, George, makes his home in Washington county and Edward in Roseburg,
Oregon, while still another daughter, Mrs. Sarah Ott, is living near Fort Madi-
son, Iowa, at the very advanced age of eighty-nine years.
W. H. H. Morgan, brought to Oregon in 1845, was reared amid the wild
scenes and environment of pioneer life. The river courses of the state made
their way between banks upon which great pine forests grew and through the
forests the Indians roamed at will, far outnumbering the white settlers who had
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ventured into the western wilderness to plant the seeds of civilization here.
The unsettled and undeveloped condition of the country was such that Mr.
Morgan had practically no school privileges. The homes of the settlers were
too far distant from each other to permit of public schools being maintained
and the education which Mr. Morgan has acquired has come to him through his
reading, observation and broadening experience. He has always followed farm-
ing and stock-raising and in the fall of 1864 he purchased one-half of his father's
farm and later bought the other half of his brother-in-law, so that he is now the
owner of the old homestead property.
It was on the 30th of April of that year, at Vancouver, Washington, that
Mr. Morgan was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Orchard, a daughter of
Jesse C. and Minerva Ann (Medford) Orchard. She was born in Texas and in
1852 came over the plains with her parents to Oregon, the journey being made
with ox teams. Her father had followed farming in Texas and on reaching this
state settled in Polk county, where he resided until 1862, when he came to
Multnomah county. Here he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land,
which he cultivated for a time, but later sold that property and removed to
eastern Oregon, his death occurring in that part of the state. His wife passed
away in Washington. Of their children Mrs. America Ann Thomas lives in
Portland, while James A. and Jasper are residents of Washington and two sons,
John O. and Oscar, are in California. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan
was blessed with eleven children: Charles C, who died in childhood; Elmina,
the wife of David Kurtz, of Portland, and the mother of two children — Roy
and Alma ; Nellie B., at home ; Nettie, the wife of Verne Jeffrott, of Portland,
by whom she has one son, Morgan; Daisy, at home; Luella, the wife of W. S.
Copeland, of Sauvie's island; Alba, of Portland, who married Madge Kay and has
one son, William K. ; Laura, the wife of Amor C. Spencer, of Portland, and
the mother of one child, Helen E. ; Newton, of Portland, who married Bessie
Monroe; and two who died in infancy. V";:.;, '^..l,;. .. ■
In his political views Mr. Morgan has always been a republican but the
honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. He lived a
busy and useful life upon the farm which he still owns and which has been in
possession of the family for sixty years. At length he retired from farming in
1897 and took up his abode in Portland. Previous to this time he would spend
the summer months upon the farm and the winter seasons in Portland in order
to give his children the benefit of educational advantages here oflfered. In 1906
he erected a fine residence on Hawthorne avenue, where he now resides. Few
have longer been residents of Oregon than Mr. Morgan, who since 1845 has lived
within the borders of the state, which, however, was under territorial govern-
ment at the time of his coming and included the state of Washington. At that
day wild beasts and birds dwelt unmolested in the forest and the white man had
disputed with the Indian to only a slight extent concerning the ownership of
the land. The great, vast regions of the state were unclaimed and Portland, the
beautiful Rose City of the present, had then but a single house — a log cabin.
Mr. Morgan has therefore been a witness of the entire development of the city
and along agricultural lines has contributed to the upbuilding and progress of
this section. He is indeed an honored resident of the northwest.
JOHN WELCH, D. D. S.
At the time of his death, which occurred in Portland July ir, 1905, Dr.
John Welch was one of the oldest and one of the most successful dental prac-
titioners of the Willamette valley. He had followed his profession in both
Oregon City and Portland and at all times had kept in touch with the advance-
ment made by representatives of the dental fraternity, both in the work of
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the operating room and in the manufacture of dental appliances and supplies.
It was not alone his business ability or his professional skill, however, that gave
him a place with the prominent residents of Portland, but also the social qual-
ities, enterprising spirit and progressive citizenship which at all times were
strongly developed characteristics of his life. He was born in Mineral Point,
Wisconsin, on the 13th of September, 1836, a son of William and Jane (Bog-
ges) Welch. His father, a native of Virginia, was reared in the usual manner
of farm lads and devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until 1833. At
that time excitement was running rife concerning the discovery and develop-
ment of the lead mines in Wisconsin and he removed to Mineral Point, where
he was connected with mining interests until 1838. In that year he became a
resident of Camanche, Iowa, and again took up the occupation of farming
which he followed until 1850. In early manhood he had wedded Miss Jane
Bogges, a native of Kentucky. Their children were largely reared upon the
Iowa farm to which William Welch devoted his time and energies until 1850
when, accompanied by his son John, he started for California, crossing the
plains with horse teams. They completed the journey between the Missouri
river and Placerville, California, in just ninety days — a remarkably short trip
— for it usually required five or six months for the wagon trains to cover the
same ground. The father and son at once went to the mines and were engaged
in a search for the precious metal for four years, at the end of which time
they returned by way of the isthmus of Panama to their Iowa home. In 1863
the father once more crossed the plains, again driving horses. This time, how-
ever, Oregon was his destination and he was accompanied by his family, for he
had determined to take up his permanent abode in the northwest. They trav-
eled by easy stages until at the end of five months they reached Clackamas
county where Mr. Welch secured land, becoming identified with the agricul-
tural interests of the Willamette valley. He remained a respected farmer of
that locality up to the time of his death.
Dr. Welch, spending his youthful days in his parents home, had supple-
mented his early public school education by study in the Rock Island (Illinois)
Seminary. He determined upon a professional career and took up the study
of dentistry in the office and under the direction of Dr. W. J. Lawrence, of
Lyons, Iowa, with whom he remained for a year. In 1857 he located for ac-
tive practice in Chillicothe, Missouri, and later followed his profession in
Georgetown, Missouri. He was married on the 17th of April, 1859, to Miss j
Elizabeth Clements, of Fairview, Missouri, and soon afterward they went to ii
Chicago where Dr. Welch resumed his studies in the office of Dr. E. Carpenter,
an eminent dentist of that city. He studied and piacticed in Chicago until 1863 ;
when he and his family accompanied his father and family on the removal to 1
Oregon. i
Dr. Welch opened an office in Oregon City and concentrated his entire en- |
ergies upon his practice there until 1870 when, noting the substantial growth j
and development of Portland, he also began practicing in the latter city. He
continued both offices but lived in Oregon City until 1888 when he purchased I
a residence at the corner of Sixteenth and East Everett streets, where he lived Jf
until his death and which was the family home for twenty years. Dr. Welchj
maintained his office for fourteen years in the Union block, at the comer off
First & Stark streets and followed both operative and mechanical dentistry.]
He also carried a stock of dental goods and had a branch establishment at]
Spokane, Washington, in order to supply the trade of the northwest. He was]
regarded as a highly skillful dentist and continually promoted his efficiency]
through reading and investigation, keeping in touch with the most advanced!
work of the dental fraternity throughout the country. In his later years he
was one of the oldest practitioners of Portland and ever maintained his place]
as the foremost representative of the profession.
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Unto Dr. and Mrs. Welch were born the following children: Dr. William
Edward, who married Julia Smith and practices his profession at Rainier,
Oregon; Robert Sterling, who became a dentist but is now deceased; John C,
of Portland, who married Alice Wallace and had three children, Mary A., John
W. and Margaret J. ; Henry, who wedded Fanny Hendren and lives near
Hillsboro, Oregon ; Frank P., who is a dentist, married Elizabeth Mock,
but is now deceased; Catherine J., the wife of Dr. Cawood, of Portland, and
the mother of two children, John R. and Elizabeth ; Reuben ; Anna Elizabeth,
the wife of George H. Tuttle, of Portland; and Benjamin T., at home.
Dr. Welch was laid to rest in Riverview cemetery. His death was indeed
a deep blow to his family, to whom he had ever been a devoted and loving
husband and father. He was also a loyal member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, was one of the organizers of the state board of dental ex-
aminers and was appointed one of the four members of that body. He held to
high professional standards and to lofty ideals of citizenship and of manhood,
and thus won for himself an exalted position in the regard and friendship of
those with whom professional and social relations brought him in contact.
CHARLES H. DYE.
Charles Henry Dye's first ancestor in America was a Dane who came with
the Dutch founders of New Amsterdam, and Dey street. New York city, is
named for the family cow pasture on the island of Manhattan. A grandson,
Andrew Dey, or Dye as it came to be spelled, went to Maryland and there
married Sarah Minor, own cousin to the wife of George Washington, and
Colonel Dye's place was Washington's headquarters, mentioned in Irving's Life
of Washington. At the close of the war, in lieu of money, the Revolutionary
veterans were paid in Ohio lands, and Andrew Dye moved to Miami county,
Ohio, where he lived until 1835. Four years later, in 1839, Henry Dye, father
of the subject of our sketch, emigrated from the Ohio home to the newly
opened Black Hawk Purchase in Iowa, where, on a farm near Fort Madison, in
August, 1856, Charles Henry Dye was bom, next to the youngest of a large
family of brothers and sisters.
In 1878 Charles H. Dye graduated from Denmark Academy, Iowa, and
entered Oberlin College, Ohio, where he won oratorical honors and graduated
with distinction in 1882, and a week later was married to his college class-
mate, Eva L. Emery. After six years in school work, as principal of a high
school and an academy, Mr. Dye entered the law department of the State Uni-
versity of Iowa at Iowa City, graduating in 1889 and winning the prize for the
best legal thesis of that year. Settling in Oregon City in 1890, Mr. Dye imme-
diately identified himself with the best interests of the community and has
held the offices of deputy district attorney, city attorney and representative in
the state legislature, where among other bills he introduced an act known as the
union high school law, now in successful operation throughout the state of
Oregon.
Mr. Dye was president of the Oregon City Board of Trade for some years,
until it was merged into the present Commercial Club of Oregon City, of which
he is an active member. In both organizations Mr. Dye has always been iden-
tified with the movement for good roads and all other public improvements.
Mr. and Mrs. Dye were the originators of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua
Association that grew out of a Chautauqua circle at their home in 1894 and has
now developed into the largest and most popular educational assembly in Ore-
gon, of which association Mr. Dye has been an executive officer from the
beginning.
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Politically Mr. Dye has been a consistent advocate of clean politics, a re-
publican and a believer in the idea that laws should be made and administered
for the protection of the weak rather than to aid the strong, that at present
laws are enacted too largely to protect property rather than to aid all men
to have an equal opportunity, that the rich and strong will take care of them-
selves, the poor and the weak need the protection of organized society ; he
believes, too, that the saloon is a public menace and should be suppressed by
law. In the advocacy of this and other public causes, he has spoken in almost
every precinct of Clackamas county, and for twenty years has been before the
public as a lawyer who settles difficulties rather than encourages litigation. In
connection with his practice he has built up a reputation for business ability
and unimpeachable integrity. He is a member of the Congregational church,
where for many years he was a superintendent of the Sunday school and is
now teacher of its Bible class for men.
Mr. and Mrs. Dye have four children: Emery C, born in 1884, was gradu-
ated from Oberlin College in 1905; Trafton M., born in 1886, was graduated
from Oberlin College in 1906, from the law department of Columbia Univer-
sity, New York city in 19 10, and is now a practicing attorney in Portland,
Oregon; Everett W., born in 1896; and Charlotte Evangeline, born in 1897.
EVA EMERY DYE.
Eva Emery Dye was born in the old town of Black Hawk's Indian prophet,
Prophetstbwn, Illinois, shortly before the breaking out of the Civil war. Her
first poem was written at eight years of age and at fifteen she began to be
known as "Jennie Juniper," in the local press of Illinois and Chicago. Decid-
ing even then upon literature as a life work, in 1874 she went to Oberlin Col-
lege, Ohio, graduating in 1882, after seven years of classical study, including
the usual courses of literature, history, mathematics, Latin, French and Ger-
man, with Greek as a major throughout. Miss Emery, who was called the
"poet laureate" of the college, wrote the Latin class song and in due time re-
ceived the degrees A. B. and A. M.
One week after graduation she was married to her class-mate, Charles H.
Dye, of Fort Madison, Iowa, and removing to that state was able to devote
but fragments of her time to fugitive verses until 1890, when Mr. Dye took up
the practice of law in Oregon City, Oregon. Amid the general cares of wife,
mother and housekeeper, Mrs. Dye wrote "McLoughlin and Old Oregon," pub-
lished in June, 1900. This book met with instant recognition from the best lit-
erary critics of the country and is now in its seventh edition. Two years later
"The Conquest, The True Story of Lewis and Clark," appeared, thousands of
copies selling before it left the press. Sacajawea, the heroine of this book, was
hailed as a second Pocahontas, and the foremost sculptors of America have
vied in chiseling statues in her honor. First Bruno Louis Zimm, of New York
city, was commissioned by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to prepare a statue
for the St. Louis Fair in 1904. The noted sculptor spent a year in special prep-
aration, visiting Wyoming and studying the Shoshone tribe, to which Sacajawea
belonged. A second statue, cast in bronze, costing seven thousand dollars was
designed by Alice Cooper, a pupil of Lorado Taft, after directions outlined by
Mrs. Dye. This statue, (see frontispiece) erected by the women of the north-
west, in honor of the brave Indian girl and pioneer mother who led Lewis and
Clark through the mountains of the continent, was unveiled at the Lewis and
Clark Fair in July, 1905, and now stands in the City Park of Portland, Oregon.
A third statue, to which the legislature of North Dakota appropriated fifteen
thousand dollars, was modeled by Leonard Crunelle, and unveiled in May,
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1910, on Capitol Hill as Bismarck, North Dakota. The grave of Sacajawea has
been located at the Wind River Indian agency in Wyoming and a bronze tablet
was unveiled there in March, 1910. Petitions, originating in New York city,
have been sent to the secretary of the treasury for a vignette of Sacajawea upon
the new bank notes to be issued by the government. The Montana Daughters
American Revolution, have a movement on foot to secure a statue, and the
Sacajawea Chapter, D. A. R. of Olympia, Washington, are also preparing to
raise a monument in her memory. There is also talk of a statue in Idaho, where
Sacajawea is supposed to have been born. Other statues have resulted from
"The Conquest," among them a fountain to Chief Paducah, by Lorado Taft,
erected by the women of the Kentucky town, Paducah, after consulting with
Mrs. Dye concerning that notable Indian mentioned in "The Conquest ;" also
one to Chief Mahaska, in Iowa, and several to George Rogers Clark, and other
leading figures in that epic of our national life. In time, Mrs. Dye hopes to
see every character mentioned commemorated with a heroic statue by the re-
spective states to which they belonged.
In 1906 Mrs. Dye's third book was published, "McDonald of Oregon, A
Tale of Two Shores," recounting the actual adventures of Ranald McDonald,
whose break into Japan, where he taught the first school in English, prepared
the way for Commodore Perry. After a sale of forty thousand copies, Mrs.
Dye's publishers, A. C. McClurg & Company, of Chicago, are preparing new
editions of these standard works. Altogether, Mrs. Eva Emery Dye has done
more than any other writer since Irving to popularize the dramatic story of the
new northwest. She is now engaged upon a tale of "Old Oregon and Hawaii."
HENRY ALBERS.
Along the line of constructive effort Henry Albers has directed his labors and
through the development of one of the important productive industries of Port-
land has come to be recognized as a leading business man of the city, being now
president of the Albers Brothers Milling Company. He was born at Lingen in
the province of Hanover, Germany, April 13, 1866. His father, Hermann Albers,
was a grain merchant at that place and in 1895 came to America, settling at Port-
land. He was taken ill when en route, so that he did not engage in business here
and his death occurred in this city in 1896. He was accompanied by his family of
five sons and one daughter: Bernard, who for a short time engaged in the grocery
business and then established the Albers Brothers Milling Company, of which he
was president until his death in 1908; Henry and WilHam, both of Portland;
George, of Seattle ; Frank, of San Francisco ; and Mrs. Frank Terheyden, of this
city. The mother, whose maiden name was Theresa Voss, had died in Lingen
about 1878.
Henry Albers was educated in the public schools of his native city to the age
of fifteen years, when he began learning the flour milling buisness, in which he
has since been engaged. Coming to America in 1891, he was associated with his
brother Bernard and with Thomas Schneider in establishing in May, 1895, a
cereal mill across the street from their present location. The business was organ-
ized as the Albers-Schneider Milling Company. After three years they removed
to their present site and a short time subsequent the Albers brothers purchased
the interest of Mr. Schneider. In 1901 George. Frank and William Albers, who
had been in the employ of the company since its inception, became members of
the firm, which was then reorganized under the name of the Albers Brothers
Milling Company. Bernard Albers died in 1908. at whch time Henry Albers
became president. The other officers are William Albers, vice president ; George
Albers, secretary; Frank Albers, treasurer; and Joseph Demming, together with
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the other officers, a director. They began the enterprise on a small scale, having
a little mill that Henry Albers operated alone, Bernard Albers attending to the
office and business. Three years later they purchased a new mill, which they
installed with modern machinery in order to meet the increase in business. In
1902 their plant was destroyed by fire and their present building was erected for
them. In 1900 they leased a mill in Seattle, of which George Albers has charge,
thus extending the scope of their activities. In 1902 they purchased the mill at
Seattle and also one in Tacoma, of which Frank Albers had charge until 1909
and which they are still operating. In January, 1909, they purchased a mill in
San Francisco, which is operated under the name of the Del Monta Milling Com-
pany, now the Albers Brothers Milling Company, and Frank Albers went to that
city to assume the management there. They likewise have a branch store in
Oakland and they own a dock in Portland, known as the Albers Docks Nos. i, 2
and 3, covering six hundred feet. Since 1902 they have given their attention
principally to the manufacture of cereals, their principal brands being Violet Oats.
Pearls of Wheat, Columbia Oats, Columbia Wheat, Violet Wheat and many other
package cereals as well as all kinds of grain products. Their Peacock buckwheat
flour is one of the most successful. They are now erecting a new plant at Front
and Lovejoy streets, which will have one thousand feet of water front and the
building will be six stories in height. This will be the largest enterprise of the
kind on the Pacific coast. Two hundred and fifty workmen are employed and the
business is continually growing along healthful, substantial lines.
Mr. Albers is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial
Club and is interested in all the projects and plans of those organizations for the
development and improvement of Portland and for the exploitation of its
resources. He also holds membership in the Rotary Club, in the Elks lodge and
with the Knights of Columbus and is a member of the Roman Catholic church.
He gives his political support to the republican party but has never been an
office seeker. In 1901 he paid a visit to his birthplace and made a trip throughout
Europe and he plans to spend more time in travel. Of plain, unassuming man-
ner, pleasant and courteous, his social qualities and genuine worth are widely
recognized and have made him popular with a large circle of friends. His busi-
ness ability has placed him at the head of the most prominent milling company
of the northwest, the success of which is attributable in no small degree to his
efforts, for he has been connected therewith since the inception of the business.
CAPTAIN JAMES W. SHAVER.
In Captain James W. Shaver is found a representative in the second genera-
tion of the Shaver family closely identified with the development and progress
of the northwest. He has made his home in Portland almost continuously from
the age of six months, and for a long period has been closely associated with navi-
gation interests as the head of the Shaver Transportation Company. This com-
pany has owned and operated its own boats and Captain Shaver as secretary
and treasurer of the company is now devoting his attention to the management
of its interests which are of large importance, having reached extensive propor-
tions. It is true that he entered upon a business already established, but in in-
creasing its activities and enlarging its scope he has displayed notable individ-
uality and business ability as manifest in powers of organization and also in
the correct solution of difficult navigation problems.
A native of Oregon, Captain Shaver was born at Waldo Hills within five
miles of Silverton, October 2, 1859. His father, George Washington Shaver,
was born in Campbell county, Kentucky, March 2, 1832, and received a fair
education in the schools of that state. He was a young man at the time of the
removal of the family to Missouri, and it was while living in that state that his
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keen interest was awakened in the west and its future prospects. Attracted by
the discovery of gold in California, he crossed the plains with a party who trav-
eled with ox teams and wagons in 1849. They made the long and tedious jour-
ney across the plains and through the mountains and at length their eyes were
gladdened by the sight of the green valleys of California. A desire for gold
drew him to the west, but he did not meet with the success he anticipated in his
search for the precious metal, and his failure in mining ventures led him to turn
his attention to southern Oregon, where he likewise tried mining for a time.
On the 2d of February, 1854, however, Mr. Shaver arrived in Portland and in
this city he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Dixon, a daughter of a pio-
neer, with whom he returned to his farm in Marion county. While they were
living upon the farm four children were born unto them and six others were
added to the family after they became residents of Portland in i860, their
home at that time being established in what was known as the Elizabeth Irving
addition. The children were as follows : John R., who was sheriff of Clack-
amas county and was shot in the performance of his duty, dying at Oregon City ;
Mrs. Alice Wittenberg, of Portland ; James W. ; Lincoln, who is captain and
chief engineer of the Shaver Transportation Company; George M., who is a
partner in the same company ; Delmar, who is actively interested in its man-
agement; Pearl, the wife of George Hoyt, of Portland; and Susie, the wife of
A. S. Heintz, also of this city.
The father engaged in business as a dealer in wood and for many years
furnished that commodity to the steamboats making the trip between Portland
and San Francisco. He also supplied the wood used as fuel on river boats and
barges and thus one by one the timber tracts of the region were cleared, Mr.
Shaver probably cutting more acres of timber land than any man of his time.
He also became interested in the transportation business as carried on by way of
the rivers and was president of the Shaver Transportation Company, of which
his son, James W. Shaver, became secretary and treasurer.
The death of George W. Shaver occurred October 26, 1900. A contem-
porary biographer said of him : "He was not only a man of sound business
judgment and capacity for observation and action, but also in his character
embodied all that is excellent and of good report. No worthy cause of Port-
land but profited by his generosity and large-heartedness ; no friend but was
benefited by his counsel and assistance. To the end he retained in increasing
measure the confidence of all with whom he was ever associated and to his
family and friends he left the heritage of a good name."
Captain James W. Shaver, the second of the surviving sons of the family,
was only six months old when his parents became residents of Portland, so that
his education was acquired in the schools of this city. He was still quite young
when he became interested with his father in business, both in the conduct of
a livery stable in East Portland and the management of a large cord wood en-
terprise that embraced a woodyard in East Portland and also at the Shaver dock
upon the river. At that time the sale of wood for fuel was one of the important
industries, as it was used on all steamboats and transportation lines. This nat-
urally drew the attention of Captain Shaver to the boating business, in which he
embarked in 1880 in partnership with Henry Corbett and A. S. Foster. They
purchased the business of Captain Charles Bureau and conducted the undertak-
ing as the Peoples Freighting Company. Mr. Shaver became manager of the
company and also captain of the Manzanilla, a river boat plying between Port-
land and Clatskanie. Not long afterward Captain Shaver purchased the in-
terest of Mr. Foster in the business and Mr. Corbett withdrew, while George
W. Shaver became a member of the firm. The business was then reorganized
on the loth of June, 1893, under the name of the Shaver Transportation
Company, with the father as president and the son as secretary and treasurer.
In 1889 they built a boat which was called the G. W. Shaver, and in 1892 they
placed upon the river the Sarah Dixon, named for Captain Shaver's mother.
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Later the Manzanilla was sold, while the Shaver and Dixon performed all the
work of the company until 1900, when they disposed of the Shaver. The same
year, however, a towboat called No Wonder was purchased for towing logs and
in 1901 the firm built the Henderson, also used for towing purposes. They
built the new Dixon and the Wanna in 1906 and the new Shaver in 1908; bought
the Cascades in 1909; and built a one hundred horse power launch, the Echo, in
1910. The company has a towing contract for twelve of the mills of Portland
and its crafts are continuously seen upon the Columbia and Willamette rivers,
performing an active and important part in the clearance of the enormous water
business of the state, transporting the output of great lumber mills to their
respective destinations. For a long period James W. Shaver was captain for
the company but in later years has devoted his time to the business management,
the firm having offices at the foot of Davis street. Familiar with every phase of
river business, his carefully formulated plans are resultant factors in the achieve-
ment of success and have placed the Shaver Transportation Company in a con-
spicuously prominent position among the representatives of river interests in
the northwest. He is also president and part owner of the Clatskanie Trans-
portation Company.
Mr. Shaver was married in Portland in 1886 to Miss Annie Scholth, a repre-
sentative of one of the pioneer families of the state. He belongs to the Wood-
men camp and affiliates with the democratic party in national politics, but his
interest and activity have chiefly centered upon his business aflFairs which, care-
fully guided, have reached a considerable magnitude. Among those familiar
with his history he bears an unassailable reputation for business integrity, his
record conforming at all times to the highest standard of business ethics and pre-
senting no esoteric phase.
BEN RIESLAND.
Although one of the younger members of the Oregon bar, Ben Riesland has
gained gratifying recognition for his ability since coming to Portland. He was
born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, March 7, 1877, a son of Frederick W. and
Caroline (Weisenborn) Riesland, who removed to a farm in Lac Qui Parle
county, Minnesota, and Ben Riesland spent his early youth upon their farm
there. Later his parents removed with their family to Bigstone, Grant county.
South Dakota, where he attended the public schools, and later became a pupil
in the high school of Ortonville, the county seat of Bigstone county, Minnesota.
Subsequently he engaged in teaching in Grand Forks county, North Dakota,
after which he completed his education at the university of that state and was
about ready to graduate with the class of 1899, when an attack of typhoid fever
obliged him to leave college.
Later in the year Mr. Riesland went to Seattle, Washington, and in Feb-
ruary, 1900, came to Portland. Afterward he engaged in the real-estate busi-
ness in Tillamook, Oregon, where he remained until 1903. when he returned
to this city and published the Lewis & Clark Journal, the official bulletin of
the fair. The fall of 1904 he engaged in the real-estate business, at the same
time pursuing a law course at the University of Oregon, from which he was
graduated in June, 1906, with the LL.B. degree. On the 20th of that month he
was admitted for practice before the Oregon bar and on the 2d of December,
1907, before the United States courts. He has been engaged in active practice
here since September, 1907, and although he engages in general practice, he is
nevertheless making a specialty of real-estate and probate law. His profes-
sional duties, however, do not occupy his entire time and attention. In ^ 1910
he organized the Western Securities Company, of which he is the president,
and which handles a large general real-estate, mortgage, loan and insurance
business. He is also interested in various other enterprises.
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Mr. -,Riesland is an active republican, and has been identified with many-
public movements for municipal progress and upbuilding. He is president of
the Seventh Ward League, of which he was one of the founders and was the
first secretary of the United East Side Improvement Club. He is a member
of the Young Men's Christian Association, and belongs to the county and state
bar associations. Mr. Riesland has been recently appointed as member of the
executive committee of the republican state central committee, and is very ac-
tively interested in politics. He is one of the organizers and was first presi-
dent of the Forty-fifth Republican Club. The interests which figure most
largely in his life are those which promote the development of the individual
and the city, and are therefore equally helpful and worthy.
Mr. Riesland was married April 28, 1903, to Miss Emily Queen Kelty, of
Portland, a niece of the late Harvey Scott, of whom a record appears on an-
other page in this volume, and with their little son Carl, six years of age, they
reside at No. 1198 Harold avenue.
FREDERICK VAN VOORHIES HOLMAN.
Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, attorney and counselor at law, who has
been identified helpfully with the growth and development of Portland, was
born in Pacific county, Washington, at a time when that section was still a part
of the state of Oregon, his natal day having been August 29, 1852. His par-
ents were James Duval Holman, a native of Woodford county, Kentucky, and
Rachael Hixson (Summers) Holman, who was born in Fleming county, Ken-
tucky, and was a daughter of Thomas Summers. The ancestry of the family
is traced back to Thomas Holman, who came from England and settled in
South Carolina in 1730. His grandfather, John Holman, who was born in Ken-
tucky in 1787, was a veteran of the war of 181 2 and came to Oregon with the
first home-building emigration in 1843. The grandmother, Elizabeth Duval,
was a native of North Carolina. James Duval Holman, the father, was an en-
terprising Oregon pioneer of 1846, who became one of the founders of Pacific
City. He did much toward the upbuilding of Oregon in the early days. In
1857 he came to Portland and continued his residence here throughout the
remainder of his life. The J. D. Holman school of this city was named in his
honor as a public recognition of the important services which he rendered in
the improvement and development of this city. He was one of the early school
directors of school district No. i and was very active in the cause of education.
He died in December, 1882, in his sixty-ninth year, while his wife, long sur-
viving him, passed away August 3, 1900, at the age of seventy-seven years.
In the family were eight children and those surviving who reside in Portland
are Frederick V., George F., Frances A. and Kate S.
Frederick Van Voorhies Holman was educated in public and private schools
of Portland, at one time attending the Portland Academy and Female Semi-
nary, from which he was graduated in July, 1868. On the 9th of June, 1875,
he completed a course in the University of California, at which time the Bache-
lor of Philosophy degree was conferred upon him. He then took up the study
of law and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Oregon on the
8th of January, 1879. He has ever since been engaged in active practice here
and has given his attention principally to corporation, real property and pro-
bate law, in which connection he has secured a large clientage that indicates
his prominence in those branches of the profession. Moreover, he is a director
of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and other corporations.
He is general counsel and director for the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company and local general counsel for H. M. Byllesby & Company for the
states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and a director of the Oregon Power
Company.
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In politics Mr. Holman is a censervative democrat. He was national com-
mitteeman for Oregon from 1904 until 1908 and was a delegate at large to the
national conventions in the presidential campaign years of 1892 and 1904. He
was made a member of the charter commission for framing a new charter for
the city of Portland in 1902-3 and again in 1908-9. He stands for all that is
most helpful and progressive in the public life of the city and is now regent
of the University of Oregon, the term of his regency extending from 1903
until 191 5. He is a director of the McLoughlin Memorial Association and is
the author of a biography of Dr. John McLoughlin, together with numerous
historical articles, including one on Oregon counties. He was president of the
Oregon Historical Society from 1907 to 191 1, the president of the Oregon
State Bar Association in 1909-10, and president of the Oregon Pioneer
Association in 1909-10. He is a member of the Washington Historical
Society of Seattle and of the American Historical Association, belongs to the
National Rose Society of England and is a member of the American Bar As-
sociation and other national and local public organizations. He is a member
and ex-president of the Arlington Club and a member of the University Club,
Commercial Club, Waverly Golf Club, Portland Rose Society, Portland City
Improvement Association and other social organizations.
Mr, Holman is well known because of his connection with rose culture, in
which he has been engaged as an amateur for many years. He won the
amateur gold medal in the exhibition of roses at the Lewis and Clark Exposition
and also at the Alaska Yukon Exposition in Seattle and has won many first
prizes at Portland Rose shows. He has aroused local interest in rose growing
by his numerous contributions on the subject to local publications and also
by the publication of a pamphlet on the same. He was also one of the or-
ganizers of the Portland Rose Society, of which he served as president for sev-
eral years. He gave Portland the name of the Rose City. Mr. Holman resides
at No. 500 Taylor street, at the corner of Lownsdale, which has been his home
for over forty years. He is a man of wide and varied interests and while
known as one of Portland's successful lawyers, his efforts have also been a vital
force in the growth and development of the city along many lines. He has left
the impress of his individuality upon municipal affairs, upon the political and
economic situation and upon the social life of Portland, which honors him as
one of its pioneer residents and as one whose efforts have been most effective
and resultant factors in the promotion of public progress.
PROSPER VAN FRIDAGH.
Prosper van Fridagh, well known among the older residents of Portland,
where from 1861 until 1887 he was engaged in the dry-goods and millinery
business, had a most interesting history and through the period of his resi-
dence in this city his good qualities commended him to the confidence and regard
of his fellow townsmen. He was born in Holland, July 24, 1824, and was a son
of an officer in the Dutch army, who died in Dutch Java during the early boy-
hood of Prosper van Fridagh. The mother was of German birth and after
the death of her husband she returned to the fatherland, accompanied by her
young son, who was, therefore, reared in Germany.
Upon reaching military age he joined the army, with which he was con-
nected in 1849 during the revolutionary period in that country. He took a de-
cided stand in support of the revolutionists and because of his liberal educa-
tion was appointed secretary to some of the officers who commanded the fort
at Rastatt, in which a number of revolutionists were confined as prisoners.
His position as secretary to the officers made it possible for him to locate some
papers upon which were drawn maps and plans showing secret passages from
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the fort, and he lost no time in making use of those plans to aid some of the
prisoners in making their escape from the fort. The refugees, however, were
careless in that they left behind them some of the plans which Mr. van Fridagh
had copied in his own handwriting and had given them to aid them in obtaining
their liberty. Learning that these papers had been found and knowing that his
life, therefore, was in great danger, he escaped from the army, secretly made
his way across the frontier into France and thence to Belgium, where he se-
cured passage on a vessel bound for the United States. In safety he reached
the new world and located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where for a year he
was employed in a store, during which period he mastered the English lan-
guage, of which he had little knowledge when he came to the United States.
In 1 85 1 Mr. van Fridagh went to St. Paul, Minnesota, which at that time
contained a population of but four families. While a soldier in the German
army he had become betrothed to Miss Elizabeth Rumpen, a resident of the
German town in which he had been reared. When forced to flee from Germany
she was of necessity left behind, but in 1851 she joined him in Milwaukee, where
they were married. In the same year they removed to St. Paul and Mr. van
Fridagh established a commission and farmers' produce business, in which he
continued successfully until 1858 and 1859. In those two years there was an
almost entire failure of crops. It was customary in his business to advance
supplies to the farmers, waiting until after harvest for his pay, but on account
of the two years' crop failures, it was impossible for him to make collections,
and he was forced to stand by and see the business which he built up in eight
or nine years, swallowed up in failure. His resolute spirit, however, would
not allow him to consider himself defeated. He knew that all opportunity was
not gone, and that chances still remained for success. While in Milwaukee, he
had become acquainted with a gentleman who was a brother of Factor Fran-
chette of the Hudson's Bay Company, who at that time was in Oregon. Mr.
Franchette had visited his brother in the northwest, and was very enthusiastic
concerning the climate and other natural advantages of Oregon, and believed in
the future greatness of the state. His enthusiastic reports led Mr. van Fridagh
to the determination to make his home in Oregon, and in i860, accompanied
by his family, he left St. Paul, proceeded down the Mississippi river and across
the Gulf of Mexico, and after crossing the isthmus of Panama sailed for San
Francisco, where he remained for a year. In 1861 he continued his journey to
Oregon and, settling in Portland, established a small dry-goods and millinery
store on Front street, near Yamhill, in a building known as the Harker build-
ing, which is still standing, and is one of the oldest landmarks of the city. At
that time all business centered along the river front, for transportation was
largely by the waterways, and shipments were facilitated in the proximity of the
business houses to the docks. Eventually, Mr. van Fridagh removed to 109
First street, where he conducted his business until 1883, when he removed to
the corner of Third and Pine streets, remaining at that location until 1887,
when he retired from active life. For twenty-six years he had successfully
conducted a dry-goods and millinery establishment building up a trade which in-
creased with the growth of the city. Through this channel he contributed to the
commercial upbuilding of Portland, and in other ways aided in the growth and
progress of the city, whose welfare was ever a matter of deep interest to him.
Here upon the coast he retrieved his lost possessions, and not only gained a
comfortable competence, but also an honored name. He continued a resident
of Portland until called to his final rest in September, 1902. His wife still sur-
vives and yet makes her home in the Rose City.
Mr. and Mrs. van Fridagh were the parents of eight children, but only two
are now living. Paul van Fridagh, to whom we are indebted for the informa-
tion used in this article, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1864, and after com-
pleting his education in the public schools, entered the office of the auditor of
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the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, occupying clerical positions in
those offices for ten years. In 1890 he entered the employ of Boyd & Arnold,
a well known insurance firm of Portland, with which he remained until the
death of Mr. Arnold, when the entire business was turned over to him. This
was in 1901. He now carries on a general fire insurance business, with offices
at Nos. 603 and 604 Concord building, and has an extensive clientage, being one
of the prominent representatives of fire insurance in this city. He married
Caroline Wilson, who died in 1902, leaving one child, Hortense. For his second
wife he chose Charlotte Gray, who died in 1908. As was his father, he is a
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he belongs to the Trinity
Protestant Episcopal church.
CAPTAIN GEORGE JENNINGS AINSWORTH.
Captain George Jennings Ainsworth, known all over the Pacific coast as
"Captain George," and loved and honored wherever known, stood as a splendid
representative of the highest type of American manhood and chivalry. Re-
sourceful and energetic in business to the extent of winning substantial success,
he nevertheless was permeated by a strong spirit of humanitarianism that
prompted his recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and caused him to ex-
tend a helping hand wherever aid was needed or to speak the necessary word of
encouragement. So kindly was his spirit, so generous his acts, and so honorable
his purpose, that his name is indelibly inscribed on the pages of the Pacific coast
history. He was a western man by birth, training and preference, and possessed
the enterprising spirit which has led to the remarkable upbuilding of this section
of the country.
He was born in Oregon City on the 13th of April, 1852. His father was
Captain J. C. Ainsworth, afterward president of the Oregon Steamboat Naviga-
tion Company. His mother was in her maidenhood Miss Jane White, a daugh-
ter of Judge S. S. White, a pioneer of this state who at one time resided near
Oregon City, but for many years made his home in Portland. The death of
Mrs. Ainsworth occurred in 1861.
Reared in Portland, Captain George, by which name he was known to all,
pursued his early education in private schools in this city and later matriculated
in the University of California in September, 1869. He was graduated with the
first regular class to complete the course in that institution, winning the degree
of Bachelor of Philosophy in July, 1873. He did not leave the university, but
continued his studies in civil engineering there in the post-graduate course of
one year. His father wished him to enter into the stationery business in Port-
land, but Captain George did not like it. He had studied hard in college, and J
was not well, so his father suggested that he spend a month on the boats andj
decide later as to what business he would enter. Without his father's knowledge!
he supplemented his technical training by practical experience, acting as purser'
and assisting in every position on the boat, at the same time preparing himself
for an examination before the United States inspectors, which he passed, re-
ceiving his master's papers in 1875. He made application to his father, as presi-J
dent of the company, for a position as captain and showed his license. Hisl
father was greatly pleased and Captain George ran as master of different boatsi
for two years. He never regarded parental authority or ownership as an excuse|
for neglect of duty but performed every task devolving upon him with the ut-
most fidelity and care. In this way he became thoroughly familiar with thej
practical management of the company's business, and in 1877 was given a posi-
tion in the principal office of the company at Portland. Within a year he wasj
made the chief executive officer with the title of general superintendent. When!
but twenty-five years of age he had direct control and management of all the]
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transportation business of the company and of all its affairs excepting only the
financial management, the financial interests being under the charge of the presi-
dent and board of directors. It was at this time that he became known to all
as Captain George, that he might be distinguished from his father, Captain
J. C. Ainsworth, and throughout his life he was thus called.
In 1879 Henry Villard, having purchased the property of the Oregon Steam-
boat Navigation Company, organized the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com-
pany, and began building the present road owned by that company. He recog-
nized the ability of Captain George and placed him in full charge of all the
steamboats on the Columbia and Willamette rivers and on Puget Sound that
were the property of the company. In 1882, however, he resigned that position
at his father's urgent solicitation that he should take charge of his business.
When the Oregon Steamboat Navigation Company sold out. Captain J. C.
Ainsworth purchased a beautiful place near Oakland, California, where he made
his home. During October, 1882, Captain George removed to California, where
he occupied an attractive home adjoining his father's place, while for five years
he assisted his father in the management of his business and invested interests
in Oregon and California. In 1887 R. R. Thompson, formerly of Portland but
now of San Francisco, who had been a large stockholder in the Oregon Steam-
boat Navigation Company, was connected with Captain J. C. Ainsworth in pur-
chasing a large tract of land on Santa Monica bay. about seventeen miles from
Los Angeles, and there established the city of Redondo. These capitalists or-
ganized companies for the improvement of the city, for the building of a large
and extensive hotel and a railroad line to Los Angeles, investing two million
dollars in the enterprise. Captain George was made president of the company
and as general manager conducted the undertaking until 1894, when he returned
to Portland, continuing his residence in this city until his demise. He and his
mother were appointed executors of the estate upon the death of Captain J. C.
Ainsworth in December, 1893, and it became necessary that Captain George
should be a resident of Oregon in order to act as executor; Accordingly he re-
moved to Portland and assumed the management of the Oregon estate, which
was estimated at nearly a million dollars. The soundness of his business judg-
ment was again and again manifest in his capable management of business in-
terests and his solution of intricate business problems.
While widely recognized as a capitalist and one of the prominent business
men on the Pacific coast, Captain George was widely known, moreover, for his
activity in those fields which recognized moral and individual obligation. In
his youthful days he joined the First Presbyterian church of Portland and his
life was ever actuated by the highest spirit of Christianity. His belief found
expression in his efforts to aid his fellowmen. His philanthropic work was of
a wide extent, and his charity was given not from a sense of duty, but as an
expression of that love for humanity which recognized the obligation of the in-
dividual to his fellows. In August, 1873, he became a member of Portland
Lodge A. F. & A. M. ; in April, 1881, was made a Knight Templar in Oregon
Commandery No. i, K. T., of Portland. He attained the thirty-second degree
of the Scottish Rite, and on October 18, 1895, two days before his death, the
papers were signed conferring upon him the honor of the thirty-third degree.
His father was the first Oregon man to be honored with the thirty-third degree,
and in his honor Ainsworth Rose Croix Lodge was named. The efforts of
Captain George in behalf of education were of a tangible character. In 1883
Governor Stoneman of California appointed him a regent in the State Univer-
sity as successor to Judge Samuel B. McKee, resigned, and in 1884 he was again
appointed regent for the full term of sixteen years.
On the i6th of June, 1875, Captain George Ainsworth was married to Miss
Margaret Sutton of Portland, a daughter of John Sutton, chief engineer of the
George S. Wright, a well known steamboat of the early days, which was lost
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off the Alaskan coast with all on board in 1873. The children of this marriage
were Lawrence S. and Mabel. Theirs was largely an ideal household, the most
beautiful family relations existing between parents and children. The death
of Captain George occurred on the 20th of October, 1895, after an illness of
several months. He is remembered as a tall man of graceful bearing, of polished
manner and of pleasing address.
The Oregonian, on the day following his demise, said : "It was given to few
men to have a popularity such as he had — which began in his youth and is not
ended by his death. He combined firmness and kindness in a rare manner. He
did not court popularity — it came to him." One whose business interests suf-
fered rather than were benefited by the success of the Oregon Steamboat Navi-
gation Company, yet said : "Captain George was one of the noblest men God
ever made. He was a Christian and a gentleman." There is perhaps no better
test of a man's character than his relations to his employes and subordinates, and
therefore as an indication of his personal worth, his high purposes, his justice and
his kindliness, it is meet to say that few men were ever loved and honored by
employes as was Captain George Ains worth. In 1882, when it became known
that he intended to resign his office with the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com-
pany, a few of the employes on the river division started a subscription for the
purpose of purchasing a magnificent and valuable solid silver tea service to
signify their appreciation of him and his treatment of them. The contributions
to the fund were most generous, exceeding the amount required for the tea
service, so that a fine gold watch was purchased and presented to Mrs. Ains-
worth on the same occasion. This is the only time the employes of that com-
pany ever raised a fund to purchase a present for any of its officers.
Another incident of similar character occurred when Captain George left
Redondo Beach in 1894. On that occasion the employes of the company of which
he was a president, and the citizens of the town gave him a large and beautiful
solid silver loving cup, accompanied by an engrossed address in token of their
recognition of his qualities.
It is said that if Captain George had a fault, it was his generosity. His
charity was almost limitless. No appeal was ever made to him in vain. He
preferred to be imposed upon rather than that the deserving should suffer for
the need of a helping hand. He gave quietly and without ostentation, but his
beneficence was continuous and effective, and many a one has reason to bless
his memory. His life was most beautiful in its expression of all the Christian
virtues. It might be said that in him there did abide faith, hope and love, but
that the greatest of these was love — that love which transcends all passion, all
prejudice, and recognizes at once the brotherhood of man as well as the father-
hood of God. The memory of such a man can never die while there remain
living monuments upon which he left the impress of his noble soul.
HON. JOSEPH SIMON.
With post-graduate experience in the school of politics, manifesting at all
times a statesman's grasp of vital questions and issues of the day, Hon. Joseph
Simon has so conducted the political interests entrusted to him that while his
course has awakened the opposition of those who hold radically different po-
litical views, his work on the whole has accomplished tangible and beneficial re-
sults that receive wide commendation throughout the state.
Joseph Simon was born February 7, 1851, and was quite a small boy when
he was brought to Portland, Oregon, by his father in 1857. The city schools
afforded him his educational privileges, and in his twentieth year he became
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a law student in the office of John H. Mitchell and Joseph N. Dolph. For two
years he closely applied himself to the mastery of Kent, Blackstone and other
commentaries, and was then admitted to practice in the courts of the state.
Appreciation of his personal worth and recognition of his developing ability,
were manifest when ex-United States Senator J. N. Dolph, one of his former
preceptors, invited him to become a member of the law firm he formed Feb-
ruary I, 1873. Accepting such invitation, he entered actively upon the practice
of law and is still associated with the firm then formed, and with C. A. Dolph,
who entered the firm at the same time Mr. Simon did and who has since be-
come the senior partner of the firm which is styled Dolph, Mallory, Simon &
Gearin. As a lawyer Mr. Simon has ever been careful and systematic in the
preparation of his cases, reviewing all the evidences bearing upon the cause and
correctly applying the principles of law to the points in litigation. He is today
widely recognized as one of Portland's able lawyers and is as well one of the
foremost republican leaders of the state.
Interested from early manhood in the political questions and issues which
have engaged the attention of the country, Mr. Simon was first called to office
when elected a member of the city council in 1877. He filled that position until
1880, in which year higher political honors were conferred upon him in his elec-
tion to the state senate. He was continued a member of the upper house of
the general assembly for twelve years by reason of two successive reelections,
and when the legislature convened in January, 1889, he was chosen president of
the senate and in 1891 was again elected as its presiding officer. He retired in
1892, but in 1894 was again elected to represent Multnomah county in the state
senate for another four years' term and when the legislature convened on the
14th of January, 1895, he was once more elected president of the senate and
again in 1897. At the June election in 1898, Mr. Simon was elected state sen-
ator from Multnomah county for the fifth time — 1898 until 1902. On the 26th
of September, 1898, the governor convened the general assembly in special ses-
sion, and Mr. Simon again was honored by election to the presidency of the
Oregon senate. His service as state senator embraced five elections, each for a
four years' term, and during that period, he was five times elected president of
the senate. His record is that of one of the most fair and impartial presiding
officers that has ever conducted the affairs of the upper house, and he enjoyed
in fullest measure the esteem and personal regard of his political opponents as
well as his political adherents. At the legislative session of 1897 the lower
house failed to organize, but the senate was duly organized and attempted to
transact business during the forty days' time allotted by law. It was during
the special session on the 8th of October, 1898, that he was chosen United
States senator for a term of six years, beginning March 4, 1897, the legislature
of 1897 having failed to elect a senator, and the state having been without one
senator for nearly two years. At the joint session at which he was elected, he
received the unanimous support of the sixty-six republican members of his
party.
To few men is political leadership so long accorded as to Hon. Joseph Simon.
To occupy high office for any length of time is to invite attack and criticism of
those holding opposing views, and yet through the course of his senatorial serv-
ice Mr. Simon has held to the policy which he has marked out — a policy dictated
by his judgment, his public spirit and his patriotism. His aid is recognized as
a tangible and effective force in promoting republican successes. He was chair-
man of the republican state central committee during the biennial campaigns
of 1880, 1884 and 1886, and in 1892 was chosen a delegate to the republican
national convention held at Minneapolis in June of that year, on which occa-
sion he gave his support to William McKinley instead of to Benjamin Harri-
son, who ultimately received the nomination. He was also a delegate to the
republican national convention held at Philadelphia in 1902. During the five
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sessions of the Oregon legislature of which he was president of the senate he
in numerous ways distinguished himself for dispatch of business and ability to
preserve order and untangle difficult questions of parliamentary dispute.
Mr. Simon is one of the best known representatives of Masonry in Oregon.
He is past master of his lodge and past high priest of his chapter, and he has
attained to the highest rank, the thirty-third degree of the A. & A. S. R. (hon-
orary). He has come to be known as a man loyal to any terms made or to his
pledged word, and in manner is ever courteous and obliging, recognizing his
obligations to others and meeting them in full measure. He is now serving as
mayor of Portland, a fact which indicates his popularity and the confidence
reposed in him in his home city, where he is best known. He is giving to Port-
land a public-spirited and businesslike administration, marked by needed re-
forms and improvements, progressiveness and conservatism being well bal-
anced forces in his direction of municipal affairs.
ELMER ELM LYTLE.
Elmer Elm Lytle, president of the Pacific Railway & Navigation Company,
has been prominently identified with railway interests as employe, promotor
builder and executive officer since coming to the northwest in 1889. He was
born in Tipton, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1861, a son of William A. and Caro-
line E. (Gillhousen) Lytle. His father served for over half a century as agent
for the Pennsylvania Railway Company, at Tipton.
Elmer E. Lytle was educated in the public schools of his native city. In
the broader school of experience, however, he has learned the more valuable
lessons that have contributed most largely to his success. After leaving school
he learned telegraphy and served for six months as operator at Tipton and spent
a similar time in the same capacity at Tyrone, Pennsylvania. He was next lo-
cated at Lewiston Junction, Pennsylvania, where he was promoted to ticket
agent and in 1881 was returned to Tyrone as ticket agent, occupying that posi-
tion until 1889, when he came west to occupy the position of agent at Waitsburg,
Washington, for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. He continued
in the service of this corporation with various promotions to positions of greater
responsibility until 1897. In March of that year he promoted and incorporated
the Columbia Southern Railroad and in June began the construction of the
line which was completed and opened to traffic January, 1900. He was presi-
dent and principal owner of the road, which he sold to the Harriman interests
in 1903 but continued as president until 1905. He next incorporated and began
the construction of the road of the Pacific Railway & Navigation Company,
which he also sold to the Harriman interests in December, 1906, but remains
as president to the present time.
On the 14th of October, 1880, Mr. Lytle was united in marriage to Miss
Lizzie M. Ayres, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Samuel and Emeline
Ayres, of that city. Her father was a prominent factor in the iron industry of
Pittsburg. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lytle have been born two sons and a daughter:
William K., who is in charge of construction for the Pacific Railway & Naviga-
tion Company; Harry G. ; and Helen, the wife of James A. Ellis, of Portland.
The family residence is at No. 175 Twenty-fourth street North.
Mr. and Mrs. Lytle are identified with various local charities and prominent
in the social circles of the city. Mr. Lytle gives his political support to the re-
publican party where national questions and issues are involved but otherwise
votes independently. His favorite means of recreation is horseback riding. He
is a member of both the Multnomah and Commercial Clubs, taking an active
interest in the projects of the latter for the civic and commercial development
of the city and state, and his even temperament, social qualities and his apprecia-
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tion of the pleasures of life make him popular in club circles. An analyzation
of his life record indicates that close application, determination and industry
have been the salient features in his success. He possesses a natural inclination
to stick to a proposition until the desired result is achieved and his faithfulness
and ability have carried him into important relation with the railway interests
of the northwest.
J. C. ELLIOTT KING, M. D.
The profession as well as the public, accords to Dr. J. C. Elliott King a
prominent position among the medical practitioners of the northwest. Close
study has formed the basis of his advancement and combined with an apprecia-
tion of the scientific phase of his profession is a deep and abiding sympathy that
prompts him to put forth earnest and unfaltering effort where the welfare of
his fellowmen is involved.
Dr. King is a western man by birth, training and experience. He was born
in Stearns county, Minnesota, September 26, 1861. His father, Eli B. King,
is a native of New York, has devoted his life to farming, and is now living in
Monticello, Minnesota, where he is numbered among the pioneers, having lo-
cated there fifty-six years ago. He is now living retired, having reached the
age of eighty years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Adelia Burns, was
born in Dundalk, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish lineage, and became a resident of
the state of New York when twelve years of age. She has now passed the
seventy-ninth milestone on life's journey. Three of the children of Eli B.
and Adelia King are living: Lorin U. and Mrs. Mason Allen, both of St. Paul,
Minnesota; and J. C. Elliott King, of this review.
As a pupil in the public schools. Dr. King pursued his early education, and
later entered the State University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated
with the B. A. degree in 1886. For a year he engaged in teaching at Elk River,
Minnesota, and afterward took up the study of medicine, completing his course
in the Northwestern University Medical School, which conferred upon him his
professional degree upon his graduation with the class of 1890. He spent eight
months as interne in St. Luke's Hospital, being appointed to the position as the
result of his first grade in a competitive examination. He also took an exami-
nation with the graduating class in science, literature and medicine, and for his
excellent scholarship received a cash prize of fifty dollars.
Removing to Salt Lake City, Dr. King there began practice, continuing for
thirteen years, and his high standing among his professional brethren is indi-
cated by the fact that he was honored with the presidency of the city and county
medical society. He was also chosen secretary of the state medical society,
served on the staff of St. Mark's Hospital, and during the last four years was
health commissioner of the city. Deciding to further equip himself for his life
work, he then went to Europe and pursued post-graduate studies in skin diseases
in Vienna, Berlin and Breslau, and also visited clinics in Paris and London. On
his return in the summer of 1904, he located in Portland, since which time he
has given his attention entirely to his profession. He has served in this connec-
tion on the staff of the county hospital, and is a lecturer on skin diseases in the
medical department of the University of Oregon. Feeling that progress should
be the watchword of the profession at all times, he keeps in touch with the great
truths which science is constantly revealing, through his membership in the
Multnomah County, Oregon State and American Medical Associations. Aside
from his practice, he is interested in fruit growing, owning two hundred acres
of land at Eagle Creek, Oregon, where he has planted an apple orchard, and
also walnut trees, making his summer home there.
On the 14th of May, 1891, Dr. King was married in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
to Miss Adelia M. Kiehle, a daughter of the Rev. Dr. D. L. Kiehle, who was
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for twelve years state superintendent of public instruction in Minnesota and
later a professor in the University of Minnesota, of which Mrs. King is a grad-
uate. Unto Dr. and Mrs. King have been born three children: Rachel, Con-
stance and David, aged respectively eighteen, sixteen and five years.
The family reside at No. 227 East Sixtieth street, in Mount Tabor, and are
members of the Mount Tabor Presbyterian church, of which Dr. King is a
trustee. His political views led to his indorsement of the candidates of the re-
publican party. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution, also to the
Phi Delta Theta, a college fraternity, and to the Arlington Club, and engaging
social qualities have won him prominence in that direction, while his compre-
hensive study and native ability have gained him distinction in the professonal
field.
JOHN BURKE CONGLE.
Among the names of distinguished men of the earlier days of Oregon, the
name which appears at the head of this record should not be omitted. A pioneer
of the early '50s, he assisted materially in the development of what was pre-
viously almost a wilderness, and twenty-three years ago he was called from the
midst of a useful career by death. He will be remembered as one of the build-
ers of the northwest, and an unselfish citizen of wealth and influence, who made
use of his opportunities and talents for the advancement of the entire com-
munity.
Mr. Congle was born December 9, 1817, in Chester county, Pennsylvania.
He was educated in the public schools, and at fifteen years of age went to Phila-
delphia, where he learned the harness and saddlery trade. Having completed
his trade, he lived for a short time in Virginia, thence going to Missouri, which
was just beginning to attract emigration from the older settled portions of the
country. In 1841 he located in La Fayette, Indiana, which continued to be his
home for a number of years.
The California gold excitement interfered with the plans of many aspiring
young men, and Mr. Congle joined the train across the plains in 1849 ^^^ thus
became identified with the argonauts whose stories of wealth in the golden
sands of the Pacific aroused the entire country to dreams of sudden fortune.
In 185 1 he returned to La Fayette and two years later again crossed the plains
with Marysville (now Corvallis), Oregon, as his destination. There he made
his home for eight years and became prominently identified with public affairs.
He was the first mayor of Marysville and discharged his duties so acceptably
that in 1857 he was elected sheriff of Benton county. As his business interests
required close attention, he resigned the office at the end of three 'months to
the great regret of many friends whom he had made in the county.
In 1861 Mr. Congle removed to Portland, which became his permanent home.
For many years he was a leading business man in this city and, although he was
never a seeker for public office, he served as councilman of the second ward in
1870, and in 1872 was chosen representative to the state legislature from Mult-
nomah county. Other positions of responsibility and trust he discharged with
a faithfulness that received the hearty approval of the entire community. At
La Fayette, Indiana, he had become identified with the Masonic order, and after
coming to Oregon he became prominent in its councils. In 1874 and 1875 he
acted as grand master of Masons in this state, and in 1879 ^^^ 1880 was elected
to the office of high priest in the order.
On the 21 st of May, 1844, Mr. Congle was united in marriage to Miss Ellen
H. Gray, at La Fayette, Indiana, who later crossed the plains with her husband
to the northwest. Two daughters were born to them, one of whom is Mrs.
G. A. Sollars, of this city, and the other is the deceased wife of Hon. Richard
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Williams, ex-member of congress from Oregon. Her death occurred May 31,
1904. These ladies were prominently identified with the most refined social cir-
cles of the state. Mrs. Congle was one of the organizers of the Children's
Home of the Ladies' Relief Society of this city, the first institution of the kind
in Oregon, and gave much attention to works of beneficence and charity.
Mr. Congle departed this life April 7, 1888. He was always loyal to the
interests of his state, and no man was more zealous in the upbuilding of the
coast region. He was a man of great perseverance and industry, and one whose
distinguished ability could have gained him prominence in any vocation of life.
His success was due not only to business talent, but to an unsullied reputation,
which he valued more than riches and which he regarded as of more worth than
all the power that wealth could buy.
HON. GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN.
George E. Chamberlain was born near Natchez, Mississippi, January i, 1854,
and was named in honor of a paternal uncle, George Earle, one of the distin-
guished residents and lawyers of Maryland and assistant postmaster-general of
the United States during President Grant's first term. Mr. Chamberlain comes
of an ancestry honorable and distinguished, and his own lines of life have been
cast in harmony therewith. A contemporary biographer has said : "The quali-
ties which have given him an eminent position in the public life of the north-
west are his by inheritance from a long line of capable, scholarly and untar-
nished ancestors."
The first representatives of the name on American soil came from England
and established homes in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania during the early
colonial epoch in our country's history. Dr. Joseph Chamberlain, the grand-
father of George E. Chamberlain, who was a native of Delaware, ranked with
the foremost physicians of Newark, that state. The lady whom he married also
came of a prominent pioneer family. Her uncle, Charles Thomson, who served
as secretary of the continental congress from 1774 to 1789, was born in Ire-
land, of Scotch lineage, November 29, 1729. Accompanied by his brothers and
sisters, he settled at Newcastle, Delaware, in 1741, and there became a teacher
in the Friends Academy. In 1758 he was one of the agents appointed to treat
with the Indians at Oswego, and while there was adopted by the Delawares,
who conferred upon him an Indian name meaning, "One who speaks the truth."
The possessor of literary ability, he left his imprint upon the literature of his
age through his "Harmony of the Five Gospels," a translation of the Old and
New Testaments, and an inquiry into the cause of the alienation of the Delaware
and Shawnee Indians. His private file of letters containing communications writ-
ten to him while secretary of the continental congress and before that time, is
among the most valued possessions of Mr. Chamberlain and contains letters
from all the leading men of that day. Charles Thomson Chamberlain, son of Dr.
Joseph Chamberlain, was a native of Newark, Delaware, and in preparation for
the practice of medicine, pursued a course in Jefferson Medical College at Phil-
adelphia, from which he was duly graduated. He located for practice in Jefifer-
son county, Mississippi, in 1837, and later moved to Natchez, that state, and
there his ability won him recognition in the extensive and important practice
that was accorded him. He was very careful in diagnosis and skilled in treat-
ment, and his broad reading and research kept him at all times in close touch
with the most advanced thought and methods of the profession. That his work
had its base in a broad humanitarianism was shown in his devotion to yellow
fever patients in 1871. when Dr. Chamberlain night and day devoted his time
to the treatment of those who were stricken, until at last he became a victim
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to the disease and died October 29, 1871. In early manhood he had wedded
Pameha H. Archer, a native of Harford county, Maryland, and until her death
December 30, 1910, was a resident of Natchez, Mississippi. Her father was
Hon. Stevenson Archer, a native of Harford county, who completed his educa-
tion by graduation from Princeton College in 1805 and afterward entered upon
the practice of law. He served in congress from 181 1 to 1817 from Maryland
and in the latter year accepted an appointment from President Madison as judge
of Mississippi territory with gubernatorial povi^ers and resigned later. From
1819 until 1821 he again represented his district in congress, where he was a
member of the committee on foreign affairs. In 1825 he was elected one of
the justices of the court of appeals of Maryland, which office he held until his
death in 1848, at which time he was chief justice. His father, Dr. John Archer,
was a native of Harford county, Maryland, born in 1741. After graduating at
Princeton in 1760, he studied for the ministry, but throat trouble rendering
pulpit work inadvisable, he turned his attention to medicine. The first medical
diploma ever issued in the new world was given to him by the Philadelphia
Medical College. He was elected a member of the convention which framed the
constitution and bill of rights of Maryland. At the commencement of the Revo-
lutionary war he had command of a military company, the first enrolled in
Harford county, and was a member of the state legislature. After the war
he practiced his profession and several important discoveries in therapeutics are
credited to him. In 1801 he was a presidential elector and from 1801 to 1807
was a member of congress from Maryland. His death occurred in 1810. The
Archer family is of Scotch-Irish descent and was represented among the earliest
settlers of Harford county, where for generations they wielded wide influence.
It is worthy of record that the portrait of Hon. Stevenson Archer appears
among those distinguished men of Maryland placed in the new courthouse in
Baltimore, that state, and also adorns the courthouse in his native county ; while
that of his father, Dr. John Archer, is on the walls of the state capitol at An-
napolis.
George Earle Chamberlain devoted his boyhood days to the acquirement of
an education in the schools of Natchez. He put aside his text-books in 1870
when a youth of sixteen years to enter upon a clerkship in a mercantile store.
Two years were devoted to commercial pursuits, but preferring a professional
career, he resumed his studies as a pupil in the Washington and Lee University
at Lexington, Virginia, in which he pursued the regular course of study, win-
ning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law upon his graduation
in June, 1876. Almost immediately afterward he returned to Natchez, where he
continued until the 7th of November, but thinking that he might have better
opportunities in the growing northwest, he came to Oregon and since the 6th
of December, 1876, has been a resident of this state. From the obscure posi-
tion as a teacher of a country school in 1878, he gradually worked his way up-
ward until he became the chief executive of the commonwealth, and is today
recognized as one of Oregon's eminent lawyers. In the latter part of the year
1877 he was appointed deputy clerk of Linn county, and thus served until the
summer of ' 1879. In 1880 he was elected to represent Linn county in the lower
house of the general assembly. In the meantime, he had entered upon the ac-
tive practice of law, and in 1884 was elected district attorney for the third ju-
dicial district of Oregon. Fie was appointed by the governor to the office of
attorney-general of Oregon on the creation of that position in May, 1891. At
the succeeding general election, he was chosen by popular sufl^rage to the office
as the democratic candidate, receiving a majority of about five hundred, a fact
which indicated that he ran at least ten thousand, five hundred votes ahead of
his ticket, for the normal republican majority in Oregon at that time was about
ten thousand. In 1900, having previously taken up his residence at Portland, he
was chosen district attorney of Multnomah county by a majority of eleven hun-
dred and sixty-two, overcoming the usual republican majority of four thousand.
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In 1902, entirely unsolicited on his part, the democrats in convention nominated
him by acclamation as a candidate for governor, and the ensuing election proved
v^hat American history has again and again demonstrated, that the American
pubhc will support men of tried political and personal integrity and ability re-
gardless of political affiliation. Oregon was considered a repubhcan state, but
at the ensuing election he polled two hundred and fifty-six votes more than the
republican candidate, although in the congressional election the republican vic-
tory amounted to fifteen thousand. He was again nominated by his party for
governor in 1906 and defeated his opponent by twenty-five hundred majority,
serving until March, 1909, when he resigned to accept the position of United
States senator, to which he was elected in January, 1909, by a legislature over-
whelmingly republican. Few men in public office have possessed greater strength
among the people. Air. Chamberlain's course, however, has at all times com-
manded public confidence, for he has wisely and conscientiously used the talents
with which nature has endowed him, placing the welfare of the commonwealth
before personal aggrandizement or party interests.
Mr. Chamberlain was married in Natchez, Mississippi, May 21, 1879, to
Miss Sallie N. Welch, who was born near Natchez, in Louisiana, and is a des-
cendant of New England ancestry represented in the Revolutionary war. Her
father, A. T. Welch, who was born in Massachusetts, moved to the south and
became the owner of a large plantation in Concordia parish, Louisiana. His
family later moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where Mrs. Chamberlain attended
school, graduating from the Natchez Institute. She is active in the work of
Calvary Presbyterian church, of which she is an honored member. To Mr. and
Mrs. Chamberlain have been born seven children, six of whom are now living:
Charles Thomson, a graduate of Cooper Medical College of San Francisco and
later a post-graduate of New York Polyclinic and New York Ophthalmic. He
married Miss Deborah Boatner of Louisiana, and is practicing his profession as
a specialist in diseases of the nose, throat, eye and ear at Portland, Oregon.
Lucie Archer married George F. Blair and resides at Jackson, Michigan. Mar-
guerite married H. R. Gaither of Natchez, Mississippi, and resides at Port-
land, Oregon. Carrie Lee, George Earle, Jr., and Fannie W. complete the
family.
Mr. Chamberlain belongs to the Commercial Club, the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club and the Oregon State Historical Society. He is a life member of
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and has served as exalted ruler
of the Portland lodge. He is past chancellor of Laurel Lodge No. 7, K. P., at
Albany, and is a prominent Mason, having been initiated into the order in St.
John's Lodge No. 62, F. & A. M. at Albany, from which he afterward trans-
ferred his membership to Willamette Lodge No. 2, at Portland. He took the
degrees of capitular Masonry in Bailey Chapter No. 8, R. A. M., at Albany, and
in addition to filling a number of the offices in that organization, is past grand
high priest of the Grand Chapter of Oregon. He is also a past eminent com-
mander of Temple Commandery No. 3, at Albany, has attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Rite in Oregon Consistory No. i, at Portland, and is one
of the Nobles of Al Kader Temple of Portland. Appreciative of the social
amenities of life, Mr. Chamberlain holds friendship inviolable, and throughout
Oregon the number of his friends is legion. Public confidence and trust are
reposed in him to a notable extent, and even his political enemies never ques-
tion the integrity of his motives or the honesty of his purposes. His broad
Americanism, his sympathetic understanding of the perplexing problems of
human society, his abiding sense of justice and his deep insight into the vital
relations of our complex civilization have already won him the admiration and
esteem of the people at large, while in his own state he enjoys in unusual meas-
ure the warm personal regard and friendship of the great majority of those
who know him. Mr. Chamberlain has been peculiarly honored in one respect,
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and that is, Pacific University in the state of his adoption, the University of
Mississippi in the state of his birth, and Washington and Lee University of
Virginia, his alma mater, have conferred upon him the honorary degree of
LL. D.
ALFRED HOVENDEN.
Alfred Hovenden, deceased, who was one of the extensive landowners of
this part of the state and an Oregon pioneer of 1849, was born in Kent, England,
August 26, 1824, a son of George and Hephzibah Hovenden, whose ancestral
history can be traced back through authentic records as far as 1500. Thomas
Hovenden, born at Borden, was baptized March 4, 1672. The family through
successive generations occupied one house at Borden for over three hundred ,
years. The name of some branches of the family has been spelled Overden,
Alfred Hovenden attended school in England and engaged in farming with his
father until 1844, when at the age of twenty years he came with a brother to
America, settling first in Illinois, where he worked on a farm. His father soon
afterward crossed the Atlantic and both he and his wife died \n Illinois. The
year 1849 witnessed the arrival of Alfred Hovenden in Oregon. He made the
journey over the plains with ox teams, experiencing the usual hardships, trials
and dangers of such a trip over roads at times almost impassable, while at times
the trail was most dimly defined. There was always the danger of Indian at-
tack and when traveling over the arid plains there were times when it was dif-
ficult to obtain an adequate supply of water for the people and for the stock.
At length, however, Mr. Hovenden reached his destination in safety and secured
and settled upon a donation claim about a mile from the site of the present town
of Hubbard in Marion county. There he built a log house, which he occupied
for six years, keeping bachelor quarters.
At the end of that time he was married on the 29th of June, 1856, the lady
of his choice being Miss Sarah Ann Soden, a daughter of Bartholomew and
Anna (Goodall) Soden, who was born on the isle of Tasmania, near Australia,
March i, 1839. Her father was a merchant and school teacher there and on
leaving Tasmania in 1850 went to Honolulu, where he taught school for two
years. He then came to Oregon and took up a claim near Aurora, occupying
it for a brief period, after which he removed to Polk county and bought a farm.
Both he and his wife died on that place, to the development and cultivation of
which he had devoted his energies for many years.
At the time of his marriage Mr. Hovenden built a new log house for his
bride and they occupied the farm for about a half century. Ten years after
their marriage he replaced the log house by a fine modern residence. He at
first took up three hundred and twenty acres of land and to this added by pur-
chase from time to time until he had about a thousand acres, which he devoted
to general farming, carrying on his business with gratifying success.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hovenden were born four children. Caroline is now
the widow of John O. Dennis and the mother of three children, one son dying
in infancy, the others being Bart and Eva H. Emma is the wife of M. L. Jones,
Hving near Brooks Station, and they have six children, Mabel L., Ilda E., Ger-
trude v., Clara F., Ellis H. and Ronald E. Of this number Mabel L. married
Anderson Cannon, of Portland, and has one child, Dorothy. Annie married
Frank Gilbert, of Portland, and has three sons, Harold S., Alfred C. and Frank
W. George, of Portland, married Hattie Hanna and has one child, Grace B.
Mr. Hovenden continued a resident upon his farm until he met death on the
loth of December, 1885, being killed in a runaway accident. He was a strong
republican but could never be induced to become a candidate for office. His
time and attention were concentrated upon his business affairs and through the
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conduct and improvement of his farm he contributed much to the agricuhural
development of the region. Moreover, he cooperated in many movements for
the general upbuilding, for he came to Oregon in the early pioneer days, almost
before Portland had an existence and when the now rich and populous farming
districts were stretches of wild and undeveloped forest land. He performed
the arduous task of developing a good farm and as the years went by he con-
tinued its cultivation until his fields became very rich and productive. His life
was a busy and useful one and gained for him the respect of all who knew him.
Mrs. Hovenden continued to reside upon the farm until 1905, when she took
up her abode in Portland, where she now makes her home.
EDWARD ARTHUR McGRATH.
Edward Arthur McGrath is one of the real-estate men of Portland whose
progressive methods of business are resulting in the substantial upbuilding and
improvement of the city, and at the same time promoting individual success.
He first came to this city in 1889, and later was in business elsewhere in the
northwest, but returned in 1907. He was born upon a farm near Grand Rapids,
Michigan, on the 20th of March, 1869, and was reared at Hastings, that state!
pursuing his education in the common schools while spending his youthful days
in the home of his parents, Thomas and Catherine (Horan) McGrath, both of
whom are now deceased. He was twenty years of age when he left the middle
west, and came to the coast, arriving in Portland, as previously stated, in 1889.
Desirious of becoming a property holder in this section of the country, he took
up a homestead in Cowlitz county in the southern part of the state of Wash-
ington and devoted three years to the development and improvement of that
place. He also became interested in timber lands and engaged in timber cruis-
ing during that period. In 1894 he went to Alaska and followed mining at
Forty Mile on the Yukon river. He had fair success in his venture there, and
with the substantial returns of his labor, again came to Portland in the fall of
1896. At that time he purchased a stock of general merchandise in this city,
also fifteen dogs, and with sledges freighted over the Chilcoot Pass in Alaska^
and upon scows which he built, sent his goods down the Yukon to Dawson City.'
There he opened a store, becoming one of the early merchants of the place in
which he engaged in business until the fall of 1899. He then sold out and re-
turned to Portland. Realizing the value of specific training for the conduct
of business affairs, he then attended the commercial college for a time, after
which he returned to Nome, Alaska, where he remained until the fall of 1900.
During the following eighteen months he traveled in the United States and
Canada, studying real-estate and realty values, after which he returned to the
northwest, settling in Seattle, where he opened a real-estate office. He was
engaged in that business there until 1907, when he once more came to Portland
and here opened a real estate office, which he has since conducted, his efforts
in this field proving remunerative. He was one of the organizers of and is the
president of the Irvington Investment Company, which purchased the Irvington
tract of approximately seven hundred lots in one of the fine residence districts
on the east side. They secured all the improvements for that district, which
is now rapidly developing, and is becoming the location of some of Portland's
most beautiful homes. It is thoroughly modern in all its equipments, and none
of the accessories regarded as essential to city building at the present time are
lacking. _ They have found ready sale for their property, and from its inception,
the business has enjoyed a substantial growth. Not only does the company
handle real estate, but is also doing much speculative building.
_ On the 26th of November, 1901, Mr. McGrath was married to Miss Kath-
arine Lucile Quinn, a daughter of James J. Quinn of Seattle. Mr. McGrath
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is a member of the Knights of Columbus, also of the Alaska Club of Portland
and the Yukon Order of Pioneers. His life history if written in detail would
prove a 'most interesting one, giving a vivid picture of experiences which have
constituted features in the development of the extreme northwest portion of
the continent. Reared amid the quiet environment of a farm and of a small
inland town, he came to the northwest, "where men are up and doing," and his
natural energy and ambition at once found scope here. His life has since been
one of ceaseless activity, bringing him into contact at times with the hardships
and privations that are known only to those who have attempted settlement in
a land where winter seems to reign supreme much of the year. In the more
equable climate of Portland he is now proving himself an important factor in
the upbuilding of the Rose City.
DORR E. KEASEY.
With the substantial growth which Portland is now undergoing Dorr E.
Keasey has advanced to a conspicuous position in the ranks of the real-estate
men of the city, his labors constituting a potent force in the development of
the beautiful residence district that crowns the hills to the west of the city,
known as Portland Heights. His efforts in this direction have brought him a
well merited success and his achievements indicate the possibilities that are
fostered by the successful growth and progress of the Pacific coast country.
Mr. Keasey has always resided west of the Mississippi, his birth having oc-
curred in Fayette county, Iowa, November ii, 1874, his parents being Eden W.
and Nellie S. Keasey. He made his start in life by selling papers, little dream-
ing at that time that the northwest would accord him a place among those men
whose ability and personality are dominating the city in the lines of substantial
progress. He was for a time employed in the Western Union Telegraph office
and also in the newspaper office at Fort Worth, Texas, and in January, 1889,
came to Portland.
Believing that the growth of the west afiorded good opportunities in the
real-estate field, Mr. Keasey spent three years as an employe in a real-estate
office and then, when the financial panic of 1893 brought suspension in real-
estate lines, he turned his attention to other business interests and was em-
ployed in various ways until 1900, when he again entered the real-estate field
and is now handling Portland Heights property exclusively. He purchased one
hundred and ten acres at Council Crest and built the car line thereto. He
also organized the Castle Heights Company, purchasing the Seventh street Ter-
races, and after the formation of the Keasey, Humison & Jefifry Company in
January, 1909, of which he is the senior member, they organized the Kings
Heights and Arlington Heights syndicates, which adjoin City Park on the north
and west, involving the expenditure of many hundreds of thousands of dollars
in the development of those properties for choice residence districts. Council
Crest is a mountain peak rising twelve hundred feet above the business part
of the city, and just within the edge of the city limits, giving a grand view
of the Willamette and Columbia river valleys and the surrounding mountains
for hundreds of miles. On clear days the gaze takes in the snow caps of Mount
Hood, Mount Ranier, Mount Adams and the rounded dome of Mount St.
Helens.
In connection with the development of the properties Mr. Keasey built the
car line in the form of a loop up to and around the Crest, thus bringing within
the view of all Portland residents and visitors the grandest panorama to be seen
in any city in the world. Besides the scenic car road Mr. Keasey has further
developed a piece of native forest between the city and the Crest by constructing
a winding roadway of easy grades for carriages and autos which brings all the
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wildness and beauties of the forest to the doors of the city. In his efforts in
this direction Mr. Keasey has done a work which should win him recognition
and gratitude from all of Portland's citizens as this car line has brought within
the reach of all one of the views which have made Portland famous. He is
also identified with a number of corporations, and each benefits by his sound
judgment and unfaltering enterprise.
Mr. Keasey was married in Portland, May 12, 1898, to Miss Evalyn Car-
ter, a member of the well known Carter family of Virginia, and their children
are: Mapril Bernice and Dorothy Evalyn. Mr. Keasey is identified with a
number of the leading associations and club organizations of the city. He is
yet a young man, and what he has already accomplished augurs well for further
successful attainment in the future.
OSMON ROYAL, M. D.
Dr. Osmon Royal, thoroughly equipped by liberal collegiate training in both
the east and the west for the profession which he makes his life work and in
which he has ever displayed the strictest fidelity to high principles, is now suc-
cessfully practicing in Portland with offices in the Marquam building. He has
been a member of the medical fraternity here since the ist of January, 1886,
when he opened an office in the Portland Savings Bank building, now the Com-
mercial block at the southwest corner of Second and Washington streets. Two
years later he removed to what is known as the Maria Smith residence opposite
the Abington block on Third street, making his home as well as maintaining his
office there. He continued at that location for several years and for a few months
maintained his ofiice and residence at the corner of Eleventh and Morrison streets
while waiting for the completion of the Marquam block, in which he was the first
to locate and lease offices. For almost a quarter of a century he has continued in
active practice here and his course has been marked by steady progress, bring-
ing him to a foremost position in the medical profession in Portland.
A native of Illinois, Dr. Royal was born near Bloomington on the 3d of Janu-
ary, 1856, and is a son of Charles Wesley and Rachel Eliza Powell (Misner)
Royal, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this volume. In 1865
the family started for the Pacific coast, traveling by the isthmus of Panama route
to San Francisco and thence by water to Portland. Here Dr. Royal became a
pupil in the public schools of Mount Tabor and later attended the Willamette
University at Salem, Oregon. He afterward became a student in the Ohio
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, but left that institution in his junior
year to matriculate in the Boston University School of Medicine, from which he
was graduated in 1885. In the same fall, having also had more than a year's hos-
pital experience, he returned to Portland well equipped for the professional duties
which have since devolved upon him. He has ever remained a close and dis-
criminating student of his profession, however, and as the years have passed has
read broadly, carrying his investigations far and wide into the realms of medical
and surgical science. Thus promoting his ability, he has been able to success-
fully cope with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician
and his professional labors have been followed by excellent results.
On October 17, 1888, Dr. Royal was married in New York to Miss Julia
Morgan, of that state, and they now have one son, Osmon Royal, Jr. Dr. Royal's
prominence in his profession is indicated in the fact that he is now president of
the State Board of Medical Examiners. He belongs to the Multnomah County
Homeopathic Medical Society and the Oregon State Homeopathic Medical So-
ciety, of both of which he has several times been president. He is likewise a
member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and everything which tends
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to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life awakens his
attention and receives his earnest consideration. He has never allowed his pro-
fessional duties, however, to claim his entire time and attention to the exclusion
of other interests which should constitute a force in the life of every individual.
He is never neglectful of the duties of citizenship and he is a member of the
Grace Methodist Episcopal church. For a quarter of a century he has served on
its ofiicial board, has been chairman of the board of stewards for fifteen years
and has been active in the city board of church extension. He is also president
of the Men's Methodist Social Union of Portland. His grandfather, the Rev.
William Royal, was the builder of the first Methodist Episcopal church in East
Portland and the history of Methodism in this state would be far different had
it not been for the labors of the grandfather, father and uncles of Dr. Royal.
His own life as well is one of intense usefulness to his fellowmen and while he
has chosen as his specific life work a ministry for the physical ills of mankind
he has ever been closely and helpfully associated with the moral development of
the community.
FREDERICK BICKEL.
Frederick Bickel, a Portland pioneer, was born in the town of Rodenburg,
situated on the bank of the river Fulda, in Germany, his natal day being May
21, 1832. His parents were George and Elizabeth Bickel, the former a black-
smith by trade. The family were making arrangements for emigration to Amer-
ica and the day before their departure the mother died. Frederick Bickel had
attended school in his native country between the ages of six and fourteen years
and in 1846 he started for America with his father and the other children of the
household. After a voyage of fifty-three days upon a sailing vessel they reached
New Orleans and thence went up the Mississippi river to St. Louis on a steam-
boat. In that city Frederick Bickel entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the
confectionary business under George Baum to serve for a term of four years.
His apprenticeship had progressed for two and a half years when his employer
died of cholera. He therefore completed his apprenticeship under Mrs. Baum
and her brother, Frank Dekum, who assumed control and carried on the busi-
ness. Mr. Dekum became a lifelong friend and partner of Mr. Bickel. They
were employed in St. Louis until the fall of 185 1. In the winter they made plans
for coming to California and on the ist of February, 1852, started for New
Orleans and thence sailed to Chagres, Panama, where they took a small boat up
the river to Corcona, the head of navigation. From that point they walked
twenty-eight miles to Panama, where they were compelled to wait two weeks
as all transportation facilities had been engaged ahead of time. They were told
that nothing could be secured for three months but they managed to obtain pas-
sage on the vessel Anna Smith, bound for Acapulco. Soon afterward this ves-
sel was obliged to put into port for water. Finally they got aboard the Golden
Gate, bound for San Francisco, where they arrived on the 21st of May, 1852.
Mr. Bickel and Mr. Dekum then went to Shasta City, California, where they
were engaged in business for a short time. Mr. Dekum then came to Port-
land, looked over the situation and wrote for Mr. Bickel to join him, which he
did in 1853. While in Shasta City Mr. Bickel's store was destroyed by fire,
causing a total loss. Removing to this city, they opened a store on Front street
between Stark and Washington, in June, 1853, under the firm style of Dekum &
Bickel. This was the first establishment of the kind opened in this city. They
remained at their first location for about a year, when the store building was
sold to George L. Story, who there established a drug business. The firm of
Dekum & Bickel then removed to Front street, between Washington and Alder
streets, where they opened a restaurant in connection with their confectionary
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store and in 1856 they established the first soda water manufactory in the city.
With the growth of Portland their business steadily increased, for the excellence
of the product which they manufactured and handled was such as to insure
them a good trade. The partners who as boys served their apprenticeship to-
gether continued their business relations in the utmost harmony until 1878, when
Mr. Dekum retired. Mr. Bickel then remained as sole proprietor of the business
until 1883, when he sold out. He had previously erected a building on Front
street, where he began a storage business and later he builds a large office build-
ing on Second street between Ash and Ankeny streets. This was one hundred
and fifty by one hundred and twelve feet. In 1906 he retired and has since
rested from further business cares, his enterprise and activity in former years
having brought him a comfortable competence that now supplies him with many
of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life. He has since lived retired
in a beautiful home at the corner of Ford street and Park avenue.
In Portland, in 1864, was celebrated the marriage of Frederick Bickel and
Catherine Karleskint, and unto them have been born seven children : Lena, at
home; Amelia, who died in infancy; George L., at home; Bertha, who passed
away at the age of twelve years ; Albert, who was twenty-eight years of age at
the time of his death ; Louisa and Frederick B., also under the parental roof.
Mrs. Bickel was born in St. Clair county, Illinois, and came to Portland in
1862.
Not only does Mr. Bickel deserve mention as one of the pioneer merchants
of the city but also as one of the veterans of the Indian wars of 1854, 1855 and
1856. He enlisted under Captain Wilson in the Oregon Mounted Volunteers,
becoming a member of Company A, October 10, 1855. He participated in the
four days' battle of Walla Walla and continued with his command until mustered
out during the summer of 1856. The experiences of life in the northwest when
this was a frontier district are largely familiar to him and his labors have been
an effective element in promoting civilization, improvement and progress in this
section of the country. In politics he has always been a republican but can
never be induced to hold office. He has aided in organizing several of the Ger-
man societies of the city, including the Turn Verein and the German Aid So-
ciety and he is, moreover, a member of the Indian War Veterans, the Oregon
Pioneer Society and the Historical Society. Those events which are to many
matters of history are to him matters of personal knowledge or experience and
he relates many interesting tales of the early days. Upon the pioneer settler
there devolved hardships and trials unknown at a later day, and Mr. Bickel
faithfully bore his share in all of the labor and effort incident to the early devel-
opment of the northwest.
JOHN O. GILLEN.
John O. Gillen, senior member of the Gillen-Chambers Company, manufac-
turers of asbestos products, with factory at St. Johns and office and warehouse
at No. 66 Front street, North, in Portland, has been identified with the business
here for over twenty years. He was born in New York city in 1867, and is a
son of James Gillen. His youthful days were spent in the eastern metropolis,
where he attended school and afterward began to learn the asbestos business.
He came west to Portland in 1890, attracted by the developing business oppor-
tunities of the Pacific northwest.
The impossibility of placing fictitious value upon industry, determination and
perseverance at once proves the worth of the individual, who must base his rise
upon these qualities. These elements have constituted the salient features in
the advancement of Mr. Gillen, who has steadily worked his way upward from
the humble position in which he started in the business world. He entered into
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active connection with the asbestos business in Portland as an employe of
Joseph Gaffney, a manufacturer who was conducting a small business. In 1894
he was admitted to a partnership under the firm name of Gaffney & Gillen, and
a reorganization of the business in 1898 led to the adoption of the firm style of
Gillen & Chambers. Joseph Gaffney had died before the firm of Gaffney &
Gillen was formed, his brother, Nicholas Gaffney, having become the senior
member of that firm. The factory was established on a small scale on Second
street in Portland, and was there continued until 1900, when the business was
removed to a small room upstairs at No. 66 Front street. North. In 1907, the
company erected their own factory in St. Johns at a cost of thirty-five thousand
dollars. The business was incorporated in 1904 with a capital stock of ten
thousand dollars, and there is now a surplus of seventy thousand dollars. Mr.
Gillen is the president of the company, with J. D. Chambers as vice president
and W. H. Chambers as secretary and treasurer. They employ from fifteen
to thirty men at the St. Johns factory and about twenty-two men at the ware-
house in Portland. They have been the makers of all except one of the as-
bestos theater curtains now in use in Portland, and their manufactured products
also include asbestos pipe covering and different fireproof cements. As the
public attention has awakened to the danger of fire, especially in congested
districts, and has sought out means of protection, the use of asbestos has grown
and the business of the Gillen-Chambers Company has increased largely in the
last few years. Their sales are now extensive, and their plant is regarded as
one of the leading productive industries of the enterprising town of St. Johns.
Mr. Gillen was united in marriage, in 1896, to Miss Lena Clark, a native of
southern Oregon. They make their home in Portland and have the warm re-
gard of many friends here. Mr. Gillen has never regretted his determination
to leave the east and seek the opportunities of the growing west. Here he found
favorable business conditions, and in their improvement and utilization has
made steady progress toward the goal of prosperity. He is now a member of
the transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce.
COLONEL WILLIAM WILLIAMS CHAPMAN.
Portland and Oregon are not the product of a single individual or even of a
few men, and yet there are those whose names stand out clearly upon the pages
of the history of the state because of the greatness of their work in its behalf.
Among those who have been truly builders of the northwest. Colonel William
Williams Chapman is numbered, his life work being characterized by an un-
selfish devotion to the public good that was again and again manifest in active
and practical work for the benefit of the commonwealth. He stood as the de-
fender of the people at large as against the interests of the few, and when in-
dividualistic or monopolistic greed threatened the welfare of the state, he cham-
pioned the rights of Oregon and in legislative halls, in congress and through
private influence worked to uphold those measures which he knew would have
far-reaching and beneficial effect upon the history of Oregon for years to come.
Born in Clarksburg, Virginia, on the nth of August, 1808, Colonel William
Williams Chapman was only fourteen years of age at the time of his father's
death, and was then thrown largely upon his own resources. After completing
a public school education, he entered the office of clerk of the courts, of which
Henry St. George Tucker was chancellor. He was in that position assisted by
Mrs. Sehon, mother of the eminent minister, and his position stimulated in him
a desire for learning and an intellectual development, which desire he had op-
portunity to meet, at least to some extent, for he was given free access to the
libraries of prominent lawyers of that state. Devoting his leisure time to the
mastery of the principles of jurisprudence, he at length received a license to
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practice law and located in Middlebourne, Tyler county, West Virginia. In the fall
of 1833 he went to Macomb, McDonough county, Illinois, and in the spring of
1835 to Burlington, Iowa. The following year he was appointed by Governor
John S. Horner to the position of prosecuting attorney and later in the same
year was appointed by President Jackson United States attorney for the terri-
tory of Wisconsin, following the admission of Michigan to the Union. In 1838
Iowa was set apart as an independent territory, and in the fall of that year
Colonel Chapman was elected to congress, where he became very active. He
prepared and secured the passage of bills for the construction of three important
military roads in the state and won for Iowa against Missouri a dispute over
the boundary line. He was also the first man in congress to propose a perma-
nent preemption law. Throughout his life he remained a close student of the
vital questions of the day, and the interests of local, state and national import.
His discrimination was keen, his deductions logical, and in his labors he looked
beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and opportunities of the
future. Because of this his work in many connections has endured, being of
permanent value. In 1844 ^^e was chosen a member of the state convention to
prepare the constitution for Iowa, and in that body originated the measure to
transfer in face of the act of congress the grant of five hundred thousand acres
to the state for internal improvements for the use of schools, a course at that
time unheard of but since followed by all new states. He also proposed measures
providing for the election of judges and thus in many essential ways left the
impress of his ability upon the history of Iowa.
On the 4th of -May, 1847, Colonel Chapman started with his family from
Oskaloosa across the plains to Oregon, arriving at Marysville, now Corvallis,
on the 13th of November, 1847. ^^i the following February he located in Salem,
and in the fall of 1848, when the reports of gold discovery in California were
received, he went to the Sacramento river, where he engaged successfully in
mining until the early spring of 1849. He then returned and soon afterward
was elected representative to the first territorial legislature of Oregon, and dur-
ing the ensuing session, was appointed to draft a code of laws, but this act was
declared void. Following the close of the general assembly, he removed to
Oregon City, but after a short time decided upon Portland as his future home,
and took up his abode here on the ist of January, 1850. The city was built upon
a section of land owned by Gen. Stephen Coffin and D. H. Lownsdale, in which
Colonel Chapman had a third interest. In the spring he cleared and built a
residence upon the block where the courthouse now stands. The "town proprie-
tors," as Messrs. Coffin, Lownsdale and Chapman were called, engaged in all
enterprises calculated to advance the interests of the embryo city. Every town
on lower Willamette and Columbia rivers contested for preeminence in those
days, hoping to become the foremost city of the future. In the fall of 1850 the
steamer Gold Hunter of San Francisco was purchased for sixty thousand dol-
lars by these gentlemen — a few others subscribing small amounts — and twenty-
one thousand dollars of this sum was paid down. For a time the steamer made
regular trips to San Francisco with Oregon products and gave Portland such an
advantage over all rivals as to annihilate their hopes of preeminence in the future.
Soon after his arrival here many more streets were platted, the two original
streets were widened, country roads were improved, and many city improvements
were introduced, Colonel Chapman proving an important factor in all this work.
At that time Portland had no newspaper, but Oregon City and Milwaukie were
both publishing a paper. Recognizing the fact that Portland's interests would
be promoted if it had a journal to champion its cause. Colonel Chapman and
Mr. Coffin went to San Francisco and induced Mr. Dryer to move his plant here
and publish a paper. They promised individually to pay him a salary and also
pay his traveling and freight expenses. Thus the Oregonian was established,
and Colonel Chapman hired a man to assist his two sons, Thomas and Arthur,
to distribute the first issue of the paper throughout the town and surrounding
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country. At his suggestion, while he was still in San Francisco making arrange-
ments with Mr. Dryer, the paper was given the name of the Oregonian.
In the fall of 1853 Colonel Chapman acquired the Hudson Bay improve-
ments at Fort Umpqua, but still retained his Portland interests, and his law
practice at this point. He removed to Fort Umpqua with his family, however,
and there engaged in farming and cattle-raising. Long prior to this time he had
had military experience as a member of the militia of Iowa, and in 1836, when
but twenty-eight years of age, had been elected colonel of his regiment by a large
majority. In the fall of 1855, while attending court, an Indian uprising broke
out on Rogue river, which was the beginning of the war of 1855-6. Under
proclamation of the governor. Colonel Chapman gathered a company, of which
he was elected captain. He equipped the command himself, and it was mustered
in as Company I, Major Martin's battalion. In the following spring he was
chosen lieutenant-colonel and was given command of the Southern Battalion, in
which connection he was largely responsible for the successful outcome of the
conflict. Resuming activities in civil life, he removed with his family in the
fall of 1856 to Corvallis and expected to go from there as a delegate to the con-
stitutional convention, but his candidacy was not endorsed because of his well
known opposition to slavery. The following year he purchased extensive farm-
ing interests at Eugene City and removed there. While residing at that place he
was nominated for territorial representative, and was also mentioned in con-
nection with the oflice of senator. He was appointed surveyor-general of Ore-
gon, which position he filled until 1861, when he resigned and in that fall
returned to Portland. Soon afterward he built a home at Fourteenth and Jef-
ferson streets, where he continuously resided, giving his attention largely to the
practice of law.
When, in 1863, a bill was introduced into congress with the land grant sub-
sidy for a road from a junction from the Central Pacific Railroad to Portland,
Colonel Chapman protected the interests of Oregon by framing and presenting
to congress resolutions for modifications requiring that the road must be started
at this end as well as the other, and the work of progress carried on from each
end equally. He was notable for his keen foresight, and assisted in forestalling
by legislation many corporate abuses. As a member of the legislature of 1868,
he proposed and secured the passage of a bill providing a thirty thousand dollar
subsidy to furnish large tugboats to tow ocean vessels through the mouth of
Columbia river, thus abolishing high rates then charged, and stimulating the
commerce of Portland with foreign ports. Perhaps his most important work
for this city and the state at large was his long fight against the Northern Pa-
cific Railway, covering many years, and bringing forth many hard fought battles
in the courts won by him as the result of his untiring energy, loyalty to the in-
terests of the people and extraordinary sagacity. He thus defeated repeated at-
tempts to ignore Portland by building only on the north side of the Columbia
river and to gain the railroad monopoly of the northwest, the result of which
was the building of the line of the Oregon Short Line Company, which secured
for Portland eastern railway connections. In this struggle he spent the energy
of his best years and also a magnificent fortune. As the result of over-exertion,
he was stricken with paralysis in November, 1888, rendering his right side
largely useless, but he retained the precious prize of keen mentality until his
death, which occurred on the i8th of October, 1892, when he had reached the
advanced age of eighty-four years.
In the spring of 1832 Colonel Chapman was married to Miss Margaret Fee
Inghram, a daughter of Colonel Arthur Inghram, a prominent farmer and man
of public spirit, who served for twenty years in the state legislature of the Old
Dominion. Mrs. Chapman died June 21, 1889, in the seventy-fourth year of
her age. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom only two are now
living: Mrs. Mary C. Galbraith, of Seattle; and Winfield S., of whom mention
is made on another page of this volume.
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Colonel Chapman was a Mason and enjoyed the highest regard of his breth-
ren of that fraternity. A few weeks before his death the school board of Port-
land named one of the new public schools in his honor in recognition of his ef-
forts to advance the cause of education. Progress and patriotism might well be
termed the keynote of his character. There are few men who have labored so
unselfishly and untiringly for the public good. His strong analytical mind en-
abled him to understand every phase of a question, and his remarkable sagacity
enabled him to look beyond and beneath the surface and recognize the true con-
dition of affairs and the possible outcome for the future. His comprehensive
understanding of every public question therefore was a most effective feature
in his work for the public good, and in his life his public and private acts ever
balanced up with the principles of truth and honor.
WINFIELD S. CHAPMAN.
IWinfield S. Chapman of Portland, is one of the oldest among the native resi-
dents here, his birth having occurred in the then village of Portland on the 3d
of July, 1850. He is a son of Col. W. W. Chapman, whose biography precedes
this. His parents removed to southern Oregon in 1853, but returned to Port-
land in 1861, so that Winfield S. Chapman largely acquired his early education
in the schools of this city, principally in the old Portland Academy, from which
he was graduated in 1868.
Following his graduation, he entered the office of the city surveyor as as-
sistant and a year after attaining his majority became chief of that department,
which position he filled for two years, when a change in political administration
occurred and a democrat was appointed. Turning his attention to the field of
journalism in 1878, he founded the Daily Bee, of which he was editor. He
made this a popular and successful paper, but in the fall of that year sold out
and again became city surveyor, which position he held until 1881. In that
year the city council again became democratic, and he once more left the office ;
but in 1883 was again appointed, so serving until 1884, when he resigned in
order to accept the position of superintendent of streets, which he held until
the office became elective in 1891, at which time he refused the nomination. Dur-
ing the '70s he devoted several thousand dollars to assisting his father in the
projected railroad from Salt Lake to Portland and surveyed a part of the line
at his own expense. During the following decade he was the controlling spirit
in the installation and operation of the Jefferson street steam ferry, which after
long litigation broke the monopoly that had been controlled by the Stark street
ferry for many years. He was also the organizer and the main promoter in the
construction of the waterworks on the east side of the river, the first system
estabhshed there, and obtained a franchise for, located and planned the Madison
street bridge, but sold the ferry and franchise before the work on the bridge
had progressed far.
The panic of 1893 found Mr. Chapman with real estate on his hands to the
extent of two hundred thousand dollars, but the decline in the real estate market
was so great and so rapid that his entire wealth was swept away. In 1899 he
went to Skagway, Alaska, where he edited the Daily Alaskan until his return to
Portland to prepare for departure to Cape Nome, whither he went in the spring
of 1900 as part owner of an outfit of machinery for mining gold from the beach
sands. This enterprise, however, was not successful. In 1904 he accepted the
position of district engineer in the office of the city engineer, and has since acted
in that capacity. While he has given assiduous attention to the duties of the
office, which have been discharged with the utmost fidelity and ability. He is
also interested in various private enterprises which are now proving sources of
profitable return. In politics he has likewise been an active republican, stanchly
advocating the principles of the party.
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One of the strongly marked characteristics of Mr. Chapman has been his
fiHal love and devotion to his parents, to whom he was especially attentive and
helpful in their last years. When young he promised his mother not to marry
while she lived, and he kept this promise. On the 21st of December, 1908, he
wedded Miss E. E. Crookham of San Francisco, a daughter of Judge J. A.
Crookham of Oskaloosa, Iowa. She is a lady of high educational attainments,
who was graduated from Mt. Holyoke College, visited England and other coun-
tries of Europe a second time in pursuing her studies. For several years she was
a successful teacher in the Portland high school, and afterward accepted a position
in the city schools of San Francisco, where she lived and experienced the terrors
of "the great fire" in that city. While Mr. Chapman has at times met reverses
in his business enterprises owing largely to conditions over which he had no
control, he has nevertheless done an important part in the upbuilding of the
northwest and his service as a public official has been marked by a fidelity that
none have questioned.
WILLIAM K. SMITH.
To the energetic nature and strong mentality of such men as William K.
Smith is due the development and ever increasing prosperity of Portland. His
career has been one of activity, full of incidents and results. In every sphere
of life in which he has acted he has left an indelible impress through his ability
and tireless energy that never stops short of the attainment of its purpose. He
first visited Portland in 1854. Returning in 1869, with the experience of previous
residence in Oregon and in California through the days of pioneer development,
he joined his interests at once with those of the growing city and his efforts
have since been a resultant feature in its further progress and promotion. He
is today numbered with Portland's capitalists, and the most envious cannot
grudge him his success so worthily has it been won through activity in industrial
and financial circles. At the age of eighty-four years he remains one of the
city's most honored and venerable residents.
Mr. Smith was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1826, a
son of Peter and Barbara (Showalter) Smith, the former of English lineage and
the latter of Holland Dutch descent. The birth of James G. Blaine occurred in
the same town where Mr. Smith spent his early youth. The father was a farmer
and carpenter who removed from the Keystone state to Ohio when his son
William was but six years of age. He settled upon a tract of land in Clermont
county, where he engaged in farming until his removal to Indiana. He was
afterward a resident of Illinois and later of Texas, his death occurring in the
Lone Star state, while his wife passed away in Ohio.
The removal of the family made William K. Smith at different times a pupil
in the public schools of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Alabama.
With the family he went to Texas and there worked upon the home farm until
eighteen years of age. Then leaving the parental roof, he went to Alabama,
where he again attended school and also engaged in clerking for his uncle, a
merchant and physician, with whom he also read medicine. After five years
spent in Alabama William K. Smith went to La Grange, Texas, where he was
employed as a clerk in a mercantile establishment. Before he left Texas he
had earned a cow and calf by splitting rails. He left the cattle there and went
to Alabama. When he returned he invested in a drove of cattle and was engaged
in live-stock business for some time but subsequently sold out and went to St.
Louis for the purpose of improving his education. His life experiences had
taught him the value of intellectual training as an element to success in business,
and making his way to St. Louis he pursued a course in a commercial college of
that city and also attended Shurtleff College at Alton, Illinois.
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While there Mr. Smith formed a company to cross the plains, being attracted
to the west by the fact that he had a brother, Joseph S. Smith, who was living
upon the Pacific coast and who sent back favorable reports concerning its oppor-
tunities and possibilities. William K. Smith left St. Louis with about eighty
head of cattle and fine horses, with a few men to assist him in the care of his
stock in crossing the plains. His horses, however, were stolen on the journey.
The party had considerable experience with the Indians while crossing the plains
and were constantly on the alert for fear of an attack. Day after day they
traveled on over the hot stretches of sand and through the mountain passes until
their eyes were gladdened by the green valleys of California. Soon after reach-
ing the Golden Gate Mr. Smith sold his cattle and turned his attention to mining.
But not finding the gold in the country that he had anticipated, he opened a small
store on the McCallum river. After living in California for about a year he
decided to visit his brother, Joseph S. Smith, who had settled with his family on
Whidby's island, Puget Sound, Washington territory. This journey took him,
in 1854, through Portland, then a new and unimportant settlement. From Port-
land to his destination the arduous trip was made on horseback. Arriving at
dusk at his brother's log house, he was at first received with scant welcome by
his brother who, not having seen him for several years and receiving no news
of his coming, failed at first to recognize the tall, bearded stranger. His brother's
baby boy, however, seemed quaintly enough to notice the kinship, as tugging at
his mother's apron, he lisped "Mamma — two papas." After a short visit with
his brother, Mr. Smith retraced his steps to Salem, Oregon territory, where he
purchased from Dr. Wilson (whose donation land claim was the original town-
site of Salem) a drugstore which included also a/itock of books, paints, oils and
general merchandise. This store he conducted with- great success for fifteen
years, securing an extensive trade from the town and surrounding country.
During this period he established the water system of Salem, bringing in an
unlimited supply of fine water from the Santa. Ana. river.. He secured the con-
trolling interest in the Salem Woolen Mills and associated with himself in the
management of the enterprise, J. F. Miller, H. W. Corbett, W. S. Ladd, L. F.
Grover, J. S. Smith and Daniel Waldo. These mills made the first shipment of
wool sent to the east from the Pacific coast. With practically the same associates
he built the first large flouring mills and an immense wheat warehouse. These,
the biggest mills on the coast, were operated by water power from Santa Ana
river. During this period he acquired the McMinnville Flouring Mills, trading
to Robert Kinney, his woolen mill stock for a ranch of a thousand acres, stocked
with fine horses and the McMinnville mills. In such manner the extent and
importance of his business interest were a prominent and effective feature in
Salem's progress and commercial prosperity.
Seeking still broader fields of labor and realizing that Portland had natural
advantages which in time must make it a city of large interest, Mr. Smith severed
his business connections with Salem and in 1869 became identified with the
industrial life of the Rose City. He established! a sawmill and thus began the
manufacture of lumber. Through the intervening years he has been connected
with an industry which has been and is one of the chief sources of revenue to
the state. At one time he owned and operated three sawmills, and although two
of these have since been burned, he is still the owner of a saw and shingle mill.
Looking beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities of the future,
he has ever directed his efforts along lines that have been effective forces in the
extension of Portland's business interest and connection. With C. H. Lewis,
Henry Failing and H. W. Corbett he furnished the first money required in
financing the new Bull Run system of water supply, and was a member of the
original water commission, being one of the three survivors of that representative
body. He later won recognition as a leading financier of Portland, becoming
identified with the Portland Savings Bank, which was organized in 1880 and of
which he became vice president and one of the directors. He was also elected
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one of the directors of the Commercial Bank, and his sound judgment was
brought to bear in the correct solution of many intricate financial problems. He
was vice president and director of the Ainsworth Bank. He contributed to the
city's material improvement as the builder of a dock and warehouse on the
levee north of Salmon street in 1876. He was also one of the promoters of the
street railway system of Portland, being among those who organized the old
cable car company, in which undertaking he lost considerable money. He was
also among the first to agitate and support the question of establishing an
electric line, thus constituting the foundation of Portland's present excellent
street car service. He was interested with Ben Holladay in building the first
railway in Oregon and also engaged in the shipping business, being the owner
of the Hattie C. Bessie a four-masted bark, which he chartered to Chinese
merchants lor twenty thousand dollars for a single trip to China. His business
connections were so varied and important in Portland that it would have seemed
that outside affairs could have no claim upon his time and attention. Yet he
has had important agricultural interests, owning at one time a ranch of one
thousand acres in Yamhill county, stocked with fine horses and cattle. This
property he traded for the Hattie C. Bessie. While in Salem he purchased the
first bushel of apples ever sold in that city ; they were raised in Polk county and
were a very fine variety. He afterwards sold many of the apples at one dollar
each and disposed of one for five dollars to D. M. Durell, a banker and sawmill
man, who said he would take the apple to the Smithsonian Institute in Washing-
ton for it was almost the size of a large cocoanut.
At present Mr. Smith is engaged in the real-estate business and handles
much property. He has sold more land for railroad terminals than any man in
Portland and recently disposed of realty to J. J. Hill, the railroad magnate, that
was worth over a quarter of a million dollars. He has furnished the sites for
two parks to the city of Portland. Seventeen years ago he purchased Council
Crest paying fifty thousand dollars for sixty acres. His realty holdings are
extensive and return to him a gratifying annual income.
In San Francisco in 1864 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Debbie H.
Harker, a sister of General Charles Harker who won his title by service in the
Civil war. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born six children: Eugenia, the
wife of T. Harris Bartlett, of Idaho, and the mother of one child, Barbara S. ;
William K. Jr., who is living in Portland; Victor H., who is a graduate of the
Willamette Medical College, the Virginia Medical College and the Medical Col-
lege of New York and is now successfully engaged in the practice of medicine
in Portland; Joseph H., connected with the Portland Electric Light Company,
who married Gertrude Eger and has one child, Josephine ; Charles H., who died
when four years of age; and Sumner, who was drowned in the Willamette river
saving the life of a young lady whose rescue he effected at the cost of his own life.
While Mr. Smith does not hold membership with any religious denommation,
he has contributed liberally to the building of churches, including both the
Methodist and Episcopal churches at Salem. He was also a generous donor to
the Willamette University at Salem and furnished the ground upon which they
built the Willamette Medical School in Portland — a property of which he obtained
possession later by purchase.
From boyhood days, when he read by the flickering light by the fireplace he
has been a student and devoted admirer of the great authors. His favorite poets
are Pope and Thomas Moore, and he often surprises and chamis his listeners
with a graceful and apt quotation from the satire of the one or the mournful
sweetness of the other. Naturally he became a strong supporter, financially and
otherwise, of the old Portland Library Association and was a life member and
director of that body. Since the old association was taken over by the city and
became a free public library he has had an unabated interest in its welfare and
still serves as director and a prominent member of important committees.
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His cooperation has ever been counted upon to further progressive public
measures and his labors have been of far-reaching effect and importance. He
thoroughly enjoys home life and takes great pleasure in the society of his family
and friends. He is always courteous, kindly and affable and those who know him
personally — and he is widely known throughout the state — have for him a warm
regard. A man of great natural ability, his success in business from the beginning
of his residence in Portland has been uniform and rapid and while he has long
since passed the age when most men put aside business cares, he yet manages
his investments and his interests, and his business discernment is as keen and his
judgment as sound as it was two or three decades ago. Although the snows of
many winters have whitened his hair, in spirit and interest he seems yet in his
prime, and out of his wisdom and his experience he gives for the benefit of
others.
BENAGE S. JOSSELYN.
Benage S. Josselyn, identified with many corporate interests which have con-
stituted important factors in the development of the natural resources of the
northwest and have thus contributed in large measure to its growing prosperity,
is particularly well known in connection with all branches of steam and elec-
tric railroad building and operation, lighting and electric power.
He was born in Hey worth, Illinois, February 7, 1858, a son of Sydney A.
and Kate E. Josselyn, the former a railroad agent. At the usual age he en-
tered the public schools, wherein he continued his studies to the age of four-
teen, when he put aside his text-books in order to receive his initial business
training in a railroad office. He came to the northwest in 1907 and, appreciative
of the natural advantages of the country and of the opportunities for rapid and
remarkable business development, he allied his interests with this section of the
country and industrial, commercial and financial interests have been largely pro-
moted through his cooperation. He has been connected with all branches of
steam and electric railroads, lighting and electric power.
Mr. Josselyn entered the railway service as ticket clerk in 1873; ^^'^s gen-
eral manager for the Kansas City, Osceola & Southern Railway from 1893 ^^
1898; was general superintendent of the Omaha & St. Louis, the Omaha &
Kansas City and eastern lines, until April, 1899; as expert, making reports on
various lines for eastern capitalists in 1899 and 1900; manager of the Ken-
tucky & Indiana Bridge & Railway Company at Louisville, Kentucky, from
1900 to 1902 ; general manager of the Hudson Valley Railway Company at
Glens Falls, New York, in 1902-3, and of the Union Terminal Railway Company
at Sioux City, Iowa, from 1903 to 1906; assistant to president of that compapny
1905-6, and was made vice president in the latter year. He was general man-
ager and vice president of the Maryland Telephone & Telegraph Company from
1906 to 1907, and also of the Baltimore Electric Power Company. Since the
ist of July, 1907, he has been president of the Portland Railway Company.
He is also president of the Portland General Electric Company, of the Oregon
Water Power & Railroad Company, the Union Traction Company, the Cazadero
Real Estate Company, the Portland & Sandy River Electric Company, the
Willamette Falls Company, the Kenton Construction Company, the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company, and vice president of the Pacific Monthly
Magazine. In his business career he has seemed to realize at almost every point
the possibilities for successful accomplishment at that point. With notable
ability to discriminate between the essential and non-essential, he has chosen
and utilized that which is of value in the development of important business
interests, and with remarkable prescience has prepared to meet the needs and
demands of a rapidly developing country.
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On the 15th of April, 1885, Mr. Josselyn was married to ^liss Ida ]\Iott
Courtright, and they have three children : Dorothy, Mildred and Benage S.,
aged respectively twenty-one, eighteen and fifteen years. The family attend the
Christian Science church, in which Air. Josselyn holds membership. He has
attained high rank in Masonr}-, holding membership in the lodge, chapter, com-
mandery and consistory, attaining the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.
He is a past eminent commander of the Knights Templar of Portland, and is
a Noble of the Alystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and in
more strictly social lines is connected with the ^Maryland Club of Baltimore,
and the Arlington, Commercial and Waverly Golf Clubs of Portland. The last
named indicates one of the chief sources of his recreation when opportunity
permits him to put aside the arduous cares of the growing business interests
which have claimed his attention, bringing him enviable and admirable success
and at the same time constituting features in the general prosperity of this sec-
tion of the countrv.
PHILIP CHRIST.
No history of X'ancouver or this section of the country would be complete
without mention of Philip Christ, now eighty-six years of age. He came as a
soldier to Washington in 1848 to protect the interests of the sufferers in the
northwest, and after several years' military experience in frontier barracks, be-
came identified with the agricultural development of this section of the coun-
try. His work from that time until his retirement was of marked value to the
community in promoting its farming interests and in utilizing the natural re-
sources of the district.
Mr. Christ was born in Germany ]May 6, 1824, and continued in his native
country until a young man of twenty-four years, when he sailed from Antwerp
to New York city. He had been in the eastern metropolis but a brief period
when he enlisted for service in the United States army, the country being then
engaged in war with Mexico. He joined the First Artillery and that fall was
sent to the front, where he served until the close of hostilities. In 1848 the
regiment returned to Governors Island, New York, there waiting while a ship
was being fitted up to bring them to the Pacific northwest. When the equip-
ment was completed, they sailed for the isthmus of Panama, and from there
sailed to Vancouver Barracks, which was then in Oregon territory, this section
of the country not having been divided into the two states of Oregon and Wash-
ington. These two companies were the first United States troops in the ter-
ritory. It was their duty to protect the early settlers against Indian invasion,
and for five years Mr. Christ remained on active duty with the army, after
which he was honorably discharged in 1853.
For a year thereafter he worked in the mines, for gold had been discovered
on the Pacific coast, and he thought perhaps there might be opportunity for
him to thus gain a fortune. His hopes were not realized, however, so he took
up two claims of three hundred and twenty acres of land, which he cleared
and farmed. He was here joined by his brother Henry after the latter came
to the new world and for many years they were closely associated with the
agricultural development of the Columbia valley. Year after year they devoted
their energies to general farming with good success, but in 1890 retired to
private life, Mr. Christ giving his land to his nephews and nieces. He now
lives in Vancouver with his brother Henr}- and between them there have long
existed the most cordial business relations and the most pleasant companionship.
Philip Christ has traveled far on life's journey, and the record is one which has
"brought to him the respect and good will of all with whom he has come in con-
tact. His history covers the period between the primitive past and the days of
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modern progress, and he relates many interesting incidents concerning the de-
velopment of this section of the country as year by year the work of improve-
ment has been carried forward, making the Columbia river valley on a par
with the older east in all that indicates development and improvement.
CHARLES WESLEY ROYAL.
Charles W. Royal is well remembered as one of the early settlers of Mount
Tabor. While living there his attention was largely devoted to horticultural
pursuits. At different times, however, during his residence in the state, espe-
cially in the early days, he was identified with educational affairs, and no man
had keener interest in intellectual progress or took more genuine delight in the
substantial development of the schools. In fact, his influence was always on
the side of municipal and moral progress, and it is this which makes him re-
membered by many who knew him, while he was still an active factor in the
world's work. He was born in Piqua, Ohio, February 17, 1823, a son of Wil-
liam and Barbara (Ebey) Royal. His father was born near Wheeling, West
Virginia, and was a minister of the gospel. He began preaching in 183 1 and
his first appointment was at Fort Clark, situated somewhere in the vicinity of
Peoria, Illinois. His circuit included all of the territory north of Peoria save
Chicago, where the Rev. Jesse Walker was then stationed as a preacher. Wil-
liam Royal continued his labors in the middle west until 1853, when he came
with his family to Oregon as a retired preacher of the Rock River conference
of Illinois. He was later transferred to the Oregon conference and preached
his first sermon in the northwest at John Reason's home in Jackson county,
Oregon. He was connected with several different circuits during his residence
in the northwest and lived in Portland for several years. He built the first
Methodist church on the east side of the city called the Centenary Methodist
Episcopal church, and his labors in behalf of his denomination were far-reach-
ing and effective, his work still bearing good fruit in the lives of those who
heeded the gospel call under his teachings. He was living retired at the time
of his death, which occurred in Salem, Oregon, in September, 1871. His wife
was born on the Little Juniata river in Pennsylvania in 1800. The birth of the
Rev. William Royal occurred in February, 1796, and thus he had attained the
age of seventy-five years at the time of his demise. The family numbered seven
children — six sons and a daughter, of whom the eldest, the Rev. Thomas F.
Royal, now ninety years of age, is mentioned at length on another page of this
volume.
Charles W. Royal, the second of the family, completed his education as a
student in McKendree College, at Lebanon, Illinois, and afterward learned the
mason's trade but did not follow it to any great extent after the period of his
early manhood. While visiting near Victoria, Illinois, he formed the acquaint-
ance of Miss Sarah A. Cumming, a daughter of John and Mary (Berry) Cum-
ming of Victoria. The young lady was teaching school in that vicinity and the
friendship which sprang up between them was consummated in marriage on the
2d of September, 1864. Mrs. Royal was born at Rocky Springs in eastern
Tennessee. Her father learned and followed the blacksmith's trade, but also
became a preacher of the Episcopal church. Removing to Aurora, Illinois, Mr.
Royal there engaged in the machinery business, dealing in farm machinery for
some time. At length he determined to establish his home in Oregon, to which
state his father and the rest of his family had preceded him in the year 1853,
and to this end made an offer to close out his business in Aurora. He could
not settle up his affairs, however, in time to make the trip when he wished, so
his wife and son, Osmon Royal, then a boy, started for the coast, making the
journey by way of the isthmus of Panama and arriving in Portland in August,
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1865. Mr. Royal's father, Rev. William Royal, was here at the time, and in
the fall of the same year Charles W. Royal, having closed out his interests in
the middle west, arrived in Portland. He and his wife then went to the Umpqua
Academy, of which his brother. Rev. Thomas F. Royal, had charge, and both
engaged in teaching in that school for about a year. They then returned to
Portland. In the meantime, before the arrival of her husband, Mrs. Royal had
engaged in teaching at the Indian school at Fort Simcoe, of which Rev. James
H. Wilbur, known as "Father Wilbur," had charge. After their return to
Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Royal rented a farm that includes the present site of
Mount Tabor, which is now one of the beautiful and populous residence dis-
tricts of Portland. For a year he devoted his energies to general agricultural
pursuits, at the end of which time the family home was established at Salem
that the eldest son might have the privilege of attending college there. Mr.
Royal turned his attention to the real-estate business in which he continued at
Salem for about six years. During this time he was a most active member of
the city council. Again a return to Portland was made, and the family once
more took up their abode on their Mount Tabor land, where Mr. Royal gave his
attention largely to the cultivation of berries which he found a successful un-
dertaking. He was one of the first settlers of Mount Tabor, there being only
three houses in that locality at the time. He continued to make his home there
until his demise, which occurred October 16, 1895, his remains being interred
in Lone Fir cemetery.
Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Royal removed to another part of
Mount Tabor, where she still lives. They were the parents of two children, but
one died in infancy, and the other, Charlie, at the age of four years. By a
former marriage, Mr. Royal had two children. In Illinois he had wedded Rachel
Misner, who died in that state about fifty years ago, leaving two sons: Ladru,
of Los Angeles, who is engaged in the real-estate business and for many years
was a successful teacher of Oregon ; and Dr. Osmon Royal of Portland, who
is mentioned in this volume.
In his political views Charles W. Royal was always an earnest republican
from the organization of the party, and faithfully discharged every duty of
citizenship that devolved upon him. He was, moreover, a very active, faithful
and helpful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and held different offices
therein, serving as steward, Sunday school superintendent, and in other official
capacities. He did everything in his power to promote the growth of the church
and extend its influence, and he was ever a progressive man who sought as
well the intellectual development of the community and furthered every move-
ment Vv^hich tended to uplift mankind. His entire life was actuated by a spirit
of broad humanitarianism and by all who knew him he was held in high re-
spect and honor.
CHARLES WILLARD KING.
To say of him whose name introduces this review that he has risen from a
comparatively obscure position to one of notable distinction in mercantile circles
seems trite to those who are familiar with his history, and yet it is but just to
say in a record that will descend to future generations that his business career
is one of which any man might be proud, for since starting out in life as errand
boy, his promptness, energ}^ and fidelity have been a crowning point in his ca-
reer, winning him successive promotions until, as a member of the firm of
Olds, Wortman & King, he ranks with the leading merchants of Portland. More-
over, he is one of Oregon's native sons, his birth having occurred in Buteville,
November 7, 1865. His parents were Samuel and Sarah (Fairbanks) King,
the latter numbered among the Oregon pioneers of 1852. The father was the
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first superintendent of public schools in Portland, and for some years was closely
associated with the educational interests of Oregon which, stimulated by his
zeal and interest in the work, were advanced to a high standard of proficiency.
The public schools of Portland afforded Charles Willard King his educational
opportunities and on putting aside his text-books he became identified with the
dry-goods business, in which he has since continued. He was a youth of but
thirteen years when, in 1878, he began carrying parcels for the firm of Olds &
King. In the intervening period, covering thirty-two years, he has continued
with this house, and his advancement has followed as the direct outcome of his
ability, fidelity and business integrity. In 1891 he was admitted to the firm and
has since had voice in the active management of the business which has enjoyed
continuous growth that has been based upon a progressive policy in keeping
with the spirit of the west. New departments have been constantly added and
the scope of the business extended, while the growth of trade is indicated by
the fact that the firm have recently erected one of the finest business blocks in
this city used for mercantile purposes. It is a modern structure, thoroughly
equipped with everything to facilitate the interests of trade, is five stories in
height, and covers the entire block extending from West Park to Tenth, from
Morrison to Alder streets. A large force of sales people attend to the wants of
the customers and the firm demands that courteous treatment shall be accorded
to all. The policy of the house toward its employes is one of uniform justice,
and every representative recognizes the fact that faithfulness on their part will
be rewarded by promotion as opportunity offers.
On the 8th of October, 1890, Mr. King was married in Portland to Miss
Fanny B. Hunt, a daughter of C. H. Hunt," who was prominent in public life,
both in the east and in the west. While a resident of Providence, Rhode Island,
he served as chief of police, and was also superintendent of state institutions of
Rhode Island for five years. Since removing, to Portland he has twice been
chief of police in this city. Unto Mr. and Mrs. King have been born a daughter
and son, Sarah P. and Charles S.
The family attend the First Congregational church, of which both Mr. and
Mrs. King are members. He is also a life member of Multnomah Club, and has
advanced far in Masonry, taking the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.
He has an interesting military history covering seven years' service with the
Oregon National Guard, and in politics is a supporter of the republican party.
Spending practically his entire life in Portland, he is widely known here, and
his many commendable characteristics have gained him social popularity as well
as business prominence.
BERNARD HERMANN ALBERS.
When Benjamin Harrison was president of the United States he made the
statement that "The gates of Castle Garden never swing outward," which was
but another way of saying that the opportunities of America are so great that
the emigrant to the shores of this land never desires to return for permanent
residence to the country from which he came. Bernard H. Albers was among
the number of prominent citizens that Germany furnished to Portland — a man
of distinct and forceful individuality, and of splendid business ability, who left
his impress for all time upon the commercial development of the nortliwest in
the establishment and control of some of the largest and most important milling
and manufacturing enterprises of this section of the country. A native of Ger-
many, Mr. Albers was born in Lingen, in the province of Hanover, March 6,
1864, his parents being Johann Hermann and Theresa (Voss) Albers, who
were likewise natives of Hanover. The father was a grain merchant of Lingen
and remained in his native land until 1896, when he became a resident of Port-
land, his death occurring in this city, August 29, 1897. Flis wife died in Ger-
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many in March, 1878. Her father was a miller, so that both sides of the family-
were connected with one phase or another of the grain business, and several of
the children of Johann H. Albers are interested in similar undertakings. Anna,
the only daughter, is the wife of Frank Terheyden of Portland.
Reared in his native land, Bernard H. Albers who was the eldest of a family
of nine children, continued his education in the schools of his native town until
graduated from the gymnasium of Lingen. His early business training was re-
ceived in connection with the grain trade conducted by his father, and he was
largely familiar with different phases of the business when, in 1887, he crossed
the Atlantic to America, having become convinced by reports which he had heard
that the business opportunities of the new world were superior to those offered
in the fatherland. He landed at New York and thence made his way to Terre
Haute, Indiana, where for two years he was employed in the wholesale grocery
house of Hulman & Company. But the far west called him, and in 1889 he
came to Portland. He had no capital with which to engage in business on his
own account, and here secured employment in the feed store of Rogge & Storp,
with whom he remained for four years. But his laudable ambition promptedf
him to engage in business on his own account and, carefully saving his earnings
as an employe, he at length invested his capital in the establishment of a busi-?
ness under the firm name of Albers & Tuke, in 1893. The new enterprise pros-
pered from the beginning, although established on a small scale. Mr. Albers
had already become recognized in Portland as a reliable and enterprising young
business man, and his fellow townsmen not only encouraged him by giving him
trade, but continued as his patrons, owing to the reliable methods which he fol-
lowed in the conduct of his business. The growth of the trade demanded larger
quarters, and in 1898 Mr. Albers erected a commodious milling establishment
at the corner of Front and Main streets. The following year he extended the
scope of his business, establishing the United States mills, which have since
been utilized by the company for the manufacture of rolled oats and other
cereal products. Changes have occurred in the ownership of the business, Mr.
Tuke withdrawing, while in 1895 the Albers & Schneider Company was incor-
porated with Mr. Albers as president and manager. A different organization
was effected in 1903 and the business reincorporated under the name of the
Albers Brothers Milling Company. They do business on Lovejoy street, where
are found warehouses and splendid shipping facilities, including dock property.
Their hay business has proved a source of large revenue. During the Spanish-
American war the firm was offered the contract for supplying all of the hay
shipped from Oregon to the Philippine Islands for government use there. A
hay compressing plant was established at Forest Grove by Mr. Albers in 1900.
The growth of the business has been continuous until the Albers Brothers Mill-
ing Company is in control of the most extensive enterprises of this character
upon the Pacific coast. Their trade covers a large part of the east, as well as
California, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Alaska and British
Columbia. Aside from the extensive plant in Portland for the manufacture of
rolled oats and other cereal products, the company has mills at Tacoma, Seattle
and San Francisco. Mr. Albers possessed a genius for organization and an
aptitude for successful management, and the extensive business as it stands
today is a monument to his enterprise, executive ability and administrative di-
rection.
Mr. Albers was married twice. In October, 1892, he wedded Hermina Som-
mer, who died in June, 1899. and in April, 1902, he married Miss Ida Agnes
Wascher, a daughter of William Wascher. There were four children by the
first marriage: Agnes, Theresa, Hermina and one who died in infancy, while
the children of the second marriage are Bernard, Alfred and Ernst.
Mr. Albers held membership in St. Joseph's German Catholic church. Fra-
ternally he was connected with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and
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Protective Order of Elks. He also belonged to the Commercial Club, and to
the Manufacturers Association, and in those connections did all in his power
to promote the business enterprises and far-reaching trade interests of the city.
His death occurred very suddenly at Arrowhead, California, March 4, 1908.
Not only Portland, but the entire northwest lost one of its most prominent and
representative citizens when Bernard Albers was called from this life. What
he undertook in the field of business he accomplished, and his rise was almost
a phenomenal one, for within only a comparatively few years he rose from the
position of a humble employe to rank with the foremost grain merchants, mill-
ers and manufacturers of the Pacific coast. His vocabulary contained no such
word as fail. He knew that honorable effort intelligently directed will always
win in the end, and he took that method of reaching the high financial position
which his ambition set up as his standard. He availed himself of every legiti-
mate opportunity that arose for the promotion and expansion of his business,
and his name became in the northwest a synonym for enterprise and progres-
siveness. Aside from all his splendid business qualifications, he manifested those
sterling traits of character which everywhere command respect and confidence,
possessing an engaging personality and a charm of manner that won him friends
wherever he went.
FRANK BRANCH RILEY.
Frank Branch Riley, popular in the social circles of Portland, and gaining
year by year, added prominence as a representative of the legal profession in
Portland, was born at Osceola, Iowa, August 4, 1875, ^ son of Edward Francis
and Martha (Smith) Riley, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this vol-
ume. He attended the public schools of his native town until 1899, and in the
scholastic year of 1890-91 was a student in the Columbia School of Oratory
and Dramatic Art in Chicago. In October of the latter year he came with his
parents to Portland, Oregon, and entered the high school, from which he was
graduated in February, 1893. In 1894 he completed the work of the senior
year at the Columbia School of Oratory, now the Columbia College of Expres-
sion, and returning home resumed his preparation for college at Portland
Academy, being graduated therefrom in June, 1897.
In the fall of that year Mr. Riley entered upon a four years' course in the
Leland Stanford University, specializing in the departments of law and econo-
mics, and was graduated May 25, 1900, with the degree of A, B. He was
prominent in the undergraduate life of the university, and was associate editor
of the student body publications, leader and dramatic reader of the Glee Club,
president of the Sword and Sandals, and a member of the Greek letter fra-
ternity of Zeta Psi, the class societies of Sigma Sigma and Theta Nu Epsilon,
and the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi. In 1900-01, he completed his law course
in Harvard Law School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and afterward traveled
in Europe. Admitted to practice at the Oregon bar in 1901, he became junior
member of the firm of E. F. & F. B. Riley, attorneys and counselors, with
offices at 509-510-51 1 Chamber of Commerce building. He has specialized in
the law of real estate and probate, and his developing powers, manifest in in-
creased ability in handling involved and intricate legal problems, have won him
a constantly growing clientage. Moreover, he is secretary and general counsel
of the Clackamas Title Company and secretary-treasurer of the Oregon As-
sociation of Title Men.
On the 6th of August, 1902, Mr. Riley was married to Miss Lottie Von
Strombeck Brand, also a graduate of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University of the
class of 1900. They have one son, William Brand Riley, born November 11,
1907. Mr. and Mrs. Riley are well known socially in Portland, and he is a
238 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
popular member of various clubs and societies. He belongs to the University
Club, the Waverly Golf Club, the Portland Commercial Club, the Apollo Club
(men's chorus), and is a director of the Portland Automobile Club. He is
also secretary of the Mazamas, a mountaineering club of the northwest, and is
the author of various articles on mountaineering, while his contributions of
dramatic criticism to magazines and newspapers have come to be widely known.
As a representative of the younger business and professional men of Portland,
Mr. Riley is frequently heard in public meetings on questions of civic interest,
and gives freely of his talents as an organizer and promoter of benefits and
public performances for charaties.
PHILIP STREIB.
Philip Streib, president of the First State Bank of Milwaukie, has in the
years of his residence in the west prospered by reason of his well directed
energy and unfaltering perseverance. He was born in Baden, Germany, on the
30th of May, 1864, and his youthful days were there passed in the attainment of
an education, and later in learning the trades of brewer, maltster and cooper.
He was employed in that way for a time, and later took a thorough course in
a brewers college, so that he gained a comprehensive knowledge of the business
which was his source of income for some time.
In the year 1881 Mr. Streib came to America. At the same time his par-
ents, Ludwig and Louisa (Steiner) Streib, crossed the Atlantic and six months
later made their way to Portland. They are now living upon their son's farm
in Washington county. On crossing the Atlantic Philip Streib located first at
Toledo, Ohio, where for nine months he was employed as a brewer. In May,
1882, he came to Portland and has since made his home in this section of the
country. Here he worked at his trade in the Gambrinus Brewery for a time
and was afterward employed in the Henry Weinhard Brewery until 1889. In
the meantime he carefully saved his earnings and in 1885 purchased a farm in
Washington county, upon which he took up his abode on leaving the employ of
Mr. Weinhard four years later. He was then engaged in the cultivation of
that farm until 1893, when he returned to Portland and followed the hotel
business as proprietor of the Old Metropolis Hotel at the corner of First and
Main streets. He conducted the business for eleven years, but ere the close of
that period has purchased thirty-four acres of the Llewellyn place in Milwau-
kie. In 1904 he disposed of his hotel and removed to the Llewellyn place,
which he operated for a time and then subdivided, selling a part of it in town
lots. In fact he has disposed of all of it save twenty lots that are within the
city limits of Milwaukie. He still owns his farm of eighty-five acres in Wash-
ington j:ounty. After subdividing the property at Milwaukie he organized the
First State Bank in February, 1909, and was made its president, which position
he still fills. Already this has become recognized as one of the strong financial
institutions of the district, its business growing rapidly from the start.
On the 15th of October, 1887, Mr. Streib was united in marriage to Miss
Caroline Munch, of Toledo, Ohio, and they have become parents of a son and
daughter, Philip and Elizabeth, both at home. Mr. Streib is well known in
German-American circles, has been a member of the German Aid Society since
1885 and about the same time joined the Turnverein. In this he takes a very
active part, has served as president and also as trustee of the organization in
Portland. Fraternally he is connected with the Elks lodge in Portland and
the Odd Fellows lodge in Milwaukie. His political allegiance is given to the
republican party and in 1904 he was elected a member of the city council of
Milwaukie, serving continuously until December, 1908, when he was chosen
mayor of this city. His administration has been businesslike and progressive
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and has been characterized by needed reforms and improvements. He is in-
terested in all that pertains to the general welfare and while his labors have
largely benefited himself through the conduct of his business interests, he has
also found time to cooperate in measures for the general good and is now a
prominent representative of that class of men who are bringing to the outlying
districts the same spirit of enterprise that constituted a most effective force in
the upbuilding and growth of Portland. Like others he has introduced into
his home community those elements of city life which work for substantial
advancement.
RALPH WARREN HOYT.
There is no greater stimulus to individual activity and enterprise than that
which is found in the life history of such men as Ralph Warren Hoyt, who has
worked his way upward from a humble position in the business world. Having
a newspaper route in his boyhood days and thus supplementing the little salary
which he received in minor positions, he gradually won promotion by his worth
and ability until he was made cashier of the Merchants National Bank, from
which position he resigned January 7, 1910, thus completing twenty-seven years
with this bank. Born in Portland, July 9, 1864, he is a son of Henry Lafayette
Hoyt. who went to California in 1849 and came to Portland in 1852. The Hoyts
came of Puritan ancestry and settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut, being
descended from Lieutenant Stephen Hoyt, who fought at the battle of Bunker
Hill and also at Saratoga at the time Burgoyne surrendered his troops. To the
same family belonged Richard Hoyt, who served in the Fortieth Infantry in
the war of 1812, and died in Portland, Oregon, July i. 1866. Hoyt street of
this city was named in his honor. Coming to Portland in pioneer times, the
Hoyts were closely identified with the river interests. All of them, with the
exception of George W. Hoyt, who was clerk for the Oregon Steamship &
Navigation Company for many years, were steamboat captains. Captain Henry
Lafayette Hoyt, father of Ralph Warren Hoyt, formerly owned the steamer
Multnomah, one of the first boats on the Willamette river. He was also United
States shipping commissioner for many years and likewise filled the office of
deputy collector of customs. He wedded Miss Mary Louise Abbott Millard, a
daughter of Dr. Justin Millard, one of the early settlers of Oregon, who with
his family crossed the plains in 1852.
In the public schools of Portland Ralph Warren Hoyt pursued his education
until graduated from the high school with the class of 1882. In the morning
and evening hours during a part of his school days he was employed by C. C.
Morse, who was engaged in the picture and music business. Following his
graduation he entered the employ of H. S. Rowe, agent for the Oregon River
& Navigation Company at the Ainsworth dock, and at the same time distributed
the Morning Oregonian. On the 7th of January, 1883, ^i^ accepted the position
of janitor and messenger in the Willamette Savings Bank, which in 1886 was
converted into the Merchants National Bank. He still continued to carry papers
until about 1890 and in the meantime was making steady progress in the bank,
working his way upward through different positions to that of cashier, and in-
vesting from time to time in bank stock until he became and still is one of the
principal share-holders. His fidelity to the interests of the bank, his capabil-
ity in the discharge of specific duties and his enterprising spirit contributed in
large measure to its success. Moreover his record is a notable example of the
fact that merit and ability will come to the front anywhere, for the newsboy with
his paper route of a few years ago became an active factor in the conduct of the
business and in the active management of one of Portland's strong moneyed
institutions. As the years have passed he has become an investor in other cor-
porations, in a number of which he also has voice in the management.
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On the 2ist of January, 1893, in this city, Mr. Hoyt was married to Miss
Edith M. Neilson, the youngest daughter of Captain W. W. Neilson, who came
across the plains in 1852. He was a steamboat man, owning several boats and
barges on the Willamette river, and was a splendid representative of that class
of worthy pioneers who became the builders and promoters of the great north-
west, utilizing its natural resources in the development of trade and commerce.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt have been born two daughters, Kathryn and Louise,
who are still living, while one child died in infancy.
Aside from his connection with banking. Air. Hoyt has taken active part in
public affairs which have left and are leaving their impress upon the development
of city and state. He served for six years as a member of the Oregon National
Guard, and for four years filled the office of county treasurer, to which position
he was elected on the republican ticket. He is doing splendid work as president
of the Portland Rose Festival. His humanitarian spirit is manifest in his co-
operation with the Portland Newsboys Association, of which he is treasurer.
He was also treasurer for several years of the Oregon Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution. Fraternally he is connected with Willamette Lodge,
No. 2, F. & A. M., and has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite,
while in Al Kader Temple he has crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine. He holds membership in Portland Lodge, No. 142, B.
P. O. E., Chinook Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men and Portland
Camp of the Woodmen of the World. He also belongs to the Commercial Club,
the Arlington Club, and to the Apollo Club, which is a male chorus. His prin-
cipal diversion has been music. He organized an amateur band of wliich he was
leader for many years, and has been organist in city churches for about twenty-
five years. Music has always been a source of recreation to him and he has
utilized his native talents in this direction to stimulate and promote musical in-
terest in the city. The various practical elements of public progress receive his
indorsement and he has labored earnestly and effectively toward the upbuilding
of a greater and more beautiful city, cooperating in plans and projects for its
commercial growth and for its achievement along aesthetic lines.
WALTER JAMES HONEYMAN.
Walter James Honeyman, well known in the business circles of Portland as
a successful merchant and equally widely known because of his activity in behalf
of projects that promoted the moral development and municipal welfare of this
city, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in the year 1857. Reared in the land of
hills and heather, he supplemented his early education by study in Madras College
at Cupar and entered business life in Dundee. He was for a time a resident of
Glasgow, where he continued in business until 1881, the year of his arrival in
Portland. Attracted by the opportunities of the new world, he crossed the
Atlantic and, seeking the growing western section of the country, he was for
six years connected with the firm of Allen & Lewis of this city. He then began
business on his own account and for some time was the senior member of the
firm of Honeyman & McBride, dealers in fish twines, nets and other fishermen's
supplies, and at the same time conducted an importing business in tailoring goods.
Both branches of the business were successfully carried on, close application and
unfaltering enterprise characterizing both and constituting a factor in a sub-
stantial measure of prosperity. Mr. Honeyman made for himself a creditable
position in mercantile circles. Possessing the sterling Scotch characteristics of
integrity, industry and unfaltering determination, and concentrating his energies
upon his mercantile interests, he won a place among the leading merchants of
Portland.
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On the 29th of August, 1876, Mr. Honeyman was united in marriage to Miss
Jessie M. Ritchie, and they became the parents of four children: Arthur, a
well known business man of this city ; Bruce, who completed a course in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and is now an architect and
contractor ; Ruth ; and Kenneth. The last named supplemented his public school
course by study in the Portland Academy.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Honeyman held membership in the Calvary Presbyterian
church, taking an active and helpful part in its work and cooperating in its
various organized movements for the extension of the work as a factor in the
moral progress of the city. Mr. Honeyman joined the church soon after its
organization and for a number of years served as one of its ruling elders. His
wife, too, was in entire sympathy with him in his church activities and has served
as president of the Young Women's Christian Association of this ctiy. Public-
spirited and progressive, Mr. Honeyman manifested a deep interest in every-
thing relating to Portland's welfare, and this interest found tangible expression
in his connection with the Municipal Association, of which he was president. He
passed away in Portland on the 3d of June, 1904, and his loss has since been
keenly felt in business, social and church circles. He left the impress of his
individualty upon all those lines, and his labors were ever effective and resultant
forces for success in those fields of endeavor which promote high citizenship.
A. W. MOORE.
While never a resident of Portland, A. W. Moore was connected with the
development of the northwest and was a factor in the pioneer history which has
made possible the present development of this section of the country. His
widow is now a resident of Portland and was here as early as 1854. Mr. Moore
was bom in Chelsea, Vermont, April 23, 1820, and the public schools of his na-
tive town afforded him his early educational privileges, while later he attended
an academy there. In early manhood he engaged in merchandising in the east
and then sought a home in the far west, settling at Olympia, Washington.
After his arrival he engaged in teaching school and later was appointed post-
master of that city which, however, at that time, was a small town, Mr. Moore
serving as the first incumbent in the position. He held public office during the
greater part of his life in the west, and over his record there falls no shadow of
wrong. His fidelity and his capability were unquestioned. He was clerk of the
supreme court for a number of years and also served as private secretary to
Governor Pickering, while at different times he held nearly all of the county
offices. He regarded a public office as a public trust, and was prompt and system-
atic in the discharge of all of his duties.
On the 13th of May, 1872, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss
Emily York, a daughter of John W. and Mary P. (Collier) York, the wed-
ding being celebrated at her father's home at Corvallis. They had one child,
Mary E., who is now the wife of Dr. George E. Houck, of Roseburg, Oregon,
and has one son, George H. Mrs. Moore was born in Waterloo, Illinois, where
her parents had settled at an early day. They came west in 1852 across the
plains and established their home upon a donation claim near Corvallis. At that
time there was a small cabin but scarcely any other improvement had been
made. They resided there for a time but the father, who was a Methodist
minister, had church appointments at different places and caused their removal
from time to time. He remained active in the ministry almost up to the time of
his death, which occurred when he was eighty-four years of age. His wife
had passed away in early womanhood, being only thirty-one years of age at
the time of her demise.
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The death of Mr. Moore occurred on the 8th of June, 1875, his remains being
interred in the cemetery at Olympia. In poHtics he had always given stalwart
support to the republican party and had firm faith in its principles. His life was
actuated by high and honorable principles, the Presbyterian church finding in
him a faithful member. He served as one of its elders and did all in his power
to promote its growth and extend its influence. Those who knew him re-
member him as a man of many admirable qualities and of upright, honorable
character. Following her husband's death Mrs. Moore came to Portland, where
she has since made her home, and she has a very wide acquaintance and many
friends in this city.
THOMAS O'DAY.
Thomas O'Day, for twenty-one years a representative of the bar of Port-
land, two years of which time were spent upon the bench of the circuit court,
was born in Connecticut, July 4, 1852, his parents being Daniel and Catherine
(Welsh) O'Day. His education was acquired in the public schools of Illinois,
where his parents removed when he was an infant and was supplemented by a
course in law at the State University of Iowa, from which he was graduated
in June, 1877. Thus qualified for practice, he opened an office in Bedford.
Iowa, and in 1879 removed to Neligh, Nebraska, continuing in active connection
with the bar at that place for ten years or until his removal to Portland in 1889.
In 1887 he was nominated by the democrats for justice of the supreme court of
Nebraska.
The characteristic thoroughness with which he has ever prepared his cases,
bringing him intimate knowledge of every phase of the question and the law ap-
plicable thereto, soon brought him into prominence and led to his appointment
to the circuit court bench here in August, 1907. He served thereon until August,
1909, and has since engaged in the private practice of law. His keen analysis
enables him to prepare not only for the expected but also for the unexpected,
which appears quite as frequently in the courts as out of them. His courtesy
toward the court and his deference to the opposing counsel, together with his
consideration for witnesses have won him the kindly regard of all with whom
professional relations have brought him into connection, and his ability is mani-
fest in the court records which indicate the many verdicts that he has won
favorable to the interests of his clients. Since arriving in Portland Judge O'Day
has participated in much important litigation.
In November, 1882, Judge O'Day was married to Miss Agnes Earl. He
is a member of the Episcopal church and gives his political allegiance to the
democratic party, which finds its principles ably supported by his intelligent
arguments. He regards, however, the practice of law as his real life work and
his devotion to his clients' interests is never questioned.
EDWARD RYAN.
Thirty-one years' connection with the trade of a brick and stone-mason in
Portland has made Edward Ryan well known as a representative of industrial
interests here. His birthplace was Ireland, where he was born on the 14th of
March, 1853. When about seventeen years of age he went to Elizabeth, New
Jersey, there to learn the trade of a brick and stone-mason, and he also took
up^ plastering and other work of a similar nature. His education had been ac-
quired in New York. He closely applied himself to the trades which engaged
his attention, and his ability in that direction increased as practical experience
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 245
made him familiar with the business. He left the east in 1877 to become a
resident of San Francisco, where he remained for about two years, and while
in that city he worked at his trade.
The year 1879 witnessed Mr. Ryan's arrival in Portland, which at that time
was a city of about seventeen thousand population. He at first entered the
service of Robinson & Son, prominent contractors of Portland, with whom he
remained for a year. He then began contracting on his own account, forming
a partnership under the firm name of Wilson & Ryan. This was continued
until 1895, when the business interests between them were dissolved, since
which time Mr. Ryan has continued contracting alone. He built the Congre-
gational church, Sisters Hospital, St. Helen's Hall, the Washington block, and
the Sunnyside sewer, which at that time was the largest sewer ever constructed
north of San Francisco. It was built of brick and stone from the river to
Thirty-third street. He was also awarded the contract for the erection of the
Selling & Hirch building. At the time of construction, these buildings were
among the largest in the city. It required three million brick to construct the
hospital alone.
On the 25th of January, 1880, Mr. Ryan was united in marriage to Miss
Jane Farrell, a native of Ireland, and unto them were born five children, of
whom one died in infancy. The others are : William M., John F., Edward, Jr.,
and Mary A., all living in Portland.
Industry has been the keynote which has unlocked for Mr. Ryan the portals
of success. Thoroughness and diligence have characterized all of his work, and
in business circles he has become recognized as a man to be trusted. Moreover,
he keeps in touch with the progress that is being constantly made in building
operations and thus, during the thirty-one years of his connection with Port-
land, he has been accorded a gratifying patronage.
EDWARD KILLFEATHER.
Edward Killfeather has been a resident of Portland since 1879, and has
occupied a prominent position as a representative of the industrial interests of
the city. As a contractor and builder he has been closely associated with the
improvement and development of Portland. He was born in Enniskillen, Ire-
land, and when about five years of age came to America with his mother, his
father, James Killfeather, having previously crossed the Atlantic. This was in
1868. The father was a brick mason by trade, and during the period in which
he lived in America before the arrival of his wife and children he prepared a
home for them in Pittsburg.
The son, Edward Killfeather, acquired a limited education in the schools of
Pittsburg, but when about ten years of age began to learn the bricklayer's trade,
and while he is now a well informed man, it is due to the fact that he has
learned many valuable lessons in the school of experience and has broadened
his knowledge by reading and observation. About 1876 he went to St. Paul,
Minnesota, where he worked as a journeyman for two years; he then traveled
by rail to Fargo, North Dakota, and from that point by stage to Sprague, Wash-
ington. He then began work on the bridge across the Snake river for the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, being engaged on that task until the
bridge was completed. On the expiration of that period he came to Portland,
where he has since lived. For about two years he worked as a journeyman
and then began contracting. He cut stone for the Oregon Railroad & Naviga-
tion Company for the bridges at John Day and at Des Chutes. He also cut
stone and worked on the Oregon City courthouse, and has also been connected
with the building of the shops of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company,
Hotel Portland, the Canadian Pacific bridge at Yale, British Columbia, and the
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he grasps the points in an argument, all combine to make him one of the most
capable lawyers that has ever practiced in Portland, and the public and the
profession acknowledge him the peer of the distinguished representatives of
the bar in this city. Aside from his law practice he is widely known as an
enthusiastic horticulturist and owns several hundred acres of land devoted to
the cultivation of apples and walnuts near Sheridan in Yamhill county, Oregon.
His interests in this connection were conducted along scientific lines and his
success has been such as to enable him to speak with authority upon the special
features of the work to which he gives his attention.
On the 5th of August, 1899, •^^- Sargent was married to Miss Florence A.
Swope, a daughter of William P. Swope. They have one child, Richard Strong,
who was born June 9, 1905. In his political views Mr. Sargent is a republican,
manifesting a citizen's interest in questions of the day, but with no desire
for political preferment. He is prominent in the Knights of Pythias fraternity
and is a past chancellor and past chief grand tribune of the order for the domain
of Oregon. Early recognition of the fact that industry and perseverance must
constitute elements in success, along those lines Mr. Sargent has labored for
advancement, and, wisely and conscientiously utilizing the talents with which
nature has endowed him, he has won a prominent position in those fields to
which he has directed his labors, and his upright policy has at all times gained
for him the confidence and admiration of his colleagues and associates.
REV. JOSIAH L. PARRISH.
The most fanciful tales of fiction present no story of greater courage than
the Rev. Josiah L. Parrish displayed on many occasions when he treated with
and lived among the Indians of the northwest. Fear seemed to him unknown
and although his position at times was one of great danger, his absolute truth-
fulness and justice won him the good will and friendship of the red men. Had
all the white settlers been as honorable throughout the settlements of America,
there would never have sprung up this feeling of continuous hostility between
the two races. In planting the seeds of civilization in the northwest. Rev. Par-
rish did a work the value and extent of which can hardly be overestimated. A
native of New York, he was born in Onondaga county, January 14, 1806, a
son of Benjamin Parrish, who was born in Connecticut in 1777, at which time
the Revolutionary war was in progress. He was of English lineage, his an-
cestors being among the Puritan settlers of New York. Arriving at years of
maturity, he married Miss Sally Lamberson, who was born in New Jersey and
was of Dutch lineage.
Josiah L. Parrish, the eldest son in a family of ten children, was sent to the
public schools, and also worked at the blacksmith trade with his father in early
youth, beginning so young that he had to stand upon a stool to blow and strike.
When he was sixteen years of age the family removed to Monroe county and
later to Allegany county. New York, and Josiah L. Parrish was employed on
the Erie canal at Rockport. In 1839 he went from Allegany county to New.
York city, and on the 9th of October of that year sailed for Oregon as a
member of the party that accompanied Rev. Jason Lee, where they arrived in
May, 1840. The company consisted of Rev. A. F. Waller, Rev. Gustavus Hines,
Rev. L. H. Judson, Rev. James OUey, Rev. J. L. Parrish, Dr. J. L. Babcock,
Mr. George Abernethy, Mr. Hamilton Campbell, Dr. John H. Richmond, Mr.
H. B. Brewer, Mr. W. W. Raymond and their families, and Miss C. A. Clark,
Miss Elmer Phelps, Miss Almira Phelps and Miss Orpha Lankton.
Mr. Parrish was reared in the Methodist faith, and was converted when ten
years of age. He was an ordained minister of the gospel when he came to the
northwest as a member of that missionary band. Because of his ability as a
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blacksmith he worked at that trade for some time, doing the blacksmithing for
the missionaries and others. He also did harness making, made and repaired
wagons and tools, and in fact did all such m-echanical work as was necessary in
a new community where no supplies were to be obtained. He devoted three
years to blacksmithing at the old mission on the Willamette river ten miles
below Salem, and was then sent as a missionary to the mouth of the Columbia.
James Bumey, who had an Indian wife, was the only white man there. An
Indian called King George piloted their boat up the river. Rev. Daniel Lee
assisted Mr. Parrish in starting his missionary work, but soon he felt at home
in the new locality and continued his labors unassisted. Many Indians were at
Vancouver and came aboard Mr. Parrish's boat. Although he could not speak
a word of their language, from his boyhood he had been familiar with the
Indians of the east and their customs, and to them he gave tobacco which they.
put in their pipes and smoked. They^ must have swallowed the smoke, for it
appeared to make them very sick and they would fall down as if dead, but soon
recovered.
Mr. Parrish established his home on the Clatsop plains seven miles south
of the Columbia river, where he and his wife and three children lived. He
learned the Indian language, taught the red men how to work, and also preached
to them the simple faith of the gospel. He worked at splitting rails and at
everything that needed doing, and instructed the Indians by saying: "Come,
boys, let us do this," and working with them. He always told the exact truth
and never allowed himself to betray the least fear. The Indians, learning that
they could trust him implicitly, became his fast friends, and would do anything
for him, while many of them embraced Christianity. In 1849 Rev. Parrish was
appointed Indian agent, his territory extending from California to British Co-
lumbia. In this connection for five years it devolved upon him to settle the
differences between the Indians and the white race. Many times he narrowly
escaped with his life, and on other occasions suffered great exposure, but the
red men became his friends and trusted him completely. After he had filled
the position of Indian agent for five years, he was reappointed for a four years'
term, but his wife's health compelled him to resign. Following the discovery
of gold in California a number of white men were sent from Port Auford to
find a trail that would connect with the trail for California. On the Coquille
river they encountered about two hundred hostile Indians who killed several
of the white men and those escaping endured great suffering before reaching
Port Auford. On the day of their return Mr. Parrish arrived by ship at Port
Auford and was accompanied by Dr. Dart, superintendent of Indian affairs.
The latter, desiring a conference with the Coquille Indians, asked Mr. Par-
rish to take forty well armed men and go and find them. He answered : "1
will go if you will let me take my own way. All I want is three red blankets,
a whole bolt of red calico, a pony to take the goods on, some hardtack and
salmon and a trusty Indian who can talk Coquille, and also some tobacco."
Dr. Dart said, "They will kill you." But Mr. Parrish replied: "I know the
Indians better than you do," and with the outfit for which he had asked he
took his departure, saying: "You may look for me back in two and a half days."
When a mile and a half below the Indians' camp he halted and made his camp,
after which he sent his guide forward with the red blankets to present to the
three chiefs, telling the man to stay with the Indians over night and ask them
to come in the morning unarmed and see him. In the morning when a short
distance from his camp he saw two Indians approaching, and stepped behind
a large rock out of their sight and from that point returned to his camp. They
came to the rock and peeked around it, and he beckoned for them to approach,
giving to them tobacco and calico, and bade them sit down. In half an hour
his Indian guide returned with twenty-eight Indians armed and painted for war.
Mr. Parrish beckoned for them to come nearer, gave each a bit of tobacco and
asked them to be seated. A half ring was formed with Mr. Parrish and his
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Indian Jack in the middle. The purport of his talk to them was that he was a
chief representing his people, and if they would treat his people well it would
be allright. He told them he had known Indians from his boyhood and was
acquainted with their customs and habits. He then took off a large red sash
which he had tied around his waist with a bow knot on one side, and telling
the head chief to stand up, Mr. Parrish approached him, tying the scarf around
him, and said: "This is my heart and my talk, what is your heart?" The chief
stood a moment then turned to his son, took a sea-otter skin from his shoul-
ders and handed it to Mr. Parrish. That ended the treaty, after which the
Indians all partook of hardtack and salmon furnished by Air. Parrish.
Subsequently General Palmer was made superintendent of Indian affairs and
in 1854 Mr. Parrish became Indian agent of the district from California to Coos
Bay, during which time he succeeded in making several treaties with the Indians
which resulted in great good to the country. He gave them blankets, shirts,
shoes and hats and was with them five months, organizing their district and be-
coming thoroughly acquainted with them.
An incident that has been related indicates the absolute fearlessness as well
as the resourcefulness and fidelity of Mr. Parrish. The story is told as follows:
"He was informed at Port Auford that miners near the California state Hne had
had trouble with the Indians, and that a white man had been killed by three In-
dians, and there was danger of the miners making war on the Indians to obtain
satisfaction. Mr. Parrish was to arrest the offenders and give them a fair trial,
and thus make peace according to law. He had learned that the Indians who
had killed the white man were near the California state line, so he went down
the coast, treating with the different tribes as he went down. At one place the
whites had burned out the Indians and there was a very excited and warlike
feeling among the Indians. He sent out word to them that the man of peace
had come. The Indians were naked and wild, their women having only a
string around them, from which hung strips of cedar bark down to the knees.
He staid with the Indians for six days and treated with them. He told them
that they had three Indians who had killed a white man, and they must de-
liver them to him to be dealt with according to law. They agreed to deliver
them the next morning, but when the morning came the guilty ones had gone.
He singled out twenty of them and said: T will take these to Port Auford if
you do not deliver the men.' So the next day they brought in two of them ; the
other had escaped up the Rogue river. He then sent two chiefs after the man
and told them to meet him at the mouth of the Rogue river with the man. and
he started back with the others. When he arrived at the mouth of the river the
chiefs were not there, so he took a canoe and went to see where they were.
After he had gone up ten miles he met the chiefs. They reported that they
could not get the Indian, that they had had trouble and had come near fighting.
Mr. Parrish said: 'Never mind, turn back with me.' When he arrived at the
village he told them that he was like the sun, that always accomplishes its de-
signs, and he must have the man. They said he had gone. Mr. Parrish asked if
the man had any friends, then, and the chiefs turned out his wife and sister.
Mr. Parrish told them to get into his canoe and also told the chiefs to get in.
Then he talked to them and told them he would take them to Wright's cabin,
down the river, and remain there until morning. If they brought the man, they
could retum ; if not, he would take them to Port Auford. At that they made
a great yell of terror, and he started, saying good-by. On the way down there
was an eagle trying to get a duck. When the canoe reached where he was he
was foiled in his attempt and alighted in the top of a tree. As the boat was
being pushed rapidly down stream he raised his rifle and shot the eagle. The
Indians were filled with amazement at his power. He put the Indian chiefs and
the women in the cabin and he kept watch in front of it during the night. About
nine o'clock in the morning a woman came with food for them. She asked if
he was going to take them to Port Auford and he said : 'Yes, unless they bring
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about a month. It is now in the museum of the Willamette University, having
been presented to that institution by Mr. Parrish in 1892.
For seventeen years without remuneration Mr. Parrish preached the gospel
of repentance and of Christian faith to the convicts of the state penitentiary.
His was indeed a long, useful and noble life, splendid in its achievement and
its purpose. The cause of the church and the cause of education found in him
a stanch champion and an effective worker, but more than all else he did, per-
haps, was his work among the Indians, proving to them that the white man
would hold faith, that his word was to be relied upon and that he would deal
justly with his ignorant red brethren of the forest. His whole life was the
antithesis of "man's inhumanity to man ;" it was the expression of the spirit of
Him who came not to be ministered unto but to minister.
HENRY C. BOHLMAN.
While success is the legitimate goal of business endeavor and men are natur-
ally seeking for advancement in their chosen fields of labor, it is the exception
and not the rule for men to concentrate all of their energies and their time upon
business, to the exclusion of all else. Many men are mindful of their relations
to their fellowmen, and put forth earnest effort to aid those who are nearby
travelers on life's journey. While Henry C. Bohlman is one of the owners
of a successful business enterprise, he is also secretary of the German Aid So-
ciety of Portland, having occupied the position since 1904. He was born in the
city of Altoona near Hamburg, Germany, February 2, 1836, and was there reared
and educated. He learned the trade of a sheet metal worker in his native coun-
try, and at the age of nineteen years he started out to work for himself as a jour-
neyman, visiting all the principal cities of the fatherland ; thus he obtained broad
practical experience. He then returned to Hamburg and afterward went to St.
Petersburg, Russia, where he was employed on the first water works installed
in that city. He returned to his home after a summer spent in St. Petersburg,
and on the lOth of July, 1864, he left Germany for America, where he arrived
during the period of the Civil war. Gold was then at a premium, and for every
dollar he had in gold he received two dollars and a half in greenbacks. He re-
mained in New York for only seven days and then started for San Francisco,
whence he went to Sacramento by steamer. By lucky chance he caught the
steamer of the regular line ; he took this because he had the fever and feeling very
sick wanted to leave immediately. The Yosemete, that he had intended taking,
blew up in the Sacramento river and several hundred passengers were killed.
Mr. Bohlman thought he was indeed fortunate in taking the other vessel and
thus escaping that fate.
In Sacramento he began work as a locksmith with his uncle, for he could
find no employment at his trade. He assisted his uncle in carrying out a contract
for locks to the amount of eleven thousand dollars, but he had a brother-in-law
and a sister who were living in Portland, and it was this which induced him to
come to the Rose City in 1865. Here he first worked for Captain Friedman, who
later sold out to Goldsmith & Lowenberg. Mr. Bohlman remained with that firm
until 1874; he then started in business for himself as a sheet metal worker and
tinsmith and closed out the business in 1877. He was then employed as fore-
man by the firm of Corbett & Macleay at Astoria, where they were conducting
business under the name of the Anglo-American Packing Company. Mr. Bohl-
man was employed there during the salmon canning season, and in the winter
months resumed work at the tinsmith's trade. It was only the condition of his
health, which caused him to close his shop during the summer months. For
eleven years he acted as foreman for the Anglo-American Packing Company,
and throughout that period conducted business as a tinsmith in the winter sea-
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sons. In 1887 he went to Alaska where he became superintendent of the cannery-
owned by Captain W. Berry. He would spend six months of the year there in
connection with the canning business, and the remainder of the year was devoted
to the sheet metal business. He also made several trips into the interior of
Alaska, and with the help of Indian labor established the cannery at Matlakahtla,
Annet island, for Missionary Duncan. A part of the time he had his two sons,
Herman and Edward, in Alaska with him. In the early '70s he sent his sons to
New York, where they learned the plumbing business. Edward had previously
served an apprenticeship as a machinist with v/hat is now the Smith- Watson
Company, but in 1893 both brothers went to New York. Herman T. Bohlman
is a practical plumber, having learned the trade in the New York plumbing school.
Edward F. attended the Pratt Institute where he studied pattern making and also
worked at the machinist's trade. When the sons returned to Portland they
joined the father in the conduct of a plumbing and sheet metal working business,
and the firm has enjoyed an extensive and growing trade ever since that time.
In Portland, on Christmas day of 1867, Mr. Bohlman was united in marriage
to Miss Augusta Von Der Liihe, who came from Hamburg to become his
bride. Unto them have been born four children, Edward F., Herman T., Otto
and Bertha C. A sister of Mr. Bohlman had married a brother of Mrs. Henry
Weinhard in Sacramenta, California, and it was through Mr. Weinhard's in-
fluence that Mr. Bohlman came to Portland, and it was in the Weinhard home
that he wedded Augusta Von Der Liihe.
Mr. Bohlman is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and
of the Knights of Pythias. His religious faith is manifest in his membership
in the German Reformed Church, and since 1872 he has been a member of the
German Aid Society. This indicates his deep interest in his fellowmen and his
helpful spirit toward them. He has ever been ready to extend a hand of as-
sistance when needed and his sympathy enables him to understand others, to
speak a word of encouragement or to give material aid at a timely hour. His
life has been one of usefulness to himself and to liis fellowmen, and the success
which has crowned his labors is well merited.
ARTHUR F. ELERATH.
Arthur F. Elerath, who is engaged in the contracting and wrecking business,
was born in Trenton, New Jersey. November 6, 1881, and although but a young
man has become well established in his chosen field of labor in Portland. His
parents were John R. and Rebecca (Herman) Elerath, both representatives of
old families of the east. When Arthur Elerath was six years of age his parents
removed to California, where they established their home in 1887, locating first
in Pasadena but after a brief period removed to Los Angeles. The father there
engaged in business as a contractor until 1890, when he removed with his family
to Portland.
Arthur F. Elerath acquired his education in the schools of Los Angeles and
Portland up to 1893, when the family went to Honolulu and in that beautiful
tropical city he completed his studies. He learned the brick-mason's trade under
his father's direction and about 1900, when nineteen years of age, returned from
Hawaii to the United States, since which time he has made Portland the city of
his residence. Here he has engaged in contracting for eight years. Previously,
however, he served as a journeyman, being employed by Al J. Bingham, John
Seed and other prominent contractors of the city. When he felt that his experi-
ence and ability were sufficient to enable him to carry on business successfully on
his own account he began taking contracts and has since erected the Scott Hotel,
has remodeled the Calumet Hotel, built the Swetland building, the Buchanan
building and many other important structures. He was also the builder of the
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Blake-McFall warehouse on Fourth and Ankeny streets, and the importance of
the contracts awarded him indicate the high position to which he has attained
as a contractor of Portland. He also carries on a wrecking business, in which
connection he tore down a historical building — the first schoolhouse ever built in
Portland — its situation being at the corner of Fifth and Ankeny streets. He also
dismantled the buildings of the Thompson estate, where there is to be erected
a new hotel on the block bounded by Third and Fourth, Pine and Ash streets.
On the 6th of May, 1902, Mr. Elerath was united in marriage to Miss Dency
Hoover, a daughter of Charles and Maggie (Semple) Hoover, who were early
settlers of Oregon. The two children of this marriage are Byron A. and Bethene,
eight and seven years of age respectively.
Mr. Elerath belongs to the Congregational church, while his wife is a Method-
ist in religious faith. His political support is given to the republican party and
he is interested in all matters of progressive citizenship. He is also secretary
for the Master Mason's Association and is regarded in Portland as one of the
rising young business men of the city, who has already won for himself wide
recognition by reason of his ability. His laudable ambition is carrying him far
beyond the point of mediocrity and he has passed many another on life's journey
who perhaps started out with better equipment than he.
J. P. FINLEY.
Almost sixty years have been added to the cycle of the centuries since J. P.
Finley came to the Pacific coast. He was then a young lad of seven years,
his birth having occurred in Saline county, Missouri, near Jonesboro, December
30, 1844. A few years later gold was discovered in California and there oc-
curred a stampede to the western county such as never was known before or
since in the history of America. There was an almost endless caravan across
the plains and on the mountain sides as the travelers wended their weary way
to the district in which they hoped to rapidly acquire wealth.
The Finley family is of Irish and Scotch origin. Asa William Finley, the
grandfather of J. P. Finley, was born in the north of Ireland and was brought
to the United States by his father at an early day. The original home of the
family in this country was in Virginia but later a removal was made to Mis-
souri, where Asa William Finley carried on general farming and stock-rais-
ing, owning a tract of land, to the cultivation and development of which he
devoted his energies until his life's labors were ended in death about i860. He
was a man of fine character and high principles, whose life was in harmony
with his professions as a member of the Presbyterian church. He was married
while residing in Virginia and his family included James W. Finley, who in
1852 crossed the plains to California, accompanied by his wife and seven chil-
dren. The wagon in which they traveled was drawn by oxen and for six months
they wended their weary way across the long hot stretches of sand and through
the mountain passes until at length they reached their destination. Settling on
a farm two and a half miles south of Santa Clara, James W. Finley there en-
gaged in the cultivation of grain and the raising of stock up to the time of his
death, which occurred in 1865.
Our subject's mother, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Campbell,
was born in Kentucky and was a daughter of William Campbell, a native of
Virginia, who on leaving that state established his home in Kentucky and
later went to Missouri. His brother became a resident of Oregon in 1846 and
in the same year William Campbell went to California, as did Wallace Finley,
both establishing homes near Santa Clara, where Mr. Campbell died at the age
of ninety-six years. His daughter Mrs. Finley died of mountain fever in 1852.
She was the mother of seven children. Rev. William A. Finley was formerly
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president of the college at Corvallis, Oregon, while later he became president of
the college at Santa Rosa, where he is now living retired. Newton G. is a resi-
dent of Santa Clara county, California. Sarah E. is the wife of the Rev. Joseph
Emory, at one time a teacher in the college at Corvallis and later a minister of
southern California. J. P. is the next of the family. Hugh McNary is a farmer
of Benton county, Oregon, and a graduate of Corvallis College. Anna E. is the
wife of Dr. T. V. B. Embree, of Dallas, Oregon, James B. was a railroad man
of Wadsworth, Nevada, but is now deceased.
Although J. P. Finley was only seven years of age when the family went
to California, he still retains some vivid recollections of the long journey. After
arriving at their destination he became a public-school student and later at-
tended the Pacific Methodist College. He entered business life when sixteen
years of age as a carpenter's apprentice in San Jose, California, and he also
pursued a course in mechanical drawing. After three years spent as a jour-
neyman he started in business for himself and in a brief period won recogni-
tion as a leading contractor and builder of Santa Clara county, California.
Between 1870 and 1874 he was the builder of many of the finest residences of
the state and also a number of public buildings. In the former year he be-
came interested in the furniture and undertaking business in Santa Clara, in
partnership with C. C. Morse, who was the leading seed man and was known
throughout the world. In 1874 Mr. Finley became a partner of J. P. Pierce
in the lumber business, engaging in the manufacture of sash, doors and all
building appliances on an extensive scale at Santa Clara. The business was con-
ducted under the name of the Enterprise Mill & Lumber Company, with Mr.
Finley as superintendent and general manager, and in the course of years the
gradual extension of the trade made this one of the best known and most ex-
tensive concerns of the kind in the state. Later the business was merged with
that of the Pacific Manufacturing Company, and in 1879 its scope was extended
to include the manufacture of burial cases. The success of the business was
such that at Mr. Finley's suggestion a branch house was opened in San Fran-
cisco in 1880. At that time the California Casket Company was formed, W. P.
Morgan purchasing one-half the stock, while the stockholders of the Pacific Man-
ufacturing Company became owners of the other half. The new enterprise met
the demands of a constantly increasing trade and after the enterprise was se-
curely established Mr. Finley devoted his time to traveling through the state in
the interests of the company. He first visited Oregon, Washington, British Co-
lumbia, Nevada and Utah in the interest of the business in 1881 and the con-
tinued growth of the trade made it necessary to estabUsh a branch house in Port-
land, so that in 1886 the Oregon Casket Company was incorporated and in April,
1887, ware rooms were opened on Fourth street, between Flanders and Gleason
streets. Mr. Finley took charge at this point and during the succeeding six
years devoted his whole time and attention to the development of the trade in
connection with the Portland house. About 1890 Mr. Finley's partner, Mr.
Pierce, with whom he had been associated for a number of years, met with re-
verses and, owing to that and faihng health, the interest owned by the Pacific
Manufacturing Company in the California Casket Company was sold to a Mr.
Morgan. In 1892, owing to a disagreement between Mr. Finley and Mr. Mor-
gan's manager, the former withdrew from the management of the Oregon
Casket Company and also disposed of his interest in the Pacific Manufacturing
Company, thus severing his connection with two of the most important business
houses of California, which owed their existence and continued success in
large measure to his efforts. It was he who formulated the plans for their con-
duct, advised the extension of the business by establishing the branch houses and
otherwise promoted the growth of enterprises of large value in industrial
activity.
It was in December. 1892, that Mr. Finley became interested in his present
enterprise as a partner in the firm of DeLin, River & Finley. They established
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a general undertaking business, which they conducted for a year, but Mr. River
withdrew and the firm became DeLin & Finley. After a brief period Mr. De-
Lin sold his interest to C. R. Reiger, who joined Mr. Finley in 1896 under the
firm style of Finley & Reiger. After a brief pediod, however, Mr. Finley be-
came sole owner and thus continued until he admitted his son to a partnership
under the firm style of J. P. Finley & son. A contemporary biographer has
said :
"It is no exaggeration to say that the undertaking establishment of J. P.
Finley & Son in Portland is not only the finest on the Pacific coast but nowhere
in the United States can there be found a place embodying the many original
ideas to be found here. In the conduct of his business Mr. Finley has drawn
his inspirations from the most successful concerns of the kind in the world and
his own special aptitude and regard for all that is tactful and elegant have con-
tributed their quota to at least environing a more or less gloomy occupation.
To the obliteration of this phase of his business, Mr. Finley has devoted liis
best energies and deepest thought, with the result that his recently completed
building at the corner of Third and Madison streets is all that is typical of all
that is thoughtful, considerate, tactful and elegant."
Mr. Finley has erected a fine, improved building at the corner of Third and
Madison streets for the conduct of his undertaking business as previously stated,
drawing his own plans and personally superintending the erection of the build-
ing. Many new and original ideas are to be seen throughout this model plant.
The chapel is one of the most handsome to be seen and by an ingenious ar-
rangement of curtains and an alcove it is possible to shield the mourners who 'io
not desire to be seen by the people in attendance. This is something that is
greatly appreciated by those who shrink from the gaze of the public in their
hours of affliction. The morgue, with its cement floor and modern appliances,
is fully up to date, while the embalming room is fitted to meet all the require-
ments of a constantly increasing business. Adjoining the chapel is an elegantly
appointed room in which relatives and sorrowing friends can sit with the departed
one if so wished. The basement is fitted up into three show rooms where all
styles and priced caskets can be seen. In addition to the roomy reception hall
and private office is a beautiful Turkish room, where absolute privacy is assured
to those who wish. The second story of the building is arranged for living
apartments, where Mr. Finley and his foreman reside. From this brief descrip-
tion one cannot realize the completeness of the place. Everything that human
mind can contrive to relieve what in most cases are very somber surroundings
can here be found, and to the inventive mind and ingenuity of Air. Finley is
due all.
In 1869 occurred the marriage of Mr. Finley and Miss Catherine Rucker, a
native of Missouri, who crossed the plains in 1852. Their children are Anna
L., Arthur L. and William L. Arthur L. is associated with his father in
business. In 1895 they secured large real-estate holdings and have since dealt
largely in property, taking advantage of the conditions made possible by the
Lewis & Clark Exposition, so that they now have very extensive holdings.
During the past few years, however, the father has taken little active interest
in business, the management devolving upon his son Arthur L. and upon George
W. Baldwin, who has been foreman for eight years and recently purchased some
stock in the company.
Mr. Finley belongs to various social and fraternal organizations, including
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Wood-
men of the World, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Artisans and
the Eagles. In municipal affairs he takes keen interest, especially in those projects
which are calculated to promote civic virtue and civic pride. He belongs to the
Portland Board of Trade and also to the Chamber of Commerce. His political
allegiance is unfalteringly given to the republican party and he is a recognized
leader in its ranks because of his active efforts in its behalf, yet he has never
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been a politician in the sense of office seeking. His fellow townsmen, however,
have several times called him to positions of public trust. He was elected coroner
in 1902 by more than ten thousand votes and in the discharge of the duties of
his office won favorable comment. His position is never an equivocal one,
whether it concerns political views, municipal affairs or business projects. His
ideas are the result of careful consideration of a question, and he stands stanch
in support of what he believes to be right. In business he has followed but one
course, and that is the one which recognizes that "honesty is the best policy."
Those who meet him socially find him of cordial disposition and kindly spirit —
a man to whom the word friendship is no idle term. He improves his opportuni-
ties to extend a helping hand and speak an encouraging word to a fellow traveler
on Hfe's journey and his own life history points out the possibilities for attain-
ment to one who is willing to dare and to do, being unafraid of the arduous
labor which is an indispensable concomitant of all success. A few years sufficed
to show that it was a vain dream for many by whom the tide of emigration had
been turned in this direction, and while it was seen that the stories of the mine
were often fabulous, the Pacific coast yet had splendid opportunities to offer to
those who would take advantage of her natural resources. The Finley family
were among those who came in 1852 and from the age of seven years J. P.
Finley has been not only a witness of, but a factor in, the marvelous growth and
development of the Pacific country.
CHAUNCEY BALL.
The year 1849 witnessed the arrival of Chauncey Ball upon the Pacific
coast. Arriving at San Francisco, a long voyage southward around Cape Horn
and then north to the Golden Gate was completed. He was identified with the
pioneer development of California, was acquainted with the early mining history
of the northwest and in 185 1 came to Oregon, from which time he was closely
associated with the material development and progress of the state. That he
was one of the early settlers of Portland is indicated in the fact that when he
took up his abode on East Forty-seventh street North he had to cut a road
from the Base Line road to that place. His history in detail is of interest, show-
ing much of the conditions that existed here in the early days as well as the
subsequent development.
Chauncey Ball was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1827.
His parents, Henry and Nancy (Jones) Ball, were natives of Maryland and in
early life became residents of Pennsylvania, where both he and his wife spent
their remaining days. For some years he conducted a store in Albina.
In the schools of his native county Chauncey Ball acquired his education and
his first work was on a boat on the canal and lakes. He was a young man of
about twenty-two years when he came to the Pacific coast, making the voyage
around Cape Horn on a steamer commanded by Captain Miller. This was in
1849 ^^^ his object was a desire to obtain wealth in the mines. For a time he
followed mining, but, not meeting with the success which he had anticipated
and feeling that other fields of labor would prove more profitable for him, he
purchased a schooner, with which he plied the waters of the Sacramento river.
He owned a farm up the river and hauled his own and his neighbors' produce.
While a resident of California he also joined with others in a project to turn
the waters of the Eraser river in British Columbia. He had saved forty thou-
sand dollars up to that time. The men interested in the enterprise thought they
could get much gold in this way, but a flood came and Mr. Ball lost all that
he had saved. His experiences in California were those which have made the
history of that time a most picturesque, romantic and thrilling one. The towns
of the state were largely composed of tents and there was little organization of
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law or society, but those who beheved in justice were at length forced to band
themselves together and formed what were called vigilant committees, to sup-
press crime and lawlessness. Of such a committee Mr. Ball served as a mem-
ber. Attracted b)' the rich agricultural lands of Oregon, he went to Jackson
county in 1851, took up a claim and upon his ranch raised wheat, which he had
to haul over the mountain by team and wagons to San Francisco in order to
market it. Finding that the cost of transportation ate up all of the profits, he
left the ranch and never returned, even to secure his gun, clothing, etc. He
then began driving cattle for R. L. (Dick) Perkins, with whom he worked for
one season, after which he came to Portland and was appointed deputy mar-
shal under Captain Hoyt. For four years he filled that position and was other-
wise closely associated with early interests and activities in the city. He be-
came one of the charter members of the No. 4 volunteer fire department and
served as its secretary for four years, during which time Robert Holman was
fire chief. Mr. Ball opened a blacksmith and wagon shop on Front street four
years after coming to Portland as a partner of Mr. Graden. They conducted
the business for two years and then sold out, at which time Mr. Ball took up his
abode where his widow now resides, purchasing nine acres of land from C. M.
Wiberg. The place was then all timber, but they cleared a small space on which
to build a house. They also had to cut a road from the Base Line road in order
to reach their home. Mr. Ball built a box house, with two rooms, with a large
fireplace in the center in which great logs could be burned. He then engaged
in the fruit and berry business, which he carried on extensively. He proved that
berry culture was not only possible but profitable and introduced many fine
varieties. He came to be recognized as an authority upon the cultivation of
fruit and was honored with the presidency of the Multnomah Fruit Growers
Association, of which he also served as secretary. He took several prizes at
different fairs for fancy fruit and produced some of the finest that has ever been
raised in the county. In 1887 the Portland Mechanics Fair awarded him a fine
medal for his horticultural exhibit.
At different times Mr. Ball was called to public office and in every public
connection proved himself worthy of the trust reposed in him. He served as a
police officer of Portland from 1864 until 1868 and for two yedrs was con-
stable of the city. He served under Captain Mills as a member of the old Wash-
ington Guards, which was the first company of militia ever formed in Port-
land, and he was chief engineer at the old customs house for eight years and
served as watchman for one year while the building was being erected.
On the 13th of August, 1865, Mr. Ball was married in Oregon City to Miss
Margaret C. Edwards, a daughter of Josiah V. and Permelia (Westfall) Ed-
wards. They began housekeeping on Third and Washington streets in a small
cottage. Mrs. Ball was born in Cedar county, Missouri, November 12, 1842.
Her father was a farmer by occupation and with his family crossed the plains
in 1864, settling in Clackamas county, where he purchased a farm. He after-
ward removed to Thurston county, Washington, where he secured a tract of
land and carried on farming until he reached advanced age, when he and his
wife came to Portland to live with their daughter Mrs. Ball. Both passed away
in her home, Mr. Edwards when eighty-five years of age and his wife when
seventy-one years of age. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Ball were born five children,
all yet residents of Portland. Henry C. married Maud Anderson and has three
children, Cyril C, Kenneth J. and Beatrice. E. J. married Helen Hobighost.
C. H. married Minnie Wehlem and they have two children, Wilbur H. and
Agnes D. Mildred B. is at home with her mother and Laura is the wife of
B. C. Markham. They, too, make their home with Mrs. Ball.
Mr. Ball attained to the Knight Templar degree in Masonry and in his life
exemplified the beneficent spirit of the craft. He also belonged to the Order of
Druids and to the Exempt Firemen's Association. His Christian faith was mani-
fest throughout his entire life and the Central Baptist church numbered him
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among its devoted members. He served as deacon and also as teacher in the
Snnday school and did all in his power to further the work of the church. He
died in that faith June 9. 1910. and was laid to rest in the beautiful Riverside
cemetery. He had resided upon the Pacific coast for more than fifty years and
actual experience had made him famliiar with the life and conditions of the
west from the period of its early development to the period of present day
progress and advancement. He was closely associated with Portland's history
through his business connections, his official service and his public-spirited citi-
zenship He possessed many sterling traits of character, which were recognized
by the many friends whom he made as the years went by and who at his death
felt deep sorrow at his passing. His life record, however, had covered the long
span of ahnost eighty-three years and to his family he left the priceless heritage
of an untarnished name.
EDWARD QUACKENBUSH.
While the attainment of success in legitimate business is commendable, the
man who places the correct valuation upon life must realize with Lincoln that
"there is something better than making a living;" that to aid one's fellowmen
by kindly encouragement and assistance, by the establishment of projects and
influences that will work for betterment in his life and thus raise the standard
of civilization, is a task infinitely higher and nobler than that which is repre-
sented solely by eflt'orts for the attainment of prosperity. j\Ir. Ouackenbush is
numbered among those who have done important service in the development of
Portland along business lines and still more important work through his ad-
vocacy of those purifying and wholesome refonns which are growing up in
the social and political life of the community and by his cooperation with those
projects which have their basis in the material development of mankind.
A native of New York, he was bom in Knoxville. Schoharie county, on the
30th of July, 1839. a 5c>n of John L and Margaret Ouackenbush. The father
was a merchant and fanner and one of the prominent leaders of the whig party
in his community prior to the organization of the republican party, when he
Joined its ranks. He was a stanch advocate of Henry Clay and a warm personal
and political friend of William H. Seward, Thurlow \Veed. of the Albany Journal.
Governor JNIarcey and other distinguished New York whigs. In the maternal
line Edward Ouackenbush is of German descent and is connected through direct
lineage, traceable for two hundred and fifty years, with some old Holland families
such as the Webbers. Browers Bogardus's and Ouackenbushes. descendants of
whom settled in New York and came to be the legal owners of a large estate
which the Holland government also claims and also the legal owners of fifty-
seven acres of the celebrated Trinity property on lower Broadw^ay in New' York
city.
Edward Ouackenbush attended the common schools until fifteen years of
age, subsequently studying general and political histor}% composition, philosophy,
English grammar and higher mathematics. At sixteen years of age he was a
clerk in a village store in West L^nion, Iowa, cheerfully giving his small earn-
ings to his parents, who had taught him habits of industrv', frugality, sobriety
and honesty. He entered eagerly into all athletic sprrts and boyish politics and
was an early opponent of slavery. It was his ambition to study law but he was
unable to gratify his desire in that direction. Denied the privilege of enlist-
ing in the Union army in 1861 because of ill health, he went to California, where
he served as cowboy and farm hand for a time. The secession spirit was so rampant
that he joined the Summer Guard, a company of the Second Regiment of Cali-
fornia Militia, and because of the intense loyalty of the members of the com-
pany was often called upon for police duty. He declined all official positions,
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devoting his spare time to acquiring a thorough knowledge of mihtary tactics
as then taught. The company was under secret orders for many months and
the regiment assembled at a given signal the day following Lincoln's assassin-
ation and quelled the rioters who had already destroyed several newspapers
plants, but undoubtedly saved property to the value of several hundred thou-
sand dollars for many dwellings, business houses, saloons and churches had been
listed for destruction because the owners were southern sympathizers.
While in California Mr. Quackenbush became porter and later bookkeeper
in a wholesale fruit house in San Francisco, and subsequently was bookkeeper
with A. Roman & Company, proprietors of a wholesale book store on Montgomery
street. Because of a return of pulmonary trouble he went to Arizona in March,
1863, and was there cashier for a wealthy syndicate which was prospecting that
country principally for mines. In December of the same year he returned to
San Francisco and opened an office as an expert accountant but return of ill
health caused him to go to Mexico in March, 1865, as secretary and accountant
for the Trinnfo Gold & Silver Mining Company, owning a group of valuable and
well developed mines. In December, 1865, Mr. Quackenbush arrived in Port-
land and became bookkeeper for Knapp, Burrell & Company, an agricultural
implement and commission house. But ill health two years later forced his
resignation, at which time he turned his attention to the hardwood lumber busi-
ness, which would permit him to be out of doors. In 1869 he was offered and
accepted the position of cashier with the pioneer banking house of Ladd & Tilton,
there remaining for twelve and a half years, four years of which time he spent
as manager. In 1882 he became a member of the firm of Sibson, Church &
Company, grain and commission merchants, .which for several years did an
extensive business in shipping and milling 'wheat. The firm dissolving in 1887,
Mr. Quackenbush turned his attention to the -real estate and investment busi-
ness, developing and improving Piedmont and other city properties. Since 1885
he has largely engaged in clearing and peopling unimproved farm lands, being
an early advocate of small farms and diversified crops. He is now president
of the Investment Company, incorporated in 1887, and owns a large amount
of city and country property. For several years he was a director of the Ore-
gon Steam Navigation Company, the stock and property of which were pur-
chased by Henry Villard, the business then being recognized under the name
of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. With others Mr. Quackenbush
established the first telephone company of Portland and upon its franchise and
property the present Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company of Portland was
founded. Many other enterprises had felt the stimulus of his cooperation and
sound judgment until his life history has become an integral chapter in the history
of the city, the material upbuilding and development of which has been promoted
in extensive measure through the business enterprises which he has instituted
and conducted. He was one of the organizers of the Board of Trade, which
in the '70s became the present Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been
a continuous member.
The majority of mankind would feel that the extent and importance of busi-
ness interests which have claimed the attention of Mr. Quackenbush would be
enough to occupy the time and energies of any individual, and yet he has been
a most active and helpful figure along other lines. From boyhood interested in
political questions, he was a member of the Lincoln Wide-Awakes and Glee Club
in i860 and participated in the active campaign in northeastern Iowa. Since
then he has been a member of various republican clubs and his attitude on vital
questions might be expressed in the statement that he is a Lincoln-Roosevelt
republican, thoroughly opposed tO' dishonesty and misrule in political affairs.
When personal acquaintance makes it possible, he votes for men and not for
machine politics, and at all times heartily favors genuine reform movements.
He has never consented to accept political office but has been an official mem-
ber of many organizations for the uplifting and betterment of mankind. He
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was one of the promoters of the organization of the present Young Men's
Chrisian Association of Portland in 1868, was president during the first two
terms and maintains active membership to this time. He is a charter member
and was secretary of the Portland Seamen's Friend Society, organized in 1877,
and later was for many years its president. He aided in organizing and became
a charter member of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League in October, 1903, and in
securing the adoption of the local option law for this state. He is now treasurer
and a member of the headquarters committee of that organization. He like-
wise belongs to various other associations, religious, reform, social and athletic.
Since 1867 he has been a member of the First Presbyterian church and an elder
therein since 1876. He is sincerely interested in any Christian movement that
deepens the conviction of man's need of a Savior and his sense of responsibility
to God.
On the 5th of September, 1867, Mr. Quackenbush was married to Miss Anna
Clarke Hastie, of English and Scotch ancestry who came to America in colonial
days. She was born near Portland, Maine, and was educated and taught in
the public schools of San Francisco, residing there for nine years. She came
to Oregon in 1865. From girlhood she has been an active worker in the Presby-
terian church and Sunday school and in various other church organizations and
benevolent societies. The two children of the family, Edward H. and Fred,
are both at home.
Such is the history of Edward Quackenbush, whose life has been largely one
of service for the benefit of his family and the community. While deeply in-
terested in all that pertains to Portland and Oregon, he has in public matters
given aid support especially to those things which have for their object the
development of spiritual and moral character of the people, realizing that in any
community where those characteristics predominate the safety and integrity
of the political and commercial interests are assured.
CAPTAIN GEORGE W. HOYT.
To omit from these pages the life record of Captain George W. Hoyt would
be to sever an important link in the chain of the pioneers which connects the
past with the present history of Oregon. He was born in Albany, New York,
in 1828, a son of Richard and Mary (Cutler) Hoyt, who became residents of
Albany, New York, about 1827. Both were descended from early Puritan set-
tlers of New Hampshire. After becoming a resident of the Empire state Rich-
ard Hoyt was extensively engaged in the manufacture of saddlery and trunks
in Albany.
It was in that city that Captain Hoyt of this review spent his youthful days
and acquired his education. He was a young man of about twenty-three years
when in 1851 he reached the Pacific coast, settling first in California. The fol-
lowing year, however, he came to Oregon and engaged in steamboating with his
brother, Captain Richard Hoyt. He was for a long time agent for the Multno-
mah, one of the early steamers of the northwest, and afterward purchased an
interest in the steamer Express, running between Portland and Oregon City.
Soon after the organization of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company he en-
tered its employ and remained with that company and its successors for nearly
thirty years. No higher testimonial of faithfulness, capability and trustworthi-
ness could be given than the fact of his long association with the business. In
1890 he resigned and entered the custom-house brokerage business in connection
with his brother Henry. In this he was continuously engaged up to the time
of his death, which occurred on the 9th of September, 1892.
Captain Hoyt returned to his native city for his bride, being married in
Albany, New York, in December, 1865, to Miss Martha A. Graham. Unto
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them were born three children : George W. ; Martha A. ; and Fanny Graham,
who married Robert W. Lewis, of Portland.
Captain Hoyt was ever deeply interested in the welfare and progress of
this part of the state and ever stood fearlessly in defense of what he believed to
be right. He was a strong opponent of everything that seemed like misrule in
public affairs and, elected on the reform ticket, he served for three years as a
member of the city council, during which period he exercised his official prerog-
atives in support of all movements which he deemed to value to the com-
munity. He ever placed the public welfare before partisanship and the city's
progress before personal aggrandizement.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY GREGORY.
William Montgomery Gregory, a practitioner at the Portland bar, was born
in Oneida, New York, December 2, 1852. The family is of French descent.
The great-grandfather was an officer of the French army and became a coffee
planter of Haiti. His son, Caspar R. Gregory, was a refugee from the island
of Haiti at the time of the revolution there and changed the spelling of the name
from Gregoire to its present form. He was a sea captain and was born on the
island of Haiti. The father of William M. Gregory, the Rev. Caspar R. Greg-
ory, D. D., was a native of Philadelphia and a minister of the Presbyterian
church. He served for thirteen years as pastor of Oneida, New York, in which
church a tablet was erected to his memory and later was pastor of the church
at Bridgetown, New Jersey, while at the time of his death was a professor in
the Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. He was a brother of Dr. Henry D.
Gregory, for many years vice president of Girard College of Philadelphia. The
mother of William M, Gregory, who bore the maiden name of Mary L. Mont-
gomery, was a native of Philadelphia and a sister of Thomas Montgomery, long
a distinguished resident of that city.
William Montgomery Gregory pursued his education in the Oneida Semi-
nary of New York, and in the West Jersey Academy at Bridgetown. He studied
law in the office of Joseph M. Pile, of Philadelphia, at the same time taking a
practical course in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania. He
was admitted to the bar before the court of common pleas of Philadelphia early
in 1874 and before the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1876. Soon afterward
he went to California with his brother Henry S. Gregory, now and for many
years a well known citizen of the Coeur d'Alene mining region in Idaho, and
our subject was engaged in the practice of law in San Bernardino county until
the spring of 1879. I" July, 1876, he was admitted to practice before the supreme
court of that state.
About three years later Mr. Gregory removed to Portland, where he has
since been engaged in general practice, and in the intervening period of four-
teen years has been accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage,
connecting him with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of the
state. He is a member of both the county and state bar associations and is re-
garded among his fellow members of the bar as a careful and able attorney, a
wise counselor, never failing to give a thorough preparation of his cases and
his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial.
On the I2th of February, 1885, Mr. Gregory was married to Miss Lenore
Sparks, a daughter of Nathan M. and Mary (Hill) Sparks, the latter a represen-
tative of the prominent Hill family of Oregon. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gregory
have been bom three children who are yet living: William Lair Hill Gregory, a
newspaper man who is now a student in the University of Washington ; Lenore,
who is well known as an accomplished violinist in Portland and is now further
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studying the violin in Berlin, Germany ; and Mary Edith, who is studying art in
the same city.
The family reside in the beautiful residence district of Portland known as
Irvington. In his political views Mr. Gregory is a republican and was one of the
committee which formulated the Australian ballot law which has practically
done away with the buying of votes in Oregon. He is not a politician but has
always taken a deep interest in good government and favors every project which
stands for the opposition of misrule in municipal affairs or clean politics and
for a righteous administration of the law.
HAMPTON KELLY.
When Portland had not even attained the distinction of being a good-sized
village, it being but a small collection of log cabins and stores on Front street,
Hampton Kelly arrived in Oregon and took up a claim, so that he became closely
connected with the early agricultural development of the state. He was a young
man of eighteen years at the time of his arrival in 1848, his birth having oc-
curred in Pulaski county, Kentucky, on the i6th of April, 1830. His father was
the Rev. Clinton Kelly, a minister of the Methodist church, who engaged in
preaching the gospel while his sons carried on the farm.
Hampton Kelly spent the greater part of his youth in his native state and
acquired his education in the schools there. He was eighteen years of age when
he accompanied his parents on the long and tedious trip across the plains of
Oregon, where the family secured a donation claim. He continued to assist his
father in developing the home place until twenty-two years of age, when he was
married. He had previously taken a donation claim for himself near the Clinton
Kelly school and took his bride there to live. He had a house built of sawed
logs, nine inches wide and two inches thick, and in this pioneer home, Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly began their domestic life, meeting with the usual experiences and
hardships of life on the frontier. They lived upon that place for about six years,
at the end of which time Mr. Kelly purchased a tract of land from Mr. Long,
upon which he resided until 1882, successfully and energetically carrying on the
work of tilling his fields and cultivating his place. He then removed to eastern
Oregon and purchased a farm in Wasco county. There he took up a homestead
in addition to his other place and continued to reside there until called to his
final rest.
It was on the 30th of January, 1853, in his father's old log cabin, that Mr.
Kelly was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Fitch, a daughter of David and
Sarah (Wiggins) Fitch, formerly of Illinois. Mrs. Kelly was born in Coshoc-
ton county, Ohio, on the 22d of March, 1827. Her father devoted his life to
farming, and both he and his wife died in the east, the father passing away in
1844, and the mother in 1878. Mrs. Kelly came to Oregon in 1852 across the
plains, walking most of the way and driving stock. She started from Clark
county, Illinois, on the 6th of April and reached Portland on the nth of Novem-
ber. The party camped near where the steel bridge crosses the river but no
iron or wooden structure then spanned the stream. Mrs. Kelly has since lived
in Oregon and is one of the members of the Pioneers' Society. She can relate
many interesting incidents of the early days, and now at the age of eighty-three
years, looks back over events which have shaped the history of the city and
state, her memory forming a connecting link between the primitive past and the
progressive present.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kelly were born nine children, of whom the eldest died
in infancy. Zora M., now deceased, was the wife of J. R. Truman of Portland
and had three children: Delmer L. and Stella, both deceased, and Gertrude.
Helen married A. B. Manley of Portland. Clinton died in infancy. P. J., of
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Woodstock, who was road supervisor for nine years, married Carrie McClure
and has two children, Glenn C. and Roy, the latter now deceased. L. B., of
The Dalles, married Zilpha Snodgrass and has one son, Floyd. Linus, of Wood-
stock, married Fannie Hessong and has one child, Leata. Myrtle died at the
age of thirteen months. Lester, living on the old home place in eastern Oregon,
married Susan Crowfoot.
The death of Mr. Kelly occurred October i6, 1898, and his remains were in-
terred upon his ranch. He had donated four acres for a cemetery there, reserv-
ing a lot for the family. He also donated seven acres to the Methodist church,
and built the house of worship. He was a lifelong member of that church,
served as one of its stewards, and took an active part in its work. He con-
tributed liberally to the support of churches and was a warm champion of the
cause of education. His father donated an acre of ground upon which v.as
built what is now known as the Clinton Kelly school. Our subject was equally
loyal in his advocacy of good roads, realizing of what great value to the rural
community are well kept highways. He stood for progress and improvement
along all lines, but mostly in the field of intellectual and moral advancement, be-
lieving that individual and community interests are promoted thereby. He left
to his family the priceless heritage of a good name, and an example that is
indeed worthy of emulation.
REV. JOSEPH ROGERS WILSON.
Rev. Joseph R. Wilson was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 14,
1847, a son of Rev. Samuel and Anna Maria (Rogers) Wilson. His father
was a graduate of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and Princeton Theological
Seminary and was awarded the degree of D. D. on account of his distinguished
services in the cause of the church. Our subject was reared under the most
favoring influences for a useful life. He attended a private academy and later
matriculated at Washington and Jefferson College, from which he was grad-
uated with the degree of A. B. in 1867. He then entered the Western Theolog-
ical Seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from that in-
stitution in 1870. He was called as a home missionary of the Presbyterian
church at Normal, Illinois, where he remained from 1870 to 1871, and in a
similar capacity at Erie, Pennsylvania, from 1872 to 1879. During these years
he continued his studies, especially in New Testament Greek and Ancient Greek.
In 1879 he was called to the chair of Greek in Parsons College, Iowa, and there
he continued for ten years. In 1889 he associated with Dr. S. R. Johnston of
the faculty of that college and removed to Portland, here establishing the Port-
land Academy, which soon became known as one of the best conducted educa-
tional institutions of the northwest.
Mr. Wilson's influence is felt in many quarters outside of the work which
commands his chief attention. He was a charter member of the Historical
Society of Oregon and has been vice president of the society since 1900. He
has for many years been an active worker in behalf of prohibition and was
president of the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon for two years, from 1903 to
1905, and again in 1906 and 1907. He was a member of the first and second
conservation committees of Oregon and president of the Board of Higher Cur-
riculum of Oregon. He was also chairman of the committee on Congresses at
the Lewis & Clarke Fair, in 1905.
Mr. Wilson was united in marriage at Fairview, Pennsylvania, in 1875, to
Viola Eaton, a daughter of Johnston Eaton, Jr., and granddaughter of the Rev.
Johnston Eaton, chaplain of the military post at Erie, Pennsylvania, during the
war of 1812 and for many years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fair-
view and West Mill Creek in Erie county. Three children have been born to
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilson: John Fleming, who married Elena Burt of Newport,.
Oregon, a daughter of the late Judge Burt, of Lincoln county; Margaret Ade-
laide; and Helen Adams.
Although identified with the Presbyterian church, Mr. Wilson has always
been in friendly relations with representatives of other churches and is in warm
sympathy with all earnest seekers after truth although they may differ from him
in their views and beliefs.
EDWARD L. THOMPSON.
Edward L. Thompson is prominent among those whose labors are an ef-
fective force in the upbuilding of Portland — a city whose history is yet in the
making. Upon the firm foundation laid by the pioneers the men of the present
day are uprearing a greater Portland — a city whose eflforts are attracting the
attention of the entire country. With the substantial growth which it is under-
going Mr. Thompson is closely associated and his enterprise and foresight in
the management and conduct of important business interests are proving a
valuable element in the upbuilding of a greater municipality.
He was born in Albany, Linn county, Oregon, August 24, 1863. His father,
David M. Thompson, a native of Iowa, came to this state in 1852, settling in
Scottsburg. Later he removed to Albany, where he engaged in the retail harness
and saddlery business until his death, which occurred on the 9th of November,
1879, when he was forty-nine years of age. He was a colonel of the Oregon
Volunteers in the Civil war and was always an active and influential factor m
the life of the community in which he lived. He was a Mason and Odd Fel-
low of high rank, serving as district deputy grand master in the former frater-
nity. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Louisa Burkhart, was a daughter
of John Burkhart, one of the worthy pioneers of 1847. Her death occurred in
1907 when she was seventy-four years of age. The Burkhart family were from
Indiana and were among the earliest settlers of Linn county, Oregon.
Edward L. Thompson continued his education, which was begun in the
public schools, by study in Albany College, and upon the death of his father
assumed the management of the harness and saddlery business which he con-
ducted with growing success until 1890, when he removed to Portland. He was
fire insurance adjuster for the Northwest Fire & Marine and North British &
Mercantile Insurance Companies, covering Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Cali-
fornia. He occupied that position until 1898 and then formed a partnership
with J. L. Hartman and H. L. Powers under the firm style of Hartman,
Thompson & Powers, for the conduct of a real-estate and brokerage business.
This relation was maintained until the retirement of Mr. Powers in 1905, when
the business was reorganized under the firm name of Hartman & Thompson as
a private banking enterprise. In addition to the conduct of a banking business
they buy and sell city property and also engage in home building. Among the
properties which they have successfully handled is the Rose City Park addition.
Mr. Thompson is also president of the Ridgefield Mercantile Company of
Washington, which he organized fourteen years ago and which is one of the
most successful mercantile establishments of the state. He is also president of
the Ridgefield State Bank, of which he was one of the organizers in 1910. He is
secretary of the firm of Beall & Company, dealers in agricultural implements.
He is the owner of Clover Hill Farms, a tract of four hundred acres about thirty
miles north of Portland on the Columbia river, where he engages in the breeding j
and importing of thoroughbred Guernsey cattle and conducts a large dairy. He
was awarded the first state board of health certificate for guaranteed purity of
milk. In 1909 he was elected president of the Portland Fair & Live Stock Asso-
ciation and is also interested in various other enterprises.
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In 1904 Mr. Thompson organized the Portland Woolen Mills, the other stock
holders being W. P. Olds, W. M. Ladd, T. B. Wilcox, W. E. Pettes and F. A.
Nitchy. This is an extensive and profitable industry, valued at a half million
dollars and located at St. Johns, having the largest production of any woolen
mill on the Pacific coast. Its sales amount to a half million dollars a year and
the plant occupies five acres of ground and is equipped with its own water, light
and power systems. The plant with its subsidiary buildings is a veritable city
in itself, with a private dock and railway switch. It is complete in its equip-
ment in every department and sends its product to all parts of the United States.
The company has built many homes for its employes and has never had a strike
among the workmen. This is due to the fact that their methods of treating their
help are the exponent of justice. The business is carried on along broad plans
and they pay the highest wages of any in the United States in their line. They
employ most competent heads of departments and give much time, study and
attention to the betterment of both the physical and mental conditions of their
employes, furnishing them with every comfort and convenience possible, such as
reading and rest rooms. Of the company Mr. Thompson has been treasurer and
manager since its organization and its development and its attitude toward the
employes is largely attributable to his efforts and his advanced ideas. He is do-
ing a splendid work in this regard and the institution may well serve as a model
to other employers. Were such methods followed the contest between labor and
capital would be reduced to a minimum. Back of it all is the humanitarian
spirit that recognizes the responsibilities and obligations of wealth and the
brotherhood of mankind.
Mr. Thompson has a beautiful home on Portland Heights, which he erected
in 1907, and a summer residence at Seaside. He was married on the 27th of
March, 1884, to Miss Amanda P. Irvine, a daughter of Hon. R. A. Irvine, of
Linn county. She was educated in the Albany College, where she pursued a
special course in music. The two sons of this marriage are : Lewis Irvine, who
in June, 1909, wedded Sadie Jackson ; and Edward A.
In his political views Mr. Thompson is an earnest republican and takes a
keen interest in all civic affairs. He is interested in the Commercial Club, of
which he is an active member, and also belongs to the Portland Heights Club.
He has been president of the board and trustee of the First Congregational
church for the past nine years and has been a member of the church from the
age of fourteen. He is likewise connected with philanthropic societies and gives
generous aid where charity is needed. He is a man of large athletic build whom
one at once recognizes as a leader. In manner he is genial and courteous. He
has great capacity for business, is ambitious and energetic and well merits the
position of leadership which is accorded him. While he is achieving notable
success, there is in his life history as a dominant element something beyond and
above the desire for wealth — that something which finds expression in his treat-
ment ol and relations with his employes, in his deep and helpful interest in
the city and his devotion to the work of the church.
DANIEL LEWIS.
Daniel Lewis, who from 1872 until his death, in 1904, was a resident of Ore-
gon, owned and operated a valuable farm in the vicinity of Portland, but the
property has now been divided among his children, all of whom are living in
residences located on what was originally the old homestead. Mr. Lewis was
bom in North Carolina in 1829 and was a son of Samuel and Sarah Lewis.
His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, giving valiant aid to the
colonists in their struggle for independence and living for many years thereafter
to enjoy the fruits of liberty. He died, however, when his son Daniel was about
276 . THE CITY OF PORTLAND
eighteen years of age, the latter living with his mother until he was married,
after which his mother lived with him. He was only four years of age when
his parents removed from the south to Illinois, taking up their abode in Craw-
ford county, and while spending his youthful days upon the farm he acquired
his education in the public schools of that state. After attaining his majority, or
upon the 12th of November, 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel
Anderson, a daughter of Jotham and Lucinda Anderson, the former a native
of New England and the latter of Kentucky. For twenty years after their
marriage Daniel Lewis and his family remained residents of Illinois, but in
1872 came to Oregon where his wife and children have since lived and where
he made his home until his death. He purchased one hundred and sixty-three
acres of land located on what is now known as the Base Line road, and with char-
acteristic energy turned his attention to farming, converting his place into pro-
ductive fields which annually brought forth rich harvests. For many years he
carried on his farm work but at length the property was divided among his
children, all of whom now have homes upon the place.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were born the following children, seven of whom
survive, namely: Leander; Annie J., who is the wife of Fred R. Davis and
lives at Centralia, Washington ; Herman A. ; Ulysses ; Sarah, the wife of Alex-
ander Bell ; Lula, the wife of J. W. Mills ; and George H. One son, James,
died in 1878 at the age of twenty-one years, while Edwin D. died in 1894 at
the age of twenty-six years, and Frederick R. died in 1902, when thirty-three
years of age.
The death of the husband and father occurred in 1904, when he had reached
the age of seventy-two years. He was a member of the Baptist church to which
Mrs. Lewis still belongs. She was born in 1833 and is a well preserved woman
of seventy-seven years, retaining her physical and mental faculties to a remark-
able degree. They made their trip to Oregon on the second through train that
was run over the Southern Pacific, starting from Vincennes, Indiana, and con-
tinuing by rail to San Francisco. From that point they came on board the boat
Prince Albert to Seattle, Washington, where they remained for a few months
before taking up their abode in Oregon. From pioneer times the Lewis family
has remained in this locality and the representatives of the name have a wide
and favorable acquaintance among the early settlers and among the later arrivals
in the section in which they live.
FREDERICK CHARLES KING.
There is perhaps no life record in this volume that indicates more clearly the
value of character and of individual ability than the history of Fred C. King,
who with limited opportunities started in business life and has worked his way
continuously upward until he is now classed with the leading and representa-
tive real-estate men of Portland, largely engaged in handling city, farm and tim-
ber lands. Mr. King is a native of the middle west, his birth having occurred
in Portland, Ionia county, Michigan, December 29, 1872, his parents being
Richard D. and Mary A. King, the former a shoemaker by trade. He was
born in Hardfordshire, England, in 1847, ^^d served in the English army
as a member of the noted Coldstream Guards. He came to America about
1870, settling in Portland, Michigan, and in the spring of 1873 removed to
Saline county, Kansas, where he secured a homestead claim, and while de-
veloping that property, in order to obtain his title, also opened a shoe shop in
Brookville, in that county. Subsequently he was employed by the Union Pa-
cific Railroad Company for about fourteen years, spending a part of the time
in the fuel department and the remainder as agent. At the same period he was
also engaged in farming, dairying and stock-raising. But Kansas, because of un-
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favorable weather conditions, which brought on the failure of crops, experienced
"hard times," and Mr. King was among a large number who failed in 1888.
With a hope of retrieving his losses he sought the opportunities of the Pacific
coast country, arriving in Portland on the 21st of November of that year. The
succeeding twelve months were fairly successful and on the 24th of December,
1889, he passed away, leaving a family of nine children, three sons and six
daughters, of whom Fred C. King, the eldest, was then only fifteen years of age.
The mother was born in Suffolk, England, in 1844, and had become the wife
of Richard D. King in London, England, the wedding ceremony being per-
formed in Westminster Abbey. The parents of both were farming people of
England.
Fred C. King acquired his early education in two country schools near Brook-
ville, Kansas, and also to some extent attended the Brookville public schools.
His educational opportunities, however, were limited by the fact that he was
reared on a farm and the work of its development and improvement allowed him
little leisure time for study. It was only in the winter seasons, when the farm
work could not be carried on, that he had the opportunity of attending school,
and never after he was thirteen years of age. In the school of experience, how-
ever, he has learned many valuable lessons and has otherwise embraced his op-
portunities for mental development as a preparation for life's practical and re-
sponsible duties. The family arrived in Oregon in the fall before he was four-
teen years of age, and the father died a year later, so that the older children of
the family were obliged to go to work and aid the mother in the support of
the younger members of the household. Later Mr. King studied the complete
mechanical course as outlined by the International Correspondence School of
Scranton, Pennsylvania. His experience upon the home farm three miles north
of Brookville, Kansas, had largely been that of herding and caring for the
stock, together with plowing, harrowing, planting grain and harvesting. He
also had to milk many cows, for at different times the family kept as many as
one hundred head. It was therefore only in the intervals of general farming that
he could attend school up to the time when the emigration was made to Oregon
in November, 1888. In the two succeeding months he engaged in cutting wood
north of Mount Tabor, and in January, 1889, secured similar employment at
Sullivan's gulch, near the Drubacher furniture factory. In February, March
and April, 1889, he worked in the tin shops of Goldsmith & Lowenberg, on
Front street, and from April until September worked in order to purchase a lot
in Linntpn from Selover & Bunker. He was in the employ of that firm and also
of a smelter company, who built a smelter there, and he cleared land and re-
moved rock for the grade. In September, 1889, he secured a position with the
General Electric Company at Oregon City removing rock under the falls. In
October, November and December of the same year and in fact until June, 1890,
he worked on the section in East Portland for the Oregon & California Rail-
road Company, and at a later date began laying track for the car line to Wood-
stock. From the 14th of July, 1890, until the ist of August, 1893, he was em-
ployed in the Inman & Paulsen sawmill, after which he was employed as boiler
maker until the 27th of December, 1904, the first four years as apprentice and
then as journeyman in the Southern Pacific shops here and also at Roseburg
and Ashland. On the latter date he resigned because of his health. On the
28th of November, 1904, he leased the building at 309 Jefferson street for apart-
ment house purposes and is still managing this, which is known as The King.
On the 1st of January, 1905, he turned his attention to the real-estate business
in connection with F. O. Northup for six months, or until July i, 1905. Since
that date he has engaged in the general real-estate business, handling
farm, city and timber lands. He is recognized as one of the prominent real-
estate men of Portland and in the intervening five years has handled much
valuable property and negotiated many important realty transfers. He now
owns several different properties in this city and in other parts of the state,
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including the lot in Linnton which he purchased twenty years ago with a
summer's hard labor. In September, 1907, he became one of the incorporators
and stockholders of the State Laundry Company, in which he is still interested.
In 1910 the King Brothers & Shea Iron Works of Portland was incorporated, of
which company Mr. King is secretary and treasurer. The sheer force of his
character, energy and ability have brought him to a prominent position in busi-
ness circles and he has justly won the altogether appropriate, if somewhat
hackneyed title of a self-made man.
On the 26th of March, 1896, in Portland, Mr. King was united in marriage
to Miss Bertha L. Friese, a daughter of German parents who came to Portland
in 1878. In his political connection Mr. King is somewhat independent with
democratic tendencies. In 1906 he was defeated on the democratic ticket for
representative, and in 1908 he was the independent and labor candidate for coun-
cilman for the fourth ward. His political aspirations, however, are not very
strong, as he finds that his growing business interests claim the greater part
of his attention. He is, however, a popular and valued member of many fra-
ternal organizations. In 1892 he joined Mount Hood Lodge, No. i, of the For-
esters of America, of which he was three times chief ranger. In 1899 he be-
came a member of Fidelity Lodge, No. 4, A. O. U. W., and in 1900 joined Anchor
Lodge, No. 746, of the Knights and Ladies of Security, of which he is a past
president and now trustee. In 1903 he became a member of the Oregon Bene-
fit Degree, No. i, of which he was the first past president and is also trustee.
In 1902 he joined Mount Hood Lodge, No. 72, of the Brotherhood of Boiler
Makers & Iron Ship builders of America, of which he was a past president,
but withdrew in 1908. In 1907 he joined Rose City Camp, No. 191, of the Wood-
men of the World; in 1908 became a member of Oregon Lodge, No. i. United
Artisans ; in 1909, the Evening Star Grange ; and in 1910 joined Portland Lodge,
No. 55, F. & A. M. The secret of his success Hes in the fact that he has never
been afraid of earnest labor and that his diligence and close application have
ever been supplemented by unquestioned integrity and reliability.
WALTER FRAZAR BURRELL.
Walter F. Burrell has been recognized throughout the years of his man-
hood as a stalwart and enthusiastic supporter of every movement and project
instituted for the benefit and upbuilding of the city of Portland. His business
associations have brought him into active connection with its wholesale and
manufacturing trade and at the same time he has been a factor in the agri-
cultural progress of the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, His judg-
ment is sound, his discrimination keen and penetrating. He seems to see from
the circumference to the very center of things and so coordinates forces that
unified and harmonious results are achieved and the utmost possible for the
attainment of success seems to have been reached. His days have been un-
marked by events of special importance, save such as come to those reared on the
western frontier, in a district where a spirit of enterprise is rife and where
nothing seems to deter successful accomplishment.
His father, Martin S, Burrell, was a man of conspicuous business ability,
who came to Portland in the year 1855, and it was in this city that Walter F.
Burrell, entered upon life's journey on the 13th of February, 1863. His educa-
tion was acquired in the schools of Portland and Oberlin and when his school
days were over, he entered the business house of Knapp, Burrell & Company,
of which his father was the head and applied himself to mastering the details
of a business that included the handling of vehicles, agricultural implements
and sawmill machinery, and was the largest of its kind in the northwest.
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The trade grew to very extensive proportions, but the f^^^her's interest in
the business was sold immediately after his death m 1885, and Walter F. Bur-
rell, who was then but twenty-two years of age, took charge of /lie manage-
ment and development of the other properties that were features of his father s
Sate and included large tracts of untilled land in Whitman county, Wash-
ington all of which the son brought under cultivation m the production of
snlendid crops. While he has given much attention to raising wheat and other
crops of grain, Mr. Burrell has also engaged in the extensive growing of apples
pnri Dears not only in Oregon but also in the states of Washington and Idaho.
Tn i8q; Mr Burrell was married to Miss Constance Montgomery, a daugh-
ter of Tames B " Montgomery, a prominent citizen of Portland, and they are now
he parenTs of five chUdrenYAlden Frazar, Louise, Douglas Montgomery Robert
Monttomerv and Virginia. Mr. Burrell is a republican in his political belief
He S/s^^?he Ariington, Commercial and Multnomah Clubs, and served
tmder Syor H S. Rowl on the board of pubhc works of the city of Port-
land bu has had no ambition for office, preferring to devote his eflforts to
furthering the interests of Portland through its commercial bodies, and a so
to mealing the extensive business interests, belonging to himself and asso-
cltTs hi the control of which he displays marked ability and energy, regard-
Tn^no detail as too unimportant to receive his attention and at the same time
Controlling he larger fact^s in his interests with notable assurance and power.
JOHN H. HAYES.
While residing in Portland, Joh^H. Hayes is extensively ^^^^^"l^^the
sheeo-raising industry in Morrow county, Oregon. He is one of the native sons
of the stSf his birth having occurred in Lane county, near Eugene on the
^oth of March 1856 his parents being William J. and Sarah (Kjapehart) Hayes.
The father was born in Indiana in October, 1829, his parents having been early
JJLr. of that state The grandfather died when his son Wilham was young
fnft^e latter'Ifterward wenfto Missouri, where he resided until 1850, when he
^ros ed the'lains with ox teams, to Oregon and established his hom-^ Lane
c/^untv takincr up a donation claim on Spencer creek. He was married soon
ness unTn h s dea^h, which occurred in 1888. his remains being interred in the
He'pner cemetery. 'His wife, who was born in M-souri in 1836 passed away
Dprember 20 IQ08 They were long devoted members of the Christian cnurcn
Wl at alMir^^f o its Cachings and principles. Their family """^bered s x
wfLll H.rHet T the wife of W A. Neil, of Gilliam county, Oregon ; John
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tine the wife of A. A. Curtiss of Malott, Washington ; and C J., deceased.
Tohn H Hayes was a pupil of the public schools of Douglas county, through
the Deriod of hfs youth, yet much of his time during his boyhood days was de-
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keeping good grades which are valuable both for wool and mutton. He is there-
fore able to make profitable sales and his business reaches a large figure annually.
Mr. Hayes has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Elizabeth Cor-
nelison, who died in 1884, leaving two sons : Joseph M., a resident of Morrow
county, who is conducting the sheep industry at that place ; and Erbie, who mar-
ried Miss Daisy Begal, by whom he has two children, Clara and Lela. He is
now engaged in the hardware business at Vale, Oregon. In 1905 Mr. Hayes
was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Melvina Withers, nee
Hadley. Her first husband was John A. Withers, who was born in Benton
county, Oregon, and died March 2"], 1900. His parents were early settlers
of this state. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Withers were born two children : Chester,
who married Melva Lewis ; and Wayman, who wedded Lottie Harris and has
three children, Merrill, Vancil and John.
Mr. Hayes has long been a member of the Christian church and is a gen-
erous contributor to its support. His life has been a useful and active one
and while he had the advantage of receiving property through inheritance, he
has increased his holdings and won further success by his careful and intelli-
gent management of his business affairs. He is regarded as authority upon the
subject of sheep-raising in Morrow county and is numbered among those whose
extensive interests are a marvel to the east, where operations are carried on on
a much less extensive scale.
SENECA SMITH.
Seneca Smith, born on the banks of the Wabash in Indiana, August 18, 1844,
is now engaged in the practice of law in Portland and, moreover, has consid-
erable real-estate interests here. His father, Cornelius Smith, was a native of
New York city, whence he removed to Indiana and there he engaged in the opera-
tion of a sawmill for some years and was also connected with commercial in-
terests that made the Wabash and Mississippi rivers the highway of transporta-
tion. To the northwest he came with the pioneers of 1847 with Oregon as his
destination. Leaving Laporte, Indiana, in March, and enduring the hardships
and privations of travel, with ox teams he crossed the plains and in December
arrived in Portland — then a tiny village — but after three or four weeks died of
fever contracted in crossing the mountains. The beautiful Rose City of today
was then a small collection of log cabins and one frame store. The widow and
eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom Seneca Smith was next to
the youngest, survived the husband and father. Mrs. Smith, who bore the
maiden name of Elizabeth Dixon, was a sister of Thomas Dixon, the founder of
the town of Dixon, California. She, too, was a native of the Empire state.
While making the trip across the plains she kept a journal of the events which
marked their progress that has been published by the Oregon Historical So-
ciety— a faithful picture of the experiences which the early emigrants under-
went. After her husband's death she and her children removed to Mores Valley,
in Yamhill county, where she lived until about 1852, when she married J. C.
Geer, the grandfather of ex-Governor Geer, and the progenitor of a large fam-
ily, many of whose representatives have attained prominence in this state. Mrs.
Geer passed away in 1856. Of her children Perl Smith is living at Wrangle,
Alaska ; Jasper Smith is a resident of Yamhill county, Oregon ; Eleanor is the
wife of Rev. P. S. Knight, of Salem, Oregon ; and Marie is the widow of R. J.
Marsh, also of Salem.
The other surviving member of the family is Seneca Smith of this review,
who entered a little log school at Butteville in the pursuit of the elementary
branches of learning. Later he attended the Lafayette school and McMinnville
College and completed his literary course in Willamette University. From 1862
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until 1871 he was engaged in mining and in running pack trains in the wilds of
eastern Oregon, Washington and western Idaho. The trails were ofttimes scarcely
discernible and the route was in places a difficult one. Moreover, the unsettled
condition of the country made such trips fraught with considerable danger.
In the fall of 187 1 Mr. Smith came to Salem and took up the study of law, con-
tinuing his reading under the direction of Judge Boise and P. L. Willis until
admitted to the bar in 1874. In connection with his law studies he also took up
the study of stenography and in the fall of the latter year reported a session of
the legislature for the Oregonian.
Mr. Smith then came to Portland, where he opened a law office and also
did much shorthand reporting throughout the northwest, being at that time the
only shorthand writer in this part of the country. Governor Moody appointed
him to the circuit bench, succeeding Judge Stott, who had resigned in 1883,
Judge Smith entering upon the duties of the office on the ist of January, 1884.
That the two years of his appointive service were satisfactory is indicated by
the fact that in June, 1886, he was elected judge of the circuit court but in
July of that year, he left the bench, to resume the private practice of law, in
which he has since been continuously engaged, making a specialty of real-estate
law. During the first few years of his practice he was in partnership with
Judge J. A. Stratton and S. W. Rice, the association being discontinued at the
time Mr. Rice was elected county judge. He was next associated with John B.
Waldo until Mr. Waldo was elected to the Oregon supreme bench in 1880.
Soon afterward Mr. Smith formed a partnership with P. L. Willis, now of
Portland, and this connection was maintained until Mr. Smith was appointed
judge of the circuit court. After leaving the bench he formed a partnership with
Raleigh and Samuel Stott and W. L. Boise, which was dissolved in the fall of
1889. Judge Smith then spent two years in travel and following his return has
practiced alone. He is also interested to a considerable extent in real property
in and near Portland.
On the 1st day of May, 1879, was celebrated the marriage of Judge Smith
and Miss Margaret Gilliland, of Douglas county, Oregon, who died ten years
later. On the ist of June, 1891, he wedded Susan E. Southworth, of Wood-
stock, Illinois. To him rightfully belongs the honored term of an Oregon pio-
neer. Although in early childhood at the time of his arrival in this state, as
he advanced in years and strength he became an active factor in the improve-
ments which have resulted in the development and progress of the state, and has
also kept in touch with the later day advancement, whereby Oregon proudly
holds its place among the leading commonwealths of the nation.
JOHN GATES.
Although more than twenty years have elapsed since the death of John
Gates, his memory is kept green in the minds of many of his old friends in Port-
land and western Oregon, while among steamboat men his name is known and
honored, for his work and inventive genius were of such a practical character
that he gave to navigation that which has been of material assistance and value
thereto. Mr. Gates was born December 31, 1827, in Mercer, Somerset county,
Maine, a son of Levi and Hannah (Pane) Gates. The family is of English
descent and has numbered among its members many prominent men in America,
including General Horatio Gates, one of the distinguished commanders in the
Revolutionary war, who received the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. Levi
Gates was a thrifty farmer and both he and his wife were devout members of
the Congregational church, who worked hard six days in the week and zealously
attended to religious duties on Sunday, so that virtually there was no day of
rest in the family. Thus amid religious environment John Gates was reared,
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his education being acquired in the pubHc schools of Mercer and later of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, where his parents took up their abode when he was quite
young. One of the valuable lessons inculcated in his mind in his youth was that
all labor is honorable and that farm work is an excellent means of developing
muscle and health in a growing lad. His first service aside from the farm was
in the shops of Coe Brothers at Worcester and after the young machinist had
acquired the mechanical art he was placed in charge of the shops. Being nat-
urally quick of apprehension and deft in the use of his hands he had gained
unusual proficiency and before he was twenty years of age was much in advance
of ordinary mechanics of the same age.
The California gold excitement of 1849 brought to the west thousands of
hardy young men from New England and with them came John Gates. After
an experience which convinced him that his destiny was not connected with the
mining camp he turned his steps to the north and about 1850 first became ac-
quainted with Portland. Here his first work was as an engineer in a sawmill
located at the foot of Jefferson street and he also put in operation the first plan-
ing machine and the first sash and door machinery in Oregon. He owned an
equal interest with the other partners in the Portland Milling Company, when
the first large fire in Portland occurred in the fall of 1854, at which time he
saw the accumulation of years of hard work go up in smoke. There remained
to him only his family, his good health and a disposition to do the best he could
under adverse circumstances. He turned his attention to the steamboat busi-
ness, succeeding Jacob Kamm as chief engineer of the English Steam Naviga-
tion Company. In the meantime, however, he had been employed as engineer
on the steamer Fashion and was for a considerable period foreman machinist
for Davis & Monastes. He aided in building a mill on the site of the old plant
of the Portland Milling Company and was more or less identified with the lum-
ber interests of the city until the winter of i860, when he began work for the
Oregon Steam Navigation Company, continuing with them and their successors
for nearly a quarter of a century. During that period he revolutionized the
style of Oregon river steamboats, his inventive genius and practical knowl-
edge resulting in changes which have constituted the standard for steamboat
building in this locality since that time. He made all of the models, designs and
plans for cabins and machinery on the boats of the Oregon Steam Navigation
Company, and, when departing from old time customs, he built the Emma Hay-
ward it provoked unfavorable criticism from river men and steamboat builders.
The company which he represented, however, endorsed his ideas and time has
proven their worth. His remarkable inventive genius displayed itself in many
forms. During the first ten years of his connection with the Oregon Steam Navi-
gation Company he took out twenty-seven patents on inventions which have
proven valuable in steamboat operation. These include the Gates hydraulic
steering gear, without which it would be almost an impossibility to handle the
big river and sound steamers of the present day with any degree of proficiency.
He has probably made more original designs for boats and machinery than any
man living. He is the inventor of the well known sight feed lubricator where
the oil can be seen in a glass tube as it is fed drop by drop to the cylinder of
the steam engine. His inventions also include the spark arrester for steamboats
now universally used on all wood burners ; piston packings ; a steering appa-
ratus ; sectional boiler ; ash pan ; cut oflF valve ; a thumb screw for holding wheel
ropes; and several patents for steam pumps, all of which attest the wide range of
his abilities. Under his direction were builded the Orient, Occident, Almota,
Wide West, Daisy Ainsworth, R. R. Thompson, S. G, Reed, Hassalo, D, S.
Baker, Annie Faxon, Oneonta, Harvest Queen, Mountain Queen, Emma Hay-
ward, Henry Villard, John Gates, Spokane, Donita, Welcome and Dixie Thomp-
son. He was for many years inspector of boilers and it was through his rec-
ommendation that the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company inaugurated
channel slucing with the steamship on the bars of the Columbia river. Had it
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not been for the channels so formed vessels drawing over fourteen feet of water
could not come to Portland and the San Francisco steamers would have been
obliged to stop below St. Helen's bar during the low water stage.
Following his resignation as chief engineer of the navigation company Mr.
Gates was elected by the republican convention as its candidate for mayor of
Portland and was elected by a handsome majority in 1885. This office he ac-
ceptably filled until his death on the 27th of April, 1888, his remains being in-
terred in Riverview cemetery. It was uniformly acknowledged that death had
claimed one of the ablest and most public-spirited citizens of Portland.
Mr. Gates was married twice. At nineteen years of age he wedded Mary
Blodgett, seventeen years of age and they had three children. His second wife,
Rachel Scales, he wedded at The Dalles, Oregon, September 4, 1867, and they
had four children. Mr. Gates held membership for many years in the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and was a consistent adherent of the principles
of the republican party. His career presents a good illustration of the typical
American boy who starts out in life depending entirely upon his own ability and
industry and who attains a position of independence and honor through the ap-
plication of the plain virtues of self denial and worthy effort.
WILLIAM R. STOKES.
William R. Stokes, who as a contracting architect, has specialized in the
building of residences and apartment houses, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
September 30, 1854, a son of Edward and Mary (Hon) Stokes, the former a
native of New Jersey, while the latter was born in Germany. The father was a
brick mason and in early life removed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Cin-
cinnati, becoming one of the pioneer builders of that city.
William R. Stokes, who is one of a family of six children, acquired his edu-
cation in the schools of Cincinnati, and remained at home with his parents until
twenty-five years of age, when he was married and established a home of his
own. He had previously learned his trade with John Ashar, one of the old time
builders of Cincinnati and from the time of his marriage until his removal to
Portland he continued in the employ of Mr. Ashar. In 1882, however, he de-
cided to come to the Pacific coast and as the railroad had not been built to
Portland at that time he made his way to San Francisco and from that city came
by boat to his destination. He has been with Richard L. Zeller in the contract
business since his arrival in this city. One of the first buildings with which he
was connected was the old Williams avenue schoolhouse recently torn down to
make way for the erection of a business block. He also erected the Ladd resi-
dence and barn in Laurelhurst, about a quarter of a century ago. He has made
a specialty of the erection of residences and apartment houses and some of the
most attractive homes of Portland — a city noted for its beautiful residences —
have been erected by him. He has also done work in various parts of the state
including the building of a large number of schoolhouses in Oregon and numer-
ous contracts have been executed at Baker City, Pendleton, Heppner, Oregon
City, Astoria, Hood River and North Yamhill. The firm likewise had the con-
tract for the erection of the Soldiers' Home at Roseburg, and from the begin-
ning of his residence here Mr. Stokes has figured prominently and actively as
a contractor, his labors being attended with a substantial measure of success.
He has made judicious investment in property and is the owner of a farm of
one hundred and seventy-three acres in Clackamas county, to which he is now
devoting much of his time, being extensively engaged in horticultural pursuits
there, having set out forty acres to fruit. His farm is beautifully located near
Estacada, and in addition he maintains his home in Portland.
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do this, it was necessary to have the Oregon City charter changed, as it provided
for the use of all the money collected by taxes in the city for road improvement
to be spent inside the city limits. For the hrst two years he was opposed by
the other members of the board and the people from the southern part of the
county, but finally, with the assistance of Richard Scott, another commissioner,
he succeeded after a long struggle. Later several other counties, including Yam-
hill and Polk, followed in the same line, copying after the change made in Clack-
amas county. In 1898 Mr. Meldrum served as special agent for ten months for
the general land office, examining surveys in Nevada and Wyoming. He was
elected county surveyor of Clackamas county and filled that office in a most
acceptable manner. In January, 1871, he bought the north half of the Peter M.
Rinearson donation land claim on the east bank of the Willamette river. Here
he has laid out the townsite of Meldrum on the Oregon City car line, ten miles
from Portland, but has kept as a home fifty acres on the river.
On September 25, 1872, Mr. Meldrum was united in marriage at Oregon
City to Miss Georgiana Pope, a niece of Governor Abernethy. Three children
were born of this union: Charles E., Eva S. and David T. Mr. Meldrum has
been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1869, and has
filled all the chairs, and is also prominently identified with the encampment, fill-
ing all the chairs of this branch. He has also filled the offices in the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. He is a member of the Pioneer Society, the Oregon
Historical Society, and holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church,
serving on its board of trustees for many years. He is an advocate of the prin-
ciples of the republican party, and served as delegate-at-large from Oregon to
the national convention at St. Louis, which nominated William McKinley for
president. He stood for sound money as did all of the delegation from Oregon.
In reviewing the career of a veteran such as is presented in the life of Mr.
Meldrum, we are reminded that many of the most important events of modern
times have transpired since he came to Oregon. Among these may be named the
introduction of the railroad, the telegraph and the telephone ; the opening of the
ports of Japan to commerce by the United States fleet under Commander Perry ;
the discovery of gold in California, Australia, Colorado and Alaska; the Civil
war, which sounded the note of freedom and unity around the world ; the Span-
ish-American war that opened new territory to our country and involved addi-
tional and solemn responsibilities ; the many scientific discoveries that have revo-
lutionized modern thought; and also the vast expansion of population in the
western half of the United States, attracting tens of thousands from the older
settled regions of the east and of Europe. All of these and many other changes
pass in review before the mind of the pioneer as he rests at his comfortable fire-
side. Mr. Meldrum has well earned the repose which he now enjoys. He has
merited the respect of his associates by many kindly acts in years past, and as
a representative pioneer in the highest meaning of the word he is worthy a
place in this volume.
FREDERICK VIGNE ANDREWS.
Frederick Vigne Andrews, deceased, was recognized as one of the progres-
sive men of his period in Portland. He was born July 8, 1846, in London, Eng-
land, and his life record covered the intervening years to the ist of November,
1904. His parents were Thomas Robert and Annie O. (Grane) Andrews, the
former connected with the old East India service.
In the schools of London, Frederick V. Andrews pursued his education and
afterward engaged in business there as an indigo broker and later as a stock
broker. He had had considerable business experience, therefore, when he came
to America in 1879, The reports which he had heard concerning the Pacific
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coast led him to establish his home in this section of the country. He settled
first at Corvallis, Oregon, but after a few months went to Albany, this state,
where he remained for six months. On the expiration of that period he came to
Portland. After a brief period, however, he returned to England on business
which kept him in his native land for a few months, when he again came to
Portland and engaged in railroad construction work, this being in the early '80s.
He was afterward connected with railway interests at Pond 'Oreille and in 1884
turned his attention to the insurance business, entering the office of Ferry &
White. A year's connection therewith brought him knowledge of the business
and in 1885 he opened an insurance office of his own, becoming senior member
of the firm of F. V. Andrews & Company, under which style the business is
still carried on. He was recognized as one of the most progressive men of his
period in this city.
About 1867 Mr. Andrews was married in London to Miss Mary Brown, a
daughter of Dr. Gossett Brown, a well known London physician. Mrs. Andrews
is now living in London. They were the parents of two children : Alice M., the
wife of Rev. E. L. Holmes, rector at Milton Ernest, England; and F. H. V.
Andrews, who is the present head of the business established and developed by
his father. The death of Mr. Andrews occurred November i, 1904, and the
community mourned the loss of one whose worth was widely recognized as a
business man, as a citizen and in the private relations of life.
FRANK E. DOOLY.
Frank E. Dooly is vice president of the firm of Dooly & Company, conduct-
ing a general insurance agency in Portland. The success of the enterprise is
directly due to the well devised and carefully executed plans of him who is one
of its chief executive officers, and whose business association also touches many
other important interests, including several of the leading corporations of this
city. In a considerable measure Portland owes her prosperity and upbuilding to
men of western birth who, imbued with the spirit of enterprise which has al-
ways been characteristic of this section of the country, achieve results by reason
of their unfaltering perseverance and determination.
He was born in Ogden, Utah, September 15, 1879, and later, when the family
removed to San Diego, California, was placed by his parents, R. M. and Mary
E. Dooly, in St. Joseph's Academy in that city, where a part of his education was
acquired. He came to Portland in 1894, and was also for a time a student in
the Portland high school. When twenty-one years of age, he organized the firm
of Dooly & Company for the conduct of a general fire insurance business, and-
in the twelve years which have since intervened, he and his associates have de-
veloped the largest insurance agency in this city. In the latter part of the year
1909, the father, after disposing of his interests at Forest Grove, where he was
president of the First National Bank, removed to Portland and became actively
interested in the firm of Dooly & Company, as its president. R. M. Dooly, Jr.,v
a brother of our subject, is also a member of the firm. They have attractive '
offices in the Board of Trade building, where as general agents for the state
they represent the National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg, Penn- ;
sylvania; the People's National Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia; the
General Accident Insurance Company of Scotland; the Western Fire Insurance
Company of Pittsburg; and Oregon Surety & Casualty Company of Portland.
They are young men who have thoroughly informed themselves on every phase
of the branches of insurance which they handle, and in enlarging the scope of
their activities, their intelligently directed efforts have produced substantial re-
sults. It was Frank E. Dooly who acquired the first fire insurance general agency
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commission contract for the Pacific northwest, heretofore exclusively held by
and operated through San Francisco.
Frank E. Dooly has, moreover, become widely known through other business
connections. He is vice president and one of the directors of the Hibernia Sav-
ings Bank, of Portland; is treasurer of the Oregon Fruit Packing Company, of
Portland and Salem; and is interested in several realty companies that are open-
ing and developing new residence tracts. He is individually the owner of several
valuable business blocks, and his investments have been most judiciously placed,
bringing him a gratifying financial return.
Mr. Dooly has enjoyed pleasant home surroundings since his marriage in
February, 1901, to Miss Ida Florence Skinner, a daughter of the late Peter N.
Skinner, of Newberg. He is a member of the cathedral parish, holds charter
enrollment with the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the Arlington
Club. It is a noticeable fact that it is young men who are the builders and
promoters of the northwest and the managers of the leading business enter-
prises of this section of the country, and among such Frank E. Dooly deserves
prominent and honorable mention.
GEORGE W. HOYT.
George W. Hoyt is numbered among the representatives of financial interests
in Portland, for he is now cashier of the Merchants National Bank. He has won
his present enviable position through merit, having been promoted through in-
termediate positions since entering the bank in October, 1892, as bookkeeper.
Portland is his native city, and the date of his birth is October 15, 1866. His
father. Captain George W. Hoyt, is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. He was
educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Portland high school.
He then devoted six years to the wholesale drug business, acting as city sales-
man for the firm of Snell, Heitshu & Woodard. This brought him a wide ac-
quaintance, and from his early connection with business interests, he has been
numbered among the popular young business men of Portland. In October,
1892, he secured the position of bookkeeper in the Merchants National Bank,
and has gradually been advanced from one position to another of larger re-
sponsibility until in January, 1910, he was elected cashier. He is also one of
the bank directors.
In November, 1893, in Portland, Mr. Hoyt was married to Miss Pearl M.
Shaver, a daughter of George W. Shaver, of this city, and they have two chil-
dren: Martha Shaver, thirteen years of age; and George W., Jr., a little lad of
four years. The parents are communicants of the Episcopal church, and Mr.
Hoyt belongs also to Willamette Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and to the Elks
lodge. He is also a life member of the Multnomah Club and a member of the
Commercial and Arlington Clubs. His political allegiance is given to the re-
publican party, and while he indorses its principles as elements which in his
opinion are most conducive to good government, he has no ambition for office
holding, preferring that his efforts shall be put forth in the broad field of busi-
ness, wherein he is making a creditable name for himself.
DELMER SHAVER.
Delmer Shaver, president of the Shaver Transportation Company, is one of
Portland's native sons, his birth having occurred on the 31st of December, 1866,
at the old family home between Crosby and Larrabee, Cherry and Broadway.
His father, George W. Shaver, crossed the plains in 1857, settling first at Waldo
Hills, after which he came to Portland about i860. For many years he was
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here engaged in the wood business, supplying the steamers in early years with
their fuel and afterward conducting a wood yard. He also had a large orchard
on the banks of the river near his home, and was among the early horticultur-
ists of the region. In later life he turned his attention to steamboating, with
which business he was connected up to his death, which occurred in October,
19CX), at the age of sixty-seven years. In the early days he held some city offices
and was a prominent and influential resident of the community. He married
Sarah Dixon, who made the long trip across the plains to Oregon in 1852, at
which time her father, James Dixon, located with his family at Roseburg. Mrs.
Shaver also died at the old home, passing away in 1909 at the age of seventy-
three years. They were married in Portland, February 12, 1854, and had ten
children, of whom four sons and three daughters are living.
At the usual age, Delmer Shaver entered the public schools of Portland, and
afterward continued his education in the Columbia Commercial College, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1886. His school days over, he devoted
one year to the wood business and then became connected with steamboat in-
terests in association with his brothers J. W. and George M. Shaver. He has
since continued in this line of business, and has been president of the Shaver
Transportation Company since the death of his father in 1900. For many years
they operated steamboats in the passenger service, but are now exclusively in
the towing business. They own and operate seven boats, and are one of the
leading concerns of the kind in Portland, the extensive shipping interests at this
point giving them excellent opportunity to conduct a business of this character.
Delmer Shaver is also interested in the Clatskine Transportation Company, con-
ducting a passenger steamship business.
On the 15th of August, 1889, Mr. Shaver was united in marriage in Portland
to Miss Nellie A. McDuffee, a daughter of John McDuffee, of Iowa, and unto
this union has been born one son, James Delmer, born December 2."], 1903. The
family residence is at No. 360 Vancouver avenue.
Mr. Shaver is a member of the Woodmen of the World, belonging to Camp
No. 65. He also holds membership in the Hassalo Street Congregational church,
which he joined in 1908. He is now president of its executive board. In his
business affairs he has made steady progress, his capable management and in-
defatigable industry constituting the basis upon which he has builded his pros-
perity. He seems to know just when and where to put forth efifort to the best
advantage, and as the years go by he is steadily forging ahead, his labors being
attended with excellent results.
C. MINSINGER.
C. Minsinger, founder and president of the Star Sand Company of Portland,
in which connection he has developed an enterprise of importance to the com-
munity as well as a source of substantial profit to himself, was born in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, October 16, 1855, and is a son of Gotlieb and Caroline (Eichleay)
Minsinger. The father, a native of Germany, was brought to this country when
only four years of age and after rearing a family of seven sons and three
daughters, all of whom are living in Pittsburg with the exception of the subject
of this review, he passed away at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He was
one of the oldest and most successful teamsters of Pittsburg. For many years
he engaged in dealing in sand and gravel there and made that undertaking one
of the most important and profitable industries of the city. His widow still
resides in Pittsburg at the advanced age of eighty-three years.
C. Minsinger of this review acquired his education in the schools of Pitts-
burg and was also graduated with honor from Dufif's College, one of the oldest
of the city. For several years, or until about 1876, he worked for his father and
gained a knowledge of the line of business in which he is now engaged. In 1876,
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however, he went to Japan with a cargo of Kentucky horses for the [apanese
government. His trip to the Orient was most interesting, giving him clear
insight into the httle people of that kingdom. Following his return to Americd
he organized the Star Sand Company of Pittsburg and afterward in connec-
tion with others organized the Iron City Sand Company, in the incorporation of
which was merged the Star Sand Company and the Monongahela Company.
The Iron City Sand Company is still in existence in Pittsburg and Mr. Minsinger
remains as one of its stockholders. It is a very prosperous business, having been
established upon a safe foundation, while modern business methods were employed
in the management.
The opportunities of the west attracted Mr. Minsinger in July, 1889. At this
date he arrived in Portland and organized the Star Sand Company of this city,
of which he is the president. For twenty-one years he has been at the head of
the business which has developed along substantial lines and is one of the most
important industries of this character in the northweset. He is also well known
as an importer of horses and has brought to this country a number of Belgium
horses that have been prize winners at the Portland fairs and other fairs in this
section of the country. He is the owner of an excellent stock farm on Sandy
road, thirty miles east of Portland.
In 1891 Mr. Minsinger was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Bunton, of
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a daughter of William and Caroline Bunton. Her
father was a noted boat builder of Pittsburg, whose fame in that connection has
gone abroad throughout the entire country. Mr. and Mrs. Minsinger have two
daughters, Edna Irene and Helen B.
The parents are members of the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Minsinger
is a prominent Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish
Rite. He is also a popular member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and of the Elks lodge and holds membership in the Multnomah Club. Social
qualities render him popular, while business abihty has gained him prominence.
His powers of organization and his executive force have enabled him to develop
a business of extensive proportions and his record is hot only written in terms of
success but also in terms of enterprise, energy and perseverance. At a source of
recreation he enjoys driving and shooting.
BENJAMIN W. POWELL.
Among the veterans of the Civil war who did valiant service for the Union
and later settled on the Pacific coast, is Benjamin W. Powell of Portland. He
is a son of George W. and Margaret (Miller) Powell, and was born in De Kalb
county, Indiana, March 9, 1844. He comes of good American ancestry. His
grandfather, Benjamin Powell, served in the war of 1812, and was wounded
at the battle of Sackett's Harbor. The father was a farmer and served as first
justice of the peace of Fairfield township, De Kalb county. His brother, John
G. Powell, was a member of the One Hundredth Indiana Volunteers, and died
in service at Vicksburg. Mississippi.
Benjamin W. Powell was reared on a farm and educated in the common
schools. Shortly after he had passed his seventeenth year, the early battles of
the Civil war created intense excitement all over the country and, like thou-
sands of patriotic young men in the north, he responded to President Lincoln's
call to arms, and at Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of August, 1861, he enlisted to
serve three years, or during the war. He was mustered into the United States
service at Toledo as a private of Captain Jacob W. Brown's Company C, Four-
teenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel James B. Steadman com-
panding. In the winter of 1861-62 he was sent to a hospital at Lexington, Ken-
tucky, and when able to be forwarded, he rejoined his regiment at Mill Springs,
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Kentucky, and from there was sent to a hospital at Louisville, was granted a
furlough and returned home, receiving an honorable discharge on the ist of
April, 1862, by reason of disability. He reenlisted at Indianapolis, Indiana, on
the 19th of August, 1862, for another term of three years, or during the war,
and was mustered in as a private of Captain Carl C. Kingsbury's Company C,
Seventy-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was commanded
by Colonel Charles W. Chapman. The regiment proceeded to Indianapolis,
where eight companies were mustered into the service August 21, 1862, and
at once moved to Louisville, Kentucky. From this point the regiment went to
Bowling Green, Kentucky, where it remained until September 5, and then re-
turned to Louisville.. On the ist of October it marched with the Second Bri-
gade, First Division, Army of the Ohio, in pursuit of General Bragg, and his
command participated in that campaign and in the battle of Perryville or Chap-
lin Hills, Kentucky. Companies C and K joined the regiment at Castillian
Springs, Tennessee, December 4, 1862, thus making the organization complete.
December 7 it aided in driving Morgan's force across the Cumberland river at
Hartsville and on the 25th marched northward, overtaking the enemy December
30 and driving them across the Rolling Fork of Salt river. The regiment was
now assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Corps, Army
of the Cumberland, and participated in the following engagements : Stone River,
or Murfreesboro, and Hoover's Gap, Tennessee; Dug Gap, Chickamauga, Geor-
gia ; Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee ; Buz-
zard Roost, or Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Rome, Dallas, or New Hope Church, Kene-
saw Mountain, Lost Mountain, Chattahoochee River, Peach Tree Creek, the
siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Love joy Station, the march to the sea and Sa-
vannah, Georgia; Averasboro and Bentonville, North Carolina; and a number
of minor engagements. April 30, 1865, the regiment started for Washington,
D. C, encamping near Richmond, Virginia, and arriving at the national capital
May 19, where it participated in the grand review on the 24th and remained
there until June 9, when it was mustered out of service. Private Powell was
slightly wounded several times, but did not leave his regiment. With two com-
panies of the Seventy-fourth Indiana he was captured at Mumfordville, Ken-
tucky, September 17, 1862, the detachment having been surrounded by the
enemy. He was paroled on the field, given thirty days' furlough and went home.
At the expiration of the furlough he reported to the provost marshal and was
sent to the Soldiers Home at Indianapolis, thence to the hospital and when
convalescent was granted a furlough and returned home. He rejoined his regi-
ment, having in the meantime been exchanged. These two companies, C and
K, were left at Indianapolis to fill up their ranks and complete their organiza-
tion, starting on the 27th of August for Bowling Green, Kentucky, to join the
regiment, but were stopped at Mumfordville on the 30th to assist in the defense
of that place. On the 14th of September the companies took part in an engage-
ment at that place until compelled to surrender after a gallant defense against
greatly superior numbers on the 17th of September, 1862. The companies were |
exchanged November 17th and rejoined the regiment December 4th. In addi-
tion to engagements at Mumfordville, Kentucky, Private Powell bore a gallant
part in all other engagements of his regiment, beginning with Missionary Ridge,
Tennessee, and he rendered faithful and meritorious service throughout the
time of his enlistment. He received an honorable discharge at Washington,
D. C, on the 9th day of March, 1865, by reason of the close of the war.
After the expiration of his military service, Mr. Powell engaged in his dutiesl
as a private citizen and later studied law, being admitted to the bar in Nebraska]
in 1881. Soon afterward he became, by appointment, judge of the county court!
of Colfax county, Nebraska. For seven years from 1884 he lived at Medford,!
Oregon, and was city recorder there, holding that position until he resigned inf
1889. He was the first city attorney of Castle Rock, Washington, and for five]
years served as a member of its city council and also for six years filled the]
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office of justice of the peace of Castle Rock, which he resigned in August, 1907,
to remove to Portland, where he has since made his home.
In 1871 Mr. Powell was united in marriage to Miss Alice G. Wade, at But-
ler county, Nebraska, and unto them one daughter was bom, Estella, now living
at Govan, Washington. On the 5th of December, 1900, at Baltimore, Mary-
land, Mr. Powell was married to Miss Carrie Koehler. Two sons bless this
union, Benjamin Russell and Binger W., the elder being born March 20, 1902,
and the younger May 9, 1905.
Mr. Powell is a man of strong individuality, and although he did not begin
the practice of law until middle life, he threw so much energy into his work
that he has attained success as an attorney and even surpassed many who started
earlier in the race, with advantages of college and technical training. Energy,
perseverance and determination have accomplished for him what they will ac-
complish for any ambitious man, if properly directed. Mr. Powell is a member
of General Compson Post No. 22, Department of Oregon, Grand Army of the
Republic, and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has many
friends in the northwest who admire him for his manly qualities.
GEORGE W. WILCOX.
Farming and merchandising have claimed the attention of George W. Wil-
cox, but at the present time he is living retired in Portland. The initial page of
his life record was written December 26, 1831, on which day he was born in
Putnam county, Ohio, his parents being Joel and Sarah Wilcox. The father was
a farmer who settled in Putnam county, Ohio, during the pioneer epoch in its
history. Again he became identified with pioneer life on his removal to the
Pacific coast in 1847. The difficulties of travel at that time cannot be realized
at the present day, nor the unsettled condition of the country. Both the father
and mother died of fever at Vancouver, Washington, soon after their arrival.
George W. Wilcox was a pupil in the district schools of his native county in
his youthful days and afterward assisted his father in the farm work until
1847, when the family started westward, leaving their Ohio home in March.
Ox teams drew the heavy wagons over the prairies of the Mississippi valley,
the long stretches of hot sand that constitute the desert and over the mountains
of the Cascade range. Only a few families left Ohio at that time, but many
others joined the train in Missouri and about nine months were consumed in
making the trip. The first winter was spent in the vicinity of Vancouver, and
in the spring a removal was made to a point near Salem, Oregon. Both parents
died of mountain fever, and George W. Wilcox became ill of the same disease
and did not regain his health for about a year. He worked for his brother-in-
law, who came to the northwest in the same train, remaining in his employ until
1852, when he was old enough to get land of his own. He then bought out his
brother-in-law and became the owner of six hundred and forty acres, but found
that the place was not healthful, and he vacated it after living thereon for about
a year. At that time he took up his abode near Forest Grove, and later he made
his way to the coast, where he continued for about eighteen months. His health
had become much impaired, but he was greatly improved by his sojourn by the
ocean.
Mr. Wilcox then returned to Washington county, Oregon, and on the ist
of February, 1856, was married. Subsequently he purchased a tract of land near
Forest Grove, which he owned and occupied for eight years, when he sold out
and settled upon a farm only two miles from the city, renting that place. After
about two years, he removed to Polk county, Oregon, where he purchased land
and bought a sawmill, which he operated for three years. On disposing of that
property he returned to the vicinity of Forest Grove, where he again cultivated
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rented land and later purchased a place, making his home thereon for fifteen
years, during which period he followed farming. He then sold out and removed
to Portland, opening a grocery store on Union avenue, which he carried on for
a year, when ill health caused him to dispose of his stock. He has since lived
retired, but is yet the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Morrow
county, Oregon, which he secured as a homestead. Throughout his life he has
made good use of his time and opportunities, diligently carrying on business
unless prevented by the condition of his health. As the years have gone by,
he has won a substantial measure of prosperity, enabling him to provide his
family with the comforts of life.
Mr. Wilcox wedded Miss Mary E. Dickson, a daughter of Joshua and Mary
E. (Lewis) Dickson, who were pioneers of Oregon of 1845. Her father was
born in Tennessee and her mother in Kentucky, and in the latter state they
were married. They came over the plains in 1845 ^^id settled near Forest Grove,
where both died. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were born nine children : John E.,
now deceased, married Miss Ellen Newvill, and they had two children : Belle,
who is the wife of Elmer Shields and has five children — Irma, Ivan, Hugh,
Wanda and Carl ; and Mattie, who married George Shields and has a daughter,
Helen. Alice, who has also passed away, was the wife of Frank Baker and had
three children — Lulu, Rosie and Mellie, the first named being now Mrs. Wil-
liamson and has five children. William J., the third of the family, is deceased.
Jacob is a farmer of Wheeler county, Oregon. Tracy, also living in Wheeler
county, married Eva Lang. Isaiah C., who wedded Nora Dickey, is deceased.
Sarah E. is the wife of M. R. Van Horn of Portland, and they have five chil-
dren : Charles, Leroy, Laura, Ernest and Lloyd. Minnie has departed this
life. FeHx M., the youngest of the family, is living at Walla Walla, Washing-
ton. He married Laura Everest and has one child, Veda.
Mr. Wilcox has long been a stalwart republican, but aside from some minor
offices, has never served in political positions. He is a member of the Metho-
dist church, and its teachings have been the guiding principle of his life. He
has always endeavored to live peaceably with his fellowmen, to deal honorably
in business and to faithfully perform the duties of citizenship and regard home
ties. At the age of seventy-nine years, he receives the veneration and respect
which should ever be accorded to a long and well spent life.
THOMAS J. MONAHAN.
Thomas J. Monahan, postmaster of St. Johns and for many years con-
nected with the Portland Light & Power Company, is a native of Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, born January 27, 1854, and when a boy of eleven years,
removed with his parents, Patrick and Rose (Macken) Monahan, to Nodaway
county, Missouri, where the family settled upon a farm. He received his edu-
cation in the public schools of Pennsylvania, and had little opportunity later to
add to his school knowledge. The little farm of forty acres, which was located
forty miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, did not pay very well in that early day
and as the means of the family were limited, the son sought employment from
neighboring farmers. He was hired by John Mofiit, of Nine Hickories, Mis-
souri, and his first wage was ten dollars a month and board, continuing through
two seasons. A goodly share of this money went toward the support of the
family. He next entered the employ of John Maharry of West Point, Worth
county, Missouri, where he also received ten dollars a month and continued for
two seasons. By means of odd jobs at dififerent times he acquired a little capital.
One of these excursions into the realm of money making consisted of delivering
a drove of hogs at a point forty miles distant, the trip requiring seventeen days.
The boy was then only fifteen years of age. He next went to work for the
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Chicago & Southwestern Railroad in the construction of its Hne and received
twenty-five dollars per month. Being fairly started on a successful business
career, after awhile he returned to his Missouri home and entered the employ
of C. D. Lyman, where he learned blacksmithing, horseshoeing and wagon-
making, becoming quite an expert in these various departments. In 1872 he
purchased an interest in the shop, and in the same year married the daughter of
the proprietor.
In 1875 Mr. Monahan had the opportunity of visiting portions of the west
which he had not seen, as traveling salesman for C. D. Blodgett, who manu-
factured tire shrinkers. He returned once more to the home farm, but in 1881,
becoming convinced that he could improve his finances by setting his face west-
ward, he came direct to Portland, and since that time has been identified with
the northwest. In 1882 he went to St. Johns and for over twenty-one years
was connected with the Willamette Bridge & Railroad Company, and differ-
ent mergers which has since been merged into the Portland Light & Power Com-
pany. He began as rodman on the engineering corps and later he was con-
ductor on the first car that entered St. Johns. This car was operated by a steam
motor. He continued as conductor on the line until 1896, but has ever since
been connected with the Portland Light & Power Company and has been post-
master of St. Johns since the 21st of July, 1910.
In 1872 Mr. Monahan was united in marriage to Miss Julia Lyman, of
Gentry county, Missouri. They have had seven children, of whom three are
living: W. H. ; E. F., and Viola Belle, the wife of C. H. Thayer. Mr. Monahan
has been actively interested in affairs of the city and was a member of the first
city council of St. Johns in 1902 and 1904. He is a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a
trustee of the United Evangelical church. In political affiliations he is identified
with the republican party. While he has seen many ups and downs in life, he
has never lost faith in ultimate victory, and he has the confidence and respect of
many friends and acquaintances, and has fairly earned the honors which have
come to him in recent years.
JOHN M. PITTENGER.
John M. Pittenger, who was attracted to Oregon from the east more than
thirty years ago, and for some years past has been actively identified with the
real-estate interests of Portland, first saw the light of day at Spencer, Medina
county, Ohio, August 18, 1855. He is a son of John S. and Mary (Garver)
Pittenger. He grew up amid favorable surroundings and received a good com-
mon-school education, after which he became a student at Oberlin College, Ohio,
but did not graduate. At the age of eighteen years, desiring to be self-support-
ing, he began as a school teacher and for several years taught in Ohio and
Michigan. By reading and inquiry, Mr. Pittenger reached the conclusion that
Oregon presented an inviting field and at twenty-three years of age, in 1878, he
came to this state and entered upon the study of law. From 1880 to 1882 he
acted as deputy district attorney under Judge J. F. Caples. Later he pursued
his studies in the Oregon Law School, from which he was graduated in 1886, with
the degree of LL. B., and is today the only living representative of the first law
class of the State University of Oregon. After practicing for a short time, he
became interested in financial matters, and was one of the organizers of the
Bank of Albina, being connected with this institution until 1893. Previous to
this time he had acted as justice of the peace of lower Albina. He was a mem-
ber of the commission that built the Burnside bridge and has been prominently
connected with many other improvements in this vicinity. The real-estate and
insurance business has claimed a large share of his time during recent years.
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On June 15, 1887, Mr. Pittenger was united in marriage to Miss Hermine
C Kraeft, a daughter of John and Caroline Kraeft, who have been residents of
Oregon since 1880. Coming to this state ahnost a generation ago, when the
country was much more thinly settled than at the present time, Mr. Pittenger
has witnessed many remarkable changes and has assisted materially in the trans-
formation. He is a member of Crescent Lodge No. 10, A. O. U. W., and also
of the Rose City Camp, Woodmen of the World. The fraternal principles of
those orders find in a man of his genial temperament a ready response. Having
had varied experiences in life, Mr. Pittenger years ago learned to take a broad
view of man, his duties and responsibilities, believing that in the end we all get
what we earn and that true success in life belongs only to him who deserves it.
WILLIAM LIND.
William Lind, a well known grading contractor of Portland, was born in
the state of Saratof, Russia, December 7, 1866. His parents were Jacob and
Catherine (Altergott) Lind, members of a German colony, which was estab-
lished over one hundred and fifty years ago by Catherine II, empress of Russia.
Catherine was a German princess, a daughter of the Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.
who was also a Russian field marshal and governor of Stettin. At sixteen years
of age his daughter was united in marriage to Peter III, czar of Russia, and by
her request a number of German families were established in Russia under the
condition that the young men would be exempt from military duty for a speci-
fied period. Her husband being assassinated, Catherine ruled as empress of
Russia for thirty-four years. Her reign was remarkable for the rapid increase
of Russian power. She always treated the German colony with great kindness.
William Lind remained with his parents until he was nineteen years of age.
He received his education in the public schools, and then learned the flouring
mill business, becoming first assistant foreman and later general foreman of the
mill. At the age of nineteen, in 1885, he came to America, and after spending
about a month in New Yfork city, he traveled westward as far as Denver, where
he remained for about eight months. Since 1886 he has been a resident of Port-
land. He began in this city in the employ of paving contractors but in 1887
was connected with the Portland Flouring Mills. In 1888 he became perma-
nently identified with the contracting business and was in charge of the first
hydraulic work that was ever done in Portland, this being on Russell street eight
or nine years ago. He successfully handled the contract for the big cut run-
ning from the Willamette to the Columbia rivers. This work was done for the
Great Northern Railroad, and was a very large undertaking, being all laid in
hydraulic cement. He has done a large amount of bridge and road work in
Clarke county, Washington, and in other localities, and is known as one of the
responsible contractors of the city. He is now engaged in the construction of
the Riverside sewer district, one of the largest projects of its kind in the north-
west. He is one of the organizers, principal stockholders, secretary and treas-
urer of the Pacific Coast Westonmite Company, introducing extensively the new
and modern Westonmite paving, which is being demonstrated to be the most per-
fect paving yet devised.
In May, 1886, Mr. Lind was united in marriage to Miss Anna Schmeer, a
daughter of Adam and Liza (Green) Schmeer, who were members of the same
colony in Russia as Mr. Lind. Nine children were bom to the union : William,
Samuel, John, Philip, George, Daniel, Wilbert, Catherine and Jennie.
Mr. and Mrs. Lind are both active members of the Congregational church
and he is a member of the Herman Sohne, a Germany society of this city. He
resides in a beautiful home in Irvington, where, in the midst of his family and
siirrounded by his friends, he enjoys the fruits of many years of toil. He is
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one of the active and progressive men of western Oregon. He belongs distinct-
ively to the type of men that "find a way or make it" wherever they are known.
It would be difificult to conceive of a situation where such men would not suc-
ceed. Coming to America just as he was entering into manhood, he wisely se-
lected as his theater of operations a new country teeming with possibilities and
responsive to the touch of energy and readily yielding its resources to the hand
of man. His early dreams of freedom and prosperity have here largely been
realized, and as the head of a promising family, he is recognized as one of the
envied citizens of an intelligent community. This position he has honestly at-
tained through the old-fashioned application of industry and perseverance, and
easily he bears his honors as one of the able representative employers of the city.
As a recreation, he devotes his leisure time mainly to automobiling. He has been
a republican in politics since 1896, previous to which he was affiliated with the
democratic party.
OLIVER CLAY.
Portland has especially honored her pioneers for all times in naming many
of her streets for them. The thoroughfares of the older sections of the city
nearly all bear the name of one who came here in early days and was closely
associated with the substantial progress and upbuilding of the city. Among
this number was Oliver Clay, who was born in Massillon, Ohio, on the 30th of
March, 1827. His parents, Isaac and Mary Clay, were Quaker people and the
Clay family was founded in America by ancestors who came from England dur-
ing an early period in the colonization of the new world. Both Isaac and Mary
Clay departed this life in Ohio.
Oliver Clay pursued his education in the public schools of Massillon, and
his first work in providing for his own support was on a farm. He later turned
his attention to the livestock business and engaged in raising fancy stock. His
people were all prominent farmers of Ohio, who carried on business on an ex-
tensive scale. Continuing his residence in the Buckeye state until thirty-two
years of age, Oliver Clay then came to Oregon in 1859, arriving here in the
month of January. He had made the journey by the water route and the isth-
mus of Panama, bringing with him his wife and two children. Misfortune,
however, overtook them in the loss of all their goods, which were shipped on
the next boat that started from Panama after they sailed. The boat on which
the goods were sent, however, went down. Believing that he could do better
in Oregon than in California, Mr. Clay made his way to this state and pur-
chased a farm in Washington county, where the town of Reedville now stands.
There he lived for about nine years, or until 1868, when he sold out and came
to Portland. He was engaged in teaming for a time in this city and later turned
his attention to the livery business, conducting a barn at the comer of Front
and Jefiferson streets. There was a good demand for the horses and vehicles
which he had for hire and he continued successfully in the business until, with
a comfortable competence, he retired to private life about 1890.
It was on the ist of November, 1854, in Canton, Ohio, that Mr. Clay was
united in marriage to Miss Jane A. Elliott, a daughter of Isaac and Anne (Bow-
man) Elliott. Mrs. Clay was born in Randolph, Ohio, June 11, 1833, and by
her marriage became the mother of six children. Olive, born in Ohio, August
7, 1855, was married September i, 1874, to George E. Watkins, and they be-
came the parents of two children : Frank E., who was born September 20, 1877,
and married Helen Chambreau; and Grace E., born May 29, 1880, who is the
wife of Dr. George B. Story and has one son, George Watkins Story. Oscar I.
Clay, the second member of the family, was born in Ohio, June 8, 1858, and
died October 11, 1888. He was commercial editor of the Oregonian for a num-
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ber of years and edited the Oregon Amateur, being the first amateur editor in
Oregon. Harry M. Clay, born May 29, i860, was the first child of the family
born in this state. His death occurred May 30, 1898, He was married on the
25th of September, 1884, to Miss Olive Butler, and at his death left two chil-
dren, Frances A. and Hazel D. The former, who was born June 4, 1888, is the
wife of James W. Pomeroy and has one child, Clay J. Hazel D. was born Sep-
tember 10, 1893. Edwin P. Clay, the fourth member of the family, was born
March 14, 1865, and on the 26th of December, 1888, was married to Miss Edith
C. Thomas of Olex, Oregon. He is now located at Forsyth, Montana, where
he is engaged in the stock business. Alice A. Clay, born January 8, 1867, was
married April 8, 1886, to Arthur S. Gibbs, who was born at Hillsdale, Michi-
gan, April 23, 1857, and came to Portland in 1883. Here he was cashier and
local treasurer for the Pacific Coast Company and was always connected with
railway interests up to the time of his death, which occurred August 6, 1902.
Mr. Gibbs and all of the members of the Clay family who have passed away
have been laid to rest in Riverview cemetery. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs were
born two children: Leon C, born February 12, 1887; and Arthur E., June 25,
1896. Achsah B., the sixth member of the Clay family, was born May 22,
1871, and died March 20, 1873.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay on coming to Portland established their home on Sixth
street near Madison. Later they removed to the corner of Third and Madison
and after five years took up their abode at the corner of Thirteenth and Market
streets, purchasing a lot one hundred feet square. A small house was standing
there and they occupied it until a larger residence was erected, Mr. Clay living
there up to the time of his death. He was always a republican, but would never
hold office. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist church on
Taylor street, and their many substantial qualities gained for them the kindly
regard of all who knew them. Mr. Clay passed away December 4, 1900. He
had survived his wife for only about a year, her death having occurred on the
5th of November, 1899. Both were laid to rest in Riverview cemetery. They
were widely known by the old residents of Portland. Mr. Clay's activity in
business, his faithfulness in the church, and his loyalty in citizenship gained him
a firm hold on the friendship and regard of those who knew him, and Clay
street, one of the principal thoroughfares of the older district of the city, was
named in his honor.
HON. GEORGE CLAYTON BROWNELL.
Few men in the state of Oregon have attained a more honorable record than
Hon. George C. Brownell, a prominent attorney of Oregon City, and a man
whose services in behalf of the state may be said to have marked an era in the
annals of Oregon. The efifect of legislation which he introduced in the general
assembly of the state will be felt for many years to come, and an examination
of his public acts indicates that many of the measures he favored are those that
are being fought for by friends of progress in other states of the Union.
Mr. Brownell was born at Willsboro, New York, August 10, 1858. He is
a son of Ambrose and Annie (Smith) Brownell, the family being of English
ancestry and among the early colonists of New England. Ambrose Brownell
was a native of Essex county. New York, but removed to Columbia county of
the same state, where he continued until his death. He was a soldier in the
Civil war, fighting for the Union as a member of Company F, One Hundred and
Eighteenth New York Infantry. The regiment took part in many engagements
in Virginia and at one time he was severely wounded. His wife was a native
of Addison county, Vermont.
After the usual course of study in the public schools and academy, George
C. Brownell entered upon the study of law in the office of Hon. Charles L.
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Beale, a member of congress of Hudson, New York, and in Albany in 1880, at
the age of twenty-two years he was admitted to the bar. He practiced for a
time at Frankfort, Kansas, and also served as mayor of the town from 1884
to 1885. In January, 1886, he removed to Ness City, Kansas, and soon after-
ward was appointed attorney for the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railroad,
extending from Chetopa, Kansas, to Pueblo, Colorado. For two years he
served as county attorney of Ness county, Kansas, but, although he had made an
admirable start in his profession and had acquired a good reputation as a prac-
ticing attorney throughout a wide region in the Sunflower state, he could not
resist a call that came from the northwest, and in June, 1891, he took up his
residence in Oregon City, where he has since made his home.
It required a very short time for Mr. Brownell to become recognized among
his brethren at the bar as a good lawyer and one who was destined to attain
prominence in his profession. His business increased rapidly and his clients are
among the leaders in all lines of business in western Oregon. He has all his
life been a supporter of the principles of the republican party, and in 1892 was
a nominee of the party for state senator. Under the law of the state, however,
he was obliged to decline the honor at that time, as he had been a resident of
Oregon for less than a year. He was made chairman of the delegation from
the county convention to the state convention and was chairman of the republi-
can central committee of Clackamas county during the campaign of 1892. In
1894 he was nominated by acclamation as state senator, an office which he occu-
pied for three terms of four years each, extending over a period of twelve years.
In the special session of 1898 he was chosen by his party caucus to present the
name of Hon. Joseph Simon to the joint assembly as the candidate for United
States senator. In 1900 he received the unanimous indorsement of the republi-
cans of Clackamas county for member of congress. During the session of the
state legislature in 1901, when the hope of electing a senator was almost aban-
doned, Mr. Brownell presented the name of John H. Mitchell, who was elected
to the office. He also succeeded in the session of 1903-4 in securing the election
of Hon. C. W. Fulton to the United States senatorship, full credit for this act
being given him by Senator Fulton in a speech which he made immediately
after the deciding ballot had been cast.
As a hard-working member of the state senate, Mr. Brownell was instru-
mental in framing much legislation which has been of great value to the state.
He introduced a resolution for an amendment to the state constitution, pro-
viding for the initiative and referendum. This measure was brought forward
in the session of 1901, and through Mr. Brownell's efforts, seconded by the
votes of many members of both houses, the resolution was adopted and later
was submitted to the vote of the people, and it was confirmed by popular suf-
frage, thus providing a means for the passage of the primary law, giving the
people of Oregon the power to nominate their state officers without the aid of
state or county conventions and also to elect United States senators by popular
vote. Mr. Brownell was also author of the law providing that supervisors may
be elected instead of being appointed ; of a bill exempting to every laboring man
who is the head of a family thirty days' wages from attachment and execution
for debt and other measures of state-wide importance. At each session he in-
troduced a bill authorizing the calling of a constitutional convention to revise
the organic law of the state and secured the passage of the bill through the
senate in 1901, but in the house it was defeated by two votes. He was the
author of a bill to elect precinct assessors instead of county assessors, and suc-
ceeded in securing the passage of this act in the senate, but it was defeated in
the house by a very small majority. He introduced a resolution calling for the
appointment of a committee to investigate the school funds of the state, and
was made chairman of the committee which later reported a shortage of thirty
thousand in the school funds and stopped abuses which threatened to dissipate
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the money that should be used for educational purposes. Mr. Brov/nell was
president of the senate in 1902, 1903 and 1904, and continued as a member until
1906, since which time he has devoted his attention mainly to the practice of
law. While acting as presiding officer of the senate, by a unanimous vote of
both houses of the legislature, he was selected to deliver the address of wel-
come to President Roosevelt on the occasion of the president's visit to Oregon
May 22, 1903. This was a distinguished honor. The address is an eloquent and
beautiful tribute not only to the chief executive of the nation, but to the spirit
of the people, whose representatives voiced their sentiments through the pre-
siding officer of the highest legislative body in the state. The address is as
follows :
"In behalf of the legislative assembly of the state of Oregon, we welcome
you to this state. I know that I express the welcome of each member of both
houses of our legislative assembly, irrespective of political creed. We welcome
you as president and chief executive of the greatest people and greatest country
in the civilized world. We welcome you also because we believe you stand for
the highest ideals of American citizenship.
"We welcome you because we believe that in your personality you represent
more strongly than any other public character in America the energy, the push-
ing and progressive spirit of all Americans.
"We welcome you because we believe that you represent and stand for the
high and legitimate claims of labor and capital to unite without repression from
either in the upbuilding and development of the material resources of this re-
public.
"We welcome you because we feel that we can see in you that same spirit
that has been illustrated so many times by our fathers in this, that wherever we
go as a people, wherever we stand, we stand for the right and a higher civiliza-
tion ; and 'wherever our flag is put, there it shall stay put.'
"We welcome you because we believe that you stand for the idea that a
nation or a people can never stand still, that they must go forward and upward
or else the race will retrograde.
"We welcome you because we believe that whatever problems we as a people
have to meet, whether they be in the coal fields of Pennsylvania or on the Pacific
sea or in the Orient, that you will meet them as the chief magistrate of this
country in a spirit of high liberal statesmanship, all the time governed with the
idea that what is right for us to have, that we shall have.
"And again, I assume the responsibility here of welcoming you in behalf
of the Second Oregon Regiment of Volunteers who served eight thousand miles
across the sea in the Philippine Islands to uphold the same flag that was so
upheld by you and those under you on that July day on San Juan Hill."
On the 28th of September, 1876, at Rockland, Massachusetts. Mr. Brownell
was united in marriage to Miss Alma C. Lan. Two sons have been born to
them, Howard and Ambrose. Mrs. Brownell is a member of the Presbyterian
church, and Mr. Brownell is connected with a number of fraternal organiza-
tions, among them the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Knights of the Maccabees, the
Woodmen of the World and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. As is to
be clearly seen by even a cursory glance at the salient points in the career of
Mr. Brownell, he is a man of determined character. He is also the happy pos-
sessor of great resources within himself, which he can marshal when occasion
offers. He is a live factor in the community and whatever his hands find to
do he does with all his might. As a lawyer he has proven to be a safe coun-
sellor, an able pleader and in the courtroom an opponent who gains the respect
even of his bitterest adversary. He is a clear and forcible speaker, and has a
mind well stored not only with lore gathered from law books, but with facts
gleaned from the great fields of literature which have been his recreation and
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delight. He is diligent in his profession, active in pursuit of truth, and always
lends a willing ear to calls upon his time or service, even when there is no
expectation of pecuniary reward. He has earned the place he occupies as a
citizen whose record is a complete refutation of the claim that all men have
their price and that no man can engage in public life for a series of years and
retire with an unsullied reputation.
TOM PHOCION RANDALL.
Tom Phocion Randall, postmaster of Oregon City, was born in that city
November 22, 1863, a son of Noble Warren and Susannah Randall. His father,
who was a native of Ohio, was born in 1825 and came to Oregon over the trail
in 1852. He lived for many years in Oregon City and Clackamas county and
occupied many public offices of trust. He was a man of high character and
many noble impulses, and was one of the most popular citizens in this part of
the state. He died on the 30th of May, 1890. Mrs. Randall was a native of
Kentucky, where she was born in 183 1. She survived her husband for fifteen
years, and was called to rest after a long Hfe of usefulness in 1905.
The subject of our review was reared under highly favorable auspices and
was educated in the public schools of Oregon City and at the Portland Business
College. After leaving school he was for some time in the employ of the Mil-
waukie Flouring Mills of Milwaukie, Oregon, as bookkeeper. Giving up that
position, he entered the real-estate business with Thomas F. Ryan in Oregon
City and there gained a thorough knowledge of a line which is one of the neces-
sary elements in the growth of any city. He became a member of the Oregon
City Transportation Company, and for five years acted as purser of the com-
pany. Like his father, he possesses the traits which are essential to those who
succeed in public life, and it required no special effort on his part to gain a
seat in the city council, over which body he presided during the years 1891, 1892
and 1893. In 1898 he again was elected to office, this time as county recorder,
in which position he served with general acceptance for two terms. In 1903 he
was appointed postmaster, and in 1907 was reappointed to the same office, hav-
ing shown a capability which was greatly appreciated by the business men and
citizens generally. He has been a lifelong republican, and is an ardent supporter
of the principles of the party.
On the 5th of November, 1895, Mr. Randall was united in marriage to Miss
Violet A. Matthieu, the youngest daughter of F. X. Matthieu of Butteville,
Oregon. She was called away in 1896, leaving no issue. Mr. Randall was
again married at Oregon City on the 3d of April, 1904, to Miss Nellie E. Boyd,
by whom he has one child, Velma Margaret, who was born April 3, 1905.
Mr. Randall has at various times been connected with movements having
for their aim the improvement and advancement of this region. He was a
member of Company F, Oregon National Guard, and served as lieutenant of
that organization. He has passed through the chairs of Oregon Camp No. 3,
I. O. O. F., and also of Falls Encampment No. 4, I. O. O. F., and Watchene
Tribe No. 13, I. O. R. M. He holds membership in Oregon City Lodge No.
1 189, B. P. O. E., and at the present time is president of the Oregon City Com-
mercial Club, which is one of the leading factors in the upbuilding of this city.
Mr. Randall has passed his life in the community where he now resides and
the honorable position he occupies is evidence of the esteem in which he is held
by those to whom he is best known. It would be difficult to find a higher in-
dorsement than that of our lifelong neighbors and friends. In all his acts, Mr.
Randall has been governed by a desire to be just, and in no case to exact more
than that which is due. As postmaster he is courteous and obliging, and the
office is administered in a way that meets the commendation of citizens and of
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the authorities at Washington. He acts upon the principle so ably enunciated
by Theodore Roosevelt that the office holder is exercising a trust for the benefit
of the people, and the first consideration which he should keep constantly in
view is honest and efficient service. The permanency of free institutions depends
in a large measure on the application of these principles.
PAUL WESSINGER.
To speak of Paul Wessinger only in business connections would be to give
but a one-sided view of his life, for, aside from his genius for organization and
his powers of management resulting in the substantial control of one of the im-
portant productive industries of the city, operating under the name of the Henry
Weinhard Brewery, his interests and activities have important bearing upon
municipal progress and upon that broader development which finds tangible ex-
pression in art and music. He was born in Esslingen, southern Germany, on
the 9th of February, 1859. His father, William Wessinger, was professor of
Latin at Stuttgart, Germany, to which place he removed when his son Paul
was but six years of age. He continued to devote his life to educational in-
terests until 1877, when he passed away at the age of forty-six.
Paul Wessinger pursued his education in the high school of Stuttgart, bene-
fiting largely by instruction there received, for the educational system of that
city was taken as a model throughout Germany on the reorganization of the
empire in 1871. Following his graduation in 1877 Mr. Wessinger took the ex-
aminations for an officer in the German army and made the required grades.
He then finished his education with a course in a mercantile school and entered
business life in connection with a large linen mill, serving there for about five
years, the first two years being devoted to an apprenticeship, while three years
were spent upon the road as representative for the house in northern and cen-
tral Germany. This brought him in close contact with many of the most prom-
inent merchants and gave him insight into business methods which were fol-
lowed.
In November, 1885, Mr. Wessinger came to Portland and entered the Wein-
hard Brewery in order to learn the business. He worked in every department,
beginning in a most humble capacity and advancing step by step through suc-
cessive promotions until he became Mr. Weinhard's right-hand man, so continu-
ing until the latter's death. In 1892 Mr. Wessinger made a trip through Ger-
many, studying the methods and machinery in use in the breweries of that coun-
try during his six months' sojourn there. Upon the death of Mr. Weinhard in
1904 he became one of the executors of the estate and has since had the active
management of both the brewery and the estate.
While the extent and importance of his business afifairs make continuous de-
mand upon his time, he yet finds opportunity for cooperation in public affairs
wherein Portland is directly benefited. He was one of the original fifteen di-
rectors of the Lewis and Clarke Exposition and was chairman of the grounds
and building committee. He also served as one of the sub-committee of three
which selected the grounds, choosing a district which for natural beauty and
scenic environment could not be surpassed. He was one of the first workers
in the movement to secure the exposition and contributed in large measure to its
success. In 1906 he served as one of the trustees of the Chamber of Commerce
and at the present time he is a member of the Portland Live Stock Association.
He is also president of the Oregon Brewers Association and he is interested in
many of those things to which men devote their leisure — interests which work
for culture and intellectual expansion as well as recreation. He belongs to the
Commercial Club, to the Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Associa-
tion, the Arlington Club and various German societies. He has always been a
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lover of music, is a member of the Apollo Club and in 1905 was president of
the Northern Pacific Sangerbund. Moreover, he is a devotee of art and was one
of a committee of five who selected the silver service for the battleship Oregon.
Fine horses claim his attention to some extent and he has a large stable, being
the owner of Hal B, which has the record for speed on the coast of 2:043/4. He
has done much to improve the stock in the northwest and in this connection his
work deserves more than passing credit.
In December, 1885, Mr. Wessinger was married, in Portland, to Miss Anna
Weinhard, and they have two children : Milla and Henry William, aged twenty-
three and twenty-two years. Such is the history of one who is today recog-
nized as among Portland's most prominent citizens. He has wisely utilized his
time and talents in the attainment of success, but his interests have been by no
means self-centered, his labors extending to the social, intellectual, esthetic and
political activities which are the chief forces in society and municipal organiza-
tion. Such is his personal worth and social qualities that all who know him are
glad to call him friend.
REV. A. HILLEBRAND.
Rev. A. Hillebrand, pastor of St. John's parish, Oregon City, is one of the
leading moral and religious forces of western Oregon. A representative of the
Teutonic race, he came to America many years ago. and has been a powerful
instrument in advancing the prosperity of the northwest. He was born at Brilon,
Westphalia, Germany, July 19, 1859, and is a son of A. and Catherine (Weber)
Hillebrand. After the usual course in the elementary schools, he attended the
gymnasium, where he was graduated in 1881, and was matriculated at the
University of Munster, later becoming a student at the American College in
the University of Louvain. After two years in theology and philosophy, he was
ordained to the priesthood June 28, 1885, at Louvain by Right Rev. Aegidius
Junger, bishop of Nesqually, of the state of Washington, who was at the time
in Belgium. He came with Bishop Junger to Oregon, and was placed in charge
of the missions of the eastern part of Oregon, in a district two hundred and fifty
by three hundred miles in extent. His duties required his presence in many
places over this extensive region, then thinly inhabited. He traveled on horse-
back and for three years lived the life of a pioneer missionary priest.
In his work in a new country, surrounded by many difficulties which are al-
most unknown at the present time, Father Hillebrand displayed a zeal and capa-
bility which led to his appointment July 4, 1888. as pastor of St. John's parish,
Oregon City. Here he has ever since remained and his efiforts have been crowned
with an abundant measure of success. St John's is recognized as one of the
best organized parishes in Oregon, and during the last twenty, years the church
has been enlarged to twice its original size, the last addition having been made
in 1902. A new parochial residence was erected, and in 1907 the McLoughlin
Institute was added as a crowning feature of the educational system of the
parish. This institution is the outgrowth of St. John's parochial and high schools
and is named in honor of Dr. John McLoughlin, who has been given the title
of Father of Oregon, and whose bones repose in St. John's churchyard. The
institution is a monument to his memory. Father Hillebrand has been a prorni-
nent worker in the effort to preserve the old McLoughlin home at Oregon City
as a memorial to one who will long be remembered as a leader in pioneer days.
On the 28th of June, 1910, was celebrated the silver jubilee of the entrance
of Father Hillebrand to the priesthood. The occasion attracted a great throng
of his friends and admirers. A local paper in the course of an extensive article
had the following to say : "Rev. A. Hillebrand, pastor of St. John's, Oregon City,
on Tuesday of this week, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordina-
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tion to the priesthood. Most Rev. Alexander Christie and a large number of
the archdiocesan clergy were present at the jubilee services. Solemn high mass
was celebrated at ten o'clock by the reverend jubilarian in the presence of a
congregation which filled St. John's church to the doors. At one o'clock dinner
was served to the visiting clergy, and in the evening a public reception was held
in McLoughlin hall at which a great throng gathered. It was a joyful occa-
sion for the people of Oregon City, both Catholic and non-Catholic, who turned
out in great numbers to present their felicitations to Father Hillebrand who has
earned their affection and gratitude by twenty-two years of zealous labors in
their community." In the evening of this auspicious occasion, a public reception
was tendered in McLoughlin hall, the Grand Army band serenading Father
Hillebrand at his residence and accompanying him to the hall, where congratu-
latory addresses were made by clergymen and distinguished laymen, most of
them non-Catholics, and a purse was presented to the jubilarian in behalf of
the parishioners.
During the time Father Hillebrand has been spiritual director of St. John's
parish, he has made hosts of friends, both within the church and without. A
worthy disciple of a world-wide faith, he has at all times exerted a kindly and
helpful influence and has radiated an atmosphere among his own people that
has been a constant incentive to a higher life. He is a member of the Catholic
Knights of America. An old book says : "He who turns many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever." Such, in the opinion of friends and admirers
of this beloved pastor, is the reward to which he may aspire, as also it may be
the reward of all worthy disciples of a Christian faith whose lives are governed
by principles of rectitude and truth.
PHINEAS T. HANSON.
Phineas T. Hanson, a veteran of the Civil war, now living retired at St.
Johns, was born on a farm near Palmyra in Somerset county, Maine, April 20,
1842, a son of James and Hannah Hanson. After receiving the usual education
at the district school, he was in attendance at a private school at Newport,
Maine, when President Lincoln issued his call for volunteers to suppress the
rebellion. The summons to arms met a ready response from all the loyal states,
and at the age of nineteen Phineas T. Hanson enlisted, September 2, 1861, from
Somerset county, for three years, or during the war. He was mustered into
the United States service at Augusta, Maine, on the 22d of September, 1861,
as a private of Company C, Ninth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, Colonel
Richworth commanding. He was honorably discharged at Black Island, South
Carolina, December 31, 1863, but reenlisted as a veteran in the same company
and regiment the following day to serve for three years, or during the war, his
captain being George W. Brown and his colonel George F. Granger. The Ninth
Maine Infantry was organized in September, 1861, under Colonel Horatio Biz-
bee, who was later succeeded in command by Colonels Richworth, Emery, Rob-
inson and Granger.
On September 24, 1861, the command left the state of Maine for Washing-
ton and after remaining there two weeks, sailed for Hilton Head, South Caro-
lina. The entire year of 1862 was spent in garrison duty in Florida, and in
January, 1863, the regiment returned to Hilton Head, where it remained on
picket duty until the following June. The regiment then joined the forces op-
erating in Charleston Harbor under command of Colonel Emery and partici-
pated in the assault of Strong's brigade on Fort Wagner, and in the opening
fight on Morris Island, South Carolina, capturing two of the enemy's flags. In
October, 1863, the command moved to Black Island, and while there four hun-
dred and sixteen of its original members reenlisted and received veteran fur-
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loughs. On April i8, 1864, the Ninth Regiment proceeded to Gloucester Point,
Virginia, where it was assigned to Ames' division, Tenth Army Corps, and as-
cended the James river, landing at Bermuda Hundred and advancing immedi-
ately upon the enemy's lines. During its service the regiment saw much hard
fighting, but at all times upheld the reputation of the state of Maine for patriot-
ism and loyalty to the Union. Its total loss of officers and men in killed and
wounded was six hundred and forty-four. The regiment took part in the fol-
lowing battles: Hilton Head, Fernandina, Florida; Morris Island, South Caro-
lina; the siege and assault of Fort Wagner, Port Walthall, Arronfield Church,
Drurys Bluff, Warebottom Church, Cold Harbor; the siege and assault of
Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Chapman's Farm and Darbytown Road in Virginia,
in addition to many minor engagements and skirmishes and much guard, garri-
son and picket duty, at all times performing gallant and meritorious service.
The regiment marched to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, drove the Confederates
out of the fort at Smithville, and then marched to Wilmington and from there
to Goldsboro, North Carolina, where it met Sherman's army returning from
Savannah, and marched on to Raleigh. Later the regiment gathered at Raleigh
North Carolina, where it was mustered out. The subject of this review was
promoted to the rank of sergeant October 22, 1864, in recognition of efficient
service. He was confined in a hospital at Fernandina, Florida, on account of
sunstroke, but at the end of six weeks rejoined his regiment which was sta-
tioned there at that time. He bore a gallant part in all the service to which he
was assigned, and never shirked any duty that would advance the interests of
the Union cause. He received his final discharge at Raleigh, North Carolina,
on the 13th of July, 1865.
At the close of the war Mr. Hanson returned to his old home in Maine,
where he remained until 1867, when his marriage occurred. After ten years
spent on a farm, which he purchased at East Corinth, Penobscot county, he dis-
posed of this property and bought a farm near Palmyra, which he operated until
1882. Having decided to visit the west and establish a permanent home there
if it should prove satisfactory, he bade farewell to his family for two years, and
came with an emigrant train across the plains to San Francisco. There he went
aboard the steamer Columbia and landed at Astoria, Oregon. He soon found
employment in a logging camp at Deep River, Washington, where he continued
for two years. He then established his home in St. Johns but at the end of
nineteen years took up his residence at Point View, one of the suburbs of St.
Johns, where he now lives. For several years he conducted a contracting busi-
ness, but ill health compelled him to retire from active operations, and he is
now living in a comfortable home at his ease, having through many years of
industry and good management acquired a competence for the evening of life.
In 1867 Mr. Hanson was united in marriage to Miss Adele J. Johonnot of
Newport, Maine, and unto them were born two children: Mabel V., now Mrs.
John B. Walker, who has one child, James, aged nine years; and Blanche, now
Mrs. William Marchy, who has three children— Ruth, four years of age, Lewis,
aged two, and Benjamin Franklin, now an infant. Mrs. Hanson belongs to a
family of soldiers. Her great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary war
and was in the battle of Ticonderoga. The family originally came to America
from France as refugees at the time of the persecution of the French Huguenots.
Her father, John G. Johonnot, was a soldier of the Civil war. He enlisted in
the Fourteenth Maine Regiment, but was sent home on account of age. He
reenlisted in the Sixth Maine Battery, Light Artillery, and served as gunner
until his death December 20, 1862. Mrs. Hanson is a charter member of Gen-
eral Compson Post No. 32, Women's Relief Corps. Mr. Hanson has always
taken a deep interest in the organizations resulting from the Civil war, and his
name has been found on the rolls of Stephen Davis Post No. 11, Grand Army
of the Republic of Maine; James W. Nesby Post No. 32, of The Dalles, Oregon;
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Lincoln-Garfield Post No. 3, of Portland, Oregon; and General Compson Post
No. 22, of St. Johns.
The active career of Mr. Hanson practically began amid preparations for
the great Rebellion, one of the most important conflicts in the annals of history.
In this great war he performed the service of a true soldier, and as he draws
near the close of a long life he regards with just pride the efforts he made many
years ago to uphold the flag and render possible the existence of a republic
which is today the mightiest monument that has ever been erected by man. It
is to the gallant soldiers of the Civil war, many of them farmer boys who were
just beginning to look out upon life and wonder what it held for them — it is to
these brave men and to others of a later generation who have assisted in the
perpetuation of the principles of freedom, that the republic owes its existence.
It has been truly said that these men need no monument of marble. They built
an enduring monument in the great American republic. To them the oppressed
of the whole world look as a prototype that will finally culminate in a realization
of the dream which has not as yet taken tangible form, "The parliament of man
and the federation of the world."
LOUIS NICOLAI.
The qualities of business leadership are in a substantial degree the possession
of Louis Nicolai. An initiative spirit and ability to coordinate forces so as to
produce a unified and harmonious whole and to direct the labors of others so
that maximum results are achieved at a minimum expenditure of time, labor
and material, are strongly marked characteristics in his business career, and his
ability and success places him in a prominent position in the ranks of those who
represent industrial activity in Portland, for he is now president of the Nicolai-
Neppack Company, proprietors of a planing-mill and sash and door factory
which cover the entire block bounded by Davis, Everett, First and Second streets.
His name has been associated with the lumber industry here since 1868 and the
importance and extent of his business interests are today indicated in the fact
that he now employs over one hundred workmen.
A native of Saxony, Germany, Mr. Nicolai was born February i, 1838, his
parents being John Henry and Margaret (Held) Nicolai, farming people of the
fatherland. When he was fifteen years of age the family emigrated to America,
settling on a farm in Michigan, where they remained from 1853 until 1868. At
that time the entire family came to Oregon by way of the isthmus of Panama
and San Francisco with Portland as their destination. Louis Nicolai had pre-
viously been married in Michigan, the lady of his choice being Miss Margaret
Kurtz, a native of the state of New York.
Following his arrival in Portland in the spring of 1868, Louis Nicolai joined
with his brothers, Adolph and Theodore, in the establishment of a sawmill business
at Beaver Valley, where they remained for about seven years and then removed
to Albina, where the business was conducted for a number of years. They
then returned to Beaver Valley, being associated together in a sawmill at that
place for about fifteen years. About the time that they first began the operation
of a sawmill they also established a planing-mill on Second and Everett streets
in Portland. It was a small concern but the enterprising business methods of
the partners, who operated under the firm style of Nicolai Brothers, soon won
for them increased patronage and the business grew to extensive proportions.
In 1887 it was incorporated and is now being carried on under the style of the
Nicolai-Neppack Company. The plant has been extended to cover the entire
block bounded by Davis, Everett, First and Second streets and employment is
furnished to more than one hundred workmen. The present officers are Louis
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Nicolai, president; Anthony Neppack, vice president and manager; and William
Nicolai, secretary.
The last named is the eldest of the four children of Louis Nicolai. He
married Octavia Betz. George, the second son, is a real estate and insurance
man of Portland, who married Miss Harter and unto them have been born
five children. Amelia is the wife of Walter Waite, a resident of eastern Oregon.
Eveline is the wife of W. W. Chambro and they, with their four children, live
with her father.
Mr. Nicolai has long been regarded as a prominent factor in the industrial
circles of Portland. A few years ago during the strike every lumber and plan-
ing mill in the city closed down with the exception of the Nicolai-Neppack plant.
On that occasion the engineer refused to perform his duties but Mr. Nicolai,
who is a thorough mechanic, ran the engine himself. When in Michigan he had
learned the carpenter's trade and throughout his entire life has been most handy
with tools and capable in all mechanical lines. He belongs to the Masonic fra-
ternity and is an exemplary representative of the craft. He has a beautiful home
at No. 355 Hasselo street, which is located on a plot of ground covering a half
block.
GEORGE W. BOSCHKE.
George W. Boschke has been characterized as "always on the fighting line."
In other words, he is ever at the front to meet conditions face to face, and in
the contests with nature, which are ever features to civil engineering, comes off
conqueror in the strife. To say that he occupies the position of chief engineer
of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company seems comparatively little save
to the people of the northwest, who are watching with breathless interest his
operations in railroad building in Oregon, but to state that he was the builder of
the great sea wall at Galveston is to bring him prominently before the country,
for who has not heard of the splendid piece of engineering which has resisted
one of nature's strongest and most dynamic forces — the great tidal wave which
for a time threatened the destruction of the rebuilded city on the gulf?
His life history had its beginning in Boston on the loth of October, 1864.
His parents were Albert and Mary (Paffy) Boschke, natives of Russia and
Spain, respectively. They were married in Washington, D. C, and had two
children, our subject's brother being now a resident of Los Angeles, California.
Following his course in the public schools, George W. Boschke attended Wilson
College. When his college days were over, he started for Texas — a young man
of twenty-two years — and secured employment in connection with the engineering
department of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Bending every energy
toward the successful completion of the tasks assigned him, he carefully worked
his way upward, his ability winning him recognition in successive promotions.
He made his reputation as a constructing engineer by building various lines fof
his company through the Lone Star state. It was while he was engaged on this
work that the first tidal wave practically wiped out the city of Galveston, save
those portions which were situated on higher land. Recovering from the first
shock of the fatality, Galveston's energetic and determined people took up the
task of rebuilding, and realizing that they must have protection from the sea,
they offered Mr. Boschke twelve thousand dollars a year to build for them a
wall which could withstand the shock of tidal wave. He was at that time in
the service of E. H. Harriman in his railroad building in the southwest. Dis-
cussing the Galveston situation with Mr. Harriman. the latter advised him to
continue in his railroad work. Galveston then considered other engineers, but
returned to Mr. Boschke with a proposition that he should continue with his
railroad work and at the same time build their sea wall. Again the question
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was discussed with Mr. Harriman, who agreed that Mr. Boschke should under-
take the dual task. Neglecting neither the one nor the other, Mr. Boschke
planned and superintended the work of railroad building and also undertook
the construction of the sea wall, utilizing all his scientific and practical knowl-
edge in building that which would constitute a safe barrier against the inroads
of the ocean.
This was at length accomplished, and from the southv/est he made his way
into the northwest country to plan and supervise difificult engineering feats in
railroad building in Oregon. While thus engaged, telegraphic communications
were flashed throughout the country that Galveston on its island had been a
second time leveled by the great tidal wave and that the sea wall had been
ground into bits of gravel by the force of the waters. Mr. Boschke was at that
time in his tent on the south bank of the Columbia river, the headquarters of a
great railroad construction camp. He read the message and exclaimed : "It's
a lie ! Galveston may be blown flat, the tidal wave may have swept high over
the sea wall, but the wall itself still stands. I built it, and I built it to stand."
The newspapers on reaching the construction camp confirmed the early reports,
saying that the sea wall was an utter wreck, but that the man who built it was
not to be blamed, as the tropical rage of the convulsion was beyond human
power to control. Mr. Boschke's assistants and subordinates working in the
northwest felt the deepest sympathy for their chief, but he never for a moment
felt doubt, and early on the second day there began to come to him many tele-
graphic messages from prominent people and officials of Galveston. Their pur-
port was, "The crest of the tidal wave was higher than the wall, but the wall
itself still stands. It broke the force of the water and saved the city from
destruction. No engineering work ever stood a greater test. Galveston is un-
injured and you are its savior. We congratulate and thank you."
Mr. Boschke received this message apparently as calmly as he did the first
and continued his labors of railroad building through the Des Chutes canyon.
He had been sent to this section of the country as the representative of the Har-
rim^an interests, and confronted here a situation presenting difficulties of a two-
fold nature. Not only must he undertake the task of building a railroad in a
district where nature was most unpropitious, but must meet competition brought
about by the efforts of James J. Hill to check progress on the undertaking by
building another road through the canyon. It is a well known fact that rail-
road operations have been promoted in Washington to the detriment of Oregon,
this state lacking transportation facilities which must ever constitute the foun-
dation for the development of a country. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company, with its line along the southern bank of the Columbia, together with
a few small lines along the Pacific west of the Cascade range, practically con-
stitute the railway system of this great state. When the late E. H. Harriman
made his last trip to the coast, he was met by a large delegation of earnest citi-
zens who stated to him the situation, to whom he gave the promise of building!
a railroad line from the Columbia river southward into the interior of the state,;
beginning at the point where the Des Chutes river runs into the Columbia. Some!
years before a local corporation had secured a charter for the building of a roadj
down the Des Chutes canyon, which is practically the only feasible way of
reaching the great tablelands of the interior. The corporation had bought some]
right of way and had laid a small portion of the track, but lack of funds hac
blocked the work. The Harriman interests attempted to buy their charter, but
the promoters held out for a large sum of money, and the Harriman lawyersl
found flaws in its legal standing. Nothing daunted, Mr. Harriman began work,!
realizing that the great timber regions and the high plateaus offering excellent!
pasture lands for sheep would in time mean heavy transportation of lumber,!
mutton and v/ool. It was at that time that he called Mr. Boschke, who had been!
made chief engineer of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, with head-j
quarters in Portland, to build the line. In the meantime the original company,!
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disappointed in their expected sale, presented the question to James J. Hill, the
railway magnate of Minnesota. Hill made the purchase and sent his men to
the scene of action. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company was already
in possession of the Des Chutes canyon and Mr. Hill was familiar with the work
of Mr. Boschke and the character of the men. Accordingly he sent for his
strongest representative, John F. Stevens, who had been connected with the
building of the Panama canal, and gave him almost unlimited powers. Since
that time it has been a continual contest between the two great engineering
chieftains and their forces as to who should first complete the road. The Hill
people got out an injunction to stop the work of the others and secured a de-
cision which gives to the corporation the rights which they had purchased, the
first choice of a right of way through the canyon. Mr. Boschke w^as not de-
terred by this, for with almost limitless power accorded him by the Harriman.
interests, he resolved that when he could not get the best natural right of way,
he would blast one equally as good out of the solid rock. This has been his
policy from the first, and he began railroad construction near The Dalles on
the Columbia, a little west of the mouth of the Des Chutes, and soon afterward
turned into the canyon. The Hill people are working on their side of the can-
yon which at times narrows until there is scarcely room for the river in the
two rival roadbeds between perpendicular walls a half mile in height. Not only
does the engineer face the situation of laying railroad tracks along the bank
of an irregular river, but must figure on the tremendous floods that sweep down
through the canyon in the springtime. Added to other questions, there is the
efifort to avoid hostilities between the workmen of the two forces and the neces-
sity that each feels of completing the road before the other and thus, as one
of the local papers has expressed it, "The scene is set for a Homeric struggle."
Doubtless the work will be completed by each force in 191 1, but Mr. Boschke
has the greater task in that he must dispute with nature for a right of way,
blasting out his roadbed from the solid rock for many miles and meet contin-
ually most difficult questions of engineering. His ability and his worth, how-
ever, have been proven and the picturesque history of the past presents no more
attractive nor fascinating story — a story of greater courage, resolution and de-
termination than is shown by George W. Boschke, forceful and resourceful,
'possessing the perseverance when he knows that he is in the right to continue
a work at all odds. The tasks that he has accomplished has made his name
known throughout the length and breadth of the land, and in engineering circles,
where knowledge gives true appreciation of the character of his worth, his
course has awakened the highest and most unqualified admiration.
Mr, Boschke was married August 3, 1890, to Carrie M. Smith, a daughter
of John and Theresa Smith, of Santa Rosa, California, and they are the parents
of three children: Marguerite Ella, Elizabeth Hood and George Harriman.
WILSON BENEFIEL.
Wilson Benefiel, a well known cement contractor of Portland, and also prom-
inently identified with other lines of business, was born May 31. 1859, in Yam-
hill county, Oregon, a son of John Wesley and Lacy Ann Benefiel. The father
was a native of Indiana, and was one of the pioneers of this state, arriving in
Oregon in 1852. The mother came from Maryland and was a descendant of
the Carrolls, a noted Revolutionary family. Mr. and Mrs. Benefiel moved to
Washington county, Oregon, in 1865 and located on a farm.
Wilson Benefiel attended school first at a log school house four miles north
of Forest Grove at a place called Greenville. At the age of sixteen years, he
laid aside his books, and from that time has been largely self-supporting, al-
though he continued at home for four years, the father's health being such that
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the responsibility of managing the farm devolved upon the son. At twenty-
years of age he started out to 'meet the world, and for a year lived in the Walla
Walla district. He then returned to the farm where he continued until 1881,
when he removed to Portland, where he was employed for six months by the
Lone Fir cemetery. He next resided for a few months at Centralia and there
built a boat and went to the Grays Harbor country, where he engaged in the
lumber business. In 1886 he returned to Washington county and spent six
months upon a preemption claim. From that point he came to Portland, where
he has since made his home. He has acted as superintendent of the Lone Fir
cemetery since March 12, 1888, a position which he has filled with great ac-
ceptance to the board of directors and to those whose friends repose in this
beautiful cemetery. About 1901 Mr. Benefiel began as a cement contractor
which business he has carried forward in addition to his duties as superintend-
ent of the cemetery. He erected the first concrete building on Union avenue,
and also a large three-story concrete building at the corner of Mississippi and
Killingsworth avenues. He also built the public swimming pool for the city at
Sellwood Park. In his business career he has been highly successful, and has
prospered from year to year.
On November 5, 1881, Mr. Benefiel was united in marriage to Miss Addie
Sell, a daughter of Stephen Sell, who was a pioneer of Washington county,
having arrived in this state from Ohio in 1852. Two children have been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Benefiel : Francis Wilson, now aged twenty years ; and John
Wilson, aged fifteen. The older is a graduate of the Portland Academy, and
one of the promising young men of the city.
Mr. Benefiel is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Woodmen of the World. He is recognized as a man of fine business ability
and a citizen whose example is well worthy of imitation. His career illustrates
in a striking degree the advantages which may result to the individual from re-
sponsibility in early life, while much of his success is due to habits of industry
and economy. His experience indicates that if boys were thrown more upon
their own resources there would be fewer failures in after life and the sum of
human happiness would be vastly increased.
CHARLES EDWARD RUMELIN.
Without special advantages at the outset of his career, Charles Edward
Rumelin has steadily advanced in his business career until, as president of Ash- |J
ley & Rumelin, bankers, he now occupies a prominent position in banking circles
in Portland. The width of the continent separates him from his birthplace,
which was Argyle, Washington county, New York, his natal day being Sep-
tember 17, 1858. His parents were Frederick and Eliza Blossom (Scott) Rume-J
lin, in whose home his youthful days were passed, while he acquired his educa-
tion in the district schools of New York. His early experiences were those of
the farm, and for a considerable period he was identified with general agricul-
tural pursuits. He has been a resident of the northwest since 1885, ^"d has
firmly established himself in the front rank of Portland's business men as presi-
dent of Ashley & Rumelin, bankers, conducting a private banking business in
this city. He is thoroughly informed concerning the value of investments and
securities, of commercial paper and its possible rise in value, and in the field
of private banking, where he has made for himself a notable and enviable
position.
On the 7th of March, 1883, Mr. Rumelin was married to Miss Flora E.
Ashley, and they have become the parents of a son and daughter. Reed Ashley
and Rhoda. Mr. Rumelin served as a member of the Oregon militia from 1888
until 1892, and when mustered out was holding the rank of first lieutenant of
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Company A of the First Oregon Regiment. His political allegiance is given
to the republican party, and he has twice given very tangible evidence of his
fidelity to the best interests of the community by his service in the city council,
covering the period from 1894 until 1896, and again from 1902 until 1905. He
exercises his official prerogative in support of every measure calculated for the
public good and instituted several progressive movements which have been of
marked value in promoting the city's welfare. He was particularly active in
abolishing wooden walks and in inaugurating concrete walks.
GUSTAVE WALTER NELSON.
Gustave Walter Nelson, pastor of the Congregational church of St. Johns
and for seventeen years past an earnest worker in a vocation which is recog-
nized as the noblest occupation of man, was born in Denmark, November 28,
1861. He is a son of Andrew and Susanna Nelson. At four years of age he
carne with his parents to America, the family passing through New York and
Chicago to Sheffield, Illinois, and four years later to Cuming county, Nebraska,
where the subject of this sketch attended the common schools until he was four-
teen years of age. The family removed to Seattle, Washington, in 1876 and,
having shown a marked adaptability for higher studies and an interest in intel-
lectual subjects, which indicated good thinking and reasoning qualities, he en-
tered the State University at Seattle and continued there for two years. In the
meantime he had located a homestead and during the years 1884 and 1885 he
taught school in order to acquire the necessary funds to prove up this claim.
After one year's attendance at Tualitin Academy he matriculated at the Pacific
University, where he devoted four years to the classical course, graduating with
the degree of A. B. in 1890. Having decided to enter the ministry, he took the
theological course in the Pacific Theological Seminary, and in 1893 he was or-
dained as a minister of the Congregational church.
Mr. Nelson was now thirty-two years of age and entered upon his life work
with an energy and a zeal that promised abundant success. His first charge was
at Kalama, Washington, where he remained from 1893 to 1895. He then re-
sponded to a call from Port Angeles, Washington, continuing there until the
fall of 1899. His next call was from the Congregational church at Ashland,
Oregon, and he ministered to that church until June, 1903, then going to Albany
for a period of four years. On June i, 1907, he came to St. Johns, where he
has since been in charge of a thriving church, which has a membership of forty-
five and an enrollment of eighty names in its Sunday school. The trustees of
the church, who have proven earnest assistants to Mr. Nelson and have at all
times given him their constant support, are B. T. Leggit, A. L. Douglas, A. E.
McDermid, Marion Johnston and D. S. Busby. Mr. Nelson acts as superintend-
ent of the Sunday school, and is always found among those who are most public-
spirited in advancing the welfare of the community. He is a member of the
Knights of Pythias and has become prominently identified with the interests of
this region by investments in real estate in the immediate vicinity of St. Johns.
On the 24th of December, 1890, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Miss
Ella Morrison, a daughter of Rev. J. M. Morrison, a retired Presbyterian min-
ister of East Portland. Mrs. Nelson came with her parents from the east in
1883. Oiie daughter has been born to this union, Margaret Ruth, now fourteen
years of age.
The church of which Mr. Nelson is a worthy exponent has in him an ardent
and sincere supporter, and his kindly manner and his interest in every man,
woman and child he meets has endeared him not only to his own parishioners,
but to many who have no church affiliation. When he entered the ministry he
gave his whole heart to the work. His wisdom has been gained by study of
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made a thorough study of the trade, so that he is able to direct its interests in
accordance with present day conditions, and he has forged ahead continuously
in his chosen field until he now ranks with the most successful men in this Hne
in this section of the country, for the house has gained a reputation for the re-
liability of its methods and the character of its output is unassailable.
E. H. MANSFIELD.
E. H. Mansfield, for six years past a resident of St. Johns, Oregon, was born
at Toledo, Ohio, in 1854. He is the son of Hiram and Alzina Mansfield, who
came from Ireland some years before the Civil war and located at Moline, Illi-
nois, in the spring of 1855. Hiram Mansfield gave his hfe to his adopted coun-
try. He enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry and was killed in battle during
the first year of the Civil war. The following year his widow was called away,
leaving the son to fight his battles alone.
E. H. Mansfield thus early became inducted to the stern realities of life.
However, he possessed a resolute heart and inherited from worthy parents a
hope that has never entirely departed and he determined, even as a boy, to make
the best of the conditions by which he found himself surrounded. He lived in
Geneseo, Illinois, until seventeen years of age and never possessed the advantages
of education except in his very early years. At the age of eleven he began to
learn the barber's trade and after traveling in many parts of the country he
located in St. Johns, Oregon, in 1904, where he has since been engaged at his
trade. Mr. Mansfield generally casts his vote with the democratic party. He is
a member of the Yeomen lodge and since his earliest recollection has been
identified with the Catholic church.
MARIUS HANSEN.
Marius Hansen, a progressive and enterprising contractor of Portland, is a
native of Denmark, born in the town of Wamdrup, on the i8th of August, 1863,
and a son of Christian and Christine (Neilsen) Hansen. The father died in
1882 at the age of sixty-six years, while the mother survived until 1903, pass-
ing away at the age of seventy-six years. In their family were eight children,
five sons and three daughters, all still living. Marius Hansen lived with his
parents until he was twenty years of age. He received his education in the
common schools and later learned the blacksmith's trade and also gained some
experience in farming in the mother country.
At twenty years of age, in 1883, Mr. Hansen came to America and first lo-
cated at the town of Dedham, Iowa, where he remained about ten months. He
then traveled westward to Nebraska and was employed upon a farm for three
years. Not entirely satisfied with the outlook in the prairie region and believ-
ing that the Pacific coast presented favorable conditions for a young man who
was willing to work, he came to Portland and since 1888 has made this city his
home. For more than twenty years past he has been identified with cement con-
struction and few men in the country are better informed concerning the prop-
erties and qualities of cement and the many uses to which it may be applied.
As a general contractor he has attained an established reputation and during
the years past has put in the foundations of some of the largest buildings of
the city and in all classes of cement work has shown an ability that places him
in the front line among those who are engaged in the industry.
On the 19th of December, 1884, Mr. Hansen was united in marriage to Miss
Anna Shultz, a daughter of Christian and Johanna Shultz. She was also a na-
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tive of Denmark and was called from earthly ties October 28, 1905. She was a
good wife and the mother of four children, three of whom are now living, Tina,
Anna and Edith. Mr. Hansen is a member of the Lutheran church and lives in
a beautiful residence on East Grant street. He has never had cause to regret
that he selected Portland as his home. His chief source of recreation is auto-
mobiling. He is an active member of the Brooklyn Push Club and politically is
identified with the democratic party.
JAMES BOYCE MONTGOMERY.
James Boyce Montgomery, a railroad builder whose efforts contributed to
the development of both the east and the west and who for many years was one
of the best known and most highly honored citizens of Portland, was born at
Montgomery's Ferry on the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania, twenty-five
miles north of Harrisburg, December 6, 1832. Between the ages of six and six-
teen years he was a pupil in the public schools near his home and then sought
the city that he might find broader opportunity for the exercise of his industry
and ambition — his dominant qualities. In Philadelphia he obtained a position on
the Evening Bulletin, with which he was connected for several years, until quali-
fied to do expert work in that line. His ability won recognition among those
f)ro'minent in the printing business, and he was offered a position on the San-
dusky (Ohio) Daily Register by Governor H. D. Cook in 1853. It is notable
that each forward step in his career brought him broader opportunities. His
position with the Register led to his appointment as editor of the Pittsburg
Morning Post, and in time he became one of the proprietors of that paper,
which he successfully managed, making it one of the leading journals of that
section of the country. Other fields of labor, however, seemed to promise more
rapid and substantial returns and, disposing of his interests in the paper to
Colonel James P. Barr, his partner, he took up the work of railroad develop-
ment in Pennsylvania as a contractor. With two associates in 1858 he secured
a contract to build a bridge across the Susquehanna river at Linden, Pennsyl-
vania, for the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company. The work was suc-
cessfully completed and furnished the opening for larger operations in the field
of railroad building. In 1859 ^^'- Montgomery was awarded the contract for
building the Bedford & Hopewell Railroad in Pennsylvania, and in 1861 became
associated with Captain William Lowthes in the building of the Nesquehoning
Valley Railroad. The outbreak of the Civil war, resulting in the difficulty of
obtaining labor, caused a suspension of this work, however, but it was after-
ward completed by Mr. Montgomery in 1868-9. ^^ the meantime he had done
work under contract for the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, and in 1866 became
one of its directors, in which position he remained until 1869. He also built the
wire bridge across the Susquehanna river at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. His
operations in the field of railroad building became all the time of more impor-
tance, bringing him prominently before the public in this connection. He be-
came one of the owners of the charter of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad in
connection with Thomas A. Scott, George W. Cass, J. D. Potts and J. D. Cam-
eron, who were active in securing the construction and completion of the line
between Baltimore and Washington, D. C. He was also interested in the com-
pletion of four hundred miles of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, extending into
Denver. He met with substantial and growing success as a railroad builder and
contractor, and his services in that connection were in continuous demand. He
found ready solution for intricate business problems, readily co-ordinated forces
and brought seemingly dissimilar interests into a unified whole. Difficulties van-
ished before him as mists before the morning sun, for his energy seemed indom-
itable, and when one avenue of opportunity was closed he sought the fulfill-
ment of his purpose in another direction.
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Mr. Montgomery's residence on the Pacific coast dated from 1870, and the
following year he became a resident of Oregon. Soon afterward he offered to
build the first portion of the Pacific division of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
and the contract was awarded him against fifteen other builders. He constructed
over one hundred miles of the road and also built the draw-bridge across the
Willamette at Harrisburg for the Oregon & California Railroad. He was most
systematic in all that he did, so that results were accomplished at a minimum
loss of labor, time and material. In this is the secret of all success, and in time
led Mr. Montgomery to a position among the prosperous residents of the north-
west. In 1870 he went to Scotland for the purpose of organizing a company
which subsequently built or acquired one hundred and sixty-three miles of rail-
road in the Willamette valley, of which Mr. Montgomery himself constructed
seventy-eight miles. The American spirit of energy and determination soon ac-
complished his purpose. The company was organized and a contract for rails
was let at Stockton-on-the-Tees. Proceeding to London, he chartered the two
vessels St. Louis and Childers to bring the rails to this country. While cross-
ing to Great Britain he had become acquainted with Captain Gilmore, who said
that he was on his way to Cardiff, Wales, to take command of the ship Edwin
Reed, which was to sail with a cargo of rails for the Willamette valley to be
used by a company organized in Great Britain for constructing a railway line.
With celerity and dispatch Mr. Montgomery carried out his plans and not only
organized the company, but also had his rails in Portland six weeks before the
arrival of the Edwin Reed under command of Captain Gilmore.
While railroad construction and organization largely claimed the energies
and ability of Mr. Montgomery, he did not confine his efiforts entirely to that
line, his labors proving equally effective in other departments of business. He
took large contracts for government work in the channels of the Columbia and
Snake rivers, requiring the removal of great masses of rock, particularly at the
John Day rapids. He built and operated steam sawmills at Skamokawa on the
Columbia, the enterprise being conducted under the name of the Columbia River
Lumber & Manufacturing Company. He likewise built large docks and ware-
houses on the water front at Albina, and of these was sole proprietor. The word
fail had no part in his vocabulary. A plan undertaken was carried forward to
successful completion, and the methods employed were ever of the most hon-
orable and straightforward character. Indeed Mr. Montgomery sustained an
unassailable reputation for business integrity and reliability from the outset of
his business career, and that he early gave indication of his marked business
ability as well as integrity is perhaps best indicated by an incident which oc-
curred in 1861 when he was but twenty-nine years of age. At that time he had
accumulated but very little property and was in need of ten thousand dollars
with which to carry on a business project. He made his way to the home of a
relative, General J. K. Moorhead, a distance of three hundred miles, and asked
the general to indorse his note for ten thousand dollars. This was done, and
the money was forthcoming from the Bank of Pittsburg, payable in four months.
At the end of that time Mr. Montgomery again had need for ten thousand dol-
lars and again asked the general to indorse his note for that amount. The lat-
ter replied : "James, it is a good deal of trouble for me to indorse your note
every three or four months and inconvenient for you to come out this distance.
I can do something better." Thereupon he sat down and wrote out the follow-
ing : "To J. Cook & Company, Washington, D. C. ; Gentlemen : I will be re-
sponsible to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars for money advanced
to J. B. Montgomery. Respectfully, J. K. Moorhead." In commenting upon
this, Mr. Montgomery afterward said that at the time he thought of it only as
an act of conspicuous generosity on the part of his relative, but subsequent years
of experience convinced him that it was an act of great confidence in his in-
tegrity. General Moorhead never inquired into the matter or spoke of it for
nearly two years, and then asked if Mr. Montgomery had straightened matters
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up with the bank. Upon being answered in the affirmative, the subject was
dropped and never referred to again.
Ahhough an active man of business, Mr. Montgomery did not follow the
course of many successful business men of the present day, who feel that politics
are something with which they have no concern. He recognized the obligations
as well as the privileges of citizenship, and stanchly and loyally supported the
principles in which he believed. He voted with the democracy until, differing
with the party policy on the question of slavery, he joined the republican party
in i860 and supported Abraham Lincoln. He was thereafter to the time of his
death an earnest advocate of republican principles, and in 1866, 1867 and 1868
represented Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, as a delegate in the state conven-
tion. In the first year he was associated with Thaddeus Stevens, Wayne Mac-
Veagh and others on the resolutions committee, reporting a resolution commend-
ing the nomination of General Grant for the presidency, which was the first
state convention to present the name of the hero of Appomattox as a presidential
candidate. Mr. Montgomery would never consent to become a candidate for
office until 1890, in which year he was nominated and elected to represent Mult-
nomah county in the state legislature. He was nevertheless throughout all the
years a potent factor in political circles by reason of his influence, his clearly
expressed opinions, and his effort to further the cause in which he believed.
In 1861 Mr. Montgomery was married to Miss Rachel Anthony, a daughter
of the Hon. Joseph B. Anthony, of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. She died
in 1863, leaving an only son, and in 1866 Mr. Montgomery wedded Miss Mary
S. Phelps, the only daughter of Governor John S. Phelps, of Missouri.
The life history of James Boyce Montgomery most readily illustrates what
may be attained by faithful and continued effort in carrying out an honest pur-
pose. Integrity, industry and energy were the crowning points of his success,
and his connection with various enterprises and industries was of decided ad-
vantage to the sections of the country in which he labored. He stood as the
highest type of American citizenship; capable and discriminating in business,
patriotic and loyal in citizenship, and with conscientious regard for the rights and
privileges of his fellowmen.
DAVID COLE.
David Cole, who for the last forty-five years has been a resident of Oregon,
was bom near Lewiston, Niagara county, New York, August 2, 1837. His
father, William Cole, a native of Jefferson county. New York, was born in 1804
and died in 1868, while his mother, who bore the maiden name of Ruth Taylor,
was born in Connecticut in 181 5 and died in 1876. His grandfather, William
Cole, served in the Revolutionary war, while his great-grandfather, who also
bore the name of William Cole, was killed in one of the Indian massacres of
New England colonists.
David Cole received his preliminary education in the common schools of
Jefferson county. New York, and, as his parents removed to Michigan when
he was fifteen years of age, he continued his education in a private school at
Coldwater, Michigan, and also had the advantage of attendance for a tim.e at
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. At eighteen years of age he laid
his school books aside and entered upon his business career as apprentice in the
tinsmith's trade. At the age of twenty-three, after learning the trade, he re-
moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, and was in business there at the breaking out of
the Civil war. When St. Joseph was occupied by the federal troops, business
having become very dull, he returned to Michigan, where he remained until
1864.
332 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
Mr. Cole was now twenty-seven years of age and he decided to locate per-
manently on the Pacific coast. He went first to San Francisco, where he found
conditions not entirely satisfactory, and on February 14, 1865, he landed at
Portland, then a thriving town which was just beginning to give evidences of
the great development that has made it one of the principal centers of business
on the coast of the Pacific. After working at his trade in Portland for a year
or two, he went to Salem, Oregon, and embarked in business for himself. In
1873 he sold out and returned to Portland, and was just starting upon what
promised to be a prosperous career when the city was visited by the great fire of
August 2, 1873, when twenty-seven blocks of building were practically wiped out
of existence. Fortunately for Mr. Cole, he had established himself outside of
the fire limits and did not suffer any severe personal loss. He conducted a hard-
ware and stove store at First and Taylor streets until 1893 and by diligence and
good management acquired an independent fortune.
On March 3, 1868, Mr. Cole was married to Amanda L. Boone, a native of
Salem, Oregon, and a daughter of Rev. John D. and Martha (Hawkins) Boone.
Her father, who was a minister of the Methodist church, was a Kentuckian by
birth and a direct descendant of Daniel Boone. He was for many years actively
interested in the Boys and Girls Aid Society. Mr. and Mrs. Cole have one child,
Winnie L., the wife of John McCarty, of Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Cole since arriving at maturity has been identified with the democratic
party and has given zealous support to its principles. He was a member of the
city council for four years before East Portland was incorporated as a part
of the city of Portland. Since 1866 he has been connected with the Masonic
order, having attained the Royal Arch degree and holding membership in Wash-
ington Lodge, No. 46. His life in a large measure has been controlled by the
principles of this order and, while he has been unpretentious and modest, never
claiming preferment over others, he years ago gained recognition as one of the
useful and substantial citizens of a growing and enlightened community.
GEORGE E. WATKINS.
With industry and determination as dominant qualities, George E. Watkins
has made steady progress in the business world, advancing from a humble finan-
cial position until he ranks among Portland's men of affluence. Moreover, his
business record is such as any man might be proud to possess, it being a source
of inspiration and of admiration to his colleagues and his contemporaries. He
has made his home in Portland from pioneer times, arriving here when a little
lad of ten years.
His birth occurred in Keokuk, Iowa, on the 4th of March, 1845. He was
a son of George Watkins, a native of Watkinsville, New York, which town was
named in honor of his ancestors. In his youth the father learned the wagon-
maker's trade, and with the family removed from Watkinsville to St. Louis,
Missouri. He was residing in the latter city when, in 1838, he was united in
marriage to Miss Helen Caldwell, of St. Louis, and later they removed to Keo-
kuk, Iowa, where they resided until 1852. In the meantime seven children had
been born to them, and with their family they started across the plains to Ore-
gon. It was a long, hard trip, the roads were in poor condition, streams had to
be forded and supplies had to be carried nearly the entire distance, as after pass-
ing Omaha and some of the other western outposts of civilization, there was no
hope of obtaining anything until the towns of the Pacific coast should be reached.
Then, too, there was always the danger and fear of Indian attack, but the Wat-
kins family at length reached the northwest in safety and settled first at Shoal
Water bay on North river. There Mr. Watkins built a sawmill in 1854. He
became not only one of the representative business men of that locality, but was
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also recognized as a leader of public thought and opinion and his fellow towns-
men, appreciating his worth and ability, elected him to serve in the state legis-
lature at Olympia, Washington, in the winter of 1855. While attending that
session the high water washed his sawmill away. He returned home, and with
undaunted spirit, set to work to retrieve his lost possessions. Removing to the
Cascades, they engaged in building a warehouse on the island when the Yakima
Indians planned and executed an attack upon the Cascades and he and his second
son, James, then a boy of fourteen or fifteen years, were killed by the savages.
It was one of the never to be forgotten tragedies which marked the pioneer his-
tory of the northwest. His wife had died in the spring of 1853.
George E. Watkins was but a baby when his parents crossed the plains, and
was only ten years of age when his father was killed, and he was left an orphan.
Soon afterward he came to Portland. He found the necessity of providing for
his own support, and from that time made his own way in the world. He se-
cured a position as a paper carrier with the Oregonian when but thirteen years
of age, and as he came in contact with men and saw their progress toward suc-
cess, he was fired with a laudable ambition to work his way upward. He real-
ized, too, that education is a strong factor in success and in order to counteract
the lack of school privileges of his own early youth, he worked his way through
the Portland Academy and Female Seminary, which was then located on Seventh
and Jefiferson streets. This school was afterward consolidated with the Willa-
mette University and removed to Salem. When he had completed his course
he secured a position in the store of John Wilson and that he was faithful and
capable is indicated in the fact that he remained there for five years.
Having saved five thousand dollars from his earnings, Mr. Watkins started
in business on his own account, investing his capital in a sheep ranch on Rock
creek in eastern Oregon in connection with C. B. Comstock, now deceased. This
partnership continued for two years, at the •end -of which time their success had
been sufficient to enable Mr. Watkins to purchase the interest of his partner.
For eight years he conducted the ranch alone and was closely connected with
the sheep industry for a decade, which gave him a substantial start in life. He
then returned to Portland in 1883 and repurchased an interest in the real-estate,
insurance and loan business of Parrish & Cornell. The business is now con-
ducted under the name of Parrish, Watkins & Company. The real-estate busi-
ness was organized in 1867 by L. M. Parrish, now deceased, and since that time
has had a continuous existence, although different changes in partnership have
occurred. George E. Watkins and his son, Frank E.. are now owners, although
the business is conducted under the style of Parrish, Watkins & Company. In
addition to an extensive real-estate business, they make investments and loans,
attend to rentals and also write a considerable amount of insurance each year.
Their clientage is large and their business has reached very profitable propor-
tions.
Mr. Watkins was married in Portland in 1874 to Miss Olive Clay, a daughter
of Oliver and Jane A. Clay, who came to Portland about 1858 from Massillon,
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins became the parents of three children, of whom
two are living: Frank E., who is married and is associated with his father in
business; and Grace E., the wife of Dr. George B. Story and the mother of
one son, George Watkins Stor}'. Mrs. Watkins died in Portland in 1887, and
the attractive social qualities which she had displayed and her kindly spirit caused
her death to be deeply deplored by many friends.
Mr. Watkins while engaged in the sheep industry served as justice of the
peace in Wasco county, and for two years was a member of the state board of
equalization. Otherwise he has held no public office, for his business interests
have made increasing demand upon his time and energies. His political al-
legiance is given to the republican party. His son, Frank E. Watkins, is a
thirty-second degree and K'night Templar Mason and member of Al Kader
Temple of Shriners. He is also a member of the city council. Every man who
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also recognized as a leader of public thought and opinion and his fellow towns-
men, appreciating his worth and ability, elected him to serve in the state legis-
lature at Olympia, Washington, in the winter of 1855. While attending that
session the high water washed his sawmill away. He returned home, and with
undaunted spirit, set to work to retrieve his lost possessions. Removing to the
Cascades, they engaged in building a warehouse on the island when the Yakima
Indians planned and executed an attack upon the Cascades and he and his second
son, James, then a boy of fourteen or fifteen years, were killed by the savages.
It was one of the never to be forgotten tragedies which marked the pioneer his-
tory of the northwest. His wife had died in the spring of 1853.
George E. Watkins was but a baby when his parents crossed the plains, and
was only ten years of age when his father was killed, and he was left an orphan.
Soon afterward he came to Portland. He found the necessity of providing for
his own support, and from that time made his own way in the world. Pie se-
cured a position as a paper carrier with the Oregonian when but thirteen years
of age, and as he came in contact with men and saw their progress toward suc-
cess, he was fired with a laudable ambition to work his way upward. He real-
ized, too, that education is a strong factor in success and in order to counteract
the lack of school privileges of his own early youth, he worked his way through
the Portland Academy and Female Seminary, which was then located on Seventh
and Jefiferson streets. This school was afterward consolidated with the Willa-
mette University and removed to Salem. When he had completed his course
he secured a position in the store of John Wilson and that he was faithful and
capable is indicated in the fact that he remained there for five years.
Having saved five thousand dollars from his earnings, Mr. Watkins started
in business on his own account, investing his capital in a sheep ranch on Rock
creek in eastern Oregon in connection with C. B. Comstock, now deceased. This
partnership continued for two years, at the 'end -of which time their success had
been sufificient to enable Mr. Watkins to purchase the interest of his partner.
For eight years he conducted the ranch alone and was closely connected with
the sheep industry for a decade, which gave him a substantial start in life. He
then returned to Portland in 1883 and repurchased an interest in the real-estate,
insurance and loan business of Parrish & Cornell. The business is now con-
ducted under the name of Parrish, Watkins & Company. The real-estate busi-
ness was organized in 1867 by L. M. Parrish, now deceased, and since that time
has had a continuous existence, although different changes in partnership have
occurred. George E. Watkins and his son, Frank E., are now owners, although
the business is conducted under the style of Parrish, Watkins & Company. In
addition to an extensive real-estate business, they make investments and loans,
attend to rentals and also write a considerable amount of insurance each year.
Their clientage is large and their business has reached very profitable propor-
tions.
Mr. Watkins was married in Portland in 1874 to Miss Olive Clay, a daughter
of Oliver and Jane A. Clay, who came to Portland about 1858 from Massillon,
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins became the parents of three children, of whom
two are living: Frank E., who is married and is associated with his father in
business ; and Grace E., the wife of Dr. George B. Story and the mother of
one son, George Watkins Story. Mrs. Watkins died in Portland in 1887, and
the attractive social qualities which she had displayed and her kindly spirit caused
her death to be deeply deplored by many friends.
Mr. Watkins while engaged in the sheep industry served as justice of the
peace in Wasco county, and for two years was a member of the state board of
equalization. Otherwise he has held no public office, for his business interests
have made increasing demand upon his time and energies. His political al-
legiance is given to the republican party. His son, Frank E. Watkins, is a
thirty-second degree and Knight Templar Mason and member of Al Kader
Temple of Shriners. He is also a member of the city council. Every man who
338 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
Christian Honnes was born in the city of Christiansand, April 7, 1859, a son
of Knud and Gunhild Honnes. He was educated in his native land and, as is
customary, was early apprenticed to learn a trade. After mastering the prin-
ciples of the mechanical trades he learned shipbuilding, which is carried on very
extensively at the ports of Norway. Like thousands of ambitious young men
Mr. Honnes early decided to seek his fortune under more favorable auspices
than prevailed in his native land. Accordingly, at twenty-one years of age, he
landed from a vessel at the city of Philadelphia. From there he traveled west-
ward to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he readily found employment and where
he prospered for six years. He came to Portland in 1886 and about 1888 formed
a partnership with Charles Nelson as a shipbuilder at the foot of Oak street in
this city. Later, on account of the necessity for larger quarters, the plant was
moved to the foot of Wood street, where a prosperous and growing business
has been maintained and is now flourishing as never before. The work turned
out at this plant is proving highly satisfactory to the water carrying trade and
the reputation of the firm has always been first class.
On May 22, 1881, Mr. Honnes was united in marriage to Miss Laurene
Hoist, a native of Norway. Two children were born of this union, both of
whom have been called away. Mr. Honnes is a member of the Woodmen of the
World but is not identified with many interests outside of a business which has
occupied the most of his attention during the active period of his life. He has
attained success by strict integrity, the conscientious discharge of all obligations
and an unremitting attention to an industry in which he takes the greatest in-
terest and which he thoroughly understands. Naturally retiring and modest,
he has always kept his personality in the background, but no man is more sin-
cerely honored by his associates or retains in a higher degree the confidence
of his acquaintances than the subject of this sketch.
GEORGE HARTNESS.
During the past four years, or since 1906, George Hartness has occupied
a beautiful home at No. 671 Clackamas street, but for a half century before
had resided at the corner of Fifth and Flanders street, on property which he
yet owns and which belonged to his father, who in the pioneer days of Port-
land became the owner of a quarter interest in the old Couch claim, the first
claim taken up from the government on the north side of the city. Through an
extended period George Hartness was numbered among the active and progres-
sive business men of Portland but in his later years has lived retired.
He is one of the worthy citizens that Ohio furnished to the northwest, his
birth having occurred in Massillon, that state, on the 7th of September, 1844.
He was therefore ten years of age when in 1854 he accompanied his mother
on the trip to Oregon. His father, Thomas Hartness, had arrived two years
before. A native of Albany, New York, he was bom September 5, 1817, and
was educated in the Empire state. In early manhood he went to Ohio and
secured work in a brickyard, having previously learned the trade in the east.
In the Buckeye state in 1842 he wedded Miss Alice Clay, whose family has had
an unbroken ancestral record since 1682, when Christopher Pennock settled in
Pennsylvania. His descendants are now numerous in Connecticut, Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and in the last named state annual family reunions are held. These
people are noted for longevity and they have, on the whole, been successful in
business, giving their attention largely to agricultural pursuits. They are justly
proud of their ancestry and their inheritances, one of which is Primitive Hall,
located in Chester county, Pennsylvania, so widely known in history. More-
over, the family have ever endeavored to hold high their standard of morality,
mentality and physique, and have been valued citizens in the various localities
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in which they have resided. Alice Clay belonged to that branch of the family
that was established in Ohio, and there she gave her hand in marriage to Thomas
Hartness. About the same time Thomas Hartness established a brickyard,
the work being then done by hand. He was a great reader, and the accounts
which he perused concerning the northwest and its opportunities determined
him to try his fortune on the Pacific coast. He therefore made his way to New
York city and sailed around Cape Horn, finally reaching Portland. This was in
1852. He found an embryo city, in which industrial activity had made but
slight advances, and he at once established the first brickyard here, the enter-
prise being located on Glisan near Seventh street. Convinced that the future
had good things in store for Portland, he sent for his family, and the mother)
and her children made the journey by way of the isthmus of Panama, which
they crossed with mules and then embarked for San Francisco. Seven days'
travel on steamboat brought them from the Golden Gate to Portland, and the
family were soon established in a little home on the property which Mr. Hart-
ness had purchased, he having become the owner of a quarter interest in the
Couch claim. He continued in the manufacture of brick until 1865, when he
turned over the business to his son George, who conducted it for two years. His
death occurred in Virginia in 1884, while his wife, who was born in Massillon,
Ohio, July 12, 1820, died in Oregon. They had six children, of whom five were
born in the Buckeye state and one after the arrival of the family in Oregon.
Two of the number died in early childhood and the others are: Thomas M.,
who died in 1873 at the age of twenty-two years; Adelia J., who became the
wife of Samuel S. Douglas and died in 1872 at the age of twenty-three years;
George; and Charles, who was born February 17, 1848, and is now a resi-
dent of Portland.
In the public schools of his native state George Hartness began his educa-
tion, which was continued in the Portland Academy. The periods of vacation
were devoted to assisting his father in the brickyard. In 1872 he accepted a
position with the Oregon Transfer Company as clerk on the docks, at that time
ill transfers being made by teams to boats. That he proved a most competent
and faithful employe is indicated by the fact that he remained with the com-
:>any for fourteen years, being promoted from time to time until, ambitious to
conduct a business on his own account, he became a partner in the Northwestern
Transfer Company and was elected its secretary. His business ability, execu-
[:ive force and keen judgment were strong elements in the success which at-
tended this venture. Under intelligent guidance the business continually grew
md brought to its owners very substantial financial returns. In December,
[901, Mr. Hartness resigned as secretary and in January, 1903, he withdrew
"rom financial connection with the business because of impaired health. He
s now the owner of a splendidly improved tract of land of three hundred acres
n Washington county, from which he derives a good rental. He has contin-
lously made his home in Portland since 1854. In 1875 he built a residence at
"^o. 294 Flanders street, this being on the site of his father's original land-
loldings, a tract that was originally covered with timber when it came into his
)ossession. There he remained until 1906, when he erected his present resi-
lence at No. 671 Clackamas street.
Mr. Hartness was married in 1898 to Miss Candace M. Boyle, who was bom
ear Atwater, Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Elliott) Boyle, who
ived originally in New York and afterward in Ohio. Her father died in that
tate in 1869 and her mother still survives there. Mrs. Hartness came to Oregon
n 1892 and by her marriage has one son, George Victor, born July 31, 1900.
Mr. Hartness has long been a prominent member of the Odd Fellows society,
v^hich he joined on the 22d of February, 1876, becoming a member of Hassalo
.odge. He is today one of the oldest representatives of the order in Portland,
as filled all of the offices and has also taken the degrees in Ellison Encampment,
Co. 2, while twice he has represented the subordinate organization in the Grand
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Lodge. Mr. Hartness has also belonged to the Masonic fraternity since 1888,
has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and is a member of
the Mystic Shrine, while he and his wife hold membership with the Eastern
Star. His political indorsement has been given to the republican party since
age conferred upon him the right of franchise, and it has been well known that
his support might be counted upon to further any public project promoting the
material, intellectual, social or moral welfare of the community. He belongs
to the Pioneer Society of Oregon and to the Pioneers Historical Society, and
he became one of the first members of the First Presbyterian church. His
whole life has been in harmony with his professions, and he has ever manifested
those sterling traits of character and of manhood which in every land and clime
awaken confidence and regard. His name certainly deserves a place upon the
pages of Portland's history, inasmuch as he has been one of her citizens for
fifty-six years.
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EMMOR J. HAIGHT.
In every line of business there are men who are able to see further than
others. By some this is called intuition, by others good judgment, but call it
what we may the fact remains that the farseeing men are the ones who become
by natural right leaders in every community. Thirty years ago Emmor J.
Haight decided that western Oregon was a land of great promise and time has
proven that his decision was true. He demonstrated his faith by making this
state his home and here his dreams have been largely realized. He was born
at Chatham, Columbia county. New York, August 26, 1841, and is a son of
Job and Phoebe Ann (Van Bunscoten) Haight. His father was a Quaker and
his mother a descendant of the Van Rensselaers and the Van Bunscotens of New
York. When he was four years of age he went with his parents by way of the
Erie canal and the overland route to Wisconsin. This was before the days of
the railroad and the principal means of travel were by walking or stage coach.
He was educated in the common schools and at eighteen years of age came west
as far as Iowa, where he remained during the earlier days of the Civil war.
In 1864 Mr. Haight, now twenty-three years of age, and ambitious to see
the world and take advantage of any opportunities that might improve his for-
tune, crossed the plains to California and for a time made his home in Santa
Rosa. He was also engaged in the drug business at Woodland, Yolo county,
California. Through study of the official reports issued from the surveyor
general's office at Washington, D. C, and also from the department of the in-
terior, he gained a favorable impression of the Oregon country and decided to
make his permanent home in the northwest. Since 1879 ^^ ^^s been a resident
of Portland and during most of the time has been connected with the real-estate
business, in which he has been quite successful. He has platted a number of
additions to the city, which are now entirely built up, and property on the east
side, which in his early days as a real-estate man had comparatively little value,
he now estimates to be worth more than ten million dollars.
On the 13th of November, 1873, ^r. Haight was united in marriage to Miss
Anna Peirson, a daughter of Dr. B. H. and Dora (Abernathy) Peirson. Her
father was a pioneer physician of California. Four children have been born to°
Mr. and Mrs. Haight, three of whom are living: Clinton P., who married Ber-
nice Howell and has one son, Clinton H. ; Edna B. and Luella G. One daughter
died in infancy. Mr. Haight is a member of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and in everything pertaining to the growth of the city has been for
many years an intelligent and earnest worker, having been intimately connected
with many changes which have marked the expansion of Portland for a genera-
tion past. He is one of the best informed real-estate men in the city and his
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has always been sincere and straightforward he retains the confidence and
trust of those with whom he has had business relations. Mr. Haight has always
voted the democratic ticket on national questions but in local affairs is inde-
ipendent, supporting the individual rather than the party.
PETER JEPPESEN.
Portland draws her citizenship not only from the sections of America but
also from various parts of the old world. Every civilized nation is here repre-
sented and among the sons of Denmark who now claim Portland as their place
of abode and are closely, actively and honorably associated with its business in-
terests is Peter Jeppesen, who has here lived for nineteen years and for the past
decade has carried on business as a brick-mason and cement contractor. He was
born in Vordingborg, Denmark, on the I2th of April, i86i, a son of Henry and
Anna Jeppesen. The father, a stone-mason by trade, is still living in Denmark.
Peter Jeppesen acquired his education while spending his youth in his
parents' home, and resided in his native land until twenty-five years of age,
after which he spent five years in Germany. He learned the brick-mason's
trade in Denmark and continued to follow that pursuit throughout the period of
his European residence. In 1891 he sailed for America, making his way direct
to Portland, where he has since resided. For nine years he worked in the em-
ployment of others and during the past ten years has been engaged in con-
tracting on his own account, taking contracts for brick and cement work.
In 1892 Mr. Jeppesen was married to Miss Anna Gihm, who was born in
Denmark although her father was of German birth. Mr. and Mrs. Jeppesen
were married in Portland and they have become the parents of three children,
Alice, Erna and Dagmar. Mr. Jeppesen has always voted independently but
he is much interested in the welfare of his adopted city and thoroughly in sym-
pathy with the free institutions of this country and its principles of government.
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JUDGE THOMAS J. CLEETON.
Thomas J. Cleeton, county judge of Multnomah county, was born in Schuy-
ler county, Missouri, October 7, 1861. His parents were Thornton Y. and Lucy
(Reeves) Clayton, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia,
both of whom went to Missouri as members of their respective families in 1832
and spent their entire lives upon a farm. Thomas J. Cleeton grew up in the
country and received his preliminary education in the district schools of the
neighborhood. He early exhibited a taste for intellectual pursuits and therefore
continued his studies in the Lancaster high school and later at the State Normal
School at Kirksville, Missouri. He began his active career as a school teacher
and continued for twelve years in that vocation, during which time he gained an
enviable reputation both as an instructor and as a school manager. His ability
was recognized by his election as county superintendent of schools in Schuyler
county, Missouri, and later in a similar capacity in Columbia county, Oregon.
After some years' experience as a teacher Mr. Cleeton directed his attention
to the study of law and became a student in the ofifice of Judge Sheton, at Lan-
caster, Missouri. In April, 1891, he came to Oregon and located at St. Helens,
Columbia county. He was admitted to the bar at Salem in 1894 and in the same
year was elected to the state legislature from Columbia county. An honorable
record in the general assembly assisted in further advancement in political hon-
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the United States for the district of Oregon. He has the distinction of being
the first Chinese who was admitted to practice in the American courts. He was
the originator of the American-Born Chinese Association, which was organized
in 1900 for the purpose of social, mental and physical advancement of Amer-
ican born Chinese boys. This association still continues in existence. Mr. Back
casts his vote with the republican party and is apparently just entering upon an
honorable and successful career.
ARCHIE MASON.
Few men have contributed more tov/ard the development and upbuilding of
Portland in recent years than Archie Mason, well known as a general contractor.
He was born in Tioga county, Nevv^ York, March 15, 1861, a son of William
W. and Esther (Brooks) Mason, his father being a native of New Ybrk, and
his mother of Pennsylvania. The latter dying while he was still a boy> he came
westward to Michigan and took up his home with Bradley Hayes, a farmer and
lumberman, continuing with him for twelve years and working his way up until
he was placed in charge of the lumber camp.
At the age of twenty-five Mr. Mason decided to seek a new field for the
exercise of his energies, and selected the northwest as the region that presented
the most favorable outlook for a young man. Coming to Portland, he entered
general contracting on his own account, beginning upon a small scale. At the end
of eighteen months he went to Salem, Oregon, and engaged in the sand and
cement business in addition to handling such contracts as he could secure. He
continued to make his headquarters there until March, 1897, since which time
he has resided at Portland.
In the course of the years that have passed since he began as a contractor
in Oregon, Mr. Mason has performed a large amount of work that will stand
for many years as an evidence of his energy and skill. He assisted in recon-
structing the railroad of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, and in
building a large portion of the Snake River line for the same company, and also
portions of the Columbia Southern & Sumpter Valley Railroad, and the branch
into Windland for the Southern Pacific Railway. He built the irrigation canal
for the reclamation service of the United States government in connection with
the Klamath project. In the early part of his career he was the builder of the
Oregon Water Power line at Estacada and the portion of the Mount Hood Rail-
road, which has been completed. He has had charge of a large amount of sewer
work and sidewalk construction and graded the grounds around the state house
at Salem. While working on the Klamath project, he employed three hundred
men. An important part of this work consisted of the construction of a tunnel
through solid rock three thousand three hundred and fifty feet in length, v/hich
the contract required to be arched v/ith cement. This he considers one of the
most important undertakings with which he has been connected. Mr. Mason
has had charge of a number of contracts in this city for paving, grading and
filling and has several contracts of that nature now upon his hands, among them
the paving of Whitaker and First streets with concrete, the grad-ng of the
streets for the west half of Laurelhurst, and many other improvements in sew-
ers, etc., for this entire addition. He has the contract for the Portage Railroad
at The Dalles and also for grading Council Crest, and in his operations has
shown an ability that places him in the first rank among large contractors of
the Pacific coast. He is the owner of a tv/o hundred and twenty-five acre farm
in Washington county.
On the 24th of December, 1880, Mr. Mason was united in marriage at Lan-
sing, Michigan, to Miss Margaret Roach, who is a daughter of Michael and
Ellen (Phipps) Roach, natives of Ireland and New York state, respectively.
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Five children have been born of this union, three of whom are living: May, the
wife of Frederick WiUiams and the mother of two children, Clyde and Gene-
vieve ; Esther ; and Arthur J.
Mr. Mason is politically identified with the republican party and takes the
interest of a public-spirited citizen in the election of reputable men to office.
He is a member of the Masonic order and the United Artisans, and he and his
wife are both affiliated with the Congregational church. He is a man of liberal
tendencies, and one who is thoroughly interested in the permanent prosperity
of the city, having contributed largely to the development and improvement of
South Portland. His constant aim is to perform his duty according to the
best of his ability, and as he has in his business dealings always been prompt,
reliable and trustworthy, he has the confidence of the business men and the
respect of the entire community. As a recreation, he enjoys hunting and fish-
ing.
MARK A. M. ASHLEY.
Mark A. M. Ashley, cashier of the banking house of Ashley & Rumelin, of
Portland, was born at Fort Ann, New York, June 15, 1863. His father, George
Ashley, was born and reared upon a farm in Fort Ann, a farm which was in the
family for nearly one hundred and twenty-five years. Upon that place he lived
until he retired from active business, after which he came to Portland, where he
died several years ago. In early manhood he married Rhoda Miller, who is still
living in this city at the age of seventy-three years. The Ashleys came origi-
nally from England about 1630, the ancestral home being established in Massa-
chusetts, from which time to the present there is a complete genealogical record.
Mark A. M. Ashley was the second of four children, of whom Roscoe Ashley
is associated with his brother in business, while a sister, Mrs. C, E. Rumelin, is
also a resident of Portland. Pursuing his education through consecutive grades,
Mark A. M. Ashley attended the high school of Fort Ann, New York, and pur-
sued a commercial course in a business college at Poughkeepsie, New York. In
August, 1883, he left the Atlantic seaport for the Pacific coast and spent four
months in San Francisco, after which he came to Portland, arriving in this city
on Christmas day of 1883. On the ist of January, 1884, however, he returned
to San Francisco, but on the 28th of February once more arrived in Portland,
where he has resided continuously since. Here he turned his attention to the
advertising business, in which he continued for a year or two uninterruptedly
and to a greater or less extent until 1907, when he and his partner sold out the
street car advertising business. For many yea'^s they also owned the advertising
privilege in the street cars of Tacoma, Salem and Astoria. About 1885 they
turned their attention to the real-estate and mortgage loan business, in which
they continued until about 1907, handling only their own properties. In 1885
C. E. Rumelin had become associated with Mr. Ashley, forming a partnership
which a few years later was reorganized and the original firm name of M. A. M.
Ashley & Company was changed to Ashley & Rumelin, although the advertising
business was always conducted under the former style. In April, 1907, they
organized and incorporated their banking business under the name of Ashley &
Rumelin, bankers, and now engage exclusively in a general banking business, to
which they had been gradually drifting. This includes all branches of banking.
After the ist of February, 191 1, they will occupy new quarters at the corner
of Second and Stark streets, affording them larger accommodations.
On the 17th of July, 1889, in Portland, Mr. Ashley was united in marriage
to Miss Mabel W. Willis, a daughter of P. L. Willis, of Portland. They have
two children : Willis S., fifteen years of age ; and Roscoe G., fourteen years of
age. The family reside at No. 889 Savier street.
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For twenty-six years Mr. Ashley has been continuously connected with Port-
land's interests and now devotes his entire attention to the upbuilding of a busi-
ness which is a prominent feature in the banking circles of the city. As a citizen
he is interested in everything pertaining to the general good nor withholds his
support from projects which need the loyalty and co-operation of the general
public. His keen perception and honesty of purpose are counted among his
chief characteristics and have contributed in large measure to the gratifying
success which is attending his efforts.
JAMES W. CHASE.
James W. Chase was a resident of Oregon from June, 1851, until his death,
which occurred September 14, 1910, his remains being interred in Mount View
cemetery, Oregon City. He was born in Vermont on the 29th of October, 1834,
and was a son of Sisson and Dorothy Chase. The father was born in Rhode
Island on the 6th of February, 1786, only a few years after the close of the
Revolutionary war, and the mother's birth occurred in Greenfield, Massachu-
setts, May 16, 1792. Attracted by the opportunities of the west, they resolved
to come to the Pacific coast and after living for a few years in Iowa they left
that state in 1850 and traveled to Salt Lake City. There they spent the winter
and in the early spring of 185 1 continued on their way to Oregon, where they
arrived in the month of June. They were accompanied by four sons and two
daughters : Charles, Houston, James W., Andrew, Violet and Lucinda. The
elder daughter was the wife of A. M. Harding, and Lucinda became the wife of
William Partlow of Oregon City. On reaching their destination, the father took
up a claim at Springwater near Eagle Creek, and to provide for his family fol-
lowed the occupation of farming, developing a good property. He died, how-
ever, on the 7th of May, 1864, and his wife passed away on the 28th of July,
1876. Both were well advanced in years when called to their final rest.
James W. Chase, by reason of his residence in different sections of the coun-
try, became familiar with life in New England, in the middle west, and upon the
Pacific coast. He was about fourteen years of age when the family went from
the Green Mountain state to lowa^ and was a youth of seventeen when they
started upon the trip over the prairies and the long stretches of hot sand that at
length brought them to Salt Lake. After arriving in Oregon, he aided his father
in the arduous task of developing and improving a new claim, but in those ex-
periences laid the foundation for a robust manhood that enabled him to do much
hard labor in later years. Taking up his abode in Oregon City, he there became
connected with the mechanical department of the Oregon City Woolen Mills,
which he represented in that way for many years. He was not only capable,
but also most loyal to the interests of his employers and enjoyed their full con-
fidence and trust. His last days, however, were spent in retirement, having
passed the seventy-sixth milestone on life's journey.
When twenty-four years of age, Mr. Chase was married to Miss Sarah Au-
gusta Stevenson, a daughter of John W. and Sarah Stevenson, of whom a sketch
appears in another part of the work. Their union was blessed with six chil-
dren, namely: Ivan, now a resident of Colfax, Washington; Ednetta S., the
wife of Samuel Dillman ; Dorothy H., the wife of Gilbert L. Hedges ; Sade
Hazelton, the wife of Austin Howland, a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon ; Ina
Miranda, the wife of S. Adams of Oregon City ; and Olney, who was drowned
in the Willamette river in 1890.
Mr. Chase was always interested in public progress and was numbered among
the loyal and progressive residents of Oregon City. His fellow townsmen, ap-
preciating his worth and ability, called him to office and for twenty years he
served as a member of the city council. It was a record of which he had every
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reason to be proud, for it indicated how loyal he was to duty and how faithfully
he served the best interests of the city. Abraham Lincoln said : "You can fool
all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but
you can't fool all of the people all of the time." This fact is again and again
demonstrated in political life. There are times when unscrupulous and untrust-
worthy men are elected to office, but sooner or later their disloyalty is bound to
be found out, and the public rises in protest against such service. When a man
is again and again elected to office, therefore, it is proof that he is worthy of
the trust reposed in him and that his public work results in practical values.
As one of the aldermen of Oregon City, Mr. Chase did excellent work for its
interests and as one of the representative residents of this community, well
deserves mention among the pioneers of the Willamette valley. He was an ad-
vocate of municipal ownership of public utilities, and was the first man to pro-
pose the city buying the water-works, but met with decided opposition. After
some years, however, he succeeded in having the city purchase the plant, which
has proved a paying investment.
PATRICK RALEIGH.
Patrick Raleigh was one of the pioneer merchants and former business men
of Portland, who early had the prescience to discern what the future held in
store for this great and growing country, so that he invested largely in real es-
tate and thus founded a fortune for his family that includes a large proportion
of the valuable business property of the city. He is yet remembered by many
of Portland's residents of the middle of the nineteenth century.
He was born in the parish of Buff, in the county of Limerick, Ireland, Jan-
uary I, 1817, and it is supposed that he is descended from Sir Walter Raleigh.
He emigrated from Ireland and came to the United States when about twenty-
one years of age, landing at New York, where he obtained employment in the
dry-goods house of Lord & Taylor, which is still in existence. Later, removing
westward to Dubuque, Iowa, he there opened a dry-goods store, which was de-
stroyed by fire about the time of the gold excitement in California, and he joined
the westward stampede, hoping, like thousands of others, to attain wealth on
the Pacific coast, which was being so rapidly developed. He made the journey
by way of the isthmus of Panama, arriving at San Francisco in 185 1. He did
not seek wealth in the mines, thus turning his attention to pursuits with which
he was utterly unfamiliar, but continued in the field of labor with which he had
acquaintance and experience.
Prior to leaving the east, Mr. Raleigh purchased a stock of goods in New
York, which he shipped on the sloop Mathew Vassar direct to Portland, it re-
quiring six months to reach here. In the meantime he and his family also trav-
eled by sea, but reached their destination some time before the arrival of the
sloop. At length when he received his goods, he opened a general mercantile
store and from the beginning prospered in the undertaking, soon building up a
substantial, growing and profitable business. Extending his efforts about 1861,
he opened another store near the Grand Ronde reservation. As he prospered in
business he invested his increasing capital in land. The growth of Portland has
shown the keen insight which he displayed in making such investments, some of
which now constitute the highest priced realty in this city. He purchased and
platted what became known as Raleigh's addition to the city of Portland, and it
constitutes one of the most important districts, as much of the retail business cen-
ter of the city is now located thereon. It was in this addition that Portland had
its first baseball grounds. In all of his business affairs he displayed remarkable
discernment and sound judgment, and carried to successful completion every-
thing that he undertook. There is still standing on First street a brick building
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which he erected in early days, and another on the southeast corner of First and
Stark streets, which is a three-story structure and was considered very large
and imposing when built.
Mr. Raleigh was a Catholic in his religious faith, and on the 2d of February,
1844, in accordance with the rites of the church, he was married in New York
city to Miss Mary Louisa Kain. He died in 1868, leaving eight children: Mrs.
C. A. Trimble; John S. Raleigh; Albert C. Raleigh, since deceased; Mrs. M. M.
Gearin; Mrs. Ella E. McCormick; Mrs. F. E. Kelly; Wilham T. Raleigh; and
George M. Raleigh, since deceased. The family from the beginning of their
residence have been prominent in the city, and the increasing value of their
real-estate holdings have given them place among the wealthy residents of Port-
land.
RICHARD BENJAMIN MILLER.
Richard Benjamin Miller has throughout the entire period of his business
career been identified with railroad interests and the steps in his orderly progres-
sion are easily discernable, bringing him at length to his present position of re-
sponsibility as traffic manager for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
and the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, and general
freight agent for the Southern Pacific Company's lines in Oregon.
He was born in southern Idaho on the 8th of April, 1870, and, after acquir-
ing his education in the public schools, he sought the opportunity of providing
for his own support in 1886 when sixteen years of age, as an employe of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company at Portland. He has been continuously
with this company to the present time except during the period from the ist of
September, 1901, to the 15th of May, 1902, when he occupied the position of
general freight and passenger agent for the Southern Pacific Company's lines
in this state. He still remains as general freight agent for the Southern Pacific
in Oregon, and, returning to the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, he
was appointed its traffic manager and also traffic manager for the Oregon-Wash-
ington Railroad Company. Almost a quarter of a century's connection with
railway service has made him thoroughly informed concerning the work of this
department, and his increasing ability has been attested in the promotions which
have come to him, bringing him at length to a place of large responsibility. He
is a member of the Arlington and Commercial clubs of Portland ; the Spokane
Club of Spokane, Washington; the Arctic Club of Seattle; the Commercial Club
of Tacoma ; and numerous other clubs.
JOHN SUTTON.
In the early period of steamship navigation along the Pacific coast, John Sut-
ton was well known as an engineer. He is remembered here by many of the
early settlers as that type of hardy pioneers through whose fortitude and deter-
mination a new country is settled and developed to success.
He was born at St. Georges, Delaware, April 30, 1823. His father was Dr.
James N. Sutton, a prominent man of the state of Delaware, and his mother was
a direct descendant of the house of Stuarts of Scotland. She died when her
son was but two years of age. He was sent to a preparatory school and later
attended the West Point Military Academy, where he was a classmate of Ulysses
S. Grant. He afterward joined the United States navy and served for three
years under his uncle, Commodore Newton. He was in the Mexican war while
with the navy.
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In 1850 Mr. Sutton arrived in California, where he engaged in a private
shipping business with which he was connected throughout his entire Hfe on the
coast. He was in a number of wrecks, one on the Mississippi river before going
to Cahfornia. He iinally lost his life at sea, on the 27th of January, 1873, when
the ship George S. Wright went down with all on board. The boat plied be-
tween Portland and Alaskan ports, and the only bodies ever found were those
of a cabin boy lashed to a chair and Major Ealker a paymaster in the United
States army. Mr. Sutton showed a preference for Portland and invested in
property there and used his influence, which was widespread, he having run at
various times on vessels plying between Panama and Alaska, for the benefit of
his home city.
In September, 1848, Mr. Sutton was united in marriage to Miss Anna Beatrice
Dolan, a daughter of Charles Dolan of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Sutton
was born June 29, 1829, and died April 15, 1905. She kept their children to-
gether after her husband's death, educated them and gave they every opportunity
possible. She had a family of nine, namely: Julia Ann, the wife of G. B.
Wright, deceased; Margaret S., the wife of George J. Ainsworth, deceased;
Mave, the wife of Otis Sprague, of San Francisco, California; James N., of
Portland; Jennie K., the wife of Alfred Wheeler, of Nelson, British Columbia;
John Grant, of San Francisco, California; Albert of Hood River, Oregon; Ada
v., the wife of Arthur E. Bull of Boston, Massachusetts; and Herbert G. Sut-
ton of San Francisco, California.
EDWARD F. DAY.
Among the citizens who are pleasantly located in St. Johns is Edward F.
Day, for many years a sheep-raiser and now living at leisure after a successful
contest in the quest for fortune. He was born at Detroit, Somerset county,
Maine, December 24, 1847, and lived there until he was twelve years of age,
when he went to work upon a farm. His education was limited to the common
schools, but he has been a man of reading, observation and acquaintance with the
world, by means of which he has gained a great deal of valuable knowledge
which cannot be obtained from books. Having been thrown upon his own re-
sources very early in life, he learned those lessons of self-reliance and self-con-
trol that are so important in shaping one's career.
When he was nineteen years of age he came to the conclusion that the Pa-
cific coast region was a more promising field for a young man who depended
upon his own exertions than the older settled regions of the east. He accord-
ingly went to New York, where he took passage for the isthmus of Panama,
which he crossed by rail and then continued his journey northward by boat to
California. He first settled in Mendocino county and lived there for three years,
at the close of which time he was attracted to the mines of Nevada, where he
labored faithfully for one year. At this time he was seized with a desire to re-
visit old scenes and, returning to the east, was engaged in the lumber business
at Lewiston, Maine.
In 1879, however, Mr. Day resolved to become a permanent resident of the
northwest and he came to Morrow county, Oregon, where he bought a ranch and
turned his attention to sheep raising, in which business he continued for twenty-
five years. During that time, by industry and good judgment, he became highly
prosperous and five years ago he removed to St. Johns, where he has since
made his home. He has great faith in the future of this region and has demon-
strated his faith by extensive investments in real estate and by assisting in many
ways in advancing the permanent interests of St. Johns.
Mr. Day has been twice married. His first wife was Elvira Norton, a daugh-
ter of Stephen Norton, of Mount Vernon, Maine, to whom he was united Sep-
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tember 20, 1873. O" October 2, 1888, he was again married, his second union
being with Miss Didanna Hart, a daughter of R. C. and Eudora Hart, of
Heppner.
Mr. Day is a member of the Masonic order and still retains his connection
with the blue lodge and chapter at Heppner, Morrow county, Oregon. As the
result of a perseverance which has been one of his prominent characteristics
through life and also an energy and business ability, he is now enjoying the
fruits of many years of toil. Few men in the northwest are. better acquainted
with the industry to which he devoted his time and attention for a quarter of a
century. He has gained the confidence and good-will of all with whom he has
come in contact, and the friends and associates who have known him longest
are those who are now numbered among his best wishers.
EGBERT A. RANKIN.
Egbert A. Rankin is now conducting a contract plastering business, the process
of application of the plaster being known only to himself. The work is sat-
isfactory in the highest degree to those who have employed Mr, Rankin, and
his business is constantly increasing, Portland has numbered him among her
residents since 1881. He was born near Chariton, Lucas county, Iowa, on the
23d of March, 1856, a son of E, C. and EveHne (Bryan) Rankin. The father
was a farmer and stock raiser, and the youthful days of Egbert A. Rankin were
passed in the usual manner of farm lads. He acquired his education in the
public schools and through the periods of vacation worked in the fields. He
continued at home until twenty-one years of age, and on attaining his majority
he began learning the plasterer's trade. He resided in Iowa until about 1875,
when he went to Kansas with his father, establishing his home at Great Bend.
It was there that he learned his trade. He spent six years in the Sunflower
state and at the end of that time came to Portland, since which time he has lived
in this city and vicinity.
Following his arrival here, Mr. Rankin first engaged in the plastering busi-
ness for about two years as a journeyman. About 1883 he purchased a grocery
and bakery, which he conducted for eighteen months, his business being located
on Union avenue between Oak and Pine streets. Later he conducted a cheese
ranch, which was known as the Sandy Ranch Cheese Factory, and it was here
that the first cheese was made in Oregon. Mr. Rankin carried on the business
for six years, and afterward continued in the dairy and other business lines until
about 1890, when he began contracting as a plasterer. He has continued in this
business to the present time, and has devised a method of plastering known only
to himself. He is the only man in Portland doing his work in this way. He
received the contract for the plastering of a fine apartment building for Mr.
Ray on Sixteenth and Kearney streets, also an apartment building for Mrs.
Sullivan on Twenty-first and Johnson streets. He was awarded the contract
for plastering the Blazier home on Wasco street, and has plastered about thirty
houses in Irvington and Holladay additions, the C. E. Moulton residence on
Twenty-sixth and Lovejoy, and the adjoining house belonging to Mr. Peacock.
On the i6th of December, 1877, Mr. Rankin was married to Miss Nettie
Fausel, a daughter of C. C. and Frances (Clarke) Fausel. Mrs. Rankin was
born in Quincy, Illinois, and in 1872 removed with her parents to Great Bend,
Kansas, where she was married. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Rankin were born eight
children, of whom one died in infancy. Those still living are: Erv, who works
for his father; Nellie; Jack Egbert, who is also with his father; Nettie Mae
and Grace F., both of whom are teachers; Callie, a student; and Baby Rankin.
The youngest child is about nine years old and has always been called Baby
Rankin.
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For twenty-seven years Mr. Rankin has been a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity, and is much interested in the order and its purposes. He joined Co-
lumbia Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of Portland in 1883, and remained a member of
that lodge until Fairview Lodge No. 92, A. F. & A. M. was instituted, when
he became a charter member of that lodge in 1887. Twenty-nine years' resi-
dence in Portland has made him widely known in business circles. The success
which he has achieved is attributable entirely to his own labors. There have
been no unusual chapters in his life history, but his earnestness and energy have
enabled him to triumph over difficulties and obstacles and gradually advance to-
ward the goal of success.
CHARLES B. MERRICK.
Charles B. Merrick, since July, 1910, postmaster of the city of Portland, is
a remarkable instance of the profound truth which has been distinctly set forth
by clear thinkers in recent years, that man possesses the ability to control cir-
cumstances. Obstacles that might have disheartened less resolute men, have
presented themselves in the course of his career, but he early resolved to ac-
complish worthy aims and to him no difficulty has been insurmountable. His
life has been governed by the principle, expressed by the words: "Find a way
or make it," and his present positioti of- responsibility is a result of strict ad-
herence to this idea. He has learned in the course of fifteen years spent in more
than ordinary activity that most of the obstacles to advancement are phantoms
which quickly disappear before the ambitious spirit fired with an unalterable
determination to win. '--:;'-■' •",;■:"■;,■" .■>.,-
Born in Saginaw, Michigan, July 30, 1873"; Mr. Merrick is thirty-seven years
of age and may be said to have just fairly entered upon the possibilities of a long
and useful career. He removed with his parents, Joseph E. and Margaret J.
(Doyle) Merrick, at two years of age to Bay City, Michigan, where the family
resided for nine years. His father, being interested in the lumber business, next
moved his family to the lumber fields of Ogemaw county, Michigan. There the
son grew up under the strengthening influences of a healthy country life, attend-
ing school at West Branch, Ogemaw county. At eighteen years of age he began
life for himself as a school teacher and for four years he taught in the district
school at the same time continuing his studies and laying a good foundation for
general knowledge. The restraints of the schoolroom caused the young teacher to
heed the call of the city, and at twenty-two he gave up teaching, went to Detroit,
the principal city of Michigan, and entered the employ of the J. L. Hudson Com-
pany, owning a large department store.
Attracted to the law, Mr. Merrick took up the night course of the Detroit
College of Law with the class of 1899. In the meantime, however, the Spanish-
American war awakened a great wave of patriotism throughout the entire coun-
try and the law student dropped his books and in the spring of 1898 enlisted in
Company M, Thirty-third Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He en-
listed as a private, but his close attention to duties attracted favorable notice of
officers of the company and at the close of three weeks he was invited to the
captain's presence and appointed corporal of the company. As fortune would
have it. Company M was the only company of the regiment from Detroit that
actively participated in the Cuban campaign. While in Cuba Corporal Merrick
was taken down with yellow fever and before he had completely recovered from
that disease contracted typhoid fever. A good constitution resisted the inroads
of both attacks so successfully that the patient was sent home to convalesce in a
hospital in Detroit. Shortly after leaving the hospital a third attack manifested,
this time as pneumonia. Never for one moment did he cease to fight for his
life and he came through victorious, although he lost a year at the law school,
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and in taking up his studies again found himself among new classmates. He
was graduated in law in 1900, but has never practiced. The study, however, has
proven of lasting benefit, as it is probable that no subject is more favorable to
the broadening and strengthening of the mind than the study of law when con-
scientiously pursued.
Mr. Merrick became identified with newspaper work and was connected with
several newspapers of the middle west. He also traveled extensively as repre-
sentative of the United States Graphite Company. In the course of his travels
he visited the Pacific coast and was irresistibly attracted by the advantages of
the great region of which Portland is one of the leading centers. He located
here in 1905 and was made secretary of the Portland Retail Grocers Associa-
tion. He then organized and became secretary of the Oregon Retail Merchants
Association, which position he still continues to hold. This association extends
to all parts of the state, and is a leading agency in the development of an im-
portant factor in the business world. Mr. Merrick has been editor of the Retail
Grocers Magazine since 1905 and has been instrumental in no small degree in
building up the mercantile interests of the state. On January i, 1910, Mr. Mer-
rick was appointed register of the United States land office at Portland. This
position he held for six months, when he resigned, having received appointment
from President Taft as postmaster of Portland. His administration has proven
entirely satisfactory not only to the business interests, but to citizens generally.
Although a republican, he has placed faithful service above party and his ex-
perience has taught him that there are good men in all political parties. Being
gifted with a pleasing address, a sympathetic nature and right views of life gained
by actual contact with realities of the world, Mr. Merrick is especially qualified
for the honorable position he now occupies.
On the 27th of June, 1906, Mr. Merrick was united in marriage with Mary
Kearney, of Seattle, Washington, and they have one son, Pat, who was born
June 20, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Merrick are members of the Roman Catholic
church, and he is connected with the Knights of Columbus, the Woodmen of
the World, the Modem Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees
and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is also a member of the Spanish-
American War Veterans, president of the "Ad" Club of Portland ; secretary of
the Civic Improvement League of Portland. An earnest worker in everything
he undertakes, he has gained a wide and growing circle of friends and acquaint-
ances whose regard is one of the strongest incentives in a career marked by a
succession of deserved and well earned advancements.
RICHARD WARD MONTAGUE.
That men owe to the community everything that distinguishes our civilized
life from that of the naked savage, and that this debt should be repaid by thought
and labor in the common welfare, has been one of the ruling principles in the
life of Richard Ward Montague, a well known lawyer of Portland and a writer
and compiler whose work has been favorably received by the profession.
Mr. Montague is a native of Iowa, but removed to Portland in 1890 and has
been in active practice here continuously since. He was born at Charles City,
Iowa, February 11, 1862. He is the son of John Vose Wood Montague and
Martha Washington (Jackson) Montague. He received his preliminary edu-
cation in the public schools and early displayed studious tendencies. Entering
the State University at Iowa City, he pursued the philosophical course and was
graduated in 1883 with the degree of Ph. B. In the year following he received
the degree of LL. B. from the law department of the same university. He was
admitted to the bar in 1884, began practice in Mason City, Iowa, and in 1887
removed to New York city, where he remained three years. He came to Port-
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land in August, 1890, and in October following was admitted to practice in the
supreme court of the state.
Mr. Montague's active interest in civic affairs was recognized by his selec-
tion as a member of the Charter Commission of Portland in 1901, which framed
the present charter of the city, and of the Charter Commission of 1908, which
proposed a charter on the commission plan now popular in many cities. He is
the author of a Digest of Volumes i to 43 of the Oregon Reports, a work re-
quiring very extensive and protracted labor, which since its publication has been
in constant use and has met with the approval of the bar. At the present time
he is assisting in the compilation of the Oregon Codes and Statutes, an under-
taking carried on in pursuance of an act of the last legislature, under the gen-
eral direction of Hon. W. P. Lord, code commissioner. He was a member of
the conservation committee, which preceded the present Conservation Commis-
sion. He takes a lively interest in literary matters ; is a member of the board
of directors of the Library Association of Portland, and of the faculty of the
law school of the University of Oregon, delivering annual lectures upon the
subject of equity. In politics he is a "progressive" democrat and lends earnest
assistance to undertakings having in view the betterment of social and political
conditions. In college he joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and is a member
of the University Club.
In 1889 he was happily married to Ellen Amelia Barton of Mason City,
Iowa. He enjoys an extensive practice and the respect and confidence of his
clients.
WILLIAM L. McCABE.
Under the name of The McCabe Company of Portland, William L. McCabe
is conducting an extensive stevedore business, of which he is the president. He
has operated in this line at many points on the Pacific coast, both in the United
States and British Columbia, and also established the first business of this char-
acter in Honolulu. He is now confining his efiforts, however, to the Columbia
and Willamette valleys in the conduct of a business which has assumed large and
profitable proportions. He was born in Marietta, Washington county, Ohio,
March 17, 1850, a son of Charles and Jane (MacKinzie) McCabe, the former a
millwright by trade. In 1854 the parents removed with their family to the town
then called St. Anthony, Minnesota, but now a part of Minneapolis, and in
1858 the mother died there.
William L. McCabe, then a little lad of eight years, was sent to make his
home with his grandmother in Livingston county, New York, where he remained
until 1863. Fired with stories of the war and tales of heroism, he tired of the
routine of school and home life and in 1863, at the age of thirteen years, ran
away from home, joining the Federal navy, with which he served until July,
1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was with Farragut at Mobile
bay and participated in several engagements on the Sebago, a gunboat. He after-
ward followed the sea in connection with the merchant marine service and, work-
ing his way upward, was an officer on different vessels and made a number of
voyages to different parts of the world.
In 1871 Mr. McCabe came to Portland from San Francisco, where he first
worked as a longshoreman and later as foreman, while for four years he acted
as head foreman. In 1875 he engaged in the stevedore business on his own ac-
count, and in 1876 formed a partnership with Captain Brown, with whom he
remained in business under the firm style of Brown & McCabe until 1888, when
he sold out to his partner. Mr. McCabe then went to the Puget Sound, where
he again engaged in the same line of business that had hitherto claimed his at-
tention. In 1899 he sailed for Honolulu, where he embarked in business under
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the firm style of McCabe, Hamilton & Renney. He succeeded in building up an
extensive business there, this being the first regular stevedore enterprise there.
After four years, or in 1893, he disposed of his interests in the tropics and con-
centrated his time and energies upon the business of the firm at Puget Sound.
In 1906 he extended his interests to British Columbia, with offices in Vancouver
and Victoria. He carried on his interest until 1908, when he sold out both in
British Columbia and on the Puget Sound and returned to Portland.
After again taking up his abode in this city, Mr. McCabe organized what is
known as The McCabe Company, which was incorporated in 1908, with W. L.
McCabe as the president ; W. K. Scott, vice president ; and E. F. Elliott, as sec-
retary and treasurer. This is a stevedore business, which in its scope extends
from Portland to Astoria and to many points along the Willamette and Colum-
bia rivers. They employ at times as many as five hundred men, and their busi-
ness is now a very extensive, carefully systematized and well regulated under-
taking, so that results are accomplished with as little loss of time and labor as
possible. To the careful direction of Mr. McCabe the gratifying success of the
undertaking is largely attributable. About 1896 he brought out and patented
the first successful conveyor for loading and unloading freight. Since that time
he has also devised a friction chute for lowering cargo, also several other de-
vices for handling freight. In all, he owns about twenty patents with others
pending.
On the nth of October, 1893, Mr. McCabe was married to Miss Minnie M.
White of Seattle, and they now have a pleasant home in the Rose City. He
belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club and is interested
in the movements of these organizations, the one to promote and beautify the
interests of Portland and the other to exploit and make known its resources. He
is a firm believer in a bright future for the northwest and does all in his power
to advance the development of this section of the country.
JACOB H. EMMERT.
Jacob H. Emmert, who is engaged in the real estate business at No. 845
Williams avenue, Portland, and for over thirty years has been a resident of this
city, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 3, 1872. The record of his life
illustrates in a striking degree the effect of worthy aspirations and self-confi-
dence when combined with good judgment and decision of character. He is a
son of Jacob and Margaret (Meidrich) Emmert, both natives of Germany. The
father, who was born in 1829, died in Portland in 1890, while the mother was
born in 1834, and passed away on the 21st of June, 1906. At the age of five
years our subject removed with his parents to Tacoma, Washington, and a year
later to Portland, where the family permanently located. Here he received his
education and advanced as far as the grammer grades in the public school.
Immediately upon laying his books aside, Mr. Emmert began his battle with
the world by driving a wagon for Theodore Leibe, proprietor of a bakery, and
continued in that employment for six years. He was next connected with the
Owens Bakery for two years. During the year 1891 he was engaged in the
grocery business and conducted a market at Sixteenth and Marshall streets in
1897.
His brother being engaged in the plumbing business, Mr. Emmert had op-
portunities at various times from his boyhood up of becoming acquainted \yith
the practical details of the trade, and in 1905 he opened a plumbing establish-
ment upon his own account, starting his first shop in a basement at No. 899 Wil-
liams avenue, with a total capital of forty dollars. About this time there began
to develop within him powers which apparently he had not known before, and
he became aware of the great principle which governs all important factors
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in life, that if we are to advance we must build the ladder by which we rise. His
success was indeed remarkable. In 1910 he disposed of his business for twenty-
five hundred dollars, realizing in addition four thousand dollars a year net profit
during the six years in which he had been engaged in this venture. Immediately
upon closing out his plumbing establishment, he became identified with the real
estate business, being already the owner of an extensive amount of valuable real
estate on Williams avenue and in various other locations on the east side.
In 1900, at Portland, Mr. Emmert was united in marriage to Miss Margaret
Menth, a daughter of Joseph and Barbara (Meyer) Menth, whose parents were
of German descent. Mr. Menth was but three years of age when brought to
the United States by his parents in 1852, and since 1889 has been a resident of
Portland, having come to this city from St. Paul. His wife, who was born in
1857, died on the 8th of December, 1902. Two children have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Emmert: Velva, now five years of age; and Howard, aged four years.
Mrs. Emmert is a member of St. Mary's Catholic church of Albina, and presides
with ease and grace over a happy home.
Mr. Emmert is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, and although en-
gaged in the real estate business but a short time, he has apparently found his
place in life, and is fairly launched in a congenial field. The happy possessor
of a genial and kindly disposition, he has much to commend him to the good-
will and confidence of the public. He is fond of outdoor sports, especially mo-
toring and fishing.
HON. LANSLNG STOUT.
There have been few Oregon men in public office who have displayed as
great tact and judgment in the management of public interests as did Hon.
Lansing Stout who for a considerable period occupied positions of public trust
and responsibility. And yet he was not yet quite forty-three years of age at
the time of his death, which occurred on the 3d of March, 1871. A native of
New York, he was born in Watertown, Jefferson county, and spent the days of
his boyhood and youth there, his education being acquired in the public schools.
He was in the early twenties when, in the year 1852, he made his way to Cali-
fornia, where he soon occupied a prominent position in connection with public
affairs. He served as a member of the legislature of that state from Placer
county in 1855. In the spring of 1857 he arrived in Oregon, and the following
year was elected county judge of Multnomah county. In 1859 he was chosen
to represent his district in congress and was known as an industrious and earnest
working member of that body, displaying considerable skill and diplomacy in
managing the measures which he introduced and fostered. He was instrumental
in securing the daily overland mail between Sacramento and Portland, and the
payment of the Oregon and Washington territory Indian war debt. He was a
member of the memorable committee of one from each state on the occasion of
the secession of the first seven southern states which withdrew their representa-
tive from congress.
Before his return to Oregon, Mr. Stout was united in marriage to Miss Susan
Plowden, a native of Maryland, and unto them were born four children, all of
whom were living at the time of his death. After the conclusion of his term in
congress, Mr. Stout did not again enter public office until 1868. In June of that
year, however, he was elected a member of the state senate from Multnomah
county and was serving in the upper house of the general assembly at the time
of his demise.
One of the local papers of that day said : "Mr. Stout was known as an
active and energetic partisan and was unbending in his devotion to everything
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which he beheved the interest of his party demanded. Yet he was always cour-
teous and free from personal bitterness toward those whom he opposed. No
man in the state has rendered his party real service in a greater degree than he.
Ofttimes he sacrificed personal interest to public good, and he would undoubtedly
have won a larger measure of success in business had not his devotion to the
public welfare prompted his service in its behalf." He had many friends among
all classes and made fewer enemies than most men who engage in public and po-
litical life. The democratic party recognized him as one of its prominent leaders,
yet many of his warmest personal friends were numbered among the advocates
of republican principles. His name is honorably inscribed upon the pages of
Oregon's history, for no one ever questioned the honesty of his motives, his de-
votion to public duty or the effectiveness of his labors.
LONNER OWEN RALSTON.
Lonner Owen Ralston, who during the years of his residence in Portland,
covering a period since 1899, has been closely associated with its financial and
banking interests and is now devoting his attention to his various investments
which include valuable business and residence property, is numbered among
those citizens who have firm faith in the future of Portland and are putting
forth effective and far-reaching eft'ort in its behalf.
Oregon claims him as one of her native sons, his birth having occurred in
Lebanon, Linn county, on the 15th of December, 1859. His father, William
M. Ralston, was born in Rockville, Parke county, Indiana, March 24, 1824, and
was a son of Jeremiah and Margaret (McKnight) Ralston. The family removed
about 1834 to Burlington, Iowa, where William Ralston engaged in merchandis-
ing until 1847. That year witnessed their arrival in Linn county, Oregon, and
in 1848 he went to the mines of California, but three years later he returned to
Lebanon, Oregon, establishing a store at that place. Subsequently he carried
on farming and stock-raising near Lebanon, continuing in business until 1872,
when he retired from active life. Jeremiah Ralston, the grandfather of our
subject, platted and started the town of Lebanon, and donated the ground for
Lebanon Academy, of which he was one of the founders. The father was the
owner of three hundred and twenty acres of valuable land there, from which he
derived a substantial income up to the time of his death, which occurred on the
23d of June, 1906. In 1852 he married Laura A. Denney, a daughter of Chris-
tian and Eliza (Nickerson) Denney and a sister of Judge O. N. Denney, who
was one of Portland's most prominent men, serving as advisor to the king of
Corea and consul to China. He is mentioned on another page of this volume.
Mrs. Ralston was born in Muskingum county. Ohio, and died in Oregon, No-
vember 2, 1897, having come to this state in 1852 with her parents, who
settled in Linn county. Unto William and Laura Ralston there were born five
children.
Lonner Owen Ralston, the only surviving member of the family, was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native county, in the Albany (Ore.) College,
and in the business college of Portland. A portion of his 5^outh was spent upon
the home farm, and from 1880 until 1898 he devoted his time and energies to
stock-raising and to merchandising in eastern Oregon. He conducted stores
at Arlington and at Olex, both in Gilliam county, and met with success in his
operations in that part of the state, but seeking the broader field offered by the
city, he disposed of his mercantile interests there in 1898 and soon afterward
came to Portland. He still retains the ownership of tv.-o thousand acres of land
there, however, p/opertv that is constantly risin'r i'^ v3l'"'=' as that section of the
state becomes more thickly settled. For a year after leaving Gilliam county,
Mr. Ralston resided in Albany and in 1899 came to Portland, where he has
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since figured prominently in connection with the financial and property interests
of the city, in 1904 he was one of the organizers of the Oregon Savings Bank,
of which he served as president until the following year, when he sold his in-
terest in that institution. In 1908 he accepted the presidency of the American
Bank & Trust Company, but resigned the position upon selling his interest in
January, 1910. Under his administration both were growing and prosperous in-
stitutions, his keen business foresight and carefully formulated plans proving
elements in their success. Mr. Ralston is now president and owner of the
Marietta Trust Company of Portland, a holding company for Mr. Ralston's in-
terests. He has also been interested in various other enterprises, but now de-
votes his attention to his investments, owning much valuable business and resi-
dence property in Portland. In addition to his two thousand-acre tract in
eastern Oregon, he has a farm of one thousand acres on the Kaiama river in
Washington.
On the 23d of August, 1888, j\Ir. Ralston was married in Portland to Miss
Ada K. Johns, a daughter of J. M. Johns, an early settler who practiced law at
Salem for many years. They have four children : Lonner O., Jr., born August
I, 1889; Hazel L., born July 22, 1892; Ruth A., born April 27, 1894; and Wil-
liam C, born March 7, 1899. The family reside at No. 608 Market street.
Mr. Ralston is inclined to the republican view in politics, yet may be termed
non-partisan in that he does not hold himself bound by party ties and exercises
his right of franchise as his judgment dictates. His fraternal relations are with
the Knights of Pythias, and he is a member of the Grace Methodist Episcopal
church. Recognition of the possibilities and keen foresight into the situation
that exists has led him to invest largely in Oregon property and the growing
state, with its splendid outlook, is repaying him in a substantial way for his
faith in her development.
HIEL BRONSON HATHAWAY.
Among the descendants of worthy pioneers enjoying the fruits of many years
of toil is Hiel B. Hathaway, a prosperous farmer whose home is in the region
of Vancouver, Washington. Mr. Hathaway was born in Illinois, on Christ-
mas day, 185 1. He is a son of J. S. Hathaway, a record of whom appears else-
where in this work, and Isabel E. Hathaway, who is now living in Vancouver
and who came with her husband across the plains in 1852 and the following year
settled in Clarke county, where she has since resided.
The subject of this review grew up as a member of a family of nine chil-
dren. His memory does not carry hrm back to the time when he came by way
of the overland trail to his future home in the northwest, as he was then an
infant. The family located on a farm about three miles below Vancouver in
the state of Washington and there he was reared, gaining his education in the
district schools and growing up under the most favorable conditions for the de-
velopment of good character and true manhood. He followed dairying on the
farm and by industry and thrift acquired the means by which he v.^as able to pur-
chase two hundred and fifty-six acres of land near the mouth of the Willamette
river on the Columbia, which he improved by clearing away the timber, building
fences and cultivating such portions as were necessary in carrying forward the
operations of his farm. He finally rented this place for dairy farming to other
persons, and in 1885 bought one hundred and twenty acres of land on Fruit
Valley road in Felida. Here he farmed for some years on an extensive scale
but has sold ofif portions of the original tract and now retains seventy-two acres,
which he finds amply sufficient for his purpose as a eeneral farmer. He is a
stockholder in the Patrons of Husbandry Light & Fuel Company, and has been
connected with other organizations aiming to develop the resources of this re-
gion.
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In 1892, Mr. Hathaway was united in marriage to Miss Anna Mabel Skeels,
of Shoals, Oregon. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway:
Edna Vella, Harvey Delbert, Elmer Clinton, Piatt Gifford, Zilda Ollis and Beryl
Bates, all of whom are living at home.
Mr. Hathaway is a member of the Felida Grange and also of the Church of
God of Felida and, as is indicated by his career and the associations with which
he is affiliated in fraternal and business relations, he is a man of upright char-
acter, respected by his neighbors and one who willingly lends a hand in push-
ing forward any movement that will advance the permanent interests of the
region. Since his earliest remembrance, he has been identified with the Pacific
coast, and especially with the district around the mouth of the Willamette river,
and many are the changes he has witnessed here. By industry and good man-
agement he has acquired a competence for his declining years, and he is one of
the fortunate individuals who can look back on a life of no great mistakes, but
rather of many kind and gentle acts which have added to the peace and happi-
ness of others.
CAPTAIN CLEVELAND ROCKWELL.
Captain Cleveland Rockwell, whose life was devoted to the government ser-
vice, was for many years connected with the United States coast and geodetic
survey of Oregon, and in this connection became well known in Portland, As-
toria and other points in the state. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in Novem-
ber, 1838. He traced his ancestry in direct line back to Governor Bradford of
Massachusetts and was a representative of the family in the eighth generation.
Liberal educational advantages were afiforded him and, following his course in the
Polytechnic School at Troy, New York, he attended the University of New
York, from which he was graduated with the class of 1856. Immediately after-
ward he entered the United States coast survey and was stationed for active duty
on the Atlantic coast, serving in that connectiin until 1861, when he was detailed
to the war department for topographical duty and was attached to the staff of
different commanding officers with the rank of captain. Prior to and after the
battle of Bull Run he was engaged on the survey from Alexandria to Chain Ridge
for the defense of Washington. Following the close of hostilities between the
north and the south he was one of the commission to the United States of Colom-
bia in South America which surveyed the Magdalena river and was there six
months. Assignment to duty in California brought him to the Pacific coast after
a service of several years on the Atlantic coast, particularly in New York and
Boston.
In 1868 Captain Rockwell came to Oregon and was made chief of the United
States geodetic survey of this state with headquarters at Astoria. His work here
was of signal benefit to the northwest, especially in the promotion of navigation
interests. He surveyed the mouth of the Columbia and the coast for forty
or fifty miles south, covering a district that was practically unknown at that
time. Later he made the survey of the river from its mouth to Portland and up
the Willamette to Oregon City and his charts and maps of this great waterway
have done much to assist navigation. After several years of active work in this
line he retired, spending the last years of his life in well earned rest. He was
recognized as a prominent representative of the branch of the service with which
he was connected. His scientific attainments in that direction were of a superior
character. He took the deepest interest in his work, continuously studied to im-
prove his efficiency and his opinions concerning questions of importance to his
department were largely accepted as authority.
Captain Rockwell had almost reached the age of three score years and ten when
called to his final rest on the 21st of March, 1907. His was a work to which
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the laity gives little consideration and is comparatively uninteresting, but its im-
portance can scarcely be overestimated and the thoroughness and accuracy with
which he accomplished the tasks which he undertook have wrought results of
lasting benefit to the northwest. His topographical surveys are held as the
standard at the Fort Leavenworth school.
During his youth Captain Rockwell made quite a study of water colors in
English schools and became an artist of note. At his death the Oregonian said
of him : "Now that Cleveland Rockwell's hand is stilled, his fame as a marine
painter will grow, for he had great talent, loved the scenery of Oregon and limned
it on canvas with consummate skill. In other parts of the United States and
abroad, his title to fame rests chiefly on his splendid work, 'The Columbia Bar,'
painted for the late Captain George Flavel, of Astoria, twenty-five years ago.
This picture, reproduced in etchings and photographs, has found its way to gal-
leries and private collections around the globe. In Portland many homes are
enriched by a Rockwell canvas, whose worth, since his death, is greatly enhanced.
Captain Rockwell was essentially a marine painter. He created finer water
effects than any other artist who preceded or followed him. For soft coloring
and delicate touch, one must look far to find the equal of his 'Sunrise at Cath-
lamet.' In his 'Clatsop Beach and Tillamook Head' and 'Highlands of the
Columbia' he shows the true artist. Always his favorites, he employed the
shore of the Pacific and Oregon's great river as subjects for his brush, giving
to every product the stamp of genius. He was a very modest man and content
with the admiration of his friends. If he had done his early work in an age
of publicity and could have permitted the use of modern megaphone methods
to exploit it, he would now fill larger space in the world of art. Here at home
his name and fame are secure."
CAPTAIN THOMAS MOUNTAIN.
In the early days when navigation had no competitor in railway transporta-
tion Captain Thomas Mountain figured prominently in connection with the ship-
ping interests of the northwest. He is today one of the most venerable river men
of Portland, having for a number of years lived retired. The width of the con-
tinent separates him from the place of his birth, which occurred in Salem, Mas-
sachusetts, April I, 1822. His entire life has been given to marine connections.
In 1836 he went aboard the school ship, Ohio, on which he remained for two
years, and in 1838 joined the Peacock, when that vessel started out to discover
the North Pole, going as an apprentice and remaining on that vessel until she was
wrecked, being one of the crew at that time. In August, 184 1, he came up the
Columbia but returned to New York on the Oregon in 1842 and the succeeding
three years of his life were spent as an employe in the Brooklyn navy yards.
At the time of the Mexican war Captain Mountain joined the navy and did
active duty on the brig Sampson and at the close of the war he returned to the
Pacific coast, going to California as boatswain on the clipper ship. Sea Serpent,
which he left in San Francisco. He remained on shore for a time employed in
various ways and then sailed before the mast on the brig Tonquin to Portland.
A brief period was here passed, after which he returned to San Francisco and
made his way to the mines. He did not find the opportunities that he had hoped
to secure in the search for gold and again made his way to the city. There he
shipped on the clipper. Flying Cloud, which was bound for China, and following
the voyage to the Orient he went to New York, the Cloud being at that time one
of the important vessels in trans-oceanic service, having made a record of eighty-
nine days and six hours from New York to San Francisco. On the next voyage
the Cloud made the round trip to San Francisco in eleven months.
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All this time Captain Mountain remained as one of lier crew bat on again
reaching the Golden Gate returned to Portland and became a deck hand on the
Multnomah and Express. Later he returned to the steamship Columbia, in which
he had come out as second mate in 1^50. Afterward he was employed on the
steamship Northerner and in 1859 went to tlie Sound on the steamer Julia, with
which he remained for about eighteen months, running between Steilacoom,
Seattle and other Sound ports, in 1861 he returned with that ship from the
Sound and subsequently took command of the Cowiitz. lie was afterv/ard on
the Wilson G. Hunt and from there went as mate on the Julia with Captain
James Strang. Later he was mate on the i>lew World until he left that position
to superintend the mounting of the cannon at Fort Stevens.
In 1867, however. Captain Mountain took the New World around to the
Sound and while on the trip sustained a serious injury to his leg, which brought
about an enforced idleness for four years. He then retired from the water and
took charge of the wharf property for Ben HoUaday, who was at that time ope-
rating extensively in navigation and railway interests. His next business con-
nection was with the Oregon Steamship & Navigation Company and he con-
tinued with its successors, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, remain-
ing in their service continually until the time of his retirement. He is one of
the best known representatives of marine interests in this part of the country
and was a prominent figure at the commemorative celebration at Sequalitcher
lake. He has now come to an honorable old age and is spending the evening of
his days quietly and pleasantly. His wife died July 31, 1896. He was at the
Cascades at the time of the Indian outbreak and is today an honored member
of the Pioneer Society of Portland.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes, who lives with Captain ^Mountain, her father, is the
widow of Captain John Hayes, who was born March 29. 1847. His life record
covered the comparatively brief span of thirty-two years, being terminated on the
nth of December, 1879. He was a native of Brooklyn, New York, and when
twenty years of age left the east and came to Portland in 1867 on the Ajax,
one of the vessels belonging to Ben Holladay. Throughout the period of his
connection with marine interests he was associated with Captain Plolladay's
line, serving for some time as captain of the California, running between Port-
land and Sitka. At the time of his death, however, he was a government pilot
on board the Wolcott, a revenue cutter. On the 13th of November, 1870, Cap-
tain Hayes was united in marriage at the old home to Miss Elizabeth Mountain,
who is now devoting her time to her father's interests.
ARCHIBALD M. McKENZIE.
Archibald M. McKenzie, a general contractor of Portland, who has resided
here for a period of twenty-two years, came to Oregon from Hamilton, On-
tario, Canada. He was born near Glasgow, Scotland, September 8, 1850, a son
of John and Jean McKenzie, both of whom were natives of the same city. There
has been manifest in his life the sterling traits of the Scottish people — persistency
of purpose, thrift and unquestionable business integrity. His youthful days were
devoted to the duties of the schoolroom until he put aside his text-books in
order to learn his trade, which he mastered in Scotland ere seeking a home in
the United States.
Mr. McKenzie sailed for New York in 1872, when twenty-tv,-o years of
age, and there worked at his trade for a time, after which he went to Canada,
where he remained for fifteen years. Following his removal to Portland
he Vv'orked as a journeyman for a few months and then began contract-
ing on his own account. He finished the wood work on the interior of the
First Presbyterian church and also had the contracts in his line for many
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of the finest residences in the city as well as the interior finish of many of the
important business and public buildings of the city. Other important work has
b€en done by him, so that he has been constantly busy and has employed a number
of workmen.
In 1874 Mr. McKenzie was married to Miss Anna Olsen, a native of Norway,
who came to America about 1870. They have three living children, a daughter
and two sons: Jane, the wife of A. W. Young; Archibald; and James. Mr. Mc-
Kenzie is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Presbyterian church,
and his life has been actuated by the high and honorable principles which form
the basic elements of these two organizations. His life record is creditable alike
to the land of his birth and the land of his adoption.
GENERAL CHARLES F. BEEBE.
Forceful, resourceful, alert and determined, the labors and efl:orts of Charles
F. Beebe have been resultant factors in commercial, industrial, political and mili-
tary circles. At all times actuated by a spirit of progress, he has accomplished
what he has undertaken despite obstacles and difficulties which would have de-
terred many a man of less resolute spirit. In all things he has held to high ideals
and has accomplished what he has set out to do. His record, therefore, has be-
come an integral chapter in the annals of Portland and he has left and is leav-
ing the indelible impress of his individuality upon the life and progress of the
city.
General Beebe is a native of New York city and a representative of an old
New England family that was founded in America soon after the mother coun-
try had sent her first colonists to the new world. His grandfather, Silas Beebe,
was a native of Connecticut and was for years a sailing master and built and
owned a number of vessels running out of the harbor of Mystic. It was there
that Charles E. Beebe, the father of General Beebe, was born and spent his youth-
ful days, going in early manhood to New York city that he might profit by the
broader business opportunities there offered. For more than fifty years, from
1840 until 1890, he ranked as one of the most prominent and prosperous tea mer-
chants and importers in the metropolis, establishing and conducting the business
as a member of the firm of Beebe & Brother. He married Jane B. Wade, a na-
tive of Springfield, New Jersey, who died in 1891. She was a daughter of Elias
Wade, who was born in New Jersey and conducted a business as a wholesale
grocer until 1865, when he became managing partner for the large importing and
shipping house of Grinnell, Minturn & Company, of New York, thus continuing
until his death, in 1878. Charles E. and Jane W. Beebe became the parents of
four children, of whom three reached the adult age : William W., a graduate of
Yale University of the class of 1873, who became an attorney of New York city
and later of Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he died; Alfred L., a graduate of
the Columbia School of Mines in New Y'ork city, who for years was assistant
chemist of the New York board of health and has resided in Portland since 1898,
and Charles F., of this review.
General Beebe spent his youth in the eastern metropolis and completed his
education by graduation from the Flushing Institute on Long Island in 1865.
He received his initial business training in his father's ofiice and was eventually
admitted to partnership in the firm of Beebe & Brother, remaining with that
house until 1879, when he disposed of his interests and joined Henry M. Evans
in the cotton brokerage business, under the firm style of Evans & Beebe. Four
■years later Mr. Beebe joined with his brother-in-law, A. M. Sutton, in estab-
lishing an agency at Portland for Sutton & Company of New York.
Since January. 1884. a resident of this city. General Beebe soon came into
prominence along different lines which have constituted significant and vital fac-
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tors in the city's development. On the ist of February, 1884, he began business
at No. 16 North Front street, as agent for Sutton & Company of New York,
and when the business here was well established Mr. Sutton in July, 1884, went
to San Francisco, the two acting as western agents around the Horn from New
York and Philadelphia. A general ship-chandlery business was conducted in
connection with the Portland agency and the latter was continued until 1896,
when Sutton & Company withdrew from Portland. General Beebe, however,
decided to remain and organized and incorporated the Charles F. Beebe Company
on the I St of January, 1897, of which company he was president for about ten
years, when he withdrew to take up the active management of important in-
terests in connection with the manufacture of lime and gypsum products, owned
by Charles E. Ladd and himself in eastern Oregon. He is a man of determined
purpose and his unabating energy enables him to accomplish what he undertakes
and in the attainment of results he employs only such methods as will bear the
closest investigation and scrutiny.
Such is the business record of General Beebe but there are many other chap-
ters in his life history of equal interest. His title has been won by service in
connection with the National Guard. On the 14th of February, 1871, he joined
Company H of the Seventh New York Regiment, from which he was honorably
discharged in November, 1878. At the beginning of his service he was appointed
aid-de-camp with the rank of first lieutenant on the staff of Brigadier General
J. M. Varian, commander of the Second Brigade of the New York National
Guard. Promotions followed through intermediate ranks until he was made
brigade quartermaster with the rank of captain and he was retained in that posi-
tion when Brigadier General Louis Fitzgerald became the successor of General
Varian as commander of the brigade. Captain Beebe was soon afterward ap-
pointed inspector of rifle practice with the rank of major and so served until he
resigned in the fall of 1882. Later he was appointed assistant in the department
of rifle practice with the rank of major under General Charles F. Robbins, in-
spector general of rifle practice in New York, on the general staff, and so con-
tinued until he tendered his resignation preparatory to his removal to Oregon.
The National Guard of the latter state was reorganized in the spring of 1886
and General Beebe became second lieutenant when Company K was formed in
Portland. Soon he was chosen as first lieutenant and when the company was
permanently organized was elected captain. In July, 1887, he was chosen colonel
of the First Regiment Oregon National Guard and was reelected at Milton,
Oregon, in 1891. On the 22d of February, 1895, he was appointed and com-
missioned brigadier general in command of the Oregon troops by Governor
William P. Lord, and four years later was reappointed by Goevrnor T. T. Geer.
In this position he has bent his energies toward bringing the Oregon National
Guard to a high standard of efficiency and he deserves and receives much credit
for his thorough work in this connection. He is a life member of the Seventh
New York Regiment Veteran Association and it was in the Empire state that he
gained the military training which has enabled him to do so much for the Ore-
gon Guard, placing it on a rank in equipment and efficiency with the best mili-
tary organizations of other states.
General Beebe's position on political questions is never an equivocal one.
He gives stalwart support to the republican party and though he has never had
aspiration for political preferment, he accepted a position on the executive board
in 1903 under the appointment of Mayor Williams and because of his thorough
military training he was made a member of the committee having supervision
of the police department. He has cooperated in many organized movements for
the benefit of the city through his membership in the Chamber of Commerce,
of which he was president for one term and vice president for two terms, serv-
ing also as a member of its board of trustees. He has also been twice honored
with the presidency of the Commercial Club and has been chosen to various of-
ficial positions in the Arlington Club, of which he is a valued member.
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While residing in New York city, General Beebe wedded Miss Emma Bowne,
who was born at Flushing, Long Island, and was educated in Miss Porter's
school at Farmington, New York. Her father, Simon R. Bowne belonged to a
prominent Quaker family of Flushing. General and Mrs. Beebe are the parents
of three sons: Walter Bowne, now president of the Northwest Steel Company
and Gerald E. and Kenneth associated in the management of the Charles F.
Beebe Company. The family attend the Presbyterian church.
Such in brief is the history of Charles F. Beebe, who has mastered the les-
sons of life day by day until his post-graduate work in the school of experience
has placed him with the men of eminent ability. He has figured prominently in
the life of Portland for many years, reaching substantial results in business be-
cause of his decisive, energetic and persistent action. His public service has not
been impelled by the sense of duty but rather by a sincere interest in the various
phases of public life and especially is Oregon indebted to him for what he has
accomplished in the perfection of the state military organization.
JAMES N. DAVIS.
The only change which James N. Davis has made since his early childhood
was that which brought him to Portland in 1890, since which time he has en-
gaged in the practice of law in this city. He has, however, traveled quite ex-
tensively over the American continent, and, keenly observant, he has learned the
lessons which new experiences of life have brought, so that he draws from a rich
fund of knowledge and information in his practice of law before the courts of
Oregon.
He was born in Taylorville, Illinois, February 24, 1858, a son of John W.
and Rebecca Ellen (Linn) Davis and is one of eleven children, all living. His
grandfather, Newton Davis, was a pioneer surveyor of Kentucky and was of
Welsh descent. John W. Davis, born in Kentucky, removed to Illinois in 1848
and during his residence in that state became well acquainted with Abraham
Lincoln. He was a rover in Kansas and Texas in the early '50s, and, being a
strong abolitionist, went to Kansas to assist in saving that territory to the Union.
He afterward served in the Kansas Militia at Lawrence. For many years he
devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits and is now a retired farmer.
In Illinois he wedded Rebecca Ellen Linn, who was born in Mifflintown, Penn-
sylvania, in 183 1, and was a granddaughter of James Wilson, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence. The historical records of Pennsylvania give
the Wilson ancestry. Her father, James Linn, settled in Christian county, Illi-
nois, in 1840.
James N. Davis pursued his education in the district schools near Lawrence,
Kansas, and in the Kansas State University, where he pursued special courses in
history, literature and languages and was graduated in law with the class of 1885.
His father had been successful in his farming operations and gave all of his
children good educational opportunities. In his youth Mr. Davis became a good
rifle and pistol shot and greatly enjoyed such sports. He possessed, too, some-
what of a roving and restless disposition, which was hard to overcome, but he
nevertheless continued his school work until liberal education well qualified him
for success at the bar. He traveled through the southeast and west, also visited
Canada and Mexico, and thus in extended journeyings learned much of the coun-
try and the characteristics of the people in various sections. His earliest ambi-
tion had been to become a soldier but with the growing wisdom of advancing
years he recognized that professional and commercial fields offered broader op-
portunity and at length decided upon the practice of law, to which he has given
his undivided attention since his admission to the bar in 1885.
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His only removal in all these years has been from Kansas to Portland in 1890
and for two decades he has practiced law in this city, his success in a pTofes-
sional way affording the best evidence of his capabilities in this line. His pleas
have been characterized by a terse and decisive logic and a lucid presentation
rather than by flights of oratory, and his power is the greater before court or jury
from the fact that it is recognized that his aim is ever to secure justice and not
to enshroud the cause in a sentimental garb or illusion, which will thwart the
principles of right and equity involved. He was associated with Judge C. U.
Gantenbein and Arthur L. Veazie under the firm name of Davis, Gantenbein &
Veazie from 1892 to 1901.
On the 2 1 St of September, 1893, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mr. Davis was
married to Miss Mary Evelyn McFadden, formerly a teacher of Portland. She
is of Scotch-Irish descent and a daughter of Dr. James McFadden, whose father
was a surgeon in a Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil war. She is a rep-
resentative of one of the pioneer families of western Pennsylvania and holds'
membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. and Mrs.
Davis have one child, Catherine Mary, born in 1896.
Mr. Davis has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1882 and is a
past master of Valley Lodge, F. & A. M., in Kansas. In 1905 he attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. While living in Kansas he served for
four years in the State Militia. His political allegiance is given to the republican
party and he was elected to the Oregon legislature in 1896. He believes in party
government, in systematic organization and action, but has never made politics
a business, preferring to devote his attention more exclusively to his chosen
life work of the practice of law.
FRANKLIN PIERCE WALKER.
Among the well known citizens of Portland is Franklin Pierce Walker, who
was born in Washington county, this state, December 3, 1852. He is a son of
William and Nancy Ann (Alexander) Walker. His father was a pioneer of
1851, coming across the plains with ox team from Ohio. The party had diffi-
culty with the Indians, who stole all of their horses, leaving only the oxen. Mr.
Walker made his home for several years on the Joseph Meeks place, where the
subject of this sketch was born, later taking up a homestead at the edge of
Tualitin plains in Washington county. After eight or ten years the family re-
moved to Sophia's island, where the father died about 1868. Seven children
were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Walker, of whom three are living: Martin Grant,
Isabel Martha and the subject of this review.
Franklin Pierce Walker was about eighteen years of age when his father died
and two years later his mother was called away. He had little opportunity for
acquiring an education but attended the public schools at Hillsboro, near Port-
land, for a short time. He started out for himself by taking up a farm in east-
ern Oregon, near Colfax, at a time when the country was unsurveyed. Learning
that on account of his age he could not get a clear title, he gave up the land after
remaining tipon it for one summer and returned to Portland. This was about
1871. He entered the employ of William Love, on the Love farm on the Colum-
bia slough, and remained there for abotit four years. He next became connected
with the Empire bakery and continued with that concern for two years or more,
at a time when there were only three bakeries in Portland — the Empire, Oregon
and Pioneer. About 1878 he rented the Love farm, which he operated for four
years, and then, having saved some money, he purchased two hundred and
twenty-five acres of land, for which he paid five thousand dollars. In order to
give an idea of the increase in the value of land during the last thirtv years it
may be stated that this land is now worth at least one hundred and fifty thou-
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 377
sand dollars. Mr. Walker took up his residence at the corner of Vancouver and
Stanton streets about three years ago and has engaged extensively not only in
farming but as a horse buyer and in the course of his operations has acquired
a handsome competence.
On the 27th of December, 1876, Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss
Emma J. Stafford, a granddaughter of Captain Levv^is Love, an early pioneer of
this state. Five children were born to the union, one of whom died in infancy
and Anna, the wife of Edward McKeen, who passed away in 1906. The surviv-
ing children are: Mary Alice, the wife of Dr. Colver, of Butte, Montana; Charles
Natlian ; and Clarence Chester.
Mr. Walker has devoted his time mainly to his business affairs but has al-
ways taken an active interest in the election of reputable men to public office.
He served a term in the city council as a member from the eleventh ward about
1902. He has for many years been identified with fraternal organizations and is
a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Red Men, the Macca-
bees, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Rebekahs. He has prac-
tically filled every office in Peninsular Lodge, No. 128, I. O. O. F., and served
on the relief committee for nearly two years. He is an enthusiastic horseman
and takes great delight in hunting and fishing. In his political affiliations he is
a republican. He is recognized as one of the responsible, earnest and patriotic
citizens, who is always willing to perform his part in advancing the permanent
interests of the community.
WILLIAM REIDT.
Among the men of responsibility in Portland who have attained an honorable
position after overcoming many obstacles that to a man of less hardihood would
have appeared insuperable may be mentioned William Reidt. He was born in
the city of Marburg, Hessen, Germany, June 19, 1858. He is a son of August
and Regina Reidt, both natives of the same place. On his mother's side he is
descended from old families of Marburg, known for centuries as official butch-
ers of that city.
William Reidt did not have much opportunity for school education in the old
country but was early put to work at the confectionary trade. A friend of the
family who had emigrated to America returned to Germany to attend the Mar-
burg University and through this visitor our subject became greatly interested in
the stories concerning the new world on the v.'estern shore of the Atlantic, and
at the age of fifteen he left his old home and came with the returning student to
this country, landing in Baltimore in June, 1873. There he worked at his trade
as a confectioner for about a year. His mother's brothers having settled in Rich-
mond, Virginia, Mr. Reidt went to that city and entered the employ of the Singer
bakery. At the time of the centennial he engaged in the same line of busi-
ness in Philadelphia, but coming to the conclusion that the west offered more fa-
vorable inducements, he selected the Pacific coast as his future home and, after
living a short time in San Francisco, came to Portland in 1878, later following
in the bakery business at Vancouver and Olymoia. When he arrived at the lat-
ter place he had as his capital four hundred dollars. Seeing a favorable opening
for his business, he borrowed six hundred dollars and for two years conducted
a bakery establishment, selling out at the end of that time for three thousand
dollars. As an evidence of his business ability it may be stated that upon leav-
ing Olympia he had a credit to his account at the bank of four thousand dollars
in addition to the amount he had saved from his business. New Westminster,
British Columbia, was the next scene of his operations. There he invested his
savings and in eighteen months cleared thirty-five thousand dollars, and from
that time he dates his start on the road to fortune.
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Believing that Portland was the coming city of the northwest coast, Mr.
Reidt, in 1889, came to this point and began to invest largely in real estate, op-
erating mostly in North Portland and near the steel bridge on the east side of
the river. For more than twenty years he has been a very extensive operator,
always handling his own property except in the case of the North Pacific Term-
inal grounds from Hoyt to Vaiighan streets, which involved an expenditure of
one million dollars on the part of the railway. This deal was consummated about
1903-04. In 1897 he erected seventeen houses near the steel bridge and a year
later he remodeled twenty houses in the same locality. In 1902 he built a num-
ber of small houses covering four entire blocks on Twenty-first and Clinton
streets, selling them on the installment plan. In 1903, immediately following the
financial panic, he purchased forty houses, which he remodeled and sold on long
payments. The year following he built the first flats, twelve in number, that
were erected on the east side of the river. He built the first concrete building
on Union avenue at Killingsworth avenue, including five storerooms, with apart-
ments above, and recently erected six store rooms, also with living apartments on
the opposite corner. In 1907 he erected sixteen houses in North Portland, and
his operations at the present time are on a more extensive scale than heretofore.
He has been one of the large builders of the city, and has been instrumental in
supplying homes at a reasonable cost to many families who previously had little
hope of becoming independent and owning their own homesteads.
On the 29th of January, 1885, Mr. Reidt was united in marriage to Annie
Schade, a daughter of Joseph and Annie Schade, pioneers of this state. Three
children have been born to this union : Julia, now Mrs. Frank Bates ; William,
and Nellie. Mr. and Mrs. Reidt occupy a handsome residence at No. 410 East
Eleventh street. North.
Mr. Reidt served during 1882 in Company G, First Oregon Infantry, and en-
gaged in the campaign against Chief Joseph. He is a member of the Lutheran
church, the Knights of Pythias, the Artisans and the Royal Arcanum. He is
past consul of Webb Foot Camp No. 65, Woodmen of the World, and is now
council commander of the Portland Union Degree Camp, which consists of mem-
bers elected from all the camps in the city and county. He also located the head-
quarters of the Women of Woodcraft, of which he is a member here. Mr. Reidt
is recognized as one of the most active and influential men in a growing circle
of the progressive men of the city. He has attained his position by diligence,
good judgment and faithfulness in the discharge of obligations which have rested
upon him either as a citizen or as a friend to many who have come to him for
advice and assistance. It is men possessing these characteristics that gain the
confidence of the public and that are the builders and conservators of modern
society.
ROBERT ALEXANDER HUME.
Robert Alexander Hume, one of the most extensive dealers in building ma-
terials in the northwest and largely interested also in their manufacture, was
born in Placerville, Eldorado county, California, September 16, 1862, a son of
John and Martha (Hixon) Hume, the former a lawyer by profession. Robert
Alexander Hume completed his education in St. Augustine College at Benecia,
California, and afterward became junior clerk in a law publishing house. Since
May, 1883, he has been a resident of Portland, arriving in this city in the year
in which he attained his majority. Since that time close application to business,
determined purpose and progressive methods have promoted his advancement
until he is today one of the largest dealers in building materials in the northwest.
He has been engaged in this business for several years, during which period he
has continuously extended his trade relations and as a manufacturer of building
materials he is also widely known.
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Mr. Hume has attained high rank in Masonry, belonging to Portland Lodge,
No. 55, A. F. & A. M., while in Oriental Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S., he at-
tained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He likewise belongs to the
Woodmen of the World and to the Royal Arcanum, and also holds membership
in the Commercial and Apollo Clubs. His religious faith is that of the Epis-
copal church. While a republican in politics he does not hold to what have
become known as the Rooseveltian principles. He is preeminently a business
man, alert and enterprising, bending his efforts to the development of the busi-
ness which, in its extensive proportions, stands as a monument to his ability and
perseverance.
RICHARD LEA BARNES.
Richard Lea Barnes, vice president of the United States National Bank of
Portland, to whom lifelong experience in banking has brought comprehensive
knowledge of every phase of the business, was born on the 31st of July, 1857,
at Berbice, Demerara, British Guiana, and is of British lineage, tracing his an-
cestry in direct hne back to the reign of King Edward III in the middle of the
fourteenth century. His birth occurred while his parents were residing tempor-
arily in South America and, returning to England, he pursued his education in
Cheltenham College, from which in due course of time he was graduated. His
identification with the banking business covers thirty-four years and has been
marked by steady progress, the consecutive steps in his orderly progression be-
ing easily discernible. The mastery of the duties of one position qualifying him
for advancement, he has enjoyed promotion from time to time and each forward
step has brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities.
After five years' experience in the banking business in London Mr. Barnes
located in San Francisco, where he continued in the same line for five years. He
also spent a similar period in banks in British Columbia and for five years was
identified with the banking interests of Seattle, since which time he has been
in Portland, covering fourteen years. In British Columbia he was identified with
the Bank of British Columbia, formerly the Wells Fargo Bank, the United
States National Bank and the Colonial Bank of the West Indies. At the present
writing he is vice president of the United States 'National Bank of Portland and
thus occupies a prominent position in the financial circles of the city.
Mr. Barnes is a member of the Church of England and of all the leading
local clubs. His prominently marked characteristics are those which make for
personal popularity, while in business circles he manifests the forcefulness, keen
discrimination and ready understanding of involved interests which make him
one of the chief factors in the promotion of the banking affairs of the city.
PROFESSOR ISAAC M. WALKER.
In a history of educational development in the northwest attention is called
to the marvelous strides made by the Behnke- Walker Business College of Port-
land, which within an almost incredibly short space of time has built up an in-
stitution second to none in the character of and thoroughness of its instruction
nor its attendance. Such an institution is proof that its promoters and its presi-
dent, I. M. Walker, thoroughly know the practical as well as the theoretical side
of business life. Their own institution is a monument to their ability and the
success of their graduated students is proof of the excellence of their methods of
teaching.
Mr. Walker was born in Hall, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1861, a son of
Lewis P. and Babraba L. Walker, the former born in Hall, April 25, 1834, the
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latter in York Springs, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1840. The Walker family is of
Welsh descent and of Quaker faith, nearly all of the descendants adhering to
that religious belief. The mother was Pennsylvania Dutch, her ancestors coming
from Holland. They were members of the German Reformed church and left
Holland on account of religious persecution. Lewis P. Walker remained a resi-
dent of the Keystone state until the spring of 1877, when he removed with his
entire family to Abilene, Kansas, thinking that he might have better opportuni-
ties in the middle west. Later he disposed of most of his holdings in Kansas,
including two beautiful farms, and went to Arnett, Oklahoma, where he and
his wife are still residing. They also own two farms near that city and also
city realty.
Mr. Walker began his education in the public schools of his native town and
continued his studies in the high school of Abilene, Kansas, where he worked
for his room and board during a nine months' session. He had only two dol-
lars and a half for spending money during that period. After finishing the high
school course he taught in the public schools of that vicinity, spending the sum-
mer vacations as a student in the State Normal at Emporia, Kansas, his labor
partially meeting the expenses of his board and tuition. For several years he
taught in the schools of Dickinson, Butler county, Kansas, and while thus en-
gaged conceived the idea of thoroughly preparing for business college work.
For two years he remained in Burns county, Kansas, upon his father's ranch,
comprising six hundred and forty acres of land, and then selling out everything
entered the Gem City Business College, at Quincy, Illinois, where he remained
for a year and a half, studying all that time, during which he completed the busi-
ness and penmanship courses. Having exhausted his means he began work for
the Quincy Casket Company as bookkeeper and billing clerk, holding the posi-
tion for two years, when, wishing to broaden himself in business ideas he re-
signed his position and entered the employ of a bank, with which he remained
for a year. At the expiration of that period he accepted a position in the Mount
Morris (111.) College, as principal of the business department and teacher o^
mathematics, remaining with that institution for three years, when he resigned
to accept the presidency of the Hayward College of Fairfield, Illinois, where he
remained for three years. He was chosen for the following year and was also
elected to the position of principal and superintendent of the city schools, but re-
signed both positions to accept the principalship of the business department of
Albany College at Albany, Oregon. He had long desired to come to the Pacific
coast and the work being in line for the establishment of a business college, which
was the ambition that he was cherishing, he made his way to this state and spent
five years at Albany College. He then resigned, thinking the time opportune for
starting in the work for v^'hich he had long been planning. Twenty years had
really been given to preparation, and in August, 1902, he came to Portland.
Here Mr. Walker purchased a half interest in a small shorthand school,
which had a meager equipment, while a dozen students were enrolled. He paid
five hundred dollars for his half interest in this school, which was occupying two
small rooms in the Commercial building. One of the first steps taken was to
systematize the work already installed and to rearrange the curriculum, thus
making it a full fledged business college. His successful management was at
once apparent in the immediate growth of the school, and after two years it
was necessary to seek more commodious quarters and a removal was made to
the Sterns building, then in course of construction, the whole upper floor being
modeled to suit the requirements of the college, Mr. Walker himself drawing
the plans. The number of students continued to increase rapidly and two years
later quarters were secured in the Elks building in rooms especially fitted up for
the college. Already at that time it had gained the reputation of being the finest
equipped business college in the Pacific northwest. The enlarged enrollment de-
manded still another change, and on the ist of October, 1910, they removed to
their new quarters — the Behnke- Walker building — at the corner of Fourth and
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Yamhill streets, where they have available more than thirty thousand square
feet of floor space. Mr. Walker has succeeded in surrounding himself with a
most efficient corps of assistants, bright and progressive young men and women,
whose methods are thoroughly modern, meeting the demands of the times in
every respect. Besides being president of Behnke-Walker College, he is also
president of the Columbia Beach Company and secretary of the Union Pacific
Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Walker has been married twice. In Abilene, Kansas, in August, 1885,
he wedded Miss Anna Stow, who passed away six years later. Three years
after the death of his first wife he married Miss Laura Hoover, of North Man-
chester, Indiana, having formed her acquaintance when teaching in Mount Mor-
ris, Illinois. The Hoover family is prominently known all through the states
of Indiana and Pennsylvania. Four brothers of the name came from Germany
and settled in Pennsylvania, where annual reunions are held, on which occasions
a large number of the descendants of the original progenitors assemble. The
family have ever been greatly interested in the cause of education. Mr. Walker
had one daughter, Eva Marie, by his first marriage and unto the second mar-
riage has been born a son, Ralph Emerson.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker are members of the First Presbyterian church of Port-
land. He also belongs to the Odd Fellows fraternity and the Elks lodge. He has
himself created the genial, helpful atmosphere which dominates the school of
which he is president, and in his life he has exemplified the Emersonian principle
that the way to win a friend is to be one.
SINZABURO BAN.
Sinzaburo Ban, a leading Japanese merchant and contractor of the Pacific
coast, was born in Tokio, Japan, March 4, 1854, and is the second son of Ma-
gorokuro Ban. He was educated in his native land, graduating at the age of
twenty years, and in addition to the branches which were taught in Japanese, was
also instructed in the English tongue. He began his active career in the service
of the Japanese government, in the consulate at Shanghai, China, and later at
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. He also served in the foreign department in
Tokio, but as he grew older he developed a taste for commercial life which re-
sulted in his resignation from public service.
At the age of thirty-seven, Mr. Ban came to America, landing at Vancouver,
British Columbia. After looking over the field he took up his residence in Port-
land and became actively identified with various lines of business, in which he
has attained unusual success, and as a contractor, lumber dealer and shingle
manufacturer, has gained a reputation which gives him a position among the active
and energetic men of the coast region. He is now maintaining branch stores at
Sheridan, Wyoming; Denver, Colorado; and Tokio, Japan. He has mill interests
at Quincy, Columbia county, Oregon, where he built a flume two miles in length
to facilitate the handling of timber, and he established a thriving village. He
built and operates a shingle mill at Willamette slough, two and a half miles from
Linden, with a cutting capacity of one hundred and twenty thousand shingles
daily.
At the age of twenty-nine years Mr. Ban was united in marriage to Kiyo
Machida. who is also a native of Japan. One child, a son, was born to the union,
who died at the age of four years.
Previous to the establishment of the present form of government in Japan
forty-three years ago, Mr. Ban was a subject of Toku?awa Shogun. His family
has a record of its ancestors extending back for a period of four hundred years
or more. This record shows that Mr. Ban is a direct descendant of Rokwzaye-
man Ban, whose family came out of the same district as lyeyasu, one of the
384 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
most noted generals of Japan and a commander under whom many members of
the Ban family have fought in numerous battles. Mr. Ban is the thirteenth in
order of descent from early ancestors and he takes great pride in the fact that
the blood of these fighting ancestors is found in his veins, every descendant hav-
ing had a son to perpetuate the line without interruption during four hundred
years, which is a most unusual occurrence.
As is demonstrated by his success in competition with many able men of
other nationalities, Mr. Ban is a thorough business man and fully alive to the
exigencies of trade and the means by which customers are gained and retained.
There is an old saying that all men are made of "one blood" and the success of
Mr. Ban is evidence that with proper education and laudable ambition, the future
is in the hands of the individual and he need not be controlled by circumstances
of birth or country. Reverence of ancestry is one of the deeply seated traits of
Japanese character, and one to which a great deal of attention has been attracted
recently. This recalls a saying of wise writers that whenever a nation loses rev-
erence for its ancestors, it is on the road to decay — a sentiment which meets
hearty response from every lover of his country and well wisher of mankind.
JOSEPH HARVEY ROBERTS.
Joseph Harvey Roberts, who was called from an active and useful career
three years ago, just as he was entering upon the prime of his life, was a tele-
graph operator of unusual ability, and in the responsible position of chief train
despatcher had few equals in the service anywhere in the west. He was born
at Newark, New Jersey, March 25, 1868, and was the son of Jentz J. and Martha
(Kelch) Roberts. His father was of "Yankee" parentage although a native of
Jew Jersey, and his mother is of German descent. The family removed to Lake
View, Iowa, when their son Joseph H. was one year old. They were thrifty peo-
ple and bought a section of land in Sac county, which on account of improve-
ments and increase of population has since become very valuable. Of this land
the parents gave their sons three hundred and twenty acres, retaining a like
number of acres for their own use as the years should pass. On May 25, 1906,
the couple celebrated their golden wedding and relatives and friends gathered
from many quarters to show by their presence and appreciative words the re-
spect in which the family is held. Three years later, on January 23, 1909, the
aged father was called to rest and another gathering was held at the family home
— but it was of a different character from the joyous assemblage of 1906. Mrs,
Roberts is still living at the old home.
Joseph H. Roberts was educated in the public schools of Lake View, Iowa.
He was a bright pupil and early gave evidence of valuable traits of character
that were more fully developed in later years. He attended business college in
Chicago, and returning home entered the railway telegraph service and at eighteen
was appointed station agent at Lake View for the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way. After three years' experience at his home town, he started out for a wider
field, first working in an ofiice near Omaha and later in the city of Omaha. From
that position he was called to Cache Junction, Utah. This is a railway terminal
point and larger responsibilities were demanded. Mr. Roberts had become an
expert at the keys and possessed the alertness and accuracy which are such
desirable factors in the service. His work was highly appreciated by officers of
the railway. While at Cache Junction Mr. Roberts met the lady who became his
wife.
Seeing opportunity for more rapid advancement at Albany, Oregon, Mr. Rob-
erts resigned from his position in Utah and located at Albany, where he became
connected with the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, now a part of the Southern Pa-
cific lines. After a period of six months, during which time he became familiar
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with the workings under a different administration from the one to which he had
been accustomed, he was made despatcher and two years later was promoted
to the position of chief despatcher. This position he held until about the middle
of 1907, when he removed to Portland, where he bought property and established
his home. He was summoned away on the 25th of October, 1907, and his body
was conveyed to his boyhood home at Lake View, Iowa, where it reposes in the
family lot in the cemetery.
Mr. Roberts was happily united in marriage at Ogden, Utah, July 3, 1894,
to Miss Mabel Van Tromp, also an expert telegraph operator in charge as agent
at Cannon, Utah. She is a native of Watertown, Wisconsin, her parents being
John and Martha (Luther) Van Tromp. Her mother was a native of England
and her father of Holland. Both parents came to the United States when quite
young. Mr. Van Tromp, who was a contractor, died December 2, 1879, in Lyons,
Kansas, and his wife died in Marion Center, that state, November 20, 1872, the
remains of both being interred at Lyons. Mrs. Roberts came west with a sister
when a girl of fifteen years and learned telegraphy in college and at Portland,
becoming highly proficient in the art. At the age of sixteen she was made agent
on the Short Line at Battle Creek, Idaho, and from there went to Cannon, Utah.
One son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Harvey Eugene, a bright child,
whose birth occurred at Albany, November 6, 1905.
Mr. Roberts was a member of Lodge No. 359, B. P. O. E., of Albany, and was
secretary and treasurer of the lodge. He was also a member of the Odd Fel-
lows at Lake View, and the funeral was held under the auspices of that fra-
ternity. He was a republican but was broad in religious views and not identified
with any religious organization, although his parents were Methodists. Mr.
Roberts was a busy man and one who attended conscientiously to his duties.
He was a kind husband and father, and his memory will long be cherished by
friends and acquaintances who always found him kind-hearted and one who ex-
tended a ready hand to his fellowmen less fortunate than himself.
DR. JAMES ROBERT CARDWELL.
The first resident dentist of Portland, Dr. James Robert Cardwell, still prac-
tices his profession in this city, which has been his home since 1852. As one of
the organizers of the State Horticultural Society, the Oregon Humane Society,
and the North Pacific Dental College, he has left his impress indelibly engraven
upon the pages of the state's history. The story of his life is written in terms of
honor, and in memory and activities forms a connecting link between the primi-
tive past and the progressive present.
He was born in Springfield, Illinois, September 11, 1830, a son of William
Lee and Mary Ann (Biddle) Cardwell. The first census taken in Virginia
makes record of one Cardwell as the only one of the name living in the United
States. He came from France and in temperament and physique was typically
Latin. He married into a French family — the lady a Miss Perrin — and they
settled in Lunenburg county, Virginia, where he conducted a tobacco plantation.
Their family included several daughters and five sons — Richard, John, Henry,
Daniel and Perrin. Family history has it that one of the daughters became the
wife of the father of Robert E. Lee, which accounts for the middle name of
William Lee Cardwell, father of Dr. Cardwell, who was a cousin of Robert E.
Lee and to whom he was always loyally attached.
Perrin Cardwell, the grandfather of Dr. Cardwell, was an overseer — in the
terms of the south — on the estate of John Randolph. He died in 1852 on his
estate of six hundred and forty acres near Knoxville, Tennessee, which he
had purchased from the government about 1809 for twelve and a half
cents per acre. At that date he emigrated from Virginia to Tennessee,
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where he afterward made his home. Like his father, he was of the Latin type,
dark complexion and of powerful physique, weighing two hundred and thirty-
five pounds when a young man. He was noted as a wrestler and all-round
athlete. Fabulous stories are told in the family of his great feats of strength
and wrestling bouts. His father lived to old age, and the mother to the age of
one hundred and ten years, Perrin Cardwell himself being ninety-nine years of
age at the time of his death. At the age of twenty he married a Miss Washam,
a blond Saxon, aged nineteen, and they lived together for seventy-eight years.
Thirteen children were born unto them, of whom nine reached middle life or
old age.
Dr. Cardwell's grandmother on the maternal side was Polly Ann Capels, of
Lynchburg, Virginia. The grandfather was Benjamin Biddle, the youngest son
of a wealthy Welsh family, but primogeniture left him comparatively poor.
Leaving home, he first went to Virginia about 1780. There he bought negroes
which he took to the south, selling them to the sugar planters, and in 1830 he
became a resident of Illinois. It was on Christmas day of 1829 that his daugh-
ter, Mary Ann Caples Biddle, who was then a resident of Tennessee^ became the
wife of William Lee Cardwell, and in the spring of 1830 they removed to Spring-
field, Illinois, where on the nth of September of that year Dr. Cardwell was
born, his mother being then in her eighteenth year, his father in his twenty-
fifth year,
William L. Cardwell had obtained a classical education, had taught school,
had studied law for a short time and also was a licensed physician. He regarded
farming, however, as the ideal life, and on coming to Illinois located and made his
home on a sixteenth section — school land — in the vicinity of Springfield. Later
he went security for a brother-in-law and in the financial panic of 1837 lost his
property. He then removed to Carlinville, Illinois, and with another brother-in-
law turned his attention to building operations and furniture manufacture. He
was a natural mechanic and readily took to the business, for he did not like the
practice of medicine. In following that pursuit he was enabled to provide well
for his family of five sons and three daughters. The three daughters died in
infancy and he devoted his attention to the liberal education of his sons. Like
his ancestors, he was a large, strong man, weighing about two hundred pounds,
of dark complexion and of the French type. In July, 1862, he fell from a build-
ing and sustained injuries which caused his death.
Dr. Cardwell, who was the eldest of the family, spent his youth largely to
the age of twelve years in caring for the babies of the household and assisting
his mother in the house work. His parents instructed him in reading, writing
and arithmetic, and his mother always told with some pride that he learned the
alphabet in one afternoon when three years of age. As a boy his only amusement
was in mechanics. In his father's shop he made kites, bows and arrows, cross
bows, wagons, sled boxes, etc. He never played with other boys or has never
had close association with men. He was always interested in music and from'
the age of fifteen years played the flute in band and concert work, and is well
known throughout this section of the country as "the flutist." He was one of
the organizers of the Philharmonic Club of Portland and during its existence,
covering probably twenty years, played the flute and piccolo. He attributes the
good habits formed in early life and to which he has since adhered to the fact
that as a boy and young man he spent his leisure hours in music instead of going
out with other boys. He attended a private school between the ages of twelve
and fifteen years and was thus qualified to enter Professor Spaulding's prepara-
tory school of Jacksonville, Illinois, and take the preparatory course qualifying
him to enter Illinois College. He had had twelve lessons in the Spencerian sys-
tem of penmanship, so that he was able to teach penmanship in the preparatory
school. He also had a private evening class and thus more than made his ex-
penses. During the vacation period he visited St. Louis and was employed by
Dr. T. J. McNair, a druggist, acquiring some knowledge of the drug and pre-
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scription business. In his sixteenth year he entered IlHnois College, but at the
end of a half term found that his finances needed his attention, so that for a
year or more he taught penmanship in the surrounding small towns, having from
twenty to forty-five scholars who paid him a dollar and a half for twelve lessons.
It was his ambition to pursue the classical course in Harvard and then enter
Rush Medical College of Chicago. Believing that dentistry would furnish a
good field of revenue whereby he could gain the money necessary to pursue his
Harvard and Rush Medical College courses, he began studying under Dr. G. Y.
Shirley of Jacksonville, a leading dentist of the west, who eighteen months later
gave him a certificate of good moral character and competence to practice den-
tistry. He then visited Springfield and worked in three ofiices in that city so
that he was allowed to refer to the Springfield dentists concerning his ability.
Dental practice then consisted of removing tartar and extracting teeth, although
to some extent the filling of teeth and the insertion of artificial teeth was prac-
ticed. But such methods were largely regarded with suspicion at that day.
In 1850 Dr. Cardwell located for practice in Decatur, Illinois, then a town of
about five hundred inhabitants, and proudly hung out a sign of Japan tin on
which was painted "J. R. Cardwell, Surgeon Dentist." He was the first prac-
titioner in the town and at the end of the year found his receipts amounted to
about one hundred dollars per month. Dental work was of the most primitive
character and it was only the better class of people who were acquainted with
the use of the toothbrush. Teeth were filled with Dunlevy's gold foil or Jones,
White & McCurdy's tin foil, and he practiced twenty years before using amal-
gam or cement. Well-to-do people sometimes had artificial teeth inserted on
gold or silver plates of wooden pivots.
In the fall of 185 1 B. R. Biddle, an uncle of Dr. Cardwell, who had gone to
California in 1849, returned to Springfield. He had spent a few months in Ore-
gon and spoke so favorably and eloquently concerning the country and its re-
sources that he induced more than one hundred people to go with him to the
northwest the next spring. He proposed that Dr. Cardwell should accompany
him and take charge of a nursery and fruit farm in Oregon on an equal partner-
ship relation, Mr. Biddle to furnish the capital. To Dr. Cardwell it seemed the
ideal business life, and on the ist of May, 1852, they left the Missouri river for
Oregon with a fine nursery outfit of selected growing grafts and ornamentals
thickly set in a wagonload of black Illinois soil drawn by four yoke of oxen-
All went well until on the banks of Snake river, on a steep hillside, the wagon
was overturned and the entire contents thrown into the river and carried away
by the swift current. Dr. Cardwell saved only one Chinese Daily rose and now
has a growing cutting from it more than fifty years old. This ended his dream
of becoming a nurseryman and orchardist and, locating in Portland in No-
vember, 1852, he began practicing as the only resident dentist in this city, which
at that time contained about one thousand inhabitants. Throughout the inter-
vening years he has continued in active connection with the profession, advancing
with the progress made. He opened an office in the Kamm building at the cor-
ner of First and Washington streets. The public manifested some doubt in the
ability of so young a man, but he soon proved his worth and successfully en-
gaged in practice at a time when five dollars was charged for an extraction, five
dollars and upwards for gold fillings, ten dollars for teeth on a hickory pivot and
two hundred dollars for a full set of teeth. These prices, however, were only
in proportion to other professional charges and the prices paid for all commodi-
ties. Dental supplies and stock were generally purchased in San Francisco, to
which place they had been sent by the water route. With ten and twenty dollar
Spanish gold pieces upon a blacksmith's anvil they hammered out their plates
and also made their own solder.
While practicing Dr. Cardwell took occasion at times to venture into other
business fields. Portland was situated in the midst of a dense fir forest. The
j first salmon fishery, Chinook salmon, were selling in Oregon and San Francisco
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for forty-five dollars per barrel. Having some leisure, Dr. Cardwell joined a
friend, I. N. Gove, who had had some experience in New England fisheries, in a
barrel cannery project. The Doctor bought sixty dollars worth of twine of a
local importer, learned the netting stitch of Mr. Gove, and when not occupied
with professional duties made seine and gill nets. They rented an old Indian
fishery on the Columbia three miles below Vancouver, and in June and July, 1853,
put up one hundred barrels, all of which Dr. Cardwell dressed and packed per-
sonally. The run then stopped and the business ended. Owing to the stimulus
of the high prices of 1852 the Sacramento fisheries put up a great surplus and
overstocked the market, so that salmon were unsalable at from eight to twelve
dollars per barrel. W. S. Ladd, then a wholesale grocer, took the output of
Cardwell & Gove at the ruling price and was several years in disposing of it at
small margins, notwithstanding there was never any question of the number one
quality of the pack. Thus commenced and ended the barreled salmon enter-
prise in Oregon for more than a decade. Their books showed cash to balance
even and three months' lost time.
At that day there was but one drug store in Portland and Dr. Cardwell, hav-
ing had some experience at the prescription case in St. Louis, conceived the idea
that a practical prescription drug store might pay. He planned with Mr. Gove
to enter the business which could be accommodated in his office building where
he had an unoccupied front room with shelf, counters and bay window. Dr.
Cardwell planning to look after the business when not occupied at the dental
chair. They sent to San Francisco for about fifteen hundred dollars worth of
drugs and glassware, which early arrived, and from the beginning the business
prospered and they engaged a druggist assistant for Dr. Cardwell's dental prac-
tice so increased that he could give but little time to the drug department. Later
they accepted a tempting offer to sell and the business passed into the hands of
Dr. Weatherford, who made enough money to invest in Portland realty and re-
tire on a competence.
No town in Oregon was large enough to support one dentist, and it was the
custom of dental practitioners to make periodical visits to other towns. In the
winter of 1854 Dr. Cardwell closed his Portland office with the intention of vis-
iting Roseburg, Eugene and Corvallis, his father and mother, four brothers
and three sisters then living in Corvallis. He was liberally patronized there and
was the first dentist to visit the three towns. He says that in those days 'T often
improvised a head rest by placing a chair behind the patient and putting my foot
on the seat and resting the patient's head on my knee. I have stood many an
hour on one leg and operated thus." While at Corvallis Dr. Cardwell bought lots
and eighty acres in the suburbs and set out a family orchard on his father's place.
He found an old neglected apple orchard, took sprouts and roots and grafted
apples between the call of his patients, and started a nursery on his own eighty
acres. Ninety-five per cent of the grafts grew and Philip Ritz, for many years
a leading nurseryman in Oregon and Washington and a neighbor of Dr. Card-
well, often said that it was the Doctor's success and influence that induced him
to go into the nursery business, in which he made a fortune.
Dr. Cardwell made annual spring visits to Corvallis to set out growing plants
and trees until 1858, when the family removed to Portland. On one of these
visits, in partnership with Dr. Jackson, a resident practitioner, he built an at-
tractive drug store and established the first drug house in the valley beyond
Salem. The death of his partner three or four years later and the removal of
his family to Portland caused him to dispose of all of his holdings and young
nursery stock at Corvallis. As a boy he had taken an interest in taxidermy, and
from 1855 until i860 his pastime and amusement was in mounting and casing
the birds and animals of Oregon. He made a full collection of several hun-
dred, including the large animals — cougar, bear and elk. He still has some of
these, some are in Golden Gate Park at San Francisco, and others in the Smith-
sonian Institute at Washington, D. C. About 1859-60 he set out a ten-acre or-
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chard on the Beninion Roggers place near Milwaukie — all Oregon fruits. In the
early '60s his time was fully occupied by his profession, which was now a most
lucrative one, and in making and beautifying a home, including the setting out
of trees and ornamental shrubs. Withal he was an enthusiastic Mason and now
wears the badge of the consistory.
About this time horticultural societies were being organized over the state
and Multnomah county had its organization, meeting in Portland, in which Dr.
Cardwell was an active and enthusiastic member. As early as the summer of
1858 he was connected with others in organizing the first territorial horticul-
tural society in Portland, which held summer and fall meetings, made fruit ex-
hibits and awarded prizes almost annually until the formation of the state so-
ciety. The Oregon State Horticultural Society was organized in Portland, Jan-
uary 13, 1889, with a long list of active members and J. R. Cardwell was elected
president. Each year he was unanimously reelected for twenty years, when he
retired and was made honorary president. In 1893 Portland's first Rose Show
was held and Mr. Cardwell, as president of the State Horticultural Society ap-
pointed a committee of ladies to promote this enterprise. The following year
a large and creditable show for those days was made by the same committee,
composed of Mrs. J. C. Card, president; Mrs. Ella Lehigh, secretary; Mrs. Shaf-
ford and Mrs. Lambertson. These shows were most popular events and were
the forerunners of the splendid shows of later years.
In the meantime other interests and activities featured in the life of Dr. Card-
well. In reminiscences told concerning Portland and her history he speaks of
how many of her citizens, including those who were regarded as the soundest
and most sagacious business men, were taken in by the well told tales of dis-
honest promoters and more dishonest manipulators of mining property who told
of the wealth to be made in gold, silver, copper and lead mines. He was among
the victims and lost considerably through investments. At a later time prune-
growing claimed the attention of many of Portland's citizens as well as others
throughout the state, and, as Dr. Cardwell expressed it, "The prune figured bet-
ter than banking or any business, as the apple does today." Far-seeing business
men speculated in prune lands. Dr. Cardwell bought prune lands and from 1870
until 1881, set out one hundred acres of prunes which, it is believed, was the
first large commercial prune orchard in the United States. He had previously
engaged in the cultivation of plums but found that they were not profitable for
shipment and by graft he converted his plum into a prune orchard, met success
in the undertaking and in so doing silenced the criticism of the conservatives and
those who regarded his work only as an experiment, unjustified by horticultural
knowledge. Dr. Cardwell has, indeed, been a leader in the work of cultivating
fruit in Oregon, and his broad knowledge, gained from scientific investigation
and from practical experience well qualified him for the presidency of the State
Horticultural Society and merited his appointment to the state board of horti-
culture when it was created by legislative act in 1889. He was made the presi-
dent of the board and so continued for ten years. On his retirement Governor
T. T. Geer stated that he "made a record by resigning from a paying position."
He was the horticultural commissioner from Oregon to the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago in 1893, winning seventeen prizes and turning back to the
state several thousand dollars of the fund appropriated for the exhibit.
While various activities and interests have claimed the attention of Dr. Card-
well, he has continued also an active member of the dental fraternity. In 1872
he became one of the charter members of the Oregon State Dental Society and
was elected its secretary. Twice afterward he was chosen its president, and for
ten years he was president of the state board of dental examiners, after which he
reigned. During his service as president over two thousand dollars receipts of
the board were returned to the state. He was active in the organization of the
Oregon Humane Society in 1872. of which B. Goldsmith became president, while
Dr. Cardwell was chosen one of the vice presidents. He was one of the lead-
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ing factors in organizing the North Pacific Dental College, of which he is now
vice president and one of the trustees, and is now professor of dental history,
dental jurisprudence and dental ethics. He was one of the first workers in be-
half of the Portland Museum and has now an extensive collection of birds and
animals which he is holding, awaiting the erection of a museum building, which
question he is agitating before the pubhc. As a collector his name is catalogued
in the United States and Europe. He has also collected and is growing all the
conifers of Oregon, and has twenty-seven varities growing upon his lawn. He
has collected and mounted all of the birds in Oregon and has given much study
to the geology of the state and made a large and valuable collection of its rocks
and minerals. Upon all these subjects he has written quite extensively for the
press. He still continues in the practice of dentistry and finds the same delight
and interest in setting out and cultivating trees, shrubs and plants. Develop-
ment as expressed in life and in science has always been of the deepest interest
to him, and his own labors have been a valuable contribution to the world's
progress.
CAPTAIN MELLIE ALBERTUS HACKETT.
Captain Mellie Albertus Hackett, as president of the Columbia Digger Com-
pany, has become so well known in Portland and the northwest that he needs
no introduction to the readers of this volume. His life, especially in more recent
years, has been devoted to the utilization of the natural resources of the state
and his efforts have been of incalculable benefit to the section at large.
It was on the 20th of April, 1857, near Lawrence, Kansas, that Captain M.
A. Hackett was born and he spent his youthful days in the home of his parents,
Nathan and Lavina (Thurston) Hackett. He was only four years of age when
the family removed from Kansas to Colorado and was a youth of twelve years
when they started across the plains by wagon train to California, where the
father engaged in farming until 1872. That year witnessed his arrival in Oregon.
Captain Hackett accompanied his parents on their removal to this state and
has largely made his home here from the age of fifteen years. He was first
employed in a salmon cannery until nineteen years of age, during which time
he familiarized himself with various departments of the business until he was
able to take charge of a cannery that he built for the firm of Hepburn & Jack-
son on Woody Island. He afterward took charge of a cannery for John Keirnan
and Everding & Parrel, at Pillar Rock, Washington, and continued in close
connection with the salmon canning industry until 1881, when he came to Port-
land. Here he built the first ferry that operated on what is now known as the
Albina ferry route, continuing in charge for some time. He was also interested
in the Jefferson ferry, which he operated for fifteen years, and likewise owned
and ran the Selwood ferry. He was connected with this business until the Madi-
son bridge was made a free highway and the support of the ferries naturally
fell off. He then took the m.achinery of the Jefferson street ferry, using it in
the building of the steamer Hattie Belle, which he ran on the Columbia river
in the service of the government. Later he sold that vessel and commanded the
steamer H. C. Grady, running between Portland and Astoria, for a year.
On the 24th of March, 1899, Captain Hackett organized a com.pany under
the name of the Columbia Digger Company, and they engaged in diking tide
lands in the vicinity of Astoria for a year. This w^as the first undertaking in the
state of Oregon where the work was done by machinery. The purpose was
to reclaim the lowlands and also to dig canals for the government. Still operat-
ing under the name of Columbia Digger Company, Captain Hackett opened a
sand and gravel business at the foot of Ankeny street in April, 1903. Since
establishing the enterprise over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars have been
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spent in improvements for the business in docks, dredges, etc., and the com-
pany has today one of the best equipped plants for the conduct of the sand and
gravel business in Portland, The officers of the company are : M. A. Hackett,
president; Earl Hackett, secretary; and V. D. Hackett, a director. The enter-
prise was incorporated on the 24th of March, 1889, and the undertaking is now
one of the most extensive and important of this character conducted in the
northwest.
In August, 1879, Captain Hackett was married to Miss Emma Jeannette
Crapper, a native of Iowa, and a daughter of Dorsey S. Crapper, who at the
time of his daughter's marriage was living in Portland. Four children have
blessed this union : Captain Earl A., Vernon D., Hattie Belle and Margaret.
The two sons are associated with their father in business and the elder is a
member of the Commercial Club of Portland. Captain Hackett belongs to the
local camp of the Woodmen of the World. His extensive business interests
have made him well known in this part of the country and his efforts have been
a factor of large value in the development of the northwest in recent years. In
establishing and commanding this undertaking he has displayed keen interest
and a marvelous recognition of opportunities.
GEORGE BETZ.
George Betz, a well known florist of Portland, now retired, is enjoying a well
earned rest in the evening of a busy life. He was born in a German colony in
Lasander, Russia, July 22, 1853, a son of Henry and Mary Betz. His father
died when he was twelve years of age and, having acquired a good education in
the land of his birth and hoping for more favorable opportunities under the stars
and stripes, he bade his early friends good-bye and at the age of nineteen landed
from a steamer at New York city. Instead of locating there, he came west to
Marion county, Kansas, where he remained for several months, then removing
to Hastings, Nebraska. In that place he continued for five years, from 1878 to
1883, engaged most of the time in farming. However, his aspirations still beck-
oned westward, and on the nth of February, 1883, he arrived in Portland, where
he has since made his home. For two years he engaged in various kinds of work,
including landscape gardening, in which he was quite adept. In 1885 he turned
his attention to the floral business, which he actively followed until about a year
ago, when he turned over the management to his sons. The original location of
his establishment was at No. 292 Sellwood street, where he continued for twenty
years, then removing to 697 Williams avenue. In 1907 he purchased eight acres
of the Jennings Lodge tract in Clackamas county, three miles from Oregon City,
and there erected a residence and also buildings and greenhouses, where he raises
flowers for market, making a specialty of carnations. His plant has forty thou-
sand square feet under glass, and is one of the most complete and at the same
time one of the best known of the kind in the city.
On February 11, 1878, Mr. Betz was united in marriage to Anna Bov/er, a
daughter of Henry Bower, a native of the German colony of Norka, Russia.
Six children were born unto the union, of whom two are dead, and those sur-
viving are Sarah ; Joseph, who is married and has three children — Nellie, Elsie
and Robert; Charles, who is married and has a daughter, Edna; and George,
who is married and has a daughter, Juliana.
Mr. Betz has other business interests besides that to which he has devoted his
principal attention. He is president of the Waback Mining Company, operat-
ing placer mines in Curry county, Oregon, for four years past. He is also a
stockholder in the Electric Mining & Smelter Company. He is a member of
the Modern Brotherhood of America and ever since he became identified with
American citizenship has been an adherent of the republican party. For a quar-
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ter of a century he has been connected with the business interests of Portland
and today, as he looks back, he recalls many faces that are no longer to be met
with but whose memory awakens many interesting reminiscences. The success
of Mr. Betz has been due to good judgment, industry and enduring and substan-
tial character, which earns for its possessor a contentment which money cannot
buy, and an honorable position in the community. In the fall of 191 1 Mr. Betz
and wife expect to make a visit to their old home in Russia and also to tour
Europe.
BLUFORD D. SIGLER.
For twenty-seven years a resident of Portland, Bluford D, Sigler has been
identified with the growth of the city through that era when, having no longer
to struggle with the vicissitudes, difficulties and obstacles of frontier life, the
business man could concentrate his entire energies upon the establishment and
promotion of the enterprise which he had chosen as a life work. With this
period of later progress and development, Mr. Sigler has been closely associated
and his efforts have been so directed in the legitimate lines of trade and manu-
facture that he stands today among the prosperous men and valued citizens of
the northwest.
His youthful days were spent in a district where the air is rife with the spirit
of indomitable enterprise, his birth having occurred in Georgetown, Vermilion
county, Illinois, on the 27th of November, 1866. Pennsylvania had been the
ancestral home of the family and from that state John Sigler, the grandfather
of Bluford D. Sigler, made his way to Illinois and cast in his lot with the early
settlers of Vermilion county, where he followed farming. His son, Samuel W.
Sigler, was there born and reared. The public schools aflforded him his educa-
tional privileges and he, too, turned his attention to farming as a life work, but
put aside business interests at the outbreak of the Civil war in order that he
might espouse the cause of the Union, which he defended on southern battlefields
as a member of Company C, Seventy-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, remain-
ing at the front until the stars and stripes were planted in the capital of the
southern Confederacy. While a resident of Vermilion county, he married Debo-
rah Smith, a daughter of Jefferson Smith, who was extensively engaged in
farming in Illinois, where he settled in pioneer times. In 1870 Mr. Sigler aban-
doned farming and turned his attention to general merchandising in Medoc, Jas-
per county, Missouri. Five years later he became a resident of Dayton, Oregon,
and there engaged in general merchandising until 1883, when he removed to
Portland, where for fifteen years he conducted a feed business, returning in 1898
to Dayton, where he now makes his home.
Bluford D. Sigler accompanied his parents on their various removals west-
ward until they reached the coast and became residents of Portland in 1883, at
which time he was a youth of sixteen years. His education, begun in the schools
of Illinois and continued in Missouri, was completed by a high school course in
Portland and after putting aside his text-books he entered commercial circles
as a clerk in a store at Mount Tabor, having previously had some experience in
this line as assistant to his father in his periods of vacation. Two years later he
became identified with Smith Brothers & Company, proprietors of a sawmill on
Harrison street in Portland, and, watchful of all opportunities pointing to suc-
cess, he joined Samuel E, Wrenn and W. V. Smith in 1897 in the organization
of the Multnomah Box Manufacturing Company, which succeeded to the busi-
ness of the Multnomah Box Company. Prosperity attended the efforts of the
partners during their three years' connection with the business, which they dis-
posed of to good advantage at the end of that time. Mr. Sigler then engaged in
the wholesale feed business, and in 1901 organized the Sigler Milling Company,
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of which he became secretary and manager. This is still recognized as one of
the strong commercial concerns of the city, conducting an extensive business in
flour, feed, lime, land, plaster and shingles, besides doing a general commission
business.
In 1897 Mr. Sigler was married in Eugene to Miss Veina E. Adair, a grad-
uate of the University of Oregon and a representative of a pioneer family of
the state, her parents arriving in the early '50s. Mr. Sigler is a life member of
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of which he has served as secretary and
vice president. He is in hearty sympathy with the purposes of the Commercial
Club, and as one of its members co-operates in its movements for the growth of
the city in business lines. He is also well known as a local political leader of the
republican party, and has been honored by his fellow townsmen with office, be-
ing chosen a member of the city council from the fifth ward in 1902. Taking a
seat as a member of that body, he was appointed to a number of the most im-
portant committees and exercised his official prerogative in such a manner as
to greatly further the welfare of Portland. He resigned from the council in
order to assume the duties of county assessor of Multnomah county, to which
office he was elected in the fall of 1904 and reelected in 1908. He had the dis-
tinction of being the first man in Oregon to assess public franchises. He regards
political and club associations, however, as side issues in his life, and is preemi-
nently a business man who has found that success is ambition's answer.
G. ZANELLO.
G. Zanello has long been prominently known as a leading contractor of
Portland, his work being of an especially important character. To some extent
he is now living retired, having largely turned over the business about five years
ago to his son Fred Zanello. The family name indicates a Latin origin. Mr.
Zanello is a native of Italy, his birth having occurred near the city of Turino,
on the 20th of September, 1849. ^^ remained with his parents, John and Cogio
Zanello until coming to America in 1872 at the age of twenty-three years. His
education was acquired in Italy and he served in the Italian army ere his emi-
gration to the United States.
Landing at New York, he remained for four years in the eastern metropolis,
during which period he was engaged in the general contracting business, for he
had previously learned the mason's trade in his native land. On leaving the At-
lantic seaboard he made his way to the far Pacific coast and settling at San Fran-
cisco, there engaged in a similar business. He continued a resident of that city
for fourteen years and in 1882 came to Portland, where he at once opened an
office and sought patronage as a contractor. The early contracts awarded him
here proved his ability and worth and his business grew rapidly both in volume
and importance. The piers of the Morrison and Burnside bridges testified his
ability and thoroughness in his work. He was also the builder of the car barns
at Sellwood, the apartment houses on Twelfth and Alder streets, and also at
Twentieth and Flanders. He was likewise awarded the contract for the Tilford
building, the warehouse for the Marshall, Wells Company, and, extending his
efiforts into other parts of the state, secured and executed the contract for the
Eugene courthouse and the Polk county courthouse. He also built the foundation
for the First Presbyterian church of Portland and for the J. Kahn building. He
has filled contracts on other important buildings, including the Oregon Transfer
Company's stables at Sixteenth and Kearney streets, the store building for Whit-
ney & Grey at Twelfth and Stark streets, an apartment house for Mr. Murphy
at Trinity place, the New York Bakery building at Seventh and East Belmont
streets, an apartment house at Seventh and East Taylor streets, and many other
large buildings. This brought him substantial success, and as he prospered in
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his undertakings he laid by a handsome competence that enabled him about five
years ago to turn his business over to his son, since which time he has practically
lived retired.
It was on the ist of March, 1879, that Mr. Zanello was married to Miss
Eugenia Magginetti, who was born in the town of Biasca, Switzerland, of which
country her parents were also natives. Mr. and Mrs. Zanello have become par-
ents of five children, but one is now deceased. Those living are : John, born in
Oakland, California; Fred, who was born in Portland and is his father's suc-
cessor in business ; Emmalita ; and Ruth.
The parents hold membership in the Catholic church and Mr. Zanello is
also a member of the Elks lodge. He owns and occupies a beautiful residence
at No. 2)72) Larch street, and also has other property here which returns him a
substantial annual rental. His life record is another proof of the fact that
"America is the land of opportunity," for in this country, where labor is un-
hampered by caste or class, young men of foreign birth may work their way
steadily upward and reach an equally creditable position with Mr. Zanello.
AUGUSTUS J. FANNO.
Augustus J. Fanno has established an extensive business in the cultivation
of onions, carrying on the enterprise on a large scale. He makes his home in
Portland, but was born in Washington county, Oregon, March 19, 1855. The
family is of French lineage and was founded in America at the beginning of
the French revolution, representatives of the name fleeing to this country on
account of the persecution of large landholders at the time when mob violence
took control and confiscated the interests of the nobility and all who had been
favored by success.
Augustus Fanno, his father, was a native of Maine and arrived in Oregon
in 1845. He was therefore one of the first settlers in the state. After remain-
ing for a short time in Butteville, he settled on a farm in Washington county
about seven miles from Portland, taking up a donation claim of six hundred and
forty acres, to the cultivation and development of which he devoted his energies
until his death, which occurred in 1884. He was the pioneer in the cultivation
of onions in this section of the country, and it was due to his efforts that the
vegetable has reached the present immense size. He recognized the fact that
the dampness of the climate and the soil conditions were favorable for onion
produce and thus instituted a business from which many have since derived sub-
stantial profit. He was also one of the early school teachers of the section in
which he lived and thus contributed to the intellectual progress of the com-
munity. He married Rebecca Jane Denney, a native of Kentucky, who was
reared in Indiana and with her brothers and sisters came to Oregon in 1849,
settling at Fosters. There she engaged in teaching school before her marriage.
She became the mother of six children, of whom Augustus J. Fanno was the
third child and eldest son. Four of the number are still living. The mother
lived to the advanced age of eighty-nine years, passing away in April, 1909.
E. B. Fanno, a half-brother of Augustus J. Fanno, was born in 1840 and crossed
the plains with his parents. The mother died soon after their arrival, and the
father later married again. E. B. Fanno is now living in Chico, California. The
other members of the family are: Mrs. I. L. Morelock, living on a part of the
old home farm ; Mrs. J. D. Wilmott of Portland ; Augustus J. ; and Alonzo R.,
a resident of Sellwood, one of the attractive suburbs of Portland.
Augustus J. Fanno v/as provided with excellent educational advantages, at-
tending Forest Grove Academy and College, in v.diich he pursued an independent
course, completing his studies in 1878. He then took charge of his father's
farm. For some years he was engaged in the onion business, and in 1883 formed
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a partnership with his brother, Alonzo R., a connection that still maintains.
They have since engaged extensively in the growing of onions and for several
years A. J. Fanno has had the exclusive management of this business, his
brother being interested in farming. They raise from eighteen to forty acres
of onions each year and from fifteen to thirty acres of cabbages, and in 1898
were the first to begin shipping onions to Alaska.
For the past twelve years A. J. Fanno has made his home in Portland, from
which point he supervises his farming interests and also manages his real-estate
investments in this city and vicinity, owning considerable property in Portland.
Various enterprises have likewise claimed his attention at times and profited by
his sound judgment and discrimination, but his attention has been principally
given to onion growing, and that he is considered authority upon this subject
is indicated by the fact that he has been president of the Confederated Onion
Growers Association since its organization in 1905.
It was on the 30th of December, 1879, ^^^^^ ^^- Fanno was united in mar-
riage to Miss Kate Guren, a daughter of Mrs. Anna E. Guren, of Forest Grove.
Her father, W. H. Guren, is an attorney of Sturgin, Missouri. One daughter
has been born unto this union, Helen A., now the wife of T. M. Britten of
Spokane, Washington. The family residence is at 423 Fifth street, and Mr.
Fanno is a member of the Oregon Pioneer Society. His political views accord
with the principles of the republican party, and he has always taken an active
interest in politics, but has declined all ofifers of public office. He prefers to
concentrate his energies upon his business afifairs. and his close application and
indefatigable energy have constituted the salient elements in his success.
JOSEPH GASTON.
Joseph Gaston, author of this history of Portland, whose loyalty to Oregon
during the half century of his residence in this state has been manifest in many
tangible and helpful ways, was born in the village of Lloydville, Belmont county,
Ohio, November 14, 1833, and comes of French Huguenot ancestry, as do all,
doubtless, of the Gastons of the United States — the family being represented in
all of the states. On the revocation of the edict of Nantes, which had permitted
the Protestant religion in France, the Gastons, together with other Huguenots,
were expelled from that country, including John Gaston, who was born in
France in the year 1600. He emigrated to Scotland and in the year 1662 his
descendants removed to the north of Ireland, settling in County Antrim. From
that settlement three brothers, John, William and Alexander Gaston, emigrated
to America in the year 1700, establishing their home in the Carolinas. From
this Carolina stock came Alexander Gaston, who was born in Charleston, South
Carolina, in 1769, and was the father of Dr. Joseph Gaston and the grand-
father of Joseph Gaston, of this review. Alexander Gaston removed to Wash-
ington county, Pennsylvania, in 1791, and there met and married Rachel Perry,
a daughter of John Perry, a neighbor and a friend of George Washington. He
served throughout the Revolutionary war as an officer of the Virginia Light
Dragoons.
Dr. Joseph Gaston was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Fowler, a daugh-
ter of John Fowler, who foughf with Commodore Perry in the battle of Lake
Erie and was one of the six men who rowed the Commodore through the
British line after the flag ship had been disabled. Perry himself was a relative
of John Perry, the great-grandfather of Mr. Gaston.
Joseph Gaston was reared in the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Jean
(McCormac) Fowler, in Morgan county, Ohio, obtaining what education he
could in the country log schoolhouse in which a three-months' winter session
was held. The remainder of the year was devoted to work on the farm until
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he was sixteen years of age, when he began teaching in the country school and
working in the sawmills. Laudable ambition prompted him to prepare for a
field of labor in which his talents, energy and ambition might find broader
scope. He studied law at St. Clairsville, Ohio, with Daniel Peck, and following
his marriage to Narcissa Dodridge Jones, the daughter of Wilmeth and Sarah
Jones, he removed to Oregon in 1862, after which he practiced law and edited
the Jacksonville Sentinel, in Jackson county, Oregon, until 1864. In that year he
took up the project of building a railroad from the Columbia river to the
southern boundary of Oregon, and in 1864-5 prosecuted surveys for the road
from Jacksonville to Portland. In 1864 he removed to Salem, Oregon, where
he continued in the practice of law and also edited the Oregon Statesman, in
order to earn money to pay his living expenses. He followed the business of
promoting and building railroads in the state from 1866 until 1880, but an
account of this railroad construction will be found in the chapter on railroads
in this history. On retiring from this railroad work he settled on his farm at
the town of Gaston and devoted several years to the work of draining and
reclaiming Wappatoo Lake and converting a disease-breeding swamp into a
beautiful farm. In this work, as in all others, he was most efficiently supported
by an energitic and faithful wife, who devoted her time and means to the im-
provement of the neighborhood. She was particularly active in the Christian
work of the locality and raised money and built what has since been called the
Gaston Union church. In 1896 Mr. Gaston disposed of his farm and returned to
Portland, where he is now living in Portland Heights, devoting his time to a
fruit farm on the Columbia, opposite Hood river, and to the management of a
great manufacturing enterprise in Lake county — the development of the soda-
borax mines of Alkali lake.
During his career Mr. Gaston has been, as editor, connected with a number of
enterprises, notably the Daily and Weekly Bulletin, competitor of the Oregon-
ian, for the years 1874 and 1875, and with several agricultural journals, his taste
for agriculture and country life leading him in that direction. While always
taking an interest in politics and public affairs, he has never been an office
holder and only once a candidate for office. In 1894, the populists, without
solicitation on his part, nominated him for the office of justice of the supreme
court, the result on the returns of the election being: Robert O. Bean, republi-
can, forty thousand, four hundred and fifty-one; Joseph Gaston, populist,
twenty-six thousand, one hundred and thirty-five; and John Bennett, demo-
crat, eighteen thousand, six hundred and twenty-three. Mr. Gaston has always
been an independent thinker, forming his opinions from close observation and
thorough investigation of the subject that has claimed his attention, and from
his studies and exeperience of life he has devolved a philosophy that has its
root in those things which have definite value in character building and in the
real progress of the world.
The Publishers.
WILLIAM FRIBERG.
The west is characterized by a spirit of accomplishment; things are being
planned and plans are successfully executed ; something is being done con-
tinuously that contributes to growth and development. It has been in the great
west that William Friberg has spent almost his entire life, and the spirit of
progress has found expression in his own activity. He is a native, however, of
the northern part of Sweden, born February 8, 1866. His parents were Eric
O., and Anna (Anderson) Friberg, who remained residents of Sweden until
1868 when they bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the
new world, establishing their home in Boone, Iowa. The father was a stone
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mason and bricklayer and followed his trade in Boone for two years, after which
he removed to Clay county, South Dakota and took up a claim. From that
time forward he made farming his principal occupation.
William Friberg was a tiny lad of but two summers when brought by his
parents to the United States. His youthful days were passed in Iowa and in
Clay county. South Dakota, where he acquired his education. At the age of
seventeen years he left home in order to enter business life and provide for
his own support. He decided to learn the trade of bricklaying, and went to
Omaha, Nebraska, where he was employed in a brick-yard in the manufacture
of brick and also engaged in laying brick. Two years later he went to Kansas
City, Missouri, to complete the brick mason's trade, becoming a resident of that
place in 1885 and remaining there until 1887. He then traveled through the
western cities, working at his trade as a journeyman, and after spending nearly
four years in Denver, Colorado, and other parts of the west, he came to Port-
land in 1891.
Mr. Friberg has since been closely associated with industrial interests in this
city. He worked at his trade in the employ of others for nearly two years, and
in 1894 began contracting on his own account. In the intervening years he has
erected forty-two buildings in Portland, among the most important being the
Henry building, the Commercial club, the Elks building, also a fine modern busi-
ness block at the corner of Fifth and Ankeny streets for the Corbett estate,
and also the Seward Hotel, the Young Men's Christian Association building,
and the Fliedner building. He was likewise the builder of the Jorgensen build-
ing on Third and Main streets. In 1906 he became interested in the manu-
facture of brick, establishing his plant in Woods addition in connection with
Andrew Friberg, who is also interested with William Friberg in the contracting
business. Both branches of their business are proving profitable and their
patronage in every line is growing in extent and importance.
In 1894 Mr. Friberg was united in marriage in Portland, to Miss Adele
Lundgren, a daughter of Abel and Ammila Lundgren, also a native of Sweden,
and their union has been blessed with one son, Louis William, who at the age
of eleven years is attending the Portland schools.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Friberg is a Mason, and advancing through
the various branches of the Scottish Rite, has attained the thirty-second degree.
In the order he has made many friends who recognize his fidelity to the teach-
ings of the craft. His political support is given the republican party. In busi-
ness circles he has won confidence by reason of his thoroughly reliable meth-
ods, and his success is the tangible proof of his ability and close application.
WILLIAM PARSONS LEWIS.
William Parsons Lewis is an architect and contractor of Portland and many
of the buildings which he has put up have been erected after designs which he
has made. England claims him as her native son, his birth having occurred in
Somersetshire in 1852. The days of his boyhood and youth were there passed
and in that country he studied architecture, thus qualifying for the profession
which he has followed much of his life. He was apprenticed to an architect when
twelve years of age, and continued in that service until seventeen years of age,
when, tiring of the routine and the limited opoortunities oflFered him, he ran
away and came to the United States, crossing the Atlantic in 1869.
After tarrying in the east for about four years, Mr. Lewis came to the Pa-
cific coast in 1873, settling first at San Jose, California, where he remained for
seven years, during which period he was connected with mill and stair building.
On the 5th of January, 1880, he arrived in Portland and here he continued in
the same lines which had previously claimed his attention. He operated the
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Portland planing mills for a time and in 1896 established his present business as
an architect and contractor. Within this period he has superintended the con-
struction of the Lincoln high school and the residences of C. E. Ladd and W. W.
Spaulding, together with some of the other leading buildings of the city. His
ability as an architect enables him to make his own plans and designs, and in this
he studies forms of beauty as well as of practical utility.
In 1873 Mr. Lewis was united in marriage to Miss Ida May Jewett, and they
have two sons, Robert J., who is now associated in business with his father
under the firm style of W. P. Lewis & Son ; and William J., who is attending
school. The family residence is at No. 725 Prospect Drive. Mr. Lewis has
never had occasion to regret his determination to leave England and seek his
home in America, which has aptly been termed "the land of opportunity." Here
where capability and industry constitute the forces of advancement, he has made
substantial progress and gained splendid success.
SAMUEL F. SCOTT.
Samuel F. Scott, who is a guard on the steel bridge at Portland, was born
January 28, 1849, ^t Crawfordsville, Indiana. His father, John McClung Scott,
came to Oregon in the early '60s. He, too, was a native of Indiana, having been
born in Montgomery county, October 14, 1823. His parents were James and
Mary (Marquis) Scott, the former born in the north of Ireland and the latter
in Pennsylvania. Their family numbered four sons and three daughters. The
Scotts have always been noted for longevity, many of the name having reached
very advanced age.
The usual experiences of farm life came to John McClung Scott in his youth.
The early subscription schools of Indiana afiforded him his early educational
privileges, and he was still quite young when the management of the home farm
devolved upon him, owing to his father's death. In early manhood he was mar-
ried in Indiana, on the 5th of September, 1844, to Mrs. Sarah W. Coons, who
was born in Tennessee in November, 1822, and was the widow of Jesse Coons.
By her first marriage she had one son, William Henry, who was born in 1841
and is now farming in Powells Valley, Oregon. He crossed the plains with
Mr. Scott and lived with his mother and step-father up to the time of his mar-
riage to Eliza Wallace.
Mr. and Mrs. John M, Scott resided upon an Indiana farm until 1853, when
they removed to Wapello county, Iowa. They found the winters were too severe
there, and in search of a more salubrious climate, they came to Oregon in 1862.
They left their Iowa home in April and were several months upon the journey,
reaching Portland on the 8th of October. A week was spent in this city, after
which they removed to Lane county and a year later took up their abode on
the Columbia river, where Mr. Scott rented a large dairy farm. Three years
passed and he then invested in two hundred acres of land on the Columbia river,
devoting his attention to general farming there for seventeen years. Three times
the floods swept over his place, causing him heavy losses, yet he carefully and
persistently conducted his farming and dairy enterprise until he had reached a
place among the substantial citizens of this part of the state. In 1883 he sold
his farming property and purchased a home in East Portland. There he con-
ducted a small dairy business for a time, keeping a number of cows, but in the
later years of his life lived retired. He was a witness of much of the growth
and development of Portland, especially of the east side, for there were only a
comparatively few houses on the east bank of the Willamette when he took up
his abode there. In 1889 Mr. Scott returned to Iowa and Indiana to visit rela-
tives, and the following year Mrs. Scott's mother, Mrs. Coons, came to Portland
and lived with them for fourteen months, being at that time eighty-seven years
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of age. She then returned to Indiana, where her death occurred. On the lOth
of April, 1897, Mrs. Scott died, her death being deeply deplored by many friends
as well as by her immediate family. She and her husband had traveled life's
journey together for more than fifty years, sharing with each other the joys and
sorrows, adversity and prosperity which checker the careers of all. She held
membership in the First Christian church of Portland, to which Mr, Scott also
belonged. In 1854 he was made a Mason at Ottumwa, Iowa, transferring his
membership later to Mount Tabor Lodge, and at one time served as its master.
He was one of the organizers of the Columbia Lodge in 1858, and at all times
was loyal to the principles of the fraternity. While he never sought ofifice as
a reward for party fealty, his fellow townsmen frequently called him to posi-
tions of public trust. His early political support was given to the whig party,
his first presidential vote being cast for Henry Clay, and upon the dissolution
of that party he became a stalwart republican. In 1876 he was chosen to rep-
resent his district in the state legislature and was reelected in 1878, so that he
served during the last session held in the old state house and the first session
held in the new capitol. After a long and useful life he passed away on the
i6th of November, 1910, at the age of eighty-seven years. A plain man, an
exponent of the simple life, the keynote of which through all of his active years
was devotion to duty that lay nearest to his hand, and an honest man in prin-
ciple and in practice, he was beloved by his family, respected by his neighbors
and honored by the community in which he lived. His long residence in Port-
land and this part of the state made his history closely interwoven with Oregon's
development. To omit his record would be to break a link in the chain of pio-
neers that binds the past to the present.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Scott became the parents of the following named
sons and daughters: Mary, the eldest, born in 1845, was married in Portland to
Stephen Hill, who died, leaving three children. Samuel F. is the second. Riland
died in Indiana at the age of six years. Sarah E., born in Iowa in 1855, was
married in 1876 to H. R. Long of Portland, and to W. F. Wagner in 1907.
Laura H., born in Iowa in 1858, completes the family.
Samuel F. Scott was only four years of age when his parents removed to
Wapello county, Iowa, where he remained until 1862. The family then came to
Oregon, and though a youth of about thirteen years, he still remembers the trip
across the plains. It was a long and wearisome journey, for the ox teams made
but little progress and many hardships and privations befell the travelers as they
slowly proceeded toward the setting sun, crossing prairie and plain, stream and
mountain. Eventually they reached The Dalles and from that point proceeded
down the Columbia river by boat. Samuel F. Scott completed his education in the
Portland Academy under Professor Frambie. The period of his youth was
largely devoted to assisting his father on the farm, and he there remained until
twenty-four years of age, when he was married to Clara S. Payne, a daughter
of W. H. Payne, who was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, October 30, 1830,
and was one of the Oregon pioneers of 1851. Her father came here from Ohio
and her mother from Iowa. Mrs. Scott was born near the old Captain Love
place on the Columbia, one of the noted ranches of the early days. Her birth
occurred September 8, 1855, and she is a member of the Oregon Pioneer Asso-
ciation.
Following his marriage, Mr. Scott removed to a farm of his own and unto
him and his wife there were bom six children : Captain R. O. Scott, an officer
of the Oregon National Guard ; Winnie, who died in infancy ; OHve May ; Eva
Inez, the wife of Capt. W. C. North, who is a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, having served in the Philippine Islands and is now deputy assessor;
Frank Morton, a civil engineer of this city; and Ruby Wray.
After devoting a number of years to farming, Mr. Scott took up his abode in
Portland and is now acceptably filling the position of guard on the steel bridge.
Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist church and are loyal to its
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teachings. His political indorsement is given to the republican party and he is
interested in all that pertains to Portland's development and progress. While
he came too late to Oregon to be numbered among its pioneers, he has lived con-
tinuously in the state for forty-eight years, so that he has w^itnessed much
of its growth and development.
HON. HENRY WAGNER.
Mastering the lessons of life day by day until his post-graduate w^ork in the
school of experience has placed him w^ith the men of eminent business ability,
Henry Wagner has for years figured prominently in the life of Portland, being
recognized for a long period as an able lawyer, while in later years he has con-
centrated his energies upon the management of the Henry Weinhard estate. To
speak of him only as a business man, however, would be to give but an impartial
and one-sided view. He is prominent in the social life of the city and more
particularly in the musical circles, his labors and cooperation constituting a
valuable factor in promoting the musical culture of the city. His varied inter-
ests and activities have, therefore, made his a well rounded character and, more-
over, he has been an interested witness of Portland's growth and development
for forty-six years.
It was in this city that he was born, September 5, 1864. Hessen, Germany,
was long the ancestral home of the family and it was in that province that his
father, John Wagner, was born in 1836. Crossing the Atlantic to New York
in 185 1, when a youth of fifteen years, he remained in the eastern metropolis
for a time and afterward became a resident of New Orleans. In 1858 he
arrived in San Francisco and four years later established his home in Portland,
remaining a factor in the business life of this city throughout the intervening
period to the time of his death. No native born citizen displayed greater loyalty
to America or a loftier patriotism. He was prominent among the German citi-
zens of Portland and manifested the deepest interest in the welfare of his fellow
countrymen. He was president of the German Aid Society, of the Verein
Eintracht and the Independent German School Association and he was like-
wise an active member of many American societies. In early manhood he
married Miss Charlotte Hergenroeder, also a native of Hessen, Germany, who
died in Portland in 1897, leaving two sons, Henry and Alexander, the latter for
many years note teller of the First National Bank of Portland. The death of
John Wagner occurred in 1907, when he had reached the age ot seventy-one
years.
That Henry Wagner was an apt pupil and applied himself diligently to the
tasks assigned him in the acquirement of an education is indicated in the fact
that he was only thirteen years of age when he completed the course in the
Independent German School. With the broad field of business opening before
him he sought a position in the employ of C. A. Landenberger, editor of the
German paper and later in preparation for the duties of business life attended
the Portland Business College. At the age of fourteen years he entered the
dry-goods house of Lewis & Strauss, where he remained for four years, when
consideration of the different activities he might follow led him to the belief
that the practice of law would prove more congenial than merchandising. Ac-
cordingly he began reading under the direction of Ellis G. Hughes and in 1886
was admitted to the bar at the October term of the supreme court and entered
upon active practice the following year. He gave his attention to general inter-
ests along professional lines, specializing in no department, proving his capabil-
ity in many. He followed his profession continually and successfully until 1896,
when he was elected to the state legislature on the repubUcan ticket and took
his seat in the lower house of the general assembly. The following year he
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became connected with the Henry Weinhard brewery, to which he has since
devoted his entire attention, becoming one of the managers of the estate upon
the death of Henry Weinhard in 1904.
Mr. Wagner was married on the 21st of June, 1893, to Miss Louise Hen-
rietta Weinhard, daughter of Henry Weinhard. Mrs. Wagner died on the
24th of October, 1905, leaving a son, Henry Weinhard Wagner, now sixteen
years of age, a student in the Portland Academy. The family residence is at
No. 61 North Eighteenth street.
Mr. Wagner is identified with various clubs of the city and is of a pre-
eminently social disposition with high appreciation for the pleasures and obliga-
tions of citizenship. He has cooperated in progressive public movements as a
member of the Chamber of Commence and of the Commercial Club. He belongs
to the Arlington Club, Waverly Golf Club, Hunt Club, German Aid Society,
Verein Eintracht, Turn Verein, Sons of Herrmann and the Arion Singing Society.
He was one of the organizers of the Orchestral Union, a noted amateur orches-
tra, which flourished between 1881 and 1892. He acted as concert meister for
four years, succeeding E. E. Coursen, one of the leading violinists of Portland.
He was also one of the organizers of the Arion Society and of the Boyer Glee
Club. Aside from business his interests center perhaps most largely in music.
His unfeigned cordiality has won him high and enduring regard and he is ever
a welcome visitor in club life and in the different homes to which friendship
wins him entrance.
CHARLES JEROME REED.
Charles Jerome Reed, engaged in the life insurance business in Portland,
was born in Auburn, New York, May 12, 1855. His father, Silas Walker Reed,
also a native of the Eriipire state, was proprietor of the rolling mill at Auburn
during the greater part of his life and there died in 1906, at the age of eighty-
five years.) His wife, whose maiden name was Euphemia Louise Holmes, was
also a native of New York and a representative of one of the old families of
Auburn. Her death occurred about 1871. Their family numbered two sons, th^
elder brother, George Mathews Reed, being an iron manufacturer who died in
1888.
Charles J. Reed pursued his education in the public schools of Auburn until
graduated from the high school in the class of 1870. He was for many years in
the employ of D. M. Osborn & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machin-
ery, and in 1880 he came to Portland as their representative. Here he engaged
in the agricultural implement business until 1900. and on selling out in that year
became receiver for the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works. In 1902, after settling
up their affairs, he turned his attention to the life insurance business in v/hich
he has since continued, securing a large clientage in this connection whereby he
writes an extensive amount of insurance each year. In 1905 he was appointed
United States marshal, which office he filled until the ist of August, 1910. The
appointment came to him from President Roosevelt, on the recommendation of
Francis J. Heney, Mr. Heney having the utmost confidence in the integrity and
stability of Mr. Reed. Upon retiring from the office he again established him-
self in the life insurance business with offices in the Henry building.
On the 15th of November, 1886, in Portland, Mr. Reed was married to Miss
Margaret Green, the eldest daughter of Henry D. Green, one of the old-time
residents of this city. They have two children : John Silas, twenty-three years
of age, now traveling in Europe ; and Henry Green, twenty years of age, a stu-
dent in Harvard. The family reside at 715 Everett street.
Mr. Reed belongs to the Arlington Club and in politics is a republican. He
has always taken a citizen's interest in politics, and in 1910 was induced to run
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for the nomination for congressman from the second district of Oregon. He
has become an enthusiastic supporter of the northwest and cooperates earn-
estly and effectively in various movements which are features in the upbuilding
and welfare of Portland.
THOMAS MANN.
Thomas Mann was one of ten children born to Andrew and Magdelene (Gra-
ham) Mann, on the 28th of April, 1836, on the farm Lindeen near Sir Walter
Scott's seat, Abbotsford, in Roxburghshire, Scotland. Being a feeble child, he
was unable to take advantage of such schools as existed at that day, but later,
when eleven years of age, he attended school in Selkirk, walking four miles — a
peat in one hand and a penny in the other, to pay for five days' instruction in
reading, writing and arithmetic. His father died in 1849, ^"cl as wages were
very low in Scotland, he left that country in April, 1852, and made his way to
Newcastle, England, where remuneration for labor was much better. After two
years' work on a railroad, in coal mines and in brickwork, Thomas Mann, in
company with Michael Stephensen, boarded the American sailing ship Consti-
tution, under command of Captain Gray, at Liverpool, on the 22d day of June,
1854, and arrived at New York on the 6th of August following. After five
years spent in the state of New York, Canada and the western states, working
in Buffalo, Toronto, Brentford and London, Canada, Chicago, Illinois, Valpa-
raiso, Indiana, and other western cities, he found himself, in June, 1859, aboard
the steamship Star of the West in New York harbor bound for Aspinwall. He
crossed the isthmus by railroad, viewed the ancient city of Panama under armed
escort and then boarded the steamship Golden Age bound for San Francisco,
where he arrived on the 17th of July. On the 20th of the month he left San
Francisco on the steamer Forward for Victoria, on Vancouver Island. When
on this steamer he saw for the first time the Oregon coast mountains. The stea'm-
ship Forward anchored in Neah Bay, Washington, where he had the first
glimpse of the natives, took a ride in their canoe, and first set foot on the soil
of this great northwestern coast. He arrived in the infant city of Victoria on
the 27th of July and spent five years there in contracting and building. The
spring of 1866 found him, with many others, broken in spirit and in purse, for
during the winter of 1865-6 diphtheria and typhoid fever ruined many fair and
happy families, his beloved wife, Mrs. Barbara Mann, being among the number
who succumbed to disease.
After trying the Big Bend mine on French Creek, Mr. Mann took passage
on the steamer 49, which was bound for Fort Colville, Umatilla, The
Dalles and Portland, Oregon, arriving at the last named place on the 28th of
June, 1866. He worked that year for T. M. Richardson on a building for Chas.
M. Carter at Front and Washington streets, and in the spring of 1867 he went
to San Francisco, where he followed his trade. The climate there, however, did
not agree with him, and on the 22d of June, 1868. he returned to Portland on
the steamship Pacific. This was a notable trip, coasting close to the Oregon
shore, a party of United States engineers being aboard. He has continued to
make Portland his home from that date — 1868.
Mr. Mann, on arriving on this coast, was so much impressed with its possi-
bilities that he immediately took steps to bring all his brothers and sisters with
their families, and also his mother, to the northwest. There were twenty-eight
persons in all, young and old, whom he induced and aided to come to this prom-
ising northwest coast.
In 1863 Mr. Mann went to Paris, Canada, where he married Barbara Brown
on the 13th of March, 1864. He returned to Victoria by the Aspinwall route,
reaching San Francisco in due time on the Constitution, then proceeding as a
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passenger on the Sierra Nevada to Portland and Victoria. This was his first
visit to Portland. The First Presbyterian church was being built at the corner
of Third and Washington streets, where the Spaulding building now stands. On
returning to Victoria he was weather-bound m the North channel near Ilwaco
for two days. He aided greatly in building up Portland and other Oregon cities,
having the contracts for brickwork on the state capital and insane asylum, also
three of the additions thereto and the contract for the brickwork on the Lincoln
high school of Portland in 1883, the Oregon City courthouse in 1884 and the
Benton county courthouse in 1886. At length he met with an accident which in-
capacitated him for further work in that line. In 1874 he entered the medical
department of Willamette University and was graduated with the M. D. degree
in 1876. The same year he pursued a post-graduate course in the University of
California.
Mr. Mann was married in Canada, March 13, 1864, to Barbara Brown, who
died in 1866, leaving one son, Thomas Stephensen Mann, manager of the Pacific
Stoneware Company of Portland. In 1873 Mr. Mann wedded Elizabeth Driver,
who died in February, 1884. In 1900 he married Mary Hawthorne, who died in
October, 1906, and in 1909 Bessie F. Hill became his wife. By this marriage
there is one daughter. Mr. Mann is a member of Willamette Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., and of Portland Chapter No. 3, R. A. M. He has always endeavored to
do his duty as he saw it toward all men. He helped to organize the first St.
Andrew's Society in Victoria in i860 and also the First Presbyterian church of
that place in the same year.
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The laudable ambition and firm purpose which enabled Benton Killin to pro-
vide for his own education in the face of difficulties, which would have deterred
many a youth of less resolute spirit, foreshadowed the success which he would
achieve in later life and which made him one of the successful business men and
prominent lawyers of Oregon. Portland has ever been proud of his record, in-
as much as he was ever a high type of American manhood and chivalry, who
stanchly defended the interests of the city and sought her progress along all legit-
imate lines.
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Benton Killin, was born August 5, 1842.
When only three years of age his parents, John and Frances (Ulam) Killin,
crossed the plains and after spending some time in Linn county, Oregon, in
the spring of 1847 took up their abode on what became known as the old home-
stead on Butte creek in Clackamas county. It was a difficult task that con-
fronted the pioneer who must reclaim his farm from the wilderness, cutting
away the timber, plowing the fields hitherto undeveloped and meeting with dif-
ficulties and hardships that he knew naught of until they confronted him in his
efforts to establish a homestead upon the western frontier.
Benton Killin devoted twelve years of his youth to hard work upon the farm,
assisting his father in the development of the place. While his time was occu-
pied with the work of plowing, planting and harvesting, his ambition reached
out to other lines. He was desirous of securing a better education than had
been afforded him in the district schools of the neighborhood and when sixteen
years of age he started from home, imbued with the purpose of providing the
means that would enable him to continue his studies. The summer months were
devoted to unremitting toil upon a farm and with the wages thus earned he met
his tuition and the other expenses of a course in the Willamette University,
where he remained as a student until the spring of 1861. All through the periods
of vacation his time was occupied with farm labor, and on Saturdays he sought
such employment as he could secure in order to supplement his very limited
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financial resources. In the spring of 1861 his health failed. There was every
symptom of incipient tuberculosis and he knew that outdoor life must be had if
he regain his health. Accordingly he went to the mines in the mountain regions
of Idaho, where he remained until January, 1862. He was benefited and, in
fact, entirely restored by the life which he there led.
His patriotism being aroused by the continued attempt of the south to over-
throw the Union, Mr. Killin joined the army, enlisting January 20, 1862, as a
member of Company B, First Oregon Cavalry. He was stationed that winter at
Fort Vancouver, Washington, and in the following spring was sent with his
company to guard the Oregon trail against the Snake Indians. He served con-
tinuously for the three years of his enlistment, enduring many hardships, and
was made corporal October i, 1863. He was honorably discharged at Fort Van-
couver on the 20th of January, 1865, at which time a lieutenant's commission
in the regular army was offered him, but he chose to enter the legal profession.
Mr. Killin then bent his energies toward the acquirement of such an educa-
tion as he regarded a sufficient equipment for life's practical and responsible
duties. In the fall of 1865 he became a pupil in the Pacific University at Forest
Grove, and with untiring diligence prosecuted his studies for a year, completing
the work of a two years' course in that time. He then took up the study of
law and, in order to provide for his support while preparing for the bar, de-
voted the winter months to teaching school. He proved his capability in that
connection and in 1866 was elected superintendent of the schools of Clackamas
county. In the fall of 1867 he was admitted to the bar and at once opened an
ofBce in Oregon City. No dreary novitiate awaited him. Almost from the first
he won recognition as one of the strong and able lawyers practicing tliere, and
in the opening year of his connection with the legal fraternity he tried and won
what was regarded as one of the most stubbornly contested damage cases ever
fought in the courts of Oregon, whereby his clients recovered four thousand
dollars. In 1870 offers of a partnership were made him by Hon. E. D. Shat-
tuck, of the firm of Logan & Shattuck, and on the ist of January of that year
he joined the firm under the style of Logan, Shattuck & Killin and did much to
maintain the high reputation which the firm always enjoyed. The partnership
was continued for about four years, the firm becoming recognized as one of
the most prominent in the state, so that v\^hen it was dissolved in 1874, by the
retirement of Hon. David Logan and the return of the Hon. E. D. Shattuck to
the bench, Mr. Killin's position in the front rank of the Portland bar was fully
established. He never for an instant receded from the eminence to which he
attained during that period and, in fact, made further progress in a profession
which is a sure indication of individual merit and ability, as success must always
depend upon those qualities.
In July, 1873, Mr. Killin was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Burnett
Hoover, who was born in Washington county, Oregon, June 6, 1848, a daughter
of Jacob and Malinda (Case) Hoover. Her father, who is now deceased, came
to Oregon during the early period of the state's development and for many years
was one of the most honored pioneers of Washington county. Her brother,
Hon. Jacob Hoover, was at one time mayor of Spokane Falls, and was the or-
ganizer and president of the Exchange National Bank of that city. The children
of Mr. and Mrs. Killin are: Thomas Benton, now living in Portland; and Le-
titia Estelle, the wife of Dr. Frank B. Kistner.
In the practice of his profession, Mr. Killin devoted his attention largely to
that branch of the law bearing upon land titles and real estate, and his opinions,
always honestly given, carried with them a weight second only to the decisions
of the highest courts. His understanding of the principles of the law bearing
upon his specialty was most comprehensive and accurate. He never allowed
personal bias or prejudice to interfere in the faithful performance of his pro-
fessional duties, but sought to advise his clients according to the best interpre-
\ation of the law, while in the courts he protected their interests with unfalter-
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ing fidelity. He made large investment in real estate and the rise in value which
he anticipated brought him at length an ample fortune.
In his political views Mr. Killin was an earnest democrat but not aggres-
sively partisan. He believed that the welfare of the country should transcend
all partisanship and that the interests of the community should ever be consid-
ered before personal aggrandizement. He was appointed a member of the board
of regents of the Oregon Agricultural College by Governor Lord December 15,
1894, serving nine years. In later years he was much interested in agriculture
and was largely instrumental in building up that institution. At the time of his
death, May 26, 1905, he was a trustee of Pacific University, the same institution
in which he received a part of his early education. A keen intellect, a habit of
analytical reasoning and of close deduction enabled him to view any question
from almost every standpoint and to arrive at a just and unbiased opinion. He
always fearlessly expressed his views, yet never intrenched on the rights of
others in this connection. He was a man of spotless integrity and honor, who
enjoyed in the fullest measure the confidence and good-will of all who knew
him. He stood for all that was best in manhood and in citizenship and no one
has ever more fully merited the regard of his fellow citizens than did Benton
Killin.
WILLIAM ALFRED SPANTON.
William Alfred Spanton, president and manager of The Spanton Company,
realty operators, was born at Pruett, Kentucky, February 17, 1883, a son of
T. W. and Lucy Ellen (Frazier) Spanton, the former a farmer by occupation.
The Fraziers have a family tree which gives the ancestral record for several
generations. The Spanton family is of English lineage.
William Alfred Spanton supplemented his early educational privileges by
study in the Kentucky State College at Lexington. He pursued a classical
course, but left college in 1903, a year prior to the date which would have been
that of his graduation. His first business undertaking was in the line of horse
trading. He was reared upon a farm and had the Kentuckian's love of horses,
so that when he was but eleven years of age he was well known in the home
locality as a horse trader. He was sixteen years of age when he matriculated
in the Kentucky State College, and while there pursuing his studies he played
right tackle on the varsity football team. He still retains fond memories of
Lexington, of her beautiful and true women, of the fine blue grass fields, and
of the indolent colored population — all characteristic features of that region.
After leaving college, Mr. Spanton entered the service of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad at Cincinnati. Ohio, in a clerical capacity, filling the position from
the 15th of June, 1903, until he resigned on the 15th of July, 1904, in order to
come to the northwest. He M'as keenly interested in this section of the country
and its possibilities and as the months passed by he resolved that he would seek
'his fortune on the Pacific coast. He arrived at Bellingham, Washington, on the
31st of August, 1904, and there remained until July 9, 1905, when he went to
Seattle. He returned to Bellingham on the ist of October, and on the loth of
March, 1906, again became a resident of Seattle. On the last day of May of
the same year he arrived in Portland, and in December, 1906, organized the
Spanton Company of which he has always been the president. He has since
been identified with real-estate interests in this city, and in the intervening period
of four years has secured a large clientage that makes his business one of con-
siderable importance. During this time he has put on the market fifteen
subdivisions, including the Spanton addition, Terrace Park, Villa Hill, Evanston.
Alder Springs, Council Crest and Healy Heights, for which they paid an excess
of three hundred thousand dollars.
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On the 9th of November, 1910, Mr. Spanton was united in marriage to I\Iiss
Elizabeth Searles of Lexington, Kentucky, who belongs to a family that was
founded in that state eighty years ago. On her father's side she is connected
with the Lee family, of which Robert E. Lee was a prominent member, and she
is also a cousin of General Hood of the Confederate army.
Mr. Spanton is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and his
religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church. Al-
though a young man, he has made for himself a creditable position in business
circles, and the qualities which he has displayed augur well for further success
in the future.
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MARSHALL J. KINNEY.
Honored and respected by all, there is no man who occupies a more enviable
position in commercial circles of Portland and the northwest than Marshall J.
Kinney, one of the foremost representatives of the salmon canning industry and
of the lumber interests of the Pacific coast. His prominent position is due not
alone to the success he has attained but also to the straightforward business prin-
ciples which he has ever followed — principles which have never sought nor re-
quired disguise, and which are based upon a recognition of the rights of others.
In the course of his advancement he has followed only constructive measures,
never sacrificing the interests of others to his own progress but rather securing
his success along lines which have proved of benefit to his fellowmen as well as
to himself. For more than six decades the name of Kinney has been an honored
one in commercial circles in this part of the country.
Marshall J. Kinney was brought to Oregon in his infancy by his parents,
Robert C. and Eliza (Bigelow) Kinney. The former was a son of Samuel Kin-
ney and a nephew of Governor William Kinney, of Illinois. His birth occurred
at Belleville, St. Clair county, that state, in 1813, while his parents were natives
of Kentucky. In his early manhood he preempted a tract of land on the western
bank of the Mississippi river, laid out a town, built a hotel and wharf and thus
became the founder of Muscatine, Iowa, between which point and St. Louis he
ran a boat. He was also identified with the milling interests of that place, ope-
rating both a flour and saw mill. He also read law for a time under Judge
Hastings, and though he never engaged in practice his knowledge of the law
proved a valuable element in his commercial career. A study of the country
and its natural resources led him to the opinion that splendid opportunities were
offered in the northwest and in 1847 ^^ started with his family by way of the
Platte road and over the Oregon trail to the Pacific coast. After weary months
of travel he took up a donation claim near La Fayette, Oregon, but later joined
in the rush to the gold fields of California, where he spent portions of the years
1848 and 1849. H!e did not realize the fortune which report had said could be
secured there in an almost increditably short space of time, and, returning to Ore
gon, he again took up his abode upon his farm, devoting a number of years to its
development and improvement. He again became identified with milling interests
in 1859, when he purchased the McMinnville mills, which he conducted with
profit, and further extended his efforts in that direction by the purchase, in 1875,
of the flour mills in Salem, to which place he removed his family. The substantial
growth of the business and the expansion of his trade connections led to the
establishment of branch offices in Portland. San Francisco and in Liverpool, Eng-
land. The Salem Milling Company chartered the first vessel for the shipment
of flour from Portland to Liverpool, China, Hindoostan and other points in the
Orient, and to Montevideo, South America. With the development of the busi-
ness Mr. Kinney took his sons into partnership and the operations of the firm
became among the most extensive in their line in the northwest. At the same]
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time Mr. Kinney took an active and helpful part in affairs of public moment and
was elected as a delegate to the convention which framed the first constitution
for Oregon.
Robert C. Kinney married Elizabeth Bigelow, a native of Nova Scotia and a
daughter of Daniel Bigelow, who removed from Canada to Illinois and thence to
Wisconsin, where he conducted a sawmill. This became the nucleus of a little
village which he called Milwaukee. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kinney there
were born eight children who reached adult age. Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, the eldest,
is a resident of Astoria, where her two sons. Senator J. H. Smith and A. M.
Smith, are prominent attorneys. Albert W. Kinney was associated with his
father in the milling business at Salem until his death in 1882. William S. Kin-
ney was the president and manager of the Clatsop Saw Mill Company until his
death in 1899 and was in partnership with his father and brothers, Albert W.
and M. J. Kinney, in their extensive operations in the northwest. Augustus C.
Kinney, a physician of Astoria, gained distinction as a specialist on tuberculosis,
being among the first advocates of the germ theory of the origin of this disease.
He had come to be recognized in America as an authority upon the subject
before the demonstration of Koch, of Germany, removed the doubt by the dis-
covery of the tubercular bacillus. Dr. Kinney has been a liberal contributor to
medical journals and is regarded as one of the eminent members of the profes-
sion. Dr. Alfred Kinney is also a successful practitioner of Astoria. The
daughters are Mrs. Josephine Walker, of San Francisco, and Mrs. Eliza Pey-
ton, the wife of Dr. J. E. Peyton, of Redlands. California.
Marshall J. Kinney, the fourth son^ supplemented his public-school course by
study in the McMinnville Academy and then j-pihed his father in business, to
which he closely applied himself, bending every 'energy toward the task af gain-
ing definite and comprehensive understanding of the business both in principle
and detail. Such was the progress that he made that in 1867, when but twenty-
one years of age, his father sent him to San Francisco to assume the supervision
of a branch office there, the business at that point reaching hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars per annum and extending from ocean to ocean. He so capably
controlled the interests of the firm at that point as to awaken the wonderment,
admiration and regard of all who knew him. His father died in 1875 and his
brother Albert in 1882. This was followed by the sale of the mills at Salem, and
Marshall J. Kinney therefore returned to Oregon and became interested, in
1876, in the salmon industry at Astoria. He bent his energies toward the devel-
opment of the trade as well as to the conduct of the plant and in a short time was
at the head of the largest salmon cannery in the world. Moreover, he closely
studied the opportunities and possibilities of the business, introduced improved
machinery and methods and otherwise promoted the trade interests until the
name of Kinney became a synonym for fair dealing in connection with the salmon
trade of the country as well as a synonym for excellence of product. Extending
his efforts as his Astoria business proved the profits that could accrue, he became
the owner of canneries at Chilcoot and Cape Fox in Alaska and also established
a cannery at Fair Haven, Washington, owned by a company of which he is still
the president. Recognizing the possibilities for activity and success in the field
of lumber operations, he has also been identified with the manufacture of lumber
in this section of the country for almost three decades. He is associated with his
brother William in the ownership of the Clatsop Mills which utilize Oregon tim-
ber in the manufacture of lumber. The company now owns valuable tracts of
timber land on the Columbia river and in the coast countries. Since 1899 he has
been a resident of Portland and from this place superintends his mammoth busi-
ness interests.
Mr. Kinney has been married twice. While in San Francisco he wedded Mar-
garet Morgan, who spent her entire life in that city and at her death left a
daughter, Harriet M. In 1888 Mr. Kinney was united in marriage to Miss Nar-
cissa White, a lady of national reputation in connection with her work in the
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emigration of the family to tlie northwest, and in his later years related many in-
teresting incidents concerning the trip across the country, several months having
passed ere it was completed. He secured a land claim some distance further up,
the creek than his father's home. This creek was named in honor of Jacob
Johnson by the United States surveyors when they were dividing into sections
that district. He had erected a mill there, which was known as Johnson's Mill.
Afterward he removed to Portland, where he resided until i860, when, having
purchased the old home place upon which his father had settled, he removed
there and resided thereon until his demise, in January, 1901. There he reared
his family, of whom four sons and four daughters survive the father.
Jacob Johnson was one of the best known and most useful citizens of his
part of the county. He possessed a generous spirit and kindly disposition and
was widely known for his distinct individuality, quaint speech and perfect in-
tegrity. In the community in which he lived he was recognized as a man of
force and influence. For many years he served as a director of the schools in
his district and was a stanch champion of the cause of education. He was also
somewhat of a leader in political circles and was once chosen to represent Mult-
nomah county in the state legislature. In his early manhood he attended the old
Portland Academy and was married in Kernsville, Clackamas county, the lady
of his choice being Miss Martha J. Lee, who still survives him. She was the
second cousin of General Robert E. Lee of Virginia, and came to Oregon in
1853. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Johnson were born the following named : W.
W. ; J. J.; H. L. ; Charles; Mrs. James Clark; Mrs. George P. Lent; Araminta,
now the wife of William G. Zinser of Portland ; and Jennie Johnson. The father
was for a long period one of the prominent members of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, which organization took charge of his funeral services. He passed away
on the 25th of January, 1901, and his remains were interred in Multnomah ceme-
tery.
Jasper J. Johnson acquired his early education in the schools of Portland and
afterward attended the Oregon Agricultural College. Determining upon the
practice of law as a life work, he began studying with the firm of Johnson &
Idleman, and after a thorough course of preparatory reading was admitted to
the bar on the lOth of June, 1890. He has since engaged in practice in Port-
land and has made steady progress in a profession where advancement depends
entirely upon individual merit. He is regarded as a wise and safe counselor as
well as an able advocate, and is thoroughly versed in the various departments
of jurisprudence, making a specialty of probate and real-estate law, and has an
extensive equity practice. Pie stands as an able representative of the calling to
which life, property, right and liberty must look for protection, and while his
devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial he never forgets that he owes a
still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Mr. Johnson's military record covers service as a member of Company K of
the Oregon National Guard. In his political views he is an earnest republican,
giving allegiance to the party and its principles. He has never been in sympathy
with the idea that party should serve the interests of the few but has always be-
lieved that it should promote the greatest good for the greatest number. Fra-
ternally he is connected with the Masons and with the Odd Fellows, and in the
latter organization has filled all of the chairs. He is also a prominent member
of the Foresters and was formerly state lecturer of the Grange. His connection
with the Grange has undoubtedly been of a more irvportant character than that
of any other man connected with the organization, his labors in its behalf being
at all times practical, far-reaching and beneficial. He systematized and directed
the educational features of the organization to such a degree that they received
the highest commendation from the National Grange. He declined to fill the
office for a second .term and on his retirement from the position was presented
Vv^ith a fine watch and charm as the token of high esteem in which he was held.
He was the president and organizer of the first county fair held in Multnomah
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county in 1907. This was a pronounced success, both in attendance and exhibits,
and the fairs have since been conducted with great success each year. While
not a member of any rehgious organization, he is a trustee of the Methodist
church.
Mr. Johnson was married in October, 1886, to Miss Minnie E. Tyler,
a daughter of Captain Tyler. She died on the 8th of February, 1901, leav-
ing three children, namely: Harriet M., a musician of superior ability, now act-
ing as soloist in the Trinity Episcopal church ; Alice M. and Clifton W. On the
31st of December, 1903, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Ella Craw-
ford, a daughter of Judge W. M. Crawford, of Clay county, Nebraska, and to
them has been born a daughter, Gladys L. Mrs. Johnson is an active member of
the Eastern Star, the Rebekahs and the Methodist church.
It is probable that no other man in Oregon has a more extensive acquaint-
ance over this state than Jasper J. Johnson — certainly none are held in higher
esteem. This is not due to any political prominence, but because of his ad-
mirable personal characteristics and engaging social qualities, together with the
important work which he has done for the public service in connection with
the Grange and other associations.
JOHN HENRY NOLTA.
Among the respected citizens and property owners of Portland is John Henry
Nolta, a native of Jennings county, Indiana, who was born August 6, 1861. He
is a son of Henry and Maria (Shermier) Nolta, both of German descent. The
father engaged in farming for many years and attained the success that is usually
the result of industry, economy and perseverance, traits which are so promi-
nent in the German character. He died in 1894, and the mother passed away in
1874.
John Henry Nolta lived upon the farm until he was seventeen years of age,
attending school in the winter and assisting his father during the other seasons
of the year. In 1878 he removed to Wilton Junction, Iowa, where he took up his
residence with an uncle, continuing there for one year. At the end of that time,
feeling the impulse for independence which is the starting point in the career of
so many young men, he went to Moline, Illinois, rented a farm and began for
himself. After farming independently for a year he returned to Moline, where
he engaged as a coachman. After a few years he went east and spent one year
traveling and observing the people and the country.
About 1887 Mr. Nolta returned west as far as Omaha, where he was mar-
ried, and eight months later, having heard glowing reports of the Pacific coast
region, his eyes first alighted upon Portland. At this time his finances were low,
as is shown by the fact that his total cash amounted when he entered Portland
to the sum of fifteen cents. Plowever, he was not discouraged and, taking ad-
vantage of the first opportunity that presented, began working upon a farm and
later in blowing stumps out of the right of way for the St. Johns Electric Rail-
road. After this undertaking was completed he came to Portland and entered
the employ of the Portland Flouring Mills, making his home with Mathew Pat-
ton, one of the pioneers of Oregon. By diligence and economy he gradually be-
came independent financially and purchased the property where he now resides
in 1890. In 1904 he bought one hundred acres of farm land near Orchards,
Washington, and resided there for nineteen months, but returned to Portland the
following year and resumed his residence at his old home in North Albina. For
a number of years he has been acquiring real estate and is the owner of much
valuable property in that immediate locality.
On the nth of April, 1888, Mr. Nolta was married to Miss Sarah A. Ed-
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danger from the proximity of hostile Indian bands. Moreover, a man named
Stephen Meek, attempting to find a shorter road to Oregon, drew many of the
emigrants from the main traveled trail and it was some time before they found
their way back to the road usually used. However, at the end of six months
they arrived at The Dalles and proceeded by raft to Portland, where they en-
camped in December, 1845. The city, now beautifully located on its verdure
covered hills and possessing all the modern equipments and advantages known to
the older cities of the east, then contained only one store and about a dozen
houses. Alexander McNary was among those who secured donation claims
and his energy and diligence enabled him at length to clear and improve six
hundred and forty acres of land, on which he made his home until called to
his final rest in i860 when sixty-two years of age. His children were: Sarah
E., who became the wife of A. C. R. Shaw and died in Fresno county, Cali-
fornia, in 1901 at the age of seventy-four years ; Hugh M., who was born in
Morgan county, Illinois, and died at Salem, Oregon, in 1891 ; Alexander W.,
a farmer, who died in Polk county, this state, in 1898; Catherine, who became
the wife of John C. Allen and passed away about i860 in Polk county; and
Davis, who died in the same county about 1862.
Hugh McNary, the father of Lawrence A. McNary, secured a claim in Polk
county when about twenty-one years of age and there engaged in farming un-
til 1859, when he established his home on Eight Mile creek, eight miles from
The Dalles, in Wasco county. He largely devoted his attention to freighting be-
tween The Dalles and the mines of eastern Oregon and Idaho for a number
of years, while subsequently he became engaged in the cattle business. He con-
tinued in the same business after his removal to Klickitat county, Washington,
until 1876, when he became a resident of Salem, Oregon. In the meantime
he had made extensive investments in land until his holdings embraced about
one thousand acres in Linn and Polk counties. He married Catherine Frizzell,
who was born in Greene county, Missouri, and was one of the six children
of Rees and Lilly Frizzell, who came to Oregon with their family in 1852.
Her father died in the eastern part of the state before the completion of the
journey, and the mother passed away on the old homestead in Polk county
in 1887. The death of Hugh McNary occurred in Salem in 1891 when he was
sixty-four years of age, and his widow now resides in Portland. Their family
numbered seven children : Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, of Marshfield, Oregon ; Anna
L., of Portland; Lillian M., a resident of Salem; Angelo P., a stock-raiser of
Wheeler county, Oregon ; Lawrence A. ; Hugh P., now a resident of Portland ;
and Wilson D., a physician of Portland.
After mastering the elementary branches of English learning in the public
schools of Salem, Lawrence A. McNary had the benefit of a three years' course
in Willamette University and later took up the study of law under the direction
of Richard and E. B. Williams, of Portland, in 1888. His reading was thorough
and comprehensive and enabled him to successfully pass the required exami-
nation for admission to the bar in June, 1890. He at once entered upon active
practice in connection with ex-Governor W. W. Thayer, who had just retired
from the bench of the supreme court of the state, and the business association
between them was continued until a short time prior to Judge Thayer's demise.
Mr. McNary has remained an active practitioner of the Portland bar and has
been connected with much important litigation tried in the courts. His de-
votion to his client's interests is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes
a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law and has ever been found an
able minister in the temple of justice. The only office he has held has been in
line with his profession, for in 1902 he was elected on the republican ticket as
city attorney of Portland, for a term of three years and was reelected for a term
of two years. While in office, as in the private practice of law, he prepared
his cases with great thoroughness and care and added to his already well es-
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tablished reputation as a capable lawyer of keenly discriminating mind, careful in
his analysis and strong and logical in his deductions.
Appreciative of the social amenities of life Mr. McNary belongs to the Mult-
nomah and Commercial Clubs. He also holds membership with the Knights of
Pythias of Portland and in more strictly professional lines is connected with
the Oregon State Bar Association. His entire life has been in harmony with
that of an honored ancestry so that the name of McNary still stands as a synonym
for valued citizenship in Portland and this part of Oregon.
GEORGE BAM FORD.
George Bamford in early life learned the trade of a stone-mason and in 1876
came to Portland. As he was entirely unknown here he felt that it would be wiser
for him to seek employment with others than to attempt contracting on his own
account for a time, but after two years, when he had become somewhat ac-
quainted, he engaged in contracting and continued actively in business until 1895,
when he retired. During that period he was engaged on the construction of
many of the important buildings of Portland of both a public and private nature.
He was identified in a business way with such well known men as H. W. Cor-
bett, W. S. Ladd, Harvey Scott and others, having done work for all of them
and enjoying their confidence in a marked degree.
Mr. Bamford is a member of the Episcopal church and he belongs to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The family residence is at 13 15 East Stark
street.
SAMUEL N. STEELE.
The story of a successful life is always inspiring and the most interesting
books in the world are those which tell of men or women who have attained
positions of honor and usefulness. The successful career involves the conquest
of difficulties and it is this conquest which strengthens the judgment, develops
the character and prepares the way as the years pass for larger responsibilities.
It was through years of application and earnest endeavor that Samuel N. Steele
attained the position he occupies as a citizen whose work and influence contribute
in no small degree in promoting the best interests of Portland. In business and
religious circles he has worked for the advancement of harmony and peace in all
relations of life. One of the pressing needs of all communities is an increase in
the number of such workers.
Samuel N. Steele was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, July 12, 1861.
His father, Samuel Steele, was a native of Indiana and was a merchant and live-
stock dealer. He died in 1861, seven weeks after the subject of this sketch was
born, and his widow, whose maiden name was Harriet N. Evans, survived him
forty-nine years. She was also a native of Indiana and was in many respects
a remarkable woman. She proved a true mother and never considered any sac-
rifice too great if it contributed to the happiness or benefit of her family. In
1868 she removed to Geneva, Kansas, and there the subject of this sketch was
reared and educated in the public schools, later engaging in business until 1889,
when he removed to Portland as an employe of the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage
& Trust Company, of Kansas City. Mrs. Steele came to Oregon after her son
was fairly established and made her home in this state until 1908, when she was
called to rest after a long life of helpfulness not only to her own family but to
others who were less fortunate.
For a few months after arriving in Portland Mr. Steele continued with the
Mortgage & Trust Company, but he soon came to the conclusion that there were
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 427
large possibilities in real estate in the northwest. Resigning his position, he went
into the real-estate business in his own name at Albany, Oregon, where he built
up a good trade and continued until 1907. He then settled in Portland, assisting
in the organization of the Brong-Steele Company, which devotes its attention
principally to suburban additions, among which are the El Tovar and the Love-
leigh additions. The firm is also interested in farm and orchard lands of the
Willamette valley and has a high reputation in one of the best lines of business
in ,a growing and highly prosperous city.
Mr. Steele is the happy possessor of musical qualifications and earlier in life
was a band leader. For several years he has furnished music for republican
campaigns in the Willamette valley. He is a member of the Apollo Club, the
leading musical organization of Portland, and is an active worker in musical
circles. He is a member of the Third Presbyterian church and officiates as elder
and also as superintendent of the Sunday school. He was formerly leader of the
church choir and is now a member of that organization. In business, social
and fraternity circles he is well known, being a member of the Portland Cham-
ber of Co'mmerce, Commercial Club, Portland Heights Club, Woodmen of the
World and Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Steele was united in marriage in eastern Kansas to Miss Abbie M. South-
ard, a daughter of Newell Southard, one of the pioneers and first sawmill owners
of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Three children have been born to them : Horace N.,
engaged with his father in the real-estate business ; Medora, a student in the
Portland high school ; and Leighton Howe, a pupil in the public school. The
family residence occupies a beautiful location at 571 Jackson street, Portland
Heights.
Mr. Steele is an ardent advocate of education and for many years has been
a trustee of Albany College. That the family is happily endowed is evident to
any one who comes into contact with the subject of this sketch, and also by the
reputation of his brother, a noted artist, Theodore C. Steele, of Indianapolis.
Among Mr. Steele's well known works are portraits of President Harrison, Vice
Presidents Hendricks and Fairbanks and James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet. The artist has spent several summers with his brother in Oregon, painting
western scenery. It is a notable fact that he is one of the few Americans who
ever took first prize at the great exhibitions at Munich.
JOHN B. YEON.
The visitor to Portland is always impressed with the large number of fine
structures in the down town district. Among those most recently erected none
will be more noticeable, more modern in every particular, than the Yeon building,
which is now in course of erection and will stand as a splendid monument to
the enterprising spirit, development and business success of him whose name
introduces this review.
Mr. Yeon was born April 24, 1865, at Plantagenet, Ontario, Canada. His
parents were John B. and Delamose (Besonet) Yeon. He remained at home
with his parents until seventeen years of age, continuing his education in the
public schools until he became a high-school student in Plantagenet. When his
school days were over he crossed the border into the United States to find here
business opportunities which he believed would be superior to those he might
secure in his native land. He made his way to Defiance, Ohio, in 1882, and
there became connected with the logging business, working for a dollar per day.
He was thus employed from four o'clock in the morning until late at night,
driving a team. It was difficult, arduous labor, but he persisted and in his de-
termination and energy laid the fovmdation of his success. At that time the
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country around Defiance was heavily wooded, giving ample opportunity for the
development of the lumber industry.
In 1885, however, Mr. Yeon sought the coast and has since made Oregon his
home. His previous Ohio experiences determined the course of his life for a
time. He reached Oregon with only fifty dollars but firmly resolved that he
would make his way and he at once took up the logging business. His course has
since been marked by continuous progress. He has made good use of time and
opportunities and whatever he has undertaken he has carried forward to success.
He continued in connection with the lumber industry for some time. His steady
advance in the business world is indicated in the fact that he is now engaged on
the construction of a fifteen story structure, to be known as the Yeon building,
situated at the corner of Fifth and Alder streets. On the nth of August, 1910,
the work of hauling the big beams and girders from the freight terminals to the
site of the building was begun. On the 15th of August the actual work was un-
dertaken and by the ist of October all of the steel frame work for this mammoth
structure was in place. It is expected that the building will be ready for occu-
pancy by the ist of February, 191 1, and almost all of the space has already been
rented. Mr, Yeon is an enthusiast as to Portland's future and in erecting the
Yeon building he has largely exceeded the necessary expense to make it not only
superior as to utility but as to architectural beauty as well.
On the 17th of July, 1907, Mr. Yeon was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth
Welsh, a daughter of John Mock, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this
volume. They now have an interesting little daughter, Pauline, two years of age,
and a son, John B., Jr.
Mr. Yeon belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and both
he and his wife are members of the Catholic church. He is also a member of the
Arlington Club and the Commercial Club, and his political indorsement is given
to the republican party. What he has accomplished represents the fit utilization i
of his innate powers and talents. He has never wavered in his determination to
progress along business lines and where favoring opportunity has pointed the way
he has quickly followed. His sound judgment has prevented him from making
any false moves and each year has chronicled his progress, his position being now
a conspicuous one among the successful men of Portland. His leisure time is
mainly devoted to motor touring, fishing and out of door sports.
BENJAMIN GARDNER WHITEHOUSE.
Few men in the northwest are more highly esteemed throughout the state of
Oregon or occupy a more honorable place in the love and respect of their friends
than the one whose name appears at the head of this sketch. For more than
fifty years he has been a citizen of Portland, during all of which time he has
been connected with the business interests. He is one of the most widely known
members of the Masonic order in the state and many years ago was awarded a
place of honor in the order as a member of the thirty-third degree, the highest
degree that is recognized by Masonry and one which is granted only to men of
the highest standing in character as well as in service to the order.
Benjamin G. Whitehouse was born in Boston. Massachusetts, December 5, 1834.
At the age of four years he removed with his parents to Vassalboro, Maine,
where six years later he lost his mother by death, and five years subsequently
his father died. He then took up his home with an uncle, Captain Reuben Weeks,
a kind-hearted farmer of New England, who treated the orphan boy as his own
child and saw that he shared equally with other members of the family. There
he resided until he reached the age of eighteen, assisting in the work of the farm
and attending school to a limited extent in winter. In 1852 he yielded to the
lure of the city and returned to Boston, where he found employment in a count-
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mvt^ Mil T^^isSlKHi Or<e§<cMi x«ijii3a oi% mix <5v>llArj; Hit Hmwily rc:s>olvoc4 that he
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He ^coJWi^wacd in \xyan<^ik>vi \>nih ihe himibcr i«d«<;lry ik>r jhmii^ ^^lMl^e, Hi?: sie^aoly
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^&tt ^i^cm^mc^idia. <oi >a. 8^4!i«e« st^yry sirwcuaw^ ito be kaiK>xx~in as ihe Veo«» NMll<iin§,
^svtiuste^'i At iht o<>mer v- '^ :''i Am! A3<kr S5 reels.. Oh itlw inh of Aiag^asn, 19 lo^,
5-he xn'ork of l^iAMiing" tV.v . ,^ .'Catiis a«d ^rders froaii t^;ie fireigiiait i-enaiiawHs to the
;sit« of tihe ibwiMia^ x>fAS l>egiin.. Ori the » ^ih of Awg^ust tl>e ACt^iAl work xvas un-
^enik-e^a A3*d %? d^ic i«it of Ocito<ber aM of due steel fraaaae xxxnirfc f-or llais laaAiaaaiiioth
Sitinsciiaw XK'AS m |>lAoe.. It is exf<ectt«<^ ' " .- ' ~ ' \c xvill ^e iTeA<U' for Otxni-
jvaTK-Y by tl^ 1st of FehiTiATT, i^iu AKv. .../....-v. „.. .- . ;;ie Sipvaoe h-as aWA^iy been
reintod. Mr. Yecwi is mi enthaasiASt as to IVatiUaiKfs fiatwre Aiad iaa ercNrtiaag die
Yeon bisa3<!ir^ 3tje J^jas liT^y exceeded tlw nec^essaiay e.xpeflii$e ito nvsJke it not only
saay»erior as to» airilitA- "Nut as to Ardaittv^tiar.- ' "'. ■ ;y as >'■ c"""
<.>n the :7:;h of jwly, lOO*, Mr> Veon x«i^> ......vv' "-' -,■, ..ce to Mrs^, Elisftbdtli
Welsih.. A dAai^-hter H>f Joih'n M'<>dc, of xK^!>o«aa lav.-. ■ - . .■ .-.o elsexifhere in this
x^kmie.. Iliey »ow Iwix-e a:- :.■ .-^i ■.: ::".o daaag^ter, TAialaa^e, two y«airs; of «jpe;
And A sosn., joTiri B-, Jr.
Mr. Yeon beloa^ to tilie Bea-.i. ^-.^nt Aiad rirv>te*ctave Or-.-V-^ ,^- '^'^vr* md bodi
ht. ATjd liis xn-afe Ai-e w'leaaibers of the CAtbolk dhaarda. He 5> .• -■. . » ;ier of tlie
Arlir^oaa Olaaib A5n>d tihe OoaaaiatjercJAl OlaiiK aa»d his ptolitic-A!! aaa4ors«aaaeaat is gix-en
to tJie re5xi"hlx-ATi p&nx. "WTwt he Hws aoc-.- ' -Hed re.- -■^;- ts tJw fit ntiluaiiiOQ
of his inriAte po'wers And tAJe^its. He hA.s /.v < v . ^vAx■^cr<:\; :.; /as <del£nnan«tMwi to
prog-i^css aIot^ basiiness hnes And xH-l-jere f a\'orin5- opjwrmiaity 3«is pKMnted td« w»y
lie 33AS ^gwictk follow*^.. Has s^v^ - . c^iK^ait hAS f>rexTeaat<ev5 hiaaa finora niakin^
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TiiAJnly '«3evoiied to nvK^tor toanria^, tasJaai^ ;. , .-.•'." ■ ;,-
BENJAMIJil GARDXER WHITEHOUSE,
Few osi^nen m fhe Tjorthwest Are niore h?g"My e*teen->ed th^*>•^§•lx^ut t3)je s: ; ■ :
'Or^osci'or -ocCTtpy a ■mart honoraHe jvlaoe ■;•" '"'"r lo\-e And res-peci of their i: .v.;u>
than the 'One whos>e nAarne sr^r-e?.*^ st t'he : : ■ .^f t"*-:? j.'ke^r^. F>-"- r.'Jc^rf t^ran
tiitx iptars he. las feeeaa a : ; • : ■ '.".■■: ■'',-: •' -"■ ■.■:■•-■ -r .-
Ijeen connerted ^wtth the ^smess aiitei'e^ts. lie is cvr r .■ : ■ : " - ; • s • ,- •
meinbers 01 the MAScnic order :- ''-- ^■*-.':: .'".•' -".•- ■• .■; s . <.■ / ^ ; • ;.; a
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Whitehouse has been to present living examples of the higher traits that embellish
civilization and make home a synonym for tenderness and love. Both sorts o£
men are necessary and both have nobly performed their work. Their monument
is written in enduring characters in the hearts of tens of thousands now living
in happy homes and who recognize that to the pioneers they owe the blessings
they enjoy today.
JOSEPH BUCHTEL.
If the life history of Joseph Buchtel were written in detail the reader would
be thrilled with exploits of athletic prowess, inspired by the tales of devoted
and loyal public service and aroused to admiration by the stoKy of what he has
accomplished in the field of art and mechanical invention. For fifty-eight years
he has been a resident of Portland, the period bringing him from young man-
hood to old age but without the attendant weakness so often regarded as insep-
arable from advanced years. Keeping in touch with the times, his mind has
remained alert and receptive, and he discusses the questions of the present with
the same interest that he does the stories of the pioneer past.
A native of Ohio, Joseph Buchtel was born near the city of Canton in Stark
county, on the 22d of November, 1830, and represented one of the old pioneer
families of that state, where his grandfather, Martin Buchtel, was long and
well known in agricultural circles. He passed away there at the advanced age
of ninety years. As the name indicates, he was of German lineage and ere his
removal to Ohio was a resident of Pennsylvania, where his son Michael Buch-
tel, the father of our subject, was born.
In his youth Michael Buchtel learned the trade of shingle making and con-
tinuously followed it as a life work. After living in Ohio for some years, dur-
ing which time he was married, he removed with his family to Urbana, Cham-
paign county, Illinois, where he operated the sav/ and shingle mill of Colonel
Busey, continuing in that connection until his death in 1841. His wife bore the
maiden name of Mary Harvey and was of English descent. Her second husband
was John Johnson, a tailor, by whom she had one daughter, Addie, who became
the wife of Thomas Maxwell and came to Portland with her mother. Mrs.
Johnson spent her remaining days in Oregon, passing away at the home of her
son Joseph in Portland in 1895 when eighty-four years of age. Of the children
of her first marriage three went to Illinois. Samuel Buchtel, a younger brother
of Joseph Buchtel, served as a soldier in the Civil war and after the close of
hostilities became a resident of Portland, while later he went to California, where
his death occurred in 1901. A sister, EHza Buchtel, died in Urbana, Illinois, in
1853.
In the public schools of Ohio and IlHnois Joseph Buchtel pursued his educa-
tion and following the death of his father, assisted in the support of the family
until his mother married again. At the age of fifteen years he visited Chicago,
which was then but a small town. He learned the tailor's trade under the di-
rection of his stepfather, but did not find it congenial and never followed it.
He early learned the art of making daguerreotypes and for a time conducted
business along that line in Urbana, where he also engaged in clerking. He
served as deputy sheriff of Champaign county, Illinois, when Abraham Lincoln
was attorney in the court. He was among the first to introduce all kinds of
pictures, including ambrotypes, tintypes, solar pictures, porcelain, watch dial
pictures, enamel cameos and medalions. He made his first daguerreotype in
1853 and his first photograph about 1855.
In the meantime Mr. Buchtel had become a resident of the northwest. The
year 1852 stands out most clearly in history as that which brought the greatest
number of immigrants to Oregon before the building of the railroads. Mr.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 433
Buchtel was among the number who journeyed with ox teams across the plains
and over the mountains, a train of sixty wagons leaving Illinois on the 23d of
April and reaching Portland on the 27th of September. They had no trouble
with the Indians and proceeded happily along their way until near the end of
their journey, when the food supply became low and fourteen were sent ahead
with barely enough to last until they reached their destination. By this plan
more food could be given the remaining members of the train, the main body of
which arrived about a month after the advance guard of fourteen, of which Mr.
Buchtel was a member.
From The Dalles Mr. Buchtel proceeded by sailboat and canoe as far as the
Cascades on the Columbia river and thence crossed the Cascade mountains to
Portland. He was without capital and eagerly availed himself of any employ-
ment that would yield him an honest living. He worked upon the rivers until
1853, when he again turned his attention to daguerreotyping, opening galleries
in Portland, Oregon City and Astoria. The summer months were devoted to
the conduct of the business, while in the winter seasons he was again employed
upon the river. He introduced the first photographs in Portland and was the
second to make daguerreotypes in this city, his predecessor being L. H. Wake-
field, whose business, however, he soon purchased. For over thirty-five years
he was known as one of the most prominent photographers not only of Port-
land, but of this section of the country and throughout that period kept in close
touch with the progress made in the art, utilizing all the modern methods which
tended toward securing perfection in that field.
Mr. Buchtel has also been widely known in other connections and his public
service has been of a most helpful character, embodying the elements of all that
is practical and progressive. He was associated with Judge Beck in agitating
the question of constructing a bridge across the Willamette river, and though
it was delayed by a court injunction for seven years, at the end of that time
the Morrison street bridge was erected by a corporation, and when the bridge
was opened, Mr. Buchtel's efforts in bringing this about were recognized when
he was chosen the first man to cross by authority, riding at the head of the pro-
cession. He organized the East Side Improvement Association, it being the
first association of business men organized to advance the interests of the east
side in particular and the whole city in general. Mr. Buchtel secured the first
franchise and laid the rails for a street railway on Grand avenue ready for the
rolling stock. The terminus was to be the City View Park, in which property
he was deeply interested.
For two years Mr. Buchtel filled the office of county sherifif and was twice
chief of the volunteer fire department, of which he was one of the organizers
and in which he continued to hold office during the existence of the volunteer
department. He became the fourth chief of the paid fire department and acted
in that capacity for two years, during which time he brought the organization
up to a high standard of excellence, equipped a fire boat to be used on the river
and introduced other improvements which have been valuable elements in this
system of the city service. He is still a member of No. 2, known as the Mult-
nomah Fire Engine Company. At present he and A. B. Stewart are the only
survivors of original Multnomah Benevolent Association. His efforts were
largely instrumental in securing a broad campus for the Central school in East
Portland, which is located on two blocks, including the streets. He recognized
what such a campus would mean to the youths attending the school at an age
when healthful outdoor sport is one of the essentials in the education of boys.
Ever deeply interested in all manly outdoor sports and especially a devotee
of our national game, he became one of the organizers of the Pioneer Baseball
Club, the first of the kind in the city, in 1866. Six months later he was chosen
captain, manager and pitcher and so continued for fifteen years. In addition to
winning the state championship the club also carried off the centennial gold
medals offered as a prize by the city. A number of the original club are still
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living and several of them are prominent business men of Portland and this
section of the state. Of the first nine all are still living, eight in Portland and
one in the east. Mr. Buchtel's ability to throw a ball backward to a given point
underhand without looking, especially to second base, making it almost impos-
sible for a runner to steal base, won him wide distinction. He is one of three
men who have covered one hundred and fifty yards in fifteen seconds, standing
start, and the other two men were professionals while Mr. Buchtel was never
specially trained.
Throughout his life Mr. Buchtel has manifested marked mechanical ingen-
uity, resulting in bringing forth many useful inventions, a number of which have
been patented. These include a telegraph fire hose, which enabled a man fight-
ing a fire in a building to signal by an electric bell when to turn the water on and
off. He also has a spray nozzle that is ahead of anything ever placed on the
market, making it possible for one to walk right into a fire, as it throws a solid
wall of water in all directions. His patent fire extinguisher is also a great im-
provement on anything previously introduced. His inventions, moreover, in-
clude a gold mining caisson for working in the bottom of rivers ; the steel fence
post, being about one-third the weight of any other post. Other useful inventions
have been brought forth as the result of his marked ability, careful investiga-
tion and experiment.
In fraternal lines Mr. Buchtel is well known as a leading Odd Fellow and
Mason, having been initiated into the latter order at Oregon City in 1852. He
has taken the degrees of the blue lodge and also of Royal Arch chapter and of
the subordinate lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows. In 1870 he served as a representative to the national convention of the
latter at Atlanta, Georgia.
The attractive home life of Mr. Buchtel had its beginning in 1855, when he
wedded Miss Josephine Latourette at Butteville, Oregon. She was born in Mich-
igan, of French parentage, in 1836 and came to Oregon with an uncle. Mr.
and Mrs. Buchtel have had a family of seven children, but three have passed
away: Joseph, at the age of six years; Albert Z., when twenty-three years of
age; and Frank S., in 1901. The surviving members of the family are: Lucy
Lillian, the wife of N. L. Curry, of Portland; Addie E., the wife of Wilber G.
Kerns, of Portland ; Archie L., now deputy county clerk and a resident of Port-
land ; and Fred G., sealer of weights and measures of Portland.
Such in brief is the life history of Joseph Buchtel, whose record presents
many interesting and varied phases. In whatever he has undertaken he has
risen to leadership. He ranked with the most able photographers of the coast
while a representative of that art ; he brought the fire department up to a profi-
ciency never before attained ; made the Pioneer Baseball Club the most success-
ful in its class ; and in independent connections has achieved prominence and
success. His labors have covered a wide field and on the whole have been of
intense usefulness. Such a life has brought Joseph Buchtel to an honored old
age and as he nears the eighty-first milestone on life's journey he receives the
respect and veneration of all who come in contact with him or know aught of his
interesting history.
ALLEN B. CROSMAN.
Allen B. Crosman, dealer in timber lands, mining properties, stocks, bonds,
and investments, with offices in the Board of Trade building in Portland, and
well known by reason of his active and effective service in public connections
as well as in the conduct of private business affairs, was born in Clearfield county.
Pennsylvania, June 7, 1846. His father, the Rev. James Crosman, came to Ore-
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gelical church in Salem, this state. He is now Hving in Berkley, CaHfornia, at
the age of eighty-nine years.
Allen B. Crosman largely pursued his education in the schools of the east.
He arrived at Salem, Oregon, in June, 1864, and entered business circles on the
coast as a clerk in the employ of Heath, Dearborn & Company. He was a mem-
ber of the Salem fire department for twenty-three years and rose to the position
of chief. During his term in that position members of his department responded
to a call for assistance from Portland and they made the remarkably fast time
of one hour and sixteen minutes in reaching Portland from the time they re-
ceived word in Salem. In 1870 Mr. Crosman formed a partnership with J. J.
Murphy for the conduct of a clothing and men's furnishing business under the
firm name of Murphy & Crosman. The enterprise was conducted successfully
as a partnership concern for ten years, when Mr. Murphy retired. In 1887 Mr.
Crosman removed to Portland, where he continued in the men's furnishing goods
business, successfully carrying on the enterprise until the fall of 1897, when he
was called to public office. He had previously served as postmaster at Salem
from 1883 until 1886 inclusive under appointment of President Chester A.
Arthur. He served as police commissioner of Portland during Mayor Frank's
term and in 1898 entered upon the duties of postmaster, in which office he con-
tinued until 1903, giving a businesslike administration that was marked by care-
ful systematization of every department of the office. Since his retirement he,
has given his attention to the brokerage business as a dealer in timber lands,
mines, stocks, bonds and investments. He is thoroughly informed concerning
the value of securities and few men are better informed concerning the natural
resources of this section of the country as represented in timber lands and min-
ing property. He has therefore developed a business of large proportions,
bringing him substantial success.
On the 8th of November, 1877, at Salem, Oregon, Mr. Crosman was united
in marriage to Miss Linnie McCuUy, a daughter of Hon. A. A. McCully, and
unto them have been born three children : Alice Louise, who in 1899 became the
wife of W. H, Harder; Lillian; and Allen B., but the last named died in Novem-
ber, 1909.
For forty-six years a resident of Oregon, Mr. Crosman is well known and is
an exponent of the progressive spirit which has led to the rapid and substantial
development of this section of the country. He has firm faith in Oregon and
its future and is quietly but none the less surely taking an active part in pro-
moting those interests which are building here a commonwealth that in all of its
possibilities and its advantages rivals the older states of the east.
ANDREW FRIBERG.
When one looks at a great and beautiful city like Portland, with its many
substantial business blocks, its fine residences and its more modest homes, he
seldom stops to consider all that lies back of it — the great industry of building
the city and of manufacturing the materials used in construction. A most im-
portant element in the life of every community, however, is that which con-
structs its buildings, giving to them not only solidarity and utility but also sym-
metry and beauty. -With the building interests of Portland as a contractor and
also as a brick manufacturer Andrew Friberg is closely identified.
He was born in the northern part of Sweden in 1863 and in 1868 was brought
to America by his parents, Eric O. and Anna (Anderson) Friberg. His father
was a stone-mason and bricklayer, having learned the trades in his native coun-
try. On leaving the old world he made his way to Boone, Iowa, where he re-
mained for about two years, or until 1870. He then went to Clay county.
South Dakota, and in that locality took up a claim, from which time on he con-
tinued to devote his energies and attention to general agricultural pursuits.
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GENERAL JOSEPH LANE.
General Joseph Lane was born in North CaroHna, December 14, 1801. His
father, John Lane, was a descendant of Sir Ralph Lane, who came to America
to be governor of the first English colony in America and who on returning to
England, on the failure of the colony, married. It was his grandsons who, settHng
in America, founded the American branch of the Lane family. John Lane,
with his father, Jesse Lane, and his brothers, enlisted in the Revolutionary war,
John being at that time but seventeen years old. The last battle he took part
in was the battle of King's Mountain, which was fought near the close of the
Revolutionary war. John Lane was married late in life to Elizabeth Street,
whose father was also one of the Revolutionary patriots, who gave his service
to his country in her hour of need. There were born to this couple eight chil-
dren, Joseph being the second. The family migrated in 1804 to Kentucky and
settled in Henderson county. Educational facilities were very poor and Joseph
learned his letters and to read from the Bible, receiving his instruction from his
grandmother, who was a finely educated English woman, whose maiden name
was Winifred Aycock. He went to school only four months in his life. The
teacher told his pupils that the one who should reach school first and build a fire
should receive special attention, and Joseph was the one who did it despite the
fact that he had to walk several miles through heavy timber and cane brake.
Andrew Friberg was largely reared upon the old home farm in South Da-
kota, and as his age and strength increased he assisted more and more largely
in the work of developing and cultivating the fields. His youth was a period
of earnest and unremitting toil, in which he learned the lessons that industry and
perseverance constitute the safest foundation upon which to build prosperity.
As opportunity offered he attended the public schools and in this way gained a
knowledge of those branches of learning which are deemed essential to a suc-
cessful business career. He continued with his parents until about seventeen or
eighteen years of age, when he started out in business life on his own account
and has since been dependent entirely upon his own resources.
In January, 1897, Mr. Friberg came to Portland, where he joined his brother,
William Friberg, in a contracting business. They formed a partnership and
have since been closely associated with building operations in this city. They
are the builders of the Commercial Club, the Henry building, the Seward Ho-
tel, the old Young Men's Christian Association building and other structures of
equal importance. In fact, they have been awarded the contract for twenty-five
or thirty of the finest buildings of Portland, including the Friedner building on
Washington street, and the Elks building. In connection with their operations
as contractors they are also conducting a brick manufacturing plant on Barnes
road with a capacity of thirty thousand bricks per day. In this way they largely
furnish the material used in the construction of buildings which they erect.
Their standing in business circles in Portland is indicated by the nature of con-
tracts which have been awarded them, showing that they are regarded as am.ong
the most prominent and capable contractors of the city.
Mr. Friberg belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has
gained many friends in the social circles in which he moves. In his life are mani-
fest many of the sterling characteristics of his race. A noted American lec-
turer who has traveled and Jived in all parts of the world has characterized
Sweden as "the home of the honest man." Mr. Friberg and many of his na-
tionality bear out this reputation and in all of his work he is, moreover, ac- ]
tuated by a spirit of enterprise and progress that is manifest in the readiness
with which he takes up any new idea that will work for improvement in his
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The weather was bitter cold and he carried hot rocks in his pockets to keep
his hands from freezing. His thoughtful mother put up his lunch the evening
before and he started to school before daylight. The teacher gave him the
promised attention and after that winter he got his education by his own exertion.
So successful was he that by the time he was seventeen he was deputy clerk of
the court under Nathaniel Hart. Not the least valuable were the lessons of
patriotism that he learned from the elders who surrounded the hearthstone of
his boyhood. He was also for a time a clerk in the store of the subsequently
famous John J. Audubon. He divided his attention between selling goods in
the store and writing in the clerk's office. In 1820 he was married and settled
on a farm on the banks of the Ohio river in Vanderburg county, Indiana. It
was while living there that he saw the first steamboat on the Ohio. He v/as a
great admirer of the inventor, Fulton, and afterward owned a steamboat.
Young Lane soon became a man of the people with whom he had cast his
lot, and when barely eligible he was elected a member of the Indiana legislature
and took his seat to the astonishment of many older worthies. Mr. Lane was
a fearless legislator, always acting from a conscientious belief in the truth of
his views and following them up with spirit and vigilance. He continued to
represent his district in the state legislature in one branch or the other for the
period of twenty-four years, or until the Mexican war in 1846 called him to the
field of battle. During that year a call was made in Indiana to furnish volunteers
for the war. Lane was at that time a member of the state legislature and he
immediately resigned his seat and entered as a private under Captain Walker.
The companies, having rendezvoused at New Albany, selected Lane from the
ranks as their colonel. In a few days further testimony of his worth was mani-
fested by his receipt from Washington of his commission of brigadier general,
a favor unsought and unexpected by him. On the 9th of July, 1846, he wrote a
letter of acceptance and entered on the duties of his command. On the 24th of
the same month, only two weeks after the receipt of his commission, he was at
Brazos with all his troops and wrote to General Taylor communicating his ar-
rival and concluding thus : "The brigade I have the honor to command is gen-
erally in good health and fine spirits, anxious to engage in active service." At
length he was ordered to Saltillo and was made civil and military commandant
of that post by Major General Butler. Here he established a vigilant police,
protecting life and property, and built a strong fortification to provide against
the threatened descent by Santa Ana. While in command at Saltillo, Lane per-
sonally visited each picket nightly, thus presenting to his men a faithful ex-
ample of vigilance. After the battle of Monterey, Lane was ordered to join
General Taylor. The famous battle of Buena Vista was fought on February
22 and 23, 1847. General Lane was third in command and served on the left
wing. From the beginning to the end he was in the hottest of the fight. On
the morning of the 23d Lane had the honor of opening the continuation of the
battle on the plain, where he was attacked by a force of from four to five thou-
sand infantry, artillery and lancers under General Ampudia — while at this crises
Lane's force was reduced to four hundred men. But Lane's men, though few,
were undismayed and defended their position with a gallantry worthy of the
highest praise. As Lane commenced the fight on the 23d he also closed it in
the evening, when, though wounded, he led the Indiana regiment, which, with
the Mississippi regiment under Davis, came to the support of Bragg's artillery.
Failing to pierce the American center, Santa Ana retired from the field. In
this battle, where all were heroes, it is honorable to find Lane particularly noticed.
Here is a picture of him : "When the grape and musket shot flew as thick as
hail over our volunteers, their brave general, though wounded in the left shoulder
by a musket ball, could be seen fifty yards in advance of his lines, waving his
sword and encouraging his men by his impetuous bravery." General Lane re-
mained encamped near the battlefield until June, when he was ordered with his
brigade to New Orleans, where the latter was disbanded, its term of service
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having expired. On his return home he was greeted wherever he went by public
manifestation expressive of the enthusiastic admiration on the part of his fel-
low citizens. After a short time at home he returned to join Taylor's lines.
Having been transferred to General Scott's line of operation, he reached Vera
Cruz with his command on September i6. On September 19, having lost but
two days in organizing for his march, he set out with a small supply of pro-
visions on that tour of duty which has perhaps no parallel in history, if we
take into consideration the rapidity of his movements, the number of battles fought
in a given time and his invariable success — a success so marked that he was not
inappropriately styled by his brother officers and soldiers "The Marion of the
Mexican War." In two months after his departure from Vera Cruz for the in-
terior he had fought seven well contested fields besides innumerable skirmishes
with guerrillas, whom he had entirely dispersed. It was during this expedition
that he fought the first battle of Flascala and on the loth of November encoun-
tered Generals Rea and Torrejon at the same place, and recaptured a train of
thirty-six laden wagons belonging to merchants in Pueblo and Mexico. In thanks
for this service the merchants presented a splendid sword to General Lane. Re-
porting himself to the commanding general on the i8th of December, he re-
ceived with marked emotion by General Scott. It was the intention of the latter
to send Lane at the head of a brigade on a forward movement. Waiting im-
patiently for four weeks. Lane asked and obtained leave to take three hundred
mounted men with Hays, Polk and Walker, and chase the guerrillas under the
notorious Lenobia. In this expedition he almost succeeded in capturing Santa
Ana. All he got of him, however, was his swords. He fought a number of
battles, confiscated a large quantity of government property for the benefit of
the United States, and returned to the capital, having been absent but twenty-
four days.
Leaving the city of Mexico on the 17th of February, with the same brave
and hardy comrades to arrest and punish Jaranta, a noted robber chief who
had been perpetrating atrocities against Americans, Lane learned that Jaranta,
who was a wiley rogue, was at Tehualtaplau, and to throw him oflF his guard Lane
remained a day and night at Talancingo, gave out that he was returning to
Mexico, set off in that direction, but about dark changed his course and arrived
at a ranch on the road to Tehualtaplau and reached that place February 24th.
There were one thousand lancers and guerrillas under Colonel Montana and
Jaranta, and as the Americans entered Tehualtaplau at sunrise on the 25th the
bullets came whistling from every house. Jenkins, in his history of the Mexican
war, says: "Headed by General Lane, Colonel Hays and Major Polk, the
dragoon dashed upon the enemy, fighting their way hand to hand. Part of the
Mexicans rallied and formed outside the town, but a vigorous charge led by
General Lane and Colonel Hays quickly put them to rout. Jaranta, who was
wounded in the conflict, again escaped but Colonel Montana was killed with
about a hundred men. General Lane lost but one man and four wounded. Quiet"
was soon restored in the town after the fighting had ceased and the Americans
returned to the capital, taking with them their prisoners and a quantity of re-
covered property that had been plundered from different trains." The battle
of Tehualtaplau was the last fought in Mexico. Peace was soon declared, but
General Lane remained some months, directing the movements consequent upon
the return of our troops.
About the ist of August, 1848, General Lane reached Indiana. His fellow
citizens were rejoiced to see him, but he had not time to respond to the favors
extended to him, for on the i8th he, without any solicitation on his part, was
appointed governor of Oregon. On the 28th his commission reached him, and
on the next day he set out for his post. He arrived at St. Louis August 31st
and called on General Kearney and asked for his escort, one company of rifles,
ordered by the president. General Kearney endeavored to dissuade Governor
Lane from undertaking the trip, as the season was so far advanced it would be
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hazardous. General Tane was not to be dissuaded from the trip, as he was
not the man to be easily turned from facing any difificulties that were presented
in the discharge of any duties. So he pushed to Fort Leavenworth, where his
escort had preceded him. When he reached Fort Leavenworth, where his
he found the company very unwilling to attempt what was considered by all the
officers, many of whom were old mountaineers, as an impracticable journey.
He was determined, however, to go and proposed to Captain Roberts to take
twenty or twenty-five men with Lieutenant Hawkins, as it would be easier to
get along with a small number. On September lo, 1848, he left Fort Leaven-
worth with twenty-two men, including guides. It may be remembered that
this was the year in which Colonel Fremont, who followed General Lane by a
few weeks, lost almost his entire party in the mountains. The journey to Ore-
gon then was always an arduous undertaking and doubly so in the winter. The
adventures and sufferings of Lane's command would make an interesting nar-
rative but cannot be dwelt upon here. After striking the Rio Grande, which
was reached through eight days of blinding snow storms, when neither grass
nor fuel were to be had. Lane advised to leave the old commonly traveled route
and strike south, but the guide insisted on following the old route. They parted
General Lane undertaking to pilot himself to Oregon and the guide turning back,
insisting that all would end in disaster. If Lane had followed the guide's ad-
vice the entire party would have met the same fate of Fremont's men. For
more than twenty days he kept south until he came to the Mexican village of
Santa Cruz in Sonora, where he took the regular trail. On reaching the Gila
seven men deserted and killed two of the best men that were sent back after
them, and shortly five more, with a corporal, also deserted, fearing starvation
and death if they proceeded. The rest of the party pushed on, reaching San
Diego the early part of February, where they took the boat for the remainder
of the journey. Arriving at Astoria, he secured a row boat and men to help
him row up to Oregon City, reaching there March 2, 1848. The last one of
this party died in this city two years ago. The entire journey cost the govern-
ment nothing. General Lane not making any charge for his expenses, besides
aiding largely in subsisting his men with the products of his rifle, as he was
both pilot and hunter for the party.
On the evening of March 2d General Lane wrote his proclamation in the
newspaper office of W. G. T'Vault, and took the oath of office and entered upon
the discharge of his duties. He immediately ordered a census preparatory to
the election of a legislature. He quickly perceived the necessity of quieting the
Indian tribes in order to secure the prosperity of Oregon. He left Oregon City
about the middle of April to go to the Cayuse country to arrest the murderers
of Dr. Whitman. Not being able to procure the assistance of troops, he was ac-
companied only by an interpreter and Dr. Newell. Arriving there, he told the
chief "that he came alone, for the purpose of showing his friendship, for he
wished to owe the surrender of the murderers to the chief's sense of justice and
not to his fear ; that the murderers must be given up, if Cayuse nation wished
peace, that he had the kindest feelings for the nation, and desired to live in peace
with them and benefit them. But this would be impossible while the murderers
lived ; that retaining them showed that the Cayuses defended the act of those law-
less men and would be so construed by the whites." A great impression was
made on the chief who asked time to consider. The governor then left them,
telling them that the only alternative was war or the surrender of the murder-
ers. On his route he visited the Walla Walla's, the Yackames, the Dalles and
the Columbia Indians, with all of whom he made peace, besides stopping a bloody
war raging between the first two nations. There is on record in the department
at Washington a long communication from General Lane, dated Oregon City,
October 22, 1849, in which a full account is given of all the Indian tribes and
their number. Of this report Professor Schoolcraft says it is the only accurate
account that has yet been published of the Oregon Indians and that he shall
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use it to extract materials for publication. Finally the Whitman murderers were
arrested and word was sent to the governor to come or send for them. Ac-
cordingly he called on Major Tucker of the rifles for troops to proceed to the
Cayuse country to bring the Indian prisoners. Major Tucker told him he was
about to call on him for assistance to pursue his men who had deserted to go
to California. Lane immediately raised a few volunteers, pursued the deserters
and brought them back. He was gone five weeks in pursuit and on his return
he, with an escort of ten men, again went among the Cayuses and brought back
the murderers, five in number. Some of the citizens, exasperated with the In-
dians because of the crimes they had committed, waited upon the governor and
demanded the prisoners for immediate execution. He reasoned with them and
assured them that the Indians should be tried and punished. They replied that
through the difficulty of procuring witnesses, etc., the Indians might escape
punishment, that they wished to make the thing sure and that they would have
them. He answered that if the law acquitted the Indians he could not help it;
that it should be submitted to an Oregon jury to be decided according to the
law and the evidence. They still insisted the Indians be turned over to them.
He mildly but firmly told them that the Indians should have fair trial and the
benefit of counsel. He had pledged his word to the people from whom he had
received them to that effect and that his promise should be fulfilled, and that the
citizens could not take the Indians except over his dead body. This firm stand
prevented lawlessness and the Indians were left in the hands of the law. An-
other time when some lawless whites had robbed the Columbia Indians of sev-
eral horses he left Oregon City alone, followed and overtook the thieves and
brought back their booty, which was restored to the Indians, thus showing the
Indians that they were to be treated as fairly as the whites. He had scarcely
returned when news reached him of the massacre of Wallace by the Snow-
quelamie Indians at Puget Sound. He went there with two or three persons,
gathered the Indians together and gave them to understand that the murders
must be given up. The Indians subsequently turned over the murderers, two
in number.
In June the legislature convened. After the delivery of his message, full of
sound views relative to the wants and interests of the people, he started on a
tour among the coast Indians in the southern part of the territory. General
Taylor's administration came into power, an administration which went to the
extreme of proscription notwithstanding that he had declared before election
that "he had no friends to reward and no enemies to punish." One of the pro-
scribed was Governor Lane, and without cause, then or since alleged, other than
his democracy. He received a letter in April, 1850, notifying him of his re-
moval, though his successor had not arrived. He had placed our relations with
all the Oregon Indians on a friendly footing, except with the Rogue River In-
dians. They were a predatory and warlike tribe. The safety of the future
border citizens required decided terms of peace or war with them. Governor
Lane preferred the former and was about to visit them to obtain restitution of
stolen property and to treat for future relations when the news of his removal
reached him. What could he do? His successor had not arrived; should he
abandon all and leave confusion to reign and the Indians to rob and murder at
pleasure? Had he consulted his private interest such would have been his course.
But that was not his character. A duty to the government, to Oregon and its
citizens was to be performed and since his successor was not there to perform
It, he felt it should be done by himself. Supposing he could complete the treaty
he desired to make by the i8th of June, and being anxious to attend to his private
business as soon as duty would permit, he determined to return his official power
to the source whence he obtained it — the government and Washington — and no-
tify them that his discharge of its duties would cease on that day. In the ab^
sence of his successor to receive the responsibilities of the office from his hands
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and discharge its duties, this was the only course which accorded with his sense
of duty. Accordingly he addressed the following letter to the secretary of war:
Oregon City, O. T., May 27, 1850.
Sir: I have the honor to report that I have succeeded in bringing to justice
five Cayuse Indians, being all that are now supposed to be living who were con-
cerned in the murder of Dr. Whitman, family and others. I am happy to say
that our relations with the Cayuse as well as all other tribes with the exception
of the Chasles or Rogue River Indians, are of a most friendly character. I
shall set out this day for Rogue river for the purpose of placing our relations
with these Indians upon a proper and friendly footing. In sending on my
resignation I have given myself until the i8th day of June, in which time I
hope to accomplish this most desirable arrangement. I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant,
rr. , TT 1 , r- r ^TLT Joseph Lane.
10 the Honorable Secretary of War.
He did not conclude the treaty with these Indians until the middle of July
but accepted no pay for his services after June 18, 1850. His successor, Major
Gaines, did not reach Oregon until August, 1850, although he was commissioned
October 2, 1849, and drew pay from that date.
Governor Lane, on the day of the date of the foregoing letter, started for
the country of the Rogue River Indians. He entered their country with twelve
or fifteen men. The Indians had fiercely spurned all advances from the whites
and rejected all attempts at conciliation. With some difficulty he succeeded in
assembling them to the number of four or five hundred warriors for a "talk."
During the "talk" one of his attendants recognized two horses that had been
stolen from them in possession of the Indians, and two pistols then in the belts
of two chiefs. The governor demanded restitution of the property, telling
them that they couldn't better evince their willingness to treat and preserve
peace with the whites than by returning stolen property. The head chief stepped
forward, took one of the stolen pistols from the Indian's belt and returned it
to the owner, and was about to take the other pistol when the Indian having it
in possession presented his gun and raised the war whoop. Instantly four or
five hundred guns and arrows were presented at the small party of white men.
A single false step would have led to bloodshed then and after. But Lane's
coolness and promptness were equal to the emergency. He was heard to say
that small as his party was, with their superior weapons they might have made
a successful defense. But he had gone there to make a treaty of peace, not
to fight. Promptly stepping to the side of the principal chief, pistol in hand,
he told them that if a single drop of blood of any of the whites was shed it
should be avenged by the destruction of the entire tribe. This had the desired
effect. The chief told the warriors to cease their hostile demonstrations and
to retire across the river. The governor then stepped among the foremost,
took the arrows from the bows and returned them to the quivers, or uncocked
the guns and knocked the priming from the pans. The trouble thus quieted,
the Indians went back across the river, while the governor kept the chief with
him all night. In a few days afterward the tribe again congregated. After a
"big talk" a treaty of peace was concluded and presents distributed. The
governor left with them strips of paper, stating that they were at peace with
the whites and requesting that no man should do them injury. These strips
were signed with his name ; and the Indians for a long while after, when they
approached a white man, would hold out the paper and say "Joe Lane, Joe
Lane," that being all the English they had learned.
Governor Lane held his office but about sixteen months. One Oregon history
speaks of him as having been Oregon's first and by far her most distinguished
executive. And we may add, without belittling the work of his successors,
her most efficient, when we consider the vast amount of work he accomplished
in the brief time he occupied the office, despite the great difficulties to be over-
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come in traveling over so large a territory and the many hardships that he en-
dured, that we of this day of railroads, telegraph and numerous other con-
veniences cannot conceive. The following resolutions explain themselves :
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE
TERRITORY OF OREGON THAT the course of General Joseph Lane, as
superintendent of Indian affairs, meets with their fullest approbation and that
his extraordinary energy in the department merits the thanks of the people of
Oregon. That the just policy, coupled with the great firmness he has exercised
toward the numerous Indian tribes within the territory, has secured the most
peaceful relations with them; and that few could have accomplished so success-
fully what his kindness, integrity and firmness has done to secure the bonds of a
lasting peace with the tribes surrounding us.
RESOLVED THAT in the discharge of his executive duties as governor of
Oregon he has uniformly acted with a view to the best interest of the whole people
and that his demeanor in office has afforded no ground of just complaint, but
on the contrary has been such as to meet the best expectations and warmest
wishes of the people.
RESOLVED THAT they regret sincerely that the president of the United
States has deprived the territory of Oregon of the future services of one so
eminently useful and whose usefulness was enhanced by the unbounded con-
fidence of the people over whom he was placed.
RESOLVED THAT the conduct of General Lane in his private life has been
such as to secure the warmest friendship of the people. And the purity of his
private relations has not been less than his energy has been great in the dis-
charge of his official duties.
A. L. LovEjoY, Speaker.
Samuel Parker, President.
Passed May i8, 1850.
The people of Oregon whose happiness he had secured proved their grati-
tude to General Lane by electing him their delegate to congress by an almost
unanimous vote (nineteen hundred out of twenty-four hundred). This honor
came to him as had come the other honors that had been bestowed upon him,
entirely without his solicitation. The election occurred on the 3d of June, 1851,
and on the 12th General Lane left Oregon City for the mines, expecting to be
gone about five weeks. The Rogue River Indians were again giving trouble to the
miners who, as their numbers increased, had grown careless of the rights of the
Indians under the treaty of the year before. Several atrocities had been com-
mitted by the Indians, one being the treacherous murder of a man named Dilley.
On his way to the mines General Lane met a party of men who told him what
had happened and that war had begun, that a severe battle had been fought be-
tween the Indians and two companies of regulars under Major Kearney, who
fortunately, was passing through from the fort at Vancouver to that of Benecia,
California, guided by W. G. T'Vault, and that Captain Stuart in command of
the dragoons had been killed. Lane pushed forward at once to overtake Kearney,
which he did by forced marches, and he with his volunteers took an active and
important part in the events of the succeeding days. After giving battle the In-
dians fled and were pursued by the regulars and volunteers who scoured the
country for days, sometimes coming upon an Indian camp, but the warriors would
usually escape. The women and children, however, were taken prisoners and
held as hostages. Major Kearney was anxious to turn these prisoners over to the
people of Oregon to be delivered to the superintendent of Indian affairs; but
no citizens could be found willing to take charge of them, so the Major determined
to take them to San Francisco and return them to Oregon by water. A few days
after General Lane had reached the mines he determined to return to Oregon,
so he sent work by messenger to Major Kearney, telling him that if he so desired
he would take charge of the Indian prisoners and return them to Oregon. The
Major promptly accepted the ofifer.
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About this time Governor Gaines of Oregon, disquieted by the reports of In-
dian outrages, set out with the design of using his executive authority to form
a treaty with the offenders ; and the task was made an easy one by the prompt
and energetic action of Major Kearney and General Joseph Lane who cleared
a way for executive diplomacy, whereas, without their help, his excellency would
most certainly have failed in his mission and possibly have lost his scalp besides.
General Lane had to travel slowly with his Indian prisoners. On his way down
Rogue river he had a talk with a considerable number of Indians across the river
"who gave him a terrible account of the invasion of their country by the whites ;
that they had come on horses in great numbers, invading every portion of it;
that they were afraid to lie down to sleep for fear that the white men would be
upon them before they could awake ; that they were tired of war and now wanted
peace." He told them that the governor was at the crossing of the river and that
he would leave his prisoners with him and for them to go and make their offers
of peace to him ; that the governor would be glad to see and talk to them of
peace. The Indians took his advice and Governor Gaines made a treaty with all
but one tribe, the treaty being signed by Governor Gaines and eleven Indian chiefs.
This ended the first war with the Rogue River Indians. General Lane reached
Oregon City July 17 to prepare to start for Washington city on the next steamer.
On July 22 a large and enthusiastic meeting took place at the Oregon House for
the purpose of taking leave of General Lane and to give expression to their high
regard, and without distinction of party they thus indorsed him :
RESOLVED THAT as friends of General Joseph Lane, without distinction
or party, we tender to him our hearty and sincere approbation of his acts as gov-
ernor of Oregon territory, and devoutly wish his reunion with his family may
be a crowning happiness to a safe and pleasant journey home ;
RESOLVED THAT while we remember General Lane's agency in bringing
to trial and punishment the Weilaptu murderers, in bringing back to duty the
deserting soldiers, his efficient aid in the late Indian difficulties, and the ability,
energy, fidelity and purity of purpose, which has characterized all his public
acts among us, it is but fitting that we express our approbation and admiration
of his course.
RESOLVED THAT General Lane came to us covered with military glory
and he leaves us upon the business of the territory clothed with our confidence
and attachment.
The committee who were appointed to draft the resolutions were Hon. W.
W. Buck, A. E. Waite, Armory Holbrook, William K. Kilborn and James M.
Wair. After the resolutions a committee was appointed to present a copy of
them to General Lane and to solicit his presence in the hall. The committee intro-
duced General Lane and he made a short speech, thanking and pledging his high-
est endeavors to continue to merit their confidence and esteem. The meeting then
adjourned with three hearty cheers for General Lane. He was met upon his ar-
rival at Astoria by a procession of the citizens and was addressed in their be-
half by John A. Andrews. He replied briefly and appropriately. By a happy
coincidence General Lane went from Oregon City to Astoria in a boat named the
"Willamette," and from Astoria to Panama on the "Oregon," arriving there Au-
gust 20, intending, when he reached Chagress, to proceed directly to Washington.
At Chagress, however, he learned of the invasion of Cuba by Lopez and of
the capture of Colonel Crittenden and his command, and his desire to know the
facts caused him to go to Havana, where he stayed two days collecting authentic
information concerning the invasion. From Havana he proceeded to New Or-
leans and on his way to Washington he stopped for a visit to his old home in
Indiana, on the Ohio river, about eight miles from Evansville, where he visited
his family and received visits from many of his old friends who welcomed him
again to their midst. At Indianapolis a public reception was given General Lane
and the vast crowd that assembled was addressed by Governor Wright and the
speech was replied to by General Lane. After General Lane's address the troops
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were reviewed by General Lane, the governor and staff. A banquet was the next
proceeding- of the day and among those who sat down with General Lane were
Senator Bright, Governor Wright, Messrs. Robinson, Dunham, Gorman and Hen-
dricks, members of congress and members of the supreme court.
In the meantime, while General Lane was in Oregon, he was without his
knowledge named for the presidency of the convention assembled at Indianapolis
to revise the state constitution, and February 24, 1852, the democratic conven-
tion at Indianapolis presented him to the people of the United States as "tried
and never found wanting," and therefore the man to advance the interests of
our common country.
General Lane brought his family to Oregon in 1853. They left Indiana on
a beautiful Easter Sunday morning, March 27, for New Orleans, and the isthmus,
and thence up the Pacific coast, arriving at Oregon City May 14. They remained
at Oregon City for a short time, thence removed to the claim that General Lane
had taken in the Umpqua valley. In the summer of 1853 John Fullerton and
I. B. Nichols, prominent residents of the South Umpqua and Cow Creek val-
leys, came to the home of General Lane, telling him of the outbreak of the Rogue
River Indians and asking him to go to the defense of the settlers. He instantly
set about raising volunteers. Fifty men joined his party and with these he set
out and traveled rapidly to the scene of hostilities. On arriving at Camp Stewart
he found the main part of the troops there together with Captain Alden and his
regulars. The command of all was tendered to General Lane and by him was
accepted. Preparations for moving on the enemy was made and an active cam-
paign resolved upon. From August 15 to 24 several small engagements and sharp
skirmishes occurred between the whites and Indians. The troops finally came
upon the Indians encamped on a branch of Evans creek in a thick wood filled
with underbrush. General Lane decided to attack immediately. While direct-
ing the fight General Lane approached within thirty yards of the nearest Indians
and was severely wounded in the left shoulder. Still exposing himself, he was
forcibly dragged back behind a tree where he continued to direct the fight until,
feeling the loss of blood, he retired for a short time to have his wound dressed.
The savages still held their strong position and it was thought that they could not
be driven from it. At this juncture the Indians, having found that General Lane
was in command of the whites, began to call to him and to the soldiers, profess-
ing their readiness to treat for peace. Robert Metcalf, sub-agent to the Indians,
went to their camp and through him and others negotiations were commenced.
General Lane did not wish the Indians to know of his wound so when he went
among them he threw a heavy coat over his shoulders .so as to conceal his arm.
In spite of the pain he conversed with the Indians throughout an interminable
peace talk and finally agreed with them upon terms for a cessation of hostilities.
No definite arrangements were made, but it was agreed between Chief Joe, who
was in command of the Indians, that a final peace talk should be held at Table
Rock, within a few days, and that the Indians should go there in a body and await
the result of the conference. As soon as the terms of the armistice were ar-
ranged the troops took up the march homeward, going into camp at Hailey's ferry,
giving the location the name of Camp Alden for Major Alden. On the loth of
September the whites and Indians met at the appointed place on the side of Table
Rock and discussed and agreed upon terms of peace. This was in some respects
the most remarkable occurrence that ever took place in southern Oregon. An
eye witness wrote of it:
"The scene of this famous peace talk between Gen. Joseph Lane and Chief
Joseph — two men so lately met in mortal combat — was on a narrow bench of a
long, gently sloping hill lying against the noted bluff called Table Rock. The
ground was thinly covered with majestic pines and rugged oaks. About half a mile
below sat the two chiefs in council. General Lane was in fatigue dress, the arm
which was wounded at Buena Vista in a sling from a fresh bullet wound received at
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Battle creek. Chief Joseph, tall, grave and self-possessed, wore a long- black
robe over his ordinary dress and by his side sat Mary, his favorite child and faith-
ful companion. A short distance above on the hillside were some hundreds of
Indians in fighting garb reclining quietly on the ground. To the east rose abruptly
Table Rock and at its base stood Smith's dragoons, waiting anxiously with hand
on horse, the issue of this attempt to make peace without their aid. After a
proposition was discussed and settled between the two chiefs, the Indian would
rise up and communicate the matter to a huge warrior who reclined at the foot of
a tree near by. Then the latter rose up and communicated the matter to those
above him and they belabored it back and forth with many voices. Then the
warrior communicated the thought of the multitude back to the chief and so
the discussion went on until an understanding was finally reached. Then we
separated, the Indians going back to their mountain retreat, the whites to the
camp." Those accompanying General Lane to the council were : Captain A. J.
Smith, First Dragoon; Captain L. F. Mosher, Adjutant; Colonel John Ross, Joel
Palmer, Samuel Culver, Captain J. W. Nesmith, Lieutenant A. V. Kantz, R. B.
Metcalf, J. D. Mason and T. T. Tierney.
General Lane left for the north on or about October, 1853. ^^t before tak-
ing leave of the people of the valley he made a visit to Tipsee Tyee, hoping to
induce that much feared warrior to join the Rogue River chiefs in amity to the
whites. Tipsee had taken no part in the recent hostilities, but as if to signalize
his independence of both white and Indian influence he sent word to Jacksonville
that he did not recognize the peace of September loth and would not subscribe to
its terms. As for the other chiefs, they might do as they chose ; he was on his own
land, came upon it first and should remain upon it. It seemed to the people and
the Indian agent that the insolence of Tipsee Tyee needed to be punished. But
to punish such a wily old Indian as Tyee was an undertaking of considerable
difficulty and very few cared to attempt it. The chief stayed in his lair and Gen-
eral Lane, who to great fighting qualities added a heart that was capable of feel-
ing for even the most savage of God's creatures, paid him a visit in the interest
of peace and humanity. Accompanied by two men only he went into the moun-
tains, found the chief and entered upon an agreement with him by which the
rights of tlie settlers were to be respected and grievances to be settled satis-
factorily; and returned safely from a journey which most men regarded as in-
finitely dangerous.
With the Indian war of 1853 ended General Lane's military career. He served
the people of Oregon territory as their delegate in congress until the bill ad-
mitting the territory as a state was passed, largely by his instrumentality in 1859.
He was warmly congratulated by his fellow members in congress on the passage
of the bill and when the president signed the bill, the president, vice president and
General Lane were all tendered a serenade. He then took his seat in the senate,
to which position he had been elected in 1857, the state thus showing her appre-
ciation of his services by honoring him by the election to serve as one of her first
senators. He remained in the senate until 1861. In i860 the democratic con-
vention at Baltimore nominated the popular general and senator for the office
of vice president of the United States on the ticket with John C. Breckenridge.
In 1861 General Lane retired to private life and returned to Oregon to make his
home on his farm in the Umpqua valley. While making the trip from Portland
the wagon containing his books and other personal belongings mired and in help-
ing to unload the wagon one of the hunting guns, of which he was bringing three,
one for himself, one for a son and one for a neighbor, was accidentally discharged
and General Lane was wounded in the left shoulder, where he had been wounded
twice before, at Buena Vista and in the war with the Indians in 1853. A boy
with the party, without the knowledge of General Lane, had loaded the gun, hop-
ing to see some game, and when the General drew it toward him it was discharged.
He v.'as disabled for months and was for years more or less of an invalid from
the efifects of this wound, and it finally caused his death some years later.
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General Lane was married, in 1820, to Polly Hart, who was a woman whose
high courage, integrity and steadfastness of purpose was fully equal to that of
her distinguished husband. She was born in Kentucky on the banks of the Ohio,
but soon after her birth her parents moved across the river and made their home
in southern Indiana, excepting during the year 1812, which was spent under the
protection of the fort at Vincennes. While still a young girl she was left an
orphan and had to depend upon herself, thus early forming those excellent habits
that rendered her so truly a helpmeet to her husband. Their family consisted of
ten children, six sons and four daughters. The sons were: Nathaniel Hart Lane.
who became the father of Dr. Harry Lane, an ex-mayor of Portland ; Ratcliflf
Boone Lane, who took charge of the home farm for a while but died of cholera
in 1849 at the age of twenty-two years; Joseph Samuel Lane, who served with
his father during the Mexican and Indian wars and who passed away on the 6th
of August, 1910, at Myrtle Creek, Oregon, at the age of eighty-three years;
Simon Robert, a well known resident of Umpqua valley ; Colonel John Lane, a
West Point graduate, who served in the Civil war and now makes his home in
Idaho ; and La Fayette Lane, who served one term as a member of congress from
Oregon and who became the father of Father Arthur Lane, a Catholic priest of
Albany, Oregon. The eldest daughter, Melissa, who came to Oregon with her
father and husband, A. J. Barlow, passed away in 1895 at the age of seventy-four
years. Mary, who became the wife of Aaron Shelby, a pioneer merchant of
Portland, yet makes her home in that city. The third daughter, Emily, married
J. C. Floud, a merchant of Roseburg, Oregon, and died in November, 1907, at
Boise, Idaho. Winifred became the wife of L. F. Mosher and makes her home
in Portland.
After retiring from public life General Lane lived for several years on a
beautiful farm in the hills overlooking the Umpqua valley, and when failing health
made it impossible to continue this life, he secured a little home in Roseburg near
the home of several of his children and passed his declining years in study and
contemplation. He died in April, 1881, from the effects of the repeated wounds
he had received in his left shoulder. He was laid to rest in the cemetery that
overlooks his first home in Oregon — the state he loved so dearly.
CAPTAIN JOSIAH MYRICK.
The year 1852 is one of the most memorable in the history of the northwest.
It was the year which brought to Portland and to Oregon many of the substantial
settlers, who became the founders of this commonwealth. Almost a half century
before Lewis and Clarke had carved out a path to this section of the country,
being the original explorers here, but it was not until the '50s that there was
much done to colonize and settle this portion of the country by those who wished
to make it a permanent home. Their predecessors had come hither in the inter-
ests of trade but without expectation of taking up their permanent abode here.
\yhat it meant to the settlers of New England, the east and even of the Missis-
sippi valley to undertake the long journey can scarcely be imagined in this age
when one can cross the entire continent in four days. It was seldom that one
could make it in as many months at that time. There were but two methods of
travel — one was to follow the old Lewis and Clarke trail, as nearly as possible, the
other to make the long journey by way of the seas.
Captain Myrick chose the latter. Throughout his entire life he had been
more or less closely associated with maritime interests. He was born in New
Castle, Maine, on the 17th of February, 1833, and when he decided to establish
his home in the northwest he made the trip around Cape Horn to Oregon and in
1852 took up his abode in this state. Soon afterward he became connected with
steamboat interests on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in partnership with
Jacob Kamm of Portland and the late Captain J. C. Ainsworth. He sailed the
JOSIAH MYEICK
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 451
Jennie Clarke and other boats as captain until 1870, when he and his associates
in the Oregon Steam Navigation Company became interested in the gold mines
of eastern Oregon, and from that time until his death he was closely associated
with the development of the rich mineral resources of the northwest. While he
maintained his residence in Portland, he died at the Conner Creek mines on the
26th of December, 1906.
Captain My rick had been married in 1858 to Louisa Rae, a granddaughter of
Dr. John McLoughlin, the distinguished Scotchman who became so prominent
in the early development and Christianization of the northwest. At his death
Captain Myrick left a widow and two daughters residing in Portland and a son
living in Los Angeles, California.
In the early days Captain Myrick knew not only almost every citizen of Port-
land but also many of those living along the Willamette and Columbia rivers. His
close connection with the shipping interests at a time when railroad transportation
was comparatively undeveloped enabled him to contribute in large measure to the
substantial growth and upbuilding of this district.
THE PACIFIC STONEWARE COMPANY.
The Pacific Stoneware Company is the outgrowth of the Pacific Pottery Com-
pany, which corporation was organized in 1890 by Charles Hegele, L. P. R. Le
Compte and C. W. Borders. The first and last named retired in 1900, at which
time Thomas S. Mann, now president of the company, became connected there-
with. The other officers are L. !W. Scott, vice president, and Thomas Mann,
secretary and treasurer. Thomas S. Mann, the president, is a native of Victoria,
British Columbia, who came to Portland in 1869 and was educated and married
here. He and his associates are making of the business an enterprise of ex-
tensive proportions, bringing a substantial profit. The most modern processes
of manufacture are employed and their output is one which for durability and
finish is unsurpassed. Reasonable prices and promptness in delivery are also fac-
tors in the success which is attending the undertaking. The business was reincor-
porated in November, 1909, under the name of the Pacific Stoneware Company,
at which time Mr. Mann became its president. The plant is devoted to the man-
ufacture of stoneware and flower pots and the business has enjoyed a wonder-
ful growth, the trade having increased four hundred per cent over what it was
ten years ago. The factory contains over twenty-five thousand square feet of
floor space and about twenty men are employed. The product is sold all over
the northwest and California with occasional sales in Alaska and Honolulu.
JOSEPH WOOD HILL, M. D.
Joseph Wood Hill, widely known as one of the distinguished educators of the
northwest, having founded and promoted the Hill Military Academy of Port-
land, was bom May 28, 1856, in Westport, Connecticut, a son of Joseph Wake-
man and Ann R. Wood Hill. The father, who was born June 20, 1832, at Eas-
ton, Connecticut, became a merchant at Westport. He traced his ancestry back
to William Hill, who came from Lyme Regis, England, in 1632, and settled at
Dorchester. Massachusetts. He lived at Windsor. Connecticut, in 1639, and was
prominent in the early history of that state, as was his son and namesake. The
first William Hill was a member of the general court of Connecticut in 1639
and served as deputy from Windsor in that year and for several years there-
after. On the maternal side. Dr. Hill comes from the Wood family, which is of
English origin, the first representatives of the name arriving from Carlisle, Eng-
land, in 1822 and settling at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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Dr. Hill prepared for college in the Selleck school at Norwalk, Connecticut.
He was graduted B. A. from Yale University in 1878, and M. D. from Willa-
mette University in 1881. He was a member of Gamma Nu. He also served
as a member of the Gamma Nu campaign committee ; rowed on the freshman
crew in the fall regatta ; and received several honors in college.
His entire life has been devoted to educational interests. In 1879 he became
lessee and head master of the old Bishop Scott grammar school, one of Port-
land's oldest landmarks, founded by Bishop B. Wistar Morris in 1870. Dr. Hill
continued in that position until 1887, when the school became the Bishop Scott
Academy, of which he served as principal until 1901. In the latter year, he
severed his business connection with the school board of the Episcopal diocese
of Oregon, controlling the Bishop Scott Academy, and founded the present
Hill Military Academy, situated at No. 821 Marshall street. Dr. Hill retains the
principalship of the school, while his oldest son, Joseph A. Hill, became head
master and later vice principal. In 1908 the school was incorporated, and Joseph
A. Hill assumed the vice presidency and in 1910 became the manager of the af-
fairs at the academy, while Major Von Egloff stein, commandant and instruc-
tor of modern languages in the Bishop Scott Academy and Hill Military Academy
from 1896, became the head master.
On the 1 8th of November, 1878, Dr. Hill was married to Miss Jessie K.
Adams, a daughter of George S. and Polly M. Adams. Mrs. Hill died February
3, 1901, at Portland, Oregon, leaving three sons: Joseph Adams, born August
19, 1880; George Wakeman, July 28, 1885; and Benjamin Wood, February 18,
1890, who are yet residents of Portland. In this city on the nth of February,
1902, Dr. Hill was married to Mrs. Laura E. MacEwen, a daughter of J. C. and
Martha McFarland of The Dalles.
Dr. Hill originally gave his political support to the democracy, but, believ-
ing in the gold standard, severed his connection with the party in 1896 and has
since been a consistent republican. In Masonry he has attained the Knights
Templar degree of the York Rite and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine.
He belongs to the Episcopal church. He has been a close student of govern-
mental problems and sociological and economic conditions, and he casts his in-
fluence where reform, progress and intellectual and moral development lead the
way.
JOSEPH ADAMS HILL.
Joseph Adams Hill, the present vice principal and actual head of the Hill
Military Academy, was born in Portland, August 19, 1880. He is the eldest son
of Dr. Joseph Wood Hill of Westport, Connecticut, Yale '78, former principal
and lessee of the Bishop Scott Academy and present principal of the Hill Military
Academy, and his wife Jessie Katharine Adams, of Westport, Connecticut. His
one surviving brother, Benjamin Wood Hill, is of the class of 19 12, Sheffield
Scientific School.
Mr. Hill received his preparatory school education at the Bishop Scott
Academy. Upon his graduation in 1899 he entered the biological course at Shef-
field Scientific School with intention of preparing for a medical career. Dur-
ing his senior year the sudden death of his mother completely changed his plans
and he gave up the study of medicine for a commercial career. After his grad-
uation in 1902 he entered the employ of the American Steel & Wire Company.
He became a salesman in their Boston office and a year later was transferred to
their electrical and wire rope department at Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1904
he accepted a position as salesman with the Lake Erie Wire Nail & Supply
Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and later was appointed traveling sales manager
of the Clifton Nail & Supply Company of St. Louis, Missouri; the Grant Nail
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& Supply Company of Boston, Massachusetts, as well as the Lake Erie Nail &
Supply Company.
The Lewis & Clarke Exposition in 1905 caused him to resign his position and
to return to Portland, where he entered the service of the United States geolog-
ical survey, who were then investigating the black sands of the Columbia river
under the direction of David L Day, the noted geologist, and assisted in the
operation of the electrical furnace used in smelting the iron ores found in the
black sands.
Subsequently he accepted a position with the Tualatin Alill & Lumber Com-
pany and then entered into the corporation of the East Side Slab Wood Com-
pany. He filled the position of secretary-treasurer of this corporation for a num-
ber of years and then sold out his interest and departed for the Nevada gold
fields. Here he visited the camps of Goldfield, Tonopah, Wonder, Fairview,
Goldbanks, Dixie and Hike, and became actively engaged in mining. Later on
he visited the camps of Florence, Dyke, Veryville, New Goldfield, Rebel Creek
and Fortuna in the northern part of Nevada and in 1908 returned to Portland
in order to accept the position of vice principal of the Hill Military Academy.
He soon assumed the actual management of the institution and his progressive
spirit united with the broader experiences of liis father was largely instrumental
in making the academy one of the strongest and most thorough preparatory
schools in the Pacific northwest, an accomplished fact proven in the well estab-
lished reputation of the school, and in the liberal patronage accorded it. Mr. Hill
is an active republican and a member of the University Club and the Multnomah
Amateur Athletic Club.
THE HILL MILITARY ACADEMY.
The Hill Military Academy, a boarding and day school for boys and young
men, was founded in 1901 by Dr. Joseph Wood Hill, who for twenty-three years
previous to that time had been lessee and principal of the Bishop Scott Academy,
one of the pioneer educational institutions not only in the city of Portland but
in the state of Oregon and the Pacific northwest as well. Dr. Hill, who during
his career in Oregon as an educator has had more than two thousand pupils
under his charge and whose "boys" can be found in every section of the north-
west and in many other parts of the country at large, successfully engaged in
professional pursuits or occupying responsible positions in the commercial world,
had long cherished the desire of establishing an academy of his own, in which he
might embody and perfect his own ideas and principles of education, developed
throughout many years of experience, and the Hill Military Academy is the
culmination and realization of this desire.
The academy is located in a beautiful and quiet residence portion of Port-
land and within a few blocks of its two best and largest hospitals that can be
reached in twelve minutes by electric cars from the business center. It there-
fore enjoys the benefits of the exceptionally pure Bull Run water, municipal
lighting and all other conveniences found in a large city, yet it is sufficiently re-
mote from the heart of the town to be free from influences that would distract
from study.
The buildings are commodious and carefully planned and constructed through-
out. The main building, four stories high, is built in the English baronial style,
with castellated walls, and accords in appearance with the military idea. It is of
slow burning construction, without the old fashioned hollow wall, floor and air
spaces, and by way of further precaution is supplied with a sufficient number of
easily accessible fire escapes, thus practically eliminating all danger of fire. Its
internal arrangement is thoroughly modern, its sanitary system is perfect. The
private rooms for the cadets, heated by hot water and adequately lighted, are
454 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
designed for two occupants and possess unusual facilities for comfort. The
armory, two stories high, contains the spacious drill hall, fifty by one hundred
feet, and the fully equipped work shops of the academy.
For nine years the educational work of the academy was carried on success-
fully and with a gradually growing patronage under the management of Dr. J.
W. Hill, principal, and Mr. John W. Gavin, vice principal and headmaster. In
1910 Dr. Hill, though retaining the principalship, turned over the management
of the academy to his eldest son, Mr. Joseph Adams Hill, Yale '02, S, who be-
came its vice principal. At the same time Mr. J. W. Gavin accepted a call to the
principalship of the Skagway (Alaska) high school and was succeeded as head-
master by Major G. C. Von Egloffstein, who had been commandant and instruc-
tor of modern languages of the Biship Scott and Hill Military Academies since
1899.
Mr. J. A. Hill upon assuming the management immediately brought about
many important changes. The academy was incorporated under the laws of
Oregon, the building thoroughly overhauled and renovated from top to bottom,
the faculty increased, and the educational and disciplinary system reorganized
to meet the most exacting demands. As a result, the academy soon found itself
in better condition in every respect than ever before, its standing with the lead-
ing universities firmly established and its diplomas accepted by practically every
college in the United States that accredits preparatory schools. Its policy en-
deavored to reach the individual student, by means of a large force of competent,
live instructors and extremely small classes, so as to enable him to advance a&
rapidly as is compatible with efficient work. Its military discipline just and
administered without fear or favor, as maintained was made considerably stricter
and boys not amenable to discipline or otherwise undesirable, were not retained.
The military department now emphasizes every advantageous feature of military
training without encroaching upon the time reserved for studies. Clean ath-
letics of all kinds are encouraged and strictly and competently supervised. An
annual summer session was added to its regular curriculum, which is held in a
camp, either at the coast or in the mountains, and promises to become one of the
most important features of the school. Its watchword became "Thoroughness
and Results," and the Hill Military Academy, a success from its inception and
developed along the most practical lines of modern education, has now become
one of the leading preparatory schools of the northwest, with a firmly estab-
lished patronage crowding its capacity so that an enlargement of the plant will
soon become a necessity.
THOMAS BENTON KILLIN.
To say that Thomas Benton Killin was an Oregon pioneer of 1845 is to in-
dicate that he was a witness of almost the entire development of the state. Prior
to that period Oregon's resources were little developed. Fur trading had been
carried on with Astoria as the headquarters from the early part of the century
but mile upon mile of the state was as yet an unexplored country and practically
nothing had been done toward utilizing the opportunities offered in its rich
mining districts, its extensive forests and in the alluvial soil. Mr. Killin, only
six years of age at the time of his arrival, was reared amid an environment
that tests the metal of men and proves their true worth, for, far removed from
civilization, the individual must adapt himself to difficult surroundings and
prove his adaptability by using the resources at his command.
Mr. KilHn was born in Springfield, Illinois, May 10. 1839. His father, John
Killin, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1792, while the mother, who bore
the maiden name of Frances Ulam, was bom in 1813. Removing westward,
the father became superintendent of the construction of the Illinois and Michi-
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 455
gan canal, residing for a time at Springfield. He resumed his westward journey,
when in 1842 he went to Iowa, where he purchased land and engaged in farm-
ing until the spring of 1845. From time to time from the few settlers who had
penetrated the northwest, reports were received concerning the rich country
that was awaiting the development of man to yield rich returns. Mr. Killin re-
solved to cross the plains to Oregon and try his fortune in the northwest. At
that time his family numbered three children, Martha, Thomas Benton and G.
Benton. The daughter afterward married and had four children but is now de-
ceased. Thomas became the owner of a part of the home place. The party
left Iowa in April and by slow stages proceeded across the plains and over the
mountains, reaching their destination in October. While on the Platte river they
were corralled by the Indians but secured their release by giving oxen to the
red men. Leaving their teams at The Dalles, they made rafts and floated down
the river to the Cascades. After passing the troublous stretch of water there
encountered, they continued their journey by boat down the river and spent
the winter on the Tualitin plains. From that point they went to Linn county,
where Mr. Killin secured a donation claim and in the summer of 1846 raised a
crop. Their nearest neighbor was twelve miles away and the family seemed in-
deed isolated and far from civilization. Subsequently they removed to a place
near Gervais, in Marion county, and in March, 1847, they came to the donation
claim in Clackamas county, upon which the two sons resided for many years.
The father traded a yoke of oxen for six hundred and forty acres of choice land.
It was entirely destitute of improvements save for a little cabin but the labors
of the family soon wrought a marked transformation in the place and in later
years two fine farm residences were erected thereon. For twenty years John
Killin made that property his home, carrying on general agricultural pursuits up
to the time of his death, which occurred in October, 1867. He was a man of
unassailable business integrity as well as indefatigable energy and enterprise. In
antebellum days he gave his political support to the democratic party. He was
acquainted with Abraham Lincoln while a resident of Springfield and after
the organization of the republican party became one of its stanch advocates and
was unfaltering in his loyalty to the Union cause during the Civil war. His
widow long survived him, passing away December 15, 1909, at the age of ninety-
four years.
Thomas Benton Killin was the second in order of birth in his father's family
and was a little lad of six years when the journey was made across the plains to
Oregon. Throughout his life he remembered many incidents of the trip as well
as of the period of early residence in this state. He was sent to the primitive
schools of Clackamas county until sixteen years of age and then put aside his
text-books to make his own way in the world. His life was one of untiring in-
dustry and intelligently directed efifort. When the Civil war broke out between
the north and the south, like his father, he entertained strong Union sentiments
and on the 21st of April, 1863, enlisted as a member of Company G, First Ore-
gon Cavalry. The troops were stationed for a year at Fort Vancouver and
afterward among the Snake Indians, being engaged continuously on the frontier
in a warfare that was even more difficult than that which was being waged uoon
the battlefields of the south, for there the foe were evenly matched and each had
been trained in the same system of warfare, but in the northwest and along the
frontier the white soldiers must learn the wily and treacherous methods of the
red men and must fight according to their custom, making an unexpected attack
upon the enemy. Not far flung battle line did they form but under cover of bush
or tree or rock, wherever a hiding place was afiforded, they waited in silence
for the enemy.
In April, 1866, Mr. Killin was honorably discharged, having in the mean-
time been promoted to the rank of first sergeant. Returning to his home, he pur-
chased a quarter section of land from his father, constituting a portion of the
donation claim, and on the 3d of December, 1867, he completed his arrange-
456 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
ments for having a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Mila A. Adair, who
was born in IHinois, January 8, 1849, ^ daughter of WilHam R. Adair, who in
1852 came west with his family. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Killin
began hfe on the farm, where they continued to reside until 1907, when they re-
moved to Silverton, Oregon. In 1880 he built a fine frame residence there and
from time to time made other substantial improvements, developing his place into
one of the best farms of the county and scarcely surpassed in all the state.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Killin were born two children : May, now the wife of
Wallace Durant, a resident of Woodburn, Oregon; and Benton, who is living in
East Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Killin are members of the Congregational church.
In politics he is a stanch republican, never swerving in his allegiance to the party
and the cause it represented, yet he never sought or desired ■ office, preferring
to concentrate his energies upon his individual business interests. However,
he served as commissioner of Clackamas county for a number of years. He en-
joys in large measure the respect and confidence of all who know him and the
family, too, are prominent in this part of the state.
FINLAY McKERCHER.
In financial circles Finlay McKercher is well known, his enterprise and ability
leading him into important relations. He was born in Flint, Michigan, March
21, 1847. His father, Daniel McKercher, was a native of New York and fol-
lowed farming as his life work. He died at Sioux City, Iowa, in 1900, having
long survived his wife, who passed away during the childhood days of their son
Finlay. Mrs. McKercher bore the maiden name of Florence McCandlish and
was also a native of New York. Both the paternal and maternal grandparents
were natives of Scotland. The family of Daniel and Florence McKercher num-
bered six children, of whom Finlay is fifth in order of birth. Two of his sisters
are yet living: Mrs. Jennie B. Gilbert, of Sioux City, Iowa; and Mrs. Susan A.
Brookings, of Portland.
In the public schools of New York, Finlay McKercher pursued his educa-
tion. He removed to the Empire state during his childhood and made his home
with his grandparents until fifteen years of age, when he started out in life on
his own account. Returning to Michigan, he located in Bay City, where he en-
gaged in clerking until 1862, when he responded to his country's call for troops
and entered the military service. He was attached to the quartermaster's de-
partment of the Army of the Cumberland at the headquarters of General Thomas
and remained in that branch of the service until 1866, when he left the army. In
the same year he secured a position as teller in the bank of Ware & Ellison of
Sioux City, Iowa, there remaining for two years, after which he spent two years
in the general mercantile business in Vermilion, South Dakota. The grasshopper
plague made times so hard, however, that he was obliged to discontinue his busi-
ness, and, going to^ Chicago, he entered the employ of a wholesale hardware
house, for which he traveled for six years. At the end of that time he became
credit man for a wholesale jewelry house, which he thus represented for six years.
Subsequently he became vice president and manager of the Minneapolis Jewelry
Manufacturing Company, which he assisted in organizing. After two years Mr.
McKercher sold out and sought the opportunities of the northwest, going to Port-
land with Frank Peavey, a prominent grain man. He assisted in building ele-
vators on the line of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company from this point
to Spokane and also the million bushel elevator at Albina, in which enterprise
he was financially interested. Shortly after his arrival in Portland he also or-
ganized the Oregon Building & Loan Association, of which he became the first
secretary. After two years he severed his relations with the Pacific Coast Ele-
vator Company, of which he was president during the period of organization.
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while later he became secretary. He afterward concentrated his entire attention
upon the building and loan business and was active in establishing the Equitable
Savings & Loan Association, which is a reorganization of the above company
and was reorganized in March, 1899. He continued as secretary of the company.
This is one of the leading financial institutions of the city, of which further men-
tion is made in connection with the chapter of business interests in this history.
He is also vice president of the Butler Banking Company of Hood River, Ore-
gon, and is the owner of an apple orchard of seventy acres in White Salmon
valley, where he has his summer home, there enjoying rest and recreation from
the onerous business cares that are imposed in the supervision of his extensive
interests in Portland.
On the 19th of July, 1870, Mr. McKercher was married in Moingona, Iowa,
to Miss Sarah Julia Hooker, a daughter of Morgan L. Llooker, a merchant and
banker of that place. Mrs. McKercher passed away July 17, 1894, leaving five
children, Ethel Crosby, at home ; Jean, who is a piano instructor at Yankton Col-
lege, Yankton, South Dakota; Paul Riggs, who is an orchardist at White
Salmon ; Hattie Florence, who died in 1898, and Emma Lucile, who died in 1907.
The family reside at No. 355 East Eighth street. North, in Holliday's addition.
Mr. McKercher has been identified with the prohibition party since 1884 and
is recognized as one of its most active and efficient workers. He has been a can-
didate for nearly every local and state office save that of governor. He has for
some time been working hand in hand with U'Ren in securing for the state the
initiative and referendum, the direct primary law, the recall on public officials,
the proportional representation law, the corrupt practices act and other measures
of a reform character. He is an earnest worker in behalf of any movement to
abolish personal privileges and political abuses and stands for all that is highest
and best in citizenship. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and has
attained the Knights Templar degree. He also belongs to the Odd Fellows so-
ciety, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the First Presbyterian
church, associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the
rules which govern his conduct. His entire life has been marked by progress and
he stands as an advocate of all that is most worthy in material, intellectual, polit-
ical and moral lines.
JOHN C. CORDANO.
This great republic is founded upon the principle of equality, no man being
considered superior to another according to law and there is no one point of
which the American people are more proud than the fact that he who is born
amid the humblest surroundings may attain the highest positions of prominence,
success and power. One is thrilled with the story that a boy who walked the tow-
path, barefooted, became president, that another who spent his youth in rail-
splitting, was made the nation's chief executive. There are thousands of inci-
dents where young men reared in equally humble surroundings and with the most
meager advantages have attained to prominence in business circles and the
American public is always thrilled by such a story of achievement and success.
Blacking boots on the streets of Portland when a boy. John C. Cordano is today
one of the prosperous residents of the city, his earnest labor constituting the basis
of his advancement to a position among the prosperous business men here, his
wealth being represented by extensive realty holdings.
Mr. Cordano has lived in Portland for twenty-eight years, coming here about
1882. He arrived directly from Genoa, Italy, where he was born on the 23d of
July, 1869. He was therefore a lad of thirteen years when he crossed the At-
lantic. His parents. Peter and Teresa Cordano, both died in Italy. In that
country their son John began his education but when only thirteen years of age
460 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
sailed alone for the new world, landing at Castle Garden in New York. He
made his way at once to Portland and as it was imperative that he have an im-
mediate income, he began blacking boots. Gradually he built up a good business
in that connection and later, when the financial resources at his command made
it possible, he established a fish and poultry business. Subsequently he was ap-
pointed by George C. Sears to the position of deputy sheriff, serving during
the last two terms of Mr. Sears' incumbency in the sheriff's office. He was then
appointed city detective under Mayor W. S. Masons and filled the position for
seven years. He served as chief deputy under Sheriff Thomas M. Ward for
two years, and was chief criminal deputy during the Lewis & Clarke Exposi-
tion, being awarded a diploma for specially valuable service during that time.
During his experience as deputy sheriff and with the detective departments he
apprehended many of the most desperate criminals known on the Pacific coast,
including Castro, the murderer, and the notorious desperadoes, Merrill and
Tracy, James F. Muse, Nick Haworth and Eugene Roberts, of San Francisco.
On leaving public office Mr. Cordano became connected with the Oregon Rail-
road & Navigation Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in the
tax and right of way department, having charge of all their property. This was
about 1898 and he was with the corporations at various times for three years.
He has since done special work for the state and has been employed as court
interpreter for the past twenty years, for he has intimate knowledge of the va-
rious dialects employed by the Italians, French and Spanish. As opportunity
has offered he has wisely made investment in property and is today the owner of
Portland real estate valued at one hundred thousand dollars. All this displays
his keen business ability, his enterprising spirit and his commendable ambition.
On the 3d of March, 1891, Mr. Cordano was married to Miss Jennie Raf-
fetto, whose parents, Louis and Rose Raffetto, were both natives of Italy, but
her birth occurred in San Francisco. They were early settlers on the Pacific
coast, arriving before the period of railroad travel, making the voyage on a
steamer which rounded Cape Horn and proceeded up the western coast of South
and North America to the Golden Gate.
Mr. and Mrs. Cordano are prominent socially in the city, among people of
their nationality, Mr. Cordano having for fourteen years been president of the
Italian Society which is composed of the best Italian citizens of Portland. He
also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Druids, the
Red Men and the Mazzini, an Italian society. In politics he is an earnest repub-
lican, and both he and his wife are members of St. Michael's Catholic church,
to which they contributed the main altar when the church was erected. Mr.
Cordano has every reason to be proud of what he has accomplished and his pros-
perity proves the strength of his character, his strong purpose and his unfaltering
determination.
WILLIAM W. CATCHING.
William W. Catching, an Oregon pioneer, whose identification with the state
dated from the 20th of November, 1845, was at the time of his death, which
occurred in 1874, engaged in agricultural pursuits in Douglas county. Kentucky
numbered him among her native sons, his birth having there occurred March 12,
1813. His parents, John and Jane (Warren) Catching, were southern people
and in his native state William W. Catching pursued his education and learned
the trade of a millwright and carpenter. In fact he displayed great mechanical
skill and ingenuity, so that he had in a knowledge of his trades the foundation
for success in later life. He was only about ten years of age when his parents
removed to Missouri, and continued a resident of that state until 1845, when he
came to Oregon.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 461
In Ray county, Missouri, Mr. Catching met Miss Angeline F. Yates, a daugh-
ter of WilHam B. and Sarah (Parker) Yates, and they were married on the 15th
of May, 1839. They continued to Hve in Missouri until 1845, when they started
for the west with their small family of three sons, who in the meantime had
come to bless the household. They made their departure from Savannah, the
county seat of Andrew county, Missouri, on the 20th of May, 1845, with a team
of oxen and such supplies as were necessary in making the long trip across the
plains where for many a weary mile nothing was to be obtained from the habita-
tion of settlers who had preceded them. The party would travel for days with-
out coming upon any indication that white men had previously gone that way.
There were seven hundred wagons in the train which was in charge of Solomon
Tetherow, and all went together as far as Wood creek, about four miles from
Omaha, Nebraska. Then the party divided into various sections on account of
water and feed for the cattle. Mr. Catching and his family were still with the
number under the command of Captain Tetherow. The journey was not fraught
with any incidents of particular note beyond the experiences which fall to the lot
of the majority of emigrants. There were many days of tedious travel, however,
across the plains and over the mountains, following roads that were never very
good, while at times the trail was almost obscured. At length the Catching
family arrived at Cornelius, Washington county, on the 20th of November, 1845.
It was a wilderness district in which the Indians were numerous. Hunting and
fishing could be indulged in, for the woods abounded in fur-bearing animals and
wild game, while the streams were rich in fish. As one speeds across the coun-
try today in a Pullman, looking over the highly cultivated farms, vineyards and
orchards, it seems hardly possible that it is within the memory of living people
when this was almost an uninhabited region, the forests being uncut while much
of the land was still unclaimed. Mrs. Catching, however, well remembered the
day when such conditions existed. She became an esteemed and worthy mem-
ber of the Oregon Pioneer Society, with which she was connected until her
death.
On reaching this state Mr. Catching secured a claim of six hundred and forty
acres near Forest Grove in Washington county, and the family took up their
abode upon that place on the i8th of May, 1847. Previous to that time they had
lived for a brief period in a small cabin near the claim. Their second home
was also a log house, and upon the farm they resided for about twenty-two
years, Mr. Catching giving his time and energies to general agricultural pur-
suits. At the end of that time, because of his health, he removed to Douglas
county, Oregon, where he arrived on the 5th of October, 1869. Mr. and Mrs.
Catching then sold their old home place and purchased two farms in Douglas
county, but the cause of their removal was not attained, as Mr. Catching did
not improve in health but soon passed away, after which his widow sold the farm
property there. It was on the loth of October, 1874, that Mr. Catching died,
his remains being interred in the cemetery at Riddle in Douglas county beside
his mother. While living in Missouri he had served as deputy sheriflf for six
terms. He did not seek to figure prominently in public life here, but concen-
trated his energies upon his private business affairs and his capable management
of his business interests enabled him to leave his family a good property and
comfortable competence.
After her husband's death Mrs. Catching devoted herself to the welfare of
her family. She was born in Estel county, Kentucky, January 9, 1825, and was
married at the age of fourteen years, becoming the mother of thirteen children.
John, now deceased, married Rhoda Leverage and unto them were born six chil-
dren, Sidney, William, Elbie, Benjamin, Jessie and Caroline. Joe P., who has
also passed away, married Maria Evans, also deceased. Their children were
Lillian and Elmer. William R., the third of the family, has also departed this
Hfe. Sarah J., the wife of Richard Balda, had three children, Millie, Elizabeth
and Carrie. Ephraim and James are both deceased. Benjamin married Sarah
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continuously an active member of the bar and is a specialist in the law of real
estate. In 1893 he founded the Clackamas Title Company, which was incorpor-
ated in 1902 and is one of the sound concerns of its character in the state, with
departments of abstracts, trusts, law, investments and loans.
A man of scholarly attainment, he has ever read broadly and thought deeply,
his knowledge concerning many vital questions being far in excess of the great
majority who have discussed through the press and on the platform matters of
wide-spread significance. He has always been a republican and has made a spe-
cial study of social and economic conditions of the peasantry of Europe while
traveling abroad.
On the i6th of September, 1868, Mr. Riley was united in marriage to Miss
Martha Smith, of Osceola, Iowa. Their children are : Allen Ezra, who followed
the profession of architecture but is now deceased ; and Frank Branch Riley, an
attorney at law of the Portland bar and junior member of the law firm of E. F.
& F. B. Riley.
Mr. Riley has been a member of the American Bankers Association, a charter
member of the Oregon Association of Title Men and a member of the Ameri-
can Association of Title Men. He was one of the incorporators of the Bankers
Life Insurance Company. He is likewise identified with the Oregon Historical
Society and with the Portland Commercial Club and is a cooperant factor in the
movements of the latter for the upbuilding of the city and the extension of its
business connections.
WILLIAM D. SAPPINGTON.
William D. Sappington is now serving for the second term as sheriff of
Clarke county, Washington, and, moreover, has been honored by a second elec-
tion to the presidency of the state sheriff's association — an honor accorded to no
other man in the history of the state. He is a native son of the northwest, his
birth having occurred in Yamhill county, Oregon, September 10, 1864. He was
reared and educated in Washington county, Oregon, and in 1883, when a young
man of nineteen years, went to Hood River, Oregon, where he spent one year.
The following year was passed in Washington and through the succeeding two
years he resided at Cascade Locks, Oregon. In 1889 he took up his abode in the
city of Portland. During all this period he was engaged in mechanical engineer-
ing but in Portland he turned his attention to the live-stock and meat business, in
which he continued for twelve years with success.
At the end of that time Mr. Sappington removed to Yacolt, Clarke county,
Washington, where he continued to engage in the live-stock business until 1906,
when he was elected sheriff of the county on the republican ticket. He entered
upon the duties of the office on the 14th of January, 1907, and toward the close
of his term he was reelected, so that his incumbency will continue until January,
191 1. He was the first man in the history of the county that has ever been
elected to the position of sheriff without opposition, this happening at his second
election. When first chosen to the position he removed to Vancouver. He has
been most prompt and faithful in the execution of the duties that devolve upon
him, neither fear nor favor swerving him from the course that he believes to be
right. He has also held other local offices. He was made a director of schools
in Yacolt and was serving on the board that built the high school there, acting as
its chairman at the time. He is now a prominent member of the Washington
State Sheriffs Association, was elected its vice president at Colfax, Washington,
in 1907, was elected president at Olympia in 1908 and was reelected in 1900,
being the only man that has been honored with the presidency for two terms.
Mr. Sappington has served as a delegate to state conventions for many years.
He was thus acting at Spokane in June, 1907, when delegates were elected to the
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national convention held at Chicago, which nominated President Taft. He was
also a delegate to the state convention which nominated Judge W. W. McCreadle
and was a delegate to the state convention held in Tacoma in August, 1910, that
nominated the state supreme judges. He was appointed by Governor Hay as
delegate to attend the American Interstate Prison Congress held at Seattle in
July, 1909, and also appointed him a delegate to the American State Prison con-
vention held at Washington, D. C, in August, 19 10. During the fire of 19 10 that
destroyed much property in Clarke county he served as chairman of the relief
committee that distributed funds and provisions to the sufferers.
On the 13th of August, 1889, Mr. Sappington was married to Miss Eunice
Blackwood, of Washougal, Washington, a daughter of H. C. and Eliza Black-
wood, pioneer residents of Washington. They have two children : Lucille, born
June 30, 1895 ; and Chester, born August 17, 1897.
Mr. Sappington is identified with several fraternal organizations. He belongs
to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World,
the Modern Woodmen of America, the Red Men and the Knights and Ladies of
Security at Vancouver and is also a member of Rose City Lodge, K. P., of Port-
land. He takes an active interest in all outdoor sports and is renowned as a
hunter and fisher. He trains bear dogs for his own use and has had as high as
seventeen at one time for hunting bears. In two years he and his partner killed
twenty-two bears of the black and brown varieties in Clarke county and he has
had some of his game mounted. He has also trained and owned some of the
best cattle and shepherd dogs on the coast, and his opinions concerning the value
of such animals are largely accepted.. as authority .
GEORGE H. ANtJREWS,.. J
The name of George H. Andrews figures in connection with that of Ben
Holladay and Henry Villard — a trio that indicates effectiveness and power in
business circles. The name of each is inseparably interwoven with Portland's
history. Mr. Andrews was numbered among the pioneers of Mount Tabor and
was recognized as a leading and distinguished resident of Portland for more
than thirty-five years. He was born in Birmingham, England, on the 13th of
April, 1843, and passed his boyhood and youth in that country, but in 1859 ac-
cpmpanied his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Andrews, on their removal to New
Zealand, where he was employed in a post office. In i860, however, he came to
the United States, for the reports reaching him concerning the new world and
its opportunities, proving an irresistible attraction. He decided to benefit by the
broader chances here to be found, nor did he ever have occasion to regret his de-
termination to come to America. He found its people hospitable, its advan-
tages good, and in Portland he so labored that success crowned his efforts while
at the same time his activities were a source of benefit to the city.
Mr. Andrews landed at San Francisco but remained there for only a few
months, for he could find no satisfactory employment. He then came to Port-
land, where he resided until his death. His first work was in the surveyor gen-
eral's office, in which he continued for but a few months. He then engaged with
Ben Holladay in the steamboat business as chief accountant until the business
was discontinued. Mr. Holladay then turned his attention toward the develop-
ment of the Oregon & California Railway Company, and Mr. Andrews continued
with him. He was afterward associated with Henry Villard and C. P. Hunting-
ton in the same business, acting as auditor of the Oregon Steamboat Company,
but retired from that position about three years prior to his death. He was after-
ward connected with the business interests of the Arlington Club and served as
land agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He was also vice president for the
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railroad here and was closely associated with the development of transportation
as represented in both railway lines and navigation.
On the 3d of September, 1876, Mr. Andrews was united in marriage to Miss
Elspeth Patterson, a daughter of William and Elspeth Patterson, early residents
of Portland, who, coming by the water route to the Pacific coast, landed at San
Francisco about 1852. They remained there for a brief period, after which they
came with her daughter, Mrs. Andrews, directly to Portland. Unto the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews there were born four children: Alice C, at home;
Louise, the wife of W. L. Patterson, of Portland, by whom she had two children,
William and Helen, the former passing away at the age of three years ; Eliza-
beth, who became the wife of Ben HoUaday and resides in the east with her
son, Ben ; and Henry Villard, a farmer of eastern Oregon.
The death of Mr. Andrews occurred on the 20th of January, 1909, and his
remains were interred in Riverview cemetery. He was a member of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen and of Willamette Lodge, A. F. & A. M., while his
religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Episcopal church.
Throughout the period of his residence in Portland his position was one of promi-
nence, a man of forceful character who left the impress of his individuality in
considerable measure upon the history of progress in transportation lines in this
section. Those who knew him — and his friends were many — found him ever a
reliable gentleman, of genial and kindly disposition and unfailing courtesy.
Those who came in contact with him entertained for him kindly regard, which
had its root in his own admirable characteristics.
CHESTER GRIFFIN MURPHY.
Chester Griffin Murphy, a Harvard man, who since the ist of January, 1903,
has been engaged in the practice of law in Portland, in which connection he has
won a reputation that many an older practitioner might well enyy, was born in
Salem, Marion county, Oregon, on the 3d of February, 1876. His parents were
John Joseph and Elizabeth (Lister) Murphy, well known pioneer people of
Salem. His father. Judge J. J. Murphy, a member of the bar, was for sixteen
years before his death clerk of the supreme court. He passed away June 17,
1907, and the mother is now living with her son, Chester Griffin Murphy, in
Portland.
In the public schools of Salem Mr. Murphy of this review began his educa-
tion, which was continued as a student in the Willamette University, in which
he was matriculated in 1893, completing there a three years' academic course.
From 1896 until 1901 he was a student in the Leland Stanford University of
California, where he won the A. B. degree in 1900, on the completion of the
classical course. He also began his law studies there, was a law student at Har-
vard in 1901-02 and in 1903 received the LL.B. degree. He was active in ath-
letics in his college days, serving as captain on the Stanford football team in
1899 and through the four years of his college course was a member of the Stan-
ford baseball, football and track teams.
Admitted to the bar in 1902, Mr. Murphy entered upon the active practice
of law on the ist of January, 1903, in connection with Judge William D. Fen-
ton, of Portland, and since October, 1906, has been alone in practice. Already
he has made substantial progress and now has a large and distinctively repre-
sentative clientage, being connected with much of the important litigation tried
in the courts. Moreover, he is interested in considerable realty in Portland and
in Salem, and is the owner of a stock farm of one hundred and eighty acres at
Woodburn and a hop yard of one hundred acres in West Salem, displaying in
the management of these interests keen discernment and excellent business
ability. He has made extensive improvements during the past few years in his
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holdings in Salem and is now building, for leasing purposes, a modern theater
building there, which will be known as the Salem Theater, and with two asso-
ciates, is building in Portland the Trinity Place apartments on Trinity Place,
which when completed will be the finest and most pretentious apartments yet
erected on the Pacific Coast.
In his political views Mr. Murphy has always been a republican, but has never
taken an active part in politics, and the only public office that he has ever held
was that of referee in bankruptcy in the United States district court for the dis-
trict of Oregon since becoming a resident of Multnomah county, and still holds
this office. He belongs to the Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, and is well known
in the leading social clubs, being vice president of the University Club of Port-
land, a director of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, a director of the
Waverly Golf Club, and president of the Rock Island Club — associations which
indicate much of the nature of his interests and recreation. He is also a member
of the Congregational church, and is a typical young man of the western world,
alert, energetic and determined, eagerly seeking the opportunities for advance-
ment. Each forward step has brought him a broader outlook and wider vision,
and his advancement has been won at the cost of earnest, diligent effort that is
manifest in the preparation of his cases and in their presentation before the
courts.
THOMAS H. BECHILL.
Thomas H. Bechill is engaged in the general contracting business in Port-
land, making a specialty of street grading, sewer and bridge work. He is num-
bered among those business men who advancement has had its root in industry,
perseverance and unfaltering determination. He received no financial assistance
when he started out in life on his own account, but has gradually worked his
way upward as he has proved his worth and capability.
He was born in London, Canada, June 30, 1865, and his parents, John and
Elizabeth (James) Bechill, were also natives of that country. He is indebted
to the public-school system of Canada for the educational privileges which he
enjoyed. He remained under the parental roof until fifteen years of age, when
he started out in life on his own account, being employed for some years in the
lumber business in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Later he
turned his attention to railroading and became familiar with the work in various
branches of the operative department. He was first employed as engine wiper
in the roundhouse of the Flint Pere Marquette Railway Company, but his close
application and diligence soon won him promotion, and he was made succes-
sively fireman and engineer. He followed railroading until he came to Oregon
the first time, in 1889. In fact, he was for a short period connected with rail-
road interests in this state but soon went to Fargo, North Dakota. He returned
to Oregon, however, in 1891 and has since Hved in Portland with the exception
of a brief period of four years spent in Washington. About 1901 he began
contracting in street grading, sewer and bridge work, and has continued in this
line through the intervening period of nine years. Gradually he has advanced
until his business has reached extensive and profitable proportions.
Mr. Bechill was married October 31, 1892, to Miss Minnie Gwynne, a daugh-
ter of Harold and Sarah (Coffman) Gwynne. Mrs. Bechill is a native of Ore-
gon, her grandparents having come across the plains with ox teams in 1847.
This was prior to the period when gold was discovered in California, and it was
not a mad rush for wealth that brought the emigrants of the early days to the
Pacific coast, but the hope of establishing homes and finding opportunity for
business progress in legitimate lines of trade and activity. Five children have
been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Bechill: George, Frederick. Andrew J., Sarah
Isabel and William A.
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Mr. Bechill belongs to the Elks and Odd Fellows lodges and is also a Royal
Arch Mason. He finds pleasant associations with his brethren of those fraterni-
ties and they recognize in him qualities that are in consistent harmony with the
teachings and purposes of those orders. His political indorsement is given to
the republican party. His chief recreations are hunting and fishing, and he is
a patron of all out of door sports. Besides his city property, he has a ranch in
Clackamas county.
CHARLES HILTON.
A vessel which steamed into the harbor of San Francisco in the fall of 1858
carried among its passengers Charles Hilton, then a young man of twenty years,
full of hope, determination and energy. The Pacific coast was to be the scene of
his labors from thenceforth and much of the period has been passed in Oregon,
where his efforts have constituted an effective force in the substantial develop-
ment of the state.
He was born at Cornville, Somerset county, Maine, on the ist of February,
1838, a son of Joseph and Comfort Hilton, the former a farmer by occupation.
His education was acquired in the public schools of his native town and the spirit
of adventure and a laudable ambition to attain success brought him to California
in 1858. He made the journey westward by way of the isthmus route and settled
in Placer county. He was quite successful during the period of his residence
in California, which continued until May, 1864, when he went to Silver City,
Idaho. There he met with reverses, losing all that he had formerly gained. He,
therefore, sought a position in the internal revenue service, acting as deputy as-
sessor in Idaho from 1866 until he came to Portland in January, 1870.
It was his purpose to go to California, but on reaching this city he was in-
duced by friends to remain in Oregon and became a factor in furnishing supplies
for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company during its construction from Kalama
to Tenino. He left Portland in October, 1873, and established his home in Wasco
county in eastern Oregon, where he turned his attention to stock-raising, in which
business he has continued to the present time. He was one of the pioneer sheep-
raisers of the state, devoting his attention largely to that undertaking on a ranch
eighteen miles from Fossil, the county seat of what is now Wheeler county. When
he went there The Dalles was his nearest market and to obtain supplies there he
had to travel a distance of eighty miles. As the years have passed he has ex-
tended his efforts as a stock-raiser and has conducted a large and profitable busi-
ness, having now a well equipped ranch of eight thousand acres on which are
from ten thousand to twelve thousand sheep and other stock. For the past ten
years, however, he has made his home in Portland but also maintains a residence
in Wheeler county.
On the nth of May, 1880, Mr. Hilton was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Elizabeth Hale, who was born in Anson, Somerset county, Maine, and unto them
has been born a daughter, Florence Des Chutes Hilton.
Mr. Hilton is a stalwart republican in his political views and has exerted con-
siderable influence in the ranks of the party, to which he is ever most loyal. In
1888 he was elected joint senator from Wasco and Gilliam counties, serving dur-
mg the sessions of 1889 and 1891. In 1896 he was elected a delegate at large
from Oregon to the national republican convention held in St. Louis in June of
that year. Governor Lord appointed him a member of the board of regents for
the University of Oregon and Governor Bowerman appointed him a delegate to
the national irrigation congress held at Pueblo, Colorado, September 26-30. 1910.
These appointments give indication of his prominence as a citizen and his recog-
nized public spirit and ability. While at the republican national convention in
St. Louis he was made a member of the notification committee and went to Can-
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ton, Ohio, to notify Major McKinley of his selection as the presidential can-
didate of the party.
Mr. Hilton belongs to the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1866, be-
coming a member of Owyhee Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M., at Silver City, Idaho.
In 1882 he was made a Knight Templar in Oregon Commandery, No. i, of Port-
land, and in 1888 crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine in Al Kader Temple of this city. In 1902 he attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Rite in the Portland Consistory. In 1869 he was elected
deputy grant master of Masons for the jurisdiction of Idaho and his close con-
fonnity to the teachings and principles of the fraternity has made him one of its
exemplary representatives. He is a believer in the Christian religion and his
influence is always on the side of right and progress. About ten years ago he
became a life member of the Oregon Historical Society and is interested in the
preservation of the accounts of early days in this state when history was in its
formative period. Throughout the years of his residence in Oregon he has taken
active and helpful part in the work of general progress and improvement and
the worth of his service has been widely recognized by his fellow citizens and also
by government appointment. He is an advocate of all of those steps of progres-
sive development which are reclaiming the arid lands and converting Oregon into
one of the most productive and populous states of the Union.
CHARLES HERBERT CHICK.
Charles Herbert Chick, who three years ago took up his permanent abode in
Portland, where he is now engaged in business as a dealer in timber lands, was
bom in Cornish, Maine, November 9, 185 1, a son of Samuel C. and Jane (Har-
din) Chick. The district schools of the Pine Tree state afforded him his early
educational advantages, but he attended school only until eleven years of age
and then started out in life on his own account, so that he is a self-educated as
well as a self-made man.
He has always been connected with one phase or another of the lumber busi-
ness. While in his teens he became a log driver on the Saco river in Maine and
worked for different companies for a period of six years in logging and other
work of that kind ere leaving New England. He was a young man of seventeen
years when he removed westward to Michigan, where he remained until three
years ago, when he took up his permanent abode in Portland. While in Michi-
gan he was also connected with lumber and timber interests and his operations
brought him success so that he worked his way steadily upward, becoming a
prominent factor in financial as well as industrial circles. For some time he was
one of the directors and the vice president of the Fifth National Bank of Grand
Rapids, Michigan. Arriving in Portland in 1907, he has since made this city his
home. Realizing that no more advantageous field could be secured than Oregon,
which has the largest forest areas of the country, he came to the northwest and
has since been engaged in dealing in timber lands. He is thoroughly conversant
with the lumber business in every phase from the work in the lumber camps and
driving the logs until the finished product is placed upon the market and finds
a sale.
On the ist of May, 1873, ^^ Baldwin, Michigan, Mr. Chick was married to
Miss Dora E. Taylor, a daughter of James B. and Emeline (Priest) Taylor, and
unto them have been born three children : Dr. Claud C. Chick, of lone, Oregon ;
Vinton L., who is engaged in clerking in Portland ; and Glen, also of this city.
Mr. Chick votes with the republican party, but is not interested in politics
to the extent of seeking office or giving much time to party work. He is promi-
nent in Masonry, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite,
and in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. Running away
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from home when but fourteen years of age, promoted by a spirit of adventure,
Mr. Chick has since been dependent upon his own resources, and his labors have
brought him to the present enviable and creditable position which he now occu-
pies as a successful business man, who is so thoroughly acquainted with his
chosen line of labor that he never makes mistakes in handling his business in-
terests or fails to win the financial return which is his due. He has devoted a
very large part of his life to "timber cruising," having covered practically every
part of the North American continent in his inspection of timber tracts. He has
camped near and canoed practically every stream of importance in the country,
and it is doubtful if there is a man on the continent who has had more varied
experiences than he. His business methods have at all times been reliable, and
although in his youthful days he bore the hardships and privations incident to
life in the lumber camps, he is today one of the prosperous citizens of Port-
land.
AMOS COOK.
It was springtime in the year 1840 when there arrived in Oregon City a young
man who for a year had been traveling westward from Peoria, Illinois, follow-
ing the old but ofttimes obscure trail that led to the northwest. Making his way
to the home of Dr. McLoughlin, then as for many years thereafter the most
prominent resident of Oregon City as well as this section of the state, he intro-
duced himself as Amos Cook and stated that he desired to find some open land
upon which to raise crops and thus make a living, for his funds were almost ex-
hausted and he must at once undertake a task that would soon bring returns.
For fifty-five years thereafter this man remained a resident of Portland and
vincinity and today his name is enrolled on the list of Portland's honored dead,
among the valued and worthy pioneer settlers of Oregon.
He was born in Maine, about thirty miles from Augusta, on the Kennebec
river, January 8, 1817. His parents, Thomas and Lucy (Pease) Cook, were of
English lineage. They were farming people and Amos Cook remained upon the
homestead farm throughout the period of his minority, early becoming familiar
with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, so that he
brought with him to the west thorough experience and training to serve as the
foundation for his later success. He left home when about twenty-one years of
age and never saw his parents again. Traveling in a southwesterly direction
from New England, he at length arrived at Peoria, Illinois, where he worked at
any employment that he could secure. He spent one winter there and then, with
a number of young men, concluded to come to the Pacific coast. While in Peoria
he became acquainted with Francis Fletcher, and the two young men started
westward together, utilizing the best methods they could secure for travel and
making their way as fast as possible. But the road was difficult and arduous and
ofttimes fraught with danger, and the trail was frequently obscured, so that
they could proceed but slowly toward their destination. They spent the winter
on Green river, living on buffalo meat, and in the spring of 1840 they traveled
on to Oregon City.
As stated, Mr. Cook acquainted Dr. McLoughlin of his desire to find open
land, and the Doctor, true to the kindly generous nature which characterized
him, after learning of the condition of the young men, agreed to let them have
grain and other necessary supplies with which to make a start. They then went
up the Yamhill and settled on the south shore of the Yamhill river. The two
young men remained together until about 1841, when Mr. Fletcher married and
then each made a home for himself. Mr. Fletcher obtained a claim on a section
of land on account of being married, while Mr. Cook secured a half section.
They held their land together for some time when Mr. Cook, desiring to have
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a certain portion of the land because of its resemblance to his old home in Maine,
paid Mr. Fletcher fifteen hundred dollars for his choice of the tract. From the
beginning the young men progressed and also prospered in their work and suc-
ceeded in transforming their land into highly cultivated fields. Mr. Cook also
conducted a general store in partnership with G. O. Burnett at Lafayette, which
was then the county seat of Yamhill county. But after a time he sold his in-
terest, for he was in danger of losing his land unless he lived upon it all uie
time. He accordingly built on his place one of the best homes in the <=tate at
that time, much of the lumber being shipped around the Horn, and this sub-
stantial structure is still standing. He took up his abode there, making it his
home throughout the remainder of his days.
It was on the i6th of August, 1853, that Mr. Cook was united in marriage
to Miss Mary F, Scott, a daughter of John T. Scott, of whom mention is made
elsewhere in this volume. They became the parents of six children : Edith, who
died when three years of age; Lillian, now Mrs. W. P. Olds of Portland, who is
represented on another page of this volume; Agnes, the wife of Judge W. L.
Bradshaw, of The Dalles; Maud, the wife of Frank P. Young, of Portland;
Louis, who died at the age of two years ; and Pearl, at home.
Notwithstanding the division of their farming interests, Mr. Cook and Mr.
Fletcher continued to be firm friends throughout their entire life and were
splendid types of the pioneer settlers who, coming to the west at an early day,
took advantage of the natural resources here afiforded to promote their own in-
terests, but also advanced the welfare of the district in which they lived. Both
were signers of the articles of provincial government in 1843. The death of
Mr. Cook occurred February 3, 1895, his remains being interred in the family
lot in Forest Grove cemetery. He had for fifty-five years been a resident of
this state and had witnessed the remarkable changes which transformed it from
a wild western frontier district into one of the populous states of the Union,
with extensive agricultural, industrial and commercial interests.
Mrs. Cook, who still survives her husband, was born in Tazewell county,
Illinois, near Peoria, May 19. 1833, and came to Oregon with her parents in
1852, the journey westward being made with ox teams. She was nineteen years
of age and during much of the trip engaged in driving one of the teams of oxen.
She now belongs to the Oregon Pioneer Society, in the work of which she is
deeply and actively interested.
JOHN D. TRESHAM.
During a residence of twenty years, in which time with the exception of the
first year he has continuously engaged in contracting, John D. Tresham has be-
come well known as a representative of industrial activity here. The spirit of
enterprise and progress characteristic of the middle west are his. He is a native
of Warren county, Iowa, his birth having occurred not far from the city of Des
Aloines. He lived at home with his parents, James and Mary Jane (Wright)
Tresham, until eighteen years of age, and his youth was largely devoted to the
acquiring of an education in the public schools.
After putting aside his text-books Mr. Tresham began to learn the builder's
trade in his native county and at the age of eighteen years went to Des Moines,
where he spent four years working at his trade as apprentice and journeyman.
He next removed to Kansas City, Missouri, where he resided about a year, and
in 1890 he came to Portland, where he has now made his home through two
decades. He has resided in this city for about a year, after which he began con-
tracting and he has taken and executed contracts on the custom-house, the
Wells Fargo building, the Corbett building, the Commercial Club, the Young
Men's Christian Association building, the Oregon Hotel Annex, the Meyer &
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Frank building, and Fort Columbia and the Barracks at Vancouver. He also
completed the plastering contract on the Old National Bank at Spokane, Wash-
ington. This is one of the largest buildings on the Pacific coast. Mr. Tresham
with one hundred men executed his contract on record. He takes all kinds of
building contracts.
In 1897 Mr. Tresham was united in marriage to Miss EUenore Warnock, a
daughter of Alexander B. and Catherine Warnock. Mrs. Tresham was born in
Canada, while her ancestors came from England and Scotland, settling in the
British domain in America at an early day.
Mr. Tresham belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and votes with the
republican party. He has little time for outside interests, however, his business
claiming his undivided attention. He is thoroughly trustworthy, executing con-
tracts promptly and living up to the letter as well as the spirit of an agreement.
JOHN MANNING.
John Manning, a member of the Portland bar since 1897, in which connection
he has done notable work that marks him as one of the strongest and most re-
sourceful lawyers of the city, was born in Boscobell, Grant county, Wisconsin,
in 1866, and in his early youth accompanied his parents, Thomas and Bridget
Manning, to Orleans, Nebraska, where his youthful days were passed. As the
educational opportunities of that district were somewhat meager, he was sent to
Lincoln, Nebraska, to pursue his studies, and at the close of his school days he
began preparation for the bar, for he had determined to make the practice of
law his life work. He read under private instruction until 1887, when he was
admitted to practice in the courts of Nebraska and, returning to Orleans, there
opened an office. For about three years he continued in active practice at that
place, after which he followed his profession in Woodburn, Oregon, for four
years, or until 1897, when he joined the ranks of the legal profession in Port-
land.
There were already many lawyers here of well established reputation whose
ability enabled them to command an extensive clientele. Mr. Manning arrived
comparatively unknown, a young man of thirty years, who must prove fiis worth
and ability in contests with lawyers of much greater age and broader experience.
He prepared his cases with provident care, closely investigated all of the prin-
ciples bearing upon the cases and entered the courtroom well qualified for at-
tack as well as for defense. His ability soon won recognition, and in IQOO he
was appointed chief deputy district attorney of Multnomah county under George
E. Chamberlain. After filling the office for two years, he was appointed district
attorney in 1902, and in 1904 was elected to that position on the democratic
ticket by a majority of nearly four thousand votes, which is the largest majority
ever given any democratic candidate in Multnomah, the strongest republican
county in Oregon. His devotion to the interests of the public and his capable
and faithful performance of duty have become matters of history. He stood
for law and order and neither fear nor favor could swerve him from a course
which he believed to be right. To him is due the success of closine the saloons
of Multnomah county on Sunday. Upon the failure of the Title Guarantee &
Trust Company he made the officials pay their depositors one hundred cents on
the dollar, and in the prosecution of its president he attained the distinction of
being the only district attorney of Oregon that had successfully prosecuted and
convicted a president of a bank. He sacrificed his own political preferment to
a sense of right, for it was through the efiforts of the saloon element and the
Title Guarantee & Trust Company that he was defeated for reelection on the
close of his first term. This did not matter much to Mr. Manning, for he had
established himself in public regard and had made a reputation as a careful.
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painstaking and able lawyer that has secured for him an extensive clientage in
the private courts of law.
Mr. Manning was united in marriage in 1894 to Miss Mary Frances Coffey,
a daughter of B. Coffey, one of Oregon's pioneer residents. Their children,
Louise and Helen, are now students in St. Mary's Academy. Mr. Manning be-
longs to the Knights of Columbus and the Elks; is a life member of the Mult-
nomah Athletic Club, and a member of the Commercial Club, and loyalty in
municipal affairs is one of his strong characteristics, evidenced in his unequivocal
support of every measure and movement which he deems for the general good.
While an uncompromising foe, he always meets his opponents in the open and
his methods are strictly judicial, for he is ever careful to conform his practice
to the highest professional ethics.
WILLIAM T. JOPLIN.
William T. Joplin, a resident of Portland for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury, his name widely known in connection with general contracting, was born
in Kansas in 1872, a son of Ferdinand and Annie E. (Bridgeford) Joplin. A
year after his birth the parents removed with their family to Missouri, settling
in Pettis county, where they lived for ten years, and on the expiration of that
period came to Oregon. A year was spent in Astoria, after which a removal
was made to Portland.
At the usual age, William T. Joplin entered the public schools of Missouri
and further continued his studies in the two Oregon cities in which he has re-
sided, gaining knowledge of those branches of learning which are regarded as
an indispensable foundation to business success. After leaving school he learned
the upholsterer's trade, which he followed for four years, and then in 1893 joined
with his father, Ferdinand Joplin, in the contracting business. The following
year he withdrew from that connection, and for four years thereafter engaged
in business on his own account. In 1898 he became associated with his father
and with Anton Geibisch, conducting a contracting business under the firm style
of Geibisch & Joplin. William T. Joplin then took charge of the work being
conducted by the firm at Port Townsend, on Fort Warner and Fort Flagler. A
year later he returned to Portland and took charge of the business here, con-
tinuing as active manager at this point until November. 1902, when he withdrew
from the firm and formed a partnership with Charles Meeks in the general con-
tracting business under the firm name of Joplin & Meeks. The firm has been
accorded extensive and important contracts, having done all the street work and
grading in the Rossmere, Bellcrest. Hyde Park No. i, Hyde Park No. 2, Argyle
Park, Wellesley and Westmoreland subdivisions.
Mr. Joplin has also been connected with many contracts on city street work.
He is conversant not only with all the practical phases of the business but also
with the scientific principles underlying it and long experience has made him
well qualified to solve the intricate engineering problems that continually arise.
He is interested in the Riverside Orchard Company of Portland with holdings
at McMinnville, Oregon, and also in the Nevada Round Mountain Company,
operating mines in Nevada.
On the loth of October, 1900, Mr. Joplin was united in marriage to Miss
Hilma S. Carlson of Port Townsend, Washington, and thev have an interesting
little son Ralph. In politics Mr. Joplin is a republican, with unfaltering belief
in the principles of the party. He belong-s to the Chamber of Commerce, and is
a cooperant factor in those projects which tend to advance the business con-
ditions and adornment of the city. In his own active business career he has never
regarded any position as final, for on attaining the point for which he was striv-
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ing he has set out to gain still other points in advance and thus gradually has
worked his way upward, his efficiency and business fidelity constituting the
source of his progress. His chief sources of recreation are motoring, shooting
and fishing.
H. W. SMITH.
H. W. Smith, who for many years was identified with farming interests and
for three years past has been engaged in the ferry business at St. Johns, was born
there in 1865, a son of Philip T. Smith, a review of whom appears elsewhere in
this work. His mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Wendell, is now,
living in Portland, and has been a resident of Oregon for forty-eight years. She
was born in Missouri and crossed the plains with her parents when only five
years old. She has therefore seen almost the entire development of this region.
H. W. Smith was educated in the public schools of his native town and then
turned his attention to farming, in which he continued until he was forty-two
years of age. On July 12, 1907, he became associated with P. J. and T. J. Peter-
son in the ferry business at St. Johns, and under his energetic and capable man-
agement, the ferry is proving a marked success. The boat is named James John,
the name having been chosen in honor of the founder of St. Johns. It runs from
St. Johns to Whitwood Cut on the opposite side of the river and carries pas-
sengers, teams and freight. It requires forty minutes to cross the river, and the
boat averages twenty-one round trips each day. An important feature of the
traffic is the large amount of stone which is brought from the opposite shore
and is used upon improvements which are constantly in progress in the city. The
traffic in stone amounts to fifty wagon loads a day and the ferry under the man-
agement of Mr. Smith has proven an important factor not only for the conven-
ience of passengers, but in the upbuilding of the city.
In 1890, at St. Johns, Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Rosetta
Severance, who is a native of Missouri, and came to this city with her parents
in 1887. Six children have been born of this union: Philip T., Harry, John,
Harold, Mary and Clarence. Mr. Smith is an energetic and hard-working man
and has never neglected the duties which he owes to his family, the community
where he lives, or the state. In social affiliations he is identified with the Mod-
em Woodmen of America and the United Workmen of America, and his life
in an important degree has been in accord with the helpful principles of these
fraternal orders. He is in sympathy with the platform of the republican party
and believes that in many matters the general government is better able to handle
afi^airs than the state. In local elections he votes for the candidate that in his
opinion will best subserve the interests of the community. He is devoting his
entire energies to the work in which he is now engaged and feels that it will
assist very materially in the development of the region where he was born and
m whose welfare he is deeply concerned.
WILLIAM RUSSELL MACKENZIE.
Advancement in recognition of usefulness and ability in his chosen field of
labor has brought William Russell Mackenzie to a position of prominence in
Portland, where since 1892 he has conducted independent interests as a certified
public accountant, in which connection he has been accorded a large clientage.
He is also treasurer of the Vancouver Transportation Company and of the Lewis
River Transportation Company. He was born May 24, 1853, in Woodstock,
Ontario, Canada, and is the son of Hugh and Jessie (Russell) Mackenzie, of
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Elgin, Scotland, which town was the home of his maternal grandparents, while
his grandparents on the paternal line were from Sutherlandshire, Scotland. Com-
ing to America, Hugh Mackenzie established his home in Woodstock, Ontario,
where he engaged in merchandising.
Spending his youthful days in his native town, Wiulmi Russell Mackenzie
pursued his education in the public and grammar schools until he completed
the full course by graduation with the class of 1870. His start in the business
world was made as messenger boy with the Great Western Railway Company of
Canada, obtaining the position on the ist of December, 1870. He won pro-
motion through industry and fidelity, serving successfully as junior clerk, ticket
clerk and freight clerk ere he was appointed local cashier at St. Thomas, On-
tario, for that road, thus serving until November i, 1875, when he went with the
Canada Southern Railway Company. He was a young man twenty-two years
of age when he entered the service of that corporation and again his trustworthi-
ness and business activity won recognition for he was afterward made audit clerk,
later treasurer's assistant and subsequently car accountant. His next promotion
brought him to the position of private secretary to the treasurer, and he thus
served until December 31. 1879. On the ist of May, 1880, he entered the serv-
ices of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company as traveling auditor, and he also
held a similar position with the Union Pacific Railway Company. Each change
in his business career has marked an upward step, bringing him a broader out-
look and larger opportunities. He was made stationary agent for the Union Pa-
cific Railway Company and was appointed traveling auditor for the Oregon Rail-
way & Navigation Company, so continuing until the 1st of August, 1892. Since
that day he has engaged in business for himself as a certified public accountant
and has been accorded an extensive clientage, so that his business has long since
reached profitable proportions. Extending his efforts into other fields, he has
become treasurer of the Vancouver Transportation Company and of the Lewis
River Navigation Company, and his long connection with the railroad service
makes his opinions in the treasureship of these two concerns of much importance
as they are based upon broad and practical experience and observation.
While along business lines Mr. Mackenzie has made consecutive progress,
he has not confined his efiforts to interests from which he alone has reaped the
benefit. In fact, he has cooperated in many movements wherein the public has
been a large direct beneficiary. He is now treasurer of the Portland Seamen's
Friend Society, a trustee of the Young Women's Christian Association, a mem-
ber and trustee of the First Presbyterian church, a member of St. Andrews So-
ciety and of the British Benevolent Society. He is also connected with the Ma-
zamas, the Royal Arcanum, the Order of Scottish Clans and has taken the various
degrees of A^tasonry, holding membership in Willamette Lodge, No. 2, A. F. &
A. M.; Portland Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M.; Washington Council, No. 3, R. & S.
M.; Oregon Commandery, No. i, K. T. ; Oregon Consistory, No. i, A. A. S. R. ;
and Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and has not only attained high rank
in Masonry but has also been granted many honors, including that of being
chosen representative of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland to
the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Oregon. He has also been president of the
Masonic Board of Relief of Portland. He is likewise a member of the American
Association of Public Accountants, and the regard in which he is held by business
men in his particular line in this state is indicated by the fact that he has been
elected to the presidency of the Oregon State Society of Public Accountants, in
which position he is now serving. He belongs to the Rock Island Club, the
Commercial Club, the Arlington Club and the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club.
He was auditor of the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition from 1904 until
1907, and is now bursar of the Portland Academy and clerk of the Riverview
Cemetery Association.
Mr. Mackenzie was first married December 13, 1876, to Anna Young Mac-
Lean, the eldest daughter of John MacLean, a barrister of St. Thomas, Ontario.
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She died November 14, 1878, at the age of twenty-two years. There was one
child by that marriage, Bruce Gilchrist, who died September 2, 1878, at the age of
eleven months. On the ist of June. 1881, Mr. Mackenzie wedded Josepha Bow-
man Gun, the only daughter of the late Dr. James Gun, of Durham, Ontario-
She died September 7, 1900, at the age of thirty-eight years. There were seven
children of that marriage, of whom five are deceased. Russell, who died in 1893 ;
Harry in 1893; Jessie and James both in 1894; and Kenneth in 1905. Those liv-
ing are Charles Arthur Cochrane, an accountant of New York city ; and Grace Sea-
forth, who is traveling in Europe. On the 12th of May, 1903, Mr. Mackenzie
was married in Victoria, British Columbia, to Mrs. Jean Strong (French) Mac-
Lean, the widow of his brother-in-law, the late James A. MacLean, and a daugh-
ter of the later Edwin C. French, of Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie are well known socially and Mr. Mackenzie's
executive ability, spirit of enterprise and fitness for leadership have gained for
him prominence not only in business but also in the private and semi-public or-
ganizations with which he is connected. The terms, progress and patriotism,
may be considered the keynote of his character, for throughout his career he has
labored for the improvement of every line of business or public interest with
which he has been associated, and at all times has been actuated by a fidelity to
his country and her welfare.
THE BOZORTH FAMILY.
At a time when American colonies were seeking their independence, John
Bozorth came from northern France with his youngest brother, Jonathan Boz-
orth, Sr., under the command of Baron De Kalb to assist the Americans. The
brothers served under De Kalb throughout the war and after being mustered
out made their way down the Ohio river with the others of their company to
the mouth of Bear Grass creek to the present site of the city of Louisville, Ken-
tucky. In a few years members of the company were scattered all over the Blue
Grass state and John Bozorth was numbered among the victims whose tragic
ending brought to Kentucky the name of the dark and bloody ground, for he
was killed by the Indians in Breckenridge county.
His eldest son, Jonathan Bozorth, who was born in 1761, lived in Kentucky
from the time of the removal of the family to that state until his death, which
occurred in 1836. He had seven children, of whom his eldest son. Squire
Bozorth, was born January 11, 1792. He was reared upon the frontier of Ken-
tucky and on the nth of July, 1816, was married to Miss Milly Hoard Willis,
a daughter of Colonel Willis, an American officer in the Revolutionary war.
Squire Bozorth served in the war of 1812 under Captain Miller, and in 1818
removed to Missouri. In 1837 he became a resident of Illinois and two years
later went to Iowa, where he remained from 1839 until 1845, when he sought a
home in the territory of Oregon. He first located in Washington county, subse-
quently lived in Vancouver, and eventually went to the Lewis river country,
where in 185 1 he settled on the homestead that now constitutes the site of the
town of Woodland. The house which he erected that year still stands, and the
family reunions are held each year near the old home place. His family num-
bered eleven children, of whom only two now survive: Christopher Columbus
of Woodland, Washington ; and Mrs. Emma Caroline Thing, of Portland.
His eldest son, Owen Willis Bozorth, was born in Marion county, Missouri,
August 16, 1820, and came to Oregon in 1845, settling on Lewis or Cathlapootle
river, a short distance north of the Columbia, where he died on the 15th of Feb-
ruary, 1875.
He was married February 5, 1853, to Judith Ann Williams, who died No-
vember 29, 1871, and unto them were born five children: John Owen, living
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in Bay City, Oregon ; America Jane and Nancy Ann, both deceasevi ; Scott ;
and Milton B., of Portland. The family has become very numerous in Ken-
tucky and Missouri and there are now nearly four hundred descendants of
Jonathan Bozorth on the Pacific coast.
SAMUEL BRUCE HUSTON.
One of the strong trial lawyers at the Portland bar, able in argument, logical
in his deductions and correct in his application of legal principles, Samuel Bruce
Huston has been engaged in the practice of law in this state for more than a
quarter of a century. He was born at New Philadelphia, Indiana, March i6,
1858, upon the home farm of his father, Oliver Wolcott Huston. The latter
was born June 26, 1836, in the vicinity of New Philadelphia, and traced his an-
cestry back to Abnor Huston who emigrated to Jamestown, Virginia, in Septem-
ber, 1616, and was a partner of John Rolfe, who married Pocahontas. Among
his descendants was James Huston, who was born at Wilmington, Delaware,
January 29, 1721, and was baptized at the Old Swedes church on the 12th of
February following. In that church appears the record of his baptism and of
his marriage, the latter event occurring December 3, 1754. He served with Cap-
tain Thomas Laird's company of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, during the
Revolutionary war, and his son, Alexander Huston, was born in MifBin county,
Pennsylvania, in 1778, removing to Kentucky about 1791 and afterward becom-
ing a resident of Indiana, where he served as a member of the constitutional
convention that framed the organic law of that state. His son, Samuel M. Hus-
ton, the grandfather of Samuel Bruce Huston, was born in Nelson county, Ken-
tucky, in October, 1803, and for several terms was a member of the Indiana leg-
islature. Oliver Wolcott Huston, the father, enlisted for active service in the
Civil war as a member of Company G, Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
and laid down his life on the altar of his country during that struggle. In times
of peace he had followed the occupation of farming. He married Lucretia
Pearson Naugle, a daughter of Jacob Naugle, who was a Pennsylvania Dutch-
man, the family being among the earliest to engage in the iron business in the
Keystone state.
Samuel Bruce Huston pursued his education in the public schools, and in a
private school at Grand Glade, Illinois, afterward attending the university at
Valparaiso, Indiana. His experiences varied little from those of the ordinary
farm boy who has to work from Monday morning until Saturday night. He
lost his father at an early age and in 1866 the mother married again, the family
removing to Crawford county, Illinois, where Samuel B. Huston spent much of
his youth. It was a period of earnest and unremitting toil. He was, however,
a great reader and was so anxious to improve his mind that he would read by
moonHght. His stepfather claimed that if there was a light burning in the house
anywhere it interfered with his sleeping, and so he would not allow a light after
he went to bed.
In preparation for the bar, Samuel B. Huston attended a law school at Chi-
cago for a time and afterward studied in the law office of George M. Parker at
Robinson, Illinois, and later in the office of Hefifron & Zaring at Salem, Indiana,
where he was admitted to the bar in December, 1879. He practiced law for a
brief time in Indiana and Illinois, after which he went to New Mexico, where he
was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad Company until the sprinsr of 1883, when
he came to Oregon, landing at Portland from the old steamer "Oregon" on the
7th of May of that year. He afterward worked on a farm and in a flouring mill
at Forest Grove until January, 1884, when he opened a law office at Hillsboro.
Oregon. There he remained until September, 1906, when he removed to Port-
land. While in Hillsboro he had taken an active part in public affairs aside from
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his law practice, serving as school director for twelve years and many times as
a member of the city council and as mayor, in 1892 he was cnosen to represent
Washmgton county in the state senate and remamed a member of the upper
house ot the Oregon assembly until 1896.
His practice during that period was of a general character, and he tried a
number of important cases. He was connected with thirteen cases where the
defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree ; in twelve of these he was
attorney for the defense and in one assistant district attorney in the prosecution,
in which case the defendant was hanged. In the twelve other cases none of the
defendants were hanged and most of them were acquitted. One of the most
celebrated cases in which Mr. Huston was ever concerned was that of the state
of Oregon versus X. N. Steeves, in which the defendant was acquitted on a
final trial which lasted one month. He has likewise been one of the lawyers in
a number of the land fraud cases, some of which lasted a month. He modestly
refrains from expressing himself concerning his ability, but the records speak
for themselves. The zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his profes-
sion and the careful regard evinced for the interests of his clients and assiduous
and unrelaxing attention to all the details of his cases have brought him a large
business and made him very successful in its conduct. His arguments have
elicited warm commendation not only from his associates at the bar, but also
from the bench. Moreover, he has prospered through his real-estate invest-
ments, winning substantial success in the buying of Portland property.
Mr. Huston was married at Forest Grove, Oregon, on the 28th of June, 1884,
to Miss Ella Geiger, a daughter of Dr. William Geiger, of Forest Grove, who
emigrated to Oregon in 1839. ^^- ^"^ Mrs. Huston have three children:
Blanche, now the wife of H, H. Clifford, of Baker City, Oregon; Oliver, who
is now attending Yale Law School ; and Carl, who is employed in the mechanical
department of the White Motor Car Company, at Portland.
Mr. Huston has been a member of the Commercial Club since 1896 and in
politics was a democrat until he left the party because of its attitude concerning
the silver question, since which time he has voted the republican ticket. He is
not in sympathy, however, with the doctrine of extreme high protection, nor the
centralization of power, believing that the most valuable possession of any people
is local self-government. He has studied deeply into many vital and significant
questions and his views are therefore the result of careful consideration. His
position on any subject of importance is never an equivocal one, and yet he is
never aggressive in forcing his opinions. Mr. Huston is a strong advocate of
anything that tends to better the condition of labor as he has not forgotten that
the best part of his life was spent in the hardest kind of work. The_ public
duties that have devolved upon him he has discharged with marked ability and
fairness, for he is a loyal and public-spirited citizen. According to the concensus
of opinion on the part of his fellowmen he stands as a splendid representative
of our best type of American manhood and chivalry.
HON. THEODORE T. GEER.
Hon Theodore T. Geer, whose name is written large on the pages of Ore-
gon's history, inasmuch as he is the only native son who has ever served as gov-
ernor of the state, and is the only candidate nominated without opposition, now
makes his home in Portland, where his attention is given tothe developrnent of
property interests. Quiet in manner and free from ostentation, there is in him,
nevertheless, a compelling force that is the outcome of character and ability
which commands attention and which has carried him into important public re-
lations. Oregon has every reason to be proud to number him among her native
sons.
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He was born on a farm in the Waldo hills country in Marion county, and the
greater part of his life, up to the time he came to Portland and with the exception
of the period of his official service, was given to agricultural pursuits. His natal
day was March 12, 1851, his parents being Heman J. and Cynthia Ann (Eoff)
Geer. His father was born upon a farm in Madison county, Ohio, and was a
son of Joseph Cary Geer, a native of Connecticut, who in 1818 became a resi-
dent of the Buckeye state. The Geer family had its origin in England, and the
ancestry can be traced back in direct line to George Geer who, leaving England
in 1630, established his home in Connecticut. The line of descent is traced down
through his son, Jonathan Geer, Jonathan Geer, Jr., Aaron Geer, and Isaiah
Geer to Joseph Cary, and throughout that entire period the family was repre-
sented in Connecticut, Joseph C. Geer being the first of the name to remove to
the west. He was born in the Charter Oak state in 1795 and was a soldier of the
war of 1812. In 1818 he became a resident of Ohio, and in 1840 he removed to
Knox county, Illinois. In 1847, then a man of fifty-two years, he started with
his family of ten children across the plains to the northwest, settling in Marion
county, Oregon, where his remaining days were passed. He was one of the few
veterans of the second war of England who died and was buried in this state.
Heman J. Geer was a young man of nineteen years when, in 1847, the long
journey was made over the prairies of the middle west, the hot stretches of desert
sand and across the trails of the Rocky mountains to the Pacific coast. Indians
were far more numerous than the white settlers of that day and only here and
there had the seeds of civilization been planted, showing that the white race was
penetrating into the interior of the state to reap the benefits of its rich natural
resources. In 1848 Heman J. Geer was married to Miss Cynthia Ann Eoft", a
daughter of John Leonard Eofif. She was born in Illinois, but reared in Iowa,
and also crossed the plains with her parents in 1847. Following his marriage
Mr. Geer devoted his attention to the raising of fruit and was one of the pioneer
horticulturists of the state. He removed from Marion to Union county, Oregon,
in the early '70s, and continued there to make his home until his death, which
occurred in 1903. His widow, surviving him for several years, passed away in
Portland in 1909.
Theodore T. Geer was reared in the Waldo hills country of Marion county,
and after mastering the early branches of learning in the country schools, at-
tended the Willamette University at Salem, Oregon. He left school, however,
at the age of fourteen, and for a year thereafter was employed by an uncle,
Ralph C. Geer, in the Waldo hills country. About that time his father estab-
lished a nursery in Union county, Oregon, and Theodore T. Geer removed to
that county, where he took up the business of fruit raising. In 1877, however,
he returned to his native district and began farming upon a half section of land.
Diligent and persevering in business, his labors brought to him substantial suc-
cess in that connection, but his fellow citizens, recognizing his worth and ability
and his public-spirited devotion to the general good, called him to office, and
since 1880 he has figured more or less prominently in public life. In that year
he was elected to the state legislature, where he diligently sought the best inter-
ests of his constituents and the commonwealth, and at the close of the session
returned to the farm. Again in 1889, however, he was chosen to the same office
and was reelected in 1891 and in 1893, being made speaker of the house in 1891.
With comprehensive knowledge of parliamentary law, his rulings were just and
impartial, and his course as a presiding officer was warmly indorsed by fair-
minded members of the opposition as well as those of his own party. In 1896
he was especially active in politics, was one of the presidential electors of that
year and was chosen to carry the Oregon vote to W^ashington, being a member
of the electoral college which officially elected William McKinley president of
the United States in January, 1897. Mr. Geer took a very active and prominent
part in that famous campaign, making addresses in support of McKinley and
the republican platform all over the state, doing much to hold Oregon in the
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ranks of those commonwealths which upheld the gold standard. Although he
did not realize it, it seemed he was speaking for himself at the same time, for in
1898, when the republican state convention assembled at Astoria to choose a
candidate for governor, he was nominated by acclamation. He has the dis-
tinction of being the only republican ever nominated by acclamation and without
opposition in Oregon, and moreover, is the only native governor the state has
had. His service as chief executive is a matter of history and the public records
show various helpful measures successfully instituted. His service won him
high encomiums and gained for him in larger measure the confidence and re-
spect of his fellow citizens of Oregon.
While occupying the chair of chief executive, Mr. Geer was, in 1901, in-
vited by the republican committee of Ohio to canvass that state in the interests
of Governor Nash, and he made fifteen speeches in that campaign. After his
retirement from office he was for two years editor of the Salem (Ore.) Daily
Statesman, and then purchased the Daily Tribune of Pendleton, Oregon, which
he published for two and a half years. On selling that paper in 1908 he re-
moved to Portland, where he is now interested in real estate, having platted some
of his property, which he sold in five-acre tracts.
Governor Geer has been married twice. On the i6th of June, 1870, he
wedded Miss Nancy Duncan, who died very suddenly in Omaha, Nebraska, in
1898, while on a trip east. They had three children: Maud, who became the
wife of Marion Bowles and died in 1907; Theodosia, who is the wife
of E. C. Little of San Jose, California; and Fred, who is employed by the
Wells Fargo Express Company, with headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Mr. Geer's present wife is Isabelle Trullinger, a daughter of John C. Trul-
linger. She was born in Oregon, her father and grandfather being pioneers of
this state. The latter, the Rev. Daniel Trullinger, was the minister who per-
formed the marriage ceremony of Mr. Geer's parents.
Mr. Geer is a member of the Unitarian church and of the Oregon Pioneer
Society. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is
president of the Rose City Park Improvement League, and is one of the enthus-
iastic advocates of Portland and its future. He has firm belief in the city and
its possibilities, and no one gives more loyal support to the projects instituted for
its upbuilding and growth. His personal popularity is accounted for by the
genial and kindly manner that arises from a genuine interest in his fellowmen
and from his sterling worth of character, which is evident to all with whom he
comes in contact. It has been said that true greatness lies in the adaptability
of the individual to his conditions and his environment. With that quality Mr.
Geer is richly endowed. On leaving office he quietly took his place once more
in the ranks of Oregon's citizens, claiming nothing for himself because of the
honors which had been conferred upon him, content to do his duty, yet never for
a moment losing sight of the great privileges and obligations of the American
citizen.
VICTOR TREVITT.
The history of the west has many dark pages caused by the hostility of the
red men and the injustice of the white race. This broad land, with its splendid
opportunities, was ample for both. Its natural resources would have met the
demands of advancing civilization and at the same time have furnished hunting
ground for the red race. But the desire for conquest caused treatment that pro-
duced everlasting enmity. There are many instances, however, in which it is
shown that kindness and forebearance on the part of the white man was recipro-
cated by his vvild brother of the forest, and no greater instances of fidelity adorns
the pages of history than are found among the Indians in befriending those who
have been good to them. In this connection the name of Victor Trevitt is well
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known and to him has been accorded the honor of burial in an Indian cemetery —
a privilege given to perhaps no other white man.
A native of New Hampshire, he removed in early childhood to Ohio. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Trevitt, v/ere neighbors and friends of Horace
Greeley. The mother died during the childhood of her son Victor, and following
his second marriage David Trevitt removed to Ohio, where the boy attended the
public schools and afterward learned the printer's trade. He was practically
reared by an uncle in Ohio, who became a surgeon of the Mexican war and took
Victor, then a youth of but eighteen years, with him to the front. The latter
was appointed a sergeant and on one occasion was ordered to arrest a soldier who,
resisting arrest, ran his bayonet into Victor Trevitt's eye, destroying the sight.
Interested in military life, he did not leave the service with the close of the Mexi-
can war but came to Oregon with the Riffer Regiment about 1850.
Here his military life ended, and, settling in Oregon City, he there followed
the printer's trade in connection with Ashel Bush, who now lives in Salem,
Oregon. From Oregon City Mr. Trevitt afterward went to The Dalles, being
one of the first white setlers there. Subsequently he opened Trevitt's addition to
The Dalles and did much toward the development of the city at the head of
navigation of the Columbia and in the center of one of the richest fruit producing
regions of the country. His labors toward the upbuilding of this part of the
state were effective and far-reaching, and proved an important element in the
work of general progress.
Late in life Mr. Trevitt wedded Mrs. Mary Wortley (Hunt) Miller, the
wedding being celebrated in Vancouver, Washington, September 22, 1882. Her
parents were Benjamin Terry and Katherine Ann (Davies) Hunt, the latter a
descendant of the family of Martha Washington, the great-grandmother of Mrs.
Trevitt having been a cousin of Mrs. Washington. Mr. Hunt, the father of Mrs.
Trevitt, was born in Fredericksburg, Culpeper county, Virginia, while his wife
was born in Bedford county, that state. The Hunts were of old Virginia stock
who were wealthy slaveowners, an uncle of Mrs. Trevitt owning five hundred
slaves. Mrs. Trevitt was born at Lynchburg, Virginia. Impoverished through
the exigencies of war, her parents determined to leave the old home in Virginia
and make a new one for their family. Mr. Hunt decided to go to the state of
Mississippi but went first to Iowa to visit relatives. There he heard such interest-
ing and enticing accounts of Oregon and its rich resources that he turned his face
to the west instead of the south and with ox teams crossed the plains. Early in
May, 1853, they left Iowa and after a four months' journey reached Oregon.
Settling in Salem, Mr. Hunt there made his home for eight years, after which he
removed to The Dalles, where his death occurred in June, 1862. His widow
afterward went to Boise City, Idaho, with her family, and it was there that Mary
Wortley Hunt met and married Judge Richard Thomas Miller, a prominent
lawyer who for some years sat upon the bench. He was born in St. Louis but
was of an old Kentucky family and always called himself a Kentuckian. This
marriage was celebrated on the i8th of May, 1869, and was blessed with two
children: Francis Wenlock Miller, now deceased; and R. B. Miller, who is
traffic manager for the Harriman lines and lives with his mother.
Judge Miller crossed the plains when a youth, being sent by an uncle to Salt
Lake City with a train of provisions, the train consisting of six wagons with
negro drivers. He was anxious to join the Masons but was not quite old
enough, lacking only a few days, however. On reaching Jefferson City, Missouri,
he decided to remain there and await the anniversary of his birth that would
enable him to become a Mason before crossing the plains. He sent the train in
advance and after being initiated into the order caught up with those who had
preceded him on the westward journey. All of his life he remained an ardent
follower of the craft and attained to a high degree in Masonry, exemplifying in
hislife its beneficent spirit. During his youthful days, while the family were
residents of Illinois, they were neighbors of Abraham Lincoln and close friends.
490 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
Mr. Lincoln kept track of Mr. Miller, who later in life became a prominent
democratic leader in the state of California, and when Lincoln was president he
wrote to Judge Miller that if he would join the republican forces he would
appoint him to the best position in the Golden state. Judge Miller, however,
replied that he was afraid he would live and die a democrat.
Some time following the death of Judge Miller his widow gave her hand in
marriage to Victor Trevitt, who died four months later, on the 23d of January,
1883. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was loyal to the teach-
ings of the craft, which are based upon brotherly kindness and mutual helpful-
ness. The death of Mr. Trevitt occured when he was on a trip to San Francisco.
His remains were brought back and interred on Memalose island, which is situated
between The Dalles and Hood river and is an Indian burying ground. Mr. Trevitt
is the only white person interred there and an imposing monument has been
erected to his memory. His burial seemed a fitting recognition of one of his
strongly pronounced traits of character — his friendship for the Indians to whom
he had ever stood in the position of a protector of their interests. His life was
indeed broad in its sympathies, generous in its actions and honorable in its pur-
poses, and his life work left its impress upon the history of the Sunset state.
ALVA H. AVERILL.
Alva H. Averill, president and treasurer of The A. H. Averill Machinery
Company, has remained its chief executive since the incorporation of the busi-
ness in 1902, and, bending his energies to administrative direction and executive
control, has succeeded in building up one of the most extensive enterprises of
this character in the northwest. Previous to the time of the incorporation of
The A. H. Averill Machinery Company, he had been connected with Russell &
Company in the same line of business, dating from his arrival in Portland in
June, 1889, acting as its bookkeeper and cashier, while later he became manager.
The enterprise is today largely a monument to his business ability, his keen fore-
sight and unfaltering determination.
A native of Michigan, Mr. Averill was born at Mendon, St. Joseph county,
June 8, 1867, his parents being Henry S. and Martha (Hart) Averill. He was
a young lad when his father, who was a carpenter and contractor, removed to
Angola, Steuben county, Indiana, and in that town the boyhood days of Alva H.
Averill were passed. He attended the local schools and the Tri-State College
of Angola, Indiana, from which he was graduated. Turning his attention to
the profession of school teaching, he was for two years connected with the coun-
try schools of northeastern Indiana, and for three years was a teacher in the
Tri-State College at Angola, on the expiration of which period he determined
to make his home in the northwest. Accordingly he came to Portland, Oregon,
and has since been identified with the interests of this city.
Mr. Averill was married in 1891 to Miss Delia A. Light, of Angola, Indiana,
and they have one child, Harold L. A few years following the arrival of Alva
H. Averill in Portland, his parents decided to join him in the Rose City and
make it their future home. But shortly after reaching here the father was killed
in a street car accident, meeting death in 1901. His widow, however, still sur-
vives and resides in Portland.
On coming to the northwest A. H. Averill entered into active connection \yith
the business of which he is now the executive head. He served for some time
as bookkeeper, then as cashier, and later was promoted to the position of man-
ager. The business was established on a small scale in 1884 under the firm style
of Russell & Company. They began dealing in farm implements and heavy
machinery near the corner of Front and Morrison streets, occupying a small
frame building that formerly stood back of the Esmond Hotel. Later they
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THE CITY OF PORTLAND 491
occupied the four-story brick building on Front and Morrison and now occu-
pied by The Fisher-Thorston Company. It was erected for the use of Russell
& Co'mpany and the business was there maintained until removed to its present
location. This occurred in 1897. They now have a well equipped plant extend-
ing from 320 to 338 Belmont street. They were one of the first to build in that
section of the city. In fact, the Studebaker Brothers were the only firm occupy-
ing a building in that vicinity at the time the Russell Company erected their
plant. In 1902 the business was reorganized under its present corporate title
with A. H. Averill as president and treasurer ; E. C. Merwin vice president ; and
B. F. Ellis secretary; with Mr. Averill and Mr. Ellis managing the business.
They own their large warehouse, offices and machine shop, and have about fifty
employes. They are the Pacific coast agents for the Russell thresher, engines
and sawmills. The Russell machinery is all manufactured at Massillon, Ohio,
where is maintained one of the largest machinery houses in that state. The
Portland company has branch houses in Spokane, Washington, Great Falls,
Montana, and in San Jose, California, the business at each point, however, be-
ing supervised by the Portland office.
Aside from his executive interest in this connection, Mr. Averill is the vice
president and one of the directors of the J. J. Ross Mill Furnishing Company,
doing business at No. 65 Front street, and is the vice president and one of the
executive board of the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company. The Averill
Company is one of the largest machinery houses in the west selling threshers,
engines, etc., and maintains a well equipped machine shop for repair work.
In his fraternal relations, Mr. Averill is a high Mason and a Woodman of
the World. He is also a member of the Commercial Club and of the Oregon
Automobile Club. Appreciative of the social amenities of life, he enjoys the
comradeship of those organizations, and his strongly marked characteristics
have gained for him the friendship of many of his associates. His life history is
written in the terms of success, for diligence and determination have done for
him what inheritance has at times failed to accomplish for others.
WILLIAM J. CLEMENS.
William J. Clemens, who is known in business circles as a representative of
insurance interests and surety bonds and also as a director in various corpora-
tions, was born in Stark county, Ohio, Janaury 17, 1864. A prospecting tour
over the coast led him to select Portland as the most favorable place of resi-
dence in the year 1889. He had acquired his early education in the common
schools at Massillon, Ohio, and had also attended an academy there to prepare
for college. In his early manhood he also read law for a time, and while he has
never engaged in practice, his knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence has
proven a tangible element in his later success. He was still a young man when
he began learning the trade of manufacturing carriages and harness, and subse-
quently he conducted a successful enterprise as a wholesale and retail dealer in
notions and willow-ware.
Then the west called Mr. Clemens. He had been an interested reader of the
accounts which told of the opportunities and privileges, the advantages and the
natural resources of the Pacific coast country, and after visiting many points in
this section, he decided upon Portland as the most favorable place of location.
Here he entered into business connections with a wholesale grocery house as a
traveling salesman, and when he became convinced that he would make Port-
land his permanent place of residence, he established an insurance and surety
bond business in 1890. In this field he has since continued, and has secured a
large clientage. He is also a stockholder and director of the Oregon Auto Dis-
patch Company, conducting a delivery and automobile business ; is a director of
492 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
the Coin Manufacturing Machine Company, and is a member of the underwrit-
ing committee of the Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland.
On the 24th of October, 1884, Mr. Clemens was married to Miss May M.
Miller, a daughter of Zephaniah Miller of Ohio, and a brother of Lewis Miller
of Akron, Ohio, whose daughter is the wife of Thomas A. Edison, the world
renowned electrical inventor. Mr. and Mrs. Clemens have become the parents
of one child, Jennie Miller.
While the importance of the business interests which he has developed and
promoted would alone entitle Mr. Clemens to mention among Portland's worthy
and prominent citizens, there are other factors in his life record of equal in-
terest. He is recognized as an influential member of the republican party in
Portland, and upon that ticket was elected to the state legislature in 1908. He
is now serving as chairman of the insurance committee and as a member of
the committees on ways and means and resolutions. He is the author of the
present insurance code that is in effect in Oregon, and the insurance bill intro-
duced by him in the last session is a model of its kind and the only revenue-
producing measure of that session. He was reelected in November, 1910, by a
handsome majority.
Mr. Clemens is an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity, and has
various club and social relations, being one of Portland's most popular men.
He now belongs to the Commercial Club; the Portland Motor Boat Club; the
Oregon Yacht Club, of which he is past commodore; the Portland Automobile
Club, of which he is vice president; the Portland and Troutdale Automobile
Club; the Portland Heights Club; and the Multnomah Club. As a representa-
tive of the progressive element among the young men of the city he has gained
for himself gratifying and notable recognition as one of the leading and popular
residents of Portland.
JACOB MAYER.
The admonition, "Turn your defeats into victory, make your hopes a reality,
never let your personal interests constitute the bounds of your horizon, but
reach out for the large uplifting things of life," finds expression in the life record
of Jacob Mayer, of whom it was said that his name in Portland "stood for all
that is commercially substantial, personally upright and practically helpful." It
was on a May morning in 1826 — the 7th of the month — that he first opened his
eyes to the light of day, his birthplace being the town of Bechtheim, near Wurms
and Mainz, in the Province of Rhein-Hessen. His father, Aaron Mayer, was a
merchant who in the year 1847 l^^t Germany and with his family sailed for New
Orleans. He remained for a time in the Crescent City but afterward became a
resident of St. Louis, Missouri, which continued as his place of permanent abode
until he was called from this life.
Five years before the father crossed the Atlantic, Jacob Mayer, then a youth
of sixteen, had made the voyage and in that year, 1842, entered the employ of
his brother as clerk. Carefully saving his earnings, his industry and economy at
length permitted him to engage in the dry-goods business on his own account.
He chose New Orleans as his place of operation and in the year that followed he
met with gratifying success, but the discovery of gold in California led to a
change of plan, for he believed that there would be a good opening for a similar
business on the Pacific coast. In 1850 he therefore started for California,
shipping a cargo of merchandise. In the meantime he had married, his wife and
two children, Josephine and Clementine, accompanying him on the trip. After
crossing Panama they boarded the Sarah and Eliza, one of the slow-going craft
which in that day plied the Pacific waters. Hardships and privations awaited
them such as would have made the stoutest heart quail had they known what was
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THE CITY OF PORTLAND 495
in store. They had been out of Panama for one hundred days when the supply
of water and provisions became practically exhausted and to each passenger but
a half-pint of water was allowed per day. Starvation stared them in the face and
sharks and pelicans were used as food. When it seemed that death must be the
end they came upon a Boston ship which shared its food supplies with them, Mr.
Mayer gave eight hundred dollars — his entire capital — for a barrel of sea biscuit.
Twenty days later the Sarah and Eliza slowly made its way into the harbor of
San Francisco, but the memory of that voyage with all of its torturing hunger
and thirst and its dread of imminent death will never be effaced from the minds
of those who were passengers on that trip.
Arrived in San Francisco, Mr. Mayer established the second store in that
city in March, 1850, a Frenchman having been the pioneer in the dry-goods bus-
iness there, conducting his enterprise under the name of Sac & Kenney. Mr.
Mayer continued in business there until 1857, which year witnessed his arrival in
Portland. A retail dry-goods store claimed his time and energies until 1865,
when he broadened his field of activity by entering wholesale trade circles. He
was alone in business until 1875, when he was joined by Louis Fleischner, A.
Schlussel and Solomon Hirsch in a partnership relation under the firm name of
Fleischner, Mayer & Company. The title of the house still remains unchanged,
but not so the personnel of the firm, for the four original partners have all passed
away. The business, however, is a monument to their memory. It has become the
largest wholesale dry-goods establishment on the Pacific coast with a trade that in
volume and importance indicates the safe and substantial basis upon which the
business was built, Mr. Mayer continuing active in the management until a few
years prior to his demise, when he retired to spend his remaining days in the
enjoyment of a well earned rest.
Home ties were ever most sacredly cherished by Mr. Mayer, who in New
Orleans wedded Miss Mary Auerbach, who was bom in Klingen, near Ingen-
heim, Germany. They became the parents of six children : Josephine, the wife
of Solomon Hirsch, of Portland, who at one time was minister to Turkey;
Clementine, the wife of Oscar R. Meyer, of New York city ; Bertha, the wife of
H. Zadig, of San Francisco; Rosa, now Mrs. Moses Blum of San Francisco;
Mark A., who became the New York representative of the firm of Fleischner,
Mayer & Company; and Benjamin, who died in San Francisco when twenty-
three years of age.
Mr. Mayer figured prominently in Masonic circles from the time when he was
initiated into the order in Perfect Union Lodge, No. 17, A. F. & A. M., at San
Francisco in 1852. He afterward became a member of Lebanon Lodge, No. 49,
of that city, and served as its master for two years. Following his removal to
Portland he transfered his membership to Willamette Lodge, No. 2, A. F. & A.
M., and became a member of Portland Chapter, No. 3, R, A. M. ; Washington
Council, No. 3, R. &. S. M. ; Oregon Lodge of Perfection ; Ainsworth Chapter,
Rose Croix ; Multnomah Council of Kadosh ; Oregon Consistory ; and Al Kader
Temple, N. M. S. Upon him was also conferred the Thirty-third degree. For
many years he was grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Oregon and during
1888-1889 was grand master. For many years he was grand representative of
the Grand Lodge of England and Spain, near the Grand Lodge of Oregon, having
been appointed in 1895 by Edward, Prince of Wales, later king of England. Mr.
Mayer was also treasurer and chairman of the education fund of the Grand
Lodge of Oregon. During his service as grand master, largely through his per-
sonal efforts, the Masonic lodge of Dayton, Oregon, was organized and was
named the Jacob Mayer Lodge in recognition of his untiring labors in behalf of
Masonry.
His political support was given to the republican party and his labors in its
behalf were effective and far-reaching forces. President Arthur appointed him
United States commissioner for the New Orleans World's Fair. He did not seek
office as a reward for party fealty, however, preferring that his public service
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the farmers saved many thousand dollars. And the reduction in prices thus se-
cured has been largely maintained to the present time.
In all his business affairs, General Coffin was characterized by liberality and
great public spirit. The county records bear ample testimony to his generosity
to this city in the gift of the public levee now worth over one hundred thousand
dollars ; and his gifts to the churches and public schools. Professor Crawford in
his interesting historical sketch of the city schools, remarks :
"There are on file several newspaper items praising a few citizens for their
liberal donations of lots and blocks for school purposes. It certainly will not
harm any one to say that in all my researches I have found but one-half block
owned by the district, that came into its possession as a free gift. The north
half of block 134 was a donation from Stephen Coffin, and he afterwards gave
the present site (a half block) of Harrison street school in exchange for it.
Every lot the district owns, aside from this half block, has been paid for in gold
coin raised by district tax."
It may be also stated here that the first school and church bell raised in this
city to call the people together was purchased by Stephen Coffin of the Mensel
foundry at Troy, New York, in 1850, and put up on the old schoolhouse once
existing between Oak and Pine streets ; and when no longer used there, was by
him turned over to the Methodist church, and now hangs in the belfry of the
Taylor street church edifice.
These acts characterize and distinguish the man above his fellows ; for while
the city contained thousands of good citizens, many of far greater wealth, his
name alone appears on the records as a "cheerful giver."
He was not only very liberal and public-spirited in business but was also most
humane and charitable, with a most sympathizing heart with all in distress or
misfortune. It is related that he and his fellow immigrants were badly treated
by a few persons on arriving in this country. To this treatment Coffin boldly
remonstrated and was told in reply not to complain, "for he might himself make
up such losses from succeeding immigrants." This insult added to injury,
called out hot words and created enmity for life, and which Coffin might have
truly expressed in the language of Brutus to Cassius :
"I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
By any indirection."
And so far fram desiring to "get even" by such inhospitality, General Coffin
not only freely opened his own house for indigent immigrants but actually at one
time in this city opened a free lodging house for the newcomers and supplied it
with food and provisions — all free to the needy.
In politics General Coffin was an active republican and thoroughly devoted
to the cause for the sake of its principles. He was one of the "Old Guard," and
original organizers of the republican party in Oregon. He was not an office
seeker and never held any official post but that of brigadier general of the Ore-
gon militia during the war of the Rebellion, at which time he rendered the state
a great public service in the honest and faithful discharge of his duty in organ-
izing the militia and protecting the frontiers from the Indians during the ab-
sence of the regular troops.
His active life and business career closed several years ago, since which time
he has sufl:"ered greatly with partial paralysis. In his private life he was dis-
tinguished for purity and generosity. He was at all times most cheerful and
met with misfortunes not only with courage but even with philosophical cheer-
fulness. Few men held a wider acquaintance with his fellow citizens or enjoyed
warmer friends. His religious views were extremely broad and liberal, and
while acting in the main with the Methodists, he freely cooperated with all other
good people and aimed to so live, and did actually meet death, that in the words
of Bryant, he went
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 499
"not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who draws the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
Good friend, brave spirit, hail and farewell.
JUDGE RALEIGH STOTT.
On the death of Judge Raleigh Stott the courts of Multnomah county ad-
journed in token of respect and honor to one who had long figured as an able
and conspicuous member of the Portland bar, distinguished for his comprehen-
sive understanding of the law and his able mastery of every problem presented
for solution while he sat upon the bench of the circuit court. Moreover, he be-
came a resident of this city during the pioneer epoch in its history, and his death
was the occasion of sincere regret on the part of all who knew him.
Although a native of Indiana, born in 1845, he was only six years of age
when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Oregon, at which time the
family home was established in Washington county. History was then scarcely
in the making, and the entire state was in its formative period, yet the settlers
who had come to the northwest in the latter part of the '40s and the early part
of the '50s had not come here for the purposes of trade with the hope of re-
turning to the east to spend the wealth which they might have acquired, but were
actuated with the desire of becoming owners of homes in this section and be-
coming the rulers of a land so rich in its promises and its possibilities. The
Stott family, like others, made permanent settlement in the state, and the youth-
ful days of the future judge were spent amid the environment of pioneer life.
However, to him was accorded good educational privileges, and after mastering
the elementary branches, he attended the Pacific University of Oregon, from
which he was graduated in 1869. Having devoted his attention to the thorough
mastery of a course in law, he was admitted to the bar in 1870, and from 1873
until the time of his demise, was a representative of the legal fraternity of Port-
land, where in the successful conduct of a large practice, he won recognition as
one of the ablest lawyers practicing in the courts of Multnomah. Almost from
the beginning a large clientage was accorded him that connected him with the
most important litigation heard in the courts. His preparation of cases was thor-
ough, his analysis keen, his reasoning clear and cogent and his deductions logi-
cal. He had been a resident of Portland for only a year when elected to rep-
resent Multnomah county in the state legislature and thus aided in framing the
laws of the state. Then came official distinction in the line of his profession.
In 1876 he was elected district attorney for the fourth judicial district, and in
1880 was called to the bench of the same district, where his fair and impartial
rulings won him high encomiums. They were the expression of a thorough un-
derstanding of the law, correctly applied to the points at issue and from his rul-
ings few exceptions were ever taken. The cases which came before him were
seldom appealed, and his decisions almost uniformly received the stamp of ap-
proval from the higher court.
Judge Stott was long recognized as a prominent leader in the ranks of the
republican party and through a quarter of a century was almost continuously
a delegate to the county and state conventions, and frequently took active part
in campaign work as a speaker, his brilliant oratory and sound logic always hold-
ing the attention and often bringing conviction to the minds of his hearers.
Judge Stott was married and left a son and daughter, Susie and Plowden,
besides his widow, who bore the maiden name of Susan Plowden, and by a
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former marriage had two sons and two daughters who are yet Hving: Mrs.
James Laidlow, George and Lansing Stott and Mrs. C. E. Chenery.
Judge Stott numbered among his warm friends many men prominent in state
and national affairs. He was a man of genial, kindly disposition, of large at-
tainments and of fine character. Association with him meant expansion and
elevation. He died October 26, 1901, his death being sudden and unexpected.
The adjournment of the court when the news of his demise was received and
also at the hour of the funeral was a well merited mark of respect and honor
for one who for almost twenty-eight years had occupied a conspicuous position
at the bar, writing his name high on the keystone of Portland's legal arch.
ENOCH BURNHAM DUFUR.
Enoch Burnham Dufur, practicing successfully as a member of the Portland
bar, was born in Williamstown, Vermont, on the 6th of March, 1843, a son of
Andrew J. and Lois (Burnham) Dufur. The father died June 5, 1895, at the
age of seventy-nine years, eight months and eighteen days. The mother, who
was the youngest daughter of Enoch Burnham and came of English ancestry,
died June 8, 1890, at the age of seventy-two years and two months. The paternal
grandfather, Abel Dufur, was a soldier of the war of 1812 and fought under
General Jackson throughout the entire contest.
Enoch Burnham Dufur began his education in the public schools of Vermont
and following the removal of the family to Wisconsin there continued his educa-
tion until the family were again upon the western highway in i860, with Port-
land as their destination. Having arrived in this city, he completed a course at
the Portland Academy and Female Seminary, which he attended from 1861 until
1863. Having put aside his text-books, he turned his attention to general farm-
ing and to the dairy and stock business, but becoming convinced that a profes-
sional career would be more congenial, he entered upon the study of law, devot-
ing his leisure hours while at home to the mastery of Kent, Blackstone and
other commentaries. He afterward reviewed his studies with the law firm of
Killin & Moreland, of Portland, and upon passing the required examination was
admitted to the bar in Salem in 1884. He was also admitted to practice before
the courts of Washington in 1885, and later before the United States district and
circuit courts of Oregon. He entered upon the active practice of his profession
at The Dalles in 1885, remaining a member of the bar there for sixteen years.
On the expiration of that period he removed to Jackson county, where he prac-
ticed for three years, and then opened an office in Portland in partnership with
H. H. Riddell. That relation was maintained for two years, and he was next
associated with William A. Carter as Carter & Dufur and this connection was
dissolved April i, 1910, since which time Mr. Dufur has been alone in practice.
His ability soon won him recognition and the clientage since accorded him is
connecting him with much important work done in the courts. While his devo-
tion to his clients' interests is proverbial, he never forgets that he owes a still
highei allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Moreover his fellow townsmen have at times chosen him to act as their repre-
sentative in framing the laws of the state and in shaping municipal measures.
In 1874 he was chosen to represent Wasco county in the general assembly for a
term of two years, and in 1896 was elected senator from the district comprising
Wasco, Sherman and Gilliam counties, his incumbency in this office continuing
until 1900. He was councilman at The Dalles for three years, then mayor for
one year, and a member of the water commission for a number of years. He
was the prime mover in securing the establishment of the water-works at The
Dalles, and has always been interested in public projects that seemed to promote
progress and improvement. Yet his political honors have largely come to him
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unsought and were an expression of the recognition on the part of his fellowmen
of his admirable quahties of progressive and loyal citizenship. His support has
even been given to the democracy since age confered upon him the right of fran-
chise.
In 1866 Mr. Dufur was united in marriage to Miss Frances S. Zimmerman,
and unto them were born five children, three of whom are living: Mrs. Edith A.
Menefee, S. Douglas and George H. After losing his first wife Mr. Dufur was
married in June, 1882, to Miss Carrie E. Menefee, a sister of Frank M. Menefee,
who read law in the office of Mr. Dufur and for three terms served as district
attorney of the seventh judicial district. He is a prominent representative of the
bar and is also past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Unto E. B. and
Carrie Dufur have been born two sons, Burnham M. and Kendal D.
Mr. Dufur is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and has filled all
of the offices in the local lodge. While he has reached a point of prominence in
professional lines, he has never excluded outside interests, but his friends find
him an approachable gentleman, whose courtesy is unfailing, while the atmosphere
of his home and office is always that of good-will toward all.
COLONEL HENRY ERNST DOSCH.
Not seeking honor but simply endeavoring to do his duty, honors have yet
been multiplied to Colonel Henry Ernst Dosch and prosperity has followed all
his undertakings. There is perhaps no man in Portland who has done so much
to make known the advantages and resources of Oregon as Mr. Dosch, who
has been the representative of his state in various national and international
expositions.
A native of Germany, he was born at Kastel-Mainz, on the. Rhine, June
17, 1841, a son of John Baptist and Anna (Busch) Dosch. The name Dosch
is Arabic, which would indicate the origin of the family. The ancestry of the
family can be traced back to the early settlement of southern Germany and
through generation after generation the family was prominently represented
in military circles by those who held high rank as officers in the Genuan army.
Colonel John B. Dosch and his father, Colonel Ernst Dosch, were officers in
the army and the former had two brothers who also held high rank in the
service of their country. At the close of an honorable record in the army he
entered the diplomatic service and with a creditable record therein retired to
his large estate adjoining Kastel-Mainz, where his remaining days were passed.
He had married Anna, a daughter of Ulrich Busch, who was extensively en-
gaged in the lumber business at Kastel-Mainz. Her brother Adolphus Busch
has since become one of the most prominent residents of St. Louis, Missouri.
In the family were seven children.
Colonel Henry E. Dosch, the only surviving son, pursued his education in
Mainz, Germany, in the Gewerbe schule fuer Handel und Industrie, from which
he was graduated in April, 1857. This school bears the same relation to the
present manual training school that the high school bears to the grammar
school. Subsequently he was apprenticed in a large oil importing house in
Mainz, his term of indenture continuing to January, i860, and on the 17th of
that month he sailed for the United States. Making his way to St. Louis, he
secured a position as bookkeeper and was so employed until after the outbreak
of the Civil war. In May, 1861, he volunteered in General John C. Fremont's
body guard (cavalry), thus serving until October 25, 1861, when the entire
guard was mustered out of service after the famous fight at Springfield, Mis-
souri, General Fremont being removed from command. At Springfield these
valiant guardsmen met and routed three thousand Confederates in a desperate
conflict which lasted from three in the afternoon until dark, and during the en-
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gagement Mr. Dosch was wounded in the right leg. He reenHsted in Company
C, of the Fifth Missouri Cavalry, and rose to the rank of sergeant major.
After the battle of Pea Ridge the Fifth was merged with the Fourth Missouri
Cavalry and Colonel Dosch was mustered out in April, 1863.
In May of that year he first became acquainted with the west, crossing the
plains with ox team and walking from Omaha to Sacramento, California. He
stopped for a brief period at Virginia City, where he rode the express pony on
the Overland from that place to Lake Bigler, now Tahoe, known as Friday's
station. Afterward he walked across the Sierra Nevadas and reached San
Francisco, where he secured a position as bookkeeper and came to Oregon,
arriving at Portland on the 9th of April, 1864, went to The Dalles, wh&re he
assumed his position as bookkeeper and cashier for a firm dealing in miners'
supplies. The next year he engaged in merchandising at Canyon City, Ore-
gon, and continued until the loss of his stock and store by fire led him to come to
this city in 1871. For a long period he was connected with commercial interests
in Portland as a wholesale boot and shoe merchant, having his establishment on
Front street. Failing health caused him at length to retire from business in
1890. Indolence and idleness, however, are utterly foreign to his nature and
he turned his attention to horticulture, which has always possessed the keenest
fascination for him. In 1889 Oregon's governor appointed him a member of
the board of horticultural commissioners and succeeding governors reappointed
him to the office until his service covered eleven years. In the biennial reports
which have been issued under his direction those pubHshed in 1899 and 1901
have been adopted as text-books at Cornell University, the University of Mich-
igan, the University of Wisconsin, Stuttgart University in Germany and va-
rious colleges in England. Since his retirement from active business twenty-
one years ago Colonel Dosch has given most of his time to the interest of Ore-
gon, particularly along horticultural lines. He introduced the French walnut,
so prolific now, after experminating for years as to the best variety adapted to
the climatic and soil conditions here. He has certainly made liberal controbu-
tion to the progress and upbuilding of Oregon in his efforts to bring before the
world a knowledge of its resources, especially in the attractive exhibits of the
products of the state as shown in the different expositions of this and other
countries. He was executive commissioner from Oregon at the World's Colum-
bian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893; at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
at Omaha in 1898; at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 ; at the
West India Exposition in Charleston in 1901-2 ; and at the International Expo-
sition in Osaka, Japan, in 1903. He was also commissioner general of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904; was director of exhibits
and privileges at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland in 1905 ;
and occupied the same position at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at
Seattle in 1909. He was decorated by the emperor of Japan for valuable ser-
vices rendered them, first receiving the emblem of the Sacred Treasure, while
recently the insignia of the Rising Sun, the highest honor that could be conferred,
was given him. Colonel Dosch has been a frequent contributor to horticultural
journals and his writings have commanded wide and interested attention. His
labors in this direction have been of material benefit to the state in the improve-
ment of methods, in the introduction of new species and in disseminating an
accurate knowledge of Oregon soil, the possibilities of the state as an horti-
cultural center and the special fruits suited to various localities.
On the lOth of July, 1866, in Canyon City, Oregon, Colonel Dosch was
married to Miss Mary Louise Fleurot, a daughter of Pierre and Judith (Pig-
eon) Fleurot. Mrs. Dosch was born in France and came to Oregon with her
parents in 1857, making the trip by way of the isthmus and up the Pacific to
Portland. The children born of this marriage are : Ernst, who married Winifred
Wurzbacher; Arno, who married Elsie Sperry; Roswell ; Lilly Anna; Camellia;
and Marguerite.
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In his political views Colonel Dosch has always been a democrat. In 1866 he
became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, filled various offices
in the local lodge and was grand master of Oregon in 1888. He likewise belongs
to Lincoln-Garfield Post, No. 3, G. A. R., and was its commander in 1893.
A contemporary biographer of Colonel Dosch has said : "During the long period
of his residence in the west he has kept in touch with the progress in the world
of thought and action and while especially devoted to the great northwest, yet
has no narrow spirit of prejudice but is loyal to the welfare of our country and
interested in worldwide progress. Frequent trips to the east, as well as sev-
eral voyages across the ocean to the old home land, have brought to him an
intimate knowledge of the development of our nation and the influence of
modern thought in the old world ; but, while loyal to the land of his birth, he
believes the history of the future ages is to be written by the United States
and especially by that portion thereof lying along the Pacific coast."
HON. JOSEPH NORTON DOLPH.
The name of Hon. Joseph Norton Dolph is inseparably interwoven with the
history of Oregon development and also that of the Oregon bar. And when
the state legislature chose him as a member of the senate of the nation, it v/as
regarded as a fitting honor and was considered that the man dignified the office,
quite as much as that the office dignified the man. He held to high ideals in his
profession and in his public service, was profound in his judgment, incorruptible
and unwavering in his conduct, and in times of great importance to his country
— notably that of the free silver agitation — stood as a rock among shifting
sands, being prominent among the foremost advocates in congress who stood
against free coinage of silver.
The little village of Dolphsburg, near Watkins, New York, where he was
born on the 19th day of October, 1839, was named in honor of his ancestors.
An extended history of his family and connections is given in the sketch of
Cyrus A. Dolph on another page of this volume. In his youth he made the most
of his advantages, and grounded himself with a thorough education gained by
honest application and perseverance and when but yet a child taught the coun-
try school. He famiharized himself with the history of his future field of en-
deavor, by reading Freemont's Military Expedition to the Pacific Coast, pub-
lished in the New York Tribune ; Astoria, written by Washington Irving ; and
an account of Missionary Life in Oregon, by Dr. Elijah White. He devoted
himself as opportunity afforded to the study of law under the direction of the
Hon. Jeremiah McGuire, at Havana, New York, and in 1861, he ceditably passed
the examination that secured his admission to the bar.
In the spring of 1862 Mr. Dolph and his brother enlisted in Captain Craw-
ford's company, known as the Oregon Escort, which was raised under an act of
congress for the purpose of protecting immigration that year against the attack
of hostile Indians. He was made orderly sergeant of the company with which
he crossed the plains and after the journey was complete was honorably dis-
charged at Walla Walla, Washington. That he proved capable in the position is
proven in the fact that Captain Crawford again sought his services when he was
detailed to accompany another expedition of similar character but Mr. Dolph was
now established in the northwest and declined to accept Captain Crawford's
offer. He engaged in the practice of law in Portland in the spring of 1863 as a
partner of John H. Mitchell and the firm maintained a position of distinction
at the bar of this city until its dissolution was caused by Mr. Mitchell's elec-
tion to the United States senate.
Official honors came to Mr. Dolph from time to time, his first distinction of
this character being an election to the office of city attorney in October, 1864.
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While filling that position he prepared and proposed important amendments to
the city charter, which were afterward adopted, and he also revised for publica-
tion the ordinances of the city. In January, 1865, President Lincoln appointed
him United States district attorney for Oregon and he acted in that capacity until
he resigned to enter the state senate, to which he had been elected in 1866. He
served during the session of that year and again took his seat in the session of
1868 but a contest arising, he was deposed by a strict party vote. However,
the confidence maintained in his ability lay the people was exhibited in 1872, when
he was returned to the senate by an increased majority, after which he rendered
efficient service in the two succeeding sessions. It was characteristic of his
public service that he gave the most careful consideration to all questions which
came up for settlement and his support was always given for the public welfare
rather than to any individual interests and never did he place personal aggran-
dizement before the rights and privileges of the people. In 1866 his party made
him chairman of the republican state central committee and his ability for leader-
ship gave to the party an almost unequalled service. His power of coordinating
forces, of uniting seemingly discordant elements into a harmonious whole, to-
gether with his well formulated plans, made his service in that connection of
utmost worth to the party. When the electoral college met at Salem in 1876,
after Governor Grover had given the certificates of election to Cronin, Mr. Dolph
advised the course afterward adopted by the republican electors, and at once
drafted the papers which were by the electoral commission adjudged sufficient
to estabhsh the election of Odell, Cartright and Watts. The papers thus drafted
secured the return of Dr. Watts as republican elector and thereby decided the
vote of Oregon in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes for president.
Mr. Dolph, however, had not yet reached the pinnacle of his political service,
for in 1883 he was elected as the successor of Hon. Lafayette Grover, democrat,
to the United States senate. Taking his seat in the highest legislative body of
the nation, he was made a member of the committee on public lands and claims
and in 1886 was chosen chairmen of the committee on coast defenses. He was
also made a member of the committee on commerce and rendered invaluable
service in developing the water ways of Oregon. Measures presented by him in
the interests of navigation have become laws and have proven of great value in
the development of our country's maritime interests. He showed a keen insight
into diplomatic matters and a thorough understanding of our affairs with foreign
countries, being a member of the committee on foreign relations. He had no op-
position when in 1889 he was reelected to the United States senate, and his ser-
vices had won him high distinction. He enjoyed the highest confidence of his
fellow members in the senate and was highly respected by both the democrats
and the republicans, and his relations with President Harrison were particularly
close.
It was not alone as a political leader or statesman, however, that Mr. Dolph
attained fame and won recognition, for during the entire period of his resi-
dence in Oregon he was regarded as one of the ablest representatives of the bar.
The interests he represented were vast and his labors arduous. He became coun-
sel for the Oregon Central and the Oregon & California Railroad Companies and
was also retained by Ben Holladay, who was then operating a line of steamships
from Portland to San Francisco and constructing the Oregon & California Rail-
road. His partnership with Mr. Mitchell was terminated in 1872, at which time
Mr. Dolph was joined by Judge E. C. Bronaugh, C. A. Dolph and Joseph Simon,
the firm being the most prominent and the strongest perhaps in the northwest.
He represented the Oregon Steaniship Company, the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
gation Company, the Oregon Improvement Company, the Oregon Trans-Conti-
nental Company and other corporations organized by Henry Villard, and be-
came known as one of the foremost corporation lawyers in the country. His
professional service was also sought by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
and he was attorney for various minor corporations. In more strictly business
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lines aside from his profession he became known, being president of the Oregon
Improvement Company, vice president of the Oregon Raih'oad & Navigation
Company and the Oregon Trans-Continental Company.
Mr. Dolph was married in 1864 to Miss Augusta E. Mulkey, and during the
twelve years of their residence in Washington theirs was regarded as one of the
most hospitable homes of the city and was the scene of many delightful social
functions. After the death of her husband, which occurred on the loth of
March, 1897, Mrs. Dolph spent much of her time in the capital city, and died
in Paris, France, October 4, 1907.
Mr. Dolph was honored with high ofificial positions in the Odd Fellows and
Masonic fraternities. In 1876 he was chosen most worthy grand master of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Oregon and in 1882 was elected most worship-
ful grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons. In both positions he displayed
most notable tact, diplomacy and sagacity in controlling the affairs of the fra-
ternities. He stood as a splendid type of manhood, holding to high ideals in
citizenship and in all social and personal relations.
"He leaves a patriot's name to after times.
Linked with a thousand virtues — and no crimes."
EPHRAIM CRANSTON.
Ephraim Cranston, one of Oregon's pioneers, was born in Rhode Island,
December 15, 1800, and was of Scotch-English descent. His was a very old
family, the genealogy of which can be traced back to eleven crowned heads of
Europe. He was the son of John Cranston, who was the direct descendant of
John Cranston, the founder of the family in this country, who arrived in Rhode
Island shortly after the Mayflower reached the New England coast. John
Cranston served as the first governor of the Rhode Island colony under the
English crown, was attorney general and held high military offices. He was
succeeded by his son Samuel Cranston, who was elected governor of Rhode Is-
land for twenty-nine years consecutively, 1698- 1727, his death occurring while
he was still in oifice. No other chief executive of the state has been so honored.
He also held the highest military office of the state and it is said that he owed
a large part of his popularity to his courage and able leadership of the state's
armies.
The parents of Ephraim Cranston removed to Ohio when he was a young
boy and he was reared in that state. There he married Roxana Sears, who was
born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Cranston took up their abode upon a large farm which he owned and cultivated.
But in 1850 he disposed of his extensive agricultural interests in Ohio and in-
vested his money largely in fine heifers which he started to drive across the
plains to Oregon. He lost a great many on the long trip, but had enough left to
make a fine drove on reaching this state.
Owing to the report of cholera and the many Indian massacres they win-
tered in Missouri, and in view of these facts were about two years in reaching
their destination after leaving Ohio. There was a train of sixty wagons and
Mr. Cranston was the leader of the party. Whenever trouble arose he was the
man who found the way out. He was resourceful, courageous, hopeful, and
seemed to know just how to meet every condition. The Indians called him
"Oley Man Wagon Doctor." He settled upon a farm in the Waldo hills coun-
try and began raising cattle and other stock amid the foothills of the mountains
ten miles from Salem. He became one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers
of that section and continued to make his home there until a few years prior to
his death, when he removed to the city of Salem.
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Mr. Cranston was ever deeply interested in politics, giving his early support
to the whig party and following its dissolution he joined the ranks of the new
republican party. He was a strong anti-slavery man, seeing no justice in the
custom which held a human being in bondage, and he therefore put forth earnest
and effective effort to aid any of the negroes who sought freedom, assisting many
a slave on his way northward and across the border into Canada. He ever kept
well informed on the political questions and issues of the day and was an earnest
worker in the ranks of both parties with which he voted, yet he was not active
as an offfce seeker preferring to devote his energies to other interests.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Cranston there were born nine children of whom three
died in infancy. While six reached years of maturity, Mrs. Arthur H. Brey-
man, the youngest of the family, is the only one now living, her home being in
Portland. Warren, the eldest, followed farming near Salem and was a promi-
nent citizen of his part of the state which he represented in the legislature. The
second son, Samuel B. Cranston, was in early life a farmer but later studied law
and practiced his profession in Lake county, Oregon. Edward P. was interested
in the gold mines of Baker county, Oregon. Elizabeth became the wife of
Quincy Brooks. William Cranston was also interested in mining in eastern
Washington and Oregon but died in Idaho.
The death of the father occurred at the home of his son, Warren Cranston,
who occupied a farm near Salem, on the 6th of October, 1873. The death of
the mother occurred in Dayton, iWashington, on the 5th of September, 1882.
They were among the worthy pioneer people of the state and Mr. Cranston's
labors constituted an important element in improving the grade of stock raised
and thus promoting the agricultural development and prosperity of Portland.
They were people of genuine personal worth, highly esteemed by all who knew
them. Mr. Cranston's life was of significant service to the state in the vigor he
lent to the pioneer era, in making this region habitable, in bringing its resources
to light and in stamping his intensely practical ideas upon the agricultural de-
velopment. Such careers are too near us now for their significance to be ap-
praised at its true value, but the future will be able to trace the tremendous ef-
fect of the labors of these pioneers upon the society and the life of their time.
ORLANDO HUMASON.
Orlando Humason came of good old Puritan stock of Welsh and Scotch
extraction, the families of both his father and mother having landed in Connec-
ticut in 1640. His father, Allen Humason, married Miranda Andrews and soon
afterward moved to the Western Reserve, making a new home in Warren, Trum-
bull county, Ohio. Here Orlando was born December 16, 1828. He had two
sisters, Matilda and Lucy, and a younger brother, Elisha Francis, all of whom
survived him. At the age of fifteen he was left an orphan, and the ensuing
struggle to gain an education and to maintain his independence indicated his
character. In 1849 he went to Texas, thence across Mexico to Mazatan, where
he fell ill of fever and was deserted by his party. A kindly Mexican \yoman
nursed him back to health. In 1850 he reached California and in the spring of
1851 he arrived in Oregon City. Being able to set type, he at once found work
with Hon. Asahel Bush, who was conducting a weekly newspaper and who had
contracted for the printing incidental to the territorial legislature. In the absence
of Mr. Bush, Mr. Humason got out several issues of the paper, writing accept-
able editorials. Very soon Mr. Humason went to Champoeg to take up a home-
stead and later he went to Yamhill county, where we find him in partnership
with John A. Sims, on a farm. In 1852 he represented Yamhill county in the
legislature. In 1853 he sold out and moved to Wasco county, where he and Mr.
Sims engaged in transporting freight to the interior and mining regions in addi-
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tion to managing a large ranch. He was the first legislative representative from
Wasco county. Four or five times he was a member of the legislature — the last
being in 1870.
Mr. Humason was never a rank partisan but was a Unionist during the Civil
war and a democrat afterward. He was a natural leader. In the legislature his
influence was pronounced. Vigilant and cautious, he was never timid nor
ambiguous in political fights. He was a man of many friends because of his
genial sociability and true sympathy. It was his custom on Christmas Eve to
send a load of firewood to every widow in The Dalles, where he lived. He
"grub-staked" dozens of miners and gave many young men assistance in get-
ting an education, besides giving most liberally to churches, schools and hospitals.
The spirit of adventure which brought him to the far west caused him to take
a keen interest in the development of this new country. Enthusiasm and enter-
prise were his chief characteristics. He was captain of volunteers in the Cayuse
Indian war of 1856 and learned to treat with the Indians skillfully. Up to the
time of his death the Indian chiefs and their councils were wont to visit Mr.
Humason at The Dalles to have him arbitrate their difficulties. He could speak
some of their native languages and always expressed a true friendship for them.
As the county settled up Mr. Humason began the practice of law and became
a skillful practitioner and a safe counsellor. His name will always be honor-
ably connected with the early history of Oregon, and especially with that of
Wasco county, as a most devoted and loyal pioneer. Orlando Humason died at
the age of forty-six in The Dalles, Oregon, of Bright's disease, leaving a wife
and four children. Another child, Lavill^, was born to him five weeks after his
death. ■ .; :. ■' , ' ■ " •
In 1857, at Dufur, Oregon, Orlando Humason was united in marriage to
Phoebe Maria Jackson, only daughter of Jonathan and Ann West Jackson.
To them were born the following children : Clara Ann, who became the wife of
John Breckenridge Waldo in 1877; John Allen, who died when seven years of
age ; Edward Jackson, who died at the age of twenty-six years ; Ivan, who wedded
Miss Harriet King Jeffrey on the 5th of September, 1888; and Elva and La-
villa, who remain unmarried. In September, 1881, after being a widow six
years, Mrs. Orlando Humason married the late Frank Dekum, with whom she
lived happily to the time of his death in November, 1894.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS BEDFORD JONES.
With the possible exception of the founders of the republic there is no class
of men to whom the people of America are under deeper obligation than the
pioneers. The men who opened the way to the comforts and conveniences of the
twentieth century, whether as inventors, discoverers, pathfinders, Indian fighters,
frontier settlers, navigators or founders of great business and commercial en-
terprises, deserve the imperishable gratitude of present and future generations.
Without such men America would have remained a howling wilderness; with
them, our country is the garden of the world and the hope of the oppressed in
every clime. The sense of gratitude to the pioneers can scarcely be expressed in
words, but it is witnessed in monuments of art in all the great cities, in the
museums all over the land and in countless histories, handing down the deeds of
the fathers to remotest generations.
Captain Francis Bedford Jones, president of the Willamette & Columbia
River Towing Company, one of the largest maritime enterprises connected with
the Pacific northwest, is a son of a pioneer and was himself one of the indomi-
table adventurers who made easy the paths leading to the present widespread
prosperity in the northwest. Crossing the mountains to Oregon in 1853, the prin-
cipal energies of his life have been devoted in subduing the difficulties inseparable
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from settlement in any new country. As the evening of his career draws apace,
he looks back upon a long life of activity, upon the shadowy forms of many
who yielded in the struggle, upon the advance and the retreat, and at last the
final victory in the permanent settlement of a vast region, insuring continued
peace and prosperity.
Captain Jones was born at Detroit, Michigan, November 20, 1837. He is a
son of Francis and Annie (Welch) Jones and on his father's side is a descendant
of French ancestry, which settled at Detroit at an early day when the present
beautiful city was a trading post. His grandfather was a brick manufacturer,
being one of the first in that line of business at Detroit. Francis Jones, father of
Captain Jones, was a native of Detroit and was a pioneer farmer of Jackson
county, Iowa. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, eight of whom
were born in Iowa, Francis being the fourth in order of birth. The California
gold discoveries had attracted many fortune hunters and the stories of return-
ing gold hunters as to the almost unexplored region of the northwest aroused
great anticipations in the minds of many farmers and frontiersmen. Grave
difficulties were in the way and hostile Indians threatened death to all comers ;
but the caravans began heading toward the Columbia and the movement has
never ceased, even in the face of the most serious obstacles. Joining a party
bound for the northwest, Francis Jones and his family entered upon the long
wagon journey across plains, mountains and rivers to a new home in Oregon.
Captain Jones was then a boy of sixteen years of age and he traveled a large
part of the way on foot, driving the oxen and assisting in many ways in making
the hardships as easy as possible to his mother and younger members of the
family. An older son had traveled to California on the overland trail and later
joined the family in Oregon. The caravan followed the old Oregon trail, which
led through Fort Laramie to Snake river in Idaho. Here disaster overtook the
party. The Indians swooped down in such numbers as to threaten to obliterate
the entire caravan. It required a desperate fight in which men, women and even
children participated before the savages were driven off. One member of the
party lost his life in the attack and twenty head of cattle were killed or driven
off.
Arriving at their destination, after many adventures, in the fall of 1853,
Francis Jones spent two years at Oregon City and then settled on a farm in
Clackamas county, where he continued to reside until his death, about 1878,
at the age of sixty-five years. He was a man of strong will and determina-
tion, a good farmer and one who looked well to the interests of his family. The
type which he represented has almost disappeared as the conditions no longer
exist under which the hardy pioneers of mountain and plain were reared.
Captain Jones received the rudiments of an education in the district schools
of Iowa. Contact with men and affairs has been the principal school in which
he learned the lessons that finally brought him to his present responsible position.
Soon after reaching Oregon he became interested in river matters. He assisted
in the construction of a bridge over the Clackamas river. He served in the
Indian war of 1855 and 1856, later working on farms in Clackamas county and
engaging in farming on his own account in Polk county. There he remained
until 1863. For two or three years he acted as contractor, freighting to the mines
with jack trains, carrying flour, bacon and other provisions. At the close of this
contract he returned to farming, conducting operations on Sauvie's island for
four years.
The longing for the water, perhaps on account of his early days at Detroit,
never entirely left his mind and the year 1872 marked the beginning of his career
as a navigator, in which he has ever since continued. He acquired an interest in a
barge and began transporting cord wood from points on the Columbia and Wil-
lamette rivers to Portland, also carrying cottonwood to St. Johns. About the
same time he bought his first steamboat the old side-wheeler Clatsop Chief, and .
also a scow, which was utilized in the transportation of wood. In 1878 the Clat-
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sop Chief was struck amidships by a boat belonging to the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation Company and sunk. This was quite a loss to Captain Jones, as he
was unable to collect any damages, but he succeeded in raising the wreck, rebuilt
the boat and made use of her for years afterward. About 1887 ^^ built the
steamer Maria and as time passed acquired possession of the Vulcan, the Game-
cock, the F. B. Jones and the Engine. At the present time he is the owner of
four steamers plying in the waters of the Pacific northwest. He organized the
Willamette & Columbia River Towing Company in 1890 and has since been
president of the company, of which William E. Jones, his son, is treasurer, and
Maria L. Jones, secretary. The offices of the company are at 181 East Water
street. The company also maintains a machine shop completely equipped for
making all repairs upon its vessels. As stated above, Captain Jones has one son ;
he also has one daughter, Etta M., the wife of E. L. Politte, of Sunnyside,
Oregon.
Beginning as a pilot on the river. Captain Jones was granted a master's li-
cense in 1877. He continued as master until 1905, when he retired but is still
actively identified with the company of which he is the head. His son also holds
a master's license and is one of the navigators whose operations are constantly
being extended. Captain Jones takes a lively interest in all maritime matters and
is recognized as one of the best informed men on the northwest coast in mat-
ters pertaining to water craft. He has been a witness of vast strides in com-
merce, and his sound judgment and active participation in business afifairs has
brought wealth and influence. A man of great energy, he has accomplished much
important work that one of lesser capacity would have found impossible. It is
men of intelligent comprehension and broad calibre that have built up the great
business projects in the west and laid the foundations of successful enterprises
on the shore of the Pacific. Among them prominently stands the subject of this
memoir. Captain F. B. Jones.
J. S. HATHAWAY.
Fifty-eight years ago J. S. Hathaway came to the northwest and was identi-
fied with agricultural interests here until his death. His family are now living
in Vancouver and well deserve to be mentioned among the honored and worthy
pioneer settlers of this section of the country. Mr. Hathaway was born in Herki-
mer county, New York, on the nth of January, 1824, and pursued his education
in the schools of the Empire state. When he was a young man he accompanied
his parents on their removal to Berrien county, Michigan, the family home be-
ing established in the vicinity of Niles, where he remained for some time.
In that locality Mr. Hathaway was married to Miss Isabella E. Bates, who
was born in Ohio, May 7, 1827, a daughter of Dennis and Isabella (Brunson)
Bates. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway was celebrated on the 27th of
October, 1847, ^"d they began their domestic life in Michigan, where they re-
sided for about five years, leaving for the far west in 1851. They stopped in
Illinois for the winter, remaining for several months with friends in that state
and in the spring of 1852 they started on over the Oregon trail with ox teams,
making the long and arduous journey across the plains and prairies and over the
mountains to this section of the country. They left Illinois in March and trav-
eling day by day arrived in Portland in October. The Rose City was then a
little village of little commercial or industrial importance. It had a few hundred
inhabitants and its home and business houses were situated near the river bank,
while beyond to the west, south and north and across the river on the eastern
bank of the Willamette there stretched mile after mile of pine forest. Mr.
Hathaway and his brother Marshall built some of the first sidewalks in Port-
land in the winter of 1853-4. The walks were built by individuals and not by
the city.
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In the year following his arrival in the northwest, Mr. Hathaway removed
with his family to Clarke county, Washington, securing a donation land claim
about fifteen miles below Vancouver. He at once began to develop and improve
this, making his home thereon until 1861, when he purchased two hundred and
thirty acres of land four miles from Vancouver. There he followed farming
until his death, which occurred January 12, 1876, when he was fifty-two years
of age. He had shared in the hardships and privations of pioneer life and took
active part in the early development, especially in the reclamation of wild land
for the purposes of civilization. Mr. Hathaway was one of the first to embark
in the dairy business and later became the largest dairyman in his part of the
state. He made the first cheese that was marketed in Oregon and Washington.
He also furnished Vancouver with water before waterworks were established,
delivering the water in barrels regularly to his customers.
The family continued to reside upon the home farm near Vancouver until
1905, when the property was sold. There were nine children, of whom six are
living: Hiel B., who is now located in Fehda, Washington; Mrs. Abigail M.
King, of Vancouver; Mrs. Emma J. Caples, of Vancouver; Orrin B., also of
Vancouver; Alpha B. and Alfred O., twins. The former of Vancouver, and
the latter of 'Washougal. There are now thirty-four living grandchildren. The
family is indeed one of the older families of this section of the country and great
changes have occurred during the fifty-eight years of their residence in the Co-
lumbia river valley. They can remember when nearly all teaming was done with
oxen and when shipments were made by way of the rivers and the ocean. Long
years passed after their arrival ere railroads were built, and it was a consider-
able period before it was no longer necessary to man the forts of this part of
the country as a protection against the Indians. The Hathaway family have
always borne their part in the work of general progress and improvement.
JOHN ANTHONY MILLER.
Among the men who have assisted in a marked degree in beautifying the city
of Portland may be named John Anthony Miller, president of the Oregon Hassam
Paving Company, who is one of the most extensive contractors in his line in the
northwest. He was born in Saxony, Germany, August 26, 1868, and received a
public school education in his native land. At the age of thirteen years he came
to America, landing at the port of New York, and found himself in a strange
country, unable to speak a word of the English language. But he determined
that he would not allow this difficulty long to stand in his way and as opportunity
presented he gained a thorough knowledge of the English tongue.
His first work was upon a farm in Michigan, where he remained for about
two years and where he gained experience and knowledge which assisted him
materially in later years. He next went to a logging camp and was there
employed until 1889, being then attracted to Oklahoma, which, however, did not
meet his expectations as a country for permanent abode. He arrived in Port-
land in August, 1889, and his earthly possessions at that time consisted of one
suit of clothes which he was wearing and one dollar and seventy-five cents in
money. He was looking for work and he found it.
In 1890 Mr. Miller became connected with street improvements and gained a
tavorable introduction to the business in which he has attained great success.
He did the first brick street paving in Portland. This was on Burnside street,
from Third to Sixth, and he also laid the first wooden block pavement on Fourth
street, between Jefferson and Burnside streets. The company of which Mr.
Miller is president owns the patents of the Hassam pavement, which is so exten-
sively used in this city and the state. The first pavement in Portland was laid in
1907 on Hancock street, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-seventh streets,
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and it is the opinion of. experts that it bids fair to last for the next thirty years.
At the present time the company has over one milHon dollars worth of contracts
in the line of improvements, to which Mr. Miller is devoting his attention.
In 1895 he was married to Miss Martha Siebrandt, of Portland, a daughter
of Peter and Eva (Kerber) Siebrandt, and four children have been born to
them, of whom three are living: Leo W., Harold and Roland.
Mr. Miller takes the interest of a patriotic citizen in public affairs and has
been a lifelong supporter of the principles of the repubhcan party. He is presi-
dent of the Sellwood Republican Club and a director of the Sellwood Commercial
Club. In fraternal circles he holds membership in the Knights of the Maccabees.
Among the worthy citizens of German parentage who have made Portland their
home, Mr. Miller occupies a most honorable position and his career in a remark-
able degree illustrates the changes that can take place within the space of a single
life time. He has literally won his way. He has allowed no obstacle to daunt
him and before his invincible determination the greatest difficulties disappear.
His life is a complete refutation of the statement that circumstances make the
man. Rather is it an absolute proof that man makes circumstances and the
human will, backed by discernment and sound judgment, is the greatest power in
the world.
WILLIAM SARGENT LADD.
With the passing of time events take their true relative position, the trivial
and unimportant drop out of sight and those which have permanent value loom
larger as their real worth and scope beome known and recognized. Among
the builders of Oregon was William Sargent' Ladd, the value of whose life work
cannot be fully estimated until the projects which he instituted and the measures
which he promoted have reached their full fruition as elements of growth and
progress. He was one of the first merchants and the first banker, and he became
a factor in the organization of the extensive business concerns which met modern
conditions of trade and commerce in a rapidly developing section of the coun-
try. The permanency of his work is becoming more and more apparent.
Mr. Ladd arrived in Oregon in 1851, when a young man of about twenty-
five years. He was born in the town of Holland, Vermont, October 10, 1826.
Research into the history of early England shows that the name Ladd or Lade
is of Kentish origin and that it was found originally only in the counties of
Kent and Sussex. Records show only one family of Ladd previous to the seven-
teenth century. The estate of Bowyck, in the parish of Eleham, was the resi-
dence of the Ladds prior to the reign of Henry VI, and was in their possession
until 1601. In 1730 John Ladd was created a baronet by George II. The first
of the name in this country of whom there is record is Daniel Ladd, who ar-
rived in New England in 1623. In 1678 a John Ladd came to New Jersey
with a number of friends. He was a surveyor and was employed by William
Penn in laying out the city of Philadelphia.
Nathaniel Gould Ladd, the father of William S. Ladd, was a New England
boy who, owing to limited financial restrictions, was forced to provide for his
own education. His earnest labor enabled him to meet his expenses as a student
in the medical department of Dartmouth College and in time he became a leading
and prosperous physician. He was a man of strong character, of decided views,
and in antebellum days a stalwart advocate of the abolition cause. He married
Abigail Kelley Mead, a native of New Hampshire and a representative of one of
the old New England families. They removed to Sanbornton Bridge, New
Hampshire, when their son William was a lad of seven years, and there he at-
tended the public schools and the academy, devoting the winter sessions to study
and the summer months to labor. When he was fifteen years of age his father
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secured him work as a farm hand and later the father put him to work upon a
fifty-eight acre tract, which he had purchased. When nineteen years of age Will-
iam Ladd began teaching in the country schools. His father wished him to study
medicine and was amply able financially to send him to college, but he desired
that he should make his own way, believing that he would in this manner better
develop his powers and ability by early becoming self reliant and independent.
The father's plan for the young man's future, however, did not meet with the
latter's cooperation, else the northwest, perhaps, would have lost one who to the
time of his death was a most prominent figure in this section of the country.
Following the completion of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad William
S. Ladd secured a position in the freight house in his home town, was soon pro-
moted to the position of freight agent and later was sent to the head of the line
and put in full charge of the freight department. A month or two afterward,
however, he was returned to Sanbornton Bridge because, as he later learned, the
superintendent feared his rapid rise, dreading this lest it should mean his own
deposition. This return to his old home was a matter of dissatisfaction to Mr.
Ladd, and he determined to come to the northwest, reading having made him
largely familiar with the opportunities and advantages that might here be se-
cured. Moreover a former schoolmate, Charles Elliott Tilton, had located in
San Francisco, where he was selling goods shipped to him by a brother in the
east, and a merchant of Sanbornton Bridge, after purchasing a stock worth
thirty-five hundred dollars, had brought his goods to Portland and sold them for
ten thousand dollars. These things influenced Mr. Ladd to try his fortune in the
northwest, and on the 27th of February, 1851, he sailed from New York for
San Francisco.
Reaching the latter city he attempted to influence his former schoolmate, Mr.
Tilton, to engage in merchandising with him. Failing in this, he came on to
Oregon alone, bringing with him a few goods, after which he conducted a small
store until his stock was sold. He then traveled through the country, buying
chickens, eggs and produce, and on his return to Portland secured a position with
Mr. Goodkin, who had just arrived from the east with a shipload of merchan-
dise. Mr. Ladd made one thousand dollars by his labors in that connection, and
invested the money in a small stock of goods, the sale of which brought him
twenty-five hundred dollars. In July, 1852, he made a trip to San Francisco to
form a partnership with Mr. Tilton, and on the return trip brought sixty thou-
sand dollars in gold coin for Mr. Goodkin, carrying it in his stateroom to save
freight. Soon afterward an oilcloth sign announced that "W. S. Ladd & Com-
pany" had placed on sale the remainder of Mr. Goodkin's goods and for many
years thereafter Mr. Ladd was closely associated with mercantile interests in this
city, being joined a year after the organization of his business by his brother,
John Wesley Ladd.
Before leaving New Hampshire Mr. Ladd had become betrothed to Caroline
Ames Elliott, and in 1854 sent for her to join him. She sailed from New York
on the 28th of September, and upon her arrival at San Francisco was met by
Mr. Ladd and they were married there on the 17th of October, arriving in Port-
land on the 6th of November. Mrs. Ladd had descended on the maternal side
from the Ames family, founded in America by three brothers, her direct ances-
tors being the one of the three who settled in New Hampshire. The Elliotts
were also early colonial settlers of the Old Granite state and both families were
of pure English origin. Her parents were Ira Elliott and Rhoda Ames.
Having brought his bride to Portland and thus established his home in this
city, Mr. Ladd bent his energies with renewed energy to the conduct of the busi-
ness which was continued under the style of Ladd & Tilton until 1855, when he
purchased his partner's interest. Mr. Tilton then returned to the east but about
three years later again came to Portland and desired to buy an interest in the
business, but the partnership was not entered into as Mr. Ladd had already made
his brother, John Wesley Ladd, a member of the firm. The next spring, how-
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ever, he sold out and formed a partnership with Mr. Tihon, opening the first
bank in Portland in April, 1859. The original capital was fifty thousand dollars,
which in 1861 was raised to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and within a
few years became one million dollars. Upon the dissolution of the partnership on
the retirement of Mr. Tilton in 1880 the bills receivable of the bank amounted to
two million, five hundred thousand dollars. Ten years later none of these were
outstanding and over one hundred thousand dollars previously charged to profit
and loss had been collected. From that time forward dividends were paid and
the bank has long been recognized as one of the strongest financial institutions
of the coast country.
Banking constituted the most important feature of the business activity of
Mr. Ladd, and yet he extended his efforts into various other lines that contrib-
uted largely to the upbuilding of the city as well as to individual success. He
was the second largest subscriber to the stock on the organization of the, Oregon
Steam Navigation Company, which was formed in 1862 and capitalized for two
million dollars. He was active in its control until it passed into the hands of
Jay Cooke and his associates, and when the firm of Jay Cooke & Company failed
Mr. Ladd and others repurchased the business which in due time was sold to the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. In early days he contributed to the
work of testing the extent and quality of ore in the property now owned by the
Oregon Iron & Steel Company. He became extensively interested in farming
properties and was the owner of several valuable tracts of land in Multnomah,
Clarke and Washington counties. He did much to stimulate the agricultural de-
velopment of this region and was president of the board of regents of the Agri-
cultural College at Corvallis. He became early interested in the importation of
thoroughbred horses, cattle, sheep and hogs and in the breeding of Guernsey and
Jersey cattle and had upon his Broad Mead farm the finest herd of shorthorns
on the Pacific coast. As few men have done he seemed to possess the ability to
recognize a favorable opportunity and the courage to utilize it. He became one
of he principal promoters of the Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Company,
which began the manufacture and sale of furniture on the ist of April, 1874,
and now controls one of the leading houses on the coast. He was one of the pro-
moters of the Portland Flouring Mills Company organized in 1883, after a disas-
trous season to the flour mills of Oregon, in which most of them had become
indebted to Mr. Ladd. He then purchased all of the larger plants and com-
bined them in one corporation under the name of the Portland Flouring Mills
Company, which is today one of the most extensive enterprises of this character
on the Pacific coast. He was likewise instrumental in organizing the Portland
Cordage Company in 1888, was also a vessel owner and engaged in shipping
along the coast.
Aside from activities and business enterprises which promoted his indivi-
dual success in a substantial measure, he was identified with many movements
which were of far-reaching benefit to Portland. He became a member of the
water commission which was formed by law in 1886, empowering the city to
issue bonds to the amount of seven hundred thousand dollars to build a plant.
Wherever the spirit of progress pointed the way for activity and development
he followed its lead. He became directly responsible for the building of the
Portland Hotel, which was completed in 1890, and he was one of the first con-
tributors to the Portland Library fund. His championship of the cause of edu-
cation was manifest in his generous gift thereto, which included a scholarship
in the University at Salem and the endowment of a chair in the medical depart-
ment of the State University at Portland. In 1886 when the Presbyterians on
the Pacific coast were attempting to raise fifty thousand dollars for their theolog-
ical seminary at San Francisco he endowed the chair of practical theology for
that amount on condition that the synod of California endow another chair for
the same amount, which was done. He had been reared a Methodist but in
1873 joined the Presbyterian church. Mr. Ladd was associated with Flenry
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Corbett and Mr. Failing in selecting the grounds and furnishing the funds for
improving the Riverview cemetery. On attaining his majority he gave his politi-
cal allegiance to the democracy until 1864, when he supported Abraham Lincoln
and thereafter was a republican at national elections but cast an independent
local ballot. The only office he ever held was that of mayor of Portland in 1854.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Ladd were born seven children, of whom five are living:
William M. ; Charles Elliott ; Helen Kendall, the widow of Henry J. Corbett ;
Caroline Ames, the wife of Frederic B. Pratt ; and John Wesley. The death of
Mr. Ladd occurred January 6, 1893. He always ascribed his success largely to
his wife's cooperation and sympathy. They were as one in their various interests.
Mrs. Ladd took a very prominent part in promoting educational, charitable and
religious work, Mr. Ladd continuously furnishing her the funds necessary for
her gifts in those lines. He ranked with those men whose success is not meas-
ured alone in material gain, but also in the respect and honor accorded them by
their fellowmen. His prominence was never self-sought, but came to him be-
cause of his remarkable business ability, his genius for organization and his
aptitude for successful management. Moreover he fully recognized and met
the obligations and responsibilities of wealth and Portland had no more loyal
supporter or ardent advocate than William S. Ladd. His work has indeed been
an element in the city's upbuilding and his example is a standard of activity,
enterprise and successful accomplishment which may well stimulate the efforts
of the ambitious who seek success in the legitimate fields of business.
LOYAL E. KERN.
Portland was but a comparatively small town with limited trade interests and
with no railroad connections when Loyal E. Kern started upon life's journey
here. His birth occurred January 19, 1862. His parents were John W. and
Sarah (Kelly) Kern, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. He
is a grandson of William Kern, who came to Oregon in 1851 and located with
his family in Washington county after a brief period spent in Portland. He
established a sawmill near Beaverton, Oregon, but three years later returned to
Portland and followed the saddler's trade for some time. Subsequently, how-
ever, he secured and located upon a donation claim of three hundred and twenty
acres in Multnomah county, two miles southeast of the city. The death of Will-
iam Kern occurred when he was eighty-three years of age and thus passed away
one of Portland's prominent pioneers.
Loyal E. Kern has since witnessed the growth and progress of the city and
feels a justifiable pride in what has been accomplished. His education was ac-
quired in the public schools, attending what was then called district school No.
2, but is now known as the Clinton Kelly school. His youth was passed upon his
father's farm and when he had attained his majority he began agricultural pur-
suits on his own account, devoting six years to the cultivation of the old home
place. He then turned his attention to industrial interests and in the spring of
1890 began the manufacture of brick on what is now Powell street, near Fortieth,
utilizing horse power at the inception of the business. Improvements were made
in keeping with the progressive spirit of the times and in 1900, when he removed
the plant to Twenty-eighth and Division streets, he introduced steam power and
equipped the plant for the production of twenty thousand brick per day. Still his
facilities were inadequate to meet the demands of his trade and in 1902 he es-
tablished another plant at the comer of Forty-first and Division streets, which
had a capacity of twenty-two thousand brick per day. In 1907 the plant at
Thirty-third and Tillamook streets was established with a capacity of forty
thousand brick per day, operated by electric power and it is the longest soft
mud yard in the state. In his especial field Mr. Kern is thoroughly at home, his
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long experience and close study of the methods of manufacture enabling him to
do a work that has brought substantial returns. He is a member of the V. K.
Brick Company, of which he is manager, and is a director of the Coin Machine
Company.
On the 24th of October, 1883, in Portland, Mr. Kern was united in marriage
to Miss Helen M. Hawes, a native of Ontario, Canada, and a daughter of Daniel
Hawes, who was born in Suffolk, England. Her father, a farmer by occupation,
married Elizabeth Brady, who was born in Antrim, Ireland, and was a daugh-
ter of William Brady. Mr. Hawes came with his family to the northwest, set-
tling in Portland. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kern has been blessed with six
children : Ethel, Bessie, Harriet Beatrice, Mary Helen, Emily Ramona and
Lowell E. The youngest daughter died in April, 1902, at the age of eight years.
Ethel is now the wife of G. VV. Hendricks and Bessie is the wife of T. Irving
Patton, by whom she has two children, Helen Elizabeth and a baby girl.
Mr. Kern has always given his political allegiance to the republican party but
without desire for office. He belongs to the Woodmen of the World and to the
Native Sons of Oregon, and also holds membership with the Chamber of Com-
merce, being an active supporter of its movements to further the interests of
Portland in many ways. Both he and his wife are members of the Westminster
Presbyterian church, of which he is one of the trustees, and they are both espe-
cially interested in the Babies Home, the Boys and Girls Aid Society, the Deten-
tion Home and other allied charities.
RICHARD R. HOGE.
Richard R. Hoge, the simple weight of whose character and ability has
brought him into prominent relations with the industrial and financial interests
of Portland, is the manager for the Carnegie Steel Company at this point. Born
December 23, 1855, in Chicago, Illinois, he is a son of Abraham H. and Jane
C. Hoge, and a grandson of the Rev. Thomas Hoge, who was the founder of
the Little Washington College of Pennsylvania, and head of the Pennsylvania
branch of the family. His brother, the Rev. Moses Hoge, of Richmond, was
the son of the founder of the Virginia branch of the family. Abraham H. Hoge
became one of the pioneers in the manufacture of iron at Pittsburg and in
1848 removed to Chicago, where he founded the business of Gates & Hoge,
from which sprung the firm of Frazer & Chalmers, later merged into the Allis-
Chalmers Company.
Richard R. Hoge supplemented his early education by study in Newell In-
stitute of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a boy among boys, interested in the
sports that usually occupy youthful attention until he reached the age of six-
teen, when he entered business life and has since largely concentrated his time
and energies upon the duties that have devolved upon him in industrial and
financial connections. He has been associated with the steel industry contin-
uously since 1871, and in January, 1891, located in Portland, where he is now
manager of the Carnegie Steel Company. He also figures in connection with
financial matters in this city, being identified with the Columbia Life & Trust
Company and the Equitable Savings & Loan Association. Gradually advanc-
ing through intermediate positions he has come to be recognized as one of the
foremost representatives of the steel trade in the northwest, his initiative spirit
proving a potent element in the success of the business in Portland, his policy
being always one of constructive measures while his keen discrimination in de-
termining the essential factors in business has constituted another forceful
element in his success.
On the 6th of September, 1883, in Monmouth, Illinois, Mr. Hoge was united
in marriage to Mrs. Harriet H. Sansbury, by whom he has one daughter, Jane
E., born in 1894. By her former marriage. Mrs. Hoge also had a daughter,
Alice H. Sansbury who died in Portland in December, 1909.
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Mr. Hoge's military record is confined to service in the Boys' Zouaves of
Chicago, which company acted as escort in conveying the remains of President
Lincoln through that city on the journey from Washington to Springfield, and
in welcoming General Grant upon his return from the front at the close of the
rebellion. He has always been a stalwart republican in his political views, but
has confined his efforts to work in the ranks without desire for ofiice in recog-
nition of his party fealty. Any movement of vital interest to municipal affairs
has found in him a cooperant factor and his standing among Portland's promi-
nent business men is indicated by the fact that in 1906 he was elected to the
presidency of the Chamber of Commerce, and was also made chairman of the
finance committee of the San Francisco Relief fund. He has ever preferred,
however, that his public service should be done in a private capacity, and while
less spectacular, it has been none the less effective and beneficial. He holds mem-
bership with the Episcopal church but with no other society.
FRANK L. MELVIN.
The practice of law and a real-estate and timber land business claim the atten-
tion and calls forth the energies and initiative spirit of Frank L. Melvin, whose
orderly progression has brought him to a place among the men of affluence in
Portland. He was born in Highland county, Ohio, on the nth of February, 1867,
and has been a resident of Oregon since the 22d of June, 1889, arriving here
when a young man of twenty-two years.
His father, George A. Melvin, was born in Mississippi, August 4, 1836, and
following his mother's death, which resulted from yellow fever, he went to live
in Indiana. After the outbreak of the Civil war he joined Company B of the
Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry in August, 1861, and after serving three
years reenlisted and continued with that command until the close of the war,
doing active duty at the front in defense of the Union cause. He married Sarah
L. Hardy, of Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, in 1864, while home upon a
furlough. Mrs. Melvin was born in Highland county, Ohio, January 26, 1842,
and now resides in Hutsonville, Illinois. The death of George A. Melvin,
however, occured on the 14th of January, 1899.
Frank L. Melvin was largely educated in the common and normal schools of
Illinois and in early manhood did mill and railroad work. He afterward engaged
in selling machinery and, thinking to enter the legal profession, took up the study
of law. Having largely mastered the principles of jurisprudence in its relation
to land law he was admitted to practice in the land department. He has taken
part in some hotly contested legal controversies which have called for mental
alertness and ready adaptability as well as comprehensive knowledge of legal
principles and precedent. He has been a resident of Portland for twenty-one
years and through much of this period has operated in his present line. The
rapid growth of the northwest provides an excellent field for the real-estate man
who, carefully watching the signs of the times, can place his investments and
safeguard the interests of his clients in such a manner that his labors will be
attended with substantial success.
On the 9th of March, 1898, Mr. Melvin was married in Portland, Oregon, to
Miss Anna M. Niedermark, who was born in St. Louis, May 25, 1870, and came
with her parents to Oregon in 1873, settling on a homestead claim of one hun-
dred and sixty acres at Eagle Creek in 1874. Her father, Frederick A. Nieder-
mark, was born in Germany, December 22, 1837, and came to America in 1854.
He served in the Third Illinois Cavalry for three years and one month and was
married at St. Louis, Missouri, in December, 1866, to Miss Caroline L. Kott-
meyer, who was born in Germany, December 15, 1846, and was brought to the
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United States in 1852. Mr. and Mrs, Melvin have become the parents of a
daughter, Anna Leah, born in Portland, September 2, 1899.
Mr. Melvin is a republican, although holding to somewhat independent politi-
cal views on various questions. He has taken part in some hotly contested politi-
cal fights and his position is never an equivocal one, for he stands fearlessly in
support of what he believes to be for the best interests of the city and the com-
monwealth. He has twice filled the office of adjutant in a fraternal military
organization and was once elected to the rank of colonel. He holds membership
with the Sons of Veterans and the Knights of Pythias, has filled the various
chairs in both organizations and has represented both in the grand lodges on
numerous occasions. He has traveled extensively in Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and California in behalf of important business interests and is thoroughly imbued
with the progressive spirit of the Pacific coast country. He has closely studied
the resources of the west and his enthusiasm concerning this section of the country
is based upon thorough knowledge of what has been done and is being accom-
plished as well as of future possibilities for the further development of this
region.
HANCE S. TUTHILL.
Hance S. Tuthill, president and general manager of the Oregon Casket Com-
pany and prominently identified with other business enterprises of Portland,
has for many years been a resident of the city and is known as one of its active
and successful business managers. He was attracted to the northwest on ac-
count of its resources, and the possibilities which years ago he foresaw have
been more than realized. He is a native of New York state and was there reared
and educated, receiving a preliminary training at home and in the public schools
— the great university of the people, from which many of the leaders in all legit-
imate lines of business have gone forth to careers of usefulness and honor.
Mr. Tuthill heeded the advice of the respected editor of the New York Tri-
bune and at Kansas City he gained a knowledge of the manufacture of caskets,
which was further perfected in California. He learned all the details of the
business and became a practical casket manufacturer, which, in its various
branches, requires years of experience. He was appointed manager of the Ore-
gon Casket Company in 1891 and continued uninterruptedly in that position until
1908, when he was advanced to the office of president, also retaining the title of
general manager. The headquarters of the company are at lOi Fifth street.
North Portland. The company occupies its own building, a five story brick
structure, with a foundation area of fifty by one hundred feet and provided with
all modern facilities for manufacturing upon an extensive scale. The building
was erected in 1898 in response to urgent demand for larger accommodations.
The company gives employment to twenty-six persons and the products of its
factory are distributed all over the northwest and in the interior. The reputa-
tion of the company is second to none in a similar line elsewhere in the United
States and its management has always been characterized by principles which
have gained success as applied by the best business houses. Mr. Tuthill has also
found time to engage in other avenues for expression of his energy and con-
structive business talent, which is of more than ordinary capacity. He began
the jobbery of jewelry in 1903 and is president of the H. S. Tuthill Company,
a growing concern which is already turning out an attractive line of jewelry and
meeting a demand from a large territory. In this as in any other enterprise with
which he is identified Mr. Tuthill has shown a capability that yields abundant
returns and gives promise of a much larger field in the future. He is thoroughly
practical in business affairs and has an established reputation in business circles
for sound discernment and safe judgment.
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Mr. Tuthill was happily married to Miss Gertrude Whiting, of Chicago, and
the union has been blessed by the arrival of two handsome daughters, Helen
and Ruth. Mr. Tuthill is a lover of his home and is never so happy as when
in the peaceful domestic circle, where cares of business are never introduced, or
dispensing hospitality in his handsome residence to friends and acquaintances.
The New York boy has become the adopted son of one of the richest and most
progressive states of the Union and here he has won an honorable place as a sub-
stantial business man and a competence with which to make easy the declining
years of a busy life.
VANCOUVER TRUST & SAVINGS BANK.
The moneyed interests of Vancouver are worthily represented in the Van-
couver Trust & Savings Bank, which although one of the newer institutions of
the city, has been organized in accordance with modern and progressive ideas
of banking and at the same time with due regard to that conservatism which
fully protects the interest of the institution and its depositors. This bank was
organized in 1909 with E. F. Bouton as president ; Frank Eichenlaub as vice
president and cashier; and O. F. Zumsteg as assistant cashier. The directors,
in addition to the officers, are James P. Stapleton, A. H, Fletcher, F. H. Per-
kins, J. G. Winters, George M. Weigel, R. D. Alton and J. W. Aldrich. This is
the only savings and trust bank in southwestern Washington and it is building
up a good business in its various departments. The bank is capitalized for
thirty thousand dollars and its deposits now amount to one hundred and forty
thousand dollars. It now occupies its own home at 509 Main street — a two
story brick building which was purchased in March, 1910. This building was
formerly owned by the Vancouver National Bank.
JEREMIAH H. GLASS.
Jeremiah H. Glass is one of the leading business men in the suburban town
of Portsmouth, where he is carrying on a general mercantile enterprise as the
senior member of the firm of Glass Brothers & Company. He was born in
Blair county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1851, and is a son of David F. and Sally
S. Glass. The father is now deceased, but the mother is living at the age of
seventy-nine years.
Mr. Glass, of this review, was a resident of Pennsylvania until about thirty
years of age. The first sixteen years of his life were spent upon his father's
farm in Blair county, after which the family removed to Martinsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, where the father engaged in the lumber business. The educational op-
portunities of the son were limited. When leaving the farm in the spring of
1870 he was taken ill with typhoid fever and on recovering sufficiently to be
about a neighboring farmer, Powell Rhodes, invited him to spend the summer
on his place, mostly to regain his health. He accepted this kind oflfer and in a
few weeks was able to assist in the work of the farm, which he did until the
fall term of school opened. During that winter he pursued his studies for about
four months, making his home during that period with George Buttersbaugh, a
farmer living near Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, tending to and feeding the stock
upon the farm as payment for his board. In the following spring his father
removed to Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in the paper
mills, and Jeremiah H. Glass also secured a position in that mill, remaining
there for about two years. In 1873 David F. Glass went with his family to
Altoona, Pennsylvania, and found employment as a carpenter in the shops of
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the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at that place. Jeremiah H. Glass also
entered the service of the company at that place. Jeremiah H. Glass also entered
the service of the company as assistant storekeeper in the paint department and
while thus employed he supplemented his somewhat meager education by attend-
ing night school. In 1875 ^^ l^^t the railroad service to attend business college,
from which he was graduated and received a diploma. He next engaged in
teaching school for nine months and occupied various other positions.
In the meantime Mr. Glass was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Clay,
of . McVeytown, Pennsylvania. Leaving the east in 1881, he went to the mid-
dle west and settled at Index, Cass county, Missouri, where, in company with
his two brothers, Josiah and Herman, he established a shop for the conduct of a
carriage, wagon making, blacksmithing and general repair business. In 1883,
when a railroad was built within six miles of Index, the town was deserted and
the inhabitants removed to a new village on the railroad line, to which was given
the name Garden City. The brothers could not realize twenty-five per cent of
the capital invested in their plant and Josiah, becoming discouraged, left the
firm but Jeremiah H. and Herman determined to try again. They bought prop-
erty in the new town and built shops, where they carried on a good business for
a year. Like many a western boomed city the place did not prosper and in 1884
our subject accepted a position which had been offered him by the Roanoke Ma-
chine Works at Roanoke, Virginia, where he was given full charge of the stock-
rooms of the paint department. In the meantime his brothers had made a wiser
choice and had come to Portland, Oregon. They wrote him favorable accounts
of the great west and their letters induced him to seek a home on the Pacific
coast. ^
It was on the 30th of May, 1891, that Mr. Glass arrived in Portland. He
soon afterward located in Upper Albina, East Portland, and was employed by
the Willamette Iron Works for about a year. Subsequently he took up his abode
on the peninsula in Portsmouth and engaged in general contracting and car-
pentenng work, erecting a number of building in and near that suburban town.
He was thus identified with building operations until 1893, when the widespread
financial panic which involved the country caused a cessation of building opera-
tions here as elsewhere. Mr. Glass then secured a position with the Northern
Pacific Terminal Company as car repairer and in a few months was promoted
to the position of coach carpenter, which he held until August, 1906, having
special charge of the Southern Pacific passenger trains arriving in Portland.
In the meantime his two sons, Roy W. and Guy, had completed their educa-
tion and were anxious to get into some kind of business. Their father, there-
fore, opened the present store in 1904. It was at first a small enterprise, the
stock being valued at only nine hundred dollars. But close attention to business
and progressive methods have developed the trade to its present proportions and
the firm now carries a stock worth seven thousand dollars. Since 1906 Mr. Glass
has devoted his attention almost exclusively to the management of his mercantile
interests in which he is associated with his sons. He also owns several proper-
ties in Portsmouth and is a stockholder in the Willumbia Hall Association which
was formed to build an ofifice building, there being no structure of that kind in
Portsmouth. The same public-spirited citizens, recognizing its need, have pur-
chased a site and are preparing plans for the erection of what will be a modern
brick and cement building, thoroughly equipped, and will also contain a hall for
public meetings, the ground floor being for storerooms and banks.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Glass have been bom two sons : Roy W., who is a grad-
uate of the Oregon State University ; and Guy, who married Nettie Beard and
has one son, Arthur, now in his second year. The family are well known in the
section of the city in which they reside and Mr. Glass is recognized as one of the
most prominent and influential residents of Portsmouth. He is a charter mem-
ber of the United Artisans and from the age of eighteen years has been a faith-
ful and devoted member of the Methodist church in which he is now serving as
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class leader. He was also made teacher of the adult Bible class and after being
in charge for a few months he, with the assistance of about fifteen members,
succeeded in reorganizing it on the new movement plan and received a charter
of recognition from the international Sunday schools. It now has a member-
ship of about fifty and Mr. Glass is the author of a plan for teaching a Sunday
school lesson which is conceded to be one of the best used by Bible class teach-
ers. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished, for with no special
advantages at the outset of his career he has worked his way steadily upward by
reason of his energy, determination and force of character.
JOHN TUCKER SCOTT.
John Tucker Scott was the head and progenitor of that branch of the Scott
family in Oregon that has figured prominently in the history of the state. He
was born in Washington county, Kentucky, February i8, 1809, and died at Forest
Grove, Oregon, September i, 1880. His parents, James and Frances (Tucker)
Scott, were Kentucky pioneers, having removed to that state from North Caro-
lina in the early years of the nineteenth century. Their parents had been among
the early settlers of North Carolina, hence the spirit of adventure, the restless
spirit that urges men to be up and doing, which in our time and place is known
as the pioneer spirit, was his heritage from at least two generations. He left
the wilderness of Kentucky in which he was born when a youth of seventeen
years. A physical giant, he contended with the forces of nature in his young
manhood. Fatigue, sickness and discouragement were to him unknown. Of
strong will and persistent purpose, he took no account of obstacles. His father
became the first settler of Groveland township, Tazewell county, Illinois, where
a man of sturdy integrity and much energy, of keen judgment and unflagging
interest in public affairs, he soon became a leader in and authority upon all mat-
ters pertaining to the general welfare of the frontier community. His wife pos-
sessed boundless courage to which was added the gentle, womanly forces that
make and adorn the home. Energetic and ambitious, she stood for the highest
ideals in the development of the characters of her children.
Of the seven children born to James Scott and Frances Tucker, his wife, on
the frontier of the middle west John Tucker Scott was the eldest and the only
son with the exception of a brother who died in early manhood. He was mar-
ried October 22, 1830, in a little two-room cabin, then the home of the Rev.
Neill Johnson, in the wilderness and near the present site of the village of Fre-
mont, Illinois, to Miss Anna Roleofson, whose parents were pioneers of Ken-
tucky. In Henderson county, that state, Mrs. Scott was born July 22, 181 1. She
was of German and Irish stock, her father, Lawrence Roleofson, being of Ger-
man parentage, and her mother, Mary Smith, of Irish descent. Of strict
integrity, deep piety and an absolute devotion to duty as they saw it, these im-
mediate progenitors of the Scott family on the maternal side stood for the qual-
ities that underlie the American home and, through the home, the American
nation. Earnest, self-denying, enduring, absolutely uncomplaining, Mrs. Scott
lived her short span of a little less than forty-one years, and died in the wilder-
ness, a victim of untoward circumstances and inhospitable environment. Her
death occurred June 20, 1852, on the old emigrant trail in Wyoming, about eighty
miles north of Cheyenne. Taken ill at daybreak, with a malady known as "plains
cholera," an ailment that would have readily been dispelled had proper remedies
been available, she died at sunset on a June day, in a wilderness surpassingly
beautiful but "lone as the sea 'round the northern pole." Her husband and nine
children stood beside the grave into which her uncoffined body, tenderly wrapped
in simple cerements, was lowered to rest. Her life was a sacrifice to the pio-
neer spirit that has been a blessing to civilization, though, alas, a sore trial to
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the women who were thus led into the wilderness. To her family she left the
heritage of a saintly memory.
Of the nine children who started with John Tucker and Anna Scott to Ore-
gon by the ox team route in 1852, three having previously died in infancy, the
youngest, William Niell, died en route at the age of four years and, like his
mother, was buried by the roadside in what is now Baker county, a few miles
from Durkee. The remaining children with their father reached Oregon City
late in October, 1852. They pushed on a few miles further up the valley and
after sojourning a few weeks at the home of Neill Johnson, of French Prairie,
passed on to La Fayette, Yamhill county, where the first home of the family
in Oregon territory was set up.
Of the eight surviving children the eldest, Mary Frances, was married August
16, 1853, to Amos Cook, a pioneer of 1840, who died at the family home near
La Fayette, Yamhill county, February 6, 1895. His widow is still a resident of
Portland. They had six children : Lillian, the wife of W. P. Olds ; Agnes, wife
of Judge W. L. Bradshaw of The Dalles; Maude, wife of F. P. Young; Pearl,
who resides with her mother ; and two who died in infancy.
Abigail Jane Scott, the second daughter of John Tucker Scott, was married
August I, 1853, to Benjamin C. Duniway, who died August 4, 1895. They had
six children : Clara, who became the wife of D. H. Stearns and died January
26, 1886; WilHs Scott, of Salem, Oregon; Hubert R., of New York; Wilkie C.
and Ralph R., both of Portland; and Clyde Augustus, president of the University
rxf Montana at Missoula.
Margaret Anne, the third daughter, was married in April, 1854, to George
W. Fearnside and died September 28, 1865, leaving five daughters, of whom the
following survive : Mrs. A. B. Eastman, of Vancouver, Washington ; Mrs. Charles
Smith, of Los Angeles; and Mrs. E. M. Philebaum, of Sunnyside, Washington.
Harvey W. Scott, the oldest son, long editor of the Oregonian and one of
the distinguished men of the northwest, is mentioned at length elsewhere in this
volume.
Catharine Amanda, the fourth daughter, was born November 30, 1839, and
was married June 23, 1857, to John R. Coburn.
Harriet Louisa Scott, the fifth daughter, was born March 9, 1841, and on
the 25th of November, 1856, became the wife of William R. McCord. Of their
six children four are living: Dora, the wife of L. R. Archer, of Aberdeen, Wash-
ington ; Jessie, living with her mother in Portland ; Myrtle, the wife of Philip
Huf of Seattle ; and James Sterling, of Portland. Her second husband was
Isaac Palmer, who died in 1907.
John Henry Scott, born October i, 1845, died May i, 1863, a young man of
great promise.
Sarah Maria Scott, born April 22, 1847, was married June 23, 1869, to J. M.
Kelty, who died November 24, 190 1. Her four children are Paul R., Carl S.,
Mrs. Edith M. Alderman and Mrs. Emily Q. Riesland, all of Portland.
John R. Coburn, who, on the 23d of June, 1857, married Catharine Amanda,
the fourth daughter of the Scott family, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, July
5, 1830, and when twenty-two years of age came to Oregon territory. For many
years he was identified with steamboat building on the Willamette river above
the falls, and in business circles as in private life was recognized as a man of
industry and probity. He died at Canemah, the family home, July 15, 1868,
leaving four daughters, only one of whom is now living, Ada, the wife of Albert
Hawkins, of Clarke county, Washington. His other descendants are Dennis
Coburn Pillsbury, a grandson, and Jean Catharine Slauson, a granddaughter.
When Catharine A. Coburn, in 1868, was left a widow with four young
daughters, and confronted the necessity of earning a livelihood, she took up the
work of teaching in a district school in Canemah, Clackamas county, where she
remained until 1872. In March of the latter year, she removed to Forest Grove,
where she was principal of the public school for two years, and in 1874 she
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came with her four young daughters to Portland, where her children became
pupils in the public schools. Mrs. Coburn became associate editor on the New
Northwest, a journal that espoused the cause the equal suffrage, and was owned
by her sister, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway. She continued in this position for
five years, when she became editor-in-chief of the Portland Daily Bee, a news-
paper owned by D. H. Stearns. She occupied this position two years, leaving
it in 1879 to become editor of the Portland Evening Telegram. After seven
years in that connection she was transferred to the editorial staff of the Oregon-
ian, where she still remains. Her life has been one of extraordinary industry
and unconquerable energy. Its trials, hardships and sorrows have been many,
but she has maintained throughout a cheerful, .determined spirit, and now at the
age of three score and ten years writes daily with the vigor characteristic of her
family.
Mrs. Coburn has lived in Portland continuosly since 1874. Besides her edi-
torial work, from the proceeds of which she has maintained herself and brought
up and educated four children and two grandchildren, she has been active from
time to time in temperance, charitable and educational work. She was, in the
time -when the Order of Good Templars was active in Oregon, grand secretary
of the grand lodge of that order and conducted the large correspondence incident
to that office. She served some years as lodge deputy in organizing and reor-
ganizing lodges and held at various times the higher offices in the subordinate
lodge, to which she belonged. She was one of the founders of the Portland
Woman's Union, an organization that maintains a boarding home for working
girls and women in Portland, and served for a time as its president. She was
for 'many years a member of the board of managers of the Baby Home and for
a time occupied a similar position toward the Florence Crittenton Home. She
is a member of the Oregon Pioneer Society and has been for years, worked with
the woman's auxiliary of that organization, and was active with the late Mrs.
Card and others of the floral section of the State Horticultural Society in insti-
tuting the first chrysanthemum and rose shows in Portland. She is much in-
terested in the public schools of the city, never fails to cast her vote at the annual
school elections, and is president of the board of trustees of the Allen Prepara-
tory School. Mrs. Coburn is one of a fast vanishing band who has seen Port-
land grow from the village and neighborhood stage to a prosperous and popu-
lous city, and it is not too much to say that she has enjoyed- every step of the
progress she has witnessed, aiding it all along the line by her pen as well as by
personal efforts.
JUDGE LA FAYETTE MOSHEPL
Judge La Fayette Mosher, participating in the Indian wars of the northwest,
sitting as justice of the supreme court, aiding in framing the laws of the common-
wealth as a member of the state legislature, cooperating in the movements for
social and moral progress, left the impress of his individuality indelibly upon the
history of Oregon. Recognized as one of the foremost men of the northwest,
presidential appointment bestowed public honors upon him — honors which he bore
with dignity and becoming modesty. Broad-minded, he was deeply interested in
the welfare of every section of the country, but his interest centered in the state
of his adoption and he predicted for Oregon a glorious future. He took up his
abode within its borders in 1853, being at that time a young man of twenty-eight
years.
His birth occurred September i, 1824, at Latonia Springs, Kenton county,
Kentucky. His father. Dr. Stephen Mosher, of that place, was not only a dis-
tinguished physician but also a noted horticulturist and the originator of some of
the best known and finest varieties of pears. He married Hannah Webster, of
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Newport, Rhode Island, a lady of English descent. Her father. Captain Nicholas
Webster, served with distinction in the Merchant Marines throughout the entire
Revolutionary war. He was also a member of the Humane Society of Newport,
and his certificate of membership, which is now one hundred and sixteen years
old, is still preserved by his great-grandchildren, who now live at No. 314 Sher-
man street, Portland. The members of this Humane Society were the original
life-savers. While the Webster family were among the early settlers of Rhode
Island, the Mosher family was established in New York by French Huguenots
who crossed the Atlantic in the early part of the seventeenth century and for
generations their descendants were prominent citizens of the lake region of New
York.
La Fayette Mosher, mastered his early education while spending his boyhood
days under the parental roof and was admitted to the "Old Woodward Memorial
College of Cincinnati" August 19, 1839. He remained a student there for four
years and was graduated on the completion of the classical course, receiving the de-
gree of A. B. on the 30th of June, 1843. Many representatives of the Mosher
family engaged in the practice of medicine and La Fayette Mosher turned his at-
tention to the profession as a life work but his studies were interrupted by the
war with Mexico. He volunteered for active duty and served as second lieu-
tenant in the Fourth Ohio Regiment under Captain George E. Pugh. Just prior
to the close of the war, upon the resignation of Captain Pugh, he succeeded to
the command of his company and after the close of hostilities he returned to
Cincinnati and resumed the study of medicine, but during the terrible siege of
cholera in 1849, ^^ which he served both as doctor's assistant and as night and
day nurse, witnessing untold sufferings and horrors he decided to give up med-
icine and take up the study of law. His careful preliminary preparation secured
his admission to the Ohio bar in 1852 and he entered upon active practice with
the firm of Pugh & Pendleton, both of whom were later members of the United
States senate.
On the 27th of March, 1853, Mr. Mosher left Cincinnati for Oregon in the
company of his late commander of the Mexican war — General Joseph Lane, ar-
riving in Portland on the 14th of May. It was not the Portland of today though
there were two landmarks that have never been effaced. Mount Hood turned its
smiling face just as it does today and the beautiful Willamette flowed by the
little hamlet among the firs. Portland was too young a town to need many law-
yers and Mr. Mosher, failing to secure a sufficient practice to meet his ex-
penses remained only a short time. He turned his face to the gold fields of south-
ern Oregon and, locating in the old town of Jacksonville, engaged in mining near
that place. The accidental discharge of his pistol wounded him in his right
knee, thus ending his mining venture. He was taken into Jacksonville, where
he found true and loyal friends who nursed him through this misfortune that
had befallen him in a strange country. Upon recovering from his wound he
joined General Joseph Lane, who was in command of the troops fighting the
Rogue River Indians in the war of 1853. Not being fully recovered he did not
take an active part in this campaign but acted as aide to the General. After this
war he returned to Jacksonville, where he engaged in the practice of law until
1855, when he was appointed register of the United States land office at Win-
chester, the county seat of Douglas county, Oregon. In the fall of that year he
returned to Jacksonville and offered his services to fight against the Indians in
the war that broke out in 1855 but his connection with the war was short for
he was compelled to return to his duties in the land office. He, however, saw
much service during the wars with the Rogue River Indians.
Mr. Mosher continued in the land office from 1855 until 1861 and then re-
sumed the practice of law. Called to the bench he served as circuit judge of the
second judicial district and by virtue of that office sat upon the supreme bench
of the state, proving himself the peer of the ablest members who have graced
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the court of last resort in Oregon. He was ever a student of the law and his
decisions were a clear exposition of the legal principles applicable to the points in
litigation. Possessing a mind naturally logical and inductive, his close reason-
ing showed that he was not only familiar with the chief basis points but also
with principle and precedent. During one term's service in the state legislature
he also aided in framing the laws of the commonwealth. ,
Throughout his life Mr. Mosher was a stalwart supporter of the democratic
party and took an active part in every presidential campaign from the time when
age first permitted him to exercise the right of franchise in 1844, his support
being then given to James K. Polk for the presidency, until his death. He was
appointed by President Arthur a vistor to West Point in 1884 and the trip was
a most pleasurable one to him for on that occasion he again met many of the
army officers whom he had known in Oregon as well as during his service in
the Mexican war. He also went to Cincinnati and visited many of the old friends
of his youth, whom he had not seen for thirty years. During that time he wit-
nessed the exciting political campaign which resulted in the election of Grover
Cleveland.
On the I St of July, 1856, Mr. Mosher was united in marriage to Miss Wini-
fred Lane, the youngest daughter of General Joseph Lane, his old commander
and friend. To them were born eight children, four sons and four daughters.
The eldest son, Charles Lane Mosher, was married at Phoenix, Arizona, to Miss
Hattie Lount and to them was born a daughter, Julia Winifred Mosher, of Leip-
sic, Germany. Charles Mosher, who was a journalist of ability, died in Port-
land in March, 1904. The second and fourth sons, John Shirley and Henry Au-
gustine, died in infancy, and the third son, Paul Albert, died in his twenty-seventh
year. The eldest daughter, Miss Anna Mosher, is a successful nurse. Miss Wini-
fred Mosher, the second daughter, is one of Portland's best known teachers.
Alice K. Mosher is married to John A. Wilhs and resides on a farm not far
from Portland. The youngest daughter, Mary Emma Mosher, is the wife of
John M. Cowan, keeper of the Cape Flattery lighthouse. They are the parents
of eight children: Stephen Forrest, assistant keeper of the light; Shirley, a
resident of Port Angeles; and Joseph Kenneth, Mary Beatrice, Charles Theron,
Vincent Pauline, Alvah Gregory and Winifred Rachel, all in school.
Mr. Mosher was a Mason for a good many years and a member of the
Improved Order of Red Men. He was a consistent member of the Catholic
church, a man of undoubted honesty and of kind and charitable disposition. He
was devoted to his home and family, was fond of nature in all her beautiful
aspects, especially fond of flowers and was the kind and loving friend of every
child he knew. They all loved him in return and when he was laid to rest be-
neath his loved oaks the children heaped his grave with flowers. He died March
Q.'j, 1890.
REV. JAMES H. BLACK.
It has been said that the best test of merit is continued success. Judged by
this test. Rev. James H. Black should occupy a prominent place among the men
of the northwest who perform the work intrusted to them so well that they are
constantly advancing to higher responsibilities. Actuated by a high sense of
duty Father Black has always gone about his undertakings with great enthusiasm
and a determination to produce tangible and permanent results. The splendid
new church for St. Francis parish is a monument to his faithfulness and ability
not only as a wise pastor and counselor but in the field of finance which calls for
a special talent not always found in connection with pastoral abilities of a high
order.
Rev. James H. Black is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, born February 4,
1865, and is the son of William and Maria N. Black. William Black removed
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to Oregon in 1888 and died in this state July 29, 1910. He was a man of many
estimable qualities and one whose memory will long- be revered by many friends
and acquaintances.
The subject of this review was reared in Virginia and received his elementary
education there. His collegiate course was begun at King's College, Bristol,
Tennessee. Returning to Virginia he taught school four years in the public
schools, and then entered Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, grad-
uating in 1889. Having chosen the priesthood as his calling, he became secre-
tary of the faculty at St. Edward's, the leading Catholic college of the south, at
Austin, Texas. There he remained for three years, acting as secretary, pur-
suing his seminary studies and also teaching in the college.
Father Black then came to Oregon and for a year taught in Mount Angel
College. On June 11, 1893, he was ordained to the priesthood at Mount Angel,
From 1893 to 1896 he was assistant priest at the cathedral in Portland and for
two years, 1896 and 1897, he had charge of St. Mary's church at Eugene, Ore-
gon. He also had charge during this time of St. Rose Catholic church at Mon-
roe, Benton county, Oregon, and during the same time built St. Mary's church,
Cottage Grove, Oregon. The success of Father Black in three churches at
the same time attracted the favorable attention of his superiors, and he was
invited to return to Portland as secretary to Archibishop Gross at the cathedral.
In this position he continued until the death of the archbishop in 1898.
Having been assigned to St. Francis parish, Father Black went to work with
his accustomed zeal and built up the parish until a new church became a neces-
sity. His parishioners nobly seconded him in his efforts and the new St. Francis
church, the most beautiful Catholic church in Portland, is the result. During a
trip abroad a few years ago Father Black spent much time studying the churches
of continental Europe with a view to the needs of his parish in Portland, and his
ideas have been embodied in the edifice. The building covers half a block of
ground and cost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The corner stone was
laid July 4, 1909, by Archbishop Christie. The structure is ornamented with sev-
eral snow-white spires, with two large gold crosses on two of the highest spires,
making this church the most conspicuous building on the east side of Portland.
As seen from Council Crest and Portland Heights, it is the most conspicuous
and striking object of any in the entire city, conveying the impression both of
strength and beauty. A new parish house has also been erected at a cost of eight
thousand dollars. The St. Francis Academy, in connection with the church, is
in charge of the Sisters of the Holy Name.
In the erection of a commodious and handsome house of worship Father
Black has met with hearty response from many quarters, and he gives to others
a large share of credit for the success of the undertaking. However this may
be, it is acknowledged that beautiful St. Francis church is a splendid illustration
of the genius of its builder and of the liberality of his good people who con-
tributed to its erection.
CHARLES A. BLUROCK.
Charles A. Blurock, proprietor of one of the best meat markets in Vancouver
and also engaged in stock raising on Hayden's island, where he keeps about three
hundred head of cattle, was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of
September, 1866, and is the son of John and Martha Blurock, who during the
early boyhood of their son Charles removed with their family to Tennessee,
where they remained for four years and afterward went to Missouri, where they
resided for four and a half years. In April, 1876, the family started across the
plains for the northwest with wagons and mule teams. There were thirty
wagons in the train and they made the journey overland in order to bring their
stock. In November they reached Vancouver, where they visited friends and
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soon afterward they settled upon a rented ranch. Here the father turned his
attention to the dairy business and to the raising of vegetables and subsequently
purchased a half interest in a butchering business and meat market, becoming
a partner of Jere Harmer, with whom he was associated until the death of Mr.
Harmer, when he purchased his interest in the business and became sole pro-
prietor, so continuing until 1897, when his son, Charles A. Blurock, became his
successor. The death of the father occurred January 5, 1906, but the mother is
still living in Vancouver.
Charles A. Blurock pursued his education in the schools of Missouri and of
Clarke county, Washington, and after putting aside his text-books became his
father's assistant and continued with him in business until 1897, when he be-
came proprietor of the meat market, which he is still conducting. He has built
up a good trade in this connection and his capably managed business affairs in-
sure him a substantial profit. He also rents land on Hayden's island, where he
raises stock, keeping about three hundred head of cattle there. He is thus able
to stock his own refrigerator without paying a profit to a middle man, and this
adds to the success which he is now enjoying.
Mr. Blurock was married November 15, 1893, to Miss May E. Purdin, of
Portland. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and also holds
membership relations with the Red Men. Although but ten years of age when
he crossed the plains he remembers many interesting incidents of the trip. He
has now for thirty-four years made his home in Clarke county, and throughout
this period has been closely associated with its business interests, and in Van-
couver is recognized as an enterprising, progressive business man. He owns
two corner lots in the business portion of the town, having purchased in 1905
the comer at Sixth and Main streets, fifty by one hundred and three feet, and
in June, 1910, he bought the corner at the corner of Seventh and Washington
streets, a vacant lot fifty by one hundred feet. He also owns a lot twenty-five
by one hundred feet between Seventh and Eighth on Main street with a two-
story brick building upon it. He owns his own residence at No. 908 Esther
avenue, another house and lot on Fifth and Esther, which he rents, two lots in
Vancouver Heights, and one acre on St. Johns road.
ROBERT GRANT BLACK, M. D.
Robert Grant Black, a medical practitioner of Vancouver, became one of the
charter member of the Washington State Medical Society and is widely known in
professional circles in the northwest. He was born in Abingdon, Washington
county, Virginia, September 16, i860, and is a son of William Daniel Webster
and Mary Nellie (Grubb) Black, both of whom were natives of Washington
county. The paternal grandparents were also born there and the ancestry of
the family is traced back to John Black, the great-great-grandfather of our sub-
ject, who came to America from England in the early part of the seventeenth
century and located at Blacksburg, Virginia. In the maternal line the strain
is Welsh. The Grubb family was also planted on American soil early in the
seventeenth century, the family home being established on the banks of the Dela-
ware where lived Nicholas Grubb, the great-grandfather of Dr. Black, The
great-grandfather in the paternal line was John Black, a soldier of the Revolu-
tionary war who served under General Washington. William Young Con, the
great-grandfather, and Nicholas Grubb, the grandfather of Dr. Black, were
soldiers of the war of 1812. The parents of Dr. Black came to Oregon in 1888,
locating at McMinnville, where the mother died in February, 1898. The father
passed away in July, 1910, at the residence of his son, the Rev. James H. Black,
priest of St. Francis church of Portland. Since 1888 he was engaged in mer-
chandising.
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At the old family home in Virginia Dr. Black spent his youthful days and
acquired his early education in the public schools, while later he spent two and
a half years in King College, at Bristol, Tennessee. He then took up the study
of medicine under Dr. William Phillipps, of Wallace, Virginia, who directed his
reading for a year, after which he entered the medical department of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, at Richmond. Subsequently he pursued a course in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, and on the 15th of March,
1886, won his degree upon graduation.
For a year thereafter Dr. Black practiced medicine at Wallace and then
came to the west, arriving in Portland, Oregon, on the loth of May, 1887. He
then traveled over portions of Oregon and Washington in search of a location
and finally settled at Castle Rock, Cowlitz county, Washington, where he ar-
rived on the i8th of June, 1887. He remained in successful practice there until
February, 1897, when he removed to Vancouver, Washington, where he has
since maintained his office and followed his profession. His work is attended
with excellent success when viewed from both a professional and financial stand-
point. He has never specialized but has continued in general practice and has
continuously broadened his knowledge by careful perusal of the medical jour-
nals and best medical literature. He became a charter member of the Washing-
ton State Medical Society and is one of twenty who at the end of twenty years
have remained as continuous members. This organization was formed in the Ta-
coma Hotel at Tacoma in 1889 and absorbed the Territorial Medical Society at that
time. Dr. Black also became a charter member of the Clarke County Medical
Society and was one of the organizers of the first medical society of Cowlitz
county.
On the 30th of November, 1899, Dr. Black was married at Chehalis, Lewis
county, Washington, to Miss Josephine Rankin, a daughter of William Rankin,
whose father came to Oregon in 1849 ^"^ settled in the Rogue valley. He had
formerly lived in Illinois. Dr. and Mrs. Black have two children, Robert Harvey
and Martha Leona. The Doctor also has a son, William James, by a former
marriage.
Fraternally he is connected with the Elks lodge at Vancouver, the Wood-
men of the World, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Phylothesmians,
a college fraternity. His political support is given to the republican party and
he is now serving as city and county health officer, having been appointed by the
city in 1909 and by the county in 1908. He is also a member of the board of
pension examiners and has been for the past six years and while in Cowlitz
county, Washington, he served for three terms as county coroner by appointment
for one term and by election for two terms. He has put forth earnest eflfort to
secure advanced medical and sanitary legislation in his state. He has won
wide recognition as an able representative of the profession and his continuous
study has constantly promoted his ability and efficiency.
U. S. GRANT MARQUAM.
U. S. Grant Marquam, deceased, who inscribed his name high on the legal
arch of Portland, being recognized as one of the strongest attorneys at the bar
of northern Oregon, was born in this city, July 3, 1863, a son of Judge P. A.
and Emma (Kern) Marquam. His father was a native of Maryland, born near
Baltimore on the 28th of February, 1823. He is still living in Portland at the
venerable age of eighty-seven years, and is one of the most highly respected
residents of the city. He was the eighth in a family of nine children whose
parents were Philip Winchester and Charlotte Mercer (Poole) Marquam.
The father spent his early life on a farm with little opportunity for attending
school, but he studied at night and utilized every possible moment for the ad-
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vancement of his education. Ambitious to study law, he saved his earnings and
entered a law school at Bloomington, Indiana. Thoroughly mastering the course
there, he was admitted to the bar of that state in 1847 and opened a law office
in Wabash county, where he continued in practice until March, 1849, when he
started across the plains with an ox team in search of gold, attracted by the
discoveries that had been made in central California. In September the party
reached the Sacramento valley and soon afterward Mr. Marquam went to the
Redding mines, where he worked until the spring of 1850. It was a period of
unrest not only among the white men but also among the Indians and on more
than one occasion Mr. Marquam with other residents of that locality armed for
an attack against the savages. In one such encounter he was wounded. In the
spring of 1850 he left the mines and located in the small town of Fremont,
which was the county seat of Yolo county. There he began the practice of law
and at the first election held under the new state constitution of California was
elected county judge. He served for about two years in that position and came
to Oregon in August to visit his brother Alfred, who had become a resident of
this state in 1845.
After looking over the country Judge Marquam was so well pleased that he
decided to locate in this state. Returning to California, he resigned his position
on the bench of the county court and in the latter part of 185 1 located in Port-
land. He at once opened a law office and during the early days of his residence
here secured some of what became the most valuable property of the city. One
of his good purchases was a tract of two hundred and ninety-eight acres known
as Marquam Hill, now one of the fine residence districts in Portland. Success
attended him also in the practice of law, and in 1862 he was elected county judge
of Multnomah county and later was reelected, serving on the bench for eight
years. His decisions were strictly fair and impartial and indicated a compre-
hensive understanding of the principles of jurisprudence, together with correct
application of the points at issue. He took a deep interest in all that pertained
to public progress and built one of the early theaters of Portland, known as the
Marquam Grand. In 1882 he was nominated as republican candidate for the
state legislature from Multnomah county and elected to that office. His mar-
riage on the 8th of May, 1853, made Miss Emma Kern, a daughter of William
Kern, his wife.
Their son, U. S. Grant Marquam, was a pupil in the public schools of Port-
land until his graduation from the high school, when he was still very young.
He afterward took up the study of law under Judge Brunam and later was grad-
uated from the Portland Law College. He at once entered upon active practice
in connection with Judge Adams, this relation being maintained for about eight
years, when his brother erected the Marquam building and U. S. Grant Mar-
quam opened an office there. In his profession he made continuous advance-
ment, being recognized as one of the ablest attorneys of the Portland bar. He
made a specialty of land titles and was considered one of the best title attorneys
in the state. He was a man whose foresight and strength of character were con-
sidered most marvelous and at the early age of twenty-eight years he had be-
come a very wealthy man by his wise investments, but during the panic of 1893
he lost everything, including his home. Not discouraged, he at once set to work
to retrieve his fortunes, and at the time of his death was in very comfortable
circumstances.
On the 17th of November, 1886, Mr. Marquam was married in this city to
Miss Julia Groner, a daughter of John and Eleanor (Burns) Groner, who were
early settlers of Oregon. Her father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, but
came to the United States when sixteen years of age with three older brothers.
He had an uncle in Missouri and joined him in that state, living there with him
upon a farm until 1849. ^^- Groner then went west to California in search
of gold, making the long journey across the arid plains and over the mountains
with ox teams. He engaged in mining for a time, but not meeting with the sue-
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cess he anticipated in that field, he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits,
purchasing a ranch in Washington county, Oregon. There he married and
made his home until death. His wife, who was born in Ireland, came to the
United States when a young lady of nineteen years and lived for a time in Bos-
ton. In 1852, by way of the water route and the isthmus of Panama, she came
to Portland. She, too, has passed away and their son Fred is now living on the
old homestead.
The death of Mr. Marquam occurred April 18, 1905, and his remains were
laid to rest in beautiful Riverview cemetery on the high banks of the Willamette.
He was a member of the Commercial Club and also of the Bench and Bar Asso-
ciation. Throughout his entire life he was a resident of Portland, and his many
excellent traits of character as manifest in his professional service, his citizen-
ship and his upright life gained for him the unqualified respect of his fellow-
men. He chose as his life work a profession in which advancement must de-
pend upon individual merit, and in the field of law practice he constantly worked
his way upward until his ability had gained him a place in the foremost ranks
of the legal profession, particularly in that department of the law in which he
specialized.
ARTHUR LYLE VEAZIE.
Arthur Lyle Veazie, an attorney at the Portland bar since 1893, was born in
Dallas, Oregon, September 8, 1868, being a son of Edmund F. and Harriet
(Lyle) Veazie. The father, a native of Bangor, Maine, died in Wasco county,
Oregon, in 1877, while the mother, a native of this state, was born in 1847 and
is now living in Portland.
The family has been closely identified with the pioneer history of Oregon.
Felix Scott, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Vir-
ginia and crossed the plains to the Pacific coast in 1845, spending the winter at
Sutter's Fort, completing the journey to Oregon in the spring of 1846 and set-
tling in Lane county, where a number of his descendants reside. He and the
men of his family were active in the Indian wars and in many pioneer enter-
prises, including the building of the McKenzie wagon road. Having engaged
successfully in mining in California, he and several associates returned to the
Atlantic coast by sea and bought a band of blooded horses and cattle, with which
they undertook the journey across the plains to Oregon, but the whole party was
slain en route, in the year 1859.
The grandfather, John Eakin Lyle, was born near Knoxville, Tenn., and
came to Oregon in 1845 and in the following year married Ellen Scott, who had
crossed the plains with her father, Felix Scott. John E. Lyle taught the first
school in Polk county, and a monument marks the site. In this connection there
appeared in the Oregon Spectator of Oregon City, March 19, 1846, the follow-
ing advertisement :
Jefferson Institute is located in the Rickreall valley, one mile west of the resi-
dence of Col. N. Ford. The first session of this school will commence on the
second Monday of next April, and continue twenty-four weeks. Scholars from
a distance can be accommodated with boarding in the neighborhood. Terms of
tuition, $8.00 per scholar.
John E. Lyle, Teacher.
N. Ford
James Howard )- Trustees.
William Beagle
March 7, 1846.
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The paper which contained this advertisement was the first pubhshed in
American territory west of the Rocky mountains, and its first issue was February
5, 1846. Mr. Lyle always took an active interest in education, giving a consid-
erable part of his donation claim at Dallas for the founding of La Creole Acad-
emy, besides laboring with his own hands in the erection of the first building
used by the school. He died January 22, 1872, at Florence, Idaho, while en-
gaged in mining. His daughter Harriet, on April 18, 1867, at Dallas, became
the wife of Edmund F. Veazie. They were the parents of four children : Arthur
L. and Jesse Clarence, both residing in Portland; Julia Grace, the wife of Pro-
fessor Irving M. Glen, of the University of Oregon; and Edith F., who married
Edwin R. Bryson of Eugene.
Edmund Fuller Veazie was born November 7, 1833, at Bangor, Maine, a son
of Jesse Veazie and Martha (Catlin) Veazie. He acquired his education in
local schools and in the state of Massachusetts. After following teaching as a
profession for several years, he was drawn to Kansas by the slavery troubles,
like many other young men from New England, and after a time made the jour-
ney to California, engaging for several years in gold mining there and in south-
ern Oregon. Returning then to his old occupation of teaching, he had charge
of La Creole Academy at Dallas and of the Jefferson Institute in Linn county.
In 1869 he removed to what is now Crook county, Oregon, where he engaged
in stock raising until his death, which occurred by drowning in the John Day
river in June, 1877.
Arthur Lyle Veazie received his education at La Creole Academy and the
University of Oregon, grad«uating from the latter in 1890, and from the law
department in 1893, entering immediately upon the practice of his profession,
which he has followed with success.
On the 1 8th of October, 1898, Mr. Veazie was married to Miss Agnes Mar-
garet Greene, a daughter of Judge Roger Sherman Greene of Seattle, and a
descendant of Roger Sherman. Mrs. Veazie is a graduate of the University of
Oregon and of the University of Washington as well, and has been a member
and director of the Art League of New York, having devoted her talents to art.
Mr. and Mrs. Veazie have four children, Grace Ellen, Emily A., Harriet L. and
Edmund A.
In his political views Mr. Veazie is an earnest republican, but has never sought
any office. As a representative of pioneer families, he feels a great pride and
interest in the development and future of Oregon, and in all that most deeply
concerns the welfare of its people.
JOHN WILLIAM COOK.
Some men are natural organizers and born pioneers in any line of activity to
which they turn their attention. To this class belongs John William Cook of
Portland, one of the large land operators of the Pacific coast, who by many years
of successful experience has demonstrated a rare ability not only in foreseeing
the possibilities of a land investment, but in formulating the plans that assume
tangible shape, giving employment to many persons and establishing many fami-
lies in comfortable homes.
Mr. Cook was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, a son of Major William H.
and Sarah (Whiting) Cook, who died in California. The father, who was a
native of New Jersey, went to Pennsylvania in early manhood and was there
married. Subsequently he removed with his family to Missouri. During the
Civil war he was a member of a Pennsylvania regiment. His mother lived to the
*'remarkable age of one hundred and one years and all of her children lived to be
over eighty, the eldest being ninety-six at the time of death.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 543
John William Cook was reared on a farm in Knox county, Missouri, and
gained his preliminary education in the public schools near Edina, Missouri.
After laying his school books aside, he began his business career under his
brother, T. P. Cook of Edina, a grain and warehouse man. There he remained
for seven years, during which time the business grew to be one of the largest
of its kind in northeastern Missouri.
Seeking a change of climate, Mr. Cook came west in 1885 and located in
Los Angeles county, California, where in connection with George D. Whitcomb
he purchased the land and laid out the town of Glendora, being secretary of the
Glendora Land Company and also of the Glendora Water Company. After
closing out that property he engaged in orange growing and developed orange
land, and also engaged in the general real-estate business. In 1891 he was
elected a member of the board of supervisors of Los Angeles county, and in
1893-4 served as its chairman. While on the board he also had supervision of
one thousand, one hundred miles of road in the county. He was honored by
appointment of the governor of the state as one of a board of three leading fruit
growers to manage the state citrus fruit fair and in 1891 he was placed in charge
of a fund of forty thousand dollars raised by tax and appropriated by the county
of Los Angeles for use at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. This
fund was under general control of a committee of twelve, and its wise expendi-
ture contributed in an important degree toward the dissemination of reliable in-
formation concerning the resources of California.
Mr. Cook attained an enviable standing in the state, but by over application
to many interests with which he was identified he injured his health and was
obliged to seek a higher altitude, through which his strength was finally re-
stored. He left California in 1895 and came north, where he successfully turned
his attention to mining and developed the Music mine at Bohemia, Oregon. In
1900, again attracted to the real-estate field, he came to Portland and organized
a syndicate, which laid out the North Irvington tract and placed it upon the
market under his management. Having accomplished this work, he organized
another syndicate and bought and laid out the Holladay Park tract, extending
from Eighteenth to Twenty-eighth street and from the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation track to Halsey street. This was the first addition to Portland to
have street work, park and building restrictions. Under his management the
same syndicate bought and subdivided ninety acres of land called Rossmere from
Thirty-seventh to Forty-fifth street, and in other operations has displayed a
sagacity that easily places him in the first rank among the real-estate promoters
of the Pacific coast. At the present time he is interested with Lewis & Wiley
of Seattle in laying out and subdividing the St. Helens Heights tract of one hun-
dred acres. This it is believed will be the finest residence section of Portland,
as the location is on high ground and very sightly. The work is of such magni-
tude that he estimates it will require at least five years to carry it to completion,
and it will be a lasting monument to the energy and ability of the men who con-
ceived a project of such magnitude. Mr. Cook was also interested in an irri-
gation system in Carson, Washington, and is developing four thousand acres of
land there. He was one of the organizers of the firm of Clarke, Cook Company,
which was incorporated November 26, 1909. This company carries on a gen-
eral real-estate and trust business and also deals in bonds and makes loans.
In 1897 Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Christina Hawley, a
daughter of William W. and Caroline A. (Wells) Hawley, of Cottage Grove,
Oregon. Her father was one of the early settlers of this state and was for some
years connected with the transportation of freight between Umatilla Landing
and Boise, Idaho. He was prominently identified with the early development of
this region and participated in the Indian wars. In early manhood he married
Caroline A. Wells, who was the first white child born in Lane county, Oregon,
on the present site of Cottage Grove. Her father crossed the plains at an early
day and became a large landowner and a man of prominence in his community.
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By a former marriage Mr. Cook has one daughter, Miss Inez W. Cook, now
a resident of Glendora, CaHfornia.
By his ballot, Mr. Cook supports the men and measures of the republican
party, and in religious belief he is a Presbyterian. He is a Knights Templar
Mason and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; the Oregon Good Roads
Association, in which he has taken an especially active interest; the Portland
Realty Board, and the Commercial Club. He is fond of fishing and hunting and
these sports constitute his chief recreation. He is remarkably well informed
on questions pertaining to real estate and especially in relation to the possibilities
of the city of Portland and its vicinity. Having years ago become connected
with the business, which is well suited to his taste and which gives promise of
growth for an indefinite period, he is happy in his work and especially so as it
is yielding gratifying results not only to the projectors, but to the entire com-
munity.
HENRY CHRIST.
Starting in life for himself at the early age of thirteen years, Henry Christ
has gained through his own efiforts the success that he has enjoyed and which
now enables him to live retired. His has indeed been an active, useful and hon-
orable life. He was born in Germany, in the province of Nassau, which is now
Prussian territory, October 9, 1836, and during his youthful days there passed
he acquired his education and learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed
for seven years ere completing the second decade of his life.
He left Germany in 1855, when twenty years of age, as passenger on a sail-
ing vessel bound for the new world, accompanied by his mother and his niece,
his father having previously died. They were stranded in the English channel
for three weeks and then sailed around the Horn for Valparaiso, South America,
where the ship was laid up for six weeks. During that period Mr. Christ worked
at his trade of shoemaking, going on shore and obtaining work, which he would
take on board and complete the task. From Valparaiso the ship sailed to San
Francisco, where they arrived a few days after the celebration of the anniversary
of American independence. Mr. Christ remained upon that vessel for two weeks
or until the arrival of a steamer which he could take to Portland. He had be-
come a very good friend with the captain and was thus allowed the privilege
of continuing on board.
Proceeding northward, Mr. Christ landed at Vancouver, Washington, the
same month and from that point made his way to a farm which his brother
owned and occupied. He became associated with his brother in agricultural pur-
suits and for thirty-five years thereafter successfully carried on general farm-
ing, at the end of which time he and his brother gave the place of three hundred
and twenty acres to his children. Accompanied by his brother, he then returned
to Vancouver and they erected the house which they now occupy. They also
erected two buildings on Main street, which are known as the Christ block and
which is still their property. Since removing to the city they have practically
lived retired, enjoying the rest which has come to them as the reward of their
former industry and perseverance. During the first years of Henry Christ's
residence in Clarke county, he hauled his produce to the Vancouver market in a
cart which he made by hand but he now drives his own automobile and does it
as ably as any man of half his years. In 1894 he visited Germany, spending three
months in the fatherland amid the scenes of his youth and the friends of his boy-
hood.
It was in 1862 that Mr. Christ was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth
Proebstel, of Clarke county, Washington, and unto them were born six children :
Philip, who is proprietor of a creamery at Vancouver; Matilda, the wife of A.
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F. Davis, of Vancouver, who is now assessor of Clarke county ; Augusta, the
wife of John H. Hill, who is in the employ of the government at Hollister, Cali-
fornia; Henrietta, the wife of Louis Hessy, a farmer living near Portland;
Theresa, the wife of Arthur Bevins, of Potter Valley, California ; and Lewis,
deceased. The wife and mother passed away on the 24th of May, 1901, and her
death was deeply regretted by many friends as well as her immediate family. She
had crossed the plains with her father in 1852 and was therefore one of the
pioneer residents of this section of the country. On the 17th of November, 1903,
Mr. Christ was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Rena M. Chaffee,
a daughter of W. H. Baker, of Vancouver. Mr. Christ's mother died in Van-
couver, February, 1881.
Mr. Christ has led an upright, honorable life, in harmony with his professions
as a member of St. Luke's church, of which he is now senior warden. He is
also a member of Washington Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M.; Chapter No. 10, R.
A. M. ; Commandery No. 9, K. T. ; and Afifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the
last named being located at Tacoma. He is a past master of the lodge, a past
high priest of the chapter and past eminent commander in the Knights Templar
organization. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias, also of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a past master of the Grangers and
is an honorary member of the Sons of Herman and a member of the Easter
Star.
At all times Mr. Christ has been recognized as a public-spirited citizen whose
helpful interest in community affairs can always be counted upon. He served
for two terms as county commissioner, elected on the republican ticket and as-
sisted in building the first courthouse in Clarke county. He has served as a
delegate to county and state republican conventions for a great many years and
a delegate at large to the national convention held at St. Louis, Missouri, that
nominated William McKinley for the presidency of the United States. He has
now reached the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey — a man honored and
respected wherever known and most of all where he is best known.
JOHN J. SELLWOOD, M. D.
More than twenty-three years of professional life have brought into promi-
nence Dr. John J. Sellwood, superintendent of the Sellwood Hospital, located
on Harney street, between Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets, in Sellwood, one of
the flourishing suburbs of Portland. The hospital of which he has charge was
erected by him and is one of the thoroughly modern institutions, conducted ac-
cording to most approved principles and provided with all facilities of the best
institutions of the kind. Although only recently established, it has met with a
response which promises a wide field of usefulness in the years to come.
Dr. Sellwood was born in Oregon City, Oregon, March 19, 1867, the son of
Rev. John W. and Belle J. (Daly) Sellwood. The father is a well known min-
ister of the Protestant Episcopal church. Rev. John Sellwood, great uncle of
Dr. Sellwood, owned as a donation claim all the land on the site of the present
town of Sellwood and the suburb was named in his honor. Up to twelve years
of age the subject of this sketch made his home at Oregon City, receiving his
rudimentary education in the public schools. He then became a student in the
Bishop Scott Academy. Being attracted to medicine and surgery as his life
work, he secured the funds necessary to meet college expenses by serving as
bookkeeper for the firm of Corbett & McClay, Portland. This required three
years. He then matriculated in the medical department of Willamette University
and was graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1887. Im-
mediately after leaving college he entered the service of the Canadian Pacific
Company as physician and surgeon on vessels of the company plying between
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Vancouver, British Columbia, and Hong Kong, China. Here he continued for
three years, making many trips across the Pacific and gaining much experience
that has proven of vakie in after years. Leaving the service of the Canadian
Pacific Company he accepted a position in charge of a large hospital in Tokio,
Japan, where he continued for a year, adding materially to the reputation he had
already gained in his profession. After practicing for some years in Vancouver,
Washington, and Los Angeles, California, he located in Sellwood in 1897, where
he has since continued. Owing to increase in patronage and in order to facilitate
his work, he opened a hospital in the Bank of Sellwood building in the spring
of 1908, and in July, 1909, moved into the present hospital which was erected
under his direction and according to his ideas the result of large experience and
observation in hospitals in various cities on the coast and elsewhere.
The Sellwood Hospital is a surgical and maternity hospital, and accepts no
contagious or infectious cases. All such cases are taken care of in a building
not directly connected with the hospital proper, thus making the hospital entirely
safe from danger of such diseases. It has accommodation for twenty-five pa-
tients and has been built so as to admit of enlargement from time to time. It is
equipped with all up-to-date instruments and appliances for surgical and ma-
ternity cases. The rooms are neatly, but as in all of the better class of hospitals,
plainly furnished. Recognizing the efifect of color upon persons of different tem-
peraments, each of the rooms is of a different color and patients are at liberty
to select according to their taste. The walls are delicately tinted, not papered,
and cleanliness, which has been designated as ranking next to Godliness, is here
also regarded as one of the highest of virtues. A training school for nurses is
one of the important accessories and arrangements are made for eight nurses
under charge of Miss E. R. Luther, a trained nurse of much practical experience.
Dr. Sellwood was united in marriage October 3. 1891, to Miss Mary Hunder
of Vancouver, Washington. He is affiliated with the Odd Fellows and Knights
of Pythias and, being a man of genial qualities, enriched by wide observation and
experience, he is the center of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. His
success in his profession has been due in an important degree to conscientious ap-
plication and a discernment which is the gift of the true physician. Years of
experience have prepared him for the duties he now discharges, and it is be-
lieved that as time passes the Sellwood Hospital will become recognized as one
of the leading agencies in the northwest for the alleviation and care of many of
the ills of humanity.
MONROE BENNETT RANKIN.
Monroe Bennett Rankin, whose splendid business ability was manifest in the
manner in which he triumphed over adversity, whose generous spirit found ex-
pression in the aid which he gave to individuals and to benevolent projects, and
whose interest in all that is uplifting along intellectual and moral lines led to
a hearty cooperation with the work of college and church, well deserved to be
numbered among Portland's valued and honored residents.
He was born on a farm near Athens, Menard county, Illinois, January 7.
1844, a son of Richard Montgomery and Louisa Eads Rankin, both natives of
Kentucky. The paternal ancestors were Scotch and the maternal English. The
Rankin family is of Scotch origin, though at an early day they removed from
Scotland to the north of Ireland, and later, on account of religious persecution,
came to America in 1727. They separated, joining the different colonies, and
the branch to which Monroe B. Rankin belonged went to Virginia and later to
Kentucky. His great-grandfather, James Rankin, who married a Miss Mont-
gomery, sister of General Richard Montgomery, was one of the Daniel Boone
settlement. During an Indian outbreak he took his wife to the fort for safety
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and while fighting was going on a son, James Rankin, Jr., was born. He settled
in Harrison county. Kentucky, near Cynthiana, and married Anna Dills, the only
daughter in a family of twelve. By this union there were six children, four sons
and two daughters. Richard Montgomery Rankin, the second son, lived near
Cynthiana and married Louisa W. Eads, a daughter of John Eads. The family
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Rankin numbered six sons and six daughters, two
of whom were born in Kentucky, while the farm in Menard county, to which
the parents removed in 1837, was the birthplace of the younger members of the
family.
Monroe B. Rankin, the second son, attended school as opportunity oftered
and in his childhood aided in the work of the farm, especially in gathering up and
caring for the stock. He was constantly with his father, who treated him as a
companion and discussed with him plans for the future so that the boy early
developed rare powers of discrimination. He knew the different bird calls and
could imitate them, and later, in his conversation, his descriptions and similes
were characteristic of one who had been keenly observant of all things in nature.
From Menard county the family removed to a farm in McLean county, near
Saybrook, Illinois, known as Rankin's Grove, and there typhoid fever carried
off the husband and father in 1855. The mother had been reared in Kentucky
with no hardships in early life. Though tenderly nurtured, her spirit was brave
and unfaltering and thus she met courageously all the privations and difficulties
of pioneer life, struggling bravely to maintain the farm and educate her chil-
dren, following the death of her husband. At the outbreak of the Civil war her
main support was taken from her — her eldest son Marcus, twenty years of age,
enlisting for active service at the front — leaving Monroe B. Rankin, then a
youth of sixteen, to manage the farm. Later, when other calls were made for
volunteers, Monroe and his next younger brother, Norman Kimber, joined the
recruits at Camp Butler, but at the mustering in only Norman was accepted.
Monroe was rejected as being too small and delicate for military service. This
was fortunate for the mother for he was her chief dependence. It was a tre-
mendous undertaking, even with their united efforts, to try to solve the prob-
lem of a mortgaged farm, taxes, and the support of the mother and six children.
Subsequently Mrs. Rankin took up her abode in the little town of Saybrook.
that her children might enjoy its educational privileges, while Monroe remained
upon the farm. In 1864 his brother Marcus was captured and taken to Ander-
sonville prison, where he died soon afterward, and in 1868 the mother, whom
Monroe had always adored, was called to her final home. The two surviving
brothers of our subject. J. H. and C. N. Rankin, are now residents of Portland.
His brother, Norman Kimber. passed away in 1905, and in 1907 his sister, Mrs.
Anna R. Riggs, founder of the Florence Crittenton Home of Portland, died
suddenly while engaged in the same line of work in Butte, Montana.
In 1870, Mr. Rankin wedded Miss Rachel Ludlum Tomlin, a daughter of
Almarin Tomlin, of Pleasant Plains, and a graduate of the Woman's College of
Jacksonville, Illinois. Mr. Tomlin, who was of Welsh extraction, removed with
his family to Illinois in 1837 from Cape May, New Jersey, where he had engaged
in shipbuilding, his materials being obtained from the cedar swamps of the farm
which he inherited from his father. Not wishing to have his boys go to sea, as
so many of the youths of that locality did, he removed to the middle west and
purchased a farm at Pleasant Plains, near Springfield. Illinois, which is now
owned by one of his grandsons.
Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin established their home at
Rankin's Grove, and he bought out the interests of the other members of the
family in the farm. His attention for a few years was given only to the pro-
duction of grain, after which he began raising stock and purchasing cattle in the
western states and fattening them for the Chicago market upon his Illinois farm.
In 1878 he went as far west as Salt Lake City and decided to go on to the coast
to make his home, believing that he would more rapidly attain success in a coun-
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try where the cHmate was not so severe, for the long hard winters and the ex-
posure unavoidable in his business and occasional losses by the freezing of cattle
had always to be met with in his stock-raising interests in Illinois. Disposing of
his property in 1879, he invested in blooded draft stallions and with two car-
loads started for San Francisco, but found that there was a better market in
Portland, to which point he made a shipment by steamer. With the proceeds
of the sale of his stallions he purchased real estate, which proved a good invest-
ment. Convinced that he would like to make this section of the country his
home, he sent for his wife and children, meeting them in San Francisco in 1880.
Their coming had been delayed by the illness of the baby Edith, two years of
age, who died in Portland six weeks after their arrival.
Mr. Rankin entered business circles in connection with ex-Governor Gibbs
as a dealer in real estate and soon afterward began to look up timber lands in
Oregon and Washington. In 1882 he engaged in the manufacture of lumber,
having a mill on Balch creek, about three miles west of Portland, and another
on the Clackamas river. Prosperity attended his ventures until the failure of
the Northern Pacific in 1883 brought on a panic. Being unable to collect out-
standing accounts, Mr. Rankin was forced into bankruptcy and he assigned to
his creditors all of his property, mills, and even his home, then on the northwest
corner of First and Hooker streets in South Portland, believing that there would
be more than enough to settle his indebtedness, but everything was ruthlessly
sacrificed. He not only lost everything, but was left handicapped by a heavy
burden of debt, under which he struggled with remarkable courage for years.
Removing with his family to Butte, Montana, in 1884, he there engaged in manu-
facturing and shipping lumber for a year and a half, when he returned to Port-
land. At this time his knowledge of the manufacture of lumber made him rec-
ognize the future value of timber. Going into the forests and carrying his pack,
he studied the lumber situation and as a broker sold on commission. The knowl-
edge then gained later proved to be his capital and he was able to acquire large
tracts on his own account and thus discharge his indebtedness. In several in-
stances, where consideration and kindness had been shown him by creditors, he
not only paid the principal but also compound interest. His sympathy always
went out to those in financial distress, for he had suffered misrepresentation and
injustice when he experienced his reverses, and he never forgot the kindness
shown him at that time.
His first large operation in timber was the buying in 1888 of fifty thousand
-acres, mostly railroad lands in the Klamath river basin, aided by Portland and
Wisconsin capital, and a large mill was built on the Klamath river. This enter-
prise was sold out at a good profit to Chicago lumbermen in 1890. Since that
time he has handled many large transactions, comprising from three thousand
to twenty thousand acres, confining his operations to the Columbia and Willa-
mette rivers and their tributaries, as he always maintained that timber on these
slopes would be marketed before that of any other section of the state. In 1902
he sold nineteen thousand, six hundred acres in Marion county, commonly called
the "Silverton Tract," to the West Coast Timber Company, for four hundred
and seventy-four thousand dollars, then bought nine thousand acres, which he
sold in 1907 for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the timber being in
practically the same location and of about the same quality, which shows the
rapid increase in the value of timber stumpage. He reinvested in Benton and
Lane counties in 1907 and 1908, acquiring about twenty-one thousand acres
which he owned at the time of his death. The earlier business men of Portland
looked upon M. B. Rankin as a pioneer in the timber business for he was one
of the first men in this section to realize the future value of the timber lands.
He always considered not only the quality of the timber but also the topography
of the country, the carrying power of adjacent streams or the feasibility of a
railroad, thus determining the expense of marketing the product. He succeeded
in making up from small pieces many large tracts whose subsequent sale has
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proven his judgment to have been good in this Hne. In 1906 he organized and
became the president of the Independent Coal & Ice Company, of which he was
the principal stockholder.
Mr. Rankin found his greatest happiness in his prosperity in the fact that it
enabled him to provide the necessities and comforts of life for his family. Unto
him and his wife have been born four children who are yet living: Orville Mont-
gomery, born in 1871 at Rankin's Grove, McLean county, Illinois, was married
in 1900 to Miss Marie C. Jubitz, a daughter of A. Jubitz, of Portland, and they
have four children; Howard Tomlin, born in Saybrook, Illinois, in 1873, was
married in 1909 to Mrs. Amelia Loomis Gile, a daughter of L. A. Loomis of
Ilwaco, Washington, and they have one son ; Anna Louise, bom in Saybrook in
1876, is living with her mother; and Winifred Rhoda, born in Portland in 1881,
was married in 1909 to Frank Ira Gollehur, formerly of St. Louis, Missouri.
On the lOth of September, 1909, an attack of angina pectoris lasting less than
half an hour caused the death of Mr. Rankin, whose brother, Norman, and sister,
Mrs. Riggs, had died in the same manner. Many warm friends as well as his
immediate family mourned his loss. For almost twenty years the family have
resided at No. 534 Clifton street, Portland Heights, taking up their abode there
in February, 1890. On account of his own lack of early educational advantages,
Mr. Rankin had great sympathy with young people struggling for an education
and made several liberal gifts to Willamette University in Salem, the oldest col-
lege in the northwest. He was for two years president of the board of trustees
of that institution, and at all times he stood as champion of the cause of intel-
lectual progress. He knew "the joy of generous giving in charity," and his as-
sistance was ever tactful and kindly. He was a lover of music, a taste which he
inherited from his mother, who was one of a musical family. His ancestors,
except his father who became a Methodist, had been Presbyterians of the strict
Scotch type. Although farming had been followed by the greater number of
the family and there have been numerous physicians, the Rankins had, two gen-
erations ago, furnished twenty-one Presbyterian ministers, twenty ruling elders,
one Congregational and one Methodist minister. Mr. Rankin at the time of his
death was serving on the official board of Grace Methodist church in Portland.
The reverses and experiences which he had in life never made him bitter, his
arduous efforts to attain success never made him sordid. He remained through-
out life a man of kindly spirit, of benevolent impulses and generous actions.
In business he radiated cheerfulness and was perhaps seen at his best when dis-
pensing generous hospitality at his own fireside. The innate refinement of his
nature made him ever considerate of others, and he exemplified his belief that
real Christianity is a life of ministry and brotherly helpfulness.
JOHN LEWIS DAVENPORT.
While John Lewis Davenport is numbered as a pioneer of the Pacific coast
and a successful business man of Oregon, that which causes his memory to be
most highly revered and honored is the ready and generous help which he ex-
tended to the emigrants who came to this country without means. Many a
family has reason to hold him in grateful remembrance for timely assistance in
the hour of need.
Mr. Davenport came to America at the age of thirteen years, residing first in
San Francisco. About four years later he removed to Carson City and a year
later, in 1855, settled at The Dalles, where he engaged in the livery business and
also ran a packet train between The Dalles and Portland until about i860.
Through the succeeding twenty years he was engaged in stock-raising. In 1880
he went from The Dalles to the John Day country, but there suffered heavy
•losses, his stock being largely killed in the severe winters. In 1882 he removed
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to Mosier, where he gave his attention to raising stock and fruit, continuing in
the business until his death, which occurred in 1904 when he was sixty-eight
years of age. For many years he purchased horses for the government and also
supplies. He was always ready to help those who came to the northwest without
capital or means to secure the necessities of life, and he was one of the most
prominent of the early pioneers of The Dalles.
Mr. Davenport was married at The Dalles to Miss Mary Heintz, whose father
came from Neiderweiser, Buchbach, Germany. Mrs. Davenport survived her
husband for about five years and passed away in May, 1909. In their family
were ten children of whom eight are living : Rose E., the wife of P. H. Robin-
son, of Portland ; Caroline, who wedded F. S. Gunning, of The Dalles ; George
Lewis, of Portland; John T., residing at Mosier, Oregon; Mary Frances, de-
ceased; Catherine, the wife of Harry Kemp, of Hood River, Oregon; Charles
H., of Portland; Nellie L., who married E. B. Wood and has recently passed
away; Alice, who is single; and Gertrude May, the wife of Ray Sturgis. of
Mosier, Oregon.
In his political faith Mr, Davenport was a republican where national issues
were involved, but cast an independent local ballot. Fratemally he was con-
nected with the Odd Fellow^s and his religious belief was with the Catholic
church. His word was indeed of large worth to his fellowmen and his energy
and business ability made him a valuable factor in promoting the material de-
velopment of this state.
FERDINAND JOPLIN.
Conducting an extensive general contracting business under the style of Gie-
bisch & Joplin, the subject of this review is well known as a representative of the
industrial interests of Portland. He was born in Pettis county, Missouri, in
1847, a son of Josiah and Maria Susan (Fristoe) Joplin. The Joplin family
is of English origin and the American ancestors were among the early colonial
settlers. Thomas Joplin, the grandfather, was a native of Tennessee and was a
planter and stock-raiser. His son, Josiah Joplin, was also born in Tennessee and
having arrived at years of maturity he wedded Maria Susan Fristoe, who was
born in Virginia and was a member of the well known and prominent family of
that name. Her father, Amos Fristoe, removed to Missouri at an early day
and engaged in teaching there. Later in life he was a prominent planter and
slaveowner. He also became a leading factor in the public life of the com-
munity, served as clerk of the circuit court, as a member of the state legislature
and various other public offices.
Ferdinand Joplin spent his youthful days in his native county. The public-
school system afforded him his educational privileges and after his school days
were over he followed farming until April, 1883, when he came to Oregon and
for one year made his home in Astoria. Since 1884, or for more than a quarter
of a century, he has resided continuously in Portland and has made continuous
progress in business circles, eagerly embracing the opportunities that have offered
and reaching in due time a prominent place as a representative of the in-
dustrial interests in this city.
His initial step was made in the establishing of a route for the delivery of
the Oregonian in Portland Heights, this being the first paper delivered there.
He also established two routes of the Daily News in South and East Portland,
continuing them until the publication of the paper was suspended. At that time
Mr. Joplin turned his attention to the confectionary business, which he continued
on Washington street for a year. He then sold out and engaged in the grocery
business on First street for three years, at the end of which time he disposed of
his store and went to Tillamook to look after some timber claims which he owned
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there. In 1891 he was again in Portland and engaged in the contracting busi-
ness on his own account for three years. At the expiration of that period he
admitted his son, WiUiam T., to partnership in the business, their association
being continued for two years, when Anton Giebisch, a son-in-law, joined the
partnership. The firm is now Giebisch & Joplin and a general contracting busi-
ness is carried on. They have reached a foremost place in the ranks of the
general contractors here and much important work has been executed by them,
including basements for the Columbia and Elks buildings, the excavation and
ground work on Point Wilson at Fort Townsend, and the building of the Paci-
fic Telephone Company's line from North Yamhill to Tillamook and Nehalem
City and other country lines. They have also laid most of the street paving in
East Portland, putting in the grading and cement on the Burnham tract and also
the Holladay Park addition, together with eight miles of pipe line known as the
Highland main. They were also awarded the contract for the Brooklyn sewer,
which was the largest contract let in Portland up to 1910. Something of the
extent and importance of their business and of the excellent character of the
work executed under their supervision is indicated in the fact that they employ
two hundred men throughout the year and one hundred teams. Mr. Joplin is
also vice president of the Willamette Valley Condensed Milk Company of Port-
land and is a stockholder in the Portland Sand Company. He is justly accounted
one of the representative business men of the city, vigilant and enterprising,
determined and resourceful.
On the 4th of August, 1869, Mr. Joplin was married to Annie, daughter of
Richard and Rachel (Bird) Bridgeford, also a native of Missouri, and they have
six children, three sons and three daughters : William T., a contractor of Port-
land; Ada v., the wife of Anton Giebisch of Portland; Luella, the wife of Henry
Lawlor of this city; Etta, the wife of P. L. Thompson; and Richard Preston and
Herman Wallace, both of whom are contractors of Portland. The family circle
yet remains unbroken by the hand of death and all are yet residents of this city.
Mr. Joplin's military history covers the period of his service in the Con-
federate army, in which he enlisted in 1864. He participated in the battle of
Centralia, Missouri, and took part in many raids from that time until the close
of the war, when his command surrendered at Shrevesport, Louisiana, on the
8th of June, 1865. He is now a member of the Confederate Veterans of Port-
land and also holds membership with the Knights and Ladies of Security in this
city. Motoring is his chief recreation and he is a member of the Portland Auto-
mobile Club. Those who meet him socially find him a pleasant, congenial com-
panion and one whose position whether in business or public life is never an
equivocal one. He stanchly upholds the course in which he believes and his
determination has enabled him to accomplish results where others of less reso-
lute spirit have failed. As he has advanced step by step he has improved the
broader opportunities which such advancement has given him and today he is
one of the leading representatives of industrial life in his adopted city.
VINCENT COOK.
Vincent Cook, capitalist, merchant, prominent citizen, is one of the few living
members of the remarkable group of able, far-seeing men who contributed so
largely to laying the foundation of Portland's present commercial greatness and
to the development of the northwest.
Arriving in Portland in pioneer times, Vincent Cook has labored with definite
and resultant purpose and stands today among those whose efiforts have con-
stituted a vital and forceful element in the progress, upbuilding and prosperity
of the northwest. His life history in detail would present a faithful chronicle
of conditions which met the early settlers and tested the metal of pioneer busi-
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ness men. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, of the marriage of Horatio and
Anna Cook, the former a native of Worcestershire and the latter of London,
England. In 1818 they came to America and settled in New York, while later
they became residents of New Jersey, and in 1838 established their home in Chi-
cago, which only a year before had been incorporated as a city. Mr. Cook was
an expert cabinet-maker and engaged in the furniture business in Chicago until
1850, when he removed to Rockford, Illinois, continuing in the same line. The
year following the removal of his sons, George and Horatio Cook, to the north-
west, he joined them in Portland and again engaged in the furniture business
with these two sons as partners. George Cook, however, died in the early '60s,
but his brother Horatio remained a resident here until his death in 1900. For
a long period the father was a leading merchant of Portland, continuing in the
furniture trade, but in the later years of his life he lived retired. He was a
remarkably skillful workman and was considered the most expert cabinet-maker
in America in his day.
Vincent Cook, like the other members of his father's family, attended the
public schools of Chicago and entering business life eagerly improved every op-
portunity which would promote his advancement and success along legitimate
lines. His two elder brothers had come to the northwest in 1852, and his father
in 1853, and the following year Vincent Cook, his brother J. W., and their
mother and sister sailed from New York as passengers on the Star of the West,
one of the early vessels used in bringing passengers to the Pacific coast. They
journeyed by way of Nicaragua and on reaching Graytown proceeded to San
Francisco and thence to Portland. Reaching their destination, Vincent Cook
spent five years on his father's donation claim in Washington county, seven miles
west of Portland. The task that confronted him was a very arduous one for
the land was covered with timber and it was necessary to cut down the trees and
clear away the brush before anything could be accomplished in developing the
fields.
Returning to Portland at the end of five years, convinced that he would find
business in the city more congenial and profitable than the development of the
new farm, he entered the employ of his brother, J. W. Cook, who was then
engaged in the manufacture of bags, tents and other articles made of canvas.
Three years later, in 1863, he was admitted to a partnership in the business, and
through the succeeding eight years the firm enjoyed substantial and gratifying
success. Vincent Cook then turned his attention to the dry-goods business tak-
ing a third partner in the firm, Clarke, Henderson & Cook, their store being
situated at the corner of First and Washington streets. For six years Mr. Cook
remained in the firm and then become one of the pioneers of the salmon packing
industry, which has been one of the most important sources of commercial
activity and wealth in the northwest. With a well equipped plant they entered
this field of business and became prominent representatives of the salmon trade
of the country, their first shipments being made to England, but gradually there
arose a demand for their product in other parts of the world and the business
took on extensive proportions. Although retaining his interest in the canning
business until 1896, Mr. Cook became interested in mining in 1888, his partners
in the enterprise being Captain A. P. Ankeny and H. E. Ankeny. They became
successors to the Sterling Mining Company in Jackson county, Oregon, which
owned fourteen hundred acres of as fine placer land as is to be found in the
northwest. Following the death of Captain Ankeny, the business was taken
in charge by the other two partners, Mr. Cook becoming president of the com-
pany with Henry E. Ankeny, vice president. A twenty-seven mile ditch to the
mines was dug as early as 1879, and before this a six-mile hydraulic pipe had
been used, the latter placed in operation during 1854 to 1855 and used until 1861.
The mines were idle from 1862 to 1877, but in the later year a stock company
was formed and the business developed on a profitable basis. The company
owned one of the richest placer mines in this part of the country and had as
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chief executive officer, Mr. Cook, who had active control of its affairs, the en-
terprise furnishing employment to many workmen and constituting- a source of
gratifying success to the owners. He retired from the presidency of the com-
pany in 1905. He continued actively in the salmon packing business as a member
of the firm of J. W. & V. Cook, operating extensively on the Columbia river
until 1896, when he retired from active business cares, devoting his time to
his extensive private interests and to the enjoyment of a well earned rest.
Mr. Cook was married in this city to Miss Oronoco L. Ankeny, who was
born in West Virginia and was a daughter of Captain A. P. Ankeny. She died
in Portland in 1897, leaving two sons and a daughter, Ray A., Lelia A. and Floyd
J. In 1907 Mr. Cook was married to Mrs. Martha G. Crowell.
Mr. Cook has always exercised his right of franchise in support of the men
and measures of the republican party. He belongs to the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and possesses much of that genial and cordial spirit which has
made the west famous for its hospitality. His work has been so closely linked
with this section of the country and so important in its character that his life
constitutes an integral chapter in the history of Portland and no man manifests
deeper satisfaction with what has been accomplished or has more willingly given
his aid and influence for the upbuilding of this section than Vincent Cook.
GEORGE KNIGHT CLARK.
For more than twenty-five years George Knight Clark has been identified
with the real-estate business in Portland. While there may be other men who
have been longer connected with business interests in this city, it is doubtful
whether a more energetic or capable exponent of the real-estate interests can be
found in the northwest than the well known representative whose name stands
at the head of this review. Naturally endowed with the qualities of appearance
and address so important in the attainment of success in the business world, Mr.
Clark has an intimate knowledge of his field of operations that few can claim
and an enthusiasm that, rightly controlled, is one of the most valuable attributes
to be desired in any vocation.
Mr. Clark was born in Auckland, New Zealand, November 3, 1865, a son of
J. Fred Clark, a prominent real-estate man of the east side in this city, whose
death occurred in 1889. He was reared in New Zealand until he reached the
age of twelve years, when he went with his parents to San Francisco, where he
lived for four years. In 1871 the family removed to Portland and here he has
remained, engaging with marked success in the real-estate business, at first with
his father and since 1889 mainly on his own account. In 1908 he assisted in the
organization of the Clark-Cook Company, which handles a large amount of real
estate, its operations becoming so important that on November 26, 1909, the firm
was incorporated, Mr. Clark being the senior member. He organized the syndi-
cate that bought Sunnyside, in the residence district of the city, this subdivision
containing one hundred and sixty acres and being one of the most valuable tracts
handled in recent years. Mr. Clark was also a member of the syndicate that
bought and laid out the Holladay Park and Rossmere tracts. The former in-
cluded the area from Eighteenth to Twenty-eighth streets and from the tracks
of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company to Halsey street, while the Ross-
mere addition comprises ninety acres extending from Thirty-seventh street to
Ninety-fifth street. These were large undertakings and required a great deal
of capital and energy, but were highly successful and contributed greatly in the
development of the city. Mr. Clark has also been actively connected with Lewis
Wiley in the development of St. Helens Heights, a tract of one hundred and
fifty acres, which will be one of the finest of Portland's residence districts. For
twenty years past he has been interested in real-estate operations at Mount
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Tabor and has been one of the leading operators in subdividing property in that
region and placing same on the market. In carrying out many of his plans, he
has exercised a judgment that has been little short of phenomenal and often in
the face of grave difficulties he has carried projects through to a gratifying real-
ization. It is such men only who are qualified to manage successfully the great
real-estate problems that face a rapidly growing city.
In 1897, at Portland, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Esther G.
Ellis, a daughter of James Ellis, and the union has been blessed by four children :
Marie Louise, Leola Genevieve, Lawrence Knight and Georgia, all of whom are
now living at home.
Mr. Clark is a member of the Commercial Club, the Chamber of Commerce,
the Oregon Good Roads Association, the Portland Automobile Club and the
Woodmen of the World. His chief sources of recreation are motoring, shoot-
ing and fishing, and he is a liberal patron of all out of door sports. He has never
taken an active part in politics as his attention is mainly devoted to the business
to which he has given the best energies of his life. He has always been a be-
liever in Portland as the metropolis of the northwest and the wonderful prog-
ress of the city during the last ten years is evidence that his confidence has not
been misplaced. He is recognized as a leader among the real-estate men of
Portland and is known as a straightforward and upright citizen whose talents
have contributed very largely toward the development of the city.
JOHN M. A. LAUE.
The town of Soldin, Germany was the birthplace of John M. A. Laue and his
natal day was March 5, 1862. His father, Adolph G. Laue, also a native of
Soldin, was a miller by trade and in 1862 came to America with his family, lo-
cating at Saginaw, Michigan, where he engaged in milling until his death in
December, 1877, when fifty-four years of age. His wife, Henrietta Buchholz,
died in 1906 at the age of eighty-two years. In their family were nine children,
of whom John M. A. Laue was the eighth in order of birth. He and one brother
and a sister came west but the brother, Adolph G. Lane, Jr., died here in 1903.
The sister, Mrs. Anna Strohecker, is a resident of Portland.
John M. A. Laue pursued his education at Saginaw, Michigan, but left school
in 1876, at the age of fourteen years, and went to Passaic, New Jersey, where he
worked in a drug store. Entering the New York College of Pharmacy, he was
graduated therefrom in 1881, at the age of nineteen years, being one of the
youngest to complete the course in those days. He removed westward in the
fall of 1883, becoming a resident of Denver, Colorado, and in the spring of 1884
he came to Portland, where he has since resided. He was employed as a drug
clerk in this city until 1886, when laudable ambition prompted him to engage
in business on his own account and he established a drug store which he has
since conducted, having now one of the oldest established business enterprises of
this character in the city. He was the first in Portland to give instruction in
pharmacy and many years ago, when the Willamette University established a de-
partment of pharmacy, he became one of the instructors therein. However, this was
soon discontinued and pharmacy was not taught here again until September, 1908,
when he started quiz classes, preparing drug clerks to pass the examinations of
the state board of pharmacy, for which task he was well qualified because of
twenty years' connection with that board. Shortly after other schools of phar-
macy were established in Portland but his classes still continue and are well at-
tended. He recognized the fact that many drug clerks of long and practical ex-
perience sometimes failed to pass the required board examination because they
did not know how to study or what course to pursue. Mr. Lane's connection
with the Oregon board of pharmacy enabled him to judge where candidates are
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the weakest and so in his classes he has made it his purpose to teach young
men how to answer questions in a straightforward, businesslike manner, without
confusion or embarrassment. His course of study is comprehensive, including a
knowledge of those branches of science necessary in the conduct of a drug business
as well as mercantile methods of store management and sales. Mr. Laue has
taken an active interest in everything in the state pertaining to pharmacy and to
upholding the high standard that he believes should prevail among pharmacists
and for many years he has been a member of the Oregon State Pharmaceutical
Association, which he has served as president. He has done much for the up-
building of this association and in the year 1909 offered a prize of fifty dollars
to the person who brought in the largest number of members to the association,
while in the present year he is offering a prize of twenty-five dollars to the one
who brings in the largest number of clerks as members of the association, his
object being to stimulate an interest in the business and the association. To fur-
ther promote the thorough and efficient study of pharmacy he has donated to
the department of pharmacy of the Oregon Agricultural College an annual prize
of fifty dollars, known as the Laue prize, to be given to the student receiving
the highest class mark in pharmacy. Mr. Laue has served for four terms, cover-
ing nearly twenty years, on the Oregon board of pharmacy and has held all of
its offices.
On the 6th of September, 1887, Mr. Laue was married at Ilwaco, Washington,
to Miss Nora A. Tapley, a daughter ;5f-J.--J.- Tapley, of Claybank, Michigan.
They had two children : Otto K., twenty-fw'6 years of age, a student in the depart-
ment of pharmacy in the Oregon Agrrcu'ltural College --and Nora May, who died
September 14, 1908, at the age of eighteen years. The family residence is at 766
Hancock street, Irvington. "L. . ;^^"*^' .!K:^'j>^
Mr. Laue and his family belong to the Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal
church, in which he takes an active and helpful interest. He is also a member
of Willamette Lodge, No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and of United Artisans, the Wood-
men of the World and other fraternities. His political support is given the re-
publican party and he belongs to the Commercial Club and the Chamber of Com-
merce, preferring that his activities in behalf of the city and its upbuilding should
be put forth in connection with those organizations rather than in the field of
politics. His business activity has ever balanced up with the principles of truth
and honor and in all of his work he has never sacrificed the high standards which
he has set up for himself.
JACOB S. GILTNER, M. D.
A life purposeful and resultant in its activity and beautiful in its kindly im-
pulses and benevolences was closed when Dr. Jacob S. Giltner passed away on
the i8th of May, 1910. His memory, however, remains as a blessed benediction
to those who knew him. Reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, he ex-
emplified the teachings of a sect that has always emphasized the spirit of brother-
hood and mutual kindness and helpfulness. The life span of Dr. Giltner covered
about eighty-six years and to the last he retained his mental faculties unimpaired.
He was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of October,
1824, a son of Conrad and Rebecca (Snyder) Giltner. The ancestry of the
family is traced back in direct line to the Prince of Orange. The Doctor's
parents were farming people, well known and highly honored in that section of
the Keystone state in which they made their home. The father was a soldier
of the Revolutionary war, aiding valiantly in the cause for independence. He
inherited a large tract of land in Pennsylvania and devoted his life to general
agricultural pursuits there.
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Dr. Giltner's educational advantages in his youth were extremely limited.
He had the opportunity to attend school for only three months, but later he
embraced every chance to further his knowledge, read broadly and thought
deeply. While plowing in the fields he often had a book with him and his even-
ings were devoted to study. His early life was spent upon a farm and he be-
came familiar with every duty that falls to the lot of the agriculturist. When
sixteen years of age he began to teach school in the winter months, and his work
in this direction further stimulated his desire for and determination to secure
an education. His mother, sympathizing with him in this ambition, upon in-
heriting a little money sent him to college, although this course was in opposi-
tion to the wishes of her relatives. It was the best thing that she could do for
her son, however, as she gave to him something which no one could take from
him and which constituted the foundation for his success and for much useful
service in life. He was graduated from the medical department of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania when about twenty-one years of age, after which he re-
turned home and was married.
It was in 1846 that Dr. Giltner wedded Miss Martha M. Hause, of German-
town, Pennsylvania, and after residing near Harrisburg for a time he returned
to his home county, where he entered at once upon the practice of medicine, in
which he continued with success until after the outbreak of the Civil war. He
then offered his services to the government, took a competitive examination, and
therein won the appointment of commander and medical director of the hospital
of the Army of the Cumberland at Nashville, Tennessee, with the rank of major.
He enlisted from Milton, Pennsylvania, was mustered in at Washington, D. C,
and did splendid service for the Union soldiers in the utilization of his skill and
ability, both in field and hospital service. While at the front he gained that
experience as a surgeon which made him afterward a specialist in that branch
of the medical science.
After the war was over, Dr. Giltner went to Pithole, Pennsylvania, where
oil had just been struck, and engaged in the practice of medicine there until
June, 1866, when he started for Oregon. Arriving at Portland, he at once began
the practice of medicine here and remained a well known member of the profes-
sion of this city until about seventy-eight years of age, when, in 1875, he re-
turned to the college in which he had long before been a student and there pur-
sued a post-graduate course. He then came to Portland and resumed the
active practice of medicine and surgery. He was again a physician here for sev-
eral years and always enjoyed a large practice that gave him rank with the lead-
ing members of the profession in the city. For several years he filled the posi-
tion of county physician, was also city physician and visiting physician to the
insane asylum before his removal to Salem. Throughout his professional career
he read the leading contributions to medical literature and kept in touch with the
progress of the times, rendering his labors of great value in this connection.
As previously stated. Dr. Giltner was married to Miss Martha M. Hause,
the wedding being celebrated on the 9th of March, 1846. Her parents were
Abraham and Mary Hause of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Giltner was born in Chester
county, near Philadelphia, on Christmas day of 1826. Unto Dr. and Airs. Gilt-
ner were born ten children, of whom four died in infancy. Of those who reached
adult age. Dr. William Paris Giltner died at the age of forty-nine years. He was
born in 1849 ^^^ passed away in 1898. He graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania and devoted his life to the practice of medicine. He was also a
prominent Elk. He married Minnie Going and unto them were born four chil-
dren: James, Paris E., Edward B. and John R. Emma Giltner is one of the
graduates of the old Portland Academy and also the high school of this city.
She was afterward graduated from the Women's College at Baltimore, Mary-
land, where she won the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while subsequently that of
Master of Arts was conferred upon her. She became the wife of Eugene D.
White and had one son, Eugene G. Roscoe R., of Portland, the third member
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of the family, was graduated from the high school of this city, afterward con-
tinued his studies under a private tutor and later entered Yale College, from
which he was graduated. He married Fronia Wallace. He is quite prominent
in politics and has held the office of city attorney. Frank F., of Portland, after
graduating from the high school, attended Yale University. He married Louise
Scheuer and is now filling the oflice of deputy sheriff. Martha G., who is a
graduate of the high school, later attended a private school, preparatory to en-
tering Wellesley college, near Boston, Massachusetts, receiving a scholarship and
Greek honors from Athens. She is now the wife of Vincent Cook, of Portland.
Horace, who was born in 1861, died in 1896.
In his political views. Dr. Giltner was a republican from the time of the
organization of the party until his death. In addition to the official position
which he held in the line of his profession, he was a member of the school board,
to which he was appointed about 1872, serving for several years. He was in-
strumental in the establishment of the Portland high school and was also in'
strumental in securing the passage of a bill allowing colored children to attend
the public schools. He was a stalwart and determined champion of the cause
of higher education as a feature of public schools, saying that he had plenty of
money to give his children advantages of that character but that the poorer
people's children would never get an education beyond that which the public
schools afforded. His labors in behalf of public instruction were effective and
far-reaching, and his work in this direction alone would entitle him to the honor
and respect of his fellowmen.
The Doctor was a life member of the Masonic lodge of Philadelphia, which
he joined in early manhood, and also belonged to Columbia Chapter No. 91,
R. A. M. While he held to the belief of the Society of Friends, he yet became
a member of the Lutheran church and was a liberal contributor to St. James
church in this city. He died May 18, 1910, having for five years survived his
wife, who passed away on the 2d of March, 1905, and was laid to rest in River-
view cemetery. His home relations were largely ideal. His interests centered
in his family and his own happiness seemed complete if he was contributing to
the welfare and happiness of his wife and children. He gave to his sons and
daughters the best educational advantages, knowing that therein he was bestow-
ing on them a priceless gift. He rejoiced in his success because of the oppor-
tunity it gave him to surround the members of his household with the comforts
and the luxuries of life. The poor and needy found in him a generous friend,
but his charity was always most unostentatious. He followed the Bible in-
junction not to let the left hand know what the right hand doeth, and from no
words of his own did anyone learn of the charity and helpful spirit of Dr. Gilt-
ner. There were times when even the recipients of his bounty did not know
who was their benefactor. He frequently commissioned someone, ofttimes the
members of his own household, to make purchase of flour and other necessities
of life, and send such to the poor. His pastor is responsible for the statement
that he gave a tenth of his income to the support of the gospel and for the bene-
fit of local hospitals and the poorer classes. His great heart reached out in sym-
pathy to all mankind and his helping hand lifted many a one out of the slough
of despondency into an atmosphere of courage and good cheer.
Dr. Giltner was a man of scholarly attainment, who, throughout his life took
great interest in the study of history, sociology and literature. He possessed a
remarkably retentive memory so that his opinions and his knowledge were fre-
quently sought to settle some disputed question. He seemed almost never to
forget a point which he had read or a character with whom he had become ac-
quainted in literature. During the last four years of his life he suffered from
ill health but retained the same keen perception and memory that had charac-
terized him in his youth. The snows of many winters whitened his hair for he
reached the age of eighty-six years, but his heart ever remained young, and in
spirit and in interest he seemed always in his prime. For forty-four years he
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was a resident of Portland, and in the city it would be impossible to find one
who had aught to say against him. Thoughts of reverence and words of praise
rise to the lips of many whenever his name is mentioned. Especially was he held
in grateful remembrance by the poor whom he assisted, by the friends whose
intelligence was stimulated by his own broad knowledge, but most of all in that
household where he occupied the position of almost ideal husband and father.
What a fitting crown of life is a memory that is as revered and sacred as is that
of Dr. Jacob S. Giltner.
MRS. JUNE MacMILLAN ORDWAY.
Love and appreciation are expressed in the term "Oregon's Own," by which
name June MacMillan Ordway is called throughout the state. From childhood
she has sung the praises of the fair land in which she lives and touched in verse
and prose upon many of the experiences of life, winning a place among those
whose authorship has added to the literary fame of the northwest. Her birth-
place was a new log cabin on the Tualatin plains, her natal day being Septem-
ber II, 1855. She was one of a family of nine children, a quiet, dreamy child,
one to whom the noisy sports of youth made little appeal. She was thoughtful
and earnest, and in her very early girlhood seemed to give much consideration
to the serious things of life and to plan for the future. She was but six years
of age when three of her little brothers passed from life within a very few days,
and the little girl became more quiet and thoughtful than before. Many sorrows
have since come into her life, but they have never embittered her, having on the
contrary developed that broad sympathy which finds its best expression only in
those who have passed through the more difficult experiences.
She was extremely young when she began to express herself in writing, and
one of her teachers, discovering her great talents and becoming interested in her
work, had a little story and verse published in a Salem (Ore.) paper. She was
twelve years of age when she first received remuneration for her verse, which
was accepted and paid for by a New York publication. Once when very young,
after one of her quiet, thoughtful days, when sitting in the midst of the family
circle, she suddenly said that she was going to be a "writer lady" when she grew
up. This created much merriment in the household, and the sensitive nature of
the child shrank from that misunderstanding which is often harder to bear than
active hostility. She cherished her little verses, however, and many a time hid
her writings away in some secret place, fearing they would be destroyed. Her
education was in large acquired through her own efl^orts and her studious nature
inclined her to the perusal of all the volumes which she could procure. From
the earliest reception of her verse to the present time she has continued her
writing, finding in literary pursuits that expression of the inner self which the
painter puts upon his canvas or the sculptor chisels in marble. She is the author
of the play "Oregon," together with several other plays, and her writings in-
clude many songs, poems and stories. Long since she has established her posi-
tion in the world of letters and among her treasures are written words of con-
gratulation and encouragement from the late President McKinley, Marcus
Hanna and Lillian Whiting. When Ella Wheeler Wilcox visited Portland a few
years ago she gave Mrs. Ordway great encouragement, telling her to let nothing
discourage her in her writings. Among her most beautiful productions are three
dedicatory odes written for the unveiling of military monuments in her native
state. One of these entitled, "Mufiled Drums" was for the unveiling of the
monument at Hubbard, Marion county, erected by the ex-soldiers of that county.
For the monument erected in Lone Fir cemetery, Portland, her poem was en-
titled, "After the Battles," this being erected by the citizens to the memory of
those who fell in the Mexican, Civil, Indian and Spanish-American wars. The
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last and grandest of the three monuments was erected in Portland, on which
occasion her poem was entitled, "After Taps." Her son, Eliot W., was one of
the brave boys of Company H, Second Oregon, in the Spanish-American war
and died at sea, of typhoid fever, near Manila, September 24, 1898. His com-
pany was called the "flower of Oregon," being composed mostly of high school
boys of good families and refined homes.
Mrs. Ordway inherits her mother's charitable instincts and has assisted many
less fortunate than herself. Like many other kindly disposed people, she has
been greatly imposed upon at times, but her heart never closes its doors against
the appeal of the needy, and when the possibility of rendering material assist-
ance is hers, she does it with ready hand. Fortune has not always smiled upon
her path, but in the darkest hours she has ever remembered her mother's teach-
ings concerning virtue and honesty. The greatest sorrow of her life has come
to her in the loss of her children, two beautiful, gifted boys, Eliot and Earl.
She was married while quite young to Julius Ordway, a native of Maine, who
died in 1908.
Mrs. Ordway is a favorite throughout the state and especially among the
pioneer families, and in a newspaper of recent date, she was mentioned as "Ore-
gon's sweetest singer." She says she feels that "she has just commenced get-
ting the ground ready," as it were. She is ambitious, hoping to yet accomplish
much in life and much for her native state — beautiful Oregon. The Hassalo
Street Congregational church of Portland was organized in a small school house
on the property known as MacMillan's addition, and at the service every Sunday
morning, June MacMillan Ordway, then a young girl, played upon a small or-
gan, which was carried there every Sunday by the owner from his home, with
the assistance of a neighbor. This organ has been brought from Maine.
MORRIS HOMANS WHITEHOUSE.
Among the promising young architects of Portland the name of Morris H.
Whitehouse occupies a highly favorable position. A native son of Oregon, he
was born at Portland, March 21, 1878. His father, whose sketch appears else-
where in this record, is Benjamin G. Whitehouse, and his mother Clara (Ho-
mans) Whitehouse, both natives of New England and pioneers of the Pacific
coast.
Morris H. Whitehouse possessed unusual advantages of education in prep-
aration for a profession which attracts many of the brightest minds of the coun-
try. In addition to the training received in various schools, he grew up in a
home of culture and refinement — the best of all known institutions for the de-
velopment of the faculties most essential in the attainment of a successful career.
Llis first school experience was in the public schools where he continued until he
arrived at an age for preparatory college training. He then became a student
of the Bishop Scott Academy, from which he was graduated in June, 1896, at
the age of eighteen. Entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he
continued one year — 1896-7, and returning in 1902 continued until 1906. In
recognition of his work at this school, one of the leading institutions of the kind
in the world, he was awarded the prize for special students for best scholarship
in all studies and the honor of first holder of the 1906 traveling scholarship.
This gave him the opportunity of a year's study abroad, which he spent at the
American Academy at Rome, Italy, returning to Portland in 1907. While in
Europe he made a study, under most favorable conditions, of many of the great-
est architectural works, ancient and modern, and also came into personal contact
with many of the most prominent masters.
Opening an office in Portland in 1907, Mr. Whitehouse at once became ac-
tively engaged in his profession and during the short time that has since elapsed
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has met with marked success. Among the buildings of which he has been archi-
tect may be named : the Jefferson high school ; the receiving ward of the Oregon
State Insane Asylum ; the Old Peoples Home ; the Ladd & Tilton Bank interior ;
the grand stand and alteration to the athletic field of the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club ; the new Lincoln high school ; also many country and city houses,
office buildings and apartment houses for private individuals.
Mr. Whitehouse was united in marriage October 17, 1908, at Salt f.ake City,
Utah, to Miss Grace Grey R-eed, a daughter of James and Georgiana Reed, of
Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Whitehouse is a highly educated and accom-
plished lady whose entire sympathy is with her husband at the beginning of his
career. He is affiliated in professional organizations as a member of the Port-
land Architectural Club and as associate member of the American Institute of
Architects. He is also a member of the Portland Archaeological Society, the
Portland Art Association, the Multnomah Club, the University Club and the
Waverly Golf Club. Mr. Whitehouse has many social qualities which have
endeared him to a circle of friends which is constantly widening. It is safe to
prophesy that he will prove a worthy successor to an honorable father in contrib-
uting, to the extent of his ability, toward the upbuilding of the northwest.
E. M. GREEN.
E. M. Green has reached his majority in the practice of law, for he has now
been actively connected with the profession for twenty-one years, having opened
a law office in Vancouver in 1889. He was born in Iowa, February 10, 1863,
and spent his youthful days in that state, his early education, obtained in the
public schools, being supplemented by study in the State University of Iowa.
He was graduated from its law department with the class of 1888 and in the
fall of the same year made his way westward to Clarke county, Washington.
The same year he was admitted to practice and for one term after establish-
ing his home in Vancouver he engaged in teaching school there. In the spring of
1889 he opened his law office and has practiced continuously since with great
success, being accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage that
has connected him with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of
his district. Aside from his practice he has business interests of importance,
being a director of the United States National Bank of Vancouver and also
of the Vancouver Ice & Cold Storage Company.
Moreover, Mr. Green has found time and opportunity for active public work
and his devotion to the welfare and improvement of his city is well known. He
has served for one term — the year 1908 — as mayor of Vancouver and has also
been city attorney for three terms, being elected in 1895 ^^^ again in 1898,
holding the ofBce after the second election for two years. He was also a candi-
date for judge of the superior court in 1894. In politics he has ever been a
stalwart democrat, is a recognized leader of his party in this section of the coun-
try and has been a delegate to all of the state conventions of Washington through
the past fourteen years. However, he regards the pursuits of private life as in
themselves worthy of his best efforts. He has been admitted to all the state and
federal courts and is now engaged in a large law practice.
On the 26th of April, 1892, Mr. Green v/as united in marriage to Miss Eva
J. Van Slyke, of Vancouver. They belong to the First Christian church, of
which he is a trustee, and he is also a member of the Masonic lodge; of Van-
couver Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M. ; Vancouver Council, R. & S. M. ; Vancouver
Commandery, No. 10, K. T. ; and Afifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Tacoma.
He IS now a past master of the blue lodge and is scribe of the chapter, and he
belongs to the Eastern Star. He also holds membership with the Independent
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Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the An-
cient Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen of the World, and the Fraternal
Order of Eagles. His life exemplifies many of the stable and beneficent princi-
ples of those organizations, which are all based upon a spirit of mutual helpfulness
and brotherly kindness.
JUDGE JOHN CATLIN.
For more than sixty years the Catlin family has been identified with the de-
velopment of the northwest, the fourth generation of the family now having
appeared upon the scene. Coming from sturdy Puritan ancestry, the Catlins
have possessed the essential traits which characterized the pioneers and those
virtues which aim to advance the moral, intellectual and material welfare of all
with whom they have associated. The earlier Catlins were men of great will
and energy. They were fearless of danger from savage foe or wild beast and
the impression which they made upon the pioneer settlements indicates that they
were men of more than ordinary intellectual caliber. It is this type that makes
possible the conquest of the wilderness and the establishment of peaceable homes
under well ordered laws where previously the country was uninhabitable or bar-
barous tribes roamed under control, of scarcely less barbarous leaders.
The first Catlin whose name gained prominence in the history of the west
was Seth Catlin, father of Judge John Catlin, of this review, and grandfather
of Seth Catlin, whose sketch is also presented below. He was born at Pitts-
field, Massachusetts, in 1792, and in 1805, at the age of thirteen, removed with
his parents to Ohio, where the family for some time made its home, the region
westward being then largely under control of warlike Indians. The pioneer
spirit, however, was still urging forward and Seth Catlin is next met with in
Illinois, which was admitted as a state in 1818 and extended an urgent invita-
tion for settlers from more populous regions eastward. There he was married
to Agnes, daughter of James Redpath, who emigrated from Scotland in 1818
and located in Illinois. Mr. Catlin was a resident of St. Clair county on the
east side of the Mississippi river, opposite St. Louis, and was a prominent figure
in public afifairs, representing his county for several terms in the state legisla-
ture. A family of seven sons came to bless the Illinois home of Mr. and Mrs.
Catlin: Seth, Jr., who later died in Arkansas; James, now a farmer in Mexico;
Robert, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, who
lost a leg in the Civil war and later resided at Washington, D. C, serving for a
time as deputy governor of the Soldiers' Home, but is now deceased; Adam,
who lived at the homestead finally selected by the family in the northwest and
died in 1906; Charles, who died September i, 1900; Frederick, engaged in farm-
ing in Washington ; and John, whose record appears below.
Although Seth Catlin was a good buisness man and a growing factor in the
community where he made his home, he felt that the needs of a large family
required a wider field and he decided to migrate to the northwest. Settlers from
New England had made a trail leading over South Pass to the mouth of the
Willamette river in the territory of Oregon, and caravans each spring passed
westward through Iowa and Nebraska toward the newly opened country. In
the spring of 1848 Mr. Catlin and his family started on the long journey across
the plains and through the mountains and after several months of toil and suffer-
ing, arrived safely at the little town of Foster, twenty miles from Portland, the
first white settledent the emigrants had seen, with the exception of a few log
forts and trading posts, since leaving the Missouri river. They received a
friendly greeting from brave men and women who had already located in the
region. The country was open for occupation and Mr. Catlin selected a prom-
ising tract of six hundred and forty acres three miles south of Portland, where
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a cabin was erected and the duties and responsibilities of life in a new country-
begun. Later he located six hundred and forty acres of land in Cowlitz county,
Washington, where he resided until the time of his death. Mr. Catlin was an
intelligent man of wide observation and a natural leader. He quickly gained
recognition and was elected to the territorial legislature, and when his abilities
became better known, was elected a member of the territorial council and served
as president of the council for several terms. He was a democrat and ardently
advocated the claims of his party. He departed this life in 1865, Mrs. Catlin
surviving her husband nineteen years, when she, too, was called away, leaving
many relatives and friends who recognized her sterling worth.
Judge John Catlin, the first son of Seth and Agnes Catlin, was born at
Turkey Hill, St. Clair county, Illinois, February 6, 1832. He became one of the
remarkable men of pioneer times and his memory is cherished in the hearts and
minds of many now living who knew him as a man of unsullied character and
a genuine friend and helper of humanity. He inherited many of the best char-
acteristics of his father and in addition had advantages of education not pos-
sessed by many whose entire life was passed in the battle necessarily involved in
the subjection of the wilderness. Judge Catlin received his early education in
the common schools and at the age of sixteen accompanied the family on the
trail to Oregon. The trip was one of the exciting episodes of a long life, much
of which was spent amid stirring scenes, and it often furnished themes for
reminiscences of great interest in his later years. Being young and stalwart, he
walked a large part of the way to the coast and on arriving was prepared to do
a full man's work in clearing the forest and on the farm. He continued at home
until twenty-seven years of age, when he returned to Illinois and became a
student of law in the office of ex-Governor A. C. French, of Lebanon, Illinois.
He also pursued special studies at McKendree College and later went to Cin-
cinnati, where he entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating with the de-
gree of LL. B. in 1861. He returned to Portland during the fall of the following
year and took up the practice of his profession, in which he continued with marked
success for more than thirty years, gaining recognition as one of the brightest
and best informed members of the bar in Oregon. He served as a member
of the Portland city council and in 1886 was elected for a term of four years
as county judge of Multnomah county, which position he filled with the highest
credit to himself and the county. He had a judicial mind and never allowed per-
sonal or party considerations to affect his decisions. Many of his opinions have
since been regarded as precedents to be literally observed as they embody the
highest principles of right and justice.
Judge Catlin was united in marriage in 1866 to Miss Frances A. Hender-
son, a daughter of Robert and Rhoda (Holman) Henderson, of Yamhill county,
Oregon, pioneers who came from the east in 1846. Eight children were born
of the union of Judge and Mrs. Catlin : Agnes R., Robert, Blanche, Seth, Frances,
Rebecca, Clementine and Margaret. The Judge departed this life July 19, 1902,
after a long and painful illness, during which he displayed a fortitude that en-
deared him more than ever to his family and friends. For several years pre-
vious to his death he lived retired. He was a member of the Masonic order.
A great concourse paid their last respects to the memory of one who, by a life
of earnest endeavor and thoughtfulness for others, had won their lasting regard.
Seth Catlin, the fourth child of Judge John and Frances A. Catlin, was born
at Portland, February 20, 1872. He was educated in the city schoois and Bishop
Scott Academy, and then studied architecture, his talent being largely along the
lines represented by the constructive faculties. For some time he was con-
nected with the city engineer's office and for seven years was identified with the
ofiice of the United States surveyor general in Portland. He is now president
of the Oregon Map & Blue Print Company, with of^ces at 323^ Washington
street, and through long experience and thorough knowledge of the needs of his
specialty, has built up a flourishing business. He was united in marriage June
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7, 1905, to Miss Ida Thompson, a daughter of Robert Green and Leona (Welch)
Thompson. Her father, who was a pioneer sheep-raiser of Oregon, died in
1894, but Mrs. Thompson is still living. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Catlin
has been blessed by one child, John Robert, the name John being one long
handed down in the Catlin family and one which has never, to the present day,
been dishonored.
BENSON B. ARBUCKLE.
Benson B. Arbuckle, of Portland, is numbered among the veterans of the
Civil war. The members of the Grand Army of the Republic are fast passing
away, but the story of their deeds will never cease to thrill the American citizens,
for history records their prowess and their valor in attempting the preservation
of the Union — a work in which they were gloriously successful.
Mr. Arbuckle was born in Bowhng Green, Ohio, on the 21st of January,
1838, a son of Joseph F. and Amanda (Smith) Arbuckle, the former of Scotch
descent and the latter of English lineage. The father was a farmer by occupa-
tion and in 1839 removed westward with his family to Illinois, settling in De
Kalb county. He took up his abode upon a preemption claim of one hundred
and twenty acres and later purchased the place when the land was put upon the
•market. Both he and his wife continued to make their home upon that farm until
called to their final rest, Mr. Arbuckle passing away at the very venerable age of
ninety-three years, while his wife reached the advanced age of eighty-four
years.
Benson B. Arbuckle was only a little more than a year old when his parents
removed to Illinois, and there amid pioneer surroundings his youthful days were
passed. His early education acquired in the district schools, was supplemented
by study in the Mount Morris Seminary, of Mount Morris, Illinois, and when
he had put aside his text-books he gave his undivided attention to the further de-
velopment and improvement of the home farm until 1859, when he went with ox
teams to Pikes Peak, passing through Denver when there were only two or three
log cabins in that now flourishing city. He was engaged in prospecting and min-
ing in Colorado until December, 1861.
In the meantime the Civil war had broken out. He watched with interest
the progress of events in the south and when he was convinced that the war was
to be no mere holiday affair and that the country needed the aid of all of its loyal
citizens he offered his services to the government, and on the 9th of August, 1862,
enlisted at Kingston, Illinois, for three years. The regiment was formed in
response to the call for six hundred thousand more volunteers made by Presi-
dent Lincoln in the summer of that year, was formed at Camp Fuller, Rockford,
and became the Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry. The troops went into camp at
Rockford and remained there from the 4th of September until the 8th of No-
vember, preparing for the real and active service before them in the field. Here
the men had a good opportunity of becoming acquainted with some of the re-
quirements and conditions of military life and of studying into the theoretical
part of war. Squad, company and battalion drills and dress parades occupied
their attention and the regiment went to the front well equipped for service.
On the 29th of September, 1862, orders were received from Governor Yates for
the regiment to proceed to Louisville, Kentucky, and report to Major General
H. G. Wright, commanding the Department of the Ohio. Preparations were
hastily and gladly made and the regiment started but had hardly boarded the train
when Governor Yates rescinded the former order of march and commanded
them to return to Camp Fuller. On the 30th of October, however, another order
directed that the command move immediately to Columbus, Kentucky, and re-
port for duty to Major General U. S. Grant, commanding the Army of the Ten-
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nessee. The troops joined Grant's army at Jackson, where preparations were
going on for an active campaign in the field. On the 21st of November they
proceeded by rail to Grand Junction and were assigned to the division com-
manded by General John McArthur, where the Ninety-fifth was called upon to
associate, drill, march, fight and compete with those veteran regiments that
had entered the service at the beginning of the war. The men were put upon
their mettle and proved themselves equal to the old war-scarred veterans. With
the usual experiences of marching and warfare the Ninety-fifth proceeded toward
Vicksburg. The command was in camp at Abbeville until the i8th of Decem-
ber, 1862, performing various kinds of post duty. Marching through Oxford,
they proceeded to Yockena Station, where news was received that the Confed-
erate General Van Dorn had made a dash with his cavalry into Holly Springs,
destroyed large quantities of supplies and largely captured the federal garri-
son. The troops at Yockena were then ordered back to Holly Springs to pro-
tect against another such invasion by Van Dorn. The campaign closed in north-
ern Mississippi, with the federal troops successful in driving the enemy from his
base on the Tallahatchie river. It was soon evident that there was a grand ex-
pedition on foot for the Army of the Tennessee with Vicksburg as a point of
attack. When the troops had proceeded as far as Alabama, however, the Con-
federates managed to get in their rear and they returned to Memphis, from which
point they took a boat for Lake Providence, where they assisted in cutting the
levee. Afterward they went to Vicksburg and participated in the long siege
against that city. Following its capitulation the Ninety-fifth Illinois was among
the first regiments to enter and take possession of Vicksburg, on the 4th of July.
Mr. Arbuckle was severely injured in the charge made on the second day, sus-
taining a wound in the back. He was then sent to the field hospital near Vicks-
burg and later was sent home for a thirty day's furlough. On the 9th of August,
1863, he rejoined his regiment at Vicksburg, where the winter was spent, and
in the spring the regiment proceeded up the Red river and participated in a
number of skirmishes. Subsequently they started to join Sherman but had pro-
ceeded only as far as Memphis when they were sent to Guntown, participating
in the hotly contested battle there, in which Company G of the Ninety-fifth
Illinois, to which Mr. Arbuckle belonged, lost its captain and the colonel of the
regiment was also killed, while about eighty out of the three hundred members
of the command lost their lives. The remainder of the regiment then returned
to Memphis and from that point proceeded to Little Rock, Arkansas, and later
followed Price into Missouri but arrived a few hours after the capture of the
army. Recrossing the Mississippi, they proceeded to Nashville and encountered
General Hood, making two charges upon his army, after which they followed
his troops down to Corinth, Tennessee. At that point they took boat for New
Orleans, proceeded to Spanish Fort and aided in besieging and capturing that
federal stronghold. Later Mr. Arbuckle went to Montgomery, Alabama, and
then to Mobile, where the Ninety-fifth Illinois was engaged in guarding rail-
roads until the close of the war.
Following the cessation of hostilities Mr. Arbuckle was mustered out at
Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, August 21, 1865, returning to his home with a
most creditable military record. Through his three years' connection with the
army he had met all the experiences of military life, the hardships and priva-
tions, the long and difficult marches as well as pitched battles, in which line after
line of blue-coated boys stood without wavering to defend the old flag and the
cause it represented.
Following his return to the north Mr. Arbuckle resumed farming, giving his
attention to general agricultural pursuits until 1885, when he came to Portland.
He still owns his Illinois farm, comprising one hundred and seventy acres of
rich and productive land.
On the 3d of October, 1878, Mr. Arbuckle was united in marriage to Miss
Mary E. Ray, a datighter of Miles S. and Ellen E. (Hardenberg) Ray. Mrs.
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Arbuckle was born in Sullivan county, New York. Her father was a farmer
and carpenter in the east and removed from the Empire state to Illinois with his
family when his daughter Mary was a young lady of twenty years. He estab-
lished his home in Belvidere, Boone county, Illinois, where he lived to the ven-
erable age of ninety-four years, having long survived his wife, who passe'd away
at the age of sixty-three. The remains of both were interred in the cemetery
there. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle have been born two children, but the
younger, a son, Roy F., died when thirteen years of age. The daughter, Ellen
E., is now the wife of W. D. Fraley, of Portland, and they have two children,
Hylah E. and Mary R.
For several years after coming to Portland Mr. Arbuckle was engaged in
the real-estate business but is now living retired, enjoying in well earned rest
the fruits of his former labor and careful management. His religious faith is
that of the Methodist church and his life record has ever been in harmony with
his professions.
HOWARD M. COVEY.
For sixty years the Pacific coast has attracted aspiring young men who per-
ceived that here are presented opportunities in all lines of industry such as are
hardly to be found in any other region of the world. Vast resources have been
exploited and the mines, the forests, the waters and the soil have yielded untold
millions to the active brain and skilful hand of man, and each year new treasures
are discovered and new avenues to independence and prosperity are opened.
Among the comparatively recent sources of w^ealth on the coast and one which
has been developed after foundations had been laid in other lines is the intro-
duction of the automobile. During the last decade the sale of the automobile
has grown by leaps and bounds all over the country and, judging by the universal
interest which this wonderful vehicle has aroused, there is scarcely a limit to the
development of the industry. The automobile is no longer confined to the city.
Farmers all over the continent are finding it one of the important auxiliaries in
their operations and it is coming into use for purposes not dreamed of in its
earlier days. It has won its way into all classes of society and is today acknowl-
edged as one of the most active and successful bidders for popular favor that
has been known in modern times.
It was for the purpose of entering the autom.obile business that Howard M.
Covey eight years ago came to the Pacific coast. He was born at Jefferson,
Texas, November 19, 1875, and was reared and educated in the public schools of
Jefferson. Marion county. Being attracted to a business career, he entered the
employ of the Waters Pierce Oil Company, with which he continued for a num-
ber of years, advancing from time to time until he had attained a position of re-
sponsibility. During his experience with this company, which is one of the large
corporations of the United States, Mr. Covey gained a great deal of practical
knowledge in the management of business affairs and also was wide-awake in an
unusual degree as to opportunities for young men in other parts of the coun-
try. He felt moving within him the desire to become independent and not to
continue through his entire life under the direction of others. Perhaps he heeded
the admonition of Andrew Carnegie, who said : "I would not give a fig for the
young man who does not see himself the partner or head of some important firm."
At all events, this idea conveyed in the words of the great iron master was work-
ing in the fertile brain of the ambitious young man of Texas and accordingly,
in 1902, he severed his connection w'ith the oil company and came to Portland,
where he has since been successfully identified with the automobile business. He
has the exclusive agency of the Pierce Arrow and Cadillac automobiles for the
state of Oregon. To give an idea of the extent of his operations it may be stated
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that in 1905 the sales amounted to thirty thousand dollars; in 1906, to fifty thou-
sand; in 1907, to eighty-five thousand; in 1908, to one hundred thousand; while
in 1909 the sales reached three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and in 1910,
five hundred thousand dollars. The record may almost be said to be phenomenal
and is believed to be a safe index as to the growth of the automobile business
not only on the Pacific coast but in other parts of the country.
On October i, 1908, Mr. Covey was united in marriage to Miss Marie War-
wick, of Goldendale, Washington. He is a member of the Commercial Club and
is recognized as a man of pronounced energy who has fairly demonstrated his
ability lo carry to a successful conclusion any enterprise which he may under-
take. He has a liberal endowment of ambition, grit and good judgment and
these are the qualities that in all honorable vocations lead to the ultimate victory.
JOSEPH HAMILTON LAMBERT.
Fiction presents no more interesting or thrilling events than detailed his-
tory of the Oregon pioneers among whom Joseph Hamilton Lambert was promi-
nent. Without the sound of martial music to inspire, these heroes of the great
west faced hardships and dangers as great as those which confront the soldier
on the active campaign. And single-handed and alone the pioneer wages his
warfare in his efforts to conquer the land and utilize the natural resources of
the country. His fitting monument is the great state which he helps to upbuild.
The name of Joseph Hamilton Lambert is inscribed on Oregon's roll of fame,
not alone because of the fact that he aided in laying a broad and stable founda-
tion for the commonwealth, but also because he was one of the pioneer horti-
culturists, his labors proving the possibilities of Oregon in the direction of fruit
culture.
He was born on the frontier, for Vigo county, Indiana, was a "far west"
district at the time of his birth on the ist of December, 1825. The family home
was at that time a few miles northeast of Terre Haute. His grandfather ar-
rived in that district at a time when prairie land was supposed to be practically
worthless and the settlers chose to make their homes in the timber. This course
the grandfather followed and lost the opportunity of obtaining any of the prairie
land now so valuable. The father of Joseph Hamilton Lambert engaged in
hunting, for deer and wild turkeys were plentiful and the family larder was thus
supplied with food. The mother, a lady of Scotch birth, realizing the value of edu-
cational training, early began to instruct her children in the common branches
of learning as well as to instill into their minds lessons of industry, integrity and
self-reliance. Her death, however, occurred when her son Joseph was but seven
years of age, when the family home was broken up, Joseph Hamilton Lambert
remaining with an aunt for a few years or until he rejoined his father, who had
married again and was living in a little log cabin on a rented farm on Otter Creek
prairie in Vigo county, Indiana. The cabin was in a bleak and cheerless place,
without a tree or shrub within a mile of it. The new stepmother had children
of her own and early gave strong indication to her stepchildren that there was
hardly room for them in the tiny log cabin.
Because of this fact Joseph H. Lambert went to live with a married sister and
her husband, with whom he remained for two years. But the brother-in-law was
very exacting in his demands upon the boy, to whom he showed little kindness,
and Mr. Lambert, at that time a youth of fourteen, decided to go to a fanner
who had previously requested him' to do so. On the way, however, he passed
the home of a sister of the brother-in-law he had just left, and when she learned
his purpose she and her husband would not led him go, and for six years he
found a good home and kind treatment with them, and when he was twenty
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years of age they gave him a horse, saddle and bridle and followed him with
good wishes as he started out into the world for himself.
Traveling westward to Iowa, he was employed during the summer upon a
farm near Des Moines and devoted the succeeded winter to the advancement
of his education as a pupil in the school of Agency City, Iowa. In the follow-
ing spring he joined two farmers in the purchase of a portable sawmill operated
by horse power. They located this at Dahlonega and ran it successfully until
the fall of 1849, when Mr. Lambert disposed of his interest that he might again
attend school the following winter. In the spring of 1850 he once more took
the trail to the west, joining David Watkins, a man of admirable characteristics
who furnished three-fourths of the new traveling outfit. They were accom-
panied by two men as passengers and everything proceeded as they wished un-
til they reached the Missouri, when they were informed that the ferries were en-
gaged for a week ahead and they must await their turn to cross. A day or two
later, while walking along the river bank, Mr. Lambert noticed an unused ferry
boat and, finding plenty of men who were willing to work if able to transport
their wagons across, he took charge without thought of remuneration and suc-
ceeded that afternoon in crossing several wagons. The next morning he went
to the river again and, finding his boat in charge of another man, stood watch-
ing the scene until the owner of the ferries sought him out and putting a dollar
into his hand said: "Take the boat and cross your wagons." This Mr. Lam-
bert at once did and the middle of the afternoon saw the work accomplished.
Soon the little party of four fell in with a large company of emigrants who were
traveling somewhat in military order. They traveled with this company until
they reached the Black Hills, when there occurred what Mr. Lambert and his
companions felt were unnecessary delays. His party were in the lead and be-
hind was a wagon driven by a Mr. Paine. These two decided to push on alone
and at length reached the point were the Oregon and California trails divided.
Mr. Watkins proposed to Mr. Lambert that they should spend the winter in
Oregon, so that they took the northern trail on which they soon overtook a wagon
train from Iowa. Deeming it safer to remain with that party because of the
possibility of Indian attack, they at length arrived at "Fosters" on the 14th of
September, 1850.
After spending the winter in Salem, Oregon, Mr. Lambert went to Yreka,
California, in the spring of 1851, but the conditions of mining and the success
which he attained convinced him that life in other directions was more desirable
and in June he returned to the Willamette valley, where he engaged in cutting
saw-logs and driving a logging team. He was afterward employed to haul logs
by Meek & Luelling, of Milwaukie, and thus served until he joined a surveying
expedition which, under the direction of a Mr. Ives, ran the meridian line from
Portland to Puget Sound. Later they ran the first standard parallel south and
afterward laid out a few tiers of townships which included Salem. Their sur-
veying season over, Mr. Lambert returned to the sawmill at Milwaukie and was
paid fifty dollars per month for driving a logging team during the winter. The
following spring his wages were advanced to one hundred dollars per month.
The following winter he worked in a mill, which he leased in the spring of
1853, and in its conduct met with success. When Meek & Luelling learned that
he was planning to return to the states, they ofifered to give him work in their
nursery and orchard until they could pay him the wages which were already
due him, and, deciding to acept the oflFer, Mr. Lambert became connected with
horticultural pursuits, in which field he was destined to achieve not only success
but fame.
Mr. Lambert remained with that firm until November, 1854, when he was
united in mariage to Miss Clementine Miller, the oldest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Miller, of Milwaukie. With his bride he then took up a donation
claim of three hundred and twenty acres in Powell's valley, where they resided
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until 1859, when he and his father-in-law purchased a half interest of Mr. Meek
in the orchard belonging to Meek & Luelling, the purchase price being twenty-
five thousand dollars. Their cash payment was very small, however, as much
of their money had already been invested in property. They were associated
with H. W. Eddy, who had bought Mr. Luelling's interest, but he took no active
part in the management of the farm. The new venture did not start out very
propitiously for the price in apples declined materially that winter and, moreover,
the heavy crops of several previous years had largely exhausted the strength
of the orchard. Mr. Miller was so discouraged at the outlook that he desired
to write to Mr. Meek for release or at least a modification of their contract. But
Mr. Lambert opposed this plan, determined if possible to win success in the venture
and assumed entire management. Bending every energy to the accomplishment of
the task, he sought by experiment and study to improve the condition of the
orchard and introduced the plan of plowing so that all dirt should be thrown
away from the trees instead of toward the trees, as had been the previous method,
whereby the smaller roots had been left bare. Also in pruning he cut clear back
to healthy wood, regardless of the size of sacrificed limbs. The wisdom of his
course was soon apparent. In two years the orchard was completely resuscitated
and mammoth crops of apples were gathered. Oregon has always produced some
of the finest apples grown in America and, encouraged by the success which I\Ir.
Lambert had achieved, the owners of the orchard now bought up large quantities
of apples and shipped them with their own. Five years served to clear the place
of all indebtedness, at the end of which time a division of the property was
made, Mr. Eddy taking other lands in lieu of his interest in the orchard, which
now remained the possession of Miller and Lambert. The latter became sole
proprietor when, in 1870, Mr. Miller removed to Portland. The orchard is not-
able from the fact that it produced the first cultivated fruit west of the Rocky
mountains and demonstrated the possibilities of Oregon soil for horticultural
development.
Not only did Mr. Lambert produce apples of fine size, flavor and variety, but
also turned his attention to other fruits and produced the famous Lambert cherry,
A contemporary biographer in speaking of this cherry said : "Its production was
purely accidental. Having gathered up a handful of seedlings from where they
had sprung up about some of the trees, he transplanted them into a little nursery
and, when large enough he grafted them with cuttings of old and time-tried
standard varieties. The graft died but the seedlings flourished and bore fruit.
The new variety, because of its immense size, its rich color, fine flavor and small
pit became popular at once, and the cultivation of this new and distinctly Ore-
gon variety has expanded until the propagation has been introduced into every
cherry growing section of the country." Mr. Lambert naturally came to be
recognized as an authority upon the subject of fruit culture in the northwest and
the work which he accomplished was the nucleus of an industry of inestimable
value to the state. While several futile attempts were made to organize a horti-
cultural society in Oregon, the first being in 1869, it was not until 1887 that a
successful organization was effected in the establishment of the present Oregon
State Llorticulture Society. It was Mr. Lambert who nominated for the presi-
dency J. R. Cardwell, who occupied the position for ten years, when he declined
to serve longer, but three years later was again chosen for the office. Mr. Lam-
bert manifested throughout his life a deep interest in horticultural progress in
Oregon. With the growth and development of the orchards there came in time
the pests, which the horticulturist must fight. In speaking of these Mr. Lambert
said : "The oyster shell or bark louse was the first enemy to the beauty and per-
fection of Oregon fruit. This made such a quiet and stealthy attack that most
growers were unaware of its presence until much damage had been done. It
disappeared as suddenly and as unaccountably as it had come. This was in 1869.
Next to come was the blight (called vegetable fungus by Professor O. B. John-
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son) which caused black spots to appear on the apple and pears and a sooty de-
posit on the leaves. This blight still lingers in many orchards though not so
bad as at first. Following this came the cherry slug, green aphis, codlin moth
and San Jose scale, besides several raids of caterpillars."
Mr. Lambert continued to conduct business as a horticulturist until September,
1890, when he felt that it was wise for him to give up activities of so strenuous
a character. On the 22d of September, 1890, he assisted in organizing the Citizens
Bank of Portland, of which he was elected president with his son, Albert W.
Lambert, as secretary and business manager. They conducted the bank safely
through the financial panic of 1893 and establishing it upon a safe, conservative
policy, developed its interests and promoted its growth until it is today one of
the important financial institutions of the coast. Mr. Lambert remained its presi-
dent until his demise and his name was as honored in financial circles as in the
field of horticulture.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Lambert numbered two sons and six daugh-
ters, all of whom are yet residents of Portland. These are Albert W., Henry M.,
Mrs. E. L. E. White, Mrs. A. B. Graham, Nellie, Mrs. W. L. Wood, Mrs. D.
G. Woodard and Grace. The death of Mrs. Lambert occurred early in the '90s,
while Mr. Lambert passed away in November, 1909.
While living in Multnomah county in 1858 he was elected county commis-
sioner and in 1864 was chosen for that office for Clackamas county. He never
sought to figure prominently in political circles, however, preferring to concen-
trate his energies upon those interests which constituted his business life. After
removing to Portland he erected a beautiful residence, which he occupied with
his unmarried children up to the time of his demise. After coming to this city
he largely put aside business cares, merely giving his supervision to his invested
interests, and thus in peace and quiet he came to an honored old age, almost
reaching the eighty-forth milestone on life's journey. He witnessed the marvel-
ous development of the state, his memory forming a connecting link between the
primitive past and the progressive present. Who would have dreamed that Mr.
Lambert, arriving in Oregon when this city contained only a few buildings, most
of them of logs, along the river front, would live to see the development of the
great and beautiful city of which every visitor speaks only in terms of admiration ?
He lived to witness in 1905 the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of
the Lewis and Clarke expedition to the northwest, on which occasion the skill
of the architect and the art of the landscape gardener were exerted to their
utmost to honor the explorers who marked out the path to Oregon, over which
came the train of permanent settlers that made their way into the state in the
late '40s and early '50s to take advantage of the natural resources of the coun-
try and found here a commonwealth which in many respects ranks with the older
states of the Union. In all the work of progress Mr. Lambert was deeply in-
terested and his contributions to general improvement were of a valuable character.
ADAM McNEMEE.
Among the sons of the pioneers of Portland is Adam McNemee, who for
more than twenty years has been engaged in the express and transfer business.
He has been identified with the coast region ever since his boyhood and has
been a witness of the great changes that have taken place in the settlement of the
country and the vast commerce that has grown up on the railroads, the rivers and
the ocean coast, bearing the products of forest, mine and farm to the most dis-
tant markets of the world.
Mr. McNemee is the son of Job McNemee, who was born in the early part
of the century in the Buckeye state and spent his boyhood in Fairfield county,
Ohio. At that time the country west of Ohio was largely a wilderness, although
a few settlements were scattered along the Mississippi river and at favorable
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locations in Indiana and Illinois. The McNemee family carries pioneer blood
and the Ohio lad turned his face toward the west, stopping for a time at St.
Joseph, Missouri, where he engaged in farming and also on a small scale as a
grading contractor. In 1845 he joined a wagon train that was bound for the
northwest coast of the Pacific and drove an ox team up the valley of the Platte
past Independence Rock and the trading posts at Fort Laramie and Fort Hall,
arriving safe in the valley of the Willamette after an arduous journey of six
months. The spot now occupied by the beautiful city of Portland was then a
dense forest with probably one or two cabins standing on the bank of the stream.
Mr. McNemee took up a donation claim of five hundred and fifty acres on
the location where now stands the city of Portland but owing to litigation his
claim passed to other hands. For a time he engaged in the hotel business and in
1849 he was among the excited gold hunters who sought fortune in the lands
of California. A year later he returned to Portland and for four years was
connected with the retail liquor business. For several years he took contracts
for clearing land in the vicinity of Portland and for three years was identified
with the manufacture of wooden pumps. He finally sold out his business and in
1873 was called away. Mr. McNemee married Hannah Cochran, who was a na-
tive of Indiana, and to them were born thirteen children, three of whom are now
living : Adam, whose name appears at the head of this sketch ; Andrew Jackson,
now a Methodist minister of Longley Island, Washington ; and Eveline, formerly
the wife of Charles Shroder but now Mrs. Harry Barkenstein, of Sellwood,
this state.
Adam McNemee was reared at Portland and educated in the public schools.
For some years after arriving at man's estate he engaged in teaming, but since
1888 he has been continuously identified with the express and transfer business
in this city. Since 1875 he has been identified with Samaritan Lodge, No. 2, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Portland. In the early days he was for eight-
een months an active member of the volunteer fire department. No. 4. He is
identified with the Pioneer Society and is remarkably well informed concerning
the early days and the trials and sufferings of the first settlers of the Willa-
mette valley. By a life of industry and close attention to business he has gained
the good-will not only of the older settlers but of newcomers who are quick to
recognize worth when it is possessed by a man who is thoroughly trustworthy
and who endeavors according to his ability to exemplify the principles of friend-
ship, love and truth.
IRA F. POWERS, Sr.
The name of Ira F. Powers as borne by father and son has for almost five
decades figrired in connection with the commercial history of Portland and has
ever been a synonym for progressiveness and probity. Ira F. Powers, Sr., the
founder and promoter of the Ira F. Powers Manufacturing Company, was for
a long period not only one of the leading manufacturers and merchants of this
city but one whose high sense of honor, personal integrity and broad human-
itarianism gained for him the highest regard and most unqualified confidence of
his fellowmen.
The ancestral history of the family records the fact that the American branch
vvas established at Littleton, Massachusetts, at an early period in the coloniza-
tion of the new world and that the lineage is traced back in England as far as
the twelfth century. The name of Powers or Power is from the old Norman
name le Poer and is as old in England as the times of William the Conqueror,
one of whose officers bore that name at the battle of Hastings, as appears on
the roll of survivors in Battle Abbey. The name was changed to the present
form in 1683 and through succeeding generations representatives of the name
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continued to reside in New England. Walter Power, the founder of the Ameri-
can branch of the family, was born in 1639 and died February 22, 1708. He
was married March 11, 1661, to Trial, a daughter of Deacon Ralph and Thankes
Shepard, who was born February 10, 1641. A genealogical record says: "Lit-
tle is known of Walter Power, but probably he had not received advantages
of much early education but depended upon strong sinews and sterling good
sense to establish a home for himself and family. Trial, his wife, seems to have
been a woman of some education. At the time of their marriage they settled
in or near Concord, now the town of Littleton. In 1694 Walter Power bought
of Thomas Waban, and other Indians, one-fourth part of the township of
Nashobe. His remains were doubtless laid in the old Powers burying-ground,
as were also those of his wife, who survived him many years."
Their third child, Isaac Power, was born in 1665 and was married, April 14,
1 701, to Mrs. Mary Winship, the widow of Samuel Winship and the daughter of
John Poulter. Isaac Power seems to have been prominent among the sons of
his father and to have taken the lead in affairs. He was captain of the military ;
a petitioner for town incorporation ; moderator of the first town meeting and
continued to hold office for many years. He was twice elected to the great and
general court and was colonial agent for conveying lands. One of the children of
Captain Isaac and Mary Power was Gideon Power, the third of their family,
who probably lived in Lexington, Massachusetts, as his name appears on the
town rolls as a soldier in an old French war. He married Lydia Russell and
they had four children, the third being Jonas Powers, who was born December
6, 1738, and married Betsey Tower. They became residents of Vermont and
had a family of nine children. Of these Asa Powers, the second in order of
birth, married Rebecca Shippinwell, of Chester, Vermont. Of this marriage
there were born eight children, the eldest being Levi Powers, who was born
July 9, 1 791. Leaving his old home in Vermont he established a branch of the
family at Ballston Spa, New York. There he wedded Mary Frost, who died
March 2, 1872, while his death occurred April 17, 1882.
While Levi and Mary (Frost) Powers were living at Au Sable, Clinton
county, New York, a son was born to them May 5, 1831. To the boy the parents
gave the name of Ira. He was carefully trained under the parental roof but
from the age of twelve years had to depend upon his own resources for a live-
lihood, and the inferior educational advantages of the community in which he
lived enabled him to make comparatively little progress along the lines of mental
development save that a naturally quick and receptive mind and a retentive mem-
ory enabled him to learn many valuable lessons in the school of experience. In
the course of time his continually broadening knowledge promoted him to a
place where his intellectual power far exceeded that of the majority of his fel-
lowmen with whom he came in contact, enabling him to correctly solve intricate
business problems, to carefully formulate plans and to execute them with dis-
patch. His opportunity came with the discovery of gold in California, which
drew him to the Pacific coast. The long journey around Cape Horn being com-
pleted, he made his way to the mines, where he engaged in a search for the
precious metal for thirteen years, meeting with considerable success, prospect-
ing during that period in various parts of California and Idaho.
In the spring of 1865, however, Mr. Powers turned his attention to com-
mercial pursuits, establishing a second-hand furniture business in Portland in
partnership with A. Burchard. The new enterprise proved profitable and was
conducted until they suffered heavy loss by fire in 1875. In the meantime Mr.
Powers had extended his efforts to include the manufacture of furniture, which
he began in 1872 under the firm style of Donly, Beard & Powers, their plant
being located at Willsburg. In 1875 he established a factory on Front street,
at the northwest corner of Jefferson street, where he was located for six years.
Subsequently the business was at the foot of Montgomery, while later the plant
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was
wao removed to South Portland. In 1882 the furniture store on First street
opposite the present store was destroyed by fire with a loss of forty thousand
dollars In 1884 there occurred a fire in the factory, with losses amounting to
sixty-three thousand dollars, covered only by eleven thousand dollars insurance.
It' was after this that the plant was built on a three acre tract of land in South
Portland, but here the factory was carried away by the Willamette freshet in 1891,
causing a loss of one hundred thousand dollars. All of these losses occurred
within a period of ten years. On the ist of March, 191 1, the company will be
in their new building at the corner of Third and Yamhill streets, where a general
house-furnishing business will be conducted. In 1893 the business was incor-
porated under the style of the Ira F. Powers Manufacturing Company, and Mr.
Powers remained as president until his death. This became one of the im-
portant productive industries of the city, its trade increasing as the result of the
thorough workmanship and attractive styles which were characteristic of the
output.
Notwithstanding that the business was a constantly growing one, Mr. Powerg,
did not devote his entire attention to this fine, his resourceful ability enabling him
to accomplish substantial results in other connections. His name became a promi-
nent one in banking circles and he was, moreover, actively associated with in-
terests which bore upon the general development and prosperity of the city but
had no direct effect upon his own finances. He was a member of the Chamber
of Commerce and of the Manufacturers Association, and he was active as one
of the builders of the Morrison street bridge, while of the Madison street bridge
he was a stockholder.
Throughout his life Mr. Powers was actuated by a spirit of helpfulness that
was again and again manifest in his relations with individuals and also in asso-
ciation with organized charities and benevolences. The homeless boy appealed
strongly to his heart and it is said that at times he had as many as five such
boys in his own home, doing all he could to train them for positions of usefulness
and honor in the business world. It was largely through his instrumentality
that the Boys and Girls Aid Society was organized in Portland. The homeless
and friendless never sought his assistance in vain, his charitable spirit reaching
out to all, while his material assistance was the tangible expression of his warm
heart. He was in thorough sympathy with the basic principles of those organi-
zations which recognize the brotherhood of mankind, and thus it was that after
coming to Portland he cooperated in the work of the Masonic fraternity here.
He became a member of Gold Run Lodge, F. & A. M., while in California, and
transferred his membership to Harmony Lodge, No. 12, of Portland, of which
he served as treasurer for twelve years. He also joined Portland Chapter, No.
3, R. A. M.; Oregon Commandery, No. i, K. T. ; and Al Kader Temple, A. A.
O. N. M. S. He belonged to Pilot Peak Lodge, I. O. O. F., at one time and
to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, while his political allegiance was ever
given to the republican party.
Ira F. Powers, Sr., was twice married. In i860 he wedded Miss Minnie
Wilson, who died four years later, leaving an only son, Frederick, now of Maine.
In 1870 Mr. Powers wedded Mary Sullivan, a native of New York city, who in an
early day was taken to the west by her parents, D. and Jessie Sullivan, and after-
ward accompanied her mother from California to Oregon. By the second mar-
riage there was but one son, Ira F. Powers, Jr., who was born in Portland m
1872, and between the ages of seventeen and twenty was in his father's store.
We spent a year m the furniture business at La Grande, Oregon, and later went
east on the road as a traveling salesman, but in August, 1902, resigned his posi-
tion to become secretary of the Ira F. Powers Manufacturing Company. He
succeeded to the presidency upon his father's death and, like him, is recognized
as one ot the prominent business men of Portland. He belonged to the Manu-
tacturers Association, to the Board of Trade, to the Multnomah Athletic Club,
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to Harmony Lodge, No. 12, F. & A. M., and gives his political support to the
republican party.
The death of the mother, Mrs. Mary Powers, occurred in 1875. Mr. Powers sur-
vived until the 8th of September, 1902, when he was called to his final rest at the
age of seventy-one years, leaving not only the fruits of former toil as repre-
sented in important manufacturing and banking interests, but also an untarnished
name that had long stood in Portland as the synonym for commercial enter-
prise and probity.
COLONEL DAVID M. DUNNE.
Continued success in business or in the administration of important public
afTairs may safely be regarded as the best test of merit. Judged by this standard
Colonel David M. Dunne, collector of United States internal revenue, with head-
quarters at Portland, stands in the front rank. He has occupied the office since
i8q2 and his administration of its responsibilities has proven so satisfactory to
officials at Washington that he was recently reappointed by President Taft to
fill the position for the fourth term — an honor rarely accorded on the Pacific
coast or elsewhere in the country. He is known as one of the most efficient
officials in the revenue department; one whose accounts are always correct and
whose management of his office is in strict accordance with the law and with the
accepted usages of the best business houses.
David M. Dunne was born in Tipperary, Ireland, October 19, 185 1, a son
of John and Johanna Dunne. He received his preliminary education in the
national schools of Ireland and later in the United States, his parents having
emigrated to this country when the subject of this review was ten years of age.
In 1881 Colonel Dunn arrived in Portland, where he has since made his home.
He had acquired a practical knowledge of business before coming to the Pacific
coast, and, seeing a favorable opening in the city of his adoption, he became as-
sociated with John Kelly in the wholesale and retail paint, oil and glass busi-
ness, under the style of Kelly, Dunne & Company. Through energetic and cap-
able management the business increased steadily and the house has for years
been one of the leading enterprises of the kind on the coast. Mr. Kelly retired
during the '90s and the main direction of affairs has since been under Colonel
Dunne, who has kept thoroughly informed as to the demands of a growing
population, also appreciating the importance of being abreast of the times in all
products offered for the market. From year to year the plant has been enlarged
and improved, new manufacturing machinery has been added and new lines of
goods originated, thus increasing the reputation of the house and extending its
influence, which now covers all parts of the coast and extends to many points in
the interior. The firm was the first exclusive paint, oil and glass establishment
on the coast and a number of competitors have since entered the field, but no
amount of competition has materially lessened the steady development of a
house conducted on principles of liberal treatment of the trade and giving fair
values for all money received.
Colonel Dunne is the founder of the Portland Linseed Oil Company, one
of the important manufacturing concerns of the state, which has contributed
in no small degree to the prosperity of the farming region. The company car-
ries on a large business over a wide territory and is a substantial enterprise
of Portland. He is also president of the David M. Dunne Company, Inc., man-
ufacturers of paints, etc., and president of the Mexican Rubber Culture Com-
pany, which owns over two thousand acres of rubber trees in the state of Chia-
pas, Mexico.
Colonel Dunne first became identified with political affairs in 1888, when he
was elected county commissioner of Multnomah county. He introduced into the
office of county commissioner the same business methods that he had found
most satisfactory in private affairs. The time-check system of payment for
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rodd work was applied and other important changes instituted which have since
been found practical and a great saving to the county are to be credited to the
discernment and energy of the new county commissioner. When he entered the
office a Chinese leper colony was being maintained at a cost of several thousand
dollars yearly. Through his efforts a brig was secured, the lepers, fifteen in
number, were placed on board and were sent home at a cost of one hundred
dollars each. The leper quarters at the poor farm were then destroyed by
fire and a menace to the entire country was thus eliminated. When Colonel
Dunne assumed the office of internal revenue collector in 1898 his jurisdiction
extended over Oregon, Washington and Alaska. In 1903 the territory was di-
vided and his district is now confined to the state of Oregon. He has always
given close personal attention to his official duties and this accounts in an import-
ant degree for the continued success of his administration. In 1892 he was one
of the presidential electors from Oregon and cast his vote for Mr. Harrison.
He has been an active worker in state affairs and served as commissioner gen-
eral under Governor Lord and as colonel on the staff of Gov. T. T. Geer. It
was largely through his efforts that the present armory of the Oregon National
Guard was erected in Portland.
Colonel Dunne was married in 1876 to Miss Margaret Frowley. The home
of Colonel and Mrs. Dunne is one of the handsome residences of the city.
He is a member of many organizations and clubs, among them the Knights of
Columbus, the Elks, the Arlington Club and the Commercial Club. To him
belongs the honor of having made the initial move in the organization of the
Commercial Club of Portland. On a trip east he was so hospitably entertained
by the Commercial Club of St. Paul that upon his return home he suggested the
formation of a similar organization in Portland. A meeting was held at the
office of W. S. Mason, then mayor of the city. Those attending, besides Colonel
Dunne, were W. S. Mason, E. J. De Hart, A. H. Mallory, Gus Simon, Phil
Lowengart and M. G. Hall. The club was organized in 1893 with E. J. De Hart
as first president and has been an important agency in the development of the
city. Colonel Dunne has always been found among those most zealous in as-
sisting every movement that has aimed to advance the permanent welfare of the
state or the city, and many times his advice has led to the solution of perplex-
ing difficulties. He is easily today one of the foremost citizens of Oregon.
JOSEPH SHOW ALTER SMITH.
The impulse of the youth is to do. He finds the best expression of him-
self in activity, and many a boy, feeling hampered by the narrow environment
of his home locality, where opportunity is limited, and, stirred by the stories
of what is being accomplished elsewhere in the world, leaves home to become
a factor in that broader life which he seeks elsewhere. Such was the history of
Joseph Showalter Smith, and the northwest gained thereby a factor in its up-
building and progress. Arriving in Oregon in pioneer times, he became an
influence in many ways where the development of the state has been conserved.
He met success, yet above the material gain he regarded character-building, and
his life became the expression of high and honorable principles.
He was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, in September, 1824, and was
of English and Welsh lineage, a descendant of Sir Francis Drake. He pur-
sued his education in the schools of his native town and when ten years old ran
away from home, for he wished to know something more of the world. Thus
the spirit of adventure and of ambition took him from the limited environment
in which his youth was passed and he went south. There his health failed,
however, and he started for Oregon, arriving in this state in the spring of 1844
when nineteen years old. He came across the plains and was about a year upon
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the way, during which period he contracted mountain fever that retarded his
progress. This proved more fortunate, however, than he deemed aX the time,
for owing to his delay he just escaped the Whitman massacre as he left Whit-
man's the day previous. The northwest was to be his field of activity for many
years. He located first in Oregon, where he arrived with little capital save an
order for thirteen dollars for anything in the store at Oregon City. This order
had been received from the captain of the company in crossing the plains.
His first work here was at splitting rails but later he taught school in Salem,
his liberal educational training in the east well qualifying him for this purpose.
A few years later he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar,
becoming in time one of the most prominent, able and brilliant attorneys of the
state. He was master of English, having a splendid command of the languq^e,
his diction was always choice and his words were, moreover, clear, concise and to
the point. It is said that he was the most forcible speaker of his day in Port-
land. In his future life he frequently said that his proudest moment was when
he won his first case before the supreme court. When he entered upon his
practice it was not customary to specialize in certain fields as it is today, for
every lawyer engaged in general practice and must have intimate knowledge
of the various branches of law. This Mr. Smith did and he prepared his
cases with such thoroughness and care that in presenting his cause he lost sight
of no detail that could possibly bear upon the verdict.
In 1849 ^r- Smith was married to Miss Julia Ann Carter. The mar-
riage was celebrated in Portland at the home of her father, Thomas Carter, who
in 1847 had come from Athens, Ohio, to Oregon, making the long journey over
the plains. He was at one time owner of most of Portland Heights. His
daughter Julia was a native of Ohio and in her maidenhood came to the north-
west, being for many years one of the honored pioneer women of Portland.
Soon after his marriage Mr. Smith went to Olympia, where he held a gov-
ernment position, remaining there for about five years. While there he had
his second narrow escape from being killed by the Indians on the night of their
attack upon the settlement and the murdei; of Colonel Ebey, whom Mr. Smith
had left but one hour previously. It is a historical fact that while 'much of the
furniture in Mr. Smith's house was broken and made useless, the only articles
carried away by the Indians were a mirror from the dresser and a wax doll,
which was the only one in the settlement and which had been often admired by
the Indians, it being owned by our subject's little daughter, now Mrs. Anna
Thompson. He next went to Salem, Oregon, where he practiced law for twelve
years, and while residing in that city he was, in 1868, elected to congress on
the democratic ticket, serving for one term. He defeated David Logan, a warm
personal friend. They did not allow politics, however, to interefere with their
warm regard for each other, their friendship continuing as a potent force in
their lives after the campaign as well as before it. Mr. Smith was the first
democrat elected from his district and it created great excitement for it was
just after the close of the Civil war. It was after his return from Salem to
Portland that he retired to private life, for in the meantime he had accumulated
a goodly fortune. His name is written large on the pages of the early judicial
history of Oregon. He was at one time a partner of Judge W. W. Page, and of
La Fayette T. Grover, the latter being his brother-in-law. In 1870 he again
took up his abode in Portland and thereafter lived retired until his demise,
which occurred in 1884, his remains being interred in Riverview cemetery.
His widow survived him only a few months, passing away in the follow-
ing February at the age of fifty-seven years. They were the parents of three
children: Mrs. Anna B. Thompson; Walter V., of Portland; and Preston C, now
deceased. Mrs. Thompson has three children, Ethel L. ; Fay, the wife of Robert
Catlin, by whom she has one daughter, Marian ; and Clara, the wife of David
Taylor, of Salt Lake City, by whom she has two daughters, Virginia and Caroline
Rose.
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Mr. Smith was a •member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
one time but severed his connection with the society. Not only did he gain dis-
tinction in the field of his chosen profession but also as an active factor in public
life. He was sent as commissioner from Oregon to the Paris Exposition a
short time before he was elected to congress, and his liberal education innate
courtesy, refinement and marked ability well qualified him to act as represen-
tative of this commonwealth. In religious faith he was a Methodist, yet never
narrowly sectarian. His catholicity of spirit led him to recognize the good in
all, yet he held firmly to the principles and doctrines in which he believed. He
took a very active part in the church work, doing all in his power to promote
the growth and extend the influence of his denomination, recognizing how eflfec-
tive it has been as a power in the uplifting of mankind. He was greatly inter-
ested in the Willamette University at Salem, was made one of its trustees and his
donations to the institution were most generous. He gave to the university a
fine library and his daughter, Mrs. Thompson, made to it a gift of an excellent
piano. Mr. Smith was ever a broad reader and deep thinker, and his views
on life were based upon wide study, keen observation and ready sympathy. He
typified in his life the progressive spirit of the northwest and his fellow towns-
men looked upon him as one worthy of all honor and respect.
JUDGE ABRAM AXTELL.
Judge Abram Axtell, a prominent representative of the legal profession at
Vancouver, was born at Barbourville, Delaware county. New York, June 26,
1845, ^nd is descended from an old New England family founded in America
in early colonial days. Indeed the ancestral line runs back to the early settle-
ment of Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, Moses Axtell, lived in the Bay
state at the time of the war for independence, in which his acts glorified the Ax-
tell name. He was a member of the famous Boston tea party and as a minute-
man became a soldier of the American army, participating in the battles of Con-
cord and Lexington, and was also with Generals Warren and Gill at Bunker Hill.
He likewise participated in the engagement at Monmouth Swamp and Cam-
den's Dell. He was a personal friend of Generals Greene and Henryson and was
an ardent admirer of and dearly loved General Washington, with whom he was
at Valley Forge and also at the capture of the two thousand Hessians at Trenton
after crossing the Delaware. Tradition has it that he assisted in removing the
remains of General Warren from the battleground of Bunker Hill back to Bos-
ton, where the honors of a Masonic burial were accorded him. Moses Axtell
lived for many years to enjoy the liberty for which he fought and died at his
home at Barbourville, New York, where his grave, properly marked, may still
be seen. It was in the same neighborhood that Moses Axtell, Jr., the grand-
father of Judge Axtell, was born, lived and died. The Judge's father, also
named Moses, was born in Barbourville, New York, but spent his last days in
Waushara county, Wisconsin. He married Huldah Greene, whose father, Robert
Greene, served as a musician in the United States army in the war of 1812.
The subject of this review, who by his family and immediate friends in his
youth was called Abe, a name that has clung to him since that day, was educated
in the common schools of Barbourville, New Y'ork, and in a select high school
m the village of Laurens, Otsego county, New York. His attention was then given
to farmmg until 1861, when he entered upon those events which constitute the
military chapter in his life history. He joined the Home Guards that spring
under command of Captain Olins at West Oneonta, Otsego county, New York,
and in October. 1861, joined the famous One Hundred and First Regiment of
iNew York Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as a musician until June
4, i»02, when on acount of disabilities contracted in line of duty he was honor-
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ably discharged. He afterward became nurse and musician, serving most of the
time as chief musician, at Chestnut Hill in the United States general hospital at
Philadelphia, remaining there from November, 1863, until February 21, 1865,
when he was again honorably discharged but on the same day reenlisted in the
One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, which was
then located behind the breastworks in front of Petersburg, Virginia. He served
with that regiment as chief musician until the close of the war and was in all
the battles in which the command took part, including the siege of Petersburg
and the encounters with the enemy from that time until General Lee surrendered
to General Grant. With his regiment he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia,
June 8, 1865, but was not mustered out until the command reached the home of
its colonel, William Gregg, at Elmira, New York. Years later Judge Axtell be-
came connected with the military forces of Oregon and was duly commissioned
and assigned to duty on May 6, 1899, as captain of Company H, Third Regiment
of the Oregon National Guard, but resigned on the 31st of October following.
After the Civil war Mr. Axtell began studying law and was admitted to
practice upon examination in open court before Judge Tififaney of the ninth
judicial district of Nebraska at Scotia, Greeley county, that state. On the 5th
of February, 1888, he was admitted to practice as an attorney before the United
States interior department and all the buneaus thereof. In the winter follow-
ing he came to Oregon, settling at Grants Pass, Josephine county. In addition
to the private practice of law there he served from 1890 until 1894 inclusive as
city attorney and during that time revised, compil-ed and put in book form in
the order and method of a code all the city ordinances then existing. He was
mayor of Grants Pass from May, 1896, until May, 1897', during which time he
succeeded in considerably reducing the city debt, notwithstanding the fact that
more than a usual amount of improvements was made. Previous to his election
to the mayoralty he served as deputy district attorney in Josephine county, Ore-
gon, and in 1898 was elected county judge, serving upon the bench for four
years. His record as a judge was in harmony with his record as a man and
lawyer, being characterized by high personal worth and by ready and unbiased
solution of all the difficult legal problems that came before him. Throughout
the period of his residence in the northwest he has enjoyed a reputation as an
able advocate and safe counselor and it is well known that his devotion to his
clients' interests is unfaltering, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher
allegiance to the majesty of the law. Aside from the public offices mentioned
above, he served as justice of the peace at Scotia, Nebraska, for both the city
of Scotia and for Greeley county in pioneer days — from 1878 until 1887 in-
clusive, and in the justice court had the initial experience which well qualified
him to render the more difficult decisions in the county courts.
On the 28th of May, 1877, at Austin, Minnesota, Mr. Axtell was married
to Phebe Magary, who was born and reared in Fillmore county, Minnesota, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Magary. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Axtell have
been born four children : Mrs. Estella McPhadden, Louie, Abe and Moses. Mr.
Axtell has long been active in the Masonic fraternity. He became a Mason at
North Loup, Nebraska, took the Royal Arch degrees at St. Paul, Nebraska, and
was created a Knight Templar in Mount Lebanon Commandery, No. 6, at Grand
Island, Nebraska. Following his removal to the northwest he became a mem-
ber of Grants Pass Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., and a charter member of Reams
Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M., at Grants Pass, in which he filled all the principal
offices including that of high priest; and on the nth of June, 1900, he was reg-
ularly annointed and consecrated and became a member of the Council of High
Priests, duly initiated at Portland. Oregon. Since his removal to Vancouver he
has become a member of Mount Hood Lodge, No. 32, F. & A. M., of which
he is now treasurer; Vancouver Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M. ; Vancouver Com-
mandery, No. 10, K. T., He joined General Ransome Post, No. 36, G. A. R.,
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at Scotia Nebraska, as a charter member and served as its commander. Later
he belonged to General Logan Post, No. 39, at Grants Pass, Oregon, and filled
its principal offices, including that of commander. As a department officer he
was judge advocate and General Sherman was department commander, and he
has served the department as chief musician of its drum corps, fillmg this office
at the present time. His local membership is now with Ellsworth Post, No. 2,
G. A. R., in which he has served as quartermaster and was judge advocate on
the stafif of Department Commander J. T. Goss from June 22, 1905, to June 22,
1906. The spirit of patriotism and the basic principles of Masonry have long
been actuating forces in his life. Born on the Atlantic coast, he has moved
westward step by step until reaching the Pacific coast country and while witness-
ing and taking part in the upbuilding and the advancement of prosperity in this
section he has become convinced that the city of Portland, Oregon, and of Van-
couver, Washington, is and will be to the Pacific coast country what New York
city and its New Jersey suburbs are to the Atlantic coast country.
COLONEL THOMAS LEWIS PERKINS.
Colonel Thomas L. Perkins, commissary general of the Oregon National
Guard, is well known in military and fraternal circles and as a professional
man. He comes of the Kentucky family of Perkinses. His uncle, William
Perkins served as an officer in the Civil war, while another uncle, John Perkins,
has for many years been United States commissioner in Kentucky. An uncle
on his mother's side. Dr. Francis, is a practicing dentist of Louisville, Kentucky.
Colonel Perkins was born in McDonald county, Missouri, October 9, 1876,
a son of Thomas Bramblett and Amanda J. (Francis) Perkins. His father is
a merchant and came west about twenty-five years ago and is now located at
Buxton, Oregon. The Colonel has made his home in Oregon since he was a
boy. He was educated in the public and high schools of Hillsboro, later studying
dentistry. He has been engaged in practice at Portland since October 27, 1899,
and has met with the success which attends conscientious application, well di-
rected effort and the recognition from patrons of special ability and skill.
For more than ten years past Colonel Perkins has been actively identified
with military affairs. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he enlisted
as a private in Battery A, Oregon Volunteer Artillery, was mustered in July i,
1898, and served at Vancouver about three months, until mustered out. Upon
the reorganization of Battery A, Oregon National Guard, he enlisted as a
member and was appointed sergeant. On January 25, 1901, he was commis-
sioned second lieutenant and on May 17, 1901, was promoted to the first lieu-
tenancy. Later he was transferred to Company E. Third Regiment, Oregon.
National Guard, as first lieutenant. On May 31, 1905, he was appointed as
aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Chamberlain with rank of colonel, serv-
ing in this capacity until Governor Chamberlain was elected to the United
States senate in 1908. Prior to the retirement of Governor Chamberlain, Colonel
Perkins handed in his resignation, but when Governor Benson assumed the
executive office he reappointed Colonel Perkins to the position, which he had
admirably filled, and in this relation he continued until the close of 1910, when
by operation of law the office ceased to exist. On January 10, 1910, he was
commissioned as commissary general of the Oregon National Guard and has since
served in that capacity. Colonel Perkins demonstrated his adaptability to this
office at the time of the earthquake at San Francisco, when he served as com-
missary and quartermaster of the hospital corps, receiving commendation from
his superior officers for promptness and efficiency displayed at a trying time
when those qualities were highly essential. As a national guardsman he has
always performed his duties faithfully and with a constant desire to advance
the efficiency of an arm of the government, which is more and more being recog-
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nized as an essential element in the permanency and development of the republic.
It has attracted to its membership many of the brightest and most patriotic
young men of the country and its standard of efficiency is higher today than
ever before in America. It is by men of military spirit who are willing to make
personal sacrifices that this highly satisfactory condition has been attained.
On December lO, 1902, Colonel Perkins was united in marriage to Miss
Minnie Hortense Campbell, a daughter of Horace G. Campbell, of Portland.
Two promising sons have been born to the union : Melvin, now aged six years ;
and Thomas Richard, aged two years.
Colonel and Mrs. Perkins are members of St. David's Episcopal church.
He has been prominently connected for a number of years with fraternal organi-
zations whose principles of helpfulness early appealed to his mind. He holds
membership in the Masonic order, the Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and has
passed through the various chairs in the latter order and attained the rank of
past chancellor. In politics he is in sympathy with the republican party but his
energies have found outlet in other directions rather than in the heated polit-
ical campaign. In professional, military and social life Colonel Perkins is rec-
ognized as an active factor — a clear cut prototype of the live product which Is
the result of American traditions and free institutions and which is pronounced
today by enlightened thinkers as the hope not only of the American republic
but of the world.
JOSEPH BERGMAN.
Joseph Bergman, at the age of eighty-one years, is living retired in Port-
land. He was long a representative of the cattle industry of the northwest and
is numbered among the sons of Germany who, seeking the opportunities of
the new world, have here acquired success. He was born November 25, 1829,
in Bavaria, a son of Nathan J. and Hannah (Heldman) Bergman, the former
a dry-goods merchant of Germany, where both he and his wife remained until
called to their final rest.
The public schools of his native land afforded Joseph Bergman his educa-
tional opportunities, after which he learned the butche's trade and in 1853
started for America with his brothers, Isaac Bergman, who is now located at
Astoria, Oregon, of which city he was formerly mayor, and Abraham Berg-
man, who resides in San Francisco, where he has been identified with the
candy business for many years. The brothers, Isaac and Joseph, made their
way by the water route and the isthmus to California, landing at San Fran-
cisco in September, 1855. Joseph Bergman remained in that city for only
about a month, after which he and his brother Isaac went to Sacramento, Cal-
ifornia, there continuing until 1856, during which time they were connected
with the cattle business. They then came to Oregon and Joseph Bergman located
on First street, between Morrison and Yamhill, where he opened one of the
first butcher shops of this city with his brother as a partner. They continued in
that business until 1868, when Isaac Bergman went to Alaska. Mr. Bergman
of this review remained in active management of the enterprise until 1871, when
his brother returned from Alaska and they were again associated in the conduct
of the business until 1875, when Isaac Bergman went to Astoria. After con-
ducting a shop for a year alone Joseph Bergman sold out and turned his atten-
tion to the cattle business, in which he was extensively and successfully engaged
until 1904. His long experience as a butcher had made him an excellent judge
of the value of stock and in the management of his cattle interests he won sub-
stantial success. In 1904, however, he retired and has since had leisure to
enjoy those things which are of greatest interest to him in life.
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Mr. Bergman has resided continuously in Portland since 1856, and has occu-
pied his present fine home on Hoyt street since 1890. He married Miss Karoline
Bettman, a daughter of Moses and Hannah Bettman, on the 29th of Septem-
ber, 1861. Mrs. Bergman was born in Bavaria, in which country her parents
spent their entire lives. She came to the United States in i860, landing at New
York and thence making her way direct to Portland, where she has since lived.
It was in this city in the following year that she gave her hand in marriage
to Joseph Bergman, and to them have been bom eight children. Michael L.,
an attorney, who was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age, died the
following year. Clara is at home. Samuel K. and Nathan J. are both resi-
dents of this city. Ida is also at home. The three others of the family died
in childhood.
Mr. Bergman has always been active in politics as a stalwart supporter of the
democracy and has done all he could to insure the success of the party, being
convinced that the adoption of its principles would prove a potent force in good
government. He holds membership with the United Workmen and is the only
living charter member of the Temple Beth Israel, which was organized in 1858
with seven members. He served for twelve years in the volunteer fire depart-
ment from 1858 to 1870, acting for some time as assistant chief and for a time
was foreman. Although he has now passed the eighty-first milestone on life's
journey his years rest lightly upon him. While he relates many interesting
incidents of the early days he yet largely keeps in touch with the trend of mod-
ern progress. He was never afraid to work and his energy constituted the foun-
dation of his success, bringing him in time the handsome competence which
ranks him with the substantial citizens of Portland.
EDWARD E. COHEN.
Edward E. Cohen, a well known citizen of Portland and for several years
past engaged in the automobile business, was born on a farm at what is now
Twenty-eighth and Harrison streets, this city, January 25, 1881. He is a son
of Nathan and Rosa (Wittenburg) Cohen. The father was of German birth
and in his native land was reared and educated, learning the watchmaker's trade,
which he followed after coming to Portland. He came to the Pacific coast by
way of the isthmus of Panama in the year 1848, traveling northward by vessel
until he reached Salem, Oregon. This was the year before the California gold
excitement, and Mr. Cohen came to the coast because he believed it to be the most
favorable region in the United States for a young man of industry, perseverance
and good habits desiring to establish a permanent home. His wife crossed the
plains with an emigrant party in the early '70s and here she met her future hus-
band, who took up his abode in Portland in 185 1. He was a man of good busi-
ness ability and patriotic spirit, and in times of troubles with the Indians joined
with other public-spirited men in protecting the settlers. Mr. Cohen departed this
life in September, 1891, and is remembered by his family and friends as a kind
husband and father and an upright citizen. His widow is still a resident of Port-
land.
Edward E. Cohen, the subject of this review, grew up under the kindly in-
fluences of the family home and received a good education in the public schools.
Upon leaving school he learned the machinist's trade, his talents pointing in that
direction, and then entered the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad, operating
on the coast lines. In September, 1905, he withdrew from railway employment,
feeling that he now had the experience which would enable him to manage suc-
cessfully a business of his own. Accordingly he became associated with C. B.
Miners under the title of the Portland Motor Car Company, and for four years
from September, 1905, engaged in the automobile business. In February, 1909,
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he sold out his interest to his partner and assumed the sole agency for the Max-
well automobile for the state of Oregon, which business is conducted under the
name of the Maxwell Agency, of which Mr. Cohen is manager. On July i, 1909,
he sold an interest in the agency to his brother Arnold, who is now associated
with him, and they are conducting a salesroom and repair shop under the most
favorable auspices.
Arnold Cohen was born in this city, in 1883, and was educated in the public
schools. When he was about seventeen years of age he began his business career
with the Neustader Brothers of Portland and later was connected with the Can-
yon City Commercial Company of Canyon City, Oregon, severing his connection
with this company when he came to Portland in 1909 to join his brother.
Having been thoroughly educated as a machinist, Edward E. Cohen brought
to the automobile business an experience that has been of great practical value
and from the start his career has been a success. He is energetic, alert and ca-
pable, and the increasing sales of the firm give evidence that the brothers have
found a field where they may reap handsome returns in years to come. Mr.
Cohen believes that ultimately the automobile will in many respects supersede the
horse, although there will always be a demand for the latter and blooded animals
will always command a high price. Recognizing the many uses of the self-pro-
pelled vehicle, he has thrown his entire energy into a business which is now en-
gaging much of the finest talent all over the country. He and his brother are men
of enterprise and push and have an inborn business tendency which cannot fail
to lead to large results as population increases and the advantages of the automo-
bile for use in both city and country become more generally known. E. E. Cohen
is a member of the Commercial Club of Portland.
NATHAN LOEB.
Nathan Loeb, who was long connected with the business interests of Portland
as the proprietor of a general merchandise store, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt,
near Worms, Germany, in November, 1828. He attended school in his native
country until he left Germany as a small boy to come to America with his two
elder brothers, Bernard and Jacob, who engaged in the clothing business in Sac-
ramento, California. They sold their business there in 1857 and came to Oregon,
taking up their abode upon the present site of the Ladd & Tilton Bank in a small
cottage which then stood upon that location. They at once became identified
with commercial interests in this city as merchants, opening a store at the corner
of First and Washington streets. Not long afterward, however, the two brothers
removed to Helena, Montana, where they remained, while Nathan Loeb continued
the business in Portland, conducting a general merchandise store here. For a
time he had a large establishment on Front street, but about 1885 removed to As-
toria, where he engaged in the same line of business for eight years. Subse-
quently he returned to Portland and later conducted a general store up to the time
of his retirement about 1900. In that year he turned his business over to his
sons, having in the meantime accumulated a competence that was the logical se-
quence of his close application and careful management of his business interests.
On the 2d of February, 1856, in Sacramento, California, Mr. Loeb was united
in marriage to Miss Eliza Levy, a daughter of Seligman and Caresia Levy, who
died near Strassburg, Germany. Mrs. Loeb was born in the vicinity of that city
June 16, 1839, and came to America in 1855, landing at New York. With friends
of the name of Livingston she made her way to San Francisco and thence to
Sacramento, where she was married. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Loeb were born eight
children : Albert, who died at the age of eighteen years ; William, who was in
business with his father until his death, which occurred when he was forty-six
years of age; Sadie, the wife of Louis Blumenthal; Theresa, who became the
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v/ife of Benjamin Upperheimer, of Portland and died at the age of thirty-three
years, leaving a son, Eugene, who resides with his grandmother, Mrs. Loeb ; Hat-
tie, the wife of N. G. Kauffman, of Bellingham, Washington, by whom she has
one son, Russell; Sanford, a prominent physician of Portland, in which city he
was born; Rebecca, at home; and Albertine, the wife of W. W. Robertson, of
Portland.
Mr. Loeb was one of the charter members of Beth Israel congregation, and
was prominent among the Jewish people of Portland, being regarded as a man
of good business judgment and one whose council in all things was worthy of
consideration. He belonged to that class known as self-made men, for his pros-
perity was entirely attributable to his own labors, as from early life he depended
upon his industry and perseverance for the attainment of success. His death
occurred in February, 1905.
JOHN O. HARDIN.
Along well defined lines of labor John O. Hardin has steadily progressed to
the goal of success and is now a member of the firm of Moore & Hardin, brick
manufacturers, contractors and builders, in which connection he is conducting a
business of large proportions in the management of which he displays a spirit
of unfaltering enterprise and the power of keen discernment and business sa-
gacity. He was born in Platte county, Missouri, April 25, 1880, a son of D. W.
Hardin, a general contractor and brick manufacturer of Oregon, who was born
in Council Blufifs, Iowa, and was left an orphan at the age of fifteen years, from
which time he made his own way in the world. He first came to Oregon in
1878 but the following year returned to Missouri and did not locate permanently
here until 1882. After spending a few months in Jacksonville, he settled at
Grant's Pass, where he made his home until his death in 1904.
The son was very young when he came with his parents to the northwest.
In the public schools of the Sunset state he pursued his education and after put-
ting aside his text-books he learned the brick-mason's trade from his father and
also acquainted himself with the methods of brick manufacture. When twenty-
two years of age he started out in business on his own account, going to Prime-
ville, Oregon, where he followed his trade for three years. Removing to Golden-
dale, Washington, he there worked at his trade for some time, after which he
began contracting and also established a brick manufacturing plant. The new
venture proved profitable and he continued at that point until 1906, when he
sold his business there and came to Vancouver, as a larger field was here ofifered.
Forming a partnership with W. L. Moore, he began the manufacture of con-
crete blocks and artificial stone, also conducting a general contracting business.
They began operations under the firm style of J. O. Hardin & Company, which
was later changed to Hardin & Moore and then again to Moore & Hardin, as
it now stands. In 1908 they discontinued the manufacture of concrete blocks
and turned their attention to the manufacture of face and common bricks, in
which they continue successfully at the present time. They do all kinds of con-
tract and building work, also cement and road work, employing one hundred
and twenty men and an average of five teams daily throughout the year. They
have been awarded and executed the contracts for the building of St. Joseph
Hospital, the Deaf Mute School of Washington, the Star Brewery and other
large contracts. They have recently extended their operations to Portland and
already have received a good patronage in the city. They are likewise engaged
m the steamboat business, owning boats for freight carrying on the Columbia and
Willamette rivers.
Mr. Hardin married Miss Anna Wilson, of Goldendale, Klickitat county,
Washmgton, April 25, 1906, and the hospitality of their home is one of its most
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attractive features. Mr. Hardin belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias lodges, all of Vancouver.
He is interested in affairs of moment to the city and his public spirit is manifest
in many ways, including his service as a member of the city council, to which he
was elected on the republican ticket in November, 1909. Whatever tends to
benefit Vancouver and promote its upbuilding receives his endorsement and sup-
port. He is. yet a young man, having just passed the thirtieth milestone on life's
journey and the position to which he has already attained in business circles in-
dicates the progress that is yet before him. He is now at the head of an ex-
tensive manufacturing and contracting business — a field of limitless opportunity
in which his further advancement is assured.
ALMOND CHESTER PALMER.
Almond Chester Palmer, a splendid representative of the progressive elements
in the citizenship of Portland, he has been accorded a liberal clientage in his
practice before the courts, particularly in the field of his specialty which covers
real-estate law and land claims, was born in Portage county, Wisconsin, Feb-
ruary I, 1855. His parents were Hiram and Sophia Palmer, the former a mill-
wright and mechanic, who gave four years of his life to service in the Civil war,
acting as sergeant of the Eighth Wisconsin Battery. The mother was a daughter
of William G. Lyman, who was born in Massachusetts and was a close rela-
tive of the Lyman Beecher family.
In his youthful days Almond Chester Palmer went with his parents from
Portage to Wood county, Wisconsin, where he pursued his education in the public
and high schools, being graduated in 1874, He afterward engaged in teaching
school and with a desire to become a representative of the legal profession, he
took up the study of law, to which he devoted two years in the office of State
Senator C. W. Webb and Jerry D. Witter. At the end of that time he suc-
cessfully passed the required examinations but could not be admitted to practice
before the courts, owing to the fact that he has not yet reached the age of twenty-
one years. In 1876 he removed to Pawnee county, Nebraska, where he engaged
in teaching and also filled a position in the office of the county clerk. He studied
law for six months with Representative Babcock, of Pawnee City, and from life's
contacts and experiences was learning lessons which have been a source of benefit
to him since he entered actively upon the practice of law on the coast.
It was while a resident of Nebraska that Mr. Palmer was married in 1877
to Miss Hattie O. Gile, and after residing for two years in that state they re-
moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1879. There Mr. Palmer engaged in merchan-
dising, mining and contracting and met with good success, but owing to the state
of his health came to Oregon in March, 1882. He first took up his abode in
Mitchell, now in Wheeler county, where he engaged in teaching, his ability in
imparting knowledge to others being manifest in the excellent results which
he obtained in the work in the schoolroom. He became deeply interested in the
questions which were then engaging public attention and which had important
bearing upon the welfare of the community, and in 1884 was elected on the repub-
lican anti-vigilantis ticket to the office of county clerk of Crook county, although
at that time the county had an overwhelming democratic majority. His position
in opposition to a policy which had been greatly abused led to his selection for the
office. During his term the vigilanti troubles were settled and, the democratic
power resuming sway, he was defeated when a candidate for reelection. In
1886, therefore, he turned his attention to business lines, engaging in general
merchandising and in stock-raising. He had established his business upon a
successful basis when the unusually severe winter of 1887-88 caused heavy
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losses to Mr. Palmer and many others, forcing him to discontinue his efforts in
that field.
In the year 1889 Mr. Palmer was again called to office when appointed
postmaster at Primville. He filled the position until 1892, when he resigned.
He had served several terms as clerk of the school district at Primville, was
also a member of the city council and city attorney, exercising his official prerog-
ative in support of every measure and movement which he deemed beneficial
to the community of which upheld its legal status. In 1895 he was admitted
to the bar of Oregon and the following year was appointed United States com-
missioner, in which capacity he served for seven years. In the meantime, from
1895 until 1903, he had enjoyed a large practice before the United States land
office and since becoming a member of the Portland bar has largely specialized
in the field of real-estate law. Moreover, he is thoroughly informed concerning
the natural resources of the country and the possibilities for the cultivation of
the land that lies east of the mountain range and has delivered many public
addresses and written various articles upon the subject of irrigation in eastern
Oregon. Thoroughly understanding the situation, he has closely studied the
conditions that exist and knows that with the never failing water supply that
can be secured from the streams that have their source in the snow capped
mountain ranges, the lands of that district may be reclaimed for the purpose
of civilization and made to yield as abundantly as does the Hood river valley
and other well watered districts near the coast.
At the present time Mr. Palmer is specializing in the development of large
stump lands or logged off lands in the immediate locality. He was a pioneer
in this particular phase of land development.
In his political views Mr. Palmer has ever been an earnest republican, voting
the straight ticket, for his close study of the issues and questions of the day
has made him fully convinced that in the platform of the party lies the best ele-
ments of good government and that the best interests of the country will be
conserved through the adoption of its principles. He is widely kno\\n in fra-
ternal circles and has represented the local organizations of the Masonic fra-
ternity and the Ancient Order of United Workmen in the Grand Lodges of
several occasions. He has also organized several United Artisans lodges. Those
who read between the lines of this review will recognize the fact that Mr.
Palmer is a man of force and of resourceful ability, accomplishing what he
undertakes, while the results of his labors are largely of benefit to his fellow-
men. Moreover, his activities have touched many interests and in all connec-
tions he has manifested support of progressive citizenship.
JOHN C. WELCH.
John C. Welch, conducting a growing and profitable business as the head of
the John Welch Dental Depot of Portland, was born in Clackamas county, Ore-
gon, on the i6th of December, 1864. He is a representative of southern families.
Both of his grandfathers came from Virginia, the paternal line being repre-
sented in Henry county in the extreme southern portion of the state, while his
maternal grandfather was from Georgetown, now a part of the District of Co-
lumbia. Both of his grandmothers were from Kentucky. He is a son of Dr.
John and Anna Elizabeth fClements) Welch. The father was one of the promi-
nent dentists of Portland for a long period. His birth occurred at Mineral
Point, Wisconsin, September 18, 1836. His parents, William and Jane CBog-
gess) Welch, were natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively. The former
devoted his life to farming until the time of the lead mine excitement in Wis-
consm in 1833, when he removed to Mineral Point and was there identified with
mining interests until 1838, when he became a resident of Comanche, Iowa.
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Again he took up general agricultural pursuits, to which he gave his attention
until 1850, in which year he started for Cahfornia, accompanied by his son John.
Unlike many of the early travelers, he made the journey with horse teams and
in the incredibly short space of ninet\" days covered the distance between the
Missouri river and Placerville, California. Father and son devoted four years
to mining in that state, after which they rejoined the family in Iowa, making the
return trip by way of the isthmus of Panama. The sojourn in the west con-
vinced them that they preferred the coast countn.- as a place of residence, and
in 1863 they again traveled westward, once more crossing the plains with Oregon
as their destination. After four months of travel, the family home was estab-
lished in Clackamas count}-, where William \\'elch continued to engage in farm-
ing until his demise.
In the meantime John Welch had completed his elementan.' studies by a
course in the Rock Island (111.; Seminar}-. Determining upon the practice of
dentistry- as his life w-ork, he began stud}4ng under the direction of Dr. A\'. J.
Laurence at Lyons, low-a, and in 1857 located for practice in Chillicothe, Mis-
souri. He also engaged in practice for a time at Georgetown. ^Missouri, and
after returning from California to the middle west he was married in Fair\-iew,
Missouri, in 1859. to Miss Anna Elizabeth Clements, who was bom in that state
in 1841. Xot long afterward the young couple established their home in Chi-
cago and Dr. Welch continued his studies in the office of Dr. E. CariDenter. with
whom he remained until 1863. when again with his father he crossed the plains.
He first opened his office in Oregon Cit)% where he practiced until 1870. when
he opened an office in Portland. He thereafter maintained both offices and re-
sided in Oregon Cit}- until 1888. when he purchased residence propert}' at the
comer of Sixteenth and East Everett streets in Portland and permanently took
up his abode here. Dr. \\'elch not only remained an active member of the pro-
fession, engaged in operative dentistn.-. but also began the manufacture of dental
supplies, establishing an extensive business along that line. He also carried a
stock of dental goods and his trade extended throughout the northwest, the en-
terprise grow-ing as the result of the judicial management and enterprising eitorts
of Dr. Welch and his son, John C. \\'elch, w-ho later became associated with him
in the business.
Unto Dr. and Mrs. Welch were born nine children : Dr. William Edward
Welch, a physician practicing at Rainier. Oregon; Sterling, deceased; John C. :
Harry ; Frank, w-ho has also passed away ; Catherine ; Reuben ; Annie ; and Ben-
jamin.
Dr. Welch became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
When the dental law was passed in Oregon he was one of the members of the
first state board of examiners, consisting of four. During the period of his
residence in Portland he ranked w-ith the leading dentists of the northwest, his
ability gaining for him a foremost place among the members of the dental fra-
temit}-.
John C. Welch pursued his education in the public schools of Oregon City
and in the Universit}- of Oregon. He was a young man of twent}--one years
when, in November, 1885. he entered the Portland postoffice and was made chief
clerk of the registered letter department. The abilit}- which he displayed in tliat
position led to his promotion to the superintendency of the money order depart-
ment, and he remained in the postoffice for five years. He w-as then appointed
to the position of pa\-ing teller in the Commercial National Bank, his ser\-ices
there covering ten years, subsequent to which time he became connected with
Wells Fargo & Company's Bank in Portland. Aside from other interests. Mr.
Welch has for a considerable period been connected with the John Welch Dental
Depot of Portland, one of the foremost enterprises of this part of the north-
west, with a branch in the Lumber Exchange building in Seattle. With the
passing years his abilit}- has developed and he stands today as one whose activity
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in financial affairs and control of commercial interests have given him rank with
the leading and prominent business men of the city.
In 1888, in Eugene, Oregon, Mr. Welch was married to Miss Alice Wallis, a
daughter of Matthew Wallis, a Lane county pioneer, and their children are
Mary, Alice, John Wallis and Margaret. Mr. Welch has always been a stalwart
advocate of democratic principles since age conferred upon him the right of
franchise, and in June, 1908, he attended the national convention at Denver.
He is prominent in Masonry and exemplifies in his life the beneficial spirit of
the craft. He is now a life member of the Oregon Commandery, K, T., and also
belongs to Al Kader Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He hkewise
holds membership with the Commercial Club, and is greatly interested in its
efforts to exploit the resources and advantages of Portland and thus promote the
city's growth. In all matters of general concern he is public spirited and his
cooperation can ever be counted upon to further any movement for the general
good.
ALEXANDER E. BORTHWICK.
Among the well known citizens of Portland is Alexander E. Borthwick, for
many years in the real-estate business here. He was born in Schoharie county,
New York, February 22, 1845, and is the son of William and Maria (Bushnell)
Borthwick. During his boyhood he received a common-school and academic
education but while in his sixteenth year his school training was brought to an
end for a time by the opening of the great Rebellion in which the New York boy
was destined to perform his part. On November 16, 1861, being not yet seven-
teen years of age, he enlisted in Company B, Fourth New York Artillery, and
served until discharged on account of disability, August 28, 1862. On the ist
of October, 1863, having recovered his health, he reenlisted at Saratoga Springs,
New York, in Company C, Second New York Veteran Cavalry, serving until
November 27, 1865, when he was honorably mustered out at Albany, New York.
He took part in the Red River and Mobile campaigns and in several important
raids in which he displayed the qualities of a true soldier. He was twice wounded,
first at Marksville, Louisiana, and again at McLeod Mills, Mississippi, on the
Davidson raid. After returning home at the conclusion of the war, he again
resumed his studies and was graduated from Eastman's Business College, after
having taken a thorough course at that institution, which is still recognized as
one of the leading colleges of its kind in the world.
At twenty-two years of age, in 1867, Mr. Borthwick bade farewell to the
scenes of his boyhood and turned his face westward. He assisted in building the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways and was present on that historic occa-
sion at Promontory Point, Utah, May 9, 1869, when the last spike was driven
connecting with bands of steel New York and San Francisco. After visiting the
mining camp at Battle Mountain, Nevada, he started with a companion on a
prospecting trip from Winnemucca, Nevada, to Silver City, Idaho, but after
crossing the line into Oregon at Camp McDermott, they arrived at Canyon City
and came on to Portland, which they reached on the 3d of December, 1869. This
was forty-one years ago, when a large part of Oregon was a wilderness and a
great empire was yet to be exploited.
Mr. Borthwick became a school teacher in district No. 7 of Multnomah county
but in the following spring went on the construction of the Oregon & California
Railroad as assistant to C. E. Burrage, engineer in charge. The following winter
he engaged with Colonel Flint, chief engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
as topographer, traveling under J. F. Kidder, and located the first twenty miles
of the road from Kalama northward. He assisted in laying out the town of
Kalama. at that time the official terminal of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the
work being accomplished in the winter of 1870-71. Having returned to Port-
A. E. BORXm^^CK
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land on the 26th of April, 1871, he entered the county clerk's office as deputy
clerk under C. W. Parrish, also serving- in a similar capacity under W. H. Harris.
In the fall of 1874 Mr. Borthwick was made assistant clerk of the house of
representatives at Salem, Oregon, and in December following went to Walla
Walla, Washington, where he engaged in the mercantile business. From that
point he went to Baker City, Oregon, in June, 1874, and for about a year was
employed at the Virtue mine. Once more returning to Portland, Mr. Borthwick,
on July I, 1876, was appointed deputy clerk under county clerk James A. Smith,
serving until he was himself elected county clerk in July, 1880. At the end of
his term of office in 1884 he became manager of the Tacoma Line Company, and
in February, 1887, entered the real-estate business, in which he has continued
with short intervals since.
On August 13, 1874, Mr. Borthwick was united in marriage to Miss Alice
A. Case, a daughter of William and Sarah Ann Case, who were pioneers of 1844.
Her father was a native of Indiana and her mother came from New Jersey. One
child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Borthwick, William Lawrence, who is now in
business with his father. He is a graduate of the college of civil engineering of
the University of California of the class of 1906. He was married December
31, 1908, to Miss Ruth Millard, a native of Kansas, who resided most of her life
before her marriage at Redlands, California, and is a daughter of Orin and
Frances Millard. They have one daughter, Elaine.
Mr. Borthwick is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and is
also actively identified with the Grand Army of the RepubHc, being a member of
the committee of three that organized George Wright Post, No. i, of Oregon,
in July, 1878, which was the first post north of California at that time. Mr.
Borthwick had the sagacity many years ago to perceive the opportunities of the
northwest and made no mistake in turning his steps in this direction. He has
always been an active and useful citizen and, having made a noble start in life as
a soldier for a grand cause, he has never lowered his standard.
PHILIP SCHUYLER MALCOLM.
"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease," said President Roosevelt
in a memorable address, "but the doctrine of the strenuous life." This expres-
sion has been quoted the world over and has met with a heartiness of response
that is evidence of a conviction of its truth. Few men present a better illustra-
tion of a life abounding in activity than Philip Schuyler Malcolm. An irre-
pressible desire to see the world and to take an active part in its aflfairs early
manifested itself and it has found expression in many climes and under many
conditions. Mr. Malcolm is essentially a man of quick apprehension, strong
convictions and well grounded principles which have sought a useful outcome
for all expenditure of time and energy. As a result he occupies one of the most
important government positions in the northwest, and also has gained recogni-
tion in Masonic circles as one of the leading men of the order.
Philip S. Malcolm was born at Oswego, New York, October 30, 1847, and
comes of noted ancestry, being a son of William S. and Emma (Lawrence)
Malcolm. His father was for many years connected with the federal service in
New York state and during some years was in charge of the United States har-
bor construction at the port of Oswego. He was a man of fine address and
unusual intelligence, and many of the leading characteristics of the son were in-
herited from the father.
The subject of this review was reared in Oswego and educated in the public
schools. The desire to see the world early manifested itself, and for many years
he traveled widely over the world, in the course of which he visited all the lead-
ing countries and gained by observation and direct contact with men many les-
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605
land on the 26th of April, 1871, he entered the county derkr's o&ce as deputy
clerk under C. \V. Parrish, also serving- in a similar capacity mider W. H. Harris.
In the fall of 1874 Mr. Borthwick was made assistant dr-'r. :: :-.e house of
representatives at Salem. Oregon, and in Decemt'er folkr-vir.^ .-ez:_^to ^^ alia
Walla. Washington, where he engaged in the rr.iz zzjixHe misiness. i-rom that
point he went to Baker City, Oregon, in June, 1874, and f:r 1 :ut a year was
emploved at the Virtue mine. Once more returning to Portian.-. 2vlr. Bortnwick,
on July I, 1876. was appointed de^/r- :>-': -.-nier county clerk James A ::Mirth.
serving until he was himself dec:-: - . : rv .-trk in July. 18S0. At the end of
his term of office in 1884 he became inanager of the lacirna _:r.t . — iLny. ^ri
in Februan.-, 1887. entered the real-estate burlness. jq .::- t rii ;:-: r.:Ti
with short interv-als since.
On August 13. 1874, Mr. Borthwick was _r.i:ti in ~irrlage to ^liss Alice
A. Case, a daughter of William and Sarah Ann Case, who were pioneers of 1^14.
Her father was a native of Indiana and her mother came from New jersey. One
child was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Borthwick. William Lawreice. who is now in
business with his father. He is a graduate of the college of dvil engineering 01
the University of CaHfomia of the class of 1906. H^ ^s —arriei Decenber
31, 1908. to Miss Ruth Mniard. a native of Kansas, who resided —C'St of her life
before her marriage at Redlands. California, and is a caugh:rr :: 7^-:' =rf
Frances Millard. They have one daughter. Elaine.
Mr. Borthwick is a member of the Sons of the American Revolur^rr. =ad is
also activdy identified with the Grand Army of the RepubHc being a r rr er 01
the committee of three that organized George Wright Post. Xo. i. of _ rrr:n.
in July, 1878. which was the first post north of California at that time. --r.
Borth\s-ick had the sagadt^- many years ago to perceive the opportunities of the
northwest and made no mistake in turning his steps in this directicHi. He has
always been an active and useful dtizen and, having made a noble start in life as
a soldier for a grand cause, he has never lowered his standard.
PHILIP SCHL'^-IER M.ALCOLM.
"e ease." said President Roosevelt
:he strenuous hfe." This expres-
nei with a heartiness of response
Few men present a better iUustra-
"T Ais-ish to preach not the doctr.r.e :: r
in a memorable address, "but the :;:-rr
sion has been quoted the world ov^r ^::_ -i
that is e\-idence of a conviction of its truth
tion of a life aboimding in activiiy- than Phihp Schuyler Malcolm. An irre-
pressible desire to see the world and to take an active part in its aSairs early
manifested itsdf and it has found expression in many climes and under many
conditions. Mr. Malcolm is essentiaUy a man of quick apprehension, strong
con\-ictions and well grounded prindples which have sought a useful outcome
for all expenditure of time and energy. As a result he occupies one of the naost
important government positions in the northwest, and also has gained reoc^ni-
tion in Masonic drdes as one of the leading men of the order-
Philip S. Malcolm was bom at Oswego. Xew York. October 30. 1&47, and
comes of noted ancestry, being a son of William S. and F.mma ( Lawraice>
^Malcolm. His father was for many years cc^mected with the federal service in
Xew York state and during some years was in charge of the United States har-
bor construction at the port of Oswego. He was a man of fine address and
unusual intelligence, and many of the !e^.^:ng characteristics of the son were in-
herited from the father.
The subject of this reriew was reared in Oswego and educated in die public
schools. The desire to see the worid early manifested itsdf. and for nnny years
he traveled widely over the world, in the course of which he ^■isited all the lead-
ing countries and gained bv observation and direct contact with men manv les-
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was severely wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville and was forced to re-
main in the hospital at Washington and at Philadelphia for some time. The
wound was inflicted on the 3d of May, 1863, and it was not until the following
March that he was able to rejoin his regiment, then stationed in Tennessee. He
afterward took part in the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and went with Sherman on
the celebrated march to the sea and thence northward through the CaroHnas to
Goldsboro, where he was honorably discharged in April, 1865. His was a credit-
able military record, characterized by the utmost fidelity to duty whether it called
him to the firing line or stationed him on the lonely picket line.
When the war was over, Mr. Rood returned to Wisconsin, locating at Eau
Claire, where he worked in a logging camp and a sawmill for about three and
a half years. He then made his way to the southern part of the state, where he
spent the winter, subsequently removing to southwestern Missouri, where he
lived for ten months. On the expiration of that period he went to Idaho and
worked in the placer mines until the fall of 1873, when he came to Oregon. He
was accompanied by his brother Andrew, and they purchased a flock of sheep
in Linn county, driving them to Morrow county, where they established a sheep-
raising business which they conducted with success, gaining prominence in this
line of activity in every section of the state. Later Edward Rood took up land
there and made his home in that locality until after the great flood at Heppner,
on the 14th of June, 1903. The disaster brought sorrow and loss to the entire
community. His wife and only child were victims of the flood and after that
Mr. Rood could no longer be contented in Morrow county and spent some time
in roaming around, visiting California, Mexico and other points.
Mr. Rood was married on the 26th of February, 1896, at Blue Springs, Mis-
souri, to Miss Luticia Johnson of Kentucky, and their only child was named for
the mother. Three years after the death of his first wife, Mr. Rood was mar-
ried, on the 9th of July, 1906, to Fannie O. Catten. In that year they estab-
lished their home in Portland, where they have since resided, Mr. Rood erecting
a fine residence at No. 615 East Main street. He belongs to the Masonic lodge
of Heppner, Oregon, and his pleasing social qualities have gained for him an
ever increasing circle of friends. He has now retired from active business save
when his attention is demanded by his real-estate interests in Morrow county
and in this city.
F. W. VOGLER.
That the west presents remarkable opportunities to the man who possesses
the business sense and is endowed with grit and energy, has in countless in-
stances been demonstrated. It would be difficult, however, to find a more strik-
ing exemplification of this statement than is shown in the history of F. W.
Vogler, now a successful automobile man of Portland. It may also be stated
that even the wildest dreams of his youth fell short of the reality as he wit-
nessed it in more than one instance in the great mining camps, and as it may be
seen today among the great captains of industry in the northwest.
Mr. Vogler was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, where he grew
up and was educated in the public schools. His first experience in meeting the
world was as a member of a surveying and construction crew that laid out the
Oregon Short Line from Green River to Huntington. After completing his
contract which involved some of the hardships and gave him a preliminary
taste of experience in the wild life of the west, he became identified in 1880
with Gilmore & Salisbury, of Blackfoot, Idaho, who were extensively engaged
in the transportation and stage business, and he was also connected with their
line operating between Red Rock, Montana, and Salmon City, Lemhi county,
Idaho, and gained a thorough knowledge of the stage and transportation busi-
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ness carried on in the face of many difficulties in a mountainous country. In
1892 he took over their Hnes in Idaho and conducted them on his own account
for eighteen years.
It was in 1904 that his experience in the automobile business began. The
great rush to the newly discovered mines in Nevada had begun and Mr. Vogler
conceived the idea of running an auto stage line from Tonopah to Goldfield.
It was the first line of the kind projected in the United States. He bought two
automobiles and began operations over the stage road but soon discovered that
gasoline engines could not compete with horses over a route that was not built
for self-propelled vehicles. No sooner did he arrive at this conclusion than he
applied at the state capital of Nevada and secured a charter under which he built
a road of thirty miles for his own use. He put on eighteen cars and in less
than ninety days there was only one horse stage out of Tonopah and it was
used in the transportation of the United States mail. When he began his auto
service there were seven six-horse teams in operation to the gold camp. Dur-
ing the ninety days mentioned he conveyed twelve thousand passengers at ten
dollars each and also carried all the baggage and freight from Tonopah to the
camp. In addition to his operations at Tonopah he conducted stage lines in
three different parts of the state but closed out his Nevada interests in March,
1910. Believing that there were larger opportunities near the coast, Mr. Vogler
came to Portland in 1909 as a representative of the Auburn automobile. In
August of the same year he organized the Northwestern Auto Company, Inc.,
of which he became president, Norman Deveaux, sales manager, and F. D.
Vogler secretary. This company has the exclusive distribution for the north-
west of the Reo and Apperson cars. Their business has been phenomenal. In
the first nine months of its existence the company delivered four hundred and
seventy automobiles and the first years' business of the company amounted to
the round sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. At the present
time there are over twelve hundred Reo automobiles in use in their territory
and one hundred of them are owned in the city of Portland. This is a strik-
ing illustration of the up-to-date character of the people who make their homes
in the northwest and is a high compliment to the business sagacity of the gentle-
men whose names are above given.
In 1890 Mr. Vogler was united in marriage to Miss Virginia Rowles, of Chico,
California. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Knights of Pythias and although he has been a resident of Portland com-
paratively a short time he has made many friends and has also attained a record
for business which indicates unusual ability and elements of character that are
highly appreciated by wide-awake citizens. As is easily to be seen, he owes his
success largely to keen discernment, promptitude in following his intuitions and
a resolute nature that never allows itself to be discouraged however great the
obstacles.
ORIN B. COLDWELL.
Orin B. Coldwell, general superintendent of the light and power department
of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, in which connection he
occupies a position of responsibility to which one of his years seldom attains,
was born in Salem, Oregon, November 28. 1875. He is a son of E. L. Cold-
well and when four years of age was brought to Portland, where he pursued his
education in the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until he be-
came a high school student. He made his initial step in business in 1892 when
he entered the employ of the Willamette Electric Company, where he remained
in various capacities for five years, his increasing ability winning him promotion
from time to time, and also giving him insight into what there was to be learned
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concerning the branch of business to which he had decided to give his attention.
This stimulated in him a desire for further knowledge, and in 1897 he entered
Stanford University of California, where he spent three years in pursuing an
electrical course. He then went to Ithaca, New York, and for two years was a
student in Cornell University, being graduated on the completion of the elecrical
engineering course with the class of 1902.
Well equipped by a thorough scientific training, Mr. Coldwell then returned
to this city and entered the services of the Portland General Electric Company,
the successors of the Willamette Electric Company. He had in the meantime
been in its employ during vacation periods while at Stanford University and had
filled nearly the whole range of positions. Following his graduation, he was
made assistant superintendent and afterward served as electrical engineer and
operating engineer until three years ago, when he was made general superintend-
ent of the light and power department, having charge of the operation and con-
struction of this department. For the past five years he has made all of the
plans of the engineering construction work of light and power plants of this
concern, and their development to meet the demands of the ever growing city.
Upon him has devolved the responsibility for expenditure of large sums. Re-
cently he erected the present office building which is today one of the notably
fine structures of Portland, and at the same time he maintained a sub-station on
the grounds and had charge of the building of three or four plants costing sev-
eral millions of dollars. His thorough understanding of every phase of the busi-
ness well qualifies him for the heavy responsibilities and arduous duties which
devolved upon him, and his skill in this direction has gained him recognition as
one of the foremost electrical and construction engineers of the Pacific coast.
On the 20th of September, 1905, Mr. Coldwell was married in Portland to
Miss Anna Elizabeth Harmer, a daughter of William Harmer, one of the old
residents here. Their only child, Ruth Evelyn, is now three and a half years
of age. The family residence is at No. 504 Spring street, on Portland Heights.
Mr. Coldwell is a member of the Multnomah Club, an associate member of
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the Sigma Xi,
an honorary engineering fraternity. He finds his principal recreation in natural
history and botany, and is a strong lover of nature in all of its phases. This
element in his nature serves as an even balance to that whidi finds its expression
in the mathematical accuracy demanded in the scientific lines which he has chosen
as a life work. Gaining that superior ability which comes from close study and
broad experience, he stands in an eminent and enviable position among the elec-
trical engineers of the west.
EDWARD J. GRAHS.
Edward J. Grabs, an architect and builder, whose labors have been an ele-
ment in the substantial improvement of Portland, has not only been identified
with building interests as a contractor but also as a speculative builder. His
life is an indication of the opportunities which America presents to her adopted
citizens. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, April 16, 1862, his parent's be-
ing John Johnson and Kersty (Anderson) Grabs. The father was a wagonmaker
and farmer and spent his entire life in Sweden.
Edward J. Grabs was nineteen years of age when he came to America. He
had attended the public schools of his native country and after reaching the
new world he promoted his education by attending night schools. He has al-
ways realized the value of advanced intellectual training and through reading
and investigation has greatly broadened his knowledge. Following his emigration
to the new world, he settled in Franklin Grove, Lee county, Illinois, and supple-
mented his knowledge of the carpenter's trade, which he had learned in his na-
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tive land, by a course in architecture here, desiring to improve as much as possi-
ble, that his ability might fit him for important service in the field which he had
chosen as his life work.
Mr. Grabs arrived in America in March, 1882, and for a year remained a resi-
dent of Illinois. He then sought the opportunities of the northwest, coming to
Portland in 1883. He worked by the day until 1886, when he began contracting
on his own account and has always been alone in business. In this connection
he has done much for Portland's improvement. He specialized in the building
of residences but in the last six or seven years has done considerable speculative
building, purchasing unimproved property, on which he has erected attractive
homes for sale. Being an architect as well as builder, he has designed all of
the residences which he has erected. These are built in attractive modern styles
of architecture, are equipped with the latest improved conveniences and their
ready sale indicates that they find favor with the public. He has confined his
operations as a speculative builder largely to the Elizabeth Irving addition, hav-
ing built and sold at least twenty houses in that addition as well as a number
in the McMillan and Irvington additions.
In 1890 Mr. Grabs was married to Miss Hannah C. Wistrand, who was born
in the town of Wexio, Sweden, as were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andreas
Anderson Wistrand. Fraternally Mr. Grabs is connected with the Modern Wood-
men of America and with the Swedish Society Linnea, of which he was one of the
founders and a charter member. He has given his political support to the repub-
lican party since becoming a naturalized American citizen and has ever kept
well informed on the important questions and issues of the day. Active and
thoroughly reliable in business afifairs at all times, his life is another proof of
the statement that ''Sweden is the home of honest men."
J. H. MacMILLAN.
To take the crude material and produce a finished product, a thing of utility,
symmetry and beauty, is always a matter of satisfaction to those who accom-
pHsh such a task. This is what the pioneers of Portland have done. Coming
to Oregon, they saw and utilized the natural advantages and resources of the
country and the beautiful Rose City of the present day stands as a monument to
their enterprise, their faith, courage and progressiveness. All honor is due them
for the work they accomplished. Among the number is J. H. MacMillan, now
a venerable patriarch of the community, eighty-eight years of age. He was
born in Attica, New York, in 1823 and the early years of his life were passed
in Orange, Du Page county, Illinois. While but a mere boy he crossed the plains
to Oregon, and first saw Portland on the 24th of October, 1845, or rather the
site of Portland, for the district was then inhabited by Indians. Captain John
H. Couch had claimed most of the land on the north and F. W. Pettygrove
and A. L. Lovejoy were the claimants to the southern portion. Their cabins
had been built and upon the land had been posted notices to show that it had
been claimed. The families, however, lived at Oregon City at that time.
Mr. MacMillan's mind is still very clear concerning the early events which
have shaped the history of this district. He relates that soon after his arrival
the bark, Toulon, arrived, Nathanial Crosby, captain, near the foot of Wash-
ington street, where the cargo was landed and covered with a canvas until a
log house could be built that became Portland's first warehouse. The follow-
ing year, 1846, James B. Stevens built a double log house on the east bank of
the Willamette, a part of which was used for a cooper shop, Dr. McLoughlin
employing him to make one thousand flour barrels. It was his father who was
the first person buried in Lone Fir cemetery.
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The first sawmill was built by Abrams in the south end of the city and later
a sawmill was erected near the present site of the gas works, but after a few
years it was burned. Then the firm of Estes & Stimson built a sawmill, which
they later sold to Ben Holladay for the sum of sixty thousand dollars. Mr.
Holladay had the mill removed a mile down the river, where a double mill was
erected as well as a sash, door and blind factory. As millwright Mr. MacMillan
had charge of this work for eleven years and was thus closely associated with the
lumber industry of the city at an early day. At that time a few enterprising
merchants were meeting the wants of customers of this district, Northrop &
Simon conducting a store on Front street, while W. S. Ladd had a store near
the Stark street ferry on the west side of the street, Mr. MacMillan seeing him
clear his land where he built his house. Mr. MacMillan was also well ac-
quainted with Hugh O'Brien, Portland's first mayor, who crossed the plains in
1845, and he also knew Anthony L. Davis, the first justice of the peace. As
the city developed a newspaper made its appearance in Portland, published by
John Orvis Watterman, and soon afterward T. J. Dryer began the publication
of the Oregonian. The litigated interests of the city were intrusted to Judge
Hamilton, the firm of Olney & McEwan and other early lawyers, while Drs.
Davenport and Chapman attended to the physical ills. "Uncle Jimmy" Stevens
donated land for school purposes and the Rev. Lyman built the first Congrega-
tional church, while Rev. Wilbur had the Methodist church erected. Among
the notable weddings in the early days was that of the daughter of T. J. Dryer,
who became the wife of a nephew of Peter Skeen Ogden, who at that time was
the chief factor at Vancouver and was better known as the "kind-hearted man"
who purchased the women and children held prisoners by the Cayuses.
Mr. MacMillan in early pioneer times carried dispatches from The Dalles
Mission to Governor Abernethy at Oregon City. Night came on about the
time he reached Portland. A dance was being held of which Mr. MacMillan
became a spectator. It was conducted by Charlie McKay, who was then called
"Old Scissors" for scissors was his greatest swear word. This dance was held
on the last night of 1847. The following day Mr. MacMillan walked to Oregon
City, where he delivered his despatches. When East Portland organized a city
government, by act of the legislature Mr. MacMillan at the first election was
chosen councilman and served for four years. Dr. Hawthorne being the presi-
dent of the village. It seems a long distant period from the primitive past to
the progressive present, from the Portland of 1845 to the city of the present
day. Mr. MacMillan has ever rejoiced in the development that has been carried
forward and it is his honest belief that Portland will yet become the largest city
on the Pacific coast.
CINCINNATI BILLS.
The life of Cincinnati Bills was largely spent upon the frontier as from
time to time through the period of his youth and early manhood he removed west-
ward. He was one of New England's native sons, his birth having occurred
in Vermont in 1825, his parents being Captain Lemuel and Liddie Bills. His
father was an Indian fighter and also one of the first settlers of Oregon. The
son acquired his education in the common schools of his native state and when
still quite young learned the shoemaker's trade. He also mastered the trade of
pump-making. He was a young lad when he removed with his parents to Ohio
and subsequently accompanied them to Indiana, the family home being estab-
Hshed at Covington, where he assisted his father in the pump-making business.
His youth was largely a period of earnest and unremitting toil, during which
time he came to a full realization of the value of industry and energy as effective
forces in life's work.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 615
While residing in Covington Mr. Bills became acquainted with Miss Anna
E. Adkins, a daughter of Granville and Ipsley (Osburg) Adkins. Their friend-
ship ripening into love, they were married April 4, 1850, and began their do-
mestic life in Indiana, but on the 15th of February, 1853, they started for the
far west with a covered wagon and team of oxen. In the meantime two chil-
dren had been born unto them, and the other members of the party were Mr.
Bills' sister, Mrs. Roher, and his brother, Worthington Bills. The entire train
consisted of five wagons and quite a number of people, for at that time parties
traveled together for protection and mutual assistance. There was at this time
a rather clearly defined wagon trail across the country to the northwest, and
altogether theirs was a pleasant trip. Moreover, they made it in a time which
exceeded that of any other party, reaching the foot of the Cascade mountains
on the first day of July, being only four months and fifteen days on the way.
Having arrived in the Pacific coast country, Mr. Bills purchased three hun-
dred and twenty acres of land in Multnomah county about nine miles' from Port-
land. A previous settler had taken possession of this farm but no improvements
had been made except that a small log cabin had been built. In that home Air.
and Mrs. Bills with their children began housekeeping. They lived upon that
farm for only two years, when they were frightened away by the Cascade In-
dians and took up their abode in the then town of Portland, which had not yet
completed five years of its existence. There Mr. Bills worked at anything that
he could find to do for about two years, when he purchased an interest in the
dray company which afterward became the O. & T. Company, of which he was
made manager. He continued in that position of executive control until his
death, which occurred December 17, 1871. He was well known in the early
days as an active and reliable business man and, moreover, he was honored
with public office, being chosen sheriff of Multnomah county. He was also one
of the early members of the Masonic lodge and of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and was an active member of the Methodist church, in which he
held office. His life's labors ended, he was laid to rest in the Lone Fir ceme-
tery. Much credit is due to the early settlers who came to Portland in its
pioneer times and aided in promoting its interests and laying a safe and broad
foundation upon which the city has since builded its present prosperity and
progress.
No history of Portland would be complete without further mention of Mrs.
Bills, now one of the well known pioneer ladies here. Her birth occurred in
Fountain county, Indiana, July 25, 1829. Her father was a farmer as well as
a cooper and shoemaker. Her girlhood days were spent in Indiana when it
was a frontier district, and on reaching womanhood she gave her hand in mar-
riage to Mr. Bills. They became the parents of nine children, of whom four
died in infancy. Marion, who died at the age of thirty-one years, had married
Helen Menzes and they were the parents of four children. Lillian Ann, became
the wife of George V. James, of Portland, and had four children : Jessie, Helen,
George, and Marion. Mary E., is the wife of Morton Spaulding, of Portland,
and they have two children : Morton R. and Lethie. Eliza is the wife of Fred
A. Young and they have four children: Maynard, Byron, George and Edna.
George, the youngest of the surviving members of the family, is still a resident
of Portland.
Mrs. Bills is a member of the Oregon Pioneer Society and the Methodist
church. She has lived at her present home at the corner of Sixteenth street
North and Flanders street since 1881, and has spent the greater part of her
life in this city. For about three years she has been confined to her bed but
bears her sufiferings uncomplainingly. She is generally known as Grandma
Bills and has a wide acquaintance in this city. A fact worthy of perpetuation
m Portland's history is that she made, in 1862, with her own hands, the first
American flag that ever floated over this city. In recognition of this there was
written a little poem called "A Garland of Laurel" which is herewith attached •
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"Stitch by stitch she made the flag
Of snowy white and crimson hue;
Stitch by stitch she sewed the stars
On their little field of blue.
Then unfurled the glorious banner
Over Portland's beauteous hills —
Held by young arms, strong and rugged ;
Maid, whose heart with rapture thrills.
Now she's old and gray and wrinkled,
And her eyes o'erflow with tears
When she thinks of all the old friends —
Portland's women pioneers —
Once again she's giving welcome,
To newcomers from the east ;
Once again the cabin's crowded
As they gather to the feast !
Dreams, all dreams ! She sits alone
In her home, silent and cold.
While before her darkening vision
She sees once more the friends of old.
Shall we close her eyes unhonored?
Slip unnoticed to her grave ?
Why not raise a fit memorial
To a woman true and brave ?
She has loved and watched and tended
Portland's growth since infancy;
Now her eyes with age are shaded
We owe her laurel crown today.
Wreath of grape and fern and cedar
For the maiden young and fair
Fashioning the bravest banner
E'er unfurled upon the air.
Wreaths of love and peace and gladness
Make old hearts to know youth's thrills,
Loving still with old love's sadness
Portland's sunlit beauteous hills.
GUY E. HOLMAN.
Some men are born with a faculty for business. Among the predominating
traits which they possess are ambition, energy, good judgment and clear fore-
sight and when these elements of character act in harmony we have the success-
ful business man, whose possibilities are limited only by the field in which he
operates. Portland has attracted from other regions of the country many young
men of promise in the business world, who are adding to the reputation and
wealth of the city and at the same time are prospering themselves ; but there are
young men in responsible positions here who are to the manner bom — men who
have all the push and energy requisite in a successful business career and also
possess the other elements that contribute so much to the financial result.
Among such young men may be named Guy E. Holman, who has for five years
past been engaged in the automobile business.
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Mr. Holman was born February 12, 1877, and is a son of Edward Holman,
who is an undertaker and one of the early settlers of Portland. He was reared
in this city and educated in the public schools, where he evinced a taste for
literature and study, which found further expression in the pursuit of higher
branches at the University of Oregon. He became greatly interested in the auto-
mobile, and in 1904 entered the business, starting with a garage and as agent
for the Elmore and Ford cars, introducing the latter in Portland. He met with
great encouragement even at the beginning of his career, and was given exclu-
sive agency for the Ford cars in this city in 1905 and 1906. He also introduced
the Maxwell cars here and handled them for one season. In 1908 and 1909 he
acted as salesman for the Pierce Arrow and Cadillac cars, and in the latter year
became manager of the Stearns agency for the White Motor Car Company. He
is now sales manager for the Stoddard-Dayton Automobile Company, his place
of business being No. 86 Tenth street. Mr. Holman possesses the essential
qualities of a successful salesman and has had a practical experience that is of
vastly more benefit than theories. He keeps fully informed as to the latest de-
velopment in the automobile industry, is progressive in his methods and, withal,
is the happy possessor of a pleasing manner that makes and retains friends. An
additional cause for his success is his close application and the careful thought
he has given to all details of a business that has in recent years almost risen to
the dignity of a profession.
On September 20, 1905, Mr. Holman was united in marriage to Miss Aimee
Tingry, of Portland. One son, Edward, has been born to them. Mr. Holman
was one of the first to take up the automobile business in Portland and by his
recognized integrity and ability and through his own efforts, he has attained a
goodly measure of success and has won the confidence and esteem of his asso-
ciates and of the entire business community.
BARTHOLOMEW T. SODEN.
The Soden family, like the great majority of Oregon pioneers, were drawn
to this district by the inducements held out to those who would become perma-
nent settlers, extensive donation claims being granted to all such. The year
1852 witnessed the arrival of B. Soden, Sr., and his family in this country. His
wife bore the maiden name of Annie Goodall, and both were natives of Ireland.
Prior to coming to the United States the father had been engaged in teaching
school in the Sandwich islands, and from that point made his way to California,
spending a short time in the gold mines of that state. In 1853 he made his way
northward to Oregon and took up a donation claim near Aurora but resided
thereon for only a brief period, when he sold that property and bought a claim
in Polk county, Oregon, upon which he spent his remaining days, devoting his
time and energies to the development of a good farm. His death occurred in
1863, while his wife passed away about a year previous.
Bartholomew T. Soden, who was born in Tasmania, August 19, 1849, was
but a small boy when his parents came to Oregon. His youth was largely passed
upon the Polk county farm, and he experienced the hardships and privations
which boys of that early day in the northwest were forced to undergo. He re-
members well the Indians who would visit the family home nearly every day
and also that deer and other wild game was very plentiful at that time. There
were few or no fences, upon the farms and great stretches of rich land were
still unclaimed. Neighbors then lived miles apart and there were no railroad
facilities, all shipments being made by water or pack trains.
Mr. Soden was only thirteen or fourteen years of age when his parents died,
and for several years thereafter he made his home with his sister, Mrs. Sarah
Hovenden, who was then living in Marion county, but is now a resident of Port-
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land. He attended the district schools in his youthful days and afterward
engaged in teaching for one term in a country school in a district that is now in-
cluded within the boundaries of East Portland. He later entered Corvallis Col-
lege, from which he was graduated with the class of 1879, and subsequently he
resumed teaching, being thus connected with the country schools of Marion
county, Oregon, for several terms. He taught in all for about five years, and in
1882 he went to Oregon City, where he purchased an interest in what was then
known as the old brick flour mill, which has long since passed out of existence
but is well remembered by the older residents of Oregon City. He remained
there for a little more than two years, acting as bookkeeper and office manager
of the f^our mill, while in 1885 he established himself in business in Portland.
He is today one of the best known business men on the east side, dealing in hay,
feed, fiour, lime, cement, plaster and coal at No. 374 North Union avenue, at
the corner of Schuyler street. He has been engaged in the feed business in
Portland since 1885, starting in that line on East First street, between Stark and
Oak streets. Later he built for his business a large warehouse near the same
location and there continued until 1903, when he removed to No. 242 Russell
street. For several years prior to 1903 he conducted business on both Russell
street and East First street, having a warehouse in both locations, but in 1903
he concentrated his entire business in Russell street. In 1907 he erected his
present large warehouse, which covers nearly a quarter of a block, and removed
the business to its present location. He is accorded an extensive patronage, and
has a trade which makes him one of the leading business men of the east side.
Mr. Soden was married in Portland to Miss Cora Wells, a daughter of George
H. and Phoebe (Dresser) Wells, both of whom are living in East Portland.
Her mother was born in Canada and from there removed to Beloit, Wisconsin,
where she was married. Later Mr. and Mrs. Wells lived in Iowa, where Mrs.
Soden was born, and for a time made their home in California, coming to Port-
land in 1879. Mrs. Soden was educated in the public schools of this city, and
the Pacific University, and subsequently taught in the public schools here for
four years. She is well known in musical circles through her connection with
the Hassalo Congregational church choir and is acting as chairman of the music
committee, both she and her husband being prominently identified with the work
of the church. To them have been born five children, as follows : Lester Wells,
a student of Portland Academy ; Mildred Helen and Frances, both attending high
school ; Willard Randolph, who at the age of thirteen years, is yet a pupil of the
grammar school ; and Raymond Bart, who died in early childhood.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Soden is a Mason and is in thorough sympathy
with the beneficent purposes and principles of the craft. His interests, how-
ever, center in his business, to which he has devoted his energies for a quarter
of a century, during which period he has enjoyed an unassailable reputation for
commercial integrity as well as enterprise.
JAMES G. GAULD.
No man occupies a more enviable position in business circles in Portland than
James G. Gauld, who, through many years of close and active connection with
business interests, has proven at all times trustworthy and progressive, his in-
itiative spirit formulating plans which have proven resultant in maintaining a
substantial position for the interests with which he has been associated and which
have constituted factors in Portland's splendid business record.
He was born at Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, April 10, 1856, and
acquired his education in the schools of that country and at the University of
London. He began his business career with the Aberdeen Town & County Bank
at Old Meldrum, going from there to the London & San Francisco Bank, Limited,
JAMES G. GAULD
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London, one of the mediums of exchange which connected the financial inter-
ests on the Pacific coast and the old world. Mr. Gauld was with the London
& San Francisco Bank, Limited, for twenty-eight years. He remained in the
world's metropolis until sent by the bank to San Francisco in the latter part of
1875.
In 1890 he came to Portland and continued in the banking business until 1900,
when he went to Tacoma as manager of the London & San Francisco Bank,
Limited, at that place, later organizing a branch at Seattle, and he stayed with
that institution until ill health compelled him to resign. For four years he was
confined to his home in Portland, being obliged to discontinue active connection
with business interests. On February 5, 1906, The Gauld Company, dealers in
machinery, mill, plumbing and steam supplies was incorporated by Mr. Gauld
and his brother.
It was in the year 1885 that Mr. Gauld was united in marriage to Miss Alice
D. Van Winkle, of San Francisco, a daughter of I. S. Van Winkle, one of the
pioneers of California. They have one daughter, Isabella, who is a graduate of
Smith College. Mr. Gauld's home, one of the most beautiful residences of the
city, is at the head of King street. He and his family are members of the First
Presbyterian church of Portland and he belongs to Pacific Lodge, No. 136, A.
F. & A. M., of San Francisco.
In politics he is independent, voting as his judgment dictates, with a view to
promoting the best interests of the community at large. He has ever based his
activity in business aflFairs upon strict integrity and close application, and his
success represents the wise use of his time and talents combined with a ready
recognition of opportunity.
JOHN HALL.
John Hall, a farmer living at Myrtle Creek, Oregon, came to this state during
the pioneer epoch in its history. He was born upon a farm in Champaign county,
Ohio, October 3, 1837, a son of Thomas R. Hall, who was likewise born in the
Buckeye state and was a representative of one of its early families. John Hall
came to the Pacific coast when nineteen years of age, crossing the plains after
the slow, tedious and toilsome manner of travel in those days. He first made his
way to California, where he engaged in mining, and later came north to Oregon.
He found himself here among strangers, and the necessity of the case demanded
that he gain immediate employment. He located in Cow Creek valley and turned
his attention to mining. About 1861 he went to Idaho, where he also followed
mining, but afterward returned to Oregon and settled on Myrtle creek, turning
his attention to farming, which he has followed to the present time. His has
been a life of industry and well directed thrift, and whatever success he has
enjoyed has come to him as the direct result and sequence of his own labors.
On the 3d of October, 1862, John Hall was united in marriage to Miss Su-
sannah Weaver, a daughter of Hans Weaver, who came to this state in 1853
from Washington county, Illinois, where his daughter, Mrs. Hall, was born.
Unto this marriage there were born seven children: William T. ; James R., who
is living in the vicinity of Myrtle Creek ; Harriett Ann, who married Charles W.
Davis, of Salem ; Emma M., the wife of Charles D. Buick, of Silver Lake, Ore-
gon; Florence D., the wife of Dr. A. C. Seeley of Roseburg; John, living at
Silverton, Oregon; and Grace Pearl, the wife of Elmer E. Lutz, of Silver Lake,
Oregon. The wife and mother died April 10, 1895, at the age of fifty-three
years, and her death was deeply regretted by many friends who held her in high
esteem because of her good qualities. The father was again married September
30, 1896, his second wife being Mrs. Florence D. Hall.
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John Hall has filled several local offices, including that of county commis-
sioner, to which he was elected in 1884, and was reelected in 1886, as a candi-
date on the democratic ticket. He has ever been a stalwart supporter of the
democratic party, believing that its principles are most conducive to good gov-
ernment. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is the only
living charter member of Myrtle Lodge No. 38, which was organized by six
men. He came to Oregon in 1857, a year which brought many of the sterling
pioneers to the northwest and through the intervening period of fifty-three years
he has remained a resident of this section of the country, an interested witness
of its growth and progress, and in as far as possible an active participant in its
development.
WILLIAM T. HALL.
William T. Hall, a son of John Hall mentioned above, was born at Myrtle
Creek, Oregon, January 11, 1864, and pursued his education in the district
schools there, later attending the San Francisco Business College. He was
reared on his father's farm and after completing his education he continued to
work upon the farrn and also in a store at Myrtle Creek owned by the firm of
Marks, Wollenburg & Company. Subsequently he went to Lake county, where
he engaged in harvesting, and it was after this that he pursued his course in the
San Francisco Business College. He then took up farming in connection with
his father and so continued until 1891. In his early life he worked for Solomon
Abraham, a pioneer merchant of Roseburg, who afterward lived in the state of
Washington for about fifteen years. Recently, however, he returned to Port-
land. In April, 1891, Mr. Hall was appointed mail clerk, which position he is
now filling, his run being on the North Bank road between Portland and Spo-
kane.
Mr. Hall was married January 11, 1899, at Spokane, Washington, to Miss
Christina Jeanette Mcintosh, who was born at Owen Sound, Ontario, August i,
1871, and is a daughter of William and Catherine (Cameron) Mcintosh, who
were of Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have one child, Myrtle J., born in
Spokane.
Mr. Hall is a member of the Odd Fellows society, has passed all of the chairs
in the subordinate lodge and was a delegate to the Grand Lodge in Portland in
1891. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. His political
support is given to the democratic party, and when he was twenty-one years of
age he served as justice of the peace and married a couple. A life-long resident
of the northwest, he is largely acquainted with its history and is a worthy rep-
resentative of one of the well known pioneer families.
w. G. Mcpherson.
Nineteen years of age W. G. McPherson established himself in the heating
and ventilating business in Portland. During the time that has since elapsed, his
business has continued and flourished, and the W. G. McPherson Company is
recognized today as one of the permanent institutions of the city, whose affairs
have been conducted in such a way as to gain the confidence of the public and
to merit the standing it has attained.
Mr. McPherson is a native of Woodstock, Canada, born August 5, 1861.
He is a son of John and Margery (Brown) McPherson, both of Scottish descent.
His parents removing to Nebraska when he was quite young, the subject of this
review received his education in the public schools of that state. After laying
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aside his school books he began working for himself and as a heating and venti-
lating engineer continued for a number of years, or until 1891, when he located
in Portland. By strict attention to business and by fair dealing and energetic
management, Mr. McPherson has built up a reputation for his firm that places
it in the same class as the most favored business enterprises of the city. Con-
sistent and conservative in his affairs, he is known as a safe adviser and a man
who seldom undertakes anything unless he has carefully counted the cost.
On the 26th of October, 1882, at Schuyler, Nebraska, Mr. McPherson was
united in marriage to Miss Marie Blakefield. Three children have blessed this
union: Charles J., now of Portland, who is secretary of the W. G. McPherson
Company and is married to Frances Bingham ; Robert G., of Portland, being
treasurer of the W. G. McPherson Company; and Frederick J., who married
Ola Nichols and lives in Portland, being manager of the steam department of
the W. G. McPherson Company.
In politics Mr. McPherson is a democrat, and although his attention has been
devoted to business rather than to political affairs, his abilities have been recog-
nized by officials of the city, and he has served as a member of Mayor Lane's
executive board from 1905 to 1909. He is identified with the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Masonic order, having
attained the thirty-second degree in the latter organization. He also belongs to
the Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial and Arlington Clubs, and as a recrea-
tion he devotes his attention to shooting. His home address is No. 1069 Thur-
man avenue.
For twenty years Mr. McPherson has been a resident of this city, and no
one has watched with greater interest the progress that has taken place not only
in Portland, but in all the Pacific coast region. In this progress he has performed
his part, for any man who conducts an honorable business assists in the perma-
nent welfare of the community, and it is through the operations of a great num-
ber of such men that a city is built. Mr. McPherson came to the land of the
stars and stripes as a boy and grew up under its friendly protection. It being
his adopted country, the United States of America has today no more patriotic
citizen. By contributing the sturdy characteristics inherited from a line of
worthy ancestry of the old country, he has assisted in the amalgamation now
going on in the republic, by which according to many profound thinkers, a race
will be produced the greatest the world has ever known.
EPHRAIM GILL.
Ephraim Gill, a prosperous farmer of Multnomah county and also of Wasco
county, this state, who came to Oregon thirty-two years ago and made no mis-
take in establishing himself in this favored region, is a native of Perkinsville,
Indiana, born January 6, 1843. ^^ ^^s reared upon a farm and educated in
the district schools and continued to live in Indiana until 1878, when he decided
to take up his permanent residence in this state. He came direct to Portland
and first located on a ranch near Sunnyside, which he rented for four years
while he looked about for a permanent abode, living in the meantime on the site
now occupied by the Old People's Home. Finally he purchased a farm six miles
from the courthouse of Multnomah county and just outside the city limits on
Barr Road. Here he erected an attractive home and commodious farm build-
ings and successfully conducted farming operations until 1901, when he removed
to Dufur, Wasco county, on a promising ranch which he had in the meantime
purchased. He still retains seventy-four acres of the original holding on Barr
Road which is now in charge of members of the family. While living there he
was for twelve years director of Russellville school and contributed as oppor-
tunity presented toward the advancement of the community.
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In Indiana Mr. Gill was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Peck and seven
children blessed the union : Frank M., who married Eva Dale, by whom he has
two daughters, the family now residing at Dufur; James, who is now a member
of the police force of the city of Portland and who married Miss Carin Peter-
son ; Edward and Raymond, both unmarried and living upon the old home place,
where they raise seed quite extensively under the firm name of Gill Brothers
and also are interested in truck gardening; Charles, who married Miss Hattie
Markham and lives at Dufur; George, now living at Dufur; and Flora, now
Mrs. William Faust of Dufur.
Raymond Gill has acquired quite a reputation among the farmers and is
president of the Grange Fair Association. This district includes Multnomah
and Clackamas counties and the association is one of the important organiza-
tions of this portion of the state and holds yearly fairs at Gresham. Mr. Gill
is also overseer of Multnomah County Grange and a member of the United
Artisans and Homesteaders. He is a prominent worker in fraternal circles and
has been master artisan several terms. He is serving as a representative to the
state legislature, being elected on the republican ticket.
Ephraim Gill in the various relations as head of the family, agriculturist and
citizen has gained the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and the community
with which he was for so many years identified. As he approaches the patri-
archal age or three score and ten he is taking his ease and enjoying the fruits
of a life of industry and devotion not only to the interests of his family but
to the upbuilding of the city and state. It is men of this sterling character
who are the foundation of all well regulated society and it has been the leading
aim of the subject of this review to so train his children that they may con-
tribute their share to the general fund that in the end is synonymous with
everything that is pleasing to the ear and eye and comforting to the heart and
may be expressed by the simple words, peace, honor and prosperity.
ROBERT DAVIS WISWALL, M. D.
Dr. Robert Davis Wiswall, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery
in Vancouver, was born in Ballston Spa, New York, October 12, 1870, his par-
ents being Henry and Mary (MacMullen) Wiswall. In his boyhood days his
parents removed to Marshalltown, Iowa, and he was there reared and educated,
pursuing his studies in the public schools of Marshall county and in the high
school of Marshalltown. He also continued his education for a time at Mount
Vernon, Iowa. On attaining his majority, in 1891, he came to the west, making
his way to Vancouver in 1892.
His father also coming to this section of the country, the family have since
figured in the development not only of Vancouver but the' surrounding districts
and his father still lives upon a ranch near the city. His mother, however,
passed away in 1882. His brother, Elmer A. Wiswall, was circuit judge of this
district for one term, being elected to the office in 1894.
After coming to Vancouver Dr. Wiswall remained for two years, when,
realizing the value of a superior education as a factor in business life and deter-
mining upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he entered the medical
department of the University of Oregon at Portland, there pursuing a three
years' medical course, which was completed by graduation in the class of 1897.
Thus qualified for practice he located at La Camas, where he remained for five
years. He then removed to Pendleton, Oregon, where he followed his pro-
fession for one year, after which he opened an office in Vancouver and has
since engaged in the general practice of medicine. He is thoroughly acquainted
M/ith the scientific basis upon which his work rests and is correct in the applica-
tion of his knowledge to the immediate needs of his patients. Moreover, he is
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very careful in the diagnosis of a case and his labors on the whole have been
attended with a gratifying measure of success when viewed from both a pro-
fessional and financial standpoint. He also displays good business ability in other
directions, is the owner of a ranch and is interested in horticulture. He is like-
wise one of the directors and a stockholder of the United States National Bank
of Vancouver.
On the loth of May, 1900, Dr. Wiswall was married to Miss Laura A. West,
of La Camas, Washington, a daughter of Charles T. West, of that place, and
they have one son, Henry. In his fraternal relations Dr. Wiswall is connected
with the Masons, the Elks and the Odd Fellows in their local organizations at
Vancouver and is also a member of the Commercial Club of the city. He is a
young man of enterprising spirit, of commendable ambition and of unfaltering
enterprise and in his practice displays a sense of conscientious obligation which
has made his work entirely satisfactory.
THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS BUSINESS COLLEGE.
The Christian Brothers Business College of Portland has become one of the
strong, growing and successful educational institutions of the northwest. It
was dedicated by Archbishop Christie on the 29th of November, 1908. It is
the successor of the Blanchet Institute, also conducted by the Christian Brothers,
who have been in Portland since accepting the invitation of the late Archbishop
Gross early in 1886, at which time they took charge of what was then known as
St. Michael's College, a pioneers institution in which many men, now prominent
in the life of the northwest, were educated. St. Michael's was founded by Father
Fierens, and was opened August 21, 1871, the Rev. A. Glorieux, now bishop of
Boise, Idaho, being first president. The school was conducted by the priests of
the diocese until the close of the year 1885, when the Christian Brothers took
charge. The first Brothers were three in number. Brother Aldrick, the prin-
cipal, and Brothers Bertram and Michael. The principal was in poor health
when he took charge. In the world he was Matthew McElroy, a native of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania. In his youth his parents removed to California, and at
the age of fourteen he entered the San Francisco Institute, conducted by the
Christian Brothers. Following his graduation, he was employed in St. Mary's
College in San Francisco, and afterward in St. Joseph's Academy at Oakland,
and from Sacred Heart College of San Francisco he came to St. Michael's. He
was a cultured gentleman and was eminently fitted mentally to be a teacher.
For five years before coming to Portland he had been suffering with lung
trouble, and three months after his arrival he passed away March 31, 1886.
Brother Bertram next took charge and after two years was succeeded by Brother
Michael, who was appointed president in 1888. He was an energetic and zealous
teacher and remained president until 1892, when he was appointed president of
St. Mary's College at Oakland, California. He was followed by Brother Lac-
tain, who a year later was succeeded by Brother Lucius, who acted as director
until September, 1898, and was followed by Brother George, who successfully
managed the afifairs of the school for eight years. He was replaced by Brother
Zenonian, who remained in charge for one year, and in August, 1907, came
Brother V. Andrew, who is now in charge.
During the presidency of Brother Lucius the name St, Michael's College was
dropped and the location moved to Fifteenth and Davis streets, at the beginning
of the school year in August, 1895. At that location the institution was known
as St. Mary's parochial school but at the suggestion of Archbishop Christie the
Brothers returned to their old location in 1899 ^"*^ the school was called Blanchet
Institute in honor of the first archbishop of Oregon. Under the administration
Brother George the scope of the institution was broadened and it enjoyed a
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vigorous growth. Under the administration of Brother Andrew, the present
fine college building, a three-story structure with basement, has been erected,
and the Christian Brothers Business College has become one of the strongest
educational centers of the northwest. Following its dedication, the building was
opened for classes the first week of December. The block of ground on Grand
avenue and Clackamas on which the new building stands, was purchased in 1907
and the plans for the new college made late in that year. It was principally
through the liberal donations of the Portland people, Catholic and non-Catholic,
that the site was purchased and the building erected. The Brothers had no
money. Brother Andrew was a stranger in a strange land. Armed with the
authority of His Grace Most Rev. Alexander Christie, and with firm confidence
in God, Brother Andrew began the task. "For God and the boys of Portland"
was his request when asking for donations. That God has blessed the undertak-
ing, and that Brother Andrew has labored well, the present institution testifies.
Others will still help to wipe out the indebtedness by founding scholarships and
by donations. The main building is remarkably suited for its purpose, and has
been equipped with a view to its thorough utility. For almost a quarter of a
century the school has been under the guidance of the Christian Brothers, an
order founded by St. John Baptist de la Salle, who was born in Rheims in 1651
and died at Rouen in 17 19. The purpose of the order was the promotion of
Christian education and with great love for the work he was very successful.
The Brothers came to America in 1837, settling in Canada, and a few years later
arrived in the United States. The Portland school is conducted along modern
lines, giving a thorough training in that which qualifies young men and women
for entrance to the business world as well as in Christian education. Under the
leadership of Brother Andrew the scope of the work is being extended, and there
is now a large enrollment of earnest students who are making excellent prog-
ress.
The school opened November 29, 1908, with seventy boys in attendance; the
enrollment for 1909-10 was two hundred and thirty-four, and in 1910-11 it will
probably amount to two hundred and seventy. The present faculty is composed
of Brother V. Andrew, F. S. C, president; Brother George, F. S. C, vice presi-
dent; and Brothers Luke, Fabian, Gabriel, Adrian, Bernard, Aldrick and Ana-
nias, while in the music department Professor Frank G. Eichenlaub is instructor
in violin and George F. Wilson instructor in piano. In addition to the Christian
Brothers Business College, the Christian Brothers also have charge of the St.
James parochial school at Vancouver, Washington, where Brothers Aldrick and
Ananias teach, going back and forth each day from the Portland school.
RICHARD GOODMAN.
Among the pioneers of the Pacific coast whose memory is revered by those
now living who knew him and whose qualities of courage and perseverance have
been inherited by younger generations of the family, may be named Richard
Goodman. A native of Ohio, he was born October 18, 1806, more than a cen-
tury ago, when the great west was dimly known only to the aborigines and the
fur traders and hunters, and when civilization, as it had been developed in
America, was limited to the region east of the Alleghanies. The vast area now
comprising two-thirds of the United States was awaiting the company of the
pioneer with his ox, ax and plow, and right nobly did he acquit himself after
once appearing on the scene. Many of the early pioneers were uneducated men,
but Richard Goodman had advantages in his boyhood of training in the rudi-
mentary branches of the schools. He grew up in Ohio and was there married
to Sarah Conner, the couple removing to Missouri, then on the frontier, and
locating in Cooper county, where they took up land.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 629
In 1843, when Mr. Goodman was thirty-seven years of age, he yielded to an
irresistible impulse calling for new scenes and for opportunities that did not
seem possible in a country that was beginning, according to the mind of the
pioneer, to be too thickly settled. He joined a band of hardy adventurers and
started for the northwest coast. The family had been increased by three new
arrivals, and Mr. Goodman was now at the head of a family consisting of a wife"
and six children, all of whom accompanied him on the trip over the trail. The
Indians had not yet become so troublesome as in later years, but many difficulties
of deserts, mountains and bridgeless streams presented themselves. Herds of
buffalo were frequently met with and the hunters of the party then took advan-
tage of the opportunity to lay in a supply of meat for future use. A sad event
of the journey was the death of one of the members of the family. After six
months of toil Oregon City, in the valley of the Willamette was reached and
here the family remained for a year, while Mr. Goodman arranged for a perma-
nent home. Oregon territory had not yet been organized, and the few settlers
who had the courage to seek fortune at the end of a journey of two thousand
miles were located along the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Mr. Goodman
took up a claim in the Waldo hills and moved his family to the spot, where a
log house was erected and the daily duties of life were resumed under the most
primitive conditions. A large fireplace occupied nearly an entire end of the
cabin and the furniture was such as could be readily made with the ordinary
implements of the settler. After a few years the gold excitement of California
attracted many of the farmers of the northern region, and among those who
sought fortune in the mines was Mr. Goodman. There he was taken with a
fatal illness in 1849, from which he died.
Mrs. Goodman was a woman of great fortitude and she bravely took up the
responsibility which was now thrown upon her shoulders. She moved with her
children to the coast. During the troublous times of the Rogue River Indian
war, the family was compelled to leave their home and take refuge in one of
the frontier posts. This was in the winter of 1855-1856. Mrs. Goodman be-
came the wife of a Mr. Dodge and for a time lived in California but returned to
Oregon, where she departed this life at an advanced age. She was the mother
of ten children, nine of whom were by her first husband : Martha, now deceased ;
Fred Taylor; Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Francis Moffett, also deceased; Re-
becca, a sketch of whom appears below ; John, who died during the trip with his
parents over the plains ; Mary J., the wife of Clifton Thrift of California ; Wil-
liam J., deceased ; Peter G., of California ; Sarah Ann, the wife of Green Fer-
rin of Marshfield, Oregon ; and Richard, who was the son of her second husband
and has now passed away.
Rebecca, the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Goodman, was born in Missouri
and crossed the plains when about six years of age. She has lived in Oregoa
ever since 1843, with the exception of a short stay in California, and has been
a witness of the great changes in the northwest by which a wilderness has been
transformed into one of the most productive and prosperous regions of America.
She was educated in the schools of Salem, Oregon, and on May 10, 1855, was
united in marriage to Jasper N. Hall, a promising young pioneer and one of the
worthy men who manfully assisted in preparing the way for thousands who have
since arrived. He was a native of Missouri, born May 30, 1833, and is now de-
ceased. Three sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hall : Samuel J. and Walter W.,
both of Portland; and William J., who died at the age of five years. On the
6th of November, 1864, Mrs. Hall was married to Daniel J. Grififiths, a native
of Zanesville, Ohio, who was born February 24, 1826, and departed this life
at Marshfield, Oregon, February 25, 1892, at the age of sixty-six years. He
was a blacksmith and machinist and an industrious citizen who always tried to
perform his duty not only as to his family, but in all the relations of life. Three
•"hildren were born of this union : Annie B., deceased ; Charles J., now living in
Portland ; and Minnie H., who became Mrs. James Fanning and is now deceased.
630 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
Mrs. Griffiths is a worthy descendant of worthy ancestry, and is one of the re-
markable pioneer women of Oregon. She is a member of the pioneer society
and is also affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. She has passed
through many vicissitudes but, true to the principles that upheld the noble men
and women of the early days, she has never yielded to discouragement, and in
all the duties of daughter, wife and mother has heroically performed her part.
HENRY WASHBURN GODDARD.
Henry Washburn Goddard, who is identified with the real-estate interests of
Portland and for many years was officially connected with the railroad busi-
ness, was born at Monroe, Wisconsin, August 12, 1856. He was educated
in the public schools of his native town, at Lawrence University, of Appleton,
Wisconsin, and also took a law course at the University of Oregon, graduating
in 1896. His first business experience was in his father's store in Monroe, where
he continued for several years, at the end of which time he entered the railroad
service as clerk and finally station agent and telegraph operator at Mears,
vMichigan.
Later Mr. Goddard decided to seek wider fields and came to San Francisco
in March, 1879, arriving in Portland a month later, where he has since resided,
with the exception of from 1881 to 1886 spent in the Willamette valley. On first
reaching Portland he was in the employ of J. L Case & Company for a few
months, then he re-entered the railroad business as a telegraph operator of the
Oregon Steam Navigation Company at the Lower Cascades.
On January i, 1881, he went to Dayton, Oregon, as station agent for the
Oregonian Railway Company, Limited, becoming auditor and superintendent
of the road, continuing until it was absorbed by the Southern Pacific in 1890.
For six years, up to 1896, he was connected with the general foreign department
of the Southern Pacific Company and at the end of this time was made assist-
ant general agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad for the Pacific
northwest territory continuing until 1906, when he retired from the railroad
business to accept the presidency of the Oregon Auto-Despatch, a transfer
company which he organized and managed for several years. This was the
first company or individual on the Pacific coast to use a self-propelled vehicle
in a commercial way. Since 1907 he has been actively engaged in the real-
estate business and in 1909 became a member of the firm of Goddard & Wiedrick,
who are engaged in handling properties mostly belonging to the firm.
Mr. Goddard is a stanch advocate of the principles of the republican party
and served for three years, from 1902 to 1905, as a member of Mayor Will-
iam's executive board under appointment of the mayor. His ability in the tran-
saction of public afifairs was also recognized by his appointment July 6, 1910,
as a member of the board of county commissioners of Multnomah county, as
' successor to Commissioner Barnes, who resigned at that time.
During Mr. Goddard's service on the board of county commissioners, he
solved the transportation question over the drawbridges in this city, by taking
the position that the county had the right to regulate the opening and closing
of the drawbridges and that the navigation interests must give way at certain
periods to the foot and vehicle travel over the bridges, although the secretary
of war, who assumed to control the bridges, had refused to grant any relief,
even though besieged with monster petitions. Mr. Goddard and County Judge
Cleeton as the county court instructed the bridge tenders to refuse to allow
boats to pass through the bridges at certain specified times when the over-
head travel was at its maximum, and although the local federal officials threat-
ened prosecution with a dire punishment of fine and imprisonment, the county
court was firm and the war department conceded the point after one day's delay.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 631
This established a precedent which will be of great value to the commercial
interests of the city. Mr. Goddard has been connected for years with the Ma-
sonic order and is a member and treasurer of Hawthorne Lodge, No. iii, A. F.
& A. M., and also a member of Washington Chapter, No. i8, R. A. M.
In 1880 Mr. Goddard was united in marriage with Miss Mary Travers,
of Portland. Three children were born of the union, a son and daughter dying
in infancy, and Mrs. Horace Burnett Fenton of Portland. Mr. Goddard is a
direct descendant on his mather's side of Gilbert Allen, who served in the war
of the Revolution, having been a member of the New Jersey Militia.
Through many years of active experience as a railroad man Mr. Goddard
made an extensive acquaintance and gained a practical knowledge of the Pacific
coast and its resources. Being a man of wide observation, good judgment,
liberal education and pleasing manner, he has found a congenial field in as-
sisting in the development of his adopted state and has many friends who wish
him unlimited success in the vocation to which he is by nature and experience
thoroughly adapted.
CHARLES O. BARNES.
There is a mystery in death when it calls from a field of usefulness one who
has just reached the prime of life and who apparently has before him many years
of continued development and added usefulness. This mystery still enshrouds
the career of Charles O. Barnes, a man of great energy and business ability,
who was called from scenes of earth twenty-five years ago, at the age of forty-
eight. In business judgment few men in Oregon have surpassed him and had
he been spared twenty years longer he would probably have been known as one
of the wealthiest men of the northern Pacific coast.
Charles O. Barnes was born in New York state, August 9, 1836, and at an
early age he was left an orphan. He was given but little school advantage and
as he grew up assisted on the home farm. In 1853, at the age of seventeen, he
joined a party of emigrants from the eastern states and made the trip across
the plains, driving an ox team. The trials and dangers incident upon a jour-
ney of six months through a strange country made a profound impression on
the mind of the New York boy and no doubt had an important effect in shaping
his future career. Although without parental restraint and guidance, he learned
the importance of decision and self-reliance, and these elements were early
brought into play. He sowed no wild oats. By working as a farm laborer and
in mines of southern Oregon and California, he saved money to buy a farm of
one hundred and sixty acres in the Willamette valley. By additional purchases
from time to time he increased the area of the farm until it covered about four
hundred acres and was made into one of the best producing farms in the valley.
Seeing the demand for fine horses in the California market and having special
ability in the selection and sale of all classes of live stock, Mr. Barnes rented
his farm, moved to Albany, Oregon, and for a year delivered horses by land to
San Francisco. Returning to Albany, he engaged also in stock-raising and kept
agents in the field in different parts of the state, buying and selling live stock
on an extensive scale. He was especially interested in blooded stock and no
man on the coast could more quickly detect the fine points of an animal than
he. His business grew to large proportions and he made a fortune and a rep-
utation which was not confined to the state of Oregon. For a number of
years he was actively connected with public movements but was never a can-
didate for office. His sympathies were with the republican party, but he was
essentially a business man who found his greatest happiness on the growing
farm, in the cattle or horse herd, or in the busy mart where tens or hundreds
of thousands of dollars change hands in an hour and the man of keen apprehen-
632 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
sion and quick resolve wins over all competitors. Mr. Barnes departed this life
December 9, 1885. His body was deposited by loving hands in its last resting
place in the cemetery at Albany, but the remembrance of his many manly quali-
ties continues without abatement in the minds of those with whom he was
associated.
The maiden name of the wife of Mr. Barnes was Martha Peterson, and the
marriage took place at Peterson Butte, Oregon, on the 24th of December, 1862.
She was a native of West Virginia, born June 30, 1836, and was the seventh
child of the ten children of Henry J. and Eliza (Allen) Peterson, the former a
native of Virginia and the latter of Massachusetts. The patriot, Ethan Allen,
who demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga "In the name of God and the
Continental Congress" was one of the progenitors of the family on the maternal
side. The Peterson family came west about 1845, the party losing its way in
attempting to travel by the ill-fated Meek's cut-olf and having a great deal of
trouble with the Indians. To add to the distress of the painful journey of many
months one of the young sons of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson died and his grave was
made by the side of the trail. In 1848 Mr. Peterson took up a claim at Peter-
son Butte, where he built a home and where he and his wife died in 1861. He
Vv'as a prominent man in the early days, as is shown by the fact of his serving
as a member of the first territorial legislature which convened at Oregon City.
Mrs. Charles O. Barnes moved from Albany to Portland early in 1907 and
here she was called to rest on April 21st, of that year. Her body reposes by the
side of her husband at Albany. She was the mother of three children : Mary
E., now deceased ; Loella, the wife of Eugene La Forest, of Portland, to whom
she was married at Albany, December 22, 1886; and Velma C, who passed
away in early childhood. Mr. La Forest, the husband of the second daughter,
is a native of Oregon City, where he was born June 9, 1863, his parents being
Eugene and Mary La Forest. The former was born near Paris, France, and
came to the Pacific coast in the French ship called the Morning Star, which
was wrecked ofif the northwest coast. He was a successful merchant, a mem-
ber of the Roman Catholic church and a Mason. He died in 1874. His widow,
who is a native of Baden-Baden, Germany, is still living at the age of about
eighty years. Eugene La Forest, son of Eugene and Mary La Forest, was
educated at Oregon City and has been a railroad man ever since the beginning
of his business career. He first entered the telegraph department and has risen
through various grades and is now a popular conductor on the Southern Pacific
Railroad. Plis home has been in Portland since 1907. Mr. La Forest is promi-
nently identified with the Masonic order and is a member of the blue lodge,
chapter, commandery and shrine.
Mrs. Charles O. Barnes was a woman of highly estimable character. She
was a general favorite among young people and her reminiscences of pioneer
life and experiences on the trail always attracted attentive listeners. She rep-
resented a type which is rapidly passing away but which made a lasting impress
on the generation now in charge of affairs on the Pacific coast.
THOMAS McARTHUR ANDERSON.
Thomas McArthur Anderson, a retired brigadier general of the United
States army, whose personal qualities make him an honored resident of Port-
land, was born in Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, on the 21st of January, 1836.
He is a son of William Marshall and Eliza (McArthur) Anderson and is of
English and Scotch descent. He completed his more specifically literary course
by graduation from Mount St. Mary's College of Maryland with the class of
1855, and in 1899 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of
LL. D. He is also a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School of 1858 and entered
THOMAS M. ANDERSON
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THE CITY OF PORTLAND
sion and quick resolve wins over all competitors. Mr. Barnes departed this life
December 9, 1885. His body was deposited by loving hands in its last resting
place in the cemetery at Albany, but the remembrance of his many manly quali-
ties continues without abatement in the minds of those with whom he was
associated.
The maiden name of the wife of Mr. Barnes was Martha Peterson, and the
marriage took place at Peterson Butte, Oregon, on the 24th of December, 1862.
She was a native of West Virginia, born June 30, 1836, and was the seventh
child of the ten children of Henry J. and Eliza (Allen) Peterson, the former a
native of Virginia and the latter of Massachusetts. The patriot, Ethan Allen,
who demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga "In the name of God and the
Continental Congress" was one of the progenitors of the family on the maternal
side. The Peterson family came west about 1845, the party losing its way in
attempting to travel by the ill-fated Meek's cut-olT and having a great deal of
trouble with the Indians. To add to the distress of the painful journey of many
months one of the young sons of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson died and his grave was
made by the side of the trail. In 1848 Mr. Peterson took up a claim at Peter-
son Butte, where he built a home and where he and his wife died in 1861. He
was a prominent man in the early days, as is shown by the fact of his serving
as a member of the first territorial legislature which convened at Oregon City.
Mrs. Charles O. Barnes moved from Albany to Portland early in 1907 and
here she was called to rest on April 21st, of that year. Her body reposes by the
side of her husband at Albany. She was the mother of three children : Mary
E., now deceased ; Loella, the wife of Eugene La Forest, of Portland, to whom
she was married at Albany, December 22, 1886; and Velma C, who passed
away in early childhood. Mr. La Forest, the husband of the second daughter,
is a native of Oregon City, where he was born June 9, 1863, his parents being
Eugene and Mary La Forest. The former was born near Paris, France, and
came to the Pacific coast in the French ship called the Morning Star, which
was wrecked ofif the northwest coast. He was a successful merchant, a mem-
ber of the Roman Catholic church and a Mason. He died in 1874. His widow,
who is a native of Baden-Baden, Germany, is still living at the age of about
eighty years. Eugene La Forest, son of Eugene and Mary La Forest, was
educated at Oregon City and has been a railroad man ever since the beginning
of his business career. He first entered the telegraph department and has risen
through various grades and is now a popular conductor on the Southern Pacific
Railroad. His home has been in Portland since 1907. Mr. La Forest is promi-
nently identified with the Masonic order and is a member of the blue lodge,
chapter, commandery and shrine.
Mrs. Charles O. Barnes was a woman of highly estimable character. She
was a general favorite among young people and her reminiscences of pioneer
life and experiences on the trail always attracted attentive listeners. She rep-
resented a type which is rapidly passing away but which made a lasting impress
on the generation now in charge of affairs on the Pacific coast.
THOMAS McARTHUR ANDERSON.
Thomas McArthur Anderson, a retired brigadier general of the United
States army, whose personal qualities make him an honored resident of Port-
land, was born in Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, on the 21st of January, 1836.
He is a son of William Marshall and Eliza (McArthur) Anderson and is of
English and Scotch descent. He completed his more specifically literary course
by graduation from Mount St. Mary's College of Maryland with the class of
1855, and in 1899 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of
LL. D. He is also a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School of 1858 and entered
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the land forces which took Manila Augnst 13, 1898. On the outbreak of the
Filipino insurrection his division south of the Pasig was fiercely attacked on
February 5, 1899. He defeated the Filipinos in battles fought at Santana, Passay
and San Pedro, Nacate, capturing all of their artillery and eight hundred prisoners
and inflicting a loss of three thousand killed and wounded. The most trying
ordeal through which this command had to pass and in which the Second Oregon
had to bear the brunt was the attempt of the insurgents to burn Manila and to
murder all the white residents. When aggressive hostilities were resumed, Gen-
eral Anderson's regiment, to which the Second Oregon, First California, First
Washington and regiments from Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas were
attached, defeated the insurgents at Guadalupe church and Pasig and Pateros.
Having been made a brigadier general in the regular army. General Anderson
was ordered to Chicago to take command of the Department of the Lakes. On
his return in 1900 he was soon afterward made commandant of the Ohio Soldiers
Home and after holding that position for three years resigned to become a citizen
of Portland, Oregon.
On the 8th of February, 1869, at Richmond, Virginia, General Anderson was
married to Miss Elizabeth Van Winkle, a lady of Holland Dutch descent, and to
them were born two sons and four daughters : Arline, now the wife of J. W.
Cairns; Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Gould; Minnie, the deceased wife of R.
H. Allen; Thomas M., now captain of the Seventh United Infantry; Van W.,
of Portland ; and Irmingard, the wife of W. T. Patten.
General and Mrs, Anderson attend the Unitarian church. From time to
time, as favorable opportunity has offered, General Anderson has made invest-
ment in property and is now a landowner in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Washing-
ton, and was also a director of the Commercial Bank of Vancouver, Washington,
in 1893-94. He holds membership in the Union League Club of Philadelphia, the
Arlington Club of Portland and the Columbus Club of Columbus, Ohio, and
upon him have been bestowed the highest Masonic honors— election to the thirty-
third degree of the Scottish Rite. His political platform is found in a strict
construction of the federal constitution and a tariff for revenue only. Reading
between the lines one comes to a knowledge of that ability, intellectual develop-
ment and qualities of leadership which have brought him to the rank of brigadier
general and gained him many friends in those circles where important questions
of the day are intelligently discussed.
EDWARD LOTHROP COLDWELL.
A quarter of a century's connection with the Oregonian as a member of the
reportorial staff brought Edward Lothrop Coldwell a wide acquaintance, and
such warm friendships that his death, which occurred on the 15th of March,
1908, was the occasion of widespread and sincere regret. There is something in
a nickname that indicates good fellowship and kindly spirit, and this was particu-
larly true in the case of Mr. Coldwell, who to all of his legion of friends, was
known as "Jerry."
He was born in Gaspereau, Nova Scotia, July i, 1839, a son of Sherman
and Eliza Coldwell, who were also natives of that country, where the father fol-
lowed the occupation of farming and also engaged in the grocery business. The
family is of English lineage and was founded on American soil by William Cold-
well, who was born in England in 1695 and in 1712 became a resident of Massa-
chusetts. He was there married to Jane Jordon, and in 1758 removed with his
family to Nova Scotia, leaving in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, one son, Ebenezer,
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 637
whose descendants are found there and in other parts of the United States. One
of his descendants has been compihng a genealogical record of the family and
has not only accomplished that task, but was also instrumental in organizing the
family reunion which met at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in July, 1909. Through
his instrumentality there has been erected a monument to the memory of the
American progenitor which is inscribed : "William Coldwell, born in England,
1695, died October 28, 1802, at Gaspereau, Nova Scotia; also his wife, Jane
Jordon, bom at Stoughton, Massachusetts, June i, 1707." The ancestral his-
tory is traced back to a more remote period, when representatives of the family
went from France to Scotland, three brothers settling north of the Solway near
a cold well, from which they derived their surname, spelled and pronounced
"Cald" north of the Solway and "Cold" in England, so that the two names have
the same origin. Oliver Cromwell was descended from the family and they fig-
ured prominently in English and Scottish events during the reign of the Stuarts
and the House of Hanover. William Coldwell, after some years' residence in
Massachusetts, traveled northward through Maine, New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia to his destination in Horton to take up lands vacated by the Arcadians.
He settled on the banks of the Gaspereau river, where his descendants are now
living in the seventh generation.
Edward Lothrop Coldwell was educated at Horton Academy, Wolfville, Nova
Scotia, and as a young man worked in his father's grocery and on the home farm.
At the age of twenty-three he went to California by way of the isthmus of
Panama, where he spent a year, after which he returned to Nova Scotia. A few
months later he again took up his abode in California, where he was for a time
engaged in the lumber camps. In 1870 he left California with the intention of
going to the orient. He sailed from .San Francisco on one of the coasters for
Portland, expecting to take passage for Japan on a sailing vessel from that place.
Upon reaching Portland, which was at that time a thriving httle town, he de-
cided to remain. He found work in the printing office of A. G. Walling and
there learned the printer's trade. He was later employed as pressman on the
Bulletin. After four years spent in Portland, he removed to Salem, where for
a time he worked in the State Printing Office. Some of his associates while work-
ing for the state were Wilbur Cornell, W. P. Keady, James E. Sears, all old-
time printers.
Returning to Portland in 1879, Mr. Coldwell secured a position as pressman
on the Bee. In 1881 he became connected with the Oregonian as reporter, and
served continuously in that capacity with uncommon zeal and conspicuous suc-
cess for a little more than a quarter of a century. At the time of his death one
who had long been connected with him in newspaper work said : "Jerry's place
on the Oregonian will never be filled. More capable men may arise ; writers
more brilliant, perhaps, but they will not do the same class of work nor cover
the infinite variety of topics that came within this man's baliwick. For it is to
be remembered that Jerry developed when Portland was emerging from a big
town into a city; when everybody was interested in his neighbor; when Henry
Failing knew personally every depositor in the First National ; when Cicero H.
Lewis could tell the standing of every general merchandise dealer in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho without opening Bradstreet's record ; when Bishop and
Mrs. Morris exchanged calls with every Episcopalian family in the parish, and
when Joe Buchtel called by their Christian names ninety per cent of the men
who voted for him for sherifif."
Mr. Coldwell was married in Salem in 1874 to Miss Fannie A. Barker,
whose parents came from Burlington, Iowa, to Salem, Oregon, in 1847. ^^^
father, William Barker, was a cabinet-maker and one of the first furniture dealers
in Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Coldwell became the parents of two children : Orin B.,
who was educated at Stanford and Cornell Universities, and is general superin-
tendent of the light and power department of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company ; and Miss Mary Coldwell, who is well known in amateur musi-
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cal circles as a most skillful piano player and as a successful teacher of music.
Mrs. Coldwell still resides at No. 267 Grant street, where she has lived for the
past thirty years.
Mr. Coldwell's political allegiance was given to the republican party, and his
influence was a factor in the party's growth, but he never sought office as a
reward for his fealty. He passed away on the 15th of March, 1908, at the age
of sixty-nine years. At the funeral services, Dr. T. L. Eliot said, referring to
the season of the year and the bright morning sunshine, that "they fitted the
character and life of Mr. Coldwell, one of whose leading characteristics was the
love of nature and who carried the sunshine of good humor, cheerfulness and
true human fellowship wherever he went. There are few higher services that
one can render the world. Such a temper of mind reaches out in ever-widening
circles. Mr. Coldwell's vocation led him to harbor with all sorts and conditions
of men. He discovered the soul of goodness in some things evil. He could wield
the weapons of satire and ridicule — often more potent than argument or denun-
ciation to break abuses. The local column and reporter's stories or news items
of the Oregonian which he wrote, reflected the man in all his varying qualities
of wit and wisdom. His life was a genuine ministry, better than written ser-
mons and full of the potencies of manly character."
Harvey W. Scott, editor of the Oregonian, also paid tribute to Mr. Coldwell,
who, he said, "lived close to nature and close to man ; in every relation of life
he did his duty. Fidelity was an absolute part of his nature. I should scarcely
say that he was guided by determination to do his duty, for he did it uncon-
sciously and was far and away above the need of strengthening his nature by
resolves. The testimony of his fellow workers assembled around his bier shows
in what esteem he was held by those who, outside his own home, knew him best.
The work he did on the Oregonian for years, in no way obstrusive, yet had
marked significance. Its quaintness, its good nature, its gentle humor, its near-
ness to the heart and fife of its author, and of all those who read it, gave proofs
that though the author was not known very much except in our own community,
nevertheless, wherever the Oregonian was read here was the work of a dis-
tinctive hand. He was a moral man of mental equipoise, of even temper, never
subject to excitements. Of his religious beliefs he was never obstrusive, but
his attitude toward the sacred mysteries of life and death and futurity was al-
ways reverent. Though never publicly proclaiming it, he shared with all other
thoughtful human beings the idea that man has sure relations with the infinite.
Yet he did not dogmatize on the subject. His idea was that we have come, we
know not how, out of the infinite unknown ; that we shall return, we know not
how, to the infinite unknown. Yet sure belief in some thought or suggestion
of immortality was shared by him. He was too thoughtful and too serious to
think otherwise."
In the Oregonian from the pen of N. J. Levinson, Sunday editor, appeared
the following: "As one of his oldest Portland friends and long-time co-worker,
I have been asked to write an estimate of Jerry Coldwell. No apology is needed
for employing his nickname without quotation points ; the thousands who knew
him here are not familiar with the name as written in the family Bible. Jerry
Coldwell was the best all-round reporter I ever knew, and much more. He was
philosopher and humorist. On everything he wrote, even to the dry routine of
daily news, he put his personal impress. Sometimes it was satirical, occasionally
bitter to the point of extreme severity, often clearly informative, more often
quaintly humorous and always in the spirit of self-help. On his syrnpathetic
side he leaned to every man, woman and child that cultivated the soil either for
pleasure, profit or in the struggle for bread. He loved everything that grew in
the earth ; his most delightful studies were natural history and botany. When-
ever he learned a fact, he felt it his duty to impart the information to mankind.
And he never guessed at a fact. He dug wherever he could to get the truth,
nor did he weary in his search. For him a noxious weed, a La France rose, the
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woolly aphis and a stool of wheat had equal interest, and he tried to teach how
to exterminate enemies and improve friends. Jerry wrote naturally. He knew
nothing of the tricks of writing for effect. When he manufactured a story, the
very simplicity of it made it go. Up to six years ago when he had a fall from
a street car and suffered concussion of the brain, which impaired his faculties,
Jerry could invent more good stuff in a day than an average reporter with a
roving detail could gather in a week. Every bit of it was readable, most of it
excellent. He very seldom contributed to the waste basket. Jerry had prodig-
ious industry. No day was too long and no distance too great when news was
to be obtained. He was ever careful of his facts. In and out of the office he was
'Old Reliable.' Jerry was an omniverous reader and remembered. He knew
intimately the 'Hundred Best Books' and the other two or three hundred equally
good in the Portland library. After he had finished his day's work, which for
years ran far into the night, he refreshed himself and added to his store of
knowledge by association with masters, ancient and modern. His favorites were
Herbert Spencer and Kipling. All his work was, of course, impersonal, for he
served at a time when it wasn't the fashion for staff members, correspondents
and contributors to sign their matter. If that had been the custom in his day,
Jerry would have been more widely known than any other newspaper man in
the Pacific northwest with the one conspicuous exception — the editor of the
Oregonian." It is these qualities indicated above that gained Mr. Coldwell a
firm hold on the affections of his friends and causes his memory to be cherished
by all who knew him.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Millions live and die in the overpopulated countries of the old world with
scarcely no possibility at all of improving the condition in which they were born.
Other millions have severed the ties that bound them to their old homes, and,
braving the ocean and the dangers of many months' journey across the continent
to new scenes among strangers, have built up a home and established a family
in the northwest in a land of promise and of plenty. Among those who suc-
ceeded in the face of many obstacles and who has left an honored name as a
lasting heritage may be named Alexander Hamilton. He passed from the scene
of his labors at Portland twenty years ago, but his children and grandchildren
will ever have cause to remember him as a kind parent and a respected and
public-spirited citizen, whose influence for good will continue even after new
generations have appeared upon the scene.
Born in Ireland, in 1814, he was educated there and entered the mercantile
business. In the old country he was married and there his wife died, leaving
three children. Margaret Ann, now Mrs. Stevens, of California ; Alexander, now
deceased ; and Thomas, living in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Hamilton was not a
man to be long satisfied with conditions such as prevailed on the Emerald isle
sixty years ago. He longed for more favorable surroundings, at least for his
children, so he joined the tide that sought freedom and opportunity in America.
He stopped for a time in the east, but in 1852 crossed the plains with his chil-
dren to Oregon, taking up his home in Portland, which, as a business man, he
regarded as the most favorably located city in the state, and which he believed
would become a metropolis of the Pacific. The development of years have
proven the truth of his conclusions. He was one of the early merchants of the
city, conducting business for a number of years in partnership with Mr. Stans-
bery. He was also a successful street contractor in the early day and became
prominently connected with the Masonic order. He died at the age of seventy-
six, in 1890.
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In Portland, Mr. Hamilton was married to Miss Christina Chandler, who
came with her parents from the east and located in this city. Six children
were born of his second marriage : Asa ; Hosea ; Emily, mentioned below ; Wil-
son, now deceased ; Elsie ; and Ernest, now deceased. Mrs. Hamilton departed
this life at Portland, in 1890, at the age of forty-seven years, leaving a devoted
family and many friends to mourn her departure.
Emily, the first daughter and third child of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, is
the wife of Wilson F. Hume, a leading attorney of Portland, to whom she was
married December 25, 1882. One daughter was born to this union, Margaret,
now living in San Francisco. Mr. Hume is a native of California, born at Placer-
ville, October 20, 1861. He attended the public schools at Placerville and later
was graduated from Wabash College, Indiana. When about eighteen years of
age he came to Portland and became the private secretary of Senator J. N.
Dolph. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and for some time practiced in
partnership with J. Finley Watson and Edward Watson. He served as deputy
district attorney and later was elected as district attorney, serving for two terms
with great acceptance to the courts and the people. He has also occupied a
seat in the state legislature and is prominently identified with the councils of the
republican party in the state of Oregon. Mr. Hume is a member of the Knights
of Pythias and of the Masonic orders, having taken the degrees of the blue
lodge, chapter, council and commandery. As will be seen by the above record,
Mr. Hume has fairly demonstrated his ability as one of the foremost men of
Portland. He is a lawyer whose voice is always heard in behalf of what he feels
to be to the best interest of the community and one whose opinions are found
worthy of respect even by his political opponents.
LUTHER E. CROWE.
Portland as the metropolis of the northwest coast has attracted many of the
brightest business men of the country — men of ambition and discernment whose
minds are capable of grasping problems as they arise and who are always found
in the front in anything they undertake. To this class belongs Luther E. Crowe,
who is identified with the automobile business in this city. He was born in
Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1858, and at the age of eight years went with his parents
to California and was reared and educated at Centerville near San Jose. After
laying his text-books aside he entered the railroad business and learned teleg-
raphy, being employed for some years as station agent at various points for
railways in California, Oregon and Montana.
In 1880 Mr. Crowe resigned his position at the key and came to Portland and
was placed in charge of the electrical blasting for the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
gation Company under J. L. Hallett, superintendent of construction for that road
and the Northern Pacific, operations being conducted between The Dalles and
Portland. His next position was in Montana in the same line of work under
Julius Theilsen. He then went south to California for a time but soon discovered
that the northern country held out inducements which older settled regions could
not present. He therefore returned to Oregon and became station agent at Hood
River for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. Retiring from this posi-
tion, he purchased the hardware business of Abrahms & Stewart at The Dalles,
Oregon, and after building it up to a substantial basis sold out to the Walther
Williams Hardware Company in February, 1905.
Having in the meantime married, Mr. Crowe now set out with his wife upon
an extended tour of the United States and Canada, which occupied an entire
year. In the course of this trip he made many interesting observations, among
which was the phenomenal growth of the automobile business and its possibilities
as a permanent investment. Returning to Portland as his home, he became
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associated with A. A. Graham and in 1907 they bought out the Cook Motor Car
Company and operated under the title of the Crowe-Graham Motor Car Com-
pany. In 1908 he sold out his interest to Mr. Graham and with H. A. Burgess
established the Crowe Auto Company, which has the exclusive agency for the
Marion automobile and the Oldsmobile. The firm maintains a completely
equipped sales department and repair shop and its receipts from the beginning
have been highly gratifying, not only to the members of the firm but to the
manufacturing companies they represent.
In 1887 Air. Crowe was united in marriage to Miss Eunice Mays, a daughter
of Judge Robert Mays, of The Dalles. Mr. Crowe is actively identified with the
Knights of Pythias and is past chancellor of Friendship Lodge, No. 9, of The
Dalles. He is also past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks Lodge No. 303, at The Dalles. In politics he is a
republican and while living at The Dalles he rendered efficient service
as member of the city council. He is an energetic and prosperous
business man, who has seen much of the world and has the spirit of independence
that would enable him to make his way anywhere. Although he has engaged only
a few years in the automobile business he has gained a large patronage, proceed-
ing as he always does upon the principle that "honesty is the best policy" and a
friend made in business is equal to an additional investment of cash capital.
Gentlemanly and courteous, he is capable and efficient in anything he undertakes
and the positions of honor he has held in fraternal organizations is evidence of
the esteem of his associates. He is a citizen who even under the stress of adverse
circumstances, should such occur, may be depended upon to uphold his name and
the interests he represents with dignity and honor.
MARION EDWARD McIRVIN.
Marion Edward Mclrvin is a representative of one of the families early
established in the Columbia river valley. He was born in Putnam county, Mis-
souri, July 31, i860, and came to Washington with his father across the plains,
making the long and tedious journey which at length brought the family to
Clarke county, Washington, where he was reared and educated. After putting
aside his text-books he engaged with his father in the lumbering business near
the Chehalis river for three years and in 1883 he turned his attention to agricul-
tural and commercial pursuits, purchasing in that year forty-one acres of land,
including the present site of Felida. This land he cleared and thereon built a
store and conducted a general merchandise business for fourteen years. In
fact he became the founder of the town of Felida, named the place and through
his influence the railroad station which was there established was also called
Felida. Mr. Mclrvin was appointed postmaster under President Harrison and
continued to fill that position until 1904, when he disposed of his mercantile
interests there and built his present residence. While conducting his store he
set out an orchard of fifteen acres and became an active factor in developing
the fruit raising interests of this locality. For the past three years he has
been connected with the salmon fisheries, purchasing fish traps at Chinook,
Washington.
In March, 1882, Mr. Mclrvin was married to Miss Etta May Lewis, of
King county, Washington, and they now have seven living children : Harley
A. ; Elsie, the wife of Fay Davis, of Felida ; Eldon ; Ethel, the wife of Hugh
Miller, of Vancouver ; Earl ; Vernie ; and Clyde. They also lost a son, Lloyd,
who was the seventh in order of birth.
Mr. Mclrvin is well known in various lodges, holding membership with the
Elks at Vancouver, the Red Men of Felida, the Odd Fellows lodge at Felida
and the encampment at Vancouver, while he is also a member of the Grange of
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Felida. It is characteristic of Mr. Mclrvin that he carries forward to success-
ful completion whatever he undertakes. In this he seems dominated by the
resolute spirit and unfaltering purpose which characterized the early settlers
who, coming to the west in pioneer times, have reclaimed this region for the
purposes of civilization and through its cultivation have made it a rich and
prosperous district of the country.
CHARLES M. MENZIES.
Charles M. Menzies, a well known electrician now in the automobile business
in Portland, was born in this city, January 7, 1875, a son of James W. and
Laura (Harlow) Menzies. The father was born on Sauvie's island, Oregon,
August 18, 1850. He continued with his father until he was nineteen years of
age and then began for himself as a teamster but at the close of a year in this
line of work began farming. He bought one hundred, eighty and one-half
acres of land on the Sandy river, fourteen miles from Portland on the base
line road. Here he conducted operations of the farm until 1905, when he rented
the farm and entered the employ of the Portland Railway Light & Power Com-
pany, in which he continued until 1909. His wife, who was a native of Illinois,
crossed the plains at ten years of age in 1866. She was a daughter of J. B.
Harlow, who was chief engineer of Weigler Mills for many years. Six chil-
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Menzies: Mrs. Idell Hoyt, of Portland; Charles
M., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Lulu Strebin, of Gresham; J. Arthur, of
Portland ; Laura, of Hot Lake, Oregon ; and Maud, deceased.
The Menzies family is of Scottish descent, the American branch having been
founded by James Menzies, the grandfather of Charles M. Menzies, who at the
age of twenty-one years had acquired such a thorough knowledge of naviga-
tion that he brought a vessel around Cape Horn in 1849 ^^^ engaged as a filibus-
ter at the time of the Mexican war. He commanded a ship which was owned
by Captain Gray. Later, in company with a Mr. Dewitt, he bought the vessel
and engaged in the coast trade until the ship was wrecked at the mouth of the
Columbia river. Having now had sufficient experience as a seafaring man,
he decided to remain ashore and bought six hundred and forty acres of land at
the head of Sauvie's island. This land he farmed until 1866, when he removed
to the mouth of the Sandy river and set up his home on the spot now occupied
by the Union Meat Company. In 1883 he retired to Salem, where he died the
same year. He was twice married and left the following children: Mrs. G. W.
Bates, of Portland ; Mrs. Julia Ambrose, of Bellingham Bay, Washington ; James
W., the father of our subject, and Joseph S., both of Roslyn, Washington;
Mrs. Hattie Davis, of Dawson City, Alaska; Mrs. Nellie Roberts, of Gresham;
and Mrs. Alice Parsons, of Alaska.
Reared in a well conducted home, Charles M. Menzies received his educa-
tion in the public schools of this city, very early showing special talent along
scientific lines, especially in the field of electricity, which during recent years
has attracted so much attention from young men of the country. He gained
a practical knowledge of the application of electricity under the Albina Light
& Water Company, with which he was connected for one year. The firm hav-
ing sold out to the Willamette Falls Electric Light Company, he was identified
with the new management until at the end of twelve months he decided to
engage in business upon his own account by organizing the Portland messenger
service. After having fairly launched this enterprise successfully, he disposed
of it and became foreman of the construction crew of the Western TJnion
Telegraph Company. At the end of four years he entered the employ of the
Chico Light & Power Company of Chico, California, where he continued for
two years. He next was identified as superintendent with the electric light
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plant of the Cornacopia Mining Company, where he continued for a year, and
from 1901 to June i, 1909, he was in the employ of the Portland Railway Light
& Power Company.
Upon severing his connection with this company Mr. Menzies purchased
the agency of the Franklin automobiles, of which he now has exclusive charge
for the western half of Oregon and the southern part of Washington. In his
new line of business he has been highly successful and he regards the outlook
for the automobile in the Pacific coast region as more favorable than ever before
in its history. In connection with his business he maintains a commodious
garage and a thoroughly equipped repair shop and during the season of 1910
he disposed of forty-five cars in his territory. Mr. Menzies has demonstrated
his ability in two important lines of business and, possessing as he does the
tenacity which is characteristic of the sturdy race from which he sprang, his
career gives probabilities of a brilliant record in the years to come.
In 1902 Mr. Menzies was united in marriage to Miss Winnetta May Rum-
sey and to them has been born one son, Donald Rumsey. Mrs. Menzies'
father, A. L. Rumsey, was a pioneer of Portland and became quite prominent
in business and fraternal circles in that city, being the organizer of Haw-
thorne Lodge, No. Ill, A. F. & A. M. Mr. Menzies also holds membership
in that lodge and has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite.
He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Eastern Star, with which his wife is also con-
nected. She takes a very active interest in the various charities promoted by
that organization. In politics Mr. Menzies is a republican and he is actively
identified with the Commercial Club, being largely interested in Portland real
estate. He is fond of outdoor athletics, but is especially interested in motoring,
shooting and fishing.
CLARENCE A. FRANCIS.
In the northwest, to which he came in his infancy, Clarence A. Francis spent
his entire life and his history was as the growth and unfolding of the district
in which he lived and with which he was closely associated from pioneer days
until death ended his life's labor. He was born in the little town of Blackberry,
Illinois, April 19, 1851, and was drowned in the Columbia river, near White
Salmon, Washington, August 5, 1902. He came with his parents, Samuel D.
and Elizabeth (Stevens) Francis, to Oregon in 1852, and grew to manhood on
a farm near Oregon City. He came to Portland about thirty years ago and
engaged in brass machinist and moulding business, in which he continued until
June, 1902, when he was burned out for the second time in his business career.
He had been a resident at Mount Tabor, Oregon, for fifteen years, where
his widow and four children now reside. In Portland, on the 23d of Sep-
tember, 1885, Mr. Francis was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Ann Martin,
a daughter of Richard and Hannah Rogers Martin. They became the parents
of five children, of whom one is deceased. The others are: Clarence E., Helen
L., George L. and Sarah A. Mrs. Francis was born in Penzance, Cornwall,
England, and came to America with her parents in 1874. Her father was a stone-
mason and her maternal grandfather, John Rogers, was a Methodist preacher
and delivered one of his first sermons in a little church on the edge of a clifif in
Cornwall, where John Wesley preached.
Mr. Francis united with the Methodist church when twenty years of age
and was known for many years as a leading member. He was one of the truly
faithful, always in his place. He claimed to be wholly consecrated to God, and
no one who knew him doubted the genuineness of his consecration. Those who
knew him but slightly admired his kind and gentle spirit, but those who knew
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him intimately loved him. He was known as a straightforward man in every
way and his word was the same as his oath.
His religious belief was evident in his business relations as in other phases
of life, making him a most reliable business man whose integrity was ever
beyond question. He served in the church as class leader, Sunday school super-
intendent, trustee and choir leader and as school director of the Mount Tabor
schools. It was befitting a life so faithful and true to God and man that it
should be closed on earth in an act of true benevolence. He lost his Hfe in an
effort to save two boys from drowning. His whole life was one of sacrifice for
the good of others.
RICHARD HILLARD HURLEY.
Starting in life on his own resources at the age of fourteen years, Richard
Hillard Hurley had a varied experience covering a long apprenticeship to the
machinist's trade in New York city, silver mining in Mexico, a trip around Cape
Horn to San Francisco, identification with industrial interests in California and
then in Oregon City until the floods drove him to abandon his business interests
there and take up assaying in Idaho. Later, however, he returned to Oregon to
make his home here until his death.
He was born on the 30th of March, 1830, in Montreal, Canada, of the
marriage of Eugene and Emma Hurley, who in his early youth removed with
their family to Oswego, New' York. When fourteen years of age a spirit of
adventure prompted Richard H. Hurley to run away from home and he made
his way to New York city, where he joined an uncle. There he was bound out
to learn the machinist's trade, at which he served an apprenticeship until twenty-
one years of age, gaining a thorough. Jcnowledge of that business. On attaining
his majority he made his way to Mexico, where he was employed in the silver
mines in the region of Guatemala until 1851. The possibility of finding something
better farther on prompted his various removals and from Mexico he went to
San Francisco, where he remained for a short time and then proceeded to Oregon
City in 1857. There, in connection with a man by the name of Rossi, he con-
ducted a foundry and machine shop, building machinery for the marine works
at that place.
It was while living there that Mr. Hurley made arrangements for having a
home of his own by his marriage on the 17th of November, 1858, to Miss Mary
A. McCarver, a daughter of General M. M. McCarver and Mary Ann (Jennings)
McCarver. The latter was a sister of Colonel Berryman Jennings, who was the
first grand master of the Masonic fraternity in Oregon. General McCarver was
one of the Oregon pioneers of 1843. I" the '30s he had been one of the founders
of the city of Burlington, Iowa, and in 1831 and 1832 he had participated in the
Indian war against the Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois. He came to Oregon, as
previously stated, and in 1849 was in Sacramento, California. He was connected
with the commissary department in the Indian war in Oregon in 1855-6 and in
1868 he went to Tacoma, Washington. As an Indian fighter, as a builder of
towns, having been the founder of Sacramento and Tacoma, as a pioneer in
\rarious connections he contributed largely to the upbuilding of the different sec-
tions in which he lived, aided in planting the seeds of civilization and in promot-
ing the work of progress that followed the initial labors of the frontier settlers.
General McCarver came west in 1843, and his wife came across the plains in
1845, at which time they took up their abode in Oregon City, for Portland then
had no existence. The house in which they later lived was built in 1850 from
material which was brought from Maine around Cape Horn. It had all been
joined and fitted up in New England and after it reached this state was put
together. That house is still standing, being one of the pioneer landmarks of
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Oregon City. General McCarver devoted his life to farming" in the northwest.
That he was regarded as one of the most prominent men of his day is indicated
in the fact that three apples were named in his honor, being known as McCarver's
Favorite, McCarver's Premium (sweet) and McCarver's Seedling. The General
was a most public-spirited man and his life was at all times a force for good as
well as for general development in the communities in which he lived. He was
the father of eleven children. Of the six children born of his first union all died
in infancy except Mrs. Hurley and her brother, Thomas Jennings McCarver, who
died about 1880. By his second marriage General McCarver had five children,
two of whom are living: Mrs. Thomas Prosch, of Seattle, Washington; and
Mrs. W. H. Harris, of Tacoma.
Following his marriage Mr. Hurley remained at Oregon City for about four
years but high waters prevailed in the fall of 1861 and the spring of 1862 and
everything he had, including three buildings, was washed away. Discouraged
by the condition brought about by the floods, he gave up the business of the
foundry and machine shop and studied assaying and in the spring of 1862, after
the flood had somewhat subsided, he made his way to Lewiston, Idaho, where
he established an assaying office. There he was more fortunate in his business
ventures and continued at that place until 1873 or 1874, when he returned to
Portland. After a brief period, however, he made his way to a place called Price,
in Crook county, Oregon, where he was prospecting, remaining there until the
time of his death, which occurred in 1905. His remains were laid to rest in the
cemetery at that place.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hurley had been born seven children : George Jennings,
now a resident of Loomis, Washington ; Minnie, the wife of Fred Terry, of
Coronado, California; Anna, the wife of J. L. LeRoy; Carrie, the wife of Justin
Pease, of Risley Station ; Loleata, the wife of A. E. Labowitch, of Risley Station;
Belle, who became the wife of George Cavaline and died February 3, 1910; and
Elmer S., who was a soldier in the United States service and was stationed in the
Philippine Islands as a member of Company D, Fourteenth United States
Infantry, until his death, which terminated an illness on the 2d of July, 1908.
Mrs. Hurley, who was born in Lowell, Iowa, on the 15th of December, 1842,
was but an infant when her parents crossed the plains. She acquired her educa-
tion largely in Oregon City and in the old Portland Academy, which then stood on
Seventh street near Jefferson and was under the management of Dr. Kingsley,
a Methodist minister. At Oregon City she was a pupil of Judge Shattuck and
she studied music under Miss Zeeber, a well known teacher of that day. She
is a prominent member of Martha Washington Chapter of the Eastern Star of
Portland and is popular in the social circles of the city, where she has many
friends. She is a representative of one of Oregon's oldest pioneer families and
has been a witness of the growth and development of the state for sixty-seven
years.
MRS. MINNIE FRANKLIN.
Among the women of the northwest who are making an enviable success as
fruit raisers may be named Mrs. Minnie Franklin, who resides on a well kept
ranch near Vancouver and in the management of her affairs displays a knowledge
of farm operations that one would scarcely expect except from a person whose
lief had been passed on the farm under most favorable conditions.
Mrs. Franklin is a native of Iowa, born in 1863, and when three years of age
removed with her parents, William and C. C. Smiley, to Missouri, where she was
reared. She was educated in the public schools, and in 1880 was united in mar-
riage to Francis M. Franklin. She came west with her parents in 1883 to Van-
couver and there spent the winter, but returned to Arkansas the following spring,
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where she continued for two years. At the end of that time she came again to
the coast and spent two and one-half years at Vancouver.
Mr. Frankhn was a timber cruiser and about this time was engaged by a
Boston firm to visit Nicaragua, Central America, for the purpose of selecting and
getting out mahogany and Spanish cedar for shipment to New England. Mrs.
Franklin accompanied her husband upon the trip, returning to Washington at
the expiration of two and one-half years. A year later he again went to Central
America and remained for two years and a half, after which he again became a
resident of Vancouver, making his home there until his death June 20, 1906. One
son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin W. Curry, who is now engaged in busi-
ness in Portland.
Since her return to Vancouver, Mrs. Franklin has engaged in farming and
fruit raising and had a beautiful prune orchard of twenty-one acres. Recently
nineteen acres of the orchard were reset with the English walnut, which promises
to be one of the important crops of this region. She also has a farm of one hun-
dred acres on La Center road, north of Vancouver. This farm is under lease
and has growing upon it a fine orchard of eighteen acres in prunes.
The success of Mrs. Franklin in her chosen calling is due to a spirit of inde-
pendence and courage with which she was endowed and a practical knowledge of
agricultural pursuits which she acquired in the course of her earlier life. She
is a woman of tact and unflagging industry, and one of her strong characteristics
is the laudable desire to make herself a useful member of the community. That
she has succeeded is the verdict of all who visit her farm and observe the air of
comfort, neatness and order that everywhere prevails.
JOHN HONEYMAN.
John Honeyman, deceased, senior member of the firm of John Honeyman &
Company, proprietors of the City Foundry & Machine Shops, Portland, was born
in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 12th of August, 181 5. He was descended from
a family of mechanics, and very naturally adopted the trade with which his an-
cestors had been identified for several generations familiarizing himself with the
occupation of a molder under the direction of his father in Glasgow. He emi-
grated to Canada in 1831 and there completed his apprenticeship in the foundry
of Bennet & Henderson at Montreal. After four years of faithful service he
continued work as a journeyman until 1836. In that year and the following he
served in the militia during the Canadian rebellion, and when peace was restored
he removed to Quebec, acting as foreman in the Tweedle foundry until 1841.
Subsequently removing to Kingston, he there worked as foreman until 1846,
when, in partnership with C. H. Jenkins, he established the Ontario foundry,
disposing of his interest therein to his partner in 1848. He next established the
Vulcan foundry, operating the same until i860. In July of that year he disposed
of his interest therein and, accompanied by his son, "William B., started for Colo-
rado. They traveled by railroad to St. Joseph, Missouri, thence by overland
stage to Denver — a distance of six hundred miles. After a few months spent in
erecting and operating a sawmill at Canon City, they engaged in mining in
California Gulch, near Leadville, until July, 1862. They then traveled with an
ox team to Oregon, arriving at The Dalles in December, and thence by steamer
to Portland, where they landed on the 23d of December, 1862. Mr. Honeyman
secured work in the Oregon Iron Works, and there remained until June, 1863,
when he went to Boise basin, following mining there and in other Idaho camps
for several years.
Mr. Honeyman was married on the 6th of May, 1836, to Miss Eliza Levitt,
who died on the 9th of October, 1866. They had a family of ten children, two
of whom died in infancy. The oldest son, David W., died in his twentieth year,
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while the oldest daughter, Mrs. J. S. Lochead, died in her sixty-ninth year. Six
children still survive, namely: John A., of Vancouver, British Columbia; Mrs.
W. Collier of Seattle; Mrs. E. C. Niedt of San Diego; William B., Ben F. and
Mrs. Robert Collier of Portland. On the i8th of August, 1875, Mr. Honeyman
wedded Miss Mary A. Collier, who survived him two years, her death occurring
March 7, 1900.
In 1867 Mr. Honeyman returned to Portland and brought his family from
Kingston, Canada, for permanent settlement. He followed his trade until 1871,
when he established the City Foundry & Machine Shops, having built up a good
business when the fire of August 2, 1873, destroyed the plant. That misfortune
proved but a temporary embarrassment, however, as a new building was erected
in five days, and nine days after the fire a heat of several tons of castings was
run ofif. The firm of John Honeyman & Company consisted of the subject of
this sketch and his sons, John A., William B. and Ben F. They did a profitable
and extensive business in building grist and sawmills, engines and boilers, struc-
tural iron work and steamboat machinery. In 1885 the firm was dissolved, John
Honeyman and Ben F. Honeyman continuing the business until the death of the
former, which occurred on the 4th of September, 1898. Surrounded by his fam-
ily and his faculties unimpaired to the last, he peacefully passed away. Mr.
Honeyman was a lifelong Presbyterian and a ruling elder in the Calvary Pres-
byterian church. He was likewise a charter member of St. Andrew's Society. By
strict attention to business and honorable methods he won the regard and esteem
of a large circle of acquaintances.
EDWARD C. MEARS.
Edward C. Mears, whose name has long, been known in connection with finan-
cial interests in Portland and who 'is now conducting an extensive brokerage busi-
ness, operating in Pacific coast timber and bonds, was born in San Francisco,
California, September 21, 1870. His father. Colonel Frederick Mears, U. S. A.,
served in the army for over thirty years and died in the service in January,
1892. The son was naturally interested in military afifairs and acquired a por-
tion of his education in Shattuck' Military School at Faribault, Minnesota, from
which he was graduated in the class of 1886. He afterward continued his edu-
cation in the College of the City of New York, of which he is an 1892 alumnus.
He has been a resident of Portland since 1893 and for fifteen years was identified
with banking in this city, serving as the first cashier of the Lumbermen's Nat-
ional Bank and also as receiver for the Title Guarantee & Trust Company. He
is now engaged in the brokerage business with a large clientele whom he repre-
sents in investment in Pacific coast timber and bonds. It would be difficult to
find one more thoroughly informed concerning timber resources and their value
in this part of the country or who has 'more intimate and accurate knowledge con-
cerning commercial paper.
On the 9th of February, 1895, Mr. Mears was married in Portland to Miss An-
toinette Prescott, a daughter of C. H. Prescott, who was at one time general man-
ager of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, associated with Henry Vil-
lard and T. Oakes. He was likewise vice president of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company and was one of the most prominent factors in railway and
transportation circles up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 7th of
August, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Mears have two daughters, Antoinette and Geor-
gianna B.
Mr. Mears has an increasing military chapter in his life record, covering
eight years' service as adjutant of the Third Infantry Regiment of the Oregon
National Guard. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
and has served as junior vice commander of the local chapter. His political alle-
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giance has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon
him the right of franchise. His social nature finds expression in membership
in the Arlington and Waverly Golf Clubs, and he is often found where the most
intelligent men of the city gather in the discussion of important financial, muni-
cipal or national questions and while yet a comparatively young man is recog-
nized as a citizen of influence in Portland, where his business career has given
proof of his worth, his adaptability and his unflagging enterprise. He is promi-
nent among those who, handling large financial interests, are thus contributing
indirectly but largely to the development and upbuilding of this wonderful sec-
tion of the country.
MRS. SARAH JANE ANDERSON.
Among the early pioneer women of the Pacific coast country, Mrs. Sarah Jane
Anderson occupies an honorable place. Sixty years ago her eyes first rested on
the beautiful valley of the Columbia river and in all the time that has since
elapsed she has been an interested spectator of events and has performed her
duty in a great work whose results are to be witnessed today in prosperous
citizens and countless happy homes.
Mrs. Anderson was born in New York state, fourteen miles from Ballston
Spa, a daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Welden) Sturgis, her father being a
native of England and her mother of New York state. Mr. Sturgfis possessed
the pioneer spirit and went west with his family to IlHnois and in 1847 joined a
brave party of emigrants, who left the Mississippi river with a train of thirty-
three wagons and a good equipment of oxen and horses for the wearisome trip
to the Oregon country. This was the same year in which Brigham Young led
his party of Morman emigrants to Salt Lake and also a year of great privations
on the part of many of the hardy adventurers, who braved every danger in order
to establish themselves independently under more favorable surroundings than
they had been accustomed to in the east. The party crossed the Laramie river
at Fort Laramie, but experienced some difficulty at Snake river and there the
father of Mrs. Anderson met his death by drowning. Mrs. Sturgis now found
herself facing a new and unexpected situation, but bravely taking courage she
came as far as the Willamette river, stopping at Portland, which was then a
feeble settlement in a thick forest, consisting of seven log houses and a rude
building which was known as the store. After a stay of three months at Port-
land, Mrs. Sturgis moved up the river to Oregon City and later took up her
residence in the vicinity of Vancouver, where members of the family have ever
since lived. Here she was married to Moses Kellogg, who had accompanied the
same party across the plains. Air. Kellogg bought a land claim of Henry E.
Fellows and the family took up their residence thereon. About the same time
the United States government began building barracks in the vicinity, which
later became a noted fort. The country was thinly inhabited and the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg extended a generous hospitality to travelers passing
through the country upon business or pleasure. The family later removed to
Linton after having sold the ranch, but they have never received any payment
for it, as the man to whom it was sold was murdered. Many were the dangers
which surrounded the early settlers and one day while on business near Port-
land Mr. Kellogg was drowned and a second time the mother of the family found
herself bereft in a strange land. She removed to Vancouver and there married
Thomas Davis, who came to Oregon in 1849. After living two years at Van-
couver, the family took up their residence at The Dalles, where the mother con-
tinued until she was called to her final rest.
In 185 1, in Oregon, Sarah Jane Sturgis was united in marriage to William
Reese Anderson, who was a pioneer of 1849. After living below Linton for two
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years he took up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres near Vancouver
and here the family has continued to live, except at short periods, ever since. Mr.
Anderson died October 25, 1902, at the age of eighty-two years. He was an
industrious man, of kind-hearted and sympathetic nature, and was highly
respected by his neighbors and friends. During recent years portions of the
original claim have been sold off as the land increased in value and the family
now retains about sixty acres which is highly improved and yields abundantly.
Fourteen children came to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, eleven
of whom are yet living : Charles, a resident of Vancouver, who has eleven chil-
dren and five grandchildren ; William, also of Vancouver, who has five children ;
Marilla, now Mrs. Edward Brandon Gardner, who has one child; Edward, of
Vancouver, who has two children ; Estella, the wife of Joseph M. Zambelich, of
Astoria, who is the mother of two children ; Jennie, now deceased, who was the
wife of George Baxter and the mother of one child, Edna Baxter, now living in
Portland ; George W., of Vancouver, who has three children ; Fanny E., now
Mrs. George Hauscke, of Vancouver; Asa Alexander, of Vancouver; Audrey
Rose, now Mrs. Arthur Kapell, of Rainier, Oregon; and Katherine A. and
Robert Lee, both of whom are living at home.
Mrs. Anderson is one of the distinctive women of earlier days yet living, and
may be regarded as a link connecting the present with the generation now almost
departed. As a mother she performed her duty in rearing a large family and
she is now the grandmother of twenty-five children and the great-grandmother
of eight children— a record that possibly cannot be duplicated in the northwest.
Honored by these younger representatives of a sturdy family and loved by many
who have long known of her noble qualities, she retains in an unusual degree the
memories of earlier years and regards with deepest gratification the marvelous
changes that have brought the comforts and elegancies of life where formerly
only the barest necessities were possible. She now enjoys a well earned rest
after many years of unselfish service in behalf of others.
JOHN WESLEY JOHNSON.
John Wesley Johnson, the first president of the University of Oregon, was
born near the present site of Kansas City, Missouri, March 22, 1836. His
great-grandfather, Alexander Johnson, lived in North Carolina, whence he
removed to Nashville, Tennessee. His grandfather, John Johnson, was the first
white settler of Kansas City, Missouri, where he arrived October 10, 1825. In
1850 John W, Johnson drove an ox team across the plains to Oregon. He was
then but fourteen years of age. Their journey was embittered with many priva-
tions and sorrows, including the death of his mother and sister, who are buried
in unmarked graves in the plains of Nebraska. Charles Johnson, the father of
John, upon arriving in Oregon, took up the homestead which is now a part of
the city of Corvallis. His nine children necessarily had the hard-working,
strenuous life of a pioneer family.
In the boy John the thirst for knowledge was supreme. The opportunities
to gratify it in those days were extremely meager. At the age of seventeen
John entered the primary class of the district school. He soon outstripped the
entire membership of the school, especially in mathematics, for which he had a
great natural aptitude. Determining to obtain a college education he borrowed
the money necessary for his subsistence. There were no trans-continental rail-
roads to carry him to New England. He, therefore, journeyed on horseback
to the nearest port of the Pacific. Then he went by sailing vessel slowly to the
isthmus of Panama, which he crossed on horseback. From Panama in order
to save money he took steerage passage in a ship that was bound for New York
city. At the age of twenty-four he entered Yale College by grace of the faculty
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who could not reject one who had come so far, however poorly prepared for
admission. Johnson graduated in the front rank of the class of 1862, which
contained such men as Franklin McVeagh, Joseph Cook and "Adirondack"
Murray. To obtain his college education required live years, four of which
were spent in the college and one in the going and returning.
The following from Charles Wright Ely, his Yale classmate, outlines his col-
lege life and character ably : "I find it hard to put upon paper what I would
like to say and what is due to his memory. It was my privilege to be John-
son's room-mate in senior year. Our friendship had begun in freshman year,
when we were somewhat closely associated in society matters, and I had learned
to esteem him highly for his sterling qualities of mind and heart. 'Oregon'
was modest to a fault, and reserved, even among his intimates. His voice was
seldom heard in public, nor did he seek prominence in college social life but
was content with a few congenial friends. He was a hard student. Entering
college insufficiently prepared, he came out with a standing surpassed by few in
his class. Johnson was a man of strong convictions, ready to defend his views,
but never inclined to thrust his opinions upon others. He was courteous and
deferential in bearing to a marked degree, always ready to accord to others
the right he exercised of holding tenaciously to his own opinions. He was
markedly faithful in the discharge of every obligation and nothing could swerve
him from the path he had marked out for himself. I do not know what the col-
lege record tells but am confident it would show that Johnson was always in his
place and always 'prepared,' and I doubt not that this is also the record of his
subsequent life. Perhaps no classmate commanded more unqualified respect
than 'Oregon' Johnson."
His first work on his return to Oregon was as principal of the Baptist
College in McMinnville, Oregon, which he conducted with marked ability for
four years; and while there, in July, 1865, he was married to Miss Helen Eliza-
beth Adams, daughter of Hon. W, L. Adams, the collector of customs at the
port of Astoria, Oregon.
In 1868 Professor Johnson, having already won a wide reputation for
superior ability as an instructor and executive, accepted the position of princi-
pal of the Central Public School in Portland, Oregon, and removed, with his
family, to that city. He conducted this school with such success that the year
following he was tendered the principalship of the high school, in the inception
of which he was himself mainly instrumental. The pupils of the present day are
taught as a part of the history of Portland public schools that "The Portland
high school was founded by Professor John Wesley Johnson, afterward first
president of the University of Oregon."
The University of Oregon was organized and founded four years later, and
Professor Johnson was called to head its faculty in addition to being professor
of Latin. He was president for seventeen years but continued his professor-
ship five years longer, making a total service of twenty-two years. His connec-
tion with the university terminated with his death.
His strictness as a college officer joined to kind personal interest in each
student, his thorough work and unusually fearless dealing with ofifenders regard-
less of their wealth, parentage or social standing, secured exceptional obedience
and respect from the students under his charge. It is not possible to over-
estimate the value of such service as President John W. Johnson gave to Ore-
gon because its results lie beyond complete discovery and identification. He
and a few others of like spirit laid the foundations of genuine scholarship and
wholesome culture during the long, adverse period of pioneer development.
President Johnson did a really great work in accomplishing what able men
too often fail to do, namely, the impressing of all who come under their influ-
ence with true ideals and worthy aims. An inherent soundness of moral con-
viction is the dominating force in all men of his character but what also largely
gave him his rare effectiveness was his knowledge of and sympathy with
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Oregon and Oregon ideas. He was, in a very genuine sense, of the world of
scholarship, but no devotion to abstract learning, no spirit of academic exclu-
siveness was allowed to separate him from the life of the people about him.
He lived and worked with and for his own people and not as the representative
of an abstract foreign culture. Kinship, thoroughness, sympathy, in these forces
lay the key of a career whose influences were all for good. Hundreds of old
students in all parts of the west will honor him and revere his memory while
they live, and hand down his name as a legacy to their children.
An old pupil says: "We can do no more than to say that if we have ever
acquired any habits of exact study, any desire to thoroughly master a topic,
we owe it to President Johnson more than to any other instructor. Five years
of almost daily intimacy in the schoolroom, in the church, in private life, as a
citizen, and in the home, made us well acquainted with his sterling character and
integrity.
President Johnson died of cerebritis at his home in Eugene, September 14,
1898. All his family survive him. Six children were born to President Johnson,
as follows :
Herbert Spencer, born October 4, 1866, in McMinnville, Oregon; A. B.,
University of Oregon, 1887; A. B., Harvard, 1891 ; Rochester Theological Semi-
nary, 1893; pastor of First Baptist church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for six
years ; for the last twelve years pastor of Warren Avenue Baptist church, Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, was married June 21, 1900, to Miss Mary Crane of Dal-
ton, Massachusetts, daughter of James Brewer and Mary Elizabeth Goodrich
Crane. They have two daughters, Mary and Helen.
Eugenia Frances, born in Portland, Oregon, May 27, 1869, was married
August 24, 1 891, to Drew Griffin of Eugene. They have four children, Gilbert,
Leone, Elizabeth and Winifred.
Virgil Victor born March 16, 1876, in Portland, Oregon; A. B., Oregon,
1896; A. B., Harvard 1899; Rochester Theological Seminary 1902; pastor for
five years of Baptist church, Claremont, New Hampshire ; now pastor First Bap-
tist church. Concord, New Hampshire, was married August 4, 1908, to Miss
Marion Bolster, daughter of Rev. W. H. Bolster, Nashua, New Hampshire.
They have one son, Herbert Bolster.
Esther Elizabeth, born May 19, 1879, i" Eugene, Oregon ; A. B., University
of Oregon, 1901, was married to Bernard Jakway, Portland, Oregon, July 19,
1902. They have two children, John Bernard and Isabel Amy.
Loris Melikofif, born in Eugene, Oregon, August 16, 1882; A. B., Oregon,
1906; A. M., Harvard 1910; is now master of English in Westminster School,
Simsbury, Connecticut.
Wistar Wayman, bom September 8, 1886, in Eugene, Oregon; A. B., Oregon,
1907, is a Rhodes scholar from Oregon and is now in Pembroke College, Ox-
ford, England.
FRANK BOTEFUHR.
Frank Botefuhr, who is engaged in the wholesale liquor business at the corner
of Ash and Third streets for thirty years, was bom in Holstein, Germany, April
18, 1845, a son of Daniel and Louisa Botefuhr, both natives of the fatherland.
Daniel Botefuhr was a public officer and for many years acted as custom-house
collector at the city of Wyk on the island of Fohr. The subject of this review
was reared in Gliickstadt and there educated in the public schools. He began his
business career in the dry-goods trade, but upon arriving at manhood decided
to seek a land of better opportunity and in 1868 he came to America.
Mr. Botefuhr found the positions which he was able to fill quite generally
occupied in the city of New York and he started west, coming by rail to Nebraska
and completing the journey to San Francisco by railroad and stage coach. In
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this long and toilsome trip of three thousand miles across the continent many
strange scenes met his eyes, but he did not desire to turn back as he had fully
determined to cast his lot in the new world. At San Francisco he went aboard
a ship bound for Victoria, British Columbia. From that place he went to the
mines, where he worked assiduously for about seven months, finding himself at
the end of that time destitute of resources as the mines proved a failure. He
and his companions started southward and walked a large part of the way to
Portland. Here he found employment as a drayman, longshoreman and in a
brewery and also as general laborer, but he made little headway financially and
in 1871 went to San Francisco, where he was identified with the wholesale liquor
business for six years. Returning to Portland in January, 1878, he began business
in the old Germania Hall on First street. Three years later he moved to Front
street and after a few months located permanently as the first tenant in a new
building, where he has since continued.
On January 15, 1876, at San Francisco, Mr. Botefuhr was united in marriage
to Miss Helen Nielsen. Six children have been born to this union : Frank, Jr.,
a promising boy who grew to the age of nineteen and was drowned in the Will-
amette river in 1898; Bertha; Daisy, who became the wife of A. E. Tyroll, who
is in partnership with our subject; Max; Rudolph, who died at the age of two
years ; and the sixth child who died in infancy.
Mr. Botefuhr is identified with the republican party and has always taken
great interest in political affairs, although he has not aspired to public office. He
is a man of pronounced social characteristics and is a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the German Aid Society
and the Turners. In 1884 he served as chancellor commander of Germania
Lodge, No. 12, Knights of Pythias, but this lodge is now out of existence. He
and his wife are the owners of two residences on Twentieth street, a farm of six
hundred and forty acres of land at Gresham, this state, and farms of one hun-
dred and sixty acres at Tillamook and twenty-two acres in this county, two miles
outside of the city. Mr. Botefuhr by close attention to his calling has accumulated
a -fortune and is recognized by his associates as a man of strongly marked in-
dividuality and one whose judgment in financial matters generally leads to grati-
fying returns. As a boy in the old country he had dreams of financial inde-
pendence. He came among strangers in a strange land and, while he has passed
through many vicissitudes, he has in a large measure attained the object of his
ambition.
M. JOSEPH CONNOR.
On the list of those who are now making the history of the northwest is the
name of M. Joseph Connor, vice president of The Washington & Oregon Land &
Investment Company. Those who operate in the field of real estate have much
to do with the character of the upbuilding of a section. He who knows the
country, its possibilities and its opportunities and can intelligently discuss its
resources becomes an effective factor in promoting realty transfers which bring
to the district those who desire to conduct business enterprises that contribute
not alone to individual prosperity but also promote the general welfare, and thus
such a business as Mr. Connor conducts, while having its basis in a personal
desire for legitimate profit, becomes one of the foundation stones upon which
the later progress and prosperity of a community rest.
Mr. Connor is a native of La Salle, Illinois, born in 1870. His parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. T. Connor, were both of Irish descent. In the public schools near
La Salle the son obtained his education and when but fifteen years of age started
out in life for himself, learning telegraphy and becoming an operator. Later he
entered the milling business, in which he continued for twelve years, operating
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mills in Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California, the Philippines and China, in
the employ of various prominent companies, the value of his services gaining him
positions of large responsibility. In this connection he not only made substantial
progress in the business v^orld but also gained that broad experience and wider
knowledge which only travel can bring; gaining an understanding of the differ-
ent countries which could only be obtained through residence therein. At length
he located in Portland, where he turned his attention to the real-estate business,
becoming vice president and treasurer of The Washington & Oregon Land &
Investment Company, of which J. H. Elwell is the president. As the name indi-
cates they handle property in both states and their knowledge of real-estate
values and of the property upon the market enables them to make judicious invest-
ments for their clients and to conduct a business of growing importance and of
profitable proportions.
Mr. Connor is a member of the Western Association of Old Time Tele-
graphers and also of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The adapt-
ability and ready resourcefulness characteristic of his Irish ancestry are his and
constitute important features in a business career which has long since placed him
beyond the pale of the commonplace in business and upon the highroad which
ultimately leads to notable success.
JOHN R. SPURGEON.
A distinctive characteristic of the entire region of the Pacific northwest is
that it was very largely settled by pioneers from the states of the Atlantic coast
or the Mississippi valley. These intrepid men and women here applied the les-
sons of self-reliance and unflagging industry that have been most productive of
beneficial results in older settled communities and they quickly transformed a
wild and rugged country into a pleasing abode for man. The children of the
pioneers and later comers from all quarters of the globe are now enjoying the
advantages presented through the severe labors of early settlers and in numerous
instances are established in homes that they themselves have built as the result
of well directed effort and wise forethought that should be one of the elementary
teachings in every rightly conducted family.
Among those of the younger generation who have gained a foothold in the
wonderful valley of the Columbia is John R. Spurgeon, a prosperous young
farmer whose home is near Vancouver. He was born on a farm near Vancou-
ver, November 9, 1882, and is a son of Mathias Spurgeon, a pioneer of 1852,
whose record appears elsewhere in this work and who is now living retired at
Vancouver, and Olive (Dillon) Spurgeon, also a member of a pioneer family,
who was the mother of two daughters and four sons, all of whom are now
living.
John R. Spurgeon grew up under the kindly care of loving parents and re-
ceived a good common-school education and in 1902, at the age of twenty years,
began devoting his entire time to the farm and assisted his father for one year.
At the end of that period he was associated with H. R. Brooks for one year in
farming and then they bought a confectionary store in Vancouver, which they
conducted for a number of months. In 1906 Mr. Spurgeon resumed operations
upon the home farm, continuing until January, 1910. In the meantime he had
purchased twenty acres of land adjoining and he now devotes his attention to
his own property, which he has converted into a fruit farm, containing eighteen
acres set in prune, apple and walnut trees. This makes quite a valuable property
and one that under the favoring conditions of this region is capable of yielding
handsome annual returns.
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In 1906 Mr. Spurgeon was united in marriage to Miss Julia Scott of Van-
couver, a daughter of Mrs. C. T. Scott, and has found in his wife a sympathetic
and faithful companion. In the beginning of a promising career and living in a
country that has no superior in the world for responsiveness of climate or soil,
the subject of this review has the probabilities all in his favor for acquiring an
abundance of this world's goods and also the peace and happiness that are
synonymous with useful and well directed efifort.
CHARLES BARENSTECHER.
Charles Barenstecher, one of the best known and most popular restaurant
men of the Pacific coast was for many years prominently identified with that
business in Portland, where his death occurred June 26, 1910. He was born at
Baltimore, Maryland, on the 5th of July, 1858, a son of Henry and Elizabeth
(Eisenhardt) Barenstecher, both of whom were of German lineage. The father
was a brewer and for many years carried on business in Baltimore, where his
last days were passed. His widow is still living at the venerable age of eighty-
two years. Their family included two sons, who reached adult age.
Charles Barenstecher was a pupil in the public schools of Baltimore until
thirteen years of age, when the spirit of adventure and the hope of attaining
success brought him to the Pacific coast. He made his way first to San Fran-
cisco and for a time was employed at the Concordia Club, the fashionable club
of that city, and there became acquainted with a number of prominent men. He
afterward entered the employ of George Schmitt and later bought out Mr.
Schmitt, who was the owner of a fine cafe known as Schmitt's Villa, facing
Golden Gate Park. Two years later Mr. Barenstecher disposed of his business
in San Francisco and came to Portland, making his home in this city from 1891,
Here he became associated with Fritz Strobel, then proprietor of the Louvre
Cafe, with whom he had been acquainted for some years. Mr. Barenstecher
acted as manager of the cafe for a few months and then became a partner of
Mr. Strobel. His connection with the Louvre was marked by the introduction
of up-to-date features, and it can be truthfully said that he injected new life
into the high class restaurant. He carved out a new policy and added to an
excellent menu a warm welcome, and soon the Louvre became the fashionable
eating place of Portland. His following rapidly increased; it was a loyal fol-
lowing which he carried with him when rival restaurants were established and a
keen competition developed. From a comparatively small place the Louvre
branched out until it covered a quarter of a block, being regarded as the finest
restaurant of the Pacific northwest for years.
The firm of Strobel & Barenstecher established the Belvedere Hotel which
they conducted in connection with the Louvre. The business of the firm was
highly successful during the more than sixteen years in which Mr. Barenstecher
and Mr. Strobel were associated. Intending to retire, the partners disposed of
their interests, but after a year and a half of inactivity they again entered the
restaurant business. They purchased what was known as The Tavern and re-
named it the Hofbrau, opening it in the summer of 1908. Being expert man-
agers, their name was a sufficient guarantee to high class trade, and the Hofbrau
sprung into immediate popularity, even exceeding the palmy days of the Louvre.
At the Hofbrau Mr. Barenstecher could always be seen. Early or late he could
be found walking from table to table, talking with his patrons, lookmg after
their comfort and manifesting an interest that was not only businesslike ^but
sincere. About the time of his death the Evening Telegram said in part : Of
all the restaurant men of Portland no one ever impressed his personality upon
the patrons so closely or came in such close contact with the guests. Baren-
stecher was everywhere, all over the place of business all the time. Other man-
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agers keep in the office or watch the register, but Barenstecher was a natural
mixer and he brought trade and kept it. It was a perfect welcome he gave every-
one, at noon and in the evening, and his circle of acquaintances ranged up into
the thousands, and these will all regret his death." His acquaintances soon be-
came his friends and included not only the leading citizens of Portland, but the
traveling public and tourists of the Pacific northwest.
Mr. Barenstecher was a boniface of the old school, a host who made his
guests and patrons feel that they were welcome and at home. Added to a most
pleasing personality, he possessed the rare faculty of remembering both faces
and names. If once he met a man he remembered the name and could recall it
instantly months or years later. He knew the name and face of almost every-
one in Portland who visited the first-class restaurants. Had he desired a politi-
cal career he would have won success and honor therein, for he had the unusual
gift of winning friends quickly and retaining their regard. The Evening Tele-
gram said : "Not even could Congressman Binger Hermann give a more genial
and hearty handshake." With "Charley," as he was always known, the hand-
shake wag an art which he had assiduously cultivated to the point that the re-
cipient felt its sincerity.
For more than a year Mr. Barenstecher's health had been slowly undermined,
due probably more than anything else to his long hours at business as well as the
very close attention he gave to his business affairs. He was urged to retire, but
declined to do so until his weakened condition compelled cessation from labor.
The death of Mr. Barenstecher occurred on the 26th of June, 1910, and his re-
mains were interred in Riverview cemetery. He was a leading member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and also held membership in the Cath-
olic church. In politics he was independent, voting for measures which he
deemed essential to the general welfare and for the candidates whom he thought
would best conserve the public good.
On the I2th of November, 1890, in San Francisco, Mr. Barenstecher was
united in marriage to Miss Effie Fey Dackerman, a daughter of Conrad and
Caroline (Fey) Dackerman, the former a native of Germany and the latter of
Paris, France. The father died in Chicago, in which city the mother is residing
after a residence of nearly fifty-five years. Mrs. Barenstecher was born in Chi-
cago and when eighteen years of age went to San Francisco, where she was
married. Two children were born of this union : Viola, who is a graduate of
St. Mary's Academy of Portland and is now a student of the National Park
Seminary at Washington, D. C. ; and Herbert Charles, born April 30, 1893, at
home.
M. SELLER & COMPANY.
The firm of M. Seller & Company is one of the largest in the west devoted
to the jobbing and importing of crockery, glassware, tinware, stoves and house
furnishing goods. They occupy eight floors for offices, showrooms, etc., at the
corner of Fifth and Pine streets in Portland, and have large warehouses at Thir-
teenth and Kearney streets, directly on the tracks of the transcontinental rail-
roads. The business was established in 1859 by Moses Seller, who still remains
the senior member of the firm, and is financially interested in it. He, however,
is not now active in the management, but makes his home in Frankfort-on-the-
Main, Germany, the land of his birth, having charge of the European offices of
the firm.
Mr. Seller was a pioneer of 1852, crossing the Atlantic and coming to Ore-
gon in that year. He established himself in a general merchandise business in
Corvallis, and in 1859 moved to Portland, opening a wholesale crockery, glass-
ware and house furnishing business at Front and Stark streets, then the center
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of Portland's business district, little realizing that the enterprise would grow
and develop to its present great dimensions. His watchfulness of details, pro-
gressive methods and extraordinary foresight kept the business constantly ex-
panding until it became necessary to secure enlarged quarters, when the stock
was removed to Front and Burnside streets, where business was continued until
further demands for room compelled a change to the present splendid location
at Fifth and Pine streets.
The firm today covers probably the largest field in area of any house in its
line in the country, and is one of the great wholesale enterprises of the north-
west. The wants of the trade are not only met by the original house at Portland,
but are cared for by large branch establishments, one at Seattle and one at
Spokane, Washington. These branches were both established in 1889, just on
the eve of the remarkable growth of that territory, and both have kept abreast
of the development in their respective trade fields. The business is not incor-
porated, but is a partnership concern, the members in addition to Moses Seller
being Phillip Lowengart, F. M. Seller and Sanford Lowengart. Phillip Lowen-
gart, the manager, who has long been interested in the concern, is a keen, far-
sighted business man of the most up-to-date school. F. M. Seller, who is active
in the management, is a son of Moses Seller. He is a native Oregonian, having
been born and reared in this state. The junior member, Sanford Lowengart, is
a son of Phillip Lowengart. The business policy of the house will bear the
closest investigation, and is fair and liberal to a degree; and the development
achieved in fifty-two years in this city has been the result of this policy, coupled
with close application, perseverance and the ability to grasp opportunities as
they have presented themselves.
FRANK TANNING.
Throughout the period of his manhood, Frank Tanning has been a resident of
the west and has ever been imbued with the enterprising, progressive spirit
which has been the potent force in the upbuilding of the district west of the
Mississippi. He was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, May 30, 1866, a son of
J. M. and Esther D. (Dew) Tanning, who were also natives of the Buckeye
state. He attended the schools of that state until fourteen years of age. He
then went to Seneca, Kansas, with his parents and for five years was a
resident of the Sunflower state. It was while living in Kansas that he began to
learn the trades of a mason and plasterer. He was about nineteen years of age
when he removed to Canon City, Colorado, where he engaged in brick-laying and
plastering, remaining there for about fifteen years, or until 1902. He then went
to Pueblo, Colorado, where he resided until 1904 — the year of his arrival in
Portland.
He at once entered industrial circles here, working as a journeyman at his
trade for three years, after which he turned his attention to contracting. He
has executed many contracts in building garages, apartment houses and private
dwellings. He has erected apartment houses for George Parrish at the corner
of Eleventh and Salmon streets, for Dr. David Buck at Twenty-first and Flan-
ders streets and for George Houseman at Twenty-first and Hoyt streets. When
he began contracting he was in partnership with his brother C. W. Tanning but
for the past year has been alone. He expects soon to build an apartment build-
mg for himself at Forty-fifth and Taylor streets. The plans are already drawn.
This is to be fifty-six by one hundred feet, a two story building erected on a
strong foundation sufficient to support two more stories should he desire to add
the other two in the future. There will be tile partitions and he expects to
make the building entirely fire proof. It is situated in Sunnyside and Mr. Lann-
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ing has much faith in the future of that portion of the city. He was a member
of the Bricklayers Union up to the time that he began contracting on his own
account. As it is against the rules of the order to have a contractor among its
members, he had to resign when he began business for himself. The union,
however, at that time wrote him a very complimentary letter, expressing their
deep regret at losing so valuable a representative and speaking in high terms of
his ability and his trustworthiness.
In 1897 Mr. Lanning was united in marriage to Miss Laura B. Stine, a
daughter of John and Jane Mary Stine and a native of Missouri. They now
have two children, Frances and Gertrude, aged twelve and ten years respectively.
Mrs. Lanning is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Lanning gives his
political support to the republican party, for he deems its principles effective
agents for good government. Both he and his wife have many warm friends
in Portland and Mr. Lanning has found here a satisfactory field of business,
in which his earnest labor has brought him creditable prosperity.
AUGUSTUS J. LANGWORTHY.
Augustus J. Langworthy, of Portland, Oregon, a retired merchant, now de-
ceased, was born at Peoria, Illinois, on the 20th day of November, 1826, his par-
ents being Dr. Augustus Langworthy and Ada (Meachem) Langworthy. Dr.
Augustus Langworthy was born at Windsor, Vermont, received a college educa-
tion and became a prominent representative of the medical profession, as were
also two of his brothers and he practiced his profession for many years in Pe-
oria, Illinois, of which place he was the founder, likewise of Northampton, and
Tisquea, Iowa, afterwards named Dubuque.
His son and namesake, Augustus J. Langworthy attended school there, took
up the study of medicine, to which he devoted two years, but becoming imbued
with the desire to go west, which became the talk of the day by his companions,
friends and neighors, he dropped his study and decided to go with them to Ore-
gon, being then a boy of twenty years of age and full of ambition. Mr. Lang-
worthy started with them on April 7, 1847, with both oxen and horse teams,
driving his own ox team all the way for five months and twenty days over prairie,
arid plain, fording rivers and climbing mountains. He reached Oregon City
on October 20, with his team of oxen in unusually good condition, without a scar
or blemish, for which he received much praise as a team to arrive in such condi-
tion was almost unknown. Much inquiry was made as to the cause of this
team being in so much better condition than all others, and he was asked "if it
was in breed of the animals," when a man of his company spoke up and said,
"The cattle are all the same stock and the only difference in their looks and con-
dition lies in the exceptionally kind, gentle and human way in which they were
handled by that boy," pointing to A. J. Langworthy, who was of a very sym-
pathetic and merciful nature. While the trip was attended with danger at times,
nevertheless it was a very enjoyable one to him, filled with many romances.
Among the many incidents along the way, Mr. Langworthy with one other
companion, walked ten miles from the company to climb high up on the dangerous
"chimney rock," to carve their names above all others, with their pocket knives,
wearing the blades almost away.
There being no physician in the company in which he traveled, he was sought
out, as having some knowledge of medicine to attend a very sick man whose life
was despaired of. Ordering him taken from the covered wagon, he placed him
in a tent, and applied prompt remedies out of a well selected box of medicines
which his father had prepared for him before starting and he soon restored him
to health.
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Immediately after his arrival at Oregon City, he sold his team for four hun-
dred dollars, and secured employment in a lumber mill, his work being to measure
and record all lumber to be shipped to foreign lands. Mr. Langworthy was thus
engaged until he bought out a man's right on a section of fine land on the Co-
lumbia river, about eight miles below St. Helens and commenced stock raising.
Soon after the gold excitement in California broke out, so he employed a
man to look after his interests here, while he went to the gold mines with two
of his companions who crossed the plains with him to Oregon. Later, the report
reached him that he had better return and look after his ranch, as there seemed
danger of it being jumped, so he made the trip back to Oregon by a sailing ves-
sel. Later, however, he returned to the mines in California, where he engaged
in mining and also conducted a general store.
Mr. Langworthy together with three other men mined on Feather river and
engaged in extensive damming to turn the water of the stream, with the view of
reaching the gold under it but were compelled to abandon their project by encoun-
tering quicksand, after spending much time and money. Being discouraged in
this, they sold their mine to a large wealthy company of San Francisco, which
took up the plan, with final success and thereby gaining many millions of dollars,
which they took from the bed of the river.
Mr. Langworthy, remained in California about three years, when he again
returned to Oregon, by water, settling on his section of land. He purchased
more stock, made many improvements and built a frame house as the one already
on the land when he bought it was a log cabin. He supplied the boats running
to San Francisco with meat. After about four years he sold his farm and stock
and purchased a lumber mill in Washington county, near Forest Grove, on Gales
creek. After engaging in the lumber business a short time he went to his mill
one morning to find the dam entirely gone, caused by quicksand, the same as he
had encountered on Feather river in California. However, he lost no time in
getting his money refunded which he had paid for the property, as it became
known that this was the owner's reason for selling the mill.
Mr. Langworthy then moved to southern Oregon and purchased another
section farm, about four miles south of Roseburg on the county road, where he
again engaged in the stock business for a few years, but not being familiar with
black mud he tired of it, and, selling out, he returned to Washington county,
purchased another farm about one mile from Hillsboro on the county road. He
moved upon it and made valuable improvements, among which was setting out a
fine orchard, which was considered one of the best in the county. He sold this
place after a time and bought another in the neighborhood. Later selling this
one, he bought a place two miles from it, which had forty acres of fine beaver-
dom land, which he cleared and drained and is now a very valuable place. In
time he sold this one and went into the merchandising business, in which he
engaged continuously for a great many years, commencing first at Cornelius,
Washington county and discontinuing the merchandising business at Corvallis,
Benton county.
Mr. Langworthy then moved to Seal Rock, Lincoln county and preempted
one hundred and sixty acres of government land, paying for it $1.25 per acre;
after making final proof on this land he then moved to Portland, where he has
since resided for twenty-four years. He was also the owner of acreage in the
heart of Portland at a time when there were but four or five houses, paying for
it one thousand dollars per acre. In his journey through life he has seen both
prosperous and unprosperous days and being of a courageous and ambitious na-
ture he always pushed forward with energy to a betterment of conditions.
On July 3, 1851, Mr. Langworthy was married to Miss Jane Garwood, a
daughter of Mrs. Marie (Humphenis) Garwood and Mr. William Garwood.
She crossed the plains with her parents to Oregon in 1850, from Missouri, living
about one hundred miles from St. Louis, at which place they formerly moved
from Indiana, her native state. Miss Garwood was living with her parents at
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Hillsboro, Oreg-on. when she was married to A. J. Langworthy, and she con-
tinued her residence in the state until called to her final rest on the 26th day
of February, 1893. Mrs. Langworthy was a faithful companion and helpmate
to her husband in the fullest meaning of the word, loving and devoted to her
children, and most highly esteemed by all of her acquaintances and friends, so
that her loss was deeply deplored by all who knew her, as well as by her imme-
diate family. Mrs. Langworthy was always ready and willing to help the sick
and suffering and she was frequently sought after by them on account of her
tender and patient care. She has passed many long lonesome nights with them,
administering to their wants, for the sake of relieving suffering humanity, for
she would never receive a penny for her services though urged to do so, as they
were more than willing to compensate her, and she justly won the name of being
the best nurse in the country.
To this marriage were born nine children : Melissa A. ; Lucina J. ; Emma A.,
who died in girlhood; Mary F. L. ; Ellen L., who died in girlhood; William A.,
who died in childhood ; Albert J., who died in infancy ; Ada M., who died in child-
hood; and Dr. Perry S. Langworthy of Portland, Oregon.
Mr. A. J. Langworthy has ever been a stalwart advocate of republican prin-
ciples and has frequently been called upon as campaign speaker; is a born orator;
and has been frequently urged to accept public office, one of which was repeatedly
offered him by ex-Governor Gibbs, as superintendent of one of the state institu-
tions, which he refused to accept. In later years, however, he accepted the
appointment of justice of the peace, postmaster, and Wells Fargo agent in con-
junction with his merchandising business in some of the towns where he has re-
sided, but has continuously refused to become a candidate for office in Portland.
On May 29, 1910, Mr. Langworthy was severely injured by a street car jerking
from under him, just as he was about to alight two blocks from his home. From
this he was a great sufferer, and confined to his home almost constantly after-
ward, besides resulting in total blindness. Some pioneers, perhaps, have been
more successful financially than he but none have won more true honor and re-
spect from his fellowmen in the various parts of the state where he lived. Mr.
Langworthy was upon all occasions strictly honorable in his dealings and was ever
firm in his principles for right and justice, and being of a kind and sympathetic
disposition, he was always inclined to overlook the faults of others. Moreover,
he was willing to trust others and at times his confidence was betrayed and he
thereby suffered losses but his own record is an untarnished one, and his hon-
esty ever stood as an unquestioned fact in his career. It has been said that "An
honest man is the noblest work of God," a eulogy that is well merited by Mr.
A. J. Langworthy.
On the nth day of November, 1910, Mr. A. J. Langworthy passed away at
his home in Portland, Oregon, after an illness of six days, and was laid to rest
after nine days on his eighty-fourth birthday. Having a high perception of life
and living it his memory will ever stand as a beautiful monument and "the world
is better for his having lived in it." In life he said : "I am willing to trust the
Great Power or Creator that made me and put me here, to take care of me when
He takes me away."
FRANK B. McCORD.
Frank B. McCord, president of the Rambler Automobile Company, which
was incorporated September 11, 1909, was born in Minnesota in 1877, about
forty-eight miles north of Monticello. That section of the state was then largely
a pioneer district, in which he was reared to the age of nine years, when his
parents, Joseph H. and Edith (Sears) McCord, left Minnesota for Pennsyl-
vania. Later, however, they returned to the former state and are now residents
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of Tacoma, Washington. Frank B. McCord acquired his early education in the
pubHc schools of Monticello, Minnesota, the high school at Annandale, Minne-
sota, and in the State University, where he completed a scientific course, win-
ning the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy upon his graduation with the class of
1902. His school days being over, he entered business life in connection with
his father, who was successfully conducting banking enterprises at Monticello,
Annandale, Menagha and other places. In this way he received a broad and
thorough business training, thereby laying the foundation for his later success
in other fields. In 1904, when twenty-seven years of age, he became salesman
for the Rambler automobile of Minneapolis and Chicago, and making his way
to Oregon, was for a brief period in Portland. Soon, however, he located at
Roseburg, where he remained for two years on account of his health. During
that period he purchased a fruit farm which he afterward sold.
Following his return to Portland Mr. McCord became associated with George
A. Wotton in the organization and incorporation of the Rambler Automobile
Company, which was incorporated on the nth of September, 1909, with Mr.
Wotton as the president and Mr. McCord as secretary and treasurer. In the
following January the latter took over the control of the business and at this
time is the president and owner of the concern. He conducts an agency for
the Rambler automobile for Oregon and Washington and also carries on a gen-
eral garage and auto repair business. The company also act as distributors of
the Rambler for the entire northwest. Their garage occupies two floors of a
building sixty by one hundred feet for sales and storage departments.
In 1904 Mr. McCord was married to Miss Grace Mahan, a native of Minne-
sota, and they have two children: Nina E. and Joseph H. Mr. McCord belongs
to Laurel Lodge No. 13, A. F. & A. M., of Roseburg, Oregon, and has attained
high rank in the Scottish Rite, holding membership in Oregon Consistory No. i,
and in Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to Phili-
tarian Lodge No. 8, I. O. O. F. of Roseburg, the Delta Upsilon fraternity and
the Commercial Club. His recreations are motoring and outdoor athletics, and
during his college days he was a member of the football and baseball teams.
He was also class president during his freshman year. An accomplished musi-
cian, he has become an organist and singer of note in the community and has
taken an active part in musical affairs of the city. He has the foresight to see
a good opening in a business which is rapidly developing, for the automobile is
growing in constant favor and becoming used not only for pleasure driving, but
also for commercial purposes as delivery wagons and auto trucks are manufac-
tured and placed upon the market. As a representative of the Rambler, he is
building up a good trade, for the many commendable points of the car assure a
ready sale.
EDWIN DALTON.
Edwin Dalton, one of the early business men of Portland, was born in
Coventry, England, in 1826, and acquired his education in the schools of that
country while spending his youthful days in the home of his parents, Absalom
and Amelia Dalton. His father was a hotel proprietor and also a painter and
plumber and under his direction Edwin Dalton learned the plumbing and paint-
ing trades, serving a seven years' apprenticeship, during which time he gained
familiarity with every detail of the business and became an excellent workman.
Thinking to enjoy better business opportunities elsewhere than in his native
land, Edwin Dalton went to Australia when a young man and there remained for
a few years. In 185 1, when twenty-five years of age, he started for America,
landing in Portland. The town at the time contained only a few hundred inhab-
itants— less than a thousand — and the business centered along the river. Mr.
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Dalton opened a paint shop on First street and conducted the business alone
until 1857, in which year his brother William and their father arrived in this
city. The two brothers then formed a partnership and were together until after
the death of Edwin Dalton in August, 1857, when William Dalton continued the
business alone.
In the year 1854 Edwin Dalton was united in marriage to Miss Catherine
Sadler, also a native of Coventry, England, and a daughter of Maria and John
Sadler, who came to America in 1854. They were five months and two weeks
upon the water ere landing at Vancouver, Washington. Before leaving the ship
Mrs. Dalton heard a rooster crow in the morning and said that she thought it
was the most pleasant sound she had ever listened to, for she knew that land
was near and that they would soon disembark. Edwin Dalton and Catherine
Sadler had been companions and friends in early life and were married soon
after her arrival. Unto them were born two children. Emily A., who was born
April I, 1855, lived in one block on Ninth street, between Bumside and Couch,
for over fifty years. She became the wife of James A. Dowling, who was born
in what was then Oregon, now Washington, May 5, 1851, and died November
II, 1902. His parents were among the pioneer settlers of this state. Mr. and
Mrs. Dowling had a family of seven children: Grace E., who is the wife of
Charles F. Foster of Portland and has two children, Dalton and Catherine ;
Edwin S., at home; James A., who married Sadie Moody and lives in Portland;
Ray and Ralph, twins, both now deceased ; and Florence G. and Orme F., both
at home. Mr. Dowling was for many years a member of the Willamette hose
company, a part of the volunteer fire department. Mrs. Dowling has a wide
acquaintance in this city, where she has always made her home and relates many
interesting incidents of the early days and also concerning the growth and
development of Portland. Edwin M. Dalton, the only son of that marriage,
also retains his residence in Portland.
Following the death of her first husband Mrs. Catherine Dalton was again
married. Her second husband was James Stuart, who was born in Scotland and
became one of the early residents of Portland, where he conducted a shoe shop
on Front street for many years. He died in 1898, at the venerable age of eighty-
one years. There were three children by that marriage: Catherine M., the wife
of Frederick W. Molson, of Canada; John F., who died April 5, 1893; ^^^
Frederick B., who died January 21, 1910. The mother passed away on the i6th
of January, 1902, at the age of seventy-nine years, after a residence of almost
forty-eight years in Portland.
HON. CHARLES B. BELLINGER.
The concensus of public opinion established the position of Hon. Charles B.
Bellinger as an able and distinguished representative of the Oregon judiciary.
The public continually maintains a critical attitude toward its servants, and only
the utmost rectitude of character, the most capable discharge of duty and the
most unfaltering loyalty to the trusts imposed win favorable comment. The
envious and the malevolent have scarcely dared to assail the record of Judge
Charles B. Bellinger, for his ability in his chosen profession was of superior
order and his fidelity to what he believed to be right no man ever questioned.
Doubtless he made mistakes as he traveled along the pathway of life, but they
were matters of judgment rather than of intent, and therefore weighed in the
balance of public opinion Charles B. Bellinger was never found wanting. He
typified in his life the progress of the northwest, arriving as he did in Oregon
to cast in his lot with its pioneer development when but eight years of age.
He was born in Maquon, Illinois, November 21, 1839, a son of Edward H.
and Eliza (Howard) Bellinger. The original American ancestor came from
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Holland and settled in the Mohawk valley of the Empire state when this coun-
try was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain. His
paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, while John
H. Bellinger, his grandfather, defended American interests in the second war
with England and later operated one of the first canal boats on the Erie canal.
When the tide of emigration was steadily tiowing westward he made his way
to Maquon, Illinois, in 1837, and there he and his son Edward conducted a wagon
shop. Still the voices of the west called Edward H. Bellinger, and the spirit
of the pioneer prompted his further removal until, with wife and three chil-
dren, he started for Oregon. They traveled much of the way across the plains
with the Mormon contingent of that year, Brigham Young leading a large num-
ber who were accompanied by a strong military organization. This rendered
them safe from attack by the Columbia Indians, who were manifesting particular
hostility that year. The Bellingers camped almost side by side with the Mor-
mons until they reached the Bear river valley, when the latter turned toward Salt
Lake City and the Bellinger family continued on their way to the Sunset state.
Marion county, where they established -their home, was practically an uninhab-
ited district and the most strenuous experiences in frontier life were there to be
met. Law and order had in a measure been neglected in the establishment of
an organized government, and in 1850 the abilities of Edward H. Bellinger were
recognized in his election to the territorial legislature. Ere the session was
called, however, he died at the age of thirty-two years from injuries sustained
by being thrown from a horse. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza
Howard, was a native of Massachusetts and a representative of one of the old
families of that state. Long surviving her husband, she died in Grant, Oregon,
in 1883, and was survived by only two of their five children, Charles B. and
Mrs. Ellen Shrewsbury, the latter of Los Angeles, California.
The parents of Edward Bellinger had also come to the Pacific coast in 1847,
and two years later John Bellinger made his way to the gold fields of California
and for a time was engaged in placer mining in that state. Later he returned to
his home in Marion county, Oregon, where he lived to the age of nearly ninety
years, passing away in 1882. He was a member of the Christian church and a
man of splendid personal characteristics and qualities. He retained the prize
of keen mentality to the closing years of his life and left his influence for good
upon the community in which he made his home.
It was in the home of his grandfather, John H. Bellinger, that Judge Bellinger
of this review resided subsequent to his father's death. He had come as a boy
of eight years to the northwest. Every incident of the trip across the plains was
of interest to him, and upon memory's wall hung many pictures of the pioneer
days. He pursued his education in a district school near the Santiam river,
where his teacher was Orange Jacobs later a member of congress from Wash-
ington also a judge of the superior court of that state and now a prominent at-
torney of Seattle. In his youthful days Judge Bellinger was impressed by the
fact, often told to him, that his father had intended to educate him for the bar.
He resolved to carry out his father's wishes as to a profession, and through his
own labors earned the funds necessary to meet the tuition and expense of a
course in Willamette University, which he attended for several years, laying
the foundation in broad literary knowledge for his professional learning. His
law reading was directed by Judge B. F. Bonham of Salem, and following his
admission to the bar in 1863 he entered upon practice in connection with John
C. Cartwright. After a time, however, he turned from the practice of law to
journalism and edited the Arena, a weekly democratic newspaper published at
Salem, regarded as a party organ in this state. He afterward became the pub-
lisher of the Salem Review, and, when impaired health made it advisable that
he seek a change of labor, he engaged in merchandising at Monroe, Bent county.
His abilities there won recognition in his election to the legislature in 1868. The
following year he removed to Albany. and became editor of the Albany Demo-
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 679
crat, which he pubHshed until 1870, when he came to Portland and was after-
ward closely associated with the practice of law. At the same time he founded
and for two years edited the Portland News, which eventually became the Port-
land Telegram.
His marked public spirit and his superior ability obtained his election for
various positions of honor and trust. He was clerk of the Oregon supreme
court from 1874 until 1878 and was then appointed by Governor Thayer to fill
out an unexpired term as judge of the fourth judicial court, which vacancy re-
sulted from the reorganization of the judicial districts of the state. In 1880 he
was made the democratic nominee for the office, but could not overcome the
overwhelming republican vote of the district. However, the vote given him was
extremely comphmentary, as he ran eleven hundred votes ahead of his ticket.
Following a partnership with John M. Gearin from 1880 until 1883, Judge Bel-
linger became a member of the law firm of Dolph, Bellinger, Mallory & Simon,
and so practiced until April, 1893, when he was appointed by President Cleve-
land to the position of judge O' the United States district court following the
demise of Judge Deady. He took his place upon the bench May i, 1893, and
the court records bear testimony to his superior ability. He always showed him-
self thoroughly competent in the discharge of the multitudinous delicate duties
that devolve upon him in this connection, and has given proof of his comprehen-
sive knowledge of the law und his abiHty to correctly apply its principles.
An important chapter in his life record covers his military experience. When
a goodly proportion of Oregon's inhabitants were of the red race and the hos-
tility of the savages was ofttimes manifested, he temporarily put aside the duties
of clerk of the supreme court to participate in the Modoc Indian war, serving
with the rank of lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Miller. On the 17th
of January, 1873, he took part in the famous fight at the lava beds, on which
occasion the United States troops and the Oregon and California volunteers
were under command of General Wheaton. The Modocs, knowing every foot
of the almost impenetrable regions of the lava beds, had a decided advantage,
and the result was an ambush and defeat for General Wheaton. Soon after-
ward a peace commission was appointed at Washington and word was sent out
to suspend military operations so that the volunteers returned home. Upon the
promise of safety the peace commission was induced to meet the Modocs in the
lava, beds and all of its members were there massacred. The troops next sent
against them were also routed. Finally General Jefiferson C. Davis with his
troops settled down to a siege, hemming the Indians in and ultimately reducing
them to such a condition of starvation that the settlement of the trouble became
an easy matter.
The attractive home life of Judge Bellinger had its beginning in his mar-
riage, in Linn county, Oregon, to Miss Margery Johnson, who was born in Ohio
and in 1852 came with her father, James Johnson, to the northwest, the family
home being established upon a Linn county farm. Judge and Mrs. Bellinger
became the parents of seven children : Oscar now deceased ; Victor, who was a
member of the Portland bar but is now deceased ; Emmett, engaged in the dairy
business in Washington ; Howard, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this
volume; Mrs. Edith Edwards of Springfield, Illinois, now deceased; Mrs. L. H.
Knapp of Portland ; and Mrs. iW. J. Morrison of Portland.
Judge Bellinger was deeply interested in the study of cremation as a most
sanitary practice for every large community, and did much to interest his fel-
lowmen in this practice. He became the organizer and president of the Port-
land Cremation Association, which established the most complete and modern
crematory on the coast, maintaining this at a pecuniary loss for a long period,
prompted by philanthropic motives. In his political views Judge Bellinger was
formerly a democrat, but as he could not indorse the silver standard of 1896 he
5 evered his connection therewith and became an independent voter. He held
advanced ideas on many of the important questions which engaged the interest
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of statesmen and thinking men of the nation, his opinions always resulting from
broad study and a thorough understanding of the subject. He was a Royal Arch
Mason, a member of the Arlington Club and also of the Oregon Historical So-
ciety and the Oregon Pioneer Association. Governor Geer appointed him a
commissioner to the Lewis and Clark Exposition. His high standing in his pro-
fession was indicated by the fact that he was honored with the presidency of the
Oregon Bar Association. He compiled, in connection with W. W. Cotton, an
annotated edition of the laws of Oregon. For ten years he was professor of
equity, jurisprudence and pleading in the law department of the University of
Oregon, and from 1896 to his death was a member of its board of regents. He
inscribed his name deeply on the keystone of Oregon's legal arch, and of the
long line of illustrious men of whom the state is proud, the record of none has
been more faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation. He
passed away at his home in Portland May 12, 1905.
HOWARD BELTJNGER.
Among the family names well known on the northern Pacific coast none is
more honored than that of Bellinger. Ever since ^847 have members of this
family been identified with the Columbia river regio.i and Howard Bellinger,
whose name stands at the head of this review, is one of, its worthy representa-
tives. He is a great-grandson of John H. Bellinger, the grandson of Edward
H. Bellinger and the son of Hon. Charles B. Bellinger, who was one of the most
able and distinguished men that Oregon has known and a revi'^w of whom ap-
pears elsewhere in this work. The mother of Howard Bellinger was Margery
Johnson, who came with her father to Linn county, Oregon, in T852 and was
one of the helpful pioneer women of the early days.
Howard Bellinger was born at Portland in 1878, was here reared, and in the
public schools of this city he received his preliminary education, later becoming
a student in the State University at Eugene, Oregon. He possessed th >: inesti-
mable advantages of a congenial and refined home, which is worth more in the
development of right thought and character than all the education that can be
derived from books. Mr. Bellinger early showed an inclination for outdoor life
and for the pursuits of agriculture and stock raising. Acordingly in 1899 he
came to the ranch which had been bought by his father in Clarke county, Wash-
ington, and which is located twelve miles north of Vancouver on the Columbia
river. This ranch is known as the Lake River farm and contains eight hundred
acres, of which one hundred are under cultivation, and a young orchard of
eighteen acres is one of its attractive features. About six hundred acres of the
ranch are used for pasturage and for growing wild hay with which to carry the
stock through the winter. The ranch maintains about two hundred head of
cattle, and is known as one of the best conducted ranches in this region.
In 1904 Mr. BelHnger was united in marriage to Miss Lena M. Huber of
Portland, and two children have been born to them : Frances and Charles Byron.
Mr. Bellinger is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 173, of Felida, and
also of the Sara Grange and takes a lively interest in every movement that aims
to advance the permanent welfare of western Oregon.
J. E. Bellinger, a brother of our subject, is a native of Portland, born in
1870. After leaving the public schools he became chief clerk of the United States
internal revenue office at Portland, continuing until 1896, when he gave up his
position and came to the ranch where he has since made his home and where he
has attained a fine reputation among his neighbors as a man of good judgment
and a first class farmer. When he came here the land was all stumpage. It has
since been cleared off and improvements have been made, including residence,
barns, fences and other accessories of a modem farm, and the ranch has becone
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one of the good paying investments of the county. J. E. Bellinger is a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Vancouver and also of Sara
Grange. By the application of skill and intelligence the Bellinger brothers have
attained high standing among agriculturists and stock raisers. Through such
men the vocation is ennobled, and it adds dignity, wealth and stability to the
nation and the occupation of the farmer becomes not only the most independent
but also the happiest of all occupations known to man.
PATRICK SHARKEY.
Custom constitutes an almost unsurmountable barrier. In the old world
where things have been done the same way century after century it is almost
impossible to break away from the old routine, but in the new world opportunity
is almost limitless because each individual has a chance to carry out his own ideas
and to prove his worth. Because of this many young men of foreign birth have
made substantial progress in America. Among this number was Patrick Sharkey,
who was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, on the 17th of March, 1835, his
parents being John and Katherine (Carroll) Sharkey, both of whom died on
Prince Edward island in Canada. The father was a farmer by occupation and
was connected with agricultural pursuits in the Emerald isle until about 1843,
when he brought his family to America. He took up a donation land claim in
Canada and began the development of a farm.
Patrick Sharkey was the third in a family of seven children and pursued his
education in the schools of Ireland and also of Prince Edward island. There he
also learned the trade of a harness and collar maker at Georgetown, which is sit-
uated on Prince Edward island, and when twenty-three years of age, went to St.
Johns, New Brunswick, where he worked at his trade for two years. On the ex-
piration of that period he removed to Grand Falls, where he conducted a general
store, making his home there for four years. He then sold out and went to Bal-
timore, Maryland, where he followed his trade for eight months, going thence
to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he resided for twenty years. He was engaged
in the harness business in that city and devoted his time exclusively to that
undertaking until his removal to Oregon in April, 1886, when he settled in Port-
land. He was always a great reader and in this way had learned much about the
Pacific coast. He made a trip here in 1884 and was so well pleased with the
country and its characteristics that he returned to the east, disposed of his business
there and again came to the northwest. Here he established a harness and collar
factory on a small scale on Union avenue, between Washington and Alder streets.
This was the first collar factory in Portland. He increased the business as he
could and later removed to Taylor street, where he continued to carry on busi-
ness up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 20th of August, 1902.
In the meantime he had admitted his son, Edward J. Sharkey, to a partnership
and following the father's death the son continued in the business until 1903,
when the factory was destroyed by fire. He then removed to Union avenue at
the corner of Oak street, where the plant is situated at the present time. Such
is the business history of Mr. Sharkey, and it represents a life of untiring dili-
gence, perseverance and industry, yet it by no means represents the extent of his
interests or activities.
At the time of the Civil war he enlisted for active service in the Union army,
joining a regiment at Boston, Massachusetts. He was transferred to the har-
ness-maker's department, however, on account of his knowledge of the trade.
He remained with the army for eight months and during that period was located
at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He always gave his political allegiance to the re-
publican party, which stood as the defense of the Union during the dark days of
the Civil war and has always been the party of reform and progress. His reli-
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gious faith was that of the Roman Catholic church, to which he always strongly
adhered.
It was on the 4th of November, 1859, that Mr. Sharkey was married to Miss
Elizabeth McClemmens, a daughter of Patrick and Elizabeth (Miller) McClem-
mens. Mrs. Sharkey was born on the same day as her husband, the place of her
birth, however, being in County Derry, Ireland. She came to the British prov-
ince in America when four years of age, her parents locating upon a farm near
St. Johns, where their remaining days were passed, and in that locality she re-
sided until after her marriage. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sharkey were born nine chil-
dren. Edward ]., now of Portland, married Fannie J. Davis and has four chil-
dren: George and Mary, twins; Ralph; and William. Josephine is the wife of
Charles Sweeney, a locomotive engineer residing in Portland, and they have three
children, Irene, Grace and Edmund. Katherine is the wife of Frank Southard,
of Portland, and has five children, Harry, Helen, Catherine, Mildred and Eliza-
beth. Louise is the wife of John Casey, of Portland, and has four children,
Margaret, Allen, Edward and Charles. John P., who is engaged in the real-es-
tate business in Portland, married Jennie Graham and has four children, Gra-
ham, Clemmens, Ellis and Herman. Helen is the wife of Rudolph Zeller, of
Portland, and has three children, Philip, Rudolph and Marie. William T., who
is connected with the collar factory, married Cecelia Cahill and has one child,
Gertrude. Mrs. Sharkey still survives her husband and makes her home in Port-
land, where she now has many friends.
Mr. Sharkey never regretted his determination to come to the coast, for he
was always pleased with the country and interested in its rapid development and
substantial growth. He demonstrated his worth as a business man, who in the
years of his residence here developed an enterprise of considerable proportions.
He took up a homestead near Gresham of one hundred and sixty acres and also
bought eighty acres adjoining, a part of which is now being laid out in small
tracts by his son.
AARON DELANEY SHELBY.
Aaron Delaney Shelby was one of the early merchants of Portland who
enthused into his mercantile interests a progressive spirit which had its effect
upon the upbuilding of the new city. He was born in Kentucky, near Hender-
son, on the 7th of October, 1827, and when a mere child was left an orphan and
was consequently brought up by an uncle in Mississippi. He received his edu-
cation in that state and later engaged as clerk in a mercantile store, thereby gain-
ing knowledge and experience that enabled him later to carry on business on his
own account. His initial step in this direction was made in Newberg, Indiana,
where he entered into a partnership with Chester Bethel. After the partnership
had continued for one or two years, Mr. Shelby disposed of his interests and in
1853 started for the west. He sailed for the isthmus and after crossing the nar-
row neck of land which joins the two American continents, embarked for San
Francisco and made his way northward to Portland.
The year previous to his departure from Indiana, or on the 3d of November,
1852, Mr. Shelby was married to Miss Mary Virginia Lane, second daughter
of General Joseph Lane, who was the owner of an extensive farm near Evans-
ville, Indiana. A few years previous, in 1848, General Lane was appointed by
President Polk the first territorial governor of Oregon, to which state he sub-
sequently returned and made it his home. General Lane is elsewhere represented
in this volume. Mrs. Shelby was born in Vanderburg county, Indiana, and re-
mained a resident of that state until her removal to Oregon.
Upon arriving in Portland, Mr. Shelby embarked in business as proprietor of
a shoe store. Later he engaged in the crockery business and during the greater
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 683
part of his life continued in merchandising in the city of Portland. His first
store, built and owned by himself, was the first brick retail store on First street.
At that time the business district of Portland extended little beyond Front and
First streets. Mr. Shelby increased his stock from time to time as the growing
interests of trade demanded, and through his progressiveness and business capa-
bilities became a factor in the substantial growth and early commercial develop-
ment of Portland.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Shelby were born two children, Eugene, who married
formerly Miss Alberta Eccles, of Portland, and who is living in San Francisco,
where he is superintendent for the Wells, Fargo Express Company; and Annie
Blanche Shelby, of Portland, who has achieved distinction as an authority on
whist and other scientific card games and is the author of two well known east-
ern publications "Standard Whist" and "Bridge Abridged."
The death of Mr. Shelby occurred on the 3d of September, 1881, and deep
sorrow attended his burial in Lone Fir cemetery. He had won his way to the
hearts of all who knew him, as well as his immediate family and friends. More-
over, he was closely associated with many of the prominent public interests of
the growing city. He was one of the early members of the volunteer fire de-
partment and was popularly known in that organization when its membership
included the chief residents of the city. He also took an active part in politics as
an advocate of democratic principles and was elected to the city council and also
chosen to represent his district in the legislature. In formulating the rules gov-
erning Portland and the laws regulating the state, he took an active interest and
at all times sought the good of the community and the commonwealth. His
entire life was actuated by honorable principles and he won the friendship and
regard of all with whom he was associated.
FERDINAND H. DAMMASCH, D. D. S., M. D.
Endowed with a natural aptitude for the healing art and also with an abund-
ance of ambition and energy. Dr. Ferdinand H. Dammasch has been deservedly
very successful as a medical practitioner in Portland. Many physicians who have
attained great success worked much longer in securing the same patronage which
now comes to Dr. Dammasch. Being familiar with local conditions from his
youth up, he began among friends and, bringing to his profession a well trained
mind and an up-to-date knowledge of the best methods in his profession, he very
soon attained a position of comparative independence.
He was born in San Francisco, California, in 1879. When he was three years
of age his parents moved to Portland and here he was reared and received his
preliminary education in the public schools. Having decided to follow a profes-
sional career, he was for two years a student in the North Pacific Dental Col-
lege and in 1902 was graduated from the Philadelphia Dental College. He next
became a special student of medicine at the University of Strassburg, Germany,
where he continued for one year. Returning to this country, he entered the Tem-
ple University of Philadelphia and was graduated from the medical department
of that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1905.
After completing his medical course Dr. Dammasch returned to Portland,
where he has since been engaged in practice and where he has met with a favor
which is the reward of conscientious application and thorough acquaintance with
the principles- of a trying profession. In July, 1909, he was appointed health
officer of the city and since that time has devoted much of his time toward health
problems of a public nature. He is a member and trustee of the City and County
Medical Society and is president of the Portland Medical Club. In fraternal
circles he is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Washington
Chapter, No. 18, R. A. M. ; Oregon Commandery, No. i, K. T. ; Al Kader Tem-
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pie of the Mystic Shrine, while in social circles he has for many years held mem-
bership in the Multnomah Athletic Club.
It was as a result of great effort and repeated disappointments that Dr. Dam-
masch, with two others of German extraction, founded and organized the confed-
eration of German speaking societies of Oregon, now commonly known as the
German American Alliance, which has become a member of the national body of
that name. This alliance now comprises thirty-eight German speaking societies
in all parts of the state, with a total membership of over eight thousand men of
German, Austrian or Swiss antecedents, and is constantly expanding until ulti-
mately it will be represented in every county of the state of Oregon. It was truly
a ereat work to bring together such an organization, of which Dr. Dammasch is
today the recognized head, and he and his friends may be justly proud of their
work.
At Philadelphia, while pursing his studies at the medical college, Dr. Dam-
masch was united in marriage, on September i, 1904, to Miss Nellie J. Cascaden.
Two children have blessed the union, Louis and Sarah Josephine.
At the outset of a career that gives broad promise of usefulness, Dr. Dam-
masch has the confidence and support of many friends and acquaintances, who
prophesy for him a happy and brilliant future. He recognizes medicine as a
most absorbing profession and that only he who brings to it unusual talents and
unalterable determination to win can reach the highest rank. He must have thor-
ough education in his calling and a sound body as well as a good brain. Such
a man is the subject of this review and of him it may safely be said "he will
succeed because he contains within himself the elements of success."
JOHN G. D. LINNEMANN.
There are many men who do not startle the world by unexpected attainment,
yet who make for themselves an enduring place in the memory of friends and
those with whom they daily come in contact, and the world is richer and better
because they have lived, as they add to life sunshine in their immediate social
circle and by their uprightness and virtues uphold the faith of their fellow-
men in the efficiency and worth of these qualities. Such was the life of John G.
D. Linnemann, a pioneer resident of Multnomah county, early identified with
industrial interests and later with the agricultural development of this section
He was forty years a resident of Oregon, coming to this state soon after his
arrival in the new world.
He was born in northern Germany, May 22, 1827, and acquired his education
in the public schools there, after which he served an apprenticeship at the tailor's
trade. He was, however, but twenty-three years of age when he determined to
try his fortune in the United States. It requires courage, determination and
great hopefulness to sever the ties which bind one to family, home and native
land and go to a distance far removed therefrom, where the future is at best
uncertain. Mr. Linnemann, however, possessed the requisite qualities and, cross-
ing the Atlantic, became a resident of St. Louis. Soon afterward he removed to
Randolph County, Illinois, where he established a tailoring business, but the call
of the far west was irresistible to him and he joined the long wagon train that
traveled northwest in 1852. His covered wagon was drawn by oxen and many
hardships and privations were experienced ere the four months had passed which
were required by him to make the trip. Portland, the beautiful "Rose City" of the
present day, was then a little village of but four hundred inhabitants, but he
believed that it promised well for the future and he opened a shop in his house on
Third street, where he worked at his trade until agricultural interests claimed
his entire attention. After residing for a time in Oregon he felt that it would be
an act of wisdom to puchase land, for he foresaw that realty would rise rapidly
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in value as the country became thickly settled. Accordingly he purchased a dona-
tion claim of three hundred and twenty acres on the Powell Valley road, although
at that time there was no road and between his farm and Portland was a dense
forest. Space had to be cleared ere he could build a little one story log cabin.
Then he took up the arduous task of cutting away the timber that he rnight pre-
pare the land for the plow. He did the work of clearing and cultivating as he
could find time while still pursuing his trade in Portland, walking back and forth
night and morning. Later, however, the work of the farm demanded his entire
time and he ceased to engage in tailoring. His labors brought the farm under a
high state of cultivation and productive fields crowned his work with good crops,
for which he found a ready sale on the market.
All through this work Mr. Linnemann had the assistance and encouragement
of his wife, who was ever to him a faithful companion and helpmate. In Decem-
ber, 185 1, there was celebrated the wedding of John Linnemann and Miss Catha-
rina Elizabeth Von Falde, who was also born in northern Germany, her natal day
being September i, 1828. In 185 1 she came to America, settling in Illinois. Two
years after the death of her husband she removed to Gresham, where she has
since made her home, although she is still the owner of the farm of one hundred
and sixty-seven acres which her husband secured many years ago. She contri-
buted liberally to the building of the, Methodist Episcopal church of Gresham,
which is now known as the Linnemann Memorial church, being named in honor
of Mr. and Mrs. Linnemann. At the junction one "mile and a quarter from
Gresham is a station called Linnemann Junction also named in honor of the first
settler of that locality. It is at the jundiaii, of : the Estacada, Cazadero, Gresham
and Troutdale electric roads. ^ ' > --■■ ---J;:.!.. ';.."• ••-
Mr. Linnemann held membership with the Odd Fellows, the first lodge organ-
ized in Portland bearing his name. He passed away in January, 1892, after
living in Oregon for about forty years. A contemporary publication has said of
him : "Public-spirited, Mr. Linnemann was an active supporter of all measures
calculated to be of any material benefit to his country. At one time he served as
supervisor and was also school director in his district. To Germany America is
indebted for many of its best citizens and in Mr. Linnemann was found a worthy
representative of his race. Sturdy of nature, he devoted many years to the
labors of the farm, and that his efiforts met with success was but the natural
reward of a life of industry. Purely self-made his reputation was one any man
might envy. His circle of acquaintances was large and among them he was known
as a man who had a high reg"ard for his word, which he always made as good as
his bond and as such it was accepted. That there are not more such men is to
be regretted ; if there were, this world would be dififerent. He lived an honorable
life and while his sphere of usefulness was not an extended one, he did much to
endear himself to those with whom he came in contact. There was much in his
life worthy of emulation, and now that he is no longer with us in person, there
is a memory remaining of which his wife and helpmate may well be proud. Too
much cannot be said or done in honor of such men, as it is to these hardy pioneers
Oregon owes everything."
JOSEPH PAQUET.
From the pioneer epoch to the present day the record of Joseph Paquet has
been closely interwoven with the history of Portland and this section of the coun-
try. As a contractor he has been connected with much public work. Not by
leaps and bounds has he attained the goal of prosperity, but by the steady prog-
ress which indicates the wise and careful improvement of every opportunity that
has come to him.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 19, 1841, a son of Francis Xavier
and Mary Louisa Lanadier (De Langdeau) Paquet. The father was born in
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using liquor or tobacco in any form, and the many sterling qualities which he
has displayed throughout his entire life have gained for him the confidence, good
will and high regard of those with whom he has been associated.
JAMES HENNESY MURPHY.
Among the lawyers of Portland none is more widely known in Irish- American
circles than James Hennesy Murphy, who is not only an attorney but he is a
traveler, a writer and a public speaker, being accredited by an authority as high
as that of the official organ of the Benedictine Order in Oregon as being the
best posted layman in the northwest on the history of the Roman Catholic church,
He is of Irish descent and was born at Boston, Massachusetts, November 9, 1858.
His father, Daniel Murphy, was a native of the city of Cork, Ireland. His
sympathies and activities with what is known as the James Stephens movement
caused Mr. Murphy to leave Ireland for America to escape the vigilance of the
British government. He landed at Boston, where he entered business as a mer-
chant tailor, in which he continued until his death in 1880. The mother of our
subject, who was Hannah Hennesy before her marriage, was a native of Bandon,
County Cork, Ireland. She died five years after her husband had been called
away, in 1885.
James H. Murphy was educated in the Catholic parochial schools of Boston
and later matriculated at Holy Cross College, a noted Catholic institution, at
Worcester, Massachusetts. He took up the study of law in the offices of Gen-
eral B. F. Butler and Captain Clark, at Boston, but ill health, obliged him to
seek outdoor life and he temporarily entered the journalistic profession, being
aided largely by a knowledge of shorthand and telegraphy. He was one of those
engaged in experiments in transmitting music over telegraphic wires under direc-
tion of Professor A. Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and Charles J.
Glidden, who has since become famous in the development of the automobile and
in aerial navigation. Attracted to new fields, Mr. Murphy visited Peru and
Mexico, where he engaged in various enterprises. Returning homeward, he
spent some years in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, during which he made
many observations and contributed extensively to eastern papers. In November,
1890, he arrived in Oregon and since 1894 has been engaged in law practice at
Portland. He is known as one of the leaders of the Irish political movement in
the northwest and a strong advocate of Irish national principles. As a speaker
upon such subjects and as an exponent of Irish history he has a wide reputation.
His study of these and relative topics has extended over many years and few
native born Americans have devoted as much attention as he to those subjects.
Mr. Murphy was married in 1885, at Lowell, Massachusetts, to Miss Elizabeth A.
Mahon, who is in full sympathy with her husband in the work to which he has
devoted years of his mature life.
The active temperament of Mr. Murphy has found expression not only in his
profession and on the platform as an advocate of teaching Irish history in primary
schools, which he regards as of great importance. He had charge of Dr. Hyde's
visit to Portland in 1907 in the interest of the resurrection of the Gaelic language
He is president of the United Irish League of Oregon, a member of the American-
Irish Historical Society and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was a
prominent figure at the Hibernian convention banquet held in Portland in July,
1910, an event of national interest to members of the order who were gathered
from many quarters. He also had charge of the itinerary of Hon. T. P. O'Con-
nor's northwest trip in October, 1910, from Vancouver, British Columbia, to
Butte, Montana, in the interest of home rule for Ireland, which netted forty
thousand dollars for Ireland's cause.
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Mr. Murphy has been a close and ardent student of the writings of the late
H. W. Scott, editor of the Oregonian, whose style he has copied in his many con-
tributions to the press. He considers Mr. Scott one of the great minds of his
day and generation, and upon the latter's death, Mr. Murphy's estimate of his
literary merits and life work, published in the Catholic Sentinel, was conceded
by competent judges to be one of the foremost of the hundreds of articles on
that subject in keen insight of the character depicted and the literary merit of
the article.
Mr. Murphy has always been a consistent democrat but has never yielded
to any "fads or fancies" in pohtics. He stands for the old school and in whatever
he undertakes he is governed by principles that he early imbibed and that have
appealed to his mind as just and right.
WILLIAM A. CATES.
William A. Cates, long identified with agricultural interests in this section
of the country and also recognized as a local leader of the democratic party, was
born in Livingston county, Illinois, April 15, 1850. The first fifteen years of
his life were there passed, and in 1865 he crossed the plains with his parents,
the journey being made with wagons and teams. He is the son of Spencer
and Phoebe (Cunningham) Cates, the latter a cousin of Grover Cleveland, her
mother having been Elizabeth Cleveland, a sister of President Cleveland's father.
The Cates family is one of long connection with American interests, the first
representatives of the name coming from England to the new world in 1632.
The ancestry is traced back four hundred years to the time of King Richard.
Joseph Cates, braving the dangers of an ocean voyage during the period of early
colonization in the new world, settled in Virginia. He had a brother who es-
tablished his home in New England, but W. A. Cates of this review is descended
from the Virginia branch of the family. Mrs. Elizabeth (Cleveland) Cunning-
ham, the grandmother of W. A. Cates, had fifteen children and one hundred and
two living grandchildren at the time of her death.
When Spencer Cates brought his family to the northwest he settled on a
farm two miles east of Union, Oregon, on what became known as the old Cates
homestead, and there followed general agricultural pursuits until his death,
which occurred on the i6th of March, 1869. He was one of the two county com-
missioners elected to ofiice at the first election following the organization of
Union county, and was a man well known and well liked in his community.
W. A. Cates completed his education in Baker City Academy, from which
he was graduated in 1873. Previous to this time, in 1871, he filed on the first
claim in what is now Wallowa county. After his graduation he located at Union,
Oregon, and served as deputy under his brother. R. S. Cates, who was county
clerk. His mechanical genius and originality having resulted in the invention of
a universal timepiece, he then traveled extensively over the United States in-
troducing this for three or four years. At the end of that time he located on a
tract of land where now stands the station of Telocaset. This place he home-
steaded and established Telocaset postofifice and served as postmaster of the town
for seven years, filling the office from the day of his arrival there until he left.
In 1892 he came to Clarke county, Washington, and purchased twenty-four acres
of land on Mill Plane, eight miles east of Vancouver. Here he set out twelve
acres in fruit and devotes the remainder to the raising of grain. He is most
progressive in all of his agricultural and horticultural interests, and his labors
have been attended with that substantial measure of success which always fol-
lows unfaltering industry and practical management. He has always believed
that the agricultural community should keep pace in every way with the town
life and in 1806 he organized the East Mill Plane Telephone Company, of which
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he has since been the president. During the Indian wars of 1878 he became
second Heutenant of a company of home guards at Union, Oregon, for the pro-
tection of the settlers against the Bannock Indians.
In 1874 Mr. Gates was married at Baker City to Miss Carrie AdeHne Barlow,
a daughter of George Barlow, who settled at Barlow Landing in Cowlitz county,
Washington, in 1852. Mrs. Gates was born in 1856 and died September 12,
1906. They were the parents of five living children : George Calvin, a mechanic
of Vancouver; Ison B., a teacher in the public schools of Tacoma, Washington;
J. Elmer, who was graduated from Harvard University on the 29th of June,
1910, and is to take up ministerial work; Ida C, the wife of F. B. Deubell, of
Detroit, Michigan; and Mary Elma, the wife of S. W. Fisher of Fisher, Wash-
ington.
Mr. Gates is a democrat in his political views and has been active in the
work of the party. For a period, however, he severed his allegiance thereto, and
in 1878 was candidate for the office of secretary of state of Oregon on the
greenback ticket. To him has been accorded the election of Solomon Hirsch
state treasurer of Oregon in 1878, by throwing Union county's greenback vote
to him, and defeating A. H. Brown. He has taken a very active and helpful
part in promoting democratic politics in this section of the country since he
located in Vancouver. However, he has at times refused to serve as a delegate
to the state conventions for he dislikes the turmoil therein. He prefers a quiet
life, finding greater pleasure in directing his efiforts in agricultural and horticul-
tural lines, his persevering labors therein bringing him a substantial measure of
success.
JOHN McCRAKEN.
John McCraken, closely identified with Portland for sixty years as manufac-
turer, merchant, federal official, legislator, banker, churchman, philanthropist, is
the oldest living of that remarkable group of far-sighted men of the earliest days
who contributed so much to the foundations of the city's present greatness and
to a large extent brought about the transformation from crude trading post to
the beautiful Portland of today.
He was born in London, England, July 11, 1826, the son of John and Sarah
(Pigeon) McCraken. Of Scotch ancestry, his father was born in Dublin, Ire-
land, went to London in early manhood and became identified with mercantile
interests. With his family he came to America in 1832, settling in New York,
where he established himself in business and resided there until his death.
Left an orphan at eleven years of age, John McCraken made his home for the
following five years with Gilbert Emmons, a farmer near East Haddam, Con-
necticut, and received his education in a boarding school at that place. He gained
his first business experience in the store of Alford Emmons at Fiskville, Rhode
Island, and in 1846 went to New York, where he remained until 1849. Stories of
great fortunes in the California mines led him and several associates to form the
Greenwich & California Mining & Trading Company, of which he was made
vice president. In March, 1849, having purchased the two hundred and eighty
ton sailing vessel Palmetto, which they loaded with a cargo of provisions and
supplies, the party of forty-two members started on the voyage around the Horn
to San Francisco. Stopping for eleven days at Rio Janeiro and at Valparaiso
for a week, they arrived after a voyage of six months, at San Francisco, Septem-
ber 7, 1849.
Many of the men were practical mechanics, and the wages of forty-eight dol-
lars in gold per day proved so tempting that the company was disbanded and
Mr. McCraken with one or two others, left to settle up the afifairs of the com-
pany. The lumber for a house they had brought from New York sold for three
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 695
hundred and fifty dollars per thousand feet. Later he went to Stockton, where
he engaged in freight teaming for a time and then went to the southern mines.
In 1850 he engaged in the business of furnishing supplies to the mines in Cala-
veras county but at the end of a year disposed of his interest to his partners and
went to San Francisco, intending to locate in San Jose.
While on the journey, however, he met a stranger from Oregon, who gave
such growing accounts of the country that he determined to come to the Colum-
bia river. Taking passage on the sailing vessel Ocean Bird, he arrived at Oregon
City in November, 1850, where he soon purchased a one-fourth interest in the
Island Mills from R. R. Thompson and became associated with General Joseph
Lane and sons, who owned the other three-fourths of the property. Just as he
had become fairly settled in this new venture a disastrous flood came down the
river, wrecking the mills. The partners had invested heavily in wheat at five
dollars per bushel, and a sudden slump in the flour market found them with a large
supply of wheat which they could sell only at a great sacrifice. However, the
mills were rebuilt and resumed operation.
Mr. McCraken found time, in 1851, even in the shadow of financial difficul-
ties, to go to Salem and become an active candidate for chief clerk of the house.
He acquired a reputation in the territory as a stanch and resolute citizen and
was appointed by President Buchanan as United States marshal, serving in that
capacity to the end of Buchanan's administration. His was the third appoint-
ment to this position, his predecessors having been Joseph Meek, the celebrated
scout and Indian fighter, and J. W. Nesmith.
During the Indian war of 1855-6 he served as quartermaster-general with
rank of colonel. In 1856 he entered the commission business in partnership
with J. R. Richards, the house operating both in Portland and San Francisco.
Mr. Richards lost his life on the steamer Brother Jonathan, and Mr. McCraken
conducted the business for a time alone. He later became interested in the
grocery and supply business and has been for many years the head of the John
McCraken & Company, extensive handlers of wholesale builders supplies. He
was for many years associated with the Commercial National Bank as stock-
holder and director and was largely interested in the smelting works at Linton,
Oregon.
A republican, he served as member and president of the city council for sev-
eral terms. In 1891-1893 and again in 1901, he was member of the state legis-
lature, and was instrumental in promoting legislation directly affecting Portland
interests. A Mason of long standing, he was initiated into the order in this city,
served as master, was for two terms grand master of the Grand Lodge of Ore-
gon, and two terms was grand high priest of the Grand Chapter of Oregon ; has
served as eminent commander of Portland Commandery, and was elected to the
honorary thirty-third degree. He is a member and one of the founders of the
Chamber of Commerce and member of the Commercial Club. A member of
Trinity Episcopal church, he has been for many years senior warden, and is the
only one of its first vestrymen living.
In 1855 Mr. McCraken married Miss Ada Panbrum, who is a daughter of
Pierre Panbrum, early factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and one of the
very early pioneers of Walla Walla, where he settled in 1843, ^^^ served the
Hudson's Bay Company for many years. Six children were born to Mr, and
Mrs. McCraken. They are: Mrs. Charles Hurley of Tacoma, Washington; E.
Henry, associated as manager with his father's business in Portland; James R.,
who has retired from active business and resides on his fruit ranch at White
Sun, Washington; Robert G., of Portland; John, who resided at San Francisco,
where he died, aged thirty-five years; and Fritz, who died in infancy.
Mr. McCraken has been for some years retired from active business life and
is to a large degree a spectator of the scenes in which, during a long and busy
career, he has been a conspicuous figure. Few men living in Oregon today have
seen more of the wonderful progress of the past sixty years, and still fewer have
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contributed so much to that development. Thrown upon his own resources when
but a boy of eleven, he has by industry, a natural talent for business, rare ability
in gaining and retaining the confidence of others, and a capacity for endurance
possessed by few men; overcome many obstacles and has been for many years
recognized as one of Portland's leading citizens. Genial, affable, generous, his
purse has always been open to any worthy charitable cause, and few men have
given more liberally of their means. Crowned with the honors of eighty-four
years, he is freely accorded a place in the list of Portland's grand old men.
JOHN O'HARE.
The building of Portland represents the combined activities of many hun-
dreds of men who under the direction of skilled and competent contractors are
day by day adding to the modern structures whose solidarity and beauty are fast
winning for Portland recognition not only as one of the most attractive cities
of the coast but of the entire country. Time was when a single contractor did
practically all of the work in connection with a building, even shaping his own
window frames and doors. Now brickwork, stonework, carpentry, plastering,
interior decoration and painting are all done by different individuals, each hav-
ing a separate and well developed trade. John O'Hare is one of the pioneer
plastering contractors of Portland, whose business is now extensive and profit-
able. He was born in County Armagh, Ireland, October 28, 1843, ^"d came to
America when about twenty-six years of age. His parents were Peter and Mary
O'Hare. The father followed farming and was also a contractor in the grading
of roads. He died, however, at the early age of thirty-nine years.
At the usual age John O'Hare entered the public schools but his father's
early death compelled him to start out in life on his own account when he was
still quite young. He was less than sixteen years of age when he began to learn
the plasterer's trade, becoming familiar with every phase of the business. He
also served a part of his term of apprenticeship in the cast shop, the department
where plaster of paris casts are made for decorative work. He was employed
as journeyman in Ireland before he came to America, but he heard favorable
reports concerning the new world, its opportunities and the good wages paid for
labor. The story proved to him too attractive to resist. He was one of the
first of the family to cross the Atlantic, but later his mother, brothers and
sisters followed him.
On reaching the United States, Mr. O'Hare settled first in New York city,
where he followed his trade, working as journeyman from his arrival in 1870
until 1874. He then left the eastern metropolis for San Francisco, where he
remained for a number of years, going thence to Portland in 1880. He crossed
the continent in one of the old time emigrant trains run by the Southern Pacific.
After removing to Portland, he secured employment as journeyman, continuing
in the service of others for about eight years, when in 1888 he began contracting.
As journeyman he worked on the Lincoln high school and also on the state-house
at Salem. After he became a contractor he was connected with the construction
of many important buildings, having plastering contracts for the Methodist Epis-
copal church, the Mohawk building, at the southeast corner of Morrison and
Third streets, owned by the Corbetts, the United States National Bank, the First
National Bank building and the Jewish synagogue. He also did the plastering
in St. Vincent's Hospital, the Jefferson high school, the Marquam building and
in the home that was built by the Sisters of the Holy Name at Oswego. He
was also awarded the plastering contract for the new courthouse, which is in
process of erection in Portland at the present time. Among his more recently
completed contracts was the Baker Theatre and the building lately erected by
Daniel McKay at Third and Yamhill streets. He stands as a leader in his es-
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pecial line of work in Portland and a liberal patronage is continually accorded
him.
On the 1st of January, 1889, Mr. O'Hare was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Moren, a daughter of Michael and Jane (King) Moren, and a native of
County Rosscommon, Ireland. Of the six children born unto them one died
in infancy and the others are: Mary Jane, Vincent John, Anna Elizabeth, x\lice
Virginia and Francis Edward. The parents and children are members of the
Catholic church and Mr. O'Hare is a prominent member of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, serving as its state president for six years He is also connected
in membership relations with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he
has an interesting military chapter in his life record, for he was formerly a
member of the Oregon National Guard and in 1884 was commissioned by Z.
F. Moody as captain after having previously served as lieutenant of Company
B, Second Brigade, First Regiment, known as Emmet Guards. His military
training is noticeable in his bearing and he always feels a deep interest in the
military organizations of the state.
Ever loyal to his adopted land, Mr. O'Hare has never regretted his determi-
nation to come to America, for he regards business conditions here as superior
to those in the land of his birth, and in the improvement of the opportunities
which have come to him he has worked his way upward from a humble position
to one of affluence.
PERRY G. BAKER.
In a history of those who have been factors in the life of Portland, definite
consideration should be paid to Perry G. Baker, for he and his wife were the
first couple ever married in Multnomah county, and with many events which
marked the early progress of this section he was associated. A native of Vir-
ginia, he was left an orphan when very young. His father was a blacksmith
in the Old Dominion, and in his youthful days Perry G. Baker assisted his
father in the shop, which was located on an Indian reservation in that state.
The educational advantages which Perry G. Baker received were those afforded
by the public schools of Virginia, and he remained a resident of his native state
until early manhood, when he came to Oregon in 1854, his brother, William
Baker, having already taken up his abode. Perry G. Baker was one of the early
contractors here, doing much street work. He also dug the foundation for the
first free school in Portland, and was awarded contracts for improving several
of the principal streets of the city. He continued in that business until a few
years prior to his death, when he retired and gave his supervision to his prop-
erty, for he had invested in real estate from time to time until his holdings were
quite extensive. The income from his property in later years was quite substan-
tial and relieved him of the necessity for close attention to business which was
so necessary in his earlier residence here.
Mr. Baker was married at St. Johns to Miss Maria Loomis. The wedding
ceremony, performed January 11, 1855, by Solomon Richards, justice of the
peace, was the first ever celebrated in Multnomah county. Mrs. Baker was born
July 18, 1835, a daughter of James and Sarah Loomis, who crossed the plains
from Missouri in 1844. They had formerly resided in the east. On reaching
Oregon they settled near St. Johns, where the father took up a donation claim,
and both he and his wife remained on that property until called to their final
rest. Mr. Loomis became one of the early merchants of St. Johns and also of
Portland. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Baker were born nine children. Sarah E. mar-
ried William Everson of Portland, but both are now deceased. They had three
children : Lottie, who married Dr. Hokem and has three children, Blair, Roger
and Marion; Cora, who married Mr. Cousins and has one child, Harriet; and
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Emma, the wife of William Brown, by whom she has one daughter, Helen.
Emma Baker, the second member of the family, is the wife of Robert Austin
of Portland, and has one son, Perry, who married Burrell Graham. Frances
became the wife of James Berry and both have passed away. They had three
children: Katherine; John, who married Hazel Long; and Marie, the deceased
wife of Peter Mansiet. Mary Baker is the wife of Abraham Tishner of Port-
land, and has one child, Hazel. Clara is the wife of John Anan, of Portland,
and has a daughter Mattie, who married Mr. Funder and has one child, Donald.
John W. Baker of Portland, wedded Mary Heft and has one son, John O.
Agnes died at the age of sixteen years. Other children of the family died in
infancy.
The death of Mr. Baker occurred on June 28, 1903, and his grave was made
in Riverview cemetery. He was a member of the volunteer fire department of
Portland and was a republican in politics but never held office. His hfe was a
busy, useful, well spent one, and his activity and reliability won him the respect
and confidence of his fellowmen. His widow is still living in Portland and has
made her home in or near this city since 1844. She is a member of the Pioneer
Society and is well known among the residents of the state who have lived within
the borders of Oregon from a period antedating i860.
RICHARD HOLMES.
It is a noticeable fact in reviewing the lives of pioneers that the early comers
in the northwest were not all farmers. Among those who braved the perils in-
cident to the development of a newly opened country were merchants and trad-
ers, lawyers, physicians, school teachers, clergymen, miners, mechanics and men
skilled in many other occupations that might be named. One of these, Richard
Holmes, now deceased, was a mechanic. He learned the carpenter's trade at his
old home in the east and for many years worked at that trade in Oregon. Pie
did the first and last work on Trinity church at the corner of Fifth and Stark
streets in Portland, and through his skill and energy assisted in the transforma-
tion of the log cabin into the handsome and commodious dwelling house of more
modern times. It requires many minds and many hands to build up a settled
community, and it is to men like Mr. Holmes that much of the credit is due
for the happy conditions which now prevail in Oregon and other states of the
Pacific coast.
Mr. Holmes was a native of Kings county, New Jersey, born June 13, 1830.
His father, who was a shoemaker, decided that his son should be properly edu-
cated in the public schools and that he should learn a trade. The son was duly
apprenticed as a carpenter, and at twenty years of age, having mastered the use
of saw and hammer, he started west. His destination was a land which return-
ing travelers reported to be the richest and most productive region of the earth.
It abounded in great forests, threaded by navigable rivers, and with a climate,
especially within one hundred or two hundred miles of the ocean, the like of
which man had never known before. The young mechanic drove an ox team
across the plains and arrived in Yamhill county, Oregon, where, in 1852, he
located upon a section of land.
Here Mr. Holmes was married to Margaret Harrison and three children
were born : Thomas, now of Sellwood, Oregon, who married Margaret Souther-
iand and had one daughter, Alice, now married ; Charles S., deceased ; and Oliver
W., of Portland, who married Anna L. Jackson and had one daughter, Beatrice,
who passed away at the age of sixteen years. Mrs. Holmes died about 1859.
During the trouble with the Cayuse Indians, in 1855 and 1856, he was a
member of Captain Ankeny's company of Oregon Volunteers and remained in
service until the outbreak was quelled. He spent twelve years in the mines of
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Idaho, returning each year, however, to attend to the wants of his children and
arrange for their welfare and education. He was again married in Portland
July 12, 1871, his second union being with Mrs. Mary L. Alexander, widow of
Dominicus Alexander.
After his return to Portland Mr. Holmes worked at his trade until 1882 and
then embarked in the grocery business which he carried on for seven years.
At the end of that time he removed to Tillamook county where he bought a
farm and made his home for sixteen years. He next went to The Dalles where
he purchased property and resided for five months. The following two years
were spent in Wasco county and at the end of that time he returned to Portland,
where he passed away on the 17th of August, 1908. His last years were spent
in retirement from labor. In early life he was a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity and at the time of his death was an honored member of the Oregon Pio-
neer Society and Indian War Veterans. He was a man of high character and
laudable enterprise and made many friends who admired him for his excellent
qualities of heart and mind. Entering upon his business career with no resources
except the determination to succeed and a strong constitution, he performed a
valiant service during a long life of usefulness which abounded in many acts of
charity and helpfulness to others. His career was one to which his descendants
may always refer with pride.
Mrs. Holmes is a native of Minot, Maine, and is a daughter of Jeremiah and
Mary (Gilson) Cummings. Her father, who was engaged in the sawmill busi-
ness, died in the east, but her mother passed her declining years in Oregon. In
early womanhood Mrs. Holmes gave her hand in marriage to Dominicus Alex-
ander, of Maine, who died at Yreka, California, leaving two children, Ellen F.
and Mary L. The former was twice married, her first husband being Frank
Biehle, of Portland, and her second William T. Humbert. She died in Califor-
nia at the age of fifty years, leaving three sons : Richard, Benjamin and Walter.
Mary L. Alexander married Harrison Dufur, of Portland, and became the
mother of two children : Blanche G. and Andrew. Mrs. Holmes came to the
west in 1868, and for more than forty years has now been a resident of Oregon.
Her life has been one of activity and unselfishness, and she has made a host
of warm friends.
LEWIS L. SMITH.
Although one of the more recent acquisitions to the ranks of Portland's man-
ufacturers Lewis L, Smith has worked his way upward to a creditable position
among those whose enterprise and industry constitute the basis of success. He
is now engaged in the manufacture of brick and his recently enlarged plant indi-
cates the growth of the business.
Mr. Smith is a native of Iowa but in his boyhood days became a resident of
Indiana, where he remained until twenty years of age. His education was
acquired in the public schools there and through the periods of vacation he en-
gaged in farm labor and after putting aside his text-books engaged in farming
in that state until the 15th of March, 1902. BeHeving that better business oppor-
tunities might be secured on the coast he came to Oregon in March, 1902, and,
settling in Portland, followed dififerent lines of work for two years. He after-
ward engaged in teaming for three years and in 1907 began the manufacture of
brick. Although he has only been engaged in this line for three years he has
already won notable success. The growth of his trade has made it necessary to
increase his plant and recent additions made thereto give it a capacity of forty
thousand brick daily. The excellence of the output insures a continuance of the
trade and the business is becoming recognized as one of the leading industrial
interests of the kind in Portland. In the manufacture quality is never sacrificed
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to quantity and yet there is always promptness in filling orders and meeting the
demands of the trade.
On the 25th of September, 1892, Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss
Lida Roberts of Indiana, and they now have seven children, namely : Margvierite,
Forrest, Marion, Francis, Donald, Eva and Willard. Mr. Smith has never sought
prominence outside the field of business but in developing his industrial interests
displays marked energy, determination, resolute purpose and laudable ambition.
He knows that unremitting labor is the basis of success and thus closely applies
himself to his business affairs, and thereby is winning well merited prosperity.
CHARLES P. HOLLOWAY.
Twenty-seven years' connection with the United States mail service stands
as incontrovertible proof of both ability and fidelity on the part of Charles P.
Holloway, who is now filling the responsible position of superintendent of mails
of the Portland postoffice. There are other chapters in his life record equally
creditable. One particular, covering the period of his service in the Civil war,
is deserving of more than passing notice.
A native of Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana, he was born on the lOth of
October, 1849, a son of David P. and Jane A. (Paulson) Holloway. The father
was a very prominent politician and publisher in Indiana. By appointment of
President Lincoln he served as commissioner of patents from 1861 until 1865
and remained in Washington, D. C, as a patent attorney until his death.
Charles P. Holloway acquired his education in the public schoods and re-
mained at home until after the outbreak of the Civil war, when his patriotic
spirit was aroused by the continued attempt of the south to overthrow the Union
and he joined the Federal troops on the 8th of February, 1862, enlisting from
Marion county to serve for three years or throughout the war. He was mus-
tered into the United States service at Newmarket, Kentucky, February 8, 1862,
as a private of Company C, Fifty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry, under command of Colonel John W. T. McMullen. He had three
brothers who were also soldiers of the Union army, John M. Holloway having
been engaged in active duty with Company L, Sixth Indiana Cavalry, in which
he served as first lieutenant, while Harry C. Holloway was captain and com-
missary of subsistence in the Iron Brigade, and Allen T. Holloway served with
the Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. Colonel William R. Holloway, the fourth
brother, was private secretary to Governor Morton, the war governor of In-
diana, and now resides in Indianapolis, where he was postmaster and managing
editor of the Indianapolis Journal.
From the time of his enlistment Charles P. Holloway was continuously on
active duty with his regiment. The Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Benevo-
lent Society gives the following record : This regiment was recruited in the
fifth and eleventh congressional districts and was mustered into the United
States service at Richmond, Indiana, November 18, 1861. December loth it
moved to Indianapolis, where it remained until December 23d, when it moved to
Louisville, Kentucky, and reported to General Buell. Here it was assigned to
the Sixth Division of the Army of the Ohio, then organizing at Bardstown,
Kentucky, to which place the regiment marched. Soon afterward it moved to
Lebanon, hence to Munfordsville, Kentucky, thence marched to Nashville, Ten-
nessee, arriving there early in March, 1862, and remained there refitting and
drilling until March 21, when it moved to Pittsburg Landing, arriving on the
battlefield of Shiloh April 7th, and soon became actively engaged. It partici-
pated in the siege of Corinth, Mississippi, April 30th to May 30, 1862, then
marched into North Alabama, where it remained until the middle of July, 1862,
when it marched again into Middle Tennessee, remaining on duty near Tulla-
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homa and McMinnville, until about September ist, when it started on the cam-
paign against Bragg in Kentucky, and participated in the battle of Perryville
or Chaplin Hill, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. It returned to Nashville, Ten-
nessee, December ist, and remained there during that month, being frequently
engaged in skirmishes while guarding forage trains. At the battle of Stone
river or Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, the
Fifty-seventh suffered severely, and greatly distinguished itself. It remained
in camp near Murfreesboro until June 24, 1863, when it started on the Tulla-
homa campaign, after which it remained in camp near Pelham until August
16, 1863, then started on the Chattanooga campaign. It participated in the battle
of Chickamauga, Georgia, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, having been assigned
to Sheridan's (Second) Division of the Fourth Corps. It formed part of the
column sent to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, Tennessee, during the win-
ter of 1863-64, which campaign was unequaled for hardships and privations.
January i, 1864, the regiment veteranized and in March the men went home
on furlough. It rejoined the Fourth Corps May 5, 1864, and took part in the
the Atlanta Campaign, including engagements of Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca,
Adairsville, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek,
siege of Atlanta, and Jonesboro, Georgia. It pursued Hood into Alabama and
afterward formed part of General Thomas' army which resisted the rebel in-
vasion of Tennessee. It participated in the battle of Franklin, November 30th,
sustaining a severe loss especially in prisoners, and also in the battle of Nash-
ville, Tennessee, December 15-16, 1864. It encamped at Huntsville, Alabama,
several months, and in April, 1865, moved to Bull's Gap, East Tennessee, thence
to Nashville, where it remained until July, then moved to Texas, where it was
engaged on guard and garrison duty until December, 1865, when it was mustered
out.
"The said Charles P. Holloway was with the Fifty-seventh Indiana until
after the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, when he was honorably discharged
for promotion as second lieutenant in the Bocking's Greek Fire Battery, Light
Artillery, but that organization disbanded.
"He reenlisted on the nth day of March, 1864, at Indianapolis, Indiana,
to serve three years or during the war, and was mustered into the United
States service as a private of Captain Press J. O'Bannon's Company C, Seven-
teenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Colonel John T. Wilder com-
manding.
"The Seventeenth Indiana Infantry was organized at Camp Morton, Indian-
apolis, during May, 1861, and was mustered into the United States service on
the 1 2th of June, 1861, for three years' service. July ist, the command moved
to Parkersburg, Virginia, via Cincinnati, Ohio, and on the 23d proceeded to
the north branch of the Potomac river, and until August 7th was engaged in
constructing the fortifications known as Camp Pendleton. October 3d, took part
in the battle of Green Brier, Virginia, losing one killed. On the 12th of March,
the regiment arived at Nashville, Tennessee, and on the 29th proceeded to Shi-
loh, reaching there just after the battle of that place, and proceeded with the
brigade to Corinth, Mississippi, taking an active part in the siege operations
there. Upon the evacuation of Corinth, pursued the enemy to McMinnville.
where it overtook Forrest, attacked and routed him. The regiment was assigned
to Crook's Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and during the
winter of 1862-63, while encamped at Bardstown, near Louisville, Kentucky,
it was mounted and armed with Spencer rifles, with which effective weapons
each man became the equal of sixteen rebels. June 24th, the command moved
to Hoover's Gap, where the Seventeenth gallantly repulsed several attacks by
the rebels, captured seventy-five prisoners, one hundred and twenty-five stands
of arms, driving the enemy to Manchester ; it proceeded on a raid through Ten-
nessee, scouting the country in many directions, and engaging in many skirmishes
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and expeditions during the summer and fall, in the vicinity of Chattanooga and
Chickamauga; September 19th and 20th, the command was actively engaged in
the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, capturing a great number of prisoners
and arms. October 7th, engaged at Shelbyville, and until January, 1864, the
regiment participated in numerous skirmishes and raids. January 4, 1864, two
hundred and eighty-six men of the regiment reenlisted as veterans, and after a
veteran furlough the command returned to Nashville, Tennessee, April 25th,
and it joined Sherman's Army then on the march to Atlanta, May loth, and
from this time on until October 31st, the Seventeenth was actively and con-
stantly engaged in the cavalry and scouting operations incident to the march
upon and capture of Atlanta, and the pursuit of Hood's retreating army north-
ward. During this campaign the command was conspicuously engaged at Pump-
kin Vine Church, Big Shanty, Belle Plain Road, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta,
Chattahoochie river (being the first troops to cross this stream), Stone and
Goshen. November ist, the regiment left Rome, Georgia, for Louisville, Ken-
tucky, where it was remounted, and on January 8, 1865, reached Nashville,
Tennessee, whence it marched to Gravelly Springs, Alabama. March 12th it
marched with General Wilson's Cavalry command into Alabama, taking part
in engagements at Ebenezer Church, Selma, Alabama and Macon, Georgia,
where it captured three thousand prisoners, including four generals; the com-
mand, performing post duty, remained in camp at Macon, Georgia, until mus-
tered out of the United States service August 8, 1865.
"The said Charles P. Holloway was promoted to corporal of Company C,
Fifty-seventh Indiana, and to quartermaster of the Seventeenth Indiana. Lie
bore a gallant part in all engagements of the Seventeenth Infantry beginning
with Nashville, Tennessee, and rendered faithful and meritorious service to his
country. He received a final honorable discharge at Indianapolis, Indiana, on
the 8th day of August, 1865, by reason of close of war."
Upon the close of the war Mr. Holloway made his way to San Francisco,
California, arriving in that city on the 22d of February, 1866. He entered the
service of the Wells Fargo Stage Company as a messenger in overland stag-
ing, acting as messenger for the superintendent and later became a driver, re-
maining with the company until September, 1868. This proved a thrilling ex-
perience. Subsequently he entered the employ of Hill Beachy at Winnemucca,
Nevada, in pony express work with the Silver City stage line, remaining with
that concern until 1872. This also proved a very exciting life, for he had many
encounters with Indians, bandits, etc. He next went to Los Angeles, California,
and entered the employ of the Telegraph Stage Company as driver, acting in
that capacity until the completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Afterward
he served the Oregon California Stage Company at Yreka, California, for six
months and then became connected with the Utah, Oregon & Idaho Stage Com-
pany, from Huntington to Baker City, Oregon, continuing therewith until he
came to Portland in 1883.
Entering the government service in 1883, Mr. Holloway was appointed rail-
way mail clerk, which position he continued to fill for twelve years. On the
expiration of that period he was promoted to the position of superintendent of
mails and has since acted in that capacity, being now in the Portland postoffice
in that connection. No higher enconium of his ability and loyalty could be
given than the fact that he has been so long retained in the office. In his pres-
ent position he manifests excellent executive ability and has carefully systema-
tized the work of his department, so that there is no delay or loss of time in any
particular.
On the i8th of April, 1888, in Hailey, Blaine county, Idaho, Mr. Holloway
was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Heron, and unto them has been born a
daughter, Mamie. Mr. Holloway's interest in military afifairs did not cease with
his active service at the front. He has filled all of the offices in the local organi-
zation of the Grand Army of the Republic, and for ten years was honored with
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the position of commander in the U. S. Grant Post, No. 17, at Huntington,
Oregon. His membership is now in Sumner Post, No. 12, G. A. R. He stands
as one of the prominent representatives of the order in Oregon, having been
junior vice department commander of the state in 1891, while for three years
he was chief mustering officer of the department and in 1898 was department
commander of the Department of Oregon. He also served as aid-de-camp to
the national commander, I. N. Walker. Mrs. Holloway is widely interested
in the work of the ladies' auxiliary organization and has held the office of senior
vice president in' Sumner Corps, No. 21, W. R. C. She is also connected with the
Women of Woodcraft. Both Mr. and Mrs. Holloway are well known in Port-
land, where personal qualities have won them high regard, gaining them the
enduring friendship of many with whom they have come in contact.
JOHN WAGGENER, JR.
Although the Waggener family is of Holland origin, it has been so long rep-
resented in this country as to be distinctively American. In the year 1688 Wil-
helm Waggener took passage from Holland with William III for England, and
about 1700 emigrated to America, settling first at Jamestown, Virginia. His
son William participated in the battle in which Braddock met defeat and served
as a lieutenant under General Washington during the Revolutionary war. He
did valiant service in the cause of liberty and was present at the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. His son Herbert Waggener was born in
Culpeper county, Virginia, where in 1799 occurred the birth of his son Burgess
Waggener. The mother of Burgess Waggener bore the maiden name of Willis.
In 1812 the family was established in Adair county, Kentucky, where James S.
Waggener, son of Burgess Waggener, was born in 182 1. His mother bore the
maiden name of Shipp and came from the Yadkin country in North Carolina.
James S. Waggener accompanied his parents to Shelby county, Indiana, in 1824,
and after living for many years in that state removed in 1846 to Iowa. He was
postmaster at Knoxville, Iowa, during the period of the Civil war and subse-
quently served as postmaster at Greenfield, that state. In 1840 he was married
to Malinda Allen, who was bom in Kentucky in 1821. After residing for about
three decades in Iowa, James S. Waggener came with his family to Oregon, in
December, 1875, and was prominent in the public life of the community in which
he made his home. He served as treasurer of Washington county, this state,
for two terms and a part of the third, after which he resigned on account of
illness. He died in Vancouver, 'Washington, December 2, 1907, while his wife
passed away at Hillsboro, Oregon. They were the parents of twelve children,
of whom four sons served in the Civil war, the eldest dying in the Anderson-
ville prison.
The ancestry of the Allen family can be traced back to a remote period. The
father of Mrs. Malinda (Allen) Waggener was Joseph Allen, who was a sol-
dier at the battle of New Orleans and claimed direct descent from Ethan Allen
of Revolutionary war fame. The family, of Scotch-Irish lineage, removed from
Vermont to Kentucky. The maiden name of Mrs. Joseph Allen was Gillespy.
The Waggener family was also represented in the war of the Revolution by
Andrew Waggener of Virginia, who became a captain of the Twelfth Virginia
on the 20th of June, 1776. He was transferred to the Eighth Virginia, Sep-
tember 14, 1778, and became major, December 15, 1778; was taken prisoner at
Charleston May 12, 1780; and retired February 12, 178 1. He died May 27,
181 3. Henry Waggener of Pennsylvania, was made a second lieutenant of the
Second Pennsylvania Hne in January, 1777, became first lieutenant on the nth
of March, 1779, and resigned on the 3d of May of that year.
John Waggener, Jr., acquired his education in the common schools of Iowa
and was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with all the duties and
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labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In harvest time he was a sack
sewer and he did all kinds of work, including sawing logs and felling trees.
Through the period of his youth and early manhood he also clerked in a store
and warehouse, kept books, was agent for a railway company and spent five
years in the mail service. He came with the family to Oregon, and in December,
1883, embarked in the book, stationery and music business at Vancouver, Wash-
ington, where he continued until September, 1909, when he sold out. Twenty-
six years' connection with the trade indicates something of the success which
attended him during this period. He enjoyed a gradually increasing business
and a liberal patronage brought him a substantial financial return. During that
period he was also active in public life, having been elected county treasurer in
1895 for a term of two years, during which period Clarke county was placed on
a cash basis. As time passed on and he prospered, Mr. Waggener made invest-
ments in real estate and is now the owner of property both in Washington and
Oregon. Several years ago he took up photography, and is now making scenic
photography of the Pacific coast his work and "hobby." With the thorough-
ness which characterizes him in all things, he has attained a high degree of elifi-
ciency in the art, many of his views equalling if not surpassing the best that has
been done in this line in the northwest.
On the 31st of January, 1883, in Hillsboro, Oregon, Mr. Waggener was mar-
ried to Miss Emma J. Yale, a daughter of James Yale. She was born in the
province of Quebec, Canada, and came to Oregon in 1880. Here she followed
teaching, and held the position of assistant principal in the Hillsboro schools.
Her ancestry is traced back to Wales on the paternal side and to Scotland in
the maternal line. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Waggener were born five children: Bes-
sie, the wife of John E. Moseley; Juanita, who died when six months old;
Norine, who is engaged in teaching piano and voice culture; and Verner and
Pauline, at home. The family are prominent socially in Vancouver, where their
home has been maintained continuously for more than twenty-seven years.
Mr. Waggener is a supporter of the republican party and a member of the
Commercial Club of Vancouver. In the Woodmen of the World he is a past
consul and has also held the position of clerk several times in the organization
known as Women of Woodcraft. He has a wide acquaintance in Vancouver
and this part of the country, where well directed labors have brought him grati-
fying success. The spirit of commercialism, however, has not dominated all
else, for in his photographic studies is seen the expression of artistic talent and
skill, for the development of which he has found time and opportunity.
HON. GEORGE WICKLIFFE McBRIDE.
The list of the leading citizens of Oregon contains the name of the Hon.
George Wickliffe McBride, one of the representative and honored residents of
Portland. To him has been entrusted important public service. His name is
indelibly inscribed upon the pages of the history of the legislative and executive
departments of the state, in which connections he has left tangible evidence of
his loyalty to and helpful support of the commonwealth.
Ancestral records establish the fact that the McBride family is of Scotch-
Irish lineage and early representatives of the name, coming from the north oif
Ireland to the new world, settled in the south. The father of our subject was
James McBride, a son of Thomas McBride and a native of Nashville, Tennes-
see, where he was born February 9. 1802. He acquired his education in that
state and after his school days were over began reading medicine under a physi-
cian in his home locality. When a young man he went to Missouri, settling
near Springfield, that state, where he engaged in the practice of medicine for
a number of years. While residing there, on the 20th of June, 1830, he mar-
ried Miss Mahala Miller, a daughter of Philip Miller. She was born September
26, 1811.
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In the year 1846 Dr. McBride started with his wife for Oregon. The pre-
vious year he had visited Texas but beheving that better opportunities were
furnished on the western coast than in the south, he turned his face toward the
setting sun and after about six months' travel across the plains with ox teams,
reached Oregon City. Already a flourishing little pioneer settlement had de-
veloped there but Portland was as yet unknown. Dr. McBride was the mis-
sionary spirit of this region, giving generous aid and assistance to the new-
comers and enabling many to secure homes in this section of the state. The
most far-sighted did not dream of railroad construction here, for all transporta-
tion was by means of wagon travel or by the waterways. Dr. McBride and his
wife soon left Oregon City for Yamhill county, reaching their destination on
Mrs. McBride's birthday. The Doctor took up a donation claim, built a log
house and log barn and lived upon that place until 1863. He took an active part
in political affairs but his attention was principally given to the care of the sick
in the exercise of his professional skill. For over forty years he engaged in
preaching as a minister of the Christian church but would receive no compen-
sation for that work. He became quite famous both as a preacher and physi-
cian and was, moreover, the first territorial superintendent of schools in Oregon.
He likewise served as United States minister to the Hawaiian islands from 1863
until 1866. After his return he engaged in merchandising at St. Helen, Oregon,
investing in the business there, although he left its active management to others.
In 1867 he removed with his family to St. Helen and there resided until his death,
which occurred December 18, 1875, his remains being interred in the Masonic
cemetery at that .place His wife passed away on the 23d of February, 1877,
and was laid to rest by the side of her husband.
They were the parents of fourteen children. Martha, deceased, was the
wife of S. C. Adams, who has also passed away. She was born on the 12th
of May, 183 1, and was called to her final rest on the i6th of December, 1882.
John R., whose birth occurred on the 21st of August, 1832, died in August,
1904. He served as a representative in the Oregon legislature and from 1862
until 1864 was representative in congress. Subsequently he acted as chief
justice of Idaho for several years but resigned that position in order to take
up the practice of law. He was a member of the constitutional convention of
Oregon and also a member of the first state legislature. Alvira Josephine, born
March 3, 1834, gave her hand in marriage to Benjamin D. Butler and died on
the 2d of May, 1910. Louisa A., who was born on the i6th of March, 1835,
became the wife of George L. Woods, formerly governor of Oregon, and she
still resides in Portland. Lucinda M., who was born on the 9th of June, 1836,
is the widow of Charles G. Caples and resides at Santa Barbara, California.
Nancy E., whose birth occurred on the 9th of September, 1837, first became the
wife of W. B. Morris and after his death wedded W. H. Dolman, of Portland,
where she now resides. Mary C, born April 3, 1839, gave her hand in mar-
riage to F. D. Holman and both are now deceased. Emily L., who was born
on the 2ist of May, 1841, and died on the 7th of April, 1901, was the wife of
p. J. Yeargain. Judith, whose birth occurred on the 30th of September, 1843,
is the widow of Alanson Smith. Thomas A., born November 15, 1847, is judge
of the supreme court of Oregon. James H., whose birth occurred on the 23d
of January, 1849, is a practicing physician of Pasadena, California. He is' a
physician of noteworthy attainments and has held many positions of honor and
responsibility in his profession. Susan E., who was born on the 21st of July,
1850, gave her hand in marriage to B. F. Giltner and passed away on the nth
of February, 1899. Ellen V., born on the 23d of May, 1852, died on the Sth
of August, 1866.
The youngest member of the family is George Wickliffe McBride, who was
born on the homestead claim in Oregon, March 13, 1854, and has always lived
m this state. He attended the pubHc schools of Yamhill county and of St. Helens,
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In the year 1846 Dr. McBride started with his wife for Oregon. The pre-
vious year he had visited Texas but beheving that better opportunities were
furnished on the western coast than in the south, he turned his face toward the
setting sun and after about six months' travel across the plains with ox teams,
reached Oregon City. Already a flourishing little pioneer settlement had de-
veloped there but Portland was as yet unknown. Dr. McBride was the mis-
sionary spirit of this region, giving generous aid and assistance to the new-
comers and enabling many to secure homes in this section of the state. The
most far-sighted did not dream of railroad construction here, for all transporta-
tion was by means of wagon travel or by the waterways. Dr. McBride and his
wife soon left Oregon City for Yamhill county, reaching their destination on
Mrs. McBride's birthday. The Doctor took up a donation claim, built a log
house and log barn and lived upon that place until 1863. He took an active part
in political affairs but his attention was principally given to the care of the sick
in the exercise of his professional skill. For over forty years he engaged in
preaching as a minister of the Christian church but would receive no compen-
sation for that work. He became quite famous both as a preacher and physi-
cian and was, moreover, the first territorial superintendent of schools in Oregon.
He likewise served as United States minister to the Hawaiian islands from 1863
until 1866. After his return he engaged in merchandising at St. Helen, Oregon,
investing in the business there, although he left its active management to others.
In 1867 he removed with his family to St. Helen and there resided until his death,
which occurred December 18, 1875, his remains being interred in the Masonic
cemetery at that .place His wife passed away on the 23d of February, 1877,
and was laid to rest by the side of her husband.
They were the parents of fourteen children. Martha, deceased, was the
wife of S. C. Adams, who has also passed away. She was born on the 12th
of May, 1831, and was called to her final rest on the i6th of December, 1882.
John R., whose birth occurred on the 21st of August, 1832, died in August,
1904. He served as a representative in the Oregon legislature and from 1862
until 1864 was representative in congress. Subsequently he acted as chief
justice of Idaho for several years but resigned that position in order to take
up the practice of law. He was a member of the constitutional convention of
Oregon and also a member of the first state legislature. Alvira Josephine, born
March 3, 1834, gave her hand in marriage to Benjamin D. Butler and died on
the 2d of May, 1910. Louisa A., who was born on the i6th of March, 1835,
became the wife of George L. Woods, formerly governor of Oregon, and she
still resides in Portland. Lucinda M., who was born on the 9th of June, 1836,
is the widow of Charles G. Caples and resides at Santa Barbara, California.
Nancy E., whose birth occurred on the 9th of September, 1837, first became the
wife of W. B. Morris and after his death wedded W. H. Dolman, of Portland,
where she now resides. Mary C. born April 3, 1839, gave her hand in mar-
riage to F. D. Holman and both are now deceased. Emily L., who was born
on the 21 St of May, 1841, and died on the 7th of April, 1901, was the wife of
p. J. Yeargain. Judith, whose birth occurred on the 30th of September, 1843,
IS the widow of Alanson Smith. Thomas A., born November 15, 1847, is judge
of the supreme court of Oregon. James H., whose birth occurred on the 23d
of January, 1849, is a practicing physician of Pasadena, California. He is' a
physician of noteworthy attainments and has held many positions of honor anc4
responsibility in his profession. Susan E., who was born on the 21st of July,
1850, gave her hand in marriage to B. F. Giltner and passed away on the nth
of February, 1899. Ellen V., born on the 23d of May, 1852, died on the Sth
of August, 1866.
The youngest member of the family is George Wickliffe McBride, who was
born on the homestead claim in Oregon, March 13. 1854, and has always lived
m this state. He attended the public schools of Yamhill county and of St. Helens,
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since. In 1909 he assisted in organizing the Montague O'Reilly Company, a
contracting concern engaged principally in paving, and he also organized the
United Engineering & Construction Company, general contractors. Of both of
these companies he is president. His activities thus cover a wide field and ex-
tensive and important interests are under his control. In the solution of diffi-
cult and involved business problems he displays keen discernment that obtains
satisfactory results. An initiative spirit enables him to wisely plan new under-
takings and executive ability enables him to so organize the business that his
plans are carefully and correctly carried out, bringing substantial success.
Mr. O'Reilly is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Arlington
Club, the Waverly Golf Club, the Meadow Lake Club and other social organi-
zations. He likewise belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
votes with the democratic party and supports the Catholic church. He resides
at Hotel Norton at No. 163 Twelfth street. The future could not have
disclosed to him, as he started out for himself when a boy of fourteen, the suc-
cess which was ultimately to be his, but he early learned the fact that there is
no royal road to wealth and that diligence and determination are a better founda-
tion upon which to build than inheritance or influence. A laudable ambition has
been the spur of his intent finding pleasure in successfully executing the plans
which he forms.
REV. THOMAS FLETCHER ROYAL.
Among those who have zealously labored for the cause of Methodism in
Oregon is numbered the Rev. Thomas Fletcher Royal, now living retired in
Portland. He has made his home in this state since 1853 and has reached the
age of ninety years, his birth having occurred in Columbus, Ohio, January 6,
1821. His parents were William and Barbara (Ebey) Royal. His paternal
grandfather was Thomas Royal, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war
and to his dying day carried the bullet with which he was wounded while in the
service. He was married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Hannah Cooper and
they settled in West Virginia. Their eldest son, Simon Royal, fell in the war
of 1812.
Our subject's father was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, and was also'
a minister of the gospel. He began preaching in 1831 and his first appointment
was at Fort Clark, Missouri, situated somewhere in the vicinity of Peoria, Illi-
nois. His circuit included all of the territory north of Peoria save Chicago,
where the Rev. Jesse Walker was then stationed as a preacher. William Royal
continued his labors in the middle west until 1853, when he came with his family
to Oregon as a retired preacher of the Rock river conference of Illinois. He
was later transferred to the Oregon conference and preached his first sermon in
the northwest at John Beason's home in Jackson county, Oregon. He was con-
nected with several different circuits during his residence in the northwest and
lived in Portland for several years. He built the first Methodist church on the
east side of the city, called the Centenary Methodist church, and his labors in
behalf of his denomination were far-reaching and effective, his work still bear-
ing good fruit in the lives of those who heeded the gospel call under his teach-
ings. He was living retired at the time of his death, which occurred in Salem,
Oregon, in September, 1871. His wife was born on the Little Juniata river in
Pennsylvania in rSoo. The birth of the Rev. William Royal occurred in Feb-
ruary, 1796, and thus he had attained the age of seventy-five years at the time of
his demise.
The Rev. Thomas Fletcher Royal of this review, was the eldest of a family
of seven children, six sons and a daughter. He attended school at Piqua, Ohio,
and also the public schools of Illinois and Indiana, and afterward engaged in
teaching school for several years in Hancock and St. Clair counties, Illinois.
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He also spent three and a half years as a student in McKendree College, at
Lebanon, Illinois, but trouble with his eyes compelled him to abandon the course
before its completion. In 1846 he took up the active work of the ministry at
Galena, Illinois, and was received into the Rock River conference in that year.
He was connected with that for about seven years and then was transferred to
the Oregon conference in 1852 with the privilege of not entering into active con-
nection therewith until 1853. His transference from the Rock River conference
of Illinois was made by the bishop, E. R. Ames, who came to Oregon from that
conference by way of the water route and, reaching Portland before Rev. Royal
arrived, received him here. Mr. Royal left Victoria, Illinois, on the 27th of
May, 1853, and made the journey over the plains with ox teams, always resting
on the Sabbath day. When he left home only his own and his father's families
were of the party but at different times they were joined by other wagons until
they had a large train. They reached the Rogue river valley on the 27th of Oc-
tober, 1853. Mr. Royal and his father remained together for about a year, after
which the latter went to Douglas county and subsequently to Portland.
Thomas F. Royal preached his first sermon in the northwest at Jacksonville,
Oregon, a few days after his arrival in this state, and there he built the first
church in southern Oregon. The house of worship was begun in 1854 and was
dedicated on New Year's Day of 1855. He has been instrumental in building
five other churches in this state, these being at Canyonville, Ten Miles, Silver-
ton, Salem Heights and Dallas. He has not only given his time and energies to
the work of benefiting his fellowmen by preaching the gospel but has also done
eft"ective labor in the field of intellectual training, having been principal of the
Portland Academy and Female Seminary for four years, from 1871 until 1875,
while previous to this time he was principal of the Umpqua Academy of Doug-
las county, which was one of the early schools of this state, organized in 1855.
He remained there for nine and a half years. After leaving the Portland Acad-
emy he served as principal of the Sheridan Academy of Yamhill county for a
year and was employed under President Grant's Christian policy as teacher and
clerk at the Seletz Indian reservation in Benton county, Oregon, for about four
years. In 1875 he was made superintendent of instruction at the Klamath In-
dian mission and had charge of the Indian boarding school, to which work he
was appointed in 1884, there remaining for about fifteen months, when a demo-
cratic president was elected and Rev. Royal was retired. He then became pastor
of the Monroe circuit of Benton county, Oregon, and after two years went to
Dallas, Polk county, where he served as pastor for three years, and during that
period succeeded in erecting a church at a cost of five thousand dollars. His
next pastorate was at Dayton, Yamhill county, where he remained for three
years. He spent a similar period at Brooks, Marion county, Oregon, and preached
his jubilee sermon at Roseburg, at the annual conference of 1896. He then re-
tired from active connection with the conference but nevertheless continued
preaching, being employed at Meha'ma and Lyons, Oregon, and at Leslie church
in South Salem for two years. Since this he has not accepted any pastorate, but
has continued in active Christian work, preaching to the convicts at the peniten-
tiary at Salem and before the inmates of the insane asylum at Salem for eight
years. He preaches at times at the Montavilla Methodist church of which his
son-in-law, the Rev. Harold Oberg, is now pastor. The Pacific University of
California conferred upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree.
Rev. Royal was married in early manhood to Miss Mary Ann Stanley, who
was born in the state of New York and died January 2, 1906, at the age of sev-
enty-six years. In their family were eight children, of whom one died in in-
fancy. Anina Tema was graduated from an academy and later took a course at
Willamette University, after which she became assistant principal of the Port-
land Academy and Female Seminary. She became the wife of Dr. Clark Smith,
principal of the Vancouver Seminary, in Washington. He received his A. M.
degree from Willamette University and later the M. D. degree from a medical
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college in Texas. He and his wife went as missionaries to Africa where Mrs.
Smith died, and he is now engaged in the practice of medicine in Berkeley,
California. His children are : William E. R. ; May, who is mentioned below ;
Jesse C, of Washington, D. C, who is married and has one child, Clark S. ; and
Anina Grace, the wife of John T. Stanley, principal of the Bragg Institute in
California. Of this family. May Smith married Hooper M. Black, now en-
gaged in farming and the real-estate business near Vancouver, Washington.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Black are graduates of the Portland University. They have
seven children: Grace A., Esther M., Ruth J., Naomi, Nancy E., Miriam, and
an infant. Rev. Stanley Olin Royal, the second of the family, is a Methodist
minister, now engaged in preaching in Ohio in connection with the Dayton Dis-
trict Conference and was presiding elder there for several years. He is a grad-
uate of Willamette University and of the Drew Theological Seminary of New
Jersey. He married Matilda Walden, a daughter of Bishop Walden, and they
have two daughters, Mary G. and Margaret. Rev. Miller Gould Royal, the
third of the family, was graduated from the classical course in Willamette Uni-
versity and devoted his life to the work of the ministry and to the practice of
law. His death occurred in Walla Walla, Washington. He married Tirza Bige-
low and they had two children, Ethel and Bonnie. After losing his first wife.
Rev. M. G. Royal married Miss A. McCall, who is living in Walla Walla. She was
a public school teacher before her marriage. She has two children: Ronald F.
and Barbara. William E. Royal, the youngest of the family, died at the age
of twenty-three years, when preparing for the ministry. Forester W., a railroad
employe, living at Bolton, Polk county, Oregon, married Ella Dodson and has
two children : Cecil, who married Edna Williams and has one child, Catherine ;
and Esther. Eolia Florine is the wife of Rev. Harold Oberg of Portland. He
was born in Christiania, Norway, and was there educated in the Norwegian lan-
guage. After coming to America he entered Willamette University where both
he and his wife graduated with the A. B. degree and he subsequently graduated
with the degree of D. D. from the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illi-
nois. Mr. and Mrs. Oberg have four children, Ovedia L., Terry R., Agnes M.,
and Mary Ruth. Carrie Lucretia was graduated from Willamette University
with the A. B. degree and subsequently became the wife of Professor Edgar M.
Mumford, of the Olympia Collegiate Institute. He is now a clerk in the United
States land office at Vancouver, Washington. They have five children: Edgar
R., Beatrice A., Harold Stanley, William W. and Clarissa H.
Rev. Thomas Fletcher Royal is now at the head of a family which numbers
about fifty, of which he has every reason to be proud. Twenty of these have
been experienced school teachers, five Methodist preachers; six preachers'
wives; and twenty of them have drawn from different institutes twenty-eight
diplomas. They are from academic, theological and medical schools. Not one
of the number ever uses narcotics or intoxicants and all are prohibitionists and
Methodists. Mr. Royal has never allowed his interest in things of the present
to lapse. He does not live in memories of the past, but keeps in touch \yith the
progressive everyday and the precious prize of keen mentality is still his.
JOHN P. KAVANAUGH.
John P. Kavanaugh, now serving for the second term as city attorney of
Portland, at each election receiving the support of both the republicans and the
democrats, was born in St. Louis, Oregon, in 1871, a son of Daniel Kavanaugh.
His education was acquired in the public schools and in the parochial school at
Gervais, Oregon, up to the time when he entered Mount Angel College, from
which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1891. His literary education
constituted a broad foundation upon which to build the superstructure of his pro-
fessional knowledge, and when his college course was ended he matriculated in
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the law department of the University of Oregon, where he won his Bachelor of
Law degree in 1893.
He has since engaged in active practice in Portland and his ability is widely
recognized. He ranks among the most prominent of the younger members of the
Portland bar, and almost from the beginning of his connection therewith has en-
joyed a good practice. The only political offices that he has held have been in
the line of his profession. He served for two terms as chief deputy city attorney
and in 1907, although a republican, was nominated by both the republican and
democratic parties for the office of city attorney. So capably did he discharge
the duties of the position during his incumbency that in 1909 he was renominated
without opposition and is therefore serving for the second term, carefully guard-
ing the public interests through the prompt and capable discharge of his official
duties. During his first term there arose more important litigation than ever
before in the history of the city. Among the many things which he has accom-
plished was that of the municipal bond issue involving five and a quarter million
dollars, which he carried through after the circuit court had rendered an ad-
verse decision. His specialty is the subject of municipal franchise and on all
phases of this question has rendered many opinions which have been widely
quoted by municipal attorneys all over the United States, while from attorneys
throughout the country he has received almost numberless inquiries.
In 1902 Mr. Kavanaugh was united in marriage to Miss Eleanor E. Dunn,
of Portland, and they have two children. A Catholic in his religious faith, he
is a member of the cathedral parish, of the Catholic Order of Foresters and of
the Knights of Columbus, and in the last named organization he has served as
grand knight of Portland Council. He has made a notable record at the bar for
one of his years, his versatility, laudable ambition and comprehensive study con-
stituting the chief features in the success which is his.
MICHAEL HARRIS.
Michael Harris, contractor in general masonry lines, including brickwork,
plastering and cement work, was born in the town of Granby, in County Shef-
ford, Canada, August 13, 1849. His parents, William and Elizabeth Harris,
were natives of Ireland, who in childhood left the Emerald isle and became
residents of Canada, where they were married. Their son Michael remained
at home until twenty years of age, during which period he acquired a good edu-
cation in the public schools of Canada, his time being divided between the duties
of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and such tasks as were as-
signed him by parental authority.
Believing that he might have better business opportunities elsewhere, he
left home in 1870 and went to Vermont, remaining a resident of that state for
six years, during which period he learned the mason's trade in the city of Bur-
lington. About 1876 he returned to Canada, where he spent the succeeding four
years. He then went to Michigan, where he remained from 1880 until 1882,
when he heard and heeded the call of the west, coming to Portland, where for
twenty-eight years he has now made his home. For a year after his arrival
he was employed by Napoleon Kennedy, who, recognizing his ability, worth and
sound business judgment, admitted him to a partnership. They were thus
associated for another year, at the end of which time Mr. Harris sold out his
interest and has since been in business alone, except for a brief period, when
he was in partnership with W. W. Patterson. He has done all kinds of con-
tracting in general masonry, giving his attention largely to brickwork, plaster-
ing and cement work. However, he has been awarded extensive and important
contracts in connection with dwellings and apartment houses and his efforts are
seen in some of the finest apartments of Portland.
:vnCHAEL HARRIS
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On the 30th of September, 1885, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Harris
and Miss Hattie Broughton, a daughter of Wilham and Sarah Broughton and
a native of Oregon City, where her parents located at an early day, having been
among the pioneer settlers of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Harris traveled life's
journey together for only six years and were then separated by the death of the
wife in 1891. There were three sons born of that marriage: Arthur William,
who is engaged in business with his father; Leo, who is conducting a grocery
at the corner of Seventh and Mill streets ; and John M., a graduate of the Colum-
bia University, who is at present timekeeper for the firm of Jacobsen & Bade,
contractors.
Mr. Harris is a member of St. Francis' Catholic church and gives his political
allegiance to the democracy. He has never sought or desired office, however,
for his business makes full demand upon his time and attention. He is now
closely associated with the building operations of Portland and as the architect
of his own fortunes he has builded wisely and well.
ALEXANDER GOTWALD LONG.
The impossibility of placing fictitious values upon industry, determination
and perseverance at once proves the worth of the individual who must base his
rise upon these qualities. These elements have constituted salient features in
the advancement of A. G. Long, whose experience has been of wide range, as
he has progressed from a humble position in the employ of the Standard Oil
Company to ownership of the largest fire apparatus establishment in the Pacific
northwest. He was born in Litchfield, Montgomery county, Illinois, December
13, 1858. His father, Joseph C. Long, was a soldier of the Ninety-first Illinois
Volunteer Infantry during three years of the Civil war, and died at his home
in Litchfield, January 23, 1866, soon after he had been sent home from the army
on account of disability.
When eight years of age, A. G. Long, with his mother and other members
of the family, removed to St. Louis, Missouri. The stress of the family's finan-
cial condition forced him to seek employment at the time other boys were at-
tending school, and he entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company at
St. Louis when about eleven years old, remaining in the service of that cor-
poration for ten years, the last few years of which period he made his head-
quarters at St. Paul, Minnesota. When he was about twenty-one years of age
he returned to his native city and was there married to Ada C. Scott. Although
Litchfield had been the childhood home of both, they were not acquainted as
children, for the Scott family removed to Litchfield after the Longs had left
for St. Louis. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Long took up their
abode in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In those days, before the pipe line and the large steel tanks now used in con-
veying and storing oil were known, all oils were transported in wooden barrels
as soon as refined, and for a considerable period Mr. Long was engaged in trav-
eling over the entire Mississippi valley from St. Louis to the Canadian line and
buying up, storing and shipping all the empty oil barrels. After remaining in
the employ of the Standard Oil Company for a decade Mr. Long resigned his
position and became local agent at St. Paul for the navigation interests operated
under the name of the Diamond Jo Line Steamers, operating a line of boats on
the Mississippi river from St. Louis to St. Paul, Minnesota. He continued vvith
the company for several years and promotion brought him to the responsible
position of general agent for territory as far south as Winona, Minnesota. About
that time the Chicago, Burlington & Northern, now a part of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy road, was built along the east side of the Mississippi river, and
Mr. Long~negotiated most of the right of way for the line where it passed
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through the property of the steamboat line. He next entered the employ of the
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad, now the Great Northern line, as
contracting freight agent with headquarters at St. Paul and remained with that
road until 1891, when he came to Portland.
He started in business here in his present line on a very small scale in an
upstairs back office at the corner of Front and Ash streets, and from that humble
beginning has grown the large business now in his control and known all over
the Pacific northwest. He then carried no stock, but ordered as fire apparatus
was needed. From the upstairs room he moved downstairs in the same building
and put in a supply of fire extinguishing apparatus. It was not a very large
stock as he figures it now, but to him then it was of great importance. Only a
few months after he had leased the room on the first floor he was almost com-
pletely put out of business by the great flood which destroyed most of his stock.
With resolute spirit and courage, however, he made arrangements to continue
business, securing a room at the corner of Fourth street and Yamhill. This was
a somewhat larger building than he had formerly occupied but was still small in
comparison to his present establishment. In the course of time, however, this
building proved inadequate to his needs, and he removed to considerably larger
quarters in the Strowbridge building at 170 Second street, having in the mean-
time increased his stock to meet the demands of the trade. When he opened his
fire apparatus business in Portland, the fire departments of the northwest were
furnished by houses in San Francisco and the east. At first only a limited
amount of supplies could be obtained in San Francisco, most of the machinery
and fire department supplies being shipped long distances from Mississippi val-
ley points and cities even further remote. While conducting his business at No.
170 Second street, in the Strowbridge building, Mr. Long erected his own build-
ing at 45-47 North Fifth street, near Couch, a three-story brick structure, fifty
by one hundred feet, into which he removed. He then began the manufacture
of small apparatus but continued also to represent the large eastern factories.
His house still represents many of the companies or their successors that it rep-
resented when Mr. Long first started in business. He continued in the location
on North Fifth street until 1910, when he leased his building there, that property
having become very valuable. During the summer of 1910 he erected a fine
brick three-story building, fifty by one hundred feet, on Sixteenth street between
Marshall and Northrup, in the new warehouse district near the Hill terminals,
and has recently removed his stock to the new location. His line of goods in-
cludes everything to safeguard the home, factory and store or other property
from loss by fire. Automobile fire apparatus, steam and chemical engines, hook
and ladder trucks, hose carts and hose wagons are always in stock as well as
a full supply of hand fire extinguishers, cotton and rubber-lined hose of all
sizes. They also have a complete supply of fire department brass goods, in-
cluding alarm equipment ; in fact, "everything for fire protection." Being the
oldest concern of this character and having established such a reputation for
treatment of the trade as well as carrying such a large and varied stock, has
placed this firm in the lead, and throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon-
tana and much of British Columbia this house is well and favorably known.
Mr. Long enjoys exclusive agency business of several of the best, latest im-
proved, as well as old and well known lines of all kinds of fire apparatus. They
are also prepared to furnish and install fire alarm systems and maintain them,
and in this part of their business represent the Star Electric Company of Bing-
hamton. New York. Thus from a humble beginning the business has grown to
mammoth proportions and the success which Mr. Long has achieved thereby
is well merited, for it has logically followed his close application and enterpris-
ing methods.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Long have been born eight children, but the two eldest
died in St. Paul prior to the removal of the family to the northwest, Ada Gar-
net passing away at the age of eight years, and Alexander Riley in infancy. The
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living children are: Mildred C. ; Eva W. ; Mary Pearl; Alexander G., who is
now a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston, where
he is studying mechanical, hydraulic and electrical engineering; Walter Scott;
and Howard A. Mr. and Mrs. Long occupy a beautiful home at No. 447 Six-
teenth street, in the exclusive and beautiful residence district known as Port-
land Heights.
Mr. Long is very prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of all the
dififerent bodies from the blue lodge to the consistory and the shrine, his identifi-
cation with the craft dating from the time when he was twenty-two years of
age. He holds a life membership in all of the Masonic bodies with which he is
connected. He is also a member of the Elks Lodge No. 59, at St. Paul, Minne-
sota, which made him a life member upon his removal from St. Paul to Port-
land. He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and to the Royal Arca-
num. With the rapid and marvelous development and growth of Portland many
men have come to the front because of their recognition and utilization of op-
portunities which have arisen in connection with the substantial expansion of
commercial and financial interests here, and of this class A. G. Long is an hon-
ored representative.
CHARLES W. BURRAGE.
Charles W. Burrage was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, about forty
miles from Boston, on the 25th of August, 1830. He was of English lineage,
his ancestors being among the early settlers of the New England colony. He
began his education in the schools of his native town. Later he attended Law-
rence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, and subsequently became a student in
the military school at Norwich, Vermont. He entered the engineering school at
Brown University, Providence, but when Professor Norton was transferred to
Yale Mr. Burrage and other members of the class went with him, so that he
graduated from the Sheffield scientific school of Yale College.
In 1861, accompanied by his wife and two children, Mr. Burrage left New
England for the Pacific coast. They sailed from New York on June 5, crossed
the isthmus by rail, arriving in San Francisco July 2. Stopping in California
for a short visit with relatives, they continued their journey to Oregon which
was their destination, arriving in Portland on the 5th of September. Mr. Bur-
rage had never been blessed with a robust constitution, and the reports of the
healthfulness of the Willamette valley, together with the opportunities ofifered
for one of his profession, formed the leading motive for leaving New England
and decided him upon making Portland his place of residence.
Their first home was in a small cottage on the corner of Stark and Sixth
streets. In 1862 he was elected county surveyor, which office he filled for many
years. He gave the most painstaking care to all his work, and his surveys were
noted for their accuracy. If Mr. Burrage made the survey, no one questioned
its correctness. In 1865 he was chosen city surveyor. Finding there was great
discrepancies in the measures used by the dififerent surveyors, he sent to Wash-
ington, D. C, and procured a government standard measure. This was trans-
ferred to the water table at the building on Front and Washington streets. The
city adopted it as the standard for all city measurements, so that uniformity
was secured for all time. Fie was engaged on the surveys of the Oregon Rail-
way & Navigation Company's road, especially in the immediate proximity to
Portland, as many lines were run to decide upon the best approach to the city.
He ran the preliminary line of what is now the Southern Pacific all through
the Willamette valley and as far south as Roseburg.
Edward H., the oldest son, died of lung trouble in 1887, and the youngest
son, showing signs of the same disease, Mr. Burrage decided to remove the
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family to eastern Washington. They spent a year in Spokane, but the son not
improving, they removed to Canon City, Colorado, where they lived until the
time of Mr. Burrage's death in February, 1899. Charles F. died in February,
1890.
Mr. Burrage retired from his profession on going to Colorado. He had
always been deeply interested in geology and mineralogy and the fossil fields
and minerals of Colorado proved very attractive to him and afforded a most
enjoyable manner of spending his time. He was a student to the time of his
death. He made a fine collection of fossils and minerals, which it was his great
pleasure to show to any one interested in that line.
While still a resident of New England, Mr. Burrage married Miss Sarah J.
Hills, the youngest daughter of Charles H. and Betsy Buss Hills on November
30, 1854. To Mr. and Mrs. Burrage were born three sons, and they also had an
adopted daughter. The surviving son, William H., is also a civil engineer. He
married Miss Minnie A. Gates, and they are pleasantly located in this city. The
adopted daughter married S. O. Laws of Canon City, Colorado. They have
removed to Portland and are the parents of four sons : Burrage H., William,
Donald and Kenneth. In 1905, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Burrage
returned to Portland, and in 1907 erected a comfortable residence at No. 611
East Madison street, which she now occupies. The home life of the family was
ever a most attractive one. Mr. Burrage was devoted to the welfare of his
wife and children, and found his greatest happiness in ministering to their com-
fort. He was a man of strong intellect, and wide reading, and research made
him a scholar. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, of
which he was a stalwart supporter, owing to his thorough belief in the advocacy
of republican principles as forces in good government. He was a member of
the Unitarian church, in which he always served as a trustee.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DUFUR.
William Henry Harrison Dufur, engaging in the real-estate business in Port-
land, has been a resident of Oregon since 1859, arriving with his parents at
Columbia slough when but six years of age. His birth occurred at Williams-
town, Vermont, February 22, 1854. His father, Andrew Jackson Dufur, was
a native of New Hampshire but in early childhood went to the Green Mountain
state with his family. He removed to Wisconsin in 1856 and in 1859 came
to Oregon, settling on Columbia slough six miles from the Portland courthouse,
where he purchased the E. L. Quinby farm of eight hundred acres. Mention
of him is made elsewhere in this volume. His wife, who bore the maiden name
of Lois Bumham, was born in Williamstown, Vermont, and died at Dufur,
Oregon, in 1890. Mr. Dufur passed away exactly five years later in the town
which was named in his honor. They were the parents of two daughters and
three sons, of whom four are living: Hon. E. B. Dufur, an attorney; A. J.
Dufur, Jr., now living retired; William Henry Harrison Dufur, of this review;
and Mrs. Arabelle H. Staats, of Dufur, Oregon.
After completing a high-school course William H. H. Dufur attended the
Academy of Portland and then entered business circles of this city, represent-
ing the firms of Meier & Frank and Bradley, Marshall & Company for several
years. On the i6th of July, 1876, he wedded Miss Mary L. Alexander, a
daughter of D. Alexander, of Portland, who died while his daughter was a child.
The mother of Mrs. Dufur afterward married R. H. Holmes, one of the pi-
oneers of 1852. In November after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Dufur took
up their abode at Dufur, Oregon, where they made their home until 1908, when
they returned to Portland. In the meantime Mr. Dufur had engaged extensively
in farming and stock-raising, operating about two thousand acres of land, but
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has since disposed of a part of his property, his holdings embracing about seven
hundred acres. He made a specialty of raising thoroughbred Spanish Merino
sheep and in this was very successful. He was, in fact, one of the best known
agriculturists and stock-raisers of this part of the state.
Mr. Dufur has also been prominently known in connection with the public
life of Oregon. Always an active, loyal and progressive republican, he was
elected to the state legislature in 1882 from Wasco county, when it comprised
Wasco, Crook, Wheeler, Sherman and Hood River counties. Under the Har-
rison administration he was disbursing agent of the Warm Springs and Colville
Indian Commission, and was presented by old chief Moses with the heirloom
tomahawk of the federated tribes of the Colvilles which had been handed down
from chief to chief until none knew its age. In 1898 he was appointed forest
supervisor of the northern division of the Cascade Forest Reserve and of the
Bull Run Forest Reserve, serving for four years. There has not been a county
or state convention since 1882, with the exception of two, to which he has not
been a delegate, and he was sergeant-at-arms at the last session of the state
senate. Coming to Portland, he has engaged principally in the real-estate busi-
ness, handling both city and country property. He is now the secretary and one-
fourth owner of the Pringle Falls Light & Power Company, and the owner of
the Meadow Brook apple orchard tracts of land located four miles from the
town of Dufur.
Mr. and Mrs. Dufur reside at No. 1075 Belmont street, purchasing their
residence on coming to Portland, in addition to which Mr. Dufur owns much
other city property. They have two children. Blanche G., is now the wife of
J. H. Greer, of Coalinga, California- 'who' is i superintendent of the British Con-
solidated Oil Company at that point. -Andrew. B., who lives on one of his father's
farms at Dufur, Oregon, married Miss Iva Williams, a daughter of W. H.
Williams of Wasco county, one of the early pioneers. They have two children,
Mildred Iva and Elizabeth Amanda.
Mr. Dufur holds membership with the Woodmen of the World, the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, the United Artisans and the Grange, and his re-
ligious faith is that of the Unitarian church. He has always been a man of
liberal views and broad interests, thinking out widely, while his actions and busi-
ness interests have ever, been on a large scale. The success of his efiforts in
handling extensive agricultural interests well qualify him to speak with authority
on such subjects, while in real-estate circles he has gained an equally creditable
position.
ROBERT LUTKE.
At the age of eighteen years Robert Lutke had his introduction to the line
of business in which he is now engaged, and careful training in youth qualified
him for advancement as the years passed by. He was but eight years of age
when he came to the new world from Germany, his native land, his birth having
there occurred on the 5th of February, 1858. Flis father, Robert Lutke, Sr.,
also born in that country, sailed for America with his family in 1866 and soon
afterward took up his abode in Chicago. At an early age his son and namesake
began to learn the trade that has made possible his great success in life. At the
outset he manifested diligence and perseverance which won the attention of
his employers and led to his promotion from time to time. His residence on
the coast dates from 1878, and on the 7th of January, 1883, he arrived in Port-
land, where he became connected with his present business. The enterprise had
been established in 1881, under the name of the Dixon, Borgeson Company, at
the corner of Front and Stark streets, in the old Oregonian building, but was
soon removed to larger quarters at Front and Washington streets. In 1900 the
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has since disposed of a part of his property, his holdings embracing about seven
hundred acres. He made a specialty of raising thoroughbred Spanish Merino
sheep and in this was very successful. He was, in fact, one of the best known
agriculturists and stock-raisers of this part of the state.
Mr. Dufur has also been prominently known in connection with the public
life of Oregon. Always an active, loyal and progressive republican, he was
elected to the state legislature in 1882 from Wasco county, when it comprised
Wasco, Crook, Wheeler, Sherman and Hood River counties. Under the Har-
rison administration he was disbursing agent of the Warm Springs and Colville
Indian Commission, and was presented by old chief Moses with the heirloom
tomahawk of the federated tribes of the Colvilles which had been handed down
from chief to chief until none knew its age. In 1898 he was appointed forest
supervisor of the northern division of the Cascade Forest Reserve and of the
Bull Run Forest Reserve, serving for four years. There has not been a county
or state convention since 1882, with the exception of two, to which he has not
been a delegate, and he was sergeant-at-arms at the last session of the state
senate. Coming to Portland, he has engaged principally in the real-estate busi-
ness, handling both city and country property. He is now the secretary and one-
fourth owner of the Pringle Falls Light & Power Company, and the owner of
the Meadow Brook apple orchard tracts of land located four miles from the
town of Dufur.
Mr. and Mrs. Dufur reside at No. 1075 Belmont street, purchasing their
residence on coming to Portland, in addition to which Mr. Dufur owns much
other city property. They have two children. Blanche G., is now the wife of
J. H. Greer, of Coalinga, California';' '^ho'iS'^ superintendent of the British Con-
solidated Oil Company at that point. ■ Andrew. B., who lives on one of his father's
farms at Dufur, Oregon, married Miss Iva Williams, a daughter of W. H.
Williams of Wasco county, one of the early pioneers. They have two children,
Mildred Iva and Ehzabeth Amanda.
Mr. Dufur holds membership with the Woodmen of the World, the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, the United Artisans and the Grange, and his re-
ligious faith is that of the Unitarian church. He has always been a man of
liberal views and broad interests, thinking out widely, while his actions and busi-
ness interests have ever, been on a large scale. The success of his efiforts in
handling extensive agricultural interests well qualify him to speak with authority
on such subjects, while in real-estate circles he has gained an equally creditable
position.
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ROBERT LUTKE.
At the age of eighteen years Robert Lutke had his introduction to the line
I of business in which he is now engaged, and careful training in youth qualified
him for advancement as the years passed by. He was but eight years of age
when he came to the new world from Germany, his native land, his birth having
there occurred on the 5th of February, 1858. His father, Robert Lutke, Sr.,
also born in that country, sailed for America with his family in 1866 and soon
afterward took up his abode in Chicago. At an early age his son and namesake
began to learn the trade that has made possible his great success in life. At the
outset he manifested diligence and perseverance which won the attention of
his employers and led to his promotion from time to time. His residence on
the coast dates from 1878, and on the 7th of January, 1883, he arrived in Port-
land, where he became connected with his present business. The enterprise had
been established in 1881, under the name of the Dixon, Borgeson Company, at
the corner of Front and Stark streets, in the old Oregonian building, but was
soon removed to larger quarters at Front and Washington streets. In 1900 the
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large one. The train that preceded them and the one that followed, however,
had considerable trouble with the red men and many of the emigrants were
killed.
Mr. Packard located at Steilacoom, Washington, and there engaged in the
lumber business, which he followed throughout the period of his residence in
Washington. For some years he was in charge of the troops guarding the ferry
at what was then known as Fort Raglan. He was the owner of sawmills and
engaged in shipping lumber to San Francisco. His business affairs were con-
ducted on an extensive scale and at one time he employed a hundred men. He
remained a resident of Washington for about twelve years, during which period
one of his sawmills was burned and also two shiploads of lumber. Later he
came to Oregon, settling at Fort Stevens, having charge of the building of the
officers' quarters. Subsequently he purchased a dairy farm on Clatsop Plains,
comprising one hundred and twenty acres, and the family took up their abode
upon that place, which Mr. Packard conducted for five years. On the expira-
tion of that period he sold his farm and removed to Portland, establishing a
grocery store on First street. This he conducted for about eight years, when
he suffered losses and removed to southern Oregon. There he turned his at-
tention to carpentering and building and continued to reside in that section of
the state until his death, which occurred on the ist of June, 1892, his remains
being interred at Talent, near Ashland, Oregon.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Packard were born four children : Cora A., the wife of
William H. Morrow of Portland, by whom she has one son Harry; Paris L, of
Underwood, Oregon, who married Elizabeth Gibbs, a daughter of Addison Gibbs,
a former governor of Oregon; Lula L., of Portland; and Adele, who died in
Washington at the age of two years. Mrs. Packard yet remembers Jason Lee,
the honored pioneer preacher of Oregon, who delivered his last sermon before
starting for the northwest in her father's cabin in Canada.
In politics Mr. Packard was a strong democrat in early manhood, and the
second year after his arrival in the northwest was elected to represent his dis-
trict in the Washington legislature. Later, however, he severed his connections
with the democratic party during the period of the Civil war, for he believed
in the supremacy of the federal government and did not like the attitude of
his party concerning the question of the war. He was a lover of music, a fine
musician, and in early manhood engaged to some extent in teaching music. He
held membership with the Odd Fellows lodge of Portland, and he possessed
many sterling traits of character which commended him to the good-will and
friendship of all who knew him. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Packard has
removed to Portland, where she is now living with her daughter Mrs. Morrow,
and in this city she is widely and favorably known.
PERLEY CHANDLER HEALD.
Perley Chandler Heald, president of the Michigan Land & Timber Company,
was born in Lovell, Oxford county, Maine, May 5, 1849. He is a native of
the state where the lumber interests have figured as a most important industry,
was reared in the middle west, where lumbering has constituted the chief source
of wealth to Michigan's inhabitants and is now identified in the northwest with
the development of the timber resources of this section of the country.
The Heald family are descended from two brothers who came from Ber-
wick on the Tweed, Scotland, in 1646 and settled in Massachusetts. Solomon
Heald, the father of our subject, was also a native of Maine and became an
engineer and surveyor. He first went to Michigan to select land for the Sault
Ste. Marie Canal Company in 1853. He removed to Michigan in September,
1865, settling at Midland, where he followed his profession until 1879, when
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 735
he retired and returned to the east, his death there occuring May 21, 1898. In
the Pine Tree state he had wedded Ester Day, who was also born in Maine and
died in Michigan in the summer of 1871. Perley C. Heald is the youngest of
eight children, of whom four are living, namely: Henrietta B. Horr, of North
Waterford, Maine; Hattie O., who resides in North Westerford, Maine; Maria
Hill, of Buxton, Maine ; and Perley C, of this review.
After mastering the early branches of learning in the common schools P. C.
Heald attended Fryeburg Academy of Maine, a school once taught by Daniel
Webster. He was graduated in 1869 and, following in his father's professional
footsteps, engaged in surveying and engineering in Michigan. From 1874 un-
til 1884 he filled the position of county surveyor of Midland county. He long
occupied a place of prominence there and in 1887 and 1888 was mayor of the
city of Midland, being the first to hold that office, as his father had been the
first to fill the position of president of the village.
From the time of leaving school Perley C. Heald was engaged to a greater
or less extent in the timber brokerage business and from 1885 until 1890 he
was largely interested in lumbering and milling with headquarters at Midland
and Detroit. In the latter year he turned his attention to the real-estate busi-
ness at Midland, operating in that field for five years, and from 1895 until 1899
he acceptably and efficiently filled the position of state trespass agent.
From the time he attained his majority Mr. Heald has always been active
in republican politics and his fellow townsmen in Michigan gave substantial
evidence of their appreciation of his worth and ability by electing him to various
offices. In the fall of 1898 he was chosen state senator, serving in 1899 and
1900, being the first republican who ever carried the twenty-fourth senatorial
district by a clear majority — a fact which is proof of his personal popularity
as well as the trust reposed in him. He was chairman of the committee of
Public health in the senate, which secured the enactment of the first laws in
Michigan regulating the admission to practice of physicians. Previous to this
time no qualifications had been required by law and quacks were numerous.
The strongest opposition was offered to the bill but as the result of his fight in
behalf of the legitimate profession, the foundation of Michigan's present med-
ical laws, now considered the best in the county, was laid. He also took a
conspicuous part in the discussion of the question of ad valorem versus specific
tax, then before the senate, advocating the taxation of railroad and mining prop-
erties according to their relative earning values instead of their physical values.
However, it was impossible for his side to win under the Pingree administration
but the course which he advocated has since been recognized and adopted as
the only just way. In 1902 he was appointed deputy dairy and food commis-
sioner, which position he held until 1905, when he was appointed United States
consul to Wallaceburg, Ontario, acting in that capacity till the office was abolished
June, 1906. Next came an appointment, confirmed by the senate, as United
States consul to Saigon, Cochin China, but he resigned the position ere the
expiration of his term and in November, 1906, came to Portland, where he has
since resided.
Shortly after his arrival he organized the Michigan Land & Timber Com-
pany, of which he is the president, and in this field his operations are extensive.
At all times his actions, whether in the business or political field, have been
large and his outlook broad. His has never been a limited vision, the present
constituting the bounds of his horizon, for he has looked beyond the present
hour into the possibilities and opportunities of the future, whether in his official
service or in the conduct of private business enterprises.
On the nth of May, 1871, Mr. Heald was married in Saginaw, Michigan,
to Miss Eugenia C. Hitchcock, a daughter of Samuel J. and Clarissa (Alvord)
Hitchcock, of that place. Mrs. Heald died July 31, 1908. The three children
of that marriage are Ernest C, C. Ida and Ralph P. Both sons are associated
with their father in the timber business and. have, especially the elder, for sev-
736 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
eral years largely relieved him of its cares and responsibilities, while the daugh-
ter presides over their home at No. 'j']'}^ Pettygrove street, where the closest
possible family ties exist. Mr. Heald belongs to the Chamber of Commerce
and the Commercial Club. A spirit of activity dominates the northwest and
he is in hearty sympathy with the movements of those two organizations for
the further development of Portland and the exploitation of its resources.
Prominent in Masonry, he has taken the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites,
all save the thirty-third. His religious faith is indicated in his membership in
the Presbyterian church. He is a large man, of fine personal appearance, con-
genial, courteous and hospitable, a man of broad thought and wide interests,
with whom association means expansion and elevation.
ISAAC A. MACRUM.
Isaac A. Macrum, deceased, was for a long period associated with profes-
sional, financial and other business interests in Portland, where he maintained
his residence through almost three decades. He was born in Pittsburg, Penn-
sylvania, April 7, 1842, and is a son of Samuel and Jean (Allen) Macrum, both
of whom were of Scotch-Irish descent. They were born, reared and married in
Ireland and unto them was born a daughter, Mary Ann, ere they sailed for the
new world. Their family numbered seven children, of whom Isaac A. Macrum
was the sixth in order of birth. The father was a farmer by occupation, and
became the owner of an extensive tract of land in Westmoreland county, Penn-
sylvania, which he cultivated for many years. Both he and his wife died in
that county.
Isaac A. Macrum began his education in the schools of Pittsburg, later at-
tended the Leechburg Institute, the Iron City Commercial College of Pittsburg
and the Pennsylvania State Normal School, after which he turned his attention
to the profession of teaching, which he followed until he came to Oregon. He
was principal for a time in the second ward school of Pittsburg and also had
charge of the boys' department of the Newell Institute, being associated with
Mr. Newell in the ownership of the school, which was a private institution sit-
uated on Penn avenue, in Pittsburg. He then sold out and came to Oregon in
1871.
While a resident of Pittsburg, Mr. Macrum was married to Miss Westanna
Grubbs, a native of that city and a daughter of William and Margaret Grubbs.
They began their domestic life in Pittsburg and four children were born unto
them ere they left there for the west in 1871. Mr. Macrum's object was to
take up land or buy property and engage in raising cattle, but he could not find
land in the Willamette valley which he regarded suitable and so went to Oregon
City, where he was employed as principal of a school for three years. He also
took up the study of law there with the firm of Johnston & McCowan, and when
they opened a branch office in Portland, Mr. Macrum was sent here to take
charge. He continued with the firm for a number of years, carefully directing
their legal interests at this point, but when the Willamette Savings Bank was
opened he accepted the position of cashier, which was offered him and which he
creditably filled until the bank was merged into the Merchants National Bank.
He remained with the latter for a number of years as cashier and stockholder,
but at length retired. He did not afterward engage in any strenuous business
undertaking, although at dififerent times he held office, including that of state
railroad commissioner. He was a stalwart republican in his political views, and
filled various minor positions, the duties of which he discharged with such
promptness and fidelity that indicated his loyalty in citizenship, and his unfalter-
ing devotion to the public good.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 737
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Macrum were born two children following their removal
to the Pacific coast. Their eldest son, Dr. Charles A. Macrum, a graduate of
the University of Michigan and now a successful practitioner of Portland, mar-
ried Miss Stella B. Dorris of Eugene, Oregon. Margaret ]., the eldest daugh-
ter, is the wife of Dr. W. H. Byrd, of Salem, Oregon, and has two sons : Clar-
ence M. and Donald. Newell, a railroad man living in Portland, is married and
has two children : Reti and Clyde. William S., who is connected with the Mer-
chants Bank of this city, married Lula Smith. John W., a civil engineer living
in Spokane, married Miss Carrie M. Watt. Garfield H., also a civil engineer,
is at home. The death of the husband and father occurred August 13, 1902,
and he was laid to rest in the cemetery at Forest Grove, Oregon, where the
family were then residing. Since his death, however, his widow has returned
to Portland and is now located at No. 185 East Thirteenth street.
Mr. Macrum held membership in the Ancient Order of United Workmen,
but his chief interests centered in the church and kindred lines of work. He
took a great interest in the First Congregational church, served as one of its
deacons, and did all in his power to promote the growth and extend the influence
of the denomination. He was often called upon to fill the pulpit and was a dele-
gate to church conventions on various occasions. He also taught in the Sunday
school, was president of the Young Men's Christian Association for a number
of years and contributed largely to its upbuilding. In fact he was in sympathy
with every line of work which tends to a dissemination of the truth and consti-
tutes a potent force in uplifting mankind. In this day when a wave of moral
regeneration seems to be sweeping over the country, his life may well be taken
as a type of Christian manhood and citizenship.
WILLIAM SCHMEER.
Among the prominent business men of Portland who have long been identi-
fied with its interests and who have contributed their part toward the upbuilding
of the city is William Schmeer, president of the Schmeer Carpet & Furniture
Company. Mr. Schmeer has been a resident of the city fifty years and has been
an interested spectator of the great changes that have taken place in the develop-
ment of the city and the Pacific coast.
He was born in Germany in 1855, a son of Peter and Caroline (Schmeer)
Schmeer, and at six years of age left the old country with his parents, who
came direct to Portland by way of the isthmus of Panama and San Francisco,
arriving at their destination in the old sailing ship Industry. The family began
housekeeping in a little four-room cottage which stood on the spot now occupied
by Ladd's Bank and the subject of this review attended school in a little log
house in the woods which occupied the site where now stands the Portland
Hotel. Peter Schmeer engaged in farming on land which is now called Schmeer's
addition. He also owned a tract of fifty-five acres on East Stark and Twenty-
eighth streets. He was an intelligent and hard-working man and one who pros-
pered in his business and set an example worthy of imitation by his children.
In 1884, twenty-three years after he had established himself in his new home,
the father was called to his reward, and in 1899 the mother, having reached an
advanced age, also passed away.
William Schmeer grew up in Portland and after completing his education, at
quite an early age entered the furniture business under Samuel Lowenstein, the
firm later assuming the title of the Oregon Furniture Company, of which Mr.
Schmeer became secretary, in which capacity he served for seven years, and for
two years acted as president. As eastern buyer for the company he spent a
great deal of time visiting the eastern markets and became widely known in a
business for which from the first he seemed eminently adapted, and in which he
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attained a distinct success. In 1899 Mr. Schmeer withdrew from the Oregon
Furniture Company and organized the company of which he is now the head
and which, under his management, has become one of the most important con-
cerns of the kind in the northwest. The company occupies the entire building
of four floors, at No. 174 First street, and carries a complete and well selected
stock of the very best lines.
In 1877 Mr. Schmeer was united in marriage to Miss Viola Burke, a daugh-
ter of William Ervin and Rebecca (Simmons) Burke, pioneers of 1852, who
owned a large farm near St. Johns, where they lived for many years. Two
children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Schmeer: William Emery, who
was married in 1901 to Miss Jessie Pitzinger, and is associated with his father
in business ; and Ethel, the wife of Jack Stanton of Portland.
Mr. Schmeer is one of the best known men of the city and holds membership
in the Woodmen of the World and the National Union. For the past forty
years he has been a member of the East Side Centenary Methodist church, be-
ing one of its earliest members and now one of its trustees. In politics he is a
republican, but at local elections votes for the men whom he believes best quali-
fied for ofiice regardless of party ties. The success of Mr. Schmeer in business
has been due to characteristics of courage, determination, persistence and pa-
tience which he inherited from worthy ancestry and which in the long run sel-
dom fail to lead to victory. He is known as a public-spirited citizen who always
has at heart the best interests of the city and possesses in an unusual degree
the confidence and esteem of his friends.
LAWRENCE J. O. SALDERN.
In the life of Lawrence J. O. Saldern, a well known lumberman of Portland,
is presented a remarkable example of the effect of thrift and industry, and his
career also illustrates what may be accomplished by a young man depending
entirely upon his own resources in a country where opportunity is open to all.
He first saw the light of day in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, January 21, 1844,
his parents being Peter and Christina von Saldern. The family of von Saldern
is one of the very old and prominent ones of Schleswig-Holstein, the ancestry
being traced back to 1300, and some of its members are among the most in-
fluential people of the German empire. The family estates are also extensive.
At the time of the birth of our subject Schleswig-Holstein was under the do-
minion of the Danish flag but it has since become a part of the German empire.
He was educated in the public schools and was early taught to work, being ap-
prenticed to a carriage and wagon maker, and before he reached manhood he
had acquired a thorough knowledge of the trade.
Mr. Saldern was ambitious for opportunity which he did not preceive in his
native land and he became convinced that his destiny pointed westward. Ac-
cordingly, at the age of twenty years, in 1864, he bade farewell to his old home
and went aboard a ship bound for the united States. About this time the
cholera was prevailing in various parts of Europe and many passengers aboard
the ship were fatally seized with the disease and the young emigrant witnessed
the ocean burial of hundreds of his fellow passengers. These scenes made a
profound impression upon his mind, but he was not discouraged, as he had in-
herited from sturdy ancestors a spirit of indomitable perseverance which ob-
stacles aroused only to greater exertion. On account of cholera prevailing aboard
the ship he was detained for some time in quarantine before being allowed to
land at New York. He proceeded westward, stopping at Davenport, Iowa, from
which point he went to Muscatine in the same state, where he worked for sev-
eral years at his trade. In 1870 he went to Dakota and continued in the car-
riage and wagon making business at Yankton until 1876, when, on account of
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failing- health because of the severe climate, he decided to seek a new field,
selecting Portland as his home. After becoming acquainted with conditions
in this state and the surrounding country, he engaged in the lumber business
with such success that for some time he was the largest operator in the logging
camps on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. He also became the owner of a
sawmill at Albina, which he operated for two years.
In 1870, at Muscatine, Iowa, Mr. Saldern was united in marriage to Miss
Florine Lindsay, a daughter of James and Nancy (Hart) Lindsay, and five
children were born of this union, two of whom are now living: Eva, the wife
of W. A. Packard ; and Amy, now Mrs. J. T. Healey. The family occupies an
elegant modern residence with a large yard adorned with beautiful shubbery,
at East Ninth street and Holladay avenue, and here Mr. Saldern is living at
his ease, enjoying the results of many years of arduous toil which, however,
were not without their compensations as he went along. In politics he is a re-
publican. He is a member of the Masonic order and years ago accepted its
basic principles of friendliness and helpfulness as elements of his own life.
As a business man and private citizen Mr. Saldern has always pursued an hon-
orable and upright course and wherever he is known in the northwest he is re-
garded with unqualified confidence and respect.
FRANCIS H. GRUBBS.
Francis H. Grubbs of Portland, occupies the position of president of the
Marsh Printing Company, although he has practically retired from the active
management of business interests. He was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
March 24, 1834, a son of John and Susan (Austen) Grubbs. The family were
early residents of Pennsylvania, settling near Philadelphia, among the first colo-
nists of the Keystone state. They were of German lineage and the great-grand-
father, George Grubbs, married a German maiden, whose dowry was a red
heifer and a feather bed. They tied the bed on the animal's back and started
across the Alleghany mountains to establish a home in the "wild western wil-
derness," settling where Pittsburg now stands. They were among the first to
locate on that site, the place being known as Fort Pitt. The great-grandfather
was shot by an Indian near the fort, the wound being inflicted by an arrow. This
did not kill him, however, and in time he recovered, remaining a resident of
that locality throughout the residue of his days. Many of his descendants still
live in Pittsburg or in that part of the country. Agriculture seemed to be the
usual occupation of the family in the early days.
However, John Grubbs, the father of Francis H. Grubbs, became a con-
tractor and builder of Pittsburg. He was born about twelve miles from that
city on the 31st of December, 1801, and died in Oregon on the 8th of January,
1886. He was a son of Conrad Grubbs, a farmer by occupation, who died on
the old homestead near Pittsburg. While living in Pennsylvania, John Grubbs
wedded Susan Austen, who was born at Cattle Gate Manor, Wiltshire, England,
in 1814, and died in Oregon at the age of eighty-five years. In 1846 John Grubbs
and his family left Pennsylvania and went to Michigan, where they resided for
five years. On the expiration of that period the father and his three sons,
Francis H., John C. and Elijah E., came to the Pacific coast, traveling westward
with ox teams and reaching their destination in the fall of 1852, after six
months spent upon the way. They settled near Corvallis, where John Grubbs
took up a claim of three hundred and twenty acres of land, on which he built a
house. He hauled logs to the mill, had them sawed into lumber and his knowl-
edge of carpentering enabled him to build his home. This was one of the early
frame houses of the district, the brothers living in a small shack while it was
being erected. About a year later Francis H. Grubbs returned to the east by
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way of the isthmus of Panama in order to remove his mother, three sisters and
a younger brother to Oregon. The return trip was made by way of the isthmus
and they had much trouble in reaching their destination. It was a difficult un-
dertaking to cross Panama, as the natives were very hostile and would attack
travelers at every opportunity. Finally, however, Mr. Grubbs and the others
of the family reached Oregon and at Portland he secured a wagon to take his
mother and the children to Corvallis, where the father was located. When they
reached their home no one was there, as nothing could be definitely known as
to the time of their arrival. The other members of the family were at work in
the woods, but soon a brother of Francis H. Grubbs returned to the house, and
as soon as he caught a glimpse of Francis called out: "Which one is dead?"
expecting to find that some of the family had perished by the way on account
of the hard trip. The trip, however, had been safely accomplished, and all went
to Jive upon the old homestead, Francis H. Grubbs and his brother assisting
the father in fencing the place. Then they started to school, being enrolled as
pupils of the Willamette University. Soon Francis H. Grubbs was old enough
to take up land and secured one hundred and sixty acres adjoining his father's
property, but later his brother, Elijah E., bought him out. For seven years
Francis H. Grubbs attended Willamette University and completed the course
with the first class that was ever graduated on the Pacific coast. There were
three members of the family in that class, the others being his brother John C.
and his sister Margaretta, who later became the wife of James Odell.
After completing his early education, Mr. Grubbs took up the profession
of teaching and was made principal of the academic department of Willamette
University. He remained as a teacher there for six years and his wife, who had
also graduated in the class with him, was likewise a teacher in that school, be-
ing elected preceptress after the first year. She bore the maiden name of Lucy
Anna Marie Lee and was a daughter of Jason and Lucy (Thomson) Lee. Her
father was one of the first Protestant missionaries of Oregon and was for many
years superintendent of Methodist missions in this state ; a most interesting and
historic character, whose labors were a vital element in the moral development
of this district. His daughter. Miss Lucy A. M. Lee, was born in Salem, Ore-
gon, in 1842, in the first house built in that town, and for the acquirement of
her education became a student in Willamette University, where she met Mr,
Grubbs. The date of their graduation was July 14, 1863, at which time the
degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon them and they had also received
Latin diplomas certifying their attainments. They were married on the 27th
of July, 1864, and after teaching in the university for six years took charge of
Baker City Academy, a new institution, with which they were connected for
two years. He next became connected with La Creole Academy at Dallas for
a time. They then devoted two years to teaching in Umpqua Academy, at the
end of which time Mrs. Grubbs became ill. He was next made principal of the
schools at Eugene, and subsequently went to The Dalles, where he remained as
principal for three years. His health failing, he was obliged to give up teaching
and through the influence of his friend, Mr. McClelland, who was superintend-
ent of bridges and building for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, he was
made paymaster, with headquarters at Spokane, his work extending over a ter-
ritory of two hundred and twenty-eight miles. He was with that company for
two years, and when Mr. McClelland was made superintendent of the Canadian
Pacific, Mr. Grubbs went with him as assistant superintendent of one of his
divisions, acting in that capacity for two years. On the expiration of that period
he returned to Oregon and became manager for the Union Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of Maine. He was given jurisdiction over Montana and removed
to that state, where he remained for two years. About that time his father died
at the age of eighty-five, at the home of a daughter in Eugene, where he had for
some time lived retired. Francis H. Grubbs then took up the work of settling
the estate. Subsequently he and his daughter, Ethel W., traveled in the east
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 743
for six months, the daughter then remaining in Boston for two years to study
in the New England Conservatory of Music. She is an only child. The mother
had passed away April 28, 1881, and after leaving his daughter in the east, Mr.
Grubbs went to Alaska with Mr. McClelland, with whom he had previously
been associated and who was the owner of a large fish cannery and trading es-
tablishment. Mr. Grubbs was given charge of the trading station, and to the
business devoted his energies for two years. He then returned to Portland and
was joined by his daughter, who had finished her studies in the east. Mr. Grubbs
joined with R, J. Marsh in the organization of the Marsh Printing Company in
1889, and a successful business was established. Later Mr. Marsh was killed
and Mr. Grubbs took charge of the plant, with which he has been connected to
the present time. His business has been a paying investment, and has brought
a substantial return to its stockholders.
He has now passed the seventy-sixth milestone on life's journey. His has
been an eventful and useful career. He was only seventeen years of age when
he came with his father to the northwest and the experiences of frontier life in
this section of the country are familiar to him. Business interests have called
him not only to various sections of Oregon, but also to Montana, Washington
and Alaska. He has watched the making of history, as it has unfolded in the
events which have marked the material, intellectual, political and moral growth
of the northwest. He came to be recognized as one of the foremost educators
of this state and later proved his efficiency and ability in business lines as dis-
tinct from professional activities. His name is honored for what he has ac-
complished, his labors being an element in the substantial progress of this sec-
tion as well as a source of individual success. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and has served as superintendent of the Sunday school, class
leader, steward and trustee for many years.
MATHEW BRADY.
Mathew Brady was numbered among the successful contractors of Port-
land of an earlier day and the Union block and other substantial structures stand
as monuments to his skill, workmanship and business enterprise. During the
last two decades of his life, however, he lived retired, his previous success be-
ing sufficient to enable him to put aside further business cares.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, a son of Andrew and Esther Brady.
His education was acquired in the schools of the Emerald isle up to the time
when he came to America. He was still quite young, however, when he crossed
the Atlantic. St. Louis became his place of residence, and there he remained
until 1855, when he started for California in search of gold. The first wild
excitement over the gold discoveries had subsided, but it was learned that there
was a goodly supply of the precious metal to be secured in California by those
who had the patience and the capital with which to work the mines. Mr. Brady
made the journey westward by way of the isthmus of Panama, and Henry Ever-
ding of Portland was in the same party. Reaching San Francisco, he made his
way to the mines, where he continued until about i860, when he came to Port-
land. He had two sisters living here at that time and his consideration of the
business possibilities and opportunities of the city brought him to the conclusion
that it would be a good place in which to locate. He purchased a lot at the
northwest corner of Fifth and Stark streets, which was then covered with trees
and stumps. He cleared the land and built a house, thus establishing his home
in the Rose City.
On the 13th of February, 1870, he brought to his home as his bride Miss
Margaret Donohue, whom he had wedded on that day. She was a daughter of
Daniel and Margaret Donohue, natives of Newtown, Mount Temple, Ireland,
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and Mrs. Brady was also born on the green isle of Erin. She came to America
when fifteen years of age and lived in New York until 1862, when she made her
way to Portland by way of the isthmus of Panama. From the time of their
marriage until 1893, Mr. and Mrs. Brady occupied the original dwelling which
he built, but in the latter year he erected a fine modern residence at the corner
of Twenty-fourth and Johnson streets. To this he removed and there remained
until his death, which occurred on the ist of October, 1904. The home is still
occupied by his widow and daughter, the former being now seventy-five years
of age. Mr. Brady learned the mason's trade when young, and followed con-
tracting in Portland. He built a number of buildings here, including the Union
block, and was in partnership with Mr. Casen and later with Mr. Caywood.
He retired about twenty years, however, before his demise, for he had pros-
pered in his undertakings and his numerous contracts and well directed business
ability had brought him a substantial competence.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Brady were born three children: Edward, who died at
the age of nine years; Mamie Esther Caroline, the wife of George A. Vogt, a
native of Peru, Illinois, and now a resident of Portland; and Francis E., who
died at the age of eleven years. Mr. and Mrs. Vogt reside with Mrs. Brady
and they have one daughter, Lucile M. They also lost a daughter, Doris C.
During the early days of his residence in this country, Mr. Brady was a
strong democrat, but later became equally zealous in his support of the repub-
lican party. He would never consent to hold office, but was always most loyal
to the political principles in which he believed. He was a strong temperance
man and held membership in the Catholic church. He had a cottage at the sea-
side where he spent the summer seasons, and in his beautiful home in Portland
the winter months were passed. His success in former years enabled him in
the last twenty years of his life to enjoy rest from labor, with leisure to partici-
pate in those activities which he found of most interest and pleasure.
JUDGE OWEN N. DENNY.
Among the distinguished residents of the northwest Judge Owen N. Denny
was prominent. He was long connected with the consular service of the United
States and his high ideal of citizenship made his efforts in the government
service of lasting benefit to the country. Moreover, in this section he was well
known as an able lawyer and in the later years of his life gave his attention to
his invested interests and the management of his farming property.
He was a native of Ohio, born in Beverly, September 4, 1838, a son of
Christian and Eliza (Nickerson) Denny, the former a native of Virginia and
the latter of Massachusetts. The mother was a direct descendant of colonists
who came to America as passengers of the Mayflower. Judge Denny spent the
first thirteen years of his life in the state of his nativity and then accompanied
his parents on their westward emigration to Oregon in the year 1852, a year
which witnessed the arrival of many of the settlers who had come to locate
permanently that they might reclaim this region for the purposes of civilization
and establish homes here in a district whose natural resources afforded them
excellent opportunities The Denny home was established in Lebanon and the
future judge continued his education as a student of the Lebanon University
and the Willamette University at Salem, where he was graduated.
Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he began reading under
the direction of Amony Holbrook and Joseph Wilson, and after a careful and
thorough preparation was admitted to the bar. A short time subsequent to his
admission he removed to The Dalles and during his residence there was ap-
pointed and later elected judge of Wasco county, when he was only twenty-four
years old. His course upon the bench was marked by fair and impartial rulings
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which indicated a thorough mastery of the law and a recognition as well of
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About 1864 Judge Denny removed to Portland and was here elected pohce
judge sitting upon the bench of that court for four years, after which he resigned
to accept from President Grant the appointment of collector of internal revenue
for Oregon and Alaska. Throughout much of the remainder of his life he
continued in the service of the nation and stood as a splendid representative
of government interests, holding to the highest ideals of citizenship, his being
a notably conspicuous and honorable career at a period when too much cor-
ruption has been manifest by those in political office. In 1870 he was appointed
United States consul to Amoy, China, but declined the position and continued
in the practice of law until 1877, when he was appointed United States consul
to Tien Tsin. In 1880 he was advanced to the position of consul general^ at
Shanghai, where he represented the government for four years, displaying
marked diplomacy in the conduct of the intricate and often delicate duties which
devolved upon him in that connection.
After serving for four years he resigned and returned to Portland, but had
again been a resident of this city for only a brief period when he received a
cable from Li Hung Chang on behalf of the king of Corea, inviting him to Seoul.
He accepted the invitation in 1885 and on his arrival was made foreign adviser
to the king and director of foreign affairs at a salary of twelve thousand dollars
a year. He held this office for four or five years and returned to Portland in
1891 solely on account of his health. Here he was made receiver of the Port-
land Savings Bank about 1894, in which position he continued for three years,
when he retired on account of failing health and in order to devote himself to
his private interests, including the supervision of several farms in which he had
made judicial investment. While consul general in Shanghai Judge Denny had
introduced into Oregon the ring-necked Chinese pheasant, a Mongolian game
bird which is now the principal upland bird in Oregon and in Washington and
by common consent of sportsmen, also by decree of the legislature, has been given
the name of the Denny pheasant.
In March, 1900, Judge Denny went to Long Beach, Washington, hoping that
a change of climate might prove beneficial to his health, and there passed away
on the 30th of June. The public record of few men of Oregon have extended
over a longer period and none have been more blameless in conduct, stainless
in reputation and faultless in honor.
CAPTAIN FRED LEELBWES.
The life history of Captain Fred LeeLewes is an interesting chapter in the
annals of Oregon and the northwest. Living in Portland at the age of eighty
years, his mind is still alert and he relates with keen zest the incidents of pioneer
life, with many of which he was closely associated. One act alone of his life
would entitle him to prominent mention in the history of Oregon — a wild ride of
seventy miles without stopping for food or drink, save once to water his horse,
that he might warn the Waiilatpu mission of the impending Indian massacre. In
this he undoutbedly saved the lives of seventy-five white people who were plant-
ing the seeds of Christian civilization on the western frontier.
Captain LeeLewes was born near Red River, Canada, on the 29th of Septem-
ber, 1830, a son of Captain John and Fannie LeeLewes. He attended school at
the place of his nativity until about fourteen years of age, when he came to the
west with his father and the family in the autumn of 1844. Previously his brother
Adolphus had made the journey to Oregon by boat in 1836 and sent back favor-
able reports concerning the condition of the country and the natural resources
here offered. The parents left Canada at the time stated, traveling slowly west-
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ward until they crossed the Rocky mountains and reached the headwaters of the
Columbia river, the father then taking full charge of the interest of the Hudson
Bay Company at Fort Colville. He remained in the employ of that company for
forty years, one of its most trusted and trustworthy representatives. The family
met the usual experiences of pioneer life, when settlers had to make and manu-
facture almost everything which they used. Ingenuity and invention were called
forth, but the pioneers were always willing to help each other and a spirit of
brotherly kindness prevailed among the white men of the northwest. In 1845
the father found it necessary at two different times to make the journey to Van-
couver for supplies and with seven bateaux started for his destination. They
ran all rapids but those of the Cascades and The Dalles, at which place the boats
had to be drawn over the portage by the crews. No difficulties, however, were
experienced after leaving The Dalles.
Captain LeeLewes describes the headwaters of the Columbia river at the time
of the arrival of the family in the northwest as two beautiful lakes with a nar-
row strip of land, hardly more than a path between. One of these lakes is called
Comeles Punch Bowl. The weeks and months passed on and the LeeLewes fam-
ily were becoming thoroughly accustomed to the conditions which they found here
and the environment of the frontier. Indians were numerous in this part of the
country and at times showed open hostility. It was upon a night in November,
1847, that a band of friendly red men came to the home of the LeeLewes family,
saying that the Cayuse Indians were making ready to kill all of the whites at
Waiilapu mission and that they then intended to massacre all at Tshimikan mis-
sion on Walker's prairie, where the Rev. Walker and the Rev. Fells were in
charge. About daybreak — at five o'clock — the next morning Fred LeeLewes,
then a youth of seventeen years, mounted a swift horse and started to warn the
missionaries of their impending danger. Never stopping for rest, for food or
drink, he urged his horse on constantly until he reached the mission at two o'clock
in the afternoon, thus completing a hazardous ride of seventy miles. He bore
the message from his father that all were to come to the fort for protection and
in the early morning hours of the following day seventy-five people started and
after two days' travel reached Fort Colville. They were given a building to live
in and were assisted in every way possible by John LeeLewes and his family.
It was afterward learned that the Indians reached the missions the second day
after the ever memorable massacre of Dr. and Mrs. Whitman and their associates,
intending to repeat their deed of horror, but the courage of Captain LeeLewes pre-
vented another tragic chapter in Oregon's history.
The following year he joined a band of volunteers who were to act as escort
to the emigrants coming to the Willamette valley. In 1849 he took up his abode in
Portland and became a clerk in the store of Crosby & Smith, proprietors of the
first mercantile establislrment in this city. He occupied that position for two
years. He was at one time a packer in Captain Wright's command, while on a
hunt for Indians who were killing the emigrants. While thus engaged his Cayuse
pony threw him upon a rock, cutting a gash in his scalp. His wound was dressed
as best it could be done under the circumstances by the surgeon of the company
and, not wishing to shirk duty although injured, he took up the task of driving
the ambulance team.
After the Indian war Captain LeeLewes worked with his brother Adolphus,
who had taken up a donation claim on the Lewis river. Subsequently he pur-
chased his brother's interest in that property and lived upon this farm of six hun-
dred and forty acres. He became owner in 1855 and made his home there until
about 1890. In the early days he had to take his grain in sail boats from his farm
to Milwaukie to be ground, as that was the only gristmill accessible. To reach it
he had to travel a distance of seventy-two miles. On one occasion he was making
a trip in his sail boat to the Portland market. He was accompanied by a young
man on the farm, who was anticipating a visit to his lady love and expressing
his happiness by "cutting a pigeon wing." The dance was of short duration,
APHIA L. DIMICK
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 753
For many years Myron H. Dimick resided on a large stock farm, adjoining
De Kalb, Illinois. In 1850 he was appointed field agent by Hamlin & Green
of Chicago to handle the land grants of the Illinois Central Railroad, which
position he held twelve years. He was always a stanch advocate of good roads
and deeply interested in education, having served many terms as school director.
In 1862 Mr. Dimick came across the plains driving horses. He started with a
number of very valuable horses, among them being a fine stock horse, which he
purchased in Vermont, paying three thousand dollars for it. The stock was
poisoned by alkali water and died before reaching Oregon. • Mr. Dimick was a
skilled veterinary surgeon. He always took a great interest in county and state
fairs, being considered an authority on horses.
Fie was a whig, voted for Abraham Lincoln and was a lifelong stanch re-
publican. Like his father, he was affiliated with the Universalist church. He
lived in Salem until 1868, when he moved to Portland, where he died January
19, 1895. He was exceedingly generous-hearted and would share the last dollar
with friend or stranger in need.
His wife was indeed a helpmeet. Her nature was a pecuhar combination
of sweetness and strength. She always rose to meet the occasion, no matter
how trying. She was the homebuilder as evidenced by the fact that all the liv-
ing children and the only grandchild were living with her at the time of her
death, February 4, 1905. Her's was a rare spiritual nature. A devoted wife,
a loving mother, a stanch friend, always charitable, generous, forgiving — her
influence over her children was remarkable. Her friends were legion and in
many a household the name of Mother Dimick was the synonym for everything
that was true and noble and womanly.
At the funeral of Mrs. Dimick, her pastor, Rev. Dr. T. L. Eliot, of the First
Unitarian church, spoke of her in terms that will in part show the impression
that she made upon her intimate friends and fellow-citizens. Dr. Eliot said:
"There are some qualities that only the ripest experience can attain to, and in
thinking of Mrs. Dimick and of my relations to her as pastor for over twenty
years, it is qualities of this character that seem to me to gather about her name
and memory. Her life was conspicuous first for Wisdom, a quality which is
more than knowledge. I add the quality of Reverence, which is more than the-
ology or philosophy, and lastly the quality of Service, which is more than duty,
containing at its heart the principle of self-renunciation. I have never known
any one who more fully verified the ascription to womanhood in the closing
chapters of the Book of Proverbs. 'She was not afraid of the cold for her
household,' no, nor afraid of anything that stood in the way of her protecting
care and pride ; and in few homes could it be more truly said that 'her children
rise up and call her blessed.' There was in fine a constancy of principle, a
habitude of self-sacrifice, an attitude of sustained cheerfulness, whose source
could be none other than the presence and the power of an Unseen Friend. And
her life was a fresh proof to me that our human experience must draw its in-
spirations from divine sources in order itself to become a providence and a
benediction to other human sorrows and needs."
APHIA LUCINDA DIMICK.
Aphia Lucinda Dimick is regarded as one of the progressive educators of
Portland and the state. She is the youngest daughter of Myron H. and Eleanor
Ennis Dimick, and was born in De Kalb, Illinois. She received her education
in Oregon and was graduated from St. Mary's Academy and College of Port-
land in 1873. She soon entered the profession of teaching, in which she has
had marked success. Miss Dimick taught three months in the country school-
room and was then appointed teacher of the infant class in the old Harrison
754 ' THE CITY OF PORTLAND
(now Shattuck) school, under I. W. Pratt as principal. She was promoted each
succeeding year for the first six years. Later she taught both primary and gram-
mar grades in the old Central and Park schools. Miss Dimick was vice principal
for nine years at the Park (now Ladd) school. In September, 1896, Miss
Dimick was made principal of the Holladay school, "where her executive ability
and progressive methods stamped all her work to such an extent that, in 1898
when she was transferred to Brooklyn school, there was an almost unanimous
protest from the people of Holladay addition, who desired her retained in that
building."
One of the presidents of the Brooklyn Mothers' and Teachers' Club says:
"It has been in the capacity of principal of Brooklyn school that there has been
full play and scope for her progressive methods and ideas. After years of per-
sistent, earnest effort, her plans of uniting the home and the school in solution
of the problems of child life have been approved by the parents, have taken
permanent root, and have spread to the other schools of the city. The Mothers'
and Teachers' Club of Brooklyn school, organized through the efforts of Miss
Dimick, has rapidly become a force for good in the community and has been
the main avenue through which she has reached the parents of this section and
secured their cooperation. She has been much more than a mere teacher, for
she has always entered into the life and ambition of the child, taking a personal
interest in each child under her charge. It would thus seem that the problem of
bringing the home and school closer together and uniting their joint responsi-
bility, had been reached through her methods. In her numerous public addresses,
Miss Dimick has always maintained that the parents have a responsibility that
they can not shift on to the schools, but also that the teacher has a joint responsi-
bility with the parents. The kindergarten has had a strong advocate in her, and
the establishment and maintenance of a kindergarten department at the Brooklyn
school for several years past has been due to her desire to demonstrate the value
of this initial work in the hope that through this demonstration the kindergarten
may become a part of the public school system."
Miss Dimick has the remarkable record of having taught continuously in
the Portland public school (since September, 1874) thirty-six years. Miss
Dimick was elected assistant secretary of the State Teachers' Association when
she had taught only one year and held that position for five successive years.
She has always taken an active interest in institute work and was elected presi-
dent of the Western Division of the Oregon State Teachers' Association in
November, 1906, the only time this honor has been conferred upon a woman.
In 1884, Miss Dimick was elected first president of St. Mary's Alumnae
Association and served in that capacity for seventeen successive years. The fol-
lowing is a tribute from her alma mater :
"If the past faculties of St. Mary's Academy and College could voice an
estimate of Aphia L. Dimick, their worthy alumna, they would give this judg-
ment of her merit: 'She has honored her alma mater.' Miss Dimick who
received here elementary training at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Salem,
Oregon, was entered as a student at St. Mary's Academy, Portland, September,
1870. She came to us as a frail young girl, dawning into womanhood, but with
an intelligence developed far beyond her years ; with an ideality of purpose
which was an earnest indication of high endeavor and which bore marked results
as evidenced in her graduation from St. Mary's Academy with first honors. Her
habits of self-control, her superior sense of honor, her indomitable energy, and
versatile powers of expression prepared her for her life work, that of teaching
in the public schools of her home city, Portland. What has been the scope of
that work, what its influence for good in the Pacific northwest, can not be
gauged by human reckoning.
"During the years when the teaching of heavy grades in the Park school
and acting as principal of the night school, made strenuous demands, on phys-
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 755
ical strength, Miss Dimick undertook the task of securing the degree of B. L.
from her alma mater by pursuing a literary and classical course. The hours
of well earned rest were given to realizing a purpose in which she was eminently
successful.
"At the inception of St. Mary's Alumnae Association in 1884, Miss Dimick
was elected to the office of president, which she held during seventeen years
with dignity and efficiency. During thirty-seven years she has lived in close
intimacy with St. Mary's. The trend of events, at times might have appealed
to another, so circumstanced, to safeguard her individual interests and forego
the attachment to her alma mater, but the strong woman proved that 'Loyalty to
loyalty is the crown and real end of loyalty.' "
Miss Dimick has always been an active member of the Teachers' and Prin-
cipals' Clubs of this city and has been a lifelong member of the First Unitarian
church of Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Joseph Buchtel says : "I have known Miss Aphia L. Dimick for many
years and can testify to her worth and services as an educator in this city.
Unlike many teachers, she has placed the matter of salary in a secondary place
to the services rendered and has always been enthusiastic for the development
of the child under her care. There is a vast difference between the educator
who is in the profession simply for what there is in it financially and the one
who is the teacher for the good that may be done. Miss Dimick belongs to the
latter class. She has been much than a mere instructor in branches of study;
she has sought during her long years of service in the public schools of Port-
land to solve the real problems of child life and child nature by careful study and
close application. I doubt if any of our teachers have made a deeper or more
effective study of her profession than has Miss Dimick, and I doubt whether
there is another educator in the state who has made a greater success in that
profession. Certainly no one has been more devoted to the profession than she.
If we are ever to have a higher class of teachers, it must be through that en-
thusiasm for the work that is born from love of the work and for the child.
Miss Dimick has always subordinated selfishness for the broader principles of
education ; hence, her great success."
In 1895, while city superintendent of the Portland public schools, Professor
I. W. Pratt wrote of Miss Dimick: "It has been my privilege to be a co-
worker with Miss A. L. Dimick for over twenty years. She is a woman of fine
character, energy and courage. Her firm, quiet, earnest manner can not fail
to impress all with whom she comes in contact. Her work as principal of our
night school has seldom been equalled and never surpassed. She is faithful, in-
telligent and appreciative in all her work — these characteristics she bears as a
part of herself and projects into every day life. She deserves a high place in
opportunity for usefulness."
"For twenty-five years I have had personal knowledge of the work of Miss
Aphia L. Dimick in the public schools of Portland, first as a teacher and after-
wards as principal of a grammar school. She is a teacher of the very first rank
and a most successful disciplinarian. Held in the highest esteem by her pupils,
she secures from them earnest effort and hearty cooperation. Her services have
always been faithful and effective. Her influence has been an uplift in the part
of the city where she has worked and has tended constantly to the improvement
of social conditions" is the estimate that Superintendent Frank Rigler of the Port-
land schools places upon her work.
Rev. Dr. T. L. Eliot says of Miss Dimick : "During all the years that Miss
A. L. Dimick has been so faithfully teaching in the public schools of Portland,
I have been intimately an observer of her work. Several of my children have
been her pupils. I do not easily find words to express my appreciation of her
character as a woman and a teacher. Few people make such a conscience of
their profession. Her influence upon pupils is of that high order, which wins
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from them tireless industry and forms their characters to noble standards.
She is superior in every branch of pedagogic skill and as well qualified as any
one I know for all executive functions, such as principal or superintendent.
Her administration for fifteen years as principal of Holladay, and for the
last thirteen at Brooklyn school, has had a remarkable quality not only in school
work but upon the character of both pupils and their homes, and, indeed, upon
the tone, moral and civic, of the whole immediate section of the city."
State superintendent of public instruction, J. H. Ackerman says : "For
more than twenty years, I have been conversant with the educational work of
Miss Aphia L. Dimick, the subject of this sketch, during which time I have come
to appreciate more and more her educational qualifications as a woman and an
educator. She has won a most enviable position in the educational ranks of the
state, one of which she may well be proud. During this time she has been
continuously connected with the Portland schools, and the high esteem in which
she is held by the thousands of pupils who have come under her guiding and
inspiring influence is a higher and better tribute to her worth than any words
I may say.
"Miss Dimick has always been quick to respond to any call of duty, whether
within or outside the city. She served, with honor, as president of the Oregon
State Teachers' Association, Western Division, by preparing and administer-
ing one of the strongest programs the association has ever had.
"Miss Dimick has a strong personality, high sense of professional honor,
marked administrative ability and an unimpeachable character. The state,
indeed, has been fortunate in having her services during so many of her best
years, and the world is better for her having taken part in its educational work."
JOHN PETER RASMUSSEN.
John Peter Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen & Company, has been prom-
inently identified with Portland business interests since 1874. He was born
at Ringsted, Denmark, January 10, 1853, the son of Jens and Mary (Christensen)
Rasmussen. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, was born in 1817
and died in 1871, while the mother, who was born in 1820, survived hei hus-
band until 1883.
J. P. Rasmussen was educated in the public schools of his native country
and assisted his father with the work of the farm until nineteen years of age,
when he decided to try his fortune in America. Arriving in the United States
in 1872 he remained in the east for about a year. In 1873 he came to Salem,
Oregon, and in May, 1874, arrived in Portland. Here he began as a painter's
apprentice, mastered the trade which he followed until 1886, when he embarked
on his own account in the painter's supply business. Later he took a partner
into the business and the firm name was changed to Rasmussen, Fisher & Com-
pany, continuing thus until 1893, when Mr. Rasmussen withdrew and founded
the house of Rasmussen & Company. The business was afterward incorporated
with Mr. Rasmussen as president and executive head. In 1905 they began in
the manufacture on an extensive scale of paints, varnishes, windows, doors, etc.,
and are today one of the most important organizations in their line in the north-
west.
An optimist as to Portland's future, Mr. Rasmussen has wisely invested in
considerable real estate and the soundness of his judgment has been amply
demontrated by the phenomenal increase in values in recent years. He is a
member of the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial
Uub, being especially interested in the various projects of the later to stimulate
the commercial interests of the city and state.
He is a republican where national questions are involved, but locally prefers
to support the men he deems best qualified to conserve the city's civic and busi-
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ness. advancement. He is a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal church and
serves on its board of trustees and is a Hberal contributor to the various charities
of that organization. Mr. Rasmussen was married in Portland in 1878 to Eliza-
beth, daughter of Christopher Daniels of Chicago, Illinois. They have four
children : Jennie Sophia, Hardy Daniels, Sidney Christopher and Ralph Waldo.
The family residence is at 380 East Eleventh street North.
Industry, close application and a strict observance of a rigid code of business
honor have constituted the salient features of his success. Genial, prosperous,
generous, by sheer merit, Mr. Rasmussen has won for himself an enviable posi-
tion in the commercial and social life of his adopted city, where by taking intelli-
gent advantage of the opportunities offered he has become a striking example
of that peculiarly American product, the self-made man.
MAX S. HIRSCH.
Max S. Hirsch is president and general manager of one of the substantial
and productive industries of Portland — the Williamette Tent & Awning Com-
pany, which is the largest concern of the kind on the Pacific coast. The develop-
ment of this business from a very small beginning to its present extensive pro-
portions, is incontrovertible proof of the business ability and progressive meth-
ods of him who stands at the head. And, moreover, his life history is of intense
interest, for his success has come to him as the merited reward of earnest labor
intelligently directed.
He was born in Rhein-Hessen, Germany, and his educational privileges were
those offered by the public schools of his native country. The year 1871 wit-
nessed his arrival in America, and he made his way direct to Portland, where
he entered the department store of Meier & Frank. The senior member of this
firm, Mr. Meier, was his uncle, and it was through his influence that Mr. Hirsch
came to Portland. He remained with that company for twenty years, working
his way steadily upward from the position of utility boy to that of manager.
He resigned in 1906 to become connected with the Willamette Tent & Awning
Company, of which he was made vice president and general manager, while
since 1908 he has been the president. The other officers are E. H. Wemme,
vice president, and H. A. Weis, secretary and treasurer. The company today
employs one hundred and ten operatives in the factory, mostly women. The
business had its inception in 1884, when a small room, twenty by twenty feet,
in a frame building was secured in which to conduct a tent and awning manufac-
tory. At that time, however, only two people were employed, but the four hun-
dred square feet of floor space was ample for the business. The growth of the
enterprise is indicated in the fact that today the concern occupies more than one
hundred and thirty times the original floor space, having erected a large brick
building, containing on its four floors fifty-five thousand square feet, nearly
every foot of which is utilized in the manufacture of tents, awnings, porch cur-
tains, wagon covers, sheets, canvas hose, hammocks, flags, camp furniture, bags,
cordage, umbrellas, waterproof clothing, and in fact everything that can be made
out of canvas. At first its principal output was awnings for the merchants who
in that day could afford the luxury but the gradual growth of the business has
enabled the house to increase its output in the number of manufactured articles
as well as in the extent of the shipments. The plant is equipped with the most
modern facilities for the manufacture of its various products and for the com-
fort and health of its one hundred and ten employes. The basement is used for
the machinery and wood and iron work, the first floor for the office, salesroom,
and packing and shipping rooms, the second and third floors are used as stock
rooms, and the fourth floor is the factory with its fifteen thousand square feet of
space. It is said that this factory is unequalled in the city for ligh, air and gen-
eral sanitary conditions. The large window and skylight surfaces furnish light
760 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
for every inch of space. The automatic sprinkler system is perfect so that the
danger from fire is practically annihilated. The latest improved machinery has
been installed and chutes from the factory deliver goods in a second down three
stories, while speaking tubes connect all departments. Moreover, this factory
is similar to the National Cash Register and other model factories of the country
in the care which it gives for the comfort of its employes. It is the only factory
in the city which provides a large lunch room for the help. This firm ships goods
all over the Pacific coast and some of their lines find a ready market in New York,
Mexico and even Russia, and the water bags and horse blankets are sold exten-
sively in South Africa.
Mr. Hirsch is also president of the Adam Appel Water Bag Company, oc-
cupying a part of the building with the Willamette Tent & Awning Company.
Under his management the business is thoroughly systematized so that there is
a minimum expenditure of time, labor and material yet without sacrifice to re-
sults in manufacture or to the comfort of employes. He is secretary of the Port-
land Tent & Awning Company and is president of the Stark Street Improvement
Association. At present he is erecting a new hotel to be known as the Clark Hotel
at the corner of Tenth and Stark streets and is also interested in several tracts
on the east side.
Mr. Hirsch was married to Miss Clementine Seller, a daughter of Henry Sel-
ler, who came to Portland during the early development of the city, and they now
have one son, Harold. Mr. Hirsch has never felt any regret over the fact that he
left his native land at the age of fourteen years, for he here found conditions
which seemed to him attractive and in the business world he found that labor is
unhampered by caste or class. Through the steps of an orderly progression he
has advanced to his present enviable position as a merchant and manufacturer of
his adopted city. He is a director of Temple Beth Israel and his wife is president
of the Council of Jewish Women and secretary of the Women's Union, taking
an active interest in the new Neighborhood House.
HERBERT W. CARDWELL. M. D.
The name of Dr. Herbert W. Cardwell appears upon the roll of Portland's
prominent citizens for he attained a high rank in his profession and, moreover,
made for himself a creditable military record in connection with the Spanish-
American war. A native of this city, he was born on the 23d of December, 1867,
and spent the greater part of his life here. Passing through the consecutive
grades in the public schools, he was at length graduated from the Portland high
school, after which he began the preparation for the practice of medicine as a
student in Oregon Medical College. He afterward did post-graduate work in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and had the benefit of two
years' broad and practical experience in the Seney Hospital of that city.
Throughout his active connection with the profession, he manifested the keenest
discernment both in determining the cause of disease and its possible outcome.
His ability was widely recognized by his professional brethren and secured him
a liberal patronage from the general public. His diagnosis was always careful
and comprehensive and his thorough understanding of the science of medicine
enabled him to utilize at all times those remedial agencies which were of great
service under prevailing conditions.
It was in 1891 that Dr. Cardwell was united in marriage to Miss Helen W.
Winslow, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They became the parents of two
sons, Oliver Byron and Fowler Hathaway, aged respectively seventeen and six-
teen years. Dr. Cardwell was devoted to the welfare and happiness of his family
and found his greatest pleasure in ministering thereto.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND 761
Always an enthusiast in military affairs, he was for a long time prominently
identified with the Oregon National Guard and was a veteran of the Spanish-
American war, in which he attained due honor. While connected with the Na-
tional Guard, he served as surgeon general on the staff' of Governor Lord with
the rank of colonel. After the outbreak of hostilities with the Castilian king-
dom, Dr. Cardwell, upon the organization of the Second Oregon Regiment, was
appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of captain and with the troops pro-
ceeded to the Philippines. Soon after the arrival in Manila the ability and worth
of Captain Cardwell were recognized by the commanding general and he was ap-
pointed to the rank of major of volunteers and attached to the staff of General
Anderson as chief surgeon of volunteers. The work performed by Major Card-
well in that capacity and its value in the restoration of health among the soldiers
is best described in a recommendation contained in a report of Major General
H. W. Lawton to the war department, which reads : 'Tn addition to the profes-
sional zeal and executive ability always shown by Major Herbert W. Cardwell,
chief surgeon of the division, his cheerful willingness to be of use in whatever
capacity, should be recognized. This ability frequently brought him under fire,
notably at the first battle of San Rafael." The members of the Second Oregon
also paid a high tribute to his characteristics. It is said that in Manila he was
every man's friend and his interest in the sick and the health of the troops was
prompted by feelings other than the mere responsibility of his position. It is
known that broad humanitarianism ever constituted one of the strong elements
in his professional success and that he performed every duty with a sense of
conscientious obligation, knowing that a physician in a large measure holds life
in his hands. He, therefore, never neglected a patient and not only by the min-
istration of valued remedies but also by his cheerful presence and encouraging
words did he assist those in his charge back to health and strength. Following
the war, Dr. Cardwell returned to Portland and resumed the private practice of
medicine. His personal qualities won him the high regard of all and caused his
death to be most widely regretted when, on the 3d of April, 1905, he passed away
after an illness of only about ten days. Many who knew him and were glad to
call him friend did not learn of his indisposition and were, therefore, greatly
shocked to know of his passing. While a man's work may be taken up by others
and carried forward successfully, the individual characteristics, that which dif-
ferentiates one life from the lives of all others, are not to be found in similar
combination in any one else. The place, therefore, is never filled to one's friends,
and it will be long before the memory of Dr. Cardwell ceases to be an active fac-
tor in the lives of those with whom he was associated either professionally or
through the ties of friendship.
GEORGE P. LEITHOFF.
George P. Leithoff, manager for the Gambrinus Brewing Company, of Port-
land, was bom in Germany, November 28, 1851, and was there reared and edu-
cated to the age of fifteen years. On the anniversary of his birth he left home
and sailed on a Norwegian schooner bound for New Orleans, from which point
the vessel returned to Havre, France, and thence went to New York. He left
the ship in the latter port on the 4th of July, 1873, and from that time to the
present has declared the United States his home. However, he sailed for eleven
months on an American schooner from New York to Spain and on his return
to the American metropolis, sailed to Portugal and afterward to the West In-
dies, returning finally to New York. Later he shipped on the James Foster, Jr.,
for a trip around the Horn to San Francisco, the voyage requiring one hundred
and ninety-two days. For two years he continued to sail on the Pacific and in
1876 went to Alaska. Through the succeeding two years he sailed in northern
762 THE CITY OF PORTLAND
Asiatic waters and after leaving the sea followed fishing on the Columbia River
for a time. He next entered the service of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company, being. thus employed until 1885, when he accepted a position with
the Gambrinus Brewing Company of Portland, as driver.^ Gradually he has
worked his way upward and in the quarter of a century which has since elapsed
he has become manager of the business at this point and also one of the
stockholders.
Mr. Leithoff is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, Knights of
Pythias and the German Aid Society. His life history, if written in detail, would
present many a chapter more interesting and thrilling than any tale of fiction, for
he has sailed to many parts of the world and gained thereby a comprehensive
knowledge of the different countries and their peoples. He prefers America,
however, as a place of residence and is as loyal to her interests as any native bom
son.
CAPTAIN JAMES P. SHAW.
Portland and the Pacific coast country has known Captain James P. Shaw
as a railroad builder, merchant and real-estate dealer. He is_ now, however,
living retired at an attractive home near Milwaukie, his time being given to the
supervision of his own property. Beyond these interests, however, he is widely
known in connection with literary work and has an even more extensive acquain-
tance in military circles for his services as a soldier of the Civil war have been
followed by active identification with the Oregon National Guard and with the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Captain Shaw was born in Auglaize county, Ohio, on the i6th of September,
1844, a son of Beverly and Mary (Jacobs) Shaw, who were natives of Virginia
and Pennsylvania respectively. His paternal ancestors were soldiers of the
Revolutionary war from Virginia. His maternal grandfather, Daniel Jacobs,
went with the Ohio troops to the front at the time of the Civil war and died in
the service. Leaving Virginia, Beverly Shaw became one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Auglaize county, Ohio, where he reared his family. He was somewhat
prominent in local affairs and served as the first constable of Wapakoneta, Ohio.
His son, Daniel, was also numbered among the boys in blue, enlisting at the first
call for troops as a member of Company K, Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, and for
the remainder of the war was a member of the Sixteenth Ohio Infantry.
Reared in his native county. Captain James P. Shaw remained a resident of
that state until the dissension between the north and the south led to the inaugura-
tion of civil war. In regard to his military history the Soldiers and Sailors
Historical and Benevolent Society have "compiled from official and authentic
sources" the following: "This certifies that James P. Shaw enlisted from
Auglaize county, Ohio, on the 19th day of April, 1861, to serve three months and
was mustered into the United States service at Camp Dennison, Cincinnati,
Ohio, as a private of Captain M. V. Layton's Company K, Fifteenth Regiment
Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
"This regiment was one of the first to respond to the president's call for
seventy-five thousand volunteers for three months' service, and was organized
at Camp Dennison, Ohio, May 4, 1861. From here the regiment moved to
Camp Goddard, Zanesville, Ohio, where it camped for ten days, drilling and
making active preparations for the field of action, and was then ordered to West
Virginia, where it was engaged in guard and picket duty, being employed for a
time guarding the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The first battle, after firing up-
on Fort Sumter, was fought by the regiment to which Mr. Shaw belonged.
The command performed a large amount of marching and guard duty and
rendered valuable assistance to the government in assisting to stay the progress
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of the rebels who were endeavoring to carry the war into the north. Having
served its term, the regiment returned to Cokmibus, Ohio, and was there dis-
charged about August i, 1861. The command was actively engaged before
Philippi, June 4, 1861 ; Laurel Hill, July 8, 1861 ; and Carrick's Ford, July 14,
1861.
"The said James P. Shaw received an honorable discharge at Columbus,
Ohio, on the ist day of August, 1861, by reason of expiration of term of service.
He reenlisted in Auglaize county, Ohio, on the i8th day of August, 1861, to
serve three years or during the war, and was mustered into the United States
service as a private of Captain Samuel R. Mott's Company C, Thirty-first Regi-
ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Moses B. Walker commanding.
"This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, between August 4 and
September 7, 1861. On the 27th of September it moved to Cincinnati, where
it was quartered at the Orphan Asylum. On the 31st it moved to 'Camp Dick
Robinson,' Kentucky, a rendezvous for loyal men of Kentucky and east Tennes-
see. Here the regiment was thoroughly drilled until December 12, then moved
to Somerset, Kentucky, thence on several reconnaissances. January 19, 1862, it
marched to the assistance of General Thomas at Mills Springs, Kentucky, and
participated in that battle. Here the regiment was assigned to the First Brigade,
First Division, Army of the Ohio. From Somerset it marched to Louisville,
Kentucky, from which place it embarked for Nashville, Tennessee, and after a
short rest at the latter place it moved southward with Buell's army to the relief
of Grant at Shiloh, Tennessee, in March, 1862. ' ■'tt"f)articipated in the siege of
Corinth, Mississippi, and after the evacuation it encamped near Corinth. June
22d it marched toward luka, Mississippi, thence to Tuscumbia, Alabama, arriv-
ing there on the 28th. The regiment was then divided into detachments and two
companies were sent to Decatur and one corhpany to Trinity. July 19th the
brigade marched for Huntsville, Alabama, thence to Decherd, Tennessee. The
company at Trinity was attacked by a large force of mounted rebels and one-
half of the detachment was killed or wounded. From Decherd, the regiment
advanced toward the mountains and was engaged in guarding passes and watch-
ing the enemy until the campaign of Buell and Bragg in Kentucky opened, when
it moved to Decherd and with other troops was placed in charge of the trans-
portation of the army. It marched to Nashville, Tennessess, thence to Louis-
ville, Kentucky, and after a short rest moved southward in pursuit of Bragg. It
was under fire at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, but not actively engaged. It
returned to Nashville, thence moved toward Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and was
actively engaged during the battle of Stone River. It encamped at Murfreesboro
until June 23, 1863, then started on the Tullahoma campaign. On the 26th it
was engaged at Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, and with the Seventeenth Ohio carried
a position defended by two rebel brigades. The advance continued through
Tullahoma to Chattanooga. The regiment was engaged in the battle of Chicka-
mauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863, and sufifered severely. Its next engage-
ment was at Brown's Ferry, then followed Missionary Ridge, where the Thirty-
first was among the foremost regiments to bear the loyal standard into the
enemy's works. About this time the regiment reenlisted and went home on
veteran furlough. It returned to the field and on May 7, 1864, it marched on
the Atlanta campaign, taking part in engagements at Resaca, Dallas or New
Hope Church, Dalton, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, siege of Atlanta.
Lovejoy Station, Georgia, and a number of skirmishes. After the fall of
Atlanta the regiment marched in pursuit of the rebels as far as Gaylesville,
Alabama, then returned to Atlanta. It took part in Sherman's march to the
sea, siege of Savannah, Georgia, and campaign of the Carolinas. After John-
son's surrender it marched to Washington, D. C, where it participated in the
grand review. May 24, 1865, thence moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where it was
mustered out on the 20th of July, 1865.
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"The said James P. Shaw reenlisted as a veteran in the same company and
regiment in December, 1863, to serve three years more or during the war. He
was promoted to corporal of his company. He was wounded at Chickamauga,
Georgia, by gunshot in left shoulder, the ball passing through the clavicle and
lodging next to the lung, from which place it has since worked down to the lower
part of the vertebrae, where it still remains. He was removed to field hospital,
which fell into the hands of the enemy, thence to the 'Glenn House,' which also
fell into the enemy's hands. From there, together with hundreds of other
wounded, he was moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, thence marched to Bridge-
port, Alabama, and from there sent by rail to Cumberland Hospital at Nash-
ville, Tennessee, from which place he was furloughed home for thirty days. At
the expiration of his furlough he rejoined his regiment at Chattanooga, Tennes-
see, in time to reenlist as a veteran. At Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, he was
wounded by gunshot in left ankle, which slivered the bone but he refused to
go to the hospital. While in charge of a foraging detail near Bentonville, North
Carolina, two days before the battle at that place, he was wounded by saber cut
in head, laying open the skin and chipping the skull bone, but he insisted on
remaining with the regiment.
"He was with his respective commands during their entire services as out-
lined except while absent on account of wounds, and he bore a gallant and con-
spicuous part in all their engagements, except Missionary Ridge, Tennessee,
(being prevented on account of wounds) and rendered faithful and meritorious
service to his country. He received a medal of honor from the legislature of
Ohio for brave and gallant service rendered in volunteer expeditions in the war.
"He received a final honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, on the
20th day of July, 1865, by reason of the close of the war."
Although the hardships of war were many there were at times amusing and
interesting incidents which lightened the burdens of a soldier's life. One such
appealed to the humorous side of Captain Shaw's nature. While in a reminiscent
mood, he related the following: "During, and for some days prior to the numer-
ous battles fought about Kenesaw Mountain, I was suffering with an aching
tooth. The pain was so excruciatingly painful, that to get relief I sent for the
surgeon to come and extract the offending member. The surgeon, a young man
by the name of Dr. Chapin, who had but recently come down from the north,
came on to the firing line, and, while the bullets were singing about our ears and
knocking up the dust all about us, pulled the tooth. Showing him the aching
tooth, he grabbed it with his forceps and with a vigorous pull, landed it. With-
out waiting to stanch the flowing blood, he threw the tooth on the ground and
midst the flying bullets and cheers from the men, lost no time in getting out of
there. I believe that I have the unique distinction of being the only man who
ever had a tooth extracted in the midst of a raging battle."
At the close of the war Captain Shaw returned to Ohio. He was married in
La Salle county. IlHnois, on the 3d of June, 1868. to Ella Bratton, and unto
them were born two daughters : Mary R., now the wife of A. R. Innes, of
Oregon ; and Florine E. The mother passed away on the 9th of October, 1887,
and on the 9th of January, 1889, Captain Shaw wedded Emilie C. Dieker, at
Covington, Kentucky.
Captain Shaw went to the south after the war and in the early '70s filled the
position of postmaster at Fairmont, Tennessee. He went to California in 1874,
where he was identified with railroad work until 1880, when he removed to
Portland. He was connected with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Railroad, continuing his identification therewith for about five years. Recogniz-
ing the possibilities for conducting successful enterprises in other directions, he
organized the Cleveland Oil & Paint Company, which established a plant in
Portland at the corner of Fourth and Madison streets. Captain Shaw accepted
the management of the business and continued therein until 1887, when he dis-
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posed of his interest. He afterward traveled to a considerable extent and later
located at Oregon City, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1892,
when he returned to Portland, where he engaged in the real-estate business.
In 1907 he removed to his present country home near Milwaukie, where he is
now living retired save that he personally superintends his invested interests.
He is also engaged to a considerable extent in literary work, being the author
of a number of war and other stories as well as a magazine writer of some note.
He was a contributory writer to the "West Shore," a magazine established in
Portland in the early '80s by L. Samuels.
Captain Shaw has never failed to feel the deepest interest in military affairs
and has been an active and prominent member of the National Guard of his
adopted state, holding the rank of captain. He is a member of Lincoln-Garfield
Post, No. 3, Department of Oregon, Grand Army of the Republic, and has filled
all of the offices in the local organization. He served on the staff of Robert B.
Beath, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of John
S. Kountz, commander-in-chief, and in 1909 was elected department commander
of the Department of Oregon Grand Army. He has a very wide reputation in
military circles and stands as one whose soldierly qualities, embracing moral as
well as physical valor, commend him to the honor and respect of all.
JUSTIN MILLARD, M. D.
It has been said : "Not the good that comes to us but the good that comes to
the world through us is the measure of our success." When viewed in this light
the life of Dr. Justin Millard was a most successful one. He was continually
giving of his energy, his sympathy and his professional skill for the benefit of
his fellowmen, undeterred by the fact that many times he knew no financial re-
muneration could be expected. His name will be honored as long as memory
remains to any who crossed the plains in 1852, and profited by the beneficent
spirit of his ministry.
He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, September 30, 1805, and died in
1857. More than a half century has passed since his demise, and yet the story of
his good deeds is told by the pioneer settlers. His professional education was
obtained in Jefiferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was grad-
uated in 1832. He practiced for twenty years in the east and middle west before
coming to the Pacific coast. He lived for some years in Keokuk, Iowa, before
starting with his family to Oregon on the 2d of May, 1852, reaching Portland in
the early part of November. He was at the head of a large, well equipped train.
Many cattle were lost while en route and by the time Portland was reached the
company was pretty thoroughly tired out. Exposure and illness had made it a
hard trip for everybody, particularly for a physician. Dr. Millard performed
perhaps his greatest work during that journey across the plains, for Asiatic
cholera was then raging among the emigrants and new-made graves marked the
route. All along the way he ministered to the victims of that dread disease.
Many of the pioneers of that year owe their lives to his professional services
and his boundless charity. He left Iowa with a considerable fortune and arrived
in Oregon almost penniless, having given continuously to the needy all along the
route until his possessions were almost gone. Arriving in this city he continued
in practice up to the time of his death, and the same philanthropic, kindly spirit
marked him in all of his relations with his fellowmen.
Dr. Millard was married in Glassboro, New Jersey, on the 25th of Septem-
ber, 1 83 1, to Miss Mary Campbell, who was of Quaker parentage. They became
the parents of six children. Marshall B.; the eldest, will be remembered by some
of the earlier settlers as purser on some of the lower Columbia boats. His sur-
viving children are M. A. Millard, Misses Mary and Jessie Millard, and Mrs.
Cara Gambell. Levi C. was the next of the family. Then came Henry W., who
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left a daughter. Harriet M. became the wife of Henry B. Morse and her living
children are Dr. Edwin W. Morse, Miss Eugenia Morse, Mrs. Emma Riddell
and Mrs. Harriet Lockwood. Mary L. Millard became the wife of Henry L.
Hoyt and her living children are Ralph W. Hoyt and Mrs. Louise Cook. The
youngest of the Millard family was Emma E. Millard. All of the children have
passed away, the last survivor having been Mrs. Morse, who died in March,
1904. The grandchildren mentioned are the descendants of Dr. Justin Millard
now living and to them as a priceless heritage the grandfather left an untarnished
name and a record of a noble and upright life.
ROBERT M. HUDSON.
Robert M. Hudson, now deceased, was through the period of his residence in
Portland connected with the lumber interests of the northwest, which so largely
center in this city, making Portland the chief lumber port of the Pacific coast.
He came to the west in 1885. His birth occurred in Grant county, Wisconsin,
August 29, 1858, his parents being John G. and Nancy (McDaniel) Hudson.
His father was a Methodist minister and school teacher, and came of English
descent. Both he and his wife died in Wisconsin, their remains being interred
in a cemetery near Platteville, but in the meantime the father had for a period
engaged in preaching the gospel in this section of the country. Several sons of
the family have become identified with the northwest, the Rev. James D. Hudson
being now a minister of Washington, while T. Edgar is a resident of Portland ;
John, of Troutdale ; and Walter, also of Portland. The latter was twice elected
to represent Multnomah county in the state legislature and is engaged in the
sawmill business in Portland.
Robert M. Hudson was reared and educated in his native state, attending the
district schools in Lima township. Grant county, Wisconsin, near Platteville,
after which he followed farming for a time. In 1883 he removed to Traverse
City, Michigan, where he secured a position in a chair factory. Through the
influence of his brothers he came to Portland in 1885 and here took up sawmill
work, being first connected with the North Pacific mills, while later he was with
the Inman and other mills. He was a fine planer and occupied positions as fore-
man in the planing departments, continuing in that business connection up to the
time of his death.
It was on the 26th of December, 188 1, that Mr. Hudson was united in mar-
riage in Platteville, Wisconsin, to Miss Emma M. Johnson, who was born in
Traverse City, Michigan, where her parents, Peter N. and Anna Johnson, were
early settlers, her father residing there for forty-one years. He was a farmer
of that locality and Mrs. Hudson owns eighty acres of land there which she
inherited from her father, possessing a deed to the property signed by President
Buchanan. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hudson have been born five children : Peter
A., who is head filer for the Dee Lumber Company, married Tessie Lancaster
and resides in Dee, Oregon. Robert A., who is a graduate of the public schools
and the Portland Business College, was for five years in the employ of Wadhams
& Kerr Brothers as head city salesman and is now in the wholesale grocery
business as president and manager of Hudson, Gram & Company at Front and
Oak streets, Portland. He maried Maud Flood and has one child, Doris. Edgar
I., of Salem, Oregon, married Hazel Robertson. Farnam died at the age of two
years. Florence is at home with her mother.
The death of Mr. Hudson occurred on the 17th of May, 1910, and his
remains were interred in Lone Fir cemetery. He was a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and passed through all the chairs in the local
lodge. He also belonged to the Woodmen of the World and the Ancient Order
of United Workmen. His political allegiance was given to the democracy but
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he never cared for nor held office. He prefered that his attention should be
devoted to his business interests and to his home, the latter being ever the center
of his universe. Capability and fidelity in business won him the confidence and
good-will of those with whom he came in contact, and wherever he went he was
recognized as a man of many sterling traits.
WILLIAM BOLLONS.
Among the railway officials of the northwest who by faithful service have
gained the confidence and respect of higher officials and of the public generally
may be named William Bollons, division superintendent of the Oregon Railway
& Navigation Company, with headquarters at Portland. Since starting out in
life for himself Mr. Bollons has been identified with the railroad interests and,
therefore, has made it the principal study of his life. He was born in England
but came to America when he was quite young and was educated on this side the
Atlantic. He began in the railroad business as a water boy for the Peninsular
Railroad, now the Grand Trunk Railway. Advancing through various positions
he became connected with the Chicago & Alton Railway and later with the Santa
Fe Railway, with headquarters in Chicago. Coming from that city to Portland
in 1890, he entered the employ of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company as
roadmaster, later being advanced to the position of general roadmaster and
division engineer. His headquarters were originally at Pendleton, Oregon, but
since 1904 he has been a resident of Portland and since the spring of 1909 has
been division superintendent of the road. Also for five years, from 1904 to
1909, he acted as division engineer of the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon.
Mr. Bollons was united in marriage to Miss Mary Doherty, and four chil-
dren have been born to this union, William, Jr., Andrew, Eleanor and Madeline.
Socially Mr. Bollons is identified with the Masonic order and is in hearty sym-
pathy with the spirit of brotherhood inculcated by that organization. His success
as a railway officer has been due to the application of the same principles that
have brought success to many other wide-awake men and consists of conscien-
tious discharge of duty, the ability to act promptly so as to produce definite and
satisfactory results and a well directed ambition to carry to a definite conclu-
sion any responsibility undertaken, regardless of pains or labor involved. It is
safe to say that any man of fair mental capacity who will be guided by principles
here named will attain a laudable degree of success in any worthy enterprise to
which he may devote his attention. Mr. Bollons has many friends in the north-
west, who appreciate his enduring qualities, and the record which he has made is
a fair prophecy of continued attainment in a vocation to which he seems by
nature and experience eminently adapted.
DUDLEY EVANS.
(Written by a college friend.)
Dudley Evans is a native of Virginia — the part now called West Virginia.
He was born near Morgantown on the 27th of January, 1838. At the age of fif-
teen he entered Monongalia Academy and continued there until prepared for the
junior class in college, which he entered in the autumn of 1857 and continued
to the end of the course. After graduation he taught one term in the Morgan-
town Academy and then went to Louisiana, where he was teaching when the
Civil war began. Coming back to Virginia, he entered the Confederate army
as a high private in the First Virginia Infantry. In 1862, after the battle of
Seven Pines, he was commissioned as a captain in the Virginia state forces,
which later were transferred to the control of the Confederacy. In 1863 he was
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commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Virginia Cavalry and had
part in all the battles in the valley of Virginia during the years 1863 and 1864.
During this period he was elected by the soldier vote a member of the legislature
of Virginia and spent the winters of 1863-4 and 1864-5 i" Richmond.
After the close of the war he went to California and in 1866 was appointed
to a place in Wells Fargo Express Company, serving it in Victoria, B. C, and in
Portland, Oregon. ®n January i, 1883, he was made superintendent of the
northern division, embracing Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. He
remained in Portland until the beginning of the year 1888, when he was trans-
ferred to Omaha and made general superintendent of the central department,
embracing the territory west of the Missouri river as far as Ogden, Utah, and
El Paso, Texas, and from the Dakotas to the gulf. This position was held until
December, 1891, when he was ordered to New York city and put in charge of the
Atlantic department. On August 11, 1892, he was made manager and elected
second vice president of the company and continued in that capacity until about
the close of the year 1901, when, owing to the death of the president of the com-
pany, he was elected to that office, the election taking effect January i, 1902. He
still holds that post with headquarters at 51 Broadway, New York. His resi-
dence is in Englewood, New Jersey.
On the 17th of September, 1878, Mr. Evans was married to Miss Nellie
Seelye, of the province of New Brunswick, the wedding being solemnized in
Chicago. Two hardships came Mr. Evans' way during the early years of his
career, viz : his capture during the war and subsequent imprisonment and being
debarred by statute from the practice of law in California because of his politi-
cal antecedents. The capture and imprisonment has the bright side that it safe-
guarded him from wounds or death on the battlefield. Shutting him out from
the practice of his profession was one of the things that all are now glad to for-
get. We now know that there was no treason and there were no rebels. We
have come to realize that there was a great question which the convention of 1787
could not settle and left to be a bitter heritage to posterity ; a question which con-
gress debated perennially and could not settle ; which no court in the land could
settle ; which had to be settled once for all ; and which, it was found at last, could
only be settled by the appeal to arms. The men on both sides were honest. The
fight was to a finish. One side was victor, the other vanquished. The question
is settled without dishonor to either party and so the history of the time will
make the record.
Outside of the great corporation of which he is the head, Mr. Evans has been
honored by two presidents, McKinley and Roosevelt, each having appointed
him a member of the board of visitors to the Military Academy at West Point;
the former in 1900, the latter in 1905. Each time he was made vice president of
the board. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, a member
of the Lawyers Club of New York city and member and president of the Engle-
wood Club. He is a member of the Lee Jackson camp of Confederate veterans
of Lexington, Virginia; of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confed-
erate States, of Maryland ; of the Society of the Cincinnati, of the state of Vir-
ginia ; of the Sons of the Revolution, of the state of New York ; of the Society
of Colonial Wars for the state of New Jersey; of the Military Society of the
War of 1812; and the Veteran Corps of Artillery for the state of New York.
Thus far the society and club man ; but our old chum takes on another line
of relationships. He is president of Wells Fargo & Company's Bank of New
York ; director of the Mercantile Trust Company of New York ; treasurer of the
Batopilas Mining Company of Mexico; director of the Citizens National Bank
of Englewood ; and director of the Wells Fargo Navada National Bank of San
Francisco. He is independent in politics and votes according to his own pleas-
ure. He has done nothing in literature but has been something of a traveler,
having "done" Egypt, Palestine, the cities around the Mediterranean, Italy,
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Switzerland, France, London, Mexico and the West Indies, besides all the states
of his own home land.
Looking over this record of mere facts we recognize it as the record of a suc-
cessful life. If Mr. Evans were ten or fifteen years younger, with his penchant
for presidencies, it would not be surprising to see him laying hands on the great-
est of all — the presidency of the United States of America. Only once, I think, is
there a note of real pain — the pain the German poet writes of —
"Pain's furnace heat within me quivers;
God's breath upon the flame doth blow" —
Only once does this note sound in these words: "My eldest son, Rawley D.
Evans, died April i6th, 1904, after only a few hours of illness." We remember
that the son was about twenty-four years of age, words are unbecoming. We
can only bow in silent sympathy.
Teacher, soldier, lawyer, business man, club man, family man, traveler —
meeting all the conditions and vicissitudes belonging to all these lines of life and
action, our classmate has done well indeed. I have wondered if, when he was
sailing on the Mediterranean, visiting its storied cities, isles and shores — I have
wondered if he read afresh the deathless strains of Homer, if he tried to map
the cruise of Ulysses, if he sought the homes of Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe and
the rest. Once, I am sure, he would have done so. Perhaps the opportunity,
came too late. At any rate he won, through life a strong man, and as the sun
is sinking westward for him, as for us, we, his friends in the bloom of youth,
wish him: Peace — the "Peace that passeth understanding!"
NEWMAN J. LEVINSON.
Newman J. Levinson, Sunday editor of the Oregonian, is the oldest man in
point of service on the editorial staff of that great daily. Born in 1854 at Shel-
byville, Indiana, he attended the public schools. While he was preparing for
college his father met with financial reverses, and the lad declined to add the
burden of his further education to a straining load, but entered his father's
service and helped to restore the family fortune.
At the age of fifteen, Mr. Levinson was accidentally thrown into newspaper
work by an innocent error. A new daily paper which began publication in In-
dianapolis desired a news correspondent at Shelbyville, and Mr. Levinson's
father, who was the personal and political friend of Governor Oliver P. Morton
and Vice President Schuyler Colfax, was recommended for the place. A letter
asking him to accept the position was erroneously addressed to the son instead
of the father and the lad accepted without hesitation. As a child he had the
gift of writing readable personal letters, and he seldom neglected the humorous
phase of any situation. The work was satisfactory and the paper never sus-
pected that its live correspondent was only a school boy. Thus early in life his
news instinct was developed. Later he became the correspondent of the Indian-
apolis Journal (now the Star). His work in the campaign of 1876 was so notable
that Judge E. B. Martindale, owner of the Journal, without having seen the
young man, ofifered him a position on the staff. Thus at twenty-two, Mr. Le-
vinson took up as a life work what hitherto had been a diversion. At the urgent
solicitation of an older brother who had settled in Oregon, he came to this state
in 1878 and began service with the Oregonian as a reporter. Two years after-
ward he became the city editor of the paper and remained in that position until
1888, when he went to Seattle as managing editor of the Post-Intelligencer.
Carried away by the universal lure of real estate, he went into ventures which
promised well until the collapse of 1893, which all but bankrupted him. In the
next three years he reengaged in newspaper work in California and Chicago,.
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returning to the Oregonian in 1897. Since that date he has been in uninter-
rupted service, first as city editor, then as Sunday editor.
Mr. Levmson was married in 1899 to Miss Margaret M. Mogeau, a promi-
nent educator of San Bernardino, California. One child, a daughter six years
old, is the fruit of the union.
LOUIS FRANCIS CHEMIN.
Chance seemingly brought Louis F. Chemin to Portland and the Oregonian
found in him one whose service was long a valuable factor in the conduct of
that paper. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1840, a
son of T. Augustus and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Chemin, both of whom died in
the east. The father was born in France and throughout his active business life
was a capitalist. His wife was born in Ohio, her people being early residents of
Louis F. Chemin was the only child of that marriage, save a sister who died
at the age of eleven years. He pursued his education in Philadelphia, spending
much of his youth in the Samson school, a private institution for boys of that
city. When very young he started to learn the wood-carver's trade unknown to
his parents. It was to him a fascinating task and, neglecting his school duties,
he worked at the bench and was fast becoming a fine amateur carver when his
father discovered his negligence in regard to school, and he was again obliged
through parental authority to take up his studies. Afterward he learned the
printer's trade, becoming an expert in that line, which he mastered in all of its
branches, while still a resident of Philadelphia. He was one of the pioneers in
the use of colored inks in printing and after learning the trade was engaged in
business on his own account. His mother assisted him to make a start in busi-
ness while he was still under age. Mr. Chemin admitted a Mr. Familton, a fine
printer, to a partnership, and they remained together until the Civil war broke out.
Mr. Chemin enlisted for active service in the Union Army, joining Company E,
Twentieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. His term of enlistment having
expired in this regiment Mr, Chemin returned home to Philadelphia. In January,
1862, a new Pennsylvania regiment was being raised — the 2nd Regiment
(Federal) Eastern Virginia Brigade. He was commissioned brevet first lieuten-
ant of Company A, Artillery Battery, of this same regiment. His old commission,
much worn and yellow with age, is in the family's possession today.
It was at this time that a seemingly trivial incident turned his attention to the
west and in fact made him a resident of the Pacific coast. A party of his friends
were coming to this section of the country and Mr. Chemin went to New York
to see them ofif ; they urged him to accompany them and he was persuaded largely
owing to the fact that he had become discouraged on account of the way his
partner had managed the business while he was in the army. The entreaties of
his friends prevailed and he was the last man to step aboard the ship which
weighed anchor and carried its human freight to San Francisco. He remained
for a time in that city and, entering a printing office there, picked up one of the
cards which was a product of his own office in Philadelphia. He looked at the
card and smiled. The proprietor standing near thought he was making fun of
it and told him it came from one of the best printing offices in Philadelphia. Mr.
Chemin then made known his identity and the proprietor of the office afterward
asked him to take a printing press to Portland. Mr. Chemin consented and the
first Hoe single cylinder press ever brought to Oregon was installed in the
Oregonian press room by Mr. Chemin in April, 1862. The little machine was
no small factor in working out the newspaper problem in Portland. It did its
work admirably for ten years. Finding that there was no one to operate the
press Mr. Chemin remained to do the work and after a brief period spent in this
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city he became convinced that he wished to become a permanent resident. He
sent for his wife to join him on the Pacific coast.
His business connection with the Oregonian was never severed although pro-
motions followed and he was advanced from time to time to positions of larger
responsibility. In his forty-two years' connection with the Oregonian, he liter-
ally grew up with the newspaper he helped to make and lived to see it become
one of the greatest among the daily newspapers of the United States.
It was on the i8th of January, 1862, that Mr. Chemin was married to Miss
Annie Heffron, a native of Philadelphia. The two children of this marriage
were Augusta, who died February 26, 1899, and Julia, still a resident of Port-
land. The family circle was again broken by death when on the 3d of June,
1904, Mr. Chemin passed away.
In his political views Mr. Chemin was a republican and although an active
politician in the way of quiet citizenship he never ran or accepted any political
office. Several times he served as a delegate to the county conventions of his
party. He became an expert judge on real-estate values and his advice was
often sought along business lines. Among fraternal orders Mr. Chemin was a
Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second degree ; he also belonged to the Mystic
Shrine; Knights Templar; Portland Lodge, No. 55, A. F. & A. M.; Portland
Lodge, No. 142, I. O. O. F. ; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Lincoln
Garfield Post, G. A. R. ; and he was also an Exempt Fireman.
His long connection with the Oregonian brought him into contact with many
of the leading citizens of Oregon throughout all the years of his association
with the paper. He was particularly well known among the early residents of
the city who entertained for him the highest regard because of his fidelity to those
principles which constitute the strong elements of honorable manhood and pro-
gressive citizenship.
THEODORE JENSEN.
Theodore Jensen is the second oldest brick manufacturer of Portland. He
came to this city from San Francisco in 1872. The name indicates his nativity,
for he was born in Trondhjem, Norway, in 1845, his parents being C. J. and
Ellen Marie Jensen. He remained in the land of the midnight sun until twenty-
four years of age, and in 1869 came to America, landing at New York, whence
he made his way into the interior of the country, spending the summer season
at Florence, Iowa. Subsequently he went to Denver, where he was engaged in
brickmaking until 1871. The latter year witnessed his arrival in San Francisco
and soon afterward he became connected with a brick-making industry at San
Jose, California.
There Mr. Jensen remained for about a year and in 1872 removed to Port-
land, where he continued in the same line of business. He was employed by
others for several years, and in 1878 embarked in business on his own account.
His first yard was located on the Sandy Road, Wybarg Lane and Barr Road.
He there remained for two years, or until 1880, and in 1881 he removed to a
location on the Sandy Road in what is now the Hancock addition to Portland,
where he carried on business successfully for seventeen years, or until 1898.
He then went to Alaska, where he was engaged in mining for four years. He
was associated with nine others in purchasing the schooner Willard Ainsworth.
A year later Mr. Jensen went to Nome and returned on the schooner Elk, for
the vessel of which he was part owner had been wrecked. On again reaching
Portland in 1902, Mr. Jensen once more took up the business of manufacturing
brick, in which he continued until 1910, when he retired. The capacity of his
first yard was eighty-five hundred brick, at which time these were moulded by
hand. He had a horse power mud mill. At one time he operated a mill with a
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capacity of seventy-two thousand, at which time he furnished all the brick for
the building of the shops of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company at
Albina. Eight million brick were used in the construction of those shops, and
Mr. Jensen's manufactory turned out on an average of five carloads per day.
He also furnished the brick for the Sunnyside sewer and for St. Vincent's Hos-
pital, each utilizing three million. The capacity of his last yard was thirty-five
thousand brick per day. His long experience in the business and the fact that
he kept in touch with all modern improvements enabled him to speak with au-
thority on the subject of brick manufacture. For a long period he conducted a
business of extensive proportions, and was one of the leading representatives of
this industry in the northwest. The extent and importance of his business
brought to him a substantial competence and enabled him to retire with a hand-
some capital which is well invested.
In 1876 Mr. Jensen was united in marriage to Miss Frances Olive Ingram,
whose parents came across the plains in 1852 and settled in Pleasant Valley.
The journey was made by ox team and the father, after reaching his destination,
devoted his attention to farming. Both he and his wife, however, passed away
several years ago. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jensen were born two sons and a daugh-
ter: J. T. and C. C. Jensen ; and Marie, now the wife of Elijah Corbett. Through-
out the years of his residence in Portland, Mr. Jensen has been recognized as
one of the leading business men of the city — alert, diligent and determined —
and his life record proves the fact that vim and vigor will win victory.
GEORGE LEWIS DAVENPORT.
George Lewis Davenport is conducting a commission business in Portland
under the firm style of Davenport Brothers, with offices at No. 150 Front street.
He was born at The Dalles, January 22, 1871, and is a son of John Lewis Daven-
port, of whom mention is made in this volume. He attended school in his na-
tive city until eleven years of age, when the family removed to a farm near
Mosier, after which he was unable to resume his studies until fifteen years later,
when he pursued a two years' course in the Holmes Business College, taking
the regular course. He remained upon the farm until twenty years of age,
during which period he became thoroughly familiar with the best methods of
raising stock and fruit.
A short time before he attained adult age, Mr. Davenport removed to Port-
land, where for three years he followed carpentering. He afterward spent two
years on a ranch in eastern Oregon, and in 1898 he entered the employ of T.
Pearson, a commission merchant of Portland, whom he served as bookkeeper
and salesman for two years. He was afterward with D. E. Meikle, a commis-
sion merchant for a year and a half, and subsequently was with the E. J. Part-
ridge Company. Six months later he bought out the business which he carried
on for about two years. He then consolidated his interests with H. C. Thomp-
son, under the name of the Davenport, Thompson Company, the existence of
which was maintained until October, 1904, when Mr. Davenport disposed of his
interest and engaged in business alone. For a short time his brother, Charles H.
Davenport, was his partner and the firm style of Davenport Brothers, which was
then adopted, has since been used in the conduct of the business. Mr. Daven-
port deals in all kinds of fruit and produce as a commission merchant, and in
this connection has built up an extensive business. He is also interested in fruit
land at Mosier, where he and his brothers and sisters are developing an exten-
sive orchard. He also owns the Davenport Brothers Livery Stables, which he
established here three years ago.
On the 28th of November, 1900, in Portland, Mr. Davenport was united in
marriage to Miss Sophia Katherine Walch, a daughter of John Walch of this
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city, and they reside at No. 187 Gibbs street, in South Portland. He takes a
keen interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the city, and has firm
faith in its future, believing that it is destined to hold its own as one of the
leading commercial centers of the Pacific coast, if it does not become the fore-
most commercial mart in the northwest.
FRANK RIGLER.
One of the prominent representatives of the educational system of Oregon,
whose labors in behalf of public instruction have been most effective, and while
reaching toward high ideals have ever maintained a most practical character, is
Professor Frank Rigler, who in June, 1896, was appointed city superintendent
of the schools of Portland. More than three decades have passed since he heard
and heeded the call of the west. He was the sixth in a family of ten children,
of whom five sons and three daughters reached years of maturity. Their par-
ents were Hon. Henry and Mary (Castor) Rigler. The family is of German
lineage and was established in Pennsylvania in pioneer days by ancestors who
joined the colony of William Penn. At the time of the war for independence
John Rigler joined the American troops and served with the rank of captain
under General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Andrew Rigley, then a mere boy in years,
also offered his services to the country and went to the front in defense of Ameri-
can liberty. He was the father of Jacob Rigley, who was a life-long resident of
Pennsylvania, conducting business as a farmer, stock-dealer and nurseryman,
and he died in Pennsylvania at the age of eighty-four years. He was the father
of the Hon. Henry Rigler, who was born and reared in a suburb of Philadelphia
and became a large stock dealer. He was also prominent as a political leader,
being originally identified with the whig party, while upon its dissolution he
joined the ranks of the republican party, which he represented in the Pennsyl-
vania legislature. He wedded Mary Castor, a native of Pennsylvania and a rep-
resentative of an old Quaker family of that state, whose ancestors came to
America with William Penn. Her father was a soldier of the Mexican war and
lost his life while participating in the battle of Monterey. The death of Hon.
Henry Rigler occurred in Philadelphia in 1894 when he was seventy-nine years
of age, and his wife had also reached the age of seventy-nine years when she
passed away in 1901.
The boyhood home of Frank Rigler was near the Frankford arsenal in Phil-
adelphia and he attended the Central high school, from which he was graduated
in 1872. He entered business life as an employe in the city engineering depart-
ment and then, leaving the east, spent six months as a railroad engineer in Kan-
sas. In 1875 he returned to Pennsylvania and devoted two and a half years to
school teaching in Bucks county, near Doylestown. Advancing in his profes-
sion, he became vice principal of the boys grammar school in Philadelphia but
throat trouble caused him to resign his position after a year. Hoping that a
change of climate might prove of benefit, he came to the Pacific coast in Jan-
uary, 1879, and for a short time was a teacher in the schools of Buena Vista
in Polk county, Oregon. He afterward became principal of the Independent
school and in 1882 was elected to the superintendency of the schools of Polk
county, which position he filled most capably through one term. He was then
called to the superintendency of the schools of Walla Walla, Washington, where
he remained for eighteen months.
Since December, 1885, Professor Rigler has been actively and prominently
connected with the educational interests of Portland, serving first as principal of
the Park school, with which he was connected until the close of the school year
of 1887-88. He then accepted the superintendency of the schools of Oregon
City, there remaining until 1891, when he returned to Portland as principal of the
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Harrison street school, continuing in that capacity until June, 1894, when he be-
came principal of the Portland high school. Two years were devoted to that
work, and in June, 1896, he was elected city superintendent, in which position
he has since continued. He has inaugurated many practical reforms and improve-
ments in the school work and inspires teachers and pupils with much of his own
zeal and interest. He holds to high ideals, realizing that school training is not
merely for the acquirement of knowledge but a preparation for life's respon-
sibilities. To this end he endeavors to make the school work thorough, broad and
comprehensive in its scope, that it may constitute the basis of success for those
who will become the dominant factors in the business and social life of Port-
land in later years.
Professor Rigler is a zealous student of educational methods as advanced
by the National Educational Association, was a member of its national council,
and was formerly a director for Oregon in that organization. Since 1882 he has
served almost continuously as a member of the state board for examination of
teachers. The State Teachers Association numbers him among its leading work-
ers and his term as president of that body was characterized by far-reaching and
effective effort in the promotion of its success. His work in connection with
teachers institutes is well known and has received the indorsement of those
people who judge judiciously. He became one of the charter members of the
School Masters Club and for a number of years was honored with its presidency.
The profession of teaching has been his life work, to which he has bent every
energy, and, setting his mark high, he is putting forth every effort to raise him-
self to its level.
Professor Rigler was married in Walla Walla in 1884 to Miss Lena Koehler,
who was born in Iowa and is a graduate of the Cedar Falls Normal School of
that state. They became the parents of two children, Evelyn S. and Howard.
His leisure hours are devoted to his family and yet he is not remiss in the duties
of citizenship to the extent of giving attentive interest to the vital and significant
questions of the day. His political views are manifest in his support of the re-
publican party, and while the honors and emoluments of office have no attraction
for him, the weight of his influence is ever on the side of good citizenship, of
reform and progress. He is found in those social circles where the most intelli-
gent men of the city gather, and Portland acknowledges her indebtedness to him
for fourteen years of effective service as city superintendent of schools.
JACKSON HIDDEN.
Jackson Hidden, now living retired in Portland, where he took up his abode
in 1905, was born in Albany, Vermont, August 3, 1832, a son of Oliver and
Louisa (Wood) Hidden, the former a farmer and mechanic. The Hiddens
were of English stock and the Vermont branch of the family came from Tam-
worth. New Hampshire. It was to this branch that the Rev. Jedediah Hidden,
of Tamworth, a historical character and a man of great influence in his time,
belonged.
Jackson Hidden pursued his education in the Craftsbury Academy of Orleans
county, Vermont, and in the Newbury Seminary, a Methodist institution of learn-
ing, which was considered one of the best in northern Vermont. In his youth
he learned the cabinet-maker's trade but not finding that employment congenial,
entered a general store as a partner. After six years he became sole proprietor
and for twenty-eight years conducted merchandising in northern Vermont at
Craftsbury and Lyndon. Not alone through the trying panic of 1873 did Mr.
Hidden steadily and successfully carry on his mercantile business, but he was
prepared by prudent forethought for the changes that come in business life,
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always meeting his obligations on time, and he established an enviable reputation
as an honorable, reliable man and won a high standing in business circles.
Success attended his efforts but about 1889 Mr. Hidden heard and heeded the
call of the west. Arriving in Vancouver, Washington, on the 3d of January, he
soon afterward secured a tract of land adjoining the city and, developing a large
orchard thereon, for a number of years engaged in horticultural pursuits, retiring
from all business cares, however, in 1904. The following year he removed to
Portland, where he has since resided. The proximity of Vancouver to Portland,
however, practically made him a resident before, for with its activities and up-
building he was interested, rejoicing in the progress that marked the development
of the city and this section of the country.
On the i8th of September, 1867, Mr. Hidden was united in marriage to Miss
Maria Louise Trenholm, of Trenholmville, Kingsey, province of Quebec, Canada.
The Trenholm family is one of the old and distinguished families of the Domin-
ion. Edward Trenholm, father of Mrs. Hidden, was an inventor who patented
in England, Canada and the United States the rotary snow plough and endless
chain elevator. His sons, Dr. E. H. Trenholm, now deceased, and Judge N. W.
Trenholm, of Montreal, are recognized as among the most learned and prominent
men of the time. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hidden were born four children, Edward
Trenholm, Reginald Loomis, Maurice Jackson and Beatrice Charlotte Maria.
The eldest and third sons both died in young manhood in Vancouver, Washing-
ton. Reginald Loomis Hidden was for years a resident of Portland and known
as a leading violinist of the Pacific coast. He married Miss Ada Grace Bulen, a
native of Columbus, Ohio, and now resides in that city, where he also occupies a
distinguished position as a violinist. The daughter, Beatrice C. M., is now a
prominent pianist and teacher of music in Portland.
While living in the east Mr. Hidden held the office of town treasurer in
Craftsbury, Vermont, resigning that position on his removal to Lyndon. For a
long period he gave his political support to the republican party but in recent
years he has been independent and allied with reform movements. Mrs. Hidden
is widely and prominently known as a lecturer and writer on reform and socio-
logical questions and is the author of a booklet entitled "Pioneers of Oregon,"
issued in April, 1910, and of various poems. For many years after her marriage,
and until her removal westward, Mrs. Hidden was associated with that galaxy
of leaders in reform which assembled yearly in Boston for the meetings of the
New England Festival Association. Mary A. Livermore, Lucy Stone, Julia
Ward Howe, Elizabeth Peabody, Edna B. Cheney, Henry B. Blackwell, William
Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Lillian Whiting, T. W. Higginson and scores of other not-
ables were an inspiring body of people to meet. The great questions of temper-
ance and woman's political equality enlisted Mrs. Hidden's sympathy from child-
hood, when she joined a Band of Hope. Later she became connected with the
Daughters of Temperance and subsequently joined the Good Templars, while for
the past twenty-five years she has been a member of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union and the Equal Suffrage Association. In the last two orga-
nizations she has occupied many official positions. She was the organizer of the
State Equal Suffrage Association of Vermont and arranged for a series of lec-
tures on equal suffrage throughout the state by Mrs. Hannah Tracy Cutler. At
their close a convention was held in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on the 8th and 9th
of November, 1883, which resulted in the formation of a State Equal Suffrage
Association. Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell came from
Boston to assist in this work and were the speakers at this convention. Mrs.
Hidden was elected president and was active in suffrage work in New England
until her removal to the west. For years she served as county and local presi-
dents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and also acted as state
superintendent of Sunday school work in Vermont. After coming to Washing-
ton she was elected state vice president, state recording secretary, state organizer.
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superintendent of school of methods and county president of the Washington
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1899 Mrs. Hidden was elected
director of the Vancouver board of education and was made chairman of the
same, being the first and only woman ever elected to that position in that city.
In 1909 she was elected president of the State Woman's Press Club of Oregon
and, having been reelected in 1910, is now serving in that capacity.
When twenty-five years of age Mr. Hidden became a member of the Con-
gregational church and now belongs to Hassalo Congregational church of East
Portland. He and his wife are prominent in those social circles where intelli-
gence and true worth are regarded as the passports to good society and are fre-
quently found where the intelligent people of the city are gathered in the dis-
cussion of questions of vital significance to the city and the individual.
MRS. W. H. GRAY.
Side by side with the fathers, husbands and brothers who constituted the
mighty army that conquered the west for civilization stood the women who in
spirit were as heroic, whose endurance was as great and whose zeal as untiring
as that displayed by the men of the pioneer households. Many of them were
reared in eastern homes of culture and refinement, tenderly nurtured and care-
fully educated. It seems that it would have required sterner stuff to meet the
conditions here to be found, but one of the elements in Oregon's splendid citi-
zenship of today is found in the gentle influence and consecrated lives of those
eastern bred women. History contains no more thrilling story than the records
of their lives and military records present no account of greater fearlessness in
the face of danger than is contained in the life story of Mrs. W. H. Gray, who
in 1835 came as a missionary to the Oregon country. Her Christian work was
"A labor loved and followed to the goal * * *
A faith so sure of the divine intent
It dignifies the deeds of daily life."
In her maidenhood Mrs. Gray bore the name of Mary Augusta Dix. She
was of English lineage and came of the same ancestry as Dorothy A. Dix, the
philanthropist. She was born at Ballston Spa, New York, January 2, 1810, and
was one of a family of seven daughters who were reared in a Christian home
amid refined associations. Her parents took and active interest in church work
and it was no unusual thing to see them with their seven daughters seated in
the church choir, the mother and daughters dressed in white. The first break
in the happy home circle came in February, 1838, when W. H. Gray of Utica,
New York, sought the hand of Mary Dix in marriage. He had recently re-
turned from the Oregon country, where he had gone in 1836 with Dr. Marcus
Whitman and Rev. H. H, Spalding as secular agent of the missions tney went
to establish. She was to be not wife alone but colaborer in this mission field.
Not long before the death of Mrs. Gray her daughter, Mrs. Kamm, said to her:
"Mother, I have often wondered how, with your education and surroundings,
the refinements of life you were accustomed to and your personal habits, you
could possibly have made up your mind to marry a man to whom you were a
total stranger so short a time before and go with him on such a terrible journey
thousands of miles from civilization intO' an unknown wilderness, exposed to
countless dangers. Mother, how did you do it?" After a few moments pause
her mother replied with earnestness and solemnity: "Carrie, I dared not refuse.
Ever since the day I gave myself to Jesus, it has been my daily prayer, 'Lord,
what will thou have me to do?' When this question, 'Will you go to Oregon as
one of a little band of missionaries to teach the poor Indians of their Savior?
was so suddenly proposed to me. I felt that it was the call of the Lord and I
could not do otherwise."
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This was the motive that led Mrs. Gray to sever home ties and go with her
husband in the work of consecrated Christian service to the far west. By
steamer and stage coach they traveled westward until they reached Independence,
Missouri, where they were joined by the Rev. Cushing Eells, Rev. Alkanah Walker,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith and Mr. Rogers, who were also to become work-
ers in the missionary field. They planned to make the journey on horseback —
a difficult undertaking as well as arduous one in that day when the streams and
rivers in the west were unbridged and when little more than an obscure trail
marked the way to the coast. The Indians were a constant menace and often
surrounded their camp, standing around like great dogs and sometimes even
following the party all day. They carried with them tents which served as shel-
ter at night while a buffalo robe and oil cloth blankets constituted their beds.
At times their blankets would become heavy with rain and their clothing in the
morning would be as damp as when they took it off the night before and when
darkness came upon them they pitched their tents, spread the robes upon the
ground within and then the piece' of oilcloth. The saddles and loose baggage
were arranged neatly about on the walls inside and rolled up blankets served for
seats. In the center of the tent a table was spread for the evening meal. At
night the cries and howling of wild animals could be heard. When day broke,
about 3 130 in the morning, all were astir ; the animals were turned out to feed,
breakfast prepared and eaten, the dishes washed, the repacking done, morning
pravers were said and they were ready for the journey of another day. They
had traveled for one hundred and twenty-nine days after leaving Independence,
Missouri, when on the 29th of August, 1838, they reached Whitman mission,
where they were joyously greeted by Dr. and Mrs. Whitman and Rev. and Mrs.
Spalding, who had been anxiously awaiting them. Mr. and Mrs. Gray became
the assistants of Rev. and Mrs. Spalding, who were in charge of the mission at
Lapwai. Mrs. Gray earnestly undertook the task of teaching the Indian women
and children and soon was instructing a band of fifty or more natives whom she
taught under a pine tree until a log schoolhouse could be built. It was a primi-
tive structure with puncheon seats and earth floor. There Mrs. Gray continued
her labors until November, 1842. Her well trained voice proved a potent factor
in her work. When she first joined in the singing at family prayers Rev. Spald-
ing realized what a power her voice would be in his Sunday worship and re-
quested her to take charge of that part of the service. The Indians, too, were
visibly impressed by her singing and spoke of her as "Christ's sister," and told
the tale of her music long afterward. No doubt the awakening powers of her
voice, coupled with her rare sweetness of character, had much to do with bring-
ing about the great revival among the Nez Perce Indians. Several hundred
made confessions of religion and the influence was at least in a degree lasting,
for years after Mr. Spalding left that field the Indians in many of the lodges
continued to read the Bible, to sing hymns, to pray and return thanks at their
meals.
In November, 1840, the Gray family came to the Willamette valley, Mr. Gray
having severed his connection with the missions to accept the appointment of
secular agent for the Oregon Institute. The journey to the coast was one of
untold hardships, the parents, their son and two daughters floating down the
Columbia to Clilo in a bateau belonging to the Hudson Bay Company. Believ-
ing that the trail would be safer than the turbulent waters of the Columbia near
the cascades, Mr. Gray arranged that he and his family should proceed on the
backs of Indian ponies, but when they were deep in the mountains they encoun-
tered a severe snow storm which not only imperilled their lives but rendered fur-
ther travel impossible. Some of their Indian guides were then sent to Fort Van-
couver for help. At the Columbia the red men found a canoe in which they
proceeded down the river and when Dr. McLaughlin heard that a woman and
little children were snowbound in the mountains he at "once sent a boat manned
by Hudson Bay Company men to their relief. Mrs. Gray's calm faith and belief
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that all would yet be well served to keep up the courage of the others and as the
relief party were making their way up the Columbia, there came to them upon
the wings of the wind the strains of a song that she was singing. Thus they
directed their course to where the little party were imprisoned. They returned
with the family to the river bank where embarkation was made for Fort
Vancouver.
From that time forward the work of Mr. and Mrs. Gray proved a strong
force in advancing the religious development of Oregon and also the temperance
and educational work. Their home was the center from which radiated social
and reform movements. In 1846 they assisted in forming on Clatsop plains the
first Presbyterian church in the northwest. The strongest influences in life are
often the most intangible and who can measure the work of this noble couple
who were never contented with second best but cho3e those things which are
highest and holiest. Every movement or measure for the promotion of truth,
justice and righteousness received their support and many such found their im-
petus in their home. In 1870 they returned on a visit to their old home in New
York, going from Portland to San Francisco and thence across the continent by
rail, accomplishing in a few days a journey to which they had devoted months
when they made their way on horseback to the Pacific coast thirty-two years
before. It has been said of Mrs. Gray that her presence was gentle and dignified.
Many there are yet who bear testimony to the nobility of her character. She
possessed a pure spirit and a strong soul and was so pacific in her disposition
that under the severest tests she remained calm and self-possessed. Her last
words were a prayer that her husband, children and friends might join her in the
Father's house not made with hands. She passed away at her country home,
the Clalskanie farm, December 8, 1881, M^hen nearly seventy-two years of age,
survived by her husband and seven of the nine children born unto her. The
high sensitiveness of her nature was tempered by a serenity that had its root in
an unwavering faith. She never faltered when she believed that the work be-
fore her was that which her maker intended that she should do. Of a most quiet,
refined nature, her life was a restraining power to the spirit of lawlessness which
is too often an element in a new community where an organization of society
and of government has not been effected. While her words carried weight and
influence, the beauty of her own Christian life and spirit constituted a still
stronger power for good.
WILLIAM SWEENEY.
When determination and industry enter the list against poverty and obstacles
the result is almost certain, for the former qualities are invincible and although
the contest may be long, victory is the ultimate result. William Sweeney was
numbered among the self-made men who start out empty-handed and by energy
and perseverance work their way upward. He was born in Londonderry, County
Monaghan, Ireland, October 15, 1830, a son of John and Sarah (Hamilton)
Sweeney, the latter of Scotch descent. Both, however, spent their last days on
the Emerald isle.
William Sweeney pursued his education in the schools of his native city and
in his youthful days worked with his father, who was a farmer. He also traveled
extensively in his early manhood, going to China, Australia, the Philippines and
other parts of the world. He participated in the Crimean war in an English
regiment and his broad and varied experiences gained him an interesting know-
ledge of the world and its peoples. About 1870 he came to America and made
his way to Portland by the isthmus of Panama route. Here he was employed in
various ways until he turned his attention to street contracting, in which business
he continued during the greater part of his remaining days.
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On the 20th of April, 1876, in Portland, Mr. Sweeney was united in mar-
riage to Miss Ellen Maleff, a daughter of Edward and Mary Ann (Kells) Maleff.
Mrs. Sweeney was born in County Cavan, Ireland, where her father followed
the occupation of farming. Both he and his wife died in their native country.
Mrs. Sweeney came to the United States when about twenty-six years of age
and, having relatives living in Illinois, made her way to that state, where she
remained for about three years, after which she came to Portland and here gave
her hand in marriage to William Sweeney. They began their domestic life on
the same corner where Mrs. Sweeney is now living, having at that time a small
five-room cottage, which has been replaced by a fine modern residence. At that
time there were few neighbors in the immediate vicinity, for this section of the
city was then but sparsely settled. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney were born a son
and daughter. William E., of Portland, is now deputy sheriff. He married Mrs.
Margaret Viggar, a widow, who by a former marriage had one child, Margaret.
Sarah E. became the wife of David Shepherd, of Portland.
Mr. Sweeney became one of the early members of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows in Portland and was also one of the early and faithful members of
the Presbyterian church. In politics he was a strong republican but could never
be induced to hold ofifice. Just before he was married he purchased the lot at
the corner of Northrup and Fifteenth streets, and there built a little cottage. As
the years went by he prospered and became the owner of other real estate which
enabled him to leave his widow in comfortable financial circumstances. He died
January 24, 1910, and after cremation his ashes were taken to Riverview ceme-
tery. Mrs. Sweeney is a member of the Episcopal church and her many good
qualities of heart and mind have made her favorably known. A residence of
forty years in Portland brought to Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney a wide acquaintance
and during that period they had seen many changes as the small town was con-
verted into a city of metropolitan proportions and conditions.
CHARLES McGinn.
While making his home at the present time in Los Angeles, California,
Charles McGinn was for many years a resident of Portland, actively and suc-
cessfully engaged in business here in the conduct of an extensive bakery and
cracker factory." He dates his residence on the Pacific coast from 1854 and
through much of the intervening period has been a well known representative
of trade interests in this city.
He was born at Three Rivers in the province of Quebec, Canada, July 13,
1831, a son of Charles and Bridget (Conroy) McGinn, both of whom were of
Irish descent. The father, who was a merchant, died during the early boyhood
of his son Charles. The community in which they lived was almost entirely com-
posed of French settlers and therefore Charles McGinn very early acquired a
knowledge of the French language, speaking it with the fluency of a native son
of France. He pursued his education in Nickelett College, just across the river
from his native town, and after leaving school devoted his attention to farm
work until 1849, when he crossed the border into the United States, hoping to
have better opportunities in a country where the spirit of enterprise is more
strongly developed. Settling in New York city, he there began teaching French
and during the five years of his residence in the eastern metropolis he also
learned the baker's trade. About that time, however, the tide of emigration was
flowing steadily westward and in 1854 he started for San Francisco as a pas-
senger on the old Star of the West. The journey was by way of the isthmus
of Panama and up the Pacific coast to San Francisco, where Mr. McGinn re-
mained for a few months.
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The i6th of June, 1854, witnessed his arrival in Portland, where lived some
of his relatives who had been writing to him of the advantages and opportuni-
ties of the western country, hoping to induce him to come to the northwest. He
settled at Oregon City and after a short time removed to Salem but later he
joined a stepbrother at Port Oxford, where he followed mining for about a year,
and was then obliged to discontinue on account of the shortage of water neces-
sary in mining operations. He then returned to Oregon City and secured em-
ployment at the baker's trade with Thomas Charman and Arthur Warner. There
he continued until 1856, when he returned to Portland and entered the employ of
A. Strong & Company, bakers, with whom he continued until about i860. In
that year he embarked in business on his own account, establishing a bakery at
the corner of Main and First streets, whence he afterward removed to Madison
and First, continuing at that location for fifteen years. Subsequently he con-
ducted his bakery on Washington street, where he remained successfully in busi-
ness until about 1895, conducting an extensive business as a baker and cracker
manufacturer. With the passing years and the growth of the city his trade had
steadily increased until it had reached large proportions, returning to him a
gratifying annual income that brought him to a position among the men of af-
fluence in this city and permitted of his retirement from active business in 1895.
He then established his home at the corner of Twenty-third and Johnson streets,
where he lived until 1898, when he removed to California for his health and has
since made his home in Los Angeles. He sold his business to his son Edward,
who is still conducting it in Portland.
Mr. McGinn was married on the 20th of April, 1858, at Hamilton, Canada,
to Miss Anna Maria Hill, a native of that country and a daughter of Michael
and Mary (O'Rourk) Hill, who were of Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. McGinn
have become the parents of twelve children. Henry E., the eldest, an attorney
of Portland, is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. J. T. Shea, of Port-
land, is the second of the family and has nine children : Mrs. Ethel Castleman ;
Charles A.; Mrs. Anna Stearns, who has one child, Jane T. ; Mabel; Frank;
Ivala; Gilbert; Edmund and Dorothy. The third child in the McGinn family
died in infancy, and Gilbert, the fourth, is also deceased. Edward E. is living
in Los Angeles. Walter A. is a resident of Oklahoma. Edith M. is with her
parents in Los Angeles, John L., of Fairbank, Alaska, married Miss Elsa Sear-
ing and they have two children, Laura E. and John, Katherine F. is the wife
of a Mr. Butz, of Arizona. Margaret is the wife of a Mr. Stuart, of Los An-
geles, and has one child, Virginia. Charles, who was an attorney, is now de-
ceased, and the youngest child died in infancy.
Mr. McGinn has always been a republican, casting his first presidential vote
for Abraham Lincoln. He and his family are all members of the Roman Cath-
olic church. During his long residence in Portland he won the favorable re-
gard of all with whom business or social relations brought him in contact. In
his commercial life he established a reputation for enterprise, diligence, careful
management and thorough reliability, while in social circles he gained warm
friends through his geniality, courtesy and deference for the opinions of others.
ANDREW J. DUFUR, Jr.
A half century has passed since Andrew J. Dufur, Jr., came to Oregon. His
father crossed the plains in 1859 and the family came a year later by the water
route and the isthmus of Panama. Andrew J. Dufur, Jr., was born in Williams-
town, Orange county, Vermont, August 29, 1847, his parents being Andrew J.
and Lois (Burnham) Dufur. The father was born in New Hampshire, Sep-
tember 15, 1815, and came of a family of French origin, the name being originally
spelled Dufour. At an early period in the colonization of this country the an-
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cestors had settled in New England. The grandfather, Abel H. Dufur, was a
soldier of the war of 1812. The father was a farmer and also engaged in the
operation of a lumber mill in Wisconsin following his removal to the middle
west. In 1859 he crossed the plains to Oregon and rented a tract of land six
miles east of Portland from E. L. Quimby. There he carried on general farm-
ing and dairying for two years, when he rented another farm in the same neigh-
borhood, which he occupied for three years. On the expiration of that period
he bought the old Quimby donation daim of six hundred and twenty acres and
afterward purchased one hundred and sixty acres adjoining. All of the mem-
bers of the family were partners in the ownership of this place and in the con-
duct of general farming, stock-raising and dairying interests. The property
was sold in 1871 and the different members of the family took up independent
interests. The father spent his last days in the home of his son Andrew, there
passing away in 1897. The mother, who was born in Vermont on the 7th of
April, 1818, was called to her final rest in 1894. In the family were five chil-
dren : Lucy, who died at the age of fourteen years ; E. B., now a well known
attorney of Portland ; Andrew J., of this review ; W. H., who is engaged in the
real-estate business in Portland ; and Arabelle, the wife of William Stotts, of
Wasco county.
From pioneer days the name of Dufur has figured prominently in connection
with the substantial development of Oregon, especially in agricultural lines.
While living upon his farm the father was also called to public office, serving as
representative from his district in the state legislature in 1862. He was a Union
democrat but believed in the supremacy of the federal government. Later he
was honored by being named as a commissioner to the Centennial Exposition
held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876. He belonged to the Masonic fra-
ternity and his life was at all times in harmony with the highest principles of
manhood and citizenship. He was numbered among those who have upheld the
political and legal status of the state and promoted its material, intellectual and
moral progress.
Accompanying his parents on their removal to Wisconsin in early child-
hood, Andrew J. Dufur of this review was a pupil in the district schools of that
state and when his education was completed turned his attention to farming,
which has been his life work. He came with his mother, brothers and sisters
to Oregon in i860, and was associated with his father and the others of the
family in the conduct of their extensive farming, stock-raising and dairying in-
terests until 187 1. The partnership relations of the family were then dissolved
and Andrew J. Dufur and his brother E. B. Dufur went east of the mountains
and engaged in the sheep business in Wasco county, about fifteen miles from The
Dalles. There they purchased four hundred and sixty acres of land and later
added to their holdings until at one time their possessions aggregated two thou-
sand acres. The brothers remained in business together for about fifteen years,
when E. B. Dufur returned to Portland and took up the profession of law, in
which he is still engaged. Andrew J. Dufur, having purchased his brother's
mterests, contmued to live upon the ranch until 1899, when he retired from
active business life and established his home in the Rose City. He is still the
owner of about fifteen hundred acres of land and his son-in-law has charge of
the place. While engaging extensively in farming and stock-raising, he laid out
the town of Dufur, which was named in his honor, and is now a thriving little
village of about five hundred population.
It was on the 2d of May, 1869, in Portland, that Mr. Dufur was united in
marriage to Miss Margaret M. Stansbery, a daughter of John and Anna Stans-
bery. who came to Portland in 1862, making the journey over the plains from
Iowa. Both parents spent their last days here and the father devoted his active
lite to farming. Mrs. Dufur was born in Scott county, Indiana, and by her
marriage has become the mother of three children : Lois, the wife of C. P. Balch,
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who is living on her father's farm; Anna, the wife of H. A. May, of Portland;
and Belle, who died at the age of three years. 9
Mr. Dufur is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 71, at Dufur, m
which he has passed all of the chairs. His has been an active life, characterized
by intelligent and progressive management of business affairs, and for a con-
siderable period he figured as one of the most prominent representatives of agri-
cultural interests in the Columbia valley. The success which is his is the fitting
crown of his labors, having come to him as the logical sequence of his energy,
determination and keen business sagacity.
FRANKLIN IDE FULLER.
An analyzation of the life record of Franklin Ide Fuller brings to light the
fact that no unusual circumstances have played a part in the attainment of his
present position of distinction as vice president of the Portland Railway, Light
& Power Company. Not by leaps and bounds, but by steady progression has
he reached the position which he now occupies, ever recognizing the fact that
the present and not the future holds his opportunity. Moreover, an understand-
ing of the Roman maxim, "There is no excellence without labor" early found
lodgment in his mind, and therefore upon close application and thorough mas-
tery of every task and preparation for duties of larger responsibility rests his
success. He has developed power of organizing that enable him to coordinate
forces into a harmonious whole, and his initiative spirit allows him to readily
solve intricate problems.
In a review of his life, one is reminded of the statement of Colonel Roose-
velt, "that the strongest men of the country are those of eastern birth and train-
ing who seek the opportunities of business life in the west." Mr. Fuller is a
native of Providence, Rhode Island, and a representative of one of the old New
England families. He was born May 29, 1858, a son of Leonard F. and Mary I.
Fuller. After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools
of his native city, he turned his attention to civil engineering and became a stu-
dent in the office of the city engineer of Providence, under whose guidance he
received both theoretical and practical training, while his efficiency won him
promotion through the various departments in the office through his four years'
identification therewith. At the end of that time he entered the railway service
and was engaged on location and construction work in the states of New York
and Wisconsin.
The year 1883 witnessed Mr. Fuller's arrival in Oregon, and as representa-
tive of the Northern Pacific Terminal Company, he was connected in his pro-
fessional capacity with railway and other improvements then in progress. When
the failure of the Northern Pacific improvements under Henry Villard caused
the cessation of railway work in the northwest, Mr. Fuller turned his attention
to contracting, in which business he continued for four years, giving his atten-
tion largely to railway and heavy timber work. He afterward went to Oswego,
Oregon, where he spent three years with the Oregon Iron & Steel Company dur-
ing the construction of its blast furnace and pipe foundry, acting as assistant to
the manager of the company and later as manager of the foundry. On the ex-
piration of that period he devoted a year to the real-estate business, and in 1892
entered the field in which he has since been engaged, becoming manager of the
Portland Cable Railway Company, Since that time he has been one of the most
important factors in the development of street railway interests in this city.
The company later became the Portland Traction Company, and he occupied
the position of manager until 1900, when the Portland Traction Company and
the Portland Railway Company amalgamated their interests, Mr. Fuller then be-
coming general manager of the latter and so continuing until 1904, when consolida-
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tion was effected between the Portland Railway Company and the City & Suburban
Railway Company, forming the Portland Consolidated Railway Company. Mr.
Fuller remained in the position of general manager for a year, at the end of
which time the properties were purchased by the Clark & Seligman interests of
Philadelphia and New York, at which time the Portland Railway Company was
organized with Mr. Fuller as its president. He continued as its chief executive
officer until the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company was formed, of
which he became the vice president.
The Successful American has said of him: "No man in Portland has such a
complete knowledge of the development of the street railway system of the city
as Mr. Franklin Ide Fuller, vice president of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company, a large corporation. For the past fourteen years Mr. Fuller
has been directing the street railway lines of Portland, and has been the man
who, more than any other, brought the traction lines to their present excellent
condition. None other has had so large a part in the development of the surface
lines from horse and cable car service to modern, powerful electric cars of the
latest pattern. Under Mr. Fuller's direction the city street car lines have kept
pace with the growth of the city, until Portland is acknowledged to have a serv-
ice on its traction lines second to no city in the country. A scenic line has been
built around Portland Heights, and has lately been extended by a loop circling
Council Crest, the highest point near the city, which overlooks the city and sur-
rounding country. This line is a very popular one, and vies with the road up
Mount Tamalpais in scenic attractiveness."
On the 14th of April, 1886, Mr. Fuller was married in Portland to Miss
Anna Jessie Parrish, a daughter of L. M. Parrish, one of the old pioneers of
this city. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have one son, Leonard F., who is now a student
in the mechanical and electrical engineering department at Cornell University
at Ithaca, New York.
The parents are members of the First Presbyterian church, and Mr. Fuller
belongs to the Arlington Club and to the Commercial Qub, being one of the
board of governors of the latter. He is also a member of the Society of Ameri-
can Engineers and is deeply interested in engineering work. Those who meet
him find him an approachable, genial gentleman, always willing to accord cour-
tesy at once to those who visit him in business hours, notwithstanding the fact
that his time and attention are largely demanded by the grave railway prob-
lems that confront him, the ready solution of which has constituted a potent
force in keeping Portland's traction interests at the high standard of service
which is today maintained.
ALBERT B. RECTOR.
Albert B. Rector, a contractor and merchant of Vancouver, Washington, is
a native of Norwich, New York, where he was born March 10, 1872. He was
reared in the parental home and received his education in the public schools of
his native town. During his boyhood the family removed to Ohio and after two
years' residence in that state came west to St. Louis, Missouri. He began his
business career as salesman for Culver Brothers, stove manufacturers, of St.
Louis, continuing in the Missouri metropolis for four years. Having gained a
fair knowledge of the business and desirous of seeing more of the world, he
went to San Francisco in 1892, there continuing in the employ of the St. Louis
firm, being identified with the collection department. In 1896 he was sent by
the firm to Oregon and remained in its employ until 1901, making a total period
of thirteen years with the firm with which he began business.
During this time his services had been eminently satisfactory to his em-
ployers, but he desired to enter a new field, and going to Mentone, California,
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he engaged in the orange raising business until 1904, when he sold out and re-
turned north to Oregon. After serving for one year in the employ of the Moore
Lumber Company, he was identified with A. Wolfif & Company of Silverton,
Oregon, until 1906, when he entered into partnership with the firm of Sanborn,
Cutting & Company and came to Vancouver to take charge of their teaming and
contracting business at this point. In September, 1907, he acquired the owner-
ship of the Vancouver interests of the firm, which he conducted until August,
1908, since which time he has been senior partner of the firm of Rector & Daly,
the junior member being Charles Daly. The firm also operates in Portland as
Wilson, Rector & Daly. The firm deals extensively in contracting, street grad-
ing, teaming and also in the coal, sand and gravel business. It carries eighty
men upon its payrolls and gives employment to forty teams, and is one of the
flourishing concerns of western Oregon.
At St. Paul, March 3, 1908, Mr. Rector was united in marriage to Miss
Maude Coile and one child has been born of the union, Herman Daly Rector.
Mr. Rector is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and
the Improved Order of Red Men. He came to the Pacific coast eighteen years
ago and for the last five years has been in business on his own responsibility.
He has demonstrated a zeal and business talent that are among the prominent
traits of successful men. In a calling that is perfectly congenial to his mind, he
is making excellent progress and his name is associated with a substantial and
growing business that gives promise of large development in the years to come.
ROBERT WILLIAMS.
Robert Williams, a veteran of the Indian wars of the northwest, as well as
of the civil war, and later continuously connected with the military service of
the country until honorably retired on the 28th of April, 1896, has through much
of this period been identified with the northwest. The history of the military
events of this section in both its prosaic and poetical phase, is indeed familiar to
him. A native of North Wales, he was born in the parish of Llanfair, Anglesey,
May 13, 1834, the eldest of a family of five sons and a daughter. In March, 1850,
he started for the new world, landing at New York on the 6th of April, 1850,
as a passenger on the American ship Washington. He at once went to Lancas-
ter, Pennsylvania, where he had an uncle living with whom he resided, and by
whom he was employed at slate roofing for the period of a year. His uncle, who
was also his guardian, then indentured him for a period of five years to learn
the tinsmith's trade, and although he did not find this a congenial pursuit, he
nevertheless became a fair mechanic.
Having always evinced a great love for military life, this taste, combined with
a romantic disposition, led Mr. Williams finally to enlist in the United States
army, February 28, 1855, at Philadelphia. A few days afterward he and several
other recruits were sent to Governor's Island, in New York harbor, and on the
5th of May left there with a detachment of one hundred and fifty recruits as-
signed to the Fourth United States Infantry on duty in California, Oregon and
Washington. They were passengers on the steamer George Law until Aspin-
wall was reached, and thence by rail they proceeded across the isthmus of Pan-
ama, where they embarked on the Pacific mail steamship Golden Gate, for San
Francisco, where they arrived about the ist of June. There they took passage
on the steamer Columbia for Fort Vancouver, Washington, arriving at their
destination on the 7th of June. Mr. Williams was assigned to Company H,
Fourth United States Infantry, commanded by Captain Henry D. Wallen, a strict
martinet, but a very efficient officer, who prided himself on the fact that he had
the best drilled company in that famous old regiment, which then had many dis-
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tinguished officers on its roll, several of whom made brilliant military records in
the civil war, including Captain U. S. Grant, Captain C. C. Augur, Captain A. D.
Russell, Captain George Crook, Captain Hunt, Captain Henry D. Wallen, Lieuten-
ant Phil H. Sheridan, Lieutenant Robert McFeely, Lieutenant Henry C. Hodges
and others. It was fortunate for Mr. Williams that he was assigned to such a
well drilled company. It taught him to be a competent drill instructor and com-
mander of arms, and proved to be of great benefit to him when the war of the re-
bellion began.
In the fall of 1855 nearly all of the Indian tribes in the northwest, headed by
the powerful and warlike Yakimas, united in formidable force and made war
upon the settlements of Oregon and Washington territory. The fighting be-
tween the soldiers and Indians was at times of a serious and desperate character.
'Mr. Williams participated in the Yakima campaign of 1855 under command of
Major Gabriel Rains, Fourth United States Infantry, which had its first skir-
mish with the Indians at a gap in the mountain range through which the Yakima
river flows. The river was at that time very high, swift and impassible for in-
fantry. The Indians had gathered there in strong force to resist the crossing
of the troops but a small body of dragoons, under command of Lieutenant Phil H.
Sheridan succeeded in crossing, notwithstanding the strenuous resistance of the
red men. The latter then fled, but were pursued by Lieutenant Sheridan and a
small force for a distance of a mile or more, but a large force of the Indians de-
fiantly remained on the tops of the mountains, confronting the troops and oppos-
ing their further advance into their country. However, they were driven out by
the troops before darkness set in, but by daylight were back in large numbers, oc-
cupying the mountain tops and determined to fight and oppose any further prog-
ress of the soldiers into their country. Two companies of infantry were ordered
to ascend the mountain as was done on the previous afternoon. The troops suc-
ceeded in dislodging the enemy in gallant style. The Oregon Volunteer Infantry,
commanded by Colonel Nesmith, immediately flanked the position held by the
Indians, upon the discovery of which movement they fled to their fastness as
speedily as their horses could take them. The command then quietly proceeded
on its journey to the Catholic mission. A snowfall of six inches deprived the
horses and mules of pasturage and thus the troops were prevented from prose-
cuting the war until the following spring. The regular troops returned tO' their
respective stations at The Dalles, Fort Vancouver and the Presidio in San Fran-
cisco. Shortly afterward Sergeant Mathew Kelley, Company H, Fourth United
States Infantry, and eight privates, Mr. Williams being among the number,
were sent on detached service to occupy and garrison a small blockhouse on the
north bank of the Columbia, about a mile and a quarter below the upper Cascades
and opposite the foot of the rapids swirling down from the great falls of the
upper Cascades. This was known as the middle blockhouse — a very important
point in the line of travel, over which all supplies for all points up or down
the river had to be transported. The Indians, thoroughly aware of the impor-
tance of this point, had mustered a large force of warriors and made a simulta-
neous and unexpected attack upon the settlement at the upper Cascades and upon
the blockhouse at the middle Cascades at about eight o'clock on the morning of
March 26, 1856. They held both places and the entire portage besieged until
the morning of the third day, when two hundred and ten men, under Lieutenant Col.
Edward J. Steptoe, Ninth United States Infantry, arrived from Fort Dalles,
Oregon, in relief of the settlers, and recaptured the portage.
It was while endeavoring to get relief to the imperiled detachment at the
middle blockhouse and to recapture the portage that Lieutenant Sheridan, who
was in command of forty men of Company H, Fourth United States Infantry
from Fort Vancouver, gave the first intimation of his afterward brilliant military
career. His name was mentioned in paragraph eight, general orders No. 14. of
1857, for special gallantry in performing that duty. Sergeant Mathew Kelley
and those under his command were credited with like special gallantry in para-
graph four of the same general orders. The casualties were: "Citizens, ten killed.
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ten wounded ; soldiers killed, three, and wounded, two ; Indians captured by-
Lieutenant Sheridan's command No. 28, nine of whom were found guilty by the
military commission which tried them of being active leaders in the atrocious
massacre." They were executed immediately thereafter by hanging. The full
account of the tragic affair was written by Mr. Williams and published in the
Sunday Oregonian of November 15, 1896. He was honorably discharged from
the United States army, February 28, i860, at Fort Cascades, Washington ter-
ritory. He then went upon a visit to Wales, his native country, and also trav-
eled extensively through England and Scotland. When at Edinburgh he became
acquainted with Miss Elizabeth J. Turnbull, a daughter of Walter and Agnes
Turnbull, of Kelso, Scotland, and they were married by the Rev. A. K. H. Boyd,
of St. Bernard's parish, June 7, i860. They left the next day for the United
States and made their home on a farm near Hazelton, Buchanan county, Iowa,
from July, i860, until November, 1877.
In response to President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand men to serve
for ninety days in suppressing the rebellion of seceding states against the gov-
ernment, Mr. Williams enlisted at Dubuque, Iowa, April 22. 1861, in the Gover-
nor's Grays, which subsequently became Company I of the First Iowa Volunteer
Infantry. He was assigned to the position of drill instructor of the company
from the time it received its arms until it was ordered into the field of war. He
participated in the battle of Wilson creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861, where
the gallant and lamented Gen. Nathaniel Lyon lost his life, and 'Mr. Williams
was slightly wounded in the leg. He then joined the Twelfth Iowa Infantry
October 29, 1861, and was elected second lieutenant of Company E on that day,
promoted to first lieutenant on March 6, 1863, and to captain May 28, 1863. He
participated in the engagements at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 15, 1862;
Shiloh, April 6, 1862 ; Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863 ; Vicksburg, from
May 1 8th to July 4, 1863 ; Jackson, Mississippi, again when they captured it a
second time; Tupelo, July 14-15, 1864; and was verbally complimented by Major
E. M. Vanduzee on his retirement for gallantry in the last action for engaging
and retarding, while on the skirmish line, the advance of the rebel column. He
was taken prisoner at the close of the first day's battle at Shiloh and confined in
the Confederate prison pens for six months, there suffering indescribable hard-
ships and privations. He was paroled at Libby prison October 13, 1862.
After engaging in farming in Iowa for about fifteen years, Captain Williams
joined the ordinance department of the United States army November 28, 1877,
and was appointed sergeant of ordinance on that date. He served continuously
in the grade until the day of his retirement April 28, 1896, and continues to hold
that rank at the present time.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Williams are: Mrs. Mary J. Anderson and
Arthur E, Williams of 397 Twelfth street, Portland, Oregon ; Charles R. Wil-
liams, residing at No. 765, Second street, Portland; and Mrs. Agnes E. Tooley,
712 Twelfth street, Vancouver.
PHILLIP J. ZELLER.
The name of Phillip J. Zeller, now deceased, was long associated with the
grocery trade in Portland and a spirit of enterprise characterized him in all of his
business transactions. He was a native of Berncastel, Prussia, Germany, bom
January 25, 1838, and a son of Jacob J. Zeller. His mother died when he was
very small. His father, who was a butcher by trade, continued to reside in
Germany until his demise.
Phillip J. Zeller attended school there and was in the postal service for some
time. No mere fancy or spirit of adventure brought him to America, the matured
judgment of manhood prompting this step. He carefully considered the possi-
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bilities for advancement in his native land and in the new world, and his judg-
ment spoke in favor of the latter, so in 1870 he came with his wife Jind children
to the United States, landing at New York. From that point he went to Wilkes
Barre, Pennsylvania, where he worked for a time in the employ of others, and
then engaged in business on his own account as a clothing merchant. For about
ten years he remained in that place and devoted a part of the time to the conduct
of a grocery store. He afterward spent a year in Wisconsin on account of his
health becoming greatly impaired and physicians advising him to leave Pennsyl-
vania. Removing to Michigan, he was engaged in the grocery business for seven
years at Menominee. The year 1889 witnessed his arrival in Oregon, at which
time he took up his abode in Portland and opened a grocery store at the corner
of Fremont and Mississippi avenue. There he built a business block and carried
on his store therein until 1898, when he retired and turned his business over to
his son, who was proprietor of the store until 1906, when he sold out.
Mr. Zeller was married in Germany, June 27, 1864, to Miss Josephine D'idas,
a daughter of Urban and Frances Didas, natives of that country. On account of
his wife's health Mr. Zeller took her to Germany in 1874, but she died there.
They had three children: Frances, now of Portland; A. R., of Portland, who
married Helen Sharkey and has three children, Phillip, Rudolph and Marie ; and
Elizabeth, who died at the age of six years.
The death of Mr. Zeller occurred July 20, 1910, and his remains were interred
in Mount Calvary cemetery. In his political views he was an earnest democrat
from the time that he became a naturalized. American citizen, but he would never
consent to become a candidate for office. /^^He wa§^a communicant of the Catholic
faith and his life was in consistent' harmony therewith. In business his close
application and unfaltering energy were the basis of his 'success and his life is a
practical illustration of the possibilities for accomplishment on this side of the
Atlantic, where labor is unhampered by caste or class.
JAMES S. CHURCH.
James S. Church, who has for the past twenty-seven years been engaged in
the sawmill business in western Oregon, was born at Afton, Wisconsin, August
20, 1858. He was educated in the common schools, but at the age of eighteen
years set out to seek his fortune in the west. Oregon presented an attractive
field for a young man looking for work and eager to take advantage of any op-
portunities for advancement that might appear. He began in a sack factory at
Albany, which was in charge of Wheeler Church, an uncle. Later he engaged
in steamboating and as bookkeeper for A. J. Richardson, a wheat buyer, at
Buena Vista. It was in this place that he gained his first, knowledge of the
milling business, to which he has devoted his attention successfully for many
years. In 1883 he came to what is now Albina and associated with C. P. Church
and Joseph Delay in a large sawmill, producing most of the lumber that was
used in the construction of the Portland Flouring Mill. After the completion
of the mill he entered the employ of the company with which he has since re-
mained.
On the 27th of December, 1879, Mr. Church was united in marriage to Mar-
garet E. Smith, a daughter of Dr. J. A. and Eliza J. Smith, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. Nine children were born of this union, of whom seven are now living:
Charles, who is associated with his father in the mill; Ethel C, now Mrs. Scott
Kent ; Bernice, the wife of Dorr B. Wagoner ; Mildred L. ; Steven A. ; Wilmot
F. ; and Oliver S.
Mrs. Church is a niece of William Hampton Smith, a pioneer of 1859, who
crossed the plains, starting from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of which city the father
of Mr. Smith was one of the founders. A large party was made up for the
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journey, but many difficulties arose in the long and toilsome trip across the
plains and mountains and before the end was reached many members of the
party were claimed by sickness and death. The survivors came by way of Cali-
fornia and located at Eugene, Oregon, where Mr. Smith found employment as
clerk in a store and teacher in the village school. In the fall of 1865, with his
father and brothers, he started the Oregon Pottery Company, the first manufac-
tory of stoneware that was launched in the northwest. After several years' con-
nection with this enterprise he left Eugene and located at Fort Clatsop in Clat-
sop county, where he resided until 1882, when he reentered the pottery business,
founding at Portland the Western Clay Manufacturing Company, which under
his management became highly successful. Mr. Smith was a man of unusual
mental power and an original thinker in many lines. At the time of his death,
July 13, 1910, in his seventy- fourth year, he had completed five books which
were ready for publication. The list includes a geological work, a political work
and a volume containing reminiscences of his trip across the plains and two
works of fiction. He was always a public-spirited man and a profound believer
in the effect of education in elevating the life and character of the individual.
Mr. Church is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias and the Artisans, and both he and Mrs. Church are members
of the Patton Methodist Episcopal church. In his various duties as head of the
family and as a citizen of an enterprising community he has performed an hon-
orable part, and he has many friends who regard him as a safe counselor and
one whose example is even more effective than words.
JOHN E. STANSBERY.
John E. Stansbery was numbered among the early settlers who established
homes on the present site of Portland when it was little dreamed that the
boundaries of the city would cover what was then farm and timber land. In the
district known as Woodlawn he carried on agricultural pursuits for a number of
years and was numbered among those who laid the foundation for the more
recent development and upbuilding of the district.
He was born in Clark county, Indiana, April 14, 1825. His parents, J. E. and
Esther (Stucker) Stansbery, were early settlers of that county and it was there
that their son John pursued his education as a pupil in the pioneer schoools. After
putting aside his text-books he learned the cooper's trade and also followed farm-
ing, to which occupation he had been reared, early becoming his father's assistant
in the work of the fields. In earnest toil, in which there were also hours of
recreation, his youth was passed, and in the period of early manhood, when
twenty-three years of age, he was married and later removed to Wayne county,
Iowa, where he took up land from the government and made his home for a
short time. Subsequently he removed to Jefferson county, that state, where he
resided until 1862, when he brought his family to Oregon.
Like many of the emigrants who had preceded him, he crossed the plains with
an ox team, and the long, hard journey was concluded by his arrival in Portland
in September, 1862. Soon afterward he went to Hillsboro, where he lived for a
year, when he returned to Portland and about that time purchased a donation
claim which now covers the site of Woodlawn. Upon that place he took up his
abode It had but slight improvements upon it. There was a small house made
of split wood and the kitchen had only a hard dirt floor. In that the family began
keeping house, but as soon as possible Mr. Stansbery erected a fine residence.
With characteristic energy he began the improvement of his farm, converting the
wild land into productive fields, from which he annually gathered good crops.
His labors were of a practical and progressive character and transformed his
farm into a fine place.
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Mr. Stansbery was married in 1848 to Miss Anna M. Hughes, a daughter of
WilHam Hughes. Her birth occurred in Clark county, Indiana, February ii,
1827, and by her marriage she became the mother of thirteen children. The
death of Mr. Stansbery occurred in March, 1882. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity and an active and devoted member of the Methodist church,
his labors proving a factor in the upbuilding of the church and the extension of
its influence. His wife survived him for twenty-three years, passing away on
the loth of March, 1905. At the age of sixteen years she united with the Method-
ist church and her life was ever an expression of her Christian faith. She was
often heard to remark: "If I have flowers I will present them while on earth,
that their fragrance may do good. The earth is where the flowers and smiles
and praises are needed, not after death." Her life was an exemplification of that
sentiment. She was ever ready to aid those in need and by a cheery smile and
word of encouragement helped many a fellow traveler upon life's journey. Her
splendid qualities of heart and mind made her beloved by all and the deepest
regret was felt by those who knew her when she responded to the call of death
and was laid to rest by the side of her husband in Columbia cemetery.
OSCAR L. CLYDE.
Among the well known citizens of western Oregon whose career presents
features of unsual interest is Oscar L. Clyde. He was born in Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, May 20, 1843, ^"^ is a son of Jarnes and Katherine Clyde, both
of whom were natives of Pennsylvania and died leaving their son to make his
own way in life.
Oscar L. Clyde did not possess the advantages of education such as are pre-
sented to the young people of today. His education was limited to a few weeks
or months at a district school in the winter time and the knowledge which he
has gained has been mainly in the training school of experience. At the age of
eight years he went to Illinois, where he remained for about a year. The three
years following were passed by him at Davenport, Iowa. He then took up his
residence in Linn county, Iowa, where he aided his stepfather in the work of
the farm. On the i8th of July, 1861, in response to the call of President Lin-
coln for three hundred thousand volunteers, Mr. Clyde, then a stalwart youth
of seventeen, enlisted in Company D, Eighth Iowa Infantry, under Colonel Fred
Steel. The regiment was assigned to Camp McClellan at Davenport, Iowa,
where it remained drilling until the September following. It was then sent to
Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri. The regiment was placed under Fre-
-mont's command until February, 1862, when the Eighth Iowa was ordered to
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, where it took part in the great battle at that
place and Private Clyde and many of his companions were captured. They
were sent first to Jackson, Mississippi, and later to Mobile, Montgomery and
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and then to Montgomery, where many of the men were
paroled. At Huntsville, Alabama, the paroled men reentered the Union lines.
There were so many prisoners captured at Pittsburg Landing from the Eighth
Ohio Infantry that the regiment lost its organization. However, at Benton Bar-
racks, in February, 1863, it was reorganized with the same officers that had com-
manded it originally. Upon its reorganization Oscar L. Clyde was made cor-
poral. The regiment joined Grant and Sherman at Ducksport, Arkansas, took
part in the noted campaign of General Grant in and around Vicksburg, and en-
gaged in two important assaults on the 19th and 22d of May, 1863. Originally
Mr. Clyde enlisted for a term of three years, but at the expiration of this time
the entire regiment reenlisted as an organization on the ist of June, 1864. After
reenlisting he was made sergeant of his company and was given a furlough of
thirty days, during which time he went home and greeted old friends whose
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faces he had not seen for three long years. At the close of his furlough he was
assigned to provost duty at Memphis, Tennessee, which continued for ten
months, and then went to New Orleans under General Canby, later taking part
in the Mobile campaign. To the Eighth Iowa was given the honor of leading
the charge at Spanish Fort, opposite Mobile. In this death to death struggle
the regiment lost sixty-eight of its brave men. Mr. Clyde served through the
campaigns on General Canby's staff with the rank of second lieutenant. As the
war spirit subsided, the army was gradually reduced and on the 9th day of
October, 1865, he was mustered out of service at Tuskegee, Alabama. His regi-
ment was mustered out on the loth of April following, at Selma, Alabama.
After leaving the army, Lieutenant Clyde returned to his old home in Linn
county and, like thousands of other young men who had stood face to face with
death in defense of their country, he laid aside the sword and patriotically re-
sumed the pursuits from which he had been diverted by the greatest conflict
that the world has known. He located on a homestead in Morrison county, Min-
nesota, and conducted a farm except for five years, when he engaged in the
hardware business.
The Pacific coast held out attractions to ambitious men, and in 1890 Mr.
Clyde went to San Diego county, California, continuing upon a ranch there for
four years. In 1895 he removed to I'asadena, where for five years he was in
the service of the Pasadena & Pacific Railroad Company. At the end of this
time he came north to Olympia, Washington, where he located for a short time
and then removed to White Salmon, and in 1904 to Park Place, Oregon, where
he has since been engaged in ranching. Mr. Clyde has always taken the interest
of a patriotic citizen in public afifairs. He was justice of the peace in Morrison
county, Minnesota, and deputy sheriff of the same county. He also acted as
city constable of Little Falls, Minnesota, and after coming to Oregon was school
clerk and treasurer of district No. 48, Clackamas county.
On the 22d of January, 1864, Mr. Clyde was married to Abbia A. Stevens,
a daughter of Prince and Asenith Stevens of Maine. Five children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde: Ida A., the wife of Joseph M. Ledoux ; Charles
E., a merchant of Salem, Oregon; James B., a ranchman of California; Frank
superintendent of the Los Angeles Pipe Company; and Ella May, now Mrs.
T. Bechtl of Olympia.
Mr. Clyde is a member of the local Grange, of the blue lodge and chapter of
the Masonic order, of the Knights of Pythias, and of Mead Post No. 2, Grand
Army of the Republic. He has for many years been identified with the Congre-
gational church, and in his private life has been controlled largely by the lessons
of alertness, perseverance and attention to duty which he had so deeply impressed
upon his mind while fighting for the Union cause. To him, as to many other
young men of the country, the great Civil war was a college of instruction,
where the lessons of life were enacted under conditions that made an indelible
impression and where also many of the leaders who have been for years most
prominent in the American republic laid the foundation of a character which
has made them what they really are today — the admiration of the world.
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ISAAC JOSEPH LAWLER.
There is no one in Portland who has enjoyed the manly sport of driving a
fine roadster who has not heard of or personally known the late Isaac Joseph
Lawler, who for a long period was proprietor of the Club Stables and was
regarded as authority upon the subject of fine horses. Moreover, he was a man
of such genial temperament and kindly spirit that he made friends with all with
whom he came in contact and his death was, therefore, the occasion of deep and
widespread regret when, on the 9th of June, 1908, he passed away in the city of
Portland. He was a native of Ireland, his birth having occurred in Dublin, on
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faces he had not seen for three long years. At the close of his furlough he was
assigned to provost duty at Memphis, Tennessee, which continued for ten
months, and then went to New Orleans under General Canby, later taking part
in the Mobile campaign. To the Eighth Iowa was given the honor of leading
the charge at Spanish Fort, opposite Mobile. In this death to death struggle
the regiment lost sixty-eight of its brave men. Mr. Clyde served through the
campaigns on General Canby's staff with the rank of second lieutenant. As the
war spirit subsided, the army was gradually reduced and on the 9th day of
October, 1865, he was mustered out of service at Tuskegee, Alabama. His regi-
ment was mustered out on the loth of April following, at Selma, Alabama.
After leaving the army, Lieutenant Clyde returned to his old home in Linn
county and, like thousands of other young men who had stood face to face with
death in defense of their country, he laid aside the sword and patriotically re-
sumed the pursuits from which he had been diverted by the greatest conflict
that the world has known. He located on a homestead in Morrison county, Min-
nesota, and conducted a farm except for five years, when he engaged in the
hardware business.
The Pacific coast held out attractions to ambitious men, and in 1890 Mr.
Clyde went to San Diego county, California, continuing upon a ranch there for
four years. In 1895 he removed to Pasadena, where for five years he was in
the service of the Pasadena & Pacific Railroad Company. At the end of this
time he came north to Olympia, Washington, where he located for a short time
and then removed to White Salmon, and in 1904 to Park Place, Oregon, where
he has since been engaged in ranching. Mr. Clyde has always taken the interest
of a patriotic citizen in public affairs. He was justice of the peace in Morrison
county, Minnesota, and deputy sheriff of the same county. He also acted as
city constable of Little Falls, Minnesota, and after coming to Oregon was school
clerk and treasurer of district No. 48, Clackamas county.
On the 22d of January, 1864, Mr. Clyde was married to Abbia A. Stevens,
a daughter of Prince and Asenith Stevens of Maine. Five children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde: Ida A., the wife of Joseph M. Ledoux ; Charles
E., a merchant of Salem, Oregon; James B., a ranchman of California; Frank
L., superintendent of the Los Angeles Pipe Company; and Ella May, now Mrs.
H. T. Bechtl of Olympia.
Mr. Clyde is a member of the local Grange, of the blue lodge and chapter of
the Masonic order, of the Knights of Pythias, and of Mead Post No. 2, Grand
Army of the Republic. He has for many years been identified with the Congre-
gational church, and in his private life has been controlled largely by the lessons
of alertness, perseverance and attention to duty which he had so deeply impressed
upon his mind while fighting for the Union cause. To him, as to many other
young men of the country, the great Civil war was a college of instruction,
where the lessons of life were enacted under conditions that made an indelible
impression and where also many of the leaders who have been for years most
prominent in the American republic laid the foundation of a character which
has made them what they really are today — the admiration of the world.
ISAAC JOSEPH LAWLER.
There is no one in Portland who has enjoyed the manly sport of driving a
fine roadster who has not heard of or personally known the late Isaac Joseph
Lawler, who for a long period was proprietor of the Club Stables and was
regarded as authority upon the subject of fine horses. Moreover, he was a man
of such genial temperament and kindly spirit that he made friends with all with
whom he came in contact and his death was, therefore, the occasion of deep and
widespread regret when, on the 9th of June, 1908, he passed away in the city of
Portland. He was a native of Ireland, his birth having occurred in Dublin, on
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the 22d of April, 1844. His parents were Edward and Christina (Hill) Lawler,
whose ancestral record is one of close connection with the early history of the
British Isles. His mother belonged to the Hills of Brey near Dublin.
Isaac J. Lawler, who was the youngest of seven sons and one daughter, was
educated in the Christian Brothers schools of Dublin and early in life turned his
attention to his father's business, the latter being well known as a liveryman and
horse dealer between Dublin and Liverpool. One brother, Edward Lawler, was
well known in Ireland as a successful steeple-chase rider. After spending some
years in Roscommon, Ireland, Isaac J. Lawler, attracted by the opportunities of
the west, sailed for New York city in 1865 and two years later went to San
Francisco by way of the Nicaragua route. A few years later he came to Port-
land, where he was employed until 1884. His perseverance, industry and capable
management at length enabled him to engage in business on his own account and
in this he was associated with his brother John, who had also come to the west.
They purchased a quarter of a block of ground at the corner of Fifteenth and Couch
streets and there established a livery business, in which they were associated for
two years when the brother retired, Isaac Lawler purchasing his interest. His
increasing patronage, resulting from his capable management and the wise direc-
tion of his interests, brought him a business that forced him to double the size
of the building and he afterward purchased the remaining half block, where still
stand the Club Stables. In this business he continued to the end of his life. The
Club Stables in the palmy days of "gentlemen's roadsters," before the automobiles
were heard of, were the rendezvous for the various owners of the roadsters of
that time. Many pleasant hours were there spent after the White House drive
was over for the evening, talking over the merits of their respective horses. Mr.
Lawler, by reason of his well known business integrity and the sound judgment
which he displayed concerning horse flesh, merited the patronage which he
received in those days, which "are gone, never to return, as far as the roadster
is concerned." This has become only a chapter of Portland's history, for the own-
ers, too, have mostly passed away with the horse.
On the 9th of September, 1873, Mr. Lawler was united in marriage to Miss
Honora M. Egan, a daughter of the late John H. Egan, who was also born in
Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a Mexican veteran, who had seen hard service
as a sailor in that war. He was also a soldier in the Indian wars and did active
and beneficial work in suppressing the uprisings among the red men. He was
one of the nine men who camped on Battle Rock during the Rogue River war.
They were attacked by the Indians and a fierce battle ensued, in which two of
the white men were injured, while a dozen or more of the Indians were killed.
Mr. Egan has left a graphic account of this engagement. He married Maria
Darling, who was also numbered among the pioneer residents of this district,
having crossed the continent with the Belshaw party in 1853. She was married
the same year in Portland and thereafter Mr. and Mrs. Egan continued to reside
in this city with the exception of four or five years spent upon a farm on the
Chehalem mountain. Four children were born unto them. The husband and
father passed away May 29, 1887, while the death of Mrs. Egan occurred Sep-
tember 9, 1902. The only surviving member of the family is Mrs. Lawler, who
by her marriage became the mother of three daughters and twin sons. The
eldest daughter, Mary Christina, became the wife of Charles Fort Schmerhorn,
^ of Des Moines, Iowa, Portland, Oregon, and Honolulu. She was a popular high-
school girl and was graduated with the class of February, 1894. After her
marriage to Mr. Schmerhorn she resided in Honolulu for over a year and thence
removed to Los Angeles, California, where her husband engaged in business.
She died in that city, April 16, 1907, leaving an infant son, who died two months
later. Mrs. Schmerhorn was mourned not only by her old friends and school-
mates but also by the many new ones she had made in her travels, for she was a
bright girl, with a lovable disposition. She was also quite talented with the brush.
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her painting in oil and water colors being especially good and showing much talent.
Kathleen Lawler Belcher is the wife of Professor J. W. Belcher and is well known
throughout Portland and this state as a concert and choir singer of note, having
held for seven years the difficult position of the soprano singer in St. Mary's
cathedral. At the present writing she is the soprano soloist in the White Temple
choir, where her husband, Mr. Belcher, has been director for many years. Miss
Nona Lawler, the youngest daughter, is also possessed oi a beautiful voice
and is rapidly coming to the front in Portland as a vocalist. The sons Gerald
and Emmet Lawler are at present carrying on the business left to them by their
father.
The death of the husband and father occurred in Portland, June 9, 1908.
He was an active member of the Catholic church and received all the benefits of
that church at his death. In politics he was a stanch republican and was always
interested in the leading questions and issues of the day. He took an active part
in everything that related to the general welfare and cooperated in many move-
ments which were of benefit to Portland. Those who knew him, and his friends
were many, found him ont only a reliable business man but also an entertaining
gentleman, of genial social nature, of unfailing good humor and of unfaltering
courtesy.
MRS. S. LANGILLE.
Mrs. S. Langille now makes her home at No. 683 Wasco street in Portland.
She has a wide and favorable acquaintance in this city and, moreover, is pleas-
antly remembered by the great majority of tourists who visit the northwest, for
during sixteen summers she was in charge of Cloud Cap Inn. She was born in
Yarmouth county. Nova Scotia, a daughter of Israel and Elizabeth (Flint) Hard-
ing. Her father was also a native of that county and was a tanner by trade. She
spent her girlhood days in the parental home, was educated in the place of her
nativity and was trained to the duties of the household, so that she was well
equipped to take charge of a home of her own at the time of her marriage,
which occurred in June, 1867. She became the wife of James E. Langille, who
was born in Pictou county. Nova Scotia, March 12, 1840, and is of Swiss-French
descent. He attended school where he was born and learned the wheelwright's
trade but spent most of his early life as a ship-builder. In 1867 he went to Cali-
fornia and two years later his wife joined him. In 1871 they returned to the
east, settling in Yarmouth county. Nova Scotia, but in 1878 removed to Massa-
chusetts. About 1880 they became residents of Chicago, where Mr. Langille
followed the carpenter's trade and assisted in building the town of Pullman,
Illinois.
In 1883 they removed westward to Oregon, settling in the Hood river valley,
where Mr. Langille took up one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he
built a log cabin. In 1889 he had charge of the building of the Cloud Cap Inn.
After living upon the farm about nine years, Mrs. Langille secured a legal
separation and in 1891 took charge of Cloud Cap Inn, which, with the aid of her
sons, she conducted for sixteen seasons. This is a most unique and attractive
hostelry, situated at snow line on Mount Hood. The hotel is built of logs and
the structure is chained to the rocks so that it shall not be carried away by the
fierce winter winds that sweep over the mountains. While primitive in style, it
is thoroughly comfortable, and the air of cheeriness given by the blazing logs
in the great fireplace was enhanced by the hospitable welcome which Mrs.
Langille always extended to the hotel guests who, gathered around the fire in
the evening, seemed more like a large family than transient visitors. The out-
look from the hotel is one of rare beauty. The great snow summit of Mount
Hood appears above and in the distance are seen the snowy slopes of Mount
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Rainier, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens, seen across a broad expanse of
valley and lake. One of the chief points of interest to the tourists is the ascent
of the mountain, from which on clear days one can look abroad over the great
grain fields of eastern Oregon and to the west to the Pacific ocean, while the
great Columbia river from that height looks like a tiny ribbon threading the
green. The effect of the sunset on Hood and the other snow-capped mountains
is beautiful beyond description. It was here that Mrs. Langille spent sixteen
summers, attending to the comfort of the guests at the inn, and her hospitable
manner as well as the splendid view made a visit there one never to be forgotten.
Mrs. Langille has three sons : William A., who was born August i8, 1868,
is now forest superintendent of the southeast reserve in Alaska. He was one
of the first to land supplies at Dawson during the great gold rush in Alaska,
and was the first to make an ascent on the north side of Mound Hood, hitherto
considered inaccessible. Herbert B., who was born January 27, 1871, is now an
electrical engineer living in the Hood river valley. He is a graduate of the
Leland Stanford University, and married Tessie Conroy, a native of Ireland.
Harold D., born September 19, 1874, is manager for the J. D. Lacy Timber Com-
pany. He resides at home with his mother.
ANDREW ROBERTS.
The subject of this sketch was born at Dundee in the county of Forfar, Scot-
land, August 12, 1821. He was the youngest son of David Roberts, of Bonaboal,
a linen manufacturer and descendant of a Huguenot family who were driven from
their home in Picardy owing the religious persecution which followed upon the
revocation by Louis XIV, on October 18, 1685, of the edict of Nantes.
The father of Andrew Roberts, born December 16, 1784, married Janet Ark-
ley, a daughter of James Arkley, of Nether-Muir. They had three sons, the
youngest being Andrew, who was left an orphan at the age of two years. He
was adopted by a relative who brought him up under the strictest rules of the
Presbyterian faith. Passing the early years of his life on a farm on the banks
of Loch Fithie, he attended school until apprenticed to his brother David, who
was in business in Forfar and a deacon of his corporation. In 1842 he took pas-
sage on the ship Norfolk for New York, where he was in business for nine years.
Mr. Roberts was married in 1847 to Sarah Elizabeth Vandenhoof. In 185 1,
with his wife and son he sailed for San Francisco by way of Chagres and Panama
(the old isthmus route) up the Chagres river to Gorgona and thence by mule
across the portage to Panama, where they were detained until the arrival of the
steamer Columbia on her way out from New York to take her place on the route
between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
Reaching San Francisco Mr, Roberts rented a store on Clay street near the
postoffice but soon after moved to Merchant street, where the May fire destroyed
the building but he succeeded in saving a large portion of his goods. Another
store was soon built on the ruins of the old one, which he kept until the June fire,
1852, when he was again burned out, losing everything. Soon after he met Pa-
trick Raleigh and on his advice he moved to Portland, where they formed a co-
partnership which continued until the fall of 1854. He then moved to Corvallis,
then called Marysville, where he carried on a general merchandise business under
the firm name of Roberts & Holgate. In 1866 he returned to Portland and en-
gaged in the manufacture of clothing. In 1871 the firm of Fishel & Roberts was
established, which became the leading clothing establishment in Portland. In 1882
Mr. Fishel retired and Mr, Roberts conducted the business alone until 1888, when
he associated with him his son-in-law Philip S. Malcolm, who was married to his
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only daughter, but business still continuing under the name of 'A. Roberts until
his death, August 24, 1898.
Mr. Roberts lost his wife in 1866 and his only son was drowned on the 4th
of June, 1872. These bereavements sorely afflicted him. Mr. Roberts was an
enthusiastic Mason. He filled high offices in the various branches of the order
and received the thirty-third degree for long and faithful service. As merchant,
citizen and man he was universally respected in the community where he had so
long lived. He never sought office nor publicity and much of his life was employed
in unostentatiously bestowing charities and doing deeds of kindness for his fel-
lowmen.
SAMUEL B. SCHWAB.
For more than thirty years Samuel B. Schwab, now deceased, was identified
with the business interests of Portland and gained a position as one of the lead-
ing printers of the city. He was a man of sound principles and he made a suc-
cess not only as a business organizer and manager but also in the development
of an upright character, leaving a reputation which it is not possible for mere
acquisition of wealth to bestow.
Mr. Schwab was born at Catasauqua, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, near the
city of Philadelphia, March 17, 1858. He was the son of Solomon and Caroline
Schwab, both of whom were of German descent. His grandfather was a scholar,
a professor in one of the institutions of learning in the fatherland and well
known as an accomplished linguist. Solomon Schwab came to America and
for over thirty years was manager for a navigation company in Pennsylvania.
He gave his son a good common-school education and at fifteen placed him in
a printing office at Catasauqua to learn the printer's trade.
Two years later Samuel B. Schwab, then seventeen years of age and ambitious
to see the world and enter upon an active career, traveled westward and ar-
rived in Portland in August, 1875. Here he met a brother, Richmond H. Schwab,
who had preceded him and was engaged in the printing business as Schwab &
Anderson. The younger brother entered the employ of this firm, which had
been established for some years, and continued until 1882, when Richmond H.
Schwab disposed of his interest in the business. In 1883 the two brothers formed
a partnership as Schwab Brothers' Printing Company, the office being located
at the corner of Front and Washington streets. Here they continued with grow-
ing success until 1897, when the elder member of the firm retired and Samuel
B. Schwab assumed charge of the business. In the meantime, however, it had
been incorporated. Mr. Schwab bought out all the other stockholders except Ben
F. Greene, who is the present manager of the company known as the Schwab
Printing Company, Mrs. Schwab being president of the company and her daugh-
ter Marguerite secretary.
Mr. Schwab departed this life December 11, 1907, and his remains repose in
Greenwood cemetery. He was a member of Columbia Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
and of the Multnomah Athletic Club, being a charter member of the
latter. He was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church and al-
ways adhered to the republican party, but was never a seeker for office. The
business of which he was the head at the time of his departure is firmly es-
tablished and is one of the paying concerns, with a constantly broadening outlook.
Although its dominating mind was called to other scenes the principles upon
which the business was founded were correct and it is still conducted on the
original basis of giving honest value in return for valued received— the only last-
ing basis for any legitimate undertaking in the business world.
Mr. Schwab was united in marriage, by Rev. A. L. Lindsley, at Portland,
August 3, 1881, to Miss Octavia Jackson McCamey, daughter of Dr. Mahlon
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Conrad and Sarah Elizabeth (Turpin) McCamey. Mrs. Schwab was born in
Richmond, Virginia, and was named in honor of General Stonewall Jackson,
who was a friend of the family. The grandfather of Mrs. Schwab was a Vir-
ginian and owner of a large plantation well supplied with slaves before the
Civil war. The McCameys are of Scotch descent and Mahlon McCamey be-
came a physician and located at St. Catharine, Missouri, where he was a promi-
nent practitioner in the latter part of the '50s. He entered the service of the
Confederacy and lost his life in the Civil war. Mrs. McCamey, the mother of
Mrs. Schwab, is of German descent and is now living in Portland, having come
to this city at the close of the war with her family of three children. Here she
has since resided.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schwab: Samuel B. Jr., who
was born August 21, 1884, and was called to rest at nineteen years of age, Jan-
uary I, 1903, when just at the opening of a promising career; Marguerite, who
was born November 7, 1888, and is now living at home; Genevieve, who was
born August 23, 1897, and is also at home.
In contemplating the career of a life like that of Samuel B. Schwab we
are reminded of the saying that a man should be judged not by the fortune he
accumulates but by the use he makes of his opportunities in assisting others.
The measure of a man's value is the amount of lasting benefit his life is to the
world. Judged by this standard the life of Mr. Schwab was a success. Kind-
ness and consideration for others were predominating traits of his character
and it is always these traits that indicate the superior man.
JACOB S. LaRUE.
The early settlers of Oregon are fast passing away, and the time is not far
distant when the last of the pioneers shall have joined the great throng that has
journeyed from this world to a world beyond. Among the names of those who
early appeared on the scene and whose earthly labors ceased more than forty
years ago is that of Jacob S. LaRue. Three generations of descendants of this
intrepid pioneer are now living, and it is eminently proper that the name of
LaRue should be given a permanent place in a record which will be read long
after all who are now living have been called to their reward.
Jacob S. LaRue was a native of New York state and was born in October,
1829. He was a son of Jacob and Johanna (Smith) LaRue, and as his name
indicates, was of French descent. He gained the rudiments of an education in
the common schools, but his real education was derived from contact with the
world, the New York boy proving an apt scholar. At his old home he worked
in a sawmill until about twenty or twenty-one years of age, when he emigrated
to the frontier in Illinois and located in Rock Island county on the western
border of the state. Here he was married and a month later, in 1853, he and his
wife started across the plains with an ox team and wagon, his father-in-law also
being a member of the party, with three wagons. The journey was accomplished
without serious inconveniences as some of the members of the party were old
plainsmen and knew how to avoid dangers that proved great impediments to
others. Arriving in Oregon, Mr. LaRue located on a spot sixteen miles from
Portland in Washington county, the home place being still owned by members of
the family. He bought three hundred and twenty acres of land from his wife's
uncle, James M. Rowell, and the couple set up housekeeping in a slab house of
cedar, consisting of three rooms. The furniture and cooking utensils were of
the most primitive style, but it was a happy household, and the energetic head
of the little family soon had a sawmill erected and in working order. After
operating the sawmill for several years he sold out and moved to Yamhill county,
where he bought the old Bird place, where the town of St. Joe now stands. He
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lived here three years, but at the age of thirty-seven was seized with an illness
from which he never recovered. He died on the 6th of December, 1866. His
body was interred in the local burial ground, but later it was taken up and re-
moved to Washington county, where it now reposes. Mr. LaRue was a leader
in his community and was recognized as a man of intelligence, well balanced
character and commendable energy. He served as road superintendent and
justice of the peace, and his farm was one of the best in Yamhill county.
Mr. LaRue was united in marriage March 2, 1853, to Miss Lydia W. Row-
ell, a daughter of Ziba M. and Frances (Sears) Rowell. Mrs. LaRue, who is
still living, is a native of Hartford, Vermont. Her father was born in New
Hampshire. He learned the shoemaker's trade at the beginning of his active
career and kept a store in Lowell, Massachusetts. He removed to Michigan
with his family and farmed there for three years. From Michigan he removed
to Whiteside county, Illinois, where for seven years he farmed on a much larger
scale than in Michigan ; but Rock Island county offered still more promising in-
ducements and he settled near Port Byron, on the Mississippi river, in that
county. Mr. Rowell was an ambitious man, and when the California gold ex-
citement swept through Illinois he believed he could secure independence for his
family in a much less time in the mines than by the more conservative occupa-
tion of tilling the soil. So he joined the gold hunters and was one of the suc-
cessful miners on the Feather river. The gold which came to him in liberal
quantities he invested in a company which built a dam to provide water for the
placers. The plan seemed absolutely sure of success, but the rain fell in tor-
rents and a flood swept the dam away, and with it vanished the hopes of the
investors. Mr. Rowell returned to Illinois in the fall of 1852 and the following
summer crossed the plains to Oregon, locating in Washington county on a claim
adjoining that of his brother previously mentioned in this article. Here he lived
until his death, September 16, i860. He was a good farmer and was highly re-
spected by his friends and neighbors. In Illinois he was identified with public
affairs and for some years, as the most prominent man in the community, acted
as justice of the peace. His wife before her marriage was Frances Sears, and
she traced her descent directly back to the Pilgrims who came over in the May-
flower. She was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1802, and survived her
husband twenty-five years, being called to her final rest in April, 1885. Seven
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rowell: Thomas C. and Susan T., twins,
both of whom are deceased ; Maria L., who has also passed away ; Lydia W..
who became the wife of Jacob S. LaRue; James B. and John D. ; twins, the
former of Yamhill county and the latter now deceased ; and Ziba A., deceased.
The fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Rowell, Lydia W., through her marriage
with Jacob S. LaRue, became the mother of six children. Emily M. is now
the wife of B. C. Guild, of Cowlit county, Washington, and they have six chil-
dren : Osa F., now the wife of Samuel Gates, of Washington, and the mother of
eight children; Jacob J., who married May Klady and has four children; Len
W. ; Nell, now deceased, who married Delia Klager and had a daughter ; Alice,
who became the wife of George Ernst and has three children; and Linda M.,
who is now Mrs. Judson Oliver and has two sons. Ziba M. LaRue of Forest
Grove, Oregon, married Hattie Folsom and has one daughter, Eleanor E. Mary
A. became the wife of David H. Ikerd, whose death occurred April 31, 1889.
Leonard, of Woodland, Cowlitz county, Washington, married Melvina Grime
and has three children: Elmer G., Lydia C. and Bartlett C. Bartlett R. LaRue,
the fifth in order of birth, is now deceased. John S., of Woodland, Washington,
married Abbie Neal, who is deceased, and had one child, who has also passed
away.
Mrs. Lydia W. LaRue, the widow of Jacob S. LaRue, has been a resident of
Oregon fifty-seven years, and since 1881 has made her home in Portland. She
is a member of the Pioneer Society and, having early experienced the joys and
sorrows, the trials and triumphs of the pioneer days, few members of the so-
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ciety are better able to describe the scenes of those times. Younger generations
have appeared; by the genius and power of man the face of nature has been
changed and a new world of resources and possibilities has been uncovered in
the northwest. It is through the sacrifices of men and women such as braved
the perils of the trail and the lonely life of the cabin in the wilderness that the
freedom and blessings of today were made possible. As time passes, this fact
will be more clearly appreciated, and in every state of the Union will be erected
enduring monuments which will be reverently dedicated to the pioneers.
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INDEX
Adams, C. F 125
Ainsworth, G. J 194
Ainsworth, J. C 8
Albers, B. H 235
Albers, Henry 185
Ames-Harris-Neville Co 12
Anderson, Sarah J 656
Anderson, T. M 632
Andrews, Arthur 29
Andrews, F. V 289
Andrews, G. H 467
Arbuckle, B. B 571
Ashley, M. A. M 351
Atkinson, G. H 96
Avann, R. H 149
Averill, A. H 490
Axtell, Abram 588
Back, Seid 347
Baker, P. G 699
Ball, Chauncey 260
Bamford, George 426
Ban, Sinzaburo 383
Barenstecher, Charles 666
Barnes, CO 631
Barnes, R. L 381
Barrett, John 176
Barron, J. T 88
Bechill, T. H 469
Beebe, C. F 373
Bellinger, C. B 677
Bellinger, Howard 680
Benefiel, Wilson 319
Bergman, Joseph 593
Betz, George 395
Bickel, Frederick 216
Bills, Cincinnati 614
Biscar, A. H 49
Black, J. H 534
Black, R. G 536
Blurock, C. A 535
Bohlman, H. C 253
Bollons, William 771
Borthwick, A. E 602
Boschke, G. W 317
Botefuhr, Frank 661
Bozorth Family 482
Braden, William 153
Brady, Mathew 743
Breyman, A. H 322
Breyman, W. 0 327
Brownell, G. 0 304
Buchtel, Joseph 432
Buck, Louis 159
Burckhardt, Adolph 43
Bunce, John 132
Burke, Thomas 74
Burrage, C. W 725
Burrell, W. F 278
Bybee, James 11
Cardwell, H. W 760
Cardwell, J. R 387
Catching, W. W 460
Gates, W. A 693
Catlin, John 569
Chamberlain, G. E 205
Chapman, W. S 223
Chapman, W. W 218
Chase, J. W 352
Chemin, L. F . . . 774
Chick, C. H 473
Christ, Henry 544
Christ, Philip 230
Christian Brothers Business College 627
Church, J. S 807
Clark, G. K 557
Clay, Oliver 303
Cleeton, T. J 345
Clemens, W. J 491
Oyde, 0. L 811
Cody, James 162
CoflFey, R. C 135
Coffin, Stephen 496
Cohen, E. E 594
Coldwell, E. L 636
Coldwell, 0. B 609
Cole, David 331
Collier, Robert 606
Congle, J. B 204
Connor, M. J 662
Cook, Amos 474
Cook, J. W 542
Cook, Vincent 555
Cordano, J. C 459
Cotton, W. W 50
Covey, H. M 573
Cranston, Ephraim 507
Cremen, J. D 169
Crosman, A. B 434
Crowe, L. E 640
Dalton, Edwin 674
Daly, W. A 150
Dammasch, F. H 683
Dan-, Ellen C 147
Davenport, G. L 778
Davenport, J. L 551
David, Alexander 73
Davis, H. W 117
Davis, J. N 375
Day, E. F. . .-. 355
827
828
INDEX
De Long, F. M 115
Denny, O. N 744
Devlin, T. C 336
Dimick, Aphia L 753
Dimick Family 750
Dimick, M. H 750
Dolph, J. ]Sr 505
Dooly, F. E 290
Dosch, H. E 503
Dufur, A. J., Jr 792
Dufur, E. B 500
Dufur, W. H. H 726
Duniway, Abigail S 52
Dunne, D. M 585
Dye, C. H 183
Dye, Eva E 184
Elerath, A. F 254
Emmert, J. H 362
Ennis, J. T 103
Evans, Dudley 771
t
Failing, W. S 121
Fanno, A. J 398
Fenton, W. D 170
Finley, J. P 257
Fleischner, Jacob 163
Flinn, John 44
Flynn, J. E 100
Flynn, P. J 161
Francis, Allen 129
Francis, C. A 645
Francis, S. D 94
Franklin, Minnie 651
Friberg, Andrew 435
Friberg, William 400
FrizzeU, J. A 175
Fuller, F. 1 796
Gansneder, Jacob 168
Gaston, Joseph 399
Gates, John 283
Gauld, J. G 618
Geer, T. T • 484
Gill, Ephraim 623
Gillen, J. O 217
Gillespie, R. L 122
Gillette, P. W 110
Giltner, J. S 561
Glass, J. H 526
Goddard, H. W 630
Goldsmith, Bernard 167
Goodman, Richard 628
Gordon, W. A 60
Grahs, E. J 610
Gray, Mrs. W. H 786
Green, E. M 566
Gregory, W. M 267
Gritzmacher, Carl 92
Groce, 0. J 104
Grubbs, F. H 741
Hackett, M. A 392
Haight, E. J 344
Hall, John 621
Hall, W. T 622
Hallock, A. B 108
Hallock, F. S 48
Hamilton, Alexander 639
Hansen, Marius 328
Hanson, P. T 312
Hardin, J. 0 596
Harris, Michael 720
Hartness, George 338
Hathaway, H. B 367
Hathaway, J. S 513
Hayes, J. H 281
Heald, P. C 732
Healy, J. M 8
Hegele, Charles 33
Hess, J. C 64
Hidden, Jackson 782
Hill, J. A 452
Hill, J. W 451
Hill Military Academy 453
Hillebrand, A 311
Hilton, Charles 470
Hirsch, M. S 759
Hobkirk, Peter 82
Hoge, R. R 521
Holloway, C. P 702
Holman, F. V 191
Holman, G. E 616
Holman, W. C 28
Holmes, Richard 700
Honeyman, John 652
Honeyman, W. J 240
Honnes, Christian 337
Hovenden, Alfred 208
Hoyt, G. W 291
Hoyt, G. W., Sr 266
Hoyt, R. W 239
Hudson, R. M 768
Hughes, Edward 159
Hughes, William 36
Humason, Orlando 508
Hume, R. A 378
Hunsaker, J. T 78
Hurley, R. H 646
Huston, S. B 483
Irving, William 118
Jaggar, Louis 140
Jensen, Theodore 777
Jeppesen, Peter 345
Johnson, J. J 419
Johnson, J. W 659
Jones, F. B 511
Jones, W. P 22
Joplin, Ferdinand 552
Joplin, W. T 477
Josselyn, B. S 229
Kavanaugh, J. P 719
Keasey, D. E 214
Kelly, Hampton 268
Kern, L. E 520
Killfeather, Edward 245
Killin, Benton 411
KiUin, T. B 454
King, C. W 232
King, F. C 276
King, J. C. E 203
King, John 63
Kinney, M. J 414
Kleemann, Otto 91
Knapp, F. A 749
Kocher, J. S 42
Koehler, Richard 730
INDEX
829
Ladd, W. S 517
Lambert, J. H 574
Lane, Joseph 436
Lansrille, Mrs. S . . . . . ."77T. . . 816
Langworthy, A. J 671
Lanning, Frank 668
La Kue, J. S 823
Laue, J. M. A 558
Lawler, L J 812
LeeLewes, Fred 747
Leithoff, G. P 761
Levinson, N. J 773
Lewis, Daniel 275
Lewis, W. P 403
Lind, William 300
Linnemann, J, G. D 684
Loeb, Nathan 595
Long, A. G 723
Lutke, Robert 729
Lytle, E. E 200
McBride, G. W 708
McCabe, W. L 361
MeCord, F. B ] .'673
McCraken, John 694
McCiilly, A. A 85
McGinn, Cliarles 791
McGrath, E. A 213
Mclrvin, M. E 643
McKenzie, A. M 37O
McKercher, Finlay 456
McKnight, J. W !."!.'! 101
McNary, L. A 422
McNemee, Adam 579
McPherson, W. G 622
Mackenzie. W. R 478
Macleay, Donald 5
MacMillan, J. H .613
Macrum, I. A 736
Mair, John I37
Malcolm, P. S 605
Mallory, W. L ',,'/. 71
Mann, Thomas 410
Manning, John 476
Mansfield, E. H 328
Markle, A. W 346
Marquam, U. S. G 539
Mason, Archie 348
Matthiesen, John 87
Mayer, Jacob 492
Mears, E. C ][[] 655
Mears, S. M 95
Meldrum, J. W 286
Melvin, F. L 522
Menzies, C. M 644
Merrick, C. B 359
Metcalf, A. H ...131
Millard, Justin 767
Miller, J. A 514
Miller, R. B 354
Minsinger, 0 ' . 292
Monahan, T. J 298
Montague, R. W ..Z60
Montgomery, J. B 329
iVioore, A. W .243
Morgan, W. H. H . .. 178
Mosher, La Fayette ' ' " 530
Mountain, Thomas 369
Mulligan, Owen 138
Mulligan, Thomas 148
Munly, M. G 164
Murphy, C. G 468
Murphy, D. S 65
Murphy, J. H 690
Myrick, Josiah 448
Nelson, G. W 321
Nicolai, Louis 314
Niebur, Franz 72
Noa, W. E 139
Nolta, J. H 421
O'Day, Thomas 244
O'Hare, John 696
Ordway, June M 564
O'Reilly, D. C 714
Pacific Stoneware Co 451
Packard, J. A 731
Palmer, A. G 599
Paquet, Joseph 687
Parker, W. W 135
Parrish, J. L. 249
Patterson, W. W 70
Perkins, F. H 41
Perkins, T. L 592
Pittenger, J. M 299
Polivka, Joseph 35
Pope, C. W 116
Powell, B. W 295
Powers, L F., Sr 580
Pratt, C. C 712
Price, H. N 155
Quackenbush, Edward 262
Raleigh, Patrick 353
Ralston, L. O 366
Ramsdell, T. M 140
Randall, T. P 307
Rankin, E. A 356
Rankin, M. B 548
Rasmussen, J. P 756
Rector, A. B 799
Reed, C. J 409
Reidt, William 377
Riesland, Ben 190
Rigler, Frank 781
Riley, E. F 463
Riley, F. B 237
Roberts, Andrew 819
Roberts, J. H 384
Rockwell, Cleveland 368
Rood, E. D 607
Rosenblatt 146
Royal, C. W 231
Royal, Osmon 215
Royal, T. F 717
Rumelin, C. E 320
Ryan, Edward 244
Saldern, L. J. 0 738
Sappington, W. D 464
Sargent, H. 0. K 246
Schmeer, William 737
Schwab, S. B 820
Scott, J. T 528
Scott, S. F 404
Sears, A. P 16
Sedgwick, C. W 37
Seed, J. S 6
830
INDEX
Seller, M. & Co 667
Sellwood, J. J 547
Sharkey, Patrick 681
Shaver, Delmer 291
Shaver, J. W 186
Shaw, J. P 762
Sherlock, Samuel 172
Shelby, A. D . . 682
Sigler, B. D 396
Simon, Joseph 198
Sinnott, P. B 51
Smith, H. W 478
Smith, J. S 586
Smith, L. L 701
Smith, Seneca 282
Smith, W. H 14
Smith, W. EL 224
Snuffin, B. F 124
Soden, B. T 617
Spanton, W. A 413
Spurgeon, J. E, 665
Spurgeon, Mathias 171
Stansbery, J. E 808
Steams, D. S 13
Stearns, S. E 27
Steele, S. N 426
Steele, W. B 462
Stokes, W. R 285
Stott, Raleigh 499
Stout, Lansing 365
Streib. Philip 238
Sutton, John 354
Sweeney, William 788
Terwilliger, Hiram 66
Thompson, E. L 274
Tresham, J. D 475
Trevitt, Victor 486
Tuthill, H. S 525
Vancouver Trust & Savings Bank 526
Van Fridagh, Prosper 192
Van Schuy ver, W. J 156
Veazie, A. L 541
Vogler F. W 608
Waggoner, John, Jr 707
Wagner, Henry 406
Wagner, Henry 70
Wakeman, M. B 30
Walker, F. P 376
Walker, I. M 381
Watkins, G. E 332
Watson, A. J 107
Welch, John 181
Welch, J. C 600
Wessinger, Paul 308
Whipple, G. A 13
White, C. S 102
Whitehouse, B. G 428
Whitehouse, M. H 565
Wilcox, G. W 297
Williams, C. A. . . 80
Williams, Robert 800
Wilson, J. R 273
Wilson, John 38
Wilson, R. B 16
Wiswall, R. D 624
Wolfe, J. H 126
Woodcock, W. H 160
Woodward, W. F 000
Yeon, J. B 427
Young, G. H 93
Young, L. C 36
Zanello. G 397
Zeller, P. J 804
Zeller, R. L 81
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