Multnomah County, Oregon

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.

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.

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.

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.