Portland, Oregon - Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders : in Connection with the An (part 16 of 25)

Upon the organization of the order of the Patrons of Husbandry in Oregon, General Coffin became a leading and acting member and largely contributed to its early success. Along with some others he organized its members into a business organization known as The Northwestern Storage & Shipping Company. This company did the farmers great service in the purchase and importation of wagons and implements, and sale of them at cost, carriage and interest, by which

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 Oregon 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 organizing the militia and protecting the frontiers from the Indians during the absence 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 distinguished for purity and generosity. He was at all times most cheerful and met with misfortunes not only with courage but even with philosophical cheerfulness. 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

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"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 adjourned 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 comprehensive 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 became 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 returning 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 becoming 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 youthful 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 Portland, 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 thorough, his analysis keen, his reasoning clear and cogent and his deductions logical. He had been a resident of Portland for only a year when elected to represent 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 understanding of the law, correctly applied to the points at issue and from his rulings few exceptions were ever taken. The cases which came before him were seldom appealed, and his decisions almost uniformly received the stamp of approval 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 holding 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

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 attainments 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 education until the family were again upon the western highway in i860, with Portland 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 farming and to the dairy and stock business, but becoming convinced that a professional career would be more congenial, he entered upon the study of law, devoting 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 practiced 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 devotion 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 representative 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 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 franchise.

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 engaged 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, Missouri, 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- 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, Oregon, 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 Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, Stuttgart University in Germany and various colleges in England. Since his retirement from active business twentyone years ago Colonel Dosch has given most of his time to the interest of Oregon, 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 controbution 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 Columbian 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 Exposition 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 services 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 improvement of methods, in the introduction of new species and in disseminating an accurate knowledge of Oregon soil, the possibilities of the state as an horticultural 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 (Pigeon) 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.

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 several 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 country school. He famiharized himself with the history of his future field of endeavor, by reading Freemont's Military Expedition to the Pacific Coast, published 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 Crawford'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 discharged 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 election 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.

While filling that position he prepared and proposed important amendments to the city charter, which were afterward adopted, and he also revised for publication 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 aggrandizement 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 leadership gave to the party an almost unequalled service. His power of coordinating forces, of uniting seemingly discordant elements into a harmonious whole, together 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 opposition when in 1889 he was reelected to the United States senate, and his services 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 residence 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 counsel 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 Railroad. 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 & Navigation Company, the Oregon Improvement Company, the Oregon Trans-Continental Company and other corporations organized by Henry Villard, and became 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 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 worshipful 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 fraternities. He stood as a splendid type of manhood, holding to high ideals in citizenship and in all social and personal relations.

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 Island 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 invested 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 wintered 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 country 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.

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. Breyman, 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 prominent 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 development. Such careers are too near us now for their significance to be appraised at its true value, but the future will be able to trace the tremendous effect 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 Connecticut in 1640. His father, Allen Humason, married Miranda Andrews and soon afterward moved to the Western Reserve, making a new home in Warren, Trumbull 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 acceptable editorials. Very soon Mr. Humason went to Champoeg to take up a homestead 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- 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 getting 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 enterprise 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 honorably 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 Lavilla, 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 enterprises, 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 indomitable adventurers who made easy the paths leading to the present widespread prosperity in the northwest. Crossing the mountains to Oregon in 1853, the principal energies of his life have been devoted in subduing the difficulties inseparable 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 returning 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 determination, 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 Willamette 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- 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 Gamecock, 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 license 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 matters pertaining to water craft. He has been a witness of vast strides in commerce, 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.

Fifty-eight years ago J. S. Hathaway came to the northwest and was identified 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 Herkimer 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 being 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 resided 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 traveling 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 Portland in the winter of 1853-4. The walks were built by individuals and not by the city.

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 Columbia 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 considerable 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 Portland 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 extensively 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, 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 president 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 remarkable 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 country. The permanency of his work is becoming more and more apparent.

Mr. Ladd arrived in Oregon in 1851, when a young man of about twentyfive 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 seventeenth century. The estate of Bowyck, in the parish of Eleham, was the residence 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 arrived 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 attended 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 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 William 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 promoted 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 secured. 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 merchandise. 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 thousand 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 & Company" 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 Portland 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 ancestors 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 business 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- 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 contributed 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 development of this region and was president of the board of regents of the Agricultural 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 promoters of the Portland Flouring Mills Company organized in 1883, after a disastrous 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 combined 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 individual 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 contributors to the Portland Library fund. His championship of the cause of education 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 department of the State University at Portland. In 1886 when the Presbyterians on the Pacific coast were attempting to raise fifty thousand dollars for their theological 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

Corbett and Mr. Failing in selecting the grounds and furnishing the funds for improving the Riverview cemetery. On attaining his majority he gave his political 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 measured 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 because 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, however, 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 William 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 acquired 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 pursuits 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 established 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 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 daughter of William Brady. Mr. Hawes came with his family to the northwest, settling 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 Commerce, 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 especially interested in the Babies Home, the Boys and Girls Aid Society, the Detention 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 Institute of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a boy among boys, interested in the sports that usually occupy youthful attention until he reached the age of sixteen, 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 continuously 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 advancing 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 determining 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.

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 recognition 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 prominent 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 membership 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 attention 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 hundred and sixty acres at Eagle Creek in 1874. Her father, Frederick A. Niedermark, 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. Kottmeyer, who was born in Germany, December 15, 1846, and was brought to the

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Mr. Melvin is a republican, although holding to somewhat independent political views on various questions. He has taken part in some hotly contested political 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 commonwealth. 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 accomplished 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 Company 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 account 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 legitimate 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 Tribune 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 Oregon 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 reputation 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 constructive 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.

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 substantial 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 Vancouver 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. Perkins, 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, Pennsylvania, where the father engaged in the lumber business. The educational opportunities 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 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 attending 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 middle 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 property 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 Machine Works at Roanoke, Virginia, where he was given full charge of the stockrooms 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 carpentenng 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 operations 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 education and were anxious to get into some kind of business. Their father, therefore, 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 properties 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 purchased 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 graduate 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 member of the United Artisans and from the age of eighteen years has been a faithful and devoted member of the Methodist church in which he is now serving as 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 membership 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 teachers. 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 Carolina 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 matters pertaining to the general welfare of the frontier community. His wife possessed 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 married 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 Fremont, Illinois, to Miss Anna Roleofson, whose parents were pioneers of Kentucky. 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 German 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 immediate progenitors of the Scott family on the maternal side stood for the qualities 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 wilderness, 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 pioneer spirit that has been a blessing to civilization, though, alas, a sore trial to

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Of the nine children who started with John Tucker and Anna Scott to Oregon 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.