Portland, Oregon - Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders : in Connection with the An (part 17 of 25)

Margaret Anne, the third daughter, was married in April, 1854, to George W. Fearnside and died September 28, 1865, leaving five daughters, of whom the following survive : Mrs. A. B. Eastman, of Vancouver, Washington ; Mrs. Charles Smith, of Los Angeles; and Mrs. E. M. Philebaum, of Sunnyside, Washington.

Harvey W. Scott, the oldest son, long editor of the Oregonian and one of the distinguished men of the northwest, is mentioned at length elsewhere in this volume.

Harriet Louisa Scott, the fifth daughter, was born March 9, 1841, and on the 25th of November, 1856, became the wife of William R. McCord. Of their six children four are living: Dora, the wife of L. R. Archer, of Aberdeen, Washington ; Jessie, living with her mother in Portland ; Myrtle, the wife of Philip Huf of Seattle ; and James Sterling, of Portland. Her second husband was Isaac Palmer, who died in 1907.

Sarah Maria Scott, born April 22, 1847, was married June 23, 1869, to J. M. Kelty, who died November 24, 190 1. Her four children are Paul R., Carl S., Mrs. Edith M. Alderman and Mrs. Emily Q. Riesland, all of Portland.

John R. Coburn, who, on the 23d of June, 1857, married Catharine Amanda, the fourth daughter of the Scott family, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, July 5, 1830, and when twenty-two years of age came to Oregon territory. For many years he was identified with steamboat building on the Willamette river above the falls, and in business circles as in private life was recognized as a man of industry and probity. He died at Canemah, the family home, July 15, 1868, leaving four daughters, only one of whom is now living, Ada, the wife of Albert Hawkins, of Clarke county, Washington. His other descendants are Dennis Coburn Pillsbury, a grandson, and Jean Catharine Slauson, a granddaughter.

When Catharine A. Coburn, in 1868, was left a widow with four young daughters, and confronted the necessity of earning a livelihood, she took up the work of teaching in a district school in Canemah, Clackamas county, where she remained until 1872. In March of the latter year, she removed to Forest Grove, where she was principal of the public school for two years, and in 1874 she came with her four young daughters to Portland, where her children became pupils in the public schools. Mrs. Coburn became associate editor on the New Northwest, a journal that espoused the cause the equal suffrage, and was owned by her sister, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway. She continued in this position for five years, when she became editor-in-chief of the Portland Daily Bee, a newspaper owned by D. H. Stearns. She occupied this position two years, leaving it in 1879 to become editor of the Portland Evening Telegram. After seven years in that connection she was transferred to the editorial staff of the Oregonian, where she still remains. Her life has been one of extraordinary industry and unconquerable energy. Its trials, hardships and sorrows have been many, but she has maintained throughout a cheerful, .determined spirit, and now at the age of three score and ten years writes daily with the vigor characteristic of her family.

Mrs. Coburn has lived in Portland continuosly since 1874. Besides her editorial work, from the proceeds of which she has maintained herself and brought up and educated four children and two grandchildren, she has been active from time to time in temperance, charitable and educational work. She was, in the time -when the Order of Good Templars was active in Oregon, grand secretary of the grand lodge of that order and conducted the large correspondence incident to that office. She served some years as lodge deputy in organizing and reorganizing lodges and held at various times the higher offices in the subordinate lodge, to which she belonged. She was one of the founders of the Portland Woman's Union, an organization that maintains a boarding home for working girls and women in Portland, and served for a time as its president. She was for 'many years a member of the board of managers of the Baby Home and for a time occupied a similar position toward the Florence Crittenton Home. She is a member of the Oregon Pioneer Society and has been for years, worked with the woman's auxiliary of that organization, and was active with the late Mrs. Card and others of the floral section of the State Horticultural Society in instituting the first chrysanthemum and rose shows in Portland. She is much interested in the public schools of the city, never fails to cast her vote at the annual school elections, and is president of the board of trustees of the Allen Preparatory School. Mrs. Coburn is one of a fast vanishing band who has seen Portland grow from the village and neighborhood stage to a prosperous and populous city, and it is not too much to say that she has enjoyed- every step of the progress she has witnessed, aiding it all along the line by her pen as well as by personal efforts.

Judge La Fayette Moshepl

Judge La Fayette Mosher, participating in the Indian wars of the northwest, sitting as justice of the supreme court, aiding in framing the laws of the commonwealth as a member of the state legislature, cooperating in the movements for social and moral progress, left the impress of his individuality indelibly upon the history of Oregon. Recognized as one of the foremost men of the northwest, presidential appointment bestowed public honors upon him - honors which he bore with dignity and becoming modesty. Broad-minded, he was deeply interested in the welfare of every section of the country, but his interest centered in the state of his adoption and he predicted for Oregon a glorious future. He took up his abode within its borders in 1853, being at that time a young man of twenty-eight years.

His birth occurred September i, 1824, at Latonia Springs, Kenton county, Kentucky. His father. Dr. Stephen Mosher, of that place, was not only a distinguished physician but also a noted horticulturist and the originator of some of the best known and finest varieties of pears. He married Hannah Webster, of

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Newport, Rhode Island, a lady of English descent. Her father. Captain Nicholas Webster, served with distinction in the Merchant Marines throughout the entire Revolutionary war. He was also a member of the Humane Society of Newport, and his certificate of membership, which is now one hundred and sixteen years old, is still preserved by his great-grandchildren, who now live at No. 314 Sherman street, Portland. The members of this Humane Society were the original life-savers. While the Webster family were among the early settlers of Rhode Island, the Mosher family was established in New York by French Huguenots who crossed the Atlantic in the early part of the seventeenth century and for generations their descendants were prominent citizens of the lake region of New York.

La Fayette Mosher, mastered his early education while spending his boyhood days under the parental roof and was admitted to the "Old Woodward Memorial College of Cincinnati" August 19, 1839. He remained a student there for four years and was graduated on the completion of the classical course, receiving the degree of A. B. on the 30th of June, 1843. Many representatives of the Mosher family engaged in the practice of medicine and La Fayette Mosher turned his attention to the profession as a life work but his studies were interrupted by the war with Mexico. He volunteered for active duty and served as second lieutenant in the Fourth Ohio Regiment under Captain George E. Pugh. Just prior to the close of the war, upon the resignation of Captain Pugh, he succeeded to the command of his company and after the close of hostilities he returned to Cincinnati and resumed the study of medicine, but during the terrible siege of cholera in 1849, ^^ which he served both as doctor's assistant and as night and day nurse, witnessing untold sufferings and horrors he decided to give up medicine and take up the study of law. His careful preliminary preparation secured his admission to the Ohio bar in 1852 and he entered upon active practice with the firm of Pugh & Pendleton, both of whom were later members of the United States senate.

On the 27th of March, 1853, Mr. Mosher left Cincinnati for Oregon in the company of his late commander of the Mexican war - General Joseph Lane, arriving in Portland on the 14th of May. It was not the Portland of today though there were two landmarks that have never been effaced. Mount Hood turned its smiling face just as it does today and the beautiful Willamette flowed by the little hamlet among the firs. Portland was too young a town to need many lawyers and Mr. Mosher, failing to secure a sufficient practice to meet his expenses remained only a short time. He turned his face to the gold fields of southern Oregon and, locating in the old town of Jacksonville, engaged in mining near that place. The accidental discharge of his pistol wounded him in his right knee, thus ending his mining venture. He was taken into Jacksonville, where he found true and loyal friends who nursed him through this misfortune that had befallen him in a strange country. Upon recovering from his wound he joined General Joseph Lane, who was in command of the troops fighting the Rogue River Indians in the war of 1853. Not being fully recovered he did not take an active part in this campaign but acted as aide to the General. After this war he returned to Jacksonville, where he engaged in the practice of law until 1855, when he was appointed register of the United States land office at Winchester, the county seat of Douglas county, Oregon. In the fall of that year he returned to Jacksonville and offered his services to fight against the Indians in the war that broke out in 1855 but his connection with the war was short for he was compelled to return to his duties in the land office. He, however, saw much service during the wars with the Rogue River Indians.

Mr. Mosher continued in the land office from 1855 until 1861 and then resumed the practice of law. Called to the bench he served as circuit judge of the second judicial district and by virtue of that office sat upon the supreme bench of the state, proving himself the peer of the ablest members who have graced the court of last resort in Oregon. He was ever a student of the law and his decisions were a clear exposition of the legal principles applicable to the points in litigation. Possessing a mind naturally logical and inductive, his close reasoning showed that he was not only familiar with the chief basis points but also with principle and precedent. During one term's service in the state legislature he also aided in framing the laws of the commonwealth. ,

Throughout his life Mr. Mosher was a stalwart supporter of the democratic party and took an active part in every presidential campaign from the time when age first permitted him to exercise the right of franchise in 1844, his support being then given to James K. Polk for the presidency, until his death. He was appointed by President Arthur a vistor to West Point in 1884 and the trip was a most pleasurable one to him for on that occasion he again met many of the army officers whom he had known in Oregon as well as during his service in the Mexican war. He also went to Cincinnati and visited many of the old friends of his youth, whom he had not seen for thirty years. During that time he witnessed the exciting political campaign which resulted in the election of Grover Cleveland.

On the I St of July, 1856, Mr. Mosher was united in marriage to Miss Winifred Lane, the youngest daughter of General Joseph Lane, his old commander and friend. To them were born eight children, four sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Charles Lane Mosher, was married at Phoenix, Arizona, to Miss Hattie Lount and to them was born a daughter, Julia Winifred Mosher, of Leipsic, Germany. Charles Mosher, who was a journalist of ability, died in Portland in March, 1904. The second and fourth sons, John Shirley and Henry Augustine, died in infancy, and the third son, Paul Albert, died in his twenty-seventh year. The eldest daughter, Miss Anna Mosher, is a successful nurse. Miss Winifred Mosher, the second daughter, is one of Portland's best known teachers. Alice K. Mosher is married to John A. Wilhs and resides on a farm not far from Portland. The youngest daughter, Mary Emma Mosher, is the wife of John M. Cowan, keeper of the Cape Flattery lighthouse. They are the parents of eight children: Stephen Forrest, assistant keeper of the light; Shirley, a resident of Port Angeles; and Joseph Kenneth, Mary Beatrice, Charles Theron, Vincent Pauline, Alvah Gregory and Winifred Rachel, all in school.

Mr. Mosher was a Mason for a good many years and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. He was a consistent member of the Catholic church, a man of undoubted honesty and of kind and charitable disposition. He was devoted to his home and family, was fond of nature in all her beautiful aspects, especially fond of flowers and was the kind and loving friend of every child he knew. They all loved him in return and when he was laid to rest beneath his loved oaks the children heaped his grave with flowers. He died March Q.'j, 1890.

Rev. James H. Black

It has been said that the best test of merit is continued success. Judged by this test. Rev. James H. Black should occupy a prominent place among the men of the northwest who perform the work intrusted to them so well that they are constantly advancing to higher responsibilities. Actuated by a high sense of duty Father Black has always gone about his undertakings with great enthusiasm and a determination to produce tangible and permanent results. The splendid new church for St. Francis parish is a monument to his faithfulness and ability not only as a wise pastor and counselor but in the field of finance which calls for a special talent not always found in connection with pastoral abilities of a high order.

Rev. James H. Black is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, born February 4, 1865, and is the son of William and Maria N. Black. William Black removed to Oregon in 1888 and died in this state July 29, 1910. He was a man of many estimable qualities and one whose memory will long- be revered by many friends and acquaintances.

The subject of this review was reared in Virginia and received his elementary education there. His collegiate course was begun at King's College, Bristol, Tennessee. Returning to Virginia he taught school four years in the public schools, and then entered Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, graduating in 1889. Having chosen the priesthood as his calling, he became secretary of the faculty at St. Edward's, the leading Catholic college of the south, at Austin, Texas. There he remained for three years, acting as secretary, pursuing his seminary studies and also teaching in the college.

Father Black then came to Oregon and for a year taught in Mount Angel College. On June 11, 1893, he was ordained to the priesthood at Mount Angel, From 1893 to 1896 he was assistant priest at the cathedral in Portland and for two years, 1896 and 1897, he had charge of St. Mary's church at Eugene, Oregon. He also had charge during this time of St. Rose Catholic church at Monroe, Benton county, Oregon, and during the same time built St. Mary's church, Cottage Grove, Oregon. The success of Father Black in three churches at the same time attracted the favorable attention of his superiors, and he was invited to return to Portland as secretary to Archibishop Gross at the cathedral. In this position he continued until the death of the archbishop in 1898.

Having been assigned to St. Francis parish, Father Black went to work with his accustomed zeal and built up the parish until a new church became a necessity. His parishioners nobly seconded him in his efforts and the new St. Francis church, the most beautiful Catholic church in Portland, is the result. During a trip abroad a few years ago Father Black spent much time studying the churches of continental Europe with a view to the needs of his parish in Portland, and his ideas have been embodied in the edifice. The building covers half a block of ground and cost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The corner stone was laid July 4, 1909, by Archbishop Christie. The structure is ornamented with several snow-white spires, with two large gold crosses on two of the highest spires, making this church the most conspicuous building on the east side of Portland. As seen from Council Crest and Portland Heights, it is the most conspicuous and striking object of any in the entire city, conveying the impression both of strength and beauty. A new parish house has also been erected at a cost of eight thousand dollars. The St. Francis Academy, in connection with the church, is in charge of the Sisters of the Holy Name.

In the erection of a commodious and handsome house of worship Father Black has met with hearty response from many quarters, and he gives to others a large share of credit for the success of the undertaking. However this may be, it is acknowledged that beautiful St. Francis church is a splendid illustration of the genius of its builder and of the liberality of his good people who contributed to its erection.

Charles A. Blurock

Charles A. Blurock, proprietor of one of the best meat markets in Vancouver and also engaged in stock raising on Hayden's island, where he keeps about three hundred head of cattle, was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the 13th of September, 1866, and is the son of John and Martha Blurock, who during the early boyhood of their son Charles removed with their family to Tennessee, where they remained for four years and afterward went to Missouri, where they resided for four and a half years. In April, 1876, the family started across the plains for the northwest with wagons and mule teams. There were thirty wagons in the train and they made the journey overland in order to bring their stock. In November they reached Vancouver, where they visited friends and soon afterward they settled upon a rented ranch. Here the father turned his attention to the dairy business and to the raising of vegetables and subsequently purchased a half interest in a butchering business and meat market, becoming a partner of Jere Harmer, with whom he was associated until the death of Mr. Harmer, when he purchased his interest in the business and became sole proprietor, so continuing until 1897, when his son, Charles A. Blurock, became his successor. The death of the father occurred January 5, 1906, but the mother is still living in Vancouver.

Charles A. Blurock pursued his education in the schools of Missouri and of Clarke county, Washington, and after putting aside his text-books became his father's assistant and continued with him in business until 1897, when he became proprietor of the meat market, which he is still conducting. He has built up a good trade in this connection and his capably managed business affairs insure him a substantial profit. He also rents land on Hayden's island, where he raises stock, keeping about three hundred head of cattle there. He is thus able to stock his own refrigerator without paying a profit to a middle man, and this adds to the success which he is now enjoying.

Mr. Blurock was married November 15, 1893, to Miss May E. Purdin, of Portland. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and also holds membership relations with the Red Men. Although but ten years of age when he crossed the plains he remembers many interesting incidents of the trip. He has now for thirty-four years made his home in Clarke county, and throughout this period has been closely associated with its business interests, and in Vancouver is recognized as an enterprising, progressive business man. He owns two corner lots in the business portion of the town, having purchased in 1905 the comer at Sixth and Main streets, fifty by one hundred and three feet, and in June, 1910, he bought the corner at the corner of Seventh and Washington streets, a vacant lot fifty by one hundred feet. He also owns a lot twenty-five by one hundred feet between Seventh and Eighth on Main street with a twostory brick building upon it. He owns his own residence at No. 908 Esther avenue, another house and lot on Fifth and Esther, which he rents, two lots in Vancouver Heights, and one acre on St. Johns road.

Robert Grant Black, a medical practitioner of Vancouver, became one of the charter member of the Washington State Medical Society and is widely known in professional circles in the northwest. He was born in Abingdon, Washington county, Virginia, September 16, i860, and is a son of William Daniel Webster and Mary Nellie (Grubb) Black, both of whom were natives of Washington county. The paternal grandparents were also born there and the ancestry of the family is traced back to John Black, the great-great-grandfather of our subject, who came to America from England in the early part of the seventeenth century and located at Blacksburg, Virginia. In the maternal line the strain is Welsh. The Grubb family was also planted on American soil early in the seventeenth century, the family home being established on the banks of the Delaware where lived Nicholas Grubb, the great-grandfather of Dr. Black, The great-grandfather in the paternal line was John Black, a soldier of the Revolutionary war who served under General Washington. William Young Con, the great-grandfather, and Nicholas Grubb, the grandfather of Dr. Black, were soldiers of the war of 1812. The parents of Dr. Black came to Oregon in 1888, locating at McMinnville, where the mother died in February, 1898. The father passed away in July, 1910, at the residence of his son, the Rev. James H. Black, priest of St. Francis church of Portland. Since 1888 he was engaged in merchandising.

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At the old family home in Virginia Dr. Black spent his youthful days and acquired his early education in the public schools, while later he spent two and a half years in King College, at Bristol, Tennessee. He then took up the study of medicine under Dr. William Phillipps, of Wallace, Virginia, who directed his reading for a year, after which he entered the medical department of the University of Virginia, at Richmond. Subsequently he pursued a course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, and on the 15th of March, 1886, won his degree upon graduation.

For a year thereafter Dr. Black practiced medicine at Wallace and then came to the west, arriving in Portland, Oregon, on the loth of May, 1887. He then traveled over portions of Oregon and Washington in search of a location and finally settled at Castle Rock, Cowlitz county, Washington, where he arrived on the i8th of June, 1887. He remained in successful practice there until February, 1897, when he removed to Vancouver, Washington, where he has since maintained his office and followed his profession. His work is attended with excellent success when viewed from both a professional and financial standpoint. He has never specialized but has continued in general practice and has continuously broadened his knowledge by careful perusal of the medical journals and best medical literature. He became a charter member of the Washington State Medical Society and is one of twenty who at the end of twenty years have remained as continuous members. This organization was formed in the Tacoma Hotel at Tacoma in 1889 and absorbed the Territorial Medical Society at that time. Dr. Black also became a charter member of the Clarke County Medical Society and was one of the organizers of the first medical society of Cowlitz county.

On the 30th of November, 1899, Dr. Black was married at Chehalis, Lewis county, Washington, to Miss Josephine Rankin, a daughter of William Rankin, whose father came to Oregon in 1849 ^"^ settled in the Rogue valley. He had formerly lived in Illinois. Dr. and Mrs. Black have two children, Robert Harvey and Martha Leona. The Doctor also has a son, William James, by a former marriage.

Fraternally he is connected with the Elks lodge at Vancouver, the Woodmen of the World, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Phylothesmians, a college fraternity. His political support is given to the republican party and he is now serving as city and county health officer, having been appointed by the city in 1909 and by the county in 1908. He is also a member of the board of pension examiners and has been for the past six years and while in Cowlitz county, Washington, he served for three terms as county coroner by appointment for one term and by election for two terms. He has put forth earnest eflfort to secure advanced medical and sanitary legislation in his state. He has won wide recognition as an able representative of the profession and his continuous study has constantly promoted his ability and efficiency.

U. S. Grant Marquam

U. S. Grant Marquam, deceased, who inscribed his name high on the legal arch of Portland, being recognized as one of the strongest attorneys at the bar of northern Oregon, was born in this city, July 3, 1863, a son of Judge P. A. and Emma (Kern) Marquam. His father was a native of Maryland, born near Baltimore on the 28th of February, 1823. He is still living in Portland at the venerable age of eighty-seven years, and is one of the most highly respected residents of the city. He was the eighth in a family of nine children whose parents were Philip Winchester and Charlotte Mercer (Poole) Marquam.

The father spent his early life on a farm with little opportunity for attending school, but he studied at night and utilized every possible moment for the ad- vancement of his education. Ambitious to study law, he saved his earnings and entered a law school at Bloomington, Indiana. Thoroughly mastering the course there, he was admitted to the bar of that state in 1847 and opened a law office in Wabash county, where he continued in practice until March, 1849, when he started across the plains with an ox team in search of gold, attracted by the discoveries that had been made in central California. In September the party reached the Sacramento valley and soon afterward Mr. Marquam went to the Redding mines, where he worked until the spring of 1850. It was a period of unrest not only among the white men but also among the Indians and on more than one occasion Mr. Marquam with other residents of that locality armed for an attack against the savages. In one such encounter he was wounded. In the spring of 1850 he left the mines and located in the small town of Fremont, which was the county seat of Yolo county. There he began the practice of law and at the first election held under the new state constitution of California was elected county judge. He served for about two years in that position and came to Oregon in August to visit his brother Alfred, who had become a resident of this state in 1845.

After looking over the country Judge Marquam was so well pleased that he decided to locate in this state. Returning to California, he resigned his position on the bench of the county court and in the latter part of 185 1 located in Portland. He at once opened a law office and during the early days of his residence here secured some of what became the most valuable property of the city. One of his good purchases was a tract of two hundred and ninety-eight acres known as Marquam Hill, now one of the fine residence districts in Portland. Success attended him also in the practice of law, and in 1862 he was elected county judge of Multnomah county and later was reelected, serving on the bench for eight years. His decisions were strictly fair and impartial and indicated a comprehensive understanding of the principles of jurisprudence, together with correct application of the points at issue. He took a deep interest in all that pertained to public progress and built one of the early theaters of Portland, known as the Marquam Grand. In 1882 he was nominated as republican candidate for the state legislature from Multnomah county and elected to that office. His marriage on the 8th of May, 1853, made Miss Emma Kern, a daughter of William Kern, his wife.

Their son, U. S. Grant Marquam, was a pupil in the public schools of Portland until his graduation from the high school, when he was still very young. He afterward took up the study of law under Judge Brunam and later was graduated from the Portland Law College. He at once entered upon active practice in connection with Judge Adams, this relation being maintained for about eight years, when his brother erected the Marquam building and U. S. Grant Marquam opened an office there. In his profession he made continuous advancement, being recognized as one of the ablest attorneys of the Portland bar. He made a specialty of land titles and was considered one of the best title attorneys in the state. He was a man whose foresight and strength of character were considered most marvelous and at the early age of twenty-eight years he had become a very wealthy man by his wise investments, but during the panic of 1893 he lost everything, including his home. Not discouraged, he at once set to work to retrieve his fortunes, and at the time of his death was in very comfortable circumstances.

On the 17th of November, 1886, Mr. Marquam was married in this city to Miss Julia Groner, a daughter of John and Eleanor (Burns) Groner, who were early settlers of Oregon. Her father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, but came to the United States when sixteen years of age with three older brothers. He had an uncle in Missouri and joined him in that state, living there with him upon a farm until 1849. ^^- Groner then went west to California in search of gold, making the long journey across the arid plains and over the mountains with ox teams. He engaged in mining for a time, but not meeting with the sue- cess he anticipated in that field, he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, purchasing a ranch in Washington county, Oregon. There he married and made his home until death. His wife, who was born in Ireland, came to the United States when a young lady of nineteen years and lived for a time in Boston. In 1852, by way of the water route and the isthmus of Panama, she came to Portland. She, too, has passed away and their son Fred is now living on the old homestead.

The death of Mr. Marquam occurred April 18, 1905, and his remains were laid to rest in beautiful Riverview cemetery on the high banks of the Willamette. He was a member of the Commercial Club and also of the Bench and Bar Association. Throughout his entire life he was a resident of Portland, and his many excellent traits of character as manifest in his professional service, his citizenship and his upright life gained for him the unqualified respect of his fellowmen. He chose as his life work a profession in which advancement must depend upon individual merit, and in the field of law practice he constantly worked his way upward until his ability had gained him a place in the foremost ranks of the legal profession, particularly in that department of the law in which he specialized.

Arthur Lyle Veazie

Arthur Lyle Veazie, an attorney at the Portland bar since 1893, was born in Dallas, Oregon, September 8, 1868, being a son of Edmund F. and Harriet (Lyle) Veazie. The father, a native of Bangor, Maine, died in Wasco county, Oregon, in 1877, while the mother, a native of this state, was born in 1847 and is now living in Portland.

The family has been closely identified with the pioneer history of Oregon. Felix Scott, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Virginia and crossed the plains to the Pacific coast in 1845, spending the winter at Sutter's Fort, completing the journey to Oregon in the spring of 1846 and settling in Lane county, where a number of his descendants reside. He and the men of his family were active in the Indian wars and in many pioneer enterprises, including the building of the McKenzie wagon road. Having engaged successfully in mining in California, he and several associates returned to the Atlantic coast by sea and bought a band of blooded horses and cattle, with which they undertook the journey across the plains to Oregon, but the whole party was slain en route, in the year 1859.

The grandfather, John Eakin Lyle, was born near Knoxville, Tenn., and came to Oregon in 1845 and in the following year married Ellen Scott, who had crossed the plains with her father, Felix Scott. John E. Lyle taught the first school in Polk county, and a monument marks the site. In this connection there appeared in the Oregon Spectator of Oregon City, March 19, 1846, the following advertisement :

Jefferson Institute is located in the Rickreall valley, one mile west of the residence of Col. N. Ford. The first session of this school will commence on the second Monday of next April, and continue twenty-four weeks. Scholars from a distance can be accommodated with boarding in the neighborhood. Terms of tuition, $8.00 per scholar.

The paper which contained this advertisement was the first pubhshed in American territory west of the Rocky mountains, and its first issue was February 5, 1846. Mr. Lyle always took an active interest in education, giving a considerable part of his donation claim at Dallas for the founding of La Creole Academy, besides laboring with his own hands in the erection of the first building used by the school. He died January 22, 1872, at Florence, Idaho, while engaged in mining. His daughter Harriet, on April 18, 1867, at Dallas, became the wife of Edmund F. Veazie. They were the parents of four children : Arthur L. and Jesse Clarence, both residing in Portland; Julia Grace, the wife of Professor Irving M. Glen, of the University of Oregon; and Edith F., who married Edwin R. Bryson of Eugene.

Edmund Fuller Veazie was born November 7, 1833, at Bangor, Maine, a son of Jesse Veazie and Martha (Catlin) Veazie. He acquired his education in local schools and in the state of Massachusetts. After following teaching as a profession for several years, he was drawn to Kansas by the slavery troubles, like many other young men from New England, and after a time made the journey to California, engaging for several years in gold mining there and in southern Oregon. Returning then to his old occupation of teaching, he had charge of La Creole Academy at Dallas and of the Jefferson Institute in Linn county. In 1869 he removed to what is now Crook county, Oregon, where he engaged in stock raising until his death, which occurred by drowning in the John Day river in June, 1877.

Arthur Lyle Veazie received his education at La Creole Academy and the University of Oregon, grad«uating from the latter in 1890, and from the law department in 1893, entering immediately upon the practice of his profession, which he has followed with success.

On the 1 8th of October, 1898, Mr. Veazie was married to Miss Agnes Margaret Greene, a daughter of Judge Roger Sherman Greene of Seattle, and a descendant of Roger Sherman. Mrs. Veazie is a graduate of the University of Oregon and of the University of Washington as well, and has been a member and director of the Art League of New York, having devoted her talents to art. Mr. and Mrs. Veazie have four children, Grace Ellen, Emily A., Harriet L. and Edmund A.

In his political views Mr. Veazie is an earnest republican, but has never sought any office. As a representative of pioneer families, he feels a great pride and interest in the development and future of Oregon, and in all that most deeply concerns the welfare of its people.

John William Cook

Some men are natural organizers and born pioneers in any line of activity to which they turn their attention. To this class belongs John William Cook of Portland, one of the large land operators of the Pacific coast, who by many years of successful experience has demonstrated a rare ability not only in foreseeing the possibilities of a land investment, but in formulating the plans that assume tangible shape, giving employment to many persons and establishing many families in comfortable homes.

Mr. Cook was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, a son of Major William H. and Sarah (Whiting) Cook, who died in California. The father, who was a native of New Jersey, went to Pennsylvania in early manhood and was there married. Subsequently he removed with his family to Missouri. During the Civil war he was a member of a Pennsylvania regiment. His mother lived to the *'remarkable age of one hundred and one years and all of her children lived to be over eighty, the eldest being ninety-six at the time of death.

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John William Cook was reared on a farm in Knox county, Missouri, and gained his preliminary education in the public schools near Edina, Missouri. After laying his school books aside, he began his business career under his brother, T. P. Cook of Edina, a grain and warehouse man. There he remained for seven years, during which time the business grew to be one of the largest of its kind in northeastern Missouri.

Seeking a change of climate, Mr. Cook came west in 1885 and located in Los Angeles county, California, where in connection with George D. Whitcomb he purchased the land and laid out the town of Glendora, being secretary of the Glendora Land Company and also of the Glendora Water Company. After closing out that property he engaged in orange growing and developed orange land, and also engaged in the general real-estate business. In 1891 he was elected a member of the board of supervisors of Los Angeles county, and in 1893-4 served as its chairman. While on the board he also had supervision of one thousand, one hundred miles of road in the county. He was honored by appointment of the governor of the state as one of a board of three leading fruit growers to manage the state citrus fruit fair and in 1891 he was placed in charge of a fund of forty thousand dollars raised by tax and appropriated by the county of Los Angeles for use at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. This fund was under general control of a committee of twelve, and its wise expenditure contributed in an important degree toward the dissemination of reliable information concerning the resources of California.

Mr. Cook attained an enviable standing in the state, but by over application to many interests with which he was identified he injured his health and was obliged to seek a higher altitude, through which his strength was finally restored. He left California in 1895 and came north, where he successfully turned his attention to mining and developed the Music mine at Bohemia, Oregon. In 1900, again attracted to the real-estate field, he came to Portland and organized a syndicate, which laid out the North Irvington tract and placed it upon the market under his management. Having accomplished this work, he organized another syndicate and bought and laid out the Holladay Park tract, extending from Eighteenth to Twenty-eighth street and from the Oregon Railroad & Navigation track to Halsey street. This was the first addition to Portland to have street work, park and building restrictions. Under his management the same syndicate bought and subdivided ninety acres of land called Rossmere from Thirty-seventh to Forty-fifth street, and in other operations has displayed a sagacity that easily places him in the first rank among the real-estate promoters of the Pacific coast. At the present time he is interested with Lewis & Wiley of Seattle in laying out and subdividing the St. Helens Heights tract of one hundred acres. This it is believed will be the finest residence section of Portland, as the location is on high ground and very sightly. The work is of such magnitude that he estimates it will require at least five years to carry it to completion, and it will be a lasting monument to the energy and ability of the men who conceived a project of such magnitude. Mr. Cook was also interested in an irrigation system in Carson, Washington, and is developing four thousand acres of land there. He was one of the organizers of the firm of Clarke, Cook Company, which was incorporated November 26, 1909. This company carries on a general real-estate and trust business and also deals in bonds and makes loans.

In 1897 Mr. Cook was united in marriage to Miss Christina Hawley, a daughter of William W. and Caroline A. (Wells) Hawley, of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Her father was one of the early settlers of this state and was for some years connected with the transportation of freight between Umatilla Landing and Boise, Idaho. He was prominently identified with the early development of this region and participated in the Indian wars. In early manhood he married Caroline A. Wells, who was the first white child born in Lane county, Oregon, on the present site of Cottage Grove. Her father crossed the plains at an early day and became a large landowner and a man of prominence in his community.

By his ballot, Mr. Cook supports the men and measures of the republican party, and in religious belief he is a Presbyterian. He is a Knights Templar Mason and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; the Oregon Good Roads Association, in which he has taken an especially active interest; the Portland Realty Board, and the Commercial Club. He is fond of fishing and hunting and these sports constitute his chief recreation. He is remarkably well informed on questions pertaining to real estate and especially in relation to the possibilities of the city of Portland and its vicinity. Having years ago become connected with the business, which is well suited to his taste and which gives promise of growth for an indefinite period, he is happy in his work and especially so as it is yielding gratifying results not only to the projectors, but to the entire community.

Henry Christ

Starting in life for himself at the early age of thirteen years, Henry Christ has gained through his own efiforts the success that he has enjoyed and which now enables him to live retired. His has indeed been an active, useful and honorable life. He was born in Germany, in the province of Nassau, which is now Prussian territory, October 9, 1836, and during his youthful days there passed he acquired his education and learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for seven years ere completing the second decade of his life.

He left Germany in 1855, when twenty years of age, as passenger on a sailing vessel bound for the new world, accompanied by his mother and his niece, his father having previously died. They were stranded in the English channel for three weeks and then sailed around the Horn for Valparaiso, South America, where the ship was laid up for six weeks. During that period Mr. Christ worked at his trade of shoemaking, going on shore and obtaining work, which he would take on board and complete the task. From Valparaiso the ship sailed to San Francisco, where they arrived a few days after the celebration of the anniversary of American independence. Mr. Christ remained upon that vessel for two weeks or until the arrival of a steamer which he could take to Portland. He had become a very good friend with the captain and was thus allowed the privilege of continuing on board.

Proceeding northward, Mr. Christ landed at Vancouver, Washington, the same month and from that point made his way to a farm which his brother owned and occupied. He became associated with his brother in agricultural pursuits and for thirty-five years thereafter successfully carried on general farming, at the end of which time he and his brother gave the place of three hundred and twenty acres to his children. Accompanied by his brother, he then returned to Vancouver and they erected the house which they now occupy. They also erected two buildings on Main street, which are known as the Christ block and which is still their property. Since removing to the city they have practically lived retired, enjoying the rest which has come to them as the reward of their former industry and perseverance. During the first years of Henry Christ's residence in Clarke county, he hauled his produce to the Vancouver market in a cart which he made by hand but he now drives his own automobile and does it as ably as any man of half his years. In 1894 he visited Germany, spending three months in the fatherland amid the scenes of his youth and the friends of his boyhood.

It was in 1862 that Mr. Christ was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Proebstel, of Clarke county, Washington, and unto them were born six children : Philip, who is proprietor of a creamery at Vancouver; Matilda, the wife of A.

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F. Davis, of Vancouver, who is now assessor of Clarke county ; Augusta, the wife of John H. Hill, who is in the employ of the government at Hollister, California; Henrietta, the wife of Louis Hessy, a farmer living near Portland; Theresa, the wife of Arthur Bevins, of Potter Valley, California ; and Lewis, deceased. The wife and mother passed away on the 24th of May, 1901, and her death was deeply regretted by many friends as well as her immediate family. She had crossed the plains with her father in 1852 and was therefore one of the pioneer residents of this section of the country. On the 17th of November, 1903, Mr. Christ was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Rena M. Chaffee, a daughter of W. H. Baker, of Vancouver. Mr. Christ's mother died in Vancouver, February, 1881.

Mr. Christ has led an upright, honorable life, in harmony with his professions as a member of St. Luke's church, of which he is now senior warden. He is also a member of Washington Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M.; Chapter No. 10, R. A. M. ; Commandery No. 9, K. T. ; and Afifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the last named being located at Tacoma. He is a past master of the lodge, a past high priest of the chapter and past eminent commander in the Knights Templar organization. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias, also of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a past master of the Grangers and is an honorary member of the Sons of Herman and a member of the Easter Star.

At all times Mr. Christ has been recognized as a public-spirited citizen whose helpful interest in community affairs can always be counted upon. He served for two terms as county commissioner, elected on the republican ticket and assisted in building the first courthouse in Clarke county. He has served as a delegate to county and state republican conventions for a great many years and a delegate at large to the national convention held at St. Louis, Missouri, that nominated William McKinley for the presidency of the United States. He has now reached the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey - a man honored and respected wherever known and most of all where he is best known.

More than twenty-three years of professional life have brought into prominence Dr. John J. Sellwood, superintendent of the Sellwood Hospital, located on Harney street, between Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets, in Sellwood, one of the flourishing suburbs of Portland. The hospital of which he has charge was erected by him and is one of the thoroughly modern institutions, conducted according to most approved principles and provided with all facilities of the best institutions of the kind. Although only recently established, it has met with a response which promises a wide field of usefulness in the years to come.

Dr. Sellwood was born in Oregon City, Oregon, March 19, 1867, the son of Rev. John W. and Belle J. (Daly) Sellwood. The father is a well known minister of the Protestant Episcopal church. Rev. John Sellwood, great uncle of Dr. Sellwood, owned as a donation claim all the land on the site of the present town of Sellwood and the suburb was named in his honor. Up to twelve years of age the subject of this sketch made his home at Oregon City, receiving his rudimentary education in the public schools. He then became a student in the Bishop Scott Academy. Being attracted to medicine and surgery as his life work, he secured the funds necessary to meet college expenses by serving as bookkeeper for the firm of Corbett & McClay, Portland. This required three years. He then matriculated in the medical department of Willamette University and was graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1887. Immediately after leaving college he entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Company as physician and surgeon on vessels of the company plying between

Vancouver, British Columbia, and Hong Kong, China. Here he continued for three years, making many trips across the Pacific and gaining much experience that has proven of vakie in after years. Leaving the service of the Canadian Pacific Company he accepted a position in charge of a large hospital in Tokio, Japan, where he continued for a year, adding materially to the reputation he had already gained in his profession. After practicing for some years in Vancouver, Washington, and Los Angeles, California, he located in Sellwood in 1897, where he has since continued. Owing to increase in patronage and in order to facilitate his work, he opened a hospital in the Bank of Sellwood building in the spring of 1908, and in July, 1909, moved into the present hospital which was erected under his direction and according to his ideas the result of large experience and observation in hospitals in various cities on the coast and elsewhere.

The Sellwood Hospital is a surgical and maternity hospital, and accepts no contagious or infectious cases. All such cases are taken care of in a building not directly connected with the hospital proper, thus making the hospital entirely safe from danger of such diseases. It has accommodation for twenty-five patients and has been built so as to admit of enlargement from time to time. It is equipped with all up-to-date instruments and appliances for surgical and maternity cases. The rooms are neatly, but as in all of the better class of hospitals, plainly furnished. Recognizing the efifect of color upon persons of different temperaments, each of the rooms is of a different color and patients are at liberty to select according to their taste. The walls are delicately tinted, not papered, and cleanliness, which has been designated as ranking next to Godliness, is here also regarded as one of the highest of virtues. A training school for nurses is one of the important accessories and arrangements are made for eight nurses under charge of Miss E. R. Luther, a trained nurse of much practical experience.

Dr. Sellwood was united in marriage October 3. 1891, to Miss Mary Hunder of Vancouver, Washington. He is affiliated with the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and, being a man of genial qualities, enriched by wide observation and experience, he is the center of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. His success in his profession has been due in an important degree to conscientious application and a discernment which is the gift of the true physician. Years of experience have prepared him for the duties he now discharges, and it is believed that as time passes the Sellwood Hospital will become recognized as one of the leading agencies in the northwest for the alleviation and care of many of the ills of humanity.

Monroe Bennett Rankin

Monroe Bennett Rankin, whose splendid business ability was manifest in the manner in which he triumphed over adversity, whose generous spirit found expression in the aid which he gave to individuals and to benevolent projects, and whose interest in all that is uplifting along intellectual and moral lines led to a hearty cooperation with the work of college and church, well deserved to be numbered among Portland's valued and honored residents.

He was born on a farm near Athens, Menard county, Illinois, January 7. 1844, a son of Richard Montgomery and Louisa Eads Rankin, both natives of Kentucky. The paternal ancestors were Scotch and the maternal English. The Rankin family is of Scotch origin, though at an early day they removed from Scotland to the north of Ireland, and later, on account of religious persecution, came to America in 1727. They separated, joining the different colonies, and the branch to which Monroe B. Rankin belonged went to Virginia and later to Kentucky. His great-grandfather, James Rankin, who married a Miss Montgomery, sister of General Richard Montgomery, was one of the Daniel Boone settlement. During an Indian outbreak he took his wife to the fort for safety and while fighting was going on a son, James Rankin, Jr., was born. He settled in Harrison county. Kentucky, near Cynthiana, and married Anna Dills, the only daughter in a family of twelve. By this union there were six children, four sons and two daughters. Richard Montgomery Rankin, the second son, lived near Cynthiana and married Louisa W. Eads, a daughter of John Eads. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Rankin numbered six sons and six daughters, two of whom were born in Kentucky, while the farm in Menard county, to which the parents removed in 1837, was the birthplace of the younger members of the family.

Monroe B. Rankin, the second son, attended school as opportunity oftered and in his childhood aided in the work of the farm, especially in gathering up and caring for the stock. He was constantly with his father, who treated him as a companion and discussed with him plans for the future so that the boy early developed rare powers of discrimination. He knew the different bird calls and could imitate them, and later, in his conversation, his descriptions and similes were characteristic of one who had been keenly observant of all things in nature. From Menard county the family removed to a farm in McLean county, near Saybrook, Illinois, known as Rankin's Grove, and there typhoid fever carried off the husband and father in 1855. The mother had been reared in Kentucky with no hardships in early life. Though tenderly nurtured, her spirit was brave and unfaltering and thus she met courageously all the privations and difficulties of pioneer life, struggling bravely to maintain the farm and educate her children, following the death of her husband. At the outbreak of the Civil war her main support was taken from her - her eldest son Marcus, twenty years of age, enlisting for active service at the front - leaving Monroe B. Rankin, then a youth of sixteen, to manage the farm. Later, when other calls were made for volunteers, Monroe and his next younger brother, Norman Kimber, joined the recruits at Camp Butler, but at the mustering in only Norman was accepted. Monroe was rejected as being too small and delicate for military service. This was fortunate for the mother for he was her chief dependence. It was a tremendous undertaking, even with their united efforts, to try to solve the problem of a mortgaged farm, taxes, and the support of the mother and six children. Subsequently Mrs. Rankin took up her abode in the little town of Saybrook. that her children might enjoy its educational privileges, while Monroe remained upon the farm. In 1864 his brother Marcus was captured and taken to Andersonville prison, where he died soon afterward, and in 1868 the mother, whom Monroe had always adored, was called to her final home. The two surviving brothers of our subject. J. H. and C. N. Rankin, are now residents of Portland. His brother, Norman Kimber. passed away in 1905, and in 1907 his sister, Mrs. Anna R. Riggs, founder of the Florence Crittenton Home of Portland, died suddenly while engaged in the same line of work in Butte, Montana.

In 1870, Mr. Rankin wedded Miss Rachel Ludlum Tomlin, a daughter of Almarin Tomlin, of Pleasant Plains, and a graduate of the Woman's College of Jacksonville, Illinois. Mr. Tomlin, who was of Welsh extraction, removed with his family to Illinois in 1837 from Cape May, New Jersey, where he had engaged in shipbuilding, his materials being obtained from the cedar swamps of the farm which he inherited from his father. Not wishing to have his boys go to sea, as so many of the youths of that locality did, he removed to the middle west and purchased a farm at Pleasant Plains, near Springfield. Illinois, which is now owned by one of his grandsons.

Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin established their home at Rankin's Grove, and he bought out the interests of the other members of the family in the farm. His attention for a few years was given only to the production of grain, after which he began raising stock and purchasing cattle in the western states and fattening them for the Chicago market upon his Illinois farm. In 1878 he went as far west as Salt Lake City and decided to go on to the coast to make his home, believing that he would more rapidly attain success in a coun- try where the cHmate was not so severe, for the long hard winters and the exposure unavoidable in his business and occasional losses by the freezing of cattle had always to be met with in his stock-raising interests in Illinois. Disposing of his property in 1879, he invested in blooded draft stallions and with two carloads started for San Francisco, but found that there was a better market in Portland, to which point he made a shipment by steamer. With the proceeds of the sale of his stallions he purchased real estate, which proved a good investment. Convinced that he would like to make this section of the country his home, he sent for his wife and children, meeting them in San Francisco in 1880. Their coming had been delayed by the illness of the baby Edith, two years of age, who died in Portland six weeks after their arrival.

Mr. Rankin entered business circles in connection with ex-Governor Gibbs as a dealer in real estate and soon afterward began to look up timber lands in Oregon and Washington. In 1882 he engaged in the manufacture of lumber, having a mill on Balch creek, about three miles west of Portland, and another on the Clackamas river. Prosperity attended his ventures until the failure of the Northern Pacific in 1883 brought on a panic. Being unable to collect outstanding accounts, Mr. Rankin was forced into bankruptcy and he assigned to his creditors all of his property, mills, and even his home, then on the northwest corner of First and Hooker streets in South Portland, believing that there would be more than enough to settle his indebtedness, but everything was ruthlessly sacrificed. He not only lost everything, but was left handicapped by a heavy burden of debt, under which he struggled with remarkable courage for years. Removing with his family to Butte, Montana, in 1884, he there engaged in manufacturing and shipping lumber for a year and a half, when he returned to Portland. At this time his knowledge of the manufacture of lumber made him recognize the future value of timber. Going into the forests and carrying his pack, he studied the lumber situation and as a broker sold on commission. The knowledge then gained later proved to be his capital and he was able to acquire large tracts on his own account and thus discharge his indebtedness. In several instances, where consideration and kindness had been shown him by creditors, he not only paid the principal but also compound interest. His sympathy always went out to those in financial distress, for he had suffered misrepresentation and injustice when he experienced his reverses, and he never forgot the kindness shown him at that time.

His first large operation in timber was the buying in 1888 of fifty thousand -acres, mostly railroad lands in the Klamath river basin, aided by Portland and Wisconsin capital, and a large mill was built on the Klamath river. This enterprise was sold out at a good profit to Chicago lumbermen in 1890. Since that time he has handled many large transactions, comprising from three thousand to twenty thousand acres, confining his operations to the Columbia and Willamette rivers and their tributaries, as he always maintained that timber on these slopes would be marketed before that of any other section of the state. In 1902 he sold nineteen thousand, six hundred acres in Marion county, commonly called the "Silverton Tract," to the West Coast Timber Company, for four hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars, then bought nine thousand acres, which he sold in 1907 for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the timber being in practically the same location and of about the same quality, which shows the rapid increase in the value of timber stumpage. He reinvested in Benton and Lane counties in 1907 and 1908, acquiring about twenty-one thousand acres which he owned at the time of his death. The earlier business men of Portland looked upon M. B. Rankin as a pioneer in the timber business for he was one of the first men in this section to realize the future value of the timber lands. He always considered not only the quality of the timber but also the topography of the country, the carrying power of adjacent streams or the feasibility of a railroad, thus determining the expense of marketing the product. He succeeded in making up from small pieces many large tracts whose subsequent sale has proven his judgment to have been good in this Hne. In 1906 he organized and became the president of the Independent Coal & Ice Company, of which he was the principal stockholder.

Mr. Rankin found his greatest happiness in his prosperity in the fact that it enabled him to provide the necessities and comforts of life for his family. Unto him and his wife have been born four children who are yet living: Orville Montgomery, born in 1871 at Rankin's Grove, McLean county, Illinois, was married in 1900 to Miss Marie C. Jubitz, a daughter of A. Jubitz, of Portland, and they have four children; Howard Tomlin, born in Saybrook, Illinois, in 1873, was married in 1909 to Mrs. Amelia Loomis Gile, a daughter of L. A. Loomis of Ilwaco, Washington, and they have one son ; Anna Louise, bom in Saybrook in 1876, is living with her mother; and Winifred Rhoda, born in Portland in 1881, was married in 1909 to Frank Ira Gollehur, formerly of St. Louis, Missouri.

On the lOth of September, 1909, an attack of angina pectoris lasting less than half an hour caused the death of Mr. Rankin, whose brother, Norman, and sister, Mrs. Riggs, had died in the same manner. Many warm friends as well as his immediate family mourned his loss. For almost twenty years the family have resided at No. 534 Clifton street, Portland Heights, taking up their abode there in February, 1890. On account of his own lack of early educational advantages, Mr. Rankin had great sympathy with young people struggling for an education and made several liberal gifts to Willamette University in Salem, the oldest college in the northwest. He was for two years president of the board of trustees of that institution, and at all times he stood as champion of the cause of intellectual progress. He knew "the joy of generous giving in charity," and his assistance was ever tactful and kindly. He was a lover of music, a taste which he inherited from his mother, who was one of a musical family. His ancestors, except his father who became a Methodist, had been Presbyterians of the strict Scotch type. Although farming had been followed by the greater number of the family and there have been numerous physicians, the Rankins had, two generations ago, furnished twenty-one Presbyterian ministers, twenty ruling elders, one Congregational and one Methodist minister. Mr. Rankin at the time of his death was serving on the official board of Grace Methodist church in Portland. The reverses and experiences which he had in life never made him bitter, his arduous efforts to attain success never made him sordid. He remained throughout life a man of kindly spirit, of benevolent impulses and generous actions. In business he radiated cheerfulness and was perhaps seen at his best when dispensing generous hospitality at his own fireside. The innate refinement of his nature made him ever considerate of others, and he exemplified his belief that real Christianity is a life of ministry and brotherly helpfulness.

John Lewis Davenport

While John Lewis Davenport is numbered as a pioneer of the Pacific coast and a successful business man of Oregon, that which causes his memory to be most highly revered and honored is the ready and generous help which he extended to the emigrants who came to this country without means. Many a family has reason to hold him in grateful remembrance for timely assistance in the hour of need.

Mr. Davenport came to America at the age of thirteen years, residing first in San Francisco. About four years later he removed to Carson City and a year later, in 1855, settled at The Dalles, where he engaged in the livery business and also ran a packet train between The Dalles and Portland until about i860. Through the succeeding twenty years he was engaged in stock-raising. In 1880 he went from The Dalles to the John Day country, but there suffered heavy -losses, his stock being largely killed in the severe winters. In 1882 he removed to Mosier, where he gave his attention to raising stock and fruit, continuing in the business until his death, which occurred in 1904 when he was sixty-eight years of age. For many years he purchased horses for the government and also supplies. He was always ready to help those who came to the northwest without capital or means to secure the necessities of life, and he was one of the most prominent of the early pioneers of The Dalles.

Mr. Davenport was married at The Dalles to Miss Mary Heintz, whose father came from Neiderweiser, Buchbach, Germany. Mrs. Davenport survived her husband for about five years and passed away in May, 1909. In their family were ten children of whom eight are living : Rose E., the wife of P. H. Robinson, of Portland ; Caroline, who wedded F. S. Gunning, of The Dalles ; George Lewis, of Portland; John T., residing at Mosier, Oregon; Mary Frances, deceased; Catherine, the wife of Harry Kemp, of Hood River, Oregon; Charles H., of Portland; Nellie L., who married E. B. Wood and has recently passed away; Alice, who is single; and Gertrude May, the wife of Ray Sturgis. of Mosier, Oregon.

In his political faith Mr, Davenport was a republican where national issues were involved, but cast an independent local ballot. Fratemally he was connected with the Odd Fellow^s and his religious belief was with the Catholic church. His word was indeed of large worth to his fellowmen and his energy and business ability made him a valuable factor in promoting the material development of this state.

Ferdinand Joplin

Conducting an extensive general contracting business under the style of Giebisch & Joplin, the subject of this review is well known as a representative of the industrial interests of Portland. He was born in Pettis county, Missouri, in 1847, a son of Josiah and Maria Susan (Fristoe) Joplin. The Joplin family is of English origin and the American ancestors were among the early colonial settlers. Thomas Joplin, the grandfather, was a native of Tennessee and was a planter and stock-raiser. His son, Josiah Joplin, was also born in Tennessee and having arrived at years of maturity he wedded Maria Susan Fristoe, who was born in Virginia and was a member of the well known and prominent family of that name. Her father, Amos Fristoe, removed to Missouri at an early day and engaged in teaching there. Later in life he was a prominent planter and slaveowner. He also became a leading factor in the public life of the community, served as clerk of the circuit court, as a member of the state legislature and various other public offices.

Ferdinand Joplin spent his youthful days in his native county. The publicschool system afforded him his educational privileges and after his school days were over he followed farming until April, 1883, when he came to Oregon and for one year made his home in Astoria. Since 1884, or for more than a quarter of a century, he has resided continuously in Portland and has made continuous progress in business circles, eagerly embracing the opportunities that have offered and reaching in due time a prominent place as a representative of the industrial interests in this city.

His initial step was made in the establishing of a route for the delivery of the Oregonian in Portland Heights, this being the first paper delivered there. He also established two routes of the Daily News in South and East Portland, continuing them until the publication of the paper was suspended. At that time Mr. Joplin turned his attention to the confectionary business, which he continued on Washington street for a year. He then sold out and engaged in the grocery business on First street for three years, at the end of which time he disposed of his store and went to Tillamook to look after some timber claims which he owned there. In 1891 he was again in Portland and engaged in the contracting business on his own account for three years. At the expiration of that period he admitted his son, WiUiam T., to partnership in the business, their association being continued for two years, when Anton Giebisch, a son-in-law, joined the partnership. The firm is now Giebisch & Joplin and a general contracting business is carried on. They have reached a foremost place in the ranks of the general contractors here and much important work has been executed by them, including basements for the Columbia and Elks buildings, the excavation and ground work on Point Wilson at Fort Townsend, and the building of the Pacific Telephone Company's line from North Yamhill to Tillamook and Nehalem City and other country lines. They have also laid most of the street paving in East Portland, putting in the grading and cement on the Burnham tract and also the Holladay Park addition, together with eight miles of pipe line known as the Highland main. They were also awarded the contract for the Brooklyn sewer, which was the largest contract let in Portland up to 1910. Something of the extent and importance of their business and of the excellent character of the work executed under their supervision is indicated in the fact that they employ two hundred men throughout the year and one hundred teams. Mr. Joplin is also vice president of the Willamette Valley Condensed Milk Company of Portland and is a stockholder in the Portland Sand Company. He is justly accounted one of the representative business men of the city, vigilant and enterprising, determined and resourceful.

On the 4th of August, 1869, Mr. Joplin was married to Annie, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Bird) Bridgeford, also a native of Missouri, and they have six children, three sons and three daughters : William T., a contractor of Portland; Ada v., the wife of Anton Giebisch of Portland; Luella, the wife of Henry Lawlor of this city; Etta, the wife of P. L. Thompson; and Richard Preston and Herman Wallace, both of whom are contractors of Portland. The family circle yet remains unbroken by the hand of death and all are yet residents of this city.

Mr. Joplin's military history covers the period of his service in the Confederate army, in which he enlisted in 1864. He participated in the battle of Centralia, Missouri, and took part in many raids from that time until the close of the war, when his command surrendered at Shrevesport, Louisiana, on the 8th of June, 1865. He is now a member of the Confederate Veterans of Portland and also holds membership with the Knights and Ladies of Security in this city. Motoring is his chief recreation and he is a member of the Portland Automobile Club. Those who meet him socially find him a pleasant, congenial companion and one whose position whether in business or public life is never an equivocal one. He stanchly upholds the course in which he believes and his determination has enabled him to accomplish results where others of less resolute spirit have failed. As he has advanced step by step he has improved the broader opportunities which such advancement has given him and today he is one of the leading representatives of industrial life in his adopted city.

Vincent Cook

Vincent Cook, capitalist, merchant, prominent citizen, is one of the few living members of the remarkable group of able, far-seeing men who contributed so largely to laying the foundation of Portland's present commercial greatness and to the development of the northwest.

Arriving in Portland in pioneer times, Vincent Cook has labored with definite and resultant purpose and stands today among those whose efiforts have constituted a vital and forceful element in the progress, upbuilding and prosperity of the northwest. His life history in detail would present a faithful chronicle of conditions which met the early settlers and tested the metal of pioneer busi- ness men. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, of the marriage of Horatio and Anna Cook, the former a native of Worcestershire and the latter of London, England. In 1818 they came to America and settled in New York, while later they became residents of New Jersey, and in 1838 established their home in Chicago, which only a year before had been incorporated as a city. Mr. Cook was an expert cabinet-maker and engaged in the furniture business in Chicago until 1850, when he removed to Rockford, Illinois, continuing in the same line. The year following the removal of his sons, George and Horatio Cook, to the northwest, he joined them in Portland and again engaged in the furniture business with these two sons as partners. George Cook, however, died in the early '60s, but his brother Horatio remained a resident here until his death in 1900. For a long period the father was a leading merchant of Portland, continuing in the furniture trade, but in the later years of his life he lived retired. He was a remarkably skillful workman and was considered the most expert cabinet-maker in America in his day.

Vincent Cook, like the other members of his father's family, attended the public schools of Chicago and entering business life eagerly improved every opportunity which would promote his advancement and success along legitimate lines. His two elder brothers had come to the northwest in 1852, and his father in 1853, and the following year Vincent Cook, his brother J. W., and their mother and sister sailed from New York as passengers on the Star of the West, one of the early vessels used in bringing passengers to the Pacific coast. They journeyed by way of Nicaragua and on reaching Graytown proceeded to San Francisco and thence to Portland. Reaching their destination, Vincent Cook spent five years on his father's donation claim in Washington county, seven miles west of Portland. The task that confronted him was a very arduous one for the land was covered with timber and it was necessary to cut down the trees and clear away the brush before anything could be accomplished in developing the fields.

Returning to Portland at the end of five years, convinced that he would find business in the city more congenial and profitable than the development of the new farm, he entered the employ of his brother, J. W. Cook, who was then engaged in the manufacture of bags, tents and other articles made of canvas. Three years later, in 1863, he was admitted to a partnership in the business, and through the succeeding eight years the firm enjoyed substantial and gratifying success. Vincent Cook then turned his attention to the dry-goods business taking a third partner in the firm, Clarke, Henderson & Cook, their store being situated at the corner of First and Washington streets. For six years Mr. Cook remained in the firm and then become one of the pioneers of the salmon packing industry, which has been one of the most important sources of commercial activity and wealth in the northwest. With a well equipped plant they entered this field of business and became prominent representatives of the salmon trade of the country, their first shipments being made to England, but gradually there arose a demand for their product in other parts of the world and the business took on extensive proportions. Although retaining his interest in the canning business until 1896, Mr. Cook became interested in mining in 1888, his partners in the enterprise being Captain A. P. Ankeny and H. E. Ankeny. They became successors to the Sterling Mining Company in Jackson county, Oregon, which owned fourteen hundred acres of as fine placer land as is to be found in the northwest. Following the death of Captain Ankeny, the business was taken in charge by the other two partners, Mr. Cook becoming president of the company with Henry E. Ankeny, vice president. A twenty-seven mile ditch to the mines was dug as early as 1879, and before this a six-mile hydraulic pipe had been used, the latter placed in operation during 1854 to 1855 and used until 1861. The mines were idle from 1862 to 1877, but in the later year a stock company was formed and the business developed on a profitable basis. The company owned one of the richest placer mines in this part of the country and had as chief executive officer, Mr. Cook, who had active control of its affairs, the enterprise furnishing employment to many workmen and constituting- a source of gratifying success to the owners. He retired from the presidency of the company in 1905. He continued actively in the salmon packing business as a member of the firm of J. W. & V. Cook, operating extensively on the Columbia river until 1896, when he retired from active business cares, devoting his time to his extensive private interests and to the enjoyment of a well earned rest.

Mr. Cook was married in this city to Miss Oronoco L. Ankeny, who was born in West Virginia and was a daughter of Captain A. P. Ankeny. She died in Portland in 1897, leaving two sons and a daughter, Ray A., Lelia A. and Floyd J. In 1907 Mr. Cook was married to Mrs. Martha G. Crowell.

Mr. Cook has always exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and possesses much of that genial and cordial spirit which has made the west famous for its hospitality. His work has been so closely linked with this section of the country and so important in its character that his life constitutes an integral chapter in the history of Portland and no man manifests deeper satisfaction with what has been accomplished or has more willingly given his aid and influence for the upbuilding of this section than Vincent Cook.

George Knight Clark

For more than twenty-five years George Knight Clark has been identified with the real-estate business in Portland. While there may be other men who have been longer connected with business interests in this city, it is doubtful whether a more energetic or capable exponent of the real-estate interests can be found in the northwest than the well known representative whose name stands at the head of this review. Naturally endowed with the qualities of appearance and address so important in the attainment of success in the business world, Mr. Clark has an intimate knowledge of his field of operations that few can claim and an enthusiasm that, rightly controlled, is one of the most valuable attributes to be desired in any vocation.

Mr. Clark was born in Auckland, New Zealand, November 3, 1865, a son of J. Fred Clark, a prominent real-estate man of the east side in this city, whose death occurred in 1889. He was reared in New Zealand until he reached the age of twelve years, when he went with his parents to San Francisco, where he lived for four years. In 1871 the family removed to Portland and here he has remained, engaging with marked success in the real-estate business, at first with his father and since 1889 mainly on his own account. In 1908 he assisted in the organization of the Clark-Cook Company, which handles a large amount of real estate, its operations becoming so important that on November 26, 1909, the firm was incorporated, Mr. Clark being the senior member. He organized the syndicate that bought Sunnyside, in the residence district of the city, this subdivision containing one hundred and sixty acres and being one of the most valuable tracts handled in recent years. Mr. Clark was also a member of the syndicate that bought and laid out the Holladay Park and Rossmere tracts. The former included the area from Eighteenth to Twenty-eighth streets and from the tracks of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company to Halsey street, while the Rossmere addition comprises ninety acres extending from Thirty-seventh street to Ninety-fifth street. These were large undertakings and required a great deal of capital and energy, but were highly successful and contributed greatly in the development of the city. Mr. Clark has also been actively connected with Lewis Wiley in the development of St. Helens Heights, a tract of one hundred and fifty acres, which will be one of the finest of Portland's residence districts. For twenty years past he has been interested in real-estate operations at Mount

Tabor and has been one of the leading operators in subdividing property in that region and placing same on the market. In carrying out many of his plans, he has exercised a judgment that has been little short of phenomenal and often in the face of grave difficulties he has carried projects through to a gratifying realization. It is such men only who are qualified to manage successfully the great real-estate problems that face a rapidly growing city.

In 1897, at Portland, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Esther G. Ellis, a daughter of James Ellis, and the union has been blessed by four children : Marie Louise, Leola Genevieve, Lawrence Knight and Georgia, all of whom are now living at home.

Mr. Clark is a member of the Commercial Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Oregon Good Roads Association, the Portland Automobile Club and the Woodmen of the World. His chief sources of recreation are motoring, shooting and fishing, and he is a liberal patron of all out of door sports. He has never taken an active part in politics as his attention is mainly devoted to the business to which he has given the best energies of his life. He has always been a believer in Portland as the metropolis of the northwest and the wonderful progress of the city during the last ten years is evidence that his confidence has not been misplaced. He is recognized as a leader among the real-estate men of Portland and is known as a straightforward and upright citizen whose talents have contributed very largely toward the development of the city.

John M. A. Laue

The town of Soldin, Germany was the birthplace of John M. A. Laue and his natal day was March 5, 1862. His father, Adolph G. Laue, also a native of Soldin, was a miller by trade and in 1862 came to America with his family, locating at Saginaw, Michigan, where he engaged in milling until his death in December, 1877, when fifty-four years of age. His wife, Henrietta Buchholz, died in 1906 at the age of eighty-two years. In their family were nine children, of whom John M. A. Laue was the eighth in order of birth. He and one brother and a sister came west but the brother, Adolph G. Lane, Jr., died here in 1903. The sister, Mrs. Anna Strohecker, is a resident of Portland.

John M. A. Laue pursued his education at Saginaw, Michigan, but left school in 1876, at the age of fourteen years, and went to Passaic, New Jersey, where he worked in a drug store. Entering the New York College of Pharmacy, he was graduated therefrom in 1881, at the age of nineteen years, being one of the youngest to complete the course in those days. He removed westward in the fall of 1883, becoming a resident of Denver, Colorado, and in the spring of 1884 he came to Portland, where he has since resided. He was employed as a drug clerk in this city until 1886, when laudable ambition prompted him to engage in business on his own account and he established a drug store which he has since conducted, having now one of the oldest established business enterprises of this character in the city. He was the first in Portland to give instruction in pharmacy and many years ago, when the Willamette University established a department of pharmacy, he became one of the instructors therein. However, this was soon discontinued and pharmacy was not taught here again until September, 1908, when he started quiz classes, preparing drug clerks to pass the examinations of the state board of pharmacy, for which task he was well qualified because of twenty years' connection with that board. Shortly after other schools of pharmacy were established in Portland but his classes still continue and are well attended. He recognized the fact that many drug clerks of long and practical experience sometimes failed to pass the required board examination because they did not know how to study or what course to pursue. Mr. Lane's connection with the Oregon board of pharmacy enabled him to judge where candidates are the weakest and so in his classes he has made it his purpose to teach young men how to answer questions in a straightforward, businesslike manner, without confusion or embarrassment. His course of study is comprehensive, including a knowledge of those branches of science necessary in the conduct of a drug business as well as mercantile methods of store management and sales. Mr. Laue has taken an active interest in everything in the state pertaining to pharmacy and to upholding the high standard that he believes should prevail among pharmacists and for many years he has been a member of the Oregon State Pharmaceutical Association, which he has served as president. He has done much for the upbuilding of this association and in the year 1909 offered a prize of fifty dollars to the person who brought in the largest number of members to the association, while in the present year he is offering a prize of twenty-five dollars to the one who brings in the largest number of clerks as members of the association, his object being to stimulate an interest in the business and the association. To further promote the thorough and efficient study of pharmacy he has donated to the department of pharmacy of the Oregon Agricultural College an annual prize of fifty dollars, known as the Laue prize, to be given to the student receiving the highest class mark in pharmacy. Mr. Laue has served for four terms, covering nearly twenty years, on the Oregon board of pharmacy and has held all of its offices.

On the 6th of September, 1887, Mr. Laue was married at Ilwaco, Washington, to Miss Nora A. Tapley, a daughter ;5f-J.--J.- Tapley, of Claybank, Michigan. They had two children : Otto K., twenty-fw'6 years of age, a student in the department of pharmacy in the Oregon Agrrcu'ltural College --and Nora May, who died September 14, 1908, at the age of eighteen years. The family residence is at 766 Hancock street, Irvington. "L. . ;^^"*^' .!K:^'j>^

Mr. Laue and his family belong to the Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal church, in which he takes an active and helpful interest. He is also a member of Willamette Lodge, No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and of United Artisans, the Woodmen of the World and other fraternities. His political support is given the republican party and he belongs to the Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce, preferring that his activities in behalf of the city and its upbuilding should be put forth in connection with those organizations rather than in the field of politics. His business activity has ever balanced up with the principles of truth and honor and in all of his work he has never sacrificed the high standards which he has set up for himself.

A life purposeful and resultant in its activity and beautiful in its kindly impulses and benevolences was closed when Dr. Jacob S. Giltner passed away on the i8th of May, 1910. His memory, however, remains as a blessed benediction to those who knew him. Reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, he exemplified the teachings of a sect that has always emphasized the spirit of brotherhood and mutual kindness and helpfulness. The life span of Dr. Giltner covered about eighty-six years and to the last he retained his mental faculties unimpaired. He was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of October, 1824, a son of Conrad and Rebecca (Snyder) Giltner. The ancestry of the family is traced back in direct line to the Prince of Orange. The Doctor's parents were farming people, well known and highly honored in that section of the Keystone state in which they made their home. The father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, aiding valiantly in the cause for independence. He inherited a large tract of land in Pennsylvania and devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits there.

Dr. Giltner's educational advantages in his youth were extremely limited. He had the opportunity to attend school for only three months, but later he embraced every chance to further his knowledge, read broadly and thought deeply. While plowing in the fields he often had a book with him and his evenings were devoted to study. His early life was spent upon a farm and he became familiar with every duty that falls to the lot of the agriculturist. When sixteen years of age he began to teach school in the winter months, and his work in this direction further stimulated his desire for and determination to secure an education. His mother, sympathizing with him in this ambition, upon inheriting a little money sent him to college, although this course was in opposition to the wishes of her relatives. It was the best thing that she could do for her son, however, as she gave to him something which no one could take from him and which constituted the foundation for his success and for much useful service in life. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania when about twenty-one years of age, after which he returned home and was married.

It was in 1846 that Dr. Giltner wedded Miss Martha M. Hause, of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and after residing near Harrisburg for a time he returned to his home county, where he entered at once upon the practice of medicine, in which he continued with success until after the outbreak of the Civil war. He then offered his services to the government, took a competitive examination, and therein won the appointment of commander and medical director of the hospital of the Army of the Cumberland at Nashville, Tennessee, with the rank of major. He enlisted from Milton, Pennsylvania, was mustered in at Washington, D. C, and did splendid service for the Union soldiers in the utilization of his skill and ability, both in field and hospital service. While at the front he gained that experience as a surgeon which made him afterward a specialist in that branch of the medical science.

After the war was over, Dr. Giltner went to Pithole, Pennsylvania, where oil had just been struck, and engaged in the practice of medicine there until June, 1866, when he started for Oregon. Arriving at Portland, he at once began the practice of medicine here and remained a well known member of the profession of this city until about seventy-eight years of age, when, in 1875, he returned to the college in which he had long before been a student and there pursued a post-graduate course. He then came to Portland and resumed the active practice of medicine and surgery. He was again a physician here for several years and always enjoyed a large practice that gave him rank with the leading members of the profession in the city. For several years he filled the position of county physician, was also city physician and visiting physician to the insane asylum before his removal to Salem. Throughout his professional career he read the leading contributions to medical literature and kept in touch with the progress of the times, rendering his labors of great value in this connection.