Portland, Oregon - Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders : in Connection with the An (part 20 of 25)

During the presidency of Brother Lucius the name St, Michael's College was dropped and the location moved to Fifteenth and Davis streets, at the beginning of the school year in August, 1895. At that location the institution was known as St. Mary's parochial school but at the suggestion of Archbishop Christie the Brothers returned to their old location in 1899 ^"*^ the school was called Blanchet Institute in honor of the first archbishop of Oregon. Under the administration Brother George the scope of the institution was broadened and it enjoyed a vigorous growth. Under the administration of Brother Andrew, the present fine college building, a three-story structure with basement, has been erected, and the Christian Brothers Business College has become one of the strongest educational centers of the northwest. Following its dedication, the building was opened for classes the first week of December. The block of ground on Grand avenue and Clackamas on which the new building stands, was purchased in 1907 and the plans for the new college made late in that year. It was principally through the liberal donations of the Portland people, Catholic and non-Catholic, that the site was purchased and the building erected. The Brothers had no money. Brother Andrew was a stranger in a strange land. Armed with the authority of His Grace Most Rev. Alexander Christie, and with firm confidence in God, Brother Andrew began the task. "For God and the boys of Portland" was his request when asking for donations. That God has blessed the undertaking, and that Brother Andrew has labored well, the present institution testifies. Others will still help to wipe out the indebtedness by founding scholarships and by donations. The main building is remarkably suited for its purpose, and has been equipped with a view to its thorough utility. For almost a quarter of a century the school has been under the guidance of the Christian Brothers, an order founded by St. John Baptist de la Salle, who was born in Rheims in 1651 and died at Rouen in 17 19. The purpose of the order was the promotion of Christian education and with great love for the work he was very successful. The Brothers came to America in 1837, settling in Canada, and a few years later arrived in the United States. The Portland school is conducted along modern lines, giving a thorough training in that which qualifies young men and women for entrance to the business world as well as in Christian education. Under the leadership of Brother Andrew the scope of the work is being extended, and there is now a large enrollment of earnest students who are making excellent progress.

The school opened November 29, 1908, with seventy boys in attendance; the enrollment for 1909-10 was two hundred and thirty-four, and in 1910-11 it will probably amount to two hundred and seventy. The present faculty is composed of Brother V. Andrew, F. S. C, president; Brother George, F. S. C, vice president; and Brothers Luke, Fabian, Gabriel, Adrian, Bernard, Aldrick and Ananias, while in the music department Professor Frank G. Eichenlaub is instructor in violin and George F. Wilson instructor in piano. In addition to the Christian Brothers Business College, the Christian Brothers also have charge of the St. James parochial school at Vancouver, Washington, where Brothers Aldrick and Ananias teach, going back and forth each day from the Portland school.

Richard Goodman

Among the pioneers of the Pacific coast whose memory is revered by those now living who knew him and whose qualities of courage and perseverance have been inherited by younger generations of the family, may be named Richard Goodman. A native of Ohio, he was born October 18, 1806, more than a century ago, when the great west was dimly known only to the aborigines and the fur traders and hunters, and when civilization, as it had been developed in America, was limited to the region east of the Alleghanies. The vast area now comprising two-thirds of the United States was awaiting the company of the pioneer with his ox, ax and plow, and right nobly did he acquit himself after once appearing on the scene. Many of the early pioneers were uneducated men, but Richard Goodman had advantages in his boyhood of training in the rudimentary branches of the schools. He grew up in Ohio and was there married to Sarah Conner, the couple removing to Missouri, then on the frontier, and locating in Cooper county, where they took up land.

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In 1843, when Mr. Goodman was thirty-seven years of age, he yielded to an irresistible impulse calling for new scenes and for opportunities that did not seem possible in a country that was beginning, according to the mind of the pioneer, to be too thickly settled. He joined a band of hardy adventurers and started for the northwest coast. The family had been increased by three new arrivals, and Mr. Goodman was now at the head of a family consisting of a wife" and six children, all of whom accompanied him on the trip over the trail. The Indians had not yet become so troublesome as in later years, but many difficulties of deserts, mountains and bridgeless streams presented themselves. Herds of buffalo were frequently met with and the hunters of the party then took advantage of the opportunity to lay in a supply of meat for future use. A sad event of the journey was the death of one of the members of the family. After six months of toil Oregon City, in the valley of the Willamette was reached and here the family remained for a year, while Mr. Goodman arranged for a permanent home. Oregon territory had not yet been organized, and the few settlers who had the courage to seek fortune at the end of a journey of two thousand miles were located along the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Mr. Goodman took up a claim in the Waldo hills and moved his family to the spot, where a log house was erected and the daily duties of life were resumed under the most primitive conditions. A large fireplace occupied nearly an entire end of the cabin and the furniture was such as could be readily made with the ordinary implements of the settler. After a few years the gold excitement of California attracted many of the farmers of the northern region, and among those who sought fortune in the mines was Mr. Goodman. There he was taken with a fatal illness in 1849, from which he died.

Mrs. Goodman was a woman of great fortitude and she bravely took up the responsibility which was now thrown upon her shoulders. She moved with her children to the coast. During the troublous times of the Rogue River Indian war, the family was compelled to leave their home and take refuge in one of the frontier posts. This was in the winter of 1855-1856. Mrs. Goodman became the wife of a Mr. Dodge and for a time lived in California but returned to Oregon, where she departed this life at an advanced age. She was the mother of ten children, nine of whom were by her first husband : Martha, now deceased ; Fred Taylor; Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Francis Moffett, also deceased; Rebecca, a sketch of whom appears below ; John, who died during the trip with his parents over the plains ; Mary J., the wife of Clifton Thrift of California ; William J., deceased ; Peter G., of California ; Sarah Ann, the wife of Green Ferrin of Marshfield, Oregon ; and Richard, who was the son of her second husband and has now passed away.

Rebecca, the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Goodman, was born in Missouri and crossed the plains when about six years of age. She has lived in Oregoa ever since 1843, with the exception of a short stay in California, and has been a witness of the great changes in the northwest by which a wilderness has been transformed into one of the most productive and prosperous regions of America. She was educated in the schools of Salem, Oregon, and on May 10, 1855, was united in marriage to Jasper N. Hall, a promising young pioneer and one of the worthy men who manfully assisted in preparing the way for thousands who have since arrived. He was a native of Missouri, born May 30, 1833, and is now deceased. Three sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hall : Samuel J. and Walter W., both of Portland; and William J., who died at the age of five years. On the 6th of November, 1864, Mrs. Hall was married to Daniel J. Grififiths, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, who was born February 24, 1826, and departed this life at Marshfield, Oregon, February 25, 1892, at the age of sixty-six years. He was a blacksmith and machinist and an industrious citizen who always tried to perform his duty not only as to his family, but in all the relations of life. Three -"hildren were born of this union : Annie B., deceased ; Charles J., now living in Portland ; and Minnie H., who became Mrs. James Fanning and is now deceased.

Mrs. Griffiths is a worthy descendant of worthy ancestry, and is one of the remarkable pioneer women of Oregon. She is a member of the pioneer society and is also affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. She has passed through many vicissitudes but, true to the principles that upheld the noble men and women of the early days, she has never yielded to discouragement, and in all the duties of daughter, wife and mother has heroically performed her part.

Henry Washburn Goddard

Henry Washburn Goddard, who is identified with the real-estate interests of Portland and for many years was officially connected with the railroad business, was born at Monroe, Wisconsin, August 12, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, at Lawrence University, of Appleton, Wisconsin, and also took a law course at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1896. His first business experience was in his father's store in Monroe, where he continued for several years, at the end of which time he entered the railroad service as clerk and finally station agent and telegraph operator at Mears, vMichigan.

Later Mr. Goddard decided to seek wider fields and came to San Francisco in March, 1879, arriving in Portland a month later, where he has since resided, with the exception of from 1881 to 1886 spent in the Willamette valley. On first reaching Portland he was in the employ of J. L Case & Company for a few months, then he re-entered the railroad business as a telegraph operator of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company at the Lower Cascades.

On January i, 1881, he went to Dayton, Oregon, as station agent for the Oregonian Railway Company, Limited, becoming auditor and superintendent of the road, continuing until it was absorbed by the Southern Pacific in 1890. For six years, up to 1896, he was connected with the general foreign department of the Southern Pacific Company and at the end of this time was made assistant general agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad for the Pacific northwest territory continuing until 1906, when he retired from the railroad business to accept the presidency of the Oregon Auto-Despatch, a transfer company which he organized and managed for several years. This was the first company or individual on the Pacific coast to use a self-propelled vehicle in a commercial way. Since 1907 he has been actively engaged in the realestate business and in 1909 became a member of the firm of Goddard & Wiedrick, who are engaged in handling properties mostly belonging to the firm.

Mr. Goddard is a stanch advocate of the principles of the republican party and served for three years, from 1902 to 1905, as a member of Mayor William's executive board under appointment of the mayor. His ability in the transaction of public afifairs was also recognized by his appointment July 6, 1910, as a member of the board of county commissioners of Multnomah county, as ' successor to Commissioner Barnes, who resigned at that time.

During Mr. Goddard's service on the board of county commissioners, he solved the transportation question over the drawbridges in this city, by taking the position that the county had the right to regulate the opening and closing of the drawbridges and that the navigation interests must give way at certain periods to the foot and vehicle travel over the bridges, although the secretary of war, who assumed to control the bridges, had refused to grant any relief, even though besieged with monster petitions. Mr. Goddard and County Judge Cleeton as the county court instructed the bridge tenders to refuse to allow boats to pass through the bridges at certain specified times when the overhead travel was at its maximum, and although the local federal officials threatened prosecution with a dire punishment of fine and imprisonment, the county court was firm and the war department conceded the point after one day's delay.

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This established a precedent which will be of great value to the commercial interests of the city. Mr. Goddard has been connected for years with the Masonic order and is a member and treasurer of Hawthorne Lodge, No. iii, A. F. & A. M., and also a member of Washington Chapter, No. i8, R. A. M.

In 1880 Mr. Goddard was united in marriage with Miss Mary Travers, of Portland. Three children were born of the union, a son and daughter dying in infancy, and Mrs. Horace Burnett Fenton of Portland. Mr. Goddard is a direct descendant on his mather's side of Gilbert Allen, who served in the war of the Revolution, having been a member of the New Jersey Militia.

Through many years of active experience as a railroad man Mr. Goddard made an extensive acquaintance and gained a practical knowledge of the Pacific coast and its resources. Being a man of wide observation, good judgment, liberal education and pleasing manner, he has found a congenial field in assisting in the development of his adopted state and has many friends who wish him unlimited success in the vocation to which he is by nature and experience thoroughly adapted.

Charles O. Barnes

There is a mystery in death when it calls from a field of usefulness one who has just reached the prime of life and who apparently has before him many years of continued development and added usefulness. This mystery still enshrouds the career of Charles O. Barnes, a man of great energy and business ability, who was called from scenes of earth twenty-five years ago, at the age of fortyeight. In business judgment few men in Oregon have surpassed him and had he been spared twenty years longer he would probably have been known as one of the wealthiest men of the northern Pacific coast.

Charles O. Barnes was born in New York state, August 9, 1836, and at an early age he was left an orphan. He was given but little school advantage and as he grew up assisted on the home farm. In 1853, at the age of seventeen, he joined a party of emigrants from the eastern states and made the trip across the plains, driving an ox team. The trials and dangers incident upon a journey of six months through a strange country made a profound impression on the mind of the New York boy and no doubt had an important effect in shaping his future career. Although without parental restraint and guidance, he learned the importance of decision and self-reliance, and these elements were early brought into play. He sowed no wild oats. By working as a farm laborer and in mines of southern Oregon and California, he saved money to buy a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in the Willamette valley. By additional purchases from time to time he increased the area of the farm until it covered about four hundred acres and was made into one of the best producing farms in the valley. Seeing the demand for fine horses in the California market and having special ability in the selection and sale of all classes of live stock, Mr. Barnes rented his farm, moved to Albany, Oregon, and for a year delivered horses by land to San Francisco. Returning to Albany, he engaged also in stock-raising and kept agents in the field in different parts of the state, buying and selling live stock on an extensive scale. He was especially interested in blooded stock and no man on the coast could more quickly detect the fine points of an animal than he. His business grew to large proportions and he made a fortune and a reputation which was not confined to the state of Oregon. For a number of years he was actively connected with public movements but was never a candidate for office. His sympathies were with the republican party, but he was essentially a business man who found his greatest happiness on the growing farm, in the cattle or horse herd, or in the busy mart where tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars change hands in an hour and the man of keen apprehen- sion and quick resolve wins over all competitors. Mr. Barnes departed this life December 9, 1885. His body was deposited by loving hands in its last resting place in the cemetery at Albany, but the remembrance of his many manly qualities continues without abatement in the minds of those with whom he was associated.

The maiden name of the wife of Mr. Barnes was Martha Peterson, and the marriage took place at Peterson Butte, Oregon, on the 24th of December, 1862. She was a native of West Virginia, born June 30, 1836, and was the seventh child of the ten children of Henry J. and Eliza (Allen) Peterson, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Massachusetts. The patriot, Ethan Allen, who demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga "In the name of God and the Continental Congress" was one of the progenitors of the family on the maternal side. The Peterson family came west about 1845, the party losing its way in attempting to travel by the ill-fated Meek's cut-olf and having a great deal of trouble with the Indians. To add to the distress of the painful journey of many months one of the young sons of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson died and his grave was made by the side of the trail. In 1848 Mr. Peterson took up a claim at Peterson Butte, where he built a home and where he and his wife died in 1861. He Vv'as a prominent man in the early days, as is shown by the fact of his serving as a member of the first territorial legislature which convened at Oregon City.

Mrs. Charles O. Barnes moved from Albany to Portland early in 1907 and here she was called to rest on April 21st, of that year. Her body reposes by the side of her husband at Albany. She was the mother of three children : Mary E., now deceased ; Loella, the wife of Eugene La Forest, of Portland, to whom she was married at Albany, December 22, 1886; and Velma C, who passed away in early childhood. Mr. La Forest, the husband of the second daughter, is a native of Oregon City, where he was born June 9, 1863, his parents being Eugene and Mary La Forest. The former was born near Paris, France, and came to the Pacific coast in the French ship called the Morning Star, which was wrecked ofif the northwest coast. He was a successful merchant, a member of the Roman Catholic church and a Mason. He died in 1874. His widow, who is a native of Baden-Baden, Germany, is still living at the age of about eighty years. Eugene La Forest, son of Eugene and Mary La Forest, was educated at Oregon City and has been a railroad man ever since the beginning of his business career. He first entered the telegraph department and has risen through various grades and is now a popular conductor on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Plis home has been in Portland since 1907. Mr. La Forest is prominently identified with the Masonic order and is a member of the blue lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine.

Mrs. Charles O. Barnes was a woman of highly estimable character. She was a general favorite among young people and her reminiscences of pioneer life and experiences on the trail always attracted attentive listeners. She represented a type which is rapidly passing away but which made a lasting impress on the generation now in charge of affairs on the Pacific coast.

Thomas McArthur Anderson, a retired brigadier general of the United States army, whose personal qualities make him an honored resident of Portland, was born in Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, on the 21st of January, 1836. He is a son of William Marshall and Eliza (McArthur) Anderson and is of English and Scotch descent. He completed his more specifically literary course by graduation from Mount St. Mary's College of Maryland with the class of 1855, and in 1899 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. He is also a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School of 1858 and entered

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Attracted to the fields of mihtary service after three years, he put aside the duties of the profession to become a private of vokinteers in the Civil war. His loyalty, his observance of military discipline and his increasing knowledge of military tactics led to his promotion from time to time and from private in the war between the states he rose to the rank of major general of volunteers in the Spanish-American war, and from second lieutenant in the regular army to the grade of brigadier general. In the campaigns of 1861 in Virginia he served as a lieutenant of cavalry; in the campaigns of 1862, 1863 and 1864, as a captain of the Twelfth Infantry and acting field officer in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania and many minor combats. He was twice wounded and was twice brevetted. While convalescing from wounds he served on a board for the organization of a signal corps and veteran reserve corps. At the close of the war of the Rebellion he served on the staff of General Joe Hooker in the west, and in 1867 and 1868 he served as commissioner of registration and reconstruction in Virginia. This was followed by nine years' service in Texas with the usual experiences in Indian campaigns of hard service with little credit given. The American public has thrilled with the story of warfare when the long battle lines have been drawn up face to face, -but comparatively little is understood of the work that has been done on the frontier, where the soldiers could not meet the Indians in open warfare but must, in as far as possible, resort to the methods of the wily red man, who always fires upon his foe- from ambush or attempts to surprise him by an unexpected attack that will allow him no opportunity for defense. Neither does he give any quarter and yet, thoroughly familiar with every hill and valley, ravine and stream of the country in which he has tramped and hunted, he has led the federal military forces upon chases that have tested the endurance of the most strenuous. Only at the present time when the press is recounting some of the methods and hardships of such campaigning is there given a tardy recognition of the work done by the soldiery on the frontier. After leaving Texas, General Anderson was on duty for six years in Wyoming and Nebraska as lieutenant colonel of the Ninth Infantry, commanding the regiment. In 1866 he was promoted colonel of the Fourteenth Infantry, with headquarters at Vancouver Barracks. He held this position for twelve years and enlisted all of his men from Oregon and Washington. As commandant of Vancouver Barracks he carried on a successful lawsuit against the Catholic Bishop of Nesqually, which secured for the government the post reservation.

In the Klondike gold excitement of 1897-8, General Anderson was made commandant of the Lynn canal district in Alaska. At that time the British commissioner of the Yukon had established his headquarters in Skaguay with two companies of the Dominion mounted police and claimed all of the territory back of the coast line. When General Anderson arrived with his regiment he forced the Dominion authorities to move back of the ten marine leagues and beyond the passes of the coast range. Possession being nine points in the law, he thus enabled the United States to make good its claim to the whole Alaskan coast.

In the Spanish-American war General Anderson commanded the first expedition to the Philippines and the first American troops that crossed the ocean. The expedition consisted of the Fourteenth United States Infantry, the Second Oregon and First California Infantry. A batallion of heavy artillery had raised our flag over Cavite, Luzon, July i, 1898. General Anderson found himself thwarted rather than assisted by Aguinaldo, which led to a correspondence that brought to light his ambitious designs and hostile attitude. When General Merritt, commander of the Department of the Pacific, arrived General Anderson was designated division commander of the Eighth Army Corps. He commanded the land forces which took Manila Augnst 13, 1898. On the outbreak of the Filipino insurrection his division south of the Pasig was fiercely attacked on February 5, 1899. He defeated the Filipinos in battles fought at Santana, Passay and San Pedro, Nacate, capturing all of their artillery and eight hundred prisoners and inflicting a loss of three thousand killed and wounded. The most trying ordeal through which this command had to pass and in which the Second Oregon had to bear the brunt was the attempt of the insurgents to burn Manila and to murder all the white residents. When aggressive hostilities were resumed, General Anderson's regiment, to which the Second Oregon, First California, First Washington and regiments from Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas were attached, defeated the insurgents at Guadalupe church and Pasig and Pateros. Having been made a brigadier general in the regular army. General Anderson was ordered to Chicago to take command of the Department of the Lakes. On his return in 1900 he was soon afterward made commandant of the Ohio Soldiers Home and after holding that position for three years resigned to become a citizen of Portland, Oregon.

On the 8th of February, 1869, at Richmond, Virginia, General Anderson was married to Miss Elizabeth Van Winkle, a lady of Holland Dutch descent, and to them were born two sons and four daughters : Arline, now the wife of J. W. Cairns; Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Gould; Minnie, the deceased wife of R. H. Allen; Thomas M., now captain of the Seventh United Infantry; Van W., of Portland ; and Irmingard, the wife of W. T. Patten.

General and Mrs, Anderson attend the Unitarian church. From time to time, as favorable opportunity has offered, General Anderson has made investment in property and is now a landowner in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Washington, and was also a director of the Commercial Bank of Vancouver, Washington, in 1893-94. He holds membership in the Union League Club of Philadelphia, the Arlington Club of Portland and the Columbus Club of Columbus, Ohio, and upon him have been bestowed the highest Masonic honors - election to the thirtythird degree of the Scottish Rite. His political platform is found in a strict construction of the federal constitution and a tariff for revenue only. Reading between the lines one comes to a knowledge of that ability, intellectual development and qualities of leadership which have brought him to the rank of brigadier general and gained him many friends in those circles where important questions of the day are intelligently discussed.

Edward Lothrop Coldwell

A quarter of a century's connection with the Oregonian as a member of the reportorial staff brought Edward Lothrop Coldwell a wide acquaintance, and such warm friendships that his death, which occurred on the 15th of March, 1908, was the occasion of widespread and sincere regret. There is something in a nickname that indicates good fellowship and kindly spirit, and this was particularly true in the case of Mr. Coldwell, who to all of his legion of friends, was known as "Jerry."

He was born in Gaspereau, Nova Scotia, July i, 1839, a son of Sherman and Eliza Coldwell, who were also natives of that country, where the father followed the occupation of farming and also engaged in the grocery business. The family is of English lineage and was founded on American soil by William Coldwell, who was born in England in 1695 and in 1712 became a resident of Massachusetts. He was there married to Jane Jordon, and in 1758 removed with his family to Nova Scotia, leaving in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, one son, Ebenezer, whose descendants are found there and in other parts of the United States. One of his descendants has been compihng a genealogical record of the family and has not only accomplished that task, but was also instrumental in organizing the family reunion which met at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in July, 1909. Through his instrumentality there has been erected a monument to the memory of the American progenitor which is inscribed : "William Coldwell, born in England, 1695, died October 28, 1802, at Gaspereau, Nova Scotia; also his wife, Jane Jordon, bom at Stoughton, Massachusetts, June i, 1707." The ancestral history is traced back to a more remote period, when representatives of the family went from France to Scotland, three brothers settling north of the Solway near a cold well, from which they derived their surname, spelled and pronounced "Cald" north of the Solway and "Cold" in England, so that the two names have the same origin. Oliver Cromwell was descended from the family and they figured prominently in English and Scottish events during the reign of the Stuarts and the House of Hanover. William Coldwell, after some years' residence in Massachusetts, traveled northward through Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to his destination in Horton to take up lands vacated by the Arcadians. He settled on the banks of the Gaspereau river, where his descendants are now living in the seventh generation.

Edward Lothrop Coldwell was educated at Horton Academy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and as a young man worked in his father's grocery and on the home farm. At the age of twenty-three he went to California by way of the isthmus of Panama, where he spent a year, after which he returned to Nova Scotia. A few months later he again took up his abode in California, where he was for a time engaged in the lumber camps. In 1870 he left California with the intention of going to the orient. He sailed from .San Francisco on one of the coasters for Portland, expecting to take passage for Japan on a sailing vessel from that place. Upon reaching Portland, which was at that time a thriving httle town, he decided to remain. He found work in the printing office of A. G. Walling and there learned the printer's trade. He was later employed as pressman on the Bulletin. After four years spent in Portland, he removed to Salem, where for a time he worked in the State Printing Office. Some of his associates while working for the state were Wilbur Cornell, W. P. Keady, James E. Sears, all oldtime printers.

Returning to Portland in 1879, Mr. Coldwell secured a position as pressman on the Bee. In 1881 he became connected with the Oregonian as reporter, and served continuously in that capacity with uncommon zeal and conspicuous success for a little more than a quarter of a century. At the time of his death one who had long been connected with him in newspaper work said : "Jerry's place on the Oregonian will never be filled. More capable men may arise ; writers more brilliant, perhaps, but they will not do the same class of work nor cover the infinite variety of topics that came within this man's baliwick. For it is to be remembered that Jerry developed when Portland was emerging from a big town into a city; when everybody was interested in his neighbor; when Henry Failing knew personally every depositor in the First National ; when Cicero H. Lewis could tell the standing of every general merchandise dealer in Oregon, Washington and Idaho without opening Bradstreet's record ; when Bishop and Mrs. Morris exchanged calls with every Episcopalian family in the parish, and when Joe Buchtel called by their Christian names ninety per cent of the men who voted for him for sherifif."

Mr. Coldwell was married in Salem in 1874 to Miss Fannie A. Barker, whose parents came from Burlington, Iowa, to Salem, Oregon, in 1847. ^^^ father, William Barker, was a cabinet-maker and one of the first furniture dealers in Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Coldwell became the parents of two children : Orin B., who was educated at Stanford and Cornell Universities, and is general superintendent of the light and power department of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company ; and Miss Mary Coldwell, who is well known in amateur musi- cal circles as a most skillful piano player and as a successful teacher of music. Mrs. Coldwell still resides at No. 267 Grant street, where she has lived for the past thirty years.

Mr. Coldwell's political allegiance was given to the republican party, and his influence was a factor in the party's growth, but he never sought office as a reward for his fealty. He passed away on the 15th of March, 1908, at the age of sixty-nine years. At the funeral services, Dr. T. L. Eliot said, referring to the season of the year and the bright morning sunshine, that "they fitted the character and life of Mr. Coldwell, one of whose leading characteristics was the love of nature and who carried the sunshine of good humor, cheerfulness and true human fellowship wherever he went. There are few higher services that one can render the world. Such a temper of mind reaches out in ever-widening circles. Mr. Coldwell's vocation led him to harbor with all sorts and conditions of men. He discovered the soul of goodness in some things evil. He could wield the weapons of satire and ridicule - often more potent than argument or denunciation to break abuses. The local column and reporter's stories or news items of the Oregonian which he wrote, reflected the man in all his varying qualities of wit and wisdom. His life was a genuine ministry, better than written sermons and full of the potencies of manly character."

Harvey W. Scott, editor of the Oregonian, also paid tribute to Mr. Coldwell, who, he said, "lived close to nature and close to man ; in every relation of life he did his duty. Fidelity was an absolute part of his nature. I should scarcely say that he was guided by determination to do his duty, for he did it unconsciously and was far and away above the need of strengthening his nature by resolves. The testimony of his fellow workers assembled around his bier shows in what esteem he was held by those who, outside his own home, knew him best. The work he did on the Oregonian for years, in no way obstrusive, yet had marked significance. Its quaintness, its good nature, its gentle humor, its nearness to the heart and fife of its author, and of all those who read it, gave proofs that though the author was not known very much except in our own community, nevertheless, wherever the Oregonian was read here was the work of a distinctive hand. He was a moral man of mental equipoise, of even temper, never subject to excitements. Of his religious beliefs he was never obstrusive, but his attitude toward the sacred mysteries of life and death and futurity was always reverent. Though never publicly proclaiming it, he shared with all other thoughtful human beings the idea that man has sure relations with the infinite. Yet he did not dogmatize on the subject. His idea was that we have come, we know not how, out of the infinite unknown ; that we shall return, we know not how, to the infinite unknown. Yet sure belief in some thought or suggestion of immortality was shared by him. He was too thoughtful and too serious to think otherwise."

In the Oregonian from the pen of N. J. Levinson, Sunday editor, appeared the following: "As one of his oldest Portland friends and long-time co-worker, I have been asked to write an estimate of Jerry Coldwell. No apology is needed for employing his nickname without quotation points ; the thousands who knew him here are not familiar with the name as written in the family Bible. Jerry Coldwell was the best all-round reporter I ever knew, and much more. He was philosopher and humorist. On everything he wrote, even to the dry routine of daily news, he put his personal impress. Sometimes it was satirical, occasionally bitter to the point of extreme severity, often clearly informative, more often quaintly humorous and always in the spirit of self-help. On his syrnpathetic side he leaned to every man, woman and child that cultivated the soil either for pleasure, profit or in the struggle for bread. He loved everything that grew in the earth ; his most delightful studies were natural history and botany. Whenever he learned a fact, he felt it his duty to impart the information to mankind. And he never guessed at a fact. He dug wherever he could to get the truth, nor did he weary in his search. For him a noxious weed, a La France rose, the woolly aphis and a stool of wheat had equal interest, and he tried to teach how to exterminate enemies and improve friends. Jerry wrote naturally. He knew nothing of the tricks of writing for effect. When he manufactured a story, the very simplicity of it made it go. Up to six years ago when he had a fall from a street car and suffered concussion of the brain, which impaired his faculties, Jerry could invent more good stuff in a day than an average reporter with a roving detail could gather in a week. Every bit of it was readable, most of it excellent. He very seldom contributed to the waste basket. Jerry had prodigious industry. No day was too long and no distance too great when news was to be obtained. He was ever careful of his facts. In and out of the office he was 'Old Reliable.' Jerry was an omniverous reader and remembered. He knew intimately the 'Hundred Best Books' and the other two or three hundred equally good in the Portland library. After he had finished his day's work, which for years ran far into the night, he refreshed himself and added to his store of knowledge by association with masters, ancient and modern. His favorites were Herbert Spencer and Kipling. All his work was, of course, impersonal, for he served at a time when it wasn't the fashion for staff members, correspondents and contributors to sign their matter. If that had been the custom in his day, Jerry would have been more widely known than any other newspaper man in the Pacific northwest with the one conspicuous exception - the editor of the Oregonian." It is these qualities indicated above that gained Mr. Coldwell a firm hold on the affections of his friends and causes his memory to be cherished by all who knew him.

Alexander Hamilton

Millions live and die in the overpopulated countries of the old world with scarcely no possibility at all of improving the condition in which they were born. Other millions have severed the ties that bound them to their old homes, and, braving the ocean and the dangers of many months' journey across the continent to new scenes among strangers, have built up a home and established a family in the northwest in a land of promise and of plenty. Among those who succeeded in the face of many obstacles and who has left an honored name as a lasting heritage may be named Alexander Hamilton. He passed from the scene of his labors at Portland twenty years ago, but his children and grandchildren will ever have cause to remember him as a kind parent and a respected and public-spirited citizen, whose influence for good will continue even after new generations have appeared upon the scene.

Born in Ireland, in 1814, he was educated there and entered the mercantile business. In the old country he was married and there his wife died, leaving three children. Margaret Ann, now Mrs. Stevens, of California ; Alexander, now deceased ; and Thomas, living in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Hamilton was not a man to be long satisfied with conditions such as prevailed on the Emerald isle sixty years ago. He longed for more favorable surroundings, at least for his children, so he joined the tide that sought freedom and opportunity in America. He stopped for a time in the east, but in 1852 crossed the plains with his children to Oregon, taking up his home in Portland, which, as a business man, he regarded as the most favorably located city in the state, and which he believed would become a metropolis of the Pacific. The development of years have proven the truth of his conclusions. He was one of the early merchants of the city, conducting business for a number of years in partnership with Mr. Stansbery. He was also a successful street contractor in the early day and became prominently connected with the Masonic order. He died at the age of seventysix, in 1890.

In Portland, Mr. Hamilton was married to Miss Christina Chandler, who came with her parents from the east and located in this city. Six children were born of his second marriage : Asa ; Hosea ; Emily, mentioned below ; Wilson, now deceased ; Elsie ; and Ernest, now deceased. Mrs. Hamilton departed this life at Portland, in 1890, at the age of forty-seven years, leaving a devoted family and many friends to mourn her departure.

Emily, the first daughter and third child of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, is the wife of Wilson F. Hume, a leading attorney of Portland, to whom she was married December 25, 1882. One daughter was born to this union, Margaret, now living in San Francisco. Mr. Hume is a native of California, born at Placerville, October 20, 1861. He attended the public schools at Placerville and later was graduated from Wabash College, Indiana. When about eighteen years of age he came to Portland and became the private secretary of Senator J. N. Dolph. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and for some time practiced in partnership with J. Finley Watson and Edward Watson. He served as deputy district attorney and later was elected as district attorney, serving for two terms with great acceptance to the courts and the people. He has also occupied a seat in the state legislature and is prominently identified with the councils of the republican party in the state of Oregon. Mr. Hume is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Masonic orders, having taken the degrees of the blue lodge, chapter, council and commandery. As will be seen by the above record, Mr. Hume has fairly demonstrated his ability as one of the foremost men of Portland. He is a lawyer whose voice is always heard in behalf of what he feels to be to the best interest of the community and one whose opinions are found worthy of respect even by his political opponents.

Luther E. Crowe

Portland as the metropolis of the northwest coast has attracted many of the brightest business men of the country - men of ambition and discernment whose minds are capable of grasping problems as they arise and who are always found in the front in anything they undertake. To this class belongs Luther E. Crowe, who is identified with the automobile business in this city. He was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1858, and at the age of eight years went with his parents to California and was reared and educated at Centerville near San Jose. After laying his text-books aside he entered the railroad business and learned telegraphy, being employed for some years as station agent at various points for railways in California, Oregon and Montana.

In 1880 Mr. Crowe resigned his position at the key and came to Portland and was placed in charge of the electrical blasting for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company under J. L. Hallett, superintendent of construction for that road and the Northern Pacific, operations being conducted between The Dalles and Portland. His next position was in Montana in the same line of work under Julius Theilsen. He then went south to California for a time but soon discovered that the northern country held out inducements which older settled regions could not present. He therefore returned to Oregon and became station agent at Hood River for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. Retiring from this position, he purchased the hardware business of Abrahms & Stewart at The Dalles, Oregon, and after building it up to a substantial basis sold out to the Walther Williams Hardware Company in February, 1905.

Having in the meantime married, Mr. Crowe now set out with his wife upon an extended tour of the United States and Canada, which occupied an entire year. In the course of this trip he made many interesting observations, among which was the phenomenal growth of the automobile business and its possibilities as a permanent investment. Returning to Portland as his home, he became associated with A. A. Graham and in 1907 they bought out the Cook Motor Car Company and operated under the title of the Crowe-Graham Motor Car Company. In 1908 he sold out his interest to Mr. Graham and with H. A. Burgess established the Crowe Auto Company, which has the exclusive agency for the Marion automobile and the Oldsmobile. The firm maintains a completely equipped sales department and repair shop and its receipts from the beginning have been highly gratifying, not only to the members of the firm but to the manufacturing companies they represent.

In 1887 Air. Crowe was united in marriage to Miss Eunice Mays, a daughter of Judge Robert Mays, of The Dalles. Mr. Crowe is actively identified with the Knights of Pythias and is past chancellor of Friendship Lodge, No. 9, of The Dalles. He is also past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge No. 303, at The Dalles. In politics he is a republican and while living at The Dalles he rendered efficient service as member of the city council. He is an energetic and prosperous business man, who has seen much of the world and has the spirit of independence that would enable him to make his way anywhere. Although he has engaged only a few years in the automobile business he has gained a large patronage, proceeding as he always does upon the principle that "honesty is the best policy" and a friend made in business is equal to an additional investment of cash capital. Gentlemanly and courteous, he is capable and efficient in anything he undertakes and the positions of honor he has held in fraternal organizations is evidence of the esteem of his associates. He is a citizen who even under the stress of adverse circumstances, should such occur, may be depended upon to uphold his name and the interests he represents with dignity and honor.

Marion Edward Mclrvin is a representative of one of the families early established in the Columbia river valley. He was born in Putnam county, Missouri, July 31, i860, and came to Washington with his father across the plains, making the long and tedious journey which at length brought the family to Clarke county, Washington, where he was reared and educated. After putting aside his text-books he engaged with his father in the lumbering business near the Chehalis river for three years and in 1883 he turned his attention to agricultural and commercial pursuits, purchasing in that year forty-one acres of land, including the present site of Felida. This land he cleared and thereon built a store and conducted a general merchandise business for fourteen years. In fact he became the founder of the town of Felida, named the place and through his influence the railroad station which was there established was also called Felida. Mr. Mclrvin was appointed postmaster under President Harrison and continued to fill that position until 1904, when he disposed of his mercantile interests there and built his present residence. While conducting his store he set out an orchard of fifteen acres and became an active factor in developing the fruit raising interests of this locality. For the past three years he has been connected with the salmon fisheries, purchasing fish traps at Chinook, Washington.

In March, 1882, Mr. Mclrvin was married to Miss Etta May Lewis, of King county, Washington, and they now have seven living children : Harley A. ; Elsie, the wife of Fay Davis, of Felida ; Eldon ; Ethel, the wife of Hugh Miller, of Vancouver ; Earl ; Vernie ; and Clyde. They also lost a son, Lloyd, who was the seventh in order of birth.

Mr. Mclrvin is well known in various lodges, holding membership with the Elks at Vancouver, the Red Men of Felida, the Odd Fellows lodge at Felida and the encampment at Vancouver, while he is also a member of the Grange of

Felida. It is characteristic of Mr. Mclrvin that he carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. In this he seems dominated by the resolute spirit and unfaltering purpose which characterized the early settlers who, coming to the west in pioneer times, have reclaimed this region for the purposes of civilization and through its cultivation have made it a rich and prosperous district of the country.

Charles M. Menzies

Charles M. Menzies, a well known electrician now in the automobile business in Portland, was born in this city, January 7, 1875, a son of James W. and Laura (Harlow) Menzies. The father was born on Sauvie's island, Oregon, August 18, 1850. He continued with his father until he was nineteen years of age and then began for himself as a teamster but at the close of a year in this line of work began farming. He bought one hundred, eighty and one-half acres of land on the Sandy river, fourteen miles from Portland on the base line road. Here he conducted operations of the farm until 1905, when he rented the farm and entered the employ of the Portland Railway Light & Power Company, in which he continued until 1909. His wife, who was a native of Illinois, crossed the plains at ten years of age in 1866. She was a daughter of J. B. Harlow, who was chief engineer of Weigler Mills for many years. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Menzies: Mrs. Idell Hoyt, of Portland; Charles M., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Lulu Strebin, of Gresham; J. Arthur, of Portland ; Laura, of Hot Lake, Oregon ; and Maud, deceased.

The Menzies family is of Scottish descent, the American branch having been founded by James Menzies, the grandfather of Charles M. Menzies, who at the age of twenty-one years had acquired such a thorough knowledge of navigation that he brought a vessel around Cape Horn in 1849 ^^^ engaged as a filibuster at the time of the Mexican war. He commanded a ship which was owned by Captain Gray. Later, in company with a Mr. Dewitt, he bought the vessel and engaged in the coast trade until the ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia river. Having now had sufficient experience as a seafaring man, he decided to remain ashore and bought six hundred and forty acres of land at the head of Sauvie's island. This land he farmed until 1866, when he removed to the mouth of the Sandy river and set up his home on the spot now occupied by the Union Meat Company. In 1883 he retired to Salem, where he died the same year. He was twice married and left the following children: Mrs. G. W. Bates, of Portland ; Mrs. Julia Ambrose, of Bellingham Bay, Washington ; James W., the father of our subject, and Joseph S., both of Roslyn, Washington; Mrs. Hattie Davis, of Dawson City, Alaska; Mrs. Nellie Roberts, of Gresham; and Mrs. Alice Parsons, of Alaska.

Reared in a well conducted home, Charles M. Menzies received his education in the public schools of this city, very early showing special talent along scientific lines, especially in the field of electricity, which during recent years has attracted so much attention from young men of the country. He gained a practical knowledge of the application of electricity under the Albina Light & Water Company, with which he was connected for one year. The firm having sold out to the Willamette Falls Electric Light Company, he was identified with the new management until at the end of twelve months he decided to engage in business upon his own account by organizing the Portland messenger service. After having fairly launched this enterprise successfully, he disposed of it and became foreman of the construction crew of the Western TJnion Telegraph Company. At the end of four years he entered the employ of the Chico Light & Power Company of Chico, California, where he continued for two years. He next was identified as superintendent with the electric light plant of the Cornacopia Mining Company, where he continued for a year, and from 1901 to June i, 1909, he was in the employ of the Portland Railway Light & Power Company.

Upon severing his connection with this company Mr. Menzies purchased the agency of the Franklin automobiles, of which he now has exclusive charge for the western half of Oregon and the southern part of Washington. In his new line of business he has been highly successful and he regards the outlook for the automobile in the Pacific coast region as more favorable than ever before in its history. In connection with his business he maintains a commodious garage and a thoroughly equipped repair shop and during the season of 1910 he disposed of forty-five cars in his territory. Mr. Menzies has demonstrated his ability in two important lines of business and, possessing as he does the tenacity which is characteristic of the sturdy race from which he sprang, his career gives probabilities of a brilliant record in the years to come.

In 1902 Mr. Menzies was united in marriage to Miss Winnetta May Rumsey and to them has been born one son, Donald Rumsey. Mrs. Menzies' father, A. L. Rumsey, was a pioneer of Portland and became quite prominent in business and fraternal circles in that city, being the organizer of Hawthorne Lodge, No. Ill, A. F. & A. M. Mr. Menzies also holds membership in that lodge and has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Eastern Star, with which his wife is also connected. She takes a very active interest in the various charities promoted by that organization. In politics Mr. Menzies is a republican and he is actively identified with the Commercial Club, being largely interested in Portland real estate. He is fond of outdoor athletics, but is especially interested in motoring, shooting and fishing.

Clarence A. Francis

In the northwest, to which he came in his infancy, Clarence A. Francis spent his entire life and his history was as the growth and unfolding of the district in which he lived and with which he was closely associated from pioneer days until death ended his life's labor. He was born in the little town of Blackberry, Illinois, April 19, 1851, and was drowned in the Columbia river, near White Salmon, Washington, August 5, 1902. He came with his parents, Samuel D. and Elizabeth (Stevens) Francis, to Oregon in 1852, and grew to manhood on a farm near Oregon City. He came to Portland about thirty years ago and engaged in brass machinist and moulding business, in which he continued until June, 1902, when he was burned out for the second time in his business career.

He had been a resident at Mount Tabor, Oregon, for fifteen years, where his widow and four children now reside. In Portland, on the 23d of September, 1885, Mr. Francis was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Ann Martin, a daughter of Richard and Hannah Rogers Martin. They became the parents of five children, of whom one is deceased. The others are: Clarence E., Helen L., George L. and Sarah A. Mrs. Francis was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England, and came to America with her parents in 1874. Her father was a stonemason and her maternal grandfather, John Rogers, was a Methodist preacher and delivered one of his first sermons in a little church on the edge of a clifif in Cornwall, where John Wesley preached.

Mr. Francis united with the Methodist church when twenty years of age and was known for many years as a leading member. He was one of the truly faithful, always in his place. He claimed to be wholly consecrated to God, and no one who knew him doubted the genuineness of his consecration. Those who knew him but slightly admired his kind and gentle spirit, but those who knew

His religious belief was evident in his business relations as in other phases of life, making him a most reliable business man whose integrity was ever beyond question. He served in the church as class leader, Sunday school superintendent, trustee and choir leader and as school director of the Mount Tabor schools. It was befitting a life so faithful and true to God and man that it should be closed on earth in an act of true benevolence. He lost his Hfe in an effort to save two boys from drowning. His whole life was one of sacrifice for the good of others.

Richard Hillard Hurley

Starting in life on his own resources at the age of fourteen years, Richard Hillard Hurley had a varied experience covering a long apprenticeship to the machinist's trade in New York city, silver mining in Mexico, a trip around Cape Horn to San Francisco, identification with industrial interests in California and then in Oregon City until the floods drove him to abandon his business interests there and take up assaying in Idaho. Later, however, he returned to Oregon to make his home here until his death.

He was born on the 30th of March, 1830, in Montreal, Canada, of the marriage of Eugene and Emma Hurley, who in his early youth removed with their family to Oswego, New' York. When fourteen years of age a spirit of adventure prompted Richard H. Hurley to run away from home and he made his way to New York city, where he joined an uncle. There he was bound out to learn the machinist's trade, at which he served an apprenticeship until twentyone years of age, gaining a thorough. Jcnowledge of that business. On attaining his majority he made his way to Mexico, where he was employed in the silver mines in the region of Guatemala until 1851. The possibility of finding something better farther on prompted his various removals and from Mexico he went to San Francisco, where he remained for a short time and then proceeded to Oregon City in 1857. There, in connection with a man by the name of Rossi, he conducted a foundry and machine shop, building machinery for the marine works at that place.

It was while living there that Mr. Hurley made arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage on the 17th of November, 1858, to Miss Mary A. McCarver, a daughter of General M. M. McCarver and Mary Ann (Jennings) McCarver. The latter was a sister of Colonel Berryman Jennings, who was the first grand master of the Masonic fraternity in Oregon. General McCarver was one of the Oregon pioneers of 1843. I" the '30s he had been one of the founders of the city of Burlington, Iowa, and in 1831 and 1832 he had participated in the Indian war against the Sac and Fox Indians in Illinois. He came to Oregon, as previously stated, and in 1849 was in Sacramento, California. He was connected with the commissary department in the Indian war in Oregon in 1855-6 and in 1868 he went to Tacoma, Washington. As an Indian fighter, as a builder of towns, having been the founder of Sacramento and Tacoma, as a pioneer in \rarious connections he contributed largely to the upbuilding of the different sections in which he lived, aided in planting the seeds of civilization and in promoting the work of progress that followed the initial labors of the frontier settlers. General McCarver came west in 1843, and his wife came across the plains in 1845, at which time they took up their abode in Oregon City, for Portland then had no existence. The house in which they later lived was built in 1850 from material which was brought from Maine around Cape Horn. It had all been joined and fitted up in New England and after it reached this state was put together. That house is still standing, being one of the pioneer landmarks of

Oregon City. General McCarver devoted his life to farming" in the northwest. That he was regarded as one of the most prominent men of his day is indicated in the fact that three apples were named in his honor, being known as McCarver's Favorite, McCarver's Premium (sweet) and McCarver's Seedling. The General was a most public-spirited man and his life was at all times a force for good as well as for general development in the communities in which he lived. He was the father of eleven children. Of the six children born of his first union all died in infancy except Mrs. Hurley and her brother, Thomas Jennings McCarver, who died about 1880. By his second marriage General McCarver had five children, two of whom are living: Mrs. Thomas Prosch, of Seattle, Washington; and Mrs. W. H. Harris, of Tacoma.

Following his marriage Mr. Hurley remained at Oregon City for about four years but high waters prevailed in the fall of 1861 and the spring of 1862 and everything he had, including three buildings, was washed away. Discouraged by the condition brought about by the floods, he gave up the business of the foundry and machine shop and studied assaying and in the spring of 1862, after the flood had somewhat subsided, he made his way to Lewiston, Idaho, where he established an assaying office. There he was more fortunate in his business ventures and continued at that place until 1873 or 1874, when he returned to Portland. After a brief period, however, he made his way to a place called Price, in Crook county, Oregon, where he was prospecting, remaining there until the time of his death, which occurred in 1905. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at that place.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hurley had been born seven children : George Jennings, now a resident of Loomis, Washington ; Minnie, the wife of Fred Terry, of Coronado, California; Anna, the wife of J. L. LeRoy; Carrie, the wife of Justin Pease, of Risley Station ; Loleata, the wife of A. E. Labowitch, of Risley Station; Belle, who became the wife of George Cavaline and died February 3, 1910; and Elmer S., who was a soldier in the United States service and was stationed in the Philippine Islands as a member of Company D, Fourteenth United States Infantry, until his death, which terminated an illness on the 2d of July, 1908.

Mrs. Hurley, who was born in Lowell, Iowa, on the 15th of December, 1842, was but an infant when her parents crossed the plains. She acquired her education largely in Oregon City and in the old Portland Academy, which then stood on Seventh street near Jefferson and was under the management of Dr. Kingsley, a Methodist minister. At Oregon City she was a pupil of Judge Shattuck and she studied music under Miss Zeeber, a well known teacher of that day. She is a prominent member of Martha Washington Chapter of the Eastern Star of Portland and is popular in the social circles of the city, where she has many friends. She is a representative of one of Oregon's oldest pioneer families and has been a witness of the growth and development of the state for sixty-seven years.

Mrs. Minnie Franklin

Among the women of the northwest who are making an enviable success as fruit raisers may be named Mrs. Minnie Franklin, who resides on a well kept ranch near Vancouver and in the management of her affairs displays a knowledge of farm operations that one would scarcely expect except from a person whose lief had been passed on the farm under most favorable conditions.

Mrs. Franklin is a native of Iowa, born in 1863, and when three years of age removed with her parents, William and C. C. Smiley, to Missouri, where she was reared. She was educated in the public schools, and in 1880 was united in marriage to Francis M. Franklin. She came west with her parents in 1883 to Vancouver and there spent the winter, but returned to Arkansas the following spring,

Mr. Frankhn was a timber cruiser and about this time was engaged by a Boston firm to visit Nicaragua, Central America, for the purpose of selecting and getting out mahogany and Spanish cedar for shipment to New England. Mrs. Franklin accompanied her husband upon the trip, returning to Washington at the expiration of two and one-half years. A year later he again went to Central America and remained for two years and a half, after which he again became a resident of Vancouver, making his home there until his death June 20, 1906. One son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin W. Curry, who is now engaged in business in Portland.

Since her return to Vancouver, Mrs. Franklin has engaged in farming and fruit raising and had a beautiful prune orchard of twenty-one acres. Recently nineteen acres of the orchard were reset with the English walnut, which promises to be one of the important crops of this region. She also has a farm of one hundred acres on La Center road, north of Vancouver. This farm is under lease and has growing upon it a fine orchard of eighteen acres in prunes.

The success of Mrs. Franklin in her chosen calling is due to a spirit of independence and courage with which she was endowed and a practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits which she acquired in the course of her earlier life. She is a woman of tact and unflagging industry, and one of her strong characteristics is the laudable desire to make herself a useful member of the community. That she has succeeded is the verdict of all who visit her farm and observe the air of comfort, neatness and order that everywhere prevails.

John Honeyman

John Honeyman, deceased, senior member of the firm of John Honeyman & Company, proprietors of the City Foundry & Machine Shops, Portland, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 12th of August, 181 5. He was descended from a family of mechanics, and very naturally adopted the trade with which his ancestors had been identified for several generations familiarizing himself with the occupation of a molder under the direction of his father in Glasgow. He emigrated to Canada in 1831 and there completed his apprenticeship in the foundry of Bennet & Henderson at Montreal. After four years of faithful service he continued work as a journeyman until 1836. In that year and the following he served in the militia during the Canadian rebellion, and when peace was restored he removed to Quebec, acting as foreman in the Tweedle foundry until 1841. Subsequently removing to Kingston, he there worked as foreman until 1846, when, in partnership with C. H. Jenkins, he established the Ontario foundry, disposing of his interest therein to his partner in 1848. He next established the Vulcan foundry, operating the same until i860. In July of that year he disposed of his interest therein and, accompanied by his son, "William B., started for Colorado. They traveled by railroad to St. Joseph, Missouri, thence by overland stage to Denver - a distance of six hundred miles. After a few months spent in erecting and operating a sawmill at Canon City, they engaged in mining in California Gulch, near Leadville, until July, 1862. They then traveled with an ox team to Oregon, arriving at The Dalles in December, and thence by steamer to Portland, where they landed on the 23d of December, 1862. Mr. Honeyman secured work in the Oregon Iron Works, and there remained until June, 1863, when he went to Boise basin, following mining there and in other Idaho camps for several years.

Mr. Honeyman was married on the 6th of May, 1836, to Miss Eliza Levitt, who died on the 9th of October, 1866. They had a family of ten children, two of whom died in infancy. The oldest son, David W., died in his twentieth year, while the oldest daughter, Mrs. J. S. Lochead, died in her sixty-ninth year. Six children still survive, namely: John A., of Vancouver, British Columbia; Mrs. W. Collier of Seattle; Mrs. E. C. Niedt of San Diego; William B., Ben F. and Mrs. Robert Collier of Portland. On the i8th of August, 1875, Mr. Honeyman wedded Miss Mary A. Collier, who survived him two years, her death occurring March 7, 1900.

In 1867 Mr. Honeyman returned to Portland and brought his family from Kingston, Canada, for permanent settlement. He followed his trade until 1871, when he established the City Foundry & Machine Shops, having built up a good business when the fire of August 2, 1873, destroyed the plant. That misfortune proved but a temporary embarrassment, however, as a new building was erected in five days, and nine days after the fire a heat of several tons of castings was run ofif. The firm of John Honeyman & Company consisted of the subject of this sketch and his sons, John A., William B. and Ben F. They did a profitable and extensive business in building grist and sawmills, engines and boilers, structural iron work and steamboat machinery. In 1885 the firm was dissolved, John Honeyman and Ben F. Honeyman continuing the business until the death of the former, which occurred on the 4th of September, 1898. Surrounded by his family and his faculties unimpaired to the last, he peacefully passed away. Mr. Honeyman was a lifelong Presbyterian and a ruling elder in the Calvary Presbyterian church. He was likewise a charter member of St. Andrew's Society. By strict attention to business and honorable methods he won the regard and esteem of a large circle of acquaintances.

Edward C. Mears

Edward C. Mears, whose name has long, been known in connection with financial interests in Portland and who 'is now conducting an extensive brokerage business, operating in Pacific coast timber and bonds, was born in San Francisco, California, September 21, 1870. His father. Colonel Frederick Mears, U. S. A., served in the army for over thirty years and died in the service in January, 1892. The son was naturally interested in military afifairs and acquired a portion of his education in Shattuck' Military School at Faribault, Minnesota, from which he was graduated in the class of 1886. He afterward continued his education in the College of the City of New York, of which he is an 1892 alumnus. He has been a resident of Portland since 1893 and for fifteen years was identified with banking in this city, serving as the first cashier of the Lumbermen's National Bank and also as receiver for the Title Guarantee & Trust Company. He is now engaged in the brokerage business with a large clientele whom he represents in investment in Pacific coast timber and bonds. It would be difficult to find one more thoroughly informed concerning timber resources and their value in this part of the country or who has 'more intimate and accurate knowledge concerning commercial paper.

On the 9th of February, 1895, Mr. Mears was married in Portland to Miss Antoinette Prescott, a daughter of C. H. Prescott, who was at one time general manager of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, associated with Henry Villard and T. Oakes. He was likewise vice president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and was one of the most prominent factors in railway and transportation circles up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 7th of August, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Mears have two daughters, Antoinette and Georgianna B.

Mr. Mears has an increasing military chapter in his life record, covering eight years' service as adjutant of the Third Infantry Regiment of the Oregon National Guard. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and has served as junior vice commander of the local chapter. His political alle- giance has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. His social nature finds expression in membership in the Arlington and Waverly Golf Clubs, and he is often found where the most intelligent men of the city gather in the discussion of important financial, municipal or national questions and while yet a comparatively young man is recognized as a citizen of influence in Portland, where his business career has given proof of his worth, his adaptability and his unflagging enterprise. He is prominent among those who, handling large financial interests, are thus contributing indirectly but largely to the development and upbuilding of this wonderful section of the country.

Mrs. Sarah Jane Anderson

Among the early pioneer women of the Pacific coast country, Mrs. Sarah Jane Anderson occupies an honorable place. Sixty years ago her eyes first rested on the beautiful valley of the Columbia river and in all the time that has since elapsed she has been an interested spectator of events and has performed her duty in a great work whose results are to be witnessed today in prosperous citizens and countless happy homes.

Mrs. Anderson was born in New York state, fourteen miles from Ballston Spa, a daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Welden) Sturgis, her father being a native of England and her mother of New York state. Mr. Sturgfis possessed the pioneer spirit and went west with his family to IlHnois and in 1847 joined a brave party of emigrants, who left the Mississippi river with a train of thirtythree wagons and a good equipment of oxen and horses for the wearisome trip to the Oregon country. This was the same year in which Brigham Young led his party of Morman emigrants to Salt Lake and also a year of great privations on the part of many of the hardy adventurers, who braved every danger in order to establish themselves independently under more favorable surroundings than they had been accustomed to in the east. The party crossed the Laramie river at Fort Laramie, but experienced some difficulty at Snake river and there the father of Mrs. Anderson met his death by drowning. Mrs. Sturgis now found herself facing a new and unexpected situation, but bravely taking courage she came as far as the Willamette river, stopping at Portland, which was then a feeble settlement in a thick forest, consisting of seven log houses and a rude building which was known as the store. After a stay of three months at Portland, Mrs. Sturgis moved up the river to Oregon City and later took up her residence in the vicinity of Vancouver, where members of the family have ever since lived. Here she was married to Moses Kellogg, who had accompanied the same party across the plains. Air. Kellogg bought a land claim of Henry E. Fellows and the family took up their residence thereon. About the same time the United States government began building barracks in the vicinity, which later became a noted fort. The country was thinly inhabited and the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg extended a generous hospitality to travelers passing through the country upon business or pleasure. The family later removed to Linton after having sold the ranch, but they have never received any payment for it, as the man to whom it was sold was murdered. Many were the dangers which surrounded the early settlers and one day while on business near Portland Mr. Kellogg was drowned and a second time the mother of the family found herself bereft in a strange land. She removed to Vancouver and there married Thomas Davis, who came to Oregon in 1849. After living two years at Vancouver, the family took up their residence at The Dalles, where the mother continued until she was called to her final rest.

In 185 1, in Oregon, Sarah Jane Sturgis was united in marriage to William Reese Anderson, who was a pioneer of 1849. After living below Linton for two years he took up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres near Vancouver and here the family has continued to live, except at short periods, ever since. Mr. Anderson died October 25, 1902, at the age of eighty-two years. He was an industrious man, of kind-hearted and sympathetic nature, and was highly respected by his neighbors and friends. During recent years portions of the original claim have been sold off as the land increased in value and the family now retains about sixty acres which is highly improved and yields abundantly.

Fourteen children came to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, eleven of whom are yet living : Charles, a resident of Vancouver, who has eleven children and five grandchildren ; William, also of Vancouver, who has five children ; Marilla, now Mrs. Edward Brandon Gardner, who has one child; Edward, of Vancouver, who has two children ; Estella, the wife of Joseph M. Zambelich, of Astoria, who is the mother of two children ; Jennie, now deceased, who was the wife of George Baxter and the mother of one child, Edna Baxter, now living in Portland ; George W., of Vancouver, who has three children ; Fanny E., now Mrs. George Hauscke, of Vancouver; Asa Alexander, of Vancouver; Audrey Rose, now Mrs. Arthur Kapell, of Rainier, Oregon; and Katherine A. and Robert Lee, both of whom are living at home.

Mrs. Anderson is one of the distinctive women of earlier days yet living, and may be regarded as a link connecting the present with the generation now almost departed. As a mother she performed her duty in rearing a large family and she is now the grandmother of twenty-five children and the great-grandmother of eight children - a record that possibly cannot be duplicated in the northwest. Honored by these younger representatives of a sturdy family and loved by many who have long known of her noble qualities, she retains in an unusual degree the memories of earlier years and regards with deepest gratification the marvelous changes that have brought the comforts and elegancies of life where formerly only the barest necessities were possible. She now enjoys a well earned rest after many years of unselfish service in behalf of others.

John Wesley Johnson

John Wesley Johnson, the first president of the University of Oregon, was born near the present site of Kansas City, Missouri, March 22, 1836. His great-grandfather, Alexander Johnson, lived in North Carolina, whence he removed to Nashville, Tennessee. His grandfather, John Johnson, was the first white settler of Kansas City, Missouri, where he arrived October 10, 1825. In 1850 John W, Johnson drove an ox team across the plains to Oregon. He was then but fourteen years of age. Their journey was embittered with many privations and sorrows, including the death of his mother and sister, who are buried in unmarked graves in the plains of Nebraska. Charles Johnson, the father of John, upon arriving in Oregon, took up the homestead which is now a part of the city of Corvallis. His nine children necessarily had the hard-working, strenuous life of a pioneer family.

In the boy John the thirst for knowledge was supreme. The opportunities to gratify it in those days were extremely meager. At the age of seventeen John entered the primary class of the district school. He soon outstripped the entire membership of the school, especially in mathematics, for which he had a great natural aptitude. Determining to obtain a college education he borrowed the money necessary for his subsistence. There were no trans-continental railroads to carry him to New England. He, therefore, journeyed on horseback to the nearest port of the Pacific. Then he went by sailing vessel slowly to the isthmus of Panama, which he crossed on horseback. From Panama in order to save money he took steerage passage in a ship that was bound for New York city. At the age of twenty-four he entered Yale College by grace of the faculty who could not reject one who had come so far, however poorly prepared for admission. Johnson graduated in the front rank of the class of 1862, which contained such men as Franklin McVeagh, Joseph Cook and "Adirondack" Murray. To obtain his college education required live years, four of which were spent in the college and one in the going and returning.

The following from Charles Wright Ely, his Yale classmate, outlines his college life and character ably : "I find it hard to put upon paper what I would like to say and what is due to his memory. It was my privilege to be Johnson's room-mate in senior year. Our friendship had begun in freshman year, when we were somewhat closely associated in society matters, and I had learned to esteem him highly for his sterling qualities of mind and heart. 'Oregon' was modest to a fault, and reserved, even among his intimates. His voice was seldom heard in public, nor did he seek prominence in college social life but was content with a few congenial friends. He was a hard student. Entering college insufficiently prepared, he came out with a standing surpassed by few in his class. Johnson was a man of strong convictions, ready to defend his views, but never inclined to thrust his opinions upon others. He was courteous and deferential in bearing to a marked degree, always ready to accord to others the right he exercised of holding tenaciously to his own opinions. He was markedly faithful in the discharge of every obligation and nothing could swerve him from the path he had marked out for himself. I do not know what the college record tells but am confident it would show that Johnson was always in his place and always 'prepared,' and I doubt not that this is also the record of his subsequent life. Perhaps no classmate commanded more unqualified respect than 'Oregon' Johnson."

His first work on his return to Oregon was as principal of the Baptist College in McMinnville, Oregon, which he conducted with marked ability for four years; and while there, in July, 1865, he was married to Miss Helen Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Hon. W, L. Adams, the collector of customs at the port of Astoria, Oregon.

In 1868 Professor Johnson, having already won a wide reputation for superior ability as an instructor and executive, accepted the position of principal of the Central Public School in Portland, Oregon, and removed, with his family, to that city. He conducted this school with such success that the year following he was tendered the principalship of the high school, in the inception of which he was himself mainly instrumental. The pupils of the present day are taught as a part of the history of Portland public schools that "The Portland high school was founded by Professor John Wesley Johnson, afterward first president of the University of Oregon."

The University of Oregon was organized and founded four years later, and Professor Johnson was called to head its faculty in addition to being professor of Latin. He was president for seventeen years but continued his professorship five years longer, making a total service of twenty-two years. His connection with the university terminated with his death.

His strictness as a college officer joined to kind personal interest in each student, his thorough work and unusually fearless dealing with ofifenders regardless of their wealth, parentage or social standing, secured exceptional obedience and respect from the students under his charge. It is not possible to overestimate the value of such service as President John W. Johnson gave to Oregon because its results lie beyond complete discovery and identification. He and a few others of like spirit laid the foundations of genuine scholarship and wholesome culture during the long, adverse period of pioneer development.

President Johnson did a really great work in accomplishing what able men too often fail to do, namely, the impressing of all who come under their influence with true ideals and worthy aims. An inherent soundness of moral conviction is the dominating force in all men of his character but what also largely gave him his rare effectiveness was his knowledge of and sympathy with

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Oregon and Oregon ideas. He was, in a very genuine sense, of the world of scholarship, but no devotion to abstract learning, no spirit of academic exclusiveness was allowed to separate him from the life of the people about him. He lived and worked with and for his own people and not as the representative of an abstract foreign culture. Kinship, thoroughness, sympathy, in these forces lay the key of a career whose influences were all for good. Hundreds of old students in all parts of the west will honor him and revere his memory while they live, and hand down his name as a legacy to their children.

An old pupil says: "We can do no more than to say that if we have ever acquired any habits of exact study, any desire to thoroughly master a topic, we owe it to President Johnson more than to any other instructor. Five years of almost daily intimacy in the schoolroom, in the church, in private life, as a citizen, and in the home, made us well acquainted with his sterling character and integrity.

President Johnson died of cerebritis at his home in Eugene, September 14, 1898. All his family survive him. Six children were born to President Johnson, as follows :

Herbert Spencer, born October 4, 1866, in McMinnville, Oregon; A. B., University of Oregon, 1887; A. B., Harvard, 1891 ; Rochester Theological Seminary, 1893; pastor of First Baptist church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for six years ; for the last twelve years pastor of Warren Avenue Baptist church, Boston, Massachusetts, was married June 21, 1900, to Miss Mary Crane of Dalton, Massachusetts, daughter of James Brewer and Mary Elizabeth Goodrich Crane. They have two daughters, Mary and Helen.

Eugenia Frances, born in Portland, Oregon, May 27, 1869, was married August 24, 1 891, to Drew Griffin of Eugene. They have four children, Gilbert, Leone, Elizabeth and Winifred.

Virgil Victor born March 16, 1876, in Portland, Oregon; A. B., Oregon, 1896; A. B., Harvard 1899; Rochester Theological Seminary 1902; pastor for five years of Baptist church, Claremont, New Hampshire ; now pastor First Baptist church. Concord, New Hampshire, was married August 4, 1908, to Miss Marion Bolster, daughter of Rev. W. H. Bolster, Nashua, New Hampshire. They have one son, Herbert Bolster.

Esther Elizabeth, born May 19, 1879, i" Eugene, Oregon ; A. B., University of Oregon, 1901, was married to Bernard Jakway, Portland, Oregon, July 19, 1902. They have two children, John Bernard and Isabel Amy.

Loris Melikofif, born in Eugene, Oregon, August 16, 1882; A. B., Oregon, 1906; A. M., Harvard 1910; is now master of English in Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut.

Wistar Wayman, bom September 8, 1886, in Eugene, Oregon; A. B., Oregon, 1907, is a Rhodes scholar from Oregon and is now in Pembroke College, Oxford, England.

Frank Botefuhr

Frank Botefuhr, who is engaged in the wholesale liquor business at the corner of Ash and Third streets for thirty years, was bom in Holstein, Germany, April 18, 1845, a son of Daniel and Louisa Botefuhr, both natives of the fatherland. Daniel Botefuhr was a public officer and for many years acted as custom-house collector at the city of Wyk on the island of Fohr. The subject of this review was reared in Gliickstadt and there educated in the public schools. He began his business career in the dry-goods trade, but upon arriving at manhood decided to seek a land of better opportunity and in 1868 he came to America.

Mr. Botefuhr found the positions which he was able to fill quite generally occupied in the city of New York and he started west, coming by rail to Nebraska and completing the journey to San Francisco by railroad and stage coach. In this long and toilsome trip of three thousand miles across the continent many strange scenes met his eyes, but he did not desire to turn back as he had fully determined to cast his lot in the new world. At San Francisco he went aboard a ship bound for Victoria, British Columbia. From that place he went to the mines, where he worked assiduously for about seven months, finding himself at the end of that time destitute of resources as the mines proved a failure. He and his companions started southward and walked a large part of the way to Portland. Here he found employment as a drayman, longshoreman and in a brewery and also as general laborer, but he made little headway financially and in 1871 went to San Francisco, where he was identified with the wholesale liquor business for six years. Returning to Portland in January, 1878, he began business in the old Germania Hall on First street. Three years later he moved to Front street and after a few months located permanently as the first tenant in a new building, where he has since continued.

On January 15, 1876, at San Francisco, Mr. Botefuhr was united in marriage to Miss Helen Nielsen. Six children have been born to this union : Frank, Jr., a promising boy who grew to the age of nineteen and was drowned in the Willamette river in 1898; Bertha; Daisy, who became the wife of A. E. Tyroll, who is in partnership with our subject; Max; Rudolph, who died at the age of two years ; and the sixth child who died in infancy.

Mr. Botefuhr is identified with the republican party and has always taken great interest in political affairs, although he has not aspired to public office. He is a man of pronounced social characteristics and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the German Aid Society and the Turners. In 1884 he served as chancellor commander of Germania Lodge, No. 12, Knights of Pythias, but this lodge is now out of existence. He and his wife are the owners of two residences on Twentieth street, a farm of six hundred and forty acres of land at Gresham, this state, and farms of one hundred and sixty acres at Tillamook and twenty-two acres in this county, two miles outside of the city. Mr. Botefuhr by close attention to his calling has accumulated a -fortune and is recognized by his associates as a man of strongly marked individuality and one whose judgment in financial matters generally leads to gratifying returns. As a boy in the old country he had dreams of financial independence. He came among strangers in a strange land and, while he has passed through many vicissitudes, he has in a large measure attained the object of his ambition.

M. Joseph Connor

On the list of those who are now making the history of the northwest is the name of M. Joseph Connor, vice president of The Washington & Oregon Land & Investment Company. Those who operate in the field of real estate have much to do with the character of the upbuilding of a section. He who knows the country, its possibilities and its opportunities and can intelligently discuss its resources becomes an effective factor in promoting realty transfers which bring to the district those who desire to conduct business enterprises that contribute not alone to individual prosperity but also promote the general welfare, and thus such a business as Mr. Connor conducts, while having its basis in a personal desire for legitimate profit, becomes one of the foundation stones upon which the later progress and prosperity of a community rest.

Mr. Connor is a native of La Salle, Illinois, born in 1870. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Connor, were both of Irish descent. In the public schools near La Salle the son obtained his education and when but fifteen years of age started out in life for himself, learning telegraphy and becoming an operator. Later he entered the milling business, in which he continued for twelve years, operating mills in Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California, the Philippines and China, in the employ of various prominent companies, the value of his services gaining him positions of large responsibility. In this connection he not only made substantial progress in the business v^orld but also gained that broad experience and wider knowledge which only travel can bring; gaining an understanding of the different countries which could only be obtained through residence therein. At length he located in Portland, where he turned his attention to the real-estate business, becoming vice president and treasurer of The Washington & Oregon Land & Investment Company, of which J. H. Elwell is the president. As the name indicates they handle property in both states and their knowledge of real-estate values and of the property upon the market enables them to make judicious investments for their clients and to conduct a business of growing importance and of profitable proportions.

Mr. Connor is a member of the Western Association of Old Time Telegraphers and also of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The adaptability and ready resourcefulness characteristic of his Irish ancestry are his and constitute important features in a business career which has long since placed him beyond the pale of the commonplace in business and upon the highroad which ultimately leads to notable success.