Portland, Oregon - Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders : in Connection with the An (part 21 of 25)

John R. Spurgeon

A distinctive characteristic of the entire region of the Pacific northwest is that it was very largely settled by pioneers from the states of the Atlantic coast or the Mississippi valley. These intrepid men and women here applied the lessons of self-reliance and unflagging industry that have been most productive of beneficial results in older settled communities and they quickly transformed a wild and rugged country into a pleasing abode for man. The children of the pioneers and later comers from all quarters of the globe are now enjoying the advantages presented through the severe labors of early settlers and in numerous instances are established in homes that they themselves have built as the result of well directed effort and wise forethought that should be one of the elementary teachings in every rightly conducted family.

Among those of the younger generation who have gained a foothold in the wonderful valley of the Columbia is John R. Spurgeon, a prosperous young farmer whose home is near Vancouver. He was born on a farm near Vancouver, November 9, 1882, and is a son of Mathias Spurgeon, a pioneer of 1852, whose record appears elsewhere in this work and who is now living retired at Vancouver, and Olive (Dillon) Spurgeon, also a member of a pioneer family, who was the mother of two daughters and four sons, all of whom are now living.

John R. Spurgeon grew up under the kindly care of loving parents and received a good common-school education and in 1902, at the age of twenty years, began devoting his entire time to the farm and assisted his father for one year. At the end of that period he was associated with H. R. Brooks for one year in farming and then they bought a confectionary store in Vancouver, which they conducted for a number of months. In 1906 Mr. Spurgeon resumed operations upon the home farm, continuing until January, 1910. In the meantime he had purchased twenty acres of land adjoining and he now devotes his attention to his own property, which he has converted into a fruit farm, containing eighteen acres set in prune, apple and walnut trees. This makes quite a valuable property and one that under the favoring conditions of this region is capable of yielding handsome annual returns.

In 1906 Mr. Spurgeon was united in marriage to Miss Julia Scott of Vancouver, a daughter of Mrs. C. T. Scott, and has found in his wife a sympathetic and faithful companion. In the beginning of a promising career and living in a country that has no superior in the world for responsiveness of climate or soil, the subject of this review has the probabilities all in his favor for acquiring an abundance of this world's goods and also the peace and happiness that are synonymous with useful and well directed efifort.

Charles Barenstecher

Charles Barenstecher, one of the best known and most popular restaurant men of the Pacific coast was for many years prominently identified with that business in Portland, where his death occurred June 26, 1910. He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, on the 5th of July, 1858, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Eisenhardt) Barenstecher, both of whom were of German lineage. The father was a brewer and for many years carried on business in Baltimore, where his last days were passed. His widow is still living at the venerable age of eightytwo years. Their family included two sons, who reached adult age.

Charles Barenstecher was a pupil in the public schools of Baltimore until thirteen years of age, when the spirit of adventure and the hope of attaining success brought him to the Pacific coast. He made his way first to San Francisco and for a time was employed at the Concordia Club, the fashionable club of that city, and there became acquainted with a number of prominent men. He afterward entered the employ of George Schmitt and later bought out Mr. Schmitt, who was the owner of a fine cafe known as Schmitt's Villa, facing Golden Gate Park. Two years later Mr. Barenstecher disposed of his business in San Francisco and came to Portland, making his home in this city from 1891, Here he became associated with Fritz Strobel, then proprietor of the Louvre Cafe, with whom he had been acquainted for some years. Mr. Barenstecher acted as manager of the cafe for a few months and then became a partner of Mr. Strobel. His connection with the Louvre was marked by the introduction of up-to-date features, and it can be truthfully said that he injected new life into the high class restaurant. He carved out a new policy and added to an excellent menu a warm welcome, and soon the Louvre became the fashionable eating place of Portland. His following rapidly increased; it was a loyal following which he carried with him when rival restaurants were established and a keen competition developed. From a comparatively small place the Louvre branched out until it covered a quarter of a block, being regarded as the finest restaurant of the Pacific northwest for years.

The firm of Strobel & Barenstecher established the Belvedere Hotel which they conducted in connection with the Louvre. The business of the firm was highly successful during the more than sixteen years in which Mr. Barenstecher and Mr. Strobel were associated. Intending to retire, the partners disposed of their interests, but after a year and a half of inactivity they again entered the restaurant business. They purchased what was known as The Tavern and renamed it the Hofbrau, opening it in the summer of 1908. Being expert managers, their name was a sufficient guarantee to high class trade, and the Hofbrau sprung into immediate popularity, even exceeding the palmy days of the Louvre. At the Hofbrau Mr. Barenstecher could always be seen. Early or late he could be found walking from table to table, talking with his patrons, lookmg after their comfort and manifesting an interest that was not only businesslike ^but sincere. About the time of his death the Evening Telegram said in part : Of all the restaurant men of Portland no one ever impressed his personality upon the patrons so closely or came in such close contact with the guests. Barenstecher was everywhere, all over the place of business all the time. Other man- agers keep in the office or watch the register, but Barenstecher was a natural mixer and he brought trade and kept it. It was a perfect welcome he gave everyone, at noon and in the evening, and his circle of acquaintances ranged up into the thousands, and these will all regret his death." His acquaintances soon became his friends and included not only the leading citizens of Portland, but the traveling public and tourists of the Pacific northwest.

Mr. Barenstecher was a boniface of the old school, a host who made his guests and patrons feel that they were welcome and at home. Added to a most pleasing personality, he possessed the rare faculty of remembering both faces and names. If once he met a man he remembered the name and could recall it instantly months or years later. He knew the name and face of almost everyone in Portland who visited the first-class restaurants. Had he desired a political career he would have won success and honor therein, for he had the unusual gift of winning friends quickly and retaining their regard. The Evening Telegram said : "Not even could Congressman Binger Hermann give a more genial and hearty handshake." With "Charley," as he was always known, the handshake wag an art which he had assiduously cultivated to the point that the recipient felt its sincerity.

For more than a year Mr. Barenstecher's health had been slowly undermined, due probably more than anything else to his long hours at business as well as the very close attention he gave to his business affairs. He was urged to retire, but declined to do so until his weakened condition compelled cessation from labor. The death of Mr. Barenstecher occurred on the 26th of June, 1910, and his remains were interred in Riverview cemetery. He was a leading member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and also held membership in the Catholic church. In politics he was independent, voting for measures which he deemed essential to the general welfare and for the candidates whom he thought would best conserve the public good.

On the I2th of November, 1890, in San Francisco, Mr. Barenstecher was united in marriage to Miss Effie Fey Dackerman, a daughter of Conrad and Caroline (Fey) Dackerman, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Paris, France. The father died in Chicago, in which city the mother is residing after a residence of nearly fifty-five years. Mrs. Barenstecher was born in Chicago and when eighteen years of age went to San Francisco, where she was married. Two children were born of this union : Viola, who is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy of Portland and is now a student of the National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C. ; and Herbert Charles, born April 30, 1893, at home.

M. Seller & Company

The firm of M. Seller & Company is one of the largest in the west devoted to the jobbing and importing of crockery, glassware, tinware, stoves and house furnishing goods. They occupy eight floors for offices, showrooms, etc., at the corner of Fifth and Pine streets in Portland, and have large warehouses at Thirteenth and Kearney streets, directly on the tracks of the transcontinental railroads. The business was established in 1859 by Moses Seller, who still remains the senior member of the firm, and is financially interested in it. He, however, is not now active in the management, but makes his home in Frankfort-on-the- Main, Germany, the land of his birth, having charge of the European offices of the firm.

Mr. Seller was a pioneer of 1852, crossing the Atlantic and coming to Oregon in that year. He established himself in a general merchandise business in Corvallis, and in 1859 moved to Portland, opening a wholesale crockery, glassware and house furnishing business at Front and Stark streets, then the center of Portland's business district, little realizing that the enterprise would grow and develop to its present great dimensions. His watchfulness of details, progressive methods and extraordinary foresight kept the business constantly expanding until it became necessary to secure enlarged quarters, when the stock was removed to Front and Burnside streets, where business was continued until further demands for room compelled a change to the present splendid location at Fifth and Pine streets.

The firm today covers probably the largest field in area of any house in its line in the country, and is one of the great wholesale enterprises of the northwest. The wants of the trade are not only met by the original house at Portland, but are cared for by large branch establishments, one at Seattle and one at Spokane, Washington. These branches were both established in 1889, just on the eve of the remarkable growth of that territory, and both have kept abreast of the development in their respective trade fields. The business is not incorporated, but is a partnership concern, the members in addition to Moses Seller being Phillip Lowengart, F. M. Seller and Sanford Lowengart. Phillip Lowengart, the manager, who has long been interested in the concern, is a keen, farsighted business man of the most up-to-date school. F. M. Seller, who is active in the management, is a son of Moses Seller. He is a native Oregonian, having been born and reared in this state. The junior member, Sanford Lowengart, is a son of Phillip Lowengart. The business policy of the house will bear the closest investigation, and is fair and liberal to a degree; and the development achieved in fifty-two years in this city has been the result of this policy, coupled with close application, perseverance and the ability to grasp opportunities as they have presented themselves.

Frank Tanning

Throughout the period of his manhood, Frank Tanning has been a resident of the west and has ever been imbued with the enterprising, progressive spirit which has been the potent force in the upbuilding of the district west of the Mississippi. He was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, May 30, 1866, a son of J. M. and Esther D. (Dew) Tanning, who were also natives of the Buckeye state. He attended the schools of that state until fourteen years of age. He then went to Seneca, Kansas, with his parents and for five years was a resident of the Sunflower state. It was while living in Kansas that he began to learn the trades of a mason and plasterer. He was about nineteen years of age when he removed to Canon City, Colorado, where he engaged in brick-laying and plastering, remaining there for about fifteen years, or until 1902. He then went to Pueblo, Colorado, where he resided until 1904 - the year of his arrival in Portland.

He at once entered industrial circles here, working as a journeyman at his trade for three years, after which he turned his attention to contracting. He has executed many contracts in building garages, apartment houses and private dwellings. He has erected apartment houses for George Parrish at the corner of Eleventh and Salmon streets, for Dr. David Buck at Twenty-first and Flanders streets and for George Houseman at Twenty-first and Hoyt streets. When he began contracting he was in partnership with his brother C. W. Tanning but for the past year has been alone. He expects soon to build an apartment buildmg for himself at Forty-fifth and Taylor streets. The plans are already drawn. This is to be fifty-six by one hundred feet, a two story building erected on a strong foundation sufficient to support two more stories should he desire to add the other two in the future. There will be tile partitions and he expects to make the building entirely fire proof. It is situated in Sunnyside and Mr. Lann- ing has much faith in the future of that portion of the city. He was a member of the Bricklayers Union up to the time that he began contracting on his own account. As it is against the rules of the order to have a contractor among its members, he had to resign when he began business for himself. The union, however, at that time wrote him a very complimentary letter, expressing their deep regret at losing so valuable a representative and speaking in high terms of his ability and his trustworthiness.

In 1897 Mr. Lanning was united in marriage to Miss Laura B. Stine, a daughter of John and Jane Mary Stine and a native of Missouri. They now have two children, Frances and Gertrude, aged twelve and ten years respectively. Mrs. Lanning is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Lanning gives his political support to the republican party, for he deems its principles effective agents for good government. Both he and his wife have many warm friends in Portland and Mr. Lanning has found here a satisfactory field of business, in which his earnest labor has brought him creditable prosperity.

Augustus J. Langworthy

Augustus J. Langworthy, of Portland, Oregon, a retired merchant, now deceased, was born at Peoria, Illinois, on the 20th day of November, 1826, his parents being Dr. Augustus Langworthy and Ada (Meachem) Langworthy. Dr. Augustus Langworthy was born at Windsor, Vermont, received a college education and became a prominent representative of the medical profession, as were also two of his brothers and he practiced his profession for many years in Peoria, Illinois, of which place he was the founder, likewise of Northampton, and Tisquea, Iowa, afterwards named Dubuque.

His son and namesake, Augustus J. Langworthy attended school there, took up the study of medicine, to which he devoted two years, but becoming imbued with the desire to go west, which became the talk of the day by his companions, friends and neighors, he dropped his study and decided to go with them to Oregon, being then a boy of twenty years of age and full of ambition. Mr. Langworthy started with them on April 7, 1847, with both oxen and horse teams, driving his own ox team all the way for five months and twenty days over prairie, arid plain, fording rivers and climbing mountains. He reached Oregon City on October 20, with his team of oxen in unusually good condition, without a scar or blemish, for which he received much praise as a team to arrive in such condition was almost unknown. Much inquiry was made as to the cause of this team being in so much better condition than all others, and he was asked "if it was in breed of the animals," when a man of his company spoke up and said, "The cattle are all the same stock and the only difference in their looks and condition lies in the exceptionally kind, gentle and human way in which they were handled by that boy," pointing to A. J. Langworthy, who was of a very sympathetic and merciful nature. While the trip was attended with danger at times, nevertheless it was a very enjoyable one to him, filled with many romances.

Among the many incidents along the way, Mr. Langworthy with one other companion, walked ten miles from the company to climb high up on the dangerous "chimney rock," to carve their names above all others, with their pocket knives, wearing the blades almost away.

There being no physician in the company in which he traveled, he was sought out, as having some knowledge of medicine to attend a very sick man whose life was despaired of. Ordering him taken from the covered wagon, he placed him in a tent, and applied prompt remedies out of a well selected box of medicines which his father had prepared for him before starting and he soon restored him to health.

Immediately after his arrival at Oregon City, he sold his team for four hundred dollars, and secured employment in a lumber mill, his work being to measure and record all lumber to be shipped to foreign lands. Mr. Langworthy was thus engaged until he bought out a man's right on a section of fine land on the Columbia river, about eight miles below St. Helens and commenced stock raising.

Soon after the gold excitement in California broke out, so he employed a man to look after his interests here, while he went to the gold mines with two of his companions who crossed the plains with him to Oregon. Later, the report reached him that he had better return and look after his ranch, as there seemed danger of it being jumped, so he made the trip back to Oregon by a sailing vessel. Later, however, he returned to the mines in California, where he engaged in mining and also conducted a general store.

Mr. Langworthy together with three other men mined on Feather river and engaged in extensive damming to turn the water of the stream, with the view of reaching the gold under it but were compelled to abandon their project by encountering quicksand, after spending much time and money. Being discouraged in this, they sold their mine to a large wealthy company of San Francisco, which took up the plan, with final success and thereby gaining many millions of dollars, which they took from the bed of the river.

Mr. Langworthy, remained in California about three years, when he again returned to Oregon, by water, settling on his section of land. He purchased more stock, made many improvements and built a frame house as the one already on the land when he bought it was a log cabin. He supplied the boats running to San Francisco with meat. After about four years he sold his farm and stock and purchased a lumber mill in Washington county, near Forest Grove, on Gales creek. After engaging in the lumber business a short time he went to his mill one morning to find the dam entirely gone, caused by quicksand, the same as he had encountered on Feather river in California. However, he lost no time in getting his money refunded which he had paid for the property, as it became known that this was the owner's reason for selling the mill.

Mr. Langworthy then moved to southern Oregon and purchased another section farm, about four miles south of Roseburg on the county road, where he again engaged in the stock business for a few years, but not being familiar with black mud he tired of it, and, selling out, he returned to Washington county, purchased another farm about one mile from Hillsboro on the county road. He moved upon it and made valuable improvements, among which was setting out a fine orchard, which was considered one of the best in the county. He sold this place after a time and bought another in the neighborhood. Later selling this one, he bought a place two miles from it, which had forty acres of fine beaverdom land, which he cleared and drained and is now a very valuable place. In time he sold this one and went into the merchandising business, in which he engaged continuously for a great many years, commencing first at Cornelius, Washington county and discontinuing the merchandising business at Corvallis, Benton county.

Mr. Langworthy then moved to Seal Rock, Lincoln county and preempted one hundred and sixty acres of government land, paying for it $1.25 per acre; after making final proof on this land he then moved to Portland, where he has since resided for twenty-four years. He was also the owner of acreage in the heart of Portland at a time when there were but four or five houses, paying for it one thousand dollars per acre. In his journey through life he has seen both prosperous and unprosperous days and being of a courageous and ambitious nature he always pushed forward with energy to a betterment of conditions.

On July 3, 1851, Mr. Langworthy was married to Miss Jane Garwood, a daughter of Mrs. Marie (Humphenis) Garwood and Mr. William Garwood. She crossed the plains with her parents to Oregon in 1850, from Missouri, living about one hundred miles from St. Louis, at which place they formerly moved from Indiana, her native state. Miss Garwood was living with her parents at

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Hillsboro, Oreg-on. when she was married to A. J. Langworthy, and she continued her residence in the state until called to her final rest on the 26th day of February, 1893. Mrs. Langworthy was a faithful companion and helpmate to her husband in the fullest meaning of the word, loving and devoted to her children, and most highly esteemed by all of her acquaintances and friends, so that her loss was deeply deplored by all who knew her, as well as by her immediate family. Mrs. Langworthy was always ready and willing to help the sick and suffering and she was frequently sought after by them on account of her tender and patient care. She has passed many long lonesome nights with them, administering to their wants, for the sake of relieving suffering humanity, for she would never receive a penny for her services though urged to do so, as they were more than willing to compensate her, and she justly won the name of being the best nurse in the country.

To this marriage were born nine children : Melissa A. ; Lucina J. ; Emma A., who died in girlhood; Mary F. L. ; Ellen L., who died in girlhood; William A., who died in childhood ; Albert J., who died in infancy ; Ada M., who died in childhood; and Dr. Perry S. Langworthy of Portland, Oregon.

Mr. A. J. Langworthy has ever been a stalwart advocate of republican principles and has frequently been called upon as campaign speaker; is a born orator; and has been frequently urged to accept public office, one of which was repeatedly offered him by ex-Governor Gibbs, as superintendent of one of the state institutions, which he refused to accept. In later years, however, he accepted the appointment of justice of the peace, postmaster, and Wells Fargo agent in conjunction with his merchandising business in some of the towns where he has resided, but has continuously refused to become a candidate for office in Portland.

On May 29, 1910, Mr. Langworthy was severely injured by a street car jerking from under him, just as he was about to alight two blocks from his home. From this he was a great sufferer, and confined to his home almost constantly afterward, besides resulting in total blindness. Some pioneers, perhaps, have been more successful financially than he but none have won more true honor and respect from his fellowmen in the various parts of the state where he lived. Mr. Langworthy was upon all occasions strictly honorable in his dealings and was ever firm in his principles for right and justice, and being of a kind and sympathetic disposition, he was always inclined to overlook the faults of others. Moreover, he was willing to trust others and at times his confidence was betrayed and he thereby suffered losses but his own record is an untarnished one, and his honesty ever stood as an unquestioned fact in his career. It has been said that "An honest man is the noblest work of God," a eulogy that is well merited by Mr. A. J. Langworthy.

On the nth day of November, 1910, Mr. A. J. Langworthy passed away at his home in Portland, Oregon, after an illness of six days, and was laid to rest after nine days on his eighty-fourth birthday. Having a high perception of life and living it his memory will ever stand as a beautiful monument and "the world is better for his having lived in it." In life he said : "I am willing to trust the Great Power or Creator that made me and put me here, to take care of me when He takes me away."

Frank B. McCord, president of the Rambler Automobile Company, which was incorporated September 11, 1909, was born in Minnesota in 1877, about forty-eight miles north of Monticello. That section of the state was then largely a pioneer district, in which he was reared to the age of nine years, when his parents, Joseph H. and Edith (Sears) McCord, left Minnesota for Pennsylvania. Later, however, they returned to the former state and are now residents of Tacoma, Washington. Frank B. McCord acquired his early education in the pubHc schools of Monticello, Minnesota, the high school at Annandale, Minnesota, and in the State University, where he completed a scientific course, winning the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy upon his graduation with the class of 1902. His school days being over, he entered business life in connection with his father, who was successfully conducting banking enterprises at Monticello, Annandale, Menagha and other places. In this way he received a broad and thorough business training, thereby laying the foundation for his later success in other fields. In 1904, when twenty-seven years of age, he became salesman for the Rambler automobile of Minneapolis and Chicago, and making his way to Oregon, was for a brief period in Portland. Soon, however, he located at Roseburg, where he remained for two years on account of his health. During that period he purchased a fruit farm which he afterward sold.

Following his return to Portland Mr. McCord became associated with George A. Wotton in the organization and incorporation of the Rambler Automobile Company, which was incorporated on the nth of September, 1909, with Mr. Wotton as the president and Mr. McCord as secretary and treasurer. In the following January the latter took over the control of the business and at this time is the president and owner of the concern. He conducts an agency for the Rambler automobile for Oregon and Washington and also carries on a general garage and auto repair business. The company also act as distributors of the Rambler for the entire northwest. Their garage occupies two floors of a building sixty by one hundred feet for sales and storage departments.

In 1904 Mr. McCord was married to Miss Grace Mahan, a native of Minnesota, and they have two children: Nina E. and Joseph H. Mr. McCord belongs to Laurel Lodge No. 13, A. F. & A. M., of Roseburg, Oregon, and has attained high rank in the Scottish Rite, holding membership in Oregon Consistory No. i, and in Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to Philitarian Lodge No. 8, I. O. O. F. of Roseburg, the Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Commercial Club. His recreations are motoring and outdoor athletics, and during his college days he was a member of the football and baseball teams. He was also class president during his freshman year. An accomplished musician, he has become an organist and singer of note in the community and has taken an active part in musical affairs of the city. He has the foresight to see a good opening in a business which is rapidly developing, for the automobile is growing in constant favor and becoming used not only for pleasure driving, but also for commercial purposes as delivery wagons and auto trucks are manufactured and placed upon the market. As a representative of the Rambler, he is building up a good trade, for the many commendable points of the car assure a ready sale.

Edwin Dalton

Edwin Dalton, one of the early business men of Portland, was born in Coventry, England, in 1826, and acquired his education in the schools of that country while spending his youthful days in the home of his parents, Absalom and Amelia Dalton. His father was a hotel proprietor and also a painter and plumber and under his direction Edwin Dalton learned the plumbing and painting trades, serving a seven years' apprenticeship, during which time he gained familiarity with every detail of the business and became an excellent workman.

Thinking to enjoy better business opportunities elsewhere than in his native land, Edwin Dalton went to Australia when a young man and there remained for a few years. In 185 1, when twenty-five years of age, he started for America, landing in Portland. The town at the time contained only a few hundred inhabitants - less than a thousand - and the business centered along the river. Mr.

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Dalton opened a paint shop on First street and conducted the business alone until 1857, in which year his brother William and their father arrived in this city. The two brothers then formed a partnership and were together until after the death of Edwin Dalton in August, 1857, when William Dalton continued the

In the year 1854 Edwin Dalton was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Sadler, also a native of Coventry, England, and a daughter of Maria and John Sadler, who came to America in 1854. They were five months and two weeks upon the water ere landing at Vancouver, Washington. Before leaving the ship Mrs. Dalton heard a rooster crow in the morning and said that she thought it was the most pleasant sound she had ever listened to, for she knew that land was near and that they would soon disembark. Edwin Dalton and Catherine Sadler had been companions and friends in early life and were married soon after her arrival. Unto them were born two children. Emily A., who was born April I, 1855, lived in one block on Ninth street, between Bumside and Couch, for over fifty years. She became the wife of James A. Dowling, who was born in what was then Oregon, now Washington, May 5, 1851, and died November II, 1902. His parents were among the pioneer settlers of this state. Mr. and Mrs. Dowling had a family of seven children: Grace E., who is the wife of Charles F. Foster of Portland and has two children, Dalton and Catherine ; Edwin S., at home; James A., who married Sadie Moody and lives in Portland; Ray and Ralph, twins, both now deceased ; and Florence G. and Orme F., both at home. Mr. Dowling was for many years a member of the Willamette hose company, a part of the volunteer fire department. Mrs. Dowling has a wide acquaintance in this city, where she has always made her home and relates many interesting incidents of the early days and also concerning the growth and development of Portland. Edwin M. Dalton, the only son of that marriage, also retains his residence in Portland.

Following the death of her first husband Mrs. Catherine Dalton was again married. Her second husband was James Stuart, who was born in Scotland and became one of the early residents of Portland, where he conducted a shoe shop on Front street for many years. He died in 1898, at the venerable age of eightyone years. There were three children by that marriage: Catherine M., the wife of Frederick W. Molson, of Canada; John F., who died April 5, 1893; ^^^ Frederick B., who died January 21, 1910. The mother passed away on the i6th of January, 1902, at the age of seventy-nine years, after a residence of almost forty-eight years in Portland.

Hon. Charles B. Bellinger

The concensus of public opinion established the position of Hon. Charles B. Bellinger as an able and distinguished representative of the Oregon judiciary. The public continually maintains a critical attitude toward its servants, and only the utmost rectitude of character, the most capable discharge of duty and the most unfaltering loyalty to the trusts imposed win favorable comment. The envious and the malevolent have scarcely dared to assail the record of Judge Charles B. Bellinger, for his ability in his chosen profession was of superior order and his fidelity to what he believed to be right no man ever questioned. Doubtless he made mistakes as he traveled along the pathway of life, but they were matters of judgment rather than of intent, and therefore weighed in the balance of public opinion Charles B. Bellinger was never found wanting. He typified in his life the progress of the northwest, arriving as he did in Oregon to cast in his lot with its pioneer development when but eight years of age.

He was born in Maquon, Illinois, November 21, 1839, a son of Edward H. and Eliza (Howard) Bellinger. The original American ancestor came from

Holland and settled in the Mohawk valley of the Empire state when this country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain. His paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, while John H. Bellinger, his grandfather, defended American interests in the second war with England and later operated one of the first canal boats on the Erie canal. When the tide of emigration was steadily tiowing westward he made his way to Maquon, Illinois, in 1837, and there he and his son Edward conducted a wagon shop. Still the voices of the west called Edward H. Bellinger, and the spirit of the pioneer prompted his further removal until, with wife and three children, he started for Oregon. They traveled much of the way across the plains with the Mormon contingent of that year, Brigham Young leading a large number who were accompanied by a strong military organization. This rendered them safe from attack by the Columbia Indians, who were manifesting particular hostility that year. The Bellingers camped almost side by side with the Mormons until they reached the Bear river valley, when the latter turned toward Salt Lake City and the Bellinger family continued on their way to the Sunset state. Marion county, where they established -their home, was practically an uninhabited district and the most strenuous experiences in frontier life were there to be met. Law and order had in a measure been neglected in the establishment of an organized government, and in 1850 the abilities of Edward H. Bellinger were recognized in his election to the territorial legislature. Ere the session was called, however, he died at the age of thirty-two years from injuries sustained by being thrown from a horse. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Howard, was a native of Massachusetts and a representative of one of the old families of that state. Long surviving her husband, she died in Grant, Oregon, in 1883, and was survived by only two of their five children, Charles B. and Mrs. Ellen Shrewsbury, the latter of Los Angeles, California.

The parents of Edward Bellinger had also come to the Pacific coast in 1847, and two years later John Bellinger made his way to the gold fields of California and for a time was engaged in placer mining in that state. Later he returned to his home in Marion county, Oregon, where he lived to the age of nearly ninety years, passing away in 1882. He was a member of the Christian church and a man of splendid personal characteristics and qualities. He retained the prize of keen mentality to the closing years of his life and left his influence for good upon the community in which he made his home.

It was in the home of his grandfather, John H. Bellinger, that Judge Bellinger of this review resided subsequent to his father's death. He had come as a boy of eight years to the northwest. Every incident of the trip across the plains was of interest to him, and upon memory's wall hung many pictures of the pioneer days. He pursued his education in a district school near the Santiam river, where his teacher was Orange Jacobs later a member of congress from Washington also a judge of the superior court of that state and now a prominent attorney of Seattle. In his youthful days Judge Bellinger was impressed by the fact, often told to him, that his father had intended to educate him for the bar. He resolved to carry out his father's wishes as to a profession, and through his own labors earned the funds necessary to meet the tuition and expense of a course in Willamette University, which he attended for several years, laying the foundation in broad literary knowledge for his professional learning. His law reading was directed by Judge B. F. Bonham of Salem, and following his admission to the bar in 1863 he entered upon practice in connection with John C. Cartwright. After a time, however, he turned from the practice of law to journalism and edited the Arena, a weekly democratic newspaper published at Salem, regarded as a party organ in this state. He afterward became the publisher of the Salem Review, and, when impaired health made it advisable that he seek a change of labor, he engaged in merchandising at Monroe, Bent county. His abilities there won recognition in his election to the legislature in 1868. The following year he removed to Albany. and became editor of the Albany Demo- crat, which he pubHshed until 1870, when he came to Portland and was afterward closely associated with the practice of law. At the same time he founded and for two years edited the Portland News, which eventually became the Portland Telegram.

His marked public spirit and his superior ability obtained his election for various positions of honor and trust. He was clerk of the Oregon supreme court from 1874 until 1878 and was then appointed by Governor Thayer to fill out an unexpired term as judge of the fourth judicial court, which vacancy resulted from the reorganization of the judicial districts of the state. In 1880 he was made the democratic nominee for the office, but could not overcome the overwhelming republican vote of the district. However, the vote given him was extremely comphmentary, as he ran eleven hundred votes ahead of his ticket. Following a partnership with John M. Gearin from 1880 until 1883, Judge Bellinger became a member of the law firm of Dolph, Bellinger, Mallory & Simon, and so practiced until April, 1893, when he was appointed by President Cleveland to the position of judge O' the United States district court following the demise of Judge Deady. He took his place upon the bench May i, 1893, and the court records bear testimony to his superior ability. He always showed himself thoroughly competent in the discharge of the multitudinous delicate duties that devolve upon him in this connection, and has given proof of his comprehensive knowledge of the law und his abiHty to correctly apply its principles.

An important chapter in his life record covers his military experience. When a goodly proportion of Oregon's inhabitants were of the red race and the hostility of the savages was ofttimes manifested, he temporarily put aside the duties of clerk of the supreme court to participate in the Modoc Indian war, serving with the rank of lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Miller. On the 17th of January, 1873, he took part in the famous fight at the lava beds, on which occasion the United States troops and the Oregon and California volunteers were under command of General Wheaton. The Modocs, knowing every foot of the almost impenetrable regions of the lava beds, had a decided advantage, and the result was an ambush and defeat for General Wheaton. Soon afterward a peace commission was appointed at Washington and word was sent out to suspend military operations so that the volunteers returned home. Upon the promise of safety the peace commission was induced to meet the Modocs in the lava, beds and all of its members were there massacred. The troops next sent against them were also routed. Finally General Jefiferson C. Davis with his troops settled down to a siege, hemming the Indians in and ultimately reducing them to such a condition of starvation that the settlement of the trouble became an easy matter.

The attractive home life of Judge Bellinger had its beginning in his marriage, in Linn county, Oregon, to Miss Margery Johnson, who was born in Ohio and in 1852 came with her father, James Johnson, to the northwest, the family home being established upon a Linn county farm. Judge and Mrs. Bellinger became the parents of seven children : Oscar now deceased ; Victor, who was a member of the Portland bar but is now deceased ; Emmett, engaged in the dairy business in Washington ; Howard, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume; Mrs. Edith Edwards of Springfield, Illinois, now deceased; Mrs. L. H. Knapp of Portland ; and Mrs. iW. J. Morrison of Portland.

Judge Bellinger was deeply interested in the study of cremation as a most sanitary practice for every large community, and did much to interest his fellowmen in this practice. He became the organizer and president of the Portland Cremation Association, which established the most complete and modern crematory on the coast, maintaining this at a pecuniary loss for a long period, prompted by philanthropic motives. In his political views Judge Bellinger was formerly a democrat, but as he could not indorse the silver standard of 1896 he 5 evered his connection therewith and became an independent voter. He held advanced ideas on many of the important questions which engaged the interest of statesmen and thinking men of the nation, his opinions always resulting from broad study and a thorough understanding of the subject. He was a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Arlington Club and also of the Oregon Historical Society and the Oregon Pioneer Association. Governor Geer appointed him a commissioner to the Lewis and Clark Exposition. His high standing in his profession was indicated by the fact that he was honored with the presidency of the Oregon Bar Association. He compiled, in connection with W. W. Cotton, an annotated edition of the laws of Oregon. For ten years he was professor of equity, jurisprudence and pleading in the law department of the University of Oregon, and from 1896 to his death was a member of its board of regents. He inscribed his name deeply on the keystone of Oregon's legal arch, and of the long line of illustrious men of whom the state is proud, the record of none has been more faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation. He passed away at his home in Portland May 12, 1905.

Howard Beltjnger

Among the family names well known on the northern Pacific coast none is more honored than that of Bellinger. Ever since ^847 have members of this family been identified with the Columbia river regio.i and Howard Bellinger, whose name stands at the head of this review, is one of, its worthy representatives. He is a great-grandson of John H. Bellinger, the grandson of Edward H. Bellinger and the son of Hon. Charles B. Bellinger, who was one of the most able and distinguished men that Oregon has known and a revi'^w of whom appears elsewhere in this work. The mother of Howard Bellinger was Margery Johnson, who came with her father to Linn county, Oregon, in T852 and was one of the helpful pioneer women of the early days.

Howard Bellinger was born at Portland in 1878, was here reared, and in the public schools of this city he received his preliminary education, later becoming a student in the State University at Eugene, Oregon. He possessed th >: inestimable advantages of a congenial and refined home, which is worth more in the development of right thought and character than all the education that can be derived from books. Mr. Bellinger early showed an inclination for outdoor life and for the pursuits of agriculture and stock raising. Acordingly in 1899 he came to the ranch which had been bought by his father in Clarke county, Washington, and which is located twelve miles north of Vancouver on the Columbia river. This ranch is known as the Lake River farm and contains eight hundred acres, of which one hundred are under cultivation, and a young orchard of eighteen acres is one of its attractive features. About six hundred acres of the ranch are used for pasturage and for growing wild hay with which to carry the stock through the winter. The ranch maintains about two hundred head of cattle, and is known as one of the best conducted ranches in this region.

In 1904 Mr. BelHnger was united in marriage to Miss Lena M. Huber of Portland, and two children have been born to them : Frances and Charles Byron. Mr. Bellinger is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 173, of Felida, and also of the Sara Grange and takes a lively interest in every movement that aims to advance the permanent welfare of western Oregon.

J. E. Bellinger, a brother of our subject, is a native of Portland, born in 1870. After leaving the public schools he became chief clerk of the United States internal revenue office at Portland, continuing until 1896, when he gave up his position and came to the ranch where he has since made his home and where he has attained a fine reputation among his neighbors as a man of good judgment and a first class farmer. When he came here the land was all stumpage. It has since been cleared off and improvements have been made, including residence, barns, fences and other accessories of a modem farm, and the ranch has becone one of the good paying investments of the county. J. E. Bellinger is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Vancouver and also of Sara Grange. By the application of skill and intelligence the Bellinger brothers have attained high standing among agriculturists and stock raisers. Through such men the vocation is ennobled, and it adds dignity, wealth and stability to the nation and the occupation of the farmer becomes not only the most independent but also the happiest of all occupations known to man.

Patrick Sharkey

Custom constitutes an almost unsurmountable barrier. In the old world where things have been done the same way century after century it is almost impossible to break away from the old routine, but in the new world opportunity is almost limitless because each individual has a chance to carry out his own ideas and to prove his worth. Because of this many young men of foreign birth have made substantial progress in America. Among this number was Patrick Sharkey, who was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, on the 17th of March, 1835, his parents being John and Katherine (Carroll) Sharkey, both of whom died on Prince Edward island in Canada. The father was a farmer by occupation and was connected with agricultural pursuits in the Emerald isle until about 1843, when he brought his family to America. He took up a donation land claim in Canada and began the development of a farm.

Patrick Sharkey was the third in a family of seven children and pursued his education in the schools of Ireland and also of Prince Edward island. There he also learned the trade of a harness and collar maker at Georgetown, which is situated on Prince Edward island, and when twenty-three years of age, went to St. Johns, New Brunswick, where he worked at his trade for two years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Grand Falls, where he conducted a general store, making his home there for four years. He then sold out and went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he followed his trade for eight months, going thence to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he resided for twenty years. He was engaged in the harness business in that city and devoted his time exclusively to that undertaking until his removal to Oregon in April, 1886, when he settled in Portland. He was always a great reader and in this way had learned much about the Pacific coast. He made a trip here in 1884 and was so well pleased with the country and its characteristics that he returned to the east, disposed of his business there and again came to the northwest. Here he established a harness and collar factory on a small scale on Union avenue, between Washington and Alder streets. This was the first collar factory in Portland. He increased the business as he could and later removed to Taylor street, where he continued to carry on business up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 20th of August, 1902. In the meantime he had admitted his son, Edward J. Sharkey, to a partnership and following the father's death the son continued in the business until 1903, when the factory was destroyed by fire. He then removed to Union avenue at the corner of Oak street, where the plant is situated at the present time. Such is the business history of Mr. Sharkey, and it represents a life of untiring diligence, perseverance and industry, yet it by no means represents the extent of his interests or activities.

At the time of the Civil war he enlisted for active service in the Union army, joining a regiment at Boston, Massachusetts. He was transferred to the harness-maker's department, however, on account of his knowledge of the trade. He remained with the army for eight months and during that period was located at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He always gave his political allegiance to the republican party, which stood as the defense of the Union during the dark days of the Civil war and has always been the party of reform and progress. His reli-

It was on the 4th of November, 1859, that Mr. Sharkey was married to Miss Elizabeth McClemmens, a daughter of Patrick and Elizabeth (Miller) McClemmens. Mrs. Sharkey was born on the same day as her husband, the place of her birth, however, being in County Derry, Ireland. She came to the British province in America when four years of age, her parents locating upon a farm near St. Johns, where their remaining days were passed, and in that locality she resided until after her marriage. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sharkey were born nine children. Edward ]., now of Portland, married Fannie J. Davis and has four children: George and Mary, twins; Ralph; and William. Josephine is the wife of Charles Sweeney, a locomotive engineer residing in Portland, and they have three children, Irene, Grace and Edmund. Katherine is the wife of Frank Southard, of Portland, and has five children, Harry, Helen, Catherine, Mildred and Elizabeth. Louise is the wife of John Casey, of Portland, and has four children, Margaret, Allen, Edward and Charles. John P., who is engaged in the real-estate business in Portland, married Jennie Graham and has four children, Graham, Clemmens, Ellis and Herman. Helen is the wife of Rudolph Zeller, of Portland, and has three children, Philip, Rudolph and Marie. William T., who is connected with the collar factory, married Cecelia Cahill and has one child, Gertrude. Mrs. Sharkey still survives her husband and makes her home in Portland, where she now has many friends.

Mr. Sharkey never regretted his determination to come to the coast, for he was always pleased with the country and interested in its rapid development and substantial growth. He demonstrated his worth as a business man, who in the years of his residence here developed an enterprise of considerable proportions. He took up a homestead near Gresham of one hundred and sixty acres and also bought eighty acres adjoining, a part of which is now being laid out in small tracts by his son.

Aaron Delaney Shelby

Aaron Delaney Shelby was one of the early merchants of Portland who enthused into his mercantile interests a progressive spirit which had its effect upon the upbuilding of the new city. He was born in Kentucky, near Henderson, on the 7th of October, 1827, and when a mere child was left an orphan and was consequently brought up by an uncle in Mississippi. He received his education in that state and later engaged as clerk in a mercantile store, thereby gaining knowledge and experience that enabled him later to carry on business on his own account. His initial step in this direction was made in Newberg, Indiana, where he entered into a partnership with Chester Bethel. After the partnership had continued for one or two years, Mr. Shelby disposed of his interests and in 1853 started for the west. He sailed for the isthmus and after crossing the narrow neck of land which joins the two American continents, embarked for San Francisco and made his way northward to Portland.

The year previous to his departure from Indiana, or on the 3d of November, 1852, Mr. Shelby was married to Miss Mary Virginia Lane, second daughter of General Joseph Lane, who was the owner of an extensive farm near Evansville, Indiana. A few years previous, in 1848, General Lane was appointed by President Polk the first territorial governor of Oregon, to which state he subsequently returned and made it his home. General Lane is elsewhere represented in this volume. Mrs. Shelby was born in Vanderburg county, Indiana, and remained a resident of that state until her removal to Oregon.

Upon arriving in Portland, Mr. Shelby embarked in business as proprietor of a shoe store. Later he engaged in the crockery business and during the greater part of his life continued in merchandising in the city of Portland. His first store, built and owned by himself, was the first brick retail store on First street. At that time the business district of Portland extended little beyond Front and First streets. Mr. Shelby increased his stock from time to time as the growing interests of trade demanded, and through his progressiveness and business capabilities became a factor in the substantial growth and early commercial development of Portland.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Shelby were born two children, Eugene, who married formerly Miss Alberta Eccles, of Portland, and who is living in San Francisco, where he is superintendent for the Wells, Fargo Express Company; and Annie Blanche Shelby, of Portland, who has achieved distinction as an authority on whist and other scientific card games and is the author of two well known eastern publications "Standard Whist" and "Bridge Abridged."

The death of Mr. Shelby occurred on the 3d of September, 1881, and deep sorrow attended his burial in Lone Fir cemetery. He had won his way to the hearts of all who knew him, as well as his immediate family and friends. Moreover, he was closely associated with many of the prominent public interests of the growing city. He was one of the early members of the volunteer fire department and was popularly known in that organization when its membership included the chief residents of the city. He also took an active part in politics as an advocate of democratic principles and was elected to the city council and also chosen to represent his district in the legislature. In formulating the rules governing Portland and the laws regulating the state, he took an active interest and at all times sought the good of the community and the commonwealth. His entire life was actuated by honorable principles and he won the friendship and regard of all with whom he was associated.

Endowed with a natural aptitude for the healing art and also with an abundance of ambition and energy. Dr. Ferdinand H. Dammasch has been deservedly very successful as a medical practitioner in Portland. Many physicians who have attained great success worked much longer in securing the same patronage which now comes to Dr. Dammasch. Being familiar with local conditions from his youth up, he began among friends and, bringing to his profession a well trained mind and an up-to-date knowledge of the best methods in his profession, he very soon attained a position of comparative independence.

He was born in San Francisco, California, in 1879. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Portland and here he was reared and received his preliminary education in the public schools. Having decided to follow a professional career, he was for two years a student in the North Pacific Dental College and in 1902 was graduated from the Philadelphia Dental College. He next became a special student of medicine at the University of Strassburg, Germany, where he continued for one year. Returning to this country, he entered the Temple University of Philadelphia and was graduated from the medical department of that institution with the degree of M. D. in 1905.

After completing his medical course Dr. Dammasch returned to Portland, where he has since been engaged in practice and where he has met with a favor which is the reward of conscientious application and thorough acquaintance with the principles- of a trying profession. In July, 1909, he was appointed health officer of the city and since that time has devoted much of his time toward health problems of a public nature. He is a member and trustee of the City and County Medical Society and is president of the Portland Medical Club. In fraternal circles he is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Washington Chapter, No. 18, R. A. M. ; Oregon Commandery, No. i, K. T. ; Al Kader Tem-

It was as a result of great effort and repeated disappointments that Dr. Dammasch, with two others of German extraction, founded and organized the confederation of German speaking societies of Oregon, now commonly known as the German American Alliance, which has become a member of the national body of that name. This alliance now comprises thirty-eight German speaking societies in all parts of the state, with a total membership of over eight thousand men of German, Austrian or Swiss antecedents, and is constantly expanding until ultimately it will be represented in every county of the state of Oregon. It was truly a ereat work to bring together such an organization, of which Dr. Dammasch is today the recognized head, and he and his friends may be justly proud of their work.

At Philadelphia, while pursing his studies at the medical college, Dr. Dammasch was united in marriage, on September i, 1904, to Miss Nellie J. Cascaden. Two children have blessed the union, Louis and Sarah Josephine.

At the outset of a career that gives broad promise of usefulness, Dr. Dammasch has the confidence and support of many friends and acquaintances, who prophesy for him a happy and brilliant future. He recognizes medicine as a most absorbing profession and that only he who brings to it unusual talents and unalterable determination to win can reach the highest rank. He must have thorough education in his calling and a sound body as well as a good brain. Such a man is the subject of this review and of him it may safely be said "he will succeed because he contains within himself the elements of success."

John G. D. Linnemann

There are many men who do not startle the world by unexpected attainment, yet who make for themselves an enduring place in the memory of friends and those with whom they daily come in contact, and the world is richer and better because they have lived, as they add to life sunshine in their immediate social circle and by their uprightness and virtues uphold the faith of their fellowmen in the efficiency and worth of these qualities. Such was the life of John G. D. Linnemann, a pioneer resident of Multnomah county, early identified with industrial interests and later with the agricultural development of this section He was forty years a resident of Oregon, coming to this state soon after his arrival in the new world.

He was born in northern Germany, May 22, 1827, and acquired his education in the public schools there, after which he served an apprenticeship at the tailor's trade. He was, however, but twenty-three years of age when he determined to try his fortune in the United States. It requires courage, determination and great hopefulness to sever the ties which bind one to family, home and native land and go to a distance far removed therefrom, where the future is at best uncertain. Mr. Linnemann, however, possessed the requisite qualities and, crossing the Atlantic, became a resident of St. Louis. Soon afterward he removed to Randolph County, Illinois, where he established a tailoring business, but the call of the far west was irresistible to him and he joined the long wagon train that traveled northwest in 1852. His covered wagon was drawn by oxen and many hardships and privations were experienced ere the four months had passed which were required by him to make the trip. Portland, the beautiful "Rose City" of the present day, was then a little village of but four hundred inhabitants, but he believed that it promised well for the future and he opened a shop in his house on Third street, where he worked at his trade until agricultural interests claimed his entire attention. After residing for a time in Oregon he felt that it would be an act of wisdom to puchase land, for he foresaw that realty would rise rapidly in value as the country became thickly settled. Accordingly he purchased a donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres on the Powell Valley road, although at that time there was no road and between his farm and Portland was a dense forest. Space had to be cleared ere he could build a little one story log cabin. Then he took up the arduous task of cutting away the timber that he rnight prepare the land for the plow. He did the work of clearing and cultivating as he could find time while still pursuing his trade in Portland, walking back and forth night and morning. Later, however, the work of the farm demanded his entire time and he ceased to engage in tailoring. His labors brought the farm under a high state of cultivation and productive fields crowned his work with good crops, for which he found a ready sale on the market.

All through this work Mr. Linnemann had the assistance and encouragement of his wife, who was ever to him a faithful companion and helpmate. In December, 185 1, there was celebrated the wedding of John Linnemann and Miss Catharina Elizabeth Von Falde, who was also born in northern Germany, her natal day being September i, 1828. In 185 1 she came to America, settling in Illinois. Two years after the death of her husband she removed to Gresham, where she has since made her home, although she is still the owner of the farm of one hundred and sixty-seven acres which her husband secured many years ago. She contributed liberally to the building of the, Methodist Episcopal church of Gresham, which is now known as the Linnemann Memorial church, being named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Linnemann. At the junction one "mile and a quarter from Gresham is a station called Linnemann Junction also named in honor of the first settler of that locality. It is at the jundiaii, of : the Estacada, Cazadero, Gresham and Troutdale electric roads. ^ ' > ---J;:.!.. ';.."- ---

Mr. Linnemann held membership with the Odd Fellows, the first lodge organized in Portland bearing his name. He passed away in January, 1892, after living in Oregon for about forty years. A contemporary publication has said of him : "Public-spirited, Mr. Linnemann was an active supporter of all measures calculated to be of any material benefit to his country. At one time he served as supervisor and was also school director in his district. To Germany America is indebted for many of its best citizens and in Mr. Linnemann was found a worthy representative of his race. Sturdy of nature, he devoted many years to the labors of the farm, and that his efiforts met with success was but the natural reward of a life of industry. Purely self-made his reputation was one any man might envy. His circle of acquaintances was large and among them he was known as a man who had a high reg"ard for his word, which he always made as good as his bond and as such it was accepted. That there are not more such men is to be regretted ; if there were, this world would be dififerent. He lived an honorable life and while his sphere of usefulness was not an extended one, he did much to endear himself to those with whom he came in contact. There was much in his life worthy of emulation, and now that he is no longer with us in person, there is a memory remaining of which his wife and helpmate may well be proud. Too much cannot be said or done in honor of such men, as it is to these hardy pioneers Oregon owes everything."

Joseph Paquet

From the pioneer epoch to the present day the record of Joseph Paquet has been closely interwoven with the history of Portland and this section of the country. As a contractor he has been connected with much public work. Not by leaps and bounds has he attained the goal of prosperity, but by the steady progress which indicates the wise and careful improvement of every opportunity that has come to him.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 19, 1841, a son of Francis Xavier and Mary Louisa Lanadier (De Langdeau) Paquet. The father was born in

Canada in 1811 and in his youth was associated with the Hudson Bay Company. He served as a volunteer in the Black Hawk war in 1832 and in his young manhood learned the ship carpenter's trade. In 1835, in St. Louis, he wedded Mary Louisa Lanadier De Langdeau, who was born in that city in 1818, her ancestors living there at the time of the Louisiana purchase. They were among the first French families that settled in America, Her grandfather was a resident of St. Vincennes, Indiana, where he lived until driven out by the Indians. The family were then taken to St. Louis in a bateau. The grandfather of Mrs. Paquet remained behind in order to attend to the shipping of his gcK>ds and was to follow in a canoe but was never heard from afterward. The canoe however, was found floating in the river and it is supposed that he was killed by Indians. The parents of Mrs. Mary L. Paquet both died in St. Louis. Her father's death being occasioned by cholera when he was fifty-four years of age. His widow survived him for many years and died at a very advanced age.

Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Paquet lived in St. Louis until 1852, when they started across the plains to Oregon, leaving St. Louis on the ist of May and arriving in this state on the 15th of October. They had four wagons, fourteen yoke of cattle and two horses. Nothing unusual happened on the road. At Salmon Falls on the Snake river, they were told they could proceed the rest of the way to Portland in boats and Francis Paquet, therefore, converted the wagons into boats, burned the running gears for wood and sent the cattle on to Fort Boise in charge of David Monastes with instructions to remain there until the family arrived. As they proceeded, the family encountered all kinds of difficulties. The river was strewn with rocks, the current swift and they came upon thirteen rapids and one fall. They had to drag the wagon beds overland three times, and it was while on this part of the journey that they met the most unfriendly Indians whom they had encountered. At length they reached Fort Boise where they found the man and cattle awaiting them. There Francis Paquet was informed that he could go only a short distance farther by water for there were some high falls below Fort Boise and the river was very rough. He then purchased two wagons and proceeded on the journey to The Dalles, where he again made boats of wagon boxes and started down the Columbia river but encountered head winds and took passage on a bateau to the Cascades. They made the portage and then continued on their way to Portland as passengers on a small side-wheel steamboat. Before leaving The Dalles, Mr. Paquet sent his cattle to what is now Hood river to winter. The family spent the season in Portland in a miserable shack. The winter was very severe, the lakes were all frozen solid, and the snow was about eighteen inches deep. Wood was the only thing that was cheap, flour selling at five dollars per sack, beef at fifty cents per pound, and everything else in proportion. When the river opened so that Mr. Paquet could go to Dog river, where his cattle had been left, he found only four head of them alive. The death of Mr. Paquet occurred when he had reached the advanced age of eighty-seven years and his wife passed away at the age of seventy-eight. In their family were eight sons and four daughters, but only three are now living.

Joseph Paquet, whose name introduces this record had attended school in St. Louis for about six years, beginning his education there when a little lad of five. He attended school in Oregon City under Judge Shattuck, and in 1854 the family removed to a ranch four miles from Oregon City, after which he spent about four months in a school taught by Charles Cartwright. This completed his education. He was then about fifteen years of age, and from that time forward his life has been devoted to business pursuits, and unfaltering energy and intelligently directed labor have constituted the basis of his success.

When the family removed to the ranch they had no team and Joseph Paquet and his brother two years older than himself carried groceries on their backs from Oregon City to the farm. The next year a pony, cow and chickens were purchased. The father, a ship carpenter by trade, worked in Canemah in the summer and fall repairing boats and getting them ready for the winter run, the Willamette river above the falls being navigable only during the winter months. When Joseph Paquet was old enough he worked with his father, and thus learned the use of tools. He studied the business until he was able to build complete any kind of a boat and also draw the plans for the same. As a youth he was very fond of hunting wild game and his first experience at killing deer came during the first winter that the family occupied the ranch. The deer would come nearly every night within thirty or forty yards of the house and eat cabbage and turnips which were growing in the field his eldest brother killing several by shooting from the windows. Joseph Paquet afterward became one of the most successful deer hunters in the state and when a boy was regarded as one of the best rifle shots in Oregon. Even yet he displays much skill in hunting. In 1885 he won the championship in live pigeon shooting in the three days' tournament held in Portland, and in the winter of 1910-11 made an excellent record in shooting ducks.

After leaving the ranch, Mr. Paquet followed steamboat building and built the first steam ferry that ran across the river at Salem in 1866. He also built the first snag boat the government had built in Oregon in 1871 ; the first dams built by the government on the Willamette in 1872; the first dikes built on the lower Willamette, including the dam across Willamette slough in 1880. He worked for two years, in 1868 and 1869, for the Oregon Steamship Navigation Company, building and repairing boats, and in 1870 was superintendent of construction for the People's Transportation Company.

On Christmas day of that year Mr. Paquet was married and established his home at Canemah, where he lived until 1879, when he removed to Portland. Throughout all the intervening years, Mr. Paquet has followed contracting of every kind, his work including the building of boats of every description, the Klamath irrigation ditch, the Tualatin river and other dams and some of the largest sewers of Portland, including the Brooklyn sewer. He also took contracts for building a number of steamboats, including the fastest stem-wheel boat in the world - the steamer Telephone, now running in California. He has built bridges, wharv^es, railroads, stone work, concrete work and, in fact, has contracted for work of almost every description. He has maintained a prominent position in business circles, and is now president of the St. John Shipbuilding Company, president of the Portland Sand Company, and a member of the firm of Paquet, Giebisch & Joplin Company, contractors. He has two pile drivers which he uses in contract work, two fish wheels at the foot of the Cascade rapids, and an eight hundred-acre ranch thirteen miles from Portland, and considerable property in Portland, all of which interests he continues to manage and still has time for occasional hunting and fishing trips, which constitute his chief source of rest and recreation. His life has, indeed, been a busy and useful one, and he occupies a prominent position among the contractors and business men of Portland.

On the 25th of December, 1870, in Oregon City, Mr. Paquet married Miss Mary Elizabeth Blottenberger, whose parents were of American birth, although the name is undoubtedly of German origin. In 1865 they became residents of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Paquet have three children: Mary, the wife of Albert E. Gebhardt; Joseph David, who married Clara Washburne and Francis Gilbert, sixteen years of age. They also reared a daughter of Mr. Paquet's sister, now twenty years of age.

While leading a very busy life, Mr. Paquet has found time to devote to public interests. He served as school director in East Portland for nearly six years and was chairman of the board when the cities were consolidated in 1891. He served as school clerk in Portland for a year and was a member of the port of Portland commission for about a year. He usually supports the republican party but does not hesitate to scratch from the ticket the name of a man whom he does not regard as well qualified for ofihce. He is a strongly temperate man, never using liquor or tobacco in any form, and the many sterling qualities which he has displayed throughout his entire life have gained for him the confidence, good will and high regard of those with whom he has been associated.

James Hennesy Murphy

Among the lawyers of Portland none is more widely known in Irish- American circles than James Hennesy Murphy, who is not only an attorney but he is a traveler, a writer and a public speaker, being accredited by an authority as high as that of the official organ of the Benedictine Order in Oregon as being the best posted layman in the northwest on the history of the Roman Catholic church, He is of Irish descent and was born at Boston, Massachusetts, November 9, 1858. His father, Daniel Murphy, was a native of the city of Cork, Ireland. His sympathies and activities with what is known as the James Stephens movement caused Mr. Murphy to leave Ireland for America to escape the vigilance of the British government. He landed at Boston, where he entered business as a merchant tailor, in which he continued until his death in 1880. The mother of our subject, who was Hannah Hennesy before her marriage, was a native of Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. She died five years after her husband had been called away, in 1885.

James H. Murphy was educated in the Catholic parochial schools of Boston and later matriculated at Holy Cross College, a noted Catholic institution, at Worcester, Massachusetts. He took up the study of law in the offices of General B. F. Butler and Captain Clark, at Boston, but ill health, obliged him to seek outdoor life and he temporarily entered the journalistic profession, being aided largely by a knowledge of shorthand and telegraphy. He was one of those engaged in experiments in transmitting music over telegraphic wires under direction of Professor A. Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and Charles J. Glidden, who has since become famous in the development of the automobile and in aerial navigation. Attracted to new fields, Mr. Murphy visited Peru and Mexico, where he engaged in various enterprises. Returning homeward, he spent some years in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, during which he made many observations and contributed extensively to eastern papers. In November, 1890, he arrived in Oregon and since 1894 has been engaged in law practice at Portland. He is known as one of the leaders of the Irish political movement in the northwest and a strong advocate of Irish national principles. As a speaker upon such subjects and as an exponent of Irish history he has a wide reputation. His study of these and relative topics has extended over many years and few native born Americans have devoted as much attention as he to those subjects. Mr. Murphy was married in 1885, at Lowell, Massachusetts, to Miss Elizabeth A. Mahon, who is in full sympathy with her husband in the work to which he has devoted years of his mature life.

The active temperament of Mr. Murphy has found expression not only in his profession and on the platform as an advocate of teaching Irish history in primary schools, which he regards as of great importance. He had charge of Dr. Hyde's visit to Portland in 1907 in the interest of the resurrection of the Gaelic language He is president of the United Irish League of Oregon, a member of the American- Irish Historical Society and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was a prominent figure at the Hibernian convention banquet held in Portland in July, 1910, an event of national interest to members of the order who were gathered from many quarters. He also had charge of the itinerary of Hon. T. P. O'Connor's northwest trip in October, 1910, from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Butte, Montana, in the interest of home rule for Ireland, which netted forty thousand dollars for Ireland's cause.

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Mr. Murphy has been a close and ardent student of the writings of the late H. W. Scott, editor of the Oregonian, whose style he has copied in his many contributions to the press. He considers Mr. Scott one of the great minds of his day and generation, and upon the latter's death, Mr. Murphy's estimate of his literary merits and life work, published in the Catholic Sentinel, was conceded by competent judges to be one of the foremost of the hundreds of articles on that subject in keen insight of the character depicted and the literary merit of the article.

Mr. Murphy has always been a consistent democrat but has never yielded to any "fads or fancies" in pohtics. He stands for the old school and in whatever he undertakes he is governed by principles that he early imbibed and that have appealed to his mind as just and right.

William A. Cates

William A. Cates, long identified with agricultural interests in this section of the country and also recognized as a local leader of the democratic party, was born in Livingston county, Illinois, April 15, 1850. The first fifteen years of his life were there passed, and in 1865 he crossed the plains with his parents, the journey being made with wagons and teams. He is the son of Spencer and Phoebe (Cunningham) Cates, the latter a cousin of Grover Cleveland, her mother having been Elizabeth Cleveland, a sister of President Cleveland's father. The Cates family is one of long connection with American interests, the first representatives of the name coming from England to the new world in 1632. The ancestry is traced back four hundred years to the time of King Richard. Joseph Cates, braving the dangers of an ocean voyage during the period of early colonization in the new world, settled in Virginia. He had a brother who established his home in New England, but W. A. Cates of this review is descended from the Virginia branch of the family. Mrs. Elizabeth (Cleveland) Cunningham, the grandmother of W. A. Cates, had fifteen children and one hundred and two living grandchildren at the time of her death.

When Spencer Cates brought his family to the northwest he settled on a farm two miles east of Union, Oregon, on what became known as the old Cates homestead, and there followed general agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred on the i6th of March, 1869. He was one of the two county commissioners elected to ofiice at the first election following the organization of Union county, and was a man well known and well liked in his community.

W. A. Cates completed his education in Baker City Academy, from which he was graduated in 1873. Previous to this time, in 1871, he filed on the first claim in what is now Wallowa county. After his graduation he located at Union, Oregon, and served as deputy under his brother. R. S. Cates, who was county clerk. His mechanical genius and originality having resulted in the invention of a universal timepiece, he then traveled extensively over the United States introducing this for three or four years. At the end of that time he located on a tract of land where now stands the station of Telocaset. This place he homesteaded and established Telocaset postofifice and served as postmaster of the town for seven years, filling the office from the day of his arrival there until he left. In 1892 he came to Clarke county, Washington, and purchased twenty-four acres of land on Mill Plane, eight miles east of Vancouver. Here he set out twelve acres in fruit and devotes the remainder to the raising of grain. He is most progressive in all of his agricultural and horticultural interests, and his labors have been attended with that substantial measure of success which always follows unfaltering industry and practical management. He has always believed that the agricultural community should keep pace in every way with the town life and in 1806 he organized the East Mill Plane Telephone Company, of which he has since been the president. During the Indian wars of 1878 he became second Heutenant of a company of home guards at Union, Oregon, for the protection of the settlers against the Bannock Indians.

In 1874 Mr. Gates was married at Baker City to Miss Carrie AdeHne Barlow, a daughter of George Barlow, who settled at Barlow Landing in Cowlitz county, Washington, in 1852. Mrs. Gates was born in 1856 and died September 12, 1906. They were the parents of five living children : George Calvin, a mechanic of Vancouver; Ison B., a teacher in the public schools of Tacoma, Washington; J. Elmer, who was graduated from Harvard University on the 29th of June, 1910, and is to take up ministerial work; Ida C, the wife of F. B. Deubell, of Detroit, Michigan; and Mary Elma, the wife of S. W. Fisher of Fisher, Washington.

Mr. Gates is a democrat in his political views and has been active in the work of the party. For a period, however, he severed his allegiance thereto, and in 1878 was candidate for the office of secretary of state of Oregon on the greenback ticket. To him has been accorded the election of Solomon Hirsch state treasurer of Oregon in 1878, by throwing Union county's greenback vote to him, and defeating A. H. Brown. He has taken a very active and helpful part in promoting democratic politics in this section of the country since he located in Vancouver. However, he has at times refused to serve as a delegate to the state conventions for he dislikes the turmoil therein. He prefers a quiet life, finding greater pleasure in directing his efiforts in agricultural and horticultural lines, his persevering labors therein bringing him a substantial measure of success.

John McCraken, closely identified with Portland for sixty years as manufacturer, merchant, federal official, legislator, banker, churchman, philanthropist, is the oldest living of that remarkable group of far-sighted men of the earliest days who contributed so much to the foundations of the city's present greatness and to a large extent brought about the transformation from crude trading post to the beautiful Portland of today.

He was born in London, England, July 11, 1826, the son of John and Sarah (Pigeon) McCraken. Of Scotch ancestry, his father was born in Dublin, Ireland, went to London in early manhood and became identified with mercantile interests. With his family he came to America in 1832, settling in New York, where he established himself in business and resided there until his death.

Left an orphan at eleven years of age, John McCraken made his home for the following five years with Gilbert Emmons, a farmer near East Haddam, Connecticut, and received his education in a boarding school at that place. He gained his first business experience in the store of Alford Emmons at Fiskville, Rhode Island, and in 1846 went to New York, where he remained until 1849. Stories of great fortunes in the California mines led him and several associates to form the Greenwich & California Mining & Trading Company, of which he was made vice president. In March, 1849, having purchased the two hundred and eighty ton sailing vessel Palmetto, which they loaded with a cargo of provisions and supplies, the party of forty-two members started on the voyage around the Horn to San Francisco. Stopping for eleven days at Rio Janeiro and at Valparaiso for a week, they arrived after a voyage of six months, at San Francisco, September 7, 1849.

Many of the men were practical mechanics, and the wages of forty-eight dollars in gold per day proved so tempting that the company was disbanded and Mr. McCraken with one or two others, left to settle up the afifairs of the company. The lumber for a house they had brought from New York sold for three hundred and fifty dollars per thousand feet. Later he went to Stockton, where he engaged in freight teaming for a time and then went to the southern mines. In 1850 he engaged in the business of furnishing supplies to the mines in Calaveras county but at the end of a year disposed of his interest to his partners and went to San Francisco, intending to locate in San Jose.

While on the journey, however, he met a stranger from Oregon, who gave such growing accounts of the country that he determined to come to the Columbia river. Taking passage on the sailing vessel Ocean Bird, he arrived at Oregon City in November, 1850, where he soon purchased a one-fourth interest in the Island Mills from R. R. Thompson and became associated with General Joseph Lane and sons, who owned the other three-fourths of the property. Just as he had become fairly settled in this new venture a disastrous flood came down the river, wrecking the mills. The partners had invested heavily in wheat at five dollars per bushel, and a sudden slump in the flour market found them with a large supply of wheat which they could sell only at a great sacrifice. However, the mills were rebuilt and resumed operation.

Mr. McCraken found time, in 1851, even in the shadow of financial difficulties, to go to Salem and become an active candidate for chief clerk of the house. He acquired a reputation in the territory as a stanch and resolute citizen and was appointed by President Buchanan as United States marshal, serving in that capacity to the end of Buchanan's administration. His was the third appointment to this position, his predecessors having been Joseph Meek, the celebrated scout and Indian fighter, and J. W. Nesmith.

During the Indian war of 1855-6 he served as quartermaster-general with rank of colonel. In 1856 he entered the commission business in partnership with J. R. Richards, the house operating both in Portland and San Francisco. Mr. Richards lost his life on the steamer Brother Jonathan, and Mr. McCraken conducted the business for a time alone. He later became interested in the grocery and supply business and has been for many years the head of the John McCraken & Company, extensive handlers of wholesale builders supplies. He was for many years associated with the Commercial National Bank as stockholder and director and was largely interested in the smelting works at Linton, Oregon.

A republican, he served as member and president of the city council for several terms. In 1891-1893 and again in 1901, he was member of the state legislature, and was instrumental in promoting legislation directly affecting Portland interests. A Mason of long standing, he was initiated into the order in this city, served as master, was for two terms grand master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, and two terms was grand high priest of the Grand Chapter of Oregon ; has served as eminent commander of Portland Commandery, and was elected to the honorary thirty-third degree. He is a member and one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce and member of the Commercial Club. A member of Trinity Episcopal church, he has been for many years senior warden, and is the only one of its first vestrymen living.

In 1855 Mr. McCraken married Miss Ada Panbrum, who is a daughter of Pierre Panbrum, early factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and one of the very early pioneers of Walla Walla, where he settled in 1843, ^^^ served the Hudson's Bay Company for many years. Six children were born to Mr, and Mrs. McCraken. They are: Mrs. Charles Hurley of Tacoma, Washington; E. Henry, associated as manager with his father's business in Portland; James R., who has retired from active business and resides on his fruit ranch at White Sun, Washington; Robert G., of Portland; John, who resided at San Francisco, where he died, aged thirty-five years; and Fritz, who died in infancy.

Mr. McCraken has been for some years retired from active business life and is to a large degree a spectator of the scenes in which, during a long and busy career, he has been a conspicuous figure. Few men living in Oregon today have seen more of the wonderful progress of the past sixty years, and still fewer have contributed so much to that development. Thrown upon his own resources when but a boy of eleven, he has by industry, a natural talent for business, rare ability in gaining and retaining the confidence of others, and a capacity for endurance possessed by few men; overcome many obstacles and has been for many years recognized as one of Portland's leading citizens. Genial, affable, generous, his purse has always been open to any worthy charitable cause, and few men have given more liberally of their means. Crowned with the honors of eighty-four years, he is freely accorded a place in the list of Portland's grand old men.

John O'Hare

The building of Portland represents the combined activities of many hundreds of men who under the direction of skilled and competent contractors are day by day adding to the modern structures whose solidarity and beauty are fast winning for Portland recognition not only as one of the most attractive cities of the coast but of the entire country. Time was when a single contractor did practically all of the work in connection with a building, even shaping his own window frames and doors. Now brickwork, stonework, carpentry, plastering, interior decoration and painting are all done by different individuals, each having a separate and well developed trade. John O'Hare is one of the pioneer plastering contractors of Portland, whose business is now extensive and profitable. He was born in County Armagh, Ireland, October 28, 1843, ^"d came to America when about twenty-six years of age. His parents were Peter and Mary O'Hare. The father followed farming and was also a contractor in the grading of roads. He died, however, at the early age of thirty-nine years.

At the usual age John O'Hare entered the public schools but his father's early death compelled him to start out in life on his own account when he was still quite young. He was less than sixteen years of age when he began to learn the plasterer's trade, becoming familiar with every phase of the business. He also served a part of his term of apprenticeship in the cast shop, the department where plaster of paris casts are made for decorative work. He was employed as journeyman in Ireland before he came to America, but he heard favorable reports concerning the new world, its opportunities and the good wages paid for labor. The story proved to him too attractive to resist. He was one of the first of the family to cross the Atlantic, but later his mother, brothers and sisters followed him.