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Backenstos, Sarah L. (Lee)

Sarah L. Lee, the wife of Colonel Jacob B. Backenstos, pioneer of 1849. They were married December 15, 1836. They started for Oregon Territory in April of 1849 from Missouri, and arrived in October 1849, settling in Oregon City. Jacob was in command of a regiment of the U. S. Mounted Rifles while crossing the plains.

Bagley, Alice (Mercer)

Alice Mercer, who married Clarence B. Bagley in 1865 and was a pioneer of 1852. She was born October 26, 1848, in Illinois. They settled in Seattle, where Clarence was in the newspaper industry and on the Board of Public Works. They had two children. She died in Seattle in October 1913.

Barclay, Maria (Pambrun)

Maria, a daughter of Hudson Bay Company's chief factor, Pierre Chrysoloque Pambrun and Catherine Humperville. She was born at Fraser Lake, British Columbia, on October 25, 1826. She married Dr. Forbes Barclay and lived in Oregon City until her death in April of 1890.

Beers, Rachel Eliza (Hall)

Rachel Eliza Hall, survivor of the Whitman massacre and first wife of Peter W. Hall. She married Robert Beers in August of 1850. Both were residents of Linn City (now West Linn), Oregon.

Bills, Cincinnati

Cincinnati Bills, pioneer of 1853 and early Sheriff of Multnomah County. He was born in about 1825 in Vermont and was married to Ann Elizabeth Adkins in 1850 in Indiana.

Blackler, Lydia (Hooper)

Lydia Hooper Blackler, who came to Oregon in 1857 by way of the Panama Isthmus. She was born in Massachusetts in 1835. She was a teacher and lived in many places, including Milwaukie, Oregon City, Portland, Olympia and Oakland, California. She taught in Spencer Hall, St. Helens Hall, and Mills College. She died in 1917.

Clark, L. Wilson (Olympia, Wash.)

Blain, Wilson Robert

Wilson Robert Blain, born in about 1848 in Indiana, to Wilson and Elizabeth Blain. He was the younger brother of Leighton Blain. He remained in Oregon until just before his death in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920.

Thompson & Paxton (Photographers)

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