Transcription from back: “Mrs. Eliza (Spalding) Warren was born at Lapway (Clearwater Co.), Oregon T., now Idaho, Nov. 15th 1837. Daughter of Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding – Pioneer missionary (sent by the Amer. Bd.) of 1836 from N. Y. via the Plains on horseback. Wife of James Warren. Mr. Warren died Nov. 4, 1886.”
Back of a cartes-de-visite portrait of Margaret Amanda (Smith) Monteith showing the studio stamp for A. B. Paxton. Transcription from back: ”Margaret Amanda (Smith) Monteith.”
Back of a cartes-de-visite portrait of Rebecca (Miller) Beach showing the studio stamp for A. B. Paxton. Transcription from back: “Rebecca (Miller) Beach.”
Leighton E. Blain, born in 1842 in Porter County, Indiana. He came overland with oxen in the spring of 1848 and arrived in the fall of that year. He settled in Oregon City as a merchant and married Mary Miller in Albany in about 1868. He died May 8th, 1927.
Mary Miller, who married Leighton E. Blain, in Albany in about 1868. She was born in Iowa, in October 1845, and crossed the plains to Oregon, arriving in November 1852. They first located on the Tualatin Plains. She died July 30, 1931.