Transcription from back: “Cyrus Hamlin Walker. Born: Dec. 7th, 1838 at the Whitman Mission, which was about 6 miles west of the present city of Walla Walla, Wa. Oldest son of Rev. Elkanah and Mrs. Mary (Richardson) Walker, Pioneers of 1838 from Maine – via the Plains.”
Malcolm Adelbert Moody, the son of Zenas Ferry and Mary Moody, of The Dalles. He was born November 30, 1854, in Linn County, Oregon. He was a Republican, and was a U. S. Representative from Oregon from 1899-1903. He died in Portland on March 19, 1925.
Transcription from front: “Gov. Geo. L Curry & w - 18__.” Transcription from back: “Letter from George Curry to W.H. Rees, March 31, 1874. ‘I send you in answer to your request a photography of wife and self from a picture at the time I held office, 1855. It is the only one we have.’ (Chloe Boone is his wife).”
Probably Velina Pauline Nesmith, born Sept. 4, 1855, to James W. and Lucinda Pauline (Goff) Nesmith. She married William Markland Molson, a Portland brewer, in 1882, and eventually relocated to Montreal with her husband and stepsons. She died in Polk County on July 17, 1937.
Transcription from back: “Jamie Frenchmen Smith, a friend of Mama’s who was in school with her at the seminary in Ore. City. Her father-in-law had a foundry in Ore. City in the early days. Her husband was her stepbrother.”