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Rutledge, Reverend D.

Reverend D. Rutledge, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church on Taylor Street in Portland, Oregon, in 1857, and from 1862 to 1864.

Dalton, Frank

Ruddell, Stephen Dully (Dudley)

Stephen Dully (or Dudley) Ruddell, who came to Thurston County, Washington Territory, in 1852. He was born on June 16, 1816, in Bourbon County, Kentucky. He became the first Territorial Assessor and County Commissioner in 1853, and was one of the signers of the Congressional Memorial establishing the Territory of Washington, in 1853. He joined the Washington Volunteers of 1855-56 and was involved in the Indian Wars in Puget Sound. He married Margaret M. White, a recent widow, on February 15, 1857, in Thurston County. Stephen died September 10, 1891, in Olympia.

Ruddell, Margaret (Stewart) White

Margaret (Stewart) White, who married Stephen Duley Ruddell in 1857 in Thurston County, Washington Territory. She was born on October 20, 1819, in Brown County, Ohio, and had come to Oregon, via the Plains, from Wisconsin in 1851 with her five children. Her first husband was William White, who had been in Oregon Territory since earlier that year, but was in poor health when he arrived. The family moved to Thurston County early on and William died in a skirmish during the Puget Sound Treaty War, in 1856. Margaret died on May 5, 1893, in Olympia, Washington.

Clark (Olympia, Wash.)

Royal, Osmon

Osmon Royal, born January 3, 1856, in Sandwich, Illinois, the son of Charles W. and Rachel (Misner) Royal. Their family came to Oregon in 1865, and Osmon attended Willamette University. He then went to Ohio Wesleyan University, as well as Boston University for his medical degree. He came to practice medicine in Portland, where he remained for thirty years, until his sudden death on December 31, 1910. He had married Julia Morgan, in 1882, and they had a son, Osmon, Jr.

Pietz, H. (Henry), 1844-

Rowland, Dr. W. H.

Dr. W. H. Rowland, who came to Oregon in 1852 and settled in Linn County. He was a veterinary doctor and the Brownsville Postmaster in 1869, but he disappears from the record after that time.

Roundtree, Turner Richardson

Turner Richardson Roundtree, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War in Illinois. He was born in Kentucky in 1795, the eldest child of Dudley Roundtree. He married Mary "Polly" Ferguson on January 12, 1815, in Hardin County, Kentucky. In 1830, they removed to Illinois, and in 1852 they came west to Oregon, quickly settling on Boistfort Prairie, Lewis County, Washington Territory. He apparently made a small fortune there, but died on the Steamer "Carrie Davis," on a return trip from Claquato, on March 21, 1868.

Roundtree, Mary Adeline (Ferguson)

Mary "Polly" Adeline Ferguson, born about 1795 in Virginia, of Scottish descent. She married Turner Richardson Roundtree on January 12, 1815, in Hardin County, Kentucky. They had seven children, among them: James Harrison, Mary Turner, John B., Perry O., Andrew J., and Martin D. In 1830, the family moved to Illinois, and came to Oregon in 1852, quickly moving to Washington Territory within a year. She died February 11, 1880, in Boistfort, Lewis County, Washington.

Roundtree, James H.

James Harrison Roundtree, born in Hart County, Kentucky, in 1815. He married Emeline C. Riddle in Knox County, Illinois, and they had several children before coming overland, first to Oregon, then to Lewis County, Washington Territory. They were early settlers in what is now called Grays Harbor. His daughter, Demaris, was the first Caucasian child born in Chehalis County. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Black River, and then to Centralia, where they remained. For other biographical information, see preceding image of Emeline Roundtree.

Woodard, Alonzo Bixby, 1840-1918

Roundtree, Emiline Cole Riddle

Emiline Cole Riddle, born in 1818 in Hart County, Kentucky. She married James Harrison Roundtree in Knox County, Illinois, in March 1837. They came to Oregon in 1852. She died on November 27, 1892, in Boistfort, Lewis County, Washington, where they had moved in about 1855. Their children were: Jasper N., Mary Adeline (Borst), Julina J. (Weaver), Demaris, Molly A., and Evaline (Hagarty).

Woodard, Alonzo Bixby, 1840-1918

Rowley, Captain

Captain Rowley, a captain in the Army at Jacksonville, Oregon, for one year. May be Charles M. Rowley, but labeled as "Rollie" on reverse of photo.

Britt, Peter, 1819-1905

Robison, Fannie Johnson (Baker)

Fannie Johnson, born on December 10, 1822, in Nashville, Tennessee. She first married Caleb Bartholomew Baker (in 1853) and then John Robison (in 1881). She and Caleb came overland from Kentucky in 1853, through the Narchee Pass, and settled in Grand Mound Prairie, Thurston County, Washington Territory. Caleb died June 16, 1866. John Robison died in 1885. Fannie lived until June 24, 1900, and died in Salem.

Robinson, Margaret Carnahan (Wilson)

Margaret Carnahan (Wilson), born February 14, 1793, near Charlotte, North Carolina, who married John Robinson in October 1815. She died at her home near Corvallis, on August 27, 1878. Their children were Elizabeth, Harriet, and Miriam. See John Robinson's photograph for more biographical information.

Robinson, John Jr.

Captain John Robinson, Jr., born December 25, 1793, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He had married Margaret Carnahan Wilson on October 1, 1815. They started the journey to Oregon in April 1846 across the Plains, from Putnam County, Illinois, and arrived in Oregon Territory in October that year. They first located in Clatsop County, but soon moved to the Corvallis area, where he died December 9, 1874. John had been a Captain in the War of 1812, and was the son of a Revolutionary War veteran. He spent two terms in the Oregon Territorial Legislature, being first elected to the position in 1847.

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