Carte de visite portrait of an unidentified child member of the Beekman family

Samuel Fleming Kerns, the son of William and Isabelle (Gibson) Kerns, born about 1834 in Hillsboro, Ohio. He came overland to Oregon via the Barlow Road with his brother, John Tulley Kerns, in 1852, and settled in the Montavilla area of Multnomah County. He was active in the Indian Wars in Oregon. He married Elizabeth Clagett in 1868, and they settled on a 20-acre tract of land in what is now the Hawthorne District of Portland, where he planted one of the first nurseries in Portland. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in Eugene, on October 8, 1916, after having broken his leg the month before.

(Probably) Jeremiah "Jerry" D. Mabie, older brother of Eunice and Andrew E. Their family crossed the plains from Illinois and settled in Olympia, Washington Territory. He was a farmer, and was the Territorial Librarian when he died in Olympia, June 15, 1870.

Mary Joanna Thomson, who married Daniel C. Beatty (Beaty) on December 16, 1856. She came overland from Indiana, starting in April 1853, via the South Pass, and arrived in Oregon in October 1853. They settled in Portland.

George E. Blankenship, born about 1826, in New York. Was an early settler of Thurston County, Washington Territory.

Union officer in Civil War

Group portrait of Samuel Bowles (Editor from Springfield, Mass.), William Bross (Lieut. Governor of Illinois and Editor of Chicago Tribune), Schuyler Colfax (Speaker of the House and subsequently Vice President), and Albert D. Richardson (New York Tribune war correspondent and author).

John and Edith Dillon of Eugene, Oregon, 1865.

Rene Dunn of Eugene, Oregon, circa 1863.

Olivia Henderson, who married Edward Failing, of Portland.

Born about 1822, he was a physician in New London, Connecticut, in 1870.

Julius C. Moreland, pioneer to Oregon of 1852, printer, lawyer, Judge for Multnomah County, and eventual clerk of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Thomas George Naylor, born October 12, 1814 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He married Sarah E. Storey and started for Oregon May 15, 1843, arriving on November 15th that year. They had five children, and Sarah died Feb. 2, 1852, in West Tualatin Plains, probably near Milton. With Sarah, his children were: Thomas (b. 1842?, Missouri), Sarah Catherine (b. 1844), Hardinia P. (b. 1846), James Henry (b. 1848), Margaret (b. 1850), John (b. 1852). He later married Catherine Storey, and had Mary A. (1854-1863), Myra (b. 1856), George F. (b. 1857), Julia Frances (b. and d. May 1859), Charles P. (b. 1860), and Nellie Jane (1871-1873).

Democratic U. S. Senator, James Willis Nesmith. He was born in New Brunswick on July 23, 1820, and started to Oregon in May 1843, arriving on November 24th of that year. He married Pauline Goff in 1846 and they had seven children. He was a legislator in the Oregon Provisional Government and a U. S. Marshal.

Edward Evans Parrish, born November 20, 1791, in Monongalia County, West Virginia, to Edward and Rachel (Evans) Parrish. He first married Elizabeth Bussey in West Virginia, in 1814. They had six children. He remarried, in 1827, Rebecca Mapel, in Pennsylvania. They went on to have six children of their own: Elizabeth Ellen, Thomas Mapel Andrew Jackson, Mary Ann Springer, Rebecca Shinn, Edward Evans, Jr., and Rachel Marinda. They crossed the plains, starting in 1843 in Ohio, and arrived in Oregon City in 1844. They settled on a donation land claim in Marion County, before Salem was a town. He died October 24, 1874, in Linn County, Oregon, and is buried at Knox's Butte Cemetery.

DeWitt Clinton Ireland, born in 1835 in Vermont, was a printer and editor, living with his family in Portland in 1870. He began by editing Oregon City newspapers and eventually ended up editing the Yamhill County Reporter in the 1880s.

William Vitz James Johnson

Bertie Jones of Salem, Oregon.

Julius Keeler, principal of Tualatin Academy (May 1852), and U.S. Marshall for Oregon (1861-1864), and his wife, Sylvia M. Marshall. He ran a private school in Portland in May 1856. He died in San Francisco on January 28, 1890. His wife reputedly died in Napa, on October 13, 1858. They had one surviving son, Percival Julius Keeler, born in 1853 in Oregon. He was a bookkeeper in San Francisco in 1880.

Mislabeled as Louisa C. Barrows

Elisabeth (White) Chambers is shown with woman who is either Rhetta (Hoskins) White or Elisabeth's daughter, Mary.

Carte de visite of Mount Shasta, with a wooden fence in the foreground. There is a visible crease from the top to the bottom of the image. Not positively identified as having been taken by Carleton E. Watkins. Title written on verso of photograph in unknown hand.

Portrait of C. O. Clark of Goodnough Builders, Portland, in the 1860s.

The wife of Edward N. Cooke, of Marion County, Oregon.

Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865).