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Kinney, A. C.

Kinney, A. C.

Augustus C. Kinney (b. 1839), a physician in early Portland. He attended Willamette University in 1867, but had left Portland by about 1880.

Dalton, Frank

Moe, Charles N.

Moe, Charles N.

Charles N. Moe, who was stationed at Fort Sutter during the Indian Wars as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He came to Oregon, then moved to California by 1860. He was born in about 1827, and married Ellen Hall in Nebraska in 1861.

Quick, Martha Anna (Pitzer) and child

Quick, Martha Anna (Pitzer) and child

Martha "Annie" Pitzer, born in 1822 in Licking County, Ohio, to John and Elizabeth (DeBott) Pitzer. She married James Quick in 1840 in Ohio. They came overland from the Midwest to Oregon in 1853, with five children in tow, and settled in Tillamook County. She had four more children once they arrived in Oregon Territory. Annie died in Tillamook in 1888. The child pictured here with her could be either Charles (born 1859) or, less likely, Nellie (born 1865).

Hovey, Albert G.

Hovey, Albert G.

Born about 1825 in New Hampshire, A. G. Hovey settled in Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, for a time. In 1860, he was living in Corvallis with his wife, Mary E. Hovey.

Buchtel & Cardwell

Lodge, James

Lodge, James

James Lodge, editor of the Pioneer Democrat in Olympia, Washington. He was born in about 1836 in Indiana, and worked as a draftsman in Thurston County, Washington, in 1860.

Pentland, Robert T.

Pentland, Robert T.

Robert Thomas Pentland, who was born in Newcastle, England, in 1820, and came to Oregon in 1845. He first lived in Oregon City, working at a grist mill owned by George Abernethy. He became business partners with Abernethy and Leander Holmes, owning property at Willamette Falls, and started what was then the largest flouring mill in Oregon Territory. At this time, he also was in partnership with Stephen Coffin, owning an interest in the first Portland water works company. After several devastating setbacks to his businesses, he removed to The Dalles in the early 1860s and started two flouring mills there.
He had married Jane Law (Lax?) in England before coming to the United States. She died in 1875, and he married Eliza E. Reynolds the year afterwards. They had triplets in October of 1877, one son and two daughters. In 1878, Pentland purchased the flouring mill in Scio, Linn County, and the family settled there. He died in Marion County in 1915.

McCurdy, Dr. James D.

McCurdy, Dr. James D.

Dr. James D. McCurdy, an early physician of Salem, Oregon. He was born in March of 1820, in Kentucky. He and his first wife, Artilia, crossed the plains in 1852, arriving in Salem. She died of typhoid on November 26, 1852, at age 28. He reportedly practiced medicine with A. M. Bell, and then went back to the South until the Civil War. He remarried Susan Thornton Baldwin. They returned to Salem in about 1864, and resided there until he became interested in the mines in Idaho and they moved. He died in Bellevue, Idaho, on October 3, 1901.

West, Jane and David

West, Jane and David

David West (b. ca. 1842) and his sister, Ann Jane (ca. 1840), before her marriage in 1872 to Charles A. McGuire, in Clatsop County, Oregon. Both siblings were born in Canada, to John and Margaret West, and arrived in Oregon in approximately 1857.

Thompson & Paxton (Photographers)

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