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Transcription from back: “J. Quinn Thorton. Pioneer Lawyer of 1846 from Illinois via _____. An advocate and promoter of free schools.”
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Part of Cartes-de-Visite photographs
Transcription from back: “J. Quinn Thorton. Pioneer Lawyer of 1846 from Illinois via _____. An advocate and promoter of free schools.”
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Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908
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Transcription from back: “Richard Hopwood Thorton. Acc. No. 8460.”
Stiff Bros. (Photographers)
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W. Loring Clark Studio (Photographer)
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Transcription from front: “Mrs. J. Q. Thornton, 1846. First select school teacher in Oregon City, 1847.” Transcription from back: “Mrs. () Thornton. Pioneer of 1846 from via . Mrs. Thornton was the first select (or private) school teacher in Oregon. She taught the first select school in Oregon at Oregon City in 1847. Wife of J. Quinn Thornton, a pioneer lawyer of 1846 from Illinois.”
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Transcription from back: “Thomas Tongue of Hillsboro. U. S. Senator Tongue”
Buchtel & Stolte
Tongue, Emily Margaret (Eagleton)
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Transcription from back: “Mrs. Thomas Tongue, Hillsboro, Oreg.”
Buchtel & Stolte
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Transcription on front: “George Francis Train, Noted Lecturer Orator, July 5, 1869, Portland. Site away out on P. O. Block, bet. 5th and 6th, Morrison and Yamhill Sts.”
Buchtel, Joseph, 1830-1916
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Transcription from back: “George W. Travers, Agent Storm ? Sewing Machine, 1868.”
Buchtel, Joseph, 1830-1916
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Transcription on front: “Born in Vancouver, Wa. T., 1855, By the time he was 20 he had filled every place in steamboat service from deckhand to Captain. Began on the old steamer Vancouver, of which his father W. H. Troup, was the Captain. Was in the service of the O.R.&N. Co. for many years, first as purser and afterwards as Captain. He left Oregon waters in the 80’s, he went to British Columbia. While in charge of the Union Pacific Water lines he built the Thomas J. Potter, the fastest sidewheeler afloat in the Pacific Northwest.”
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Transcription from back: “Ladies Room Steward, Hospital, Baltimore, Aug. 20, 1862.”
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Transcription from back: “Capt. Egbert H. Tucker, U.S.A., Commanding Ft. Steilacom, W. T.”
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Transcription on front: “Resident of Vancouver, W. T., many years, prior to 1864. Born in England, 1811. Came to U. S. in youth. Had a foundry and machine shop in St. Louis. Crossed plains in 1852. Joined David Monastes, also from St. Louis, in starting first foundry and machine shop in Portland in 1858. Was connected with steamer Eagle, and later, beginning about 1862, with the Str. Vancouver, running between that city and Portland. Died Nov. 6, 1874.”
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Transcription from back: “Pioneer of 1849 from via with his parents. With his father, he operated a side-wheel steamboat between Portland and Vancouver during the Sixties. A resident of Vancouver W. T. many years.”
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Transcription from back: “Turner. Frank Lemon & W. Steiger ?, War of ____”
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Transcription from back: “Mrs. Geo. Twaddle”
Thomas & Dunn (Photographers)
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Transcription from back: “G. W. Vaughn, Mayor of the City of Portland, Oregon for one year – in 1855.”
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Transcription from back: “Mrs. Aaron Veeder. Temperence Hotel, Front St. - East side, 2 doors S. of Wash. St., March 13, 1864 G. H. Himes began bldg.”
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Transcription from back: “Mrs. F. F. Victor, about 1873 or 4.”
Watkins (Photographer)
Waldo, Mrs. James (Cassie H. ?)
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Transcription from back: “Mrs. James Waldo (center), Story Sheridan (l) Joe Sheridan (r)”
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Transcription from back: “Claiborne C. Walker. Pioneer of 1845 from ____ via the Plains.”
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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.”
Buchtel & Stolte
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Transcription from back: “Pioneer of 1848 from via . Wife of Claiborne C. Walker, a Pioneer of 1845 from ____ via the Plains.”