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Johnson, Jane

Jane Johnson, who taught school near Albany, Oregon, in 1856. She was the daughter of James Johnson and sister to Mrs. C. B. Bellinger.

Knight, Clara Eleanor (Smith)

Clara Eleanor Smith (b. circa 1840, IN), who married Rev. Plutarch Stewart Knight (1836-1914) on April 21, 1861, in Salem. He was a pioneer of 1847, who was the state librarian (1862-64), the principal of the school for deaf and mute children in Salem (1871-1892), and was involved in many enterprises. She died in 1911 in Marion County.

Long, Sarah Jane

Sarah Jane Long (1848-1902), the eldest daughter of Edward and Martha (Wills) Long, whose land claim was on the east side, near Ross Island. She married G. F. Perry in 1865 at her parents' house. They had Willie, Lottie, and Victor. She was widowed by 1900.

Newby, William T.

William Thompson Newby, born March 25, 1820, in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. He married Sarah Jane McGary in Dade County, Missouri, on October 11, 1841, and they joined the great migration of 1843 on the Oregon Trail. They settled on land in Yamhill County, on what is now the site of McMinnville, Oregon. He was an assessor in 1848 for the Provisional Government, and ran a grist mill and store in the 1850s. They had nine children. He died October 22, 1884, in McMinnville.

Parrish, Elizabeth (Winn)

Elizabeth Winn, born March 17, 1811, in Montgomery County, New York. She grew up primarily in Rochester, and married Josiah L. Parrish in 1833. They set sail for Oregon Territory with their three children on the Lausanne in October of 1839. They arrived, via Cape Horn and the Sandwich Islands, in May 1840. They settled in Portland, where her husband was a Methodist minister. She died on August 28, 1869, in Salem.

Parrish, Rebecca (Mapel)

Rebecca Mapel, born October 4, 1803, in Green County, Pennsylvania, who married Rev. Edward Evans Parrish in Pennsylvania, in 1827. She was his second wife. She became step mother to the six children of his previous marriage, and went on to have six children of her 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 Salem, before Salem was a town. Rebecca died May 13, 1880, in San Jose, California.

Pearne, Reverend Thomas H.

Rev. Thomas H. Pearne, missionary to Oregon Territory of 1851 and Methodist minister. He was the founder of the Pacific Christian Advocate in 1854 in Portland. He married Ann P. Root in 1841 in New York. They left Oregon in about 1866 for Ohio, and she died there in 1874.

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Joslyn, Erastus S.

Erastus S. Joslyn, pioneer of 1852, born in Massachusetts, September 17, 1825. He and his wife, Mary (Warner), arrived in White Salmon, Washington Territory, in 1853. He represented Skamania County in the Washington Territorial Legislature on several occasions. They were close friends with Nathaniel Coe and family. In 1875, they moved to Colorado Springs, where Mary passed away. He died in 1904 in Santa Barbara, California.

London, Volney Chadwick

Volney Chadwick London (1860-), son of Mary London. He married Susan E. in 1883, and they had three children: Virginia, James, and Adrian. He was a widow by 1920.

Lowell, Daniel W.

Daniel W. Lowell (1822-1878), who married Ellen "Robie" Willard in Olympia in December 1859. He was a purser on the Lot Whitcomb, a Columbia River steamboat.

Lyman, Reverend Horace

Rev. Horace Lyman, born in Massachusetts. He came to Oregon from New York via Cape Horn, and arrived in October 1848. He married Mary Dennison on November 1, 1848. They settled in Portland, where he taught school and organized the First Congregational Church on June 15, 1851. He was instrumental in building the first house of worship in Polk County in 1854 and taught mathematics at Pacific University in 1857. His wife died in 1874, and he remarried Mrs. Margaret D. Duncan on December 9, 1882. He died on March 31, 1887, in Forest Grove.

Montgomery, J. H. (John H.), 1834?-

Lyman, Mary (Denison)

Mary Denison, born in Vermont, in 1821, came from a Puritan background. She married Horace Lyman two weeks before leaving New York for Oregon via Cape Horn. They arrived in 1849 and settled in Portland. She died in Forest Grove in 1874.

Montgomery, J. H. (John H.), 1834?-

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