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Parker, Wilder W.

Wilder W. Parker, born October 19, 1824, in Orange County, Vermont. He arrived in San Francisco in 1849 and began a series of enterprises, including a bakery and hotel, as well as a soda fountain, meanwhile getting elected to City Council. He eventually arrived in Oregon in 1852, having bought the Simpson steam sawmill at Astoria and ran that business to his profit until 1860, when he decided to retire. He was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs of the Port, working under W. L. Adams, whose eldest daughter, Inez, he married in 1863. They had no children of their own, but he was instrumental in establishing a free public school in Astoria. He was heavily involved in politics and served several terms in the Oregon Legislature. He died January 9, 1899, in Astoria.

Howland & Fagersteen (San Francisco, Cal.)

Parker, Inez Eugenia (Adams)

Inez Eugenia Adams, the eldest daughter of William Lysander and Frances Olivia (Goodell) Adams, and wife to Wilder W. Parker, of Astoria. She was born in about 1845 in Illinois and married Wilder in July of 1863 in Clatsop County.

Fagersteen, Gustavus A. F., 1829-1889

Parker, Irena (Cox)

Irena Cox, born in 1826 in Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, to Daniel and Mary (Robinson) Cox. She married Hiram Bliss Parker in Vermont on June 3, 1848. They settled in Astoria in 1852, where he reportedly founded the first independent steamer service from Astoria to Portland, and was Clatsop County Sheriff from 1856-59. They had six children. She died in Astoria on October 27, 1897.

Pambrun, Catherine (Humphreville)

Catherine Humphreville, born in 1805 at a Hudson's Bay outpost in British Columbia, to Thomas and Anne Humphreville. She married Pierre Pambrun, and lived in British Columbia. She was the mother of Mrs. H. B. Harger, Maria Barclay, and six others. She died in 1886 in West Chehalem, Yamhill County, Oregon.

Palmer, Sarah Ann (Derbyshire)

Sarah Ann Derbyshire, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on April 11, 1815. She married Joel Palmer on June 21, 1836, in Bucks County. They came to Oregon in 1845 and settled in Yamhill County, taking a land claim in Dayton. She was renowned for her hospitality, generosity, and social entertaining gifts. They had six children: Melissa, Joeline, William, Emma, John, and Alice. Sarah died December 14, 1891, and is buried in Brookside Cemetery in Dayton.

Abell, Frank G., 1844-1910

Palmer, General Joel

Joel Palmer was born on October 4, 1810, in Ontario, Canada. After serving as a representative in the Indiana legislature, he traveled overland to Oregon in 1845 and married Sarah Ann Derbyshire, who had arrived that same year. Palmer became commissary-general of volunteer forces during the Cayuse Indian War. In 1853, he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for the Oregon Territory, a post he held until his removal in 1857 when opponents characterized his reservation policies as being too tolerant toward the Indians. He later served in the Oregon state legislature and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1870. He made his home in Lafayette and Dayton, Oregon, and died June 9, 1881.

Overbeck, Dr. Andrew B.

Andrew B. Overbeck, born about 1828, in Maryland. He married Sarah E. Wilhoit and was a physician in Jacksonville, Oregon. He died on May 23, 1872. They had three children: Henry (d. before 1870), Emma F., and Amelia E.

Britt, Peter, 1819-1905

Osborn, Margaret (Findley)

Margaret Findley, born January 30, 1815, in Clark County, Indiana. She married Josiah Osborn in Warren County, Illinois, on June 5, 1834. They came across the plains to Whitman Mission, where Josiah ran the mill. They both survived the Whitman Massacre. They eventually lived in Oregon City and Salem, and then in Linn County, where she died on November 24, 1873. They had eight children.

Osborn, Josiah

Josiah Osborn, millwright and wagon maker. He was born in New Haven County, Connecticut, in 1809, but made his way across the country, stopping in Warren County, Illinois, where he married Margaret Findley on June 5, 1834. They came across the plains, arriving at Whitman Station in 1845. He ran the mill for Whitman in 1845 and survived the Whitman Massacre. He was also a participant in the Black Hawk War. They settled in Oregon City and then Salem. He died on October 19, 1880, in Linn County.

Nickell, Ella Lamiza (Prim)

Ella Lamiza Prim, daughter of Paine Page and Theresa M. Prim, born February 3, 1858. She married Charles Nickell in 1881 in Jackson County, Oregon, but died on June 8, 1889. They had two daughters, Bessie and Marie.

Newell, George Palmer

George Palmer Newell, born in Yorkshire, England, on May 23, 1810. He came to the United States in 1828. "He came across the plains from Michigan to California on the back of a mule, in company with 50 mean riding mules, and each had a pack mule - in 1848 or 1849." He married Emma Weston (of Burlington, Iowa) on July 18, 1852, in Oregon City. George Newell was a professor of music and also worked as Surveyor of Customs at Pacific City. He died November 13, 1886.

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.

Newby, Sara Jane (McGary)

Sarah Jane McGary, born December 23, 1823, in Kentucky, who married William T. Newby in 1841 in Missouri, and started across the plains to Oregon in 1843. They settled in Yamhill County and obtained a donation land claim. William was an assessor in 1848 for the Provisional Government, and would be a state senator in 1870. They founded what would become McMinnville (named after Newby's home town in Tennessee), having built a grist mill in 1853 and a store in 1854. The town of McMinnville was platted in 1856. They had nine children. She died in Marion County on January 29, 1887.

Nesmith, Rocse (North)

Rocse (Roxey) North, born September 18, 1819, who married Thomas Nesmith. They settled in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. She died November 1, 1897.

Schoenberg & Zutterling (Photographers)

Nesmith, James Bush

James Bush Nesmith, the seventh child of James W. and Lucinda Pauline (Goff) Nesmith, born October 31, 1856, in Polk County, Oregon. He married Charlotte Orr in 1884. He farmed in Rickreall and they had one daughter, Pauline, born about 1885. He died October 8, 1853.

Buchtel & Stolte

Nesmith, Velina Pauline

Probably Velina Pauline Nesmith, born Sept. 4, 1855, to James W. and Lucinda Pauline (Goff) Nesmith. She married William Markland Molson, a Portland brewer, in 1882, and eventually relocated to Montreal with her husband and stepsons. She died in Polk County on July 17, 1937.

Buchtel & Stolte

Nesmith, Thomas

Thomas Nesmith, who was born in New Hampshire, October 5, 1810, and was the brother of James Willis Nesmith, Oregon Senator. Thomas married Rocse North on March 27, 1838, and lived in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. He died November 19, 1885.

Hoag & Co. (Photographer)

Nesmith, James Willis

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.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Nelson, Dr. Samuel L.

Dr. Samuel L. Nelson, who was born in Ohio in 1805. He was first married to Mary Brooks, in Ohio, in about 1825. He remarried, in Illinois in 1839, Elizabeth R. Davis. They came across the plains to Oregon in 1852. He was a grandson of Thomas Nelson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who was a personal friend of George Washington, fighting under him at Yorktown as a brigadier general of the Virginia State Militia. Dr. Nelson settled on a donation land claim on Mt. Tabor, and died February 21, 1888.

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