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Millican, Elijah

Millican, Elijah

Elijah Millican, 1843 pioneer to Yamhill County, Oregon. He was born in 1804 in Danielsville, Georgia, and died in Lafayette, Oregon, on August 30, 1887. He was married to Lucinda Crisp and had 11 children.

Moreland, Samuel A. and Julius C.

Moreland, Samuel A. and Julius C.

Brothers, Samuel and Julius Moreland, two sons of Jesse and Susan (Robertson) Moreland, both of whom were born in Tennessee. Samuel was admitted to the bar in Oregon (1863) and practiced law in Portland until he was elected Justice of the Peace (1870). In 1873, he became an editorial writer of The Oregonian newspaper, and in 1881 he became editor of the Evening Telegram. He was later appointed as Police Magistrate, and was working in that capacity when he died suddenly.

Osborn, Josiah

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.

Pratt, Captain L. E.

Pratt, Captain L. E.

Captain L. E. Pratt, born in Douglas, Massachusetts, June 18, 1824. He arrived in Oregon, via the Isthmus, in June 1857. He shipped equipment for the first woolen mill on the Pacific Coast via the Horn at the same time that he journeyed. He became the first superintendent of this mill, built in North Salem. The mill was destroyed by fire in the early 1860s. At that time, he abandoned the business, planned and built the Oregon City Woolen Mills in 1864, and then began steamboating with the People's Transportation Company. He was married twice and left three children when he died, in November of 1899.

Greer, Cornelia Jane (Spencer)

Greer, Cornelia Jane (Spencer)

Cornelia Jane (Spencer) Greer, and child Elwin S., April 23, 1866. She married Rev. George Hamilton Greer in 1864 in Yamhill County, after having come to Oregon across the plains in 1852.

Guthrie, Sanford

Guthrie, Sanford

Sanford Guthrie, who drowned in Ruddell Lake near Olympia, Washington. He was the son of Rev. Stephen Guthrie, and brother to Minerva.

Helm family

Helm family

Portrait of two unidentified cousins of Mrs. Elizabeth (Sager) Helm, wearing unusual military-style jackets, reflecting the popular sentiment during the Civil War.

Bayley's Photograph Gallery (San Francisco, Cal.)

McCown, James Levi

McCown, James Levi

James Levi McCown, pioneer of 1853 to Oregon Territory. He was born in Virginia in December 1841 to William and Barbara (Best) McCown. He married Emily Chenowith in 1885, had two children, Ada and Horace. He was a printer and owned a newspaper in the early 1900s. He died in 1922 in Portland, Oregon.

Woodard, Alonzo Bixby, 1840-1918

Bagley, Alice (Mercer)

Bagley, Alice (Mercer)

Alice Mercer, who married Clarence B. Bagley in 1865 and was a pioneer of 1852. She was born October 26, 1848, in Illinois. They settled in Seattle, where Clarence was in the newspaper industry and on the Board of Public Works. They had two children. She died in Seattle in October 1913.

Beers, Rachel Eliza (Hall)

Beers, Rachel Eliza (Hall)

Rachel Eliza Hall, survivor of the Whitman massacre and first wife of Peter W. Hall. She married Robert Beers in August of 1850. Both were residents of Linn City (now West Linn), Oregon.

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