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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

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)

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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