Ann Elizabeth Adkins, born about 1832 in Indiana. She married Cincinnati Bills, from Vermont, in 1850 before coming to Oregon Territory. They settled in Portland.
Cincinnati Bills, pioneer of 1853 and early Sheriff of Multnomah County. He was born in about 1825 in Vermont and was married to Ann Elizabeth Adkins in 1850 in Indiana.
Lemuel Bills, pumpmaker, and father of Cincinnati Bills. He lived with Cincinnati and family in 1870 in Portland. He was born in about 1801 in Vermont.
Transcription from back: “Jabez Bingham, Born at Athens O. 1826, died in Ky. 1884. Brother of Mira(Nira?) Chandler Bingham Kelly, Mother of Martha Kelly Plummer, wife of ODS Plummer.”
Lydia Hooper Blackler, who came to Oregon in 1857 by way of the Panama Isthmus. She was born in Massachusetts in 1835. She was a teacher and lived in many places, including Milwaukie, Oregon City, Portland, Olympia and Oakland, California. She taught in Spencer Hall, St. Helens Hall, and Mills College. She died in 1917.
Leighton E. Blain, born in 1842 in Porter County, Indiana. He came overland with oxen in the spring of 1848 and arrived in the fall of that year. He settled in Oregon City as a merchant and married Mary Miller in Albany in about 1868. He died May 8th, 1927.
Leighton E. Blain, born in 1842 in Porter County, Indiana. He came overland with oxen in the spring of 1848 and arrived in the fall of that year. He settled in Oregon City as a merchant and married Mary Miller in Albany in about 1868. He died May 8th, 1927.
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Mary Miller, who married Leighton E. Blain, in Albany in about 1868. She was born in Iowa, in October 1845, and crossed the plains to Oregon, arriving in November 1852. They first located on the Tualatin Plains. She died July 30, 1931.
Wilson Robert Blain, born in about 1848 in Indiana, to Wilson and Elizabeth Blain. He was the younger brother of Leighton Blain. He remained in Oregon until just before his death in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920.
