Paine Page Prim, who arrived in Oregon in 1851, and was a prominent lawyer in southern Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon State Constitution Convention, as well as an Oregon Supreme Court Judge. He married Teresa M. Stearns in 1857.

Levi Prince, soldier in the Yakima Indian War of 1855-57, with his wife, Mary J.

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Charles Frederick Putnam, born 1824 in Lexington, Kentucky. He and his brother, Nathan, came to Oregon in 1846 with the hope of improving Nathan's health, but he passed away upon arrival. Charles had been well educated in the printer's trade in Kentucky. He taught in one of the first schools in Polk County. On December 28, 1847, he married Rozelle Applegate, the eldest daughter of Jesse Applegate. He and his wife printed the Oregon American and the Evangelical Unionist for a short time, and he set type for the Oregon Spectator. In 1849, he left for the California mines and, upon his return, took out a donation land claim at Elk Creek, near Drain, Oregon. He remained there for the rest of his life, passing away on September 25, 1903. He and Rozelle (who died in May of 1861) had eight children, seven of whom survived him.

Transcription from front: “Rev. Edward Evans Parrish, Born, W. Virginia, 1791; m. Elizabeth Bussey, 1814; 6 children b. to this union; 2d marriage, Rebecca Mapel, 1827; 6 children born to this union; Mr. Parrish d. 1874. First wife d. 1826; second wife d. 1880.”

Portrait of an unidentified man and woman. Transcription from front: “Pareppa and husband.”

Transcription from back: “Wendell Philips. Abolitionist?”

Transcription from back: “Professor John D. Post, Pioneer Teacher of Oregon City in 1853.”

James Quick, born in Virginia in 1817, who came overland from the Midwest to Oregon in 1853, settling in Tillamook County. He had married Anna Pitzer in 1840 in Ohio. James was a shoemaker and farmer, and built two boats: "J. C. Champion" and "The Ellen," which was named after a daughter of theirs. He also served as Sheriff of Tillamook County during two periods. James is also credited with the building of Trask Mountain Road, and owned a hotel in Tillamook called the Quick House. He and Anna had nine children: Elizabeth Jane, William Washington, Rhonda Ann, Thaddeus, Martha Ellen, Amanda Louisa, Warren, Charles, and Nellie Marie.

Martha "Annie" Pitzer, born in 1822 in Licking County, Ohio, to John and Elizabeth (DeBott) Pitzer. She married James Quick in 1840 in Ohio. They came overland from the Midwest to Oregon in 1853, with five children in tow, and settled in Tillamook County. She had four more children once they arrived in Oregon Territory. Annie died in Tillamook in 1888. The child pictured here with her could be either Charles (born 1859) or, less likely, Nellie (born 1865).

Charles Rawley

Willard Hall Rees, born September 17, 1819, in Dover, Delaware. He came overland to Oregon Territory in 1844. He took out a donation land claim in the French Prairie area, and married Amanda Hall, from Butteville, in 1847. Mr. Rees became the first secretary of the Oregon Pioneer Association and was an avid collector of historic manuscripts and stories. Unfortunately, his collection of manuscripts did not survive, due to the presence of mice in his home. He died in 1903 in Portland.

Marquis Lindsay Robbins, who came to Oregon in 1855 and settled in Dallas. He had been born December 20, 1820, in Henry County, Kentucky. He died June 22, 1906, and was buried on his donation land claim in Dallas. He was the oldest brother of J. H. Robbins.

Emma Robinson, wife of British Parliament member Robert Robinson

Turner Richardson Roundtree, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War in Illinois. He was born in Kentucky in 1795, the eldest child of Dudley Roundtree. He married Mary "Polly" Ferguson on January 12, 1815, in Hardin County, Kentucky. In 1830, they removed to Illinois, and in 1852 they came west to Oregon, quickly settling on Boistfort Prairie, Lewis County, Washington Territory. He apparently made a small fortune there, but died on the Steamer "Carrie Davis," on a return trip from Claquato, on March 21, 1868.

Dr. W. H. Rowland, who came to Oregon in 1852 and settled in Linn County. He was a veterinary doctor and the Brownsville Postmaster in 1869, but he disappears from the record after that time.

Margaret (Stewart) White, who married Stephen Duley Ruddell in 1857 in Thurston County, Washington Territory. She was born on October 20, 1819, in Brown County, Ohio, and had come to Oregon, via the Plains, from Wisconsin in 1851 with her five children. Her first husband was William White, who had been in Oregon Territory since earlier that year, but was in poor health when he arrived. The family moved to Thurston County early on and William died in a skirmish during the Puget Sound Treaty War, in 1856. Margaret died on May 5, 1893, in Olympia, Washington.

Reverend D. Rutledge, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church on Taylor Street in Portland, Oregon, in 1857, and from 1862 to 1864.

Transcription from back: “Frances Rauch.”

Transcription from back: “Osmon Royal. Son of a pioneer family. Physician by profession.”

Transcription from back: “James Steel, Portland, Oregon.”

Transcription from back: “Donated by Mr. Wm.(?) H. Reynolds, 1913. Lieutenant J. L. Steele.”

Transcription from back: “Henrietta Naomi Sager Sterling. Youngest of Sager children. Gift of Myra Helm, Rec. No. 362.”

Transcription from biographical card: “Ashby Logan Stinson was born in Tennessee, June 29, 1831. Removed to Indiana, 1831. Learned the printing trade in Evansville, beginning 1847. To California in 1851. Worked in many cities...To Oregon in 1859, settling in Albany. Worked on the State’s Right’s Democrat, when Delazon Smith was editor, and was connected with a number of other papers. Installed the first cylinder press in Salem, 1872. Started the Willamette Farmer in 1869. Married Sarah Watts January 19, 1862. Was connected with the Odd Fellows many years, filling every station to Grand Master. Died in Salem, May 28, 1879, leaving one son, L. R. Stinson.”

Transcription from back: “Gift of Helen Northrop, Rec. No. 49.”

Transcription from back: “Lydia Stone of Ohio lived with A(?) Smith in Portland in the 70s.”