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London, Volney Chadwick

Volney Chadwick London (1860-), son of Mary London. He married Susan E. in 1883, and they had three children: Virginia, James, and Adrian. He was a widow by 1920.

Lowell, Daniel W.

Daniel W. Lowell (1822-1878), who married Ellen "Robie" Willard in Olympia in December 1859. He was a purser on the Lot Whitcomb, a Columbia River steamboat.

Lyman, Reverend Horace

Rev. Horace Lyman, born in Massachusetts. He came to Oregon from New York via Cape Horn, and arrived in October 1848. He married Mary Dennison on November 1, 1848. They settled in Portland, where he taught school and organized the First Congregational Church on June 15, 1851. He was instrumental in building the first house of worship in Polk County in 1854 and taught mathematics at Pacific University in 1857. His wife died in 1874, and he remarried Mrs. Margaret D. Duncan on December 9, 1882. He died on March 31, 1887, in Forest Grove.

Montgomery, J. H. (John H.), 1834?-

Lyman, Mary (Denison)

Mary Denison, born in Vermont, in 1821, came from a Puritan background. She married Horace Lyman two weeks before leaving New York for Oregon via Cape Horn. They arrived in 1849 and settled in Portland. She died in Forest Grove in 1874.

Montgomery, J. H. (John H.), 1834?-

Joslyn, Erastus S.

Erastus S. Joslyn, pioneer of 1852, born in Massachusetts, September 17, 1825. He and his wife, Mary (Warner), arrived in White Salmon, Washington Territory, in 1853. He represented Skamania County in the Washington Territorial Legislature on several occasions. They were close friends with Nathaniel Coe and family. In 1875, they moved to Colorado Springs, where Mary passed away. He died in 1904 in Santa Barbara, California.

McCall, John Marshall

First Lieutenant, John Marshall McCall, who was stationed at Fort Dalles in 1863-64, a member of Company D, 1st Oregon Cavalry during the Civil War. He was promoted to full Captain on May 23, 1865, and mustered out on July 26, 1866.

Matilda Booth Thatcher portrait

A full length portrait of Matilda Booth Thatcher. She is seated with her hands in her lap. She wears a dark dress with a white dot pattern. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Grandmother Booth. Matilda Booth Thatcher (Flowers family)."

Gentile, Carlo, 1835-1893

Kerns, Samuel Fleming

Samuel Fleming Kerns, the son of William and Isabelle (Gibson) Kerns, born about 1834 in Hillsboro, Ohio. He came overland to Oregon via the Barlow Road with his brother, John Tulley Kerns, in 1852, and settled in the Montavilla area of Multnomah County. He was active in the Indian Wars in Oregon. He married Elizabeth Clagett in 1868, and they settled on a 20-acre tract of land in what is now the Hawthorne District of Portland, where he planted one of the first nurseries in Portland. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in Eugene, on October 8, 1916, after having broken his leg the month before.

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Lyon, Caleb

Caleb Lyon, an unpopular Governor of Idaho Territory from 1865-66. After his tenure as Governor ended, he returned to New York with his embezzled funds.

Mabie, Jeremiah "Jerry" D.

(Probably) Jeremiah "Jerry" D. Mabie, older brother of Eunice and Andrew E. Their family crossed the plains from Illinois and settled in Olympia, Washington Territory. He was a farmer, and was the Territorial Librarian when he died in Olympia, June 15, 1870.

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