Fred J. McCoy, pioneer of 1845. Brother of Mrs. French.

Joseph W. Morton, of Hood River, Oregon, taken June 1884. He was born in Henry County, Iowa, on January 23, 1865, and arrived in Oregon with his parents (Charles and Caroline (Reed) Morton) on May 1st, 1875. They initially lived in both Washington and Yamhill Counties, but moved to Hood River in June 1883. He served in the Oregon Legislature during the session of 1899. He was admitted to the State Bar in 1907, and practiced law in Hood River for one year. Most of his time was spent on his orchard. He married Pearl Groshong in 1902, and they had at least six children: Charles Bruce, Ruth, Della, Frank Leslie, Gladys, and Avis Morton. He died on September 25, 1939.

Group portrait of the E. P. Roberts family. Back row, from left: Thomas, Albert, William, and Daniel. Front row, from left: Anna, E. P., Nellie, Charlotte, Emma, Myra, and Alice.

Julia Hulett, mother of John Chapman.

Wife of C. C. Cherry, married in 1878, Marion County, Oregon.

Stephen Fowler Chadwick

Henrietta R. (Mack) Eliot (wife of Thomas L.) and daughter Nellie in about 1882.

Sarah Ann Derbyshire, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on April 11, 1815. She married Joel Palmer on June 21, 1836, in Bucks County. They came to Oregon in 1845 and settled in Yamhill County, taking a land claim in Dayton. She was renowned for her hospitality, generosity, and social entertaining gifts. They had six children: Melissa, Joeline, William, Emma, John, and Alice. Sarah died December 14, 1891, and is buried in Brookside Cemetery in Dayton.

Joseph Hannon, pioneer of 1853, and attorney in Albany, Oregon, in 1870.

Gilmer Kelly (1820-1890), pioneer of 1854, and a younger brother of Clinton.

William K. Leveridge, pioneer of 1850, born in 1828 in Missouri. He settled in Marion County, Oregon, and married Francette W. Webb, Sept. 18, 1853, in Salem. On the reverse of the photo: "Caused a portable sawmill to be transported from Portland to Auborn, a mining town in Eastern Oregon. This was the first ever to be transported there, and its whistle was the first ever to be blown between the Rocky Mts. and the Cascade Mtns. Later became senior partner of the firm of Leveridge, Wadhams & Co., the forerunner of the Wadhams & Co. in Portland."

Eliza "Liza" Nancy McNary, born May 14, 1862, in Scio, Oregon, to Hugh Linza and Mary Margaret (Claggett) McNary, of the Salem area. She died of heart disease on August 4, 1887.

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.

Oliver Nadeau, a French chef, laborer, and wood chopper who resided in Jackson County, Oregon. He was born in about 1832 in Eastern Canada.

Knute A. Peterson, an early Portland resident, who was a clerk at Breck and Ogden and at the hardware store of Corbett and Failing. He also was the proprietor of a dry goods and grocery store in downtown Portland in the mid-1850s.

Velma Elizabeth Marks, born September 14, 1867, who married Edwin Clarence Roberts on September 14, 1887, in Linn County, Oregon. They had one son, Ray Harland, born in 1890. Elizabeth died February 23, 1892, in Linn County, and was buried in Lebanon.

Florence George, daughter of Hon. Melvin C. George, of Portland. She was about 10 years old in this photo.

Francis Bret Harte

Reverend George H. Lee, of Hartford, Conn. He became a graduate of the Hartford Theological Institution in 1884.

George Palmer Newell, born in Yorkshire, England, on May 23, 1810. He came to the United States in 1828. "He came across the plains from Michigan to California on the back of a mule, in company with 50 mean riding mules, and each had a pack mule - in 1848 or 1849." He married Emma Weston (of Burlington, Iowa) on July 18, 1852, in Oregon City. George Newell was a professor of music and also worked as Surveyor of Customs at Pacific City. He died November 13, 1886.

E. C. Cronise, longtime resident of Salem, Oregon.

Gilman H. Davis, of Old Town, Maine. He was in the lumber business for 48 years, and was the father of Willie, Ellen, Charles, and Fred.

Alexander Martin Rainwater, who was born in North Carolina on August 29, 1820. He arrived in Oregon, having come overland from Missouri, on October 25, 1847, and settled on a donation land claim in North Albany, Benton County. He was a farmer, a ferry operator, and had orchards. He married Sarah Elizabeth Emmett. They had at least six children: John, Daniel, William, Malinda, Aaron, and Anna (born 1864). Alexander died in 1890.

Sarah Elizabeth Emmett, born in December 1833, in Tennessee, to Daniel and Malinda (White) Emmett. She married Alexander M. Rainwater in Benton County, Oregon, in March 1852. They had at least six children and settled in Benton County, near Albany. After Alexander died, in 1890, she remarried Gustav Lindner. She died July 27, 1905, in Benton County.

"Aunt" Sarah Roberts