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Miller, Miles M.

Miles M. Miller, born about 1850 in Michigan, the son of David A. and Martha J. Miller. He was a graduate of Willamette University and worked as a bank clerk. He married Gertrude Moores in Marion County on July 1, 1874.

Ireland, DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton Ireland, born in 1835 in Vermont, was a printer and editor, living with his family in Portland in 1870. He began by editing Oregon City newspapers and eventually ended up editing the Yamhill County Reporter in the 1880s.

Dalton, Frank

Keeler, Julius M. and Sylvia M. (Marshall)

Julius Keeler, principal of Tualatin Academy (May 1852), and U.S. Marshall for Oregon (1861-1864), and his wife, Sylvia M. Marshall. He ran a private school in Portland in May 1856. He died in San Francisco on January 28, 1890. His wife reputedly died in Napa, on October 13, 1858. They had one surviving son, Percival Julius Keeler, born in 1853 in Oregon. He was a bookkeeper in San Francisco in 1880.

S. E. Gray & Co. (Photographers)

Kelly, Silas

Silas Kelly, the youngest son of Albert and Nira (Bingham) Kelly. (May 29, 1848-June 20, 1920) Written on reverse: "...on homestead near Portland, a very religious man. He stuttered and was awkward and shy - a student of books and of nature - knew the birds and flowers. Inarticulate and uninteresting, repressed in his youth by his mother, bullied all his life by her." ~ Inez DeLashmutt

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

Dryer, Thomas J.

Thomas J. Dryer was a well-known, early Portland resident (1850) and printer, as well as an editor of The Oregonian newspaper. Mr. Dryer, born in 1808 in New York, was buried in an unmarked grave in Lone Fir Cemetery Portland, Oregon, as was his wife, Nancy, who died July 14, 1868.

Kelly, Mary B. (Millar)

Mary B. (Millar), who married James K. Kelly/Kelley on November 26, 1863, in Marion County, Oregon. She was the daughter of Rev. James P. Millar, who brought his family to Oregon via the Isthmus of Panama in 1851, and who was killed on April 8, 1854.

Kinney, A. C.

Augustus C. Kinney (b. 1839), a physician in early Portland. He attended Willamette University in 1867, but had left Portland by about 1880.

Dalton, Frank

Kinney, Jane (Welch)

Jane Welch (b. June 1847, NY), who married Augustus C. Kinney in 1867 in Clackamas County, Oregon. He attended Willamette University and became a physician in early Portland. They were living in Astoria in 1900.

McClelland, Mary A. (Chambers)

Mary A. Chambers, born in November 1853 in Thurston County, Washington Territory, to David John and Elizabeth (Harrison) Chambers. She married Alexander C. McClelland in June 1874. She lived for many years at Baker City, Oregon, before moving to La Mesa, California. She died at Yakima, Washington, in 1929.

Osborn, Margaret (Findley)

Margaret Findley, born January 30, 1815, in Clark County, Indiana. She married Josiah Osborn in Warren County, Illinois, on June 5, 1834. They came across the plains to Whitman Mission, where Josiah ran the mill. They both survived the Whitman Massacre. They eventually lived in Oregon City and Salem, and then in Linn County, where she died on November 24, 1873. They had eight children.

Roundtree, Turner Richardson

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.

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