Reverend John Fox Damon, the "marrying parson" and founder of the First Congregational Church in Seattle, Washington. He arrived in California in 1849, then Oregon in 1855. He was a printer, and a sailor on board a whaling vessel from Bedford. He worked as a type setter in California and Oregon, editing the "North-West" in Port Townsend (1861-2) and the Oregonian (1864).