History of Oregon, Vol. III, Part 1

Author: Carey, Charles Henry
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Chicago, Portland, The Pioneer historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 766

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HISTORY

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VOLUME III

CHICAGO-PORTLAND THE PIONEER HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 1922

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HON. FRED W. MULKEY

BIOGRAPHICAL

HON. FRED W. MULKEY.

Hon. Fred W. Mulkey has twice been chosen to represent Oregon in the United States senate and has filled various other positions of public trust which have indicated the confidence reposed in him by his fellowmen and the fact that he has never in the least betrayed their trust. At the same time he has gained for himself a place in the front ranks of the legal profession in Portland and is, moreover, a representative of one of the pioneer families of the state, the name of Mulkey being associated with the history of Oregon from an early period in its settlement. Fred W. Mulkey was born in Portland, January 6, 1874, and is a son of Marion Francis Mulkey, whose birth occurred in Johnson county, Missouri, November 14, 1836. The grandfather in the paternal line was Johnson Mulkey, who in 1846 started with his family for Oregon, traveling across the plains with oxen after the slow and tedious manner of the times, eventually reaching Benton county, where Johnson Mulkey obtained a donation land claim. His son, Marion F., then a youth of ten years, was reared on the farm amid the conditions of pioneer life and in the acquirement of his education attended the little log schoolhouse in the home neighborhood until he had opportunity to become a pupil in the college at Forest Grove, of which Dr. S. H. Marsh, one of the noted educators of the day, was then principal. When the Indians went on the warpath in 1856 he was still pursuing his studies, but immediately he joined the military forces that were organized to protect the frontier settlers. He resumed his studies .when peace was restored and in 1858 went east to become a student in Yale. He devoted four years to his university course and was graduated in 1862, after which he returned to Portland, where he took up the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge E. D. Shattuck, and while preparing for the bar he filled the office of provost marshal in 1863.

In 1864 Marion F. Mulkey was admitted to practice at the Oregon bar and soon became junior partner in the firm of Hill & Mulkey as the associate of W. Lair Hill. No dreary novitiate awaited him in his profession. He soon gained recognition of his powers and his ability increased as the result of his close and discriminating study and broadening experience. In 1866 he was chosen for the office of prosecuting attor- ney in the fourth judicial district and he was for many years an active and prominent figure in connection with the public interests of Oregon. In 1867 he was elected a member of the city council from the third ward and in 1872 and again in 1873 was elected city attorney. Following the close of his second term he entered into partner- ship with Hon. J. F. Caples, who afterward filled the office of district attorney for three successive terms, Mr. Mulkey acting as his deputy during that period. At the bar, too, Mr. Mulkey made steady advancement and it was not long before it became a recognized fact that he was capable of crossing swords in forensic combat with the ablest, for his forceful arguments and logical deductions, combined with his correct application of the principles of law, seldom failed to win for him the verdict desired. Realizing that Portland was destined to become a great city he wisely made investment in unimproved property from time to time and erected thereon substantial buildings, while the sale of his real estate at different periods brought to him the substantial rewards of his labor and keen insight. He was the builder of the Mulkey block at the corner of Second and Morrison streets, then one of the leading architectural structures of Portland. Politically Mr. Mulkey was a republican and fraternally was connected with the Masons.

In 1862 was celebrated the marriage of M. F. Mulkey and Miss Mary E. Porter of New Haven, Connecticut, who belonged to one of the prominent families of that city. To Mr. and Mrs. Mulkey were born two sons, Frank M. and Fred W. The family circle was broken by the hand of death when the husband and father passed away February 25, 1889. A contemporary writer has said of him: "His life was one of

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unswerving integrity and exalted honor, and the public press vied with the bar in expressing in feeling terms the deep sense of irretrievable loss suffered by the com- munity in the passing of this high-minded and highly respected citizen."

With the example of his honored father to serve as a stimulus in his career, Fred W. Mulkey has added new honors to the family name. Liberal educational advan- tages were accorded him and he completed a course in the University of Oregon as one of its alumni of 1896. He then prepared for the bar in the New York Law School of New York city, where he won his LL. B. degree in 1899. From the beginning of his professional career he has made steady advancement and his course has been one which reflects credit upon the profession, while at the same time he has achieved thereby a position that is most enviable.

Moreover, Mr. Mulkey has almost continuously served in public office. He was a young man of but twenty-six years when he was elected a member of the Portland city council for a two-year period and was honored with the presidency thereof during the last year of his term. He has always made a close study of the question of taxation and has been most fearless in support of his views, which he has ever expressed with remarkable clearness and in most convincing manner. He was the chairman of the Oregon tax commission, the report of which received favorable comment from the best tax experts in the United States. In June, 1906, he was elected to the United States senate to fill out the unexpired term of J. H. Mitchell, deceased, receiving a plurality of fifty thousand and becoming the unanimous choice of the state legislature. From 1910 until 1915 he was chairman of the public dock commission of Portland and is still serving as a member of the commission. In 1917 he was made chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the state penitentiary and from the 5th of Novem- ber, 1918, until the 17th of December of the same year he was a member of the United States senate but resigned on the latter date. In February, 1919, he became chairman of the soldiers' and sailors' committee of Oregon and is still acting in that capacity. All public duties he has assumed with a sense of conscientious obligation that has been manifest in his valuable service, his course being one of great usefulness along many lines.

LESLIE EUGENE CROUCH.

Leslie Eugene Crouch, a well known corporation lawyer of Portland, was born in Stockbridge, Wisconsin, July 28, 1878, bis parents being John O. and Elizabeth J. (Youmans) Crouch. The father, also a native of Wisconsin, was a farmer by occupa- tion but passed away in 1879, at the early age of twenty-six years. The mother is still living and now makes her home in Seattle.

Leslie E. Crouch was very young at the time of his father's death. His early education was acquired in district schools near his Wisconsin home and in the high school of Stockbridge, which he attended from 1893 until 1897. Subsequent to this time it was necessary at various periods that he provide for his own support and he was employed from January, 1899, until July, 1902, by the Great Northern Railroad Company and the Chicago & Great Western Railroad Company. It was while thus engaged that he took up the study of law, for a commendable ambition prompted him to prepare for a calling that would give him wider opportunity and greater chance for advancement. In 1902 he became a resident of Oregon and matriculated in the law department of the University of Oregon, from which he was graduated in 1904 with the LL. B. degree. In June of that year he was admitted at Salem to practice in the Oregon courts and in the latter part of the same month was licensed to prac- tice in the United States district and circuit courts. He then became the professional associate of Rodney L. Glisan and specialized upon corporation law, abstracts and titles. Throughout the intervening years he has confined his attention to these branches of law practice and his constantly broadening experience, his thorough study and continued research have made him one of the ablest representatives of corporation law in western Oregon. He has made substantial advancement in his chosen calling and the older and more experienced members of the Portland bar soon acknowledged his worth, and he today enjoys the confidence and goodwill of his colleagues and contemporaries before the bar. Mr. Crouch was made attorney for the civic improve- ment board, having in charge the cleaning up of the city for the exposition of 1905. He became interested in the Almeda Consolidated Mines Company, owning one of

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Oregon's largest gold and copper mines, and he was the secretary of the Crater Lake Company, which developed the Crater Lake region that has since become a national park.

On the 11th of December, 1904, Mr. Crouch was married to Miss Clara B. Frantz of Seattle. On the 10th of September, 1913, in Tacoma, Washington, he wedded Ella Mae Lynch. His military history covers service as a member of Company F, Third Infantry of the Oregon National Guard, which he joined April 22, 1903, and on the 9th of September, 1908, he was commissioned captain. He attends the Episcopal church and is interested in all those forces which make for a better citizenship and higher standards for mankind. He is identified with the Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He has become a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and is a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon, while in 1920 he was supreme representative to the national organization. His political views have always been in accord with the republican party, but through the war period he stood with all patriotic citizens in support of the various projects which upheld American interests and ideals, serving on the legal advisory board, taking part in all the bond drives and doing much other patriotic service. Deprived in early boyhood of the care and guidance of a father, he early developed self-reliance and independence of spirit, and individual effort has hrodght him to the present high professional and social position which he today occupies.

DR. CURTIS EUGENE MASON.

A native Hoosier, born in 1880, the son of William and Isabella (Liggett) Mason, Dr. Curtis Eugene Mason, a prominent physician of Beaverton, spent his boyhood in Missouri after the immigration of his parents to that state, receiving his education in the public schools there. The Masons were of English descent and were Indiana pioneers and Dr. Mason's paternal grandfather served in the Civil war, participating in Sherman's march to the sea. Graduating from high school Curtis Eugene Mason matriculated at the University of Chicago and later at Rush Medical College from which latter institution he graduated in 1911 with the degree of M. D. He came to Oregon the same year and entered on hospital work in Portland, practicing for four years with Dr. Bodine of that city. Removing in 1917 to Beaverton he began his practice there. He was at this time enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps and was prepared to serve in France should he be called. Fortunately for those dependent upon his medical services at home, and they were many, no such necessity presented itself during the war and Dr. Mason continued to devote himself to his practice.

In 1912, Dr. Mason was united in marriage to Bertha Clement, the daughter of a retired banker of Wisconsin now a poultry fancier in Washington county, Oregon. Mrs. Mason is a graduate of the University of Chicago and was for some years an educator. Their children are all boys: Herbert Eugene, John William and David Clement.

Dr. Mason is a deacon of the Congregational church and a member of the board of trustees. Fraternally his affiliations are several. He is a Mason in more than name and a Woodman of the World. He belongs to the Multnomah Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. While his practice is a general one Dr. Mason has long been interested in the diseases of children and in a larger community would specialize in that branch of his profession. Though still a young man he has built up an extensive practice and stands high in the esteem of the people of Washington county, particularly among those who are his compatriots.

JAMES EDWARD MCCLINTOCK.

James Edward Mcclintock, president of the Commercial Abstract Company of Roseburg and a member of the city council of that city, was born in Missouri in 1869, a son of Rev. Alfred and Nancy J. (Bell) Mcclintock. His father was born in Canada and was a minister of the Methodist church. Coming to the United States he first served in Iowa, and later in Missouri, and is now living retired, a resident of Spo-

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kane, Washington. The Bell family were pioneers in Iowa and Ohio and the name is indelibly written on the history of those states.

James Edward Mcclintock received his education in the grade schools of Iowa and when seventeen years of age entered the railroad service. At eighteen he was station agent and for thirteen years served in that connection. At the end of that time he became a buyer for a large grain firm and traveled in that capacity for three years. In 1900 he was elected treasurer of Cherokee county, Iowa, and reelected in 1902. At the termination of his service in that office he started west and purchasing land near Spokane, Washington, became an orchardist. . He followed that work until 1912, when he disposed of his orchard and settled at Roseburg, entering the real estate business. He continued in that connection until 1915, when he purchased the Commercial Abstract Company, of which he is now president. Mr. Mcclintock has been a prominent member of the city council of Roseburg for the past six years and as chairman of the fire and water committee he has especially rendered good service. To him the city owes a debt of gratitude, for he was a dominant factor in securing a paid fire department, which is equipped with the most modern fire fighting appara- tus. He takes much interest in public affairs and has been both president and vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, which he is now serving as one of its board of directors. He may always be counted upon to furnish his share of time and money in the furtherance of any movement he deems of value to the welfare of the com- munity and he is readily conceded to be a representative citizen.

In 1889 occurred the marriage of Mr. Mcclintock and Miss Lulu B. Woodhouse, a daughter of John L. Woodhouse, a well known banker and farmer of Iowa and Kansas. Four children have been born to their marriage: Leon E .; John L .; James A. and Vera. Leon E. is the secretary-treasurer of the abstract company and a veteran of the World war. He, with his brother, John L., was one of the first to take up arms for his country, and after receiving his training at Fort Stevens was sent to France, where he served thirteen months. He was a member of the Sixty-fifth regiment whose seventy days on the battle front commencing with the battle of the Argonne is a matter of historical pride to the whole of America. His brother, John L., now vice president of the abstract company, also served in France and with the same degree of devotion to duty as that of his elder brother but the command to which he was attached did not participate in as many conflicts as the Sixty-fifth. James A., the third member of the family, is a student in the Roseburg high school, and Vera the youngest and the only daughter is still attending grade school.

Fraternally Mr. McClintock is identified with the Knights of Pythias and he is an exemplary member of that order. He devotes the greater portion of his time to his business interests and the Commercial Abstract Company is the most complete plant of its kind in Douglas county and is corrected daily, so that the records are always up to date. Mr. McClintock is deservedly popular in Douglas county, where he is accounted one of the best citizens and his boys give promise of following in their father's footsteps.

HON. J. M. MOYER.

In the passing of J. M. Moyer of Brownsville, Oregon lost one of her honored pioneers who came to this state in 1852 and subsequently became identified with manu- facturing and financial interests on an extensive scale, and who in the attainment of individual success contributed in substantial measure to the development and upbuild- ing 'of the commonwealth. He was energetic and determined and what he undertook he accomplished.

Mr. Moyer was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, a son of Gabriel and Hannah (Andrews) Moyer, also natives of the Keystone state. The father was a cooper by trade and also engaged in farming. In 1830 he removed with his family to Trumbull county, Ohio, and subsequently went to Mahoning county, that state, pur- chasing ninety-one acres in the timber. He at once began the arduous task of clearing and developing his land, erecting thereon a log cabin, and during the winter seasons he followed his trade of carpenter. In 1848 they removed to Medina county and there the father likewise engaged in farming, continuing a resident of that locality the re- mainder of his life. In the family were fifteen children, of whom but one is living.

J. M. Moyer attended school in Ohio and remained under the parental roof until

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1848, when he began learning the carpenter's trade and followed that occupation until 1852, when, in partnership with J. F. Colbert, he purchased a wagon, three horses and a stock of grain and provisions and started for Oregon. They were three months in making the trip, arriving at Foster, Oregon, on the 9th of August, 1852, and after allow- ing their horses a much needed rest they sold them and with an outfit of blankets, a hatchet and a piece of rope they started for the Calapooya river. On reaching the home of Elias Waters, a settler residing near Brownsville, they stopped to rest and being favorably impressed with the locality Mr. Moyer decided to locate here permanently. He began work at the carpenter's trade, which he continued to follow until 1855, when he purchased a herd of cattle and in the spring of the following year started for Cali- fornia, but the adventure proved disastrous and he returned to Oregon. In 1857 he settled on a tract of one hundred and sixty acres near Brownsville and later purchased sixty acres adjoining, devoting his attention to the cultivation and improvement of his land. He began housekeeping in a box house with no doors or windows, but, utilizing his knowledge of carpentering, he was soon able to provide himself with furniture and other necessary conveniences, and in that manner he spent the winter. When the new town of Brownsville was laid out by James Blakely he purchased a few lots, on which he built a box house and there resided with his family, working at his trade until 1862, when he joined the rush of gold seekers to Florence, Idaho, making his way across the mountains with pack mules. He did not meet with success in this venture, however, and after an outlay of eight hundred dollars returned to Brownsville, where he con- tinued to follow his trade until April, 1863, when he removed to the location of the present family home. Purchasing a sash and door factory at North Brownsville, he greatly improved the plant, installing therein new machinery and other necessary equip- ment, and by persistent effort and unremitting energy he succeeded in developing an extensive business, but the strain upon his health proved too severe and he subsequently rented the mill. In 1860 he had organized in association with others, the Linn Woolen Mill at Brownsville, which in 1862 was destroyed by fire. Two years later the mill was rebuilt and the business was re-organized under the name of the Eagle Woolen Mill, after which the, plant continued to operate for six years, when the company became involved in litigation which continued for about five years or until 1875, when the entire property was sold to a syndicate organized by Mr. Moyer and the Brownsville Woolen Company was incorporated. Of this company he became president and under the new management success attended the enterprise, its trade increasing from year to year. In January, 1889, the property was sold and in the same year Mr. Moyer purchased a clothing stock at First and Alder streets in Portland. In that year he also organized the Albany Woolen Mill, of which he became president, so serving until his demise. In 1888 he had entered financial circles, becoming one of the incorporators of the Bank of Brownsville, of which he was made president, which office he continued to fill throughout the remainder of his life. Still further extending his efforts in this field, he organized the Bank of Woodburn in 1890 and became its vice president, occupy- ing that responsible position for many years. Being a man of resourceful business ability, he continually broadened the scope of his activities and whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion. He became the owner of large property holdings in Brownsville and Linn county and also in Portland, where he established a chain of stores which are now known as the Moyer stores. He was a man of unusual business ability, foresight and enterprise, whose entire career was actuated by pro- gressiveness and dominated by the spirit of fair dealing.

On the 4th of June, 1857, Mr. Moyer was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth D. Brown, a daughter of Hugh L. and Clara (Browning) Brown, natives of Tennessee. Her parents became pioneers of Oregon, coming to this state in 1846 and casting in their lot with its earliest settlers. The father took up land in Linn county, one mile from Brownsville, which town was afterward named in his honor. He cleared and developed his land, which he continued to operate most successfully for a number of years and then sold. Retiring from active business, he took up his residence in Brownsville and here he continued to live until his demise in 1888, when he had attained the age of seventy-eight years. The mother passed away ten years later, in 1898, having reached the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Both were highly esteemed residents of their community and Mr. Brown was a public-spirited and progressive citizen, representing his district in the state legislature, where he gave thoughtful and earnest consideration to all the vital questions which came up for settlement. To Mr. and Mrs. Moyer were born six children, three of whom died in infancy, while Ethel died at the age of three years; Edward D. was born in 1858 and passed away in January, 1916, at the age of

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fifty-seven years, leaving a wife and one child; Hugh B. was born in 1861 and his death occurred in 1913, when he was forty-eight years of age. He was survived by a wife and one child, but the latter died in January, 1917.

Mr. Moyer gave his political allegiance to the democratic party and fraternally he was identified with the Masonic order, holding membership in the chapter. He passed away on the 25th of July, 1904, and his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret to all who knew him, for his sterling traits of character had won for him many friends, and his stanchest friends were those who knew him longest and best, indicating that his life was well spent. Throughout the period of his residence in Brownsville he took a most active and helpful part in the work of progress and improvement, leav- ing the impress of his individuality for good upon many lines of the state's develop- ment and upbuilding. He was a man of whom it could well he said: "The world was better for his having lived in it." Mrs. Moyer is residing in the old family home in Brownsville, which her husband erected in 1881, and of her immediate family but three now remain, one grandchild and two great-grandchildren. She is a lady of culture and refinement, possessing many admirable traits of character, and as a representative of one of the oldest and most honored families in the state she is highly esteemed and respected by an extensive circle of friends.

EDWIN SPURGEON SPARKS.

Before the American War of Independence one Solomon Sparks, of Welsh descent, came to America and settled in the future land of the free. With him came his wife, Katharine Hildercost. They settled in Pennsylvania, and there was born to them a son whom they named Levi. This son moved to Ohio and from there to Iowa in the early '40s. In the locality where he filed upon a homestead, most of the surrounding land had been taken by men from one locality in an eastern state. These men had pledged themselves to allow no outsider to settle there. They looked with hostile eyes upon the newcomer as he erected his little cabin, and one night with their features disguised with white cloths they invaded his domain and calling him to his door they ordered him to move on. He told them he was there by permission of the government which had given him his land, that he had every reason to believe the government would protect him, and that there he would remain. Admiring his courage and deter- mination the men rode away and did not molest him further but on the contrary soon became his friends and in a short time he became a power in the community. He had married Zulima Craig Moore, a blue-blooded Virginian who was a relative of Thomas Moore, the Irish poet. To them was born a son whom they called Levi, Jr.

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History of Oregon, Vol. III, Part 1

Author: Carey, Charles Henry Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Chicago, Portland, The Pioneer historical publishing company Number of Pages: 766

Author: Carey, Charles Henry
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Chicago, Portland, The Pioneer historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 766