History of Benton County, Oregon, Part 77

Author: David D. Fagan
Publication date: 1885
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JOHN B. GOODMAN-A well-to-do resident of the Belknap Settlement is a native of Cooper county, Missouri, born March 15, 1834, and resided in his native county until spring of 1852, when he, with his brother J. H., joined a train and came across the plains to Oregon, arriving in Salem, September 15th of that year. Two years later our subject came to Ben- ton county and took up a donation claim, now owned by Mr. Nichols. In 1881 Mr. Goodman purchased his present valuable farm of 238 acres, located four miles west of Monroe, where he is engaged in general farming and stock raising.

JACOB HAMMER .- This worthy pioneer was born in Highland county, Ohio, March 6, 1816. In 1825 he was taken by his parents to East Tennessee ; but in 1832 he accompanied them to Madison county, Indiana, and subsequently, in the winter of 1836, to Hamilton county, in the same State. Here our subject married Miss Hannah Cox, and resided until the spring of 1842, when, with his wife, he removed to Missouri. After maintaining a residence there for two years, until 1844, at that time Mr. Hammer fitted out an ox-team and with his help-mate and three children started to cross the plains to Oregon. After a pleasant trip of six months' duration, the Tualatin Plains were reached, and here our subject remained until November, 1847, when he removed to what is now Benton county, located on the claim in the Belknap Settlement, on which he still resides, and

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passed the first year in a log cabin with Jesse H. Caton, afterwards moving on to his present place, on which he constructed a "rail pen," and in it dwelt for several months. Mr. Hammer has held the office of Justice of the Peace for two terms, the duties of which he performed with much judgment. In religion he was reared as one of the Society of Friends, but is now a communicant of the sect known as the United Brethren. To his wife and himself have been born fourteen children, nine of whom survive, viz: Ai, Millisia (now Mrs. William Mitchell), Goldsmith, Josephine, Amos, Lorenzo, Noah, Jeremiah and Ellis.

WILLIAM HAMMOND-Was born in New York, September 9, 1826, and there resided until the spring of 1852, when he took passage on board the steamer Ohio bound for San Francisco, California, arriving in the latter place in March of the above year, and engaged in mining, which he followed until 1861, when he enlisted in Co. D, 4th Reg. California Volun- teers, and came with that regiment to Oregon. Serving for three years he was discharged at Vancouver, Washington Territory, October 15, 1864. He then came to Yaquina Bay, where he has since resided and been engaged in hotel and store-keeping most of the time. Mr. Hammond owns considerable property in Benton county, and is a member of the city council of New- port, his present home.

JOHN W. HANSON .- This leading merchant tailor of Corvallis, is a native of Lane county, Oregon, born December 15, 1855. In 1870 he went to San Francisco and entered the merchant tailoring establishment of his uncle where he spent the following five years. In 1875 he returned to Lane county and engaged in business for himself in Eugene, until 1880, when he came to Corvallis and opened his present tailor shop in connection with which he runs a general store. Mr. Hanson was mar- ried in Lane county to a daughter of C. W. Young, one of the most prosperous farmers of that county.

JOHN HARRIS .- In the gentleman whose name heads this brief memoir, we have a leading and worthy citizen of Benton county. He is one of the men whose success in life has been mainly achieved in the county in which he now lives, by the exercise of economy, industry and business integrity, guided by intelligent financial ability; he is now in good circum- stances, and twenty-five years ago was a poor man. What he has, came gradually through those years as the result of correct business calculations and not by chance of the favorable turn of fortune's wheel. Mr. Harris was born in October, 1827; was married March 12, 1848, to Jane Buchanan, in St. John's church Liverpool. On April 16, 1850, he sailed from Liverpool for California, arriving in San Francisco November sixteenth, following-proceeding direct to Hangtown (now Placerville) and embarked in mining which he followed in the different mining camps until June, 1852, when he concluded to engage in agri- cultural pursuits and selected Oregon for his future home, coming direct to Benton county in the above month and year. A short time after his arrival he purchased three hundred acres, a part of his present farm, it being the donation claim of Mr. Wm. Bragg, to which he has since added by purchase some three hundred acres more located eight miles southwest of Corvallis, where in 1875 he built his present beautiful residence where he now lives enjoying the comforts that attend a well spent and industrious life. Mrs. Harris left Liverpool for Oregon in October, 1852, and arrived at her present home January 26, 1853, having made the trip alone to join her husband in his new home. Their family consists of one daughter, Mary J., a young lady of more than ordinary intelligence and one who has been educated not to look upon life as the idle drones upon the honey stored for them by the working bees in the hive, but as a period blocked out of time in which she is to accomplish something by her own acts that will not be a discredit to herself (and her native State). To Mr. Harris and men of his kind, Benton county and Oregon owes its present prosperity and future success.

ELDRIDGE HARTLESS, deceased .- The subject of this sketch, a highly esteemed pioneer of Benton county, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, February 22, 1816, but at an early age was taken by his father to West Virginia, where he was left an orphan. When twenty years of age he removed to Indiana. At the age of twenty-seven he was married and two years later removed to Missouri, whence, in the spring of 1846, he joined a party coming to Oregon. Having first settled in Oregon City, in 1848 he came to Benton county, located the claim on which he died, September 1, 1882, and during life was remarkable for his public spirit and energy. Save a few trips to California, Idaho and Montana on business he never left the county of his adoption. He married in Lowell, Massachusetts, July 27, 1857, Miss Emily C. Bates, by which union there were nine children, five of whom now survive, viz : Sarah J., Virginia, William, Eldridge and Clara.

LEONIDAS H. HAWLEY-Was born on the farm where he now resides, five miles west of Monroe, October 24, 1851, and is the son of Chapman Hawley, who emigrated from Licking county, Ohio, to Oregon in 1848. Our subject has always been a farmer, and now owns the north half of his father's donation claim, to which he has added until now he owns 1300 acres. Mr. Hawley is married and has one child-Earl Vincent.

JOSEPH A. HAWKINS-Is a native of Indiana, born March 3, 1843, and there resided until 1856, when his parents moved to Greenwood county, Kansas, where our subject lived until 1876, when he came to Benton county, Oregon. In 1878 he returned to Kansas, but being so favorably impressed with Oregon .. he again, in 1880, returned to Philomath where he now resides and where he owns and operates a saw-mill, one mile west of town. Is married and has a family of five chil- dren, viz: James E., Ruth I., Nora A., Hugh G. and Frank S.

JAMES HAYES-A capitalist of Corvallis, was born in Albany, New York. When quite young his parents moved to Cook county, Illinois, where he was brought up on a farm. In the spring of 1852 he paid $100 to a company to allow him to ride in their train across the plains to Oregon, arriving in Jackson county in the fall of the above year, where he engaged in farming. In 1858 he went to Frazer river and embarked in mining until 1859, when he returned to Jackson county and entered the employ of Thomas Cavenaugh, to work on his farm. One day, while in search of a lost mule, Mr. Hayes discovered the well known "Gold Hill" mines, which has since proved a bonanza for some of the residents of Jackson county. A short time after Mr. Hayes sold his interest in the mines and came to Benton county, where he has since resided. Mr. Hayes took part in the Rogue river war, being a member of Maj. Bruce's company. He is married and has two sons and three daughters.

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ICHABOD B. HENKLE-The subject of this sketch, a view of whose premises will be found in this work, was born in Pendleton county, West Virginia, October 10, 1810, but when quite young was taken by his parents to Fayette county, Ohio, where he residied until the year 1839, at which time he moved to Lee county, Iowa. In 1849 he transferred his abode to Appanoose county in the same State, and there engaged in farming. April 4, 1853, with his wife and four children, Mr. Henkle started with ox terms to cross the plains to the great Northwest, and after a journey occupying about six months, arrived at Butte creek, Clackamas county, Oregon. there halting in October, 1853. In November of the same year he arrived in Benton county, took up the donation claim on which he now resides, situated four miles west of Philomath, where he has three hun- dred and sixty acres of land, and on which is a saw-mill. Mr. Henkle was one of the original incorporators of the Corvallis and Yaquina Bay Wagon Road Company, and afterwards became a director in the Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad, the predecessors of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company. In Mr. Henkle we have one of those men of push and energy who do honor to a community. He married, firstly, in Fayette county, Ohio, January 20, 1831, Miss Mary A. King, a native of Delaware, by which union there have been seven children, only three of whom survive, viz: Jessie, Jeremiah E. and Helena (now Mrs. Thomas W. Girton, of Idaho Territory.) Secondly he espoused, in Appanoose county, Iowa, April 28, 1852, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Conger, who was born in Ohio, and had six children, four of whom survive, viz: Julia A. (now Mrs. John H. May, of Washington Territory), John A., Jacob L, and Charles J.

JACOB HENKLE-Was born in Fayette county, Ohio, October 1, 1825, and there lived until fifteen years of age. He then, with his parents, moved to Lee county, Iowa, and embarked in farming. In 1853 he crossed the plains with his family and took up a donation claim three miles west of the present city of Philomath, where he followed farming until 1877, when he came to Philomath and purchased an interest in the general merchandise store of J. E. Henkle & Co., a business he still continues. Mr. Henkle is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Philomath College.

JEREMIAH E. HENKLE-Is one of Benton county's leading merchants, and a resident of Philomath. Mr. Henkle was born in Lee county, Iowa, November 18, 1843, and is the son of Ichabod Henkle, one of the most respected resi- dents of Philomath precinct. In the summer of 1853 he, with his parents, crossed the plains to Benton county, Oregon, his father then taking his donation claim where he now lives. Our subject received his education at the Philomath College. In 1872, in partnership with J. L. Shipley, he purchased the general merchandize store of T. J. Connor, under the firm name of Shipley & Henkle. This firm prospered until 1877 when it was disolved by the death of Mr. Shipley. The firm's name was then changed to J. E. Henkle & Co., under which they have a large and ever increasing trade. As a citizen, Mr. Henkle is respected by all ; as a business man his integrity is unimpeached, as a suave, courteous and generous gentleman, with whom to do business or meet socially, he has no superior in the county and but few equals anywhere. A view of his beautiful home accompanies this work. Mr. Henkle is married and has a family of three children.

HON. JOHN A. HENKLE-Is a native of Benton county, born November 16, 1854, and is the son of Ichabod Henkle, a respected pioneer of Benton county. He resided on his father's farm, four miles south of Philomath, and was edu- cated at the Philomath College. In 1876 he went to Iowa, where he remained until 1878, when he returned to Oregon and accepted a position in the mercantile house of J. E. Henkle & Co., of Philomath. This position he filled for six years, until 1884. when he resigned to attend the session of the State Legislature, to which he had been elected, to represent Benton county, a position he filled with credit and ability. In October, 1880, he was married to Miss Mary E. Gant, daughter of Ruben Gant, of Yamhill county, and a pioneer of 1845. They have two children, viz: Robert E. and Zella.

JOSEP 9 HENKLE .- The subject of this sketch was born in Lee county. Iowa, January 10, 1843. When quite young he suffered the loss of his father In the spring of 1853 he came with his grandfather, Hon. C. P. Blair, to Oregon and Benton county. At the age of fourteen years he started to do for himself and went to the mines of Southern Oregon and California, afterwards visiting Idaho. In 1870 he returned to Benton county, and in 1871 was appointed by Sheriff J. S. Pal- mer, Deputy Sheriff of Benton county, an office he filled until 1877. He then went to Eastern Oregon and engaged in the stock business, in which he has been very successful. He is now a resident of Prineville and Deputy Sheriff of Crook county. Mr. Henkle was married in Lafayette county, Missouri, November 18, 1883, to Miss Mattie G. Bradford.

WILLIAM HENKLE-Was born in Fayette county, Ohio, May 15, 1819 Residing in his birth-place until twenty-one years of age, he then, with his parents, moved to Lee county, Iowa, from whence, in 1853, they crossed the plains to Oregon and came direct to Benton county, locating four miles west of Philomath. Four years later our subject went to Jackson county and followed farming until 1863, when he removed to Polk county and lived until 1869, when he returned to Benton county and engaged in farming until a few years ago, when he purchased his present home one mile' south-east of Corvallis, where he has retired from the active pursuits of farming. Mr. Henkle was married in Lee county, Iowa, in 1841, to Miss Nancy J. Walker ; they have one daughter.

HUGH HERRON-Is one of the prosperous farmers of Benton county, and was born in County Down, Ireland, September, 1839. At the age of eleven years he, with his mother, emigrated to America, and lived in the Eastern States until spring of 1862, when he crossed the plains to Oregon. Coming direct to Benton county he leased a farm near Monroe. In 1866 he purchased the former donation claim of Harlow Bundy, to which he has since added until now he has a beautiful farm of 750 acres, five miles north-east of Monroe, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Herron is married and has a family of five children.

WESLEY HINTON-Was born in Gasconade county, Missouri, January 10, 1837, where he resided with his parents until 1846, in which year he crossed the plains to Oregon with his father, mother, sister and two brothers, the party including the well-known pioneer Dr. Aaron Richardson. Having passed the first winter in Yamhill, in the spring of 1847 the family came to the present county of Benton, located on the farm adjoining what has since became the town of Monroe,

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and has ever since been engaged in farming there. For the past two years Mr. Hinton has been a member of the mercantile firm of Starr, Wilhelm & Hinton. Is married and has one child named Esther.

GUSTAVUS HODES- Was born in Prussia, Germany, January 23, 1826, and in 1855 emigrated to America. Com- ing direct to the Pacific Coast he first settled in San Francisco, and two years later came to Portland, Oregon, where, after a short sojourn, he came to Corvallis and opened his present gun store, located on Main street, opposite the Vincent House.

JACOB HOLGATE-Was born in Luzern county, Pennsylvania, in 1828. In 1833 his parents moved to Illinois, where he remained until the spring of 1850. He then, with his wife and accompanied by his brother, came across the plains to Oregon and located on his donation claim in the Alsea valley, which he still owns. In 1880 he moved to Collinsville, at the mouth of Alsea Bay, where he now resides and is the present postmaster of that place.

F. A. HORNING-This influential and wealthy farmer and early resident of Benton county, is one of those who came to this State with small means, but through industry and correct business principles, has accumulated a fortune sufficient to retire from the active pursuits of agriculture. Mr. Horning was born near Berlin, Prussia, in 1824, When he was nine years of age his parents, with their family of eight children, emigrated to America, locating in St. Clair county, Illinois, and five years later moved to Jackson county, Missouri. May 12, 1850, our subject, with his wife and one child, started with ox teams to cross the plains to California, but on the plains they were induced to change their route on account of the scarcity of feed for their stock, and consequently came on to Oregon, arriving at Oregon City October 26, 1850. In December of the same year Mr. Horning came to Benton county, and purchased his present valuable farm, consisting of 375 acres, one mile and a half west of Corvallis, where he is largely engaged in fruit farming. The incidents that have come under Mr. Horning's observation, and in some of which he took a part, would not be least among the mass that constitute the advance guard of civilization west of the Rockies. There are hundreds, yes thousands, of similar experiences, varying only in the kind of danger or misfortune that hovered along their trail. With one it was sickness, and another poverty, while a third met starvation or the Indian onslought, and a record of them in full would make another Alexandrian library. Does not a pioneer deserve all the benefits that fortune has dealt out to him, and in many cases much that the fickle goddess has withheld? Ir. connection with his home farm he owns residence property in the city of Corvallis. Mr. Horning was married in Jackson county, Missouri, to Miss Mary A. Johnson. She died May 22, 1868, leaving a family of eleven children, all of whom are living. A view of the place where Mr. Horning resides is placed among the illustrations of this work.

GEORGE W. HOUCK-Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1830, In 1832 his parents moved to Tiffen, Seneca county, Ohio, where our subject attended school until fourteen years of age ; he then started to learn the shoe- maker's trade, which calling he followed for five years. October 30, 1851, he left his home in Tiffen to seek his fortune in the gold-fields of California. Coming via. the Isthmus of Panama he arrived in San Francisco January 1, 1852. He immediately proceeded to the northern mines and for the next four years followed mining. In August 1856 he came to Oregon and, in May, 1857, settled in Corvallis, engaging in the stock business until 1869, when he opened a livery stable in the above place, which he conducted for over three years. He then purchased the George Belknap donation claim, two miles south of Monroe, to which he has since added until now he has a stock farm of nearly four thousand acres, a view of which appears in this work. He also owns a valuable farm nine miles south of Corvallis. Mr. Houck is one of the most enterprising and largest stock-raisers in Benton county, in which he is ably assisted by his three sons, Jesse, George and Ambrose. Mr. Houck was married in Benton county, to Miss Deliah Young, a native of Missouri.

L. H. HOUCK .- This young and enterprising merchant of Monroe was born in Seneca county, Ohio, where his boy- hood was passed until twenty-one years of age. He then came west to Des Moines, Iowa, where he engaged in business and resided until 1881. He then came to Oregon and purchased an interest in his uncle G. W. Houck's, store in Monroe, with whom he was connected until April, 1884, when their store and stock of goods were entirely lost by fire. L. H. then rebuilt his store on the same ground, and a few months later was joined by his brother Albert, since which time they have transacted a large general merchandise business under the firm name of L. H. Houck & Co.

WALTER S. HUFFORD .- At present the only representative of the legal profession on Yaquina Bay, was born in Charleston, Lee county, Iowa, September 7, 1853. In the fall of 1860, he, with his parents, came to California where our subject was educated and resided until 1872, when he came to Oregon, locating in Corvallis, and there began the study of the law in the office of Judge Chenoweth, being admitted to the bar in December 1875. He then practiced his profession for a short time in Corvallis, when he removed to Yaquina Bay and opened an office at Newport, where he now resides enjoying a lucrative practice and the confidence and esteem of the comunity in which he resides. Mr. Hufford married Miss Graham, a daughter of John Graham, an early pioneer of Toledo by whom he has three children, viz : Edwin, Walter and Jessie.

DAVID W. INMON-Was born in East Tennessee, March 26, 1830. When two years of age his parents moved to Kentucky, and in 1840, to Indiana. Five years later, moving to Missouri they remained until April, 1852, when he with his parents crossed the plains to Lane county, Oregon. In the spring of 1853, our subject went to the southern mines and while there took part in both of the Rogue River wars. In 1869, Mr. Inmon came to Benton county and purchased the now well- known Inmon saw mill, located ten miles west of Monroe. Mr. Inmon married a Miss Richardson, of Lane county; they have two living children, Benjamin T. and Harley A.

JOSEPH R. K. IRVIN-Was born in Holmes county, Ohio, August 29, 1835. When but one year of age his parents moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where our subject passed his boyhood, until 1851. He then with his parents crossed the plains to Linn county, Oregon, locating near the present site of Oakville. February 14, 1863, Mr. Irvin enlisted in Co. A. Ist Oregon Cavalry, and served in the adjutant's office in Vancouver, Washington Territory. He remained in the service until March, 1865, when he came to Corvallis and opened an auction house. In 1876 he removed to Portland and

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started the well-known auction house of Gilman & Irvin. In 1880 he returned to Benton county and leased the Ocean House in Newport which he conducted for several years. He then purchased sixty-five acres in South Newport where he now resides.

SAMUEL G. IRVIN .- This enterprising young man is a native of Oregon, born in Linn county. When about eight years of age his parents moved to Corvallis where he was educated at the common schools and the State Agricultural College, and in 1872, went East and entered the Monmouth College at Monmouth, Illinois, graduating from that institution in 1873. He then went to Freeport, Illinois, and remained until 1881, when he returned to Oregon and accepted the Principal- ship of the East Portland school. In 1882, he came to Yaquina Bay for the benefit of his health and being so favorably impressed with the climate and general appearance of the county concluded to locate there, when he engaged in the hotel business for a time and, in the fall of 1883, opened his present real estate office under the firm name of Irvin & Buckley. In 1882 Mr. Irvin filled the position of Clerk of the House of Representatives at Salem. He was married in 1884, to Miss May Ball.

RICHARD IRWIN-Was born in County Cavan, on that Isle that gave birth and fame to a Burke, a Curran and O'Connell, June 11, 1813, and there resided until the age of 19 years. He then, with his mother (his father being dead), one brother and two sisters, emigrated to America. Our subject first found employment in a mercantile store in Lockport, New York ; four years later he was sent by his employers to Ohio to take charge of a branch store. Mr. Irwin then followed mer- chandising in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa, until 1850. In the spring of that year he started from Fairfield, Iowa, with his bride of one day and an outfit costing five thousand dollars, and an abundant supply of provisions, but being of a generous disposition, qualities which he still retains, he was too free to give to the needy whom he met on the plains, and consequently before arriving at The Dalles, our little party found their supply of provisions exhausted, and then began sufferings and privations which only those who have been placed in like situation can understand. He then came to Portland and engaged in business until 1851, when he came to Corvallis and opened a store. In September of the above year he located 640 acres as a donation claim, where he now resides, to which he has since added until he now has 922 acres of Benton county's most fertile real estate. It is indeed a fortunate locality that reckons among its citizens such men as the subject of this sketch, McCauly, Por- ter, the McBees, John Harris, John Foster, Maj. Bruce, John Rickard, and many others of equal high standing, for the country where they live can never stagnate. Mr. Irwin was united in marriage in St. Louis, Missouri, to Miss Louisa Kompp, a native of Germany. By this union they have, Frances J., now Mrs. Joseph McBee, James C. and Richard S.

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History of Benton County, Oregon, Part 77

Author: David D. Fagan Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Number of Pages:

Author: David D. Fagan
Publication date: 1885
Publisher:
Number of Pages: