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In 1906 Mr. Obye was united in marriage to Miss Florence Cox and they have become the parents of two children, Gordon and Maxine. He is an active and earnest member of the Chamber of Commerce and is also identified with the Oregon Motor Dealers Association and the National Automobile Dealers Association. He is also a member of the Press and Ad Clubs and is a prominent Mason, belonging to the Scot- tish Rite Consistory. He likewise has membership in AI Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine and during the national convention held in this city in 1920 served on the reception committee. He is a man of determined purpose who carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes and he is accounted one of the sub- stantial and progressive business men of Portland whose record has at all times been characterized by strict honesty and integrity. He is always loyal to the best interests of the community and enjoys the esteem and regard of a large circle of friends.
W. A. MARSHALL.
W. A. Marshall since 1913 has served as a member of the state industrial commis- sion. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 19, 1875, a son of George and Sarah ( Walker) Marshall.
In 1907 Mr. Marshall came to Portland as linotype operator for the Portland Lino- type Company and he also became editor of the Oregon Labor Press, serving in that capacity for one and a half years. In 1912 he was appointed by Governor West as one of nine men to draft a compensation law for the state. This was a notable legislative achievement, resulting in a marked betterment in conditions arising from industrial accidents. In the latter part of 1913 Governor West appointed Mr. Marshall to his present position on the state industrial commission and he has continued to serve under the administrations of Governors Withycombe and Olcott. He is a member of the executive board of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, being also a member of the committees on statistics and accident prevention of the association. His work in connection with the commission has largely to do with accident prevention and statistics, and his services in these connections are most important and valuable to industrial interests.
In 1898 Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Swanson, a native of Galesburg, Illinois, and they have become the parents of three children: Marie, Willard and John.
MISS DAISY BUCKNER.
Miss Daisy Buckner, who since 1914 has filled the position of postmistress at Scio, the duties of which office she is most capably and promptly discharging, has spent her life in Linn county, for she was born at Lebanon, June 4, 1892, of the marriage of L. L. and Fanny (Miller) Buckner, the former born in the middle west, while the latter was a native of Linn county. The maternal grandparents of Miss Buckner crossed the plains with ox teams to Oregon in 1852 and became pioneers of this state, set- tling near Providence, in Linn county, where the grandfather took up a donation claim, which he cleared and developed, continuing its operation until 1880, when he abandoned agricultural pursuits and gave his entire attention to the work of preaching the gospel, as a minister of the Presbyterian church at Scio, until his death in 1889. He was familiar with every phase of pioneer life, participating in the Indian wars and enduring many hardships and privations and aiding in sub- stantial measure in the work of development and improvement. He passed away at Scio in 1889 but his wife survived him for many years, her death occurring in' 1912. Their daughter, Mrs. Buckner, now resides at Salem with her husband, who
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is drawing a pension from the government in recognition of his services as a soldier in the Indian wars.
Miss Buckner was reared and educated at Scio and from the age of nine years has made her home with her maternal aunt, Mrs. Albert E. Randall. She was graduated from the Scio high school with the class of 1911 and two weeks after her graduation she entered business life as a clerk in the post office at Scio, with which she has since been connected. In 1914 she took the competitive civil service exami- nation, which she successfully passed, receiving the appointment of postmistress. In 1917 the office was reclassified, at which time she was reappointed, having now been the incumbent in that office for a period of six years. She thoroughly under- stands the work and is prompt, efficient and courteous in the discharge of her duties. In politics she is independent and her religious faith is indicated by her membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. Miss Buckner possesses excellent business ability and her record as a public official is a most creditable one, char- acterized by faithfulness, thorough reliability and efficiency of a high order. She has spent her life in this locality, and that she is endowed with many admirable traits of character is indicated in the fact that her stanchest friends are those who have known her from childhood.
FRED J. WYATT.
Fred J. Wyatt, president of the Indian Motorcycle & Bicycle Company, is the pioneer dealer along this line in Portland, having devoted his entire life to the bicycle business. He is a native son of Oregon and a representative of one of its honored pioneer families, members of which crossed the plains in 1837, becoming large landown- ers of the state and also prominent in public affairs. He was born in Philomath, Benton county, in 1879, a son of George and Mary E. Wyatt, who removed with their family to Portland when the son was but five years of age. Here he attended the public schools to the age of twelve years, when he became messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Company, continuing with that corporation for a period of five years. He early developed unusual skill as a bicycle rider and when seventeen years of age became a professional rider, holding the championship of the northwest in 1897 and 1898. In 1900 he gave up professional riding and established himself in the bicycle business in Portland, becoming the city's pioneer dealer along that line. He is now the president of the Indian Motorcycle & Bicycle Company, with Burgess W. Rice as vice president and B. P. Finke, secretary and treasurer, their establishment being located at Nos. 204- 6 Third street. They have the state agency for the Indian motorcycles and bicycles and also have the agency for Oregon & Clark county, Washington. Mr. Wyatt is an expert in this line of trade and through his untiring efforts and capable management has developed a business of large proportions.
In 1900 Mr. Wyatt was united in marriage to Miss Anna Hoffman and they have become the parents of two children: Donald, now fifteen years of age and a high school student; and Fred J., Jr. His interest in the progress and development of his city is indicated by his membership in the Chamber of Commerce. His chief sources of recreation are hunting and fishing. He is recognized as an enterprising and alert business man and as a public-spirited citizen and his personal qualities are such that he has gained the warm friendship of many.
EDWARD A. KOEN.
Edward A. Koen, editor and proprietor of the Polk County Observer, published at Dallas, is well known in journalistic circles as an able editorial writer, having at various times been identified with many of the leading newspapers of the west. He was born in Farmington, Missouri, September 4, 1867, and is a son of Audrey D. and Sarah E. (Highley) Koen, also natives of that state. The father was a dry goods merchant and also operated a farm in St. Francois county, where he spent the greater part of his life. He passed away in September, 1892, and the mother's demise occurred on the 4th of July, 1914. Both the father and grandfather served through-
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out the Civil war as soldiers in the Confederate army and in that conflict Audrey D. Koen sustained severe injuries which caused his death while still a young man.
Edward A. Koen was reared in his native state and there attended school until the age of fourteen, when he began learning the printer's trade, with which he has since been connected. He was employed at various places and for four years was on the editorial staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was also identified with the Omaha Bee and the Omaha World-Herald and for ten years was political editor of the St. Paul Dispatch. He continued in the employ of others until 1905, when he established a busi- ness of his own, founding a paper at Biwabik, Minnesota, of which he was the owner until July, 1919, when he came to Oregon, purchasing the Polk County Observer, published at Dallas, of which he is now editor and owner. This paper was established in 1888 and since becoming its owner Mr. Koen has installed the most modern equipment in the way of linotype machines and presses and now has one of the best plants in this section of the state. He is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business, to which he has devoted his life, and he is publishing the Observer according to the most progressive ideas of modern journalism. Its local columns are full of interest and the news of the world is clearly and completely given; the aims of the nation are well set forth and political questions are treated justly and without prejudice. The principal policy of the paper has been to serve the public promptly and well, and that Mr. Koen has succeeded is evident in the large circulation which his pub- lication enjoys, its subscribers now numbering twenty-eight hundred. While residing in Minnesota he operated three roller skating rinks and also was at one time private secretary to the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska.
On the 22d of February, 1894, Mr. Koen was united in marriage to Miss Marie E. Parker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and they have become the parents of two children: Elsatia, who is twenty-one years of age and is residing at home; and Edward P., aged sixteen years.
In his political views Mr. Koen is a republican and a stalwart supporter of party principles. He stands at all times for improvement in everything relating to the upbuilding and development of the county along intellectual, political, material and moral lines and in his editorial capacity is producing a newspaper of much interest and value to the community in which it circulates.
ALBERT EDWARD DUNSMORE.
Albert Edward Dunsmore, who passed away on the 18th of October, 1915, was a well known and highly respected citizen of Portland. He was serving for the second term as city recorder of St. Johns when it was annexed to the largest city, and he at once entered heartily into the support of the metropolis, just as he had done in advancing the interests and welfare of the smaller towns. The sterling worth of his character was attested by all who knew him, and it seems as though he should have been spared for many more years of usefulness, as he had only reached the fiftieth milestone on life's journey when called to his final rest. He was born September 15, 1863, at Huntington, Canada, a son of Thomas and Mary (Burrows) Dunsmore. The father came with his family to the United States when Albert E. was a small child, and after the mother's death the family returned to Canada, where they resided until Mr. Dunsmore of this review had reached the age of fifteen years. He obtained the greater part of his education, therefore, in his native land, and when a youth of fifteen he returned with his father across the border. Together they made their way to Lanesboro, Minnesota, where the father engaged in brick manufacturing. They later removed to Moose Lake, Minnesota, and here Mr. Dunsmore turned his attention to the hotel business. He afterward conducted a lumber business at Motowah, Minne- sota, for about six years, and thence made his way up to the iron range of Minnesota, and was engaged in the hotel business at Virginia. While carrying on business there, however, the hotel was burned when the greater part of the town was destroyed by fire. Mr. Dunsmore then became the manager of the new Fay hotel, of which he remained in charge for eight years.
On the expiration of that period Mr. Dunsmore removed to the west, choosing Portland as his place of location. At a subsequent period he settled at St. Johns, and was prominent in public affairs and in promoting the upbuilding and develop- ment of the region in which he lived. He served as city recorder for two and a half
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years and was occupying that position at the time St. Johns was merged into Port- land. He made a most capable and trustworthy official, for he ever regarded a public office as a public trust and it is well known that the trust reposed in Albert E. Duns- more was never betrayed in the slightest degree.
On the 20th of August, 1891, at Moose Lake, Minnesota, Mr. Dunsmore was married to Miss Nettie E. Myhr, a daughter of S. and Margaret Myhr. They became the parents of a son, Edward Leroy, who died at the age of seven years. Their other children are: Louis S., who is attending the University of Oregon; Marion E., a teacher of Antelope, Oregon; Virginia I., a bank clerk at St. Johns.
In his political views Mr. Dunsmore was an earnest republican, and was thoroughly informed concerning the vital questions and issues of the day. Fraternally he was connected with the Knights of Pythias and also with the Loyal Order of Moose, and his religious belief was that of the Methodist church. He was a man of domestic tastes, who found his greatest happiness at his own fireside. He made friends readily and while he did not attain wealth, he was regarded as a substantial citizen and one who at all times merited the confidence and high regard of those who knew him.
EMILY L. LOVERIDGE.
Emily L. Loveridge, superintendent of the Good Samaritan Hospital of Portland, is a native of Steuben county, New York. Her father, the Rev. Daniel E. Loveridge, was an Episcopal minister, who was born in Connecticut and came west in 1888 to take charge of a parish in Oregon. Subsequently he went to Eugene, this state, where he presided over the church for eleven years and then retired, his death occurring in 1908. His wife, in her maidenhood was Marla Lemoine Wolfalk, a native of Virginia. She was the adopted daughter of Bishop Uphold of Indiana, and died when her daughter Emily was but four years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Loveridge were born two daughters and a son, the latter, George Uphold LoverIdge was district attorney of Allegany county, New York, when but twenty-five years of age, and is now deceased; a daughter, Mrs. Sarah L. Heslop, has also passed away; and Emily Lover- idge. There were two half sisters by the father's subsequent marriage, Mrs. Jolin Can- non of Astorla and Mrs. L. A. Newton of Portland.
Miss Emily L. Loveridge of this review determined to devote her life to the profes- slon of nursing and completed a course in Bellevue Hospital at New York, here being graduated with the class of 1890. She came to the west on the 1st of May, 1890, for the purpose of opening up a training school for nurses, establishing the first school of the kind In the northwest. The institution at the beginning had about thirty beds and was under the direct supervision of Emma A. Wakeman, Miss Loveridge serving under her. The latter is now the superintendent of the Good Samaritan Hospital, which is an Episcopalian institution, located at the base of Council Crest. It is an imposing building, thoroughly sanitary In every particular and has three hundred beds, with one hundred and thirty-three nurses in attendance. Miss Leveridge devotes all of her time to her hospital work and has attained a marked degree of efficiency in this connection. She has also reared two of her sister's children, Ernestine Heslop, who was graduated from the State University at Berkeley, California, and who died in November, 1918; and Paul Loveridge Heslop, who was graduated from Cornell University as a civil engineer in 1912, and who is now living at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CHARLES E. WAGGENER.
Charles E. Waggener, who is identified with the business interests of Harrisburg as the proprletor of a first-class meat market, is a native son of Oregon, his hirth hav- ing occurred nine mlles northeast of his present place of residence on the 10th of August, 1889. He Is a son of Albert and Elizabeth (Greenhalgh) Waggener, the former of whom was born in Linn county, Oregon, and the latter in Illinois. The father is a successful farmer and stock raiser, owning and operating sixteen hundred acres of land near Halsey, Oregon, and it was upon this place that his son, Charles E., was born. The parents of Albert Waggener were pioneers of Oregon, who crossed the plains from Kentucky to this state with ox teams in 1852, locating in Linn county, where the father Vol. II-27
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took up land, which he continued to operate the remainder of his life. He saw service in the Indian wars and experienced all of the dangers, privations and hardships of frontier life in those early days. He passed away about 1895 and his wife's death occurred about 1889.
Charles E. Waggener was reared in Linn county and acquired his education in its district schools. He remained at home until he attained his majority and then rented land, which he cultivated and developed, also engaging in stock raising. He was thus active until August 31, 1917, when he disposed of his interests and enlisted in the Quar- termaster's Corps of the regular army, which was attached to the Ninety-first Division. He enlisted as a cook and was sent to Camp Lewis, Washington, where he also held sev- eral petty office jobs. He was not sent overseas and at Camp Lewis was discharged in June, 1918, on account of physical disability.
Returning home Mr. Waggener again engaged in agricultural pursuits, but at the end of a year purchased a meat market and ice plant at Harrisburg, which he has since operated. He manufactures ice and supplies the town of Harrisburg with this commod- ity, being the only meat and ice dealer in this locality. In his shop he carried a high grade of meat and his courteous treatment of patrons and his reasonable prices have won for him a very gratifying patronage. He is also a stockholder in the Harrisburg Lumber & Manufacturing Company, the Linn County Fair Association and the Calipooia Cooperative Exchange, which is engaged in the operation of a flour and feed store and also in the conduct of a hardware establishment at Brownsville, Oregon. He still has farming interests and in 1920 planted two hundred acres to wheat and oats. Mr. Wag- gener is a young man of sound judgment and keen business discernment and through the capable management of his various interests is winning a substantial measure of success.
In his political views Mr. Waggener is a republican, and fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World. His life has been spent in this locality and he is everywhere spoken of as a young man of worth, possessing many admirable traits of character, which have won for him the high regard of all who know him.
HON. T. B. HANDLEY.
On the roster of public officials of Oregon appears the name of Hon. T. B. Handley, who since 1920 has served as corporation commissioner, an office which he is well qualified to fill, owing to his wide legal learning and experience in the legislative halls of the state. Mr. Handley is a native of Oregon and a representative of one of its prominent families. He was born at Hillsboro, April 19, 1882, a son of T. B. Handley, who was born on the island of Tasmania in the early '40s. During the early part of the '50s he went to California, removing from that state to Oregon, where he acquired a limited education. He possessed a great desire for knowledge, however, and through wide reading and study became an exceptionally well informed man. He worked as a surveyor, and pursuing the study of law, was admitted to the bar at Salem, subsequently following his profession at various places throughout the atate. He afterwards went to British Columbia, where for a time he engaged in mining, but later returned to Oregon and continued active in the practice of law in this state until his demise, which occurred at Tillamook in 1905. He hecame prominent in public affairs and was considered one of the state's most able citizens. He had married Iola Bayley, who crossed the plains from Ohio to Oregon in early pioneer times as a member of a train which became lost in what was known as Meeks Cut-off and which experienced great trouble with the Indians. She became identified with all of the early activities for the betterment of social conditions in the locality where she lived and is now residing at Sacramento, California, at the age of eighty- two years. She experienced all of the hardships and privations of pioneer times and her memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present, her reminiscences of the early days being most interesting and instructive.
T. B. Handley was graduated from the public schools and from the Academy of St. Alphonsus at Tillamook, Oregon, in 1900. He then studied law under the instruc- tion of his father and was admitted to the bar in 1907. He at once opened an office in Tillamook, where his ability soon won recognition in a growing clientage. He is an able lawyer, well informed in all branches of the law and the application of legal principles. His mind is naturally analytical and logical in its trend and he possesses
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those qualities which are indispensable to the lawyer-a keen intelligence, plus the business sense, and a ready capacity for hard work. His high professional attainments naturally led to his selection for public office and while residing in Tillamook he served as city recorder for five terms and as deputy district attorney for Tillamook county for one year. In 1913 he was elected a member of the state legislature, representing Tillamook and Yamhill counties, and in 1914 was reelected to that office. So satis- factory were his services in that connection that in 1916 he was chosen to represent the district comprising Yamhill, Tillamook, Lincoln and Washington counties in the state senate. He served as a member of that body during the sessions of 1917 and 1919 and also during the special session of 1920, giving stalwart support to many measures which found their way to the statute books of the state and which are prov- ing of great value to the commonwealth. On the 1st of June, 1920, he resigned his position as state senator, having been appointed by Governor Olcott to the office of corporation commissioner for the state of Oregon, and was reappointed for a four year term January 2, 1921, in which capacity he is now very acceptably serving, his official record being a most creditable one, characterized by strict integrity and devotion to duty. He regards a public office as a public trust and no trust reposed in T. B. Handley has ever been betrayed in the slightest degree.
In 1906 Mr. Handiey was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Trout, a native of Tilla- mook and a daughter of a pioneer family of that county. Her parents were numbered among the earliest residents of that section of the state, locating there at a time when the Indians far outnumbered the white settiers. Mr. and Mrs. Handley have become the parents of two children: Thomas B., Jr., and Louise, the former eleven years of age, and the latter thirteen years of age. Mr. Handiey has given much of his life to public service and has ever been actuated by a public-spirited devotion to the general good. His record is a most commendable one, characterized by integrity and honor in every relation, and at all times his public work has been a source of benefit to the state.
FRANK LOUGHARY.
Frank Loughary, a substantial agriculturist of Polk county and one of the most prominent stock raisers in the state, specializing in the raising of pure bred Jersey cattle, has spent his entire life in Oregon, his birth having occurred on the farm upon which he now resides, a valuable and attractive property situated six miles southwest of Monmouth, on the 15th of June, 1870. He is a son of Lafayette W. and Eliza (Simp- son ) Loughary, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Arkansas. In an early day the father removed to Iowa with his parents and during the '50s he crossed the plains to Oregon, settling at Falls City in Polk county, where his first winter was spent in work as a carpenter-a trade which he had learned in his youth. He assisted in building a lumber mill at Falls City and then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, purchasing a portion of the place which is now owned by the subject of this review. He devoted his energies to the improvement and cultivation of this farm and continued active in its operation during the remainder of his life, passing away in July, 1915, at the age of seventy-five years. He experienced many of the hardships and privations of pioneer life and participated in the Yakima Indian war of 1855-56. The mother survives and resides with her son, Frank Loughary, of this review. There were five children in the family and all are yet living, with the exception of the eldest daugh- ter and a child who died in infancy.
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