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NICHOLAS C. LORENTZEN: lives near Denmark; is engaged in the lumber business; came to county in 1875; was born in Denmark, Sweden; is 38 years of age; is married. Children, Anna M., Lena C., Thyra H. and Carnilla F.
P. MCCREERY: lives at Ellensburg; is foreman in R. D. Humes' cannery; was born in Ireland; came to state and county in 1874.
JOHN MCVAY: lives four miles from. Ellensburg; is a stock raiser; is a native of Ireland; arrived in this state in 1867, and came to this county in 1868; was married to M. A. McCreery, in 1866.
WILLIAM MCVAY: lives near Chetco; is a dairyman and farmer; came to state and county in 1860; was married in 1854, to Emiline McCormac. Children, Mary E., Emma, Henry, Benjamin, Laura, William, Minnie and Augustus.
E. H. MESERVEY: resides at Ellensburg; is engaged in farming and is watchman in Humes mill; was born in Maine; arrived in the state and settled in this county in 1853; was Lieutenant and subsequently Captain in the Rogue river war, and was engaged in several bloody battles.
W. C. MILLER: lives four miles above Ellensburg, where he has a farm; is a native of Dayton, Ohio; arrived in this state in 1847, and to county in 1868; married Miss P. A. Turner, in May 1855.
A. H. MOORE: resides at Ellensburg; is a blacksmith by occupation; was born in Highland county, Ohio; arrived in this state in 1850, and came to this county in 1857; was mar- ried in 1860, to Miss S. C. Morrison. Children, Frederick and Dora E.
H. S. MOORE: is a native of Iowa; came to Curry county in 1876, now resides in Port Orford; is a farmer.
S. D. MORRISON: resides near Ellensburg; where he is employed at sheep raising; address is Ellensburg; is a native of Vermont; arrived in this state and settled in this county in 1868.
JOSEPH I .. NAY: resides five miles north of Port Orford; and proprietor of Nay's Lumber mills, and owns 1,000 acres of land; is a native of West Miland, New Hampshire; and as yet unmarried.
A. B. SABIN: is a farmer; lives five miles from Denmark, Curry county; is a native of New Jersey; is married and has one child, Walter J.
RALEIGH SCOTT: lives at Mountain Ranch; is a stock grower; post-office, Chetco; is a native of Lane county, Or .; came to county in 1872; married Nettie Cooley, October 4, 1874: Mr. Scott is an extensive stock grower-sheep a. specialty.
WILLARD F. and WALTER SHOEMAKER: live with their mother, Mrs. Mary A. Shoemaker, on Knott hill, five miles from Denmark; own a large tract of land; were born in Mis- souri; are 25 and 23 years of age, respectively.
HENRY SMITH: lives at Smith's Ferry; post-office, Chetco; is a farmer and ferry keeper; is a native of Prussia: came to state and county in 1857; was married in 1865 to Hanah J. Riley.
FRANK SMITH: was born in New York; is 46 years of age; came to county in 1860; is a retail liquor dealer in Port Orford.
H. STRAHAN: resides at Ellensburg; is a sheep raiser; was born in Philadelphia, Penn .; arrived in this state and county in 1871; was married to Miss Mary Euberg, in 1868. Children, Charles G. and William H. Mr. Strahan has a good farm.
WALTER SUTTON: publisher and proprietor of the Curry county Post, of Ellensburg, is a native of Illinois, and in 1854 came to Oregon, and to Curry county in 1870; married Feb- ruary 14, 1877, to Miss Louisa A. Smith. Children, Lonisa A , Walter F. and John A.
EDWARD SYPHER: born in Rogue river valley, in 1865, and has ever since resided in Curry county.
C. W. THOMAS: was born in Pennsylvania; is 53 years of age; is manager of the sawmill formerly owned by the Port Orford Cedar Co., at Port Orford, where he resides; is mar- ried; has three children.
A. H. THRIFT: lives on Flora's creek; is a dairyman and stock raiser; post-office Denmark; was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio; came to state in 1852, and to county in 1853; married June 5, 1867, to Mary J. Goodman. Children. Annie G. (deceased), Edgar B., Rosabel, Alexander, Hattie A., Alvie A., Eva J., and (Eola and LeRoy twins).
J. H. UPTON: was born in Ohio; came to state in 1853 and in 1880 located at Port Orford, where he established the Port Orford Post, which he sold in 1882 and moved on his farm
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near Denmark, where in August, ISS3, he established the Curry County Recorder; is married. Children, J. M. and Ar- thur W.
FREDERICK UNICAN: is a resident of Port Orford; came to Curry county in July 1851; has a farm three miles north of Port Orford.
DR. F. O. VON DER GREEN: lives at Ellensburg; is a phy- sician; was born in Munich, Germany; came to state and county in 1868; was married to Miss B. C. Noon, June 6, 1860. Children, Mary, Blanch, Florence and Bertha. Dr.
Von der Green is the only physician in Curry county and has a large and lucrative practice, and is highly respected.
ROBERT WALKER: was born in Canada; lives at Ellens- burg; is engaged in merchandising; came to state and county in 1869; was married to Miss Mary E. Frime in 1874. Mr. Walker was sheriff of the county one term.
G. B. WILSON: lives on Winchuck; is a fisherman; post- office, Chetco; came to state and county iu 1868; was born in Pennsylvania; was married in 1855 to Eunice Violet. Chil- dren, L. F., G. F., Belle, Lizzie, Nettie and John.
MISCELLANEOUS.
JOHN BOLT: lives in Applegate, Jackson county; is a mer- chant; was born December 15, 1836, at Wildhouse, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland; came to state in 1856, and to county in 1857; was married October 12, 1862, to Elizabeth Richart. Children, George N., Ella, Emma V., Lucy A., John E., Fred J. and Florence A.
RICHARD COOK: is a native of England; was born Febru- ary 19, 1836; at the age of about forty years he arrived in this state, settling in Jacksonville, Jackson county, where he has since followed mining; he is at present proprietor of a mine in this county; Mr. Cook was married August 9, 1860, to Elizabeth Harris. They have one son, Richard Jr.
JAMES W. COLLINS: this old pioneer was born in Pettis county, Mo., June 13, 1825; when seven years old his parents moved to Reves county, (now Henry county) in that state; thence to St. Clair county, and to Bates county, all in Mis- souri. On the 6th of May, 1850, he started for California, overland, arriving in Sacramento on September 1, 1851. He mined for gold on Feather river about two weeks, then went to Chico, and his uncle who resided there, gave him an outfit of six Indians and seven mules with sufficient provisions for a trip to Scott river. He remained there until February 6, 1852, when he came to Rogue river valley, where he arrived the same month, sleeping the first night under an oak tree on the-now-Gordon ranch. Here he took a donation claim, where he lived until the fall of 1853, then sold out and went to Dry creek, stock raising. He next moved to Table Rock precinct, where he purchased a farm, and lived until coming to his present ranch near Phoenix. He claims to have sown the first grain in Jackson county, and erected the nrst frame house, the one now on the Gordon ranch. He married Martha Ann Stow on August 10, 1855. She is a native of Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILLIAM HOFFMAN: popularly known as "Father Hoff- man," is an early pioneer of Jackson county, and has always been one of her most prominent and respected citizens; is a native of Baltimore, Maryland; came to state and county in 1853; was married in 1836 to Caroline Shafer. Children, Mary H. (Vining), Julia E. (Beekman), Annie I. (Linn), Em- ma A. (Dorris), Florence E. (Shipley) and Kate F. Mr. Iloffinan was first county auditor of Jackson county, and has ever since held some office of trust.
JOHN MAVITY: an early pioneer of Jackson county, Ore- gon, now a horticulturist and resident of St. ITelena, Napa county, Cal .; was born in Ripley county, Ind., August 3.
1829, and came to Oregon in 1852, settling in Jackson county in the fall of that year; in 1870 he moved to his present home in Napa county, Cal. ; was married October 22, 1857, to Mis- Amelia W. Hull, They have four children, "viz: Katie A., John M., Willis W. and Carrie B.
LEWIS SHIDELER: was born in Marion county, Indiana, on November 7, 1827. When twelve years old his parents took him to Carroll county, in that state, where he was edu- cated, and raised on a farm. Here he married Diana Harter on September 14, 1848. He came to Oregon, overland route, in June, 1870, settling in Linn county. In October 1872, he moved to Jackson county, settling on his present farm. John H., a resident of Linn county, Oregon; Etta, Emma, Henry L., Alice, Lucinda, Rebecca and Frank, are his children.
THOMAS MCF. PATTON: an early resident of Jackson county, but now a member of the legal profession in Salem. Oregon; is a native of Carrelton, Ohio, and at an early age began the study of the law; a short time after his admission to the bar, he started for the Pacific coast, selecting Oregon for his future home, arriving within its borders in the fall of 1851; in 1853 Mr. Patton located in Jacksonville and in that year was elected to the office of county judge, he being the first to fill that position in Jackson county; two years later, on the expiration of his term of office, he removed to Salem where he has since resided. Mr. Patton was united in mar- riage in 1854 to Miss Francis M. Cook.
GUSTAF WILSON: is one of the early pioneers of California and Southern Oregon; was born June 6, 1828, in Uleaborg, Finland, Russia; left that country in the year 1842 as a sailor and came to the United States; in 1845 he returned to his native country. The following year, October, 1846, he set him- self westward again, and landed in New Orleans, March, 1849; in March, 1850, he left New York on ship Albania, Captain Crowell, by way of Cape Horn, for California, arriv- ing at San Francisco, October roth of the same year. Went at once to the gold mines and prospected and worked in almost every mining camp from Mud Springs, California, to Jackson county, Oregon. At the organization of Josephine county by the territorial legislature in 1855 he was appointed coroner and the year following was re-elected to the same office. In 1862 he was elected clerk of Josephine county, and again re- clected in 1864; at the expiration of his second term he re moved to Portland and has resided there ever since; is Vice Consul of Russia in Oregon .
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BENJAMIN C. AGEE was born in Osage county; Missouri, September 27, 1837. When but two years of age his parents moved to DeKalb county, same state, where his father engaged in farming until April 6, 1852, when he, with his par- ents, ten brothers and four sisters, started with ox teams to cross the plains to Oregon, some of the time being with a large train of emigrants, but most of the distance being accomplished alone, and after six months of continuous travel they arrived in Yamhill county, this state, where his father purchased land on Deer creek, and he now resides. Our subject remained under the parental roof until the age of 21 years. He then engaged in farming on his own account in Yamhill county until 1869, when he came to Douglas county and purchased his present place of 650 acres, seven miles south of Roseburg, and is now en- gaged in general farming and stock raising. A view of his residence will be found in this history. Mr. Agee is married and has an interesting family of ten children, viz. : Oscar, Rolland, Norman, Miles, Minnie, Millie, May, Asher, Rosie and Frederick.
ANDREW G. AIKEN, the subject of this sketch a well known and popular resident of Coquille City, Coos county, is a native of Lawrence county, Penn., and was born January 12, 1837, and then resided on his father's farm until 16 years of age. March 18, 1853, he, with his two brothers, John and James, set out to cross the plains with ox teams, and after a weary trip of six months they arrived in this state, first locating near Albany. After a short time our subject went to Washington Territory, where he remained until the fall of 1854, when he again returned to Oregon, this time locating in Coos county, and engaged in mining near the present site of Newport. On the breaking out of the Indian war on Rogue river, Mr. Aiken joined Captain Harris' company and took part in that memorable campaign. On the cessation of hostilities, Mr. Aiken returned to the coal mines on the bay, and followed mining there and on Sixes river until 1858. He then engaged in the lum- ber business on Coos bay as partner with his brother James, which he continued until 1875, with the exception of two years spent in Idaho. In the fall of 1875 he paid a visit to his old home in Pennsylvania, and on his return to Coos county in the spring, was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the office of sheriff of that county, a position he was elected to at the fol- lowing election, and two years later was re-elected to the same office. On the expiration of his term of office, Mr. Aiken located in Coquille City, and in 1882 built his present commodious residence, in which he now resides, a view of his home being placed in this work. Mr. Aiken is a gentleman whom it is a pleasure to meet, being generous and hospitable to a fault. He now enjoys the comforts of a happy home, and the respect and confidence of the entire people of the county in which he resides. He was united in marriage in Coquille City, May 25, 1874, to Miss Augusta Cunningham. By this union they have one son and one daughter, Charles G. and Alice O.
ALBERT ALFORD .- The subject of our memoir is a native of Chariton county, Missouri, and born May 4, 1833. Here he was educated. In 1850 he crossed the plains to Oregon, accompanying his parents, who settled in Linn county, where he married Catherine Brinker, on December 18, 1853. She was born in Missouri, on December 24, 1838. Mr. Alford continued to reside in Linn county up to 1869, when he came to Jackson county, Oregon, and settled near Table Rock. In 1874 he moved to Talent, and is now a resident of the place. He was elected county commissioner from Eden precinct in ISSO, and re-elected in 1882, which office he still holds. A view of his residence can be found in another part of this work. His children are : Russell A., born March 16, 1855, Masas L., born April 27, 1857, Alice, born February 13, 1859, and Amanda O., born February 7, 1862.
HASKELL AMY :-- Born in Vermont, on August 19, 1831. When quite young his parents took him to Knox county, Illinois, where he was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. In the spring of 1852 he crossed the plains to Oregon, and settled at that time in Jackson county. In the fall of 1858 he purchased his present farm and took up his residence thereon, where he has continuously lived to the present time. He went to Illinois on a visit via the ocean route in 1866, returning the same year overland with a team. He married Mahala McDaniel on May 3, 1859. She died on Sep- tember 19, 1861. The maiden name of his present wife was Jessie Bledsoe, to whom he was married in 1874. One child by his first wife, whose name is Frank. Two children by his second marriage, Laura and Albert. A view of the residence of this old settler is in this history.
HONORABLE LINDSAY APPLEGATE. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Henry county, Kentucky, September 18, 1808. In 1820 the family emigrated to Missouri and settled near St. Louis, then a small French village. Educational advantages were poor, and as a consequence young Lindsay had received but little education up to his fifteenth year, when, with a few young associates, he escaped from home and enlisted under General Ashley, of St. Louis, for a trapping expedition to the Rocky mountains. One division of the expedition with the heavy baggage ascended the Missouri river, while the remainder with pack trains proceeded by land. At the Pawnee town the river party was attacked and defeated by the Indians and driven back to Council Bluffs. Here young Applegate and others were taken sick and sent with the wounded back to St. Louis. After this he returned home, but his restless spirit longed for a more adven- turous life than was there afforded him, and he followed trading on the Mississippi river for a time, then worked for a while in the newly discovered lead mines at Galena, Illinois, and afterwards served as a volunteer in the famous Black Hawk war under General Whiteside. In January, 1831, he was married, in Cole county, Missouri, to Elizabeth Miller, and soon after moved to southwestern Missouri, where he erected the first sawmill built in that part of the state. In 1843 he crossed the plains to Ore- gon, and became a settler in Polk county, where in 1844 he served as a member of the first volunteer company organized to
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protect the new settlements against the Indians. In 1846 he was one of the fifteen men who hunted out the South Road from the Willamette valley to Fort Hall. He went to the newly discovered gold mines in California in 1848. making the trip by land and returned the same year by water. In 1850 he raised a company and went with General Lane in pursuit and to the capture of the deserting regulars from Oregon City. In 1850 he moved to the Umpqua, where he served as special Indian agent under General Palmer. Captain Lindsay Applegate raised a detachment of Mounted Oregon Volunteers and was mus- tered into the service of the United States for the war against the Rogue River Indians on the 22d of August, 1853. The detachment marched on the 24th of August from Winchester, Umpqua valley, to Camp Alden near Table Rock, Rogue river valley, the headquarters of General Lane, and thence to Myrtle creek, Umpqua valley, where September 7, 1853, it was dis- charged from the service. Mr. Applegate was mustered as captain of the company and was with General Lane when the treaty was made with the Indians near Table Rock. In 1859 he moved to the Toll House, Siskiyou mountains, Jackson county and took charge of the toll road from that place to the California state line which he then owned. In 1861, as a captain of the Rogue river volunteers, he went to the plains east of the Siskiyou mountains to protect the emigrants coming to Oregon. Mr. Applegate was selected from among his compeers to represent Jackson county in the assembly of Oregon in 1862, and acted under Superintendent Rector as special Indian agent for Southern Oregon. In 1864 he was interpreter at the Klamath and Modoc treaty and in the ensuing year was appointed sub-agent and served at Klamath until 1869, when he was removed to make room for a military agent. As a proof of Mr. Applegate's unswerving honesty while acting as Indian, agent we quote from his final discharge and last settlement. "Your account for disbursements in the Indian service from January 1, 1868, up to January 1, 1869, has been adjusted and a balance found due you of $42.01, differing that amount from your last account, as explained in the accompanying statement. Signed, E. B. FRENCH, Auditor."
There are those who . believe had Lindsay Applegate remained in charge of the Lake Indians all would have gone well and that the bloody drama of the Modoc war would never have been played. Mr. Applegate resides at his old home in Ashland, Jackson county, Oregon. He has one of those restless and strong spirits which hew out the way for civilization in the wilder- ness and who are nevertheless willing to aid liberally in promoting the refining influences of an advancing people.
CHARLES APPLEGATE .- This early pioneer of Oregon and Douglas county was born in Henry county, Kentucky, January 24, 1806, and died in Voncalla, Douglas county, Oregon, August 9, 1879. If all the eventsand experiences of this pioneer could be chronicled they would make interesting reading for the occupants of the happy homes that now dot the country which he found a wilderness and inhabited by little else than the savages and wild beast. Suffice it to say that now that his labors are ended, let the thronging thousands who shall enjoy this beautiful land, remember that his strong arms helped to subdue this far western wilderness and prepared it for civilized man. When he was 15 years of age Mr. Applegate's parents moved to St. Louis county, Missouri, and in 1829 our subject was united in marriage to Miss Malinda Miller, and with her and a small number of emigrants started on May 15, 1843, for Oregon. The fall of that year found them settled in the Willamette valley where he resided until 1850 when he came to Douglas county locating near the present site of Yoncalla, where he resided until his death.
W. H. ATKINSON .- Among the prominent settlers of Ashland is the subject of this memoir; he was born near Bradford, England, November 30, 1844. When two years old, his parents emigrated to the United States, and settled in Onondaga county, New York. In the year 1849 the family settled in Racine county, Wis .; thence to Walworth county in that state in 1856, where he was married to Eugenia L. Curtis, November 15, 1868. In the year 1874 with his wife he crossed the plains by rail, and settled at Ashland, Jackson county. On his arrival here, he purchased an interest in the "Ashland Flouring mill," and soon after entered into partnership with General J. M. McCall, in the mercantile trade. In 1879, he became one of the partners, and business manager of the Ashland Woolen Manufacturing Company, which position he has maintained to the present writing. He has held prominent offices in the Masonic fraternity, and was one of the instigators in bringing about the erection of the Masonic block of Ashland.
H. F. BARRON resides at Barron and is a farmer, stock raiser and hotel keeper. lle was born in Lee county, Vir- ginia, and came to Jackson county, Ogn, in Oct., 1851. Ile was married August 18, 1856, to Martha A. Walker. Their children are Alice, Edgar, George and Homer. Mr. Barron, whose two residences are elsewhere illustrated in this book, possesses large landed and stock interests, his stock being mainly horses, cattle and sheep.
HON. THOMAS FLETCHER BEALL; born in Montgomery county, Maryland, on the 27th, of August 1827. Hle with his parents, moved in 1834, to Springfield, Sangamon county Ill. Here was educated and resided until 1852, he crossed the plains with his brother R. V. Beall, with mule teams, arriving in Oregon on July 18, 1852, and settled in Rogue river valley, at Central l'oint, September 27, 1852, on a donation claim. He purchased his present place, south from Central Point, in 1858, where he has since lived. In 1853, he was engaged in packing between Jacksonville and Scottsburg. On one of his return trips from Scottsburg, a Spaniard stole one ol his mules. He followed him into Lane county, caught him and got possession of the mule, chastising the Spaniard, and on his return to Rogue river valley fell in company with General Lane, Pleasant Armstrong, Michael Hanly and others, taking the Kearney route. After making a three days journey, the party found themselves without provisions, and although it was strictly against orders to discharge fire arms, Mr. Beall came across a deer-after they had camped-and disobeying orders, killed the deer, brought it to camp, and fortunately for him was not punished other than seeing his companions partake of the deer meat. They proceeded on their journey safely to Rogue river valley. Mr. Beall continued the packing business until 1856, and has followed farming and stock raising since that time, he and his brother being the largest wheat growers in Jackson county, owning jointly and severally 2, 548 acres of land. He was elected to the Assembly of Oregon in 1864, hokling the office one term. He married Ann Hall on November 10, 1859; she is a native of Champaigne county, Ohio, and was born January 3, 1838. Children, Benjamin, Asbury, Clara, Carri , Th mas, Lee, Tyson and Lucinda.
ROBERT VINTON BEALL was born on the 15th of June 1831, in Montgomery county, Maryland. He with huis parents moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1834. Ilere he was educated. With his brother T. F. Beall he cor felt>
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Oregon, arriving at Oregon City July 18, 1852. He came to this county on the 27th of September of that year and settled on his present farm south of Central Point. Here he has lived ever since with the exception of six months. He has been engaged in farming and stock raising. He married Ann Maria Riddle, on the 19th of April 1864; she was born in Sangamon county, Ill., on April 19th, 1847. Children, Mary and Robert V.
HON. C. C. BEEKMAN .-- The reminiscences of the early pioneers of the Pacific coast must ever possess a pecu- liar interest for the Oregonian. Green in their memory will ever remain the trials and incidents of early life in this land of golden promise. These pioneers of civilization constitute no ordinary class of adventurers. Resolute, ambitious and endur- ing, looking into the great and possible future of this western slope, and possessing the sagacious mind to grasp true conclu- sions, and the indomitable will to execute just means to attain desired ends, these heroic pioneers, by their subsequent career, have proved that they were equal to the great mission assigned them, that of carrying the real essence of American civilization from their eastern homes and planting it upon the shores of another ocean. Among the many who have shown their fitness for the tasks assigned them, none merit this tribute more fully than the subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work. He was born in New York city, January 27, 1828. He received his education in the public schools, and while yet in his minority he learned the carpenter's trade. In the year 1850 he sailed from New York, coming via. the isthmus of Panama, and arrived in San Francisco in the fall of that year. He went to Sawyer's Bar, where he was engaged as a miner; thence to Yreka working at his trade, after which we find him at Scott's Bar, mining; returning to Yreka, where, in 1853, he entered the employ of Cram, Rogers & Co., as express messenger between that place, Jacksonville and Crescent City. He was often obliged to cross the Siskiyou mountains under cover of darkness on account of hostile Indians. He retained this position until the failure of Adams & Co. in 1856, which carried down with it the house of Cram, Rogers & Co. He then commenced carrying express on his own account, resuming his perilons trips across the mountains until a stage road was built and the stages of the old California Stage Company put on the route. In 1863, when Wells, Fargo & Co. completed their overland connections with Portland, they tendered Mr. Beekman the agency at Jacksonville, which he accepted, and has been retained up to the present time with credit and ability. During Mr. Beekman's term of service as express messenger on his own and others' account, he has handled millions of money, and, in fact, more than any other man in Southern Oregon; and his retention and promotion by his employers is a sufficient guarantee for his unswerving honesty and integrity. Investing his earnings judiciously, Mr. Beekman has amassed a fortune, not by miserly conduct; not by oppressing the poor; not by taking advantage of the necessities of his fellow men, but by strict observance to business principles, and a careful management of his own affairs. As a financier and a man of ability, he is the peer of any man in Southern Oregon. To prove this, if proof was necessary, we call the attention of our readers to the facts that Mr. Beekman has been repeatedly elected one of the trustees of Jacksonville, and for several terms held the honorable position of mayor, or president of the board. He has also held the office of school director for nine years, and it was mainly through his business tact that the commodions school building was erected, and, withal, his love for educational advancement has placed the standard of education for the young, on a plane that would do credit to a larger town. The year 1878 will be ever memorable to him, for, without the slightest effort on his part, he was selected by the republican party from among his compeers and placed in nomination for governor of Oregon. This was a closely contested and hard fought battle. Mr. Beekman's popularity was so great that he was supported not only by repub- licans, but by a large number of democrats in Southern Oregon. He was defeated by his democrat opponent, Gov. W. W. Thayer, by forty-nine votes. The closest scrutiny into the life of Mr. Beekman demonstrates the fact that no man can find a blemish in his character. Notwithstanding he is wealthy, you could not observe that from his conduct. He is not like many men of means-supercilious. He knows himself, and that is half the battle of life. He tries to do no man wrong, having lived up to the golden rule all his life. He resides in Jacksonville, Jackson county, one of the prettiest spots in Oregon, where he has made many warm friends and keeps them. He often says with Sydney Smith: "Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best." It were well if our young state had many such generous and enterprising men as C. C. Beekman. He married Julia E. Hoff- man, daughter of Wiliam Hoffman, and by this union they have one daughter and one son.
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