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TOBIAS STILLEY RIDDLE wzor - I .... Angus 31. 1549. : when brought by his parents across the plains . Oregi. Arming _ D _glas sfenty ear .; : 1552. M: K located on the property they now " wi, Bear Ne : w2 cho Moors ds ereg samt. ">J. . it. paternal roof until the age of sixteen years. He then started poten cj ! A: sal early age be Det. basiness an land the foundation for is present santes. the age of england Dor Fu was used . manage Smith, a daughter of George C smith, an UM reso ent of Engehe, and later a rom op. 10ye Creek, Tras = -
Sau and his son John met them eat while engage in the she wanted I Honalet. Sie the Bannock Islams ] From sma. beginnings Mr. Kiddie ans bull: =; a large an: pr ...
au n- now extending all over souther Cheg . He is wwas a value para Ceta santa clausis 440 ECT and a beautiful residence inCantewhere heWILL|| M family { six children, whose names are, Carrie L. Warrer C. Fre .. EML Bezjams an Presley
ANDREW SAWYERS was hor near . The New Brunswick, Anni In 1922 -Inch
he was lom years of age his parents mored . Philadelphia. Being lof archer.ess 2' an ell , ag. be was flere on a farm where he remained until His seventeenth rear than returned 1; Phple to pod semin/ ap que
carpenter trade, which be followe. in the Quaker City and 1543. when he won New York. A . . .. .. armed to New Orleans, there working at his trade cat_ Center. Ing Het whenwe were. sage oo the Many Watterman via. Cape Horn. Mor san Francisc . arrring tilere z Ma 1955 Mr sauver imme der found employment at his trade, which be Medwed du .Ne fel -f 155: when he came : Dreg . Ers. CZAng El MOD A. ..- . 4 few weeks later be settled on his present popers. ace ales enst . Nowisborg, zow Mosssung i aime farm
25. 1544. to Miss Fantoe McDowell a nas re vi Phase be They han bad pe hle b " when : Long : Catherine, now Mrs. Josiah Sierens: Amme, aow Mrs. Tose & Fes , Margaret a w Mos. .. .. NJA = Fos - Il' s. JAMES F. SHEFFIELD. is a bis e H = = = O : was bor Aas . 5. 1525. == - . the spring of 1550. On bearing .: the wholerfa, wealth : ) foi we are Pass: post be stunde == be spi d ** ** for California, and there isflawed mening a:d. 1952 when he came : Oregon, CHAM 15 % Din aya his present valualle farm, consisang .f 475 acres : wwwan" a half miles south of Enseborg. no :ne hanks which be has erected a fine farm residence: a view of which appears == "his work.
THOMAS SHRUM. - This well kawa allizin of Douglas county, and early pourmeer i/' Oregon county, Missouri, and was born December S. 162"; resting on his father's farm in_ the s; ring ." year, accompanied by his father. mocher. three sisters and Ere briers starte w + 1 2205- ** ESTOSs
west. After six months of traveling and many baniships they arrived in this gate and made hur ems: s" east i Salem where they located == a farm. There Mr. s= = r. med at the G-Al isc ery an - - one brother hastened to the now Eldorady and followel mining in Oferim parts of the state 67652
re: Ded to his b ime near Salem and res. el there ummit 1954. Having
Douglas county for his future home and at that time forshasel 163 acres be mile bort" di where he mir I- 150g de purchased his present homestead consisting : 500 watt thanks of the [ five valuable improvements-a view of which will he Mond in this work. And now, aber many years prepared to take the comforis that only attend in Ne wholeal an hoces; and wellsper. We. Mr. Stram wa. . . 12 Meme county, Ou ber 29. 1855. :. Miss Casana Kama a mauve of Mana. They he aly / born August 20, 1558. Stephen I. bruns Ja. ar 24 1500, AMIS W MT August 15, 1501. E. Mary R. b.ra May 17. 1565. Eu-huma E. bora Api" 30. 156-, and George W. bom N = < 13. 1503.
THOMAS J. SINGLETON .- Th. lw ! kn um resident of Roseburg, mili waglas
c"In county. Kentucky. A :::: 30, 1535. When he was _ _: four years of age his paren's Sheridan county, and a few years later incate In Linn chanty where they empage = far= "is un Me - 1 : 1953. be with his parents and brothers started across the plams | Oreg =, Arr. Ing . ... s . Let. . Marion county, Dear Salem. To me year. In be spring of 195 Very same : I
creek. Mr. Singlethe lived with his parsers on. : b. zm md And 21. 1555. when he wns
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stead, the lat: : which he a w also possesses. Hor he filwellfarming and sinck ming = wie he m ve" his h e .n: Ryel arg where he p Te. " , b =eresg ==
the wife of S. L. Thornton. Tomas E .. A a M, Was L. Emma E., Walter zol Mare E.
WILLIAM B. SINGLETON. Than brady k= == con ligi
chanty. Kentucky, or Angus: 10, $37 In : ring - 1552. M. S . - 9 . 5 arriving at Portlania the _ wir Sie :---. . years later Mr. S. creek valley: a view i whior appears in :h. H & mv Mr singles has mais mar - place, un !! now he possesses monf the st esra c far - pib Mand z Deglas s ing and sinck raising.
CAPTAIN THOMAS SMITH was Wir .: Desel county Kotschy_ so com 12 1800
when Thomas was bat sixteen years of age. A: the age :w. -; ree. with his kg
county, where he remained working at the carper .. " i'mw .l
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mained in Texas ten years, and the lessons there learned in frontier life were of great advantage to him in his subsequent pio- neer life on the Pacific. In 1849 he came to California, crossing the plains by way of Fredericksburg and El Paso, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and the great desert through Lower California and arrived in the mines in October of that year. At Fredericksburg he was elected captain of a company of seventy-five men who were the pioneers over this route for 500 miles to El Passo. After his arrival in the mines he took sick and was not able to work any that year. The next summer he went to Feather river where he was again taken sick, but managed to make his way to Reading, where in the fall he was broken up by robberies by the Pitt River Indians. In the spring of 1851 he came to the Yreka mines, where, hearing of the Oregon mines down in what is now Josephine county, crossed the Siskiyous on the 7th of June and engaged in mining on Josephine creek until October. When returning, he prospected for and found gold in considerable quantities at Blackwell and Willow Springs. Believing that good mines would soon be found at these places, he at once determined if possible to raise a crop of vegetables in the valley to sell to the miners. He at once located on the place until recently known as Capt. Smith's ranch, and went to Yreka to find some other parties who were willing to join him in such an enterprise. David Earl, Fred Albuding and Patrick Dunn agreed to take the chances and at once began to prepare for the enterprise. Mr. Smith returned at once to his claim where he remained alone eleven days before the arrival of the other men. It was on the 11th day of November of that year (1851) that the Captain pitched his tent in this beautiful valley, and the same spot was his home for twenty years, when tiring of farming he sold the old home and removed to Ashland. During the early years of his life in this home he passed through many exciting experiences. For several years Indian Chief Tipsu and band were his near neighbors and made themselves more sociable than agreeable to the Captain. In the wars of 1853-5, he was frequently called upon by neighbors to assist in chastis- ing the Indians for robbery, and in the adoption of measures to prevent this band from engaging with the balance of the Rogue Rivers in active hostilities against the white people. Mr. Smith was called by his constituents to represent them in the territorial legislature of 1855-6. In 1868 he was elected to the state legislature, and again in 1880 re-elected to the same position. He was married to Margaret J. Harrison, daughter of William Harrison, of Crawford county, Missouri, in August, 1857. Harrison county, Kentucky, was named in honor of her grand-father, who was a relative of President William H. Harrison. Mrs. Smith died December 22, 1874. Ella C. is the only child.
H. C. STANTON, or as he is more familiarly known, "Hardy" Stanton, was horn in the town of Westerlon, Albany county, New York, September 27, 1826. In the fall of 1851, he came to Moultrie county, Ill., and during the summer of 1853 crossed the plains and settled in that beautiful spot known as Garden valley of this county. From 1862 to 1865 Mr. Stanton mined on Salmon river and in the Boise basin. In the spring of 1866, ha settled in Roseburg, and was commissioned post-master for the Roseburg post-office by Alex. W. Randall Post-master General, December 6, 1867, upon the duties of which position he entered on the 9th, of January, 1868. This position he has held continuously ever since his appointment by the Post-master General, until May 22, 1883, when the office was designated a third class office, and he was re-appointed post-master by Presi- dent Arthur. In September, 1872, he commenced the mercantile business, and on July 23, 1873, he was married to Jennie M. Sinclair, a daughter of James Sinclair, formerly a factor or governor for the Hudson Bay Company. Mr. Stanton's children were born as follows: Lucy M., May 24, 1874; Edwin Cole, February 7, 1876, and Lillian A., August 22, 1883. A view of Mr. Stanton's residence will be found among the illustrations of this history.
HON. DANIEL W. STEARNS, a prominent capitalist of Oakland, Douglas county, Oregon, and a native of the town of Chesterfield, Cheshire, county, New Hampshire; born December 31, 1821. Resided with his parents on a farm until twenty-two years of age, receiving his education in part at the common schools and afterward taking an accademic cource. At the above age Mr. Stearns went to Palmer, Mass., where he found employment in a mercantile house for one year. He then engaged in business for himself in Ware, Mass., until 1847, when he closed out and went to Boston. That ever memorable year, 1849 found Mr. Stearns among the Argonauts coming by the way of the Isthmas to California, to seek fortunes in the rich diggings of which all had heard so much. He arrived in San Francisco, July 4th, and proceeded at once to the mines, where he engaged in different pursuits until 1852, when he was called East on the serious illness of his wife. Having once enjoyed the delightful climate of the Pacific coast, on the recovery of his wife he again set sail in 1853, for California-this t'me via. the Nicuragua route. Shortly after his arrival in San Francisco he came to Scottsburg, Douglas county, and engaged in business in the mercantile firm of Brown, Drum & Co., in which he remained but a short time, when he drew out his interest and opened a general merchandise store in Jacksonville, Jackson county, and continued until 1857, when his store was entirely consumed by fire. Mr. Stearns returned to Umpqua county, locating on a farm near Elkton, and there remained for two years. In 1867 Mr. Stearns was elected to the office of county treasurer of Umpqua county, for two years; at the end of which time he removed to Roseburg, and in 1874 was elected by a large majority as representative to the state legislature for Douglas county. In 1875 Mr. Stearns removed to Oakland-where he now resides -- and in 1880 was elected state senator. Mr. Stearns was married in Massachusetts, January 3, 1847, to Miss Almira Fay, by whom he has five sons, viz: George J. at present a leading merchant of Oakland, Oregon; Loyal B. a prominent attorney of Portland and the present county judge of Multnomah county; A. F., at present merchandising in Oakland, Oregon; John W. merchant in Walla Walla, W. T., and Ralph S. in the employ of the O. & C. R. R. Co. A view of Mr. Stearns' nice residence in Oakland, together, with that of his son George J. is placed among the illustrations of this volume.
FENDAL SUTHERLIN .-- The largest land owner and recognized wealthiest resident of Douglas county, is a native of Indiana, where his younger days were spent until 1848, when he came with his parents to Oregon and began the battle of life for himself. By economy, industry and hard work he has accomplished that which other men with less energy would fail to do. Mr. Sutherlin is married and has a family of five children. He now resides in Oakland, Oregon, and has retired from the active pursuits of life with the exception of the managing of his large financial business. A view of Mr. Sutherlin's early home is placed in this work.
STEPHEN CLARK TAYLOR, born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, September 17, 1828. When two years old his parents emigrated to Ashtabula county, Ohio. Here they lived seven years, then moved to Winnebago county, Illinois,
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settling in Pecatonica. " Here he married Mary A. Prescott, October 24, 1850. They came to Oregon in 1853, crossing the plains with ox teams, and after a journey of six months they arrived in Jackson county, locating on their present farm four miles northeast of Phoenix, November 8, 1853. Here Mr. Taylor erected a cabin, the only tools he had to do the work with being a jack-knife and ax. This cabin was 16x20 feet, made of pine logs four high, covered with "shakes." In this rude dwelling they lived during the winter. the only furniture being two tin plates, a few knives and forks, and wooden benches. The method for cooking bread adopted by Mrs. Taylor was novel as well as original. A fire was made on the earth, and when a sufficient quantity of coals had accumulated to make the ground hot, they were removed, and two stones were set on either s.de, edgewise, and on these another flat stone was placed (having heen previously heated), and in this oven the iron pan hold- ing the dough was placed and baked to a turn. They lived on this ranch about four years (it being a donation claim), and then took up their abode on an adjoining piece of property, owned by Mr. Taylor's father, and in after years the subject of our sketch became its owner. Mr. Taylor's children are: Henry H., Willis W., Ellen Elizabeth and Corey Clark.
S. I. THORNTON is a son of Jeptha Thornton, an old and highly respected citizen of Oak creek, Douglas county, and is a native of DeKalb county, Missouri, born March 2, 1855. When ten years old his parents crossed the plains to Oregon and settled in Douglas county, in 1866. At the age of twenty years S. I. started out to do for himself -with what success may be seen in the valuable farm he now possesses, consisting of 300 acres located in one of the most fertile valleys (Deer creek), to be found in Douglas county, on which he has built himself a fine residence-a view of which appears in this work. At the present time Mr. Thornton is engaged in a profitable livery business in Roseburg, where he now resides; and although yet a young man, he has through his energy and business ability secured a comfortable competeney, and is a fit subject for other young men to imitate. Mr. Thornton was united in marriage January 26, 1878, to Miss Jennie, eldest daughter of Mr. T. J. Singleton, by which union they have one son and one daughter -- Arthur Lee and Lena V.
RICHARD THOMAS, is a native of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, born November 25, 1837, and there resided until 1853, when he came to this coast via Nicauragua, and first settled in California, where he followed mining until 1856. 11e then came to Oregon in the fall, direct to Douglas county, and engaged in farming, in which he was successful, acquiring some 1,700 acres of land. In 1872 he moved his family to Oakland, and there opened a hotel, which he has successfully managed ever since. Is at present the proprietor and owner of the Depot Hotel, a first class house, a view of which may be seen in this history. Mr. Thomas was married in May, 1864, to Mrs. Sarah E. Cozad, a daughter of Dr. L. Hall. They have two chil- dren, Fannie and Mary.
GEN. JAMES CLARKE TOLMAN .- One of the leading citizens of Jackson county and foremost among the representative men of Oregon, is (ien. James Clarke Tolman, Surveyor General of this state. A man of great decision of character and executive ability, he has always occupied the position of leader of his fellowmen, and after fifty years of active participation in the affairs of his country, retains the confidence and respect of not only his political associates, but of adherents to the opposing party. From his youth an enthusiastic whig, he has been, during the lifetime of the party, a consistent and unswerving, republican. He comes of a family of patriots and pioneers, and inherited the genuine pioneer instincts, those of the higher type-not the feeling that makes one shun the intellectual advantages and refinements of older communities because of a lack of sympathy with, and appreciation of, them. but that nobler sentiment which impels its possessor to carve out his own fortune from the crude material and to develop and improve the wilderness in accordance with the creator's plan of upward progression. His father, Seth Tolman, was of Holland extraction and Mary, his mother, English, a daughter of Captain Clarke, a veteran of the Revolutionary war, serving in the ranks of the Continentals from the Boston tea party till the close of the long struggle for independence. When the war was over his parents settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, but by discreet conduct managed to escape ruin from the devastations of the Tom Tinker whisky insurrectionists. They next removed to Marrietta, Ohio, where they were frequently compelled to "fort up" in block houses with their neighbors to defend them- selves from hostile Indians. Judge Tolman was born in Washington county, Ohio, March 12, 1813, and eight years later moved with his parents to Champaign county, in the same state. Those were the pioneer days of Ohio, when log houses were the only habitations, and these few and far between, and when the little log school house held sway. In such a house he lived, and in such he received his education -- and it might be said that from such have sprung many of the greatest men of our nation, not the least of which are Lincoln, Chase, Grant and Garfield. At the age of seventeen he apprenticed himself to Jesse C. Phillips (a cousin of Tom Corwin), and spent three years in learning the business of manufacturing leather, lle then entered the university at Athens, Ohio, pursuing English branches with characteristic assiduity for a year, during which time he also imbibed much knowledge of a useful and practical nature by the exertion of his great powers of observations. For several veirs he engaged in various pursuits, lending to each his full energy and enthusiasm, and being an earnest supporter of General Har- rison and the unsuccessful whig ticket in 1836. The family, consisting of father, mother, two brothers and himself (a sister and brother having died), removed to Iowa in 1839, and settled in Van Buren county, began again a genuine pioneer life. Land claimants were bought out and 200 acres of land were bid in at public sale in Burlington, and the tien. engaged in farming. encountering all the trials and hardships of a frontier life. Iowa at that time was strongly democratic, yet he adhere I finoly to his whig principles, He was placed on the ticket of that party for the territorial legislature, and though party lines were closely drawn and a warm canvass followed, during which he was the only whig speaker on the ticket he obtained 400 democratic votes and only missed 60 votes of being elected. In the fall of 1845 he removed to Ottumwa and engaged in the manufacture of leather. flere he was again placed on the whig ticket, contrary to his desires, but accepted the nomination at the sims. tion of friends who urged that his opponent was hard to defeat. The whole county ticket was elected, though the dlemerratic territorial ticket received 125 majority. In 1844 his thoughts turned towards the Pacific, and when news of the goll lise wery reached Iowa in the fall of tS48, he began preparing to seek the El Dorado in the spring. In due time he started, and as soto pilot of an ox team he arrived in the mines on the seventh of October, 1849. Declining several advantageous bless offers, he went to work with the pick and shovel as a genuine miner. Ilis usual energy and attention to his business wom hin stress. and he returned to Iowa in the fall of 1851 well rewarded for his California venture. Ill health during the winter rausel son
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to wind up his business and prepare to again seek the shores of the Pacific. On the twenty-seventh of April, 1852, he was married to Elizabeth E. Coe, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and within forty-eight hours was again enroute across the plains, the pilot and general adviser of ten wagons of emigrants. The train reached Yreka in 82 days without the loss of an animal, notwithstanding they had to fight their way through the Modoc country. Gen. Tolman crossed the Siskiyous into Rogue river valley with a portion of the train, arriving the last of August, and bringing the first families to the valley from across the plains direct. He purchased the rights of two squatters and began preparing for raising stock. Early in 1853, perceiving the impending trouble with the Indians, he look his stock to California and sold them. He then went to Coos Bay to look after some investments he had made there for two young men, and returned to the valley in time to sit on the coroner's jury which investigated the death of the first white victim in the Indian war of 1853. When the war was over he sold out his place, and with his wife and one child took a mule-back ride to Empire City, on Coos Bay. He soon withdrew from the company without realizing anything on his investment, and took up a half section of land upon which is located the town of Marshfield, where he erected a rude house for his family. He spent the spring of 1854 in exploring that region, being the first white man to open a trail across the isthmus between Coos Bay and Coquille river. In August, 1854, he returned to Rogue river valley, leaving his claim in charge of another man, who sold it out and vamoosed. The Judge upon his return to the valley purchased for $8, 500 the ranch he now owns, including the stock thereon and again engaged in stock raising. When the Indian war broke out in 1855, he hastily gathered his stock and drove them to California, and sold them for what they would bring. It was two years before he could resume his business. He then purchased blooded stock-English turf horses, Morgans and Lionhearts -- and in a few years realized handsomely on his investment. The severe winters of 1861-2 almost annihilated his band of cattle. When the state government was organized in 1858, Mr. Tolman was elected Judge of Jackson county by a large majority although three-fourths of the voters were democrats. He was re-elected in 1862, defeating his opponent two to one. In this important position he was enabled during the. critical times of the civil war to do more than any one else to prevent open hostilities; also to reduce taxation fifty per cent., and rescue the county from threatened bankruptcy. He was nominated for governor on the republican ticket in 1874, but the formation of a third party gave the administration into the hands of the democracy, and he accepted his defeat with becoming resignation. In 1878 Judge Tolman was appointed Surveyor General of Oregon by President Hayes, and re-appointed by President Arthur in 1882. His administration of the affairs of that office meets with the hearty approval of the administration and of the people generally. He is firm and prompt in the discharge of his official duties, and never has his integrity or motives been impeached. During half a century of active business and official life he has won and retains the respect of all with whom he has come in contact, irrespective of their political opinions; and though he has never sought election or appointment to office, they have both come to him unsolicited. In these days of machine politics and corruption in office, it should be Oregon's boast that she possesses an official who occupies a higher plane. Gen. Tolman's portrait appears in this work.
JOHN P. TUPPER, was born in Colchester county, Nova Scotia, August 22, 1829. At the age of sixteen he entered a ship yard to learn the trade of ship carpenter. After serving an apprenticeship of four years, he worked at his trade in his native country until 1869, when he came to California, arriving in San Francisco June 12. He there found employment at his trade for a few months, and then came to Coos Bay to take charge of the building of a schooner at Marshfield, where he resided until 1877. In the spring of that year Mr. Tupper concluded to try his fortune in the Black Hills, but after a short stay in Colorado returned to Coos county, fully convinced that "all is not gold that glitters." In the spring of 1881 Mr. Tup- per was employed to take charge of the government improvements at the mouth of the Coquille. While on this work he was so impressed with the beauties of the place where he now resides that he purchased 160 acres at the mouth ot the Coquille river, and in 1882 huilt his present hotel, the "Ocean House," a view of which will be found in this work-and in 1883 laid off the town of Seaside City, which promises to he a leading summer resort in Southern Oregon. Mr. Tupper was married in Falmouth, Nova Scotia, October 3, 1861, to Miss Martha A. Lynch, a native of Nova Scotia. They have one son, Ben- jamin F.
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