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Mr. Hathaway was reared at home, receiving his education in the common schools. When he was nineteen years of age he left the paternal roof, to seek, as did many others at that period the greater possibilities the west offered, and went to Wisconsin. After remain- ing there for three years he removed to Minnesota, where for twelve years he engaged in farming, with the exception of a period of service during the Civil war. When the call came for troops dur- ing the time of the nation's need in the '60s he responded, enlisting and going to the front with Company F, Fourth Minnesota Vol- unteer Infantry. He enlisted in 1861 and among the battles that his regiment was engaged in were Vicksburg, Jackson, Mississippi, Champion's Hill, Black River, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Altoona Pass, and many others. He served with General Grant until the latter was made commander of the Army of the Potomac, when he came under the command of General Sherman and took part in his march to the sea. He spent three years and three months in the service, participating in thirty-two engagements but was never wounded. Receiving his discharge at Savannah, Georgia, on December 22, 1864, he returned home, resuming life as a farmer. He continued to reside in Minnesota for some years thereafter and then again started westward, with Oregon as his destination. Upon his arrival here he filed on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land to the cultivation and improvement of which he imme- diately turned his energies. He met with such success in his agri- cultural pursuits that he was later able to increase his possessions until he ultimately acquired three hundred acres, all of which is well improved and in a high state of productivity. Mr. Hathaway always
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used intelligence in the direction of his undertakings and, a man of progressive ideas, was practical in his methods of application. Such success as came to him in the course of his active career was the direct result of capably and definitely directed effort. His plans were always carefully made and executed for the accomplishment of one purpose and his progress always permanent and orderly.
Mr. Hathaway has been married twice. His first union took place in New York state to Miss Nancy Smith and to them were born two children: Catherine, who is deceased; and J. H., who is a resident of Tillamook county. Mrs. Hathaway passed away in 1878 and in 1880 Mr. Hathaway married Mrs. E. R. Wilson, the widow of J. C. Wilson, who lost his life in the Civil war.
His political support Mr. Hathaway gives to the republican party, but he has never been an aspirant to office. Both he and Mrs. Hathaway hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, while fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, belonging to the lodge at Tillamook. He is now enjoying the ease and com- fort assured by his comfortable competence and the income from his large ranch, both acquired by means of many years of hard work.
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Lee Al. Crabis
F OR eleven years Lee M. Travis has engaged in the practice of law in Eugene, specializing in com- mercial law. His thorough preliminary training well qualifies him for the onerous duties of the profession and he gives to his clients the benefit of unwearied service and broad knowledge of the ju- dicial principles bearing upon his particular branch of professional work. He was born in Howard, Steuben county, New York, June 20, 1874, and is a son of the Rev. Gould J. and Ella (Ford) Travis. The father was a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, and pursued his education in Hamilton College and in the Rochester Theological Seminary of that state. In 1889 he came to Eugene as pastor of the Baptist church, with which he was continuously connected until he met death in a runaway accident. In the work of the church he mani- fested a contagious enthusiasm and zeal that were manifest in the growth of the organization with which he labored. His fraternal rela- tions were with Eugene Lodge, No. 11, F. & A. M., Eugene Chapter, No. 10, R. A. M., and Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 2, K. T.
In the public schools Lee M. Travis mastered the elementary branches of learning. He was about fifteen years of age when his par- ents crossed the continent to Oregon and he later entered the Univer- sity of Oregon, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897. In the following year was written the military chapter in his life his- tory. When the country had become involved in war with Spain he enlisted as a member of Company C of the Second Regiment of Ore- gon Volunteers and was sent to the Philippines, where he served with his regiment until honorably discharged at the close of his term of en- listment. Determining to enter upon the practice of law, he pursued the regular course of study in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was admitted to the Oregon bar at Salem in 1899. He had previously read law when in the army. He did not graduate from the Michigan University until 1900 and on the 1st of January, 1901, he opened his office in Eugene, since which time he has practiced largely in the commercial law field.
In 1893 Mr. Travis was married to Miss Lillian Baker, a daughter of Fred C. Baker, who is editor of the Tillamook (Ore.) Headlight.
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Mr. and Mrs. Travis have two children, Frederick and Gould. Mr. Travis is well known in various fraternal organizations, holding mem- bership in the Acacia Fraternity; Eugene Lodge, No. 11, A. F. & A. M., in which he is a past master; Eugene Chapter, No. 10, R. A. M .; Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 2, K. T .; Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S .; Eugene Lodge, No. 357, B. P. O. E .; Eugene Camp, No. 115, W. O. W .; Eugene Aerie, No. 275, F. O. E .; and the Order of Hoo Hoos. Moreover, he takes quite an active interest in politics and is recognized as one of the local leaders of the party, serving at the pres- ent time as chairman of the democratic county central committee. He is a member of the Panama canal commission for the San Fran- cisco exposition in 1915. His life is actuated by a spirit of progressive- ness that recognizes and utilizes opportunities and he is widely known in this part of the state through his professional, fraternal and political relations.
Charles Hallgarth
Charles Dallgarth
HARLES HALLGARTH is one of the early C pioneers of Union county, this state, having main- tained his residence there continuously for the past thirty-eight years. After many years of activity spent in developing his large real-estate holdings in Oregon he is now living a retired life in Elgin in the enjoyment of all his natural powers and, being still possessed of more than eleven hundred and twenty acres of fine Oregon farm lands, he is abundantly able to enjoy the good things of this life to which he is justly entitled.
He was born in Lincolnshire, England, July 19, 1838, and is the son of Nimrod and Sarah (Simcotes) Hallgarth, also natives of Lin- colnshire, where they were reared, married and spent their entire lives. His father was by trade a butcher and followed that occupa- tion for a livelihood.
Charles Hallgarth was reared at home and acquired his early education in the public schools. On reaching his majority he became interested in farming. In 1857 he emigrated to the United States and on reaching the new world he spent his first winter in the state of New York. In the spring of the following year he removed to Winnebago county, Wisconsin, and there remained for the three years immediately following his settlement in the Badger state, after which he removed to California and there was occupied for three years in mining in French Gulch, Shasta county. Believing that his interests could be accelerated by employment in other fields, in the spring of 1873 he removed to Oregon and was here engaged in his former occupation, that of mining, in Canyon City, Grant county. At this employment he continued for three or four years and then severed his connection therewith and located on land in the Indian valley near Elgin. He located on this land at once and established his home and commenced farming and stock-raising, in which he continued for many succeeding years. Having brought his land to a high state of cultivation and receiving as a result a large annual income he found it both possible and agreeable to retire from the active conduct of his farm interests and accordingly transferred the care and operation of his large farm, consisting of eleven hundred
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and twenty acres, over to his two sons while he himself established his residence in Elgin, where he now resides. In addition to his home farm he also owns one hundred and sixty acres of fine timber land in this county.
Charles Hallgarth was united in marriage to Miss Jane Long, of Union county, Oregon, in the year 1875. Mrs. Hallgarth is the daughter of Jacob Long, who early removed from Indiana to Ore- gon, the family settling near Elgin in the early '70s. To Mr. and Mrs. Hallgarth thirteen children have been born, nine of whom are still living: John, Joseph, Nellie, Jessie, Samuel, Jacob, Frank, James and Carl.
Mr. Hallgarth is a republican in politics and has always sup- ported the issues of his party in national and state affairs. He is a member of Elgin Lodge, No. 98, A. F. & A. M., also a member of the Orion Lodge, K. P., of Elgin. He is also a member of the La Grande Lodge, No. 433, B. P. O. E. Mr. Hallgarth during all his life has been a ceaseless toiler and has so conducted his affairs as to secure a competency for his declining years. He is one of the well known and highly respected men of his county and has always been ready to contribute to the support and advancement of all inter- ests affecting the welfare of his fellow citizens.
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Christian Breding
I N RECENT years wheat-growing has been one of the important sources of prosperity of Umatilla county in eastern Oregon, and to the cultivation of that commodity Christian Breding is devoting his time and efforts. That his methods are practical and pro- gressive is indicated by the substantial results which follow his labors and which are making him one of the men of afflu- ence of this part of the state. He was born in Holstein, Ger- many, October 4, 1861, and spent his youth in the country of his nativity where his parents died. He was twenty-two years of age when, in 1883, he sailed for the new world, attracted by the favor- able reports which he had heard concerning its business opportunities. He lived for a year in Illinois and in 1884 made his way westward to Washington, residing for eighteen or twenty months in Walla Walla. He then came to Umatilla county and for a year worked upon a farm for wages, but was ambitious to engage in business for himself and carefully saved his earnings. He purchased a half section of land seven miles north of Pendleton and began farm- ing on his own account. He has since added to his landed posses- sions from time to time until his holdings are now very extensive, embracing over three thousand acres of valuable wheat land in Umatilla county. Year after year he carefully cultivated his fields and harvested large crops, the sale of which brought him very sub- stantial and gratifying results. In 1911, he retired from active farm work and now rents his land while he enjoys a well merited rest in a handsome home in Pendleton.
In 1885 Mr. Breding was married to Miss Ella Eggers, a native of Illinois, who came to Umatilla county with her parents. The chil- dren of this marriage are eight in number: Cecelia, the wife of Than Olmstead, a farmer of Umatilla county; Alexander, at home; Fritz, who follows farming in the same county; Carl, who resides on his father's land; Helwig, at home; Pauline, William and Frederick, who are attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Breding are members of the Evangelical church and are interested in its work and the exten- sion of its influence. Mr. Breding is republican in his political views but has neither time nor inclination to seek office. He came to this
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country a poor young man and in about twenty-eight years has won a most creditable and gratifying success, being today numbered among the leading and substantial citizens of Pendleton. In the past he always displayed excellent judgment in his investments, carried on his farm work along most progressive and practical lines and from time to time placed his surplus earnings in the safest of all invest- ments-real estate-so that he is now the owner of much valuable property.
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Samuel Paine Sturgis
AMUEL PAINE STURGIS, who died February 4, S 1896, was for many years the central figure in the business activities of Umatilla county. As cashier of the First National Bank of Pendleton, the earliest institution of its kind established in that section of the state, he was in a position to count large in the devel- opment of the remarkable resources of the vast region of which that city is the center, and his broad vision and keen financial mind easily made him the advisor of men in every walk of life. His impress is found everywhere in the industries of the county in which he made his home. At the time of his death his influence was extending through- out the state, and had his life been spared he would have been one of the important political and commercial forces of the commonwealth.
Samuel P. Sturgis was born in Gorham, Cumberland county, Maine, March 23, 1856, a son of William P. Sturgis and Susan Cressy Sturgis, both representatives of the original New England stock. He crossed the continent with his parents in 1871, and the family lo- cated near what is now the city of Athena, in Umatilla county, Oregon, where the father engaged in the sheep business. Mercantile life, how- ever, had greater attractions for the younger man, and he soon secured a clerkship in Walla Walla, Washington, later removing to Weston, Oregon, where he finally became manager of the large general mer- chandise store of Saling & Reese, one of the pioneer concerns of east- ern Oregon. In 1882 he removed to Pendleton to become cashier of that institution, with the great success of which his whole later life is identified.
While at Weston, Mr. Sturgis was united in marriage with Miss Lina Hartman, daughter of James A. Hartman and Jane Hartman, who settled in Umatilla county in 1871, one of the substantial pioneer families of the county. Three sons were born of this union: William Paine, now deceased; James Hartman, a business man in Pendleton; and Cyrus Cressy, a student in the University of Washington.
The foundations of Mr. Sturgis' education were laid in the excel- lent schools of his native town. Later he attended Limerick Academy in Maine, and after coming to the Pacific coast he studied under pri- vate tutors at Walla Walla. He was a man of such native strength,
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however that his whole life was an education, not only to himself, but to those with whom he was brought in contact. He mingled with men in the political, fraternal and civic life of the community, and was everywhere easily a leader.
In politics he was a republican; his religious views were broad and catholic; his business principles were honest; his public duties were faithfully performed; his private life was clean. He was attached to the exalted principles of Free Masonry, and attained in that brother- hood the Royal Arch degree. He was a charter member of the Pen- dleton Lodge of Elks, and one of the organizers of the Commercial Association of Pendleton, to the public library of which institution he made a liberal bequest in his will. His worth was acknowledged by all who knew him, and his friendship prized by all with whom he came in contact.
Mrs. Sturgis survives him, still making her home in Pendleton, a lady of culture and refinement, active in the work of the Protestant Episcopal church, and interested in the social life and women's club activities of the city.
Dr. Isaiah Ulysses Temple
D R. ISAIAH ULYSSES TEMPLE, who is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Pendleton, was born in Monroe county, Iowa, December 19, 1868. His parents were John F. and Cornelia I. (Wyrick) Temple, the father a native of North Carolina and the mother of Indiana. In early youth John F. Temple removed to Monroe county, Iowa, where he met and married Miss Cornelia Wyrick, who had been brought to that county by her parents when she was a small child. After his marriage he located on a farm in that same county, and through industry and good management became one of the substan- tial farmers and prominent men of his community. In 1883, selling his possessions in Iowa, he came to Oregon, locating at Pendleton, where he engaged in farming on a very extensive scale. He was the first farmer to use a combined harvester in the state, and men came from miles around to see it operated. Combined harvesters are now generally used on the larger farms in eastern Oregon. For about ten years Mr. Temple cultivated over one thousand acres of land and con- tinued to farm on that scale until he retired from active work. He now resides in Pendleton, where he is enjoying the fruits of an active and successful life. He has long been a Mason, joining that order in the early '60s. His wife died July 12, 1910, at the age of sixty- two.
Isaiah Ulysses Temple, who was the eldest child of John F. and Cornelia Temple, was reared under the parental roof and acquired his early education in the public schools and later became a student at the Willamette University in Salem, from which institution he was graduated in the commercial course in 1891. He then took up teaching and followed that profession in Umatilla county for four years. Dur- ing this time, however, he began the study of medicine and later en- tered the office of Dr. C. J. Smith, of Pendleton, under whose precep- torship he studied until 1895. He then entered the University Med- ical College, at Kansas City, Missouri, which he attended one year, and the following year studied at the Beaumont Medical College at
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St. Louis. The next year he returned to the University Medical College at Kansas City, and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1898, being vice president of his class. Immediately after- ward he returned to Oregon and began the practice of his chosen pro- fession in Enterprise, this state, where he was successfully engaged for six years. In 1904 he went to New York city and took up post- graduate work in the New York Post Graduate School. Subse- quently, returning west, he located in Clarkston, Washington, where he successfully practiced for three and one-half years. In the fall of 1907 he came to Pendleton and engaged in partnership with Dr. C. J. Smith, his former preceptor, and practiced under the firm name of Smith & Temple for eighteen months. Since that time Dr. Temple has continued in the profession independently at Pendleton, and he has built up an extensive and remunerative patronage and is rated as one of Pendleton's foremost physicians. He owns the Temple build- ing in which he has his office and also has a beautiful residence on South Main street.
On the 28th of June, 1898, Dr. Temple was married to Miss Es- telle Wells, of Pendleton, Oregon, the daughter of Thomas B. and Julia (Benson) Wells, the latter now deceased, both being well known pioneers of Umatilla county. Mrs. Temple was born in Umatilla county, received her early education in the common schools and is a graduate of the Eastern Oregon State Normal School of the class of '95. At the time of her marriage she was one of the instructors in the institution from which she graduated.
To Dr. and Mrs. Temple have been born four children: Lenore, who died November 9, 1910, at the age of ten years; Flavel Wells; Morris Smith; and Allen Isaiah.
In politics Dr. Temple is a republican, and while a resident of Enterprise, Oregon, was mayor of that city. He is a member of the Unitarian church and Mrs. Temple is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. Fraternally he is identified with Pendleton Lodge, No. 52, A. F. & A. M. and with Bushee Chapter, No. 19, of the Order of Eastern Star. He is past patron of the chapter and was the first patron of Vineland Chapter at Clarkston, Washington. He is a member of the Pendleton City & County Medical Society, being secretary of the same; belongs to the Eastern Oregon District Medical Society, of which he is now vice president, and is also a member of the Oregon State Medical Society. At the present time (1912) he is city physician of Pendleton. Through these various organizations and his own study, Dr. Temple keeps in touch with the latest advancements that are being made in the medical fraternity
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today. He may truly be called a self-made man for by his own efforts he has worked his way through college and has become one of the well- informed and the most successful and capable physicians in this sec- tion of the country.
Thomas First
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T HOMAS HIRST, deceased, was one of the very early pioneers of Oregon and public opinion placed him among the most enterprising and valued citi- zens of his adopted state. He was born in England, April 15, 1835, and at the age of fifteen years emi- grated to America, settling in Ohio, where he con- tinued to live for three years, and there received his education in the public schools. He then removed to Australia, where he kept his residence for five years and then returned to this country and spent one year in San Francisco, California, after which he moved to Ore- gon, settling in Coos county, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of heavily timbered land. There he established his home and engaged in general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. Mr. Hirst wrote a most eloquent review of his early life in Oregon, which was published in the April number of "Pioneer Days," of that year and is here reproduced with acknowledgments to that periodical.
"I arrived in Coos county, Oregon territory, in January, 1859, by walking down the Umpqua beach to Coos bay, and thence by In- dian canoe and mountain trail to the Coquille river, there to carve out a home in that beautiful garden of southwestern Oregon. A beautiful garden it was for, as I stood on the top of Sugarloaf mountain, with the broad expanse of the valley lying before me covered with the bright green of the maple and the dark green of the myrtle, with the snow-capped mountains in the distance, it formed as grand a picture as the eye could wish to see; but to turn this garden into a home the forest must be destroyed, and what an herculean task it would be! I have seen the oak and hickory forests of Ohio, the chestnut and sugar maple groves of Pennsylvania, gathered walnuts in the woods of Kentucky, trav- eled through the gum forests of New South Wales, but for density and number of trees to the acre the Coquille valley outclassed them all. In such a forest our stout-hearted pioneer carved out a home after many years of toil, and that he has been repaid for his labor the fine farms and happy homes fully attest. When our pioneer women wished to visit their neighbors they would frequently paddle their own canoe up and down the river, and some of them became
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quite expert. I remember a time when one of our bright young school teachers went down the river to purchase supplies. The trip down the river was easy enough, but the return trip was more difficult, in fact the young man had to accept the assistance of one of our brave pioneer women to steer his canoe to port. 'Never mind, Binger, if you could not handle a canoe you have proved yourself competent to work well and faithfully for your adopted state. Many years your voice has been heard in the halls of congress. All honor to you as a Coos county pioneer.' The early pioneer had much difficulty in marketing his products. Many a time I have left home at 2 o'clock in the morning and paddled twenty-four miles down the river and then four miles up Beaver slough, then carried my load three miles up the isthmus, put it into another canoe and traveled another fifteen miles to North Bend sawmill, arriving about 9 o'clock at night, there to exchange my various products for the articles needed at home, not forgetting the injunction to bring one paper each of needles and pins. Returning home, which always took two days, I had time to note the skill of the beaver in repair- ing the dams that I had torn open to pass through the day before. But alas, the trapper came, and thy beautiful coat was sent east, to be worn and admired by the people who knew thee not. Fare- well, old friend. No more will my canoe glide over the placid waters held in check by thy labors. No more will the hardy trapper exchange thy coat for flour or sugar or fill his jug with such water as thou never dreamed of. Thy home is desolate and Beaver slough is now a thing of the past as a commercial highway.
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