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Don. Charles Molesley Washburne
From that time to the present Mr. Washburne has been identified with agricultural interests in Oregon, but while he has prospered in his farming pursuits he takes greater pride in the fact that he has reared a large family who have been a credit and honor to the commu- nity. His wife was a native of Indiana and a daughter of John and Ruth (Hubble) Stansbury, the former of whom was born in Mary- land. Mrs. Washburne died in Junction City, April 4, 1894. She was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church which she joined soon after coming to Oregon and it was through her untiring efforts that the house of worship of that denomination was built at Junction City. Their eldest child, Ruth Ellen, became the wife of John Wortman, a son of Jacob Wortman and the founder of the First National Bank of McMinnville. Three sons were born of this marriage: Ralph, Frank and Fred, who are conducting the bank, with their father. Their mother died on March 14, 1909. George S. Washburne, now deceased, was one of the first graduates of the University of Oregon. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and served as judge of Lane county. He married Minnie Lockwood and had two sons, the elder, Chester W., in the United States geological department in which he has a number of men working under him. At present the government has granted him a furlough which he is spend- ing with a mining company in Argentine Republic. The younger son, Carl, is a partner in one of the leading mercantile establishments of Eugene. Eve Jean Washburne became the wife of R. P. Hill, formerly a merchant but now a banker of Colfax, Washington. They have three children, Catherine, Charles and Eva. Byron A. Wash- burne of Springfield, was engaged in the flouring mill business with his father but recently sold that and bought the Mallory farm. He served a term in the Oregon legislature in 1909, is now postmaster of Springfield and is vice president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Junction City. He married Amanda Clark and they have two children: Helen, a graduate of the State University of 1911; and Claude, who is now studying there. William C. Washburne is presi- dent, cashier and manager of the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Junction City, which latter position he entered upon at the opening of the bank. He also manages his father's extensive business affairs and is one of the leading and prominent men of his town and county. He married Julia Hamilton and has one son, James. Emma A. Washburne married William Butler by whom she had two sons, Guy and Jay. Since the death of her first husband she has become the wife of W. W. Crawford, engaged in the automobile business in Albany. Bertha K. Washburne is the wife of E. U. Lee, who served for ten
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consecutive years as a clerk of Lane county and is now in the banking business at Eugene. They have two children, Croesus and Roy. Fred W. Washburne owns a fruit and chicken farm north of Van- couver, Washington. Laetitia S. Washburne is living with her father in his declining years, making his home life happy.
Mr. Washburne resided for twenty years on the old donation claim but in 1873 purchased one hundred and sixty acres of T. A. Milliorn, adjoining Junction City and removed to that place, although he still owns the old donation homestead. He is yet engaged in farming and stock-raising and is also one of the stockholders and directors in the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Junction City, the only bank in the northern part of Lane county. This bank is now incorporated as a national bank and is to be known as the First National Bank of Junc- tion City, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. The new home of the bank will be a two story brick building fifty by one hundred feet and the entire stock is owned by C. W. Washburne, W. C. Washburne, B. A. Washburne, T. A. Milliorn and J. P. Milliorn. Besides owning residence property in Junction City he has between two and three thousand acres in this district together with other land and business property in other parts of the country. He still manages his individual business affairs, and buys and sells land, having thus handled thousands of acres in different western states and he just now sold seventeen hundred acres in Morrow county, Oregon.
Mr. Washburne cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lin- coln. In 1872 he was elected to the state legislature in which he served with Al Power and Nat Martin, while in the senate then were William Bristow and Dr. Patterson, all of whom are now deceased. With Mr. Washburne these men were instrumental in locating the University of Oregon at Eugene and in laying the foundation of the state capitol at Salem. In community affairs Mr. Washburne has also been deeply interested, cooperating in any movements for the public good, and in 1908 he donated land for and helped to build what is now known as the Washburne high school. He is in his eighty- eighth year, one of the most venerable and honored residents of Lane county. His mind is stored with many interesting incidents of pioneer times and his memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.
T. R. Warren
Daniel Knight Warren
HE family of which Daniel Knight Warren repre- T sented the fifth or sixth generation in this country, was established long before the Colonies began to rebel at English tyranny, but the exact date of the Brit- ish emigrants' departure from the land of his fore- fathers is clothed in uncertainty. The traveler is supposed to have settled in or near Boston, Massachusetts, where Phineas Warren, the great-grandfather of Daniel K. Warren, was born about 1745, being a first cousin of General Warren of Revolu- tionary fame. Phineas, son of Phineas, and the next in order of birth, was born in Marlborough, Windham county, Vermont, October 12, 1776, and married Mary Knight, born in the same locality, December 22, 1777. The grandparents had ten children, seven of whom were sons, and of whom Danforth, the father of Daniel and the fourth child, was born in Saratoga county, New York, September 22, 1806. He married, in Steuben county, New York, Amanda Pike, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, born April 9, 1808. There were four sons of this union all born at Bath, New York, all now deceased, and Daniel Knight, born at Bath, Steuben county, New York, March 12, 1836, was the youngest of the family. The family, at no time pros- perous, was reduced to dire straits upon the death of the father Au- gust 23, 1837, the oldest of the four sons being then scarcely six years of age. Mrs. Warren proved herself one of the heroically molded women, and supported herself and children by spinning and weaving. Later Mrs. Warren married a Mr. Baxter and moved to Illinois with her family. Her death occurred in Princeton, Illi- nois, in September, 1881. As a youth of thirteen Daniel K. War- ren started out to earn his own living by working on a farm, with the understanding that he was to receive for his services an amount which at that time was considered a fair remuneration for able-bodied men. For three years he followed this life, performing the ordinary duties of the farm and attending school during the winter. In the spring of 1852 he joined his three brothers in a trip across the plains. This never to be forgotten journey was well planned, the boys having their
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own teams, and arrangements were made with Captain Thomas Mer- cer to pilot them to the coast country. Each agreed to give the cap- tain one hundred dollars, and do his share of the work on the trip and all fulfilled their contract to the letter, finally parting from the amiable captain, who afterward settled in Seattle, Washington. The company crossed the Missouri river May 21st, and soon afterward camped on the present site of Omaha. At this point the company, was thoroughly organized, there being fourteen wagons, forty horses and sixty-six men. Reaching The Dalles September 2, 1852, they met the first white men who had founded homes in that town and from there they proceeded on barges down the Columbia river, finally boarding the steamer at Cascade Locks, which brought them in safety to Portland, September 9, 1852, the trip consuming six months. In many respects this was a fortunate party, for the In- dians were not troublesome, and only one member died on the way. All enjoyed good health until reaching Powder river, when Mr. Warren was taken ill with mountain fever and did not fully recover until after reaching his destination in Oregon. At Portland the brothers separated, Daniel going alone to the mines in southern Ore- gon, engaging in mining on Rogue river, being at that time only six- teen years of age. Not meeting with success he retraced his steps and arrived in Astoria in June, 1853, his available assets at that time being his much worn clothes and three dollars in currency. Find- ing employment in a sawmill camp he worked diligently and in 1855 with the savings of several months tried his luck in mining again. Not being successful, he engaged in lumbering until February, 1859, when he left Astoria for New York via Panama. On February 24, 1863, he was married to Sarah E. Eaton, a former schoolmate who was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, July 28, 1840. She was a daughter of John Ladd and Lovey B. Eaton of sturdy, thrifty New England stock of sterling ancestry. In 1845 the family moved from New Hampshire to Princeton, Illinois, traveling by canal boat from Buffalo and by the lakes to Chicago, thence by teams to Princeton. The marriage was solemnized at 8 o'clock in the morning and at noon the young people started on their long journey for Oregon via Panama (there being at that time no transcontinental railroads), con- suming a month on the trip. Arriving at San Francisco April 26, 1863, and at Astoria May 1st, they were soon comfortably set- tled on a small farm previously owned by Mr. Warren thirteen miles above Astoria, the present site of the town of Knappa, but then known as Warren's Landing. A philosopher always, Mr. War-
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ren recalled the hardships of these early days with much pleasure since they were the stepping-stones to the success which followed his industry and good management. From this farm Mr. War- ren moved to Astoria, where he engaged in mercantile business for fourteen years, being one of the most prominent and influential men of the town and materially promoting its commercial well being. In 1885 Mr. Warren moved across the bay from Astoria to the pres- ent site of Warrenton, where he had purchased and reclaimed by dyking about nine hundred acres of land, then of little value. Mr. Warren was the first man to build dykes on the lower Columbia and was forced to employ Chinese labor. The result of his effort was a most substantial advance in value of the land reclaimed. Here he built a spacious residence which is the family home at the present time. While his main endeavors were centered around his home and the town of Warrenton, which it was his pride to beautify and improve, many other interests engaged a share of his attention, and at the time of his death he was president of the Astoria National Bank and vice president of the Astoria Savings Bank. He was one of the organizers and one of the first stockholders of the railroad running between Warrenton and Seaside, which was built in 1889. Some years later the road was extended to Astoria and Portland and is now known as the S. P. & S. Railway. All along the course of his busy life, Mr. Warren took a keen, if not conspicuous, interest in republican politics and filled many of the prominent local offices. In 1876 he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Solomon Smith in the state senate. During the memorable fight for common point rates, Mr. Warren lent valuable assistance, his appeals for recogni- tion of the Oregon seaport attracting the attention of the people of the entire state and compelling the admiration even of those who dif- fered from him. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren. Lucy Alice, the oldest daughter, married Henry C. Thompson of Port- land. Maud M. is the wife of Charles R. Higgins of Astoria. George W. married Florence E. Baker, now living at Warrenton, Oregon. Fred L. married Ruth Smith and is now doing business in Astoria. Perhaps a quotation from the pen of Senator Charles W. Fulton would most fittingly close this sketch: "In the death of Daniel K. War- ren (which occurred September 4, 1903) not only did the immedi- ate family lose a devoted husband and father, but neighbors, friends and citizens were deprived of a considerate friend, wise counselor and deep sympathizer, and the state one of its ablest minds." ·Wise in counsel, courageous in action, in misfortune and adversity cheerful
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and undaunted, Mr. Warren was ever a leader in whom his friends and neighbors had perfect confidence and reposed perfect trust. He was public-spirited to a fault. Every public movement in the interest of, and important to, the people found him at the head. The needy and unfortunate never appealed to him in vain. A strong man and a lovable character in every station of life, public or private, it is no surprise to those who knew him that his death has cast so great a sor- row over the community. His life was one of exceptional industry and activity. It was a successful life, successful far beyond that attained by the average man; that is, he accomplished more in the upbuilding of society and the community where he lived as well as in the narrower field of acquiring wealth. He accumulated and left his family a considerable fortune by reason of his industry, frugality and intelligence, but what is more to us and dearer far to them, he left them the priceless treasure of an untarnished name and the memories of a useful life. All that Mr. Warren accomplished, and it was much, he accomplished in the face of great obstacles and under many and great disadvantages. There is no better lesson for our young people than the story of his life.
INDEX
Abernethy, William 275
Additon, O. R. 117
Barton, Joseph.
227
Berger, F. J ...
255
Bingham, I. H.
245
Blanchard, Dean
335
Bounds, J. W ..
407
Brattain, T. J ..
447
Breding, Christian
383
Brooks, S. L.
331
Bruce, James
181
Campbell, Thomas 133
Chapin, W. H.
111
Cheshire, W. P.
353
Clark, C. C ..
315
Clopton, F. B ..
197
Corbett, H. W.
15
Coshow, O. P.
457
Dukek, G. B. 295
Failing, Josiah 23
Failing, Henry. 35
Furgason, Alexander 299
Gilbert, A. N. 305
Gorham, H. O. 269
Gray, W. H ... 89
Gray, Mrs. W. H.
94
Hackett, M. A. 101
Haines, I. D ... 425
Hallgarth, Charles 379
Harding, E. J. 219
Hathaway, B. H
369
Hirst, Thomas
397
Holcomb, J. N. 347
Hoskins, C. E ..
289
Howe, W. A ..
169
Hudemann, Julius 207
Hughes, E. G ...
51
Hunsaker, Bradford.
187
Hutchinson, W. R.
311
Jones, S. W. 441
Kamm, Jacob.
151
Kincaid, H. R ..
359
Laing, Robert.
139
Laughlin, Lee. 435
Lee, J. D. B. 463
Leonard, H. C ..
73
McKinnis, J. L. 319
Mariner, W. J .. 411
Maschmann, John. 421
Morgan, W. H. H.
341
Nice, Henry
147
Owens-Adair, B. A.
467
Price, T. J.
251
Reynolds, John. 173
Richardson, J. G .. 161
Rogers, L. C ..
177
Scharpf, L. C .. 417
Severson, P. W
65
Shaver, J. W .. 105
Simmonsen, Niels 241
Small, James
323
Smith, W. K.
57
Spicer, S. G ..
237
Spores, Henry
453
Stanton, Benjamin.
193
Stockman, J. L ... 143
Stockman, W. J ..
165
Strowbridge, J. A.
43
Sturgis, S. P.
387
Temple, I. U ..
391
Thompson, D. P. 5
Thomson, O. F. 263
Timmermann, John. 327
Travis, L. M ..
375
Trimble, John
203
Warren, D. K.
511
Washburne, C. W. 503
Webb, G. W .. 127
Whiteaker, John.
211
Williston, E. B ..
123
Wright, William Thomas.
283
Zorn, Henry.
259
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