Portrait and biographical record of Portland and vicinity, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 32

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Ernest Eugene Kellogg is a native son of the state, having been born in Washington county, Ore., November 27, 1860, the son of John B. Kellogg. He was educated in the public schools of the city of Portland and as a lad engaged with his father in the hotel business. At the age of twenty-two years he decided to open a wood yard, in which employment he remained for only a year, when he returned to his former labors, purchasing his father's interest in the hotel business, and with D. E. Perley continued in the. work for five years. At the expiration of that period he disposed of his interest to Mr. Perley and the same year entered upon the work which has given him such excellent returns. Naturally he began on a small scale, but the fact that he succeeded in his undertaking to so great an extent is evidence of the quality which has given to the west another man whose character is laid on the foundation which he himself erected.

The marriage of Mr. Kellogg occurred in 1887, the daughter of Jerry and Hester Knox becoming his wife. Before his death Mr. Knox was a house mover in Portland and his daughter was born here in 1869. In fraternal relations Mr. Kellogg became an Odd Fellow when he was twenty-one years, and is now identified with Good Samaritan Lodge, and is also a member of the Woodmen of the World. Politically he is a Republican, but has never taken an especially active interest in political movements.

HENRY BAMFORD. It is certain that were Henry Bamford to abandon his present lucrative farming enterprise in Washington county he could command a fair livelihood as a weaver, a trade which he learned in his youth, and to which he devoted many years of his life. This prom- inent and very successful resident of the vicinity of Gales Creek was born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England. September 14, 1833. and in his youth received the practical education and training which is the heritage of the sons of the British Isles. His father was a bookkeeper during the course of his active life, and reared to years of usefulness five children, most of whom learned some trade in their native land.

Having completed his trade of weaver, and es- tablishing a business of his own in his native town, Mr. Bamford was united in marriage with Mary Crook, who was born in the same town. and represented a well-known family of Che- shire. In 1854 he brought his wife to America, settling first in Rhode Island, where he worked

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at his trade for about five years. Thereafter he lived in various points in New England, and in 1859 took up his residence in Illinois, where he relinquished his trade in favor of farming, and where he lived for the long period of twenty- four years. Most of the children in the family were born in Illinois, the order of their birth be- ing as follows : Alice Ann, deceased; an un- named infant, deceased; John L., of Illinois ; Edwin A., of Portland, Ore .: Charles H., living on a farm adjoining that of his father, and James A., of Portland.

In 1883 Mr. Bamford disposed of his Illinois interests with some regret, his long association having endeared him to many people with whom he was associated. Upon arriving in Oregon he located at once upon the farm which is still his home, which consists of forty acres, and here he is engaged in general farming. He is a prac- tical and enterprising agriculturist, and keeps in touch with the progress along farming lines as gathered from the press and general sources. He is prominent in church affairs, being especial- ly active in the Congregational Church, of which he is one of the deacons and trustees. Frater- nally he is connected with the Masons. Mr. Bamford is a Republican in politics, and although not desiring office for himself has worked on many occasions for his friends, and those whom he considered worthy of serving the public in- terests.

WILLIAM H. POPE. During the early history of Massachusetts the Pope family became identified with its growth and progress, and from that time to the present its representatives have been citizens of sterling worth, contributing to the welfare of the communities with which they have been associated. One of the name, Seth Pope, left his plow to follow the fortunes of the patriots in the Revolutionary war. A son of this Revolutionary soldier bore the name of Yet Seth, and inherited his father's martial spirit, display- ing patriotism and courage during his service in the war of 1812. The third to bear the name of Seth was born in Massachusetts in 1802, and, while no opportunity came to him to serve his country in wars as his father and grandfather had done, he early showed a love for scenes of adventure and excitement. As a boy he sailed the high seas in the West India trade. For many years he was master of the Liverpool packet. Zephyr, after which he made several trips to the Mediterranean, and later owned a brig (operated by his brother ) and a schooner ( which he com- manded). When news came of the discovery of gold in California he at once determined to follow the trend of emigration toward the setting sun. Disposing of his schooner. in 1850 he sailed in

his brig, Nonpareil, around the Horn and up to San Francisco, where he engaged in the lumber business, having brought a cargo of lumber with him. His brig sailed between Portland and San Francisco until 1854, meantime carrying lumber and other cargo, but during the latter year he sold the vessel in order to devote his attention to other affairs.

Having become interested in a general mer- cantile trade with the Indians at St. Helens, Ore., in 1850, Captain Pope conducted this business until 1857. when he bought one hundred and sixty acres of heavy timber land, four miles from St. Helens. Out of the brush and forest he cleared a valuable farm, and the years that followed were given to its improvement. In 1881 he retired from active pursuits and removed to Portland, where he died in 1886, aged eighty-four years. During his residence in Columbia county he served several terms as county judge, but witlı this exception he adhered to his rule to devote himself to private affairs rather than public matters. As a sea captain he was energetic, re- sourceful, never discouraged and never over- whelmed by impending disaster. It is said that during his entire seafaring life he never lost a ship, but the brig which he brought to California, after having been sold to other parties and fitted out as a whaling vessel, was lost on its first whal- ing expedition. He married Mary Henwood, who was born on the Isle of Wight and died at Fair- haven, Mass., when her younger son, William H., was a child of three years. Her father, William Henwood, was a hotel man in East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Born April 11, 1839, William Henwood Pope passed his early years principally in his native town of Fairhaven, though for a time he lived in New Bedford, Mass. Much of his time was spent with an uncle, Ephraim Pope, a farmer and deep water fisherman, who, in the absence of the boy's father, took a most kindly interest in his welfare. Fair educational advantages were given him, including a course of study in the Fairhaven public school, Woodbury College, Fairhaven high school, and Perry's Business College in New Bedford. During the fall of 1853 he sailed on the Eagle Wing around Cape Horn, reaching San Francisco after a voyage of one hundred and five days. Several weeks were spent in San Francisco, from which city he pro- ceeded on the brig Clarendon to St. Helens, Ore., joining his father and entering the store as a clerk. During the Indian war of 1855-56 he served with the troops on guard duty, although not regularly enlisted or mustered into the service. When Oregon was admitted into the Union in 1859 he was clerking in the postoffice at St. Helens. In those days mail was received via steamer once a week. The old ship, Colum-

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bia, sailed into harbor and he at once received and opened the mail. The first news that greeted his eyes was the action of congress in admitting Oregon as a state. Delighted with the news, he uncovered and fired an old cannon, and the noise at once brought the people of the town to the spot in order to ascertain the reason for the cele- bration. Without doubt this was the first shot fired to celebrate the admission of Oregon as a state.

Going to Portland in 1859, Mr. Pope secured a clerkship. The following year he went to Olym- pia, where he was deputy county recorder for about ten months. From there he went to the Tulalip Indian reservation fifty miles north of Seattle as clerk and interpreter, remaining there until December of 1861, when he became clerk in a store in Vancouver, Wash. A year later he went to The Dalles as clerk in a commission house. During 1863 he was appointed quarter- master and station agent at the mouth of the Palouse river, but the closing of the trail and the calling in of the soldiers, in November, 1863, caused him to return to Vancouver. The next month he went to Olympia, crossing the country on horseback. The day after his arrival the ter- ritorial legislature opened and he was appointed assistant clerk of the house of representatives, acting as such until the close of the session. His next venture was as a prospector in the vicinity of Walla Walla, where he also conducted a hotel for the administrator of an estate. After some time prospecting in the Cascade range, in the spring of 1865 he began prospecting in the Cœur d'Alene mountains during the first excitement of mining there. Out of twenty-eight men who started for these mountains, only seven remained and prospected, and these seven endured every hardship and privation, finally returning to civili- zation almost starved, and without the satisfaction of having even seen the color of gold. In October of 1865 he tried his luck in the mines of Montana, where he remained a year. The fall of 1866 found him at Pend Oreille lake, where he worked at sawmilling and then as clerk in a store. During 1867 he went to Boise City, Idaho, where, after six months as a clerk, he was appointed bookkeeper in the Bank of Idaho. Six months later he was made manager of a branch bank at Idaho City owned by the same company. January 1, 1874. he took charge of their Silver City bank, which he opened, put in running order and then managed successfully. On his return to San Francisco, in April, 1876, he embarked in the real estate and commission business on Montgomery street. Two years later he removed to Bodic, Cal., where he was manager of a banking house. Meantime he had not for- gotten his old love for the mines, and during March of 1881 he went to the mines at Tomb-

stone, Ariz., and those of Sonora, Mexico, where he was foreman and bookkeeper of a group of mines and stamp mill. In 1882 he went to New Mexico and three months later pursued his way to Denver, where he spent three months, from there going to the Gunnison country of south- western Colorado and engaging in prospecting for two and one-half years. A later experience was that of clerk at Crested Butte, Gunnison county. During 1886 he turned his attention to prospecting on the Rio del Norte in the Conti- mental Divide, after which he returned to Denver and secured employment as a clerk. The year 1889 found him in Picton, Colo., where he ran a store for a year. Ten months were subsequently spent at Ogden, Utah, in the real estate and com- mission business.

On account of illness Mr. Pope left Ogden for San Francisco, and in 1891 came to Portland, but for some months afterward was too ill to engage in business. As soon as he had regainedl his health he entered the county commissioner's office as accountant. During the legislative session of 1895 the office of county auditor was created and he was appointed by the county com- missioners as the first county auditor of Mult- nomah county, holding the office until July 7, 1902, under appointment. The legislature of 1901 made the office elective instead of appoint- ive, and he thereupon retired, since which time he has acted as manufacturer's agent and has also devoted some time to the management of his farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Clack- amas county, nine miles from Portland. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. While in Pictou he served as postmaster and in other places acted as deputy postmaster. About 1868 he was appointed inspector of internal revenue at Boise City, which office he filled for a vear. Among the organizations with which he is identified are the State Historical Society and the Oregon Pioneer Association.

ISAAC KAY, of Mount Tabor. is one of the town's most enterprising merchants, as well as a promoter of all that is stable and progressive in the municipality. Although born in Lancaster- shire, England, July 16, 1849. the greater part of his life has been spent in America, whither he removed with his mother, Sarah ( Roydes ) Kay, in 1857. The steamer Caledonia brought the irother and two children to Montreal, Canada, from which city they removed via the lakes to North Alton, Ill., where John Kay, the father, who had emigrated to America in 1849, was engaged in the grocery business. At the age of nineteen, Isaac Kay, who had been educated in the public schools, and who had learned the grocery business of his father, embarked upon an independent busi-

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ness along the same line at North Alton, con- tinting thus from 1870 until 1876. After dis- posing of his grocery interests he came to Ore- gon in the same year and bought fifteen acres of land, which was cleared and improved, and now constitutes the well known Kay tract in the Mount Tabor district. For thirteen years the new owner of Oregon property lived on the land for which he had paid $1.700, and out of which he eventually took $17,000. After going out of the small fruit industry he embarked in his pres- ent general merchandise business with E. S. Bru- baker, and bought the present store of J. H. Struble. The firm carry a complete line of the commodities most in demand in cosmopolitan lo- calities, and the courtesy and consideration shown patrons has been a by no means unimportant fac- tor in building up a large and lucrative business. At the time of purchase the store housed the postoffice, and since then Mr. Kay has had charge of the interests of Uncle Sam, except during the Cleveland administration, although Mr. Brubaker holds the commission.

The beautiful Kay home in Mount Tabor is presided over by his two daughters, Ida and Madge. Mr. Kay, who is a stanch Republican, has been active in promoting the interests of his party, and among other official undertakings has been clerk of the school board for several years. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of which he is a deacon, and towards the maintenance of which he contributes with characteristic gener- osity. Strict business integrity, a sincere desire to please, and managerial ability of a high order have encompassed the success of this popular and wide-awake citizen.

JOHAN POULSEN, manager of the Inman- Poulsen Co., was born in northern Slesvig in 1849, and in 1865 became connected with the lumber business. The year 1870 witnessed his emigration to this country and after a few years spent in the east came to Portland in 1876. In 1890, he, together with Robert D. Inman and George Rae, established the Inman-Poulsen lum- ber manufacturing concern, with which enterprise he has since been connected.

WILLIAM D. ADAMS, one of the retired farmers of Clackamas county, was born in North Carolina, August 8, 1835, and is a son of James A. and Sarah ( Miller ) Adams, both of whom were natives of North Carolina, and farmers by occupation. While yet a young boy William D. Adams removed with his parents from North Carolina to Knox county, Ill., where the father bought a farm and lived thereon up to the time of his death. He was fairly successful in life,

and left to his children an example of well ap- plied industry and honorable dealing. Owing to the necessity for work on the home farm Will- iam D. was unable to attend school with any regularity, his chief opportunities in this direc- tion being confined to a short time during the cessation of work in the winter time. However, he was an observing lad, and sufficiently ambi- tious to desire something to fall back on besides the occupation of farming. He therefore applied himself to learning the carpenters' trade, having completed which he worked at the same for some time in Knox county, Ill. In 1859 he married Lucina Loveridge, who was born in New York state in 1839, and thereafter engaged in farming for some years.

In 1865 Mr. Adams sold his Knox county in- terests and came west with a wagon and five teams of horses, arriving at his destination in Oregon August 20, having started April 12. The next spring he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land comprising a part of the Gor- don donation claim, but which he afterward sold to buy six hundred and fifty acres of George Reese. At the present time he owns two hundred and sixty acres, seventy-five of which are under cultivation. There were few improvements on. the land at the time of purchase, but Mr. Adams has shown the true western enterprise, and has accomplished most gratifying results. In 1890 he rented his farm to his youngest son and has since lived a retired life in Molalla. He is a Democrat in politics, and among the offices cred- itably maintained by him may be mentioned those of school director and road supervisor.

Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, all of whom were given good common school educations. George, the oldest in the fam- ily, lives in Molalla ; Mrs. Mary Hammond lives in Rock Creek; Mrs. Lucy Briggs lives in Ore- gon ; Frank is in Washington; Mrs. Etta Har- less is a resident of Molalla ; Mrs. Effie Engle also lives in Molalla ; and Addison is deceased.

WILLIAM SCHULMERICH. The farm of William Schulmerich, five and a fourth miles from Hillsboro, which contains three hundred and fifty acres of land. two hundred of which are under cultivation, may be described as an ideal stock and dairy farm, under excellent manage- ment, and remarkably remunerative. Besides the two hundred acres of cultivated land there are eighty acres in pasture, the balance of the farm being under heavy timber. Mr. Schulmerich is engaged principally in stock-raising, making a specialty of hogs and cattle. He has a finely ap- pointed dairy, consisting of thirty milch cows, with ample accommodations for the same, and admirable facilities for caring for cream and but-

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ter. The farm has two silos with a capacity of fifty tons each, and this departure the owner thinks a great thing for dairymen. He is thor- oughly conversant with all developments along the line of his chosen occupation, and is one of the most progressive and enlightened agricul- turists and stock men in Washington county.

A native son of the Golden West, Mr. Schul- merich was born in the heart of the mining dis- trict of Placerville, Cal., May 5, 1861, and when fourteen years of age removed with his parents to a farm four miles south of Hillsboro, Ore .. where he grew to manhood. He was educated in the public schools, and when twenty-one years of age went to Portland for the summer, but then returned home, and in 1885 and 1886 was fore- man on the ranch of George V. James. In 1887 he came to the farm which is now his home, bringing with him his wife, whom he had just married, and who was formerly Annie Schmitt. Of this union there have been born six children : Henrietta : Frank; Herbert; Margaret; Elmer ; and Wesley, all of whom are living. Mr. Schul- merich has taken a decided interest in politics, although he owes allegiance to no particular party. He ran for the legislature on the Union ticket in 1902, and for dairy and food commis- sioner in 1897, and was defeated by only a small majority. In December, 1902, he was elected president of the State Dairy Association. He has been road supervisor for three terms, and school director for nine years. Fraternally he is asso- ciated with the Masonic Order of Hillsboro, as well as the Knights of Pythias of the same townl.

R. SPENCER JEWETT. September 5 1902, was the seventy-third birthday anniversary of R. Spencer Jewett, who was born in Athens, Ohio, and who for many years has been connected with land ownership and extensive stock-raising and farming enterprises on Sauvie's Island. At the age of seven years Mr. Jewett went with his parents, Leonard and Emma ( Brown) Jewett. to lowa City, and later to Muscatine, Iowa, in both of which places he attended the publie schools. At the carly age of twelve years he began to earn his own living as a deck hand on a river boat, and for the following ten years was this occupied.

An important occurrence in the life of Mr. Jewett, and one which opened up vistas of possi- bility to his ambitious young manhood, was the trip across the plains in 1850, with ox teams and wagons, and which consumed six months in the undertaking. At The Dalles, Ore., he kept a mess house until the spring of 1851, when he departed for Sauvie's Island and lived for a short time. The summer of 1851 found him among the most

enthusiastic of the gold seekers of California, but after a trial of six months his fervor seems to have diminished in favor of the slower but more certain methods of obtaining a livelihood. In 1853 Mr. Jewett went to the Rogue river country, and for eleven years was an important addition in his neighborhood, where he main- tained with credit and fair financial returns a ferry, hotel and store. He also discovered and operated the celebrated Jewett mine for two years. Thereafter he went to Portland and man- aged the Lincoln hotel for a year, after whichi he bought an interest in the Burnt River toll road, and ran two ferries for twelve years.

Upon returning to Sauvie's Island Mr. Jewett took possession of the old Leonard Jewett dona- tion claim of six hundred and forty acres which has since been his special pride and care, and where he has been engaged principally in the stock business. Associated with him is his brother, T. D. Jewett, who is half owner of the farm. Public spirited and enterprising, Mr. Jewett has variously served the interests of Multnomah county, and creditably maintained his position as a member of the legislature on the Independent ticket in 1874.

HON. OTTO SCHUMANN. Zeitz, a walled town of Prussian Saxony, located on the river White Elster, and twenty-three English miles southwest of Leipzig, for several generations has been the home of the Schumann family, of which Hon. Otto Schumann is a worthy repre- sentative and one of the foremost citizens of Portland. He was born in Wefensleben, Sax- ony, November 22, 1855, and comes naturally by the occupation of marble merchant, for his father was a sculptor and marble dealer up to the time of his death, January 8, 1901, and his grand- father was engaged in the marble trade for more than fifty years. His mother, Leopoldine (Rasch ) Schumann, was also a native of Wef- ensleben, and a daughter of Dr. Leberecht Rasch, a surgeon in the Napoleonic wars as a member of the Schill Free Corps. previous to which he had been impressed into the French service in Russia by Napoleon, but managed to escape before the famous retreat from Moscow. Mrs. Schumann, who died in Zeitz, was the mother of six children, three of whom are in America, Otto being the oldest of the sons in the family.

At a very early age Otto Schumann began to learn the marble business from his father in Zeitz, having completed which he became a jour- neyman marble cutter, his territory being throughout Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. While traveling in this manner he be- came familiar with the principal points of in-

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terest in these countries, of which he can most interestingly converse at the present time. Upon returning to Germany he entered the army as a soldier in the Magdeburg fusiliers, Regiment 36, and after serving for the allotted two years was honorably discharged with the rank of cor- poral. After his military service he attended the technical schools in Holzmunden and Munich, and after being graduated from the latter insti- tution at the end of a three years' course, became superintendent of the construction of a large railroad depot at Landau, Bavaria. Not fully content with his prospects in the Old World, he emigrated to America in 1882, and while carving stone in Chicago, Ill., devoted his leisure time to the mastery of the English language, of which he knew practically nothing when he first came to this country. He remained in Chicago for a year and three months, and in the latter part of 1883 came to Portland and worked at his trade for a year. He then started the marble business, in which he has since been engaged, and which is now located at No. 204 Third street.

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Portrait and biographical record of Portland and vicinity, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 32

Author: Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 946

Author:
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 946