Portrait and biographical record of Portland and vicinity, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 33

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Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co.
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It is needless to say that with all his varied ex- perience in the marble business, few can excel Mr. Schumann in the quality of his work, or in a knowledge of how to conduct an industry of that kind. It is sufficient to say that he has re- ceived a most gratifying patronage from those who appreciate artistic and correct marble re- production, and that his reputation is by no means a local one. Both monumental and build- ing marble and granite are prepared at his shops, and most of the ambitious undertakings along this line in the state owe their being to the ex- perienced hands employed under the direction of Mr. Schumann. In 1902 and 1903 he built the monument to the Second Oregon Volunteers erected in Riverview cemetery. In 1903 his works turned out a handsome and costly memo- rial to the soldiers who served in the four wars since and including the Mexican war, which was placed in the Lone Fir cemetery. His con- cern furnished the stone for Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, the Hibernian building and many others of equal prominence. Among the monuments to which particular attention should be called is that of ex-Senator H. W. Corbett. of F. M. Warren, of Edward S. Kearney, of Thomas Robertson and many others. In 1903 lie began the work upon the construction of the monument to Lewis and Clark to be erected in Portland by the citizens chiefly interested in the Lewis and Clark Exposition. It is to be a single shaft thirty feet high, weighing forty-six tons, in four pieces, and constructed of granite from Granite Point on the Snake river in eastern Oregon. It will be erected in the city park and will cost about $15,000. The shops where all this work is accomplished

are modern in equipment and complete in de- tail. and fitted with electric power for carving and lettering, and with pneumatic tools. Mr. Schumann devotes much of his time to making designs and plans for decorations, monuments, etc., in which he has come to be recognized as one of the most artistic craftsmen on the coast.

Without his knowledge, the political probity of Mr. Schumann was rewarded in 1900 by his nomination to the state legislature on the Citi- zens' ticket, and he was elected by one of the highest majorities on the ticket. During the session he managed to secure the passage of several important bills. Mr. Schumann is fra- terally identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; Lodge No. 6 of the Red Men ; the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Woodmen of the World. In the Red Men he is past grand sachem of the state of Oregon. He is also a member of the Portland Turn Verein and the Board of Trade. For five years he was connected with the First Regiment, Oregon Na- tional Guard, as a corporal in the engineer corps. He is a member of the First Presby- terian Church. Mr. Schumann is one of the broad-minded, progressive and adaptive Ger- man-American citizens, whose desirable national characteristics have so admirably fitted into northwestern conditions.

EUGENE S. JENNE. A name interwoven with the most substantial development of Mult- nomah county is that of Jenne, of which Eugene S., son of an ambitious pioneer father. is a worthy representative. He was born on Lime- stone Hill. Wood county. W. Va., October 23. 1847. his father, Lemuel S., having been born in Wayne county, N. Y., August 9, 1817. The elder Jenne was a farmer during the earlier part of his life, and during the latter part of his career com- bined this useful occupation with various other activities. About 1852 he started across the plains with five yoke of oxen, his family and rel- atives and many friends accompanying him. The travelers started from St. Joe, Mo., and were six months on the overland trail, experiencing the de- privations and dangers which belonged as a mat- ter of course to so hazardous an adventure. They came out at the mouth of Sandy river, Ore., and spent the winter on the Columbia Slough, after which the father came to the place now occupied by his sons, which is three hundred and twenty acres in extent. The farm was first occupied by the family in February, 1853. and the following year Lemuel S. Jenne went to Sierra county, Cal., where he engaged in mining for fifteen years, working in the mines in the winter and on the farm in the summer time. The family moved to California in 1857, and made that their home

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until 1867. In 1869 the father returned to his Oregon farm for good, and there his death oc- curred February 19. 1876. His wife, Susan E. ( Buckley) Jenne, was born in Wood county, W. Va., near Belleville, February 4, 1825, and died June 29, 1887. She was the mother of seven children, viz. : Eugene S .; Rhoda A., deceased ; William G., living in California ; Dora A., Mrs. Norman, deceased ; Platoff P., living on the home farm; Commodore S., a resident of Wendling, Ore. ; and Mary E., the wife of W. H. Norman.

Of the original donation claim of two hundred and fourteen acres taken up by the elder Jenne, eighty acres have been cleared. The brothers who occupy the old homestead are engaged in general farming and dairying, and have twenty cows and fifty head of stock. They are enter- prising and progressive, and keep abreast of the times in the management and conduct of their large interests.

In 1891 Mr. Jenne married Miss Mattie Beard, of Limestone Hill, W. Va., and they have one son, William Forest, who was born July 10, 1893. Mr. Jenne has taken a prominent part in the gen- cral affairs of his district, has been road super- visor for a number of years, and is at present school director. In political affiliation he is in- dependent, voting for principle rather than party. He is a member of the Grange, and is a charter member of the Mount Tabor Presbyterian Church.

HENRY E. REED, secretary of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 14, 1866, at which time his father, Philip Reed, was connected with the Brooklyn navy yard. The year after his birth, in 1867, our subject was brought to California by his parents, and when five years of age was brought to Portland, where he was educated in the public schools. His first . association with printer's ink, in 1882, was in the capacity of com- positor on the Willamette Farmer, and the fol- lowing year had advanced to proofreader and reporter on the Daily News. In 1887 he went to the Oregonian and in time became assistant city editor. In 1892 he was elected clerk of the circuit court on the citizen's ticket, and held office for two years. In 1896 he assumed charge of the special edition department of the Orc- gonian, continuing thereafter as editorial writer and traveling correspondent, and representing it in the Oregon legislature in 1889, in the first Washington legislature in November, 1889, and again in the special Washington legislature of 1800, and the regular session of 1891. In Octo- ber. 1901, he was appointed assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. but still continued his work with the Oregonian, and completed the

New Year's edition of sixty-four pages. The number of pages in this issue of the paper is im- portant as indicating the rapid increase in the volume of reading matter over that of the first edition gotten out by Mr. Reed in 1889, and which contained but twenty-four pages.

When the executive committee of the Lewis and Clark Exposition was inaugurated in 1902, Mr. Reed was elected secretary, and after the organization of the exposition company, he was elected to the office.

JOEL B. BATES. The well conducted little farm of Joel Bates in Multnomah county bears innumerable evidences of the thrift and enter- prise of its successful owner. Forty acres in extent, it was purchased in 1889, and at the pres- ent time fifteen acres are cleared and available for crops of various kinds, as well as for a limited number of live stock. The improvements are the best known to the agricultural world, and so far Mr. Bates has cause for congratulation for his admirable disposal of the opportunities by which he is surrounded.

A native of Bridgeville, Sullivan county, N. Y., Mr. Bates was born February 13, 1844, and when four years of age was taken by his parents to Stevens Point, Portage county, Wis. His father was engaged for many years in the lumber business, and the son naturally assisted him in his work, thus acquiring a fair knowledge of that line of occupation. Practically uneventful was his youth and early manhood, and the breaking out of the Civil war found him ready and anxious to serve the cause of the Union as his country should direct. September 30, 1861, he enlisted for three years in the Third Wisconsin Battery under General Thomas, and was sent first to Racine and afterward to Louisville, Ky. Many important engagements were participated in by his regiment, among others being Stone River and Chickamauga. In 1864 Mr. Bates re-enlist- ed in the army, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea, his mustering out occurring July 3, 1865.

Following his war experience Mr. Bates lived for a time in Madison, Wis., and subsequently engaged in farming near the town for several years. From Wisconsin he removed to Iowa, and thence to Nebraska, leaving the latter state in 1887 for Oregon.

September 17, 1865, Mr. Bates married Mary S. Rowley, born in Meadville, Pa .. in December, 1843. Of this union there have been born five children : Abbie G., who married Thomas Miller ; Charles H .; Lewis F .; Edith E. ; and Gilbert C. Mr. Bates is a Republican in political affiliation, but prefers rather his quiet home life and daily labors to the stress and strife of political agita-

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tion. He is respected and honored by all who know him, and a long life of usefulness and pros- perity is predicted for him in the county which has profited by his admirable citizenship and worth-while accomplishment.

WILLIAM M. JACKSON. The present treasurer of Washington county is a typical north- westerner, who has gained his experience along the rough places of life and built his business and social success upon a foundation of his own making. That persistency and force of character which overcame the obstacles of extreme youth and physical immaturity, and gained his admis- sion as a drummer boy in the Civil war, have been equally apparent in subsequent years as im- portant factors of development. As in the case of many who have served their country with like courage and distinction, the opportunity thus afforded created a precedent and inspiration for later undertakings, for in the camp and field was brought to light all that was noble and worthy in the manly sons of the country.

A native of Indiana, Mr. Jackson was born near Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, July 13, 1846, and comes of sturdy Scotch-German an- cestry. His father, Hugh, was born in South Carolina, in which state the paternal grandfather, H. M., had settled on a plantation, after coming from his native land of Scotland. Hugh Jackson came north with his mother after his father's death, and was about twenty-one years old when he settled on a farm near Crawfordsville, Ind. In 1849 the family removed to Van Buren county, Iowa, and in 1854 to Mahaska county. While in Indiana Mr. Jackson was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Hufstedler, a native of Pennsylvania, and the daughter of Martin Hufstedler, who was born in Germany. Her family removed from Pennsylvania to Indiana, and finally to Van Buren county, Iowa, where the father died. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Jack- son, who died in 1852, had two sons, of whom James M. also served in the Civil war, as a private in Company K, Thirty-third Iowa Volunteers, his enlistment taking place in 1863, and his ser- vice continuing until the close of the war. He was wounded during the service, and eventually settled in Sellwood, Ore., his present home. Hugh Jackson enlisted in the war when within but a few months of the age limit, and chose his sons' regi- ment, they having already enlisted. After eight months' experience on the battlefield he located in Washington county, Kans., where he home- steaded land, and where his death occurred. He was a Republican and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

William M. Jackson was three years of age when the family moved by wagon to Iowa, in

which state he attended the district schools until the breaking out of the Civil war. He was the first of the family to seriously think of entering the ranks, this being natural, as he was the eldest son. However, a very small stature stood in the way of his enlistment as a private, and he was 'forced to resort to the expediency of entering the service as a drummer boy. At the expiration of a year, in October, 1862, he was mustered in as a private in Company K, Thirty-third Iowa Vol- unteer Infantry, the same company in which he had served as drummer boy, and of which his uncle, Capt. Thornton McIntosh, was formerly in command. Company K ultimately formed a part of the Thirteenth Army Corps, which was under the command of Gordon Granger. After participating in the battles of Vicksburg, Cham- pion Hill and Chickamauga, Mr. Jackson was transferred to the western army and sent to Arkansas to co-operate with the Red River cam- paign on retreat. At the battle of Jenkins Ferry the regiment was sadly devastated, and only about half of the brave soldiers ever returned to their homes. The campaign was so severe that Mr. Jackson came forth shattered in health and carrying permanent reminders of his depri- vations and exposures. His command partici- pated in the siege of Mobile, Ala., and after the surrender was sent to Texas under General Sheri- dan, and there operated against the unfortunate Maximilian. In Houston, Tex., Mr. Jackson was mustered out August 15. 1865, and was honorably discharged September 5, 1865, in Davenport, Iowa.

Previous to his departure for the war he had not had a very extended schooling, and after the restoration of peace he attended the Oskaloosa high school for a year. In Angust, 1866, he mar- ried Mary E. Smith, of Montgomery county, Ind., and of this union there were born three children : Prof. Otis E., a graduate of the Wave- land (Ind.) high school, and an educator for seventeen years; Leona M., the wife of R. C. Vaught of Portland ; and Walter M., bookkeeper for the Salem Woolen Mills Store, Portland. The fall following his marriage Mr. Jackson moved by wagon to Washington county, Kans., where he homesteaded a claim and lived thereon until the grasshoppers and drought made life unbearable, after which he settled in Waveland, Ind., and engaged in the grocery business. Dur- ing the fifteen years of his residence there he be- came one of its prominent and substantial citizens. In Sheridan county, Kans., to which he removed in 1885, he engaged in the real estate business in Hoxie until 1893, and during that time was justice of the peace for six years: After locating in Oregon he bought a small fruit farm near Dilley, Washington county, and while engaging in horticulture for a couple of years was also justice

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of the peace and notary. In 1902 he was nomi- nated for county treasurer on the Republican ticket, and after being elected by a safe majority assumed control of the office July 8, 1902, for a period of two years. The better to fulfill his duties to the community he removed to Hillsboro the same year.

There is no more prominent man in Grand Army of the Republic circles in Oregon than Mr. Jackson, whose experiences as a soldier predomi- nate over other events of his life, and are vividly recalled even through the haze of years. Hoxic Camp No. 246, Sons of Veterans, of Hoxie, Kans., owes its existence to Mr. Jackson, and he served as its first captain. He was also one of the organizers and ex-president of the Washington County Veteran Association ; charter member and ex-president of the Iowa Veteran Association ; was adjutant of the Northwest Kansas Veteran Association ; and is now a member of the James B. Matthews Post, G. A. R., of Forest Grove. In Indiana he joined the Masonic fraternity, and was past master of Waveland Lodge No. 300. and is now a member of Forest Grove Lodge. As a Republican he cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant, and he is an ex-member of the county committee. Mr. Jackson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dilley, a member of the board of trustees, and prior to moving to Hillsboro served for six years as superintendent of the Sunday school.

DAVID SMITH. When leaving his native Virginia, David Smith, Sr., sojourned for a short time in Marion county, Ohio, and there his son and namesake was born. Soon he removed to Lima, Ind., where he settled upon a farm. The younger David in early manhood crossed the plains to Oregon, leaving Indiana April 17, 1851, and arriving in this state about the Ist of September. Immediately he established his home at Aurora, where lic bought a sawmill and erected a gristmill, conducting the two enter- prises a few years. During 1855 he sold out and removed to Yamhill county, where he be- gan farm pursuits on Panther creek. After two years there he removed to a farm near Lafay- ette. In 1876 he settled in Forest Grove, where he is now living retired. At various times he has been called by his fellow citizens to posi- tions of honor and trust, noteworthy among these positions being that of representative from Washington county to the state legislature for one term and judge of Yamhill county for a term. In politics he has always supported Re- publican tenets.

The marriage of David Smith united him with Ann Maria White, who was born in Marion county, Ohio. Her father, Dr. Thomas

White, was a native of Baltimore, Md., and at an early age settled in Ohio, whence he went to Indiana and in 1852 crossed the plains, ac- companied by his wife and eight children. Es- tablishing his home in Aurora, he engaged in the practice of medicine during his remaining years. He died in 1859, when sixty-two years of age. In the family of David Smith and wife there are two sons, the elder of whom, Milton W., is a leading lawyer of Portland. The younger, Henry Clay, is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Michigan and Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College and is now a practicing physician in Seattle, Wash., where he has a large and inipor- tant practice.

JOSEPH COPELAND, one of the large farmers of Columbia county, was born in Cham- paign county, Ill., July 9, 1828, and was reared to the occupation of which he has since made so great a success. His youth was practically un- eventful, and his education and diversions were akin to those of the average farm reared boy.

After making his home in Illinois for twenty- eight years, Mr. Copeland carried out a long intended project in 1856, during which year he came to the coast via Panama, his journey hither being enlivened by an encounter with the na- tives of the isthmus. Arriving in San Fran- cisco in due time he engaged in mining and prospecting for a couple of years, after which he came to Oregon, and for about four years found employment as a carpenter at Cascade. The following two years he was employed on a government contract at Vancouver, Wash., and the next four years found him in the car shops of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company.

After leaving the navigation company Mr. Copeland bought seven hundred acres of land near Warren, where he engaged in stock-raising and an extensive dairying business for several years, and met during that time with more than expected success. He then came to the farm upon which he has since made his home and where he has one hundred acres of land, a large part of which is under cultivation. He is en- gaged in general farming and stock-raising, raises a little fruit, and has a pleasant home. Thrice married, the first wife of Mr. Copeland was formerly Mary Salfy, who became the mother of one child, William H., who is a stockman in southern Oregon. The second Mrs. Copeland was named Eliza Bennett before her marriage, and she bore her husband four children, of whom Issac H. is county superintendent of schools of Columbia county. The oldest daugh- ter, Mary, is the wife of J. H. V. Fuller of Spokane, Wash. Dora lives at Portland ; and Josie was drowned at the age of twelve. For a

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third wife Mr. Copeland married Mary D. Stevens, of which union there have been born two children, Ray J. and Joseph L.

Although thoroughly independent from a po- litical standpoint, Mr. Copeland has not been without political influence, actuated no doubt by his eminent fitness to serve the public inter- ests. He has served as road supervisor for sev- eral terms: as school clerk for three terms; and as treasurer of Columbia county for three terms. He is a man of broad mind and liberal tenden- cies, and his influence in all matters pertaining to the development of his district has invariably been exerted on the side of progress and sta- bility.

GEORGE HARTNESS. From a line of Quaker ancestry has been transmitted many of the quiet, sturdy qualities which have distin- guished the lives of those people for three hun- dred years, to find a place in the character of George Hartness, an early pioneer of Oregon, and a faithful, earnest and intelligent citizen of the commonwealth which was born of the hard- ship and desolation of those well remembered times. It is through the maternal line that Mr. Hartness is indebted for this blood, the records of the mother's family having been kept since 1682, when Christopher Pennock settled in Pennsylvania, himself a pioneer in both cause and country, and from him have descended a wide number of families who now make their homes in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Ohio, in which latter state family reunions are held annually, three of which Mr. Hartness has at- tended. These people are of a long lived race, successful in their undertakings, clinging princi- pally to the cultivation of the soil, which has brought them all a fortune of greater or less ex- tent. They are justly proud of their ancestry and their inheritances, one of which is "Primitive Hall," located in Chester county, Pa., so widely known in history, and they have aimed to keep their standard of morality, mentality and physique to that heiglit attained by the first American member of the family.

Thomas Hartness, the father of our Mr. Hart- ness, was an Oregon pioneer in 1850 and located then on the same block where the son now makes his home. He was born in Albany, N. Y., Sep- tember 5, 1817, and in his native state received a good education. When a young man he removed to Ohio and there found employment in a brick- yard, having been engaged in this work since his first entrance into the business world. He there married Miss Alice Clay in 1842 and then opened a brickyard where all the work was done by hand, but being a great reader he had naturally

gotten hold of much pertaining to the opening up of the northwest and was much impressed by the account. He finally sold out his interests, determined to try life in the west, and leaving his family he went to New York City and came direct to Portland via the isthmus. Taking vig- orous hold of the opportunity which he believed he saw in this city he was soon established in a brickyard, the first of its kind here. He was then located on Glisson, near Seventh street. Continuing to meet with success in his work he sent for his family in 1854 and they came by the same route, traveling by steamship to Portland, being seven days on the journey from San Fran- cisco. Mr. Hartness owned a quarter interest in the Couch claim, one of the most valuable in the vicinity of the city. Mr. Hartness withdrew from the business in 1865, while his son con- ducted the work for a period of two years. The death of Mr. Hartness occurred in Virginia in 1884. while his wife, born July 12, 1820, in Mas- sillon, Ohio, died in Oregon. The children born to them were as follows, five in Ohio and one in Oregon : Two who died in early childhood ; Thomas M., who died in 1873, at the age of twenty-two years; Adelia J., who married Sam- uel S. Douglas and died in 1872, at the age of twenty-three years; George, of this review, and Charles, born February 17, 1848, now the en- gineer for the Oregon Steel Company of Port- land, where he makes his home with his wife.

George Hartness was born in Massillon, Ohio, September 7, 1844, and was educated in the pub- lic schools and the Portland Academy. From his earliest boyhood he worked in his father's brickyard and for two years following his ma- jority he conducted the business. He then with- drew from that work and in 1872 accepted a po- sition with the Oregon Transfer Company as clerk on docks, at that time all transfers being made by teams to boats. He remained in the employ of this company for fourteen years, and at the close of that period only left to become a partner in the Northwestern Transfer Company, in which he was elected as secretary. The com- pany started on a very modest basis, rising to its present remunerative proportions through the excellent management and business judgment of Mr. Hartness and others. He relinquished his position of secretary in December, 1901, and in January, 1903, he disposed of his interests, on account of failing health feeling a withdrawal from active cares a necessity. Since that time he has occupied his time in the quiet pursuit of farming interests, having three hundred and twenty acres of land in Washington county, which is now fully improved. In 1875 he built the residence wherein he now makes his home, at 294 Flanders street, heing the only one of the old settlers who has remained upon the original

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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 33

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