Portrait and biographical record of the Willamette valley, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 180

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago, The Chapman Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1622

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Ira C. Powell is the seventh of the eight chil- dren born to his parents, of whom five sons and one daughter are living. He was educated in the public schools and at Monmouth College, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1887, with the degree of B. S. Beginning with 1890, he became cashier of the Polk County Bank, capitalized for $30,000, and which is one of the solid financial institutions of this and surrounding counties. He is the general man- ager of the bank, and its entire supervision is under his watchful eye. Aside from this respon- sibility, he is treasurer of the State Normal School of Monmouth, and is often called upon to lead in important projects for the general improvement of the town and county. A stanch Republican, Mr. Powell is very active in polit- ical affairs in the town, and served as mayor thereof during 1899 and 1900. In Monmouth in 1894 he was united in marriage with Lena Butler, a native of this town, and daughter of Douglas Butler, of California, who crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852. Two sons are the result of this union. Mr. Powell is fraternally associated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of which he is past noble grand, and the Dallas Encampment, and in religion is a member of the Christian Church.

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS, M. D. Espe- cial interest attaches to the name and work of Dr. W. H. Davis of Albany, not only because he is one of the best known and most successful

practitioners of the Willamette valley, but by rea- son of the fact that he comes of a pioneer family distinguished on account of its numerous devotees to the science of medicine and surgery. He is a native son of Oregon, having been born in Silver- ton, Marion county, October 27, 1860, a son of Dr. Platt A. and Sopha (Wolf) Davis, who crossed the plains in 1852. His father practiced his profession with great success in Marion county for half a century, and at the time of his death, April 7, 1902, at the age of seventy-seven years, was probably the oldest physician in Ore- gon, as well as one of the most widely beloved. (See sketch of the life of Dr. Platt A. Davis, which appears elsewhere in this work.)

After receiving his elementary training in the public schools of Silverton, W. H. Davis entered Willamette University, where he continued his classical studies for one year. The year follow- ing he devoted to a course in the University of Oregon at Eugene. In 1881 he entered the medical department of Willamette University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1883. In April of that year he began practice in Harris- burg under the guidance of his uncle, Dr. H. A. Davis, and there remained for six years. In 1889 he located in Albany, where he has since been continuously engaged in his professional labors. His work has been attended by remark- able success. It has been evident since the be- ginning of his career that he inherited much of the rare ability and love for the science exhibited by his father. Not content with the splendid foundation of scientific knowledge with which he was equipped upon the inauguration of his life's work, he has been a constant student, and has taken advantage of every opportunity for broad- ening his knowledge and developing his powers. In 1898 he took a post graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and is now contemplating further special work in this direction. Dr. Davis is engaged in an exten- sive general practice. He is chief surgeon for the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Company, and is identified with the Oregon State Medical So- cietv.

A Republican in politics, Dr. Davis has found the time to interest himself to a considerable ex- tent in the local undertakings of his party, and as its candidate was elected mayor of Albany in 1899. He is now serving his second term in that office. Fraternallv he is identified with St. John's Lodge No. 62, A. F. & A. M., of Albany, in which he is past master; Bailey Chapter, R. A. M., of Albany; Commandery No. 4. K. T., of Albany; and with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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1888, and united him with Dora Brown, a step- daughter of Dr. J. F. Hendrex, a practicing physician of Harrisburg, Linn county, Ore.

During the years of his practice in Albany, Dr. Davis has become recognized by his professional contemporaries as one of the most highly quali- fied and successful practitioners in the Willamette valley. He is endowed with splendid personal characteristics, with finely developed mental pow- ers and with entirely harmonious attributes. Genial, cultured, gentle, and possessed of a dis- position which prompts him to take advantage of many opportunities which appeal to the humanitarian, he is the ideal physician. In his views of public affairs he is broad and liberal, with a public spirit which arises to every occa- sion which makes a demand, upon it. In all his relations with his fellow men, he appears to be actuated by high and unselfish motives, and may always be depended upon to assist in the promo- tion of those enterprises which are calculated to advance the best interests of the community. His position in the esteem of the citizens of Linn county is secure. It is with pleasure that those responsible for the publication of this work make a permanent record of these facts, which for the greater part simply reflect the opinions of those who have watched his career during the years of his residence in Albany.

WILLIAM HENRY PARRISH, M. D. Perhaps no professional calling so aptly illus- trates the swift advance of science during the past quarter of a century as that of medicine, and this particular science has no abler represen- tative among its workers than Dr. Parrish, of Monmouth, Ore. He is broad in his views, progressive in his methods, and is constantly adding to his medical knowledge by earnest, systematic study.

Of English ancestry, being the descendant of one of five brothers that emigrated from Eng- land to Canada at an early day, Dr. Parrish was born, February 22, 1848, at Cottage Grove, Chi- cago, Ill. His father, John Gould Parrish, was born at Farmersville, Canada West, July I, 1805. Coming to the States in 1841, he pur- chased one hundred and sixty acres of land at Cottage Grove, Chicago, Ill., and was there en- gaged in farming several years, working also as a stone mason and as a blacksmith. In 1849, seized with the gold fever, he started for California, being captain of his division of the long train then crossing the plains with ox-teams. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, hearing of the fertility of the beautiful valley of the Willamette, in Oregon, he changed his mind, deciding then to come to this state. Arriving at The Dalles October II,

1850, he secured work as a mason being employed by Lieutenant Lindsey, agent for the government, to do the masonry on the barracks at Mill Creek, receiving $5.00 per day for his labor. Leaving there on April 15, 1851, he went, via the Barlow road, to Portland, Ore., thence to Oregon City, where he was employed in iron- ing the steamer Canemah, then in process of construction. The following autumn, he went to Dayton, Ore., and was there engaged in the hotel business for six months. In 1852, pur- chasing a section of land four and one-half miles south of Dayton, he was there employed in farming for a number of years. In 1858 he bought the Weston farm, two and one-half miles from Dayton Center, and there resided until his death, November 10, 1876. He was a Quaker in his religious belief, and a philan- thropist. He married Margaret Herrington, who was born July 29, 1806, in Canada, and died, June 29, 1882, at Salem, Ore., their union being solemnized March 9. 1823, at Farmersville, Canada West. She was educated in her native town, and during the first fifteen years of her residence in Oregon practiced medicine most suc- cessfully. Of the sixteen children born of their marriage, Dr. Parrish is the only suvivor.

Coming to Oregon with his parents when a small child, William H. Parrish acquired his rudimentary education in the district schools, but obtained his first knowledge of medicine from his mother, who was a homeopathist. He subse- quently continued his studies with Dr. L. L. Rowland, of Salem, at the end of two years, in 1882, entering the medical department of Willamette University, from which he was graduated in 1889, with the degree of M. D. Beginning the practice of his profession at Turner, Ore., he remained there until 1892, when he located in Salem. On March 5, 1896, the doctor came to Monmouth, where he has built up an extensive and lucrative practice, being well and widely known as a physician of skill and experience. Still aiming to perfect himself in his professional knowledge, he continued his studies in 1901, at Chicago, Ill., being graduated as an osteopathist, afterward taking a course in suggestive therapeutics at Parkers Institute, Chicago. Dr. Parrish makes a specialty of treat- ing chronic diseases and consumption, doing a large 11:ail order business in all parts of the Union.

While living on the home farm from the age of sixteen years until twenty-one, Dr. Parrish made use of his mechanical and inventive ability by inventing a combined header and thresher, getting out eleven patents, which he sold to L. U. Shippe & Co., of Stockton, Cal. He was nearly fourteen years in completing his inven-

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tions, and spent $31,000. The machines now in use in the northwest are based on his patents. He has taken a course of study in chemistry, mineralogy and assaying, and has given con- siderable time to the study of mining. He has an interest in different mines, including one at Cripple Creek, Col., one at Verde Grande, Mex., and three in the Thunder Mountain district of Idaho, being a stockholder in the Crown Gold Mining Company.

On July 26, 1874, in Polk county, Ore., Dr. Parrish married Sarah Angeline Alderman, who was born April 4, 1859, near Monmouth, Ore., a daughter of Orlando Alderman. Her father was born in Ohio, but in early manhood removed to Oregon, coming here as a pioneer in 1847, and locating in Gervais, where he carried on general farming until retiring from active pur- suits. He is now a resident of Polk county. Five children were born of the union of Dr. and Mrs. Parrish, namely: Ignatius Loyola, born July 25, 1876, died October 27, 1879; Lilla Velvetta, born October 7, 1878, is the wife of I. H. Van Winkle, an attorney of Salem; Lilly Daisy, born October 4, 1881, died February 18, 1893; Effie May, born February 7, 1884, died February 15, 1893; and Lady Winnifred, born March 22, 1895, is a pupil in the State Normal School, at Monmouth. Politically Dr. Parrish is a Republican, and fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F., and the I. O. F. A. He is a Spiritualist in belief, but attends the Friends Church, while Mrs Parrish belongs to the Christian Church.

FRANCIS A. PATTERSON a well known and highly esteemed resident of Independence, and a representative of the stock-raising and farming interests of the state, as well as a prominent factor in the political and legislative affairs of Oregon, was born November 1, 1835, in St. Clair county, Ill. His great-grandfather came from Scotland to the new world, locating in North Carolina, where his death occurred. His grandfather, Greenberry Patterson, was born in North Carolina and followed the shoemaker's trade in that state and later in Illinois, where he also carried on farming. His death occurred in St. Clair county, Ill., in 1852.

Herbert Patterson, his son, and the father of Francis A., of this review, was born in North Carolina, and with his parents moved to St. Clair county, Ill. In 1848 he conducted a gen- eral merchandise store in Freeburg, Ill., and in 1851 removed to Lebanon, where he engaged in the hotel business. In 1852 he crossed the plains with ox-teams, accompanied by his family. The journey occupied six months, starting April Ist and reaching Placerville, Cal., the last of

September, 1852. At this place he entered the mines and achieved a fair degree of success. In 1858 he came to Oregon, locating in Hillsboro, Washington county, where he engaged in the general mercantile business, and there his death occurred in 1886, at the age of seventy- seven years. His wife was before her marriage Jane McClintock, a native of Kentucky, and died in Oregon at the age of eighty-three years. Her father, Joseph McClintock, was a resident of Kentucky, later of Illinois, and conducted a tannery in St. Clair county, at which place his death occurred. Unto Herbert and Jane (Mc- Clintock) Patterson were born five children, four sons and one daughter.

Francis A. Patterson was the third child in his father's family. His early education was acquired in the common schools of Illinois and in Mckinley College. In 1852 he crossed the plains with his father and entered the mines of California. In 1857 he located in Benton county, Ore., and there engaged in farming. In 1861 he removed to Washington county, but returned the same year to Benton county. In 1862 he removed to Polk county, locating near Rick- reall, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land. In 1881 he sold this farm and moved to Independence, purchasing a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of land adjoin- ing the city, and laid out two additions known as Patterson's addition and Patterson's second addition to Independence, situated on the west side of the city. He has a farm of sixty acres two and one-half miles south of Independence, where he raises large numbers of sheep and goats. He owns a nice residence in Independ- ence, which he has rebuilt and remodeled, making it a commodious and pleasant home, in which he is now living retired, enjoying the results of a life well spent.

Mr. Patterson was elected to the lower house of the Oregon state legislature for the terms of 1880 and 1882, and was appointed by the speaker of the house as chairman of a committee to receive President Hayes and wife, on their visit to Oregon. During this period he took an active and important part in the legislation which was enacted in the state, and his stanch support of every measure intended for the good of the people. won for him the hearty approval of his constituents. Mr. Patterson was united in marriage in Kings Valley, Benton county, Ore., in 1859, to Caroline Tatum, who was born in Missouri. Her father, Richard Tatum, a native of Tennessee, was a blacksmith by trade. He removed to Illinois and later to Cedar county, Mo. In 1853 he removed to Oregon, locating at Buena Vista, and later removed to Kings Valley, settling on a donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres. Subsequently

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selling this farm he removed to Rickreall, Ore., where he died at the age of sixty-seven years, having been actively engaged in farming for many years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Patter- son have been born ten children: Isaac L., col- lector of customs, of Portland, Ore .; Henry R., who is acting as weigher in the appraiser's office at Portland; George S., who is engaged in mining in Sumpter, Ore .; Frank S., who is proprietor of a hotel at Fassell, Gilliam county, Ore .; William H., who is engaged in the whole- sale and retail cigar and tobacco business in North Yakima, Ore .; Pink C., now with W. P. Fuller & Co., of Portland; Narcis, a clerk in a general merchandise store of Leavenworth, Wash .; Allen D., an employe of the Southern Pacific Railroad office at Portland; Dr. D. C. P., who is a clerk in a drug store at Cottage Grove, Ore .; and Mande L., who received her educa- tion in the State Normal school of Monmouth, and is now teaching in North Yakima.

Mr. Patterson is a member of the Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter and De Molay Com- mandery No. 5. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. In politics he is an active Republican and has served as school director in most of the places where he has resided. He was the pro- moter of the Independence & Monmouth Railway, was its president for three years and held equal shares with the ten original stockholders. Mr. Patterson has been connected inseparably with the growth and progress of the great state of Oregon since he first took up his residence with- in her borders, and his efforts have resulted both advantageously to him personally and to the state.

CHARLES MATTISON. Among the many farmers of Polk county who have won rich returns from the soil through the cultivation of hops is Charles Mattison, who was born in Oswego, N. Y., June 7, 1848, the son of Isaac and the grandson of Alfred Mattison, both of the state of New York. The grandfather was a farmer who departed but once from his chosen life work, and that was in response to the call of his country in time of need, and after serving in the war of 1812 he returned to his farm, the state which gave him birth ultimately receiving his lifeless form. His son, Isaac, the father of Charles Mattison, was born in Oswego county, and in addition to his education along agricultural lines learned the trade of a cooper. In 1865 he broke away from old associations and sought a home in the state of Michigan, locating in Montcalm county, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land upon which he engaged in farming. After seventeen years,

he again decided to make a change, since a better opportunity was held out to him from the extreme western lands. It was in 1882 that he came to Oregon, settling in Marion county, but in the vicinity of Independence, Polk county, making another purchase of one hundred and sixty acres upon which he remained for some time engaged in the cultivation of the land, later removing to Independence, where he now makes his home, having arrived at the ripe age of eighty years, and feels the pleasure of inactivity worthily earned. His wife was formerly Miss Lovina Parker, a Canadian, whose father, Charles, was a native farmer of that country, and though spending some time in New York eventually settled in Independence where his death occurred. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mattison were as follows: Charles, of this review ; William, of Astoria, Ore .; Henry, a farmer near Independence; and Richard, of Dallas.

Reared among the progressive conditions of New York state, it was the privilege of Charles Mattison to attend the public schools, thereby gaining a good foundation for the building of his future plans, while under his father's instruc- tion he acquired a no less important education along the lines of judgment and management in the practical affairs of life. Accompanying his father's family to Michigan in 1865, he entered the lumbering camps of that state the following year where he worked for wages until 1874, at that time becoming interested in agri- cultural pursuits. This latter business he con- tinned until 1880 in the same state, but with the prospect which the west afforded for an ambi- tious farmer, he made the trip to Oregon and here, with the exercise of his usual good judg- ment he selected for his purchase a farm of one hundred and forty acres, located in Marion county. Upon this farm he remained until the fall of 1902, the profits of his business being a credit to his management and industry. He has recently purchased property in Independ- ence, where he now makes his home.

In Michigan occurred the marriage of Mr. Mattison to Miss Elnora Wilson, a native of New York, whose father had emigrated to the former state, and engaged in farming up to the time of his death. The marriage has been blessed by the birth of five children, of whom Lovina, the eldest, is now the wife of W. W. Perry, of Independence; the remaining four children, Jessie, William J., Grover and Bertha being still with their parents. Fraternally Mr. Mattison is associated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his political affili- ation he has departed from the faith in which he was reared, that of the Republican party, and is now independent in his views.

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LAWRENCE S. PERKINS. The well equipped drug store of Lawrence S. Perkins in Monmouth pursues the even tenor of its way minus competition, for it is the only place in the town where a full line of drugs may be purchased. This advantage, however, does not influence the genial proprietor in the conduct of his business, for he has an up to date and reliable enterprise, similar to those in larger and older centers of activity. Besides a general supply of patent and general drugs he carries a stock of stationery and small notions, his thoughtful appreciation of the needs of his many patrons resulting in a continually increasing trade.

Mr. Perkins comes from farming ancestors, and he himself gained his first impressions of life from early rising and a by no means indolent life on the farm in Keokuk county, eastern Iowa, where he was born July 6, 1862. His father, Hiram P. Perkins, was born in Vermont, and from his native state removed to Ohio, locating near Mount Vernon. In 1850 he settled on a farm in Keokuk county, Iowa, and after living there for seventeen years located in Benton county, Mo., in 1867. Although possessing but a small farm of thirty acres, he did fairly well, but was not destined to long enjoy the advant- ages of his adopted state, for his death occurred soon after reaching there at the age of sixty-one. He had married Annise Runnels, a native of Vermont, and whose father, Samuel, was also born in the east. Samuel Runnels was an early settler of Iowa, his death occurring at the age of sixty-one on the farm in Iowa to which he came in 1853. Of the four sons born into the Perkins home ail had rugged constitutions, and all were endowed with ability and progress- iveness.

The youngest of his father's family, the drug- gist of Monmouth attended the public schools with his brothers in Iowa, Missouri and Oregon, and at the age of fourteen embarked upon a career of self-support. For some time he worked on various farms in his neighborhood, and after coming to Oregon in 1885 embarked imme- diately in the drug business in which he is still engaged. In Yamhill county, this state, he was united in marriage with Emma Parsons, a native of Yamhill county. Mr. Perkins is a Republican in political affiliation, and is fra- ternally identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. Thus is told all too briefly the life-story so far of one of the vast army of the northwest who started out in life with physical rather than financial assets, and who, from brain and muscle and common sense have worked out their career along useful and creditable lines.

ABRAM SAMUEL LOCKE is one of the most prominent druggists of Independence, and the success which he has achieved in his chosen calling is due to his determined energy and his close application to business. He is a native of Oregon, having been born two and one-half miles from Independence, August 6, 1858. His father, Harrison P. Locke, was born near Cum- berland Gap, Va., October 12, 1812, and in an early day removed to Missouri, settling in Char- iton county. In 1845 he crossed the plains to Oregon and afterwards was in the service of the Hudson Bay Company, on the Columbia river. In 1849 he went to California and entered the mines. In 1850 he returned to Oregon and in 1852 took up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres of land. In 1881 he removed to Independence, Ore., and there his death occurred in 1883. He was a successful business man and ever commanded the respect of all who knew him. His wife, whose maiden name was Malissa P. Hardison, was born in Springfield, Ill., and still survives her husband. They were the parents of fourteen children, eight boys and six girls, A. S. Locke of this review being the fourth in order of birth. The mother of this family is now the wife of James Masterson, who is living retired in Independence.

A. S. Locke was educated in the common schools of Independence. In 1889 he bought out a drug business in this city and in 1891 became a registered druggist. In 1892 he sold his business and removed to San Diego, Cal., on account of his wife's health. In 1894 he returned to Independence and the same year purchased a stock of groceries. On November 6, 1896, he bought a drug business and has been successfully conducting the same since. He carries a full and complete line of staple and fancy articles and the neat and attractive appearance of his store has won for him the reputation of being one of the best druggists in this city. Mr. Locke was married in Independ- ence in 1881, to Susan Mary Alexander, who was born in Missouri and who crossed the plains with her parents in 1865. Her father, James Alexander, was born in Kentucky, and is now living retired in this city. His active years were spent in the occupation of farming, in which line of work he was very successful and became well-to-do.

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Portrait and biographical record of the Willamette valley, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 180

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Chicago, The Chapman Publishing Company Number of Pages: 1622

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago, The Chapman Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1622